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Trump criticizes Yovanovitch during her public testimony
By Morgan Chalfant - 11/15/19 10:28 AM EST
President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump's newest Russia adviser, Andrew Peek, leaves post: report Hawley expects McConnell's final impeachment resolution to give White House defense ability to motion to dismiss Trump rips New York City sea wall: 'Costly, foolish' and 'environmentally unfriendly idea' MORE harshly criticized the tenure of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Marie YovanovitchSunday shows preview: Lawmakers gear up for Senate impeachment trial Parnas pressure grows on Senate GOP House Democrats release second batch of Parnas materials MORE as she testified at a House impeachment hearing and emphasized he had the right to remove her from the post.
Trump asserted that "everywhere" Yovanovitch served "turned bad," and noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke negatively of her during their July 25 phone call.
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President's absolute right to appoint ambassadors," Trump tweeted.
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President's absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
"They call it 'serving at the pleasure of the President.' The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First!" Trump continued.
Trump then claimed he has done "FAR more" for Ukraine than former President Obama.
Asked to respond to Trump's criticism at the hearing later Friday morning, Yovanovitch said the tweets were "intimidating."
"I can't speak to what the president is trying to do, but I think the effect is to be intimidating," Yovanovitch replied when asked about them by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffREAD: House impeachment managers' trial brief Sunday shows preview: Lawmakers gear up for Senate impeachment trial Parnas pressure grows on Senate GOP MORE (D-Calif.). Schiff then said the committee takes witness intimidation "very seriously."
Yovanovitch also defended her tenure at the State Department, saying she believed she and others "have made things demonstrably better for the U.S. as well as for the countries that I've served in."
Later, the White House pushed back on Schiff's accusation that Trump was intimidating a witness.
"The tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President's opinion, which he is entitled to," said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham Stephanie GrishamHill.TV's Saagar Enjeti on impeachment: 'CNN can see through this nonsense' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Senate receives impeachment articles as trial opens Republicans criticize Pelosi for gifting pens used to sign impeachment articles MORE.
"This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process — or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate, charade stacked against the President. There is less due process in this hearing than any such event in the history of our country. It's a true disgrace," she added.
Yovanovitch, a career foreign service officer who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was abruptly recalled from her ambassadorship by Trump in the spring after the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani Rudy GiulianiDemocrats file brief against Trump, 'the Framers' worst nightmare' Trump lawyers attack House impeachment as 'brazen and unlawful' effort to overturn 2016 results Sunday shows preview: Lawmakers gear up for Senate impeachment trial MORE and his allies engaged in a smear campaign to oust her, according to testimony in connection with the impeachment inquiry.
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said that Trump had lost confidence in Yovanovitch at the time of her ouster. Sullivan has said she did nothing wrong.
House Democrats called Yovanovitch to testify on Friday about her ouster, which preceded an effort by Giuliani to get Ukraine to pursue investigations that could benefit Trump politically. House Democrats are investigating whether Trump abused his office to pressure Ukraine to pursue the investigations, which he raised on the July 25 call with Zelensky.
Trump also raised Yovanovitch during the call, describing her as "bad news" and saying she was "going to go through some things." Zelensky also later told Trump he agreed she was a "bad ambassador."
Yovanovitch testified Friday that she felt threatened when she saw Trump had raised her on the call.
"I was shocked and devastated," she said. "It was a terrible moment."
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Ways Wearable Technology Could Transform Diabetes Care
By Todd Campbell – Jun 11, 2017 at 2:01PM
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Fitbit, Apple Inc., and Medtronic are on the cutting edge of developing next-generation devices that merge wearable technology, data, and insulin levels.
Wearable technology has become increasingly common, thanks to Fitbit, Inc. (FIT) and Apple, Inc. (AAPL 1.37%), but it's possible that we're only scratching the surface of how these devices could eventually reshape healthcare worldwide.
Better devices = better insight
Fitbit has been selling wearable devices for 10 years, and overall, the company has sold a whopping 63 million devices, including 3 million Fitbits that were sold in Q1 alone.
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Currently, Fitbits are used mostly to help people track their workouts, but in the future, they could help patients keep better tabs on chronic illness, including diabetes.
In December, Fitbit cut a deal with medical-device Goliath Medtronic (MDT 0.90%) to team up on research that could eventually lead to Fitbit's use by diabetics to better monitor and control their disease.
Fitbits already provide a treasure trove of user data that shows exercise levels, heart rate, and other important metrics, and Medtronic is one of the biggest makers of insulin pumps and glucose monitors. If the collaboration results in a product that diabetics can easily wear to track their blood glucose levels, and data from that device better informs doctors and patients on how best to treat patients, it could help reduce diabetes progression and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Fitbit, however, isn't the only consumer electronics company that thinks there's a big opportunity ahead in using wearable devices to better manage diseases, including diabetes.
According to CNBC reports, Apple is working on a top-secret project that could eventually incorporate optical sensors into its Apple Watch. These sensors would be able to use light to penetrate the skin and measure blood glucose levels. Conceivably, incorporating continuous glucose monitoring into the Apple Watch would significantly reduce the need for finger sticks, and if the Apple Watch is ultimately paired up with an insulin pump, it could reshape diabetes treatment.
An eye on the future
Medtronic's research (and its M&A activity) has produced big advances in tackling diabetes. The company's Minimed G70 became the first "artifical pancreas" to win FDA approval last fall, and it's rolling out to consumers this year. This device pairs up glucose sensors with an insulin pump that can automatically dose insulin depending on the sensors readings. It's a major advance in treatment that hints at what diabetes care might look like in the future as wearable technology gets increasingly more sophisticated.
Therefore, while obstacles still stand in the way of efforts by Fitbit, Medtronic, and Apple to take diabetes monitoring and treatment to the next level, evidence suggests it's only a matter of time before wearable technology is commonly used in treating diabetes.
Todd Campbell owns shares of Apple. His clients may have positions in the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Apple and Fitbit. The Motley Fool owns shares of Medtronic. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Arianna Montorsi (PoliTo) summarised twenty years of policies and initiatives at PoliTo, reported about the striking differences in gender balance between architecture and engineering at PoliTo and presented the new impetus for diversity at PoliTo.
Mina Stareva (Head Sector Gender at European Commission) outlined the rich political context of gender equality, reported on the momentum for this topic given the 20th anniversary of the first communication on women in science and the programming of this topic in Horizon Europe, presented the SHE Figures 2018 and advised to commit at the highest levels and to come towards concrete actions.
Paola Inverardi (Rector of Università degli Studi dell'Aquila) described that gender issues must be viewed within their geographical, social, cultural and legal contexts, reported on the state of implementation of gender equality at Italian universities and warned from the very low number of females in comuter science and the threat of losing women out on the job market.
Brigitte Ratzer (Coordinator Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment - GEECCO - Project at TU Wien) presented the GEECCO project and highlighted 1) focussing on decision making processes and bodies, 2) focussing on recruitment, career development of female researchers and female staff members and 3) gender dimension in education and research as three important topics for the structures of GEP.
Heidi Christensen (Senior Lecturer Diversity and Equality Champion at University of Sheffield) presented Athena - Scientific Women Academic Network (SWAN) as a government initiative whereby universities sign up to a charter and might get rewarded an award.
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Doris Klee (Vice-Rector at RWTH Aachen and Chair of Task Force Human Resources) explained why there is a need to extend the concept to diversity and explained the importance of commitment of the university leadership.
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Imagine a place so pristine and idyllic its signal character of perfection is also its most prominent target for criticism.
Welcome to the "too good to be true" master-planned community of Celebration, Fla., population 7,427.
"Town" is not exactly the word Celebration uses to define itself. The community's website touts the nostalgic character of the place reminiscent of the halcyon days of 1950s small-town America.
"If you've visited Celebration, it's likely that our residents have already helped you feel part of the community," notes the website, www.celebration.fl.us. "Perhaps it was a simple smile someone shared as they passed by on the street. Maybe it was a friendly chat you had with a stranger while shopping.
"There's a reason Celebration is not a town, but a community in every positive sense of the word. While the population is diverse, the residents share a strong community spirit and a desire for a friendship with their neighbors.
The community, situated a few miles south of Disney World in Orlando, is the brainchild of Walt Disney, who sought to create a sustainable community in the style of his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, commonly known as EPCOT.
He originally envisioned a community of 20,000 residents, but subsequently halved that goal. All the quaintly styled homes were to be within walking distance of a charming, pastel-colored community square in the center of town.
Disney passed away in 1966, but in the early 1990s, the company he left behind established the Celebration Company and continued the dream, investing $2.5 billion in the project.
The first phase of residential development opened for occupancy in the summer of 1996 and Celebration earned recognition in 2001 as "New Community of the Year" by the Urban Land Institute.
Consistent with the original intention, Disney Development Company divested its ownership of Celebration in 2004 and turned over a majority of seats on the homeowners' association board to the local residents. Organized under Florida law as a community development district, voting on administrative matters is restricted to local landowners.
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Is it possible that Lt. Charles C.Taylor could have been suffering some kind of medical malady while leading the Flight-19 training mission on December 5th, 1945? It is a plausible theory. One that needs to be considered. Weather or not he was suffering from the after effects of a late night on the town, or experiencing a legitimate emergency, all factors of his physical health and history should be examined in our investigation of the Flight-19 mystery.
In most of the descriptions of the ill fated story, including the official 1946 Navy report, Taylor; a seasoned combat veteran and experienced pilot, was the cause of, or at least responsible for the loss of the five aircraft and crews. From a leadership stand point the conclusion made by the naval accident review board, is easy to understand. From the little evidence available all we know is that Taylor was in charge. Therefore: he was responsible for his men no matter what happened. Simple.
But ironically the Navy in the 56 facts and 56 opinions of the report while blaming him for the accident also left room for speculation about his health during the flight. Not making any attempt to interpret his medical or psychological mindset other than to make a blanket statement about his "Temporary Mental Confusion resulting in faulty judgement." (Pg. 144 #44 &#45) the review board does its best to be impartial, but ends up sounding obtuse in it's determination.
The report is worded in such a way to suggest all the pilots in the flight were , "physically qualified and temperamentally adapted for flight before take off (Pg.141 #11) and groups Taylor in with the rest of the pilots . So on one hand they say he was perfectly fine to fly and the next they infer there was some kind of aberration in his psychological or physiological ability to function while in flight. Sounds fair right? But they don't mention the evidence leading up to that conclusion.
Either way, there is no doubt that there was something unusual in his demeanor that day seventy one years ago. The book Discovery of Flight-19 by Jon Myhre; one reflecting many first hand personal interviews of those involved in the event: goes into detail regarding Taylor's back ground, and his actions previous to, and on that day. Charles was a natural pilot with a generally uncanny way of determining the correct direction to return to base, without instrumentation. Ultimately his goal was to transition to a fighter squadron at some point after his current assignment.
Myhre also details how, according to another pilot close to Taylor; Howard Williams, C.C. had a bad feeling about the flight that day. So much so that he made a call to his mother the day before to discuss it. We will probably never learn the details of the conversation, but it seems clear above all; he was not being himself.
During Navigational Problem One; just after the first leg and bombing run had been completed, something happened to Charles C. Taylor making him unable to focus completely on the routine directional tasks at hand. It is easy to speculate about his condition from just the record of radio transmissions between the planes and ground stations. But the Navy stopped short. So if we want answers we must take a stab at the his 'mental confusion'.
Medically speaking, confusion can come about from any number of reasons ranging from, altitude sickness, to a heart attack, head injuries to de-hydration and to post-traumatic stress disorder. Formerly known as battle fatigue or shell-shock, PTSD injuries may stay dormant for months to years after an event, and outwardly visible signs can be hard to detect.
So can we build a case for PTSD? Initially we might think he would be a prime candidate categorically; having been in combat and secondly ditching his aircraft at sea and surviving, not once but twice! Avengers were known to sink quite rapidly even in the calmest seas with all hands on board. The stress associated with the need to get out, must have been intense.
According to the Mayo Clinic "PTSD symptoms are generally grouped into four types: intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, and changes in emotional reactions. " From what we know of Taylor's actions and the symptoms of the disorder it seems like he may have had at least two symptoms in the last two categories. Hyper vigilance or(being overly aware of possible danger) and Hypersensitivity, having difficulty concentrating, startling easily, having a physical reaction (rapid heart rate or breathing, increase in blood pressure)
Lets examine facts from the case;
He had unofficially and officially asked to be excused from the training flight that morning, but gave no reason for the request. He had called his mom as well. (Hyper-vigilance)
He gave the wrong radio call sign when responding initially by radio as MT-28 not FT-28 and had to be asked to correct it. (Hypersensitivity) Confusion
At one point he believes they are over the Florida Keys when in fact they were hundreds of miles away. He continues to return to this belief even after persuaded otherwise. (Hypersensitivity) Confusion
He could not determine which direction the Sun had set. In other words he couldn't find the coast line and the general westerly direction. (Hypersensitivity) Confusion Furthermore; it seemed like his students knew which way was West.
Late in the mission, he gives or has control of the flight taken away from him seemingly by the next senior pilot. Later on he regains control of the flight still disoriented.
So why focus on PTSD above all else? If there was some kind of medical emergency in Ft-28 (Taylors plane) could it have been a heart attack or embolism? Can we rule out everything else?
In this process of elimination, its fair to say, it is not very likely to have been the case for some other trauma because from what we know of both heart attacks, strokes, and embolisms, Taylor would not have been able to communicate over the radio let alone perform the necessary functions to operate a plane. And in the end the planes stayed in the air close to 4 more hours beyond their projected return time. Even a panic attack would have likely caused an inability to coordinate his faculties.
No. Whatever ailment he was experiencing, it left his faculties intact enough to fly the plane. From what we are told by Myhre, Taylor was not a partier, so a hangover is unlikely, and it was December in Florida which makes dehydration from the heat possible but also unlikely. He may have suffered a head injury during one of his flights or ditches but symptoms of this should have been visible during his briefings or at least his last medical exam in Miami, earlier that year. Since, C.C. lived off post in a house shared with a couple of other pilots his behavior was not easily noted. Even if there was something unusual in his routine it seems no one was willing to discuss it.
But why would he want to cover up any problems anyway? Again we can only speculate, but while there were many veterans trying to get out of the service, there was also a small percentage of those wanting to make a career out of the military. Taylor was in this later group. And it only seems to reason that he wouldn't want anything to prevent his desire to fly, especially in fighter planes.
In the end we cannot prove any medical condition simply as there are not enough facts. In addition Taylor was known as a cool customer under pressure, so in that light its hard not to give the man the benefit of the doubt. Still it does make one wonder?
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Alice Thresher MacKenzie says:
Quite an interesting theory that may not have been considered as readily then as it might be today. I look forward to seeing where your research leads you next.
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Hundreds of thousands of children in England are growing up overweight or obese because of widening health disparities across the country, analysis suggests.
Child obesity has proliferated in recent years for a variety of reasons. Children live increasingly sedentary lifestyles, where physical activity has fallen and activities such as watching TV, playing video games and spending time on phones have increased.
However, a new analysis suggests as many as one in 12 cases could be avoided if health outcomes in the worst parts of England were improved to match the best.
The analysis, performed by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank and the analytics consultancy LCP for the Guardian, suggests the number of overweight or obese children in England could be reduced by hundreds of thousands if health outcomes were levelled up to the areas of the country where they are best.
Of the 1.4 million 10- and 11-year-olds living in England, about 35% are overweight or obese, which is the equivalent of 488,586 children, the analysis shows. Their excess weight means they will face a higher risk of serious conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease or cancer later in life.
But if health outcomes everywhere improved to match the areas where they are traditionally best, such as the home counties and more affluent London boroughs, the proportion could be cut to 32%. That would mean 41,879 fewer overweight or obese children in year 6 this year alone.
Barking and Dagenham, the worst performing part of the country, has double the rate of overweight or obese children than the best area, Richmond upon Thames, according to the analysis. Barking and Dagenham also had nearly five times higher rates of child poverty and 10% lower levels of early years development compared with the best performing area. Both these variables had a statistically significant correlation to childhood obesity, the IPPR senior research fellow Chris Thomas said.
"Unless there is urgent intervention to tackle widening health disparities, our analysis suggests hundreds of thousands more children will grow up overweight or obese simply because of where they grew up," Thomas said.
"Our figures suggests that thousands of cases of childhood obesity could be avoided, if the government take tough action on material inequalities and poverty. If not, obesity will pose a threat not only to people's health – but to economic prosperity and levelling up."
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"While the prime minister and his health secretary have recognised that stark health disparities exist in this country, they are currently failing to address the underlying causes," said Thomas.
"Our analysis shows the material conditions of the places we live – and our exposure to poverty, wealth inequality, unemployment, poor education, worse early years development or lower access to local public health services – combine to undermine the health of many people in our country.
"This has a social cost, and an economic cost, and runs counter to the government's 'levelling up' rhetoric."
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There's calls for an overhaul of how wine is taxed in Australia after a Preston pop-up shop started selling a bottle of wine for just .99c.
Cheapa Wines is selling up to 1000 bottles a week of the stuff.
Michael Thorn chief executive of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education says even though the wine has an alcohol content of 5.5%, to sell it so cheaply poses serious risks.
'That makes it about three cans of mid-strength beer. You wouldn't expect to be able to buy those three cans for 99c,' says Mr Thorn.
'To demonstrate that's the way wine is taxed in Australia is highly problematic and needs to be changed.'


