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Events - Faculty of Shipping and Maritime Studies
Shipping Leaders in Residence: Lecture on Project Forward
Ιn the context of Shipping Leaders in Residence institution, Metropolitan College's Faculty of Shipping and Maritime Studies, organizes the lecture "Project Forward and the Getting to Zero Coalition" adressing to students of Shipping and Maritime studies, as well as professionals of the shipping industry.
The lecture will take place in Thursday January 16th, 19:00- 21:00, at Piraeus Campus lecture hall (110, Kolokotroni street). Metropolitan College will host Mr Antonis Trakakis, Technical Manager ARISTA Shipping.
During his speech, Mr Trakakis will present Forward Ships, a new type of vessel which enables the adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the fuel of choice for ships at a global scale. Forward Ships has applied existing and tested technology to design a cargo ship that emits up to 35% less CO2, 80% less NOx, 99% less SOx, 99% less particulate matter (PM) than conventional ships, and that can produce up to 50% savings in fuel costs. Forward Ships is the result of Project Forward, a five-year R&D effort led by Arista Shipping.
Free Entrance. Registration info: Τ: (+0030) 210 4121200 Ι Ε: dkarantanis@mitropolitiko.edu.gr
A few words about Shipping Leaders in Residence institution
Within the framework of "SHIPPING LEADERS IN RESIDENCE" institution, the School of Shipping and Maritime Studies of Metropolitan College hosts leading figures and prominent personalities of the shipping industry throughout the year, who share their long experience with the students and the general public. Hosted lectures concern a different subject each time, directly related to the shipping industry and the nautical reality, but also related to the latest developments, trends and challenges of the industry worldwide.


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Escobar, Luis Alberto, "Optimum multiple- and single-stress accelerated life tests " (1981). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 7416.


"JOY" Ministry was started with the purpose of bringing seniors together within our churches and community for fellowship and service in order to nourish the body, mind, and soul. We gather the 2nd Thursday of every month in the Fellowship Hall. Coffee and refreshments are available at 9:30 a.m. and our program begins at 10 a.m. Lunch Reservations are required. Donations accepted.
Please call the Church Office at (828)464-8422 by 12:00 noon the Monday before each meeting or email Brandy Burnette.


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Get the most out of your textbook with this helpful study tool! Corresponding to the chapters in Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology, 7th Edition, this study guide has been completely revised by the textbook author, Marilyn Winterton Edmunds, and offers a rich variety of learning resources to help you master nursing pharmacology. Worksheets in each chapter enhance your understanding of important pharmacology concepts with short answer, matching, multiple-choice, and multiple-select questions, plus math review, dosage calculation, and new crossword puzzles. New Critical Thinking activities emphasize clinical decision-making and prioritization. A focus on essential topics from the textbook includes drug interactions, allergic reactions, adverse drug responses, care of the older adult, and cultural considerations. Learning objectives are provided at the beginning of each chapter. Review sheets help you remember common measures, formulas, and difficult concepts. Blank Medication Cards allow you to fill in important drug information to take along to clinicals. Increased emphasis on critical thinking, clinical decision-making, and prioritization encourages application of knowledge with new Critical Thinking activities.
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Say, we are using default welcome controller that comes along with CodeIgniter, which includes no model, how may core plus config plus database driver files are loaded on a single page request?

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Banfield President Interviews Penn Foster Vet Tech Graduate of the Year
Posted by Des Sinkevich on October 21, 2020
As veterinary clinics continue to juggle an influx of new pet owners and increasing wellness checks from current owners, all while navigating updated covid-19 restrictions, credentialed vet techs have become more essential than ever. While the hard work of dedicated technicians has been celebrated each year during Veterinary Technician Week this year's celebration is a special one. As essential workers, veterinary technicians have been on the front lines during the pandemic, ensuring the wellness of clients' family pets.
Rounding out a week of webinars, celebration, and awareness of what it takes to be a veterinary technician, Banfield Pet Hospital President, Brian Garish, took time to chat with Keyana Beamon, a Banfield employee and Penn Foster 2020 Graduate of the Year.
On becoming a veterinary technician
With a passion for learning but a less than flexible schedule, Keyana knew that an online school could be the best fit to reach her goals while working and caring for her daughter. She began her journey by completing the Veterinary Assistant career training program and securing a position at her local Banfield clinic. Encouraging education and growth for employees is an important initiative for Banfield and, with the support and encouragement of her manager and co-workers, Keyana took the next step in her career: enrolling in the Veterinary Technician Degree Program. Since graduating from the program, she's earned a raise, has been able to take on more responsibility in the clinic, and is passionate about going even further, working her way up to leadership within Banfield, and offering the same encouragement and support she received to other techs and assistants.
On the importance of credentialed veterinary technicians
"When I have the opportunity to talk to our doctors," Garish said, "I hear all the time how important a veterinary technician is." With that in mind Banfield Pet Hospital pioneered the concept of veterinary technician appointments, allowing them to work at the top of their license, benefitting both the hospital and the clients. Through vet tech appointments, the veterinarian can concentrate on more at-risk patients while still being able to keep wellness appointments. Since the beginning of the pandemic, being able to fully utilize skilled technicians has been invaluable as clinics deal with an influx of patients, curbside drop-offs, and implementing telehealth initiatives.
Within the last week, said Garish, they've had a record number of veterinary technician appointments. "I want more," he notes, not only to benefit the business but to allow vet techs to fully realize their purpose and work together with veterinarians, assistants, and clients to create a better world for pets.
The importance of Veterinary Technician Week
With all that veterinary technicians do to support veterinarians, hospitals, and patients, a week-long celebration may seem too short. But besides showing gratitude and acknowledging the work and skill it takes to become a credentialed vet tech, Keyana says that it's important for another reason: helping others understand what a veterinary technician is and does.
"People hear 'vet tech' and sometimes don't know what that means," Keyana shared with Garish. "We wear so many hats, it's nice to let people know what we do. It's not just a job, it's a passion."
Listen to the full interview from Instagram Live here and learn more about Keyana in this episode of our Alumni Spotlight podcast.

