The hotel room we shot in was beautiful and I wanted to portray them in an intimate and sensual way while using the design of the room as a frame to display their love and devotion to each other. I believe it turned out great!
The editing was straight forward: I used frequency separation to retouch the skin, cleaned up distractions and after some dodging and burning and correcting a red color cast on their skin, I went on and used my signature grading to make this almost a painterly shot with lots of mood and atmosphere.
If you have any questions about the editing, feel free to leave me a comment below.


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Q: How to pipe stdout in realtime to a batch script I'm trying to pipe the lines outputted from a program to another script which would in realtime read the lines and depending on whats in the line do something.
So for example the output is
$program.exe
Program Started
Processing info
Work Set Started
Work Set Ended
Results are..
Ending Program

I want that to be piped to a script which can trigger another program when the above program outputs "Work Set Started"
I have tried the following in my trigger.bat
@echo off

SETLOCAL

FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=]" %%A IN ('FIND /N /V ""') DO (
    IF "%%B" == "Work Set Started" (
        ProgramB.exe
        )
)

ENDLOCAL

When I run the following
$program.exe | trigger.bat

ProgramB.exe is not launched in real time but the for loop from trigger.bat executes after it collects all the output from the pipe.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to use PowerShell?

A: The FOR /F command first collects all the output from the executed command, and start to process each output line until the command ends.
You may modify your trigger.bat file code this way:
@echo off
SETLOCAL

:nextLine
set /P "line="
echo Line received: "%line%"
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=]" %%A IN ("%line%") DO (
   IF "%%B" == "Work Set Started" ECHO ProgramB.exe
   IF "%%B" neq "Ending Program" GOTO NextLine
)

However, it may be some synchronization problems if the output of your $program.exe is generated too fast. I tested this code using this output.txt file:
[1]$program.exe
[2]Program Started
[3]Processing info
[4]Work Set Started
[5]Work Set Ended
[6]Results are..
[7]Ending Program

If I just do this: type output.txt | trigger.bat the program fail, but if the output lines are generated slowly via this output.bat program:
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /F "delims=" %%a in (output.txt) do (
   set /A "rand=!random! %% 4 + 2"
   ping -n !rand! localhost > NUL
   echo %%a
)

... then the method works correctly:
C:\> output.bat | trigger.bat
Line received: "[1]$program.exe "
Line received: "[2]Program Started"
Line received: "[3]Processing info"
Line received: "[4]Work Set Started"
ProgramB.exe
Line received: "[5]Work Set Ended"
Line received: "[6]Results are.."
Line received: "[7]Ending Program"

So you need to test this method for your particular case...

A: Tested with a simple code to generate the output as
@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion

    >"programOutput.txt" (
        echo(Program Started
        echo(Processing info
        echo(Work Set Started
        echo(Work Set Ended
        echo(Results are..
        echo(Ending Program
    )

    set program=findstr "^" programOutput.txt

    %program% | trigger.cmd

The trigger.cmd code could be something like
@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion
    if "%~1"==".monitor." ( call :monitor ) else ( call :start )
    goto :eof

:start
    echo .... Entering monitor
    for %%t in ("%temp%\%~n0.%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%.tmp") do (
        type nul >"%%~ft"
        findstr "^" > "%%~ft" | ( <"%%~ft" "%~f0" .monitor. & echo Start program B here )
    ) & 2>nul del /q "%%~ft"
    echo .... Main program ended - Leaving monitor
    goto :eof

:monitor
    rem Try to read data. In case of failure wait and repeat
    set /p "data=" || (
        >nul ping -n 2 ""
        goto :monitor
    )
    echo(.... monitor has retrieved [%data%]
    if /i "%data%"=="Work Set Started" (
        echo(.... !!! : detected work set start. Leaving monitor
        goto :eof
    )
    rem No end of monitoring condition found. Try again
    goto :monitor

As Aacini indicates,

*

*The problem with for /f is that all the data has to be retrieved before starting to process it.

*The problem with the loop using set /p inside a pipe is the syncronization of both sides of the pipe.

But there is a workaround for the problem. You can use an intermediate file. That is, you can redirect the output of your command to a file and, at the same time that the program is writting, you can read from the file. Not bulletproof but more stable.
A safer way of deal with it is use some way of indicating where each line starts. This is another trigger.cmd alternative that uses a find /n command to process the output of the program that is being processed in the monitoring loop. If the fist character in the input buffer is [ we will assume we have found the start of a line, else, it is a line continuation.
@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion
    if "%~1"==".monitor." ( call :monitor ) else ( call :start )
    goto :eof

:start
    echo .... Entering monitor
    set "buffer="
    for %%t in ("%temp%\%~n0.%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%.tmp") do (
        type nul >"%%~ft"
        find /n /v "" > "%%~ft" | ( <"%%~ft" "%~f0" .monitor. & echo Start program B here )
    ) & 2>nul del /q "%%~ft"
    echo .... Main program ended - Leaving monitor
    goto :eof

:monitor
    rem Try to read data. In case of failure wait and repeat
    set /p "data=" || (
        >nul ping -n 2 ""
        goto :monitor
    )
    echo(.... monitor has retrieved [%data%]

    rem The output of the process is being numerated by find /n
    rem so each line is in the form [9]xxxxxxx
    if not "%data:~0,1%"=="[" (
        rem If we don not have a line start, append to previous buffer
        set "buffer=%buffer%%data%"
    ) else (
        rem New line found to process
        set "buffer=%data%"
    )

    rem Remove initial [number] data
    for /f "tokens=2 delims=]" %%a in ("%buffer%") do (
        echo(.... checking program output [%%a]
        if /i "%%a"=="Work Set Started" (
            echo(.... !!! detected work set start. Leaving monitor
            goto :eof
        )
    )

    rem No end of monitoring condition found. Try again
    goto :monitor

note: While not aware at the time of writting previous code, I've duplicated (and not in the best way) the work of dbenham. Please, refer to this post for a much improved version of the same idea.

