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Clivio (Cif in dialetto varesotto) è un comune italiano di  abitanti della provincia di Varese in Lombardia.

Geografia fisica

Territorio
Sorge a 468 m s.l.m. nelle prealpi lombarde sul colle clivium. È il primo comune del Monte San Giorgio. Nel territorio comunale si trova il monte Stucco ("mùnt Istúc"  in dialetto varesotto) un colle coperto da boschi e foreste e attraversato dal Torrente Lanza che in questo tratto del suo percorso viene denominato "Torrente Clivio". È un luogo di interesse turistico con percorsi interessanti e paesaggi spettacolari. Il nome Clivio deriva dalla sua stessa posizione: "quasi loco in clivium situ", sorge cioè su un colle (Clivium) che domina il Mendrisiotto e il Comasco, fino oltre il Montorfano della Brianza, al colle di S. Fermo e al colle S. Maffeo e alcune zone collinari minori, che degradano verso la pianura lombarda. Questo insieme presenta uno stupendo panorama.
 Classificazione sismica: zona 4 (sismicità irrilevante), Ordinanza PCM. 3274 del 20/03/2003

Clima
La stazione meteorologica più vicina è quella di Cuasso al Monte. In base alla media trentennale di riferimento 1961-1990, la temperatura media del mese più freddo, gennaio, si attesta a +1,8 °C; quella del mese più caldo, luglio, è di +20,1 °C.

Le precipitazioni medie annue sono superiori ai 2.100 mm, mediamente distribuite in 99 giorni, e presentano con picco primaverile ed autunnale e minimo relativo invernale.

 Classificazione climatica: zona E, 2796 GG

Storia
Il nome Clivio deriva dalla sua stessa posizione: "quasi loco in clivium situ", sorge cioè su di un colle (Clivium) che domina il Mendrisiotto e il Comasco, fino oltre il Montorfano della Brianza, i colli di S. Fermo e S. Maffeo e alcune zone collinari minori, che degradano verso la pianura lombarda. Questo insieme presenta uno stupendo panorama. Tradizionalmente Clivio si ritiene abitata dagli Orobi, antica civiltà etnica della Gallia Cisalpina, che abitava la regione montuosa tra il lago di Como e il lago di Garda. Clivio fu una colonia dell'Impero Romano e Cesare vi stabilì una stazione per fare svernare le sue legioni, che agivano come punta avanzata dell'esercito contro i Barbari d'oltre alpe. Nell'epoca Longobarda, Clivio faceva parte, politicamente ed economicamente, del Contado del Seprio. Nel periodo dei Comuni fu un certo Ottobono da Clivio a comandare le Legioni del basso Luganese contro l'imperatore Federico Barbarossa. Dopo l'anno 1000 fu sede Arcipreturale. Il paese fu altresì patria dei nobili Clivi, annoverata fin dal sec. XI tra le più potenti famiglie della Lombardia. Dalla famiglia dei Clivi ebbe i natali l'Arcivescovo Giordano da Clivio che scomunicò l'imperatore Enrico IV e fu eletto Arcivescovo di Milano nel 1112. A lui si deve, nel nostro Rito, la festa della Commemorazione dei defunti. La rilevanza di Clivio alla fine del XII sec. è denotata dalla presenza di almeno cinque chiese: S. Pietro in Canonica, S. Maria, S. Michele, S. Materno, S. Carpoforo. Tra le chiese più antiche S. Maria della Rosa e S. Materno sono ancora accessibili al culto e ben conservate, mentre degli Oratori di S. Michele e di S. Carpoforo rimangono solo la denominazione delle località. Memorabile fu la visita pastorale fatta dal Cardinale Carlo Borromeo nel 1574. Il Santo, con il suo seguito, fece sosta ad una fonte situata a metà strada tra Ligurno e Clivio e celebrò la S. Messa nella chiesa di S. Pietro. Di tale passaggio testimonia la presenza presso la scuola Primaria di un bassorilievo in creta – terracotta che raffigura il Santo a cavallo e il suo ingresso in paese. Dal '500 in poi Clivio seguì le stesse vicende del Milanese: fu sottoposta ai vari dominatori stranieri Francesi, Spagnoli, Austriaci, ma dopo la metà del sec. XVI la popolazione di Clivio prese a crescere e divenne un punto importante per il controllo delle merci in transito per la Svizzera. Nel 1810 nei Cantoni del dipartimento lariano furono soppressi molti Comuni e Viggiù, con Saltrio e Clivio, furono "uniti" in un unico Comune. Tale intervento di soppressione suscitò il malcontento tra le popolazioni e solo successivamente alla sconfitta di Napoleone Clivio ritornò ad essere un Comune autonomo, precisamente nel 1816. Fin dopo le guerre risorgimentali dal 1860, il paese di Clivio appartenne alla provincia di Como e dal 1927 alla provincia di Varese. Una nota storica importante che merita di essere menzionata è la fondazione, nel 1908, della Scuola Moderna Razionalista di Clivio, ad opera di un gruppo di libertari cliviesi, tra cui spiccava Felice Monzini. Quale unica esperienza realizzatasi in Italia, la Scuola, di estrazione anarchica e laica, si ispirava alle teorie ed ai principi libertari della Scuola razionalista (detta anche Scuola Moderna) fondata da Francisco Ferrer, il famoso pedagogista anarchico spagnolo. La fondazione della Scuola a Clivio costituì un episodio di notevole entità sotto l'aspetto dell'autoeducazione popolare italiana. Tra il 1910 e il 1914 la Scuola produsse una rivista periodica che illustrava il programma libertario e pacifista, inoltre documentava i generosi sacrifici dei lavoratori locali per mantenerla in vita e difenderla dalla calunnia. A fasi alterne e a causa degli eventi bellici tra il '14 e il '18, la Scuola di Clivio funzionò sino al 1922. Anche le due guerre mondiali coinvolsero le nostre terre. Fu Clivio che, nel circondario, subì le più gravi conseguenze degli eventi bellici e, a causa del notevole afflusso al valico di Bellavista di soldati che cercavano asilo in Svizzera, un provvedimento delle autorità militari germaniche dispose l'evacuazione della popolazione di una larga fascia di Saltrio e di tutta Clivio. Dal giorno in cui furono obbligati a lasciare il paese, nessun cliviese poté più accedervi, salvo rare eccezioni. Questa drastica e drammatica imposizione, oltre a sconvolgere la vita dell'intero paese, aveva arrecato un danno di parecchi milioni all'agricoltura, allora particolarmente vitale.

Simboli

Lo stemma e il gonfalone sono stati concessi con l'apposito Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica datato al 21 novembre 1995.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
 Chiesa parrocchiale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo

 Chiesa di S. Materno

 Chiesa di S. Maria della Rosa
 Palazzo Albuzzi

Società

Manifestazioni
Dal 2009 ogni prima domenica di febbraio si svolge "cioccolandando a Clivio" un percorso con varie degustazioni di cioccolata per le vie del paese.
Il 29 giugno si svolge la festa patronale con un mercatino in una piazza del centro.
L'ultimo fine settimana di novembre o il primo di dicembre si svolge il mercatino di Natale nel cortile del palazzo Reale (palazzo Albuzzi).

Evoluzione demografica
176 nel 1576
385 nel 1687
367 nel 1751
538 nel 1805
annessione a Viggiù nel 1809
738 nel 1853
annessione a Viggiù nel 1927
 nel 1961

Lingue e dialetti
La popolazione appartiene linguisticamente al lombardo. Il principale dialetto è il lombardo occidentale.

Immigrazione straniera
Al 31 dicembre 2007 a Clivio risultano residenti 50 cittadini stranieri. Le nazionalità principali sono:

  Albania - 14
  Svizzera - 11

Religione
La maggioranza della popolazione è di religione cristiana appartenenti principalmente alla Chiesa cattolica; il comune appartiene all'arcidiocesi di Milano.

Televisione
Clivio divenne famosa grazie a Nascia Prandi (1930-2017) che lavorava presso emittenti private e fu sepolta presso il cimitero di questo comune

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Strade
  SP 3 Via Ermizada
  SP 3dir Via Cantello

Valichi di frontiera
 Valico di Ligornetto
Valico di san Pietro di Stabio

Amministrazione
Il territorio fa parte della Comunità Montana del Piambello.

