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import { parseAlgoliaHit } from '../highlight';

describe('parseAlgoliaHit()', () => {
  it('does not break when there is a missing attribute', () => {
    const attribute = 'attr';
    const out = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute,
      hit: {},
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(out).toEqual([]);
  });

  it('creates a single element when there is no tag', () => {
    const value = 'foo bar baz';
    const attribute = 'attr';
    const out = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute,
      hit: createHit(attribute, value),
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(out).toEqual([{ isHighlighted: false, value }]);
  });

  it('creates a single element when there is only a tag', () => {
    const textValue = 'foo bar baz';
    const value = `<em>${textValue}</em>`;
    const attribute = 'attr';
    const out = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute,
      hit: createHit(attribute, value),
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(out).toEqual([{ value: textValue, isHighlighted: true }]);
  });

  it('fetches and parses a deep attribute', () => {
    const textValue = 'foo bar baz';
    const value = `<em>${textValue}</em>`;
    const hit = {
      lvl0: { lvl1: { lvl2: value } },
      _highlightResult: {
        lvl0: { lvl1: { lvl2: { value } } },
      },
    };
    const out = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute: 'lvl0.lvl1.lvl2',
      hit,
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(out).toEqual([{ value: textValue, isHighlighted: true }]);
  });

  it('parses the string and returns the part that are highlighted - 1 big highlight', () => {
    const str = 'like algolia does algolia';
    const hit = createHit('attr', str);
    const parsed = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute: 'attr',
      hit,
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(parsed).toEqual([
      { value: 'like ', isHighlighted: false },
      { value: 'al', isHighlighted: true },
      { value: 'golia does ', isHighlighted: false },
      { value: 'al', isHighlighted: true },
      { value: 'golia', isHighlighted: false },
    ]);
  });

  it('supports the array format, parses it and returns the part that is highlighted', () => {
    const hit = {
      tags: ['litterature', 'biology', 'photography'],
      _highlightResult: {
        tags: [
          { value: 'litterature' },
          { value: 'biology' },
          { value: 'photography' },
        ],
      },
    };

    const actual = parseAlgoliaHit({
      attribute: 'tags',
      hit,
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });

    const exepectation = [
      [{ value: 'litterature', isHighlighted: false }],
      [{ value: 'biology', isHighlighted: false }],
      [
        { value: 'photo', isHighlighted: true },
        { value: 'graphy', isHighlighted: false },
      ],
    ];

    expect(actual).toEqual(exepectation);
  });

  it('parses the string and returns the part that are highlighted - same pre and post tag', () => {
    const str = 'surpise **lo**l mouhahah roflmao **lo**utre';
    const hit = createHit('attr', str);
    const parsed = parseAlgoliaHit({
      preTag: '**',
      postTag: '**',
      attribute: 'attr',
      hit,
      highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
    });
    expect(parsed).toEqual([
      { value: 'surpise ', isHighlighted: false },
      { value: 'lo', isHighlighted: true },
      { value: 'l mouhahah roflmao ', isHighlighted: false },
      { value: 'lo', isHighlighted: true },
      { value: 'utre', isHighlighted: false },
    ]);
  });

  it('throws when hit is `null`', () => {
    expect(
      parseAlgoliaHit.bind(null, {
        attribute: 'unknownattribute',
        hit: null,
        highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
      })
    ).toThrow('`hit`, the matching record, must be provided');
  });

  it('throws when hit is `undefined`', () => {
    expect(
      parseAlgoliaHit.bind(null, {
        attribute: 'unknownAttribute',
        hit: undefined,
        highlightProperty: '_highlightResult',
      })
    ).toThrow('`hit`, the matching record, must be provided');
  });
});

function createHit(attribute, value) {
  return {
    [attribute]: value,
    _highlightResult: {
      [attribute]: { value },
    },
  };
}

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The atmospheric particle number size distribution is highly variable in time and space. Meanwhile, it is one of the most important parameters to assess the aerosols's optical and cloud-forming properties.
Our research group is involved in worldwide activities to capture the spatial and temporal changes in the atmospheric particle number size distributions, which are closely related to the distribution and activity patterns of the associated sources and processes. Our field measurements take place in a range of ecosystems, from the globe's clean air regions to polluted urban atmospheres.
The major tools for size distribution characterisation include various size spectrometers based on the principles of electromobility, light scattering, and particle inertia. With our equipment, we are usually able to cover a size range between 2 nm and 10 µm.
New aerosol particles can be formed in the atmosphere by homogeneous nucleation of low-volatile precursor gases. Sulfuric acid is the best-known precursor gas for nucleation. By further condensation of condensable vapours and coagulation, the newly formed particles may grow into diameters where particles become active light scatterers and absorbers, and can act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).
Our field measurements since 1996 have demonstrated that new particle formation is a regional phenomenon in the continental boundary layer, covering 100 km and more horizontally (Field measurements of new particle formation). Solar radiation seems to be an essential requirement on the way to photochemical particle formation.
One of the newer instruments to detect new particle formation is the Neutral Cluster Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS), which is operated jointly with the University of Helsinki.
Hygroscopic growth and mixing state are essential properties in determining the optical properties of aerosol particles in the atmosphere. We study these properties in detail using costom-made in situ instrumentation.
Hygroscopic growth leads to an increase in aerosol particle diameters at high ambient relative humidities, resulting in meteorological conditions characterised as "haze" or "fog". The hygroscopic properties enhance, above all, the particles' light scattering properties and their ability to form clouds.
The mixing state , particularly in conjunction with carbonaceous particles, influences atmospheric light absorption.
We determine the hygroscopic properties of aerosol particles under laboratory and field conditions using hygroscopicity analysers (H-TDMA and HH-TDMA), the particle mixing state using tandem mobility analysers (H-TDMA und V-TDMA).
Light absorption by atmospheric particles is a key area of our research efforts.
Particle light absorption depends on the mixing state of the absorbing particulate material. Internally mixed black carbon (e.g. soot particles coated by a shell of light-scattering material such as sulfate) absorbs more light than externally mixed black carbon.
In the atmosphere there are three main kinds of absorbing aerosols: black carbon, organic carbon, and mineral dust involving iron oxides. All these materials exhibit a different behaviour regarding the wavelength dependent absorption.
Many considerations and calculations for aerosol particles assume a spherical shape of the particles. As can be seen, for example, from electron micrographs, this is only a crude approximation for many real-world particles. Some prominent aerosol types, particularly mineral dust and biological particles (pollen) can strongly diverge from the spherical shape.
Particle shape has an influence on particle sizing in some particle size spectrometers. Depending on the measurement principle, shape-dependent correction factors can be developed. Furthermore, light scattering depends on particle shape, with non-sperical shapes potentially causing a misestimation of the light scattering intensity by a factor of up to two.
Our research group simulates particle sizing and light scattering for scientific instruments in the laboratory as well as under atmospheric conditions as a function of various particle shapes. These simulations are performed by various radiative transfer models. A particular focus has been the analysis of non-spherical dust particles.


