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Our Global Sonic Mix and Match
Written by Andrew Timar
Category: World Music
Arguably one of the most exciting features of Toronto's musical geography today is how our metropolis has emerged as a kind of globally flavoured creative seedbed. Over the past few decades potentially viable music hybrids of myriad kinds have been created and encouraged to flourish. I've touched on many in this column over the years.
This inclusive scene is abetted by the presence of many of the world's musics actively performed by musicians of the first rank. In this column last month, for example, I focused on music-making within the Persian community, which is thriving in the greater Toronto area.
In addition to performers, the GTA music scene is also supported by numerous audiences which have developed an appetite for tasting, mixing and merging of sonic genres from disparate worlds. Yet another essential element supporting this development includes a social-political infrastructure comprising community organizations, governments, venues and media which generally view hybrids favourably.
Inclusivity and diversity were adopted as part of the core philosophical platform of the current Canadian government. Recognizing that this approach is not necessarily the norm in other societies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly articulated its outlines, particularly in his foreign speeches. "Diversity is Canada's strength," he said in London, UK, in 2015. "Canada has learned how to be strong not in spite of our differences, but because of them…that capacity will be at the heart of both our success and of what we offer the world."
Let's examine how Canada's appreciation of the value of diversity –reflected and transformed by (both immigrant and Canadian-born) musicians through the process of artistic hybridization – is reflected in and shaped by several April concerts in Toronto.
Small World Music: Asian Music Series
Small World Music's 15th Annual Asian Music Series, running April 1 to May 20, is a case in point. About half of the events are staged at SWM's own intimate Centre at the Artscape Youngplace. The 14-concert series came about through networking with partner presenters such as the Aga Khan Museum, Batuki Music Society and Raag-Mala, in addition to support by various arts councils and levels of government. Its private sector sponsor is TD Bank.
The program brings together "emerging artists with internationally renowned figures, engaging communities around the GTA…embracing the scope of music from across the Asian cultural landscape – from India to Japan, via China, Pakistan and Iran…."
In order to assist audiences in navigating the two-month series, SWM groups concerts into what it calls Explorer Bundles. They are cannily shaping audience experiences thematically, as well as across genre and culture of origin. Allowing audiences to "take advantage of Small World's place at the heart of the city's global music scene," the bundling of "Asian Music Experiences" is presented through discounted three-concert packages with the following evocative and user-friendly titles: Rhythm, Soul, Heritage and Motion.
The Asian Music Series Rhythm Explorer Bundle commences with the Haniya Aslam Trio on April 1. Aslam is a star in her native Pakistan, having co-led the country's first all-female band Zeb and Haniya. Their groundbreaking 2008 hit album Chup! (Silence!) topped the charts for months. Now a Toronto resident, singer-guitarist Aslam fluidly combines pop, folk-rock, alt, blues and jazz with vernacular songs she learned in her native Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Lyrics in Urdu, Pashto, Dari and Turkish, and thematically bold subject matter, thicken the regional-transnational tensions in her songs, yet at the same time give them unusual potency. Continuing her advocacy of transnational culture in her music, she's joined by leading Toronto world musicians Naghmeh Farahmand (percussion), Peter Lutek (winds) and Waleed Abdulhamid (bass).
The Rhythm Explorer Bundle continues April 16 with Upanishads, Toronto musician Debashis Sinha's new solo project which explores ancient sacred text while remaining firmly rooted in the thoroughly contemporary sound world of electronic and beat-based music. Steeped in his experience as a second generation South Asian Canadian, Sinha's music is "committed to expand[ing] the notions of what it means to express and be influenced by a life in/between cultures."
May 6 at 10pm, the Rhythm Explorer Bundle wraps with a lighthearted "throwback dance party, Globetrotter's Retro Bollywood Edition." Local and international DJs will mix a live "cross-cultural concoction on the dance floor, in celebration of diversity and inspired community…with spicy blends of funk, sitar, tabla, soaring vocals and lush orchestras, all mashed up with modern beats." Vintage Bollywood film clips, South Asian-themed decor and a chai bar round out this multisensory, playful party at Round, 152a Augusta Ave.
Tinariwen and Dengue Fever
Those are only three out of 12 concerts in SWM's Asian Music Series which fall into the framework of this issue of The WholeNote so I can't possibly highlight them all here, even though I'm itching to. Well – maybe just one more.
Tinariwen, presented at Massey Hall by Small World Music, Batuki Music Society and Massey Hall on April 12, is a Grammy Award-winning Malian sextet with an impressive international fan following. Formed in 1979 in Algerian exile by Malian Tuareg musicians, Tinariwen is among the pioneers of the desert blues genre. Digging heavily into traditional Tuareg music, but also influenced by Bob Marley, Carlos Santana, American blues and Bob Dylan, Tinariwen's powerful driving music and controversial lyrics address the pain of exile and the struggle against political repression. Slate called the group "rock 'n' roll rebels whose rebellion, for once, wasn't just metaphorical."
The opening act Dengue Fever is fronted by award-winning Cambodian native vocalist Chhom Nimol. She sings in both Khmer and more recently in English. California based, the five-piece band with standard pop instrumentation takes 1960s Khmer pop music as its primary source of inspiration. It then liberally adds rock of the garage and psychedelic persuasion. Rock icon and veteran world music champion Peter Gabriel said of their music: "It's done with a lot of style. It's spirited, impassioned stuff."
Tabla and Taiko: April 15 two of Toronto's veteran world music groups join forces. Toronto Tabla Ensemble and Nagata Shachu present "Tabla and Taiko: Two Ancient Traditions Meet" at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. The promotional material states the concert is to serve as a "cross-cultural music collaboration of Indian and Japanese percussive traditions with the goal of bringing communities together." It promises to be a textbook demonstration of how the evolutionary processes of artistic hybridization can be developed over years and successfully presented.
I've written before about how both Toronto-based ensembles have significantly contributed to the Canadian world music scene since the 1990s. In pursuing their groups' artistic vision they have both succeeded in raising the profiles of received Indian and Japanese musics. In this concert they join hands and drums, featuring compositions by the two ensembles' artistic directors, Ritesh Das and Kiyoshi Nagata. Each is creating works that maintain their home traditions' integrity while also searching to integrate the other group's inherent strengths. I spoke to each AD to better understand their collaborative approach.
"I wrote Sare Panch, in a rhythmic cycle of five and a half beats," said Das. "I then modified and fine-tuned it in rehearsal so it would work with the extreme dynamic range of the taiko ensemble. I'm also looking forward to performing a piece by Aki Takahashi in 14 beats, as well as a work where I play solo tabla and Kiyoshi plays the chappa, a Japanese cymbal."
How would he characterize the common denominators between the two quite different groups? "We both share values of respect, discipline and knowledge," Das replied without pause.
Kiyoshi Nagata added: "I agree we share those values. [On the other hand] I always tell Ritesh it's not our similarities but our differences that complement one another! For example taiko is loud, tabla is quiet; taiko is primal, tabla intricate and technical. It's those kinds of juxtapositions which offer rich new sonic and artistic possibilities.
"In addition, both our ensembles work within the oral tradition," continued Nagata. "Not being bound by notation makes it easier to communicate, I find. As we like to recite to one another: 'Once you say it, you can play it!' It's quite liberating to be able to internalize music in order to express yourself. You could reduce the process to memorization, internalization and finally expression. After all, the goal of taiko practice is that the body becomes the extension of the rhythm."
Finally Nagata added "Collaborations like this are pretty hard to come by. Toronto is one of the few places where this could happen. There's a certain convenience in having both groups in the same town. They're 20 minutes from us, so we can get together any day of the week!"
Aga Khan Museum's "Entrancement"
As for presenters, they are continually evolving ways to reinterpret aspects of musical inclusivity, diversity and cultural framing to their audiences. The Aga Khan Museum is one such presenter and venue which has actively welcomed the music of the world right from its beginnings in 2014. I spoke to Umair Jaffar, performing arts manager at the AKM about its latest efforts to retag its concert series in order to keep it relevant to its patrons.
"We've had series called 'classical' and 'world music' in the past. Now we're considering using the word 'entranced' however," said Jaffar. "Trance is a word that aptly describes and connects several of our upcoming performing arts programs."
It is an idea clearly reflected in the "mesmerizing and mood-altering grooves of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's slide guitar" that will be showcased in his April 22 concert presented in partnership with Raag-Mala Toronto and Small World Music's Asian Music Series. The Grammy Award-winning Bhatt performs exclusively on his bespoke 19-stringed mohan veena. While his instrument borrows as much from the Hawaiian and blues slide lap guitars as from the indigenous Indian veena, the music Bhatt plays on it is strictly Hindustani classical, relying on the performance of raga. Raga itself is a complex concept in classical Indian music akin to melodic mode, possessing the power to "colour the mind" of the performer, as well as to affect the emotions of the listener.
The April crop from the Toronto global seed bed is promising indeed!
Andrew Timar is a Toronto musician and music writer. He can be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.
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•	One factor that is being flagged by analysts is farm distress.
•	Farmers across the country are not happy with what has happened to their incomes and this is increasingly getting reflected in their protests.
•	The Union minister for agriculture had earlier described these protests, and farmers spilling milk and dumping onions on roads, as "political drama".
•	The government's latest big ticket announcement on agriculture was that of MSPs of kharif crops at 50 per cent margin over cost A2+FL.
•	The government is not capable of procuring large quantities of as many as 23 commodities for which the MSPs were announced.
•	Higher MSPs, without an adequate procurement mechanism and storage and distribution facilities, will not solve the farmers' problems. The government cannot procure all agri-commodities.
•	Supply side reforms — technological improvements and water management — to boost productivity in a sustainable manner will take time.
•	They are announcing loan waiver schemes cost the nation Rs 4 to 5 lakh crore.
Systematic changes and a stable policy is the need of the hour.
•	In this context, one may look at Telangana's Rythu Bandhu scheme under which the government gives Rs 4,000 per acre (that is, about Rs 10,000/ha) as investment support to farmers before every sowing season.
•	The money should be directly deposited into the farmers' accounts, linked with their Aadhaar number, and the information sent to their mobile phones through an sms.
•	Another classic example is the slogan of doubling farmers' real incomes by 2022-23.
•	This means raising real incomes of farmers by almost 13 per cent per annum in the next five years, when during 2002-03 to 2015-16, these incomes increased by just 3.6 per cent per annum.
•	This is like promising to raise the overall GDP growth of the country from, say, 7 per cent today to 20 per cent in the next five years.
•	What is good for the country and how it can be achieved in the best possible manner should be the key criteria for policy making.
•	Short-term interests must be in sync with the medium to long-term agenda for agri-reforms.
Q.1) What is good for the country and how it can be achieved in the best possible manner should be the key criteria for policy making?