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Leah Sharibu is still alive — Lecturer abducted by Boko Haram speaks from captivity (video)
Bitrus Bwala, a lecturer at the College of Education in Gashua, Yobe state disclosed that Leah Sharibu is alive as he spoke from captivity in a newly released video.
The lecturer who spoke in video shared by Ahmad Salkida (a journalist known to have access to Boko Haram) begged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Christian Organisation of Nigeria (CAN) to help him and the other captives regain their freedom.
Bwala also confirmed the death of four out of five abducted aid workers of Action Against Hunger (AAH) who were recently killed by the insurgents.
"I am a principal lecturer with College of Education, Gashua, Yobe state. I was on my way to my station on the 27th of November 2019 that I was abducted.
"I appeal to the federal government to come to our aid. As you can see behind me are fellow Christians who were arrested on various points. I equally appeal to Christian association to do whatever is within their reach in order to rescue us because when we came, we saw some workers here, particularly workers with food organisation, however, shortly, they were executed.
"We also saw that the government has not done enough that is why Leah Sharibu is still with this group. We, therefore, appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari."
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Q: If else condition inside listener for context menu in extjs I have following function for my context menu for the grid. I have two functions in the controller where I am making the api call for the context menu (for enabling and disabling). These functions are "disableRule" for Disable context menu and "enableRule" for Enable context menu. I am checking the state of the row of the grid to showcase the menu in the context menu, and this this state I am storing in  the enabled variable. Now I want to call the function for the Disable and Enable context menu. How can I call the both the function according to the condition. For the gridText I want to call functions according to the condition.
itemcontextmenu: function (grid, record, item, index, e) {

