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Note: the contents of this page as well as those which precede and follow, must be read as a continuation and/or overlap in order that the continuity about a relationship to/with the typical dichotomous assignment of Artificial Intelligence (such as the usage of zeros and ones used in computer programming) as well as the dichotomous arrangement of the idea that one could possibly talk seriously about peace from a different perspective... will not be lost (such as war being frequently used to describe an absence of peace and vice-versa). However, if your mind is prone to being distracted by timed or untimed commercialization (such as that seen in various types of American-based television, radio, news media and magazine publishing... not to mention the average classroom which carries over into the everyday workplace), you may be unable to sustain prolonged exposures to divergent ideas about a singular topic without becoming confused, unless the information is provided in a very simplistic manner.
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As was indicated on page two: AI and 3sology page2, the right hemisphere attributes such as music are particularly two-pattern oriented. But when the "twos" are analyzed by the predominantly oriented three-patterned left hemisphere, the "twos" begin to take on a "three" appearance or function or both. While we can note the existence of several two-patterned references in music such as major/minor, loud/quiet, etc., we must also note that the three-patterned structure of the ear is being filtered through a two-patterned right hemisphere... though some people may be using part of the right hemisphere instead. Nonetheless, despite the insistence of the right hemisphere to interpret in patterns-of-two, the left hemisphere has interpreted the existence of a triadic structure. Let's take a brief look at the development of European music notation:
Mensural notation
The freeing of ligatures from considerations of context occurred during the early 13th century. Time values for ligatures, single notes, and rests were codified around 1260 by the influential theorist Franco of Cologne.
These note symbols provided the basis for notation from the late 13th to the late 15th century. This system, called mensural notation, was based on several fundamental principles that determined the value of a note relative to that of its neighbours. In the terminology of mensural notation a given note might be either perfect—i.e., divided into three notes of the next lesser time value; or imperfect—i.e., divided into two notes of the next lesser value. Thus, as in part (a) of the example below, a long might be perfect, containing three breves; or imperfect, containing two breves.
The time-value relationships between breve and long similarly applied to the other pairs of notes:
maxima and long (longa)
breve and semibreve (semibrevis)
semibreve and minim (minima)
As the system of mensural notation evolved, another device, coloration, came into use. If a composer wished to render a potentially perfect note imperfect, he could write it in red, or as a hollow note:
...these two devices had, however, various other, less common meanings. About 1400, hollow note shapes were adopted where full black notes had hitherto been used, and full black served as coloration. The notes then current and their corresponding rests were as follows:
Transition to modern staff notation
In 16th-century manuscripts and, later, in printed music, the diamond-headed notes became rounded. Ligatures were used less often in the later 15th century. The principles of perfection and imperfection gave way to the modern relationship of 2 to 1 between adjacent note values, with the dot adding an extra half value to give a 3 to 1 relationship.
20th-century notation
Two developments in musical style in the 20th century have placed great strain upon staff notation: integral serialism—in which the music is controlled by a mathematical system—and indeterminacy, or chance music. In the former, every note in a texture may have its individual dynamic marking and type of attack (for example, in Olivier Messiaen's Mode de valeurs et d'intensités and in parts of Structures I and II of Pierre Boulez). There may also be extensive use of unconventional playing techniques. Since staff notation indicates volume, attack, and technical effects in a comparatively clumsy manner, the written page becomes cluttered and unclear. In indeterminate and aleatory music (the latter type allowing the performer a limited degree of freedom), the notation must offer choices to the performer or be deliberately imprecise. Staff notation is for these purposes often too specific. In addition, electronic music, composed with such devices as graphs, mathematical symbols, and diagrams, is not easily translated into a readable "score" for publication.
New systems
Notation, in face of this, has moved in two directions: toward adaptation of staff notation and toward the devising of new notational systems. Music using microtonal intervals (less than a semitone) has tended to adapt by modifying the standard accidental signs—meaning one-third sharp, two-thirds sharp, and so on (e.g., in Krzysztof Penderecki's Anaklasis).
So-called space time notation is a further adaptation that reasserts the graphic nature of staff notation. It abandons symbolic indication of note values and replaces it by the spacing of note heads horizontally on the staff, accompanied by an instruction such as "1 inch = 1 second." The principle may then be amplified by using different note heads:
...to signify short, medium, and long sustaining of a note, thus obviating the use of rests, and by beaming together notes to be performed in one breath or bow (e.g., Witold Lutoslawski's Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux and John Cage's Music of Changes).
Indeterminate music requires constant experimentation with notation. A composer may offer directions for one element of the music—as rhythm or pitch contour—and leave the performer to improvise the remaining elements. Or he may simply describe the general character of a passage by resorting to a specially designed symbol, a verbal description, or even an impressionistic drawing (as in Earle Brown's Hodograph). At the extreme, John Cage supplies "materials" (lines, dots, shapes) and leaves the performer to attach musical significance to them. For electronic music, published scores have so far adopted either strict graph form (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Electronic Study II; see illustration) or pictorial form, using patterned drawings to represent different timbres (as in Henri Pousseur's Electre [see ] and Stockhausen's Kontakte).
Source: "Musical Notation." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
Now we come to a point in which we must offer some rudimentary model for guiding our efforts along the path to creating a viable trinary computational system involving a [1,2,3... 3,... and 3 to 1 ratio] formula... even though some readers may well prefer a working model in order to copy from in a sort of reverse engineering way so as to short-cut expenditures of their own resources. Nonetheless, in this initial efforts we must design the amenities of a language around which the external framework will then be designed accordingly. Like an auditory process involving electrical, mechanical and fluidic properties, we must be open to the possible necessity of using multiple variants as well. We can not be like those who establish a trinary perspective then alter this to a 3 in 1 idea, but maintain it as a sacred idea without equal; if we are to transgress the boundaries of present computational design. For example, to advance the trinary idea of a (Christian) Trinity that then becomes defined as being of the same substance... yet is not identified as a symbolic representation of the Sun's three "moments" (dawn- noon- dusk); is a heresy to the notion that freedom of thought is permissible. We must transgress the old binary orientations.
In our comparison of physiology to present computer design in hopes to reveal a more promising architecture, we must realize that the analogy can be taken to an unnecessary replication when first beginning. For example, if our initial system is not to be concerned with equilibrium, there is no need for a gyroscopic apparatus, such as the three semi-circular canals of the ear:
The inner ear contains parts (the non-auditory labyrinth or vestibular organ) that are sensitive to acceleration in space, rotation, and orientation in the gravitational field. Rotation is signaled by way of the semicircular canals, three bony tubes in each ear that lie embedded in the skull roughly at right angles to each other. These canals are filled with fluid called endolymph; in the ampulla of each canal are receptor cells with fine hairs that project up into the fluid to be displaced as the endolymph lags behind when rotation begins. When rotation is maintained at a steady velocity, the fluid catches up, and stimulation of the hair cells no longer occurs until rotation suddenly stops, again circulating the endolymph. Whenever the hair cells are thus stimulated, one normally experiences a sensation of rotation in space. During rotation one exhibits reflex nystagmus (back-and-forth movement) of the eyes. Slow displacement of the eye occurs against the direction of rotation and serves to maintain the gaze at a fixed point in space; this is followed by a quick return to the initial eye position in the direction of the rotation. Stimulation of the hair cells in the absence of actual rotation tends to produce an apparent "swimming" of the visual field, often associated with dizziness and nausea.
Source: "Sensory reception, human." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
If by a process of elimination we come to a point of deciding that a "functional" brain for later application is of primary importance, because we will be able to attach other appendages and capacities to it; we must decide if the two hemispheres of our brain constitutes a fundamental binary system, or does the presence of a reptilian brain detail the existence of a trinary system? Surely the Reptilian brain may have earlier evolutionary substrates of itself, but by confining the discussion to the development of these three, the development from a reptilian brain to an old mammal brain, constitutes a former binary system atop a "monary" system. However, whether we use the New Mammal- Old Mammal- Reptilian ensemble or the New Mammal- Old Mammal systems to describe the influence of a "threes" presence in our ideas, the fact remains is that there is a presence... whether or not the existence is widely known. If the occasion for three-patterned ideas comes from a three-patterned genetic or anatomy, and must be filtered through a binary brain; to what extent will a binary character try to mold a three-patterned perspective into a two-patterned portrayal? By developing a three-patterned idea of dichotomy such as win-win, win-lose, lose-lose?
In our analysis, we point to the processes of speech, voice and energy in an electric circuit. With respect to energy, the human body may be seen as a type of leathery container of electrolytes supported by an articulating skeleton, relying on molecular processes for energy conversion and transference. However, this type of supportive hardware is not needed in some environments:
Bone is found only in vertebrates, and, among modern vertebrates, it is found only in bony fish and higher classes. Although ancestors of the cyclostomes and elasmobranchs had armoured headcases, which served largely a protective function and appear to have been true bone, modern cyclostomes have only an endoskeleton, or inner skeleton, of noncalcified cartilage and elasmobranchs a skeleton of calcified cartilage. Although a rigid endoskeleton performs obvious body supportive functions for land-living vertebrates, it is doubtful that bone offered any such mechanical advantage to the teleost (bony fish) in which it first appeared, for in a supporting aquatic environment great structural rigidity is not essential for maintaining body configuration. The sharks and rays are superb examples of mechanical engineering efficiency, and their perseverance from the Devonian Period attests to the suitability of their nonbony endoskeleton.
In modern vertebrates, true bone is found only in animals capable of controlling the osmotic and ionic composition of their internal fluid environment. Marine invertebrates exhibit interstitial fluid compositions essentially the same as that of the surrounding seawater. Early signs of regulability are seen in cyclostomes and elasmobranchs, but only at or above the level of true bone fishes does the composition of the internal body fluids become constant. The mechanisms involved in this regulation are numerous and complex and include both the kidney and the gills. Fresh and marine waters provide abundant calcium but only traces of phosphate; because relatively high levels of phosphate are characteristic of the body fluids of higher vertebrates, it seems likely that a large, readily available internal phosphate reservoir would confer significant independence of external environment on bony vertebrates. With the emergence of terrestrial forms, the availability of calcium regulation became equally significant. Along with the kidney and the various component glands of the endocrine system, bone has contributed to development of internal fluid homeostasis—the maintenance of a constant chemical composition. This was a necessary step for the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates. Furthermore, out of the buoyancy of water, structural rigidity of bone afforded mechanical advantages that are the most obvious features of the modern vertebrate skeleton.
Chemical composition and physical properties
Depending upon species, age, and type of bone, bone cells represent up to 15 percent of the volume of bone; in mature bone in most higher animals, they usually represent only up to 5 percent. The nonliving intercellular material of bone consists of an organic component called collagen (a fibrous protein arranged in long strands or bundles similar in structure and organization to the collagen of ligaments, tendons, and skin), with small amounts of proteinpolysaccharides, glycoaminoglycans (formerly0 known as mucopolysaccharides) chemically bound to protein and dispersed within and around the collagen fibre bundles, and an inorganic mineral component in the form of rod-shaped crystals. These crystals are arranged parallel with the long axes of collagen bundles and many actually lie in voids within the bundles themselves.
Source: "Bone." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
Collagen is the structural protein of bones, tendons, ligaments, and skin. For many years collagen was considered to be insoluble in water. Part of the collagen of calf skin, however, can be extracted with citrate buffer at pH 3.7. A precursor of collagen called procollagen is converted in the body into collagen. Procollagen has a molecular weight of 120,000. Cleavage of one or a few peptide bonds of procollagen yields collagen, which has three subunits, each with a molecular weight of 95,000; therefore, the molecular weight of collagen is 285,000 (3 × 95,000). The three subunits are wound as spirals around an elongated straight axis. The length of each subunit is 2,900 angstroms, and its diameter is approximately 15 angstroms. The three chains are staggered, so that the trimer has no definite terminal limits.
Collagen differs from all other proteins in its high content of proline and hydroxyproline. Hydroxyproline does not occur in significant amounts in any other protein except elastin. Most of the proline in collagen is present in the sequence glycine–proline-X, in which X is frequently alanine or hydroxyproline. Collagen does not contain cystine or tryptophan and therefore cannot substitute for other proteins in the diet. The presence of proline causes kinks in the peptide chain and thus reduces the length of the amino acid unit from 3.7 angstroms in the extended chain of the β-structure to 2.86 angstroms in the collagen chain. In the intertwined triple helix, the glycines are inside, close to the axis; the prolines are outside.
Source: "Protein." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
For The Reader: Please remember to read with a "threes" orientation in mind or you will overlook the recurrence of this pattern as an applicable resource with a commodity stretching far beyond the taffy pulls of conventional economics. Needless to say even though I have stopped to make mention of if, for some, the recurrence will be looked upon with as much significance as watching an ant pile, flock of birds, or forest of trees. They may be wistfully mesmerized like a person staring into campfire flames which evoke the seizure-like primitive absorptions of over self-indulgence.
(ATP is an) energy-carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things. ATP (adenosine triphosphate) captures chemical energy obtained from the breakdown of food molecules and releases it to fuel other cellular processes.
Cells require chemical energy for three general types of tasks: to drive metabolic reactions that would not occur automatically; to transport needed substances across membranes; and to do mechanical work, such as moving muscles. ATP is not a storage molecule for chemical energy; that is the job of carbohydrates, such as glycogen, and fats. When energy is needed by the cell, it is converted from storage molecules into ATP. ATP then serves as a shuttle, delivering energy to places within the cell where energy-consuming activities are taking place.
ATP is a nucleotide that consists of three main structures: the nitrogenous base, adenine; the sugar, ribose; and a chain of three phosphate groups bound to ribose.
Source: "adenosine triphosphate." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
3 primary cellular energy molecules:
AMP ~ ADP ~ ATP
AMP = Adenosine- Mono- Phosphate: (Mono = one)
ADP = Adenosine- Di- Phosphate: (Di = two)
ATP = Adenosine- Tri- Phosphate (Tri = three)
(ATP is primary energy source for cellular processes.)
Source: Bio-physiological 3s page 1
Let us say, for the sake of discussion, that the human body runs on low voltage Direct Current, but a computer relies on household high voltage Alternating Current, except of course were batteries are used, such as in lap-tops. If humans are running on a dominant binary code, than our present efforts are elementary exercise, but may one day result in trinary models of cognition. If however, the human body is using a dominant trinary code, than the present model is a primitive organism that we must initiate the evolution thereof, unless of course you prefer the "poof" or "shazam" idea attributed to an unseen god. Then again, perhaps humans are god in this instance... and the "poof" (not "proof") is to be expressed in our experiments where circuits are sometimes fried, leaving us humbled, but resiliently determined.
However, in as much as some may want to say we need to use small amounts of current in a small way, history has presented us with examples that many former life models used a lot of power to feed large factories called dinosaurs. The smaller one's seemed to have won out, that is if we accept the idea that the birds of today are the descendants of dinosaurs. Such may be the case for large humans to be replaced by smaller ones, though the advent of large nations of smaller bodies seems to be an instance in which they too will have to be down-sized because of over-consumption of resources from which energy is derived.... but we can work on the energy situation down the road in our discussion.
If we use an electrical- genetic- physics model as a background image to a possible new computational model, we are still left with designing a language. Instead of adopting the development of a language script to an electric-only reality, we need to take the position of developing a basic language as an amenity over-which an architecture may be laid. Will it be a spoken language, or a language of signs because the "body" of our computer is viewed from a deaf, dumb, and blind perspective?
Here's another example of the "eight" value, that may be more accurate to describe it as an unfinished series of three 3's (3-3-2):
First, an atom may complete its octet by sharing more than one pair of electrons with a bonded neighbour. Two shared pairs of electrons, represented by a double dash (=), form a double bond. Double bonds are found in numerous compounds, including carbon dioxide:
Three shared pairs of electrons are represented by a triple dash (≡) and form a triple bond. Triple bonds are found in, for example, carbon monoxide, nitrogen molecules, and acetylene, shown, respectively, as:
A double bond is stronger than a single bond, and a triple bond is stronger than a double bond. However, a double bond is not necessarily twice as strong as a single bond, nor is a triple bond necessarily three times as strong. Quadruple bonds, which contain four shared pairs of electrons, are rare but have been identified in some compounds in which two metal atoms are bonded directly together.
There is sometimes an ambiguity in the location of double bonds. This ambiguity is illustrated by the Lewis structure for ozone (O3). The following are two possible structures:
In such cases, the actual Lewis structure is regarded as a blend of these contributions and is written:
The blending together of these structures is actually a quantum mechanical phenomenon called resonance, which will be considered in more detail below. At this stage, resonance can be regarded as a blending process that spreads double-bond character evenly over the atoms that participate in it. In ozone, for instance, each oxygen-oxygen bond is rendered equivalent by resonance, and each one has a mixture of single-bond and double-bond character (as indicated by its length and strength).
Source: "chemical bonding." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
Catenation
Carbon is unique among the elements in the almost infinite capacity of its atoms to bond to each other in long chains, a process called catenation (Latin catena, chain). This characteristic reflects the strength of the bond between adjacent carbon atoms in the molecule, both in relationship to similar bonds involving other elements of the carbon family and in relationship to bonds between carbon atoms and atoms of many other elements. Only the carbon–hydrogen, carbon–fluorine, and carbon–oxygen single bonds (C-H, C-F, and C-O) are stronger than the carbon–carbon single bond (C-C), and each of these is weaker than the carbon–carbon multiple bonds (C=C or C≡C). On the other hand, the silicon–silicon single bond (Si-Si) is weaker than other single bonds involving an atom of other elements with the silicon atom. The same is undoubtedly true of the germanium–germanium and tin–tin single bonds (Ge-Ge, Sn-Sn) in relationship to single covalent bonds between atoms of these elements and atoms of other elements. Experimentally, there appears to be no practical upper limit to catenation involving carbon. This phenomenon in three dimensions produces the diamond and in two dimensions the layers in graphite. Catenation is also exhibited to a high degree by elemental silicon, germanium, and tin, but it is strictly limited in compounds of these elements; silicon may have up to 14 atoms in a chain; germanium, 9; and tin, 2 or 3 only, largely in hydrides (compounds containing hydrogen). Double and triple bonds in catenated arrangements are limited to carbon.
Source: "Carbon group element." Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, 2013.
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Alistair Thread - Lick a lamppost in winter!
I'm a good person, but I don't practice it.
Have you ever licked a lamppost in winter?
Lol. He looks likes such a doof in that pic. He's a cute doof though.
Ah, Alistair, my first Dragon Age love, the only ninjamance I was ever happy with.
Checking in for my all time favourite pixel love.
I love you, Alistair! Lamppost and all!
PC - Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.3GHz CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, RADEON R9 280X Toxic GPU, SAMSUNG EVO 830 SSD, piece of crap HP2311x Monitor. I really need to upgrade my rig.
Not gonna lie, after Solas crushed me I had to run back to the safety of Alistair!
Yeah, same here. Although Morrigan does tend to sneak up on me sometimes.
Dean Winchester is my spirit animal.
"This world is full of wonders for those who seek them."
Maker, I love Alistair so much! Just wish the devs wouldn't insist on creating situations where he can be killed of... (my headcount at the moment is at least 3 different kind of deaths).
"He is the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on... He has got huge, sharp -- eh -- he can leap about -- look at the bones!"
That's basically why I don't want any character I like to return. Offscreen they're safe.
It always tears my heart up more and more when users kill him off. I have to do anything it takes to keep the waterworks from flowing lol! I can't even read about gamers hurting Alistair, much less bear to watch the videos on YouTube about it, it just hurts way too much!
JUST LOOK AT THAT DANG SMILE. GOSH DANG ALISTAIR!
Don't worry I usually just had him bunch a drunk vagrant who claimed he was a prince.
._. Sometimes I had him executed though, and once I had him die in the Fade.
I am so bummed about my Queen being off doing the "cure for the calling" thing. I didn't need to see her, or hear about her, but I just want her to be with Alistair and they're happy snuggle floofkins. Y u roont it, BW?! Just leave them alone, they've been through enough!
If we're lucky the HoF will find the cure but I'm not very optimistic about it though a part of me refuses to lose hope. I just want my warden to live a happy life with Morrigan and Kieran.
I just love Alistair. He`s my favorite DragonAge romance .
I love Alistair! I'll never romance him (I refuse to sacrifice my fav character for him), but he's my Warden's best friend and almost like a brother to her. She loves to tease him and he gives as good as he gets!
I think Steve really went all out with him. I have played all the DA games but not one character has ever come across as realistically as Alistair. I feel like I'm talking to someone real.
I just had to come in here and check out the new digs for Alistarians.
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Global Media Moves: Tuesday 3 September
September 03, 2019 / by Dejla Kadhim
Global Media Moves including 9Honey / nine.com.au, Adelaide Advertiser, BuzzFeed Australia, The Age / The Sydney Morning Herald and more!
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Olivia Morris has been promoted to Line-Up Editor at 9Honey and nine.com.au. She has been with 9Honey since March 2019, when she joined as Weekend Producer. Prior to this, she was Lifestyle and Entertainment Producer at Yahoo Lifestyle Australia. Olivia can be found tweeting at www.twitter.com/liviamorris
Simeon Thomas-Wilson has recently started as a Sports Reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser with an Australian Football League focus. Prior to this, he was the City Editor and a Police and Urban Affairs Reporter for the same publication, and before that he worked as a Sports Reporter for The Mercury newspaper in Hobart, Tasmania. The Advertiser in Adelaide, Australia, is a metropolitan daily newspaper established in 1858. It provides local stories of the day, breaking news from around the world and the country. Simeon can be found tweeting at www.twitter.com/simeon_tw
Lane Sainty has recently been promoted to News Editor at BuzzFeed Australia. Previously Reporter, she can be found tweeting at www.twitter.com/lanesainty
Alyce Mokrzycki has joined the Centralian Advocate as a Senior Reporter. Prior to this, she was a Social Media Account Manager for News Xtend in Sydney, and also worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as a Foreign Correspondent in both the Middle East and South East Asia. The Centralian Advocate is a bi-weekly community newspaper servicing the Alice Springs region in Central Australia. Alyce has a background in anthropology and sociology, and recently completed a Master of Advanced Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney. Alyce can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/alycemokrzycki
Hafizah Osman has started as Editor at Intermedia looking after the Australian Printer magazine, Sprinter website and ProPack.pro mag and website. In the past, she worked for Mahlab publishing house, and was the Deputy Editor at ARN magazine of IDG Communications. Hafizah covers packaging and printing industries.
Priscilla Dickinson has joined Newshub NZ as the new Digital Money Editor. Priscilla covers personal finance and is based in Auckland. Newshub NZ is an online platform that brings together the updates from 3 News and RadioLIVE newsrooms.
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A long-standing dream of wanting to travel to Uzbekistan, sustained over 4 decades, was finally realised in September 2015. The decision happened just like that one morning in November 2014. Instead of wistfully saying or whining that "I want to go to Uzbekistan", I just told myself firmly, "I'm going to Uzbekistan".
And just like that the planning began for #MyDreamTripUzbekistan. 10 months later I was boarding a flight to Tashkent and was back home in India 12 days later after THE trip of a lifetime. In those 12 days in Uzbekistan, I travelled through the country by air, road and train covering 1,292 km, according to Google Maps, in addition to the 800 km I travelled from Tashkent to Nukus by air.
10 months after my return, here I am writing the last post in the Uzbekistan series. I must admit that while I enjoyed writing about and sharing details from the trip, I enjoyed your comments, mails, and messages even more. The response was overwhelming and I loved getting queries and questions about the trip. Thank you all for liking, commenting, re-tweeting, and sharing my posts.
For all those who have been asking for details on how I planned the trip and how it worked out, here's my ultimate Uzbekistan trip planner. It is based on the queries I received and presented in a Q&A format.
The origin of this post lies in a series of arguments discussions I had with my mother about vegetarian food in Uzbekistan before I left for my trip in September 2015.
Amma was convinced that I would not get any vegetarian food or have too few options in Uzbekistan and was determined that I carry some food with me. I was equally determined not to carry any food with me from India, as I knew from the background reading I had done that I would get vegetarian food. This back and forth continued for days till we arrived at a compromise: I would take some snacky items with me, and as a bonus, I offered to send pictures of every meal I had in Uzbekistan to Amma at the end of each day.
My first view of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan was at 2 am on a September morning in 2015 when my flight from Delhi landed. Of course, I saw nothing except lights !
An hour later, after having cleared immigration and customs, I was out and had my 'second' look at Tashkent on the short drive from the international to the domestic airport where I was to take my connecting flight to Nukus. The street lights revealed clean and broad tree-lined roads and a deliciously cool and crisp night air — a welcome relief from the heat and humidity of Mumbai and Delhi. A few hours later I saw Tashkent again, this time in daylight and again from the air. A green and lush city spread out below me and I could see only a few buildings breaking through that cover. I looked forward to returning to Tashkent and exploring if before boarding my return flight home.
10 days later, I was boarding the Afrosiyob bullet train at Samarqand for a super smooth and fast ride to Tashkent. But once there, I wasn't as excited as I was expecting it to be. Maybe it was the prospect of my Uzbekistan trip coming to an end or maybe it was because the hotel I was staying in Tashkent goofed up my booking, or maybe it was because I didn't get a decent vegetarian dinner that night. Or maybe it was all of the above.
When I first came across the term 'Silk Paper" in one of the many museums at Khiva, I was intrigued as to what it was.
Was silk paper a special kind of silk that looked and felt like paper? Or was it the other way around where paper felt and looked like silk? Or was the term used to refer to the silk money of Khorezm? The answer, I found out later, lay somewhere between all this and a little beyond.
While in Samarqand, I took a break from visiting the many monuments there to go see a silk paper factory in a village called Konigil. Located about 10 km from Samarqand on the picturesque banks of the River Siab, the Meros Silk Paper Factory is a family-run unit that has been in operation for about 12 years. During my visit there, not only did I get to know what silk paper was all about, I also saw the process that went into producing them, and got the opportunity to pick up some souvenirs !
Samarqand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, and is spread over three sites — the ancient settlement known as Afrosiab; the Timurid portion; and the modern part of the city. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, Samarqand is a contemporary of Rome and celebrated its 2750th birthday in 2007.
Located along the Great Silk Road at the crossroads of routes leading to Persia, India and China, Samarqand has drawn people from all over. It also attracted itinerant travelers like Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta, as well as purposeful conquerors like Alexander the Great and Shaybanid Khan alike. The former came out of curiosity; the latter to plunder or rule over its vast wealth. Samarqand drew me in as well, a modern-day traveler. If you have been following my Uzbekistan journey on this blog, then you will recall that it was a picture of a blue dome in Samarqand that had sparked off a desire to visit it.
I was in Samarqand for two days and got a glimpse of a fascinating past filled with myths, legends and historical events. I also saw many blue domes and many more works of art that were in different shades of blue. The amount of blue was enough to dub Samarqand as the blue city and use that title for this blog post as well ! 🙂 .
It was early evening when I arrived in Samarqand after a beautiful drive through the Zarafshan mountains from Shakhrisabz. As the car drove through the city towards the B&B I would be staying in, my first impressions were of an elegant and beautiful city filled with monuments. I kept an eye out for the Registan Square and even thought I glimpsed it, but could not be sure as the one way roads made me feel like we were going around in circles !
Once at the B&B, I was delighted to find from the very handy map given there that the Registan Square was just a 5-minute walk away. So after freshening up and some tea, I followed the directions on the map and within minutes was at the Registan Square. The sun had almost set and my first glimpse of the iconic monument complex was at twilight.
Time stopped still as I took in the magnificent sight before me and I think I had tears in my eyes as well. Over the next 2 days that I was at Samarqand, I would visit the Registan Square often, and each time it would be an overwhelming experience.


