LAST FEBRUARY, Morgan Callagy found himself a very long way from his home and office, which was precisely where he wanted to be. After a day heli-skiing in untouched powder in the Italian Alps, the London-based general partner at private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson and 9 of his closest male friends had crossed the border to Val d'Isère, France. There, at La Folie Douce—an après-ski bacchanal where neon-costumed revelers dance to Europop and drink Jägermeister shots served on wooden skis—Mr. Callagy and his crew boogied on the rafters in vintage Bogner ski suits and blond mullet wigs.
A 44-year-old father of three, Mr. Callagy is a member of the growing ranks of men traveling with groups of male friends on testosterone-rich trips variously dubbed guy getaways or bro-cations. These often over-the-top adventures are opportunities to bond, blow off steam and, in the age of Facebook and Instagram, digitally boast a bit. "Today's type-A male traveler needs more than a shady palm tree and swim-up bar," said Owen Gaddis, a luxury travel manager with custom tour operator Absolute Travel. "They crave constant engagement in their leisure time as much as they do in the workplace," Mr. Gaddis said.
Eleven Experience, which manages a collection of six fully staffed luxury lodges from Colorado to the Bahamas, is one of several companies that have sprung up recently to meet hard-charging types' growing appetite for trips that both push the boundaries of luxury and push them out of their comfort zones. The company charges $31,500 to $128,625 a week for its properties, including the price of its skiing and fishing guides.
Mr. Callagy, a self-described Eleven junkie, has been to all of the company's properties. "My friends and I refer to Eleven as man-camp meets Neverland.v Experiencing something unique and challenging with friends is what these trips are all about. My life would feel incomplete without them," he said.
Other travel companies catering to groups of adrenaline-infused men include the U.K.-based Secret Compass, which takes clients white water rafting in South Sudan and mountain biking in Afghanistan, and White Desert, which specializes in Antarctic glamping trips, complete with a slightly shivery Champagne lunch and the opportunity to sauna at the Russian research station. Though it would be easy to dismiss these trips as stereotypical manifestations of the Peter Pan complex or stunts for alpha males looking to push their limits in the wild, the men who take them say that it goes deeper than that. Charles Field-Marsham, a Toronto-based entrepreneur, has taken ski trips with the same five guy friends for the past decade. "It sounds corny, but meaningful relationships keep you happy in life and one of the best ways for men to build meaningful relationships is through travel and sports," said the 47-year-old father of three.
Having skied throughout North America, Mr. Field-Marsham and his group were looking to raise their game. "We wanted to be pushed physically, but also wanted luxury," he said. He reached out to Danielle Stynes, founder of Swisskisafari. For a minimum of $1,000 a day per person, Ms. Stynes creates what she describes as a James Bond holiday. "My trips appeal to men who have it all and who think they have done it all," she said. To deliver what she promises, she employs helicopter pilots, ski guides and an avalanche expert who has a doctorate in snow forecasting.
Ms. Stynes said that 90% of her business is guy groups. "They're fit and competitive and really want to feel like they've earned the end-of-day wine and gourmet meal," she said. Mr. Field-Marsham said a highlight of his group's trip was skinning (climbing uphill on skis) two hours to Switzerland's 1,000-year-old St. Bernard monastery, where they lunched with monks before spending the rest of the day skiing downhill. "That's an experience my friends and I will talk about for the rest of our lives," he said.a.
Andrea Mason, his wife of 28 years, said she welcomes Mr. Mason's annual trip because he's increasingly animated as it nears and returns energized. "Some people might see it as selfish to go away without your spouse, but it's good for our marriage," she said. "I wouldn't want to tag along and ride 100 miles. And when Glenn's away it's my time to relax." She said that she takes advantage of his absence by dining out more with friends.
Men who want to give their primal side an especially brisk workout might consider traveling to Indonesia's remote Sumba Island. Though headhunting has thankfully been banned there, travelers can still go into the jungle with villagers to spear hunt wild boar. "It's a very macho, chest-thumping society," said Carla Petzold-Beck, general manager of Nihiwatu, a five-star eco-resort on the island that is popular with surfers.
Even men with no particular affinity for Vladimir Putin-style machismo find benefits in guy getaways. "There's something about being outside in the middle of nowhere with guys that is very different from being on a tennis court or golf course," says Hal Schroeder, the president of Concept Services, an Austin-based company that sells food-service equipment to restaurant chains.
1878-79 | A 21-year-old Theodore Roosevelt goes camping in Maine along with William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow, on one of the first of Teddy's countless guy trips.
1904 | A group of avid outdoorsmen founds the Explorers Club to "unite explorers in the bonds of good fellowship." Honorary members include Walter Cronkite and John Glenn. Women were admitted in 1981.
1918 | Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs and Harvey Firestone—who dubbed themselves the "Vagabonds"—take the first of many summer trips together.
1940s | Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway's bromance begins with a pheasant-hunting trip in Idaho.
1960s | Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop ricochet between Miami, Las Vegas and Palm Springs on a red-blooded hunt for hedonism and handmade suits.
2004 | Looking to test their endurance and get a fresh perspective on the world, actor Ewan McGregor and adventurer Charley Boorman take a 20,000-mile, 12-country motorcycle trip from London to New York City.
2015 | President Obama hangs out in the wilds of Alaska with adventurer Bear Grylls, drinking tea made from catkins and eating salmon picked over by a (real) bear.


Discussion in 'Arts' started by Laruien, Feb 10, 2017.
Describe some of the influence of Latin music in the US in the early part of the twentieth century. What was the significance of "Machito and His Afro-Cubans"? How did Dizzy Gillespie incorporate Latin music into his music? What was the Palladium? How did the television and films increase the exposure of the US to Latin music? How did Latin music influence rock music? Why do you think Latin music had such a great influence on the development of popular music? Do you think that any of the music that you listen to has Latin influences? Why or why not?
The major influence Latin music had on the US music scene during this time was its syncopated rhythms, which inspired many musicians who had never deviated from the more standard "4/4" beats.


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Sarafand or Sarafend may refer to:

Places
 Sarafand, Lebanon, also spelled Sarafend
 Sarepta, an ancient Phoenician city at the location of the modern Lebanese town
 Tzrifin, area in central Israel previously known as "Sarafand" or "Sarafend", which used to contain two namesake Palestinian villages:
 Sarafand al-Amar, 1920s–1940s site of Sarafand/Sarafend, the largest British military base in the Middle East
 Sarafand al-Kharab
 Al-Sarafand, a Palestinian village near Haifa

Other uses
 Short Sarafand, a British 1930s biplane flying boat
 West Nile virus: the Sarafend strain, one of its deadly strains

