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Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Reviewed by Phil Favero on November 1, 2019
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Nathaniel Rich's book Losing Earth: A Recent History is a convincing story of the history of climate change policy, but it does not serve as a guide for engaging the problem.
By using biographical sketches of key environmental leaders—lobbyists, scientists, corporate managers, politicians, and political advisors—Rich paints a tragic picture of how the United States failed to address climate change in the 1980s, even though our leaders, at that time, knew the gravity of the problem and what needed to be done. Rich attributes the failure to a moral flaw in human nature: the unwillingness to make relatively small sacrifices in the present for the well‐being of people in the future. U.S. leaders in the 1980s, with few exceptions, protected their short‐term interests—re-election prospects, annual profits, and reputations for being temperate advisors—by willfully ignoring the impacts of climate change on their (our) children and their (our) progeny. As a result, we find ourselves today in a most urgent situation: a rapidly heating globe with amplifying feedback effects, such as loss of albedo and melting permafrost—making management of the problem difficult, if not impossible.
What should we now do? Readers looking for a detailed plan of action won't find one here, but Rich offers a persuasive framework for discussion that will lead to action. He first suggests that we "speak about the problem honestly: as a struggle for survival." He observes there's been a shift in how people relate to the no longer distant perils of climate change, gravely claiming that "disasters alone will not revolutionize public opinion in the remaining time allotted to us. It is not enough to appeal to narrow self‐interest." In the book's concluding paragraphs, Rich warns of a scenario to be avoided at all costs: that "should we pursue the status quo for the next dozen years … the fears of young people will continue to grow, in pace with the multiplying tragedies of a warming world." Eventually, "the fears of the young will overwhelm the fears of the old," and "the young will amass enough power to act." Like the author, I cannot idly wait for that time, and I hope you cannot wait either.
The situation calls for a mass movement, and Friends can aid that movement. In his book Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker Palmer provides an outline that we can apply to facilitate such a movement: First, have compassion for and follow the lead of those who suffer. We can apply this to the initial victims of climate change around the world. Second, form "communities of congruence." In Quakerspeak that means forming groups in monthly meetings to build the "disposition, knowledge, and skills" to enter the fray of politics. Third, go public. We should put our convictions into the marketplace of ideas, and hone them in public debate. Form coalitions of advocacy with like‐minded groups. Become involved in the 2020 election from the local to the national level, and throw the climate deniers and obstructionists out of office. Fourth, look for signs of success and amplify them. When applied to climate change, there are many social and technical opportunities to do this.
Young people are now expressing their fears and urging public action to mitigate climate change. Greta Thunberg is the new Rosa Parks in starting Friday strikes from school. Young plaintiffs are suing the government in Juliana v. United States. The youth‐led Sunrise Movement is advocating for the Green New Deal. Young Friends and young adult Friends can get involved; older Friends can support these changes, make them better known, and, through our experience and insights, add value to them.
Climate change has an equally evil twin: the sixth mass extinction. Here too, Quakers are uniquely poised to participate in a movement. Can we extend our common belief that there is that of the Divine in everyone to there is that of the Divine in every living thing? If so, Friends could help humans shift our conventional attitudes about nature from that of use to that of care.
Phil Favero is a member of Agate Passage Meeting in Washington State. He is a Montana native, a former member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, a retired economist, and a longtime supporter of Friends' work to right our relationship with the natural world.
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Choruna strzelista (Polyalthia longifolia (Sonn.) Thwaites) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny flaszowcowatych (Annonaceae Juss.). Występuje naturalnie w Indiach oraz na Sri Lance. Poza tym jest uprawiany w innych ciepłych rejonach Azji.

Morfologia

 Pokrój Zimozielone drzewo dorastające do 20 m wysokości. Młode pędy są owłosione.
 Liście Mają kształt od podłużnie owalnego do owalnie lancetowatego. Mierzą 11–31 cm długości oraz 2,5–8 cm szerokości. Nasada liścia jest od klinowej do rozwartej lub zaokrąglonej. Blaszka liściowa jest falista na brzegu o spiczastym wierzchołku. Ogonek liściowy jest nagi i dorasta do 5–10 mm długości.
 Kwiaty Są zebrane w gęste kwiatostany – pęczki lub niby baldachy, rozwijają się w kątach pędów. Są siedzące. Pojedynczy kwiat mierzy 1–2 cm średnicy. Działki kielicha mają owalnie trójkątny kształt, są owłosione od zewnętrznej strony i dorastają do 15–30 mm długości. Płatki mają lancetowaty kształt i zielonożółtawą barwę, są rozpostarte, owłosione, osiągają do 13–15 mm długości. Kwiaty mają 20–25 nagich owocolistków o długości 1–2 mm. Podsadki są omszone.
 Owoce Pojedyncze mają jajowaty kształt, zebrane po 4–8 w owoc zbiorowy. Są nagie, osadzone na szypułkach. Osiągają 20–25 mm długości i 15 mm szerokości.

Biologia i ekologia
Rośnie naturalnie w półsuchych lub wilgotnych strefach klimatów zwrotnikowego i równikowego. Występuje na nizinach lub wyżynach, na obszarach o średnich rocznych niskich temperaturach od 16 do 25°C oraz średnich rocznych wysokich temperaturach od 26 do 34°C, a roczne opady wahają się od 800 do 2500 mm. Sezon suchy trwa maksymalnie 8 miesięcy. Rośnie od 10 do 11 strefy mrozoodporności. Preferuje stanowiska w pełnym nasłonecznieniu lub w półcieniu. Najlepiej rośnie na glebach żyznych, dobrze przepuszczalnych glinach, iłach lub piaskach. Rośnie na podłożu o odczynie od lekko kwaśnego do obojętnego – od 5,5 do 7,5 w skali pH. Kwitnie od maja do czerwca, natomiast owoce dojrzewają od lipca do września. Owoce tego gatunku są pokarmem dla nietoperzy i ptaków, które w ten sposób rozprzestrzeniają nasiona.

