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The Chaperones are one of the first American street corner harmony doo-wop groups, formed in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York in the late 1950s.  The original members of the group were Tony Amato (lead), Roy Marchesano (first tenor), Tommy Ronca (second tenor), Nick Salvato (baritone) and Dave Kelly (bass).

Initially known as the Sharptones and the Fairlanes, until the Josie record label named the group "The Chaperones" for its relevance to the dances and proms of the day.  The Chaperones were signed by Josie Records a spin-off label of Jubilee Records in 1959 after Nick Salvato played the group's first demo for his C.W. Post College classmate Steve Blaine, son of Josie head Jerry Blaine.  The group's initial Josie recording, "Cruise to the Moon", was produced by Steve Blaine and Mickey Eichner. By the time "Cruise to the Moon" was released in 1960, Rich Messina had replaced Dave Kelly as bass.  In the meantime, The Chaperones backed up Lee Adrian on "Barbara, Let's Go Steady" and "So Lonely" (Richcraft Records). In the early 1960s the Chaperones were featured on Clay Cole's weekly music variety showcase.

After the success of "Cruise to the Moon", the group performed regularly in the New York area at supermarket openings and theme parks.  They appeared at Murray the K's shows at Frontierland in Patchogue and Freedomland in the Bronx, at Bruce Morrow shows co-billing The Earls and The Five Discs, and at Palisades Park with The Five Satins.

The Chaperones' 1961 follow-up record "Shining Star" was an attempt to play on the success of "Little Star" by The Elegants and "Hushabye" by The Mystics.  They backed Lou Jordan on "Paradise for Two" and "Close Your Eyes" in 1961 on Josie.  They then released their last record on Josie: a remake of the Chandeliers' "Blueberry Sweet" backed with "Man From the Moon".

After "The Chaperones last Josie recording, Tommy Ronca and Roy Marchesano left for Las Vegas, where they performed and produced shows for many years.  Nick and Tony and the group then cut a record on the Tabor label, "I Dream" and a newer rendition of "Pizza Pie". Tony Amato and Nick Salvato kept the group going for many years until Amato's death in the late 1980s.

Original members, Nick Salvato and Tommy Ronca, reformed the group along with Johnny Contino and Ronca's cousin Vinny "Zeen" Esposito from the original Sharptones group, to perform at the Cool Bobby B Doo Wop Convention at the Alexis Park Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2010.

Discography
 1960: Side A - "Cruise to the Moon" Side B - "Dance with Me" (Josie Records)
 1961: Side A - "Shining Star" Side B - "My Shadow on Me" (Josie Records)
 1963: Side A - "Man from the Moon" Side B - "Blueberry Sweet" (Josie Records)

References

Bibliography
Warner, Jay. (2006). American Singing Groups: A History, From 1940 to Today .  Hal Leonard.
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part I / Volume II

External links
Official Chaperones History Website

The Chaperones website, is a tribute to all the Original Members and all the extra singers and players throughout the years.

Doo-wop groups


My work deals specifically with desire and belonging, dissecting various constructs within the art world in an effort to understand the place I continue to try so hard to be a part of. I am interested in bridging the gap between the art world and the rest of the world by confronting the institutions that tend to dictate and perpetuate such constructs and addressing topics like artist as celebrity, commodification of art, exclusivity, accessibility, and hierarchical systems.
Additionally, I co-created Maiden LA, a network of happenings that aims to dissolve hierarchies in the art world with its inclusive decentralized format.
I received my BA from Bard College and am now based in Los Angeles.


"All the benefits that believers enjoy or will obtain are gifts of the grace of God (Rom. 6:23; 2 Cor. 8:9; Eph. 2:8; etc.), yet everyone is rewarded according to his works (Rom. 2:6-11; 14:12; 1 Cor. 3:8; 2 Cor. 5:10; Gal. 6:5; Rev. 2:23; 20:12). Godliness holds promise for this life and also for the life to come (I Tim. 4:8). The thought of future glory spurs them on to patience and perseverance (Rom. 8:18; 1 Cor. 15:19; 2 Cor. 4:10, 17; Rev. 2:7; 10-11, 17; etc.)." (Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 4, p. 236).
This is taken from a chapter on "Sanctification and Perseverance," a passage I ran across in preparing a message on Revelation 2:1-7. I commend the quote to you, not because I value the author, whom I deeply respect, but because of his use of Scripture here. Read not only what Bavinck writes, but please read the passages (in context) which he references. Systematic theology is crucially important for the life of the church. But we end up in serious trouble if we try to strain Scripture through the screen of our theological system, rather than letting our theology flow from Scripture. There is no substitute for serious study of the Word of God.
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The 101 Bible Study meets next in the Astoria area at 6:30 p.m., on Friday, May 3. We will focus on Isaiah 34–35. Call 971/238-6101 for details.


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The world if… malaria drugs stop working
It is the world's most deadly animal and yet we risk becoming blasé about the threat the humble mosquito, and the malaria it carries, poses to human life. So warns a new film with Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which imagines what a malaria-resurgent future could look like
Healthcare 09 August 2015 Joanne Bladd
It is the world's most deadly animal and yet we risk becoming blasé about the threat the humble An estimated 584,000 people died from malaria in 2013 and 3.2 billion people are at risk of the disease, according to the UN. The parasite is merciless to young victims: some 80 per cent of malaria deaths are in children under the age of five and in Africa a child dies every minute from the curable disease.
Antimalarial medicines and better prevention methods have brought down global malaria mortality rates by 47 per cent since 2000, says the UN's World Health Organisation. But the effectiveness of the old drugs may be fading. As the film suggests in a fictional 2023, failure to develop alternative weapons against the disease could let a new strain break out – resistant to all existing treatments. It's time for the world to pay attention to the little creature's big threat.
Dubai non-profit plans $1.1m shot to...
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed donates $120m...
Gavi Alliance: moving the needle
US-based PATH seeks to tap Middle East...

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DARIEN, Conn., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ Remedy Partners, the episodes of care company, announced today that it has seen positive results with voluntary bundled payment models, delivering 7.7 percent savings for episodes of care under Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. That's more than $120 million of cost savings to the Medicare Trust Fund in 2017 alone. Remedy Partners has also seen substantial reductions of unnecessary hospital readmissions among its clients, showing that care quality and the patient experience does not have to suffer when care is delivered at a lower cost.
In addition to the successful bundled payment models supported by Remedy Partners, evidence abounds demonstrating the effectiveness of bundled payment models. A study published inJAMA Internal Medicinethis year shows that the Medicare bundled payment model is saving millions annually while maintaining or improving the quality of patient care. The University of Pennsylvania also released a study that credited bundled payments for hip and knee replacements, with more than 20 percent savings with at least the same or enhanced quality.
In January 2015, CMS committedto transitioning 50 percent of fee-for-service spending to alternative payment models by 2018. The new Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tom Price, has stated he is a strong supporter of voluntary bundled payment models. Likewise, CMS has signaled its commitment to continuing and expanding voluntary bundled payment models beyond 2018. With yesterday's delay of the mandatory EPM model, there's potential for mandatory programs to become voluntary, which would lead to more engaged healthcare providers and greater likelihood of quality and efficiency outcomes, according to Magill.
Remedy Partnersdeliverssoftware and services that enable payers, employers and at-risk providers to organize and finance health care delivery around a patient's episode of care.The Company currently managesBundled Payment Programsat over 1,000 health care locations,in partnership with hospitals, physician groups health systems, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies. Remedy Partners is the largest awardee convener under Medicare's BPCI program, helping nearly 70 percent of program participants implement bundled payment models.


