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Q: How to tie instances of three classes together? I have a customer class.
public Customer(boolean regular, boolean payAhead, boolean loyal, String userName, double amountOfStorage) {
    this.regular = regular;
    this.payAhead = payAhead;
    this.loyal = loyal;
    this.userName = userName;
    this.amtOfStore = amountOfStorage;
}

Im using a Map for the user to choose what customer they are through a JTextField.
Map<String, Customer> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("Kyle", new Customer(true, false, false, "Kyle", 1000.00));
map.put("Andrew", new Customer(false, true, false, "Andrew", 0.00));
map.put("Connor", new Customer(false, false, true, "Connor", 5000.00));

This all works. I also have a Store class.
public Store(String name, double cost, double mbAmount, int itemCnt, double ship) {
    this.name = name;
    this.cost = cost;
    this.mbAmount = mbAmount;
    this.itemCnt = itemCnt;
    this.ship = ship;
}

With multiple Store instances.
Store sitem1 = new Store("Movie", 20.00, 500, 0, 0.00);
Store sitem2 = new Store("Lamborghini", 2000000.00, 0, 0, 5000);
Store sitem3 = new Store("Song", .99, 50, 0, 0);
Store sitem4 = new Store("Headphones", 25.00, 0, 0, 3.00);
Store sitem5 = new Store("iPhone", 894.92, 0, 0, 10.00);
Store sitem6 = new Store("Coffe Maker", 50.67, 0, 0, 7.00);
Store sitem7 = new Store("Video Game", 59.99, 40000, 0, 0);
Store sitem8 = new Store("Laptop", 500.00, 0, 0, 6.76);
Store sitem9 = new Store("Old Movie", 2.99, 100, 0, 0);
Store sitem10 = new Store("Tv Show", .99, 20, 0, 0);

and a ShoppingCart Class.
    public ShoppingCart(double shippingCost, double storageSize, double totalPrice, double temp, int cartCount) {
    this.shippingCost = shippingCost;
    this.storageSize = storageSize;
    this.totalPrice = totalPrice;
    this.temp = temp;
    this.cartCount = cartCount;
}

I need it so when one customer logs off(Program never closes) and another logs on the Store and Shopping Cart class are unique to him, while keeping the information that was entered by the previous customer. Once again teh program never closes in this scenario.

A: Add a ShoppingCart to your Customer class, representing that customer's current shopping cart.
Access and modify shopping cart through the Customer.

A customer has a shopping cart.


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This latest game serves as a prologue to the award-winning series. It's also the first entry for the Nintendo Switch.
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Fans of the series will be familiar with its film noir ambience, as Amber and Ted E. Bear exchange sharp banter while solving environmental puzzles and cross-examining potential suspects in their investigation. The duo face more than just a mystery, with rumors of a mysterious 'man in red' responsible for an outbreak of recent fires.
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Nurturing relationships with friends with children
By Victoria Fryer
In 2013, my cousin, one of my best friends, and a close work colleague all confided that they had become pregnant. "It's the year of the baby!" I joked, thinking to myself that once I got through this spate of pregnancies, maybe they would come more slowly. Then, in 2014, my other best friend and my husband's only remaining childless sister both announced their plans to have a child—within three months of one another. Ah. Another year of babies.
So, while I was so excited for every single one of those friends, it also occurred to me that the relationships I shared with them were going to have to change. And I no longer had the luxury of just hanging out with the still-childless—I was fresh out of friends without kids. So I came to understand, even if I didn't like it, that much of the onus would be on me to adjust to the new way of things.
Here are a few ways I've found to keep in touch with my friends who are now parents, despite their much busier schedules and new competing priorities.
• Make a lunch date: For the working parent in your life, a lunch date can be a great way to have quick one-on-one time with your friend—and they'll likely be glad for the adult company that doesn't take away from time spent with the family.
• Schedule a phone call: My best friend and I used to talk on the phone every day. Now that she's had a baby, frequent phone calls aren't as possible. So we schedule our phone calls for when we'll both be available for a few minutes; for instance, if I'm on my way home during the baby's regularly scheduled naptime.
• Express an interest: This may seem like the easiest part, but for some of us childless and childfree, and for various reasons, reminding our parent friends that we're interested in what's going on with the kiddos isn't always the most natural of interactions. Send a text, comment on photos through social media, or ask how the little ones are doing in whatever sport or activity they're signed up for.
• Show up: I've written before about how I often feel isolated at gatherings of friends when everyone else there is a parent. But it doesn't mean you shouldn't be there. The best of friends see each other through everything. For some of us, providing support to our parent friends during the active childrearing years is difficult, but that doesn't mean we don't do it. We show up, we go to Little League games and dance recitals, and then we get to go home. (Phew!)
• Host a kid-friendly party of your own: Make it known that your friends' children are always welcome in your home. For some of us, that makes us nervous. The house isn't childproofed. What about that delicate vase I have on my China hutch? But welcoming your friends' entire family is what having a friendship is all about.
How do you nurture and sustain friendships with friends with children?
Victoria Fryer is a 31-year-old writer and content strategist. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two pit bulls. You can find her on Twitter @extoria.
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A Cal Poly Pomona civil engineering team placed second out of 16 schools in this year's GeoWall national competition.
Cal Poly Pomona's civil engineering GeoWall team has placed second out of 16 schools in this year's GeoWall national competition, beating out teams from UCLA and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
The competition, which was held in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 24, is the third in a row where Cal Poly Pomona's GeoWall team has placed in the top three. The team placed first the previous two years.
Teams were tasked with building an earthen wall designed to contain hundreds of pounds of sand. The teams' designs are tested with ever increasing weight loads. This type of structure is often utilized under highway overpasses and is recognizable by their checkerboard design, according to Alex Wells, design lead for Cal Poly Pomona's GeoWall team.


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  before_filter do
    find_shared_track or authenticate_user!
  end

  # GET /tracks
  # GET /tracks.json
  def index
    @my_tracks = tracks_for_current_user
    @friends_tracks = tracks_for_friends_of_current_user

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.json { render :json => @my_tracks + @friends_tracks, :include => :summary }
    end
  end

  # GET /tracks/1
  # GET /tracks/1.json
  def show
    unless @track
      @track = track_accessible_for_current_user params[:id]
      @track.summary.set_format MetricSystem.new
    end
    readonly = (@track.user != current_user)

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :partial => 'tracks/show', :locals => { :track => @track, :readonly => readonly } }
      format.json { render json: @track }
      format.xml
    end
  end

  # GET /tracks/new
  # GET /tracks/new.json
  def new
    @track = Track.new

    respond_to do |format|
      format.json { render json: @track }
    end
  end

  # GET /tracks/1/edit
  def edit
    @track = track_owned_by_current_user params[:id]

    respond_to do |format|
      format.js { render :layout => false }
    end
  end

  # POST /tracks
  # POST /tracks.json
  def create
    @track = Track.new(params[:track])
    @track.user = current_user

    respond_to do |format|
      if @track.save
        format.html { redirect_to tracks_path, notice: 'Track was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render json: @track, status: :created, location: @track }
      else
        format.html { render action: "new" }
        format.json { render json: @track.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

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  # PUT /tracks/1.json
  def update
    @track = track_owned_by_current_user params[:id]

    respond_to do |format|
      if @track.update_attributes(params[:track])
        format.html { redirect_to @track, notice: 'Track was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :no_content }
      else
        format.html { render action: "edit" }
        format.json { render json: @track.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
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  def destroy
    @track = track_owned_by_current_user params[:id]
    @track.destroy

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to tracks_url }
      format.json { head :no_content }
    end
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  def close
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    respond_to do |format|
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      format.json { head :no_content }
    end
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  def tracks_for_current_user
    Track.for_user current_user
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  def tracks_for_friends_of_current_user
    Track.find_all_by_user_id_and_public(current_user.friends.select{|u| u.id}, true)
  end

  # Returns the track with given id if it is owned by current_user
  def track_owned_by_current_user(id)
    tracks_for_current_user.find id
  end

