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Simera Africa developed a modular machine vision architecture, whereby commercial machine vision cameras and lenses from industry-leading suppliers are combined with embedded processors and custom packaging to satisfy your specific requirements. We rapidly integrate leading technologies in new ways and apply them to solve real-world problems.
We use leading image processors such as NVidia Jetson, providing the capability to implement onboard machine learning algorithms. These may be trained (for instance) to identify and track the specific objects in the images in real-time. Images or video frames are timestamped and geo-located for later integration with Geographic Information Systems, where required. Based on this standardised architecture, Simera Africa can supply machine vision solutions to satisfy a broad range of requirements.
Examples of previously delivered systems include:
Hardware to explore underwater vision enhancement in murky water, based on spectral and polarisation characteristics of the water. This system consisted of co-located monochrome and polarisation cameras, with changeable spectral filters, packaged in waterproof enclosures and mounted on a structure that can be manipulated by a diver.
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
This book examines Donald M. Allen's crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960, from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics, social life, and literature during the Cold War, this book puts Allen's anthology into its historical context and reveals how the editor was influenced by the volatile climate of nationalism and politics that pervaded every aspect of American life during the Cold War. Reconsidering the dramatic influence that Allen's anthology has had on the way we think about and anthologize American poetry, and recontextualizing The New American Poetry as a document of the Cold War, this study not only helps us come to a more accurate understanding of how the anthology came into being, but also encourages new ways of thinking about all of Anglophone poetry, from the twentieth century and today.
"Delbos's robust critique of Donald Allen's anthology as a product of cold war US nationalism is compelling. This book delivers a paradigm-shifting study of The New American Poetry 1945–1960 that convincingly shows how Allen's ideological framework at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual politics charged the field(s) of debate in the US (and also in the UK) about the place of poetry within and beyond academia. Critics and poets, students and scholars will find this book to be essential for understanding poetry's past, present, and future." –W. Scott Howard, author of Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe's Factual Telepathy (2019), and editor of Denver Quarterly


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Q: Convert a pair of list objects into dictionary with duplicates included I can club two lists into a dictionary as below -
list1 = [1,2,3,4]
list2 = ['a','b','c','d']
dct = dict(zip(list1, list2))
print(dct)

Result,
{1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 4: 'd'}

However with duplicates as below,
list3 = [1,2,3,3,4,4]
list4 = ['a','b','c','d','e','f']
dct_ = dict(zip(list1, list2))
print(dct)

I get,
{1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 4: 'd'}

What should i do to consider the duplicates in my list as individual keys in my resulting dictionary?
I am expecting results as below -
{1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 3: 'd', 4: 'e', 4: 'f'}

A: Instead you can create the dictionary with values as list:
from collections import defaultdict
d = defaultdict(list)

for k,v in zip(list3, list4):
    d[k].append(v)

defaultdict(list, {1: ['a'], 2: ['b'], 3: ['c', 'd'], 4: ['e', 'f']})

A: You can't have duplicate keys in a dictionary. However, you can have multiple values(a list) mapped to each key.
An easy way to do this is with dict.setdefault():
list3 = [1,2,3,3,4,4]
list4 = ['a','b','c','d','e','f']

d = {}
for x, y in zip(list3, list4):
    d.setdefault(x, []).append(y)

print(d)
# {1: ['a'], 2: ['b'], 3: ['c', 'd'], 4: ['e', 'f']}

The other option is to use a collections.defaultdict(), as shown in @YOLO's answer.

