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Q: How can i refresh my other view controllers from an action of slider I have a UITabBar Controller having three view controller. I am trying to refresh my two view controller which are map view controller and tableview controller; from third view controller with an action of slide. Here what i have tried:
- (IBAction)actionMySlider:(id)sender{
    NSNumberFormatter* numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
    [numberFormatter setFormatterBehavior: NSNumberFormatterBehavior10_4];
    [numberFormatter setNumberStyle: NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
    NSString *numberString = [numberFormatter stringFromNumber: [NSNumber numberWithInteger: mySlider.value]];
    MetreLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Yarı Çap(Re): %@(m)",numberString];
   [(AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] setVariable:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f",mySlider.value]];

   ViewController1 *VC1=[[ViewController1 alloc]init];
    [VC1 viewDidLoad];
    ViewController2 *VC2 = [[ViewController1 alloc]init];
    [VC2 viewDidLoad];

}

Thank you for your answers.
EDIT
According to answers my approach is implementing a for loop at my TabBar.m. But i have some issues while implementing this.
for (UIViewController *v in self.tabBar.viewControllers)
{
     UIViewController *vc = v;

     if ([v isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class])
     {
         vc = [v visibleViewController];
     }

     if ([vc isKindOfClass:[MyViewController class]])
     {
          MyViewController *myViewController = vc;
          [vc doSomething];
     }
}

*

*problem: what should i write instead of viewcontrollers at self.tabBar.viewControllers. I could not figure out that.

*problem: after i implement that for loop in a method in TabBar.m, will i be able to reach my viewcontrollers from another viewcontroller via calling that method?

A: You are allocating a new instance of both ViewController1 and ViewController2 in the actionMySlider method. They are not the same as the view controllers in your tab bar controller.
Try to access the view controller from the tab bar itself. The answer found here will do:
UITabBarController - How to access a view controller?
And you should try to take those lines of code that you want to execute in ViewController1 and ViewController2 after the slider value change out from the viewDidLoad and make them separate methods. Then you can just call those methods without calling the entire viewDidLoad.

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This isn't the picture of the dinner as we thought it would be rather tasteless to take tourist photos. However, it is pretty similar. Maybe not quite as dated.
We witnessed one of the great wonders of Italy. Neither the Leaning tower nor the Colosseum we witnessed. It was the Italians ability to devour food. From the moment we took our coats off at the door around 9pm we were seated at the table and ate non-stop until midnight. So many wonderful dishes cam out. Deep fried tuna ball things, which weren't greasy of heavy. Fried zucchini drizzled with yummy olive oil. Some sea food bread meatball thingy. I'm sure I missed some things. Of course red wine is flowing very freely the whole time. Next course is cuddle fish ink spagetti. Everyone's teeth were black, and it was quite yummy. Different, but yummy. The cuddle fish was caught by the grandfather not far from the local harbour.
Each of these courses would be a full dinner for Ashley and I. The others around the table ate the same portion in the fraction of time I or Ashley did. Didn't even phase them as they looked forward to the next course. We had various strategies to cope with the onslaught of food. Ashley's was not take anything from the table, but to only eat what was placed on her plate. I would take a few things from the table and place them on my plate so it looked like I had more, thus avoiding more being added. Near the end we banded together. If one was served something new, we would divide it in half and give the other half. That way we would try everything, not be rude, and cut or portions in half. This seemed to work the best.
So after the ink spaghetti there was home made lasagna. This was probably the best course. SO yummy. Not sure if it was the home made noodles, or the cheeses used or what. The sirens song of seconds all most took me. Next was cheese and other yummy stuff squid. Pretty sure I missed one or two dishes. It was really quite a blur.
Desert started. Various patries started arriving at the table. Limoncello soaked pineapple and mellon. Chocolate covered cookie things next. A full bowl of ice-cream. And finally a volcano cake thing which base was the size of a large dinner plate and about a foot tall.
I'll be short with drinks. Sprite and mineral water for non-alcohol. Various red, white, and sparkling wine. Near the end of the meal grappa came out. This is a made from distilling the skins and other leftovers of wine making. Basically moonshine since it's around 70-120 proof. Limoncello and other liquors were available. And of course as we neared new years the champaign started to flow.
The room was filled with boisterous Italian conversation. Very much feeling like being apart of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but in Italian. We were welcomed as one of the family and they made a special effort to include us as best they could. Very little english was spoken by the family save a few members. If your mouth didn't have food in it, you were laughing as the humor and glee transcended culture and language. You could just roll with it like floating down a river. Just go with it!
Similar to the football game, every so often a loud bang would ring out from somewhere in the twon. Fireworks were also going off from various places in town. I watched by the window as sparkles filled the last of the 2011 sky. Of course would be interrupted by the odd flash and bang.
By the end of the night we were driving back to our little town square. Completely filled with food and kindness by these local Italians.
A grand end to 2011 and start of 2012. Buon Anno!!


