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Artists Edward Kienholz Art Works
Edward Kienholz Artworks
American Sculptor
Movements and Styles: Neo-Dada, Funk Art
Born: October 23, 1927 - Fairfield, Washington
Died: June 10, 1994 - Hope, Idaho
Artworks by Edward Kienholz
The below artworks are the most important by Edward Kienholz - that both overview the major creative periods, and highlight the greatest achievements by the artist.
The Illegal Operation (1962)
Made nearly a decade before the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion in the United States, The Illegal Operation depicts the scene of an abortion at a time when the procedure was practiced in secrecy, often in dangerous and unregulated conditions. This early sculpture, created out of found objects including a shopping cart, a wooden stool, and a standing lamp, is a prime example of Kienholz's Funk art assemblage. Its title hints at the taboo debate surrounding abortion rights, while its crudely hewn composition - with the cart reconfigured into a chair, the lampshade tilted askew, and the linens darkened with filth - suggests that something is clearly amiss. Through its visceral imagery, the sculpture draws attention to the country's problematic handling of the abortion issue during the middle of the 20th century. This piece was also based on Kienholz's personal experience of abortion, since his wife at the time had undergone the same procedure during this period and was forced to do so illegally. Like much of his later work, The Illegal Operation broaches a controversial topic while insisting that matters of political and social discourse are never unwarranted artistic subjects.
The Back Seat Dodge '38 (1964)
When this work was displayed in Kienholz's 1966 solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it caused an uproar, leading some local authorities to call it pornographic and others to plead for its removal from the exhibition. The sculpture portrays a youthful couple engaged in sexual activity in a truncated 1938 Dodge coupe with its passenger seat door propped ajar. The woman, cast in plaster, lies across the seat with the man, formed out of chicken wire, lying on top of her; the two figures are surrounded by beer bottles. As Kienholz has noted, this piece represents an adolescent experience common to many young adults who grew up in the new age of the automobile and is based on his own early sexual experimentation. The work, which can only be seen by gazing through the open door, gives the sense that the viewer has intruded upon the scene as a voyeur. By embedding the scene within the car, dimly lit by the car's headlights and cab light, Kienholz engages simultaneous reactions of discomfort, revulsion, interest, and curiosity that evoke the mid-20th century American public's attitudes towards sexuality.
The Beanery (1965)
The walk-in installation The Beanery is one of Kienholz's most admired works. Inspired by Barney's Beanery, a seedy pub located off the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles that was a famous hangout for celebrities, musicians, and artists, the work reconstructs a typical bar scene filtered through Kienholz's unwieldy lens. While the installation reconstructs the general layout of the pub, The Beanery is also surreal, featuring denizens with faces formed out of clocks, all of which are set to the same time of 10:10. Kienholz has noted that time is suspended in the installation to underscore the escapism of the bar's clientele; as he stated, "A bar is a sad place, a place full of strangers who are killing time, postponing the idea that they're going to die." Only the figure of Barney, the pub's owner, has a human face, which acts as an emblem of the merciless passage of time.
As one of Kienholz's most ambitious installations, this work also highlights the artist's prowess as a craftsman. The tableau, which includes seventeen individuals scattered throughout the scene, combines cast elements with found objects that have been cleverly woven together; some figures are engaged in private interactions, creating multiple simultaneous narratives that are united through the looped soundtrack of clinking glasses and laughter that plays whenever the installation is displayed. While Kienholz had previously created multiple-figure tableaux such as the seminal Roxy's (1960-61), this was the most technically intricate example of the installation format in his early career.
The State Hospital (1966)
The State Hospital was inspired by Kienholz's experiences working as an attendant in a mental hospital in the late 1940s. Its two naked, life-size figures are bound to their metal bed-frames in identical positions; their mattresses are grimy and the bedpan on the floor is encrusted in filth. In the inhumane confinement of these emaciated patients, Kienholz was commenting on societal and institutional mistreatment of the mentally ill. The patients' isolation and entrapment is emphasized by the goldfish bowls contained within their heads, and by the neon "thought bubble" linking the two bunks - the figure in the lower bed can imagine nothing beyond their present situation.
The Portable War Memorial (1968)
Kienholz constructed this massive installation, measuring thirty-three feet long, during the Vietnam War as a bitter commentary on the United States' international politics, the human sacrifice of military actions, and the consumerism of the American dream. In the left side of the tableau, several mannequins in uniform recreate Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph of Marines raising the United States flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II (and the monument that it inspired); however, they are faceless, and they are planting the flag on an unsteady-looking picnic table. Behind them hangs an army recruitment poster with an image of Uncle Sam; at the very left end, a female form crafted from a trash can plays a recording of the singer Kate Smith performing "God Bless America."
On the central, tombstone-shaped panel of the composition, a blackboard records the fading names of hundreds of countries that have been obliterated by war throughout history. A panel bearing the installation's title includes blank spaces where the date can be filled in, as new wars continue to occur. Yet in the right half, life continues as usual for diners at a snack bar outfitted with a working Coca-Cola vending machine; they have become so accustomed to war in the headlines that they are able to ignore the propaganda behind them as well as the symbolic death toll written on the wall.
Five Car Stud (1969-72)
In Five Car Stud Kienholz addresses the enduring violence, prejudice, and racism in America during the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. This life-sized multimedia installation depicts a group of white men attacking a black man who lies prostrate on the ground, arms pinned to his sides, as one of his attackers tries to castrate him. Surrounded by four cars and a pickup truck that illuminate the scene with their headlights, white men wearing grotesque masks are posed standing, crouching, and grappling with the black man at the center of the installation.
According to Kienholz, the black man had been singled out by the group of white men for having a drink with a white woman, who cowers in one of the automobiles, vomiting. Nightmarish and emotionally disturbing, the work was intended to jolt the viewer with its graphic intensity, forcing the audience to come face to face with the brutal reality of the African-American experience. It is also jarring in its surreal depiction of the figures; while the attackers wear rubber masks, the victim has two facial expressions, one layered on top of the other. Not surprisingly, Five Car Stud received a strong critical reaction when it was first presented in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 and has only been publicly exhibited a handful of times.
The Bench (1975-76)
Arguably the Kienholzes' most important body of work from the 1970s, their series Volksempfängers (People's Receivers) (1975-76) engages with the history of fascism in Germany, where the couple lived and worked from 1973 until the early 1990s. For this series, the artists purchased discarded radios at flea markets and repurposed them as art objects, at times arranging them in series, combining them with other objects, or inserting sound-based elements. On a symbolic level, the volksempfänger was an object with a weighty political history that played a significant role in disseminating the Nazi party's ideology and in asserting its control over the German public. In art and propaganda from the Third Reich, the volksempfänger was often used to symbolize Adolf Hitler, whilst the instrument's function as a one-way receiver turned its audience into passive listeners. This work from the Volksempfängers series, titled The Bench, is named after the plinths that are central to the sculptural installation and features eights radios placed on top of two platforms. The radios, arranged chronologically from left to right, represent different periods of German history between 1930 and 1970; some are decorated with swastikas while others play music by Richard Wagner, a composer appropriated by the Nazis to symbolize the Aryan race, layered over contemporaneous news broadcasts. This work, like others in the Volksempfängers series, illustrates the Kienholzes' varied approaches to the readymade, their adroit use of sound elements, and their critical engagement with postwar Germany's history and national identity.
The Ozymandias Parade (1985)
An incisive commentary on despotism and the abuse of political power, The Ozymandias Parade is an example of the Kienholzes' engagement with European and American social issues in their later work. Presented on a reflective mirrored platform, the multifaceted tableau consists of an assemblage of cast figures, dolls, figurines, and found items that represent various sectors of society, including the members of its government, in an allegorical ship of fools. The figure of a president-like leader clings to the stomach of a white horse on its hind legs; he holds a red phone in one hand and a sword, which stabs a deflated blow-up globe, in the other. His eyes are covered by a blindfold that reads either "YES" or "NO" - depending on a poll performed in the weeks leading up to each exhibition of the work: participants are asked whether or not they are satisfied with their government, and the prevailing answer will be presented on the figure's blindfold. Behind the president, a headless vice-president blows a trumpet and waves a flag while seated atop his toppled horse, and an armed general rides on the back of an emaciated female figure who is guided blindly by a crucifix dangling before her. These figures are surrounded by their minions, comically portrayed as miniature figurines across the platform. Like many of the Kienholzes' works, this piece exemplifies the duo's criticality of government, political corruption, and the public's unquestioning acceptance of authority, with a distinct air of humor and irony.
Edward Kienholz's Burial (1994)
Upon Kienholz's death in 1994, his friends and family staged his funeral as his final tableau. According to his own wishes, Kienholz was buried in his old Packard car on a mountain in Idaho. Like an Egyptian pharaoh outfitted with his favorite things for the afterlife, he was seated in the passenger seat, with a dollar and a deck of playing cards in his pocket, a bottle of vintage Chianti nestled into the passenger seat, and the cremated remains of his recently deceased pet dog in the back seat. As "Amazing Grace" was played on bagpipes, the car was driven (by his wife, Nancy) into a tomb for burial.
Long Term Parking (1982)
Artist: Arman (Read Full Artist Overview, Biography, and Artworks pages)
This ambitious sculpture stands 50 feet high, consisting of 60 cars encased in over 40,000 pounds of concrete. As a monument to modernity, it might be compared with Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (1919-20), which was conceived as a celebration of a new era of technology and progress following the Russian Revolution of 1917. By contrast, Long Term Parking calls attention to the failure of modern utopias. The concrete shell leaves the vehicles functionally useless, pouring scorn on the products of mass production and the overblown proportions of American consumerism. Completed over the course of seven years, it represents the culmination of Arman's Accumulations series.
Le Vide (1958)
Artist: Yves Klein (Read Full Artist Overview, Biography, and Artworks pages)
To further his artistic vision of the immaterial, Klein created Le Vide (The Void), removing everything from the Iris Clert Gallery except for an empty cabinet. Klein also created a dramatic entrance for the opening ceremony, in which visitors were welcomed into the empty room. Regarding the work Klein stated, "My paintings are now invisible and I would like to show them in a clear and positive manner..." Although the stunt might be read as part of Klein's ongoing interest in mysticism and "the void," like much of his work it might also be read in a slightly contradictory manner, as a political attack on the traditional art object and the gallery system that supports it.
Monogram (1955-59)
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (Read Full Artist Overview, Biography, and Artworks pages)
One of Rauschenberg's most famous works, Monogram, pushed the art world's buttons by further merging painting and sculpture as the combine moved from the wall to the pedestal. While he began with traditional materials - an abstract painting executed in oil on stretched canvas - he abandoned tradition by adding an assemblage of found objects on top of the painting to create a canonical, three-dimensional combine painting. Rauschenberg often acquired materials for his artwork on his meanderings about New York City, allowing chance encounters with found objects to dictate his artistic output, and Monogram was no exception. In one of his wanderings in the early 1950s, Rauschenberg found and purchased a stuffed angora goat from an office supply store and later encircled it with a tire he encountered in street trash. He applied paint to the goat's snout in gestural brushstrokes that quoted Abstract Expressionism. On top of the canvas, Rauschenberg surrounded the goat with a pasture of more detritus strewn about its hooves - including a tennis ball, a wooden plank, and several found and reproduced images.
Similar to his earlier combine, Bed (1955), Monogram is a work that engages the viewer on multiple levels, as they look at, down, and around the interwoven elements of the work all vying for the viewer's attention at once. However, despite many varied interpretations, Rauschenberg refused to hint at any predetermined meaning of the different symbols within the work, instead allowing viewers to create their own associations between the objects and images. Despite Rauschenberg's insistence against specific meanings of the work, often critics interpret the tire-ringed goat as a symbol of the artist's sexuality, as well as his role within the art world, trampling over tradition with his own artistic monogram.