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Valdaro è un quartiere di 180 abitanti situato alle porte di Mantova, di carattere prevalentemente industriale e logistico.

Storia
Valdaro acquisì notorietà internazionale quando, nei suoi pressi nel 2007, un eccezionale ritrovamento di due scheletri del neolitico, rinvenuti abbracciati, ebbe vasta eco sui media internazionali, in particolare quelli di lingua inglese. Agli stessi fu dato il nome di Amanti di Valdaro.

Ubicazione e indicazioni
Si trova all'inizio dell'idrovia Fissero-Tartaro-Canalbianco, dov'è ubicato il porto di Valdaro, un importante scalo merci per la città, per la provincia di Mantova e di Verona.
Il quartiere ha subito negli ultimi decenni una rapida e grossa trasformazione ancora in corso, in seguito all'insediamento di fabbriche e imprese operanti nei settori dei trasporti e della logistica.
Questa zona, prima disabitata, è ora interessata dalla costruzione di un polo logistico intermodale raggiungibile sia su gomma, attraverso la rete stradale, sia via acqua tramite la darsena del porto di Mantova, che su rotaia, grazie all'attuale sviluppo ferroviario del "Fascio di Valdaro", che si snoda dalla stazione di Mantova Frassine, poco distante.
Il complesso si trova a 5 km dalla città, ed è facilmente accessibile mediante le principali vie di comunicazione, quali la ex SS 482 e la SP 28 che permette il collegamento al casello di Mantova nord dell'Autostrada A22 del Brennero ed è dunque collegato alle direttrici di traffico italiane ed europee tramite l'autostrada A22, le ferrovie Mantova - Monselice, la Verona - Modena, la Padova-Bologna e la Bologna - Verona e l'aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona. Inoltre è in fase di costruzione il raccordo a quattro corsie che lo collegherà al casello autostradale di Mantova Nord. Solo in una fase preliminare è l'asse interurbano che lo collegherà alla direttrice per Modena e/o per Cremona. A fianco del centro, il porto commerciale di Valdaro, che essendo situato sull'idrovia Fissero-Tartaro-Canalbianco, costituisce un punto di riferimento per l'intero bacino idrografico europeo. La mobilità delle merci è pertanto garantito da un triplice sistema connettivo che crea un singolare polo logistico nel cuore della Pianura Padana.

Note

Voci correlate
 Amanti di Valdaro
 Roncoferraro
 Mincio

Collegamenti esterni

Mantova

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Commentary: To Address Overseas Presence Gaps, Permanently Base Aircraft Carrier at Souda Bay
By Constance Baroudos
Since the US Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt departed from the Middle East for its home port in October, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has been waging Operation Inherent Resolve against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without the benefit of an aircraft carrier. Even though the Navy considers a forward presence as its core responsibility, the fleet has strained to fulfill missions in CENTCOM and in the Asia-Pacific region.
The US should permanently base an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean to quickly respond to crises in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf while seeking to modify the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP) that has resulted in overseas presence gaps.
In January 2014, the OFRP was rolled out to keep carrier strike groups (CSG) from unexpected, long deployments and to allow time for ship maintenance. In practice, the OFRP ties an aircraft carrier to the guided-missile cruisers and destroyers deployed with it. This means the entire battle group must endure a 36-month cycle of maintenance, training, deployment and sustainment together.
While the plan seeks predictability for the lives of sailors and maintainers, Rear Adm. Richard Berkey, director of fleet maintenance for US Fleet Forces, has pointed out the sustainment phase needs more financial resources for training and personnel to keep sailors trained and proficient.
Commander of Naval Air Forces Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker highlighted that historically, the Navy has not funded CSGs to maintain a high level of readiness at their home ports, five months being the longest. This means CSGs may lose their readiness and qualifications, unable to respond to threats quickly when needed.
Combatant commanders have advocated against the OFRP, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff remain supportive and intend to stick to the model — the US Navy is currently working on a similar plan for the Amphibious Ready Groups that carry Marine Expeditionary Units around the globe.
The Navy has sometimes extended deployments by two to three months to avoid overseas presence gaps, but even this tactic fails at times. After the Roosevelt left the Middle East in October, a two-month overseas carrier presence gap resulted since its replacement, the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, is scheduled to arrive in mid-December.
A symbol of American power departed with the Roosevelt, which was responsible for 1,812 combat sorties, totaling 10,618 combat flight hours and expending 1,085 precision-guided munitions. With tensions rising in the Mediterranean and Middle East, America cannot afford to lose carrier power and forward presence for extended periods of time. Such gaps will become more common in 2016 if not addressed by Navy leadership and Congress.
The US should permanently base an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean to reinforce allies' perception of American might, deter potential adversaries and provide more stability in the region. One excellent location to do so is at Souda Bay, located on the Greek island of Crete. A permanent aircraft carrier would eliminate overseas presence gaps and provide a quick response to crises in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf.
There are also several facilities in and near Souda Bay, such as the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operations Training Center and the NATO Missile Firing Installation, for troops to train with allies and partners during deployment.
A Congressional Budget Office report states that basing more ships and crews overseas will boost overseas operations with a smaller budget, even after more money is spent on maintenance, personnel and operating more ships to rotate crews. Permanently basing an aircraft carrier at Souda Bay would save much time and money as the Navy struggles to afford increasing its total number of ships with an estimated cost well above the annual Navy budget average.
Even though the increase in conflict in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East calls for a stronger US presence, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, has publicly stated there is no plan to increase scarce naval resources. This means NATO needs to boost military power relations with existing members to deter further aggression in the region while adjustments to the OFRP are sought to eliminate overseas carrier gaps.
Greece is one example of a member nation that could permanently base an aircraft carrier at Souda Bay to allow the Navy to project power into the Middle East and North Africa, allowing for a quicker response in the region while saving time and money.
Constance Baroudos is a policy analyst and program director at the Lexington Institute.
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It always happens when I mirror, but it also happens often when I "edit" the layout, such as removing single seats, but only if I select to modify the bounding box.
Hey, for anyone who's following I just figured it out!! (Yes, I am very proud of myself here.) So after going nuclear and uninstalling and reinstalling, i noticed the problem relates to units. I setup some of my template standards, including the border (I had to know!) Worked just fine. I then continued setting up my template and got to setting up how I like units. Since I work in live events i turn off all fractions and decimals in units, as an inch of variance is nothing in scale to what I do, and it eats up time. As soon as I set units with no decimals i tried again and i cant set margins less then 1", if i throw a single decimal place in the rounding and BOOM, I'm back in business! So guessing I'm working to the tenth now... Is this worth submitting as a bug? and if so how in the world do i do that?
No luck. Still doing the same thing. I also checked the "Grid Marker Line Length" and it to constantly resets to 1" after being changed. I also tried lowering the text size in the grid in the hopes maybe it was just trying to make room for the text, and still doing the same thing. Oh yeah, and I started with a stock Spotlight template, so the template should (in theory) be clear of any relics from previous drawings.
On a Mac, but I'm not refering to the page margins, the border margins, or how wide it is. Set in the border settings, default is 1". I'm trying to set to .5", i use a grid, but it just wont stay.
Hey all, So now that i have the title block mostly figured out, i am having a problem with the margins on the border. I want to adjust the size of the margins, however no matter what i try it defaults back to 1" when i exit the title block. I have tried every method of this i can with the same result. Anyone had similar problems?
Hey guys, ok, so I have figured it out, and once you do that it is "easier" then before, just completely different. First open your old block in a file and edit it's 2D component, leave it for a few minutes In a new drawing, or a template your updating for 2018, drop in a Title Block Border with the border tool Clink on it and select the "Title Block Border Settings" from the Object Info pallet In the left side column you select the "Project Data" or "Sheet Data" and add in the Text records as you used to in the old "Record Format" windows, no seperated After you have the different record you need go to the "Title Block" option in the left column Click on the "Edit Title Block" button close to the bottom, this will take you to a block edittor Now you can Copy your old block, as individual components, not as a symbol, and paste it into your "new" title block Make sure you get its placement correct, lower right corner as before If you destroyed your text linked to the record from your old one, as I did, you should see your default text still visible, otherwise add in your text and format it Individually select your text and in the Object Info pallet at the bottom you'll see a new section titled "Title Block Data Link" check the box to link data and then select with record you created before you want it linked to. Once your done you should be able to edit the block editor and you should have a new block It sounds harder then it it, it took me hours to figure it out, but once I did it wasn't too bad to get back up and running. Its just such a huge change from the old system. And you have to create all your records and links again. If anyone has any notes or corrections please let me know, and I'll update if i find any shortcuts.
I'm still confused on how to get a custom title block working. I have the block created, I've tried creating the folder structure in my user folder, as well as dropping it into the folder with the included blocks but can not get it to come up in the selection box when i try to set a title block. I even imported the symbol to the active drawing with no luck. Am I missing a step?
Hey guys, i hope this isnt so old as to be dead. I have updated to 2018 and still have the problem. No its not there, i have dug and dug, no worksheet. Is there a way to force it to generate?
I am in 2017, on a Mac. In previous years it acts as you said, but since I have updated to 2017 it no longer seems to create the worksheet at all.


