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2023: Over 50,000 students declare support for Atiku/Okowa in Kano
By Nurudeen Yakubu
Over 50,000 students in Kano have declared support for the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate Ifeanyi Okowa, ahead of the 2023 general elections.
SOLACEBASE reports that the students, from different tertiary institutions in Kano said they organized the sign up rally by themselves seeing the realities in the country to create awareness among other students towards voting for the right candidate in the coming elections in the country.
Speaking to journalists at the event which was held in Kano on Sunday, the leader of the movement Aminu Mukhtar Sale said they decided to support Atiku/Okowa presidency because of how the educational system is collapsing and that Atiku is the man to rescue the situation.
"Looking at the present situation of education in the country, and the lingering dispute between the federal government and ASUU, then there is a need for us the students to come together and save the system. We deem it necessary to gather here, over 50,000 of us have declared our support, sign up for Atiku Okowa presidency in the coming 2023 elections.
"I in particular, I am a beneficiary of the Atiku Abubakar Scholarship, so from what he is doing to the development of education we know that he is the right man for the job and can save education from the state it is in the country," he said.
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Also speaking, a former governor of Kano state and Senator representing Kano Central at the National Assembly, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau said the students being in tertiary institutions are matured enough and have reached the voting ages, hence the need to encourage them to vote for the right people.
"We are happy the students have seen the difference which is very clear and they are not under any compulsion. They are here at their own will and they organized the event by themselves," he said.
Reacting to a question on a heated argument on-going between the PDP and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Shekarau said that it is normal and allowed situation in politics to criticize and expose the wrongdoings of opponents and oppositions to woe supporters to your side.
Shekarau, who is a special adviser to the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign said the media is over blowing the utterances which in return generated arguments among politicians.
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"When campaigning you are bound to challenge ideas, you are bound to challenge the quality of the candidates in the opposition. And I don't see anything wrong in a candidate criticizing his opponent, exposing his shortcomings. We are not using any abusive language. If I say my opponent is sick and cannot be able to meet up with the challenges there is nothing wrong with that.
"If I say my opponent is not capable and decided to say my candidate is the best, it is left for the citizens and electorates to decide.''
Also Speaking, Director Atiku Support Groups, Hajiya Baraka Sani, said the students have seen the reality of the present situation in the country and decided to organize the event by themselves towards making a better choice in the coming elections.
Hajiya Baraka, said over 50, 000 students had signed up for Atiku/Okowa Presidential Contest in Kano alone and they are doing so on their own, without prejudice from anybody.
She noted that the endorsement of Atiku Presidency was an automatic thing because all sectors of human endeavors were not doing better across Nigeria, saying the Students were the latest on the lists.
She said that the students, over one hundred percent of them are from Tertiary Institutions who have attained the voting ages since when they obtained their various admissions, adding that there was no coercion in their participation.
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CANTO: Wolves in the Throne Room, Deathwhite, Zeal & Ardor, and More
June 10, 2021 June 10, 2021 Corey
Another day, another vinyl pre-order locked in.
Deathwhite are already back in the studio, recording their third full-length, and following up the success of 2020's Grave Image. This album will be titled Grey Everlasting, and there are plenty details to come… hopefully sooner rather than later.
And then we have a new Zeal & Ardor video to share for "Run". It's unsettling. It's awesome. It's exactly what we both hope for and expect. Scoop up the track here, and watch the video here.
A couple doom veterans will be hitting the road together this coming July and August. The Obsessed and The Skull announced a co-headlining tour through the U.S., starting with a July 29th date in Cleveland. Tickets are on sale now… somewhere.
And we'll close with probably he biggest news of the day. Wolves in the Throne Room have announced a new album, Primordial Arcana, which is set for an August 20th release through Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available here (among other places), and a video for the new track "Mountain Magick" is available below. It's incredible.
"Ein Bier… bitte."
– cmb
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Set in a lush garden flourishing with stunning flowers in the Palmeraie of Marrakech lies a family run private villa, Dar Ayniwen.
A five star hotel with the most friendly atmosphere with a home away from home feeling - with authentic Moroccan furnishings and colorful rugs.
Dar Ayniwen features 10 suites and each of these rooms has its own character. It's furnished in traditional Moroccan style and is decorated with pieces from the family's very own personal collection of decor that they have collected from all over the world.
Dar Ayniwen has a spa and a hammam. Outside there is a heated swimming pool where guests can enjoy a morning swim after a delightful breakfast on the patio.
Dar Ayniwen offers their guests free airport and city transfers which makes your stay much more comfortable and not to mention easier knowing you're being taking care of at all times. The villa is a short 10 minute drive away from the bustling old city centre and main square.
Our beautiful suite was something else. It had that feeling of coming home to a family who had a guesthouse waiting for us rather than a luxurious hotel room. It had a warm and comfortable atmosphere.
Our suite was 80 square meters big with a separate living room, bedroom and a richly decorated bathroom. We had two terraces with the most wonderful panoramic views of their beautiful lush garden.
Summary Like I mentioned above I didn't have a feeling of coming home to a hotel but rather home to a family. The staff was attentive and heartwarming, always made sure we were comfortable. Although Dar Ayniwen is located outside of the old town, approx. 10 minutes by car, the city transfers are complimentary which makes it easier for us guests to get around. They also offer free airport transers too! The room was always clean and heated. December can sometimes be quite chilly so the staff always made sure our room was warm enough. In room breakfast was delicious and lovely set up. The wifi was unstable, the signal was strong in some areas of our room however it can sometimes disconnect when I move from one place to another. Overall, superb place with superb people!


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Q: NoReverseMatch, but resolved on page refresh Using Django 1.8.6 and Python 2.7.9, I am encountering a strange phenomenon where my account activation URL is throwing a "NoReverseMatch" error, but once if I refresh the page, the error is resolved and the account is successfully activated. I've tried removing the '$' from each URL, I've tried namespacing URL's, and I've tried replacing the redirect with a template view. None of those have solved the error.
More specifically, I get the following error: Reverse for 'registration_activation_complete' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: [].
registration.backends.default.urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns
from django.conf.urls import include
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.conf import settings
from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

from .views import ActivationView
from .views import RegistrationView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
                       url(r'^activate/complete/$',RedirectView.as_view(url='https://www.gather.kitchen/login/')),
                       url(r'^activate/(?P<activation_key>\w+)/$',
                           ActivationView.as_view(),
                           name='registration_activate'),
                       url(r'^register/complete/$',
                           TemplateView.as_view(template_name='registration/registration_complete.html'),
                           name='registration_complete'),
                       url(r'^register/closed/$',
                           TemplateView.as_view(template_name='registration/registration_closed.html'),
                           name='registration_disallowed'),
                       )

if getattr(settings, 'INCLUDE_REGISTER_URL', True):
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        url(r'^register/$',
            RegistrationView.as_view(),
            name='registration_register'),
    )

if getattr(settings, 'INCLUDE_AUTH_URLS', True):
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'', include('registration.auth_urls')),
    )

registration.backends.default.views.py (ActivationView)
class ActivationView(BaseActivationView):
    def activate(self, request, activation_key):
        """
        Given an an activation key, look up and activate the user
        account corresponding to that key (if possible).

        After successful activation, the signal
        ``registration.signals.user_activated`` will be sent, with the
        newly activated ``User`` as the keyword argument ``user`` and
        the class of this backend as the sender.

        """
        activated_user = (RegistrationProfile.objects
                          .activate_user(activation_key))
        if activated_user:
            signals.user_activated.send(sender=self.__class__,
                                        user=activated_user,
                                        request=request)
        return activated_user

    def get_success_url(self, request, user):
        return ('registration_activation_complete', (), {})

registration.views.py (ActivationView)
class ActivationView(TemplateView):
    """
    Base class for user activation views.

    """
    http_method_names = ['get']
    template_name = 'registration/activate.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        activated_user = self.activate(request, *args, **kwargs)
        if activated_user:
            success_url = self.get_success_url(request, activated_user)
            try:
                to, args, kwargs = success_url
                return redirect(to, *args, **kwargs)
            except ValueError:
                return redirect(success_url)
        return super(ActivationView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def activate(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Implement account-activation logic here.

        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def get_success_url(self, request, user):
        raise NotImplementedError

The debugger indicates that the error is occurring in the method 'get' at the line return redirect(to, *args, **kwargs).
Also, the local vars I am passing are the following:
self: <registration.backends.default.views.ActivationView object at 0x0394A570>
args: ()
request: "<WSGIRequest\npath:/accounts/activate/686420ac51ee99765c2847b819513365d6e812fc/........etc.>"
activated_user: <MyUser: abc123@example.com>
to: 'registration_activation_complete'
success_url: ('registration_activation_complete', (), {})
kwargs: {}

There are other similar SO questions out there, and I have already tried implementing all of the solutions that have been proposed. None of them have been fruitful. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing incorrectly?