  # Returns the track with given id if it is accessible for current_user
  def track_accessible_for_current_user(id)
    Track.find_by_id_and_user_id(id, current_user.friends.select{|u| u.id} + [current_user.id])
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If Government Shuts Down, most Reserve Drills Cancelled
Only "excepted" military operations will be allowed to continue to drill
With the threat of a possible government shutdown looming, a senior defense official outlined consequences for members of the Reserve and Guard in a conference call on Friday, Sept. 27. Only those units in an inactive duty for training status who are on the ramp for activation for "excepted" military operations (i.e. Afghanistan) will be allowed to continue to drill.
"We are reflecting the law and the interpretation of it, this is not based on policy," said the senior defense official.
The official stated that retirees will continue to receive pay as those funds are appropriated through a trust fund. Delays in pay may occur if the shutdown goes beyond a couple of days.
Additionally, state commissaries will close and military health care centers will be restricted to life-threatening situations.
On the call, ROA's Executive Director, Major General Andrew B. Davis, USMC (Ret.) expressed concern for the government shutdown and the possible affects it could have on the Reserve Component.
"As an association chartered to advocate for a strong national defense and a strong Reserve force, ROA urges Congress to avert a government shutdown. Specifically, curtailment of Reserve training from drill to annual training will severely degrade our nation's defense readiness in a world that is still very dangerous. Reserve readiness is perishable. We will continue to monitor closely the continued delivery of retirement and health insurance benefits that has been assured by Defense officials," said Maj Gen Davis.
In Support of H.R.3241, Pay Our Guardsmen and Civilian Defense Personnel Act
After the unsuccessful push of H.Res.370, ROA lends support of legislation that would amend the Pay our Military Act (H.R.3210)
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Earlier in the week, the Senate voted down H.Res.370, a joint resolution that included funding for Reserve inactive duty training and other groups affected by the government shutdown.
Today, Rep. Austin Scott, R-GA, introduced H.R.3241, the Pay Our Guardsmen and Civilian Defense Personnel Act. This bill would amend the Pay Our Military Act to include: funding for inactive Reservists, removes Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's determination as to what civilians he deems are "providing support to members of the Armed Forces," thereby clarifying that we intended to fund all defense civilians, and covers dual status military technicians.
ROA offered a letter in support of Rep. Scott's proposed legislation and continues to work with Congressional offices on both sides of the aisle, advocating for immediate passage of a provision to continue inactive duty drills and maintain compensation for all Reservists regardless of duty status.
H.R.3274 Amends Pay Our Military Act to Continue Appropriations to Fallen Heroes and Their Families
Fallen Heroes and Families Assistance Act will ensure appropriations through a government shutdown
After an egregious oversight and widespread outrage from service members, their families and the public at large, lawmakers on the Hill want to ensure appropriations are made available to the families of fallen Soldiers during the shutdown.
Rep. Ron Barber, D-AZ, yesterday introduced legislation that would authorize death gratuity and other survivor compensation now and in the event of another lapse in FY14. The bill, H.R.3274, entitled the "Fallen Heroes and Families Assistance Act," amends the Pay Our Military Act by redesignating "emergency appropriation of funds to provide death gratuity and other compensation on behalf of deceased members of the armed forces and certain other persons during government shutdown."
Today, ROA sent a letter of support for the proposed legislation to House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. In the letter, ROA Executive Director Major General Andrew B. Davis, USMC (Ret.), said, "H.R.3274 would remedy the horrific situation that the families and military members face. Passage would allow the families to grieve and bury their loved one without financial stress, and deployed members of the uniformed services wouldn't be distracted from the mission by worries about unsupported families."
A staff member for Speaker Boehner expressed that the bill would be voted upon tomorrow and is expected to pass.
Chaplain Of The Year Award Presented To Lt. Cmdr. Frank Riley
Posted By Reserve Officers Association, Sunday, October 13, 2013
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The Reserve Officers Association (ROA) awarded the Chaplain of the Year at the ROA National Security Symposium in Washington, D.C., Aug. 8.
Lt. Cmdr. E. Frank Riley was selected from seven nominees from both the active and Reserve components for contribution to the welfare, morale, and effectiveness of the military reserve services.
"I am stunned and humbled and I feel like I'm being given one of the largest honors of my life," said Riley. "I am just very grateful to the people that allowed me to be a chaplain and care for them."
Riley served as chaplain to Navy Central Command Afghanistan Mobile Support Team from August 2012 to May 2013, helping him stand out as top candidate. Riley was tasked with the mission to care for more than 2,500 Individually Augmented Sailors across Afghanistan, traveling more than 30,000 miles around the country.
"I love being able to work with American service members," said Riley. "The difference they're making for the country and their willingness to stand in harm's way. There's something amazing, for example standing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and looking around at all those young people who have made that pledge to give their life for their country, I mean where else can you witness something like that?"
Riley traveled extensively during his deployment to Afghanistan.
"We traveled from the largest bases to the smallest [Forwarding Operating Bases]," said Riley. "I was joking around one day when we visited a Special Operations compound that only God, Special Forces and Taliban knew where we were; and even then it was doubtful that all of them knew."
"It was such an amazing experience, constantly just these divine appointments, being at the right place at the right time, and being able to make difference in people's lives," said Riley.
Riley is currently assigned to Navy Operational Support Center, Los Angeles and has volunteered to mobilize this fall to serve as the chaplain for Navy Mobilization Processing Site San Diego.
"From junior enlisted to senior officers, we're all human and we all need care, and that's one of the beautiful things about being a chaplain, what a privilege," said Riley.
This article originally appeared on Navy.mil via the Defense Media Activity
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An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol's A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA Is Fun, Just Don't Think About It Too Hard
"Refik Anadol: Unsupervised" is being touted as Artificial Intelligence's triumphant arrival in the museum-art canon. So I went to see the splashy installation currently in the Museum of Modern Art's ground-floor annex with a mission, to get a glimpse of what MoMA-approved A.I. art promises, or threatens, for the future.
Born in Istanbul and currently based in Los Angeles, with a studio of more than a dozen people, Anadol was known for many years more for interactive public-art commissions than for work in museums and galleries. He boasts collaborations and support from the likes of Microsoft, NVDIA, and Google. In the recent past, his stock has dramatically soared—which makes sense given the fact that his work engages with three trends that have lately shaken up the art conversation: immersive installation, NFTs, and generative A.I. "Unsupervised" combines a bit of each.
Here is what you see at MoMA: A towering, high-res screen where abstract images morph hypnotically and ceaselessly. Sequences run a few minutes each, toggling between different styles of animation.
The most crowd-pleasing of these simulates a seething, gravity-defying cloud of colorful fluid, the palette based on colors derived from the works in MoMA's collection. New colors are constantly swirling into the image and taking over, the whole thing surging in and out restlessly, like a psychedelic, drugged-out ocean wave. The high-res screen renders the simulated rainbow gloop convincingly thick and dimensional.
"Refik Anadol: Unsupervised" at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Ben Davis.
While this mode is the most visually memorable, it is also the one that has the least clear connection to the ostensible Big Idea of the show. "Anadol trained a sophisticated machine-learning model to interpret the publicly available data of MoMA's collection," the show's description explains. "As the model 'walks' through its conception of this vast range of works, it reimagines the history of modern art and dreams about what might have been—and what might be to come."
This premise is more directly enacted in the other two types of animation, which are also harder to describe. One evolves endlessly through blobby, evocative shapes and miasmic, half-formed patterns. Sometimes an image or a part of an image briefly suggests a face or a landscape but quickly moves on, becoming something else, ceaselessly churning. It looks like this:
A third type of animation does much the same, but with jittery networks of lines connecting different key points as the art-inspired shapes define themselves. I'm not totally sure what these vectors suggest, but they give the image texture and atmosphere. It looks like this:
Art History, Without the History
You can tell, in these latter two types of animation, that "Unsupervised" is manifesting art-like images specifically inspired by some constellation of works in MoMA's collection. Despite a screen that appears as punctuation between sequences displaying dense graphics related to what you have seen, the exact operation is not really clarified.
The ever-new, synthetic images of Anadol's "Unsupervised" are blobby and chaotic, and look exactly like what art made via Generative Adversarial Networks most often looked like before the breakthroughs of DALL-E and its A.I. ilk captured the imagination of the public last year: Woozy, semi-random, art-like visual outputs, with wispy, unresolved edges. They look a little bit like preliminary sketches for art you might have seen in the original data-set (or in the galleries)—if you squint.
"Refik Anadol: Unsupervised" at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Ben Davis.
The effect is pleasant. What it is not is anything like what MoMA says it is: an experience that "reimagines the history of modern art and dreams about what might have been."
MoMA has spent recent decades trying to move beyond the formalist ideas of art that it inherited from its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. with his famous graph of Modernism as a bunch of styles mechanically branching off of one another. Generally, contemporary art historians would insist on rooting meaning in culture and context. Abstraction means one thing when its Gee's Bend Quilts, another when it is Abstract Expressionism, still another when it's Tibetan sand painting, and still another when you put a bunch of images into an A.I. blender and remix them.
