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Creativity in a digital age
In a digital age, creativity has entered a new sphere. So much of what we do on a daily basis involves a computerized device, and whether we are creating new digital tools or using those tools to exercise our creative juices, we are in some way or another finding novel ways to explore ourselves and the world around us.
On 23 November 2016, we discussed current work on creativity in the broader context of the study of the mind as part of our Creativity & the Mind workshop, organised in collaboration with the Being Human festival of the humanities.
Computer Art & the Limitations of Current AI
Margaret A. Boden has written extensively on the theme of artificial intelligence and the Mind, especially focused on issues around creativity. Margaret holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology, integrating them all in her research on AI and cognitive science. Her books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (1990/2004) and Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006).
Creativity comes in different forms. One of them is combinational, the process of making unfamiliar combinations from familiar ideas. Picasso's collages are a classic example. You might think that nothing is easier for a computer; that Computer art should master the ability to create new combinations of old ideas. This might be true in some sense, argues Margaret Boden, but is it valuable at all? And how do current limitations of AI impact on and limit computer art? Overall creativity seems to require the creation of something new, surprising and valuable. With computer art you easily obtain something new and surprising. More rarely will you get something valuable.
In March 2016, Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo beat South Korean world Go champion Lee Sedol, winning with a 4-1 score. And many might remember that, a couple of decades ago, Deep Blue defeated chess legend Garry Kasparov. Nowadays Machine Learning makes headlines worldwide by implementing – with increased power – ideas that first came out about 30 years ago. No one would deny that such results are truly astonishingly and impressive, but visual computer art is challenging and hard to evaluate.
How is Machine Learning related to computer art? Deep learning is a branch of machine learning using multi-layered neural networks that attempt to model high level abstractions in data by finding specific patterns. Some suggested that the system could be used not only to find pre-existing structures in the data, but also to generate new compositions using images in databases. For example a computer can easily integrate a picture of your father with that of a dog, producing a new item. This would be new and surprising, but how do we assess its value?
The Cherry Picture (Kurt Schwitters, 1921) is a famous composition made of scraps and objects collected from Hannover, the artists' hometown. It is composed of many different, unrelated images. Some coloured cherries are clearly visible at the centre. However, the composition does not have anything to do with cherries (or with anything else): it is abstract. Picking twenty random images, a computer might do something similar. However, to produce something interesting, one must know what the important visual principles are. How could anyone put those principles in a program given that programmers themselves cannot predict its outputs or guide the system? For the moment, computers can combine interesting pictures, but this is probably different from what we would call an interesting collage. In the XVI century, Arcimboldo created portrait heads entirely made by fruits or vegetables. Subtle abilities – far from those of contemporary computers – of visual comparison are required to produce works of this value and quality.
Source: Creativity & the Mind report
What's Stopping People from Projecting Notions of Creativity onto Software?
Simon Colton has specialized in questions of Computational Creativity, in particular investigating and developing novel AI techniques and applying them to creative tasks in domains such as pure mathematics, graphic design, video game design, creative language, and the visual arts. Simon is interested in raising the idea of autonomously creative software.
A trained mathematician with expertise in computer science, Simon Colton presented his multiple projects surrounding the idea of building autonomously creative systems. One of his most impressive achievements is the Painting Fool, a computer program whose work has been exhibited in real and online galleries. Working with the Painting Fool, Colton aims to demonstrate that computer art is neither entirely abstract nor a sort of sophisticated version of Photoshop. As traditional art, computer art is also not necessarily instantaneous, requiring time and sequences of different processes. And computer art is not limited to painting: C-poems constitute an example of a literary creation developed by a machine. Computers may also generate music, videogames, or puzzles.
Despite the reference to some mainstay elements, including novelty, there are no univocal definitions of creativity, which is rather a continuously moving target and an endlessly disputed concept.[1] We may think of creativity as a secondary (humans do not have a specific organ for it), and essentially contested [2] quality of a program or a person, which is conveyed by declarative, illocutionary acts.
One of the reasons that we struggle in approaching the products of computer art is that we feel we are losing interpretability. When we read a poem, we tend to associate it with the author's real or plausible life and with his or her cultural background. We are compelled to project humanity into the author: we know stories about writers we are familiar with and we create tales about those we do not really know. How could we do the same when we are aware that the author is a computer? The difficulty in overcoming such a barrier might be behind the present crisis in computational creativity: our basic concept of creativity is rather human centric. But what could be interesting in computer art? Is producing a new form of entertainment enough, and is it a suitable goal for computational research? How could we engage in the philosophical debate about creativity starting from computer art? In the end, what, if anything, is holding people back from projecting creativity into a software?
[1] Cambridge Handbook of Creativity.[2] Gallie, W.B. (1955-56), Essentially Contested Concepts, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 56: 167-198.
Creative Processes
Is creativity a process? How does that process work and does the answer to this question differ depending on the type of creative exercise undertaken?
On 23 November 2016, we investigated some of the ideas about the process of creativity as part of our Creativity & the Mind Being Human festival event.
Romanticism & Situated Creativity
Berys Gaut is interested in aesthetics, especially its relation to ethics, philosophy of film and film theory, the philosophy of creativity, and moral theory. Berys is the author of two monographs, Art, Emotion and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2007) and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a new monograph, Exploring Creativity: A Philosophical Inquiry.
Berys Gaut suggests that in mythologizing the portrait of the artist as someone standing in isolation, Romanticism depicted the creative process as occurring in the creator's head. In a letter once assumed to be authentic, Mozart described his compositional method, propagating the conception of art as the working of an inscrutable inner inspiration. The letter is now widely thought to be a forgery, fraudulently written and published by one of Mozart's biographers. Indeed, the author of the letter, Friedrich Rochlitz, played an active role in the construction of the myths surrounding the Austrian composer's life and work. According to more reliable sources, Mozart's method was quite different: the composer worked with the keyboard, writing fragments, sketches and drafts before finalising musical pieces.[1]The romantic idea of creativity has proved to be extremely resistant and influential beyond the romantic era. Famously Collingwood defended the idea that the material aspects of producing a piece of art do not have much to do with creativity itself.[2] What is objectified in paint or stone is an idea that is already complete in the artist's head. In other words, the creative process terminates even before the real process of making art begins. There are few cases in which this might be actually true. Notoriously, people other than the artist himself usually executed Soll LeWitt's wall drawings.
However, following contemporary Situated Cognition Theory, this is unlikely to be a fair representation of how creativity works in general. Not only do the material aspects of creating a piece of art fundamentally depend on the relationship with the external world, but creativity itself may be shaped by external conditions and circumstances: the boundaries of cognition extend beyond those of individual organisms. Moreover, according to Embedded Cognition, cognitive activity exploits the structures present in the social and natural environment. Routinely, cognising agents create such structures in order to enable or enhance cognition itself.[3]As a matter of fact, the romantic conception of creativity is unsupported by scientific evidence about how the creative process unfolds. But how does the creative process rely on environmental factors? In a classic paper focussed on the distinction between imagery and perception, Chambers and Reisberg investigated if mental images could be ambiguous[4]. In particular, after being exposed (for 5 seconds) to ambiguous pictures – like the rabbit-duck – subjects were required to reinterpret the mental images of those bistable figures. Unable to recognise the second object hidden in the figure during the exposure, participants were able to discover it once they had to draw it by themselves. Such result suggests that people can imagine only a duck or a rabbit but, in the drawing process, they are able to see more. The fact that artists tend to prepare sketches before completing real work can be seen as evidence of how creativity needs to be activated in the external world in order to to unfold.
The idea of 'incubation' as a pure inner moment, culminating in a sort of illumination, is nothing more than a myth. But why do people describe insights as moments of pure inner inspiration? In the thirties, Norman Maier designed an experiment showing how people tend to confabulate, inventing tales that help them to explain unknown behaviours[5]. Asked to explore different solutions to a specific problem, participants tended falsely to describe the process of finding a way out as a sudden flash of insight, apparently ignoring the role of the external cues provided by the experimenter. Overall people tend to confabulate, misidentifying the source of the information they use to solve a problem.[6]In striking contrast with romantic myths, cognitive agents routinely structure the external environment in order to stimulate cognition and arouse the mind, creating tools for reinforcing intellectual abilities and working memory. We can find examples of this attitude throughout the history of Western culture, from Leonardo's written work[7] to Frank Gehry, who describes himself as a voyeur of his thoughts, but constantly working with drawings and models.[8] Similarly, inventive individuals like Steve Jobs or John Lasseter have stressed the importance of promoting creativity by designing stimulating working environments: Pixar Animation Studios (Emeryville, California) represents a clear example of such philosophy.
[1] Konrad, U. (2006), Compositional method, in Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 100-108.[2] Collingwood, R.G. (1938), The principle of Art, Clarendon Press.[3] Robbins, P., & Aydede, M. (2008), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge University Press.[4] Chambers, D. & Reisberg, D. (1985). Can mental images be ambiguous? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol 11(3): 317-328.[5] Maier, N. (1931), Reasoning in humans. The solution of a problem and its appearance in consciousness. Journal of comparative psychology 12(2):181-194.[6] Seifert, C. M., Meyer, D. E., Davidson, N., Patalano, A. L., & Yaniv, I. (1994). Demystification of cognitive insight: Opportunistic assimilation and the prepared-mind hypothesis. In R. Sternberg, & J. Davidson (Eds.), The nature of insight, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 65-124.[7] Leonardo, Kemp, M. (2001), Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci, with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career as an Artist, Yale University Press.[8] Isenberg, B. (2009), Conversations with Frank Gehry, Alfred A. Knopf; Van Bruggen, C. (1997), Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
How is attention related to creativity?
Aura Satz is Moving Image Tutor and Reader in Fine Art (Sound and Moving Image) on the Contemporary Art Practice Progamme at the Royal College of Art. Aura's work encompasses film, sound, performance and sculpture. She is particularly interested in the modes of heightened perception and sensory disorientation such as flicker and psychoacoustics.
An artist carrying out theoretical research at the Royal College of Art, Aura Satz presented emblematic pieces of her work, introducing the audience to her multi-faceted universe of film, sound, performance and sculpture. Satz is interested in how perception and sensory disorientation might be modulated, but her work is also strongly grounded in historical research, with a focus on lesser-known figures (women in particular) and on their relationship with science, light and sound. In presenting her work, Satz focussed on Oramics: Atalantis Anew (2011), a film-homage to musician Daphne Oram, the pioneer of British Electronic Music and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic workshop in 1958. The film is a brief encounter with Oram's invention, the Oramics Machine, a now obsolete drawn sound technique recently restored by the Science Museum, in London. Originally used to compose electronic music, Oram's machine worked as a pioneering synthesiser with graphical elements controlling and sequencing the audio parameters: a visionary anticipation of the present combination between art, computer science, and technology. Satz's movie brings Oram's invention back to life "enabling the visualisation of the drawn sound material, re-interpreting and translating it into new filmic sequences".
A different project is devoted to Hedy Lamarr's "Secret Communications System", invented by the famous Austrian actress and Hollywood star to help combat the Nazis in World War II. Patented by Lamarr and by composer George Antheil in 1941, the system was first implemented years later, when it was employed on naval ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Partially inspired by Antheil's unsuccessful attempt to synchronise 24 pianolas for his avant-garde creation "Ballet Mechanique", the invention involved frequency hopping, a method for manipulating radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmission and reception, thus creating an unbreakable code to prevent messages from being intercepted by enemies. Despite the importance of her invention for subsequent telecommunication systems, during her lifetime Lamarr obtained very little recognition of her talent. Satz's Impulsive Synchronisation (2013) rediscovered Lamarr's forgotten invention. Impulsive Synchronisation is a film and technically complex sound installation he work consisting of a scrolling screen in constant motion. Not by chance, the movie projected onto the scrolling screen is an extract from a romantic comedy ('Come Live with Me', released the same year Lamarr and Antheil submitted the patent for their invention) starring Lamarr as an Austrian clandestine who metaphorically uses a flashlight to attract the mate as lightening bugs do.
A story of the mind is a story of what makes us human.
A story informed by the best science of the day and by a humanistic understanding of the contingencies of life and history. What is the role of storytelling in this endeavour? Is there a connection between the emergence of both spoken and written language, and the development of the mind? What sort of cultural instrument is literature? And what cognitive faculties does the use of literature employ, and empower?
On 9 March 2016 we investigated these ideas in a one-day conference entitled Language, Literacy, Literature & the Mind.
Sarah Churchwell
Beyond Symptomatic Reading
Charles Ferneyhough
The Voices in our Heads
Thomas Scott-Philips
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Communication and Languages
Have you ever wondered what happens in your mind when you read or see Shakespeare performed?
What happens in your mind when you read or see Shakespeare performed? How can recent research on the mind illuminate Shakespeare's depictions of it? In what sense may literary and historical ideas contribute to our general understanding of the mind?
In tackling these fundamental questions about literature and the mind and their relation to one another, Dr Miranda Anderson draws on recent cognitive approaches to literature, illustrated with examples from Shakespeare and various other Renaissance works.
Event: Shakespeare & the Mind Seminar
A collection of resources on the subject of memory gathered from across the internet.
Article by Arne Dietrich on creativity and the brain
Guardian science weekly podcast 'What is the Nature of Creativity'
Creativity and the Mind Report (November 2016)
The Human Mind Project teamed up with the brilliant Guerilla Science to create this one-day event on Creativity & the Mind as part of the Being Human festival of the humanities 2016. We were joined by facilitators The People Speak, who invited participants to take part in a series of talks, group discussions and creative challenges, documented by a live artist in a series of illustrations.
THMP Event Report Creativity & the Mind (11-2016)
Is the self a work of fiction?
Is creativity a feature of the product, or the process, or both?
Is art just a matter of taste?
Return to the Activities Homepage
For information contact info@humanmind.ac.uk


