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Layered like a living inspiration board, the home of two local style arbiters takes the holidays to new heights.
For interior designer Caryn Grossman and fine art photographer Chris Buxbaum, every day is a celebration. The highly aesthetic couple, set to wed on their rooftop in March, live in an awe-inspiring two-story loft at Atlanta's historic Telephone Factory, where they've layered all the pretty of a Parisian pied-à-terre and all the edge of an L.A. gallery. Both owned retail stores in the past, so every corner reflects a stylist's touch. Meaningful objects move about as often as color palettes shift, and Buxbaum—who loves to cook—serves meals by candlelight every night. The pair often dines "full-service," gazing at art projected on a blank wall while listening to a custom playlist of tunes to suit the theme. So naturally, during the holidays, Buxbaum wanted to turn up the volume.
"In Jewish households, we're not so much about decor as we are about inner faith," explains Grossman, who was always content to celebrate Hanukkah with a simple menorah. But Buxbaum, who hails from London, has an affection for Christmas customs that's intoxicating. He goes to great lengths to have traditional English Christmas crackers, roast beef and flamed plum pudding each holiday season.
All that festivity has rubbed off on Grossman. The couple has had a ball filling their loft with all manner of festive trinkets—even, in a nod to their retail days, adorning chairs with oversize ornaments purchased from a wholesale prop store. A laser-cut acrylic lace table is wrapped with Christmas lights, then accented with a miniature Christmas tree. Upon a painted French pharmacy cabinet—topped with a slab of marble—is Grossman's holiday gift from Buxbaum, a 1960s Japanese pachinko machine. It's met with modern lamps, disco balls and Tiffany-blue bottles sourced from their friend Tim Hobby's former Space-Modern storehouse. A Kartell La Marie Chair, hand-stenciled by Atlanta artist John Tindel, sidles up to a folkloric wood-block collage by artist Lynn Whipple, welcoming whimsy. All mix masterfully with glamorous black Venetian mirrors, sparkling crystal vessels and a velveteen wing chair, while 14-foot-long silk curtains spill luxuriously into puddles on the concrete floor.
"I like things that have an edge to them. But I also really love the contrast between clean, modern design and salvaged pieces," Grossman says. Treasures such as a turn-of-the-century carousel horse, a cherubic church pedestal and a 17th-century saint figure—all sourced from Love Train Antiques—guard the living space in all seasons of the year, serving as excellent foils to the graffiti partition by Atlanta artist Samuel Parker.


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Q: Artifactory, howto create new layout from scratch Artifactory OSS 5.4.6.rev 50406900
Logged in as admin
Trying to follow instructions here...
https://www.jfrog.com/knowledge-base/how-to-create-simple-versioning-custom-layout-in-artifactory/
Step 1)  First we will need to create a simple layout. In Artifactory, got to [Admin] --> [Repositories] --> [Layout], then click on "New"

I get to the Layout area but there is no "New" to click.  Where is this supposed to be?
I read elsewhere that it's also possible to copy an existing layout and modify that to create a new one.  How does one copy an existing layout?
Should admin be good enough to do this sort of thing?
Thanks in advance.

A: Unfortunately, custom layouts are an Artifactory PRO feature and are not available in the OSS version.
https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Repository+Layouts
HTH,
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Australia's eight-year growth run ends on recession fears
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan gestures during a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Government stimulus spending and successive central bank rate cuts will moderate the impact of a downturn in Australia, Swan said, after figures showed the economy shrank for the first time in eight years in the December quarter. (REUTERS)
Australia stands on the brink of recession after shock figures showed the economy shrank for the first time in eight years, analysts said Wednesday.
The economy contracted 0.5 per cent in the December quarter, well below market expectations of 0.1 per cent growth, official data showed, ending a long run of expansion on the back of a China-driven resources boom. The figures came despite government attempts to kick start the economy with two stimulus packages worth more than $50 billion (US$32.5 billion), and sent currency and share markets plummeting.
While the economy grew 0.3 per cent for calendar 2008, economists said the slip into negative territory dashed hopes the nation once dubbed "the lucky country" could avoid the global recession. Treasurer Wayne Swan said the figures were a "sobering reflection" of an extremely difficult global environment that was likely to get worse before it improves. "Although the Australian economy has held up better than most other economies, the inevitable impact of the global recession is clearly evident in today's data," he said. Swan said the contraction was not as bad as those seen in other developed countries and would have been worse without the government's stimulus measures.
But markets reacted nervously, with the Australian dollar plunging 0.65 US cents to 63.15 US cents immediately after the announcement and the benchmark SP/ASX200 share index down 1.85 per cent at noon. "The market really wasn't expecting this," Bell Direct analyst Julia Lee told Sky News. "A fall of 0.5 percent is quite significant [...] we're seeing a severe reaction on the market. […]It's really starting to price in a recession in 2009 and probably not a recovery until maybe 2010."
Better-than-expected international trade and retail figures released Tuesday had fuelled market expectations the economy may repeat the 0.1 percent growth recorded in the September quarter.
But Kinetic Securities chief economist Clifford Bennett said even optimists were now expecting the economy to tip into recession, usually defined as two successive quarters of negative growth. "I was one of those people who thought we would avoid a technical recession but I do think the first quarter (of 2009) could be worse that the last quarter (of 2008)," he said. "There's a real chance now we will get more negative growth in the first quarter."
The realisation that the economy was going backwards meant the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was likely to implement further interest rate cuts, he said. The central bank left rates on hold at 3.25 per cent Tuesday as it waited to see if the government stimulus packages and previous rate cuts totalling four percentage points since September would insulate Australia's economy.
RBA assistant governor of economics Malcolm Edey said shortly before Wednesday's figures were released that Australia was expected to suffer some significant short-term weakness. "The international deterioration has been so abrupt that it won't be possible to avoid some short-term weakness here," Edey told a business forum in Sydney. "Nonetheless, Australia came into this period with better momentum than most, and with more scope than most to take expansionary policy measures. That scope is being used."
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November 3, 2018, 1:09 pm
Filed under: Film reviews | Tags: Actor, Adaptation, Bradley Cooper, Director, Film, film review, films, Lady Gaga, mental illness, Singer
Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) is a country music star that falls in love with wannabe singer Ally (Lady Gaga). With his help, her star ascends while his stardom, hindered by long time tinnitus, emotional trauma, and alcoholism, slowly falls.
I found myself haunted after watching this latest version of A Star is Born. I was pensive as a stillness settled over me when I left the cinema, and this film was the first thing I considered when I woke up the next morning. Bradley Cooper's character is utterly compelling and terribly sad. Despite what his childhood may have been like, the story effectively conveys that his perspective and behavior are the product of mental illness. He can't help feeling unhappy, insecure, or his being self-destructive because he doesn't know how to get help, or, indeed, what, exactly, to get help for. He is charming, kind and talented, yet he is also isolated, reactive, and full of self-loathing even as his life contains so much bounty. And he implicitly realizes this type of ungratefulness, which exacerbates his self-hatred. The plot is still a love story, as the other adaptations of this film have been, however, this version stresses the theme of mental illness and its vulnerability more than the theme of ambition and compromise.
A Star is Born (2018) is unequivocally worth seeing. And, it's evidence of Bradley Cooper's directorial sensitivity and 'acting chops' – he's not just a pretty boy as he goes hand held and gets up close and personal even when the subject isn't easy or attractive. Lady Gaga, too, is believable – tender, tough, and charismatic – and absolutely holds her own in the acting arena.