            var enabled = grid.getStore().getAt(index).get( 'enabled' ) == 1 ? true : false;
            if(enabled){
                gridText = 'Disable'
            } else {
                gridText = 'Enable'
            }
            var contextMenu = Ext.create('Ext.menu.Menu', {
                controller: 'administration-ipaccessmanagement',
                width: 100,
                plain: true,
                items: [{
                    text: 'Delete',
                    listeners: {
                        click: {fn: 'deleteRule', extra: record}
                    }
                },{
                    text: gridText,
                    listeners: {
                            click: {fn: 'disableRule', extra: record}
                    }
                }

                ]
            });
            e.stopEvent();
            contextMenu.showAt(e.getXY());
        }

A: You can add an item based on enabled. You just create a menu-item (button) on the fly.
itemcontextmenu: function (grid, record, item, index, e) {

    const enabled = !!grid.getStore().getAt(index).get( 'enabled' );

    const enableDisableItem = {
        text: enabled ? 'Enable' : 'Disable',
        listeners: {
            click: {
                fn: enabled ? 'enableRule' : 'disableRule',
                extra: record
            }
        }
    };

    var contextMenu = Ext.create('Ext.menu.Menu', {
            controller: 'administration-ipaccessmanagement',
            width: 100,
            plain: true,
            items: [{
                text: 'Delete',
                listeners: {
                    click: {fn: 'deleteRule', extra: record}
                }
            },
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        });

    e.stopEvent();
    contextMenu.showAt(e.getXY());
}

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Q: Enable ssh-key-only login to my Mac for 1 user I have a Macbook Air that I would like to allow remote SSH access to without a password. I have created a user called remotepair that I have logged into and verified I can use the Mac with. I have also added this user to the "Remote Login" service's allowed user list and turned on the service. This was all done in the "Sharing" control panel.
I have gotten the public key of another computer and added it to the file /Users/remotepair/.ssh/authorized_keys. When the other computer attempts ssh remotepair@<my ip> I still get a password prompt.
How do I disable this password prompt?

A: To update the answer for macOS Sierra (10.12.6 specifically),
it appears the config file is now /etc/ssh/sshd_config
2 lines must be uncommented+modified to fully disable password authentication: (These are lines 57 through 62, inclusive, in the default sshd_config file)
# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

As mentioned before, you may enable/disable ssh access from the System Preferences.app GUI, and no restart of the daemon is required between editing the configuration.

A: To disable password authentication you need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config. In Terminal:
sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

(or replace with your favourite editor)
Look for the line:
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

And change it to:
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

That is, remove the # at the beginning, and change yes to no.
All subsequent ssh logins will now REQUIRE you to use an ssh key and will not prompt for a password. Ensure your ssh key works before doing this if you have no local access! There's no need to restart the ssh daemon or anything because it is started on demand for each new incoming connection. Note that you may also see a PasswordAuthentication line, but that defaults to no already.
If your ssh keys aren't working then that's a separate issue really, but this answers the question as it is posed now :)

A: You should check the permissions of the directories involved: /Users/remotepair/ and /Users/remotepair/.ssh, they must not allow write access by "other" users. My .ssh has access rights only for the owner.
Also, on the remote system, do a ssh -v remotepair@yoursystem to see which authorization methods are allowed and attempted. Lookout for  Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive. Maybe you must enable RSAAuthentication on your system.

A: On a test system here, disabling the SSH prompt required the following two lines to be added to /etc/sshd_config:
PasswordAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