ESCANABA — Genevieve M. "Sis" Berthiaume, 94, of Escanaba, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, at OSF St. Francis Hospital. She was born on Sept. 17, 1924, daughter of the late Arthur and Philimine (Decaine) Anderson. On Jan. 15, 1944, Sis married the love of her life, Dean Berthiaume, in Ft. Jackson, S.C. He preceded her in death in 1996.
Sis was always a hard worker. She shoveled coal and snow, push mowed the lawn, and work beside Dean while building the house and camp, and tending to their large garden that produced enough to share with family, friends, and even the deer. She loved to make clothing, needlework, re-upholster furniture, and create dozens of quilts. Sis looked forward to calling her dear friends Kay, Bea, and Kathi on the telephone daily and cherished her friendship with her cousin, Sandy. Her grandson, Mark, was always available to help at a moment's notice and she always treasured his visits. Sis was incredibly proud of all her family's accomplishments. In her later years, she enjoyed watching Gunsmoke and complaining about the reruns.
She is survived by her daughter, Carole (Donald) Cousineau of Escanaba; grandsons, Mark (Elaine) Cousineau of Escanaba and Michael Cousineau of Grand Haven, Mich.;, great-grandchildren, Drs. Craig (Elizabeth) Cousineau, Cody (Shannon Hamilton) Cousineau, Eric (Karleen Robich) Cousineau, and Nate Hunt; great-great-grandson, Calder Cousineau.
Sis was preceded in death by her parents, and husband, Dean; brothers, Art (Eileen) Anderson and Edward (Kathleen) Anderson; and great-granddaughter, Abbey Cousineau.
In keeping with Sis's wishes, private services will be held for her family.
Sis's family would like to acknowledge OSF St. Francis Hospital ER and second floor staff for their incredible care during her last days.
Please visit www.allofh.com to send online condolences to her family. The Allo Coolman Funeral Homes are assisting the Berthiaume family.


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I think about this a lot – If you aren't breaking rules everyday you aren't an entrepreneur.
People have many different definitions for the word Entrepreneur, but one of mine circles around rule breaking. Entrepreneurs believe there are numerous ways to live and get things done. And typically their creative way is much better than the standard practice. Entrepreneurs often break the rules so they can see or do something from a different perspective. Only by breaking the rules can you grab a different view of the world, possibly opening up a new market, product or business model.
To take it a little farther, not only should you break the rules but you need to re-write the rules. If you are a true leader, the rules you write then become the rules others start to play by. That's how you end up owning the market. Look at Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Musk and many other highly influential and successful entrepreneurs.
And more importantly, all were rule makers.
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Q: Enhance UITableView Scrolling in my app i have an UITableView with 120 rows and every row has 1 UItextfeilds and 1 Buttons as show in the code bellow :
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any idea ?
Thanks

A: That's because you create textfields and buttons every time, add it inside if (cell == nil) {...}. The only thing that should be left outside that if is textField text setting.
Btw, your textfield leaks.

