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By WCS Art and Design / March 25, 2013 / Uncategorized
Do you remember a distinct moment in time while you were still in your youth when the written word, written composition and/or poetry went from being something foreign to something familiar?
I can't admit that I recall a singular and distinct moment, if that's what you mean. But I do recall being approximately 12 or 13 and feeling spiritually strapped to the idea that words when glued together in a certain order had the innate power to convey amazing things about the human experience. And I wanted in that club at all costs. But as far as my own early attempts at written composition, at poetry in particular, they were often disastrously sophomoric and often humorously teenager-esque and, therefore, could come across, innocently enough, as dramatic. Although, to my humble credit, the ideas, the concepts themselves were there, good and intact. There was proof of concept, as they say, but it was formally suggested in ways that looking back should have been more edited, more consistent, more crafted, more honest.
Do you still have any of those early poems?
I do still have some of those poems. I used to carry this nano-notebook with me at all times in case a vocabulary twitching fever of inspiration would strike. Ha ha! I liked to think I was being artistically dedicated by never forgetting to bring it with me wherever I went. Or smart. Or efficient. Or something. It served its purpose, I suppose… I was able to get all the kinks out much more quickly.
And those early poems, do you feel as if their proposed ideas and executions are present today, informing your current work?
I would have to say yes. The proposals set forth by those early poems, in particular their hopes for capturing and presenting a surgically authentic social, spiritual and cultural commentary, are very much embedded in my current work. Take for example these lines from a poem that I wrote when I was 16: we walked along the cordial beach / our feet warped deep into the sand. I was trying to sum up what it meant to navigate through a healthy working class town's cultural edges, where to us everything was beautiful and fresh and honest and alive. And also how much we, the teenagers of that town, simultaneously felt cleansed and pillared and also used and drowned. It often felt like a trap had been set by objectively unknown forces and we were partially expected to waltz directly into it at our leisure. So, while "the beach" (a place defined by water meeting land, movement meeting the immovable, change meeting the stagnant) was "cordial" (the social mores of the time dictated as such) we were sinking in "the sand" (that which constitutes the physical and therefore very real result of water meeting land). And it's that kind of conceptual precision, vivid simplicity and commentary that still lingers, albeit in likely a more advanced or mature manner, in my more current work.
What would be a more current example of commentary along those lines?
In a piece titled Maybe, Maybe Not I examined a similar time period in the lives of teenagers whose local culture includes things like school-sanctioned social functions. And in this particular poem I explored the formal school dance through the lens of the group experience itself, focusing on the textural minutiae (the "chaperone's view") that no teenager could really ever grasp as fully, as poetically or as gently as someone in, say, their 30s or 40s looking back on those years would be capable of doing. Here is an appropriate section, I feel, regarding those textures: marathons of boiling fantasy / and undimmable urges / we, fat eyed and strideless / we, gorgeous and lost / scoring deep the frosty path / quiver sealing steps /with an anxious howl / it is the summer of our satisfaction / and we've eaten the snowman's carrot nose.
Both microcosm and macrocosm of the given scenario as it relates to their larger community context?
Exactly. I was trying to be as culturally and spiritually inclusive with the visual cues as I thought the concept would support. Which is, for me anyway, the process of editing each word as it relates to the ones around it with a focus on the degree to which it all comes across as reasonable and connected. For example: in order to truly convey a sense of rebellion I felt it would be interesting to embed that sensibility directly into the poem. So, something like the classic phrase "the winter of our discontent" would have as its rebellious counterpart "the summer of our satisfaction," and in so doing would speak of their attraction to one another while attending the formal dance, but also their innate spiritual purpose as "testers" of contemporary culture.
In your experience what is the key to good writing… poetry, prose or otherwise?
Precision how exactly?
In the concept, the overall tone as it relates to the concept, the word choices, the rhythm and the intellectual athleticism required to keep up with it, the visual cues, the pace of those visual cues, the honesty of the underlying meanings embedded in them, the artistic risks, the length, the format, everything. Within precision, the idea of it, the dedication to it, is a priori a respect for craft, for the idea of it, the dedication to it, the importance of it. Much like a woodcarver going through the cyclical process of conceptualization, visualization, execution and self-critique, I pass through those same phases as each piece takes shape .
Do you find that you receive inspiration for your writing from one source more than any other?
The nuances of the human condition are a huge inspiration for me. But as are things like the evolution of youth, Nature and its countless lessons and Humanist philosophy. So, no, I suppose I'm not necessarily moved by one source more than any other. Unless you want to include in that set the act of attempting to responsibly contribute to the history of poetry itself by taking part in the conscious making of it. I don't feel that that is what you are asking, though. Or is it?
No, I wasn't thinking of those more fundamental layers. Those would apply too broadly. I meant more the literal inspirations.
I'll go ahead and say the nuances of the human condition then. All things considered, that likely is the most robust source.
Would you like to share a selected piece and maybe talk a little about its intent?
Sure. Here's a fun one written in 2009. It's titled Are We There Yet?. In it I try to present a visceral depiction of moment-to-moment experiences whose pace and color I feel most cleanly mirrors what it is like to digest everyday events through a hyper-creative lens, a 2-stanza micro-glimpse into the endless metaphors and existential strata around us. I tried to pack as many dynamic visual twists into it as I felt it could handle, and as much brightness and sensuality as well. Its title is a reference to the ubiquitous childhood phrase (most often expelled from the rear seats of minivans, if I'm not mistaken, at an average rate of once every 2.5 hours) and also to the notion that there really is no "there" as we'd like to believe there is. It simply does not exist as a single place, rather as another extended pause as we continually navigate through our lives. However, within this hyper-creative lens can also be seen myriad basic natural elements, pedestrian elements, grounded in their context, caught off-guard as would be an innocent bystander at the scene of a bank robbery. They just kind of hang out in the poem, keeping the more wild aspects glued to something stable. I feel this gives the piece a sense of governed movement, a never-ending yet contained breeziness that I intended to have contribute to the poem's overall tone and artistic flavor. And, finally, I wanted the poem to exude an antiqued sepia tone-like complexion, therefore placing itself firmly in a specific time period, setting and even time of year.
Crushed in between a ranch dressing mistake
and the shoeless gypsy jangle
of a single just picked peach
snuggled with veins of baseball fantasies
and canned penguin-like players
caught vaporless in the blossoming bosom
with tailored cotton fences
lining the avenues of your chest
forced as molars chew on freedom's cud
and fingers swallow the heat
and the heat swallows the bark
and the bark swallows time
and time, panting and out of shape,
has decided to slip into a matinee
and sit this bar fight of a slow dance out.
Tickled by the mystical histories of orangutans
and the portability of cloneable dirt
pushed into antique wooden caves
where virtual chinese water torture
and titanium tortillas
walk blindfolded around the ring
shoved amongst boisterous laborers
and plucked featherless by nature's gritty game
your stride a molasses calm
your calm a hand-stitched heaven
your heaven a midday beverage
on a memory-carved porch swing
and your swing, weathered and hoarse,
has chosen to stand magnificent
and honor its ancestors with one final opus.
Wow… that's almost psychedelic it's so vivid. Was that intentional?
Not specifically. But I can absolutely see why you'd say that. The truth is that very often what someone experiences through a hyper-creative lens and what we have come to accept as "psychedelic" are pretty similar, maybe even two sides of the same coin, as they say. At its core it's about seeing something not only exactly for what it is, but doing so in a sensitive and holistic fashion that, for me anyway, helps me to construct poems like this.
And how long does it take to write something with this variety of description and implied narrative?
I think Are We There Yet? took around six or seven months from beginning to end. However, I wouldn't want to suggest in any way that I locked myself in a room in some remote coastal village and did nothing but sleep, eat, meditate and work on this poem. The exact opposite perhaps. But when I do begin a piece, I do tend to work on it on a regular basis. A lot of that work constitutes me thinking about ideas, words, the way I'd maybe like to puzzle them together, what underlying narrative I'd like to introduce/build/climax/decay, the degree to which the piece will have a certain length due to its inherent concept and, simply enough, why I feel it's worth writing. And when the words come, I let them.
And when you do begin a piece, does it tend to transpire similarly?
As in do I always tend to have the same sort of initial impulse from the same sort of experience?
Poetry, if I can get a little esoteric for a minute, is everywhere. And by poetry I more pristinely mean existence itself, events unfolding, relationships evolving, elements crashing together or splitting apart, physical decay, spiritual ascension, color, light, form, movement, communication… it's all part of a larger narrative, real or imagined, that inherently is poetic in nature. So, from where in all that do those initial sparks come from for each of my writings? Anywhere and everywhere. Literally.
And when it hits you does it come in a single word, a feeling, a phrase, all at once, none of the above?
It most often either comes in a short phrase that for one reason or another encapsulates an entire idea or it comes in the form of a theater-like vision of an idea or situation. Such as the phrase "we are the guilt in the dune at the bottom of the hourglass" which I leaned on to construct the poem Again and Again. The following is the work in its entirety.
Again and Again
Fortuned
dusted with alibis
peppered with control
there's provenance
in a cool breeze
there's royalty
in the pinch
of a disconnected paradise
we are the guilt
in the dune
of the hourglass
and it's neither broken
nor breathing
spoiled nor special
if fibers tore
I'd still be you
and you'd still be me
courted
billowed with accents
littered with determination.
In this piece I was trying, through the vectored framing of a distilled personal relationship of mine, to call attention to the very simple idea that regardless of what we do in our lives, regardless of how much we experientially layer on top of pre-existing layers already having been heaped on top of and woven in with still other pre-existing layers, that those layers still exist within and around us… their individual presence, their influence, waxing and waning constantly. Is it in the falling or the rising that we eventually come to willingly define ourselves, though? Is it in the poverty or the riches? The ingenuity or the apathy? Or is it, more perfectly, in all of it simultaneously? And because we are addressing this all the time I felt as if it was worth documenting.
How about we wrap this up with one more piece, commentary on it being optional.
This is a poem titled Thank You. It is based on a true story, a friend's experience with the passing of her mother. It is written in the first person, but from the vantage point and from the mind of the just-passed mother, not the mourning daughter. I thought this would give it a visceral feeling, of it taking place in the absolute present, everything still very fresh and foggy. I wrote it as a gift to my friend, a way for her to maybe try to begin to heal and to always know that her mother would remain nearby. The hint of repetition was infused as a gentle nod to a sense of infinity, cycles, etc.
I put your frozen canvas shoes
onto the checkered oak floor
near the foot of your bed.
I stood there for a coughless minute
squinting through the room's fever
staring beyond the lace
of the dilated ivory curtains
and panels of cut glass
into the future of our backyard.
dissecting a determined patch of grass
clinging to a crack
in the exposed foundation
of our neighbor's cement patio.
laughing at my own laugh
and at the folly of observation.
I pivoted without a single ache
spinning in the room's chatter
slowing with every new horizon
of carefully shelved books
and thumbtacked childhood ideals
arriving at the column of graphite dashes
that had all touched the top of your head.
examining the rhythm of your chest
tirelessly pushing and pulling
as you wept without poise
over the events of the day.
reacting to my own reactions
and to the solace of attachment.
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A photographic exhibition which documents production in the lead up to the Ford Broadmeadows Assembly Plant's closure will open in Melbourne's north-west this Thursday.
The exhibition, featuring images taken by renowned Australian photojournalist Andrew Chapman, will be at the Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery located within the Hume Global Learning Centre – Craigieburn until 29 January 2017.
"The impact of Ford in Hume City was significant when it opened in 1959. It led the way for other industries to the area in the years that followed and consequently encouraged a diverse population influx," Hume City Council Mayor, Councillor Drew Jessop said.
Mr Chapman said the exhibition's iconic photos would become a valuable document for generations to come.
"It was a privilege to photograph workers and the Ford environment. This exhibition is an invaluable record of such an important part of Victoria and its history of manufacturing.
"I met migrants, whose first and only job after coming off the boat was to start work at Ford the following day and stay for the next 30 years. I met fathers and sons working together, people of different nationalities who were firm friends," Mr Chapman said.
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Elmbridge Youth Theatre Show – A Chorus Line – At Cecil Hepworth Playhouse Walton On Thames Surrey
Elmbridge Youth Theatre, Incorporating Esher Youth Theatre, With Full Professional Orchestra presents A Chorus Line
When: Tuesday 7th to Saturday 11 February 2017
Evenings: Each night at 7.30pm
Matinee: Saturday 11th February at 2.30pm
Where: Cecil Hepworth Playhouse , Hurst Grove,
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 1AU
Entry: Tickets £7 – £15
Box Office: 07926 354 645 please mention the All About Weybridge website
EYT Website: www.elmbridgeyouththeatre.com
A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the "chorus line" of a Broadway musical.
After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves.
Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dancer's individuality.
From Cassie, the star who just needs the "music and the mirror and the chance to dance," to Val, a small-town girl with a brand-new big-town body, to Mike, who took his sister's place in dance class, saying "I can do that."
Based on real Broadway dancers' stories, as told to fellow dancer and choreographer Michael Bennett, A Chorus Line is funny, heartbreaking, and refreshingly honest.
Here are some photos of an earlier production of West Side Story by Elmbridge Youth Theatre
– and it's back again by popular demand!
Conceived and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Michael Bennett
Book by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
Co-Choreographed by Bob Avian
Original Broadway production produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer, in association with Plum Productions, Inc.
By arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Limited of New York
Tickets now available!
Advisory notice:
This show contains adult content in reference to sexuality, language and humour. Children are welcome under parental supervision.
About Elmbridge Youth Theatre
Based in Elmbridge in Surrey, EYT was set up to bridge the gap between school and adult drama, specifically aimed at young people between the ages of 15 and 25.
The group was formed in September 1997 with Richard Davis as Director and Carole Andrew as Deputy Director and Choreographer – both had long been responsible for the shows at Rydens School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. At the same time, Esher Youth Theatre, which had been running very successfully for many years, was in danger of closing, so it was incorporated in the new Elmbridge Youth Theatre and its remaining members joined us.
Richard, now no longer with us has left a legacy any West End Director would be proud of.
The main focus of EYT is to cater for the leisure time needs of local young people, as well as to encourage and foster an interest in theatre and develop the skills involved in the various Theatre Arts.
Two major productions are usually presented each year at the Cecil Hepworth Playhouse in Walton – normally a musical in the winter and either a musical or straight play in the summer. This gives everyone a chance to be involved, and to use whatever performance skills they have – whether it's acting, singing or dancing or all three!
Meetings & Rehearsals in Weybridge and Molesey
EYT has its meetings/rehearsals on Sundays from 6.30pm to 9pm at St James' Church Parish Centre and on Thursdays from 7.30 pm to 10pm at Molesey Youth Centre. Please see the EYT website contact page for addresses and maps.
There is a subsription fee payable per year to cover performers insurance. This fee is currently £30.
Our past productions have included Les Misérables – School Edition, Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, Anything Goes, The King and I, Oliver!, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Annie, Oklahoma, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, A Chorus Line, Crazy For You and The Boyfriend. The productions are funded from Box Office receipts and grants and sponsorship from local charitable trusts and commercial companies.
Elmbridge Youth Theatre is a Registered Charity – Number 1071866