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Homalenotus graecus is een hooiwagen uit de familie Sclerosomatidae.

Sclerosomatidae

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Father Guérin
This brief outline is not a biography of Michel Guérin, but a short portrait of our own local priest. By his faith, his confident prayer and his love of neighbour, he transformed a parish which he built and held close to his heart until his last breath : "For you, stay good Christians… Oh ! that the parish should always remain as it does now" were his last words on May 29, 1872.
After the turmoil of the Revolution, the parishes of France found themselves beset with numerous difficulties. The churches were in ruins, the interiors were destroyed or run down. This was the situation facing the small rural chapel of Pontmain which was later to become a church. The roof leaked, the altar and the pews were worm eaten, there was no linen, no ornaments nor sacred vessels.
A zealous priest
Father Michel Guérin, a priest in the parish of Saint-Ellier of Maine, arrived on the evening of 24th November 1836. He already knew of the miseries of Pontmain. He went to Mans to beg his Bishop to entrust to him this small hamlet abandoned in the middle of the countryside. As there was no presbytery, he was satisfied with a furnished room in a modest thatched cottage. In a letter to his Bishop this is how he described one of the first Masses he gave : "Yes, Your Excellency, I celebrated Mass on an altar stone laid on a pile of wooden planks. My fellow-priests and I preached from a workbench". (Letter of 15th October 1844).
A dynamic man
He got to work soon after arriving in Pontmain. With the help of his new parishioners he repaired the roof and made new pews. The women made linen for the altar and ornaments. Then came other projects ; new roads, the restoration of the chapel, which was later to become the Parish Church and the building of a co-educational school. He even opened a shop selling tobacco (he himself took snuff, but revenue stamps could be bought there, which saved the need to travel great distances to obtain them). He had a practical bent. He gave his all : through dealing with the material needs of his lowly people, he won them for Jesus Christ. It did not take long for him to turn Pontmain into a lively and devout parish.
A man of prayer
He attached great importance to prayer and devotion to the Virgin Mary and arranged to have a statue placed in every household. From this time onward every family prayed the rosary daily. He had numerous crosses built and put up along the roadsides. He had the statue of Mary put in the bell-tower. As from 8th December 1854 (definition of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception) four candles were lit on the altar of Our Lady at every parish service. In 1860, he had the church vault painted sky blue, with a scattering of stars.
Michel Guérin's story is an unusual one. He was mischievously called by some "the good Virgin's priest", but his actions left a lasting impression on this small corner of the Mayenne countryside where Mary, "the Madonna of the stars" would appear on 17th January 1871.
June 1, 2013 : opening of the process for the beatification of Michel Guérin by Mgr Thierry Scherrer, Bishop of Laval, with Mgr Yves Saux, Bishop of Mans, in the Basilica of Pontmain.
Prayer for the intercession of the Servant of God Michel Guérin
Lord my God, You chose the priest Michel Guérin, Pastor who with a burning heart, gathered together the lowly people of Pontmain to create a fervent community of faith, hope and love. Bound to his parishioners in life and death, it was through a filial and unconditional obedience to the Virgin Mary that he drew the strength of his priestly ministry. In order to intensify in our Church the strength of prayer, confidence in God who answers swiftly and devotion to the Virgin Mary, Mother of Hope, who appeared in Pontmain, can the holiness of Father Michel Guérin be recognized soon. And, by the intercession of your radiant servant, grants us, good Father, the grace that we now in confidence ask. Through Jesus, Christ, our Lord. Amen.
(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father)
With the permission of Mgr Thierry Scherrer, Bishop of Laval (1 June 2013)
For graces received as a result of prayer to Fr. Michel Guérin, please inform the Sancturary of Pontmain
Tel : 02 43 05 07 26 or e-mail : cause.michelguerin@orange.fr
Visits to the "Michel Guérin" museum can be made by asking at the Sancturary


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from queue import PriorityQueue
from threading import Thread
from math import inf
from traceback import print_exc

class WorkManager:
    _WORKER_EXIT_SENTINEL = (inf, None)
    def _worker(self):
        while True:
            item = self.queue.get()
            if item is WorkManager._WORKER_EXIT_SENTINEL:
                break
            priority, task, task_args, subsequent_tasks = item
            try:
                subsequent_task_args = task(*task_args)
                if subsequent_tasks:
                    for subsequent_task in subsequent_tasks[0]:
                        # Prioritize getting the subtasks done higher than the task
                        # itself. This ensures that we prioritize completing existing
                        # tasks rather than growing our queue.
                        self.submit_work(priority - 1,
                                        subsequent_task,
                                        subsequent_task_args,
                                        subsequent_tasks[1:])
            except:
                # TODO improve error handling
                print("Error handling task %r %r" % (task, task_args))
                print_exc()
            finally:
                self.queue.task_done()

    def __init__(self):
        self.queue = PriorityQueue()
        self.threads = []
    def submit_work(self, priority, task, task_args, subsequent_tasks):
        self.queue.put((priority, task, task_args, subsequent_tasks))
    def start(self, num_workers=4):
        while len(self.threads) < num_workers:
            thread = Thread(target=self._worker)
            thread.start()
            self.threads.append(thread)

    def join(self):
        self.queue.join()
        for thread in self.threads:
            self.queue.put(WorkManager._WORKER_EXIT_SENTINEL)
        for thread in self.threads:
            thread.join()
        self.queue = None
        self.threads = []

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text:
Змагання з легкої атлетики на літніх юнацьких Олімпійських іграх 2018 року були проведені 11-17 жовтня на легкоатлетичному стадіоні, розташованому в  в Буенос-Айресі. Змагання з легкоатлетичного кросу були проведені на трасі, прокладеній у цьому самому парку.

Регламент змагань

 За регламентом, до участі у змаганнях допускались юнаки та дівчата 2001 та 2002 років народження.
 Легкоатлетичні змагання на іграх складались з двох стадій — спортсмени виступали в кожній дисципліні (крім бігу на 1500, 3000 метрів та 2000 метрів з перешкодами) два рази. Місце кожного спортсмена у відповідній дисципліні визначалось за сумою результатів, показаних ним на обох стадіях — володар найменшої суми визначався переможцем.
 У бігу на 1500, 3000 метрів та 2000 метрів з перешкодами на першій стадії атлети стартували у своїх дисциплінах. На другій стадії кожен мав пробігти легкоатлетичний крос (4 кілометри). За результатами обох стадій, місце кожного спортсмена визначалось за сумою місць, які він посів у заліку кожної стадії (для цього у кросі рейтинг визначався окремо для спортсменів кожної з трьох дисциплін), а володар найменшої суми визначався переможцем.

Призери

Юнаки

Дисципліни на доріжці стадіону

Біг на середні дистанції + крос

Технічні види

Дівчата

Дисципліни на доріжці стадіону

Біг на середні дистанції + крос

Технічні види

Медальний залік

Примітки

Джерела

 https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/youth-olympic-games

Легка атлетика на юнацьких Олімпійських іграх
Легка атлетика
2018 у легкій атлетиці
2018 в аргентинському спорті
Жовтень 2018
Спортивні змагання у Буенос-Айресі
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IoT in the wild: What negotiating public deployments can tell us about the state of the internet of things
Hay D, Buyuklieva B, Daothong J, Edmonds B, Hudson-Smith A, Milton R, Wood J
Published proceedings:
Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018
Name of conference:
Conference start date:
Conference finish date:
Internet of Things, globalisation, human computer interaction, Internet, User interfaces, Information networks
http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/conferences/10.1049/cp.2018.0017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2018.0017
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052880/
The promise of IoT technologies is such that they represent as big a social and economic change as the invention of the Internet itself. From the way people consume media in their homes to structural changes in global employment through improved automation, IoT has the potential to touch all aspects of peoples everyday lives at domestic, national, and international scales. The size of this change and the unpredictability of the potential social effects of these technologies is precisely what makes research into them urgent, yet at the same time it is this scale and unpredictability that makes this research challenging to conduct. In the field of Human Computer Interaction, methodologies such as `in-the-wild' research, in which the emergent properties of a technology are discovered through the design and deployment of a device or system outside of the laboratory and in collaboration with the people with whom it is envisioned to be used by, have emerged to deal with some of these issues. Yet beyond the findings garnered through direct user engagement, negotiating an in-the-wild study is itself a challenging proposition: the needs of researchers, technology hosts, and potential user groups must be balanced, and the potential affordances of a technology are limited by their acceptability with these stakeholders. With reference to `Tales of the Park', a publicfacing IoT deployment developed in partnership with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this paper outlines some of the key points of negotiation that made the deployment possible, and contends that these indicate broader social anxieties about the future direction of the Internet of Things.
Prof Andy Hudson-Smith
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Mr Richard Milton


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Overwatch stats site that connects to Lootbox API using PHP and displays in sortable jQuery table.

