COSCO SHIPPING Ports, a leading ports operator in the world, today announced that the Company will establish its first greenfield subsidiary in South America by acquiring 60 percent stake in Terminales Portuarios Chancay (Chancay Terminal) from Volcan Compañía Minera for a total consideration of $225m.
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Economic growth of Peru has continued in recent years; container throughout of Peru in 2017 has increased to 2.5 million TEU from 1.5 million TEU in 2010. Located 58 km in the north of the Peruvian capital of Lima, Port of Chancay enjoys favorable location where it has easy access to the economic centre of Peru. About 60 percent of Peru's economic activities are concentrated in Lima and its surrounding areas, and thus, the favourable geographic location of Lima is of strategic importance. Port of Chancay is a natural deep-water harbour with a maximum of 16 metres water-depth and is capable of satisfying the needs of mega vessels. The construction of Chancay Terminal includes multi-purpose terminals, container terminals and related infrastructure facilities. Phase one of the terminal will have four berths, of which two are multi-purpose berths, and two are container berths with a total annual designed capacity of one million TEU.


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Myocardial bridging is a congenital defect where a coronary artery tunnels under a bridge of myocardium, which then becomes compressed during systole. It may lead to ischaemia during periods of stress.
This ECG is from A 19 year old male presented after a syncopal episode.


NEW YORK -- For the past several years, with words and actions, David Stern had laid the groundwork for his departure from the job he's controlled and defined since 1984. He formalized it Thursday, announcing his intention to step down as the longest-tenured commissioner in professional sports.
During the NBA's Board of Governors meetings in midtown Manhattan, Stern advised the league's owners of his intention to retire on Feb. 1, 2014, the 30-year anniversary of his taking the job. In doing so, Stern, who turned 70 last month, has stayed very much in the character he's developed during those three decades.
He made it clear he will remain in charge of league operations for the next 15 months, mentioning that arrangement several times, and making sure his hand-picked successor will be installed. The owners said they will begin negotiating with deputy commissioner Adam Silver to take over for Stern -- a decision they came to unanimously -- when those 15 months end. The plan is for Silver's appointment to be ratified at next April's board of governors meeting.
"It's been a great run. The league is in, I think, terrific condition," Stern said. "I'd like to think I did an adequate job. But one of the things I did best was provide a successor. I'm not going anyplace in the next 15 months, but this gives us the opportunity to have a very smooth transition."
Magic Johnson called Stern "the greatest commissioner in all of sports" on Twitter on Thursday.
This day has been foreseen for some time as Stern scaled back in recent years. He has been grooming Silver, 50, to replace him for at least the past six years. Stern allowed Silver to take a lead role in negotiating the challenging collective bargaining agreement with the players' union that was settled 11 months ago after a lockout wiped out 16 games of the 2011-12 season.
At the time the agreement was finalized, Stern said the deal that guaranteed at least six years of labor peace would outlast him as the league's boss. Silver, who has worked for the league in various capacities for more than 20 years, has long been considered the favorite to take over the job. Stern said he decided six months ago to formalize the transition process.
"The opportunities for this league are limitless," Silver said. "I'm honored, thrilled and will do my absolute best to grow this league or try to do it the way David has done over the last 20 years. To the NBA family, I look forward to serving you."
Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, who gave up his seat as chairman of the board to the San Antonio Spurs' Peter Holt on Thursday, came to the announcement armed with two pieces of data to illustrate Stern's impact on the league. During Stern's tenure the league's annual revenue from its television contract increased 40 times, and the average player salary jumped from $250,000 a year in 1984 to more than $5 million.
"David has set the standard for not just the NBA but for all sports," Taylor said. "He's done things not only to benefit the owners but also the players."
Stern's fingerprints can be found across the league's operations, most notably on strong revenue growth, the expansion from 23 to 30 teams, the movement into small markets such as Sacramento, Memphis and Oklahoma City, the spreading global reach spurred on by the league's backing of letting its players take part in the Olympics, and the establishment of the WNBA.
Stern also oversaw the implementation of drug testing that helped root out a major league issue in the 1980s. Repeating on Thursday something he's said often in the past, Stern said some of the lowest moments of his time as commissioner were banning players from the league because of positive drug tests.
He developed a reputation for being a ruthless negotiator even before he took over as commissioner, working as one of the league's top attorneys starting in 1966. That carried over during negotiations with players over the years, which featured a strengthening -- if expanding -- salary cap and ultimately led to two work stoppages.
Meanwhile, the value of franchises soared. When Stern took over, teams were being sold in the $20 million range. In 2010, the Golden State Warriors set a record when they were sold for $450 million.
Although he works for the owners, Stern has long been seen as the most powerful presence in a league that depended on star players to drive ratings and revenues. He was known for being strong on discipline, conscious of image and trying to protect the NBA brand.
Not always popular with players, fans and even the owners who served as de facto bosses for his tactics, there is no doubt Stern will leave his post having played a central role in turning the NBA into a multibillion-dollar business.
"There's no doubt that you'll be remembered as the best of all time as commissioners go," Silver said to Stern. "You've set the standard not even just for sports league commissioners but all CEOs."
• The owners unanimously approved the sale of the Memphis Grizzlies to California businessman Robert Pera, making him the league's youngest owner at age 34. Pera, who reached a deal to buy the team from Michael Heisley in June, assembled an ownership group that includes local Memphis businessmen and athletes with ties to Tennessee, including Peyton Manning and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway.
The deal will ensure the Grizzlies, whom Heisley moved to Memphis from Vancouver after he bought the team 12 years ago, will remain in Memphis. The Grizzlies have a lease at the FedExForum through 2021.
"The future of the NBA in Memphis looks very bright today," Stern said. "Robert has put together a group with strong Memphis ties."
• Last week, the Seattle City Council approved a plan to build a new downtown arena led by businessman Chris Hansen, who wants to bring the NBA back to the city. Stern, however, did not offer much on the issue and said currently no team is considering Seattle.
"I don't have any current view on where such a team comes from," Stern said. "We think it is a great development in Seattle and we're very excited about it, but there is no current team in play. That is going to be an issue for the owners to consider."
• The owners discussed but decided to table a decision on selling ads on jerseys. Stern said in recent interviews that he no longer favors such a plan.


