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Traditional outfits of Carpathian region of Ukraine
The western region of Ukraine covers a part of Carpathian Mountains. Ukrainians who live in highlands are very unique people. They managed to keep their…
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Wide Leather Belt
Traditional Outfits
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Hutsul leather shoes called "postoly" (Carpathian region of Ukraine)
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Western Regions
Ukrainian Dress
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Women's folk costume from Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region (Hutsul region, western part of the country)
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Costumes For Women
Traditional Attire
Ukrainian female costumes from Carpathian and Ciscarpathian regions
Folk Clothing
Embroidery Patterns Vintage
Set of men's clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the embroidery pattern on the trousers and shoes called "postoly"
Redwork Embroidery
Embroidery Coat
Western Embroidery
Hungarian Embroidery
Set of men's clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the embellishments of the woolen coat called "serdak", the belt, and the embroidery pattern on the shirt
Woolen Coat
Everyday Outfits
Set of men's clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the hat called "krysania" and embellishments of the woolen coat called "serdak"
Fabric Belt
Set of men's clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. It consists of a shirt, trousers, a woolen coat called "serdak", a fabric belt called "kraika", a hat called "krysania", and shoes called "postoly"
Wrap Around Skirt
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Ethnic Fashion
Traditional Dresses
Set of women's clothing from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. It consists of a blouse, a wrap-around skirt called "zapaska", a sleeveless fur coat called "keptar", a fabric belt called "kraika", a kerchief, high leather boots, a Venetian necklace, a bag, and a purse called "kalytka"
Sleeveless Jacket
Felt Hat
Set of male clothes from Lemko region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. It consists of a shirt, trousers called "nahavky", a sleeveless jacket, a coat called "chugania", a belt, a felt hat, and high boots
European Clothing
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Carpathian Mountains
Cowboy Art
Set of male clothing from Boiko region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. It consists of a shirt, trousers called "hachi", a sleeveless fur coat called "bunda", a leather belt, a Karakul hat, shoes called "khodaky", and a jewelry piece on the collar of the shirt
Male Costumes
Male costumes from western part of Ukraine, the early 20th century. The outfit on the left is from Lemko region: a shirt, trousers called "nahavky", a sleeveless jacket, a coat called "chugania", a belt, a felt hat, and high boots. The attire on the right is from Boiko region: a shirt, trousers called "hachi", a sleeveless fur coat called "bunda", a leather belt, a Karakul hat, shoes called "khodaky", and a jewelry piece on the collar of the shirt
Set of male clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the woolen trousers with embroidery and leather shoes called "postoly" up close
Set of male clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the wide leather belt called "cheres" and embellishments of the woolen coat called "serdak" up close
Satin Stitch
Set of male clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. Close-up view. You can see the hat called "krysania" and embellishments of the woolen coat called "serdak" up close
Jojo Fashion
Set of male clothes from Hutsul region of Ukraine (western part of the country), the early 20th century. It consists of a shirt, trousers, a woolen coat called "serdak", a wide leather belt called "cheres", a hat called "krysania", leather shoes called "postoly", and a small axe
Richly embroidered pocket of a male's long woolen outerwear called "serdak", and the traditional hatchet of Ukrainian Hutsuls called "bartka"
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Wedding Men
Ethnic Outfits
Period Costumes
Men's wedding dress of the western part of Ukraine. This clothing was made in Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, at the beginning of the 20th century. The outfit consists of a shirt, trousers, a sleeveless fur coat called "keptar", a long woolen outerwear called "serdak", a silk kerchief around the neck, a hat called "kresanya", woolen puttees with embroidery, leather shoes called "postoly", and a traditional hatchet of Ukrainian Hutsuls called "bartka"
Traditional Bride
Wedding Headdress
Traditional bride's wedding headdress. Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the beginning of the 20th century. Close-up view
European Costumes
Hand Knit Socks
Dress Clothes For Women
Knit Outfit
Piece Of Clothing
Women's wedding dress of the western part of Ukraine. This clothing was made in Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, at the beginning of the 20th century. The outfit consists of a long shirt, a wrap-around skirt called "zapaska", a kerchief worn around the waist, a sleeveless fur coat called "keptar", an outerwear called "guglya" (a white embroidered sleeveless cloak), an intricate wedding headdress, hand knitted socks, leather shoes called "postoly", a woven shoulder bag, a lot of jewel
Wedding Groom
Groom's wedding headdress. Snyatyn district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the end of the 19th century. It is a straw hat with plenty of decorations: embroidery, feathers, artificial flowers, yarn pom-pons, and two large tassels (made from special grass) on top
Folk Wedding
Babys Breath Flowers
Bride's wedding headdress. Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, 1930. It is a wreath made from feathers and artificial flowers
Bridal Headdress
Wedding Costumes
Lovely Wedding Dress
Authentic Wedding
Ceramic Angels
Women's wedding dress from Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the beginning of the 20th century. Close-up view
Knitting Socks
Women's wedding dress of the western part of Ukraine. This clothing was made in Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region at the beginning of the 20th century. The outfit consists of a shirt, a skirt, an apron called "zapaska", a woven belt called "krayka", a sleeveless fur coat called "keptar", a large kerchief, a wedding headdress, hand knitted socks, leather shoes called "postoly", and a lot of jewelry
Traditional Fashion
Glass Necklace
Female wedding dress from Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the beginning of the 20th century. Close-up view
Folk Fashion
Fashion Fabric
Female wedding dress of the western part of Ukraine. This clothing was made in Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region at the beginning of the 20th century. The outfit consists of a long embroidered shirt, several skirts, a woven belt called "krayka", a large piece of white cloth with embroidered ends called "rantukh" (after the wedding a bride covered her head and neck with rantukh), a colorful kerchief, a headdress (wedding wreath with ribbons), leather boots, and a lot of jewelry

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Q: How do a create a dataframe to store the information generated from train-test-validation split? I want to create id_set.csv. This file will contain the split of data between train/validation/test. It will have2 columns: ID and set. The IDs must be identical to the ones in dataset.csv. The set value must be one of "train", "validation" or "test". Data will be randomly split in 50-70% to the training set, 20-30% to the validation set and 10-20% to the test set.
# Train-test-validation split
train, test = train_test_split(self.df, test_size=0.2, random_state=1)
train, val = train_test_split(train, test_size=0.25, random_state=1)

Desired output

ID
set

r2_HG_3
train

r2_HG_4
train

r2_HG_5
validation

r2_HG_6
validation

r2_HG_7
test

r2_HG_8
test

A: If you're working with pandas you could shuffle by rows using df.sample(frac=1), and then set the first 50-70% of the rows as training set, followed by 20-30% as validation set, and the final 10-20% as test set.

