Used in potato, cooked meat/onion flavours in sauces at12ppm, bakery and frozen foods at 5ppm, dairy and drinks at 2ppm, oils and fats at 0.2ppm.
Specific Gravity: 1.03500 to 1.05500 @ 25.00 °C.
Gigiena i Sanitariya. For English translation, see HYSAAV. Vol. 49(1), Pg. 85, 1984.
PubMed:Identification and characterization of volatile components causing the characteristic flavor in miso (Japanese fermented soybean paste) and heat-processed miso products.
PubMed:Characterization of flavor of whey protein hydrolysates.
PubMed:[Formation of flavor of dry champignons (Agaricus bisporus)].
PubMed:Comparison of extraction techniques and mass spectrometric ionization modes in the analysis of wine volatile carbonyls.
PubMed:[The composition of volatile components of dry cepe and oyster mushroom].
PubMed:Application of the Olfactoscan method to study the ability of saturated aldehydes in masking the odor of methional.
PubMed:The chemical characterization of the aroma of dessert and sparkling white wines (Pedro Xim�nez, Fino, Sauternes, and Cava) by gas chromatography-olfactometry and chemical quantitative analysis.
PubMed:Key odor impact compounds in three yeast extract pastes.
PubMed:Enhancement of the primary flavor compound methional in potato by increasing the level of soluble methionine.
PubMed:Aroma extract dilution analysis of Cv. Marion (Rubus spp. hyb) and Cv. Evergreen (R. laciniatus L.) blackberries.
PubMed:Gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) and proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) analysis of the flavor profile of grana padano, parmigiano reggiano, and grana trentino cheeses.
PubMed:Influence of some technological parameters on the formation of dimethyl sulfide, 2-mercaptoethanol, methionol, and dimethyl sulfone in port wines.
PubMed:Effect of cultivar and storage time on the volatile flavor components of baked potato.
PubMed:2-Methyl-3-furanthiol and methional are possible off-flavors in stored orange juice: aroma-similarity, NIF/SNIF GC-O, and GC analyses.
PubMed:Change in the flavor of black tea drink during heat processing.
PubMed:Clues about the role of methional as character impact odorant of some oxidized wines.
PubMed:Studies on the key odorants formed by roasting of wild mango seeds (Irvingia gabonensis).
PubMed:Chemical studies on curuba (Passiflora mollissima (Kunth) L. H. Bailey) fruit flavour.
PubMed:Characterization of volatile compounds responsible for the aroma in naturally fermented sausages by gas chromatography-olfactometry.
PubMed:Aroma quality assessment of Korean fermented red pepper paste (gochujang) by aroma extract dilution analysis and headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-olfactometry.
PubMed:Metabolism of L-methionine linked to the biosynthesis of volatile organic sulfur-containing compounds during the submerged fermentation of Tuber melanosporum.
PubMed:ERK and RSK regulate distinct steps of a cellular program that induces transition from multicellular epithelium to single cell phenotype.
PubMed:Determination of compounds responsible for tempeh aroma.
PubMed:Sensorially important aldehyde production from amino acids in model wine systems: impact of ascorbic acid, erythorbic acid, glutathione and sulphur dioxide.
PubMed:α,β-Acetylenic amino thiolester inhibitors of aldehyde dehydrogenases 1&3: suppressors of apoptogenic aldehyde oxidation and activators of apoptosis.
PubMed:Volatile sulphur compounds and pathways of L-methionine catabolism in Williopsis yeasts.
PubMed:Quality and aromatic sensory descriptors (mainly fresh and dry fruit character) of Spanish red wines can be predicted from their aroma-active chemical composition.
PubMed:Oxidatively generated DNA damage after Cu(II) catalysis of dopamine and related catecholamine neurotransmitters and neurotoxins: Role of reactive oxygen species.
PubMed:Ethylene-regulated (methylsulfanyl)alkanoate ester biosynthesis is likely to be modulated by precursor availability in Actinidia chinensis genotypes.
PubMed:Methionine-derived metabolites in apoptosis: therapeutic opportunities for inhibitors of their metabolism in chemoresistant cancer cells.
PubMed:Purification of an alcohol dehydrogenase involved in the conversion of methional to methionol in Oenococcus oeni IOEB 8406.
PubMed:Correlation between the pattern volatiles and the overall aroma of wild edible mushrooms.
PubMed:Simultaneous determination of ketoacids and dicarbonyl compounds, key Maillard intermediates on the generation of aged wine aroma.
PubMed:Differentiation of aroma characteristics of pine-mushrooms (Tricholoma matsutake Sing.) of different grades using gas chromatography-olfactometry and sensory analysis.
PubMed:The mechanism of guanine specific photooxidation in the presence of berberine and palmatine: activation of photosensitized singlet oxygen generation through DNA-binding interaction.
PubMed:Methionine catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
PubMed:Synthesis and effects of 3-methylthiopropanoyl thiolesters of lipoic acid, methional metabolite mimics.
PubMed:Formation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dGuo) by PAH o-quinones: involvement of reactive oxygen species and copper(II)/copper(I) redox cycling.
PubMed:Metal-mediated oxidative damage to cellular and isolated DNA by gallic acid, a metabolite of antioxidant propyl gallate.
PubMed:Relationship between potentiometric measurements, sensorial analysis, and some substances responsible for aroma degradation of white wines.
PubMed:A fermented meat model system for studies of microbial aroma formation.
PubMed:Analysis of aldehydes in beer using solid-phase microextraction with on-fiber derivatization and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
PubMed:Anaplerotic reactions in tumour proliferation and apoptosis.
PubMed:Kinetics of oxidative degradation of white wines and how they are affected by selected technological parameters.
PubMed:Biosynthesis and secretion of parathyroid hormone are sensitive to proteasome inhibitors in dispersed bovine parathyroid cells.
PubMed:Double base lesions of DNA by a metabolite of carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene.
PubMed:Site specificity and mechanism of oxidative DNA damage induced by carcinogenic catechol.
PubMed:Requirement of glutathione and cysteine in guanine-specific oxidation of DNA by carcinogenic potassium bromate.
PubMed:Evaluation of the representativeness of the odor of cooked mussel extracts and the relationship between sensory descriptors and potent odorants.
PubMed:The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway mediates the regulated degradation of mammalian 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase.
PubMed:Proteasome-mediated degradation of the papillomavirus E2-TA protein is regulated by phosphorylation and can modulate viral genome copy number.
PubMed:The quantitative oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide by peroxynitrite.
PubMed:Volatile compounds from potato-like model systems.
PubMed:Acute toxicity, primary irritancy, and genetic toxicity studies with 3-(methylthio)propionaldehyde.
PubMed:Site-specific oxidation at GG and GGG sequences in double-stranded DNA by benzoyl peroxide as a tumor promoter.
PubMed:N-acetylcysteine, a cancer chemopreventive agent, causes oxidative damage to cellular and isolated DNA.
PubMed:Peptide aldehyde inhibitors of bacterial peptide deformylases.
PubMed:Mechanism of oxidative DNA damage induced by a heterocyclic amine, 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5f]quinoxaline.
PubMed:A thioester analogue of an amino acetylenic aldehyde is a suicide inhibitor of aldehyde dehydrogenase and an inducer of apoptosis in mouse lymphoid cells overexpressing the bcl2 gene.
PubMed:Mechanism of oxidative DNA damage induced by quercetin in the presence of Cu(II).
PubMed:Characterization of aroma volatiles in tomatoes by sensory analyses.
PubMed:Fas-mediated apoptosis in mouse hepatocytes involves the processing and activation of caspases.
PubMed:Methional, a cellular metabolite, induces apoptosis preferentially in G2/M-synchronized BAF3 murine lymphoid cells.
PubMed:Degradation of the inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER) by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
PubMed:Degradation of hepatic stearyl CoA delta 9-desaturase.
PubMed:Methionine oxidation and apoptosis induction by ascorbate, gallate and hydrogen peroxide.
PubMed:Biosynthesis and maturation of the malaria aspartic hemoglobinases plasmepsins I and II.
PubMed:Effect of cysteine, N-acetyl-L-cysteine and glutathione on cytotoxic activity of antioxidants.
PubMed:Actin is cleaved during constitutive apoptosis.
PubMed:Rapid degradation of CD4 in cells expressing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Env and Vpu is blocked by proteasome inhibitors.
PubMed:Involvement of the proteasome in the programmed cell death of NGF-deprived sympathetic neurons.
PubMed:Proteasomes play an essential role in thymocyte apoptosis.
PubMed:Generation of hydroxyl radicals by polymorphonuclear neutrophils during exposure to direct current and iron.
PubMed:Proteasome inhibitors block VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 gene expression in endothelial cells without affecting nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-kappa B.
PubMed:Calpain inhibitors protect against depolarization-induced neurofilament protein loss of septo-hippocampal neurons in culture.
PubMed:Altered methional homoeostasis is associated with decreased apoptosis in BAF3 bcl2 murine lymphoid cells.
PubMed:Blocking intracellular degradation of the erythropoietin and asialoglycoprotein receptors by calpain inhibitors does not result in the same increase in the levels of their membrane and secreted forms.
PubMed:Methionine dependence of tumor cells: programmed cell survival?
PubMed:Dissociation of nuclear and cytoplasmic cell cycle progression by drugs employed in cell synchronization.
PubMed:Methional derived from 4-methylthio-2-oxobutanoate is a cellular mediator of apoptosis in BAF3 lymphoid cells.
PubMed:Inhibitors of the proteasome block the degradation of most cell proteins and the generation of peptides presented on MHC class I molecules.
PubMed:Multiple proteases regulate neurite outgrowth in NB2a/dl neuroblastoma cells.
PubMed:DNA damage induced by metabolites of o-phenylphenol in the presence of copper(II) ion.
PubMed:Site-specific DNA damage induced by nickel(II) ion in the presence of hydrogen peroxide.
PubMed:Site-specific DNA damage induced by cobalt(II) ion and hydrogen peroxide: role of singlet oxygen.
PubMed:Human DNA damage induced by 1,2,4-benzenetriol, a benzene metabolite.
PubMed:A phase I trial of recombinant human gamma interferon (IFN-gamma 4A) in patients with advanced malignancy.
PubMed:Effect of four synthetic antioxidants on the formation of ethylene from methional in rat liver microsomes.
PubMed:Oxygen radical formation and DNA damage due to enzymatic reduction of bleomycin-Fe(III).
PubMed:Interactions of anticancer quinone drugs, aclacinomycin A, adriamycin, carbazilquinone, and mitomycin C, with NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, xanthine oxidase and oxygen.
PubMed:Photooxidative reactions in chloroplast thylakoids. Evidence for a Fenton-type reaction promoted by superoxide or ascorbate.
PubMed:Lipid peroxidation and oxidation of several compounds by H2O2 activated metmyoglobin.
PubMed:Oxy radical formation during redox cycling of the bleomycin-iron (III) complex by NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase.
PubMed:Involvement of reactive oxygen species in the microsomal S-oxidation of thiobenzamide.
PubMed:Enhanced production of ethylene from methional by iron chelates and heme containing proteins in the system consisting of quinone compounds and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase.
PubMed:Oxidant damage of normal and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-deficient red blood cells is enhanced by iron-EDTA complex.
PubMed:Lactoferrin-catalysed hydroxyl radical production. Additional requirement for a chelating agent.
PubMed:Generation of hydroxyl radical and its involvement in lignin degradation by Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
PubMed:Generation of hydroxyl radical by anticancer quinone drugs, carbazilquinone, mitomycin C, aclacinomycin A and adriamycin, in the presence of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase.
PubMed:Non-enzymatic reduction of alloxan by reduced nicotinamide nucleotide.
PubMed:Effect of deoxyribonucleic acid on the production of reduced oxygen by bleomycin and iron.
PubMed:Hydrogen peroxide contracts airway smooth muscle: a possible endogenous mechanism.
PubMed:Hydroxyl radical production in body fluids. Roles of metal ions, ascorbate and superoxide.
PubMed:A new method for the detection of hydroxyl radical production by phagocytic cells.
PubMed:Respiratory effects and ascorbate reactions with misonidazole and other recently developed drugs.
PubMed:Role of hydroxyl radical in polymorphonuclear leukocyte-mediated bactericidal activity.
PubMed:Production of hydroxyl radical by human alveolar macrophages.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene from methionine. Isolation of the putative intermediate 4-methylthio-2-oxobutanoate from culture fluids of bacteria and fungi.
PubMed:Chemical evidence for production of hydroxyl radicals during microsomal electron transfer.
PubMed:Evidence for production of oxidizing radicals by the particulate O-2-forming system from human neutrophils.
PubMed:Effect of low and high methional concentrations on prostaglandin biosynthesis in microsomes from bovine and sheep vesicular glands.
PubMed:Hydroxyl radical formation in phagocytic cells of the rat.
PubMed:Ethylene formation by polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Role of myeloperoxidase.
PubMed:The role of myeloperoxidase in the microbicidal activity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
PubMed:Bioavailability of acetylated derivatives of methionine, threonine, and lysine.
PubMed:Role of vitamin E in glutathione-induced oxidant stress: methemoglobin, lipid peroxidation, and hemolysis.
PubMed:Effect of organic sulfur compounds on the chemical and enzymatic transformations of prostaglandin endoperoxide H2.
PubMed:Evidence for hydroxyl radical production by human neutrophils.
PubMed:Evidence for hydroxyl radical generation by human Monocytes.
PubMed:Evaluation of the role of methional, 2-keto-4-methylthiobutyric acid and peroxidase in ethylene formation by Escherichia coli.
PubMed:Mechanism for irreversible self-deactivation of prostaglandin synthetase.
PubMed:Chemical reactivity of metallic copper in a model system containing biological metabolites.
PubMed:Ethylene formation in sugar beet leaves: evidence for the involvement of 3-hydroxytyramine and phenoloxidase after wounding.
PubMed:Reactions of oxygen radical species with methional: a pulse radiolysis study.
PubMed:Role of hydroxyl radical scavengers dimethyl sulfoxide, alcohols and methional in the inhibition of prostaglandin biosynthesis.
PubMed:Co-oxygenation of organic substrates by the prostaglandin synthetase of sheep vesicular gland.
PubMed:Ethylene production by cress roots and excised cress root segments and its inhibition by 3,5-diiodo-4-hydroxybenzoic acid.
PubMed:[Proceedings: Reactive sites of Escherichia coli methional tRNA synthetase].
PubMed:An evaluation of 4-s-methyl-2-keto-butyric Acid as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of ethylene.
PubMed:A mechanism for the production of ethylene from methional. The generation of the hydroxyl radical by xanthine oxidase.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene. Methanesulphinic acid as cofactor in the enzymic formation of ethylene from methional.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene. Dual nature of cofactor required for the enzymic production of ethylene from methional.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene. Enzymes involved in its formation from methional.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene. Ethylene formation from methional by horseradish peroxidase.
PubMed:Enzymic evolution of ethylene from methional by a pea seedling extract.
PubMed:Biosynthesis of ethylene. Formation of ethylene from methional by a cell-free enzyme system from cauliflower florets.