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Image of Indian women
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Abstract: This paper focuses on the image of Indian woman is central to the study of Literature. Woman has inspired literature and has been its pivotal theme too. It is also a creator of literature and therefore a woman's presence in literature is all pervading. This is true of Indian English literature. Literature is like a vast canvas in a framework in which writers portray their characters. The purpose of this paper is to flash light on some of those images and unveil them. The paper does not claim to be exhaustive; it is selective and representative of the trends in Indian English Literature The general image of women in literature identifies the real status accorded to women in society as mother, wife, daughter, in that order in a familial setting. So far, the study of the image of women in Indian literature has been concerned itself with following the transition of a woman from the domestic fold to an individual status of holding herself responsible for her own intellectual and emotional fulfillment. In the words of Mary Ann Fergussion, "One peculiarity of the image of women "throughout history is that social stereotype has been reinforced by archetypes. The woman image is seen on a wider level in English fiction as there is scope for weaving a complex network of human relationships.
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Beaverton Central
The Rise Central Apartments and Ground Floor Retail Architectural Rendering
Beaverton Center for The Arts from Hall Street Architectural Rendering
Beaverton Center for the Arts Lobby Architectural Rendering
Beaverton Center for the Arts Architectural Rendering
Beaverton Center for The Arts Theater Architectural Rendering
Crescent Street Architectural Rendering with New Mixed Use Complex
The Beaverton Central is a compilation of development projects at the former Westgate theater property and The Round. Taking advantage of nearby light rail, the projects within the nearly 12-acre area will further city priorities and initiatives in creating a vibrant urban center—increasing the number of people living, working, and visiting the city's central core.
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Mixed-Use Development Buildings (The Rise Central)
Two Residential with ground floor commercial buildings have been developed on the Westgate theater site. Crescent Street has been extended through the site providing pedestrian and vehicular access into the development.
Hyatt Hotel
An urban designed Hyatt hotel with a destination restaurant on the ground floor is being constructed in the southeast corner of the Westgate theater site.
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
Destined to be a regional attraction, the space will host a 550-seat performance theater, traveling performances, a visual art gallery, and more. Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
Publicly Owned Parking Garage
The garage will be used to support existing and project area parking.
The mixed-use residential development includes 215 market-rate units, 15 affordable units, and approximately 6,000 square feet of commercial space. Construction was completed in spring 2019.
The city has established an agreement with Canterbury Hotel Group to move forward with a urban style hotel and restaurant. The project has land use approval from the Planning Commission and construction began in August 2019.
The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts and district public parking garage was approved by City Council on November 5, 2019 and the project broke ground on November 13, 2019.
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Beaverton Redevelopment
The Beaverton Central Creekside Redevelopment project is an early-stage development project. Many details may change as the project takes shape and evolves. The city's goal is to provide accurate, timely, and up-to-date project details. This project information will be updated as new information is available, last updated August 2019. Contact project staff for the latest information.
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Beaverton Central District Garage
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El Festival Altaveu, también conocido como el  Festival de la Música i la Cançó de Sant Boi de Llobregat, es un festival de música que se celebra anualmente el mes de septiembre en San Baudilio de Llobregat desde 1989. En 2021 celebra su trigésimo segunda edición. Actualmente, a nivel estilístico, es un festival de línea abierta y plural, donde se mezclan artistas de renombre con autores locales, así como diversos estilos musicales a la vez. El Festival está organizado por el Ayuntamiento de San Baudilio de Llobregat. La media de asistencia es de unos 13.000 espectadores por edición.

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El Festival nació el año 1989 con la voluntad de reivindicar la canción de autor hecha en Cataluña. En estos 25 años han pasado por el Festival músicos con estilos tan diferentes como la música de autor, el pop-rock, músicas tradicionales i ètnicas, el jazz, la electrónica o el flamenco.

Han pasado por sus escenarios artistas com Ovidi Montllor, Lluís Llach, Maria del Mar Bonet, Albert Pla, Raimon, Joan Manel Serrat, Pau Riba, Jaume Sisa, Roger Mas, Carlos Cano, Adrià Puntí, Sopa de Cabra, Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, Lax'n'Busto, Loquillo, Paco Ibañez, Pedro Guerra, Ruper Ordorika, Georges Moustaki, Nick Lowe, Compay Segundo, Rachid Tahá, Siniestro Total, Kiko Veneno, Jabier Muguruza, Antonio Vega, Santiago Auserón, Manolo García, Astrud, Joana Serrat, Fundación Tony Manero, Kepa Junquera, Amparanoia, Ojos de brujo, Tomatito, Duquende, Remedios Amaya, Carmen Linares, Enrique Morente, Estrella Morente, Miguel Poveda,... entre muchos otros.

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 Altaveu Emergent es una sección del Festival que combina música i nuevas tecnologías a partir de los grupos locales y comarcales, en colaboración con MusicLab de Citilab y la asociación musical Cultura F.

 Altaveu Frontera es una sección competitiva de grupos revelación del panorama musical catalán. Los ganadores del concurso actuaran en directo en el  mismo Festival.

Premios Altaveu

Al comienzo del festival se entregan los Premios Altaveu, que reconocen a los artistas, entidades, trayectorias e iniciativas que de una manera destacada han enriquecido la música producida en Cataluña durante el año anterior. El jurado de los premios está formado por músicos, periodistas y profesionales del mundo de la música, junto a la organización del Festival.

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Ninety-six new beds and an anticipated 200 new jobs are forecast at Chandler Regional Medical Center as part of a $190- million-plus expansion initiative.
The project was announced by Dignity Health/CRMC president and CEO Mark Slyter, who said the plans include renovation to the current facilities along with a new parking garage.
The expansion will bring the hospital's capacity to 494 beds, according to Slyter.
A similar project was completed five years ago, including a new patient tower and addition of a Level I trauma center.
Construction of the planned 200,000-square- foot tower will start this summer, with occupancy expected early in 2021.
Features of the new construction will include addition of a new main entrance on the first floor; a registration area and pre-op-post anesthesia unit, accompanied by around-the-clock patient rooms on the second floor; 36 intensive care rooms on the third floor; the same number of patient rooms designed for standard care on the fourth floor; and uncompleted-for-now space that can be used for future growth on the fifth floor.
A basement will provide space for a new hospital pharmacy, materials management facility and loading dock.
Along with the building construction, the project will include a five-story parking garage containing just under 250 spaces.
So far, no remodeling is yet scheduled for the hospital's Emergency Department, major expansion of which was included in a 2014 project.