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 Roślina ozdobna Jest to jeden z najczęstszych gatunków drzew sadzonych w parkach i przy ulicach miast w tropikalnej Azji, szczególnie w obszarach, gdzie występuje klimat monsunowy.
 Drewno Jest średnio ciężkie (około 590 kg/m³) i ma żółto-białą lub szaro-białą barwę. Nadaje się tylko do wytwarzania zapałek i ołówków, choć wykonywane są także z niego różne części bębnów muzycznych w niektórych częściach jego rodzimego zasięgu.
 Medycyna W tradycyjnym systemie indyjskiej medycyny roślina jest używana do leczenia przeciwko gorączce, chorobom skóry czy nadciśnieniu, a w Nigerii także jako lek na cukrzycę. Kora jest dobrym źródłem błonnika.

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Reports revealed former Caterpillar employee George Cooney, 67, died from lung cancer in 2014. In the lawsuit filed by his family, George was initially exposed to asbestos while he worked for Caterpillar as a mechanic. Caterpillar was known to sell products containing asbestos. Even after the jury became aware of George's lifestyle as an excessive smoker, their decision was based on a 1968 study that concluded smokers have a higher risk of dying from lung cancer when exposed to asbestos compared to non-smokers. Though Caterpillar was liable for George's death, they will settle 55 percent of the award as the jury believed George's lifestyle also contributed to his death.
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According to court records, the 38-year-old man violated the Clean Air standards when he was supervising a Irondequoit renovation project.
The man allegedly hired a contractor to remove the asbestos from pipes in the building, but the man was not licensed to do so. The court records show that the man knew that there was asbestos in the in building that needed to be removed.
Violating asbestos removal procedure is not only illegal, but it can put civilians nearby at risk. Asbestos can cause many asbestos-related diseases including a rare lung cancer, mesothelioma. If you or a loved one has been exposed to asbestos and would like to learn more about it. Contact us or visit our website today at www.mesothelioma-asbestoshelp.org.
A man that was exposed to asbestos nearly 40 years ago has now been awarded $1 million in mesothelioma lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, the 62-year-old man was exposed to the toxic material in 1972 when he worked at James Hardie Factory. The man worked as a machinist in the asbestos sheeting factory. The man claimed that he was not warned of the risk of asbestos exposure or given a mask to wear.
The jury found that James Hardie did not take the appropriate care to prevent him from being exposed to asbestos, which caused him to develop mesothelioma.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has fined a private school in New Hampshire after failing to meet the requirements set by the agency when dealing with asbestos management.
According to the EPA, the case stems from 2008 when it was found that the school failed to notify the school community that there was asbestos in two of the buildings. The Monadnock Waldorf School has paid $3,096 fine and there is still over $7,000 that still needs to be paid for.
There has been some asbestos removal done in the past, but the toxic material remains in some of their buildings. The school was charged with Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, which states that administrators need to conduct regular inspections and notify school workers and parents annually on the status of asbestos.
If you or a loved one has been exposed to asbestos and you would like to learn more about the health hazards associated with it, contact us or visit or web site for more information http://www.mesothelioma-asbestoshelp.org.
A woman from the United Kingdom has recently been awarded compensation after her husband died of mesothelioma after working in a cigarette filter factory.
The woman's 58-year-old husband died of mesothelioma cancer last year. Mesothelioma is primarily caused by exposure to asbestos particles and it is thought that the man was exposed to this during his employment at Filtrona cigarette filter factory.
The factory at first denied that the man was exposed to asbestos particle while working there, but later withdrew the statements. The case has now been settled and the woman was compensated for her loss.
If you or a loved one has been exposed to asbestos and has questions and concerns about the health hazards that are associated with the harmful particles, contact us or visit the web site for more information.
Two men from Massachusetts have been charged and plead guilty to illegal asbestos handling in violation of the Massachusetts Clean Air Act.
The two men work for Northeast Demolition and Removal and were charged with this violation after they ordered to have parts of a building torn down after asbestos was found. A licensed asbestos contractor found the asbestos, but the two men did not properly dispose of the carcinogen before beginning the demolition project.
Once asbestos becomes airborne, it can be very harmful and can lead to lung cancers such as mesothelioma.The two men were sentenced to two years of probation and were ordered to pay fines.
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Q: Shell script now excecuting local script on remote server So, i have two scripts below i am trying to run; mainscript.sh to remote login and execute attached.sh but the problem is when its executed i do not get to use the option set on attached.sh, it simply echos the option list. I think i am doning something wrong with i/o redirection. I am new to this, so any help much appreciated.
mainscript.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "Please enter ther server name : "
read servername

        ssh $servername "bash -s" < attached.sh

attached.sh
#!/bin/bash
OPTIONS="redhat Uptime logfile quit"
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function redhat {
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function Uptime {
        uptime
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function logfile {
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}

function quit {
        exit
}
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elif [ "$opt" = "logfile" ]; then
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fi

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Choudwar è una suddivisione dell'India, classificata come municipality, di 42.597 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Cuttack, nello stato federato dell'Orissa. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe III (da 20.000 a 49.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 20° 32' 38 N e 85° 53' 56 E.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Choudwar assommava a 42.597 persone, delle quali 22.870 maschi e 19.727 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 4.393, dei quali 2.305 maschi e 2.088 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 32.872, dei quali 18.872 maschi e 14.000 femmine.