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Fairlight Partners with WITNESS for Charity Auction
Fairlight has announced its partnership with human rights nonprofit organization WITNESS. Fairlight and WITNESS will auction a one-of-a-kind vintage Fairlight CMI Series III keyboard signed by musicians and producers, such as Peter Gabriel and Hans Zimmer.
At the heart of the Fairlight and WITNESS partnership is the fundraising auction of the vintage Fairlight CMI. Veteran musicians, composers and producers that used the Fairlight CMI from its early years will sign each white key. The keyboard will be mounted and auctioned in public to music aficionados. All proceeds from the auction will go directly to WITNESS to support its efforts to equip and train local organizations around the world to document human rights injustices.
Several noteworthy artists have already agreed to participate in the project, including Peter Gabriel, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Dolby, Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Mike Oldfield and Jan Hammer.
Peter Gabriel, co-founder and chairman of WITNESS, notes, "There is great synchronicity between Fairlight and WITNESS since we are both committed to using technology in innovative ways. We look forward to working hand in hand with Fairlight to make this a successful auction and a strong partnership for the future."
WITNESS uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. By partnering with local organizations around the globe, WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video as a tool to shine a light on those most affected by human rights violations, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools of justice.
Since its founding in 1992, WITNESS has partnered with groups in more than 60 countries, bringing often unseen images, untold stories and seldom heard voices to the attention of key decision makers, the media, and the general public — prompting grassroots activism, political engagement, and lasting change.
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UK's COVID-19 strategy unraveling as regions choose own path
by: DANICA KIRKA , Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's new strategy for combating COVID-19 seemed to unravel Wednesday as regional leaders chose their own paths and the mayors of the cities facing the toughest restrictions accused Johnson of using the crisis to divide them for political advantage.
Fearing Johnson hadn't gone far enough, two regions in the United Kingdom chose to impose tougher measures than the prime minister. Northern Ireland said it would close schools, pubs and restaurants to slow the spread of the virus, while Wales announced it would not allow in people from hot spots in other parts of the U.K.
As Liverpool, the only area that has been placed under England's toughest restrictions, prepared for the new rules to take effect, revelers spilled into the streets as bars closed Tuesday night amid fears they may not reopen again until spring.
Social media showed the images, including one video of a police car slowly moving through the crowd as partiers banged on the side of the car.
"These pictures shame our city, attacking our brave police officers is unacceptable," Liverpool City Mayor Joe Anderson tweeted. "Our health service is creaking, 300 in hospital and 30 people dead in week. Ignoring these facts is why we are in Tier 3 measures."
The leader of greater Liverpool's regional government criticized Johnson's handling of the crisis. The government refused until last week to work with local leaders in the fight against COVID-19, and now it is trying to use Liverpool's acceptance of tough new restrictions as a way to force other cities into doing the same, Steve Rotheram said during a video news conference with Andy Burnham, leader of the Greater Manchester Combine Authority.
"We're not going to stand by while the government plays politics with us," Rotheram said. "We're not going to stand by and not do anything about holding the government to account."
The wrangling came as England's new three-tiered system of restrictions took effect across the country. Health officials met Wednesday to discuss whether other areas, including Manchester and Lancashire, should join Liverpool in the highest risk tier, which would bring with it additional measures such as closing pubs and banning social gatherings with other households.
Greater Manchester's regional government on Wednesday rejected efforts to move it into the highest tier, saying infection rates and levels of hospitalization in the metropolitan area are much lower than those in Liverpool.
Burnham said the U.K. government was trying to force local leaders into making the hard decisions about which businesses to shut down without providing enough financial assistance to mitigate the economic impacts. Given the government's current offer, the majority of regional leaders would prefer a short national lockdown to the tiered approach, Burnham said.
"We've gone from an approach that was about 'whatever it takes to get the country through this' to a penny-pinching approach to this pandemic where the cost will fall very much on people in the real world whose businesses are already close to the brink,″ he said.
Britain already has Europe's deadliest outbreak, with more than 43,000 confirmed deaths, and Northern Ireland has the highest infection rate in the U.K.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Northern Ireland has recorded 1,156 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people, compared with 995 in Wales, 960 in England and 755 in Scotland.
In the U.K.'s system of devolved authority, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales control their own health policies and therefore their response to the pandemic. The U.K. government decides the policy for England, but says it is coordinating with the others.
But Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he was forced to act because Johnson had ignored requests to ban travel from areas with high infection rates. He said it wasn't an issue about the border, but a "matter of fairness."
Northern Ireland, meanwhile, announced the tightest restrictions in the U.K., closing schools for two weeks and pubs for four weeks, except for takeout orders.
The announcement came after talks among political parties in the region's power-sharing government that stretched from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
"This is not the time for trite political points,″ First Minister Arlene Foster told lawmakers at the regional assembly in Belfast. "This is the time for solutions.″
By contrast, Johnson and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer sparred over the government's response to COVID-19 during their weekly question-and-answer session in the House of Commons.
Starmer contrasted Johnson's earlier pledge that science would guide the response to COVID-19 with the recent release of a report showing that the government's scientific advisers had recommended a tougher approach to tackling the pandemic, including a two- to three-week national lockdown to try to contain rapidly rising infection rates.
"Why did the prime minister reject that advice and abandon the science?" Starmer asked.
Johnson accused Labour of trying to exploit the crisis for the opposition party's own political benefit. The government chose a regional, tiered approach because it had to balance the scientific advice against the economic and social harm caused by a national lockdown, Johnson said.
"I rule out nothing, of course, in combating the virus but we're going to do it with the local, regional approach that can drive down and will drive down the virus if it is properly implemented," he said.
Associated Press writer Pan Pylas contributed to this report.
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by MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2021
Scientists are reporting troubling signs that some recent mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 may modestly curb the effectiveness of two current vaccines, although they stress that the shots still protect against the disease.
Researchers expressed concern Wednesday about the preliminary findings, in large part because they suggest that future mutations could undermine vaccines. The research tested coronaviruses from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, and was led by Rockefeller University in New York with scientists from the National Institutes of Health and elsewhere.
Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk of breast cancer for women without a family history of the disease, and how common these flawed genes are in the general population.
Doctors say the results published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine can help women make better decisions about screening, preventive surgery or other steps.


General of the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC) Dr. Saud Al Meshari received in his office HE Ambassador of Mozambique to Saudi Arabia, Cesar Francesco Gouveia, where the two discussed ways to foster trade and investment relations between the two countries.
Dr. Al Meshari noted the Kingdom's interest in exploring new markets as part of its future vision, and enhancing its exports to foreign countries, stressing the important role of the Saudi and Mozambican business sectors in fostering trade relations between the two countries. He expressed CSC's readiness to assist in any capacity in this regard.
For his part, the Mozambican Ambassador expressed his country's keenness on fostering economic relations with Saudi Arabia, pointing to the general agreement signed between the two countries on economic, trade and investment cooperation. He highlighted opportunities in Mozambique, particularly in mining, tourism, agriculture, oil and gas.
The meeting discussed organizing a Mozambican delegation visit to the Kingdom to explore cooperation opportunities. In addition to signing an MoU between CSC and the Mozambique Federation for Business Associations to enhance cooperation between the two countries respective business sectors.


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WATCH: Is renting clothes the future of fashion?
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RSVP, an evening wear rental service in the Philippines, provides a cost-effective shopping experience. Photo from RSVP/FACEBOOK
Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — Through the years, fast fashion has received a lot of flak for churning out cheap clothing that ultimately increases the fashion industry's carbon footprint. Fast fashion retailers have also been flagged for inhumane working conditions and unfair pay of factory workers.
Because of these concerns, fashion consumers who have a more thoughtful approach to buying clothes are advocating for more sustainable ways to dress themselves. There are those who opt to buy most of their clothes in thrift shops while others ensure that they only purchase eco-friendly garments.
Renting clothes is another fashion trend that's gaining traction among this market. As they recognize the fleeting characteristic of a piece of clothing, it then makes sense to rent rather than buy. It's not only in fashion that we see this. Spotify, for instance, has also disrupted the music industry by offering streaming services instead of having consumers own a physical copy of the music they want to listen to.
If renting clothes is the future of fashion, the women behind RSVP, a luxury evening wear rental service in the Philippines, may be on the right track. The idea came about in 2016 when the founders, Maica Salud and Cara Sumabat, had a lot of events and weddings to attend to, which took too much time and money from them, only to spend on a single dress.
"There has to be a different way of doing it," Sumabat says.
RSVP has yet to officially launch, but it has already welcomed several clients into their studio. "What's really great is we feel that clients come out of the studio with real happiness and relief that there's a place like this for them," adds Sumabat.
The studio also works with fashion designers Martin Bautista, Sassa Jimenez, and Stacy Rodriguez to create capsule collections that they feel their clientele would respond to. In the future, Salud says that they want RSVP to not only be a space where women can look and feel good, but also be a space where women can support other women.
"We want this to grow into a community where we can connect girls with other girls," says Salud.
Watch how the RSVP renting process works below.
For more information, visit the RSVP Facebook page.


