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That Paradise of Dampness and Silence
by Luis Enrique Padrón
The poetics of the object in the contemporary artistic praxis refer, from to the Duchampian ready-made, to the rise of New York Neo-Dadaism in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, the New Realism and its multi-discursive-operative, Art Povera, and the Trans-Vanguard of the 90's. With this tradition a new concept of sculpture is originated, supported by the installation, appropriation and manipulation of textual fragments from different sources. The search for the object and its revelation as a symbolic entity of extraordinary character constitutes a claim of reality to the virtualization of the cognitive orders and the perceived universe.
Within this tradition Cuban artist Alexis Leyva (Kcho) develops himself, and clings –as promptly as César Baldaccini adopted the car, in dramatic compressions, to allegorize the sign of the new times; or Armand Fernández subjugated a violin until amortizing it in fragments like a divine Osiris– to the gravels remaining in the sea. With them he makes a sort of assemblage of an unhealthy, shipwrecked and dying nature.
His modus operandi begins with the collection and appropriation of objects in a precarious state, mainly coming from the sea. This gesture recycles the Dadaist notion of object trouvé by linking the artist with the figure of an anthropologist who seeks, in the detritus of contemporary societies, the redemption of men. In some occasions the object constitutes a fragment, a piece, or mortar for the preparation of installations of sculptural order. A skein of ropes, boats, wood and salt are ready to found the flesh of new morphologies. Other times, organic matter is incorporated in the pure state: coal, earth, sand or resins, which combined with the oil, generate a new and renewed substance. These materials are assembled on the canvas strictly following the patterns of painting and drawing. But his leit motiv beats after every effort: always the sea.
His identification with this subject initially responds to questions of self-referential root, related to his status as a double islander –living on Isla de Pinos, south of the archipelago–, increasing the natural condition of insularity. On the other hand, it responds to the urgent need to outline a categorical image of Cuban identity. By this path, Kcho, to satisfy his sleeplessness, uses the whole nature as material, symbol and vestige. Inoculates her with a farsighted and prophetic capacity, only granted to the oracles.
With a work strongly tinged by Conceptualism, he uses indistinctly drawing, painting, installation and performance to slowly forge ideas in a slow process of evolution. All these formats are platforms for experimentation, areas of collective meditation. Little by little he abandons testing the many poetic possibilities of the thought and in the way unearths sailboats, maps, pulleys, roots: new emblems.
With a strong sculptural tinge, he fixes his installations to the ground, assure of its visual power and offers them a setting of existence close to liveliness. The sensory is the spring to which he appeals to catch the eyes of others: his allegories are essentially formalistic.
Each piece shows a monumental force, sponsored not only by the spatial dimensions that he grants them, but by the solemn tone that, in its immediacy, they acquire. These, like the useless machines of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, acquire a human dimension of colossal order: the titan's insularity.
The American conceptual artist Douglas Huebler sentenced in an interview: "The world is full of objects more or less interesting; I do not want to add any other, I prefer, simply, to affirm the existence of things in terms of time and/or space." This is an indispensable key to understanding the fruitful artistic work of Kcho, because in his shadow, recomposing the symbolic system from which our societies feed is possible.
From his hands emerge colossal and battered images surrounded by an extremely pernicious atmosphere. His objects are related to the sea as a shipwrecked, to the earth, as furious. This discursive strategy of such high indexes of expressiveness has its most direct reference in the work of José Antonio Díaz Peláez, defender of sculpture as the assemblage of materials of very fine rudeness in pure state. From the terrain of abstraction, with the aid of stone and oxidized steel, he evacuated the high levels of violence that characterized the young process of founding a Revolution. The influence of a shrewd, direct and angry Fonticiella, the author of broken wooden christs, of rotten flesh and dead sunrises also beats. But Kcho also shares the concept of terribilitá that Antonia Eiriz never knew how to develop. She also found in the raw materials the signs of the nobility and risked inoculating them with all the wrath of her silences. Kcho owes to the neo-expressionist line of our painting the origin of his universe of clay and salt.
A Greek history tells that before men inhabited Earth, this was ruled by titans, colossal figures among which were the personification of the ocean, astral fire, intelligence, sight, memory, and others. Uranus, who held power, fearing that his sons would betray him, locked them in Tartarus –the hell of the gods. But Cronus, his youngest offspring, redeemed his fellows and overthrew his father. Then, his thirst for power and terror of betrayal led him to swallow each of his children, so that his own gesture of foundational rebellion would not be repeated. But Zeus, the last of his offspring, escaped this fatal design and one day returned to overthrow his father and save his brothers from the fateful imprisonment to which they were subjected. Some sources maintain that the titans were cornered in Tartarus, while others affirm that from the greasy smoke of their burning bodies fired by the ray of Zeus, the whole humanity was born.
Kcho's pieces seem to be the fragments that such authoritarian, imposing and desperate race left behind. They are the fragments of a Tartarus that has spread gently through the earth, infesting roots, wills, youths. Kcho's pieces are the remnants of a renewed generation of titans who, at the time of founding, eternalized their power. This has become corrupted, distilling stale smells.
On the other hand, the term titan has the etymological meaning of clay. Even in mythology the evidence that this was a race of clay, dirt and dust has been recorded. Kcho seized the national coat of arms, emblem that conventionally personifies our identity as a nation, and redesigned it, now with branches, rags and earth. The appropriation and manipulation of the symbol in the first place, holds the impossibility of eclipsing the truth, in spite of all the transformation implicit in the synthesis carried out, the essence of what is taught nationally and what it represents is unalterable; and secondly, the infectious act of over-writing and symbolic manipulation that power exerts to perpetuate its time and actions. Perhaps this piece indicates the existence of other titans in conquering gesture, perhaps it denounces its marks and imprint in the present. Perhaps it's the discourse of the impossibility of Tartarus.
The truth is that such symbolic manipulation runs diametrically against the self-instituting systems put into practice by contemporary Cuban society. The shield, or more precisely, the symbol in this way recreated alludes to a state of origin in which the earth is all within reach: it designates the everlasting character of the institutions that the symbol represents. But, on the other hand, it establishes a meta-discourse in which the manipulation and saturation by excessive use of the symbols that humanity has constructed are presented as a strategy of camouflage, masking and concealment of the first truths.