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Doing More with Less – Konica Minolta Predicts the Big Digital Workplace Trends for 2023
By Neil Trim on January 4, 2023
Konica Minolta has identified five key trends for 2023 that will influence and define the digital workplace. Both workplaces and working practices have been transformed as a result of the pandemic, however, now with a cost-of-living-crisis, high inflation, a climate emergency, and the ongoing ramifications from the war in Ukraine, UK businesses cannot afford to stay still.
The pressure to 'do more with less' in all areas of business is likely to be a major challenge throughout the forthcoming year. To achieve this, organisations will need to rely more than ever on innovative new technologies that create Intelligent Connected Workplaces that engage with and empower employees to achieve commercial objectives.
Trend 1: Growing importance of communication and collaboration tools in times of hybrid working
The increasing move to hybrid working has highlighted to many businesses that older communications platforms (such as email) are no longer suitable for enhanced online collaboration needs. Mission critical for remote working and collaboration during the pandemic, Microsoft Teams has proven that it is far more than just a video call rival for Zoom. Teams serves as a hub for teamwork, facilitating project management, chats/calls and meetings, content sharing and authoring – all in one place. Since February 2020, the average Teams user has increased their weekly meeting time by 252% and sent 32% more chats each week in February 2022 than in March 2020.[1]
As a Microsoft Global Managed Partner, Konica Minolta's accredited expert team can assist any size and type of organisation to realise the full communication and collaboration benefits from the Microsoft range of tools, including Microsoft 365 with Teams, which helps businesses to better organise and interact with employees. Using Microsoft Teams and the wider Microsoft 365 suite, organisations can modernise and digitalise business processes so that they fit seamlessly into their hybrid working environment and can be accessed anywhere, on any device, ensuring their business operations are completely agile.
Trend 2: Doing more with less – AI and a more immersive digital world
With the Internet of Things (IoT) continuing to expand seemingly without limits, more and more systems are being encompassed by business networks. This explosion in workplace data availability ensures that Artificial Intelligence (AI), which learns processes and patterns, can offer great opportunities in automating workflows and thereby finding greater economies through cost savings and better use of skilled employees' time.
Linked to this is Robotic Process Automation (RPA), whereby AI takes over certain processes (often repetitive labour-intensive functions). Video analytics are another important aspect of this automation. Konica Minolta's Video Solution Services for example not only cover the security applications but are also perfect for monitoring production lines for quality control, occupational health applications to keep people safe (such as vulnerable people wandering into dangerous areas) and detecting fires. Using powerful AI and camera technology, the potential applications are almost limitless.
Trend 3: Meeting evolving employee demands whilst closing the skills-gap
Mindful of 'The Great Resignation' following the pandemic, businesses need to deliver the best possible experience to keep existing employees engaged and satisfied, whilst attracting fresh talent.
This particularly affects Generation Z workers. 58% (vs. 43% overall) of them are likely to consider changing employers this year.[2] One-third (31%) of employees already changed their jobs in the past two years.[3] The top reasons for not accepting a job offer include a lack of flexible hours (37%) and location flexibility (28%)[4], as 53% are more likely to prioritise health and well-being than before the pandemic[5]. Companies that take this into account and provide a better work-life balance through flexible models satisfy their employees, attract new talent, improve productivity, and remain competitive.
The well-publicised UK skills shortage will continue in 2023, but an alternative solution that is gaining increasing interest is talent outsourcing. With communication and collaboration tools powering hybrid working, there is no reason not to look further afield for the professional talent required to flexibly meet the rapidly scaling needs of the business. Delivering this proven approach as an expert professional skills outsourcing provider, Konica Minolta not only helps other businesses utilise the benefits, but has also used it to grow and enrich its own team.
Supporting these new and exciting workforce options obviously requires the right digital tools. With its Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio Konica Minolta offers comprehensive support and solutions, enabling businesses to fully utilise a range of tools for flexible working. Remote Working and Home Office solutions include Cloud Services (Including Cloud Print), Collaboration and Communications, Mobile Print, Security Services, and Information Management Services – all designed to offer full agility and flexibility to a business and its teams.
Trend 4: IT-as-a-Service for greater flexibility in challenging times
IT-as-a-Service delivers considerable benefits for any business and will be particularly useful for UK businesses looking to meet the challenges of 2023 and beyond.
Instead of buying IT hardware, software, and services outright, the business receives everything required at a set cost for each member of the team. This avoids high initial capital expenditure costs and an in-house IT provision to service it, whilst ensuring inclusive costs for maintenance and upgrades remain predictable and affordable. The business can easily scale its IT functions up or down to meet commercial and team needs. Desktop-as-a-Service takes this approach a step further by delivering a virtual desktop to an individual or specific group of people based on their job requirements. When an employee leaves and no longer needs access to company data, permissions can be quickly and easily revoked, making it highly secure as well as cost-effective.
As part of its Managed IT Services, Konica Minolta offers both Software-as-a-Service (Cloud Print) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Here, Konica Minolta takes over the management and maintenance of applications as well as servers, storage, and networks for the customer in the cloud, so that customers do not have to worry about how the technology works. Konica Minolta uses its own European data centres to ensure this data is fully protected and secure as well as highly available. Desktop-as-a-Service is also part of Workplace One, a compact digital workplace package consisting of a managed Microsoft 365 environment, Managed Backup Services, Remote Monitoring and Management and a SharePoint-based company portal.
Trend 5: Stricter expectations on climate protection
COP 27 in Egypt in November 2022 showed how tough the negotiations are in terms of agreeing to strict climate change targets. The European countries in particular had stricter expectations in advance, with the European Green Deal already setting EU member states the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 to fulfil the commitments agreed at COP 21 in Paris in 2015. The UK Government[6] has also launched a major international climate package which includes £65.5m for green tech innovation and triple funding for climate adaptation as part of that budget, from £500m in 2019 to £1.5bn in 2025.
Climate protection obligations will need to factor into all UK business operations despite the pressures of rising energy costs and the need to facilitate hybrid working. Additionally, UK businesses that trade with customers and partners in the EU will need to consider the
recently agreed forthcoming Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires companies to report annually on the governance, social and environmental impacts and risks related to their activities.[7]
With increased pressure to demonstrate sustainability coming from specific legislation as well as Corporate Social Responsibility expectations, the way all organisations do business will be subject to closer scrutiny. Konica Minolta's Environmental Policy for example, promotes sustainable development and profitable growth by integrating environmental, economic, and social perspectives into its business strategies to ensure activities are implemented in harmony with human lives and with the environment in all aspects. This includes compliance with laws and guidelines, environmental consideration of the product lifecycle and recycling, prevention of pollution, and support for the wider sustainable society.
Mark Ash, Chief Revenue Officer at Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd commented, "As UK businesses and organisations of every type look to 'do more with less', the Digital Workplace will become even more important in 2023 and beyond. Pressures to increase sustainability, whilst reducing costs and supporting hybrid working and engendering workplace flexibility, will mean greater pressures on the IT provision and increased use of automation. Konica Minolta's Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio is designed to address all these needs from a single expert supplier, enabling organisations to concentrate on their core activities with full peace of mind they can address the wider challenges ahead."
About Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd
Konica Minolta is a market-leading Hardware Manufacturer, Smart Data and Digital IT Services company that builds and transforms digital business operations, workplaces, and IT infrastructures to meet the changing needs of customers of all sizes, across departments and industry sectors – both private and public sectors.
A broad portfolio of hardware and solutions and services include IT Infrastructures, Managed IT Services & Support, Process Digitisation and Automation, Digital Print, and Intelligent Video Solutions, as well Outsourced helpdesks and service desks for both front & back-office tasks.
Konica Minolta combines world-class technology partnerships with end-to-end expert operations and processes – from design to support, to transition 10,000 UK customers and partners to the future of work and our vision of an "Intelligent Connected Workplace".
The company has won awards for its social contribution and is committed to workplace wellbeing, achieving its Sustainable Development Goals throughout the business and wider supply chain. Konica Minolta is listed among the '2022 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World' and has received the highest level in EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings.
Part of the global Konica Minolta Group, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd is headquartered in Basildon, Essex with 10 regional offices across the UK, employing over 750 people.
Web: www.konicaminolta.co.uk
Chief Revenue Officer at Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK)
Mark Ash