It's striking to see MoMA tacitly let a new high-tech formalism through the door, one even flatter and less historical than Barr's—as if the curators were so excited by the wonders of A.I. that they didn't notice. What the endorsement of "Unsupervised" as an alternative-art-history simulator insinuates, for its audience, is that art history is just a bunch of random visual tics to be permuted, rather than an archive of symbol-making practices with social meanings.
Dreaming… Reimagined?
Describing his works that use A.I. to make generative art out of huge datasets like "Unsupervised," Anadol speaks of them as machine "dreams" or machine "hallucinations." But the terminology, once more, mystifies what is going on.
As Jorge Luis Borges once wrote, citing Coleridge, in dreams (I guess I have to specify here, in human dreams) emotional causality is reversed: "Images take the shape of the effects we believe they cause. We are not terrified because some sphinx is threatening us but rather dream of a sphinx in order to explain the terror we are feeling."
But there is no emotional text to Anadol's endless animation at MoMA. At most, the installation conveys a generalized awe at the machine's superhuman capacity of visual analysis. (The fact that the soundtrack is a kind of shapeless, droning synthesizer score that is almost a cliché in "futuristic" video work doesn't help.)
I sat through two hours of "Unsupervised." I can't think of a single image in it that evoked any feeling in me besides curiosity about what it might be referencing. As one might expect, they are just semi-random acts of syntheses and recombination of properties, expressing nothing about anything in particular except for the machine's ability to do what it is doing.
Mis-recognizing Dystopia
I would contend that scraping away the ill-considered metaphors (e.g. reimagined art histories, dreaming) helps to better see what's really happening in front of your eyes.
This would be nitpicking, though, if it weren't for the fact that what these poetic readings of the technology are doing is selling us on a certain style of thinking about A.I. as a creative proposition, at a time when A.I. text-generation and A.I. image-generation are being deployed so fast that society is racing against the clock to catch up with the implications—as if "move fast and break things" hadn't been discredited as a motto.
It is because Anadol has created such a purely decorative, cheerleader-ish style of A.I. art—so different than the critical lens that artists such as Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen have brought to the subject in recent years, with great impact—that he received so much support along the way from the tech giants. Indeed, his positivity is probably an unstated condition of that support.
In the last few years, I've noticed a pervasive and perverse rhetorical sleight of hand in the art-tech conversation. Call it the willful misreading of dystopia. You hear technologists reference artworks that are meant as sci-fi cautionary tales but, weirdly, purely as positive design inspiration, divorced from their prophetic moral or ethical substance. The recently trendy idea of the "metaverse," which comes from Neal Stephenson's grim take on virtual reality in Snow Crash, is an obvious example.
Anadol is a notable dystopian mis-reader. When he refers to his works as "machine dreams" and "collective hallucinations," he often says his inspiration is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. In a TED Talk, he describes having his imagination fired by the moment in that movie when the android Rachael realizes that her memories are not real, but implants. "Since that moment," Anadol says, "one of my inspirations has been this question: What can a machine do with someone else's memories?"
Blade Runner is a melancholy work about the uprooted sense of self and collapsing sense of reality in a future where humanity and machine are no longer distinguishable. None of this seems to register with Anadol, just the idea that machine-generated memories are cool.
Anadol's first work that used A.I. to generate infinite new outputs based on a massive dataset was Archive Dreaming, executed in spectacular installation form in 2017, as an application of the experiments he had been engaged with at Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program. It looked at 1,700,000 documents and generated ever-new images based on them.
In that same TED Talk, Anadol claims that Archive Dreaming was inspired by Borges's famous short story The Library of Babel, which envisions a universe that is one never-ending library, whose books contain every possible combination of characters. But The Library of Babel was an intellectual horror story, a parable about the nihilism that results when all meaning collapses into nothing. When the inhabitants of Borges's library finally realize the implications of the world they live in, they commit mass suicide!
The point is, these cultural references are mined in the most superficial way—very much as MoMA's archive is sucked up in Unsupervised and stripped of real substance outside of pure visual inspiration. And so, you can read this style of art as emblematic of a moment in which tech aesthetic of perpetually novel gadgetry is dominant while the humanities, with their unprofitable baggage of historical and moral concerns, are being allowed to wither.
And Then There Are the NFTs
Don't get me wrong. "Unsupervised" is amusing enough on its own, if you look past the cloud of mystification. It's a bit like an extremely intelligent lava lamp.
But if it seems a little vacant, there is reason to suspect that MoMA is incentivized not to ask too much of it.
With his background, Anadol was well-positioned to become one of the biggest stars of the NFT art scene during the crypto boom of 2021. In fact, his "Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations—MoMA Dreams" line of NFTs based on MoMA's collection is being sold on Feral File, the NFT marketplace from the well-respected art-technologist Casey Reas (one of Anadol's former teachers at UCLA). "Ten years ago, when we asked, Can we mint machine memories and dreams in the blockchain of one of the world's most inspiring archives? I wouldn't have imagined that was possible," Anadol enthuses in MoMA Magazine. "I mean it was a very Philip K. Dick idea, but I feel like we are, right now, truly doing it." (Finally, a way for MoMA to play a part in bringing the cheerful world of Total Recall closer to reality!)
MoMA itself gets a percentage of the sales of the digital artworks—17 percent of primary sales and 5 percent of secondary. Surely showing "Unsupervised" prominently at MoMA has to be considered as a great ad for the associated line of NFTs that sends profits back to the museum (you can see the spike of trade in them that coincides with the show opening on OpenSea). The curators have been promoting the show with conversations featuring both Anadol and Reas, where they talk as much about NFTs as about the installation.
It may be that the exact same thing that makes this genre of work commercially appealing for people buying NFTs—its untroubled techno-philia—is what makes it feel flat to me as an artistic statement. The suspicion that MoMA is incentivized to fast-track this kind of art is going to linger.
Sadly, the melting of commercial and non-commercial borders strikes me as more prophetic of "what might be to come" in art than any of the images summoned up by the machine in the gallery.
"Refik Anadol: Unsupervised" is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through March 5, 2023.
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Morris Hirshfield Worked Most of His Life as a Tailor—Here Are 3 Things to Know About the Self-Taught Artist Who Was Revered by the Surrealists and Is Now a Museum Star
Today, Polish-American artist Morris Hirshfield is considered one of the most significant self-taught artists of the 20th century. But this was not always the case. The term "Outsider Art" was coined in 1972, well after Hirshfield's death in 1946, but his paintings still suffered from the critical prejudice that frequently accompanies art that is made outside of mainstream modes and contexts. In the decades since, Hirshfield's contribution as an important Modernist painter has been frequently overlooked, and his work has been relegated to the footnotes of art history.
The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York has attempted to rectify that, by mounting the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the artist's work with "Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered." The critically applauded show, on view through January 29, 2023, seeks to not only introduce Hirshfield to a contemporary audience, but also solidify his standing within the greater trajectory of Modern art and rectify years of critical neglect. And unlike the shows Hirshfield was involved in during his lifetime, this AFAM exhibition has been met with widespread acclaim by critics and audiences alike.
Installation view, "Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered." Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Born in 1872 in Poland, Hirshfield led a life largely set apart from the art world—although he dabbled in wood carving and created a sculpture for his local synagogue as a teenager. He immigrated to New York City at age 18, where he initially worked in a women's apparel factory, first as a pattern cutter before working his way up to tailor. Eventually, he left the factory and went into business with his brother, Abraham, opening a small women's coat and suit shop.
After 12 years, the shop was shuttered and Hirshfield opened "E-Z Walk Manufacturing Company" with his wife, Henriette. The most successful items produced were "boudoir slippers"—ornate, comfortable shoes meant for home wear—which greatly contributed to the company's growth. At its height, the business had more than 300 employees and it grossed roughly $1 million dollars a year. The house slippers were arguably Hirshfield's greatest business success, and 14 of his patented designs from the 1920s were meticulously recreated by artist Liz Blahd for the AFAM exhibition as an homage to this facet of the artist's life.
Celebrating this novel and intriguing exhibition, we did a deep dive into the life and work of Hirshfield and found three incredible facts about the artist to give viewers more insight into his work.
Installation view, "Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered." Photo: Eva Cruz/EveryStory. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
All of Hirshfield's paintings were made in the last seven years of his life
Morris Hirshfield, left: Angora Cat (detail) (1937–39), right: Angora Cat (1937–39). Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
With an incredibly diverse and varied body of work, it would seem to follow that Hirshfield had a long and storied artistic career, or at the very least a history of informally experimenting with painting. But he spent the majority of his professional career working in women's apparel and footwear. Forced to retire in 1935 due to failing health, Hirshfield only began to paint at the ripe age of 65. The seemingly immediate ingenuity and resourcefulness with which he approached his practice can be seen in some of his first paintings, like Angora Cat (1937–39). The support for this work was a preexisting painting that hung in Morris and Henriette's Brooklyn apartment; the lion figurine set on a decorative shelf above the cat's head is a remnant of the overlaid painting, cleverly incorporated into the new composition. The extreme detail that Hirshfield paid to every facet of his paintings, such as including repeating, intricately detailed patterns across backgrounds and costumes, indicates a rigorous pace to his artistic output. Together, Hirshfield's oeuvre of nearly 80 paintings were entirely created in the last seven years of his life—perhaps a cogent reminder that it's never too late to start something new.