The American anthropologist Clifford Geertz states: "When seen as a set of symbolic devices for controlling behavior, extrasomatic sources of information, culture provides the link between what men are intrinsically capable of becoming and what they actually, one by one, in fact become." Culture shaped us as a species and continues to form in a cycle of self-institution, he concludes. Does Kcho rescue the origin of our symbolic devices or declares his exhaustion in endless fatigue? He talks about the state of modern society with grandiloquent, almost epic tones and an ill-fated bias from which it is impossible to he can't disassociate himself. He builds symbolic and physical ruins, and outlines what we, as a people, have achieved to be.
The discourse that comes from the precariousness of the materials employed designates the rough character of a contradictory existence. This way it allegorizes the exhaustion of the freshness, youth and virility of signs, discourses and values. The use of materials and objects in which the signs of oversaturation by effective use is manifested, is also related to the need to build metaphors with the same symbolic oversaturation that accompanies political manipulation. The validity of cultural essences and institutions condensed in the symbolic devices is questioned. Finally, he builds new emblems on spoils, and inoculates them with pitiful exhaustion. That is why his morphologies are as useless as the machines of Tinguely: our identities are symbolic and bare bodies. And a pitiful nostalgia suits them, far from the cordial and solemn respect, comparable to the affection caused by forgotten things.
His symbols of death, almost in a state of agonizing hyperventilation, cling to existence, fluttering desperately, "flooding a second under the sky, above the world." This is his space of capture, the subsequent moment of flutter and the corresponding state of miraculous static, transformed into symbolic static. Dying, their authenticity defends these transvestite symbols.
Modernity at maximum expression of nationalism, the project of nation-state that since 1959 prevails in our island, idolized the machine, the industry, the idealized figure of the cruise, the plane and the car. In them faith was placed in progress. Leyva's poetics contrasts this system of values with the existence of other artifacts, as if these were the result of those. Thus denounces the tear of the utopias that lead the modern notion of society and state. After fractures and failures, idolized objects have been deprived of their blinding brilliance, showing how harmful such pious inventions can be.
But there is a sign in his work that symbolizes what our collective identity is: the boat. The journey has defined the history of this Island: first the aborigines arrived to our coasts by means of the inter-island migration; then the conquerors, with their round trips; Western modernity and its clearest lights, the bourgeoisie in its retreat before the revolutionary triumph in January 1959, the children of the operation Peter Pan, the rafters in their many waves. This insula is defined in the flow, the journey, the dilation. Not infrequently Kcho flirts with the silhouette of our archipelago and the morphology of a boat. He places oars, like strong legs, on everyday objects and inoculates our race with the sign of flight. Perhaps he aims to build monuments that, thousands of years later, can attest, before the men of the future, the lineage of this town. As Aureliano Buendía, the founder of the legendary Macondo, did when he set out on his last voyage in search of land. In One Hundred Years of Solitude a passage describes the act of discovery that we experienced before a piece of Kcho:
The ground became soft and wet, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation became more and more insidious and the cries of the birds became more and more distant (…) The men of the expedition were overwhelmed by their earliest memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, prior to original sin. Sleepwalkers advanced through a universe of sorrow, lit only by a faint reverberation of luminous insects and their lungs worn out by a suffocating odor of blood. They could not return (…) It was a dense night without stars, but darkness was impregnated by a new and clean air (…) When they woke up (…) they were amazed with fascination. In front of them, surrounded by ferns and palm trees, white and dusty in the silent morning light, was a huge Spanish galleon (…) The whole structure seemed to occupy an area of its own, a space of solitude and oblivion, closed to the vices of time and the customs of the birds. In the interior, which the expeditionaries explored with a stealth fervor, there was nothing but a tight forest of flowers.1
With an operating mode that drinks of the canonized creative strategies within the contemporary art, Kcho alters universe of what's his and translates to the world the clearest signs of our national identity. He is impatient with conventions, official speeches, manipulative gestures, and cultural devices. He hits them, exposing some of their traps; dethrones them and restores symbols. He appropriates the carpenterian real-maravilloso (real-wondrous) and places it as matrix, sap and suffocating odor of blood in the lungs, and interweaves a new cartography for these magnificent latitudes, aware that "the essential is not to lose orientation."
1. Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (Madrid: El Mundo, 1999), 18-19.
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Recently, dozens of middle and high school students from California's Bay Area visited Stanford University to learn about engineering concepts through hands-on classes.
Dubbed See Mechanical Engineering (SeeME) and in its second year, the event also aims to expose young students to diverse role models — Stanford's graduate engineering students — in STEM fields. In fact, it was a pair of graduate students who launched the program. Ohi Dibua and Zach del Rosario, both of whom are studying mechanical engineering, started the event after a similar one-day program led by Stanford Professor Gianluca Iaccarino in 2016. Iaccarino's program was for students from one middle school class, but Dibua and del Rosario scaled it up to include students from several classes in middle and high school.
Dibua had previous experience with a similar program as an undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh. "I enjoy engaging in the community, and I want to keep doing that throughout my career," said Dibua, in a prepared statement. "Kids are more fun than adults."
Sadaf Sobhani, another mechanical engineering student, served as the program director for SeeME this year after being an instructor last year.
"We're a diverse set of teachers, and that motivates us. We all wish we had this when we were in high school," Sobhani said, in a news release. "I feel I have a responsibility to help inspire interest in STEM learning, especially in groups underrepresented in this field."
A team of 20 students ran the program, from recruiting the middle and high school students to creating and teaching the classes and even providing transportation to the Stanford campus.
Six classes were offered, with each attending student able to attend two. Classes covered bird flight biomechanics, desalination, cardiovascular flow, ocean mixing, vehicle dynamics and computational mathematics.
"I came here believing that engineering was only about cars, motors and machinery. I discovered that engineering could be used in anything," said one student in a review.
The Stanford students plan to continue with the program for a third year in 2019. "Our goal is to inspire students and get them excited about engineering, and we all have a strong passion for that," said Sobhani in a news release.


