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Galway Intercepts 22.5 Meters of 7.8 g/t, 10.0 Meters of 10.0 g/t, 6.0 Meters of 32.8 g/t, and 59.0 Meters of 1.7 g/t Gold
Toronto, Ontario: January 19, 2011 – Galway Resources Ltd. (GWY: TSX-V) is pleased to announce assay results from eleven additional drill holes from its diamond drill exploration program on the Company's California property in Colombia. Nine of the holes were drilled in the Pie de Gallo Zone, with the remaining two in the Northeast Zone. Ten of the eleven holes contained significant intervals of gold mineralization, with the eleventh prematurely terminated as a result of a stuck drill rod just 111.5 meters downhole. Of the ten drill holes that returned significant gold mineralization, nine of them encountered multiple significant intervals. A complete summary of drill hole assay results is provided in Table 1. All maps and sections associated with this press release can be found on Galway's website at www.galwayresources.com.
"We continue to be very encouraged by the strong results received from our California exploration program. With the $25.7 million equity financing now completed, we are well positioned to advance not only California, but our Vetas property as well. We look forward to providing additional drill results from California in the weeks ahead, and to begin drilling Vetas later in the first quarter. We will update shareholders with regard to our previously announced Vetas spin-out later in the first quarter as well. With strong drill results at California, drilling set to commence at Vetas and the completion of our equity financing, 2011 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Galway," cites Robert Hinchcliffe, President and CEO of Galway Resources.
Gold intercept highlights from the Pie de Gallo Zone are as follows:
GWY-74
22.5 meters grading 7.8 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au) and 16.5 g/t silver (Ag), including 1.5 meters of 102.5 g/t Au
16.0 meters grading 1.1 g/t Au and 17.5 g/t Ag
20.2 meters grading 0.90 g/t Au
10.0 meters grading 10.0 g/t Au, including 4.0 meters of 22.4 g/t Au
59.0 meters grading 1.7 g/t Au, including 4.0 meters of 6.4 g/t Au, 2.0 meters of 6.7 g/t Au and 2.0 meters of 5.7 g/t Au
26.0 meters grading 1.8 g/t Au, including 2.0 meters of 9.3 g/t Au
11.8 meters grading 1.4 g/t Au
6.0 meters grading 32.8 g/t Au, including 2.0 meters of 92.4 g/t Au
4.0 meters grading 8.5 g/t Au, including 2.0 meters of 16.5 g/t Au
16.5 meters grading 3.9 g/t Au and 30.5 g/t Ag, including 4.5 meters of 9.1 g/t Au and 37.6 g/t Ag
2.0 meters grading 6.9 g/t Au
16.0 meters grading 4.4 g/t Au, including 2.0 meters of 27.8 g/t Au
26.0 meters grading 0.95 g/t Au and 14.4 g/t Ag
6.0 meters grading 3.4 g/t Au, including 1.5 meters of 9.1 g/t Au
The additional nine holes completed in the Pie de Gallo Zone were drilled generally at 25 to 30 meter centers to offset previous gold bearing intercepts. These holes continue to extend continuity of mineralization both vertically and laterally along structure in multiple overlapping lenses typical of the district. On Section 8240E, GWY-71 intersected 59.0 meters of 1.7 g/t Au. This appears to align with a steep vertical dip with GWY-62 (24.0 meters of 8.4 g/t Au), GWY-53 (67.3 meters of 1.1 g/t Au), and GWY-54 (19.5 meters of 11.0 g/t Au), plus GWY-59 (25.0 meters of 2.4 g/t Au) at a further 75 meters down-dip (December 15, 2010 press release). These intercepts also appear to demonstrate continuity with GWY-10 (89.0 meters of 3.2 g/t Au) on Section 8200E. To the north of this, the 16.5 meters of 3.9 g/t Au (GWY-64) appears to line up well with 67.3 meters of 1.1 g/t Au (GWY-67) and 11.8m of 1.4 g/t Au (GWY-71). Drill hole GWY-71 has filled in the full width of the mineralized corridor of 150 meters on this section. The intersection of 10.0 meters of 10.0 g/t Auis open down dip, as is the result at the end of GWY-64 of 8.0 meters of 3.8 g/t Au. This represents one of the deepest intersections Galway has encountered to date, at 300 meters below surface, and the mineralization remains open to depth.
On Section 8140E, the 150 meter wide mineralized corridor has also been in-filled. GWY-69, GWY-72 and GWY-74, drilled at successively steeper angles along the same line as the high grade gold intercepts in GWY-42 and GWY-43 (34.5 meters of 4.1 g/t Au and 6.0 meters of 39.5 g/t Au, respectively, reported on October 21, 2010), returned similar high grade discoveries. GWY-66 and GWY-68, along with previously announced GWY-63 (16.0 meters of 3.3 g/t Au and 8.0 meters of 2.1 g/t Au), have extended this zone of mineralization to the southwest.
Drilling in the Pie de Gallo Zone to date demonstrates mineralization along a 270 meter strike length beginning from surface to a depth of 350 meters. Mineralization in the Pie de Gallo Zone remains open in all directions.
Gold intercept highlights from the Northeast Zone are as follows:
95.5 meters grading 1.0 g/t Au and 15.0 g/t Ag, true width equals 20.0 meters (TW=), including 1.5 meters (TW=0.32m) of 3.5 g/t Au
7.5 meters (TW=1.57m) grading 5.5 g/t Au and 43.1 g/t Ag, including 1.5 meters (TW=0.32m) of 22.1 g/t Au and 189.0 g/t Ag
55.5 meters (TW=11.65m) grading 0.88 g/t Au and 13.1 g/t Ag, including 3.0 meters (TW=0.64m) of 4.6 g/t Au
28.5 meters (TW=5.9m) grading 0.82 g/t Au and 16.4 g/t Ag
3.0 meters (TW=1.8m) grading 47.0 g/t Au, including 1.5 meters (TW=0.9m) of 92.7 g/t Au
30.0 meters (TW=18.0m) grading 1.4 g/t Au and 29.1 g/t Ag
A 0.5 g/t Au lower cutoff grade was applied in determining all intervals provided above. No upper cutoff grade was applied.
The two holes completed in the Northeast Zone offset and continue to expand upon the thick zone of gold mineralization encountered in GWY-37 (121.5 meters of 2.7 g/t Au reported on September 8, 2010) and GWY-58 (96.0 meters of 1.6 g/t Au reported on December 15, 2010). As demonstrated by section 8440E, continuity is excellent. Galway has now identified approximately 100 meters of strike length in the NE Zone, and the intercept of 95.5 meters of 1.0 g/t Au in GWY-65 announced here effectively extends known mineralization in this part of the structure from surface to 350 meters below surface. Mineralization remains open in all directions.
Intercepts reported above and in previously reported drill holes are hosted by silicified zones, breccias, fracture zones and stockwork, typical of the district, which includes Greystar Resources' National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource, Angostura, and Ventana Gold's National Instrument 43-101 documented project, La Bodega. The principal geologic control in the California-Angostura District is a linear structural corridor that trends northeast-southwest and dips steeply to the north. Segments of this zone host the resources reported by both Greystar and Ventana, and Galway is exploring another segment along the same structural corridor. The entire corridor may be one continuous mineralized zone through all three company's properties. The mineralized Zone identified on Galway's properties is approximately 150-200 meters wide and 1,000 meters long, characterized by hydrothermal alteration and mineralization within various phases of pervasively altered intrusive porphyries. Mineralization remains open along strike where untested, at depth along the entire Zone, and across the width of the structure in most places. Galway believes potential for high grade gold occurrences as well as lower grade bulk resources has been demonstrated by the first 74 core drill holes reported to date.
Vetas Spin-Out
On December 16, 2010, Galway announced its intention to spin-out its Vetas gold project into a newly incorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary to be distributed to its shareholders. Galway believes the Spin-Out Transaction will help maximize shareholder value, allowing the Company to focus on the California projects while shareholders enjoy growth opportunities in the development of the Vetas gold project. Upon completion of the transfer of the Vetas gold project and a portion of the proceeds from the recently completed $25.7 million equity financing as working capital for the subsidiary, Galway intends to distribute common shares of the subsidiary to its shareholders on a pro rata basis (the "Spin-Out Transaction").
It is anticipated that the Spin-Out Transaction will be completed pursuant to a plan of arrangement or other suitable transaction and will be subject to TSX Venture Exchange, regulatory and court approval, as well as shareholder approval. Further details of the Spin-Out Transaction are expected to be announced later in the first quarter.
In January 2010, Galway announced that it had entered into a binding agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Reina de Oro and Coloro properties in the center of the historic Vetas Gold Mining District in Colombia. The properties are mostly contiguous and collectively comprise 542 hectares (1,339 acres). The Reina de Oro property's main asset at present, the El Volcan Mine, has been the site of gold mining since the 1590's and has produced among the most gold of any in the historic California-Vetas gold mining district. The town of Vetas is located approximately 8 kilometers southeast of California, the sight of the Company's on-going gold exploration program that is on strike with Ventana's and Greystar's major gold discoveries. Drilling is expected to commence underground after the necessary infrastructure is in place, later in the first quarter.
Grades returned from Galway's channel sampling program include 104.8 g/t Au over a strike length of 70.1 meters (0.8 meter true width), and 317.6 g/t Au over a strike length of 25 meters (0.8 meter true width) including 1,374.8 g/t Au over a strike length of 5.0 meters from two different veins. Results from over 1,400 samples have been reported. Visit Galway's website at www.galwayresources.com for additional information.
In compliance with National Instrument 43-101, Mr. Mike Sutton, P.Geo. is the Qualified Person responsible for the accuracy of this news release. All samples are assayed by ALS Chemex in Lima, Peru, after preparation at the Chemex facility in Bogota, Colombia. All core is under watch from the drill site to the core processing facility. Samples are fire assayed with an AA with gravimetric finish. Samples returning in excess of 3.0 g/t are sent for metallic screens. The Company's QA/QC program includes the regular insertion of blanks and standards into the sample shipments, as well as instructions for duplication. Standards are inserted at one per 20 samples. Approximately five percent (5%) of the pulps and rejects are sent for check assaying at a second lab with the results averaged and intersections updated when received. True widths are unknown at this time, except for those shown. Core recovery in the mineralized zones has averaged over 92%.
Galway Resources is a well capitalized company, primarily focused on the exploration of gold and coal in Colombia. The core focus of the Company is gold exploration in northeast Colombia, with a drill program occurring at the California gold project and a geophysical program occurring at the Vetas gold project, which will be followed by a drill program later in the first quarter. The Company has also reported that drilling occurred in 2010 at the GALCA coal project, which is being managed and funded by Prodeco, the Colombian subsidiary of Glencore. Efforts are underway to secure access from GALCA property owners to move the drill rig to the next set of planned drill holes.