Our gorgeous weather. The past few days have been absolutely awesome. Not too hot; not too cold. There has been lots of sun, but a nice breeze also. I was able to spend most of Tuesday outside with my kids from school. Despite a slight sunburn on my leg, it was quite comfortable to sit and watch them play.
Popsicles. I bought some new ones at the store this week. I decided not to go with the classic orange, grape, and cherry flavors. We always ended up with a box of orange ones that no one really wanted. The ones I bought are citrus punch, tropical punch, mango punch, and kiwi strawberry punch. I like 'em, Frances likes 'em and Henry LOVES 'em. I don't think Ken has had one yet and if he doesn't hurry back from his business trip he may not get the chance!!
F: "I didn't kick her! I pushed her with my foot!"
F: "Mommy, I went in my room and talked to God."
Me:"Really, what did you talk about?"
F: "Mommy, Woody [her imaginary friend] was really bad at school today. He got on red [the "worst bad" color on our behavior chart]."
Me: "Really? What did he do that was so bad?"
F: "He did all the bad kinds of bad stuff. He ate snack outside without a teacher. He threw his cookies on the floor. He was not nice to his friends."
F: "Henry! Get in the boat! You are sinking!!" They were playing in the laundry basket and Henry climbed out.
Kids say the funniest things! I bet it warms your heart when she says that she talked to God. Even if she was mad at you!
Thanks for sharing your blessings! Have a great day!
We love the park and popsicles in the summertime at our house!
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The sentence is only worth quoting because in 28 words it contains four metaphors. Economies don't really gain traction, like a tractor. Momentum doesn't literally get snuffed out, like a cigarette. We just use those metaphors, without even thinking about it, as a way to capture what is going on.
In his fine new book, "I Is an Other," James Geary reports on linguistic research suggesting that people use a metaphor every 10 to 25 words. Metaphors are not rhetorical frills at the edge of how we think, Geary writes. They are at the very heart of it.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, two of the leading researchers in this field, have pointed out that we often use food metaphors to describe the world of ideas. We devour a book, try to digest raw facts and attempt to regurgitate other people's ideas, even though they might be half-baked.
The psychologist Michael Morris points out that when the stock market is going up, we tend to use agent metaphors, implying the market is a living thing with clear intentions. We say the market climbs or soars or fights its way upward. When the market goes down, on the other hand, we use object metaphors, implying it is inanimate. The market falls, plummets or slides.
Most of us, when asked to stop and think about it, are by now aware of the pervasiveness of metaphorical thinking. But in the normal rush of events, we often see straight through metaphors, unaware of how they refract perceptions. So it's probably important to pause once a month or so to pierce the illusion that we see the world directly. It's good to pause to appreciate how flexible and tenuous our grip on reality actually is.
Metaphors help compensate for our natural weaknesses. Most of us are not very good at thinking about abstractions or spiritual states, so we rely on concrete or spatial metaphors to (imperfectly) do the job. A lifetime is pictured as a journey across a landscape. A person who is sad is down in the dumps, while a happy fellow is riding high.
Most of us are not good at understanding new things, so we grasp them imperfectly by relating them metaphorically to things that already exist. That's a "desktop" on your computer screen.
Metaphors are things we pass down from generation to generation, which transmit a culture's distinct way of seeing and being in the world. In his superb book "Judaism: A Way of Being," David Gelernter notes that Jewish thought uses the image of a veil to describe how Jews perceive God — as a presence to be sensed but not seen, which is intimate and yet apart.
Judaism also emphasizes the metaphor of separateness as a path to sanctification. The Israelites had to separate themselves from Egypt. The Sabbath is separate from the week. Kosher food is separate from the nonkosher. The metaphor describes a life in which one moves from nature and conventional society to the sacred realm.
To be aware of the central role metaphors play is to be aware of how imprecise our most important thinking is. It's to be aware of the constant need to question metaphors with data — to separate the living from the dead ones, and the authentic metaphors that seek to illuminate the world from the tinny advertising and political metaphors that seek to manipulate it.