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how to do a mercy kill squirrel
Many home gardeners plant strawberries and tomatoes in order to kill squirrels in their gardens. But that won't always work. You might also try poison bait or live traps. Then, if all else fails, you can use a glue board to hold a poison in the squirrel's mouth and squeeze. You can even kill the squirrel by using tweezers. Just remember that a tweezer may push the infection into your bloodstream.
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Humane ways to kill a squirrel
Millions of home gardeners grow their own food to feed hungry squirrels. While you plant your fruit and vegetables, the squirrels will come and eat them, while you plant your flower beds and decorate the lawn with flowers. Squirrels also eat expensive bulbs before they sprout, which will make the plants look ugly and unattractive. But don't panic! There are a few ways to get rid of squirrels without killing them.
One method is to use repellant sprays, both commercially available and homemade. You can spray peppermint oil or a mixture of food-safe chili peppers onto your plants. This works because the peppers are natural squirrel repellents. Another option is to place scarecrows near the veggie patches. Remember, these decoys must be moved regularly, so you must move them frequently. You can also try spraying predator urine to ward off squirrels.
If you're unable to capture a squirrel using a snap trap, consider using a glue board. This lethal trap requires bait and snaps shut when the animal enters. It's the perfect solution for squirrel control when you have a curious pet or children who like to investigate critters in your yard. However, it's important to note that this method can be cruel to the animals if you are using it in an environment with pets, children, and non-target wildlife.
If you use a live trap to capture a squirrel, be sure to follow the instructions carefully. First, set up the trap and anchor it to a strong object. Then, place a heavy object on top of the trap to discourage the squirrel from stealing the bait. Make sure to cover the trap well so it can work properly. Once set, check the trap every 24 hours and move it if it has not sprung.
One of the most dangerous things about poisoning squirrels is that you never know what happens after they consume the antifreeze or the poison. Even if you catch the animal, it may still be peeing and causing havoc in your yard. Fortunately, there are ways to mercy kill a squirrel without harming it. Here are a few tips. Keep reading for safe squirrel control. We hope this article helps you get rid of the squirrels in your yard.
A squirrel-killing poison is made to last for weeks. This particular poison is usually purchased in 9-lb buckets, and is composed of peanut butter-tasting chunks. A squirrel or rodent will happily munch down on these blocks, and it may take a couple of weeks before the poison kills it completely. The squirrels will keep coming back for more doses of the bait, but it will become lethal over a period of time.
Glue boards, which are sticky boards with bait attached to them, are a popular method of capturing and killing rodents. They are not meant to kill the animals immediately, and the average life span of a rat is 2.6 minutes. The animals stuck to the glue board continue to suffer for up to five days. Therefore, if you catch a squirrel, you should act immediately to contain the animal and get it to a veterinarian.
If you want to use the glue board method, make sure to use a heavy-duty glueboard. Otherwise, the squirrel may get out and chew off a leg. You can also use a snap trap, but make sure that it is rat-sized. In addition, don't use a glueboard that contains food, as the food source for the animal can easily be removed once trapped.
Squirrels are a nuisance and can also be a health hazard, so it's imperative to kill them in the most humane manner possible. There are many methods you can use to kill a squirrel, including asphyxiation, which is a form of death by deprivation of oxygen. CO gas can be applied to the squirrel's body for up to an hour and will usually kill the animal if there is no heartbeat. Other methods include dropping a heavy object on its head, which also works effectively to kill a rodent.
Another method is to shoot a squirrel with a gun. This method is most effective for small populations, where the population of squirrels is low. Moreover, a squirrel tends to become gun shy after a while, so be sure to practice with a harmless firearm before trying it. Another humane way to kill a squirrel is to use a baited live-cage trap, which can be euthanized with a Co2 chamber or injected with a poison. In either case, the rodent will die quickly without suffering. If you decide to trap a squirrel, you can transport it to another location miles away and release it into the wild.
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Father's girlfriend charged with murder in starvation death of Newburgh boy, 7
Peter Cuacuas (Photo via Mid-Hudson News Network)
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PUBLISHED: October 8, 2021 at 6:04 p.m. | UPDATED: October 8, 2021 at 6:13 p.m.
GOSHEN, N.Y. — A 39-year-old Newburgh woman has been charged with murder in connection with the starvation death of her boyfriend's 7-year-old son, and the father has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, authorities announced Friday.
Peter Cuacuas weighed only 37 pounds when he was brought to Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh shortly before 8 a.m. on Feb. 10, 2021, and he was pronounced dead a short time later, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office and city of Newburgh Police Department.
An autopsy conducted by the Orange County medical examiner concluded Peter died of malnutrition, authorities said.
Authorities said Peter would stay at Leticia Bravo's apartment on William Street in Newburgh every day except Saturday, when both the boy and Bravo would stay at the Newburgh apartment of the boy's father, Arturo Cuacuas.
The DA's office and Newburgh police allege Bravo, who had experience as a child-care worker, kept Peter locked and hidden in a bedroom, and they said he never signed on for remote schooling in the last month or so of his life despite several conversations between Bravo and Peter's teachers and other school representatives.
Bravo faces up to 25 years to life in state prison if convicted of second-degree murder. She was charged Friday and jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail. She also faces two counts of manslaughter.
The criminally negligent homicide charge leveled against Arturo Cuacuas on Thursday is less serious than murder and manslaughter.
"It is unthinkable that someone would accept the responsibility of caring for a child and then deny that child the basic necessities of life," Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler said in a statement.
Newburgh Police Commissioner Jose A. Gomerez called Peter's death "a devastating case for our entire community, who I know were frustrated over the past eight months with no arrest being made."
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"I'm ready for the times to get better," sang Crystal Gayle. So is the business aviation industry.
It has been two years since the U.S. economy began its slide into recession, with business aviation close behind. And if the times are getting better, and there are some signs they are, they're improving slowly, and in fits and starts. Now in the summer months, traditionally slow months for the industry, what had seemed like a recovery appears to have stalled.
"Those people who sat out 2009 were stepping up in early 2010," said Janine Iannarelli, founder and president of Houston-based aircraft broker Par Avion. Iannarelli, who has been in the business for more than 25 years, described today's aircraft buyers as people who had flown on private jets and came to the realization that this was an unprecedented opportunity to fulfill a long-held dream of owning one. "And they were primarily cash buyers. A lot of the people we're still dealing with are cash buyers," she said.
Not that credit isn't available, she explained, "But it will never be as loose as it was during the IT [Internet technology] boom and the peak around 2005.
But credit remains a factor in the decision to buy, she said, noting that if a company needs credit to keep the business running, or a line of credit to buy raw goods and keep good employees working, it will do that rather than invest in a business jet.
JPMorgan Research in its July 2010 report noted that used jet inventories had declined again, and the airplanes that were selling were primarily heavy and medium jets.
While noting that business jet operations saw another first-half 2010 double-digit increase from the previous depressed levels, the report said that any recovery has lost some of its strength recently, with flight operations falling sequentially for two consecutive months.
Also indicative of a stalled market, a Wichita State University survey shows that Wichita aviation executives who responded do not expect employment to surpass 2008 levels until 2015.
The university's Center for Economic Development and Business Research said 60 percent of those responding believe the recession trough will not appear until after the next year's first quarter. The study cited dropping employment and income nationwide as factors smothering demand, in addition to economic uncertainty and tight credit.
Last year Bombardier Aerospace executives referred to the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (Ebace) as "the cancellation show," noting that customers would come in, but primarily to renegotiate contract terms, cancel, defer or restructure the deal. At Ebace 2010, according to president and COO Guy Hachey, activity was far more positive and an indicator that the market is stabilizing.
In Brazil, one of the so-called bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), where business aviation growth seems assured in both the near and long term, the discovery of deepwater offshore oil has helped spur the economy and business aviation.
Embraer released its second-quarter numbers last month, and while the value of the firm order backlog (commercial and executive aircraft) dropped 5 percent to $15.2 billion this year from $16 billion last year, deliveries of executive jets jumped from 19 in the first quarter to 40 in the second quarter.
Several months ago, when the Greek economy hit the skids and it appeared Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal might be close behind, there were analysts who wondered what a rising dollar might do to the European market, which had been strong and had provided considerable support to the business aviation industry in the U.S. Now the European Union seems to be on the mend.
Most recently, business aviation industry growth has appeared to be in a holding pattern. But Iannarelli points out that the summer months are traditionally slow, even in the best of times.
Helping drive growth into this fall, Foley predicts, is the Europeans' sorting out their economic troubles and the recovery in the rest of the world, which is happening faster than in the U.S.
"Europe and the markets will adjust themselves–they always do–at which point the recovery can resume in synch," he concluded.