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Rădăcini Grup este o companie cu sediul în București, România, specializată în vânzări auto, echipamente de construcție, activități de service auto și comercializare de piese de schimb auto de origine.

Istoric
Grupul a fost înființat de omul de afaceri Madadi Ali. În 1995 a devenit dealer auto Daewoo, iar în anul 2002 dealer Subaru.

În anul 2004 prin Rădăcini Auto Style, grupul devenea partener Bosch intrând în rețeaua Bosch Car Service, și cumpără Sama Service, o rețea de service auto.

Rădăcini Motors, înființată în octombrie 2005, încheie un parteneriat cu General Motors pentru reprezentarea mărcilor Opel și Chevrolet.

În anul 2006 a fost înființată divizia Rădăcini Equipment specializată în comercializarea de stivuitoare și echipamente de construcții sub marca Daewoo Heavy Industries, ulterior această companie fiind integrată în Doosan Infracore.

Portofoliul grupului se mărește în anul 2006 cu Mazda, când Arian Motors devine dealer Mazda în România și are loc inaugurarea showroom-ului Mazda în zona de vest a capitalei. În 2007 Rădăcini Motors a intrat pe segmentul auto premium, devenind importator unic în România pentru mărcile americane Cadillac, Corvette și Hummer, aflate în General Motors.

În 2008 devine dealer Suzuki, iar în 2011 dealer pentru marca Citroen, deschizând două showroom-uri.

În 2014 Rădăcini devine dealer Honda în Brașov și Peugeot în Galați, și în 2016 dealer Volkswagen în Constanța.

Domino's Pizza
În ianuarie 2010 grupul Rădăcini încheie contractul de Master franciză cu Domino's Pizza pentru România. Pe 5 august 2010 grupul inaugurează prima pizzerie în București.

Controverse
În februarie 2008 compania a câștigat licitația de privatizare a companiei MASTER S.A. împreună Asociația PAS (Programul Acționarilor Salariați). cu pentru suma de 22,7 milioane lei și s-a angajat să realizeze, în termen de doi ani, investiții de dezvoltare în valoare de 2.570.000 de dolari, investiții de mediu de 5.800 de dolari, respectiv 700.000 de dolari infuzie de capital, în termen de trei luni, și menținerea celor 94 de angajați.

Asociația PAS - Programul Acționarilor Salariați - MASTER S.A., care a primit 6% din acțiuni, s-a desființat în 2010, iar acțiunile au fost răscumpărate de Rădăcini. Numărul de angajați a rămas la 94 până în 2013.

Deși compania se angajase să mențină 5 ani domeniul de activitate, aceasta a deschis în august 2008 un showroom și service Suzuki, precum și mutarea sediilor firmelor din grup.

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Survey of Practices and Specifications for the Rewinding or other Refurbishing of Large Electric Motors.


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July 2009 - Taiwan Special Weapons News
President Ma: progress in cross-strait relations just beginning CNA 31 Jul 2009 -- President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg News that progress in cross-strait relations, such as the establishment of direct flights, is just beginning
China and Taiwan Leaders Exchange Letters for First Time VOA 27 Jul 2009 -- China's President Hu Jintao has sent his Taiwan counterpart Ma Ying-jeou a telegram, applauding his election as ruling party chief. The letter was the first direct communication between the leaders of the two governments in 60 years.
President Ma elected KMT chairman CNA 26 Jul 2009 -- Running unopposed, President Ma Ying-jeou was elected chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Sunday with 285,354 votes, or 92
Blackmail case under investigation: defense ministry CNA 24 Jul 2009 -- The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Friday downplayed an attempt by a military insider to blackmail the ministry's armaments chief, saying that the case is under judicial investigation
Defection case will not affect military core values: MND CNA 24 Jul 2009 -- The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Friday that the defection of Justin Lin, a former Republic of China army captain who is now a World Bank senior vice president and China's top economist, will not be allowed to undermine the core values of the armed forces
Defense ministry ends chauffeur services for retired generals CNA 24 Jul 2009 -- The Ministry of National Defense (MND) has stopped assigning chauffeured vehicles to serve retired generals on a regular basis, military spokesman Yu Sy-tue said Friday, in response to complaints from the top government watchdog
Control Yuan corrects MND over defector case CNA 23 Jul 2009 -- Taiwan's top watchdog Control Yuan issued a correction Thursday to the Ministry of National Defense (MND) over the ministry's failure to properly handle a case involving World Bank Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin, who defected to China from Taiwan over 40 years ago
Taiwan Sees Gains in Closer Ties With Mainland China VOA 16 Jul 2009 -- Thawing relations between Taiwan and China over past year has brought unprecedented economic exchanges between the rivals.
President orders Defense Ministry to review plane crashes CNA 16 Jul 2009 -- President Ma instructed the Ministry of National Defense to look into several military plane crashes.
Air force F-5Fs grounded after crash CNA 15 Jul 2009 -- Taiwan grounded all of its F-5F jet fighters after plane of this type crashed into the sea off the outlying island of Penghu during a routine training flight.
F-5F twin-seat jet fighter loses contact off Penghu CNA 15 Jul 2009 -- Taiwanese F-5F twin-seat jet fighter lost contact with militry air controllers during a routine training flight off the outlying island of Penghu.
President wants complete probe into military corruption CNA 10 Jul 2009 -- President Ma Ying-jeou has instructed the Ministry of National Defense (MND) to get to the bottom of alleged corruption involving military personnel to restore the public's confidence in the military, the Presidential Office spokesman said Friday
Defense ministry releases investigative report on corruption CNA 08 Jul 2009 -- Taiwan Ministry of Defense released an investigative report on internal corruption.
Defense ministry opposed to flights across Taiwan Strait middle line CNA 06 Jul 2009 -- Taiwan's MND expressed opposition to call for Taiwan to open the Taiwan Strait center line to accommodate more flights
Taiwan voices concern over North Korea's missile launches KCNA 04 Jul 2009 -- BUG: the mark does not exist in the description file
Taiwan military officers to observe U.S. Air Force drill CNA 01 Jul 2009 -- Taiwan's Air Force will send a team of five to six officers to observe for the first time an air drill to be conducted by the US Air Force.