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Now it gets serious at Ford World Women's Curling Championship
NORTH BAY, Ont. — The round-robin is done and now things really turn serious at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship. The last of the qualifying teams – Anna Kubešková's Czech Republic team – was declared in Friday's final draw and now six teams, including Jennifer Jones of Canada, have two days to determine this year's champion.
Jones and Team Canada finished the round-robin unbeaten at 12-0 after a win over Jamie Sinclair of the United States Friday. Jones, third Kaitlyn Lawes, second Jill Officer, lead Dawn McEwen, alternate Shannon Birchard and coaches Wendy Morgan and Elaine Dagg-Jackson claimed the No. 1 position and will play in Saturday evening's semifinal at 7 p.m.
As the top-seeded team, Canada will have last rock to begin the semifinal.
"That's huge, to have hammer," Birchard said earlier in the day.
The Jones team, who stretched a world championship unbeaten streak for Canada to a record 25 games (including the 13 wins posted by Team Homan en route to gold last year in Beijing), also gets to sleep in, which Jones said isn't that big of a benefit.
"I don't think it's really an advantage," she said. "It's nice to have a little bit of sleep-in, but it's also great to be on the ice and get used to the ice conditions."
Olympic gold-medallist Anna Hasselborg of Sweden dropped an 8-5 decision to Scotland in her final game Friday afternoon but finished at 10-2 to claim second place and a bye into the 2 p.m. semifinal.
Canada will play the lowest-ranked winner from the quarter-finals at 7 p.m. while the Swedes will play the higher-ranked quarter-final winner at 2 p.m.
Olympic silver-medallist EunJung Kim of South Korea (8-4), Victoria Moiseeva of Russia (7-5), Sinclair (6-6) and Kubešková (6-6) will play in Saturday morning's quarter-final matches at 9 a.m. South Korea will play the U.S. and Russia will play the Czech Republic.
Jennifer Jones celebrates her shot for three in the second end against the U.S>
"We have a good mood on our team," Czech vice-skip Alžběta Baudyšová said. "We looked at this as two separate tournaments. The goal of this tournament was to to get to the playoffs and then it's a different tournament, everyone starts from zero. There's more pressure but you are more (determined) to win."
The Czechs played without Kubešková in their final game but are hoping she will ready Saturday.
Playing in front of a sold-out crowd of 3,887 in the Memorial Gardens, Jones and company scored three in the second end on a crowd-erupting triple through a port by Jones and three more in eight after the U.S. had pulled even at 4-4.
"We're definitely gearing up for the playoffs," said Jones. "You always have to turn it up a notch, so we'll have to play a little bit better tomorrow. We know everyone will bring their best game and we'll have to be as sharp as we can to have the opportunity to play in the final."
In the other evening games Russia bounced back from a devasting afternoon loss to score a 10-5 win over Angelina Jensen of Denmark (3-9), Hannah Fleming of Scotland (5-7) scored one in the 11th to beat South Korea 6-5 and Yilun Jiang of China (6-6) had a 7-6 win over Daniela Jentsch of Germany (3-9).
For Moiseeva and her teammates the win washed away the sour taste of their 8-7 loss to South Korea in which they allowed Kim's team to steal five points in the final four ends to win 8-7 in an extra end.
"Now we just need to go to the hotel, have a good sleep and wake up to a new day," Moiseeva said of getting ready for the playoffs. "It's a completely new thing, it's not the round-robin, it's playoffs, it's win or (go home) so we need to be focused like we never been before."
Live scoring, standings and statistics for the 2018 Ford World Women's are available at www.worldcurling.org/wwcc2018/livescores
TSN and RDS2 will provide complete coverage of Canada's games at the 2018 Ford World Women's. Go to www.tsn.ca/2017-18-curling-broadcast-schedule-1.593081 for the complete schedule.
For ticket information for the 2018 Ford World Women's, go to www.curling.ca/2018worldwomen/tickets/
This story will be available in French as soon as possible at www.curling.ca/2018worldwomen/?lang=fr
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The London Stationery Show confirms new May dates for 2021
The London Stationery Show will be making its return in 2021, taking up a new summer slot across May 18th and 19th at the Business Design Centre.
Exhibitions in the UK have been halted over the course of the pandemic and were originally due to resume in October. The government Department for Culture, Media and Sport has already approved the event industry's Covid-19 guidance, and was also satisfied with pilot events which took place in September.
It is now expected that events will be allowed to restart from March 2021.
The London Stationery Show is the latest in a calendar of events to have to adapt to the current climate and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this week, the organisers of the annual Spring Fair confirmed that its 2021 show would not be going ahead, but instead be held as an all-virtual event ahead of the return of its physical format with Autumn Fair 2021 and Spring Fair 2022.
Last month, the British Toy and Hobby Association made the decision to call off London Toy Fair.
"We are confident that exhibitions will resume in the spring," said London Stationery Show's event director, Alex Butler "And to ensure we're in the best position possible to host a second-to-none event, we have secured a slightly later date than usual for next year's show.
"From speaking with exhibitors and visitors over the course of this year, we know that everyone is craving the opportunity to meet face-to-face. The industry is in agreement that nothing can replace the organic business which comes from an exhibition.
"The health and safety of everyone involved will continue to be at the core of our planning, and we will be working hard to communicate our plans to ensure everyone feels confident attending the show.
"We are ready to safely open London Stationery Show's doors and cannot wait to see everyone there."
London Stationery Show will take place on Tuesday 18 May and Wednesday 19 May 2021. For more information you can contact the team at stationeryshow@oceanmedia.co.uk.
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Increasing Remittances
Remittances to South Asia are projected to increase by 13.5 % to US$ 132 billion in 2018, a stronger pace than the 5.7 % growth seen in 2017. The upsurge is not only due to robust economic conditions in advanced economies, but the increase in oil prices increasing outflows from some GCC countries.
By Ikram Sehgal | Via ViewsWeek
(Image courtesy 禁书 网, CC license)
A recent report by the World Bank (WB) had India recording a 22.5% increase in home remittances to US$ 80 billion in 2018, retaining its position as the world's top recipient of remittances for five years in a row. The last three years surge carried remittances from US$ 62.7 billion in 2016 to U$ $65.3 billion in 2017. The 10 top recipient nations include China ($67 billion), Mexico and the Philippines ($34 billion each) and Egypt ($26 billion), Pakistan is 7th in line. Remittances to South Asia are projected to increase by 13.5 % to US$ 132 billion in 2018, a stronger pace than the 5.7 % growth seen in 2017. Even than Bangladesh has experienced a strong uptick of 17.9 %. The upsurge is not only due to robust economic conditions in advanced economies, but the increase in oil prices increasing outflows from some GCC countries.
Due to downsizing employment opportunities in Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries, Pakistan's remittances growth remains moderate at 6.2% due to significant commensurate reductions in inflows. Saudi Arabia's policy enabling its native population for jobs meant deporting more than 39,000 Pakistanis. Receiving $20.9 billion in 2018, overseas employment for Pakistani workers dropped 41% (0.83 million in 2016 to 0.5 million in 2017). Over the past decade, cheaper and better trained Indians and Bangladeshis have replaced Pakistani manpower. The 8 million Pakistanis living abroad, means a scope to boost the monthly inward remittances. After exports, inward remittances approximately of US$ 2 billion are the second most important contributor to Pakistan's cash-starved foreign exchange reserves. Pakistan's increased dependence on remittances is due is its widening current account deficit.
The 'Hundi" or "Hawala", remittance system exists and operates as an alternative outside of or to parallel to traditional banking or financial channels. Unlike the formal transfer system, hundi providing total anonymity enhances money laundering and facilitates terrorism. Not disclosing of identities allows terrorists and criminals to use it. This system facilitates the illegal flow of funds that works by transferring money without actually moving it, it requires no bank accounts and is consummated without leaving a paper trail. The corrupt who can easily send their ill-gotten gains abroad for the purchase of assets and property outside Pakistan, "hundi mafia" has thus great influence with the establishment. Estimated at around $14-15 billion in 2014, the "hundi system" facilitators earned about $1.3 billion annually.
The "hundi system" was declared illegal by India to (1) stop circulation of black money (2) stop funds for terrorism (3) stop drug trafficking and (4) stop other illegal activities. Imposing emergency rule in 1975, former Indian PM Indira Gandhi jailed all hundi traders, confiscated their properties and bank accounts and even funds en route. Indian expatriate on an average sends $4,000 per head annually, all through the banking system. Given 8-9 million non-resident Indians (NRIs) abroad it has grown from $30-35 billion annually in 2004 to more than US$ 80 billion today. In Pakistan, the 'hundi' system continues despite measures taken by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The "Hundi System" has inadvertently provided a perfect electronic platform by the SBP's permission to the TELCOS to open commercial banks. The "hundi" trade is hurting Pakistan financially and economically as this deprives the country of legitimate taxes as well as precious foreign exchange.
Research carried out in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Philippines in 2004 showed 3.2 million Filipinos were registered as employed abroad in 2003, 82%were women. Investing money in a particular software Philippine Central Bank gave it free to banks open 24/7, meant to disburse money instantly to the many branches of many banks on one platform. Because of this plan $8.6 billion was remitted through banking channels in 2003, approximately $2,700 per expatriate Filipino per year. The banking system was used more than "hundi", a negligible amount of money transacted outside banking channels. In 2003 2.3 million Bangladeshis had sent $800 million annually, about $350 per head. While Bangladesh has a very active "hundi" trade, Pakistan was and remains the worst easily. Non-resident Indians (NRIs) sent as much as $4,000 per head home in 2003. Comparing Pakistan's sending US$ 300.
"Financial Inclusion" requires the govt to initiate sweeping reforms in the banking system, accompanied with some really stringent measures. Those operating the 'hundi' system are now armed with the latest technology. The foreign-owned TELCOS are providing an electronic platform instead of an old manual one to conveniently transfer funds anywhere, TELCOS must be stopped from establishing a parallel banking system. Stringent monitoring must be done by PTA by extensive use of modern technology. To stop "Hundi" operations increasing of "Home Remittances" electronically will enhance collection by almost 20-25% as in the India and the Philippines.
The writer is a defense and security analyst).
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Q: Anaconda Navigator automatic close after open few seconds Windows 10 64bit system, successfully Install Anaconda3-4.2.0-Windows-x86_64, but when I open Anaconda Navigator, it only appears few seconds then close automatically. do anyone know what's the issue?

