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Carlos Coste Sets Two Records During Bonaire Deepsea Challenge
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Carlos Coste set a new Continental South American record of 69m in the purest freediving discipline of Constant No Fins (CNF) in a time of 3m and 33s. Four days later, the Venezuelan broke his own Guinness World Record by diving to 177m, the longest distance freedive in open waters with one breath.
Organized by the Deepsea Freediving School, September 2-10, the second Bonaire Deepsea Challenge was a success on many levels. Eight days of competition culminated in one world record, two continental records, seven national records, two Guinness record attempts and countless personal best dives. The competition comprised four freediving disciplines spanning six official diving days and took place just 500m from shore in the beautiful blue and deep waters off the Van der Valk Plaza Beach Resort – one of the competitions key sponsors.
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The Guinness World Record attempts were of considerable interest. Spectators lined the finger piers of downtown Kralendijk while Coste and Marina Kazankova of Russia prepared for their momentous dives. Marina impressed onlookers with a 154m dive in a mermaid tail. The dives were dedicated to the conservation of Bonaire's pristine waters.
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Both divers' records were confirmed by AIDA judges Kimmo Lahtinen, from Finland, assisted by Belgium's Marie Martinez. The Venezuelan-American journalist Casto Ocando confirmed the records as a witness. The final certification was conducted by notary Kenneth Arends from Bonaire. The records were referred to London for approval by the Guinness Record Board.
The event marks the first time an international freediving competition has been filmed using a 360° format both on the surface and underwater. The filming was carried out by 360 hub producers led by Dave Faires and Tom Boyd and can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/Bcyk-froEh4
Although only in its second year, the competition was attended by some of the world's most elite athletes including three world record holders and, of course, the co-founder of the Deepsea Challenge and eleven times world record holder Carlos Coste.
There were many notable performances in the competition. Jeanine Grasmeijer of the Netherlands broke the AIDA (International Association for the Development of Apnea) Free Immersion (FIM) record taking it to 92m. Carolina Schrappe of Brazil opened the event by plunging to 95m on a Variable Weight (VWT) dive. VWT means that Schrappe used a sled to drag her down to depth and then ascended under her own power.
Alfredo Roen from Tenerife, Spain surpassed his own national record by reaching 102m in Constant Weight to win his division, while American freediver Ashley Chapman set two national records for the USA of 84m in Constant Weight and Free Immersion winning the competition as the most distinguished athlete in four disciplines.
Alex Alvarado, the first Puerto Rican to compete internationally in this sport, achieved three national records: Static Apnea, with 5m 29s under water; and 50 meters deep in Free Immersion and Constant Weight. Frenchman Aurore Asso created a new national record of 54m in constant no fins.
Deepsea challenge Bonaire 2016 was organized by Gaby Contreras, wife and manager of Carlos Coste and was made possible by a large group of private companies and sponsors. Plans for next year include more involvement for spectators and live video feeds of the event.
American freediver Ashley Chapman set two national records. Photo: Gaby Coste
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For more information about the Deepsea Challenge, visit: deepseabonaire.com/deepsea-challenge-2016/
The International Association for the Development of Apnea, AIDA, is the international sanctioning body for freediving, individual and team competitions, and freediving world record attempts. aidainternational.org
To learn more about Freediving Disciplines, go to: deeperblue.com/freediving-disciplines-explained
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Q: How do I ensure D3 finishes loading several CSVs before javascript runs? I'm loading a CSV of a list of other CSV files into javascript using D3.
When I run the following code, the employees array is still empty by the time it gets to it in the code. Is there a correct way to ensure that D3 finishes loading the data before the javascript continues?
var employees = [];

//Retrieve the file list of all the csvs in the data directory, then run a callback on them
function retrieveList(url,callback) {
    d3.csv(url,function(data) {
        callback(data);
    })
}

//Parse a file list, and then update the employee array with the data within
function parseList(filenames){
    filenames.forEach(function(d) {
        d3.csv(d.filename,function(data) {
            data.forEach(function(d) employees.push(d.name));
        }
    }
}

//Run this code
var filenamesUrl = "http://.../filenames.csv"
retrieveList(filenamesUrl, parseList);

console.log(employees); //This logs "[]"

If I load the page in Chrome, when I go into console and log employees, sure enough it returns the array filled with names. How can I make that the case by the time I run console.log(employees) on the last line?

A: You could use queue.js to collect the results from all the d3.csv calls:
function parseList(filenames){
  var q = queue();
  filenames.forEach(function(d) {
    //add your csv call to the queue
    q.defer(function(callback) {
      d3.csv(d.filename,function(res) { callback(null, res) });
    });
  });

  q.await(restOfCode)
}

function restOfCode(err, results) {
  //results is an array of each of your csv results
  console.log(results)
}

A: Your code seems fine. It's just that you're logging employees before the data is ready. But if you console.log it on the last line of parseList you should have it.

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Q: Complex Rails Active Record query to select record with true result for that day else latest updated else created record for day I am having following important columns in a table,

*

*customer_approval (boolean)

*created_at (datetime)

*updated_at (datetime)
There is a possibility that multiple records might be present for the day. One these records for a day might have customer_approval marked as TRUE.
How can we write a query to get result set as follows:

*

*select only one record per day even if multiple are present for that day

*First preference for selection of record must be given to record where customer_approval is true

*If records don't fit in the above criteria select the latest entry which was created or updated based on created_at or updated_at column for that day

*Select all the records based on a date range (From date - To Date) when they were created.

Also adding an example:
Table Data
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+
| row_id | customer_approval | created_at | updated_at |
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+
|      1 | TRUE              | 2017-12-01 | 2017-12-01 |
|      2 | FALSE             | 2017-12-01 | 2017-12-01 |
|      3 | NIL               | 2017-12-01 | 2017-12-01 |
|      4 | NIL               | 2017-12-02 | 2017-12-02 |
|      5 | FALSE             | 2017-12-03 | 2017-12-03 |
|      6 | NIL               | 2017-12-03 | 2017-12-03 |
|      7 | NIL               | 2017-12-04 | 2017-12-05 |
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+

Expected ResultSet for Date Range 2017-12-01 & 2017-12-05 :
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+
| row_id | customer_approval | created_at | updated_at |
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+
|      1 | TRUE              | 2017-12-01 | 2017-12-01 |
|      4 | NIL               | 2017-12-02 | 2017-12-02 |
|      6 | NIL               | 2017-12-03 | 2017-12-03 |
|      7 | NIL               | 2017-12-04 | 2017-12-05 |
+--------+-------------------+------------+------------+

Thanks in advance.
P.S. Sorry about the poor table formatting.