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This is an exclusive backstage interview at Concorde 2 with Paul McLoone (vocals) and Mickey Bradley (bass) of 70's punk rock band: The Undertones. We met the band before soundcheck on the last day of the 2011 UK tour in Brighton, December 10th.
If you could sum up your most recent album to our readers how would you describe it? Paul McLoone: Our most recent record was in 2007 Dig Yourself Deep. And what we are doing with this tour is celebrating the fact that this band has been in existence for 35 years. So it's really about that in combination with celebrating the debut album that came out back in the very late part of the 1970's called The Undertones. So we're playing that in total and some other songs obviously because it's not a very long record. We're working on a new record but it's not even at the beginning stages just yet. It's kind of before the beginning. We've 'demoed' some songs but we're a long way away from having a new record.
Paul: Very good. I was just about to point that out, no I wasn't. Mickey is much more on the ball.
Tell us something about your latest album Dig Yourself Deep that you're celebrating this tour with. Paul McLoone: Another very short, fast record which is what we do.
What are your plans for 2012? Paul McLoone: To make a new record. As I say, we haven't really knuckled down to it yet but, you know, we've got some good songs knocking around. Damien O'Neill our guitar player has some good musical ideas. John our main songwriter has some good songs. And Michael here I am sure will come up with a few good ones as well which is the way it usually happens. At some point in 2012 we obviously would like to get in the studio and see what we've got.
How have you enjoyed the tour? Paul McLoone: It's been really really good. We're always grateful to see so many familiar faces that turn up to see us after all these years. This is actually the second phase of the tour that started back in April really. It's kind of the sequel tour where we did London, Birmingham and Manchester in April and all those kind of places. And then we did smaller places this autumn/winter term. But it's been great so far.