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*cd C:\Users\*username*\Anaconda3\Scripts

*`conda install "package name"

It will work like anaconda prompt

A: Updating anaconda navigator should fix the issue. To update, paste below code in command prompt and press ENTER
conda update anaconda-navigator

A: run below commands in anaconda command prompt and it should work.
$ conda update anaconda-navigator
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DEC-2017 : MEMS® was used successfully to show the adequate coverage of a new once daily pain treatment in the presence of rescue medication in a Phase III Clinical Trial.
In the Study of Meloxicam Capsules to Treat Osteoarthritis Pain, a Phase III trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Meloxicam Capsules, the MEMS® cap was used to show the adequate coverage of a new once daily treatment in the presence of rescue medication for the osteoarthritic pain of the knee or hip.
This study addressed the concerns that the once daily dosing regimen might not provide enough coverage for the 24-hour period and that patients might need additional pain medication before it was time for them to take their next daily dose. By using the MEMS® to monitor the use and time of the rescue medication the data showed that patients receiving VIVLODEX in the 5 mg and 10 mg doses used significantly less rescue medication over the course of the study, took fewer daily doses of rescue medication, and for fewer days compared with patients receiving the placebo. Regardless of the time of day, patients treated with VIVLODEX took about half as many rescue pain medication doses as patients receiving the placebo (1).
This study is an example of the successful implementation of the MEMS® in clinical trial to monitor the use of medication.


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Space, time and glass: Art that hangs around
Entertainment // Theater
Molly Glentzer
1of6Artist Marie Orensanz in her installation " ... a path to share ... " at the Sicardi GalleryMolly GlentzerShow MoreShow Less
2of6Artist Marie Orensanz's installation "...a path to share..." consists of 20 opaline cloches, each contains a stainless-steel pendant with a message. The work is on view at Sicardi Gallery through Saturday.Molly GlentzerShow MoreShow Less
3of6Michael Petry's "A.T. the Core of the Algorithm" installation captures sunlight from a large window at Hiram Butler Gallery, where it is on view through May 30.Hiram Butler GalleryShow MoreShow Less
4of6Artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer and curator Tommy Gregory speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday about her installation 'the sky and the fracture' at the Mariago Collective. The installation involves 1,000 cast glass dodecahedrons and buckyballs that are suspended from the ceiling.The Mariago CollectiveShow MoreShow Less
6of6A view of Jo Ann Fleischhauer's "the sky and the fracture" installation at the Mariago Collective, on view through April 25.Molly GlentzerShow MoreShow Less
With little or nothing on their bare white walls, three gallery shows this month coax visitors to crane their necks toward the ceilings, where pretty objects dangle. The dance of so much air and light and glass has a quiet visual poetry, but powerful ideas also spin through the beauty and spectacle.
About 1,000 small, faceted translucent glass balls are suspended in the second-floor space of the Mariago Collective, part of Houstonian Jo Ann Fleischhauer's complex show "the sky and the fracture." More specifically, they're dodecahedrons (made of 12 identical pentagonal faces) and buckyballs (made of 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal faces). Confined within elliptical pools of matte black paint that suggest black holes in space, they're arranged with logarithmic precision; a swirling Milky Way.
Sized from a half-inch to 1.5 inches in diameter, they're wondrous little things, milky like quartz, each individually molded to function as color pixels, pastel marks or brush strokes. One yearns to inspect them up close, but they are impossibly out of reach in the high, sharp-angled room, a construct that, while frustrating, also keeps them mysterious.
The artist does, however, invite viewers to ponder the several years of labor that went into their making: Downstairs, laid out like a rocky white riverbed, are the broken plaster forms from which each of the balls emerged. A series of layered works on paper under clear glass frames hovers elegantly above this river, perfectly spaced. Rendered in gray pastels and pencil over archival inket prints, each drawing evokes a collision of organic and geometric shapes. You might be looking through an out-of-focus microscope at something coming into form or fossilized. Text stenciled along the walls prompts you to consider the invisible but ubiquitous existence of carbon molecules in our lives.
Michael Petry's "A.T. the Core of the Algorithm" at Hiram Butler Gallery offers a metaphor on the concept of the multiverse.
It consists of 47 exquisitely blown glass bubbles in a rainbow of colors. Some are singles and some are clusters. They're different sizes, with the largest about the diameter of a soccer ball.
Petry developed an algorithm to design the spheres, which were created by European master glassblowers Gert Bullée, Nadia Matthynssens and Ben Verhaegen: Only sets of prime numbers were allowed; each sphere that collided with another had to be bigger than the first; and each had to have a piece bitten out of it.
Each bubble represents a multiverse. "Current science imagines that our universe is like a soap bubble that attaches to another one, and the points where they intersect is where things can go from one universe to the other," Petry explained.
'the sky and the fracture'
When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Mariago Collective, 1707 Waugh
Tickets: Free;832-997-6102, themariagocollective.com
'A.T. the Core of the Algorithm'
When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, through May 30
Where: Hiram Butler Gallery, 4520 Blossom
Tickets: Free; 713-863-7097, hirambutler.com
'... a path to share ...'
Where: Sicardi Gallery, 1506 W. Alabama
Tickets: Free; 713-529-1313, sicardi.com
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He made 47 clusters because 47 is a prime number. The piece is an homage to one of Petry's heroes, the British mathematician Alan Turing, a hero (he broke the Nazi's Enigma code) who was later persecuted for his open homosexuality. The "bite" openings of each bubble refer to the cyanide-laced apple that killed Turing. Some people think his death was a suicide; others, including Petry, believe he was murdered.
An El Paso native and Rice University alum who's lived in London most of his adult life, Petry designed his installation for a spiraling, vertigo-inducing seven-story tower at the GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium. Some of the wires there were six stories long. Butler's gallery, in extreme contrast, is a one-story minimalist barn. That compression required a major re-thinking.
Because Petry wanted them to look as random as stars, incredible precision went into their placement to ensure no two were aligned. Current mathematical predictions state the certainty of a universe where "all the prime numbers, all the glass, all the apples, all the algorithms, all the spheres, all the lovers will collide," Petry writes in his artist's statement. "And it will be beautiful."
Loveliness is the first thing that comes to mind upstairs at Sicardi Gallery, where the Argentinean artist Marie Orensanz has installed "pour qui?.. les honneurs" as part of her show "...a path to share ... ." Consisting of 20 white opaline bells suspended at regular intervals, it brings to mind an army of floating angels.
On the back wall, however, is a hint of the sharp sociopolitical idea behind them. Text dye-cut into a strip of stainless steel translates the work's title, "in honor... of whom?" Possible answers to the question float below each bell in dye-cut steel tongues: "those who doubt," "those who create," "those who think," "those who yield."
Orensanz said the bells are a metaphor. She's not providing answers, but she wants questions to "ring" in viewers' heads. As some of her early drawings incorporating poisonous flowers, marble sculptures inscribed with ruler marks and symbols and a recent series of exquisite paper reliefs illustrate, ideas about cycles - in nature as well as in human communication and relationships - have informed her work since the 1970s.
"I don't believe that my works are only mine, or that they arise from a search devised by a single subject," she has said. "Each of us receives waves and vibrations, each of us is both receptor and transmitter."
Pedro Tyler's large show "Extensa" in Sicardi's downstairs spaces includes several motorized kinetic works. One of them involves a steel pipe that turns on the concrete floor. The otherworldly sound that results echoes up through Orensanz's show; perhaps an accidental transmitter, but a fascinating one given the silence of the bells.
Reach Molly on
Molly Glentzer, a staff arts critic since 1998, writes mostly about dance and visual arts but can go anywhere a good story leads. Through covering public art in parks, she developed a beat focused on Houston's emergence as one of the nation's leading "green renaissance" cities.
During about 30 years as a journalist Molly has also written for periodicals, including Texas Monthly, Saveur, Food & Wine, Dance Magazine and Dance International. She collaborated with her husband, photographer Don Glentzer, to create "Pink Ladies & Crimson Gents: Portraits and Legends of 50 Roses" (2008, Clarkson Potter), a book about the human culture behind rose horticulture. This explains the occasional gardening story byline and her broken fingernails.
A Texas native, Molly grew up in Houston and has lived not too far away in the bucolic town of Brenham since 2012.