A: I found the solution :
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Porto & Kallio head test
Published: 04 February 2005 Updated: 24 November 2014
Sebastian Porto and Mika Kallio head the unofficial timesheets for the 250cc and 125cc GP classes after the first day of testing at Valencia on Wednesday, February 9.
Despite rain in the early hours of the morning creating cool and damp conditions, Porto bettered the time which qualified him second on the grid for the Valencia GP in 2004 by almost a tenth of a second, with 1:36.461. Randy De Puniet was second-quickest behind his Team Aspar team-mate, and fellow Aprilia rider Casey Stoner was third. Reigning 125cc world champion Andrea Dovizioso was fourth fastest as he starts his first season on a 250cc machine.
In the 125cc class, KTM rider Mika Kallio was fastest with 1:41.725, followed by Honda's Thomas Luthi and Aprilia's Sergio Gadea.
250cc unofficial times:
Sebastian Porto 1:36.461
Randy de Puniet 1:37.365
Casey Stoner 1:37.780
Andrea Dovizioso 1:38.017
Hector Barbera 1:38.047
Alex de Angelis 1:38.054
Sylvain Guintoli 1:39.158
Roberto Locatelli 1:39.175
Gregory Leblanc 1:40.039
Yuki Takahashi 1:40.192
Mika Kallio 1:41.725
Thomas Luthi 1:41.887
Sergio Gadea 1:41.907
Lorenzo Zanetti 1:42.492
Gabor Talmacsi 1:42.550
Andrea Iannone 1:43.414
Hector Faubel 1:43.652.
Imre Toth 1:43.684
Julian Miralles 1:43.691.
Jordi Carchano 1:44.126.

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Q: How to parse a string and transform it into a sequence in Spark Scala Let's say I have a string that looks like this [abc, def, ghi]
I want to parse the string and convert it to a sequence such that it is like this Seq(abc, def, ghi)

A: Hi is the string contained in a DataFrame? Or how does Spark come into play?
If it's just plain scala, this should do the trick:
val string = "[abc, def, ghi]"
string
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Course and Subject Handbook 2017 Courses Undergraduate Courses Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science – Bachelor of Psychological Science
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Further information about placements can be found at University Requirements for Undergraduate Coursework Awards
Suitability to Work with Children Card (blue card):
This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements that may involve contact with children under 18 years of age. Students are required to obtain a Suitability to Work with Children Card (which involves a criminal history check undertaken by the Queensland Police) before the start of the first placement. Students must retain a current Suitability to Work with Children Card for the duration of their course, as failure to do so will result in the termination of their admission to the course.
For more information, refer to: Bluecard.
Current Apply First Aid and CPR Certificate:
Candidates must hold a current First Aid Certificate before undertaking professional or clinical placements. Candidates are responsible for any costs associated with obtaining this certificate.
Some professional/clinical placement agencies may require that candidates hold an advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certificate before undertaking a professional or clinical placement. Candidates are responsible for any costs associated with obtaining this certificate.
Australian Federal Police check:
This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Some placement agencies may require students to produce a current Australian Federal Police check. This is in addition to the requirements for a Blue Card. If requested, students must provide written confirmation of clearance to the Clinical Placement Officer prior to commencement of clinical placement.
Application documents can be accessed at: Australian Federal Police check.
114 credit points as per course structure
On successful completion of the Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science, graduates will be able to:
Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and technical knowledge and skills, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in the discipline of sport and exercise science
Critically review, analyse, synthesise and apply evidence in sport and exercise science practice, across a range of social, personal, economic and environmental contexts
Assess health status and formulate, implement and critically evaluate sustainable management plans to promote and optimise the health and welfare of apparently healthy individuals and/or populations
Communicate clearly and coherently through well-developed English language and numeracy proficiency, appropriate for graduate entry into the sport and exercise science workforce
Demonstrate appropriate professional behaviour, professional reasoning and sound judgement in problem solving and decision making, in the provision of client-centred practice that is contemporary, evidence-based, legal, ethical, safe and culturally sensitive
Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes, in order to plan and implement ongoing personal and professional development needs.
On successful completion of the Bachelor of Psychological Science, graduates will be able to:
Integrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge with depth in major theoretical perspectives and concepts, and philosophical and historical developments, in the core areas of psychology
Review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and evidence bases in the core areas of psychology
Review and reflect on the methods and ethics of scientific investigation as applied to psychology
Exercise critical thinking and judgement in the design and conduct of scientific investigations to solve psychological questions with intellectual independence
Apply advanced English language and technological and numeracy skills to generate, interpret and communicate knowledge, data, arguments and research findings appropriate for a variety of audiences
Adapt and apply research skills and psychological understanding, including where appropriate knowledge of cultural diversity, to investigate human and animal behaviour in diverse contexts
Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for one's own learning and practice in collaboration with others.
Inherent requirements are the fundamental abilities, attributes, skills and behaviours needed to complete the learning outcomes of a course while preserving the academic integrity of the university's learning, assessment and accreditation processes. Students and prospective students must be able to demonstrate that they have acquired or have the ability to acquire the inherent requirements for their degree. For more information refer to Inherent Requirements page.
Reasonable adjustments may be made to assist students manage additional circumstances impacting on their studies provided these do not change the academic integrity of a degree. Reasonable adjustments do not alter the need to be able to demonstrate the inherent requirements of the course.
MH1061:03 Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology (Cairns) or BM1061:03 Anatomy and Physiology for Sport and Exercise Science 1 (Townsville)
MH1062:03 The Musculoskeletal System for Sports and Exercise Science (Cairns) or BM1062:03Anatomy and Physiology for Sport and Exercise Science 2 (Townsville)
PY1101:03 Exploring Psychology:From Brain to Practice
PY1102:03 Exploring Psychology: From Perception to Reality
SP1001:03 Science and Practice of Physical Activity
SP1002:03 Sport and Exercise Nutrition
PY1103:03 Critical Thinking in Psychology: How to Think About Weird Things
PY1106:03 Communicating Psychology: Listening, Translating & Disseminating
HS1401:03 Health and Health Care in Australia
PH1001:03 Preparatory Physics
SP2007:03 Physiological Basis for Exercise and Sport
PY2103:03 Describing and Analysing Behaviour
PY2107:03 Experimental Investigation and Analysis of Behaviour
PY2111:03 Learning Processes, Behaviour and Performance
PY2101:03 Psychological Neuroscience
PY2112:03 Memory and Cognition
HS2402:03 Health Professional Research 1
SP2200:03 Exercise and Sports Testing
SP2201:03 Exercise Prescription
SP2003:03 Functional Kinesiology and Biomechanics
SP2009:03 Strength Training and Conditioning
SP2010:03 Principles of Motor Learning and Motor Control
PY2106:03 Through the Looking Glass: Development Across the Lifespan
PY3102:03 Social Psychology in Everyday Life
SP2011:03 Advanced Biomechanics
SP3007:03 Dynamics of Sport and Exercise Behaviour 1
SP3011:03 Sports Training and Rehabilitation
SP3015:03 Advanced Motor Learning and Motor Control
SP3006:03 Environmental and Sports Medicine
SP3016:03 Exercise Prescription Practices and Procedures
PY3101:03 Advanced Behavioural Research Design and Analysis
PY3108:03 Personality Psychology: Decoding the Mysteries of Humans
SP3008:03 Sport and Exercise Science Practice
SP3014:03 Independent Project in Sport and Exercise Science
PY3103:03 Mining the Mind: Psychopathology
PY3107:03 Psychological Assessment in Action
Select 6 credit points of specified PY level 2 subjects from List 1
PY2104:03 Connecting Social, Psychological and Physical Health
PY2109:03 The World Around Us: Environmental Psychology
PY2018:03 Intercultural Psychology and Cross Cultural Communication
PY2110:03 Intersections of Psychology and Law: Forensic Psychology
5 years full-time or equivalent part-time
Further information about placements can be found at:
Enrolment Policy – Coursework Students
Refer to Review of a Student's Suitability to Continue a Course Involving Placement policy.
Professional accreditation requirements
The accredited sequence in psychology leads to provisional registration with the Psychology Board of Australia with the addition of a fourth year of accredited studies in psychology e.g., Graduate Diploma of Psychology or Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours).
Not permitted for Sport and Exercise Science subjects or Psychology subjects (subjects with the prefix SP or PY)
A student who has failed the final subject towards the degree and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject.
Students may apply for advanced standing for previous tertiary study in accordance with the Advanced Standing and Articulation policy and associated procedures.
Advanced standing will be granted only for studies completed in the 10 years prior to the commencement of this course.
Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 20 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the candidate has not completed this course.
Maximum credit points for advanced standing as per the JCU Policy on Advanced Standing for Previous Studies and Recognised Prior Learning
BSpExSc-BPsychSc
This is a joint degree
Inclusion of majors on testamur
Candidates who exit the course prior to completion, and have completed ALL appropriate subjects for the relevant degree, may be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science or Bachelor of Psychological Science.
Where coursework is completed at a grade point average of 6 or above, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, on the recommendation of the College Dean and Head of Psychology, may recommend the award of a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science – Bachelor of Psychological Science with Distinction.
Honours availability
Honours is available in each discipline as additional 24 credit points of study [end-on]
A student admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science – Bachelor of Psychological Science at this university may be invited by the Head of Psychology to undertake the Honours degree in Psychology if that student has
Psychology Honours
obtained a minimum of 72 credit points including successful completion of all Psychology level 1, 2 and 3 subjects prescribed in Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science - Bachelor of Psychological Science
obtained a minimum of a Credit average (65%) across PY2103, PY2107 and a minimum Distinction average (75%) across 15 credit points of level 3 PY subjects, including PY3101
Sport and Exercise Science Honours
Normally a minimum GPA 5.0 (Credit) is required across the third year pass degree subjects.