During the process, add about 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and keep beating till well combined.
We have to toss in the ground pork before the garlic gets burned.
Also pour in some more soy sauce, about 1 tablespoon.
Now we can cook till the sauce is fully absorbed.
Just go ahead and stir the center part so it gets cooked faster.
Served with Thai chili sauce.
I'll have to get more rice for this dish.
*And I think kids who hate carrots will eat it too!
ahhh this is a new combo...normally in hong kong household, people do shrimps and scallion scambled eggs hehehe this is a fresh idea! well done!
Mmmm I'll have to try that next time!
Sounds like a good try!
This looks wonderful and sounds even better for getting those veggies in.
Next time I'm gonna use shrimps and scallion, like what mochachocolata rita said earlier!
I just ate like 3 pieces of fried chicken last night..
this look delicious! it would be an easy meal to bring to work for lunch also!
Too bad that usually I don't even know when do I have time for a little lunch break..


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New data reveals number of Indian COVID variant cases in every part of Kent
The new strain is thought to be more transmissible, with cases more than tripling within a week
Jamie Rose
An aerial view of Dartford, where four cases of the Indian variant have been detected
New data from Public Health England reveals the number of suspected Indian variant coronavirus cases in each part of Kent.
Up to nine cases were detected in Canterbury in the space of a week, the highest amount for a single area in the whole of the South East region.
Elsewhere in Kent, four cases were detected in Dartford, two in Ashford, two in Tunbridge Wells and one each in Sevenoaks, Maidstone and Folkestone & Hythe.
The numbers come from Public Health England data showing where variants of concerns are believed to be most prevalent.
To track it most quickly, they have been looking for positive samples containing something known as the S gene.
It's a gene which is not present in the dominant Kent variant, but is detected in several of the new variants including those from India.
Out of 397 specimens with the S gene found in May so far, some 93 per cent were determined to be the feared new Indian variant known as B1.617.2.
Therefore scientists believe that by tracking the S gene, they can track the spread of the Indian variant slightly more quickly, without having to wait for full genomic sequencing.
And the S-gene data reveals there were 20 such cases detected in Kent in the last recorded week, between May 2 and May 8.
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None were detected in Dover, Gravesham, Medway, Swale, Thanet or Tonbridge & Malling.
But the nine detected in Canterbury alone put it 32nd in England out of 317 local authority areas and the highest of all in the South East.
The highest in the country were Bolton (350) and Blackburn (110).
Canterbury, where the highest number of suspected Indian COVID cases have been found (Image: Dave Goddard / Getty)
Another concerning data trend for Canterbury was that the nine cases were detected from only 10 samples sequenced, a positivity rate of 90 per cent.
That was one of the highest in the country - slightly higher even than Bolton (86.6 per cent) and Blackburn (85.9 per cent) - suggesting that, like those places, the Indian variant may already be the dominant strain.
Of course for that be ascertained, further testing is required.
Scientists believe the Indian variant is more transmissible, and cases of it nearly tripled to 1,313 in the past week in England.
But yesterday (May 16) Health Secretary Matt Hancock said early lab data showed vaccines remained effective.
He said the majority of those in hospital in Bolton - a hotspot for the Indian variant - were unvaccinated.
More than 20 million people in the UK have now had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.
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Q: Relative Path Java I've been having some trouble with an assigment in Java. It's a program that reads level-definitions from txt files. It also reads images. It works so that I have a "resources" folder (inside the program folder) and inside it all the folders/files that I need. Here is an example of a resource folder:
resources
  background_images
    clouds.png
    jungle.jpg
    night.jpg
  block_images
    leopard.jp
    zebra.jpg
  definitions
    level_definitions.txt
Inside the level_definitions.txt, there are all kinds of names of other files to which you should redirect, such as
background_images/night.jpg  or  definitions/moon_block_definitions.txt

This is the program pretty much, and I was able to code it, it works just fine.
At the end of the assignment though, they added this note:
A note on file locations

All the file names specified in the levels and block definition files should be relative to the class path. The reason we want them to be relative to the class path is that later we will be able to read the files from inside a jar, something we can not do with regular File references.

To get an input stream relative to the class path (even if it's inside a jar), use the following:

InputStream is = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("image.png");
The idea is to keep a folder with files(definitions and images) and then add that folder to the class path when running the JVM:

java -cp bin:resources ...
If you don't add the resources folder to you class path you wont be able to load them with the command from above.

I really have no idea what they meant by this, and how should I change my code. (my professors are not answering and the assignment is due in just a few days).
Here is how my code reads the files right now:
This is how I read the main file:
java.io.Reader reader = null;
try {
    reader = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("resources/definitions/level_definitions.txt"));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
is = new BufferedReader(reader);

This is how I read the other files:
// blocks txt
reader = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("resources/" + stringPath));
is = new BufferedReader(reader);

// images
File pathToFile = new File("resources/" + stringPath);
try {
   backgroundImage = ImageIO.read(pathToFile);
} catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
}

Now, I have tried to change into the following:
    java.io.Reader reader = null;
    try {
        reader = new InputStreamReader(ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("definitions/level_definitions.txt"););
    } finally {
    }
    is = new BufferedReader(reader);

    // blocks txt
    reader = new InputStreamReader(ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(stringPath););
    is = new BufferedReader(reader);

    // images
    File pathToFile = new File("resources/" + stringPath);
    try {
       backgroundImage = ImageIO.read(ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(stringPath););
    } catch (IOException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
    }

But of course, it's not working, the program simply doesn't run.
The question is, anyone understands what my professors exactly meant? Any advice on how to change my code accordingly so that it is "relative to classpath"??
Thank you!

A: A resource is not file system File. Resources reside with the .class files possibly inside a .jar.
(Path is a generalisation of both File, resources and even more.)
The resource path "definitions/level_definitions.txt" seems correct. If you build a .jar, you might inspect it with WinZip, 7zip or other tools, as it is just a zip file.
There should be a top level directory definitions.
(Probably resources is a root directory for non-java resources.)
The path must be case sensitive and the separator the forward slash (/).
One pretty frequent error on Windows is that the extension is not shown and one gets created files like level_definitions.txt.txt.
The InputStreamReader wraps a binary data InputStream and as Reader returns text.
For that one can add the encoding (Charset) of the binary data. You use the default without encoding, so it uses the platform encoding.
If your program runs on another platform it still uses the same resource text file, but might apply a wrong encoding. So better use the encoding of the resource text: for Italy "Windows-2152" or the global "UTF-8". Check it with a good cafè.

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Johann Nicolaus Horst (* 1601 in Blomberg; † Oktober 1685) war ein deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Hofprediger in Celle.

Leben
Horst, Sohn eines Pastors, schloss seine Studien nach Schul- und Universitätsbesuch in Minden, Lemgo und Rinteln als Magister ab und wurde 1630 Lehrer in Norden, 1633 Rektor in Minden. Ab 1648 war er Pastor an der Marktkirche in Hannover. 1650 wurde er zum Hofprediger in Celle ernannt. 1679 wurde er emeritiert.

Werke
Horst verfasste unter anderem eine Leichenpredigt auf die Herzogin Anna Eleonore (Celle 1659) sowie auf den Staatsmann Friedrich Schenck von Winterstädt.

Literatur
 Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Das Gelehrte Hannover oder Lexikon von Schriftstellern und Schriftstellerinnen, gelehrten Geschäftsmännern und Künstlern, die seit der Reformation in und außerhalb der sämtlichen zum Königreich Hannover gehörigen Provinzen gelebt haben und noch leben, aus den glaubwürdigsten Schriftstellern zusammengetragen. Band 2, Bremen 1823, S. 416.

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Lutherischer Theologe (17. Jahrhundert)
Person (Celle)
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Geboren 1601
Gestorben 1685
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El bergamoteno, también conocido como bergamotina,  es una furanocumarina natural que se encuentra principalmente en el zumo de pomelo. También se encuentra en el aceite de bergamota, desde el que fue aislado por primera vez y de la que se deriva su nombre. En menor medida, la bergamotina también está presente en los aceites esenciales de otros cítricos. Junto con el compuesto químicamente relacionado 6 ', 7'-dihidroxibergamotina, se cree que es responsable para el efecto del zumo de pomelo (toronja), en el que el consumo del zumo afecta el metabolismo de una variedad de fármacos farmacéuticos.

Química
En términos químicos, bergamotina y dihidroxibergamotina son furanocoumarinas lineales funcionalizadas con cadenas laterales derivadas de geraniol. Son inhibidores de algunas isoformas del citocromo P450, en particular la enzima CYP3A4. Esto evita el metabolismo oxidativo de ciertos fármacos por la enzima, lo que resulta en una elevada concentración de fármaco en el torrente sanguíneo.

