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Fernando Casasempere
b. 1958, Chile
Fernando Casasempere (born 1958) is a sculptor working with ceramics, the traditional material of pottery, and his work explores ideas of landscape and the environment. Conceptually his use of earth/clay and his concern with nature and ecological issues connects him to artists associated with the Land or Earth Art movement, such as Robert Smithson and Richard Long, but Casasempere works out of a different cultural tradition, being profoundly inspired by the Pre-Columbian art and architecture of Latin America. He is inspired by the the Chilean landscape but also the processes by which that landscape has been exploited. In particular, he has worked with copper tailings (or 'relave' in Spanish), industrial waste materials produced by copper mining (copper being the principle export of Chile) to make work that explores ideas around ecology and geology and to introduce extraordinarily rich colours and textures. Casasempere's work calls into question the relationship between art and the environment, between culture and the earth itself from which the sculptures are made. Although his work is predominantly abstract, much of it can be read topographically, almost as a document of the landscape from which the materials have been sourced.
Casasempere has been based in London since 1997 but he still works with materials bought from Chile. As Edmund de Waal has said, his work 'straddles Chile, his home country, and Britain, his adopted country of work. For he works with a deep understanding of the specificity of materials: although his material is local, his vision is international. His Chilean materials are used in a very contemporary way.' De Waal has also written that Casasempere makes sculpture 'that looks as if it is flux between solidity and fluidity. This is a rare achievement. It is one we should celebrate.'
In 2012 Casasempere installed a monumental field of ceramic and steel flowers, Out of Sync, at Somerset House in London. That piece has now been permanently installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile. More recent works include a series of works entitled 'Collective Memory', incorporating many tiny white forms recalling bleached vertebrae and suggest desiccation and desolation but also purity, and are inspired by recent travels in the Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet. In some of these works the small individual forms are combined to create seemingly weightless 'cloud' structures. In other works many hundreds of the forms fill white clay boxes, suggestive of graves or burial chambers. A series of new abstract 'paintings' in clay on felt, 'Salares', exploit the chance processes that create texture as the material dries and recall aerial photographs of alluvial landscapes. Other new sculptures made from ceramic blocks are inspired by both the ruined architecture of Pre-Columbian archaeological sites and the tectonic shifts of vast geological bodies.
Fernando Casasempere was born in Santiago, Chile in 1958. He studied ceramics and sculpture in Barcelona in the 1980s, returning to Chile in 1986. He has been based in London since 1997. Casasempere's work has been exhibited internationally since the 1980s. Recent solo exhibitions include Out of Sync, Somerset House, London (2012); Falla Ideologico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago (2012); and Bricks and Mortar, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury (2011). Recent group exhibitions include The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, Worcester (2018); Sculpture in the City, London (2017); Second Skin, Frieze Sculpture Park, London (2016); and Under the Forest, Jerwood Foundation, Ragley Hall, Alcester (2007). Casasempere's work is in international collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago. In 2016 Casasempere mounted a major exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago. He is the first artist to be honoured with an exhibition throughout the entire museum.
Casasempere's forthcoming solo museum shows include Casa América, Madrid (2019) and the Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego (2020).
Text courtesy Parafin.
23 November 2018–2 February 2019 Fernando Casasempere Natura Morta Parafin, London
26 November 2015–13 February 2016 Fernando Casasempere A Death Parafin, London
Recent Artworks
Fernando CasasempereTectonic Plate 5, 2015Stoneware, porcelain and mixed media
24 x 15 x 17 cm Parafin Enquire about this work
Fernando CasasempereTectonic Plate 10, 2015Stoneware, porcelain and mixed media
Fernando CasasempereSalar 15, 2015China clay, acrylic and India ink on handmade paper
75 x 55 cm Parafin Enquire about this work
Fernando CasasempereSalar 6, 2015China clay, acrylic and India ink on handmade paper
Fernando CasasempereCloud 2, 2015Porcelain
Fernando CasasempereGeology 1, 2015Stoneware, porcelain and mixed media
Fernando CasasempereUntitled (Walls series), 2017Porcelain, mixed media


RS&H architect Brandon Pourch knows how easy it is to take his design and architectural skills for granted. In a firm like RS&H, those talents are everywhere you look.
Outside these walls, those skills can be a little harder to come by, which is why Pourch volunteers his time and talents to help so many people and organizations in Jacksonville. From constructing decorations for events at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art to designing and helping construct a new community garden in the city's Riverside-Avondale neighborhoods, Pourch's fingerprints are all over the First Coast.
His efforts have been recognized by RS&H, which named Pourch the R. Ray Goode Community Volunteer of the Year. The award recognizes an RS&H associate who has made exceptional contributions to his or her community during the year. It was established in honor of Goode, who served on the Board of Directors for RS&H for seven years and was an inspirational business and community leader.
The examples are plenty. As president of the Emerging Design Professionals, the young profressionals branch of AIA Jacksonville, Pourch has organized many events that focus on engaging the community as well as bringing together young architects with more senior and retired architects. Last summer, Pourch helped other RS&H associates design and construct decorations for a charity called Learn To Read, which changes adult lives through the gift of literacy.
On the weekends, Pourch helps with cleanups along McCoy's Creek with the Rising Tides, the young professional group of the St. John's Riverkeeper. In December, he was awarded the Rising Tides Volunteer of the Year. He has also volunteered with the Jacksonville Kids Mural Project, which gives children the opportunity to discover a passion for the arts and the self-esteem and confidence that art can inspire.
He is also heavily involved with Jacksonville's Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) family, which aims to empower people with disabilities to live independent, self-empowered lives. In October, he and a team of RS&H employees designed and built special Halloween costumes for children in the ILRC family, outfitting their wheelchairs.
The Riverside-Avondale community garden isn't the only garden Pourch has his hands in. Recently, he volunteered his front yard in a new program called Fleet Farming – his yard is the first garden project for the group in Jacksonville. With the help of volunteers, Fleet Farming transforms unproductive, wasteful lawns into community-driven urban farm plots.
Pourch will keep his focus on his community, always looking for ways to help better it. The Ray Goode award is just a byproduct of his efforts.


