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IN CONCLUSION *
by Elizabeth Robins
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THE later history of the Women's Movement will be more readily recalled than the circumstances I have set down, circumstances which furnish the key to more recent happenings.
Unprejudiced minds will have noted how women passed from stage to stage, trying all peaceful measures, trying them over and over with a persistence and a hopefulness that in retrospect moves us to marvel not that some women sometimes showed impatience, but that so many for so long repressed impatience. 1
And what, finally, has been the effect alike of patience and impatience?
The vote is not yet won. It is irrevocably coming, as its opponents know and frequently admit. In despair at relinquishing their hope to do more than delay Woman Suffrage for a space, the Antis are filling the void with Cassandra-prophecies of the evils that Suffrage will bring. They point to manifestations which Militancy has made common among women as heralds of the bitter days to be.
* Printed in McClure's Magazine , for March, 1913, under the title of: "Woman's War."
1 Since writing this, the same view has been publicly expressed by a member of the Government, Mr. F. W. Acland, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
We do not deny that women are changed. They are more changed than their critics know.
Let us consider some of the more obvious changes wrought by Militancy, first upon the individual, and second upon the generality.
Take the effect upon individual women. These years of conflict--of severance from friends, of brutalities suffered in the streets and at public meetings, of torture undergone in prison--have for their immediate effect upon the individual the strengthening of many a soul and the shattering of a good many bodies. In addition to this, some observers think they see the marks of the long strain upon the public policy of individual women in the movement, and in the private relationship between certain of the workers.
To have escaped some such result of a struggle so protracted and kept at so high pitch, women must needs have ceased being human. Admittedly, the opponents of Woman Suffrage have never been able to hamper our advance as have other Suffragists--whether by leading a section of the forces off the main route, or by standing neutral at some crisis when not to be for was to be against. This is not an experience peculiar to women's parties. Nor for the first time in the history of political movements have these errors been encouraged or instigated by the enemy. For an ally to take the wrong road in all good faith, or for conscientious Doubt to call a halt (Doubt full as honest as the Conviction that
cried "on")--incidents such as these could, at their worst, only complicate and momentarily hamper the campaign. The morale of the Woman's Movement could be affected only by the setting in opposition forces which had been fighting for the same end. To do this has always been a highly effectual tactic on the part of the common enemy--the more effectual, perhaps, when employed by men against the subtler forces of women in revolt than in conflicts between men.
When the present First Lord of the Admiralty was Home Secretary he unfolded to a soldier-friend his difficulty in dealing with the Militants, and told of precautions he was taking for the future--extra police protection and severities of sorts. The soldier shook his head. "You will never make a success," he said, "of setting men to fight women. Your only hope is to set women against women." This theory was turned into visible practice when it was so ably supported by the strategist of the Cabinet, the "Suffragist" minister who drove the wedge of discord into the compact body of Suffragist support to the Conciliation Bill of 1910.
But if what has befallen men's parties, time after time, befalls women's also--what then?
What if that close union within the Union is dissolved? We would rather the dissolution had never come, or had come after the vote was won. Yet who shall feel sure that the purpose for which the association was formed had not already been accom-
plished? Its true mission was the Awakening of Women. Not solely to get them votes, but to make them realise the power resident in the vote; and the woman's need (man's need as well) that women should exercise that power. Touched by the pathetic fear of the Anti that Woman Suffrage spells chaos and old England's doom instead of her Regeneration, Suffragists of the "soothing" sort have been known to point to places where giving the vote to women has "made no perceptible difference." If such comfort is not illusory, it is a shame to any land of which it could be justly said. It is a shame to the women of that land--a proof that they are unfaithful stewards of their trust, or that even more needful than we knew was the fuller enlightenment the Militants have won.
Had the Powers That Be as much foresight as they have inflexibility, they would have granted a meagre instalment of Woman Suffrage as soon as the demand became earnest. Deprived of the main ground of complaint (since the principle would have been conceded), the majority even of enfranchised women would have looked upon the vote with so little realisation of its power, that the weapon might have lain in their hands, little used, perhaps for a generation.
The longer all the women in the country are denied a vote, the wider must be the door which ultimately admits them, and the greater the changes which their entrance on the scene will effect. Meanwhile,
they have learned from the repressive measures of those who would keep them out, more than ever the Suffrage leaders could teach them.
As I have admitted, those who cry, that Militancy has left its mark on women, are right. So far as concerns the active Militants themselves, we have seen that women who were so concerned to know that Government offices were empty before they sent stones through the windows in June, were less concerned in November for the bodily safety of those within. Why was that? Not solely because women en bloc are very much like men en bloc, nor merely because all women will not turn the other cheek any more than will all men. The consideration that urged on the Militants in November, was that the officials nominally behind Government windows were found to be in no danger so great as the danger of remaining indifferent to, or ignorant of, their non-performance of public duty. No public servant, however unfaithful, had suffered, or was likely to suffer, as scores of women had been made to suffer. We do not deny that the earlier concern for the bodily safety of officials became secondary to a concern for Suffragists, after seeing them come out of prison sick and broken from the disgusting struggle with prison authority armed with hose-pipes and unclean nasal tubes.
Each individual woman who went through the horror of such experience became a centre of enlightenment for all whom she might thereafter reach. Never again for her, or for her friends, any cobweb
left of that old illusion as to the chivalry of the average official. "This and this they did to me rather than admit my purpose honest, rather than treat me as decently as they treat men convicted of the baser crimes."
Is it rational to expect these experiences to leave a woman unchanged? If she were to remain unchanged would she not prove herself more insensate than the brutes?
People who would insist that such things shall leave a woman unmoved are not merely those who would deny her right to the ballot. They would deny her right to the feelings of a human being.
A great deal of water will flow under Westminster Bridge before women forget what men were willing to see them suffer rather than see them voters; before they forget the forbearance shown to malcontents in Ulster and at Tonypandy, as contrasted with the brutality shown malcontents at Wrexham and Llanistumdwy. Much as we desire to see understanding and good-will between the sexes--do we want women to forget these lessons?
Let us be frank about this.
Let us recognise that many a woman who took no part in it owes to the public struggle her first knowledge of those struggles, carried on for ages, out of the public eye. This dear-bought knowledge has changed the intellectual outlook on the world for many a woman who has no fault to find with her own individual lot, nor with the attitude towards her-
self of the men she has known best. The first shrinking realisation of what kind of a world this is to tens of thousands of women has brought many a happy and peace-loving soul to wonder whether the fiery ordeal in the open, and the lonely battle in the gaols, may not have been needed to set free the spirit of a sex limited for ages, to those small garden plots of life--to stray outside which was to fall upon dishonour.
The most ardent pacifist will hesitate to deny the truth of that militant saying: "Few of us believe in peace at any price." Who, seeing a little child attacked or in need of protection from violence, who of us would withhold help, even if help (to effect its end) involved our using physical force? Tolstoy told a private friend that even in such a case he would refrain. Few other men, I think, and few women.
Those who thought it permissible only in men to defy tyranny, had said that nothing but evil could come of women's expressing moral indignation with all their might, and as variously as men have done, at every crisis in history.
Only evil could come of it? One of the best things in civilisation has come of it. Proof of moral and physical courage in women not as a rare exception, here or there, at call of motherhood, or of any personal devotion, but as a basis in character, to be looked for, counted on.
The militant campaign has not yet won votes? No. But the Militants have campaigned to such
purpose that there are to-day more free women in England than in anywhere in the world--free with a freedom of which the ballot will be a symbol, but which the ballot cannot in itself endue with the essence of liberty, or charge with effective authority.
Those who have watched the chains fall off from one after another during these last half-dozen years will understand. Persons from whom these moral and spiritual experiences have been hidden may allow me, in a page or two, to illustrate what has been happening.
One object-lesson came at a time of such need that, if it can be passed on faithfully enough, it may hearten others.
At perhaps the most crucial hour in the history of women's struggle for the vote, certain politicians from whom better things were expected had made a grave mistake--through lack of information, as some women believed. How to bring that information home was the concern of those who (in face of some evidence to the contrary) held to their faith in men's fundamental fairness. Those who spend their lives in the House of Commons could not get this information there. And, at the time I speak of, they could not get such information from the press, since, owing to the tension, that often open door was closed. Word was brought of letters to the more influential papers being refused, or held back till they were useless.
To a woman lying ill came an appeal that she should set down a statement of how the matter looked to a Suffragist. The first impulse to call such an undertaking impossible was repressed. An article, destined for an editor wide-minded, chivalrous, was written--at what cost need not be insisted on. Time was the great factor. The editor had telegraphed he would reserve space. The article was finished; but it might be thought too long, or in some detail need revision. The writer left her bed and took the article to London.
She found the editor genial and serene, even a little jocular on the score of "the eternal theme." He read the first paragraph, and under the eyes of his old contributor became a stranger--a man she had not only never seen before, but never guessed at. What he said was less illuminating than what he looked.
What! to want to talk about the motive behind deeds that called for nothing but wholesale condemnation? "And this . . . this stone-throwing! You justify . . . !"
"I explain it," she answered.
"Isn't it possible for you to understand! An article like this would bring down a charge of conspiracy on any one who signed it." The contributor's readiness to take the risk was fuel on the flame. Any editor who published such opinions would be indictable! He stood up with that changed face, repeating "Stones!--and people like you"--etc., pelt-
ing the contributor again, and yet again, with "Stones!"
Only for unadulterated blame and execration of Militancy was any admittance there, or anywhere else--according to the most open-minded of editors.
The initial "Conspiracy," then (that of the authorities to deny fair hearing to their women opponents) was, as we have been told, matched by conspiracy in the press. The public was to be shut out from so much as a chance of hearing the other side.
The spare hour before train-time was spent at a confectioner's near the station. No one else in the tea-room behind the shop. The repulsed contributor drew up shivering to the fire, going over what had happened. She had come far to try to help a little towards better understanding. All she had achieved was a realisation that better understanding wasn't wanted. The mere attempt at it resented as mortal offence.
The worst of what had happened was that the experience did not stand alone. Better women had fared worse. If those women in prison could be so profoundly misunderstood, how was the understanding ever to come? A sense of the immensity of the undertaking Suffragists had shouldered overwhelmed her; she sat bowed down. Presently, a consciousness that someone had come in. Not the waistress--she had been and gone. The woman by the fire lifted her
head to see a girl standing near, straightening her hat at the overmantel glass, touching the hair that showed intensely dark against her smooth forehead. As the girl looked at herself, the woman looked at her too. Genus: shop-girl, sixteen or seventeen; not very refined; a round face, heavily pretty; full lips, showing the scarlet of health. Not the least made up; her clothes noticeably poor, with an effort at being in the mode. While the girl and the woman both looked at the young face in the glass, the young face changed and turned to confront a man who evidently counted on meeting her in this dull, eminently repspectable place. The man was of superior class; forty-odd; fattish, thick-necked, slightly bald, very sleek and well-turned out. The two sat down at the nearest table. He ordered tea. The woman by the fire, full of other thoughts, forgot them, till presently an accent in the man's voice reached her. He was urging some point. The girl said little. The woman looked again in the fire. The fragments of talk that forced their way to her inattentive ear seemed to take the form of questions: "Didn't you go?" "Why didn't you go?" "Don't you ever go anywhere?" "Why don't you?" The girl was gaining confidence. She answered with growing assurance and a poor little flirtatiousness which he, leaning to her, encouraged with eye and smile. The usual hour for tea was past. No one else there but a tired, abstracted woman and those two. The man made no effort to disguise his quest. The woman
made no effort to catch even the general drift of what was passing, thinking still of those girl-teachers, women-doctors, Poor Law guardians, social workers and the rest shut up in Holloway--and why some of them had gone there. Presently the woman (whose different way of helping had failed) found that between her and that mental vision of the stone-thrower in her cell the picture at the tea-table had forced its way: the cheap little cockney beauty, bridling, only half-reluctant, wholly provocative, excited, sixteen! The man of forty, his thick neck red below the thin, brilliantined hair, arms on table, head thrust forward turtle-like, the low, educated voice coaxing the ill-paid, ill-educated girl. The gulf between her and the women in prison! So wide, so deep, thought itself was baulked to bridge it.
Even the wayfarer by the fire was too far away. What could the sick, disheartened woman say, what had she to offer this poor, pretty creature so plainly marked out for treading the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire?
To have reached her one must have found her before to-day, in time to make her demand more of life than . . . this.
Then, in the little space of time needed for drawing on a glove, a well-nigh incredible fact in the psychology of the times was presented and made clearer than could have been done by a library of books.
The "fact" was that the women shut up in prison had got into communication with this girl.
"A previous engagement, have you?" the man was laughing at the excuse. "Who with?" And then, softly, "Who's going to take care of you?"
"Lottie and me are going to see after ourselves."
"You can't. You must let me--"
"Oh, you think we can't do anything except what you say." She put up her chin. Then in the heavily pretty face an odd flash. "Haven't you heard," she said, "that we can break windows?"
The turtle-head drew in as though one of the stones had struck it.
"Stones!" The editor's voice came back. "An educated, decent woman throwing a stone!"