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Network Ireland > Cork > New President for Network Ireland Cork Branch
New President for Network Ireland Cork Branch
Congratulations to our 2020 Network Ireland Cork President, Marguerite O'Sullivan, Senior Innovation Engineering Manager in DePuy Synthes Johnson & Johnson who was elected to office at the AGM held on the 11th of December 2019. She takes over from Gillian Hennessy, PR & Marketing Manager and Wedding Coordinator at Triskel Arts Centre, who led the organisation for an incredible 2019.
The unifying theme across all events for Marguerite's 12-month voluntary-e will be to empower women in business and their professions to lead now.
On her new role, Marguerite said: "Network Ireland Cork is an amazing branch with amazing members. As president in 2020, I want to equip and enable each and every woman in the Network to aspire to be the very best at what they do through our monthly events, our support resources such as our mentoring programme, and of course our network."


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Q: How to get translation ID from function in HTML using with angular-translate I have an ng-repeat placing some images with a caption from an array:

      My Caption

This works perfectly, but now I want to change the caption of each image based on the current language. I have angular-translate working like this:

MY_TRANSLATION_ID

But now I need to get the translations ID from my foo object in the loop. I tried:

*

*{{foo.translationID}}

*foo.translationID

*Creating a function that will return the translation ID:
{{text}}
But nothing works. Is this possible? I'm trying to avoid saving the translated string in my foo object directly because I'm using async loading and I'm changing the language dynamically so it's not that easy or I couldn't get it working properly (also as recommended here I should be doing my translations in my HTML code)

A: You can make use of translate filter:
{{ foo.translationID | translate }}


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Guardian StudentsOnline learning
Distance learning taps in to virtual reality technology
As technology advances, so the potential for online learning flourishes
Distance learning has moved on from multiple choice quizzes to be a truly immersive experience. Photograph: alvarez/Getty Images
Lucy Jolin
Thu 19 Feb 2015 06.22 EST
Eddie Chauncy is no stranger to traditional universities – he already holds a degree in English literature from Cambridge. But 20 years after first graduating, when he realised that a knowledge of psychology would benefit his career as a business and finance trainer, he chose to study with the Open University (OU).
"I knew the OU from when I was a kid and I used to watch the maths lessons on TV," says Chauncy, who graduated from the OU with a psychology degree in 2012. "I'd recommended it to one of my delegates and when I got home that night, I thought: why don't I make a life change as well? My children were coming to the end of their schooling and my son was doing A-levels, so I had to be around to support him. I also had to earn a living. So it was the only option that worked. It was a wonderful experience and really helped me move forward with the kind of training I could offer."
Distance learning is a much better fit for people like Chauncy, says Julie Stone, director of online learning at the University of Derby, points out. "Online learning offers a number of benefits that face-to-face campus based studies can't – namely around flexibility," she says. "People can learn at a time and place that suits them, fitting study time around work and family commitments. Few mature students can commit to fixed campus-based lectures week in, week out and technological advancements have enabled people to gain a respected education through online methods."
And online learning, it seems, is just as effective as face-to-face learning. A study conducted by the Department for Education in the US in 2010 found that college students studying online performed better than those studying exclusively face-to-face. "They also found was that if you combine the two – some studying face to face, some online – it's even more effective," says Mike Sharples, professor of educational technology at the Open University.
The OU pioneered the distance learning form and is still the UK's main provider – in 2013/14, there were 210,005 UK-based students studying for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the UK, of which 150,255 were with the OU. But other UK universities are starting to see the potential of online courses that can offer all the academic rigour and support of a face-to-face degree without the inflexibility – to students all around the world.
New technology – such as forums, online lectures and interactive study experiences – is enhancing today's online learning experience, and there are plenty of innovations in the pipeline. Dominic Micklewright, dean of academic partnerships at the University of Essex, believes mixed reality teaching and learning environments (MiRTLEs) – which enable online students to enter a real face-to-face lecture virtually – will become an increasingly popular facet of online degrees. "The online student can view the lecture, lecturer and other face-to-face students from a first-person perspective via a webcam. In the lecture hall, distance-learning students will appear either as an avatar or as themselves – via their webcam – on a large screen that the face-to-face students and the lecturer can see."
Support and success
The right support is a huge part of successful online learning. Coventry University has partnered up with US firm PlattForm to launch two new online degrees – a BA (Hons) in management and leadership and a BA (Hons) in management and professional accounting. Each student will be assigned a student success adviser to provide telephone and online pastoral support.
"The student success advisers will play a huge part in creating a more personal experience, and providing the right kind of support when it's needed, so no-one feels on their own," says Anmoal Thethi, online degree development specialist at PlattForm in the UK. "The advisors have been recruited on the basis of their knowledge of the HE experience, to empathise and be supportive and motivational."
And you don't even have to be in the UK to study for a UK qualification. University of Derby Online Learning (Udol) currently has around 3,000 students from around the world, studying subjects ranging from business to counselling and psychotherapy. "Because the learning materials are accessible via the web using the student portal, and the virtual learning environment, time zones become irrelevant," says Stone.
"Any virtual lectures or sessions are captured and made available for those who were unable to attend, and for those who could attend but would like to revisit it. All study group discussion and debates are done via online discussion boards and forums that can be accessed at any time," she adds.
Technology has enabled students to enrol at any university in the world, without needing to move there, she adds: "Geography and time differences just add to the global study experience – as do cultural differences. Delivered well, online learning can be a highly interactive, rich, stimulating and rewarding experience."
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![Voyager Hooks](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larapack/voyager-hooks/master/logo.png)

Made with ❤ by [Mark Topper](https://marktopper.com)

# Voyager Hooks

[Hooks](https://github.com/larapack/hooks) system integrated into [Voyager](https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager).

