Hendrick Motorsports left Bristol Motor Speedway with season-high results for both Jimmie Johnson and Alex Bowman.
Jimmie Johnson, who is facing the longest winless streak of his career, had just one top-ten this season (ninth at Auto Club) going into Bristol.
But the No. 48 returned to form at the concrete half-mile, running as high as second before finishing third to Kyle Larson and race winner Kyle Busch.
"Yeah, definitely a strong race car," he said after the race. "We've been talking about our cars performing better and driving better and creating speed the last three weeks or so, but to finally back it up with a solid finish is exactly what we needed. And to see my teammates with positive comments about their cars the last few weeks and some good results yielding from all of that, we definitely have it rolling in the right direction.
"And specifically on the 48, last weekend there was a lot of excitement with the speed in our car, but we just had some bad luck on track and on pit road and a variety of things that went on. And to really be so buttoned up on race calling, pit stops, what I did in the car, the whole thing, I really feel like we're rolling in the right direction now."
Johnson's teammate Alex Bowman also showed strength throughout the 500-lap race, collecting his first career top-five finish in 89 Cup starts.
And Bowman believes they could have even finished higher, had he been able to find more consistency.
Bowman and Johnson leave Bristol 13th and 17th in the championship standings, respectively. Although William Byron ran up inside the op-ten for part of the race, he fell back towards the conclusion and finished 17th. And Chase Elliott never had much of a chance to show what he could do after getting swept up in a multi-car accident on Lap 3 and finishing 29th.
But regardless, there's no doubt that putting two cars inside the top-five will be a huge confidence booster for Hendrick Motorsports.
"Yeah, I think most situations momentum does carry you up or down," said Johnson. "If things seem to be going wrong, they continue for a while. Sometime it'll turn around, you just don't know when. And I think in most cases, you're right. I have experienced it in my career where we have had different dry spells, and we'll get the car going well, and I'll make a mistake, or the car going well and we have a bad pit stop, or just unlucky, and it takes a little while ‑‑ I can't explain why or how, but it takes a little while to get the momentum rolling in the right direction, and I think today was ‑‑ the last two days was a big step in the right direction for us."


The festival celebrates the awesome mountain rhododendron flower which blossoms abundently in Bhutan. It features the rhododendron garden guided walks and exclusive exhibition of local culture, cuisines,arts and crafts, traditional games, cultural programmes and other activities. The festival also displays different species that are in full bloom in their natural habitat.
The Haa Valley Summer Festval is a lively uplifting celebration of traditional living culture, nomadic lifestyles,unique Bhutanese cuisine,traditional sports and religious performances.It provides unparalleled insight into the lives and traditions of Bhutanese nomadic herders. It showcases nomadic culture,brewing of local ARA ,dances, songs, artifacts and natural alpine flowers. Tourists get the opportunity to experience the night at one of the home stays and enjoy the hospitality of the local people with ARA.


The introduction is an essential part of your dissertation paper. It is the very first part of the paper anyone will read, aside from the abstract. A good introduction makes a good first impression and should lay a strong foundation for what is going to be covered in the rest of the body of your paper.
This first paragraph of your paper sets the scene for your readers, giving them the information they need to navigate through your research and explanations. Start drafting this paragraph at an early stage and have a clear statement of your objectives. Sometimes introductions include a summary of the literature review; seek guidance from your professor to see if this applies to you.
What are you trying to find out? What problem are you addressing?
Of what importance is this issue? Why should this problem be investigated?
What hypothesis have you formed? What do you think is happening?
What are the benefits you think your study will have?
In what way will you contribute to the existing set of knowledge in this area?
How do you plan on investigating the issue and attempting to solve the problem?
What are the research methods you will employ?
What, if any, are the limitations or constraints on this study? For example, did you have a small research sample, etc.
What – this is an explanation of your focus. You would clearly state what your argument is, and specific questions you will be examining.
Why – this explains how your work is original. It is your rationale for doing this research project. Note that you don't need to include your literature review in this section, as a lengthier what and why can be discussed in the literature review chapter.
How – this part explains your methodology and theoretical approach. It is only an introduction to it, because the fuller explanation will be given in the Methodology chapter.
When writing your introduction paragraph, think about each element and if necessary, check them off of a list to ensure you don't miss any essential information.


text:
package authorization

import (
	"fmt"

	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"

	g "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	authorizationv1 "github.com/openshift/api/authorization/v1"
	authorizationv1typedclient "github.com/openshift/client-go/authorization/clientset/versioned/typed/authorization/v1"
	exutil "github.com/openshift/origin/test/extended/util"
)

var _ = g.Describe("[Feature:OpenShiftAuthorization] self-SAR compatibility", func() {
	defer g.GinkgoRecover()
	oc := exutil.NewCLI("bootstrap-policy", exutil.KubeConfigPath())

	g.Context("", func() {
		g.Describe("TestBootstrapPolicySelfSubjectAccessReviews", func() {
			g.It(fmt.Sprintf("should succeed"), func() {
				t := g.GinkgoT()

				valerieName := oc.CreateUser("valerie-").Name
				valerieClientConfig := oc.GetClientConfigForUser(valerieName)

