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The Engravers of Religious Medals
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The Engravers of Medals
After collecting for years religious medals, I discovered fantastic artists that designed unique jewelry. I have compiled a list of the greatest engravers of medals. I will start with one of my favorite: Emile Dropsy.
Emile Dropsy (1848-1923). This French artist mostly worked during the Art Nouveau period. So his art is inspired by the lines of the Nature and is very delicate. During his career, he made many medals with religious inspirations. He was rewarded twice for his engraving skills. He appears today as an attractive artist, "the purest of religious medallists and the most sincere of landscape artists".
The second I like a lot, is not one artist but a family of engravers. The Family Penin Poncet. The story of this great family began at the beginning of the 19th century, in Lyon, with Marius Penin (1807-1880). At this time, Lyon was one of the centers of the manufacture of medals in France. He was talented and received a lot of orders for tokens and commemorative medals. He also worked on religious medals. His son, Ludovic Penin (1830-1868) is better known for his religious art. He engraved but also edited his medals. L.Penin was so talented that he received the title of "pontifical engraver" granted in 1864 by Pius IX. Ludovic Penin was the only one in the Penin's family that signed his medal with the first letter of his first name. This allows us to date easily the medals signed L.Penin.
The company Penin became the company Penin Poncet after the marriage of the daughter of L Penin with Alexandre Poncet (1844-1913). The company is experiencing great prosperity.
Ludovic Penin's grand-son, Adolphe Penin (1888-1985) continued the family business but signed very few medals that he engraved. He also received the title of "pontifical engraver ». Paul Penin (born in 1921) continued the artistic work, family legacy.
The Penin's family produced a lot of religious medals. The designs are always beautiful. Ludovic Penin's medals have often an architectural decor.
Our collection of Penin Poncet medals.
Fernand PY (1887-1949) is a French sculptor that engraved religious medals with a modernist look. Often with a black background and an embossed design. He created and worked during the Art Deco period. His art was mostly religious. He joined the doctrine of the Arche founded in 1917 by the architect Maurice Storez (1875-1959). The Arche was a group of Catholic artists that which hopes to respond to the desire of Pope Pius X who had said: "I want my people to pray on Beauty".
Our collection of Fernand PY medals.
Louis Victor Tricard, sculptor and engraver, was a student of the sculptor Bonnassieux (1810-1892) and of the sculptor Ch. Gauthier (1831-1891). He worked from the end of the XIXth to the beginning of the XXth century at 16 Rue Vivienne in Paris. He is cited for works and medals with religious subjects. We do not know much about this talented artist that created magnificent medals with delicate details.
Our collection of Louis Victor Tricard medals
Elie Pellegrin (1914-2004) was a French artist who worked in Chamonix (France, ski station near the Mont Blanc) since 1945. Very pious, his art is mostly religious (crucifix, figurines, medals etc). He developed a technique of enameling on metal (bronze, copper, silver, gold), very personal and appreciated by art lovers. In the 1960s, his style is very modern, almost avant-gardiste. He opened a shop in 1968 and was very successful. He received a lot of orders coming not only from France but also from all over the world. Elie Pellegrin is one of the most modern engravers of religious medals.
Our collection of Elie Pellegrin art
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To Freshfields with Love
February 2, 2016 /0 Comments/in Partner Stories, The Stories /by Jenny Bowen
Running a global NGO is never without its legal hurdles.
Like most of our fellow nonprofits, OneSky lacks the financial resources to afford the legal expertise we need in order to do our work. Thankfully, we have a secret weapon!
Since 2005, law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's incredibly generous and goodhearted partners, associates, support staff and affiliated firms have shown their concern for orphaned and abandoned children by giving selflessly and abundantly their legal expertise in order to help make our work possible. In fact, thanks to Freshfields, OneSky has benefited from pro bono legal support in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, New York, London and Hanoi totaling more than 3,000 hours!
Freshfield's happy table at OneSky's Hong Kong Gala.
On top of that, Freshfields' staffers have also generously sponsored our infant nurture program in Huangshi, our Gala fundraisers in Hong Kong and in the UK, and Hong Kong staffers have also enthusiastically participated in our annual Charity Hike.
Team Freshfields at our annual Charity Hike in Hong Kong.
In 2009, thanks to the Freshfields Community Challenge, 17 Beijing employees also teamed up with OneSky to bring children and caregivers from OneSky's Tianjin center to Beijing's iconic Olympic Park for a field trip. Each child was then treated to lunch at McDonalds, got to attend a screening of the movie Astro Boy with popcorn and snacks. Each child took home a framed photo of the group taken in front of the Bird's Nest, to commemorate their happy time together.
"Freshfields is proud to have been associated with OneSky over the past 10 years and to have seen the organization go from strength to strength, helping some of the most vulnerable children in China. We wish the entire team the very best as they pursue the next important chapter in the growth of OneSky," says Teresa Ko, China Chairman.
To commemorate Freshfields' decade of support for the children, in 2016, OneSky presented an art piece to 60 partners and associates at Freshfields' Hong Kong office.
Freshfields Partner William Robinson and Asia Regional Managing Partner Robert Ashworth, along with OneSky's Chief Development Officer Natalie Campion, and Carmen Lau, Director of Development Asia celebrating Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's 10-year support of OneSky's work.
The piece of art, titled "Birds On the Lotus Leaves", was produced by then 10-year-old OneSky graduate Wu Zhenhao. Zhenhao, now 12, was orphaned as an infant and fought hard to survive several surgeries to remove a spinal tumor and repair a hip dysplasia. His strength of character and passion for life are reflected in his art, for which he has received several local, national and international art awards.
Wu Zhenhao at 8. Zhenhao was orphaned as an infant and joined OneSky's programs at the age of four months.
A younger Zhenhao in OneSky's Family Village Program
Huge thanks to everyone at Freshfields who has helped us impact the lives of so many children!
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Joanna Sydor-Klepacka (ur. 23 stycznia 1975 w Białymstoku) – polska aktorka.

Życiorys
Absolwentka I Liceum Ogólnokształcącego w Tarnowie. W 1995 wystąpiła gościnnie w wideoklipie zespołu Cemetery of Scream pt. "Anxiety". W 1998 ukończyła studia na PWST w Krakowie, a w 2014 również na Wydziale Architektury Wnętrz Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie.

W latach 1998–2005 była aktorką Teatru Starego w Krakowie. Ogólnopolską rozpoznawalność zyskała rolą Teresy Makowskiej-Jakubczyk w serialu TVP2 M jak miłość (2003–2006, 2017–2019).

Życie prywatne
Córka lekarza. Siostra muzyka i kompozytora Pawła Sydora.