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Julia Belskaya von Tell is a Senior Director for Business & Relationship in Fitch Ratings. She has more than 15 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to Fitch, Julia was Vice President at Absolut Bank, where she headed the Department for Relations with Financial Institutions and Corporate Clients and covered the development of Interbank and correspondent banking relations, participated in arranging public borrowings and was responsible for franchise expansion and introduction of new bank products. At Fitch Julia covers maintenance and development of business relationships with companies and investors in Russia and CIS. Julia Belskaya von Tell graduated from the All-Russian Distance Institute of Finance and Economics (ARDIFE).


Mik had a choice between the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum or the George Jones Museum for today. He choose for us to go to the Hall of Fame because isn't familiar with George Jones. Also, he thought maybe he could first learn a little about him there and then be interested in the George Jones Museum like he was with the Johnny Cash Museum.
Mik wasn't too interested in the videos playing and the particular music selections in most of the exhibits (it was a lot of Johnny Cash actually, which even I was beginning to get tired of). He did particularly enjoy the selections in the "Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll: The Cosmic Genius of Sam Phillip" exhibit, though. He also liked that it was nicely laid out to be able to roll into the listening booths and select the songs.
I couldn't get him interested in the many listening booths in the "Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats" exhibit, but how can you not listen to the original Honky Tonk Man?
As expected, Mik's favorite part was the cars including Webb Pierce's silver dollar convertible. Taylor Swift's sparkly guitar also really caught his attention.
To get up to the entrance is a ramp on the side of the building to the right of the main entrance that isn't entirely obvious, but also not that hard to notice.
The elevator situation for navigating between the levels is again not entirely obvious, but it actually can be extremely confusing. Everyone starts by taking the elevators to the third floor. The signage that points to continue to the second floor only leads you to steps. We were going to head back to the elevators we came up, but I noticed an elevator by what is currently the exhibits on Eric Church and Stringbean. This worked no problem other than Mom decided to continue down to the first floor to go to the restroom and then couldn't get back up because you need your ticket to get back up and I had them all. The second floor and museum visit ends at the Hall of Fame and again it's steps. This time you're closer to the first set of elevators. The elevator locations are pretty conveniently close to the stairs, but they really should have some signage to tell you where to go, especially from the 3rd to the 2nd as that elevator is easy to miss.


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Turning Point Brands Increases Equity Stake in ReCreation Marketing, a Leading Canadian Distribution Company
Transaction Prominently Positions Turning Point Brands to Capitalize on the Strength of the Canadian Recreational Cannabis Sector
August 10, 2021 07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Turning Point Brands, Inc. ("TPB" or the "Company") (NYSE: TPB), a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded consumer products, including alternative smoking accessories and consumables with active ingredients, announced today that it has increased its equity stake in ReCreation Marketing ("ReCreation"), a Canadian distribution company, from 50 percent to 65 percent. The transaction was completed on Friday, July 30, 2021.
ReCreation Marketing is a specialty marketing and distribution firm focused on building brands in the Canadian smoking accessories, vaping and alternative products categories. As part of this transaction, ReCreation will transition its company name to Turning Point Brands Canada Corporation over the next 90 days. ReCreation has significantly expanded the reach of Zig-Zag papers, which now has presence in 75% of the volume-weighted distribution within the private dispensary channel. As a result of the ReCreation partnership, TPB expects to continue to expand its presence in Canada, creating an avenue for its broader portfolio of products to enter the Canadian market.
"Increasing our stake in ReCreation Marketing was a logical move as Turning Point Brands continues to invest in the cannabis and tobacco-related sectors," said Larry Wexler, CEO, Turning Point Brands. "Our partners at ReCreation Marketing are significantly expanding the distribution of our brands while also gaining market share in Canada, most notably capitalizing on Zig-Zag's strong market position in the country. The increased stake and renaming into Turning Point Brands Canada signify the commitment to our strategy in Canada. We look forward to continuing to work closely with this accomplished team to strengthen our prominence in the market."
"Turning Point Brands' robust portfolio of leading brands, coupled with ReCreation Marketing's proven ability to support distribution in traditional and alternative channels, is a natural expansion of our work together," added Chris Riddoch, President of ReCreation Marketing. "This transaction will provide both companies the opportunity to penetrate the market and to increase our visibility and accessibility to Canadian retailers and consumers, alike."
About Turning Point Brands
Turning Point Brands (NYSE: TPB) is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded consumer products, including alternative smoking accessories and consumables with active ingredients, through its iconic core brands Zig-Zag® and Stoker's® and its emerging brands within the NewGen segment. TPB's products are available in more than 210,000 retail outlets in North America, in addition to sites such as www.zigzag.com, www.nu-x.com and www.solacevapor.com. For the latest news and information about TPB and its brands, please visit www.turningpointbrands.com.
About ReCreation Marketing
ReCreation is a specialty marketing and distribution firm focused on building brands in the Canadian smoking, vaping and alternative products categories. ReCreation's management has significant expertise in marketing and distributing tobacco products throughout Canada, with over 50 years of combined experience building and managing a portfolio of premium brands. ReCreation's management is supported by a team of expert sales associates who serve up to 30,000 traditional retail outlets and newly-established cannabis dispensaries across Canada.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements may generally be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "intend," "plan" and "will" or, in each case, their negative, or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. As a result, these statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual events may differ materially from those expressed in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement made by TPB in this press release, its reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other public statements made from time-to-time speak only as of the date made. New risks and uncertainties come up from time to time, and it is impossible for TPB to predict or identify all such events or how they may affect it. TPB has no obligation, and does not intend, to update any forward-looking statements after the date hereof, except as required by federal securities laws. Factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to those included it the company's Annual reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other reports filed by the Company with the SEC. These statements constitute the Company's cautionary statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Turning Point Brands, Inc.:
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Louie Reformina, Senior Vice President, CFO
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Clarity Haynes at Brandeis University
Women's Studies Research Center, Epstein Building MS 079, 515 South Street Waltham, MA 02453 (map)
The Kniznick Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Clarity Haynes. Haynes' large-scale painted portraits explore the torso as a site for portraiture, paying homage to women, trans and gender nonconforming people. Tattoos, scars, evidence of illness, aging, exposure to sun, childbirth, surgeries, synthetic hormones, moles, birthmarks, stretch marks and veins, all tell a story of a body's life, and Haynes seeks to portray them larger-than-life and divine. Baba Na Gig borrows its name from Baba Yaga, the old woman goddess of Eastern Europe, and the goddess Sheela Na-Gig, or "Sheela of the Breasts." For Haynes, what becomes "Old Woman of the Breast," opens up for us a generative space in which to see her subjects seeing themselves.
Haynes' work acknowledges the history of portraying social power through the painted portrait and redistributes power to people outside of cultural norms. Her years-long process of making each work contributes to a reverence for the way bodies change and redefine what power can be.
clarityhaynes.com
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Sarah Oppenheimer at the Harvard GSD
Keltie Ferris at Boston University


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Q: How to prompt username and application directory with AppleScript? I have a bunch of Word and Powerpoint templates that I want to copy and possibly overwrite from a company network location to the /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/ etc. location where templates are stored. It would be nice if I hadn't have to prompt the user for username to get the /Users/[username]/Library part of the local template path.
Can someone please help me as to what to do? I have never tried AppleScript before though I'm familiar with VBScript, JavaScript and such a bit, but this AppleScript is really weird to me.

A: Unless the input has some kind of identifier there will always have to be user interaction to correctly find the destination location in a dynamic script like this. You can set up a prompt that only asks for a username and not a whole path would be my suggestion base on what you are saying.

A: Okay, hope you can follow this code.
tell application "Finder"
    set homePath to POSIX path of (path to home folder)
    set thePath to homePath & "Library/Application Support/App Store/"
    set desktopPath to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder)
    do shell script "cp -r " & quoted form of thePath & " " & quoted form of desktopPath
end tell

What this does is to get the path to user/Library/Application Support/App Store/ and copying all its files to your desktop.
It executes the unix command cp -r to copy the folders content. Wiki cp command page
POSIX path command is required because applescript and unix does not use the same path syntax, and 'quoted form of' is needed because otherwise the command will not work properly because of whitespaces.

A: I ran across this looking for an answer to another issue but I noticed this answer was somewhat long and not really necessary.  It might be due to the age of the question but now in AppleScript you can target an user's Application Support directory with a built in one liner of:
path to application support from user domain

the user's library would be with:
path to library folder from user domain

The two above are for alias path but if you want path/to/whatever/ you can use Posix path such as:
set foo to POSIX path of (path to application support from user domain)
set bar to POSIX path of (path to library folder from user domain)

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Are you living round the corner from one of the country's most remarkable places?
Historic England has selected 23 of the most spectacular sites and buildings added to its heritage list this year, and five of them are in London.
We've been to Hopkins House in Hampstead to discover one of the more contemporary additions.