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ART AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, ART AS ACTIVISM
December 28th conference Art as Spiritual Practice, Art as Activism organized by Creatrix Magazine. Part of NOUMENA: deLIGHT magic & shamanism series with an art show "Altars, Portals &Grottos".
CREATRIX Magazine invites you all to the conference
December 28, 4:30-8:30pm
Part of NOUMENA: deLIGHT December 21-30th
Magic & shamanism series curated by Jana Astanov
With an art show Altars, Portals, Grottos
Panel discussions + Q&A:
The Power of Water with Damali Abrams, Jennifer Taves, Megwyn White moderated by Jana Astanov.
Art as Spiritual Activism with Jill McDermid, Jaguar Mary X, Hector Canonge, Nilton Maltz moderated by Claire Zakiewicz.
Hector Canonge, Jaguar Mary, ASTRALOOP, Duo: Depends on the Day with Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope + Heather Morowitz.
The Park Church Co-Op
129 Russell St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G-Nassau, L- Graham
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/590481908190032/
Damali Abrams – the Glitter Priestess
Megwyn White – Embodied Technologist and Sexologist
Jennifer Taves – Costumegasm Creatrix and Purrmaid Performer
Yannanda – The One Who Speaks With The Stars
Moderated by Jana Astanov – interdisciplinary artist + astrologer
ART AS SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
Jill McDermid – director of Grace Exhibition Space, and Rosekill, a farm and an outdoors performance space
Nilton Maltz – psychoanalyst and visual artist
Jaguar Mary X – ritual performance artist and filmmaker
Hector Canonge – interdisciplinary artist and curator
Moderated by Claire Zakiewicz – interdisciplinary artist
Essay by Claire Zakiewicz
On display in the main sanctuary of the church a group show "Altars, Portals and Grottos": Katie Cercone, Agnieszka Pestka, Elena Chestnykh, Shayma Aziz, Miah Artola, Claire Zakiewicz, Maria Liebana, Janice Sloane and Kat Ryals.
curated by Jana Astanov + Shayma Aziz
on view by appointment until December 30st.
Altars, Portals & Grottos
HECTOR CANONGE
SACRIFICIO (Sacrifice)
Description: SACRIFICIO (Sacrifice) is a performance that addresses notions of the spiritual while posing questions about the nature of human forgiveness and physical detachment. Through a series of actions marked by movement, physical endurance, and symbolic visuals, interdisciplinary guest artist, Hector Canonge, will deliver his last performance of 2019. SACRIFICIO (Sacrifice) is a reflection on contemporary culture, and people's struggle to understand and connect with their inner "Self" in relation to the "Holy."
An electrometamorphic trance journey guided by Yannanda &Prone
DEPENDS ON THE DAY with Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope + Heather Morowitz wearing Jennifer Taves costumes.
Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope
Jaguar Mary
Jaguar Mary is a performance artist, glossolalia vocalist, filmmaker and hoop dancer. Her specific concerns, and the directives that have driven her art practice, engage black feminist discourse, questions of history, and recently, ritual performance and practice in art. Jaguar Mary aka Jocelyn Taylor has shown and performed internationally, at the Johannesburg and Havana Biennials, the New Museum, Museum of Modern Art, KARST Gallery in the UK and Dietch Projects in New York. In 1989, she co-founded the historic Clit Club with Julie Tolentino. Jaguar Mary has also collaborated with feminist artists Annie Sprinkle, Yvonne Rainer and Cheryl Dunye and others. Her essay, "Testimony of a Naked Woman" about being a black feminist sex-worker was included in Afrekete: An anthology of Black Lesbian Writing edited by Catherine McKinley and Joyce Delaney. Under the name Jocelyn Taylor, she was commissioned to make work for the Public Art Fund and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She's also received grants from the Jerome Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program and has an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute for the Arts. Jaguar Mary received a full scholarship from Pratt Institute and will complete an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies in May 2019. Jaguar Mary is based in the East Village, New York City and is an artist-in-residence at the Art/Life Institute in Kingston. NY until May, 2019.
Jill McDermid
Jill McDermid began making performance art in 1997 performing in galleries and international festivals around the world including Venice Performance Week Biennale and Beijing 10th Open Performance Art Festival. She holds M.A (1999) M.F.A. (2000) in Performance Art and Intermedia. Throughout her performances, she explores how American identity is rife with contradictions, while accepting that the personal is political. In 2001, she became an active member of the International Association of Performance Art Organizers. McDermid began organizing performance art events in July 2001 with 21st Suffragettes: Art + Performance by Women. McDermid is the Founder/Director/Curator of the Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art since 2006, presenting established, mid-career and emerging performance artists. McDermid divides her time between New York City and the Hudson Valley, where knowledge and questions about Nature abound.
Hector Canonge is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and cultural entrepreneur based in New York City. His work incorporates the use of new media technologies, cinematic narratives, Live Action Art, and Social Practice to explore and treat issues related to constructions of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces, his performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes. Some of his actions and carefully choreographed performances involve collaborating with other artists and interacting with audiences. His installations, interactive platforms, and performance art work have been exhibited and presented in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
As cultural entrepreneur, Canonge created and runs the annual Performance Art Festival of NYC, ITINERANT, started ARTerial Performance Lab (APLAB), a transcontinental initiative to foster collaboration among performance artists from the Americas, and directs his independent programs: PERFORMEANDO, a program that focuses on featuring Hispanic performance artists living in the United States and Europe, PERFORMAXIS, an international residency program in collaboration with galleries and art spaces in Latin America. . After living most of his life in the United States, Canonge returned to South America in 2012, and lived abroad for almost 3 years. The artist returned to New York City in late 2015 to continue with the development and execution of new projects, exhibitions, and initiatives among them: TALKaCTIVE, LiVEART.US, and CONVIVIR the international residency program at MODULO 715. In 2017, Canonge launched the performance art platform, NEXUS, premiered during Miami Art Basel, and worked in the development of LATITUDES, the International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, presented in Bolivia (2018 and 2019). He launched AUSTRAL, Performance Art Festival Buenos Aires (April 23-27) in Argentina, and directed the 2019 edition of ITINERANT Performance Art Festival NYC (May 21-25) in the United States.
Site: http://www.hectorcanonge.netEmail: hectorcanonge@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hectorcanonge
Instagram: @hectorcanonge
Nilton Maltz, M.Sc.
Nilton Maltz is a Certified Jungian Analyst. He is a graduate of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) of NY. He obtained degrees in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science. Nilton studied contemporary art studio and art history at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. He took part in many art shows and presented at Jungian conferences and talks around the world. Before going for psychoanalytic training, Nilton has worked for many years in scientific, technical and managerial positions for the high tech industry in Silicon Valley and NY.
Claire Zakiewicz