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MEXICO CITY — Negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement will resume on Wednesday in Mexico City, and representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico are racing to wrap up talks by March.
President Trump is pushing trade in Asia this week. But his top trade official will be in Mexico City trying to find common ground with America's two biggest export markets.
Welles Orr, a former assistant U.S. Trade representative under George H.W. Bush, is now a trade consultant in Washington.
"Their instructions simply will be to keep the ball rolling, despite the backdrop to the controversy of the proposals that were dropped in the last round," Orr said.
Such controversial points include increasing the percentage of U.S. parts that go into cars. They also include requiring the three countries to ratify the agreement every five years. Colin Robertson, a former Canadian trade diplomat, said the March deadline is not very realistic.
"Perhaps it could've been done. But when you look at the U.S. objectives, you realize that it's quite profound," Robertson said.
If negotiations aren't wrapped by then, they could be put on hold while Mexico holds presidential elections and\ U.S. voters go to the polls for midterms in November next year.


'THE point of philosophy,' Bertrand Russell mischievously wrote in 1935, 'is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.' He was no fool. He realised that, in order to make people listen to what he had to say about philosophy, it was necessary first to join them in ridiculing it. After all, as everybody knows, philosophers spend their days working out how many angels can dance on the inadequate supply of pins provided by the education department, and their nights trying to forget that they haven't got anywhere since the ancient Greeks. Some ices fixes are just too firmly wedged to budge. You have to play along with them. But does philosophy actually deserve its reputation for sophistical irrelevance?
This is a question worth asking on the death of a man hailed as the leading philosopher of the second half of the 20th century, especially when few have heard of him and much of his work apparently consisted of squiggles. W.V. Quine Van, to his friends - who died aged 92 on Christmas Day, was a Harvard don who set the agenda for postwar philosophy after the influence of Wittgenstein and the Oxford linguistic analysts had faded. The abstruse theorems of mathematical logic were his passion. If you subscribe to the view that contemporary philosophy has abandoned its former calling to answer the Great Questions of Life, then Quine and his immediate predecessors are good candidates for blame. And they are indeed receiving their share of it in the newspapers. Simon Jenkins (of whom more later) has been roused to distraction by the honours heaped on Quine and his kind.
Yet here is a funny thing. Who lamented 'the over-refined linguistic quibbling of some philosophers'? And who complained that 'mathematics has come to be the whole of philosophy for modem thinkers'? The first whinge is from Galen, a doctor who wrote in the 2nd century AD. The second is even older: it comes from Aristotle, who was attacking Plato. The fact is that such criticisms are as ancient as philosophy itself. They are the sort of thing that thinkers in every century have tended to say about philosophers of their own times. Philosophy is always liable to look trivial and misguided until it is old and seen through spectacles fogged by nostalgia for some golden age of intellectual greatness.
Still, misplaced nostalgia is hardly the worst of philosophy's problems. Partly because of its uniquely slippery definition - or rather lack of one - its public image has been systematically distorted by a trick of the historical light. As soon as any corner of it comes generally to be regarded as useful, it ceases to be called philosophy. Hence the illusory appearance that its practitioners never make any progress. Georg Cantor, a 19th-century German, is a simple case in point. His work on infinity was at first written off by his scientific colleagues as mere 'philosophy' because it seemed so bizarre, abstract and pointless. Now it is taught in schools under the name of set-theory. Economics, psychology and computer science went through similar travails: all were largely offshoots of philosophy. So, much earlier, was physics.
Time and again, intellectual history has been rewritten to confirm the prejudice that 'philosophers' muse aimlessly while 'scientists' and other sturdy folk get on with the real work. It was, for example, John Philoponus, a Byzantine philosopher of the 6th century, who first refuted Aristotle's theory of falling bodies - a crucial development in physics - by means of an experiment that is traditionally credited to Galileo, who lived more than 1,000 years later. Attributing it to Galileo is neater because he is not now thought of as a philosopher, whereas Philoponus is, and this is supposed to be a 'scientific' discovery rather than a 'philosophical' one.
Publication information: Article title: Why We Need Philosophers. Contributors: Gottlieb, Anthony - Author. Magazine title: The Spectator. Volume: 286. Issue: 8997 Publication date: January 13, 2001. Page number: 20+. © Spectator Mar 7, 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.


1 BAG OF CHICKEN ALREADY MADE OR COOK YOUR OWN. I BOUGHT THE ALREADY MADE, PRE-GRILLED CHICKEN IN A BAG.
Lay pizza dough onto greased baking sheet.
Put on ranch dressing. I put on as much as I like, I don't use a measuring cup.
Put toppings on as you would like. I put the chicken, tomato and then bacon. On top of that I put some shredded lettuce. Then on top of all of those I put the cheese.
Put into the oven for however long the pizza dough can says. My oven cooks faster then other's so it only took about 10 minutes for mine to be done. Others may take about 15 minutes for this many toppings. Enjoy!