A: Postgresql query
SELECT DISTINCT ON (created_at) row_id, customer_approval, created_at
FROM the_table
ORDER BY customer_approval DESC, created_at DESC;

In rails
TheTable.select("DISTINCT ON (created_at) row_id, customer_approval, created_at")
        .order(customer_approval: :desc, created_at: :desc )

A: I know it's not perfect, and you should think about exceptions.
Model
class Customer < ApplicationRecord

  scope :approval, -> { where customer_approval: true }
  scope :waiting, -> { where customer_approval: nil }

  scope :for_day, ->(date) {
    where(
      arel_table[:created_at].eq(date)
      .or(arel_table[:updated_at].eq(date))
    )
  }

  def self.last_change
    order(created_at: :desc, updated_at: :desc).first
  end
end

Controller
def fetch_customers(first, last)
  result = []

  first.upto(last) do |date|
    customer = Customer.for_day(date).approval.first
    customer ? (result << customer) : (result << Customer.for_day(date).waiting.last_change)
  end

  result
end

# first = Date.parse('2017-12-01')
# last = Date.parse('2017-12-05')
# fetch_customer(first, last)

P.s. Hope your rails version 4+ (for Arel table)


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Secret Invasion: Runaways / Young Avengers #2
If you don't know the full story behind the Skrull invasion by now, just walk away because you're hopelessly behind and this book isn't going to make a lot of sense to you. With that said, the angle Runaways & Young Avengers takes on this big event is both pertinent and unique. More than just a random tie-in that spotlights unrelated heroes, their brawls with the bad guys and a miniscule part of the story, both of these youthful squads actually count a green-blooded Skrull among their ranks. The Young Avengers' Hulkling and the Runaways' Xavin, each localized former members of the Skrull empire, were caught off-guard by the sudden, jarring assault of their brethren. Now, they find themselves caught between the invading power of their own flesh n' blood and the resisting force of their longtime friends and teammates.
After just a single issue, Chris Yost has dropped both teams into the heart of the conflict, given them an original say in the proceedings, and put the whole ordeal into perspective. He never misses an opportunity to remind the reader that children populate both teams, and that kids (even superpowered ones) have a tendency to absolutely freak out when the status quo is thrown into question. The Skrull attack is so sudden, so unexpected, that it's easy to identify with those characters who do lose it during that moment of revelation, and to look up to those who keep it together and take command.
Yost keeps the action moving at a breakneck pace, bouncing to a new conflict as soon as the last is resolved, but that doesn't mean this is purely an action book. While the tempo may be fast and furious, there's enough room for conversation within these pages to keep the reader emotionally involved in the proceedings and retain the distinct personality of both teams. Where Brian Bendis's primary Secret Invasion title is more concerned with what led to this moment, and the diversions involving the big named heroes in the Savage Land, Runaways & Young Avengers is focuses on the here and now, ground zero of the attack. In that way, it reads more like a primary narrative than the main series, which came as quite a surprise.
Artist Takeshi Miyazawa and colorist Christina Strain make a tremendous visual pairing. Miyazawa's clean, animated style is both dramatic and simplistic, while Strain's colors are vibrant, dramatic and perfectly matched to her partner's work. Hidden within a simplistic grid layout, the issue's inhabitants bounce around the page recklessly, but in the end it's an ordered form of chaos. Miyazawa's layouts are fantastic, constantly testing his boundaries with extreme close-ups, daring, effective new angles and a friendly excess of motion. My eye raced down the page, led through the action brilliantly by the fluid motion of this artwork, before bouncing back to the top to further appreciate the power of each composition. The issue's characters are individualized, easy to tell apart, and amazing to see in action. They display little touches of personality not just through wardrobe and facial expression, but also through body language, and Miyazawa magnificently plays up their relatively miniscule size in comparison to the sinister Super Skrulls. It's great work from top to bottom.
While I came in with low expectations, it took all of four pages for this issue to hook me up and reel me in. It's simple, effective storytelling matched with incredible artwork and blow-away colors. Secret Invasion: Runaways & Young Avengers is more than just a side dish, it's an attraction all its own. Buy this up, I had more fun with this issue than I've had with all three episodes of the regular Secret Invasion.
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Another Journalist Says NBC 'Silenced' Her Rape Story
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Journalist Sil Lai Abrams accused NBC News of killing a story about sexual assault allegations she made against two well-known men in 2018.
Abrams wrote about the allegations in an op-ed published Monday by The Daily Beast.
The allegations add to previous reports by investigative journalist Ronan Farrow that NBC News also killed a story about sexual assault allegations against now-disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Journalist Sil Lai Abrams accused NBC News of killing a story about her sexual assault allegations against Russell Simmons and AJ Calloway in 2018 in an op-ed published Monday.
Abrams detailed the allegations in The Daily Beast's op-ed section Monday, writing that music mogul Simmons raped her in 1994 and that former "Extra" host Calloway sexually assaulted her in 2006. Calloway was arrested following the allegation but the case was dismissed, and both men have denied the allegations, according to Insider.
The activist wrote that she spoke to MSNBC's Joy Reid in 2017 about the allegations and an interview was done at the beginning of 2018. The story was then held and Reid told Abrams that the network wanted more vetting and was spooked because of "threats from Russell's lawyer," Abrams wrote.
Over the next several months, NBC put me through an elaborate and bizarre vetting process. I provided legal documentation, hospital bills, and more than a dozen corroborating witnesses. Still, they stonewalled. I asked Joy repeatedly if NBC was going to do to her what it did to Ronan, and she said that she didn't think so. We both agreed that it would reflect very poorly if word got out that the network had suppressed yet another story of alleged sexual assault.
Reid emailed Abrams multiple times, noting that the outlet had more than enough evidence to run the story and that she's "never been through anything like this," according to Abrams' op-ed.
"I just have to get my company to have the guts to do the story," the MSNBC host wrote according to Abrams. "I've never done a story that has this much evidence before. I have more evidence than the LA Times and The New York Times stories combined. So the whole thing is, if my company will trust the evidence that I've shown them, which is substantial, they will do the story."
Joy Reid was allegedly pressured into dropping a story about rape allegations by NBC News. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
Ultimately, NBC killed the story and Reid instructed Abrams to take her story elsewhere after the NBC host began to get ignored from senior management about the report, Abrams wrote.
"Just like that, NBC threw Joy and me under the bus. It killed her story and—at least temporarily—silenced me," Abrams wrote.
The rape allegations were published in The Hollywood Reporter on June 28, 2018 and included Abrams allegations over a cover-up at NBC News.
"Investigative reports like these take time, and not surprisingly, sometimes journalists get frustrated as well," Reid said in a statement from June 2018. "I inappropriately shared that frustration privately with Sil Lai. I completely respect MSNBC's standards and practices. Meticulous research to get the facts right was the only option, especially given the seriousness of the allegations."
NBC News is already under fire after investigative journalist Ronan Farrow accused the network of shutting down his story about sexual misconduct allegations against now-disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Farrow wrote a book titled "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators" that details the alleged cover-ups and attempts to shut down his story, which were also published in The New Yorker on Oct. 10, 2017.
Weinstein allegedly pressured NBC into dropping a story because he knew of former NBC host Matt Lauer's alleged sexual misconduct. (RELATED: Matt Lauer Denies Allegation He Raped Former NBC Staffer)
NBC News has denied Farrow's allegations and hit back at the journalist for his book. Abrams added in the op-ed that she doesn't "believe a word" NBC says because "the network killed my #MeToo story."
"When MSNBC pursues any investigative story our mission is always to be as thorough as we can, to scrutinize sources and corroborate information before we report. Anything else falls short of our journalistic standards," an MSNBC spokesperson previously said in June 2018.
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Is a big weekend on par with bacon? We take a look.
Living among what's arguably ground zero for hedonistic health fanatics, Sydney's Bondi Beach, it's a certain paradoxical double standard I've seen. By day, there's a lot of green smoothie sipping and soft sand running going on, but walk down the street past 10pm and you run smack bang into your Monday night yoga teacher, decked out in an ethically sourced linen slip dress, sniffling with a Colombian cold on her way up the hill to the organic wine bar.
Sure, it's technically vegan, but it certainly poses a moral conundrum: if you care that much about what you put into your body, doesn't snorting cocaine point the compass in a different direction?
Once a fringe movement (adopted solely by those who were home schooled or recently returned from a sabbatical in India), veganism, for numerous reasons spanning health and ethics, is on the rise. The latest figures from Roy Morgan Research reveal 2.25 million Australians aged 18 and over have shunned meat, with those numbers on the up.
But plant-based isn't the only consumption rate on the rise. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports cocaine use has reached a 15-year high, more than doubling since 2004 – from 1% to 2.5% (or around 170,000 to 500,000 people), making it the second most commonly used illicit substance in Australia, after marijuana. Primarily used as a recreational drug, the average price for a gram is around $300 and in 2017, Australia ranked as the most expensive country to buy cocaine. What's more, according to the 2018 European Drug Report, cocaine production is being ramped up in South America – largely due to the west's insatiable appetite.
Apart from the human devastation it causes, farming coca has been linked to escalating deforestation in Colombia – pushing many animals like golden poison frogs and harpy eagles to extinction. Researchers from Ohio State University found cocaine trafficking accounts for between 15% and 30% of annual forest loss in Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua over the past decade with traffickers in the region having to figure out a way to funnel their money into the legal economy, and land clearing – in the form of cattle ranching, agro-industrial plantations, and timber extraction – the preferred way to do it. In turn, many animals have been killed or displaced.
And while doing lines and favouring eggplant over fish are obviously not linked – it's clearly problematic either way. Even though morals are to some degree a pick and mix, can you really claim an ethical gold star for forgoing hamburgers, honey and leather jackets, if you're turning a blind eye to a lifestyle choice so damaging to not only the planet, but your own health?
No, says GP Dr Ginni Mansberg, who says it's hard to label health as a high order value of yours if you're doing recreational drugs.
"Does doing cocaine outweigh the supposed benefit of vegetarianism? Well, no, because they're very different things. But it's very hard to say health is one of your core values if you smoke or drink to excess or do cocaine," Dr Mansberg explains.
Even still, animal welfare organisation PETA says being vegan remains the number one way to keep Captain Planet happy.
"While the part that cocaine plays in deforestation is being argued, it is well known that animal agriculture for meat and dairy products is the leading cause of deforestation and habitat loss. Nearly 40% of the Earth's usable land is taken up by animal agriculture, and the best way to help the environment and end deforestation is to go vegan," a spokesperson for the organisation told whimn.
Bottom line? If you're going to wax lyrical about the damage of palm oil production and consumption, then it's worth cutting down on other activities, that are environmentally and ethically questionable, too.