Ayurveda has its feet on the human land from over 2 millennia. We can always find ayurvedic herbs around us easily. The modern science of healing is developed with the help of Ayurveda, however, nowadays, Ayurveda and allopathy don't cross each other's way.
Ayurvedic treatments are pseudoscientific and confirmation bias, still, it is believed to be the best healing practices. It shares both factual and spiritual science, thus more than medicines, belief heals faster than anything.
Talking about the ayurvedic herbs, then India is the place where each house carry some sort of herbs which are known as healing herbs in Ayurveda and has a great impact on overall human health.
Turmeric– Beginning with very famous medicine turmeric, also called "Haldi" in the local language is known as the "The spice of life". It has enormous health benefits and it comes in use on daily basis in Indian households. It purifies the blood and impacts the healthy living, it improves the skin complexion and glows by offering the nutrition to the skin. It contains anti-inflammatory contents which blend it as a perfect remedy to heal the acne- scars. The herb is believed to bring fortune, it gets used in every auspicious occasion of Indian families.
Neem– Neem is yet again an excellent herb, also known as the most ruling herb. I guess everyone must have heard about the health benefits of neem. It is easily available everywhere, it is the best detoxifying herb ever known. One can consider it as the most powerful blood purifier. It can cure any skin disease. It even works as a wonderful agent for overall body diseases.
Ayurvedic herbs are endless, each plant contains some great health effects. Ayurveda has impacted our life from ages and still, it is in practice. It took birth in Indian and has been practiced in India. However, these days it is adopted by many western countries and it has tremendous results which even modern science fails to show.


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SENSER + COLLAPSED LUNG + CREDIT TO THE NATION
Location: Hitchin
Venue: Club 85 - Hitchin
The Pad Presents…
7.30pm, Saturday 1st June, Hitchin Club 85
On Saturday 1st June a stellar, triple threat line up comes to Hitchin Club 85!
Headlining the event will be SENSER. The band released three huge alternative club anthems in the mid-90s with Switch, Eject & The key as well as denting the national charts with their top 5 album Stacked Up. With a further two albums released the band underwent a few line-up changes over they years but fast forward into 2017 and the band are now back together as the original line-up delivering the same powerful sound first unleashed in the 90s.
Opening up the show, we have CREDIT TO THE NATION, who burst onto the scene in the early 90s bravely sampling the Nirvana classic 'Smells Like Teenspirit' creating a huge club anthem with 'Call it What You Want'. Signed to the One Little Indian Label 'Credit' released his debut top 20 album 'Take Dis' as well as hooking up with record label mates Chumbawamba to release the anthemic anti-fascist anthem 'Enough is Enough'.
The band are working on their yet untitled album due for release on the locally based Crossflow Recordings and the current line features label boss and local producer Karl Morey.
As if the line-up could not get any meatier, we have COLLASPED LUNG hitting the stage too. The Harlow based alternative hip hop crew recently re-activated (not reformed!)
While probably best known for their Euro 96/Coca Cola tie-in "Eat My Goal" (which charted in both 1996 and 1998), the band also released two albums – Jackpot Goalie in 1995 and Cooler in 1996 on Deceptive Records, both being credible outputs but at the same time remaining humorous both on record and onstage. They also explored themes of suburban / new town disaffection and absurdism through thoughtful (and sometimes abstract) lyricism. Musically, the underpinning was always classic hip hop beats, but overlaid with bass, guitar and sampladelia betraying a wide palette of influences – everything from 60s and 70s movie soundtracks to spiky post-punk. At one point they even covered "Connection" by their labelmates Elastica to great effect.
New and previously unperformed material is already featuring in their live sets, new records planned in the not-too-distant future.
In recent years, vocalist Jim Burke has found great success as Chap-Hop cabaret trouper Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer. Guitarist Steve Harcourt also plays in Papa Shango as well as being involved in film-making and radio. Bass player Jonny Dawe is in art-bient band Oskar, and DJ/Producer/Vocalist Ant Chapman plays guitar and sings in Arndales.
Tickets are on sale now priced £16 via Seetickets and they can also be picked up in person (booking fee free / cash only) from the usual Club 85 outlets from Monday 3rd December.


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Trump had McDonald's delivered to the hospital while being treated for Covid-19, reports say
Alia Shoaib , Business Insider US
(Photo by Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images)
Donald Trump reportedly had McDonald's brought to the hospital while he had COVID-19 in October 2020.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said she read the detail in Mark Meadows' upcoming book.
The former president's love of fast food has been well-documented.
For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.
Former President Donald Trump had McDonald's brought to Walter Reed hospital while he was treated for Covid-19 in October 2020, reports say.
The details have reportedly been included in an upcoming book by Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, seen by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
They had to eat with face shields on at the doctor's orders, which didn't thrill any of them.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 4, 2021
"Trump had McDonald's brought to Walter Reed after the Regeneron started kicking in, per Meadows," Haberman wrote on Twitter.
While infected with Covid-19, the former president took the experimental antibody drug Regeneron to treat his symptoms.
"They had to eat with face shields on at the doctor's orders, which didn't thrill any of them," she added.
Trump's standard order at McDonald's consisted of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and chocolate malt, according to a book by his former campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
The order totals nearly 2,500 calories or about one day's worth of food for a man his age.
Former President Donald Trump's love of fast food has been well-documented.
He is also reportedly a fan of the McDonald's breakfast, which he would eat during his 2016 presidential campaign, and was known to serve fast food at the White House on occasion.
The former president reportedly loves fast food in part because of a "longtime fear" of being poisoned, Michael Wolff wrote in his book "Fire and Fury."
He also reportedly believes that McDonald's is cleaner than many other restaurants.
The latest detail from Meadows' book comes after a bombshell revelation about the former president's Covid diagnosis.
The Guardian reported that Meadows' book reveals that Trump tested positive, then negative, for Covid-19 three days before his first presidential debate against then-candidate Joe Biden.
Trump responded with a statement claiming, "The story of me having Covid prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News."
Meadows later told Newsmax that he agreed with Trump: "The president's right. It's fake news."
The former chief of staff has long been a loyal supporter of former President Trump.
In October, Trump said Meadows' book would be an "incredible Christmas present" for those who "want to learn about politics, truth, our great administration."
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In order to regulate the passenger transportation market order, earlier this year Hebei Gucheng Department of Transportation introduced a new requirement requesting all operating passenger bus avoid stop in the urban areas (only to drop/take passengers in the designated bus stop). Some media reports said on March 5 that some passenger transportation business representatives petitioned to the Hebei Gucheng Department of Transportation but were scolded by some officials and even required to offer comments in the toilet.
After media exposure, the local publicity department announced on June 7 that the principal officials of county government attached great importance to the issue, and quickly organized investigation and verification with the relevant departments; and the involved officials, Liu Yuquan and Song Yingzhao are now under suspension check.


