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    def process
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Why in the nude?
Is that really allowed?
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The Niehenke case
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Act on Regulatory Offences
Reform of section 201a
Torah – Bible – Koran
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Invention of shame
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RoshanAdhihetty
Roshan Adhihetty
»Nacktwanderer« (sturmanddrang.net)
I am not a nude hiker.
The images of naked bodies taken by the young Swiss photographer Roshan Adhihetty offer glimpses into a world previously unknown to me. As a film-maker, this is also something I seek to do when I look for subjects for my films. I seek out worlds and perspectives that I don't yet know; that intrigue and unsettle me; that move me and make me think; I seek out images and worlds that I can't tear myself away from.
In this respect, these genuinely impressive photographs of men and women hiking nude in Germany, Switzerland and Austria captivate me. They are images that go beyond the pure documentary, and, through their staged composition, also direct our gazes at human existence itself.
Images that speak of humankind, of our great yearning to be at one with nature; but at the same time of our vulnerability when faced with the might and majesty of that nature. You don't need to be a nude hiker for that. Despite his many years involved with the subject, and despite his many years spent accompanying the nude hikers, Roshan Adhihetty also didn't become one. What he has succeeded in doing with these photographs, however, is as exceptional as it is evident: he has managed to find beauty in the unadorned.
(Ulrich Seidl, sturmanddrang.net)
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Jean-C.Bologne
Jean-Claude Bologne
»Nacktheit und Prüderie« (amazon.de 2017)
»Histoire de la pudeur« (amazon.de 2017)
Using the example of historically prominent personalities, Jean-Claude Bologne documents the transformation of the sense of shame over the centuries and thus reflects the change in society and its value ideas. It is the first great historical representation of this socially relevant phenomenon and stands out from the ethnologic-anthropological approach of Hans Peter Duerr.
(amazon.de 2017 – translated)
In times of Big Brother & Co, openness is no longer just celebrated as an enlightenment, but increasingly also as shamelessness, says reviewer Anja Lietzmann, which is why the question of shame is being asked more and more frequently. An answer to the importance of shame is found in Jean-Claude Bolognes's history of shame. Bologne seeks to answer the question of whether shame is an anthropological constant or a historical phenomenon. As the reviewer explains, Bologne makes the assumption that shame is a feeling that knows all epochs, but which is expressed in very different ways. In particular, by the example of historical personalities, Bologne talks about the sense of shame in the bathroom, fashion, medicine, the night chair as well as theater and film. The reviewer praises that Bologne – methodically clever – shame in everyday life and shame in art in separate chapters. In particular the reviewer emphasizes Bolognes interest for the shame on nudity and the shame as to the anus. Regrettably, however, the reviewer finds that Bologne has escaped the controversy led by Hans Peter Duerr and his book "The Myth of the Civilization Process" on the subject. According to the reviewer, Duerr points to Bologne that shame on nudity is a universal, that there was therefore no time and culture in which nudity was commonplace.
(perlentaucher.de 2017, notice to a review in Frankfurter Rundschau – translated)
Hans P.Duerr
Hans Peter Duerr
Der Mythos vom Zivilisationsprozeß …
… Band 1: »Nacktheit und Scham« (amazon.de 2017)
… Band 2: »Intimität« (amazon.de 2017)
… Band 3: »Obszönität und Gewalt« (amazon.de 2017)
… Band 4: »Der erotische Leib« (amazon.de 2017)
… Band 5: »Die Tatsachen des Lebens« (amazon.de 2017)
The theory of civilisation, which has been essentially acknowledged before, asserts, that humans of the Middle Ages as well as members of so-called primitive cultures, in comparison with us nowadays, had their instincts and affects littlely constricted or regulated, that renunciation of desire was low in these societies, the moderation of the feelings would have been irrelevant. Nudity, sexuality, etc. were more publicly and even less seen as shameful. In the course of the increasing division of labour, however, the social interdependencies have become more intense. The "affects" had been tempered and banished into the private sphere. Hans Peter Duerr proves, that this civilisation theory is false. He shows, that the myth of the process of civilisation is identical with the ideology, used to justify colonialism, insofar as the latter claimed that the European nations were civilising still undeveloped, uncivilised people. Starting from the criticism of the dominant theory of civilisation, Hans Peter Duerr, in his eye-catching first of the originally planned four volume book "Der Mythos vom Zivilisationsprozeß" [en: "Myth of the Civilization Process"], develops a culture history of sexual shame and decency, which includes not only occidental history since its comprehensible beginnings, but also those peoples, which have lived at the periphery of the so-called advanced cultures. He establishes the assumption, that at least within the last forty thousand years, there have been neither savage nor autochthonous (indigenous) peoples, neither primitives nor uncivilised peoples.
NorbertElias
Norbert Elias
Über den Prozess der Zivilisation Band 1 (buecher.de 2017)
The 5 volumes of the "Myth of the Civilization Process" by Hans Peter Duerr refer to the two-volume work "On the Process of Civilisation" by Norbert Elias, published already 1939. However, it did not made its way in the scientific discussion until the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. It was the first work in history, that provided a coherent theory of civilisation development. It was even believed that Elias formulated a universal, theory of civilisation here.
However, Elias himself had stated that he had based his research on the development in Western Europe in the period from about 800 to 1900 AD. I.e. the theory developed by him was also justified only for this period and this geographical area. In fact, it was Hans Peter Duerr, who proved, that Elias' conclusions were neither applicable to other times nor to other cultural realms, by accessing much more comprehensive source material as to time and location, and that the the "directed process of civilisation" described by Elias is a myth.
Nevertheless, the developments in Elias' work for the region of Western Europe in the period from about 800 to 1900 AD are quite exciting to read, e.g. the theory of shame contained in there, so that we recommend Elias' standard work for reading.
There is a very instructive review article about the dispute between Elias and Duerr and the different approaches of both authors: Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation (German; there is also a corresponding article in English, but is not a translation of the comprehensive one in German)
The long-term transformations of social and personality structures form the central theme of Norbert Elias' work. How did the 'civilisation' in the West take place? What was it? What were the drives, causes, or motors? Elias' work is neither an investigation of an 'evolution' in the 19th century sense nor an investigation of non-specific 'social change' in the sense of the 20th century: His work is fundamental for a non-dogmatic, empirically founded sociological theory of social processes.
(buecher.de 2017 – translated)
RichardFoley
Richard Foley
»Naked Hiking«
»Naked Hiking« (buecher.de)
»Naked Hiking« is an exciting and healthy activity which can be enjoyed by everybody, male or female, of any age, almost anywhere. Perhaps you've wondered whether you could to it too, and if so how, or where might you begin? Or maybe you are an experienced nude hiker already, and feel like stretching your wings a little further by reading about other people's nude adventures in the great outdoors. Many people may be surprised to discover that hiking nude in public spaces is fully legal and actively supported in many countries all around the world. […]
(buecher.de 2017)
»The World Naked Bike Ride«
»The World Naked Bike Ride« (buecher.de)
»The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR)« is a global protest against oil dependency and urban pollution, promoting greater cycling safety on our roads, and encouraging body freedom for everyone. This book visually describes the environmental awareness event that is the WNBR, the history of how it started, the people who take part, and the motivations behind this very public and urgent demonstration. Including 250 photographs and images. Written and compiled by Richard Foley. With a foreword by Conrad Schmidt.
»Active Nudists: Naked Living at Home and in Public«
»Active Nudists: Naked Living at Home and in Public« (amazon.de)
Riding on horseback in the nude? Pedaling a bicycle through the city stark naked? Demonstrating naked? Hiking in public without any clothes on? Is that possible? Yes! Let yourself be surprised by private photos taken by enthusiastic advocates of nudism! Riding on horseback in the nude? Pedaling a bicycle through the city stark naked? Demonstrating naked? Hiking in public without any clothes on? Is that possible? Yes! Let yourself be surprised by private photos taken by enthusiastic advocates of nudism! This photobook is divided into ten chapters, each of which contains comprehensive illustrations and interesting texts about the nudists' naked activities and experiences. Everything is completely authentic and spontaneous. Here's an inspiring appeal to be free, to finally cast off false modesty and to practicing natural nudity yourself everywhere!
(amazon.de 2017)
A.& W.Gramer
Anita & Wolfgang Gramer
»1, 2, Frei! Das Nacktaktivbuch«
»1, 2, Frei! Das Nacktaktivbuch« (buecher.de)
»ONE, TWO, FREE! The Naktivity Book« describes the recent rebirth of a nearly forgotten culture of being naked in Germany, but also in many other european countries.
»Wandern mit nix«
»Wandern mit nix« (buecher.de)
»Hiking With Nothing« describes 7 routes for hiking in the buff along the unique wild-romantic coast of Cabo de Gata, gives manifold impressions about a nearly untouched landscape and ist above all a likeable and charming field report on naked living in a forward-looking and open-minded country. Many remarkable colour photos complete the description to a realistic image of potential naked activities under Andalusian sun.
Our Philosophy / Book Service »Integral naktive«
Our Philosophy / Book Service »Integral naktive« (nacktiv.de – English)
»Our chosen life-style, our philosophy, is to be 'integral nacktiv':«
We believe that we're just fine, the way we are.
You'd like to know more?
You'd like to know more about being 'integrally' naked?
You can read on in our books. (nacktiv.de – EN)
Mark H.Smith
Mark Haskell Smith
»Naked at Lunch – The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist« (buecher.de)
»Naked at Lunch« A man strips naked
What is the kick to take a drink on a cruise ship in the middle of 2,000 nudists – and then register for the textile-free yoga class? How does it feel to dine naked? Is the attention of the connoisseur more keen than ever when it comes to textile-free wine tasting? And is it surprising, that in a naked trekking tour in Austria all the encounting people kindly salute? In a self-experiment, Mark Haskell Smith has gone to the world of nudists for a year, researching their undresscodes, their lifestyle and their philosophy. Always undressed, of course. Whether naked or dressed - this book will make your life more free …
SallyMann
»Immediate Family« (buecher.de – EN)
"First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. With sublime dignity, acute wit, and feral grace, Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy — the holding on and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing, and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in these astonishing photographs. This reissue of Immediate Family is printed using new scans and separations from Mann's original prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness and sumptuousness true to the original edition.
Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. She has received numerous honors, including a doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C., and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship."
»Immediate Family«, Photographs by Sally Mann | Afterword by Reynolds Price
(aperture.org 2017)
"[…] Sally Mann published Immediate Family (Aperture), a book of photographs of her children playing on their family farm in Virginia, which was called »disturbing« by the New York Times and »degenerate« by the Wall Street Journal. The children were often nude, as the secluded farm was miles away from strangers, and the children's poses, innocent to her eyes, deeply disturbed many who saw them.