Sport
Limax Clivio, società di pallacanestro

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Comune di Clivio - Sito ufficiale del Comune di Clivio
 Lombardia trasporti - Sito ufficiale trasporti Regione Lombardia

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The newly-appointed commissioner said the commission is determined to prosecute cases of complaint brought to it by aggrieved members of the public, warning that it could no longer be referred to as a toothless bulldog.
Nwosu, who was on a courtesy visit to the state director of Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Ishaku and and the Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Barr Rita Maduagwu, said the visits were to facilitate a strategic partnership that would help the commission discharge its functions smoothly.
The commissioner said, "I decided that I and my team would be here to seek your partnership because we have a lot to work in common. I want to tell you that this is a brand new Public Complaints Commission, and we are just coming from the dentist. We now bark and bite.
"When we have matters that are beyond our office, we push it to you, but when there are civil complaints that have to do with our office, you push it to us.
"We will also need the house of assembly when we need enactment of laws that can enhance our job. That is why I am here," Nwosu said at a separate fora.
He called on members of the public, who had one complaint or the other against public institutions and other business concerns in the state, not to hesitate in approaching the commission as its job was to ensure redress for aggrieved persons.
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Providing quality dance and tumbling instruction since 1977.
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MARY DEXTER
Mary has been involved in dance since she was five years old as a performer, teacher, and choreographer. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Wilkes University, opened Merrilee Studios in 1977, founded the TazWood Dance Company in 1982, and had a second school in Pekin from 1985 to 1996. She then began teaching dance at Illinois Central College in 1989, received an Individual Artists Grants from PAASC to attend the First American Jazz Dance World Congress in 1990 and to the Vaganova Syllabus Seminar in 1995. She participated in the Rhythm Tap Conference in Boulder, Colorado in 1992, worked with the Chairman of the Fine Arts Department to expand the dance program at ICC to include jazz and tap dance and to offer an Associates Degree in Dance in 1993, and was an Instructor and Adjunct Faculty member at Illinois Central College for 23 years. Her students can be seen dancing and choreographing for many of the area's musical comedy productions, and teaching and owning many area dance studios. Since, she retired from teaching at ICC in 2012, she busies herself with teaching and choreographing in the dance studio and playing with her cats Misha and Gelsey.
DAN FISHER
Dan began teaching at Merrilee Studios in the Fall of 1977. He started as a tumbling teacher and over the years has added teaching Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop and Broadway as well. Dan has taken classes in New York and Chicago with many of the industry greats including Frank Hatchett, Gus Giradano, Brian Blankenbeuller and Joe Tremaine. He was a dancer with the Tazwood Dance Company for 20 years, and was one of the original Company members. He has an Associate Degree in Graphic Design, and danced in many local theatre productions. He also does freelances choreography for many area theatres including Corn Stock, Peoria Players and Eastlight Theatre. Dan lives in Peoria with his 2 dogs Modey and Delilah.
LIDA BERG
Lida began dancing at age 5 and grew up at Merrilee Studios learning dance from her mom, Mary Dexter. Lida was a member of the Taz-Wood Dance Company for 8 year and has taken classes in Chicago with many of the industry greats including Frank Hatchett, Steven Boyd, and Jo Rowan. Lida lived in the Philadelphia area for 6 years and worked as an Executive Assistant and Television Producer for local talk shows. She has done makeup and some choreography for several video shoots for websites and commercials. Lida currently teaches Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, and is the Director of the Merrilee Dance Company. Lida Lives in Germantown Hills with her husband Brent and 2 cats Zoe and Kaylee.
HANNAH CLARK
Hannah has been dancing at Merrilee Studios since she was 6 years old. She started with tap and slowly started adding more classes as she got older. In 2011 she began dancing in the Merrilee Performance Group which became the Merrilee Dance Company. The group allowed her to begin performing locally and at competitions. She has been dedicated to her team ever since and is continuing to dance with the company this year as well. Starting in 2016, Hannah began teaching Tap, Ballet, and Jazz and choreographing for the Company and other soloists in the studio. Hannah is thrilled to be teaching and has loved growing up and dancing at Merrilee Studios!
BAILEY KENAR
Miss Bailey is one of Merrilee Studios newest teachers. She is a lifelong homeschool student and in addition taking classes part-time at Illinois Central College. After she graduates in May she plans to attend Indiana Wesleyan University and hopes to get her degree in business. Bailey has been dancing at Merrilee Studios from the age of six and has loved being a part of the studio ever since. In 2016 Bailey was a grateful recipient of the Lydia M. Moritz scholarship. She began as a demonstrator when she was 13, and started teaching when she was 16. This coming year Bailey is teaching various ballet and tap classes, as well as stretch & strengthen, hip hop, and Merrilee Elite!
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photos: Sarah Lapp is the co-founder of the All Bodies Dance Project, a Vancouver-based, mixed-ability dance society. Photo courtesy of the All Bodies Project.
'I want expectation'
Arts Profile: Co-founder of the All Bodies Dance Project, Sarah Lapp talks about working past perceived limitations to achieve her dream of dancing
Sarah Lapp can move her body in ways she never dreamed possible. Sitting in a café after her weekly private dance class, the 33-year-old dancer demonstrates how she can sit upright in her wheelchair, without the support of a backrest. Before she started dancing, it was difficult to hold herself up on her own.
"Now it's just natural, it's easy," she says. "I mean, I wouldn't do it all day every day, but it's now just a more natural thing for me, to just sit up, and balance on my centre."
Lapp is a co-founder of the All Bodies Dance Project, a Vancouver-based society that puts on mixed-ability dance classes and performances.
She choreographs and performs in the troupe, is the administrator, and helps teach weekly mixed-ability community dance classes. She's also on the receiving end of private mentorship. Thanks to a grant, Lapp has weekly one-on-one sessions with her mentor and All Bodies Dance co-founder Naomi Brand.
Lapp, who was born with Cerebral Palsy, says the private training is paying off, but the expectation that she could improve as a dancer wasn't always there.
"There is that perception that 'yeah, whatever she's doing, whatever you're doing, is good enough.' On the outside, that's great, but I want expectation. I want people to help me develop as a dancer," she says.
The muscle spasticity that comes with Cerebral Palsy has also lessened,
Lapp says, as she demonstrates how she's able to relax her hands more easily from their slightly-fisted resting position.
Dance, dance, dance
Ultimately, Lapp hopes to make dance her long-term career, but she does other work to pay the bills. At age five, she staged dance performances in the cul-de-sac outside her home in Surrey. Family and neighbours would come to watch the creative and vivacious young Lapp.
"Because I'm not able to stand, usually my version of dancing was on my back, just creating choreography," she says.
As a wheelchair user, there weren't many opportunities for Lapp to dance with groups as a kid. However, her love of dance was instilled by two rare opportunities early on. In 1994 and 1995, she was recruited to perform in a ballet for the Variety Children's Charity Show of Hearts Telethon.
Lapp continued to dance as part of exercise routines in elementary school, but recalls that she "didn't even dance in high school, dance wasn't even on my radar."
So, unlike most aspiring professional dancers, Lapp didn't spend her teenage years in a dance studio, rehearsing ad infinitum.
It wasn't until long after high school that she started dancing again.
While working as a client services manager for a non-profit, Lapp started attending recreational dance classes for wheelchair users.
From there, she was recruited to participate in and develop choreography for a wheelchair dance performance at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver.
"The Olympics is what started it all for me … I [tried] to create my own opportunities, and there were programs out there, but they were very short term."
While the dance school for wheelchair users eventually closed, Lapp found a brief opportunity to dance with a theatre troupe, but it wasn't until 2013 that she met Brand—a relationship that would change her life trajectory.
"I joined one community class. It was advertised on my Facebook for … people that were older than 55. But they had a mention that 'if you have a disability, come join us,' so I did," she says. Lapp adds that the class "was nice, but it was kind of awkward, because I was the only sitting dancer."
Brand was the class instructor, and Lapp got to know her through conversations after class. The pair quickly discovered they shared a passion for creating mixed ability choreography.
'How they move'
Then, with the help of grants, Brand and Lapp started the All Bodies Dance Project along with Mirae Rosner. One of their starting points was to offer free mixed ability dance classes, an initiative they have sustained thanks to the support of community centre associations donating their spaces.
The classes happen at three different community centres throughout the week, and attract 10 to 20 participants, some with physical disabilities and some without. Every class starts off with a short check-in where people introduce themselves, state their preferred gender pronouns and say how people can interact with them during the class.
"Your [mobility or health] challenges don't come into it, unless, of course, you want to share. Our main question is 'What do we need to know in order to dance with you today?' Because we realize that day-to-day things can change, so we foster a very open and safe environment … for people to discover themselves and how they move and how they create."
For example, Lapp says she might tell the class, "You can interact with me, I'm OK with touch, just be mindful of my joy stick on the right because I use a power chair … just so people aren't nervous about interacting with different bodies in the room."
As for next steps, Lapp wants to choreograph a show she can take on the road. And aside from making dance her sole focus, she hopes to integrate mixed ability dance into the mainstream.
"By doing what we do, I think we are opening people's perspectives," she says.
"People are curious, [but] we still have a long way to go, as far as being seen as part of the field of professional dance."
*Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story misspelled Sarah Lapp's name. Megaphone regrets the error.