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Myanmar is so closely identified with natural resources such as jade, rubies and teak that its name is a brand in itself. But so far its people have not benefited. Read more
For decades Myanmar has been run by a military dictatorship that ruled with one iron fist and stole with the other. Resources like gas, gems, and timber were shackled to a war economy and treated as the private businesses of elite military families. Indigenous groups have been systematically and brutally driven from their homes, their ancestral lands and forests turned over to crony tycoons. Exports feed consumption in the rich world and generate vast revenues for the elite, yet one-third of children under five are stunted from long-term malnutrition.
Since 2011, a new government under former general Thein Sein has promised reform and change, specifically pledging to clean up the natural resource sector. Most international sanctions have been lifted and the country is open for business, with new overseas investors coming into play.
Myanmar's valuable resources could help the country build a peaceful and prosperous future, but only if real lessons are learned from the mistakes of the past. Global Witness' current investigations highlight ongoing problems with natural resource management, while our advocacy makes recommendations for reforms.
In 2014, we asked who is behind the companies buying up the country's fledgling oil and gas sector, and revealed a worrying lack of information about the people controlling the industry. We also highlighted corruption, human rights and cronyism concerns in the multi-billion dollar jade industry. These revelations pose serious questions for the reform process and Myanmar's candidacy for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a global effort to clean up the world's oil, gas and mining trades.
The management of land in Myanmar is similarly opaque, and fraught with conflict. We have investigated a spate of land seizures in the north of the country, where farmland owned by ethnic minorities was grabbed in military operations and transformed into plantations for rubber. As the country designs its first national land policy and law, we are pushing the government to halt the current wave of large-scale land investments and protect the rights of smallholder farmers, who make up 70 per cent of the population.
Much has changed in Myanmar in recent years. There is now a real opportunity to help millions of people benefit from their resources, but only if the international community and Myanmar government work together to deliver on the reformist rhetoric.
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São Jorge (Święty Jerzy) – portugalska wyspa pochodzenia wulkanicznego, o charakterystycznym, podłużnym kształcie, położona w centralnej części archipelagu azorskiego zaliczanego do Makaronezji. Jest oddalona od Pico o około 15 km, a obie wyspy dzieli lokalna cieśnina. Długość wyspy wynosi 53 km, a szerokość 8 km. Powierzchnia São Jorge wynosi 238 km², a wyspę zamieszkuje około 10 500 mieszkańców.