She said she and her children, collaborators, were trying to tell a story of growing up. »We tell it all without fear and without shame.« Later she said, »The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. […] These are not my children with ice in their veins, these are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.«"
At times she sounded defensive, at times uncertain why there was controversy at all. She had not prepared a standard response because she did not expect many people to see these photographs, much less for the pictures to become a cultural lighting rod. […]"
THE BLOG 12/31/2015 03:42 pm ET | Updated Dec 31, 2016 | Sally Mann: »Immediate Family«
(huffingtonpost.com 2017)
BertrandRussell
»Marriage and Morals« (buecher.de)
Offers a cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitudes towards sex and marriage. Exploring the codes by which we live our sexual lives and conventional morality, this title sets out a fresh morality, shaped and influenced by dramatic changes in society such as the emancipation of women and the use of contraceptives.
JockSturges
»Radiant Identities«
»Radiant Identities« (buecher.de)
"Of course there's the curiosity. What do I look like? Sometimes disappointment, sometimes pleasure. But it's not just about me: Jock makes the whole world look remarkable – like heaven. He lets me see my own world in a new way."
– the voice of one of Sturges's subjects, from Elizabeth Beverly's introduction "[Sturges's] gelatin silver prints luxuriate in textures of sand, flesh, cloth, tide pools and gentle waves.
"… superbly printed, expressive in their modulations of light and joyful tonalities … the high mark of Sturges's work is its naturalness, its gentle attentions to the pleasure that can be found in life."
– "The Boston Globe"
"… Sturges's people are grave, well-formed, and poetic. Best to think of his world as an inviting fiction: one phtographer's Eden, where a little knowledge doesn't get you expelled from the garden."
– "People" magazine
»Fanny« (buecher.de 2019)
»Fanny« is an extended portrait of a young girl's transition from child to woman. Made over a period of 23 years, the images are at once beautiful in their detail of light and identity and also frankly anthropological in their descriptive effect. A naturist since birth, Fanny's comfort with nudity and her natural self has allowed Sturges to draw an engaging portrait of the evolution of a human being with few social distractions. His access to the girl's and woman's character is direct and fascinating. Long known for his extended portraits of children and adolescents, this work is strong evidence of Sturges permanent commitment to the people in his work.
»Der letzte Tag des Sommers«
»Der letzte Tag des Sommers« (buecher.de 2017)
»Der letzte Tag des Sommers« (eurobuch.de 2019)
Jock Sturges has captured people, who he loves and appreciates, with his photographs: mothers and daughters, friends, children. He shows them in the most melancholy of all seasons, the last days of summer, in which happiness, sweet heaviness, and a little bit of grief join. In front of the lens of his camera, people reveal their relationships, not only to the other, but also show how their inner nature has faced the world. Full of magic in detail, these images have arisen over years, in mutual trust, even admiration of the artist and his subjects.
In her introductory essay, Jayne Anne Phillips interprets the photographs and explores the complex emotional relationships between mother and child, the complexity of the feelings, that speak of Sturges' images. He captures in the photos the grace, warmth and beauty, a feeling of the dignity, that conveys to us.
»The Last Day of Summer« (buecher.de 2019)
»The Last Day of Summer« (aperture.org 2019)
"In the fifty-eight images of this handsome ... monograph, Sturges sustains a delicate balance on a very precarious wire ... His struggle is to observe and render his subjects in all of their complexities, trembling on the cusp of change. The result of this long-term, communal effort is one of the most clear-eyed, responsible investigations of puberty and the emergence of sexuality in the medium's history, making a metaphor of the metamorphosis from child to adult."—A. D. Coleman, The New York Observer
In 1990 the FBI entered Sturges's studio and seized his work, claiming violation of child pornography laws. Citizens, artists, and the media responded with outrage. With The Last Day of Summer, Aperture accords Sturges's vision the dignity and respect it so richly deserves.
Jock Sturges (born in New York, 1947) received a B.A. in perceptual psychology and photography from Marlboro College in Vermont, in 1974, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. He has exhibited internationally, and his photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris. His previous Aperture books include Notes, The Last Day of Summer, and Radiant Identities.
»At the Edge of the World«
Jock Sturges: »At the Edge of the World« (buecher.de)
Alain Laboile lives with his family in a small village in the south-west of France. Originally a sculptor, he bought his first camera a few years ago to capture his sculptures. However, his six children and their free, wild lifestyle around the house and the garden went involuntarily into his focus. Laboile can be described as a natural talent of photography. His pictures show the freedom of childish play and are emotionally complex. Like no other, he understands, how to capture their interaction and push the trigger exactly at the right moment. Without any doubt, the photographes of Laboile, which capture the psychologically decisive moment, can be compared with the works of the great French photographers Jacques Henri Lartigue and Cartier Bresson. His works determine a new standard of photography, that deals with the life of children. Alain Laboile's photographs are almost euphorically received by a constantly growing international fan base.
NicoleWunram
Nicole Wunram
»Nacktwandern«
»Nacktwandern« (buecher.de)
For a very long time, people are roaming nude in nature. Nude bathing is now quite self-evident. In the last few years, the trend of hiking in the buff has attracted more and more followers, so that, in May 2010, Germany's first signposted Nude Hiking Trail was officially opened in the Harz Mountains. Nicole Wunram describes the course of the route. People new to that lifestyle learn, how they can join a group and which preparatory measures are necessary.
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The researchers found that during a median follow-up time of 12.5 years, 13.2 percent of patients died. Overall mortality was increased in those with celiac disease (9.7 versus 8.6 deaths per 1,000 person-years; hazard ratio [HR], 1.21) compared with 246,426 controls. While the increased mortality risk was seen in all age groups, it was greatest for those diagnosed between 18 and 39 years of age (HR, 1.69). The increased risk for individuals with celiac disease was seen specifically for death from cardiovascular disease (HR, 1.08), cancer (HR, 1.29), and respiratory disease (HR, 1.21). The overall mortality risk was greatest in the first year after celiac diagnosis versus controls (HR, 2.34) but persisted beyond 10 years after diagnosis (HR, 1.15).
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– 'Cotton Town' Kirkham's Rich Past To Be Brought To Life With Historic Dance
'Cotton Town' Kirkham's Rich Past To Be Brought To Life With Historic Dance
Posted on October 01, 2021 by Fylde Council in News
Kirkham's proud history as one of Lancashire's most important cotton towns will be celebrated through dance this weekend.
The Fylde market town was once a crucial hub for the production of Lancashire-spun textiles – most notably producing sailcloth for the Royal Navy.
Although Kirkham's last commercial loom operated for the final time in 2003, the town remains synonymous with the cotton industry. It can date its origins back to the days of old hand looms and the era of mass production in mills owned by such famed local families as the Birleys, Langtons, Hornbys and the Shepherds.
And this heritage will be brought to life this Saturday (October 2) thanks to a wonderful dance event celebrating Lancashire's former cotton workers.
The About Time Dance Company – which specialise in creating heritage-based artistic pieces – has teamed up with students from Carr Hill High School to present Cotton. The production is described as "a captivating exploration through dance and sound, illuminating processes of cotton production in Lancashire".
The 30-minute event – intertwined with traditional clog dancing, a mesmerising soundtrack, stunning costumes and intricate choreography – will be performed twice on Saturday in Market Square, Kirkham, at 12pm and 2pm.
Jenny Reeves, artistic director of the Lancashire-based About Time Dance Company, said: "We are really looking forward to performing in Kirkham this weekend. We will be joined by 10 young dancers from Carr Hill High School's dance academy who will perform alongside the professional dancers.
"The piece explores the roles of women in the cotton mills and is a captivating exploration of life in a Lancashire town through contemporary dance, singing and clog dancing.
"The Cotton production had a 24-date regional tour in 2018 so we are thrilled to be reviving the work for Kirkham and the local people – it's a very special production not to be missed!"
Cotton is the first event held as part of Fylde Borough Council's new Heritage, Health and Wellbeing Programme for Kirkham – which is a vital part of part of the town's £10m Kirkham Futures regeneration masterplan.
Funded through Kirkham's status as one of Historic England's High Streets Heritage Action Zones (HS HAZ), the programme's aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of residents through engagement with heritage-based activities.
Fylde Borough Council has engaged Helen Shearn Associates, a specialist consultancy in arts, heritage and health, to steer the programme in conjunction with Historic England's Head of Wellbeing and Inclusion, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Lancashire County Council and local GPs.
There is considerable evidence of the positive benefits of dance in developing physical aspects of health and fitness, which is one of the reasons why Cotton was chosen to launch the Kirkham project.
Helen Shearn said: "Saturday is a really engaging way to kick-off the Health and Wellbeing Programme which is such an important part of Kirkham's HS HAZ project.
"Cotton explores the heritage of Cotton Mills, and in particular those who worked in the industry, through dance, which has been proven to be such a benefit for people's health and wellbeing.
"As reported in the Creative Health Report 2017, the physical activity of dancing alleviates the symptoms of mental ill health and the side effects of medication such as apathy and lack of motivation. Dance workshops also help create social connections and overcome feelings of isolation."
"With funding from Historic England, we can develop a range of opportunities and activities that will provide a varied pathway of meaningful interventions to improve health and wellbeing of local people. We hope Saturday is a real eye-catching way to introduce the Health and Wellbeing programme to a wide audience."
Also backed by £6.3m funding from the Government's Future High Streets Fund (FHSF), the Kirkham Futures masterplan is designed to reinvigorate Kirkham town centre by bringing important buildings back into use, improve streets and open spaces as well as residents' health and wellbeing.
Work is now underway to create a Social Prescribing programme which connects people – via GPs and link workers – to specific activities in the community for practical and emotional support.
Social prescription helps people get more control over their healthcare, to manage their needs and in a way that suits them. It can especially help people who:
have one or more long-term conditions
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are lonely or isolated
have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing
Social prescribing links people to a range of activities that are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. For example, volunteering, arts activities, group learning, gardening, healthy eating advice, cookery, local history research groups, handling historic artefacts, learning heritage skills and so on.
Tamsin Cook, of Historic England, said: "We're delighted that Kirkham's Health and Wellbeing Programme is now kicking off in earnest. It will provide lots of opportunities over the next few years for people to engage with Kirkham's distinctive historic high street and learn more about its rich history.
"Historic England recognises how beneficial social prescribing can be to people's wellbeing, and we're really pleased that it's part of Kirkham's High Street Heritage Action Zone. Cotton is set to be a great inaugural event."
For more information, and to keep up to date with news on Kirkham's High Streets Heritage Action Zone, please visit www.kirkhamfutures.org