Raymond Wiley is a producer, writer, and publicist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of The Georgia Guidestones: America's Most Mysterious Monument.
The first episode of Out There Premium features an interview with Randall Carlson. Randall is the founder of Sacred Geometry International, and is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced Freemasons in the Atlanta area.
Out There Radio producer Raymond Wiley takes you on a video tour of the mysterious Georgia Guidestones.
One of the great highlights from the time we spent with Disinformation was our podcast interview with Alan Moore. Listen to it here, in its entirety.


Italian Studies at Manchester undertakes internationally recognized research which is both wide- ranging and markedly interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on Modernism, history of the book and periodical studies, late medieval and Renaissance literary and cultural studies, translation studies and linguistics. In the 2014 REF, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Manchester, the unit of assessment that includes Italian Studies, had more than 70% of research outputs rated at 4* (world leading)/3* (internationally excellent). These results place Modern Languages and Linguistics at Manchester at a highly impressive 3rd out of 57 submissions, nationally, based on research power (calculated by 4* and 3* times number of staff submitted).
A considerable number of PhD candidates in Italian have pursued research across fields from the medieval to modern, including linguistics, often supported by funding secured from major AHRC research project awards. Italian has also been at the forefront of the relaunch of the John Rylands Research Institute ( http://www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/ ) based at the University's special collections securing PhD bursaries for candidates working on the world-class holdings of early Italian printed books and manuscripts from the Spencer, Christie, and Bullock collections. Staff are also involved in collaborations with colleagues from institutions across the world and have recently secured visiting professorships, fellowships, and grants at Harvard University, the Folger Library, the Morgan Library and the British School in Rome. The research culture is further enhanced by the presence of Visiting Professors and Lecturers from Italy and the USA, participation in the interdisciplinary seminars held by CIDRAL ( http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/ ), and our own research seminars.