The man at the tea-table was not more surprised than the woman by the fire at seeing what strange shores the widening ripples reached. In the girl's face an instant's reflection of the daring! Bond Street!--the Paradise of such as she, where the windows flash with jewels and blossom with laces and silk--a window smashed in the face of all that luxury was to this poor fly struggling in the meaner web the type of a courage she would never know.
I am afraid the women in Holloway, or out, were too late to save that girl. But the women in Holloway had given her a glimpse, at least, of a possible defiance hurled at evil--one flash of that bright weapon in the air before the dark of yielding.
I am fully aware that this object-lesson would mean very little to many. In the first place, it presents a concatenation of circumstance too common. In the second, it has been too often sentimentalised clean out of sight of its gruesome end. Men (women too) who have looked on undisturbed at that sort of thing--are full of honest horror at the stone-thrower.
One could almost sympathise with the officials who, all unprepared, were called on to deal with militant women. Men trained to govern and to dominate; brought up from their schooldays to think of women as a race apart, creatures for drudgery, or for smiling and the coy assent in youth, for crooning lullabys in the later years. What wonder the militant women not only angered but dumbfounded the official mind to bewilderment's verge, and toppled it over the verge into the pit of persecution.
Nothing out of the way in a middle-aged man's having a little flirtation with a work-girl over a cup of tea. But a thing monstrous that girls and women should be demanding different conditions in industry, a different wage-scale, a different sort of attention from "kind" gentlemen. And when the kind gentlemen refuse, if, instead of acquiescence, in some hands a stone--the end of the world is at hand unless these "mænads" are severely punished.
You shall search history in vain for a spectacle more tragi-comic than the juxtaposition of the old-fashioned official and the girl in college cap and gown
--so innocent-looking as seeming to invite the paternal pat on shoulder, until the firm voice puts some highly embarrassing interrogatory about a friend in Abergavenny Gaol. Bad enough to have old or middle-aged women asking inconvenient questions, without having some one who looks the very type of
"Prim little scholars . . .
"Trained to stand in rows, and asking if they please," [NOTE]
standing up at a public meeting to ask: "Why do you sentimentalise about benevolence instead of doing justice?" "Why do you talk of making the Franchise truly representative, when you leave out the women?"
The "kind gentlemen" at Nottingham the other day not only left women out of his "truly representative scheme"--he let them be thrust out before his eyes--after appealing to them to be quiet and "sweet."
"Sweet! People steeled by knowledge of what women are compelled to bear in factories, in sweatshops, and in prisons, were to save their own skins by dint of being "sweet"! The recommendation has a somewhat musty smell. Upon the women's failure to accept it, let us hope for sake of the Liberal gentleman looking on at the subsequent hustling, dragging, gagging, and throwing out--let us hope that not too plain was his satisfaction at the penalty inflicted upon women who decline to be "sweet."
"Why did you go?" was asked of the well-born,
educated girl lying broken in bed after Llanistumdwy. "You were warned what to expect."
"That was why we went," came the answer.
And then an excuse supplied by a local critic of W.S.P.U. autocracy, "You were sent, I suppose?"
"No," the girl said, "we happened to be near on our holiday."
She and her friend had heard that two women were going to make a protest against a "Suffragist" Minister's offering the public a gift, when his overdue public debt remained unpaid. For that protest "two weren't enough," the girl said; "so we thought we'd better go."
She stopped the flow of pity for her wounds by a feeble attempt to burlesque the trouble she would have when she was better, in doing her hair so as to cover the bare place where a handful had been wrenched out. She refused to be commiserated for that and worse. "It wasn't so bad. I did hear the voices shouting horrible things. I saw the distorted faces, fists and sticks in the air. But I never felt the blows. I remembered the women at Wrexham. I'd do it again."
And here I come to the chief gain that emerges from these years, next after (or perhaps even before) those lessons in the protection afforded by the vote. People make much of division among Suffragists. Division among politicians is not new in the world. What is new is the passion of impersonal loyalty
which the fuller knowldege has evoked amongst rank and file.
The women of the past were never aware to the extent that we are now aware of the penalty other women pay for our mean content with a better lot.
No one has been able to say that in the evil days behind, any body of independent women realised the price other women had to pay for the supineness of the fortunate. If woman's loyalty to her sisters were to fail now, that failure would be a stigma upon all concerted effort of the future; a weight to drag down the hope of all the women (and through them all the men) yet to be born. If this newly awakened conscience were waked in vain--if it ever slept again, then, indeed, might women and men, too, despair.
Believing, as we do, in the impossibility of that, women are full of hope. And men? Beyond a doubt some men are very angry.
Beyond a doubt the sufferings of the militant women--who, if not most in earnest, have paid heaviest for their share in instructing us all--beyond a doubt these sufferings in welding women together have (by no wish of their own--often with pain and grief and irretrievable loss) ranged women against those men most determined to crush out the revolt.
The resultant irritation felt by men has not by any manner of means been wholly evil. It has pricked many to knowledge, and some to enlightened action.
Unable to see but one side of the shield, some women
(not consciously weighing their private difficulties against the public good) have been unduly disturbed.
They would agree with Mrs. Creighton that the vote may be a small thing, but that the refusal of the vote has been a very serious thing. Mrs. Creighton did not seem to mean by the last half of that sentence what the Militant means. She seemed to glance at a regrettable change in the relationships between men and women.
I believe that many like myself were much more troubled at the beginning of the conflict by the mere hint of sex-antagonism (at a time when so little of that feeling was expressed or, as we thought, felt) than later, since men have shown us how great was the sex-antagonism already operant in the world.
Well, why are we not appalled?
For two good reasons. First, because such proof of sex-antagonism as comes our way is not created by the Suffrage agitation. The Suffrage agitation has brought it out of hiding. The more thoroughly we go into the lives of poor, dependent women (and they are the immense majority), the more clearly we see that the evil which this contest has brought to the surface was always there. The condition of its remaining there, to fester and to breed its myriad progeny, the sole condition upon which it could continue, was that it should not be brought to the surface. The evil of bad relationship between the sexes is not the new thing. The attack upon it is the new thing.
If not for us individually, that sex-contempt was there. The active Suffragist feels that she can bear it better than those for whom it was formerly reserved.
The second reason we are not appalled, but rather consoled and heartened, is that precisely through this struggle we have been taught more faith both in man-nature and in woman-nature--which is to say in that human nature which alike they share.
The more generous-minded among men (or the better instructed) have responded generously, understandingly, to the new claims made by women. I will not dwell on the more obvious marks left on society and laws by men's response to the newly awakened spirit among women. With Militancy in the air, the reactionaries on the Divorce Commission had not the courage to press for their advocacy of the double moral standard. This fruitful cause of injustice and race degeneracy has only in these last months been given an effectual coup de grâce. There were men serving on that Commission who had admitted no flaw, had seen no flaw, in the divorce laws until--well, until the last few years.
Never in all the years of women's wandering in the political wilderness, never before Militancy have men formed societies to help women to freedom.
Before history was written men, as the songs and sagas tell us, did battle for women, ostensibly for some one particular "faire ladye," often in reality for the excitement of the tourney and the honour of
the knight. Till these days of the new Militancy few were the men who entered the lists to do battle for women whom they did not know, women in grim, unpicturesque need, women who could never reward these latter-day knights, and were not asked for reward.
Never before Militancy have men given up valuable posts, risked livelihood, sacrificed ambition, faced private ridicule and public execration, blows, broken limbs, gone to prison--all that is since Militancy.
In many ways the sensitive observer will mark the enlightening effect on men of the new standards. They begin to speak of women in public with less flummery; they write of her with an accent less cocksure, and yet more worthy of assurance.
Mr. J. M. Barrie's Twelve Pound Look is since Militancy, and many a glance less shrewdly directed to masculine fatuity.
But women must not expect the scales to fall over-soon from the general eye.
The old superciliousness will be long in dying. Women will mark it still in its thousand forms, especially in the elderly-minded. Men will go on naïvely crowning one another, bestowing on one another all the lucrative and power-conferring posts and all the sinecures. They will sit sole sex on the great Committees controlling Art and Science as well as Law and Administrative Government.
They will dine in fullness and permit women to come in afterwards like the good children--save
that, unlike the children, women will be hidden to sit apart and not speak, but listen--feeding upon the manna of masculine eloquence.
But these are all very little things in comparison with the respect that must in the near future be given to the essentials--as women see life; to the reverence shown children and the very old of both sexes; to education and care for the public health. The rest can wait.
What could not wait was acceptance of the root-idea of this thing called Militancy. The root-idea is: the application to women of the duty to rise up against evil; the baseness of lying down under evil. Women see at last that they must share that duty with men, or else with men share the waste and ruin of evasion.
We do not deny that women have put into their politics a passion not usual with men. We may even think this duty of revolt against evil may sound a sterner call to women. With men these things are largely an intellectual gymnastic, exercises in the Theory and Practice of Government, expression of this or that school of Philosophy or [un] applied Science.
With women these matters are the stuff of existence, their daily bread.
Men in dealing with social abuses, are cabined and confined by formulæ, doctrines, laws; by Parliamentary Procedure--by this intellectual fetish or that.
In the case of women the practical end is kept in sight by no keener conscience than men's, and certainly by no clearer apprehension of the abstract good. The end is kept well in the sight of women by an admonishment which Nature denied to man.
If women have shown in their brief commerce with politics an energy and a resolution which have astonished and bewildered male authority, the reason seems to be that behind women's politics is a force peculiar to women. Among a growing number, whether open or secret aiders and abettors of Militancy, women have come (some consciously, some unconsciously) to feel that Militant Suffragism is the outgrowth of a fierce, race-protecting passion. It is the expression of that mother-instinct which rules in the spirit as well as in the body of our half of the world. It is the force that does indeed make the female more deadly than the male, if she descries a menace to her charge--the future of the species. Those who wished her to remain ignorant of the menace, those who wished to arrest the "uplift" of a vast submerged area of human possibility, or those who less foolishly wished it brought to light more gradually, and by a birth less fierce in labour-pain, had only one course to pursue: to eschew repression.
The reactionary should not make too much of the fact that the women of the British Isles have not yet attained political liberty. Hundreds and thou-
sands of them have been given the Freedom of the City of the Soul.
Any Suffragist who reviews the history of the Militant Movement, and in any hour of discouragement between now and that sure day when the vote is yielded--anyone who for a moment supposes the militant party to have failed, confesses to shallow thinking. In Militancy (acting, as we are the first to admit, in conjunction with a world-wide tendency) a force was set to work six years ago which needed only counter force, needed only ruthless repression, to develop an explosive power which should crack the crust of ages.
Of that immeasurable, underlying region, only isolated peaks had hitherto appeared--lonely islets above the waters. Other peaks would have risen slowly, slowly the waters have receded and the upward tendency been spread over a wide extent of time--without thunder, rage, and cataclysm.
But in England, no.
Like one of those vast, irresistible movements in physical nature which has sunk the old high places under in-rushing seas, and, from the seat of internal fires has forced up mountain-chains to cool their heads in snow, so have the deeps of the submerged sex been upborn to light, to the bright danger of the peaks, by those very forces which sought to hold her down.
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Rimac Concept One is one of my favorite supercars for one simple reason: speed. Where other automakers have focused on range, luxury, and alleviating customer fears, the Rimac Concept One was engineered with one purpose in mind - to be the world's fastest pure electric supercar.
As a result, we've received a hypercar that can easily put other vehicles(even Ferrari) in its place.
Just check out video below and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
Rimac Concept One was designed by a 24-year old wunderkin named Mate Rimac, a Croatian-native with some serious talent.
Why this car is so fast?
That's because the Concept One uses four separate electric motors, one at each wheel, to deliver a mind-blowing 1,088 horsepower.
That's enough power to make the 0 to 60 MPH sprint in just 2.8 seconds, less time than it took you to read this sentence. Rimac claims a top speed of 190 MPH(305 km), and a 373 mile (600km) driving range from the 91 kWh battery pack, which is even larger than the battery in the top-trim Tesla Model D.
A system called All Wheel Torque Vectoring also helps give the Rimac exceptional handling compared to more primitive combustion-powered hypercars. Having a motor on every wheel is a unique advantage that no combustion car can match.
Each wheel can independently accelerate or decelerate hundreds of times per second, helping to achieve the desired (driver selectable) handling. Together with the very low center of gravity, extremely high torque available almost from zero RPM and the lack of shift interruptions, the Concept_One delivers a completely new driving experience.
As much as I loved the Concept One from the get-go, it was always one of those cars I never expected to make it past the concept phase.But luckily, I was wrong.
According to the Croatian company, who has announced it is about to sign a €15 million ($20.8 million) deal with investors from South America and Asia, Left Lane News reports.
More than half the sum will be coming from Colombian tycoon Frank Kanayet Yepes, a wealthy investor in the energy industry known for his passion for supercars. He will be pouring €8 million ($11.1 million) into Rimac Automobile in addition to purchasing one of the first Concept One units.
The remaining cash infusion will come straight from Hong Kong, with mineral company Sinocop Resources paying €5 million ($6.9 million) for a 10 percent stake in the company and a further €2 million ($2.8 million) in stock.
The manufacturer has yet to reveal when the first Concept One will be completed, but founder Mate Rimac said there are "six cars in the pipeline", with each one to cost about $1 million.
How this car can affect global market?
If Rimac manages to roll out a production version of the Concept One with the same specifications as the concept car , a new supercar era could soon be upon us, in which other automakers will be spurred to develop ultra-high-performance EVs.
Well, let's wish Rimac and his team a good luck and hope that this car will go on sale in the nearest future.