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using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Nest;
using Tests.Framework;
using static Tests.Framework.UrlTester;

namespace Tests.XPack.Watcher.PutWatch
{
	public class PutWatchUrlTests : IUrlTests
	{
		[U] public async Task Urls()
		{
			await PUT("/_xpack/watcher/watch/watch_id")
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MyFitnessPal Data Breach Impacts 150 Million User Accounts
Thursday March 29, 2018 3:33 PM PDT by Juli Clover
MyFitnessPal parent company Under Armour today announced that MyFitnessPal has been the victim of a hacking incident, which has seen personal details of approximately 150 million user accounts accessed in a data breach.
MyFitnessPal is a popular health and fitness iOS app and website that's used by many iPhone and iPad owners, and it is consistently among the top Health and Fitness apps in the App Store.
The breach, which happened in late February, included usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords. Credit card numbers from paying customers were not accessed.
Under Armor has already been sending emails and in-app messages to its customers who were affected by the breach. The company says it is working with "leading data security firms" to assist in its investigation.
MyFitnessPal users will be required to change their passwords.
manilaraf
Social security numbers, driver license numbers, and credit/debit card information were not accessed.
Article Link: MyFitnessPal Data Breach Impacts 150 Million User Accounts ('https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/29/myfitnesspal-data-breach/')
Uh, whoever wrote this article needs to quote from the actual MFP/UA release:
"The affected data did not include government-issued identifiers (such as Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers) because we don't collect that information from users. Payment card data was not affected because it is collected and processed separately."
FAQ #3: https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/FAQ.html
The breach, which happened in late February, included usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords. Social security numbers, driver license numbers, and credit/debit card information were not accessed.
Serious question: Why the F does MyFitnessPal need someone's SSN or Driver's License number? ...Isn't the point to track your food intake and weight?
thisisnotmyname
What are they doing holding customers' social security and driver license numbers?
My thought is that they don't but were just clarifying since this will be national news that nothing of that sort was obtained by hackers.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
The British Crown Jewels, the Mona Lisa, and the US Declaration of Independence were also left alone...
pdaholic
Oh no...now the world will know that I ate cheesecake for dinner last night.