Przedstawienia teatralne
 Bracia Karamazow
 Dekalog II
 Dekalog VIII
 Pseudonim Anoda (2008) jako Anna Rodowiczowa

Filmografia
 1995: Listopad (spektakl telewizyjny) – Zosia Kunicka
 1997: Zdrada (spektakl telewizyjny) – koleżanka
 1997: Tęczaki (spektakl telewizyjny) – tęczak
 1997: Nowe szaty cesarza (spektakl telewizyjny) – dama dworu
 1997: Dla Fredry (spektakl telewizyjny) – Arycja
 1997: Biała dama (spektakl telewizyjny) – Adela
 1997: Alek (spektakl telewizyjny) – uczestniczka terapii
 1999: Lato w Nohant (spektakl telewizyjny) – Augustyna
 2001: Więzy krwi – lekarka pogotowia
 2001: Tam i z powrotem – Judy Hartwig, żona Hoffmana
 2001: Szkoła Obmowy (spektakl telewizyjny) – Konstancja
 2001: Marszałek Piłsudski – Aleksandra Piłsudska (odc. 2-8)
 2002: Sfora: Bez litości – kobieta Szprychy
 2002: Na dobre i na złe – Justyna (odc. 105)
 2003–2006, od 2017: M jak miłość – Teresa Makowska-Jakubczyk
 2003: Kasia i Tomek – Dorotka, przyjaciółka Kasi z liceum (odc. 6 seria II słychać tylko głos)
 2004: Pensjonat pod Różą – Małgorzata Szymczak (odc. 24)
 2006: Kto nigdy nie żył… – Marta
 2006: Kryminalni – modelka Ola Ochman (odc. 44)
 2007: Pseudonim Anoda (spektakl telewizyjny) – Anna Rodowiczowa
 2007: Faceci do wzięcia – Monika, sekretarka Wiktora (odc. 46, 49-50)
 2007: Determinator – Dorota Brzostek, żona Andrzeja (odc. 3, 12)
 2009: Sprawiedliwi – Mania Kohn, służaca Kaniewskich (odc. 2, 5-6)
 2009: Przeznaczenie – Magda Ossowska (odc. 3)
 2009: Popiełuszko. Wolność jest w nas – tłumaczka angielskiej tv
 2009: Ojciec Mateusz – Alicja (odc. 30)
 2010: Usta usta – Basia (odc. 1)
 2010: Requiem zagubionych dusz – ona
 2011: Wojna żeńsko męska – sekretarka prezesa wyuzdanego magazynu dla pań
 2011: Unia serc – urzędniczka w ratuszu (odc. 1)
 2011: Przepis na życie – klientka w salonie fryzjerskim (odc. 16)
 2011: Instynkt – Biernacka (odc. 9)
 2012: Prawo Agaty – Jola, koleżanka Agaty z pracy (odc. 1-2)
 2012: Miłość – samotna kobieta
 2012: Hotel 52 – Agata Karska, kochanka Filipa Gajdy (odc. 57)
 2013: To nie koniec świata! – Małgosia, matka Tomka (odc. 8, 10)
 2013: Strażnicy – kobieta
 2013: Na krawędzi – policjantka (odc. 13)
 2013: Jak głęboki jest ocean? – zona Marka
 2014: Warsaw by Night – zakonnica
 2014: Obce ciało – zona Alessia
 2014: Lekarze nocą – kobieta w ciąży (odc. 13)
 2014: Komisarz Alex – komisarz Joanna Tkaczyk (odc. 70)
 2015: Ziarno prawdy – Elżbieta Budnik
 2015: Skazane – Marianna, pracownica OPS w Warszawie (odc. 5-6)
 2016: Na noże – gość na inauguracji restauracji (odc. 4)
 2016: Komisja morderstw – Elwira Hoym, zona profesora (odc. 1)
 2017: Ojciec Mateusz – Teresa Norska (odc. 218)
 2017: Belfer 2 – Aneta Gontarska, matka Karoliny (odc. 3-5 serial II)
 2018: W rytmie serca – Jadwiga Mirecka, żona Kamila (odc. 19)
 2018: Śnił mi się już słoń i kino – matka
 2018: Ślad – Irena Kolec, pracownica banku (odc. 45)
 2019: O mnie się nie martw – Olga Zawiejska, żona Eryka (odc. 124)
 2019: Pułapka – Marzena, matka Zosi (odc. 9, 11)
 2020: Komisarz Alex – Magda Patorska (odc. 175)
 2021: Komisarz Mama – Marlena (odc. 2)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie
Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Teatralnych im. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Krakowie
Aktorki filmowe związane z Białymstokiem
Ludzie urodzeni w Białymstoku
Ludzie związani z Tarnowem
Polskie aktorki filmowe
Polskie aktorki teatralne
Urodzeni w 1975
Absolwenci I Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Kazimierza Brodzińskiego w Tarnowie

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Saudi Arabia on a mission to unfold its archaeological treasures
The researchers estimate that the sculpted camels date back to 100 BC and AD 100. (Supplied)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Thursday, 22 February 2018
Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman, Chairman of the National Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, has said that exploration teams are searching for ancient and historical treasures in Saudi Arabia, as part of a huge project that will uncover the diversity of cultural and historical civilizations found in the Arabian Peninsula.
As many as 35 joint archaeological missions are bringing together Saudi archaeologists and others from around the world to search for undiscovered historical treasures. Each time, more archaeological discoveries are made in Saudi Arabia, it grabs global attention, he said.
The latest discovery was that of life-size camel sculptures in the desert rocks of al-Jouf city. Dr. Jahz Al-Shammari, Director of the General Authority for Tourism and National Heritage in Al-Jouf Region, said that this discovery opens up further research on camels and its history in the Arabian Peninsula.
The validation of the site by the French expedition as a historical archeological site, gave more international attention to this new discovery in Al-Jouf, although the discoverer is one of the Saudi experts in the field of archeology.
The researchers estimate that the sculpted camels date back to 100 BC and AD 100, based on the similarities in artistic style with cultures that flourished during that era.
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We met Mark in his modern, bijou office, located in his top-floor Frognal flat. He is both affable and refreshingly honest. 'At one time, some parents were disappointed that some tutors weren't being consistent with turning up at the set time, so we acted on it and now provide a schedule of agreed times at the outset of each term – that seems to have solved the problem,' he says, providing several examples of his dedication to constantly improving the service, as well as instances that have gone wrong and which he's learned from.
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Clients won't meet Mark if their needs are routine – it'll all be fixed by phone – but he will visit clients if parents specifically request it or their needs are more complex and he's very much at the forefront of the agency, and is at the end of the phone for tutors and parents, including outside office hours.
There are two other directors, although they remain behind the scenes: Patricia Heaps was a bursar in two schools – Watford Grammar School for Girls and St Clement Danes, while Brian Heaps was a Head of Year at Bushey Academy.
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A job board goes out daily to all tutors and they put their names forward if they're interested. 'I then take on the person with the most experience within the given budget,' says Mark. As for personality matching, he says it's instinctive, rather than conscious.
Mark has plenty of statistics at his fingertips: 30% of tutees come from state schools; two-thirds of all 7+ tutees get into first choice schools; 64% of 11+ tutees get into first choice schools; 85% of 13+ tutees get into first or second choice schools, with 57% getting into first choice.
Introductory fee of £55, plus tutor fees of £49 per hour for graduate tutor (up to 2 years' experience); £59 per hour for professional tutor (2-5 years' experience); and £75 for executive tutors (5+ years' experience or PGCE). There is also a travel fee, usually £5-10 per lesson, except where the tutor is in walking distance or it's done by Skype. Academic assessments (which parents who have never embarked on tuition before often go for, whereas those who are used to the tutoring system don't) are £249; interview coaching £175 (minimum of two sessions); and 11+ booster courses are £399. Signed contracts for both tutors and clients, with a four-week notice agreement for both.
Not all consultancy is chargeable – Mark often winds up helping clients FOC. 'If I have a loyal customer who is stressed out about the 7+ and needs 20 minutes of advice that will really calm them down, of course I'll do it – and we're often praised for that,' he says.
Mark points out that they offer regular free tuition to schools. 'We are aware that not every family can afford tutors, so it feels the right thing to do,' says Mark, adding (there's that honesty again) that it does the business no harm, with some schools having found funds to support his tutoring in the longer term.
Parents and tutors alike laud about the professionalism, efficiency and personal touch. 'This agency doesn't feel money grabbing – it's not a babysitting service for the super-rich, like so many are. Mark really cares,' one parent told us.