As a heart attack survivor, I monitor my blood pressure every day. I wake up, fire up the coffee maker, and then sit down to measure my blood pressure. I take it three times, to make sure that it is consistent.
I take a variety of medications, an ACE inhibitor and a Beta blocker for my blood pressure. I also take a statin, and a anticoagulant, as well as an 81mg aspirin.
I average a little below 120/80 (often in the 117/77 range), so when I measured at 139/101, 143/97, and 137/99 this AM, I was a bit concerned.
I checked my pill organizer, and oops, I missed my meds last night.
I have forgotten it twice in 6 years. Clearly, I will never be able to go off my meds.


> I came here for the first time some 15 years ago and I instantly fell in love with the island and its people.
I had visited several other Greek islands before, all beautiful and captivating as they can be, but no one has taken me with the same enchantment as Kefalonia has done.
Since then, I have come back as often as possible, always leaving with the recurrent feeling that the stay hasn't been long enough.
I'd like to pass on through my wedding photos the passion and attachment I feel for Kefalonia to the lucky couples who decide to celebrate their marriage in this beautiful bit of paradise.
> ΗΡΘΑ ΕΔΩ ΓΙΑ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΦΟΡΑ ΠΡΙΝ ΑΠΟ ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ 15 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΡΩΤΕΥΤΗΚΑ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΜΑΤΙΑ ΤΟ ΝΗΣΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥΣ ΤΟΥ. ΜΠΟΡΕΙ ΝΑ ΕΙΧΑ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΦΤΕΙ ΑΡΚΕΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΝΗΣΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ, ΟΛΑ ΠΑΝΕΜΟΡΦΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΝΑΡΠΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΦΥΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ, ΑΛΛΑ ΚΑΝΕΝΑ ΑΛΛΟ ΔΕΝ ΜΕ ΜΑΓΕΨΕ ΟΠΩΣ Η ΚΕΦΑΛΟΝΙΑ.
ΑΠΟ ΤΟΤΕ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΕΦΩ ΣΤΟ ΝΗΣΙ ΟΣΟ ΠΙΟ ΣΥΧΝΑ ΜΠΟΡΩ, ΠΑΝΤΑ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΑΝΑΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΜΕΝΗ ΣΚΕΨΗ ΣΤΟ ΜΥΑΛΟ ΑΛΛΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕ ΤΗ ΣΤΕΝΑΧΩΡΙΑ ΠΩΣ Η ΠΑΡΑΜΟΝΗ ΜΟΥ Σ'ΑΥΤΟ ΔΕΝ ΗΤΑΝ ΟΣΗ ΘΑ'ΘΕΛΑ ΝΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ.
ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΓΑΜΗΛΙΕΣ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ ΜΟΥ, ΘΕΛΩ ΝΑ ΜΟΙΡΑΣΤΩ ΤΟ ΠΑΘΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΣΙΜΟ ΜΟΥ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΚΕΦΑΛΟΝΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΝΕΟΝΥΜΦΑ ΖΕΥΓΑΡΙΑ ΠΟΥ ΕΠΙΘΥΜΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΔΙΑΛΕΞΟΥΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΠΟ ΤΕΛΕΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΡΜΟΣΥΝΟΥ ΤΟΥΣ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΟΣ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΙΟ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟ.


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Bettig, Ron and Heresco, Aarobn (2014) "The History of Union for Democratic Communications through the Democratic Communiqué," Democratic Communiqué: Vol. 26 : Iss. 1 , Article 3.
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// Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Rest.Generator.Logging;
using Xunit;

namespace Microsoft.Rest.Generator.Test
{
    [Collection("AutoRest Tests")]
    public class AutoRestSettingsTests
    {
        [Fact]
        public void CreateWithoutArgumentsReturnsBlankSettings()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create((string[]) null);
            Assert.NotNull(settings);
            settings = Settings.Create((IDictionary<string, string>) null);
            Assert.NotNull(settings);
            settings = Settings.Create(new string[0]);
            Assert.NotNull(settings);
            settings = Settings.Create(new Dictionary<string, string>());
            Assert.NotNull(settings);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateWithMultipleEmptyKeysStoreInCustomDictonary()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-Help", " -Bar ", " -Foo"});
            Assert.True(settings.ShowHelp);
            Assert.Equal("", settings.CustomSettings["Foo"]);
            Assert.Equal("", settings.CustomSettings["Bar"]);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void EmptyCredentialsSettingIsSetToTrueIfPassed()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-AddCredentials"});
            Assert.True(settings.AddCredentials);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void NonEmptyCredentialsSettingIsSetToValueIfPassed()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-AddCredentials false"});
            Assert.False(settings.AddCredentials);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void NonEmptyPackageVersionIsSet()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-pv", "1.2.1"});
            Assert.Equal("1.2.1", settings.PackageVersion);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void NonEmptyPackageNameIsSet()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-pn", "HelloWorld"});
            Assert.Equal("HelloWorld", settings.PackageName);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateWithValidParametersWorks()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[]
            {
                "-Help", " -Input", "c:\\input",
                "-outputDirectory", " c:\\output", "-clientName", "MyClient"
            });
            Assert.True(settings.ShowHelp);
            Assert.Equal("c:\\input", settings.Input);
            Assert.Equal("c:\\output", settings.OutputDirectory);
            Assert.Equal("MyClient", settings.ClientName);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateWithAliasedParametersWorks()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[]
            {
                "-h", " --i", "/c/input",
                "-output", " c:\\output", "-clientName", "MyClient"
            });
            Assert.True(settings.ShowHelp);
            Assert.Equal("/c/input", settings.Input);
            Assert.Equal("c:\\output", settings.OutputDirectory);
            Assert.Equal("MyClient", settings.ClientName);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void IntegerParameterWorks()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[]
            {
                "-ft", "3", "-PayloadFlatteningThreshold", "4"
            });
            Assert.Equal(4, settings.PayloadFlatteningThreshold);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void MissingParameterThrowsException()
        {
            var settings = Settings.Create(new[] {"-Modeler", "foo"});
            try
            {
                settings.Validate();
                Assert.True(false);
            }
            catch (CodeGenerationException e)
            {
                Assert.NotNull(e.InnerExceptions);
                Assert.Equal(1, e.InnerExceptions.Count);
                Assert.True(e.InnerExceptions.Any(i =>
                    i.Message.Equals(string.Format("Parameter '{0}' is required.", "Input"))));
            }
        }
    }
}

