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Hi Christian – A good start: using *Information* Governance and not *Data* Governance. I believe that going back to a solid explanation of the difference between the two (Information and Data) is key. It can be done quickly and easily (Information came first and pervades all that we do) and with a few foundational rules in place, the rest of it, i.e. all of the 'slices' in the IG pie, become more readily understandable.
I look forward to the conversation on the 29th and will read more of your material before then.
Thanks, John. I'm pretty sure we won't get to discussing info vs data. The bottom line is that regardless of where it resides, it all (info, data, content) needs to be governed and managed.
Agreed, and apologies if this belabours the point, but information governance that starts with the elements of information (terminology, names, etc.) in the form of a faceted vocabulary has a much better chance of reusing those elements in a much more useful way.
How do I get call-in details for the event… the Event Lobby doesn't seem to have a register function.
I've replaced the link to the event – it should work now.
Who doesn't have to change anymore? Who can no longer afford to be nimble in order to keep up with the pace of change? I'm moving our global retention schedule app to the cloud. New internal hosting would take 60-90 days for a sever to be ordered and set up. The cloud provider did it a couple of days. That difference in red tape alone, in responding to the users need, creates a flood of applications on the move, along with lower cost.
Now silos are a funny thing as they are often done by the will of the organization in wanting separation. Not that there isn't collaboration tools for cross-pollination but few are willing to pile their business line information together outside of main accounting platforms like SAP. Unless there is a culture change, based on massive monetary savings (always about the money), organizations will continue to silo a number of business line information applications.
If that list is "…all the rules, regulations, legislation, standards, and policies with which organizations need to comply when they create, share, and use information" (and I'm not saying it's not), say hello to silos and bad behavior.
That lists works for the people who "get it" but more and more "information workers" reside in line-of-business locations and they are not going to think about all that stuff.
And the truth is, beyond the standard on-boarding training, I don't think they really need to think about it; I certainly don't want them to. The Utopian view is that the "system" will take care of the governance and the users will just do their jobs. The Dystopian view is when users have to be information or records managers.
As for silos – as long as the silos can be connected and the users get the info they need, it doesn't really matter.
Hi Saheed – How do you see cloud technologies getting Christian closer to his utopia where "silos don't matter as long as the silos can be connected…" etc.?
Actually, I think security is only perceived to be the biggest challenge. Cloud providers have way better security, in general, than the vast majority of corporate and government data centres. The biggest challenge we have is in our collective heads; nothing to do with reality.


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import os
import pytz
import json
import time
import datetime
from dateutil.parser import parse
from astral import Astral, Location, AstralError

from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from django.utils import timezone
from django.shortcuts import render

EPOCH = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0)

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, world. From here you can get a bunch of different minimal datasets.")

def sun(request):
    """
    Return sunrise, sunset etc. times.
    """

    a = Astral()
    a.solar_depression = 'civil'
    l = Location()

    # l.name = 'Lapinlahden sairaala'
    # l.region = 'Helsinki'

    lat = request.GET.get('lat')
    lon = request.GET.get('lon')
    if lat is None or lon is None:
        l.latitude = 60.167761
        l.longitude = 24.9118141
        l.loc_source = 'default'
    else:
        l.latitude = float(lat)
        l.longitude = float(lon)
        l.loc_source = 'request'
    l.timezone = 'UTC'
    l.elevation = 0
    timeformat = request.GET.get('timeformat', 'epoch')
    date_str = request.GET.get('date')
    format_str = request.GET.get('format', 'json')
    date = datetime.datetime.now().date()
    if date_str is not None:
        date = parse(date_str).date()
        pass
    sundata = {
        'now': datetime.datetime.now(tz=pytz.UTC),  # .astimezone(pytz.UTC),
        'date': date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
        'lat': l.latitude,
        'lon': l.longitude,
        'loc_source': l.loc_source,
    }

    try:
        sun = l.sun(date=date, local=False)
    except AstralError as e:
        return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'error': str(e)}), content_type='application/json')
    for k in ['dawn', 'sunrise', 'noon', 'sunset', 'dusk']:
        sundata[k] = sun[k]
    if timeformat == 'iso':
        for k in sundata.keys():
            if isinstance(sundata[k], datetime.datetime):
                sundata[k] = sundata[k].isoformat()
    else:  # timeformat == 'epoch':
        for k in sundata.keys():
            if isinstance(sundata[k], datetime.datetime):
                sundata[k] = int(sundata[k].timestamp())
    res_str = json.dumps(sundata, indent=2)
    return HttpResponse(res_str, content_type='application/json')

