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Юрий Петрович Платонов (29 октября 1930, Троицк, Челябинская область, РСФСР, СССР — 6 января 1997, Гатчина, Ленинградская область, Российская Федерация) — советский и российский инженер, реставратор часов, основатель и первый руководитель Лаборатории научной реставрации часов и музыкальных механизмов Государственного Эрмитажа.

Биография
Родился в 1930 г. в городе Троицке, Челябинской области.

1948 — окончил школу рабочей молодежи. С 14 лет работал в часовой мастерской.

1954 — окончил Университет ИТМО (Ленинградский институт точной механики и оптики), кафедра приборов времени. Начал работать в Пулковской обсерватории в отделе точного времени. Отреставрировал часы Шорта и Рифлера.

1970 — при участии Платонова Ю. П. совершен успешный запуск стратосферной станции на высоту 20 км и получены снимки солнца в деталях. До этого две попытки окончились неудачно.

1973 — уволился по собственному желанию из Пулковской обсерватории. После этого работал в Гатчинском филиале НИИ «Электроприбор». Создал технологию сварки тонкостенных гироскопов для кораблей, которой пользуются до сегодняшнего дня. Автор ряда изобретений  и .

После ушел в оптику, в Государственный оптический институт им С. И. Вавилова. Здесь началось его сотрудничество с М. П. Гурьевым, которое увело обоих в мир часовых механизмов.

1985—1997 — работал в Петербургском институте ядерной физики (до переименования в Ленинградском) ведущим инженером-оптиком. Организовал кристалл-оптическую мастерскую. Изготовил первые кристаллические устройства для фокусировки заряженных частиц, новейших физических приборов, основу которых составляли различные кристаллы необычной формы с заданными конкретными свойствами.

1990 — восстановил звонницу и часы в монастыре в Ферапонтово. Эта работа, которой Ю. П. Платонов посвятил свой отпуск, положила начало большому пути мастера по воссозданию утраченных уникальных часов.

1992 — в Петербургском институте ядерной физики во главе с Ю. П. Платоновым создалась команда по воссозданию башенных часов Гатчинского дворца, в которую входили также В. В. Иванов, С. С. Василенко, Т. Н. Качанова (позже Гордеева). В инженерных работах также принимали участие М. П. Гурьев, в реставрации звонницы — А.А. Киселев М.Д. Огороднов. Историческую справку готовила сотрудник Гатчинского дворца-музея И.Э.Рыженко. От башенных часов в Гатчине не сохранилось ничего. Группа на спонсорские деньги ездила в экспедиции, изучая сохранившиеся часы в Вильнюсе, Гродно, Каунасе, Выборге и Суздале, Москве. Были проведены исследования в архивах, обнаружен прототип. 19 января 1993 года состоялась защита проекта на основе выбранного прототипа. Практически с нуля были воссозданы часы с боем часов и четвертей. По архивным фотографиям определено местонахождение колоколов. На дворцовую башню вернулись колокола, и снова над парком можно слышать бой часов. Большую поддержку в работе над гатчинскими часами оказала дирекция Петербургского института ядерной физики. Бесплатно предоставлялись материалы и оборудование, часть работ была выполнена по заявкам в механической мастерской. Это позволило в достаточно короткий срок, около 9 месяцев, сделать часы. Определяющий вклад Ю. П. Платонова, В. В. Иванова и М. П. Гурьева выражен в клейме на раме гатчинских часов, в котором вписаны начальные буквы фамилий — «П. И. Г.»

В этом же основном составе группа занималась реставрацией и восстановлением башенных часов Мраморного дворца, Зимнего дворца, часов Суздальского кремля, а также Фарного костела в Гродно в Белоруссии.

1994 — Ю. П. Платонов был приглашен в Государственный Эрмитаж, где он создал и возглавил Лабораторию научной реставрации часов и музыкальных механизмов.