# Installation

Install using composer:

```
composer require larapack/voyager-hooks
```

Then add the service provider to the configuration (optional on Laravel 5.5+):

```php
'providers' => [
    Larapack\VoyagerHooks\VoyagerHooksServiceProvider::class,
],
```

In order for Voyager to automatically check for updates of hooks, add the following to your console kernel:

```php
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('hook:check')->sundays()->at('03:00');
}
```

That's it! You can now visit your Voyager admin panel and see a new menu item called `Hooks` have been added.

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Why Northern Ireland should say Yes to the Alternative Vote
Stephen Glenn on April 21, 2011, 2:12 pm31 Comments | Readers 16
Is it right that only three of Northern Ireland's 18 MPs had the backing of over 50% of those who voted last May? Or right that another three had only one in three people vote for them? That is the situation that Northern Ireland found itself in last May after the only election that we place an X on our ballots rather than ranking our candidates by order of preference.
On Monday the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) released a report which stated that the Alternative Vote (AV) was superior to First Past the Post (FPTP) as a system for electing our MPs to Westminster. Saying it suited the electoral conditions prevalent today, particulary the shift to multi-party politics. Of course here we've had greater variety in our political parties for a lot longer than the rest of the UK. As a result we've been elected our councillors and representatives to devolved bodies by ranking them 1,2,3 etc and not with a single X for a long time.
AV will also lead to more competitive elections according to the findings. It means that the contenders will have to reach out to more of the communities in the area that they wish to represent in order to gain the 50% of the valid votes needed to secure their seat. We've seen a little of that here in recent weeks as some of the parties have attempted to reach out beyond the old divides in the run up to the Assembly elections.
On Monday Ed Miliband said:
"There is no motivation under [the First Past the Post] system for parties to go into elections pretending anything other than that they hate each other equally. No reason to find points of common ground; just to disagree. To secure a majority of votes under AV, candidates will need to be more honest about points of agreement. So a Yes vote is a vote for hope for a better politics; more accountable, fairer with a changed political culture."
This is as true here in Northern Ireland, our politicians talk about a shared future, this way we'll know what ideas and ideals they share. Of course with AV we're not going to have everybody agreeing with everything all the other parties put forward, but we'll hear more of where they agree. Over the past few months I've met many people from all across the political spectrum here in Northern Ireland who agree that AV is the next step we need to take for a difference at Westminster and how the people can hold their MPs accountable.
There is also the end of having to vote to keep out what you don't want and the ability to vote for what you believe and who closest reflects that. Some here also see that will lead to an end of political pacts between parties. A growing number of people are less tied down to one party but are drawn to the party or parties that closest reflect their own position. We've become promiscuous in our voting intentions and that is why the alternative vote is more suited to the needs of the voters. People no longer see politics as "them or us" we want our politicians to reflect us and know we have a range to choose from, it's why some politicians are scared of giving that power to ordinary people, they feel they will lose control of their own destiny.
The reasons for voting Yes on 5th May are because it empowers the voter not the politician or political machine. It puts you, the voter, in control.
Stephen is currently the Northern Ireland Organiser, based in Belfast, for Yes to Fairer Votes the team campaigning for the yes vote on 5th May. He will also be speaking tonight at the Belfast Skeptics debate on the referendum
Stephen Glenn
A long time a Lib Dem activist, blogger and candidate in Scotland and before returning and continuing to be so in Northern Ireland since August 2010.
stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com
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Twitter Doesn't Want to Be Twitter
By Brian Feldman
The Twitter egg — the iconic, simple white ovoid against a flat color background that is the default avatar image for all new users — is an easy marker of someone that you should ignore on Twitter. Because anyone who hasn't uploaded a profile picture gets the egg by default, whenever you saw an egg, you'd know that whoever was talking to you (or yelling at you) was new to Twitter, hiding their identity, technologically illiterate to the point where they didn't know how to change their profile photo, or all of the above. It got to the point where "Twitter egg" became a derogatory phrase. If you want to try and debate someone in bad faith, find your nearest egg.
Twitter is now ditching the egg. Instead, you'll see a nondescript, gray silhouette on any account that hasn't uploaded a profile pic. It's fine? Unlike the colorful eggs, the new image is meant to be "generic, universal, serious, inclusive, unbranded, and temporary," product designer Jeremy Reiss told Fast Company. Users are supposed to want to change it.
One could see Twitter's ditching its toxic branding as a surface-level fix for its harassment problems, but the move comes weeks after the service (finally) rolled out tools to help curb abuse. Among those options was a filter that screened out newly created accounts, the ones most likely to sport the egg pic; and a filter to just screen anyone sporting the default pic, regardless of how old their account was. So concrete tools dealing with harassment often tied to the avatar already exist, even if the default avatar itself has changed.
Rather, Twitter losing the egg feels more like the company trying its best to abandon the features and symbols of its insular, and sometimes forbidding, culture. The egg announcement comes a day after Twitter ditched the
"at-reply," a defining feature of the service. (To reply to users on Twitter, you used to type the "@" symbol before their display name.) Or rather, it wasn't really ditched so much as it was overhauled and minimized. The @ still exists, but it no longer counts toward character limit, and it's editable like you'd edit the list of people in a group text.
The loss of the at-reply and egg avatar is far from the first signal by Twitter that it would like to move past its reputation as a media-centric, troll-filled, power-user paradise — a year ago, it introduced to great outcry an algorithmically sorted timeline that promoted popular posts, as opposed to one that displayed posts in a strictly chronological manner. Twitter's willingness to part ways with core aspects of its identity has been a long time coming. It has always felt like an all-or-nothing platform: You either fully understood it or had no idea what was going on, and that made it difficult for Twitter to acquire and keep new users. Rather than try to get new users up to speed on how the power users do things, Twitter now appears more inclined to drastically change the formula — possibly because the power users, even as they gripe, know that they'll never leave the service.
But there's something that feels particularly emphatic about the loss of the egg and the @ symbol, which were maybe the two most prominent visual markers of what you might call Twitter culture. Neither change is likely to save or doom Twitter. But future social-media historians looking for ways to divide eras of Twitter could do worse than check March 2017. Twitter — the site once made notorious, intimidating, and amazingly vibrant by eggs, threads, and canoes — is on its way out. Whatever comes next will be named Twitter, but it won't feel like the service its longtime users know.