Wyspa została odkryta w 1439 roku. Przez pierwsze 20 lat była niezamieszkana, wtedy też przybyli na nią pierwsi koloniści. São Jorge jest wyspą pochodzenia wulkanicznego, tak jak pozostałe wyspy archipelagu Azorów. Między 1580 a 1907 rokiem doszło do sześciu erupcji wulkanu. W 1580 roku w wyniku wybuchu i późniejszej erupcji wulkanu zginęło 10 osób. Ta sama sytuacja wystąpiła w 1808 roku – wtedy też zginęło 8 osób.

Najwyższym punktem wyspy jest Pico da Esperança, wznosząca się na 1053 metrów góra. Mieszkańcy wyspy zajmują się głównie rolnictwem, wypasem bydła domowego, produkcją zboża oraz uprawą owoców. Inne zajęcia popularne wśród lokalnych mieszkańców to rybołówstwo oraz mleczarstwo.

Na wyspie znajdują się dwie gminy: Calheta na wschodzie, oraz Velas na zachodzie wyspy.

Zobacz też
 São Jorge – ser, produkt regionalny z wyspy

Galeria

Bibliografia
 Scarth, Alwyn; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001). Volcanoes of Europe. Oxford University Press, 243 pp. .

Wyspy Azorów
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Q: Difficulty with maintaining same versions for Firebase and Play Services in Android Studio I am having a conflict of version with play-services and firebase .
I need to exclude the same so i used exclude method as seen in image

, but not successful ,
Please help .
EDIT 1 :
Without using exclude
I get this below error as seen in image 2

Error 1 Log :
org.gradle.api.GradleException: Please fix the version conflict either by updating the version of the google-services plugin (information about the latest version is available at https://bintray.com/android/android-tools/com.google.gms.google-services/) or updating the version of com.google.android.gms to 9.0.0.
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    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.execute(CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.java:34)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker$1.run(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:248)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:336)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:328)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:197)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:107)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:241)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:230)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:124)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.access$200(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:80)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:105)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:99)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:625)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.executeWithTask(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:580)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:99)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.process(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:60)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:128)
    at org.gradle.execution.SelectedTaskExecutionAction.execute(SelectedTaskExecutionAction.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$000(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$1.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:43)
    at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:46)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:30)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$ExecuteTasks.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:311)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:336)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:328)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:197)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:107)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.runTasks(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:202)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:132)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.executeTasks(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:107)
    at org.gradle.internal.invocation.GradleBuildController$1.call(GradleBuildController.java:78)
    at org.gradle.internal.invocation.GradleBuildController$1.call(GradleBuildController.java:75)
    at org.gradle.internal.work.DefaultWorkerLeaseService.withLocks(DefaultWorkerLeaseService.java:152)
    at org.gradle.internal.invocation.GradleBuildController.doBuild(GradleBuildController.java:100)
    at org.gradle.internal.invocation.GradleBuildController.run(GradleBuildController.java:75)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.runner.BuildModelActionRunner.run(BuildModelActionRunner.java:53)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ValidatingBuildActionRunner.run(ValidatingBuildActionRunner.java:32)
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    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:197)
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    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.BuildTreeScopeBuildActionExecuter.execute(BuildTreeScopeBuildActionExecuter.java:39)
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    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:71)
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    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.execute(ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.java:51)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.execute(ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.java:32)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.GradleThreadBuildActionExecuter.execute(GradleThreadBuildActionExecuter.java:36)
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    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ParallelismConfigurationBuildActionExecuter.execute(ParallelismConfigurationBuildActionExecuter.java:43)
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    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.StartParamsValidatingActionExecuter.execute(StartParamsValidatingActionExecuter.java:64)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.StartParamsValidatingActionExecuter.execute(StartParamsValidatingActionExecuter.java:29)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.SessionFailureReportingActionExecuter.execute(SessionFailureReportingActionExecuter.java:55)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.SessionFailureReportingActionExecuter.execute(SessionFailureReportingActionExecuter.java:42)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.SetupLoggingActionExecuter.execute(SetupLoggingActionExecuter.java:58)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.SetupLoggingActionExecuter.execute(SetupLoggingActionExecuter.java:33)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild.doBuild(ExecuteBuild.java:67)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.WatchForDisconnection.execute(WatchForDisconnection.java:37)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ResetDeprecationLogger.execute(ResetDeprecationLogger.java:26)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.execute(RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.java:34)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:74)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:72)
    at org.gradle.util.Swapper.swap(Swapper.java:38)
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    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogAndCheckHealth.execute(LogAndCheckHealth.java:55)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogToClient.doBuild(LogToClient.java:62)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.EstablishBuildEnvironment.doBuild(EstablishBuildEnvironment.java:82)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy$1.run(StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy.java:50)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator$1.run(DaemonStateCoordinator.java:297)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:63)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:46)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:55)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

I get the above log to change to 9.0.0 which is a lower version and it cannot target Android O later .