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Bucknekked said:
@Pogre
You probably remember, but, I'm not a metal guy. But, I appreciate and like the way you follow that genre and have a genuine affection for it. I too lived the 70's although I started in the 50s. Black Sabbath changed the game when they hit the stage. Its always easy to follow and copy. Any 12 year old kid and pick up a guitar and shred out most popular metal songs. It takes a very different talent to start a genre or kick off a musical movement. Sabbath did that and to a large extent many of the other bands we both like. My tastes run lighter but that don't mean I can't appreciate another mans affection for his music. Its music after all that should drive our interest in the hobby.
Well I know for a fact that our tastes overlap because I still listen to that cd you burned and gave me from time to time and I genuinely really enjoy most of it (every song on it is so well recorded too!). I do dip more into the heavier side of things but have great appreciation for good music across the board.
And I hear what you're saying about Sabbath changing the game. I think Metallica did too, but without Sabbath there wouldn't have been a Metallica. I think Metallica took it to new levels, but Sabbath frigging invented it. I have much respect and love for the 70s musically. So much great and novel music came from that era and laid the bedrock for a lot of my current favorite bands. The 80s..? There were some mistakes made, lol.
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panteragstk said:
That's a great way of putting it. I love anything I consider good. Genre doesn't matter to me one bit.
I think many of us think along those lines. My tastes probably lean closest to progressive rock, but there is so much cross over that it's hard to label some music and I sometimes hate to attach a label that doesn't quite fit. I was big Jethro Tull fan but part of that was because their music didn't fit one particular mold. It's rock but with a lot of folk and minstrel elements mixed in. Yes is probably my favorite but they borrow a lot from classical. Rush became more mainstream down the road, but I love the early works like Hemispheres with those long complex arrangements.
Metal, likewise, has different flavours. I was into Judas Priest in the '70's with Sad Wings of Destiny and Stained Class, but I considered that more heavy rock. Some might call it metal. Who cares, man, it's all great music. Screaming For Vengeance was the last Priest album that I was really into. So hard not to crank the volume up with those songs. For me, Hellion / Electric Eye is a great example of a heavy intro to a great rock song:
Ask me now what metal is and I would probably lean more towards Metallica, Korn, Slayer and Anthrax and the like. Some of those are more "thrash" metal, which is the one genre I'm not particularly fond of. Prefer something progressive along the lines of Tool. Not that metal has to be thrash. I love Metallica's Sad But True. It's a slow tempo but evokes the word heavy to my ears.
Eppie said:
Screaming For Vengeance is an awesome album! It was my favorite too when I was on my priest kick. I agree too, that a lot of their early stuff was more hard rock. This one tho, is straight up balls out metal and one of my all time faves.
Did you listen to the beginning of that studio version of "No Remorse"? It's really heavy, but not overly fast or thrashy. Just pure heavy metal, imo.
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I'm really big into prog rock myself with Pink Floyd being my #1. Yes, Jethro Tull, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Riverside, Genesis, etc. are all excellent. Steven Wilson did some 5.1 remixes of the old Yes and Jethro Tull stuff and it's some of the best I've heard. I've got a good mix of King Crimson in there as well, but I haven't listened to all of it yet. I somehow wasn't aware of them.
Prog rock is one of the main reasons I'm such a fan of 70's era music. I can't say I like it more than metal, but it might be tied. Rock is also up there as well. Tons of excellent bands over the years that would just fall into "rock".
I gotta admit that I discovered prog metal first, but it got me to appreciate that prog approach. I'm gonna have to listen to some more King Crimson to get a feel for those guys. I really like Porcupine Tree too, and was recently introduced to "The Pineapple Thief", another band with Porcupine Tree's drummer, Gavin Harrison. I don't know if Steve is involved with them as well, but they do sound pretty similar.
Well, I do love Pink Floyd and discovered them young so there's that. I often think of TOOL as a heavier version of Pink Floyd.
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Did you ever get to see Jethro Tull live? I saw the in the early 70's I think it was on their Thick as a Brick tour at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. It was one of the best concerts I ever attended.
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Did you ever get to see Jethro Tull live? I saw the in the early 70's I think it was on their Thick as a Brick tour at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. It was one the best concerts I ever attended.
Twice in Toronto for the Bursting Out and Storm Front tours. The Storm Front show had the stage set up like a tall ship with rigging. Very cool. Saw him later in my home town in a small venue but their bass player was no longer with the band. If I remember right, I think Ian Anderson's son filled in on bass, but Martin Barre was still on guitar. The Toronto shows were awesome.
Have to credit Judas Priest for continuing to evolve their music and to put out something as heavy as Painkiller. It's a tribute to the band's longevity. Did you see the vid of BabyMetal performing Painkiller with Halford?
I did listen to No Remorse. Interesting contrast to the style of their current music but I see your point.
Did you see the vid of BabyMetal performing Painkiller with Halford?
I havent, but if you have a link handy I'll watch it immediately! Baby Metal is not only a fun band, but they qualify on my heavy metal meter as being very heavy metal! I'm glad you introduced me to them. It's been a li'l while since I listened to them, but I watched a bunch of their yt videos after you told me about them. It's such a trip watching those little anime girls crank out heavy music like that.
Long time Pink Floyd fan. I was one of the few Londoners (Canada. ) who took the bus to New York to see the original Wall tour, which only played in L.A., N.Y. and London England. They had a quadraphonic sound system that was put to full effect. Incredible show.
My friends were into all sorts of music and got Discipline from King Crimson as soon as it came out. Very unique album at the time. That led me to Adrian Belew and some of his solo work and side projects like The Bears. I also picked up U.K. when it was released when I heard the band line-up. Their self-titled album is one of a kind. Have to thank members here for introducing me to Porcupine Tree. That's right up my alley.
I haven't, but if you have a link handy I'll watch it immediately! Baby Metal is not only a fun band, but they qualify on my heavy metal meter as being very heavy metal! I'm glad you introduced me to them. It's been a li'l while since I listened to them, but I watched a bunch of their yt videos after you told me about them. It's such a trip watching those little anime girls crank out heavy music like that.
Here they are at the 2016 APMAs performing Karate and then joined by Halford for Painkiller and Breaking The Law. I watched the Babymetal blue-ray gain recently and they put on one hell of a show.
That's just awesome.
Band-Maid! That's the other band I was trying to think of that you told me about! The whole band are a bunch young Japanese girls and they frigging rock!
They're so good that when I watch them play I picture their parents being like beauty pageant moms, forcing them to practice 7 hours a day since they were 5 years old or something, lol.
Band-Maid is still one of my favorites and I listen to them on a regular basis. I wish more of the videos had subtitles (closed-captioning) but a lot of them do compared to other Japanese bands. I've been adding the lyrics to my flac files using a tag editor so that I can pull them up with Roon. Miku Kobato is a pretty good lyricist.
The band formed in 2013 so some of the "girls" are hitting 30 now. Well, my daughter is 27 so I guess they're still girls to me. What's unique for them as a Japanese girls band is that they are all very close friends and spend a lot of time together outside of the band as well, even though only the bass player and drummer knew each other at first. They originally had material written for them by the label but once they proved that they could write their own material they were given more freedom to create music on their own and they have definitely developed their own style.
I am also amazed at how well they play in some of the early footage that is out there. The bass player learned the instrument at the end of high school at the suggestion of a friend that needed a bass player. Now she is one of the best bass players out there. The drummer is a natural, full of energy, who works constantly to improve her speed and technique. The vocalist and rhythm player, who formed the band, developed into the spokes person and lyricist and didn't start learning to play the guitar until after they hired a dedicated vocalist. The lead guitarist oversees most of the writing and composition and can play piano as well. She's a real Jekyll and Hyde on and off the stage. The lead vocalist often gets the final say on compositions to maintain their signature sound. It's a real band effort and I think that comes across in their stage performances.
Yeah, call me a fan-boy.
EDIT: Oh, I have the blue-ray for that performance. Their Budokan debut got cancelled so they did a live performance with no audience. Quite good for a stage performance but I really want to get a copy of the Line Cube Shibuya concert.
I've said this myself many times.
One more Band-Maid vid for @Pogre. This is also from the live May recording. The first song, Manners, is one of my favorites. I like the studio version a little more but the bass is pretty hot in this mix and I love MIsa's sound and playing here. The second song, Black Hole, as probably the fastest tempo song that they do. A work out for the drummer, and the bass player displays her technique of sliding her pick into her palm to slap and then slides the pick back up to her index finger. She does it so fast now that she switches from picking to slapping and back seamlessly. Haven't seen anyone else use that technique like her.
I shall check that out when I get some time later this afternoon. I think there's real talent there and do enjoy watching them play.
The album "Songs Of Mercy and Desire" by Elli de Mon is one awesome album with not a bad song on the album.
I occasionally write down songs I come across on scraps of paper for future reference. Found an old scrap with Hey Man, Nice Shot by Filter. Great example of grunge with the mellow verses and a chorus that punches you in the gut. Verses kind of remind of The Smiths.
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Wimbledon Men's Draw Preview
The Wimbledon draw was held on Friday in London, leaving us with the prospect of dissecting the draw for possible upsets and mapping the path to the final for the big names.
As the top two seeds Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray cannot meet until the final, should the draw go according to plan we will be treated to an eighth grand slam final between the top two players in the world. In their seven previous slam final meetings Djokovic leads Murray by four wins to three.
Wimbledon, of course, is so much more than just a Djokovic v Murray contest though and there are a number of mouthwatering potential match-ups that we will take a look at now.
Djokovic will face Britain's own James Ward in the opening round, he is unlikely to be troubled by the world number 177, although the Londoner will no doubt have the backing of a partisan crowd at the All-England Club.
Djokovic faces a fourth round date with David Ferrer, but the Spaniard will likely have to get passed a tricky third round match against Philipp Kohlschreiber.
The Serbian has a potential quarter-final banana skin if he faces Milos Raonic, the big serving Raonic has enlisted the help of John McEnroe and his power may be enough to challenge the world number one.
At the other end of the draw is Andy Murray, who will open his campaign against British compatriot, Liam Broady, the 22-year-old world number 234 will no doubt enjoy his moment in the limelight but an upset is extremely unlikely.
Murray could face a real test in the fourth round, where the draw has thrown up a potential meeting with Nick Kyrgios, the Aussie bad boy has the ability to test Murray to the utmost and the Scot will need to be at his best to progress to the last eight.
In the last eight Murray faces the possibility of a rematch from the Roland Garros quarters, with Richard Gasquet again bracketed to meet Murray.
Federer faces a tricky opener against Argentine Guido Pella, who was once ranked 39th in the world.
The fourth round is expected to see Federer face French opposition as the brackets suggest Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon will battle for the right to meet the Swiss great in the last 16.
If the results run according to seeding Federer faces a mammoth run to the final from the last eight on possibly meeting world number five, Kei Nishikori, in the quarters before a semi-final date with Djokovic and a final against Murray.
Of the top four seeds the one who seems most likely suffer an upset has to be Stan Wawrinka, the Swiss has never made it passed the last 8 at SW19 and faces a tough draw.
Wawrinka will face American teenager Taylor Fritz in the opening round before a possible meeting with 2009 US Open winner, Juan Martin del Potro, in the second round.
The fourth round could see Wawrinka face either Bernard Tomic or Queens quarter-finalist Roberto Bautista Agut before a quarter-final against Dominic Thiem, who was won more matches than anybody else on the ATP tour this year.
Also lurking in Wawrinka's section of the draw are Thomas Berdych and unseeded Mikhail Youzhny.
Kei Nishokori
Nishikori begins what, on paper, looks like a relatively straight forward run to the last 16 against Australian Sam Groth.
If everything runs according to the script the Japanese number one will face a tough last sixteen encounter with big Bosnian Marin Cilic, whose power could challenge Nishikori.
If Nishikori is to win the title he is faced with the prospect of meeting all three of tennis' so called 'big three' he is bracketed to possibly meet Federer, Djokovic and Murray respectively en route to a hypothetical title.
Dark Horses
Austrian Dominic Thiem looks dangerous and has a path to the semi-finals that avoids the big three.
Milos Raonic has the power to dominate Wimbledon and could provide a last eight upset against Djokovic with John McEnroe in his corner.
If Thomas Berdych can get passed Thiem in the fourth round he could be the one to send Stan Wawrinka out and book a place in the last four.
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Q: How to return a s that has the maximum Sum value in the list I need to create a maxSequence() function ,that has a user input for a list and  it  takes the input  list as an argument and it returns a sublist whose values sequence gibve us the maximum sum in the list .
So if we call the maxSequence([-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]).
It should return  :  6: [4, -1, 2, 1]