Two domainer monoliths, Rick Schwartz and Mike Mann, agreed to disagree publicly.
The focus: widgets, and in particular a "joint venture" that apparently did not materialize over the domain Widgets.com.
Rick Schwartz owns the domain, and Mike Mann's references to "widgets" triggered our response, that the matching .com belongs to the Domain King®.
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Caste has killed public spirit. Caste has destroyed the sense of public charity. Caste has made public opinion impossible… Virtue has become caste-ridden and morality has become caste-bound.
Everybody's Issue? Or Nobody's Issue?
The efforts to internationalise the issue of caste-based discrimination against the 260 million Dalits in South Asia and treat it on a par with racial discrimination, which had received a boost in 2001 at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban, suffered a serious setback at the Durban Review Conference held recently (April 20–24, 2009) in Geneva. While in 2001, WCAR had discussed caste euphemistically as "discrimination based on work and descent", in line with terminology devised by the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the outcome document of the Durban Review Conference (DRC) has evaded even an allusion to caste.
More than a month after the Geneva event, there's almost no public debate in India on the issue. Dalits have tried raising the issue of caste with various UN forums for over three decades now. The first effort at lobbying with the UN resulted in Dr Laxmi Berwa, an expatriate Dalit from the United States, presenting a testimony before the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva on 31 August 1982.
· What is shocking has been the near-total absence of any debate in the Indian public sphere about the setback to the fight against caste at the international level.
· Why does caste continue to be an issue raised only by Dalits today? What is the role of civil societal groups in this?
· Why it is that society remains indifferent to atrocities on Dalits—even though every hour two Dalits are assaulted, every day three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered and two Dalit houses burnt?
· Why have NGOs come to dominate the UN interventions on caste? Are social/ political/ activist movements being left behind?
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1. The official Durban Review Conference website.
2. Human Rights Watch on how and why DRC failed on caste. The site also offers extensive background and position papers.
3. International Dalit Solidarity Network website. Offers joint statement by IDSN, HRW and NCDHR; plus a press kit.
4. Caste and the World, S. Anand, The Hindu, May 24, 2009.
5. Caste: Racism in all but name? Shobhan Saxena's Times of India report on DRC, 26 Apr 2009.
6. Caste Out, Yet Again, EPW editorial on Durban Review Conference; May16 2009.
7. Seminar, the monthly journal, devoted an entire issue (Dec 2001) to the Durban WCAR conference of 2001. Features articles by Martin Macwan, Kancha Ilaiah, Gopal Guru, Dipankar Gupta, Soli Sorabjee and others.
8. Race and Caste, Andre Beteille, The Hindu, March 10, 2001. A controversial article that triggered a huge debate.
9. Race and caste: A Response to Andre Beteille by Kalpana Kannabiran, August 2001. Also see this letter to The Hindu.
15. The Durban dip can cleanse a billion sins, ChandraBhan Prasad, Aug 2001.
16. En Route to Durban: Thoughts on Caste and Race, Vijay Parshad, n.d.
20. PUCL's special focus on the 2001 Durban countdown debates..
# On 2 June 2009 at 10:20, by Hervé Fuyet Haïti France Replying to: Internationalising Caste : Everybody's Issue? Or Nobody's Issue?
The cast system is much more perverse and the social discrimination much deeper than Racism. It has to be taken as an independant theme and that has to be accepted.