We have some interesting pictures to share, and I'd love to know what you think.
Here is one that I took of my 10-year-old when she was decorating her hand with play henna. Seems to show her aura.
This one, she took today. She was outside taking pictures of nature. There is this little spider that has a pink/ purple orb next to it. I wonder if it is the spider's energy or if it is a little spirit protecting the spider. This showed up in BOTH pictures.
I don't know anything about photography-- maybe it's a normal thing?
I'm quite heavily into photography, have been since 1986. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am also very technical. I can visualize exactly what light will do, direct and indirect reflection, refraction, transmission, diffusion, you name it I see it, even when using (multiple) flash units.
I am convinced that 95% of what I see on the internet has a perfectly normal technical explanation. Most orbs for instance are caused by light hitting a dust particle in the air in the out of focus regions of the photo (that is generally the majority of the image space). Color spots could be an image problem, like a stuck (hot) pixel, that isn't being masked properly by the in-camera electronics or refraction off a (often cheap compact or phone) lens. The color is normally due to the lens coating. This mostly occurs when a bright light source is located just outside the image.
However, I was once with a person who has mediumistic abilities (though not well developed) and this person (who I am not at liberty to disclose) captured a light outline in human form (head and shoulders) in a shot while I was watching them take the shot. I could not explain these other than that they could have been caused with the aid of their latent abilities. We were shooting in an old church. Subject said this happened to them all the time. Now this isn't 100% water tight evidence, but a physical solution would be so out of the ordinary as to seem far fetched even to me.
In the cases above it would be interesting to see if you can reproduce the effect on an overcast day or in a room with a north facing window. This being one shot I'll stick with saying a dirty lens caused the halo and a bright light source the spiders spot, but a different explanation is certainly possible and valid. To find out, I'd see if you can reproduce it and if there is a constant factor. If the constant factor is a person or person and camera combination you are in Psy territory, if it is the camera you are probably looking at a purely physical explanation.
Thank you, Dennis! It may just be glare or something. I found it interesting that only the spider pictures had the orbs (she took several pictures of different subjects, and none had orbs or spots) and it's also worth noting that the spider photo that was out of focus had a softer, more out of focus orb. To me that confirms that it's not a pixel issue.
In the "aura" one, we did take a few similar pictures, and that was the only one that showed the glow. It may have been humidity or a camera effect. But then, if you notice, by the wall is a trail of glow where it appears her hand had moved. It's very weird.
Maybe later I will try and recreate the spider pic and orb. There is probably a boring, rational explanation, but it's fun to examine the possibilities.
Also-- I emailed a well-respected scientist who studies ghost orbs and asked him for his opinion, so we'll see what he says.


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SASHA SAVALONI
Classical guitarist Sasha Savaloni is the 1st prize winner of the Sevilla International Guitar Competition in 2018.
As a soloist he has given concerts in Italy, Spain, France, Iran, Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom, performing recitals in venues such as the Kings Place (London), Sage Gateshead (Newcastle), City Halls (Glasgow), Stevenson Hall (Glasgow), DIT Conservatory (Dublin) and the Leeds College of Music as well as performances in festivals such as the London Guitar Festival, St Magnus International Festival, Sul Tasto Paris, Big Guitar Weekend, Festival Corde d'Autunno, Les Garrigues Memorial Emili Pujol, Bath Guitar Festival, Shrewsbury Guitar Festival, Plug New Music Festival and the Ullapool Guitar Festival.
He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra. He has also performed and given interviews for BBC Radio Scotland's Classics Unwrapped programme.
Sasha has won numerous awards and prizes; including 1st Prize at the Sevilla International Guitar Competition (2018). Park Lane Group selected artist (2019), Second Prize and the Audience Award at the Miguel Llobet International Competition in Barcelona (2015), 1st Prize Chanterelle Guitar Award (2010) and many others.
Sasha is a lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is also pursuing a Doctoral degree at the RCS focusing on performance of Schubert's music on guitar.
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I did a post and video recently about under eye concealers that ended with me lamenting the lack of effective treatments for under eye wrinkles. While I tried to put a positive spin on it by concluding that even the wealthiest and most famous people out there can't escape or hide theirs, so it must not be possible to treat them, I still hold out hope that something will come along to change that.
Then, like magic I receive an email from a company that wants to send me their under eye wrinkle-removing device to test out! It seems too good to be true, but since I'm always hopeful, I jump at the chance to try this thing out.
It's from a company called JeNu Biosciences and the product is the JeNu Active-Youth Pro Skincare System. The packaging is lovely, clean and well designed. The box contains the Ultrasound Pro Wand, the Active-Youth Eye Treatment, Lip Serum, and two chargers.
The premise for this product is that standard wrinkle creams and serums sit on the surface of the skin until they evaporate, but that the JeNu ultrasound wand creates pathways into the epidermis to deliver their serums microspheres 12X deeper into the skin.
To use it, you simply put a pea sized amount of serum on the wand, turn it on, and gently rub it over the skin below and to the outsides of the eyes (or lips) for 1 minute. The package retails for $249, and the eye and lip serums sell for $52, and $22 respectively. The eye serum contains hyaluronic acid, vitamins A & C, and Matrixyl. The lip serum contains olive and grapeseed oils, and vitamins A & E.
I've been using it for just over a week and I took some before photos, so I'll be back in about 3 weeks to show you the results!
4 Responses to "JeNu Active-Youth Pro Skincare System First Look"
Have you been using it faithfully since your first review in August of 2013. Does it work on under eye puffiness?
No. I stopped using it back then after I ran out of their serum. With the new conducting gel it can be used with any serum so I used it longer this time, but I did stop using it a while ago… it may have been working too well as I was having some irritation around my eyes right after I used it (possibly from the retin-a being delivered more effectively?). I didn't think it did much for under eye puffiness, just fine lines.
Yes for increasing moisture, and debatable for decreasing wrinkles, but check out my before and after pictures for yourself. They're in the "Jenu Results" post (click on the Anti-Aging Skincare Tab at the top of the page and scroll down to find it.