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'htauth/digest_entry'

describe HTAuth::DigestEntry do
  before(:each) do
    @alice = HTAuth::DigestEntry.new("alice", "htauth")
    @bob   = HTAuth::DigestEntry.new("bob", "htauth", "b secret")
  end

  it "initializes with a user and realm" do
    _(@alice.user).must_equal "alice"
    _(@alice.realm).must_equal "htauth"
  end

  it "has the correct digest for a password" do
    @alice.password = "digit"
    _(@alice.digest).must_equal "4ed9e5744c6747af8f292d28afd6372e"
  end

  it "returns username:realm for a key" do
    _(@alice.key).must_equal "alice:htauth"
  end

  it "checks the password correctly" do
    _(@bob.authenticated?("b secret")).must_equal true
  end

  it "formats correctly when put to a string" do
    _(@bob.to_s).must_equal "bob:htauth:fcbeab6821d2ab3b00934c958db0fd1e"
  end

  it "parses an input line" do
    @bob_new = HTAuth::DigestEntry.from_line("bob:htauth:fcbeab6821d2ab3b00934c958db0fd1e")
    _(@bob.user).must_equal @bob_new.user
    _(@bob.digest).must_equal @bob_new.digest
    _(@bob.realm).must_equal @bob_new.realm
  end

  it "knows if an input line is a possible entry and raises an exception" do
    _ { HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry!("#stuff") }.must_raise(HTAuth::InvalidDigestEntry)
    _ { HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry!("this:that:other:stuff") }.must_raise(HTAuth::InvalidDigestEntry)
    _ { HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry!("this:that:other") }.must_raise(HTAuth::InvalidDigestEntry)
    _ { HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry!("this:that:0a90549e8ffb2dd62f98252a95d88xyz") }.must_raise(HTAuth::InvalidDigestEntry)
  end

  it "knows if an input line is a possible entry and returns false" do
    _(HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry?("#stuff")).must_equal false
    _(HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry?("this:that:other:stuff")).must_equal false
    _(HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry?("this:that:other")).must_equal false
    _(HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry?("this:that:0a90549e8ffb2dd62f98252a95d88xyz")).must_equal false
  end

  it "knows if an input line is a possible entry and returns true" do
    _(HTAuth::DigestEntry.is_entry?("bob:htauth:0a90549e8ffb2dd62f98252a95d88697")).must_equal true
  end

  it "duplicates itself" do
    _(@alice.dup.to_s).must_equal @alice.to_s
  end
end

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Sweet 16 or sweet fifteen is a traditional ceremony in America and Latin America. It's a formal event which is means the ending of your teenager girl life but starting of the adult life. But it's very challenge to find a perfect quinceanera dress to flatter your body and emphasis your personality. By following these tips, it will be much easier to find your perfect quinceanera gowns.
Firstly, you should make a budget of how much money you want to cost. The budget should include the dress, crown, jacket and gloves. There's no need to spent tons of money on a dress which your parents can't afford. Make sure you have talked with parents previously before shopping. Most online stores have many great quality quinceanera gowns but lower price.
Consider the formality of the ceremony, quinceanera dresses are usually in ball gowns. Sweet 16 dress is less formal than sweet 15 dresses. Knee length quince dress is for sweet 16 dresses. For sweet fifteen girls, if you are tall and slim, you might want to pick up more material dress. If you have apple shaped figure, you should choose the dress without decoration on bodice.
One shoulder quince dresses or spaghetti straps quinceanera dresses are perfect for broad shoulders.
The colors of quinceanera dresses are also very important. Many quinceanera dresses have combined the bright color and dark color together. Such as fuchsia color quince dress with leopard ruffles, red color quinceanera gown with black embroidery, turquoise quinceanera dress with brown embroidery.etc. No matter what colors you will choose, make sure the colors are flatter your skin tone.
You should try one different dress before shopping. Make sure the dress is comfortable and easy breezing. You also need to consider the dress are easy sitting and walking, it's a good choice to add the bustle at the back if your dress have a train.
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From the earliest efforts to rendering realistic images in computer graphics, applications of perceptual insights have been critical for achieving effective results efficiently. The field inherited from the design of displays the use of trichromatic color theory, models of human contrast sensitivity and models of temporal sensitivity to simplify the spectral, spatial and temporal sampling required for rendering. Computer graphics rendering has made progress by further exploiting additional models for isolated effects documented in the human vision literature. This presentation will review these efforts. Future progress however depends on studying and modeling more complex effects such as the perception of textures, the perception of texture in context and temporal variations within a scene. Perceptually based rendering will also need to keep pace with advances in displays that are being designed with new capacity for color fidelity and dynamic range. Developments in augmented reality and in 3D fabrication also present new problems and opportunities. There are many challenges in running the psychophysical experiments needed to obtain the data for models required by improved techniques in perceptually based rendering. Researchers in the field need to consider the role and limitations of crowd sourcing experiments in combination with traditional controlled laboratory experiments.
Holly Rushmeier is a professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986 and 1988 respectively. Between receiving the BS and returning to graduate school in 1983 she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and at Washington Natural Gas Company. After receiving the PhD she served on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech, the computing and mathematics staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center before taking her current position at Yale.
She has worked on a variety of data visualization problems in applications ranging from engineering to finance. She also worked in the area of acquisition of data required for generating realistic computer graphics models, including a project to create a digital model of Michelangelo's Florence Pieta, and the development of a scanning system to capture shape and appearance data for presenting Egyptian cultural artifacts on the World Wide Web.
At Yale Prof. Rushmeier's research includes model the appearance of materials for graphics rendering and industrial design, sketching techniques for conceptual design, and shape and spectral data capture for applications in evolutionary biology and cultural heritage. Dr. Rushmeier has served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics, as co-Editor in chief Computer Graphics Forum, and as well as the chair of numerous conferences and workshop committees. She is an ACM fellow, a fellow of the Eurographics Association, and received the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.
Abstract: Harmonic B-splines are defined by Green's functions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Like the basis functions of conventional B-splines, they are (approximately) local and non-negative and satisfy partition of unity. Moreover, harmonic B-splines afford progressive update of fully irregular knots, free of degeneracy, without the need of explicit parameterization, making it ideal for a host of many graphics tasks on $R^2$ and 2-manifolds. In this talk, I will first show case several 3D applications of harmonic B-splines, such as data fitting/interpolation and hierarchical decomposition. Then I will introduce a new Poisson solver that supports random-access evaluation. Finally, I will apply the Poisson solver to Poisson vector graphics and demonstrate its potential for authoring and vectorization. This is a joint work with F. Hou, Y. Liu, S. Hu and H. Qin.
Dr. Ying He is an associate professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his B.S and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1997 and 2000, and PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2006, respectively. His research interests fall into the general areas of visual computing and he is particularly interested in the problems which require geometric analysis and computation. His recent work has focused on discrete geodesics, geodesic Voronoi diagrams, (bi)-harmonic B-splines, and their broad applications. For more information, please visit http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/yhe .


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Q: How do you match even numbers of letter or odd numbers of letter using regexp for mysql Does anyone know how to match even numbers and odd numbers of letter using regexp in mysql? i need to match like a even number of A's followed by an odd number of G's and then at least one TC? For example: acgtccAAAAGGGTCatg would match up. It's something for dna sequencing

A: An even number of A's can be expressed as (AA)+ (one or more instance of AA; so it'll match AA, AAAA, AAAAAA...). An odd number of Gs can be expressed as G(GG)* (one G followed by zero or more instances of GG, so that'll match G, GGG, GGGGG...).
Put that together and you've got:
/(AA)+G(GG)*TC/

However, since regex engines will try to match as much as possible, this expression will actually match a substring of AAAGGGTC (ie. AAGGGTC)! In order to prevent that, you could use a negative lookbehind to ensure that the character before the first A isn't another A:
/(?<!A)(AA)+G(GG)*TC/

...except that MySQL doesn't support lookarounds in their regexes.
What you can do instead is specify that the pattern either starts at the beginning of the string (anchored by ^), or is preceded by a character that's not A:
/(^|[^A])(AA)+G(GG)*TC/

But note that with this pattern an extra character will be captured if the pattern isn't found at the start of the string so you'll have to chop of the first character if it's not an A.