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Giorgio Chiellini: "I Will play another year, but we'll see"
35-year-old defender Turin Juventus and the national team of Italy Giorgio Chiellini shared his thoughts about his future.
"I'll play one more year and then I'll see how I feel. Can retire next summer, or spend another season. Imagine it will probably be the Director.
I hope to be able to play the rescheduled European Championships. I nanny for young talented players to the Italian national team," said Chiellini.
Earlier it was reported that "Juventus" will prolong the contract with Buffon.
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Spain is the playoffs Segunda per ticket in the top division. Became known which teams will compete for the last berth in La Liga. "Elche" and "Girona" will hold the final confrontation between the two legs 20 and August 23. Segunda. The playoffs 1/2 final. The second match, August 15. Almeria – Girona – 1:2 […]
The head coach of English "Manchester United" OLE Gunnar solskjaer commented on the defeat of the Spanish "Seville" (1:2) in the match of 1/2 final of the Europa League. "It's tough when you don't use your chances. We have a young team, and today it was obvious that guys needed to learn and to find […]
The head coach of Spanish "Seville" Julen lopetegui, commented on the victory over the English "Manchester United" (2:1) in the match of 1/2 final of the Europa League. "I am filled with joy. We know, been through this command, including today, and it's great that we stood up against such pressure. Our goalkeeper has played […]
Halfback of Spanish "Seville" Luuk De Jong, commented on the victory over the English "Manchester United" (2:1) in the match of 1/2 final of the Europa League. "Every match is difficult, have to work up a sweat, but we are always waiting for their chance. The team is showing good football, and when the game […]

