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May Sinclair
Novelist, Poet
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–1967), in The Egoist, April 1918.
Sinclair was born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Her mother, Amelia Sinclair, was strict and religious; her father, William Sinclair, was a Liverpool shipowner, who went bankrupt, became an alcoholic, and died when Sinclair was still a child. The family moved to Ilford on the edge of London. After one year of education at Cheltenham Ladies College, Sinclair was obliged to look after her brothers, as four of the five, all older than her, were suffering from a fatal congenital heart disease.
From 1896 Sinclair wrote professionally to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901. An active feminist, Sinclair treated a number of themes relating to the position of women and marriage. Her works sold well in the United States.
Around 1913, she was a founding supporter of the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London which was run by Dr Jessie Murray. Sinclair became interested in psychoanalytic thought, and introduced matter related to Sigmund Freud's teaching in her novels. In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps, a charitable organization (which included Lady Dorothie Feilding, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm) that aided wounded Belgian soldiers on the Western Front in Flanders. She was sent home after only a few weeks at the front; she wrote about the experience in both prose and poetry.
Her 1913 novel The Combined Maze, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by critics, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time.
She wrote early criticism on Imagism and the poet H. D. (1915 in The Egoist); she was on social terms with H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound at the time. She also reviewed in a positive light the poetry of T. S. Eliot (1917 in the Little Review) and the fiction of Dorothy Richardson (1918 in The Egoist). Some aspects of Sinclair's subsequent novels have been traced as influenced by modernist techniques, particularly in the autobiographical Mary Olivier: A Life (1919). She was included in the 1925 Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers.
Sinclair wrote two volumes of supernatural fiction, Uncanny Stories (1923) and The Intercessor and Other Stories (1931). E. F. Bleiler called Sinclair "an underrated writer" and described Uncanny Stories as "excellent". Gary Crawford has stated Sinclair's contribution to the supernatural fiction genre, "small as it is, is notable". Jacques Barzun included Sinclair among a list of supernatural fiction writers that "one should make a point of seeking out".Brian Stableford has stated that Sinclair's "supernatural tales are written with uncommon delicacy and precision, and they are among the most effective examples of their fugitive kind." Andrew Smith has described Uncanny Stories as "an important contribution to the ghost story".
Sinclair also wrote non-fiction based on studies of philosophy, particularly idealism. She defended a form of idealistic monism in her book A Defence of Idealism (1917).Sinclair was interested in parapsychology and spiritualism, she was a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1914.
From the late 1920s she was suffering from the early signs of Parkinson's disease, and ceased writing. She settled with a companion in Buckinghamshire in 1932.
She is buried at St John-at-Hampstead's churchyard, London.
Books by May Sinclair
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium
Memoir War
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Mun...
A Defence of Idealism
Philosophy Non-Fiction
"On the whole, then, the argument from desire and design holds good. It is the weak and inefficient, the unwise in the affairs of life, the bunglers a...
The Romantic
The Romantic feels modern; in it, our protagonist, Charlotte Redhead, has a sexual affair with her boss. In a way, this affair gives her a sense of po...
The New Idealism
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an ou...
Audrey Craven
In May Sinclair's remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undeserved repu...
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her ag...


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While there's much to marvel at in this show; the technology adopted, the minimalistic presentation, and the way the fiercely performative aspect comes across, even without the artist present, this won't be a show for everyone.
Those looking for more traditional artistic media might struggle with the fact that the imagery in show was originally drawn from a series of word based searches.
They might find issue with the noise or the unpredictable nature of the project, especially because throughout the Biennale, Fusinato, will randomly perform with an electric guitar at some point each day.
Overall, DESASTRES seems designed to be an encounter where the sound and images are discordant, and where visitors will be invited to interpret them, but only above the din, confusion and the fuss that the noise and performances are essentially designed to provoke.
The images used in DESASTRES draw from an archive that Fusinato has collected and curated for years, sometimes representing perilous or violent moments in the world's recent history, sometimes not.
They are displayed across a huge LED screen and, were all black and white, at least for the time I spent in the pavilion.
Fusinato, a long practicising multimedia artist based in Australia, has a connection to the Veneto region (his parents were born there) and has partnered with curator Alexie Glass-Kantor for this the show.
Readers in Melbourne (and Australia) might already be familiar with Fusinato and, with Glass-Kantor, who has her own ongoing connection to experimental art; before moving to Sydney, she was a curator at Gertrude Street Gallery, an artist run initiative which was considered one of the pre-eminent spaces for contemporary and experimental art in Australia.
The combination of sound and imagery here is pretty hypnotising.
Tip: upon entering, ask the staff whether Marco has already performed for the day.
Artist: Marco Fusinato
Curator; Alexie Glass-Kantor
Australia's Venice Biennale 2022 page is here.

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Q: How can dynamic css selectors be used with Beautiful Soup? Following code scrapes data from specific selectors for the sites in siteUrlArray. It works fine.
However this requires me to write one function for each website - just to define the selectors. I try to dynamically build the
soup.find and soup.select using exec and a dict to hold selector variables - but I can't get it to work.
Working Code
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import sys
import tldextract

def processmarketbeat(soup):
    try:
        mbtSel = soup.findAll("div", {"id": "cphPrimaryContent_tabAnalystRatings"})[0].find("table")
        print(mbtSel)
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

def processwsj(soup):
    try:
        wsjSel = soup.select('.at8-col4 > .zonedModule')[0]
        print(wsjSel)
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

global siteUrl, domain, header, parser
header = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0',}
parser = 'html.parser'

siteUrlArray = ['http://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/GOOGL/price-target',
                'http://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/GOOGL/research-ratings',
                'http://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/SQ/price-target',
                'http://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/SQ/research-ratings']

for i in range(len(siteUrlArray)):
    siteUrl = siteUrlArray[i]
    parsedUrl = tldextract.extract(siteUrl)
    domain = parsedUrl.domain

    r = requests.get(siteUrl, headers=header, verify=False)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, parser)
    getattr(sys.modules[__name__], "process%s" % domain)(soup)

Attempt at using dynamic selector
stockDict = {
    'marketbeat': '"""x = soup.findAll("div", {"id": "cphPrimaryContent_tabAnalystRatings"})[0].find("table")"""',
    'wsj': '"""x = soup.select(".at8-col4 > .zonedModule")[0]"""'
}

header = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0',}
parser = 'html.parser'

siteUrlArray = ['http://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/GOOGL/price-target',
                'http://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/GOOGL/research-ratings',
                'http://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/SQ/price-target',
                'http://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/SQ/research-ratings']

for i in range(len(siteUrlArray)):
    siteUrl = siteUrlArray[i]
    parsedUrl = tldextract.extract(siteUrl)
    domain = parsedUrl.domain

    r = requests.get(siteUrl, headers=header, verify=False)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, parser)

    selector = stockDict.get(domain)
    exec(selector)
    # I want the EXEC to run the equivalent of
    # x = soup.findAll("div", {"id": "cphPrimaryContent_tabAnalystRatings"})[0].find("table")
    # so that I can print the tags as print(x)
    print(x)

But the x is printing as None instead of HTML code of the selected objects.