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This clever device fits over the door handle if anyone touches the external door handle it triggers a 120dB siren.
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The Apprentice: How to apply to be on the show
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The Apprentice has been a staple on our TV screens since 2005, when Lord Sugar put the first load of candidates through their paces – and first uttered those infamous words 'You're fired' in the boardroom.
While contestants originally showed off their business acumen in a bid to win a job with the mogul, these days it's all about winning his backing for their businesses, to the tune of £250,000 investment.
We've seen some memorable characters pass through the boardroom over the years – several of whom have gone on to greater successes with Lord Sugar's help.
But if you've got grand ambitions to be his next business partner, just how do you go about applying for the series?
We've got all the information you need.
How can you apply to be on The Apprentice?
If you want to try your luck on the BBC show we've got good news for you – applications for series 17 of The Apprentice are currently open.
You can find the application form, complete with all the details you need to apply, at the show's official website.
Applicants need to be aged 18 or over and legally entitled to work in the UK without restriction.
As certain tasks may be filmed overseas, you will also need to be fully vaccinated – unless you have a medical exemption – in order to be considered.
The application form involves you answering such questions as 'what's the most interesting thing about you?' and 'why should you be Lord Sugar's next business partner?' as well as uploading a video of yourself.
The closing date for applications is 11:59pm on Friday February 4 2022.
If you make it to the next stage you will be contacted by email by February 19 at the latest to attend either a face-to-face meeting or an online interview.
The next round of interviews will take place either face-to-face in London or online between February 25 and 27, while the final round of the selection process will be held between March 7 and 10.
Those who are successful in making it on to the show will need to be available for a period of up to 13 weeks between March 28 and June 26.
If you apply and have not heard by the end of February, you should assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
The Apprentice is on BBC One on Thursday at 9pm.
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Salem, MA — This summer, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) invites you to roll up your sleeves and participate in a meditative sculptural installation by world-renowned Korean artist, Kimsooja. Archive of Mind transforms the simple, repetitive actions made by thousands of visitors into a monumental, texturally-complex sculpture. Sitting at a large work surface, Kimsooja encourages you to empty your mind of distraction and sink into the essentialized experience of forming a ball of clay with your hands. Over the course of the exhibition, thousands of clay spheres are generated, each revealing the emotional traces and individual signifiers of their makers. Kimsooja: Archive of Mind is on view at PEM from June 22, 2019 through January 19, 2020.
Kimsooja conceived Archive of Mind in 2016 as a conceptual and meditative practice. The repetitive act of rolling clay introduces a polarity between the forces of the participants' palms—transposing their state of mind into matter. Clay is elemental and Kimsooja sees clay as a container, one that holds water and is pliable but once it dries, the clay ends up storing, or containing, the energy its participants created.
Kimsooja was born in 1957 in Taegu, South Korea. She earned a BFA (1980) and MA (1984) from Hong-Ik University, Seoul. Her performances, videos, photography and installations use light, sound, and culturally specific materials to express how various cultures intricately overlap and coexist in society. She has developed many projects that explore the role of weaving in cultures worldwide. She has also drawn on the metaphor of the body as needle and as mirror of its environment to question our lives, world, and the major issues facing our world. Kimsooja's videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices and serial forms. A well-known multidisciplinary conceptual artist, she uses a one-word name, Kimsooja, as it refuses gender identity, marital status, socio-political or cultural, and geographical identity by not separating the family name and the first name. Living and working in New York and Seoul, she has held countless solo exhibitions and has represented Korea at the Venice Biennale.
Under the guidance of curator Trevor Smith, PEM's Present Tense Initiative celebrates the central role that creative expression plays in shaping our world. The Present Tense Initiative engages leading creative agents and thinkers to cultivate innovative experiences fueled by the intersection of cultures, disciplines, and technologies. By encouraging innovation and fostering new forms of creativity, PEM seeks to push the boundaries of what a museum experience can be.
Kimsooja: Archive of Mind was commissioned by the Peabody Essex Museum with the support of Axel Vervoordt Gallery. This exhibition is made possible by the Nancy B. Tieken Memorial Fund and supporters of the Present Tense Initiative, including The Jeffrey P. Beale Fund for Contemporary Art, and Susan and Appy Chandler. Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation, Jennifer and Andrew Borggaard, and Kate and Ford O'Neil provided generous support. We also recognize the generosity of the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, 2017. Photography by Jean-Pierre Gabriel. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio.


On behalf of Law Offices of Richard Mucci posted in Business Litigation on Tuesday, May 5, 2015.
Sometimes businesses must bid on jobs and sign contracts while there is still some level of uncertainty regarding the extent of work that must be performed and how much it will cost. Massachusetts law allows a contractor entering a public contract to ask for an equitable adjustment if the actual conditions are materially or substantially different from what was stated in the plans or contract documents. In a recent case, the Massachusetts Appeals Court decided what happens when a contractor underbids a unit price based on an assumption of the total amount of units involved.
In Celco Construction Corp. v. Town of Avon, the plaintiff contractor had made a successful bid on a water main extension project. In setting its fees for the bid, the contractor set a unit price for excavating and disposing of rock at $.01 per cubic yard. The bid documents listed 1,000 cubic yards as the estimated quantity on that line item, but the amount was marked with an asterisk, indicating that the rock was an "[i]ndeterminate quantity...." According to the opinion, the rate the contractor bid on the line item was less than its cost, but the contractor believed that the estimate on the amount of rock was high and had adjusted other unit prices to make up the difference.
Unfortunately for the contractor, the amount of rock at the site was underestimated by more than 1,500 cubic yards. The contractor asked for an equitable adjustment of the contract fee, requesting that the $.01 per cubic yard be increased to $220, but the town refused. The contractor then sought an equitable adjustment to $190, but the town again refused. The contractor then filed suit, but the trial court granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of the defense. The contractor appealed.
The contractor alleged that it lost productivity as a result of the additional rock and provided specific information regarding the average production with and without rock. The Appeals Court noted, however, that the contractor did not claim that the rock was different from what was in the contract documents or that there was any increase in the actual unit cost to remove it as a result of the additional amount or any concealed condition.
Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 30, Section 39N, public construction contracts have to contain provisions allowing the contractor to seek an equitable adjustment if the subsurface or latent physical conditions are materially or substantially different from what was represented in the plans or contract documents. The appellate court noted that the statute is intended to protect the parties from unknown risks. With this provision, bidders do not have to build a cushion into their bids to protect themselves from unknown conditions leading to greater expense than they could have estimated with the information available at the time of the bid.
The Appeals Court pointed out that the bid documents contained no representation that there were 1,000 cubic yards of rock, but instead specifically stated that there was an indeterminate quantity. There was no evidence that the rock was of a different nature from that described in the bid documents. Furthermore, there was no evidence that the unit cost changed as a result of the increase in rock. The court noted that when the bid is made up of line item unit pricing, there should be no need for an equitable adjustment based solely on the number of units. If the contractor had made a bid representing its actual cost to remove a unit of rock, it would not need to adjust the contract. The contractor chose to make a bid on the price per unit that was not related to actual cost, and the appeals court stated it "defies logic" to adjust the contract price based on equity in those circumstances. The appeals court also found against the plaintiff on the issue of promissory estoppel.
This case shows that, although there may be legitimate business reasons to underbid a particular aspect of a contract, a contractor does so at its own risk. A court will not adjust the price of a contract due to the actual amount when the government entity specifically did not make a representation as to the amount involved. Furthermore, the courts will not adjust the price because the amount involved was underestimated if the bid was based on a unit cost and that cost did not change. Any contractor making a low bid on some aspect of a government contract should be aware that an equitable adjustment may not be available in these circumstances.
If you have a legal issue involving the payment terms of a contract, an experienced Massachusetts business litigation lawyer can help you. Call the Law Offices of Richard Mucci at (781) 729-3999 to discuss your case.


After its third weekend in theaters, The Dark Knight was not only number one again, (a rarity these days,) it now sits at number eight on the top ten all-time domestic box office earners. It's made $393.75 million in seventeen days of release (as of Sunday August 3, 2008), and is currently sitting just below Spider-Man ($403.7 million), and should overtake the web slinger's spot by the time you read this.
A) Batman has always been hot property. For those old enough to remember 1989, the Tim Burton film was a marketing hit, with the movie and merchandising combining for some $plendid returns.
D) Since TDK is hitting all four box office quadrants, (men and women, above and below the age of twenty-five,) it's going to continue to be a hit. Women LOVE this movie, especially those in the coveted 18-34 bracket. My girlfriend Marina's sister, Ericca, has seen it at least three times, (maybe four by now.) She even wears TDK shirts like I wear Iron Man shirts! And if you haven't realized it yet: it's women who tend to drive the box office (cough, Titanic, cough.
Lastly, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and the other stars of TDK are, generally speaking, popular actors. (Not you though, Eric Roberts.) And yes, Heath Ledgers' unfortunate death also comes into play; however I think more audience members are being mesmerized by his amazing performance as the Joker, (Jack who?), and that's the real reason they're returning for second, third, or fourth viewings: they need more Heath.
Internationally, the movie stands at $202.5 million, with more territories for it to open in. It has made nearly $600 million so far, worldwide.
I'll update again in a week or two, as TDK continues plowing through records. There are other films it's beaten out, but I just don't have room to name them all!