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Here's what we all want.
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lead a life of awesome.
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Fiercely document and share your actions to activate others.
and justification to legally bound children to attend school, is to nurture able, active citizens of a libertarian democratic society, which today also has to be sustainable, in a peacefully collaborating global family of nations. Adults are grossly failing.
Also continents with 100% schooling, like North America and Europe, with big fat financial resources and decades of replacing frontal teaching with collaborative, brain-proof learning methods, are grossly unsustainable! They experience unprecedented allergies, 50% cancer, epidemic depression, bullying, suicides, mobbing, crime, escalating rise of violence. Even financial prosperity is eroding, biodiversity is vanishing at record pace, water and soil degradation are reaching tipping points. Not even consumption and trash are decreasing.
This tells us that what's been taught and learned at schools for the past 40 years is not sufficient. Far from it.
The UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development DESD 2005-2014 meant to upgrade learning culture globally to help youth to learn to survive and thrive in the 21st Century. Yet – few schools have upgraded, many don't even know of the Decade. Ministries and teachers are failing their purpose. We can no longer wait for administrators that have grown up with colonial mindset, and are way behind.
Today's teenage heroInes embody these skills to the fullest, are showered with our societies' highest awards, celebrated as heroInes in media, recognized as ultimate role models, and speakers at schools. They embody the model of the able, active, caring citizen of the next level collaborative democracy that we need to avoid a scorched planet in our lifetime, or at least survive in functional, resilient, thriving regions.
All our youth have the right to evolve this spirit and skills.
The heroInes say we all have it in us. Easy.
Until schools are able to deliver this new learning culture formally in the classroom, which won't happen soon, youth have the right to learn it via youth-powered Informal Sustainability Learning Environments ISLEs – in real-time collaboration with th proven and finest of their and adult generations, today's Einsteins and Gandhis.
Thousands of schools have already made student-powered service-learning part of learning culture. Now, we upgrade it with social entrepreneurship, social business and responsible citizenship.
This is our right as students, citizens, teachers, and taxpayers.
Because also the future of all us adults depends on it. Today's adults can not evolve these skills at relevant scale and pace. Just like monarchists could not. But the young can, by growing up with it daily, for their ten formative years. The one and only place for this is school. It's what it has been invented and is paid for.
We declare our commitment to make it true, and demand the full support of the school board.


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Q: Trying to flip a dictionary in python where values are lists I am trying to make it so that this dictionary in python is reverted the key with value - eg. with the values becoming the keys. There should be a key for each item in the value list.
anotations = {
    "epithelial_cell": [24,34,18,29,11,25,26,35,27,13,33,14,28,12,21,7,22,19,15,23,31,32,16,36],
    "fibroblastic_reticular_cell": [30],
    "endothelial_cell": [5,20,3],
    "pericyte": [40],
    "fibroblast": [8,4,6,10,17,39,0,1,2,38,9,37],
}

#make keys the numbers
anotations_op = {}
for cellName in anotations:
    for clusterNum in anotations[cellName]:
        anotations_op.update({clusterNum, cellName})

This is the error that I am getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 13, in <module>
    anotations_op.update({clusterNum, k_v_pair[0]})
TypeError: cannot convert dictionary update sequence element #0 to a sequence

A: I would use a nested list comprehension with two for loops:
>>> d = {'first': [1, 2, 3], 'second': [4, 5, 6]}
>>> {e: k for k, v in d.items() for e in v}
{1: 'first', 2: 'first', 3: 'first', 4: 'second', 5: 'second', 6: 'second'}

A: Use 2 for loops for simplicity:
anotations = {
    "epithelial_cell": [24,34,18,29,11,25,26,35,27,13,33,14,28,12,21,7,22,19,15,23,31,32,16,36],
    "fibroblastic_reticular_cell": [30],
    "endothelial_cell": [5,20,3],
    "pericyte": [40],
    "fibroblast": [8,4,6,10,17,39,0,1,2,38,9,37],
}

anotations_op = {}

for cell_name, cluster_nums in anotations.items():
    for cluster_num in cluster_nums:
        anotations_op[cluster_num] = cell_name

print(anotations_op)
# {24: 'epithelial_cell', 34: 'epithelial_cell', 18: 'epithelial_cell', 29: 'epithelial_cell', 11: 'epithelial_cell', 25: 'epithelial_cell', 26: 'epithelial_cell', 35: 'epithelial_cell', 27: 'epithelial_cell', 13: 'epithelial_cell', 33: 'epithelial_cell', 14: 'epithelial_cell', 28: 'epithelial_cell', 12: 'epithelial_cell', 21: 'epithelial_cell', 7: 'epithelial_cell', 22: 'epithelial_cell', 19: 'epithelial_cell', 15: 'epithelial_cell', 23: 'epithelial_cell', 31: 'epithelial_cell', 32: 'epithelial_cell', 16: 'epithelial_cell', 36: 'epithelial_cell', 30: 'fibroblastic_reticular_cell', 5: 'endothelial_cell', 20: 'endothelial_cell', 3: 'endothelial_cell', 40: 'pericyte', 8: 'fibroblast', 4: 'fibroblast', 6: 'fibroblast', 10: 'fibroblast', 17: 'fibroblast', 39: 'fibroblast', 0: 'fibroblast', 1: 'fibroblast', 2: 'fibroblast', 38: 'fibroblast', 9: 'fibroblast', 37: 'fibroblast'}

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Coral Hammock is located on Stock Island and just a short drive from the island of Key West. Coral Hammock offers a quiet community of condos and townhomes complete with pool and gated for security. There are several marinas close by so it would be ideal if you were bringing a boat that you can keep at a marina and stay close by.


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SingleMomtism: I Saw A SIgn....That It Was Friday!!!
You can never over-stress bathroom etiquette.
Wow, Steve really hacked somebody off.
And finally, a little truth in advertising - no matter how much it hurts.
That's it for this week - have a wonderful weekend!!


With a stay at Sayo River in Luang Prabang, you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Night Market and Morning Market. This guesthouse is 0.3 mi (0.5 km) from Wat Xieng Thong and 0.6 mi (1 km) from Wat Mai.
Make yourself at home in one of the 39 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary bottled water, and housekeeping is provided daily.


DIY Beautiful Copper Detailed Candles.
So as you may or may not know, along with skincare, makeup and fashion, I have a little penchant for DIY. I see loads of things online that I love whether it's from Urban Outfitters to Anthropologie, then I see the price tag and a little voice pops into my head and says "I could make that!".
Now don't get me wrong I am in no way a pro at this and I lust over the skills of some of the YouTube DIYers we all know and love. I can't put up a shelf but I can do little things. So today I am going to show you a little thing that worked out well.
This is a super cute DIY, perfect for any tumblr bedroom or just to jazz up some candles you have around the house. Since getting cats my candles are used less and less so I thought I'd make them a feature while they're not lit. This is a very cheap DIY and you might have everything you need around the house. So let's get started.
Choose the transfers you want to use and carefully cut around them, try to get as close to the design as possible for a more seamless result.
With the plastic backing still on, work out how you want your transfers arranged on your candle. Once this is done I find it easiest to lay them out in front of me in that design. This way it's easier when it comes to applying.
Remove the plastic backing and adhere to the candle where you want the design to go. Because the candles are wax sometimes the transfer won't stick enough so use two fingers to hold down when you move only step 4.
Wet the back of your transfer. Try and hold it as secure as possible to avoid slipping or tearing. You need to make sure that the transfer is wet enough before removing. The best indicator of this is if you can see the design through the paper then it's probably done.
Carefully peel off the backing paper to reveal your design. If it has been wet enough this should be easy, if it seems tricky carefully lay it down and wet it some more. While the design is still slightly wet, very carefully tap down any creases. Be really gentle with this.
Leave it to try, it's best to leave it or about a minute so you don't accidently smudge or tear the design. Move on to another candle while you're waiting!
Enjoy! I used a rose gold colour transfer for mine but this works great with silver or gold and coloured. Place somewhere pretty and enjoy your candles, no one else has one like it!!!


