An award-winning restaurant and bar with a strong focus on local and organic ingredients is always a great pick, especially for the environmentally conscious Flagstaff scene. The extensive wine list, variety of beers, and unique range of craft cocktails definitely don't hurt either.
Local is key at Agustin Kitchen, where you'll be greeted with an "all domestic" wine list (you'll even find some Arizona wines!) and plenty of local draft beers. However, no great bar would be complete without craft cocktails, and fortunately Agustin Kitchen serves nearly 20 to choose from.
There's no better place in America's largest ghost town than the aptly named Spirit Room. It's your one stop shop for live entertainment, great drinks, and a lot of fun in a small-town, unpretentious environment.
If you're looking for a great beer, you're in luck, because at Noble Hops you have 175 to choose from. Yes, 175. While trying all of those will probably keep you busy for a while, you still have the option of trying one of its wines, or anything else you can dream up from its full-service bar.
Bitter and Twisted is a clear Phoenix favorite. Despite the fact it just opened in Downtown Phoenix last year, it's already a staple and has been awarded the title of "best cocktail bar" by numerous sources. While you can stop in for some beer and wine, it would be shame not to take advantage of some of the creative, one-of-a-kind liver destruction it's created.
The Museum Club is one part bar, one part country music venue, and all parts fun. It's the kind of place everyone in the area seems to have a story about, and it's not surprising given its historic background -- the bar is housed in a building that was built in 1931!
No list of great bars would be complete without a classic sports bar -- cue our shining example: The Moon Saloon. This spot exceeds all expectations with a killer happy hour, friendly staff, classic drinks, and did we mention sports?
Flights of beer, local wines, and top-notch craft cocktails make Good Oak Bar a must-visit Tucson establishment, and as if the great drinks weren't enough to keep you, the fun and upscale, yet casual atmosphere makes for an environment you'll want to visit a lot more.
During the day, Prescott is a beautiful artsy town with frequent craft fairs, beautiful historic sites, and a calm, quiet atmosphere. At night, it's a different story -- especially on Whiskey Row. To get your night started off right, we recommend stopping by the renowned Bird Cage Saloon, where you'll find taxidermied animals, great live acts, and stiff drinks.
It's pretty much impossible to have a bad time in Havasu, but in case you want to guarantee the time of your life, sipping a cold beer while looking out on the London Bridge isn't a bad idea. Barley Bros was the first microbrewery in Havasu, and needless to say it has brewing down to a fine art -- save yourself the regret and get the sampler so you can test them all.
There's nothing quite like an Irish bar, and while not in Ireland, Irish Wolfhound is able to come pretty close to the real deal with a great selection of beers that perfectly complement the authentic Irish fare. To get the full experience, try out the Irish beer flight, which includes 6oz of Guinness, Smithwick's, and Harp.
If high class is your thing, this is your spot. You can expect an elegant atmosphere complete with chandeliers, a view of the city, Champagne cocktails, and of course, plenty of top-quality bottles of wine.
Oak Creek Brewery & Grill is known, especially in Northern Arizona, for its delicious beers crafted by Oak Creek Brewing Co., which opened its doors back in 1993. The restaurant, which opened nearly a decade later in 2001, offers undeniably good food, but the award-winning, seasonal beers are the real draw.


On January 17, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security modified its existing regulations to enhance job portability for holders of certain work visas. It created a formal 60-day grace period that may allow some highly skilled workers—whose employment has ended—the opportunity to retain their status, get new job offers, and either extend their stay in the same classification or change visa classifications under a new employer.
According to the H-1B lawyers at Berd & Klauss, PLLC in New York City, these amendments affect workers with E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1, and TN status. If these individuals are terminated or laid off before the end of their eligibility period, they may be able to find a new employer, after which a new petition must be filed with the United States Customs and Immigration Services. Before the new petition is approved, DHS will determine whether the facts and available evidence support authorizing a grace period for the individual, or whether the petition will be denied.
A few pieces of evidence the DHS may find compelling is the reason for termination and the individual's justification for not immediately leaving the country. For example, workers who were involuntarily terminated or laid off have a better chance than those who voluntarily left their positions. DHS will also likely approve the grace period and petition if you have a home that must be sold, children in school, or other ties to the community that make immediately departing the country impractical.
The H-1B lawyers at Berd & Klauss, PLLC have an in-depth understanding of the H-1B immigration system, which they have used for the benefit of clients from around the world. They stay up-to-date on the most recent changes to immigration law, allowing them to provide the most effective legal services possible. Visit their website to see their list of comprehensive services, follow their Facebook for more updates, or call (212) 461-7152 for a consultation today.


Tomorrow it happens. Mutineer Magazine will make a statement with its official National Launch Party at Falcon Hollywood. If you haven't been able to tell, we are very into the return of absinthe, and will be featuring Obsello Absinthe at the Launch Party.
Obsello Absinthe joined the mutiny very early on, just after Issue #1 came out. We we're two fine beverage companies finding our way into the world together, and we are pumped to be sharing their incredible absinthe with the attendees at our Launch Party.
If you'll be attending the Launch Party yourself, you'll also get to check out an advance copy of Mutineer Magazine Issue 6, which features five leading absinthes on the cover as chosen by the Wormwood Society.
Rick Keyes says it was a great gig last night. Lots of good drinks and met a lot of interesting people. First time ever for Absinthe. Pretty darn good but no hallucinations in fact I think I still have both my ears. What??? Great job JJ and Mutineer crew and best of luck with your new mag. Check the Rick Keyes ad in the magazine and listen to my show especially if you like independent radio .


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La «plaza de Santo Domingo» se denominan a un tipo de vía pública (plaza) que el órgano competente se encargó de nombrarla en honor a un santo católico, bien a Santo Domingo de la Calzada, bien a Santo Domingo de Guzmán.

Plazas en diferentes localizaciones

Colombia
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias.

España
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Granada;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Guadalajara;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de León;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, o de San Domingos, en la ciudad de Lugo;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Madrid;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Murcia;
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Vitoria.

Ecuador
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Quito.

México
 Plaza de Santo Domingo, en la Ciudad de México.

Perú
 Plazoleta Santo Domingo, en la ciudad de Cusco.