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There still is a population of Western Pond Turtle (Emys Mormarata) at the BFS! The turtles were spotted at the pHake Lake and are a species of special concern in CA.
Teach In at the Campout on the Mounds!
Students for the BFS is hosting another teach-in today, at 3pm, on Pitzer's Mounds! This is in coordination with EcoCenter's Campout on the Mounds. Come out and spend a day without electricity, camp out on the grass all night, enjoy food by Grillmasters, and discuss the Bernard Field Station!
HMC has put up poles to demarcate their property at the BFS. They follow the the telephone poles and are only a few feet from the lake.
Also, there are tad-poles in the vernal pools!
The Student Life, published out of Pomona College and most likely the 5C's most read student newspaper, printed an article on the BFS last Friday, 2/13/09 in what could be called Column One.
The article is rather short and a bit muddled, but this kind of reporting figures; most information on the BFS is gathered through second, third and even fourth hand sources, and decisions are regularly made without even the input of the people officially entrusted with doing so. Such is the life of the consortium, a highly political and multi-layered setting; one can only imagine what goes on at massive public institutions.
Below I've tried to lay out essentialy what the Stud Life article was about. But I hope that readers of this blog maintain a knack for puzzling pieces together, tying up loose ends, and expecting closed doors as you join us in the fight to bring our positive vibrations into an environment empty of any such positivity.
What the article is getting at is an email sent out by CUC CEO Bob Walton around Feb 6th. In the email Walton writes that an agreement was made between CUC, representing all students, faculty, and other members of the colleges, and Harvey Mudd. The agreement, known as a lease, allows continued use of the formly KGI owned/recently purchased HMC portion of the BFS (not to be confused with the other two portions north of Foothill Blvd) until May 2009.
Presumably this means that after May, members of the Colleges not approved by Harvey Mudd (or maybe nobody, if Mudd chooses to stop all access) will be unable to use the western portion of the BFS. Nothing especially shocking, as we've heard plans of a May 2010 groundbreaking on the parking lot, and a year timeline makes sense for getting the plans together.
Today the CUC, after consultation with the Council, signed a lease to continue to provide access to the HMC land north of foothill and adjacent to the Bernard Field Station [as defined by the agreement with the Friends of the BFS] effective immediately and extending until the end of May 2009. At that time the lease and authorized access by faculty and students by means of the CUC lease with HMC ends. Please notify your faculty and students to these arrangements so as to enable continued support for their current use of this property for the remainder of this academic year, at least through the end of May 2009.
There will undoubtedly be some new discussions at both the Council and the CUC Board of Overseers about the future access to this land, but I believe it is extremely important to notify faculty and students that no guarantees for continued access can be provided, and that the discussions and due diligence is unlikely to be completed prior to the end of the lease at the end of May.
The Students for the Bernard Field Station is a nonviolent group of students at the Claremont Colleges fighting for the preservation in perpetuity of the entire Field Station and opposing any plans to develop this land. We are unequivocally opposed to the plan to relocate the Keck Graduate Institute to the Bernard Field Station. We believe that the BFS struggle is a micro-level analogy for extensive widespread degradation of the environment throughout the United States and the world. We are determined to stop the destruction of a natural habitat by what we deem to be extraneous development.
This blog is meant to keep you up-to-date with what's happening with the BFS right now.
The BFS is an endangered Coastal Sage Scrub habitat just north of Harvey Mudd College. It is used for projects in biology, environmental science, and other academic pursuits by the students and faculty of the Claremont Colleges. In the Fall of 2008, the western 11.4 acres of it were ultimately sold to HMC, and HMC owns it as of January 6, 2009. HMC plans to build a parking lot on this land to accommodate the specifications imposed by the city of Claremont. While HMC says it will be a "green" parking lot, we must stress that there is not such thing as a green parking lot.
The land at the BFS offers unique opportunities to improve the education of all the Claremont Colleges. The BFS is safe and accessible, and it contains undisturbed habitats that provide an authentic field biology experience that cannot be easily accomplished anywhere else. It would be far better, both for the sustainability of its ecology and for its ecological educational value, if the BFS were to remain intact. The idea of paving some of it for a parking lot seems particularly appalling when parking lots can clearly be built underground or as elevated structures elsewhere on campus.
The last time the Claremont Colleges decided to build on this land, more than 100 students protested. On March 26, 2001, students barricaded the entrance to Pendleton Business Building (www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZka6x-4Yo4, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm4hIhOgkeE). The 2001 protests and a lawsuit by the Friends of the Bernard Field Station led to a settlement that preserves 45 acres of the field station until the year 2051, on the contingency that there is no opposition when the colleges decide to build on the other 41 acres. With the motto "Expect Resistance," it seems unlikely that the Students for the Bernard Field Station will just sit by and let the habitat at the BFS be paved. Anyone who cares about the environment, sustainability, and social justice would agree that you cannot be passive about this.
The land at the BFS, which is an invaluable resource to the students and faculty of the Claremont Colleges as well as the wider community, is truly worth protecting in the name of education and sustainability.


IN the second incident of its kind this year, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) and the Environment Agency have confirmed the presence of Spring Viraemia of Carp (SVC) in a batch of fish.
Now the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has issued an order preventing the movement of fish to or from the site at Staunton Court Fishery, Gloucestershire. The previous case this year was also in the Agency's <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Midlands region.
Nigel Hewlett, Senior Scientist at the Agency's National Fisheries Laboratory said: "We're very concerned about the threat posed to carp fisheries by this potentially devastating disease. SVC can decimate carp populations in a very short space of time. It is important that fishery owners and anglers act responsibly to prevent the spread of the virus.
"The National Fisheries Laboratory has been contacted by a number of fishery owners in the Midlands who are very worried about SVC reaching their sites.
"We are giving them advice on how to protect their fisheries, but we also need anglers to be aware of the risks of transferring the virus and the damage it can cause to a fishery.
"Outbreaks of the disease can devastate carp fisheries. Past cases have killed up to 80 per cent of carp populations in some waters. This has a huge impact, both in terms of the quality of fishing and to the business of many fishery owners.
A virus that mainly targets carp and their variants causes the disease. But it can also infect roach, tench, rudd, goldfish, pike and wels catfish.
It is primarily spread by the introduction of infected fish but it is also possible that anglers could carry the virus on wet nets or their boots.
Nigel Hewlett added: "There is no reason why anglers should not fish affected waters, but they should ensure that they follow on-site rules and respect the rules on disinfecting nets placed by other fisheries.
Infected fisheries are subject to Designated Area Orders, placed on them by Defra. Under these orders they are prevented from moving any fish on or off site. They are usually in place for a minimum of three years.
Fishery owners should always report fish mortalities on their waters. As well as investigating possible disease, Agency officers can provide advice on preventing problems in the future.