Bajo circunstancias normales, el efecto del zumo de pomelo se considera que es una interacción negativa, y los pacientes a menudo se les advierte que no consuman toronja o su jugo al tomar la medicación. Sin embargo, algunas investigaciones en curso se centran en los beneficios potenciales de la inhibición del citocromo P450.  Bergamotina, dihidroxibergamotina, o análogos sintéticos puede ser desarrollado como fármacos que se dirigen a aumentar la oral, la biodisponibilidad de otros fármacos. Los medicamentos que pueden tener un uso limitado debido a que son metabolizados por CYP3A4 y puede convertirse en medicamentos viables cuando se toma con un inhibidor de CYP3A4 porque la dosis requerida para conseguir una concentración necesaria en la sangre se reduce.

Un ejemplo de la utilización de este efecto en los medicamentos actuales es la co-administración de ritonavir, un potente inhibidor de la CYP3A4 y CYP2D6 isoformas de citocromo P450, con otras drogas antirretrovirales. Aunque ritonavir inhibe la replicación del VIH en su propio derecho su uso en estos regímenes de tratamiento es para mejorar la biodisponibilidad de otros agentes a través de la inhibición de las enzimas que loa metabolizan.

Biosíntesis de Bergamoteno
Bergamoteno se deriva de los componentes originarios de la vía siquimato. La biosíntesis de este compuesto se inicia con la formación de la demethylsuberosin (3), producto, que se forma a través de la alquilación del (2) compuesto de umbeliferona. La alquilación de la umbeliferona se inicia con el uso de pirofosfato de dimetilalilo, conocido más comúnmente como DMAPP. La ciclación de un grupo alquilo se produce para formar marmesin (4), que se realiza en presencia de NADPH y oxígeno junto con un catalizador de monooxigenasa citocromo P450. Este proceso se repite después dos veces más, primero para eliminar el sustituyente de hidroxiisopropilo marmesin (4) para formar psoraleno (5), y luego añadir un grupo hidroxilo para formar bergaptol (6).  Bergaptol (6) está al lado metilado con S-adenosil metionina (SAM) para formar bergapteno (7). El paso final en esta biosíntesis es la unión de un GPP, o pirofosfato de geranilo, al bergapten recién metilado (7) para formar la  molécula diana bergamotina (8).

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Prospects for space-borne cold-atom experiments include the detection of gravitational waves, probes of the equivalence principle and searches for dark matter. Image credits: Physics 5 26 & arXiv:2108.02468
Cold atoms offer exciting prospects for high-precision measurements based on emerging quantum technologies. Terrestrial cold-atom experiments are already widespread, exploring both fundamental phenomena such as quantum phase transitions and applications such as ultra-precise timekeeping. The final quantum frontier is to deploy such systems in space, where the lack of environmental disturbances enables high levels of precision.
This was the subject of a workshop supported by the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative, which attracted more than 300 participants online from 23 to 24 September. Following a 2019 workshop triggered by the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Voyage 2050 call for ideas for future experiments in space, the main goal of this workshop was to begin drafting a roadmap for cold atoms in space.
The workshop opened with a presentation by Mike Cruise (University of Birmingham) on ESA's vision for cold atom R&D for space: considerable efforts will be required to achieve the technical readiness level needed for space missions, but they hold great promise for both fundamental science and practical applications. Several of the cold-atom teams that contributed white papers to the Voyage 2050 call also presented their proposals.
Atomic clocks
Next came a session on atomic clocks, including descriptions of their potential for refining the definitions of SI units, such as the second, and distributing this new time-standard worldwide, and potential applications of atomic clocks to geodesy. Next-generation spacebased atomic-clock projects for these and other applications are ongoing in China, the US (Deep Space Atomic Clock) and Europe.
This was followed by a session on Earth observation, featuring the prospects for improved gravimetry using atom interferometry and talks on the programmes of ESA and the European Union. Quantum space gravimetry could contribute to studies of climate change, for example, by measuring the densities of water and ice very accurately and with improved geographical precision.
Cold-atom experiments in space offer great opportunities to probe the foundations of physics
For fundamental physics, prospects for space-borne cold-atom experiments include studies of wavefunction collapse and Bell correlations in quantum mechanics, probes of the equivalence principle by experiments like STEQUEST, and searches for dark matter.
The proposed AEDGE atom interferometer will search for ultralight dark matter and gravitational waves in the deci-Hertz range, where LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA and the future LISA space observatory are relatively insensitive, and will probe models of dark energy. AEDGE gravitational- wave measurements could be sensitive to first-order phase transitions in the early universe, as occur in many extensions of the Standard Model, as well as to cosmic strings, which could be relics of symmetries broken at higher energies than those accessible to colliders.
These examples show that cold-atom experiments in space offer great opportunities to probe the foundations of physics as well as make frontier measurements in astrophysics and cosmology.
Several pathfinder experiments are underway. These include projects for terrestrial atom interferometers on scales from 10 m to 1 km, such as the MAGIS project at Fermilab and the AION project in the UK, which both use strontium, and the MIGA project in France and proposed European infrastructure ELGAR, which both use rubidium. Meanwhile, a future stage of AION could be situated in an access shaft at CERN – a possibility that is currently under study, and which could help pave the way towards AEDGE. Pioneering experiments using Bose-Einstein condensates on research rockets and the International Space Station were also presented.
A strong feature of the workshop was a series of breakout sessions to enable discussions among members of the various participating communities (atomic clocks, Earth observation and fundamental science), as well as a group considering general perspectives, which were summarised in a final session. Reports from the breakout sessions will be integrated into a draft roadmap for the development and deployment of cold atoms in space. This will be set out in a white paper to appear by the end of the year and presented to ESA and other European space and funding agencies.
Space readiness
Achieving space readiness for cold-atom experiments will require significant research and development. Nevertheless, the scale of participation in the workshop and the high level of engagement testifies to the enthusiasm in the cold-atom community and prospective user communities for deploying cold atoms in space. The readiness of the different communities to collaborate in drafting a joint roadmap for the pursuit of common technological and scientific goals was striking.
Oliver Buchmueller Imperial College London, Albert De Roeck CERN and John Ellis King's College London.
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1- مجتمع آموزش عالی سراوان- دانشکده فنی و مهندسی- گروه فناوری اطلاعات- مربی.
2- دانشگاه صنعتی خواجه نصرالدین طوسی- دانشکده مهندسی صنایع- گروه فناوری اطلاعات- استادیار.
3- دانشگاه آزاد فردوس- گروه مهندسی کامپیوتر- کارشناس ارشد.
مقدمه: نياز فوري به خون و عدم جايگزين مناسب براي آن، ضرورت وجود الگویی برای کمک به پزشکان جهت ارايه خدمات درست به اهداکنندگان و مدیریت صحیح پایگاه خون را نشان مي‌دهد. پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی الگویی برای تشخیص وضعیت اهداکنندگان خون صورت گرفته است.
مواد و روش‌ها: پژوهش حاضر به روش پیمایشی- مقطعي و به‌صورت سرشماری صورت گرفته است. جامعه پژوهش متشکل از داده‌هاي سازمان انتقال خون بيرجند در ماه‌های خرداد تا شهریور 92 است که با مراجعه مستقيم پژوهش‌گر به سازمان و به‌صورت فایل اکسل تهیه گردید. جهت تحليل داده‌ها از نرم‌افزار Clementine12.0 استفاده شده است. در پژوهش حاضر ابتدا خوشه‌بندی Two-Step و سپس الگوريتم‌های C5.0،C&R Tree ، CHAID و QUEST اجرا گردیدند تا بهترین نسبت بین فیلدهای مختلف به‌دست آید.
نتایج: مقدار صحت به‌دست آمده از اجرای الگوریتم‌های C5.0، C&R Tree، CHAID و QUEST به‌ترتيب 9998/0، 9960/0، 9930/0، 8913/0 مي‌باشد. مقادیر به‌دست آمده برای شاخص‌های حساسیت، شفافیت، صحت، دقت، شاخص F، میانگین هندسی، نرخ مثبت غلط، نرخ منفی غلط و نرخ خطا برای مدل C5.0 نشان‌دهنده عملکرد بهتر اين الگوريتم نسبت‌به سایرین مي‌باشد. تأثيرگذارترین شاخص‌ها در تولید مدل، دسته فشارخون، وضعیت اهدای خون و دمای بدن هستند.
نتيجه‌گيري: مدل ارايه شده به پيش‌بيني سریع‌تر و دقیق‌تر وضعیت اهدای خون و نیز مدیریت صحیح پایگاه خون کمک مي‌نماید و مي‌تواند گامی مؤثر جهت استفاده کارآمد از خون اهدایی و کاهش هزینه‌های نگهداری خون محسوب گردد.
Venkateswarlu B, Prasad Raju GSV. Mine Blood Donors Information through Improved K-Means Clustring. International Journal of Computational Science and Information Technology 2013;1:9-15.
Li BN, Dong MC. Banking on blood [electronic donor card system]. Computing & Control Engineering Journal 2006;17:22-5.
Shmiel O, Shmiel T, Dagan Y, Teicher M. Processing of Multichannel Recordings for Data-Mining Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2007;54:444-53.
Altiparmak F, Ferhatosmanoglu H, Erdal S, Trost DC. Information mining over heterogeneous and high-dimensional time-series data in clinical trials databases. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 2006;10: 254-63.
Lee WC, Cheng BW. An intelligent system for improving performance of blood donation. Journal of Quality 2011;18: 173-85.
Alizadeh S, Ghazanfari M, Teimorpour B. Data mining and knowledge discovery. 2nd ed. Tehran: Publication of Iran University of Science and Technology;2011.[Persian].
Ameri H, Alizadeh S, Barzegari A. Knowledge extraction of diabetics' data by decision tree method. Health Management 2013;16:58-72.[Persian].
López MI, Luna JM, Romero C, Ventura S. Classification via clustering for predicting final marks based on student participation in forum. Proceeding of 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining; 2012 Jun 19-21; Greece,China.p.148-51.
Ashoori M, Taheri Z. Using clustering methods for identifying blood donors behavior. Proceeding of 5th Iranian Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2013; Gonabad, Iran.p.4055-77.
Han J, Kamber M. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufman;2006.
Chen G, Asterbro T. How to deal with missing categorical data: test of a simple Bayesian Method. Organizational Research Methods 2003;6:309-27.
Ramachandran P, Girija N, Bhuvaneswari T. Classifying blood donors using data mining techniques. IJCSET 2011;1:10-3.
Sundaram S, Santhanam T. Real-time blood donor management using dashboards based on data mining models. International Journal of Computer Science 2011;8:159-63.
Sundaram S, Santhanam T. A comparison of blood donor classification data mining models. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 2011;30:98-101.
Sharma A, Gupta PC. Predicting the number of blood donors through their age and blood group by using data mining tool. International Journal of Communication and Computer Technologies 2012;1:6-10.
Hari Ganesh S, Vanitha K. Comparative study of data mining approaches for blood platelet transfusion. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology 2014; 3:3069-74.
Asha Rani S, Hari Ganesh S. A comparative study of classification algorithm on blood transfusion. International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology 2014;3:57-60.
Ritika , Paul A. Prediction of blood donors" population using data mining classification technique. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering 2014;4:634-8.
Ashoori M, Alizade S, Hossieny H, Hossieny S. A model to predict the sequential behavior of healthy blood donors using data mining. Journal of Research & Health 2015; 5:141-8.