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UConn is blown out by Villanova.
Tulane lost to Alabama A&M.
Conference runner up Memphis lost to a terrible Wake Forest team.
Houston is getting embarrassed by Army.
And it is only 5:30pm.
The American definitely not rising so far today.
Cornell 21 at the half.
Local Arkansas sports talk hosts were ruing not having Whitt on their team this year.
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Works for the Expansion of the Ljubljana Airport Passenger Terminal Begin
Published: 3.9.2019
A development priority for the airport is the new passenger terminal that will eliminate bottlenecks and improve standards for both passengers and employees. The project, which is planned to be carried out in two years, has begun this summer.
As Fraport Slovenija's managing director, Zmago Skobir, explained: "These well-considered investments in infrastructure will improve standards for passengers and other airport users, while at the same time they will improve the competitive position of Ljubljana Airport."
The existing passenger terminal will be rearranged and reconstructed and will remain in use even after the new one is opened. 10,000 m² of new floor space will be added, including a new departure hall, 14 check-in desks (making 22 in total), five lines for security inspections and two baggage carousels in the first phase of reconstruction, with a new baggage sorting area, a large duty free shop, a new business salon, and renovated restaurants and promotion areas to follow. Capacity will be increased from 500 to 1,250 passengers per hour. The plan for the arrangement of outside areas in front of the terminal envisages green spaces, a spacious short-term parking area, and an adequate number of parking spaces for taxis, shuttles and buses. A corridor will connect the expanded new part with the existing areas and will be ready for use by the summer of 2021.
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National parks are often seen as the holy grail for outdoor enthusiasts, offering the full smorgasbord of hiking, camping, climbing and water recreation. But there are certainly many gorgeous places in the world that are less traveled and often overlooked by outdoor recreation enthusiasts.
This stretch of beach has been overlooked by developers and remains mostly untouched. Unique rock formations inhabit the quiet beaches while wildlife are relatively easy to spot as they make their way around their mostly undeveloped surroundings.
For water lovers who can't quite make it to the coast for summer vacation, the Lake of the Ozarks is a paradise for fishermen. Bass, walleye and bluegill are booming year-round at this reservoir. With over 1,100 miles of shoreline, the Lake of the Ozarks offers plenty of off-water activities for those who aren't fishing-inclined.
New Braunfels is located near San Antonio and is home to a thriving community of water sport lovers. The climate here is warm almost year round, making it ideal for visitors and locals alike to enjoy the two rivers, the Comal and the Guadalupe. On top of fishing, people enjoy tubing, water skiing or rafting under the delightful Texas sun. New Braunfels is also home to the country's largest water park, Schlitterbahn, perfect for visitors who want to get away from the fresh water of the rivers and enjoy the park's many heart-pounding water slides.
Located between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, the Hammock Coast is more than just a beach hangout. It's riddled with kayaking, surfing and paddle-boarding opportunities. Rivers and tidal marshes are scattered throughout the region, making this a popular hangout for athletic locals. After a morning kayaking the lazy rivers of the coast, visitors will find plenty of space to lounge on Pawley's Island, which has remained free of commercial development, making it a true beach getaway.
Minnesota is severely underrated in the outdoor activities respect, but Gunflint Trail can fix that perception. Honeymoon Bluff is just a short 20 minute hike that will afford stunning views of the colorful sunsets as it overlooks Hungry Jack and West Bearskin Lakes. The Border Route Trail (BRT) is made up of over 70 miles of trails with shorter spurs for day hikers or off-trail camping opportunities for overnight hikers. The Gunflint Trail is also known for its moose sightings, earning the right as being one of the best places in Minnesota to sight the burly beast. Gunflint Trail cabins are a great option for both couples and families looking to enjoy the outdoors.
Just off the infamous Route 66, the "Indian 18" takes travelers along 65 miles that eventually end up at Hualapi Hilltop in the Grand Canyon. From there, hikers should put on their boots and make sure they have their swimming suits because after a 10 mile hike, Havasu Falls comes into view. These waterfalls offer startlingly turquoise waters that can put the most tropical beaches to shame.
Outdoor enthusiasts who seek out little known vacation destinations are rewarded with unsullied landscapes and little to no crowds. Skipping the popularity of national parks affords visitors the opportunity to do and see things in the peaceful tranquility of nature, which is the penultimate experience for nature lovers.


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SA ERP provider integrates new capabilities into new offering
DEIDRE FRYER A continuous, real-time flow of data makes production and business processes visible, predictable and controllable
By: Schalk Burger
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor
South African enterprise resource planning (ERP) multinational Syspro's Version 8 offers artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT) platforms and analytics as part of its capabilities to allow for near real-time monitoring of all aspects of a business.
Syspro Africa product manager Deidre Fryer says that the purpose of the capabilities, which can be deployed as cloud services, Web-based or on-premise, is to transform the system of record into a system of engagement. The company focuses on the manufacturing and distribution sectors.
"Users can get real-time insights into business operations as the numbers come in and keep a pulse on the organisation. Significant effort has been put into improving intuitiveness and surfacing business insights that improve productivity, promote collaboration and encourage workplace autonomy," she highlights.
Specifically, the company has applied AI to the user interface, which enables it to present potentially useful information to users. The interface is integrated with other processes and information flows, and is personalised according to the role a person fulfils and personal preferences.
"AI and predictive analytics are used to reveal trends that provide actionable insight. As with social media, popular trending information can be useful to an organisation to understand what entities are trending within the data and so that it can provide the user with a view of data that may not have ordinarily been identified.
"Vast quantities of structured and unstructured data are aggregated and processed to reveal trends and offer recommendations on actions to be taken," she says.
Further, the Syspro Harmony capability provides a social media-type user interface and improves collaboration within the network of the organisation.
"It provides the equivalent of a newsfeed or notifications and auto-populates conversations with relevant information, based on key ERP components the user chooses to 'follow'. The system intelligently pushes information to the user, alerting the user of activities related to those components," says Fryer.
A Web version of Syspro, Avanti, is available on any device and any platform anywhere. It is designed to run Syspro's applications in a private or public cloud, and can also be deployed on-premise.
The Avanti interface is designed to be intuitive, flexible and simple to use. It uses the latest Hypertext Markup Language 5 technologies and delivers an uncluttered, simple interface, akin to browsing the Web, she says.
"This innovation surfaces insights that drive business behaviour by showing the most critical parts of customer accounts in one snapshot. Predictive searching anticipates queries and issues ahead of time and allows for one screen with actionable insights to be presented."
Additionally, role-based workbenches provide users with digital tools and information needed to perform their roles efficiently and effectively.
The Business Insights capability provides instant insight into status, key performance indicators, and measures and actions required to improve business behaviour.
"A continuous, real-time flow of data provides information and actionable insights that make production and business processes increasingly visible, predictable and controllable."
The open reporting application interface of the Syspro Version 8 improves collaboration by providing document generation and distribution for external systems and integrated systems, simultaneously reducing duplication.
"Syspro 8 is designed to provide and support the latest business and manufacturing technologies, from multicurrency accounts for financial use to IoT for manufacturing and AI to provide deeper insight into every transaction," Fryer concludes.
Edited by: Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor
EOH sells 70% of Construction Computer Software to RIB Software
JSE-listed information technology company EOH has sold 70% of the shares of Construction Computer Software (CCS), held by subsidiary EOH Mthombo, to Frankfurt Stock Exchange-listed construction and building software company RIB Software for R444.39-million. EOH on Tuesday said the deal represented 8.5 times CCS's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. →
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Restormel Mind helps support people with mental health needs in Cornwall and is based around the St Austell, Newquay and Bodmin areas. If you are interested in joining in with any of our groups, to make friends and enjoy some fun activities, you will find everyone is very encouraging and keen to see new faces. Let us give you a helping hand towards a change in your life.
Our Befriending and Wellbeing Schemes provide support to a variety of groups.
..then think about coming along to one of our groups which can provide support and friendship in a relaxed, safe and friendly environment. There's usually something of interest to everyone.
You can find all the groups listed on our home page. Groups are run with the help of a sessional worker, volunteers and group members.


List of all possible return values for 'conditions' field?
Is there a way to get a list of all possible values of the 'conditions' field of the forecast10day query? Use case: I am trying to map "Partly Cloudy" or "Clear" fields to different states of my app, but I cant find a complete list of condition codes anywhere.


Once again this delicious Ancient Vine Zinfandel comes from the esteemed Ferrero Vineyard in Amador County. Planted in 1902, these old and gnarly head-pruned vines express aromas of blackberry brambles and ripe raspberry, which evolve into a medley of baked berry notes with hints of clove and all spice. The finish is rich with a marked jammy note in counterbalance with good acidity. Enjoy for the next 3-5 years.