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Republic of Malta
A mural crown with a sally port and five vedettes.
Flag of Malta: Per pale argent and gules, a representation of George Cross argent fimbriated gules in Dexter Chief
Dexter, An olive branch; sinister, a palm branch in vert all in their proper colours, tied at base with a ribbon argent, backed gules and upon which is written in capital letters sable the name of the country in the Maltese language.
The banner of arms, which serves as national flag
The coat of arms of Malta is the national coat of arms of the country of Malta.
The present coat of arms is described by the Emblem and Public Seal of Malta Act of 1988 as a shield showing an heraldic representation of the national flag of Malta; above the shield a mural crown in gold with a sally port and five turrets representing the fortifications of Malta and denoting a city-state; and around the shield a wreath of two branches: the dexter of olive, the sinister of palm, symbols of peace and traditionally associated with Malta, all in their proper colours, tied at base with a white ribbon, backed red and upon which are written the words Repubblika ta' Malta ("Republic of Malta" in Maltese) in capital letters in black.[1]
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The national coat of arms also appears on the Presidential Standard of Malta.
The various coats of arms appear on passports, excise stamps, official documents and various other uses. Many Maltese coins feature a coat of arms, most notably the second series of the Maltese lira, some Maltese euro coins, and many gold or silver commemorative coins (either denominated in the Maltese lira or in Euro). Coats of arms were featured various times on Maltese postage stamps as well.
Coats of arms between 1800 and 1964
Malta was a British protectorate from 1800 to 1813 and a colony from 1813 to 1964. The coat of arms used in Malta was the arms of Great Britain:
However, Malta had three colonial badges between 1875 and 1964. The first (1875 – c. 1898) showed a white Maltese cross on a white and red panel, the second (c. 1898 – 1943) showed a white and red shield (like the arms of Mdina), and the third (1943–1964) was like the 1898 arms, but with a George Cross on a blue canton on the white half. All three badges were featured on the Maltese state ensigns and the Governor's flag:
1875 – c. 1898
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Coat of arms between 1964 and 1975
Coat of arms of Malta from 1964 to 1975
Coat of arms of the Governor-General of Malta
This coat of arms was adopted upon independence on 21 September 1964. It depicts two dolphins which support a depiction of the Maltese flag, one with palm branch and the other with an olive twig representing victory and peace respectively. Above is a mural crown shaped like a fort with five octagonal turrets surmounts a helmet, with red and white ribbons. Below are blue waves representing the surrounding Mediterranean Sea, the Maltese eight-pointed Cross representing the connection with the Order of St. John as well as courage and determination. The ribbon under the shield has the motto Virtute et Constantia (by Valour and Firmness). Nowadays, this motto is used by the National Order of Merit.
A version with a statant guardant lion on the St Edward's Crown instead of the mural crown was also used, and this served as the coat of arms of the Governor-General of Malta.[2]
Emblem between 1975 and 1988
This emblem was adopted on the 11 July 1975, seven months after Malta became a republic. It showed a coastal scene with the rising sun, a traditional Maltese boat, a shovel and a pitchfork, and an Opuntia. All of these symbols are somewhat connected to Malta. Underneath the image the then-new name of the state Repubblika ta' Malta (Republic of Malta) was written.
The Maltese Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, had wanted to change the 1964 coat of arms since he mistook the mural crown as representing royalty and therefore had no place on republican Malta's coat of arms.[2] Mintoff chose a class of art students taught by Esprit Barthet to create a design to be used on the covers of passports, and a design by Edward Abela was chosen. A final design was agreed upon and the new passports were printed and the design was officially adopted as the emblem of Malta.[2]
The emblem was controversial since it was not heraldic, and it was replaced by the current coat of arms soon after the Nationalists won the 1987 election. It was proposed that the 1964 coat of arms be readopted, but eventually a simplified version of it was chosen. The new coat of arms was designed by Adrian Strickland, who prepared preliminary sketches, and Robert Calì, who finished the design.[2]
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Fighting The Infodemic: How Fake News Is Making Coronavirus Even More Dangerous
From 5G towers to miracle cures, it's infected everyone from your friends to President Trump. But there are people fighting fake news on the frontline
By Mark Wilding
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On 6 April, Tom Phillips was self-isolating at his home in south London when he saw the news that a mobile phone mast in Birmingham had been set on fire. Experts suspected that the action had been prompted by a conspiracy theory linking 5G technology to the emergence of Covid-19. As editor of Full Fact, an independent fact-checking charity, Phillips was not unduly concerned; this was just one story. He made a mental note to keep an eye out for further developments and got back to work.
A few hours later, the Guardian published an update: at least 20 mobile phone masts across the UK had been set on fire or vandalised. Posts seen in anti-5G Facebook groups had encouraged members to mount the attacks and post footage online. Telecoms workers had been abused by members of the public. In one viral video, a woman confronted two engineers as they installed 5G cables in the street. "You know when they turn this on it's going to kill everyone and that's why they're building the hospitals?" she said. "Why do you think they're building 25,000 concentration camps of death in London Excel right now? It's because of this wire here."
Now, Phillips was interested. But he wasn't entirely surprised; there'd been similar attacks linked to concerns about the rollout of 3G and 4G. During 2019, Full Fact debunked a series of 5G conspiracy theories, including viral social media posts linking the technology with mass bird deaths and claims it kills trees. Nevertheless, this spate of attacks was disturbing. "It was that sense that, this is getting extremely real," he tells me. "And there was a degree of frustration that this had got to this point."
"The 5G movement's most prominent supporter was David Icke, the goalkeeper-turned-conspiracy theorist who has long argued that the world is secretly run by a race of shape-shifting lizards."
Though Phillips declined to apportion blame for the spread of these rumours, he could have been forgiven for doing so. In July last year, the charity published a report about its ongoing fact-checking partnership with Facebook, in which it called on the government to provide "authoritative public information" on topics including 5G. The report highlighted "a distinct lack of official guidance properly addressing some public concerns" about the technology and warned: "The absence of reliable and trustworthy information can create a vacuum in which misinformation is better able to spread."
For months after the report's publication, anti-5G activism remained a niche concern. The movement's most prominent supporter was arguably David Icke, the goalkeeper-turned-conspiracy theorist who has long argued that the world is secretly run by a race of shape-shifting lizards. Then, the coronavirus pandemic broke out. The long-simmering 5G conspiracy theory mutated and took on startling new momentum. Adherents noted that Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began, had been an early adopter of 5G – ignoring the fact that Iran, which saw one of the earliest outbreaks of the virus, does not yet have the technology. On 26 March, the Daily Star published a news story: "Coronavirus: Fears 5G wifi networks could be acting as 'accelerator' for disease" (the headline has since been changed).
Before long, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were awash with claims that 5G is responsible for the spread of the virus, with videos racking up millions of views. Celebrities and influencers with huge social followings, including Woody Harrelson and Amir Khan, promoted the theory, and in mid-April, breakfast TV host Eamonn Holmes told viewers it may "suit the state narrative" to dismiss 5G concerns. For Will Moy, chief executive at Full Fact, it's frustrating that the organisation's warnings to the government had not been heeded. "The opportunity to tackle that problem was actually months ago," he says. "We saw it coming. We knew we could tackle it. And it was a failure of good information, not just the prevalence of bad information, that caused the problem."
At least 20 mobile phone masts across the UK have been set on fire or vandalised.
The shifting landscape and lack of scientific consensus during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic created an information vacuum that sucked in conspiracy theories and false health advice, opening up a new front on which governments and overstretched health authorities must fight. In mid-February, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned the Munich Security Conference: "We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than the virus, and it is just as dangerous."
In the days and weeks after Ghebreyesus's speech, a series of events illustrated the prescience of his warning. As UK telephone masts burned, damaging vital infrastructure at a time of national emergency, a small town in Ukraine erupted into two days of rioting after rumours spread that a plane had arrived carrying coronavirus patients from Wuhan. In Iran, hundreds of people have been reported dead after drinking methanol, in the misguided belief that it would offer protection from the virus.