A: I was able to achieve what I intended to do with the following code:
selectorDict = {
    'marketbeat': 'x = soup.findAll("div", {"id": "cphPrimaryContent_tabAnalystRatings"})[0].find("table")\nprint(x)',
    'wsj': 'x = soup.select(".at8-col4 > .zonedModule")[0]\nprint(x)'
}

for i in range(len(siteUrlArray)):
    siteUrl = siteUrlArray[i]
    print(siteUrl)
    parsedUrl = tldextract.extract(siteUrl)
    domain = parsedUrl.domain

    r = requests.get(siteUrl, headers=header, verify=False)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, parser)

    selector = selectorDict.get(domain)
    try:
        exec(selector)
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

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Decomposition is a phenomenon common in the sciences of biology and chemistry.
In biology, decomposition refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living organism into simpler forms of matter.
In extremely dry or cold conditions the normal process of decomposition is halted, by either lack of moisture or temperature controls on bacterial and enzymatic action, causing the body to be preserved as a mummy.
The process of decomposition -- the breakdown of raw organic materials to a finished compost -- is a gradual complex process, one in which both chemical and biological processes must occur in order for organic matter to change into compost.
Anaerobic decomposition takes place in nature, as in the decomposition of the organic muds at the bottom of marshes and in buried organic materials to which oxygen does not have access.
Considerable cellulose and lignin decomposition by actinomycetes and fungi can occur near the end of the composting period when the temperatures have begun to drop and the environment in a larger part of the pile is satisfactory for their growth.
Decomposition is the natural process of dead animal or plant tissue being rotted or broken down.
During the process of decomposition, the decomposers provide food for themselves by extracting chemicals from the dead bodies or organic wastes; using these to produce energy.
Decomposition reduces these leaves first into a compost and then into nutrients which return to the soil and enable new plant growth to take place.
The term decomposition is also found in chemistry: chemical decomposition.
For prime decomposition of integers, see fundamental theorem of arithmetic (for the mathematics), integer factorization (for applications), or prime factorization algorithm (for an algorithm).
In computer science, decomposition, otherwise known as factoring, refers to the process of breaking a complex problem down into easily-understood and achievable parts.
A symmetric and positive definite matrix can be efficiently decomposed into a lower and upper triangular matrix.
This is version 10 of Cholesky decomposition, born on 2002-01-05, modified 2006-01-20.
Decomposition rate constants were measured using the mass loss of the heated samples.
We propose a decomposition mechanism and suggest that decomposition and dehydroxylation occur simultaneously.
We experimentally determined that the greater stability of F-bearing tremolite, suggested by thermodynamics, is reflected in its decomposition kinetics.
The most obvious example of this form of decomposition is with respect to the three stages of typical program execution, namely, input, processing, and result output.
We illustrate the general functional decomposition paradigm by considering the hypothetical simulation of an aircraft consisting of multiple interrelated and interacting, functionally decomposed subalgorithms.
Parallelism is achieved in two respects-by the concurrent and independent execution of modules as in functions 2 through 6, and by the simultaneous, pipelined, execution of modules in a dependency chain, as, for example, in functions 1, 6, 8, and 9 .
If you use 4 as the parameter, points ending up in each quadrant are given their own color; if 2 (binary decomposition), points in alternating quadrants are given 2 alternating colors.
Remember, for the M-set all points whose final values exceed 2 (by any amount) after, say, 80 iterations are normally the same color; under decomposition, Fractint runs [bailout-value] iterations and then colors according to where the actual final value falls on the complex plane.
When using decomposition, a higher bailout value will give a more accurate plot, at some expense in speed.
An additional problem for 2d domain decomposition which is not indicated in Figure 12.1c is that the equations are not symmetric with respect to latitude and longitude.
Whether 1d or 2d decomposition is better depends on the the latency involved in issuing a communication call versus the time taken to transfer the data.
A 2d domain decomposition would in principle more easily allow computation over land to be skipped by not assigning processors to areas containing all land cells.
Nature's recyclers are tiny bacteria and fungi, which break down plant and animal waste, making nutrients available for other living things in the process.
Decomposition involves a whole community of large and small organisms that serve as food for each other, clean up each other's debris, control each other's populations and convert materials to forms that others can use.
The bacteria and fungi that initiate the recycling process, for example, become food for other microbes, earthworms, snails, slugs, flies, beetles and mites, all of which in turn feed larger insects and birds.
If you mean reactions in which gas is given off, as frequently happens in the detonation of explosives, there is no intrinsic reason for the reaction to absorb heat from the surroundings.
Decomposition of NO to N2 and O2 is exothermic (-90.25kJ/mole) N2O4 is too (-9.16 kJ/mole) as is N2O (-82.05 kJ/mole).
There is one kind of decomposition reaction which is always endothermic; the decomposition of a gas-phase diatomic molecule (or for that matter a polyatomic molecule) into gas-phase atoms.
Over time, without decomposition, so much nitrogen would be locked up in leaves and other tissues that there would not be enough nitrogen available for the plant to make new leaves, stems and wood.
Finally, at the end of the processes of decomposition, they have become fine fl particles of soil organic matter, and their original shape no longer exists.
The speed at which the decomposition occurs, called the "rate of decomposition", depends on the temperature, moisture and chemical composition of the organic matter.
Litter bag experiments of Byren and Davies (1986) in another South African wetland showed how important shredding and grazing invertebrates were for increasing surface area for microbial colonization and attack of sago.
They estimated complete decomposition in 145 days; listed the animals that dominated the litter bag fauna; graphed the changes in ash, N, and P content of the plant material; and provided micrographs showing changes in microorganisms with time.
Decomposition caused by microbes probably is hastened by cuticular damage from periphyton (Howard-Williams et al.
In the test cells, decomposition rates were measured using a standard method known as cotton strip assay.
The frames were inserted into the soil to a depth of 15 cm for one week exposing about half of the strip to the sediment and half to the overlying water column.
Preliminary results suggest that decomposition rates increased as phosphorus loads increased, where as at lower nutrient loads, decomposition rates were not affected.
To illustrate the process of decomposition, we use the piglet as the model corpse.
A 40 kg pig resembles a human body in its fat distribution, cover of hair and ability to attract insects.
New substances may be formed, some or all of which are explosive, flammable or toxic.
Decomposition may result in the release of a large amount of heat, possibly resulting in a fire or explosion.
The domain decomposition is a key operation in the development of parallel codes.
I have assumed that domain decomposition will mainly be in 2 horizontal dimensions, which will in general be the two fastest-varying indices.
There is a separate implementation of 1D decomposition on the fastest-varying index, and 1D decomposition on the second index, treated as a special case of 2D decomposition, is also possible.
The CC requires that the TSF be decomposed into subsystems and modules; a trivial decomposition is one in which the number of subsystems and modules are relatively few in number compared with the size of the system (for example, two: kernel and non-kernel).
Although judging the "goodness" (or usefulness) of a decomposition is subjective, it is relatively easy to identify grossly trivial decompositions.
Thus, the suggestion is to require that, at each level of decomposition (HLD and LLD), there shall be interfaces exposed and documented that are not present at previous levels (FSP for HLD; HLD for LLD) of decomposition.
On decomposition, the matrix A is replaced by both L and U. The new changed row index is returned in the valarray ri for performing the back substitution later.
After successful decomposition, the original matrix A is replaced by the orthogonal matrix Q, and the upper triangular matrix R is returned in r.
LU decomposition is used to find the solutions of linear systems.
Notice that this is a square matrix and is not yet augmented with the vector of constants from the equations.
There is an adjustment that can be made in order to accomplish an LU decomposition is a row interchange is necessary though we will not discuss it here.
The first reaction we worked with in this lesson was the decomposition of water to form hydrogen and oxygen.
When you look at the chemical formulas in an equation and see that a compound is being taken apart, you are looking at a decomposition reaction.
Still, this compound is being taken apart and this is a decomposition reaction.
Barro Colorado Island, Panama--Insect feces and leaf litter in the rainforest may provide important clues to better understanding global climate change, according to a group of scientists conducting research in the Panamanian rainforest on a JASON Project expedition.
Participating schools around the world play an active role in the research through experiments they will be conducting in their local communities.
Students compare the rate of decomposition in their areas to that of the expedition site by placing bananas outside their classroom.
It also deals with the fact that the different expressions of decomposition today are an important obstacle to the development of working class consciousness.
We can see this today, in the way that the bourgeoisie, especially in the US but in other countries as well, is using the emotion and the fear provoked by the attacks in New York to muzzle the working class in the name of "national unity".
This is always the case in a decomposition reaction.
Figuring out what the products are in decomposition is harder (maybe you'll think it's easier!!) because you will have to recognize several categories of decomposition reactions.
We based the method of quantifying the rate for NaTPB decomposition, within the first 8 hours, on a linear interpolation of the comparative amounts of 3PB and 2PB generated in each of the batch experiments.
We did not base the determination of the decomposition and generation rates in Table 5 only on the first eight hours of reaction.
NaTPB decomposition occurred for all reduced palladium on alumina catalyst concentrations evaluated (2.6, 7.8 and 26 mg/L).
Domain decomposition is achieved by distributing the computational domain of a problem across nodes.
Functional decomposition is achieved by having nodes execute different portions of the same code simultaneously.
The final method is the master-slave model which is achieved by having one node, or the system host, assign work to the rest of the nodes used by the application.
A decomposition that is not lossy-join is called a lossless-join decomposition.
In order to have a lossless-join decomposition, we need to impose some constraints on the set of possible relations.
In other words, a lossless-join decomposition is one in which, for any legal relation r, if we decompose r and then ``recompose'' r, we get what we started with - no more and no less.
Proposition 6.4.1 (on the reduced singular value decomposition of a matrix).
in the form (12) is called the polar decomposition.
Human and personal reactions to death are explored elsewhere on the Death: the last taboo website.
Content for the Decomposition website was authored by Richard Major, Australian Museum Research Scientist.
This ensures that we can never get the situation where spurious tuples are generated, as for any value on the join attributes there will be a unique tuple in one of the relations.