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This article is about a star mapping project. For the astronomy software with a similar name, see Cartes du Ciel.
The Sydney 'Star Camera' used in the Carte du Ciel project, original publication, 1892http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/OPAC/40430.pdf
The Carte du Ciel (literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of millions of stars as faint as 11th or 12th magnitude. Twenty observatories from around the world participated in exposing and measuring more than 22,000 (glass) photographic plates in an enormous observing programme extending over several decades. Despite, or because of, its vast scale, the project was only ever partially successful – the Carte du Ciel component was never completed, and for almost half a century the Astrographic Catalogue part was largely ignored. However, the appearance of the Hipparcos Catalogue in 1997 has led to an important development in the use of this historical plate material.
Participating observatories and stars measured in the context of the Astrographic Catalogue[1]
(Zone)
Greenwich +90° +65° 1892–1905 179,000
Vatican +64° +55° 1895–1922 256,000
Catania +54° +47° 1894–1932 163,000
Helsinki +46° +40° 1892–1910 159,000
Potsdam +39° +32° 1893–1900 108,000
Hyderabad north +39° +36° 1928–1938 149,000
Uccle +35° +34° 1939–1950 117,000
Oxford 2 +33° +32° 1930–1936 117,000
Paris +24° +18° 1891–1927 253,000
Bordeaux +17° +11° 1893–1925 224,000
Toulouse +10° +05° 1893–1935 270,000
Algiers +04° −02° 1891–1911 200,000
San Fernando −03° −09° 1891–1917 225,000
Tacubaya −10° −16° 1900–1939 312,000
Hyderabad south −17° −23° 1914–1929 293,000
Córdoba −24° −31° 1909–1914 309,000
Perth −32° −37° 1902–1919 229,000
Perth/Edinburgh −38° −40° 1903–1914 139,000
Cape Town −41° −51° 1897–1912 540,000
Sydney −52° −64° 1892–1948 430,000
Melbourne −65° −90° 1892–1940 218,000
1 Origins and goals
2 The Astrographic Catalogue
3 The Carte du Ciel
4 Combination of the Astrographic Catalogue with Hipparcos
6 Other Links
Origins and goals[edit]
A vast and unprecedented international star-mapping project was initiated in 1887 by Paris Observatory director Amédée Mouchez, who realized the potential of the new dry plate photographic process to revolutionize the process of making maps of the stars. As a result of the Astrographic Congress of more than 50 astronomers held in Paris in April 1887, 20 observatories from around the world agreed to participate in the project, and two goals were established:
For the first, the Astrographic Catalogue, the entire sky was to be photographed to 11 mag to provide a reference catalogue of star positions that would fill the magnitude gap between those previously observed by transit and meridian circle instrument observations down to 8 mag – this would provide the positions of a reasonably dense network of star positions which could in turn be used as a reference system for the fainter survey component (the Carte du Ciel). Different observatories around the world were charged with surveying specific declination zones (see table). The Astrographic Catalogue plates, of typically 6 minutes exposure, were in due course photographed, measured, and published in their entirety. They yielded a catalogue of positions and magnitudes down to about 11.5 mag, and the programme was largely completed during the first quarter of the 20th century.
For the second goal, a second set of plates, with longer exposures but minimal overlap, was to photograph all stars to 14 mag. These plates were to be reproduced and distributed as a set of charts, the Carte du Ciel, in contrast to previous sky charts which had been constructed from the celestial coordinates of stars observed by transit instruments. Most of the Carte du Ciel plates used three exposures of 20 minutes duration, displaced to form an equilateral triangle with sides of 10 arcsec, making it easy to distinguish stars from plate flaws, and asteroids from stars.
A fascinating contemporary account of this vast international astronomical collaboration, published in 1912, is given by H.H. Turner, then Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University.[2] Other aspects are covered in various papers in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium Number 133 held in 1988.[3]
The Astrographic Catalogue[edit]
Catalogue photographique du Ciel I–VIII published by Helsinki University Observatory in 1937.
For the Astrographic Catalogue, 20 observatories from around the world participated in exposing and measuring more than 22,000 glass plates (see table). Around half of the observatories ordered telescopes from the Henry brothers (Paul and Prosper) in France, with others coming from the factory of Howard Grubb of Dublin.[4] These telescopes were termed normal astrographs with an aperture of around 13 inches (33 cm) and a focal length of 11 feet (3.4 m) designed to create images with a uniform scale on the photographic plate of approximately 60 arcsecs/mm while covering a 2° × 2° field of view. Each observatory was assigned a specific declination zone to photograph. The first such plate was taken in August 1891 at the Vatican Observatory (where the exposures took more than 27 years to complete), and the last in December 1950 at the Ukkel Observatory (Brussels), with most observations being made between 1895 and 1920. To compensate for plate defects, each area of the sky was photographed twice, using a two-fold, corner-to-centre overlap pattern, extended at the zone boundaries, such that each observatory's plates would overlap with those of the adjacent zones. The participating observatories agreed to use a standardized telescope so that all plates had a similar scale of approximately 60 arcsec/mm. The measurable areas of the plates were 2.1°×2.1° (13 cm×13 cm), so the overlap pattern consisted of plates that were centred on every degree band in declination, but offset in right ascension by two degrees. Many factors, such as reference catalogue, reduction technique and print formats were left up to the individual institutions. The positional accuracy goal was 0.5 arcsec per image.
Plate measurement was a protracted affair, with measuring done by eye and recorded by hand. The plates were turned over to a large number of semi-skilled "computers" to determine the positions of the stars on each plate. (Before its modern meaning, the word "computer" meant a person who performs calculations). The "computers" would manually measure each star with respect to the dozen or so reference stars within that particular plate, and then perform calculations to determine the star's right ascension and declination. The original goal of 11 mag for the limiting magnitude was generally surpassed, however, with some observatories routinely measuring stars as faint as 13 mag. In total, some 4.6 million stars (8.6 million images) were observed. The brightest stars were over-exposed on the plates, not measured, and therefore missing in the resulting catalogues. The plate measurements (as rectangular coordinates), as well as the formulae to transform them to equatorial coordinates, were published in the original volumes of the Astrographic Catalogue, although the accompanying equatorial coordinates are now of only historical interest. Publication of the measurements proceeded from 1902 to 1964, and resulted in 254 printed volumes of raw data.
For decades the Astrographic Catalogue was largely ignored. The data were difficult to work with because they were available neither in machine-readable form nor in equatorial coordinates. Decades of labour were expended internationally before the project was superseded by modern astronomical techniques. One problem was that the work took much longer than expected. As originally envisaged, the project was meant to have taken only 10 to 15 years. A more serious problem was that while many European astronomers were preoccupied with this project, which required steady, methodical labor rather than creativity, in other parts of the world notably the United States astrophysics was becoming far more important than astrometry. As a result, French astronomy in particular fell behind and lagged for decades.
The Carte du Ciel[edit]
The still-more-ambitious Carte du Ciel component of the programme was undertaken by some of the participating observatories, but neither completed nor even started by others. The charts proved to be excessively expensive to photograph and reproduce, generally via engraved copper plates (photogravure), and many zones were either not completed or properly published. The plates which were taken generally still exist, but cover only half of the sky. They are typically archived at their original observatories. A very few plates have recently been re-measured and re-analysed with the availability of the Hipparcos Catalogue data (see below).
Combination of the Astrographic Catalogue with Hipparcos[edit]
The vast amount of work invested in the Astrographic Catalogue, taking plates, measuring, and publishing, looked for a long time as giving only a marginal scientific profit. But today, astronomers are very much indebted to this great effort because of the possibility of combining these century-old star positions with the results from ESA's Hipparcos space astrometry satellite, allowing high accuracy proper motions to be derived for 2.5 million stars. Specifically, the Astrographic Catalogue positions were transferred from the decades-old printed catalogues into machine readable form (undertaken at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow under the leadership of A. Kuzmin) between 1987 and 1994. The data were then reduced anew (at the US Naval Observatory in Washington under the leadership of Sean Urban), using the reference stars measured by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite.[5] The stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue were used to establish a detailed reference framework at the various epochs of the Astrographic Catalogue plates, while the 2.5 million stars in the Tycho-2 Catalogue provided a dense reference framework to allow the plate distortions to be accurately calibrated and corrected. The proper motions of all the Tycho Catalogue stars could then be derived especially thanks to the Astrographic Catalogue, but additionally using star positions from more than 140 other ground-based catalogues. Aside from the 120,000 stars of the Hipparcos Catalogue itself, the resulting Tycho-2 Catalogue (compiled at the Copenhagen University Observatory under the leadership of Erik Høg) is now the largest, most accurate and most complete, star catalogue of the brightest stars on the sky. It is currently the basis for deriving positions for all fainter stars on the sky. Sean Urban of the US Naval Observatory wrote in 1998:[5]
The history of the Astrographic Catalogue endeavour is one of dedicated individuals devoting tedious decades of their careers to a single goal. Some believe it is also the story of how the best European observatories of the 19th century lost their leadership in astronomical research by committing so many resources to this one undertaking. Long portrayed as an object lesson in overambition, the Astrographic Catalogue has more recently turned into a lesson in the way that old data can find new uses.
^ Source: http://ad.usno.navy.mil/proj/AC and A.Kuzmin et al. 1999 Astroonomy & Astrophysics Supplement, Vol.136, pp491-508
^ H.H. Turner, 1912 The Great Star Map, Being a Brief General Account of the International Project Known as the Astrographic Chart (John Murray)
^ Proceedings of IAU Symposium Number 133, Mapping the Sky, editor S. Debarbat, 1988
^ Jones, Derek (October 2000). "The scientific value of the Carte du Ciel". Astronomy & Geophysics. 41 (5): 16–20. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
^ a b Urban, Sean; Corbin, Thomas (June 1998). "The Astrographic Catalogue: A Century of Work Pays Off". Sky & Telescope. Vol. 95 no. 6. Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing Corporation. pp. 40–44. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
Other Links[edit]
Henry Chamberlain Russell for further details of the Australian contribution
[1] IAU Commission 8 Working Group, includes a photograph of nuns measuring the Vatican plate collection (1910–1921)
[2] Histoire de l'Observatoire de Toulouse (with a section on the Carte du Ciel)
[3] A compilation of historical material by the Palermo Observatory
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Astronomical catalogues
Astronomical catalogues of stars
Astronomical surveys