The comments in sshd_config also advise the following line be added:
UsePAM no


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Accueil > Skills > Labour Law > International employment contract
An employment contract is international when a foreign origin element is attached to the contract (it can be due to the nationality of the parties or the place where the contract is executed). Thus, they have to follow specific rules.
Indeed, two main provisions determine the relevant applicable law.
-The Rome Convention applies to contracts signed before the 17th December 2009
-Regulation Rome I, nowadays mainly used, is applicable for contracts signed after the 17th December 2009 (we will focus on this later).
Regulation Rome I has a universal scope as it can be used even if the parties are not members of the European Union or even if the relevant law is not the one of a EU member state, provided that the judge who is competent is a judge from a member state.
WHAT IS THE RELEVANT APPLICABLE LAW FOR INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS?
THE PRINCIPLE: FREEDOM OF CHOICE
Regulation Rome I on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) establishes the principle of freedom of choice (article 3) "A contract shall be governed by the law chosen by the parties. The choice shall be made expressly or clearly demonstrated by the terms of the contract or the circumstances of the case. By their choice the parties can select the law applicable to the whole or to part only of the contract."
Thus, an employment contract may be governed by the law chosen by the parties. However, this principle is considerably restricted because of the necessity to protect the weak party: the employees. Indeed, employers could abuse from their dominant position and impose an unfavourable law to their employees. In order to protect them, employment law has implemented mandatory and public order provisions.
LIMITS TO THE PRINCIPLE: the protective measures designed to govern the individual employment contracts:
Pursuant to article 8§1, the freedom of choice granted to the parties should not have the result of depriving the employee from the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law that, in the absence of choice, would have been applicable.
To the extent that the law applicable to the individual employment contract has not been chosen by the parties, the contract shall be governed by the law of the country in which or, failing that, from which the employee habitually carries out his work in performance of the contract. The country where the work is habitually carried out shall not be deemed to have changed if he is temporarily employed in another country (art8§2).
Where the law applicable cannot be determined pursuant to paragraph 2, the contract shall be governed by the law of the country where the place of business through which the employee was engaged is situated.
Where it appears from the circumstances as a whole that the contract is more closely connected with a country other than that indicated in paragraphs 2 or 3, the law of that other country shall apply
THE OVERRIDING MANDATORY PROVISIONS
Article 9 deals with the overriding mandatory provisions, these overriding mandatory provisions are provisions the respect for which is regarded as crucial by a country for safeguarding its public interests, such as its political, social or economic organization, to such an extent that they are applicable to any situation falling within their scope, irrespective of the law otherwise applicable to the contract under this Regulation
The mandatory provisions are those which cannot be derogated from by contract, they are in the public order scope and social order. For example, the regulation of paid leave and termination provisions in France are dealt as public order provisions, from which it is forbidden to deviate even if it is more favourable to the employee. The French Supreme Court has an extensive interpretation of these employees rights (Supreme Court, Ch Soc 26 March 2013- Case No. 11-25580).
THE COMPETENT JURISDICTIONS
EC Regulation No. 44/2001 provides in Chapter « Jurisdiction » Section 5: jurisdiction over individual contracts of employment.
>The employees can choose among different jurisdictions the one they want to reach.
An employer domiciled in a Member State may be sued:
1. in the courts of the Member State where he is domiciled; or
2. in another Member State:
(a) in the courts for the place where the employee habitually carries out his work or in the courts for the last place where he did so, or
(b) if the employee does not or did not habitually carry out his work in any one country, in the courts for the place where the business which engaged the employee is or was situated.
>However, the employer has no choice, pursuant to article 20, an employer may bring proceedings only in the courts of the Member State in which the employee is domiciled
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Le musée de Sculpture en plein air de Middelheim (nom officiel en néerlandais : ) est un musée de la sculpture moderne en plein air, établi sur le domaine de  à Anvers en Flandre.

Bref historique du site et des collections du musée

Origine du site

L'origine du domaine de  remonte aux  (ou maisons de plaisance) : les magnifiques châteaux des patriciens d'Anvers, avec leurs parcs de jardins, dont seuls trois ont été préservés de l'expansion urbaine.  est l'un d'entre eux. En 1342, l'endroit est déjà mentionné comme une  (un domaine appelé ). Depuis le , le domaine servait de résidence d'été aux riches marchands d'Anvers. Au , l'un d'eux, Pierre François Gisbert van Schorel, seigneur de Wilrijk, y rassembla une importante collection de tableaux de Rubens et de Van Dyck, parmi d'autres. Vers cette époque, le château de style Renaissance flamande subit une rénovation néoclassique, sans doute conçue par l'architecte parisien Barnabé Guimard. Le château fut ensuite cédé au chevalier Parthon de Von, où il écrit un recueil de fables et se consacra à l'horticulture. En 1842, le bien fut vendu à la famille Le Grelle. En 1910, cette famille vendit le domaine à la ville d'Anvers. Fusionné avec les domaines  et  (Chant d'oiseau), le parc fut ouvert au public sous le nom de  (parc des Rossignols). Bientôt, on reconnut le potentiel culturel du parc et, la même année, à la première réunion du comité des Amis des parcs d'Anvers, l'un des membres suggéra l'idée d'ériger un musée de la Sculpture en plein air.

Années 1950 et 1960
Le , à peine un an après l'exposition controversée au parc Sonsbeek à Arnhem et deux ans après celle au Battersea Park à Londres, une exposition internationale de sculptures de la période 1900-1950 fut ouverte au parc du . À l'ouverture de cette exposition, l'artiste Zadkine se serait adressé à Lode Craeybeckx, le bourgmestre d'Anvers qui entretenait de bons contacts avec de nombreux artistes, lui tenant à peu près ces paroles :

Bientôt, l'idée fut lancée de rendre permanente l'exposition sous la forme d'un musée de Sculpture à ciel ouvert. Le fait qu'il n'y avait pas de précédent international et qu'un tel musée pouvait mettre Anvers solidement sur la carte de l'art rendit l'idée encore plus attrayante. Le , un mois seulement après la fin de l'exposition, la proposition du bourgmestre de créer un musée international de la Sculpture contemporaine en plein air fut approuvée par le conseil communal d'Anvers. Le caractère à ciel ouvert pouvait lier les plaisirs physiques de la nature aux effets intellectuels et esthétiques de l'art contemporain. Le musée devait présenter un aperçu de la sculpture contemporaine internationale et, en même temps, prêter attention aux principaux précurseurs de la fin du  et du début du . À l'automne de 1951, le musée fut officiellement inauguré avec la présentation d'acquisitions récentes d'œuvres de Bourdelle, de Gargallo, de Maillol, de Manzù, de Marini, de Renoir et de Rodin.

Il fut décidé d'organiser tous les deux ans, à partir de 1953, une exposition internationale de sculpture. Comme la sculpture était, en 1950, encore inextricablement liée à des réalisations à fort coefficient de travail, coûteuses et en bronze ou en pierre, on mit au point avec Moore et Zadkine, sculpteurs représentés dans la collection du musée, une formule viable : chaque biennale devait illustrer les développements en matière de sculpture dans un pays en particulier.

À cette présentation seraient ajoutées des sélections plus modestes d'œuvres de sculpteurs d'autres pays. À chaque biennale, on trouvait le moyen d'enrichir la collection permanente de quelques œuvres. La presse internationale se montrait enthousiaste à propos du nouveau musée, que l'historien et critique d'art italien Umberto Apollonio décrivit, de la façon la plus lyrique, comme « un nouveau musée, un musée vivant, où la nature collabore avec les œuvres d'art, où l'air, le vent et la lumière s'associent intimement avec les personnages qui y demeurent et qui s'y expriment plus ou moins fort dans des langues différentes, mais toujours associé à la vie des gens modernes ». L'occasion se présenta à la troisième biennale de 1955, qui mettait l'accent sur la sculpture française, d'acheter des œuvres d'Arp, de Duchamp-Villon, de González et de Lipchitz, alors que la cinquième biennale, consacrée à la sculpture britannique, rendit possible l'achat d'un bronze de Hepworth.

Au cours des années 1960, la politique d'exposition et d'acquisition du musée , qui pouvait être définie comme « modérément moderne » dans les années 1950, était en retard par rapport à son temps. Année après année, l'écart avec l'art contemporain s'accrut.

Années 1970 et 1980
En 1971, la biennale fut consacrée, pour la première fois, au continent américain et une partie des sculptures fut présentée dans le nouveau pavillon de Braem. En 1963, ce dernier avait été chargé de concevoir un nouvel espace d'exposition permanent pour les sculptures en matériaux vulnérables ou de petit format. L'idée initiale d'agrandir ce pavillon dut être abandonnée en raison de la crise des années 1970.

À la quinzième biennale de 1979 furent invités les sculpteurs des pays scandinaves et, pour la première fois, quelques artistes vinrent sur place pour réaliser une œuvre selon un projet défini. Pour la seizième biennale, celle de 1981, on choisit une approche thématique et une orientation davantage axée sur des projets. Pour la première fois, une biennale à  ne consistait pas de produits importés, achevés, mais de projets spécifiques, propres au site, entre autres de Bruyninckx, de Lohaus et de Van Snick. En 1989, la vingtième et dernière biennale eut lieu dans le cadre du festival belge Europalia, dédié cette année-là au Japon. Le déclin de l'intérêt du public força à nouveau à la réflexion.

Années 1990 et 2000
Anvers ayant obtenu le titre de Capitale européenne de la culture en 1993, le musée obtint les moyens de passer par une opération de rattrapage pour mettre à jour sa collection permanente ; le musée parvint à acquérir des œuvres de Deacon, Genzken, Kirkeby, Klingelhöller, Lohaus, Mullican, Muñoz, Panamarenko, Schütte et Vermeiren. À partir de là, la politique d'acquisition du musée s'est réinscrite dans l'actualité artistique internationale et, en instaurant une exposition annuelle thématique, la politique d'exposition a été révisée.