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Joshua Mar Nicodemos is a Metropolitan of Nilakal Diocese of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

Early life
H. G. Joshua Mar Nicodemos was born on 8 October 1962. His Grace is a member of St.Thomas Orthodox Valiyapally Kurampala, Pandalam, in the diocese of Chengannoor.

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1962 births
Living people
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishops

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The New York-based Gotham Film & Media Institute has announced that, beginning this year, its Gotham Awards for acting will no longer be defined by gender. The Best Actor and Best Actress categories for independent feature films will be replaced with Outstanding Lead Performance and Outstanding Supporting Performance. The move to introduce gender-neutral lead and supporting acting awards builds on the legacy of the now 24-year-old Gotham Breakthrough Actor Award – to be renamed "Gotham Breakthrough Performer Award" as of this year – which has been gender-neutral since its inception.


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Discover the secret life of plants!
The idea that plants are living organisms with feelings is probably as old as human thought. In 1848 the German psychologist, physicist and natural philosopher Gustav Theodor Fechner published the book Nanna oder über das Seelenleben der Pflanzen (Nana or the Souls of Plants) in Leipzig and espoused the idea that the entire universe is imbued with soul.
The Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose dedicated himself fully to the physiology of plants from 1900 onward and did pioneering work in that field. He reported on the influence of electromagnetic fields on plants and developed instruments for observing the growth of plants.
In 1966 the lie detector specialist Cleve Backster connected a polygraph to a plant to see what would happen. He watered the plant and touched a leaf, but the plant did not show any response. Then he wanted to singe a leaf with a lit match. But as he reported, when he held the match in his hand and was just about strike it, the polygraph went wild. After that he dedicated his life to plants, and in 2003 he published the book Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells.
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Today the responses of plants to external influences are being investigated and studied by numerous projects, researchers and scientists. One example is the EU-funded project PLEASED, led by Andrea Vitaletti at the University of Rome. Now plants are changing the color of light (Floranium) or making music (Damanhur). Slowly, it is officially recognized, that plants much are more than just bio-physiologic organism.
Interacting with green plants
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We've all heard in the media recently that moving over to a more plant based diet can have numerous health benefits. Over the years we've certainly have seen an increase in the variety of vegetarian products now available, making it easier to make that switch and be able to move away from choosing meat products. Athlete Dorothy Liviabella decided to make the switch and has never looked back.
"My journey into sport and a plant based diet started 8 years ago when I entered the London Triathlon to raise money for charity. I had no idea what a Triathlon was but I knew how to ride a bike and figured I could learn how to swim, so thought – what's the worst that can happen! Eight years later and I am proud to have represented Great Britain in 2 Triathlon World Championships, 3 European Championships and even won a bronze medal in my Age Group. I have managed to work my way up from absolute beginner to standing on the podium in countless triathlons, duathlons and running events over the last 6 years. Although I am getting older, I am getting faster, stronger and have built up an incredible endurance base – so much so, that earlier this year I was the outright female winner in a non-stop 24 hour mountain bike event which involved 161 miles of hilly and technical terrain – all powered by plants. All of this success I could never have imagined 8 years ago when I was on Google, looking up what a triathlon consisted of and realising I needed to buy a bike!
Of course, the training that goes into this, to compete at this level is vitally important and I probably train between 10 and 15 hours a week, but as the quote goes 'you can't exercise yourself out of a bad diet', meaning no matter what kind of exercise programme you follow you need a good diet for ultimate health and well-being. Looking back, if anyone had asked me 8 years ago, I would have said I had a great diet – but compared to my diet now there really is no comparison in terms of nutritional density, macro and micro nutrient intake and the diversity of fruit, vegetables and other plants in my diet. The change in diet from a meat and dairy eater to vegan have contributed enormously to the way I feel both mentally and physically. It has opened up a whole new world of plants, fruits, berries that years ago I may have looked upon as 'exotic' but are now every day staples.
My journey to a plant based diet was a gradual one. At first I cut out meat, then fish and lastly dairy and eggs. I have followed a vegan diet / lifestyle for about 3 years now and now advocate this way of living to anyone and everyone. The initial driver was an ethical one (how can I say I love animals and then support an industry that kills them), but in parallel I realised the huge health benefits that came with a plant based diet. As I learnt more about the power of plants (and the potential risks associated with meat and dairy), I was driven to a whole new level of healthy eating.
Typically I start the day with a smoothie for an immediate burst of vitamins, minerals and goodness! It's such a great way to get a quick and easy fix of vegetables (typically kale, beetroot or spinach), berries, chia seeds, protein powder (pea or hemp protein) and anything else I have or want to add in e.g. goji berries, Incan berries or a medjool date for sweetness. Mealtimes are now dense with vegetables, greens, beans and pulses. I have also started to add turmeric powder to my sports drinks for added anti-inflammatory properties and snacks during the day are things like peppers, carrots, celery and hummus, nuts or a few pieces of dried fruit.
There are so many benefits of a plant based lifestyle – in addition to feeling at peace with myself on an ethical and moral perspective, my weight has reduced due to a noticeable reduction in body fat, I have huge amounts of energy to sustain a very intense training schedule and my immune system must be working well as I hardly ever get so much as a cold!
Having experienced the benefits myself, I was looking at ways to help promote a plant based lifestyle amongst fellow athletes. I was buying my everyday essentials like chia seeds, coconut oil, plant based protein powders etc from Sevenhills Wholefoods and I loved their overall product range and brand so I contacted them to ask how I could promote their great products within my circle of athletes and at events. This lead to me becoming an ambassador which I am incredibly proud and passionate about. As I experiment with new recipes and new products, I feel I can really help others by promoting products that some may never have heard of before, and how they can add both interest, flavour but most importantly nutritional benefits to their diet.
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The best period tracker app
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Period Tracker by Glow (app)
Period Tracker is a menstrual tracker app that helps you keep track of your menstrual cycle. The app has a simple and easy to use interface and includes a calendar to track your cycles, as well as an alarm to remind you when your next period is due. You can also view your data over time to see how your cycles have changed over time.
My Period (app)
My Period is a menstrual health and wellness app that helps you manage your period with tips, advice, and tools. The app includes a daily diary to track your menstrual cycle, as well as a mood tracker to help you better understand your moods during your period. You can also find information on contraception, pain relief, and more. My Period is free to download and use.
Period Tracker by Cycle (app)
Period Tracker by Cycle is a menstrual tracking app that helps you keep track of your menstrual cycle. The app includes a daily log where you can record the date, time, and temperature of your period. You can also view a graph of your cycle's progress over time. The app also includes a fertility tracker to help you track your ovulation cycles.
Glow: The Menstrual Tracker App (app)
Glow is a menstrual tracker app that helps you track your periods and better understand your cycle. Glow provides you with a daily overview of your period, as well as detailed information about each day's events. You can also share your data with other Glow users, and receive support and advice from our team of experts.
Glow: The Menstrual Tracker App – Premium Version (app)
Glow is the menstrual tracker app that makes tracking your periods a breeze. With Glow, you can keep track of your cycle in detail, including the days of the week you're most fertile, when your cramps are worst, and even when you ovulate. Plus, with our powerful analytics tools, you can see how your cycle affects your mood and health overall.
If you're looking for an easy way to track your periods and improve your health overall, Glow is the perfect app for you!
Glow: The Menstrual Tracker App – Free Version (app)
Glow is a menstrual tracker app that helps you track your periods and manage your health. Glow is free to download and use, and it has a variety of features that make it easy to keep track of your periods.
The Glow app has a monthly calendar that lets you see when your next period is expected. You can also use the calendar to track your periods by day, week, or month. The app also has a menstrual diary section that lets you record all the details about your periods, including the date, time, temperature, and mood.
The Glow app also has a fertility tracker feature that helps you track your ovulation cycles. The fertility tracker lets you know when you are likely to ovulate each month, and it also provides information about your ovulation symptoms.
The Glow app also has a health tracking feature that helps you monitor your overall health. The health tracking feature includes measures of physical activity, diet, stress levels, and sleep quality.
Femme Sync for iPhone and Android ( app )
Femme Sync is a powerful and easy to use app that helps you keep track of your menstrual cycle. You can view your current cycle, as well as track your past cycles, to get an understanding of how your body works. Femme Sync also provides helpful tips on how to improve your cycle and manage it better.
LadyFlow for iPhone and Android ( app
LadyFlow is a unique and innovative app that helps women to improve their menstrual flow. The app has been designed to be user-friendly and easy to use, with a range of features that can help women to manage their periods more effectively.
The main features of the app include:
– A menstrual calendar that tracks your cycle in detail, including the date, time, and length of each phase;
– A daily mood tracker that records how you are feeling each day;
– A diary section where you can track your menstrual symptoms and experiences;
– A flow tracker that records the amount of menstrual fluid released each day;
– An advice section with tips from experts on how to improve your period experience.
Things to consider when choosing a period tracker app
Some factors to consider when choosing a period tracker app include the app's features, design, and price. Some popular period tracker apps include Clue, SheKnows, and Glow.
1. Ability to track periods for up to five years.
2. Period tracking data can be exported for analysis or sharing with other users.
3. Period tracker app can provide information on when your periods are heaviest and lightest, as well as average cycle length.
4. Period tracker app can provide information on your fertility and ovulation cycles, including the days of the month when you are most likely to conceive.
5. Period tracker app can provide information on your menstrual cramps, including intensity and duration.
1. The best period tracker app is Clue. It has a wide range of features, including the ability to track your periods for up to 10 years, and it's free.
2. The best period tracker app is Glow. It's easy to use and has a variety of features, including the ability to track your periods for up to 12 months.
3. The best period tracker app is Period Tracker by FemmeFridays. It's easy to use and has a variety of features, including the ability to track your periods for up to 12 months.
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Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture stretches the imagination for Silicon Valley's most prestigious gardens.
This succulent-rich retractable gate has its own irrigation system and was handplanted by the Zeterre team; Los Gatos-based RJ Landscape installed the rest of the $3 million project.
Texture and color with plants keep Baumann's gardens looking vibrant year-round.
The three-level cascading pool creates a waterfall effect.
Pup Duchess with Baumann in his San Francisco office.
The landscaping of this Palo Alto Eichler connects it to a neighboring guesthouse.
Six custom screens pivot for privacy.
Rare dwarf Italian cypresses make the small garden feel larger.
The grounds were designed as a playhouse for the family dog, and for entertaining.
Baumann designed 7 acres of gardens around artwork owned by the homeowners, including these boulders from India.
The clients spent more than $1 million to move existing trees, rather than cutting them down.
The patio's blue agaves accentuate one of 200 sculptures.
Baumann's team recently completed a $3 million project for a Los Altos Hills bachelor pad, carefully planting some 2,600 succulents at the surface of the innovative living gate. Beyond the gate lies a private botanical oasis: a terraced garden with a three-level cascading infinity pool built into the hillside. Foliage such as an 80-foot-tall blue atlas cedar and a family of icy blue podocarpus complement the home's striking midnight-blue facade while offering extra privacy. As for Baumann's signature element of surprise? Inside the pool sits a miniature island on which a rare dragon tree from South Africa displays a sculptural scene and a bit of shade.
At just 23, not long after graduating from California Polytechnic State University, Baumann scored his first solo project in Los Gatos for a billionaire tech chief executive officer. The 26,000-square- foot property was home to 7 acres of garden space, which took Baumann and team nearly seven years to fully landscape. "They wanted it to feel like the garden had been there for a long time," says Baumann. That meant bringing in 80 full-size hybrid madrones, an ancient bonfire Japanese maple that rests at the center of an interior courtyard and ancient desert willows, which Baumann says nod to the past, but still feel contemporary.
"It's like another language," he says of his encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture. He geeks out with 250 of his peers through a group called Leaders of Design, which offers architects and designers private viewings of properties around the world. His favorite inspirations hail from Lake Maggiore and Lake Como in Italy, the Bastide gardens of Provence, and the Lotusland garden and estate in Montecito.