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Damascus Rule, Philip R. Davies, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
DAMASCUS RULE (CD). The "Damascus Rule (CD ) "document was first discovered in the genizah (storeroom) of the Qara'ite synagogue in Old Cairo by S. Schechter, who brought it to the University Library, Cambridge, where it remains. First published as "Fragments of a Zadokite Work" (Schechter 1910) because of its references to "sons of Zadok" (4.1, 3) and "Zadok" (5.5)—and hence often referred to as the Damascus Document and officially denoted by the siglum CD (= Cairo- Damascus) on account of its allusions to Exile and covenant-making in the "land of Damascus" (6.5, 19; 7.19; 19.34; 20.12). CD consists of two incomplete mss, designated A and B, and dating respectively from about the 10th and 12th centuries C.E. A contains eight sheets, each with two columns; and B a single sheet with two columns. Schechter numbered the A columns 1–16 and the B columns 19–20—rather confusingly, for 19 contains a slightly different version of 8, while 20 follows 19 but has no counterpart in the A ms. There are also fragments of this work from Qumran Caves 4, 5, and 6 ( 4QDa–g, 5QD and 6QD).
A. Contents
It is now customary to divide CD into two parts, the "Admonition" consisting of cols. 1–8–19–20 and the "Laws," cols. 9–16. The "Admonition" opens with reflections on the present condition of Israel in the form of three discourses about the history of God's dealings with his people (1.1–4.12a); from the beginning, mankind, then Israel, strayed after its own desires, and the "covenant of the former ones" (i.e., the preexilic Israel) was abrogated with the divine punishment of desolation of the land and Exile. In the "age of wrath" which has followed, Israel is forsaken by God and misled into continued departure from the true law, despite its belief that it was following God's will. However, God has renewed a covenant with the remnant of the "former ones" and revealed to them through their founder, the "interpreter of the law" (doreš hattôrâ) "the hidden things in which all Israel had gone astray—his holy sabbaths, and his glorious festivals, his righteous testimonies and his true ways" (3.14), so that these might "inherit the land." An invitation is issued to outsiders to join this "remnant" community before judgment descends upon Israel. The next section (4.12b–7.9) deals with matters of halakah, which separate Israel from the remnant community, beginning with the three "nets of Belial," unlawful marriage, illicit wealth, and sanctuary defilement, which Israel mistakes for "righteousness." By contrast, the community's laws, of which a sample is given, stress the distinction between holy and profane, limited contact with the temple cult, and love for one's "brothers" (fellow members of the covenant community). The third section (7.10–8.21–19.1–20.34) issues warnings about the coming judgment on the wicked, drawing a parallel with Ephraim's secession from Judah and the successive fates of the two kingdoms; one was lost forever. The final part of this section focuses on apostasy from the community itself and emphasizes loyalty to the "teacher" whose recent death is also reflected. This last part of the section may be addressing a later situation and a different audience from the rest of the "Admonition"- not outsiders to be invited, but other members of the community to be admonished. It has been suggested (Davies 1983- 48–55) that the three elements of history, law, and warnings in the "Admonition" correspond to the structure of the "covenant formulary" (Bundesformular) known in the ANE and believed to exist also in the OT.
The "Laws" deals with a variety of issues governing life within the covenant community, including judicial processes, sabbath and sacrificial observances, officers within the community, support for the needy, oaths, and vows. The principles of arrangement are inscrutable and the compilation is incomplete. However, it seems that two orders of community life are ordained, in "cities" and in "camps." Among the more important aspects of these laws are those which acknowledge temple offerings and those which presuppose considerable contact with gentiles.
On the basis of the Qumran fragments a fuller outline of the document has been proposed (Milik 1959- 151–52; cf. Fitzmyer 1977- 90–92) with additional material at the beginning of the "Admonition" and the beginning and end of the "Laws." But the fragments to be edited by Milik have yet to be published (see, provisionally, Milik 1966), while those already published from Cave 6 (Baillet 1956) contain no additional material or significant deviation from CD. For the time being, judgment must be reserved on this matter.
B. Identification and History of the Community
CD is evidently the product of a Jewish community at variance with its fellow Jews. Its identity was disputed for many decades, although a wide consensus correctly placed it in the Hellenistic-Roman era. The references to "Zadok" and "sons of Zadok," as well as the apparently non-Pharisaic halakhot led many to suggest Sadducees (e.g., Charles APOT 2- 785–834; Lévi 1911–12), though Ginzberg's minute analysis of the halakhot led him to prefer Pharisees (Ginzberg 1970); Essenes, though considered (Lévi 1911–12; Meyer 1919), were rejected. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls apparently supplied the answer. Even before the recovery of fragments of the document from Qumran, phrases like "teacher of righteousness" and "man (or spouter) of lie(s)," present in CD, had reappeared in the Cave 1 Pesher on Habakkuk, while other terminological parallels emerged between CD and the Rule of the Community. Both the Qumran community and that of CD have subsequently come to be widely regarded, with good reason, as Essene.
However, although a simple equation of the community of CD with the inhabitants of Qumran was widely accepted at first, it is now recognized that the relationship is not so straightforward. Yet it is widely believed to hold the key to the origin and/or the history of the Qumran community, a fact which affords CD a crucial place in Qumran studies. The key differences between the community of CD and that of Qumran are as follows-
1. Damascus. CD's historical summaries place the foundation of the "remnant" community in the wake of the "destruction of the land" by Nebuchadnezzar while it was exiled in "Damascus" (6.5). While pre-Qumran scholarship interpreted "Damascus" literally, there is hardly room in what we know of the history of the Qumran community for such an Exile. The suggestion that "Damascus" is a cipher for Qumran (Cross 1961), once widely favored, is no more than a wishful guess; CD speaks of exiles who "went out of the land of Judah," which is hardly true of the inhabitants of Qumran; and CD never associates "Damascus" with the "teacher of righteousness," who seems to have been the founder of the Qumran group.
2. The Founder of the Community. For CD the founder of the community is the "interpreter of the law" (6.7), whose rules will be followed for the "period of wickedness" until there arises one who will "teach righteousness at the end of days." This passage might appear not only to separate the "interpreter" and the "teacher" but to place them in a clear temporal and ideological relationship. This relationship appears to be obscured by 1.11, which refers to a past "teacher of righteousness" who came to an already formed but "blind" group; however, it is not so much the relationship between the two characters which is altered as the relationship between the characters and the writer- CD 1 seems to come from a later period and from a post-"teacher" community; CD 6 does not. Where does the rest of CD stand? The majority of scholars still regard all of CD as Qumranic; Davies (1983) regards it as originally pre-Qumranic, but subject to a Qumranic recension, partly following the lead of Murphy-O'Connor (1970–74), who sees pre-Qumranic sources and Stegemann (1971), who concluded that the "Laws" of CD reflected the circumstances of the Qumran community's parent movement, which he identified with the Maccabean Hasidim.
3. Organization and Ideology. CD and other Qumran documents, notably 1QS, share important similarities alongside significant differences. CD depicts life in "camps" or "cities" (14.3; 12.19), including women and children (7.7), governed by "judges" and involving participation in the temple cult. Personal property seems permitted. At Qumran celibacy seems to have been the rule, and its organization (on which the texts offer a confusing picture) had no "judges." The Qumran community apparently boycotted the temple and permitted no personal property. (For a convenient comparison and contrast, see Vermes 1977- 105–6.)
Two main hypotheses are offered to explain both the similarities and the differences. Each assumes that both types of communities are Essene, though this is not essential. The long-established view is that the Essenes began at Qumran (implying identification of the "interpreter of the law" and "teacher of righteousness") and later formed settlements elsewhere which developed their own rules, with Qumran possibly remaining as a "mother house." It is these other communities which CD describes. The second, more recent theory, first advanced by Murphy-O'Connor (1970–74) on the basis of a series of analyses of CD, is that the Essenes as a movement predated Qumran, and that the Qumran community was a splinter movement, which remained alongside, but presumably in disagreement with, the non-Qumran Essenes. For Murphy-O'Connor, "Damascus" is a cipher for Babylon, where the Essenes originated before migrating to Palestine in the Maccabean period and subsequently withdrawing from its society because of differences over halakah and high priesthood. The crucial difference between the two theories, each of which conforms well with Josephus' description of two kinds of Essene (JW 2 §119–61), lies in the explanation of Essene origins; the former theory sees the formation of the Qumran community as the starting point, the latter opens the way to an earlier origin, possibly described in CD . For the latter theory the community to whom the "teacher of righteousness" came (CD 1.11) was Essene; for the former, it has to be some other group, usually the Hasidim. Each theory poses different reasons for the origin of the Essenes, though not necessarily for the origin of the Qumran community.
The resolution of this crucial problem involves other elements in CD, notably the laws and the relationship to other literature found in the Qumran caves. Several detailed studies of the CD halakah have been undertaken (e.g., Ginzberg 1970; Rabin 1954; Schiffmann 1975) but without conclusive results; in many cases failure to distinguish the laws of CD from those of 1QS reduces the usefulness of the study. But important parallels exist between CD and Jubilees, a book to which CD probably refers at 16.3, but which is not thought to be a Qumran composition. Other parallels with 1 Enoch and the Temple Scroll are also evident, lending weight to the suggestion that CD has much in common with other movements related to—and possibly earlier than—the Qumran community.
C. Qumran and the Qara'ites
A further aspect of CD, perhaps rather underemphasized in recent research, is its relationship to the Qara'ites, in one of whose synagogues it was found and by whom it was presumably copied. Al-Qirqisani (10th century C.E.) mentions "Zadokites" who opposed "Rabbanites" and whose doctrines, as he reports them, resemble both those of the Qara'ites and of CD (Schechter 1910- XVIII–XX; Driver 1965- 260–61). Two possible explanations are available for the apparent continuity of these traditions. One is that the Essene movement continued after the end of the Qumran settlement—quite probable if non-Qumran Essenism was a substantial movement and if it existed also outside Palestine; the other is that the discovery of texts in the Dead Sea region in ancient times (see Driver 1965- 6–15) led to the adoption in some circles of doctrines and laws contained in them or even to the creation of Jewish sects devoted to their teaching. While there seem to be strong links between CD and the Qara'ites, the question is far from resolved and invites further research. A detailed and balanced assessment has been made by Wieder (1962; the most recent and very positive discussion is by Wacholder 1985- 148–55).
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Sotheby's to Offer One of the Largest Monet "Haystack" Paintings for US$55m
By: Juliana Chung
07 May, 2019 | Tue | 14:51
Claude Monet's (1840 - 1926) Water Lilies is undoubtedly one of the most sought-after art series in history. His Haystacks series is no less precious than Water Lilies. Featured in Sotheby's upcoming Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale is Monet's Meules from 1890. Today, we have invited August Uribe, Head of Impressionist & Modern Art Department Sotheby's, to talk about this US$55m painting by the renowned French artist.
Meules will be auctioned on 14 May in New York
Haystacks is one of Monet's most renowned series
Monet is considered the founder of French Impressionist painting
Throughout the history of art, landscape painting has always been a popular subject. However, Monet was the first to represent time in a single subject in landscape painting. Although the series is named Haystacks, Monet actually employed grainstacks as the subject. Through the history of civilisation, the harvest of grain determines whether humans can survive, especially during the hard months of winter.
Many celebrated artists, such as Jean-François Millet and Vincent van Gogh, had included the subject of grainstack in the greater context of a landscape. Millet would celebrate the farmers who were toiling the fields yet Monet's series feature no figures. The voluminous stacks themselves have already suggested great fertility.
Des glaneuses by Jean-Francois Millet|Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon by Vincent van Gogh|Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
In merely 18 months between 1890 and 1891, Monet created 25 paintings for the Haystacks series. At 50 years old, Monet was at the height of his powers and recognised for his talents. It was unprecedented to see an artist spending such a long period of time to explore the notion of light and weather and distill landscape into one subject. The series stunned the art industry when it was first exhibited in 1892.
Many of the paintings in the Haystacks series are quite static. Yet Meules from 1890 has a more dynamic composition and has a receding perspective in an abstraction. The grainstacks in the painting, as compared to the others in the series, are much more abstract with more radical use of colours.
August Uribe, Head of Impressionist & Modern Art Department Sotheby's
Part of Meules
Artists before Monet in the 19th century put their focus on being realistic and capturing as many details as possible. However, what Monet wanted was to capture the soul of the view before him.
Most would think that this painting is capturing the moment. Yet, Monet did not point out the particular time of day it captures. Whether it depicts the evening or dawn, it all depends on the audience's perspective and interpretation.
Monet's Haystack painting|The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Monet's Haystack painting|The Art Institute of Chicago
Amongst the 25 Haystack paintings Monet created, 17 are located in museums, which makes only 8 in private hands. In the last 10 years, at least 8 Water Lilies paintings have appeared in the market whereas only 3 from his Haystack series have been seen in the last three decades, making the painting for sale even more valuable.
There were three primary formats in this series. The three largest paintings were around 73 x 92 cm, including the painting featured today. This spectacular painting will very likely exceed its estimate of US$55m.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Meules
Auction house: Sotheby's New York
Sale: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Sale date: 14 May 2019 |7pm
Lot no.: 8
Created in: 1890
Size: 72.7 x 92.6 cm
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on July 2, 1891)
Mr. & Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago (acquired from the above on March 7, 1892)
Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired from the above in 1892)
W.C. Van Horne, Montreal (acquired from the above on April 19, 1892)
Mr. & Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago (acquired from the above on November 22, 1892)
Honoré & Grace Palmer, Chicago (by descent from the above)
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 14, 1986, lot 18
Acquired at the above sale
Estimate: over US$55,000,000


