Adobe buildings are highly vulnerable in earthquakes. It is painfully evident that each time a strong earthquake strikes in areas where earthen building is common, there is widespread damage to earthen historical monuments and housing and tragic loss of life due to the collapse of these constructions. Recently, this has been seen in Pisco city (Peru) during the earthquake of Mw = 8.0 on August 17, 2007, where more than 500 people died and more than 37 500 dwellings collapsed, where the majority of them were constructed in adobe.
In this research, the seismic risk of non-engineered adobe dwellings located in Cusco (Peru) is studied based on mechanical procedures. The analysis takes into account both in-plane and out-of-plane failure mechanisms of adobe walls. The capacity of each dwelling has been expressed as a function of its displacement capacity and period of vibration, and has been evaluated for different limit states. A probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for Cusco has been carried out to obtain displacement response spectra for different return periods. Finally, from the comparison of the capacity with the demand, probabilities of failure have been obtained for different return periods. These can be expressed in terms of conditional or unconditional seismic risk. The first takes into account fragility curves as function of PGA values, while the second one takes into account many possible future earthquake scenarios that could impact upon urban areas during a given exposure time window.


At the beginning of every year, a surge in demand for Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tickets takes place. Yet, it appears that overeager patrons find it very frustrating to use the HK Ticketing, the official website to book tickets online and to call for reservations.
A number of feedback was received by South China Morning Post regarding how their attempts in securing venue tickets went. Debbie McGowan of Happy Valley expressed dismay on the apparent difficulty in finding tickets in an orderly fashion. Debbie cited that both the website and ticket hotline were unable to address the surge in demand for Sevens tickets.
While a limited number of phone operators, it's understandable that not everyone will be accommodated at once. But with the website in place, it's hard to argue why it couldn't handle such online transaction. According to a press release, at least 5,000 tickets will be made available for the local public to purchase on January 16. But the process online was far from orderly according to some fans.
Alexandra Vermala of Pok Fu Lam tried but couldn't secure a ticket via phone after attempts to do so in 2 and half hours. She then turned to the web as alternative to buy the tickets, only to read the note that the system was busy and asked visitors to try again. Upset over her failed attempts to get a ticket using two methods, she thought she could have got the ticket herself if she decided to spend the night waiting in line for ticketing office to open the next day rather than stare hopelessly on the computer screen or perpetually dial the phone.
While Hong Kong Rugby Football Union describes this as an efficient way to distribute tickets, efficiency is but a relative term and I don't want to dwell into the topic. My concern was about the HK Ticketing website, which was supposed to be an avenue of efficiency. A fan can simply go online and make the booking without leaving home or office to queue. Yet, the website was a disgrace and didn't serve its purpose. Built on a cranky classic ASP platform, the website is not capable of handling multiple users logged at the same time.
Not only atrocious on performance, the website is long overdue for a revamp as it's so last decade not only in design (frames is still one of the culprits to this bad user experience), but also on other aspects such as payment procedure (I thought I can save money by going online; I still need to pay HK$10 handling fee to customer relations staff).
I wish next year, HK Ticketing will be able to sort out the problem. The staff has all the lean months at their disposal to fix the problem and learn from mistakes. And hopefully, we can avoid these kinds of comments from fans who can't afford to miss the excitement.