This amazing pink tourmaline fan has been sold. But we have plenty of other pink tourmaline in quartz crystals of different sizes/prices in stock.
What can I say - the photos say it all. This is an amazing specimen of Pink Tourmaline fanning out in all directions. The white colour snow quartz but you barely notice it as the pink cylinders just take all the attention even though they are not high quality the colour is strong. Went to find another but�did not see anything as nice on our latest excursion overseas. This pink tourmaline specimen is on view at St Leonards and it definitely appeals to the geological collectors.
Attracts love in the material and spiritual world. Provides assurance that it is safe to love, inspires trusting love and confirms it is necessary to love yourself before you can hope to be loved. Assists in sharing physical pleasure. Disperses emotional pain and old destructive feelings through the heart chakra. Promotes peace and relaxation, connecting you to wisdom and compassion. Stimulates receptivity to healing energies. Said to balance dysfunctional endocrine system. Helps heart, lungs and skin. Cleanses, purifies & transforms dense energy into light. Good shamanic stone. More about the healing properties of tourmaline.


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Q: Can I use .clang-tidy file with CMakeList.txt? I have linked clang for my cpp project with CMakeLists.txt with
set(CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY "clang-tidy;-checks=google-*,cppcoreguidelines-*")

Since, I would like to move all the clang config to a file, I googled little bit
and found that there is .clang-tidy file for this usage.
However, I wasn't able to configure CMakeList.txt to actually use this file.
Can anyone tell me how I should change that line in CMakeList.txt to link it with .clang-tidy file?

A: If you have .clang-tidy in project root, all you need to do is specify clang-tidy executable, e.g.
set(CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY "clang-tidy")

and clang-tidy will implicitly use .clang-tidy.

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Well it isn't exactly my proposed printer with a built-in USB hub but it's close. Western Digital has a line of external hard drives with a built-in 2 port USB hub, one port on the front and another on the back. The hard drives are available in capacities ranging from 120GB to 320GB, and can connect to Mac or PCs via FireWire or USB 2.0.
At last I can ditch my little USB hub, and free up an outlet on my power strip.