Hirshfield's first major retrospective led to the
museum director's demotion
Installation view, "Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered." A recreation of part of the Museum of Modern Art, "The Paintings of Morris Hirshfield" (1943). Photo: Eva Cruz/EveryStory. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
One of the most significant (perhaps even infamous) events of Hirshfield's relatively short career as an artist was his 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York—which made him the first self-taught artist to garner such a comprehensive show at the museum. According to the press release, "The Paintings of Morris Hirshfield" featured 30 "primitive paintings" and was installed under the direction of Sidney Janis, a supporter of Hirshfield's work and an influential New York dealer and collector who was at the time a member of the museum's advisory committee. The show was a critical failure, and the press it received was overwhelming negative—with art critics collectively referring to Hirshfield as the "Master of Two Left Feet," alluding to the planar perspective the artist used in his compositions, particularly of women. Though of course there were other contributing factors, the influx of bad press caused by the exhibition led the trustees of the museum to demote director Alfred Barr—who deemed Hirshfield's Tiger (1940) an "unforgettable" modern animal painting—before the show had even closed. The exhibition at the AFAM, however, has reclaimed the moniker for Hirshfield, with the catalogue accompanying the current exhibition titled Master of Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered, written by art historian Richard Meyer.
The Surrealists loved his work
Morris Hirshfield, Girl with Pigeons (1942). Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2022 Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Despite mainstream criticism of Hirshfield's paintings, many Surrealists working in New York at the time embraced his singular style. Marcel Duchamp and André Breton were both fans of Hirshfield's intriguing and unique paintings, and Breton included Girl with Pigeons (1942) in the seminal "First Papers of Surrealism" exhibition of 1942—the first major Surrealist art show in the U.S. That same year, examples of Hirshfield's work were documented in the home of Peggy Guggenheim, in a photoshoot taken by Hermann Landshoff. In these images, Surrealist juggernauts Duchamp, Breton, Leonora Carrington, and Max Ernst (Guggenheim's husband at the time), are shown collected around and apparently transfixed by Hirshfield's Nude at the Window (Hot Night in July) (1941). In 1945, Hirshfield was asked to contribute an artwork for the cover of the October issue of View: The Modern Magazine, a periodical that advocated for avant-garde art, with an emphasis on Surrealism. Hirshfield created a new piece featuring one of his signature flattened women on a meticulously detailed blue field, surrounded by three birds and adorned in geometric flowers and a sash.
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MoMA Survived Ten Weeks of Protest. But Inside the Museum, Some Employees Are Feeling the Strain
They stood outside, chanting a desire to "burn this fucking empire down." They blocked the museum's main entrance, leaving confused tourists to amble through some alternate corridor of the institution. They hosted teach-ins that covered everything from American racism to the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. They unloaded boxes of plantains and spilled a container of red-dyed water because they believed trustees were "washing their hands with the blood of our people."
But after ten weeks of protest, the dozens of activists who sought to dismantle the hierarchies controlling the Museum of Modern Art found themselves pushing against an immovable force. One month after the campaign's end, the museum appeared outwardly unaffected by the demonstrations. Behind the scenes, however, the combination of the external pressure and shrinking staff has left signs of strain at one of the country's most prominent institutions, according to several employees.
The Strike MoMA Campaign, which ended on June 11 with a final march through Midtown, involved a number of activist organizations that called themselves the International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings. The coalition formed in response to news that the billionaire Leon Black would leave his position as the museum's chairman after widespread pressure from artists and activists over his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Black remains on the board.)
Activists rally at the Museum of Modern Art. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Demonstrations were primarily led by members of Decolonize This Place, an organization that had led a nine-week protest campaign at the Whitney Museum which ended with the resignation of the vice chairman, Warren B. Kanders, who activists said was not fit to serve as a trustee because his company, Safariland, sold law enforcement and military supplies, including tear gas.
No such concessions were given at MoMA, where Glenn Lowry, the museum's director, described the protesters as forces intending to "destroy" the beloved institution in an April email to staff.
"Do we have a lot more work to do? For sure," he wrote at the time. "Can we be an even better institution? For sure. Is the protesters' call to destroy MoMA the solution? I don't see that helping anyone."
The conflict reached its boiling point on April 30, when the museum said it was forced to shut its doors after protesters attempted to force their way inside without abiding by health and safety rules. "The protesters chose not to act safely or peacefully," a MoMA spokesperson told Midnight Publishing Group News after the confrontation. "The museum will always act to protect the health and safety of our staff and visitors."
According to the spokesperson, two guards were injured by protesters. One protester said that she was punched by a guard when trying to access the museum through an alternate entrance.
Police and Strike MoMA protesters. Photo: Zachary Small
The museum later announced that five activists would be permanently banned from the institution. Dozens of police officers and several unmarked police cars started appearing at the protests. During another demonstration in May, which centered on the plight of Palestinians, a protester was tackled by police and arrested near the museum.
Some employees would come to the museum windows and look across 53rd Street on Friday afternoons, watching as activists congregated in the nearby plaza to raise their "Strike MoMA" flag. And when the protesters were initially locked out of the museum in April, at least two staffers walked out of the museum in frustration.
It was a rare show of dissent within an institution that has largely avoided controversy or rank-breaking in a year when staff at large museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim have publicly confronted leadership on subjects like equity and diversity.
Although the protests have ended, the mood inside MoMA remains tense, according to several staff members. The pressure from external forces coincided with an unprecedented moment of strain within the institution. Last summer, Lowry said in a video conference that his institution had reduced staff by nearly 160 employees and slashed $45 million from its overall budget.
MoMA has also experienced significant departures through the COVID-19 pandemic beyond what has been previously reported on its termination of contracts with 85 freelance educators. There have been buyouts and early retirement packages offered, and all three senior deputy directors have left the museum, with Ramona Bannayan, senior deputy director of exhibitions and collections, leaving in May.
A Strike MoMA action outside the museum. Photo: Zachary Small
A MoMA spokesperson did not respond to several requests for comment for this story, although a source close to the museum board said that a communications executive had informed trustees of this article before its publication.
Low morale and widespread feelings of burnout in what has become a middle-heavy organization have left some employees questioning the decisions of MoMA leadership, according to five staff members, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Several employees said that the museum's communications strategies inside and outside of its walls had become a source of division. "There isn't space to talk about anything," one said. "Our staff meetings involve questions that are all vetted beforehand."
Another staff member estimated that nearly half the museum supported the protesters' goals while the other half objected to them. But the fact that the museum had initially told staffers in a meeting that demonstrators would be allowed inside the building, only to lock the doors, stoked feelings of distrust among the employees who spoke with Midnight Publishing Group News.
"From the outset, there was a lot of anxiety from senior leadership and trustees that a majority of staffers might stage a walkout in solidarity with Strike MoMA," said one employee. "So the museum decided to hide behind its security officers… putting staff, who are predominantly people of color, in harm's way" when protesters arrived at the front doors.
So many security guards had accepted early retirement packages that the department was excluded from a later buyout program, staffers said. Some employees speculated that the museum's decision to reduce its security detail during the pandemic resulted in a situation where personnel were overextended and understaffed for the protests.
Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage)
"It's bad enough that we don't have any shows lined up for the special exhibition space, it's that we don't even have the manpower to put them up," said another employee. "Art handlers aren't allowed overtime anymore and people in temporary positions have been termed out. The museum isn't currently trying to fill those positions."
During the final protest in June, many demonstrators interviewed by Midnight Publishing Group News said that Strike MoMA symbolized a beginning—not the end—of a larger movement aiming to hold cultural institutions accountable. Their actions, some hoped, would also expose the inequalities within the museum system—but they also served to illustrate just how large a gap remains between their goals and methods and those of traditional museum leaders.
"The abolition of slavery should be followed by the abolition of the museum, where plunder continues to be cultivated as private property," said Ariella Azoulay, a professor at Brown University who spoke to activists during an online component of the protests.
"A practice of repair," Azoulay said, echoing what some employees inside the museum told Midnight Publishing Group News, "should take over the infrastructure of the Museum of Modern Art and become its guiding principle."