A: If I have correctly understood the input for the split is a dataframe and it contains already the ID column, then:
# Train-test-validation split
train, test = train_test_split(self.df, test_size=0.2, random_state=1)
train, val = train_test_split(train, test_size=0.25, random_state=1)

# Assuming train, val, test are dataframes
# A string is assigned to the "set" column.
train.loc[:,'set'] = 'train'
val.loc[:,'set'] = 'val'
test.loc[:,'set'] = 'test'

# Concatenate all the dataframe together
id_set = pd.concat([train, val, test], axis=0)
id_set.to_csv('id_set.csv', index=False)

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George Osbourne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in a statement on 3rd December that a £15million government-funded listed 'Places of Worship: Roof Repair Fund' is open to receive applications from churches, mosques, temples, gurdwaras and synagogues .
Congregations across the UK responsible for looking after listed places of worship of all faiths and denominations can apply for money to address pressing roof repair issues to ensure these historic buildings are weathertight, safe and open for use.
Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 can be provided, to help meet the costs of urgent work needed to be done (e.g. coverings, timbers, ceilings and vaults) and rainwater disposal systems (e.g. gutters, valleys, hoppers, downpipes, gullies, drains and soakaways).
Applications for a grant must be made by midday on 30th January 2015, with awards to be allocated by the end of March 2015.
The scheme will be administered by the National Heritage Memorial Fund on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Further information about the scheme is available online by visiting www.nhmf.org.uk and clicking on the link to the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund.
There is only one opportunity to apply. The closing date for applications is 12pm (noon) Friday 30th January 2015. Enquiries may be submitted by email to enquiries@lpowroof.org.uk or telephone 01392 223 979.
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If you want to keep your laying hens in top condition, producing many eggs for you over a longer period without wearing themselves out in the process, think calcium. For this you need properly bio-available calcium. Unfortunately most products contain good old calcium carbonate (found in nature in chalk and limestone) which is not at all well digestible by the bird. So it goes in one end and out the other again, achieving nothing in the middle. Another low quality product often used is grit.
Birds of all types rarely go in nature to chew at the chalk downs or the limestone walls of The Cotswolds. It just does not work for them. So wild birds get their calcium in other ways, through the bio-available sources found in plants.
At The Birdcare Company we have been providing bio-available calcium and vitamin supplements for many years. If you are wanting to raise your egg production, keep it going for a while longer and what to keep your hens fit in the process, Poultry CalciBoost is the product for you.
Poultry CalciBoost is a highly bio-available calcium supplement for backyard poultry. It comes in a powdered format which is easily sprinkled over moist food, such as layers pellets or kitchen scraps, to which it will then stick. Use it four to six days a week when your hens are laying. During the off season give it once a week to keep their bone supplies topped up ready for their next period of laying.
Add 1 gram of Poultry CalciBoost to the food for every 4 kgs of bird bodyweight. One level teaspoon weighs 2.4 grams and so is enough for 10 kilograms of birds. Give Poultry CalciBoost five times a week for laying hens & once a week when not laying.
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Gold Oldsmobile F-88 Embodies Automotive Art
Few people put Art in the American automobile like the legendary Harley J. Earl.
Carmakers, for the large part, didn't pay much attention to design until the late Twenties … 1927, in fact, when General Motors hired the Mr. Earl, tasking him with styling the 1927 LaSalle and 1928 Cadillac.
Harley Earl, son of a Hollywood coachbuilder who designed custom vehicles for movie stars, came to GM as supervisor of the company's new Art and Colour section, the first department of its kind in the automotive world. He led a team responsible for introducing what went on to become hallmark looks of the American automobile: classic chrome, two-tone paint, tail fins, and wrap around windshields.
Earl and his designers were not only responsible for setting current automotive trends of the day, they looked to the future by building experimental dream cars for The General's showcase of design: their fabulous Motorama shows which ran from 1949 to 1961.
Making the rounds of major American cities, Motorama brought GM's style experiments to local audiences. In a way, they were the granddaddy of today's auto shows like the CIAS held every February in Toronto – introducing the latest models and showcasing cars of the future.
Most concept and experimental cars are, after making the rounds on the auto show circuit, either dismantled or shuffled off to a museum. Every now and then, though, one of them slips through the cracks, to be tucked away in a dusty corner despite company edict to the contrary.
The Oldsmobile F-88 is one such car. In 1954, Harley Earl and his team of designers presented the golden-hued beauty you see here as part of their Motorama fanfare. Sleek and modern, the achingly beautiful two-door, two-seat convertible captured the American optimism of the day and set hearts afire with its swoopy bodywork and gorgeous style.
Thing is, though, GM had – just one year prior – introduced a two-door, two-seat convertible intended to capture American optimism of the day and sets hearts a fire … the brand new Chevrolet Corvette. While folks involved at the time strenuously denied it, I firmly believe that the Corvette team were apoplectic when the Olds crew unveiled the F-88. Nothing like a bit of sibling rivalry to get people talking, eh?
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Think about it: the Corvette, billed as a halo car, was only available in white and had chicken wire stretched over its headlights. The F-88 was presented in a gorgeous shade of gold, with sleek headlamp covers and an interior straight out of science fiction. One has to appreciate the culture of GM at the time, too; each marque operated in a different silo, with Chevy viewing Olds as a competitor on the same level as Ford or Dodge.
There were four other show cars built for the 1954 Motorama events in addition to the F-88 convertible. After the event, all of them were ordered destroyed including – amid what one must imagine was intense pressure from the Corvette team – the F-88. Like all good stories, this is where events take a delicious turn.
Many stories have been told about how the F-88 managed to survive, the most widely accepted of which being that Harley Earl himself snuck the car out of GM in pieces, stuffed into non-descript wooden crates and carted off into the sunset. Officially, the car had disappeared. Off the record, though, the beautiful show car was sold to E.L. Cord – yes, that E.L. Cord who owned the Auburn/Cord/Duesenberg car company – who tucked the boxes away in a barn before eventually making their way into the hands of several different car collectors.
Then, on January 29th, 2005, a little more than fifty years after its Motorama debut, the car that wasn't supposed to exist appeared on stage at the Barrett-Jackson classic car auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. I vividly remember watching the action on television: frantic bidding, wild gestures, and some guy in a Ferrari hat no one had ever heard of.
It took just seconds for the bidding to hit half a million dollars. Near-pandemonium broke out (both at Barrett-Jackson and in my own living room) when the price reached $1 million. That was just the beginning, though. A bidding war erupted between a couple of well-known collectors and Mr. Ferrari Hat. When the gavel finally fell on a sale price of $3.24 million, the place erupted into euphoric bedlam. Several thousand kilometres away, I was pretty excited, too.
Later, the automotive community learned that the unknown Mr. Ferrari Hat was working for John Hendricks, founder of Discovery Communications and prolific collector of classic cars. Tucked away in Gateway, Colorado, Mr. Hendricks has built an incredible auto museum dedicated to preserving the history of the American automobile. Open to the public, we heartily recommend anyone visiting the area to schedule an afternoon and visit this incredible collection.
The museum curator, David Dormaier, was as generous to me with his time as he was with his stories, such as the one about Harley Earl being ribbed by Briggs Cunningham at Watkins Glen in 1951. Allegedly, good-natured ridicule about the LeSabre that Earl brought to the event as a pace car lit a fire in the designer, leading to the two-seat sports cars produced by General Motors just a few years later.
A vehicle of massive historical significance, the Oldsmobile F-88 represents what this author thinks is one of the best expressions of automotive art ever created. In an era when most concept and show cars were hollow shells made of metal and wood, the F-88 had a 324 cubic-inch V8 engine, 4-speed Hydramatic transmission, and power accessories.
Car designers continue their work today using computer modeling, graphic design programs, and a whole host of technology to create the vehicles plying our roadways. One technique still in use by some teams is the practice of clay modeling, a process where designers sculpt design ideas – and, on occasion, an entire car – out of soft clay. This allows the team to make styling changes 'in the flesh' and see how one alteration can affect the look of an entire car.
A great deal has changed since Harley Earl and his team created the stunning F-88 … but some elements of design remain the same. Today's designers do use computer modeling and other advanced technologies but continue to sketch their concepts and then model them in clay, a practice started by Earl.
There is, of course, a very good chance that the legend of Oldsmobile's beautiful F-88 being the victim of intense intercompany sibling rivalry is just that – legend. But the car itself, the auction frenzy it created in 2005, and the beautiful display today in Colorado are all very real.
Perhaps we'll be telling similar stories about Ed Welburn and the Buick Avista fifty years from now.
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Feels like a lot of car for the money
Well equipped with standard kit
Has features like ambient lighting which most similarly priced cars don't
SE models from around £17,000 come equipped with colour satnav and cruise control
Famous octagon MG badge still has a bit of cachet
British built although the parts come from China
Standard Bluetooth, USB and Aux connectivity
Reasonably comfortable cabin and a good sized boot
Interior design is quite staid, not as contemporary as some rivals
Some of the interior plastics look a bit cheap
Lower Euro NCAP crash test rating than key rivals
Diesel engine quite noisy, also some wind noise
Rearward view rather restricted
Big clunky handbrake
Key fell apart several times, had to be reassembled
Visually the car is quite attractive, although not as contemporarily styled as some of its rivals.
Two initials, MG, stir warm memories from older drivers, and on summer roads well-preserved classics wearing the famous octagon badge are still a familiar sight. MG was once a purveyor of thoroughly British sports cars, with a brand name derived from the initials for Morris Garages. MG today is owned by a Chinese company, SAIC Motor, and makes rather mundane saloons and hatchbacks from parts manufactured in China and assembled in Britain, at Longbridge near Birmingham.
Currently the range extends to only two models, which are basically the same with differing back ends: the MG6 GT, a largish five-door family hatchback, and the MG6 Magnette, its four-door saloon sibling. There is also a third model joining the range in the autumn of 2013. It is a smaller five-door hatchback, the MG3, which is already on sale in China and available in Britain from September.
Underneath the bodywork of the MG6 GT and Magnette are some familiar underpinnings. These cars are based on the same platform that was once at the heart of the now long since defunct Rover 75. That car was a nicely proportioned if somewhat conservatively styled car, and these modern MGs retain a similar look with slightly sportier lines. The cars are offered with a choice of two engines, a 1.8 litre TCI turbocharged petrol, and 1.9 litre DTi-Tech turbodiesel. We tested the MG6 in the diesel version.
Visually the car is quite attractive, although not as contemporarily styled as some of its rivals. It is quite a lot of car for the money, though, and comes pretty well equipped with standard kit.
MG6 GT prices start from £15,455 for a petrol model and £16,995 for a diesel. Magnette prices are from £15,955 with a petrol engine and diesel-powered from £17,495. Trim levels are S, SE and TSE.
The MG6 is no slouch, with a 0-62 mph acceleration time of 8.9 seconds and a 120 mph top speed. The engine has a peak power output of 148 bhp at 4,000 rpm and peak torque of 258 lb ft at 1,800 rpm. The combined average fuel consumption is 53.5 mpg and CO2 output is 139 g/km, putting it in band E for road tax.
The diesel engine is the newer unit of the two engines on offer in the MG6, and is teamed with a six-speed gearbox. Petrol models come equipped with an engine based on the old K-Series unit from MG Rover days, and harnessed to a five-speed gearbox. A petrol MG6 is about half a second quicker off the mark, but with an average fuel economy figure of only 37.7 mpg, and CO2 output of 184 g/km.
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Raijor Dal To Contest Two Seats In Assam By-Polls
30 Sep, 2021, 8:30 am
Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi on Wednesday announced that his party will contest two assembly seats in Assam by-polls which will be held on October 30.
He said that his party will contest from Thowra and Mariani seats.
Congress had won both the constituencies but the MLAs resigned and joined the BJP, leaving the seats empty.
Earlier, Gogoi announced that his party's general secretary, Dhaijya Konwar, will contest from Thowra. The Mariani candidate is yet to be announced.
Assam by-polls will be held in three other seats namely Bhabanipur, Tamulpur, and Gossaigaon.
Notably, Majuli is also vacant but the by-poll will not be held there as Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal resigned from the seat just hours before the announcement of the schedule.
Akhil Gogoi
Assam By polls
Raijor Dal