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Peter Jason
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Peter Edward Ostling[1]
(1944-07-22) July 22, 1944 (age 74)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Eileen Jason (m. 1979)
Peter Edward Ostling (born July 22, 1944), known professionally as Peter Jason, is an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the HBO drama series Deadwood.[2]
Jason has appeared in twelve Walter Hill films, seven John Carpenter films, and over 100 commercials and plays. He played the voice of Dizzy Wallin in Gears of War 2 and its sequel Gears of War 3. He is also credited for voicing Sergeant Dornan in Fallout 2.[3]
Jason appeared in the Eddie Murphy film 48 Hrs. as the Cowboy Bartender. Murphy's character harasses him at the bar Torchy's. In 1990 Jason played Henry Beechwood in the horror-comedy Arachnophobia, the first film released by Hollywood Pictures and directed by Frank Marshall.
Born in Hollywood, Jason grew up in Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High and Newport Harbor High School. After graduating, he attended Orange Coast College and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University.
Main article: Peter Jason filmography
Voisin, Scott, Character Kings: Hollywood's Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59393-342-5
^ According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com
^ "Deadwood - Con Stapleton". HBO. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
^ "Fallout 2 details". Metacritic.com.
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Give Me a Break or Gimme a Break may refer to:

Television
Gimme a Break!, a 1980s American sitcom
Gimme a Break (game show), a 2009 British children's game show
"Give Me a Break", a regular feature with John Stossel on the American television news magazine 20/20