Gita Limbu was born a paraplegic and has been using a wheelchair since she was a teenager. Now 28, she remembers how hard it was to move around Kathmandu's thoroughfares both because of the lack of infrastructure and the look of other people.
She not as embarrassed these days because people are less judgemental and they even help by pushing or lifting her wheelchair because Kathmandu is not exactly disabled-friendly.
"Kathmandu still lacks infrastructure for the disabled, the roads are in bad condition and it is worse during the monsoon," Limbu says.
Banjade, 36, also wishes Kathmandu was a more disabled-friendly city. He deplores the lack of information when sidewalks or roads are being repaired. "Last week as I was going back home and fell into a hole which was not in the pavement in the morning," he says.
Now, there are organisations like the Centre for Independent Living (CIL) which have been trying to promote disabled-friendly facilities in public transport and the streets. Its director Krishna Gautam says it is a disabled people's organisation run by the disabled themselves.
After regular lobbying with other partner organisations, Gautam considers things are on the right track. Nepal signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in January 2008, and the government has approved accessibility guidelines proposed by CIL in 2012. Still, Gautam regrets the lack of progress in upgrading infrastructure. For example, one of the few tactile pavements in town (pictured) is blocked by an electric pole.
And it has to start with Singha Durbar, where some ministries have made their offices accessible to the disabled. Sajha Yatayat has ordered buses that will have space for wheelchairs behind the driver. The moving force behind these initiatives has been Rudra Singh Tamang Chief of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View,
  Image,
  Alert,
  TouchableHighlight
} from 'react-native';

import Carousel from 'react-native-looped-carousel'
var Dimensions = require('Dimensions');
var {width, height} = Dimensions.get('window');

var carouselTest = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function() {
    return {
      size: {width: width, height: height/6}
    };
  },
  _onLayoutDidChange: function(e) {
    var layout = e.nativeEvent.layout;
    this.setState({size: {width: layout.width, height: layout.height}});
  },

  _handle:function(u){
    this.props.navigator.push({
       title:'test',
       id:'webview',
       params: {
        url: u
      }
    })
  },

  render: function() {
    return (
      <View style={{flex: 0.5}} onLayout={this._onLayoutDidChange} >
        <Carousel delay={2000} style={this.state.size} >
            <TouchableHighlight onPress={this._handle.bind(this,'http://scorpionjay.github.io/ONE')} >
              <Image source={require('../images/demo11.jpg')} style={this.state.size} />
            </TouchableHighlight>

            <TouchableHighlight onPress={ this._handle.bind(this,'http://scorpionjay.github.io/ONE/demo.html')} >
              <Image source={require('../images/demo12.jpg')} style={this.state.size} />
            </TouchableHighlight>

            <TouchableHighlight onPress={ this._handle.bind(this,'http://scorpionjay.github.io/')} >
              <Image source={require('../images/demo13.jpg')} style={this.state.size} />
            </TouchableHighlight>
        </Carousel>
      </View>
    );
  }
});

export default carouselTest

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Corresponding application (priority) was first filed in US. Application No. 14/432,431 : USPTO. The application was subsequently abandoned. However there were multiple provisional applications for the same invention by the same applicant.
WO2014053910A3 was corresponding PCT application filed for 14/432,431. It seems it entered National Phase in China only. China Application No. 201380063286 seems to be pending.
There is WO2012135600 granted in the US as US9970022B2 on 05.15.2018 with priority date 03.30.2011 and likely to expire after 10.09.2033(after adding adjustment period of 922 days) if maintenance fees are paid duly. National phase entry pending in China and also entered in Thailand (as per WIPO) . These claim priority to other provisional applications at USPTO.