If your office is anything like ours, people are talking about Master of None today, Aziz Ansari's excellent new show on Netflix. It chronicles the life of a single, 20-something actor in New York City named Dev (played by Aziz) who deals with the modern, not-exactly-dire problems of first world life: navigating text etiquette, social interactions at concerts, and awkward sexual encounters. There's also a lot of really, really great clothes. It's not that surprising, considering Aziz has quietly been killing the game recently and has a long history of repping his (and some of our) favorite brands, like Band of Outsiders (RIP). So here are a few of our favorite Dev/Aziz-endorsed pieces—and where to buy them—we spotted in the series. The only spoiler alert here is that when you're done streaming, you're going to want to blow some serious cash on a new wardrobe.


I see a landscape with trees and colourful water.
Beautiful details when you come closer to the painting. YOu will be surprised.
This artwork is sold and shipped to you by Hennie Van de Lande, and will be packaged in a wooden crate. Artworks are dispatched within 7 working days from Netherlands.


Kid Cudi has a lot of surprises in store for his upcoming sophomore album 'Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager.' The LP, slated to hit stores Nov. 9, is set to feature guest appearances from an eclectic roster of artists including Cee Lo, Mary J. Blige (on two tracks), Kanye West, Cage, St. Vincent, GLC, Chip Tha Ripper and Nicole Wray.
'MOTM2' arrives in stores nearly a year after 'Man on the Moon: The End of Days' hit shelves. His debut, released in September 2009, featured guest appearances from Ratatat, Kanye, Common, Chip Tha Ripper and MGMT. Upon release, the album bowed at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 104,419 copies.


If you begin trading in Forex without a lot of prior preparation, chances are you won't succeed. Many people are unsuccessful even with previous experience, and without adequate preparation you are at a huge disadvantage.
For this reason, even experts need a Forex trading plan, in order to ensure that their trade is an investment, rather than a gamble.
A Forex trading plan is simply an outline of your planned trading activities. It contains the set of rules that you have determined for your strategy and how you are going to implement them. Once fully outlined, trade activity is easy to execute, and you are better equipped ot analyse the market and apply your analysis.
Developing the initial outlines of a plan is rather simple. First, it is imperative to determine the frequency of your trading. If you have been trading for a while, this involves observing your accounts history, calculating how many trades you opened per day or per week, and how long you kept them open for.
With this information you can decide how to plot your plan. If you're a day trader, you'll want to plot each day. If your plans are closed after a few days in general, you are better off plotting on a per week basis. You then decide the dimension of your plan.
When you develop your plan, you're effectively setting a cap on your amount of opportunities. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as more opportunity means more chance of losing as well as winning. It is only in cutting opportunities out that you can effectively make the most of those likely to earn you money.
A Forex trading plan helps you cut out emotional trading, as impulsive trades have no place in a rational plan. This can end up saving you a lot of money, effectively keeping you in the game.
It's always tempting to buy on intuition, but it's almost never a good idea. Optimism bias leads us to believe that something big is about to happen, but without an intellectual basis to make entry decisions, you're unlikely to hit the jackpot. Determining what qualifies as an entry signal is key in setting up an effective plan. These signals should be as descriptive as possible, so that they are easy to adhere to.
It's even easier to fall into the trap of impulsivity when it comes to exiting a trade. You may be anxious to cash in earnings, or tend to wait too long. Conversely, you may want to wait it out to see if you make back losses, or immediately exit. Descriptive exit signals are vital for effective trading.
In addition to your entry and exit signals, it's vitally important to have SLs and TPs in place. SLs are more important, and every trade should have an SL attached. It is recommended that you set TPs before committing to a trade.


20 years ago the word(s) of the year (a tie) were: cyber and morph.
1994 Word of the Year: (tie) cyber, pertaining to computers and electronic communication, and morph, to change form. Most Promising: Infobahn, the Internet. Most Useful: gingrich, to deal with government agencies, policies, and people in the manner of U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Most Imaginative: guillermo, an e-mail message in a foreign language. (The Spanish name Guillermo has the nicknameMemo.) Most Trendy: dress down day or casual day, a workday when employees are allowed to dress casually. Most Euphemistic: challenged indicating an undesirable or unappealing condition. Most Beautiful: sylvanshine, night-time iridescence of certain forest trees.


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San Benito es un municipio colombiano del departamento de Santander ubicado en la provincia de Vélez, a 214 km de distancia de Bucaramanga, capital del departamento. A San Benito se le conoce como «Sol y Sombra de Santander».

Este municipio de vocación panelera se encuentra en medio de la hoya del río Suárez, a una altitud de 1200 m s. n. m., y cuenta con 3986 habitantes.

Historia
En el año de 1592, Martín Galeano, quien era muy devoto de San Benito de Palermo, fundó el poblado de San Benito en el territorio que separaba a los indios Guanes de los Chipateas y los residentes de la región de Guepsa, que correspondían a las ruinas del pueblo Agatá.

San Benito se elevó a la categoría de pueblo en 1751, y en 1776 llegó el primer Párroco, Don Manuel Nicolas Roel y Velázco, lo que elevó al municipio a categoría de Parroquia.

Límites
 Norte: Municipios de Aguada y Guadalupe.
 Sur: Municipio de Güepsa.
 Oriente: Municipio de Suaita, el corregimiento de San José de Suaita y el departamento de Boyacá.
 Occidente: Municipios de Aguada y La Paz.