Claire Zakiewicz is a British inter-disciplinary artist and curator working across drawing, film, sound and performance. Zakiewicz's practice examines the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and drawing. It is a philosophical and practice-based enquiry -thinking through making. She says, "Our physicality is our cosmic home. Each line is drawn with attention to the body and to the drawing itself and our interactions outside of ourselves whether verbal or experiential, moment-to-moment." Zakiewicz's practice re-examines the pictorialization of space and the intimacy of exchange. Her animated films have been shown at Alive In the Universe for the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019 and at Tate Tanks and Tate Modern (London) in the exhibitions Tweet Me Up, 201 and Label, 2012. Zakiewicz has exhibited regularly throughout the UK, USA, Italy and Norway and has produced and performed in numerous productions and international institutions including Resonance FM (UK); ARTI3160 (Venice, Italy); USF (Norway); Bill Young's Dance Studio (NYC); Mothership NYC; Last Frontier NYC and Itinerant Performance Arts Festival (NYC). Zakiewicz lives and works in London, UK and New York, United States. Zakiewicz writes for the publications Creatrix Magazine, Art511 Magazine and Hypocrite Reader. www.clairezakiewicz.com
Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess is a New York City based artist, educator and reiki practitioner. Damali attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her BA from New York University.
Damali is a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts New Works grant. She has been a fellow at Culture Push, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, A.I.R. Gallery, and apexart in Seoul, South Korea. Damali has also been Artist-in-Residence at Fresh Milk in Barbados, Groundation Grenada, The Center for Book Arts, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), and LMCC on Governors Island.
Damali has presented her work at School of Visual Art (SVA), Sonoma State University, Soho House, UConn Stamford, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), Barbados Community College, New York University (NYU), SUNY Purchase, Hunter College School of Social Work, and Syracuse University's 601 Tully.
Damali's work has been exhibited at many spaces including El Museo del Barrio, MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art), Rush Arts Gallery, Longwood Gallery, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, JCAL, and The Point. Her writing has appeared on the blogs of art21, Fresh Milk, and Groundation Grenada.
Damali Abrams: damaliabramsart.com
Megwyn White is an Embodied Technologist and Sexologist currently heading the Education division within the Satisfyer, a leading Sexual Wellness Brand based in Germany. Her work has mainly focused on Sexual Wellness education which encourages sensual embodiment, self-care, and self-exploration as a means of empowering around sexual integration and pleasure. She has been a regular contributor for the Sex and Medicine Summit, has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Health.com, Elite Daily, Refinery 29, and X-Biz magazine, and and has had spoken around the world on the subject of how sensual embodiment effect health and wellness. In her free time, she can be found reading, painting, and practicing Pilates.
Jennifer Taves
Jennifer Taves is a Brazilian American purrmaid performer and Creatrix of Costumegasm costume designs. She conceives costume items for all kinds of occasions. More than just mermaid tails, playa coats, and pasties. With two degrees from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Fashion Design and Accessories along with a background in the halloween and costume industry that spans well over a decade. Her studio is an industrial machine sewing powerhouse which houses an array of sequins, glitter, fur, rainbow, and many other fabrics that will blow your mind. She pours love and sparkle into transformation performance pieces and enjoys spreading sonar purrs of love for our oceans and waterways through her art. Mermazing miracles made to order.
I am Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope! I am a force to be reckoned with. I'm a City Kitty and Jane of all trades in the arts and in life. My true passion is mewsic and helping people feel all the feels that they did not know they were capable of feeling. I play piano and sing. I am currently working on recording my songs and conceptualizing videos for them. I do modeling of all sorts; figure, nude, bodypaint, underwater, human sculpture, and cosplay. I am the assistant creatrix for Costumegasm. I do public performances and readings, I mermaid, I write, I act, I dance, I cook yummy healthy things and I scoot. I scoot everywhere. It's good for the booty. Ageless and cageless, I aspire to inspire people to live their dream life! I have turned my life into a work of art and it is quite glorious!!
Jana Astanov as Yannanda The One Who Speaks With The Stars
Jana Astanov is a multidisciplinary artist, a poet and an independent curator living in New York. Born in Poland she studied anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics in France, and arts in the UK. She is a founder of CREATRIX Magazine: www.creatrixmag.com, portal for creative expression focused on art, activism and spiritual practice. Her work includes photography, poetry, performance art, sound art, and installation. She describes her performance art practice as "mythology vs ideology" referring to her two main interests the political & economic foundations of our civilization and mythological/ religious values. In her work, she utilizes elements of hypnosis, spirituality, dance movement derived from the Grotowski technique, sound art, ritualistic theatre and astrofeminism, term she has developed through her character Yannanda The One Who Speaks With The Stars. She has started three feminist performance groups JeDeive (Self Proclaimed Goddess), Red Temple (also a publishing house) and W.I.S.E. focused on ecological emergency. Astanov encourages other women to create and write their own stories that she often includes in her performances with an aim to portray the female world. Together with her partner Niko van Egten she co-created an electronic music group ASTRALOOP featuring her poetry in dark electronic arrangements. She is also the author of five collections of poetry: Antidivine, Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox. Web: http://www.janaastanov.com/
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Well, the more I thought about it, the more I thought we shouldn't meet on Carmageddon weekend. So, how about next weekend? I think it's supposed to be cooler then, too, so it will be a good time to think fall crafts. I hope to be working on a certain lion costume!
Grab your knitting needles, crochet hooks, embroidery thread, yarn, paper, pens,pencils, anything you need to make something cool and join us Sunday, October 7th for the next Church of Craft meeting. If the weather's nice, we may head out to the outdoor patio as we did last time, so look for us there if you don't see us inside.
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There's commissions, there's sketches and there's whatever this is. A doodle? This is the sort of thing I would love to own. It's like having a study of a study from Picasso. Is it the marquee work? The stuff that gets a feature exhibit at museums? No. But it is the sort of material that rounds out a great collection and has added value to artists because it demonstrates process. This is the last step you can retrace before you enter the artist's brain. That's gotta be worth something. Check out this auction and see if it's worth the seller's minimum starting bid.
I'm going to get heavy with another set of Groo posts soon, but in the meantime I'd like to point out a sub-set of weirdo collectorism: Sergio Aragones doodles. Sure, they're sketches, but really they're doodles. The best doodles in the world. And apparently people recognize this because some of these go for a healthy bit of scratch.
I love this man. Seriously, if I hadn't already gotten my boyhood wish of being adopted by Sergeant Slaughter at age 14, Sergio Aragones would be my choice of father. Because what some people don't understand is built into the DNA of these doodles is real heart. A sentimentality that isn't contrived. He's responsible for one of the two comics that I've had to choke back tears from. Think about that. Dude draws misshapen cartoon faces and body proportions that would make a anatomist cringe. BUT HE KNOWS HUMAN ANATOMY WELL ENOUGH TO FIND MY GODDAMN HEART.