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10289 Geoffperry eller 1984 QS är en asteroid i huvudbältet som upptäcktes den 24 augusti 1984 av Oak Ridge-observatoriet. Den är uppkallad efter Geoffrey E. Perry.

Asteroiden har en diameter på ungefär 11 kilometer och den tillhör asteroidgruppen Ashkova.

Referenser

Huvudbältesasteroider
Ashkova-asteroider
Småplaneter namngivna efter personer
Astronomiska upptäckter av Oak Ridge-observatoriet
Astronomiska upptäckter 1984

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1920's dance craze, sprang from Harlem.
1920s dances seen in Silent Films, had interesting roots and helped Maybelline become an overnight sensation in the rebellious, Jazz Age.
In 1923 when the Broadway show "Runnin' Wild," featured a tune called The Charleston.....
a phenomenon was born.
While the Charleston as a dance probably came from the "star" or challenge dances, that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in Runnin' Wild, were probably newly devised for popular appeal.
The Charleston was the dance that captured the spirit of the 1920s. It was danced with wild abandon by a new generation of independent young flappers and Jazzbo's.
Tango sprang from the poor and the disadvantaged, in Argentina tenement blocks and on street corners, to become...
The Dance of Love.
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Tango Scene.
Rudolph Valentino dancing tango. Silent movie; sixth best grossing silent film of all time; turned Rudolph Valentino into a super star and gave him the image of the 'Latin Lover'
Harlem's increasing popularity as an entertainment district, as well as a vibrant creative center for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s eventually saw both the creation and popularizing of Lindy Hop.
Born in the late 1920's, the Lindy Hop is the Grandfather of swing dances. But it wasn't until after the opening of the Savoy Ballroom that Lindy Hop got its name and a home. At the Savoy the Lindy Hop got hotter and hotter.
Upper and middle class white audiences were exposed to Harlem's working class entertainment, at first through white audiences attending black venues and shows in Harlem, but later through traveling shows, popular music and cinema and prompting a mainstream thirst for "black" cultural forms, like the Lindy Hop.
My grandmother, Evelyn Boecher Williams on the right, with her sister, Verona Boecher Stroh, are pictured here at a Halloween party in their family's ballroom, in Chicago, around, 1920.
Nana, went on to dance with the Ballets Russes, and like so many girls in her generation.... rebelling from the straight-laced ways of Old World thinking..... hoped to become an actress/dancer, in Hollywood Silent Films. But she met and fell in love with my grandfather, William Preston Williams and gave up her dream, to be a wife and mother. However, she kept up her love of dancing, all her life and even taught me the Charleston and the Tango, when I was 15.
With the wild abandon..... Jazz Age dances..... brought into 1920's culture.... epitomized in film.... it was only natural for young women to gravitate towards Maybelline. Here is a Jazz Age Maybelline ad, that appealed to the girl ready, to Jazz it up, for a night of dancing, movie going, or just ridding in cars with boys.
My cousin, Linda Hughes, (Mabel Williams granddaughter and Maybelline's namesake,) and I, have loved working together all week, creating the
Vintage Maybelline Silent Film and Concert Series, to celebrate, THE ARTIST, winning the Oscar, for BEST PICTURE...
We have one more day to go before it all comes to an end, so stay tuned.
Next week the Blog will head towards Tom Lyle Williams, classic, 1940 Packard Victoria. We hope you have enjoyed the ride so far.
Posted by Sharrie Williams at 12:48 PM
Labels: African American dances, Ballets Russes, Charleston, Harlem, jazz age, Juba, Lindy Hop, Rudolph Valentino, Tango, The Savoy Ballroom

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[travis]: http://travis-ci.org/stve/airbrake-api
[gemnasium]: https://gemnasium.com/stve/airbrake-api

A ruby client for the [Airbrake API](http://help.airbrake.io/kb/api-2/api-overview)

## Changes in 4.0

AirbrakeAPI has been completely rewritten in 4.0.  Why the high version number?
This was the first gem I ever wrote and it's wandered a path that started with
ActiveResource, followed by HTTParty, and now Faraday.  Along the way, AirbrakeAPI
has lost it's ActiveRecord-like syntax for a more concise and simple API.  Instead
of using classes such as `AirbrakeAPI::Error`, the entire API is contained within
`AirbrakeAPI::Client`.

The following classes and their methods are now deprecated:

* `AirbrakeAPI::Error`
* `AirbrakeAPI::Notice`
* `AirbrakeAPI::Project`

While your code will continue to work using the old API, they will ultimately be removed in favor of `AirbrakeAPI::Client`.

## Configuration

AirbrakeAPI can be configured by passing a hash to the configure method:

    AirbrakeAPI.configure(:account => 'anapp', :auth_token => 'abcdefg', :secure => true)

or via a block:

    AirbrakeAPI.configure do |config|
      config.account = 'anapp'
      config.auth_token = 'abcdefg'
      config.secure = true
    end

**Note:**  Airbrake's API utilizes a separate 'auth_token' than the API Key that is used to configure the Airbrake tracker.  Your 'auth_token' is found on the bottom of the user settings page.

## Finding Errors

Errors are paginated, the API responds with 25 at a time, pass an optional params hash for additional pages:

    AirbrakeAPI.errors
    AirbrakeAPI.errors(:page => 2)

To find an individual error, you can find by ID:

    AirbrakeAPI.error(error_id)

## Finding Notices

Find *all* notices of an error:

    AirbrakeAPI.notices(error_id)

Notices may be paginated.  If you don't want to retrieve all notices and merely want a specific page:

    AirbrakeAPI.notices(error_id, :page => 3)

Find an individual notice:

    AirbrakeAPI.notice(notice_id, error_id)

To resolve an error via the API:

    AirbrakeAPI.update(1696170, :group => { :resolved => true})

Recreate an error:

    STDOUT.sync = true
    AirbrakeAPI.notices(error_id) do |batch|
      batch.each do |notice|
        result = system "curl --silent '#{notice.request.url}' > /dev/null"
        print (result ? '.' : 'F')
      end
    end

## Projects

To retrieve a list of projects:

    AirbrakeAPI.projects

## Deployments

To retrieve a list of deployments:

    AirbrakeAPI.deploys(project_id)

## Connecting to more than one account

While module-based configuration will work in most cases, if you'd like to simultaneously connect to more than one account at once, you can create instances of `AirbrakeAPI::Client` to do so:

    client = AirbrakeAPI::Client.new(:account => 'myaccount', :auth_token => 'abcdefg', :secure => true)
    altclient = AirbrakeAPI::Client.new(:account => 'anotheraccount', :auth_token => '123456789', :secure => false)

    client.errors

    altclient.projects

## Responses

If an error is returned from the API, an AirbrakeError exception will be raised.  Successful responses will return a Hashie::Mash object based on the data from the response.