If you participate in the public traffic, you must adhere to the rules of the road traffic licensing authority § 67 (German Road Traffic Registration Regulations). It regulates which lights are required for bikes in the road traffic. The ADFC also advises extensively in regard to the subject of bike lamps and what one needs to know regarding reflectors, tail lights, headlights, spoke reflectors and so on. If you fail to observe the lighting prescriptions for bikes, you have to reckon with having to pay a penalty. The lighting on the bike should be important to every biker without any question, since one should not make any cutbacks if it concerns the safety. Safety lights are just as required in the road traffic as is a helmet. All bike lamps tested according to the StvZO (road traffic regulations) carry the German test mark, the certification from the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA); here, you should watch out for the code letter K. In the road traffic, the dynamo-operated bike light certainly is still the one which is spread the widest. But here, the biker must pedal quite diligently, meaning he has to expand additional power in order to operate the dynamo. This again is a plus for accumulator and battery-operated bike lights, since they light up even if you do not actively tread the pedal. A reason why the obligation to use dynamos has meanwhile been deleted and accumulator or battery power is allowed as an alternative. Until 2013, a "light machine" (dynamo) was a must have for every bike in the road traffic. You were allowed to use batteries, but only in addition. Now there are new regulations for headlights and tail lights that either a dynamo (at least 3 W rated output, 6 V nominal voltage) or a battery or accumulator-powered permanent lighting (the first mentioned with 6 V nominal voltage) may be used. The biker may choose. The regulations in regard to the lighting on the road bike (up to 11 kg) are also a bit more loose and deviate a bit from the general regulations.
In our online shop, you'll find StVZO-approved bike lights as well as lights, which have not been approved and which are intended for your sportive round in field and forest in the evening. Therefore, pay attention to the respective description in the article's text. Which benefits do the accumulator and battery-powered bike lamps, which become more and more popular, provide? First of all such a lamp can be installed and taken off quickly again. Mostly by means of a holding device on the handlebar, you should only consider in advance that you have to charge it sufficiently. If the output can be regulated, you can still ride with reduced light output at twilight, again saving accumulator power and thus extending the life cycle of the accumulator. In the HIBIKE bike light shop, you can buy articles from all the major manufacturers, such as Sigma Sport, Busch & Müller, Exposure Lights, Hope, Lezyne, Lupine or Blackburn. Everything is about lux and lumens, Li-Ion accumulators, light distribution, LED, weight of the lamps and their life cycle. Modern, accumulator-powered LED lamps will hold up during your bike tour problem-free 10 hours and longer.
Buy LED bike lights, helmet lamps & tail lights at favourable prices from a large selection.
When purchasing, you should familiarize yourself in advance with what you are looking for and for which area of application you need it. For the road (observe the StVZO) or for the sport? How much can the new bike lamp cost? Light sets (lighting systems) most of the times are more favourable in price than buying individual lamps. Which holding system am I looking for? Am I looking for a front lamp with holding device on the handlebar or do I wish to mount it on my helmet. How many LED's, how much lumen output is the lamp supposed to have? Do I require additional tail lights and reflectors (known as cat's-eyes) on pedals or spokes? Dynamo or accumulator-powered? Battery- / accumulator-powered lighting is small in size and light in weight, thus can easily be stowed in the backpack - should the next tour be longer than expected. Nowadays, waterproof housings and waterproof (rubber) plug connections are no question anymore. Should something break anyway or get lost and you would like to buy a new plug, bulb, replacement cable or a new charging unit for your bike lamp, you'll also find numerous lamp accessories in the lighting shop online. A tip from us: The often tiny small battery lights, such as e.g. the ones known from Knog Frog, are also very popular. Fastened on the jersey, backpack or helmet, these tiny LED lamps in silicone sleeves are very useful. Discover everything regarding the subject of the lighting on the bike here in the shop for bike lamps. Favourable prices and a large selection of brands are awaiting you!
Tip:In our HIBIKE-blog Lukas explains the subject of the lighting, just come visit us!


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\section{Introduction}
In ILC, one of the important program is to study the Higgs mechanism, i.e.,
measurement of the Higgs coupling to the particle mass.
For the particle identification, the flavor tagging of the jets,
especially separation of the $b$-quark and $c$-quark is very important.
For that reason, the vertex detector must have good impact parameter resolution of
$5 \oplus 10/(p\beta \sin^{3/2} \theta$) ($\mu$m).

In addition to the position resolution,
a vertex detector has to operate under an environment of huge background hits.
In the beam crossing, a large number of electron-positron pairs, called pair background,
are generated at IP.
The pair background makes many hits in the vertex detector,
and the hit occupancy especially at the first layer of the vertex detector becomes large.
By a simulation study, if all the hits for one beam train are accumulated,
it was found that the hit occupancy is about 10\% for the pixel size of 25 $\times$ 25 $\mu$m$^{2}$.
We should suppress the hit occupancy below 1\% for the reasonable track reconstruction.

To solve the problem of the hit occupancy, two options are considered.
One is to read many times ($\sim20$ times) in one train.
This option requires the new innovative technology at this moment.
The other option is to reduce the pixel size to about 5 $\times$ 5 $\mu$m$^{2}$.
The pixel size of 5 $\times$ 5 $\mu$m$^{2}$~is already achieved
for a CCD (Charge Coupled Devices) camera in a cell phone.
Therefore, the latter option could be realized by using CCD technology
with relatively low costs.
For that reason,
we started to develop the FPCCD (Fine Pixel CCD)
with the pixel size of 5 $\times$ 5 $\mu$m$^{2}$~for the vertex detector at ILC
\cite{sugimoto1, sugimoto2}.
We have developed a test-sample of the FPCCD in 2008,
and its performance test is ongoing \cite{sugimoto3}.

\section{Prototype of readout ASIC}
Together with the FPCCD sensor itself,
development of the readout ASIC is important issue.
There are some requirements to the readout ASIC
due to characteristics of the FPCCD.
At first, the readout speed must be above 10 Mpix/sec
to read all the pixels in the inter-train time (200 ms)
because there are $128 \times 20,000$ pixels in one channel.
Since the noise level is required to be below 50 electrons in total,
the goal of the noise level in the readout ASIC is set to below 30 electrons.
The vertex detector will be located in a cryostat,
and the power consumption in a cryostat is required to be below 100 W.
There are about 6,000 channels in the FPCCD vertex detector,
therefore, the power consumption below 16 mW/ch is required to each channel.
Since a FPCCD sensor will consume about 10 mW/ch,
the power consumption at the readout ASIC must be below 6 mW/ch.
To achieve these requirements, the design of the readout ASIC was determined.

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.6\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.55\columnwidth]{pic/block.eps}}
\caption{A schematic diagram of the circuit blocks in each channel of the readout ASIC.}
\label{fig:block}
\end{wrapfigure}

The readout ASIC was designed to have an amplifier, low-pass filter (LPF),
correlated double sampling (CDS),
and two charge sharing ADCs (Analog to Digital Convertors) \cite{adc}
as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:block}.
The readout with 10 Mpix/sec will be achieved by using two charge sharing ADCs
alternatively, where the readout speed of one ADC is 5 Mpix/sec.
The noise level will be reduced to 30 electrons by LPF and CDS.
We confirmed that the readout ASIC satisfies the requirements
to the readout speed and noise level by the SPICE simulation.
The charge sharing ADC uses successive approximation technique for A/D conversion,
comparing the charges stored in the capacitors.
Since this technique can reduce the current in the circuit much smaller
than usual technique,
low power consumption below 10 $\mu$W can be realized at the ADC block.

A prototype of the readout ASIC was produced in 2008 with 0.35 $\mu$m ~TSMC process.
Its layout was made by Digian Technology Inc. \cite{digian},
and the production was done by the MOSIS Service \cite{mosis}.
The chip size is 2.85 $\times$ 2.85 mm$^{2}$,
where 8 readout channels are prepared.
In the readout channels, bonding pad are prepared to connect with a FPCCD sensor.
For the response test, the readout ASIC is covered by a QFP-80 package
as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:asic}.