Manlio De Domenico, a researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Italy, is an expert in how viruses and information spread. In mid-January, as news filtered out of China that a novel coronavirus had been identified in Wuhan, and the number of confirmed cases began to grow exponentially, he had a hunch about what lay ahead: a global catastrophe, but also a rare opportunity to observe how information spreads during a pandemic. "I have to say I was hoping for this to burn out just in China and that's it," he says. "But I am a researcher. I have a kind of duty to get the data, to understand phenomena."
On 21 January, De Domenico began collecting social media posts about the emerging virus. Over the next seven weeks, he and his colleagues used machine learning to analyse more than 112 million tweets in 64 languages, a flood of information that was spreading across the globe ahead of the pandemic. They observed how the level of misinformation grew exponentially, just like the virus, and researchers found that information from unreliable sources accounted for up to 30 per cent of overall posts. In a paper published earlier this month, they wrote: "We found that waves of unreliable and low-quality information anticipate the epidemic ones, exposing entire countries to irrational social behaviour and serious threats for public health."
"Conspiracy theorists have pushed claims on YouTube and in Facebook groups that Covid-19 is a bioweapon or even a myth."
De Domenico's research focused on Twitter, which provides an easily accessible source of data. We may never know the true scale of the wider coronavirus infodemic. There have been numerous reports of unverified health advice circulating via private messaging apps, urging the public to hold their breath to test themselves for infection; to drink water every 15 minutes; and to take regular saunas – all actions that offer no proven protection from the virus. Conspiracy theorists have pushed claims on YouTube and in Facebook groups that Covid-19 is a bioweapon or even a myth, promoting seemingly fringe ideas that have nonetheless gained a foothold in the public consciousness. Meanwhile, the European Union's disinformation unit has warned that state-sponsored actors are publishing fake news "to exploit the public health crisis to advance geopolitical interests".
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If followed at the expense of truly preventative measures, then well-meaning but inaccurate health advice – the kind currently working its way through family group-chats across the globe – could pose a mortal risk. Imran Ahmed, chief executive at the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has turned its attention to tracking coronavirus misinformation during the outbreak, tells me that the pandemic has made clear what many communities already knew: that misinformation has dire consequences. "It's one of those rare occasions in which we are completely interdependent, as a society, on each other and one bit of misinformation can cause huge amounts of damage to all of us."
Governments and health authorities have scrambled to slow the flow by seeding social media networks with official advice. At the end of March, the government announced that its Rapid Response Unit, a joint Cabinet Office and 10 Downing Street team set up to fight disinformation, was dealing with up to 70 incidents a week of "false narratives" linked to the coronavirus threat. (The Cabinet Office did not respond to a request for further information about the unit's work.) The WHO has launched an Information Network for Epidemics to promote verified information about the virus and the pandemic response.
"In March a viral voice note warned that ambulances wouldn't be dispatched to people with breathing difficulties and ice rinks were being turned into mortuaries"
Meanwhile, the NHS has sought to quickly verify its 800 official health service social media accounts while working with platforms to take down fakes. It's an issue that came to prominence just this week, when a viral Twitter thread alleged the UK government was itself operating a network of fake NHS staff accounts in an attempt to demonstrate support for its handling of the pandemic. The Department for Health and Social Care has flatly denied the claim, describing it as "disinformation" and "categorically false". When Full Fact investigated, it found "no publicly available evidence" to support the claim and said the source of the allegations had declined to provide further information. Two days after it was published, the allegation remained online and had attracted close to 25,000 retweets.
Social media companies, used to criticism for facilitating the flow of inaccurate information, are now taking unprecedented steps to promote verified news and advice. Searches for coronavirus-related topics on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or Twitter see users pointed to official health authority websites. By late March, Facebook said it had directed more than one billion users to expert health resources and seen 100 million people click through to view official information during the course of the pandemic.
Still, misinformation continues to spread. Some have questioned whether social media companies should have done more – and sooner. Official health sources are promoted through Facebook search results, but conspiracy theories circulate in long-established groups popular with anti-vaxxers and 5G truthers. YouTube has committed to clamping down on videos claiming a link between the coronavirus and 5G, but only after the arson attacks on UK telephone masts. Twitter has said it will remove fake and harmful coronavirus content, but allowed a tweet from US tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, which, falsely claimed children are "essentially immune" to Covid-19.
Kids are essentially immune, but elderly with existing conditions are vulnerable. Family gatherings with close contact between kids & grandparents probably most risky.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020
And these are only the visible conspiracies. In late March, as coronavirus cases in the UK started to rise, a voice message began started to spread on WhatsApp, supposedly recorded by a woman from the South East Coast Ambulance Service. It warned that a third of coronavirus cases were expected to be children; that ambulances wouldn't be dispatched to people with breathing difficulties; and that ice rinks were being turned into mortuaries. After receiving panicked emails from members of the public, Marianna Spring, specialist disinformation and social media reporter at the BBC, investigated and discovered that the voice note was a hoax. Public Health England told her: "This is fake news, and we would urge people to ignore the message and not to share it further."
Those forwarding the message on weren't foil-hatters, state actors or Twitter bots. According to Spring, they were frightened people trying share a warning with their loved, just in case it turned out to be true. "Fear is a very powerful emotion that can drive people to share things or even consider ideas that in normal times they would reject as rubbish," she tells me. "Medical myths and speculation about how hospitals are coping "are providing answers to people who are clutching at straws and wanting to work out what's going on."
At Full Fact, every day begins the same way. Its nine-strong fact-checking team reviews hundreds of false claims, inaccurate news reports, and questionable memes to produce a shortlist of 15-20 dubious claims, from which a handful will be chosen for the comprehensive Full Fact treatment. For more than a decade, Full Fact has served as an independent watchdog checking claims made by politicians and the mainstream media for truthfulness and accuracy, publishing the results of its enquiries in an attempt to correct the public record. In recent years, its focus has shifted slightly; viral social media posts are now as much a part of its remit as political statements made on Question Time.
On 27 January, Full Fact published its first fact check related to the coronavirus. "We've seen a number of claims on social media saying that a patent for coronavirus was filed in 2015, since a new respiratory illness was recently observed in Wuhan, China," it read, going on to explain that the term 'coronavirus' refers to a "broad category of viruses" and that the patent in question had been filed by researchers looking at a different illness infecting birds and other animals. In the following days, the organisation debunked a series of claims about Covid-19, including a viral Facebook post that alleged the cleaning supplies manufacturer Dettol had predicted the emergence of the virus on the labelling of its antiseptic spray.
By early March, when the first cases of person-to-person transmission were confirmed within the UK, Full Fact was covering almost nothing other than claims about coronavirus. "That's when it became apparent that this was going to be our world for the foreseeable future," Philips says. Full Fact has now published more than 80 fact checks on Covid-19 claims, and interest in the charity's work has spiked. During March, traffic to the Full Fact website soared an all-time high.
An early set of Full Fact fact checks, from 29 January, relating to theories linking 5G and the spread of coronavirus
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Before joining Full Fact, Phillips spent several years as UK editorial director at BuzzFeed, the news and entertainment website best known for producing highly shareable quizzes and listicles. When I spoke to Phillips in early April, I asked how the time he spent producing viral content had influenced the way he approaches his current role. I imagined the two jobs involved opposing objectives, but Phillips sees them in much the same way. "You can at least give the correct information as good a chance of achieving the kind of spread that it needs."
Rumour always outpaces truth, because facts are rarely as neat. "Fact-checking often involves you denying a simple narrative and pointing out [its] complexity," Phillips says. "So it's always a slight uphill battle." Full Fact must check each claim against official data, or run it past independent experts in the relevant field. By that point, the statements under scrutiny have often been shared thousands of. But as Grace Rahman, the organisation's lead for online fact-checking, puts it: "We want to be fast, but we need to be right."