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Severn distance to Rockville
How far is Severn from Rockville?
Shortest distance between Severn and Rockville is 24.64 miles (39.65 km).
Flight distance from Severn, MD to Rockville, MD is 24.64 miles. Estimated flight time is 00 hours 04 minutes.
The driving distance from Severn, Maryland to Rockville, Maryland is: 34.41 miles (55.37 km) by car.
Driving from Severn to Rockville will take approximately 00 hours 47 minutes.
#1 Severn
Census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
39°8'13"N 76°41'54"W
#2 Rockville
City in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
39°5'2"N 77°9'10"W
Starting point in Severn: Severn Station Road (-76.698308,39.13715)
Ending point in Rockville: South Washington Street (-77.152887,39.083997)
Estimated Travel Time Between Severn and Rockville
The distance between Severn and Rockville is 55 km if you choose to drive by road. You can go 00 hours 36 minutes if you drive your car at an average speed of 90 kilometers / hour. For different choices, please review the avg. speed travel time table on the below.
There is no time difference between Severn and Rockville. The current time is 06:27:26.
A car with a fuel efficiency of 8.3 l/100 km will need 4.6 liters (1.21 gallon) of gas to cover the route between Severn and Rockville.
The estimated cost of gas to go from Severn to Rockville is $4 (diesel $4.44).
The place names are translated into coordinates to approximate the distance between Severn and Rockville (latitude and longitude). Cities, states, and countries each have their own regional center. The Haversine formula is used to measure the radius.
Driving distance from Annapolis, MD to Severn 20.16 miles (32 km)
Driving distance from Baltimore, MD to Severn 16.66 miles (27 km)
Driving distance from Bethesda, MD to Severn 32.67 miles (53 km)
Driving distance from Bowie, MD to Severn 18.17 miles (29 km)
Driving distance from Catonsville, MD to Severn 12.39 miles (20 km)
Driving distance from Columbia, MD to Severn 14.57 miles (23 km)
Driving distance from Frederick, MD to Severn 50.08 miles (81 km)
Driving distance from Gaithersburg, MD to Severn 36.47 miles (59 km)
Gwynn Oak, MD
Driving distance from Gwynn Oak, MD to Severn 22.86 miles (37 km)
Driving distance from Hagerstown, MD to Severn 75.74 miles (122 km)
Driving distance from Hanover, MD to Severn 6.03 miles (10 km)
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Driving distance from New Mexico, MD to Severn 46.35 miles (75 km)