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The use of a 4:1 Ruthroff balun at the base of a ground mounted un-tuned multi-band vertical is very popular, perhaps because several manufacturers recommend such a configuration, famously on the 43′ vertical, or perhaps infamously… read on.
Let us consider a ground mounted vertical, with a field of shallow buried radial wires, and a coax feedline that is buried. In that case, the potential V/2 at the shield terminal of the balun will cause a (common mode) current to flow on the outside of the shield, see Fig 1. Since the cable is buried, the current will be rapidly attenuated by loss of the soil as a dielectric, so that very little common mode current will enter the shack, but RF power has been wasted in heating the soil. Realise that V/2 can be very high, potentially thousands of volts at modest power on the lower bands, and the power lost in heating the soil can be substantial. The situation is not good, but if you view the world through a VSWR meter, you could be fooled. The ground loss tends to improve the VSWR, which just demonstrates that VSWR is not a good single metric for system performance.
In the case of a feed line that is well above the ground, exciting the shield of the feed line by raising it to V/2 cannot be a good idea, it distorts the antenna pattern, and assists a common mode feedline current at the shack end of the feed line.
If the feedline is somewhere between fully buried, and well clear of the ground, the situation is somewhere between the two limits described above… and still not good!
There is no rational explanation for the 'design', and after recent public discussion of the nonsense of the design, at least one manufacturer has changed his recommendation to a 4:1 voltage unun where the coax shield is at the same potential as the ground system. I raised the design issue some years ago in An unloaded vertical as a multi-band HF antenna.
There is no doubt that a 4:1 Ruthroff balun is not suited to the job, but that doesn't suggest that a balun is inappropriate. In ground mounted and elevated vertical antennas where the feed line is not buried, there is a prospect of common mode feedline current, and one or more common mode chokes (current baluns) may be part of an effective mitigation strategy.
The remaining question is whether the 4:1 impedance transformation is better than none. That depends on the coax length, loss characteristics, ground system resistance, and frequency. It is not universally better, not universally poorer. The loss in the now recommended 4:1 unun can be quite substantial at low frequencies where the feed point impedance is extreme (R may be low, but X is extremely high), voltage is extreme, and the core flux level is extreme… and the problem is worse if the ground system is very good.
In the example above, a practical unun might well have an parallel equivalent loss resistance of around 3kΩ, which at 850V would dissipate 850^2/3000=240W. No practical unun sold for ham purposes can dissipate this level of power, and it is quite likely to saturate the magnetic core.
Note that the unun losses will make it easier to match up using an ATU, but at the expense of system efficiency. This effect could be mistaken as demonstrating that the unun is 'working', whereas a resistor would 'work'.
The recommendation to use a Ruthroff 4:1 Unun in this type of antenna system is nearly as irrational as that to use a Ruthroff 4:1 Balun.
The article An unloaded vertical as a multi-band HF antenna gives a more extensive treatment of the ground mounted antenna, and An unloaded elevated vertical as a multi-band HF antenna looks at issues with an elevated feed.