Music
Give Me a Break, an album by The Ritchie Family, or the title song, 1980
Gimme a Break, an EP by Resin Dogs, 2000
"Gimme a Break", a song by Raven from Nothing Exceeds Like Excess, 1988

Other uses
Gimme a Break, a 1985 Bally Sente arcade video game
"Gimme a Break", an advertising jingle for Kit Kat candy bars

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"Celebration Generation" is a song by German DJ WestBam. It was released in December 1993 as the lead single from the album, Bam Bam Bam.

Track listing
 "Celebration Generation" (Westbam Remix) - 5:26
 "Celebration Generation" (Ravers Nature Remix) - 5:46
 "Celebration Generation" (RMB Remix) - 6:22

Chart performance

References

1994 singles
1994 songs


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Swimming classes are extremely beneficial for people of all types and ages. They serve great benefits, but the most essential among them is that it inculcates a healthy habit which is going to keep you fit and active throughout your life. Anything which makes you lead a healthy lifestyle must be picked up and these swim classes are definitely one of them.
However, swim classes are of no use if the instructor is worthless. The efficiency of a swim class is directly proportional to the efficiency and knowledge of the trainer. Hence it is extremely important to select one with proper care and research.
If you are an inhabitant of Singapore you will have to check out whether the instructor which you appoint is legit or not. Just like in every city, there are many swimming instructors in Singapore who fake about their legitimacy. But it is under them that some minor accidents take place. The reason being that they are not sure of what they doing as their training is not that efficient! So when you are looking for some swimming instructors in Singapore make sure you check their legitimacy and also inquire whether they have knowledge about this.
Ask from your friends about a place where good swimming classes in Singapore as well as some trainers to appoint. This will give you a first-hand experience. You can also some local swimming lessons Singapore and find out yourself by interacting with the management staff as well as speaking personally with some of their existing trainers.
When you have visited the local swimming lessons Singapore agency and have interacted with some of their trainers, the most important thing to do is ask questions straight. You should have no doubts in your mind and the trainer should be able to clear all your worries by their knowledge level and also their behavior. The instructor should be able to win you over with his knowledge about the matter rather than just words.
Also, these instructors should not shy away from showing off their certificates and legitimacy. And if you find some hesitancy, then ask the swimming lessons Singapore agency. If the instructor still hesitates, then move over to the next one.
One clear indication about an efficient trainer is that they will rarely have time to talk or discuss stuff with you. They will always be monitoring his students and the fact that they are so good is why they are so busy in the first place. If you find one such instructor, wait for the classes to finish and then approach them for a conversation.
If you want to get hold of good instructors in Singapore, you will also have to ask the instructor about how long their sessions are going to be and also they should be able to estimate a ballpark about exactly how long it is going to take you to become a master.
Though there are plenty of swimming classes in Singapore, not all trainers are adept in their profession. So you will have to visit their swimming classes in Singapore in particular to find out.