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from database.db2 import db2
import time
from .log import logger
import crcmod
import socket
import tornado
import requests
import json
from tornado import gen
from binascii import hexlify
from gevent import Greenlet
from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient

# host, port = "testgeo.bolinparking.com", 12366
host, port = "fsgeo.bolinparking.com", 16801
# host, port = "127.0.0.1", 12345
sockLocal = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
header = {}
# 地磁数据报文 0x20
# 主机状态报文 0x21
header['type'] = b'\x20'
# 4099 地磁不存在 4100 业务处理未完成
header['host_code_machine_id'] = 666
# B 代表市场展示;D 代表销售订单;E 代表测试项目
header['host_code_sale_type'] = b'\x0d'
header['host_code_sale_year'] = b'\x17'
# test project id = 2
header['host_code_project_id'] = 2
reserved_field = 0
heartbeatBody = {}
heartbeatBody['alarm'] = 0
heartbeatBody['voltage'] = 13000
heartbeatBody['reserved'] = 0
dataPositionGlobal = {}

crc16 = crcmod.mkCrcFun(0x18005, rev=True, initCrc=0xFFFF, xorOut=0x0000)

def procHeaderer():
    return header['host_code_machine_id'].to_bytes(4, byteorder='little') + header['host_code_project_id'].to_bytes(4, byteorder='little') + header['host_code_sale_year'] + header['host_code_sale_type'] + int(round(time.time())).to_bytes(8, byteorder='little')

def procSensorHeaderer(sensor):
    return sensor['host_code_machine_id'].to_bytes(4, byteorder='little') + header['host_code_project_id'].to_bytes(4, byteorder='little') + header['host_code_sale_year'] + header['host_code_sale_type'] + int(round(time.time())).to_bytes(8, byteorder='little')

def procHeartbeat():
    tmpHeader = b'\x21' + procHeaderer()
    tmpBody = heartbeatBody['alarm'].to_bytes(1, byteorder='little') + heartbeatBody[
        'voltage'].to_bytes(2, byteorder='little') + heartbeatBody['reserved'].to_bytes(1, byteorder='big')
    crc = crc16(tmpHeader + tmpBody)
    # crc = crc16.crc16xmodem(tmpHeader)
    return tmpHeader + tmpBody + crc.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big')

def procSensor(sensor):
    tmpHeader = b'\x20' + procSensorHeaderer(sensor)
    tmpBody = sensor['position_id'].to_bytes(1, byteorder='little') + sensor['state'].to_bytes(
        4, byteorder='little') + sensor['park_count'].to_bytes(2, byteorder='little') + sensor['voltage'].to_bytes(1, byteorder='little') + reserved_field.to_bytes(7, byteorder='little')
    crc = crc16(tmpHeader + tmpBody)
    return tmpHeader + tmpBody + crc.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big')