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Building knowledge, asking questions
Greg Ogrinc1,
Kaveh G Shojania2
1White River Junction VA, Community and Family Medicine, and Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
2University of Toronto, Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to Dr Greg Ogrinc, White River Junction VA, Quality Scholars, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA; greg.ogrinc@va.gov
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002703
In his recent book Ignorance: how it drives science, Stewart Firestein states, 'Knowledge is a big subject. Ignorance is bigger.'1 Firestein's book does not explore the ways of knowledge, but the mechanisms by which scientists work to develop and answer questions…which invariably lead to more questions. 'Not knowing' is a key driver of research and of quality improvement (QI). While research seeks to create new generalisable knowledge, QI often focuses on improving a specific aspect of healthcare delivery that is not consistently or appropriately implemented in a particular setting. A clinical researcher often asks questions such as, 'Is X a risk factor for Y?' or 'Is treatment A more effective than treatment B?' Those engaged in QI, by contrast, offer questions such as, 'Why does routine care delivery fall short of standards we know we can achieve?' or 'How can we close this gap between what we know can be achieved and what occurs in practice?'
There are multiple ways to ask questions, answer questions and build knowledge. In healthcare research, specific and well-described methods exist for the design, execution and analysis of defined questions. Questions regarding implementation in a specific setting, integrating evidence into practice, or improving the efficiency of local systems are often best answered using methods that differ from traditional methods of clinical research (eg, controlled clinical trials). While a number of formal methods exist for implementing QI in practice—the model for improvement, Lean or Six Sigma—all advocate the use of small tests of change. Small tests of change enable one to learn how a particular intervention works in a particular setting. The goal of these methods is not to test a hypothesis but rather to gain insight into the workings of a system and improve that system. The most common approach to developing and testing small tests of change is the plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycle.2
Theory versus reality for PDSA
One of the challenges with PDSA cycles is the substantial variability with which they are designed, executed and reported in the healthcare literature. Taylor et al3 review the reporting of the clarity of PDSA cycles in the literature. They found that fewer than 20% of papers documented a sequence of iterative cycles, and only about 15% of articles reported the use of quantitative data at monthly or more frequent intervals to inform the progression of cycles. The latter point is particularly troubling. Collecting data less frequently than monthly hardly seems like rapid cycle improvement. One core aim of the PDSA method consists of collecting and analysing data weekly, biweekly or monthly, thus allowing a team to identify what works and amplify it, while changing tactics for aspects of the intervention that are not working. Taylor et al show that most QI reports do not report data frequently enough, but it is not clear if the PDSA cycles were completed appropriately as recommended by QI theory or just not summarised appropriately in the articles.
Lecture, textbooks and review articles that teach about PDSA typically depict the cycles as a smooth progression, with each cycle seamlessly and iteratively building on the previous. As the number of cycles increases, their effectiveness and their overall cumulative effect strengthens (figure 1).2 However, those who have engaged in small tests of change quickly recognise that this pristine view of PDSA does not capture reality. As Tomolo et al4 have described, this type of work involves frequent 'false starts, miss firings, plateaus, regroupings, backsliding, feedback, and overlapping scenarios within the process.' Far from the commonly shown schematic of perfect circles rolling up the hill of change, they depict a complex tangle of a network in which the changes inexorably move to better performance (figure 2). This complex figure is unlikely to replace the PDSA diagrams that typically introduce the model to novices, but it appropriately captures the numerous starts, stops, backtracking and, often incomplete, cycles of change that occur in practice. It captures the inherent messiness of the work required to improve the quality, safety and value of care within our delivery systems.
Traditional view of successive plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles over time depicted as a linear process. Each preceding PDSA informs the next one. As time goes on, the complexity of each intervention and trial often increases.2
Revised conceptual model of plan–do–study–act (PDSA) methodology.4
If this more accurately describes the reality of the PDSA cycles, then perhaps this is too imprecise a method to build knowledge and to share with others? Some may advocate for more structure and precision in the PDSA cycles, so that the improvement methodology is 'cleaner' and more akin to research methodology. But, as Firestein states in Ignorance, new technologies and methods are often required to advance knowledge from its current state.1 Answering new questions does not occur by repeatedly using the same methodology (eg, applying the methods of clinical research to QI problems), but by applying methods appropriate for the questions ahead. The clinical trial has proved a remarkably powerful tool in advancing knowledge of effective diagnostic and treatment modalities, but this method is not often appropriate for answering QI questions. PDSA cycles, developed and used in industry for almost a century, are still relatively new in healthcare; so the planning, execution and reporting of PDSA cycles must be improved to share the learning that occurs while undertaking QI work.
Reporting PDSA in the literature
The Standards for QI Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines (http://www.squire-statement.org) aimed to reduce uncertainty about information included in scholarly reports about healthcare improvement and thus increase the completeness, precision and transparency of QI in the literature.5 SQUIRE drew on the general principles used in other scientific reporting guidelines such as those for randomised controlled trials and observational studies and for evaluating diagnostic tests.6 Because of the nature of QI work, however, SQUIRE seeks to balance the reporting of changes and the learning that occurs during improvement work with the context and mechanisms that produced the outcomes.
While SQUIRE provides some guidance for describing rapid-cycle, iterative changes, the results reported by Taylor et al3 highlight the need for more direction and clarity about what to report. The SQUIRE guidelines are currently being revised with a clearer focus on describing what was done to make improvements while demonstrating the impact of the improvement. This challenging endeavour addresses some of the deficits found in published QI reports that involved PDSA cycles.
One of the challenges in developing (and revising) SQUIRE consists of describing the development of a complex intervention while also providing the details relevant to demonstrating the impact of that intervention. A tension exists between reporting on the improving of healthcare and the studying of such improvement. 'Here are all the steps we had to take to improve X' can easily fill a manuscript, as can, 'Here are the data that demonstrate our success in improving X'. Authors often struggle with these twin goals, but methods such as the PDSA cycle can help to link the performing of improvement and demonstrating the impact of the improvements.
Planning, doing, analysing and reporting of QI work are inter-related just as they are in clinical research. One would hardly want the first time a trialist encounters the concepts of including a placebo or blinding of participants to treatment status to occur at the writing stage. In other words, guidelines for reporting clinical trials, such as CONSORT, or observational studies, such as STROBE, may also help with planning and conducting them.6 Similarly, the individual items in SQUIRE help not just the reporting of QI work but also its design and execution. For example, SQUIRE recommends reporting aspects of the local context that are relevant to the effectiveness of an intervention by reporting 'elements of the local care environment considered most likely to influence change/improvement'.5 Reporting such details will assist readers to interpret the results and determine whether similar interventions might work for them in their settings. However, these elements must be appropriately identified and collected prospectively in the QI work in order to determine the impact. These details cannot be retrofitted once the QI work is completed and the writing begins. Determining the success of an intervention should include the aspects of the local context relevant to the theory of the intervention.7
Those engaged in QI work must recognise the proper execution of PDSA cycles as fundamental to their efforts, not just a formality for reporting and publishing. If data collection does not occur frequently enough, if iterative cycles are few, and if system-level changes are not apparent as a result of these cycles, the improvement work is less likely to succeed. It is not just a matter of what to report. When PDSA cycles are carried out appropriately but not clearly reported, it undermines learning, and we fail to share and build the knowledge about the improvement of healthcare. Clarity in the writing and reporting of PDSA cycles brings us one step closer to addressing the problems that arise in healthcare improvement so that we can identify, address and answer more questions in the future.
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. Ignorance: how it drives science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Contributors Both authors contributed to the submission of this paper.
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Systematic review of the application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare
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BMJ Quality & Safety 2013; 23 290-298 Published Online First: 11 Sep 2013. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001862
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Q: How to relate a log-based-metric to a monitoring policy? Initially I was trying to accomplish what I describe in my previous question:
How to create log-based-metric alert (email notification) with Google Cloud SDK?
Basically, only using the Google Cloud SDK commands, create a log-based-metric as well as a monitoring alert (an email sent each time a log is equal to a filter).
I know with this command I can create a log-based-metric, but after reading the documentation, can't seem to find how to relate the two functionalities so that it works as mentioned above. I know it can be easily accomplished using the Console, but in this case SDK commands are a must.
gcloud logging metrics create METRIC_NAME \
  --description "METRIC_DESCRIPTION" \
  --log-filter "FILTER"