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HomeGuideHow to Engage Others Through Character Reaction
How to Engage Others Through Character Reaction
Morality salience
Moral emotions
Engagement with antagonists
Having a good understanding of how to engage others through character reaction is a key skill for any writer. Whether you are writing for a children's book or a thriller, engaging others through a character's reactions can be the difference between a great story and a bad one.
Several studies have shown that morality salience engages others through character reaction. This effect may be attributed to the fact that a person's judgment of the morality of an action is a bottom-up cognitive process. It involves contextual processing and associative processes, which involve interactions between brain regions and downstream control resources for immoral content. It is also influenced by the individual's perception of his/her own personal moral self-concept.
In order to examine the role of morality salience in engaging others, we designed a study with young adults. Participants participated in a two-part experiment: a primary session in which they completed baseline measures and a second session in which they completed manipulation checks. They then read a short story that included a late reveal of immoral behavior. They were then asked to rate how moral the behavior was on a seven-point scale.
The results showed that the time lag between the initial reveal and the onset of the task was associated with identification with the fictional criminal antagonist for males and a significant change in real-world attitudes toward criminals for females. This result raises important questions about the influence of the mental self-concept on character engagement.
Additionally, identification with the fictional criminal antagonist was positively associated with attitudes towards persons in the real world who commit similar immoral actions. This result suggests that morally complex characters are viewed as influential in the real world. However, more research is needed to better understand the real-world attitudinal consequences of identification with a morally complex antagonist.
To measure the neural mechanisms underlying the engagement with the fictional criminal antagonist, we measured activity in a number of areas related to semantic judgments involving moral content. We found that these judgments were associated with activity in executive control and salience networks. These regions were co-active with the default network (lateral PFC) early in the epoch, and increased in the post-decision epoch. The enhanced rTPJ activation reflected more extensive processing of mental state information and positive or negative moral judgments.
The results of this study suggest that the human salience network plays an essential role in detecting and interpreting behaviorally relevant stimuli. It may contribute to the early detection of immoral content. This network also modulates reappraisal of antisocial actions and may divert attentional resources to associative processing.
Considering the wide range of moral emotions that are likely to be encountered throughout a person's life, it is interesting to consider how these may influence a person's moral behaviour. For example, the emotion of guilt, which primarily arises after a moral lapse, can motivate reparative actions. It can also foster a lifetime pattern of moral behavior.
Similarly, feelings of pride arising from a successful achievement are another important motivator. These feelings have implications for a person's moral behavior because they reinforce a commitment to an ethics of self-respect and to the community. In addition, these feelings can act as a powerful retrieval cue to help individuals remember a positive event.
Research has identified a number of risky behaviors that are linked to shame, including sexual and drug abuse. However, despite these findings, the relationship between these behaviors and morality is unclear. There is, however, a growing body of evidence to suggest that shame is a moral emotion.
The attributions that individuals make about the cause of an event can influence the extent to which they experience this emotion. For example, a person who thinks that the cause was a misfortune is more likely to suffer from the feeling. In contrast, a person who believes that the cause was intentional is less likely to feel this emotion.
Finally, studies have found that empathy, while not explicitly a morally relevant emotion, can be a motivator for moral behavior. In particular, empathy can trigger moral schemas in a person's memory. When these are stored, they can trigger a response that will be justifiable depending on the person's moral reasoning maturity.
One possible explanation for the lack of strong empirical support for a public/private distinction is that the most important factors involved in this distinction are not yet known. This may explain why little research has examined the relationship between moral standards and moral emotional factors. Nevertheless, future research should explore how such factors contribute to real-time moral decisions. In addition, an integrative framework incorporating aspects from developmental psychology and social neuroscience could be a step in the right direction.
Identifying with an antagonist can lead to significant changes in real world attitudes and behaviors. However, little is known about the actual outcomes of identification with morally complex characters. The current study explored the effect of identification with a fictional criminal antagonist on real-world attitudes. The study examined the relationship between identification and policy attitudes, as well as punitive and lenient attitudes towards criminals.
The results revealed that identification with the fictional criminal antagonist influenced the participants' attitudes toward criminals in the real world. Participants who identified with the character were more likely to support harsher penalties for economic criminals. Similarly, participants who identified with the criminal character felt shame for the criminal's actions and supported punitive policies. The study highlights the importance of examining the impact of identification with morally complex characters in the real world.
The research also suggests that gender can play a role in identification with morally complex characters. While male participants were more likely to identify with the fictional antagonist, female participants were more likely to identify with the secondary characters. This raises important questions in future research. The study suggests that the relationship between gender and engagement with morally complex characters may involve unique processes.
Another potential factor influencing engagement with an antagonist is moral self-concept. The study found that women valued fairness more than men. The study suggests that moral self-concept may influence narrative selection and identification with a morally complex antagonist. Further research should address the role of moral emotions and salience of vices. The present findings provide initial steps in addressing these issues. Further research is necessary to determine how character identification is influenced by these factors and to understand the real-world consequences of identification.
The identification process may be unique for identification with morally complex antagonists. While this study investigated key predictors of engagement with the fictional criminal antagonist, future research is necessary to explore the effects of morality and vice salience, as well as the recency of moral violations. It is still unclear whether the effects of identifying with an antagonist are due to a positive bias or a negative bias.
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05/17/2021 Utah Jazz
Utah Jazz finish regular season with NBA's best record for the first time in franchise history
The Utah Jazz have blasted their way through the 2020-21 regular season, overcoming some late injury adversity to clinch the NBA's best record at 50-22. It's the first time in franchise history the team has finished with the best record and they will now carry home court advantage throughout the postseason.
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By Kane Pitman @KanePitman
The Utah Jazz handled the Sacramento Kings in their regular season finale, creating a little bit of history in the process.
The 121-99 win ensured the Jazz finished the regular season with a 50-22 record, giving them the NBA's best win-loss mark for the first time in franchise history.
Playing with Donovan Mitchell who remains sidelined with an injured right ankle, the game wasn't totally without drama, as a loss would have seen the Phoenix Suns claim top spot in the West by virtue of holding the tiebreaker.
With that in mind, you could have excused Jazz fans for feeling on edge when the Kings raced out to a 25-13 lead with 3:08 to play in the first quarter. A 15-0 run to end the period quickly ended those concerns, with the Jazz running away with the game from that point on.
"As much as the accomplishment for me, you appreciate this group of men," head coach Quin Snyder said postgame.
"You appreciate the opportunity to coach them. You appreciate what they've accomplished in the regular season. I want them all to enjoy this moment because I feel like if we do that, that transitions us to the mindset we need to have to try to play well in the playoffs, to compete and execute. That's what these guys have done all year."
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Big man Rudy Gobert finished with 13 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks on the night, putting a bow on another dominant season that's put him in the box seat for a third Defensive Player of the Year award.
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"Obviously it's not our main goal. Our main goal is to get the championship. But we still have to enjoy these moments and be proud of the year and the work that we put in this year."
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Q: Glossaries acronyms two languages I'm using glossaries package to make my list of acronyms. I'm writing in Spanish but some of my acronyms are in English. I want them to be displayed like:
Spanish description - English long (Short) -
I was thinking on using the description label in glossaries to include the Spanish description. However I don't know how to modify the \acX macros in order to display the acronym correctly (first time all, next just the short, etc.)
Any help or hint is more than welcome.
CU
Edit: After having Using the glossaries package for English acronyms in German documents I need it to be modified to a format like:
OtherLanguage_long (Short, Long)
   Long (Short)
ie. --> Calidad de Servicio (QoS, Quality of Service)
        Internet Protocol (IP)
Edit 2: Problem solved... At least I think so.
I've created to tokens, one for plural and another for singular.
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym, toc, shortcuts]{glossaries}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\newtoks\customtoksingular
\newtoks\customtokplural

\renewcommand*{\newacronymhook}{%
 \edef\dosetkeys{\noexpand\setkeys{glossentry}{user1={},\the\glskeylisttok}}%
 \dosetkeys
 \ifcsempty{@glo@useri}%
 {%
   %\expandafter\customtoksingular\expandafter{\the\glsshorttok\space(\the\glslongtok)}%
   \expandafter\customtoksingular\expandafter{\noexpand\acrfullformat{\the\glslongtok}{\the\glsshorttok}}%
 }%
 {%
   \edef\custom{\csexpandonce{@glo@useri}\space(\the\glsshorttok, \the\glslongtok)}%
   \expandafter\customtoksingular\expandafter{\custom}%
 }%
 \ifcsempty{@glo@userii}%
 {%
   %\expandafter\customtoksingular\expandafter{\the\glsshorttok\space(\the\glslongtok)}%
   \expandafter\customtokplural\expandafter{\noexpand\acrfullformat
           {\noexpand\glsentrylongpl{\the\glslabeltok}}%
           {\noexpand\glsentryshortpl{\the\glslabeltok}}}
 }%
 {%
   \edef\custom{\csexpandonce{@glo@userii}\space(\the\glsshorttok, \the\glslongtok\noexpand\acrpluralsuffix)}%
   \expandafter\customtokplural\expandafter{\custom}%
 }%
}

\newcommand*{\custompostdesc}[1]{%
  \ifcsempty{glo@#1@useri}{}{ (\glsentryuseri{#1})}%
}

\renewcommand*{\CustomAcronymFields}{%
  user1={},%
  name={\the\glsshorttok},%
  description={\the\glslongtok\noexpand\custompostdesc{\the\glslabeltok}},%
  first={\the\customtoksingular},%
  firstplural={\the\customtokplural},%
  % first={\the\glslongtok\space(\the\customtoksingular)},%
  %firstplural={\the\glslongtok\noexpand\acrpluralsuffix\space (the\customtoksingular},%
  text={\the\glsshorttok},%
  plural={\the\glsshorttok\noexpand\acrpluralsuffix}%
}

\SetCustomStyle

\makeglossaries

\newacronym[user1=interfaz de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n, user2=interfaces de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n]{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface}
\newacronym{aa}{AA}{Another Acronym}

\begin{document}

First use: Las \acp{api} ....  Subsequent use: \acp{api}

\glsresetall{}

First use: Las \ac{api} ....  Subsequent use: \ac{api}

First use: \gls{aa}. Subsequent use: \gls{aa}.