def doConnect(host, port):
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    try:
        logger.debug('begin connect to %s : %s', host, port)
        sock.connect((host, port))
    except:
        pass
    return sock

def heartbeat_jingyi():
    # global sockLocal
    # sockLocal = doConnect(host, port)
    # send_data(procSensor())
    while True:
        logger.debug("begin send heartbeat")
        header['host_code_machine_id'] = 667
        thr = Greenlet(send_data, procHeartbeat())
        thr.run()
        time.sleep(3)
        header['host_code_machine_id'] = 666
        thr = Greenlet(send_data, procHeartbeat())
        thr.run()
        # send_data(procHeartbeat())
        time.sleep(300)

def loop_sensor_jingyi():
    # global sockLocal
    # sockLocal = doConnect(host, port)
    # send_data(procSensor())
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
        ctime = time.time()
        try:
            for dev in dataPositionGlobal.keys():
                if dataPositionGlobal[dev]['need_send'] == True and ctime - dataPositionGlobal[dev]['last_receive_time'] > 18:
                    logger.debug("begin send sensor:%s,dev:%s",
                                 dev, dataPositionGlobal[dev]['last_sensor_info']['position_id'])
                    if dataPositionGlobal[dev]['last_send_state'] == 1 and dataPositionGlobal[dev]['last_sensor_info']['state'] == 1:
                        sensor = dataPositionGlobal[
                            dev]['last_sensor_info'].copy()
                        sensor['state'] = 0
                        thr = Greenlet(send_data, procSensor(sensor))
                        thr.run()
                        thr1 = Greenlet(send_data_delay, procSensor(dataPositionGlobal[
                            dev]['last_sensor_info']))
                        thr1.run()
                    else:
                        thr = Greenlet(send_data, procSensor(dataPositionGlobal[
                            dev]['last_sensor_info']))
                        thr.run()
                        # send_data(procSensor(dataPositionGlobal[
                        #     dev]['last_sensor_info']))
                    dataPositionGlobal[dev]['last_send_state'] = dataPositionGlobal[
                        dev]['last_sensor_info']['state']
                    dataPositionGlobal[dev]['need_send'] = False
        except Exception as error:
            error_msg = error
            logger.error(str(error_msg))

def send_data_delay(msg):
    time.sleep(15)
    send_data(msg)

def send_data(msg):
    sockLocal = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    try:
        sockLocal.connect((host, port))
        logger.debug("begin send msg length: %s", len(msg))
        sockLocal.send(msg)
        logger.debug("send msg : %s", hexlify(msg).decode())
        recv = sockLocal.recv(1024)
        logger.debug("recv data :%s", recv)
        logger.debug("recv data :%s", hexlify(recv).decode())
        logger.debug("recv data len :%s", len(recv))
    except socket.error:
        logger.error("socket error,do reconnect ... waiting timeout")
        time.sleep(3)
        sockLocal.connect((host, port))
        sockLocal.send(msg)
        logger.debug("resend msg len: %s", len(msg))
        logger.debug("resend msg: %s", hexlify(msg).decode())
        recv = sockLocal.recv(1024)
        logger.debug("recv data :%s", recv)
        logger.debug("recv data :%s", hexlify(recv).decode())
    finally:
        sockLocal.close()

def proc_position_data(sensor):
    # dev = sensor['dev']
    if sensor['dev'] in dataPositionGlobal.keys():
        if dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['last_sensor_info']['state'] == 0 and sensor['state'] == 1:
            dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['park_count'] = dataPositionGlobal[
                sensor['dev']]['park_count'] + 1
            if dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['park_count'] > 255:
                dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['park_count'] = 0
        if dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['last_sensor_info']['state'] != sensor['state']:
            dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['need_send'] = True
        dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['last_receive_time'] = time.time()
        dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['last_sensor_info'] = sensor
    else:
        newPosition = {}
        newPosition['last_sensor_info'] = sensor
        newPosition['park_count'] = 0
        newPosition['last_receive_time'] = time.time()
        newPosition['need_send'] = True
        newPosition['last_send_state'] = 0
        dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']] = newPosition
    return dataPositionGlobal[sensor['dev']]['park_count']

def proc_message(item):
    # try:
    logger.debug(str(item['data']))
    sensor = {}
    sensor['timestamp'] = int(time.time())
    sensor['dev'] = str(item['data']).split(":")[1]
    logger.debug(sensor['dev'])
    dataFromDev = db2.hgetall(item['data'])
    logger.debug(dataFromDev)
    sensor['dataFrame'] = str(dataFromDev[b'data'])
    logger.debug(sensor['dataFrame'])
    payload = json.dumps(sensor)
    logger.debug(payload)
    response = requests.post("http://120.24.220.180:38670/test/",
                             data=payload, timeout=3)
    # http_client = AsyncHTTPClient()
    # request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(
    #     "http://120.24.220.180:20310/nodeDev/", method='POST', body=payload, headers=headers, request_timeout=10, connect_timeout=3)
    # request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(
    #     "http://www.agsew.com/nodeDev/", method='POST', body=payload,  request_timeout=10, connect_timeout=3)
    # logger.debug('begin test 02')
    # response = yield http_client.fetch(request)
    logger.debug(response)
    logger.debug(response.content)

    # sensor['position_id'] = get_position(sensor['dev'])
    # logger.debug('get position with dev:%s', sensor['position_id'])
    # if sensor['position_id'] > 0:
    #     sensor['position_id']
    #     if sensor['position_id'] >= 101:
    #         sensor['host_code_machine_id'] = 667
    #     else:
    #         sensor['host_code_machine_id'] = 666
    #     dataFromDev = db2.hgetall(item['data'])
    #     logger.debug(str(dataFromDev))

    #     logger.debug('len:%s', len(dataFrame))
    #     firstByte = int(dataFrame[0])
    #     sensor['fcnt'] = dataFromDev[b'fcnt']
    #     frameType = (firstByte & 0b11110000) >> 4
    #     logger.debug('if weichuan frame type:%s', frameType)
    #     if (len(dataFrame) == 11 and frameType == 3) or (len(dataFrame) == 9 and frameType == 2) or (len(dataFrame) == 2 and frameType == 4):
    #         sensor['model'] = 'weichuan'
    #         logger.debug('weichuan sensor')
    #         sensor['state'] = (dataFrame[1] & 0b10000000) >> 7
    #         logger.debug('positionStatus:%s',
    #                      sensor['state'])
    #         voltage = (dataFrame[1] & 0b01111111)
    #         logger.debug('voltage:%s', voltage)
    #         sensor['voltage'] = voltage - 29
    #         sensor['park_count'] = proc_position_data(sensor)
    #         logger.debug('park_count:%s', dataPositionGlobal[
    #             sensor['dev']]['park_count'])
    #         # send_data(procSensor(sensor))
    #         # send_data(procSensor())
    #         if len(dataFrame) > 2:
    #             logger.debug('temperature:%d,%d' %
    #                          (dataFrame[2], dataFrame[3]))
    #     elif firstByte == 171 and len(dataFrame) == 5:
    #         sensor['model'] = 'tuobao'
    #         logger.debug('tuobao sensor')
    #         sensor['state'] = (dataFrame[2] & 0b10000000) >> 7
    #         logger.debug('positionStatus:%s',
    #                      sensor['state'])
    #         voltage = (dataFrame[2] & 0b01111111)
    #         logger.debug('voltage:%s', voltage)
    #         logger.debug('status:%s', dataFrame[1] & 0b00001111)
    #         sensor['voltage'] = int(voltage * 7 / 100)
    #         sensor['park_count'] = proc_position_data(sensor)
    #         logger.debug('park_count:%s', dataPositionGlobal[
    #             sensor['dev']]['park_count'])
    #         # send_data(procSensor(sensor))
    # except Exception as error:
    #     error_msg = error
    #     logger.error(str(error_msg))