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DIG captures attention at Sundance 2014
MPS Studios provided the camera department for the Toby Halbrooks short.
Like many stories told via short film, the premise of DIG, a 2014 Sundance Film Festival selection, is simple but evocative: A little girl watches her father dig a hole in the family back yard. As he works, neighbors are drawn to the yard to watch as well.
The story unfolds from the unique perspective of a child, whose view of seemingly unremarkable tasks "can be magical and mysterious", according to writer/director Toby Halbrooks (AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS, UPSTREAM COLOR.) During the festival, the project garnered more than 175,000 views on Sundance's YouTube channel, and almost as many comments.
"There's been a multitude of different interpretations of the story, which is great," said Halbrooks, a four-time Sundance veteran. "People are genuinely liking it and embracing the metaphor and making it their own." Read more about Halbrooks and DIG collaborators David Lowery, Shaun Gish and James M. Johnston.
To create the timeless look that the production team believed essential for the story, DP Joe Anderson elected to shoot with an Arri ALEXA and Cooke S4 Lenses, supplied by MPS Studios.
"We shot the whole thing in my backyard during the day, and the ALEXA does so well with daylight," Halbrooks explained. "The Cooke lenses gave us the soft-focused look we were after."
"We've worked with MPS often for many years," he went on. "They are always accommodating. All you have to do is describe the scope of the project and your budget. They'll figure out a way to make it work."
"Toby's creative force and down-to-earth nature continues to propel him as a filmmaker," said Meredith Stephens, MPS vice president.
"From ST. NICK and AIN'T THEM BODY SAINTS now to DIG, we are proud to have be invited to partner with Toby and his team," she added. "These guys are creating fresh, thought-provoking projects that are shining a bright light on Texas."
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BTW, I closed all the parentheses (or else...).
So anyway, I was eavesdropping on a twitter conversation where Sergey (of ShowSlow) was asking for beacons from YSlow for Chrome, more specifically - when will they start working. I thought I should check how my old baby YSlow 2.0 (this presentation is still pretty relevant) is doing in its new environment.
In YSlow 2.0 things are pretty decoupled. Makes it easier to bring to any possible environment or browser. So rules are rules (you can add, remove, tweak them, combine them into rulesets), results are results, presentation is separate, and so are the additional tools, HAR import/export (forthcoming), etc. Only (ideally) small additions are needed to glue the core of YSlow (the linting part) with a new environment.
It's my first time touching anything Chrome-y, but turned out its pretty easy. Just a bit of file system hunting revealed where code for the extension goes.
In controller.js is where we hack.
In YSlow 2.0 we decided to make use of a simple observer pattern implementation and fire events whenever interesting stuff happens. Especially useful since figuring all the data for all resources better be asynchronous.
Once yslow "peels" the page figuring out the components, gets each component data, headers, etc, then runs the lint rules, finally it fires a lintResultsReady event.
All we need to do is listen to this event and send the beacon.
There's a YSLOW.util.sendBeacon() which does precisely that, so we need to call it and we're done.
Firefox has a built-in (native) system to manage preferences. You know, the stuff you tweak in about:config. This is where we put the preferences - beacon yes/no, beacon URL, beacon data verbosity.
Luckily all calls to get preferences are abstracted in YSLOW.util.Preferences.getPref(prefname, defaultvalue). The default value is returned if a better one cannot be found.
return 'all'; // or "basic"
So there - you can run YSlow in Chrome and send yourself (or showslow.com) beacons.
You probably don't need that so bad that you can't wait till next YSlow for Chrome ships with this thing working. But here it is.
And hopefully you learned a bit about YSlow internals so that you can start hacking yourself and/or wait till YSlow shows up on github (soon!) and start sending diffs. I personally can't wait.
Shoutout goes out to Marcel and Betty who are doing awesome stuff with YSlow (slides). And looks like even more is to come!