Welcome to the special serial killer edition of Good Reads. And we're going to start young. At 15, in fact.
John Wayne Cleaver is a teenager, just diagnosed as a sociopath. The thing is, Cleaver knows what he's destined to become. He stopped publicly slicing up rodents while they were still alive once he found out it was considered gross and disgusting by regular folk.
Cleaver is, you see, trying to learn how to be normal. He doesn't want to turn into a serial killer; he's fighting it, as hard as he can.
I Am Not A Serial Killer (2010) is a fascinating look at an amoral young man who's trying to turn himself into a productive and law-abiding citizen. This novel by Dan Wells is a Young Adult take on the great Dexter television series, as the residents of Cleaver's small town discover that there really is a serial killer in their midst.
Cleaver wants to find out who it is. And Wells tries his darnedest to get us inside Cleaver's head, delivering a fun and entertaining read that will leave you starting at every odd noise coming out of the shadows.
Author Giles Blunt's best-selling Forty Words For Sorrow (2001) introduces a Canuck cop, Detective John Cardinal, a police officer so obsessed with believing that three teenaged runaways have met with foul play that he's been knocked off the homicide squad. Cardinal's boss considers him to be out of control.
Then one of those murdered teen's bodies is discovered, and the game's afoot. But the case now includes a new partner, the francophone Liz Delorme, supposedly transferred out of internal affairs, where she investigated the rogue cops. It's a particularly odd pairing, one that Cardinal, who has a guilty conscience, sees as too much of a coincidence to be ignored.
Nonetheless, there's a serial killer to be found, and Forty Words For Sorrow is a thriller that also introduces us to the murderers — there are two of them — and their difficult-to-stomach joy in the pain and terror of others. The book is filed in the fiction stacks, under the author's name.
Then of course, there's actual murderers. This kind of reality is not funny nor entertaining, but it's certainly interesting. In the book Entering Hades: The Double Life Of A Serial Killer (2007), John Leake pulls together the many strands of the life of Jack Unterweger, a Viennese man who was pardoned for murdering a woman after serving 15 years in jail. Unterweger's writings had gained him literary cachet and convinced many powerful people that he had been rehabilitated.
Soon after his release, however, prostitutes in different cities began to disappear, their decomposing bodies eventually found displayed in ritualistic poses, and all tortured in the same manner.
This true tale follows Unterweger, his friends, and police and prosecutors through the complex investigation. Supporters love Unterweger and cannot accept that he may be guilty; police have a frustrating time digging up solid evidence against a man who spends so much time with police that he seems to know everything they're thinking and doing….
Entering Hades, filed in the true crime section at the back of the library, will leave you wondering until the very end. But can such a book help us truly understand a serial killer? No. And for the sake of everyone else's sanity, that may be a good thing.


The Boston Bruins weren't going to let this game slip away.
The Bruins and Dallas Stars traded early goals in the first period at TD Garden, but neither could add the winning tally in regulation sending the game to overtime. With just 31 seconds remaining in OT, Brad Marchand played the role of hero, potting a goal to seal the 2-1 win Monday night.
Every member of the first line contributed, with David Pastrnak and Marchand scoring while Patrice Bergeron added an assist.
Tuukka Rask made 24 saves, helping the Bruins improve to 8-4-2 on the season, while Dallas fell to 8-5-1.
Radek Faksa gave his team the 1-0 lead in the first with a shorthanded goal after Dallas went down a man due to an interference call.
Faksa made easy work of Torey Krug before letting the puck fly behind from behind the faceoff circle, blistering it past Rask.
Pastrnak did what he does best and scored his 12th goal of the season with the B's still on the power play not even two minutes later. Bergeron passed it off to Pastrnak who finished it off with a one-timer as he was falling to the ice to tie the game 1-1.
Despite not scoring in the middle period, Boston certainly had plenty of opportunities. Krug and Noel Acciari were victims of the goal post, while the referees blew an early whistle on a Bruins rush to the net, calling the play dead after they thought Anton Khudobin had control of a loose puck. The call eliminated what would have been an Anders Bjork go-ahead goal.
The Bruins dominated the Stars throughout the period despite being outshot 9-8.
Despite a hard-fought third period by both teams, the game would need overtime to decide the winner. Each team had solid scoring chances, including a giveaway by Rask with just under seven minutes remaining. But the goalie denied the Stars to keep the game tied.
It was a nail-biting overtime, with both teams exchanging scoring chances.
The Bruins went on the power play after the Stars were whistled for too many men on the ice with just 1:44 left in the sudden-death overtime. But just nine seconds later, Dallas went down two men after it was called for cross-checking.
It looked as if the game was headed for a shootout, but Brad Marchand sniped the puck past Khudobin from a tough angle to give Boston the 2-1 win.
The Bruins continue their homestand Thursday night when they welcome the Vancouver Canucks to TD Garden. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. ET.


Drive, bike, or walk through downtown, the South Waterfront, or just about any neighborhood in Portland, and you'll notice eco-roofs, green streets, and other natural infrastructure projects. These enhancements bring multiple economic benefits to Portland, provide valuable tools to help fight climate change, and have city planners around the globe rethinking what is possible in an urban landscape.
Unfortunately, future success in natural infrastructure may be in real jeopardy if Portlanders pass Measure 26-156 on May 20.
Read more over at Sustainable Business Oregon.


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Local libraries announce topics for "Noise vs. News" series
By: Staff - Updated: 2 years ago
OGLESBY – Scholars, journalists and the public are gathering this month to explore the professional and public responsibilities related to establishing truth in news and using that knowledge as a first step in finding common ground.
Offered on consecutive Thursdays in April, "Noise vs. News" is being hosted by the Jacobs Library at Illinois Valley Community College and the LaSalle Public Library. This important and timely series will include topics on the First Amendment and its protections, "fake" news detection, the ethics of journalism and the importance of truth and courage in maintaining a democracy.
The first program, "The First Amendment and the Free Press" was held April 6 at IVCC.
On April 13, the LaSalle Public Library, 305 Marquette St., LaSalle will host Bill Cassidy, associate professor of journalism, Northern Illinois University for the second in the series. Cassidy will present "Online Journalism and the Proliferation of Fake News."
The third program, "The Allure of Fake News: Journalism, Ethics, and Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation," will be presented by Professor Stephanie Craft, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Media, beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 at the LaSalle Public Library.
The final program will take place on Thursday, April 27 at Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby in Room CTC 124-125. Moderator Amanda Cook Fesperman will discuss diverse aspects of media, journalism and democracy with accomplished representatives of the journalism community including Jenna Dooley, reporter for WNIJ and host for All Things Considered; Jeff Dankert, reporter for the News Tribune; and David Giuliani, reporter for The Times.
Each of the events will be followed by an audience question and answer session.
This series is free and open to the public. Funding for "Noise vs. News" was made possible through a grant from the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. All events will be live-streamed; links for streaming will be available on both the Illinois Valley Community College and LaSalle Public Library websites. Each event will later be archived, captioned and available in English and Spanish via links provided by both institutions.
IVCC and the LaSalle Public Library are ADA compliant and welcoming. If you wish to attend an event and have special needs because of a disability or if you have other questions, please contact Jayna Leipart Guttilla at (815) 224-0306 or Donna Blomquist at (815) 223-2341 to discuss arrangements. Please provide one week to arrange for an American Sign Language interpreter.
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January 27, 2022Culture & Style Dance Magazine
Annia Hidalgo; Photo by Kat Schleicher
Dancer Annia Hidalgo Is Living a Fairy Tale With the Milwaukee Ballet
Like the Disney princess Belle, Annia Hidalgo serves as a role model for young girls.
BY Lauren Warnecke
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Growing up in Cuba, ballerina Annia Hidalgo saw the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, but never thought she'd play the bookish princess Belle on stage. "That's kind of a fairy tale, too," she says. Milwaukee Ballet's take on the classic story runs May 19-22 at the Marcus Center, capping the company's first full season back in front of live audiences.
Hidalgo joined Milwaukee Ballet in 2011 after dancing with the Cuban National Ballet and, briefly, the Los Angeles Ballet. Of all the roles she's danced in her decade with the company, Belle is one of her favorites.
"For me, the best part is when she interacts with everyone in the town," Hidalgo says, humming the opening lines of the film ("There goes the baker with his tray like always…").
Michael Pink's choreography starts the ballet in a similar way to the movie as Belle bumps into townspeople with her nose stuck in a book. In place of Alan Menken's merry tune is a gorgeous, cinematic score by Philip Feeney, a frequent collaborator on Pink's long catalog of full-length story ballets.
"We work very closely on our characters to tell the story with movement," Hidalgo says. "You have to have an internal dialogue with yourself: 'What is that person telling you? Why are you moving your arm right now? Why are you twirling or doing a pirouette right now?' Everything has a why."
Hidalgo first played Belle when the ballet was created in 2018. Then, she partnered with now-retired dancers Patrick Howell and Timothy O'Donnell as Beast and the Prince, who both dance several long, intricate pas de deux with Belle.
As she's progressed through the ranks, Hidalgo says she enjoys being a role model for the younger dancers. "I have worked with so many amazing dancers, partners, administrators – the whole organization," she says. "When each new generation arrives, I want to challenge myself to be better because I want them to know that it doesn't matter if you're a principal dancer. You always try to be better."
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The State Normal School at Valley City Historic District, in Valley City, North Dakota, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  It is a  historic district that covers the State Normal School at Valley City campus, now known as Valley City State University, and previously also known as the Valley City State Teachers College and as the Valley City State College.