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--11 February 2011-- GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the acquisition of next generation technology from Wind Tower Systems, LLC (WTS) that is expected to enable taller wind turbine towers. The need for taller, cost-efficient towers is becoming an important factor in the...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--11 February 2011-- GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the acquisition of next generation technology from Wind Tower Systems, LLC (WTS) that is expected to enable taller wind turbine towers. The need for taller, cost-efficient towers is becoming an important factor in the wind industry as blade lengths increase.
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Home > Philips CPAP Lawsuit > How Much Will CPAP Machine Lawsuits Be Worth?
How Much Will CPAP Machine Lawsuits Be Worth?
Last Modified on: February 1, 2023
Millions of people across the country rely on their sleep apnea machines to get a good night's rest. If you used a recalled Philips sleep apnea machine and suffered any serious health problems, you might wonder whether a CPAP lawsuit has any value.
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against Philips Respironics since the company first announced its recall in June 2021, and there could be many more to come. The ongoing Philips Respironics multidistrict litigation (MDL) is in the United States Western District of Pennsylvania and is in its earliest stages of pre-trial proceedings.
If you want to calculate the cost of a potential Philips CPAP machine recall lawsuit, there are many factors to consider for your case. You may also receive a settlement based on whether you could join the Philips MDL. A CPAP lawyer familiar with Michigan's product liability laws and the MDL at our law firm can help you estimate the value of your CPAP machine lawsuit.
What's the Background with the Philips CPAP Recall Lawsuits?
After determining that the PE-PUR sound abatement foam in the devices disintegrated into particles, Philips announced the recall. A major source of concern was the various poisonous and carcinogenic chemical components in PE-PUR foam.
The users of these machines could inhale and ingest microscopic foam particles, which could damage lungs, livers, kidneys, and other organs. Other side effects of ingestion may include headaches, asthma, and irritation of the nose, eyes, and skin. Among the more serious health consequences of inhaling and ingesting the particles are toxic and carcinogenic effects.
Shortly after Philips announced its recall, CPAP product liability lawsuits were filed in federal courts across the country. The plaintiffs claimed they used their CPAP machines for long periods to help sleep apnea. Because of the long-term use of the machines, they developed serious health conditions that may be related to PE-PUR foam particles.
What did Philips know about the recalled sleep apnea machines?
Because Philips failed to warn its users about the dangers of the foam and a lack of duty of care, evidence against Phillips is mounting. According to a November 2021 FDA inspection report, Philips knew about the issues with the PE-PUR foam long before issuing the recall.
In 2018, staff members at Philips found the foam could fall apart when exposed to high heat and humidity. However, they decided not to change the design of their machines and continue using foam in them. Phillips executives knew of the foam degradation issues starting in 2020, but they didn't take any action to address them until April 2021.
What About the Philips CPAP MDL?
The U.S. JPML (Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation) has consolidated the multiple Philips CPAP and BiPAP legal claims into an MDL in the U.S. Western District of Pennsylvania.
The MDL is in Pennsylvania since the company manufactured many of the recalled products in Murrysville. A significant amount of evidence and witnesses are located in the Western District of Pennsylvania, which may prove helpful in the MDL. This eliminates duplicative discovery, prevents conflicting rulings from multiple judges, and is convenient for parties, witnesses, and courts.
In December 2021, the judge in the Philips CPAP MDL issued an order outlining the procedures for naming members of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee. The Plaintiffs' Steering Committee is composed of plaintiffs' attorneys who have the authority to act collectively for all plaintiffs in the case. The MDL Steering Committee makes many decisions that affect all plaintiffs in litigation.
How long would it take to win a CPAP machine MDL?
The MDL can undergo consolidated discovery and bellwether trials for several months. The consolidated discovery proceedings may focus on the evidence linking the inhalation of PE-PUR foam to various malignancies and other health issues. There may be some focus on the mechanics of the disintegration of the PE-PUR foam.
After the discovery phase, the judge selects a few CPAP cases for bellwether trials, where a jury decides. The outcomes from the bellwether cases can give the lawyers for the plaintiffs and defendants an idea about what a jury thinks about the claims and defenses presented. The juries' decisions also indicate the settlement amount in a typical MDL case.
When plaintiffs win their bellwether trials, the company may need to enter settlement negotiations to settle multiple claims in a global or aggregate settlement. The settlement would end all litigation in the MDL and create a pool of funds to distribute to the MDL's plaintiffs. The plaintiffs' attorneys must disperse the funds to the appropriate parties.
What factors play into the CPAP machine MDL?
Global settlements take the place of individual settlements, which resolve all claims against a single defendant at one time. To understand how a CPAP settlement might appear in your case, you need to understand how global settlements work in major tort cases. The factors that go into every case include:
Evidence proving the company's liability
The amount of time a plaintiff was exposed to the recalled device, which caused their illness
The plaintiff's illness and health issues as a result of the recalled device
Various factors, including the plaintiff's age, employment, and overall physical condition
Any prospective global settlement would have to balance these factors. The global settlement should also address the plaintiffs' losses caused by the defendant's actions and products. This may result in a fairer distribution of the settlement funds in mass tort cases involving multiple defendants.
How would the CPAP lawsuits be affected by a global settlement?
In global settlements, individual awards are compared to global settlement figures. A matrix-based settlement consists of categorized items that are then scored using a point system. Ideally, the matrix should be specific to the lawsuit and thorough enough to consider all potential factors.
A medical device global settlement considers the age of the plaintiff at the time they used the device, the length of time they used it, and their overall health. The plaintiffs are given points based on those factors.
Those who acquired the device when they were younger score higher because they are more likely to recover faster than those who are older. An adult of working age who is unable to work would score higher than a retired senior citizen. Because of this, each plaintiff's damages are individually defined.