@gen.coroutine
def test_post():
    logger.debug('begin test')
    http_client = AsyncHTTPClient()
    logger.debug('begin test 01')
    # request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(
    #     "http://192.168.207.1:48765/test/", method='POST', body='payload', request_timeout=10, connect_timeout=3)
    # logger.debug('begin test 02')
    # response = yield http_client.fetch(request)
    # logger.debug('begin test 03')
    # logger.debug(response.body)
    sensor = {}
    sensor['dev'] = '1000000000000008'
    logger.debug(sensor['dev'])
    sensor['dataFrame'] = '1023'
    logger.debug(sensor['dataFrame'])
    # payload = '"' + json.dumps(sensor) + '"'
    payload = json.dumps(sensor)
    logger.debug(payload)
    # response = requests.post("http://192.168.207.1:48765/test/", data=payload)
    response = requests.post("http://120.24.220.180:38670/test/",
                             data=payload, timeout=3)
    logger.debug(response)
    logger.debug(response.content)

def listen_ammeter_request():
    # sockLocal = doConnect(host, port)
    ps = db2.pubsub()
    ps.subscribe("up_alarm:0000000000000001")
    # ps.subscribe("up_alarm:1020304050607080")
    while True:
        for item in ps.listen():
            # try:
            logger.debug(str(item))
            if item['type'] == 'message':
                logger.debug('prepare enter message')
                proc_message(item)
                # thr = Greenlet(proc_message, item)
                # thr.run()
            # except Exception as error:
            #     error_msg = error
            #     logger.error(str(error_msg))

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What is the PH of Water? The PH of water (parts hydrogen) is a scale of how acidic (low water PH) or alkaline (high water PH) water is. The lower the parts hydrogen (PH) the more acidic the water is. The higher the PH level of the water the more alkaline it is. Each PH type has its purpose or benefits. Acidic water is great for cleaning and dissolving things (you can make water very acidic and cleaning by using the settings on a water ionizer).
Alkaline Water has all the natural minerals to increase your bone density and help prevent muscle cramps. Chronic diseases thrive om an acidic body, so if you make your body alkaline, bacteria, viruses and pathogens can't replicate because the alkalinity breaks their cell walls apart and they dissolve.
Drinking neutral PH water between 6 and 7 on the PH scale keeps your body and cells hydrated at the same level it already is in. It doesn't add or subtract any benefit. Acidic water like Reverse Osmosis water (if it does not have an alkalizer in it) and distilled water are highly acidic. This is because the natural minerals are removed using these types of water filters. They are great for detoxing as it removes deposits in your body that may be harmful. But it can also lead to osteoporosis and is not recommended unless detoxing.
How to Alkalize Water at home. You can make your own highly alkaline drinking water at home. It is a powerful natural medicine that you can use to heal yourself from many chronic conditions and improve your health and appearance radically. There are basically 3 main types of water alaklizers or alkaline water machines; Alkaline Water Ionizers, Alkaline Water Pitchers and Alkaline Water Bottles.
The most economical and easiest to use is good alkaline water pitcher. You can fill up your refillable bottle and use the whole bottle. Alkaline Water Bottles are convenient when you are on the go, but the filter takes up a little space, so I'd rather use an alkaline water pitcher so I can have more alkaline water as I like to keep myself hydrated and feeling as good as I can.
Alkaline Water Ionizers are by far the best because not only do they make the highest PH alkaline water, but they also make your water hexagonal structured (water tension and particle size), has electrolytes (much better than Gatorade, Powerade or any energy or recovery drink) makes it a high ORAC rating antioxidant (no more antioxidant supplements needed) and has superior hydration. A water ionizer can be pricey but it has the power to keep you heather than ever! There is nothing like having your own Ionized Alkaline Water Machine!
You're about to discover the very Best Alkaline Water Pitcher. Although there aren't really many good ones to choose from yet, this one is the one you will want to have and use daily. There are a lot of water filter pitchers like Brita and Pur, the two most common ones that only remove the smell of chlorine not the actual chlorine or any other harmful chemicals, microbials and still leave the water acidic not alkaline. I love the Cerra Alkaline Water Filter Pitcher and how it not only purifies, but structures the water for better absorption and makes it a health alkaline PH level.
Drinking this highly prettified alkaline water helps me perform better at the gym, on the trail or even while creative writing. I have tried many water pitchers, but love that this one is actually alkaline and creates micro clustered, structured water with H2 hydrogen water infusion. It is like a mini alkaline water ionizer without the thousand dollar cost. It exceeds my previous favorite the Zero Water pitcher because of the hydrating quality of the water it produces.
Alkaline water benefits have been known for about a century now, since Dr. Otto Warburg did blood studies showing the difference it makes inside your body. He won a Nobel peace prize for showing how blood alkalinity can prevent and reverse cancer.
You can get an alkaline water machine and make your own healthy alkaline water at home. Alkaline water helps your red blood cells carry oxygen (more energy to your brain and organs) and even prevents chronic diseases like arthritis, heart disease, lung conditions and cancers! There are many fitness benefits too, like being able to perform much better, much longer, without excess muscle burn (lactic acid.) It's all in the Ph of Water.
The Cerra Water Alkaline Water Ionizer Pitcher is totally unique in it combines the functions a water alkaline machine and a water ionizer. It even creates H2 hydrogen, micro-clustered structured water like an alkaline water ionizer does). The alkaline pitcher is great for everyday type use. Get the best you can because you health is your wealth! The Cerra Alkaline Water Pitcher is the best portable alkaline water pitcher you can get!
Alkaline Water Benefits. I'm sure you've either heard people talking about drinking alkaline water for their health or seen alkaline water bottles in your local grocery, convenience or health food store. But what actually is alkaline water and how is it different that regular tap water, bottled water or distilled water? I've been drinking alkaline water now for about 8-10 years and it has helped me stay free from any chronic disease and in optimum health. I love the Benefits of Alkaline Water and how it helps me perform better at the gym, on the trail or even while creative writing.
Does making your own alkaline water require an alkaline water machine or can I just use an alkaline pitcher or alkaline water bottle filter? Is a Water Ionizer an Water Alkalizer or is it more? Is alkaline water really any healthier than acidic water, and if it is then what are the top Alkaline Water Health Benefits and reasons why I should be drinking it. You'll see all the benefits of alkaline water and ionized water and also a basic explanation of different water PH types below.
Alkalized water helps your red blood cells carry oxygen (more energy to your brain and organs) and even prevents chronic diseases like arthritis, heart disease, lung conditions and cancers! There are many fitness benefits too, like being able to perform much better, much longer, without excess muscle burn (lactic acid.) It's all in the Ph of Water.
Alkaline Water Ionizers are by far the best because not only do they make the highest PH alkaline water, but they also make your water hexagonal structured (water tension and particle size), has electrolytes (much better than Gatorade, Powerade or any energy or recovery drink) makes it a high ORAC rating antioxidant (no more antioxidant supplements needed) and has superior hydration. A water ionizer can be pricey but it has the power to keep you heather than ever!
Either of these natural water alkalizers will serve you well and improve your health and performance levels. If you have the resources go with water ionizer. The alkaline pitcher is great for everyday type use. Get the best you can because you health is your wealth!
What is Alkaline Water Good For? Clean and Life Giving Water is our most precious resource in the 21st century. People will be fighting over access to drinking water as our current water tables are being depleted and damaged by excess fracking and oil drilling. Clean Drinking Water is necessary for life, and we can't go without it for more than 3 days before we permanently expire, so you must find a way to have clean drinking water available for you and you and your family.
Alkaline Water is the best form of healthy drinking water you can hydrate your body with. Most chronic diseases and conditions develop when the body becomes acidic. Viruses can easily replicate, Bacteria and Candida thrive in an acidic body. Inflammation, Arthritis, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Gout, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Insomnia are just a few of the many conditions that are caused by your body being acidic.
Drinking Purified Alkaline Water helps reverse those conditions quickly, without side effects too. You can get Alkaline Water from a natural spring, although now days it will be contaminated by all the residues coming from aerial spraying (chemtrails), pesticide runoff, environmental drilling and contamination. You will even want to filter that once pristine water now. An Alkaline Water Ionizer takes normal acidic tap water, highly purifies it, and splits it into acidic water (waste or can be used for good deep cleaning externally) and alkaline water for drinking and cooking.
Alkaline water is not only the most hydrating on the planet (the structure and surface tension of the water molecule allows deeper cellular hydration) that helps fill your body's cellular community. The effects are many and so beneficial to your health and appearance. Alkaline water is a natural antioxidant, and nourishes your cells, skin and organs. It has anti-aging properties as well. They can help you fight off or prevent a boatload of diseases and ward off chronic infections, inflammation and pain.
For athletic individuals, it hydrates much better than any sports drink, and will help your body perform at it's peak level, good for competitions and any physical activity. It will also help you recover from muscle fatigue (lactic ACID buildup), give you greater endurance and help your body recover much quicker. Since healthy drinking water is your body's biggest need, it makes sense to make that the best quality you can get. It is the best thing you can do to improve your health – Get a Healthy Alkaline Water Filter.
Any water filter is better than none. It's always good to have a non-electric version for emergencies when the power may be out and all house water systems that need power will not be working. You can get a natural steam distiller for emergencies. It will guarantee that you'll have safe drinking water in an emergency or any other time. For a complete listing of all water purification methods visit Whole House Water Purification.
Ionized alkaline water or ionic water is different because it goes a step further. It places the healthy minerals back into the water and makes it very alkaline. It structures and micro-clusters the water making it just the right size to be absorbed into our cells and tissues and thoroughly hydrates our body. We know this by how drinking alkaline water quenches our thirst.
Alkalinity refers to the pH or parts hydrogen level of water. The lower the number the more acidic. The higher the number the more alkaline. Each type has its purpose, benefits and drawbacks. Acidic water is great for cleaning and dissolving things (you can make water very acidic and cleaning by using the settings on a water ionizer).
Making the water alkaline is what you want for healthy drinking water. Disease thrives on an acidic environment in your body, so if you make your body alkaline, bacteria, viruses and pathogens can't replicate because the alkalinity breaks their cell walls apart and they dissolve. Alkaline water is also very hydrating, and is best for workouts, recovery and anti-aging.
If you're on a budget, then make sure to take a look at my favorite water filter – The PureEffects water filter. It will not only filter out radiation, heavy metals and pathogens, it will give you alkaline water too!
Zeolite Filter – Home Unit that has natural zeolite in it to remove radiation and heavy metals.
Ionic bottled water is a quick fix but should not be used long-term. The plastic bottles leech plastic into the water, especially if the temperature is warm or your bottle is in direct sunlight.
Ionized water is in it's most perfect state for health and hydration. It's full of healthy minerals and is highly electrically charged and will energize your health and your life. Drinking alkaline water regularly heals many diseases and chronic conditions. It gives you energy and allows your nervous system to work like it should, and even clears up that mental fog that slows us down and makes us tired. It can take your workouts and exercise routines to the highest level.
Don't rely on someone else for your family's health. Get a water ionization unit like the Genesis Platinum Water Ionizer or Tyent's 11 Plate Water Ionizers (Lifetime Warranty). These are the best alkaline water ionizers you can get, higher rated than Kangen and a lot more bang for the buck. These Alkaline Water Machines transform ordinary tap water into healing and rejuvenating, deliciously tasting hydrating water.
These alkaline ionizers completely purify your water of disease causing living pathogens (viruses, bacteria and protozoa), change your water's pH structure from acid to alkaline, and transform your water into a powerful antioxidant. Just ask any inflammatory arthritis or gout sufferer who regularly drinks ionic water. They improve dramatically!
Remember, we are not what we eat and drink but what we actually absorb, so start absorbing the best water you can get and FEEL the energy difference – Mind, Body and Spirit!