I hate being in front, and I hate being in back and I don't like responsibility, and I don't obey orders.
T. E. Lawrence, in a letter to V. W. Richards, 1918.
At the risk of waxing a bit metaphysical, consider the leadership of T. E. Lawrence: scholar, author, warrior, poet . . . and innovator. There may be a lesson in his life for anyone who is interested in leading meaningful change in the world and creating the conditions necessary for innovation.
Leading innovation and innovators is essentially leading into the unknown. For all our desire and need to create certainty in our businesses and in our lives, the act of creating something new is essentially the act of jumping off a cliff. We cannot predict the future with much clarity, nor can we foresee all of the potential fallout from innovative actions. The world is just too random, too messy, and too chaotic to succumb to the illusion of a consistently predictable causality. Instead, as we consider the act of leading innovation, perhaps we should rely on something else: contradiction.
As a leader, T. E. Lawrence was a study in contradiction, as the quotation above shows. And, as is also obvious, his innovative and high-risk approach to conflict was not something that could be slotted neatly into a general plan of action, even though he operated within the regulated hierarchy of the military world. He was resourceful, creative, resilient, daring and inherently unpredictable at any one point in time. His relationship to military hierarchy, to central commands, to process and to "orders" was one of polite disdain. He was very clear about a particular vision, deeply grounded in the culture in which he operated, and never once lost sight of the larger goal. Without his inventiveness and personal risks, things would have turned out quite . . . differently.
There was, of course, a second element of innovation at play in Lawrence's early 20th century world, and that was the leadership of Edmund Allenby. Leadership does not occur in isolation, but in dynamic interpersonal relationships, oftentimes grounded in personal conflict and disagreement -- sometimes, intense conflict and profound disagreement. The genius of Lawrence was to be in a constant state of innovation and invention, responding to opportunity, learning and change almost hourly. The genius of Allenby was to understand Lawrence and to give him a remarkable level of freedom and autonomy. But the real genius -- the system genius, as it were -- was the interplay of contradiction between the two. The result of this interplay was an innovative and novel set of tactics applied to a conflict situation that was mind-numbingly obtuse and difficult.
The relationship of these two leaders was deeply dependent on the resources and resourcefulness of the other, yet both of them operated independently of the other, and frequently at cross purposes to the other. But, operate together they did: in contradiction. It is the contradiction -- autonomy and independence operating simultaneously with deep inter-dependence -- that fueled their unique innovations and leadership.
But, as critical as autonomy and independence were to Lawrence's innovation and to Allenby's leadership, neither condition mattered as much as their respective high levels of self-awareness, commitment to outcomes, and perseverance. Without a rather clear insight into their own motivations and emotional drivers and their own fears and uncertainties, neither Lawrence nor Allenby could have functioned at such a high level of tolerance for risk and failure. So, as important as it was for them to create a free and autonomous relationship, and to put as few barriers as possible between idea and execution, the real cause of continuous innovation was personal insight and self-awareness.
We can see this in particular in Lawrence, because he left so much behind -- books, poetry, letters, journals. He is an idealist, in contrast to the pragmatism of Allenby. His idealism is reflected in his deep awareness of contradiction, as seen in the above quotation, and in his unwavering commitment to an ideal in the context of war. His idealism, as is the case with many who are innovation-inclined, powered his inventiveness, and gave him the persistence necessary to push ahead in the presence of near-constant failure and frustration.
But without Allenby's pragmatism -- and his inherent need for plans, order, precision and by-the-book execution -- Lawrence would not have been as successful as he was. Lawrence would not obey orders, but Allenby would issue them. Lawrence would not accept responsibility, but Allenby would give him responsibility nevertheless. It is in this tension -- this inherent contradiction -- that innovation and inventiveness occurred. Where there is one without the other -- that is, where there is idealism without a pragmatic foil -- it is likely that only chaos arises. Allenby kept his own counsel, as did Lawrence, and in their conflicted and often contrary relationship, innovation and innovative leadership blossomed.