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Top US Commander Admits Russia Bounty Story in Afghanistan 'Has Not Been Proved'
September 14, 2020 By NEWS WIRE Leave a Comment
Antiwar.com reports…
Months after The New York Times reported that Russia secretly offered bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan, a top US commander says a detailed review of all available intelligence found no corroboration of the story.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of US CENTCOM, spoke with NBC News about the matter. "It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me," McKenzie said. "We continue to look for that evidence. I just haven't seen it yet."
An unnamed military intelligence official also told NBC News that after reviewing the intelligence of attacks on US forces in Afghanistan over the past several years, none had been linked to any Russian bounty payments.
2 months after top Pentagon officials vowed to get to the bottom of whether the Russian gov't bribed Taliban to kill US service members, the commander in the region says a review of the intel has not been able to corroborate the existence of such a program https://t.co/RaiUV2XtHr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 14, 2020
McKenzie's comments reflect statements made by other top military officials shortly after the Times story broke. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper took the position that the Pentagon did not have "corroborating evidence" to support the Times report back in June.
In a hearing in front of the House Armed Services Committee in July, Esper said all the defense intelligence agencies have been "unable to corroborate this report." In that same hearing, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley took the same position. Both Milley and McKenzie vowed to keep investigating the intelligence, and now, two months later, there is still no evidence to corroborate the claims.
Other intelligence agencies have strongly dissented from the claim that Russia was paying bounties to the Taliban, most notably the National Security Agency (NSA). The National Intelligence Council produced a memo in July that showed the NSA only gave "low" confidence to the Russian bounty intelligence.
Intelligence agencies use confidence levels to reflect the scope and quality of the intelligence they are assessing. There are three confidence levels, "high," "moderate," and "low." The same memo that said the NSA gave the bounty intelligence "low" confidence also revealed the CIA gave it "moderate" confidence, which still leaves plenty of room for doubt.
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Given the societal need and function of mass media and popular culture, all that is popular is fraudulent. Popularity is in almost every case an intentionally constructed fabrication of what it claims to represent. Too few who comment on the lamentable condition of today's popular hip-hop seem to grasp this, the political nature of the nation's media system, nor the political function that system serves. Hip-hop is often taken out of the existing context of political struggle, repression, or the primacy of a domestic/neo-colonialism in the service of which mass media play a (the?) leading role.
Media, often incorrectly defined by their technologies, are the primary conduits of ideology or worldview and must be seen as such. Therefore, their highly consolidated ownership and content management structure (corporate interlocking boards of directors, advertisers, stockholders, etc.) cannot be understood absent their ability to disseminate a consciousness they themselves sanction and mass produce. Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrable than in hip-hop.
Like mass media and popular culture, hip-hop too is often removed from its proper context as the cultural expression of a domestically-held internal colony otherwise known as Black America. The colonialism that prefigures its creation and subsequent popularity is too often absent from popular discussion of hip-hop and as such leads to confused analyses and a tremendous amount of inaction surrounding the issues involved. I use the term colonialism simply to draw attention to the systemic (i.e. intentional) maltreatment of a majority of those considered "citizens," and to the particular form that this maltreatment takes regarding North America's Black/African internal colony. By this I mean that the basic tenets of a colonial relationship remain intact for Black people in the United States.
That is: 1) Black people remain held in spatially distinct communities, neighborhoods, projects, etc. where they, 2) form the basis of this country's source of cheap labor and, 3) raw materials – which include cultural expression and, specifically, hip-hop. That is, held intentionally in poverty so as to create conditions of desperation, Black people must then sell their labor cheaply and/or be willing to conform themselves to the needs and will of an elite in order to "succeed." Hip-hop, like every other cultural expression generated from this community, has over the last twenty years been grafted to this structural need to systematically produce what is conducive to this system's survival. This is quite natural and understandable and would only be confusing were this not the case.
The pervasiveness of self/community-directed violence, misogyny, conspicuous consumption, product placement promotion, and general lack of ingenuity in popular hip-hop is the aforementioned specific systemic need produced systematically via its media representative, in this case, the music industry. Understood properly we would note that corporations are themselves legal entities that give sanction and anonymity to those involved in the process of protecting the ruling elite. Therefore, their ability to sign (via contract), promote, disseminate, etc. the cultural expression of the colonized allows them to determine the direction or content in most popular hip-hop.
The tremendous amount of hip-hop created that does not suit this political need, which again is primary, is simply omitted. And without this current analysis, even our brightest thinkers ignorantly suggest, as did Michael Eric Dyson recently on Paula Zahn's CNN special on the subject, that to be successful (i.e. "popular") politically conscious artists need "better beats." This precludes the continuing power struggle which necessitates both the maintenance of the Black colony, but also a specific image of that colony to be imposed on the country and world. In other words, there can be no popular representation of the colonized that does not reflect a justification or omission of their colonized status. It is the status of a neo-colony that needs changing, not the beats used by those expressing a desire for something different.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, in defense of this system, explained this reality quite clearly when writing in The Grand Chessboard (1997) that what will separate the United States as an empire from those of the past is this nation's control over "international communication and popular entertainment." Media today are more pervasive, powerful, and capable of the maintenance of colonialism than at any other time in world history. This is the result of the intentional and concomitant rise of both mass media technology and their consolidated ownership in the hands of the world's only true "minority" elite: white men. Fewer people, almost all exclusively within the same self-identified racial, class, and gendered interest group, have a greater ability today than at any other time to produce a global consciousness conducive to their interests. Hence my earlier statement about the inherent fraudulence of popular culture.
In a society where culture is used as a primary component or mechanism of social control, that which becomes "pop culture" is fraudulent in that it is forced, as Fanon has explained, to "testify against" its creators and to serve those able to determine its reach or societal penetration. Rarely is what we know of as "popular" the initial intention of the culture or individual from which that expression comes. Most often what is the final product is what is decidedly different than what its creator initially set out to make and is more than likely no longer in their own best interest.
While much of what is made popular in hip-hop glorifies the impoverished conditions out of which the cultural expression emerges, little has changed regarding those fundamental colonial conditions. In the thirty years of hip-hop's ascendance and its annual generation of billions of dollars, the fundamental relationship between that population and the greater society remains intact. Hip-hop's popularity has done nothing to improve Black America's overall wealth, education, health-care, or certainly rates of imprisonment. In fact, the popularity of hip-hop is used to deny these conditions or explain them as natural to the conditions of African America. It is not to the people that these conditions are natural but, instead, to the condition of being colonized. Popular media and, therefore, hip-hop cannot be changed prior to a societal shift (revolution) in who holds power and how that power is to be wielded.
In future columns I will detail the historical shift in hip-hop, the corporate/industrial mechanism, detailing how the final product is shaped to these political needs and offer detailed strategies and current movements/artists whose work is in assertive resistance to this neocolonial condition.