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Inequality and Drug Use
Posted on May 6, 2008 May 6, 2008 Author dlendeCategories Addiction, Inequality, Medical anthropology
By Mary Kate McNamara, Emily Schirack, Dana Sherry & Amy Vereecke
Close your eyes. Imagine a crack addict. What do you picture? A wealthy man in an Armani suit and tie? Or a poor man clothed in baggy jeans; violent, dark and dangerous? Is she seated behind a mahogany desk on the 22nd floor of an office building in Manhattan or is she standing on a graffiti-covered street corner in East Harlem?
We know that a person's drug of choice is influenced by his or her social status, from the high-powered lawyer with a penchant for powder cocaine to the pill-popping rock star to the alcoholic factory worker to the unemployed crack head. Here we will show something more important about a person's relationship with drugs: an individual's decision to use drugs is embedded in an unequal social structure, a social structure that produces unequal outcomes for drug users contingent on their social status.
By being poor, under-educated and of a low-status ethnic group, a person is at a greater risk for not only social marginalization, but becoming a victim of addiction (Baer, Singer & Susser 2003: 131). As David Courtwright argues in Forces of Habit, social inequality is promoted by the elite to maintain control over a minority group of laborers. By suppressing the lower classes in a cycle of substance abuse and addiction, the wealthy are able to increase their own power and profits. At the expense of people they deem inferior—simply because these people lack the material means to rise from their position—the elite sustain their authority. "Next to profits and taxes, the utility of drugs in acquiring, pacifying and fleecing workers proved to be their greatest advantage to the elites…" (Courtwright 2001:135)
In analyzing society's abuse of drugs, Courtwright comments that "a pattern of drug use can become so entrenched in a culture that it is impossible to permanently suppress and delegitimate it" (Courtwright 2001: 199). This entrenchment is facilitated by a cycle of poverty, inequality and addiction.
Take Primo for example, a central figure in Philippe Bourgois's book In Search of Respect. Primo is a Puerto Rican immigrant living in New York City's Spanish Harlem. Without the necessary education or cultural capital, he is unable to find a legal job. Facing pressure to provide for his family, Primo turned to dealing crack. Feeling emasculated by his hopeless circumstances, Primo began to physically abuse his girlfriend. While the abuse gave Primp an outlet to assert his dominance and the drug dealing provided him with a source of income, his actions served to further entrench him in poverty. Drug dealing led Primo to drug addiction, which led him to squander his income on more drugs. Bourgois clearly shows that Primo's social marginalization was deepened by his drug abuse, which in turn intensified his poverty and marginalization.
This cyclical component of poverty, inequality and addiction supersedes a person's individual autonomy, making them victim to an incurable disease and a vicious cycle (see graph below). Epidemiological research has shown that individuals like Primo aren't choosing their fates as an autonomous individual but rather having their fate dictated through a multifactorial combination of social, environmental, and biological components. Through their attempts to claw their way out of this cycle, people suffering from the hardships of social and economical marginalization can actually "become the actual agents administering their own destruction and their community's suffering through turning to dealing drugs and embracing violence" (Bourgois 2003:145)
As Primo's story demonstrates, many factors that plague the poor— stress of unemployment, depression, structural violence—contribute to addiction. At the same time, drug addiction contributes to both poverty and inequality, paralyzing the afflicted and rendering them unable to make positive changes or rise above their situation. For instance, a person reputed to be a drug addict or an individual with a drug-related criminal record is significantly less likely to be hired, and thus remains in the slums of poverty.
Ironically, one of the arenas where inequality is most visible is in the criminal justice system. Not only do whites comprise a larger portion of the drug users in the U.S., they actually outnumber blacks in the use of crack cocaine, a drug stereotypical thought of as a "black minority" drug (Husak 2002: 135). However, out of the 5 to 1 ratio of white to black drug users, there is a 2 to 3 ratio of incrimination of white to blacks. This statistic clearly shows a racial bias in drug criminalization. This bias has far-reaching consequences: estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that young black men are more likely to go to prison than to attend college.
Racial bias has also played a role in court cases where crack dealers were charged with much harsher sentences than cocaine dealers. Punishment for crack cocaine use and dealing (a drug associated with poor, black users) far outweighs punishments for identical crimes involving crack's high-end counter part, powdered cocaine (associated with wealthy, white users). This inequality in law enforcement creates a "dual frustration" among minority populations living with drug problems and dealing with the harsh penalties of criminalization (Husak 2002: 136).
There are, however, strides being made to rectify the racial bias at work in the legal system. Recently, a Supreme Court ruling overturned a U.S. appeals court ruling that judges could not hand down lesser punishments on the basis that they disagreed with the wide disparities for crack and powder cocaine sentences. Nevertheless, these laws remain in place, contributing to the inequalities in drug use and the criminal justice system.
Of course, there is more to the story than unequal drug criminalization laws. Studies have shown that in low-income populations, children of parents who have been imprisoned are more likely to become criminals themselves (Husak 2002: 75). A child born to a drug-addicted mother in the inner-city is not going to receive the proper nutrition, education, or care that a child born to upper-middle-class parents will. As the child grows up, she sees her parents and peers suffer hardships due to discrimination, underfunded school systems, unsafe and run-down neighborhoods, minimum-wage employment, imprisonment, and poor health care. How are they supposed to rise above their parents' limitations and the constraints of society? Continual experiences of racism, classism, and oppression combined with negative emotion and low self esteem among minority populations contribute to feelings of immobility within the social hierarchy (Baer, Singer & Susser 2003: 214).
Another arena in which inequality's role in addiction is clearly visible is in the health care system. Inadequate health care has facilitated significant problems within the low-income population. Although impoverished people are more likely to have drug related health problems, they are less likely to receive treatment (Wood 2008). Black and minority populations receive less quality health care, slower care, and worse care than whites (Wood 2008). Only 17% of addicts who need treatment are capable of affording and receiving it. Programs to promote drug safety awareness are typically ineffective, including needle exchange programs and harm-reduction pamphlets instructing users how to properly clean needles with bleach (Bourgois 2002: 259).
Perhaps this graphic will help illustrate our points. The phrases in the middle are all factors that contribute to addiction, inequality, and poverty.
In order to break the cycle of drug addiction, the root causes need to be addressed. Social inequality is one of the biggest factors in that many addicts do come from low-income, low-opportunity backgrounds. Treatment needs to be readily available for all socio-economic backgrounds and the stereotypical profiling of an addict needs to be erased from the public mindset. As Elliott Currie suggests, "we need a multilayered approach: we need better treatment, more harm-reduction programs, selective decriminalization, more creative adolescent prevention efforts and much more…"
Baer, H., Singer, M., and Susser, I. Medical Anthropology and the World System. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
Bourgois, Philippe. "In Search of Respect." 1996.
Bourgois, Philippe. "Anthropology and epidemiology on drugs: the challenges of cross-
methodological and theoretical dialogue." International Journal of Drug Policy 13
(2002): 259-269.
Courtwright, David. Forces of Habit. London, England: Harvard Printing Press, 2001.
Husak, Douglas. Legalize This! the case for decriminalizing drugs. New York, NY:
Verso, 2002.
"What is Addiction, and How Can We Treat It?" pbs.org. 4 April 2008.
Wood, Gina. "Unfair Treatment: Racial Inequality Produces Health Disparities."
Journey to Wellness. 4 Feb. 2008. 4 April 2008. .
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The New York Times has an excellent editorial today on the unequal patterns of drug-related arrests and convictions in low-income, minorty communities: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10sat1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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documenta 14 'Learning from Athens'
Kettly Noël, Zombification, 2017, performance and installation, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), documenta 14, photo: Mathias Völzke.
Terre Thaemlitz, Video still from Deproduction, 2017, (Comatonse Recordings).
Darren Caffrey discusses Kettly Noël's installation/performance work Zombification (2017) and Terre Thaemlitz's premiered screening of Deproduction (2017) in order to explore the implications of the overall curatorial framework of documenta 14 and its subheading 'Learning from Athens' devised by this year's director Adam Szymczyk.
Coming around every five years, documenta is a carefully planned operation located in the German city of Kassel, close to the old West/East divide. Arguably a product of post-war cultural reparations, documenta has traditionally focused on utilising the visual arts as a communal attraction. The potential to address an audience on a grand scale is perhaps epitomised by Joseph Beuys' work for documenta 7 in 1982 where 7000 Oaks saw as many trees planted throughout the city. By the time of documenta 8, it's hard to imagine there was anyone who had not noticed the addition to their city and lives. But it was also in the 1980s, when English first appeared in accompanying texts and catalogues, that documenta seemingly opened out to a global audience. This year, for documenta 14, the traditional 100 days of events and exhibitions were scheduled for both Kassel and Athens in Greece. An overlap of eight weeks provided its own tacit connections for artists and visitors to make use of but perhaps the most obvious of all was identified by Greece's flagship airline which arranged twice weekly flights between Kassel and Athens International Airport.
Last time around, curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev chose to expand out and away from the traditional setting by involving satellite stations for dOCUMENTA 13. Among other sites, she selected Kabul in Afghanistan and Cairo in Egypt for these temporary interventions. Yet by bringing art to exotic places, even places of conflict, she also seeded the notion that documenta could travel. Doing so to limited acclaim, the message was still clear: documenta has designs on being more than a uniquely German or Anglo-Saxon instalment of contemporary visual practice. Since documenta 11, curated by Okwui Enwezor, interest has extended far beyond Europe, but given the many images of social unrest and general agitation coming out of Athens since the European economic crisis, why not stage a documenta there? It might help.
Perhaps the choice to partner with Athens is explained by the very public relationship status of Germany and Greece, with German chancellors famously likening their Greek counterparts to Aesop's irresponsible grasshopper, to whom the hard-working German ants owe nothing. Notably, it is in the race to mythologise historic and political events that art retains a foothold in the contemporary world. So, while there are numerous curators and approaches, the overarching theme for documenta 14, penned by Adam Szymczyk, cites Athens as a place of learning. Interestingly, his subtitle 'Learning from Athens' proposes also a manner of divestment, wherein pedagogies are a transition of accumulated wealth, performing as knowledge gained over time and relating back to power ultimately. But what, if anything, should be taken from Athens?
In a world where the traditional understanding of knowledge appears to be directly challenged by the information age, controlling how information is received becomes ever more important. If this same power struggle leads to the mediator's control of truth-telling, to the point of a so-called 'fake news' phenomena, then the proposition of learning from a city of enduring myth is all the more timely. Do we consider the foundations of democracy or indeed organisations? Do we consider the ancient Athenian practice of ostracism, which enforced exile for those political figures identified as representing a civil threat by tyrannical rule? Do we consider the manner of Greece's initial refusal to pay debts, owed largely to German-backed finance providers, by in turn presenting Germany with a reparations bill to be paid for Germany's outstanding war debts, thereby offering a public reminder that the characteristics of human relations are also those which drive national identities? It is likely that in the case of documenta 14 we should consider all of these things and more.
Taking Athens alone, the number of exhibition sites and works, artists and acting curators defies listing. Surely the result of all this connected participation amongst so many visual art practitioners is that some sense of a picture can be formed, thereby giving us a particular perspective on documenta 14's output in light of its own time. From this cue, two works in Athens stand out as proposing a distinctive living order, in each case presenting in their form a manner of practical recognition. In the end, a desperate hope for the creation of something better unites these two works. While Deproduction offers up an essay length feature with an ambient electro-infused backing, Zombification is rooted in live action. By delivering its performance as a gesture to the state of things, the conditions of the performance are allowed simply to function as a form of realism. If Zombification is a thin veil for the way fetishist interest impresses itself upon its subject, rendering violence as an interchangeable experience, Deproduction is a story of how the cause of our misery is not the existence of work, money, the commodity-form, class, society or the State but perhaps a combination of all of these, with the family institution at its core.