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Fashion & Lifestyle / Arab Fashion Council partners with Meraas
Arab Fashion Council partners with Meraas
The Arab Fashion Council (AFC), one of the world's largest not-for-profit fashion organisations with a vision to establish a fashion ecosystem in the Arab world, has officially entered into a long-term partnership with Dubai-based holding company Meraas in order to continue promoting Dubai as a global style destination.
Under the new partnership, the Arab Fashion Council will once again host its bi-annual Arab Fashion Week (AFW), which will be held this season and for the first time at City Walk, developed by Meraas that seamlessly combines living, shopping, entertainment, hospitality and wellness options within one unique destination.
The destination is home to over 300 local and global brands comprising luxury, contemporary, high street fashion brands, F&B, jewellery and watches, leisure and entertainment and much more. The five-day event will take place from November 15-19 and is expected to attract a huge number of visitors and participants including industry VIP and celebrity guests flying in from all over the world for the occasion. With over 25 regional and international designers showcasing their latest creations every season, the Arab Fashion Week is the first and only platform in the world dedicated to promoting Pre-collections and Ready-Couture.
"We are thrilled to host the fifth edition of Arab Fashion Week in partnership with Meraas as it presents an exciting opportunity to unite the Dubai fashion community. While the Arab Fashion Week is an industry-focused event, we want everyone to feel that they are part of it, and together with Meraas, we hope to create another hugely successful event," says Jacob Abrian, CEO, Arab Fashion Council.
Meraas combines creativity and engineering to deliver a unique portfolio of urban and lifestyle destinations that are designed to make Dubai and the UAE a number one destination for people to live, work, visit and enjoy time with family and friends. As part of the strategic partnership with the Arab Fashion Council, Meraas will be hosting various events and activations in addition to City Walk across all its developments, including The Beach, Boxpark, The Outlet Village, La Mer and Al Seef in order to make Arab Fashion Week a truly city-wide celebration. The five-day event will take centre stage at City Walk and will include a schedule of daily runway shows, presentations, panel discussions and pop-up boutiques.
"Dubai's ambition is to become one of the world's top capitals for fashion and design, and we are excited to support the growth of both industries by partnering with the Arab Fashion Council. The Arab Fashion Week is an important event in the Dubai calendar, and we are ready to welcome thousands of people to City Walk Dubai, as we celebrate the very best the city has to offer," adds Sally Yacoub, chief malls officer, Meraas
The Arab Fashion Council was founded in 2014 in London as an international extraterritorial authority by a number of regional fashion pioneers. The organisation has been working closely with international experts in order to elevate and position the Arab Fashion Week alongside the other big four fashion weeks taking place in New York (NYFW), London (LFW), Milan (MFW) & Paris (PFW). The concept of the event is not only to promote regional talent but also allow international designers to showcase their collections with a possibility of being licensed with an official ready-couture license.
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A typical travel customer accesses a diverse spectrum of information before making a travel purchase. According to a 2016 Google/Ipsos Connect study, while researching travel online, average customer shifts more than 50 times across channels, devices leading to more than 100 pre-booking touchpoints. This would involve accessing sources that provide pre-flight content on destinations, hotel availability and bookings, reviews, ratings, packages, tours, airline schedules, airport shuttle bookings or car rentals, insurance, weather updates, payment options, financial services such as travel loans and currency exchange, and what not. Much of this data is made available to customers using slow and unreliable methods.
Players in the travel value chain today, collaborate through either expensive Direct connect methods, a web of intermediaries or through other unreliable ways of sharing data such as web scraping from partner websites. In the above cases, the casualty is innovation, integration cost, data reliability along with unnecessary load on servers. The world of travel, especially aviation, requires a trusted, timely and efficient way for sharing data and information with partners who can create niche solutions for the industry growth. Due to the complex nature of online travel distribution, travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rentals etc.) mainly connect with 3rd party distribution channels (GDS, metasearch, OTAs) to sell their inventory. APIs emerge as a natural solution acting as pipes of data exchange for this growing omnichannel ecosystem. APIs or Application Programming Interfaces act as conduits of communication and interaction between two applications which offer dynamic information about availability and price. These applications can belong to different partners like a car rental offer on an airline booking site or an excursion deal on a hotel booking site.
APIs provide consumers of travel information like customers, a controlled access to it from the publishers of data like airlines. APIs offer developers the opportunity to quickly connect data streams and functionalities between systems /softwares /applications—without having to deal with complex source code for integration. With the power of APIs, a 3rd party site has the capability to offer an airline ticket booking as well as secure payment (through the API of a payment gateway), to its visitors without making them go to the parent airline website. This helps in contextual travel research and booking experience.
APIs also help build specialized services. Fundamentally, developers gain easy control over usage, volume, access (when and where) and security of data from partners, allowing them to create distinctive and differentiated offerings for the market. For example, a provider of international education & career services can create niche products for students and young professionals by integrating its own applications with the APIs of airlines (which it could not have done on its own).
APIs have been popular in creating sophisticated, reliable, highly successful collaboration ecosystems in industries such as financial services and retail. In the travel industry too, IATA created the NDC standard (New Distribution Capability) to enable airlines to expose their inventory for offer and order management—using SOAP/REST/XML and EDIST schema—across the internet.
APIs have led to rapid, crowd sourced innovation in the travel industry in the form of Open APIs. An Open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service2. Open APIs are not only streamlining the travel experience making it more connected, they are also strengthening the direct distribution strategies leading to newer revenue channels for travel product companies.
The data that airlines use (or provide) via APIs need not even be free. For example, few airlines provide access to their API Playground in a freemium model. This encourages developers to create innovative solutions without large application development overheads, integration headaches and long lead times. For the airline, the rewards lie in improved brand visibility and in providing travelers with greater convenience.
Together with the new age technologies such as Blockchain and AI, Open APIs help expand the digital ecosystem for collaboration and enhance the innovation opportunities. With the growth of Blockchain and access to airline data through Open APIs, technology can lead to innovative and reliable solutions in the travel industry. For example, the "flight data problem", where multiple copies of subsets of flight status data exist (and thus a lack of reliability in the data) can be handled through Open APIs and Blockchain based data access. Similarly, access to richer seat data can enable new AR/VR based solutions for consumers. Imagine being able to experience the insides of the airplane while choosing your seats before making the air ticket purchase. An increased and consistent availability of data through APIs can lead to many such interesting solutions that leverage capabilities like AI and Deep Learning.
Currently, less than 26% of airlines and airports are offering access to their APIs and only 4% of all IATA (International Air Transport Association) members i.e. 10 airlines are publishing their own APIs in a bid to let partners access their data. Forecasts suggest that this is set to change: According to IATA, 71% of airlines and airports will be publishing some form of Open APIs by 20203.
The environment for APIs is near perfect in this age. We now live in a digital world dominated by cloud services and mobile networks. Today's customers are digital natives. Providing great, seamless and connected experience is the key to retaining them. The technology, infrastructure and demand for data has come together simultaneously to provide access to trusted data in a timely and open fashion, accelerating innovation and elevating customer experience. For airlines, this means access to flight details and statistics, booking and reservation information, airport codes and fuel and crew related aspects.
It won't be long before the upside of APIs becomes obvious. However, the fact that airlines will find it hard to remain competitive without participating in the API economy will become evident even faster.
What is your experience with APIs and how are they impacting Digital transformation at your travel organization? Write to us at info@mindtree.com to share your views and learn more about how our 'API First' approach orchestrates transformational outcomes for our customers' digital journeys.