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Q: Azure Pipeline Cron Scheduler: dont SCM Poll all branches at exactly the same time My problem is as follows:
up until now I used Jenkins SCM Polling to check for changes in Production Branches twice a day - but I want to use Azure Devops (on prem 2020) to check for changes, and start a Pipeline if changes occurred, something along those lines:
schedules:
- cron: '5 13/12 * * *' # cron syntax defining a schedule in UTC time
  displayName: 'Automatic Deployment'
  branches:
    include:
      - develop
      - support
      - patch
  always: false

Jenkins had a very practical possibility to SCM Poll over a time`period:
cron: 'H H(11-14),H(20-23) * * *' would hash the branch name to have the same branch always SCM poll at the same time(s) for both builds which is practical because starting at the exactly same times presents with issues regarding my resource locking.
(Some resources would be released rather quickly so there would be no waiting if they aren't triggered synchronously)
The only possibility that I see is using Azure Pipelines Expressions due to the fact when they are being resolved.
Is there any possibility to hash some form of inputstring and map it to an array of values?
Do I have to make a feature request for AZP2020 or is there some form of workaround I could use so the develop/support/patch branches can be polled over a two or three hour period?

A: You can have a try defining multiple schedules with different scheduled times for each branch. So that develop/support/patch branches will be polled over at different time. See below example:
schedules:
- cron: '5 13/12 * * *' # cron syntax defining a schedule in UTC time
  displayName: 'Automatic Deployment'
  branches:
    include:
      - develop
  always: false

- cron: '5 15/12 * * *' # cron syntax defining a schedule in UTC time
  displayName: 'Automatic Deployment'
  branches:
    include:
      - support
  always: false

- cron: '5 17/12 * * *' # cron syntax defining a schedule in UTC time
  displayName: 'Automatic Deployment'
  branches:
    include:
      - patch
  always: false

Another workaround is to add a server job in the yaml file of support/patch branch to delay the polling of support/patch branch for a fixed time. See below:
Change the azure-pipelines.yml file in support branch like below:
# azure-pipelines.yml @ support branch

schedules:
- cron: '5 13/12 * * *' # cron syntax defining a schedule in UTC time
  displayName: 'Automatic Deployment'
  branches:
    include:
      - develop
      - support
      - patch
  always: false

jobs:
- job: severJob
  pool: server
  steps:

  - task: Delay@1
    inputs:
      delayForMinutes: '120'

- job:
  dependsOn: severJob
  pool:
    vmImage: windows-latest
  steps:
   ...
   ...

Change the delay time for patch branch:
# azure-pipelines.yml @ patch branch
schedules:
...
jobs:
- job: severJob
  pool: server
  steps:

  - task: Delay@1
    inputs:
      delayForMinutes: '240'

- job:
  dependsOn: severJob

By adding a server job to delay the execution of pipeline for support/patch branch. The develop/support/patch branches can be polled at different time.
Note: If you want to run your pipeline by only using scheduled triggers, you must disable PR and continuous integration triggers by specifying pr: none and trigger: none in your YAML file