The title Zombification does not immediately suggest a bright outlook but Kettly Noël disputes our better intentions anyway. The only way out is to reject what is shown to us. Blind ignorance will not disguise the spectacle and presence of hanging posts or the hauntingly floppy figures dangling from them. As with voodoo dolls, the limpness of stuffed fabric is elevated to the weightier notions of body and limb, but these sack cloth dummies suspended overhead suggest also that it is only by accepting their dominance of the space that we are likely to enter at all. If we were not aware that we contract our own gaze every time we look at another, we are reminded here by each carefully cut shard of mirrored glass which, bound by hangman's rope, presses to the heads of each nominal figure. Each face reveals a mask which bears no particular expression but our own. An economy of material and an intensifying of spiritual resources prompts us to enter further into their world. While evoking ritual and fatigue through a choreographed dance with fate and resilience, it is the screen replaying the occasion which most gallery visitors will have encountered. The live audience, visibly uncomfortable, serves too as part of the performance, utilised as further props in Noël's confrontational piece.
The performance begins with a man shouting his address to a gathered audience, wearing rubber gum boots and a bowler hat, channelling a sort of A Clockwork Orange style veterinary surgeon look. The artist, herself in a traditional lady's colonial dress with netted floral detail, matches the bravura of her parading dancers. All actors move as if communicating a tension between behaviour and performance, while the action unfolds from this, giving the impression that life too appears scripted. documenta's website profiles this work as a reconciliatory gesture between Haitian surrealism and contemporary art, but it is the depiction of how an all consuming narrative takes place as a political form, and not the reconciliation of any particular imperialist agenda, which really captures the imagination.
Terre Thaemlitz's Deproduction premiered in the final weeks of documenta 14 in Athens, along with a re-premiere held in Kassel the following night. Each screening was hosted by the artist in association with Akademie Der Kunst Der Welt of Cologne and a curatorial team headed by Pierre Bal Blanc. Featuring stories about the convention of the family structure as a model of restrained or repressed order and uniting this with ideas of individual socio-sexual empowerment, the essay and argument begins: "There isn't much time. We'll have to skip the foreplay. For some of you this will require suspensions of disbelief, but please open yourselves to the following two premises. First, having children is unethical. Second, families make democracy impossible."
Deproduction is composed of two distinct pieces which were screened as a single work. Both NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED: Sound/Reading for Incest Porn (43mins), and ADMIT IT'S KILLING YOU (AND LEAVE): Sound/Reading for Gay Porn (43mins) were accompanied by a soundtrack produced under the artist's own label Comatonse Recordings. In the first part, brief life stories from a series of supposedly fictional protagonists are introduced alongside related visuals. Perhaps their one common identifier is a successive debasement of human virtue on the back of broken trust and the pressures of family ties. Crossing class and culture divides, each character is somehow felt to contribute to the same end product of stable human civilisation, where violence is less an act against another than against oneself.
Presented as two parts, Deproduction nonetheless fixes upon interpersonal forms of trauma, where abuse takes place as part of an otherwise peaceful existence. Here Thaemlitz colludes with the energy of collective social trauma by making examples of its conditions, reserving her interest to a largely western experience of authority as a bureaucratic model served by an obedience to social convention. By doing so however she fails to reflect a material consistency of the family model, opting instead to define individual sexuality as distinct from collective expression, as though so called heteronormative behaviour cannot also be based upon animal instinct and spiritual connection.
In the second section, an essay appears on screen as a series of elusive fragments of dissolving text. This makes it difficult to grasp but of course this is the intention. As hazy moving images propose themselves in layers of erotic and purely sexual human relations, an argument is put forth which leads from a matter of ethics to gender politics to the slavery of capitalism. In the preceding section, over and again it is relayed to us how ideas of society and family are at odds with individual sexual expression and human development. As a manner of addressing a status quo according to its own conceived value relations, it is no wonder that the audience reaction was one of awkward and stunned silence. Within a crammed lecture hall, a hypnotic soundscape along with an array of other visual effects left the bluntness of the message to target an emotional response, but in the end the intimacy of a shared silence said it all.
If this is a necessary and vital public expression it is also very much a personal one. The artist, also known to some as DJ Sprinkles, is a self-identified anti-hero of queer culture. Far from presenting the politics of commercially acceptable homosexuality, she uses this essay format to illustrate the ideas behind gay marriage and its relationship to the AIDS crisis which brought homosexuality before a liberal mainstream lens. Her argument is that the commercial market quickly realised sexual identification was not a threat to capitalist opportunism, so long as wealth, status and family values remained the shared goal. Declarations of otherness pronounced by feminism and queer culture are, she says, worth little if this very distinction needs to be accepted by the heteronormal masses, on and for whom the marketplace and system is conducted. On balance, the lack of a required challenge to hegemonic activity currently means that consumerism is equipped to swallow up as much of what makes a person as we can possibly conceive.
So if the civilised experience is actually the sublimation of violence, with the Ancient Greeks providing theatre as an original template for its brand of social discourse through valid acting representatives, be they performing as actors or politicians, then its performance must produce an experience which is the same for each side. We might call it debate or dialogue but its end is often just a matter of the power wielded by those taking part. It is when the ascribed 'other' obtains an identity through such means, and not through active participation, that the question of performance can be pushed aside in favour of another more accurate expression. Where issues of race and gender are defined not as politics but as cultural eliminators of the competition, both Zombification and Deproduction have sought to engage a peripheral reflection; something again which 'Learning From Athens' identifies, not only in its phrasing but in how this is added to the name of a world renowned art brand. In fiscal terms, The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, just two hours on the train from Kassel, might well consider it better for everyone if Greece adopted a more German-like attitude to its affairs. You see, truth and myth are key to our developed response to the interpretation of our own unique stories, but so long as we see the other as impoverished of our values, we will be unable to adopt the sort of vision which outside perspectives can offer.
You don't need to be familiar with Herodotus in order to fully appreciate documenta in Athens. This was a man who set the divide between what was real and what was fantasy, calling his distinguished truth a history of events passed, while consigning all other manners of truth to the realm of make-believe, where alternate stories and agenda become settled finally as cultural myth. Borrowing loosely from a man credited as the original historian is perhaps a reasonable way to view documenta in Athens. Yet the renowned classicist Alain Schnapp, synonymous with Greek culture in particular, has written widely about collecting as a political statement, once made by Pharaohs and Kings, as expressing the social range and excellence of that ruler. In his words "Private wealth made collectors of businessmen"; it might be concluded that soon after, the seeds of documenta were sewn. Recent public letters from the curatorial staff and exhibiting artists show a further interest for the future of documenta as a decentralised model. Where the word bankrupt is used, so far, only the bankers are listening.
Written by Darren Caffrey
Darren Caffrey is an artist, living and working in Kilkenny.
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documenta 14 'Learning from Athens', 8 April–16 July 2017, Athens, Greece.
Published on: Monday 18 September 2017
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Sean Power T.D. Minister for Services for Older People at the Department of Health and Children spoke on the matters outlined below.
Ageing Population: By 2036, the population is expected to reach 1.1 million people aged over 65. It will have wide ranging implications for pensions, health and long-term care. It is important that continuous liaison between Government and Older People's groups organisations take place to ensure that the needs of older people are addressed.
Government Policy: Continues to be that older people receive the attention or care they require in their own homes and communities for as long as is possible. In 2006 the cost for services for older people was 150m. For 2007 the cost is estimated at €255m.
Community Based Supports: 2,000 extra home care packages will be provided in 2007. There will be 780,000 extra hours of home help and 1,100 extra day care places.
Carers: He praised the importance of family carers in allowing older people to remain at home longer than would otherwise be possible. He referred to the increase in benefits for Carer's in the last budget in line with Towards 2016 and the Programme for Government so that all those on average industrial incomes qualify. Effective June the Respite Care Grant is €1500.
Long-Term Care: Draft national standards for all residential care settings for older people were published on the 25th January and the interim Health Information and Quality Authority have established a working group to oversee public consultation on the standards and to finalise them.
A Fair Deal: It is planned to introduce a new nursing home care support scheme – A Fair Deal – at the start of January next year. It will provide uniform financial support for individuals in private and public nursing home beds. The Fair Deal will ensure that the State continues to fund the largest part of care costs overall. Contributions during a person's life will be less than their disposable income and they will not have to sell or mortgage their house to meet the contribution. A person's family will not have to contribute towards the cost of their care.For 2007 a new subvention scheme has been introduced. The maximum rate of a basic subvention has now been raised to €300 and €85 million allocate to it as a down-payment to ease current inequities.
Attitudes to Old Age: Referring to the need for a more positive attitude to ageing amongst older people themselves and the population in general he praised the valuable contribution of the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament over the years, in promoting the interests of older people.
Three Workshops were held on the "Fair Deal" proposal which will help to inform the Parliament examination of the matter. The facilitators from the Department of Health and Children, Services for Older People were Dr Fergal Lynch, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Laura McGarrigle. Chairpersons were John Brady formerly of the Department of Health and Children, Bob Carroll, Director National Council on Ageing and Older People and Maurice O'Connell, Alzheimer's Society.
Speaking she said it was a real privilege to be to hear some of the motions being put before the annual Parliament meeting which touch on so many of the important issues which face all of us as we get older. The CEO had told her that to understand the Parliament she should see it in action and this was absolutely right. The great work goes on throughout the year, all around the country locally in your divisions as well as nationally. Her hope for the future is that your work will be enhanced by Atlantic's grant and that local, regional and national networks and representation will be strengthened. The aim ultimately is to strengthen the voice of older people so that the so called 'grey vote' will be heard clearly, powerfully and unambiguously. You are not lobbying for are 'handouts' but basic rights based on respect and dignity for all citizens. If we do not treat all of our people well then the whole body politic suffers. As Dame Cicely Saunders famously said: 'You matter because you are you and you matter all the days of your life.' She expressed special appreciation to Michael O'Halloran for all his work in bringing our joint initiative to fruition. It has been like a dance, sometimes a very slow waltz, but hopefully now the tempo can speed up to a quick step.
The following is a summary of the outcome of the motions by subject matter.
Motion 7 seeking to have the Qualified Adult payment at the same level as the main recipient was passed.
Motion 21& 22 calling for the equipping of all Post Offices with Audio Induction Loops by December 2008 in accordance with the Disability Act 2005 and also that all Dublin Airport Check in areas be similarly equipped prior to the holding of the AGM of the EU Federation of Hard of Hearing people in March 08 was passed.
Motion 23 demanding in this year of Equal Opportunities and end to all discrimination against Older People was passed.
Motion 32, 33 and 34 were referred to the incoming Executive Committee to be included in their response to "A Fair Deal".
Vote of Thanks to outgoing President Peter B Sands was proposed by Paddy Donegan who thanked Peter Sands for his outstanding term as President of the Parliament and wished him well in his new role as a Trustee.
He referred to Peter's ability to source any document from his fantastic filing system. At meetings he could take his cue from Peter and if Peter didn't query the minutes then they were definitely OK. Peter was one of the founding members of the Parliament and he was a dedicated worker on behalf of the Parliament during all that time. The last year had been an onerous one, with Social Partnership talks and the protracted discussions with Atlantic Philanthropies. Peter had represented the Parliament very well in all those discussions.
Peter never lost an opportunity to raise the issues of concern to Older People and their families in whatever forum he was in. The delegates would have seen some evidence of that today in his vote of thanks to Minister Power where he raised with him issues in the Health Service in respect of staffing levels, care packages and chiropody services.
Peter Sands is a decent man and he wished Peter good health and looked forward to continuing to work with him.