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Q: Get multiple return values from numba vectorize I am wondering if it is possible to get multiple return values from a function compiled with numba.vectorize.
I am using the vectorize decorator for a function that takes in a series of arguments, and performs and iterative root finding routine and then returns the solution.  The vectorize functions works perfectly because all of the arguments and the returned result are all the same dimension.  The problem is, the solution doesn't always converge.  I'd like to return a True/False array that tells me whether the solution has converged or not.
I realize this can be achieved with guvectorize, but the scalar syntax of vectorize is nice, and since all of my arrays are the same dimension, it seems silly to need to bring in guvectorize.  Does anyone know if its possible to return 2 or more arrays from a numba.vectorize compiled function?

A: The quick answer is of course... No.
From the numba docs:

While numba.vectorize() will produce a simple ufunc whose core
  functionality (the function you are decorating) operates on scalar
  operands and returns a scalar value...

However, if the interest is in creating a compiled function that will handle computations in a vectorized manner but return multiple values, this is still possible with guvectorize.  In the below example, a function signature is defined with only one dimension in the signature, but it will happily operate on the entire array if it is multidimensional.
I know I said in the question, "I know I can do this with guvectorize" but I did not actually understand this fact that the function would work on an array of unspecified dimensions, essentially as a flattened array. I thought you needed to specify the dimensions exactly, and I haven't yet seen this behavior documented (though it might be).
from numba import guvectorize, float64
import numpy as np

ones = np.ones((3, 3))
twos = ones * 2

@guvectorize(
    [(float64[:], float64[:], float64[:], float64[:])],
    "(n),(n)->(n),(n)",
    nopython=True)
def add_guvectorize(a, b, c, d):
    for i in range(len(a)):
        c[i] = a[i] + b[i]
        d[i] = a[i] + c[i]
threes, fours = add_guvectorize(ones, twos)
print(threes)
print(fours)

prints:
[[3. 3. 3.]
 [3. 3. 3.]
 [3. 3. 3.]]
[[4. 4. 4.]
 [4. 4. 4.]
 [4. 4. 4.]]

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Q: React-select Async fetch I'm using react and react-select and trying getting options from the api. Everything work on me but I want to show loading text into react-select while data coming from the api.
Here is my react-select component:
<Select
    onChange={this.getSelectedOption}
    onFocus={this.getData}
    options={options}
    value={selectedOption}
    styles={customStyles}
    placeholder="Select...."
/>

and here in onFocus I make api call via redux action and set the state with response which coming from redux reducer.
  getAvailableDisplays() {
    this.props.getData(); /// redux action dispatch
    if (this.props.data.items) {
   this.setState({ this.state.options: this.props.data.items }); }
  }

With this way everything work but while request finish there is text no options..
I saw here something https://react-select.com/async but I can't understand where make api call.
Or how can I just write loading in select while api call finished and state filled

A: You have a few options here for loading options asynchronously from an HTTP request.
Just a note: if you need your options in the Redux store, you can get your options in your component using Redux mapStateToProps, no need to set them in component state. If you don't need them in the store, using a Redux action and reducer is unnecessary since you can just execute your HTTP/axios request directly from your component and set the result in your component state. Examples provided assuming you want to do this using redux.
Check out this sandbox for working examples of the below components (wrapper simulating Redux actions and mapStateToProps): https://codesandbox.io/s/trusting-golick-wx991?file=/src/Selects.js
If you are set on loading on focus, using AsyncSelect won't help you since it only provides builtin options to load on render or on input change. If you want to show the loading message in the dropdown, you can do so by setting the options to default to a single option with the loading message in the label and disabling the dropdown depending on loading state. You can also use loading state to set the loading message in the input box, instead of/in addition to in the dropdown, if desired:

const MySelect = props => {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const [hasLoaded, setHasLoaded] = useState(false);

  const handleFocus = () => {
    if (!props.options && !hasLoaded) {
      setLoading(true);
      setHasLoaded(true);
      return props.getData().then(() => setLoading(false));
    }
  };

  return (
    <Select
      onFocus={handleFocus}
      options={props.options || [{ value: 0, label: "Loading..." }]}
      placeholder={loading ? "Loading options..." : "Select...."}
      isDisabled={loading}
    />
  );
};
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>

However, if you aren't actually set on loading the options on focus, AsyncSelect will let you very easily load the options either when the component renders or when the input is changed (typing in the select box), and by default it will show "Loading..." text in the dropdown if it's open while options are still loading:

const MyAsyncSelect = props => {
  return (
    <AsyncSelect
      loadOptions={props.getAsyncData} // function that executes HTTP request and returns array of options
      placeholder={"Select...."}
      defaultOptions // load on render
      // defaultOptions={[id: 0, label: "Loading..."]} // uncomment this and comment out the line above to load on input change
    />
  );
};
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>

If you want the loading message in the input box as well as/instead of the dropdown for AsyncSelect, you can accomplish this using loading state as well:

const MyAsyncSelectLoading = props => {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

  const getData = () => {
    return props.getAsyncData().then(result => {
      setLoading(false);
      return result;
    });
  };

  return (<AsyncSelect
    loadOptions = {getData}
    placeholder = {loading ? "Loading data" : "Select...."}
    defaultOptions
    // isDisabled={loading} // uncomment this to disable dropdown until options loaded
  />);
};
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>

Also - the above getAvailableDisplays function wouldn't work, because you're calling asynchronous getData, then checking this.props.data.items before the asynchronous action has had time to complete.