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Real-life Mario Kart track opening in Ontario next spring
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Now you can play Mario Kart in real life, on a real race track!
The Niagara Speedway isn't the future location of a NASCAR race, but a brand new go-kart track opening soon in Niagara Falls, Ontario. In fact, it is "a marriage of traditional go-karts with the added fun and excitement of an elevated coaster styled track," according to the track's developers.
Competitors will have the chance to duke it out on a tight race course full of straightaways, hairpin turns and ramps on their way to the checkered flag. One of the main features of the Niagara Speedway is the 40-foot elevated spiral track that drops down like a roller coaster.
The opening date is set for Spring of 2018. Work on the track will continue through winter; in fact, it took 190 tons of steel and another 3,841 tons of concrete to create this half a kilometre track and all of its twists and turns.
It's the largest and only one of its kind in North America, so when it does open, it should be bustling.
How breaking a karting world record can be a spiritual experience
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A convenient brickbat to wield against the Women's March, the controversial leader distracts from more timely -- and dangerous -- anti-Semites.
Like the proverbial bad penny, Louis Farrakhan turns up in the news with cyclical regularity, typically drawing negative attention to himself and distracting media attention from more glaring and serious national affairs.
At the end of February, Farrakhan once again became the magnet for such controversy. The Nation of Islam leader hasn't inflamed the national consciousness because of any particular fear that his ideas are relevant, which they most certainly are not. Rather, his rhetoric is being exploited as a bank-shot attack on progressive causes.
Meanwhile, the very sort of anti-Semitic toxicity that Farrakhan is known for spreading is on the march — but being driven by other, mostly far-right forces that have failed to draw a similar level of condemnation from conservative pundits and political leaders.
Such vile comments are nothing new in Farrakhan's vocabulary. Since assuming leadership of the NOI in 1977, Farrakhan has performed his kabuki of anti-Semitism and hostility toward whites to rally the allegiance of a relatively small number of black Americans who are frustrated by the nation's history and perpetuation of racism — and revel in his outspoken defiance.
For Farrakhan, these expressions of melodramatic anti-Semitism have proven to be the best way to command an audience and remain in the public conversation. But, outside of stoking irrational fears among conservative writers, Farrakhan's frequent fulminations have, in recent years, failed to have much of a substanial impact on public policies or civil discourse. Indeed, at this point in his career, the antagonism generated by his comments remains the one trick he has to keep him nationally relevant.
But that doesn't stop Farrakhan's critics from linking his comments to other progressives. And once again, with clockwork precision, the calls rained down on progressive political leaders and activists to condemn the NOI leader for his offensive one-liners.
In this case, Tamika Mallory, a co-chair of the Women's March, drew the media's harshest glare. She had attended the Saviors' Day rally and had posted an Instagram video of some of the event, which was enough to shove her under the Farrakhan-driven bus and smear the "National School Walkout" planned for Wednesday to urge congressional leaders to pass tough gun control laws. The walkout is being organized, with assistance from the Women's March leadership, by student activists at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a gunman killed 17 students last month.
Instead of focusing on the students' pleas, some in the media would prefer to make a bigger deal of Farrakhan's impotent speech than it merits. Indeed, several days after Farrakhan's speech went largely unnoticed and lacking any social impact, CNN's Jake Tapper posted quotes from it on his Twitter account and indirectly mentioned Mallory's attendance.
Of course, this led to new demands for progressives to censure Farrakhan and, more significantly, calls for Mallory to resign from the Women's March.
Nothing good can come from the Women's March organizers engaging in a public spat among themselves over allegations of anti-Semitism within its ranks.The Women's March is a movement that's not quite two years old and is composed of disparate groups with independent issues, styles and leadership.
As Bob Bland, one of the co-chairs of the Women's March, recently told BuzzFeed News, being forced to respond to right-wing accusations of anti-Semitism from within its ranks is a divide-and-conquer strategy, one that presents only a lose-lose proposition for its leadership.
"Women are not a monolith and a lot of the issues we're dealing with are longstanding issues between communities that will not get solved today or tomorrow," Bland said.
In contrast with the nascent Women's March, Farrakhan is a known and fixed personality, someone who has been roundly and routinely denounced for his bigoted views. Is there a sentient being in the country who doesn't already have a well-formed opinion of him? Is there anything new or permeable in his philosophy or personality that can leaven the widespread public opprobrium he's already received through periodic doses of refreshed media scrutiny? Not likely.
The fact of the matter is that Farrakhan was fitted for a lodestone long ago, thanks to his own self-marginalizing rhetoric and actions. Moreover, those relatively few Americans who dare express unqualified support for Farrakhan today aren't likely to be deterred by a new round of bleatings from angry talking heads, whom Farrakhan's most die-hard supporters are more apt to renounce than the NOI minister's most odious statements.
Much of the attention being paid to Farrakhan right now deserves to be redirected at more timely targets. According to the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization that annually tracks anti-Semitism and hate crimes, anti-Semitic incidents are currently on the rise across the nation. In their latest findings, the group identified 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. during 2017, an increase of 57 percent over the 1,267 incidents it found in the previous year.
This is a development that knowing observers credit mostly to the hatred and incivility let loose during of the Trump campaign in 2016 and its ongoing White House administration — and not to anything that Farrakhan has done or said.
Recall that Trump slowly and only reluctantly condemned attacks by neo-Nazis and KKK members during a protest rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia and has frequently drawn full-throated praise from former Klan leader David Duke for administration policies and statements.
As Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T'ruah, a nonprofit organization of rabbis representing all streams of Judaism, recently told my ThinkProgress colleague E.A. Crunden, presidential behavior has given license to anti-Semitic and racist acts.
What's more, many of those who scream outrage over Farrakhan's screeds turn deaf and mute when right-wing racists such as Steve Bannon spew vitriol that's far worse and gets an audience among powerful national and international leaders. Just this week, for example, the Financial Times announced that they would be holding a "Future Of News" conference, bringing Bannon together with two respected figures in the mainstream media, New York Times Editor-in-Chief Dean Baquet and CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker.
Decades from now, Bannon might end up rightly fitted with the same mantle of shame that Farrakhan's borne for many years. For now, unlike the NOI leader, Bannon remains a figure that supposedly-respectable society still turns to for his views, and whom the media still lavishes with attention through fawning profiles, quotes and — as in the above instance — new opportunities to offer commentary on their own business practices.
Hypocrisy, you say? For sure, it is.
But rest assured almost any story about Farrakhan has little to zero import on anything that truly matters. Instead, the breathless accounts surrounding his most recent rants are just a blip in the ongoing national narrative, serving only to deflect and distract. The greatest irony in this case, is that Farrakhan's latest round of anti-Semitic vitriol is actually distracting media attention from the actual racism and anti-Semitism that's on the rise.