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Justin Bieber, criminal batterer? Seriously?
05/28/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment
A BoB short:
Okay, seriously . . . Justin Bieber "is a suspect in a criminal battery"?
We don't believe it. And not because we're Beliebers, but because . . . seriously: Justin Bieber?
We believed it when Sean Penn was accused of attacking a photographer in 2009, mostly because there was plenty of video of the incident, but also because he's Sean Penn. That guy is bad ass. And we certainly bought it when a pap announced back in 2006 that he'd been choked by Woody Harrelson, because . . . well let's just say that Woody Harrelson's dad once claimed to have been involved in the Kennedy assassination.
But Justin Bieber? According to TMZ, witnesses say Bieber was leaving a mall in Calabasas, California with girlfriend Selena Gomez on Sunday when a photographer got in the way of their car. Bieber asked him to get out of the way, the photog wouldn't, and "a scuffle ensued."
But a scuffle bad enough for the guy to later tell police he felt a pain in his upper torso (that'd be his chest, for you non-med students out there) and for an ambulance to be called? Come on. This is a picture of Justin Bieber:
Okay, that was a few years ago, but you get the point. The whole thing sounds like a set-up: a lawyer just happened to be nearby and walked up to the photog after and advised him he could get a lot of money out of the incident and that he should file a police report. Handy.
One again. Justin Bieber:
Sean Penn:
We rest our case.
– Zeff Davies
Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: celebrity, Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber Fans says
Hahaha I agree with you on this point. Lot of difference between Justin and Sean. It will surely be a setup. Poor Justin.
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Conversion of gamma radiation into useful electricity?
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There aren't enough gamma rays around to be useful, are there?
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In mathematics, the Hilbert–Burch theorem describes the structure of some free resolutions of a quotient of a local or graded ring in the case that the quotient has projective dimension 2.  proved a version of this theorem for polynomial rings, and  proved a more general version. Several other authors later rediscovered and published variations of this theorem.  gives a statement and proof.