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Battle of Narva (1944)
The Battle of Narva was a military campaign between the German army detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for the strategically important Narva Isthmus in 2 February – 10 August 1944.
The campaign took place in the northern section of the Eastern Front and consisted of two major phases: the Battle for Narva Bridgehead and the Battle of Tannenberg Line. The Soviet Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive, Narva Offensives (15–28 February, 1–4 March, and 18–24 March) were part of the Winter Spring Campaign of 1944. Following Joseph Stalin's 'Broad Front' strategy, these coincided with the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive.
As a continuation of the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive in January 1944, the Soviet Estonian Operation pushed the front westward to the Narva River, aiming to destroy the army detachment "Narwa"and to thrust deep into Estonia. The Soviet units established a number of bridgeheads on the opposite bank in February. Subsequent attempts failed to expand. German counter attacks annihilated the bridgeheads to the north of Narva and reduced the bridgehead south of the town stabilizing the front until July 1944.
The Soviet Narva Offensive (July 1944) and the follow-on Battle of Tannenberg Line were part of the Soviet Summer Autumn Campaign of 1944, coinciding with the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive. The Narva Offensive captured the city and forced the German forces to retreat to their prepared Tannenberg Defence Line in the hills of Sinimäed 16 kilometres from Narva. In ensuing fierce Battle of Tannenberg Line, the German army group held the line.
Joseph Stalin's main strategic goal — a quick occupation of Estonia as a base for air- and seaborne attacks against Finland and an invasion to East Prussia — was not achieved. As a result of the lengthy German defence, the Soviet war effort in the Baltic Sea region was hampered for seven and a half months.
A number of foreign volunteers and the local Estonian conscripts participated in the battle as part of German forces. By giving its support to the German illegal conscription call, the Estonian resistance movement had hoped to recreate a national army and restore the independence of the country.
Source: Wikipedia Added by: Rob Brent
During the Second World War in 1940 Soviet troops occupied Estonia annexing it to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. However, in 1941 the Germans defeated the Soviet Army and occupied Estonia until 1944. Although Estonia tried to restore its independence it was incorporated as a Republic of the USSR.
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First of all, I browse the forum and see many casualties like mine, but as far as I read it, seems to be referred to a general problem, not to a single entry.
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Al hacer clic en "Sí" impedirás que Zotero actualice esta cita si añades citas adicionales, cambias el estilo de citación o modificas el elemento al cual hace referencia. Al hacer clic en "No" borrarás tus cambios.
Zotero experimentó un error al actualizar tu documento.
I tried almost anything, from erasing the reference that seems to have an error to restarting the computer.
I'm using a fresh Linux Mint 19 instalation, with LibreOffice 6.0.7.3 and the last Zotero plugin.
I will appreciate any help you can gave me ... losing a work that consumes me more than a year will be catastrofic.
In the title is an error ... must say "RuntimeException"
This looks like a citation that hasn't been fully deleted (leaving an invisible trace) and possibly causing document corruption.
QUESTION: The limitation applies for the free Zotero version? If I bought it, will broke those limitations?
QUESTION: May I broke the thesis into separate documents (master and subs)? Did Zotero handle this?
Try to resolve this issue (track changes) ... for academic researchs and/or for group works, the tracking is ... very important.
There's no theoretical limit to the number of citation in a document (and the citation function is entirely unrelated to free vs. paid version) and the practical limit is _much_ higher than 100.
People have used Zotero in Master document, but I wouldn't consider that a well-tested or stable set-up. Working in separate documents and then simply merging those works, though.
In 2008 I used Zotero to write my doctoral thesis. It contains more than 400 different cited items. At the time Zotero was quite cooperative even though I was using Vancouver style, cited several of the sources multiple times in different sections, and did several reorganizations involving cut-and-paste of sections of text. I started out using Reference Manager but it proved inadequate when I approached 250 cites. I tried switching to EndNote but it too bogged down. I re-inserted my cites using Zotero and, even that earlier version, was a boon to the sanity of this near crazed thesis-writer.


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During Stipanowich's five years at the helm of CPR, the non-profit Institute saw dramatic increases in revenue and expansion of international conferences and programs, including efforts aimed at promoting greater use of business mediation in Europe and China and the creation of a foundation in The Hague. CPR also initiated a Corporate Leadership Award honoring lawyers promoting effective management of conflict, including general counsel at GE and Ernst & Young. In 2005, CPR inaugurated a new web site and a new generation of books on conflict resolution topics under the halo title, Master Guide Series. CPR recently moved to new and larger headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
Stipanowich's position at Pepperdine will mark a continuation of his role as an "active scholar," teacher, writer, and neutral in the conflict resolution field. Along with Managing Director Peter Robinson, he will head Straus Institute, an entity that U.S. News and World Report has ranked #1 among academic dispute resolution programs in five of the last seven years. The Straus Institute administers an LL.M. (advanced law degree), Masters in Dispute Resolution, and Certificate in Dispute Resolution for more than 400 degree-seeking students at Pepperdine's School of Law. The Straus Institute also provides continuing professional education programs in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration to more than 1,000 lawyers, judges, and other mid-career professionals every
Prior to leading CPR, Stipanowich was William L. Matthews Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky, a widely published author and speaker, and an experienced arbitrator, mediator and facilitator.
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Q: android downloading multiple files and mapping to activity I have an XML which contains an array of books. The array will contain url to download bimpat image. book id and book name.
e.g.
<result>
<books>
<book>
<bookId>101</bookId>
<bookname>java</bookname>
<bookurl><http://bookimage.jpg>
</book>
<book>
<bookId>102</bookId>
<bookname>c++</bookname>
<bookurl><http://bookimage.jpg>
</book>
<book>
<bookId>103</bookId>
<bookname>.net</bookname>
<bookurl><http://bookimage.jpg>
</book>
</books>

The above xml is downloaded and stored in array and individual image is downloaded from each URL. Mean while book data is set in activity.
If the image download is done serially it takes a lot of time. If done parallely , i do not come to know which image corresponds to which book.
public class myasync extends asynctask
{
doInBackground(String url)
{
Bitmap bitmap = getfilefromurl;
return bitmap;
}
}

public class activity1 extends Activity
{

OnCreate()
{
 myasync myasyncobj = new myasync(this);
 myasyncobj .execute("http://bookimage.jpg");
}

}
The image is returned to activity. But it is not known to which book id it correspond.
EDIT: I am planning to use hashmap to return URL and bitmap. But returning hashmap containing only one key value pair, might not be a good idea. Is there any construct for storing one string and bitmap?
EDIT2: I am sharing activity object. Can create an interface also.
Interface.setBitmap()  , Interface.setURL(). But creating new interface for sharing one bitmap and one url, will be good programming practice?
EDIT 3: The solution I have used is to create an class for storing bitmap and url. This will be called from OnPostExecute.
class BitmapURLMap
{
   Bitmap bmp;
   String URL;
}
Class Book
{
  String URL;
  String BookID;
  String IconImage;