It is important to remember that if you decide to bring your claim independently, it remains independent of the MDL's settlement fund distribution. Depending on your case, your lawyer may recommend joining the MDL or keeping your claim independent to ensure you receive the proper amount of compensation for your illness.
How Much Will CPAP Lawsuits Be Worth?
The value of a Philips CPAP lawsuit is unique because of the range of health issues that can be affected by it, from cancer to organ damage to respiratory problems. Other factors depend on each case's unique circumstances, such as the duration of the illness and the amount of time for exposure to the recalled Philips' medical device.
To help you better understand how much your CPAP lawsuit is worth, similar mass tort cases that involve medical devices and complications have settled for the following amounts:
Transvaginal mesh lawsuits
There have been over 108,000 lawsuits about transvaginal mesh. These meshes have caused pain, bleeding, infection, organ perforation, and autoimmune disorders. Women who sued corporations for transvaginal mesh in state and federal courts have won at least 20 verdicts totaling $300 million since 2012. In one of the largest transvaginal mesh settlements to date, $830 million was paid out for 20,000 cases.
The popularity of metal-on-metal implants peaked during the 2000s, but they soon fell out of favor as complications began to surface. Over 29,000 lawsuits against hip manufacturers have been filed, with thousands of hip cases settling for over $7.5 billion. From 2013 to 2015, Depuy Orthopaedics settled 9,800 cases for $4.42 billion.
Monsanto Roundup lawsuits
A 2015 study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) revealed a connection between Roundup and cancer, suggesting that the chemical, glyphosate might cause cancer. Since then, more than 100,000 claims have been filed against Monsanto, the product's manufacturer. A few cases have settled for millions of dollars, including one in which the plaintiff received $80 million after a jury determined his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis was related to his Roundup usage.
How Does a Philips CPAP Lawsuit Address Damages?
A product liability lawsuit seeks to compensate you financially before your illness. You can discuss with your attorney what damages you can claim against Philips.
They can go over your medical records, bills, and proof of loss of wages to calculate your economic damages. The severity of your illness from the recalled CPAP machine and the resulting physical and emotional circumstances are also in consideration for calculating your settlement.
You can expect to receive compensation for any financial losses because of your illness.
Medical costs: The settlement includes all medical expenses related to your CPAP illness. Your expenses may include receipts for diagnostic testing, surgeon fees, operations, hospital bills, and drugs. If you need future medical treatments for your illness, these are considered for your settlement.
Loss of wages: The court determines your losses during recovery by considering what you were paid before your diagnosis. Work loss is the money an injured person loses because they would have worked if not injured.
Loss of earning potential: When determining your settlement, your lost earning capacity is also considered if you cannot work because of your illness. Reviewing your past wages and documentation of your employment history can help your lawyer make a reasonable estimate of your future earnings if you weren't ill.
Mileage to and from medical appointments: You may receive compensation from the court if you constantly travel to hospitals and doctors' appointments due to your illness. Your lawyer can estimate the total cost of compensation if you keep track and document your travel mileage to and from your healthcare providers.
Depending on the seriousness and duration of your illness, you may also get compensation for non-economic losses. Michigan caps non-economic damages at $250,000 for product liability cases. If you have lost a limb, suffered brain or spine injuries, or lost the ability to procreate, then your non-economic damages cannot exceed $500,000.
Pain and suffering: Your CPAP illness can result in physical pain, discomfort, and mental suffering. Keeping a journal of your symptoms and diagnosis of your CPAP illness and how they have affected your daily life can be helpful to your lawsuit.
Mental anguish: Not only do you experience pain and discomfort from your illness, but also anxiety and depression. If you have any of these psychological, emotional, and physical symptoms, they fall under mental anguish.
Loss of consortium: If you have been diagnosed with cancer or another serious illness, you often cannot fulfill your conjugal responsibilities to your spouse or significant other. Providing child care and enough time for your children's education might be difficult in your condition.
Disfigurement: Chemotherapy can cause hair loss and dry, flaky skin. If you have cancer and receive medical treatment resulting in physical scarring, you may be able to receive compensation for disfigurement.
If you lost a loved one as a result of a Philips CPAP illness, you might be entitled to compensation for unpaid medical costs, the loved one's pain and suffering before death, and funeral and burial expenses. A wrongful death may also entitle you to compensation if you lose financial assistance and companionship due to the loss of a loved one.
See if You Qualify for Philips CPAP Lawsuits
If you've suffered any serious health issues as a result of using a recalled Phillips CPAP machine, contact one of our CPAP lawyers today at Cochran, Kroll, & Associates, P.C. We can analyze your claim in your free consultation and advise you on your next steps and if you should file a lawsuit.
Nurse attorney and senior partner Eileen Kroll provides extra leverage in negotiations on your claim through her extensive medical knowledge. She has a comprehensive understanding of how product defects cause illness and can use your medical records to hold the manufacturer accountable. Eileen specializes in medical malpractice and mass tort cases, ensuring she's up to the task of proving your claim and helping you get justice for your case.
Our contingency fee basis means we only get paid if we win your case, so there is no financial risk to you to get started. Call our law firm today at 866-MICH-LAW and schedule your no-obligation, free case evaluation.
Jasmine Holt
Jasmine Holt is a freelance writer specializing in legal content marketing for attorneys and law firms. She hopes to provide better legal advice to the general public using her previous experience working with a franchise company and a law firm. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
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Home to over 50 golf courses and bathed year-round in bright sunshine, Jacksonville is a golfer's paradise. Why else would the PGA Tour and the World Golf Hall of Fame be located in this area? With choices ranging from plush, oceanside resorts to popular public courses, the area's 900 plus holes of golf offer challenges for players of all skill levels.
True golfers know that golf is more than a sport . it's a way of life. And, in today's hectic world, taking some time for yourself to indulge your passion for the links probably doesn't happen as often as you might like. An Orlando vacation is the perfect time to escape the pressures of day-to-day life, so leave the cell phone in the hotel room, grab your clubs and head to one of the 176 area golf courses.