This entry was posted in MPG News, Museums and tagged artnet news, Employees, Feeling, Glenn Lowry, moma, moma new york, moma staff, Museum, museum of modern art, Protest, Strain, Strike MoMA, Survived, Ten, Weeks on July 19, 2021 by melanie.
Activists' Plan to Bring a March Against Toxic Philanthropy Inside MoMA Ended in Conflicting Accounts of Violence
An organized march against the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) board ended in a heated standoff between demonstrators and security guards at the entrance to the institution last Friday, April 30. Two security guards and one protestor were reportedly injured in the incident.
The march marked the fourth in a series of 10 "Strike MoMA" demonstrations organized by a coalition of activist groups that have united under the name the International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings (IIAAF). About 40 people took part, according to the New York Times.
Accompanied by a police escort, the protestors marched through midtown New York, making stops in front of BlackRock, the investment company owned by controversial MoMA trustee Larry Fink, and the luxury residential buildings that make up "Billionaires' Row," before concluding at MoMA.
There, in a gesture against the museum's $25 entrance fee, they attempted to enter the venue, but were denied by the venue's security.
"As we arrived, MoMA was converted into a high-security fortress," the activist group said in an email. "Doors were locked from the inside by other guards. Outside guards used their bodies to obstruct the entrances. The reason we were given repeatedly is this, we quote: 'We cannot permit you to protest inside.'"
Representatives from the group told Midnight Publishing Group News that they sent MoMA director Glenn Lowry a letter a week prior, warning museum administration of their plans to enter the building. (A copy of the letter was shared with Midnight Publishing Group News.) MoMA never responded to the letter, they said.
"We anticipated a peaceful protest," a MoMA press officer told Midnight Publishing Group News, "and we were prepared to respect and accommodate the protesters' activity, so long as they respected New York State's and City's COVID-19 health and safety requirements of masking, social-distancing, and temperature screening. They refused to do so, repeatedly threatened Museum frontline staff, and said they would force their way in. Museum security personnel closed the entrance in accordance with established safety protocols because the protesters chose not to act safely or peacefully."
The representative said that two museum security officers were "seriously injured" during the altercation. One was hit with a stick and bitten, the museum alleges, while the other had to be hospitalized after being pushed into a revolving door.
"The Museum will always act to protect the health and safety of our staff and visitors," the representative added. "The actions we saw on Friday are never acceptable and will not be tolerated."
MoMA security officers blocking the door to the institution. Courtesy of Decolonize This Place via Twitter.
Hyperallergic reported that one protestor, who also worked as an educator at MoMA for eight years, said she was struck repeatedly in the face by a museum security guard. Asked by Midnight Publishing Group News about the incident, Strike MoMA wrote, "We have no additional details about any injuries sustained beyond what the media reported on."
Strike MoMA was organized in opposition to the alleged "toxic philanthropy" of the museum's trustees, including Black, who announced in March that he would not seek re-election as the museum's chairman following a public controversy over his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Citing the research of MoMA Divest, Strike MoMA's manifesto targets five museum board members—Steven Cohen, Glenn Dubin, Larry Fink, and Steven Tananbaum, in addition to Black—over their alleged "ties to war, racist prison and border enforcement systems, vulture fund exploitation, gentrification and displacement of the poor, extractivism and environmental degradation, and patriarchal forms of violence."
Six more demonstrations are scheduled, happening each Friday until June 11.
In a public statement issued by IIAAF this weekend, the group condemned "MoMA leadership's attempt to distort the nature of the confrontation at the museum."
"The supposed threat was a group of artist dissidents, acting in the spirit of creative revolt that the museum loves to celebrate on the walls of its galleries," the statement went on. "It's time to put an end to this hypocrisy. Too many in our arts communities have learned to turn a blind eye to the gruesome capture of the art world by financial high-rollers with low morals. It's not too late to stop the plunder, and remember, the fish rots from the head down."
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Home Science Agriculture
Sri Lanka abandons plan to be the world's first fully organic farming country
Opposition of farmers and an economic crisis got in the way of an ambitious plan.
in Agriculture, Environment, Environmental Issues
Leaving behind pesticides and other agrochemical agricultural inputs, often associated with soil degradation and other environmental problems, sounded like a great idea. Sri Lanka would have become the first country in the world to do so, shifting to a fully organic-based agricultural production. But as it turns out, the time was not ripe yet.
Tea production in Sri Lanka. Image credit: Flickr / Pavel Dobrovsky
On Sunday, the government abandoned its quest and lifted import bans on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, ahead of planned farmer protests in the country's capital. Ministry secretary Udith Jayasinghe told local media that the decision was taken in order to "ensure food security and because pesticides were 'urgently needed'."
When enacted, the ban was justified as a way to promote healthier agricultural practices, making farming more sustainable. "The challenge is to use modern scientific techniques and practices to enhance agricultural production without causing environmental degradation," Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said at COP26.
Nevertheless, the effort didn't last long. In October, the government loosened its import ban last month, allowing imports of potassium chloride and liquid nano nitrogen bottles from India. These are used during the rice-growing season and were in high demand. With tea and rubber, rice is one of the main agricultural exports of Sri Lanka.
Rice farmers complained that they couldn't cultivate Sri Lanka's staple because of a lack of fertilizers, with some complaining that their harvest size declined due to pests and weed attacks. The same concerns were shared by rubber and tea farms. The country's Tea Factory Owners Association even predicted massive unemployment in the sector.
The actual reasons of the move
While the government framed the transition to organic agriculture as an environmentally-friendly policy, this came at the time Sri Lanka was facing big economic problems amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The country's economy relies on tourism and foreign worker remittances, largely in decline because of the pandemic.
Amid declining foreign currency reserves, the country has been facing a borrowing crisis. In July, it repaid a billion-dollar bond in foreign currency debt, but two more payments are due in 2022 and 2023. This has made authorities try to save foreign currencies last year, even shutting down an oil refinery due to a lack of crude imports.
Nevertheless, the experience from Sri Lanka doesn't mean that a transition to organic farming is necessarily a bad idea. It's something worth exploring, but knowing in advance that it will take some time to make it happen. In fact, a survey in Sri Lanka showed farmers backed going organic, but asked for support to make the transition.
Organic farming is usually associated with environmental benefits, such as greater biodiversity and better soil quality, and also health ones – with studies finding that organic crops have more antioxidants and fewer pesticide residues. But a shift from conventional crops isn't really straightforward, as we have now seen in Sri Lanka. It remains to be seen if other countries can implement the shift with more success.
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Hi everyone. I am new to the Alvin and the Chipmunks fanon wiki and I want to say hi to everyone.
Hi there, I'm new! I found out about this wiki earlier today and I like it here already!
Mariana Munchkin is a domestic munchkin who met Gorgina Korat in California and form a group called The Cats.
Working in Japan Was hard for Mariana, she had to escape to California to follow her dream.
Thank you, if you request I will get it done A.S.A.P.-- as soon as possible.
My new years' resolution is to be neater. (Like that's gonna happen, though.) Aaaanyways, I want to know what YOUR new years' resolutions are! If you have one already, or if you're just thinking about it now, post it on my Talk Page [[[or]]] comment on this Blog Post...I'd love to hear from you!
Hey, can somebody help me or at least give me some advice on making an Alvin and the Chipmunks sitcom? Because, you know, I'm just a huge fan of AATC, and I also like sitcoms (hence my username, "SitcomLover"). Here's the theme song that's all set!
Note: Because both Parts 1 and 2 were in a Different Format I will be making and posting Updated Versions using my current format with them. Here is the Updated Part 1.
It's been 3 months since the Chipettes had come to live with Dave. Dave was starting to be unable to keep up with everything. Both Carriers had been taking so much out of him that it was barely able to have much free time to spend with his kids. After hearing that is cousin James was moving from Wisconsin to the L.A. Area, Dave had invited him over. But keeping a surprise for later for both James and the kids.
Both Simon and James ran right down into the basement to see what Jeanette and Eleanor where screaming about, and when they got there they were amazed. Both Jeanette and Eleanor were lying on the floor, in front of the Wormhole Generator, both out cold. "What happened?" Simon asked. "And why are they dressed so strangely?" "I don't know" James replied. "But we should get them over to Miss Miller's so they can recover." "Right..." There was a number flashing on the middle screen, but nether of them noticed it.
NOTE: I am trying a New writing style let me know which you like better. - The Chipette Protector.
Alvin? - How is it coming?
Alvin? - Excellent Theo. We shall begin taking over the rest of the Multi-verse as soon as the rest arive.
Alvin? - PROBLEM!?!? I TOLD YOU TOO MAKE SURE THIS IS PERFECT!!!!
Theodore? - Yea... but the Machine needs a Time Machine. and no one in this Universe has a Time Machine. or else..
Alvin? - Or else they would have tried to change the past like that Ian Hawke?
Theodore? - Yea... [droops head] how can we complete the plan now?
Brittney - You're Cusin, James Seville?
James - Hi Dave How are you?
Dave - Quite well, My Legs are almost completly healed from that Concert. So How's the move going?
James - Excellent. I'm glad to be out of Wisconsin. So these are the Chipmunks I've herd so much about.
Dave - Yep, Kids why don't you introduce yourselves?
Theodore - Hi I'm Theodore.
Alvin - and I'm Alvin. and were the Chipmunks.
Brittney - Hello, I'm Brittney and this is my sister, Eleanore.
Eleanore - Hello James, Verry good to meet you.