If this is true - that innovation and leadership are forged in conflict and contradiction, and carry high levels of risk -- an obvious question arises. What is innovation and powerful leadership without a moral code? When stakes are high, risks are high and the potential for harm is high, innovation and disruption and change come with an imperative, a moral imperative. Whether we are talking about war or economic development, large-scale established businesses or start ups, we are well served to remember that innovation for the sake of innovation is not the same as informed, responsible, accountable innovation that has a social purpose. That is, if we decide that change is good, we should probably be mindful of understanding what we are changing from and what we are changing to. And we might want to consider why we want to change. This line of questioning just might imply that there is such a thing as an "innovator's moral code."
And that philosophical hornet's nest deserves space and time of its own. Next week.


« Does the Fix Need a Fix?
On March 15, I wrote that the Commissioners were asked for their views on a draft bill to fix problems that have become so apparent with the CPSIA. Here are the comments that I have given to Chairman Waxman and the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Appropriations Committee.
It is encouraging to see common sense at the director level of this agency and I certainly want to encourage you to keep fighting against the pressure to shut down business through regulatory strangulation. Unfortunately common sense is probably not enough to offset the complete lack of intellectual grounding and understanding of those writing legislation. If the CPSIA is allowed to become fully implemented in its current or proposed amended state, this bill will insure that our company, the taxes we are paying and the employees we are hiring will all be gone. Not only our company will be gone, but many others that cannot afford the costs or will not risk the potential penalties that could wipe out a lifetime of work in one bureaucratic wave of the hand.
It's hard to imagine that we are still in America when an agency of the people of this country has the power and the potential to wipe out a company for selling a problem free product even though the agency, the consumer and the company agrees the product is perfectly safe. Most people cannot comprehend the idea that a government agency has the power to penalize a company into oblivion for not proving that safe products are safe. What's next? Will the next law establish an agency to pursue people that can't prove that they are not guilty of some crime? Will we all need to hire attorneys to prove that we are not guilty of some crime so the agency will not arrest us because we did not prove in advance of a problem that we are not criminals? Whatever happened to the concept that we pass a law and then pursue those that break the law? Instead the CPSIA is designed to punish the people that are obeying the law, we should wish this on our enemies, not on the people and the companies that are driving the economic engines and paying the bills.
Surely there are enough real problems out here. We don't need people in congress wasting time and resources. If there is a real problem and someone in congress can't write a 5 page solution that my kids can understand then they need to go back to school or back home with the key word being "go".
The better solution is to repeal the CPSIA and start over with an approach that is age appropriate and based on actual safety issues. Perhaps we could learn from the EU metal availability standards rather than total metal content that does not improve product safety.
I appreciate your response to Waxman's proposed changes. You address most of the flaws in both the original and the proposed changes. Congress has not really listened to small businesses and it does not seem to be listening to CPSC commissioners or staff any better.
The CPSIA was well intentioned but hastily written in reaction to real but limited safety issues. We see now that attempts of fix the problems are only creating more levels of problems.
I urge you, your fellow CPSC commissioners and CPSC staff to develop an alternative, realistic, workable version of the CPSIA and work for the repeal of the current fatally flawed version of the CPSIA.