Resources:

http://tablesorter.com/docs/ Full version of Christian Bach's Tablesorter

https://github.com/Splash-22557/Lootbox-API-PHP-Examples  The github that helped provide me with example code to use curl to connect to the lootbox.eu API using PHP


DUBLIN, April 9, 2019 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today announced positive topline results from ALPINE (Aripiprazole Lauroxil and Paliperidone palmitate: INitiation Effectiveness), a first-of-its-kind, six-month study evaluating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of ARISTADA® (aripiprazole lauroxil) and INVEGA SUSTENNA® (paliperidone palmitate) when used to initiate patients experiencing an acute exacerbation of schizophrenia in the hospital and maintain treatment in an outpatient setting. Patients randomized to the ARISTADA treatment group were initiated using the ARISTADA INITIO® regimen* followed by ARISTADA (1064 mg) every two months. Patients randomized to the INVEGA SUSTENNA treatment group were initiated using a loading dose of INVEGA SUSTENNA (234 mg) followed by INVEGA SUSTENNA (156 mg) every month.
Depending on the ARISTADA dose, adjustments may be recommended if patients are 1) known as CYP2D6 poor metabolizers and/or 2) taking strong CYP3A4 inhibitors, strong CYP2D6 inhibitors, or strong CYP3A4 inducers for greater than 2 weeks.


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Michigan State mailbag: How Tom Izzo should fill out next season's roster
Chris Solari
EAST LANSING — Here I sit inside Breslin Center, another graduation ceremony at Michigan State underway. Hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that I, too, sat in those same bleachers waiting for what came next.
Friday's keynote speaker, Kirk Cousins, was 10 in 1999, by the way.
Commencement marks the end of one phase of life and the start of another. It also marks the close to the Spartans' sports season and offers a chance to hit reset and look ahead to classes and football resuming in the fall.
So now is a perfect time for an MSU mailbag to put a cap (and gown) on the 2018-19 school year and to project what the top topics will be when everything ramps up when football camp resumes in early August.
More:New e-book: 'Green Giants!' The Inside Story of Michigan State's 2019 Final Four Run
Who do you think Izzo prefers for the last scholarship: (Kerry) Blackshear, N'Faly Dante or Hausers (Sam and Joey)? – @JoeyMangino12
Does MSU get a grad transfer with Nick Ward's open scholarship? If so, who's most likely. Haven't seen much reported – @phillipsc11
Predictions on what MSU does with their extra scholarship? – @Nick_Allen61
If you had to place a bet, who do you see filing Ward's scholarship spot on the roster? Any chance it's Ward himself? – @bleed_n_green
Easily the most pertinent and pressing matter on readers' minds, coming off the Final Four and following Nick Ward's announcement that he will bypass his senior season and enter the NBA draft for good (sorry, he's not coming back). Blackshear always has been a darkhorse possibility as a graduate transfer, and he also is testing the draft process as well. He makes a logical fit, but it has been more assumptive because of MSU's need than any actual connection beyond Tom Izzo reaching out. That is unlike the Hausers – Izzo pursued the younger Joey Hauser before he eventually chose to play with his older brother at Marquette. The Spartans, though, would need another scholarship to bring them in as a package deal. And for Dante, the 2020 recruit Izzo recently offered a scholarship to who reportedly is considering reclassifying to 2019, he would bring a Jaren Jackson Jr.-type presence. My prediction? Too hard to say, really. There could be names in the transfer portal – either eligible this season or next – that have not yet been discussed. Izzo rarely goes that route, with Brandon Wood for one year as a grad transfer and Bryn Forbes and Eron Harris for two seasons his most notable recent transfers, and neither were on the radar to the outside until they announced their decisions.
What was the season-long dynamic between Cassius Winston and Ward? Is it all good feels and wish-you-wells to Ward for leaving early when the team could be so good next year? – @RudyWriter
I think Izzo's compliments for Ward are genuine. The friction that showed in late 2017 at Rutgers proved to be a moment where both coach and player started to understand and appreciate each other and their differences. And Izzo saw Ward work hard on his deficiencies both offensively and defensively last offseason to become a strong interior presence for more than half the season. The post-surgery left hand minimized what he showed through the first 25 games. Also, no dynamics issue between Winston and Ward that I saw, especially considering their connection in transition that was lost with Ward's injury and Winston's wear and tear from extended minutes late in the season.
Only two players drafted this year (same as Rutgers) and one last year. Little interest from top 10 in-state recruits next year. Very little excitement around Sparty football. Do we really expect to complete with UM, OSU and Penn State with inferior athletes? New secret offense? – @SpartyNColumbus
It's no different than it has been for the last decade – and MSU entered the final month of 2017 fighting Ohio State for the Big Ten East Division title with many of those players coming back this fall. You could say three Spartans were drafted if you count Montez Sweat, who was dismissed from the program before the disastrous 2016 season. Plus, the turnover of the roster the past few years left the bulk of MSU's talent and experience in its junior class in 2018. The 2020 NFL draft class could produce the most picks in Mark Dantonio's tenure, and the 2021 prospects also appear solid with the number of underclassmen who have played the past two seasons.
List who you think will be the top productive receivers by catches and yards. Now do the same for RB with touches and yards. Then bring me a cheeseburgers. – @TheRealUDJG
Both categories should be close between two wide receivers. I think Darrell Stewart Jr. will end up with the most catches because he has been so productive and a favorite target of Brian Lewerke on short and intermediate routes. He should have a strong senior season, especially after injuries hampered his production in 2018. However, Cody White appears primed for a breakout because of the ability he showed to stretch the field vertically last season before his hand injury and Lewerke's shoulder issues curtailed their development. As for the running backs, that's too tough to call right now —I think it is a wide-open race going into preseason camp, with none of the four candidates (Connor Heyward, La'Darius Jefferson, Elijah Collins and Anthony Williams) showing a ton of separation in the spring. Reminds me of the 2010 battle that included freshman Le'Veon Bell along with Edwin Baker and Larry Caper. Better save those cheeseburgers, though, for the offensive linemen to maintain their newfound bulk — they will be a bigger factor in determining if the Spartans can improve their run game.
Contact Chris Solari: csolari@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @chrissolari. Download our Spartans Xtra app for free on Apple and Android devices!


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// Constructor: Default
Inventory::Inventory()
{}

// This function adds an Equipment to the Inventory
void Inventory::add(Equipment item)
{
	// check for duplicates
	for (int i = 0; i < equipments.size(); ++i)
		if (equipments[i] == item)
		{
			equipments[i] += item;
			return;
		}
	// add new equipment
	equipments.push_back(item);
}

// This funtion adds an Ingredient to the Inventory
void Inventory::add(Ingredient item)
{
	// check for duplicates
	for (int i = 0; i < ingredients.size(); ++i)
		if (ingredients[i] == item)
		{
			ingredients[i] += item;
			return;
		}
	// add new ingredient
	ingredients.push_back(item);
}

// This function adds an ingredientslist to the current Inventory
void Inventory::add(std::vector<Ingredient> list)
{
	for (auto i : list)
		add(i);
}

// This function adds an equipmentlist to the current Inventory
void Inventory::add(std::vector<Equipment> list)
{
	for (auto e : list)
		add(e);
}

// This function removes the selected Equipment from current Inventory
void Inventory::remove(Equipment item)
{
	for (int i = 0; i < equipments.size(); ++i)
		if (equipments[i] == item)
		{
			equipments.erase(equipments.begin() + i);
			return;
		}
}

// This function prints the list of items in Inventory
void Inventory::print(int type)
{
	switch(type)
	{
		// ingredientlist
		case 1:
			std::cout << "Ingredients:" << std::endl;
			for (auto i : ingredients)
			{
				std::cout << " " << std::flush;
				i.print();
			}
			return;
		// equipmentlist
		case 2:
			std::cout << "Equipments:" << std::endl;
			for (auto e : equipments)
			{
				std::cout << " " << std::flush;
				e.print();
			}
			return;
	}
}