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]

\end{document}

A: I recommend you upgrade to the latest version of glossaries (v4.01 at time of writing) as it's more flexible. Here's an example that uses v4.01:
\documentclass[spanish,english]{article}

\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[acronym,toc,shortcuts]{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

% Add new key for long Spanish form:
\glsaddkey
{longsp}% key
{}% default value
{\glsentrylongsp}% new command analogous to \glsentrylong
{\Glsentrylongsp}% new command analogous to \Glsentrylong
{\acrlongsp}% new command analogous to \acrlong
{\Acrlongsp}% new command analogous to \Acrlong
{\ACRlongsp}% new command analogous to \ACRlong

% Add new key for plural long Spanish form:
\glsaddkey
{longplsp}% key
{}% default value
{\glsentrylongplsp}% new command analogous to \glsentrylongpl
{\Glsentrylongplsp}% new command analogous to \Glsentrylongpl
{\acrlongplsp}% new command analogous to \acrlongpl
{\Acrlongplsp}% new command analogous to \Acrlongpl
{\ACRlongplsp}% new command analogous to \ACRlongpl

% Provide conditional to test if longsp/longplsp has been set
\newcommand*{\glsifhaslongsp}[3]{%
  \ifcsempty{glo@#1@longsp}{#3}{#2}%
}
\newcommand*{\glsifhaslongplsp}[3]{%
  \ifcsempty{glo@#1@longplsp}{#3}{#2}%
}

% Set up custom acronym style:
\renewcommand*{\CustomAcronymFields}{%
  name={\the\glsshorttok},
  description={\the\glslongtok},%
}

% Set the display style for acronyms (used by commands like \gls, \glspl, \ac, \acp or \glsdisp)
\renewcommand*\SetCustomDisplayStyle[1]{%
  \defglsentryfmt[#1]{%
    \ifdefempty\glscustomtext
    {% \glsdisp not used
      \ifglsused\glslabel
      {% subsequent use
         \glsifplural
         {% plural
           \glscapscase
           {% subsequent, plural, no case change
             \glsentryshortpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert%
           }%
           {% subsequent, plural, first letter upper case
             \Glsentryshortpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert%
           }%
           {% subsequent, plural, all caps
             \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert}%
           }%
         }%
         {% singular
           \glscapscase
           {% subsequent, singular, no case change
             \glsentryshort{\glslabel}\glsinsert%
           }%
           {% subsequent, singular, first letter upper case
             \Glsentryshort{\glslabel}\glsinsert%
           }%
           {% subsequent, singular, all caps
             \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentryshort{\glslabel}\glsinsert}%
           }%
         }%
      }%
      {% first use
         \glsifplural
         {% plural
           \glsifhaslongplsp\glslabel
           {% first use, plural, has Spanish long form
             \glscapscase
             {% first use, plural, Spanish, no case change
               \glsentrylongplsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylongpl{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, plural, Spanish, first letter upper case
               \Glsentrylongplsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylongpl{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, plural, Spanish, all caps
               \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentrylongplsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylongpl{\glslabel})}%
             }%
           }%
           {% first use, plural, doesn't have Spanish long form
             \glscapscase
             {% first use, plural, no Spanish, no case change
               \glsentrylongpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, plural, no Spanish, first letter upper case
               \Glsentrylongpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, plural, no Spanish, all caps
               \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentrylongpl{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshortpl{\glslabel})}%
             }%
           }%
         }%
         {% singular
           \glsifhaslongsp\glslabel
           {% first use, singular, has Spanish long form
             \glscapscase
             {% first use, singular, Spanish, no case change
               \glsentrylongsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylong{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, singular, Spanish, first letter upper case
               \Glsentrylongsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylong{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, singular, Spanish, all caps
               \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentrylongsp{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel},\space
                \glsentrylong{\glslabel})}%
             }%
           }%
           {% first use, singular, doesn't have Spanish long form
             \glscapscase
             {% first use, singular, no Spanish, no case change
               \glsentrylong{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, singular, no Spanish, first letter upper case
               \Glsentrylong{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel})%
             }%
             {% first use, singular, no Spanish, all caps
               \MakeTextUppercase{\glsentrylong{\glslabel}\glsinsert\space
               (\glsentryshort{\glslabel})}%
             }%
           }%
         }%
      }%
    }%
    {% \glsdisp used
      \glscustomtext
    }%
  }%
}

\SetCustomStyle

% Define a new glossary style that checks for the existence of
% the longsp field.
\newglossarystyle{listsp}{%
  \setglossarystyle{list}% base style on the list style
  \renewcommand*{\glossentry}[2]{%
  \item[\glsentryitem{##1}%
        \glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}}]
    \glossentrydesc{##1}%
    \glsifhaslongsp{##1}{\space(\glsentrylongsp{##1})}{}%
    \glspostdescription\space ##2}%
}

\newacronym
 [longsp=interfaz de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n,
  longplsp=interfaces de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n
 ]{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface}

\newacronym{aa}{AA}{Another Acronym}

\begin{document}

First use: Las \acp{api} ....  Subsequent use: \acp{api}

\glsresetall

First use: Las \ac{api} ....  Subsequent use: \ac{api}

First use: \gls{aa}. Subsequent use: \gls{aa}.

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,style=listsp]

\end{document}

This produces:

Edit:
If you upgrade to the latest version (v4.02, 2013/12/05) it's easier to define a new acronym style and have \acf match the style. (Although it's also possible to define acronym styles where they don't match, as is the case with the predefined footnote style where \acr doesn't use a footnote.) Here's the above example rewritten using v4.02 code:
\documentclass[spanish,english]{article}

\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[acronym,toc,shortcuts]{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

% Add new key for long Spanish form:
\glsaddkey
{longsp}% key
{}% default value
{\glsentrylongsp}% new command analogous to \glsentrylong
{\Glsentrylongsp}% new command analogous to \Glsentrylong
{\acrlongsp}% new command analogous to \acrlong
{\Acrlongsp}% new command analogous to \Acrlong
{\ACRlongsp}% new command analogous to \ACRlong

% Add new key for plural long Spanish form:
\glsaddkey
{longplsp}% key
{}% default value
{\glsentrylongplsp}% new command analogous to \glsentrylongpl
{\Glsentrylongplsp}% new command analogous to \Glsentrylongpl
{\acrlongplsp}% new command analogous to \acrlongpl
{\Acrlongplsp}% new command analogous to \Acrlongpl
{\ACRlongplsp}% new command analogous to \ACRlongpl

% Provide conditional to test if longsp/longplsp has been set
\newcommand*{\glsifhaslongsp}[3]{%
  \ifcsempty{glo@#1@longsp}{#3}{#2}%
}
\newcommand*{\glsifhaslongplsp}[3]{%
  \ifcsempty{glo@#1@longplsp}{#3}{#2}%
}

% Define new acronym style:

\newacronymstyle{spanish}
{% base the display style on 'long-short'
  \GlsUseAcrEntryDispStyle{long-short}%
}%
{% base the definitions on 'long-short'
  \GlsUseAcrStyleDefs{long-short}%
% Make some custom modifications for the first use display.
% Singular, no case change:
  \renewcommand*{\genacrfullformat}[2]{%
   \glsifhaslongsp{##1}%
   {% has Spanish version:
      \glsentrylongsp{##1}##2\space
      (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}}, \glsentrylong{##1})%
   }%
   {%
     \glsentrylong{##1}##2\space
     (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}})%
   }%
  }%
% Singular, first letter upper case:
  \renewcommand*{\Genacrfullformat}[2]{%
   \glsifhaslongsp{##1}%
   {% has Spanish version:
      \Glsentrylongsp{##1}##2\space
      (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}}, \glsentrylong{##1})%
   }%
   {%
     \Glsentrylong{##1}##2\space
     (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}})%
   }%
  }%
% Plural, no case change:
  \renewcommand*{\genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
   \glsifhaslongplsp{##1}%
   {% has Spanish version:
      \glsentrylongplsp{##1}##2\space
      (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}}, \glsentrylongpl{##1})%
   }%
   {%
     \glsentrylongpl{##1}##2\space
     (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}})%
   }%
  }%
% Plural, first letter upper case:
  \renewcommand*{\Genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
    \glsifhaslongplsp{##1}%
    {% has Spanish version:
      \Glsentrylongplsp{##1}##2\space
      (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}}, \glsentrylongpl{##1})%
    }%
    {%
      \Glsentrylongpl{##1}##2\space
      (\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}})%
    }%
  }%
}

% switch to the new style:
\setacronymstyle{spanish}

% Define a new glossary style that checks for the existence of
% the longsp field.
\newglossarystyle{listsp}{%
  \setglossarystyle{list}% base style on the list style
  \renewcommand*{\glossentry}[2]{%
  \item[\glsentryitem{##1}%
        \glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}}]
    \glossentrydesc{##1}%
    \glsifhaslongsp{##1}{\space(\glsentrylongsp{##1})}{}%
    \glspostdescription\space ##2}%
}

\newacronym
 [longsp=interfaz de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n,
  longplsp=interfaces de programaci\'{o}n de la aplicaci\'{o}n
 ]{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface}

\newacronym{aa}{AA}{Another Acronym}

\begin{document}

First use: Las \acp{api} ....  Subsequent use: \acp{api}

\glsresetall

First use: Las \ac{api} ....  Subsequent use: \ac{api}

First use: \gls{aa}. Subsequent use: \gls{aa}.

Full form: \acf{api}, \acf{aa}.

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,style=listsp]

\end{document}

This produces:

Edit 2:
In answer to @cacamailg's comment regarding only using the non-English version, the simplest method is just to define a set of commands that check the first use flag like this:
\newcommand*{\acfor}[2][]{%
 \ifglsused{#2}%
 {\acrshort[#1]{#2}}%
 {\acrlongsp[#1]{#2} (\acrshort[#1]{#2})\glsunset{#2}}%
}

\newcommand*{\Acfor}[2][]{%
 \ifglsused{#2}%
 {\Acrshort[#1]{#2}}%
 {\Acrlongsp[#1]{#2} (\acrshort[#1]{#2})\glsunset{#2}}%
}

\newcommand*{\acplfor}[2][]{%
 \ifglsused{#2}%
 {\acrplshort[#1]{#2}}%
 {\acrlongplsp[#1]{#2} (\acrshortpl[#1]{#2})\glsunset{#2}}%
}

\newcommand*{\Acplfor}[2][]{%
 \ifglsused{#2}%
 {\Acrshortpl[#1]{#2}}%
 {\Acrlongplsp[#1]{#2} (\acrshortpl[#1]{#2})\glsunset{#2}}%
}

Then you can do something like:
\acfor{api}. Next use: \acfor{api}.

This has some limitations, for example, you can't use the final insert optional argument used by commands like \gls.

A: A new version for \acfor{}. In text you may use \acfor[Televisão]{TV} to achieve the result Televisão (TV) in the first run and TV in the others. This generates the link to Television entry as defined below:
\newacronym{TV}{TV}{Television}

If the first argument is not provided, \acfor{TV} gives Television (TV) in the first run and TV in the others.
\usepackage{xparse}

% A version of '\ac{}' to be used in foreign texts
\DeclareDocumentCommand{\acfor}{ o m }{%
    \ifglsused{#2}{% verifies if entry has been marked as used
        \glslink{#2}{\glsentryshort{#2}}% if yes, use short version
    }{% else
        \IfValueTF{#1}{% verifies if there is a label
            \glslink{#2}{#1\space(\glsentryshort{#2})}% if yes, use and link it
            \glsunset{#2}% mark as used
        }{% else
            \glslink{#2}{\emph{\glsentrylong{#2}}\space(\glsentryshort{#2})}% emphasize the foreign text
            \glsunset{#2}% mark as used
        }%
    }%
}


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Q: UILabel add exclusion path How to add exclusion path for UILabel in iOS?
From iOS 9, UILabel has been implemented on top of TextKit, that means you can set an exclusion bezier path.
Suppose we have an multi-line (3 in my case) UILabel with a image on the right and the image height is less than the height of the UILabel. Using a UITextView I can do the following:
UIBezierPath * imgRect = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
self.textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = @[imgRect];

and the text would nicely flow around the image. This is done by setting the exclusion path of the UITextView to the image Frame. How to do the same this with UILabel since there is no TextContainer property.
I added below an example of how it is done using UITextView.
https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/280-flowing-text-around-images-with-exclusion-paths
The text without setting the excluison path
This is the text with the exlusion path set


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Q: MMQGIS plugin in QGIS 3.10 Mac version? I'm new to QGIS.  I'm interested in geocoding addressed and have seen from research that the MMQGIS plugin is a great resource.  I do not see this as a preloaded plugin (most references online indicate that it generally is).
I downloaded a MMQGIS folder of the current plugin and tried to drop that under contents in the QGIS content folder but that was unsuccessful.  Any assistance or information (even just knowing why it isn't a preloaded plug in) would be great.

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Home » Civilizations » Europe
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Since the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Europe's self-proclaimed master the United States has forced all the EU member states to support sanctions on Russia.
Was the Ukrainian Secret Soviet Nuclear Stash One of the Main Reasons for Russia's Military Operation in Ukraine?
When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, one question that escaped all the attention and the drama and the celebration that was going on was this: Where did all the Soviet nuclear weapons go?
The Conservative Action. Who we are, who are our enemies and what do we aspire to?
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The Conservative Action is a traditionalist think tank that includes intellectuals from Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
Sergey Atamanov
In the context of hostilities in Ukraine, media and messenger publications focus on the fighting, shelling, and supply of weapons and military equipment. Occasionally there is information about the actions of mercenaries.
EU heading for militarisation
On 10 November 2022, the European Commission unveiled a new action plan, "Military Mobility 2.0".
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The Decline of the West: Spengler in Today's World
Oscar Silva-Valladares
The German historian-philosopher wrote in 1922 that the centuries old West-European-American civilization was in permanent and irretrievable decline in all manifestations of life including religion, art, politics, social life, economy and science.