Fiestas y tradiciones
 Día del Campesino: Se celebra en el mes de agosto.

El municipio de San Benito es de tradición panelera, por lo que son tradicionales los cañaduzales y trapiches. También son característicos de su paisaje los árboles de anacoque.

Lugares de interés
 El Carbonero
 Parque natural San Victorino
 Parque acuático
 Río Suárez

Referencias

Municipios de Santander (Colombia)

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The BBWAA finished up it's major award announcements this week, culminating with the MVP awards being handed out on Thursday. I'll rant about the American League later, for now, the National League.
Along with taking home the hardware for comeback player of the year, he also capped off his return to the field with the ultimate player award, the MVP. With 20 first place votes and 422 total, Buster ran away from the rest of the pack. Buster's 7.2 bWAR (Baseball-reference Wins Above Replacement) paced the Senior Circuit and giving a small victory to stat-geeks everywhere. Ryan Braun followed up his 2011 MVP season with a second place finish in 2012. Rumor is he is appealing to the court of baseball claiming that the proper chain-of-command was not followed from the ballot box to the announcement. We all know how this turned out last year. Stay tuned.
Andrew McCutcheon fell victim to the Pittsburgh Pirates doing Pittsburgh Pirates things despite his 7.0 WAR season and winning a batting title. My man Kris Medlen got a little MVP love, walking away with eight points. Jay Bruce and his 1.4 bWAR got 31 more points than Clayton Kershaw and his 6.6 bWAR. Remember when I said "small victory?" Even Hunter Pence got a vote, now go buy a razor.
Dickey was another runaway winner, tallying 27 first place votes during his "Where the hell did this come from season." 20 wins, check. ERA below three, check, 200+ strikeouts, check. He wasn't quite as Clayton Kershaw was, but sometimes the underdog just deserves to have his moment in the sun. He also climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and trained with New York City firefighters. Renaissance Man, check.
Craig Kimbrel and Aroldis Chapman were stupid good this year and came in at fifth and eighth respectively. Poor Gio Gonzales led the NL in wins and could only amass one measly first place vote finishing third. You only pitched 199 innings Gio, it's your own fault.
Bryce Harper brought his fashion mohawk and swagger to the majors on the same day that Mike Trout did, and that is probably going to be what he gets remembered for. He put up a 5.0 bWAR in his rookie season at the clown age of 19. Impressive. The only "not runaway" voting in the NL as he edged out Wade Miley in first place votes 16-12, and total points at 112-105. What I really wanna know, is how Wade Miley came in second with his .169/.194/.200 slash line? Oh, he's a pitcher. Well that explains why he went 16-11 with a 1.182 WHIP. Wade? Babe Ruth is not impressed.
Todd Frazier did his best to spoil Harper's rookie season with a .273/.331/.498 slash line and for capably filling in for Joey Votto when he went down mid season. Sorry Todd, hype just can't be beat. But at least you didn't finish behind Jordan Pacheco and his -0.7 bWAR. Yeah he got a vote. Nice Writer's association, nice.
Davey Johnson is old, like, really old. Davey Johnson is so old that if he acted his age, he'd die. With 23 first place votes, Old Man River was another runaway winner in this year's voting, and to be honest, he should have been the only one on the ballot. After all, Johnson had to deal with the stigma that he was managing the Washington Nationals. No one ever expects anything from the Washington Nationals. Although it was nice to see Bud Black get a nod. Hey Bud, any chance we can get you to come back to Anaheim? None. Damnit.
Are The Royals in Win-Now Mode?
Melky Cabrera Drawing Interest. Really.


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Wethersfield police: Two men charged with stealing Maserati from liquor store parking lot on Berlin Turnpike
By Mike Mavredakis
Two men were arrested in East Hartford in connection with the theft of a Maserati in a liquor store parking lot on the Berlin Turnpike in Wethersfield on Wednesday, according to police.
The Wethersfield Police Department responded to 5-15 Wine & Spirit, located at 1698 Berlin Turnpike, just after 1 p.m. for a report of motor vehicle theft. The victim told police he parked his 2022 Maserati SUV in the parking lot, went into the store and was met with three masked men armed with handguns when he left the store.
The men, who had parked a stolen black Mercedes next to the Maserati, approached the victim and took some items from the man, including his car keys, according to police. The men then fled the scene in both vehicles on the Route 5/15 connector toward the merge with Interstate 91 and Interstate 84, police said.
Through a joint investigation with the Hartford and East Hartford Police Departments, the Maserati was located on the 1200 block of Burnside Ave. in East Hartford. East Hartford police attempted to pull the vehicle over, but the car fled before crashing near the 1000 block of Burnside Ave. The three occupants tried to run on foot. After a short foot pursuit, two of them were taken into custody and processed by East Hartford police for charges related to the motor vehicle and foot pursuits, police said.
Officers determined the two men were involved in the theft on the Berlin Turnpike and were transferred to the Wethersfield Police Department, according to police.
The suspects, identified as Elijah Johnson, 19, of Windsor and Damian Gordon, 18, of Hartford, were each charged with first-degree robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery, second-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery.
They were each held in lieu of a $500,000 bond and were scheduled to appear in New Britain Superior Court on Thursday.


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ZENITH BANK RETAINS POSITION AS NUMBER ONE BANK IN NIGERIA BY TIER-1 CAPITAL
Zenith Bank Plc has been ranked as the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2021 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking published by The Banker Magazine. For the third consecutive year, the bank retained its position as the number one Tier-1 bank in Nigeria with a Tier-1 Capital of $2.64 billion, emerging as the 454th bank globally and the only Nigerian bank in the top 500.
The ranking, which was published in the July 2021 edition of The Banker Magazine of the Financial Times Group, United Kingdom, was based on the 2020 year-end Tier-1 capital of banks globally. Zenith Bank's financial performance for the year was underpinned by an 8% growth in non-interest income, with an improved market share in both retail and corporate sectors despite a very challenging macroeconomic environment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on the ranking, the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu said: "This ranking is a demonstration of our resilience and doggedness as an institution given the very challenging macroeconomic environment brought about by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which had a significant deleterious impact on businesses globally. It is also an affirmation of our commitment to delighting and creating value for our customers through a broad range of superior product offerings, best-in-class service and top-of-the-range technology". He also expressed thanks to the bank's numerous customers for making Zenith their bank of choice.
Tier 1 capital describes capital adequacy, and it is the core measure of a bank's financial strength from a regulator's point of view. According to the ranking, Tier 1 Capital, as defined by the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) guidelines, includes loss-absorbing capital, i.e. common stock, disclosed reserves, retained earnings and minority interests in the equity of subsidiaries that are less than wholly owned.
This award is the latest amongst several awards and recognitions that the bank has received in recent times for its track record of excellent performance and commitment to global best practices. Zenith Bank was voted as Bank of the Year (Nigeria) in The Banker's Bank of the Year Awards 2020, Best Bank in Nigeria in the Global Finance World's Best Banks Awards 2020 and 2021, and Best Corporate Governance 'Financial Services' Africa 2020 and 2021 by the Ethical Boardroom. Also, the bank emerged as the Most Valuable Banking Brand in Nigeria in the Banker Magazine Top 500 Banking Brands 2020 and 2021, and Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the "2020 Top 1000 World Banks" Ranking by The Banker Magazine. The bank was also recognised as Bank of the Decade (People's Choice) at the ThisDay Awards 2020, Retail Bank of the year at the 2020 BusinessDay Banks and Other Financial Institutions (BOFI) Awards, and Best Company in Promotion of Good Health and Well-Being as well as Best Company in Promotion of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment at the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility (SERAS) Awards 2020.
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I'm Anthony Angell the Team lead for Site Reliability Engineering at Xero In Auckland!.
I've been doing Incident Management for a little on 7 years… I've Been apart of the team that has designed the Incident Management Framework here at Xero & been part of Developing the Training for oncall engineers + Incident Management.
One of the amusing questions who is my favourite member of one direction? Really! I Can't Choose!!!