For an alternative to the usual nibbles that is also healthful and beneficial for stomach ulcers, try Tums chewables. They're also a safe treat if your horse is overweight, laminitic, battling insulin resistance or ulcers. For these horses, the need to avoid all simple sugars and starches — like grain, which is 60+% starch — eliminates even carrots and apples from the list.
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RTF, partners form alliance to respond to S.D. emergency, strengthen sanctuaries, Oct. 2, 2016
October 2, 2016 / Featured, In The News, News
Healthy wild horses at Return to Freedom's American Wild Horse Sanctuary. Photo by Josephine Blossfeld.
Return to Freedom and three other prominent members of the wild horse and burro sanctuary community have launched a new organization to help address an immediate emergency and bolster sanctuaries over the long term.
The new Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Alliance is a coalition founded by RTF, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue, and Habitat for Horses.
Helping horses, right now
The Alliance's first mission: rally supporters to provide quality feed for wild horses at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros (ISPMB). On Sept. 29, an employee of that South Dakota sanctuary published documentation of horse neglect there. Local law enforcement is investigating the allegations.
In the meantime, the remaining 650 horses at the sanctuary badly need quality feed and hay.
Alliance members have paid for two shipments of hay, but those shipments will only provide enough feed for two days. About $55,000 is needed to feed the ISPMB sanctuary's horses for a month. Once a veterinarian assesses the horses, additional supplements and vet care needs can also be addressed.
If you would like to give a donation, please click here. Please note: 100 percent of donated funds will go toward feed and have for the horses in need at ISPMB's sanctuary.
Lifting sanctuaries, long-term
The new Alliance has been formed to provide support to wild horse and burro sanctuaries in times of need and strengthen them for the future.
Funds donated to the Alliance will go toward providing to where they are desperately needed: to provide emergency feed, create safe emergency handling equipment for wild horses, transport, or emergency veterinary care, all donations to the Alliance go directly to those life-saving needs.
The Alliance will also use its more than 60 years of combined wild horse experience to provide help with management concerns, suggestions addressing fundraising, marketing, volunteer programs, and a host of other issues that arise on a daily basis when operating a sanctuary for wild horses.
A lifetime commitment
Emergencies like the one at ISPMB draw storms of attention on social media. When horses are rescued, however, whether from a feedlot, failed adoption, abuse, or relocation from a roundup, the work of sanctuaries in just starting. Caring for horses and burros can be a commitment of more than 30 years.
Sanctuaries are a vital component to providing for the feed and care of rescued animals. They also serve the local and national community with experiential education through tours, programs and events.
While the Alliance will work to assist sanctuaries in times of crisis and by helping strengthen them for the future, RTF and the other Alliance members must continue to raise money for their own operational needs.
For RTF, that means feeding, watering and caring for its American Wild Horse Sanctuary's 379 wild horses and burros.
There are a number of ways that you can help Return to Freedom keep its promise of providing the best quality care:
Join RTF's crowdfunding campaign to build a new hay cover to replace the sanctuary's 50-year-old barn in time for winter. Placed in a fire safe zone, the sturdy metal cover will provide safer loading in slick conditions, healthier hay for horses and burros by reducing the risk of mold and enable RTF to buy hay when prices are low, stretching valued donor dollars. For more information, please click here.
Help provide a steady source of funding for the sanctuary by becoming a monthly donor. You can also sponsor a horse, give to the veterinary fund for senior and special needs horses, donate a hay bale or contribute an item from the sanctuary's wish list, and more. For information, please click here.


You can like us and follow us on Facebook, where we post information about events, animals for adoption, and news about the shelter. Facebook is the most up-to-the-minute news and information about the goings on at Bryant Animal Control & Adoption Center!
On Twitter, we are @BryantShelter, and twitter users can follow us for short tweets about animal care and events happening at the shelter.
Instagram houses cute photos and snippets about pets at the shelter, news and reminders about events about the BryantShelter.