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Sikh Atrocities monitor
Fake News Monitor
Kabul gurdwara attack
Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib, Shor Bazaar, Kabul, Afghanistan
Abu Khalid al-Hindi
On 25 March 2020, suicide bombers and assailants armed with guns attacked the Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib (a Sikh shrine) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
About 200 worshipers were reported to have been in the building, in which 25 Sikh worshippers were killed and leaving at least 8 wounded after an hour-long siege which ended in all assailants being killed by responding security forces. At least one child was said to have been among people who were killed, according to the ministry of interior's statement.
The Islamic extremist and militant organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility. The gunman was identified as Abu Khalid al-Hindi, an Indian citizen from Kerala.
Attack:
The attacks started in the gurdwara's sanctuary area where 200 worshipers were praying at about 7:45 am interrupting worship that started an hour earlier. The attackers threw grenades and broke into the shrine then started opening fire on people.[9] Afterwards, the attackers took hostages inside of the building, exchanging fire with security forces till all three attackers were killed and at least 80 hostages freed after a shootout that lasted for 6 hours.After the attack, Afghan and NATO soldiers helped with the clearance operation.
On Thursday, as families of the deceased and members of the community were conveying the bodies to the burial grounds in the Qalacha area in the afternoon, another blast was reported to have gone off remotely, near the crowd.There were no casualties from the blast.
This was not the first such attack on Sikhs; a similar Islamic State attack on Sikhs killed many in Jalalabad in 2018. Gurdwaras have also been damaged previously, such as during the Battle of Jalalabad (1989) and the Afghan Civil War of the 1990s.
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Married sleuths cross paths with married assassins in this "priceless" mystery by the bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series (The New York Times). Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common-until they're hired to do damage control on the same murder. The body of research scientist James Ballantine has been pulled from a storm sewer, with two bullet holes in the back of his head. With the case turning cold, Ballantine's former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed. As for the Hoyts, their mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine's death stay hidden. Now the Abels must try to survive as they circle ever closer to the truth, and to a dangerous pair guarding it with their lives. From "a master of nail-biting suspense" (Los Angeles Times), comes a "propulsive, darkly humorous" (Publishers Weekly) "double-barreled Southern California thriller that moves almost faster than a speeding bullet" (The Wall Street Journal).


You might know that, LightSwitch is now in Beta 2 stage. Microsoft released it few days ago. I have a series of Tutorial on LightSwitch Beta 1 where we discussed on creating database tables using the LightSwitch table designer.
In this tutorial, we will discuss how to attach an existing database table available in your SQL server database. This was also available in Beta 1 release. This time we will discuss with the latest version. Read the full post and at the end leave your feedback.
If you are new to LightSwitch, you may like to read my previous chapters too. You can find them here: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch". Appreciate your feedback.
Once you hit "OK", it will take some time to generate the project.
Let us create a new table called "EmployeeTable" in our SQL Server database. You can use your existing table too. If you don't have SQL Server installed in your PC, you can use the SQLExpress also for working with that.
In our table we have "EmpID" as the Primary key, some strings and one date field. You can see the definition in above screenshot.
Click the link to open the connection Wizard. Alternatively, you can right click on the "Data Sources" folder inside your solution Explorer (as shown below) and from the context menu click "Add Data Source...". This will also do the same trick from you.
Let's click on the link in the Home Page to continue attaching on the external data source.
This will open up the "Attach Data Source Wizard" dialog in the screen.
From the above screen chose "Database" and click "Next". This will open another dialog called "Connection Properties" for you. In this dialog you will be able to configure your database connection settings.
Select the "Server name", "Authentication information" and "Database name" from the dialog. Click "Test Connection" to check whether the connection established. On success click "OK" to continue.
Now, it will start retrieving your database tables for you and show them in the screen.
Select the appropriate table that you want to connect from the above dialog and give you proper name to the DataSource name. For this tutorial, we will use our existing table named "EmployeeTable". Click "Finish" to attach the table with your solution.
Here you will see that, it kept the proper Data Type that we have in our original table. That's all about attaching an existing table in LightSwitch application.
Now open the Solution Explorer. You will see that, it actually created the Data Source named "employeeData" and in that data source we have the table called "EmployeeTable". Hey, all these without writing a single piece of code, as you can see.
If you have come this far, it means that you liked what you are reading (Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application).


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PCMag UK | News & Analysis | News
Google Assistant Is Now Bilingual
By Angela Moscaritolo
30 Aug 2018, 7 p.m.
The virtual assistant can now understand and speak any pair of the following six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. This feature works on Assistant-equipped smart speakers and phones.
Google's virtual assistant is now bilingual.
The Web giant on Thursday announced that Google Assistant can now understand and speak any pair of the following six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
"Family members in bilingual homes often switch back and forth between languages, and now the Assistant can keep up," Google Assistant Vice President of Product Manuel Bronstein wrote in a blog post. "With our advancement in speech recognition, you can now speak two languages interchangeably with the Assistant on smart speakers and phones and the Assistant will respond in kind. This is a first-of-its-kind feature only available on the Assistant."
SEE ALSO: Amazon Echo Show vs. Google Nest Hub: Smart Display Showdown
Besides the six aforementioned languages, Google Assistant is also available on Android phones and tablets in Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Thai. Google plans to expand Assistant's bilingual support to more languages "in the coming months."
Bronstein said the feature is part of a larger effort to make conversations with the Assistant feel "more natural."
Google in May introduced another feature, Continued Conversation, that helps with that goal. Available on Google Home, Home Mini, and Home Max, Continued Conversation lets you ask multiple questions in a row without having to utter the "Hey Google" wake word over and over again. Amazon rolled out a similar feature for its own virtual assistant Alexa, dubbed Follow-Up Mode, in March.
Meanwhile, Google is launching its excellently-rated Home Max smart speaker in three new countries today: the UK, France and Germany. It's already available in the US, Canada, and Australia.
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A high specification luxury penthouse apartment with elevator access situated on the top floor of Mulholland House within Pavillions, a stunning development in the heart of Wimbledon. This stylishly furnished address offers a modern open-plan living area with a Symphony designed "New York" kitchen with fully integrated appliances and direct access to the paved outside wrap around terrace with privacy screen and breathtaking views across the London skyline, master bedroom with en-suite and built-in wardrobes with sliding doors and terrace access, second double bedroom and utility cupboard. The property is fully equipped with both television and Sonos wireless audio throughout with broadband internet included. Sky+ Multiroom to living room and all bedrooms (satellite TV decoder to be purchased separately). Also provision for Virgin Media. Offered furnished from 12 September 2022.
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The temple is located in the city of Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The temple is dedicated to Goddess Meenakshi. It is visited by hundreds of pilgrims.
Explore various parts of the temple.
Shri Meenakshi - Sundreswara Temple is one of the popular tourist attractions in Tamil Nadu. It is an ancient seat of ancient religious learning. Hundreds of tourists and pilgrims come to the Shri Meenakshi - Sundreswara Temple all over the year.
The Shri Meenakshi - Sundresawara Temple in Tamil Nadu is located in the city of Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu. The temple is known for its rich architecture and wonderful carvings. It is dedicated to Goddess Meenakshi. The temple is spread over a vast complex and is surrounded by a sprawling garden with fountains. It is made up of two shrines, around twelve Gopuras, numerous Mandapas and a giant pool.
Ashta Sakthi Mandapa: It is a huge structure and has an impressive hemispherical ceiling. It is around 14 meters in length and has a width of 5.5 meters. The whole mandapa is made up of bas-reliefs. The mandapa is dedicated to the marriage of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Somasundara.
Meenakshi Nayakkar Mandapam: The hall of the temple is around 42.9m long and 33.5m wide. It is constructed out of 110 stone columns, all over which have beautiful carvings of a peculiar animal with a lion's body, and an elephant's head.
Potramaraukulam (Golden Lotus Tank): Potramaraukulam is an ancient tank where hundreds of devotees take bath in the holy waters. The corridors that surround the tanks are known as Chitra Mandapas. They are made of sculpture of the divine sports of the Lord. The area around the tank was a meeting place for the ancient academy of poets.
Tourists can easily come to Madurai by a number of transport options. The city is served by a domestic airport which is well connected with various parts of the country. Well developed rail and road transport is also available between Madurai and other parts of South India and other places across the country.