// This function writes the Inventory to output file stream parameter
void Inventory::save(std::ofstream &os, int type)
{

	// ingredientslist
	if (type == 1)
	{
		os << "<ingredientlist>" << std::endl;
		for (auto i : ingredients)
			i.save(os);
		os << "</ingredientlist>" << std::endl;
	}

	// equipmentslist
	if (type == 2)
	{
		os << "<equipmentlist>" << std::endl;
		for (auto e : equipments)
			e.save(os);
		os << "</equipmentlist>" << std::endl;
	}

}

// Addition
void Inventory::operator+=(const Inventory &addend)
{
	// add ingredients
	for (auto i : addend.ingredients)
		add(i);
	// add equipments
	for (auto e : addend.equipments)
		add(e);
}

// Subtraction
void Inventory::operator-=(const Inventory &subtrahend)
{
	// reduce ingredients
	for (auto item : subtrahend.ingredients)
		for (int i = 0; i < ingredients.size(); ++i)
			if (ingredients[i] == item)
			{
				ingredients[i] -= item;
				// quantity = 0
				if (ingredients[i].get_quantity().empty())
					ingredients.erase(ingredients.begin() + i);
			}
	// reduce equipments
	for (auto item : subtrahend.equipments)
		for (int i = 0; i < equipments.size(); ++i)
			if (equipments[i] == item)
			{
				equipments[i] -= item;
				// quantity = 0
				if (equipments[i].get_quantity() == 0)
					equipments.erase(equipments.begin() + i);
			}
}

// Subtract ingredient from inventory
void Inventory::operator-=(const Ingredient &subtrahend)
{
	for (int i = 0; i < ingredients.size(); ++i)
		if (ingredients[i] == subtrahend)
		{
			ingredients[i] -= subtrahend;
			// quantity = 0
			if (ingredients[i].get_quantity().empty())
				ingredients.erase(ingredients.begin() + i);
		}
}


The journey of Demo nights started 4 years ago when we organised a single event in Bangalore to give startups an opportunity to pitch to get valuable feedback. While those percentages have been pretty stable over the years, this time we went ahead and hosted the first edition of Beta weekend in association with Google Cloud Program.
While the Startups that get to pitch at the demo day are the center of attention, we had something for everyone. We organized a panel discussion on "Building Innovative Organizations - Reality, Challenges & the way forward" that would uniquely be able to cater to your requirements as an entrepreneur and give your skills that are much needed to further your journey. We had Mr. Abhay Tandon (Program Manager, Target Accelerator), Mr. Vivek Prakash(CTO, HackerEarth), Mr. KC Ayyagari (Program Manager, Google Cloud Startup Program), give-in pretty interesting insights to provide inspiration, perspective and knowledge.
To add to this, Google credits and one day passes to try out TechHub were given to startups enrolling in the Google Startup program.
We kick-started off the Beta Weekend with a welcome note- The story of TechHub so far! We also had KC share the tools, techniques and everything awesome about Google Cloud.
And then we had the panel discussion on "Building Innovative Organizations - Reality, Challenges & the way forward".
Socratease- It is a learning app that teaches concepts from scratch in an engaging manner. The modules are basically quizzes that make you really think about a concept. Different users have different journeys, depending on the options they choose. But, they all end up at the same destination, thus having learnt the same concept, at their own pace.
Auquan - Auquan is bridging the gap between data science and finance by translating analytical skills of talented people into trading profits. As such, we are creating awareness about trading industry and trading skills in India, and helping budding traders realize their potential. We ultimately want to democratize trading by making algorithmic trading skills and strategies accessible to everyone.
AppAchhi Technologies - AppAchhi is a mobile app testing platform for functional and performance with real user condition.
Challido -Challido is a platform to help companies build innovation culture and build intrapreneurs.
Evenforce Technologies - A cloud based mobile first and web based enterprise application that helps implement the best in industry processes, manage and monitor workflow with ease and simplifies customer database management.
Cloudadic Inc. - Stegosoc,a security operations on public cloud which performs very similiar to google analytics.
Ampwork - Proximity Based Information Sharing / Marketing / Branding using BLE technology.
Nanoapps - Nanoapps is a platform that enables an app developer to add, update or remove a portion of the native mobile app. a Nanoapp is a containerized micro-app that resides in the standalone native app.


"Bhupen Khakhar's Watercolours" published in LONDON MAGAZINE, Vol 37, Nos 5 & 6, August/September 1997, pp. 191-194. Reproduced here with permission of LM. Click on the image to view the whole article.
"The Uncommon Universe of Bhupen Kahkhar" published in Kobena Mercer, ed, POP ART AND VERNACULAR CULTURES, Institute of International Visual Art with Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 110-135. With thanks to Geeta Kapur. Click on the image to view the whole article.


Flagstaff, Ariz. (Aug. 8, 2017) - Coconino Community College has added a variety of specialty courses to the fall schedule.
And seniors 65 and older now receive a 25 percent discount on tuition.
"We are excited to share some new and unusual credit courses designed for our adult learners in Coconino County this fall," said Dr. Colleen Smith, CCC President. "Some of these intriguing courses include fascinating topics related to our part of the country, alluring literary themes, and cutting-edge courses designed for relevance in technology and today's workforce."
The courses cover Computer Information Systems, Communication, Education, Archaeology and History. Among the courses are: From Job Search to Accepting a Job Offer; Systems Analysis & Design; Cybersecurity Fundamentals; Intro to Education; Archaeology of the West; Social Media for Business; Harry Potter and the Fantastical Literary Elements; Literature of the Southwest; and Outlaws of the West.
Some courses are worth one college credit and last eight weeks - either the first eight weeks or second eight weeks of the 16-week semester. Others are worth three college credits and last the entire semester.
Dr. Dudley Gardner, Interim Provost, said, "The courses are designed for people who aren't necessarily interested in seeking a degree or certification, but who are interested in expanding their understanding about a subject while getting some college credit."
For seniors age 65 and older, the CCC District Governing Board has approved a 25 percent tuition waiver beginning in the fall for up to six credit hours per semester.
The semester begins Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. It is important to note that students in all classes must apply for admission to CCC and be admitted, and tuition payment or arrangements must be made at the time of registration. To enroll, visit the Lone Tree Campus, 2800 S. Lone Tree Road, or go online at www.coconino.edu.


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To follow behind a solid year of touring and the release of the album 'The Snake', Swedish drum & vocal duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums have just released the single 'My Heart' last month. A 'wonderfully uplifting pop track that blossoms into a full-blown gospel anthem', the song showcases singer Mariam Wallentin's haunting, addictive refrain. The video's water-colour layer look provides a stunning visual complement. Catch the band on their North American tour supporting St. Vincent.
Its Saturday and I'm in the office. Granted, its not a ton of work I've gotta do, but its taking some time to get it done. Been listening to a catalog of songs that I represent and trying to see which ones sound close enough to JUSTICE, YYY's, Interpol and Bloc Party.
I shouldn't be complaining, it seems quite a lot better than this job.
Been taking breaks to clean out my Indie Music Filter e-mail (as well as update the mobile site). Remembered getting a track by Wildbirds and Peacedrums, a Swedish duo who forge spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul. Wildbirds and Peacedrums are charismatic singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andrea Werliin. I've got I Can Tell In His Eyes streaming right now from their myspace page.
Here I'll give you Doubt/Hope. Just vocals, drums and hand claps. I can't quite figure out who commands more, Mariam or the pounding drums. Consider this track slightly outside of what you'd normally expect to hear on this site, but moving and inspirational.