President Obama visited the finished WTC memorial on 9/11's 10th anniversary. Will the Port Authority ever finish the WTC museum?
Two weeks ago, we warned the Port Authority and its masters, Govs. Cuomo and Chris Christie, that they would face "national embarrassment" if work on the 9/11 museum was not resumed before President Obama's impending visit to the World Trade Center site.
No such luck. The President will inspect the project on Thursday, Flag Day, and the construction crews remain off the job.
Responsibility rests with the PA, led by Christie's Chairman David Samson and Cuomo's Executive Director Pat Foye.
They have been negotiating a deal to share construction costs with the foundation that oversees the museum and the Trade Center memorial, with Mayor Bloomberg's team sitting on the foundation's side of the table.
In eight years of planning a museum at the National September 11 Memorial, every step has been muddied by contention.
One of the difficult questions that the National September 11 Memorial Museum has grappled with is how to explain why a group of radical Islamists wanted to bring down the World Trade Center towers and attack the Pentagon. We asked a group of historians and educators to talk about what they thought was essential for people to understand about the history leading up to 9/11.
David Blight, a professor of American history at Yale University and an adviser to the museum, started off the discussion by urging people to take the long view and place the attacks in a larger tapestry of human experience.
What do you think is essential for people to understand about the history leading up to Sept. 11?
Mr. Blight: To concentrate only on the horror and drama of that day and the events in its immediate aftermath, while utterly compelling, does not necessarily leave us understanding anything. While mourning, people are not easily capable of seeking historical understanding, of taking a long view; 9/11 seemed so unparalleled, unique, without precedent. But is it? The methods and the overwhelming and immediate results were new. But the human impulses, as well as our own human reactions, were and are hardly new. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we desperately searched for historical analogies through which to find understanding. Was this a Pearl Harbor? An Antietam or a Fort Sumter? Was this only the beginning of an enveloping conspiracy against Western values and societies? Was this warfare of a new kind for which we had no analogies?
All the panelists agreed about the importance of understanding the historical context. But the other commentators — Anthony Gardner, whose brother died in the attacks and is on the museum's advisory committee; Bill Braniff, executive director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland; and Wilfred M. McClay , a professor of humanities and history at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga — took issue with Mr. Blight's approach, particularly his insistence on a centuries-long timeline and his reluctance to single out the Sept. 11 attacks as special.
Given the hundreds of officials overseeing its creation, the thousands of victims' family members keenly watching its development, and the millions in New York and beyond who witnessed the events it commemorates, the level of scrutiny on the National September 11 Memorial Museum is unheard of, both in its scope and its sensitivity. A fascinating New York Times feature on the development of the massive 110,000-square-foot subterranean institution's permanent exhibition outlines the contraditions inherent in creating a display that both memorializes and historicizes, showing how such tensions — and input from innumerable parties — have guided curatorial decisions. In so doing, the article also more or less reveals exactly what will be included in the Museum's permanent exhibition when it opens — at a date that has been delayed again due to disputes over its financing. Here are the five most contentious exhibits visitors to the September 11 Memorial Museum will likely find.
It seemed self-evident at the time: A museum devoted to documenting the events of Sept. 11, 2001, would have to include photographs of the hijackers who turned four passenger jets into missiles. Then two and a half years ago, plans to use the pictures were made public.
The sunken granite pools that opened last Sept. 11 and that occupy the footprints of the fallen towers were designed as places to mourn and remember the dead. Yet nowhere on the plaza is there even a mention of the terrorist attacks that caused the destruction. The job of documenting and interpreting the history has been left to the museum, and it is an undertaking pockmarked with contradictions.
Alice Greenwald, the director of the new museum, and her team must simultaneously honor the dead and the survivors; preserve an archaeological site and its artifacts; and try to offer a comprehensible explanation of a once inconceivable occurrence. They must speak to vastly different audiences that include witnesses at the scene and around the globe, as well as children born long after the wreckage had been cleared. And many of those listening have long-simmering, deeply felt opinions about how the museum should take shape.
"Whose truth is going to be in that museum?" asked Sally Regenhard, whose son, Christian, a firefighter, died in the north tower.
The Digital Provocateur. A focus on disruptive trends in technology.
The information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The Daily Mail's article noted the Electronic Privacy Information Center wrote a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, describing it's choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.
What wasn't disclosed is how the agency actually gains access to the various search engines and social networks to monitor the specified keywords. My guess is the DHS has a "special arrangement" with companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter to gain secure direct API access. This type of access would allow it to use distributed cloud technologies to monitor the daily flow of social media and search activity in something close to real time.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- People in lower Manhattan whose homes were damaged in the 9/11 terrorist attacks are more likely to have symptoms of respiratory diseases than those whose homes were not damaged, a new study indicates.
A study blames long-term sickness on 9/11 dust from the World Trade Center. These shoes were found nearby days after 9/11.
Several years after dust from the World Trade Center twin towers found its way into thousands of homes and nearly every crevice in lower Manhattan, area residents still suffered health problems, according to a new study.