				askCanICreatePolicyBindings := &authorizationv1.LocalSubjectAccessReview{
					Action: authorizationv1.Action{Verb: "create", Resource: "policybindings"},
				}
				subjectAccessReviewTest{
					description:       "can I get a subjectaccessreview on myself even if I have no rights to do it generally",
					localInterface:    authorizationv1typedclient.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).LocalSubjectAccessReviews("openshift"),
					localReview:       askCanICreatePolicyBindings,
					kubeAuthInterface: kubernetes.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).AuthorizationV1(),
					response: authorizationv1.SubjectAccessReviewResponse{
						Allowed:   false,
						Reason:    ``,
						Namespace: "openshift",
					},
				}.run(t)

				askCanClusterAdminsCreateProject := &authorizationv1.LocalSubjectAccessReview{
					GroupsSlice: []string{"system:cluster-admins"},
					Action:      authorizationv1.Action{Verb: "create", Resource: "projects"},
				}
				subjectAccessReviewTest{
					description:       "I shouldn't be allowed to ask whether someone else can perform an action",
					localInterface:    authorizationv1typedclient.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).LocalSubjectAccessReviews("openshift"),
					localReview:       askCanClusterAdminsCreateProject,
					kubeAuthInterface: kubernetes.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).AuthorizationV1(),
					kubeNamespace:     "openshift",
					err:               `localsubjectaccessreviews.authorization.openshift.io is forbidden: User "` + valerieName + `" cannot create resource "localsubjectaccessreviews" in API group "authorization.openshift.io" in the namespace "openshift"`,
					kubeErr:           `localsubjectaccessreviews.authorization.k8s.io is forbidden: User "` + valerieName + `" cannot create resource "localsubjectaccessreviews" in API group "authorization.k8s.io" in the namespace "openshift"`,
				}.run(t)

			})
		})

		g.Describe("TestSelfSubjectAccessReviewsNonExistingNamespace", func() {
			g.It(fmt.Sprintf("should succeed"), func() {
				t := g.GinkgoT()

				valerieName := oc.CreateUser("valerie-").Name
				valerieClientConfig := oc.GetClientConfigForUser(valerieName)

				// ensure that a SAR for a non-exisitng namespace gives a SAR response and not a
				// namespace doesn't exist response from admisison.
				askCanICreatePodsInNonExistingNamespace := &authorizationv1.LocalSubjectAccessReview{
					Action: authorizationv1.Action{Namespace: "foo", Verb: "create", Resource: "pods"},
				}
				subjectAccessReviewTest{
					description:       "ensure SAR for non-existing namespace does not leak namespace info",
					localInterface:    authorizationv1typedclient.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).LocalSubjectAccessReviews("foo"),
					localReview:       askCanICreatePodsInNonExistingNamespace,
					kubeAuthInterface: kubernetes.NewForConfigOrDie(valerieClientConfig).AuthorizationV1(),
					response: authorizationv1.SubjectAccessReviewResponse{
						Allowed:   false,
						Reason:    ``,
						Namespace: "foo",
					},
				}.run(t)
			})
		})
	})
})

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text:
Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas set to marry in royal style
Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Quantico" star Priyanka Chopra and U.S. singer Nick Jonas are to marry this weekend in a two-day ceremony at a venue dubbed India's most opulent royal palace.
Chopra, 36, and 26-year-old Jonas were engaged this year after meeting at an Oscars after-party last year.
The couple arrived with their families in the western Indian heritage city of Jodhpur on Thursday, and headed to the Umaid Bhawan Palace where the wedding will take place.
"People will need vacations after this wedding," Chopra said in an interview with Vogue magazine published on Thursday.
The palace is the home of the Jodhpur royal family, and is believed to be the world's sixth largest private residence. Part of the palace has been converted into a Taj heritage hotel with peacocks roaming 26 acres of landscaped gardens.
A night's stay in the Grand Presidential suite can cost more than 500,000 rupees ($7,168), according to the hotel website.
Details about the wedding have been scarce, but Hollywood actors Dwayne Johnson, Lupita Nyong'o and talk show host Kelly Ripa are among those expected to attend, India media reported.
Vogue said there would be two ceremonies - a traditional Hindu service and a Christian one that would be officiated by Jonas' father.
The groom will be dressed in royal attire and enter the wedding on a horse, a popular tradition in most North Indian weddings, Vogue said.
Chopra, who headlined three seasons of the ABC crime drama "Quantico", is one of Bollywood's biggest female leads with acting credits in several big-ticket films.
Nick and his brothers Kevin and Joe formed a pop-rock band, The Jonas Brothers, in 2005 and soared to fame as members of Disney's stable of teenage stars. The band split up in 2013.
Chopra's engagement and the lead-up to the wedding with Jonas has been covered breathlessly by Indian media.
Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; editing by Darren Schuettler

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Does it seem as if your life has become too busy? Is every moment occupied with details, and, at the end of the day do you still have too many unchecked boxes left on your "to do list"? If so, it is time to slow down and find the place called REST!
More than ever, people are concerned about the growing demands on their time, which is taking an emotional toll on their well being. Statistically, stress is on the rise among children and adolescents. As a nation and as individuals, adults are stressed out about all kinds of things, including relationships, career, finances, family problems, loss of a job, unexpected health problems and a host of other things. Any change only adds to their anxiety.