Statement
If R is a local ring with an ideal I and

is a free resolution of the R-module R/I, then m = n – 1 and the ideal I is aJ where a is a regular element of R and J, a depth-2 ideal, is the first Fitting ideal  of I, i.e., the ideal generated by the determinants of the minors of size m of the matrix of f.

References

Commutative algebra
Theorems in algebra

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Music from Mozart's Last Year at Parlance Chamber Concerts
May 14, 2019 Parlance Chamber Concerts News
by Michael Parloff, Artistic Director, Parlance Chamber Concerts
On Sunday afternoon, May 19 at 3 PM, Parlance Chamber Concerts's 12th season will conclude with Leading Members of the Metropolitan Opera, the Calidore String Quartet, and renowned organist Paul Jacobs exploring the profoundly mysterious world of Mozart's Last Year. The program will showcase Mozart's works from 1791, including songs, arias, organ music, his last string quintet, and two mesmerizing works featuring glass harmonica.
Twelve superb musicians will be featured on Sunday afternoon, including six top performers from the Metropolitan Opera. Soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer will perform late songs and an aria from Mozart's last-composed opera, La Clemenza di Tito. Wendy recently appeared in Met performances of Wagner's Ring Cycle in the roles of Freia and Ortlinde, and she has appeared in many other Met productions and HD broadcasts in recent seasons. She will be joined by the pianist Ken Noda, a renowned vocal collaborator and sought-after coach of singers at the Metropolitan Opera, where he serves as Musical Advisor the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Three leading woodwind players from the Met Orchestra will also perform, including principal oboist Elaine Douvas, principal flutist Chelsea Knox, and principal clarinetist Inn-Hyuck Cho. In a special appearance, the Met's brilliant glass harmonica virtuoso, Friedrich Heinrich Kern, will be spotlighted in Mozart's beguiling late chamber works for that ethereal instrument.
Master organist Paul Jacobs will perform a late Mozart Fantasy on West Side Presbyterian Church's beautiful Nichols & Simpson organ. The only organist to have won a GRAMMY Award, Paul has been hailed as "one of the major musicians of our time" by the New Yorker's music critic, Alex Ross.
Finally, the award-winning Calidore String Quartet will be joined by violist Matthew Lipman in a performance of Mozart's last chamber work for strings, the great Quintet in E-flat, K. 614. The Calidore Quartet has enjoyed an impressive number of accolades, including their most recent award of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.
Although Mozart only lived to be 35, his late music plumbs the depths of the human soul, blending simplicity and profundity in equal proportions. Sunday afternoon's concert will begin in a mood of optimism and spiritual renewal with three charming children's songs, K. 596 – 598, about the advent of spring. Composed in a single afternoon in January,1791, the songs were commissioned by a Viennese bookseller-illustrator, Ignaz Alberti, who compiled volumes of children's songs about the four seasons.
Next, we will hear Mozart's final piece of chamber music, the haunting Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola, and cello, K. 617. In May of 1791, Mozart attended a performance by the celebrated blind glass harmonica virtuosa, Marianne Kirchgässner. He fell under her spell and was inspired to take time off from his work on The Magic Flute to compose this mesmerizing work.
The first half of the concert will conclude with another unusual product of his final year, his grand Organ Fantasy in F minor, K. 594. This work was originally conceived for a mechanical clock organ in a mausoleum designed to honor the recently deceased military hero, Field Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon. Two elegiac F-minor adagios frame an exhilarating F-major allegro that evokes the heroic personality and military triumphs of the late Field Marshal. Since the piece was originally composed for a mechanical instrument, it is extremely challenging for a live performer. Fortunately, Sunday's performance will showcase the talents of Paul Jacobs, one of the truly exceptional organists of our time.
The second half of the concert will open with the poignant soprano aria, Non più di fiori from Mozart's last-composed opera, La Clemenza di Tito. The singer's phrases are interlaced with the soulful strains of a solo basset horn. Mozart wrote the large instrumental obligato to feature the legendary playing of his friend Anton Stadler, one of history's greatest clarinetists.
Parlance Chamber Concerts's 12th season will conclude with Mozart's effervescent String Quintet in E-Flat, K. 614, the great composer's final large-scale piece of chamber music.
For complete program and ticket information for Sunday afternoon's concert, click here.
The performance will take place this Sunday, May 19, from 3:00 PM to approximately 5:00 PM.
The event will take place at West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood. Free parking and childcare for children 3 to 6. Tickets at the door: Adults $40; Seniors (65+): $30; Young Adults (21 – 39): $20; Students (under 21): $10