People living in homes damaged after 2001's Trade Center attacks were more likely to report respiratory illness or disease years later, when compared with people whose homes were not damaged, according to a recent analysis of World Trade Center Health Registry data.
"This study highlights the magnitude of the 9/11 attacks by showing that people exposed to dust in their homes continued to have respiratory problems even five to six years after the fact," said study author Dr. Vinicius Antao, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, in a press release.
Breathing problems most often reported by residents post-9/11 included upper respiratory problems such as shortness of breath, wheezing and chronic cough. Less frequently, residents reported asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can cause progressive deterioration of lung function.
About 41% of residents surveyed say they had either "some" or "intense" exposure to the 9/11 dust cloud, according to the study abstract, which will be presented Wednesday at the American Thoracic Society annual meeting.
"The folks who had higher exposures certainly would be more likely to develop disease," said Dr. Jacqueline Moline, director of the Queens World Trade Center Clinical Center of Excellence. "It's also noteworthy that 59% were not in the dust cloud. So you didn't have to be in the dust cloud for there to be these problems."
Among the 6,463 residents included in the study, more than half reported upper respiratory problems. About 16% had shortness of breath; 11% reported wheezing; and 8% had asthma symptoms that either developed or got worse after exposure to dust.
Muslim leaders say they have been invited to a meeting Thursday with the state attorney general in Trenton for an update on a possible investigation into New York Police Department surveillance operations.
The NYPD surveillance program targeted Muslims at businesses, universities and mosques, including one in Paterson and several in Newark, as well as student groups at 16 Northeast colleges, including Rutgers University.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Police Department have defended the spying program — first detailed in a series of articles by The Associated Press — as lawful and necessary.
Some civic and religious groups and lawmakers, though, have blasted the surveillance as a violation of civil rights and have called for an investigation.
Top law-enforcement officials in New Jersey met with Muslim leaders in Trenton on March 3 to address concerns and told them fact finding was under way to determine whether to launch an official investigation.
Speaking science to power EPA researcher gets her job back ― for the second time.
EPA researcher gets her job back ― for the second time.
People working in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers were exposed to more corrosive dust than the EPA let on, according to Cate Jenkins.
Last week a federal appeals board sent Cate Jenkins back to work at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), marking another victory in the rabble-rousing chemist's colourful career. The agency had fired the 65-year-old scientist in December 2010, alleging that she threatened a supervisor, but the US Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that the EPA failed to inform Jenkins of all of the charges against her.
Jenkins maintains that she was fired in retaliation for her work exposing pollution dangers at the World Trade Center site in New York after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. In parallel with her formal work at the EPA, Jenkins has alleged, among other things, that EPA used a falsified health standard that remains in place today to downplay the dangers of corrosive dust at the site. In the months and years following the attacks, Jenkins reported her findings to the EPA Inspector General, Congress and the FBI. Although she has now been cleared to return to work, the whistle-blower case continues in a separate process at the US Department of Labor. The EPA could also choose to dismiss her again, this time following the proper procedures.
Jenkins says that she was fulfilling her obligations as a federal employee, responding to individuals and organizations that seek her expertise in reviewing technical data. She won an earlier whistle-blower case in 1996 involving Vietnam War veterans' exposure to Agent Orange. She talks to Nature about her work, her advocacy and the manipulation of scientific data.
A driver license and insurance card are pictured in this file photo. Jim Harper of the Cato Institute discusses by the Real ID program offers a false sense of security in this Q&A.
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union won an injunction against New Jersey's TRU-ID program, the state's version of the federal Real ID secure driver's license program. Created in the aftermath of 9/11, the law is an attempt to close loopholes that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to acquire U.S. driver's licenses.
Security and privacy experts say Real ID does little for security, but places personal privacy at risk.
Jim Harper is director of policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, where he is an expert in security and privacy. He spoke last week with Star-Ledger editorial writer Jim Namiotka.
Q. How will Real ID improve our national security?
A. The driver's license isn't a security tool, and the things that Real ID does would be trivially easy for terrorists or other attackers to avoid. There isn't a real security value in Real ID.
Q. Why the focus on driver's licenses?
A. The proponents of Real ID talked about terrorism as the reason for passing the law. Actually, their goal is immigration control. They want a national ID in place that would be used to do a background check on everybody when they start employment. In the future, it could be used to control access to financial services, to control access to health care, or housing, or pharmaceuticals, for example.
Only Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm and Queens Rep. Robert Turner, the city's two Republicans, voted against it. Two Long Island lawmakers, Republican Rep. Peter King and Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, also opposed the amendment.
The NYPD's counterterrorism tactics have come under scrutiny as the result of an Associated Press probe into efforts targeting Muslim groups in the city and across the region, including in New Jersey. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly have defended the department's approach as necessary and legal.