The pneumatic AS-Interface module AirBox 1 has 2 digital inputs and 2 pneumatical outputs. The input sockets can be wired up with sensors (PNP, via M12 plugs) in 2- or 3-wire connection. The sensors are supplied with energy from the pneumatic module. The outputs and the compressed air supply are connected to the module via a 8 mm plug-in tube connector. Use outside diameter tubing only.


Meeting called to order by Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch.
Georgia Blair moved the approval of the agenda with an amendment of a presentation. Dora Sims seconded the motion, which passed.
The Pratt City building construction is progressing but has been hampered some by the rain.
Creig Hoskins Architecture final drawings for the Inglenook renovations should be submitted to the City this week. The project will go out for bid at the end of March.
The North Birmingham Library has had recurring air conditioning problems. There are some existing mechanical parts that are not working properly and public works is making the repairs.
There are ground settlement problems at the North Avondale and Titusville Libraries which has caused cracks in the walls and floors. The City will look to an engineering firm to evaluate and recommend solutions.
Schindler Elevators has submitted a proposal to replace the six escalators at the Central Library. The cost will be $65,000 each.
Georgia Blair presented a copy of the summons that she received when serving as a child Foot Soldier for the Civil Rights Movement. The copy of the summons was presented to Jim Baggett and will be stored in the Archives Department of the Birmingham Public Library.
The Library Board went into executive session.
Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch recommended that the Library Board receive Board Committee minutes from meetings in advance of the regular Board meeting.
Judge Vowell moved that the Library Board's consideration concerning vehicles be tabled until the March Board meeting. Nell Allen seconded the motion, which passed.
Georgia Blair presented a replica of the Birmingham Public Library building that she received when she came off the Library Board in 2007.
Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch asked administration to look into receiving an efficiency audit (free of charge) from Alabama Power.
For the Office of President- Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch nominated Gwendolyn Amamoo and Nell Allen nominated Samuel Rumore. Gwendolyn Amamoo won the Office of President, receiving six votes and Samuel Rumore received three votes.
For the Office of Vice-President- Dora Sims nominated Georgia Blair and Nell Allen nominated Samuel Rumore. Georgia Blair won the Office of Vice-President, receiving six votes and Samuel Rumore received three votes.
Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch submitted her ALA Midwinter report. Mrs. Welch attends classes at the Jefferson County Personnel Board in order to earn points for teaching recertification. She also asked that Administration distribute information on the 2nd Annual Leadership Conference in Trussville.
Renee Blalock will send information on Diversity Training.
Georgia Blair attended the Local Author's Expo as well as the Autograph Party for Ruth Barefield-Pendleton on Saturday, February 2, 2013. Mrs. Blair has also attended three out of four of the Brown Bag Lunches for February which featured the Carlton Reese Choir, Lawson State Community College Choir, and the Carver High School Fine Arts Department Concert (this concert was the largest group that she has ever seen at a Brown Bag). Mrs. Blair also attended the North Avondale Chapter Chatter book discussion of "The Other Side of Dare" in which the author, Vanessa Davis, was present. Also, Chanda Temple received a 2013 Distinguished Leadership Award from the Best in Minority Business Awards.
Dora Sims attended the Autograph Party for Ruth Barefield-Pendleton on Saturday, February 2, 2013, two of the Brown Bag February programs (Lawson State Community College Choir and the Carver High School Fine Arts Department Concert), and the North Avondale Chapter Chatter book discussion of "The Other Side of Dare". Mrs. Sims also stated that Chanda Temple is an asset to the Birmingham Public Library.
Katrina Watson congratulated Gwendolyn Amamoo and Georgia Blair on their appointments as Library Board officers and stated that she is looking forward to 2013.
Judge Vowell congratulated Gwendolyn Amamoo and Georgia Blair on their appointments as Library Board officers.
Nell Allen congratulated Gwendolyn Amamoo and Georgia Blair on their appointments as Library Board officers and asked that the Library Board continue to support the Learning Tree Park at the Five Points West Library. Nell Allen also stated that this would probably be her last meeting and that she has enjoyed the experience and that two terms should be the maximum for a Board member to be allowed to serve. Mrs. Allen also asked that the Library Board take the power back.
Samuel Rumore congratulated Gwendolyn Amamoo and Georgia Blair on their appointments as Library Board officers. Mr. Rumore also stated that he was trying out for the Birmingham Public Library's trivia team.
Gwendolyn Welch thanked Gwendolyn Amamoo and Georgia Blair for serving as Library Board officers, stated that it was up to the Library Board to take our power back and that the Library Board should be meeting with the community. Mrs. Welch also attended all four Brown Bag Lunch programs for the month of February and stated that she loved Birmingham City Schools and thanked Dr. Craig Witherspoon, Mark Sullivan, John Mahaffey, and Deborah Mayes. Mrs. Welch also thanked Administration, the Lawson State Choir, Kelsey Bates, Chanda Temple, Personnel, and Jim Baggett for the Black History Month celebrations. Mrs. Welch also announced that the Young Professionals will host a mixer at the Wine Loft on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Gwendolyn Amamoo thanked the Library Board for their vote of confidence in electing her as the 2013 Library Board President, congratulated Georgia Blair for being elected as the 2013 Library Board Vice-President, and thanked Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch for leadership. Mrs. Amamoo stated that the Library Board continues to collaborate and improve and believe in Birmingham City Schools. She also thanked Georgia Blair for her contribution to the Library Board.