  //getter and setter methods.
}

Class model //model for mvp
{
  ArrayList<Book> arrBook = null;

  public void setBookArr(ArrayList<Book> arrBook  )
  {
    this.arrBook  = arrBook ;
  }

  public ArrayList<Book> arrBook  getBookArr( )
  {
    return arrBook ;
   }
}

    public class myasync extends asynctask
    {
      Activity activity;
      public myasync(Activity activity)
      {
        this.activity = activity;
      }
        doInBackground(String url)
        {
          Bitmap bitmap = getfilefromurl;
          BitmapURLMap bmpURL = new BitmapURLMap(bitmap,url);
          return bmp;
        }
    OnPostExecute()
    {
       activity.setMap(bmpURL);
    }

public class activity1 extends Activity
{
    OnCreate()
     {
         myasync myasyncobj = new myasync(this);
         myasyncobj .executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR,"http://bookimage.jpg");
     }
     setMap(BitmapURLMap bmpURL)
     {
          ArrayList<Book> arrBook= model.getBookArr();
          for(Book book : arrBook)
          String URL = book.getURL();
          if(URL.equals( bmpURL.URL))
           {
             book.setIconImage(bmpURL.bmp);
             break;
           }
      model.setBookArr(arrBook);
      }
}

But I am sure this solution is not the right way to do it. Though it works.
Can someone tell me how to implement it the right way.

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Prior to the release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, there was a lot of hubbub surrounding the sort of game it would be. FromSoftware claimed that it would feel very different from their Souls games, so now that the dust has fallen, I'm going to break down their similarities and differences for anyone who hasn't been repeatedly murdered by their new game yet.
This is the most obvious one. The combat in Sekiro feels absolutely nothing like the combat in Dark Souls. While other entries were mostly about dodging and blocking, this one is about parrying. You can dodge and block here too, but your dodge has fewer i-frames, and standing and blocking is a good way to accomplish nothing. Much like Bloodborne, aggression is key, but you'll get slaughtered if you try and play it the same way.
Sekiro differentiates itself even more by the way you're meant to damage your foes. In past games, you could damage them little-by-little while doing your best to stay safe. Here, enemy health is not your primary concern. Much like you, enemies have a posture meter that increases when you hit them while they're blocking. If you back off on hitting them, they regain their posture and you must start over from the beginning. The only time you want to hit-and-run is if their posture recovers quickly anyway; reducing their vitality lowers the speed their posture recovers.
But in general this means that you don't want to back away or dodge when enemies attack. The best way to deal with this is to just hit them and hit them until they deflect your attack, which signals that they're about to attack you. You then parry that attack and keep going as long as you can. Parrying a foe tends to do a good amount of posture damage, so this keeps the pressure on. Enemies also have different types of attacks that you can't parry, such as grabs and sweeps, but you can jump over these, kick them in the face, and then rain slashes on them while landing.
Suffice to say, combat in Sekiro is completely different than in Souls games. Anyone coming into it thinking they'll have an upper hand is going to be in for a rude awakening. The many hours spent honing my skills in other games haven't helped me at all with this new combat system.
Trying out different weapons and finding a style that works for you is a big part of what makes Souls games so great. In Sekiro, though, you get one sword. That's it. You use it the whole game. You do get a good amount of secondary weapons and skills, but these use shared ammunition that you can only carry a certain amount of, meaning that you shouldn't rely on them as much. While you can upgrade all of these secondary weapons (and even get additional skills for them), your sword will only do more damage with something we'll talk about later.
And no, there's no equipment either. No changing your armor, or wearing different sets to increase your poison resistance, or playing Fashion Souls. It's extremely pared down compared to the Souls series. It's not necessarily worse – it's just very different.
As far as world design goes, Sekiro is similar to the first Dark Souls. The world is open and interconnected. You'll have many different ways to go, and there's a lot to explore, with a number of different routes and areas available at any given time. Carefully entering a new area and scoping it out for ways forward and items to grab will feel quite familiar to veterans. But Sekiro has one very major difference that changes this up considerably.
You're probably aware of this by now, but Sekiro is also a stealth game. Due to this, arriving in a new area can play more like a Tenchu game than a Souls game. It's simply inadvisable to fight many enemies head-on, so it's in your best interest to sneak up on enemies for a stealth kill instead. You can enter a crouch mode that reduces noise and visibility and can even throw pieces of pottery in order to lure enemies. It's basically Dark Souls with a stealth system.
Having a grappling hook helps with this, too. Areas are full of rooftops to run along or places to perch and observe the surroundings, and it's also a nifty way of getting away from battles you don't feel you can win. The verticality makes a big difference to how you explore and approach each new zone.
The other big difference is how the game world is littered with extremely tough mini-bosses. You'll frequently come across one of these, work like hell to defeat them, and then find another one waiting close by. These function almost like puzzles, as they're typically surrounded by cronies that you'll need to pick off. One interesting thing is that you can usually take away half of their health by sneaking up on them and executing a deathblow. Suffice to say, they greatly change the way that you need to approach areas.
It wouldn't be a FromSoftware game if you weren't dying every five seconds, and Sekiro is no different. In the Dark Souls series, dying meant you'd hollow and drop your experience and have to pick it up later without dying first. This game, however, throws all that out the window. If you die in Sekiro, you lose half of your unspent experience points and half of your money. You cannot get them back.
However, you have a chance to not lose anything at all. The more you die, the more something called dragonrot accumulates. At low accumulation, each death carries with it a 30% chance of you getting to keep your experience and money. The more you die, the more this decreases and the sicker the NPCs around you get. It's really not much of a problem, though, as curing this isn't difficult. And you shouldn't be going into tough fights with lots of money and experience on you in the first place.
The biggest difference, however, is that you get resurrections in Sekiro. Each time you die, you can bring yourself back to life with half health on the spot. If this makes the game sound easier, that is absolutely not the case. While you obviously couldn't do this in Souls games, it's baked into the difficulty here. Many enemies can dispatch you in just a few hits, so even with the ability to resurrect, I'd say Sekiro is a great deal harder than its predecessors.
Refilling your life in Sekiro is pretty much the same as in the Souls games. You find an item, give it to an NPC, and then you get an extra use of a healing drink. The big difference is that you really don't want to let up your attack, so healing is much riskier and less useful than in other games. You can also have other healing items, but the game limits you to carrying three at once.
This is another area where things are mostly similar. The sculptor's idols in Sekiro are very much like bonfires. You can freely warp from each of these locations as you wish. And of course, each time you find one, you can rest at it, which refills your life and healing drink, or use experience to improve your character. This leads to one of the biggest differences between this game and others.
This one's a doozy. Previous games allowed for a certain level of difficulty mitigation. Boss fight too tough? Go and farm some souls so you can increase your stats. Maybe go farm some materials to improve your equipment while you're at it. In Sekiro, however, you only use experience for skills. You can buy both combat arts or latent abilities with it, but you can only gain more health and do more damage by collecting specific items from strong enemies.
The way it works is that you need to collect four prayer beads to make a necklace. Each necklace increases your health and posture. But these are mostly sourced from defeating minibosses. Increasing your damage, on the other hand, can only be accomplished by using an item dropped by bosses. This means that you can only really strengthen your character on the game's terms. You can explore a great deal and get more healing items and prayer beads, though, which can make a big difference. You can also grind for skill points, as new techniques can really turn the tide.
The Souls games are famous for their online components. Getting invaded at any time and summoning help are cornerstones of the series. Naturally, Sekiro throws this out the window entirely. That also means that there won't be any bloodstains to warn you of impending peril. It's purely single player and you're totally on your own. But at least you don't have to worry about players showing up and hunting you. The enemies do that well enough on their own. And this also means you can pause!
While Souls games are famously cryptic, Sekiro is the exact opposite. It has cutscenes, a well-explained narrative, and a voiced protagonist with a personality and motives of his own. And where previous games refused to explain things or give many hints, Sekiro is bursting with them. Eavesdropping on NPCs and talking to people will clue you in on finding weapons and beating bosses. It's a very marked difference that is much more user-friendly, which is the exact opposite of the combat.
So, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is definitely both very similar and very different in comparison to previous FromSoftware games. I think the biggest takeaway is that, while previous games offered multiple ways to overcome a tough challenge, Sekiro tends to focus on skill alone. No amount of grinding can save you this time. You either need to use skill or die. That, on its own, makes Sekiro harder than any of its brethren.