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West Wind Records was een platenlabel, dat in de jaren tachtig jazz-platen (her)uitbracht. Verschillende albums waren eerder verschenen op Circle Records. Andere labels van wie het label lp's opnieuw uitbracht waren onder meer Philips, EmArcy, Bethlehem Records, Inner City, West 54 Records, Douglas Records, Orinda, FMP Records en Sonopresse.

Artiesten op het label waren onder meer Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, Steve Lacy, Eric Dolphy, Dollar Brand, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Sonny Clark, Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pepper Adams, Dave Liebman, Art Pepper, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Gilberto Gil, Cab Calloway, Woody Herman en Duke Ellington.

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 Discografie op Discogs

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A systems approach: A *policy analysis of state-guided school improvement plans
by Chancellor, Steven K.||||||Vanderpool, William C., Ed.D., Saint Louis University, 2008, 113; 3351876
The purpose of this report of a policy analysis was to identify dimensions found within systems theory and thinking literature to enhance states' departments of education school improvement policies. Policies centered in systems theory and systems thinking can assist local school districts in designing change initiatives that are purposeful and sustaining.
The team reviewed literature focusing on systems theory, systems thinking, organizational development, and leadership. Through the review, five dimensions emerged as core systems concepts that could be general practices of school improvement. The dimensions were then validated in a review by an expert panel. Information gathered from the panel was used to strengthen the dimensions. The revised dimensions were used to assess the presence of systems theory and systems thinking concepts within states' departments of education school improvement policies.
The team identified ten states where their departments of education provided school improvement policies to analyze through the dimensions which emerged from literature on systems theory, systems thinking, and an expert panel review. These states were selected using team produced criteria. The ten states where Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Washington.
The analysis of the states' departments of education school improvement policies contains two parts. The first part was a description of the format for each set of state policies. The second part listed each dimension and if that state's policies had information relating to the dimensions.
The team developed recommendations for both state departments of education and local school districts. Ten recommendations were developed for states to use within the current policy documents. Eighteen recommendations were developed for local school districts. The report also includes possible consequences from the implementation of the recommendations.
Advisor: Lea, Dennis R.
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School: Saint Louis University
School Location: United States -- Missouri
Source: DAI-A 70/03, Dissertation Abstracts International
Subjects: School administration, Education philosophy
Keywords: Education policy, Improvement plan, Leadership, Policy, School improvement, Systems theory, Systems thinking

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August Macke (Meschede, 1887. január 3. – Perthes-lès-Hurlus-tól délre, Franciaország, 1914. szeptember 26.) német expresszionista grafikus és festő. Eredetiség, nagy alkotói erő jellemzi, modern művész.

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Tanulmányait Berlinben végezte, többször járt Párizsban. 1912-ben Franz Marc festőbarátjával látogatott el Párizsba, hogy jobban megismerkedjen Robert Delaunay munkásságával. Delaunay orfikus kubista volt, de 1911-ben Münchenben részt vett az expresszionisták Der Blaue Reiter csoportosulásának első kiállításán. Ennek a csoportnak a tagjai az elkövetkező években is közel álltak hozzá mind személyes, mind művészi szempontból. Delaunay színvilága ihlette Macke festményeit is, kompozíciói viszont inkább a posztimpresszionista Georges Seurat némelyik művére emlékeztetnek az alakok sajátságosan merev, vertikálisan hangsúlyozott sziluettként való felfogásával.