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module Bosco
  class Form < Bosco::Base
    attr_accessor :pages, :form_action, :form_method, :button, :errors

    def initialize(attributes=nil)
      super
      @errors = []
      @pages = []
      attributes[:pages].each do |p|
        @pages << Bosco::Page.new(p.merge(:form => self.name))
      end if attributes
      @button = Bosco::Button.new(:title => 'submit')
      @form_action = attributes[:action] if attributes
      @form_method = attributes[:method] if attributes

    end

    def build(data=nil)
      markup = open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/resources/form.haml', 'r').read
      engine = Haml::Engine.new(markup, :ugly => true)
      engine.render Object.new, attributes do
        result = ''
        pages.each do |p|
          result += p.build(data)
        end if pages
        result += button.build
        result
      end

    end

    def attributes
      super.merge(:pages => @pages, :form_action => @form_action, :form_method => @form_method, :errors => @errors)
    end

    def is_valid?(data)
      result = true
      pages.each do |p|
        p.questions.each do |q|
          if (data[q.name].nil? or data[q.name].empty?) and q.required
            result = false
            @errors << "#{q.title} is required."
          end
        end
      end
      result
    end

  end

end


About an Ottoman is reinterpreted late modernism, and like the rest of the About series it is able to blend into a relevant present or future, depending on your choice of upholstery, colours and materials.
About an Ottoman is designed as a companion for both versions of About a Lounge Chair, but the footstool has such a strong visual expression that it can easily stand alone as an extra seat.
The About series is HAY's most versatile furniture series. It began with a chair and blossomed into a series with virtually unlimited potential. With the About series, Hee Welling has proven that a single strong idea can hold a wealth of development options. Today, the series includes dining and conference chairs, office chairs, bar stools, lounge chairs, tables, a foot stool and, as the latest addition, a sofa, and it is equally perfect for private and public settings.
The About series is a true pragmatist, able to blend in or stand out, depending on the task it is assigned. Dramatize the silhouette with heavier upholstery, or opt for more subtle materials and colours. The many colour, upholstery and frame options are a particularly strong feature that allows you to tweak the design without compromising the basic concept.
Hee Welling is a Danish furniture designer who founded his own studio in Copenhagen in 2003. Welling has received a number of design awards, including the Bo Bedre Award (Denmark), Good Design Award (USA) and has been nominated as the Danish designer of the year in both 2013 and 2014. Welling is the son of a cabinetmaker, and his fascination with production techniques, materials and machinery was fired as a child. He went on to study at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and received his master's degree in furniture design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (where he is also now a design tutor). His design ethos is centred around the idea of creating technically accomplished products that can reach a wide audience. His work is characterised by a great sense of proportion and quietly elegant looks. For HAY, Welling has designed the About A series and the Hee Chair, Lounge Chair and Bar Stool.