その他 *1:PCIe x16_3 shares bandwidth with M.2 and U.2_2. It runs at x16 mode by default. PCIe X16_5 shares bandwidth with U.2_1. It runs at x4 mode by default with U.2_1 enabled.
*2:PCIe x16_3 shares bandwidth with M.2 and U.2_2. It runs at x8 mode by default. PCIe X16_4 shares bandwidth with U.2_1. It is disabled by default.
*3: PCIe x16_2 shares bandwidth with USB3_34 and USB 3.1_EA34. It runs at x2 mode by default.
*4:Due to chipset behavior, The SATA6G_78, SATA6G_910 ports do not support IRST including RAID configuration.
*5:These functions will work depending on the CPU installed.


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One: Number 31, 1950 is one of the largest and most prominent examples of a Jackson Pollock Abstract Expressionist drip style painting. The work of art was owned by a private collector until 1968 when it was purchased by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City and has been displayed there ever since.

Context and style
One: Number 31, 1950 is one of three larger scale drip style paintings, the other two being Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) and Blue Poles, that Pollock created in 1950 at his iconic barn studio in East Hampton, New York. In the summer of 1950 as One: Number 31, 1950 was being made, photographer Hans Namuth was invited to take photos documenting Pollock's studio and work. Upon arrival, Namuth was initially disappointed because Pollock stated the large oil and enamel paint topped canvas was finished; however, this sense of dissatisfaction was short lived as Pollock spontaneously took his paintbrush and began slinging black, white, and brown paint onto the canvas in what Namuth recalled "a dancelike fashion."

This complex mix of "tans, blues, and grays lashed through with black and white" of varying luster was the first of the many paintings that Namuth used to bring Pollock's drip style painting, where Pollock used sticks, rigid brushes, and other instruments to fling and free handedly throw paint onto a canvas placed the floor beneath him, to the forefront of the art world. The painting constitutes one of the many examples of Pollock's contempt for the Surrealist concept of accident superseding human consciousness in creating art as his drip style painting technique encapsulated random gravitational effects of paint being flung onto the canvas. Pollock felt that in all of his drip style painting "there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end."  Additionally, while composing artwork like One: Number 31, 1950, Pollock had always been more comfortable on the floor as he stated, "I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."

Symbolism
One: Number 31, 1950s juxtaposition of subdued colors with splattering of paint on top represents an indispensable example of Abstract Expressionist artwork. Art historian Stephen Policari considered Pollock's poured painting to represent "a kind of frozen dynamic equilibrium of endless rhythm and energy" and believed the different combinations of curves and straight lines interacted with each other in such a way that created a scheme of light and color so complex that it could not be described in the realm of Euclidean geometry.

Scholars at the MoMA think Pollock's unparalleled skill was highlighted through the work's interwoven bands of color which they felt contributed an aura of power and fullness to the painting in its entirety while maintaining a sense of elegance and meticulousness in the details.  MoMA scholars also emphasize a sense of fundamental order amidst the chaos and endlessness of One: Number 31, 1950 not containing any principle focal points or patterns; this serves as the foundation of interpretations of the painting in which it symbolized "the pulsing intensity of the modern city, the primal rhythms of nature, and even the infinite depths of the cosmos."

Conservation and restoration

In 2013, One: Number 31, 1950 was taken down from its spot hanging in the MoMA and placed on the ground horizontally, so that conservators could analyze the painting and prepare for its restoration. First, as the painting had only been dusted since entering MoMA's collection in 1968, it was cleaned with sponges and swabbed with a chemically adjusted water solution to remove a yellow grime layer and other accumulated dirt. In physical terms, the painting did not need to be changed as its stretcher held the painting at an appropriate tension, and the canvas was set with an unobtrusive layer of lining adhesive applied that prevented any acid transfer. However, this lining was an indication of prior treatment that would have been completed before 1968; since the conservation record for the painting was minimal before MoMA bought it, the painting may have undergone other treatment as well, so it was compared to a picture of it taken at a show in Portland, Oregon in 1962 to look for discrepancies.

Conservators discovered that an area of cracking, which results from the natural degradation of the actual paint, had been covered with what was confirmed by X-radiograph, ultraviolet examination, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to be overpaint. Upon further examination and the addition of a chemical solvent, the white overpaint, which covered details of Pollock's work, was used more on the cracks than on losses in the paint layer. In a shift from the 1960s conservator value of a painting being immaculate without any signs of aging, MoMA conservators ultimately made the aesthetic choice to remove the white overpaint on the cracks and merely retouch them with watercolor paint to allow for minimal intrusion into the look of the original painting.

Modern day
In 2019, One: Number 31, 1950 can be viewed at the MoMA by its more than 3 million annual visitors. Additionally, One: Number 31, 1950 is one of the many Pollock paintings that has undergone fractal analysis that is being used to prove the authenticity of other Pollock works as well as to contribute more insight into fractal geometry in general.