A: You have to brute force it.
Edit: There are faster algorithms than my brute force solution. (thanks @user2357112
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Construct all sublists and check which has the biggest sum. To construct all sublists start at start=0 and end=start+1, then increase end until the result is the whole list, repeat that step with an increased start etc:
a = [-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]

max = sum(a)
l = a[:]
for start in range(len(a)):
    for end in range(start, len(a)):
        s = sum(a[start:end+1])
        if s > max:
            max = s
            l = a[start:end+1]
print(max, l)

Result:
6 [4, -1, 2, 1]

The lists you check are (in that order):
[-2]
[-2, 1]
[-2, 1, -3]
[-2, 1, -3, 4]
[-2, 1, -3, 4, -1]
[-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2]
[-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1]
[-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5]
[-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]
[1]
[1, -3]
[1, -3, 4]
[1, -3, 4, -1]
[1, -3, 4, -1, 2]
[1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1]
[1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5]
[1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]
[-3]
[-3, 4]
[-3, 4, -1]
[-3, 4, -1, 2]
[-3, 4, -1, 2, 1]
[-3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5]
[-3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]
[4]
[4, -1]
[4, -1, 2]
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APD: Sunday night standoff a 'miscommunication'
Updated: 10:45 AM MDT Mar 28, 2016
Robert Richardson
A Sunday night standoff in northeast Albuquerque appears to be a miscommunication, police said.Officers were called to a possible commercial burglary near Menaul and Louisiana boulevards. Police said one of the store's two owners called police and said several people, one of whom she knew, were removing items from the business.Two people were taken into custody, but officers were told that there were possibly more people inside the business. Authorities set up a perimeter and began making announcements to anyone who was inside. Police surrounded the building and had guns drawn at one point.No one was found inside.The pair in custody told officers that one of the shop's owners allowed them inside to help move items.The original caller told police that the business was in the process of moving, but she did not believe that the people were supposed to be there when she called. Police eventually discovered that the other owner knew the people inside the building.Police said it appeared to be a miscommunication and the two people were released from custody.A stretch of Menaul was closed during the investigation but has been reopened.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
A Sunday night standoff in northeast Albuquerque appears to be a miscommunication, police said.
Officers were called to a possible commercial burglary near Menaul and Louisiana boulevards. Police said one of the store's two owners called police and said several people, one of whom she knew, were removing items from the business.
Two people were taken into custody, but officers were told that there were possibly more people inside the business. Authorities set up a perimeter and began making announcements to anyone who was inside. Police surrounded the building and had guns drawn at one point.
No one was found inside.
The pair in custody told officers that one of the shop's owners allowed them inside to help move items.
The original caller told police that the business was in the process of moving, but she did not believe that the people were supposed to be there when she called. Police eventually discovered that the other owner knew the people inside the building.
Police said it appeared to be a miscommunication and the two people were released from custody.
A stretch of Menaul was closed during the investigation but has been reopened.


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Students voting around campus; 1 vote-buying complaint reported in Fayette County
By Nini Edwards
Students are taking advantage of the local polling places offered around campus.
The Catholic Newman Center bustled with students around 3 p.m.
"We have been busily steady all morning and with lines," said Dan Schueler, deputy sheriff for the Clifton Precinct. "Last spring we had about 70 voters, last fall we had about 80 voters and today we have had more than 250 voters (at this point)."
Despite the large turnout Schueler said there were no big problems, but he tried to help any student who ran into an issue.
"There have been small problems with misspelled names and people at the wrong precinct," he said. "If they live here now then we always try to get them to vote. We always tell them where they need to go."
According to a news release from the Kentucky Office of the Secretary of State, Fayette County has received one complaint, for vote buying. Jefferson County has received the most complaints, at 17, according to the news release. Most complaints have regarded procedural problems. A total of 65 complaints have been reported statewide.
In Fayette County there are 287 precincts. According to the Kentucky State Board of Elections there are 101,551 registered Republicans, 70,219 registered Democrats and 18,874 registered as other. Of these people registered to vote, 87,884 are male and 102,760 are female.
The polling place for the Bunker Precinct on Audobon Avenue did not have as high a voter turnout as the Newman Center.
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"There are about 20 percent older people, most are undergrad students or law students," he said.
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Ringo (od ang. ring, pierścień, obręcz) – gra sportowa polegająca na rzucaniu gumowym kółkiem tak, aby upadło na boisku drużyny przeciwnej.

Historia
Gra została podobno wymyślona przez znanego szermierza i dziennikarza Włodzimierza Strzyżewskiego w 1959, natomiast jako polski sport o charakterze indywidualnym i zespołowym istnieje od 1973, kiedy to zaczęto organizować otwarte mistrzostwa Polski w ringo.

Gra w ringo, podobnie jak wiele innych dyscyplin sportowych przebyła dość długą drogę ewolucyjną. Najpierw, dla jego twórcy była elementem treningu szermierczego, później przekształciła się w zabawę i sport rekreacyjny możliwy do uprawiania przez niemal każdego i w każdych warunkach bez względu na porę roku. Drugim nurtem ewolucyjnym była gra w ringo jako sportu wyczynowego. Wraz z rozwojem techniki i taktyki zmieniano przepisy zawodów. Obecnie ringo jest grą sportową o bogatej technice i taktyce. Jest znana głównie w Europie. Powstałe w 1989 Polskie Towarzystwo Ringo i nieco później 1993 Międzynarodowa Federacja Ringo (International Ringo Federation) organizują międzynarodowe zawody takie jak mistrzostwa Europy i świata.

Kółko do gry w ringo
Kółko ringo, według wzoru Włodzimierza Strzyżewskiego, waży 160-165 gramów, z otworem dekompresyjnym i ryflowaniem górnej i dolnej powierzchni, ma średnicę 17 cm, jest stabilne w locie i nie powoduje urazów palców u dzieci i dorosłych.

Boisko do gry i kategorie wiekowe
Boisko ringo dla gier zespołowych (dwójki i trójki) ma wymiary podstawowe boiska siatkówki: 9x18 metrów, linka ringo – czyli sznur lub taśma szerokości co najmniej 1 centymetra z umocowanymi barwnymi wstążkami długości przynajmniej 25 cm i o rozstawie nie większym niż 20 cm – jest zawieszona na wysokości 243 cm.

Wymiary boiska dla gier indywidualnych zależne są od wieku (kategorii) zawodników i wynoszą:
 kategoria 1-2. żaczek i żaków (do lat 10 włącznie) 6 x 12 m, linka ringo 200 cm
 kategoria 3-4. młodziczek i młodzików (11-13 lat) 7 x 14 m, linka ringo 224 cm
 kategoria 5-6. kadetek i kadetów (14-15 lat) 8 x 16 m, linka ringo 243 cm
 kategoria 7-8. juniorek i juniorów (16-19 lat) 8 x 18 m, linka ringo 243 cm
Wysokość linki ringo obowiązuje dla wszystkich wyższych kategorii wiekowych oraz kategorii drużynowych.
 kategoria 9. klasy otwartej kobiet (19-29 lat)
 kategoria 10. klasy otwartej mężczyzn (19-35 lat) – boisko 8 x 18 metrów
 kategoria 11. amazonek (30-39 lat) – boisko 8 x 16 metrów.
Ten wymiar boiska obowiązuje dla wszystkich następnych kategorii indywidualnych:
 kategoria 12. oldboy (36-45 lat)
 kategoria 13. seniorek (40-49 lat)
 kategoria 14. seniorów (46-55 lat)
 kategoria 15. weteranek (50 i więcej lat)
 kategoria 16. weteranów (56 i więcej lat).
Dla dalszych kategorii wiekowych w przedziałach co 5 lat – boisko ma wymiar 8 x 16 m, z linką ringo na wys. 243 cm.
 Kategoria 17-20:
 szkolne dwójki dziewcząt
 szkolne dwójki chłopców
 szkolne dwójki mieszane
 szkolne trójki mieszane
Obejmuje młodzież do wieku kadeta włącznie.
 Kategoria 21-24
 dwójki kobiet
 dwójki mężczyzn
 dwójki mieszane
 trójki mieszane
Obejmuje kobiety i mężczyzn od wieku juniora wzwyż.