## Contributors

* [Matias Käkelä](https://github.com/massive) - SSL Support
* [Jordan Brough](https://github.com/jordan-brough) - Notices
* [Michael Grosser](https://github.com/grosser) - Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes
* [Brad Greenlee](https://github.com/bgreenlee) - Switch from Hoptoad to Airbrake

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See Amanda Peet & Christian Slater in 'Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story' (VIDEO)
Meredith Jacobs March 26, 2020, 1:40 pm
Isabella Vosmikova/USA Network
"I'm amazed it only took one bullet to kill Dan Broderick," Betty (Amanda Peet) says in the trailer for Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story.
With the second installment, starring Peet and Christian Slater, the anthology series moves to USA Network. It's based on another epic true tale of love gone wrong, this one spanning the 1960s to the '80s, through the breakdown of a marriage Oprah called one of "America's messiest divorces" — and that was before it ended in double homicide.
'Selena,' 'Mrs. America' & More Amazing True Stories Coming to TV in 2020 (PHOTOS)
Plus, 'Quiz' with Sian Clifford and Matthew Macfadyen.
In the series from showrunner and executive producer Alexandra Cunningham, Betty Broderick was the perfect Southern California blonde wife and mother. She married her handsome college boyfriend, Dan (Slater), and charmed everyone she met. But after she sacrificed and suffered for years to support Dan through medical and law school, he became a superstar in the San Diego legal community — and hired Linda.
Betty tries to fight back and refuses to accept reality, which isolates and destabilizes her until she loses her identity. Due to Dan's cold confidence, he doesn't realize what he's done until it's too late.
"I wanted a husband and a family," Betty says in the trailer. "Dan needed a wife that could wait on him. I would've been treated better if I'd been a dog and served my master."
Watch the video above to see their seemingly perfect life and how it all goes terribly, terribly wrong.
Where Are 8 True-Crime TV Show Subjects Now? (PHOTOS)
We're checking in with the victims, convicted criminals, and former suspects spotlighted in 'Escape at Dannemora,' 'The Jinx,' and more.
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, Coming Soon, USA Network


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It is with livid shock and trembling outrage that I read the grisly pulp novel account of a Sopranos beatdown administered to ABC News reporter Brian Ross by Obama's thugs, the same ones no doubt who mangled Kenneth Gladney, bulging-muscled members of Obama's elite SEIU-Acorn militia.
Oh wait, I appear to be mistaken. Brian Ross was indeed manhandled, but not by Obama-thugs but by the hospitality committee of that nice Michele Bachmann.
From Greg Sargent @ The Washington Post's Plum Line.
This morning, the Daily Caller published a story I was inclined to leave to others: Michele Bachmann suffers from severe migraines.
Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one.
Perhaps this is what Tim Pawlenty needs to ignite his campaign, a goon squad that fends off reporter's questions with judo chops.


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Fostering a love of dance, experiencing the joy and excitement of moving as well as channelling the next generation of performers into further and higher education dance courses was what prompted the launch of Propeller – a three-year programme of dance training for 11 – 16 year olds across Cornwall.
Taught by professional dancers, with a programme of performances and visits as part of the project, the Propeller scheme is a partnership by Dance Republic 2 (DR2), Falmouth University and Cornwall College operating out of five centres across the county.
In 2016 DR2 successfully bid for £65,000 of funding from RIO as part of the Challenge Fund. This money, distributed over three years, was matched by new investment from Falmouth University and Cornwall College in both monetary terms (£30,000 in total over three years) and by approximately £60,000 in kindness through the use of teaching space, staffing, technical support and transportation. A £3000 grant from Bournemouth charity Pavilion Dance South West and lesson fees and ticket sales of almost £6500 a year helps top up the amount required to run the scheme.
Each year Propeller holds open auditions for its dance training programme. In 2016, its first year of operation, 76 young people enrolled on the course. Over the academic year they are taught by a team of dancers with specialist teaching skills in locations across Cornwall. Each child pays £110 annually which covers their weekly tuition. They also have access to additional workshops, residencies and performances. This income helps keep the project running. They also support a number of home-schooled young people who are nor charged for participation. Around 130 young people have benefited from the programme to date.
Following on from the successful launch of Propeller, in 2017 DR2, along with Falmouth University and Cornwall College, launched 'Altitude' which is a diploma course for dancers delivered through Cornwall College. Another similar project aimed at primary-aged children called 'Pre-Flight' is now also up and running and growing in numbers with plans to roll out the scheme to three other centres across the county in 2018.
Propeller's success can't only be measured in terms of the number of young people directly enrolled in the scheme. The project has brought about a dynamic and effective partnership between Dance Republic 2 and the biggest Higher and Further Education organisations in Cornwall. Working together, the team is constantly looking to develop exciting opportunities for young people in dance; broadening their cultural horizons and supporting a love of the Arts. In recent years DR2 has becoming increasingly concerned about a lack of support for dance training which has resulted in it now being virtually impossible to study for a GCSE in Dance in any of Cornwall's secondary schools. The Propeller scheme fills that gap as it works as a launch pad for young people to continue their dance training post-16. Without this course, and with no opportunity for studying for a GCSE in Dance in Cornwall, DR2 believe the number of young people studying Dance at FE and HE level would fall yet further which could ultimately result in the courses being withdrawn.
Looking to the future DR2 is using the positive outcomes and feedback of its former students to steadily raise its participation fee to increase earned income. The course is still reliant on funding from outside sources however the success of its launch – thanks to money from the Challenge Fund – should keep Propeller running in Cornwall for years to come.
"We could not have run this programme without RIO support. We might be able to lever future funding in the strength of its success" Antony Waller, Dance Republic 2.


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Q: Refactoring code to separate concerns While programming an object that represent a GUI, the class is a mix of code of following sections:

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*Local event handling methods

*Local data crunching methods

*Code to query/update a remote database and a global object provider

Assuming all this is crammed into one class file, how would you split it into separate files or parent-child classes so that you can delegate these to different developers with minimum dependency on each other?

A: Check out the Model-View-Presenter or Presentation Model patterns, or indeed any of the many UI design patterns whose express purpose is to separate the display from the logic.
The basic concept is that the View, being the page or screen of form or whatever, handles only the UI itself - fields and buttons and so forth. There's a Presenter that does the number crunching, DB access and so forth, and any UI action (button click, for instance) is mapped on the View to a call to an action on the Presenter, which does the logic. This means the UI can be developed independently, facing a mock/basic Presenter. Meanwhile, the Presenter can be developed abstractly, since it just exposes Commands, rather than expecting button clicks.