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Biografia
Biagio Puccini nacque a Roma da Marco, originario di Casoli (Bagni di Lucca) (già Casoli in Val di Lima) in Toscana.

Si formò presso Antonio Gherardi, ma la sua arte fu influenzata da vari pittori della generazione precedente, quali Carlo Maratta, Giuseppe Ghezzi, Giovanni Lanfranco e Giacinto Brandi, nonché dalla sua visita alle Stanze di Raffaello.

Fu attivo a Roma e in vari centri del Lazio (in particolare, nella Tuscia), in Abruzzo, nelle Marche (specialmente a San Severino Marche), in Umbria e in Toscana (specialmente nella sua Casoli). A Roma lavorò in dieci chiese tra il 1697 e il 1720. Nel 1713 entrò a far parte della Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. Caduto in disgrazia nel 1720, in mano ai creditori perse la sua bottega e morì in povertà.

Puccini esercitò in parallelo anche l'attività di mercante di quadri. Nel 1712 egli comprò da due mercanti una partita di 242 dipinti, che rivendette poi sul mercato artistico romano.

Opere

A Roma:
 affresco della volta dell'altare di Sant'Andrea Corsini nella chiesa di Santa Maria in Transpontina del 1697
 affreschi nella chiesa di Santa Brigida con scene della vita della Santa e l'Estasi di Santa Brigida realizzati fra il 1700 e il 1705
 SS. Concezione nella chiesa di Santa Croce e San Bonaventura dei Lucchesi del 1701
 San Domenico resuscita un fanciullo nel terzo altare a destra nella chiesa di Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli del 1706
 San Giuliano l'Ospitaliere nella basilica di Sant'Eustachio (1707)
 gli ovati San Bonaventura, San Tommaso d'Aquino e il Martirio di Sant'Erasmo nelle tre testate delle navate e Madonna e Santa Chiara nella sagrestia nella chiesa di San Paolo alla Regola del 1708
 Madonna del Rosario, la Crocifissione e Il Martirio di Sant'Agata rispettivamente nella terza cappella a sinistra, nella terza a destra e nell'abside della chiesa di Sant'Agata in Trastevere nel 1713
 pala d'altare della sagrestia di Santa Maria dè Miracoli del 1717
 Papa Silverio nella chiesa di Santo Stefano degli Abissini
 l'Immacolata Concezione nella chiesa di San Bernardino in Panisperna del 1717
 affreschi raffiguranti i quattro Evangelisti nella chiesa di San Bernardino in Panisperna (1702 - 1709)
 Deposizione nella sagrestia della basilica di Santa Maria in Montesanto

Altre opere:
 Liberazione di San Pietro nella cappella di San Pietro della chiesa dell'Assunta a Varallo
  Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Andrea e Donato nella chiesa dei Santi Andrea e Donato a Casoli 1709
 Madonna del Rosario e pala con la Madonna dell'Umiltà nella chiesa di San Donato a Casoli
 Madonna del Rosario nella chiesa di San Nicola a Vallunga, frazione di Leonessa
 Madonna col Bambino in trono, San Pio V e San Francesco di Paola e Madonna col Bambino e Santi nella chiesa del Suffragio a Matelica
 Martirio di Sant'Adriano nella cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Matelica (1715)
 Crocifissione (attribuito, collezione privata)
 Adorazione dei pastori (attribuito, collezione privata)
 La forgia di Vulcano (attribuito, collezione privata)
 Dio Padre (attribuito, collezione privata)

Note

Bibliografia
 Giancarlo Sestieri, Repertorio della pittura romana della fine del Seicento e del Settecento, Torino, Allemandi, 1994, ISBN 884220465X.
Vittorio Casale, Il segno forte di Biagio Puccini, in Scritti in onore di Alessandro Marabottini, a cura di Gioacchino Barbera, Teresa Pugliatti, Caterina Zappia, Roma, De Luca, 1997, pp. 281-288.

Altri progetti

Membri dell'Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon

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Q: Mysql pagination doesn't return pages, undefined variable Good morning everyone. I have the following method which creates me some trouble. Since i have 19 products in that category it return me:

Notice: Undefined variable: pages.

I checked to see from where the problem comes and it's because of $total_pages which returns me 0.95. How could i fix this problem and how could i make it when it reaches at the end of pages to stop because for the moment i have 2 - 3 pages that are empty with no products on them.
public function getTotalProductsByCategory($page_number, $categoryId) {
    $this->database->query('SELECT COUNT(ProductId) FROM products WHERE CategoryId = :categoryId');
    $this->database->bind(':categoryId', $categoryId);
    $count = $this->database->resultSet();

    $total_pages = ceil($count['0']['COUNT(ProductId)'] - 1) / 20;
    for($i = max(1, $page_number - 5); $i <= min($page_number + 5, $total_pages); $i++) {
        $pages[] = $i;
    }
    return $pages;
}

A: Define $pages as an array before using indexing syntax to assign to it:
$pages = array()
Do this outside of the loop.