Przepisy gry w ringo

Cel gry
Celem gry jest zdobycie 15 punktów w wyniku obrony własnego pola i takich rzutów kółkiem ringo z własnego pola bądź spoza tego pola lecz w granicach boiska zaznaczonych antenkami ponad linką ringo, by kółko upadło na pole przeciwnika, ewentualnie linie (taśmy) boczne lub końcowe boiska. Jeśli przeciwnik wyrównał wynik do stanu 14:14 – celem jest zdobycie 2 punktów przewagi. Przy stanie 16:16 zwycięża zawodnik zdobywający 17 punkt.

Punkt zdobywa się za każdy błąd przeciwnika, a traci za każdy błąd własny, powodujący wypadnięcie kółka ringo z gry.

Serwis
 Grę rozpoczyna serwis zza końcowej linii boiska, w granicach przedłużonych bocznych linii boiska. Dopiero po wyrzucie kółka zawodnik może wejść na własne boisko. Naruszenie linii końcowej w czasie serwisu lub przekroczenie przedłużenia linii bocznych powoduje utratę punktu.
 Serwis następuje na komendę sędziego prowadzącego, który pyta obie strony ("gotów?") –  z jednoczesnym uniesieniem ręki w górę. Po odpowiedzi obu stron "gotów" sędzia wydaje komendę "start", bądź daje sygnał gwizdkiem i opuszcza rękę w dół.
 W grze drużynowej, jeśli po odpowiedzi obu stron i komendzie "start" jedno z kółek doleciało do linii środka, a przeciwna strona - drużyna nie wyrzuciła jeszcze kółka, traci ona punkt za opóźnienie rzutu.
 Pierwszy serwis wykonuje kapitan drużyny, zmiana serwujących następuje w grach indywidualnych co 3 punkty, w grze 2 kółkami co 5 albo 5 plus 1 punktów, w stałej kolejności.
 W grze dwoma kółkami upadek każdego z nich (popełnienie błędu) powoduje utratę 1 punktu.
 Jeśli po serwisie kółko ringo dotknie linki ringo (siatki) z góry i upadnie na ważne pole przeciwnika ("net"), w grze pojedynczej serw powtarza się bez utraty punktu. Drugi kolejno "net" powoduje utratę punktu. W grze 2 kółkami "net" jednego z kółek nie przerywa gry drugim kółkiem i nie powoduje utraty punktu ("zero punktów") niezależnie od liczby kolejnych "netów".
 Jeśli w czasie serwu lub wymiany rzutów kółka zderzą się, punkt traci strona, na której polu kółko upadło, bądź strona, której kółko upadło poza boiskiem ("aut").
 Jeśli sędzia nie zauważył, czyje kółko upadło na aut - nie zalicza punktu żadnej ze stron ("zero punktów").

Lot kółka ringo
 Lot kółka ringo powinien być zbliżony do poziomu w stosunku do podłoża albo też kółko może zbliżać się do boiska przeciwnika całym obwodem w płaszczyźnie czołowej. W żadnym momencie gry kółko nie może zbliżać się do pozycji pionowej patrząc wzdłuż toru jego lotu. Przerwanie gry przez sędziego prowadzącego komendą "Pion!" i utrata punktu przez rzucającego następuje jednomyślną decyzją sędziego prowadzącego i sędziego pomocniczego, na które zostało rzucone. Przy różnicy zdań pomiędzy sędziami, punktu nie zalicza się żadnej ze stron ("zero punktów").
 Obracanie się kółka wokół pionowej lub poziomej osi jego lotu o 180 stopni (półobrót) lub więcej ("koziołek") powoduje utratę punktu. Jednakże kółko jakie dotknęło w grze góry linki ringo i spadło na boisko przeciwnika koziołkując – jest ważne.
 Kółko może "falować" w locie, jednakże oscylacja jego lotu nie może zbliżać się ani przekroczyć 90 stopni w stosunku do podłoża patrząc wzdłuż toru jego lotu.
 Kółko musi być wyrzucone z rotacją w dowolnym kierunku. Pchnięcie kółka bez rotacji powoduje utratę punktu.

Rzut kółka ringo
 W czasie rzutu przynajmniej jedna stopa lub jej część musi dotykać podłoża. Oderwanie obu stóp w czasie rzutu powoduje utratę punktu.
 Rzut może być wykonany w miejscu albo w czasie dozwolonych kroków hamowania, jeśli w momencie rzutu 1 stopa dotyka podłoża.
 Technika rzutu jest dowolna, jednakże rzut rozpoczęty – musi być kontynuowany w tym samym kierunku. Zatrzymanie ruchu albo zmiana kierunku rzutu w czasie jego wykonywania ("zwód") powoduje utratę punktu.

Chwyt kółka ringo
 Kółko może być chwytane tylko jedną ręką i tą samą ręką musi być odrzucone.
 Kółko wypadające z ręki przy pierwszym chwycie - wolno chwytać drugi raz tą samą ręką. Natomiast partner ma prawo chwytać takie kółko dowolną ręką, jako rozpoczynający chwytanie. Dwaj partnerzy mogą też chwycić kolko jednocześnie, jednakże odrzucić je może jeden z nich (dozwolone są bowiem 2 chwyty kółka na boisku w danej akcji).
 Nie wolno chwytać 2 kółek w jedną rękę.
 Kółko musi być chwycone choćby jednym palcem. Wypadnięcie kółka poza wszystkie palce na nadgarstek lub przedramię powoduje utratę punktu.

Czas trzymania kółka
 Schwytane kółko powinno być odrzucone jak najszybciej. Celowe przetrzymywanie kółka sędzia sygnalizuje gwizdkiem lub komendą "stop" i karze utratą punktu.
 W grach wieloosobowych w przypadku celowego przetrzymywania kółka ringo, sędzia sygnalizuje gwizdkiem lub komendą "stop" i karze stronę (drużynę) utratą punktu. Wznawia grę "serwisem" bez rozgrywania drugiego kółka.

Ringo stop
W grze 2 kółkami – sędzia prowadzący po rozegraniu już pierwszego kółka – po dwóch kolejno wysokich przerzutach ("lob") na koniec boiska po 1 rzucie dla każdej ze stron – wydaje komendę "ringo stop!", przerywa grę bez zaliczenia punktu za drugie kółko – i wznawia grę od serwisu 2 kółkami.

Gdy w grze są nadal oba kółka - sędzia prowadzący nie przerywa gry przy wysokich przerzutach lecz głośno liczy kolejne loby obu stron "jeden i dwa". Trzeci rzut każdej ze stron musi być rzutem atakującym. Jeśli będzie to również lob chwytany przez przeciwników – sędzia prowadzący wydaje komendę "ringo stop!" i zalicza punkt stronie broniącej trzeci rzut lobem. Jeśli tego trzeciego lobu broniący nie schwytali – punkt zdobywa strona rzucająca.

Serwis nie jest liczony jako lob niezależnie od techniki rzutu.

Zmiana pól
Po uzyskaniu przez jedną ze stron 8 punktów (ew. w grze 2 kółkami 8+1) następuje zmiana pól dla wyrównania szans z uwagi na oświetlenie i wiatr.

Kontakt z kółkiem
 Kółkiem trzymanym w ręce nie wolno dotknąć własnego ciała (poza przedramieniem chwytającej ręki), ani ciała partnera, ziemi, linki ringo (siatki) ani też naruszyć przestrzeni nad linką ringo.
 Zmiana chwytu kółka po jego schwytaniu nie może nastąpić przy utracie kontaktu ręki z kółkiem.

Rozstawienie na boisku
Rozstawienie zawodników na boisku jest dowolne, a każdy rozgrywa swe rzuty sam, bez podawania partnerom ani sobie. Celowe podbijanie kółka pod pozorem "upuszczenia" powoduje utratę punktu. Chwyt i rzut następować może także spoza boiska, jednakże kółko musi przelecieć nad linką ringo w granicach boiska wyznaczonych antenkami. Niewypełnienie tego warunku powoduje utratę punktu.