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Some of the young brigade are giving the class of 1982 a run for their money
April 1st, 2016 8:00 pm| by Christian Wenande
Popeye the sailor man had one, and so did Gandalf the wizard. While Sherlock Holmes had three, but not a calabash, the one synonymous with the deerstalker hat and monocle.
When faced with a difficult case, the fictional detective would retreat to solve what he called a "three-pipe problem", and he isn't the only one, as the method of smoking has been favoured throughout history to aid relaxation and contemplation and spark mental ambers aglow.
The likes of Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Greta Garbo, Virginia Woolf, Ray Charles and Niels Bohr all enjoyed smoking a pipe, and were they alive today, there's a very good chance they would be puffing away on a Danish one.
A piping hot-bed
Denmark has long been a hot-bed of pipe smoking and making, a culture that has been enjoying a second wind in recent years.
According to Michael Iversen – the head of the Nordic Tobacco Guild and the organiser of the recently-held 2016 Open Danish Championship in Pipe Smoking – its 38th annual edition, the pipes have never stopped smouldering.
"Pipe smoking got big in the 1980s, and more than 400 participants took part in the tournament. Everyone smoked a pipe back then – prime ministers, lawyers and TV personalities – so there was a lot of focus on the culture of pipe smoking and everyone wanted to be a part of it," he told the Copenhagen Post Weekly.
"Now we have around 110 participants in the competition plus a couple of hundred visitors to the pipe and tobacco exhibition."
Iversen contends that when smoking went out of style, there was no-one around to teach the younger generation how to do it and the number of pipe smokers decreased dramatically. But the culture has seen a resurgence in recent years, partly due to more Danes embracing a more refined lifestyle.
"It's part of the rise in people enjoying good food, good whiskey, good cigars and a refined lifestyle. People smoke less, but they smoke the best," he said.
"In the 1970s, people smoked all day long and until their pipes fell apart. But now people buy expensive pipes and good tobacco and enjoy it. It's kind of a lifestyle statement more than anything. You can see on the internet and in the Facebook groups that a lot of young people are very interested. It's not like a tsunami of young smokers or anything, but it's growing nice and easy."
A family endeavour
For one of Denmark's premier pipe makers, Nanna Ivarsson, the craft is a family affair.
The daughter of noted pipe maker Lars Ivarsson and granddaughter of the legendary Sixten Ivarsson – also known as the grand old man of pipe making in Denmark – Nanna Ivarsson is one of the few female pipe makers in the industry. She also happens to be one of the best.
Ivarsson produces about 50-60 pipes per year and her clients are solely based abroad: primarily in Japan, the relatively new market of China, the US, Russia, Germany and Switzerland.
Not the full pipe dream
However, high-end pipes have yet to catch on in Denmark, she argues.
"I don't think we have that culture in Denmark. Anything over 100 euros for a pipe in Denmark would be considered very expensive. Danish people prefer their nice watches, shoes and purses, but with pipes I think they're more reserved."
The top pipes don't come cheap. Anne Julie, one of the first female pipe makers, currently has a pipe for sale at over 13,000 euros – a tidy sum for most people.
Ivarsson is among a select group of elite pipe makers in Denmark, which also includes the likes of Jørgen Nielsen, Erik Nørding, Tom Eltang, Nanna Ivarsson, Poul Winsløv, Anne Julie and Bjørn Thurman, to mention just a few.
"It came very naturally to me because I was always in my father's workshop and have met all the dealers and pipe makers since I was a very young girl. For me, making pipes is about my many years of experience looking at wood and embracing what the grains tell me.
"You can see that a bird's wing has a nice flow, or the sail of a ship, for instance. It's the same with a bit of wood on the beach. There are many of nature's shapes that you can see every day that are beautiful. For wood you look at the grains."
Secret's in the air
Spearheaded by the likes of Sixten Ivarsson, modern Danish pipe culture began in earnest around 1950, and there were once a number of cigar and pipe tobacco producers and small pipe factories dotted across the land.
Iversen credits the traditionally large number of smokers in Denmark for the production of cigars and pipe tobacco and small pipe factories. But it could also be a question of longitude and latitude.
"It has been discussed that the Danish climate – the temperature and moisture in the air – provides excellent conditions for pipe smoking," he said.
If you want to learn more about pipe smoking and manufacturing, the Danish Pipe Shop (danishpipeshop.com) offers lots of information in English.
So, 'God Røg' ['Good Smoke'], as they say in the Danish pipe community.
Interviews by Alex James
MICHAEL IVERSEN
The 2016 Open Danish Championship in Pipe Smoking is a true test of a pipe enthusiast's craft. The event is serious business: the internationally recognised rules are four pages long! However, according to Michael Iversen, the president of the Nordic Smokers Guild, the rules can be summed up pretty simply. "The goal is to smoke as long as possible using a standardised pipe and three grams of tobacco," he explained.
In the 1980s, the art of pipe smoking was at the peak of its popularity. And over 400 contestants would compete at the event. Today, it attracts just over a hundred.
Yet pipe smoking seems to have been growing international appeal. At the competition this year, individuals from the United States, Russia and China came to compete at the event.
Iversen noted that pipe smoking was "a real status symbol in countries such as China. It has become very popular there and so people from the country are travelling to Europe for events like ours."
SHANE IRELAND
Shane Ireland, a journalist for an American pipe smoking website, travelled to the competition for the accompanying pipe exhibition, as well as to see the main event.
It is the quality of the pipes for sale and in the exhibition that makes Danish varieties special, he contends.
"Denmark is legendary for modern pipe making, while the French and the English are also part of the tradition," he said. "Denmark is the birthplace of modern pipe making."
Ireland believes that per capita, Denmark is one of the most popular countries for smoking pipes in the world. One trend both nations have in common is the changing demographic of pipe smokers. "There is a real increase in interest amongst young people in pipe smoking – in America as well as in Denmark."
Ireland predicted that the expert-level pipe smokers would smoke for "at least two hours" to win the competition. And he was right: the winning time this year was two hours and 36 minutes.
Among the visitors from China was Mr Long, who has been a frequent attendee at pipe events for many years. However, he was not taking part in the competition this year and was instead looking forward to connecting with old friends and admiring the competitors in action.
He noted a vast difference between similar events in China and ones held in Denmark. He believed the contrast in the style of events make attending the different competitions interesting for collectors and casual enthusiasts.
"In China pipe-smoking events are much busier, with many people attending. Each country adds its own culture to a pipe-smoking event, so this is a very different experience."
But all the events have one thing in common. "They allow smokers from all over the world to communicate," enthused Long.
Certainly people greet each other like old friends as they connect over stories at conventions across the globe.
ANDERS NILSSON
One of the pipe makers at the show was Anders Nilsson, who is one half of Vollmer & Nilsson of Malmö and a member of the Swedish pipe smokers association. He made the short distance over in order to take part in the exhibition this year and summarised the experience as "a lot of fun".
"It is a great time and so close for us in Malmö," he said.
Tighter smoking regulations in Norway and Sweden have made large-scale events such as this much less common, he explained. So despite being from Sweden, this is a local event for Nilsson.
With a reputation as one of the best pipe makers in Sweden, Nilsson is well placed to comment on the enduring appeal of the pipe. "People appreciate the craft, the handmade aspect and also the local craftsmen who have worked on them," he said.
Nilsson also acknowledges the trend of younger people increasingly smoking pipes. "There is a real renaissance among new generations to experience the tradition of pipe smoking."