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Alsop, Allsop or Allsopp may refer to:

People

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Anthony Alsop (died 1726), English poetical writer
Frederick W. Allsop (1867–1946), American author and philanthropist
George Alsop (born c.1638), English-American writer, historian and settler
Jack Allsopp (born 1975), English musician, stage name Just Jack
Jane Allsop (born 1975), Australian actress
Joseph Alsop (1910–1989), American journalist
Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), British broadcaster, author and naturalist
Kirstie Allsopp (born 1971), British TV presenter
Marin Alsop (born 1956), American conductor
Peter Alsop (born 1946), American musician and children's entertainer
Peter F. B. Alsop (died 2014), Australian engineer and historian
Richard Alsop (1761–1815), American author
Sofie Allsopp (born 1980), British television presenter
Stewart Alsop (1914–1974), American newspaper columnist and political analyst
Stewart Alsop, Jr. (born 1952), American journalist and businessman
Susan Mary Alsop (1918–2004), American socialite and writer
Thomas Allsop (1795–1880), English stockbroker and author
Will Alsop (born 1947), British architect

In politics

United Kingdom
George Higginson Allsopp (1846–1907), English brewer and politician
Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip (1811–1887), British businessman and Member of Parliament
Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip (1842–1897), British businessman and Member of Parliament

United States
Donald Alsop (born 1927), American federal judge
John Alsop (1724–1794), American delegate to the Continental Congress
John T. Alsop (1887–1957), American politician, mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, 1923-1937
Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876–1953), American politician and insurance executive

Elsewhere
George Waters Allsopp (1769–1837), Canadian seigneur, businessman and political figure
James Allsop, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
Robert Alsop (1814–1871), Canadian merchant and political figure

In sport

Cricket
Frederic Allsopp (1857–1928), English cricketer
George Allsop (1864–1927), South African cricketer
Herbert Allsopp (1855–1920), English cricketer and soldier
Thomas Allsopp (1880–1919), English cricketer and footballer
Tom Alsop (born 1995), English cricketer

Football
Danny Allsopp (born 1978), Australian football (soccer) player
Gilbert Alsop (1908–1992), English footballer
Julian Alsop (born 1973), English footballer
Ryan Allsop (born 1992), English professional footballer
Thomas Allsopp (1880–1919), English cricketer and footballer
William Allsop (1912–1997), English footballer

Other sports
Brian Allsop (1936–1989), Australian rugby league player
Fred Alsop (born 1938), British long jumper
Fred Allsopp (1869-1912), British jockey
Ian Alsop (born 1943), Scottish competitive track cyclist
Ted Allsopp (born 1926), Australian race walker
William Jonathan Alsop (1901–1964), Welsh boxer who fought under the name Young Allsopp

In other fields
Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip (born 1940), British businessman
Christine Allsopp (born on 19 January 1947), Church of England priest, former Archdeacon of Northampton
Christopher Allsopp (born 1941), British economist, director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
George Allsopp (disambiguation), various, including:
George Allsopp (fur trader) (1733–1805), British-born fur trader in Canada
Vincent Alsop (1630-1703), British Nonconformist clergyman

Fictional people
Madge Allsop, fictitious character invented by satirist Barry Humphries as the long-time companion of "Dame Edna Everage"

Other uses
Alsop en le Dale, a village in Derbyshire, England
Alsop, Virginia, an unincorporated community
Alsop House may refer to:
Richard Alsop IV House (built 1838–1839), historic home in Middletown, Connecticut, designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark as "Alsop House"
Carroll Alsop House (built 1948), Oskaloosa, Iowa, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home
Alsop High School in Walton, Liverpool, England
Arthur Allsopp Shield, trophy symbolizing the Under 16 Boys championship of the Australian Softball Federation
Samuel Allsopp & Sons, one of the largest brewery companies operating in Burton upon Trent, England