A: You can maybe try something like (AA)*(GG)*GTC
I think that would do the trick. Don't know if there's a special syntax for mysql though

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Rethinking the role of art institutions in the 21st century with Maurin Dietrich - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)
Rethinking the role of art institutions in the 21st century with Maurin Dietrich
Jenna Duffy
Munich Art Profiles
The second female director of the Kunstverein Munich—one of Germany's oldest art institutions—reflects on her diverse career, the importance of paying fair wages, and ensuring art institutions don't reproduce the systems they are criticising in their exhibitions.
Unlike many of her contemporaries in the art world, curator Maurin Dietrich spent little time in galleries and museums as a child. She attributes this to her non-academic background. "Art institutions are historically intertwined with the bourgeoisie and that still bears traces today. At least in the German context, it is an urgent task to become more inclusive, not only in terms of race and sexuality, but in terms of class identities as well."
In contrast, Dietrich's introduction to the visual art world was by way of reading, writing, and storytelling. Spending hours in her local library from a young age, Dietrich went on to study comparative literature and art history at The Free University of Berlin. "The ways we tell stories about the world to each other and to ourselves, and how these serve as an identity construct, have been a recurring interest for me. Most of the artists I find myself interested in come from writing and have moved to visual art practices a lot later in their lives," she explains, citing US-American writer and photocopy artist Patti Hill and New York-based artist and poet Diamond Stingily as examples with which she both worked.
While studying, Dietrich was surrounded by books both in and out of university: she spent most of her free time working part-time jobs, taking coats at the Berlin State Opera, doing night shifts at the academy of arts and eventually working at publishing house and art bookshop Walther König's main Berlin store. "It was an essential part of my education. I often had hours during which no one would come by. I would take the time to read and look at expensive publications," she says. "I also just needed to make money. From the beginning of my degree I wasn't sure if I had the resources to actually make it in the art field."
During this time, Dietrich also undertook a variety of unpaid internships, including a stint at organising residencies for Middle Eastern artists traveling between Tel Aviv and Berlin on a regular basis. Upon completing her studies, Dietrich was hired at Berlin's renowned KW Institute of Contemporary Art. "I could do what I loved and make the rent, so it was a really important moment for me." Starting out as a project assistant, before working her way up to the position of curator, Dietrich—along with her fellow curator Cathrin Mayer—began to question how she could open up the spaces of KW to make the community surrounding it feel part of the institution."When you're at the very beginning of your artistic practice it's not like you're immediately invited to have a solo show at KW. So, I wondered, what could be people's way in?" She was also interested in finding a way of bringing life (and nightlife in particular) back to the area around the institution, located just off Berlin Mitte's famous Auguststrasse. While stretching across the city centre and being full of other contemporary art galleries, the street is "heavily gentrified". "It feels like a film set. You're literally in the middle of Berlin, but if you're there after 10:00pm you feel like you're the only person out there."
The outcome of these ruminations was Pogo Bar, a regular show, taking place every week in KW's basement bar to present new performance commissions by young artists. "It felt like the underbelly of the official program. It was the exact opposite of the white cube setting upstairs and held so much warmth and intimacy," says Dietrich. The curators and bartender Neda Sanai even asked each of the artists who performed there to devise their own cocktail as part of their work. For example, Croatian spoken word artist Nora Turato, who delivered her first performance outside of Amsterdam at Pogo Bar, came up with a twist on a Bellini. Considering that Pogo Bar was the first stop on many artists'—such as Turato's—road to recognition, it seems strange that all the performances there went largely undocumented. But according to Dietrich, "this was the beauty of it, it was transitory, ephemeral. There were hardly any images taken: you were either there that evening, or you weren't."
Similar questions and motivations triggered Dietrich to set up her own project space andsmall residency, Fragile, in collaboration with the artist Jonas Wendelinat Leipzigerstrasse. "More and more, I got the feeling that I wanted to create a space in which to put on shows by artists who didn't necessarily want to have the pressure of a big institution, such as KW, behind them." Fragile developed organically over years of conversation with Jonas Wendelin and eventually opened its doors with a performance by the musician Sophie on the hottest summer day of 2018.Sophie—who tragically died last year—,"opened the space with a musical performance exploring ideas around the notion of "Klangkörper"—a room that is needed in order to produce sound." Fragile went on to present solo exhibitions by artists such as Sean Mullins, Sung Tieu, Analisa Teachworth, Dese Escobar, Kandis Williams, or chef/artist Caique Tizzi, who transformed the space into a kitchen from which to serve food all night.
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Looking back at this "intense" time, working at KW, running Fragile, as well as other curatorial projects on the side—such as mentoring at the Berlin Programme for Artists upon invitation from her friends Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij—Dietrich is unsure as to how she managed to juggle all her commitments. "I think I just never really slept much during those years,' she says, laughing. "Now most of my friends make fun of me because my favourite hobby is sleeping. Maybe I just have some sleep to catch up on."
In her current position as the Director of Kunstverein Munich, one of Germany's oldest art institutions, however, there is little time to catch up on sleep. "Kunstverein Munich has a really rich history of working with artists at incredibly fragile moments, often very early onin their careers," says Dietrich. "For this reason, the institution has always resonated with me. But I never dreamt of being able to direct it." After seeing a job advertisement on E-Flux, however, she felt more than ready to step up to the challenge. "I already had a full programme of what I wanted to do there in my head. So I took some time to write it all down. It felt genuine and wild to imagine the space of Kunstverein as a curatorial home."
"I would love it if the art world and the cultural sector in general could become more inclusive, not only in terms of race and sexuality, but in terms of class identities as well."
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Taking the reins of the institution in 2019, Dietrich is only the second female director in the history of the Kunstverein. When asked if championing women in the art world is one of her ambitions as director—under her leadership the institution has predominantly shown work by female artists, theorists, and writers—she says that "our intention is not to amplify female voices alone. Rather, Gloria Hasnay(the curator)—,Gina Merz (the assistant curator),and I talk about practices that we find urgent, and most of these just end up being "non-male."
During her tenure, Dietrich wants to achieve many other things. She has already made structural changes, including cutting down the Kunstverein's programme from six to four shows per year. "This has meant higher production fees and better payment for everyone involved. It has also allowed us to do more publishing work." Paying fair wages is particularly important in the context of Munich: the rising costs of living makes it extremely difficult for artists and cultural workers to remain in the city. "Munich is not so much a space for production, it's a space for presentation. Artists are struggling to afford studio spaces," says Dietrich.
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"We were aware that if we were doing a show questioning the concept of class, we couldn't just reproduce the mechanisms that we were trying to address."
This being said, the city has a "very supportive art scene. I'm surrounded by incredibly smart colleagues from other institutions"—in this connection Dietrich mentions Andrea Lissoni who went from working at Tate to directing Haus der Kunst—"who I'm constantly in conversation with. Everyone of us knows that we are utterly dependent on each other." Dietrich is also trying to help redistribute resources in the city. "There are loads of people here that have the assets we need." For example, over dinnertime conversations, she has managed to convince the owners of a property located at a nearby lake to open it up for 20 artists to live and work there. She also set up writers residencies aimed at authors and critics, as well as artists whose practice is based on writing, at a villa at Lake Starnberg.The intention is to approach fiction and narration outside of traditional exhibition spaces. Central to the residency is having time and space to write—an activity that is often inadequately remunerated and too rarely adressed by funding programs within the art context. "We think about the writers' residency in the context of curation, which derives from the Latin word curare, which means to look after, to care for, and was originally used in relation to objects, but over time became associated with people and hospitality."
These topics not only permeate the Kunstverein's operations: Dietrich also placed them front and center in the institution's 2020 show Not Working, which explored questions of class and artistic production. "The topic has been so heavily overlooked. It felt so incredible and urgent to do this project in Munich's context, but it has also been a way of coming to terms with my own background."
Bringing together international artists, theorists, and writers—including Angharad Williams, Annette Wehrmann, Gili Tal, Ramaya Tegegne, Marina Vishmidt and Lise Soskolne to name a few—who examined the interdependence between artistic production and social class through their work, the exhibition was accompanied by film and discussion programs, as well as a publication going even deeper into its themes. "If any of the artists who were contributing artwork also wanted to be part of other areas of the project, we made sure that they would get another fee on top," says Dietrich, circling back to the topic of fair wages. "We were aware that in questioning the concept of class, we couldn't just reproduce the precarious mechanisms that we were trying to address. Thankfully, we got a substantial grant from the German cultural foundation that made it possible. We were transparent with the artists and told them that if we didn't get the money, we wouldn't go through with the project. We really wanted to be able to pay €1,000 for a text and didn't want anyone to have to work for free."
"Everyone of us knows that we are utterly dependent on each other"
In 2023, Kunstverein Munchen will celebrate its 200th anniversary. "From the beginning I knew that this anniversary would fall into the period that me and my team would be directing the institution," says Dietrich. "At first, I was only sure of what I did not want: making a coffee table book that no one would ever use or live with in any meaningful way." Instead, she decided to distribute the budget over three years, and also hired an archivist full time to delve into the history of the institution. "We aren't simply looking at the documents that are already in the archive, but also at what isn't there and at what should be."
In the lead-up to the bicentennial anniversary Dietrich also commissioned the artist Julian Göthe to conceive an installation that draws on the building's architecture and the history of the Kunstverein's program. Now the archive space includes a room designated to preserving, examining, and understanding the institution's history, while making space for public formats which are conceived in collaboration with archivists, art historians, and artists. Considering Dietrich got into visual art through literature and storytelling, it feels fitting that she is now passionate about using her position as a way of drawing attention to untold stories. We can't wait to hear more of her activities and plans for the Kunstverein in the future.
Maurin Dietrich is the current director of Kunstverein Munchen, one of Germany's oldest art associations. She previously worked as a curator at KW in Berlin, and ran her own gallery space, Fragile. If you would like to find out more about her work follow the Kunstverein on Instagram or check out their website. Or, if you'd like to read more stories about the German art scene, why not take a look at this profile of Berlin-based auction house CEO Diandra Donecker, or this interview with Sarah Haugeneder, a board member of Munich-based art initiative Various Others.
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Beginning with "How to Tell a True War Story," O'Brien begins examining misconceptions and truths surrounding the experience of war and the telling of stories about it.
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It does not instruct nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. It's important, when reading this section, to keep in mind how prominently placed "a work of fiction" is on the title page of this book.
The Things They Carried: Tim O'Brien Biography | Study Guide | CliffsNotes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
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At the end of the book, the author discusses why he tells stories - to keep others alive and to deal with the pain of his own losses.Then suddenly—bam—in "Love," it switches to a first-person central narrator; O'Brien is talking to one of the characters from "The Things They Carried," and it becomes clear that he was there the whole time during that first story, unnamed.
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Before he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as the gentle giant in 1999's "Green Mile," the late Michael Clarke Duncan had a bit role on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" in 1995.
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If you love colour, this is a place that you want to visit. Considered the most colourful town in the world, Guatapé, Columbia. This is a gorgeous little rural town that is all about making itself full of inspiring colour so that everyone is cheerful. Even on the cloudy days, there's no question that this neat town would be full of bright colour due to the fact that every inch of it is painted perfectly and would help cheer even the saddest person up. It is quite the tourist attraction and it's sure to get even more press as times goes on and photographer come in crowds to get some great photos of this incredible place. It's beautiful to visit, and you should imagine how much fun it would be to live here full times and be around all things colourful and cheerful. It would do wonders for those who struggle during the dark months of the winter season in the coldest regions. It makes you feel as though you could get through it all with this as your guide. You wouldn't be alone in thinking that, either.