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Q: Remove row which contains specific delimiter with different number of columns Want to remove row which contains specific delimiter with different number of columns
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In that case I want to remove everything with delimiter ":" :
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I want remove any kind of this which contains that delimiter.
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A: try this grep line:
grep -Pv '^..(:..)+\.$' file

with your example:
kent$  echo "                                         CPU Load for sdp4

7c:e5:3b:6e:2e:5f:d9:4d:68:4d:d5:57:3a:cb:4d:45.
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A: You could try:
grep -v ":..:" yourfile

That will remove all lines that contain a pair of colons separated by any two characters - which doesn't seem to appear in the lines that you do want.

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NGC Gives Nod to Donna Weaver with Signature Label
Numismatic News Staff
A slabbed 2020 First "W" Mintmarked Jefferson nickel in NGC's Donna Weaver Signature Label. (Image courtesy NGC.)
Donna Weaver, sculptor of the Return to Monticello nickel obverse (used 2016 to present) and designer of the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coin common reverse, is signing certification labels exclusively for Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), the firm announced Feb. 19.
The NGC Donna Weaver Signature Label will complement the 2020-W proof nickel that will be included in the Mint's 2020 proof set that went on sale Feb. 27. This is the first nickel ever struck at the West Point mint and features its famous "W" mintmark on the obverse below the date.
NGC has also designed a Donna Weaver Signature Label for the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins. Weaver's dynamic depiction of a basketball passing through the net graces the reverse of these coins. Images of the label will be announced closer to the coins' April 4 release, NGC said.
Coins certified with the NGC Donna Weaver Signature Labels will be made available to the public through select retailers.
Weaver is a prolific U.S. coin designer and sculptor. From 2000 to 2006, she served as a medallic artist at the Philadelphia Mint, and her designs were selected for use on more than 30 coins and medals. From there, she became a member of the U.S. Mint's Artistic Infusion Program (AIP). As an AIP artist, she has designed more than 50 coins and medals.
Besides the newest Jefferson nickel obverse and the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame reverse, Weaver's body of work includes the 2019 American Liberty High Relief gold coin and silver medal reverse as well as the 2018 American Innovation dollar reverse. She has also designed six reverses in the America the Beautiful quarter program.
Weaver is known for her skill in the art of miniature bas-relief wax portraiture, which was particularly popular in the U.S. from the mid-18th century to the 19th century. Her technique is on display in the detail achieved in Jefferson's portrait on the 2020-W proof nickel.
"I enjoy the challenges of coin design and sculpture and working with the necessary limitations of the minting process itself," said Weaver. "It is always rewarding. Additionally, when you put it in perspective, these small works of art reach an exponentially large number of people."
"Through the signature labels program, NGC is proud to offer a personal connection to the artists who create the coins that we collect," said Mark Salzberg, NGC chairman and grading finalizer. "Donna Weaver is a prolific numismatic designer and sculptor, and we are honored to have someone of her stature autograph NGC certification labels."
Weaver joins a roster of numismatic luminaries who sign NGC certification labels. To learn more about the NGC Authentic Hand-Signed Labels program, go to NGCcoin.com/signaturelabels.
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Super Bowl 52 Patriots vs Eagles: New England's unpredictable journey
The Patriots are battle tested and built for this moment
By Mike Parham@m_parham15 Feb 4, 2018, 8:00am EST
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We have come a long way from the lofty expectations of an undefeated season that were attributed to the team at the beginning of the year. After the acquisition of Brandin Cooks and Stephon Gilmore, 19-0 was all that was on the mind of Pat's fans. Who can blame them? Coming off of the team's legendary comeback in Super Bowl LI, expectations were as high as ever as most of the roster was returning from the previous season.
Offensively, the addition of Cooks was huge for a unit that was already amongst the best in the league. Standout rookie receiver Malcolm Mitchell was back with a year under his belt to complement Tom Brady's dependable core of Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola, and Chris Hogan. All of this goes without mentioning superstar tight end Rob Gronkowski, who was returning from back surgery.
Defensively, the addition of Gilmore gave the Patriots one of the best secondaries in the NFL as experienced players like Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung, Duron Harmon, and Super Bowl XLIX hero Malcolm Butler were all back in the fold. The front seven was loaded with players like emerging star Trey Flowers, Malcolm Brown, Alan Branch, Rob Ninkovich, Kyle Van Noy, and freshly resigned star linebacker Dont'a Hightower. The Patriots even added depth by trading for Super Bowl 50 standout Kony Ealy (remember him?). Simply put, the team was stacked and primed to become just the second team in NFL history to repeat as Super Bowl champions on two separate occasions.
But this is football. Things never work out the way they are supposed to and the road to success is always under construction. The first roadblock came via Rob Ninkovich and his sudden retirement. Then reports out of training camp stated that Ealy had been struggling to make an impact on the field. His subsequent release from the team verified these reports as he was cut in late August. Fan favorite and number one receiver Julian Edelman then went down with a torn ACL during the preseason. This was a big hit to the team as he was one of the team's leaders on the field and in the locker room.
In spite of these unexpected developments, the team still had one of the best rosters in the league and fans still had high expectations as they headed into the season. But the impending struggles that the team faced blindsided everyone like that pole that Eagle's fan ran into. The team started 2-2, which included an embarrassing opening night loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
These struggles were then compounded by an injury bug that really tested New England's depth. Offensively, players like Julian Edelman and Malcolm Mitchell never saw the field. All-Pro right tackle Marcus Cannon went down for the season with an ankle injury Week 8 versus the Chargers. Chris Hogan missed seven games with a shoulder injury he suffered versus the Chargers. Defensively, Dont'a Hightower suffered a season-ending pectoral injury Week 5 versus the Falcons. Key interior linemen like Alan Branch and Malcolm Brown struggled with injuries that affected their performance.
But did we really think these setbacks were going to hold the team back? If history has taught us anything, we should have known that our 2-2 start just meant that we were going to go to the Super Bowl as two of our five championship seasons started 2-2. Yes, this roster is talented, but the challenges this team faced throughout the season are almost as important as any offseason acquisition.
Their depth was tested as unheralded players like Johnson Bademosi, Eric Lee, Cameron Fleming, and LaAdrian Waddle put forth admirable efforts in the wake of injuries. The team won games with their offense, like they did during their shootout victory over the Texans in Week 3. The team won games with their defense, like when they held the Bills to three points in Week 13. And sometimes they were able to put together dominant performances on both sides of the ball, like when they blew out the Broncos 41-16. Those challenges helped the team grow as they finished the season 13-3, winning 11 of its final 12 games.
And now, as the team gets ready to take the field today, they will be as healthy as they have been all season. They have the tools and the experience to face any challenge they may face, including the Eagles and the NFL's newest fad, the run/pass option (RPO). The RPO took the NFL by storm this year and followed other gimmicks like the wildcat and the triple option. But just like its predecessors, the RPO requires discipline, attention to detail, and sound fundamental play. I can't think of a better coach and team to face such a challenge than Belichick and the Patriots.
Having had two weeks to prepare for the RPO and Philly's high-powered offense, the defense will be able to hold its own and give the offense enough chances to shred this vulnerable Philadelphia secondary. The Eagles deserve credit for the playoff run they have been able to put together without their star quarterback Carson Wentz. But with backup quarterback Nick Foles running the show, the Eagles lack the playmaking ability at the quarterback position needed to beat the Patriots on this stage.
This team has been there and done that. They have battled injuries and faced adversities. They have struggled on both sides of the ball and they have grown as a team from the beginning of the season. So while the Patriots may not have put together the undefeated season that fans wanted, they gave us a team that grinded to the end and fought through their struggles. Today's game will be another example of that. It will not be easy. The team will struggle with Philly's strengths, which include a strong rushing game and a fierce front seven. But if this 2017 Patriots team has taught us anything, it is that they are more than ready to send the Eagle's and their dog masks back home to Philly empty handed.
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As Legal Director, Bridget supervises Immigration Equality's impact litigation and legal services program. She also directly represents clients in immigration proceedings at all levels.
Before joining Immigration Equality, Bridget was a litigator, first at Jones Day and then with Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, where her practice focused heavily on complex federal and state court litigation, appellate work and administrative proceedings. While at Jones Day, she served as co-head of the firm's pro-bono asylum program where she oversaw affirmative and defensive asylum cases and directly represented clients in a variety of immigration matters.
Most recently, Bridget served as General Counsel for Blue Man Productions, LLC, the global entertainment brand best known for the award-winning Blue Man Group show where she provided strategic and legal advice and support to all company departments and oversaw company litigation.
Bridget is a graduate of George Washington University Law School where she was the recipient of the Michael Dillon Cooley humanitarian award.