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Q: Restoring Non-Renewable Subscriptions I am working with Non-Renewable Subscriptions and In-App purchases for the first time and I am having issues publishing my app because of the restoration of old purchases.
Based on this code that I have:
1) Should I call my restoreProduct method on the paymentQueue or on the paymentQueueRestoreCompletedTransactionsFinished ?
2) Neither the "case .restored" or the paymentQueueRestoreCompletedTransactionsFinished are being triggered, what am I doing wrong and how could I fix it?
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import Foundation
import UIKit
import StoreKit

class SubscriptionViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

    @IBOutlet weak var moreDetails: UIButton!
    @IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!

    // For the in app purchase
    let productIdentifiers = Set([Constants.oneMonthSubscription, Constants.threeMonthsSubscription,
        Constants.sixMonthsSubscription, Constants.yearSubscription])

    var basePrice = Double()
    var product: SKProduct?
    var productsArray = Array<SKProduct>()
    var errorCount = 0
    var user = User()
    var newUser = true
    var cameFromLogin = false
    var processing = false
    var userOneSignalId = NSString()
    var service = ""
    var transactionDate = 0.0
    var transactionId = ""
    var count = 0

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        self.tableView.dataSource = self
        self.tableView.delegate = self

        requestProductData()
    }

    override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

        SKPaymentQueue.default().remove(self)
    }

    // Pop-up to indicate an error in the credentials or the authentication process
    func showSignUpError(_ message: NSString){

        let optionMenu = UIAlertController(title: nil, message: message as String, preferredStyle: .alert)

        let dismissAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: { (alertAction: UIAlertAction!) in optionMenu.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) })

        optionMenu.addAction(dismissAction)

        self.present(optionMenu, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

extension SubscriptionViewController:  UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

    func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return self.productsArray.count
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        let product = self.productsArray[(indexPath as NSIndexPath).section]
        let productIdentifier = product.productIdentifier
        let price = product.price
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "PromoCell", for: indexPath) as! PromoCell

        cell.subscription.tag = (indexPath as NSIndexPath).section
        cell.subscription.addTarget(self, action: #selector(SubscriptionViewController.didTapButton(_:)), for:.touchUpInside)

           cell.subscription.setTitle( "$\(price)",for: UIControlState())

        return cell

    }

    func didTapButton(_ sender: UIButton!){

        if !processing{ // Will proccess just one purchase request at the same time

            // Section to hide/show
            let tappedSection = sender.tag;
            self.processing = true
            print("User selected : \(self.productsArray[tappedSection].productIdentifier)")
            self.buyProduct(self.productsArray[tappedSection])
        }
    }
}

extension SubscriptionViewController :  SKProductsRequestDelegate, SKPaymentTransactionObserver{

    // Sends a request to find out which products are available for purchase
    func requestProductData(){

        self.tableView.isHidden = true

        // Checks if In-App purchase is enabled
        if SKPaymentQueue.canMakePayments() {

            // Requests the product list/set
            let request = SKProductsRequest(productIdentifiers: self.productIdentifiers)
            request.delegate = self
            request.start()

        } else { // Shows an error message and options to enable the In-App Purchases for the app

            let alert = UIAlertController(title: "In-App Purchases Not Enabled", message: "Please enable In App Purchase in Settings", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Settings", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { alertAction in

                alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

                // Opens the settings so the user can enable the In-App purchase
                let url: URL? = URL(string: UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString)
                if url != nil{
                    UIApplication.shared.openURL(url!)
                }

            }))
            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { alertAction in
                alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
            }))
            self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }

    // Recieves the answer for the previous request
    func productsRequest(_ request: SKProductsRequest, didReceive response: SKProductsResponse) {

        self.productsArray = response.products
        productsArray.sort(by: {$0.price.int32Value < $1.price.int32Value})

        for item in self.productsArray {
            if item.productIdentifier.range(of: "1month") != nil {
                self.basePrice = item.price.doubleValue //Price for the most basic subscription
                break
            }
        }

        let productsNotFound = response.invalidProductIdentifiers

        for product in productsNotFound{
            print("Product not found: \(product)")
        }

        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            Loading.stopRotation()
        }

        self.tableView.isHidden = false
        self.tableView.reloadData()
    }

    // Asks for confirmation when buying a product
    func buyProduct(_ product: SKProduct) {

        Loading.startRotation()
        let payment = SKPayment(product: product)
        SKPaymentQueue.default().add(self)
        SKPaymentQueue.default().add(payment)
    }

    func paymentQueue(_ queue: SKPaymentQueue, updatedTransactions transactions: [SKPaymentTransaction]) {

        for transaction in transactions  {

            Loading.stopRotation()

            switch transaction.transactionState {

            case .purchased:

                print("Transaction Approved")
                print("Product Identifier: \(transaction.payment.productIdentifier)")

                print("Purchasing... Transaction ID: " + transaction.transactionIdentifier!)
                print("Purchasing... Transaction Date: " + String(describing: transaction.transactionDate?.timeIntervalSince1970))

                print("\n\n--------------\n\n")

                SKPaymentQueue.default().finishTransaction(transaction)

                transactionDate = (transaction.transactionDate?.timeIntervalSince1970)!
                transactionId = transaction.transactionIdentifier!