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text: Q: BlueStacks and unity 3d? i am trying to test android project developed in unity to be tested via BluStacks emulator since i don't have an android device. While trying to develop android project, i followed the ways like setting java sdk, android sdk, added sdk path, set the bundle identifier. I solved errors in the monodevelop like unrecognized variable and finally got the .apk file. I have successfully installed it in both android emulator and BlueStacks emulator. Now, when i click the installed app in the android emulator, it says "Unfotuately b has stopped", here b indicates my product name of the installed app. On the other hand,when i click the installed app in the BlueStacks,it says "BlueStacks Frontend has stopped working". When i search through the google, all it says reinstalling the BlueStacks, about graphics card problem etc. But i have installed it right and can play other online installed applications. I can not even find the logcat that could give me details about the error. When i search through the google, all i find about the logcat is involving the eclipse. But how can i set the adb logcat while my game development involves unity and BlueStacks instead of Eclipse and BlueStacks? Here i can say that there is less likely any problem with the BlueStacks emulator since i can play the online games and applications with it. I have been trying hard, please somebody knowledgeable give me your valuable suggestions.

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Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, Einstein and Thomas Jefferson - singer-songwriter Josh Ritter tells Laura Barton what makes him tick
Thu 27 Apr 2006 19.59 EDT First published on Thu 27 Apr 2006 19.59 EDT
'You can write a song and change the world in an afternoon'... Josh Ritter
There is a small town just outside of Moscow, Idaho, named Viola, where the railroad never came and where its 100-or-so residents now content themselves with just a post office, a women's quilting club and the long gravel roads. Josh Ritter grew up here, among the lentil fields.
The family rarely listened to music, and their television set had just one channel, a public broadcasting station that largely showed distance learning programmes about calculus. On Saturdays the station began broadcasting at 6am, and the young Ritter would stand in awe before the television set. "It would come on with the national anthem, and show pictures of Washington DC from above," he recalls wistfully. "There were all these beautiful white marble monuments and I used to just imagine skateboarding down them ... "
It is an image that simultaneously conveys not only Ritter's love for America and its music, but also his strange breed of quietly courteous rebellion. Ritter is one of America's most talented young musicians, with an astounding lyrical flair. His first two albums earned him comparisons to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and secured him a spot opening for Joni Mitchell, while his most recent album, The Animal Years, displays a maturity that echoes Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen.
The Animal Years, tangibly different to the romanticism of his last record, Hello Starling, carries a mournfulness that twists through the album's 11 songs; from Idaho, a disconsolate ode to his home state, to Thin Blue Flame, which sounds in parts like the sort of incantation one expects from heyday Van Morrison, via Girl in the War, which reflects on the Iraq conflict through the letters of St Peter to St Paul. The album is Ritter's rumination on a time of great confusion in American identity, and consequently unites him with a number of young American musicians, among them Sufjan Stevens and Willy Mason, attempting to redefine their relationship with - and love for - their native land.
It is not, however, a protest album. "I love Steve Earle," Ritter says, "but I didn't find his style of expression to be particularly helpful to my sense of anger." Instead he turned to the work of Mark Twain for inspiration. "What I really like about Twain is how he mixes cynicism with optimism," he explains, his voice acquiring a gentle hush of wonderment. "Sometimes he's just the meanest guy, the darkest person. But he obviously loves people and loves America. And that's how I feel about both religion and America. They both have the potential to be good. And the disappointment is that they so rarely are."
Ritter compares the overall mood of the record to a curious point in Twain's writing: "There was a tale I once read about Mark Twain - that he stopping writing Huck Finn at a point where a paddlesteamer runs over the raft Huck and Jim are sailing, and they dive down beneath the paddle wheel," he explains. "And Twain left the story there at that point - for seven years - while he was deciding what else to write about. And when he picks up the story they come up and find they've gone past the spot in the north where Jim can be free, and they head south into slave country again. So I was thinking about that, and it hit me that what I wanted to express was that moment of a turning point, where you don't know if something's turning into a good or bad thing. What I really wanted The Animal Years to be about was, 'what is America turning into?'"
This is not to imply that Ritter is in any way disenchanted with his homeland. He waxes lyrical about the country's landscape and its history with a passion still patently in its first flush: "The landscape is incredible! Think about where I grew up - in 1804 Lewis and Clark came through, these two guys travelling from one end of the continent to the other, walking. And then there were riverboats, and the land became sewn together with trains, and those trains are still there, they went by my high school. I remember reading their names, and that was the first time I felt a real sense of romance about the connectedness of a country. Thomas Jefferson didn't think the country would last more than 150 years, but he was willing to put his whole life into shaping it because he believed it was an important experiment and that it would lead somewhere good. I look at the motto that says, '1776-1976 for ever more', and I think how great that people believe that - that for 200 years we think we're immortal." He stops, and breathes, as if he himself has just emerged, soaked and gasping, from under a paddlesteamer.
Ritter's fervent love for America was further fuelled by studying American history through music at university, charting the effects of "all the American forms of Christianity, all the musical movements and the labour movements, and how technology affected cowboy songs, all this great stuff". He even spent a year in Edinburgh studying the relationship between traditional Scottish and Appalachian music. However it almost wasn't to be. Ritter hails from a staunchly scientific family, and started university studying biology with an aim to go into neuroscience. Two years into his course he gave in to an almost gravitational pull exerted on him since he first discovered his parents' copy of Bob Dylan's country album Nashville Skyline.
He was in his teens at the time, caught, musically, somewhere between the grunge of his peers and the top 40 country music show he had grown up listening to on the radio."I knew about Johnny Cash just 'cos of growing up in Idaho, where he's like Mount Rushmore." But it was Dylan's 1969 album that was a particular inspiration. "That record just made me feel I could do anything, and it didn't have to be perfect, it could be sloppy. I still think that's incredible. What I found was songs but also a way of living your life - that you can create things yourself."
He doesn't, however, regret his days in the biology lab. "Science and art both teach you that you'll never know really very much of anything. You'll get a little glimpse of something way bigger and then that'll lead you off in a whole other direction." And it thrills him, he says, when he thinks of all the years stretched out before him to fill with writing songs. "It excites me that Einstein could, in five days, come up with the theory of relativity," he says, voice weighed with awe. "Or that you can write a song and change the world in an afternoon. And just think of all the afternoons there are ..."
· The Animal Years is out now. Josh Ritter performs at Manchester Academy on May 10 (box office: 0161-832 1111) then tours.