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and, of course reluctance to move on from investments they've already made in on-premise versions.
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Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle
A cheque used to certify the purchase of a Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle. This copy was bought by Jacques Kugel December 7, 1959
Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zone of immaterial pictorial sensibility) is an artist's book and performance by the French artist Yves Klein. The work involved the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space (the Immaterial Zone), taking the form of a cheque, in exchange for gold; if the buyer wished, the piece could then be completed in an elaborate ritual in which the buyer would burn the cheque, and Klein would throw half of the gold into the Seine.[1] The ritual would be performed in the presence of an art critic or distinguished dealer, an art museum director and at least two witnesses.[1]
Between the creation of the piece in 1959 and his death on June 6, 1962, eight Zones were sold,[2] of which at least three involved the elaborate ritual.[1]
"Klein's receipts verify the existence of an invisible work of art, which prove that a formal sale has taken place. As Klein establishes in his 'Ritual Rules', each buyer has two possibilities; If he pays the amount of gold agreed upon in exchange for a receipt, Klein keeps all of the gold, and the buyer does not really acquire the "authentic immaterial value" of the work. The second possibility is to buy an immaterial zone for gold and then to burn the receipt. Through this act, a perfect, definitive immaterialization is achieved, as well as the absolute inclusion of the buyer in the immaterial.... Klein presents capitalist trading strategies and illuminates his ideas about the indefinable, incalculable value of art."[3]
The piece is often seen as an early example of conceptual art.[4][5]
1 Origins of the Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility
1.1 The artist's book and Klein's use of gold
1.2 The Ritual
1.3 Reception of the Work
Origins of the Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility[edit]
Whilst on a trip to Cascia, Klein had designed an aeromagnetic sculpture, partially as a response to Jean Cocteau's assertion when visiting his exhibition La forêt d'éponges, June 1959, that it would be even greater if the sponges hovered without supports.[6] Klein's new sculptural idea was to hollow out a sponge, fill it with a hydrogen or helium balloon and a piece of metal, and then place it above a concealed electromagnet to regulate the height at which it would hover. Whilst this idea was never implemented, Klein applied for- and received- a patent on June 30, 1959, and then wrote enthusiastically about this new idea to his dealer Iris Clert, asking her in particular not to mention the invention to her friend, the artist Takis, who had also been experimenting with air sculptures. This led to a serious argument with Clert, who tended to side with Takis, as well as re-opening a previous feud with Jean Tinguely.[6]
"Their disagreement was so strong that Klein had removed all of his art from Clert's gallery in August 1959 and had told her assistant to inform any interested buyers that his paintings were all invisible and that if a buyer wanted one, it would suffice to write a check. He further specified that the check had to be very visible."[7]
Clert then told this anecdote to a number of visitors to her gallery, one of whom, Peppino Palazzoli, an Italian gallerist, expressed an interest in buying an invisible artwork from Klein; in an attempt to repair the friendship, Clert informed Klein of the sale.[7] She also recommended that Klein design a 'proper receipt'.[7] Palazzoli became the official owner of the first Zone on November 18 that year, having bought the work for 20 grams of gold, valued at $466.20 as of November 1, 2008[8] The reunion with Clert was to prove short-lived, however. By the end of 1959, he would sever his affiliation with her gallery, and the Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility would be their last collaboration. His next exhibition, the notorious Anthropométries de l'epoque bleue, March 1960, (featuring models covered in blue paint pressing themselves on to canvases in front of an invited audience of notables) would be held in the considerably more upmarket Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain, on the Rive Droite.
Yves Klein and Dino Buzzati engaged in the ritual transfer of immateriality, January 26, 1962
The artist's book and Klein's use of gold[edit]
The book took the form of a parody of a banker's chequebook. Klein printed eight books of these receipts of which five survive[9]- apart from the first book (which contained 31 unnumbered checks for an unspecified amount of gold), each book contains 10 numbered receipts for a set value of gold; series one cheques cost 20 grams of gold, series four cost 160 grams. The value of the seventh book's cheques was listed in the Antagonismes Exhibition, Paris 1960, at 1,280 grams.
Any gold that wasn't thrown into the Seine ended up in Klein's concurrent series of Monogolds; large scale works made of gold leaf. He had first come across the material's use in art whilst working in a framing workshop, Robert Savage's, in London 1949-50; he was also to encounter it used in golden Buddhas and screens whilst visiting Japan. Curiously, these encounters led Klein to associate the precious metal with immateriality;
"And the gold, it was something! These leaves that literally fluttered with the least current of air on the flat cushion that one held in one hand, while the other hand caught them in the wind with a knife.... What a material! The illumination of matter in its deep physical quality, I came to embrace it during that year at the 'Savage' frame shop." Klein[10]
The Ritual[edit]
The use of ritual in Klein's work is a theme running through his work, from his exhibition Le Vide (The Void) 1958, in which he exhibited invisible works at Clert's gallery flanked by Republican Guards, to his elaborately planned wedding ceremony in 1962 and his votive offering to Saint Rita of Cascia (see [1]). Klein was fascinated by Catholicism & Buddhism, as well as being an enthusiastic member of the archaic group the Knights of the Order of Saint Sebastian.[11] The obsession with the void, or nothingness, also runs throughout his work, with Le Vide (The Void) being the most famous example; for his second major exhibition at Iris Clert's, he emptied the entire gallery, painted it white (using his patented medium) and then persuaded the French government to send Republican Guards to stand outside as sentries, at the end of a hallway painted ultramarine, covered with blue curtains to ensure there would be no way of anticipating the gallery's contents. Anyone who didn't have an invitation was charged 1,500 frs. entrance fee.[12] It was estimated that between 2,500 and 3,000 people turned up for the opening,[13] and Clert decided to prolong the exhibition for an extra week to accommodate the 'several hundred' visitors each day.[14]