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Best of Milan Walking Tour with Skip-the-Line Ticket to Duomo & 'Last Supper'
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See the sights of Milan and 'The Last Supper' with a skip-the-line ticket on a half-day tour of the city. After leaving your hotel, you'll check off Milan's big-name sights including Milan Duomo, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, and La Scala opera theater. Learn about the city's culture and history, then bypass the entrance lines to see Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting of 'The Last Supper.'
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Explore the city of Milan and Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Last Supper, on this half-day tour. Visit the main attractions of the city including the Duomo, Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele, and Sforza Castle and learn the history of each attraction. Head to Santa Maria delle Grazie and skip the line to admire the masterpiece of the Last Supper as you listen to informative commentary about the piece and the artist.
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Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is one of the world's most famous paintings but it's just one of Milan's many Renaissance treasures. This 2-hour small-group tour includes skip-the-line access to The Last Supper, plus a walking tour of Milan monuments such as Castello Sforzesco, San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, and the UNESCO-listed Santa Maria delle Grazie.
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See the most popular sights of Milan with a hop-on hop-off bus ticket good for 24 or 48 hours. Take in the views of this fashionable city from the top level of an open-air double-decker bus, from which you see the iconic Milan Duomo and the famous opera house La Scala. With three different bus routes to choose from, and opportunities to get on and off as much as you like, the city of Milan is yours to discover.
Skip the Line: Leonardo da Vinci Walking Tour of Milan Including 'The Last Supper' Ticket
Get a close-up view of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic masterpiece, 'The Last Supper' with this exciting guided tour. In addition to your skip-the-line-admission the 'The Last Supper,' see the 'Atlantic Codex,' a 12-volume bound set of drawings and writings by Da Vince in the late fifteen and early sixteenth century. Also spend time exploring the UNESCO-listed church, Santa Maria delle Grazie. This tour is a great way to learn about one of the world's greatest artists.
Milan Half-Day Sightseeing Tour with da Vinci's 'The Last Supper'
See Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper and La Scala opera house with a local guide on this half-day tour in Milan, and learn the history behind each of the sights. With a pre-booked ticket, you'll avoid the main entrance lines to see the 'The Last Supper' — a painting that attracts scores of visitors. After spending time with the masterpiece, explore La Scala and the glamorous shopping arcade of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Marvel at the scale and beauty of Milan Cathedral and learn of its long history.
Serravalle Outlet Shopping Tour
Shop 'til you drop (and save money while doing it) on this day trip to Serravalle Designer Outlet from Milan, with round-trip transfers. Board a comfortable coach in Milan for the 60-mile (100-kilometer) ride to the outlet center. Once there, go wild popping into as many of the 200 shops that your time there will afford. Take advantage of discounts of 70% off name brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Adidas, Versaci, Timberland, and more. For more benefits, upgrade the tour to the VIP Shopping Pass and get a 10% discount and fast-track coach boarding.
Milan Food Walking Tour of Brera
Indulge in tasty Italian delights on this tour of the Brera neighborhood, one of Milan's hippest neighborhoods. With your foodie guide by your side, traverse the intimate streets of Brera, stopping at various spots to sample Parma ham, Milanese meatballs, artisan beer, and other local delicacies.
Brera district & Pinacoteca 2-hours guided experience with entrance tickets included
Do you know the hidden secrets of Brera? And do you know the reason behind the name of the streets "Via dei fiori chiari" and "Via dei fiori scuri"? Are you curious to discover this amazing district? Enjoy this 2 hours guided experiences with a monolingual tour guide. Don't miss the opportunity to visit the famous Pinacoteca and you will be hypnotized by Milan's famous paintings collection made by important artist as Raffaello, Caravaggio, Hayez and many others. Finally, take a stroll through the charming street of Brera and breath a magical atmosphere, due to small artisans and local typical shops of canvas, perfumes and so on. Join an exciting journey through one the most suggestive districts of Milan!
Milan Wine Tasting with Italian Sommelier
Experience the terroir and traditions of Italian wines with a 1.5-hour Milan wine tasting experience guided by your own personal sommelier. Sample three of Italy's most iconic wines along with regional pairings like cheese, salumi, olives and Italian breads. Learn the history behind each wine you taste, with tips on buying and pairing Italian vintages.
Milan Semi-Private Walking Tour with Last Supper and Duomo | MAX 6 people group
The Milan Walking Tour with the Last Supper and the Duomo is a fantastic tour to really get to know Milan, and to see one of the world's most famous masterpieces: the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Choose between our exclusive semi-private tour in a group of only 6 people max, or book your very own Private Tour - we offer both options! You will begin at the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Last Supper lives. Admire this incredible painting with only a handful of other tourists, and really enjoy it with ample space, peace and quiet. Continue onto see San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, refuel with a coffee, and continue onto the financial district and San Satiro. Finally end at the Duomo, where your guide will explain the wonders of this world famous Church from the majestic Piazza. NOTE: The Private Tour option includes skip the line access to the Duomo and its terrace! The Small Group Tour does not include entry into the Duomo.
Milan Mix Aperitivo and Street Food Tour - Do Eat Better Experience
Discover the best of Milan's cuisine on a food walking tour through Navigli and Porta Ticinese. Visit a number of bars and restaurants and learn about northern Italy's famous 'aperitivo' culture. Sample local wines and cheeses, delicious cocktails, the famous Milanese cutlet, and more as your guide explains the history behind the Italian cuisine.
Italian Wine Tasting in Milan
Top off your trip to Milan with a little bit of knowledge about wine (and perhaps a few bottles) by taking this guided sampling of the wines of Lombardy. You don't have to be a wine expert; you just need a love of vino and an interest in learning about what makes the wine from this region so good. The tasting is lead by a professional sommelier.
Franciacorta Wine-Tasting and Fashion Tour from Milan
Immerse yourself in the wine and fashion culture of the Franciacorta region during this guided tour from Milan. Visit a local winery to learn about the winemaking process and taste some of the world-renowned local varietals, then sit down for a light lunch. Continue to the popular Franciacorta Outlets to shop for famous Italian designer products at deeply discounted prices. Round-trip transportation from Milan is included.
Lake Como Day Trip from Milan with Hotel Pickup
Discover the beauty of Lake Como on a day-long excursion from Milan, and spend time in Como and Bellagio—the lake's must-visit towns. After a visit to the Romanesque Basilica di Sant'Abbondio and Villa Olmo in Como, see the sights from the water on a lake cruise. Stop to explore Bellagio, then cruise to Cadenabbia before your return to Milan.
Leonardo3 The World of Leonardo: Tickets for the Interactive Exhibition
Delve into the brilliant mind of Leonardo da Vinci at this interactive exhibit. Leonardo3 - The World of Leonardo, located at Piazza della Scala, boasts a number of reproductions of Leonardo's famous machines as well as manuscripts, digital restorations, and reconstructions. Enjoy a number of interactive experiences in a multitude of languages with audio guides.
Milan Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tasting
Explore the best of the Brera district on this 2-hour food and wine tasting tour. Sample a number of delicious foods and three different wines as you traverse the Milanese streets. Learn about the history of food in Milan as well as the local area. Enjoy personalized service with a small group of no more than 10 guests and make the most of your time in Milan.
Leonardo's Vineyard: choose a Guided Tour or the Self-Guided option
Discover the gardens and grand rooms of the Atellani House in Milan with a museum entry ticket including a guided tour. Learn about the history and architecture of the building as you move between the house's inner courtyards, the grand staircase hall, the secret garden of Matteo Bandello, and Leonardo's vineyard.
Milan Luxury Spa Evening with Aperitivo
Soothe your body and soul with an evening at the spa in Milan, followed by an Italian-style 'aperitivo.' Check into QC Termemilano to soak in one of the warm-water pools, detox in one of the saunas, or book an essential-oils massage. When you're completely relaxed, enjoy an aperitivo—a drink and buffet of light snacks—just like the Italians do. Rejuvenated and re-energized, you are ready to enjoy a night on the town in Milan.
The 10 Tastings of Milan With Locals: Private Food Tour
Treat yourself to a food tour of Milan, and discover the best of the city's cuisine. With a private guide, you'll explore the vibrant Brera neighborhood, tasting organic gelato, tramezzini (sandwiches), and local ham. Taste buds primed, you'll then continue into Milan to sample artisan chocolate followed by pizza, and indulge yourself with a cheese tasting at Eataly. Along the way, you'll learn all about beloved Milanese specialities, and get tips for the best places to eat in town.
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Gay Irish Prime Minister and Partner Meet Mike Pence
Written by Cameren Boatner
leo Varadkar (right) and Matt Barrett. photo via navva.org
One of the only openly gay world leaders and his partner met Vice President Mike Pence, who is notorious for creating legislation that hurts the LGBT community.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and his partner Matt Barrett met Pence at his home for breakfast, according to the Washington Post. Varadkar said when they'd met previously, Pence said they spoke about LGBT issues, and that the couple would be welcome in his home.
"They were very well briefed," Varadkar said, according to the Post. "They knew about my personal story, that my partner was living in Chicago, and they said both Matt and I would be very welcome to visit their home in future."
Second Lady Karen Pence couldn't make it to the breakfast, as she was visiting the United Arab Emirates, where homosexuality is criminalized, according to the advocate.
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Irvine Calif. – Mitsubishi Electric Video Sales America (MEVSA) Monday confirmed reports that it notified service centers it has halted the manufacturer of rear-projection TVs and told TWICE that it has nearly completed phasing out inventory.
Irvine, Calif. – Mitsubishi Electric Video Sales America (MEVSA) Monday confirmed reports that it notified service centers it has halted the manufacture of rear-projection TVs and told TWICE that it has nearly completed phasing out inventory.
Max Wasinger, MEVSA executive VP of sales, said Monday that there is "minimal inventory left in stock," and there are no plans for special close out pricing to follow.
"All retail dealers will need to sell out their current inventories of 73-, 82-, 92- DLP TVs and 75- LaserVue DLP TVs" Wasinger said.
Wasinger and fellow long-time MEVSA executive Frank DeMartin will stay on with the company. Wasinger becomes Mitsubishi Professional Products and solutions executive VP, he said.
From a consumer electronics perspective, Mitsubishi will continue to offer a variety of front projectors, but the rear-projection TV business, which the Mitsubishi was largely responsible for putting on the map back in the seventies, is virtually finished as a mass market consumer product category, at least for the time being.
The handwriting was on the wall when the company stopped introducing revised model updates last year, relying on 2011's super big screen sets to carry through the year. Instead, it continued offering 73-, 82- and 92-inch sets at a dollars-per-inch value compared with flat panel sets.
But this year, the arrival of bargain behemoth LCD sets of 70 to 90 inches from Sharp and others left little breathing room for rear-projection technology, which still required bulb replacements and suffered from weaker viewing angles. Only Mitsubishi's carryover 75-inch LaserVue DLP set, which was originally plagued with introduction setbacks, eliminated the need to replace bulbs every few thousand hours. But despite offering superior red color reproduction, that model had a difficult time competing at an over $5,000 street price.
Market research firm Quixel Research told TWICE that it estimates full year sales of 118,000 sets for 2012, down from 210,446 units in 2011.
The DLP rear-projection category sold more than 2.2 million units at its peak in 2006. Although it was wasn't the first in the rear-projection TV market, Mitsubishi ended up being the best and last mass market manufacturer of the technology.