A: Have resolved this issue by updating in project level gradle
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1'

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Haitian Village Unites Rockford Residents
ROCKFORD, Ill. (Sept. 10, 2010) –The nine-year involvement and steadfast support from northern Illinois residents ensured The Hope for Haitians Committee and Food For The Poor's fundraising event, An Evening in the Tropics, was the most well-attended event ever with more than 340 guests. Masters of ceremonies for the event were the dedicated co-chairmen Tom Lorden, Pat Bachrodt and Peter Roche.
"The growth of this event over the last 10 years has been truly inspiring for us," said Lorden. "We are most grateful to everyone who has participated in helping the truly poor people of Haiti."
Residents from the Rockford/Chicago communities showed their commitment to assist Haiti's rebuilding effort by attending the event at Giovanni's restaurant. Proceeds will be used to help fund the construction of a self-sustaining village in Chastenoye, Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
Rockford's Bishop, Most Reverend Thomas Doran, spoke at the event and endorsed the work of The Hope for Haitians Committee, through the international relief and development organization Food For The Poor. He fervently asked attendees to not forget the extreme needs of our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
Delane Bailey-Herd, Food For The Poor's project manager for Haiti, shared experiences from her recent journeys to that country. Since the earthquake, she has witnessed the dire situation become increasingly desperate.
Fern Shore, a faithful event attendee for years, was so emotionally inspired by Bailey-Herd's passionate plea on behalf of the poor that she wrote a letter. Shore inquired how she and others can donate to the charity's mission, whether buying goats or building critically needed permanent shelter.
"What this group [The Hope for Haitians Committee and Food For The Poor] has accomplished is utterly amazing, and I could not be prouder to be a small part of the organization," Shore wrote.
Members of the Rockford-based Hope for Haitians Committee have traveled to Haiti multiple times. They have met children and their families who live in thatched homes built on rotting trash in low-lying coastal areas. Illnesses spread quickly in these garbage-ridden areas. In these unimaginable living conditions, people suffer from malnutrition and lack adequate homes and access to safe, clean drinking water.
"The dramatic transformation the annual galas have made in the lives of so many Haitians is night and day," said Bachrodt. "Together we are bringing hope, and making a difference in the lives of so many."
Progress and growth, in Haiti:
2009 -2011: Fundraised for the "Hope Friendship Village" in Chastenoye, to house those displaced by the earthquake, as well as those who are living in the Prolongé swamp. Proceeds will complete the three-year project that includes the construction of 100 housing units, 50 sanitation units, an artesian well, a community center, animal-rearing and agricultural projects, and two solar panel lights.
2007 – 2008: Established the "Rockford Friendship Village" in Prolongé, which includes 100 housing units, 50 sanitation units, three artesian wells, a community center, three tilapia ponds, start in life projects, a solar panel light, and the implementation of a feeding program.
2006: Installed 30 water wells in Cap-Haitien, providing more than 50,000 people the gift of lifesaving water.
2005: Provided 18 water wells and 125 hand pumps, enabled 70,000 people in Gonaives to access clean, safe drinking water.
2004: Completed 17 wells, providing clean water for 120,000 people in Cap-Haitien, Limonade and Plaine du Nord.
2003: Drilled water wells in Duval, Petionville, and Barbancourt to provide approximately 27,000 people access to clean, safe drinking water.
2002: Completed the Dubois Water Project in Port-de-Paix, which directly affected 3,000 people.
2001: Built 50 Food For The Poor housing units, in Cotes-de-Fer.
To make a donation to fund Phase III of the "Hope Friendship Village," in Chastenoye, please call, 1-888-404-4248 or visit the Web site www.foodforthepoor.org/rockford.
Committee members included: Pat Bachrodt, Rev. David Beauvais, William Clancy, Mike Delany, Brian and Missy Hand, Frank Haney, Msgr. Robert Hoffman, Danny Lorden, Tom and Nancy Lorden, Bob McLaughlin, Philip Nicolosi, Al and Terry Provenzano, Patti Rangel, Pete Roche, Jody Schumacher, and Jerry Weber.
An Evening in the Tropics sponsors included: AAA Quality Limousines, LTD; Lou Bachrodt Automotive Group; Lou Bachrodt Foundation; Bachrodt Motors on State; Barrick Switzer Long Balsley & Van Evera; William & Catherine Clancy; Crowe Horwath LLP; Mike & Colleen Delany; Tony & Jean Domino; Focus Financial Advisors; Giovanni's Restaurant; Joseph Geraghty; Brian & Missy Hand; Joe Hansberry; Holy Cross Church; Holy Family Church; Kelley Williamson Company; Thomas & Leslie Killoren; Jeff & Sally Krogh; Lindgren, Callihan, Van Osdol & Co., Ltd; Lorden Charitable Foundation; Robert & Mary Lou McLaughlin; Rebecca Newton; Nicolosi & Associates, Inc.; Our Lady of Good Counsel; Papa John's Pizza; R.C. & Rhonda Pottinger; Resource Dealer Group, Inc.; Risch Family Foundation; Riverside Community Bank; Peter & Sandy Roche Family; Savant Capital Management, Inc.; SMITH-GRAMLEY Ltd.; St. Edward Church; St. James Church; St. Katherine Drexel; St. Thomas the Apostle Church; SupplyCore Inc.; Warner Specialized Petroleum Services; Gerald & Patti Weber, Jr.; Williams-Manny Insurance.
Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.
Jennifer Leigh Oates
jennifero@foodforthepoor.com
Tom Lorden
Event Co-Chairman
tomlorden@hotmail.com


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package landmaster.plustic.traits;

import net.minecraft.item.*;
import net.minecraftforge.common.*;
import net.minecraftforge.event.entity.living.*;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.eventhandler.*;
import slimeknights.tconstruct.library.entity.*;
import slimeknights.tconstruct.library.traits.*;
import slimeknights.tconstruct.library.utils.*;

public class Naphtha extends AbstractTrait {
	public static final Naphtha naphtha = new Naphtha();

	public Naphtha() {
		super("naphtha", 0xFF3314);
		MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(this);
	}

	@SubscribeEvent
	public void lightUp(LivingHurtEvent event) {
		if (!event.getEntity().getEntityWorld().isRemote && event.getSource().getImmediateSource() instanceof EntityProjectileBase) {
			final ItemStack bow = ((EntityProjectileBase)event.getSource().getImmediateSource()).tinkerProjectile.getLaunchingStack();
			if (TinkerUtil.hasTrait(TagUtil.getTagSafe(bow), identifier)) {
				event.getEntity().setFire(10);
			}
		}
	}
}