More than 13,000 people from across Havering have signed the petition to cancel Brexit and keep Britain in the EU.
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CARDIFF - As the man behind Oasis, he is responsible for some of the most anti-establishment sounds of the past generation.
But Mid Wales-based music supremo Alan McGee has spoken of his regret at shunning an invitation to attend supper with Prince Charles – although he was pleased to give his house keys to ex-US president Bill Clinton.
The Creation Records boss, who has settled in Hay-On-Wye, is the first to admit that he was taken aback by all the attention and invitations from influential people he received at the height of the '90s Britpop phenomenon.
By 1996, thanks chiefly to Oasis, Britpop's influence was capturing attention all over the world – including America – in a Beatles-like wave.
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Before Clinton made his headline-grabbing appearance at Hay Festival in 2001, when he famously described the event as the "Woodstock of the mind", McGee said festival director Peter Florence approached him for a favour.
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From September 2, 2020 till Novermber 1, 2020 Ljubljana's City Art Gallery will show the bioart group exhibition LIVING OBJECT, curated by Alenka Trebušak. Artists presented at the exhibition are Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, and Polona Tratnik: As modern technologies penetrate all pores of life, societies and cultures, the consequences of the accelerating trend of (bio)technological manipulation make us question not only human nature but also the nature of human relationships with animals, plants and other living entities. Ingeborg Reichle contributes to the forthcoming exhibition catalogue with a brief history of the early days of bioart with the essay "BioArt: From the Culture of the Laboratory to Critical Design Approaches" going back to the writings of Peter Weibel from the early 1980ies referring especially to his discussion on interdependency of art and innovations in technology. Weibel argues with a broad definition of the term "biotechnology", in which he includes all human-made things — everything in nature replaced by technology created by humans — and a wider concept of art based on the ancient Greek term techné, which back then did not differentiate between art, craftsmanship, and technology.
By bringing cutting edge technologies closer to the general public, from the outset BioArt raised important questions about the aesthetic and ethical status of modifying DNA and proteins to redesign the capabilities of living cells, plants, and animals into something useful for humans. Rewriting the blueprints of life for artistic purposes provoked passionate debates about the shifting concept of "life" — a concept that has changed dramatically since the arrival of biotechnology during the 20th century within the framework of the emerging technosciences. The non-normative use of biotechnological tools within the realm of the fine arts opened up new perspectives on life and its limits as well as framed controversies about the growing influence of science and technology on the fine arts and our societies at large. If art was able to alter and recreate "nature", and found ways to design living entities for aesthetic purposes in the same way as art had done for millennia using traditional media, like marble, gold, or wood, then everyone would soon be able to do this as well: remapping the landscape of everyday life in terms of biotechnological mediation and applications. The recombining of genes across species boundaries, and thus the production of transgenic organisms, was leading to a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship between art, technology, and our concept of "nature".
One of the first to reflect on the implications and consequences of using tools from biotechnology in the fine arts was Austrian artist and media theorist Peter Weibel in his 1981 essay "Biotechnology and Art" (Biotechnologie und Kunst). After referring to the common etymological root of art and technology Weibel explains how art and technology strongly influenced each other over the course of history, exemplifying his argument by citing the invention of the moving image as an aesthetic medium (film). Driven by the interest in studies of motion—a topic that has been an interest and a challenge for artists for centuries—English-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge and French scientist and chronophotographer Étienne-Jules Marey both used photographic devices to render phenomena observable through technology that were invisible to the naked human eye, for example, whether horses have all four hooves in the air when they gallop. Late 19th century epistemological insights that were fostered by new technological inventions like photography or moving images had in turn a significant impact on how art evolved during the 20th century. French artists such as Edgar Degas or Marcel Duchamp were profoundly influenced by emerging technologies of their day much like the members of the avant-garde movement of Italian Futurism, creating new dynamics within art genres through technology.
Alenka Trebušak's concept of the exhibition: Humans often fail to detect the diverse life forms surrounding us, especially if they are on a different scale than ours. Some microorganisms even constitute important component parts of our bodies, for instance, bacteria and fungi that inhabit our skin or our bodies. By moving from the human body into the external environment and vice versa, they erode our perception of the human being as a uniform subject.
Many of the exhibited projects were performed in laboratories through interdisciplinary collaborations with experts in natural sciences and the humanities, and all are the result of long-term processes and research. The projects provide an insight into the relationship between humans, animals and plants in light of heterogeneity, hybridity, sympoiesis, intercognition and parallel evolutions, within which notions of subject and object become fluid because a human being, too, is reduced to a material to be processed, for example, a cell/body/object. By emphasising the connection between the human body and the environment, the exhibition Living Object reveals our bond with non-human actors and promotes awareness about the urgent need to take care of nature and its living systems, not only as exploitable resources, but also as living tissues that are crucial for our survival.
The exhibition of visual, audio and interactive installations was produced by established female artists who have been active at the cross-section of art, science and technology for decades, within the broad and often controversial concept of "BioArt". Presented at high-profile international shows and platforms of contemporary art, their projects combine biotechnological sciences, evolution and artificial intelligence with discursive and theoretical strategies in order to push the boundaries of our understanding of contemporary art practices. Rather than traditional media, the artists use living matter ranging from cells to complete organisms as well as from microorganisms to their own bodies and the bodies of their non-human companions. By subverting scientific methods and technological tools, they explore the complexity of life and question its future. Finally, they address discourses on the fluidity of art objects by inviting the viewer to take on a participatory role.
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Silvertown firefighter's 95th birthday marked with Google doodle
Published: 12:00 PM November 30, 2020 Updated: 8:49 PM December 7, 2020
Mr Bailey became a firefighter after hearing that black people weren't being employed by the organisation. Picture: LFB - Credit: Archant
A man believed to be the first black firefighter in the capital has been remembered with a Google doodle.
Frank Bailey, who is credited as the London Fire Brigade's first black firefighter, has been remembered with a Google doodle. Picture: Google - Credit: Archant
Frank Arthur Bailey joined West Ham Fire Brigade in 1955 and served at Silvertown Fire Station.
Mr Bailey decided to join after hearing that black people were not employed by the service.
He was remembered online with the Google Doodle on the date which would have seen him mark his 95th birthday, Thursday, November 26.
Mr Bailey was born in 1925 in British Guiana, now Guyana. He became an engineering apprentice and worked as a coal trimmer on a German trade ship before later finding work at a New York hospital as a porter. He went on to become a medical assistant in the physiotherapy department.
At the hospital, he led a walkout in opposition to racially segregated dining facilities.
Mr Bailey moved to London in 1953. The London Fire Brigade believes he was the first full time black firefighter in London and possibly the first in the country.
He was active in the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and became branch secretary at his station. He also counted then FBU general secretary, John Horner, as a close friend.
In 1965, he left the brigade and became a social worker. He was also the first black legal advisor for black youths at Marylebone Magistrates' Court.
In 2007, Mr Bailey was asked for his thoughts on his career for a brigade booklet entitled "In their own words", which shared the history of black and Asian staff in the London Fire Brigade.
Mr Bailey said: "I was told that the authorities were not hiring black men because they were not strong enough physically or well enough educated to do the job.
"I immediately recognised racism and said I'm going to apply to be a firefighter and see if they find me unfit.
"I saved a fellow firefighter's life when he fainted while we were on the fifth floor of a ladder drill session.
"I brought him down to the ground in a fireman's lift. The guy's weight was 16 stone and he was 6'2."
Frank Bailey passed away on December 2, 2015, six days after his 90th birthday.