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Mark Barenberg
Isador and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and CoDirector of Columbia Program on Labor Law and Policy, Columbia University
Chapter Member: New York City SSN, New York State SSN
Connect with Mark
Barenberg's areas of expertise include labor rights in free trade agreements and U.S. trade legislation, multi-stakeholder initiatives to enforce international labor rights, global economic institutions, U.S. domestic labor law and policy, U.S. employment law and policy, and United States constitutional law. He is the founding president of Worker Rights Consortium and legal adviser to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He has drafted many anti-sweatshop, living wage, and trade reform laws on behalf of cities, states, and Congress and has written policy papers and led numerous workshops with the Roosevelt Institute's Future of Work initiative. Barenberg has also served as legal adviser to Members of Congress and A.F.L.-C.I.O in several capacities. He has acted as consultant to the Economic Policy Institute's Agenda for Shared Prosperity, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the specialized UN agency charged with formulating and monitoring compliance with international labor law.
How Dispute Resolution Provisions in International Trade Pacts Threaten Democracy and the Rule of Law
Key Findings Brief, March 2015
"Labor Rights, under Republican Attack," Mark Barenberg (with James Brudney and Karl Klare), New York Times, October 31, 2011.
"International Labor Indicators: Conceptual and Normative Snares" in Handbook on International Labor Law, edited by Anne Trebilcock and Adelle Blackett (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
Discusses how difficult it is to formulate meaningful numerical indicators to measure a country's enforcement of complex worker rights.
"Widening the Scope of Worker Organizing: Legal Reforms to Facilitate Multi-Employer Organizing, Bargaining, and Striking," Roosevelt Institute, forthcoming.
Argues that labor law must change to help workers create organizations that span multiple employers. Discusses as an example the efforts of workers to organize "big-box supply chains" – that is, the workforces of factories, trucking companies, warehouses, and other companies feeding into big-box retail stores.
"The U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling on the Obama Health Care Legislation" European Journal of Social Law 3 (2013): 180-193.
Argues that the Supreme Court's first Affordable Care Act decision dodged the debate over libertarian rights (against Congressional mandates that citizens engage in forced purchases of insurance) and, to the contrary, affirmed the Constitutional capacity of the government to implement social insurance.
"Sustaining Workers' Bargaining Power in an Age of Globalization: Institutions for Meaningful Enforcement of International Labor Rights," Economic Policy Institute, October 2009.
Offers an architecture for the new high-powered institutions that would be necessary to genuinely counter the race-to-the-bottom in global labor standards.
"Toward a Democratic Model of Private Labour Monitoring" in Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation, edited by Brian Bercusson and Cynthia Estlund (Kluwer, 2008), 37-65.
Criticizes corporate codes of conduct that set labor standards in global factories, and shows that a participatory, worker-centered method for inspecting factories is the better alternative.
"The Political Economy of the Wagner Act: Power, Symbol, and Workplace Cooperation" Harvard Law Review 106, no. 7 (1993): 1379-1496.
Argues that the New Deal policy of encouraging labor unionism was not based on an adversarial ideal of labor-management relations, but instead was deeply committed to labor-management cooperation.


SINTEF energy researcher Ingrid Camilla Claussen can guarantee that Norwegian ice cream is more eco-friendly than most. One of the reasons is that artificial and powerful greenhouse gas refrigerants have been replaced by natural media. Soon this will also be the case for the raw materials from which our ice cream is made.
The fact is that the freezers and cold counters used to keep food cold in supermarkets are now using CO2 as a refrigerant instead of hydrofluorocarbons, which are much more damaging to the environment. When the weather is cold, surplus heat is sent from the refrigeration to the ventilation system to help keep the building warm.
"By combining food store ventilation and refrigeration systems, we can show that it's possible to make energy savings of about 30 per cent", says Claussen, who is a Research Manager at SINTEF. "We have demonstrated this in several Norwegian stores", she says.
Loves ice cream: Researcher Ingrid Camilla Claussen in SINTEF leads the project SuperSmart. Photo: SINTEF.
SINTEF is behind the system that combines refrigeration and the exploitation of surplus heat. Tine is a project partner in the HighEFF Centre for Environment-Friendly Energy Research (CEER), and commissioned SINTEF to find the best solution. In this way the results from the construction and operation of the new refrigeration technology will benefit all HighEFF partners.
Large refrigeration plants and air conditioning systems currently use refrigerants that make a major contribution to climate change. Initially, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were used to replace other halogenated hydrocarbons, such as chlorofluorocarbons, that deplete the ozone layer and which have been banned for some time.
However, in order to mitigate climate change, the EU has decided to phase out the use of those hydrofluorocarbons that contribute most to the problem. Since 2015, it has been prohibited to build new plant using refrigerants of this type, and since 2017, HFCs have been banned from the air conditioning systems installed in road vehicles.
When the EU banned the use of hydrofluorocarbons in refrigerators, freezers and air conditioning systems, researchers in Trondheim hurried to their labs to speed up development of their new approach to refrigeration using CO2. SINTEF and NTNU had already accumulated many decades of experience in the use of CO2 as a refrigerant.
SuperSmart is an EU project that will help more food stores install more energy efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration systems, including utilization of surplus heat from the refrigeration plant.
SINTEF is a project coordinator with two technical universities, two research institutes, two companies and an international organization for cooling from eight countries as partners.
The project is supported by the EU Horizon 2020 program and is being implemented in the period 2015-2019.
An important part of the project is dissemination and a number of training courses have been held for employees in retail chains and seminars with stakeholders as suppliers of refrigeration solutions and consultants.
In Scandinavia today, all refrigeration systems installed in stores run on so-called natural refrigerants such as CO2, ammonia, butane and propane. CO2 is the most commonly used. The supermarket chains Rema 1000, Coop and Norgesgruppen all use systems of this type.
More and more stores are combining refrigeration with the use of a heat pump so that heat can be conserved by heating the air in the ventilation system. In Rema 1000's store in Kroppanmarka in Trondheim, surplus heat is pumped into underground storage in summer so that it can be used in winter. The Kiwi chain is planning a system in which surplus heat from refrigeration is used to heat local flats and offices.
The time has now come to convince the rest of Europe.
For three years now, SINTEF has been heading a major European project called Supersmart. Partners from eight countries are preparing the background material to help the developers of new stores design refrigeration systems that are as eco-friendly and energy-efficient as possible. They will also be showing owners of existing stores how they can make their outlets more eco-friendly and energy-efficient by replacing their current systems.
"We're telling people that this is an effective technology so that they can make the right investments", says Claussen, who is coordinator for this particular EU Horizon 2020 project.
While CO2 is the preferred option in Scandinavia, store owners in southern Europe are more sceptical.
"There are high levels of scepticism to CO2 technologies in hot-temperature countries, due in part to high investment costs and issues linked to making these systems as energy-efficient as conventional ones.
SINTEF and NTNU have taken up the challenge and are now working with a number of organisations to improve the efficiency of CO2-based refrigeration systems in tropical regions. As part of the EU project H2020 MULTIPACK, they will be testing integrated systems in stores and hotels in Italy and Portugal. The project INDEE has involved a collaboration between Norwegian researchers, the Norwegian embassy in India, and the University of Madras, resulting in the construction of a mini-version (pilot) system designed to test different operational parameters with the aim of identifying the best system for use in the tropics. The tests were carried out in Europe and India.
"The idea is that eco-labelling will boost awareness of eco-friendly refrigeration systems", says Claussen. "They cost more than traditional systems, but the stores will get their investment back by attracting more customers", she says.
Claussen will be presenting the results from the project, as well as eco-friendly refrigeration, during the major political and business forum being held this week in the Arendal, Norway. (Arendalsuka).