Kroki na boisku
 Przy chwycie kółka w miejscu – wolno wykonać wykrok dowolną nogą i oderwać stopę drugiej od podłoża, bez prawa jej postawienia przed odrzuceniem kółka. W każdej innej sytuacji - po zatrzymaniu się wolno jedynie oderwać dowolną stopę od podłoża, bez prawa jej postawienia przed odrzuceniem kółka.
 Przy wyskoku w kierunku boiska przeciwnika w celu złapania kółka wolno lądować na 2 stopy równocześnie lub niejednocześnie. Przy lądowaniu równocześnie wolno oderwać od podłoża dowolną stopę bez prawa jej postawienia przed odrzuceniem kółka. Przy lądowaniu niejednocześnie dwiema stopami – stopa postawiona na podłożu jako druga, a bliżej boiska przeciwnika - musi być przed odrzuceniem kółka, cofnięta za stopę pierwszego kontaktu z podłożem. Rzut kółkiem można wykonać albo jeśli cofnięta stopa znajduje się w powietrzu, albo jeśli została postawiona na podłożu. Po postawieniu cofniętej stopy na podłożu – wolno podnieść dowolną stopę bez prawa jej postawienia przed odrzuceniem kółka.
 Od pierwszego dotknięcia kółka przy chwytaniu nie wolno nabierać szybkości ani celowo zbliżać się do boiska przeciwnika pod pozorem "kroków hamowania"- pod karą utraty punktu. W kierunku boiska przeciwnika wolno wykonać jedynie 3 kroki rzeczywistego hamowania, tj. 4 kontakty stóp z podłożem.
 W kierunku równoległym do linii środkowej lub przy oddalaniu się od niej – wolno od pierwszego dotknięcia chwytanego kółka wykonać dowolną ilość kroków hamowania, a następnie - bez zyskiwania terenu wykonać obrót w kierunku boiska przeciwnika z prawem oderwania dowolnej stopy przy rzucie.
 Przy chwycie kółka w powietrzu i lądowaniu przewrotem przez bark wolno wstać na obie nogi (2 kontakty) i oderwać dowolną stopę przed odrzuceniem kółka. Jeśli przewrót nastąpił przy oddalaniu się od linii środkowej - po powstaniu na obie nogi wolno wykonać obrót w kierunku boiska przeciwnika bez zyskiwania terenu – i oderwać dowolną stopę do rzutu.
 Przesuwanie stopy lub stóp po podłożu lub ponad podłożem (komenda sędziowska "suwanie") po wykonaniu ostatniego dozwolonego ruchu stopy powoduje utratę punktu.

Liczenie punktów
 Sędzia prowadzący obowiązany jest podawać głośno wynik po zdobyciu każdego kolejnego punktu i wskazywać ręką stronę prowadzącą.
 Zawodnicy mogą zgłaszać poprawkę co do stanu meczu wyłącznie odnośnie do ostatniego ogłoszonego punktu.

Klasyfikacja w zawodach
Klasyfikacja zawodników (drużyn) w zawodach ringo ustalana jest kolejno według:
 liczby zwycięstw,
 wyniku bezpośredniego pojedynku zainteresowanych przy równej liczbie zwycięstw,
 przy 3 lub więcej zawodnikach (drużynach) o tej samej liczbie zwycięstw – decyduje większa liczba zwycięstw pomiędzy zainteresowanymi a przy równości zwycięstw – różnica punktów zdobytych i utraconych,
 przy równości tej różnicy punktów – decyduje większa liczba punktów zdobytych,
 przy tej samej liczbie punktów zdobytych przez zainteresowanych decyduje większa liczba punktów zdobytych i utraconych w danej puli walk,
 przy równej różnicy punktów (pkt. 47.5.) decyduje większa liczba punktów zdobytych w całej puli walk,
 przy także i tej równości – o zdobytym miejscu decyduje ponowny bezpośredni pojedynek wszystkich zainteresowanych.

Uprawnienia sędziego
Sędzia ma prawo ukarać żółtą kartką zawodnika za nieodpowiednie zachowanie się podczas gry (m.in. za używanie wulgarnych słów i gestów lub inne przejawy agresji). Ponowna kara dla tego samego zawodnika oznacza dyskwalifikację jego lub jego i współgrających w danej kategorii.

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Grę spopularyzował między innymi zespół muzyczny 2 plus 1 nagrywając piosenkę "W ringo graj ze mną".

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Summer has passed and many enthusiastic humans like us tried to celebrate 'plastic-free' months in July and August. Some of us were very successful, but others found it a bit constraining. In my family, we tried to remember our reusable shopping bags, we were glued to the reusable water bottle and we were very strict on recycling. My daughter even said that we were 'obsessed' with plastic free! Is this true? Is it possible that we have gone so far down this road that the only way to remove this plastic dependency is to be obsessive about it?
Our daily lives depend on plastic products; toothbrushes, shampoo bottles, micro beads in beauty products, food wrapping and packaging – the list is probably endless. Even going to our favourite (very international) coffee shop and ordering a cold drink became an environmental hazard when we realised that, once the pleasure of drinking it was over, there was no way to recycle the single use 'plastic' cup and the straw that was required to drink it. I felt momentarily depressed and very guilty thinking that no matter what we do as planet lovers the war against plastic is going to be very long and complicated. That said we just cannot give up.
It is our individual responsibility to do something about it (anything is better than doing nothing). We have to learn to reduce demand for plastic products and reduce senseless plastic use. I am tired of feeling helpless and hopeless, but again, I know that big changes start with small steps.
So my first small step is to highlight five simple actions that all of us can take in order to kickstart our plastic-independent lifestyle, all of which will have a positive impact on the reduction of plastic production and consumption.
Avoid using plastic bags: It's simple. We all know they are damaging and everybody is aware of the horror caused by plastic bags, recently highlighted by the news of the dead whale found with a stomach full of plastic bags. Now you can get very pretty reusable shopping bags.
Avoid unnecessary children toys and freebies that come with fast food.
Buy plastic free personal hygiene products. No micro beads! Also, remember to buy plastic free tampons and pads. Every month, women go through an endless number of disposal pads and tampons. Just think that the conventional sanitary pads are roughly 90% plastic and to make things worse every year, over 45 billion feminine hygiene products are disposed somewhere – anywhere.
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Our recent reboot at Stanford Court Hotel brings us more inline with the innovative heart of San Francisco, applying tech-forward amenities and eco-friendly practices to our boutique hotel in Nob Hill.
We're excited about these new additions, so we thought we'd highlight a few. Here are just some of the new tech amenities our guests at Stanford Court Hotel can look forward to.
We love art at Stanford Court Hotel. The digital, rotating art exhibit in our lobby is one of our most visible tech-forward installations. Curated by the SF-based company Daylighted, the rotating series features high resolution displays of contemporary, emerging or mid-career artists on digital canvases. If you like what you see, prints can be purchased direct from Daylighted, using an iPad in the lobby.
Our rebooted fitness center at Stanford Court Hotel (which happens to have one of the best views in the city) is now outfitted with the best exercise equipment. Guests have around-the-clock access to the center's Kinima.fit stations, which work like personal trainers. The adaptive fitness systems use 3D camera technology to track reps, effort and burned calories before customizing your next workout. Say hello to the future with your AI fitness trainer.
Charge up your ride at SCH before taking a spin around SF. Our onsite electric car and motorcycle charging station promotes the eco-friendly practices at Stanford Court. More apt for the bike lane? Our bike rental program includes use of our New Albion bikes and Blix Electric bikes, which helps with those steep uphill climbs San Francisco is famous for. Exploring the city just got cleaner.
Whether it's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Fire, HBO Go, games, movies, or something else, each room at Stanford Court is equipped with Google Chromecast for your viewing pleasure. Want to stay in for the night and binge-watch your latest show? Not a problem.
Staying true to our eco-friendly methods and paperless practices, PressReader is available for guests at Stanford Court Hotel. Enjoy access to a wide selection of newspapers and magazines on your smartphone or tablet. Keep up with the day's news and leave a paperless trail, using PressReader.
Stanford Court is a boutique hotel located in Nob Hill. Close to Chinatown, Union Square, and North Beach, Stanford Court Hotel offers free bike rentals to make every part of San Francisco accessible to our guests.