Music From the New Wilderness opens February 11, and rehearsals have been under way at Western Front from February 3-8. The production's videographer, Josh Hite, stopped by to capture some of the action. To whet your appetite for next week, here's a clip of from a rehearsal of Jesse Zubot's Songs of Love and Despair: The Songs of Therese and The Potatos Garden Band (2014), performed by Jesse Zubot (violin), Joshua Zubot (violin), Jean René (viola), Peggy Lee (cello), and Krista Belle Stewart (video).
Opening night is sold out, but there are still tickets available for Feb 12, 13, 14, 15 @ 8 pm and Feb 15 @ 2 pm via The Cultch. Don't miss out!


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Council of Ministers condemns maneuvers to circumvent CJEU decisions
Shaheed Alhafed, November 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers has condemned the maneuvers carried out by European bodies aimed at circumvention the ruling of The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which nullify any agreement with the Moroccan occupation state that includes the natural resources of Western Sahara.
In its meeting today, Monday, chaired by President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, the Council stressed that these maneuvers are clear complicity with the Moroccan occupation and a real obstruction of the efforts of the international community aimed at decolonization of the last colony in the African continent.
The Council commended the African Union's adherence to its founding charter based on respect for the right of peoples to self-determination and independence, and the sanctity of the borders inherited from independence, valuing the unity of its members in the face of maneuvers aimed at dispersing the African continent and weakening its position.
It reiterated the willingness of the Sahrawi party to enter into the round of negotiations to be held in Geneva, on the basis of United Nations resolutions affirming the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence. (SPS)
SADR and POLISARIO condemn the inclusion of Western Sahara territorial waters by Morocco
El Salvador and SADR strengthen diplomatic relations
Uruguay Catholic University hosts a conference and photographic exhibition on SADR
President of Republic takes part in 32nd Ordinary Summit of AU Heads of State and Government
SADR Army cannot be confined forever to refugee status, says Defence minister


Alexei Pajitnov createt this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union's Academy of Science. It initially worked only on the Soviet Elektronika 60 Computer and got very popular among staff members and students at the Academy of Science in Moscow. It's worldwide popularity became Tetris, after Nintendo published it on their video-game console and the gameboy.
This resulted in millions of dollars of royalties – but not for the developer himself, but the Russian government. Poor Alexei.


text:
Sugar Land had lowest crime rate ever reported in 2020, data reveals
While overall crime is down, mental health calls saw an increase from 922 total in 2019 to 1,126 total in 2020, with a majority of the increase occurring after July.
SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) -- Despite the numerous hardships of 2020, Sugar Land reported its lowest crime rate on record, according to the Sugar Land Police Department's annual report.
According to a press release from the city, the crime rate decreased 26% from 2019 to 2020.
Sugar Land's crime rate is 60% lower than the state average, and 57% lower than the national average, the city reports.
In specific categories, Sugar Land's violent crime rate decreased by 4%, and its property crime rate decreased by 27% over the same time period.
The overall crime rate is comprised of "Part 1 crimes that include homicides, sexual assaults, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, thefts and auto thefts."
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Based on statistics published by the Department of Public Safety, Sugar Land ranked as the fourth safest city in Texas with a population between 100,000 -150,000. Of the top five cities, Sugar Land had the lowest violent crime rate, according to the press release.
Other statistics from the police department's annual report show that assaults are down 4% from 2019, but aggravated assaults are up 29% and family violence is up 12%.
According to police data, mental health calls are also up from 922 total in 2019 to 1,126 total in 2020, with a majority of the increase occurring after July. The department says it's partnering with hospitals and mental health authorities and enhancing crisis training for officers in 2021.
There were 20,826 traffic stops in 2020 compared to 21,935 in 2019, a 35% decrease, according to the data.
"Despite the hardships and major changes of this year, the Sugar Land Police Department has maintained excellent service to our residents," Sugar Land Police Chief Eric Robins said. "COVID-19 changed a lot about how we operate. While we saw a decrease in things like traffic stops and calls for service, SLPD increased visibility at spaces like grocery stores and parks. I am proud of the work that our department has put into making Sugar Land one of the safest cities to live in."
SUGAR LAND CRIME DATA JOURNALISM TEXAS NEWS POLICE
Man killed during altercation over woman in NE Houston, police say


text: Q: zero divisor graphs of a ring If zero divisor graphs of two finite dimensional algebra are isomorphic does that imply that two algebra are isomorphic as a ring or a vector space?I would also like to know if graph theoretic isomorphism between two arbitary finite rings at all implies isomorphism between two rings?


text:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <cv.h>
#include <cxcore.h>
#include <highgui.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <dirent.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace cv;

string ReplaceComma(string line){
	string search_string =",";
	int spot = line.find(search_string);
	if(spot >= 0)
	{
		string tmpstring = line.substr(0,spot);
		tmpstring += ".";
		tmpstring += line.substr(spot+search_string.length(), line.length());
		line = tmpstring;
	}
	spot = line.find(search_string);
	if(spot >= 0)
	{
		return ReplaceComma(line);
	}
	return line;
 }

Mat GetMatFromFile(string filePath){
	cv::Mat test(1,2,DataType<float>::type);
	std::ifstream infile;

	infile.open(filePath);

	bool isStertRead = false, isEndRead = false;
	float a;
	int i = 0;
	if(infile.is_open()){
		std::string line;
		while (std::getline(infile, line))
		{
			if(isStertRead==false && line.find("D:\\")!= std::string::npos){
				isStertRead = true;
				continue;
			}
			if (isStertRead == true && isEndRead == false){
				line = ReplaceComma(line);
				std::istringstream iss(line);
				if (!(iss >> a )) {
					break;
				} // error

				cv::Mat test2;
				cv::resize(test,test2,Size(1,i+1));
				test = test2;
				test.at<float>(i,0) = a;

				i++;
			}
		}
	}

	return test;
}

std::string string_format(const std::string fmt, ...) {
    int size = 100;
    std::string str;
    va_list ap;
    while (1) {
        str.resize(size);
        va_start(ap, fmt);
        int n = vsnprintf((char *)str.c_str(), size, fmt.c_str(), ap);
        va_end(ap);
        if (n > -1 && n < size) {
            str.resize(n);
            return str;
        }
        if (n > -1)
            size = n + 1;
        else
            size *= 2;
    }
    return str;
}

bool isSystemPath(char* text){
	return string(text)== "." || string(text)=="..";
}

class FileInfo{
public: string FileName;
public: int FileNumber;
public: string FilePath;
public: string NewPath;
};

void SaveFile(vector<FileInfo> files, string path, string folderName,  int method, string methodName){
	vector<vector<string>> table;

	vector<string> topRow;
	topRow.push_back("x\t");
	for(int i = 0; i < files.size();i++){
		FileInfo file = files[i];
		topRow.push_back(string_format("%d\t",file.FileNumber));
	}
	table.push_back(topRow);
	for(int i = 0; i < files.size(); i++){
		FileInfo filei = files[i];
		vector<string> rowi;
		rowi.push_back(string_format("%d\t",filei.FileNumber));
		for(int j = 0; j < files.size();j++){
			FileInfo filej = files[j];
			if( i > j )  {
				rowi.push_back("-\t");
				continue;
			}
			Mat mat1 = GetMatFromFile(filei.NewPath);
			Mat mat2 = GetMatFromFile(filej.NewPath);

			rowi.push_back(string_format("%f\t",compareHist( mat1, mat2, method )));
		}
		table.push_back(rowi);
	}
	std::ofstream fs(path+"\\.result."+methodName+".txt");
	fs<<folderName<<"\n";
	for(int i = 0; i < table.size();i++){
		vector<string> row = table[i];
		for(int j = 0; j < row.size();j++){
			string cell = row[j];

			fs<<cell;
		}
		fs<<"\n";
	}
}

/** @function main */
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
	string path = "C:\\GitHub\\opencv-compare\\samples\\reflRatioSpectra";
	string innerFolderPath = "br_r";