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Q: Что нужно исправить в css файле чтобы изменить размер страницы на мобильной версии сайта Всем привет, когда-то один человек делал мне сайт но потом он где-то потерялся и я осталась один на один со своей проблемой. Суть проблемы в том что на мобильной версии сайта некоторые его страницы открываются не в полном виде.
Как вы видите гоблин не в низу экрана, а посредине. При этом на некоторых страницах он отображается корректно (снизу) и страница сайта не выглядит как обрубок непонятный. Покопавшись в скрипте я поняла что дело не в отдельных страницах сайта, а непосредственно в css файле, вот только что там искать я не знаю, подскажите пожалуйста какие строки мне нужно найти и что нужно прописать чтобы исправить эту ситуацию. Я понимаю что информация на странице не теряется, здесь больше вопрос в эстетической составляющей. Если на ПК версии всё хорошо, то пользоваться мобильной версией сайта не очень приятно, когда половина страниц это вот такие обрубки. Так же прикреплю ссылки на гугл диск с моими css файлами, может кому-то будет проще разобраться в вопросе взглянув на них напрямую.
Ссылка на гугл диск с css файлом:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EVHwjXV6k01pduo9wZS1qipp6MDsnZNG

A: Если я правильно понял, то нужно футер прилепить к низу страницы. Самый простой способ:

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Clean air would seem like a natural human right, when it is needed for all humans to survive. Yet the air is still not safe to breathe in too many places. In recent years, initiatives have been launched in various countries and cities to reduce air pollution. Where are those programs and projects and how can modern project management contribute to these efforts? This section of the PM World Library is intended to provide access to a few resources for those who want to learn more or help.
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Improving air quality, combatting climate change – saving lives: The First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health (2018) responded to the International Mandates of World Health Assembly (WHA2015 & its extension WHA2016), the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), the Paris Agreement of 2015 and to Member States' call to World Health Organization (WHO) to display leadership, foster partnerships and increase advocacy. The conference centered on presenting evidence on the health impacts of air pollution and identifying gaps. It also emphasized on discusssing methods of monitoring pollution and health exposures and tools for assessing and implementing effective interventions. Read the summary report from that major conference at https://www.who.int/phe/news/clean-air-for-health/en/ (Gopireddy)
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Delhi and NCR Air Pollution Report Card (2018). Report published by the Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority for Delhi (EPCA) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) was published on the CSE website. Delhi is one of the most polluted cities across the globe and it is imperative to take immediate steps to control the pollution. The report explains many actions which have been taken to date and their incremental but positive results. It also illustrates the work which needs to be done in the future by various stakeholder agencies. Available online at https://www.cseindia.org/content/downloadreports/8521 (Gogate)
Health Effects Institute (HEI) – A Boston-based nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. HEI typically receives balanced funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry. Other public and private organizations periodically support special projects or certain research programs. Learn more at https://www.healtheffects.org/
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Avi-Yonah, R. S. And Uhlmann, D. M.; (2009). Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax Is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and Trade . Report authored by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and David M. Uhlmann, professors at University of Michigan Law School. The paper was piblished in 2009 and is available on SSRN. It argues why carbon tax is better than cap and trade system to tackle global climate change. Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2009; U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 117. Available online at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1333673 (Gogate)
Rees, N., Wickham, A. and Cho, Y., (2019): Silent suffocation in Africa: Air Pollution is a Growing Menace, Affecting the Poorest Children the Most. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), June. Available online on https://www.unicef.org/media/55081/file/Silent_suffocation_in_africa_air_pollution_2019.pdf (Chebet)
Tomescu, M. and Alvarez, D. M-M. (2019). Assessing the effectiveness of EU policy on large combustion plants in reducing air pollutant emissions. The report published on European Environment Agency website in June 2019 examines the relevance and effectiveness of EU policy and the Large Combustion Plants Directive (LCPD) in reducing industrial emissions of SO2, NOx and dust. Available online at https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/effectiveness-of-eu-policy-on (Gogate)
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Elegant, beautiful bed canopy for every child's bedroom. A canopy is a gorgeous addition to the kids room which will ensure long days for playing and wonderful nights full of dreams. It is made of organic cotton and comes with a set of pom pom adding the final touch to the nordic look and finish Liewood are so well known for.
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Steve Brady Receives W. Harold Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standard Insurance Company ("The Standard") announced today that Steve Brady, the second vice president of Individual Disability Insurance Sales and Marketing, is the sixth recipient of the W. Harold Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award in the disability industry. Craig Gussin, CLU, president of the International DI Society, along with W. Harold Petersen, presented the award to Brady during a ceremony held this past Monday at the International DI Society's Annual Conference Awards Luncheon at the Marriott Downtown Chicago.
Brady was nominated for the award based on several criteria, including demonstrating leadership in his professional life and making a distinctive contribution to the disability insurance industry. He has dedicated his career to inspiring and empowering insurance representatives, providing education and sales training, and offering quality disability insurance.
"This award reflects Steve's commitment to positively enhancing the disability insurance industry and the services it provides to consumers," said Dawn McMaster, assistant vice president of Individual Disability Insurance at The Standard. "He is passionate about education, sales training and developing the most consumer-friendly products the industry has to offer. He has truly made a positive impact on the industry and the customers who entrust it with their financial security."
Brady has more than 30 years of experience in the disability industry and spent much of that time developing innovative and consumer-friendly products such as The Standard's Protector Platinum SM individual disability income insurance. Protector Platinum has strong built-in benefits to help make disability income insurance easier to understand, teach, sell and own. Unique features include a Compassionate Care BenefitSM, which is an industry first. This feature pays disability benefits if the insured has a loss of income while caring for a loved one with a qualifying serious health condition.
"Steve has spent the better part of his career devoted to the disability industry, keeping customers happy and helping his sales teams succeed," said Craig Gussin. "His ambition, innovation and dedication to customer service make him a key player in the industry and community."
The W. Harold Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award was created by the founders of the International DI Society as a tribute to Mr. W. Harold Petersen, RHU, an influential leader in the disability insurance industry.
The Standard is a leading provider of financial products and services, including group and individual disability insurance, group life, AD&D, dental and vision insurance, retirement plans products and services, individual annuities and investment advice.
The Standard is a marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. and subsidiaries. Insurance products are offered by Standard Insurance Company of Portland, Ore. in all states except New York, where insurance products are offered by The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York of White Plains, N.Y. Investment services are offered through StanCorp Investment Advisors of Portland, Ore. Product features and availability vary by state and company, and are solely the responsibility of each subsidiary. For more information about The Standard, visit www.standard.com.
About the International DI Society
The International DI Society is dedicated to the task of preserving and embracing the disability insurance industry. It is an organization dedicated to growing the disability insurance industry through education, awareness, promotion of high ethical conduct of the membership, and increasing the knowledge base of the agent, producer, company and carriers. For more information, please visit http://www.internationaldisociety.com/.
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So stunningly detailed and immersive, the KS-7502-THX in-ceiling surround speaker brings a whole new dimension of reality to home theater. Perhaps that's why it's the first of its kind to receive the highly respected Ultra2 certification from THX.
Our top-of-the-line in-ceiling surround speaker the KS-7502-THX uses highly respected certification patented technology and premium materials to deliver compelling audio experiences that are second to none. In fact most in-ceiling surrounds can't "fool" listeners into believing the sound is coming from all around them rather than from above. But that's not a problem for the KS-7502-THX as it offers a smooth seamless broad distribution of sound.
The KS-7502-THX employs dual 5.25-inch Cerametallic woofers that operate in an enclosed tuned-port chamber. These exclusive woofer cones offer superb damping characteristics that will not flex or resonate at frequencies within the drivers' operating ranges resulting in consistent bass response regardless of the installation or ceiling air space.