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The Pd deposits of the Lac des Iles Complex, Northwestern Ontario
Barnes Sarah-Jane et Gomwe Tafadzwa Sharon. (2011). The Pd deposits of the Lac des Iles Complex, Northwestern Ontario. Reviews in Economic Geology, 17, p. 351-370.
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The Lac des Iles Complex contains the Roby, Twilight, and High-grade zones, which make up Canada's only primary platinum-group element (PGE) ore deposit with a grade of ~3 ppm Pd + Pt. The ores have remarkably high Pd/Pt ratios, averaging 7 in the Roby and Twilight zones and even higher, 14, in the High-grade zone. In contrast most PGE-dominated deposits have Pd/Pt ratios of 0.5 to 3. The Lac des Iles ore zones occur within a small (~2 ×y 3.5 km) concentrically zoned mafic intrusion and are approximately 0.5 km wide by 1 km long at surface. There are three major rock types present, gabbronorite, metagabbronorite, and chlorite-actinolite schist. The Roby and Twilight zones consist of magmatic breccia of gabbronorite or metagabbronorite, which contains pegmatoidal and varitextured patches. The gabbronorites have adcumulate textures and consist of deformed plagioclase and orthopyroxene with minor interstitial clinopyroxene, biotite, and hornblende. In the metagabbronorites the pyroxenes and hornblende have been replaced by actinolite and the plagioclase has been partly altered to sericite. In the most altered metagabbronorites the plagioclase has been replaced by chlorite. The High-grade zone occurs between the breccia of the Roby zone and the homogeneous East Gabbro. The main rock type is actinolite-chlorite ± talc schist. Three sulfide assemblages are present: (1) pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite ± pyrite; (2) pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite; and (3) chalcopyrite, pyrite, and millerite. Assemblage (1) is present in all rock types and shows equilibrium textures in the fresh rocks. Assemblages (2) and (3) are present only in the metagabbronorite and chlorite-actinolite schist and show disequilibrium textures. Pentlandite is an important host for Pd in assemblages (1) and (2), the other important hosts for Pd in these assemblages are Pd tellurides. In assemblage (3) the Pd is found in a wide variety of platinum-group minerals (PGM); Pd tellurides, Pd sulfides, Pd antinomides, and Pd arsenides. The PGM in assemblages (1) and (2) are found in association with the sulfides, while in assemblage (3) they are found as isolated grains. Whole-rock geochemistry shows that the most of the rocks no matter what their texture or degree of alteration have similar compositions. Most compositions fall on plagioclase-orthopyroxene tie lines. Mantle-normalized patterns show that the rare earth element (REE) and high field strength element (HFSE) concentrations are low (0.8−2 times mantle) and similar. In this flat pattern there are positive Sr, Eu, Pb, and Sc anomalies. These observations are consistent with the rocks being plagioclase-orthopyroxene adcumulates. A small group of metagabbronorite and schist samples show MgO, CaO, and Cr enrichment, indicating the presence of some cumulate olivine, clinopyroxene, and/or chromite. The rocks no matter what their texture or degree of alteration have similar incompatible element ratios, indicating that they all are comagmatic. The low normative clinopyroxene concentrations and the low HFSE content of these rocks suggest that there is very little trapped liquid component present. This observation appears to be in contradiction to the field appearance of the magmatic breccia which indicates the matrix represents a frozen magma. We suggest that the magma chamber was being deformed at the time of intrusion and the fractionated liquid was squeezed out of both the matrix and fragments during this process. The formation of pegmatite and varitextured rocks could have occurred when the magma became fluid saturated and this fluid infiltrated the partially consolidated gabbronorite causing recrystallization. The composition of the varitextured and pegmatiodal rocks is similar to that of the other rocks and thus the fluid did not appreciably change the composition of the recrystallized rocks. Processes that have been considered for forming the ores include: collection by a sulfide liquid from a silicate magma; zone refining of the sulfides during repeated injections of magmas; and collection of the metals by deuteric or hydrothermal fluids. For samples from the Twilight and Roby zones there is a strong correlation between S, Cu, and PGE, indicating that sulfide minerals control the PGE and thus collection by a sulfide liquid could have occurred. However the high Pd/Pt ratio of the ores suggests that the sulfide liquid did not segregate from a primary mafic magma. Possibly, there was a feeder chamber to the Lac des Iles intrusion. The magma in the feeder system became saturated in sulfide liquid and this collected and crystallized in a structural trap between chambers. A fresh injection of S-undersaturated magma from the lower chamber partially melted the sulfides, enriching the magma in S, Cu, Pd, and Au. The Pd-enriched magma was then injected into the Lac des Iles chamber, mixed with the partially consolidated resident magma, and Pd-rich sulfides segregated from it. In the High-grade zone there appears to have been an additionally low temperature process that added Pd, Au, As, and Sb to these rocks. Possibly these elements were added by a fluid that exsolved from the magma in underlying magma chamber and which scavenged the elements from the sulfides formed at depth. The fluid was focussed in the shear zone between the East Gabbro and the Roby zone because most of the Lac des Iles intrusion had solidified at this point.
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The Income tax department has already notified the income tax return forms to be used for filing returns for FY 2016-17 or assessment year 2017-18. Income tax return forms for most categories of tax return filers have changed - some more some less.
Although the last date to file for individuals is July 31, it helps to start work on your income tax return now so that one is not rushed at the last minute.
Here are all the links you need to help you e-file your tax return on your own and also a step by step guide on how to do it.
The income tax department through its has provided an easy to use platform for users to pay taxes, file ITRs, cross-check TDS through TRACES, download forms, claim refunds, check status of dues, refunds, challans etc.
However, a technologically-challenged tax-payer may find it difficult to use these services. Below are quick links for: Registering for e-filing, viewing your form 26AS, Income tax calculator, e-payment of taxes, checking your dues, e-filing the income tax return (ITR), downloading ITR forms and other relevant forms, checking refund status, rectification of return, e-verification of return etc.
Collect all the required documents such as your TDS certificates, which have to be mandatorily in TRACES format, from all deductors. You can also collect your, capital gains statement from mutual funds for redemption of units, if any, done, in the financial year 2016-17 etc.
However, it is not mandatory to obtain these capital gains statements from your MFs. Most MFs provide it as an additional service for the redemption of units you held in their schemes in a particular FY. You can calculate your capital gains yourself or cross check the calculations sent by your MFs also.
In case of digitally signed TDS certificates ensure that there is a check mark on the digital signature indicating it has been verified. Non-verified certificates will have a question mark over the digital signature.
Cross check the TDS figure on the certificate with that shown as deducted from your income e.g. TDS figure on salary slip with the figure on the TDS certificate. Check whether deductor has deducted and deposited the tax with the government. TDS certificates are in Form 16 for salaried employees and Form 16A for other deductors.
Download your tax credit statement (Form 26AS) from TRACES and cross-check the amount of tax deducted with that mentioned in TDS certificates. You should be getting certificates for all TDS reflecting in your Form26AS and all the TDS from your income should reflect in Form26AS.
You need to log into your e-filing account on the income tax e-filing website to download your Form26AS. You can also download it via net-banking wherever the bank provides for this.
In case of any difference in the TDS amount shown in Form 26AS and TDS certificates, take up the matter with the deductor (employer, or others, as the case may be) and request for rectification. It is advisable to keep track of all the TDS deducted during the financial year so as to avoid any discrepancies at return filing time.
Now compute your total income for the relevant financial year by adding income under all 5 heads and claiming all the relevant deductions, rebates and setting off the current year and brought forward losses. Make sure that you don't miss any income in computing your total income which is chargeable to tax.
Compute your tax liability by applying the tax rates in force for the financial year for which you are calculating the tax as per the income slabs your income falls in. Most filers would be filing tax return for the financial year 2016-17 therefore the tax rates and corresponding income slabs for this FY would be applicable.
Next, compute your final tax dues payable or refund of taxes. This is done by deducting the taxes that you have already paid for the year by way of - TDS, TCS, and Advance Tax from the tax liability computed above and adding interest payable under sections 234A, 234B, 234C, if any. Finally pay the final tax dues, if any.
Tax can be paid physically via cheque or online using challan ITNS 280. Income tax payments made after 15th March of the financial year for which return is to be filed are called payment of self-assessment tax. The same should get reflected in your Form 26AS within 2-3 working days from the date of payment which you should cross check.
Once you have paid your taxes, file the return. The deadline for filing individual tax returns ( except for those whose accounts are required to be audited as per section 44AB or those who are required to furnish the Transfer pricing report) is normally July 31 of the year immediately after the financial year for which the return is being filed.
The return has to be filed electronically by every assessee except (i) if the assessee is an individual of age 80 years or more during the financial year for which the return is being filed and (ii) An Individual or HUF whose income doesn't exceed Rs 5 lakh and no refund is claimed.
To start filing the return, one has to login to income tax department's e-filing website with User ID, Password, Date of Birth and enter the Captcha Code. Once you login, you will see different tabs like "dashboard", "my Account" etc.
In case of new user - Register yourself with income tax site first. You need to choose your status (individual, chartered accountant, tax deductor etc.) and fill in your basic details like address, DOB, PAN to get registered. Only then you can login to e-filing.
After signing in, choose the form applicable to you for the purpose of filing return. Income tax department this year has made some changes in the ITR forms to make them simpler. Also, they have rationalized the ITR forms such as ITR-2, ITR-2A and ITR-3 have been rationalized as ITR -2.
In case Form ITR-1 or ITR-4 is applicable to you, then you can simply file your return online without any need to download the blank ITR forms and then upload the filled ones.
Remember to keep Aadhaar number handy while filing returns this year as it has become mandatory to mention the same in the ITR forms from July 1.
In case of other forms like ITR-2, ITR-3 and, you need to download the relevant form from the website (either in excel utility or Java utility).
Once you have downloaded the relevant form, you need to fill in your personal details, income details and other details required in the form. After filling the form completely, the same is to be uploaded to the website and the return will be filed.
E-filing of return (whether directly or after uploading the ITR-forms) is not valid without verification of the return so filed. Return once e-filed has to be verified by the user.
Verification of return can be done by any one of two modes i.e. e- verifications of ITR and Physical verification of ITR.
On the other hand, ITR can be verified physically as well. An acknowledgement or ITR-V is generated by the e-filing website immediately after you file/upload your return. To verify your return physically, you need to take a print-out of this acknowledgement, check and sign it and send it to the address mentioned on this acknowledgement.
Once you have received the acknowledgement of your e-verification, filing of your return is complete. You should receive an email confirming that your ITR-V has been received by the IT department i.e. your return stands verified. The email will be sent to the email you have registered in your e-filing account on the income tax department's e-filing website.
After receiving the ITR-V, either through e-verification or physical, the Income tax department will process your return to ensure that all the details filed by you are correct as per the Income Tax Act and also cross check the details filed by you with other data available with it.
Once processed, the I-T department communicates the same. In case any discrepancies are found, they may ask you to explain further or correct the mistakes made while filing the original ITR.