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Boston Business Journal - "Alpha's latest product, Alpha Anywhere 2.0 cuts the time it takes to develop business apps by 90%"
Richard Rabins Apr 18, 2014
Story Link http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2014/04/alpha-softwares-latest-product-cuts-the-time-it.html Boston Business Journal Apr 4, 2014, 3:45pm EDT
Courtesy: Alpha Software CTO Dan Bricklin said the latest version of the company's business application development software can now be built cheaper and quicker.
Sara Castellanos
Technology Reporter-Boston Business Journal, Email | Twitter | Google+
Business app software firm Alpha Software will release a new version of its development software next week, allowing businesses to cut the time they spend on developing mobile and Web applications by as much as 90 percent. The Burlington-based company's software is called Alpha Anywhere, and is used to develop business-related applications that can run on desktops and mobile phones. Many businesses use the software for building mobile-specific applications because it's easy to use, Bricklin said. Applications that might have been prohibitive because of time and expense can now be built cheaper and quicker using the latest version of Alpha Anywhere, said company CTO Dan Bricklin. "Alpha Anywhere makes it possible for developers who are not heavily trained in mobile development to build applications for businesses," he said. With the newest version of the software, developers can build applications five-to-10 times faster than using the traditional method of coding, Bricklin said. The time it takes to build an application varies drastically depending on the business, but Alpha Anywhere's new version could be used to develop business applications in days instead of weeks, or in weeks instead of months, he said. Businesses use the software to develop applications for business operations such as keeping track of inventory and placing orders for products. For example, a HIPAA-compliant health care application was built using Alpha Anywhere, and it's now in use at more than 20 hospitals, according to the company. Thousands of developers have built tens of thousands of business applications using Alpha's development products, according to the company. Customers using Alpha Software's technology include engineering company Golder Associates, which used Alpha Anywhere to build its internal Web and mobile apps, and trucking business eTruckBiz.
Entrepreneurship is soaring. SaaS is a great business model for Entrepreneurs. How does Alpha Anywhere fit into this equation?
Give Us 2 Min and 45 Seconds and We'll Give You a Quick Overview of an Alpha Anywhere Mobile App and How it was Built
Richard Rabins
Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.