Will Moy, who launched Full Fact in 2008 while working for a crossbench member of the House of Lords, tells me the charity's aims had always extended well beyond "playing whack-a-mole with an endless stream of harmful misinformation". Full Fact made 87 correction requests last year. This year, it got the headline of the Daily Star's 5G story changed. Seeking corrections can often prevent a false claim being repeated, says Moy, but also creates what he described as a "they know we check effect". "Organisations and people change their behaviour when they anticipate scrutiny."
Fact-checkers deal in hard evidence and data, but they also need empathy. If the truth is to stand a chance, you need to understand why the falsehood is so compelling. "It is not surprising that people are falling for misleading information right now. The world has turned upside down," Phillips says. "You have to start from a position of empathy and understanding that people are frightened and it's okay and, frankly, rational to be frightened. So you need to be compassionate, I think, in your fact-checking. This isn't going to be a time for finger-wagging from a position of authority."
On 7 April, the WHO held the first of two half-day Zoom webinars to discuss its response to the Covid-19 infodemic, bringing together hundreds of scientists, public health specialists, technology experts and journalists from all over the world. Many of the 10-minute presentations were on the subject of 'infodemiology' – a term used by researchers seeking to apply lessons learned from disease outbreaks to the spread of misinformation.
Epidemiologists consider viruses in terms of their basic reproduction rate, commonly referred to as R0, which is a measure of the average number of additional people expected to be infected by each individual case of a disease. The higher the R0 number, the faster and more widely a disease spreads. Things like a long incubation period and dense population will drive the number up; vaccines and social distancing will pull it back down. Drawing parallels, Kisoo Park, from the Korea University College of Medicine, suggested the R0 of an infodemic could be measured by similar factors: the plausibility of misinformation, the opportunities it has to spread, and the audience's vulnerability to believing what they hear or read.
To that end, social media companies have pushed questionable information down users' timelines or removed it entirely. Encrypted messaging services, however, provide a trickier challenge. Unable to moderate messages shared by users, WhatsApp has instead announced limits on message forwarding, after noticing an increase in the amount of viral content, which it said could "contribute to the spread of misinformation". Regardless, it's impossible to gauge just how much misinformation is rattling its way around private chats.
I Can't Answer My Daughter's Covid-19 Questions
In 2018, Conservative MP Damian Collins launched a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation and fake news as chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee. Since it published its findings last year, he has set up his own coronavirus fact-checking service, Infotagion, and hopes that creating an archive of Covid-19 misinformation will illustrate the need for more action. That might mean stricter penalties for those involved in publishing false information in the first place. "We've got to be more vigilant," Collins tells me. "People knowingly manipulating the architecture of social media to post messages that could be harmful in a public health emergency? I think that should be a criminal offence."
Still, tackling misinformation at its source may be but one part of the infodemic solution. Dr Julii Brainard, a researcher at the University of East Anglia who has modelled the impact of fake news on disease outbreaks, told the WHO webinar that authorities have two options, the first being to drown bad advice with good. "That's the basic strategy I see happening right now," she said. "The other one is you make the people resistant, so they don't believe the bad advice. They don't share it, they don't act on it, they may even challenge it and try to stop it." The infodemic equivalent of a vaccination programme.
How that might be done is an unanswered question. "Infodemiology is really in its infancy," says Dr Sylvie Brand, director of global infectious hazard preparedness at the WHO. "We have far less tools than with epidemiology." However, she stresses the importance of acting before rumours and conspiracies have a chance to take a hold, while echoing Phillips' point about the need for understanding the emotional drivers of misinformation. "If you leave a void in your communication then it's filled immediately," she says. "What is really important is to make sure you listen carefully to what people are thinking or saying and then immediately answer their concerns."
"The coronavirus infodemic is the product of a society in which the truth is no longer an objective measure, but something to be continually contested."
Even in the later stages of a crisis, clear communication from official sources can still play a vital role in fighting misinformation. Manlio De Domenico, the Italian researcher who tracked the spread of coronavirus news via Twitter, observed an intriguing phenomenon: in some countries, levels of unreliable information fell as the epidemic progressed. He suggested that, as the crisis escalates, people turn to more reliable sources of information, creating an opportunity for public health messages to cut through. De Domenico highlighted US president Donald Trump's unproven assertion that the antimalarial drug chloroquine represents a "game changer" in the treatment of Covid-19. "Communication at the level of leaders is failing," he says.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues its relentless spread, questions are increasingly being asked about what more should have been done in the earliest stages of the pandemic. Were social distancing measures imposed early enough? Why did we not stockpile more protective equipment? Why, as the virus tore through Hubei province in China, was the threat not taken seriously in the West? When the time comes, we will no doubt be left asking similar questions about our preparedness for the infodemic and examining what measures we might take for when the next crisis hits.
The solutions are unlikely to be easy. With fear and confusion so widespread, a lack of simple answers to complex questions has left a vacuum that misinformation has rushed to fill. But the coronavirus infodemic is also the product of a society in which the truth is no longer an objective measure, but something to be continually contested. In which a forwarded message from a questionable source carries the same weight as official health advice. Our ability to assess the veracity of information is distorted by our need for agency and clarity at a time when we feel we have little of either.
"You will never ever convince every conspiracy theorist that what they believe isn't true."
But like the ouroboros, endlessly eating its own tail, the mere existence of fact-checkers can set paranoia in motion. In early March, Phillips gave a radio interview to LBC's Eddie Mair in which he debunked a series of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Footage of the interview was posted to YouTube, where it attracted more than 1,500 comments. Many of them accused Phillips of promoting his own 'false' claims. "Legend has it if you call yourself a fact-checker everyone believes what you say with no evidence," said one. Another added: "Who to believe? Your own eyes or FAKE NEWS with fake experts?"
I asked Phillips if he found these comments disheartening. "You will never ever convince every conspiracy theorist that what they believe isn't true," he replied. "And that's not the goal we should be judging ourselves by. What we should be judging ourselves by is: are we doing enough good work? Are we being responsive and engaged and human enough in that work, that people who may have been persuaded, who may have tipped over into believing this, maybe go the other way? What you can do is those basic bits of work, constantly, and empathetically, to try and balance the scales a little bit."
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On behalf of Law Offices of Lauren Abrams posted in workplace discrimination on Tuesday, March 12, 2019.
Workers in California may be interested to learn that the United Parcel Service just settled a case with the U.S. Equal Employment Commission for $4.9 million. The case revolved around religious discrimination in which UPS was accused of not accommodating its employees' religious beliefs.
On behalf of Law Offices of Lauren Abrams posted in workplace discrimination on Monday, March 4, 2019.
Ikea is well known to consumers in California who need home furnishings. However, a growing list of lawsuits paints a picture of a company that's hostile to older workers. In a little over 12 months, five employees have filed lawsuits against the company complaining of age discrimination. A statement from the company highlighted its philosophy of inclusion and equality but did not address specific complaints from the plaintiffs.
On behalf of Law Offices of Lauren Abrams posted in workplace discrimination on Monday, February 25, 2019.
Google employees will no longer be prevented from taking part in class-action lawsuits or suing the company over matters such as wrongful termination and discrimination. The California-based company announced that it was relaxing its mandatory arbitration rules in a Feb. 21 press release. The move marks the second time the it has relaxed its rules regarding workplace claims in recent months. In November, Google waived its mandatory arbitration requirement for assault and sexual harassment claims after 20,000 of its employees walked out in protest.
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A major discrimination lawsuit against tech giant Oracle could have implications for employers in California and nationwide. According to the lawsuit, Oracle's practices were so discriminatory that it cost black, female, and Asian employees more than $400 million in pay over four years.
On behalf of Law Offices of Lauren Abrams posted in workplace discrimination on Monday, January 28, 2019.
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/*!
    \file  gd32f4xx_dci.h
    \brief definitions for the DCI
*/