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World Business|Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way
Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way
By CARTER DOUGHERTY SEPT. 22, 2008
A banking system in crisis after the collapse of a housing bubble. An economy hemorrhaging jobs. A market-oriented government struggling to stem the panic. Sound familiar?
It does to Sweden. The country was so far in the hole in 1992 — after years of imprudent regulation, short-sighted economic policy and the end of its property boom — that its banking system was, for all practical purposes, insolvent.
But Sweden took a different course than the one now being proposed by the United States Treasury. And Swedish officials say there are lessons from their own nightmare that Washington may be missing.
Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government take over the bad debts. It extracted pounds of flesh from bank shareholders before writing checks. Banks had to write down losses and issue warrants to the government.
That strategy held banks responsible and turned the government into an owner. When distressed assets were sold, the profits flowed to taxpayers, and the government was able to recoup more money later by selling its shares in the companies as well.
"If I go into a bank," said Bo Lundgren, who was Sweden's minister for fiscal and financial affairs at the time, "I'd rather get equity so that there is some upside for the taxpayer."
Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today's dollars, to rescue ailing banks. That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5 percent of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.
But the final cost to Sweden ended up being less than 2 percent of its G.D.P. Some officials say they believe it was closer to zero, depending on how certain rates of return are calculated.
The tumultuous events of the last few weeks have produced a lot of tight-lipped nods in Stockholm. Mr. Lundgren even made the rounds in New York in early September, explaining what the country did in the early 1990s.
A few American commentators have proposed that the United States government extract equity from banks as a price for their rescue. But it does not seem to be under serious consideration yet in the Bush administration or Congress.
The reason is not quite clear. The government has already swapped its sovereign guarantee for equity in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance institutions, and the American International Group, the global insurance giant.
Putting taxpayers on the hook without anything in return could be a mistake, said Urban Backstrom, a senior Swedish finance ministry official at the time. "The public will not support a plan if you leave the former shareholders with anything," he said.
Bo Lundgren, minister for fiscal and financial affairs during the 1992 crisis. Credit Swedish National Debt Office
The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden's banks, which did not worry enough about whether the value of their collateral might evaporate in tougher times.
Property prices imploded. The bubble deflated fast in 1991 and 1992. A vain effort to defend Sweden's currency, the krona, caused overnight interest rates to spike at one point to 500 percent. The Swedish economy contracted for two consecutive years after a long expansion, and unemployment, at 3 percent in 1990, quadrupled in three years.
After a series of bank failures and ad hoc solutions, the moment of truth arrived in September 1992, when the government of Prime Minister Carl Bildt decided it was time to clear the decks.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the opposition center-left, Mr. Bildt's conservative government announced that the Swedish state would guarantee all bank deposits and creditors of the nation's 114 banks. Sweden formed a new agency to supervise institutions that needed recapitalization, and another that sold off the assets, mainly real estate, that the banks held as collateral.
Sweden told its banks to write down their losses promptly before coming to the state for recapitalization. Facing its own problem later in the decade, Japan made the mistake of dragging this process out, delaying a solution for years.
Then came the imperative to bleed shareholders first. Mr. Lundgren recalls a conversation with Peter Wallenberg, at the time chairman of SEB, Sweden's largest bank. Mr. Wallenberg, the scion of the country's most famous family and steward of large chunks of its economy, heard that there would be no sacred cows.
The Wallenbergs turned around and arranged a recapitalization on their own, obviating the need for a bailout. SEB turned a profit the following year, 1993.
"For every krona we put into the bank, we wanted the same influence," Mr. Lundgren said. "That ensured that we did not have to go into certain banks at all."
By the end of the crisis, the Swedish government had seized a vast portion of the banking sector, and the agency had mostly fulfilled its hard-nosed mandate to drain share capital before injecting cash. When markets stabilized, the Swedish state then reaped the benefits by taking the banks public again.
More money may yet come into official coffers. The government still owns 19.9 percent of Nordea, a Stockholm bank that was fully nationalized and is now a highly regarded giant in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region.
The politics of Sweden's crisis management were similarly tough-minded, though much quieter.
Soon after the plan was announced, the Swedish government found that international confidence returned more quickly than expected, easing pressure on its currency and bringing money back into the country. The center-left opposition, while wary that the government might yet let the banks off the hook, made its points about penalizing shareholders privately.
"The only thing that held back an avalanche was the hope that the system was holding," said Leif Pagrotzky, a senior member of the opposition at the time. "In public we stuck together 100 percent, but we fought behind the scenes."
Correction: October 15, 2008
An article and a picture caption on Sept. 23 about Sweden's response to its 1992 financial crisis misstated the government position at the time for Bo Lundgren, who described Sweden's strategy and commented on the United States' proposals for resolving its own crisis. A correction in this space on Sept. 27 repeated the error. He was minister for fiscal and financial affairs — not finance minister or deputy finance minister.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C9 of the New York edition with the headline: How Sweden Handled a Financial Crisis Without Burdening Taxpayers. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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Google's biggest partners in the Android Wear game are playing it safe heading into the busiest shopping time of the year.
LG, Huawei and Motorola won't be releasing new smartwatches for this holiday season, CNET has learned. LG is the only one to have released a new Android Wear smartwatch this year, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE.
Since that's the case, Apple and Samsung are left to dominate smartwatch sales this holiday. Apple just announced its updated Apple Watch Series 2, which focuses on fitness, and dropped the price of the original Apple Watch. Samsung also recently released its Gear S3, running the company's own Tizen operating system.
Android smartwatch makers were expected to announce new smartwatches during September's IFA trade show, but Asus was the only company that released a new Android Wear watch, the ZenWatch 3.
Smartwatch sales have been in decline for some time now, and wearable makers are now focusing heavily on fitness and fashion.
Apple's iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 keynote showed off all the fitness-focused features of the new watch, including its new waterproof design. The company even partnered with Nike to release the Apple Watch Nike+, aimed at athletes with its brightly colored fluoroelastomer straps.
The new Apple Watch Nike+.
Asus went back to the drawing board with its ZenWatch 3 design and created its most attractive smartwatch yet. It features a flashy two-tone design and comes in rose gold, silver and gray.
Other smartwatch manufacturers like Garmin, Pebble and Casio are going all-in on fitness and fashion. Garmin's fashionable and expensive Fenix Chronos feature GPS, heart-rate monitoring, a pedometer, altimeter, barometer and compass. Pebble recently released a fitness-focused update for its smartwatches.
With smartwatch demand not quite what manufacturers hoped for, it's not surprising that LG, Motorola and Huawei would be treading carefully.
"We want to see what sticks," said LG spokesman Ken Hong, speaking with CNET. The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition will let the firm know if users want a more feature-packed smartwatch that can be untethered from a phone.
The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition sports a LTE radio so you can use it without your phone.
"One of the things we see in the future is connected [cellular] watches, and our opinion is that while it's technically feasible, the trade-offs on the product itself means we're not quite ready yet," said a spokeswoman for Motorola.
Putting more radios and features into a smartwatch requires more room, which is why the new Samsung Gear S3 is a whopping 46mm in diameter, up from the 40mm and 42mm sizes of the Gear S2.
This holiday slump doesn't mean there's no hope for Android Wear. Google is slated to release its Android Wear 2.0 update this fall, which should help reinvigorate smartwatch interest. Chip manufacturer Qualcomm also released its wearable-focused processors earlier this year, which will help improve battery life and performance for future smartwatches.