Très vite, la succession rapide des acquisitions a conduit à un manque d'espace. Depuis le déménagement de la pépinière de la Ville d'Anvers, le musée dispose d'une zone importante de cinq hectares où l'unité semi-fonctionnelle  de l'Atelier Van Lieshout et Le Passage des heures de Cabrita-Reis ont trouvé une place. En 2000, le paysagiste français Desvigne a dessiné le projet de réaménagement de sept hectares à l'est et à l'ouest du château et de la douve. Des sculptures abstraites et minimalistes américaines et anglo-saxonnes, entre autres de Calder, de King, de Nevelson et de Soto, y ont trouvé leur place, comme une œuvre plus récente, le  de Burden. En 2001, un nouveau dépôt est inauguré, construit par un architecte flamand, Stéphane Beel. Depuis que la floriculture urbaine, de l'autre côté du musée, a également déménagé, le musée peut se développer dans cette direction.

Années 2010
Dans , un guide du musée (publié dans une collection de la maison d'édition Ludion), Johan Pas écrit l'histoire de l'institution, dans un texte signé en février 2010, et constate que la collection se compose d'environ 480 sculptures, 280 médailles et 600 estampes et dessins, tous faits par des sculpteurs. Environ 200 sculptures ont trouvé une place dans le parc, tandis qu'une dizaine d'autres sont parsemées dans la ville.

En 2012, dans le jardin éducatif Hortiflora, désormais intégré dans le musée, la  (ou « maison »), un nouveau bâtiment d'exposition semi-ouvert, conçu par les architectes flamands Paul Robbrecht et Hilde Daem, a été inauguré par une exposition d'œuvres de Schütte. Cette construction n'est pas sans rappeler l'esprit du pavillon jadis construit par Rietveld à Sonsbeek et reconstruit à Otterlo.

La collection du musée continue à s'enrichir d'œuvres d'artistes contemporains, dont Gormley, Muyle, Signer, Weiwei et Wurm.

Le Centre de documentation Lode Craeybeckx est situé dans l'orangerie du parc de sculptures.

Annexes

Sélection d'œuvres de la collection
La collection comprend des œuvres de nombreux sculpteurs modernes et contemporains, tant belges flamands et wallons qu'internationaux. La liste suivante propose une sélection parmi les œuvres de la collection, groupée selon les pays d'origine des artistes (en principe, les pays natals). Certaines œuvres, appartenant au musée, sont exposées dans la ville ou conservées au dépôt du musée. Pour la plus grande partie des œuvres sélectionnées, des liens vers des photos sur toutes sortes de sites web ont été créés. Dans la mesure du possible, les titres des œuvres ont été traduits en français.

 Hans Arp (Coupes superposées, 1947-1954)
 Ernst Barlach (Joueur de flûte de 1936)
 Rudolf Belling ( Triade de 1919)
 Élisabeth de Belgique (Portrait de Madame Barjansky de 1952)
 Isa Genzken (Fenêtre I et Fenêtre II de 1993)
 Karl Hartung (Composition II de 1949)
Kati Heck (Être-là, c'est tout de 2006)
Bernhard Heiliger (Deux figures en rapport de 1954)
 (Die Furcht verläszt ihren Gegenstand und geht über in Hass de 1993)
 Fritz Koenig (Cavaliers de 1956)
 Georg Kolbe (Grande figure assise de 1929)
 Käthe Kollwitz (Piéta de 1937 et Plainte de 1938)
 Bernd Lohaus (Sans titre de 1993)
 Ewald Mataré (Torse de femme de 1933)
 Ulrich Rückriem (Construction de 1967)
 (Mannequin de 1972)
 Thomas Schütte (Mille langues de 1993)
Timm Ulrichs (Modelhäuser, Typ Bomarzo de 2001)

 Alicia Penalba (Grande étincelle de 1959)

 Patricia Piccinini (Nid de 2006)

 Franz West (Sphairos de 1998)
 Fritz Wotruba (Roc féminin de 1947)
 Erwin Wurm (Misconceivable de 2010)

,  Communauté flamande
thumb| Leon Vranken, Raised Elevation (2013).
 Guillaume Bijl (Rue romaine de 1994)
  (Communication entre deux rives de 1971-1984)
 (Orbino de 2004)
 Wim Delvoye (Closed Circuit de 1992-1995)
 Roel d'Haese (Moïra, en feuille morte de 1978)
 Honoré δ'O (Shouting Is Breathing in Circumstances de 2006)
 Michel François (Résidence de 1993-1995)
 Vic Gentils (Le Jeu d'échecs de 1966-1967)
 Jef Geys (Maman de 2002)
 Floris Jespers (Groupe de négresses, 1953 et Quatre sculptures congolaises)
 Oscar Jespers (Naissance de 1932)
  (Statue du baron Dhanis de 1913)
 Jef Lambeaux (Lutteurs de 1895)
 Mark Macken (Avril de 1957)
 George Minne ( Torse d'homme de 1910)
 Panamarenko (Archaeopterix Lithografica de 1993)
 Constant Permeke (Marie-Lou de 1935)
 Reinhoud (Les murs ont des oreilles que la raison ne connaît pas de 1958, À Contrecœur et Lynch de 1965)
 (Two reclining figures on a Calder base () de 2006)
 (Char solaire de 1974)
 Paul Van Hoeydonck (Astro de 1970)
Philippe Van Snick (Poésie de 2012)
 Hilde Van Sumere (Mouvement II de 1974-1976)
 Didier Vermeiren (Place de 1993)
 Rik Wouters (La Vierge folle de 1912 et Soucis domestiques de 1913, en prêt du Musée royal des beaux-arts)

,  Communauté française

 George Grard (Niobé de 1947-1948)
 Charles Leplae (Lucco de 1944 et Deux femmes enceintes de 1952-1953)
 Constantin Meunier (Le Semeur de 1896 et Le Débardeur de 1898, en prêt du Musée royal des beaux-arts)
 Jacques Moeschal (Fontaine de 1967)
 Félix Roulin (Colonne de 1975)
 Ferdinand Schirren (La Robe longue de 1905)
 Olivier Strebelle (Fontaine de 1951 et Miss Television II de 1979)
 Charles Vandenhove (Pavillon de colonnes de 1982-1992)
 André Willequet (Torse de 1962)
 Philippe Wolfers (Salomé de 1926-1927)

 Ossip Zadkine (Le Rêveur de la forêt, Le Phénix de 1944 et Orphée de 1956).

 Ai Weiwei (Pont de 2012)

 Francisco Zúñiga (Le Seuil de 1970-1971)

 Vojin Bakić (Taureau de 1955)

 Agustín Cárdenas (L de 1968)

 Robert Jacobsen (2-4-6 de 1974-1977)
 Per Kirkeby (Sans titre, Anvers Middelheim de 1993)

Martín Chirino (Mediterranean de 1969)
 Pablo Gargallo (Prophète de 1933)
 Julio González (Petite Vénus de 1935)
 Juan Muñoz (Deux figures pour Middelheim de 1993)

 Carl Andre (74 Weathering Way de 2001)
 Alice Aycock (Leonardo Swirl II de 1982-1983)
 Chris Burden (Beam Drop Antwerp de 2009)
 Alexander Calder (Le Chien de 1958)
 Dan Graham (Belgian Funhouse, 2004)
 Corey McCorkle (Yayoi de 2005)
 (Sans titre de 1993)
 Louise Nevelson (Disque solaire / Ombre de la lune V, 1976)
 (Odyssey de 1968)
 (Born of Landscape Linoleum de 1999)
 Lawrence Weiner (L'eau trouve son propre niveau de 2009)

 (Grande voile de 1968)