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Person-Centered Value-Based Care
Irina Kinchin, PhD, MSc
Health Economist
To reduce the scale and impact of dementia, we need access to information, education, and person-centred value-based care.
Irina is an Assistant Research Professor in Health Economics at the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is leading a program of work examining the 'beyond health' approach to policy and priority setting in relation to populations with complex needs, particularly in dementia and end-of-life settings.
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Professor Jane L. Phillips
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"Dignity", "Understanding", "Impact"
Irina's lifelong vision as a health economist is dedicated to accelerating, through research, improvements in the quality of life of populations with complex needs within limited healthcare budgets.
To shift the boundaries of economic evaluation measurement and design to enable the inclusion of diverse voices of people living with dementia and their care partners to support person-centred, value-based care. To grow the next generation of inspired health economists.
The diverse voices of people living with dementia and their care partners shall form the basis for priority setting at the individual level, in policy and research agendas. Inclusion of the lived experience is critical to ensure healthcare systems deliver desired and cost-effective care.
Irina has been recognised as one of the top 12 leading health researchers in Ireland by the Health Research Board award. She has over ten years of applied health economics research and evaluation experience in Australia and Ireland.
Irina began her postdoctoral research trajectory over a decade ago, working with Indigenous peoples of Australia and people at risk of suicide. The complex health system often discriminates against these vulnerable populations. She received world-leading specialist MSc training in health economics at the University of York, which fostered a passion for pursuing answers to health inequity and promoted an ambition to use health economics as a tool to mitigate discrimination, advance value-based research, and improve individuals' quality of life. In 2019, she joined the Global Brain Health Institute to make transformative changes at the crossroads of health economics and brain health.
Irina has a range of international collaborations across Australia, Ireland, the UK, France, Spain and Latin America. Her international expertise has been recognised by her recent appointment as a health economist to the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) National Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) sub-committee in the UK and as a panel member on the independent grant assessment committee Clinician Researchers Initiative for the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) in Australia.
Developing Tool to Assess Needs of Dementia Carers for Economic Evaluation
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Care partner needs of people with neurodegenerative disorders: What are the needs, and how well do the current assessment tools capture these needs? A systematic meta-review
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I think I've spent the better part of the last 19 hours parked right here in front of my Mac. My lower back is in protest but I got a lot of work done!
I really needed to work on a logo and a tagline and thanks to the help of several friends, Fuzzypants is now a brand – complete with logo, tagline, an updated website, blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts. Whew.
I think my biggest task over the last few weeks has been re-editing a LOT of photos. Nothing against the PC (well, maybe a little) but a big YIKES! for the difference in what I thought my photos looked like compared to what they *really* looked like. Ugh. A lot of wasted hours editing on an uncalibrated monitor, that's for sure. I'm steadily working through them and updating the Portfolio section of the website as I go.


When Tao Tao, a 2-year-old male panda, was released into the wild on Oct 10, 2012, Zhang Hemin was worried.
Since birth, Tao Tao had been raised in captivity at Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province, where Zhang works as the chief of the reserve's administrative bureau.
And Liziping Nature Reserve in Shimian county, where Tao Tao was expected to live all by himself, covers 14,700 hectares.
Tao Tao is not the first panda to be released into the wild in China. About seven years ago, the first endeavor by the reserve in Wolong ended in tragedy, when a panda it set free failed to survive the harsh natural environment.
Zhang faced mounting pressure as the world turned its attention on Tao Tao's release.
The effort has turned out to be a success. One year after his release, Tao Tao has adapted well to the wilderness.
"A team of animal experts and local employees at Liziping Nature Reserve found Tao Tao up a tree more than 3,000 meters above sea level on Oct 30," Zhang told China Daily.
After Tao Tao was released, the team found him several times. But in May, they could no longer trace him because the panda's GPS tag was lost.
"We attached a 500-gram GPS tag on him. Tao Tao must have felt uncomfortable with it and managed to get rid of it," Zhang said.
Unable to rely on technology to keep track of Tao Tao's whereabouts, the team of animal experts searched the reserve for his droppings every day to make sure that he was still alive.
On Oct 30, the team heard the sound of an animal traveling in the woods about 3 km from where Tao Tao was set free last year. As they approached, they found a panda nestling among the branches of a tree.
Huang Yan, a deputy general engineer at Wolong, said: "The panda is very agile. It can run away quickly at the sight of a person. Only when it can't run away will it retreat to a tree."
Unsure if the panda was Tao Tao, a vet used an anesthetic rifle to tranquilize the frightened bear, which fell into a net set up by the team.
While the panda was sedated, the vet took a blood test, which showed the panda was in good health and was indeed Tao Tao, said Yang Zhisong, the team leader and an associate professor of zoology at China West Normal University in Nanchong, Sichuan.
Half an hour later, Tao Tao regained consciousness. He opened his eyes and lay on the ground motionless for a while. Then, he twisted his body, stood up and walked away, but not before the team attached another GPS tag to him.
"He didn't see us when he walked away because we were all hiding," said Yang.
Tao Tao weighed 42 kg when he was released into the wild last year. When he was found last week, he had gained at least 10 kg, Yang said.
Zhang refused to acknowledge the panda's release as a successful example of reintroducing a captive panda into the wild. "His release is a success only when he has mated and fathered a cub," Zhang said.