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Gunmen attack Somali journalist in Mogadishu
AFP October 12, 2014
Soldiers belonging to the African Union Mission in Somalia on patrol on October 6, 2014 (AFP Photo/Tobin Jones)
Mogadishu (AFP) - Gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Somali journalist working for a London-based television channel in an attack outside his home in Mogadishu on Sunday, colleagues said.
Abdirisak Jama, Mogadishu bureau chief for Somali Channel Television, received several bullets to the stomach in the attack carried out around noon by unknown assailants.
"The gunmen escaped the scene after shooting the journalist and he was rushed to hospital for medical care," said his colleague Mohamed Ali. "He is in serious situation," he added.
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) issued a statement condemning the "barbaric" attack it said aimed to undermine the work of journalists in the troubled east African nation, calling for a swift investigation.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for reporters to operate, with at least two killed there so far this year.
Last year at least seven journalists were killed in Somalia according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, and 18 were killed in 2012, the deadliest year on record.
Attacks on journalists are often blamed on Islamist Shebab fighters battling the internationally backed government, but some are also believed to be linked to score-settling within the multiple factions in power.
President Trump's War Power Delusions
PHOTOS: Dozens killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege
A journalist returned to Somalia to tell positive stories—then terrorists killed her
Russian dissident credits McCain with saving his life
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This looks like a great adventure. One question, where are the stats for the Ice Constructs?
I forgot them! Okay, so ... a new version released tonight. I will put the stats on here by 5 pm and update the creatue appendix tonight.


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The burning process produces smoke that affects air pollution. It is anticipated by changing the bulk of the smoke in the combustion process into a liquid.
After the coconut shell is heated on the stove will be formed into briquettes with a briquette cutter. Then the briquettes that have been formed are dried for some time.
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Facebook said it is building a new AI-based search engine called Deep Text to understand better everything users post on its social networking platform.
That makes for a massive venture considering the sheer scale of its social channels. About 400,000 new posts and 125,000 comments on public posts appear every minute, which might make the task of Deep Text seem a bit too daunting. As a result, the intelligent engine is already working towards it and able to deal with thousands of posts and comments each second, that too in 20 languages and with near human-like ability.
Of course, the central idea behind the entire venture is to develop a much better understanding of human behavior and act accordingly. For instance, if Deep Text knows what the user's post is all about, it will be in a much better position to serve it to those who are likely to appreciate it the most.
And for that to happen, Deep Text is endowed with enough intelligence to understand both the meaning and the sentiment of what people share on Facebook. For instance, it must know what a statement like: "I like BlackBerry," actually implies. Whether that applies to the fruit or the smartphone.
Similarly, if Deep Text can decipher a user's post is about selling any commodity, it will automatically reformat the post to not only make it appeal more to prospective buyers but also strive to reach out to those who are on the lookout for such items. Also, of course, details like price and item details will also be added to allow buyers have all they need to make a decision.
Needless to say, Deep Text will have a bigger role to play in Messenger as a better understanding of user text. That, in turn, is also the manner Facebook intends to monetize the messaging platform ultimately without resorting to serving ads directly.
The way it will work is this – user messages like: "I need a ride" will invoke Deep Text to ask the user if he/she would prefer a ride to be arranged with Uber or such services that sign up with Messenger. Also, Deep Text will have to know if the user indeed wants a ride or is just mentioning 'ride' in some other context. In fact, Deep Text's intelligent attributes spawn wider than that as it just can't depend on a single term to guess what the user is actually implying.
Deep Text will have to know the exact scenario when the user is looking for hiring a cab and so on.
Another inherent benefit with Deep Text is that it will allow Facebook to monitor user's activity better and get rid of hate texts or other abusing materials. It will be a more efficient means to accomplish the task as doing the same with human intervention would be more time taking.
Overall, it's an exciting new development Facebook is attempting. However, there are also those who are already voicing privacy concerns with Deep Text. It will be interesting to see how things pan out in the end.


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Q: return to page on which login button was pressed - Laravel 5.2 I am trying to implement a UX guideline: let an user return to location where he clicked /login button.
My idea is to use
       $request->session()->put('get_back_to_here', URL::back());

or put an extra field in the login form  /login, with value URL::back().
My problem

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*where is the logic responsible for processing form - it is not in the Auth/AuthController.php.

*Is there any other way to do this?

*I have the same task with social logins. Should I use a cookie?
I followed this tutorial to implement SUCCESSFULLY the social login functions:
http://goodheads.io/2015/08/24/using-facebook-authentication-for-login-in-laravel-5/
Modyfying the
return redirect()->route('home');
so that it would read a cookie would be simple. But would that be a best practice?

A: The logic should really go to the AppController or at an event listener. I assume It's generic functionality that will be used in many controllers.
From what I understand, you will have a login button in many pages like a header or a footer so you wish to store the place where he clicked at . look at laravel redirects and routing https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/responses#redirecting-controller-actions
https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/routing#accessing-the-current-route
You can use the Route::current() when the login button is pressed to get the current route and store it in the Session. there is nothing wrong with using the session for something like this.
Alternatively, you can bind an event to listen to the login action (look at https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/events#defining-events) and dynamically create a button that appears after login and sticks to the header or footer of your page that upon click will redirect to the Route::current() url that was stored upon login action.
Hope it helps to give you an idea


Okay, so I seriously don't try to copy absolutely everything that others do in their journals, but I do tend to try them. If I think the results are good enough I'll post them. These are a riot. Thanks to johnmill79 for this one. Actually, a couple of these could make some sense. Here goes nothing.
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Here's the video for Clocktower from New York DreamPop outfit Noosa. It comes from their wonderful new album Wonderland. Prepare some some seriously sweet and hazy beat driven ElectroPop.
The video was directed by Jessie Hill and fits the music perfectly. A soft focus, magical journey.
Noosa's Wonderland is out now.