The principal questions of this paper are: What does a country need for its own development? Which elements are absolutely unavoidable to allow a country's balanced and sustainable development? What could be a method which can be used so that each country can formulate its own development strategy?
c. Interviews (about 100) with significant members of UN, UNDP, International NGOs, Universities and Governments.
As most of the literature shows, social and economic factors are the main reasons of development (or lack of development) of a country: the scarcity of education, the absence of basic health standards, a low income population are the reasons of a vicious cycle of poverty that can be stopped by facing the poverty dimensions in a long term perspective.
In our article, we firstly carried on an analysis of the development actors. Then, we analyzed many development plan implemented in India, Philippine, Myanmar and in South Africa, Ethiopia and Benin, specially the cultural and social ones. These steps allowed us to introduce the Overall Development Management Model, the Macro Management Strategic Model for the development of the weak areas. The characteristics of the Overall Development Management Model are then given by: the consideration of human development as a whole; hybridization of different approaches; the division into three phases temporally differentiated (Development Lifecycle); a two-way approach, Top Down and Bottom Up; the strategic planning based on the use of instruments from different systems of economic and social science; the decreasing of the dependence between national and international public actors (Development Matrix Actors), that characterizes the implementation of national autonomy; the peculiar structure of the development plans; the involvement of the population; and the need for countries to define their own unique development process.
Indeed, the key factors to ensure that the emerging countries may be able to manage their growth process is the spread of expertise: material resources and foreign assets must be used for the creation of an independent development path, not a welfare state dependent on foreign aid.
Social and economic development, that is the basis of a sustainable development, must be founded on the culture of a country, its traditions, its religion, using these characteristics in order to find a very peculiar development path.
The mistakes made in the past related to the assumption that a development model was universal, applicable to all contexts, can no longer be reproduced. We provide a method which can help each country to formulate its own development strategy. This can be done by introducing a hybridized methodology between economics and management that uses tools that make the approaches synergistic with traditional Project Management, the Logic Framework Approach and the Result Based Management, so as to allow each country to plan and manage their own development process: An Overall Development Management Model. The Overall Development Management Model, therefore, helps a country manager to achieve its balanced, sustainable and free development, choosing like a tree the direction of its path.
keywords: human development, development model, emerging countries, strategy.
F. Sciarelli, A. Rinaldi (2017) OVERALL DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT MODEL: A NEW APPROACH FOR EMERGING COUNTRIES COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SIX COUNTRIES ON TWO CONTINENTS, INTED2017 Proceedings, pp. 2300-2311.


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Q: Implementing multiple inputs in libgdx I am working on controls in libgdx. I have 3 buttons: up, right and left. Things are working fine if I click the buttons separately.
On clicking 2 buttons simultaneously, e.g. the right and up buttons, the player isn't having a smooth jump . It gets struck and is not rendering properly .
Part of my code:
//Up Button
buttonup.addListener(new InputListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean touchDown(InputEvent event, float x, float y, int pointer, int button) {

        gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(0, 4f);

        return true;
    }
});

//Right Button
buttonright.addListener(new InputListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean touchDown(InputEvent event, float x, float y, int pointer, int button){

        gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(2f, 0);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void touchUp(InputEvent event, float x, float y, int pointer, int button) {

        gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(0, 0);
    }
});

//Left Button
buttonleft.addListener(new InputListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean touchDown(InputEvent event, float x, float y, int pointer, int button) {

        if gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(-2f, 0);
            return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void touchUp(InputEvent event, float x, float y, int pointer, int button) {

        gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(0, 0);

    }
});

I have gone through many posts especially this but it didn't help me. I feel like something has to be done with pointers but I don't know how to use it with buttons. Is there any way to make the player have a smooth rendering if I touch 2 buttons at the same time?

A: Each button should only affect motion in one of your coordinate directions: x for Left/Right, y for Up. So rather than setting the velocity in the other direction to 0, you should leave it unchanged (i.e. set it to its current value which is presumably stored in gamehero).
e.g. your Up button should set something like:
gamehero.heroBody.setLinearVelocity(gamehero.velocity.x, 4f);


Is it spring? Is it summer? The weather is getting warmer and many students are in short sleeves, but there was still a cool breeze through the classrooms this week as students were bent towards their papers, pencils flying.
We have just finished our week of mid-term exams. Shouts of happiness were heard in the halls as students left school today. There is a lot of pressure in test week, and a lot of effort spent studying and preparing. When the exams are finished, there is a feeling of relief.
Even though they cause some stress, tests are a good way to see how your studies are coming. It gives students and teachers a picture of how far you have come, and how far you need to go. Think about tests as a guide, because they will show you where you are strong, and where you need to get better.
We have a beautiful tree in front of our school. You may remember it at Christmas time when the lights are on it. Looking at it today, it is hard to imagine that it was much smaller when we opened the new school building. Fortunately it is spring, and nature gives us a clue as to how it grows.
You are all growing up, in body, mind, spirit, and knowledge. This week was a a difficult one, but, like the green on the tree, a chance to see how far you have come. Rest, relax, refresh, and be ready to go again on Monday!
For the past 19 years, the school has been opened in the morning by Mr. Sakakibara. Every day, rain or shine, he has arrived on his bicycle to open the gate and unlock the doors. Maybe you do not know his name well, but you have definately seen him every day. He is an important part of our school life. Today will be his last day before he takes a rest.
Mr. Sakakibara looking sharp, as always!
After opening the school each morning, Mr. Sakakibara helps keep our school clean by picking up fallen leaves and trash around the school, and he also waters the plants. After that, he changes back into his suit and greets students coming to the bicycle gate.
Mr. Sakakibara is also a member of Yakatamachi Church. When we have a mass, such as the new student mass or school trip mass, he is often there.
When we think of school, we think about teachers and students. But a school also needs supporters and staff. Shin-ai is not just a school, it is a part of the community. It is important to remember that.
So I hope that Mr. Sakakibara enjoys his rest, and I want to appreciate him for his hard work, greetings, and great smile every day. Thank you!
Last Saturday and Sunday we held our annual open school, Shin Ai Festa! On both days, hundreds of elementary school girls came with their parents to take model lessons, and also check out the different clubs available. Even though Sunday became very rainy at the end, there was a wonderful turnout. Thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed our school!
For English class we had "Big Sister 2". In this class the elementary school students worked with some of our grade 2 high school students to practice a self-introduction. After practicing, the guests could challenge three different English teachers to get three different presents.
For English Club, we decorated a room with different items of different colors. We then had students identify some different colors, and they also got a picture book.
Thank you to all the students that helped make the Festa a big success. I hope to see all of our guests here next year, either as students or for festa one more time!
Ice Hockey in the hallway??
Golden Week is finished and now it is time to get back to school. May is a busy month. We just finished Wakabasai Festival, and tomorrow we have Seibosai mass. After that it is the open-school Shin-ai Festa and then mid-term tests are here. Time goes quickly!
the bus, students over 16 years old could donate blood. This blood helps people in the hospital, or people who have a bad accident. In English we say it is "donating blood" or "giving blood".
Often in the news we see that after a bad accident many people lineup at a hospital to give blood. They feel like they want to help, and giving blood is one good way to help. However, hospitals need blood everyday, so it is nice if people give regularly.
Mid-term tests are coming soon. For grade 1 students, these are your first major tests at Shin-ai. Good luck! Start studying today!