"Having rejected nothingness, I discovered the void. The meaning of the immaterial pictorial zones, extracted from the depth of the void which by that time was of a very material order. Finding it unacceptable to sell these immaterial zones for money, I insisted in exchange for the highest quality of the immaterial, the highest quality of material payment – a bar of pure gold. Incredible as it may seem, I have actually sold a number of these pictorial immaterial states . . . Painting no longer appeared to me to be functionally related to the gaze, since during the blue monochrome period of 1957 I became aware of what I called the pictorial sensibility. This pictorial sensibility exists beyond our being and yet belongs in our sphere. We hold no right of possession over life itself. It is only by the intermediary of our taking possession of sensibility that we are able to purchase life. Sensibility enables us to pursue life to the level of its base material manifestations, in the exchange and barter that are the universe of space, the immense totality of nature." Yves Klein, from the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto, 1961[15]
Reception of the Work[edit]
The French press delighted in calling the event 'a scandal' (Klein Sells Wind!), but others were more impressed;[1] Various members of the group present to watch Michael Blankfort's ritual transaction, for instance, on February 10, 1962, concurred that the event was 'extremely awe-inspiring',[1] ending with the noonday chimes ringing out from churches all around Paris. Blankfort, a Hollywood writer, wrote later of having "no other experience in art equal to the depth of feeling of [the sale ceremony]. It evoked in me a shock of self-recognition and an explosion of awareness of time and space."[16]
It has been suggested that the work is a response to Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction",[17] in which he wrote "The unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value."[18] If so, the Zones directly refute Benjamin's central argument, that modern mass production can finally "emancipate the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual".[18]
"Believe me, one is not robbed when one buys such paintings; it is I who am always robbed because I accept money." Yves Klein[19]
Klein's Ritual For The Relinquishment of the Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity Zones, quoted in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art by Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz
Yves Klein, Jean-Paul Ledeur, Editions Guy Pieters
Yves Klein, Sidra Stich, Hayward Gallery 1995, Cantz Editions
Yves Klein, Selected Writings, Tate Gallery
Yves Klein, Berggruen Hollein & Pfeiffer, Hatje Kantz 2004
^ a b c d e Yves Klein, Stich, Cantz 1995, p156
^ Yves Klein, Stich, Cantz, n93 p268
^ Yves Klein, Berggruen Hollein & Pfeiffer, Hatje Kantz 2004 p221
^ Oxford Art Online, essay on Klein by Ulrike Lehmann
^ Walker Art Gallery online retrieved 1-11-08
^ a b Yves Klein, Stich, Cantz 1995, p168
^ a b c Yves Klein, Stich, Cantz 1995, n90 p268
^ Only Gold valuation website
^ or at least claimed that he did; See Stich, n92, p268
^ Yves Klein, quoted in Stich, Cantz 1995, p193
^ Yves Klein, Berggruen Hollein & Pfeiffer, Schirn 2004 p217
^ Yves Klein, Stich, Hayward Gallery, Cantz 1995, p134
^ Quoted from Theory Now
^ Blankfort quoted in Yves Klein, Stich, Cantz, 1995 p156
^ Mark Cameron Boyd, Theory Now retrieved 01-11-08
^ a b "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin
^ Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle
Yves Klein Archive
A biography of the artist
The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto
An essay on Klein's obsession with the Void by Jason Beale
"Yves Klein's Zones of Immaterial Space", an essay by Jennifer Grant
"Odd Couple: Yves Klein and Ed Kienholz's Unlikely Affinities", by Joanna Fiduccia
Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle (1962-2012), by Marc de Verneuil and Mélanie Marbach, January 26 2012, Paris
Early precursors
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Expressionism and Cubism
Du "Cubisme", Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Edition Figuière, Paris, 1912 (First English edition: Cubism, Unwin, London, 1913)
The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, Guillaume Apollinaire, published by Eugène Figuière Éditeurs, Collection "Tous les Arts", Paris, 1913
La Peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme (Painting and its Laws), Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1924 (published in English in 2000)
La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
Futurism, Vorticism and Dada
Zang Tumb Tumb
Tango With Cows
BÏF§ZF+18
Universal War
Jedermann sein eigner Fussball
An Anna Blume
Russian Ballet
Constructivism, Surrealism
and Modernism
Une semaine de bonté
Lettrism, Situationism,
and Arte Povera
Yves Peintures
Fin de Copenhague
25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
A Humument
Fluxus and Conceptual art
Literaturwurst
Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art
Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard
Water Yam
Fluxus 1
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
Artists' books since 1980
Die-Cut Plug Wiring Diagram Book
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French art
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Home › Stories › Her 6-Year-Old Son Walked Up To A Table Of Police Officers. What He Did Next Stunned Everyone!
Her 6-Year-Old Son Walked Up To A Table Of Police Officers. What He Did Next Stunned Everyone!
Photo Of A Boy Praying For Police Goes Viral
In the crazy world we live in today, it's impossible not to worry about our future generation. But photos like this one of a 6-year-old boy praying for several police officers gives me so much hope!
Meet Joshua
The sweet little boy praying is Joshua Garza. After completing his morning swim lesson, Joshua and his mom, Kelly, stopped for breakfast at Bob Evans -- Joshua's favorite.
While there, the restaurant manager stopped at a table of officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department. The manager shook their hands to thank them for their service. And this inspired the little cutie to find his own way to say thank you.
Stepping Out In Faith
When Kelly and Joshua got up to leave the restaurant, her son marched over to the table where the officers were dining. The sweet boy asked if he could pray for their protection.
Though she hadn't expected this move, Kelly said it wasn't surprising behavior for her son.
"He likes to pray at church, he's a big prayer warrior," says his mom.
The proud mama stood back, so as not to interfere. Her heart melted as her precious son concluded the prayer with, "And please help us all to live a good life. Amen."
Kelly snapped a photo of the little boy praying with the police officers, and shared it on Facebook.
Not surprisingly, the touching scene promptly went viral and many praised Joshua for being so bold in his faith.
"Joshua is being brought up in a very loving church, where he has learned that it's ok to share his faith and that it's an act of love to pray for others," Kelly explained.
As for the police officers, they said they were honored to have the little boy pray for them.
So often as adults, we let fear hold us back from doing what the Lord calls us to do. But the boldness of this little angel is a beautiful reminder of what it is to truly live out our faith!
"On the day I called, You answered me; You made me bold with strength in my soul."
A police officer was blown away when he witnessed a teen doing this over a sleeping homeless man!