                self.deliverProduct(transaction)

            case .restored:

                let transaction = SKPaymentTransaction()
                transaction.setValue(NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: 1480468782), forKey: "transactionDate")
                transaction.setValue( "1000000254866709", forKey: "transactionIdentifier")

                print("Product Identifier: \(transaction.original?.payment.productIdentifier)")
                print("Restoring... Transaction ID: " + (transaction.original?.transactionIdentifier)!)
                print("Restoring... Transaction Date: " + String(describing: transaction.original?.transactionDate?.timeIntervalSince1970))
                print("\n\n--------------\n\n")

                SKPaymentQueue.default().finishTransaction(transaction)

               transactionDate = (transaction.original?.transactionDate?.timeIntervalSince1970)!
               transactionId = (transaction.original?.transactionIdentifier)!

                self.restoreProduct(transaction)

            case .failed:

                print("Transaction Failed")
                print(transaction.error)

                SKPaymentQueue.default().finishTransaction(transaction)
                if transaction.error?._code == 0 || transaction.error?._code == 2 {
                    self.errorCount += 1 //

                    if self.errorCount > 3 { // We give the app three chances to connect
                        print("Error connecting to the iTunes Store")
                        self.showSignUpError(Constants.iTunnesConnectionError as NSString)
                    }

                }else{

                    self.showSignUpError(Constants.signUpError as NSString)
                }

                self.processing = false
            default:
                break
            }
        }
    }

    func paymentQueueRestoreCompletedTransactionsFinished(_ queue: SKPaymentQueue) {

        print("Transactions Restored .")

        for transaction in queue.transactions {
            let transaction: SKPaymentTransaction = transaction
            print(transaction.transactionIdentifier ?? "Missing Transaction ID")
        }
    }

    func deliverProduct(_ transaction:SKPaymentTransaction) {

    }

    func restoreProduct(_ transaction:SKPaymentTransaction) {

    }
}

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We are pleased to announce that three Wellbeing evenings and one new Wellbeing Day for School Staff have been announced. Places can now be booked through our Eventbrite pages.
On Thursday 22nd May we'll be running our next Soulful Wellbeing Day for School Staff at the beautiful Whirlow Spirituality Centre on the outskirts of Sheffield.
Our day in January was a great success and proved to be a wonderfully creative and restorative day for those who attended. We've included a gallery of pics from the day below.
This day is led by Ben Harper of Space to Breathe and draw wisdom from positive psychology, social anthropology and spirituality. Ben will use his Wellbeing Triangle as a way into helping you to live more well, live more fully and live more deeply.
We can also announce that three Wellbeing Evenings will be running on 27th February, 6th March and 14 March. These three evenings come as a package and break down our normal content into three bitsize chunks.
Both the day and evening are available for £63.47/person and the price includes food and resources.
You can book onto the day or evenings via our Eventbrite pages below.
You can also listen to Ben sharing a bit more about the upcoming evening events.
We'd love to see you at one of these events and are excited how they'll help School Staff do the amazing job they do.


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DC Comics has swapped out the art on the upcoming Young Justice #1 cover to a new image by series artist Patrick Gleason. The previous image, spotlighting the male heroes alone, is now being slotted as #3's cover.
As part of this, an inked version of this new cover will also be offered as a variant.
The publisher will be inculding a nine-page advertorial for Young Justice and the rest of the Wonder Comics line-up in various DC titles coming in January 2019.


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News Event Recap
WATCH: Reports from the international journalism community
Media Impact Funders
Our latest Jounalism Funders Network webinar focused on the themes and highlights of a few big gatherings for the international journalism community:
April 3-9—The International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy
April 9—Media Impact Funders' one-day pre-conference funder gathering at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, England;
April 12-13—The 20th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin, Texas
We heard from:
Rosental Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism and founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, who gave us the highlights from the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin.
Sandy Herz, Director of Global Partnerships at Skoll Foundation, who inspired us with the power of journalistic storytelling for social impact. Herz noted one particularly important session, which centered on global press freedom and how, increasingly, journalists are under attack.
Miguel Castro, Senior Officer for Global Media Partnerships at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who reported back from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, where he presented in sessions on journalism funding and building trust. In addition to IJF, Castro mentioned a few other global conferences that could be of interest for journalism funders:
The Gen Summit
International Press Institute World Congress
Global Fact-Checking Summit
Global Investigative Journalism Conference
We hope this discussion will help you participate in one or more of these conferences next year. Watch the webinar below:
Media Impact Funders traces its roots back to the Council on Foundations, a longtime philanthropy-serving organization. Formerly Grantmakers in Film, Video & Television, MIF began on a volunteer basis in 1984 as an affinity group for funders interested in the power of film to highlight social issues. Reflecting changes in technology and media behavior over the past decade, it was renamed Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media (GFEM) and formally incorporated in 2008 to advance the field of media arts and public interest media funding. It had 45 members and was headed by former MacArthur Foundation Program Officer Alyce Myatt. GFEM was renamed Media Impact Funders in 2012 and has since expanded its strategy to include a broad range media funding interests such as journalism, immersive technologies, media policy and more. Since that time, MIF has grown to more than 80 organizational members representing some of the largest foundations, and holds more than 40 in-person and online events yearly.


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Q: Make copy-paste code, triggered by button at different locations, faster I made a model for our project managers to follow the economy in different projects.
A wish for the model was the option to add rows into the matrix I made without losing the formulas and subtotals within the scheme.
By copy-pasting and editing formulas from this site I made buttons throughout the matrix to add rows.
It is slow. Whenever they press one of my buttons it takes about 44 seconds for a new row to be added and the formulas etc. to be copy-pasted into the new row.
It looks like it is all the copy-paste steps that is the trouble.
Can I make this copy-paste-code faster?
I tried copying the range instead but I can't make that work, neither copying the entire row (it also pastes the button, which I would like it NOT to).
Sub Tilføj_række()

Dim b As Object, cs As Integer
Set b = ActiveSheet.Shapes(Application.Caller)
With b.TopLeftCell.EntireRow.Offset(1, 0)
    .Insert
    .Cells(1, 3).Copy .Cells(0, 3)
    .Cells(1, 4).Copy .Cells(0, 4)
    .Cells(1, 5).Copy .Cells(0, 5)
    .Cells(1, 6).Copy .Cells(0, 6)
    .Cells(1, 7).Copy .Cells(0, 7)
    .Cells(1, 8).Copy .Cells(0, 8)
    .Cells(1, 9).Copy .Cells(0, 9)
    .Cells(1, 10).Copy .Cells(0, 10)
    .Cells(1, 11).Copy .Cells(0, 11)
    .Cells(1, 12).Copy .Cells(0, 12)
    .Cells(1, 13).Copy .Cells(0, 13)
    .Cells(1, 14).Copy .Cells(0, 14)
    .Cells(1, 15).Copy .Cells(0, 15)
    .Cells(1, 16).Copy .Cells(0, 16)
    .Cells(1, 17).Copy .Cells(0, 17)
    .Cells(1, 18).Copy .Cells(0, 18)
    .Cells(1, 19).Copy .Cells(0, 19)
    .Cells(1, 20).Copy .Cells(0, 20)
    .Cells(1, 21).Copy .Cells(0, 21)
    .Cells(1, 22).Copy .Cells(0, 22)
End With
End Sub

A piece of my matrix looks like this where the green buttons are the triggers for the code.

The bold rows contains sum-functions.
I hope you geniuses can help me once more.