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Occupy protesters have gathered on the steps of the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles, southern California demanding an 'End to the Fed', Press TV reports.
Tuesday evening about 100 protesters, holding signs and a large banner that read "End the Fed," took turns addressing the crowd and calling for an end to the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve System (also known informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.
The group marched from the Occupy LA campsite at City Hall to the Federal Building for the peaceful rally, which is part of a nationwide protest against the twelve Federal Reserve Banks.
One protester called for Americans to take their country back from bankers.
The latest reports say city officials have offered protesters, who have been camping on the City Hall lawn for the last week, an indoor space and asked them to vacate the City Hall lawn.
In San Francisco police had arrested several protesters on Sunday during a raid to evict demonstrators from their encampment outside the Federal Reserve Bank.
Protest organizers say they are facing zero tolerance from city officials and police.
The protests are in solidarity with the Occupy movement, which emerged on September 17 when a group of demonstrators gathered in New York's financial district to protest social inequality and high-level corruption in the country.
Despite police hindrance and mass arrests, the Occupy movement has now spread to major US cities, and inspired similar pushes across the world, including those in Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal.
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Si no nosotros, ¿quién? (en alemán Wer wenn nicht wir?) es una película alemana rodada en 2010 y dirigida por Andres Veiel.

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 August Diehl: Bernward Vesper
 Lena Lauzemis: Gudrun Ensslin
 Alexander Fehling: Andreas Baader
 Thomas Thieme: Will Vesper
 Imogen Kogge: Rose Vesper
 Michael Wittenborn: Helmut Ensslin
 Susanne Lothar: Ilse Ensslin

Palmarés cinematográfico
Se exhibió en la selección oficial del Festival de Berlín 2011.

En el Festival de Cine de Sevilla 2011 recibió el Giraldillo de plata a la mejor película y premio al mejor actor.

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Patrick Verschueren est un comédien et metteur en scène de théâtre français. Il est notamment cofondateur du théâtre Ephéméride situé sur l'île du roi à Val-de-Reuil et du festival Babel Europe.

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Patrick Verschueren a joué ou dirigé notamment :
 Chute Libre de Yoland Simon (théâtre Essaïon de Paris, mai théâtral à Strasbourg) ;
 Dehors, l'extérieur n'existe pas de François Cervantès et L'Hymne de Philippe Cohen (pièces lauréates du concours de l'acte à Metz) ;
 Après Magritte de Tom Stoppard et les pierres de Calamite de Gabriel Blondé (théâtre du Chaudron) ;
 Mon assassin très cher de Jordan Plevnes (théâtre des 2 Rives) ;
 Compétition de Mora Lenoir (théâtre Paris-Plaine).

À partir de 1993, il se consacre à la réalisation d'un triptyque balkanique avec des auteurs de l'Est. Ainsi verront le jour :
 Tombeau pour Boris Davidovitch de Danilo Kis (grand prix des rencontres Charles Dullin en 1996) ;
 Peine pour  Malvina de Mirko Kovač (festival Est-Ouest) ;
 Le bonheur est une idée neuve en Europe de Jordan Plevnes (théâtre universitaire de Yale, festival d'Ohrid et de Skopje).

En 1997, il porte à la scène les Dialogues d'exilés de Bertolt Brecht (scène nationale d'Évreux). Accueilli en résidence au CDR de Haute-Normandie, il inaugure un diptyque intitulé Après la guerre dont Baal de Brecht est le . Le second volet, Europa de Gary-Kalisky, après une session de travail au CDN de Caen, a été créé au Dramski Teatar de Skopje, en Macédoine.

À nouveau accueilli en résidence au CDR de Haute-Normandie en 2003, il y crée Some Explicit Polaroïds de M. Ravenhill et participe aux différents festivals « Corps de textes » organisés par le CDR ou il engage un travail sur des textes de Jean Marie Piemme (Peep show, commerce gourmand, secrets d'alcôves et ciel et simulacre). C'est à la suite de ce travail qu'il lui passe commande d'un texte sur le mythe de Faust : Passion selon Marguerite dont la création a eu lieu en janvier 2004 au Rive Gauche dans le cadre du festival théâtre en région puis au Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles et à la Scène Nationale d'Alençon.

En 2005, il signe pour le théâtre des 2 rives la mise en scène de Cousu de fil noir d'Eric Durnez et joue sous la direction d'Alain Bézu et Patrick Sandford dans La Nuit des rois. En 2006, mise en scène d'un Dom Juan féminin d'après Molière au théâtre du Lierre. En 2007, il adapte Hôtel du Progrès d'après Octave Mirbeau à la maison des arts de Thonon-les-Bains.

En 2008, il inaugure un cycle de récit intitulé « histoires de gens de ce monde » dont le premier volet, trop haut pour le cheval de  a été créé au festival Côté Jardin puis au centre culturel canadien à Paris. En 2009, il dirige la création de La première femme de Nedim Gürsel dans le cadre de la saison de la Turquie en France, met en scène au théâtre de la ville de Skopje une version macédonienne du Dom Juan féminin et commence un chantier sur le livre de Calaferte : La Mécanique des femmes. En 2010, il met en scène Graves épouses et animaux frivoles d'Howard Barker. Ce spectacle, créé au festival Gare au théâtre à Vitry-sur-Seine, sera joué à Berlin en novembre 2010.