This verse presents a double whammy. Picture being the man with children that are fools and a wife that is a shrew. Picture a woman who has losers for children and a husband that is the equivalent of a shrew. Solomon would know about this. For all of his wisdom keep in mind that his children tore the kingdom apart and he had to deal with hundreds of wives.
Bible characters did not live in a vacuum. They had daily trials. If they lived today they would have toilets that backed up, cars that would not start and neighbors with dogs that bark long into the night. This verse is a confession of Solomon and a contact point with us. That is part of why Jesus became a man. He walked in our shoes. He lived in reality. He calls us to follow Him.
So? Be a disciple. Be faithful. Walk in righteousness knowing that God became man. He was not only the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God. He was also the example we are to follow.


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The objective of this meeting is to gain perspective on issues related to water-related hazards in the Koshi River basin from the Institute of Mountain and Hazard Environment (IMHE) and other Chinese stakeholders. The meeting intends to enhance understanding on relevant ongoing studies, programmes, developments, and future scenarios in the Chinese part of the Koshi River basin. The partnership arrangement between IMHE and ICIMOD for the Koshi Basin Programme will also be discussed.


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Can I Work in Graphic Design with a Fine Arts Degree?
It is absolutely possible to work in graphic design with a fine arts degree. While most positions in this field require a bachelor's degree in graphic design, an undergraduate degree in fine arts will give you a good start on the experience and portfolio that you need to impress employers looking to hire a graphic artist. Read on to learn more about prospects and opportunities in the exciting graphic design field.
Same Foundations
Graphic designers are artists. The ads on billboards, the sometimes irritating popups on your phone, the visuals in print magazines and online are all made using principles of composition, value and tone, light and dark and other fundamentals that comprise the world of fine art. A graphic artist may create a visual of a can of soup to sell a product for a client or, as Andy Warhol did, to become an art icon. Can you work in graphic design with a bachelor of fine arts graphic design?
Luis Fitch, a rising star in both fields, says this in an article from The Growler Magazine: "One day you will see my work in a gallery, the next in a pop-up restaurant…and you get a box of tacos and it will be right there." Fitch sees graphic design as a way to finance his fine art.
Different Goals
So, if graphic design and fine art build on the same foundations, how are they different? Both are ways to communicate with people, but fine art intends to bring a message to everyone who views it. Graphic design delivers a precise message to a particular audience. Fine art, on the other hand, is purposefully vague so that its audience can interpret it on many levels.
It has been said that fine art appeals more to the emotions of the viewer, but graphic art relies on an emotional response as well. For instance, a recent print ad by the Gillette company featured an image of a father holding a baby and incorporated pictures of sandpaper to influence the consumer to buy their razors. After all, who wants to cuddle an infant to a scratchy cheek? The ad used elements of color, composition, typography and other principles to sell the product, and it appealed to the emotions of fathers everywhere.
In short, then, the goal of fine art is to communicate a message that is open to interpretation and appeals to a broad audience on the basis of color, composition, tones and other principles that arouse an emotional response in the viewer. The focus of graphic art is to use those same principles along with an understanding and ability in computer programming and software to appeal to a limited audience to promote a specific message.
Development of Graphic Art
Graphic artists began as artists with skills in drawing and painting, and their creations hopped off an easel or a story board. Norman Rockwell was perhaps the ultimate graphic artist. His paintings were used to sell everything Americans used while appealing to their family ideals, patriotism and other virtues. Of course, his work is also fine art, but no one can deny its value in commercial terms. Rockwell was a skilled artist whose work could fit in both as fine art and graphic design, and he began as a conventional artisan. Disney animators began the same way, drawing and painting images by hand one-by-one.
With the appearance of the computer, however, that all changed. Yesterday's graphic designers used paint, colored pencils, pastels and other media to produce advertising. Today's graphic artists are proficient in those areas but also skilled in digital communication, in the creation of software and programs and in other media that assist them in building images that sell products and ideas.
What Do Graphic Designers Do?
Graphic designers use computer software to develop images and produce layouts for promotional purposes for a variety of companies and organizations. While some graphic designers hold in-house, full-time positions at these organizations, approximately 24 percent of those in this field are self-employed according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to producing the graphics, designers must meet with clients and stakeholders to take direction, provide ideas, and create layouts and materials. Most designers work full time, though hours may vary depending on client needs.
Graphic Art Specializations
Some artists work in only one medium. They may be expert in oils or watercolor or even in photography. Others work in many arenas. The same is true of graphic artists. Although, by definition, they all work to communicate a single specific message to a particular client, they do it in many ways. A few areas of specialization are:
• Multi-Media Designer: These artists use sound, visual art and animation to do their jobs. They are used in many places, even as set directors. They envision props, costumes, backdrops and other components of a production, then work as consultants to make sure that the finished set matches their concepts.
• Web Designer: People in this specialization build web sites including the layout of pages, where and how graphics appear, how they are navigated and the continuity of flow of the site from page to page.
• Logo Design or Brand Identity Artist: These people design the visual representation of a company that appears as a constant in advertising, on business cards and even on promotional products like hats and mugs. It is an important job because people today who don't have time to read through a lot of text often identify companies quickly by their logos.
• Flash Designer: Flash is a program that is used in everything from websites to animation and video gaming. It builds a virtual reality world for users of sights and sounds and movements that are particular to the application. Flash designers create these unique worlds and make certain that they "make sense."
• Photoshop Designers: Photoshop is another recognizable program that is widely used. Designers in this specialization use their knowledge of artistic principles to edit digital photography. The crop, color-correct, and perform other modifications to make the photographs both aesthetically pleasing and powerful communicators.
• Layout Artist: This person works in print media. He or she works with marketing to create images and campaigns that say what the advertiser wants to say through the use of images, typeface and component placement within the advertisement or article.
How Can I Become a Graphic Designer?
While a fine arts degree will certainly give you the artistic background you need for this role, technology is also a critical part of becoming a graphic designer. Consider minoring in computer science, graphic design, or a related field in order to become proficient with the software applications you'll need as a designer. Alternatively, you can take continuing education courses after you finish your degree to bolster your skills and become more attractive to employers. An online graphic design degree program can be a good option to continue your education.
Leveraging the Fine Arts Degree
People with a traditional undergraduate degree in fine arts may have completed a program that covered a broad spectrum of the arts. That is, they may have taken some courses in writing, in sculpture, in painting and in other aspects of art. Generally, there will be courses in anatomy and in web design as well as in things like typography, which is just artistic use of font. These areas may be supplemented by adding computer science courses and even classes in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Some degree programs now allow students to major in fine art with a concentration in graphic design. Those programs start with general knowledge areas and then build fundamentals in art adding specialized skills in graphic design areas. They may include courses in animation, digital imagery, print layouts, branding, eCommerce, web applications and social media among others.
People with a traditional fine arts degree may benefit from adding electives to their programs or from creating a dual degree program with a business degree. Graduates of traditional programs can also complete "boot camps" in graphic design at many universities. Software companies often offer certification in programs and applications used in graphic design. These last several weeks to several months and award certification that can be a positive addition to a resume.
How Much Do Graphic Designers Earn?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for graphic designers in the U.S. is $52,110. This means that half of those in this profession earn more and half earn less; the lowest-paid 10 percent of designers make less than $30,810, while the highest-paid 10 percent make more than $89,210. Salaries vary by hours worked, type of industry, region, years of experience, and other factors.
An article in Forbes Magazine listed graphic design as one of the ten top-paying jobs that can be done from home. Another list, of the top five cities for graphic designers, ranks San Francisco as number one, followed by Minneapolis, Austin, Los Angeles and New York. While most industries hire graphic designers, some of the most sought-after jobs are with companies like Pentagram which has clients like Planned Parenthood and Verizon, Landor, a company that boasts Pepsi and Kellogg's as clients, and Wolff Olins designing for Microsoft and Google among other clients.
Graphic designers can find job openings on websites like Indeed, too. A recent listing was for an instructional designer creating custom digital learning applications which paid $50 per hour. Another, for Sonnentag Design, in entertainment and beauty products, paid up to $85 per hour. There are also listings, however, for freelance positions that begin at under $20 per hour. Most of the higher-paying jobs require up to five years of job experience and familiarity with specific software programs.
What Is the Job Outlook for Graphic Designers?
Overall, this profession is expected to grow by three percent between 2018 and 2028, which is slower than the growth of most other occupations. As print publications decline and new types of media become more prevalent, the best job prospects will be those designers who are experienced and proficient with web applications, software, and other design platforms beyond traditional print media.
Job opportunities may not be promising for designers in traditional print publications that show a 22 percent decline, but graphic designers who work for game designers will see a predicted job growth near the average of four percent. Designers who work in computer software design and systems can expect to see a growth of nearly 20 percent, according to some sources. The field of graphic design is not dead, but it is very competitive. Additionally, computer graphics packages have appeared that allow people like writers and publishers to create their own graphics, but that is a market in itself; someone has to design those packages.
The field is competitive, and like many occupations, there is a conundrum: experience is required, but where do you get the experience? Often, degree programs feature internship opportunities that might turn into job offers or at least into networking possibilities. One way some aspiring graphic designers have found to get experience is through competitions such as the one sponsored by domoredesign.com. All entrants get real-world experience and, while there is only one winner, everyone gets a nice addition to his or her resume. Another way to garner experience is to work for charities to help them build fund-raising programs.
If you have an excellent portfolio and good references, the best way to break into the graphic design field is to begin building up a stable of freelance clients to the point where you are making a steady income, or to where your body of work is impressive enough that you can get hired as a full-time, in-house designer. If you are attempting to break into graphic design with a fine arts degree, make sure that you have taken additional courses on the necessary software and methods to keep up to speed with those who will be competing for the same positions.
While there is no certifying or licensing institution, aspiring or beginning graphic designers can give themselves an edge in the job market by taking certification courses in the various software and computer applications available. For instance, those who want to specialize in the Flash Program can earn certification with the Adobe Flash online program and exam. Microsoft also offers training and an exam that leads to certification. The most in-demand certification for job applicants is Adobe Photoshop, and its related applications.
According to many employment sites, the primary requisite for those applying for graphic designer jobs is that portfolio. Of course, applicants can't demonstrate soft skills like communication and "listening skills" through their portfolios; the interview process is the place where those abilities shine. Having an extensive portfolio is key to getting the job, however. A portfolio with a few listings is better than none, but a portfolio that can be adjusted to showcase experience in areas such as the future job requires will definitely get an applicant a second look.
The question asked at the beginning of the article about getting a job in graphic design with a bachelor of fine arts graphic design can be answered in one syllable: yes. The rest of the information presented here answers an implied question. How do I do it?