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Q: How to know the extension when decrypting files that do not know the original extension Hi I am wondering what to do when decrypting an encrypted file that does not know the original extension while studying aes ctr encryption from this link at https://www.gurutechnologies.net/blog/aes-ctr-encryption-in-c/ To
Thank you in advance.

A: The "classic" UNIX way (as done by compress, gzip, bzip2, xz, ...) is to keep the original file name and append (not replace) your own extension, so if you encrypt the file foo.txt, you'll output - say - a foo.txt.enc file. When decrypting, just remove the .enc extension.

A: You can use the Linux file command to see what a file may contain and append the extension manually.
If you're running windows, a quick google search showed that TrID has similar functionality.


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Q: Method not working, no compiler errors I'm sorry for this question because I know it's really simple, but I'm used to python and js, so java is very new to me and I haven't found anything telling me why this isn't working.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class HelloWorld{

     public static void main(String []args){

     }

    public static double changeToFahrenheit(){

        Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter a number between 0-20: ");
        double celsius = reader.nextInt();
        double fahrenheit = (9/5) * celsius +32;

        System.out.println(fahrenheit);
        return fahrenheit;
    }
}

When I run this I get "sh-4.3$ java -Xmx128M -Xms16M HelloWorld"
I'm using the codinggrounds Java compiler and executer, I would like for it to ask for a number and then convert it to fahrenheit upon user input

A: You are not calling changeToFahrenheit() method from main() method, so it will do nothing and exit

A: You have to actually call changeToFahrenheit from your main method, so your code is:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class HelloWorld{

     public static void main(String []args){
          changeToFahrenheit();
     }

    public static double changeToFahrenheit(){

        Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter a number between 0-20: ");
        double celsius = reader.nextInt();
        double fahrenheit = (9/5) * celsius +32;

        System.out.println(fahrenheit);
        return fahrenheit;
    }
}

To use a function, you must call a function (This is like the equivalent of the Main function in C#). By the way, you cannot do 9/5, since integer division will result in an integer, 1. Try 9.0/5.0 for the computation.

A: *

*As the method is static method you could call the method with out creating an object.

*reader.nextInt(); // This returns integer .. so store it in integer.

*you don't have to return value unless you have other methods which reuses this value returned.


... or at least being more careful with the hate mail. Tx to wifey for this one.
Watch what you send in response to others in a negitive matter to loosing bidding or not getting the items. I made a negitive comment to someone and they were able to trace my e-mail address back to my home address by looking up my IP Adress through a web site, and reported me to the RCMP for hate mail comments. I got off with a warning but will never do that again. Sorry if I offend anyone.
Perhaps this guy's not too sharp with his computer skills, as he's clearly not aware that we can see he also has two duplicate ads posted with a house for sale on Tailfeather Court in Sackville.


One of the laboratory animal community's goals is improving blood collection techniques by making them less stressful to the animal and animal handler and making them less dependent on the handler's technical expertise. A group from the University of Michigan published a description of their modified tail-clip blood collection technique in mice in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science.
During this technique, the distal 1 to 2 mm of the tail was clipped from female ICR mice between 22 to 25 g. The authors used a capillary pipette flushed with EDTA to collect two 20-μl samples from the bleeding end of the tail. Styptic powder (Kwik-stop, ARC Laboratories, Atlanta GA) was applied to the collection site immediately after collection. The authors also state that additional removal of the tail during repeated sample collections was not required. Instead, they removed the scab in order to collect additional samples.
We have not had an opportunity to try this technique as of yet, so we are looking forward to comments from personnel who have utilized it. We were also wondering if it is beneficial to utilize styptic powder with Benzocaine (Oster Pawformance Styptic Powder) to prevent the stinging often associated with styptic powder.


The proper care and well being of laboratory animals is of top concern among researchers. Concerns regarding adherence to decontamination guidelines, proper ventilation, allergen control and safety are all components of the evaluation process and are extensively examined. All of these concerns are taken into consideration when providing the best solutions for laboratory animal testing.
ADInstruments' comprehensive, easy-to-use products are highly-cited in scientific journals and widely-used in classrooms and forward-thinking learning programs. The versatile PowerLab data acquisition system with LabChart software can be customized for use in virtually any life science application with diverse range of offered amplifiers, instruments and specialized analysis software. In education, LabTutor is helping to shape the future of tertiary education across a variety of fields. Toyota, Shiseido, Human Genome Project, Pfizer and Lockheed Martin are among many of Company clients.


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+ "AND PROJECTID = '12345' "
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The office building is well adapted to the situation and neighbouring buildings. The building's main volume is divided into two parts. Towards Pilestredet the building steps down from 7 to 5 floors, which creates a good transition to the neighbouring building. The building meets the preservation worthy facade of St. Olavsgate 21 with a retracted slot to smooth the transition between the two buildings. The use of copper cartridges is considered to be a modern material expression that adds variety and depth / relief, while still eventually gets a somewhat timeless expression. The use of copper also reflects the tower of the building across the other side of the junction in Pilestredet 22. The building has been designed with a "spine" of corten steel that runs through the full height of the building housing different services at each floor.
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Dec 18, 2017 … Isn't that just mean and terrible? Why would anyone do such a thing? There's a reason for the nofollow attribute, and boy is it a good one!
Whenever we talk about search engine optimization, some of the common words are noindex, doindex, nofollow, dofollow, meta robots and so on. All the words hold equal importance in the book of SEO.
"Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link." Originally, the nofollow attribute appeared in the page-level meta tag, and instructed search engines not to follow (i.e., crawl) any outgoing links on the page.
Captures d'écran. Nofollow option on the insert/edit link popup for posts and pages. Settings page on the Dashboard. Nofollow checkbox on the add/edit blogroll link page.
This is a constantly maintained list of plugins to add nofollow and remove nofollow from various elements of WordPress. The list also covers other blogging platforms such as Blogger, Moveable Type, Typepad and Drupal.
The nofollow tag is a way publishers can tell search engines not to count some of their links to other pages as "votes" in favor of that content.
"Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link." Originally, the nofollow attribute appeared in the page-level meta tag, and instructed search engines not to follow (i.e., crawl) any outgoing links on the page.
Oct 21, 2013 … The nofollow tag is a way publishers can tell search engines not to count some of their links to other pages as "votes" in favor of that content.


The Nogdha are a tribe of orcs found in The Elddar Forest. They seem to be at odds with the giants on the opposite end of the forest.
your faction standing with tribe of the nogdha could not possibly get any better. Maxxed out at warmly approx 500 points up ( which means 200 away from ally). I say approx because a couple times i forgot to turn on log so missed a couple kills in my count. what I actually got was 244 so i approximated 6 missed on logs. I started a scowls, but collaboration brought me to glares threateningly.
been killing giants. 7 days so far. i am up to amiable with this tribe. With collaboration its warmly. I documented from when i got to amiable. and its an 800 pint spread for amiable, with each giant kill being 2 points. took 250 kills to get from amiable + collaboration - kindly to amiable + collaboration = warmly. and we all know kindly is 500 point span.