'Our behaviour influences our children' Jump to media player Should smacking be banned by law? These views from parents.
Could Wales impose a smacking ban? Jump to media player A public consultation is set to get under way which could ban physical punishment against children.
'Mum and dad like it when I eat broccoli' Jump to media player Some call it "dangerous" and "patronising" while others have praised the Welsh Government's advice.
Protect children from smacking call Jump to media player Children should have the right not to be hit, the children's commissioner for Wales says as she backs calls for a smacking ban.
Is it ok to smack your children? Jump to media player A mother-of-four and the and NSPCC Cymru give their differing opinions on smacking.
As a legal ban on smacking moves a stage closer in Wales, what do parents think about disciplining their children?
The Welsh Government has published a bill removing "reasonable punishment" as a defence.
We spoke to two parents in Cardiff, Natalie Woodley and Sally Gobbett.
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Hekaibanh (ḥq3-ỉb-ˁnḫ) ókori egyiptomi hivatalnok volt, Elephantiné polgármestere és a papok elöljárója a XII. dinasztia idején, valószínűleg III. Amenemhat uralkodása alatt.

Egy szoborról ismert, amelyet a VI. dinasztia idején élt, és később Elephantinéban nagy tiszteletben tartott Hekaib kultuszhelyén állított. Emellett két rövid felirata is fennmaradt, a Szehel-szigeten. Anyját Gautanuketnek hívták. Nem tudni, milyen kapcsolatban állt elődjével és utódjával; talán II. Hekaib fia volt és Ameniszeneb féltestvére.

Fordítás

Irodalom
 Detlef Franke: Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine. Geschichte eines Provinzheiligtums im Mittleren Reich (= Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens. vol. 9). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1994, , pp. 41–42.