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New Delhi: About 25 per cent of young Indian voters are doubtful of the authenticity of the electronic voting machine (EVM), according to a new survey by news app Inshorts.
An overwhelming 85 of the participants in the survey said voting should be made compulsory.
"Nowadays, people are aware about their rights and consider voting a responsibility as citizens," Inshorts CEO Azhar Iqbal said in a statement.
The survey is based on responses from two lakh Inshorts subscribers across the country in March.
The majority of participants were from Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. The participants mainly represent urban millennials, aged between 18 to 35 years.
Over 46 per cent Indian voters think that option of NOTA (None of The Above) is not functioning well to bring out the purpose of voting, the study showed.
As high as 45 per cent of voters in the survey cited that they will not be traveling back for elections if away from their home towns, indicating how big the issue of "lost votes" is in the country.
More than 50 per cent of the voters residing in Delhi/NCR will not be going back to their home towns for elections, as per the survey.
The same trend was observed in other cities too, such as Mumbai (47 per cent) and Pune (45 per cent).
While 85 per cent Indian voters said that voting should be made compulsory but only 63 per cent cast their votes every time without fail.
Three-fourths of Indian voters stated in the survey that they do extensive research about each candidate before voting for them to win from their constituency.


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Poll shows Blumenthal ahead, Dems extending leads in 1st, 2nd and 3rd CDs
by Michael Regan October 28, 2010 @ 12:00 am Updated March 4, 2022 @ 9:07 pm
A new poll shows Democrat Richard Blumenthal holding an 8 percentage point lead over Republican Linda McMahon in their contest for the U.S. Senate, while incumbent Democrats John Larson, Joe Courtney and Rosa DeLauro have extended their margins over the Republican challengers in their Congressional races.
A survey that Merriman River Group conducted for CT Capitol Report has Blumenthal winning the support of 52 percent of likely voters to McMahon's 44 percent.
The poll also shows Larson ahead of Ann Brickley 56 percent to 38 percent in the 1st District; Courtney ahead of Janet Peckinpaugh 57 percent to 38 percent in the 2nd; and DeLauro ahead of Jerry Labriola 59 percent to 37 percent in the 3rd.
The telephone survey of 1,846 likely voters was conducted Oct. 24 to 26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.


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Q: How do I retrive the value of the constant of a constraint in Swift? I have a NSLayoutConstraint constraint that looks like this:
var myConstant:CGFloat = 20

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When an UIButton is pressed, the image gets resized, therefore the constant of the image changes.
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Though, when I print the value of the constant after the transformation finished, the constant stays the same as it was before:
println(constraintImageCharacterHomeLeading.constant) // 20

Why is that happening? I resized the image, hence the constraint must vary.

A: Transforms and Auto Layout don't work well together. If you set the transform of a view, it is expected behavior for it to NOT update the constraint.

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It will do the job for you.

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We were privileged to have been invited to the private view of Collect this week in London. Organised by the Crafts Council, this fair brings together some of the best galleries selling art objects of museum-quality from an international roster of contemporary makers in the fields of ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metal and textiles.
The Indian state of Gujarat celebrates some 200 festivals a year, but Uttarayan - the kite flying festival - is arguably the biggest, and is now a 2-day public holiday.
We're delighted that our products have been featured in several high quality publications over the last couple of months, including Homes and Gardens, The Sunday Times and House and Garden.
I've only just got around to posting a few photos from Decorex International, the interiors trade show which takes place in London every September. Stitch by Stitch exhibited this September for the first time, and it was a very successful show for us.
What I love most about London's Clerkenwell Design Week is the sheer diversity of open showrooms and exhibitors, scattered throughout the historic streets and buildings in one of London's most interesting enclaves. This, and the lack of any tight format to which exhibitors must conform.
We recently introduced this fresh new blue on blue colour way to our embroidered Indigo Kala Cotton Cushion Collection.
Have you seen these cool new city guides with a difference, from independent publisher Carl Goes? There's one for Berlin and Amsterdam, and most recently our home town, London.
Which is where we come in!
Carl Goes "wants you to become a citizen of the cities you visit" and to this end they've enlisted the advice of a number of creative locals, including our very own director, Graham, for the usual tips on where to eat and drink, and which museums to visit.
REWILD YOURSELF, AT MAISON ET OBJET!
In our increasingly urbanised world, where technology plays a huge part in our everyday lives, the WILD exhibition explores the notion of the basic human desire to reconnect with nature and the natural landscape, and inspires us to re-wild ourselves!
On a recent visit to the Kutch region of western Gujarat in India, we saw these Rabari women busy spinning wool at the workshops of master weaver Vankar Vishram Valji in Bhujodi.
I'm a big fan of retailers pushing the boundaries of the shopping experience. Our American cousins have been slightly ahead of the curve for some time with unique concept store The Apartment, a fully furnished SoHo loft in New York, and an apartment in Los Angeles, where everything, even the toothpaste in the bathroom, is for sale!


Maybe you didn't get into your first choice college. Maybe you didn't get that internship you were hoping for. Maybe you let yourself down a bit, but don't fret! Not everyone starts his or her career off perfect.
Ladies aren't the only ones who have this problem, but Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, R.H. Macy, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Dr. Seuss, Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton… The list goes on and on.
If you don't believe me, check out Barney Stinson's office wall! That guy is awesome and super successful.


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  g_list_free(descs);

  return pdesc;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------ */
/* Change management                                      */

/* an ObjectChange structure for setting of properties */
typedef struct _ObjectPropChange ObjectPropChange;
struct _ObjectPropChange {
  ObjectChange obj_change;

  DiaObject *obj;
  GPtrArray *saved_props;
};

static void
object_prop_change_apply_revert(ObjectPropChange *change, DiaObject *obj)
{
  GPtrArray *old_props;

  old_props = prop_list_copy_empty(change->saved_props);

  if (change->obj->ops->get_props)
    change->obj->ops->get_props(change->obj, old_props);

  /* set saved property values */
  if (change->obj->ops->set_props)
    change->obj->ops->set_props(change->obj, change->saved_props);

  /* move old props to saved properties */
  prop_list_free(change->saved_props);
  change->saved_props = old_props;
}

static void
object_prop_change_free(ObjectPropChange *change)
{
  prop_list_free(change->saved_props);
}

ObjectChange *
object_apply_props(DiaObject *obj, GPtrArray *props)
{
  ObjectPropChange *change;
  GPtrArray *old_props;

  change = g_new0(ObjectPropChange, 1);

  change->obj_change.apply =
    (ObjectChangeApplyFunc) object_prop_change_apply_revert;
  change->obj_change.revert =
    (ObjectChangeRevertFunc) object_prop_change_apply_revert;
  change->obj_change.free =
    (ObjectChangeFreeFunc) object_prop_change_free;

  change->obj = obj;

  /* create new properties structure with current values */
  old_props = prop_list_copy_empty(props);

  if (obj->ops->get_props)
    obj->ops->get_props(obj, old_props);

  /* set saved property values */
  if (obj->ops->set_props)
    obj->ops->set_props(obj, props);

  change->saved_props = old_props;

  return (ObjectChange *)change;
}

/* Get/Set routines */

gboolean
object_get_props_from_offsets(DiaObject *obj, PropOffset *offsets,
                              GPtrArray *props)
{
  prop_offset_list_calculate_quarks(offsets);
  do_get_props_from_offsets(obj,props,offsets);

  return TRUE;
}

gboolean
object_set_props_from_offsets(DiaObject *obj, PropOffset *offsets,
                              GPtrArray *props)
{
  prop_offset_list_calculate_quarks(offsets);
  do_set_props_from_offsets(obj,props,offsets);

  return TRUE;
}

WIDGET *
object_create_props_dialog(DiaObject *obj, gboolean is_default)
{
  GList *list = NULL;
  list = g_list_append(list, obj);
  return object_list_create_props_dialog(list, is_default);
}