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A Drowned Sanctuary
Research WorldWorld
· November 1, 2013
By Lily Huang | Staff Writer | SQ Online (2013-14)
When a large hydroelectric dam was constructed near Thailand's wildlife sanctuary, it flooded large areas of the Chiew Larn National Park Rainforest and drowned many species of indigenous wildlife that were unable to swim safely to shore. Once the largest rainforest habitat in Southern Thailand, the park is now submerged by a large lake, with dozens of scattered forested hill tops as small, isolated islands.
Researchers in Dr. David Woodruff's research group from the UCSD Division of Biological Sciences examined the ecological impacts of the fragmentation of the rainforest. They witnessed the near-complete extinction of native small mammal species living in the rainforest fragments. All twelve native species were lost from sixteen patches of rainforest within 25 years of their isolation. The researchers did not expect such a rapid disappearance of these protected rainforest communities.
Researchers studied fragmented forest islands, such as these ones in the Chiew Larn Reservoir in Thailand, to examine the effects of genetic erosion and the ecological impacts of fragmentation | Photo courtesy of Dr. David Woodruff
By examining the small native species in Thailand, humans can learn from the ecological impacts of overpopulation in finite space in order to understand the importance of global sustainability efforts. Competition for living space and land for construction, such as building the hydroelectric dam in place of the rainforest, will rapidly destroy natural habitats and decrease global biodiversity.
Structures like these dams negatively affect human lives as well. Because hydroelectric dams require space to hold the dam water, they take over lands that were once human homes and flood the area.
Dr. Woodruff feared that events like the damming of the Mekong river and the loss of fertile coastal plains due to global sea level rise would cause wildlife and humans alike to lose their homes. Woodruff also feared that drastic environmental changes would potentially create 100 million eco-refugees all competing for limited resources. With his research, Dr. Woodruff emphasized the importance of immediate attention to conservation efforts.
Islands sampled in Chiew Larn Reservoir, Thailand.
The reservoir is surrounded by protected forest areas in Khao Sok National Park to the south and west (shaded dark green) and Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary to the north and east (shaded light green). The 12 islands sampled during all surveys are labeled by island number [in the sense of (19)], and the additional four islands surveyed in more recent surveys are labeled X1 to X4. The dam is located in the lower right corner of the figure. The location of the reservoir in southern Thailand is shown in the regional map inset | Photo by Science Magazine
In the 1990's, Dr. Woodruff pioneered a new approach to genotyping wild animals based on noninvasive DNA sampling. He used these non-invasive DNA sampling techniques to identify and monitor the small native species in Thailand. With these non-invasive techniques, students studied chimpanzee hair, endangered bird feathers, and elephant droppings in Woodruff's lab to rewrite the understanding of the way these species evolved.
Dr. Woodruff initiated the study of local species extinction and genetic erosion in the surviving populations of small mammals on the fragmented rainforest islands. He began monitoring the mammal populations surviving on each island with three former graduate students and a team of international collaborators.
Dr. Woodruff and other conservation biologists used an algorithm model to predict the rate at which the native mammals would go extinct. His team derived an island biogeographic model, which included figures for migration and extinction possibilities. However, what was happening in real life was far worse than what their numbers had predicted. Current extinction rates were two to three times greater than the prediction.
When Dr. Woodruff's research team re-visited the islands in 2011, they discovered that all the native mammals were gone. In their place was an aggressive species of rat that is typically found around villages and not in the undisturbed forest.
There were two contributing factors that led to the extinction of indigenous species. Native mammals suffered the harmful effects of population isolation from dam construction. On top of that, they competed with an aggressive invasive species– the Malayan field rat. While the Malayan field rat adapted well to the new fragmented islands caused by flooding, the native species adapted poorly to the drastic changes.
Dr. Woodruff and his students pioneered the use of noninvasive genotyping to study DNA variation in wild animals based on shed hair, feces, feathers and egg shells. Masters student Carlos Garza demonstrates the two-handed hair sampling method with two orphaned gibbons at a sanctuary in Thailand | Photo courtesy of Dr. David Woodruff
Habitat fragmentation caused by dam construction and invading species has proved to be fatal for native wildlife in Thailand. Indeed, the fight for land resources among species needs human intervention to promote conservation.
"To save wildlife you have to save local people from poverty and their understandable need to use the wildlife and natural resources to feed their families, so we need to protect and manage the largest possible areas," added Woodruff. "Smaller protected areas won't save nature."
Ultimately, Dr. Woodruff would like to see humans and wildlife living harmoniously and argues that mass extinction is avoidable by sustaining nature, which is in our own self-interest. His class on conservation (BIEB 176: Conservation and the Human Predicament), which regularly enrolls to full capacity, further explores sustainability for conservation.
Woodruff said, "Much of what I confront is depressing but insist that students should never give up. I see opportunities for everyone to help society through the great transformation to sustainability this century and, in doing so, [help] save wildlife."
Funding: Funds to support the study were provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National University of Singapore.
Dr. David Woodruff, a professor of biology at UC San Diego, began the studies in 1990.
Dr. Woodruff quotes Dickens, "'It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.' I cannot think of a more exciting time to be a biologist." In the 20 years between surveys, Woodruff has been busy with other projects including studies of the phylogeny of gibbons and the sustainability of collections of animals in zoos. He serves as a Trustee of the San Diego Zoo and is also the Director of the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute which fosters interdisciplinary research and educational activities on campus | Photo by Lily Huang
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Artifacts Stolen From Ethiopia Revives Controversy in Exhibition
by Zelalem May 6, 2018
A manuscript from Maqdala now at the British Library. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS
A new artifacts exhibition that opened April 5 at London's famous Victoria and Albert museum of ancient treasures looted from Ethiopia has revived debate about where such artifacts should reside, highlighting the tensions in putting Western imperialism in Africa and the past to rest.
The exhibit comprises 20 royal and religious artifacts plundered during the Battle of Maqdala in 1868, when a British force laid siege to the mountain fortress of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros.