Elephantiné polgármesterei
XII. dinasztia

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September 2013 "Fun Things To Do" in the San Francisco Bay Area… and beyond
Leave a Comment / Calendar of Events, Fun Things to Do, San Francisco Bay Area, Travel / By Alana / August 22, 2013 May 20, 2021
Summer may be winding down but there's still plenty of fun Art & Wine Festivals, Labor Day Weekend events and the America's Cup Race Finals. Check out these September Events & "Fun Things To Do" in the San Francisco Bay Area… and beyond. Be sure to check our Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Love to Eat and Travel website each month for updates throughout the year. Enjoy!
This month's Top Pick:
– America's Cup Finals (Sept. 7-21
– A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the America's Cup Finals in San Francisco
September 1-8
Labor Day, Millbrae Art & Wine Festival, Sausalito Art Festival, Kings Mountain Art Fair, Capitola Begonia Festival, Scottish Highland Gathering & Games, Sonoma County Showcase of Wine & Food, Oakland Pride 2013, Livermore Annual Harvest Wine Celebration, Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus "Built To Amaze!" Red Tour, Burning Man 2013, San Francisco Opera Ball 2013 "The Garden of Good and Evil," National Buffalo Wing Festival, Golden Gate Park Band Series, Red Bull Youth America's Cup, Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival, U.S. Open Tennis Championships, "The Sound of Music" at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London, Jason Mraz at America's Cup Concert Series, Virginia City International Camel Races, The Great Reno Balloon Race, Off The Grid at Fort Mason Center, Sammy Hagar at America's Cup Concert Series, San Francisco Symphony Opening Night Gala, Napa Artisans Festival, National Grandparents Day, Sunday Streets in San Francisco, 49ers Football Season kicks off, America's Cup Finals, Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, "Nightlife at the California Academy of Sciences" in Golden Gate Park
– Explore the California Academy of Sciences after-hours on Thursday nights. Adults only. This makes a fun night out with your friends… or for "Date Night" – one of our favorite ways to see a museum: at night, with drinks and music!
America's Cup Finals, Free Outdoor Sing-Along Movie "Mama Mia" at Jack London Square, "A Taste of West Cork" Food Festival in Ireland, iTunes Festival 2013 London, "Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years" exhibit at the de Young museum, Union Square Live, San Francisco Symphony Opening Week, Shakespeare in the Park "Macbeth" at the Presidio, SFJAZZ Season 2 at SF Jazz Center, SF Giants at AT&T Park, Free Music on the Square, Film Night in the Park at Marin County and San Francisco, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Wisdom 2.0 Business, Triathlon at Pacific Grove, Autumn Moon Festival & Parade, Capitola Art & Wine Festival, San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival, Annual Comedy Day Celebration in Golden Gate Park, "Impressionists on the Water" Exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum, Thames Festival 2013 London England
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Work Standing Up
The Life and Art of Paul Fontaine
Work Standing Up: The Life and Art of Paul Fontaine.
Claudia Fontaine Chidester with foreword by Katie Robinson Edwards and essays by Margaret Stenz, Mary Brantl and Robert Linsley.
Perfect for aspiring artists on how to live your life and make a good living as an artist.
Work Standing Up is a story about one man's decision to be deliberate in his choices about where he lived and how he lived it. It is a testimony that where one comes from has almost nothing to do with what one can achieve; that it is truly possible to make a good living as an artist.
ISBN: 978-09888358-0-1 hardcover; 978-09888358-1-8 paperback.
Purchase on Amazon or email information(at)fontaine.org
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Fontaine discovered early a talent for drawing and painting, and not much else. He was a product of the Depression, yet managed to graduate from Yale, paint in the Virgin Islands, and paint in Italy as a soldier during World War II. Rather than returning to the United States, he remained in Germany as the art director for Stars and Stripes—and stayed for 25 years, painting and exhibiting with the finest European and American abstractionists, such as Willi Baumeister and Alexander Calder. In 1970, he moved with his family to Mexico for another 25 years, and finally Austin, Texas, for the last four years of his life. He and his wife were expatriates but also essentially ambassadors for America's cultural aesthetic. Whether holding court among his peers, living in a tent, or buying art, Fontaine's approach was to study, immerse, and act. Art historians Margaret Stenz, Mary Brantl, and Robert Linsley each provide investigations into Fontaine's art during the different periods of his working career: the Depression era, postwar Germany, and finally Mexico. In this first book-length treatise on Fontaine, readers will experience his work and, through previously unpublished photographs, also his community of artists that survived the war in Europe. Fontaine's daughter, Claudia Chidester, offers a biographical section, which is centered around the lessons learned from Fontaine—on topics from marrying well to obtaining valuable press credentials. Taken altogether, this extraordinary book sets forth an intimate and detailed portrait of a global artist who lived and worked for most of the twentieth century.
Chidester's well-researched yet intimate biography relies on extensive correspondence and diaries and manages to bring her father's long-overlooked career to life. She and her fellow essayists brilliantly demonstrate the progress and processes of the artist, who left behind an estimated 600 works in public and private hands. Many of his later, lively, abstract paintings are reproduced in eye-popping color.
An engaging revival of a talented, expat painter who was overshadowed by his midcentury contemporaries.
..a fascinating book chronicling the artist's work and introducing him, through the context of his life, to a new audience.
.. This book is the ultimate resource on Paul Fontaine and aims to make his work accessible to all viewers regardless of background but is especially appropriate for twentieth-century art historians and researchers. It is highly recommended for academic or art libraries with an interest in modern art.
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Claudia Fontaine Chidester
Claudia Fontaine Chidester is the daughter of Paul and Virginia Fontaine. She was born an American in Germany in 1956, into an artist household. She was educated in American military-funded schools until the family moved to Guadalajara Mexico during her high school years. She earned her degree in art history from Wellesley College and pursued her passion for art research while working at the Smith College library. After earning her MLIS from University of Texas at Austin and while working in and teaching business research for 15 years, she founded the Fontaine Archive, designed to make available the letters, photography and diaries of Virginia Fontaine and the art of Paul Fontaine. The Archive's first publication was Work Standing Up: The Life and Art of Paul Fontaine in 2013. It won the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for design.
Mary Brantl
Mary Brantl is an associate professor at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where she teaches the history of art and photography. After earning her PhD in art history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, she taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (as the Haakon Fellow), St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Her recent scholarship focusing on twentieth-century German immigrant photographers in the United States provided a ready comparative basis for a consideration of Paul Fontaine's work in Germany.
Katie Robinson Edwards
Katie Robinson Edwards is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history at Baylor University's Allbritton Art Institute. Her research interests include Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, Texas artists, and twentieth-century American abstraction. Her book Midcentury Texas Modernism: Abstract Painting and Sculpture from the 1930s to the 1950s was published by the University of Texas Press in 2014.
Robert Linsley
Robert Linsley is an artist living in Kitchener, Canada. He has shown his work in Barcelona, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Portland, and Rome. He has written many exhibition catalogues and articles on contemporary and historical art.
Margaret Stenz
Margaret Stenz, an independent art historian specializing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art, received her PhD in art history from the City University of New York. She has worked at the Brooklyn Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), and the New Britain Museum of American Art (Connecticut), and taught art history at the University of Kansas and at Baruch College, City University of New York. Currently, she is the collection manager for the City of Austin Art in Public Places program.
More Fontaine Archive Publications
Interested in the role arts played in postwar Europe's rebuilding? Check out Trusted Eye by Claudia Fontaine Chidester
Welcome to the Fontaine Archive
Trusted Eye:Post-World War II Adventures of a Fearless Art Advocate
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Review: Kissing Ted Callahan (and other guys) by Amy Spalding
4:37 pm 22 March 2015
Initial reaction: You know how I said in one of my status updates that this was a less good version of E. Lockhart's Ruby Oliver series?
Turns out I wasn't too far off from that assessment. Except I'd say that this failed miserably with the humor and handling of very similar issues.
I struggled through the progression of this book with probably a few moments where I thought the humor worked, but ultimately, this book was just a miss for what I got out of the experience. Ultimately the read made me very angry in places. It was too juvenile for its intended audience on several levels - in tone, in the way it treated teen relationships and sex even with its focus on chick lit thematics and humor/comedy, among other matters.
Ultimately"Kissing Ted Callihan" deals with teen romance/sex and relationships, though in an intended humorous way. In the story , Riley and Reid create this personal book detailing their preferences, mishaps, stumbles, and journeys with respect to trying to find relationships with their crushes in writing inside that book. In some cases, this can be a cool thing (in premise) and I've seen it done well in some of my favorite books like E. Lockhart's Ruby Oliver series.
Riley is the main female protagonist in this novel and she has a crush on Ted Callihan, but it's not the only relationship she has despite how much she talks about him to her best friend, Reid. The way that the book presented her relationships was that she crushed on multiple boys (three at the same time) with very little motivation (except for Ted) as to why she kissed them or hung out with them in some ways. Riley herself is a very flighty, over-the-top quirky "rock star" (she's a musician) who more often than not makes mistakes and missteps in all of the relationships she has. She's very self-absorbed, shallow, and often judging of the people around her, even those she names as friends. While that might be a part of some of her inherent flaws as a character, the way she came across gave me pause on several occasions, from the over-repetitiveness of her speech (using all caps lock, random tangents that were placed in text throughout the narrative that threw me out of the story, etc) to overemphasizing her love of music and status as a "rock star" when it felt like she was trying to elevate herself to some status of "cool" that the text somehow tried to over justify and repeat when it wasn't needed (for what reason, I don't know). Often I felt thrown out of the story because of Riley's character voice being extremely distracting, overly quirky, and what I felt to be a false portrayal for the character age (she's 17) and experience.
Reid was the other main character, Riley's best friend in collaboration on the relationship book. His character arc felt a little more solid than Riley's and his voice a little more tolerable, though he seemed to be a bit neurotic when it came to his relationships. He crushed on a girl at a local animal shelter and tries ways to get her attention (including showing interest in a disabled dog though he doesn't show true interest taking care of disabled pets, just wants to get to know the girl better). I had problems with Reid's motivations, but I followed him still to see how things would progress. Riley and Reid's banter could be fun in spurts, but often Riley's callous dismissals of Reid (even sometimes smacking him in the context of slapstick humor) was often brash and superfluous. Likewise, even when seeing the context of their role in their "rock band" - I only felt a loose musical connection - like it was mostly telling me how "cool" or how much meaning it had to the characters without really delving into it. It was background noise and I felt no true connection to it or how it connected to the characters.
Ultimately, when it wasn't the character voices being too puerile for their ages or over the top for quirks or the "cool" factor, it was the fact that their issues weren't really expounded upon, instead ceding to instant and overused clichés, to its detriment. Riley's story arc was resolved far too easily and quickly in the last 20% of the novel, especially when the relationship book (an intimate measure) ends up being lost and risked exposure to the people Riley and Reid were both involved with. Ted Callihan, in himself, was a very flat character compared to some of Riley's other crushes, and their dialogues (while intentionally awkward) didn't really endear me to their relationship or make me root for Riley in terms of them being together. Plus for the heavy discomfort the exposure that book's potential unveiling had, it was far too easily seen as a forgiven measure in Riley's other relationships (for plot convenience, Ted was the only one who had a problem with it). Riley never felt like she really came to terms with what it meant rather than just being "caught" in the midst of being in an uncommitted relationship (with having sex in one of those measures). The problem with this is that the text never really touched on how important it was for her to let the other people involved in those relationships that she had no strings attached in her approach. Also, that the text seemed to skimp on how much weight, impact, and potential repercussions it may have (especially when the sentiments of the other person in the relationship is ignored or undervalued, in which case Riley did ignore and undervalue their parts of the relationship).
In a narrative sense, this book felt far too underdeveloped, over the top, and mismatched for the audience portrayal in humor and projection for me to get behind it, and I can't recommend it for that reason. I did not enjoy it, and it was more often grating to read despite few moments where I found the bit humor worked.
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher.
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Q: C# app.config files and UAC I started out with my application writing the config to the registry like I did years back with UAC wasn't around.
Turned out this wasn't a good idea so I moved to the app.config file and found that this is having issues as well with UAC.
The configuration I have for the application is machine specific; individual users do not have their own configuration and the rest of the apps including the service all drive off the single configuration file.
If I try updating this file in the program files\myapp folder it gets denied.
What is everyone else doing for a scenario like this where there needs to be a single configuration file?
I should also mention that this configuration needs to be updated from within my applications.