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Home NBA Al Horford Leads the Boston Celtics Playoff Push
Al Horford has been an unquestionable force for the Boston Celtics postseason run this year. While guys like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have gotten most of the attention, Horford's efforts have been occasionally forgotten. He ranks second among Eastern Conference centers -third on the team- in points per game (17.2), he leads his team -fourth in the conference- in rebounds per game (8.3), and he leads both the team and conference in blocked shots per game (1.38).
He out-dueled the Milwaukee Bucks big man tandem of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Thon Maker in the first round. He only needed five games to help send home the Philadelphia 76ers and their man in the middle Joel Embiid. And in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night, he was the games third leading scorer with 20 points and tied LeBron James for the most blocked shots (2). Heading into Tuesday nights game two, he'll be called upon to dominate once again.
The Cavs will certainly change their approach after game one's 25-point loss. LeBron James has always gone back to the drawing board after a tough loss and he usually comes back as the better performer. Horford will be asked to help the aforementioned Tatum and Abdel Nader keep King James in check while also adhering to his duties with Cavs center Kevin Love. He'll also have to keep up his offensive output in order to keep a possible Cleveland resurgence at bay.
In the greater scheme of things however, Horford's overall body of work during these playoffs has stood out above other great players….
Horford, who's Dominican and the son of former NBA player Tito Horford, was one of seven Latino players when the 2018 NBA Playoffs began last month. The others were Argentinian Manu Ginobili and Spaniard Pau Gasol of the San Antonio Spurs, Puerto Rican Carmelo Anthony of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Spaniard Ricky Rubio of the Utah Jazz, Dominican Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Brazilian Nene Hilario of the Houston Rockets.
Towns led all seven men in scoring (21.3 PPG) and rebounding (12.3 RPG) during the regular season, but in the end Minnesota's lack of postseason experience is why they were eliminated in the first round by Houston in five games. Anthony averaged 16 points per contest during the season but only converted 22-of-59 field goals as the Thunder were bounced out of the first round by Utah in six games. Gasol only scored in double figures once during the Spurs opening round series with Golden State in which they were dispatched in five games. His teammate Ginobili scored in double figures three times in that same series but it wasn't enough. Rubio scored 14 points per game against OKC but didn't play a single minute as they were eliminated by Houston. As for Hilario; he's only averaged single digits this postseason, so Houston's appearance in the Western Conference Finals is largely due to the team around him.
This means that Horford has been the most successful Latino player in these playoffs. He's scored in double figures in all 13 playoff games that he's appeared in. He scored 20 or more points in five of those appearances. His lowest outputs were a couple of 10-point performances which were game two losses to both Milwaukee and Philadelphia. He's grabbed eight or more rebounds in eight of these games, and he averages well over 30 minutes of playing time per game.
It helps that Horford plays for the team that finished with the fourth-best regular season record (55-27) this year. The Celtics are the most well-rounded team in the Eastern Conference with Horford as their most experienced player (11th season). They play as a complete team and that will be the key to getting past Cleveland and moving onto their first NBA Finals since 2010. In the same token, the Cavaliers will have to find a way to stop Horford if they hope to make their fourth straight Finals appearance.
Game two on Tuesday night is a must watch.
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Bye bye diplomacy
Turkey had been doing so well in regional diplomacy. Friends with both the Palestinian Authority and with Israel, it has done some good for relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours. But Prime Minister Erdogan quickly changed all that yesterday in Davos. Israeli President Shimon Perez explained his country's actions in Gaza, and after that Erdogan demanded time to speak. Referring to why Perez spoke in a high voice (according to Erdogan: 'That's a sign of a guilty conscience') and calling him names and telling him: 'You kill people, you kill people'. When the chair person didn't give him time to speak, he got up and said he was finished with Davos and wouldn't come back.
Honestly, when I heard about this, I thought the person who told me had had too much to drink, because this could not be true. But it was true. Erdogan let his personal feelings and his Muslim identity get the upper hand. It might be good for the upcoming local elections, but how selfish is that? When the whole Gaza violence started, Erdogan was already reacting even more strongly than any Arab leader. Turkey really could have made a difference in international diplomacy, but now that leading role is surely over.
It is said that Erdogan's wife Emine, who was there in Davos, shed some tears over her husband's outburst. Out of pride, I'm afraid.
Postscipt: Later that night, Erdogan arrived back in Istanbul. He was cheered by thousands of Turks waving Turkish and Palestinian flags. Also present was the mayor of Istanbul,, who is from the same party as Erdogan and who is running for mayor again in the upcoming local elections in March. He openly supported Erdogan's actions in Davos and in addition made public transport to and from the airport free of charge and available until later at night than usual. The road to Erdogan's residence in Istanbul was also open to supporters. I think if you really care about the deaths in Gaza, modesty would be more suitable than this show. Now the fatalities in Gaza are being used shamelesly in the AKP election campaign.
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"The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you—black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight."
"Shakespeare must be a black girl."
Theories about the true identity of the author known as Shakespeare abound. Among those said by skeptics who might actually be the bard are contemporary playwright Christopher Marlowe; Sir Francis Bacon; the Earl of Oxford; a gay man; or perhaps rather than a single author, a collective including actors and various writers. Dozens more alternative theories have been proffered as alternatives to the traditional attribution of a copious body of work that includes some of the best loved sonnets and dramas in the English language to the man from Stratford-upon-Avon. But a black girl?
That was exactly the suggestion Maya Angelou made during an electrifying lecture held this week at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Angelou, a great poet, novelist, and artist in her own right, was speaking metaphorically, of course.
And when Angelou recited them to us, these words sounded indeed like they had sprung forth from her soul.
Of course, what is best known about Angelou, besides her own words, is her silence. As a result of the abuse she experienced as a child, she was mute from the age of 7 to 13, an experience she writes about in her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. But she has been anything but silent since then.
In the women's literature class I'm teaching this semester—in which we are reading Angelou, along with Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Charlotte Bronte, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, and many more female authors—we are emphasizing the distinctive qualities of women's literature. We are marking what these authors bring to bear on the human condition, the tensions their writing reveals between public and private, personal and political, and the ways in which women's writing speaks to experiences at variance with those of the male writers in the traditional canon.
Angelou's lecture, like the body of her work, was a testament to the power of art to unite us. It was also a testament to the power of art to save us. That was the theme of Angelou's talk: "Poetry has kept us alive," she declared again and again.
By "us," she sometimes meant her own people, those who were and descended from enslaved Americans who have survived in this country for 400 years. Because of poetry, "We are still here," she said.
But by "us" she mostly meant all of us. "The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you—black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight." It has been written—and must be read, "so that you know you've already been paid for," she proclaimed like a preacher from the pulpit. She closed her lecture by reading the poem she was invited to write upon the occasion of the 50th anniversary for the United Nations. Then she said, "I wrote it for you."
Just like a dead white man once wrote a sonnet for her.


Obverse: ROMANIA, coat of arms of Romania, year 2011, face value "10 LEI", a woman playing piano near a window, a leafless tree and an urban scenery - themes of Bacovia's poems Reverse: bust of Bacovia, years 1881 and 1957 and GEORGE BACOVIA, the room of the poet - a man at his desk, with a candle on it - composition sending to the poem "Singur" (Alone), two verses from the poem: "Stau triste negrele tablouri - Făclia tremură-n oglindă." meaning " Sadly the black paintings stay - The candle shimmers in the mirror."
The real name of the poet was George Vasiliu, Bacovia being a pen name. Being grateful to Bacău, the city where he was born, he connected his work to it through the pseudonym he signed with, a fantasy-Latinization: Bacovia.
He studied Law at the University of Bucharest. During his stay in the capital city of Romania he frequented the literary cenacle led by the Romanian poet Alexandru Macedonski. He was transferred to the University of Iaşi, where he graduated in 1911. He never worked as a lawyer; he merely occupied modest positions (copyist, assistant bookkeeper, professor of drawing, librarian and others), in Bacău and in Bucharest, where he finally moved in 1933.
Initially ignored by the Communist regime, Bacovia was "rediscovered" in 1955. He was decorated with the Order of Labour first class, and he received a monthly pension of 2000 lei (a very large sum at that time).
Plumb - Lead, Decor - Scenery, Lacustră - Lacustrine, Amurg violet - Violet Twilight, Cuptor - Oven, Decembre - December, Rar - Rare, Pastel (the last three used as verses for several Romanian songs) are among the best known poems written by Bacovia.