If you are a serious dancer, chances are you have an entire collection of leotards. With so many styles to choose from, it's hard not to purchase a new leotard every now and then.
Leotards come in several styles, fabrics and colors. The style and cut you ultimately choose will most likely depend on your body type, so never buy a leotard without trying it on. Also, be sure to ask your teacher if a dress code exists that must be followed. Some teachers require certain leotard styles and colors, but some allow for individual preferences.
When you try on a leotard, keep a few things in mind. A leotard should fit you perfectly. It should not be too tight, too loose, or uncomfortable whatsoever. Be aware that different brands in similar sizes will fit you differently. If you find a leotard that you love but seem to be in between sizes, opt for the larger size. Some leotards have adjustable straps to achieve a better fit. Some leotards even have a hidden drawstring in the chest area for custom adjustments.
One popular trick for tightening loose leotards is to join the straps in the back. You can purchase bra clips that pinch the straps together in the middle of the back, or simply tie the straps together with a ribbon or rubber band.
When you begin shopping for leotards, remember that all leotards have potential. Even though a leotard may not look that great on a hanger, you may be pleasantly surprised by how great it looks on your body. The following gallery will help familiarize you with the many different types of leotards.
The halter leotard is one of the most popular styles. Halters are easy to put on and are flattering to many body types. Many girls prefer halters because there are no straps to worry about and they allow the entire back and shoulders to be exposed.
The camisole leotard has classic "spaghetti-straps" styling, creating a soft and delicate look. Camisoles are especially popular among ballet dancers.
A tank leotard is sleeveless with thick shoulder straps. Tanks are great for bigger busted dancers who require a little more stability and coverage. Look for a variety of necklines.
Back to basics, a short sleeve leotard has sleeves much like a t-shirt. Short sleeve leotards are a favorite among young dancers, whose arms look cute in cap sleeves. Some dancers, however, find the sleeves cumbersome and distracting.
A long sleeve leotard is perfect for a cold, wintery day. long sleeve leotards give the arms a long, flowing look.
Known as one shoulder, off-the-shoulder, or asymmetrical, this leotard is great for dancers who like to be different. One shoulder leotards have an artistic flare that lend themselves to many dance styles, from jazz and contemporary to character and ballroom.
A mock neck, or mock turtleneck, leotard has a close-fitting, high neckline. Mock neck leotards tend to lend a classy, sophisticated feel. This leotard style is flattering as it gives the illusion of a longer neckline.
A zipper leotard contains a working zipper. The zipper is often located in the front near the neckline or in the back. While most leotard zippers are used mainly for decorative purposes, some zippers make changing quicker and easier.
An embellished leotard s perfect for the dancer who wants to stand out during class or make an impression during an audition. Embellished leotards are made more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features such as sparkly rhinestones.


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Q: Avoid some query fields from filtering results When I make a GET request to a service with a query string as in /restaurants?includeData, by default includeData is used to filter the restaurants giving me zero results.
How can I avoid this specific query field from being used in the filtering so that I can use it for my own purposes in a hook?

A: You can create another before hook that modifies the hook.params.query and hook object to what you need:
app.service('myservice').before(function(hook) {
  hook.includeData = hook.params.query.includeData;

  delete hook.params.query.includeData;
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Attilio Cremonesi studied piano, organ and organ composition at the G. Nicolini Conservatory in Piacenza; he has participated in national and international organ competitions and has won several prizes.
From an early age he became interested in musical philology, deepening the study of performance practice on original instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, while at the same time studying orchestral conducting.
As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed in some of the most important festivals and theaters in Europe, North and South America, Japan, North Africa and Australia.
In 1988, with the flutist Christoph Ehrsam he founded the instrumental ensemble "Arcadia", with which he performed in various countries of Europe and South America and recorded numerous CDs of unpublished instrumental and vocal chamber music.
Some of his numerous recordings and videos have been awarded by international critics (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d'Or, 10 de Repertoire, Cecilia-prijzen).
Thanks to a multi-year collaboration with René Jacobs as a musical assistant, opera becomes the center of his musical interests.
Since then he has directed opera productions and concerts in important theaters and halls such as:
Berlin Staatsoper;
Theater an der Wien in Vienna;
Théâtre du Champs-Elysée in Paris;
Concertgebouw of Amsterdam;
La Fenice of Venice;
Mannheim Nationaltheater;
Théâtre du Capitol in Toulouse;
Angel Place in Sydney;
Municipal Theater of Santiago de Chile.
He directed numerous Italian works from the sixteenth-eighteenth century in their first modern edition.
In the last 15 years he has devoted particular attention to the rediscovery of the unpublished operatic and symphonic repertoire of the classicism and romanticism, directing and playing compositions of very rare works or premiering the first modern performances.
He composed and arranged the missing parts of some works, such as the Prologue of "Dido and Aeneas" by H. Purcell and the recitatives of the musical pasticcio by L. Da Ponte "The musical bee".
He is the author of the serenade "Il Combattimento amoroso" with music by G.F. Handel and the comic interludes "Serena and Fileno" to music by W. A. Mozart (of which he also composed the music of the recitatives). He is also the art director and conductor of the crossover oratorio "Jazziah", inspired by the Messiah by G.F. Händel, in collaboration with the jazz player, guitarist and composer Domenico Caliri.
Read reviews for "Jezziah"
Attilio Cremonesi regularly collaborates with:
the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra of Bonn;
the Symphonic of Munich;
the national orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse;
the Akademieorchester of Potsdam;
the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago de Chile, of which he was the first guest conductor from 2017 to 2020.
For several years he has collaborated in a duo with Anna Fontana in the rediscovery, execution and recording of the repertoire for fortepiano with 4 hands and two fortepianos.
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RECLAIMING THE LEGENDS: MYTH & THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT finds inspiration in the anti-historical world described by Wright. Its mysterious dance is the "cabinet of curiosities": the defiance of categorical boundaries, the assembling of varied objects, the powerfully mythic rather than the historical, the rhythmic rather than the calculated. The exhibition also "plead[s]" like Wright's dance. It asks visitors to abandon traditional epistemologies and participate in the microcosm it has created. This exhibition-world is a miscellany of anthropological & egyptological studies, revisionist histories, spiritualist & esoteric writings, books of poetry, and music record. It intimates some organizational principle, but finds time operating synchronically. Traditional chronology, here, is corrupted: Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Bob Kaufman, Ishmael Reed, David Henderson, and Marvin X appear alongside Gerald Massey, George James, and Theodore P. Ford. Like Wright's dance, its form is ritualized and its theme is mythical.
Following Ra, the exhibition's second display case ( LOOKING AHEAD, VISIONARYWISE) positions itself in the future. On the left hand side of the display case, the visitor sees three texts that explore the theme of death bringing about new life. E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of The Book of the Dead  contains a series of "magic spells" with the capacity to determine the afterlife of the deceased. In "Egyptian Book of the Dead" (1970) , David Henderson uses metaphors like magic spells to transform a deceased New York City into an Edenic ancient Egypt. In his ode to the legacy of Malcolm X (1968) , Marvin X turns Malcolm's assassination into something affirmative, bringing with it strength, hope, blackness, and black power. While death brings about new life, myth and magic provide models of what that new life may look like. Reed's "Neo-HooDoo" mixture of fact and fiction, history and myth, in Mumbo Jumbo (1972)  provides the reader with an aesthetic and cultural model antithetical to the West's. In "The True Way to Life" (2006) , Sun Ra uses intuitive logic to reinterpret history, decode biblical scripture, and reveal the secret path to everlasting life. In Four Black Revolutionary Plays (1968) , Amiri Baraka provides examples of how sensationalism, surrealist symbolism, and mythology can be placed in the service of political protest.
The exhibition ends with two explorations of what may be called the future-present. In "to Morani/Mungu" (1971) , Sonia Sanchez puts "peace" in the hands of a loving mother and has her assert that it is in the present that African Americans—particularly children—can actualize their dreams. Lastly, Space is the Place (1972) , is a musical exploration of Sun Ra's space world. After journeying through cacophonous horns, offkilter piano, and energetic percussion, the album ends with the electronic beeps and bops of Ra's spaceship taking off for another voyage.