A: Sometimes the answer is so simply and right in front of you, that you overlook it....
Almost right after I gave up and posted this, I found the answer myself, so if someone is ever in the same trouble as I was, the answer is:
Sub Tilføj_række()

        Dim b As Object, cs As Integer
        Set b = ActiveSheet.Shapes(Application.Caller)
        With b.TopLeftCell.EntireRow.Offset(1, 0)
    .EntireRow.Copy
    .Insert

        End With

End Sub


Ann Weber has been making sculpture, using cardboard as her primary medium, in the Bay Area for over 25 years. She currently maintains a studio in Los Angeles to create a broader audience for her work and to be inspired by new surroundings.
She recently exhibited a large grouping of her work at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and created a site-specific work for MOAH Museum in Lancaster, California. She had her second solo show at her gallery, Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco in 2015. Additional solo venues include the Boise Art Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, Triton Museum, the Fresno Art Museum and the 798 Art Zone in Beijing.
Residencies at the American Academy in Rome, the Oberpfalzer Kunslerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, the Internation School of Beijing, Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, California, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, Albion College in Michigan and the Lux Institute in San Diego provided her with opportunities to create sculpture in extraordinary settings and interact with a diverse audience.
Casting the cardboard sculptures into bronze or fiberglass culminated in Public Art Projects in the State Capitol Health Services Building in Sacramento, Skyline Park in Denver and the Cesar Chavez Library in Phoenix.
Necessity is the mother of invention, even for artists who seem to have a wide array of traditional materials to work with. Ann Weber trained in clay at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, her mentor being the formidable Viola Frey, but after graduation she realized it would be prohibitively costly to set up her own ceramics studio. So she experimented with a number of other malleable materials including plaster, paper mache, and canvas.
After moving to a new studio in East Oakland, she sat contemplating a pile of leftover cardboard in the middle of the floor. Inspired by the Ann Weber has been making sculpture, using cardboard as her primary medium, in the Bay Area for over 25 years. She currently maintains a studio in Los Angeles to create a broader audience for her work and to be inspired by new surroundings.cardboard furniture of Frank Gehry, she decided to use them for her next art project. "I wanted to eliminate the cumbersome properties of clay," she says, "and cardboard felt like it had infinite possibilities." It was also readily available— these days she culls cardboard boxes from her local Trader Joe's. She likes integrating the properties of her finds into her work, whether they be for color, illustration, or specific words.
Weber cuts the cardboard into strips, weaving them together and then fastening them with staples to make freestanding shapes. "I could build a 6-foot-tall sculpture in a day," she says of her discovery. "They were rough and raw, which also appealed to me "" it reminded me of the Arte Povera movement." In that Italian movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists such as Marisa Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto used everyday material, including textiles and leftover construction material, to make work.
In this exhibition several pieces were inspired by other artists. Weber's first college degree was in art history, from Purdue University, and she has a wealth of art history knowledge percolating in her mind. Three works make reference to Ellsworth Kelly, the great Minimalist painter, and his use of primary colors. For Weber, who was taken by his remarkable series Spectrum, his paintings are not just paintings, but have great presence in the space they occupy. Another series pays homage to the brilliant Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Having spent time in Rome as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, she has had a chance to admire Bernini's sculpture up close such as the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona. She is particularly taken with his dramatic rendering of drapery, and thus the enfolded twists of After Bernini, Rio de la Plata (2013).
Her work often becomes anthropomorphic "" they are like characters from a story. She herself thinks of them as "biomorphic abstractions." The "Personage" series in particular appeals to her feeling that one thing comes from another, that everything in the world is connected. The cutout pieces from one work become the basis of the next work. "These pieces are metaphors for my life," Weber says, "perhaps love affairs or periods of obstacles." In the sculpture Almost (2005), two tall pieces stand next to one another, with curves and recesses that look like they would fit together "" but they don't exactly.
One of my favorites is The Wedding Party (2009), an installation composed of seven pieces ranging in size from 10" tall a boxy sculpture, perhaps the wedding gift -- to a figure 8' tall. That tall figure and a smaller one are shaped like upsidedown teardrops, with slender "waists" held up on a rounded base. One can imagine, given the title of the installation, that they might be the couple about to be married, with other members of the celebration gathered around them. Indeed her works are often exuberant and celebratory, unexpected and witty entities that spring into our presence, and invite us to share a personal connection with them.
Scarlet Cheng is a Los Angeles based art critic, a regular contributor to publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Artillery art magazine, and The Art Newspaper. She was formerly Managing Editor of Asian Art News, a magazine based in Hong Kong, and an Associate Editor at Time-Life Books, based in Alexandria, VA. Currently, she also teaches art and film history at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art & Design.


Black Diamond Tattoo, located at 412 Lincoln Blvd., will host an all-day tattoo event in celebration of Friday the 13th. All seven of their talented tattoo artists (coincidence?) will be in house ready to ink guests with Friday the 13th-inspired flash tattoos for $50 a pop.
Note: these are not the golden plumes and silver chevrons "flash tattoos" that wash off after Coachella. The term flash tattoo in this case refers to a flash sheet of pre-designed tattoos, applied the old fashioned way. As in forever.
After one, you might want another. Something more substantial. And if you stick around for the raffle, you could win a back piece or a half sleeve.
As for treats that never last long enough, Coolhaus ice cream truck and Dogtown Dogs will also be on scene serving up snacks from 5 to 9 p.m.


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Germans hear Canadian ideas on Integration
Related programs:
Europe Program, Migration
On March 29, the Canadian Embassy, the Hertie Foundation and GMF Berlin gathered 15 German and Canadian Integration Experts and Practicioners at the Timber Hall of the Canadian Embassy in Berlin in order to exchange ideas on the "Future of Multiculturalism - a Canadian - German debate on the future of diversity and the concept of Multiculturalism". The purpose of the meeting was to develop broader policy concepts as a framework for concrete policy instruments.
Input for discussion was provided by Leslie F. Seidle, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. He presented the results of his study "Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada", which includes the latest and most comprehensive research on the concept of diversity in Canada. This was responded to by the Germans who were present who are members of the ongoing working groups of the Integration Summit of the German Chancellor and are in the process of drafting a comprehensive integration concept. This so-called "Integration Plan" will be presented by Chancellor Merkel this summer.
The debate focused on the concept of "shared citizenship" developed by Seidle and his co-authors. They argue in favour of a broader, more liberal concept of integration, based on the values of a liberal-democratic state. The basic arguments were:
strengthening shared citizenship: sense of belonging to a broader community, sense of civic engagement, pursuit of common projects
Shared citizenship flows from the values of a liberal-democratic state and the three equalities: human rights; socioeconomic equality; political equality.
"When multiculturalism is unhinged from equality, it tends to careen off in unpleasant directions."
Seidle gave a comprehensive overview and insight into the Canadian debate and therefore enabled the participants to reflect better on the German situation. The main areas identified to work on were: Integration and the education system, religious diversity, immigration regulations and media and integration.


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Arts & Entertainment Salaries in Canada for University of British Columbia
Arts & Entertainment40 salaries
Associate Designer
Curatorial Assistant
How much does University of British Columbia - Arts & Entertainment in Canada pay?
The average University of British Columbia monthly salary ranges from approximately $4,127 per month for Curatorial Assistant to $7,492 per month for Associate Designer. The average University of British Columbia salary ranges from approximately $25,000 per year for Model to $105,793 per year for Senior Designer.


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