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Q: Excel vba cell value depending other cell Hı all,
I am trying to figure out how I can put a formule to do this.
    Cell a  quantity
    Cell b  unit
    Cell c  unit price
    Cell d   unit of cell b.
So
    Cell a.   Cell b.    Cell c.   Cell d.    Cell e
    100.       gram.     200.       kg.          20
   If in cell b is gram chosen and cell d is.     kg then cell e must be cell c isdeviced by 1000 multiplied withcell a
 I have the formule in Excel, but want to put it in vba. Is more secure for accidents like deleting.
This is the code I have and works well.
How can I put this in the vba editor?
=(IF(B4="Gr",(A4*1),IF(B4="Ml",
   (A4*1),IF(B4="Paket",
 (A4*D4),IF(B4="Yk",
 (A4*12),IF(B4="Ck",
 (A4*8),IF(B4="Adet",(A4*1),
 IF(B4="Kg",(A4*1000),IF(B4="Lt",
 (A4*1),IF(B4>7,""))))))))*D4))

=IF(G10="Gr", ((F10*1)*E10),
IF(G10="Ml",((F10/16)*E10),
IF(G10="Paket",(F10*E10),
IF(G10="Yk",((F10/32)*E10),
IF(G10="Ck",((F10/128)*E10),
IF(G10="Adet",((F10*1)*E10),
IF(G10="Kg",((F10/1000)*E10),
IF(G10="Lt",((F10/1000)*E10),
IF(G10="","0")))))))))

A: The VBA function IIf is the function which directly corresponds to the worksheet function IF. Thus if you want a literal VBA transcription of those exact formulas it would look something like this:
Function FirstFormula() As Variant
    FirstFormula = (IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Gr", (Range("A4").Value * 1), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Ml", _
        (Range("A4").Value * 1), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Paket", _
        (Range("A4").Value * Range("D4").Value), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Yk", _
        (Range("A4").Value * 12), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Ck", _
        (Range("A4").Value * 8), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Adet", (Range("A4").Value * 1), _
        IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Kg", (Range("A4").Value * 1000), IIf(Range("B4").Value = "Lt", _
        (Range("A4").Value * 1), IIf(Range("B4").Value > 7, "", False)))))))) * Range("D4").Value))
End Function

Function SecondFormula() As Variant
    SecondFormula = IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Gr", ((Range("F10").Value * 1) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Ml", ((Range("F10").Value / 16) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Paket", (Range("F10").Value * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Yk", ((Range("F10").Value / 32) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Ck", ((Range("F10").Value / 128) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Adet", ((Range("F10").Value * 1) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Kg", ((Range("F10").Value / 1000) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "Lt", ((Range("F10").Value / 1000) * Range("E10").Value), _
        IIf(Range("G10").Value = "", "0", False)))))))))
End Function

Putting =FirstFormula() in a cell should be functionally equivalent to placing that exact formula in the cell, and similarly for the second formula. Note if you go this route, then the references to the formula don't automatically update when you copy the formula down, the cell references "B4", etc. are hard-wired into it.
I haven't tested the above, but it compiles nicely and it follows your logic exactly. If it doesn't suit your needs, consider using the excellent suggestion of @VBAPete.
On Edit Here is a more flexible version:
Function FirstFormula(A As Range, B As Range, D As Range) As Variant
    FirstFormula = (IIf(B.Value = "Gr", (A.Value * 1), IIf(B.Value = "Ml", _
        (A.Value * 1), IIf(B.Value = "Paket", _
        (A.Value * D.Value), IIf(B.Value = "Yk", _
        (A.Value * 12), IIf(B.Value = "Ck", _
        (A.Value * 8), IIf(B.Value = "Adet", (A.Value * 1), _
        IIf(B.Value = "Kg", (A.Value * 1000), IIf(B.Value = "Lt", _
        (A.Value * 1), IIf(B.Value > 7, "", False)))))))) * D.Value))
End Function

Function SecondFormula(E As Range, F As Range, G As Range) As Variant
    SecondFormula = IIf(G.Value = "Gr", ((F.Value * 1) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Ml", ((F.Value / 16) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Paket", (F.Value * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Yk", ((F.Value / 32) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Ck", ((F.Value / 128) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Adet", ((F.Value * 1) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Kg", ((F.Value / 1000) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "Lt", ((F.Value / 1000) * E.Value), _
        IIf(G.Value = "", "0", False)))))))))
End Function

Then in a worksheet, for example, you could use
=FirstFormula(A4,B4,D4)

and it will be equivalent. Furthermore, the references to A4, B4, D4 would update as expected when the formula is copied down a range.
On Further Edit If you want to pursue the idea of using VBA to insert the formulas directly in a cell, you would use something like:
Dim form As String
form = "=IF(G10=""Gr"", ((F10*1)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Ml"",((F10/16)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Paket"",(F10*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Yk"",((F10/32)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Ck"",((F10/128)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Adet"",((F10*1)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Kg"",((F10/1000)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10=""Lt"",((F10/1000)*E10),"
form = form & "IF(G10="""",""0"")))))))))"

Range("H10").Formula = form

In the above I built up the formula string in stages in the interest of readability. You don't need to do that, but the result would be, well, less readable.
Not that if you want quote marks to appear inside a string you have to double them up (use "" rather than ") so that VBA can tell that the overall string isn't supposed to end there.


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If you're a resident of Colorado, the Colorado Virtual Academy is completely free for your children to attend. This includes the cost of books and materials as well; they will literally ship the books to your doorstep free of charge. The only requirements for you are that you must own a functioning computer that meets certain minimum requirements and you must have a stable internet connection capable of loading the coursework.
In some senses, the Colorado Virtual Academy is a variation of homeschooling your children, as it is expected, especially with younger children, for you to be intimately involved in the learning process and even for you to sit with your child during lessons.
You can expect a rigorous coursework using their much touted K¹² education plan, but you can also expect courses that are paced to the individual learning style, abilities, and interests. It's rare to find a program that is a perfect fit for both gifted students and students who need a bit of extra help, but this Colorado online school program fits that bill.
Because the programs are so flexible, and the program so adaptable — thanks to the freedom of the actual format of the online program — it really can fit just about any child. The curriculum is "mastery-based", which means that children advance through the work not on a set timeline such as an arbitrary school year, but on when they actually master the information. Students will study the six core subjects (language arts, science, math, music, history, and art) not only online, but with written course material, textbooks, and workbooks as well. In fact, they estimate that only 25 percent of the student's time will be spent on the computer in the earlier years of schooling.
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This program certainly is not for everyone; those looking for a traditional school experience with football games on Friday nights, lockers and homerooms will be sorely disappointed with the Colorado Virtual Academy. However, for those looking for something different and cutting edge, this just might be the solution you're looking for. There is a wealth of information available at their attractive and user-friendly website, and we urge you to explore and follow up with the administration with any questions you may have.