Any idea of how to approach this problem?

A: :-)
PROJECT="[YOUR-PROJECT]"

# I'm using an arbitrary log filter
# This is against the resource type `audited_resource`
FILTER="protoPayload.methodName=\"google.api.serviceusage.v1.ServiceUsage.EnableService\""

NAME="[YOUR-METRIC-NAME]"

# Create the log-based metric
gcloud logging metrics create ${METRIC} \
--description="Description of ${METRIC}" \
--log-filter="${FILTER}" \
--project=${PROJECT}

# Prove that it exists
gcloud logging metrics list \
--filter=${NAME} \
--format=yaml \
--project=${PROJECT}

Yields something of the form:
createTime: '2022-08-16T00:00:00.000000000Z'
description: Description of foo
filter: protoPayload.methodName="google.api.serviceusage.v1.ServiceUsage.EnableService"
metricDescriptor:
  description: Description of foo
  metricKind: DELTA
  name: projects/${PROJECT}/metricDescriptors/logging.googleapis.com/user/${METRIC}
  type: logging.googleapis.com/user/${METRIC}
  unit: '1'
  valueType: INT64
name: foo
updateTime: '2022-08-16T00:00:00.000000000Z'

Note: The metric (!) name is logging.googleapis.com/user/${METRIC}. The resource type (in this case) is audited_resource.
Please see my other answer for the gcloud alpha monitoring channels create to create an email-based notification channel. You'll need to use gcloud alpha monitoring channels list to get the full name of the channel to use in the next command.  It will be of the form:
projects/${PROJECT}/notificationChannels/12345678901234567890

I encourage you to use Console to create an Alerting Policy:
https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerting/policies/create
For example:
metric.type = \"logging.googleapis.com/user/${NAME}\"

Then you can "munge" (copy-and-paste-and-edit) the result into the gcloud command:
FILTER="
  resource.type=\"audited_resource\"
  metric.type=\"logging.googleapis.com/user/${NAME}\""
AGGREGATION="{
  \"alignmentPeriod\": \"3600s\",
  \"perSeriesAligner\": \"ALIGN_SUM\"
}"

gcloud alpha monitoring policies create \
--notification-channels=${CHANNELS}, \
--display-name="Alert for ${NAME}" \
--condition-display-name="condition-1" \
--condition-filter="${FILTER}" \
--duration="3600s" \
--aggregation="${AGGREGATION}" \
--if="> 1" \
--trigger-count=1 \
--combiner="OR" \
--enabled \
--project=${PROJECT}

Note: The policy is meaningless and exists just to provide an example. The value of --notification-channels must end in a comma (,) if there is only a single notification channel.
Yields:
Created alert policy [projects/${PROJECT}/alertPolicies/12345678901234567890].

You can test this example by enabling a couple of services, e.g.
gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com --project=${PROJECT}

And waiting for the alert to fire and send an e.g. email.
You can observe the current state of the policy in Console. See the policy created in the previous step and you'll be provided a real-time graph showing the current value of the alert and the threshold line:
https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerting/policies

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Archidiecezja Medellín (łac. Archidioecesis Medellensis, hisz. Arquidiócesis de Medellín) – rzymskokatolicka archidiecezja ze stolicą w Medellínie, w Kolumbii. Arcybiskup Medellínu jest metropolitą metropolii Medellín.

W 2004 na terenie diecezji pracowało 760 zakonników i 2901 sióstr zakonnych.

Sufraganie archidiecezji Medellín
Sufraganiami archidiecezji Medellín są diecezje:
 Caldas
 Girardota
 Jericó
 Sonsón–Rionegro

Historia
14 lutego 1868 papież Pius IX erygował diecezję Medellín. Dotychczas wierni z tych terenów należeli do diecezji Antioquía (obecnie archidiecezja Santa Fe de Antioquia).

11 kwietnia 1900 diecezja Medellín utraciła część terytorium na rzecz nowo powstałej diecezji Manizales (obecnie archidiecezja Manizales).