\section{Performance study of prototype ASIC}

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.4\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.35\columnwidth]{pic/asic.eps}}
\caption{A picture of the prototype of the readout ASIC.}
\label{fig:asic}
\end{wrapfigure}

To check the readout ASIC,
the test system was constructed based on the VME system.
A GNV-250 module was used for the operation and data readout,
which was developed as the KEK-VME 6U module.
Two daughter boards for TTL input/output and LVDS input
were attached on the module.
The readout ASIC was put on the test-board,
and connected to the GNV-250 module.
Since a FPGA is equipped on the GNV-250 module,
logic for data processing could be easily modified.
The ADC information read from the readout ASIC are stored in a FIFO prepared
at the FPGA, then, it is sent to a computer.
The response test was performed with the readout speed of 1.5 Mpix/sec,
whereas the final goal is 10 Mpix/sec.

The response of the circuit elements in the readout ASIC was checked.
The internal signals after the pre-amplifier and before ADCs can be checked
by using the monitor output prepared at those position,
and they were observed as expected by the SPICE simulation.
Then, output signals from ADCs were investigated.
We could observe the serial output from ADCs, synchronizing
with the operation signals as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:oscil}.
From these results, all the circuit blocks were confirmed to work correctly.

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.4\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.35\columnwidth]{pic/oscil.eps}}
\caption{The output signals from the ADC in the readout ASIC.
The serial output from ADC was obtained.}
\label{fig:oscil}
\end{wrapfigure}

As the first step of the performance study,
the noise level in the ASIC was investigated.
Figure \ref{fig:ped} shows the pedestal distribution.
We found that some ADC counts are not output from the ADC
due to unbalance of the relative difference of the capacitance
between capacitors used in the ADC.
The standard deviation of the pedestal distribution is 1.0 ADC count and
this fluctuation is partially attributed to the lost ADC numbers.
The equivalent noise charge were evaluated as 40 electrons
for one standard deviation,
where 5 $\mu$V/e is assumed as the FPCCD output and
0.2 mV/ADC are used as the ratio of the FPCCD output to ADC count.
Since the requirement to the noise level is below 30 electrons,
this result is almost acceptable.
The resolution of the ADC will be improved by adjusting the capacitor capacity
and detail estimation of the stray capacitance.

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.4\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.35\columnwidth]{pic/ped.eps}}
\caption{The pedestal distribution obtained for one ADC.
There is no events at -3 ADC counts
due to unbalance of the relative difference of the capacitance
between capacitors used in the ADC.}
\label{fig:ped}
\end{wrapfigure}

The ADC linearity to the input voltage was studied.
Figure \ref{fig:linearity}(a) shows the equivalent charge
in the FPCCD sensor evaluated by the ADC output
as a function of the input voltage of the test-pulse.
Fitting this plot with a linear function,
deviation of the equivalent charge from the linear fitting
was obtained as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:linearity}(b).
From this result, the ADC linearity within $\pm 80$ electrons was derived,
where this fluctuation partially comes from the lost ADC numbers.

The amplifier gain can be adjusted from 2 to 16 by sending signals
for the parameter setting to the gain adjustment block.
We checked accuracy of the gain adjustment.
The ADC output was obtained as a function of the amplifier gain,
and it was fitted by a linear function.
The deviation of ADC values from the linear fitting was within $\pm 5$\%,
therefore, we confirmed that the amplifier gain can be adjusted
within $\pm 5$\% accuracy.
Since the fluctuation of the gain adjustment comes from the lost ADC counts,
this linearity will be improved after modification of the ADCs.

Since the final goal of the readout speed is 10 Mpix/sec,
we tried readout test with higher readout speed.
In the pedestal distribution,
several peaks were observed at the readout speed of 5 Mpix/sec.
The ADCs seem not to work correctly,
and investigation of the reason is currently ongoing.

\section{Summary}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.6\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.55\columnwidth]{pic/linearity.eps}}
\caption{(a) Equivalent charges in the FPCCD evaluated by ADC output
as a function of the input voltage of the test-pulse (V$_{\mathrm{IN}}$).
(b) The deviation of the equivalent charge in the FPCCD from the linear fitting of (a)
as a function of the input voltage of the test-pulse.
The linearity is within $\pm 80$ electrons.}
\label{fig:linearity}
\end{wrapfigure}

We have been developing the vertex detector for ILC using the FPCCD.
In addition to the FPCCD sensor, the readout ASIC was also developed.
All the circuit blocks were confirmed to work correctly.
We found that some ADC counts are not output from ADCs
due to unbalance of the relative difference of the capacitance
between capacitors used in the ADC.
At this condition, the equivalent noise charge in FPCCD was 40 electrons
and this result was almost acceptable.
The ADC linearity to the input voltage was within $\pm 80$ electrons.
The resolution of the ADC will be improved by adjusting the capacitor capacity
and detail estimation of the stray capacitance.
The next step is to operate the readout ASIC
with readout speed of 10 Mpix/sec,

\section{Acknowledgments}
This study is supported in part by the Creative Scientific Research Grant
No. 18GS0202 of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and
Dean's Grant for Exploratory Research in Graduate School of Science of Tohoku University.

\begin{footnotesize}

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Nobody knows what it's like to...BINGO!
Friday night, mrrranda and I went to The Blue Nile, an Ethiopian restaurant (for real! don't laugh). We were seated right next to two people playing acoustic guitar. They played "The House of the Rising Sun" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," and other songs that I don't recall.
This could have been terrible. Like the time I heard muzak'd versions of The Police on Kroger in-store radio, there is nothing quite so terrible as hearing a good song made pusillanimous by performers aiming not to offend--unless it is hearing songs that weren't any good to begin with made worse.
And then we heard it: "Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man...."
The Who. Behind Blue Eyes. BINGO!
Thanks, kipplentoast, for the Emo Kid Street Musician square on Art Fair Bingo. Although I saw plenty of people torturing perfectly good guitars at the art fairs, I never did see an Emo Kid Street Musician. But it certainly improved our enjoyment of the evening's entertainment.


The Delta 5 Race Timer is an open-source multi-node timing system that uses the video signals from FPV vehicles to determine when they cross the start/finish line. The heart of the system is a Raspberry Pi, and each node has a dedicated Arduino Nano and RX5808 module.
The Arduinos are themselves connected to the Raspberry Pi over I2C, allowing the Pi high-level control over the receivers while it serves up a web-enabled user interface. As a bonus, the Pi can do much more than simply act as a fancy stopwatch. The races themselves can be entirely organized and run through the web interface.
The Raspberry Pi runs the Raspbian OS, and the Delta 5 system uses a server component written in Python.


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Vaucluse () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Geography
Vaucluse lies  from Maîche. It is mountainous, with the valley of the Dessoubre on the east.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Doubs department

References

External links

 Vaucluse on the regional Web site

Communes of Doubs


The library presented in this article is becoming obsolete and un-maintained. I recommend you to read this post about tenacity instead.
I don't often write about tools I use when for my daily software development tasks. I recently realized that I really should start to share more often my workflows and weapons of choice.
One thing that I have a hard time enduring while doing Python code reviews, is people writing utility code that is not directly tied to the core of their business. This looks to me as wasted time maintaining code that should be reused from elsewhere.
So today I'd like to start with retrying, a Python package that you can use to… retry anything.
Often in computing, you have to deal with external resources. That means accessing resources you don't control. Resources that can fail, become flapping, unreachable or unavailable.
Most applications don't deal with that at all, and explode in flight, leaving a skeptical user in front of the computer. A lot of software engineers refuse to deal with failure, and don't bother handling this kind of scenario in their code.
In the best case, applications usually handle simply the case where the external reached system is out of order. They log something, and inform the user that it should try again later.
In this cloud computing area, we tend to design software components with service-oriented architecture in mind. That means having a lot of different services talking to each others over the network. And we all know that networks tend to fail, and distributed systems too. Writing software with failing being part of normal operation is a terrific idea.
In order to help applications with the handling of these potential failures, you need a plan. Leaving to the user the burden to "try again later" is rarely a good choice. Therefore, most of the time you want your application to retry.
Retrying an action is a full strategy on its own, with a lot of options. You can retry only on certain condition, and with the number of tries based on time (e.g. every second), based on a number of tentative (e.g. retry 3 times and abort), based on the problem encountered, or even on all of those.
For all of that, I use the retrying library that you can retrieve easily on PyPI.
retrying provides a decorator called retry that you can use on top of any function or method in Python to make it retry in case of failure. By default, retry calls your function endlessly until it returns rather than raising an error.
This will execute the function pick_one until 1 is returned by random.randint.
retry accepts a few arguments, such as the minimum and maximum delays to use, which also can be randomized. Randomizing delay is a good strategy to avoid detectable pattern or congestion. But more over, it supports exponential delay, which can be used to implement exponential backoff, a good solution for retrying tasks while really avoiding congestion. It's especially handy for background tasks.
print "Wait 2^x * 1000 milliseconds between each retry, up to 10 seconds, then 10 seconds afterwards"
...     print "Wait 2^x * 1000 milliseconds between each retry, up to 10 seconds, then 10 seconds afterwards"
A pattern I use very often, is the ability to retry only based on some exception type. You can specify a function to filter out exception you want to ignore or the one you want to use to retry.
retry will call the function passed as retry_on_exception with the exception raised as first argument. It's up to the function to then return a boolean indicating if a retry should be performed or not. In the example above, this will only retry to read the file if an IOError occurs; if any other exception type is raised, no retry will be performed.
The same pattern can be implemented using the keyword argument retry_on_result, where you can provide a function that analyses the result and retry based on it.
This example will read the file until it stops being empty. If the file does not exist, an IOError is raised, and the default behavior which triggers retry on all exceptions kicks-in – the retry is therefore performed.
That's it! retry is really a good and small library that you should leverage rather than implementing your own half-baked solution!