The Itabashi Culture and International Exchange Foundation (ICIEF) is actively involved in the establishment of an Education for International Understanding program. As part of the program, we are conducting "Foreign Volunteer Instructor Dispatch" activities to dispatch volunteer instructors from around the world to local Itabashi elementary and middle schools. During the schools' general studies period, volunteer instructors will participate in international exchange and encourage intercultural understanding.
Presently, ICIEF is recruiting foreigners as volunteer instructors. Teaching experience is not required. This is a great opportunity to introduce to children in Itabashi the wonders of your home country's culture.
Attend Education for International Understanding programs at Itabashi elementary and middle schools and introduce to children your home country's culture and customs such as cuisine, dance, music, and other fun activities.
1) ICIEF will contact you when a school requests an instructor that matches the information provided in the registration form. If you are able to perform the requested activities and available during the requested time, we will ask you to take part in as an instructor.
2) Volunteers will be rewarded with \6,500 (includes transportation costs; before income tax deduction) each time they participate.
3) We cannot guarantee that all applicants will receive requests. Thank you for your understanding.
Please fill out the registration form and submit it to ICIEF by submission form or email, post, FAX.


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Q: How do I use sklearn library and datastore memcache together? I have a BallTree model trained and persisted in pickle format.
In Google App Engine, sklearn is not supported by Python 2 standard environment. I tried Cloud ML to deploy the model but it is not working either since Cloud ML only serves predict() function. My BallTree model will call query_radius(). Hence, I moved to Python 3 standard environment where the sklearn works.
After I get the indexes from query_radius(), I will retrieve the key of the entities by the dictionary in some way. With the keys, I can now retrieve all the data from datastore.
Now, I want to utilise memcache to improve the retrieval speed of datastore. However, I found that googleappengine api is not working in Python 3 standard environment. What should I do to use the memcache? Or do I have other better options?

A: You are correct that in the Python 3 App Engine Standard Environment, memcache is not included out of the box.
The alternative is to use something like Cloud Memorystore (or really, any hosted Redis or Memcache product) and manually connect to it in your app.
For example, here's an example of how to connect to Memorystore from an App Engine Flex environment that should help get you started: https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/connect-redis-instance-flex