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Alibaba to Launch MVNO Services in June
by Tracey Xiang Apr 17, 2014 Jun 7, 2020
Last year MIIT, the Chinese ministry responsible for information technology, unveiled the policy for mobile virtual network operators and announced the first batch of qualified applicants which include JD.com and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group.
Alibaba Group has established Ali Communications (not official translation) to operate mobile communications services. The company announced today it has built a billing system and services will be released in the coming June.
Alibaba said their focus will be data services that will be available for the company's existing services, Taobao, Alipay, Aliyun, etc. Mobile number pre-orders will open in May.
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The Original Graphic Work is universally recognized as one of the most important expressions of fine arts with painting, drawing, sculpture and others. That is why the great museums around the world have valuable graphic artworks in their collections. The Metropolitan Museum in New York has more than 1.5 million works, one of the most extensive collections in the world. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has more than 50,000 works spanning the techniques, artists and movements from 1880 until today.
The aesthetic pleasure that provides original graphic work is hard to compare. The firmness of the woodcut, the velvety mezzotint, engraving textures, the delicacy of stone lithography, the incredible tone range of giclée, each of the techniques has its own way of captivating and bridge the gap between artist and viewer.
The history of graphic art has a tradition of over 500 years and has allowed artists to experiment with new techniques, media (papers), pigments, in a constant process of creation and discovery.
It has also allowed artists to disseminate their art and expand its range of action. Such was the case in the Renaissance, when the engraving technique served to make the public and other artists knew the work of the Grand Masters.
Work on the paper is fed from innovations of artists, which usually take some existing technical and modified to create art. The inventor of lithography, created this technique for printing music scores. But soon the potential of this method was discovered and developed by Delacroix, Goya and Daumier. Screen printing art born of "Silkscreen", which was used in the textile industry and advertising.
The method used by the artist is only one aspect to consider, although the difficulty of a technical or visual property can add value to the work, creative work is what differentiates any piece of a masterpiece.
A good Original Graphic Work is valued over time. This is demonstrated by the high prices that can reach in the famous auction houses. So far, the record for an original graphic work of history, corresponds to an engraving by Pablo Picasso, "Le repas frugal" a 250 works edition, which was sold for 1.18 million dollars in the auction house "Christies ", in London. The Graphic Work does not escape the interest of thieves, who also know the value of these pieces. In 2005, at the Art Gallery of "Desert Palm" in California, thieves stole a lithograph by Chagall and a Picasso linoleum, " The tribe of Dan " and " Femme regardant "valued respectively at $35,000 and $53,000 each.
After all this we want to emphasize that, when deciding to buy a work, whether Painting, Original Graphics, Fine Art Photography or Sculpture, the most important thing is to remember visual enjoyment and pleasure that one gets. The eventual appreciation should not be the primary factor when purchasing. What is important is to buy something you like, so you will hardly will make a mistake.
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Hi, I'm Meredith. Most of my friends and family members typically call me Merry or Mere, hence the blog's name! I'm 27 years old and in the last year my life has changed quite a bit! I just relocated back home to the USA after living in Australia for 9 months, and prior to moving to Australia, I lived in Boston, Massachusetts for four years. Now currently I reside right where I grew up, back in Maine with my family.
Moving abroad was a life-changing experience for me and I truly wouldn't trade it for the world. I made great friends, great memories with my boyfriend, did a great deal of traveling, and I got to study exercise science in a foreign country. Plus, moving that far away helped me truly appreciate the things that matter most in life. Things like family, true friends, health, and happiness.
So, fast forward to today and I'm currently continuing to take pre-requisites to get into my desired Master's Program next fall. If you asked me a year ago where I'd be and what I'd be doing, I would have never in a million years told you this, but I'm so happy I took a leap of faith and left corporate America to follow my dreams and my heart.
Besides being back in school, I'm managing the ice-cream shop/restaurant I used to work at all through high-school and college. I love ice-cream, I love my boss, and I enjoy being around people and the hospitality industry so truly it's the perfect fit for me.
In my spare time, I love to exercise, and I also love to cook and bake. Exercise wise, I truly love running, but also enjoy walking, elliptical workouts, weight-lifting, circuits, body-pump, body-attack, really anything that gets me moving!
Cooking wise, I've learned everything from my Mom. She's a nutritionist who has taught me how to cook delicious, healthy-for-you food without compromising the taste!
Great blog, Mere!! I am SO impressed! Continued success…you DESERVE it!!
Wow a great cook and beautiful to boot… Can you cook me something ?
Meredith, this is awesome! I'll let you know when I try some out. Liz and I are going vegan for a few weeks afther the baby is born. Got anything for us?
Thanks Rick! Most of my soups are vegan (and you can always swap chicken broth for vegetable broth!). I go to cookinglight.com for easy vegetarian ideas…they have great categories with a lot of easy recipes! Thanks for reading!
I just stumbled across your blog and thought I'd say hi!
My fiance is American, moving to Australia so I guess he's a bit like you and your boyfriend!
Hey there Kristy! Thanks for saying hi and for reading!
I am totally impressed by your recipes and can't wait for you to keep sharing!!
I'm Laura and I have just found your blog. I think it's great.
I'm also studying to become a dietitian/nutritionist. I've just started my Bachelor of Science degree and I can't wait for the day where I'll actually be one.
Looking forward to reading your blog and your study journey.
Thanks Amanda :) I miss you!!!
I love reading your blog, Meredith! I hope all is well, sounds like it is! Thanks for sharing your recipes!
Thanks Karyn :) And thanks for reading! I appreciate it!
Hi Amy! Thanks for reading and following :) I just hopped over to your blog and I'm excited to start reading yours, too!
What an awesome story! I'm also pursuing my Masters degree in Nutrition, and aspire to become a nutritionist. I graduate in August this year, after my final elective class! Too Excited! Best wishes with all your endeavors!
What an awesome move abroad! That's amazing!
this is awesome, you seem so adventurous :) excited to follow along!
!!!!! I want to move to Australia! Sooo jealous you live there!!
thanks Charlotte, Australia is awesome, I'm sad to go! I'm excited to follow your NYC adventures!
Just found your blog–going to have to follow along ;) You're a much stronger woman than I…I don't think I could move that far away from my family, but I would LOVE to tour Australia!
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. I hope you're having a great weekend!


I was asked to take several pictures of any location using a DSLR camera. Using these pictures, I had to evoke opposite moods using RAW and composition within Photoshop. I used an office building on New York State Route 252 (a.k.a. West Henrietta Road). Using Photoshop technologies, I altered the images to a point where one is extremely happy and the other extremely depressing.