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Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques
Stephan Weinberger, Stephan Hermann Trattner, Bernd Cermenek, Alexander Schenk, Christoph Grimmer, Viktor Hacker
Institut für Chemische Verfahrenstechnik und Umwelttechnik (6670)
Within this paper, the development and parameterization of multipurpose dynamic large-signal equivalent circuits (dLSEC) analogues of fuel cells (FC), which are capable of describing polarization curves, electrochemical impedance spectra, current steps and harmonic distortion experiments, is presented. The differences of these equivalent circuits compared to commonly applied small signal equivalent circuits in electrochemistry are discussed. The proposed electrochemical analogues, which serve as multipurpose dLSEC building blocks for complete FC analogues, are explained in detail. Furthermore, an in-house manufactured membrane electrode assembly is tested in a custom FC in order to validate the exemplary model and the proposed fitting procedure thereof. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data at different operating points i.e. current densities, the open circuit voltage and a differential evolution algorithm are applied to parameterize the analogue. Finally, the parameterized model is applied to simulate experimental results, and compared to real measurements, which were not used for the parameterization procedure itself.
Journal of Energy Storage
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2017.05.010
Veröffentlicht - 4 Juli 2017
10.1016/j.est.2017.05.010
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X16301499
IEA AFC Annex 31 - IEA Fortschrittliche Brennstoffzellen Annex 31: Polymerelektrolytmembran-Brennstoffzellen
Hacker, V.
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) 100%
Exergy 97%
Fuel cells 81%
Systems analysis 51%
Weinberger, S., Trattner, S. H., Cermenek, B., Schenk, A., Grimmer, C., & Hacker, V. (2017). Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques. Journal of Energy Storage, 12, 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2017.05.010
Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques. / Weinberger, Stephan; Trattner, Stephan Hermann; Cermenek, Bernd et al.
in: Journal of Energy Storage, Jahrgang 12, 04.07.2017, S. 319-331.
Weinberger, S, Trattner, SH, Cermenek, B, Schenk, A, Grimmer, C & Hacker, V 2017, 'Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques', Journal of Energy Storage, Jg. 12, S. 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2017.05.010
Weinberger S, Trattner SH, Cermenek B, Schenk A, Grimmer C, Hacker V. Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques. Journal of Energy Storage. 2017 Jul 4;12:319-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2017.05.010
Weinberger, Stephan ; Trattner, Stephan Hermann ; Cermenek, Bernd et al. / Generic tool for the simulation of electrochemical fuel cell monitoring techniques. in: Journal of Energy Storage. 2017 ; Jahrgang 12. S. 319-331.
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Students can participate in a Holiday Paint and Sip, sponsored by WIN and hosted at the 707 Hub this evening.
Students can grab a warm drink and paint away the stress of final exams at Holiday Paint and Sip with Women's Innovation Network (WIN) today at the 707 Hub.
For the second year, painters will be welcomed by eggnog, cider, hot chocolate and holiday snacks as they enter, starting at 6 p.m. Lauren Gilbert, owner of Beloved Masterpieces LLC and 2018 Marquette College of Education alumna, will teach a painting lesson at 6:30 p.m. The lesson will take roughly 45 minutes, but students can continue to paint and mingle until 8 p.m.
Sasha Parsons-Waters, WIN coordinator, said students are welcome to bring friends who do not attend Marquette, adding that faculty and alumni attended last year. Parsons-Waters said the event is in collaboration with the Office of Intercultural Engagement.
WIN was introduced to campus last fall.
Gilbert said she began painting as a way to release stress when she was 18 years old after her mother died.
"When I paint, I'm not thinking of anything other than the act of painting," Gilbert said.
It was after she saw the benefits of painting in her own life that she began helping others to heal from pain and loss through painting, Gilbert said. During her senior year, Gilbert met Parsons-Waters who introduced Gilbert to the Marquette legal clinic and helped Gilbert start her business.
Parsons-Waters recalled when Gilbert first explained the workshops to her, Gilbert called it a hobby. She said she told Gilbert her idea was not a hobby — it was a business. Since graduating, Gilbert continued to pursue her business, holding workshops all over Milwaukee. Parsons-Waters said the workshop at Marquette last year reached capacity, bringing in 40 people.
"I wanted to do it again because (last year) it brought a lot of different people together from different majors and different backgrounds," Parsons-Waters said.
She recalled that at the beginning of the event students immediately sat with friends, but throughout the night they became intrigued by others' paintings and expanded their circles.
"Before you knew it, everybody was talking to everybody else," Parsons-Waters said.
Although she hasn't taken an art class since middle school, Katie Breck, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the event sounds like a fun and relaxing way to get into the Christmas spirit.
"It's cool that it's an alum that you can talk to about their experience," Mary Jurich, freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said, adding that it would be a good opportunity to try something new with other Marquette students.
Catherine Cahir, a senior in the College of Nursing, said she has always wanted to try something like Holiday Paint and Sip with WIN, even though she isn't a painter herself. Cahir said she likes that the event involves an alumna giving back to the community.
"It shows that Marquette has given you a lot, and it can be a part of your future after you graduate," Cahir said.
"Lauren is a wonderful example of how you can take something you're interested in and passionate about and make a business out of it," Parsons-Waters said.
Parsons-Waters said she hopes Holiday Paint and Sip with WIN creates a sense of community as students meet new people and relieve stress from finals.


GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—Boxing champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao would rather keep his silence these days about the P2.2 billion tax deficiency case he is facing.
"I will no longer issue any statement," he said Friday.
Pacquiao, who spoke to reporters on the eve of his eight-town relief caravan to Leyte and Samar, said has designated his lawyer to take questions related to the case filed against him by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
"Starting today, my legal counsel, Attorney Tranquilino Salvador III, will be the one to answer any questions from the media," he said.
In leaving his lawyer to answer media queries on the tax case, Pacquiao said he wanted to focus on the relief operation, which he launched Saturday for the victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda.
Pacquiao said the convoy of trucks bearing the relief goods left the city Friday evening. He was to fly to the typhoon-ravaged areas aboard a private plane on Saturday.
Aside from the P2.2-billion tax case, Pacquiao also faces a criminal complaint over his alleged non-payment of correct taxes, which was filed by the BIR's Central Mindanao office in the Koronadal City Prosecutor's Office.
The BIR regional office initially lost in the case, in which Pacquiao was accused of failure to submit his 2010 tax documents despite having been served several summonses, but it has filed an appeal.
Under this provision, violators, upon conviction, may be punished with a fine of not less than P5,000 but not more than P10,000 and imprisonment of not less than one year but not more than two years.
The BIR clarified it has not accused Pacquiao of tax evasion but only of non-submission of tax documents as required by the law.
In an eight-page resolution on October 12, 2012, Arnold D. Cruz, deputy city prosecutor and officer in charge of the City Prosecutor's Office in Koronadal City, dismissed the case versus Pacquiao.
Cruz cited as primary basis in dismissing the case the failure of BIR regional office to personally serve the summons on Pacquiao.
"It would be absurd to hold the respondent liable for neglecting to obey a subpoena which he did not receive at all, in the first place," the resolution said.
Cruz added there was no refusal on the part of Pacquiao to receive the summons, hence, resorting to substituted service was irregular and ineffectual.
In the BIR's motion for reconsideration filed in the later part of October last year, Eric Diesto, revenue legal division chief, assailed the prosecutor's resolution for its failure to appreciate probable cause for violation of Sec. 266 of the revenue code.
Diesto explained in his motion for reconsideration that the BIR revenue officer failed to personally serve the subpoena on Pacquiao because he was hard to find. In addition, he claimed, the revenue officer was not allowed to enter the Pacquiao mansion at the time, and that all matters regarding BIR transactions were being handled by the boxer's accountants.
The subpoena was served twice but Pacquiao was not around then and had left for Manila with no information as to when he would be back, Diesto said.
Diesto said Pacquiao sent in February four representatives – lawyers Francisco Gacal and Rommel Agan and accountants Emma Cequina and Richard Querido, in an attempt to settle his problem with the BIR.
He said the prosecutor did not consider the presence of probable cause, but instead based his decision on the perceived defect in the service of the subpoena duces tecum.