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Simple Device Converts Circularly Polarized Laser Light into Vacuum UV
The technique of spectroscopy involves using light to analyze biological samples and physical objects. Information of different types can be derived using different types of light.
Twisted light. Circularly polarized laser light goes through the PCN device and comes out the other side as VUV polarized in the opposite direction. Image Credit: © 2020 Konishi et al.
Vacuum ultraviolet light is useful as it can help researchers in a wide range of research fields. However, it has been challenging and expensive to generate a light of this kind. Therefore, researchers developed a new device to efficiently produce this unique kind of light with the help of an ultrathin film that includes nanoscale perforations.
The wavelengths of light individuals view with their eyes comprise a mere fraction of the probable wavelengths of light that occur. It includes infrared light, which can be felt in the form of heat, or viewed by a snake, and has a longer wavelength compared to visible light.
Ultraviolet (UV) light lies at the opposite end of the spectrum and can be used to produce vitamin D in human skin. It can be viewed by bees. These and other types of light find several applications in science.
Vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV), which is a subset of wavelengths within the UV range, is named so as they can pass through a vacuum although they are easily absorbed by air. Certain VUV wavelengths in the region of around 120-200 nm are specifically useful to researchers, particularly medical researchers, as they can be employed for physical and chemical analyses of various materials and even biological samples.
But light exhibits more features than just its wavelength. To make VUV highly useful, it must polarized or twisted to circular polarization. Current techniques to produce VUV—for example, the use of laser-driven plasmas and particle accelerators—pose several disadvantages, such as complexity, cost, and scale.
Moreover, these can generate only untwisted linear polarized VUV. A simple technique to produce circularly polarized VUV would be very helpful, if available. Assistant Professor Kuniaki Konishi from the Institute for Photon Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo and his colleagues could just have found the solution.
We have created a simple device to convert circularly polarized visible laser light into circularly polarized VUV, twisted in the opposite direction. Our photonic crystal dielectric nanomembrane (PCN) consists of a sheet made from an aluminum oxide-based crystal (γ-Al2O3) only 48 nm thick. It sits atop a 525 micrometer-thick sheet of silicon which has 190 nm-wide holes cut into it 600 nm apart.
Kuniaki Konishi, Institute for Photon Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
The PCN membrane resembles a flat featureless surface to human eyes. However, the perforation pattern is visible when viewed under a powerful microscope. It somewhat resembles the holes in a showerhead that increase the water pressure to make jets.
When pulses of circularly polarized blue laser light with a wavelength of 470 nm shine down these channels in the silicon, the PCN acts on these pulses and twists them in the opposing direction. It also shrinks their wavelengths to 157 nm which is well within the range of VUV that is so useful in spectroscopy.
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Researchers can use short pulses of circularly polarized VUV to observe short-lived or fast physical phenomena at the submicrometer scale, which are otherwise impossible to observe. These phenomena include the behaviors of biomolecules or electrons.
Therefore, this new technique to produce VUV could prove helpful to researchers in the fields of molecular chemistry, medicine, solid-state physics, and life sciences.
A similar technique that was demonstrated earlier generated very less useful longer wavelengths by using a metal-based film, which is prone to quick degradation upon exposure to laser light. In comparison, PCN is much more durable.
I am pleased that through our study of PCN, we found a new and useful application for circularly polarized light conversion, generating VUV with the intensity required to make it ideal for spectroscopy.
"And it was surprising that the PCN membrane could survive the repeated bombardment of laser light, unlike previous metal-based devices. This makes it suitable for lab use where it may be used extensively over long periods. We did this for basic science and I hope to see many kinds of researchers make good use of our work," added Konishi.
Konishi, K., et al. (2020) Circularly polarized vacuum ultraviolet coherent light generation using a square lattice photonic crystal nanomembrane. Optica. doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.393816.
Source: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/


Green Design Festival is an original, public, free cultural event under the auspices of the City of Athens. It aims at fostering a wider understanding of environmental and ecological issues amongst the citizens of Athens and beyond. Using new technologies, powerful imagery and design, this festival transforms Athens into a lively, interactive space, while presenting proposals and ideas on how everyday life could be greener and more friendly to the environment. Participants include over 70 architects, industrial designers, graphic designers, fashion and street artists, who have worked on the theme of the festival on projects who embrace the non-connoisseur.
The programme of the festival revolves around the 'ecomuseum of green design', a green contemporary open playground at Syntagma Square. The ecomuseum showcases the vast majority of projects in a light, alternative construction which will host exhibitions of photography, eco-conscious fashion, industrial design, video art and mixed media, a green library and a small open-air amphitheatre made of wooden re-used palettes for concerts and educational activities. Entrance is free. In selected central points of Athens, two big events will be presented. With the participation of the most vibrant street artists of Athens, the center of the city will be turned into a colourful forest of huge graffiti trees. In addition, distinguished graphic artists will create various interactive imaginary maps of the city, which can be freely downloaded to almost any mobile phone, inviting the public to take part in a vast interactive green game.
During Green Design Festival, a symbolic vertical garden - Athens' first- will be presented, embracing one of the most popular trends in landscape design internationally. Accordingly, guerrilla motion design videos will be uploaded on the web, inviting everyone to become a 'guerrilla gardener' of the city by creating green where it does not exist.
Green Design Festival is organised and produced by Brainlab, an independent, non-governmental, non-for-profit organisation. Brainlab was founded in 2007 in Athens by a group of architects, curators and communication professionals in order to enable and create cultural activities on social issues and bring out innovation in the fields of applied arts.
Ecomuseum, the location that hosts the main exhibition of the green design festival, is in itself an expression of environmental awareness, thus becoming an exhibition in its own right.
The building itself is set in a public space within the city, its goal being to tempt passers by to show interest, while feeling free to join the exhibitions and happenings, while combining entertainment with information. .
The exhibitions are organized in the form of boxes which follow a particular route, some being accessible while others not, and all joined together by a perforated shade. .
All exhibition rooms are made of re-usable materials, ordinary containers, and wooden pallets to form the routes. This making the exhibition itself an example of environmentally sensitive design. .
Exhibition of products designed by established Greek designers, specifically for the Green Design Festival. The designers will work on the four directions of gREen DESIGN, producing products from recycled or/and reused material, as well instructions for their reproduction by the visitors. The objects will be displayed for 'reproduction' in a designed environment, displaying the objects, their evolution and the reproduction instructions.
Photography is dangerously seductive. Only if we look at it twice, we can start thinking critically. This exhibition aims to reveal photography's strong power of suggestion, inviting visitors to question the obvious by looking at two opposite displays of banal, everyday images presented in a new context.
IS GREEN TO BE THE NEW BLACK? WOULD ECO FASHION STAND AT THE FOREFRONT OF DESIGN?
'Eco Chic' Fashion design exhibition aims to answer these questions and address the preconceived link of Eco fashion as compromising, be it in style or quality. More so it emphasizes that it can be as glamorous, experimental and innovative as fashion must be. A pool of Designers from countries such as Greece, UK and many more set out to use Eco friendly, recycled and recyclable materials, vintage pieces and their unlimited imagination to create evening dresses and accessories in order to prove that Eco fashion can be chic and inspirational. Green Design Festival will host the exhibition, which highlights that Fashion and environmental awareness are two concerns that can sit comfortably together.
Man is part of the global natural mechanism. However, the present model of thinking and acting, relative to nature, creates an increasing lack of balance that transforms dramatically the relation between man and nature.
The proposed concept / action is based on the educational techniques of Surprise and Game in order to arouse the public's awareness of the need to reevaluate the man - nature relation.
The installation includes a combination of photographs of different landscapes and Google Earth satellite images of the planet, together with texts referring to these images. The texts provoke the visitor to react and literally write down ideas in large notebooks. On a daily basis the results of that action will be digitally recorded and printed. The works will progressively cover all the surrounding surfaces.
Through especially designed visual works and presentations non-profit, non-governmental organisations speak about the protection of the environment. The visitors of the ecomuseum will have the possibility to learn more about our planet and its protection, as well as the opportunity to redefine everyday needs and habits.
The green library is an independent space within the ecomuseum where the visitor may find titles on the environment and design. From children's books to comics, coffee-table editions and scientific publications, a microworld of ideas and information will be available and free to all within a green microclimate especially created for the festival.
Green Design Festival is embracing motion design, an innovative aspect of design, as presented in the excellent work of NOMINT motion design group. NOMINT created three narrative videos on the theme of guerrilla gardening, in order to invite everyone to create green where there is not any. All videos may be viewed on-line at the website of the festival and in various social channels and networks. Everyone is invited to freely distribute the videos in order to inform as many guerrilla gardeners as possible. Additionally, NOMINT created the tv spot of the festival, using a white environment gradually becoming green, symbolising both the novelty as well as the aims of Green Design Festival.
A versatile forest of big graffiti trees will fill Athens with unique works by vibrant street artists. Each artist is free to paint his/ her tree in any desired way embracing ecological messages and creating a free walk in the city. Important keywords for all artists are: colour, trees, ecology, city. These wooden constructions are placed in a true green basis which enables passers-by to sit and rest and experience a different version of nature where it is least expected. Trees may be found in central places in Athens like, Omonoia and Syntagma square, Kerameikos, Monastiraki, Ermou street, Koumoundourou and Kotzia square.
Distinguished and upcoming graphic designers create interactive green maps of Athens and alter the image of the city. Answering the open-ended question of 'ways of visualising a green city', these works create a public interactive city game. By turning the bluetooth of the mobile phone on, everyone can download and freely use these maps. In selected central areas nearby tube stations, going around Athens will be different: wandering in the city is going to be part of a contemporary aesthetic game of collecting and sharing images of a greener city open to all.
The creative concept on which the communication of the festival is based, is the actual analysis of its title: "green design festival". Two main elements dominate the art work: Firstly, the logo, which is minimal, simple and symbolic: that of a leaf/flower, and secondly, the use of a heavy san serif font which reflects the design element of the festival. The complete look projects a fresh, light and easily recognisable character.
The selection of the communication material is totally environmental friendly: the reuse of newspapers, without any extra waste of paper.
THE DICTIONARY COVERS THE ECO-CONSCIOUS PART OF THE GREEN DESIGN FESTIVAL CONCEPT, IT DEVELOPS SOME OF THE BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL NOTIONS. THE RATIONAL WAS BASED ON THE SAME CREATIVE PLATFORM, ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE COMMUNICATION MATERIAL.