A: I would use the Common Application Data folder, this is where most new applications store data which works with UAC.
You can get this with the following code:
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData)

To view all options for special folders you can check this link:
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The most common options would be the following:
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Common Application Data - The directory that serves as a common repository for application-specific data that is used by all users.
Local Application Data - The directory that serves as a common repository for application-specific data that is used by the current, non-roaming user.

A: You should be storing your users' settings in app.config you should be using user.config. Have a look here for more info.

A: Any machine-wide configuration files should be stored in:
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData);

Files in Program Files shouldn't be modified except when the application is installed/updated.

A: I had a similar need with a WPF application.  What I do is the following:

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*Install the application with a boiler-plate configuration file.

*When the app runs, it checks for a config file in the user's App Datadirectory for configuration files, if they're not present it copies the default boiler-plate config files from the install directory.

*I then do any first-run initialization stuff that is needed.

I started out using the .NET ConfigurationManager, but I switched over to a plain old XML files because it was simpler and my requirements were basic.


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Підводні сили - рід сил Військово-морського флоту Росії, що включає атомні ракетні підводні човни стратегічного призначення, атомні багатоцільові підводні човни та дизель-електричні (неатомні) підводні човни.

Основні завдання підводних сил
 поразка важливих наземних об'єктів противника;
 пошук і знищення підводних човнів, авіаносців та інших надводних кораблів противника, його десантних загонів, конвоїв, одиночних транспортів (суден) у морі;
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 постановка хв та інші. Організаційно підводні сили складаються з окремих сполук, які підпорядковані командувачем (командирам) об'єднаннями підводних човнів і командувачем об'єднаннями різнорідних сил флотів.

Особливі властивості підводного флоту
На відміну від інших родів сил ВМФ підводні сили як ударна сила флоту мають ряд властивостей, що визначають їх перевага у збройній боротьбі на море: скритність дій, здатність вести бойові дії в будь-яких районах Світового океану, здатність завдавати потужних ракетно-ядерні удари по важливих у військовому відношенні об'єктах противника і найбільш ефективно вести бойові дії проти бойових надводних кораблів, підводних човнів, транспортів і суден противника. Вони мають здатність діяти під льодами Арктичного басейну і малої залежністю від гідрометеорологічних умов в районі бойових дій.

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The stage at Buxton Opera House will be turned into the smoke ridden slums of Victorian London for a 'pure heart-pounding' stage production of Sherlock Holmes.
Described as a 'terrifying fusion of fact and fiction' Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper Murders will be staged in Buxton in August.
The critically acclaimed stage play was written by the late Brian Clemens who is best known for his work on The Professionals and The Avengers.
The show stars the writer's son Samuel Clemens as Sherlock Holmes alongside popular local star George Telfer as Dr Watson.
The curtains rise to a foggy scene in East London dimly lit with gas light. There's the sound of footsteps echoing in the distance… The city is gripped in fear by the grisly killings in Whitechapel, dubbed by the popular press as the work of 'Jack the Ripper'. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson are called in to investigate but are soon drawn into a conspiracy that reaches to the highest level of the establishment. But for Holmes, there is a uniquely personal element to this new and terrifying case.
The Talking Scarlet production has opened to fantastic reviews, described as 'absolutely first-rate theatre' by Eastbourne Herald.
Talking Scarlet is an independent theatre company which was formed in 2001. The company's productions this year have included The Ghost Train, Stone Cold Murder, The End of the Affair and What The Butler Saw.
Performances of Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper Murders take place at Buxton Opera House from Monday, August 24, to Wednesday, August 26, at 7.30pm with a matinee performance on the Wednesday at 2.30pm.
Tickets are priced at £16-£18 and discounts are available. Contact the box office on 01298 72190 or visit www.


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Chilling Piece of OJ Simpson Murder Scene Discovered at Albany Native's New Home
Brian Published: March 18, 2021
This is nuts. It involves one of my very best childhood friends, a move he made a few years ago to Los Angeles, and a bone chilling discovery on the property of his LA home that connects directly to the scene where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered back in 1994.
A longtime friend of mine - who requested to not have his name published in this post - grew up in Albany and lived in the Capital Region for decades. For the sake of this story, we'll call my friend "SD." SD was an east coast guy for his entire life (18 of those years he lived in Albany) but a few years ago that changed when he got a job offer in California.
Ultimately, my friend and his wife made the difficult decision to move themselves and their children to Los Angeles. SD and the rest of the old Albany crew keep in touch regularly on a text chain consisting of about 8 of us talking sports, politics, pop culture, current events, and just the typical ball busting that old friends do.
SD lives about 4.5 miles from the Brentwood condo that Nicole Brown Simpson lived in when she and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered back in June of 1994. It was a gruesome and grisly crime of passion that many people to this day believe was committed by OJ Simpson, her ex-husband at the time.
According to the LA Times, a pedestrian saw Nicole Simpson's body on the walkway steps near the front gate to her condo and the body of Goldman was found nearby. That brings us to SD's discovery.
A few weeks ago, SD sent the crew a text message that was radically different from anything we could ever have imagined, and it blew my mind. SD told us about a discovery he made when he inquired about some mysterious gates that were stashed away on the side of his house. Here's the message he sent, followed by the photo he took of the gates.
Text message from SD
Nicole Brown Gate
Scene of the Crime
Below is the exact same gate (in its proper upright position) the way they appeared at the entrance to Nicole Brown Simpson's condo where she and Ron were murdered. There are many photos online that show these gates covered in blood as it's theorized that both killings took place near the entrance of her condo. These are the gates that led to the entrance of her condo.
How Did The Gates Get There?
SD explained to me that his landlord is a 99-year-old war veteran who came back to LA and became a contractor/home builder. After Nicole Brown was murdered, her house was put up for sale. The new owners wanted to do a complete renovation and SD's landlord was hired to do some of the work.
The new owners wanted to get rid of as many things that would be reminiscent of the murder, so the landlord took the gates off their hands, thinking that they might be worth something someday.
The landlord stores them on the side of the house. SD told me that he saw them for years and thought nothing of them. In fact, he had been trying to get rid of them - before he knew their history - but didn't have any takers. It wasn't until a few weeks ago, that he learned about their significance. SD believes that the landlord is still trying to get rid of them and now that my friend knows the gruesome backstory, he wants them gone too.
I think that SD is crazy for wanting them off his rental property and I even told him so. The creep factor is a 10 out of 10, but the fascination factor is a 10,000 out of 10. But I get it, SD and his family want to be exonerated of the bad juju they may bring.
Call me crazy, but I don't think he should get rid of them.
As disturbing as it may be to know they're there, they are a huge piece of Americana. The murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman led to the most famous murder trial in American history. You can't just give these gates away.
If that makes me some kind of weirdo, then I guess I'm guilty as charged.
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Chen Weihua () is a Chinese journalist, currently serving as EU bureau chief of China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Chen has previously served as a columnist, chief Washington correspondent, and deputy editor of the U.S. edition of China Daily.