The district includes Modern Movement, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, and Late Victorian architecture.  When listed in 1995, it included 11 contributing buildings and two contributing structures.  The Hancock Brothers designed some or all.

See also
 North Dakota State University District, in Fargo, also NRHP-listed
 University of North Dakota Historic District, in Grand Forks, also NRHP-listed

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University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota
Victorian architecture in North Dakota
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota
School buildings completed in 1892
National Register of Historic Places in Barnes County, North Dakota
Valley City State University
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The Dallas Stars acquiring Ben Bishop just makes too much sense.
Oct 15, 2015; Tampa, FL, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Ben Bishop (30) against the Dallas Stars during the first period at Amalie Arena.
Ben Bishop's new mask for 2018.
While the Dallas Stars haven't been cruising through games to pick up their wins, they are getting it done when the organization needs it most.
For the Dallas Stars, the new year has brought success, so far. The Stars are 3-1 since ringing in 2019, 2-0 at home and 1-1 on the road.


Trying to decide which beautiful sights of Northern Italy to see and how much time you need to see them? We'll make it easy for you. Our new day trips from Milan take you to three of the most beautiful and most popular destinations - Lake Como and Bellagio in Italy and Lake Lugano in Switzerland – in just one day!
Our one-day tours from Milan leave from a central, easy-to-reach location in the city. Your air-conditioned private coach will head straight from Milan to Lake Como, just an hour but a world away. Along the way, your expert, English-speaking guide will make sure you don't miss any interesting sights and will entertain you with stories about them. We take care of all the details of your trip – including roundtrip transportation from Milan and tickets for a boat tour of Lake Como – all you have to do is show up and relax!
Nestled in the mountains with beautiful scenery that changes with each season, picturesque Lake Como has been Italy's leading vacation destination for hundreds of years. During our boat tour, you'll see the beautiful lakeside villas once owned by La Scala's opera singers and now by headlining celebrities such as George Clooney, Richard Branson and Matthew Bellamy of Muse. You might even recognize villas from the Star Wars and James Bond blockbuster films.
Once in the beautiful city of Bellagio you will have free time explore on your own. Shop from local artisans, enjoy local food in nostalgic restaurants or step in for a quick drink in an ages-old bar, it is entirely up you. Take as many photos as you please in this picturesque town before we board our motor coach once again and continue our journey across the Italian border to Lugano.
You can spend your afternoon in Lugano as you like with suggestions and directions from your guide. Culture aficionados should visit the church of Santa Maria degli Angioli home to Switzerland's most important Renaissance painting - the beautiful 'Passion and Crucifixion' by Bernardino Luini, whose paintings have been compared to those of Leonardo da Vinci. You be the judge!
Feel like shopping? In Lugano's downtown shopping district you'll find plenty of choices - from luxury goods to, of course, delicious Swiss chocolate. We'll give you lots of time to explore Lugano before you board the coach and return to Milan in time for dinner.
Combining visits to two countries and three of the area's most beautiful locations in just one day, our day trips from Milan offer the perfect getaway from the hectic city life of Milan. We've taken care of the details, so you can just relax and enjoy the scenery…and so much more.
For more day tours, check out our Day Trips from Milan.
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You've probably heard of some curse that struck the imagination of people around the world. Was it a coincidence or really involved here some supernatural phenomenon that affects the fate of those people who believe in what they are cursed? After the death of the famous singer Amy Winehouse, who was in "Club 27", has died at the age of 27, like many other musicians, people began to think that there is really a curse. Learn about the most famous curses that seem to be something more than just a legend and a match. 1) The Curse Meddena
Madden NFL - a popular video game of American football, which includes players in the National Football League and their characteristics. The game is updated every year. The first who appeared in the booklet of the game, was John Madden, whose face can be seen on the cover of the game for 11 years, until 2001 goda.
Since then, every year on the cover of the other players began to appear. There is an opinion that all players who appear on the cover of Madden NFL, in the same year will have a serious injury or their glory fade Dante Culpepper suffered a knee injury and missed the next 5 games of the season, Michael Vick broke his right fibula is just a game to him Cover appeared in stores. McNabb said that he does not believe in the curse, and agreed to appear on the cover of the booklet. Madden Curse and overtook him, he earned a sports hernia in the first match. List of injured athletes continued every year, if they appear on the cover of the video game. 2) rune stone Berktorp
In the province of Blekinge, Sweden, there are several standing stones arranged in a circle. Some believe that the ancient tombs are located here. However, nobody really knows what these stones were set. It is known that the stones were not installed by one person, although they appeared about the same time - in the 7th century AD. One of these stones is called the present Berktorp has mystical properties, it says ancient runic curse:
I'm the owner of the runes, hid here mighty runes. [Being] Waylessness not know the rest, in exile [to be] killed magic to those who would destroy the monument. I predict death. According to legend, appeared in the 15th century, one man tried to remove the rock, to make room for planting crops. He decided to dissolve around the fire and then pour the water to split the stone and it can be removed. However, when he made a fire, the flames spread to him, and he died in the fire. 3) Club 27
Curse Club 27 refers to a group of very well-known musicians who die at the age of 27 years. The Club 27 has proved to be such well-known musicians like Robert Johnson (who died in 1938, for no apparent reason), Brian Jones (1969, drowned in the pool), Jimi Hendrix (1970, choked vomit after taking sleeping pills and wine), Janice Joplin (1970, heroin overdose), Jim Morrison (1971, heart failure), Kurt Cobain (1994 suicide. As a child, Cobain told her sister that he wanted to get into the Club 27) .
Although it is the most famous musicians who find themselves in Club 27, the list also includes other, only about 40 people, who were not so popular, but also became the "official member" of the club. Recently added to the list of another celebrity - Amy Winehouse, who died at the peak of his fame July 23, 2011 from a heart attack brought on by alcohol intoxication. 4) James Dean and "Little bastard"
James Dean - a famous Hollywood actor, 1950. His most famous film is a picture of "Rebel Without a Cause," and "the little bastard," he called her a Porsche 550 Spider. The actor died in a car accident at the wheel of this car soon after bought it. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean that this car looks like "ominous", prophesied his death a week after purchase. James Dean was really dead after 7 dney.
Moreover, after the accident, the car parts were sold and also bring bad luck to their owners. For Porsche tires on a new car were breached almost simultaneously, and very soon after their purchase, which caused the car to move down the road. Troy McHenry and William Eshrid involved in an accident while racing. Their cars were equipped with spare parts "little bastard", the list goes on ... 5) Curse Supermena
It is said that the character Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster cursed him, because they were deceived by Dc Comics, which worked, and have not received a penny for their work. The actor who played Superman in the TV series, George Reeves, took his own life samoubiystvom.
The other actors - Christopher Reeves, who played the superhero in the later paintings of Superman, fell from his horse, resulting in was confined to a wheelchair for 9 years. He died in 2004 of heart failure. 6) Curse Diamond Houpa