After their victory, the British force was at liberty to take what it wanted. The scale of the treasures stolen by the army isn't widely known—inside the British Library are hundreds of beautiful Ethiopian manuscripts taken too.
While the argument for returning such artifacts appears strong, and perhaps obvious to most, legal issues surrounding a museum's responsibility as a global custodian, as well as how best to make items available to the public, make the matter more nuanced than it seems.
"Museums have a global responsibility to better understand their collections, to more fully uncover the histories and the stories behind their objects, and to reveal the people and societies that shaped their journeys," says Tristram Hunt, the Victoria and Albert museum's director. "To this end, we want to better reflect on the history of these artifacts in our collection – tracing their origins and then confronting the difficult and complex issues which arise."
The V&A website describes the museum's collection of Ethiopian treasures as an "unsettling reminder of the imperial processes which enabled British museums to acquire the cultural assets of others."
Hence efforts over the years by those like Richard Pankhurst, recognised as arguably the most prolific scholar in the field of Ethiopian studies, who helped found the Association for the Return of the Ethiopian Maqdala Treasures (AFROMET), and focused his efforts on the roughly 350 Maqdala manuscripts that ended up in the British Library.
"It is not widely known what happened," said Pankhurst before his death in 2017. "The soldiers were able to pick the best of the best that Ethiopia had to offer. Most Ethiopians have never seen manuscripts of that quality."
Tewodros had the country scoured for the finest manuscripts and collected in Maqdala for a grand church and library he planned to build.
"They are so lavish as they were made for kings," says Ilana Tahan, lead curator of Hebrew and Christian Orient studies at the British Library, whose staff take their duties of guardianship as seriously as those trying to get the manuscripts returned to Ethiopia.
The front page of one of the Makdala manuscripts given to the British Library, on which is written: Pres. [Presented] by H. M. the Queen [Queen Victoria] 21 Jan. 1869. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS
"It's true that the level of care and quality in Briton is much better than ours, but if you come to the Institute of Ethiopian Studies where we have a few Maqdala items previously returned you can see how well they are kept and made available to the public," says Andreas Eshete, a former president of Addis Ababa University—which houses the institute—and another AFROMET co-founder. "These manuscripts are among the best in the world and one of the oldest examples of indigenous manuscripts in Africa, and they need to be studied carefully by historians here."
Tewodros had actually admired Britain, even hoping they would help develop his country. But a perceived snub when Queen Victoria didn't reply to a letter of his, led to him imprisoning a small group of British diplomats, resulting in General Robert Napier mounting a rescue mission with a force of 32,000.
On Easter Monday, 13 April 1868, with the British victorious in the valleys surrounding his mountaintop redoubt Maqdala and about to launch a final assault, Tewodros bit down on a pistol—a previous present from Queen Victoria—and pulled the trigger.
In Ethiopia today, Tewodros remains revered by many for his unwavering belief in his country's potential, while the looting of Maqdala continues to spur the efforts of AFROMET and others continuing the activism of Richard Pankhurst.
"Though Richard was unsuccessful with the British Library manuscripts, there was the return of a number of crosses, manuscripts from private collections," says his son, Alula Pankhurst, himself a historian and author.
Alula Pankhurst notes that the family of General Napier recently returned a necklace and a parchment scroll to the Institute of Ethiopian Studies.
"My father would have argued that the items should be returned as they were wrongly looted," Alula Pankhurst says. "There is now the technology available to make copies [of the manuscripts] that are indistinguishable from the originals and microfilms mean that copies could be retained."
But such technology is also seen by those at the British Library as a reason why the manuscripts can remain where they are.
"We have both a growing opportunity and growing responsibility to use the potential of digital to increase access for people across the world to the intellectual heritage that we safeguard," says Luisa Mengoni, head of Asian and African collections at the British Library.
One of the items in the V&A exhibit: a gold and gilded copper crown with glass beads, pigment and fabric, made in Ethiopia, 1600-1850. Photo courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The British Library is continuing its efforts to make the manuscripts accessible to the public through new exhibits. And during the next two years the library plans to digitise some 250 manuscripts from the Ethiopian collection, with 25 manuscripts already available online in full for the first time through its Digitised Manuscripts website.
"The artwork suffers when it is digitalised, plus many of the manuscripts have detailed comments in the margins—there are many reasons scholars need to attend to the originals and which are not met by digital copies," Andreas says.
But the return of the manuscripts is actually out of the library's hands. New legislation would have to be passed by the British Parliament for the manuscripts, or any artefacts held in British museums, to be returned.
"While some restitutionists may grumble that the majority of items have not been returned, much has been done to spread knowledge of their existence – and great artistry – to Ethiopian scholars, and to the world at large," says Alexander Herman, assistant director of the Institute of Art and Law, an educational organisation focused on law relating to cultural heritage. "This has been made possible by the willingness of the British Library to invest in this once-overlooked part of its collection."
The complex issue of repatriating looted objects has rumbled on in Europe and the United States for years without much resolution, though now there appears an increasing openness to engage with the issue, both on the part of major Western museums and governments.
President Emmanuel Macron of France said in November that the restoration of African artefacts was a "top priority" for his country, and at a speech in Burkina Faso said that "African heritage can't just be in European private collections and museums."
In the meantime, other options treading a middle ground are beginning to be talked about more openly. Hunt says he is "open to the idea" of a long-term loan of the objects to Ethiopia, a move Alula Pankhurst says "would be a step in the right direction."
But that's still not good enough for others.
"The restitution of Ethiopian property is a matter of respecting Ethiopia's dignity and fundamental rights," says Kidane Alemayehu, one of the founders of the Horn of Africa Peace and Development Center, and executive director of the Global Alliance for Justice: The Ethiopian Cause.
"Looting another country's property and offering it on loan to the rightful owner should evoke the deepest shame on any self-respecting country."
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package ru.dany.physics;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