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If such an investigation could prove interesting, I would here follow the history of English words; I would show by what authors they were introduced, and how they have lost or changed their acceptation by departing from their primitive
I would treat of compound words, of negative words, in opposition to positive words, in which our language is too deficient, of words that are both substantives and verbs: silence for example signifies at once silence and to make silent, or to silence. But such researches, which would be extremely curious, were our language the object of them, (as it may be seen in the learned Tableau of M. Chasles*) would, in reference to a foreign language, be wearisome or unintelligible to the French reader.
It is only before languages have attained their highest polish that they follow the movement of civilisation : when they have once arrived at that point, they stand still for some time, then go down hill, and become corrupted. It is to be feared that superior talents will henceforth have but a discordant or cracked instrument to give forth their harmonies. A language may, it is true, acquire new expressions with the gradual advance of knowledge ; but it cannot change its syntax without
* « Tableau de la Marche et des Progrès des Langues et de la Littérature Françaises," &c.
224 PERFECTION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
changing its genius. A happy barbarism remains in a language without disfiguring it; solecisms never gain a footing in it without destroying it. We may have a Tertullian, a Statius, a Silius Italicus, a Claudian; but shall we again have Bossuets, Corneilles, Racines, Voltaires. young language, authors have expressions and images which charm like the first beam of morning; in a language completely formed they are brilliant with beauties of every kind; in an aged language, the simplicities of style are but reminiscences, the sublimities of thought, but the produce of an arrangement of words, sought with labour and contrasted with effort.
CRITICISM, at first so useful, has become in London, from its abundance and its diversity, another source of deterioration in the monuments of the English language, by perplexing people's ideas as to the expressions, turns, and words, which they ought to reject, and such as it is right to employ. How can an author discover the truth among so many different opinions, pronounced upon the same work by the Monthly Review, the Critical Review, the Quarterly Review, the Edınburgh Review, the British Review, the Eclectic Review, the Retrospective Review, the Foreign Review, the Foreign Quarterly Review, the Literary Gazette, the London Museum, the Monthly Censor, the Monthly Magazine, the New Monthly Magazine, the Edinburgh Magazine, the Literary Magazine, the London Magazine, Blackwood's
Magazine, the Brighton Magazine, the Annual Register, the Classical Journal, the Quarterly Journal, the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, the Monthly Repertory * ? It would be easy to add a hundred other titles to this motley list, to which might, moreover, be added the literary articles in the daily newspapers.
In France we are not so rich, and our present judgments are less severe. It is possible that literature may appear a puerile occupation to the political and positive age which is commencing among us. If this is really the case, it must be obvious that a writer has very little temptation to create himself a host of enemies, for the satisfaction of upholding the genuine principles of art and taste, in a career in which there is no longer either glory or honours to be acquired.
One critic has of late years ventured to exercise a rigorous censorship : what outcries has he not occasioned? What, then, would the writers of the present day have said, if they had been treated as we were formerly treated! May I be permitted to mention myself as an instance? I had a host of clever men against me : when Atala appeared, the classic army, headed by the Abbé Morellet,
* Persons acquainted with English Literature need not be told that many of the periodicals enumerated here are no longer in existence.--TRANSLATOR.
The very
rushed upon my Florida maiden. The
The " Genie du Christianisme" roused the whole Voltairian world : it drew upon me admonitions from the most distinguished members of the French Academy. M. Ginguené, examining my work two months after its publication, is apprehensive that his criticism comes too late, the "Genie du Christianisme" being already forgotten. clever M. Hoffmann lashed the "Martyrs" in five or six articles of the Journal de l'Empire, then taken from its proprietors, which journal thus proclaimed my speedy end in the vast circle traced by the sword of Napoleon. And what did we-we poor aspirants to renown? Did we think that the whole world was shaken to its foundation ? Had we recourse to charcoal or the pistol to rid ourselves of our own lives or of the censor ? Full of our own merits, did we obstinately and proudly persist in our faults, determined to conquer the age, and to make it pass under the yoke of our follies ? Alas! no: more humble, because we cannot boast the unrivalled talents which nowa-days run the streets, we sought in the first place to justify, and in the next to correct, ourselves. If we had been attacked in too unjust a manner, the tears of the Muses bathed and healed our wounds : in short, we were persuaded that criticism has never killed what ought to live, and still


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Research identifies 'volume control' in the brain that supports learning and memory
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A "molecular volume knob" regulating electrical signals in the brain helps with learning and memory, according to a Dartmouth study.
The molecular system controls the width of electrical signals that flow across synapses between neurons.
The finding of the control mechanism, and the identification of the molecule that regulates it, could help researchers in their search for ways to manage neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes the first study of how the shapes of electrical signals contribute to the functioning of synapses.
"The synapses in our brain are highly dynamic and speak in a range of whispers and shouts," said Michael Hoppa, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth and the research lead. "This finding puts us on a straighter path toward being able to cure stubborn neurological disorders."
Synapses are tiny contact points that allow neurons in the brain to communicate at different frequencies. The brain converts electrical inputs from the neurons into chemical neurotransmitters that travel across these synaptic spaces.
The amount of neurotransmitter released changes the numbers and patterns of neurons activated within circuits of the brain. That reshaping of synaptic connection strength is how learning happens and how memories are formed.
Two functions support these processes of memory and learning. One, known as facilitation, is a series of increasingly rapid spikes that amplifies the signals that change a synapse's shape. The other, depression, reduces the signals. Together, these two forms of plasticity keep the brain in balance and prevent neurological disorders such as seizures.
"As we age, its critical to be able to maintain strengthened synapses. We need a good balance of plasticity in our brain, but also stabilization of synaptic connections," said Hoppa.
The research focused on the hippocampus, the center of the brain that is responsible for learning and memory.
In the study, the research team found that the electric spikes are delivered as analog signals whose shape impacts the magnitude of chemical neurotransmitter released across the synapses. This mechanism functions similar to a light dimmer with variable settings. Previous research considered the spikes to be delivered as a digital signal, more akin to a light switch that operates only in the "on" and "off" positions.
"The finding that these electric spikes are analog unlocks our understanding of how the brain works to form memory and learning," said In Ha Cho, a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth and first author of the study. "The use of analog signals provides an easier pathway to modulate the strength of brain circuits."
Beyond discovering that the electrical signals which flow across synapses in the brain's hippocampus are analog, the Dartmouth research also identified the molecule that regulates the electrical signals.
The molecule — known as Kvβ1 — was previously shown to regulate potassium currents, but was not known to have any role in the synapse controlling the shape of electrical signals. These findings help explain why loss of Kvβ1 molecules had previously been shown to negatively impact learning, memory and sleep in mice and fruit flies.
"This helps our understanding of how our brain is able to work at supercomputer levels with much lower rates of electrical impulses and the energy equivalent of a refrigerator light bulb. The more we learn about these levels of control, it helps us learn how our brains are so efficient," said Hoppa.
For decades, researchers have searched for molecular regulators of synaptic plasticity by focusing on the molecular machinery of chemical release. Until now, measurements of the electrical pulses had been difficult to observe due to the small size of the nerve terminals.
The new research finding was enabled by technology developed at Dartmouth to measure voltage and neurotransmitter release with techniques using light to measure electrical signals in synaptic connections between neurons in the brain.
In future work, the team will seek to determine how the discovery relates to changes in brain metabolism that occur during aging and cause common neurological disorders.
According to the research team, the molecular system exists in an area of the brain that is easily targeted by pharmaceuticals and could lend itself to the development of drug therapies.
Funding for this research was provided through a National Science CAREER award and from the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship.
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract | December 2002
What Is the Risk of Developing Pigmentary gGaucoma from Pigment Dispersion Syndrome?
Y Siddiqui; DO Hodge; JD Cameron; DH Johnson
Author Affiliations & Notes
Y Siddiqui
Mayo Clinic Rochester MN
DO Hodge
JD Cameron
DH Johnson
Commercial Relationships Y. Siddiqui, None; D.O. Hodge, None; J.D. Cameron, None; D.H. Johnson, None. Grant Identification: Research for the Prevention of Blindness
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science December 2002, Vol.43, 285. doi:
Y Siddiqui, DO Hodge, JD Cameron, DH Johnson; What Is the Risk of Developing Pigmentary gGaucoma from Pigment Dispersion Syndrome? . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002;43(13):285.
Abstract: : Purpose: To determine the probability of converting to pigmentary glaucoma (PG) from pigment dispersion syndrome (PDS). Methods: Retrospective population-based study of all newly diagnosed cases of PDS and PG from 1976-1999 in Olmsted County, MN. Criteria for PDS were 2 of 3 signs: iris TI defects, Krukenberg spindles, heavy TM pigment. Criteria for PG were: PDS and 2 of 3 findings: IOP≷21 mmHg, disc damage, visual field loss. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to determine the probability of conversion to PG. Results: 119 patients were newly diagnosed with PDS over the 23 year period. Of these, 31 developed PG or PDS with elevated IOP requiring therapy. The probability of converting to PG was 13% at 5 years and 23% at 15 years. An additional 26 patients were found to have pigmentary glaucoma without a previous diagnosis of PDS during this period. Mean age at diagnosis of PDS was 41 years, PG was 44 years. 57% of PDS patients were male, 87% of PG patients were male. Conclusion: The risk of developing PG from PDS is 13% at 5 years and 23% at 15 years.
Keywords: 354 clinical (human) or epidemiologic studies: prevalence/incidence • 355 clinical (human) or epidemiologic studies: risk factor assessment
© 2002, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc., all rights reserved. Permission to republish any abstract or part of an abstract in any form must be obtained in writing from the ARVO Office prior to publication.