	DIR *dir = opendir(path.c_str());

    struct dirent *entry = readdir(dir);

    while (entry != NULL)
    {
        if (entry->d_type == DT_DIR){
           	if(!isSystemPath(entry->d_name)){
				string innerPath  = path +"\\"+ string(entry->d_name) + "\\" + innerFolderPath;

				DIR *innerDir = opendir(innerPath.c_str());
				struct dirent *innerEntry = readdir(innerDir);
				printf("Processing %s ....\n\n", entry->d_name);
				int i = 0;
				vector<FileInfo> files;

				while (innerEntry != NULL)
				{
					if(!isSystemPath(innerEntry->d_name)){

						FileInfo info = FileInfo();
						info.FileName = string(innerEntry->d_name);
						info.FileNumber = i;
						info.FilePath = innerPath + "\\" + info.FileName;
						info.NewPath = innerPath + "\\" + to_string(info.FileNumber) + ".txt";

						files.push_back(info);
						i++;
					}
					innerEntry = readdir(innerDir);
				}
				string folderName = string(entry->d_name);
				std::ofstream fs(innerPath+"\\.result..legend.txt");
				fs<<folderName<<"\n";
				for(int i = 0; i < files.size();i++){
					FileInfo file = files[i];
					rename(file.FilePath.c_str(), file.NewPath.c_str());
					fs<<file.FileNumber<<" -- "<<file.FileName<<"\n";
				}
				fs<<"\n";

				SaveFile(files,innerPath,folderName,0,"Correlation");
				SaveFile(files,innerPath,folderName,1,"Chi-square");
				SaveFile(files,innerPath,folderName,2,"Intersection");
				SaveFile(files,innerPath,folderName,3,"Bhattacharyya");
			}
		}

        entry = readdir(dir);
    }

  printf( "Done \n" );
  system("pause");
 }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: How to resolve duplicate post backs due to multiple jquery files? Below are the JS files sequence on my master page :-
    <script type="text/javascript" src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <link href="~/Content/jquery.reject.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="~/Scripts/js/jquery.reject.min.js"></script>
    <script src="~/Scripts/js/jquery.placeholder.js"></script>
    <script src="../../Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../../Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js"></script>
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../../Scripts/js/jquery.dcverticalmegamenu.1.3.js"></script>
    <script src="../../Scripts/js/jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js"></script>

My problem is,due to Javascript file "jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js" the post back methods calling two times.But if i don't include that file the post back methods firing single time.
But if i don't include it,i am getting other javascript error :-
TypeError: $(...).draggable is not a function

And due to this error i can't remove this JS file from the master page.
I explored the issue and get some comments about it.And the reason behind it(firing event or post back two times) is two Jquery files on the page.One is "Jquery-1.7.2.min.js" and second is "jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js".
Can any one help me out on this ? How can we use both of the JS files or can remove its conflict.

A: Most likely your client code is subscribing to the event twice, so you need to add code or change your code to only subscribe once.
This may help http://api.jquery.com/one/


Our client, a highly reputable Main Contractor who operate UK wide and turn over in excess of £1bn have the need for a permanent Section Engineer to support in the complete redevelopment in Northstowe – Cambridge North.
As an integral part of the Technical site team you will be responsible for all technical aspects of setting out the site including, management of Sub Contractors, Health & Safety, QA and assisting in the production of Site Paperwork.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a minimum of an HNC in Civil Engineering and have a minimum of 3-5 years project exposure ideally within the Civil sector on redevelopment schemes gained with reputable Main Contractors.
You will also have CSCS and PTS qualifications to your name although any training will be provided if required. In return, the successful candidate will be rewarded with an excellent salary of between £36K and £40K and benefits scheme along with long term working and progression opportunities.
This is a fantastic opportunity and an urgent need so if interested, please do send a copy of your CV or call Max Felgate on 0207 855 9644 for further details on this.


Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza Lost collage from 2012 Show #446, from Dec. 13, 2012 2012 Unnamed and unknown, never published until now.
Perfect! Well, if you're around for the live airing, Monday 2-4pm ET (like 8pm), but maybe that's what you meant?
I don't remember making this! I can't picture how this particular looping is happening. I wonder if it's in a CD player.
Never heard that TMBGs before.
I don't remember much of 2012.
It was TMBG after all. "Here Come the ABCs!"
Trying to figure out what this background is. Arturuo en el Barco - Candy Tucker?
This episode needs a name. Something about sleep?
We had all the TMBG kids records because I raised my kids on TMBG.
Here we are again! @Ken: did that random playlist generator always exist, or did you cobble that together just now?
Huh -- never noticed it before!
So what, I'm going to sublet my kidney?
Parq, do you have organs?
Of course, now I have to change the name of my autobiography to "Sublet My Kidney".
Wait, I'm completely off a day. Did it become Thursday after 12 pm??
I wish it was next week.
Imagine everything were like this. On a schedule. Time to communicate. Time to produce during these hours in particular. Time to make something like what you made before. Daily expectations.
Quick, use a sentence with the word "ethereal".
Thanks for the go doze. Allegedly I make a new thing next week. Add yourself in live! lastever.org this Monday 2-4pm ET!
Thanks for unearthing this episode.


Obviously nothing but the highest res pics for her adoring fans.
Balloonpoppop is a 15 year old MySpace whore from Texas, Maine. While searching for noodz on photobucket, /b/tards found at least 100 pics of her masturbating which she had posted on her account. They posted the images on /b/ and soon found her MySpace, which they trolled in typical /b/tard fashion.
Balloonpoppop then deleted her photobucket account, but it was too late: /b/tards had already saved them and hosted the set on rapidshare and continued to distribute them on 4chan. /b/tards also found her AIM as well as her friends' AIM names and harassed them, resulting in heavy lulz. They also sent messages to all her friends' MySpaces with pics and finally went as far as to send the pics to her school, which they had also found on her MySpace account.
Her MySpace account is currently set to private. A picture of an AIM conversation with one of her friends showed that they were worried that she was going to commit suicide, and that she wasn't answering any phone calls. It's likely that, with her life ruined, she will now become an hero.
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World Wide Woodshed has released an update of SlowGold II ($49.95), a program that allows you to capture and slow down music without changing the pitch so you can learn or transcribe parts. The program works with WAV files, and it can record from your audio CD in either digital or analog mode, depending on what your CD-ROM drive supports. If you have audio files in MP3 or other formats, you will have to convert them to WAV format before bringing them into SlowGold II.
The program gives you a lot of options. You can set loop points in the selection using a waveform view in a pop-up window. Loops will play back at the default 50 percent speed or the playback speed you last used, or you can reset playback to any speed between 5 and 120 percent. You can choose to sacrifice sound quality if you want faster time-stretch processing, or you can opt for crystal clear quality if you have either a fast machine or a lot of patience.
SlowGold II allows you to build a loop database that includes chords, lyrics, and comments for future practice sessions. Another useful feature is the unique Rhythm Grid, which allows you to see the rhythm of any passage by placing a beat "ruler" over the waveform of your loop.
Copping Chops in the WoodshedHaving released a CD last year that featured several top-notch guitarists-Jorma Kaukonen, Bob Welch, Joe Louis Walker, and others-I was quite eager to try this software so I could attempt to play the solos they contributed. The installation was effortless, and I immediately set about finding edit points for loops from the tracks I wanted to learn.
SlowGold II is pretty self-explanatory, so I had no trouble getting started. I selected track 1 of the disc, set the edit points for Kaukonen's solo, and allowed SlowGold II to record the loop to my hard disk. Within minutes my loop played back to me at half speed, sounding as though the band had eaten a handful of Quaaludes. I grabbed my guitar and began to hunt and peck for the starting note. After a few passes I was able to play the solo at the full speed of the original recording. Success!
Up to SpeedSlowGold II can run under Windows 95, 98, or NT, and it requires at least 12 MB of RAM and 16 MB of available hard-disk space. You'll need at least a 80486/66 MHz PC, although a 166 MHz Pentium or better is recommended. I tested it on a Pentium II/350 running Windows 98 with 256 MB of RAM and found that it performed very well, even though it took a couple minutes to process longer loops. That's not too bad with a fast machine, but I have to wonder whether it would perform very well on a slower system unless the user were willing to opt for the poorer audio quality.
In the guitar world, it seems like everyone is marketing "slow down" products of one kind or another, from the old Ibanez multispeed cassette deck to multi-effects pedal boards (like the DigiTech RP7). Many manufacturers have recognized the educational value of being able to time-stretch samples of musical parts. If I am seriously attempting to learn a part, though, I would rather sit down in front of my computer with SlowGold II than plug my CD player into a foot pedal and try the same thing. Having visual control over the edit points of the loops is a tremendous benefit.
I intend to keep working with the software to learn more of the solos from my guest guitarists. I only wish it could help me get used to wearing these dang finger picks so I could play Kaukonen's parts correctly.