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First New Species of Temperate Conifer Tree Discovered in More Than a Decade
It's not every day—or even every decade—that a new species of conifer is found in the world's temperate forests. But late last year, researchers announced a new species of hemlock tree from Korea, proving
18 Spider-Killing Spiders Discovered—And They Look Like Pelicans
This new species of pelican spider, Eriauchenius workmani, is the largest known at about one centimeter long—slightly larger than a grain of rice. There's a spider killer on the loose in the rain forests
Trophy Hunting May Drive Extinctions, Due to Climate Change
Trophy hunters, as well as poachers who "harvest" the big males—antelopes and deer with the largest horns and antlers, elephants with the longest tusks, or lions with the most impressive manes—are putting
Africa's protected areas missing 75 percent of their savanna elephants
As I pushed through thick, towering reeds in the Bangweulu Swamps of northern Zambia, my heart pounded in anticipation of what creature I might find in the clearing beyond. But it was empty. Only a single
A Legal Trade in Ivory Would Wipe Out Elephants, Study Finds
Legalizing the ivory trade could more quickly make elephants extinct, a study released September 15 suggests. It finds that the demand for ivory is far greater than the amount of ivory that can be harvested
Tiny Spider Found Only in Azores Island Lava Tubes Assessed Urgently as 'Critically Endangered'
A tiny subterranean spider (scientifically called Turinyphia cavernicola) — found only in three caves on a single island in the Azores, a mid-North Atlantic archipelago owned by Portugal — has been assessed
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Q: What does CreateMany with seed do? What does the CreateMany overload with the T seed parameter actually do?  I've tried to seed, but the seed seems to have no effect on the created objects.  For example, I was expecting that if my seed had a property of type string, that either:

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As a general rule, AutoFixture does not guarantee how seed values are going to be used during the creation process, if at all. This characteristic stems from the way AutoFixture is designed.
Background
Every time AutoFixture is asked to create an object of a certain Type, the request is routed through a pipeline of objects called "builders". Each builder is responsible for handling a certain kind of request (whether it be a request for a concrete type, an interface, a property, a field etc). If a builder encounters a request it can handle, it's going to return a value for it and the pipeline restarts with the next request.
Given the above, if you want to create an object based on a seed, all AutoFixture can do is make sure that the seed value you provide is embedded in the request that is sent through the pipeline. Then it's up to the builders to decide what to do with that value.
Solution
AutoFixture currently comes with a single builder that takes into account seed values and that's the one for strings.
However, you can tell AutoFixture how it should use seed values when creating objects of any type by customizing a Fixture specifically for that type with the FromSeed method:
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If The Crown's hiatus sent you searching for a new period drama (and you've had your fill of the British royal family, for now), look no further than Mercy Street, a PBS original set in divided Alexandria, Virginia during the Civil War.
Inspired by historic events, the show's second season premieres on Sunday, and continues to follow doctors, nurses, soldiers, spies, and free and enslaved African Americans on both sides of this country's bloodiest conflict. It also promises to step even further outside the series's central hospital, delving into the lives of characters both on the battlefield and those left at home.
"The stakes are higher," says actress Donna Murphy who plays Jane Green, in the exclusive preview below. "Everything is getting pushed further towards the cliff," agrees her on-screen husband, Gary Cole, who plays James Green, Sr. "Because of the war, they behave in ways and are asked to go to levels they wouldn't normally go to, just to survive.
Watch the behind-the-scenes clip here, then tune in to PBS on Sunday, January 22 at 8 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Central for the premiere.
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Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Минако́в (род. 26 мая 1946, ст. Каневская, Краснодарский край, СССР) — советский и российский государственный деятель, учёный-строитель. Председатель Верховного Совета Марийской АССР XII созыва (1991—1994). Председатель Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл III—VI созывов (2000—2019), почётный Председатель Государственного Собрания РМЭ (с 2019 года). Заслуженный строитель Российской Федерации (1996), почётный строитель РФ (1997), заслуженный строитель Марийской АССР (1985). Почётный гражданин Йошкар-Олы (1994). Лауреат Государственной премии Марийской АССР в области строительства (1986) и Государственной премии Республики Марий Эл в области науки и техники (2005). Доктор технических наук (2000), профессор. Действительный член Международной академии инвестиций и экономики строительства, Международной инженерной академии, Европейской академии естественных наук, Российской инженерной академии, Муниципальной академии России, член-корреспондент Российской академии естествознания.

Биография
Родился в семье сельских учителей. В 1968 году окончил Краснодарский политехнический институт по специальности «инженер-строитель».

В 1968 году переехал в Йошкар-Олу — столицу Марийской АССР. Начал работать мастером строительно-монтажного управления № 1 треста «Марпромстрой» Министерства строительства СССР. В 1974—1979 годах — главный инженер и управляющий трестом Марийского ТУС Минстроя СССР, в 1979—1986 годах — главный инженер Марийского ТУС — Главмарийстроя Министерства строительства СССР. В 1994—2000 годах — председатель Ассоциации Республики Марий Эл «Строители».

С 1970 года одновременно работал преподавателем, доцентом, профессором инженерно-строительного факультета МПИ / МарГТУ / ПГТУ.