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Casével is a former civil parish in the municipality of Castro Verde, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Castro Verde e Casével. It is located 10 kilometres north-west of the municipal seat. It was considered the civil parish with the smallest population (365 inhabitants in 2001) in the municipality, covering an area of approximately 33.3 km².

History

The town received its Charter by order of King Manuel I of Portugal on the 20 September 1510 and was the municipal seat until 1836, when it was incorporated into the municipality of Messejana (the seat of the former Knights of Santiago).

Casével's only church, to the invocation of São João Baptista dates back to the 14th century, and was repaired several times, including in 1533 and again in 1940-1950 after it had been abandoned. During the course of its restoration, layers of debris were removed to reveal a gold-leaf altar, with various saints of which little is known, and golden silver ornaments, including the Reliquary-Head of Saint Fabian and two monstrance, dating back to the 16th century. The Head, fabricated from the 13th century, is a unique item: it is a sculpture in silver, containing the human skull of Pope Fabian, a Christian martyr. Legend has it that this relic arrived in Portugal in the possession of Princess Vataça Lascaris, and today is (and on exhibition at the Royal Treasury in the Basilica of Castro Verde).

On 24 October 1855 it was incorporated into the municipality of Castro Verde.

Geography
Located in the northwest corner of the municipality, the parish is bisected by two motorways: the E1 Motorway (Auto-Estrada do Sul) that bisects the territory between the village of Casével and Aivados (connecting the main centre of Setúbal with Faro); and the secondary IC1 Motorway, in the western corner of the parish, that runs through the municipality of Ourique (intersecting two kilometres of Casével). There are no exits off of the E1, although secondary roads do link the IC1 to all the settlements in the parish.

It is surrounded by the parishes of Ourique, Panóis and Conceição (to the west) in the municipality of Ourique; Aljustrel and Messejana (to the north) in the municipality of Aljustrel Municipality; and the parish of Castro Verde (to the east and south). In addition, the northern limit of the civil parish is marked by a rail-line that slices the northern frontier on a diagonal trajectory (northeast to southwest) from Carregueiro (in Aljustrel) into Panois.

There are only three settlements in this parish, two of which are equidistant from the E1 motorway (Aviados and Casével) and the other (Estação de Ourique) which is a railway terminus and rural agglomeration. The remainder of the parish is divided into agricultural parcels/pastureland occasionally broken-up by farms or derelict buildings. The largest (and parish seat) is the village of Casével, its centre located two kilometres from the E1.

Economy

The principal activities in the village are related to agriculture and animal husbandry, in addition to small commercial and industrial sectors associated with milling, electricians and saw-milling.

Architecture
 Church of São João Baptista (), based on a 14th-century chapel dedicated to John the Baptist, the principal church of Casével was re-built in the Mannerist-/Baroque-style in the 16th century, with the tower being constructed during the middle of the 20th century. Although a process to qualify the structure as a designated heritage site was petitioned (24 April 1985) by the municipal authority, the process was closed in on 24 January 2009, "for not having national value".

Culture
The village of Casével is home to acclaimed coral groups which have a long history of cultural importance within the municipality of Castro Verde. The Associação de Cante Alentejano: Vozes das Terras Brancas is the central body that promotes various groups of traditional canto singers, including Vozes de Casével and Antigas Mondadeiras, and its installations are open to the public (in the main square), allowing visitors to listen and appreciate the traditional ethnography and food of the parish.

Notable citizens
 Alfredo Luís da Costa (24 November 1883 - Lisbon; 1 February 1908), was a Portuguese publicist, salesman, a Mason and member of the Portuguese Carbonária, best remembered for being one of the two gunmen (along with Manuel Buíça) who assassinated King Carlos I of Portugal and the Prince Royal, Luis Filipe, during the 1908 Lisbon Regicide.

References

Notes

Sources

External links
Town Hall official website- (Portuguese: Use Google Translate to convert to other languages)

Populated places in Beja District


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Vidar Hokstad
Ruby gets a spec 2009-12-10
ruby spec grammar compiler standard
A week or so ago, the Ruby Draft specification made the rounds
Yes... Ruby is finally getting a standard. While RubySpec has been around for a while, and is a great, it is an executable specification that tells you what, not why, and it aims to be "complete" while the new project aims to define a shared core suitable for implementation by all the different Ruby implementations that are springing up.
I think they're complementary enough that the Ruby Draft Specification could be very beneficial.
For my compiler project this means there's now a compelling reason to revisit some things (such as the parser) to look at conformance, and a clear roadmap for some others (classes) to ensure it at least meets the spec.
Of course, in many ways MRI will still be the benchmark, but the standard will provide a minimal level of conformance that will likely be easier to achieve.
In particular, the spec includes a formal grammar for Ruby that doesn't involve walking through thousands of lines of code written for another implementation to verify that you're doing things right. I'm particularly looking forward to going through my parser and aligning it more closely with the draft spec... (I'm sure I'll be swearing a lot while doing it, though)
It also includes descriptions of expected semantics for things like the object model that have previously been something a lot of people (including me) have spent time revers engineering to figure out.
Combined with all the Ruby implementations in progress, this is a clear indication that Ruby is growing up and becoming a contender in areas where it would previously not be acceptable.
Keep an eye on the Ruby standard project...
I'm a Norwegian technologist who has been living in London since 2000. I have a son, Tristan, born in 2009.
I've got development and management experience from a number of startups as well as more established companies, after co-founding my first company at age 19. I currently split my time between being the Technical Director of Nudge CRM Ltd, and running my consulting business, primarily related to development and devops. (More...)
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How to invite people to an event?
An invitation is a sheet of dense paper filled with graphics and text information informing on the date and venue of the event on one or both sides. It may have a pleat or not have one. Printing invitations is necessary as part of preparations for various events – anniversaries, corporate parties, presentations, concerts, exhibitions, artistic events and personal celebrations. Since such products are a rather important element of image, its production is best entrusted to a professional company. The latter will approach the task in the most comprehensive manner, while its equipment and experience will allow completing the commission to a high quality and in time.
Have you chosen your invitations yet?
While you are going to commission invitations, pay attention to the fact that they may vary greatly in size, type of paper, its density and customization or lack of it.
The size most often matches the Euro-format, which is not surprising, as such products are more convenient for sending by mail. However, A5 and A6 options also occur.
Invitations are made using offset, chalk-coated, designer paper with a density of 250-300 gpm. Printing may also be done on cardboard (common, colored or designer).
Customization implies printing variable data on each product. It may include printing bar codes, dates, serial numbers, recipients' names etc.
Invitations are the products whose quality and way of production directly influence the company's image and the recipient's wish to attend the event.
Printing quality comparable to offset one (sharp image, smooth gradients, the presence of a rosette).
High printing speed (2000 colored A3 sheets per hour).
Customization of products (an opportunity to introduce changes to each copy of the print run).
PANTONE color palette imitation (maximum accuracy: 97%).
The extra effects offered by Univest Advertising Production include selective surface covering with a UV lacquer, lamination, stamping and die-cutting.
If you are still sitting on a fence as to the design of the commission, the specialists of our creative agency will help you solve this task. They will find a quality solution in time while taking into account the theme of the event.
How to secure oneself against extra expenses?
– the time spent on the improvement.