WIDGET *
object_list_create_props_dialog(GList *objects, gboolean is_default)
{
  return prop_dialog_new(objects, is_default)->widget;
}

ObjectChange *
object_apply_props_from_dialog(DiaObject *obj, WIDGET *dialog_widget)
{
  PropDialog *dialog = prop_dialog_from_widget(dialog_widget);

  prop_get_data_from_widgets(dialog);
  if (!obj->ops->apply_properties_list) {
    g_warning("using a fallback function to apply properties;"
              " undo may not work correctly");
    return object_apply_props(obj, dialog->props);
  } else
    return obj->ops->apply_properties_list(obj, dialog->props);
}

gboolean
objects_comply_with_stdprop(GList *objects)
{
  GList *tmp = objects;

  for (; tmp != NULL; tmp = tmp->next) {
    const DiaObject *obj = (const DiaObject*)tmp->data;
    if (!object_complies_with_stdprop(obj))
      return FALSE;
  }

  return TRUE;
}

gboolean
object_complies_with_stdprop(const DiaObject *obj)
{
  if (obj->ops->set_props == NULL) {
    g_warning("No set_props !");
    return FALSE;
  }
  if (obj->ops->get_props == NULL) {
    g_warning("No get_props !");
    return FALSE;
  }
  if (obj->ops->describe_props == NULL) {
    g_warning("No describe_props !");
    return FALSE;
  }
  if (object_get_prop_descriptions(obj) == NULL) {
    g_warning("No properties !");
    return FALSE;
  }
  return TRUE;
}

void
object_list_get_props(GList *objects, GPtrArray *props)
{
  GList *tmp = objects;

  for (; tmp != NULL; tmp = tmp->next) {
    DiaObject *obj = (DiaObject*)tmp->data;
    obj->ops->get_props(obj,props);
  }
}

static gboolean
pdtpp_do_save_no_standard_default (const PropDescription *pdesc)
{
  return pdtpp_do_save_no_standard(pdesc) && pdtpp_defaults (pdesc);
}

void
object_copy_props(DiaObject *dest, const DiaObject *src, gboolean is_default)
{
  GPtrArray *props;

  g_return_if_fail(src != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(dest != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(strcmp(src->type->name,dest->type->name)==0);
  g_return_if_fail(src->ops == dest->ops);
  g_return_if_fail(object_complies_with_stdprop(src));
  g_return_if_fail(object_complies_with_stdprop(dest));

  props = prop_list_from_descs(object_get_prop_descriptions(src),
                               (is_default?pdtpp_do_save_no_standard_default:
				pdtpp_do_save));

  src->ops->get_props((DiaObject *)src, props); /* FIXME: really should make
                                                get_props' first argument
                                                a (const DiaObject *) */
  dest->ops->set_props(dest, props);

  prop_list_free(props);
}

void
object_load_props(DiaObject *obj, ObjectNode obj_node)
{
  GPtrArray *props;
  GError *err = NULL;

  g_return_if_fail(obj != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(obj_node != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(object_complies_with_stdprop(obj));

  props = prop_list_from_descs(object_get_prop_descriptions(obj),
                               pdtpp_do_load);

  if (!prop_list_load(props,obj_node, &err)) {
    g_warning ("%s: %s", obj->type->name, err->message);
    g_error_free(err);
  }

  obj->ops->set_props(obj, props);
  prop_list_free(props);
}

void
object_save_props(DiaObject *obj, ObjectNode obj_node)
{
  GPtrArray *props;

  g_return_if_fail(obj != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(obj_node != NULL);
  g_return_if_fail(object_complies_with_stdprop(obj));

  props = prop_list_from_descs(object_get_prop_descriptions(obj),
                               pdtpp_do_save);

  obj->ops->get_props(obj, props);
  prop_list_save(props,obj_node);
  prop_list_free(props);
}

Property *
object_prop_by_name_type(DiaObject *obj, const char *name, const char *type)
{
  const PropDescription *pdesc;
  GQuark name_quark = g_quark_from_string(name);

  if (!object_complies_with_stdprop(obj)) return NULL;

  for (pdesc = object_get_prop_descriptions(obj);
       pdesc->name != NULL;
       pdesc++) {
    if ((pdesc->quark == name_quark)) {
      Property *prop;
      static GPtrArray *plist = NULL;

      if (type && (0 != strcmp(pdesc->type,type))) continue;

      if (!plist) {
        plist = g_ptr_array_new();
        g_ptr_array_set_size(plist,1);
      }
      prop = pdesc->ops->new_prop(pdesc,pdtpp_from_object);
      g_ptr_array_index(plist,0) = prop;
      obj->ops->get_props(obj,plist);
      return prop;
    }
  }
  return NULL;
}

Property *
object_prop_by_name(DiaObject *obj, const char *name)
{
  return object_prop_by_name_type(obj,name,NULL);
}


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"It is very exciting to think of the places Synetic can go with Jason at the helm," says Founding Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili.
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Adrales is this year's recipient of the Josephine Abady Award, which recognizes a theatre artist who has created work of cultural diversity.
The Tony Award-winner will direct the upcoming musical with music by Sir Elton John, lyrics by Shaina Taub, and book by Paul Rudnick.
Martinez will portray Mitchell "Divine" Diggs as a regular on the upcoming series on Hulu.
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Fantasy writer first Australian awarded top British prize
Brisbane writer Angela Slatter is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award, putting her work in the company of international bestselling authors Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.
Dr Slatter's story The Coffin-Maker's Daughter was selected from 72 shortlisted entries to win the short fiction category of the awards, which includes prizes for best novel, novella and artist across fantasy, science fiction and horror genres.
Past nominees and winners in the short fiction category include Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett, with the QUT PhD graduate's story chosen over an entry from Michael Marshall Smith, a six-time British Fantasy Award winner.
"They're top flight authors. I am really stunned I won. It's very good company to be in," said Dr Slatter, who completed a PhD in Creative Writing at QUT's Creative Industries Faculty last year.
"Getting this award is a way of getting people interested in your work. Hopefully it will lead to some book deals."
The Coffin-Maker's Daughter, which follows the story of a girl haunted by her father's ghost, was published in the Jo Fletcher Books collection A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones.
"It's kind of like an original fairytale and draws on the old tropes of your home not being a safe place, and the old tradition of ghost stories," she said.
Dr Slatter has received numerous accolades for three published story collections, Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough and Other Stories, and The Girl With No Hands, which won the 2010 Aurealis Award for best collection.
Her short story The February Dragon (co-written with Lisa Hannett), won the Aurealis for Best Fantasy Short Story in 2011.
A fourth collection, Midnight and Moonshine, co-authored with Dr Lisa Hannett from Adelaide, will be published in November.
Dr Slatter said the readership of fantasy books had broadened because of the popularity of television shows and movies that originated from novels, including Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter series.
"Television has brought a whole new audience to fantasy reading. People realise it's not just orcs and dwarves. There's more to it and there's some very good writing out there," she said.
"As a writer, I really like the potential of a world that's released from reality and also the challenge of creating a world that's believable."
Read an excerpt of The Coffin-Maker's Daughter on Dr Slatter's blog.
Exploring the future of books in Austen's Bath
Poetry: don't think twice, it's alright
Stephanie Harrington, QUT media officer, 3138 1150, stephanie.harrington@qut.edu.au
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Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight
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Los Delirios del Mariscal es el segundo álbum de la banda argentina de rock progresivo Crucis. Con un bellísimo trabajo de arte para su portada realizado por Juan Orestes Gatti, autor de varias de las tapas de álbumes más destacadas del rock argentino. Fue mezclado en Nueva York y lanzado en el año 1977. La presentación de este material tuvo lugar en el Luna Park. La entonces importantísima revista Pelo llegó a sacar un transfer cómo se decía entonces con la portada. Realizaron una gira por Estados Unidos, donde impresionaron por el virtuosismo de algunos temas. Poco después del regreso se dio a conocer, imprevistamente, la decisión de separarse.