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Highly popular Lidar vocabularies
accuracy The closeness of an estimated value (for example, measured or computed) to a standard or accepted (true) value of a particular quantity. See precision.
absolute accuracy A measure that accounts for all systematic and random errors in a dataset. Absolute accuracy is stated with respect to a defined datum or reference system.
accuracyr (ACCr) The National Standards for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA) (Federal Geographic Data Committee, 1998) reporting standard in the horizontal component that equals the radius of a circle of uncertainty, such that the true or theoretical horizontal location of the point falls within that circle 95 percent of the time. ACCRMSErr=×17308..
accuracyz (ACCz) The NSSDA reporting standard in the vertical component that equals the linear uncertainty value, such that the true or theoretical vertical location of the point falls within that linear uncertainty value 95 percent of the time. ACCRMSEzz=×19600..
horizontal accuracy The horizontal (radial) component of the positional accuracy of a dataset with respect to a horizontal datum, at a specified confidence level. See accuracyr.
local accuracy The uncertainty in the coordinates of points with respect to coordinates of other directly connected, adjacent points at the 95-percent confidence level.
network accuracy The uncertainty in the coordinates of mapped points with respect to the geodetic datum at the 95-percent confidence level.
positional accuracy The accuracy at the 95-percent confidence level of the position of features, including horizontal and vertical positions, with respect to horizontal and vertical datums.
relative accuracy A measure of variation in point-to-point accuracy in a data set. In lidar, this term may also specifically mean the positional agreement between points within a swath, adjacent swaths within a lift, adjacent lifts within a project, or between adjacent projects.
vertical accuracy The measure of the positional accuracy of a data set with respect to a specified vertical datum, at a specified confidence level or percentile. See accuracyz.
aggregate nominal pulse density (ANPD) A variant of nominal pulse density that expresses the total expected or actual density of pulses occurring in a specified unit area resulting from multiple passes of the light detection and ranging (lidar) instrument, or a single pass of a platform with multiple lidar instruments, over the same target area. In all other respects, ANPD is identical to nominal pulse density (NPD). In single coverage collection, ANPD and NPD will be equal. See aggregate nominal pulse spacing, nominal pulse density, nominal pulse spacing.
aggregate nominal pulse spacing (ANPS) A variant of nominal pulse spacing that expresses the typical or average lateral distance between pulses in a lidar dataset resulting from multiple passes of the lidar instrument, or a single pass of a platform with multiple lidar instruments, over the same target area. In all other respects, ANPS is identical to nominal pulse spacing
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(NPS). In single coverage collections, ANPS and NPS will be equal. See aggregate nominal pulse density, nominal pulse density, nominal pulse spacing.
artifacts An inaccurate observation, effect, or result, especially one resulting from the technology used in scientific investigation or from experimental error. In bare-earth elevation models, artifacts are detectable surface remnants of buildings, trees, towers, telephone poles or other elevated features; also, detectable artificial anomalies that are introduced to a surface model by way of system specific collection or processing techniques. For example, corn-row effects of profile collection, star and ramp effects from multidirectional contour interpolation, or detectable triangular facets caused when vegetation canopies are removed from lidar data.
attitude The position of a body defined by the angles between the axes of the coordinate system of the body and the axes of an external coordinate system. In photogrammetry, the attitude is the angular orientation of a camera (roll, pitch, yaw), or of the photograph taken with that camera, with respect to some external reference system. With lidar, the attitude is normally defined as the roll, pitch and heading of the instrument at the instant an active pulse is emitted from the sensor.
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The International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place from February 11-13 2013 in Denver, is delighted to announce that the American Societyfor Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) will be running special 'hot topics' sessions alongside the main conference.
ASPRS plays a vital role in the lidar industry as it is the key organization that sets data format and accuracy standards for kinematic laser scanning. With a full morning dedicated to ASPRS on February 11, it will be sharing the results of crucial projects to benefit the lidar community; providing information to help improve accuracy and cost efficiency.
Lewis Graham, Lidar Division Director of ASPRS, will kick off the morning by revealing exciting new plans for the development of LAS validation software. LAS is the standard data delivery format used throughout the world. It is supported in all commercial lidar hardware and software and is also the required delivery standard for nearly all private and governmental kinematic lidar projects. The new LAS validation software will be key in ensuring LAS file compliance and the software will be discussed publicly for the first time at ILMF.
Another session not to be missed will be the first public update of a major project funded by the United States Geological Survey. The project is investigating new approaches of calibrating and geometrically adjusting broad area airborne lidar projects and over the past year ASPRS' Airborne Laser Scanning committee has been assessing new techniques. The committee will provide a fascinating insight into the project so far, which is expected to have a major impact on how airborne laser scanning data are adjusted in the future.


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On an Ubuntu machine when I go to term mod (M-x term) or Emerge, it tries to run /bin/bash
On anther machine, Emacs tries to run /bin/false and I want to fix this problem.
Could you please help me to fix this issue?

A: That looks like a user configuration issue - Emacs is most likely using the default shell and it's a common way to prevent users from getting shell access by setting the shell to /bin/false or /bin/nologin (or variations thereof).
The remedy is to get the sysadmin to give you shell access as in a proper shell configured for your user account instead of /bin/false.

A: Thanks to Steve Howard, The problem can be solved by changing SHELL to /bin/bash


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It was during the Chinese Year of the Rabbit in 2011 when our daughter had a creative idea for a Girl Scout leadership project. She wanted to write parody lyrics to a popular song and film animals acting it out to promote adoptions at Animal Friends.
She was too young to handle dogs (need to be 18) or cats (16 for that), but at age 13, she was just right for the bunnies, provided a parent came too. If I came with her, she could have worked with the dogs or cats as well but she chose bunnies. No, I wasn't kicking and screaming, because she is our youngest, and I realize the importance of nurturing our children's dreams. So we signed up for Rabbit Wrangling I through IV, including Bun Runs--when all the rabbits jump around freely as visitors pat them--and a "Bunny Spa," where we learned brushing, toe nail clipping and how to clean out rabbits' scent glands. I could pass on that last one, but one more item my life's resume!
That was the best part. We met other child/parent teams, who mostly wanted to care for an animal that is prey to almost every other creature. We needed to attend a lot of bun runs, since Beth wanted to photograph the bunnies in action. It required a lot of patience on her part. After all, you can't say, "Sit!" and offer a treat. Sometimes I arrived thinking, oh, I have so much to do at home, but often got caught up in watching the funny antics.
I noticed each rabbit had a unique personality. Sunday, a black lop with a white heart on her nose, would run and skid to a halt—and Calamity Jack loved the attention of children. We all rejoiced the day he got a home! Our new friends loved the video clip where Beth's voice said, "Come on Mig, run through the tunnel." And he did!
I noticed something else. The times when I had a hard time letting go of whatever it was that troubled my mind, it seemed the rabbits never came near. When I let go of wearisome thoughts, it seemed that was when a little furry creature quietly, and at first unnoticed, came by my side.
"Last Friday Night—The Bunny Edition" with parody lyrics to the song by Katy Pery is finally finished and ready to launch on Animal Friends' YouTube. We plan to continue volunteering with the bunnies. We no longer rush by them on our way to visit the dogs or cats. And I will always treasure our memories of our "Year of the Rabbits" and their lessons in gentleness, as well as patience, they taught both of us.
Click here to watch Beth's video and then visit www.ThinkingOutsideTheCage.org for a list of all the events happening during Adopt a Shelter Rabbit Month. Join us for one, two or all of our great bunny events. It's sure to be a hoppin' good time!
Happy Tails: Kasper went home with our own Jeff!


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This fall we had two groups of divers out to Port Hardy. The first group consisted of Darren Lloyd, Darron Froese and Ryan Denbigh who were doing there Decompression Procedures training. We also had Greg McCuaig who is a Technical Divemaster and did video recording of the students training. Leigh - Ann McCuaig and TL Kokot formed the team dedicated to marine life photography in the greater depths of the pass.
The second group we saw Leon Borbandy and Jeff Damberger doing mixed gas dives in Browning Pass. Jeff and Leon were a fantastic buddy team and reached the depths usually only Gorgonian Coral sees. Greg McCuaig and I were not long to follow on our rEvo closed circuit rebreathers.