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3D Print a Working Tourbillon Clock
Print and assemble this working, large-scale model of a precision watch design
By Christoph Laimer
Time Required: >16 Hours
Print this Project
I bought my first 3D printer in 2013 and immediately started creating custom Lego gears for my kids. Next, I challenged myself to design a gear with a Swiss lever escapement — the mechanical linkage in a timepiece that swings back and forth and creates the "ticking" sound. This sparked my passion for 3D-printed clock design, and my first 3DP wall clock was ticking 6 months later.
Then I got an Ultimaker 2 and a new challenge. I was obsessed with Vianney Halter's Deep Space Tourbillon, a Star Trek-inspired wristwatch whose mechanics rotate visibly at its center. In watchmaking, the tourbillon is a slowly spinning cage for the watch's escapement and balance wheel, which is meant to average out the effects of gravity on the timepiece's accuracy. With advancements in modern watchmaking a tourbillon is unnecessary, but designers still include it as a demonstration of their skills. It's a piece to really show off, and it takes 100% focus to achieve.
With this in mind, I knew my 3D-printable watch needed to have a tourbillon. Like the Deep Space Tourbillon, the ticking-unit should be in the center of the watch, and the hands should rotate around it, using big internal gears. The result is a reinvention of a classical tourbillon, adapted to 3D printing.
This windable watch consists of 51 printed parts, 15 pins, 14 washers, and 21 screws. When it's all screwed and snapped together, it's clock-sized: 4″ (102mm) in diameter. I've shared the 3D files on Thingiverse so that anyone can make their own.
Designing a Tourbillon
My first experiments in printing a tourbillon involved the creation of small-module 3D-printed gears. For gears, a module is a unit that indicates the distance between gear teeth. It's the ratio of the reference diameter of the gear divided by the number of teeth. It turned out that my Ultimaker could print working gears with module 0.5 — half the size of my Lego gears. I decided to design the gears with module 0.7 to be on the safe side.
Next, I needed to design a printable escapement small enough to fit inside the tourbillon cage. By arranging the balance wheel and the escapement gear in a concentric, coaxial orientation, I minimized the build volume. For driving the escapement, a smaller gear was added to the design.
The transmission in the tourbillon is similar to a planetary gear with a stationary annular gear, and the tourbillon cage as carrier. Designing this in Autodesk Fusion 360 was surprisingly easy, and didn't require much prototyping. The tourbillon turns at 1 revolution per minute — so the second hand is attached directly to it.
The design of the minutes and hours gears and hands was straightforward. I started with the design of the clock face, and arranged the gears behind the tourbillon. The gear ratio is simple mathematics.
A bigger challenge was the design of the mainspring. I designed and 3D printed a couple of spiral-shaped objects, and tortured them until they broke. I also learned (from Google) that a relaxed mainspring must have a special shape in order to keep the driving force constant. From my experiments, I learned that PLA wasn't suitable — it deforms relatively quickly, and the driving force diminishes over time as the spring wears out. The behavior with PETG filament is still not the best, but compared with PLA it's much better. In the future I'd like to experiment with other materials. The final 3D-printable mainspring has an unwound length of about 2 meters, and takes a long time to print.
I started printing my first tourbillon watch in June 2015, and the final watch was working by December. When I decided to publish the tourbillon design on Thingiverse and YouTube, I never expected such a response. Now I'm receiving offers to work on other 3D-printable designs. I'm hoping to start a new career, while continuing my passion for watch design as a side project.
build YOUR OWN tourbillon clock
Building this project requires patience and quality control. You're building a watch mechanism much larger than professional watchmakers have to fuss with, but still, developing your eye for print quality, weight, and material strength is key to the project's success and the accuracy of your timepiece.
Print all the pieces, noting the guidelines below. Then build the 2 main modules — the tourbillon and the mainspring "going barrel" — and assemble the clock gearing.
Everything inside the tourbillon cage — i.e. the hairspring, balance wheel and pin, anchor (lever), escapement wheel, and planet gear — was printed in PLA at high resolution (0.06mm layer, 0.8mm shell). All other parts were printed at normal resolution (0.1mm layer, 0.8mm shell). All parts can be printed without support, except the pawl key (not shown here). I got best results using my Ultimaker 2 with a 0.4mm nozzle.
The infill of the anchor is 80% in order to create a more balanced center of gravity. The rest of the pieces have 30% infill.
For the case I used PETG (slightly bendable, shock absorbing). All gears are printed with PLA (harder and less friction). In these photos, black and yellow parts are PETG, orange and red are PLA.
The mainspring is printed in PETG (PLA would probably break after a while). I switched off the "combing" setting in Cura. While this is a cool feature for ordinary parts, it causes problems with large spiral-shaped parts, as the print head does many useless traveling moves. The nozzle oozes during these moves, and when it resumes printing it can be empty of material; the resulting under-extrusion can be disastrous.
The hairspring needs to be printed in PLA. Other materials can work, but you'll find that the watch runs too slow, or too fast. Because of this, any material substitution requires a new spring design.
Small holes usually don't print very accurately, so use a drill to smooth the inner surface — the balance wheel especially needs to rotate with very little friction and very little play. If you don't find pins or screws with the recommended diameter, you can use slightly larger fasteners — there's some room to drill the holes out.
For best adhesion, print on a heated glass bed cleaned with a mix of alcohol and water. To remove parts, pour a few drops between the part and the glass. The effect is miraculous — the parts can be removed immediately without applying any force.
Besides the winding key there's also a pawl key to unlock the ratchet pawls so that you can fully unwind and relax the mainspring when your watch is not in use. This certainly will extend its lifetime.
You can even print a chain for pulling it out of your pocket. OK, it needs a big pocket!
May 3, 2016, 3:50 am PDT
Pins, steel or brass: 1.5mm diameter, 55.5mm long (1) for the tourbillon axis 1.5mm dia., 12mm long (1) anchor axis 1.5mm dia., 8.5mm long (1) planet gear axis 2mm dia., 57mm long (3) axis for pinions for minutes and hours wheel 2mm dia., 22mm long (6) axis for basic transmission 2mm dia., 15mm long (1) for attaching mainspring 3mm dia., 22.5mm long (1) axis for mainspring 3mm dia., 31mm long (1) axis for main pinion
Washers 3mm (3) for mainspring pinion 2mm (6) for transmission 1.5mm (5) for tourbillon and escapement
Screws: 1.5mm dia., 5mm long (5) for the going barrel 1.5mm dia., 10mm long (7) 4 for base plate, 3 for tourbillon cage 1.8mm dia., 6.5mm long (5) for ratchet pawls 1.8mm dia., 12 mm long (4) for clock face
3D printer Get the 3D files for free at thingiverse.com/thing:1249221.
Drill and screwdriver
Christoph Laimer was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and grew up nearby. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering from ETH in Zurich, and recently left a career in software to pursue his passion for 3D printed timepieces.
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The Observatory for Human Rights of Vulnerable Groups in the Dominican Republic is a platform where civil rights individuals and organizations can report cases of human rights violations against marginalized groups. The focus groups are sex workers, LGBTI, people using drugs, people with HIV/AIDS, people subjected to human trafficking, people with disabilities, victims of gender discrimination, immigrants and troubled youth. Next to receiving and registering reports of cases of human rights violations, the observatory also gives legal counseling to victims, with the main aim of improving the quality of human rights provision in the Dominican Republic and enforcing the rule of law. Furthermore, the observatory seeks to pressure the Dominican government to continue implementing its legislation. Organizations supporting the observatory range from various human rights NGOs, to NGOs working on specific groups of marginalized people as well as International Organizations and governmental institutions of the DR. In 2015, the observatory received 40 reports of human rights violations in Santo Domingo and Santiago.
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