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US: Second Amendment Sanctuaries are exploding
In the rural areas of Virginia, in the United States, citizens are clinging to guns and religion: They have voted overwhelmingly to declare their localities Second Amendment Sanctuaries.
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Such language has created considerable debate regarding the Amendment's intended scope. … 307 U.S. 174.
Virginia's most famous son, Thomas Jefferson, once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." It appears that Virginians are taking that famous quote to heart.
Eric Young, an attorney and the county administrator, pointed out: "Our position is that Article I, Section 13, of the Constitution of Virginia reserves the right to 'order' militia to the localities. Therefore, counties, not the state, determine what types of arms may be carried in their territory and by whom. So, we are 'ordering' the militia by making sure everyone can own a weapon."
Second Amendment sanctuaries have exploded. It appeared the national scene in the US in early 2019 after newly elected Democratic Governor JB Pritzker pledged to pass gun safety measures in Illinois.
Within months, 64 of the state's 102 counties passed such sanctuary resolutions. After New Mexico expanded background checks in 2019, 30 of 33 counties declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. In Colorado, Oregon, Washington state, and now Virginia, these actions have either already been implemented or are under consideration.
A local newspaper, The Farmville Herald reported on the vote by the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors recently.
On December 10, at the meeting of the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors, the board voted unanimously, 3-0, to pass a resolution declaring Cumberland County to be a Second Amendment sanctuary.
The full resolution is as follows:
WHEREAS, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed," and,
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), affirmed an individual's right to possess firearms, unconnected with service in a militia, for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court in McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), affirmed that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms," as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment against the states, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of Cumberland County Virginia:
That the Cumberland Board of Supervisors hereby declares Cumberland County, Virginia, as a "Second Amendment sanctuary," and
That the Cumberland Board of Supervisors hereby expresses its intent to uphold the Second Amendment rights of the citizens of Cumberland County, Virginia, and
That the Cumberland Board of Supervisors hereby expresses its intent that public funds of the county not be used to restrict the Second Amendment rights of the citizens of Cumberland County, or to aid federal or state agencies in the restriction of said rights, and
That the Cumberland Board of Supervisors hereby declares its intent to oppose any infringement on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms using such legal means as may be expedient, including, without limitation, court action.
Board Chairman and District Five Supervisor Parker Wheeler asked that those present who agreed with the resolution, stand up and raise their hand in order to show support for the motion. The majority of audience members of more than 200, stood up.
Kevin Ingle, District Three Supervisor, expressed his surprise at the number of people who had risen to their feet and asked how a state in which so many individuals show full support foe the Second Amendment could be represented and governed by a small group that decide to "look the other way and vote the other way".
Matthew Fariss, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, noted in an editorial last week: "It's important to realize that Virginia is a Dillon Rule state. That means that local governments can't override state laws."
Some Virginia localities have said that they will not enforce state law that they deem it unconstitutional. Civil War terminology like nullification and interposition, used extensively by Southern secessionists, have popped up in the wording, according to Slate.
Rockingham County is the latest locality in Virginia to declare itself a Second Amendment sanctuary. The meeting was packed with thousands supporting the decision and in a unanimous vote, the county passed a resolution,
Overall, there were over 3 000 people in attendance. Significant traffic delays were registered in the area around the high school where the meeting took place, with some people reporting that it took them at least 45 minutes just to get into the school parking area.
There are clearly thousands of patriotic citizens in Virginia who are well-armed and well-trained, and will resist in an organised attempt by Washington to violate their Second Amendment rights.
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When the Sovereign loses legitimacy, no power can save him .Without
allegiance, who can he trust? Impelled by betrayal, citizens become
guerillas. Make every bullet count. ( see "Art of WAR" by SunTzu ; "Book
of Stratagems" by Von Senger )
Mearsheimer: The collapse of the liberal world order
The days of liberal hegemony may be numbered. John J. Mearsheimer, one of the most important and influential scholars of international relations in the world and distinguished professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and one of the most famous exponents of the school of contemporary political realism, which has roots and tradition in Machiavelli and Hobbes, thinks so.
World's largest lithium mine will impact on geopolitics
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Cyborg Soldiers 2050: The future of the Pentagon
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Culture wars: Pro-Israel supporters versus Groypers
While the political mainstream in the United States has turned its attention to the impeachment of Donald Trump, something else has been happening from a conservative perspective: an ideological civil war has broken out in the right-wing camp.
Greta Thunberg mural uses thousands of litres of noxious aerosol paint
San FranciscoControversy has been following climate activist Greta Thunberg to San Francisco too. The American city is struggling with environmental issues, not the least of which is a human feces crisis on the streets currently plaguing inhabitants and terrible air quality.
CNN not a source of news but a shameless propaganda outlet
According to a conservative activist group, CNN has no interest in reporting news. The network is focused solely on anti-conservative propaganda.
Ukraine-gate: Complaint form revised just days ahead of impeachment proceedings
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Appeal of 500 scientists: 'There is no climate emergency'
New YorkMore than 500 scientists have contradicted the thesis of man-made climate change in a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Greta Thunberg lectures global leaders on approaching doomsday
New YorkIn a long monologue, the young Swede violently attacked world leaders for their inaction against climate change. She also announced a lawsuit against five countries.
Americans are winning in the obesity stakes
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Renaud Camus given a two-month suspended sentence
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'Feminized' signs installed at Geneva's pedestrian crossings
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The body of a very brilliant Nigerian student who committed suicide last month has been recovered.
Omotayo's body was found floating in the Hudson River a week after she was declared missing.
17-year-old Omotayo killed herself on the 29th of May, 2014 by jumping into the Hudson River near the George Washington Bridge on Thursday afternoon.
It came after the young student had been caught cheating on a difficult German Language exam by her teacher, Eva Malikova, at the elite school. Humiliated in front of her classmates, Adeoye immediately left the school building, but not before leaving behind a suicide note.
The suicide, say police, occurred that Thursday Afternoon at about 3:30pm New York time. Eyewitnesses told police that Adeoye was seen jumping into the Hudson River shortly thereafter. She was swept away by the currents shortly afterwards as fisherman on the bank of the river watch helplessly.
For nearly a week police listed Adeoye as "missing," and proceeded that way after hearing numerous tips from witnesses who said that they had spotted the teenager swimming, and even laying on the New York banks of the river days later. Those sightings later proved to be unfounded.
Omotayo Adeoye's body was found on the morning of June the 3rd, at 9:30am, floating not very far from where she jumped in New York's Washington Heights district. The police department's Harbor Unit at 170th Street and Riverside Drive fished her out of the water. Police say the teenager was "unresponsive," but they moved her southward to Harlem's 125th Street Pier, where the Emergency Medical Service officials declared Adeoye dead at the scene.
New York's Medical Examiner is still investigating the cause of death, including time and place. They continue to hold her body that reportedly will be delivered to her distraught family members.
Omotayo Adeoye is now the 14th public school student to commit suicide this academic year, according to New York City's Department of Education.
Omotayo Adeoye was a promising student on the rise, and that she had been caught cheating on a year-end exam must have been a humiliating experience for the teenager. School officials off-the-record said that the young woman was a student who scored high marks in all of her subjects.
She was brilliant and liked to play. It is insane that education stresses people out so that you are not liked if you don't follow orders.
Please never ever call someone insane. She was definitely under a lot of stress and felt she had no choice. Rip Omotayo .
because school was her ticket out to freedom of thought. School was everything for her. When you feel that you lose all your work because a teacher is completely intolerant, then you feel you got no other way out.
Hmmmmm,2bad,let her creator decides on where she wud spend eternity!!!
This is unforgiven life that people are craving to have and she now trow it away just like that?
Why did you have to use this particular picture out of all the pictures. This picture was of her clowning around,so please don't say she is insane just by looking at that picture, she had some challenges which she couldn't handle. God please in your mercies comfort her parents, family and friends. May such a thing never happen again in Jesus mighty name. Amen.


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Aceasta este o listă de filme rusești.  Rusia încă de la începuturi a produs filme (la sfârșitul anilor 1890), Cinematografia rusă este marcată de trei regimuri politice diferite: cinematografia Imperiului Rus (1908–1917), cinematografia sovietică (1917–1991) și cinematografia Federației Ruse (1991-prezent).

Imperiul Rus (înainte de 1917)

Uniunea Sovietică (1917–1991)

Federația Rusă (1992–prezent)

1992
 An Independent Life
 The Chekist
 Encore, Once More Encore!
 Luna Park
 Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach

1993
 Dyuba-Dyuba
 Drumroll
 Serye volki (Set in 1964)

1994
 Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs
 Soare înșelător
 The Castle
 The Master and Margarita
 Peshavar Waltz
 Three Sisters

1995
 Music for December
 Peculiarities of National Hunt
 Shirli-Myrli
 What a Wonderful Game
 American Daughter
 A Moslem

1996
 Carnival Night 2
 Operation Happy New Year
 Prisoner of the Mountains

1997
 Brother
 Dandelion Wine
 The Thief

1998
 The Barber of Siberia
 Happy Birthday
 Khrustalyov, My Car!
 The Magic Pipe
 Mama Don't Cry
 Of Freaks and Men
 Okraina
 Peculiarities of National Fishing

1999
 Boris Godunov
 East/West
 Luna Papa
 Moloch
 The Old Man and the Sea

Anii 2000
Începând cu anii 2000, în Federația Rusă a avut loc o creștere semnificativă a numărului de filme produse anual.
 Soare înșelător 2 (2010)
 Listă de filme rusești din 2000
 Listă de filme rusești din 2001
 Listă de filme rusești din 2002
 Listă de filme rusești din 2003
 Listă de filme rusești din 2004
 Listă de filme rusești din 2005
 Listă de filme rusești din 2006
 Listă de filme rusești din 2007
 Listă de filme rusești din 2008
 Listă de filme rusești din 2009

Anii 2010
 Listă de filme rusești din 2010
 Listă de filme rusești din 2011
 Listă de filme rusești din 2012
 Listă de filme rusești din 2013
 Listă de filme rusești din 2014
 Listă de filme rusești din 2015
 Listă de filme rusești din 2016
 Listă de filme rusești din 2017
 Listă de filme rusești din 2018
 Listă de filme rusești din 2019

Referințe și note

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Depois do Dilúvio, também conhecida como O Quadragésimo Primeiro Dia, é um pintura a óleo simbolista do artista inglês George Frederic Watts, inicialmente apresentada como O Sol de forma incompleta em 1886 e completa em 1891. A obra mostra mostra uma cena da história do Dilúvio, na qual depois de 40 dias de chuva Noé abre a janela de sua arca para ver que a chuva parou. Watts sentiu que a sociedade moderna estava em declínio devido à falta de valores morais e ele com frequência pintou obras com o tema do Dilúvio e sua purificação do que era desprezível no mundo. A pintura toma a forma de uma vista do mar estilizada, dominada por um brilhante clarão do sol partindo-se através das nuvens. Embora este tenha sido um tema que Watts havia retratado anteriormente em O Gênio da Poesia Grega em 1878, Depois do Dilúvio tomou uma abordagem radicalmente diferente. Com esta pintura ele pretendeu evocar um Deus monoteísta no ato da criação, mas evitando retratar o Criador diretamente.