The Living Batch, one of the oldest bookstores in New Mexico, is closing next month, after being in business on the same block for 27 years.
On Dec. 24 it will shut its doors at 106 Cornell SE, which is next door to the Frontier restaurant.
"The main reason we're closing is that I don't want to do it any more," said owner Gus Blaisdell, a parttime film instructor at the University of New Mexico.
But that decision is influenced by several factors.
One is the arrival of the mega-bookstores in the Northeast Heights.
Their immediate effect is that a variety of customers no longer shop at the Living Batch.
"Before the superstores, we discovered that the most interesting sale days in our store were weekends. People drove from all over the city to come and shop," Blaisdell said.
Another factor is his disenchantment with mainstream publishing.
"The price of books is excluding young readers," he said, noting that three hardback books can retail for as much as $100.
Blaisdell said he's considered, and rejected, the notion of reducing the store's space and narrowing the subjects to what the Living Batch specializes in — alternative fiction, poetry, politics, art and architecture, psychoanalysis and works from small presses.
In addition, he said, none of his children nor present or former employees expressed interest in maintaining the bookstore.
"A literary period of mass readership for the small bookstore is passing out of democratic politics," Blaisdell said. "I think inexpensive books should be available to a large number of people, if they want to read.


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In decision. Roosevelt just one year earlier. Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement reform and budget policy for the Heartland Institute. They would continue to receive all of their promised Social Security benefits in full without any deviation from current law. All four of these effects would be a boon for the American economy. In , life expectancy was The fiscal pressures are due to demographic trends, where the number of workers paying into the program continues declining relative to those receiving benefits. This latter figure is the one commonly reported in the media. The first act in which a government stepped in to provide for the needy was The English Poor Law of Paying into a personal account what he and his employer otherwise would have paid into Social Security, the worker took the riskiest possible path by investing his entire portfolio in the stock market for his year working career. The changes approved by President Reagan in were phased in over time and included raising the retirement age from 65 to 67, taxation of benefits, cost of living adjustment COLA delays, and inclusion of new federal hires in the program. Social Security taxes paid into the system cannot be passed to future generations, as private accounts can, thereby preventing the accumulation of wealth to some degree. The benefit level is based on the 35 highest years of earnings.
The debate about the social security system in the United States has been ongoing for decades and there is much concern about its sustainability. How does it serve older adults?
But over time, this all reverses — taxpayers end up paying more and receiving less. Transfers of other government funds made the program "whole" as if these tax cuts had not occurred.
The impression still exists that it would be politically easier to cut benefits than to enact broad, structural reforms like the personal accounts proposed here. Democrats are deeply troubled by this proposal and claim that this course of action would be disastrous for seniors This requires increased revenues devoted to Social Security. Under what the government's actuaries call "intermediate" economic assumptions, the trust funds will be able to cover the deficit until In other words, this amount would have to be set aside today such that the principal and interest would cover the shortfall over the next 75 years. People are scared because of the projections of the trust fund will being depleted by Because of this, our president has announced in his State of the Union address that Social Security should be privatized. The balances in the Trust Fund are projected to be depleted either by [20] OASDI Trustees' projection , or by [21] Congressional Budget Office's extended-baseline scenario assuming proper and continuous repayment of the outstanding treasury notes. Raising the rate by two percentage points gradually over 20 years would cover the entire shortfall. The most important of these adverse developments are demographic changes.
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The U. They argue one of the key factors for government to keep social security in its current form is its ability to inflate the value of public savings and deflate the value of public debt Svihula, Members of Congress cannot simultaneously claim that the tax cuts for people at the top are affordable while the Social Security shortfall constitutes a dire fiscal threat.
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The financial institutions make their own investments with the funds and use the earnings to pay the guaranteed returns. The chief actuary of Social Security analyzed the Ryan-Sununu bill and published a comprehensive official score estimating its effects. Negative real returns are, in general, where the whole program is heading. CBO officially scored the Ryan Roadmap as achieving full solvency for Social Security and for Medicare while balancing the federal budget indefinitely into the future, completely eliminating all long-term federal deficits with no tax increases. They have two children, and each parent started working in at age 22, right after they graduated from college. A powerful network of elderly and liberal organizations and union workers also fought any changes. When George W. One way to measure mandatory program risks is in terms of unfunded liabilities, the amount that would have to be set aside today such that principal and interest would cover program shortfalls spending over tax revenue dedicated to the program. The impression still exists that it would be politically easier to cut benefits than to enact broad, structural reforms like the personal accounts proposed here. However, the funds from loans made have been spent along with other revenues in the general funds in satisfying annual budgets. This hypothetical is a worst-case scenario, as our couple retired just one year after the worst ten-year stock-market performance in American history, from to — a decade that began with the popping of the dot-com bubble and ended with the financial crisis. On June 8, Roosevelt announced he was to begin such a program.
A recent study by researchers at Harvard and Dartmouth concludes that the Social Security actuaries have been consistently over-optimistic in their demographic and economic assumptions regarding the future fiscal solvency of Social Security.
Expenses exceeded tax receipts in Supplemental Security Income SSI uses the same disability criteria as the insured social security disability program, but SSI is not based upon insurance coverage.
Indeed, Social Security has been called "the third rail of American politics" [35] — meaning that any politician sparking fears about cuts in benefits by touching the program endangers his or her political career.
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With monsoon season in full swing in Colorado, NOPI has cancelled the Colorado and Utah events, the first of which is scheduled for June 21st-22nd. The press release stated they "faced extreme weather at their past 8 events" and decided to cancel the event, leaving many racers and fans bewildered. Many racers have flocked to the Honda-Tech.com Drag Racing forum to discuss NOPI's recent revelation, and many are not happy.
While most think they are just trying to hide financial trouble, I just want to know who their forecaster is. Anyone who can predict Colorado weather even a week out with this kind of accuracy deserves a Nobel Prize.
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As you well know, 2020 has been a year unlike any other in our history! Our country has experienced tremendous amounts of social, physical, and political unrest. And, the divisive presidential election only contributed to our collective anxiety.
Now, as faithful advocates of education, social justice, and inclusivity, we here at Purple Runway, Inc., are once again hopeful that support of the causes closest to our hearts will continue with the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration.
Our Hope for a Brighter Future
After announcing his campaign, Biden acknowledged the vast range of political stances within the Democratic party and throughout the country and was determined to be an inclusive candidate who represented all types of Americans. To emphasize this stance he worked with former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders to ensure that his platform better addressed climate change, criminal justice, health care, the economy, education, immigration, and more. More importantly he selected Senator Kamala Harris to be his Vice President. In doing so, Biden demonstrated his desire to meet the needs and concerns of ALL Americans.
Biden stayed focused on uniting both his base and the nation as a whole so that he could be an American president rather than simply a Democratic president. We feel confident that his perspective on the position eventually won him the presidency.
Biden has consistently vowed to consider the viewpoints of people from both parties in order to bring us all back together as a nation. And when he accepted the role of president-elect, he reiterated his promise to heal America by unifying its citizens. Along with the fact that he won the presidency, the fact that women, people of color, young people, and even frustrated Republicans committed their votes to him further evidences the prosperity of his inclusive position.
Our Hope for Steady Advocacy of Social Justice
Purple Runway, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, assists men, women, children, and families who have endured domestic and intimate partner violence. Purple Runway encourages these individuals to survive and thrive via education and comprehensive healing. Specifically, Purple Runway offers holistic and culturally competent care and counseling so that victims can overcome their situations and begin to flourish in happy, healthy relationships.
Purple Runway, the vision of personal style coach Gigi McMillan, a domestic and intimate partner violence survivor herself, and her company Kamisol Style Consultancy present a united front in the fight against domestic violence. As women within a sisterhood, we understand the importance of sounding our rally cry for inclusive social justice that eradicates trauma from domestic and intimate partner violence by educating society about the plight of victims of such violence.
For years, we have been speaking out about the national epidemic that is domestic and intimate partner violence. And thankfully, strong political leaders both local and federal, including our new President-elect, have heard our pleas.
We believe that by connecting local, state, and federal legislation, we can create the change we need to see regarding domestic and intimate partner violence.
In fact, during his time as a senator for Delaware, Biden co-sponsored the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA). Biden remained a major proponent of the bill until he left office in 2017. Unfortunately, the Act expired in February 2019 and has yet to be reauthorized again. We are confident that with this new brighter, more inclusive administration we will be able to refocus attention on the VAWA and work towards reauthorization again.