July 11,2014 we lost Fandango His family called him "Finn"
Poet-2013 He Had been adopted a few months when he became sick. He is sadly missed by his family, and of course myself. He was a sweet boy that enjoyed everyday with his new family. We all loved him very much and miss him. A video his mom made of his last 6 months being very loved by his family..
Miss Daisy-2013 Miss Daisy is missed by all of us but mostly her foster mom Tammy. She loved her very much.
Bubba- Was Mr Bubbles he suffered from a degenerative bone desease. His family did the best they could do his last few months. He is very missed by his family.
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The possible standard values for OSPlatform are Windows, Linux and OSX.
To get the more information on the perating system, version or architecture you can call the System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation. This static class gives you this information.


Sally Brooks has won the title of British Hairdresser of the Year for the second time running at HJ's British Hairdressing Awards sponsored by Schwarzkopf Professional.
Sally, who is best known for creating stunning, wearable and technically exceptional hair, wowed the judges with her collection and beat off competition from the six other finalists.
Sally collected her award in front of over 1,750 hairdressing greats, alongside host and TV celebrity, Rylan Clark-Neal. The event, which took place on Monday 26th November at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, saw guests celebrating into the early hours entertained by Scouting for Girls.
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Калот (Calotes) — рід ящірок з родини Агамових. Має 24 види.

Опис
Загальна довжина представників цього роду коливається від 40 до 65 см. Колір шкіри коричневий, зелено-оливковий з темними або світлими поперечними смугами або плямами. Тулуб стрункий, стиснутий з боків. Голова пірамідальна, коротка. Пальці довгі та чіпкі. Задні кінцівки довші за передні. Хвіст тонкий та довгий у самців. Шкіру вкрито однорідною ребристою лускою, яка розташована правильними поперечними або косими рядками. У більшості видів вдовж середини спини є гребінець зі збільшеної трикутної луски. Такі ж гребні зустрічаються на потилиці або на задньому краї голови. У самців добре розвинута горлова торба. Стегнові пори відсутні.

Спосіб життя
Полюбляють лісисті місцини, садиби. Живуть на деревах. Втім спускаються на землі. Тут калоти перебігають від дерева до дерева. Здатні змінювати колір. Харчуються комахами, безхребетними, дрібними ящірками.

Це яйцекладні ящірки. Самиці відкладають у дуплах або ямках від 5 до 23 яєць.

Розповсюдження
Мешкає від Індії, Шрі-Ланки, Непалу до Філіппін, південної Індонезії, південного Китаю.

Види

 Calotes bachae
 Calotes bhutanensis
 Calotes calotes
 Calotes ceylonensis
 Calotes chincollium
 Calotes desilvai
 Calotes emma
 Calotes grandisquamis
 Calotes htunwini
 Calotes irawadi
 Calotes jerdoni
 Calotes kingdonwardi
 Calotes liocephalus
 Calotes liolepis
 Calotes manamendrai
 Calotes maria
 Calotes medogensis
 Calotes minor
 Calotes mystaceus
 Calotes nemoricola
 Calotes nigrilabris
 Calotes nigriplicatus
 Calotes paulus
 Calotes pethiyagodai
 Calotes versicolor

Примітки

Джерела
 Шмальгаузен І. І. Походження наземних хребетних. М., 1964.
 Біологія: Навч. посіб. / А. О. Слюсарєв, О. В. Самсонов, В. М. Мухін та ін.; За ред. та пер. з рос. В. О. Мотузного. — 3—є вид., випр. і допов. — К.: Вища шк., 2002. — 622 с.
 Словник-довідник із зоології. — К., 2002.
 Hallerman J. 2005. A taxonomic review of the genus Bronchocela (Squamata: Agamidae), with description of a new species from Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology. 12 (3): 167–182

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Gremlin is a Key Pro-fibrogenic Factor in Chronic Pancreatitis
This study was made to evaluate the ramifications of the combined
June 19, 2019 / Salvador Moreno
This study was made to evaluate the ramifications of the combined treatment with an anti-coagulant (enoxaparin) agent and a lipid-lowering agent (lovastatin) on prevention or reduction in the occurrence of steroid-induced osteonecrosis in rabbits. 1999). Within an pet model research of osteonecrosis, hyperlipidaemia connected with unusual thrombophilic coagulatory and bone tissue marrow fat-cell packaging was from the advancement of ONFH (Jones 1993; Miyanishi 2002, 2005; Kang 2008; Masada 2008). Many writers have recommended that interference using the blood circulation, INK 128 pontent inhibitor by different means, plays a significant function in the pathogenesis of ON. Intra-osseous hypertension, intravascular fats emboli and coagulation and compression of vessels by intensifying deposition of marrow fats stores will be the frequently accepted ideas (Lemoine 1957; Wang 1978, 2000; Hungford & Lennox 1985; Mont 2006; Pengde 2008). Although total hip arthroplasty is certainly a definitive treatment for the advanced ONFH, the task historically has already established a higher price of failing in the youthful active individual (Lemoine 1957; Xenakis 1997; Ortiguera 1999; Hungerford 2007). As a result, prevention from the starting point of ONFH would be a better strategy for such disorders. The use of pharmacological brokers for the treatment and prevention of ONFH has received considerable attention in recent years. The aim of using these brokers, which include lipid-lowing drugs, anti-coagulants, is to address specific physiological risk factors for ONFH, such as lipid emboli, adipocyte hypertrophy, venous thrombosis and increased intra-osseous pressure. Lovastatin can not only decrease the level of cholesterols but also counteract the effects of steroids around the differentiation of the precursor cells in the bone marrow into the adipocytes. Lovastatin can decrease the expression of the fat-cell transcription factor PPAR2 and increase the expression of the osteoblast gene Runx2/Cbfa1 and shunt the uncommitted osteoprogenitor cells in the bone marrow from INK 128 pontent inhibitor your adipocytic to the osteoblastic differentiation pathway (Li 2003). Lovastatin has been associated with the increased bone morphogenetic proteins-2 (BMP-2) gene expression (Cui 1997; Wang 2000), alkaline phosphatase activity, matrix mineralization and enhanced osteogenesis (Cui 1997; Hirano 1997). Statins increase bone volume in rats and bone formation in mice (Mundy 1999; Emmanucle 2003). Cholesterol reducing drugs lower the intra-osseous pressure in femoral heads of the steroid-treated rabbits (Mundy 1999). Enoxaparin, a low molecular excess weight heparin, is one of the anti-coagulants, which has a less ability to inactivate thrombin. It has also been used to take care of sufferers with hypofibrinolytic or thrombophilic disorders as well as the early-stages ONFH. The results demonstrated that enoxaparin can decelerate the development of ONFH and stabilize as well as invert the adjustments of ONFH while offering significant treatment (Roy & Glueck 1999; Glueck 2001). The consequences of either anti-coagulants or lipid-lowing agencies have been evaluated. However, the mix of anti-coagulants and lipid-lowing agents for lowering and avoiding the steroid-induced ONFH is not studied. So long as anti-coagulant (enoxaparin) therapy combined with lipid-lowing agent (lovastatin) is certainly started through the usage of corticosteroids, ONFH may be avoided or reduced. As many rabbit versions for steroid-induced Mouse monoclonal to ERBB3 ON have already been reported in books (Miyanishi 2005; Kang 2008; Masada 2008), in our study, this model was used to address the question whether anti-coagulant (enoxaparin) combined with a lipid-lowering agent (lovastatin) could prevent or could decrease the incidence of steroid-induced ON. Materials and methods We used a rabbit model of steroid-induced ON that has also been explained previously (Miyanishi 2005; Kang 2008; Masada 2008). The animal protocol was examined and approved by the Animal Care and Committees at the West China Medical School of Sichuan University or college. Animals Adult male Japanese white rabbits weighting 2.8C3.4 kg were INK 128 pontent inhibitor housed at Animal Center of Sichuan University or college and maintained on a standard laboratory diet and water. We randomly selected 20 rabbits to receive an X-ray examination to confirm that this epiphyses were closed before the experiment started. The age of the rabbits ranged from 28 to 32 weeks. Your body weights from the rabbits had been measured to each test with 1 preceding, 14 days, and prior to the rabbits had been sacrificed following the steroid shot. Treatment In every, 112 rabbits had been injected once with 20 mg/kg of bodyweight of methylpednisolone acetate (MPSL; Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Hangzhou, China) intramuscularly in to the correct gluteus medius muscles. The rabbits had been split into four groupings. In the group wherein enoxaparin was coupled with lovastatin (Un), rabbits received lovastatin (MerckSharp & Dohme, Hangzhou, China) orally at a medication dosage of 5 mg/kg/time being a 10% meals admixture for 14 weeks, starting 2 weeks prior to the MPSL shot. At the time of the methylpednisolone acetate injection, enoxaparin was given subcutaneously, 1 mg/kg/day time for 4 weeks (EL; 2008). Evaluation of WITHIN THE analysis of ON was performed histologically at 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks after the methylpednisolone injection. Two weeks was a time point that had been reported to be important in the development of ON. The whole areas of the proximal one-third and the distal condyles of.
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Q: Append element to json dict (geojson) using Python I would like to add style to my geojson through Python. The current features currently do not have any style elements. I want to append style and then fill. However, when I do, nothing is added to the file. It is the same as before
import json