A pintura inacabada foi apresentada em Whitechapel em 1886, sob o título intencionalmente simplificado de O Sol. Watts trabalhou na pintura pelos cinco anos seguintes e a versão completa foi apresentada pela primeira vez na New Gallery em 1891. Entre 1902 e 1906 a pintura foi exposta ao redor do Reino Unido e está agora na coleção da Watts Gallery em Compton. Como Watts não incluiu Depois do Dilúvio em seu presente à nação do que ele considerava suas obras mais significantes, não está entre suas pinturas mais conhecidas. No entanto, foi grandemente admirada por muitos artistas colegas de Watts e tem sido citada como uma influência em numerosos outros pintores que trabalharam nas duas décadas após a exposição inicial.

Contexto Histórico

George Frederic Watts nasceu em 1817, filho de um fabricante de instrumentos musicais de Londres. Seus dois irmãos morreram em 1823 e sua mãe em 1826, dando a Watts uma obsessão com a morte ao longo de sua vida. Watts foi aprendiz de escultor aos 10 anos e durante sua adolescência era bastante competente como artista para conseguir sua subsistência como pintor de retratos. Aos 18 anos ele ganhou admissão nas escolas da Academia Real Inglesa, embora ele não gostasse dos métodos dela e seu comparecimento fosse intermitente. A partir de 1837, Watts possuía sucesso o suficiente para se dedicar em tempo integral à pintura.

Em 1843 ele viajou para a Itália onde permaneceu por quatro anos. No seu retorno para Londres ele sofreu de melancolia e pintou muitas obras tenebrosas de destaque.  Suas habilidades foram amplamente celebradas e em 1856 ele decidiu dedicar-se à pintura de retratos. Seus retratos foram extremamente apreciados e em 1867 ele foi eleito para a Academia Real Inglesa, na época a maior honra disponível para um artista, ainda que ele rapidamente tenha se tornado desiludido com a cultura dela. De 1870 em diante ele se tornou amplamente renomado como pintor de temas alegóricos e míticos; nesta época, ele foi um dos artistas mais apreciados do mundo. Em 1881 ele adicionou uma galeria com teto de vidro à sua casa em Little Holland House, que era aberta ao público nos fins de semana, aumentando ainda mais a fama de Watts.

Tema

Depois do Dilúvio retrata uma cena da história do Dilúvio, na qual Noé abre a janela da Arca para ver que depois de quarenta dias a chuva havia parado, mas que as águas da enchente ainda não haviam baixado. Embora o evangelicalismo estrito de seu pai tenha incutido em Watts um forte desgosto pela religião organizada, ele tinha um conhecimento profundo da Bíblia  e Noé e o Dilúvio eram ambos temas que ele regularmente retratava ao longo de sua carreira.

Watts tinha uma forte crença na ideia de que a sociedade moderna estava priorizando a riqueza sobre os valores sociais e que esta atitude, que ele descrevia como "a dissimulação hipócrita do sacrifício diário feito a esta divindade", foi levando ao declínio da sociedade. Hilary Underwood da Universidade de Surrey escreve que Watts provavelmente pintou tantos trabalhos sobre o tema de Noé ao ver a noção de purificação de uma sociedade degenerada e a preservação daqueles que ainda aderiam os princípios morais. Watts escolheu retratar o momento em que o sol se torna visível pela primeira vez depois de quarenta dias obscurecido pelas nuvens.

Composição

Watts ilustrou a cena com uma vista do mar altamente estilizada. Acima do mar está um brilhante clarão do sol, com a luz iluminando as nuvens ao redor e raios brilhantes se projetando para além das bordas do quadro. A composição de Watts ecoa o tratamento do mesmo tema de William Turner, Luz e Cor (Teoria de Goethe) — A Manhã Depois do Dilúvio — Moisés Escrevendo o Livro do Gênesis, de 1843, em retratar primariamente um círculo de luz brilhante. Entretanto, a pintura de Turner retrata figuras humanas reconhecíveis e nenhuma obra de Turner chegou tão perto da arte abstrata pura quanto a composição de Watts.

Neste estágio de sua carreira Watts regularmente pintava imagens ligando eventos naturais espantosos com a vontade de Deus. Seu foco no sol reflete seu interesse de longa data nele como um símbolo divino; O Sacríficio de Noé, pintado em aproximadamente 1865, mostrava Noé sacrificando ao sol em ação de graças pela salvação de sua família. Este interesse no sol possivelmente veio do conhecido de Watts Max Müller, que escreveu extensivamente sobre teorias solares da mitologia (a crença que as religiões da Europa, do Oriente Médio e do sul da Ásia eram todas em última análise derivadas do culto protoindo-europeu ao sol).  Escrevendo depois da morte de Watts, sua viúva Mary Seton Watts escreveu que:

Watts retratara anteriormente um sol laranja sobre um mar plano em sua obra de 1878 O Gênio da Poesia Grega, mas o tema e a composição de Depois do Dilúvio foi radicalmente diferente. O Gênio da Poesia Grega pretendia evocar o panteísmo, com figuras representando forças da natureza na forma humana trabalhando e se divertindo enquanto observadas pela grande figura central do Gênio. Depois do Dilúvio explicitamente pretendia uma imagem monoteísta, evocando tanto a magnificência quanto a misericórdia redentora de um único Deus todo-poderoso empenhado no ato da criação.

Depois do Dilúvio foi apresentada ainda inacabada em 1886 como O Sol na Igreja de São Judas em Whitechapel; Samuel Barnett, vigário da igreja, organizava exposições de arte anuais no leste de Londres em um esforço para trazer beleza à vida dos pobres; ele tinha uma relação próxima com Watts e regularmente pedia emprestado suas obras para mostrá-las ao moradores locais.  Após essa exposição Watts continuou a trabalhar na pintura pelos cinco anos seguintes.

Depois da conclusão
A versão completa de Depois do Dilúvio foi apresentada na New Gallery em 1891. Na ocasião de sua exposição em 1891 e uma exposição posterior em 1897, também na New Gallery, a obra era acompanhada por uma nota explanatória (que se pensa ter sido escrita por Watts) explicando a imagem:

Entre 1902 e 1906 a obra foi exposta ao redor do país, sendo mostrada em Cork, Edinburgh, Manchester e Dublin, assim como na própria galeria de Watts em Little Holland House. Em 1904, ela foi transferida para a recentemente aberta Watts Gallery em Compton, em Surrey, pouco depois da morte de Watts naquele ano. Dois anos antes disto, Watts retornara ao tema da criação com O Semeador de Sistemas, que pela primeira vez em suas obras retratou diretamente Deus e que ele descreveu como representante de "um grande gesto em que tudo que existe está relacionado",

Embora Watts tenha pintado paisagens ao longo de sua vida, ele não considerava estas pinturas como obras maiores, e quando entre 1886 e 1902 ele doou o que ele sentiu ser suas 23 obras sem serem retratos mais significantes para a nação para exposição pública, nenhuma pintura de paisagem foi incluída. Como consequência de sua omissão destes presentes à nação, Depois do Dilúvio não está entre suas obras mais conhecidas embora tenha sido grandemente admirada por muitos dos artistas colegas de Watts. Walter Bayes escreveu em 1907 que Depois do Dilúvio era "uma espécie de paisagem que nós conectamos ao nome do Sr. Watts, uma paisagem da qual tudo que é rude e material foi eliminado, e que oferece um resíduo que é um tipo de sublimação de todos os elementos mais poéticos da natureza". A obra foi citada como uma influência em muitas outras obras pintadas nas duas décadas após sua conclusão, incluindo pinturas do sol de Maurice Chabas, Giuseppe Pellizza de Volpedo e Edvard Munch. Depois do Dilúvio permanece na coleção da Watts Gallery.