Education
Chen is a graduate of Fudan University, where he studied international journalism and microbiology. After graduating, Chen has held fellowships at the University of Hawai'i and Macalester College, as well as a John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford University from 2004 until 2005.

Career
Chen began his journalism career at China Daily in 1987. His writing focuses on U.S. politics and U.S.-China relations.

In 2005, while a journalism fellow at Stanford University, Chen served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Shanghai Star and the deputy Shanghai bureau chief of China Daily. Since then, Chen has served as a columnist and chief Washington correspondent for China Daily and the deputy editor for China Daily USA. He has appeared on China Central Television, ABC News, NPR and KQED. As of 2020, Chen serves as the EU bureau chief of China Daily. According to the editorial board of The Jerusalem Post, he has remained a popular columnist at China Daily.

Chen has used Twitter to criticize politicians and public figures who are critical of the Chinese government. The Globe and Mail reports that Chen's tweets are consistent with the tone of wolf warrior diplomacy. Chen has defended his tweets publicly, writing in China Daily that: "[i]f... despicable words, deeds and conspiracies do not trigger the strongest response from Chinese diplomats, then they are not doing their job." Chen's Twitter account was briefly suspended in 2019 for what Twitter described as "inciting violence" towards protestors in Hong Kong, after writing that the protestors would have been shot by police if they were in the United States.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chen repeated Russian claims disputing the veracity of the Bucha massacre.