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Manchester Police Warnings: Victim Blaming, Sexual Violence and the Myth of the 'Monster'
We need to turn our attention to men's behaviour rather than policing women's. I don't care if a woman choses to walk alone at night, I care that so many men are assaulting women.
Georgia Rigg
Manchester based youth worker and feminist activist
09/03/2016 05:19am GMT | Updated March 9, 2017
There is a man sexually assaulting young women in Manchester City Centre at night. This is information that the public, especially young women, need to know. But telling women not to go out at night unaccompanied, as Greater Manchester Police have done, is an absurd, insulting suggestion. Targeting women's behaviour, as the result of men's sexual violence, is a classic example of victim blaming. In this 'warning', the woman is the subject; it's up to her, now she's been given this information, to make the right, safe decision (i.e. not to venture out alone).
What of the women who have no choice but to be unaccompanied at night; those working night shifts, those who can't afford a taxi home? Encouraging women not go out at night only puts the women who have no choice but to do so at greater risk.
The police may argue that these recent series of assaults are exceptional, due to there being one suspected perpetrator. Therefore, this 'special warning' is necessary. But unfortunately, sexual violence isn't exceptional, and the police of all people should know this. Violence and sexual violence is something a staggering number of women experience in their lives; from street harassment, to domestic abuse. This warning from the police implies that once they catch this 'monster', all women can return safely to the streets at night. But it won't end when he's caught, and it started before he began. Violence towards women is pandemic, and should be treated as such.
The streets stopped feeling safe for me when I hit adolescence, and this is the same for the majority of women I know. But that's our reality; and we mentally and physically prepare ourselves for that every time we enter these spaces. When I walk alone at night, I carry my keys in my hand, I pretend to be on the phone, I never have my headphones in, I check behind me on a regular basis, I stay alert, I stay ready. For myself and many of the women I know; being followed is not a rarity, being heckled, grabbed or worse. But this isn't restricted to night time. Ironically, the worst case of sexual assault I've experienced in public has been in broad daylight.
So, what's the police's advice for me? Perhaps not only should I stay accompanied in public at night, but during the day too? Perhaps I shouldn't leave the house without my partner? Perhaps I shouldn't leave my house at all? But statistics show the vast majority of sexual and physical violence towards women is perpetrated by their partner or family member, within the home (and the police should know this, they've been 'nearly overwhelmed' by the recent spike in domestic violence incidents). So, what are our options, when it seems our mere existence as women puts us at risk of abuse, no matter where we are?
Why is this happening? And women aren't the only survivors and victims of men's abuse; the overwhelming majority of violent or sexually violent offences are committed by men - both against women, men and children. We should be interrogating why this is, instead of putting women under the spotlight. And instead of telling women what to do, we should be listening to them. Most women don't need to be told by men how to stay safe; ever since hitting adolescence (and for many from much younger) they've been navigating how to stay safe around men. Men need to listen to women about their everyday experiences of sexism, harassment and violence, and then they need to step up and take action.
It's men that should be policing each other's behaviour, questioning themselves, their friends, their colleagues. The calling out of inappropriate behaviour, be that in the office or the nightclub, should become the norm. If misogynistic behaviour was as taboo as a women wearing a short skirt or walking alone at night, perhaps we'd be in a very different situation.
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YOUSUF KARSH: Portrait Photographer Extraordinare
Date: June 22, 2018Author: billdobbins 0 Comments
YOUSUF KARSH:
Portrait Photographer Extraordinare
A self portrait by Yousuf Karsh
Since painting evolved to focus on realistic representations of reality many hundreds of years ago, creating portraits of contemporary individuals became a major subject for artists. Being commissioned to create portraits was an important source of income for painters over the centuries. These portraits might be of groups, government and religious institutions or wealthy individuals for whom having portraits done by famous artists was an indication of status. We know of many instances where kings and queens were looking to marry but had never seen the proposed husband or wife necessitating that emissaries be dispatched bearing portraits to show what the prospective betrothed looked like.
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Portraits for centuries were the mainstay of a painter's work.
Photography changed all this. Once photographs were available starting in 1839, what somebody looked like could be captured with the click of a shutter. A painted portrait remained a status symbol throughout the 19th century, but over time this became less and less important. Today, having your portrait painted is no longer the common occurrence it used to be.
However, a portrait by a painter allows for the artist to inject a great deal of subjective interpretation in terms of portraying character and personality. This is more difficult when it comes to photography. The photographer has control over things like costume, posing, setting and lighting, but far less ability to capture things like character and personality. And yet the best portrait photographers manage to do this despite the technical obstacles and their portraits often become so iconic that they establish in our minds how we view and what we think the subjects of those portraits.
Ernest Hemingway, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1957
Princess Grace – AKA Grace Kelly – photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1956
The master of this kind of portrait was Yousuf Karsh. Karsh was born into an Armenian family in 1908 in what was then the Ottoman Empire. In 1923 his family sent him to Canada to live with his maternal uncle George Nakashian (Nakash), who was a portrait photographer. Karsh worked for his uncle who taught him photography. He gave Karsh his first camera – a Box Brownie.
This was an amazing example of talent meeting opportunity and lead to Karsh becoming the most celebrated portrait photographer of the 20th century – and one of the great photographic artists of all time.
Fidel Castro, photographed by Yousuf Karsh
Martin Luther King, Jr. – photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1962.
From 1928 to 1931, Karsh apprenticed in Boston, Massachusetts for John H. Garo, the most prominent Armenian photographer in America at the time, who had made a name for himself photographing Boston celebrities. Karsh opened his own studio in Ottawa in 1932 and began developing the lighting techniques for which he would become famous and which would be so often emulated.
Here is a description of Karsh's lighting techniques by Gerry Le Roux:
Karsh's mastery of studio lighting was legendary, and he has become associated with a number of distinctive lighting techniques. Lighting the face, Karsh often used two lights placed somewhat behind his subject, on either side, resulting in light bouncing off the sides of both sides of the face, towards the camera. This lighting setup resulted in distinctive highlights on both sides of the subject's face, with the centre of the face slightly darker.
Another unique Karsh trait was to very pertinently light his model's hands, often with a separate light dedicated to illuminating the hands. In this way he elevated the hands from being mere appendages to being 'stars' in their own right in the portrait.
All his classic portraits were shot on a large format Calumet camera dating from the 1940s.
This photo of Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh in 1941 helped make the photographer and international celebrity and resulted in an image that would help define Churchill for the rest of his life.
The photograph that catapulted Yousuf Karsh into stardom was one he did of Winston Churchill in 1941. Churchill was visiting Canada and was brought into the room where Karsh had set up his lights. Only nobody had informed Churchill about being photographed and he was very aggravated. However, he reluctantly agreed to the sitting but lit a cigar and refused to put it down. Eventually, Karsh stepped up and apologetically took the cigar from Churchill's mouth, then snapped the photo. The resulting glowering look that on Churchill's face has made this image the quintessential and most iconic photo of the great man.
Over time, Karsh photographed everyone from Popes to presidents, artists to scholars, movie stars and famous musicians. His archives contain a history of who's who in the 20th century. He also photographed other photographers like Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Man Ray and Alfred Eisenstaedt. When asked if there was anyone he regretted not having been able to photograph his answer was: Chairman Mao.
General Dwight Eisenhower photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1946 at the end of WWII before Eisenhower became president.
Painter Pablo Picasso photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1954
Albert Einstein photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1948
Karsh style of portraiture was iconic and monumental. The people in his photos look substantial and have a three dimensional volume. This was a very different approach than that which became fashionable later one, with an emphasis on a more candid and casual approach, more lifestyle than formal portrait.
This is even more the case today, in the age of the digital image.
Karsh approached doing portraits with more of an intent to reveal the human spirit in his subjects, rather than deliberately attempt to glamorize them – although his photos often do this as well. Contrast this with the work of another great photographer George Hurrell, who did portraits of movie stars in the 1930s and 1940s with the explicit purpose of making them look as glamorous and larger-than-life as possible. Here you have two great photographers, both masters of studio lighting, each having created iconic portraits, but having very different artistic goals.
Audrey Hepburn photographed in 1956 by Yousuf Karsh
Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1946.
Princess Elizabeth photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1951 before she became Queen Elizabeth II
Yousuf Karsh was widely published during his career and his photos are collected in a number of very significant books. His work appears in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Canada.
Today, with so many millions of images being shot on various digital devices and uploaded to websites and social media platforms, the importance of any single photo has tended to be watered down and often "lost in the noise." Photography has become more democratic, something anybody can do with little or no training and not much craft. There are still a few photographers who shoot for major magazines and advertising agencies, such as Annie Leibovitz, whose work is important because it is used by commercial interests where a great deal of investment is involved. If you have a five million dollar magazine ad buy in the works getting and paying for the most effective photos possible is a necessity.
But despite the ubiquity of digital images that are flooding the world there is still room for really well crafted, artistic photos that continue the tradition of great images and fantastic portraits represented by photographers like Yousuf Karsch.
How important was he? Once he had the opportunity to photograph Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, military hero of World War II. Montgomery emerged from the session beaming. "I've just been Karshed," he said with delight. In many ways, during his career you really hadn't made it until you were photographed by Yousuf Karsh.
Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, photo by Yousuf Karsh
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Self portrait of Yousuf Karsh. His photographs are generally better known than his name but he deserves to be remembered and appreciated.
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European club cup competitions are set to be suspended after the French government advised its clubs not to participate in cross-border matches due to the variant of the coronavirus which has skyrocketed the transmission rate in Great Britain. Brittany – but he will wait before deciding whether France should postpone their Six Nations games.
The French Sports Ministry on Thursday met the organizers of the Champions and Challenge Cups, the European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) and the Top 14 of the National Rugby League (LNR) after some French clubs called for a boycott of the competitions Europeans to protest against the test regime.
The ministry said on Saturday: "The French government is moving, in the short term, to adopting measures to restrict or even ban the participation of French team sports clubs in matches including teams from the United Kingdom.
"The Ministry of Sports wrote this weekend to the LNR to invite it to postpone the next matches between French clubs and British clubs, in accordance with the wishes expressed by several professional French rugby clubs in recent days.
Bayonne, which last weekend said it was not filling its last two Challenge Cup matches after a Covid-19 outbreak that followed their visit to Leicester three weeks ago, called for a boycott with Toulon , who was angry with them. punished after refusing to play the Scarlets last month.
French clubs wanted tests to be carried out 72 hours before a game rather than at the start of the week, alongside the adoption of the Top 14 rule that if at least three players test positive the affected club finds itself in isolation and do not play. until the next round of testing.
The EPCR agreed to make changes and believed it had LNR's support on Thursday for the two tournaments, which were due to resume on Friday, to continue. The intervention of the French government, which the NRL has indicated it would accept, has changed the situation.
The EPCR said on Saturday evening that it would seek to continue discussions with the NRL. "No directive has been given and the NRL has been asked by the French government for its position on the protocols of its clubs participating in EPCR tournaments in the context of the recent detection of a new strain of coronavirus in France.
"The EPCR will now discuss this matter with the NRL as soon as possible before making any further comments."
The EPCR has already started making plans in case the top 14 clubs are pulled out of the next two rounds. He will suspend competitions and seek to reorganize the games.
It's a relentless season, but with the next two weekends likely to be free, the NRL and Pro14, which started before the Premiership, plan to use the space to revamp matches postponed due to the virus.
The Premiership has adopted a cancellation policy as there is no time to play postponed matches in a campaign that started more than two months late. He faces the prospect, along with his broadcast partner, BT Sport, of two weekends without action. He would have the option of postponing two rounds to allow Europe to resume later in the season.
"What we do from a Premiership point of view will be interesting if the next two sets are called off," said Dean Richards, Newcastle rugby manager, after his team's victory over Gloucester at Kingston Park on Saturday. Premiership Rugby said he would wait for a statement from the EPCR before commenting, but while there are no matches on both weekends, it wasn't just the Saracen players who joined the English side after have gone weeks without playing.
French officials repeatedly referred to England during Thursday's meeting and Saturday's statement made no reference to Italy or Ireland, France's first two opponents at the Six Nations. They are not expected to meet part of the British mainland until the last day of February, when Scotland is due to travel to Paris. They will face England at Twickenham on March 13.
When asked about its intention to pressure the UK government to speak to the French about the Six Nations, the Rugby Football Union said its position was that the tournament would go ahead as planned.
One of the reasons the French were worried about the next two rounds of Europe was that his clubs would be involved in 20 matches against teams from England, Scotland and Wales. France would have three matches against teams that would evolve in a bubble, unlike clubs whose players return home after training. The threat to the Six Nations is the virus rather than the French government as the death toll rises across Europe.
Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce said on Friday he thought it was morally wrong for elite-level football to continue, asking what would be considered serious enough to put the sport on hold. With the British and Irish Lions' tour of South Africa uncertain, it may be possible to push the Six Nations away in the summer. But that would be a decision made by broadcasters and could imply a reduction in revenues for a financially struggling sport.
As one administrator said on Saturday, "It's dangerous to plan ahead because you don't know what the job will be next week, let alone a few months from now. You can only wait and see. "
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New chapter of my Urban Geometry series. Last September I had the chance to revisit Copenhagen and it's amazing how many interesting architecture and urban landscapes this city has to offer. If you like the project don't forget to check previous chapters of Alicante, Paris, Berlin, Tallinn, Vilnius, Hamburg, Bremen, Tartu, Milano, Malmo, Helsinki or Copenhagen.