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Vladímir Semiónovitx Golenísxev,  (Sant Petersburg, 29 de gener de 1856 - Niça, França, 5 d'agost de 1947) fou un gran egiptòleg rus i un dels precursors de l'egiptologia.

Estudià a la Universitat de Sant Petersburg i emprengué diversos viatges per l'Europa Occidental i Egipte, on arriba a reunir valuoses col·leccions. Més tard se'l nomenà conservador de la secció d'egiptologia del museu de l'Ermitage de Sant Petersburg. Els seus valuosos treballs els publicà en els Butlletins del Congrés d'Orientalistes de Berlín i en les Memories del Centre Arqueològic de Sant Petersburg.

Entre les seves obres cal citar:
 Die Metternichstelle zum ersten Male herausgegeben, (Leipzig, 1867),
 Els resultats epigrafics de l'excursió a Nadi-Chammamat,, en rus (Sant Petersburg, 1887),
 Assaig d'una disposició gràfica d'un diccionari assiri, (Sant Petersburg, 1888).

A principis del segle XX en ampliar-se el Museu de Belles Arts Puixkin de Moscou, la major part de la seva col·lecció d'antiguitats egípcies passà de l'Ermitage a aquest últim museu.

Bibliografia
 Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 26, pàg. 505 ()

Enllaços externs
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Egiptòlegs
Escriptors russos del segle XIX
Escriptors russos del segle XX
Alumnes de la Facultat d'Estudis Orientals de la Universitat de Sant Petersburg
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Arqueòlegs russos
Escriptors de Sant Petersburg
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Prof. TOMASZ PIETRZYKOWSKI
e-mail: tomasz.pietrzykowski@us.edu.pl
Professor at the Chair of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law of the University of Silesia in Katowice, graduate of law studies at the University of Silesia (1993–1998) and programme in European and English Law co-organized by the University of Silesia and Cambridge University (1996–1998). He received his cum laude doctoral degree for the thesis on the retroactive operation of law (2003). He received a habilitation in 2012 on the basis of the monograph "Legal intuition. Towards an external integration of legal theory" (Intuicja prawniczna. W stronę zewnętrznej integracji teorii prawa), for which he received the annual Award for the best habilitation thesis in the XLIX Contest of the leading Polish legal journal "Państwo i Prawo" (State and Law). Since 2005, he was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisors in Katowice (exam with the 2nd position) and for the next over 20 years has been associated with one of the largest and most renowned Polish legal firms. In the years 2005–2007 he occupied the position of a Silesian Voivode (head of governmental administration in the region). He was a scholarship fellow of US State Department and the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation; vice chairman of the National Ethics Committee for Animal Testing of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within 2009–2016 (currently a member of this commission), since 2016 – vice chairman of the Bioethics Committees of the Silesian Medical Chamber as well as the Silesian Medical University. Tomasz Pietrzykowski is a member of a number of expert teams and advisory bodies, including the Advisory Board of the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Katowice, the chairman of the Social and Economic Council of the Silesian Metropolitan Union as well as a member of the Team of Legal Experts of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw. Participant of legislative and expert works on many laws and normative acts. Advisor to the president of Katowice a/o for restitution claims of the Giesche SA company (2008–2014) and for preparation and implementation of metropolitan legal instruments. Since 2016 vice-rector for the domestic and international cooperation of the University of Silesia in Katowice.
Chosen book publications:
"Personhood Beyond Humanism. Animals, Chimeras, Autonomous Agents and the Law", Springer International Publishers 2018
"Naturalizm i granice nauk prawnych" (Naturalism and legal science limits) Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2017
"Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn" (co-ed. V. Kurki), Springer International Publishers, 2017
"Ludzkie, niezbyt ludzkie. Esej o podmiotowości prawnej I wyzwaniach XXI-wieku" (Humane, not too humane. Essay on legal personality and challenges of the XXI century), The Publishing House of University of Silesia, Katowice 2016
"New Approaches to the Personhood in Law" (co-ed. B. Stancioli), Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M. 2016
"Ujarzmianie Lewiatana. Szkice o idei rządów prawa" (Subjugation of Lewiatan. Drafts on the idea of the rule of law), The Publishing House of University of Silesia, Katowice 2014
"Intuicja prawnicza. W stronę zewnętrznej integracji teorii prawa" (Legal intuition. Towards an external integration of the theory of law), Difin Publishing House, Warsaw 2012
"Etyka w administracji publicznej" (Ethics in public administration) (co-ed. I. Bogucka), Lexis Nexis, Warsaw 2012
"Podstawy prawa intertemporalnego. Zmiany przepisów a problemy stosowania prawa" (Basics of interim law. Amendment of provisions and problems with law application), Lexis Nexis, Warsaw 2011
"Etyczne problemy prawa", Lexis Nexis, Warsaw 2011
AGNIESZKA TURSKA-KAWA, PhD, Associate Professor
e-mail: agnieszka.turska-kawa@us.edu.pl
head of the Institute of Political Science of the University of Silesia in Katowice. She graduated in two faculties – political science and psychology, which are consistently joined within her scientific and research works.
an author of dozens of articles covering the issues of electoral behaviours, especially their psychological determinants, political leadership and civic competence. She is a coordinator and executor of numerous scientific and research grants (a/o Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, National Centre of Science and the Ministry of Regional Development). She also pursues her scientific passions in an organisational way as the president of dynamically operating Electoral Research Section at the Polish Political Science Association, president of the IPSO ORDO Academic Foundation which establishes vast cooperation with local governments and editor in chief of the "Political Preferences" magazine. Member of the European Consortium for Political Research and American Political Science Association. She is also a scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for exceptional young scientists (2018–1019).
Current scientific and research works:
Polish delegate in Management Committee COST Action CA15207 "Professionalisation and Social Impact of European Political Science". Scientific and research works are conducted within the "Social impact, media visibility and participation of Political Science in public sphere" group (2016–2020)
"Psychological determinants of civic competences" – international project within the cooperation with Babes-Bolyai University (since 2016)
Intergovernmental Media Relations and Agenda Building During the Smolensk Airline Crash, University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications (since 2016)
Chosen publications:
"Korupcja polityczna" (Political corruption) (2017), Katowice: IPSO ORDO Academic Foundation (co-author: Waldemar Wojtasik)
"Centrality of Religiosity versus Civic Involvement. The Case of Poland" (2018), "Communist and Post-Communist Studies" vol. 51 (1)
"Determinanty chwiejności wyborczej" (Determinants of electoral volatility) (2015), Katowice: Publishing House of University of Silesia
"Osobowościowe uwarunkowania zachowań wyborczych. Studium województwa śląskiego" (Personal determinants of electoral behaviours) (2013), Toruń: Adam Marszałek Publishing House
"Voters' Personalities and Ideal Party's Personality. Evidence from Poland" (2015), "Romanian Journal of Political Science", vol. 15, no 1 (co-author: Irena Pilch)
"The Specificity Of Electoral Volatility In European Parliamentary Elections" (2014), "Political Preferences" nr 9/2014, s. 181–192
"Big Five Personality Traits Model in Electoral Behaviour Studies" (2013) "Romanian Journal of Political Science", vol. 13, no. 2, s. 69–107
Senior Researchers
ANNA MUŚ, PhD
e-mail: anna.mus@us.edu.pl
Assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Formerly a student of Collegium of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies. She graduated in two faculties: law and political science. She received her cum laude doctoral degree for the thesis on ethnic identity and political behaviours of Upper Silesians (2019). As a student, she took part in 2016 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Later, she has been developing her research interests abroad during her mobility financed by Erasmus + staying at NISE (National Movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe in Antwerp) and ECMI (European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg). She also stayed at Slezská univerzita v Opavě to study ethnoregionalist movement in Moravia and Opava Silesia.
ŁUKASZ TREMBACZOWSKI, PhD
e-mail: lukasz.trembaczowski@us.edu.pl
Assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research interests cover sociology of work, economic sociology and just transition. For many years, he was studying in the field of trust and risk. Author of numerous articles, author and co-author of five books and editor of edited volumes. He is also a scientific coordinator of the Just Transition Research Group at the University of Silesia in Katowice and a member of Just Transition Research Collaborative at UNSDP. Co-author of the report Propozycje rekomendacji dla obszaru sprawiedliwa transformacja prepared for the Ministry of Climate (2020). Research cooridinator and research team member in numerous research projects for Marshal Office of Silesia, Office of the Voivode of Silesia, Town Hall of Katowice and others.