Parallèlement, il est responsable artistique de « place à la Poésie », une opération autour de la poésie sur l'ensemble du département de l'Eure et met en place dans son théâtre des résidences d'artistes, des cartes blanches à des écrivains européens et des résidences d'écriture.

Il enseigne également la pratique du jeu et la mise en scène à l'université d'Arras et organise le festival Babel Europe, mettant à l'honneur les collaborations entre artistes de différents pays d'Europe.

Notes et références

Metteur en scène français
Enseignant à l'université d'Artois
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)


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Devas são deuses regentes da natureza no Hinduísmo. O nome deriva da raiz sânscrita div, que significa resplandecente, brilhante, aludido à sua aparência luminosa. Como adjetivo significa algo divino, celeste, glorioso. São liderados por Indra, deus do céu e rei dos deuses.

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The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center houses the largest collection of microfilms of Jewish vital records of Poland outside of the LDS (Mormon) Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The specific films available at the Goldman Center are noted in the downloadable file on the JRI-Poland LDS (Mormon) microfilms page.
Realizing the enormous value of these records to researchers, the Goldman Center initiated a project to create extracts of the information for a number of towns in the collection. In the spirit of goodwill that characterizes the world of Jewish genealogy and family history research, the Goldman Center has shared this data with JRI-Poland. Copies of the large hand-written ledger sheets have been sent to JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OPs for data entry and information from thousands of vital records from Bedzin, Bialystok, Kraków, Tarnów, and Warsaw.
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SNAPSHOTS: It's the moment everybody's been waiting for with Logan Brown suiting up for Ottawa
Bruce Garrioch · Postmedia News | Posted: May 11, 2021, 7:46 p.m. | Updated: May 12, 2021, 6 a.m. | 5 Min Read
Ottawa Senators forward Logan Brown.
Better late than never for Logan Brown .
Fifty-five games after the NHL season got under way for the Ottawa Senators on Jan. 15 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, there will be one last Battle of Ontario Wednesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, and the 23-year-old Brown will be in the lineup for the first time this year.
With centre Colin White out with what's believed to be a neck injury he suffered Saturday in Winnipeg, Brown was called up from the club's AHL affiliate in Belleville. Forward Parker Kelly was also recalled from the Baby Sens and he'll make his NHL debut in place of winger Vitaly Abramov.
Fans have been clamouring to see Brown, the No. 11 overall selection in the 2016 NHL draft, all season but he spent much of his time with Belleville out with a back injury. General manager Pierre Dorion stated earlier in the season he would have called up Brown if he hadn't been hurt, so the club is making good on its promise.
"Logan has been a hurt a lot," coach D.J. Smith said. "We wanted to get him much earlier than this. He's been able to get back and get back to a place that allows him to play. Unfortunately, there's only one game to go, but one is better than none."
Nobody is sure what the future holds for Brown with this organization. He looks like a player that needs a change of scenery, and when he changed agents last summer the belief was he did so to try to facilitate a trade. With one goal and seven points in 12 games this season, his value on the market is minimal at best.
The key for Brown is to try to keep up at the NHL level.
"The biggest thing for him is the NHL pace," Smith said. "The stopping, starting, the grind of playing in your own zone and then getting up into the play. For a big guy, it takes a lot longer and it's unfortunate he got hurt this year or we would have seen this a lot earlier.
"It's a small sample size, and we know he has big-time ability, especially on the power play and with the puck, and he just has to prove that he's an everyday NHL player."
As for Kelly, he's being rewarded for what he has accomplished in Belleville. The 21-year-old, who went undrafted and was twice named the winner of the Jonathan Pitre Award for being the hardest working player at the club's development camp, has been solid this year for Belleville.
"Parker Kelly is purely on merit and on how he works hard every day," Smith said.
As reported last week by Postmedia, Brady Tkachuk won't be playing at the 2021 IIHF world championship this spring in Riga, Latvia.
A restricted free agent as of July 28, he told reporters Tuesday he was invited to play for Team USA along with teammate Josh Norris but won't be attending. The 21-year-old Tkachuk has a big contract negotiation ahead of him and doesn't want to take away from the focus on that while getting ready for next season.
"It's an honour to play for your country and it's always an honour to represent the people who paved the way but there's just too many obstacles this summer," Tkachuk said. "It's a big summer for a bunch of different reasons. I don't think I will be going but it's a huge honour to be asked. I take a lot of pride in playing for the U.S."
Norris said he hasn't made a decision yet but with the Americans scheduled to leave Sunday it's doubtful he'll attend.
HAPPY FOR CAP
Smith is pleased associate coach Jack Capuano will head up the U.S. entry in Riga.
Capuano is in charge of the club's blueline on the bench and has done a good job this year developing players.
"Jack brings a vast experience to me as a coach and is a really hard worker, detailed guy, that's done an exceptional job with our guys," Smith said. "Not only our young defencemen but the guys in general. He's a communicator, guys like him, he comes to work at 5 a.m.
"He's not going to short you on anything. He's super organized. He's been an NHL coach for seven years and he certainly wants to get back there and this is a real good opportunity for him with a really really young USA hockey team. He's over there to help develop them and he's good at that and I think he'll do a real good job. "
The Senators had one last chat at centre ice before the skate wrapped up Tuesday. Coming off a 6-1 loss to the Calgary Flames Sunday, they would like to finish up strong.
"We've had a good second half here and we want to make everyone proud, especially in the community," Tkachuk said. "We can hang with any team. When we play our game, it's pretty tough to stop us. We created our momentum, created a lot of good energy and off the ice it's one of the tightest teams I've ever been on and that correlated so much to being on the ice together.
"The way we've gelled from the second half to the first half, it's been a blast. We want to finish off strong, not just for ourselves individually, but collectively."
The club won't have goalie Matt Murray because he's not ready to return from his lower body injury. Instead, Filip Gustavsson will make the start.
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Come and join Ben and Small in the Big Cook Little Cook café, where there are lots of fun things to do! Packed full of games, puzzles, recipes and educational activities, this CD-ROM is full of fairy tale fun, which will keep children entertained for hours.
Games and activities are themed around favourite fairy tales; 3 Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Elves and the Shoemaker.
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Home » construction-realestate » Abu Dhabi launches $3.2bn solar power plant
Abu Dhabi has launched a $ 3.2 billion project to build the world's largest independent solar power plant, which will position the Emirate as the global capital for best economic, environmental and technological practices.
A ceremony was held on Wednesday to launch the solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, which will be built in Suweihan, Abu Dhabi, reported WAM, the official Emirates news agency.
The ceremony was attended Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, members of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, senior government officials and energy specialists.
"This project translates the vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to provide efficient alternatives for energy and to diversify the UAE economy away from dependence on oil as the main source of income," Sheikh Hazza..
The contract to build and operate the 1,177 megawatt plant was signed today by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (Adwea) and the consortium of Japan's Marubeni Corp and China's Jinko Solar Holding.
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ROTHWELL – VELVET HEART: VIDEO PREMIERE
By Hayley Smith Last updated Feb 14, 2018
Ahead of Valentine's Day tomorrow – we are lucky enough to be able to premiere the new video for Rothwell's 'Velvet Heart', following the release of her single last Friday.
Rothwell explains: "The song is about people who fall in love quickly and when they fall, they fall hard. You can give them all of the advice in the world, but when it comes to listening, they never do and end up having their little hearts trampled on."
Sounds relatable, huh?!
But who is this alt-pop sweetheart? Well, you may recognise her if you got down early enough for the support act on Justin Bieber's Purpose UK Tour. Alongside Justin Bieber, she has also caught the attention of Radio One's Annie Mac and Mista Jam! Anything good enough for the Biebs, is good enough for us.
With this heart-pumping track being produced by the brilliant Tim Powell, responsible for chart hits by Girls Aloud and Paloma Faith; we are expecting big things from this rising pop star. Keep an eye out for her soon to be announced upcoming tours and her name on lots of festival line-ups this summer!
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