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Q: Plot and visualize results of clustering as a network graph I'm experimenting with various clustering algorithms and string distance metrics in Python, with the end goal of clustering a list of strings according to various distance metrics such as Levenshtein, Jaro, etc (each string normally has 1 or 2 words).
I've build code for computing distances between strings according to different distance metrics (using jellyfish package), and to cluster them with different algorithms provided by the sklearn.cluster package. Here's some sample code for Jaro distance and MeanShift clustering:
tokens = np.array(["test1", "test2", "test3", "cat", "cat food", "apple", "apple pie"])

distances = -1 * np.array([[jellyfish.jaro_distance(w1, w2) for w1 in tokens] for w2 in tokens])

meanshift = sklearn.cluster.MeanShift()
meanshift.fit(distances)

clusters = dict()
key = 0
for cluster_id in np.unique(meanshift.labels_):
    cluster = np.unique(tokens[np.nonzero(meanshift.labels_ == cluster_id)])
    clusters[key] = cluster.tolist()
    key += 1

plot_clusters(clusters, ...)

Now I'd like to plot/visualize/save the results of clustering preferably as a network graph similar to this one [1]. I would be happy with a simple visualization that makes it easy to see (and count) the different clusters. That's why I build just a dictionary with the cluster elements. However, it would be nice if the visualization would take into account the distance between data points as calculated beforehand. Either way would work fine for me. I just want some nice visualizations to go along with the analyses of the actual clusters.
Does anyone have some ideas or pointers on how to solve this? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
[1] https://www.kdnuggets.com/wp-content/uploads/k-means-datasci.jpg
Disclaimer: I'm new to python and to machine learning in general

A: It's not showing the distances yet, but you could do some colored scatter plot like
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.pyplot import cm

plt.figure()
clustercount = len(clusters)
color=iter(cm.rainbow(np.linspace(0,1,clustercount)))

for cl in clusters:
    c=next(color)
    x = # x data of your cluster here
    y = # y data of your cluster here
    label = # label of your cluster here

    plt.scatter(x, y, color=c, label=label)

plt.xlabel('X');
plt.ylabel('Y');
plt.legend(loc=2);
plt.show()

This will visualize the clusters in different colors so you can see and count them easily
Maybe you can access the cluster centers via meanshift.cluster_centers_. If so you could plot them too with a static color to visualize the distances.


The average number of Full Time Faculty for MBA programs is 62.
The lowest number of Full Time Faculty for a campus MBA program is 4.
The highest number of Full Time Faculty for a campus MBA program is 300.
Faculty strength is a hard thing to measure. You need to look at a variety of numbers to get a sense of the access you'll have to professors inside and outside of the classroom and how qualified they are to teach. You'll want to look at the number of faculty a program has, the percent of the faculty that are employed full-time versus part-time, and the percentage of the professors who have doctorate degrees. If you plan to enroll in an MBA program rather than just pick up a business book from the shelf at Barnes and Noble, it's worth digging into these statistics to see what you're getting for your investment in tuition dollars.
Knowing that your professor is an industry influencer and has extensive teaching experience in the field of is a clear sign that a program delivers high quality education.
The campus MBA program with the largest total full- and part-time faculty is the Indiana University, Bloomington/Indianapolis. The program has 318 faculty, 300 of which are full time and 66.3% of whom have a doctorate degree. The University of Hawaii at Hilo has the smallest faculty, with 17 full- and part-time professors, 12 of which of are employed full-time. All of University of Hawaii-Hilo's faculty have doctorate degrees. Consider these numbers in conjunction with faculty/student ratios to see whether a program's faculty is strong but spread thin across a large student body, or whether it's small but still sufficient to give you the personalized attention you need.
Whether you attend class on campus or online, you'll still want to know that the MBA program you chose has the breadth of faculty needed to teach all aspects of business, from economics to marketing to strategy. If you are interested in learning more about faculty strength for online MBA programs, see our online MBA programs ranked by faculty strength.