1914 áprilisában Paul Kleevel Afrikába, a tunéziai Kairouanba utazott, ahol társához hasonlóan sok akvarellt festett. Paul Klee-vel való ismeretsége is a Der Blaue Reiter csoportosulás révén valósult meg, hiszen 1912-ben Paul Klee is csatlakozott a német expresszionista csoportosuláshoz, 1912-es kiállításukon is részt vett.

August Macke Afrikából hazajövet talán közeledett az absztrakt művészeti irányhoz, de már ugyanebben az esztendőben behívták katonának, s szeptemberben elesett az első világháborúban. A halál fiatalon, 27 évesen érte, de gazdag életművet hagyott hátra, amely őt a német expresszionista festészet örök és érdemes művészévé avatta.

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 Művészeti lexikon/ szerk. Éber László. Budapest : Győző Andor, 1926. August Macke szócikket ld. 455. o.
 A művészet története : a századvég és a századelő. Budapest : Corvina, 1988. 320 o. ;  Alain Bois: Az expresszionizmus ld. 241-284. o.

Német festők
Expresszionista festők
Német grafikusok
A Német Birodalom katonái az első világháborúban
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The new Implant Studio introduces a dedicated workflow for implant planning and surgical guide design for edentulous patients. Edentulous patients can now be treated by using only CBCT/CT scan data and through the application of a dual scan protocol.
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Recent studies have projected the U.S. dental implant market to reach $5 billion by 2018. With 3 million Americans already having implants. That number is predicted to grow by 500,000 per year, according to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry.
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ESRC STEPS Centre
Livelihoods after land reform in Zimbabwe: Understanding processes of rural differentiation
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Sukume, C
Murimbarimba, F.
Mahenehene, J.
Mavedzenge, B.
Marongwe, N.
This paper explores the consequences of Zimbabwe's land reform for the dynamics of differentiation in Zimbabwe's countryside, reporting on the results from a 10-year study from Masvingo province. Based on a detailed analysis of livelihoods across 400 households at 16 sites, the paper offers a detailed typology of livelihood strategies, linked to a class-based analysis of emerging agrarian dynamics. The paper identifies a significant and successful 'middle farmer' group, reliant on 'accumulation from below' through petty commodity production, existing alongside other worker-peasants and the semi-peasantry, whose livelihoods remain vulnerable, with prospects for accumulation currently limited. In addition, there are others who are 'accumulating from above', through patronage and corruption. While small in number, this group has significant political and economic influence, and is embedded in powerful alliances that have fundamental impacts on the wider political–economic dynamics. To conclude, the economic, social and political implications of the emerging patterns of differentiation in Zimbabwe's countryside are discussed.
SCOONES, I., MARONGWE, N., MAVEDZENGE, B., MURIMBARIMBA, F., MAHENEHENE, J. and SUKUME, C. (2012), Livelihoods after Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Understanding Processes of Rural Differentiation. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12: 503–527. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00358.x
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An egg donor and mother of a sperm donor conceived child tells why she would be happy for children born from her donated eggs to have access to information about her.
I am 32 years old and my 31-year-old husband Pete has Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. We knew from a fairly early stage in our relationship that he would need some sort of fertility treatment to enable us to have children.
We were initially drawn to ICSI and were thrilled at the prospect of being able to have our own genetic children. Unfortunately, only 7 of Pete's sperm were obtained after TESA (which stands for testicular sperm aspiration- and yes it's as painful as it sounds!!) and as they had managed to obtain 14 eggs from me we were told that it would be sensible to fertilise half of them with donor sperm. We had initially rejected donor sperm as I felt it was important that Pete had his own genetic children (incidentally it was less important to him!) but agreed as otherwise the eggs would be wasted.
After enduring two unsuccessful attempts to conceive, the first with ICSI using Pete's sperm and the second IVF using donor sperm I realised that I was equally as devastated by both failures. The fact that one set of embryos did not contain Pete's genetic material did not affect the way I felt about my failure to get pregnant.
At this point we were faced with the prospect of trying ICSI with TESA again or going for "straight" donor insemination. By now Pete's physical health had deteriorated and we felt that it wasn't worth the stress of another surgical procedure given that we were by now equally happy with the prospect of using donor sperm. We then went for donor insemination and it worked first time!
We now have a 3 year old daughter and in the intervening period I have donated eggs twice. Although my main reason for donating eggs was altruistic it has also helped in my attempt to come to terms with the fact that Catrin is a donor baby. I thought very carefully about my decision especially as I would love to have more children of my own but due to the fact that my husband is now very severely disabled I don't feel that is an option. However I don't feel any sense of parental responsibility towards my eggs - the eggs were a gift, given freely and without expecting anything in return. It was done in order to help someone else have children and I do not in any way consider them my offspring!
However, I do feel that the children born as a result of using donated gametes have rights and need some information about their donor in order to make sense of their genetic background. I feel that Catrin should be able to find out as much as she wants about her genetic parent at whatever stage she feels the need to know about her genetic origins. I have already obtained her donor profile and was delighted to find out that her donor's reasons for donating were not dissimilar to mine i.e. he has children and has donated his sperm out of a desire to help childless couples given that he has friends who have suffered from infertility.
I feel that even if I don't particularly want to be identified as an egg donor it is more important that any children born as a result of my donated eggs grow up happy with the level of information they receive. Because of this, I have said in my own donor profile that I would be happy to be identified in the future should the law change or should those children wish to know more about me.
At the end of the day, we are the adults in this equation and as such have a responsibility for our children's well-being. If Pete and I wanted children so desperately then we must be prepared to behave responsibly and give our child as much information as we can because secrets are so damaging to family life. If this means that people find out things about us that we would rather they didn't know then it's up to us to deal with it! It also means that I take my responsibilities seriously as a donor and accept that although I am not at all curious about any children born from my eggs, that they may be and that they have a right to find out who I am and why I helped their parents to have a child.
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The sooner we stop shrouding the whole thing in secrecy and have the information to enable our children to seek out their genetic parents and thus complete "their story" the better it will be for all concerned.
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The greatest liar to ever occupy the WH continues on. Charlatans have greater credibility.
Ha. According to same logic as Obamacare enrollment figures, "everyone with a http://Match.com profile is married" -- @asymmetricinfo.
In the calculations you are being generous but I think you are doing so by a factor of 4. The number 106,185 includes about 80k that have "clicked" a plan through the State exchanges. The ones that have "clicked" a plan from Healthcare.gov are only about 25k.
"If 21% of visitors THINK they enrolled and less than 1% actually did so, aren't a lot of people in for a rude shock?"
Not to worry. Obama supporters don't think- they feel. And as long as they feel that they enrolled, that ought to be good enough.
Do they think anyone is dumb enough to use the 21% figure instead of the 1% figure?
Apparently you forgot about the folks who call themselves "journalists".