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Womb operation baby makes 'astonishing' progress
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A baby who underwent surgery while still in her mother's womb has made "astonishing" progress.
Doctors performed pioneering surgery on Frankie Lavis, who has spina bifida, when mother Gina was 24 weeks pregnant. Spina bifida occurs when a section of the spinal column does not form properly, which can expose the spinal cord to toxic chemicals in the womb.
Having carried out online research and spoken with doctors in Plymouth she went to Belgium four weeks later to undergo surgery carried out by Prof Deprest. He cut through the womb and operated on the baby's spine to close the hole caused by spina bifida. The operation aims to avert further damage and prevent the build-up of potentially harmful fluid. Mrs Lavis gave birth at 35 weeks and was thrilled to see the success of the operation.
Dr Ross Welch, consultant at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, said: "I'm astonished by Frankie. The improvement over what we would have expected without the prenatal surgery is really very impressive."
Mrs Lavis said Frankie was growing into a "normal, healthy little girl".
She said: "Frankie is Frankie. Spina bifida is just a small part of her."
The surgery was first developed at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia in the US, where it has been performed more than 200 times.


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Henri Matisse at 150: Art as Comfy as an Easy Chair
21 December 2020 by Beth Gersh-Nesic 1731
By Beth Gersh-Nesic
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." —Henri Matisse, "Notes from a Painter," La Grande Revue, LII, 24, 25, December 1908, pp. 481-485. (Translated in Matisse on Art, editor Jack D. Flam, E.P. Dutton, 1973) Nothing could be more welcome than a well-organized and "comfy" retrospective of Henri Matisse's career during this dreadful Covid-19 pandemic. We need these bright colors and voluptuous shapes. Unfortunately, Centre Pompidou's Matisse, Comme Un Roman, a perfect choice for our anxiety-ridden times, closed down almost as soon as it opened on October 21, 2020. I imagine the soul of Henri Matisse wondering through the beautifully installed galleries, devoid of visitors, inhaling and exhaling in long, drawn out sighs . . . "Ugh! Picasso has had multiple exhibitions all over the world every single day. Now that it is my turn, this once-in-a-lifetime retrospective of 230 artwork and 70 documents, is shuttered until the first week of the New Year. Zut! But wait – Picasso's whole museum in Paris is closed. Bon! But then, that means my museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis is closed too! Curses!" As of this writing, the French museums will remain closed through January 7, 2021. In the meantime, you can access podcasts and a video tour on the Centre Pompidou website here. Let's hope Matisse's exhibition will brighten the New Year before its scheduled closure on February 22nd. Matisse on art Jack Flam, cover of 1995 edition. Part of series Documents on Twentieth-Century Art (University of California, 1995) New Year's celebrations are an integral part of Matisse's life story. He was born at 8 pm on December 31, 1869, four hours before the dawn of France's highly transformative year and decade. The first child and first son of a prosperous grain merchant Émile-Hippolyte-Henri Matisse and his artistically-gifted milliner wife, Anna Héloïse Gérard, Henri-Émile-Benoit Matisse came into the world while his parents were spending the holidays with family in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. At the time, they lived in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardy. By the next fall, this joyous family would see their government, the Second Empire under Napoleon III, collapse during the Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870 through January 28, 1871). By the end of May 1871, the short-lived Paris Commune would be defeated and a more conservative government would take charge. In the wake of this tumultuous period, a bunch of 30-something artists would form the avant-garde modernist group called the Anonymous Society of Painter, Sculptors and Engravers, sarcastically dubbed the "Impressionists" by their unimpressed critics. As Matisse came of age several transgressive movements challenged acceptable art conventions. In time, Matisse would become the leader of their progeny, the Fauves (Wild Beasts). At the Centre Pompidou, a most august pillar of French culture, we ironically celebrate one of the most ferocious of these excoriated "Wild Beasts" with a spectacular 150th birthday retrospective, culled from collections all over France and some abroad, and thoughtfully organized by the museum's curator Aurélie Verdier, who helps us discover the literary side of Matisse's creations. Inspired by Louis Aragon's Henri Matisse, roman (1971), she divided the artist's life into "nine chapters," each introduced by a well-known contributor to the arts: Louis Aragon, Georges Duthuit, Dominique Fourcade, Clement Greenberg, Charles Lewis Hind, Pierre Schneider, Jean Clay, and Henri Matisse himself. The curator's tour is available on the Centre Pompidou website and on YouTube. Portrait of Henri Matisse in 1933. Taken by Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer. Photo credit © Carl Van Vechten Photographs, Picryl
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."
—Henri Matisse, "Notes from a Painter," La Grande Revue, LII, 24, 25, December 1908, pp. 481-485. (Translated in Matisse on Art, editor Jack D. Flam, E.P. Dutton, 1973)
Nothing could be more welcome than a well-organized and "comfy" retrospective of Henri Matisse's career during this dreadful Covid-19 pandemic. We need these bright colors and voluptuous shapes. Unfortunately, Centre Pompidou's Matisse, Comme Un Roman, a perfect choice for our anxiety-ridden times, closed down almost as soon as it opened on October 21, 2020. I imagine the soul of Henri Matisse wondering through the beautifully installed galleries, devoid of visitors, inhaling and exhaling in long, drawn out sighs . . . "Ugh! Picasso has had multiple exhibitions all over the world every single day. Now that it is my turn, this once-in-a-lifetime retrospective of 230 artwork and 70 documents, is shuttered until the first week of the New Year. Zut! But wait – Picasso's whole museum in Paris is closed. Bon! But then, that means my museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis is closed too! Curses!"
As of this writing, the French museums will remain closed through January 7, 2021. In the meantime, you can access podcasts and a video tour on the Centre Pompidou website here. Let's hope Matisse's exhibition will brighten the New Year before its scheduled closure on February 22nd.
Matisse on art Jack Flam, cover of 1995 edition. Part of series Documents on Twentieth-Century Art (University of California, 1995)
New Year's celebrations are an integral part of Matisse's life story. He was born at 8 pm on December 31, 1869, four hours before the dawn of France's highly transformative year and decade. The first child and first son of a prosperous grain merchant Émile-Hippolyte-Henri Matisse and his artistically-gifted milliner wife, Anna Héloïse Gérard, Henri-Émile-Benoit Matisse came into the world while his parents were spending the holidays with family in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. At the time, they lived in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardy.
By the next fall, this joyous family would see their government, the Second Empire under Napoleon III, collapse during the Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870 through January 28, 1871). By the end of May 1871, the short-lived Paris Commune would be defeated and a more conservative government would take charge. In the wake of this tumultuous period, a bunch of 30-something artists would form the avant-garde modernist group called the Anonymous Society of Painter, Sculptors and Engravers, sarcastically dubbed the "Impressionists" by their unimpressed critics. As Matisse came of age several transgressive movements challenged acceptable art conventions. In time, Matisse would become the leader of their progeny, the Fauves (Wild Beasts).
At the Centre Pompidou, a most august pillar of French culture, we ironically celebrate one of the most ferocious of these excoriated "Wild Beasts" with a spectacular 150th birthday retrospective, culled from collections all over France and some abroad, and thoughtfully organized by the museum's curator Aurélie Verdier, who helps us discover the literary side of Matisse's creations. Inspired by Louis Aragon's Henri Matisse, roman (1971), she divided the artist's life into "nine chapters," each introduced by a well-known contributor to the arts: Louis Aragon, Georges Duthuit, Dominique Fourcade, Clement Greenberg, Charles Lewis Hind, Pierre Schneider, Jean Clay, and Henri Matisse himself. The curator's tour is available on the Centre Pompidou website and on YouTube.
Portrait of Henri Matisse in 1933. Taken by Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer. Photo credit © Carl Van Vechten Photographs, Picryl
Who was Henri Matisse, the alleged promoter of comfy furniture painting? In fact, he was quite the rebel in a tweed jacket, bespectacled, conventionally bourgeois, and slightly nerdy compared to his contemporary avant-garde companions, who clung to every word of his serious theoretical explanations. He transformed pure color into "A Block of Light, 1904-5," the second gallery that showcases the height of his Fauvist years.
Oh, Henri, you fooled us, didn't you, with your oft-misquoted "armchair" philosophy? You didn't mean to extol banal decoration, but instead you invented screaming hues of red, blue, yellow, and green, composed in environments occupied by unconventionally proportioned human bodies or floral designs. You incessantly irritated your critics and shocked the general Parisian art salon crowd. Comforting and "soothing" you were not, back then. Are you today? For most of us, yes. For you are the great painter of the modernist movement, a bygone period of optimism we hope to retrieve each time we bask in the radiance of your light. And your influence still shines brightly on our current young masters, most notably Kerry James Marshall and Mickalene Thomas, among others, just as your light supported the emergence of the École de Paris and its satellites, such as Marc Chagall, Jacqueline Marval and Jules Pascin.
A sustained careful study of your artistic trajectory, Henri, from Gustave Moreau's studio to the paper cuts created shortly after your near death from cancer in 1941 (you lived 13 years more), reveals unmistakable moments of relentless struggles to achieve your desired goals, your "condensation of sensations":
"Both harmonies and dissonances of color can produce agreeable effects. Often when I start a work I record fresh and superficial sensations during the first session. . . I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations, which makes a painting. I might be satisfied with a work done at one sitting, but I would soon tire of it; therefore, I prefer to rework it so that later I recognize it as representative of my state of mind." (from Matisse on Art, 1973)