/**
 * Created by Администратор on 12.06.2017.
 */

public class DiffusionQuest002 extends AppCompatActivity {

    Button buttonOk;
    boolean flagText1 = false;
    boolean flagText2 = false;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
        setContentView(R.layout.typequest002);

        setTitle (MainActivity.selectionTheme);

        //заголовок и высказывание
        TextView textQuest = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.selection);
        TextView textUtterance = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        TextView textNumber1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        TextView textNumber2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);

        textQuest.setText("Вставьте в определение пропущенные слова");
        textUtterance.setText("Диффузия - это явление взаимного (1) молекул одного вещества между молекулами другого вещества за счёт (2) молекул");
        textNumber1.setText("1)");
        textNumber2.setText("2)");

        EditText editText1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
        EditText editText2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);

        editText1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                // Прописываем то, что надо выполнить после изменения текста
                flagText1 = s.toString().equals("ПРОНИКНОВЕНИЯ");
            }
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
            }
            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            }
        });
        editText2.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                // Прописываем то, что надо выполнить после изменения текста
                flagText2 = s.toString().equals("ДВИЖЕНИЯ");
            }
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
            }
            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            }
        });

        //создаем обработчик кнопки
        buttonOk = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_ok);
        View.OnClickListener ok = new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (flagText1 && flagText2) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent(DiffusionQuest002.this, DiffusionQuest003.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
            }
        };
        buttonOk.setOnClickListener(ok);
    }
}


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François Azambourg is one of the leaders of french interior design contemporary movement. Fascinated by the idea of "light as material", he creates suggestive and magic objects using inusual techniques and material both strong and light in the same time. His career began by experimenting with new materials and bags for Hermès, tooking part in Designers' Days, and designing a 'micro restaurant' in Lille in 2004; these projects form the basis of his philosophy: a designer must be able and willing to contradict himself and not be held to his original choice of style. Azambourg holds the object in much higher regard. His projects are a blend of the techniques and style of applied arts: Mr. Bugatti seatings collection, for example, introduces simple metal elements, that become infinitely more interesting for the combining with the internal polyurethane foam and for the "crumpled" manufacture of the surfaces.


A spiritual and thematic companion of sorts to PAN's breathtaking 'Mono No Aware', this excellent artefact from highly promising Berlin/London collective, C.A.N.V.A.S revolves around curious new musics by Object Blue, Ben Vince, Flora Yin-Wong, Ashley Paul, Ausschuss, Xao, Michael Speers and others, a hugely absorbing set that veers from new mutations of ambient-pop thru to electro-acoustic terraforming and expressive minimalism.
The performance collective-turned-label's 4th release surveys a broad range of ideas running the gamut from electro-ambient abstraction to percussive studies and wave songs, all underlined by a mutual, coherent search for novel sounds that question ideas of authorship in a shared pool of codified ideas and techniques.
Where the label's first two releases by project coordinators Olan Monk and Lugh O'Neill established sprawling vectors crossing ambient-pop, Actress-style greyscale iridescence, and dreamily disembodied voices, here they both play into a bigger, more complex picture, highlighting a wide spectrum of subterranean thought and composition within the context of electronic music.
Listeners are encouraged to draw their own links between the disparities; Xao's opening gambit 'Quintal' unfolds a beguiling translation from ghostly mechanical gulls and aerial turbulence to lush ambient and back, while Flora Yin-Wong's 'Murmures' describes an ethereal, chamber-like mutation of traditional Chinese tones, while Michael Speers' wormholing abstraction gives way to Ashley Paul's bittersweet asymmetric ambient pop masterpiece 'Sleep Walker'.
Label cofounders Lugh and Olan Monk are next, respectively, with an Oval-esque glitch meltdown 'Hot Mess', and the curdled minimal wave dirge 'Seph', before Ben Vince's sky-searching beauty 'Fading in Panoramio' holds your breath until the rawly expressive minimalism of object blue's 'Fourteen Boulders, Fifteen Stones.' closes the set with a glassy, uncompromising take on prepared and disfigured percussion.
'Cipher' is one of those rare compilations that exceeds the sum of its parts, focusing on how artists hold their voice within increasingly borderless and shared languages in new music. Those of you looking to discover some of the most interesting tributaries flowing into the contemporary scene right now would be well advised to dive deep into this one.
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Compiled by Reading Islam Team. ''The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Quran untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important "author", in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?" (Maurice Bucaille in his book "The Bible, the Quran and Science", 1978, p. 125.)    …
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"The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Quran untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important "author", in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?" (Maurice Bucaille in his book "The Bible, the Quran and Science", 1978, p. 125.)
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There should be no Nobel Prize in Economic Science, says economist Liam Halligan, because economics is not a science. It was, of course, only added (by the Swedish central bank) some 75 years after Alfred Nobel's death; but recipients get the same grand medal and scroll, get to shake hands with the King, and give a lecture.
Halligan cites this year's award to Eugene Fama and Lars Hansen of Chicago University, and Robert Shiller of Yale, jointly honoured for "laying the foundations for the current understanding of asset prices". Understanding? As Halligan says, "You may be forgiven for thinking that no one truly understands asset prices. The global stock market turmoil of recent years is surely testament to that."
The sad thing is that economists are so keen that their subject should be thought of as a science that they have infused it with many of the tools and approaches of the physical sciences – making it look more like applied mathematics than the study of (decidedly non-mathematical) human beings that it really is. I often say that, through their intense application of mathematics, the mainstream economists of today pride themselves on a more and more precise understanding of things that the rest of us know are complete tosh.
Under all the equations and algorithms, Fama's 'rational markets' idea is quite simple: markets quickly price in all new information. And since information itself can change quickly, the short-term movement of markets can be hard to predict.
"...it obviously makes sense that share prices reflect all available information.... But they also clearly reflect rumours, supposition, herd-instinct, prejudice, hubris, pessimism and a myriad of other immeasurable qualitative factors, including occasional madness...." That's humanity for you. Good luck trying to model that.