Hope Diamond, perhaps the most famous diamond in the world. Obviously, he was kidnapped from his forehead idol in the 17th century. The priests of the temple laid a curse on the stone, which is in force for several centuries. Immediately after the theft of the stone was sold to a French dealer in precious stones, which in Constantinople soon attacked by a pack of rabid dogs and bitten him. Before his death, the merchant had to present the stone the King of France Louis XIV. He had no idea that the stone can bring misfortune ...
The Princess de Lamballe, who wore the stone permanently, was killed during the French Revolution. The sad fate as the Minister of Finance of the king, who then took the stone himself, he ended his life in prison. All the jewelers, who were involved in this diamond-ending life in strange circumstances, including committing suicide, as Jacques batters. However, scientists reject the theory of the curse on the Hope Diamond, claiming that such stories were "promotion" of stone in order to make it profitable to be sold. But who wants to own damn stone? 7) Curse Tekumse
This curse has many names, including "presidential curse" or "Curse of the year zero." It refers to a series of strange laws relating to the death of American presidents who were elected in years ending in 0, from 1840 to 1960 y.
Curse associated with President William Harrison, when he was still governor. He tried to bribe the Native Americans with the aim to take away their land. He captured the village leader Tecumseh, which was located on the river bank Tippekanoe. Tecumseh's brother, who was called "the prophet" curse Harrison and predicted that he would die during the reign. This applies to all the other presidents before 7th knee, which will choose in years that end in 0 as the year in which Harrison chose. 8) Curse crying malchika
They say that the portrait of an unknown boy was the cause of many explosions and fires around the world. Each time the picture is untouched in places disasters. The well-known researcher, Dr. George Mallory was intrigued by these facts and began searching for the author proizvedeniya.
He still found the artist of this painting, which was an old man who lived in Madrid, which reported that painted a picture of a lot of years ago, when he found the boy - an orphan, wandering around the streets of the city. This boy was the only survivor in the fire of all the members of his family. The artist also said that the priest, who knew the boy, had warned him that the child brings fires in all the houses where he allowed. The artist does not want to believe these stories and began to care for the child, whose name was Daniel Bonilla, is not burned his own studio. After that the artist drove the boy, who was never seen again. 9) Curse "Poltergeist"
"Poltergeist" - a trilogy of horror films, the first film that was released in 1982. Incredibly violent nature of painting and its story have generated a lot of rumors around the mysterious film. However, the facts can not be denied: four of the crew members died in the period between the outputs of the first and last film, among them was 12-year-old actress Heather O'Rurk.
They say that the cause of the curse was that for some movie scenes were filmed several real corpses. 10) Curse Clan Kennedi
If you have a large family, it is possible that some of its members will surely die as a result of accidents. However, an incredibly large list of deaths belongs to the family Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, after being in a car crash killed his passenger, Mary Jo Kopehne, said that probably weighs a serious curse on the family Kennedi.
Like most other curses, the curse of the Kennedys is due to injustice: Joseph Kennedy Sr. Rosemary Kennedy's daughter forced to do a lobotomy at age 23. Family members thought that rosemary grew retarded child, she has a sharp mood swings, perhaps as a result of isolation and feelings of inadequacy in adolescence. Thus, my father decided that surgery can cure daughter, but lobotomy left her an invalid for the rest of his life (she died at age 86 of natural causes). It is worth noting that of the 5 children of Joseph Kennedy Sr. Rosemary - the only one who died a natural death.
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Mary Robinson attends Nutrition for Growth Summit
Posted on 11th June 2013
This article is in Categories: News, Development, Human Rights, Private Sector, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Use Effective Partnerships to Secure Climate Justice
Mary Robinson was at the 'Promoting African Agriculture – The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition' event, with (l-r): Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever and Josette Sheeran, Vice-Chair, World Economic Forum.
At 'Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger through Business and Science', a 'Global Nutrition for Growth Compact' was signed by participants – among them leaders of developing and developed nations, businesses, scientific bodies and civil society groups.
Mary Robinson was in London on Saturday, June 8, to take part in a high-level summit dealing with global nutrition and food security.
Mrs Robinson, who spoke at the closing event: 'Promoting African Agriculture – The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition', said the world cannot treat nutrition as a stand-alone issue, adding that we must address impacts of climate change on food and nutrition security.
Mrs Robinson also referred to April's Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice Conference, which saw more than 300 delegates, including 100 representatives from grassroots communities, come together in Dublin to participate in a respectful dialogue.
Delegates listened and learned from each other about the effects climate change has on the ability of the poorest and most vulnerable to provide food and nutrients for them and their families.
You can read the interactive Conference Report from Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice here.
Echoing Mrs Robinson's comments, HE Joyce Banda, President of Malawi, stressed her concern that the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security had not been met.
"I believe the New Alliance [for Food Security and Nutrition] gives us impetus to champion climate justice," she told the delegation, before adding, to a round of applause: "African women want climate justice."
Under the 'Global Nutrition for Growth Compact' participants at the summit committed their countries and organisations by 2020 to:
improving the nutrition of 500 million pregnant women and young children
reducing the number of children under five who are stunted by an additional 20 million
saving the lives of at least 1.7 million children by preventing stunting, increasing breastfeeding and better treatment of severe and acute malnutrition
'Nutrition for Growth' was co-hosted by the UK Government, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation and the Government of Brazil. The event was held in tandem with the UK's hosting of the 2013 G8 Summit, to be held in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, later this month. Among the items on the agenda of the conference of world leaders is Food Security.
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2G spectrum case: SC dismisses Essar, promoters plea for joint trial.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Essar Teleholding Ltd's plea seeking a joint trial in the 2G spectrum case.
A three-judge bench comprising chief justice H. L. Dattu and justices A. K. Sikri and Rohinton F. Nariman dismissed Essar's plea.
Essar had been seeking to "assimilate" the trial of former telecom minister A. Raja, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP K. Kanimozhi and others, and the one against itself, which would have required the trial to begin again.
Raja and Kanimozhi are facing charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, faking documents, abusing official position, criminal misconduct by a public servant and taking bribes—offences which are covered by the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Essar's plea arises from a supplementary chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2011 against Essar, its promoters Ravi Ruia and Anshuman Ruia, and Loop Telecom Ltd, among others, for criminal conspiracy and cheating. Special judge O.P. Saini, trying the accused in the 2G cases, took cognisance of the chargesheet in December 2011.
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The apex court had reserved its verdict in this case last week after hearing Essar and the CBI.
The CBI had opposed Essar's plea saying that it was a means to scuttle the trial, which was at an advanced stage.
The CBI has concluded arguments before special judge Bharat Parashar in the case against Raja and Kanimozhi as well as the Essar-Loop case.