We have also received the endorsement of Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia and looking to President-elect Biden, Senator Kaine, and other government officials on both sides of the aisle to hear our shouts for social justice once again. We will ask them to rejoin us in standing in the gap for those who are still in the struggle.
Delegate Delores McQuinn, of Virginia, outlined protection measures in her HJR129, which unfortunately was tabled in early 2020. In tandem with this Resolution we are advocating the establishment of a Domestic Violence Registry and the assumption of measures to monitor people convicted of domestic violence, family abuse, and intimate partner abuse.
Our Thanks to the Organizations Who Have Supported with Us
We could not have made such substantial progress so far without the help of legislators like Biden, Kaine, and McQuinn. We truly are grateful for their efforts. However, we also owe a debt to many other champions of our cause. These inspiring institutions include:
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These corporations have empowered us to achieve so much for the sake of domestic and intimate partner violence survivors over the years.
For this reason, we will always be thankful to them.
Our Perspective for the Future
The fact that Biden won the election by exemplifying fairness, inclusiveness, and tolerance has done so much to lift our spirits after such a difficult year.
It has reaffirmed in our minds the truth that extending goodwill and respect toward everyone in all that you do is one of the most effective master plans for securing success.
We will continue to exemplify that approach in our words and actions in our business dealings, social interactions, and personal relations and kindly ask you pledge, alongside us, to end toxic and violent relationships in your area by partnering with nonprofits and organizations like Purple Runway.
Join us while we continue to stand in the gap for those still in the struggle. To find out ways to work alongside us and make the change visit our website at: www.purplerunway.org
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Social media is a great place for people to share their thoughts, feelings and opinions about everyday life. Platforms like Twitter make it easy for people to connect on larger social issues and create communities around them. When people start to share their opinion and discourses are created, usually a dominant opinion is pervasive in mass media. This dominant opinion, when it is recognized, gets reinforced by people who confidently speak out about it. When people have an opinion that is not in the majority, they tend to feel like they can't speak out in fear of isolation. This theory is called the spiral of silence.
With this theory there are exceptions. Not everyone remains silent. Either a person does not care about isolation/other repercussions or they do not feel as if their opinion is in the minority.
What happens when people do feel like they can speak out? Depending on the topic of discussion, different outcomes can occur. On one hand, people can be fired for unpopular political opinions. For example, an Ohio woman, Patricia Kunkle, filed a lawsuit against her employer for firing her because she voted for Obama. In this case, Obama may not be an unpopular vote in most spaces, but in her work space it was.
However, really great things can come from talking about ideas that no one else is expressing. New communities can be formed and representation can be found.
Reddit is a social medium that allows its users to be anonymous. Anonymity on Reddit creates a space where social repercussions are less of a threat and encourages representation of minority viewpoints.
An example of a minority community on Reddit is the transgender health community. Trans health is not a hot topic that pops up on Twitter, and if it does pop up, it is not a helpful and supportive discussion. Opening up this discussion, even when others are not talking about it, allows people to find, afford and discuss the help they need.
Although speaking out is hard, it can also be an important step for people to feel understood and welcomed. People need to begin to express what they perceive to be minority opinions because there are most likely other people who agree with it but feel afraid to be the first to speak up.
Creating this community can create positive social change. If people never spoke up about gender and racial inequality, little or no change would have ever occurred.
It can be hard to speak out for yourself, so speak out for change and community.
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Kyra Lindsay says:
The idea that Reddit thrives as it does due to anonymity is quite interesting. It is upsetting to know that there are those suffering in the spiral of silence, however, I believe that is more so their prerogative. Speaking from experience I am not afraid to share my thoughts even if they go against popular opinion. It's difficult to say this and not be in a workplace that allows it, but it is good to know those alternative outlets.
Caitlin Wahlers says:
Rhianna, great post! I particularly like the connections you drew surrounding the development of community and increasing access to marginalized voices. I'm curious about your thoughts surrounding the idea of "slacktivism" and if voicing a dissenting opinion online is enough. Within recent years, criticism has surfaced surrounding online activism and the lack of physical movement building. A number of arguments point to online "slacktivism" and while I love the idea of building bridges and fostering communication, does the exchange of ideas stop there?
Amelia Whitford says:
It was really interesting to learn about the spiral of science, as I had never heard of it before! Also, I completely agree with the importance of speaking out and to remember that your voice does matter. Unfortunately, hatred and negative reactions can come out when someone publishes something under their name. Your example of the transgender health community is an excellent example of how a minority community doesn't feel safe expressing their opinions under their name… Which is something our society as a whole should speak up upon and address. It is so important for every community to feel welcomed when speaking out.
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The purge at the Pentagon
The potential for sudden troop withdrawals should spur Congress to curtail Trump's powers in his final weeks as president.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated November 14, 2020, 4:00 a.m.
Mark Esper, the former secretary of defense, boards the USS Devastator minesweeper while on a visit to the Naval Forces Central Command base in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, Oct. 28. Esper was fired by President Trump on Nov. 9, preceding a purge of Pentagon officials by the president.PAUL HANDLEY/AFP via Getty Images
President Trump picked the day before Veterans Day to decimate the Pentagon's civilian leadership and install three men whose chief qualification for their new high-powered jobs is loyalty to a man whose days in the Oval Office are numbered.
All of which raises the question — why? And will the "why" turn out to have a serious and lasting impact on national security during a transition already fraught with difficulty?
The Monday firing — by tweet — of Defense Secretary Mike Esper, which preceded the rest of the Pentagon bloodletting, could have been a simple act of revenge. It had been anticipated since June, when Esper went public about his regret at appearing in the Lafayette Square photo-op with Trump.
Trump had also clashed with Esper over invoking the Insurrection Act to allow active-duty military to be used to quell demonstrations in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in May. And in a White House where bad ideas never die, there's no telling if this irrational president still thinks that putting troops in the streets is a viable idea that could be enabled by Esper's replacement.
It's not simply the upending of the rest of the Pentagon hierarchy — the jettisoning of experienced and knowledgeable hands — that is distressing. It's the bizarre cast of characters installed in those top jobs.
Trump named Anthony Tata as undersecretary for policy. His earlier nomination for the same post this summer was withdrawn after social media posts were disclosed, some of them Islamophobic and others promoting various conspiracy theories.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, 34, now acting intelligence undersecretary, first joined the Trump administration during the brief tenure of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. He replaces the now-ousted Joseph Kernan, a retired three-star admiral and former Navy SEAL officer.
Christopher Miller, who was only months ago merely deputy assistant secretary of defense, replaced Esper. Miller's chief of staff is now Kash Patel, a former aide to Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Patel is believed to be largely responsible for the so-called Nunes memo, which grossly mischaracterized the warrant obtained by the FBI on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
On Wednesday Miller named Douglas Macgregor as a senior adviser. Macgregor's nomination to be ambassador to Germany was withdrawn after his derogatory comments about Muslims and Mexicans surfaced.
But Macgregor has long been a vocal proponent of an immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan. And that raises the specter of a far more dangerous game that could be afoot in these last weeks at the Defense Department under its new leadership.
Will Trump attempt to make one last grand gesture and withdraw nearly all of the 5,000 troops still on the ground in Afghanistan by Christmas, as he promised last month? He has also talked about bringing troops back from Germany, Syria, and Somalia.
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with backup from Esper, had been adept at parrying Trump's repeated efforts to precipitously withdraw troops. But what happens now that Esper is gone and the upper echelon of the Pentagon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Team Trump?
"If this is the beginning of a trend — the president either firing or forcing out national security professionals in order to replace them with people perceived as more loyal to him — then the next 70 days will be precarious at best and downright dangerous at worst," said US Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, in a statement issued by his office.
Lawmakers of both parties now have to do more to protect US security interests. The still-pending National Defense Authorization Act includes bipartisan provisions aimed at halting any precipitous troop withdrawals, at least from Germany and Afghanistan. The bill, of course, has drawn a veto threat from Trump. But it is more critical now than ever.
This lame-duck Congress bears a larger than usual responsibility for shielding this nation from the worst instincts of this dysfunctional president and supporting a military that, as Milley said this week, is "unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant, or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual."
This nation's military is sworn only to defend the Constitution — an idea Donald Trump never seemed to grasp. Now, having lost the election and the respect of his troops and generals, he has nothing left to lose. The world is watching to see if other American leaders will rein him in.
Editorials represent the views of the Boston Globe Editorial Board. Follow us on Twitter at @GlobeOpinion.