Marketresearchnest Reports adds "Global Rugby Equipment Market Research Report 2018" new report to its research database. The report spread across 105 pages with multiple tables and figures in it.
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The Story of Seibei Kajima, the "Millionaire Photographer" in the Meiji Period
Fujifilm Square Photo History Museum Exhibition
Ponta, c. 1895
Photograph by Seibei Kajima, hand colored albumen print
Collection the FUJIFILM Corporation
* The work on display is a reproduction.
Ponta and Oen, c. 1895
View of Mount Fuji and Tagonoura Bridge from Tagonoura Beach, 1887—1896
Collection the JCII Camera Museum
Autumn View of Maples, Oji, Tokyo, 1887—1896
Collection the Nagasaki University Library
Woman Playing the Flute while Standing on the Back of a Crane, 1895—1897
Collection the Sakura-do
From June 1 to August 31, 2019, the Photo History Museum at Fujifilm Square will mount an exhibition of works by the photographer Seibei Kajima, who was active in the Meiji period (1868—1912). The exhibition is the first in Japan to introduce the career and achievements of Kajima, the "Millionaire Photographer," who contributed much to the world of photography in Japan.
Seibei Kajima came from an affluent background, which allowed him to invest his assets and half a lifetime in photography in the mid-Meiji period. He was eighth in the line of proprietors of Kajimaya, the foremost sake wholesaler in Japan located at Reiganjima Shinkawa in Tokyo (presently, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku). A wealthy merchant house, Kajimaya was on a par with the then leading department stores of Echigoya, Daimaru, and Shirokiya. The chance discovery in a warehouse of a camera that had belonged to one of his predecessors inspired Kajima to immerse himself in photography. In the space of a few years, he made his name by financing the Tsukiji Kanpan Seizojo (Tsukiji Dry Plate Manufacturing Company), the Nihon Shashinkai (Japan Photographic Society), and the Dai Nihon Shashin Hinpyokai (Greater Japan Photography Critique Society). He also opened the extravagant Genrokukan photographic studio, which was equipped with a revolving stage and arc lights.
In the 1880s and 1890s, he became known as the "Millionaire Photographer" because he tried his hand at unprecedented forms of photo production, using custom-made large-format cameras to take oversized photographs or X-ray photographs, and magnesium flash to take photographs at night. Kajima's contributions to the development of photography in Japan were significant, but it was his exceptional largesse that was the talk of the town at the time.
In 1890, Kajima asked Ponta, then an apprentice geisha at Tamanoya in Shinbashi, to pose for his posters, a coincidence that led to them spending their later lives together. In 1896, his lavish spending habits caused relations with the Kajima family to break down. He spent the remainder of his life with Ponta who supported him through his dramatic final years when he had to close the photographic studio and lost a finger in an explosion.
Focusing on Kajima's appeal, the exhibition brings together a range of his work including Mt. Fuji (reproduction), a masterpiece that was presented to the Imperial Household, a stage photograph (reproduction) of Ichikawa Danjuro IX in Shibaraku, one of the Kabuki Juhachiban (Eighteen Famous Kabuki Plays), the glamorous figures of Ponta, the talented geisha, and Oen, the mistress of Kajima's younger brother Seizaburo, and applied arts photography printed on silk screen. We hope you will enjoy this glimpse of the magnificent world of Seibei Kajima, not a mere hobby photographer but someone whose accomplishments contributed in significant ways to the world of photography in Japan.
Seibei Kajima (1866—1924)
Seibei Kajima's given name at birth was Masanosuke. He was the second son of Seiemon Kajima who was the proprietor of the Kajimaya sake wholesaler in Osaka. When Masanosuke married Nobu, the daughter and heiress to the Kajimaya flagship store in Shinkawa, Tokyo (presently, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku), he took the name Seibei Kajima VIII. In 1885, Kajima was learning photography from Shojiro Imatsu, a photographer based in Asakusa who attended the Kajima household every other day to give lessons. In 1888, Kajima set up the Tsukiji Kanpan Seizojo (Tsukiji Dry Plate Manufacturing Company) together with Kazumasa Ogawa and William K. Burton. The following year, he joined the newly established Nihon Shashinkai (Japan Photographic Society) as a member. When the Dai Nihon Shashin Hinpyokai (Greater Japan Photography Critique Society) was formed in 1893, Kajima was appointed its vice-president. In 1895, he opened the Genrokukan photo studio in Kobikicho, Ginza, where he also built an adjacent exhibition hall for fine arts. The studio was managed by his younger brother Seizaburo. In the same year, Kajima joined with Count Ujitaka Toda to set up the Nihon Gentokai (Magic Lantern Society of Japan). In 1896, he successfully demonstrated X-ray photography at the Greater Japan Photography Critique Society. The following year, he photographed the funeral cortege of the Empress Dowager Eisho using magnesium flash to produce the first outdoor night photography in Japan. After relations with the Kajima family broke down, he closed the Genrokukan studio. He bought out Ponta's contract with the geisha house and opened a photo studio in Kyoto, but the venture failed. Several years later, he opened the Harukikan photo studio near the Hongo-za Theater in Tokyo. One day, when handling magnesium he had an accident that severed his right thumb. As a result, he closed the photographic studio and joined the Morita school of Noh flute under the name of Kisaragi Miki. Seibei Kajima died of illness at age 58.
June 1 — August 31, 2019
Open every day from 10:00 to 19:00 (last admission 18:50)
Number of works
Approx. 25 works
The Photo History Museum at FUJIFILM SQUARE (Tokyo Midtown West)
FUJIFILM Corporation
Exhibition curator
Naomi Izakura (Photo historian)
Japan Camera Industry Institute
Planning by
Photo Classic
<Events during the exhibition>
Gallery talk by Naomi Izakura, photo historian and exhibition curator, on the life and work of Seibei Kajima, the "Millionaire Photographer"
Sat. June 29th, 2019 14:00—14:30 /16:00—16:30
Sat. July 20th, 2019 14:00—14:30 /16:00—16:30
Sat. August 10th, 2019 14:00—14:30 /16:00—16:30
The Photo History Museum at FUJIFILM SQUARE
* No registration required
* No seats available
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In 1991, the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts founded these awards, which recognize highly beneficial projects by corporations and corporate foundations for the support of the arts, with the aim of encouraging corporate patronage of artistic projects and increasing public interest in these activities.
The awardees are decided on the basis of an evaluation that covers the company's ingenuity and making use of its managerial resources, the involvement of the company in the arts, culture and the wider community, the company's attitude to continuing and expanding the activities, and the activities' degree of importance in contributing to the arts and wider culture.
This year's awards, entitled "This is MECENAT 2018", attracted 152 entrants. A town of third-party experts selected a total of seven awards, namely, the Grand Mécénat Award, five Awards for excellence and the Award Granted by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs.
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Brian Wheeler, executive director of the online news source Charlottesville Tomorrow, will speak on the changing landscape of community news in his presentation for Community Voices on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m. at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Blacksburg.
Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community news platform covering growth, development, and local politics. Charlottesville Tomorrow connects the public to vital information for making informed choices about the community's future. In his talk, Wheeler will explore "building new platforms for engaged citizens and informed choices."
Through a partnership with The Daily Progress, the first of its kind in the nation, Charlottesville Tomorrow's reporting is now a regular feature in the pages of the local newspaper of record. "The partnership is clearly benefitting our readers, who are getting more public affairs reporting at a time when most news organizations are pulling back. The Daily Progress is a better, more consistent newspaper because of this partnership," said McGregor McCance, The Daily Progress managing editor.
"Evening performances of the popular Community Voices series makes the talks available to a wider community audience," says Max Stephenson, director of Virginia Tech's Institute for Policy and Governance. "We are grateful to our sponsors who make Community Voices free to all who wish to attend."
Community Voices speakers give concise and engaging 20-minute talks that incorporate stories of leadership for community transformation. Following the talks, the programs include conversation and dialogue between audience members and the Community Voices speakers.
Community Voices video records the presentations and makes them widely available through a public access website. The talks and interviews with the speakers are also available by local broadcast over the Blacksburg town television station WTOB and radio station WUVT-FM 90.7. A compilation of the spring 2011 talks is available on DVD. For more information, contact the Institute for Policy and Governance. The Community Voices program is one hour in duration.
The theme for the fall 2011 and spring 2012 series is Creative Leadership for Community Innovation and Resilience. Upcoming Community Voices speakers in spring 2012 will include Woody Crenshaw, a Floyd County entrepreneur asking, "What do the farm and farm family of the 21st century look like?"; and, Dr. John Dreyzehner, former director of the Cumberland Plateau Health District and newly appointed Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, asking what the connections are between community health and prosperity.
The Community Voices speakers are engaged in fostering work that strengthens community. Their leadership includes the capacity to speak cogently and concisely about their experiences, to tell stories that are revealing of their work, and to present ideas for change, ideas that matter.
Sponsors for the Community Voices fall 2011 series include the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance; The Community Foundation of the New River Valley; Virginia Tech Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships; The Floyd Country Store; Virginia Tech Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought; Planning, Governance and Globalization Program of Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs, and Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Written by Andy Morikawa, faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Governance.
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Campaign to Seat Workers Kicks Off
By Bae Ji-sook
The nation's largest union umbrella group has launched a campaign to make discount stores and other workplaces to provide chairs for workers who are forced to stand during working hours.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said Wednesday the move is to prevent stress injuries caused by having to stand still in one spot for too long.
According to the union's research, many workers at department stores, discount stores, highway rest houses and ice cream and fast food chains have no chair to sit on while taking a break or working. It often leads to varicose veins in the lower extremities and bone or heart disease. Many women suffer miscarriages and premature delivery.
The National Human Rights Commission in January said 58 percent of female non-permanent workers working at supermarkets as cashiers and sales clerks had back problems. About 53 percent, 47 percent and 40 percent had gynecological, blood vein and urination problems, respectively.
The Industrial Safety and Health Law obliges management to provide chairs or stools for workers to sit on while taking breaks. Workers can sit while not dealing with customers.
In reality, very few people are aware of the law, spokeswoman Oh Moon-sook said.
``Many female workers complain about swollen legs and not being able to sleep but still having to smile at the workplace because they are service agents,'' she added.
In most developed countries, allowing service workers to sit on chairs is considered as a move to guarantee the individual's right to stay healthy and happy, as well as abolishing social discrimination.
In the United Kingdom, there were reports that standing while working reflects social prejudice, suggesting sitting is for white collar workers and standing is for blue collar workers.
The country's largest workers group, the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, is promoting chairs and other equipment to enhance the quality of workers' rights.
Supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury allow workers to choose between sitting and standing during work.
In Scandinavian countries, only 30-40 percent of workers spend more than 75 percent of their work time standing. Amid the changes, experts found customers showed more respect toward seated workers.
``Chairs are not only about making workers physically healthy, but also mentally healthy by reducing stress,'' a report said.
Renowned health experts such as Prof. Choijung Kyoung-hee at Kyung Hee University Medical Center will figure out exact diseases and symptoms related to the absence of chairs by the end of the month and the aforementioned union will begin its nationwide promotion of the recommended equipment. ``We aim at having all workers have chairs to sit on at last,'' Oh said.
bjs@koreatimes.co.kr