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Calling his photographs ''poetic realism,'' Mr. Gonzalez Palma makes sure that his subjects, mostly Mayan Indians in his early photographs, held center stage, not as some emblematic ethnic group or victim but as individuals. One way he got viewers to really look was to lend his sitters magical trappings. They sprout wings or wear fancy headgear, from a crown of thorns or flowers to concoctions of leaves or animal's heads. In frontal close-ups, the sitters' eyes -- the whites fiercely white against the photographs' rich sepia tone -- instantly draw the viewer's attention.
The show of Mr. Gonzalez Palma's work now at the James Danziger Gallery on the Upper East Side includes a delightfully surrealistic earlier work, ''El Disfraz de la Libelula,'' or ''Costume of the Dragonfly'' (1995). In this triptych patched together from five segments, a Peruvian young woman poses as angel-harlequin with a tiara, a halo and a pair of wings, one opaque, the other transparent.
Mr. Gonzalez Palma's work over the last two years continues to be in segments casually pasted together. In mood and toning, his close-ups delicately echo Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits of women. And like Mike and Doug Starn, he often uses plastic overlays bearing a tint or words or images.
But in his latest work Mr. Gonzalez Palma replaces eye-catching theatrics with a far subtler approach to showing concerns about life and death in a country where a 35-year civil war has unleashed untold suffering on its civilians.
On the face of it, Mr. Gonzalez Palma, who was born in 1957 and is part Indian and part Spanish, would seem to be dealing with bourgeois concerns. ''El Pasillo del Tiempo,'' or ''The Passage of Time'' (1995), has eight frames of gloriously impressionistic birthday cakes, a grouping offset at one end by an image of a delighted baby in front of a cake and at the other end by a photograph of an older boy gazing sternly at the camera.
Since Mr. Gonzalez Palma has declined to stereotype his sitters -- mostly Guatemalans he knows -- it stands to reason he would not couch their mortality in stereotypical terms. For his Guatemalans, life may turn out short and brutish but it is not cheap. Those gorgeous birthday cakes are forests of birthday candles, surely far too many for the infant and boy and surely beyond the means of most Guatemalans. But just as surely, the cakes are not all they seem; one is topped by a crown of thorns.
A parallel work, ''La Imagen del Mundo,'' or ''Image of the World'' (1998), juxtaposes a row of five hazy images of chandeliers with a row of images of circus tents and medical texts. Letters of the alphabet forming the word quirofano, Spanish for surgical center, are randomly and ominously pasted on top of the images.
Contrary to what his work would indicate, Mr. Gonzalez Palma is self-taught. Even though his interest was in art, he studied architecture at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala because there wasn't a good local art institute. Besides, his father was an engineer, and it seemed logical for him to become an architect. It was just as well. While he studied architecture, he earnestly worked on abstract oils, which he now views with horror. He was, by his own estimation, the worst painter in the world.
Then in the early 1980's, he met and married Delia Vigil, a Peruvian ballerina, and with a borrowed camera started to photograph dance performances. When he got serious about photography in the late 80's, the theatrical world of dance, Roman Catholicism (Guatemala's dominant religion) and Mayan mythology all became integral parts of his photography.
Having taught himself the use of various format cameras and darkroom photo processing, he learned early on from a Mexican friend, a painter, to use asphaltum to give his images its special sepia tint. To create a focal point, he left the whites of the eyes white.
Because of his interest in drama, Mr. Gonzalez Palma was initially drawn to the work of Joel-Peter Witkin, which he found in a magazine. Wilkin-influenced grotesquerie is obvious, for example, in ''La Luna'' (1989), in which a crescent moon is lashed to the face of a woman.
Later he saw the Starns' work at a New York gallery, realizing from their startlingly cavalier treatment of photographic prints that there was far more freedom in photography than he had imagined. He also began to nail fragments of hand-toned prints to hand-painted wood mounts.
Around 1992, when Mr. Gonzalez Palma quit architecture to become a full-time photographer, he saw an exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron's work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. What he has described as her tender way of making close-up portraiture left a profound mark on him.
In the current exhibition, two of the most mesmerizing works are anchored by tender portraits of women.
''Pasajera del Destino,'' or ''Traveler of Destiny'' (1998), pairs the shadowed exterior of a circus tent, which has an overlay of an old Government seal, with a pensive young woman wearing a sequined headband. Stapled to the lower corner of the portrait is a small photograph of an older woman holding a baby. In Guatemala, street circuses are a popular, entertaining and affordable distraction, and people see themselves in the clowns and other comic performers. But ''Pasajera del Destino'' is a poignant reminder that this is a country where youth, strength and beauty are no match for the often brutal encroachments of politics.
The heart of the exhibition and its most powerful image is ''Entre Raices y Aire,'' or ''Between Roots and Air'' (1996-97). On one side of this diptych is a haunting portrait of an unsmiling, classically beautiful woman, her shawl-covered head held high, her eyes looking straight into the camera. On the other side are fields and fields of makeshift crosses.
''Luis Gonzalez Palma'' remains at the James Danziger Gallery, 851 Madison Avenue, at 71st Street, through June 27.