/*
    Copyright (C) 2016 GigaDevice

    2016-08-15, V1.0.0, firmware for GD32F4xx
*/

#ifndef GD32F4XX_DCI_H
#define GD32F4XX_DCI_H

#include "gd32f4xx.h"

/* DCI definitions */
#define DCI                       DCI_BASE

/* registers definitions */
#define DCI_CTL                   REG32(DCI + 0x00U) /*!< DCI control register */
#define DCI_STAT0                 REG32(DCI + 0x04U) /*!< DCI status register 0 */
#define DCI_STAT1                 REG32(DCI + 0x08U) /*!< DCI status register 1 */
#define DCI_INTEN                 REG32(DCI + 0x0CU) /*!< DCI interrupt enable register */
#define DCI_INTF                  REG32(DCI + 0x10U) /*!< DCI interrupt flag register */
#define DCI_INTC                  REG32(DCI + 0x14U) /*!< DCI interrupt clear register */
#define DCI_SC                    REG32(DCI + 0x18U) /*!< DCI synchronization codes register */
#define DCI_SCUMSK                REG32(DCI + 0x1CU) /*!< DCI synchronization codes unmask register */
#define DCI_CWSPOS                REG32(DCI + 0x20U) /*!< DCI cropping window start position register */
#define DCI_CWSZ                  REG32(DCI + 0x24U) /*!< DCI cropping window size register */
#define DCI_DATA                  REG32(DCI + 0x28U) /*!< DCI data register */

/* bits definitions */
/* DCI_CTL */
#define DCI_CTL_CAP               BIT(0)            /*!< capture enable */
#define DCI_CTL_SNAP              BIT(1)            /*!< snapshot mode */
#define DCI_CTL_WDEN              BIT(2)            /*!< window enable */
#define DCI_CTL_JM                BIT(3)            /*!< jpeg mode */
#define DCI_CTL_ESM               BIT(4)            /*!< embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_CTL_CKS               BIT(5)            /*!< clock polarity selection */
#define DCI_CTL_HPS               BIT(6)            /*!< horizontal polarity selection */
#define DCI_CTL_VPS               BIT(7)            /*!< vertical polarity selection */
#define DCI_CTL_FR                BITS(8,9)         /*!< frame rate */
#define DCI_CTL_DCIF              BITS(10,11)       /*!< digital camera interface format */
#define DCI_CTL_DCIEN             BIT(14)           /*!< dci enable */

/* DCI_STAT0 */
#define DCI_STAT0_HS              BIT(0)            /*!< HS line status */
#define DCI_STAT0_VS              BIT(1)            /*!< VS line status */
#define DCI_STAT0_FV              BIT(2)            /*!< FIFO valid */

/* DCI_STAT1 */
#define DCI_STAT1_EFF             BIT(0)            /*!< end of frame flag */
#define DCI_STAT1_OVRF            BIT(1)            /*!< FIFO overrun flag */
#define DCI_STAT1_ESEF            BIT(2)            /*!< embedded synchronous error flag */
#define DCI_STAT1_VSF             BIT(3)            /*!< vsync flag */
#define DCI_STAT1_ELF             BIT(4)            /*!< end of line flag */

/* DCI_INTEN */
#define DCI_INTEN_EFIE            BIT(0)            /*!< end of frame interrupt enable */
#define DCI_INTEN_OVRIE           BIT(1)            /*!< FIFO overrun interrupt enable */
#define DCI_INTEN_ESEIE           BIT(2)            /*!< embedded synchronous error interrupt enable */
#define DCI_INTEN_VSIE            BIT(3)            /*!< vsync interrupt enable */
#define DCI_INTEN_ELIE            BIT(4)            /*!< end of line interrupt enable */

/* DCI_INTF */
#define DCI_INTF_EFIF             BIT(0)            /*!< end of frame interrupt flag */
#define DCI_INTF_OVRIF            BIT(1)            /*!< FIFO overrun interrupt flag */
#define DCI_INTF_ESEIF            BIT(2)            /*!< embedded synchronous error interrupt flag */
#define DCI_INTF_VSIF             BIT(3)            /*!< vsync interrupt flag  */
#define DCI_INTF_ELIF             BIT(4)            /*!< end of line interrupt flag */

/* DCI_INTC */
#define DCI_INTC_EFFC             BIT(0)            /*!< clear end of frame flag */
#define DCI_INTC_OVRFC            BIT(1)            /*!< clear FIFO overrun flag */
#define DCI_INTC_ESEFC            BIT(2)            /*!< clear embedded synchronous error flag */
#define DCI_INTC_VSFC             BIT(3)            /*!< vsync flag clear */
#define DCI_INTC_ELFC             BIT(4)            /*!< end of line flag clear */

/* DCI_SC */
#define DCI_SC_FS                 BITS(0,7)         /*!< frame start code in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SC_LS                 BITS(8,15)        /*!< line start code in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SC_LE                 BITS(16,23)       /*!< line end code in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SC_FE                 BITS(24,31)       /*!< frame end code in embedded synchronous mode */

/* DCI_SCUNMSK */
#define DCI_SCUMSK_FSM            BITS(0,7)         /*!< frame start code unmask bits in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SCUMSK_LSM            BITS(8,15)        /*!< line start code unmask bits in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SCUMSK_LEM            BITS(16,23)       /*!< line end code unmask bits in embedded synchronous mode */
#define DCI_SCUMSK_FEM            BITS(24,31)       /*!< frame end code unmask bits in embedded synchronous mode */

/* DCI_CWSPOS */
#define DCI_CWSPOS_WHSP           BITS(0,13)        /*!< window horizontal start position */
#define DCI_CWSPOS_WVSP           BITS(16,28)       /*!< window vertical start position */

/* DCI_CWSZ */
#define DCI_CWSZ_WHSZ             BITS(0,13)        /*!< window horizontal size */
#define DCI_CWSZ_WVSZ             BITS(16,29)       /*!< window vertical size */

/* constants definitions */
/* DCI parameter struct definitions */
typedef struct
{
    uint32_t capture_mode;                                           /*!< DCI capture mode: continuous or snapshot */
    uint32_t clock_polarity;                                         /*!< clock polarity selection */
    uint32_t hsync_polarity;                                         /*!< horizontal polarity selection */
    uint32_t vsync_polarity;                                         /*!< vertical polarity selection */
    uint32_t frame_rate;                                             /*!< frame capture rate */
    uint32_t interface_format;                                       /*!< digital camera interface format */
}dci_parameter_struct;

#define DCI_CAPTURE_MODE_CONTINUOUS   ((uint32_t)0x00000000U)        /*!< continuous capture mode */
#define DCI_CAPTURE_MODE_SNAPSHOT     DCI_CTL_SNAP                   /*!< snapshot capture mode */

#define DCI_CK_POLARITY_FALLING       ((uint32_t)0x00000000U)        /*!< capture at falling edge */
#define DCI_CK_POLARITY_RISING        DCI_CTL_CKS                    /*!< capture at rising edge */

#define DCI_HSYNC_POLARITY_LOW        ((uint32_t)0x00000000U)        /*!< low level during blanking period */
#define DCI_HSYNC_POLARITY_HIGH       DCI_CTL_HPS                    /*!< high level during blanking period */

#define DCI_VSYNC_POLARITY_LOW        ((uint32_t)0x00000000U)        /*!< low level during blanking period */
#define DCI_VSYNC_POLARITY_HIGH       DCI_CTL_VPS                    /*!< high level during blanking period*/

#define CTL_FR(regval)                (BITS(8,9)&((uint32_t)(regval) << 8U))
#define DCI_FRAME_RATE_ALL            CTL_FR(0)                      /*!< capture all frames */
#define DCI_FRAME_RATE_1_2            CTL_FR(1)                      /*!< capture one in 2 frames */
#define DCI_FRAME_RATE_1_4            CTL_FR(2)                      /*!< capture one in 4 frames */

#define CTL_DCIF(regval)              (BITS(10,11)&((uint32_t)(regval) << 10U))
#define DCI_INTERFACE_FORMAT_8BITS    CTL_DCIF(0)                    /*!< 8-bit data on every pixel clock */
#define DCI_INTERFACE_FORMAT_10BITS   CTL_DCIF(1)                    /*!< 10-bit data on every pixel clock */
#define DCI_INTERFACE_FORMAT_12BITS   CTL_DCIF(2)                    /*!< 12-bit data on every pixel clock */
#define DCI_INTERFACE_FORMAT_14BITS   CTL_DCIF(3)                    /*!< 14-bit data on every pixel clock */