В 1986 году окончил аспирантуру Московского инженерно-строительного института — МИСИ им. В. В. Куйбышева. Кандидат технических наук (1989). В 1996 году окончил докторантуру Московского государственного строительного университета. Доктор технических наук (2000).

Общественно-политическая деятельность
 Председатель Городского исполнительного комитета Йошкар-Олы XX и XXI созывов (1987—1991).
 Председатель Верховного Совета Марийской АССР XII созыва (1991—1994).
 Председатель Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл III—VI созывов (2000—2019).
 Почётный Председатель Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл (с 2019 года).
 Депутат Заводского районного Совета города Йошкар-Олы (1974—1980), Йошкар-Олинского городского Совета (1980—1993, 2000—2004), Верховного Совета Марийской АССР — Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл (с 1990 года).

Научная деятельность
Сферы научной деятельности — строительство в экстремальных условиях и системное управление.

Доктор технических наук (2000), профессор кафедры «Строительные материалы и технология строительства» Поволжского государственного технологического университета. Почётный профессор Ассоциации строительных вузов России и СНГ, почётный профессор Краснодарского государственного технологического университета.

Действительный член Международной академии инвестиций и экономики строительства, Международной инженерной академии, Европейской академии естественных наук, Российской инженерной академии, Муниципальной академии России, член-корреспондент Российской академии естествознания.

Автор 10 книг и 170 научных работ, 5 изобретений, обладатель 3 патентов.

Под руководством профессора Ю. А. Минакова в Поволжском государственном технологическом университете ведётся подготовка аспирантов по направлению 08.06.01 Строительство по специальности «Технология и организация строительного производства» и магистрантов направления подготовки 08.04.01 по программе «Теория и практика организационно-технологических и экономических решений».

Ю. А. Минаков является автором принципиально новых технических и конструктивно-технологических решений термоактивных опалубочных систем третьего поколения, активатора технологических процессов, управляемого кондуктивного воздействия на бетон, ускоренных способов возведения зданий из монолитного бетона.

Основные научные труды
Далее приведён список основных научных трудов Ю. А. Минакова.

Учебные и учебно-методические пособия
 Минаков, Ю. А. Возведение зданий из монолитного бетона в термоактивной опалубке: Учебное пособие / Ю. А. Минаков, В. А. Сленьков. — Йошкар-Ола: МарГТУ, 2008, 260 с. 15, 1 п. л. [с грифом УМО]
 Минаков, Ю. А. Монолитное строительство в экстремальных условиях. Учебное пособие / Ю. А. Минаков. — Йошкар-Ола: МарГТУ, 2008 [с грифом УМО].
 Строительные работы: Методические указания к выполнению лабораторно-практических работ / Сост. В. А. Сленьков, Ю. А. Минаков, Л. П. Мотовилова, О. В. Кононова. — Йошкар-Ола: МарГТУ, 2011. — 94 с.
 Минаков Ю. А. Монолитное строительство в экстремальных условиях: Учебное пособие. — Йошкар-Ола: Изд-во ИП Мерзляковой, 2014. — 484 с.
 Минаков Ю. А. Сто научных принципов профессионального строителя Учебное пособие. — Йошкар-Ола: Изд-во ИП Мерзляковой, 2014. — 128 с.

Научные статьи
 Минаков Ю. А., Кононова О. В., Анисимов С. Н., Грязина М. В. Управление кинетикой твердения бетона при отрицательных температурах / Фундаментальные исследования. № 4. Ч. 2. 2013. — С. 307—311.
 Минаков Ю. А., Кононова О. В., Анисимов С. Н. Снижение энергопотребления при обогреве бетона в термоактивной опалубке / Приволжский научный журнал. № 2. 2013. — С. 46—52. http://www.pnj.nngasu.ru.
 Минаков Ю. А., Кононова О. В., Черепов В. Д., Грязина М. В., Иванов Н. А. Исследование кинетики твердения бетонов и растворов с противоморозными добавками после воздействия отрицательных температур / Фундаментальные исследования. 2014. № 8 (ч. 6). — С. 1309—1312.
 Минаков Ю. А., Кононова О. В., Анисимов С. Н. и др. Влияние комплекса химических модификаторов и мелкодисперсного наполнителя на раннюю прочность растворной смеси / Современные проблемы науки и образования. 2014. № 6
 Минаков Ю. А., Кононова О. В., Анисимов С. Н. Исследование обогрева бетона стыковых зон каркасных конструкций в термоактивной опалубке / Фундаментальные исследования. 2014. № 8. — С. 1313—1317.
 Минаков Ю. А., Лазарев А. И., Средин А. В. Ускорение решения жилищной проблемы за счёт внедрения обновлённой индустриальной системы строительства / Современные проблемы науки и образования. 2015. № 1. — С. 1—8.

Патенты на изобретения
Список патентов на изобретения Ю. А. Минакова:
 Пат. № 2448930 РФ, МПК С04В 38/08, С04 В 20/02,С04 В 20/12; Керамзитобетон на модифицированном керамзитовом гравии Заявка № 2007126043/03, приор. изобр. — 09.11.2010. Патентообладатель МарГТУ. Опубл. 09.11.2010 (Патент на изобретение).
 Пат. № 2507355 РФ МПК В04G9/10. Термоактивная опалубка с автоматическим программным управлением процесса тепловой обработки бетона Заявка: 2012133062/03, 01.08.2012(24) Приоритет(ы): (22) Дата подачи заявки: 01.08.2012. — (45) Опубликовано: 20.02.2014. — Бюл. № 5 (Патент на полезную модель).

Награды и звания

Награды РАЕ
Далее представлен список наград Российской академии естествознания Ю. А. Минакова:
 Орден Labore et scientia (Трудом и знанием)
 Медаль им. А. Нобеля
 Медаль им. В. Лейбница
 Медаль им. В. И. Вернадского (серебряная)

Российские и региональные
Список российских наград и званий Ю. А. Минакова:
 Заслуженный строитель Российской Федерации (1996)
 Почётный строитель Российской Федерации (1997)
 Заслуженный строитель Марийской АССР (1985)
 Лауреат Государственной премии Марийской АССР в области строительства (1986)
 Лауреат Государственной премии Республики Марий Эл в области науки и техники (2005)
 Почётный гражданин города Йошкар-Олы (1994)
 Орден «Знак Почёта» (1977)
 Орден «За заслуги перед Марий Эл» II степени (2007)
 Орден «За заслуги перед Марий Эл» I степени (2017)
 Серебряная медаль ВДНХ (1983)
 Главная всероссийская премия «Российский Национальный Олимп» — Почётный титул «Председатель Законодательного Собрания года — 2003»
 Общенациональная премия «Россия — 2006» — Почётный титул «Председатель Законодательного Собрания года — 2006»
 Почётный знак Совета Федерации «За заслуги в развитии парламентаризма»
 Почётный знак Государственной Думы «За заслуги в развитии парламентаризма»
 Почётная грамота Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации
 Почётная грамота Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Совет Федерации Федерального собрания Российской Федерации. Структура. Председатель Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл Минаков Юрий Александрович

 Волгатех. Минаков Юрий Александрович
 Idel.Реалии. Человек с кабинетом и правом совещательного голоса