This distillation of your truth, augmented by your attraction to Henri Bergson's concept of "intuition" (the latest art philosophy at this time) guided your visual vocabulary of personal signs, as you remarked to Louis Aragon during his 1943 interview:
"The importance of the artist is measured by the quantity of new signs he will have introduced into the language of art (le language plastique)."
(From "Matisse-en-France," published in Henri Matisse: Themes and Variations (1943), and repeated in Aragon's Matisse, roman /Matisse, Novel, 1971.)
Henri Matisse, Interior with Aubergines, 1911, tempera on canvas 212 x 246 cm (83. 46 x 96.85 inches) Musée de Grenoble, Gift of Madame Amélie Matisse and Mademoiselle Marguerite Matisse, 1922 © Succession H. Matisse / Photo © Ville de Grenoble/Musée de Grenoble Crédit photographique : Ville de Grenoble/Musée de Grenoble Photographer: Jean-Luc Lacroix
Taking this last statement into consideration, let us focus on Matisse's 1911 Interior with Aubergines, the star of the show and rarely on loan from the Musée de Grenoble, in terms of its spare depictions and the artist's self-referential iconographic codes, such as the little nude sculptures, the open window, and the lively textile prints – all signature motifs since Matisse's first Fauve work Open Window, Colliour, 1904 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). Interior with Aubergines ("eggplants" for us Yanks) was completed in the fall before Matisse's 42nd birthday. Placed in the fourth gallery, "A Deep Dive into Resemblance, 1910-1917," this giant canvas of nearly 7 x 9 feet deploys a complex organization of space, attempting to fuse the literal and depicted within the duality of art and our lived existence. Thus, numerous rectangles direct the eyes to various types of open and closed forms, from left to right: the fireplace, the mirror, the doorway, the curtain beyond, the screen, the swatch of floral cloth tacked onto the screen, the door, the frame, the shutter, and the open window (yet again).
Henri Matisse, French Window in Collioure, 1914, oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89 cm., ©Succession H. Matisse, on the cover of Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, roman, volume I, Gallimard, 1971
This period (1910-1917) forced Matisse to face the onslaught of Cubist inventions staking their claim in the private galleries and public salons. By the time Matisse finished the ominous black and green French Window in Collioure, 1914, the almost abstract purity of his compositions seem to have permanently shifted from his exuberant lyricism into Le Corbusier's Purist austerity, well in advance of the Purist movement (1918-1925).
Gone were the humans, as if erased from consideration, and yet, quite present in terms of ourselves. We, the viewers, stand in front of the painting, assuming the artist's own perspective, and contemplating the mysterious darkness, perhaps an abyss, beyond the picture plane. At this point in his career, Matisse seemed finished with his signature voluptuous female figures, his joyous Orientalized arabesques, and his pulsating tones that became the light source in his art. Matisse would not give up on this rather arid Cubist direction until 1917, when he reached the final stage of Bathers at a River (Art Institute of Chicago).
Henri Matisse, Large Red Interior, 1948, Musée National d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, roman, vol. II, Paris: Gallimard, 1971
Perhaps, the selection of this Cubist work for the cover of Louis Aragon's Henri Matisse, Roman, volume I, expresses the boundless possibilities and unexplored mysteries of Matisse's whole oeuvre. Fortunately, this Cubist compromise did not last long. On the deliciously red cover of Henri Matisse, Roman, volume II, we see the return to a joie de vivre (the title of his best known work in the Barnes Collection, now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, painted in 1905-1906). This genuine zest for life fills the final galleries, especially the last two, "Day of Color" and "The Giant Image," wherein we relish the extraordinary vitality of his late-career paper cuts.
Most Matisse scholar bristle when Matisse's 1908 "comfy armchair" remark invades the conversation. Matisse himself regretted the phrase published in a well-known magazine. For the avant-garde phalanx, the bromide sentiment sounded too sappy to identify with, and even believe Matisse said it himself. Numerous subsequent interviews would push this early-career comment into the background, but it was never forgotten. Today it sounds just right. We do need soothing art right now, as familiar and comfy as an old armchair.
Hopefully, Matisse, Like a Novel, will reopen on the first Thursday of the New Year. If you are lucky enough to be in Paris during that period, please look on the Centre Pompidou website for reservation information. Advance reservations, masks and social distancing will still be enforced.
In the meantime, Henri – we wish you Joyeux Anniversaire on December 31, 2020 and une très bonne année,
Lead photo credit : Matisse Comme un roman exhibition cover
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A Thomas Edison Biography
By admin Last updated Sep 18, 2022
If you're looking for a Thomas Edison biography, you've come to the right place. You'll learn about his life and the many innovations he developed, including the motion picture camera, telegraphy, and electric power generation. Learn about his relationships with Samuel Laws, too.
1 Thomas Edison's life
1.1 his association with telegraphy
1.2 his invention of the motion picture camera
1.3 his relationship with Samuel Laws
1.4 his invention of the phonograph
Thomas Edison's life
Thomas Edison's life is filled with various exciting events and achievements. The inventor of the electric light bulb, he was also involved in the business side of the electric industry. His wife died in August 1884, and he moved his laboratory to New York City. In 1886, he married Mina Miller in New England and the two married in February. They had three children, including a son who would later become Thomas Edison III.
Edison worked hard throughout his life. He never stopped learning, despite the many difficulties he faced. This attitude was evident even at a very young age when he sold daily news articles to train passengers. At age twelve, he had a small laboratory that he set up in the train's baggage car, where he conducted experiments. In his free time, he continued to work on his ideas and improve telegraph technology.
his association with telegraphy
Thomas Edison's association with telegraphy dates back to the 1870s. In 1874, he began working on a multiplex telegraph system for Western Union. He also developed a quadruplex telegraph, which could transmit two messages simultaneously in both directions. Edison's inventions helped telegraph companies gain an edge over their competitors, including the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. In 1875, Edison also invented the electric pen.
During his early career, Thomas Edison worked as a telegraph operator. His experience as an operator exposed him to leading technical communities like Boston and Cincinnati. In addition, he studied chemistry, electric current, and the design of telegraphs.
his invention of the motion picture camera
The motion picture camera is an important invention that changed how people view movies. Thomas Edison invented the camera that recorded images in real-time and used the technology to make films. In 1891, Thomas Edison filed for a patent for his motion picture camera. The camera he created was called the kinetoscope and was initially installed in penny arcades. It used film that could be rolled at regular intervals and was different from the flexible celluloid films used today.
Thomas Edison's invention of the motion picture came about through a series of innovations. First, he created the kinetoscope, a device that required viewers to peer through a small wooden enclosure to view the motion picture. This technology made it possible to show short films to individual viewers. This new invention helped to make movie viewing accessible to the general public and created movie theaters and peep shows.
his relationship with Samuel Laws
Thomas Edison's relationship with Samuel Laws was a complicated one. While the two were very close, their relationship was not always harmonious. Though they were married and had many children, Thomas Edison did not always want to have a relationship with his second wife. Instead, he preferred to spend his time in the lab and experimenting. In 1876, he built Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey with the money from selling the Quadruplex Telegraph. Edison's goal with the laboratory was to develop technological innovations.
The two men met while attending a Baptist seminary in Cleveland. While the relationship was not very formal, it was emotional and deep. Samuel Laws also encouraged Thomas's experiments in electricity and chemistry. In addition, the two have been friends since childhood. Although their relationship began less than accidentally, they stayed in touch through letters.
his invention of the phonograph
After Edison invented the phonograph, technology began to change. Initially, wax cylinders were used. Afterward, other inventors developed more advanced technologies and improved upon the phonograph. However, Edison's phonograph failed to catch on with the public, and other inventors quickly developed better alternatives. A competitor to Edison's phonograph was the Berliner Gramophone, which used discs instead of cylinders to record sound.
Edison had already been working on the telephone and telegraph and thought the technology could be changed to record sound. So, in 1877, he began work on the phonograph, a simple device consisting of two needles that recorded sound vibrations on a thin sheet of tinfoil. When the sound was played back, the needles would retrace the marks made on the paper.
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In Gene Wilkes' book, Paul on Leadership (pp. 115-116), he describes the five factors that must be in place for ministry leaders to work well together. The list of factors is an expansion of Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Wilkes said, "It has proven to be a valuable resource to help expose those unseen aspects of human behavior that prevent teams from functioning well."
We will trust one another. Wilkes says, "I have found this to be a difficult step for some team members to take. Trusting team members can shed tears together, and they can openly share their unguarded feelings with the group."
We will engage in unfiltered conflict around ideas. According to Wilkes, "You can get red in the face over an idea if you trust those in the room will still honor you when the debate has ended."
We will commit to decisions and plans of action. Wilkes: "Truly cohesive teams have fought through decisions, adopted viable plans, and commit to seeing them completed."
We will hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans.
We will focus on the achievement of collective results. The point here is to keep the team's attention on what they are actually accomplishing. In the end, sitting around a table making decisions is worthless if it isn't translated into action and concrete results.
We have many great leadership teams at Hillcrest. You and your teams are the reason our church is both stable and progressing! Keep up the great work!