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The 3D scene was created in Cinema 4D, the images for the videos being made with Affinity Designer. The images used on the covers were made using Daz Studio and are created using Genesis 2 figures, the final render made using Iray.
I have uploaded to Flickr a copy of the actual images used for each video showing both the front back and sides. Note that only Modance has an image front and back since Paivaa and Maailman Vahincoa are only shown with their upper surfaces visible and they will be used in the same way in the final image of the 1989 living room.
Creating the images and the artwork for these simple objects required some research and was both interesting and took me back to the days many years ago when I sat in a classroom and created similar DTP artwork using a program called ClarisWorks on the Mac. Something which I remember with fondness but which seems, and perhaps now was, a whole world away from today.


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Mentor Text Wednesday: Song of My Speech Impediment
April 28, 2021 April 27, 2021 Jay
Mentor Text: Song of My Speech Impediment by Dawn Macdonald
Multimedia Text
Exploring Metaphor
Background -It's the last week of poetry month for 2021.
Like many of us, I read a fair amount of poetry. I subscribe to two different daily poem a day newsletters, so I often wind up reading a poem first thing in the morning.
And that's where this month's mentor text comes from. The League of Canadian Poets sends out a daily "Poetry Pause," highlighting the work of Canadian poets. I've found numerous gems that have found their way in to the classroom, and though the one I'm sharing here hasn't made it there yet, I'm confident it will.
Though, as I'll get into later, this poem has mentor text potential for reasons of craft, my initial excitement was inspired by this being the first poem I've ever seen with embedded hyperlinks. That excitement increased when I realized that these were links to viral YouTube videos.
How We Might Use This Text:
Multimedia Text – My initial inclination about the first sentence was to make a statement about how our students live in a world of viral videos and meme culture. That's wrong, though, we all do.
I think that's why I was drawn to this poem initially. Macdonald's embedding hyperlinks to viral material in a poem makes it feel like a text that reflects the era in which it was written, this era in which we enjo, curate and share so much material digitally. This is by no means the first poem that I've seen that references this reality, but the choice to embed links to this digital content is unique. It's commonplace online, in articles, but until this, I feel like I haven't seen poetry really move past the conventions that would exist on an analog page.
Poetry, I often tell burgeoning poets, is about saying as much as you can using the fewest words you can. It's often an act of brevity, which is why it leans so heavily on devices, as an act of shorthand. Is this same effect not achieved through hyperlinking the videos referenced in this poem as opposed to explaining them in the poem, or hoping that the reader saw them? We've seen this happen in a lot of prose writing, where a link has replaced asides and sidebars.
As well, this is a language we use now, as much as it pains us to admit it. I think that allowing hyperlinks to the things that they're referencing may actually work in our favor in ways, as I can see my students focusing on crafting stronger poems around these links. Often, our young poets get a little lost in describing the things they're referencing, such as a viral video, and though they may come up with some good writing in doing that, they may focus more on that description than the larger statements they're putting that reference into.
I really like the idea of having them craft pieces around viral material, creating hyperlinked multimedia texts that embed the digital aspects of our world, making them a part of it as opposed to perhaps only serving as a commentary on that world.
Exploring Metaphor and Simile – As often happens with a mentor text, I see one application instantly, and as I spend time with the text, working out how we'll realize that application in class, I find other things. I always share this process with students, the things I notice, because I want them to clearly see that texts work on many levels, and that they can work towards that. (It's also the reason I love writing this for all of you, because it gives me a very public place to work these things out. I've discovered new applications for texts as I write these posts.)
Macdonald's poem is a lovely mentor text for playing with metaphor and simile. She begins with a question about the nature of poetry, and quickly moves into using a viral video to express her thoughts about her poem, that it is something that sounds different than what it looks like, than what is expected. I really like how she expands this exploration after the initial comparison:
An ancient tongue mired in peanut butter trying
the task of the clean-limbed Greeks;
orators in practice: rocks.
I always enjoy the piling on of a couple different metaphors, and I encourage in students, throwing a couple of things up to see what sticks. Also, when we explore metaphor (as well as simile and analogy) we do discuss that it only works if the reader understands it. That makes this pairing so strong, it's a reference to a viral video and a reference to ancient Greece… new school and old school.
I love how with the reference to the second viral video, the metaphor seems to switch to explore the idea that a poem that may be something that works on a higher level. Coming after a more "highbrow" metaphor, this lands so wonderfully for me. She's saying, I feel, that like the cat, a poem operates at a level beyond our understanding. What we "get" may just be the simplest version of it, the "baby talk." The poem explores, through figurative language, the challenge of crafting and analyzing poetry. It's such a great model for using metaphor and simile to analyze, and make a statement.
"…To speak/to each other we imitate/each other's imitation" continues this figurative rumination on poetry. Actually, as we're discussing mentor texts, this is a pretty meta line. I offer this as a parting thought this month. Mentor texts are about inspiration, and that's often cyclical. We hope to inspire our writers through the work of other writers, and those writers, in turn, were inspired by writers before them.
Have your writers done any work where they embedded links in their text? Have you had them write about viral videos and other similar media texts? Did you use mentor texts for that? What video would you be writing about?
Categories: Jay Nickerson, Mentor Text Wednesday, poetry
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Gonzales Departs On Loan
Oldham Athletic can announce that Florian Gonzales has joined Ashton United on loan until the New Year.
The midfielder has joined the Northern Premier League side until the start of January 2020 and is available for selection for the Robins today.
Gonzales signed for Latics in the summer on a one-year deal.
The 20 year-old featured for the club in pre-season against Rochdale in the Ernie Cooksey Trophy, as well as against Ashton United and Stockport County before playing against Liverpool U21s in the Leasing.com Trophy earlier in the season.
Everyone at the club would like to wish Florian all the best during his time away from Boundary Park.
Florian Gonzales
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