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There are a lot of fantastic facts to know about a popular American singer named Britney Spears.
To start with, Britney Spears is one of the most popular American entertainers and recording artists, who moved from a mere teen pop star to a successful and famous adult pop idol.
In this article, more interesting facts about Britney Spears will be discussed based on the following sections: Biography, Brands, Music, and Endorsement.
Britney Spears is a songwriter, fashion designer, author, record producer, actress, singer, and dancer, who is born and based in the United States. She was born in 2nd of December, 1981 (39 years old as at now) in Mississippi and grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana, the United States. Her parent's name is James Spears and Lynne Bridges. Britney Spears has two siblings, namely Bryan, who was born in 1977 and also one of her managers, and Jamie-lynn, who was born in 1991.
She attended gymnastics classes until the age of nine and also performed in Local dance at her church choir. At the age of eight, she auditioned for "The New Micky Mouse Club", but was turned down due to her age being considered too young for the program at that time.
At the ages of 11-13, Britney Spears was accepted to feature in the 1993-1994 seasons of the Disney Channel "The New Micky Mouse Club".
In year 2000, Britney Spears was crowned the highest selling female artist, with more than 90 million albums sold all over the world.
In year 2002, Forbes magazine ranked Britney Spears as the most influential celebrity in the world.
In the past four years, Britney ranked first in the annual Yahoo list of the most-searched names all over the world.
Britney Spears has developed a wide variety of brands, namely fragrance (perfume), books, dolls, video games, and clothing.
The first perfume was endorsed by Britney Spears in 2004, named "curious".
Here are some of the list of the perfumes of Britney Spears and their release date
Curious (September 2004)
Fantasy (September 2005)
Curious: In control (April 2006)
Midnight fantasy (December 2006)
Believe (September 2007)
Curious Heart (January 2008)
Hidden fantasy (January 2009)
Circus fantasy (September 2009)
Radiance (September 2010)
Cosmic Radiance (August 2011)
Fantasy twist (October 2012)
Island fantasy (April 2013)
The Britney Spears doll was released in 1999. This doll was the first product to be released by Play Along Toys Company. The doll imitates the makeup, hairstyles, and outfits from Britney Spears' photoshoots, concerts, music videos, and appearances.
The Dance Beat Britney Spears is a special one or two player video game that contains the videos and songs of Britney Spears.
In this game, players need to pass an audition in order to be able to tour as the dancers of Spears. This game involves pressing several buttons in alignment with music.
Britney Dance Beat contains five songs, which are:
Oops!… Do it Again
Overprotected
I'm a slave for you.
Britney Spears was named the new face of a clothing line aimed towards teens, in 2009. After up to two years as the brand's face of Candie, it was revealed that Spears will create a small selection for Candie's product, which is to be exhibited before the middle of the year.
Britney Spears released up to three different books from 2000 to 2002.
Here is the list of the book titles and their release date
Heart of Heart- May 9, 2000
A Mother's Gift- April 10, 2001
Stages- December 5, 2002.
Britney Spears has sold quite a number of branded merchandise, which are: stickers, notepads, wall clocks, furniture, pens, folders, plush toys, calendars, body art, key chains, posters, jewelry, bubble gum, candy, puzzles, and nail polish.
The following are the brands endorsed by Britney Spears:
Pepsi – Hasbro – Polaroid
Versace – Got Milk? – McDonald's
Skechers – Clairol – NFL
Samsung – Tommy Hilfiger – Nabisco
Virgin Mobile – Disney – Toyota
ABC – HBO – Apple Music
Herbal Essences – Starburst candy – Kirin Company
Zappos Candies – Kohls Eos – Los Angeles Dodgers
KENZO – iHeart Radio – Sbarro
Britney Spears also added some brand endorsements in her music videos.
The following are the brands endorsed in Britney's music videos:
Beats Electronics, Samsung, Bvlgari, Sony, Lamborghini, Mazda, Volkswagen, MateFit, Swarovski, Nokia, and PlentyOfFish.
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Virtual Event: Kelli Russell Agodon and Maggie Smith — Dialogues with Rising Tides & Goldenrod
Dialogues with Rising Tides (Paperback)
By Kelli Russell Agodon
Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 27th, 2021
Goldenrod: Poems (Hardcover)
By Maggie Smith
Published: Atria/One Signal Publishers - July 27th, 2021
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Hardcover)
Published: Atria/One Signal Publishers - October 6th, 2020
Third Place Books welcomes local poet Kelli Russell Agodon, publisher of Two Sylvias Press in Seattle and teacher at the Rainier Writing Workshop, for a virtual reading from her latest collection, Dialogues with Rising Tides. She will be joined in conversation by Maggie Smith, the beloved bestselling author of Goldenrod: Poems, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, and more.
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email. During the event, you can ask questions using the Q&A feature, or chat with fellow attendees. A recording of the event will be made available and emailed to all who register.
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About Dialogues with Rising Tides. . .
In Kelli Russell Agodon's fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.
About Goldenrod: Poems. . .
"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." —Time
"A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." —People
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.
With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone "doesn't observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands."
Slate called Smith's "superpower as a writer" her "ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty." The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.
Praise for Dialogues with Rising Tides. . .
"Agodon takes the spirit of ekphrasis and unites it with a confessional impulse: to reexamine her own life in light of visual art, and in so doing, to illuminate the idiosyncratic responses we have as we step inside a museum, or open an art book, or consider a reproduction on a living room wall."
"Her poems are an intense vision of the power of art to heal, to help us understand ourselves and our world."
—Wyn Cooper, author of Mars Poetica
"Here is a fresh, distinctive voice that is consistently engaging and surprising."
—Carl Dennis, author of Night School
Praise for Goldenrod: Poems. . .
"The lyrical and touching poems in Goldenrod by Maggie Smith are sure to capture your heart. Smith has a way of turning the mundane into the profound, and in the process, she'll astound you with her brilliant insights into modern life."
"Compared with past works, the language in Goldenrod is lean and conversational, Smith wielding her editor's pen with surgical skill, excising syllabic flotsam and exposing her inner voice more clearly than ever."
"Maggie Smith is that rare poet who can inspire you, break your heart, and make you stop astonished at the planet around you—all in the same poem, often in the same moment. The wisdom of Goldenrod is more than hard-earned, it is a gift."
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
Kelli Russell Agodon's newest book is Dialogues with Rising Tides from Copper Canyon Press. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. Her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (Winner of the Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry and Washington State Book Awards Finalist), Hourglass Museum (Finalist for the Washington State Book Prize and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize), The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Seattle poet Martha Silano), and Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry. Agodon has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, the Dorothy Rosenberg Foundation, Artist Trust, and her work has appeared in the magazines such as Atlantic, the Nation, the Harvard Review, and Oprah Magazine. She lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S'Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop.
Maggie Smith is the author of Goldenrod, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change and Keep Moving: The Journal. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, the Guardian, the Paris Review, the Washington Post, and The Best American Poetry. She has received an NEA fellowship in poetry, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Ohio Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. A freelance writer and editor, Smith is on the MFA faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing and serves as an Editor at Large for the Kenyon Review. (Photo credit: Devon Albeit Photography)


The Philippines exported US$1.5 billion worth of precious metals and gems on international markets in 2018, well in excess of the $256.9 million spend by Filipino importers on those same commodities.
Gold is the most lucrative precious metal exported from the Philippines. Total Filipino gold exports were valued at US$1.2 billion in 2018. That dollar amount is about 10 times the $129.6 million cost spend by importers bringing gold into the Philippine homeland.
Interestingly, Filipino exporters also sold $15.3 million worth of pearls to global customers while earning one million dollars of the organic gemstone.
Below are the major subcategories and the corresponding dollar amounts and percentages of the Philippines' total for exported precious metals and gems.
The fastest-growing top export sales subcategory from the Philippines since 2014 was gold-clad base metals or silver via its massive 112,412% gain. The second-strongest increase was the 20,679% acceleration for Philippine shipments of natural pearl and precious stone items, trailed by the 19,114% improvement for synthetic precious stones and the still-robust 1,026% increase for metals clad with platinum then the 600.1% improvement for silver exported from the Philippines.
There were three decliners namely exported jewelry (down -49.7%), pearls (down -43.8%) then imitation jewelry (down -14.3%).
The following categories of precious metals and gems attracted the highest dollar value in Philippine import purchases during 2018.
The fastest-growing import purchases subcategory for the Philippines was coins which appreciated by 124,853% from just $66,000 in 2016. Unwrought silver improved by 7,765% trailed by goldsmith or silversmith (up 4,548%) then jewelry (up 890.1%).
The most severe downturns over the five-year period belong to unwrought gold (down -62.6%) and imitation jewelry (down -31%).