24 lutego 1902 papież Leon XIII podniósł diecezję Medellín do rangi archidiecezji metropolitalnej.

W XX wieku z archidiecezji Medellin wyodrębniły się:
 29 stycznia 1915 - diecezja Jericó
 18 marca 1957 - diecezja Sonsón (obecnie diecezja Sonsón–Rionegro)
 18 czerwca 1988 - diecezja Caldas i diecezja Girardota

W lipcu 1986 archidiecezję odwiedził papież Jan Paweł II.

Biskupi i arcybiskupi medellińscy

Biskupi medellińscy
 Valerio Antonio Jiménez (1868 - 1873)

 José Joaquín Isaza Ruiz (1873 - 1874)

 José Ignacio Montoya Peláez (1876 - 1884)

 Bernardo Herrera Restrepo (1885 - 1891) następnie mianowany arcybiskupem Santa Fe w Nowej Grenadzie

 Joaquín Pardo-Vergara (1892 - 1902)

Arcybiskupi medellińscy
 Joaquín Pardo-Vergara (1902 - 1904)
 Manuel José Caicedo Martínez (1905 - 1937)

 Tiberio Salazar Herrera (1937 - 1942)

 Joaquín Garcia Benitez CIM (1942 - 1957)

 Tulio Botero Salazar CM (1957 - 1979)

 kardynał Alfonso López Trujillo (1979 - 1991) w latach 1979 - 1983 także przewodniczący Rady Episkopatów Latynoamerykańskich; w latach 1987 - 1990 także przewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Kolumbii; następnie mianowany przewodniczącym Papieskiej Rady ds. Rodziny

 Héctor Rueda Hernández (1991 - 1997)

 Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS (1997 - 2010) w latach 1996 - 2002 także przewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Kolumbii

 Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (2010 - nadal)