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Leaving your country of origin is certainly an exciting experience, even more if you are developing your career outside your borders. However, if it is the first time you are moving abroad for job, it also might be a stressful situation. A relocation process is not easy, but if you are conscious about what is going to happen, you will probably enjoy the journey.
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We love family movie nights. It is a time when we can all relax together, cuddle, hang out and enjoy time as a family. The question is what does a family watch together that everyone can enjoy. Several months ago we learned about Iesodo, these movies are based on the Best Selling Book of All Time. Bringing your favorite New Testament stories to life in a fun new way. With a wise dove(Iesodo) leading the way, his friends always choose the right path. These movies are simply perfect.
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Effect of host-related factors on the intensity of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection
Costa Luciano Bello,Ferraz Maria Lucia Gomes,Perez Renata M.,Ferreira Adalgisa S.
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases , 2002,
Abstract: There is increasing interest in the identification of factors associated with liver disease progression in patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). We assessed host-related factors associated with a histologically advanced stage of this disease and determined the rate of liver fibrosis progression in HCV-infected patients. We included patients submitted to liver biopsy, who were anti-HCV and HCV RNA positive, who showed a parenteral risk factor (blood transfusion or intravenous drug use), and who gave information about alcohol consumption.Patients were divided into two groups for analysis: group 1 - grades 0 to 2; group 2 - grades 3 to 4. The groups were compared in terms of sex, age at the time of infection, estimated duration of infection and alcoholism. The rate of fibrosis progression (index of fibrosis) was determined based on the relationship between disease stage and duration of infection (years). Logistic regression analysis revealed that age at the time of infection (P<0.01; 95% CI 1.06-1.22) and the duration of infection (P<0.01; 95% CI 1.06-1.32) were independently associated with a more advanced stage of hepatitis C. The median index of fibrosis was 0.14 for the group as a whole. A significant difference in the index of fibrosis was observed between patients aged < 40 years at infection (median = 0.11) and patients aged > or = 40 years (median = 0.47). The main factors associated with a more rapid fibrosis progression were age at the time of infection and the estimated duration of infection. Patients who acquired HCV after 40 years of age showed a higher rate of fibrosis progression.
Costa, Luciano Bello;Ferraz, Maria Lucia Gomes;Perez, Renata M.;Ferreira, Adalgisa S.;Matos, Carla Adriana L.;Lanzoni, Valéria P.;Silva, Ant?nio Eduardo;
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases , 2002, DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702002000500002
Abstract: there is increasing interest in the identification of factors associated with liver disease progression in patients infected with hepatitis c virus (hcv). we assessed host-related factors associated with a histologically advanced stage of this disease and determined the rate of liver fibrosis progression in hcv-infected patients. we included patients submitted to liver biopsy, who were anti-hcv and hcv rna positive, who showed a parenteral risk factor (blood transfusion or intravenous drug use), and who gave information about alcohol consumption.patients were divided into two groups for analysis: group 1 - grades 0 to 2; group 2 - grades 3 to 4. the groups were compared in terms of sex, age at the time of infection, estimated duration of infection and alcoholism. the rate of fibrosis progression (index of fibrosis) was determined based on the relationship between disease stage and duration of infection (years). logistic regression analysis revealed that age at the time of infection (p<0.01; 95% ci 1.06-1.22) and the duration of infection (p<0.01; 95% ci 1.06-1.32) were independently associated with a more advanced stage of hepatitis c. the median index of fibrosis was 0.14 for the group as a whole. a significant difference in the index of fibrosis was observed between patients aged < 40 years at infection (median = 0.11) and patients aged 3 40 years (median = 0.47). the main factors associated with a more rapid fibrosis progression were age at the time of infection and the estimated duration of infection. patients who acquired hcv after 40 years of age showed a higher rate of fibrosis progression.
Estudio mineralógico, microtermométrico y aspectos estructurales de la mineralización de topacio imperial de Ant?nio Pereira, Distrito de Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais) - Brasil
Rojas, Arol Josue;Bello, Rosa Maria da Silveira;Endo, Issamu;Gandini, Antonio Luciano;
Rem: Revista Escola de Minas , 2009, DOI: 10.1590/S0370-44672009000100003
Abstract: the occurrences of imperial topaz in the antonio pereira mine, ouro preto, minas gerais, are associated with the metamorphic carbonate rocks of the minas supergroup. the crystals have densities varying from 3.46 to 3.58. the parameters of the unitary cells obtained were: 4.658 to 4.663? (ao), 8.823 to 8.832? (bo), 8.382 to 8.389? (co), and 344.65 to 345.46?3 (v). the refraction indices presented the following variations: 1.622 to 1.630 (nx), 1.624 to 1.632 (ny), 1.633 to 1.640 (nz), and 0.008 to 0.011 (b). these properties are coherent with the low fluorine contents obtained (16,48%/17,05wt%). infrared spectroscopy and microthermometry showed that the fluid inclusions, which represent the mineralizing fluids, are formed by h2o (with ca2+, mg2+ and na+), and co2 ± ch4. the minimal trapping t-p conditions of 290/320°c and 2,349/2,497bar were obtained for the primary fluid inclusions. the pseudo-secondary fluid inclusions were trapped at conditions of lower temperatures and variable pressures, during the deformation process under local alternating states of stress. the microthermometric studies, the structural analysis and the fluorine contents suggest that the mineralized veins were formed from hydrothermal fluids originated during the brasiliano tectono-metamorphic event.
Inje??o intravítrea de bevacizumab e gás C3F8 para tratamento da hemorragia submacular secundária a degenera??o macular relacionada à idade: relato de casos
Ferraz, Daniel Araújo;Bressanim, Gláucio Luciano;Morita, Celso;Takahashi, Walter Yukihiko;
Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia , 2010, DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27492010000100014
Abstract: the purpose of this case series is to describe if the intravitreal use of bevacizumab and perfluoropropane gas (c3f8) would be beneficial to the displacement of subretinal hemorrhage in patients with age-related macular degeneration (amd). a retrospective study of 5 eyes that received concurrent intravitreal injection of bevacizumab and c3f8 was performed. the results were graded according to blood displacement under the fovea, best final visual acuity and intraoperative complications. at the initial presentation, mean age of patients was 72.6 ± 8.9 years-old and duration of symptoms was 13 ± 9.7 days. from the 5 patients, 3 (60%) were male and 2 (40%) female. the success of submacular hemorrhage full displacement was achieved in 4 patients. the mean preoperative visual acuity (va) was 1.12 ± 0.34 logmar and the mean postoperative va was 0.92 ± 0.4 logmar. no cases of retinal detachment, endophthalmitis, vitreous hemorrhage, uveitis, cataracts and increased intraocular pressure were noted during the follow-up period. intravitreal bevacizumab and c3f8 injection, associated to prone position can be a valuable therapeutic option for eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and subretinal hemorrhage to the blood displacement out of the foveal area.
Relationship between body mass and body length in capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Ferraz, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros;Bonach, Kelly;Verdade, Luciano Martins;
Biota Neotropica , 2005, DOI: 10.1590/S1676-06032005000100020
Abstract: as a part of a management program we captured 39 capybaras (hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) in an agroecosystem at the east central region of the state of s?o paulo, brazil from march 2001 to may 2002. average adult male body mass was 54.1 ± 8.05 kg, and average adult female body mass was 62.0 ± 12.03 kg. average juvenile male body mass was 23.0 ± 8.28 kg, and average juvenile female body mass was 26.7 ± 5.86 kg. males and females presented a significant variation in the allometric relation between body mass and body length. body mass and body length had a high correlation for both adult males and adult females. these results from capybaras in agroecosystem might be relevant for further management programs.
Placenta??o em cutias (Dasyprocta aguti, CARLETON, M.D.): aspectos morfológicos
Rodrigues, Rosangela Felipe;Miglino, Maria Angelica;Ferraz, Rosa Helena dos Santos;Morais-Pinto, Luciano de;
Abstract: the agouti is a wild rodent found in the south of central america and in tropical regions of south america, especially in the northern, northeastern and southeastern regions of brazil. these animals represent an important socio-economic factor in the north and northeastern regions of brazil since they provide animal protein. for this paper 07 agouti (dasyprocta aguti) placentas were used, in differents stages of gestation. the placenta presents a spherical shape and lobular structure connecting to the uterus by means of a mesoplacenta. fetal blood flows from the interlobium to the center of the lobe, that is, centripetally, while maternal blood flows centrifugally.
Oxida??o de sulfetos de níquel com microorganismos mesófilos
Santos, Luciano Rodrigo Gomes;Barbosa, Alexandre Ferraz;Souza, Adelson Dias;Le?o, Versiane Albis;
Abstract: metallic sulphide oxidation has been associated to the generation of acid mine drainage, one of the most import environmental issues in the mining industry. bioleaching can be applied to accelerate sulphide oxidation, ceasing these impacts. this work sought to study the biooxidation of a complex nickel-iron sulphide (pentlandite and pyrrhotite) using acidophile iron-oxidizing bacteria. the effects of ph and solids concentration on the extraction of nickel were evaluated. a high nickel extraction (around 60%) can be achieved confirming the feasibility of nickel sulphide bioleaching. the ph has a negligible effect on nickel extraction being ph 2.0 the best value. nickel dissolution can be achieved at high solid percentages since gaseous transfer in the system is not strongly affected. it is suggested therefore that sulphide dissolution under these conditions is limited by the availability of carbon dioxide in the leaching system, which controls bacterial growth.
A Complex Networks Approach for Data Clustering
Francisco A. Rodrigues,Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda,Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Abstract: Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a similarity measure, and partitioned using spectral methods. However, these methods are not accurate when the clusters are not well separated. In addition, it is not possible to automatically determine the number of clusters. These limitations can be overcome by taking into account network community identification algorithms. In this work, we propose a methodology for data clustering based on complex networks theory. We compare different metrics for quantifying the similarity between objects and take into account three community finding techniques. This approach is applied to two real-world databases and to two sets of artificially generated data. By comparing our method with traditional clustering approaches, we verify that the proximity measures given by the Chebyshev and Manhattan distances are the most suitable metrics to quantify the similarity between objects. In addition, the community identification method based on the greedy optimization provides the smallest misclassification rates.
Minimal paths between communities induced by geographical networks
Henrique Ferraz de Arruda,Cesar Henrique Comin,Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Abstract: In this work we investigate the betweenness centrality in geographical networks and its relationship with network communities. We show that vertices with large betweenness define what we call characteristic betweenness paths in both modeled and real-world geographical networks. We define a geographical network model that possess a simple topology while still being able to present such betweenness paths. Using this model, we show that such paths represent pathways between entry and exit points of highly connected regions, or communities, of geographical networks. By defining a new network, containing information about community adjacencies in the original network, we describe a means to characterize the mesoscale connectivity provided by such characteristic betweenness paths.
Diagnóstico confirmatorio de anticuerpos anti-Trypanosoma cruzi en donantes referidos por bancos de sangre en Venezuela A confirmatory diagnosis of antibodies anti-Trypanosoma cruzi in donors referred by blood banks in Venezuela
Zoraida Díaz-Bello,Reinaldo Zavala-Jaspe,María Díaz-Villalobos,Luciano Mauriello
Investigación Clínica , 2008,
Abstract: Con el objetivo de establecer el diagnóstico confirmatorio para Trypanosoma cruzi se realizaron al menos dos pruebas inmunoserológicas (ELISA, Reacción de Hemoaglutinación Indirecta, RHI, o Reacción de Fijación de Complemento, RFC) a donantes provenientes de bancos de sangre de centros asistenciales públicos y privados de Venezuela que acudieron durante 48 meses entre los a os 1997-1998 y 2003-2004 a la Sección de Inmunología del Instituto de Medicina Tropical en Caracas, Venezuela. Se evaluaron 254 donantes referidos de diferentes bancos de sangre por presentar anticuerpos anti-T. cruzi en pruebas de despistaje. Se confirmó la presencia de anticuerpos en 129/254 (50,79%) de los individuos por las técnicas de ELISA-IgG o RHI y RFC. El "xenodiagnóstico artificial" fue positivo en 10/118 (8,5%) personas con serología positiva. De 129 donantes encontrados reactivos por técnicas serológicas, 68 eran residentes de la región capital y 61 del interior del país. Así mismo, 113 nacieron en el interior del país, 8 en Caracas y 8 en Colombia. En 12 individuos confirmados serológicamente se constató la donación de sangre en mínimo 4 ocasiones antes de detectar la infección. El presente estudio resalta la importancia de la búsqueda activa de individuos con Enfermedad de Chagas a través de la detección de anticuerpos contra T. cruzi en la evaluación integral de donantes de sangre para descartar el riesgo de transmisión a otras personas. Muchos de estos donantes con anticuerpos anti-T. cruzi, la gran mayoría clínicamente asintomáticos, habían donado sangre en varias ocasiones previas al diagnóstico. To establish the confirmatory diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, at least two immunoserological tests (ELISA, Indirect hamaglutination, IH, Complement Fixation Test, CFT) were carried out in 254 donors, from public and private blood banks of Venezuela, during 48 months between 1997-1998 and 2003-2004, referred to the Immunology Section of the Tropical Medicine Institute in Caracas. Antibodies anti-T. cruzi were detected in 129/254 (50,79%) by ELISA-IgG or IH and CFT. The "artificial xenodiagnosis" was positive in 10/118 persons with positive confirmed serology. Of 129 donors found positive by the serological tests, 68 were living in the capital region and 61 in the interior of the country. Likewise 113 were born in the interior of the country, 8 in Caracas and 8 in Colombia. Of them, 12 individuals serologically confirmed declared to have donated blood in a minimum of 4 occasions before diagnosis. The present study emphasizes the importance of detection of antibodie