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News in Brief from Democracy Now (April 3)
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HAVANA TIMES – We present the news in brief from Democracy Now for Wednesday April, 3, 2013.
U.N. General Assembly Approves 1st Global Arms Treaty
The United Nations General Assembly has approved the first-ever treaty to regulate the global arms trade. After over six years of talks, the pact was authorized Tuesday by a vote of 154 to 3. Iran, North Korea and Syria were the countries opposed. The treaty will have no impact on domestic gun laws but will bring new regulations to the sales of conventional arms. Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, the head of the Arms Trade Treaty Conference, said the treaty would have a positive impact notwithstanding the compromises that assured its passage.
Peter Woolcott: "The final draft text is a compromise text which represents the broadest possible input of delegations. That text would make a difference to the broadest range of stakeholders. It would establish new common international standards in the conventional arms trade. It would also establish a forum, the Conference of States Parties, for transparency and accountability. That text would also make an important difference by reducing human suffering and saving lives."
The Obama administration voted with the majority after blocking the treaty last summer during President Obama's bid for re-election. According to reports, the United States helped weaken the text by limiting the list of weapons subject to regulation and by successfully opposing limits on the sale of ammunition. The treaty will now come up for ratification in the U.S. Senate, where it likely faces intense opposition from lobbyists, including the NRA.
U.S. Deploys 2nd Warship in Pacific to Confront North Korea
The United States continues to increase its military posture toward North Korea amidst growing tensions with the regime. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesperson George Little confirmed two guided-missile destroyers have been deployed in the Pacific to prepare for operation off the Korean Peninsula.
George Little: "On the Decatur and the McCain, they have arrived at predetermined positions in the western Pacific, where they will be poised to respond to any missile threats to our allies or our territory."
Military posturing by both the United States and North Korea has increased since the U.N. Security Council approved U.S.-backed sanctions last month in response to North Korea's third nuclear test. On Tuesday, North Korea vowed to restart a shuttered nuclear reactor. Earlier today, the regime also closed off access to a joint industrial zone with South Korea.
Kerry Denounces "Unacceptable Rhetoric" from North Korea
In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry denounced North Korea for recent threats of nuclear strikes on the U.S. and its allies.
Secretary of State John Kerry: "We've heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the last days. So let me be perfectly clear here today: The United States will defend and protect ourselves and our treaty ally, the Republic of Korea."
ExxonMobil Ordered to Take Corrective Action on Oil Spill
The federal government has ordered ExxonMobil to take corrective action for the oil spill that's leaked thousands of barrels near Mayflower, Arkansas. ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline was carrying tar sands oil from Canada when it ruptured last week, flooding the streets of a housing development with thick black crude and forcing at least 22 evacuations. The Transportation Department says ExxonMobil has estimated a spill so far of up to 5,000 barrels of oil. Arkansas officials, meanwhile, have officially launched a probe of the rupture, asking ExxonMobil to preserve all relevant information "for any future litigation." The ExxonMobil spill comes as the Obama administration prepares to issue a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would expand the transport of Canadian tar sands oil on a massive scale.
Anti-Abortion Measures Advanced in Alabama, Indiana
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Arkansas GOP Overrides Veto of Voter ID Law
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New York Lawmakers Indicted for Bribery Scandal
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Preet Bharara: "The charges we unsealed today demonstrate, once again, that a show-me-the-money culture seems to pervade every level of New York government. At the heart of the allegations is a sitting Democratic senator from Queens, Malcolm Smith, who believed he could, and should, be the mayor of New York City, and who, in the service of that ambition, tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion. As the complaint describes, Senator Smith drew up the game plan, and Republican Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked it by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receive bribes."
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Schumer Protested for Stance on Immigration Reform, Private Prison Ties
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Esther Portillo-Gonzales: "We are targeting Senator Schumer because of his ties with prison companies that are incarcerating thousands and millions of immigrants. So one of our major demands is that his ties with prison companies come to an end and that his comprehensive immigration reform bill be based on family unity and not on detention and deportation, as it currently stands."
Texas Death Row Prisoner Wins 2nd Reprieve over Racial Bias in Jury Selection
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Atomausstieg selber machen (ASM) war eine Kampagne von 23 deutschen Umweltverbänden, Verbraucherschutz-Organisationen und Anti-Atom-Initiativen.

Ziele
Das Bündnis rief in Deutschland dazu auf, kein Geld mehr an Stromkonzerne zu zahlen, die Atomkraftwerke betreiben. Stattdessen wurde der Wechsel des Stromversorgers zu Ökostrom-Anbietern empfohlen. Außerdem wollte ASM Atomkraftgegner motivieren, für Ökostrom aktiv zu werden.

Aktivitäten
Aktive Personen und Gruppen – z. B. Bürgerinitiativen, Ortsgruppen von Umweltschutzverbänden, unabhängige Anti-Atom- und Energiewendebündnisse – wurden von Atomausstieg selber machen unterstützt. Dafür machte ASM regelmäßig neue Aktionsvorschläge und -angebote und rief zusätzlich ein- bis zweimal im Jahr zu einer großen bundesweiten "Ökostrom-Wechselwoche" auf.

Beratung und Information von interessierten Bürgern erfolgte unter anderem über Flyer.

Geschichte
Nach der faktischen Aufkündigung des rot-grünen Atomkonsenses durch die ersten Anträge auf Übertragung von Reststrommengen von alten auf neuere Reaktorblöcke, eingereicht von den Kernkraftwerksbetreibern RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall und EnBW, riefen Umwelt- und Verbraucherschutz-Organisationen im Oktober 2006 dazu auf, sich von den Atomkonzernen zu trennen.

Sie beschlossen, dass sie den Atomausstieg selber machen können und gründeten zu diesem Zweck das gleichnamige Bündnis.

Das Gründungsmitglied Greenpeace verließ das Bündnis 2011, um nicht von den Spenden der beworbenen Ökostromanbieter abhängig zu sein.

In 2015 verkündeten die Träger ein Ende der gemeinsamen Kampagne und legten ein Archiv der Webseite an.

Träger des Bündnisses
 .ausgestrahlt
 Bund der Energieverbraucher e. V.
 Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND)
 Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz (BBU)
 Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow-Dannenberg
 Campact e. V.
 ContrAtom
 Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR)
 Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)
 Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung
 genanet – Leitstelle Gender, Umwelt, Nachhaltigkeit
 Grüne Liga
 Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges / Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung (IPPNW)
 Jugendbündnis Zukunftsenergie
 Klar! Kein Leben mit atomaren Risiken!
 Mütter gegen Atomkraft e. V.
 NaturFreunde Deutschlands
 Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU)
 Robin Wood e. V.
 TEMA Stiftung
 Unabhängiges Forschungsinstitut für Umweltfragen (UfU)
 urgewald
 WWF Deutschland
 X-tausendmal quer

Siehe auch
 Kohleausstieg

Weblinks
 Archiv der stillgelegten Kampagnenseite

Einzelnachweise

Anti-Atomkraft-Organisation
Antiatomkraftbewegung in Deutschland
Politische Organisation (Berlin)
Gegründet 2006
Umweltschutzorganisation (Deutschland)