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What is cervical cancer
Are there test for early detection?
Staging and Treatment
What is cervical cancer?
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Indian women (As per Globocan 2018).
Cervical cancer is a preventable disease as it has a well defined, long pre-malignant phase which can be detected by regular screening tests and follow up. Unfortunately, most women in India are not aware about the screening.
What is Cervix?
The cervix is the lower part of the womb also known as uterine cervix. The cervix connects the body of the uterus to the vagina(birth canal). The part of the cervix closest to the body of the uterus is called the endocervix. The part next to the vagina is the ectocervix. The cervix is about 2-3 cms in length.
Burden of the disease
More women in India die from cervical cancer than in any other country.
New cases of cervical cancer detected in India: 96,922 every year [1].
Deaths due to cervical cancer in India: 60,078/year [2].
Persistent infection of the cervix with Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Having many sexual partners
Husband having multiple sexual partners
Having first sexual intercourse at a young age
Giving birth to many children
Having other diseases which lower immunity such as HIV/AIDS, immunosuppressive drugs, transplant etc.
The presence of these risk factors does not imply that you will definitely acquire cancer. However, if you have one or more of these risk factors, it is advisable to consult your doctor.
How can it be prevented
(I) Primary Prevention: It is designed to prevent the disease from occurring in the first place.
Adopt safe sex practices (avoid multiple sexual partners).
Use of male condoms as barrier contraceptives to reduce the risk of HPV infection.
Timely treatment of reproductive tract infections.
There is evidence that circumcision for men may reduce the incidence of infection among sexual partners.
HPV vaccination: Prophylactic vaccines for cervical cancer target HPV 16 and 18, the most common oncogenic types of HPV responsible for cervical cancer. HPV vaccination is not effective against all oncogenic HPV types. Currently two vaccines, licensed globally are available in India; a quadrivalent vaccine (against HPV genotypes 6, 11, 16, 18) and a bivalent vaccine (against HPV genotypes 16, 18). The vaccine dose is 0.5 ml given intramuscularly, either in the deltoid muscle or in the antero-lateral thigh. It is available as a sterile suspension for injection in a single-dose vial or a prefilled syringe. The recommended age for initiation of vaccination is 9–14 years. Catch-up vaccination is permitted up to the age of 26 years.
Females who have not been exposed to the HPV infection are likely to benefit more from the vaccine.
Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) recommendations on HPV vaccination[4]:
Only 2 doses of either of the two HPV vaccines for girls aged 9-14 years: doses at interval of 6 months
For girls 15 years and older, and those with HIV/AIDS on chemotherapy or after organ transplant: dose at 0, 1-2 and 6 months.
Vaccine does not guarantee complete protection against cervical cancer. Cervical screening is still important.
Research is ongoing to look into the duration of protection on that vaccine provides
Duration of protection of vaccine: currently unclear. Research is ongoing to look into.
VACCINATION IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING
Currently, there are no guidelines on HPV vaccination in India.
(II) Secondary Prevention: Secondary prevention aims at detecting the disease in its early stages (pre-cancers) through screening and to prevent its progression.
Screening tests are done in apparently healthy women to diagnose changes in the cervix which are pre-cancerous and could develop into cervical cancer in future. If the abnormal tissue or cells are removed, the disease can be prevented from progressing to cancer [5]. Available screening tests for cervical cancer include Pap smear test, VIA (visual inspection with acetic acid), VILI (visual inspection with Lugol's iodine) and HPV DNA test.
Abnormal vaginal bleeding: Bleeding and spotting between periods, unusually longer or heavier periods, bleeding after menopause
Unusual or excessive vaginal discharge with foul smell
Vaginal bleeding after having sexual intercourse
Pain in the lower abdomen or pelvic pain
Pain during sexual intercourse
The presence of these signs and symptoms does not imply that you are suffering from cancer. However, if you have one or more of these, it is advisable to consult your doctor.
The Pap smear is a simple test that is done to collect a few cells from the cervix and help to diagnose precancerous and cancerous conditions of the cervix. It also aids in diagnosing infections of the lower reproductive tract.
Who should get the Pap test done?
As per the International recommendations, women above the age of 21 years can get the pap test.
If you are 30 years and above Pap test should be done once in every 3 years till you turn 65 years of age. If this test is combined with HPV test, then the test may be repeated every 5 years.
Women who do not routinely require Pap test
Women aged less than 21 years and above 65 years
Women who had their womb removed for non-cancerous conditions
What is the right time for a Pap test?
The Pap test yields optimum results if scheduled between 10 to 20 days from the first day of menstrual period. The woman should not be menstruating at the time of test.
Preparation for Pap smear
You should avoid the following for 48 hours before the Pap test:
Douching of vagina
Vaginal medications
Vaginal contraceptives like creams/ jellies