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Historic: The Democratic Green Party and PS-Imberakuri enter Parliament!
in Politics, Society
In a previous column on this blog I indicated that the Rwandan political system as enshrined in the constitution is no 'Zero-Sum Game', but an inclusive, power-sharing arrangement, based on the 'Constant quest for Solutions through dialogue and consensus'.
It is against that backdrop, that I dare suggest that, in light of in-coming electoral results, the Democratic Green Party (DGP) and PS-Imberakuri have finally won their place in the up-coming Rwandan Parliament and/or government.
But first things first: Congratulations to the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) for a solid win, and to all Parties involved for observing restrain and upholding democracy. Indeed we have had peaceful electoral campaigns across the country, and most importantly, we have not heard any party leader prematurely declare victory before the official announcement by the electoral commission. This behavior gives us confidence that the aftermath of a potentially risky exercise elsewhere, will be peaceful and democratic in Rwanda, and this precisely due to the peculiar power-sharing arrangement introduced above.
By printing time, the National Electoral Commission had only announced 70% of the results. This analysis is therefore based on a steady trend observed in the provisional results of the September 3rd 2018 parliamentary elections, and it is only limited to five political parties and their coalition; namely
Political Party Provisional Results Minimum required
The RPF-Inkotayi and Coalition 75 % 5%
The Social-Democratic Party (PSD) 8.5 % 5%
The Liberal Party (PL) 7.6 % 5%
The DGP 4.6 % 5%
The Social Party (PS-Imberakuri) 4.3 % 5%
Five Percent Threshold (Art. 107-108, Electoral Code): 'For an independent candidate to secure ONE seat; and a Political party to be represented in the Chamber of Deputies, they are required to have obtained at least 5% of the votes cast respectively.'
As unfair as this provision sounds for independent candidates, it is not about to change, given the poor performance of the traditional 'political runners-up'. Indeed for PSD and PL both clearly losing momentum, to vote for lowering the five percent threshold would be akin to embracing political self-obsolescence.
Yet, that should not stop the 'Greens' to enter parliament and Imberakuri to enter government, in extremis. My argument is based, not on a mere mathematical calculations of the law, but on its spirit, object and purpose.
Why was the 'Five percent' threshold enacted?
To ensure that no freelance adventurers enter Rwandan parliament;
To ensure that every 'sizeable' constituency is represented in the Rwandan legislature
What's important isn't the figure (5) per see, but the 'representability' of the electorate and the 'legitimacy' of the candidate; in an open and democratic society, based on human dignity, equality and freedom.
It is my humble opinion that the two parties that scored above 4% meet both measurements.
Let's take two countries with similar 'list' systems for instance; the threshold to be eligible for the Argentinian 'Congreso de la Nación' is set at (3%). The Israel's 'Knesset law' breaks it down to the centesimal fraction of (3.25%).
In as far as the Rwandan electoral law is silent on decimal or centesimal points of the threshold, one may argue that 4.6 can be rounded up to 5%; especially when such score represents more than half of the second best electoral performance in the country.
Moreover, a merger of Imberakuri and DGP's electoral tally represents 8.7%. This is as significant as the PSD and PL scores respectively. And such a constituency may not be disenfranchised.
Matters of law, politics, governance and all pertaining to social sciences are not to be viewed with empirical, mathematical lenses. Even there, it is not clear whether the value of 'Pi' (π = 22/7) should be rounded up to (π = 3.14) or must it be kept as (π = 3.14159), or rather, as recently adjusted to: (π = 3.142857)?
The 5% is only a finger pointing at the moon; the big picture, which is: political inclusivity, legitimacy, representability, etc.
That said, this article should not be seen to advocate for the appointment of a particular individual to a particular position. It simply aims to interpret the interesting messages that were communicated by citizens in the just concluded elections.
So let me end with a few observations:
Whatever will happen, all registered political parties are already represented in policy-making as members of the Forum of Political Organisations (Article 59: of the Constitution);
The turnout was low for the legislative elections. This either means that citizens aren't 'overwhelmed' by their MPs or that they saw no salience or controversy in the final outcome;
The low turnout may also be caused by political apathy, typically observed in countries that have been stable for a long time and where change isn't much desired: 'As long as things remain the same; all is well?'
I couldn't end without giving a shootout to Ms Christine Mukabunani for reaching 4%; One percent shy of clinching the parliament. Maybe next time…
Update: This prophesy was fulfilled by the Electoral commission. Green Party and PS-Imberakuri are going to parliament, with two seats each.
Dear Louise, I hope you had the time of your life.