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By Catholic News Service National/World News August 1, 2020
Will 2020 be the year that gets young people to polls in bigger numbers?
A volunteer poll site worker at the Edmondson Westside High School polling site in Baltimore sanitizes a write-in ballot station after it was used during a special election in Maryland April 28, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters)
By Betty Araya Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Steven Millies, a scholar who explores the Catholic Church's relationship to politics, feels more optimistic today than he has in a long time about young people in this country voting in a national election.
The reason for his optimism? The young people who continue to protest the May 25 death of George Floyd, an African American, at the hands of white police officers, and demand racial justice. Millies predicts this activism will motivate young people to go to the polls Nov. 3.
"I'm frankly more encouraged than I have been in a long time by what we've seen on the streets in the last six weeks or so, because it's a lot of different kinds of people who have taken to the streets since George Floyd," said Millies, an associate professor of public theology and director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union.
The United States has the lowest voter turnout of youth in the world.
For most national elections in the United States, youth have been underrepresented at the polls ever since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote in 1972, according to an academic paper, "Technology and Politics: Incentives for Youth Participation," by Shanto Iyengar and Simon Jackman of Stanford University.
In 1976, one of the first elections in which 18-year-olds were able to vote, 18- to 24-year-olds made up 18% of all eligible voters in America, but only 13% actually voted — an under-representation of one-third, according to Iyengar and Jackman. In the next election in 1978, youth were underrepresented by 50%. In the 1996 presidential election, the number of young voters was 20%. In 1998, out of the 13% eligible youth voters in America, only 5% voted.
Accordong to Tobi Walker in National Civic Review, the 2004 election was considered a "banner year in the history of youth voting" up to that point, with 47% of American young people casting their ballots. Then came the 2008 U.S. presidential election: Compared to four years earlier, the number of youth voters tripled and even quadrupled in some states.
In the 2016 elections, according to U.S. census data, nearly 36% of 18- to 29-year-olds reported voting, a 16% leap from the turnout in the 2014 midyear elections.
So why should anybody vote anyway? The Catholic Church sees voting as a moral obligation. The U.S. Catholic bishops' quadrennial document "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship" provides guidance to Catholic voters during a presidential election year and advises people they should be guided by their conscience rather than party affiliation.
"You have to deal with this (voting) in the crucible of your conscience and figure out what's the right thing. And the Catholic standing next to you might see it very differently. And that is actually a good picture of what the length and breadth of the tradition tells us," said Millies in an interview with Catholic News Service.
"I think 'Faithful Citizenship' is a good first step because it really sets forth the idea that we all have to weigh these things in good conscience sincerely according to what the faith tells us."
Millies added, "It's not a formation for voting, it's a formation for Christian life, for the world."
Asked whether there is such a thing as a Catholic vote, he debunked the notion, referencing a study done by Pew a year ago. The study broke down data on Catholics from different parties on various issues.
"Statistically, they're identical and so our real preferences are cooked by our lived experience in the world and the same kinds of divisions that plague us in political life plague us in church life because we live in the world," said Millies, who also is the author of the book "Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters' Road from Roe to Trump," which looks at voting patterns of Catholics over the past 50 years.
Jo Renee Formicola, professor of political science at Seton Hall University, said: "We're all human beings and we all weigh things in different ways. We all have a conscience that's informed in a different way."
"Faithful Citizenship" says it's important for Catholics "to see beyond party politics, to analyze campaign rhetoric critically, and to choose their political leaders according to principle, not party affiliation or mere self-interest."
Formicola urged avoiding politician's rhetoric, which she said is a tool they all use to develop their brand but is a simplistic way to decide how to vote.
"They (politicians) try to show why it is they're totally unique; why they're the only ones who can solve a particular problem or a particular issue. And so, a lot of them do it rhetorically. They try to do it with simple words in a simple way," Formicola told CNS.
"But politics is very nuanced. You know, no issue is simply binary," she said, using as an example the current debate over policing in the country.
"That's not a binary decision where we completely defund all police and get rid of police departments. Or that we completely and totally support everything that the police do and their unions. This is a very nuanced question, which we may have to come to the center and say well, it's not one or the other. It might be something in between, like reform," she said.
To consider the complexity of political issues and confidently vote, Formicola suggested further educating oneself. "The choice is always yours. But the choice really has to be an informed choice, one in which you understand the legal implications of what you're doing and then the other one in which you have to understand the moral implications of what you're doing," she said.
Formicola criticized the media, stating that headlines are "not as critical as knowing where these people stand on issues that are really going to impact you and your family and the society in which you live."
"I think I would always argue for 'Go out. Learn what's going on, talk to different people.' Don't live in an echo chamber. Don't get on social media and just talk to the same kind of people over and over and over and over. You have to expand your mind and know what's going on," said Formicola.
She said she urges her students to consider their Catholicism, the same thing she said the bishops have asked. "I think every individual has an obligation to express their values. And if your values are Catholic values, you should not discount them or treat them as anything less important."
"And that's one of the things that I teach when I teach Catholics in the political process. I try to just make students aware of the fact that Catholics do have a role to play," she said. "They have a specific value system. And if they want to advance that value system, then they have to do it through the political process."
Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service who is executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, echoed that view, saying, "Voting is the way we express our values. It's how we hire the people who lead our country, and it's an integral part of Catholic social teaching."