Tell USDA: Stop Excluding 98 Percent of Animals from the Humane Slaughter Act!
Did you know that the United States Department of Agriculture has decided that the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act doesn't apply to poultry, who make up 98 percent of all land animals slaughtered for food?
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That's not even all of them, I might add.
And for some reason, people (not me, THEM) keep buying more mugs. As if we needed them. Every time someone brings home a new mug, they say, "There's no damn room in here for this mug!" Every time.
Seriously, it's over 80 degrees in here right now. I've got my windows open and the fan on and it's like, literally freezing outside but it's figuratively boiling in here.
Why the Hell Do We Have a Coal Furnace?
It's 2012, who heats their house with coal anymore? Is this A Christmas Carol? Are we Bob Cratchitt? I didn't think so. Where the hell does the coal even come from?
Yes, I know it comes from the coal mine, shuddup. Apparently, you can still buy coal for your own personal use. Who knew.
Nothing says "Appalachia" like having your own coal bin.
Now, I don't mean to make it sound like I'm picking on one particular household appliance, at the exclusion of all the others. Except I am, cause all the other appliances are fairly new and in good working order. It's just the blender that appears to be a time-traveler from 1978.
It doesn't work terribly well anymore. I guess blending things is not a priority.
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting up in my room working quietly away, and the aunts were down in the basement cleaning out about fifty years' worth of my grandparents' stuff, which they won't be needing anymore on account of being dead. The neighbor boy, Nick, was down there helping them. I could hear them talking cause they're loud as hell and the floors are thin, although I couldn't hear exactly what they were saying, but it probably wasn't that interesting, anyway.
The afternoon wore on in this manner until shrieks of "SNAKE! SNAKE! GET RID OF IT, NICK!!" commenced. I was glad Nick was there because f*ck wrangling snakes.
Later, they were quick to assure me that it wasn't a big deal, only a THIRTY-FOOT PYTHON that crawled in through the window.
By "thirty foot python" I mean "small black snake." Naturally.
Seriously though, the snake gets bigger every time they tell the story. It must be a mile long by now.
I've come to eat your children, sssssssssssssss.
Okay, it's only a teddy bear head, but it's still pretty freakin' creepy, dude.
LOL I had that same friggin blender until a couple weeks ago when it inexplicably imploded into my smoothie. I really wanted that smoothie too. Well, at least now I have an excuse to get a new blender.
I laughed, I'm sorry. Seriously, COAL? Well at least you know where to get a ready supply for Santa to stuff in stockings for naught people.
The summers here are hot as hell too. Maybe they're trying not to shock themselves.
I think there's a lot of blenders that look like that still kicking around and none of them work very well. Those hand blenders are the way to go.
Oooh those hand blenders are awesome.