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Typically, as a Brit based in the UK, you wouldn't necessarily expect me to have my own way of acknowledging the annual Thanksgiving tradition. But, with a fabulous team based in Chicago and a rapidly growing community of engaged clients and partners based all over the US, I am thankful. And so, on Thursday, I will be raising a glass in their honour!
As a tradition, the Thanksgiving holiday has certainly evolved over the years. Its history is rooted in being a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. These days, each and every family has their own special, unique traditions of celebrating Thanksgiving.
The majority of households across the US will be preparing a fabulous feast to enjoy together as a family. There are many ingredients that make up a great Thanksgiving meal, in fact the whole holiday experience. Both individually and collectively, everyone around the table makes an effort to ensure the day is a great success that everyone looks forward to, enjoys and is thankful for.
Having just returned from Quebec delivering my latest keynote presentation (this time to a wonderful audience of Relais & Chateaux hoteliers and restaurateurs), a moment of clarity struck me.
Fundamentally, you should want your team to enjoy coming to work. I'm not suggesting that you throw a holiday party every day (!) but, the evidence is clear and abundant. Employees that enjoy coming to work are more productive, more loyal, have less absenteeism, more focused, provide better customer service. This list goes on and on – and the impact felt is on your bottom line.
Moreover, just like your Thanksgiving meal, you can spend a lot of money purchasing the very best ingredients. However, if you don't combine them well, follow a recipe that works or show them some care and the respect they deserve, then the meal will not live up to its promise or expectations. When it comes to your business, you can spend a fortune recruiting and training the best ingredients (employees) in an increasingly competitive marketplace. But, fail to look after them properly or provide an environment in which they can be at their best, then the likelihood is that they too will not live up to their potential.
If, like me (in fact almost every business owner I know), your world runs at 100mph then every now and then, we need a reason to stop, think and take stock of everything – in fact everyone – around us.
As you walk over the threshold of your workplace today, take a moment and go back to the very root of thanksgiving – thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Do this with an 'attitude of gratitude' and you will realise just how many key ingredients you already have at your disposal within your team.
Then, simply ask yourself if you have recipe that works – or in the case of your business, a proven structure and framework that provides you with the key steps you need to follow to combine them to create a more successful outcome?
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He won that case - or rather, he threatened legal action and the other party backed off. But then the AP quotes a French communications lawyer who thinks this is silly, one Gerard Ducrey - "Without the monument, the lighting couldn't exist. Each of these slabs supported a block of limestone with an inclined top to bear a supporting shoe for the ironwork.
The ton cars each held 65 passengers. The ton cars each held 65 passengers. For those that do not heed the warning within the cease-and-desist letter, elevating those infringements to lawsuits would create an even greater public outcry as well as increased costs unjustified by the limited potential gain.
The car was pushed up from below, not pulled up from above: The item below notes that tourists posting to their own websites will not be targeted. All the elements published by this website including text, photographs, logos, trademarks This kind of link cannot be installed without the prior written agreement of the owner of this website.
Welcome to the Eiffel Tower's official website by accessing this website you unreservedly accept the statutory provisions in force and the terms set out below.
Then they found out about the good transmitting with the radio and the television. To M Eiffel the Engineer the brave builder of so gigantic and original specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu, Thomas Edison.
It seems paradoxical to me that by this addition one can decide that a monument situated in the public domain be appropriated in a privative way. Two searchlights mounted on a circular rail were used to illuminate various buildings of the exposition.
The exterior spirals upward like a snake. Then to contemplate the boundaries for when we can safely use night photos of the Eiffel Tower, we must try to discover what uses the artist finds acceptable.
Also, millions of tourists see the Eiffel Tower each year with only a small percentage having any ideas that the lighting is copyright protected. Cookies are files which are stored on your computer and which facilitate access to services offered.
A successful lawsuit allows the copyright holder profits gained from the use or damages such as lost licensing revenue. External websites may also contain hypertext links to this website. Like the original lighting, the sparkling lights are a registered trademark.
And why would something admirable in Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris? Copyright law aside, we would expect that an artist who creates such a prominent publicly displayed work would expect people to take pictures and distribute them around the web or on social media.
I would like to see someone challenge this silliness under International Copyright law. On arrival at the magnificent and atmospheric Gare du Nord station your local guide will whisk you away on an exciting panoramic tour of the city.
Eiffel made use of his apartment at the top of the tower to carry out meteorological observationsand also used the tower to perform experiments on the action of air resistance on falling bodies. Although some visitors could be expected to climb to the first level, or even the second, lifts clearly had to be the main means of ascent.
Eiffel was similarly unworried, pointing out to a journalist that it was premature to judge the effect of the tower solely on the basis of the drawings, that the Champ de Mars was distant enough from the monuments mentioned in the protest for there to be little risk of the tower overwhelming them, and putting the aesthetic argument for the tower: SNTE, the semiprivate company that manages the tower for Paris, allows the press and postcard makers to use the image for free.
At the top, there was a post office where visitors could send letters and postcards as a memento of their visit. The following are purely opinions based upon various factors, such as current use of the photos on the Internet or the costs of litigation.
Even minor commercial uses such as showing in a fine art gallery, uploading to non-rights managed stock photo sites or even as part of a book compilation is unlikely to warrant any legal action. Many countries there are building upward.
The cookies on this website can never be used to collect personal data without your express permission. Gustave Eiffel described some of the responses as vraiment curieuse "truly curious".
The tour peaks with your arrival at the trademark monument of Paris, the awe inspiring, world-famous Eiffel Tower. Completion of the second level. The company says the trademark's primary purpose is to protect the tower's image — not make megabucks.
In short it means that ninty-five percent of all the classic photos taken in Paris by famous photographers of the past would infringe on 'rights' today - infringe on so many 'rights' that the photos would be unpublishable.
Consequently apart from a fault which is committed willfully and intentionally, the website owner disclaims any liability for any harm which may result from a lack of precision or accuracy in the information which is available on this website or for any harm caused by a third party fraudulently penetrating this website or for any damage or virus which could damage your computer equipment or make it unusable following a visit to this website.
And why would something admirable in Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris? No drilling or shaping was done on site:Nov 07, · The eiffel tower is a must of Paris and the symbol of France. Uncredibly beautifful. It would be a pity to miss itK TripAdvisor reviews.
The Eiffel Tower was built in to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. Over hundred artists submitted plans, but the contract went to civil engineer Gustav Eiffel, who had already designed the structure for the Statue of Liberty.
The Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris and France throughout the world. The mere mention of its name sparks the imagination, and there are no shortage of artists and directors eager to pay tribute to the monument through films, reports, photographs, paintings, interactive works, etc.
But the Eiffel Tower is also popular and accessible. The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Welcome to the Eiffel Tower's official website by accessing this website you unreservedly accept the statutory provisions in force and the terms set out below.
The ltgov2018.com website is owned by. Hôtel Eiffel Blomet, Paris 4-star This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France/5().
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A Brain Tweak Lets Mice Abstain From Cocaine
By Jon Hamilton
Published February 13, 2017 at 11:47 AM CST
Scientists have genetically engineered mice (but not this cute one) to be resistant to the addictive effects of cocaine.
Researchers have created mice that appear impervious to the lure of cocaine.
Even after the genetically engineered animals were given the drug repeatedly, they did not appear to crave it the way typical mice do, a team reports in Nature Neuroscience.
"They didn't keep going into the room where they received the cocaine and they seemed to be just as happy exploring all around the cage," says Shernaz Bamji, a professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
"Addiction is a form of learning," Bamji says. And somehow, these mice never learned to associate the pleasurable feelings produced by cocaine with the place where they received the drug.
The result was startling because the scientists thought these mice would be especially susceptible to addiction. "We repeated the experiment several times to see if we had made a mistake," Bamji says.
The reason for the team's surprise had to do with proteins that affect learning.
The animals had been genetically engineered to produce high levels of proteins called cadherins in the brain's "reward circuit," which plays an important role in addiction. And genetic studies have suggested that people with high levels of cadherins are more susceptible to drug addiction.
Cadherins act a bit like glue, binding cells together. Usually this glue enhances learning by strengthening the connections, or synapses, between brain cells.
The reward circuit is involved in both the sensation of pleasure triggered by addictive drugs, and the craving that propels addicts to seek out these drugs.
So the researchers expected the mice with extra cadherins in the reward circuit to become instant addicts. "We thought, hey, more glue, stronger synapses, more learning, more addiction," Bamji says. "But what we actually saw was the opposite."
A close look at the brains of the mice showed why. It turned out that too much glue was actually gumming up the synapses in the reward circuit so they couldn't get stronger. As a result, the mice never learned to crave cocaine, even though it made them feel good.
The finding may help explain why certain people are susceptible to addiction, says Bamji. "Addiction is not just bad judgment, but really is more to do with our biology and our biochemistry," she says.
And the results also suggest that it may be possible someday to treat addiction by changing the way learning occurs in certain areas of the brain.
Jon Hamilton
Jon Hamilton is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk. Currently he focuses on neuroscience and health risks.
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