Team Sky: The 2015 Tour de France winners are heralded as the team at the cutting edge of professional cycling; with coveted technology, plans copied by other teams, and three Tour wins in just five years of operation. And UQ counts two alumni in their ranks.
Head of Athlete Performance, Tim Kerrison (Bachelor of Applied Science, First Class Honours '96, Bachelor of Arts, '98) and Performance Coach, Shaun Stephens (Bachelor of Applied Science, First Class Honours, '97) joined the team in 2009 and 2012 respectively and are credited with devising and driving one of the most successful training programs the sport has ever seen.
"I started when the team launched in September 2009 as a Performance Scientist," said Kerrison.
Profoundly modest about his part in the team's success, Kerrison is widely credited as being the mastermind behind Team Sky's incredible results: he came on board at the team's inception and championed innovations that saw the team rise to their first victory just two years later.
"I started coaching Bradley Wiggins in 2011, and following his success, my coaching role was expanded so my time is now mostly taken up coaching key riders in the team, including Chris Froome, Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas," said Kerrison.
With Kerrison's time largely devoted to coaching, Stephens has stepped up to play a key role in the Performance Support team.
"I started coaching up to eight riders in the team, however in the past 12 months, my role has evolved into taking over some of Tim's responsibilities in overseeing Performance Support," said Stephens.
Whilst the pair has never worked together prior to Team Sky, Stephens suggests they maintained contact after their university days and their careers ran in parallel with each other, ultimately bringing them back together 15 years after going their separate ways from UQ.
How did two UQ alumni come to be working together at Team Sky?
SS: Tim and I met whilst studying at UQ, but more through our mutual involvement in rowing than our studies. We were both coaching rowing throughout our time at UQ and spent many hours at the UQ boat shed. Tim was one year ahead of me through university but we had the same honours supervisor. Through our continued friendship and mutual interest in coaching and sport science, Tim contacted me at the end of 2012 when an opportunity opened up in the team for a performance coach. I had just returned from the London Olympics working as Head Coach of the Australian Triathlon Team and jumped at the idea of working for Team Sky in a different sport.
What were your roles prior to Team Sky?
2005 - 2009 Performance Scientist, British Swimming.
2009 - 2012 Head Coach (Triathlon), Australian Institute of Sport and Triathlon Australia.
What attracted you to Team Sky having worked in other sports?
TK: I had the opportunity to be involved in the project from its inception. It came at a time when I was looking for a change, and the opportunity to transfer my knowledge and experience from rowing and swimming into professional cycling was an exciting challenge.
SS: I had worked in triathlon for 14 years and was looking for a new challenge. Knowing the philosophy behind Team Sky's success, as well as the opportunity to work with a highly successful professional sporting team, was a huge attraction for me.
What have been the keys to Team Sky's success?
TK: A relentless work ethic, an open-minded approach, great leadership (from Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford), and a philosophy of continual improvement. We pride ourselves on working harder than every other team to continually review and improve what we do.
SS: The team really prides itself on leaving no stone unturned in terms of athlete preparation.
What are the philosophies the team holds at its core?
TK: Continual improvement. We invest a lot in developing our people through the team's Winning Behaviours program. And we invest much more than any other team in developing our riders' talent through our coaching and performance support system. Most teams spend as much of their budget as possible on rider salaries, whereas we spend relatively less on talent, and more on developing the talent.
SS: The team is driven by success and is constantly looking for new ideas and innovations to implement. Surprisingly, prior to the start of Team Sky, the sport was very primitive in terms of quality coaching and performance support. Tim, along with our Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford, have been largely responsible for establishing this philosophy and performance model. Other World Tour teams have since adopted similar performance structures within their teams.
What has your time around elite athletes such as Wiggins and Froome taught you about success?
SS: Elite athletes make huge sacrifices, work extremely hard and often face set backs that require resilience and perseverance which makes watching them achieve success very rewarding.
What do you most enjoy about the Tour de France?
TK: Paris! The Tour de France is a brutal race, even for the staff! After four weeks on the road with the daily pressures of racing, travelling, dealing with media and the craziness of the race, it is very special to finally arrive in Paris and to see your rider on the Champs Elysees in a yellow jersey.
What are the realities of working on a professional circuit?
SS: The World Tour calendar is extremely busy. The team completes approximately 250 race days in over 25 different countries each year. Add to that almost 100 days of training camps throughout the year and the calendar becomes very full. The job is demanding and often very stressful. Grand Tours, which involve three weeks of racing, are very intense and involve extremely long days and high-pressure environments. They are not so much enjoyable, rather incredibly rewarding at the end of the three weeks.
What are your proudest achievements during your careers?
TK: Coaching my first rowing world champions in 2002, three of whom where UQ students - Steve Kuzma, Michael McBryde, and Marguerite Houston. Coaching Bradley Wiggins to be first the Brit to win the Tour de France in 2012, then to Olympic gold just one week later. And of course, coaching three of the last four Tour de France winners.
SS: Watching Emma Snowsill and Emma Moffatt win gold and bronze medals at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. I feel extremely privileged to have attended the last four Olympic Games as a coach and have been fortunate to coach some amazingly talented and committed world champions and Olympic medalists in triathlon and cycling.
What are your fondest memories of your time at UQ?
TK: The many hours spent rowing and coaching from the UQ boat sheds. In 1992 I was a member of the UQ Men's Eight that won the Oxford and Cambridge Cup, and was awarded a half-blue for rowing - the highlight of my student sporting achievements.
SS: I made the most of all the University campus had to offer. Between lectures, I spent many hours coaching rowing at the boat shed, training for triathlon at the University swimming pool, and running and cycling around the campus, as well as a lot of time in the Human Movement Studies common room discussing all things sport related with fellow HMS students.
What advice would you give to students or recent graduates about following their dreams?
TK: Be patient. Be prepared to invest in your career. Be prepared to work hard and for nothing other than to gain broad experiences that will enrich your career and pay dividends in the long term.
SS: Achieving success is hard work. Elite sport teaches you that lesson very quickly and it is no different in professional life. You can be the most talented athlete (or intelligent student), but ultimately, if you aren't willing to work hard, make sacrifices and continue to look for new ways to improve, you'll never achieve the highest level of success in your chosen field.