The Brookfield Winter Lights festival returns in 2018 with an exciting new showcase of light installations, projections and entertainment!
This year the festival is running from the 20-30 June, where the heritage buildings in Brookfield Place will be illuminated in a dazzling display of colour, light and nostalgic, multi-world adventure. Catch the lighting spectacular nightly from 6-11pm.
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Unity Through Connecting to Sahih al-Bukhari
by Andrew Booso
A blessed gathering recently took place in Leicester, England, and it was the final maqra' (reading) of the entire Sahih al-Bukhari under the supervision of Shaykh Ahmad Ali Surty, who Shaykh Akram Nadwi says has the shortest isnad (chain of transmission) of the book to Imam Bukhari in the entire world. The final session was passionately hosted by Shaykh Haytham al-Haddad and Shaykh Akram, and the masjid was entirely full by the conclusion of the event. Hearts felt joy and weighed down by the significance of the proceedings, and eyes wept as the reading came to a close, followed by poignant reminders and the ijazat (authorisations). The two aspects worthy of deeper reflection here are the enigmatic attraction of the Sahih to the people of this community, and its ability to be a uniting force for so many people often perceived as wholly competing and at odds.
In Shaykh Haytham's final address he made the point that it was the Word of God and the words of the Final Prophet ﷺ that had united so many of us from different backgrounds for this occasion. You would not get this sort of turn-out and atmosphere for a reading of Ghazali's Ihya' or Ibn 'Abdal-Wahhab's Kitab al-Tawhid. The truth of these sentiments was clear from the array of final speeches: a representative of the Naqshbandi Order of Ghulam Habib; Shaykh Shabbir of the scholarly tradition of Darul Uloom, Bury, England and Mazahir al-Ulum, Saharanpur, India; Shaykh Muhammad Ayyub Surty of the tradition of Shaykh Hakim Akhtar of Pakistan; Shaykh Haytham of the tradition of Muhammad Ibn 'Abdal-Wahhab of Najd in Arabia; and certainly not least our dear Shaykh Akram of the Nadwatul-Ulama, Lucknow, India and the Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford.
This unifying potential of the Sahih reminded me of one of the observations of Jonathan Brown in his seminal, no-holds barred PhD entitled The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim, in which he notes how the two latter books could be "one of the few threads joining" the "Hanbali/uber-Sunnis" and "Shafi'i/Ash'aris," after relating how the debates between these two camps in Baghdad between 469-470/1076-8 would proceed "to the streets" and "mobs supporting the two groups ruthlessly hurled bricks at one another." In our time, in North America and England, we often see these groups represented as 'salafis' and 'sufis', respectively – although I don't subscribe to the attitude that these are so fundamentally exclusive as represented by the more rigid strains of each grouping. Now, although I haven't read of violence erupting between the latter two, I've witnessed the passionate disavowal of each extreme wing against their other equally extreme grouping; and how their polemics are sometimes shaped around straw-men arguments or just outright group bigotry based on little profound scholarship.
Of course, one can make an argument out of almost anything, from who washes the dishes at home to who is the greatest scholar, and the Sahih al-Bukhari is no exception, if one wanted to go down that line. One could take exception to Bukhari's legal rulings displayed in the work, or his open opposition to Abu Hanifa in parts (referred to as "a certain person" (ba'd al-nas)), or one could even start to critically discuss some of the versions of narrations he chose. However, the overall excellence and authority of the work has been accepted by the community, and it is that reality that is the unifying factor. In other words, we can see represented in the Sahih our overwhelming unity in matters of faith, law and spirituality; and that such a deep realisation should be enough for us to love our brothers and to truly see them as being of ourselves, in spite of some opaque differences on occasions.
It is natural that many of our subsidiary differences will remain, and we are each entitled to teach our conclusions of such matters, but I'm reminded of the manners of that disagreement as I sat with Shaykh Akram and Shaykh Haytham over lunch, and how all the shuyukh showed love for each other. During the course of lunch there were discussions about law and how to tackle matters of overriding priority for Muslims in the west and everyone sat and talked with love, concern and sound principles. No one felt the snide urge to ask what did Ibn Taymiyya's focus on the haqiqi meaning of God's attributes really mean: was it anthropomorphism or not? Likewise, no one felt the need to ask about the probity of all the actions of worship established by Sufic orders. Only an honest and wise head can truly appreciate the absolutes, priorities, and ambiguities of these many controversies. In fact, one would be fairly giving credit in saying that such concern to emphasise the similarities between various groups was what characterised Ustadh Hasan Ali's lecture entitled "So, Who's Right?"
After the event, a group of us sat with Shaykhs Akram and Shabbir, and I basked in the love they showed to one another and others in the informal gathering. The reality of brotherly interaction is found on occasions such as this, when one is away from the glamour of the speaker's rostrum, for here one finds the actual person behind the celebrity. This reminded me of the same familial and warm behaviour I witnessed in the "speakers' lounge" at the United Muslims' Convention 2010 from Shuyukh John Ederer, Riyad Nadwi, Zahir Mahmood, Shafi Chowdhury, Sharul Hussain, Yusuf Ahmed az-Zahaby and Taji Mustapha to one another. Upon recently being asked by the inimitable extrovert Ustadh Uwais Nadwi about a recent article of mine, I told him that I was basically just trying to show some love for Shaykh Akram and Ustadh Ibrahim Amin, and he aptly summed-up how we should be: "Alhamdulillah (all praise be to Allah), precisely what the movement's all about: spreading the love and hugging haters."
I've highlighted these various people and events to give a glimpse of a possible opening that is developing in England towards a general Muslim cooperative that can strengthen the place of Muslims in the west, at a time when even the idea of building a place of Islamic worship brings forth some of the most xenophobic outbursts in opposition (John Legend and Russell Simmons notwithstanding). Indeed, one is only reminded of how the Jews were treated as outcasts in these lands until recent history and how the Muslims are starting to be treated in the same vile way (a point made by John Esposito on CNN recently)- and we know where that led. It is quite amazing that isolationist and out-of-touch would-be mystics and puritans are deaf to these shameful patterns of our Greco-Roman character, which history sadly testifies to. Nevertheless, we pray that the growing trends that I've identified will come to dominate a mature collective Muslim psyche, which further emphasises the intellectual and social immaturity of much of the past and present attempts at articulating exclusivist and even hermitical visions of scholarship and community, whose general debilitative quality has been unappreciated by leaders and followers as they marvel in the type of blindness that is characteristic of sect-like behaviour.
The foundation of a negative-sect-free future is the revival of profound scholarship, which eschews the temptation to simply remain trapped in the superficiality of various hues (from the unscholarly to the blind adherence to a select group of the qualified). The path of learning towards a true Islamic literacy opens one onto vast vistas of other colours aside from only black and white. Thus it is refreshing to see people like Shaykh Akram, as one example, of qualified scholars who are not afraid to articulate an honest and deep scholarly discourse that simultaneously raises the standards and authentically opens the doors to the wide brotherhood of Islam. I've here given credit to some of the people I see currently working towards such larger goals in England, but we still have a great deal of work to do. To God we pray for such inner sight, wisdom, piety and company of rightly-guided leaders in all spheres, and we thank Him for His immeasurable blessings. Amin.
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Andrew Booso is originally from London, England and is a graduate of law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has taken religious instruction from Shaykh Iqbal Azami and Shaykh Muhammad Akram Nadwi, as well as numerous students of knowledge. He is currently on the Advisory Board of the England-based Spring Foundation, which is a scholarship charity for students of the Islamic sciences.
Anwar Bin 'Umer says:
Jazakallahu Alf Khairan Ustadh Booso! Fantastic report & truly awe-inspiring. I hope this light of hope will soon spread across the Atlantic to folks here in the US and in particular the northeast 😉
May Allah preserve you and the rest of the scholars so as to benefit mankind in general and the Muslim Ummah in particular.
This is a VERY good article. The rift between Hanbali/Salafi and Ashari/Sufi is troubling, indeed. I've seen brothers on both sides be equally nasty to each other, and usually without spiritual knowledge (i.e. knowledge of manners, character). Allah bless you, Shaykh, for helping to repair these relationships.
On a side note, I have been studying Aqeedah Tahawiyyah. It seems to be a unifying text because of its focus on the most essential points of faith (as opposed to speculative theological controversies). Perhaps this can be another text that brings the two camps closer together?
umm yusuf says:
"spreading the love and hugging the haters"..masha'Allah
i hope in the UK we can have true love spreading –i have seen people profess to love but then be hating in private…….it's awful
what is worse is the general lack of adab shown in disagreements between some muslim activists towards other activists when coming from their respective "sufi" / "salafi" background…here's hoping for the love to really infiltrate the hearts and not just stay on the lips..insha'Allah
barak'Allahu feek for that beautiful insight masha'Allah.
Maryam says:
mashaAllah this was such a good read.
Its sad how we have only one life to live and how we often forget that statusclasssects lead you no where, its tawqa that does- after all we will be burried in the same earth. You me, the king and the pauper.
jazakAllah khayr for this much needed read. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give you all good both in this world and the Hereafter ameen.
london101 says:
Mashallah, another good article, but recently I've seen hardening of negative attitudes between groups and language / rhetoric used by some respected scholars don't help things.
The masses get their information from such talks and online forums, so it not surprising we get such attitudes and misunderstandings
Andrew Booso says:
Jazak-Allah khairan to all of you for your comments.
Regarding the Tahawiyya, my teacher Shaykh Iqbal Azami had it translated for what he saw as its unifying potential of the type Justin speaks of. However, as with any text that is not wholly Divine, one can have issues with interpretation of the text (such as the meaning of "God's speech" or the issue of the Fire's eternality).
Alternatively, one can 'unite' around the Tahawiyya and still disagree on the "attributes of God" discussion, which are not fully elaborated upon in the text.
fi amanillah
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Re your mention of Brown's 'seminal, no holds barred' work, please read Sheikh Gibril Haddad's review here:
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Vision Films, in conjunction with Global 3 Media, is set to release – Moomins and the Comet Chase – a family-friendly animated fantasy adventure comedy based on the award-winning, international bestselling children's books by Tove Jansson on VOD & DVD in North America on April 12, 2016. The film features an all-star cast including Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens), Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood, The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting, The Avengers), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, Casino Royale), Peter Stormare (Fargo, 22 Jump Street), and Helena Mattsson (Iron Man 2, American Horror Story: Hotel) and original music composed and performed by global music sensation Björk, who is one of Moomins' biggest fans!
Inspired by a compilation of Tove Jansson's bestselling Swedish book series, Moomins and the Comet Chase was written by Joel Backström, Iivo Baric, Minna Karvonen and Anders Larsson and directed by Maria Lindberg. With the help of his father, Moominpappa (Stellan Skarsgård), Moomintroll (Alexander Skarsgård) and his worried friends embark on a journey to the observatory to find out why everything in their valley is covered in thick grey dust and the sky continues to get redder by the day. They discover a comet is heading straight for them, but can they make it back to Moominhouse to get everyone to safety in time?
Moomins and the Comet Chase sees the world's favorite family of white trolls embark on an adventure set in the fascinating and curious world of Moomin Valley. The gang must work together and overcome potential dangers and peculiar creatures as they journey through Moomin Valley to beat the comet home and save everyone from disaster.
For 70 years, Moomintroll, along with his family and friends, have charmed children and adults alike in the Nordic countries and around the world. The original books have been translated into 44 languages that have gone on to inspire television series and animated films. The Moomins are often regarded as one of Scandinavia's biggest exports. Discover the colorful personalities and adventurous spirit of Jansson's classic characters in "Moomins and the Comet Chase" on April 12.
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A Zichy–Hadik-kastély 1821-ben épült klasszicista stílusú kastély Seregélyesen. A kastély gróf Zichy Ferenc kezdeményezésére épült. A Zichy–Hadik-kastély kertje védett természeti érték.