Учёные СССР
Строители СССР
Строители XX века
Деятели промышленности Марий Эл
Председатели Верховного Совета Марийской АССР
Председатели Йошкар-Олинского горисполкома
Преподаватели МарГТУ
Доктора технических наук
Профессора
Заслуженные строители Марийской АССР
Лауреаты Государственной премии Марийской АССР
Лауреаты Государственной премии Республики Марий Эл
Почётные граждане Йошкар-Олы
Депутаты районных (в городах) советов СССР
Председатели Государственного Собрания Республики Марий Эл
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First four days of pink ball test sold out: Sunil Gavaskar
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Nov 22 (ANI): Former India batsman Sunil Gavaskar is elated over the people's response to the historic day-night Test between India and Bangladesh scheduled later in the day at the Eden Gardens here.
The challenge is to play under lights with pink ball, says Daniel
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Nov 20 (ANI): Ahead of the first-ever day/night Test against India, Bangladesh spin bowling coach Daniel Vettori said that it will be a challenge to play under lights with the pink ball.
Don't see pink ball attracting spectators to ground: Harbhajan Sin
New Delhi [India], Nov 20 (ANI): Ahead of India's first-ever day/night Test match against Bangladesh, spinner Harbhajan Singh believes that the new format will not bring many spectators to the ground.
Day/night Test between India-Bangladesh to be a historic occasion,
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Nov 18 (ANI): Abhishek Dalmia, secretary, Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), on Monday said the coming first-ever day and night Test between India and Bangladesh will be a historic occasion for the Eden Gardens.
Pujara can't keep his eyes away from pink ball
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov 17 (ANI): Ahead of India's first day and night Test match, batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is finding it difficult to keep his eyes away from the pink ball.
Umpires should worry about twilight period during day/night Test:
New Delhi [India], Nov 8 (ANI): As India and Bangladesh gear up to face each other in their first-ever day/night Test, veteran umpire K Hariharan on Friday said that the match officials should worry about the twilight period.
Would be interesting to see how pink ball behaves under lights: Sh
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Nov 6 (ANI): Indian batsman Shubman Gill on Wednesday said that it would be interesting to see how pink ball behaves under lights in India's first-ever day/night Test slated to be played later this month.
It took him 3 seconds: Ganguly on time taken to convince Virat for
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said it took captain Virat Kohli three seconds to say yes for Day-Night matches in Test cricket.
Talking about air quality, Madan Lal says situation in Delhi 'real
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Referring to the air quality, former cricketer Madan Lal said that the situation in Delhi is really bad right now and the government should take measures to allow people to breathe clean air.
It will be exciting: Rohit Sharma on day/night Test
New Delhi [India], Oct 31 (ANI): India skipper, for three-match T20I series against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma on Thursday expressed excitement over the first-ever day and night Test.
Big believer of day/night Test matches: Sourav Ganguly
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 25 (ANI): After becoming the 39th president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), former skipper Sourav Ganguly on Friday emphasised the need for playing day/night Test matches to attract audience to the stadiums.
Ian Botham slams 'ridiculous' English day/night Test
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Nov. 1 (ANI): Hitting out at the 'appalling' prospect of a first day/night Test in England, former England all-rounder Ian Botham has said the 'ridiculous' plan has a risk of damaging cricket's flagship format.


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package org.apache.beam.runners.spark.coders;

import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.KryoException;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Serializer;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Input;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Output;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectStreamClass;

/**
 * Stateless Java Serializer.
 *
 *

 * Solves state re-use issue in Kryo version 2.21 used in Spark 1.x
 * See:
 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7708
 * https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryo/issues/312
 *

 *
 *

 * Also, solves class loading issue in cluster caused by ${@link ObjectInputStream}
 * by using ${@link ObjectInputStreamWithClassLoader}
 * ${@link ObjectInputStream} uses the last user-defined class loader in the stack which can be the
 * wrong class loader.
 * This is a known Java issue and a similar solution is often used.
 * See:
 * https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v1.6.3/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/Checkpoint.scala#L154
 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-1627
 * https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-loaded/issues/107
 *

 */
class StatelessJavaSerializer extends Serializer {
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public void write(Kryo kryo, Output output, Object object) {
    try {
      ObjectOutputStream objectStream = new ObjectOutputStream(output);
      objectStream.writeObject(object);
      objectStream.flush();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new KryoException("Error during Java serialization.", e);
    }
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public Object read (Kryo kryo, Input input, Class type) {
    try {
      return new ObjectInputStreamWithClassLoader(input, kryo.getClassLoader()).readObject();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new KryoException("Error during Java deserialization.", e);
    }
  }

  /**
   * ObjectInputStream with specific ClassLoader.
   */
  private static class ObjectInputStreamWithClassLoader extends ObjectInputStream {
    private final ClassLoader classLoader;

    ObjectInputStreamWithClassLoader(InputStream in, ClassLoader classLoader) throws IOException {
      super(in);
      this.classLoader = classLoader;
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<?> resolveClass(ObjectStreamClass desc) {
      try {
        return Class.forName(desc.getName(), false, classLoader);
      } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Could not find class: " + desc.getName(), e);
      }
    }
  }
}


Saturday, May 03, 2014 by: Dr. Lindsay Chimileski, MSAc., ND.
(NaturalNews) As acupuncture grows in popularity, more and more Americans have questions about the Traditional Chinese Medical system and just what to expect at a typical visit. Even after a visit, patients may leave with more questions than when they came in and confusion or worry about what their acupuncturist is assessing with their different and somewhat peculiar intake and evaluation.
Most visits will start with focused assessment of the individual's chief complaint, which is to be expected at any medical visit. From there on, things begin to take a different turn. The acupuncturist will then go through their own version of the traditional "10 Question" review of systems and health evaluation. This covers all aspects of your health. It addresses physical concerns like pains, sleep, energy, digestion, heart and lung function etc., but also looks at constitutional aspects of your health. This can includes qualities like your body temperature, mood, emotions, strengths and weaknesses within your system.
Perhaps the oddest part of the visit for most patients is when the practitioner kindly asks them to stick out their tongue. Why does the acupuncturist do this? The tongue is an immensely useful tool for evaluating health, confirming the TCM diagnosis and monitoring treatments. It gives them a window to view what is going on inside the body and can directly reflect the health of the gut and GI system. Furthermore, differences in shape, color, size, geography and coating are all connected to different disharmonies within the body. If you don't believe this, begin to monitor to your tongue at home and you will be amazed at the various changes it can undergo, especially when you are coming down with something or not feeling your best.
Another attention drawing aspect of the visit is the unique form of pulse taking that is very different and often longer than at the conventional doctor's office. Some TCM practitioners will take up to several minutes thoroughly palpating the pulse in the three positions on both wrists. Patients often get anxious and joke "Am I dead? Can you not find the pulse?" In TCM, much more than the rate is evaluated. The strength, vessel tension, depth, length, character and beat pattern are all important indicators and linked to different aspects of health, organs and areas of the body.
"Does it hurt?" Most of the time, no. There may be a small pinch or a zing when the needle breaks the skin and enters the body but it should not last more than a few seconds. The needles should not cause any strong lasting, burning, sharp and or stabbing pains. Some needles may develop a dull ache around them. This is sensation known as "de-qi" and is generally a good thing. It is sign of qi (or loosely translated, energy) moving at the point. All treatments are tailored to the individual, their condition, constitutional strength and pain tolerance.
"Where do they put the needles?" Again, the point selection is unique to the individual and the manifestation of their condition. The needles can be placed almost anywhere but are most often put at specific locations along the wrists and ankles, head, ears, back and abdomen. Licensed practitioners are trained in the proper depth and angle of insertion for each of the 359 standard acupuncture points in the body, as well as various other needling systems on the ears, scalp, abdomen, hands and feet. These points have been discovered, defined and safely used for centuries.
Intrigued? Schedule an appointment with your local licensed acupuncturists today!
Ni, Maoshing. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine. Shambhala Productions. 1995.
Beinfield, Harriet; Korngold, Erfem. Between Heaven and Earth. Random House. 1991.
Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications. England. 2001.
Lindsay Chimileski: Dr. Lindsay is a Naturopathic Physician and Acupuncture specialist. After receiving her Bachelors in Human Development and Family Studies from University of Connecticut, she proceeded to receive her Doctorate from University of Bridgeport's College of Naturopathic Medicine and Masters of Acupuncture from University of Bridgeport's Acupuncture Institute.
I have a passion for health education, patient empowerment and the restoration of balance- both on the individual and communal level. I believe all can learn how to live happily, in harmony with nature and in ways that support the body's innate ability to heal itself.
Please note: I am not giving any medical advice, just spreading the word and love of natural living, and the pressing health revolution. Always contact your doctor before starting or changing your health regimen.


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Its scale is hard to grasp even after a stroll through the construction site. Brookfield Properties' $250 million reinvention of the office complex's public spaces doesn't simply replace the stores and restaurants that previously occupied the corridors and courtyards adjoining the Winter Garden.


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Q: Why does text keyboard show on Android's TimePicker's onScroll? When using a TimePicker set to spinner mode, if I click on a number (minutes or hours), the number keyboard shows up.

But whenever I scroll any of the spinners, the keyboard changes to the text inputType.

How can I avoid this?
I've tried calling timePicker.setAddStatesFromChildren(true) and setting an OnTimeChangedListener, but that won't work, for if I scroll just enough for the spinner to move but not for the time to change, the listener is not triggered but the keyboard changes to text inputType anyway.
Also, timePicker.setDescendantFocusability(NumberPicker.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS) is not what I'm looking for, for I still want the keyboard to show up, but only that it won't change its inputType to text.