Medical and scientific literature has shown that exposure to some chemicals and other toxic substances used in the manufacture of semiconductor chips can cause severe and lasting personal injury. In particular, certain chemicals used in clean rooms, including ethylene glycol ether, have been linked to reproductive problems among workers, including infertility, subfertility, miscarriage, and birth defects in their children. In addition, several chemicals have been linked to cancer.
Thornton Law Firm LLP in Boston has been at the forefront of litigation against the semiconductor chip manufacturing industry.
In 2001, after three years of litigation, Thornton Law Firm successfully settled one of the first lawsuits in the country involving a semiconductor chip clean room worker. Ironically, clean rooms were so named because conditions such as air ventilation were designed to protect chips—but not the health of the workers. Clean room workers breathe re-circulated air contaminated with solvents.
These birth defects may have occurred as a result of their parents' exposure to various toxic chemicals during gestation. Our clients have causes of action against the companies that are manufacturing semiconductor chips, as well as against the manufacturers of the chemicals that caused their injuries. As a result, workers and their children may be entitled to recover substantial legal damages.
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Media in blockading countries struggle to report on Qatar victory
UAE and Saudi media outlets focus their reporting on losing side, Japan, with some not even mentioning the word Qatar.
UAE newspaper Gulf News was among several outlets that focused on losing side, Japan [screenshot/Al Jazeera]
Following Qatar's win of the Asian Cup on Friday, media outlets in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia struggled with recognising the Gulf country's victory.
Several Twitter users criticised UAE and Saudi news media for solely focusing on the losing side in the final, Japan, with some not even mentioning the word "Qatar".
Several outlets had already stopped reporting about the tournament altogether following Qatar's 4-0 win over the UAE, the tournament's host, in the semifinals on Tuesday.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Qatar in 2017, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism and fostering closer ties with Iran. Qatar denies all the charges.
Qatari football fans were barred from attending the tournament in the UAE because of the bitter political rift and their national team was forced to play almost entirely without support from the stands.
This is actually HILLARIOUS folks #UAE 🇦🇪 daily @aletihadae took it further & covered #Qatar 🇶🇦 win by showing #Japan 🇯🇵team being 2nd in line
The 2nd headline was "The Samurai's extra confidence caused their loss"
Lordie lord, that is PATHETIC yet funny pic.twitter.com/DN4mSW564T
— SaadAbedine (@SaadAbedine) February 2, 2019
On Saturday, Gulf News, one of the major newspapers in the Emirates, focused its reporting mostly on Japan being the losing side, with a headline reading "Japan come up short in Asian Cup final".
The Khaleej Times had a story headlined "Unlucky Japan lose AFC Asian Cup final", saying that "Japan fought until the last second, and like a champion side, dug deep to grab a positive result but couldn't succeed".
"It was a sad end to the biggest Asian Cup tournament for Japan as Qatar won the title," the article concluded.
The difference with last year's FIFA World Cup was striking, when headlines in both Gulf News and the Khaleej Times celebrated the winner, France, instead of highlighting who lost the final.
The last news article about the Asian Cup on the Emirates 247 website was about Japan's semifinal match against Iran, held last Monday and the lead up to Qatar's 4-0 win semifinal over the UAE. That match and Qatar's win 3-1 in the final were not reported on by the site.
The website did, however, report on the Dubai Police concluding the Dubai Football Challenge.
Meanwhile, UAE's Arabic media outlets also focused most of their attention on the losing side.
Back to the absurdity we call #UAE 🇦🇪 so-called journalism @AlBayanNews' front page had NO mention of the #AsiaCup, just didn't happen folks
Sports section reported "#Japan 🇯🇵 couldn't hold on to the title"
NO mention of the winning team ... #Qatar 🇶🇦https://t.co/qYXVcpvXba pic.twitter.com/lx4n9ZTM2B
Both Al Bayan and Al Etihad had more interest in Japan's side and the fact that it won the Fair Play award than Qatar's win over the four-time champion, with Al Bayan not even mentioning the word "Qatar".
The Saudi newspaper Saudi Gazette reported only on a dismissed complaint by the UAE Football Association after the Qatar vs UAE semifinal.
A news article originally written by the Reuters news agency was headlined "Naturlized players hand Qatar first Asian Cup" by the English language outlet.
Meanwhile, former Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan took to Twitter, calling the Qatari side "a litter of stray dogs", adding that Israel was somehow involved in Qatar's victory after an Israeli army spokesperson congratulated Qatar on its victory.
"A blessing from their master," Khalfan said in his tweet.
The responses come after Qatar beat Japan on Friday with 3-1 in the final of the 2019 Asian Cup, hosted by the UAE.
It was the first time Qatar, which only conceded one goal in the whole tournament, made it to the final.
Following the win, people in Qatar took to the streets to celebrate the victory of their national team.


Warriors News · Mar 4 IMPORTANT – Boys Basketball Banquet Information!
Boys Basketball Banquet Each year we end the season with a banquet and this year is no different. EVERY player will be individually recognized for their hard work. We will be catering Georgia Boys Barbecue for this event. As always, players are free, and the price is $5 per additional family member. However, no family needs to pay more than $10, even if they have more than 2 attendees (the program covers the rest). Please turn this money in via check or cash directly to athletic secretary, Lucy Jannsen, in the front office. MONEY IS DUE BY MONDAY, MARCH 4th!
If you know that your family will not be able to make this event, please let us know as soon as possible so we can better evaluate how much food to order.