 Joseph Bernard (Femme et enfant dansant de 1925)
 Antoine Bourdelle (Bélier rétif, 1908-1909, Héraclès archer, 1909 et Dr Koeberlé, 1914)
 Georges Braque (Le Poisson de 1944)
 Robert Couturier (Fillette sautant à la corde de 1951)
 Charles Despiau (Assia de 1937)
 Eugène Dodeigne (Figure agenouillée de 1970 et  Trois figures debout de 1978)
 Raymond Duchamp-Villon (Le Grand Cheval, de 1914)
 Émile Gilioli (Royaume des cieux de 1954-1955)
 Paul Landowski (Le Pâtre de 1906)
 Henri Laurens (Océanide de 1933)
 Aristide Maillol (La Méditerranée de 1902-1905 et La Rivière de 1939-1943)
 Étienne-Martin (Demeure N° 4 – Lanleff de 1961)
 François Pompon (Ours blanc de 1920-1922)
 Auguste Renoir (Vénus Victrix de 1914)
 Germaine Richier (Le Mantis (Mantoptère), 1946)
 Auguste Rodin (L'Âge d'airain de 1876-1880, Saint Jean Baptiste de 1878-1880 et Balzac de 1892-1897)

 Imre Varga (Professeur de 1969)

 (Icare de 1953)
 Pietro Cascella (Naissance de 1973)
 (Environnement de 1972-1973)
 Pietro Consagra (Conversation de l'après-midi de 1958)
 Luciano Fabro (Baigneurs de 1994)
 Pericle Fazzini (Sibylle de 1947)
 Emilio Greco (Lutteur) de 1947-1948)
 Giacomo Manzù (Le Pas de danse de 1950 et Le Cardinal de 1952)
 Marino Marini (Judith de 1945 et Miracle de 1951)
 Arturo Martini (La Louve de 1931, Clair de lune et Sports d'hiver de 1932)
 (Saint François de 1957)
 Arnaldo Pomodoro (Boîte I de 1964)
 Medardo Rosso (Garçonnet juif de 1892)
 (Torse de femme de 1954)

 Mizui Yasuo (La Flamme blanche de 1975)
 Yoshitomo Nara (Gummi Girl de 2006)

 Jacques Lipchitz (Lutte de Jacob avec l'ange de 1932)

 Jorge Dubon (Bois de métal de 1970)

 Idel Ianchelevici (August Vermeylen de 1935)

 (Victime de bombardement de 1948-1951)
 Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL Franchise Unit de 2002)
 (Entrée des artistes de 2012)
 (Aspiration à la vie de 1949-1951)
 (Demain, tout sera différent de 1993-1996 et Telling No Lies de 1996)

 Albert Szukalski (Dialogue de 1974)

 Pedro Cabrita-Reis (Le Passage des heures de 2004)

 Kenneth Armitage (Deux figures assises de 1957)
 Lynn Chadwick (La Rencontre VIII de 1957)
 Antony Gormley (Ciel III de 2009)
 Tony Cragg (Envelope de 1996)
 Barbara Hepworth (Cantate Domino de 1958)
 Ann Veronica Janssens (Mur de tennis de 2003)
Phillip King (Bali, 1977)
 Bernard Meadows (Pointing Figure with a Child Opus 82 de 1966)
 Henry Moore (Roi et Reine de 1952-1953)

Stig Blomberg (Enfants, baignant de 1935)
 Ingmar Hellgren (Repéreur de vent III de 1978)
 Carl Milles (Pegase de 1949)

 Max Bill (Ruban sans fin, 1953-1956)
 Walter Bodmer (Plastique de 1956-1957)
 Alberto Giacometti (Venise II de 1956)
Roman Signer (Bidon bleu de 2012)

Emil Filla (Relief cubique de 1912)
 Otto Gutfreund (Don Quichotte de 1911)

 Selçuk Mutlu (Coin punitif - Souvenirs d'enfance de 2010).

 Alexander Archipenko (Figure avec socle triangulaire de 1914 et Torse de 1916)

 Jesús-Rafael Soto (Double Progression Vert et Blanc, 1969)

 La Biennale

Entre 1950 et 1990, le musée  organisa vingt biennales consacrées à la sculpture, le plus souvent sur le thème de l'art d'un ou de plusieurs pays spécifiques.

La chronologie de ces biennales est la suivante :

 1951,  biennale (rétroactivement considérée comme la première biennale)
 1953,  biennale,
 1955,  biennale,
 1957,  biennale, , ,
 1959,  biennale,
 1961,  biennale, Benelux (, , )
 1963,  biennale, Sélection de sculpteurs de l'Europe centrale, ainsi que présentation de cinq sculpteurs, originaires d'autres pays européens, notamment : Bakić, Epstein, Leplae, Richier et Viani
 1965,  biennale, Sculpteurs de la CEE
 1967,  biennale, Sculpteurs des pays de l'Est (…) et sélection limitée de sculpteurs japonais ()
 1969,  biennale, , , , ,  et sculpteurs originaires de l'Amérique latine, résidant en Europe
 1971,  biennale, Continent américain (, , …)  et rétrospective Oscar Jespers
 1973,  biennale, ,
 1975,  biennale, , ,
 1977,  biennale, Sculpteurs des pays de l'Est (…)
 1979,  biennale, Sculpteurs de la Scandinavie (, , , , )
 1981,  biennale,
 1983,  biennale, Bilan international de la sculpture des années 1970 (Andre, Caro, Chia, Cucchi, Kienholz, LeWitt, Merz…)
 1985,  biennale, Exposition sur le thème de la voiture (Calder, Lichtenstein, Morellet, Pistoletto, Schippers, Spoerri, Stella, Warhol…)
 1987,  biennale, Exposition sur le thème du monument (Kapoor, Pistoletto, Rombouts, Tinguely, Van Isacker, Van Soom…)
 1989,  biennale,  (dans le cadre du festival Europalia)

 Notes et références

 Sources
  Bentein, Marie-Rose. «  », Openbaar kunstbezit, 1974, .
  Heylen, Philip, Menno Meeuwis et Johan Pas. De Middelheim Collectie, Ludion, 2010 , 208  (également disponible en anglais).
  Middelheimmuseum, [En ligne], [s. d.], réf. du . [www.middelheimmuseum.be].

 Voir aussi
 Articles connexes
 D'autres musées de sculpture en plein air :
 le jardin de Sculpture romane de Lozay, France ;
 le musée de la Sculpture en plein air, Alcalá de Henares, Espagne ;
 le musée de la Sculpture en plein air, Paris, France ;
 le musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Pays-Bas (musée avec jardin de sculptures).
 Liste de musées en Belgique

 Liens externes

La collection du musée en ligne :

 La banque d'images de la Ville d'Anvers contient des données sur et des images de la quasi-totalité de la collection du musée en plein air de .

Il y a plusieurs galeries de photo sur des sculptures du musée en plein air de '', faites par des amateurs. En voici une :

 Galeries de photos du parc de sculptures de Middelheim

Plan du musée :

 Plan de Middelheim Laag et Hoog.

Glyptothèque
Musée d'art en Belgique
sculpture en plein air de Middelheim
Musée fondé en 1950
Art à Anvers


1GB -> 2GB will really increase performance?
i read somewhere before if we use 2GB of ddr RAM will not really increase lots the performance compare 1GB ? is it true?
Sure it would increase performance but is it worth it to you?
upgrading to 2GB would show a minute performance increase.
will use the computer in gaming , so i should go for 2GB of ram?
Yes on a daily basis I use 98% of my 2 GIGs of ram and I wish I put in 4 GIGs when I built. Video Editing will murder your ram.
I use up 2gigs mysef on my machine and for games i use it all up. If your an intense gamer i suggest 2gig.
I want 2gb because of this dual core. You really can't multitask that well with a dual core but only having 1gb of RAM. My torrent program uses up more RAM than you'd think.
Then music apps like cakewalk project 5 takes up quite a lot itself.
dude my friend just got an X2 4800 and i can alt tab almost at the same speed out of BF2 with my 2GB of ram. yea i'd definatly say that 2GB makes a huge difference if you love gaming. i used to get lag spikes ALL the time, now, i get none its sick. and nubius, what are you using cakewalk for do you play guitar?
Yes he plays guitar. You dont have to play guitar though to use that program.
WOw, i dont understand how when u have 2GB you almost use all of it. Im running on 256mb, NOT dual channel clearly, and i run 4 anti viruses, fire wall, firefox, media player, MSN, Azureus, with minimal lag, ahaha.
Because Video editing or encoding a DVD would take 4x the amount of ram al that would. I encode 2 DVDs at a time (one each core) and use a gig of ram each. Im seriously thinking about filling the extra 2 slots w/ 2gig of ram.