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What role does surveillance play in online freedom?
April 1, 2014 Global Insights, Internet Freedom
Many people are growing concerned about the extensive online surveillance programs that governments are under taking.
Freedom is a rather loaded concept. While most people will certainly say they are advocates of freedom, this idea is something that is likely different for everyone.
Since the beginning of time, people have been looking for ways to apply the concept of freedom to various walks of life. The U.S. constitution, for instance, could be understood as a set of guidelines as to how to apply freedom in a variety of contexts. Already a complicated issue, the application of freedom has only become more layered with the emergence of the digital age and the Internet.
Surveillance and freedom
The issue came to a climax recently when Edward Snowden leaked numerous documents to media outlets like the Guardian. These leaks revealed that the National Security Administration, along with the the U.K. equivalent had been engaging in extensive and misleading actions that invaded the personal privacy rights of not only their own citizens, but those of people in other countries. For instance, one of the most shocking findings was that the NSA had tapped the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The major justification for these actions has been national security. While this may be the case, it raises certain questions about the application of security in the context of an allegedly free society. For instance, one of the most widely held and protected individual rights a person has in the U.S. is freedom of speech. However, when one is engaging in various online activities, such as commenting on Facebook or composing a blog post, he or she may be detracted from saying what they truly feel because of their concern for online surveillance.
A recent Consumer Reports survey indicated that almost 60 percent of adult U.S. online consumers are very or somewhat concerned that these NSA policies violate their personal privacy rights. Of these people, 61 percent are seriously concerned about how their email is monitored, while almost 50 percent are concerned about the government monitoring their surfing tendencies.
The Internet's role
The Internet has the power to both increase freedom and limit it. Its capabilities allow people to communicate from all corners of the world and collaborate on different forms of projects. In some countries including Egypt and Iran, it has been used to spark revolutions, though their ends have not necessarily turned out the way that protestors would have liked.
On the other hand, the increase in surveillance has also created concerns. The BBC recently completed a survey about online freedom and how comfortable people felt with expressing themselves online. The poll noted at 67 percent of people feel that the Internet has brought them freedom. People in countries like Nigeria and Kenya, where Internet communications are relatively new, felt especially strongly about the Internet's liberating policies.
However, when it comes to feeling safe about expressing opinions online, support was not nearly as strong. About 52 percent felt that the Internet was not a safe place for freedom of speech.
"There is an increasing sense that everything you do online now is being monitored, or at least can be monitored, by either governments or corporations," said Caroline Baylon, who is a research associate for a think tank on security, according to the news source. "I think Edward Snowden's revelations of widespread spying by the US National Security Agency, including on its own citizens and close allies, have undercut trust in the actions of many governments."
Going forward, the relationship between online freedom and surveillance is sure to only get more complicated, but by bringing these issues to the surface, citizens can build a greater awareness about how their actions are processed.
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Effect of coadministered lopinavir and ritonavir (Kaletra) on tacrolimus blood concentration in liver transplantation patients
Ashokkumar B. Jain, Raman Venkataramanan, Bijan Eghtesad, Amadeo Marcos, Margaret Ragni, Ron Shapiro, Ann B. Rafail, John J. Fung
Division of Transplantation
With the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV positivity is no longer a contraindication for liver transplantation. Some of the antiretroviral agents, particularly protease inhibitors (e.g., ritonavir, indinavir, and nelfinavir) have been described as potent inhibitors of the metabolism of certain immunosuppressive drugs. In this article we describe a profound interaction between tacrolimus and Kaletra (Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, IL) (a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir) in 3 liver transplantation patients. Patient 1, who was maintained on a 5 mg twice daily dose of tacrolimus with a trough blood concentration around 10.6 ng/mL, required only 0.5 mg of tacrolimus per week after addition of Kaletra to achieve similar tacrolimus blood concentrations, with a half-life of 10.6 days. In patient 2, the area under the blood concentration versus time curve for tacrolimus increased from 31 ng/mL/h to 301 ng/mL/h after addition of Kaletra, with a corresponding half-life of 20 days. When the patient was subsequently switched to nelfinavir, the half-life decreased to 10.3 days. Patient 3, who was maintained with 4 to 8 mg/d of tacrolimus and a corresponding blood concentration of 10 ng/mL before Kaletra, required a tacrolimus dose of 1 mg/wk and tacrolimus concentrations of 5 ng/mL with Kaletra. In conclusion, a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir led to a much more profound increase in tacrolimus blood concentrations than use of single protease inhibitor, nelfinavir. A tacrolimus dose of less than 1 mg/wk may be sufficient to maintain adequate blood tacrolimus concentrations in patients on Kaletra. Patients may not need a further dose of tacrolimus for 3 to 5 weeks depending on liver function when therapy with Kaletra is initiated. Great caution is required in the management of tacrolimus dosage when Kaletra is introduced or withdrawn in HIV-positive patients after liver transplantation, particularly in the presence of hepatic dysfunction.
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Jain, A. B., Venkataramanan, R., Eghtesad, B., Marcos, A., Ragni, M., Shapiro, R., Rafail, A. B., & Fung, J. J. (2003). Effect of coadministered lopinavir and ritonavir (Kaletra) on tacrolimus blood concentration in liver transplantation patients. Liver Transplantation, 9(9), 954-960. https://doi.org/10.1053/jlts.2003.50171
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The good news is that the songs stand up, without any unnecessary hagiography. In one quiet moment towards the end of last night's show, one devotee shouted 'Thank you, John Cale. You are a genius.' He grinned briefly, said 'Calm down' firmly, and moved on to the next number.
Somewhere between Dunkirk and Paris.
Looking out from here -- at half-past France.
People always bored me anyway.
And so it went on: the sleepy wild west scene of 'Buffalo Ballet', Afghanistan in 'Letter from Abroad'. Cale's homeland Wales was evoked in 'Ship of Fools' ('...by the time we got to Swansea, it was getting dark...') and his setting of Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gently'.
A mild rap over the knuckles for failing to introduce his fine band: the drummer looked naggingly familiar and I now find it was Michael Jerome - last spotted by me on the Dome's stage in February doing equally fine things for Richard Thompson; and my first encounter, I think, with the storming and splendidly off-centre guitarist Dustin Boyer.
And finally... he's not just a songs man, of course. Why not give a listen to some fine and subtly orchestrated instrumentals on his Paris S'Eveille soundtrack album? It's one of my regular Sunday breakfast records - lovely stuff and you get the bonus of an obscure Velvets instrumental.
I suppose I'm glad I'm on this trainAnd it's longSomewhere between Dunkirk and Paris.Most people here are still asleepBut I'm awakeLooking out from here -- at half-past France.Not so cold.Wonder when we'll be in Dundee...I don't care.People always bored me anyway.
A magical evening at Bom-Bane's - one of the few venues in the galaxy to make the Tom Thumb Theatre feel spacious... The legendary Mike Heron on warm and engaging form, playing two sets of Incredible String Band favourites, with stronger musical support than he's had since the seventies. Perhaps the one obvious gap in a set-list of Heron classics was 'Everything's Fine Right Now' - but if you didn't climb the spiral staircase at the end with that thought firmly in your head anyway, and a silly grin on your face to match, then you hadn't been listening properly.
Along the way, the many highlights included fine versions of 'Black Jack Davy', 'Log Cabin Home In The Sky' and 'Cousin Caterpillar' - as well as 'Feast of St Stephen' from Mike's first, great, solo album, which he reprised with Trembling Bells last Christmas. Georgia featured two of her own songs - 'Bird' and 'Paths', which fitted in well. As did a cameo Brighton song from host Jane Bom-Bane.
will serve as well now as it did at Woodstock.
* I have to declare an interest, in that Nick is an old friend, whose amazing playing has turbocharged a number of sessions at our parties over the years. But I'm not biased - he's great.
The difference has been made by their current album, The King Is Dead, which is the one which hooked me - so I come to this review as a newbie, currently engaged in a fascinating tour through their back catalogue. The new record is a classic slice of stirring and often beautiful Americana embellished with contributions from Gillian Welch and REM's Peter Buck. But they are not dependent on those star guests and the Bexhill versions of songs like 'This Is Why We Fight' and 'Down By The Water' were every bit as strong as the record's. They have chosen well in augmenting their normal five-piece line-up for this tour with fiddle player and singer Sara Watkins, formerly of the fine Nickel Creek: she was in great voice throughout and added an important extra texture to the instrumentation. Not that the core band are short of variety: bouzouki, steel guitar, accordion and banjo were all in the mix at various points.
And your labours will be borne when all is done.
The thrushes' bleating battle with the wrens Disrupts my reverie again.
It's the last encore at Bexhill and ends a great gig beautifully. I'd go to four and a half stars.
Patti Smith was mesmerising at the De la Warr Pavilion last night. A genuinely shamanic performer with a voice of honeyed iron. Mixing readings in with songs drawn from across her thirty five year career and making a satisfying and consistent whole.
The musical platform was flimsier than usual. I missed Lenny Kaye's rock-solid guitar. A trio combining daughter Jesse's piano, vibes/guitar and violin/harp (as in Joanna Newsom rather than Sonny Terry) brought some new and interesting textures to familiar favourites. But they were often tentative and Jesse in particular seemed ill at ease. it didn't matter: Patti was in commanding form, owning the songs and driving through them.
She set the tone by singing a spine-tingling 'Beneath the Southern Cross' solo to her own acoustic guitar. Given the original boasted Tom Verlaine as well as Lenny Kaye, it was clear her confidence was high, and rightly so.
One of the talkative crowd shouted 'When will your new record be finished?'. She spat back 'Do I look like Nostradamus? ...You sound like my record company.' Watch this space - she's got a lot more to say yet.