/* DCI interrupt constants definitions */
#define DCI_INT_EF                    ((uint32_t)0x00000001U)         /*!< end of frame interrupt */
#define DCI_INT_OVR                   ((uint32_t)0x00000002U)         /*!< FIFO overrun interrupt */
#define DCI_INT_ESE                   ((uint32_t)0x00000004U)         /*!< embedded synchronous error interrupt */
#define DCI_INT_VS                    ((uint32_t)0x00000008U)         /*!< vsync interrupt */
#define DCI_INT_EL                    ((uint32_t)0x00000010U)         /*!< end of line interrupt */

/* DCI flag definitions */
#define DCI_FLAG_HS                   ((uint8_t)0x01U)                /*!< HS line status */
#define DCI_FLAG_VS                   ((uint8_t)0x02U)                /*!< VS line status */
#define DCI_FLAG_FV                   ((uint8_t)0x03U)                /*!< FIFO valid */
#define DCI_FLAG_EFF                  ((uint8_t)0x04U)                /*!< end of frame flag */
#define DCI_FLAG_OVRF                 ((uint8_t)0x05U)                /*!< FIFO overrun flag */
#define DCI_FLAG_ESEF                 ((uint8_t)0x06U)                /*!< embedded synchronous error flag */
#define DCI_FLAG_VSF                  ((uint8_t)0x07U)                /*!< vsync flag */
#define DCI_FLAG_ELF                  ((uint8_t)0x08U)                /*!< end of line flag */

/* function declarations */
/* DCI deinit */
void dci_deinit(void);
/* initialize DCI registers */
void dci_init(dci_parameter_struct* dci_struct);

/* enable DCI function */
void dci_enable(void);
/* disble DCI function */
void dci_disable(void);
/* enable DCI capture */
void dci_capture_enable(void);
/* disble DCI capture */
void dci_capture_disable(void);
/* enable DCI jpeg mode */
void dci_jpeg_enable(void);
/* disble DCI jpeg mode */
void dci_jpeg_disable(void);

/* enable cropping window function */
void dci_crop_window_enable(void);
/* disble cropping window function */
void dci_crop_window_disable(void);
/* config DCI cropping window */
void dci_crop_window_config(uint16_t start_x, uint16_t start_y, uint16_t size_width, uint16_t size_height);

/* enable sync codes function */
void dci_sync_codes_enable(void);
/* disble sync codes function */
void dci_sync_codes_disable(void);
/* config sync codes */
void dci_sync_codes_config(uint8_t frame_start, uint8_t line_start, uint8_t line_end, uint8_t frame_end);
/* config sync codes unmask */
void dci_sync_codes_unmask_config(uint8_t frame_start, uint8_t line_start, uint8_t line_end, uint8_t frame_end);

/* read DCI data register */
uint32_t dci_data_read(void);

/* enable specified DCI interrupt */
void dci_interrupt_enable(uint32_t interrupt);
/* disble specified DCI interrupt */
void dci_interrupt_disable(uint32_t interrupt);
/* clear specified interrupt */
void dci_interrupt_clear(uint32_t interrupt);
/* get specified flag */
FlagStatus dci_flag_get(uint32_t flag);
/* get specified interrupt flag */
FlagStatus dci_interrupt_flag_get(uint32_t interrupt);
#endif /* GD32F4XX_DCI_H */


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Michael Keaton in The Flash: "I always thought I could go back to being Batman and embroider that son of a ***"
Michael Keaton, the famous actor who played the Batman cinematographic of Tim Burton in 1989 and that he would return shortly after in Batman Returns, will be re-donning the Dark Knight costume after almost 30 years since the last time in The Flash, the new DCEU movie that is currently being shot and of which we have already seen not a few images and videos leaked with more than one surprise. But going back to Keaton, the actor has conducted an extensive interview with The Hollywood Reporter analyzing your return to superhero cinema, ensuring that he always thought that one day he would be Batman again, making sense of his own joke "I'm Batman".
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And is that Michael Keaton was so impressed by the script written by Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey) as per the director's vision Andy Muschietti (author of the remake of It and its sequel) on the possibility of returning as Batman in The Flash. "Honestly, in the back of my head, I always thought, 'I bet I could go back and nail that motherfucker'. And then I thought: 'Well, now that they ask me, let me see if I can do it,' "says the actor.
Of course, Keaton admits that it was a bit difficult for him understand the whole plot of parallel universes and that justified his return to the big screen as Batman alongside Ben Affleck's Batman. "I had to read it more than three times to say, 'Wait, how does this work?' They had to explain it to me several times. By the way, I'm not being arrogant, I hope, with this. I'm not saying it like, 'I'm too groovy.' I am stupid. There are a lot of things I don't know, "Keaton continues.
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Source | The Hollywood Reporter
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Best Oral Presentation Award at ISMIR 2015
Our paper "Melody Extraction by Contour Classification", presented by colleague and first author Rachel Bittner, has won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the ISMIR 2015 conference!
A huge congratulations to my co-authors Rachel Bittner, Slim Essid and Juan Pablo Bello, and especially to Rachel for doing such an excellent job at presenting the paper at the conference!
R. Bittner, J. Salamon, S. Essid and J. P. Bello. "Melody Extraction by Contour Classification". Proc. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), Malaga, Spain, Oct. 2015.
Melody Extraction by Contour Classification
Due to the scarcity of labeled data, most melody extraction algorithms do not rely on fully data-driven processing blocks but rather on careful engineering. For example, the Melodia melody extraction algorithm employs a pitch contour selection stage that relies on a number of heuristics for selecting the melodic output. In this paper we explore the use of a discriminative model to perform purely data-driven melodic contour selection. Specifically, a discriminative binary classifier is trained to distinguish melodic from non-melodic contours. This classifier is then used to predict likelihoods for a track's extracted contours, and these scores are decoded to generate a single melody output. The results are compared with the Melodia algorithm and with a generative model used in a previous study. We show that the discriminative model outperforms the generative model in terms of contour classification accuracy, and the melody output from our proposed system performs comparatively to Melodia. The results are complemented with error analysis and avenues for future improvements.
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Yoga has been studied for years for its multiple health benefits. One report I found touted that yoga is good for 107 diseases. I think it goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway, yoga is good for you. Yet there's one specific study that really stood out – it reported that three months of yoga resulted in widespread improvement in cardiovascular and neurological function. The study maintained that yoga may prevent age-related changes to the heart, brain and autonomic functions. Time to Namaste. Click here to check out this article about the world's oldest living yoga instructor. Her name is Tao, she's 98 and has some great advice.
The old adage, An apple a day keeps the doctor away was waaaay ahead of its time. The saying originated in Wales in 1860. The English version was, Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread. The reason why the quote was ahead of its time is because apples, apple juice, apple pectin and apple peel have the ability to prevent some cancers, while suppressing others. I have just touched the surface with this research. It's going to need a full article because the benefits are unending. I just know I'm adding organic apples to my shopping list this week.
P.P.S. Check out Judy Leighton, a long time reader of Anti-Aging@home, who is a pain and stress consultant and author. Along with her clients, they were able to quickly remove fear and pain from their flashbacks and memories and rapidly discover and release themselves from mental and emotional traps. They have a healthy self-worth now. They did this by using her healing method, books and CDs. Go to her website www.apathtolight.com to see. First read her engaging book, Journey into Light: Experience the Sunshine Method. Here's a link to a brief newspaper article about this book: http://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2017/09/12/local-author-writes-book-long-invitation/ Enjoy!
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