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package org.apache.catalina.tribes.test.channel;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Random;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import org.apache.catalina.tribes.Channel;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.ChannelException;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.ChannelListener;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.ManagedChannel;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.Member;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.TesterUtil;
import org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel;

public class TestRemoteProcessException {
    private int msgCount = 10000;
    private GroupChannel channel1;
    private GroupChannel channel2;
    private Listener listener1;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        channel1 = new GroupChannel();
        channel2 = new GroupChannel();
        listener1 = new Listener();
        channel2.addChannelListener(listener1);
        TesterUtil.addRandomDomain(new ManagedChannel[] {channel1, channel2});
        channel1.start(Channel.DEFAULT);
        channel2.start(Channel.DEFAULT);
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        channel1.stop(Channel.DEFAULT);
        channel2.stop(Channel.DEFAULT);
    }

    @Test
    public void testDataSendSYNCACK() throws Exception {
        System.err.println("Starting SYNC_ACK");
        int errC=0, nerrC=0;
        for (int i=0; i<msgCount; i++) {
            boolean error = Data.r.nextBoolean();
            try {
                channel1.send(channel1.getMembers(),
                        Data.createRandomData(error),
                        Channel.SEND_OPTIONS_SYNCHRONIZED_ACK
                                | Channel.SEND_OPTIONS_USE_ACK);
                if (error) {
                    fail("A ChannelException was expected");
                }
            } catch (ChannelException e) {
                if (!error) {
                    throw e;
                }
            }
            if ( error ) errC++; else nerrC++;
        }
        System.err.println("Finished SYNC_ACK");

        // The listener sees 3 copies of the first "error" message,
        // as it is being re-sent. Thus the listener1 count is off by +2.
        final int duplicate = 2;

        assertEquals("Checking failure messages.", errC + duplicate,
                listener1.errCnt);
        assertEquals("Checking success messages.", nerrC, listener1.noErrCnt);
        assertEquals("Checking all messages.", msgCount + duplicate,
                listener1.noErrCnt + listener1.errCnt);
        System.out.println("Listener 1 stats:");
        listener1.printStats(System.out);
    }

    public static class Listener implements ChannelListener {
        long noErrCnt = 0;
        long errCnt = 0;
        @Override
        public boolean accept(Serializable s, Member m) {
            return (s instanceof Data);
        }

        @Override
        public void messageReceived(Serializable s, Member m) {
            Data d = (Data)s;
            if ( !Data.verify(d) ) {
                System.err.println("ERROR");
            } else {
                if (d.error) {
                    errCnt++;
                    if ( (errCnt % 100) == 0) {
                        printStats(System.err);
                    }
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
                }
                noErrCnt++;
                if ( (noErrCnt % 100) == 0) {
                    printStats(System.err);
                }
            }
        }

        public void printStats(PrintStream stream) {
            stream.println("NORMAL:" + noErrCnt);
            stream.println("FAILURES:" + errCnt);
            stream.println("TOTAL:" + (errCnt+noErrCnt));
        }
    }

    public static class Data implements Serializable {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
        public int length;
        public byte[] data;
        public byte key;
        public boolean error = false;
        public static final Random r = new Random();
        public static Data createRandomData(boolean error) {
            int i = r.nextInt();
            i = ( i % 127 );
            int length = Math.abs(r.nextInt() % 65555);
            Data d = new Data();
            d.length = length;
            d.key = (byte)i;
            d.data = new byte[length];
            Arrays.fill(d.data,d.key);
            d.error = error;
            return d;
        }

        public static boolean verify(Data d) {
            boolean result = (d.length == d.data.length);
            for ( int i=0; result && (i<d.data.length); i++ ) result = result && d.data[i] == d.key;
            return result;
        }
    }

}


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<executable>
  <category>UNC</category>
  <title>CortThick</title>
  <description>
  CortThick is a tool measuring a local cortical thickness given a labeling of white matter and gray matter. This technique is non-symmetric and sparse (only computing distances where they can be computed reliably).
  </description>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <contributor>Delphine Ribes</contributor>
  <documentation-url></documentation-url>
  <license></license>
  <acknowledgements></acknowledgements>

 <parameters>
   Input: Segmentation Image
   <description>Input: Segmentation Image</description>

   <image>
     <name>SegmentationInput</name>
     Segmentation image
     <description>Load the segmentation image</description>
     <longflag>inputSeg</longflag>

     <channel>input</channel>
   </image>

   <integer>
     <name>WhiteMatterLabel</name>
     White matter label
     <description>White matter label</description>
     <longflag>WMLabel</longflag>
     <default>1</default>
   </integer>

   <integer>
     <name>GreyMatterLabel</name>
     Grey matter label
     <description>Grey matter label</description>
     <longflag>GMLabel</longflag>
     <default>2</default>
   </integer>
 </parameters>

 <parameters>
   Input: Separated images
   <description>Input: Separated images</description>

   <image>
     <name>WhiteMatterInput</name>
     White matter image
     <description>Load the white matter image</description>
     <longflag>inputWM</longflag>

     <channel>input</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
     <name>GreyMatterInput</name>
     Grey matter image
     <description>Load the grey matter image</description>
     <longflag>inputGM</longflag>

     <channel>input</channel>
   </image>
 </parameters>

 <parameters>
   Options
   <description>Options</description>

   <image>
     <name>ParcellationOption</name>
     Parcellation Image
     <description>Load the parcellation image to sort the white matter distance file by label</description>
     <longflag>par</longflag>

     <channel>input</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
     <name>WhiteMatterFile</name>
     Cortical Thickness on WM Boundary
     <description>Cortical thickness on white matter boundary</description>
     <longflag>SaveWM</longflag>
     <channel>output</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
     <name>SdmFile</name>
     Sparse Cortical Thickness on WM Boundary
     <description>Sparse cortical thickness on white matter boundary</description>
     <longflag>SaveSparseWM</longflag>
     <channel>output</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
	<name>GMMapsAvgDist</name>
	Cortical Thickness on GM Boundary
	<description>Cortical thickness on grey matter boundary</description>
	<longflag>SaveGM</longflag>
	<channel>output</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
     <name>GMMapsDist</name>
     Sparse Cortical Thickness on GM Boundary
     <description>Sparse cortical thickness on grey matter boundary</description>
     <longflag>SaveSparseGM</longflag>
     <channel>output</channel>
   </image>

   <image>
     <name>GreyMatterFile</name>
     Danielson Map
     <description>Write danielson map on the grey matter</description>
     <longflag>DanGM</longflag>
     <channel>output</channel>
   </image>

   <boolean>
     <name>WhiteMatterComponentOption</name>
     White matter component
     <description>Apply a connected component filter on white matter</description>
     <longflag>Wc</longflag>
     <default>false</default>
   </boolean>