with open('test.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

for feature in data['features']:
    feature.append("style")
    feature["style"].append({"fill":color})

Sample GeoJson
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84" } },

"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "STATEFP": "17", "COUNTYFP": "019", "TRACTCE": "005401", "BLKGRPCE": "2", "GEOID": "170190054012", "NAMELSAD": "Block Group 2", "MTFCC": "G5030", "FUNCSTAT": "S", "ALAND": 574246.000000, "AWATER": 4116.000000, "INTPTLAT": "+40.1238204", "INTPTLON": "-088.2038105", "GISJOIN": "G17001900054012", "STUSPS": "IL", "SHAPE_AREA": 578361.706954, "SHAPE_LEN": 3489.996273, "census_block_income_YEAR": "2009-2013", "census_block_income_STATE": "Illinois", "census_block_income_STATEA": 17, "census_block_income_COUNTY": "Champaign County"}}]}

I'm trying to get the end results to be:
    {
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84" } },

"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "STATEFP": "17", "COUNTYFP": "019", "TRACTCE": "005401", "BLKGRPCE": "2", "GEOID": "170190054012", "NAMELSAD": "Block Group 2", "MTFCC": "G5030", "FUNCSTAT": "S", "ALAND": 574246.000000, "AWATER": 4116.000000, "INTPTLAT": "+40.1238204", "INTPTLON": "-088.2038105", "GISJOIN": "G17001900054012", "STUSPS": "IL", "SHAPE_AREA": 578361.706954, "SHAPE_LEN": 3489.996273, "census_block_income_YEAR": "2009-2013", "census_block_income_STATE": "Illinois", "census_block_income_STATEA": 17, "census_block_income_COUNTY": "Champaign County"},"style"{fill:"red"}}]}

A: You are working with list of dictionaries here, dictionary hasn't method append, you can create new key like here:
for feature in data['features']:
    feature["style"] = {"fill":color}

Seems that you need rewrite file with JSON:
with open('test.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(data, f)

A: When you type
for feature in data['features']:

every feature will be an item of the list that is data['features']. Each item there is a dictionary, so you are calling the wrong method (append is a method of lists).
You could write
for feature in data['features']:
    feature.update({"style": {"fill": "red"}})

Finally, if you want the file from which you got the initial json structure to be altered, make sure to write the now updated data structure back to a file:
with open('output2.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(data, f)

A: There is no append method in a dictionary. One should use update.
import pprint as pp
for feature in data['features']:
    feature.update({'style':{'fill': 'red'}})

pp.pprint(data)

Output:
{'crs': {'properties': {'name': 'urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84'},
         'type': 'name'},
 'features': [{'properties': {'ALAND': 574246.0,
                              'AWATER': 4116.0,
                              'BLKGRPCE': '2',
                              'COUNTYFP': '019',
                              'FUNCSTAT': 'S',
                              'GEOID': '170190054012',
                              'GISJOIN': 'G17001900054012',
                              'INTPTLAT': '+40.1238204',
                              'INTPTLON': '-088.2038105',
                              'MTFCC': 'G5030',
                              'NAMELSAD': 'Block Group 2',
                              'SHAPE_AREA': 578361.706954,
                              'SHAPE_LEN': 3489.996273,
                              'STATEFP': '17',
                              'STUSPS': 'IL',
                              'TRACTCE': '005401',
                              'census_block_income_COUNTY': 'Champaign County',
                              'census_block_income_STATE': 'Illinois',
                              'census_block_income_STATEA': 17,
                              'census_block_income_YEAR': '2009-2013'},
               'style': {'fill': 'red'},
               'type': 'Feature'}],
 'type': 'FeatureCollection'}

A: You never write your changes back to the file. Add the following to the end of your code:
with open('test.json','w') as f:
    json.dump(data, f)


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/************************************************************************/
/* Author:  Kemi Peng
History: 08/03/2015 by Kemi Peng*/
/************************************************************************/

#ifndef IRENDERPIPE_DEFERREDLIT_OPENGL
#define IRENDERPIPE_DEFERREDLIT_OPENGL

#include "IRenderpipe.h"
#include "RenderPipe_DLPre_opengl.h"
#include "RenderPipe_DLFin_opengl.h"
#include "RenderPipe_DLDiffBlend_opengl.h"
#include "RenderPipe_DLEmiss_opengl.h"

class RenderPipe_deferredLit_opengl :
	public IRenderPipe
{
public:
	RenderPipe_deferredLit_opengl(void);
	virtual ~RenderPipe_deferredLit_opengl(void);

	bool init(Device_opengl *device);
	void release(void);

	void render(void);
	void render(GLuint target);
	// light_vmat and light_pmat means the light for shadow
	void setArgs( const CMatrix& light_vmat, const CMatrix& light_pmat, int shadowMapSize,GLuint shadowTexture );

	GLuint getDepthTexture(void);
	void getBloomTexAndBuffer(GLuint &tex, GLuint &buffer);

private:

	GLuint m_framebuffer;
	GLuint m_textures[BUFFER_NUM];

	GLuint m_depthTexture;

	RenderPipe_DLPre_opengl			*m_pipe_pre;
	RenderPipe_DLFin_opengl			*m_pipe_fin;
	RenderPipe_DLDiffBlend_opengl	*m_pipe_DiffBlend;
	RenderPipe_DLEmiss_opengl		*m_pipe_emiss;
};