El álbum ha sido considerado por la revista Rolling Stone y la cadena MTV como el #76 entre los cien mejores discos de la historia del rock argentino. Mientras que la canción homónima fue considerada por la página Rock.com.ar como la 67° mejor canción del rock argentino de la lista de Las 100 de los 40 en 2007.

Lista de canciones

Músicos
 Gustavo Montesano: Bajo y Voz.
 Pino Marrone: Guitarras.
 Aníbal Kerpel: Órgano, Piano Rhodes 73, ARP Solina String, Sintetizador Moog, Piano Steinway.
 Gonzalo Farrugia: batería y percusión.

Véase también
 Rock argentino
 Orígenes del rock argentino
 Anexo:Los 100 mejores álbumes del rock argentino según Rolling Stone

Fuentes

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Álbumes de 1977
Álbumes de Crucis
Álbumes de rock en español
Álbumes de hard rock
Álbumes de rock progresivo
Álbumes de rock de Argentina
Álbumes de jazz rock


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You specify the element type first because when you come to browse for or select the Specification Package, if you have specified a particular element type the system automatically filters the Package selection to only those that contain elements of that type.
Use the 'Field Chooser' dialog to organize the columns that contain the type of information you want to work with. You can use the Filter bar to select for information that includes specific values, or hide the Filter bar altogether.
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Create new elements in the model as direct members of the Package or as child elements of those members.
You can filter out elements from the display by type or according to the value of various properties. However, if an element does not belong in the Package and model, you can delete it completely.
The Specification Manager reflects the sequence of elements in the Package as shown in the Project Browser.
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You can examine existing relationships and create new ones using the Relationship Matrix, creating and using specific Matrix Profiles.
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It is possible to create review documents and have recorded text message discussions on the development of your elements, using the Team Review, Element Discussion and Model Mail facilities.
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Maintenance and Testing are integrated and easily available to help improve software quality from the beginning of your project.
Existing records of these items are indicated by icons in the corresponding column, and can be quickly opened by double-clicking on the icon.
Click on the drop-down arrow in the Navigator Toolbar and select the 'Documentation & QA | Generate Documentation' option.
On the 'Generate Documentation' dialog, the 'Template' field defaults to 'Specification Manager List'.
If necessary, specify the output file and output format, then click on the Generate button.
Display and print the output file.


Have you ever gotten on the 99 only to suspect you took a wrong turn and ended up at a performance of the Men With Triceps The Size Of Belgium Choir?
On the off chance that the lads I'm about to describe wish to remain anonymous, I'll refer to them collectively as Totally Not The UBC Men's Rugby Team. And it was they who blessed us with this melodic prowess.
Totally Not The UBC Men's Rugby Team was killin' it. I've never seen Oasis live, but I have been alive since the early-to-mid-'90s — so basically the same thing. And I mean it when I say TNTUBCMRT's "Wonderwall" captured the original poetic intentions that had evaded all attempts at this masterpiece until now.
Granted, I may just have been tricked into thinking they sounded good because of how passionately they bellowed out what are essentially English non sequiturs... That would support my theory that you can have the vocal ability of a car alarm, but so long as you move your voice up and down way too much and sing way too loud, people will effinglove it. Looking at you, Celine.
The gang and I spent what would have been, under normal circumstances, a boring 10-minute bus ride instead basking in the serendipity of many muscle-y dudes doing their best Danny-Kaye-on-a-three-day-bender impression.
They had by now moved on from "Wonderwall" and were wailing out Northern Irish sports cheers that I assume are understood by nobody west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. One dude was foot-tappin' with the gusto of a hundred Viking marauders. I estimate there was a 50 per cent chance of him stomping straight through the bus floor and disrupting traffic patterns throughout the Lower Mainland.
But as the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end or continue on the same bus once you reach your stop and leave you with nagging FOMO." The muffled melody trailed off, complete with Mr. Gusto's thunderous foot-stomping.
At least, however, I can say with certainty that somewhere that night were many angsty teens whose acoustic variations of the same song were all bested by Totally Not The UBC Men's Rugby Team, simply because they were really, really loud. And that's all it takes.


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Court revives NC's challenge to Voting Rights Act
July 15, 2011 by NC Tea Party Staff Leave a Comment
In what has been called a "serious set-back for the Holder Justice Department," a federal appeals court has chosen to allow a lawsuit challenging a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to go forward.
The case in question involves a 2008 referendum in which the citizens of Kinston, N.C., voted to hold nonpartisan elections, which would keep the party affiliation of the candidates off the ballots, a common practice in the state.
The Justice Department, arguing that conducting elections in this matter would effectively discriminate against black voters, used Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to block the referendum results and make the town keep party labels on the ballot.
Section 5 requires the Justice Department to review changes to election laws in regions known as "covered jurisdictions," which in the past were areas known to discriminate based on race. The vast majority of these jurisdictions are in the South.
At the time of the decision, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King explained that Justice ordered the change because Kinston residents vote based on race, not party affiliation.
"In Kinston elections," King wrote in a letter of explanation, "voters base their choice more on the race of a candidate rather than his or her political affiliation, and without either the appeal to party loyalty or the ability to vote a straight ticket, the limited remaining support from white voters for a black Democratic candidate will diminish even more."
The Justice Department explained that citizens needed to have the party affiliation so that blacks could elect their "candidates of choice," which the department identified as Democrats and "almost exclusively black," according to the Washington Times in 2009.


LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - Las Cruces Police and construction crews Friday shut down a small stretch of Madrid Street as they worked to move a gas station canopy out of the street.
"I am just amazed at what the wind can do," said Syed Ashraf, the owner of Chucky's Food Mart. "My maintenance guy calls me at 8:30 at night and I was having my dinner, he says 'Your canopy fell off' and I couldn't believe it."
Ashraf and maintenance supervisors have been overlooking efforts to remove the canopy from the middle of the street. "Contractors are coming out with four booms and cranes," said Jaime Salazar, "They're going to remove the structure for now, set it out back and cut it all up."
Nothing besides the canopy itself was damaged, something the owner is grateful for. "It would have definitely been very significant damage, because if it had fallen down on the other side, it would have taken the pumps down and the store down and that would have been a major major accident," said Ashraf.
The store will remain closed until the area where the canopy fell is safely cleared.


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Mosaics, tapestries, etc., the same size base map or artwork first drawn on paper. The English word cartoon is actually derived from the Italian cartone (cardboard). Before the middle of the 19th century, cartoon was roughly what it meant. The Raphael Cartoons, now dedicated to a large exhibition room at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is a famous example in history. Raphael was commissioned by the new Pope Leo X to draw ten drawings, including the "fishing miracle" shown in the picture. It hangs on the lower wall of the Sistine Chapel during the celebration.
Later, in addition to the Sistine Chapel, other European courts also made tapestries according to Raphael's drawings. Here I will sell a word. Readers who are interested in finding out more, please click on the link and refer to this paper "The Opportunity for the Reconstruction of "Religious Art" in England in the Eighteenth Century: From Raphael's photo color correction services Drawings and Two Religious Articles On the Debate of Images" , mainly pp. 545-549. (Wow, I seem to be self-marketing!) Also, did you just say that the meaning of cartoon changed in the middle of the nineteenth century? How did it change? This is to blame (and credit!) to the British magazine Clumsy (Punch, 1841-2002), known for its satire on current affairs.
This magazine, launched in July 1841, was originally designed by two woodblock printmakers to imitate the French satirical magazine Le Charivari (1832-1937). Since 1843, the idiomatic meaning of cartoon in English has been changed. How to do it? In fact, the cause is indeed a group of "artwork" in the traditional sense: in 1842, the British Parliament held a large-scale mural drawing competition in order to re-decorate the Parliament Building, which had been burned in 1834. The designated theme of the painting must be British history or literature. The winning artwork was exhibited at Westminster Hall in 1843. The exhibition just gave the editors of Clumsy an opportunity to criticize current affairs.
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