   <boolean>
     <name>GreyMatterComponentOption</name>
     Grey matter component
     <description>Apply a connected component filter on grey matter</description>
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Pope Francis and the Shroud of Turin
This story appears in the Pope Francis feature series. View the full series.
The Shroud of Turin is shown in this positive, left, and negative combo undated file photo. (CNS/Reuters/Claudio Papi)
by John L. Allen Jr.
While the outside world forms general impressions of Pope Francis, insiders tend to see any new papacy through the prism of their own particular interests.
Liturgical traditionalists, for instance, have already voiced some reservations about Francis' penchant for informality and setting aside the rules, while the church's peace-and-justice constituency is almost giddy with enthusiasm.
On Saturday, another camp got its first glimpse of what Francis might mean for their concerns, and their early verdict seems mixed: Shroud of Turin devotees.
At the moment, the famed shroud is on a special televised display organized by Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin. It's the ninth such public display of Catholicism's most famous cloth since the beginning of the 19th century.
Though there have been various scientific efforts to date the shroud, certitude has been elusive, and opinion remains divided between those who believe the linen cloth was the actual burial garment of Jesus, and those who believe it's a pious invention from the Middle Ages.
Pope Francis dispatched a message for the new display in which he referred to the shroud as an "icon of a man scourged and crucified."
The use of the term "icon" rather than "relic" amounts to the usual Vatican caution, given that the Holy See has never officially pronounced on the shroud's authenticity, though since Pope Julius II in 1506 it has encouraged devotion to the crucified Christ aroused by the cloth.
Benedict XVI also used the term "icon" in his message for a display of the shroud in May 2010, calling it an "icon written with the blood of a whipped man, crowned with thorns, crucified and pierced on his right side."
In that sense, Francis did not stake out any new position, and he didn't go as far as some of his predecessors. Pius XII in 1936 called the shroud a "holy thing perhaps like nothing else", and in April 1980, during a visit to Turin, John Paul II used the magic word "relic," calling the shroud a "distinguished relic linked to the mystery of our redemption."
Attentive pope-watchers did note that Francis also said the image of a scourged man had been "impressed upon the cloth," not "painted" or "depicted." That language could be construed as consistent with the popular conviction among devotees that the image of a body on the cloth is the result of a release of energy caused by Christ's resurrection.
In 1978, a team of American scientists carried out an examination of the shroud and concluded there was no evidence of forgery, saying its origins were a "mystery." A decade later, teams from Oxford, the University of Arizona and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, under the auspices of the Pontifical Academy for Sciences, did radiocarbon testing on small samples from the shroud, dating them to between 1260 and 1390.
Subsequently, however, some critics raised questions as to whether the samples used in the 1988 testing were representative of the whole shroud. Other experts have noted that ancient cloths often date later in radiocarbon analysis than their actual origins, due to bacterial contamination. (It's a common problem, for instance, in dating ancient manuscripts.)
On Easter Sunday the Italian paper La Stampa carried an interview with Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro, director of the semi-official Vatican journal Civiltà Cattolica, insisting that Pope Francis did not intend to "enter into the dispute over dating," and that he meant instead to make a spiritual point by saying that the man of the shroud "speaks to the heart."
In his written message, Francis said that the face in the shroud "invites us to contemplate Jesus of Nazareth. This image … speaks to our heart and moves us to climb the hill of Calvary, to look upon the wood of the Cross, and to immerse ourselves in the eloquent silence of love."
"By means of the Holy Shroud, the unique and supreme Word of God comes to us: Love made man, incarnate in our history; the merciful love of God who has taken upon himself all the evil of the world to free us from its power," Francis said.
"This disfigured face resembles all those faces of men and women marred by a life which does not respect their dignity, by war and violence which afflict the weakest."
At the end, the pope appended a prayer before the crucifix from St. Francis of Assisi.
In any event, enthusiasm for the Shroud of Turin does not seem terribly diminished by the debate over its authenticity.
In conjunction with the TV display, organizers also released a special app developed by the Italian company Haltadefinizione, called "Shroud 2.0," promising a unique digital experience of the cloth. The app, for iPads and iPhones, drew 15,000 downloads on the first day it was available.
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"a kaleidoscopic view of the American experience -- from the Dust Bowl migration of the '30s to the Aids crisis and Heaven's Gate suicides of the '90s"
"As potent an artistic statement as Smith has ever crafted"
Patti: "So perhaps in being concerned about the youth of America, I accidentally constructed an American album."
"Last Call" is a cautionary look at the Heaven's Gate tragedy.
"Spell" and "Don't Say Nothing" are animated by the spirit of Allen Ginsberg: The former is a setting of "Footnote to Howl" to music, and the latter captures some of his fierce social commentary.
peace and noise was collectively produced by Smith and her band. The whole record is basically live, with certain overdubs by the band. Patti says "If you really trust your band, you don't need a producer. We're a fairly evolved bunch of people, and we all have a lot of ideas."
The lone guest on the record is Michael Stipe, who contributes vocals on "Last Call."
Tour will commence in early September with some Ireland dates. "I really can't go out an tour at length, because obviously I have a son and daughter."
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PESA held a value proposition breakfast with market outlook in December to introduce prospective members to the activities and benefits of the Association.
Prior to joining the Simmons & Co., John Daniel worked for Key Energy Services for eight years, most recently as vice president, corporate development. His responsibilities included investor relations and mergers and acquisitions. Daniel also spent four years as an analyst with PNC Bank, serving in its corporate banking and leverage finance groups.
The most recent U.S. land rig count stood at 5757 rigs as of December 3, 2016.
The working assumption is that we exit 2018 at ~950-1,000 rigs.
If, however, we see a more expeditious rise in oil prices, it is likely that rig activity will accelerate more quickly.
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The white grape comes from Greece, Synonyms are Malagouzia, Malagoussia, Malagousia Blanc, Malagasy, Malaouzia, Melaouzia, Malaoyzia and Melaoyzia. It probably comes from the area around the port city of Nafpakos in the west of the mainland. The nearly extinct vine was rediscovered in the mid-1970s by Professor Vassilis Logothetis and is becoming increasingly important. The early ripening vine is prone to Botrytis and wrong mildew but resistant to drought, It produces full-bodied, fragrant white wines with peach and apricot aroma and light nutmeg, The variety is mainly in the region Macedonia among others in the field Côtes de Meliton, as well as on the island Paros grown. In 2010, a total of 182 hectares of vineyards were reported in Greece (Statistics Kym Anderson ).
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Q: help me write verbatim I'm trying to write HMX_Y, and because someone out there (mr. or ms. TeX) thinks this is a math notation, I have to use verbatim function to convince him (or her) otherwise. So far I've been using examplep package and the command \Q{HMX_Y}. However I would like the text to be in the same style and font as the rest of the document (and not in typewriter style). Any tips how to do this?
This is the line where I'm trying to set the fonts to normal (as examplep documentation suggests) but I must be doing something wrong (as it's not working).
\usepackage[Q=yes, url=yes, source-verbatimfont=normalfont]{examplep}

Any help much appreciated.

A: Of course, you can also just type HMX\_Y when you're in text mode to get the underscore (which is even shorter than \Q{HMX_Y}!)
Probably you already knew that, and your question was about how not to type the \ before the underscore, but I still wanted to point out the most simple solution.

A: See https://texfaq.org/FAQ-underscore
Short summary: in textmode you can use \textunderscore to get the underscore, but you should make sure to set your font encoding to T1 because the default encoding does not have the underscore character.
You can also use the underscore package here to simplify typing.

A: Reading the documentation of the examplep package it seems that the option you actually need is
pverb-verbatimfont=normalfont

however, it doesn't work. The package complains that normalfont is not a valid option. Furthermore, even hacking into \pexa@@verbatimfont and redefining it to \normalfont doesn't work either, because (as Willie Wong pointed out) the default font encoding doesn't have an underscore character there!
Indeed, underscore is the package you're looking for, but you might want to consider submitting a bug report to the author of examplep nevertheless.


The CMS data dump project (think data entry) is going strong. I'm trying to stay connected to the outside world when I can. I'm feeling inspired to do some mock-ups for a friend's site. Maybe it's total boredom? Maybe it's thanks for buying dinner?


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Senate says $3T relief package DOA
iStock/oonal (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — While the House readies a vote on a historic three trillion dollar package for COVID-19 relief on Friday, the Senate has promised the bill is dead on arrival.
While the 1,800 page relief package, called the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions — or HEROES Act, contains language allowing more federal relief for Americans, Republicans say it contains too many provisions unrelated to the pandemic and have since dubbed it a "liberal wishlist."
House Leader Nancy Pelosi said she is open to negotiations and that the bill contains numerous provisions formerly supported by Republicans.
On top of more stimulus payments to Americans, the package also includes an extension to unemployment benefits, $1 trillion in aid for local, state and tribal governments, assistance to front-line workers and other Democratic measures.
Democrats hope the bill will open negotiations as more Americans are out of work due to the pandemic and businesses are struggling in the volatile economy.
Due to the uncertainty surrounding how to safely reopen states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their list of instructions on how to avoid triggering a second wave of COVID-19. The guidelines provide "decision tools" for businesses such as childcare programs and hospitality institutions.
Some guidelines encourage social distancing guidelines among patrons and flexible leave for employees.
Despite the new guidelines, health experts such as Doctor Anthony Fauci have discouraged the rush to reopen, saying it could cause a larger outbreak of the virus if certain precautions are not met.
COVID-19 has killed over 300,000 people and sickened 4.4 million worldwide, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S., there have been 1.4 million confirmed cases and at more than 85,000 deaths.
Older men more at risk for COVID-19 infection but do less to prevent it, study finds
Survey says nearly half of all parents are battling "severe" stress because of COVID-19
How couples can minimize conflict over COVID-19 safety as reopening begins
QR codes could provide patients way to keep them out of emergency rooms
Barack and Michelle Obama encourage grads in Dear Class of 2020: "Hold your heads high and celebrate"