#endif

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New Releases: October 20, 2017
October 20, 2017 William Gatevackes Movie News
There's a punitive amount of new releases this week. Five? Third week of October and there are five new releases coming out? And one is a Medea film? They don't pay me enough.
1. Geostorm (Warner Brothers, 3,246 Theaters, 109 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for destruction, action and violence, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 29% Fresh [7 Reviews]: Well, this is an inappropriately timed film, isn't it?
In the near future, satellites can control the weather and do so to keep super storms in their place. It's a perfect system, until the satellites start causing storms instead of stopping them. Soon, it's a race against time to stave off global destruction and find out the real reason the satellites malfunctioned.
This might be a nifty sci-fi thriller if it wasn't for the fact that the American Southeast and Puerto Rico are still recovering from weather-based catastrophes. Surely Warners and the filmmakers didn't know that would happen when they made the movie, but you'd think they'd delay the release a bit because of it.
2. Only the Brave (Sony/Columbia, 2,577 Theaters, 133 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some sexual references, language and drug material, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 90% Fresh [71 Reviews]: Yet another inappropriately timed film. Is this weekend at the box office cursed (considering what the next movie is, I'd say yes)?
This film tells the true story of the "Granite Mountain Hotshots," fire fighters who specialize in fighting wildfires that threaten towns. It shows the bonds made between the men and what lengths and risks they are willing to go through to keep their town and families safe.
With wildfires raging throughout California, and fire fighters like the ones portrayed here in similar kind of danger, perhaps now is not the best time for this film to be released.
3. Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (Lionsgate, 2,388 Theaters, 101 Minutes, PG-13 for sexual references, drug content, language and some horror images, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: N/A [Not Submitted to critics, only 1 negative review at press time]: I think I said when the last Madea film was released that this has become a cash cow for Tyler Perry. Whenever he needs a little more spending money, he throws on a dress and makes another one of these films. My opinion has not changed.
And this sub-franchise could be quite the lucrative cash cow. The film follows the same plot from the first Madea Halloween film: Her granddaughter (?) goes to a traditional slasher movie location and is in danger for her life. It's up to Madea to come to the rescue.
And even though it is essentially the same movie as last time, projections show that it is likely to dominate the box office this weekend. And considering the genre has enough tropes to allow Perry to revisit it again and again, this might be the second in a long line of these kind of parodies,
4. The Snowman (Universal, 1,812 Theaters, 119 Minutes, Rated R for grisly images, violence, some language, sexuality and brief nudity, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 14% Fresh [88 Reviews]: It's the first snow of the season and The Snowman is back on the hunt. A detective (Michael Fassbender) must race against time to keep the serial killer's carnage to a minimum this time. However, being that the killer is two steps ahead of him, that will be impossible to do.
The trailer has a real Silence of the Lambs vibe to it, which is only natural because it is a serial killer movie based on a best-selling novel with an all-star cast.
However, that Tomatometer score says that the cast is wasted in this film. It's a shame, because this is a film that a lot of people were looking forward to.
5. Same Kind of Different As Me (Pure Flix, 1,362 Theaters,119 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including some violence and language, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: N/A [No Reviews Listed at Press Time]: It's always a bad weekend for movies when you have one film that wasn't submitted for critics. This week we have three. Yikes.
Ladies and gentlemen, may we have a moment of silence for Renee Zellweger's career. This is her first "religious picture" of her career, the final resting place for stars who once had a career, but have fallen out of favor. She joins Greg Kinnear and Jon Voight–savvy vets of the genre–in a story where Christian values towards a homeless man changes the lives of the town as whole and them in particular.
These films typically do well at the box office, but that's not likely in a crowded, Madea dominated week.
Next week, we will hopefully have a more manageable number of new releases to cover, including another Saw film, another Miles Teller film and another pairing of George Clooney and the Coen Brothers.
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Google puts an end to Chrome extension installs from third-party sites
Google today announced a major change to its Chrome Web Store policy that aims to shield users from websites that try to fool them into installing their Chrome extensions. Until now, developers who publish their apps in the Web Store could also initiate app and extension installs from their own websites. Too often, though, developers combined these so-called "inline installs" with deceptive information on their sites to get users to install them. Unsurprisingly, that's not quite the experience Google had in mind when it enabled this feature back in 2011, so now it's shutting it down.
Starting today, inline installation will be unavailable to all newly published extensions. Developers who use the standard method for calling for an install from their site will see that their users will get redirected to the Chrome Web Store to complete the installation.
Come September 12, 2018, all inline installs of existing extensions will be shut down and users will be redirected to the store, too. Come December and the launch of Chrome 71, the API that currently allows for this way of installing extensions will go away.
"As we've attempted to address this problem over the past few years, we've learned that the information displayed alongside extensions in the Chrome Web Store plays a critical role in ensuring that users can make informed decisions about whether to install an extension," James Wagner, the product manager for the extensions platform, writes in today's update. "When installed through the Chrome Web Store, extensions are significantly less likely to be uninstalled or cause user complaints, compared to extensions installed through inline installation."
As Wagner notes, inline installations have been an issue for a long time. Back in 2015, for example, sites that tried to deceive users into installing extensions by getting them to click on fake ads or error messages were the main issue.


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Sustainability Degrees in Iowa
Cedar Rapids may be rooted in business and industry, but this innovative, progressive city is forging ahead with impressive sustainability efforts that are sure to give any city in the nation a run for its money.
In fact, thanks to its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, Cedar Rapids is now ranked a 4-STAR Community—a national ranking that measures a community's economic, social and environmental health. Cedar Rapids earned this designation after meeting a number of benchmarks in areas like climate and energy, health and safety, innovation and processes, and more.
Just some of the sustainability efforts achieved in Cedar Rapids include an increase of 20% clean energy since 2016…more than 1,000 affordable housing units since 2010…recognition as Iowa's first 'solar ready' city…and nearly 65 miles of bike lanes.
Cedar Rapids is just one of countless Iowa cities that are making a commitment to reducing their carbon footprint, preserving natural resources, and living more sustainably. With the right education under your belt, you can become part of Iowa's countless efforts aimed at a more sustainable future.
Sustainability Jobs Available in Iowa with the Right Degree
You'll enjoy a wealth of professional opportunities in sustainability in Iowa through nonprofits, private businesses, NGOs, and more.
For example, the Iowa Environmental Council is a nonprofit alliance of organizations that works together toward one goal: Iowa's environment. Just a few of the council's 65 member organizations include 1000 Friends of Iowa, Center for Rural Affairs, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Conservation Districts of Iowa, the Drake Environmental Action League, and the Iowa Groundwater Association.
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust is a major player in sustainable agriculture in Iowa that works to save and protect the farms that feed the state's citizens. In just four years, this organization has protected eight farms that total about 770 acres of land throughout the state.
Salaries for Iowa's sustainability professionals are impressive, according to 2018 BLS statistics. For example, environmental engineers here earn an average salary of $79,210, while agricultural engineers earn $85,320. Environmental scientist average salaries here are similar, with these professionals earning $74,140 on average, while conservation scientists earn less at $56,820.
Master's in Sustainability Available Through Schools in Iowa
Advanced study in sustainability is often achieved through focused master's programs aimed at sustainability's biggest areas of study, such as architecture, development, business, and public policy.
Iowa State University's MS in Sustainable Agriculture is an interdisciplinary program aimed at the biological, social, and economic aspects of sustainability.
Iowa State University offers a Master of Design in Sustainable Environments that emphasizes design strategies related to the production of sustainable environments. Some of the highlights of this program include faculty-led research projects, and coursework that's focused on understanding, promoting, and creating sustainable practices in design and planning.
Fairfield's Maharishi University of Management's MBA in Sustainable Business offers you the choice of a weekend/evening or online format, a curriculum complemented with evidence-based techniques, and small courses for an intimate learning environment. Just some of the classes offered through this program include Social and Environmentally Responsible Management, Sustainable Technologies, and Sustainable Community Development.
The University of Iowa offers an MS in Sustainable Water Development through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This program features an in-depth examination into social justice issues affecting food, energy, and water and your choice of a variety of elective courses for a personalized course of study.
Sustainability Bachelor Degree Programs in Iowa
Bachelor's programs in Iowa provide the ideal foundation on which to build a career in sustainability. The Maharishi University of Management offers a BS in Sustainable Living, and Upper Iowa University offers a major in Environmental Science.
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Psychic Games #19: Harriet Jacobs
"Harriet Jacobs was an African American writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an American classic.
Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. When he threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, she hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low she could not stand up in it.
After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda and her brother John S. Jacobs.
She found work as a nanny and got into contact with abolitionists and feminist reformers. Even in New York, her freedom was in danger until her employer was able to pay off her legal owner.
During and immediately after the Civil War, she went to the Union-occupied parts of the South together with her daughter, organizing help and founding two schools for fugitive and freed slaves." Wikipedia
Harriet Jacobs, seated, wrote of her cruel treatment as a slave in Edenton.
From an excerpt from her book, Jacobs writes, "Be assured this narrative is no fiction," she tells her readers. "I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short of the facts."
You can read more about Harriet's story in the article, Harriet Jacobs, Edenton slave, told her story, in the Sun Journal.
The fact about Harriet that struck me the most was that she hid as a runaway slave for 7 years in an attic crawl space no taller than 3 feet that measured about 7 feet by 9 feet long.
It was the attic of her grandmother who raised Harriet's children in the very house she hid in.
Harriet could watch her children from a hidden distance, but not interact with them. As a mother myself, I feel that would be seriously painful.
Harriet Jacobs, a play by Lydia R. Diamond, inspired by "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl''
How'd you do?
What information did you pick up? Did you detect any emotions, people, places or things associated with Harriet Jacobs. This is only a sampling of her story, so you may have detected much more than is here.
If you're curious and want more detailed information, check out Harriet Jacobs on Wikipedia. Notice how much you intuited about her without even knowing her.
Imagine what else you're capable of.
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