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A kastélyt Gróf Zichy Ferenc, a monarchia pénzügyminisztere építtette 1821-ben. A kastély építéséről és tervezőjéről nem maradtak fenn tervrajzok és okmányi adatok, így Lyka Károlytól tudjuk, hogy Zichy Pich Ferencet bízta meg a kastély szobáinak és termeinek kifestésével. A nagyterem freskóinak érdekessége, hogy úgynevezett árnyfestési technikával készültek, amik főleg filmeken és képeken térhatású látványt nyújt. A kastély keletkezésével kapcsolatban érdekes történet kapott szárnyra a tulajdonos családban, miszerint Ferenc császár így szólt Zichyhez: "A jövő esztendei hadgyakorlatok Fejér megyében lesznek, hallom ott Önnek szép kastélya van, ott fogok megszállni." Utolsó lakói gróf Hadik Béla és , akik a seregélyesi család sírhelyén nyugszanak. A második világháború alatt a kastély értékei többnyire német és szovjet kézbe került, aminek csekély része került elő, ezért is fontos az a néhány lelet, amit 1976-ban a kastélyparkban találtak. A leletek között ezüst és aranyozott evőeszközöket, medalionokat, tarsolyokat, dobozkákat, ékszereket és egyéb értékes dolgokat találtak, amit ma a székesfehérvári Szent István Múzeum tudhatja tulajdonában.

Mint sok más kastélyunknak, úgy ennek is a hánytatott sorsa 1945 után történt. Sokáig üres volt, de az 1950-es évek elejétől a Videoton gyár raktára lett. A kastély igazi helyreállítását megelőző munka 1982-ben történt, amikor a Taurus Gumiipari Vállalat jelentkezett az épületet üdülő- és oktatási központként szerette volna rekonstruálni.

A 2008-ig háromcsillagos klasszicista kastélyszállóként működött. Jelenleg üresen áll, állapota erősen leromlott.