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Sport Cricket Twenty20 Champions League cancelled
5:49pm, Jul 15, 2015 Updated: 5:51pm, Jul 15
Twenty20 Champions League cancelled
Roje Adaimy
Cricket Australia says it's looking at alternatives to the Twenty20 Champions League, after the tournament was cancelled because of a lack of interest.
The league's governing council on Wednesday announced that the competition would be discontinued immediately, meaning this year's scheduled event in September and October will not go ahead.
The council, made up of representatives from CA, Cricket South Africa and the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said it was the "most appropriate decision due to the tournament's limited public following".
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"It was a fantastic platform for players from around the world to showcase their talent and the participating teams thoroughly enjoyed the experience over the last six seasons," honorary secretary of the BCCI, Anurag Thakur, said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, off the field, Champions League T20 wasn't sustaining the interest of the fans as we had hoped."
The Champions League launched in 2009 and pitted the top domestic T2O teams from around the world – including Australia's Big Bash League, the IPL in India and South Africa's Ram Slam.
Australia had two title winners, the NSW Blues in 2009 and Sydney Sixers in 2012.
CA's Mike McKenna said he was disappointed that the competition won't go ahead but saw genuine value in the concept.
"We are committed to exploring new opportunities to deliver on the original objective of the Champions League, which was to provide further context and meaning for domestic T20 competitions around the world and opportunities for players to experience high level competition in a different environment," said McKenna, CA's general manager of operations.
"There is an established period of time to stage an event of this nature in September and October of each year, and it is about identifying a model that works for the long-term."
The tournament boasted a $6 million prize pool, with $2.5 million going to the winners.
The Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings were the most successful teams in the competition, having both won it twice.
The Super Kings were last year's victors, but are now suspended from the next two editions of the IPL over a betting and corruption scandal, along with the Rajasthan Royals.
Lord's will be more civil: Johnson


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VR Shroom Trips Are Finally Here
Finally, you can now hallucinate in virtual reality. A team from Sussex University has produced a VR program they're calling the Hallucination Machine, allowing users to put on a headset and wander around the uni campus while everything wavers and shimmers and morphs into dog's faces.
The program is the brainchild of a neuroscientist named Anil Seth. He's the co-director of Sussex University's Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science—a research team that hopes to unpack the mechanics of human consciousness. But as he told Wired earlier this year, getting consistent data on consciousnesses is tough as consciousness shifts around with stimulus. But by using VR to control this stimulus, Anil and his team hope to more reliably measure consciousness.
"It's been a longstanding goal that came about when trying to understand, from a neuroscience perspective, the notion of presence, the question of how and why we typically experience things are being real, as in really existing in the world," he told Wired. "When we start asking that question, VR becomes an important experimental tool."
And so, the Hallucination Machine now reliably produces a psilocybin mushroom trip, allowing Anil and his team to examine how the brain differentiates between reality and hallucinations. And the benefit of using VR is that you don't have to flood the brain with psilocybin, which obviously alters its neurophysiology and distorts the data.
But why does the Hallucination Machine feature so many dogs?
Because they borrowed their visualisation technology from Google. You might have heard of Google's weird side project, Deep Dream, which uses neural networks—layers of computing systems that mimic the biological networks of animal brains—to create psychedelic images. Led by a Russian programmer named Alexander Mordvintsev, Deep Dream takes the kind of technology that allows Google Images to identify billions of images on the internet, but flips that technology so it also creates images. Mordvintsev tweaked the program so it became hypersensitive to things that weren't even there, encouraging it to find patterns in all textures and gradients, and then spit out a visualisation of whatever it was seeing.
And what it sees, apparently, is dogs. Mordvintsev just happened to using data sets that had been trained to identify dogs, which is why Deep Dream ended up finding dogs in everything. And so when Anil Seth and his team wanted a program that could create some hallucinogenic imagery for VR, they borrowed the Deep Dream code, and got it to mess with panoramic video footage shot around the uni campus. And now anyone using their Hallucination Machine will see a vision of campus life if the very fabric of existence was somehow comprised of dogs.
The next obvious question: how will this be useful to science?
So far, Anil's research team have used their psychedelic VR in two separate experiments. The first put 12 people in headsets and then quizzed them on what happened: whether they saw any colours and patterns, and whether they felt a loss of control. Interestingly, their answers corresponded very neatly with findings from a 2013 study on the experience of taking psilocybin.
The second experiment, however, revealed that the Hallucination Machine can't replicate all the features of a psychedelic experience. 22 people were given headsets and asked to stroll around the virtual campus, before being asked whether their perception of time had been affected. Here, most answered no.
The results seem to suggest that while hallucinations can be replicated on a surface level, there's a lot going on in the brain we still don't understand. And basically it's hoped that this trippy piece of VR will give researchers another tool to further understanding. As the report's authors conclude, "Overall, the Hallucination Machine provides a powerful new tool to complement the resurgence of research into altered states of consciousness."
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I passed this lovely man whilst casually strolling the streets of Ataco, a village along the Ruta de las Flores ("Route of the Flowers") in El Salvador.
[Below] And this is his machete... because, of course, one needs a machete to clean the streets of El Salvador.
Although, I must say, I wasn't very surprised to see him with a machete: most men in the country of El Salvador walk the streets with a machete in hand. And I once saw a man peel an orange with his machete.
I consider myself one of those people who really appreciate and honor people like him.


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Cynthia Ellen Nixon ()  o actriță americană. Ea este cunoscută pentru rolul lui Miranda Hobbes din serialul Totul despre sex (1998-2004) difuzat de HBO, pentru care a câștigat Premiul Emmy în 2004. A fost nominalizată la cinci Globuri de Aur.

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Nixon s-a născut în New York City, New York, ca fiica lui Anne Elizabeth (născută Knoll; 1930–2012), originară din Chicago, Illinois, și Walter E. Nixon, Jr., un jurnalist de radio din Texas. Nu există nici o legătură de rudenie cu președintele Richard Nixon. Ea a absolvit Colegiul Hunter și a urmat cursurile Colegiului Barnard. În primăvara anului 1986, ea a studiat în străinătate prin Semester at Sea.

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I'm figuring that because this is my blog, I can make my own rules for it (haha)... and stray away a little from the construction of clothing, and a little towards the wearing of it, at least for a post here and there. I'm trying to take photos of what I'm wearing--when it's somewhat interesting--to find out what does & does not work, and as a sort of guide if I'm in a rush and don't know what to throw together.
So I got my brother (home from college! ^_^) to come take photos on our porch. It was freezing yesterday, so I went for layers & warmth.
Sometimes I feel far too dressed up for the life I live, but it is so much fun to wear nice things, and if I don't wear them here, where else will I?
Aww, thanks doll, what a sweetheart you are!! You have today off? Can I call you?
Aww man, what an awesome outfit. I LOVE the cardigan you have on. do you still have these "shoes from france"? You are so cute. I can tell that you were awesome in 2009 still awesome today!
You are way too sweet! I wore these shoes to death; they eventually stretched out to fit better, but I truly wore them to pieces (which makes me a little sad but mostly happy that I got a good life out of them). If I still have this sweater (it might be in a box at my parent's house) I'd gladly send it to you! I'll let you know if I find it when I'm home for Christmas!