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Q: How to maintain transaction in Linq To Entites Suppose I am inserting records in following Tables at the same time
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
Table 4
Table 5
Now What I want to do is, In-case of any exception or error occurs during insertion in Table 3 , then record which are inserted before that (eg. in Table 1 and Table 2) must be roll back...
How can I manage transaction like this?

A: This is the default behaviour of Entity Framework 4
The transaction is implicit .. as soon as you call savechanges any errors will trigger a rollback.

A: By default, SaveChanges will execute in a transaction (see the Remarks part in the docs)
If you want more control over the transaction, you can wrap your savechanges block in a TransactionScope. SaveChanges will then pickup your ambient transaction and use that one.
This can be useful when you want a distributed transaction (for example with multiple contexts or if you use WCF).
As you mentioned that you use different models, you would use both ObjectContexts within one TransactionScope (and use some logic with AcceptAllChanges)
Your code would then look like:
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
    //Do something with context1
    //Do something with context2

    //Save Changes but don't discard yet
    context1.SaveChanges(false);

    //Save Changes but don't discard yet
    context2.SaveChanges(false);

    //if we get here things are looking good.
    scope.Complete();

    //If we get here it is save to accept all changes.
    context1.AcceptAllChanges();
    context2.AcceptAllChanges();
 }


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Q: Как написать программу по нахождению одинаковых цифр в числе? Написал программу, по нахождению одинаковых цифр в числе. Не могу найти ошибку
upd нужно просто проверить есть ли повторяющиеся цифры или нет.
x = int(input('Введите число:'))

def array(x):
    global a
    a = []
    while x > 0:
        b = x % 10
        a.append(b)
        x //= 10
        return list(reversed(a))

print(array(x))
for i in range(len(a)):
    if a[i] == a[i+1]:
        print('да')
        break
    else:
        print("нет")

A: У вас цикл while завершается на первой итерации. Уберите отступ перед return.
Вторая ошибка заключается в том, что у вас цикл for выполняется len(a) раз. Поэтому на последней итерации a[i+1] приведет к исключению IndexError. Используйте цикл до len(a) - 1.
Ну и сам алгоритм сравнения чисел неверный. Для числа 121 вы не найдете совпадений, т.к. 1 != 2 и 2 != 1. Можно сравнить длину множества от a с длиной a. Множество содержит только уникальные элементы последовательности, поэтому, если длины разные, то можно сделать вывод, что какое-то число повторяется.
Избавьтесь от глобальных переменных.
def array(x):
    nums = []
    while x > 0:
        b = x % 10
        nums.append(b)
        x //= 10
    return list(reversed(nums))

x = int(input('Введите число: '))
a = array(x)
print('Да' if len(set(a)) != len(a) else 'Нет')

A: Можно решить вопрос просто стандартными структурами. Построить список со всеми символами числа, потом множество этих символов (удалит дубли), если длина этих двух переменных не равна то, очевидно, есть дубли. Предварительно можно проверить, что если кол-во символов в списке больше 10 (столько всего есть цифр) то, очевдно, цифры повторяются.
def double_exist(number: int) -> bool:
    list_number = [s for s in str(number)]
    if len(list_number) > 10:
        return True

    set_number = set(list_number)
    if len(list_number) != len(set_number):
        return True
    return False

number = int(input('Введите число: '))

if double_exist(number):
    print('Да')
else:
    print('Нет')


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I was going to post this no matter what the outcome of the Ipswich/Pompey match.
Originally I was going to, as I did with the Coventry post, talk about their one and only FA Cup win.
Then that one moment happen which changed it and I was going to focus on how Ipswich were playing against 12 men. But in the end it wasn't the ref that lost the game for them, it was a slip up in the defence and a well taken goal by David Nugent which became that one moment.
Ipswich before the sending off could have forced a replay, but from what I saw I don't think would have progressed any further. They didn't really create that many opportunities up front and they need to invest in the January sales.
You never see football players with moustaches any more.
Mick Mills and the film star John Wark were a couple of notables ones playing for the same team which also included George Burley, Kevin Beattie, Paul Mariner and the scorer of the only goal that day – Roger Osborne.
Osborne was so overcome with the emotion of that moment that he feinted and was immediately subbed. Can you imagine the special needs kid doing that.
At least they didn't use "blues" in the lyrics or title. I'll give them that.
Alan Hunter & Kevin Beattie also sported impressive moustaches on the day. Not a patch on the Liverpool taches of the late 70's early 80;s though!