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This is a very late post, from July in fact, so it will be more of a photo entry than a story… but I think that's ok because probably the most fascinating part of our trip to Salar de Uyuni was the regularly changing and breathtaking vistas.
We were excited to meet our friends, Edouard and Laetitia, who had traveled from France to spend 2 weeks with us in Bolivia. We had been waiting for friends or family to visit to do some of the tourist highlights, but understandably Bolivia is just too far away and expensive to get to for most people. This was our chance! We decided to meet our friends at Lake Titicaca soon after they crossed the border from Peru and take them to Isla del Sol before our adventure to Salar de Uyuni.
After 11 hours in a bumpy overnight bus, with Laetitia very sick with a gastro virus, we met up with some other friends and all wearily filed into a 4WD to be taken into Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers and at an altitude of 3,656 meters. Salar means salt flat in Spanish and Uyuni (the gateway town to the Salar) originates from the Aymara language meaning a pen (enclosure). Aymara legend tells that the mountains surrounding the Salar were giant people: One mountain, Tunupa, married another, Kusku, but Kusku ran away from her with Kusina, the third mountain. Grieving, Tunupa started to cry while breast-feeding her son. Her tears mixed with milk and formed the Salar. Many locals consider the Tunupa an important deity and say that the place should be called Salar de Tunupa rather than Salar de Uyuni.
Our first stop was at an eerie antique train cemetery, located just outside the town of Uyuni. Rusting skeletons of trains covered in graffiti tell a story. The rail lines were constructed between 1888 and 1892 by British engineers, who were encouraged by Bolivian President Aniceto Arce, believing that Bolivia would flourish with a good transport system. Also, Uyuni became the distribution hub for trains carrying minerals en route to Pacific Ocean ports. However, the rail system was constantly sabotaged by the local Aymara indigenous Indians who saw it as an intrusion into their lives and then in the 1940s the mining industry collapsed, partly because of mineral depletion. Many trains were abandoned, producing the train cemetery.
After briefly wandering the train graveyard we headed out in to the once prehistoric lake – impressive, very flat, and glaringly white Salar de Uyuni. The seemingly endless white is actually a top layer of salt which goes down a few meters. Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tonnes of salt, of which less than 25,000 tonnes is extracted annually. The salt layer covers lacustrine mud that is interbedded with salt and saturated with brine that is exceptionally rich in lithium – in fact, it's estimated that Salar de Uyuni contains around 50% of the world's lithium reserves! You know about lithium, right? It's that vital component of many electric batteries. At some point an American-based international corporation invested $137 million to develop lithium extraction but in the 1980s and 90s foreign companies met strong opposition of the local community, who, despite their poverty believed that the money infused by mining would not reach them. Now there is no mining plant at the site and the Bolivian government does not want to allow exploitation by foreign corporations. Instead, it intends to build its own pilot plant.
Every stop was an opportunity to admire the landscape, marvel at the pyramid like crystals of salt and of course, we couldn't resist playing with the perspectives to take some interesting photos 🙂
The center of the Salar contains a few "islands", which are the remains of the tops of ancient volcanoes submerged during the prehistoric era. We visited one of these islands – Incahuasi Island or Inkawasi (Quechua, meaning "Inca house"), also known as Isla del Pescado, Isla de los Pescadores or Isla Inca Huasi – admiring the unusual, giant cacti atop this rocky hill as the sun lowered in the sky. Given the Salar is virtually devoid of any wildlife or vegetation, this was a fascinating place to wander. There are 1000 year old cacti some of which are 3 and a half meters tall.
That night we slept in a salt "hotel" which was a very basic structure made primarily from salt, without heating and limited hot water for showers (to be paid for). Thankfully I chose to shower that night as the next place we stayed didn't even have showers. The nights are cold all through the year, with temperatures between -9 and 5 °C, so Jean and I were happy to squeeze into a single sized bed together for the night.
We continued our journey the next day, exploring the lakes of the region. These lakes are a major breeding ground for several species of pink flamingos. It's also an abundant source of borax, evidenced by the many large trucks we saw carrying it away.
Our first lake was Laguna Hedionda – rich in sulphur it is normally tinged green with the mineral but as you can see from our photos it reflected the bright blue sky while we were there. The wild grasses growing around the lake danced softly in the brisk wind and flamingoes fed, often balancing on ice.
Laguna Onda was next – bigger with mossy black volcanic earth.
We next drove to the Arbol de Piedra which is a volcanic rock formation in the desert Silol that is unique because the natural elements have carved its shape into that of a tree.You can see from these surreal formations why a nearby area is known as the Salvador Dali rocks.
Laguna Colorado was absolutely incredible – a mass of red water (made by the micro organisms living in it) surrounded by a myriad of yellow grass, green moss and white salt. This lake holds vast amounts of borax. Jean and I broke away from our friends to enjoy the tranquility together. The frozen winds against our rugged up bodies was calming and the perfect time for reflection (and play). That night we marveled at the bright galaxies that shone so brightly above us in the night skies while our friends played with their lit frisbees, creating swirling patterns across the endless darkness.
On our last day in the Salar we woke up early to see the geysers which are natural boiling mud formed by the volcanic activity under the surface. Everyone braved the cold to see the steam billowing out of the earth, except me. I stayed in the car as I was very sick with a chest infection and was trying to stay as warm as possible.
Next we stopped to dip our toes in the hot springs and view the beginnings of the vast Atacama Desert. The scenery around the hot springs was captivating as steam rose from the hot waters, creating beautiful mysterious scenes with birds standing on ice.
We made our way back to the town of Uyuni and got ready for the bus journey back to La Paz… to get ready to go into the jungle 🙂
Back on line… we have now settled in Bolivia!
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Q: How to make a list out of a structure in racket? I made an structure (struct g( a b c d))
and I define it as  (define per (g 1 6 5 4))
however I want to use per as a list argument for another function I want to define.. it gives me an error

first: contract violation   expected: (and/c list? (not/c empty?))
  given: #

how can I make per a list with arguments of a structure? or there is no other ways of making something similar.

A: When you are making a struct it's very much like objects in other languages. You have a struct "g" with 4 named slots. Eg. you access the first with (g-a struct-var) and so on.
If you want a list then make a list. If you need to make a list from a g you need to do something like (list (g-a x) (g-b x) (g-c x) (g-d x)) and to do the opposite you do (apply g lst)


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Set is a god of chaos, associated with the perilous desert, destructive storms, disorder and violence. In art, Set is uniquely depicted as the Set animal, with no similarity to any known creature. The head is like a combination of an aardvark, donkey, jackal and fennec fox, with a curved snout, long rectangular ears, a thin forked tail and canine body, with fur tufts shaped into an inverted arrow. Sometimes, Set is depicted in human form with the same distinctive head.
Following, "the Contendings" Set was reconciled and became Lord of the Red (the harsh desert) in balance to Horus' role as Lord of the Black (the fertile soil). However, in contrast to this Set accompanies Ra, the sun god, standing on the brow on his solar barge to defeat Apep, the Lord of Chaos, who dwells in one of the realms of the underworld
Circa 1650–1550 BC, control of Egypt was seized by the Hyskos, a group of Asiatic foreign chiefs. They made Avaris their capital from which they ruled the Nile Delta. The Hyskos chose Set (who was originally the chief god of Upper Egypt) as their patron god. Set became worshiped as the chief god once more. Hyksos King Apophis is recorded as worshiping Set exclusively, "he did not worship any other deity in the whole land".
Circa 1522 BC, Ahmose I overthrew the Hyksos and they were expelled from Egypt. The Egyptians understandably became xenophobic towards Asiatic foreigners. The Hyksos rule became discredited and Set became known as the god of foreigners. Later foreigner oppressors, such as the Assyrians and Persians led to the eventual demonisation of Set. During this period Set was particularly maligned, and his defeat by Horus became widely celebrated. His negative aspects were emphasized as the killer of Osiris, who hacked his body into pieces and dispersed it to prevent his resurrection. Nevertheless, even during this period, some outlying regions still regarded Set as the heroic chief deity.