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The Red Centre is set to light up in April for this year's Parrtjima – A Festival in Light, bringing thousands of visitors to town and providing a boost to the economy during a traditionally quieter period.
Running from Friday 5 April to Sunday 14 April this year, visitors and locals will have plenty to look forward to with a spectacular ten-night celebration of art and culture, based on the theme 'Language Expressions', recognising the UN Year of Indigenous Languages.
A completely free event, Parrtjima is the only authentic Aboriginal light festival of its kind, showcasing the oldest continuous culture on the planet through the latest technology.
As well as a number of spectacular new lighting installations and interactive artworks, the 2019 program boasts a mix of acclaimed musical acts including Aboriginal rapper Baker Boy who will take to the stage on the final night of the festival.
A total of seven unique lighting installations and effects will be on display across two precincts including Alice Springs Desert Park and Alice Springs Todd Mall.
The MacDonnell Ranges will be put in the spotlight, acting as a natural canvas for a series of stunning lighting effects across two kilometres that explore the language of the ranges; depicting the story of Country and stories of the desert songlines.
an interactive, over-sized maze for children, which also explores the language of children…and much more.
For more information about this year's event, visit www.parrtjimaaustralia.com.au.
"Parrtjima – A Festival in Light is a unique Territory event that continues to grow and attract more visitors every year.
"The Government has injected additional funding into the event through our Turbocharging Tourism stimulus program, bringing the festival into the Todd Street Mall, activating the CBD and providing a welcome economic injection into local businesses.
"Parrtjima applies new technology to showcase and celebrate the rich, ancient culture of the Arrernte people – it's a once in a lifetime experience and this year's theme – Language Expressions – will offer up many stunning and thought-provoking installations and performances.
"It's exciting that Parrtjima – A Festival in Light will be back in Alice Springs in just under two months, with the 2019 program set to be bigger and better than ever.
"2019 is the UN year of Indigenous Languages.
"Traditional languages are vital to providing age old knowledge continuance of story, culture and connection to Country.
"The installations and light show capture the essence of diverse artistic practices.
"Along with the knowledge public program that features music, film and talks enhancing the many ways in which First Nations artists, performers and custodians celebrate and evolve, while staying true to the ancient philosophy of connection and Country.
"Festival guests can expect to be spellbound and witness the unexpected.


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Posted by Doug Dobbins at 1:47 pm on August 20, 2013
Wacom has officially announced its pair of standalone mobile tablets. Set to roll out in September and October, respectively, are the Android-powered Cintiq Companion Hybrid and Windows 8/Windows 8 Pro-powered Cintiq Companion. As expected, these units are essentially the Cintiq 13HD with the same HD 1920 x 1080 pixel screen and Pro Pen with 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and stand, plus newly added multi-touch functionality, WiFi, Bluetooth, headphone jack, microphone, audio speakers, and various multimedia ports.
The Cintiq Companion Hybrid can be used just like a traditional Cintiq when plugged into a PC or MAC using the same 3-in-1 cable with HDMI and USB connectors and AC power adapter as the 13HD. When unplugged and in standalone mode, it can run Android apps (like, say, SketchBook Pro mobile) for what Wacom describes as "light" work on its Nvidia Tegra 4 processor and Jellybean OS guts. Work done on the device can be transferred to a Mac or PC via the device's ASTRO file manager — and big files probably will need to be frequently — since the device comes in smaller 16GB and 32GB versions priced at $1,499 and $1,599, respectively. It's set to debut in mid-September.
Unlike the Hybrid, the fully standalone Cintiq Companion can't be used as a traditional Cintiq with your existing Mac or PC and must fly solo when it arrives in mid-October. The two Companion models are powered by a 3rd generation Intel Core processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000. The model with 8GB memory and 256GB SSD with Windows 8 will cost $1,999 and the 8GB memory, 512GB SSD with Windows 8 Pro will cost $2,499. Wacom says the Companion optimized for the latest version of Photoshop Creative Cloud and other products in Adobe's creative suite.
Pleasw note while the a couple of the images shows the tablet paired with a wireless keyboard, it's not included with either of the models.
Both models are currently available for preorder from the Wacom eStore.
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Walmart, which is building its own cloud-based data centers, will be using more—a lot more—Nvidia chips going forward, according to a research note from Global Equities Research.
In doing so, the retail giant joins a number of cloud computing providers like Amazon Web Services that are using more of what's known as graphical processing units, or GPUs, to crunch data for machine learning. GPUs, the thinking goes, are better suited for analyzing huge data sets or controlling autonomous cars than more general-purpose chips that are used for more typical computing.
Over the next six months, Walmart (wmt) will go "full steam" into deep neural networks, using clusters of Nvidia chips, Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry says in a note released Tuesday, which Barrons first spotted. Neural networks, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), are sophisticated computing systems that mimic how the human brain learns.
Chowdhry says that Walmart is building a "GPU farm" that will be about a tenth of the size of rival Amazon Web Services "GPU" cloud. He does not identify any sources.
The business context here is important. Walmart has seen AWS parent company Amazon (amzn) eat into its business for years and is thus loathe to use AWS cloud services for its own computing needs. That's one big reason it built its own OneOps cloud while also making that OneOps core technology available for other companies to use.
Walmart is not the only retailer wary of putting its IT budget into AWS services. On Tuesday, the day after Amazon closed its $13.7 billion acquisition of grocery chain Whole Foods, CNBC reported that Target is scaling back its own use of AWS. What was most surprising to many about that report was the notion that Target used AWS to begin with. But then again, software developers at big companies often AWS to build test versions of their software without their bosses knowing.
A Target spokesman said that company has used and will continue to use multiple cloud providers—which he did not name. Early this year it evaluated that lineup and decided to make some changes, he added, without additional detail.
Neither Walmart nor Amazon could be reached for comment.
Going further back, in June after the Whole Foods deal was announced, Walmart reportedly told its partners and suppliers to stop using AWS services. The good news for retailers that are wary of using a competitor's cloud services is that Microsoft (msft) Azure and Google (goog) Cloud Platform are now seen as viable alternatives for many customers.
Note: (August 30, 2017 4:49 p.m. EDT) This story was updated to add comments from Target.


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Praises unprecedented sacrifices by Armed Forces for ensuring peace
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ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said that clash among state institutions was not in interest of the country.
Addressing the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s Core Committee that met a day after special court's judgement against former president Pervez Musharraf, the premier said government believed in supremacy of constitution and law, the official party sources said.
The premier further said state institutions should perform their responsibilities while remaining within their constitutional and legal limits.
He said government would help all institutions in fulfilment of their constitutional and legal responsibilities. He stressed that Armed Forces had given unprecedented sacrifices to ensure peace in the country and they had to solve all issues through unity. The prime minister also instructed party leaders and ministers not to issue statements on decisions of the special court and the Supreme Court.
Later, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, addressing a news conference after the meeting, said decision had yet to be taken that whether the government would first review decision of the Supreme Court on extension of chief of army staff's tenure or go to the parliament to make a legislation on it.
"The core committee of the PTI discussed apex court's decision (on COAS tenure extension) and decided that government's parliamentary and legal teams should take a final decision whether it will go for a review petition or make legislation on it," she said.
She, however, made it clear that government would take on board all opposition parties and develop a consensus before making any legislation on extension of COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa's tenure. "The division on this issue is not in interest of the country because an institution that guarantees the national security should not be made victim of politics."
On November 28, the SC in a short order had said the parliament would determine the tenure, terms and conditions of service of the army chief through legislation.
The government's legal team including Babar Awan and Barrister Ali Zafar briefed the core committee on all legal aspects, prosecution weaknesses and gaps of the decision of the special court that handed death sentence to former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the special assistant said. "PM Imran Khan reiterated its resolve that PTI following its legacy would ensure rule of law as well as its implementation in a uniform manner," she said, adding, the government would create ideal and conducive environment for uniform application of law.
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The prime minister informed the meeting that institutions were pillar of the state and interest of the state was sacred and important and the government would ensure to strengthen state institutions. The meeting decided that legal team would inform about its course of action on special court's decision to the core committee, the cabinet and the party, she said.
Briefing the media about other discussion held during the meeting, Dr Awan said the PM and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi informed the committee about reasons and background of government's decision to pull out of Kuala Lumpur Summit. "Pakistan thinks that unity of Muslim Ummah and of more than 57 countries connected with Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) was more important," she said, adding, that Pakistan wanted to play its role to unite the Muslim world. She further clarified that Pakistan did not want to stand by interest of any individual rather it wanted to play its role for the common cause and overall betterment of Muslim Ummah.
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On issue of exclusion of PML-N Vice-president Maryam Nawaz's name from no-fly list, she said the committee reinterred that neither anyone was above the law nor a sacred cow. The government would decide the matter under law and in light of recommendations of the sub-committee of the cabinet.
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