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Love Stories #1 (To Die For)
Writer: Dirk Manning	Artist: Owen Gieni, Rich Bonk Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: September 4, 2013 Critic Reviews: 11
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TWO COMPLETE STORIES AT LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE OF TWO COMICS! Two full-length stories in one double-length flip book! First, a desperate monk pits a band of savage Vikings against a pack of rabid vampires in a frantic attempt to protect an exceptionally precious child. In the second story, a woman trapped on a space station overrun by aliens must chose whether to save the second seat on her two-person escape pod for her aloof but heroic husband or for her passionate, forbidden lover.
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Unleash The Fanboy - Harrison Rawdin Sep 4, 2013
Love Stories (To Die For) #1 is an interesting but odd mix that's certainly worth a look. Highly recommended. Read Full Review
Crave Online - Andy Hunsaker Sep 5, 2013
Manning has made his hay in the short story realm, with books like Nightmare World made up entirely of 8-page stories, each with different artists and of vastly different tones, but given the fact that he had through-lines connecting all of those stories to a greater whole, he proved that you don't have to sacrifice the long arc to keep with self-contained short stories. He has an impressively economical way of getting into your gut and finding buttons to press to get your attention and twist your feelings around. Love Stories (To Die For) is the perfect vehicle for his brand of writing. I'm very much looking forward to more of it. Read Full Review
Florida Geek Scene - Jesse Scheckner Feb 19, 2014
As I mentioned earlier, despite its being enumerated #1, no other issues of Love Stories (to Die For) have been published since September 2013. Its a shame, too, because these one-off yarns are incredibly fun to read. Hopefully Manning and co. will put out more in the future. Until then, if you havent read this, you might do well to rectify that. Read Full Review
AiPT! - David Brooke Sep 4, 2013
Frankly, this story is pretty flippin' sweet. It has a compelling premise, and our macho man is well rendered. He's in love, thinks she's still in love with him, and his not knowing is endearing and sad at the same time. The twist at the end pulls things to another level as well. Read Full Review
Behind The Panels - Richard Gray Sep 9, 2013
A surprisingly strong book, and we hope to see more of this from Image. Read Full Review
Newsarama - Rob McMonigal Sep 5, 2013
A twin billing of twisted tales that would have been at home in a Warren Publication make this a book worth looking for if you're fan of old Creepy magazines. Read Full Review
IGN - Melissa Grey Sep 4, 2013
Both stories were lettered by Jim Reddington, and I recognize that letterers often go unsung in reviews. That being said, lettering is one aspect of comics that is absolutely essential, and when it's pulled off correctly, should never be overly noticeable in its own right. The book's lettering transitions in style across the two stories, but in both instances, the fonts are distractingly bad. Written text is there to immerse you in a story, never to pull you out of it. Unfortunately, that's precisely what happens in Love Stories (to Die For). Read Full Review
Multiversity Comics - Michelle White Sep 6, 2013
Overall, there isn't too much to write home about in this collection, and much less to die for, but it's worth a look for Gieni's art. Or if you just feel like getting a bit depressed about love in general, but then, you don't need a comic book to do that. Read Full Review
Bloody Disgusting - ShadowJayd Sep 6, 2013
Unfortunately, because the stories are so short, its almost impossible to invest any real feelings toward the characters when the narratives are as condensed as they are. And while still cheaper than the price of two comic books, $5 might be a bit too steep for this particular product. Overall, Id recommend Symptom of the Universe for both script and art, but "Bloodlust: Deceiver of the Gods" doesnt cut it (regardless of the Vampires vs. Vikings subject matter). Read Full Review
The Weekly Crisis - Ricardo Guajardo Sep 4, 2013
As much it pains me to say for the folks that tried their best to bring a different type of comic to readers, I cannot recommend this book for there are many things to go against it as I stated above. Read Full Review
Comic Bastards - Justin Wood Sep 5, 2013
I found myself having to use the press release as a guide to the motivations of this book. The first story was intended to be about 'honor' and 'justice', but while both of those words are spoken a lot in dialogue and is the main motivation of the lead character Skullsplitter I never found the kernel of the story that made it 'about' honor, and certainly nothing that suggested it said anything about love. The second story is built on a premise of twisted love, a quite good one at that, but ends up feeling like a surface feature of the story, with an ending that relies on a more nuanced and capable approach to creating connections with characters. Read Full Review
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Climate change and infectious diseases: What can we expect?
Global climate change, driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is being particularly felt in Canada, with warming generally greater than in the rest of the world. Continued warming will be accompanied by changes in precipitation, which will vary across the country and seasons, and by increasing climate variability and extreme weather events.
Climate change will likely drive the emergence of infectious diseases in Canada by northward spread from the United States and introduction from elsewhere in the world via air and sea transport. Diseases endemic to Canada are also likely to re-emerge.
This special issue describes key infectious disease risks associated with climate change.
These include emergence of tick-borne diseases in addition to Lyme disease, the possible introduction of exotic mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, more epidemics of Canada-endemic vector-borne diseases such as West Nile virus, and increased incidence of foodborne illnesses. Risk is likely to be compounded by an aging population affected by chronic diseases, which results in greater sensitivity to infectious diseases.
Identifying emerging disease risks is essential to assess our vulnerability, and a starting point to identify where public health effort is required to reduce the vulnerability and exposure of the Canadian population.


sounds like a fantastic thanksgiving and awesome that your TEEN nephews wanted to learn how to make pie (since most teens think they're too cool for school).
i haven't been in the blogging mood either; i just post when i want.
I love that they wanted to learn the family pie making ways!
Sounds like a great Thanksgiving for your family. It is weird though when it goes from chaos to quiet.
Post when you want and dont worry about it! I love catching up with you :) And yes yes yes to Whole30. I need it so hard to get my life back on track! As soon as Christmas is over, it is time to get serious again! But indulge in all the holiday goodness first! That is so so so sweet that your nephews wanted to learn how to make the pie. It sounds like you guys had an amazing time together! Never went to the College Football Hall of Fame and clearly I need to. Dawnsonville!!! I love going up there for the outlets. Not even going to lie. Moonshine is always good too. Hope you have a great week!


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Ebola in the ER…would you make the diagnosis?
By now, you have heard that the first US Ebola death in the US was originally seen in the ER on September 25th and sent home. Most media outlets are quick to point out this lapse in diagnosis, including the NY Times. Of course hindsight is 20/20 and while the diagnosis seems obvious now, would you have made the diagnosis at that time?
Consider the circumstances. Even as recently as 3 weeks ago, the possibility of someone coming into the US with Ebola seemed unlikely. Certainly if someone flew from Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone into the country vomiting with high fever on the plane, that situation would have been very blatant. But we're a country that still believes in movement of travel, so if someone flies into the country without symptoms, we assume they're healthy.
But when someone comes to the ER with fever and vomiting, that's not nearly as blatant a display of Ebola infection as someone with those symptoms on a plane en route from an Ebola-plagued environment. In other words, fever and vomiting in an ER is typical. I've never seen someone vomiting with fever on a plane. That behavior sticks out on a plane, not in an ER.
The Scene in the ER
So a patient comes into your ER with fever and vomiting. Based on ER records, it seems as though he mentioned his recent travel from Africa but it's not clear that he specifically mentioned Liberia. It's possible the patient didn't specify where he came from because he didn't think it was important. Maybe he too hadn't realized his recent travel from Liberia and recent contact with an infected patient was associated with his current illness. Clearly, now, it seems like a lapse in diagnostic detective work by the doctor not to connect the dots between recent travel from Africa and possible Ebola infection, but 3 weeks ago, believe it or not, it wasn't on the tip of our collective tongues.
I'm not suggesting that this wasn't a disappointing lapse in judgement on the doctor's part. Certainly we all wish he/she would have made the diagnosis. But to vilify the doctor and suggest that it should have been obvious to them isn't fair. You might think that as a doctor I'm biased, but I'm not supporting the ER doctor simply because I'm a doctor. What I am saying is that as a doctor, I've worked in an ER and things aren't presented to you in clear sound bites or 5 minute segments between commercials that are black and white. It's conflagration of paperwork, tests, other patients, mayhem, chaos, trauma, heart attacks and seemingly more serious illnesses.
Maybe a more seasoned doctor would have made the diagnosis. Maybe a doctor that had a special interest in infectious diseases would have picked up on it. But maybe the doctor that picked up on Ebola would have missed making the diagnosis of a heart attack in the patient down the hall. No matter how it is portrayed, making a diagnosis isn't always as simple as the media might suggest.
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Villa consits of 5 bedrooms with 5 bathrooms. The garden features a heated swimming pool.


Ms. Wentworth's and Mrs. Applebee's morning kindergarten class is going to have a Halloween party on Wednesday. Please have your child wear a costume for our parade. All parents are invited to attend.
Enough for 8 students and 10 adults.
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As the tree's branches flourish, participants experience the impact of global climate change all around them.
The floor and their vest vibrate, there are wind and heat simulations and a custom scent track, all combined with powerful visual effects that come together to bring the issues of deforestation to life.
The P6000 GPU hardware has been able to consistently deliver at least 90fps (frames per second), according to Nvidia.
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Pastora is an innovative performance, choreographed by Israel Galván and danced by Pastora Galván, which provocatively questions flamenco's cultural conventions. While traditional flamenco components ground Pastora, the piece is invigorated by unique musical arrangements and Pastora's bold character performance. Pastora's costumes and performance evoke the bygone eras of flamenco, and caricatures both the male and female personas reminiscent of Sevilla villages from the past. In this piece, Pastora Galván tenaciously disobeys the flamenco archetypes of female beauty by embracing ugliness, vulgarity, and absurdity. Galván digs into the more physical and strenuous aspects of flamenco, vigorously stamping out the zapateado (footwork) and exaggerating female characterizations with irony and relish.
Performances of Pastora will take place at 8 p.m. on March 13 and 14, 2014 as part of Pasión y Arte's 2014 Philadelphia Flamenco Festival.