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Pixelmator Photo for iPad offers machine learning-based editing tools for photographs
Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 06:08 am PT (09:08 am ET)
The developers behind the popular image editing application Pixelmator are planning to release a new iPad app, Pixelmator Photo, which aims to provide all of the tools needed to perform desktop-class alterations to photographs on Apple's tablet.
Rather than providing a full image creation and editing experience as offered by Pixelmator Pro for macOS and Pixelmator for macOS and iOS, Pixelmator Photo instead will focus more on adjusting photographs. Supporting RAW images from over 500 cameras, the app will provide ways to alter images in a non-destructive manner, preserving the original photograph.
Foundational adjustments to brightness, exposure, and saturation will be offered alongside other changeable items, such as levels, curves, grain, and many others. The added Repair and Crop tool will allow users to make more substantial changes to create the perfect image, such as by removing blemishes or even entire objects from the scene.
The app will take advantage of Core ML, with machine learning used to power a number of features, including ML Crop's suggestions to improve the composition of a photo. When users elect to change the aspect ratio, ML Crop will offer a potential place to position the cropping box, which can be further tweaked before finishing the editing process.
Trained on 20 million professional photographs to learn how to use exposure, white balance, and color ranges, ML Fix can be used to perform basic changes to an image quickly and automatically. The use of photo-based training was previously provided to Pixelmator Pro users in the 1.2 update earlier this month, with similar automated changes provided by ML Enhance.
Machine learning-enhanced film presets can be used to emulate the appearance of analog film, developed by analyzing photographs using classic films such as Kodak Porta, Fujifilm Superia, and Ilford HP5. Another tool, ML Presets, can balance the lighting and colors in a photo before applying selected presets, to preserve the styling of each film type.
Pixelmator Photo will be arriving on iPad later this year. Pricing for the app has yet to be announced.
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English title: Discount value as a basis for valuation of woodlots.
This methodical study aims at assessing discount value and its nature and function in setting a price for a forest holding. The aim is to study how the subject interested in buying or selling a woodlot could in the most meaningful way use discount value to prepare the sale and aid the decision making, taking account his personal interests. The paper includes a literature review on the determination of value.
It is concluded that woodlots have no «correct and real» values and, therefore, they cannot be calculated. Value is formed for the woodlots only in connection to the subject running the household, and his environment and actions. A discount value can be defined as a discount value of future net incomes. In the study different ways to calculate discount value are analysed.


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A visit to Druid Heights, a hidden mystic Beatnik Zen lesbian colony that lingers on in the wilds of Marin County.
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My book tour through the Golden State.
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It is a martensitic precipitation hardening stainless steel with high strength and hardness. The mechanical properties are obtained by a solution treatment (Cond. A) that brings the Cu in solution in the Austenitic matrix followed by a rapid cooling obtaining a super-saturated Cu martensitic structure. A re-heating ( ageing ) at t° = 480°C gives a maximum Hardness and resistance Rm, with low Kv impact, due to a precipitation of Cu –rich phase. Ageing at t°= 620°C results in a higher Kv impact, with a reduction of Rp0,2 and Rm, due to a progressive softening of Martensite and the formation of both Cu-globules with loss of coherence within the matrix, and stable Austenite. It is important to know that the transformation of Austenite to Martensite is completed below 30°C and the formation of stable Austenite during aging can start to appear at 550°. This strongly depends on the (Cr/Ni) equivalent balance that, besides, influences the amount of Ferrite in the matrix.
It can be used in different kind of application as valves, chemical and power productions components, engine parts, fitting, fasteners, shafts and pumps shafts and parts of oil & gas plants.
This grade has the same general resistance corrosion as 304 but better than the group of standard martensitic 400 series. However, solution treatment (cond. A) without aging should be avoided. For maximum resistance to Chloride stress corrosion cracking, it should be aged at a higher temperature, not less than 550-580°C. In Sulfide aggressive environments, age at 620° C or overage. The same choice should be done in the case of situations or environments prone to cause H-embrittlement. It should also be noted that for this grade, as for every kind of stainless steel, surfaces should be free of contaminants and scale, and passivated for optimum resistance corrosion.
This grade has a limited cold deforming capacity in the annealed condition (cond.A) due to untempered Martensite. More severe cold working requires aging at the highest temperature or overaging. For restoring or increasing mechanical properties, such as Tensile Rm, a new solution treatment (cond.A) followed by a suitable aging temperature should be carried out.
Machinability is good in both the solution-treated (cond.A) and precipitation hardening conditions, considering that this property improves when hardness decreases. A certain amount of dimensional changes, in terms of contraction, happens after the aging of parts: these dimensional variations should be evaluated.
Ingots or large forgings require a suitable preheating in order to avoid thermal cracking. Avoid overheating and improper cooling. Large forging bars should be equalized at 1030 -1040°C in the heating furnace prior to cooling. Both small or large forgings, rolled rings or bars must be cooled under 30°C after solution treatment (cond. A) in order to complete the transformation of martensite, obtaining both a good structure and mechanical properties after aging. It is useful to point out that a certain amount of Ferrite could be in the V174 structure.


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Dr Philip Esterhuizen
Position: Lecturer in Nursing (T&S)
Areas of expertise: Ethics; reflective practice; professional socialisation, education.
Email: P.Esterhuizen@leeds.ac.uk
Location: Baines Wing
Philip Esterhuizen, RN, BA (Cur), MScN, PhD (Lecturer, Adult Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds)
Philip returned to the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in September 2012 after an absence of 4 years. After completing his hospital-based nursing education in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1978, Philip specialised in operating room technique before coming to Europe. He started work in the Netherlands in 1980 and this led to operating room specialisations in Neurosurgical and Cardio-thoracic areas before returning to ward-based nursing in 1988 where he specialised in neurological nursing and combined this for a period of 5 years with palliative home care. During this time he obtained a BA degree in nursing (majors in nursing education and professional practice and ethics of nursing) via the University of South Africa's distance learning programme and a diploma in nursing education from the Netherlands.
He worked for 10 years as a clinically based nurse educator in an Amsterdam hospital during which time he became associated with the International Association for Human Caring (IAHC) and very interested in reflective practice. His affiliation with the IAHC had a major impact on his work as an educator and resulted in him being instrumental in developing a clinical curriculum based on reflective practice, hosting an international conference on reflective practice, publications and a Master's research (University of Cardiff, Wales) into how registered nurses integrate theory into practice using confluent education as a theoretical framework. In his PhD research (Bournemouth University) he explored the socialization process of student nurses using ethnomethodological and autoethnographic approaches.
His links with international organisations related to care and reflective practice provided Philip with great support and inspiration in the work that he was doing with a philosophy lecturer around nursing ethics and moral decision making with regard to end of life issues. In his work as a Senior Lecturer in the United Kingdom (2002-2007) he worked with nurses of all levels and had the opportunity to teach and facilitate in a wide range of areas and settings. By incorporating personal philosophies of care and caring into the facilitated sessions Philip was able to support reflection, promote awareness and stimulate the development of personal caring attitudes in relation to the individual practitioner's daily experiences. During an appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Netherlands (2007-2012) Philip was involved in curriculum development for a co-operative (Apprentice) nursing degree at Bachelor's level. With regard to teaching, he worked predominantly with undergraduates with whom he stimulated self-awareness, narrative and self-reflection via the subject areas of palliative care nursing, ethics, qualitative research and critical reasoning.
Professional activities include:
Membership of Sigma Nursing Honours Society: Beta Nu Chapter, North Carolina, USA and Phi Mu Chapter, Bournemouth, United Kingdom. He has been an elected Board member of Phi Mu Chapter since 2013.
Membership of the International Association of Human Caring (IAHC) for which he was an elected Board Member 2007-2009.
Philip is an editorial reviewer for:
International Journal for Human Caring (USA)
Journal of Research in Nursing (UK)
Journal of Nursing Management (UK)
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing? (UK)
Journal of Mixed Methods Research (UK)
BMC Medical Education (UK)
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (UK)
International Journal of Qualitative Methods (Canada)
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Learning Matters: Reflective Practice in Nursing, 4th edition (Sage)
Associate Director of Student Education Curriculum and Assessment
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Sigma Nursing Honours Society
International Association of Human Caring
I teach across Undergraduate and Post-Graduate programmes and am involved in multiple modules, mainly in relation to healthcare ethics, professional practice and research. I lead on the Support for Learning in Pracice education.