FERNHILL APARTMENT (芬恩岭公寓) is a Freehold apartment located at 1 Fernhill Road in District 10 (Central - Tanglin / Holland / Bukit Timah) - Core Central Region in Singapore, FERNHILL APARTMENT comprises of 25 units the highest block in FERNHILL APARTMENT has 5 floors.
The nearest MRT/LRT station for FERNHILL APARTMENT is DT10 Stevens which is about 0.63 km away. There are 7 bus stops near FERNHILL APARTMENT.
There are 1 supermarkets near FERNHILL APARTMENT, the nearest is at 383 bukit timah road #01-09a alocassia apartment s(259727) by Cold Storage, around 0.59 km away.
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I'm two days late on my birthday rubric, but here goes:
I was fourteen. I hate to say this, but I think I messed up last year in my eagerness to tell my Tina Turner tale. I think that was my fourteenth birthday. For my thirteenth birthday, I had a slumber party, about which I remember four things:
Inspired by Martha Plimpton in her Calvin Klein ad, I had just had all of my ill-advised perm cut off in an edgy short haircut.
I wanted to get one of those packages of individual cereal boxes for breakfast, but my mother felt that the other mothers would judge her for serving cereal and made pancakes instead.
I was wearing black and white dolphin shorts and a white sleeveless top with lots of complicated flaps and lacing.
The next day there was a picnic for the town's 60th anniversary, which helped me place this memory more accurately.
Half My Life Ago
I was nineteen and a half. I had just had one of the worst days of my life--on which I did not get into the eating club of my choice--followed by one of the best, on which I was "sung into" my beloved a capella group. I did eventually become a member of that club, although the question in retrospect is, was it the club of my choice? In January of 1990 I started dating a boy, a much sought-after and very nice boy. My relationship with him caused me to expend a lot of energy every day pretending to be someone I was not. I did this for his benefit, but he was not usually around to see it. Yes, my boyfriend was very busy, so busy that I had dinner with R. almost every night during this period. And luckily, R. was also in Eating Club of Choice and that's The Rest of the Story.
That semester I took a course in British Women's Fiction. When it came time to write a paper I met with Professor Deborah Nord and told her I wanted to write about Story Of An African Farm by Olive Schreiner. She suggested that I compare it to Doris Lessing's Martha Quest*, and I told her that I hated Martha Quest. In the paper, I explained why Martha Quest was a totally unbelievable and unsympathetic character because of her ability to believe mutually exclusive things about herself and her life simultaneously (whereas Lyndall in SOAAF believes in nothing). A few weeks later my boyfriend broke up with me and I realized Martha, c'est moi.**
*Incidentally, why do teachers and professors do this? My junior year high school English teacher made me change my term paper topic and then commented on the final draft that I didn't seem very excited about my subject.
**After the breakup, my mother commented, "I'm so relieved. I thought you were going to marry him, take a menial job to support him through medical school, and then end up divorced."
RIP John Hughes
Like Michael Jackson, he entertained my generation, and his work will live in our memories. Unlike Michael Jackson, he doesn't seem to need to be defended. And unlike Michael Jackson, he won't garner days and weeks of breathless news coverage.
I chose this clip not only because I think it is the greatest movie kiss of all time, but also because the extras on my Some Kind of Wonderful DVD include an interview of John Hughes (by Kevin Bacon!) in which he says that the character of Keith was essentially a self-portrait.


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Q: DataTable width increases on every columns.adjust() call I just noticed that every time I call $('#my_table').DataTable().columns.adjust() the width of the table increases by 2-3 pixeles.
Firstly, does anyone else see this happening? And secondly, how to avoid it or make the table to resize itself back to the container width?

A: Maybe there are more robust solutions, but I solved this simply by setting the width of the table to be the same as the parent element.
$('#my_table').DataTable().columns.adjust()
$('#my_table').width($('#my_table_wrapper').width())


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Scribbling on IAM Building reported to police for follow-up
The staff of the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) found that the wall of IAM Building facing Rua do Dr. Soares was scribbled on May 23. The case was reported to the police for follow-up and the Cultural Affairs Bureau was notified of the situation. IAM will seek opinions from the Cultural Affairs Bureau and follow up on the restoration work of the wall of IAM Building after assisting the police in investigation procedures.
The Historic Centre of Macao was inscribed on the World Heritage List on 15 July 2005 by World Heritage Committee of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and IAM Building is a historic building in The Historic Centre of Macao. In accordance with the stipulation of "Cultural Heritage Protection Law", carving inscriptions or doing paintings on immovable property classified or in the process of being classified is prohibited. Anyone in violation of the stipulation is punishable by a fine of MOP2,000 to MOP20,000. IAM reminds members of the public not to scribble at random to avoid being prosecuted due to violation of law.
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