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Ep. 125 – A Week's Difference | Super Tuesday and 2020 Endorsements
Posted on March 7, 2020 March 23, 2020 by Jay Doherty
The Jay Doherty Podcast · Episode 125 · March 7, 2020
Super Tuesday is over and Joe Biden sweeps through the 14 prized states, earning a majority of the delegates in one of the biggest determiners of any Presidential race. I've predicted for a long time that Bernie Sanders already wangled the nomination with his consistent victories in other primaries but is that supposition potentially incorrect after these latest results?
Also, dropouts after dropouts. All within the past week, South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Billionaire Tom Steyer, Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race for President, all in that order. How will their endorsements — and the timing of their relinquishments play into how voters decide at the ballot box?
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Current numbers…
After winning South Carolina, Joe Biden needed to win Super Tuesday badly if he really wanted to stay in the race. This race has changed SO fast since last week when I published this podcast… three weeks ago, I would have said that Biden was a total goner in this race… but then he wins a plurality of the delegates in South Carolina and then a majority of the states in Super Tuesday.
The big question every year is who will win California because that is the state with the largest number of delegates. And, expectedly, Sanders won California by quite the margin but that is not actually what lots of the polls projected.
As we know, California is incredibly left of center as a state both locally and nationally but the polls had a radical alternative to Bernie Sanders leading in the state, and unfortunately that radical alternative does not exist anymore. Of course, I am speaking of Elizabeth Warren. We will talk about her relinquishments later but I do think that it is funny that the polls projected she has a pretty generous margin for potential victory in California and then she totally fails in her campaign strategy, in her displeasing attacks through the debates, which all led to her dropping out. I mean she lost big time in her own state!
THE REACTIONS
I don't want to bore you by going through every single state's results so let's just talk about how Bernie reacted to his loss and maybe more interestingly how Biden reacted to his win… we'll begin with Bernie. He was very energetic, and he basically repeated what he said at every single rally he has ever had… here is Bernie effectively surrendering his victory on Tuesday… SANDERS 1
Joe Biden, as usual, had some gaffs… in the beginning of his speech, he confused his sister for his wife and his wife for his sister which was sort of a classic Joe Biden moment… BIDEN 1
More seriously, though Joe Biden had this to say reacting to his victory… BIDEN 2
Looking ahead into this upcoming weeks primary, we'll see a less Super Tuesday on March 10 with Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and Washington voting in their primaries, and based off of some polls from fivethirtyeight and my own observations about the states, I will make some predictions.
The other thing that will play a large factor into this race is who endorses who and what positions (if any) the former candidates will be given… we will talk about all of that and more in one second but first…
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Let me begin by saying that there has never been a more consequential week in this 2020 Presidential Election than the week that we just experienced.
South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Billionaire Tom Steyer, Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race for President.
*Correction: I suggested that these candidates dropped out in the order listed above when in fact they did not. I apologize.
The big question is who will endorse who, and the general answer is Joe Biden from what we've seen from everyone except for Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren.
Tom Steyer
This was simple and inevitable… here is Tom Steyer dropping out… STEYER 1
Pete Buttigieg was the first to make the move, and actually the smartest. I am very sad to see Pete Buttigieg drop out… he was far and above the smartest and most talented politician in the entire Presidential race and he was the first to drop out in this slew of recent dropouts… he announced he was suspending his campaign for President in South Bend, Indiana — his home town… BUTTIGIEG 1.
Buttigieg endorsed Joe Biden, no surprise. Buttigieg seemed to hate Biden… and the Democratic Party just cannot fall into the trap of a socialist 1917esque revolution that most people don't understand… and I think Pete Buttigieg, being the intelligent politician he is, recognized that completely which caused him to endorse Biden. BUTTIGIEG 2
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Now the big question for not just Buttigieg but also for all of the candidates who endorse the potential winner of the general election is "what position will they give to that person?" and the answer with Biden and Buttigieg is a bit unclear…. BIDEN 3
I have long said that Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar were my two favorite Presidential candidates running for office. I thought they were both equally talented… Buttigieg is a much better public speaker than Klobuchar but on a policy level and in terms of fundamental knowledge of American values and ways to progressively develop them, I thought they were the best suited to represent all of America…. And Amy Klobuchar dropped out this past week and also happened to endorse Joe Biden… KLOBUCHAR 1
In terms of positions for Ms. Klobuchar in the future, she did a New York Times Interview in which she sort of goofed up… there is no audio as it was a print interview but the reporter asked…
Did you discuss any positions with Mr. Biden or anything like that should he win the White House?
I knew every position he had, every single one of them. We did 10 debates. He was on the stage for ——
No, no, I mean, positions in a possible future administration.
Oh, you can see we didn't because I didn't even know what you were talking about. No, we did not. No, not at all. I wouldn't even have thought of doing that. I was endorsing him to help him. And it didn't even cross my mind to try to make some deal or anything like that.
From Biden's perspective, the message was a bit different… he appended his remarks about Buttigieg being in his administration by labeling Klobuchar as "talented". BIDEN 4.
The billionaire is out!
After just 109 days, hundreds of millions of dollars, and an overflow of social media posts of a billionaire septuagenarian trying to look relatable, Michael Rubens Bloomberg has ended his campaign for President and immediately endorsed Joe Biden. BLOOMBERG 1
His spending is astronomical but it's being slightly exaggerated… MSNBC is being thrown into question after this anti-Bloomberg analyst corroborated incorrect math from someone who tweeted out an incorrect tweet that violates the basic principle of math 327 million times over. MSNBC 1.
This is one of the most embarrassing moments I have ever seen on live TV… I mean all they had to do is simple math… like basic arithmetic… Hey Siri, what is 58.4 BILLION divided by 327 MILLION? SIRI 1
Whoops! They were only 999,821 dollars and 4 cents off… no big deal!
Now the guy who tweeted this out originally is named Mekita Rivas and he changed his Twitter bio to "I know I'm bad at math" so at least he is self aware, but Brian Williams, the host you heard there was being criticized and so is that lady who promoted and corroborated an untrue statement on TV…
Interesting article from WAPO that breaks this down into basic basic terms and also points out that humans' basic evolution prevents us from understanding the scale of things.
She is sort of the only radical that was hanging on for quite some time and she really complicated things by overstaying her welcome in the race for President. Everyone was dropping out; it was very clear externally and probably internally that the race would come down to Bernie and Biden, but for some reason Warren just continued to exist for no apparent reason.
Here is Warren dropping out. WARREN 1
This reality — her dropping out — is TOTALLY her fault!
If she is going to endorse anyone, which she hasn't as of yet, she would probably endorse Bernie Sanders as they are as equally radical but Bernie Sanders is less vicious, more relatable, more honest, more consistent, and more likable. On the actual question of endorsements, Warren said that she is holding off for now.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren/index.html
Biden will win the nomination. Buttigieg will get a senior role in the administration. Klobuchar will also. Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer will go off and enjoy their billions, and Elizabeth Warren will continue to shriek.
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