The sixty-three essays in this anthology highlight the profound impact of global health experiences and illustrate the perspectives of undergraduate students, health science trainees, and young doctors working in international health systems, revealing their expectations, ideals, biases, limitations, and ambitions. The goal of this text is to encourage learners to become critical reflectors, and to nurture fully reflective health professionals with the ability to learn from experience after formal training. Moving beyond sayings like, "They have so little, but they're so happy," and "All you need is love," the essays take a systematic, reflective approach to experiences in global health.


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"Swarm" is a science fiction novelette by Bruce Sterling, and his first magazine sale (his previous publications were either novels or anthology contributions). It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1982, and later republished in the 1989 collection Crystal Express as well as the 1999 collection The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition. "Swarm" was nominated for the Nebula,  Hugo and Locus Awards.

"Swarm" is the first published work in Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist universe.

In 2022, "Swarm" was adapted as an animated short in Netflix's anthology Love, Death & Robots (vol III, episode 32).

Plot summary
The Shaper Captain-Doctor Simon Afriel, a passenger in an Investor ship, arrives at an asteroid in another solar system to study a colony of a non-intelligent species known as the Swarm. Their society has an insect-like hierarchy with a queen and different castes, and also hosts some degenerated alien species known with a common name as symbiotes which live as parasites or in commensal relationships with the others.

Afriel plans to stay for two years and study the Swarm, together with another Shaper called Galina Mirny who was already there. Their intentions are partly to prevent the Mechanists from benefiting from it, and partly to find a way to use the hive pheromones to control and manipulate the species, so that they can establish a colony in their own solar system with Swarm that work for them.

Once on-board the hive at first seems to take no notice of the visitors. But when they start experimenting with artificial pheromones this creates a chemical imbalance that triggers the colony's instinctive mechanisms, who recognize it as a sign of the presence of intelligence. The queen lays an egg that develops into a new form which is vigorously protected during development. Once fully developed it is revealed to be a new caste with superior intelligence and a well developed genetic memory derived from multiple species. It reveals that all the other castes have only sufficient intelligence to perform their assigned roles. The new form, that refers to itself as Swarm for the lack of a better name, is another reflection of the nest, a specialized form that serves the nest in its assigned role.

Swarm acts as part of the superorganism's immune system, and sees unbound intelligence as self-destructive and its presence as a threat to the survival of the colony in the long run. It reveals that humans are not the first race who have invaded the place. Fifteen other intelligent species have done so on precedent occasions and become symbiotes, new members of the colony. When it happens, the representatives of the species that are present are assimilated and become part of the alien society's genetic collective. Using the same principles as the creation of antibodies through a vaccine, the added genetic material gives birth to numerous superior and loyal individuals of the assimilated race, who will attack and deal with the "infection" the next time their previous kinship arrives and tries to invade the Swarm.

The symbiotes will then gradually degenerate over the following generations, becoming less and less intelligent until their intellect disappears completely and they become nothing more than genetic memories of their ancestors with no other purpose in existence than survival itself, like DNA remnants from microbes that once invaded a species' genome. And they will be the only surviving descendants of their race according to Swarm, because racial immortality is only possible without intelligence. Based on Swarm's experiences, a race "infected" with intelligence only lasts for a few thousand years, and is then never heard from again:

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Short stories by Bruce Sterling
1982 short stories

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