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How to Identify Fake Travel Agents
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority recently warned travellers against patronising unregistered travel agencies. Chinedu Eze writes that while efforts are being made to reduce the number of fake agents in the system, the major challenge is how to identify them.
During the last World Cup in Russia, about 230 Nigerians were defrauded by travel agents. While they were given tickets that enabled them to travel to watch the world cup, the return leg of the trip was cancelled why they were still in Russia.
So, after the tournament, they became stranded until the federal government intervened and chartered Ethiopia Airlines flight to bring them back.
Industry operators said this incident came to the fore because many people were involved, and it happened to Nigerian fans that went to watch the world cup, stressing that such unfortunate incident happens every day to Nigerians that are usually told at the check-in counter that they cannot travel because they have fake tickets.
"Just imagine going to the airport with your luggage to travel and after saying goodbye to your relatives who wished you safe trip, they see you later with your luggage back home. The intending traveller had been defrauded by fake travel agency. We at the airport witness it every day," said an official of passenger handling firm at the Lagos airport.
Last Sunday, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) advised all intending travellers to stop patronising unregistered travel agencies.
The authority said this is due to the recent increase in reports of fraudulent ticketing practices by unregistered travel agencies.
"The Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig.CARs) 2015, Part 18.9.1 (111), prohibits the undertaking of the business of travel agency by any person in Nigeria, without a Certificate of Registration or Licence issued by the Authority, upon fulfillment of certain requirements, including, that an applicant submits evidence of membership of National Association of Nigeria Travel Agents (NANTA).
"In addition, Section 30 (4) of the Civil Aviation Act 2006 empowers the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to regulate, supervise and monitor the activities of travel agents in Nigeria," the regulatory authority said.
NCAA said in cognizance of the sharp practices by unregistered travel agencies, "the Authority has therefore directed all duly registered travel agencies to display their certificates of registration or licences in all their outlets."
"There are 150 of travel agencies on the register of NCAA. However, there are guidelines for registration with the Authority. The applicant must fulfil both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and NCAA requirements to be registered.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) therefore reiterated that prospective passengers should do business only with travel agencies registered with the Regulatory Authority," the agency said.
Fraudulent Activities
THISDAY spoke with the President of NANTA, Bankole Bernard who explained why NCAA issued the warning to illegal travel agencies and said that the regulatory authority and NANTA are working hand in hand to rid the downstream sector of the air travel industry fraudsters that masquerade as travel agencies.
"NCAA is to regulate the activities of travel agencies in Nigeria. It is under their 2006 Civil Aviation Act. But that aspect has not been managed very well by NCAA because the authority is saddled with other responsibilities that affect both foreign and domestic airlines.
"They have not really focused on us in the downstream of the aviation sector and that is why we came up with Nigeria Travel Practitioners Identification Card (NTPIC) so that we will be able to know who the genuine travel agencies are.
"We brought the idea to NCAA and they accepted it and we decided to work on it together. That made NCAA to realise that we need to give NANTA a lot of support. What reinforced this need was the incident in Russia during the World Cup when some Nigerian fans became stranded because of issues concerning their return ticket," Bernard said.
He said that when that incident in Russia happened the government wanted to know the travel agencies that cancelled the second leg of the tickets of the Nigeria fans, forcing them to become stranded in Russia, but government was unable to identify the agencies because none of them was registered with NANTA.
"They (NCAA) couldn't figure out the travel agencies that were responsible so they now have to come back to NANTA and said, if you are a travel agency and you are not registered with the association that we recognise, which is NANTA; you will be identified as illegal travel agency and we will move and clamp you down.
"That was why NCAA issues that release. So, what we, as pressure group, will do is to mount sensitisation campaign and inform everybody so that if you don't comply we will clamp you down. So, all those travel agencies will either have to close shop or come and register with NANTA so that they can operate legally.
"This is important in case if anything goes wrong we know who to hold. So that was what led to the statement issued by NCAA. This is a good development to the industry and the country at large," Bernard also said.
Industry observers are of the view that although the ID card option would be effective in checkmating the nefarious activities of the illegal travel agencies but some may outsmart it because many travellers who may want to buy flight tickets from different parts of the country may not be abreast of the new regulatory conditions.
They posited that in areas outside Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano, many people strut around as travel agents and intending traveller may be beguiled into parting with his money if one or more people come around to say they bought their tickets from that agent.
The Executive Director, Zenith Travels, Olu Ohunayo, urged NANTA to publish names of all registered members in the national dailies and a hotline created so that the public can call and cross-check whether the agent is genuine or not.
"NANTA should publish names of all registered NANTA members in the national dailies. A hotline can also be created where the public can call to check and confirm whether the agent is genuine or not.
"They will also be able to check online. Like all other professions, quacks cannot be fully eliminated but can be reduced to the nearest minimum. Once the public are sensitised they will be more cautious and there will be fewer victims," Ohunayo said.
He also noted that modern technology has made it easy for people to parade around as travels agents because with your computer you can stay in your bedroom and work as an agent. Ohunayo also noted that unregistered agents usually go through the registered ones when dealing with major international airlines.
"With the advent of online sales every IT savvy person has become an agent which is an area NANTA needs to look into.
"Also, often time the unregistered agents usually go through a registered agent when dealing with major international airlines whereby commission are spilt while the registered agency shore up its sales to that airline; which is more important to them than the risk of having an unregistered as go between," he said.
Ohunayo observed that a good number of unlicenced agents don't have offices.
"The situation is very worrisome because they solicit for passengers even at the premises of the airlines with active connivance of airline staff. Go to international terminal of the Lagos airport, they are there.
"On a final note, integrity is key. A person that is dubious will always be dubious whether licenced or not," he added.
Integrity and Goodwill
In an earlier interview with THISDAY, Bernard had observed that the downstream sector of the aviation industry "is so porous and there is no entry or exit barrier. So, it has become an all comers' affair even for fraudsters."
"We realised that some are even using travel agency to cover up for human trafficking and defrauding intending passengers, bastardising our names at the embassies because there is no record of the real practitioners. Till date, we are having incidences of fraudsters defrauding intending passengers to the tune of millions of naira.
"We went to the Presidency to solicit support for the new ID card initiative, and we were made to understand that even the office of Presidency was defrauded by a travel agent and they later caught the fellow in Benin," he said.
Bernard said that NANTA has been moved a notch ahead as pressure group to fight policies and actions inimical to the interest of the downstream sector of the aviation industry.
He said this hard work would come to nothing if interlopers are allowed to erode the integrity that defines the multibillion naira sub-sector where trust and credibility are key to business.
"We have looked at the whole matter, telling ourselves that the great work we have done in making NANTA a pressure group, by ensuring that some of the policies of government are favourable to the industry, will be defeated when some of the members within the industry are not being checked. It is based on this that we have introduced an industry Identification Card," he said.
On the plan to sensitise the public, Bernard said NANTA has a plan which it has kicked off in partnership with the media to create awareness to travellers.
"We have a master plan that we have started rolling out. We have already engaged the media in this direction to fill them in on what the plans are. After that, we are going into full scale publicity that will be on national radio, televisions and social media platforms for us to create awareness.
"The NCAA, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are all carried along and the general public too, so that they can all know what to look out for.
"With the introduction of the ID card no intending passenger should buy ticket without first demanding for the ID card of the travel agent to verify that he or she is genuine. The ID card has a barcode that is connected to the holder's Bank Verification Number (BVN). "That way, passengers can tell whether the agent is genuine or not. Once you scan the barcode on your mobile device, you will immediately receive a message that is in line with the card that you are holding. So, it is a bit difficult to duplicate," the NANTA President explained.
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Oh my gosh, you guys! I cannot believe the amazing response I've seen towards the Boss Babe Book Club! I'm beyond thrilled that so many of you have joined!
We will be discussing the April book selection, I'll Drink to That, on the blog on April 30th! So please come back to the blog on that day, so we can all share our thoughts on the book! I'm hoping this continues to grow so that we can move away from the comments section, and on to something bigger. I don't know what that is yet, but exciting nonetheless!
Now before you get too worried about reading two books...don't fret! You don't have to read both! You can read either book or both if you want. I'm not going to lie...I'm cheating a little bit here. I've actually already read both of these books...but they are both too amazing for you not to read them, too! I'm actually going to reread both of them before the discussion because they were awesome & I'm really pumped to read them again!
Part of the reason I wanted to pair these books together is that they both have a lot in common!
Both are set in the world of fashion.
Both are more present day oriented.
Both give excellent and practical business advice.
Both are written by besties.
We will be discussing the books on May 29th. Remember, you don't have to read both! But they are both very quick reads! I will have 2 blog posts on May 29th (one for each book), so don't worry...if you can only read one for now, but want the other one for later, I will have 2 separate posts so as not to spoil any of the details for you!
I'm so excited! Don't forget to tag pictures of you participating in the boss babe book club on Instagram using the hashtag #bossbabebookclub and #readlikeaboss!
I love the idea of a book club on a blog! I'll have to try and find a copy so I can join in on the discussion!