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Since Mark Coleman was crowned UFC heavyweight champion in 1997, 17 men have held the belt, far beyond the numbers of any other weight class.
There has never been an Anderson Silva, Demetrious Johnson, Jon Jones, Matt Hughes, Georges St-Pierre or Jose Aldo among the big men, as these past and present stars piled up title defense after title defense, cementing their name among the legends of the sport.
Yet no UFC heavyweight champion has ever mustered more than two consecutive successful title defenses, a remarkable mark considering that the weight class has produced five UFC Hall of Famers (Coleman, Maurice Smith, Randy Couture, Bas Rutten, Minotauro Nogueira), and several modern era heroes.
Two of those modern heroes, current champion Stipe Miocic and former titleholder Junior Dos Santos, meet for the second time this Saturday in the main event of UFC 211. Miocic can join Couture, Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski, Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez should he even the score with Dos Santos, who lost his title back to Velasquez after successfully defending it once.
That's history right there. And legitimate history at that, but it still has to be asked why no one has been able to hit that magic three successful consecutive heavyweight defense mark in 20 years.
Is it as simple as saying 240 to 250-pound men hitting each other with four-ounce gloves makes a long reign an impossibility? That could be a valid point if not for the fact that getting hit with the little gloves isn't pleasant in any division, but particularly at 185 or 205 pounds, where Silva and Jones each had long title defense runs.
So let's go back to the start.
The first champion, Coleman, was dethroned by Maurice Smith, whose superior conditioning and ability to weather the ground-and-pound attack of "The Hammer" caused the first title switch in UFC history.
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Smith would be dethroned by a wrestler in Randy Couture, but one whose conditioning was second to none. Couture's first reign was ended by a contract dispute, and the next champ, Bas Rutten, vacated his belt.
Coleman's longtime teammate, Kevin Randleman, took the belt in 1999, but lost it in his second defense against the returning Couture. "The Natural" successfully defended his belt twice against Pedro Rizzo, but the men he would lose the title to twice more – Josh Barnett and Ricco Rodriguez – were the prototype of the modern heavyweight – bigger, stronger and able to do even more in the Octagon – leaving the smaller Couture outgunned physically.
Barnett dropped his belt to a failed drug test and Rodriguez took 6-foot-8 challenger Tim Sylvia lightly in 2003, resulting in a knockout loss.
A failed drug test took Sylvia's belt as well, and into the picture came Frank Mir, who won the vacant belt then lost it thanks to a motorcycle accident that sidelined him.
Notice a pattern here? Outside forces, whether failed drug tests, motorcycle accidents or contract disputes were having more of an effect on the heavyweight title than the fights were.
The next champion, Andrei Arlovski, looked to be someone who would reign for a while, but after two successful defenses, he lost the belt back to Sylvia, who lost it to Couture, who lost it to Brock Lesnar while Nogueira, Mir and Shane Carwin each held the interim title when Couture battled outside the Octagon with the UFC.
Was Lesnar going to save everything? It looked like it for a while until Velasquez came along. Even losing the belt to Dos Santos in 2011 didn't dull the appeal of Velasquez, and after regaining the crown from JDS, he retained the crown twice. Then injuries reared their ugly head, opening the door for Werdum to jump in as interim champ before submitting Velasquez in 2015. The Brazilian didn't stick around long though, as Miocic took the belt last May.
A year after that fight, Miocic has defeated Alistair Overeem and now he's facing Dos Santos. That's three fights in a year, and should he emerge victorious, we may have found the secret to heavyweight championship longevity. And it has more to do to taking away outside distractions and staying injury-free than with left hooks and armbars.
In Couture's best year as champion, he fought and won three times. When Arlovski, Sylvia, Lesnar and Velasquez looked like untouchable wrecking balls, they did the same.
Does Miocic fit in? Couture was an undersized heavyweight whose striking didn't match up to his wrestling. Arlovski could do it all, but he could also get hit. Sylvia's Achilles heel was his submission defense. Lesnar's was his striking and late start in the sport. Velasquez' was his bouts with injuries.
So can Miocic, a former Division I wrestler with top-notch striking who has proven the ability to survive a five-round war as well as rebound from adversity, break the curse? His coach, Marcus Marinelli, firmly believes so.
"Anything can happen in a fight between big guys with small gloves, just like everybody says all the time, but Stipe's very skilled at everything," he said. "Because fights start on their feet and he's very good with his hands, you only see part of his game. He's very resilient, he's got a very strong will to win, he's very strong physically, and he's got the ability to give the abuse and take some and keep on ticking."
On April 29, the world may have seen boxing's next great heavyweight in Anthony Joshua.
On May 13, Stipe Miocic has the chance to be MMA's next great heavyweight.


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Q: Django rest framework generic view for multiple models Is there a way of creating a generic view to be used by several different models? I have many models in my project and do not want to have to create a view and serializer for each of them.
Assume this is a simple solution but I have spent hours googling with no results.
Within the Django REST framework API guide Generic views Examples the following code snippet is shown:
url(r'^/users/', ListCreateAPIView.as_view(model=User), name='user-list')

Which suggests this is possible but the example does not seem to be complete (or my understanding is not complete).
This is my attempt:
url.py
url(r'^foomodel/', views.GenericViewSet.as_view(model = Foomodel) ),

views.py
class GenericViewSet(generics.ListAPIView):
  model = User # this is over ridden by the url
  queryset = model.objects.all()
  serializer_class = BaseSerializer
  ordering_fields = '__all__'

serializers.py
class BaseSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = None

And of cause this fails as the serializer does not like model = None or any variation that I can think of.
Any suggestions as to how this should be addressed?

A: A solution would be overriding the get_serializer_class method of the ViewSet.
The model field in the view will be fine as you override it in the url, as you said, what I would do is build the serializer class on the fly.
class GenericViewSet(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = model.objects.all()

    def get_serializer_class(self):
        class BaseSerializer(serializer.ModelSerializer):
            class Meta:
                model = self.model
        return BaseSerializer

Hope this helps!

A: To recap the intention is to create a reusable view that can be used for many models without having to repeat a heap of code. This leaves very little code in Django to create a backed API for many Django models. I am using this for ember.js
urls.py
from myapp import models as mymodels
url(r'^cs/(?P<strmodel>[A-Za-z]+)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/', views.GenericViewSet.as_view({'get': 'retrieve', 'post':'update', 'delete':'destroy' }, application = mymodels ) ),
url(r'^cs/(?P<strmodel>[A-Za-z]+)/', views.GenericViewSet.as_view({'get': 'list','post': 'create' }, application = mymodels ) ),

Worth noting that I have several apps and there is a different set of URL's to access them. The model being accessed is passed as strmodel
views.py
class GenericViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):

    def __init__(self, application):
        self.application = application

    def initialize_request(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.model = getattr(self.application, self.kwargs['strmodel'] )
        request = super(viewsets.ModelViewSet, self).initialize_request(request, *args, **kwargs)
        return request

    strmodel = None
    application = None
    model = User
    lookup_field = 'id'

    def get_queryset(self):
        return self.model.objects.all()

    def get_serializer_class(self):
        class BaseSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
            class Meta:
                model = self.model
        return BaseSerializer

Hope this helps :)