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Dangote gets $650m Afreximbank loan for Lekki refinery
News Agency of Nigeria
African billionaire, Aliko Dangote, has signed a $650 million loan facility with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for his oil refinery project in Lekki, Nigeria.
The seven-year term loan would attract a moratorium of five years, according to facility terms read out during the signing.
Cairo-based Africa's trade bank also signed a $750 million facility with Nigeria's development bank, the Bank of Industry.
The loans were signed in Abuja, where Afreximbank is holding its annual general meeting and 25th anniversary.
Dangote Group Executive Director Devakumar Edwin said that the oil refinery would cost around $10 billion and should be completed by December 2019.
He said the company would borrow $3.3 billion for the project, arranged by Standard Chartered Bank. The remainder will be funded by equity and through export agencies.
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Fair enough. Like so many "imaginary" parts of childhood, there exists a tension between the world of the creative child and the realistic adult. At some point these things must be reconciled. My children know that I believe in fairies — because I do. When I walk alone through the forest, it is not uncommon for me to "sense" the presence of something that I cannot see or hear. When this happens, I often close my eyes, engage my imagination, and happily "converse" with what I am feeling. I give it form in my imagination – often as a little magical person. Sometimes winged, sometimes with colorful clothes, sometimes with a stately beard, sometimes with crazy long locks of golden or coal-black hair. I give the feeling form and I allow the form to have a voice. And then I talk to it.
If I just lost you – hang in there. It is actually not as esoteric as you think.
The truth is, I "feel" things all the time – and I bet you do too. I never feel truly alone. I always feel surrounded in life. A day doesn't go by when I don't experience dozens of great ideas for stories, projects, businesses, witty things to say. I feel whispered qualities of energy whenever I take a moment to feel them. They are always and everywhere.
As human beings, we naturally see the world through a very specific lens: the human lens. And since human beings understand everything through our senses, we then "make sense" of what we see, hear, taste, and smell … and this results in our understanding being naturally very human-focused.
We say a mountain "sits" because human beings sit. We say that trees "stand" because human beings stand.
Therefore, when we experience the magical side of nature — the shimmering, incredible mystery of nature … we personify the dynamics as fairies.
I'll be talking about each of the classic kinds of fairies over the next four weeks, so this week, I'd like to introduce you to … air fairies.
Air Fairies are like the wind — they change. They embody and personify the quicksilver variability of nature. When a cloudy sky suddenly clears or a wind comes out of nowhere or you hear the inspiring sound of leaves rattling overhead, air fairies are at work.
In the growth cycle of a plant, air fairies inspire the plant to push out leaves and flower. Imagine what that must feel like as a plant — that opening and breathing out. That is a key part of what air fairies bring — the opening and breathing out. The feeling of wonder and delight.
The quick moving, ever-changing, butterfly nature of children can be equated with the influence of air fairies. Again, think of the weather — one moment bright, the next moment cloudy. You never really know. This quality is a gift of air fairies.
So when experiencing your children and others through the lens of the fairy world, pay close attention to the "opening" quality in plants — when plants blossom. Look for that wonder, the bubbling imagination, and the puppy-like delight in everything. That is where you will find air fairies.
Continuing our exploration into fairies of the natural world, we move to the much less changeable but far more curious Water Fairies. I say curious because they tend to behave in a very consistent, steady manner … until provoked.
Water Fairies are like water — they tend to seek their own level. Imagine a lake: placid, deep, full of abundance, contained. This is the most common gesture attributed to water fairies — they are satisfied and calm.
This is apparent in the growth cycle of a plant where the water fairies influence the rhythmic up and down nature of the stem, bringing water and nutrients up from the roots and into the leaves and flowers and fruits. Steady and dependable. Simple. No nonsense.
And all of this would indeed remain steady and calm, were it not for a very important quality in water fairies: they are capable of great drama when provoked. Think of all the stories of the water nixies sinking ships and capturing sea captains. Now think of sea surges or tidal waves or intense flooding. Water can be very dangerous — and it is the same water that moments before was sitting peacefully and calmly before you. This dichotomy is key with water fairies.
Think about snack time and your child is savoring every bite of that apple or buttered toast. That kind of presence and calmness and satisfaction is the home of the water fairies. Conversely, the hesitance to move or hurry or get going is also a sign that water fairies are at work. They like to stay in their pond. So keep your eyes open for when your children "seek their own level" and be prepared for moments that those water fairies are provoked … because a tidal wave might be coming.
Gnomes, our most famous fairy folk, are indeed the hard workers they are reported to be. Like dwarves in the center of the Lonely Mountain, they spend long hours mining and polishing and storing and then back to mining. They are concrete and realistic, but they are still capable of having a little fun — especially with practical jokes!
Earth Fairies are like the rocks under our feet. They are solid, dependable, serious, and occasionally difficult. They rule all that is underground and for this reason, they govern the roots of the plant. Winter is considered their season because it is during this season that the rest of the plant is dormant or non-existent. The roots, meanwhile, are alive and well.
Your child will likely nod gratefully and then continue to carry on — for a gnome's work is never done!
Download the Earth Fairies Fact Sheet.
Now to the flashiest of fairies: the fire folk. Where there is a brightly-colored flower or butterfly, where there is a shock of lightning, where there is a rainbow or fireflies or sparkling light on the surface of a river, there are fire fairies. They are connected to the sun's light and warmth and wherever they go, they bring the power of transformation.
Consider fire. It is the ultimate transformer. Whether the flame consumes a twig or a piece of paper or a barn, fire will very quickly transform that twig or paper or barn into a pile of ashes. On a much smaller level, fire fairies are present when you have a "spark" of inspiration or a sudden idea (light bulb over your head). You are suddenly transformed with a new way of seeing the world. Thank you fire fairies!
Fire Fairies are like the sun from which they come. They carry warmth and light. They often express that warmth and light in flashes and flickers and sparkles. In the natural world, they are manifest whenever transformation takes place — like when a flower transforms into a fruit, or a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. They rule springtime when the natural world is coming back to life. A lot of fire fairies are needed to wake the earth up and transform dormant roots into growing plants again.
We all know when our children are influenced by fire fairies because they are full of energy and inspiration. Often their eyes are wide, they have big smiles and they are excited about something ahead. When fire fairies are near, so are ideas, enthusiasm, movement, and change. Fire fairies love courage and curiosity — anything that takes your child to a new threshold.