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Q: Is there a way to extend Plone Dexterity's INameFromTitle behavior? The project I am working on uses Plone's awesome Dexterity plugin. A couple of my custom content types have very specific names that must be computed. The way I had originally accomplished this before was by adding plone.app.content.interfaces.INameFromTitle as a behavior in the object's generic setup entry, per the manual's directions:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<object name="avrc.aeh.cycle" meta_type="Dexterity FTI">
  ...
  <property name="schema">myproject.mytype.IMyType</property>
  <property name="klass">plone.dexterity.content.Item</property>
  ...
  <property name="behaviors">
    <element value="plone.app.content.interfaces.INameFromTitle" />
  </property>
  ...
</object>

Then I created an adapter that would provide INameFromTitle:
from five import grok
from zope.interface import Interface
import zope.schema
from plone.app.content.interfaces import INameFromTitle

class IMyType(Interface):

    foo = zope.schema.TextLine(
        title=u'Foo'
        )

class NameForMyType(grok.Adapter):
    grok.context(IMyType)
    grok.provides(INameFromTitle)

    @property
    def title(self):
        return u'Custom Title %s' % self.context.foo

This method is very similar to that suggested in this blog post:
http://davidjb.com/blog/2010/04/plone-and-dexterity-working-with-computed-fields
Unfortunately, this method stopped working after plone.app.dexterity beta and now my content items don't have their names assigned properly.
Would anyone happen to know how to extend Dexterity's INameFromTitle behavior for very specific naming use-cases?
Your help is much appreciated, thanks!

A: You could try the following.
in interfaces.py
from plone.app.content.interfaces import INameFromTitle

class INameForMyType(INameFromTitle):

    def title():
        """Return a custom title"""

in behaviors.py
from myproject.mytype.interfaces import INameForMyType

class NameForMyType(object):
    implements(INameForMyType)

    def __init__(self, context):
        self.context = context

    @property
    def title(self):
        return u"Custom Title %s" % self.context.foo

I generally prefer defining my adapters using ZCML; in configure.zcml
<adapter for="myproject.mytype.IMyType"
         factory=".behaviors.NameForMyType"
         provides=".behaviors.INameForMyType"
         />

but you could probably also use a grok.global_adapter.

A: I did it with a behavior, by adapting to INameFromTitle
in behaviors.py
class INameFromBrandAndModel(Interface):
    """ Interface to adapt to INameFromTitle """

class NameFromBrandAndModel(object):
    """ Adapter to INameFromTitle """
    implements(INameFromTitle)
    adapts(INameFromBrandAndModel)

    def __init__(self, context):
        pass

    def __new__(cls, context):
        brand = context.brand
        model = context.modeltype
        title = u'%s %s' % (brand,model)
        inst = super(NameFromBrandAndModel, cls).__new__(cls)

        inst.title = title
        context.setTitle(title)

        return inst

in behaviors.zcml or configure.zcml
<plone:behavior

    title="Name from brand and model"
    description="generates a name from brand and model attributes"
    for="plone.dexterity.interfaces.IDexterityContent"
    provides=".behavios.INameFromBrandAndModel"
    />

<adapter factory=".behaviors.NameFromBrandAndModel" />

Then disable INameFromTitle behavior in profiles/types/your.contenttype.xml.

Voila. This integrates very well and shows a proper title in the default view and navigation. Removing context.setTitle(title)  from the adapter would just leave us with a proper id, but no title set.
This does not change the title autocratically after editing. I had, so far, no success with overriding the klass property of my content types, as often suggested.
If you define the title attribute in your schema, like:
class IBike(form.Schema):
    """A bike
    """

    title = schema.TextLine(
        title = _(u'Title'),
        required = False,
    )

you can easily change the title later. Hiding the title field in the addForm should be done, to avoid misunderstandings.


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28 August 2013 in Clemson, College Football, South Carolina, Tailgating, Wedding - 1 comment
Tomorrow is the first official day of College Football Season! Oh boy, how I have missed you over the last 7 months. I have been counting down to this day for quite sometime. I'm not going to lie. This is like Christmas Eve for me right now.
The one thing that drives me crazy though is that every single year, USC {South Carolina, not Southern California} is the team that opens up the season. I'm always so excited for this game though since it is the first one after all but it's such a weird feeling to be excited for a USC game, especially when they aren't playing Clemson. But whatever. It's FOOTBALL.
So call me crazy, but I'm going to kick off the 2013 CFB season in a big way: I'm going to fit two football games and a wedding into one weekend. Thank goodness it's Labor Day weekend and I'll have Monday to recover!
Here's how it's going to go down:
My dad may or may not have two tickets to the USC/UNC football game {he's the lone Gamecock in the family} on Thursday night. I may or may not have invited myself to use the second ticket. But... it's the first football game of the season. It's the battle of the Carolinas. It's SEC vs ACC. Depending on who you listen to, by going to this game I can see the soon-to-be 2013 Heisman winner playing. C'mon. How could I not invite myself along? Besides, I may be a Clemson fan but I can play nice at a USC game, too. It's football. They're not playing Clemson. I can handle it.
{see, I can play nice!}
Fast forward to Saturday.
ESPN has {correctly} decided that the most important and more interesting game of the weekend is going to be the matchup between Clemson and Georgia. They have rolled their tour bus into Clemson and have begun setting up shop to produce the College Gameday show from campus on Saturday. The last time they were at Clemson was in 2006 when Clemson played Georgia Tech. Clemson showed up in all purple, Davis & Spiller {Thunder and Lightning} tore up the field, and Clemson walked away with a victory {we won't talk about how that season ended}. It, hands down, makes it into my top 5 Clemson game experiences.
This is going to be one hell of a day.
ESPN College Gameday in the morning. A day FULL of tailgating. It's the first game of the season for Clemson. There will be lots of catching up with friends that I haven't seen in a few months. There will be some good food. There will be some even better beer & wine. Clemson is ranked #8 in the country, Georgia is ranked #6, and it's a night game. If you're a Clemson fan you know how special it is to have a night game. Is anyone else looking forward to the new fireworks that we never saw last year until the last game of the season thanks to noon & 3:30pm kick off times?
Whew. Deep breath.
Fast forward to Sunday.
Wake up, drive back to Columbia, get ready, attend wedding.
I've known Kayla & Jayson since high school {youth group, what what!} and I am thrilled that they are finally tying the knot. Can I say that it's about time? :)
Hellooooo College Football Season! {& goodbye wedding season!}
Until then...
Chesson
Becky August 29, 2013 at 7:38 PM
JAYSON AND KAYLA ARE GETTING MARRIED?
I had no idea! I remember meeting them...bizarre. Looks like this is the third wedding I know of going on this Sunday, one of which I am attending...cake, dresses, and iPhoto exchanges all day!


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Report says Honey Badger is in drug rehab
By Ben KerchevalAug 17, 2012, 9:29 AM EDT
Any chance of former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu playing at all this fall — anywhere — has been put on hold.
Instead, Honey Badger will remain at Right Step drug recovery center in Houston, according to Mathieu's father. Mathieu has been in drug rehab since Monday. WVUE in New Orleans first reported the news:
The Honey Badger's father, Tyrone Mathieu, tells FOX 8 Sports that he and Tyrann agree — until he conquers his demons, he won't be successful at his future endeavors, wherever they unfold. The senior Mathieu says both Tyrann and his family are committed to restoring Tyrann's health, no matter what it takes, believing football will take care of itself down the road.
Mathieu was dismissed from the team last week following what was reported to be yet another failed drug test. Since his release, rumors have circulated over where the All-American would land next, including 1-AA McNeese State or possibly a one-year hiatus before returning to LSU's football program.
It doesn't look like either of those is a possibility right now. Mathieu will not be attending any classes at any school this fall, per his father. Given the small amount of information that anybody knows about Mathieu's situation, this sounds like the right m0ve. Mathieu needs to get his head right; everything else in his life will follow.
Here's hoping Mathieu gets it figured out, whatever "it" means to him.