Bibliografia
 Giga-Catholic
 Catholic-Hierarchy

Medellín
Religia w Medellín


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What do love locks symbolize?
A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically, the sweethearts' names or initials are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away to symbolize unbreakable love.
What is score slang for?
interjection. exclamation of happiness; "yay!". Score!
What does the lock and 🔑 mean?
If something or someone is kept under lock and key, they are in a container or room which has been securely locked. The books were normally kept under lock and key in the library vault. He is currently under lock and key at Eastmoor secure unit in Leeds. See full dictionary entry for lock.
What is the nickname for a dollar?
Other names for the dollar include bones, Benjis (short for Benjamins), Cheddar, Paper, Loot, Scrilla, Cheese, Bread, Moolah, Dead Presidents, Cash Money, Tamales and Scratch. In Peru, the U.S. dollar is called a Coco, after George Washington whose portrait is on the dollar note.
What does conceived mean?
transitive verb. 1a : to become pregnant with (young) conceive a child. b : to cause to begin : originate a project conceived by the company's founder. 2a : to take into one's mind conceive a prejudice.
Why is 500 pounds called a monkey?
Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. Referring to £500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side.
What does 2 score mean?
twoscore – being ten more than thirty. 40, forty, xl.
What does Ilysmydek mean?
ILYSMYDEK is a slang term. ILYSMYDEK stands for I Love You So Much You Don't Even Know. The meaning of ILYSMYDEK is I Love You So Much You Don't Even Know.
Why is 1000 called a grand?
The use of "grand" to refer to money dates from the early 1900s and as disconcerting as it may be to some people, comes from America's underworld. But in the early 1900s one thousand dollars was considered to be a "grand" sum of money, and the underground adopted "grand" as a code word for one thousand dollars.
What does a lock and a heart mean?
Heart, lock and key jewellery is extrememly powerful symbolically: Gift a friend or loved-one a piece of lock and key jewellery, and it means you are gifting them a piece of your fidelity. Indeed, a key gifted to a loved-one signifies that you are actually holding the key to their heart.
Why is it called a score?
The root is a Norse word "skor" meaning "incision", referring to cuts made on a stick so that a tally can be kept. Twenty cuts fills the stick, so the older English term "score" meaning "twenty" comes directly from this. "Four score and seven years ago" is 87 years ago.
How much is a gorilla in money?
More on Australian slang for money. (Don't forget, Australian slang is closely related to Cockney slang for obvious historical reasons). Elise from Australia tells us:"A $20 is a LobsterA $50 is a pineappleA $100 is a spot$500 a monkey$1000 a gorilla.
Why is 20 referred to as a score?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's "presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from 1 to 20, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next 20."
Why is 3 called a carpet?
Some people have said that a three-month sentence was called a carpet because it took that long to make one in the prison workshop, but the rhyming slang joke on an existing usage makes more sense. (It doesn't ever seem to have meant so long a sentence as three years.)
Who is on $2 bill?
What is score of IPL?
2 Brendon McCullum 2880
3 AB de Villiers 4849
4 KL Rahul 2647
5 Rishabh Pant 2079
Is there a 200 dollar bill?
There are far better bills: There are 12 denominations in bills. We've never had a $200 bill but the US used to have a $500 bill and a $1000 bill. They were discontinued in 1969. They would have more use today than then.
What does 🔐 mean in a relationship?
this is a lock and key It means that someone can be growing to a relationship but can also mean other things X That the person is in a relationship It means that you are taken with a strong relationship Your taken Don't know if ure for sure about something I love you and that we have a strong love A lot Amazing loving …
What does Ilhsm mean?
i love him/her so much
Who uses a full score?
A full, or orchestral, score shows all the parts of a large work, with each part on separate staves in vertical alignment (though subdivisions of related instruments frequently share a stave), and is for the use of the conductor.
What is the meaning of score?
1 : a record of points made or lost (as in a game) 2 : the number of points earned for correct answers on a test. 3 : a group of 20 things : twenty. 4 : harm done by someone and kept in mind for later response I have a score to settle with you.
How do you find the total score?
Scores on all assignments are summed and then divided by the total points possible, and the total score is displayed as a percentage (the sum of points received out of points attempted for each student). If weighting is enabled, the total score represents the weighted average of each category total.
What does Piff Ting mean?
Someone who is considered an attractive person
Why is a pony 25 pounds?
£25 is known as a pony in slang & it's believed to have originated during the Raj in India where some old Indian Rupee banknotes carried pictures of animals like pony £25 & monkey £500 on them. £50 is a bullseye. There is no £25 note only £20 & £50 etc. The term comes from the picture on an Indian 25 Rupee bank note.
What is a group of 20 called?
Tally; group of twenty (5)
What does 🔐 mean on Snapchat?
🔐 Meaning – Locked with Key Emoji It can refer to the act of keeping something or someone safe and secure. Locked with Key Emoji can also mean "held under lock and key".
What does T up mean in slang?
(regional English, slang) To butt: said of a ram. (slang) To have sex with, to bonk, etc.
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Qatar out of the World Cup
Herb Adkins
O Senegal he won 3–1 against Qatar and dictated the verdict to the hosts of the World Cup: the Qatar team was the first to make it through the group stage after goals from Boulaye Dia, 41 minutes, Famara Diediu, 48 minutes, and Bamba Dieng, 84′. O Qatar he still scored over the leg of Mohammed Muntari in the 78th minute, but this result was not enough to change the final result.
The outcome of the home team was eventually dictated by a 1:1 draw between Netherlands e Ecuadorwhich guaranteed both teams the lead in Group A with 4 points each.
It remains for the African champions to catch up and beat Ecuador in order to reach the 1/8 finals next Tuesday.
Not group B, or Iran had to wait for stoppage time to see two winning goals scored by Rosebeh Ceshmi on 90'+8′ and Ramin Rezayan on 90'+11 against Waleswhich, in addition to not breaking through the opponent's defense, led to the removal of Wayne Hennessy in the 86th minute.
After the defeat to England, the Iranian team under the Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz depends only on themselves to move forward.
Already England in the end 0-0 against USA.
The draw brought the British the point necessary for leadership in the group, but still does not allow them to breathe a sigh of relief. At the moment, any of the teams can still reach the playoffs.
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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.
Method Media Bermuda will present the documentary FABRIC: Portuguese History in Bermuda on Thursday, December 29 at the Underwater Research Institute of Bermuda.
A spokesperson said: "Method Media is proud to bring Bermuda Fabric: Portugal History to Bermuda for its 5th and 6th showing at the Bermuda Underwater Observatory. In November and December 2019, Cloth: A Portuguese Story in Bermuda had four sold-out screenings. Now that Bermuda has reopened after the pandemic, it's time to bring the film back for at least two screenings.
"There are tickets Ptix.bm For $ 20 – sessions at 15:30 and 18:00. Both screenings will be followed by a short Q&A session.
Director and producer Milton Raboso says, "FABRIC is a definitive account of the Portuguese community in Bermuda and its 151 years of history, but it also places Bermuda, Acors and Portugal in the world history and the events that have fueled those 151 years.
"It took more than 10 years to implement FABRIC. The film was supported by the Minister of Culture, the Government of the Azores and private donors.
"Bermuda Media Method [MMB] Created in 2011 by producer Milton Raposo. MMB has created content for a wide range of clients: Bermuda's new hospital renovation, reinsurance, travel campaigns, international sports and more. MMB pays special attention to artistic, cultural and historical content.
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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.
Maestro Filipe Cunha, Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Braga, has been invited to conduct the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, as announced today.
According to a statement sent by O MINHO, "he will be the first Portuguese conductor to conduct this orchestra in its entire history."
In addition to this orchestra, the maestro will also work with the Lyceo Mozarteum de la Habana Symphony Orchestra.
The concerts will take place on 4 and 12 March 2023 at the National Theater of Cuba in Havana.
In the words of the maestro, quoted in the statement, "these will be very beautiful concerts with difficult but very complex pieces" and therefore he feels "very motivated".
From the very beginning, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 will be performed by an Italian pianist (Luigi Borzillo), whom the maestro wants to bring to Portugal later this year. In the same concert, Mendelshon's First Symphony will be performed.
Then, at the second concert, in the company of the Mexican clarinetist Angel Zedillo, he will perform the Louis Sfora Concerto No. 2. In this concert, the maestro also conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
"This is an international recognition of my work. An invitation that I accept with humility and great responsibility. I was surprised to learn that I would be the first Portuguese member of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. This is a very great honor," the maestro said in a statement.
"I take with me the name of the city of Braga and Portugal with all the responsibility that goes with it, and I hope to do a good job there, leaving a good image and putting on great concerts. These will be very special concerts because, in addition to performing pieces that I love, especially Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, I will be directing two wonderful soloists who are also my friends. It will be very beautiful," concludes Filipe Cunha.
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FIB REVIEW: NETFLIX GIVES US FEMINIST BOLLYWOOD, "DASVI"
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Have you checked out Bollywood on Netflix? Maybe it's about time you do. Dasvi takes place in a fictitious state in India. While we believed the movie would be a tedious laughter riot – discussing the state of education – the film's humour addresses some bigger issues. Themes include resolving societal evils such as gender inequality and embracing 'women in power'.
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Dasvi is what people in India refer to when they talk about 10th grade in high school. This made it easy for the audience to predict the premise of the film when it made its Netflix debut. The story sees a middle-aged, illiterate, corrupt, boorish politician complete his 10th-grade studies; while he's taken into custody for committing multiple frauds.
Political Gimmicks
The movie is set in the Northern part of India, in a land dominated by Haryanavis where Ganga Ram Chaudhary (Abhishek Bachchan) is seen as the 'classic' politician, who lacks academic knowledge but knows all the political gimmicks that help him retain his Chief Minister status. His wife, Bimla Devi Chaudhary (Nimrat Kaur) is a housewife who is so intimidated by her husband that her voice is a mere whisper that needs ultra-hearing power.
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Bimal Devi is what you call the 'ideal' woman in India who treats her husband with the utmost reverence.
But, here's the twist.
Ganga Ram is arrested and sent to judicial custody and he makes a strategic move, at least that's what he thinks by declaring his wife to continue his Chief Minister legacy. While the entire state is devastated at his arrest, Bimla Devi displays her true colours as she gets a taste of authority. This drastic change in his wife's character collapses Ganga Ram's well-articulated plan of executing his political game through his wife from within the walls of a prison cell.
What is astonishing is not Ganga Ram's plan backfiring at him but rather how for once the movie chose to explore Bimla Devi's transformation into a confident, hungry-for-power, corrupt 'female' politician who does as she pleases throughout the film.
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She knows how to play her cards and gives a tough fight to her own husband who is left speechless on many occasions in the film at his diffident wife's actions.
In fact, Ganga Ram feels helpless and threatened. This is due to his public declaration that if he fails in his venture to graduate from 10th-grade, he will leave his political regime under his wife's jurisdiction. Such is the command Bimla Devi has in the entirety of this film.
An Enticing Story
The actor, Nimrat Kaur has many successful films under her sleeve. From starring opposite the late Irrfan Khan in The Lunchbox (2013), where she plays a tenacious woman to portraying a tough supporting role in a historic movie, Airlift (2016), Kaur has delivered such diverse and complex roles with dexterity.
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During an interview with First Post, Kaur claimed excitedly that the aspect in the storyline of Dasvi that enticed her the most was the sea change from a soft-spoken wife to a politician who speaks her mind in a General Assembly. She mentioned,"
"I instantly fell in love with the one-line description of her character who evolves into a power-hungry politician from a naïve, demure housewife".
The movie itself is a light-hearted, satirical comedy, mimicking Indian politicians at their best. In fact, some measures Bimla Devi implements to increase her political popularity are public appearances.
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This helps her to maintain a party symbol during her press interactions. For her obsession with posting pictures on Instagram, she appoints a social media manager. The icing on the cake is the construction of her own statue. This lets people (and her husband) know, in an indirect manner, that 'Bimla Devi is here to stay!'. These are definitely some of the most memorable scenes from the movie.
Her flawless display as a political figure in India is also a hard slap on the current Indian government; which are all talk and no action. The director, Tushar Jalota is a hard-core fan of Nimrat. He tells First Post that Nimrat was destined to play the part in the film. Only she could do justice to this role, he believed.
He discusses Kaur's relentless work on her dialect. Also, her weight gain fits the character of a 'desi' housewife in the north of India. The director knew what he wanted to show his audience from the very start, and didn't deter from his path. He also adds in the interview that,
"We wanted to make a light, easy-breezy watch. The core idea was to make an entertaining film with great characters and while developing them I tried to make them endearing."
From girl-next-door to an Authoritative Figure
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Yami Gautam put forth a nuanced performance and deserves all the accolades for her performance in Dasvi. Not only is Yami manifesting a fearless cop with perfection, but she is also a no-nonsense type of woman who is razor-focused on bringing down corrupt officials. On several occasions, we see Yami's character (Jyoti) question Ganga Ram's political atrocities and methods, when in reality, most female characters in the movies are written off as characters who grow to like the amoral actions of the male lead.
But, not Jyoti, she has her unshakeable ethical pillars to hold on to!
Jyoti is the main official in charge of the prison, not any prison but the one with Ganga Ram in it. Their relationship starts off on the wrong note, but we gradually notice a beautiful friendship evolve between Jyoti and Ganga Ram. She even takes on a pivotal role of mentoring him on his journey to complete 10th-grade. However, the movie shows us an envious Bimla Devi' who, despite her attempts of bringing down her husband's political career is smitten by Jyoti's humble yet hard-headed responses.
The Right Trajectory
The screen time shared by Bimla and Jyoti was extremely hilarious to watch, but Jyoti's savage replies to Bimla stay with you forever!
There are many obstacles that actor, Yami Gautam has faced as an outsider in the Bollywood film industry. From fighting nepotism to struggling to bag crucial roles that can make a genuine difference, Yami has accomplished so much with immense nobility. Her performance in Dasvi was unparalleled and is a definitive hint that her career is going to take off on the right trajectory!
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How To Talk To Your Parents About Dexit
By Nathan Grayson on at
Christmas is nearly upon us, which means we have officially entered the swirling vortex of vacation days, feast-engorged couch naps, and family gatherings that is The Festive Zone. For many of us, this means a potentially uncomfortable amount of time around relatives who might not share our views on a laundry list of important topics: politics, religion, and of course, the elephant in the room in this battleground of a year, Dexit. Here are some tips for navigating those treacherous, Gyarados-infested waters.
Don't argue to win
It can be tempting to walk into an argument with your enraged parent – who, thanks to online conspiracy theories and Fox News, actually believes it's possible to model and add a Pokémon to Sword and Shield in five minutes – armed with counterpoints intended to shut them down. But there's no common ground lying on the other side of that discussion. Even if you walk them through the meticulous series of steps it takes to add a character to a large, complicated video game and point out that there's a damn bird that eats Pikachu in this one, you'll both just come away fuming.
Instead, seek to understand. Yes, you should make your points firmly and back them up with evidence, but you should also listen. Learn where your parent or parents are coming from. Engage with their concerns. Note, for example, that one solution to their fears of Pokémon automation and resulting Pokémon joblessness might be a Pokémon universal basic income. That kind of thing.
Look, your relatives are probably going to say some pretty inane stuff about how, for example, their inability to bring their Pidgeot forward to this generation of Pokémon games is tantamount to a war crime and worthy of death threats, but resist the urge to shout them down. If you feel yourself getting a little too heated, just take a deep breath. Interrupting will only make them dig their heels in more and probably re-tell that endless, tangent-ridden story about how they worked to earn that Pidgeot and didn't accept any handouts like those darn spoon-fed Poké-millennials. You don't want that. Nobody wants that.
Eventually, you'll get your turn to speak, and then you can calmly explain that Pidgeot is fine or whatever, but as far as bird Pokémon go, is vastly less cool than Sirfetch'd, so they're just gonna have to take an L on this one.
Avoid judgmental phrases
When you look at these people who raised you and instilled you with many of the values you hold dear, it can be hard to believe that they've somehow turned into uncompromising rage monsters who call game developers lazy and probably have some bad opinions on immigration, too. Still, it's generally a bad idea to actually say, "I can't believe you really think that!" or things along those lines.
Instead, ask questions like "Why do you think that?" They'll be forced to put their feelings into words and, hopefully, as a result, they'll realise some of the more problematic elements of their reasoning on their own. And if they don't, well, then it's the beginning of a longer discussion in which they will perhaps someday come to the conclusion that death threats are bad and the #GameFreakLied hashtag was rooted in verifiably bunk interview translations.
Recognise that nostalgia is powerful
Pokémon has been around for a long time. You may not have even been born when your parents were playing Pokémon Red and Blue and working their factory jobs that could comfortably support an entire family. For them, Sandshrew isn't just some random armadillo who looks kinda like he's made out of cheese blocks; he's an institution – like the coal industry. He's always been there, since the day A.J.'s sorta-abused but I guess chill about it Sandshrew easily defeated Ash's Pikachu in an early episode of the anime.
But now, just like that, Sandshrew is out of Sword and Shield. A relic of a bygone era. Ultimately, change is inevitable, and the world your parents once lived in no longer exists. That can be tough to grapple with, especially when it's clear that your parents do want change of a sort. They know something is wrong. The larger Pokémon formula remains stagnant, as does the job market. The future – once bright, utopian, and enriched by the prospect of gargantuan MMO-style Pokémon games – feels increasingly hopeless. Something has to give. You likely agree on that fundamental point, even if you think Sandshrew is just a weird rat with bad skin.
Remember that they're your parents
Assuming you have a good relationship with your parents, they do care about you, even if you're no longer on the same page about Meowth forms or the vital role of government regulation in a world increasingly ruled by tech corporations. Never take that for granted. But, at the same time, it's worth recognising that, to them, you will always be a kid. This means, unfortunately, that you can only do so much to convince them when it comes to bigger issues. They might be pleased as punch that you're a doctor, lawyer, or (shivers) games journalist, but that doesn't mean they'll take you as seriously as even some talking head on Fox News or Pokefreak69420 on Twitter.
It is, then, not your responsibility to change them. If you have the energy, feel free to discourse to your heart's content. But if you don't, cut yourself some slack. You're just one person, and you probably have plenty of other energy-draining things going on in your life. And if all else fails, keep in mind that, despite strongly held opinions and boycott threats, it seems like basically everyone bought Pokémon Sword and Shield, so you can always settle those pesky ideological debates about humanity in the digital age, climate change, and whatever else with a Pokémon battle.*
*Note: this will not actually work, and I do not recommend trying it or even suggesting it.