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IDRBT Project Trainee Scheme (IPTS)
The "IDRBT Project Trainee Scheme" (IPTS) offers internship opportunities for students, who have completed at least two years of graduation or are pursuing post graduation in highly reputed Institutions, to carry out various projects in the area of Banking Technology.
The specifics of the IPTS, which is aimed at providing exposure to emerging young talent in the niche area of Banking Technology, is as under:
The Institute may offer Project Traineeships to students pursuing their graduation (after completion of a minimum of two years of studies) and post graduation in the areas of Computer Science and Information Technology in highly reputed Institutions such as IITs, IIMs, IIITs, NITs, Central Universities, ISB, TIFR, BITS, and similar Institutions
These Project Traineeships are meant for carrying out a Project in the area of Banking Technology only. The minimum duration of the Project is two months.
Students interested in applying to the "IDRBT Project Trainee Scheme" (IPTS) may do so by providing the following:
A Cover Letter
A Detailed CV including the memorandum of marks in their area of specialization
Letter of Recommendation from the student's Institution
No Objection Certificate (NOC) from their respective Institution.
The Institute will scrutinize the applications received and the selected candidates shall be informed by the Institute
There shall be continuous monitoring of the Project by the Faculty/Project Guide and the Institute would evaluate the progress/benefits, etc., of the project
On completion of the Project, the Trainee shall make a presentation on the Project
The Project Trainee shall also submit a report/working prototype/model to the Institute's Library
The Project Trainees Reports are published on the Institute's website after a year
IDRBT shall be free to use all the research and academic output as may be appropriately decided by the Institute
The Institute pays a stipend of Rs.7,000/- (Rupees Seven Thousand only) per month to the selected Project Trainees. In addition, the Institute provides the following facilities to the Project Trainees:
Free Shared Accommodation Facility at the Institute's Quarters at Begumpet
Free Lunch and Dinner Facility in the Institute's Canteen
Library Facility during the working hours of the Institute.
The next call for applications for Project Traineeship would be issued in February 2023.
Applications may be sent by post/email to:
Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology
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EPABX: +91 (40) 2329 4000/4999
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Performing Songwriter
Music Bio
All the Men I Love
Grove of Stones
Writing about current events
Invite-Invoke-Inspire
Tanya Pluth
Photo by Jason Quigley
Tanya Pluth lives in the forests, rivers, oceans, deserts and fields of the Pacific Northwest, and her songs range as far and as wide as the places she lives and travels. Her penchant for sitting alone in nature miles away from pavement effuses a quiet, warm confidence into all of her lyrics and performances, while her experiences as a former community college instructor charge her stage presence with wit and humor.
Playing a guitar and singing, Tanya's music invites audiences into the best of all road trips, the happy discovery only available by traveling far, both externally and internally. As one reviewer wrote, "You don't doubt her when she sings that she'd like to make traveling her home, and you can almost feel 'sun shining right through skin' as her voice shines its brilliance in your direction."
Saving Graces, Tanya Pluth's debut album, resonates deeply in channels of family, purpose, and place. A reviewer of the album wrote, "The dozen tracks rock (Inside Out), sway (Go On, Be Kind), swing (Traveling Home), step lively (Hard Place), swoon (Don't Leave Here So Broken), and stand up for what's right (Would You Try), and they do it all with grace."
Tanya is currently working on her second album, All the Men I Love, an exploration of music and masculinity from her unique perspective. The assortment of tunes ranges from big hair band Poison to essential folk music artist John Denver to tracks by Bob Dylan, Bill Miller, and Stevie Wonder. But don't let the eclectic artists fool you – the album's cohesion rests with its messaging. This is a set of tunes put together over 5 years, and they tell an intricate, compelling tale through creative arrangements of guitar, bass, mandolin, fiddle, and percussion.
Tanya's music received Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year nominations from Pride in the Arts. She's performed in venues large and small as both a solo artist and supporting other musicians on guitar, back up vocal, and fiddle.
Tanya is an avid Irish session player, where her bow and fiddle fly through the dancing rhythms of jigs, reels, and polkas.


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← DISCONNECT Interview with Actor Max Theriot.
Im always interested in figuring out exactly how much improvisation is actually used in comedic movies. Imagine this; You have a script that you wrote and you think its the funniest thing ever! Then you hire two comedic masterminds to act out the role, but they switch it up.. do you just go with it? I got an answer when I spoke to Paul Feig, Creator of Freaks and Geeks, and Director of Bridesmaides. His new movie is THE HEAT, About a straitlaced FBI agent and sassy Boston cop who team up to take down a powerful drug lord in this buddy crime comedy starring Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy. Also starring: Demián Bichir, Marlon Wayans, and Michael Rapaport co-star.


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Q: " Substance with critical comments on style "? I have an admission test on 5th and the syllabus has a topic " Substance with critical comments on style " for 25 marks. I don't really understand what it says. Help ??

A: Is a particular lesson, story or chapter being referred to? In that case, 'Substance with critical comments on style' means that you need to provide an answer that contains the pros and cons of the particular style that the author has used in his piece. You need to analyse the piece, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the style, state where the inappropriateness of the style seems prominent, whether the style is consistent or not etc. Writing styles include narration, description, persuasive and expository. This may help: http://literarydevices.net/style/


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Opioid initiation risk in young adults, adolescents may not be as high as previously thought
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 10 2020
Young adults and adolescents who are prescribed opioids for the first time may be at a slightly greater risk of developing a substance-related problem later in life, according to a new study co-authored by Indiana University researchers. However, the risk may not be as high as previously thought.
The study was published today in JAMA Pediatrics and co-authored by Patrick Quinn, an assistant professor at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
The researchers looked at the health and other national records of Swedish individuals age 13 to 29, from 2007 to 2013, who were prescribed an opioid for the first time. Their goal was to further investigate whether prescribing opioids, such as codeine or oxycodone, during adolescence and young adulthood leads to a greater risk of substance-related problems.
They found that, compared with people who were not prescribed an opioid, 1 to 2 percent more of those prescribed an opioid for the first time developed a substance use disorder or other substance-related issue such an overdose or criminal conviction within five years of being prescribed.
By using several rigorous research designs, we found that there was not a huge difference — in fact, the difference was smaller than some previous research has found. But the study still shows that even a first opioid prescription may lead to some risk. Our findings highlight the importance of screening for substance use disorders and other mental health conditions among patients with pain, including those receiving opioid therapy."
Patrick Quinn, Assistant Professor, IU School of Public Health-Bloomington
Quinn and his team used health data from Sweden because the country has nationwide records, which makes it easier to document people's prescriptions. They conducted a number of tests, including comparing youth and adolescents who were prescribed opioids with those whose pain was treated with a non-opioid pain medication. They also compared twins and other siblings of multiple births, one who was prescribed opioids and others who were not.
Across the board, the opioid recipients' risk was 1 to 2 percent greater than other people's risk. Quinn cautioned that further research is needed to determine how much of that risk is truly caused by opioid prescription and how much is caused by other factors, such as whether opioid recipients experienced more impairing pain.
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. has brought about welcome prescription policy changes, Quinn said, but it is important to have solid data that can help guide these decisions.
"Our goal is help patients and doctors understand the risks of opioid treatment for pain," he said. "We need to have a good understanding of what those risks might be in order for patients and doctors to make informed decisions."