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Search engine reputation management has to do with the monitoring of online information that goes public about a company. For company-owned websites, it is easier to control the kind of content the company puts up to engage its visitors or customer. But for secondary review platforms that mostly reveal customer's perception of a company or product, it is quite difficult to control what happens there. The good news is that with SERM companies can not only monitor public online information about them but also control negative reviews or impressions about them. Negative reviews can either be as a result of poor services by the company or a tactic from its competitors. Your company can either politely ask the poster of the negative review to kindly take it down or directly engage the SERM.
"Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM) refers to constant monitoring and influencing of the overall public impression that a company has online."
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The Importance of Music in Hawaiian History
Posted by Tiffany Winn · November 11, 2021
Hawaiian music is rooted in deeply religious and cultural ties and includes chanting and dance music. It was initially created as a form of storytelling to depict and remember Hawaiian history. Traditional songs were written about mythology, influential people, and important deeds in their community, in addition to accompanying games, festivals, and other forms of entertainment.
For a culture so beautifully involved in music, the Hawaiian language does not have a word that directly translates to "music." Instead, they have an array of words in their vocabulary that describe rhythm, instruments, dance, and vocal styles.
Mele: A Piece of Hawaiian History
Mele is the closest word the Hawaiian language has to music. It is a multi-functioning term that refers to poetic expression, chants, and songs. Mele is broken up into two distinct categories for chanting and dance music.
Mele Oli
Typically performed by one individual who chants without any musical instruments.
Mele Hula
Poems and songs were specifically written to be performed alongside dancers. Mele Hula is known for using musical instruments and their rhythms that guide the dancers.
Traditional Hawaiian Instruments
With mele being central to preserving Hawaiian history, musical devices are equally instrumental in developing and maintaining this art form. Thus, traditional Hawaiian musical instruments, in addition to modified instruments from visitors throughout Hawaiian history, play an essential role in Hawaiian culture.
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Hula Drum
The Hawaiian word Pahu translates to "drum" in English. With the literal translation of "Hula Drum," it is easy to see why this is the most crucial instrument accompanying the hula dance. It was also named the official traditional instrument of the state of Hawaii.
The Pahu has a tapered wooden body typically made of coconut tree stumps or other native wood and a masterfully carved base. The top portion of the drum is covered in sharkskin that has been stretched using rope for a tight seal. Modern pahu covers are made from cowhide.
Invisible Strings
The only string instrument indigenous to Hawaii is also the most widely distributed Oceanic string instrument. The ukeke, not to be confused with the ukulele, is a mouth bow instrument constructed from a thin piece of bent Koa wood and two to three strings. Koa wood is native to Hawaii and is greatly revered and considered sacred throughout Hawaiian history.
The Ukeke is primarily used between lovers. The instrument strings are strummed while the musician quietly chants a private love song into the mouthpiece, allowing those in love to have private conversations in public places.
It is widely used in love-making between married couples. However, since the instrument is quiet enough to maintain discretion but strong enough to be heard through walls or grass houses, it is also popular with those having illicit affairs.
The Hawaiian idiophone is made of a bamboo tube with all but the bottom internal node removed, measuring between .3 and 1 meter long. It is played by smacking it against a mat or the ground. The length of the bamboo tube determines if the dancer is standing or sitting while playing.
Hula Kâ`eke `eke dancers typically have two Kâ`eke `eke of different lengths. The skill and focus required to create the beat using the Kâ`eke `eke, dance to the rhythm, and chant simultaneously are unmatched.
Throughout Hawaiian history, the Kâ`eke `eke has been used to tell stories through mele. Many factors determine the sound quality of the Kâ`eke `eke bamboo tubes, including the length, diameter, thickness, environmental conditions, and age.
Dancing Flea
One of the most widely known Hawaiian instruments is not a native Hawaiian instrument at all. The ukulele was brought to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants in the late 1800s.
According to Hawaiian history, the small guitars were given the name ukulele after watching how quickly the Portuguese musicians skipped their fingers across the strings. The name ukulele comes from the Hawaiian words "uku (flea)" and "lele (jump)."
In 2015, Hawaii appointed the ukulele as the official state modern musical instrument. In addition to their popularity in modern times and throughout Hawaiian history, the ukulele is highly sought after in countries worldwide. Some of the highest quality ukuleles are still made in Hawaii.
Steel & Slack Key Guitar
Two guitar variations that Hawaiians have made famous within multiple genres of music are the Slack Key and Steel Guitar. Guitars were first introduced to Hawaiians by Mexican cowboys, who were brought over to ranch the ever-increasing cattle population that native Hawaiians were forbidden to kill. The Hawaiian people took the guitar design from their Mexican visitors and adapted it to suit their style of music.
Steel Guitar:
While it looks like a standard guitar, the steel guitar is played while laying flat either on a table or across the musician's lap. Holding the guitar in this manner is referred to as "Hawaiian Style."
Steel bars are placed on the fingers and are then used to pluck the strings, while steel tone bars are held in hand and give the musician the ability to slide or turn the bar to play strings you would ordinarily not be able to reach.
Slack Key Guitar:
This guitar style is given its name because Hawaiian musicians literally loosened the strings on the initial Mexican guitars. They were said not to have liked the guitar's tuning and chose to loosen the strings to give a more robust sound.
In addition to adjusting the strings on the instrument, they realized plucking the strings instead of using a flat pick provided a more authentic Hawaiian sound. The slack key guitar is held upright in the more traditional guitar style.
Traditional Instruments, Timeless Music
When picturing Hawaii, it's natural to associate the islands and the people with music and dance. It is such an integral part of their culture and what it represents. However, the most fascinating aspect of Hawaiian history, specifically regarding music, is the ability and desire to maintain their traditional chants, dances, and instruments while also mastering instruments' reinvention to make them uniquely their own.