An instrument called a speculum is gently introduced into the vagina to visualize the cervix. There may be some discomfort or cramping during the procedure, but it is usually not painful.
A small wooden stick or spatula is used to gently scrape the surface of the lower part of the cervix to pick up cells.
A special brush, called a cytobrush is used to obtain cells from the inner part of the cervix.
The cells are placed on a glass slide, immediately fixed in ethanol and sent to laboratory for further processing and interpretation.
Results of Pap test
A Pap test result may be reported as normal or abnormal.
Normal Pap test
If the test report is normal, this means no abnormal or cancerous cells have been found in the smear taken.
Abnormal Pap tests
Abnormal Pap test results do not mean that the woman has cancer. If results of the Pap test are unclear or show a mild abnormality in the cells of the cervix, your doctor may repeat the Pap test in 6 weeks, in 6 months or a year, or run more tests. Treating abnormal cells that don't go away on their own can prevent almost all cases of cervical cancer. Treatment of this abnormality is often done in an out-patient department (OPD). If the test findings suggest more severe abnormality in the cells, it is then confirmed by further diagnostic procedures:
Colposcopy: A procedure in which a colposcope (a lighted, magnifying instrument) is used to check the vagina and cervix for abnormal areas.
Biopsy: A sample of tissue is cut from the cervix and viewed under a microscope by a pathologist to check for signs of cancer. A biopsy that removes only a small amount of tissue (punch biopsy) is usually done in the OPD.
Visual Inspection using Acetic acid (VIA) (lower part of womb)
Naked-eye visual inspection of the uterine cervix, after application of 5% acetic acid (VIA) provides simple test for the early detection of cervical precancerous lesions and early invasive cancer. The results of VIA are immediately available
If any of your screening tests (Pap test, VIA, HPV test) are found to be positive, further testing may be necessary to determine whether the changes in cervix are cancerous. A colposcopy may be performed and/or a small sample of tissue (biopsy) will be obtained from the cervix.
Biopsy: If abnormal cells are found in a Pap test, the doctor may do a biopsy. A sample of tissue is cut from the cervix and viewed under a microscope by a pathologist to check for signs of cancer. A biopsy that removes only a small amount of tissue is usually done in the out patient department (OPD). If a larger cone-shaped sample needs to be taken (cone biopsy), you may need to get admitted for a short period.
Treatment of pre-cancerous lesions may include the following: Removal or destruction of the part of the cervix affected by disease.
Invasive: Three types of treatment procedures are used to treat cervical cancer viz. surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. These therapies may be given alone or in combination with one another. Treatment depends on the stage of the cancer, the type of tumor cells and a woman's medical condition.
Cryosurgery: Application of freezing probe to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue in the cervix for about 5 minutes.
Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP): Procedure to remove abnormal and or cancerous cells in the cervix using a thin, low-voltage electrified wire loop that acts as a knife.
Laser surgery: Using a laser beam to burn the abnormal cells in the cervix.
Conization: Excision of a cone-shaped sample of tissue from the mucous membrane of the cervix by using cold knife or scalpel. This procedure requires hospital admission.
Hysterectomy: for women whose tumor cannot be completely removed by conization and who no longer want to have children.
The process to find out the spread of disease is called staging.
Stage 0 or Carcinoma in situ: abnormal cells are found in the innermost lining of the cervix which may not be seen to naked eye.
Stage I: In this stage, cancer is limited to cervix only.
Stage II: Cancer has spread beyond the cervix but not to the tissues that line the part of the body between the pelvic wall or to the lower third of the vagina.
Stage III: Cancer has spread to the lower third of the vagina, and/or to the pelvic wall, and/or has caused kidney problems.
Stage IV: Cancer has spread to the bladder, rectum, or other parts of the body.
Treatment of invasive cervical cancer
Stage I Cervical Cancer
Treatment of stage I cervical cancer may include surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy depending on the sub-stage, age and desire of the patient and preference of the treating physician.
Total hysterectomy with or without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
Modified radical hysterectomy and removal of lymph nodes.
Internal radiation therapy.
Radical hysterectomy and removal of lymph nodes.
Radical hysterectomy and removal of lymph nodes followed by radiation therapy plus chemotherapy.
Radiation therapy plus chemotherapy.
A combination of internal radiation therapy and external radiation therapy
Stage II Cervical Cancer
Treatment of stage II cervical cancer may include either of the following:
A combination of internal radiation therapy and external radiation therapy plus chemotherapy.
Stage III Cervical Cancer
Treatment of stage III cervical cancer may include internal and external radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy
Stage IV Cervical Cancer
Radiation therapy to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer and improves quality of life (radiation therapy as palliative therapy).
Chemotherapy and targeted therapy (monoclonal antibodies). Chemotherapy as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer and improve quality of life.
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