A Zichy–Hadik-kastélyt 2014-ben a Pharaon-Alfa Kft. vállalkozás vásárolta meg. A Pharaon-Alfa Kft. Ghaith Rashad Pharaon cégcsoportjához tartozik.

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Next Steps for 21st Century Cures 2.0
On Monday, April 27, Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) announced the next steps for 21st Century Cures 2.0 ("Cures 2.0"), legislation that will build on the original 21st Century Cures Act, which was enacted in December 2016 ("Cures 1.0"). While Cures 1.0 aimed to speed up the process of bringing new treatments to market, Cures 2.0 is generally envisioned to emphasize public health and streamlined care delivery, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elements envisioned to be in Cures 2.0 were outlined in a recently published concept paper, some of which are discussed below.
Unsurprisingly, the proposed legislation includes provisions to improve the national pandemic response capability for current and future pandemics as well as to mitigate some of the issues facing patients in the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic response strategy envisioned includes a national testing and surveillance program and encourages the strategy to include discussion of vaccine development and administration. It also highlights continuous manufacturing as a potential solution to expanding domestic drug manufacturing.
The details are scant, requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop these and other strategies and plans with only general direction from Congress. However, the concept paper is far from enacted law, so there is still opportunity to develop more detailed recommendations and mandates.
An area that benefits from a more detailed roadmap is how to respond to antimicrobial resistance, thanks in large part to a March 2020 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Cures 1.0 required FDA to create a streamlined development program for certain antibacterial and antifungal drugs; FDA has since published a draft guidance for such program. Cures 2.0 seeks to build on that mandate by looking beyond the regulatory realm to financial considerations for antimicrobial drug developers. As noted in the GAO report, "experts and antibiotic developers told [GAO] that the economic challenges have remained despite the available federal…incentives for antibiotic R&D." Further, "The current significant federal investment…will ultimately be ineffective if companies receiving this investment are unable to sustain their business once their treatment reaches the market…Until additional postmarket incentives are developed, more drug companies may exit the antibiotic development sector, and the pipeline of new treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections may continue to decrease." Essentially, it's not profitable to develop antimicrobial drugs, which means fewer companies are pursuing development of those important drugs.
The Cures 2.0 concept paper suggests that at least some in Congress do not want to wait for the Department of Health and Human Services to act on the GAO's recommendation to "develop a strategy that includes the use of postmarket financial incentives to encourage the development of new treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections". Rather, the concept paper envisions legislation that gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services "the resources and regulatory authorities necessary to fix the commercial market for new antibiotics." This is just one example of how Congress is looking to expand on a Cures 1.0 initiative in Cures 2.0, though what those resources and authorities are remain to be determined.
The COVID-19 crisis has illuminated the importance of strengthening health literacy and taking steps to improve the role of patients in health care, according to the Cures 2.0 concept paper, which outlines a plan to provide grants for programs that provide caregivers with education and skills that would allow them to complement professional health care providers and services. If enacted, the law would also require CMS to seek from the public additional ideas for improving health literacy.
To make clinical trials more diverse, the concept paper proposes improving reimbursement for clinical trial subjects as well as requiring FDA to report on its work to improve demographic subgroup representation in trials. These provisions would build on FDA's existing patient engagement programs—some of which were bolstered by Cures 1.0 requirements to better incorporate patient experience data into the regulatory decision-making process—to improve the role of patients in health care delivery.
Regulatory & Reimbursement Modernization
Modernizing government is typically a political win for all sides and the bipartisan Cures 2.0 effort may be no exception: the concept paper outlines plans to modernize both FDA and CMS to get medical products to patients more quickly.
A common refrain since before Cures 1.0 was enacted was the FDA's disjointed approach to digital health regulation and oversight. Indeed, the Cures 2.0 concept paper states: "Currently, there are multiple efforts at FDA to advance the vision of Cures on digital technologies." The Cures 2.0 concept paper is not lacking for detail in this area. The paper envisions better coordination between FDA's drug, biologic, and device centers on digital health regulation and outlines specific topics that Congress could direct FDA to address in guidance, including the use of digital endpoints for regulatory review, the acceptance of decentralized trials, the use of digital health technologies in patient-focused development of medical products, and coordination with foreign regulators.
FDA is not designed to encourage the collaboration envisioned in the Cures 2.0 concept paper. Medical product centers each have cultures that in some ways are barriers to collaboration, including different perspectives on benefit and risk. From the standpoint of infrastructure, FDA's information systems do not support easy sharing of information between centers and the physical location of employees does not encourage collaboration. Congress has tried to address some of these shortcomings in various ways in the past, including by creating the Office of Combination Products in 2002 and refinements to combination products policies in more recent legislation, including Cures 1.0. Congress, also in Cures 1.0, mandated the creation of "one or more Intercenter Institutes" to "develop and implement processes for coordination of activities" relating to a major disease area or areas among the drug, biologic, and device centers. There is currently a single intercenter institute: the Oncology Center of Excellence. FDA has indicated a desire to set up others, including a Digital Health Center of Excellence; however, in the agency's FY2021 budget request, FDA describes their vision for that Center as focusing "specifically on advancing and promoting the development of consumer-friendly AI/digital health medical devices through improved device-user interfaces"—nothing about drugs or biologics.
Another modernization proposal pertains to policies and processes to improve communication between FDA and CMS with respect to breakthrough therapies. As noted in the Cures 2.0 concept paper, "we need to foster better communication and collaboration between the agency in charge of reviewing new product applications (FDA) and the agency in charge of making coverage determinations (CMS)" because doing so "would afford CMS the opportunity to access additional expertise and insight when considering the functional aspects of a new product".
This longstanding criticism of CMS is that it is slow to make coverage decisions for products that have met FDA's approval standard. Generally, CMS' challenges are not owing to lack of capability to understand the technical considerations required to make coverage decisions; rather, CMS lacks capacity. This program needs sufficient resources—i.e., staff—to succeed.
The Cures 2.0 concept paper does not include solutions for every coverage-related problem. The paper asks questions of stakeholders to help inform what other legislative improvements may be included in the bill, including:
Are the current coverage and reimbursement approaches to new medical products or other modern technologies adequate to keep up with the pace of innovation? If not, why?
What are the biggest impediments to new cures development for small patient populations?
What, if any, barriers exist that impede coverage for cell and gene therapies and other novel products?
We encourage stakeholders to consider these and other challenges for which a solution may be appropriate for inclusion in the Cures 2.0 legislation. Like Cures 1.0, Cures 2.0 could become a catchall for many health-related policies, including those moved to the back burner during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., surprise billing) or otherwise secondary to addressing the public health emergency (e.g., medical device servicing). We will continue to monitor and analyze Congressional action related to Cures 2.0 and other health legislation in 2020.
Hannah Merrill and Margaret Jewett assisted in research for this post.
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Aaron L. Josephson
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Aaron L. Josephson is a Senior Director of ML Strategies who advises clients on health care policy issues related to medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Earlier, he was with the US Food and Drug Administration, including as a senior policy advisor in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.


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