From the late 1990s until 2010, the fertility transition in Jordan was stalled, with the total fertility rate (TFR) well above replacement level. In this paper, we present new evidence that fertility rates in Jordan have resumed declining, and examine the possible mechanisms behind this trend. Based on data from the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2016, fertility has declined from a TFR of 3.8 in 2010 to 3.3 in 2016 among Jordanians. Despite challenging economic conditions, age at marriage has remained stable. Therefore nuptiality cannot be the main driver of the recent fertility decline. Although fertility rates have declined across parities and population groups, there is evidence of reduced fertility particularly among more educated women.


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Conta 56 presenze in Serie B.

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Inizia a giocare a calcio nel Campinas Durevole, in Brasile, ma nel 1999 viene acquistato dal Perugia su segnalazione di Careca. Dopo un anno nelle giovanili viene aggregato alla prima squadra e successivamente ceduto in prestito al Kavala nella seconda serie greca, squadra con cui disputa 12 partite e segna 2 gol nella Beta Ethniki.

Dopo aver fatto ritorno a Perugia, nell'estate del 2001 rescinde il contratto con la squadra umbra e firma per il Rieti in Serie D. L'anno seguente si trasferisce al  dove resta per due stagioni in Serie C1.

Nel gennaio 2004 l' acquista la comproprietà del giocatore, e lo gira in prestito prima al  e poi all' per beneficare del prestito nell'ambito dell'operazione che porta in Friuli il giovane Marco Capparella. Passa alla Cisco Roma e poi firma un biennale con il Taranto, fortemente voluto dall'allenatore ionico Aldo Papagni.

Nel 2007 la neopromossa  lo acquista in compartecipazione per disputare il campionato cadetto. Dopo 37 presenze e quattro gol nella Serie B 2007-2008, viene messo fuori rosa per un litigio con i tifosi e successivamente ceduto in prestito alla Pro Patria. Tornato a Ravenna disputa una stagione in Lega Pro Prima Divisione con i romagnoli per poi passare alla  in Serie B, con cui disputa 16 partite da titolare, e poi alla  nel 2011. Dopo essersi svincolato dal Ravenna, nell'agosto 2011 viene ingaggiato dal , con cui firma un contratto di un anno. Con la squadra lariana, nel campionato di Lega Pro Prima Divisione 2011-2012, gioca 21 partite e mette a segno 3 gol. A fine stagione però la società non gli rinnova il contratto.. Solo a dicembre 2012 viene tesserato dalla , in quarta serie.

Dopo aver vinto la Serie D nella stagione 2013-2014, lascia gli arancioni per firmare l'; tuttavia, il ripescaggio in Lega Pro della formazione amaranto, porta Toledo ad Altovicentino, sempre in Serie D.

Dopo una parentesi nel futsal, nel 2019 torna a giocare a calcio tra Promozione e seconda categoria, prima a Grottaglie e poi a Corigliano e a Cori.

Nella stagione 2022/2023 viene tesserato dalla La Setina, squadra militante nel girone H di seconda categoria laziale.

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Ratikan täysikokoinen malli eli maketti saapuu Tampereelle helmikuussa 2019. Maketissa saat tuntuman siihen, millaista Ratikalla matkustaminen on vuonna 2021.
The new Tampere tram will be comfortable, easy to use and bright. That's why many Tampere residents are taking part in the testing and design of the tram car. Together we can make the best possible tram for our city.
This year has been especially important to Tampere Tram project, because the final design and colour of the tram will be determined with the help of everyone in Tampere. In April, for example, city residents had a say in the design of tram's interior design and colour selection. Later this autumn, we will know what the Tampere tram looks like.
Tampere Tramline allows fluent and punctual transportation in the municipality. The average distance between stops is about 600 metres and the service frequency of the tram will be 7,5 minutes.
The Tramway Alliance is designing and building the tramway infrastructure and depot area. You will find more information about the construction project and its impact on traffic on the Tramway Alliance website. The principal clients of Tramway Alliance are Tampere Tramway Ltd. and the City of Tampere.
Tampere Public Transport is responsible for planning and operating the majority of public transport in the Tampere region. The unit also maintains a fare and ticketing system.
The City of Tampere oversees the political decision-making process behind the tramway project and the participation of Tampere residents in the design and construction of the tramway system. The city is also responsible for the planning, construction and maintenance of roads, bikeways and public areas linked to the tramway, as well as tramway operating costs and public transport fares.


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Here's Who Made Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant For Cloud IaaS
June 19, 2017, 02:56 PM EDT
An Expanding IaaS Field?
In recent years, the global public Infrastructure-as-a-Service market has both grown rapidly, and seen the number of prominent vendors decrease.
That dynamic was reflected in the past few Gartner Magic Quadrants for IaaS, which saw the research company consistently shed vendors from its eagerly anticipated rankings. But Gartner's 2017 report, released Thursday, bucked that trend, evaluating four more companies than the previous year's.
Two of those newcomers -- Interoute and Joyent -- made comebacks to the list after having fallen off in 2016. And two others -- Alibaba Cloud and Oracle -- are new players that have the technical talent, funding and market reach to make their presence felt in the market.
The only vendor dropped in 2017 from the previous year's Magic Quadrant was VMware, which recently sold off the remnants of its vCloud Air public cloud to European provider OVH.
While several companies made moves, the Leaders Quadrant in the 2017 report once again only contained two companies -- dominant industry kingpin Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. Google just came up short from busting into that category.
Learn More: gartner magic quadrant | magic quadrant iaas | Infrastructure-as-a-Service | Amazon Web Services iaas | Microsoft Azure iaas