A: In the end, I couldn't find which view was making the keyboard appear. I tried removing the next focus from every view inside the TimePicker, but nothing. Then, I thought the problem was that, since I was using a 24-hour format spinner, the view to blame was the hidden AM/PM CustomTextView inside the TimePicker. I made it non-focusable, but still the same issue. So I concluded that the problem was somewhere in the implementation of the TimePicker itself, who manages some event and displays the keyboard.
So I decided to iterate over the NumberPickers inside TimePicker —which are three— and set an OnScrollListener on them that hides the keyboard. But still, I get to see the text keyboard appearing before being dismissed. But that's the best I've managed to do.
public static <T extends View> List<T> getViewsByClassNameFromView(ViewGroup viewGroup, Class<T> clazz) {

    final List<T> matches = new LinkedList<>();

    final int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();

    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
        final View child = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
        if (clazz.isInstance(child)) {
            matches.add((T) child);
        } else if (child instanceof ViewGroup) {
            matches.addAll(getViewsByClassNameFromView((ViewGroup) child, clazz));
        }
    }

    return matches;
}

public void hideSoftKeyboard(View view) {
    InputMethodManager imm =
            (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getApplicationContext()
                    .getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    view.clearFocus();
}

private void fixTimePicker() {
    final List<NumberPicker> numberPickers = ViewUtil.getViewsByClassNameFromView(timePicker, NumberPicker.class);
    for (final NumberPicker numberPicker: numberPickers) {
        numberPicker.setOnScrollListener(new NumberPicker.OnScrollListener() {
            @Override
            public void onScrollStateChange(NumberPicker view, int scrollState) {
                hideSoftKeyboard(view);
            }
        });
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How-To Geek Is Hiring a Full-Time News Editor and Writer
Chris Hoffman
Chris Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for over a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read nearly one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek. Read more...
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We are currently hiring a full-time news editor and writer to stay on top of the latest technology news that matters and share it with our readers, in How-To Geek style of course. Want to throw your hat in the ring? Then read on and find out more!
News Editor and Writer—Full Time, Remote
Are you an experienced writer who would be comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote environment, staying on top of the latest technology news, and writing it up for our readers? This might be the job for you!
(Note: This job is a permanently remote, work-from-home position.)
In short, How-To Geek is looking for a solid technology writer. You should have experience spotting and covering relevant, timely topics. You should also be broadly familiar with Microsoft Windows and other popular consumer technology platforms.
How-To Geek is a service journalism website. You will be covering "news you can use" and topics that will be relevant to our readers rather than industry news about venture capital investments and IPOs. Also, we're not just looking for someone to rewrite tech news or press releases from other sites.
What You'd Be Doing
Staying on top of the latest interesting developments in consumer technology, particularly before other websites cover them. Finding the things we need to cover for our audience. (Again: Microsoft Windows is a particularly huge topic for us! However, our coverage is and will be broad.)
Writing the news yourself, ensuring we have timely coverage of everything we need to cover, with a focus on the angles that make sense for our audience and readership.
Working with staff and potentially freelance writers to get timely topics written up and published quickly, when necessary. You would be editing and publishing their work to ensure it's a piece we can be proud of.
Communicating with the Editor-in-Chief to ensure your coverage fits the website's readership.
Demonstrable experience writing technology news and a strong interest in staying on top of the latest developments
Solid knowledge of Microsoft Windows in particular, but also other major operating systems (desktop and mobile) and applications, as well as a solid grasp of general technology
Ability to dive into new technology subjects and learn them quickly
Experience writing (and perhaps editing) technology articles
Detail-oriented and deadline-focused, with a get-things-done attitude
Strong attention to detail with emphasis on accuracy and quality
Ability to prioritize work to balance multiple projects and deadlines
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
Experience working in WordPress preferable
Basic working knowledge of SEO principles is a plus
401(k): Employer match up to 4%; eligible after 3 months of full-time employment.
Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision cost-sharing insurance plan.
Paid holidays: We offer the following paid holidays: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day.
Non-Cashable PTO (Vacation and Sick Days): The Company offers 120 hours of non-cashable PTO for combined paid vacation and sick pay annually. Employee is permitted to only carry over 80 hours of Non-Cashable PTO each calendar year.
Remote Work. You will be working from home and should have your own computer with reliable Internet access.
Must be legally allowed to work in the US, based in the US, and available to work normal East Coast (EST) business hours.
We will offer a competitive salary based on your experience.
If you'd like to apply for this job, head over to our job posting on Indeed and hit the big blue "Apply Now" button.
Chris Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for over a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read nearly one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek.


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P90x Ab Ripper X | with Video | Better Results in 2019?
Most of us are very well-versed with Tony Horton's P90X by now – that's because, it's known as one of the best workout programs on the planet.
Since it first hit the market way back in 2003, it has produced amazing results for thousands of loyal followers.
One of the most well-known benefits of the program is the chiseled abs it helps create for many of the people who follow the plan for the full 90 Days.
While it's a tough program to stick with, the results truly are amazing for those who have the determination to change their bodies.
PROVEN CORE WORKS: This workout program Tony designed for the Ab Ripper X program have been proven to shred your core fast…stick with it, and you will see results!
FAST & FUN: Anyone who has done a Tony Horton workout, knows that he makes things fun! Most P90X workouts take more than an hour, but with Tony leading the way, it's over before you know it!
THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: Wondering if this stuff works? Beachbody has hundreds, if not thousands, of before and after pictures that show the amazing results P90X has helped people achieve.
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Like pretty much all Beachbody workouts, P90X is much more than just DVDs, though. When you sign up you get a meal planning guide and diet system to help amplify your results, plus some great bonus workouts.
When you order the full P90X program, you will notice that it comes with 12 workout DVDs. One thing you need to know right out of the gates, is that P90X is no joke!
I ordered the program back in 2007, and I still remember trying it for the first time, even though it has been almost 10 years.
It's tough! BUT, if you stick with it, stay committed, and follow the plan, you WILL SEE RESULTS! That, said you're going to earn it.
Each DVD features a different workout and includes things like Yoga, Chest & Back, Plyometrics, and of course, abs – the reason we're all here.
Ab Ripper X is the 12th workout in the series, and it's easily one of my favorites.
It features a unique combo of movements, that are designed to increase your abdominal strength, while also hitting your overall core as well.
It's that killer combo that gives you that coveted v-shape, and helps your abs pop, so you can proudly display that 6-pack you've earned after completing the full program.
Sounds intense, right!? It is, but if you stick with it, you should absolutely see results, and that's what we're all here for, right? Don't worry, either, there are rest periods between each set, so you're not having to go full steam for the entire workout.
In total there are eleven ab and core exercise moves, each having at least 25 repetitions. That means you will be cranking out close to 350 moves, so be ready to sweat!
Beachbody is currently offering the entire program for less than $60, and that includes everything – all 12 DVDs, their diet plan and meal guide, and some great bonuses, including some extra workout DVDs.
If you're really just wanting to try the Ab Ripper program, then the next best option is going with Beachbody's new ON DEMAND service.
With their app you can literally stream any workout they've ever released, and it works with services like Roku, Chromecast, and the Amazon Fire Stick.
That means you can try all of the P90X programs, a few, or even just one, like the Ab workout.
Ab Ripper X from P90X is one of the best workouts on the planet for getting that shredded six-pack you've been working so hard to get.


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The Certificate in Global Service and Peace Corps Preparation creates a portfolio of knowledge and skills essential for careers in international development, government, the Foreign Service, NGOs, and the academic world. Additionally, the certificate prepares students to be competitive applicants to the Peace Corps.
The certificate requires at least 25 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
Global Competence. One (1) course from the Global Competence list.
Regional Expertise. One (1) course from the Regional Expertise list.
Advanced Global Competence. One (1) course from the Advanced Global Competence list.
Internship. One (1) course from the Internship list.
Two (2) courses related to the certificate's goals and Peace Corps Work Sectors from any academic unit, selected from a suggested list of courses in consultation with the certificate coordinator.
At least one (1) of the above elective courses must be at the 300–499 level.
One (1) of the courses used to fulfill requirements 1–7 above must be officially designated a Service Learning course or be an approved experiential-learning course as determined by the certificate coordinator.