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Posts Tagged 'Global warming'
The Green New Deal
Green Nude Eel
It's green. It's new. And it's a deal. What's not to like?
Ah, the power of words. These three do make for a potent combo that's caught the zeitgeist of today's Democratic party. Don't even try running for president if you're not for the GND.
Columnist David Brooks writes that while "[t]he productive dynamism of capitalism is a wonder to behold," this doesn't today give the middle class, and the less skilled, economic security; nor help address "social decay." Democrats in particular are increasingly disenamored of free market economics, blaming it for inequality and also seeing capitalism as the culprit behind climate change.
Their Green New Deal is intended as a response for all this. It envisions broad-scale government mobilization to reduce carbon emissions — to zero within a decade or two — with jobs-for-all thrown in.
Climate change is real, human activity is a cause, and the ill-effects will be costly. But the GND is a bad answer, for several fundamental reasons.
First, it does behoove us to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, to the extent it's reasonably possible. (Leaving the Paris agreement was brainless.) But zero is not reasonably possible (given existing or foreseeable technology) without sacrifices vastly disproportionate to the resulting climate benefit. Climate zealots seem to regard economic growth, indeed wealth itself, as an evil, urging us to scale back our lifestyles. (As though humankind is a criminal deserving punishment.) Yet these are the same people who bemoan inequality and poverty. They seemingly imagine both reversing economic growth yet also redistributing its fruits.
Economic growth, in recent decades, has in fact tremendously reduced world poverty. We shouldn't want to reverse that, which zeroing out global carbon emissions would currently require. Indeed, the costs of basic poverty, to human well-being, far exceed climate change's potential damage. Moreover, to deal with that damage, we'll need the resources economic growth provides. So we must accept some temperature rise, as a necessary price to sustain our economies and global living standards.
In fact it's not a choice. Because rising temperature is already baked in, even if emissions are cut to zero. Global warming will still continue, just a little less rapidly than if we do nothing. Thus the hair-on-fire zealotry for emission reduction is misplaced.
But if we really want to reduce emissions, nuclear power produces none. Yet greens ignore that option because . . . well, because it's "nuclear." (Dangerous? Fossil fuel power generation is estimated to kill around 20,000 Americans annually with lung disease. Nuclear power's U.S. death toll: zero.)
And if we really want to stop warming, we'd have to consider geo-engineering initiatives to cool the planet. It could be done, maybe even cost-effectively. But climate zealots oppose even researching such options, because it would undermine their emissions fixation and (the horror!) enable economic growth to continue. So the GND ignores geo-engineering too.
Meantime, absent action to reverse otherwise inevitable warming, our main focus should be not on largely futile emissions reductions but, rather, preparations to combat warming's effects. This the GND also ignores.
But meantime too, if we do insist on emissions reduction as the aim, economics gives us a clear answer for achieving it: to reflect, in the prices of things, the societal cost of their associated climate impacts. That is, a carbon tax. It would give people proper price incentives to reduce carbon and seek alternatives. (A scheme of emission permit trading would be somewhat analogous.)
However, efforts to enact a carbon tax have gone nowhere. Well, nobody likes taxes. But recently, a group of leading economists proposed, in the Wall Street Journal, a carbon tax whose revenue would be rebated via a universal dividend. That wouldn't negate the tax's carbon-reducing incentives, thus a win-win.
But the Democratic lefties behind the GND aren't interested in such economic rationality, using markets and creating incentives to do right. Instead they want government giving us marching orders. Government would design and create massive new energy and transport infrastructures ("air travel stops being necessary"). These gigantic command-and-control institutions would replace much of what we've got now. Including most of our cars. There may also be a job for anyone unemployed (no skills needed, presumably).
This hugely consequential policy package is not the product of a careful broad-based consultative process. While lefties and greenies have long been talking in general on such lines, the GND seems to have been slapped together on the fly, on the back of an envelope, in a very short time, by a few members of Congress (including the over-hyped and under-experienced AOC). Paying for it all is another thing left unaddressed.
Brooks says the GND reflects "a faith in the guiding wisdom of the political elite," with technocratic government planners in effect mastering the running of a huge and enormously complex part of America's economic machine. How often must we see such hubristic faith come to tears? Remember the Solyndra fiasco? That was just a teensy foretaste of what the GND envisions. And Soviet central planners too fantasized being economic masterminds. Brooks wryly notes that the GND comes from "people who couldn't even successfully organize the release of their own background document."
The Economist moreover points out that the GND's governmental behemoth would entail a massive redistribution of political and economic power, making big winners and losers. Lobbying and special interests will go into overdrive. While actually, the GND "largely dispenses with analysis of the costs and benefits of climate policy. It would create large opportunities for rent-seeking and protectionism, with no guarantee that the promised climate benefits will follow. [And with] growth-throttling taxes and dangerously high deficits" too.
Is this "Socialism?" The word doesn't merely mean anything government does (libraries, road building), as some disingenuously suggest. It's government taking over functions that, in a free economy, nongovernmental actors perform. And while lefties like to call it "democratic socialism," such concentration of power is quintessentially anti-democratic and elitist.
This is the platform Democrats seem eager to run on.
Republicans, having destroyed their own brand with lies, bigotry, and thrall to a very bad man, have also managed to radicalize the Democrats into being the party of the GOP's worst nightmare. When Democrats consolidate power — which Republican horribleness makes likely — "the era of big government," that Bill Clinton said was over, will be back with a vengeance.
I dream of Election Day 2020 as a triumph of good over evil. But it may instead be a Hobson's choice between Trumpian evil and everything about the left I've always opposed.
Tags:Climate change, Global warming, socialism
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How Not to Save the Planet – Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything"
Globalization. Trade. Market Economics. Capitalism. Corporations. Economic growth. Writer Naomi Klein hates it all. Her book, This Changes Everything, argues that global warming's terrible effects require junking that "neoliberalism," for a different and more humane economic model. What, exactly? Don't know.
Kleinites think globalization, trade, and capitalism worsen poverty and inequality. That's just as factually wrong as climate change denialism. In the previous century – despite all its upheavals, the Depression, world wars, Russian and Chinese craziness – worldwide average real dollar incomes rose five-fold – 500%. The average person wound up five times better off than at the start. Poverty ranks plummeted. That didn't happen through socialism.
Klein believes the only thing trade, capitalism, and "extractive" industries produce is profit – the only reason they exist. It's just "greed." There's no recognition that industry produces stuff people want. Fossil fuel extraction is profitable because it creates energy we need and use (which Klein hates too).
She demonizes free trade without understanding it. Yes, it does make some people richer – a lot of people. Trade happens only when both sides benefit. That spreads prosperity. Freer trade enables poor people in developing countries to sell their products in richer ones. Protectionism keeps them out – and poor. So does "buy local."
Partly, Klein hates trade because of what's traded – our "wasteful, materialist, consumerist lifestyle." ("Consumerism" is buying something someone else disapproves.) Consumerism, extractivism, and economic growth are what cause climate change. We've heedlessly raped the planet, and global warming is our "comeuppance." We'll be cooked, and drowned by rising seas, unless we stop making electricity with fossil fuels, driving gasoline cars, flying planes, etc. The political right, Klein says, realizes this, and hence rejects climate change science because it blows up their ideology of market economics and unrestrained capitalism. (While Klein loves climate change because it feeds her ideology of blowing up market economics and capitalism.)
Yet science tells us that blowing them up won't halt climate change. If tomorrow we stopped everything – cut carbon emissions to zero – global warming would continue, only slightly slower than if we do nothing. Klein acknowledges this.
So does she welcome other approaches? No. Klein sees any answer that smacks of technology as just "doubling down" on what got us into trouble in the first place – like geo-engineering to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or cool the planet by blocking some sun radiation. Replacing fossil fuel power generation with nuclear? That's so capitalist/industrialist. And if global warming will hamper food production, how about genetic modification techniques that boost crop yields? GAAAA!
While bashing right-wing science denialism, Klein does acknowledge denialism on the left – mentioning the anti-vaccine movement – but denies the science telling us genetic modification is safe and beneficial. And nuclear energy is such an obvious no-brainer in terms of climate impact that many greens are finally embracing it. Klein is actually somewhat persuasive that geo-engineering is problematical, but urges banning further research. Who's anti-science?
Further, if climate change will mean big trouble, wouldn't having more money to deal with it help? But Klein hates economic growth, writing zingers like, "having more money won't help you if your city is under water."
Ha ha. Well, actually, it would. In fact, Klein bemoans that richer people can escape warming's ill-effects. The Netherlands has already started raising buildings in anticipation of higher sea levels. Such efforts are costly, and Klein foresees trillions needed. Without economic growth, where will the money come from? Simple: guilty energy companies must pay. But she also says they should be stopped from drilling – so their trillions in future earnings won't exist.
Klein's hatred of economic growth (shared by climate zealot Bill McKibben) is also bizarre in light of their anguishing about inequality, poverty, and human deprivation. Growth does make the rich richer, but makes the poor richer too. How can they expect to beat poverty without a bigger economic pie? Just by redistribution? Seriously? With a billion or so people still living on less than $1 a day, I have no patience for those with cushy lives who superciliously call for ending economic growth. (And they are the ones charging capitalists with callousness.)
While Klein wants to dismantle "the system," her alternative is never clear. But it is clear that stopping the industrial market economy and consumerism would (far from her dream of ending inequality) drastically shrink the economic pie, creating mass unemployment and impoverishment. Klein fantasizes that unemployment would actually be solved with all the new clean energy jobs. How those jobs would be supported, without a consumer economy, is a mystery.
By the way, poorer people tend to have more children – and higher populations are bad for the environment and climate.
Klein faults most environmentalists for misleading people that some modest lifestyle tweaks will suffice. But, reviewing the book, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert (though generally sympathetic) says Klein peddles a similar "fable" in failing to explain just how much energy consumption and consumer spending would have to be cut. Kolbert references a Swiss study predicated on a target "2000 watt society." Americans currently use 12,000. The only hypothetical person in the study under 2,000 was a woman living in a retirement home with no TV or computer, traveling only rarely, by train.
So Klein's program is really to give up modern life; while she vilifies politico/economic "austerity" policies, the austerity she herself advocates is far more draconian. What writers like her (and James Howard Kunstler) seem to want is everyone living on small farms, growing their own food, eschewing manufactured goods, and riding bicycles. Probably 80% of today's Americans would literally die. Pre-industrial farm life was no bucolic paradise.
But in the end, Klein recognizes that de-growth is just not plausible, perhaps even "genocidal." Yet still she envisions mass movement resistance overthrowing capitalism and extractivism, in favor of what she finally calls "regeneration." Kolbert calls it "a concept so fuzzy" she "won't even attempt to explain." But she quotes Klein: "we become full participants in the process of maximizing life's creativity."
That sounds nice.
We have not heedlessly or foolishly raped the planet. Extracting and using energy was necessary for lifting billions out of squalor into decent lives, and still is. There's no free lunch. Everything has a cost; economic growth does degrade the environment and climate. We will deal with that. Economic growth will help us do so – making life better in spite of warming.
Tags:Climate change, Global warming
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Bill McKibben, Climate Change, and Who's the Real Enemy?
Bill McKibben (leading climate change activist) now decrees that a cause needs an enemy to mobilize against. Apparently climate change deniers are not a big enough enemy, so McKibben solemnly proposes that the oil and fossil fuel industries be declared the enemy, to moralistically crusade against. He says searching and drilling for oil is wrong and should stop.
This might make more sense if that pied piper and his followers stopped using it. Stopped driving cars, riding buses or trains or planes; stopped heating or air-conditioning their homes; or using any electricity, which is mostly generated with fossil fuels like oil or coal (so even electric cars still actually use those fuels). McKibben talks as though oil drilling is solely for (horrors!) profit; as if our using oil were irrelevant; as if we'd quit if the evil oil companies just bowed in contrition and stopped foisting it on us.
If only we could wave a magic wand and convert to all-renewable fuel use, with economic efficiency. Of course that's the rub. We could displace all fossil fuels tomorrow — but at horrendous cost.
Pish tosh, McKibbenites might say, planetary health trumps money concerns. However, money buys food and other conveniences of life, and in a world where too many people still endure poverty and hunger, they're the ones who'd suffer the most. McKibben and friends may shed crocodile tears about the plight of the world's poor ("victims of capitalism" they imagine), but when it comes to their climate obsession, the world's poor are thrown under the bus.
In fact, McKibben has actually said economic growth is a bad thing; and even technological progress we've had enough of, it should all be stopped. A breathtaking idea when in the past few decades economic growth, accelerated by technological advancement (and our use of energy), has lifted billions from poverty.
Pish tosh comes the retort; the problem is too many rich. Just redistribute their wealth to the poor; problem solved. But we live in the real world, and if this "solution" were actually implemented (not bloody likely), then afterwards why bother making efforts and investments to produce wealth? We'd have equality all right – equal poverty. At least it would remove that splinter (rich people to envy) from the left eye.
But back to the original point of declaring war on oil companies. We have enough demonization of "enemies" in our political discourse. Should we make "enemies" of those who produce commodities we all use and need, in fact a vital underpinning for our whole living standard? As if we could or should give up modernity itself. Some like McKibben romanticize an agrarian past; but that pesky point of poverty again poops on their party. Before modernity, the vast majority lived in wretched squalor. We're not going back there.
The fixation on curbing atmospheric carbon to combat global warming goes hand in hand with the McKibbenites' bizarre vendetta against, once more, economic growth and the whole industrial economy. Despairing of actually slaying that dragon, they hope at least to put it on a starvation diet (for some human beings, alas, that would be literal), by cutting its energy supply. This (a) won't happen and (b) would be bad for human progress if it did, but also (c) won't solve the climate problem. If tomorrow we slashed carbon emissions to zero, scientists' climate models show temperatures still rising, and rising only slightly less than if we do nothing. Yes, we should nevertheless try to limit carbon as much as possible, but to combat climate change a more rational strategy would shift the focus to preparedness, mitigation and adaptation, and exploration of geo-engineering (like adding particulates to the upper atmosphere) to recool the planet. All this will cost money, so anything impeding economic growth (like capping emissions regardless of the economics) would be self-defeating.
These realities McKibbenites don't want to hear, because they detract from their anti-industrial, anti-technology, anti-growth, anti-progress, and ultimately anti-human crusade.
Finally, climate change is not our biggest challenge. People's future lives will be impacted far more by those age-old but prosaic nemeses of poverty, disease, and ignorance. Our chief weapons against them are economic and technological progress – fueled by energy use. This is humanity's main battle. Which side is McKibben on?
POSTSCRIPT: Just after posting this I got the latest Economist, focusing on world poverty reduction. Great strides are chronicled. "Most of the credit," The Economist says, "must go to capitalism and free trade, for they enable economies to grow – and it was growth, principally, that has eased destitution."
Tags:economic growth, Global warming, poverty, progress
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.conf import settings
from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion
import parler.models