As a Level Designer on Fallout 3, I was responsible for the layout, enemy placement and behavior, loot placement, puzzles and overall theme and background of various places within the game. I also was responsible for the traps system, including scripting the traps and working with artists, programmers and others to get the traps functioning in-game.
Here are a few places that I'm particularly proud of.
This area consists of the last four combat sections the player goes through on the extended main quest of Fallout 3.
The first area is the crawler's underbelly, where the player encounters Stiggs, an Enclave engineer. You can extract information from him, and either choose to kill him for siding with the Enclave, or let him go after hearing his side of the story. With the right perk, you can learn how to turn all of the robots in the base against the Enclave by accessing the robot control mainframe in the next area.
The second area is the crawler's main part, containing the control room, dorms, a med bay, a deathclaw research station and an armory. In this area you can unleash a friendly deathclaw that will massacre Enclave personnel, find tons of loot in the armory, and gain access to the top part of the platform.
The third area is the top of the platform, occupied by some of the toughest enemies in the game. During the fight, vertibirds land and drop off more troops and shoot rockets at you during flyby attacks.
The final area is a satellite tower, where you make the final decision of the main quest and fight off more Enclave enemies as you make your way up the tower. This area is made easier if you reprogrammed the Enclave robots, as they're making an effort to contain them. The Brotherhood is now making bombing runs outside, and you can hear the bombs go off during your combat inside. After you've done what you need to do, you're picked up by a vertibird commandeered by the Brotherhood of Steel.
In a semi-accurate reproduction of the actual archives you encounter Sidney, a treasure hunter looking for the Declaration of Independence. Features include a standoff in the Archives' Rotunda where you hold your ground alongside Sidney against waves of incoming super mutants. Sidney also guides you through and an underground service area being guarded by military robots, offering shortcuts if your skills are sufficient.
A metro station that is the most probable route into DC on the main quest, the player gets to fill a ghoul-infested area with flammable gas, and learns how to use a laser pistol to ignite the gas.
The slave quarters in The Pitt DLC, this area is a filthy working and living environment for the Pitt's slave population. There is an upper area that is blocked off from the player at the start of the DLC, where Pitt Raiders can be seen walking above the player. This enforces the atmosphere that the slaves are lower-class citizens without access to the nicer, raider-inhabited upper areas. While most settlements are handled by world artists, the amount of combat here (raider vs player, raider vs slave, slave vs player) necessitated the involvement of a level designer.
In Mothership Zeta, the player get close to the objective in the Hangar before setting off an alarm. The player then gets to fend off numerous waves of enemies by activating repulsion pylons originally used to help alien spacecraft land. The explosions from the pylons send enemy aliens and their helper robots flying. When creating this, I made a flexible scripted system that allowed me to rapidly change the spawn frequency, amount of spawns and difficulty of enemies, and also break the attacks into distinct waves in order to not overwhelm the player.
Further on in Mothership Zeta, you encounter the weapons testing facility. In this area, there are numerous testing stations, including a station where you can teleport mutant bovines (Brahmin) from the surface of the earth, who are then blasted to pieces by helper robots carrying experimental, unique weapons. You can destroy these robots and take their unique weapons. You also come across a target practice range that teleports numerous wasteland creatures and raiders into the spaceship for you to shoot. Successful target practice will award you with an alien weaponry perk.
This is one of the first points the player travels to if following the main quest.
A major point on the Blood Ties quest, this area is the home of a reclusive cult.
I'm responsible for some of the caves under Oasis, important to the Oasis quest.
A slanted, half-underwater area that is potentially part of the Replicated Man and Wasteland Survival Guide quests.
A super high-tech area that the player must visit on the main quest.
A fortified set of buildings overrun by raiders.
In the mountainous northwest, there is a cave full of deathclaws. Only the toughest or sneakiest will survive long enough to get the great loot that's down there.
Actually two separate areas, one is inhabited by friendly worker ants and allows the player to perform a freeform activity to acquire ant nectar, a powerful chem. These friendly worker ants are being harassed by a neighboring group of ants. By going down the twisting, vertigo-inducing tunnels of the aggressor ant hive and taking out their queen, you encourage the other ants to make ant nectar more quickly.
A fun sewer romp takes the player along a twisting series of pipes and processing stations. You might just encounter Gallo, an insane cannibal ghoul hermit who collects useful items and antique Nuka Cola merchandise.
A company under investigation for developing weapons with China, the building was occupied by government military robots when the bombs fell. To this day, the robots still guard the halls of the building, waiting for new instructions.
A complex beneath this memorial contains several dead wastelanders, monstrous mirelurks and a makeshift kitchen. It is up to the player to determine what became of the wastelanders, and follow a breadcrumb trail of clues to a hidden stash of loot.
An outdoor region in DC, containing a slew of Super Mutants and various freeform activities.
Another outdoor region in DC, connecting various locations together and providing exploratory gameplay.
This high-level ghoul-infested area contains some serious combat. The player also gets to explore what was once a ghoul settlement, and is now a hive of insane feral ghouls.
On the way to the GNR building on the main quest, it's quite probable that the player will get to go through this scenic, low level dungeon. The player gets to loot dead fallen wastelanders who were attacked by the feral ghouls in the area.
The raider-only settlement in The Pitt was also put together by me instead of a world artist due to the high amount of combat involved in this area. There are multiple combinations of combat possible depending on the player's choices, including a scene where the player powers down the lights in the area and Trogs (violent, light-hating subhuman mutants) flood the area killing off all of the raiders. The player gets to finish off any survivors left after the battle.
Created based on a need for more exploratory content in The Pitt, I created an apartment footprint and duplicated it in order to make a multi-story apartment building. Then, to make the area interesting, I collapsed walls, floor and ceilings to make a non-standard path for the player. This experiment in simplicity took a familiar setting and turned it on its end, causing the player to navigate the building in a unique way.
The boss of The Pitt lives in this towering skyscraper. It was a challenge to make the building seem huge from the inside while keeping the player focused on the main path of the quest.
Located in Point Lookout, this part cave, part masonry space looks unique due to the integration of the cave kit and an exterior stone wall kit found in DC. It is the resting place of the Book of the Dead, and a creepy area for the player to explore in Point Lookout's The Dark Heart of Blackhall quest.
In Mothership Zeta, the player is accompanied by a tech-savvy scavenger through the robot assembly plant. Highlights include blowing up part of the assembly line in order to get to the next area, and a boss fight involving an alien who has a robot control device. You can watch the alien wake up helper robots from their pods, and they go to attack you. You can loot the control device from this alien, and then activate dormant robots with it throughout the rest of the DLC. These helper robots will follow you around and attack your enemies for you.
This macabre area is where the humans are being experimented on. The player encounters hostile alien/human hybrids as well as gruesome experimentation rooms. Highlights include unleashing a group of these hybrid abominations on alien researchers.


CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds that will take place Tuesday, February 21, 1 – 2 pm ET. Dr. Janet Wright, executive director for Million Hearts, will be joined by a panel of experts. They will examine heart disease and stroke prevention interventions, present Million Hearts activities currently underway in communities such as San Diego and New York City, share public and private sector collaborations, and discuss efforts to unite existing prevention efforts with innovative programs that will ultimately help Americans live longer, healthier, more productive lives.
Those with updates are encouraged to contact Maureen Culbertson (mculbertson@cdc.gov) to share successes or learn more about becoming a Million Hearts partner. You also may visit the Millions Heart website at http://millionhearts.hhs.gov.


A detailed, city-level multivariate regression analysis of EV penetration in California has found a link between electric vehicle uptake and many underlying factors. A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) found that electric vehicle model availability; public electric vehicle charging network; local promotion activities for electric vehicles (e.g., outreach events, informational websites; electric car sharing services; and government and fleet programs) and median income in each city to be correlated significantly with new electric vehicle sales share. They cautioned that causality could not be determined within the analysis.
The team drilled into the activities of the 30 California cities with the highest rates of electric vehicle penetration, examining how local organizations—regional and city governments, utilities, businesses, and nonprofits are promoting electric vehicles through a wide array of activities. In these 30 cities, electric vehicles account for 6% to 18% share of new vehicle sales—this is 8 to 25 times that of the US average in 2015. These vehicle markets range greatly in size, from hundreds of electric vehicle sales up to approximately 4,000 (San Jose). . . .
The electric vehicle market grows with its charging infrastructure. The 30 California cities with the highest electric vehicle uptake have, on average, 5 times the public charging infrastructure per capita than the US average. In addition, workplace charging availability in the San Jose metropolitan area is far higher than elsewhere. Increasingly, major public electric power utilities and workplaces are expanding the public charging network to further address consumer confidence and convenience. . . .
I'm guessing San Jose is the one with the 18% penetration? I'm guessing income level, tech savvy population and Tesla's presence have a few things to do with that.
DarthPuppy wrote: Neat posting. Thanks!
LOL - Since I'm So. Cal, I'm not hip to the San Jose suburbs. I just generically lumped the Silicon Valley region as San Jose.
Are all of those suburbs actual cities?
DarthPuppy wrote: LOL - Since I'm So. Cal, I'm not hip to the San Jose suburbs. I just generically lumped the Silicon Valley region as San Jose.
It's Silicon Valley we're talking about. Think virtual cities.
They exist on a waft of air that smells like money For Palo Alto/Menlo Park read Stanford, which some consider the northwestern limit of Silicon Valley on the Peninsula (others might move the line up to Redwood City). In the East Bay Fremont serves the same purpose, especially now that Tesla's there. And yes, they are all cities.
Yes, they are all chartered cities or towns. They are not suburbs of San Jose.
Becky50 wrote: Yes, they are all chartered cities or towns. They are not suburbs of San Jose.
The census bureau begs to differ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose- ... tical_Area See the entry under "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area", although to be strictly accurate, those cities in San Mateo (like Menlo Park) or Alameda counties (Fremont) aren't included in it.
Interesting link. I learned what a Combined Statistical Area is and understand why the different counties are linked the way they are. I still stand by my answer as to whether places like Campbell, Los Gatos, And Mountain View are cities and not just parts of the City of San Jose.
Many Combined Statistical Areas have multiple cities in them.