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In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 5, 2019
by Mongabay.com on 5 April 2019
There are many important conservation and environmental stories Mongabay isn't able to cover.
Here's a digest of some of the significant developments from the week.
If you think we've missed something, feel free to add it in the comments.
Mongabay does not vet the news sources below, nor does the inclusion of a story on this list imply an endorsement of its content.
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Authorities have intercepted $52 million worth of pangolin scales en route from Nigeria to Vietnam (Environews Nigeria) …
… In Vietnam, meanwhile, customs officials have confiscated 9 metric tons (10 tons) of ivory from the Republic of Congo (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project).
Brazil launches a program to fight deforestation based on a rural property registry, the CAR, despite the small likelihood that it will be completed in 2019 (Reuters).
Cameroonian minister calls for "open war" on poachers (Afrik21).
Recent research questions the benefits of community forests to the people who depend on them (CIFOR Forests News).
Timber harvests, farming and ranching have led to a loss of 40 percent of rainforests in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula (The Yucatan Times).
Food consumption by European Union member countries drives deforestation-related carbon emissions (European Scientist).
Indonesia's Komodo Island will close to visitors throughout 2020 after a spate of Komodo dragon poaching (The Washington Post).
Local indigenous groups on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island sign on to a forest protection agreement (Radio New Zealand).
Palm oil companies plan to plant 1 million trees in northern Malaysian Borneo (Free Malaysia).
Scientists have found and measured the tallest tree on record in the tropics. located in Malaysian Borneo (National Geographic).
Conservation groups say that "animal genocide" is emptying Vietnam's forests (The New York Times).
President Donald Trump has approved a new order to allow the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline (The Washington Post) …
… But cannot lift the ban on oil drilling leases, a judge says (Smithsonian, CNN, The New York Times).
Canada is getting hotter twice as fast as the average for the rest of the world (CBC News).
Scientists charged with spying in Iran are still in danger of not getting a fair trial, observers say (Nature, The Atlantic).
The Zika and West Nile viruses could become more common in a warmer world (Pacific Standard).
A new treaty would protect the high seas (Science Magazine).
The more than 1,000 mutilated dolphins that have washed up on French beaches in 2019 could be a sign of a much larger problem (The Guardian).
Russia is opening a "whale jail" to free some 100 whales (The New York Times).
Humans are closing in the Serengeti, one of the world's most iconic landscapes (Futurity/Pennsylvania State University, All Africa).
Royal Dutch Shell quit the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, an industry group, over its position on climate change (The Washington Post).
Scientists say that climate change's assault on the Great Barrier Reef continues (The New York Times, The Washington Post).
Netflix released a new documentary series examining human impacts on "our planet" (The Atlantic).
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Días de ceniza es el tercer álbum de estudio de la banda española de power metal Nocturnia.

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 Días de ceniza.
 De sol a sol (con Tete Novoa).
 Llantos de fuego.
 Sed de ambición.
 Dentro de mí.
 Renacer.
 La caja de música.
 Voces del viento.
 Lágrimas del corazón.
 The music box (canción extra).

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