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Q: How to disable startup programs not found in Task Manager and CCleaner? I have a lot of unnecessary processes that run on startup that I don't want. However, they are not shown on Task Manager > startup or the CCleaner program. How do i manually disable these programs on startup?
Some examples of these unnecessary startup processes are:
Adobe Acrobat update service (armsvc.exe)
Adobe Genuine software service (AGMService.exe)
Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service (AGSService.exe)
I also have 3 instances of AppVShNotify.exe that ran on startup which I googled, I don't even use virtualization...
(Note that all of these neither show in Task Manager and CCleaner)
I don't want to update Adobe every time i startup my pc. Its just a process thats hogging resource even if there are no updates going on. I do still need Adobe Acrobat Reader but I don't want any of its components such as the above to hog resources on startup.

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Q: Let the navbar appear without spaces in between Can someone explain me how i need to set the css statements to get the navbar one after another, without any free spaces?
Also it would be handy to know, how i can set the navbar over the whole display, that its automaticly working on different screen resolutions.
I tried finding a solution on w3schools.

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/* css */

.navbar ul {
    list-style-type: none;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
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.navbar li {
    display: inline;
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.navbar a {
    border: none;
    padding: 2px;
    margin: 0px;
    background-color: #000000;
    color: #ffffff;
    text-decoration: none;
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A: Add the negative margin and your problem will get solved .

Here is the snippet .

just change the css property of the following class .
.navbar li {
        display: inline;
        margin-right: -0.26rem;
    }

This will definitely solve your problem .

A: Just add float: left to li.
.navbar li {
        display: inline;
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A: Give ul a display: flex, and the a tags a white-space pre:

/* css */

.navbar ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  display: flex;
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.navbar a {
  padding: 2px 5px;
  background-color: #000000;
  color: #ffffff;
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Q: how to post multiple photos in instagram programmatically? I am working on a demo to share multiple photos on different social platforms. I was able to post a single picture using the code on Instagram but i am not sure how to post multiple images on it. I am not sure even if Instagram provides such functionality.

A: Try like this
ArrayList<Uri> images = new ArrayList<Uri>();
Files[] imagesFiles; //your imagesFile

for(String path : imagesFiles) {
File file = new File(path);
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
files.add(uri);
}

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, images);
intent.setType("image/jpeg");

A: You'll need to use Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE.
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Here are some files.");
intent.setType("image/jpeg"); /* This example is sharing jpeg images. */
intent.setPackage("com.instagram.android");

ArrayList<Uri> files = new ArrayList<Uri>();

for(String path : filesToSend /* List of the files you want to send */) {
    File file = new File(path);
    Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
    files.add(uri);
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intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, files);
startActivity(intent);

This could definitely be simplified but I left some lines in so you can break down each step that is needed.
NOTE: Starting in API 24, sharing file URIs will cause a FileUriExposedException. You can either switch your compileSdkVersion to 23 or lower or you can use content URIs with a FileProvider.


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Trash cans wash into ocean in Santa Cruz
Amy Larson
KSBW.com Digital Media Manager
Large garbage cans filled with trash were washed by waves into the ocean next to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk over the weekend.The incident happened during high tide and late at night, when there were not many people around.Linda Konzen shot photos showing many orange garbage in the water."Saturday night, when I went to Main Beach, it was horrifying to see what was scattered and strewn in the wet sand after the tide had receded. At least 30 garbage cans and the bags piled around them left for the ocean to clean up," Konzen said.Assistant City Manager Scott Collins said the trash cans are owned the Santa Cruz Seaside Company, which operates the Boardwalk.One of the company's employees is in charge of moving the garbage cans every day before high tides to ensure the cans are not washed into the ocean, Collins said. The employee did not move the cans far enough away from the water one night, he said."It was a big mistake and it's not going to happen again," Collins said.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
Large garbage cans filled with trash were washed by waves into the ocean next to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk over the weekend.
The incident happened during high tide and late at night, when there were not many people around.
Plastic toys litter Santa Cruz Main Beach, Cowell Beach
Linda Konzen shot photos showing many orange garbage in the water.
"Saturday night, when I went to Main Beach, it was horrifying to see what was scattered and strewn in the wet sand after the tide had receded. At least 30 garbage cans and the bags piled around them left for the ocean to clean up," Konzen said.
Assistant City Manager Scott Collins said the trash cans are owned the Santa Cruz Seaside Company, which operates the Boardwalk.
One of the company's employees is in charge of moving the garbage cans every day before high tides to ensure the cans are not washed into the ocean, Collins said. The employee did not move the cans far enough away from the water one night, he said.
"It was a big mistake and it's not going to happen again," Collins said.