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Reliable & accurate characterisation of photovoltaic devices.
Take full control of your solar cell measurements with the system's easy-to-use PC software - no programming knowledge necessary!
Update: The Solar Cell I-V Test System is the new and improved successor to the IV Curve Measurement System.
For detailed information on these improvements and a comparison of feature upgrades between the old and the new model, please visit this blogpost.
Part of the Institute of Physics award-winning Ossila Solar Cell Prototyping platform, Ossila's Solar Cell I-V System is a low-cost solution for reliable characterisation of photovoltaic devices.
The PC software (included with all variants of the system) measures the current-voltage curve of a solar cell and then automatically calculates key device properties. Furthermore, I-V measurements can be performed periodically over time to track the stability of these properties.
The system is available with either manual or automatic pixel switching (if you are using one of Ossila's substrate systems), or without a test board for use with your own substrate and testing system (or if you already own one of our test boards). This system is covered by our FREE 2-year warranty.
Calculates Device Properties - The PC software (included with the system) automatically calculates key properties of solar cells from the measured I-V curves. These properties include: the power conversion efficiency (PCE), fill factor (FF), short-circuit current density (Jsc), open-circuit voltage (Voc), shunt resistance (Rsh), and series resistance (Rs).
Easy-to-Use - Just plug in the system, install the PC software, and you're ready to go! The intuitive interface and clean design makes the Solar Cell I-V System easy-to-use, simplifying the characterisation of solar cells.
Wide Measurement Range - The built-in source measure unit is capable of delivering voltages between -10 V and +10 V, with a maximum resolution of 333 μV, and measuring currents from as low as ±10 nA up to ±150 mA.
Rapid Characterisation - If you are using one of our substrate systems, the Solar Cell I-V System can be purchased with a multiplexing test board (just select the 'automated' variant of your choice in the drop-down list), which enables automatic pixel switching. As an added bonus, the temperature and light will also be recorded during the measurement!
Measure Device Stability - By performing repeated current-voltage measurements over an extended period of time, the stability of key device properties can be tracked.
The current-voltage measurement is controlled using intuitive and user-friendly PC software. All of the measurements can be fully customised, allowing you to tailor the software to your experiment.
Perform current-voltage measurements anywhere between -10 and 10V.
Take high resolution measurements, with voltage increments as low as 333 µV.
Manage the experiment more directly, with custom settle times between applying voltage and measuring current.
Measure device hysteresis by perform consecutive measurements in forwards and backward directions.
The software has 3 measurement tabs: Solar Cell Characterisation, Stabilised Current Output, and Solar Lifetime Measurement. Solar Cell Characterisation performs I-V measurements and calculates the important device properties. Determine how the current output of your device evolves over time using the Stabilised Current Output tab. The Solar Lifetime Measurement tab enables you to track key device properties (PCE, FF, Jsc, Voc) over an extended time by performing periodic I-V characterisation. Between measurements the solar cell can be held at open-circuit, short-circuit, or maximum power.
Data is saved to .csv (comma-separated values) files, which are formatted to be easy to read and analyse. Settings are saved along with the data, making it easier to keep a record of the parameters used for each experiment. These settings files can be loaded by the program, and settings profiles can be saved for each different measurement type, allowing you to easily perform repeat measurements or use particular configurations.
The table below will help you determine which system is right for you. The manual version of the system has switches on the test board itself, which the user operates to measure the different pixels on a solar cell device. The automated version of the system uses a multiplexing test board, which switches between these pixels automatically. Note, if you use one of our substrates listed in the table and another kind of substrate as well, we recommend manual pixel switching, as the test board can be detached and replaced with another one.
*Both the Manual - S211 and Manual - S171 use the same test board and product code.
Current-voltage measurements (I-V curves) are the primary measurement for charactising solar cells. Here, the current flowing through the device is measured at different voltages whilst it is under illumination.
Example solar cell I-V curve with properties highlighted.
There are several key properties that can be extracted from the I-V curve of a solar, which are shown on the diagram above.
The short-circuit current density (Jsc) is the photogenerated current density of the solar cell when there is no driving voltage, and can be extracted from the intercept with the y-axis.
The open-circuit voltage (Voc) is the voltage at which the applied voltage cancels out the built-in electric field, and can be extracted from the intercept with the x-axis.
The fill factor (FF) is the ratio of the actual output power of the device to its power if there were no parasitic resistances. This can be calculated by dividing the maximum power output of the device by the product of the Jsc and the Voc (the potential maximum power).
For a more in-depth explanation about the characterisation of solar cells, check out our guide on solar cell theory and measurement.
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A rite of passage for Iyengar yoga practitioners is a trip to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune—to study directly with the Iyengars. Of course, BKS Iyengar is 92. Unless you met him in the 1970s or '80s (or possibly the '90s), it's too late to make a personal connection now. It's probably likewise with Geeta and Prashant, the son and daughter carrying his mantle. They, too, have taught thousands of students worldwide.
Does it matter that I'm only a "grandstudent" of the Iyengars? Mr Iyengar is a conceptual teacher so I can certainly learn from his writings and from his disciples. But I'll never have those firsthand anecdotes!
In early July, I traveled to the Iyengar Yoga Centre of Victoria to attend a weeklong teacher-training intensive taught by Leslie Hogya and Ann Kilbertus, among other senior teachers who have studied at RIMYI for decades. They often tell stories about the Iyengars: what they taught, what they said (and how they said it!).
I immediately recalled a recent project that my Vancouver colleagues and I did for the Iyengar Yoga Association of Canada (IYAC): we summarized DVDs of Geeta's 2001 conference in Vancouver. I wasn't there, so the DVD footage was unfamiliar. While I have a decent ear for accents, it took multiple playbacks to get the gist of her words.
In doing asana, she said, "Focus on your own foot. Not others' feet. It's none of your business what's going on with your neighbor's foot.
The audience burst out laughing. And so did I, a decade later. I have no personal stories about Geeta, but how's that for my secondhand one?
I enjoyed our study of Iyengar this weekend. Here are the names of the poets I mentioned, whose work you might enjoy (a lot!). Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. I'm really looking forward to reading your blog — it looks amazing! Thanks for this.
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Announcing Manticore 0.3.0
Earlier this week, Manticore leapt forward to version 0.3.0. Advances for our symbolic execution engine now include: "fast forwarding" through concrete execution that you don't care about, support for Linux binaries statically compiled for AArch64, and an interface for selectively solving for interesting test cases. We've been working really hard on these and other features over the past quarter, and we're excited to share what we've built.
Executor Refactor
Felipe Manzano completed a major refactor of Manticore's state machine. It now uses the multiprocessing module, which could make it easier one day to implement distributed symbolic execution. You can read more details about the state machine in the pull request description. Be advised that it does introduce a few small changes to the API, the most important of which are:
You must now explicitly call the finalize method in order to dump test cases after a run. That means that you can inspect a state before deciding whether to invest the time to solve for a test case.
The will_start_run callback has been renamed to will_run
The solver singleton must now be accessed explicitly as Z3Solver.instance()
Unicorn Preloading
Manticore models native instructions in Python, a language that is not known for speed. Instruction throughput is only a tiny fraction of what you'd expect on a concrete CPU, which can be really unfortunate when the code you care about is buried deep within a binary. You might spend several minutes waiting for Manticore to execute a complicated initialization routine before it ever reaches anything of interest.
To handle cases like this, we've added a Unicorn emulator plugin that allows Manticore to "fast forward" through concrete execution that you don't care about. Unicorn is a fast native CPU emulator that leverages QEMU's JIT engine for better performance. By replacing Manticore's executor with Unicorn for unimportant initialization routines, we've encountered speed improvements of up to 50x. See an example of how to invoke the Unicorn emulator on the pull request.
AArch64 Support
Over the past four months, Nikita Karetnikov added support for Linux binaries statically compiled for AArch64. Since it's a brand-new architecture, we've left in many of the debugging components in order to help us diagnose issues, a decision that may make it a bit slower than other architectures. With the growing popularity of ARMv8 CPUs for platforms ranging from embedded development boards to server farms, we look forward to receiving feedback on this new architecture.
System Call Audit
To provide an accurate symbolic execution environment, Manticore needs symbolic models of all the Linux system calls. Previously, we implemented only a subset of the most common system calls, and Manticore would throw an exception as soon as it encountered an unimplemented call. This is enough to execute many binaries, but there's room for improvement.
With the 0.3.0 release, we've added a dozen new system calls, and added "stubs" to account for the ones we haven't implemented. Now, instead of throwing an exception when it encounters an unimplemented call, Manticore will attempt to pretend that the call completed successfully. The program may still break afterwards, but we've found that this technique is often "good enough" to analyze a variety of problematic binaries. Just be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the "Unimplemented system call" warning message, since further analysis may be unsound if Manticore has ignored an important syscall!
Symbolic EVM Tests
One of the important guarantees that Manticore provides is that when it executes a transaction with a symbol, the result holds for all possible values of that symbol. In order for this to be trustworthy, the symbolic implementation of each instruction needs to be correct. That's why we've extended our continuous integration pipeline to automatically run Manticore against the Frontier version of the Ethereum VM tests on each new commit. This will ensure that throughout further development, you'll always be able to rely on Manticore to correctly reason about your code.
We believe in clean code, which is why we've run Manticore through the black autoformatter. Black deterministically formats your code according to a fairly strict reading of the pycodestyle conventions so that you can focus on the content instead of the formatting. From now on, you should run black -t py36 -l 100 . on your branch before submitting a pull request.
We believe that security tools are only beneficial if people actually use them, so we want to make Manticore easier for everyone to use. Over the next few months, we have big plans for Manticore's usability, including improvements to our documentation, updating our examples repository, and conducting a formal usability study. Don't think we'll let the code languish, though! Our next release should include support for crytic-compile, making it even easier to analyze smart contracts in Manticore. We'll continue working towards improved performance and eventual support for EVM Constantinople.
You can download Manticore 0.3.0 from our GitHub, via PyPI, or as a pre-built Docker container.
By Eric Hennenfent
Posted in Dynamic Analysis, Manticore, Research Practice
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and what does that have to do with HM?
» and what does that have to do with HM?
» » and what does that have to do with HM?
» Finasteride (Propecia etc) - after such an effective (cell-)therapy.
» @saturn - Good find!
I'm fed up of this news story. The reason prematurely bald men are statistically less likely to get pancreatic cancer is because we're all popping dutasteride, finasteride, saw palmetto or beta sitosterol on a regular basis and have unusually low amounts of DHT in our bodies (men typically have the same levels whether or not they lose their hair, all dependent on how sensitive follicles are to it).
If they did the study 30 years ago, the results would be very different.
How much productivity is lost when people lose their self confidence and retreat into their shell. When anybody just gives up, the whole of society suffers for it. Society suffers from baldness collectively because it is regularly denied the intellect, wisdom and effort of men prematurely losing their hair who decide to become recluse. Who knows what brilliant minds we lost in the arts, politics or the professions because of hair loss.
The worryingly high proportion of suicides that are committed by young men. Baldness may not kill directly, but it can kill the soul of a sufferer who can finish the job off themselves more often perhaps than society likes to think.
Baldness causes prejudices such as that a man with less hair is less intelligent, hard working, dynamic etc etc. It therefore causes society to misjudge one another, and to make bad decisions about who to trust.
Society needs to stop twittering on pointless news stories about hair loss and take it seriously. It does serious harm to societies that don't seem to be appreciated.
I sometimes like to suggest baldness is a psychological condition with hair loss as a physical side affect. I say this because no matter how hard so many of us try, when we're balding we're also experiencing depression, lethargy and in me I developed some really bad hypochondria that I've never shook off no matter how ludicrous I sometimes think I am! I really do sometimes wonder if baldness starts as a chemical imbalance in the brain that causes insecurity and depression which later leads to hair loss. I must say in my case I lost my mind shortly before my hair.
Sadly, society just thinks it's a cosmetic joke.
There are always just 2 words in his mind: "transplants" and "Propecia".
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» dependent on how sensitive follicles are to it).
» If they did the study 30 years ago, the results would be very different.
» clinical. This is a huge burden on health care systems around the world.
» misjudge one another, and to make bad decisions about who to trust.
» must say in my case I lost my mind shortly before my hair.
» Sadly, society just thinks it's a cosmetic joke.
What a great post, seriously. In my early and mid 20's I was a very positive young man, I was a go getter and motivated. I had a healthy level of self confidence.
Once I started thinning in the crown and mid scalp and people started commenting my whole perception of myself, my life and my future changed. I was sad a lot, didn't believe in myself, wasn't motivated to hang out with my friends, to go to the gym.
Had my HT 3 years ago, it seems like a life time ago, but I will never forget how losing my hair made me feel.
Cancer risks, Alzheimer risks - what comes next?