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('initiatives', '0029_auto_20210216_0916'),
        ('bb_projects', '0016_auto_20210302_1338'),
    ]
    state_operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Theme',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('slug', models.SlugField(max_length=100, unique=True, verbose_name='slug')),
                ('disabled', models.BooleanField(default=False, verbose_name='disabled')),
            ],
            options={
                'verbose_name': 'Theme',
                'verbose_name_plural': 'Themes',
                'permissions': (('api_read_theme', 'Can view theme through API'),),
            },
            bases=(parler.models.TranslatableModelMixin, models.Model),
        ),

        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='ThemeTranslation',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('language_code', models.CharField(db_index=True, max_length=15, verbose_name='Language')),
                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=100, verbose_name='name')),
                ('description', models.TextField(blank=True, verbose_name='description')),
                ('master', models.ForeignKey(editable=False, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, related_name='translations', to='initiatives.Theme')),
            ],
            options={
                'verbose_name': 'Theme Translation',
                'db_tablespace': '',
                'managed': True,
                'default_permissions': (),
            },
        ),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.SeparateDatabaseAndState(state_operations=state_operations),
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='initiative',
            name='theme',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE,
                                    to='initiatives.Theme', verbose_name='theme'),
        ),
    ]


I wrote my previous post, Much Ado About Everything on June 6.
In the past two months, I have been building a new course titled "Adventures in American Art," and that has sucked up just about every minute of every day, leaving me neither time nor energy to write posts.
I am not complaining: I learned a lot, and I am eager to start teaching again in September. What I do miss, however, is doing aesthetic analysis.
Does this surprise you? Why, you may be thinking, would I not be doing aesthetic analysis as I built the course?
As much as I hate to admit it, the reason is quite simple: the research seduced me.
Many books are scattered on my family room floor. I finally read them, all of them, and I learned everything about the artists whose work I will discuss in the course. I know their life stories; I know whom they married or did not marry; I know where they went to school; I know where they traveled; I know whom they hung out with, what illnesses they had, what setbacks and triumphs.
In short, I took the road most traveled and, so far, I neglected to study their paintings myself to understand and evaluate their aesthetic contribution.
Two days ago, a colleague shared with me the first class of the course he is building on Harry Sefarbi's work to coincide with a Sefarbi exhibit at the Wayne Art Center opening September 21. Unlike me, he had limited information about Sefarbi's life and work, so he did the objective analysis, himself, painting by painting.
I felt a stab of envy.
Where had I gone astray and why?
Ignore the adventitious. There it was, almost.
The more important reason: laziness. Careful, firsthand observation takes time. It takes energy. It takes confidence. After almost 40 years of using the objective method, I found it easier to research what other "experts" said about individual paintings then trust my own judgment and do the laborious work to define their aesthetic content.
I knew what I had to do. I had to take some medicine, and this medicine had to be compounded carefully.
I selected the following two pictures for those reasons, and because Dr. Barnes, as early as 1925, compared Demuth's Bermuda: Houses Seen through Trees with Portrait of an Abbot, a late 18th century portrait of a Chinese figure, illustrating them side by side, in the 1925 edition of The Art in Painting.
I found the comparison "stretched," as my students often complained when I showed them traditional similarities in the work of seemingly disparate artists or subjects.
If this method is to work, it is our job to verify the analysis of others, even if those others are Albert Barnes and Violette de Mazia. We must scrutinize and ask questions of books and persons.
Didn't I say this takes courage?
Upside down, their subjects morph into color shapes, and the differences between a landscape and a man seated disappear.
A series of patterns emerge. Tree trunks in the Demuth become mottled, gray, vertical, curvilinear, sinuous bands that push back and set off rectilinear, shimmering, orange/tan color shapes. These rhythmically repeat in varied arabesques of gray, white, and tan.
The figure in the Korean picture becomes a series of vertical, light, tan curvilinear color shapes (the arms and hands) that set off and push back a series of red, sinuous color shapes (the decorative fabric of the robe). Rhythmically supported in the dark brown grids (the verticals and horizontals of the arms and back of the chair), the picture units move back and forth in shallow space in ways similar to Demuth's.
In both, you see a rhythm of interpenetrating angular planes with an intertwining arabesque movement of various units set in shallow space. In both, you see delicacy and floating lightness. In both, the lines are carefully drawn, fine, linear boundaries.
There are differences as well. Demuth's picture is less illustrative. Demuth combines decoration and illustration in a highly effective design based on elements in Cézanne's form. It is a series of delicate, well-defined planes of contrasting color which draw and model the units and set them in space.
This dose of medicine restored me. These pictures shared their secrets with me because I spent time with them, used the tools available to me to do the work, and I felt that warmth of excitement that accompanies genuine perception.
Many current students say this too. They feel offended by Dr. Barnes' strong "opinions," as they term his conclusions, especially when they do not agree with them.
I am grateful personal and arbitrary preference can be mitigated by the careful and skillful application of a set of tools that uncover the art in painting.
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Discussion in 'Mac Pro' started by 33Ledjent33, Sep 11, 2015.
I am planing to get this monitor, but before I am more than sure that I need to upgrade the GPU in the first place.
I made a thread about the graphic card before, but It would be probably better if people will see the title with the monitor.
So what do you think I need to get in order to drive the 3440x1440 resolution without any issues?
Gaming? hmm maybe sometimes, but I am mainly working with DAWs to record and produce music so I am absolutely in love with that monitor!
So far i am thinking about GTX 970. Amazing quality for even better price.
Is it possible to also somehow get the bootscreen?
Btw my Mac Pro is (early 2008) 2.8 Ghz 8 - core Xeon.
I have one of these for another application, but I could try connecting it to my 3,1 to see if it works (stock 8800 GT card and also a GT120).
I have a GTX 980 which I have successfully installed in the 3,1 (currently uninstalled -- thinking of moving to one of my 5,1's). I don't need the bootscreen, but it would be nice to have so i'll probably send it to macvidcards.com to be flashed.
PC GTX 680 is convenient because you can easily flash it yourself for boot screens and there is decent driver support in OS X.
GTX 970 is faster, more efficient, and more capable of course, but you won't get boot screens unless you buy one from MVC or have him flash yours. Also there are no Apple-supplied drivers in OS X, so you have to use Nvidia's web drivers, and there are hoops to jump through every time there is an OS update, even a small one.
Are you sure you need to upgrade GPUs? I don't think that will have any effect on DAW music production, although I admit my ignorance about that field.
Thanks for the info about drivers man!
Ah yea of course you don't need, but atm I have the stock ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB with really weak colour depth and I am sure that this card won't drive such powerful monitor like LG34um95.
Ahh man If you have a time and you really want to do that I will appreciate it very much!
I just picked up the same monitor for my Macbook Pro and it is amazing. I was considering dual cinema displays. I can tell you that without a doubt, this is the best monitor I have every used, and way better than dual monitors. None of this really helps you answer your original post. I mainly wanted to let you know about the deal I got on it at Micro Center. They have it on sale for $599.99. Brand new, factory-sealed. Their website has a different price, so if there is a location near you, I'd stop in and inquire.
...the picture quality is drop dead gorgeous. I have a legacy Mac Pro 1.1 connected to the LG via the ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card...and use an Accel mini-display to DisplayPort 1.2 adaptor cable that preserves the 3440 x 1440 resolution at 60 Hz.
Personally, I was considering a 4K Dell 27", glad you turned me on to this monitor.
I just want to weigh in about my experience with this monitor. I purchased it in September 2014 for use with a 2013 nmp. Other than the well-documented issues with sleep mode and getting it to recognize signal on some power-ups, it served me well in a professional full-time capacity until this past week.
I am now getting flicker, random dropouts to black, and visual "glitches" on-screen. I have swapped out the thunderbolt cable with a brand new one but the problems persist.
I contacted LG but it's out of warranty. Hilariously, the support person told me they have many complaints about flickering with macs. His advice included both switching to HDMI (30 hz, useless for my purposes) or using it with a PC. I currently have no plans to switch my entire business over to PC in order to make an LG monitor that was advertised for use with the new mac pro work properly.
I have found all of these problems disappear if I switch to 30z mode while still connected via Thunderbolt.
Obviously my problems don't mean that these monitors are necessarily bad, but I'm pretty disappointed that an $1100 (at the time) monitor has broken down 16 months into its life. I have owned many IPS monitors prior to this, and this is the first time I have ever had problems with one less than 5 years into its lifespan.
Try using regular MDP to the DisplayPort input.
You can't use the TB dock function this way but it would separate the Display signal from the TB bus.
If it doesn't have USB 3 ports the TB function isn't buying you much anyway.
The behavior you describe is similar to a bad cable or connection.