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Pintura do simbolismo
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Войково () / Каменное () — село на Украине, находится в Старобешевском районе Донецкой области. Под контролем самопровозглашённой Донецкой Народной Республики.

География
В Донецкой области имеется одноимённый населённый пункт посёлок Войково в составе города Харцызска.

Соседние населённые пункты по странам света
С: Новокатериновка, Прохоровское

СЗ: Петровское, Ребриково, Береговое, Старобешево

СВ:  Ленинское, Шмидта, Шевченко, Строитель, Петренки

З: город Комсомольское, Подгорное

В: Колоски

ЮЗ: Весёлое, Раздольное

ЮВ: —

Ю: Зелёное, Новозарьевка

История
12 мая 2016 года Верховная Рада Украины присвоила селу название Каменное в рамках кампании по декоммунизации на Украине. Переименование не было признано властями самопровозглашенной ДНР.

Население
Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 131 человек.

Общие сведения
Код КОАТУУ — 1424583505. Почтовый индекс — 87250. Телефонный код — 6253.

Адрес местного совета
87253, Донецкая область, Старобешевский р-н, с. Новозарьевка, ул. Школьная, 1в

Примечания

Ссылки
 Войково на сайте Верховной рады Украины

Населённые пункты Старобешевского района
Объекты, названные в честь Петра Войкова


Can Manning, Broncos Get It Together?
The second week of the NFL season features a prime-time duel on Thursday between the two best teams in the AFC West, the teams that have most centrally competed for the division title over the past couple of seasons.
This is a game the Broncos will have a good chance to win, with their defense playing the lead actor this time and not their offense. Denver held the Baltimore Ravens to only 13 points last week, and made an interception in the end zone to seal a six-point victory. The Broncos' defense has played second fiddle to Peyton Manning's offense over the years, but this might be the year in which the Broncos must defend at a higher level in order to win. The Broncos did absorb some injuries on defense last season, which clearly did not help them in January against the Indianapolis Colts, but the team needed more from DeMarcus Ware, who never quite broke through and put in the kind of season he had fashioned when with the Dallas Cowboys. Denver definitely needed more of Ware this year, and the Dallas version of him showed up against Baltimore. He was a factor, and he was one primary reason that Joe Flacco never really felt comfortable in the pocket in that game. If Denver can get another really inspired performance from its defense against Kansas City, the Chiefs – who have not been known as a particularly good passing team under quarterback Alex Smith – could get thoroughly outplayed. Denver could very realistically win another game with a score similar to the 19-13 tally it created against Baltimore.
The reality of the situation isn't certain, but if you were a betting person, you would find it hard to think that Peyton Manning is going to become the same great quarterback he used to be. It sure seems as though Peyton's best days are behind him. He was his normal, ridiculously accurate self through the first half of the 2015 season. Then, due to a combination of injuries and other forms of wear and tear (some of which we might not really know about), his game ceased to be potent or intimidating. Manning could not push the ball down the field. He could not make deep or even deep-intermediate throws. A level of hesitancy crept into his playing style. His yards-per-attempt rate plummeted. He became a much more vulnerable and unthreatening embodiment of the quarterback who has probably played the position better than anyone else has – maybe not in the postseason, but from game one through 16 of the regular season, year after year after year. Every regular season Sunday during his career, Manning became as close to automatic as it gets for a quarterback… until the second half of last year. If he is in fact done, and if he'll never return to being great, the Chiefs should not only win this game; they should hammer Denver.
The idea that Peyton is finished is something which cannot be taken for granted or presumed as certain. However, it's just as true that Peyton needs to prove to the critics (and to bettors) that he still has it, that he can still be the quarterback we've seen for the past 17 years. Until he proves that, the Chiefs should be given the benefit of the doubt at home.