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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
In the mid-1970s, Jim Fannin, a personal coach for many high profile athletes, did an experiment involving young children. He assembled over two hundred children aged four or five to participate.
The first step of the experiment was to get the children to decide if they were fast or slow. He had all the children in a gym and asked them to divide into two groups; the group on the left were those who considered themselves slow and the group on the right were those who considered themselves fast. The children were a bit hesitant to choose at first, but eventually he got all the children to voluntarily decide whether they were fast or slow.
Jim had each child run an individual 40 yard dash and he recorded the time for each runner. He then told the assembled children that there would be a series of challenge races — that is, they would run a number of races with two contestants per race. In each race, there would be one child from the slow group competing against one child from the fast group.
The results were very interesting. In 95% of the races, the child who had self-selected as being slow actually led at the start. But the child who had self-selected as being fast overtook the other child and won 97% of the time.
Here is what was so fascinating about these results: the way the individuals were paired was to select a child from the slow group who had run the timed event faster than the "fast" child chosen as their competitor. So in the timed event, the slower child actually had a better time than the fast child. But when competing head to head, the belief that both children had about their own speed proved to be a better indicator of the outcome.
There are two very powerful lessons we can take from this experiment. The first is that our beliefs about our abilities are key in determining our results. The second is that this phenomenon starts to manifest at a very early age. By four or five, we're already allowing our expectations to influence our outcomes. Be very careful about the expectations you set for children in your care; those beliefs can become self-fulfilling prophesies.
Examine your own life and challenge your self-limiting expectations. You'll have a very difficult time doing better in life than you think you can.


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Deutsche Tageszeitung - Shock turns to disbelief in mass shooting-hit Asian communities
Shock turns to disbelief in mass shooting-hit Asian communities
WIRTSCHAFT 25.01.2023
Shock turns to disbelief in mass shooting-hit Asian communities / Foto: © AFP
When an Asian man sprayed bullets around a dance studio full of Asian revelers in California, it sent shockwaves through the community.
When another Asian man attacked fellow Asian and Hispanic farmworkers in the same state two days later, that shock turned to disbelief.
"What the hell is going on," tweeted CNN correspondent Kyung Lah.
After Huu Can Tran, 72, was revealed as the suspect behind the massacre in Monterey Park on Saturday, an initial narrative of anti-Asian hate crime quickly gave way to a baffled groping for answers.
That was reinforced less than 48 hours later when Chunli Zhao was arrested on suspicion of mutiple murders in the small rural community of Half Moon Bay.
For some Asian Americans, the sudden eruption of violence is a corruption of what they hold dear.
"Mass shootings are an American thing; it doesn't happen in China, so that means Asians here have soaked up this Americanness," longtime Monterey Park resident Wynn Liaw told AFP.
Despite perceptions, extreme gun violence carried out by Asians and Asian Americans is approximately proportionate to population size.
The nonpartisan Violence Project says 6.4 percent of mass shootings in the United States between 1966 and 2020 were carried out by an ethnic Asian.
2020 census figures show around 7.2 percent of the population of the United States identified as Asian or mixed Asian.
But for many Asian Americans, it doesn't feel like that.
"People moved here because it was a Chinese community. They were more comfortable, and also it was safer," said Liaw, who arrived as a child with her family from Wuhan in 1982.
"I lost my sense of security since Saturday."
- 'Ethnoburb' -
Monterey Park is a home away from home for its largely Asian community, a proudly -- or stubbornly -- unintegrated corner of melting pot America.
Two thirds of the 60,000 people who live there are Asian; Mandarin is more commonly heard than English in shops and banks, and street signs are dominated by Chinese characters.
Wedged between Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley, it was marketed as a "Chinese Beverly Hills" by a local real estate magnate, attracting Taiwanese, Hong Kongers and latterly mainland Chinese.
"It is the 1st Asian ethnoburb: an ethnic enclave in the 'burbs that thrives b/c it refuses to assimilate, instead unapologetically catering to its own immigrant community," tweeted Bianca Mabute-Louie, a PhD candidate at Rice University.
"My grandparents never learned english yet thrived because of the ethnoburb."
While the ethnoburb may have kept America out for the last few decades, the weekend's mass shooting in Monterey Park brought America crashing in.
Professor James Zarsadiaz, a specialist in Asian American history at the University of San Francisco, said the events of the last few days had been profoundly disorienting for the community.
"I think for a lot of Asian Americans, what occurred, especially Monterey Park... was jarring and triggering (because) we assumed that the acts that were committed were anti-Asian in nature," he told AFP.
"But these two perpetrators are of Asian origin, and so it feels as if these are anomalies."
Zarsadiaz said an emphasis on respect and reverence, rather than confrontation, undergirded a broader Asian culture, which is sometimes expressed in the stereotype that "they don't complain."
The flipside is that difficult emotions tend to get bottled up.
"There's just a cultural notion that you 'deal with it'," he said.
"The Asian American community hasn't really talked in a very satisfying way (about) mental health," he said.
- 'They're happy' -
As Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay pass into the lexicon of American tragedy, alongside Sandy Hook, Uvalde and countless other sites of carnage, Zarsadiaz said there was a glimmer of hope that it could be a turning point for the Asian American community.
There are "Asian Americans who see these moments as actually a marker of political advocacy and action. Because, you know, this is obviously now about gun violence."
For Wynn Liaw in Monterey Park, it is tough to accept that her once-idyllic home now bears the same stain that disfigures other parts of her adopted country.
She says she probably won't, but she does think about leaving.
"I see people in China, they are almost in a childlike innocence," she said.
"The government shutters them but there are no guns, they have no drug addiction. So it feels like being a child: they work hard, study hard and they play. They're happy."
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Sogenannte Stille Reserve am Arbeitsmarkt 202...
Die sogenannte Stille Reserve am Arbeitsmarkt hat im Jahr 2021 gut 3,1 Millionen Menschen umfasst. Das entsprach rund 17 Prozent...
Ifo: Schwindender Pessimismus der Firmen zeig...
Der schwindende Pessimismus der Firmen bezüglich der wirtschaftlichen Lage zeigt sich auch auf dem Arbeitsmarkt: Die Einstellungsb...
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Weltweit agierendes Hackernetzwerk "Hive" zer...
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