Construction of a new City of Fulton Public Facilities Complex, located off of Westminster Avenue, will soon be underway now that a contractor has been chosen. The new complex will feature an administration building, two storage garages, a repair garage, warehouse, emergency call out building and Solid Waste Department offices.
The City of Fulton has cancelled its annual surplus sale scheduled for Saturday, May 3. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please contact Purchasing Agent Samantha Bedsworth at 573-592-3141 for more information.


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Temporal niche differentiation among species changes with habitat productivity and light conditions
Lin Huang (Corresponding author), Wei Xue, Tomáš Herben
Abstract Aim Niche differentiation along the temporal axis has often been suggested as a potential mechanism of species coexistence. Species may co-occur by shifting timing of growth, or by changing their growth rate to avoid competition for resources, namely light. However, due to the lack of data on growth phenology of a large set of species, we do not know how common each phenomenon is and whether the phenology of coexisting species shows a non-random distribution, which would be indicative of either niche differentiation or resource competition. Location Czech Republic. Methods We recorded growth phenological data of 381 perennial herbaceous species in plant collections in the Botanical Garden of Charles University in Prague, allowing frequent recordings on a large number of species that grow in conditions close to their natural habitats. We used the measurements to derive the day of peak growth and two types of growth rates. We then used co-occurrence data of these species from the Czech National Phytosociological Database and examined whether co-occurring species show non-random patterns of these parameters in 11 individual habitats, which were identified by the European Nature Information System. Results We found large differences among habitat types, partly due to differences in habitat productivity, indicated by the mean height and summed cover of all species in the habitats. Unexpectedly, we did not find temporal niche differentiation in woodlands, indicating the day of peak growth of species was essentially random. Growth rates in forests were strongly over-dispersed. This pattern contrasted with grasslands where the distribution of all parameters showed synchronization, which is likely because plants need to succeed in asymmetric competition for light. Conclusion These data provide the first quantitative assessment of differences in growth dynamics across communities and show one of the first unequivocal demonstrations of trait overdispersion in plant communities.
Journal of Vegetation Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12741
community dynamics
growth phenology
growth trajectory
phenological differentiation
trait over-dispersion
trait under-dispersion
vegetative phenology
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Huang, L., Xue, W., & Herben, T. (2019). Temporal niche differentiation among species changes with habitat productivity and light conditions. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(3), 438-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12741
Huang, Lin ; Xue, Wei ; Herben, Tomáš. / Temporal niche differentiation among species changes with habitat productivity and light conditions. In: Journal of Vegetation Science. 2019 ; Vol. 30, No. 3. pp. 438-447.
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Huang, L, Xue, W & Herben, T 2019, 'Temporal niche differentiation among species changes with habitat productivity and light conditions', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 438-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12741
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The Rough Diamond
For close to 40 years, the Brisbane Arts Theatre has had a rehearsal/costume space at 222 Petrie Terrace.
That era has come to an end.
The property has been sold, and the past few weeks have seen a mammoth effort by hard-working volunteers to clear the place out.
For over ten years, I've been in that building countless times. But tonight, during my final visit, I got to see something I've never seen before.
222 - completely and utterly empty. Costumes gone, furniture gone, props gone. It was a shell.
And yet, it remained full - of character, memory, warmth, laughter and chatter. Ephemeral, immeasurable things.
But it was still full of physical things too - just things I'd never really observed before. Things like wallpaper, and cracked windows, and decaying linoleum, and the grill in the fireplace featured on an album cover by legendary Brisbane rock band The Saints.
Before the theatre bought and converted the building in the 1970s, it had been a boarding house. Before that - early 20th century - it was a fine home, known as Kelso House, with beautiful wrought iron railings.
Walking through for the final time, I got the sense of these ghosts of 222 past - the terrace house, the doss house. Our own ghosts, our theatre spirits, now get added to that list. Natalie as actor, director, improviser, volunteer, costume lover... she is in there, running lines, blocking scenes, trying on costumes, digging out props, energetic, tired, crying, laughing. The floorboards were never the sturdiest, but they have borne the weight of countless Natalies for the past decade, holding her up even as she felt like collapsing.
In a wonderful stroke of fortune, the buyers of 222 are not going to raze it to make way for inner-city units. They plan to take their time and restore it as a residence. For this I am grateful. It may be rough, but it's still a diamond. I cannot wait to see it polished.
Posted by Girl Clumsy at 10:38 PM
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the King 9:29 AM, July 11, 2011
sorry Nat, 222 isnt the house where the saints pic was taken, that house was further down the street.
Girl Clumsy 9:58 AM, July 11, 2011
Oh really? I was led up the garden path then.
Still, looks virtually identical. Let's claim it anyway. ;)
daneastside 11:22 AM, July 11, 2011
your memories will keep it alive.
And always remember... Smiles don't have to be saved for a rainy day. It's good to waste them.
the King 11:40 AM, July 12, 2011
yeah, sorry, I know Sarah Mac tried to tell a lot of people it was the "Saints house", but to be honest, I think we owned 222 by the time that pic was taken.
Steave 3:42 PM, July 12, 2011
We had rehearsal in there on Saturday afternoon. I remember walking through the door for the very first rehearsal for Mort, twelve years ago now. Goodbye 222. I'll miss you.
Carley 7:31 AM, July 19, 2011
Oh, it's so beautiful!
By the way, nice to meet you.
VanityofVanities 5:46 PM, August 16, 2011
"I cannot wait to see it polished."
Hope you post the photos of this building after it was polished. Find out from this post that those things that we may treasure today, will be gone tomorrow or be ruined tomorrow.
Cathy@support hose