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(DM)President Mahinda Rajapaksa said at last evening's Cabinet meeting that the parents of slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran were living in a newly set up welfare camp in Vavuniya -- together with the relatives of other LTTE leaders.
Cabinet discussed the present conditions in the welfare camps and villages, and the measures to be taken to improve them. The President instructed the ministers to speed up action to attend to the humanitarian needs of the displaced civilians. He said that action had been taken to construct 2000 permanent toilets in these camps (in place of the portable toilets) for these people.The President also emphasised the need to send more health workers to these camps. He noted that doctors were reluctant to be based permanently in the camps to treat the sick in the camps. Full text Share on Facebook


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This round, we did not have the proceedings printed. However, the entire volume still undergone the copy writing process, with the PDF version of the contents laid out in ready-to-print format. Here's the link to the contents: http://www.itsc.org.sg/raiss.html.
While we have the 6th meeting done with (I mean fully completed with the proceedings published now), it is time for planning the next meeting. One of the important change in the next meeting is that RAISS will henceforth become RAISE — Regional Asia Information Security Exchange. The significant of this is that the group will not just focus on security standards development and related issues and best practices in the region, but also use the Forum as a platform for exchanging information relating to other security developments in the region. This effectively expands the scope of the Forum, and should make the proceedings even more interesting. As I wrote here, I understand that some security experts in the region have already marked their calendar to participate in the coming meeting, which will be from 15 to 16 July 2008, somewhere in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Another change as we move from Standards to Exchange is the change of secretariat for the Forum. The Singapore ITSC Secretariat will relinquish the secretariat position to Malaysia's Cybersecurity Center. The team in Malaysia is not new to the Forum. They are in face one of the founding members of RAISS Forum, helped to draft the Terms of Reference (which now need to be revised accordingly), and have been a key contributors to the Forum in every meeting.
I will provide more updates on the agenda and development relating to the new RAISE Forum as we progress. Meanwhile, if you care to comment or provide any input, you may drop a note here as well.