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Retreat House Ministry, Part I
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From the time of the Holy Founder there has been a tradition among us of welcoming laymen to our communities for a few days of spiritual renewals. In each monastery there was a room or two for priests and laymen to make a personal retreat. A record was kept of "Those who made a retreat with us."
During the nineteenth century and right on to the present time a more formalized and organized program of retreats was conducted at our Roman Motherhouse, especially for the clergy and the religious of Rome. Many Roman seminarians made their ordination retreat at Sts. John and Paul. One such American seminarian was William O'Connell. He preserved fond memories of his retreats on the Coelian Hill and later in 1907 as the Archbishop of Boston invited the Passionists to build a monastery in his city and to open its doors for retreats.
The Boston monastery was dedicated in May, 1911. In December of that same year the first retreat for laymen was conducted in this Boston monastery. There is strong evidence that this was the first closed retreat for laymen in the entire United States. This is the beginning of the retreat movement in the American Church and in the two Provinces of American Passionists.
In the very early years of Holy Cross Province our religious were aware of this heritage. The first monastery to be built in the new Province included rooms for retreatants. I have found a small brochure here in the Chicago monastery which was written while the monastery was under construction. In this explanation of the Passionist residence on Harlem Avenue we read:
"The monastery throws open its doors to all who wish to fly from their work or business and spend a few days in the invigorating atmosphere of cloisteral seclusion. This has been made a special feature of the new building at Norwood Park. A number of apartments on the first floor have, been especially arranged and exclusively set aside for the accommodation of gentlemen who wish to spend at times a few days in this Spiritual Eden. To obtain the singular, but priceless boon, the new building is purposely located in the northwestern section of Chicago, practically in the country and yet but a stone's throw from the business center of the city, so that priests, lawyers, judges, men of every avocation in life may be able, without loss of time and incurring great expense, to run out and take a few days rest and spiritual vacation, soothe their weary nerves by inhaling the pure air in the surrounding gardens and meadows, and then having satisfied their spiritual wants, return light-hearted and encouraged to resume their arduous task and wage anew the battle of life. All are welcome and the religious will gladly aid them with an experience so delightful and beneficial that they will long for its frequent repetition."
The Provincial Chapters of both Provinces in 1917 approved the ministry of laymen's retreats in our monasteries. In Holy Cross Province the decree read:
"The Venerable Chapter gives its cordial approval to the excellent work of laymen's retreats in our monasteries."
The decree of the Eastern Province reads:
"The Chapter recommends that all houses of the Province, especially St. Ann's Retreat in Scranton, Pennsylvania, take up the work of laymen's retreats as far as possible."
Commenting on the beginnings of the retreat movement in the Eastern Province Father Gerard Rooney wrote in 1963:
"Though there was some murmuring against this new activity, yet the Province on the whole favored these monastic retreats for laymen, and in 1917, the nineteenth Provincial Chapter ordered its extension to all the houses of the Province" (The Passionist Heritage).
In the early 1920s further steps were made in the development of the retreat movement among Passionists. The Eastern Province opened a separate retreat house at Pittsburgh in 1920. In that same year a meeting was held at Pittsburgh which led to the formation of the Laymen's Retreat League. In 1923 the Provincial Chapter of our Province issued the following statement:
"The Venerable Chapter renews its approval of laymen's retreats in our monasteries, and urges that these retreats be fostered in our various houses where conditions render this possible without interference with the regular observance."
Efforts were, indeed, made to hold such retreats at the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Chicago. It seems that the movement never became truly organized there.
It was on January 19, 1923, that Bishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego wrote to Father Eugene Creegan, the Provincial. Bishop Cantwell offered the Passionists a foundation in his Diocese. Father Eugene responded at once that he and his Consultors were "highly gratified" with the Bishop's offer. In April Father Eugene traveled to Los Angeles to speak to the Bishop and to look over the situation.
From the very beginning Father Eugene had the retreat house movement in mind in accepting the Bishop's request to go to Los Angeles. By November of 1925 a meeting was held at our property in Sierra Madre called "Monte Oliva." This meeting led to the formation of the Laymen's Retreat League. The next summer, in July of 1926, the first laymen's retreat was held at "Monte Oliva" with twenty-five men present. Father Ignatius Conroy was the Retreat Master. This was the famous "Retreat under the Rubber Tree." This rubber tree still stands just north of the kitchen of the monastery.
That very same summer the Provincial Chapter was held. Father Jerome Reutermann was elected Provincial. It seems that he did not share Father Eugene's enthusiasm for the Los Angeles foundation. Matters almost came to a halt in Sierra Madre as the new Curia committed itself to the foundation of a monastery in Detroit.
The Provincial Chapter in 1929 did not re-elect Father Jerome Reutermann, but in his place turned once again to Father Eugene Creegan. The Chronicler of the small community waiting at Sierra Madre wrote as follows:
"To the great joy of the brethren here Fathers Eugene, Denis and Anselm were elected Provincial and Consultors, respectively, at the Provincial Chapter of 1929. After much discussion the capitular Fathers determined, first of all, not to give-up the Sierra Madre foundation as some suggested, and, secondly, to build a monastery as soon as possible."
The Chronicler then continues as he gives the history of the foundation of our first retreat house.
"On February 8, 1930, Father Provincial and his Consultors arrived here to see about making a start on building for laymen's retreats and for the religious. He paid a visit to the Bishop. This was the 12th of February. He at this time requested the Bishop for his permission to start the laymen's retreat Guild. His Lordship in a very gracious way reminded the Provincial that he had waited over five years for us to start the work, but finally felt it should not be postponed any longer, so entrusted the work to the Jesuits some two years previous. The Jesuits had gone to some expense to start and continue these retreats and so the Bishop thought it only just that he should consult Father Sullivan, S.J., the local Superior, and that he would give Father Provincial the verdict a week later. Father Provincial, therefore, paid Bishop Cantwell another visit on the appointed date, February 19, and was delighted to learn that Father Sullivan, far from objecting to our entering the field of laymen's retreats, was very glad to have us share in the work with the Jesuits. The Bishop was very happy over the removal of what may have been the difficulty to our share in the work and encouraged Father Provincial to make an early start in forming a Guild and planning to build."
Action now began in earnest. There was a meeting of interested laymen and the formation of a new league or Guild on February 23, 1930. Father Edmund Walsh was appointed Vicar and instructed to plan for the building. In June, 1931, Father Edmund Walsh was able to negotiate for the Province a loan of $50,000 from the Lafayette-Southside Bank and Trust Company of St. Louis. Mr. William Schiltz, father of our Father Keith Schiltz, of Sierra Madre was engaged as architect and builder. The ground-breaking took place on September 8th. The new monastery and retreat house was dedicated on May 1st of 1932 and Father Eugene Creegan, the Provincial, conducted the first group of retreatants on May 5-7, 1932.
The Mater Dolorosa Retreat House would remain the only retreat house in Holy Cross Province until the end of the Second World War. During those early years the retreats grew and expanded. During a good part of 1943 the part of the monastery reserved for retreatants was taken over by the U.S. Army for convalescing soldiers. When the War was over we realized that a separate retreat house should be built. The story of the new retreat house at Sierra Madre and the opening of our other retreat houses will be related in another jubilee essay.
Very Rev. Roger Mercurio, C. P.
Provincial Superior
Please contact Fr. Rob Carbonneau, C.P. at [email protected] if you have any comments. Permission of Archives needed for publication.
January 16, 1981: "The Touch of the Cross"
January 31, 1981: A Rapid Survey
February 27, 1981: Seventy-five Years of Community Life in Holy Cross Province
March 1981: Seventy-five Years of Passionist Parish Missions
March 24, 1981: Seventy-five Years of Eucharistic Devotions
April 6, 1981: Holy Cross Province Parish Ministries
May 21, 1981: Living Styles in Our Province's History
July 16, 1981: Retreat House Ministry Part I
July 23, 1981: Retreat House Ministry Part II
September 24, 1981: Brothers in Holy Cross Province
October 19, 1981: Dedication to the Founder
November 11, 1981: Beyond the Seas
December 16, 1981: "Merry Christmas" for Seventy-five Years!
January 21, 1982: Hispanic Ministry in Holy Cross Province
February 22, 1982: Among American Blacks


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