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Kyoufu no Bio Ningen Saishuu Kyoushi
Ultimate Teacher
Synonyms: Fearsome Bio Human: The Last Teacher, Kyofun no Bio-Ningen, Kyofu no Bio Ningen Saishu Kyoshi
Japanese: 恐怖のバイオ人間 最終教師
English: Ultimate Teacher
Aired: Feb 6, 1988
Producers: animate Film, Movic, Sony Music Entertainment
Licensors: Central Park Media
Source: Unknown
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, ComedyComedy, SupernaturalSupernatural
Theme: SchoolSchool
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Ranked: #116852
Kyoufu no Bio Ningen Saishuu K...
Ranked #11685Popularity #8491Members 3,934
OVAJ.C.Staff
Episodes: /1
At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got going so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we findout Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.
(Source: ANN)
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Shiratori, Hinako
Kasahara, Hiroko
Karima, Burei
Yara, Yuusaku
Chabane, Ganpachi
Takenaka, Naoto
Pine Homeroom Boss
Iizuka, Shouzou
Watanabe, Ryuichi
Ootaki, Shinya
Umekichi
Tatsuta, Naoki
Matsuri, Kansuke
Naniwa, Keiichi
Principal Suzuki
Nagai, Ichiro
More staff
Ashida, Toyoo
Matsuura, Noriyoshi
Sound Director
Koshiba, Junya
Otani, Kow
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"Kayu (加油)" by Kome Kome Club
Imagine if you will that the anime Great Teacher Onizuka had an older, less funny, and uninteresting older brother. That is essentially what you have with Ultimate Teacher. If it hadn't actually come a number of years earlier, I would say this is a rip-off of GTO.
If you have seen the aforementioned GTO, then the story is going to feel pretty familiar to you, though with a few strange differences. We start with some lab experiment gone wrong then are suddenly thrust three years into the future. Don't expect that part to make much sense until the end. Our "hero", ... Ganpachi enters a high school that is basically a war zone, with various gangs and punk kids and graves to teachers before. This is all lead by the unlikely gang leader Himeko. There is a lot of physical comedy and some parody and quite a bit of action. The humor is juvenile to put it nicely but it is funny at times (rarely). The story does stick to basics for the most part and it does manage to flesh out the important characters enough to make sense.
The biggest problem with this show is the characters. Normally for a show to be enjoyable you have to have someone in the cast to cheer for. Maybe I sound like a bit of a prude.. well I am a former teacher after all (middle school yuck), but I for one found nothing redeeming about any of the students. Himeko is supposed to be the hero, I suppose, but she's well a punk. I'm supposed to feel bad for her as Ganpachi humiliates her but I don't. Considering what she has done to the staff of the school and the state the school is in I find it impossible to see what is so good about her. She has super strength, well unless someone sees her panties (Huh?). Luckily she has her blue lucky kitty which saves herself from this weakness. Stay with me, I don't think this is supposed to make sense.
Teenagers running amok and defeating all their authority figures I suppose is a dream of those this age and definitely the target audience of this show but I fail to see what life lesson this is supposed to teach. If you though the "authority figure" Ganpachi was going to be like Onizuka then your proven wrong pretty quickly. He becomes probably even more unlikable and tyrannical than even the students. Normally I can think of something positive worth mentioning but in this case I can't. Worst cast ever.
The animation and music/acting don't do anything to distinguish themselves either. I give them fair marks as none of them are horrible, and the visuals are not bad for a show from 1988. There is very little music to speak of and the sound effects sound pretty corny but it's nothing that's going to make your cringe.
I suppose Ultimate Teacher has some decent action scenes, though I got very little enjoyment out of it. If you really like girls in kitty panties fighting and absolutely must see every anime with them, then by all means knock yourself out. Fortunately not many of you have had the misfortune of seeing this yet, thus I direct this review to you as a public to not make the same mistake as me.
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Imagine that Onizuka had an older brother who was part genetically modified warrior-part asshole, and that when he suplexed his female students, they suplexed him back. And there's magic. And henshin hero fights.
And awesome. And stuff. Honestly, I don't remember too many details about this show, but I remember that I laughed quite a few times, and wished it had a proper sequel.
I hope that counts for something.
Bio Ningen delivers everything you expect form a good 80s'-era OVA: good animation, fight scenes, schoolgirl fanservice, an ignorable plot (this is always for the best) weird characters, and poofy hair. However, it doesn't have any stupidly-detailed robots, ... but that doesn't matter in the long run. Bio Ningen doesn't play any of it straight-it's a broad satire of the media in the day, from henshin shows to anime, manga, and even western movies.
...And that's about it. Worth a watch.
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RoarkTenjouin
During the 1980s (and 90s), there wasn't really any quality control when it came to anime that was brought over to the U.S. So, for every really good OVA/anime that was brought over to the states (i.e., FOTNS, Megazone 23, Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket), there was at least one anime that was pure ultraviolent schlock (i.e., Cybernetics Guardian, MD Geist, Violence Jack). However, Ultimate Teacher stands out among all the OVAs that were brought over to the states - mainly because instead of being another ultraviolent schlock title, it's a comedy OVA in the same vein as Excel Saga.
Story: 6/10
The story ... is...really confusing. It starts off with a test subject escaping from an underground lab that holds government experiments. However, instead of terrorizing the neighborhood like in a stereotypical horror anime with this premise, the test subject, a man named Ganpachi who had his DNA spliced with that of a cockroach, decides to become a teacher - but not just any teacher; THE Ultimate Teacher. He arrives at a run down school that has been overrun by a school gang, and the leader of the gang is a girl named Hinako (no relation to the girl from those OVAs) he met while on his way to the school. He tasks himself to restoring order at the school - in any way possible, and that means defeating Hinako - whose strength comes from the type of panties she wears (despite what this might imply, there actually isn't a lot of fanservice in this show - at least when you compare it to, oh say, Gunbuster). And eventually, one of the people who is part of the lab that Ganpachi escaped from tracks Ganpachi down - and then the plot becomes too complex for me to explain.
Art: 3/10
The art here has not aged well, but even if I was reviewing this at the time it came out, I wouldn't give it a very high score, mainly because the animation isn't very good even for the time it came out. There aren't any animation errors per say, but the art style hasn't aged well.
Sound: 7/10
Nothing really drags it down. The dub isn't terrible (at least the U.S. dub, anyway - there's a U.K dub, but I can't comment on that one, since I haven't seen it), but it's not a stand out dub, either.
Character: 7/10
Ganpachi is a character that you really have to see in order to understand him. It's pretty much impossible to describe his personality - all I'll say is that it is kind of what you would expect if a human had a cockroach's personality. As for Hinako, she's pretty much a tomboy, except she gets her strength from her Lucky Kitty underwear - in fact, taking it away from her (or revealing it) is pretty much her kryptonite.
Enjoyment: 9/10
It's just so hard to describe. It's easier if you just watch it to understand it.
Overall: 8/10
It's pretty hard to track down a copy (I believe it's currently unlicensed), but you can find it on Youtube (both the U.S. and U.K. dubs) if you want to watch it.
RIYL: Excel Saga, FLCL, Gintama
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So...any opinions about it?
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Poll: Kyoufu no Bio Ningen Saishuu Kyoushi Episode 1 Discussion
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Those familiar with Stephen Jones's superb From Eden might find themselves experiencing déjà vu when it comes to his latest comedic drama "Northern Lights." With both plays built around a damaged guy meeting a damaged girl one fateful night under unusual circumstances, each bringing meaningful perspective into the others lives, the building blocks are practically identical. As are the actors and director in both productions. Yet they're identical in the same way Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are identical. Twain's tales might tell of rascally young waifs living wild by the Mississippi, but both are defined by their unique characteristics rather than their shared similarities. As is the case here. Indeed, if "Northern Lights" take us places Jones has taken us before, its delightfully fast paced humour and two terrific performances go a long way to forgiving Jones everything. For like Twain's twin classics "Northern Lights" bubbles with irresistible comic charm, a sharply observed humanity, and a beating heart that bleeds. Under the impressive direction of Karl Shiels "Northern Lights" tries hard to make you fall in love with it. And…you really desperately want to. But if wildly irresistible on so many fronts, it doesn't do enough to make you want to sleep with it. Yes, you will always remember it fondly, but despite its many wonderful qualities it finds itself being firmly relegated to the friend zone.
Built on a flimsy premise, one just about landing on the safe side of credible, "Northern Lights" sees bookworm and karaoke king, Lloyd, offering shelter to the troubled Áine one wet and windy night. Standing on a bridge overlooking the Liffey, Áine has her secrets. As does Lloyd. Escorting her safely inside the sanctuary of his ivory tower, the bookish and socially inept Lloyd, who loves karaoke yet hates pubs, regales the bespectacled Crumlin hairdresser with a penchant for telling children's stories with some exuberant tales of his own. Tales of girlfriend Denise travelling through South America, his love for Conor MacGregor, or the people he sees looking out from his window. All interspersed with sudden excited outbursts which put the heart crossways in Áine. If the line between good guy and creep sometimes seems to blur, it's not enough for Áine to want to leave. Like Lloyd, Áine needs the distraction. Talking so they won't have to talk, they eat from a greasy spoon diner, drink while they sing karaoke, and play at being merry in an effort to forget. But personal revelations are going to surface sometime. And once they do what's going to happen then?
While Jones's unbalanced script leans more on character than narrative, said characters seem frequently curtailed by a kind of political correctness. Even if political correctness is something Jones has fun playing with at times. It's as if the patriarchal cliche of the damsel in distress in desperate need of saving having been kicked to touch, the postmodern cliche of the damaged, vulnerable male in desperate need of saving doesn't quite fit either. Unable to find a new normal, real connectedness, where and when it really matters, proves thin on the ground. Seána Kerslake's Áine might stun you to silence in one of many exquisite moments simply by listening, and Jones's Lloyd might sear your soul with his own profoundly moving revelation, but their characters experience their significant moments alone even if the other is in the room with them. Deeply moved, both appear to prefer their own personal space at the others crucial moments, as if afraid of the price of connection, or of getting it wrong, offering instead inadequate verbals, like inspirational quotes, by way of support. In the end, lacking sufficient connection, attraction or antagonism, Lloyd and Áine's relationship, whatever its parameters, proves dramatically less satisfying, even if it delivers lots of laughs. Something director Karl Shiels, along with Jones might have explored in greater detail. For characters only connect on the surface and not in the deep, despite Jones striving for the opposite to be the case.
Where human connectedness really sparkles is in Jones's rich and irresistibly awkward humour, an abundance of which makes "Northern Lights" worth the price of admission ten times over. Thanks to two hilarious performances by Jones and Kerslake. Fighting a heavily uneven weighting when it comes to character development in favour of Lloyd, Kerslake's less developed Áine has some uneasy moments. Indeed, in the hands of a lesser actress Áine could have proven truly problematic, with the script making claims it fails to adequately support. Such as her being a bitch who ruins lives, or that she loves, or misses her boyfriend. But Kerslake is the calibre of actress who can take the crumbs of a character and fashion something memorable from it, and Kerslake's lights up the stage with a captivating performance built from a perfect array of tones and gestures. Meanwhile, Jones's catcher in the rye Lloyd is superbly rendered throughout. Indeed, Jones's far more developed, and emotionally richer Lloyd, proves much more successful at straddling the comic-tragic divide. Even Lloyd's unintended creepiness becomes beautifully crafted under Jones's perfectly pitched performance, with Jones's comic delivery being in a league of its own. Together, Jones and Kerslake make this odd couple sing and, at times, they're simply mesmerising. Lisa Krugel's cramped set wonderfully exploits the limited space while subtly capturing Lloyd's world, his crumbling castle with its ruined walls made from books offering frugal protection to the wounded karaoke king. Throughout, Karl Shiels keeps everything moving nicely, excelling in crafting moments of comic brilliance, wherein "Northern Lights" truly shines.
Like Lloyd and Áine, "Northern Lights" makes for a great night out, and it might even get emotional at times, but it's far too lightweight to rely on when things really get tough. Even so, like Neil Simon's classics The Odd Couple, or The Goodbye Girl, which Jones's writing shares many strengths with, "Northern Lights" is often a heartfelt joy. Indeed, if Jones could find other themes and tales to embrace, and made the journey dramatically more satisfying, he could, on his best day, give Simon a run for his money. For "Northern Lights" is greater than the sum of its uneven parts. If some parts prove clunky, others are divine, and the scale swings and settles on "Northern Lights" being a bittersweet delight.
"Northern Lights" by Stephen Jones, presented by Awake and Sing in association with Theatre Upstairs, runs at Theatre Upstairs until December 15.
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