20 февраля 1995 года в Александровском зале Государственного Эрмитажа состоялся первый концерт восстановленного «Механического оркестра» при участии солистов Оркестра Государственного Эрмитажа «Санкт-Петербург Камерата» под управлением Саулюса Сондецкиса. Напольные часы работы И. Г. Штрассера (Страссера) «Механический оркестр» исполнены в 1793—1801 годах механиком Иоганном Георгом Штрассером и мебельным мастером Генрихом Гамбсом. В реставрации участвовали Специальные научно-реставрационные производственные мастерские и Лаборатория реставрации часовых и музыкальных инструментов, руководитель Ю. П. Платонов (информация с пригласительного билета на концерт, РГЭ, Зак.5. Тир. 200 16.01.95).

Полностью реставрация часов была завершена только к 2015 году.

Под руководством Ю. П. Платонова были начаты работы по восстановлению знаменитых Часов «Павлин». Был отреставрирован собственно механизм часов, расшифрована конструкция музыкального барабана Совы, восстановлены все 12 молоточков, играющих мелодии, а также механизм головки и подъема всех рядов перьев. Настроены компенсационные пружины и реечные кулисные механизмы. Эпизодически (по средам в 17-00) проводилась демонстрация часов Павлин в действии для публики.

2010 — Через 13 лет после смерти Ю. П. Платонова его последователи М. П. Гурьев, В. А. Молотков и О. З. Зинатуллин получили Государственную премию Российской Федерации 2010 года в области литературы и искусства — за выдающийся вклад в сохранение и восстановление уникальных музейных часов и музыкальных механизмов, возрождение традиций российских мастеров. М.П. Гурьев, возглавивший Лабораторию после Ю.П.Платонова, прокомментировал это так: "За 17 лет (в 2011 г.) самым сложным нашим проектом были, наверно, часы «Павлин». Их начали реставрировать еще при нашем предыдущем заведующем Юрии Петровиче Платонове. Очень жаль, что в час признания наших заслуг его уже нет рядом с нами. Ведь он был талантливым и увлеченным человеком, одним из основателей лаборатории, а мы просто несем знамя, которое он поднял" .

Похоронен в Гатчине на кладбище на ул. Солодухина.

Фильмы и передачи о Ю. П. Платонове
 «Россия. Который час?» — реж. Игорь Шадхан. Мастерская Шадхана, 1996.
  Михаил Пиотровский, директор Государственного Эрмитажа. «Часы из приёмной директора». Радиостанция Эхо Москвы, ведущая Ксения Басилашвили. 19 декабря 2010

Примечания

Литература
 S.S. Vasilenko, M.P. Gouriev, V.V. Ivanov, T.N. Kachanova and J.P. Platonov / Reconstruction of the tower clock on Gatchina Palace / Horological Journal, vol 137, N 6, June 1995, p. 204—205. Published by British Horological Institute.
 Jim Arnfield / Seven Days in Saint Petersburg / Horological Journal, vol 137, N 9, September 1995, p. 305—307. Published by British Horological Institute.

  С. Василенко «О башенных часах Гатчинского дворца». «Старая Гатчина», ЛИГА, СПБ 1996 г. стр. 117—128

 Василенко С. С. О старинных часах Гатчины и её окрестностей / «Экология. Безопасность. Жизнь» Гатчина 1998 г. вып. 6 , стр. 469−483

Ссылки
  С. Василенко, М. Гурьев, B. Иванов, Т. Качанова. «Башенные часы Зимнего дворца» (Посвящается светлой памяти Ю. П. Платонова)
 Л. Колесникова. «Диалоги с Платоновым», Послесловие Ларисы Патраковой. «Нева» 2006, № 11
 Михаил Гурьев: «Небеса тоже подчиняются законам механики»
 Главный часовщик Эрмитажа: Памятники технической культуры так же важны, как и художественные. С М.П.Гурьевым беседует Наталья Блинникова
 «Суздаль. Часы на звоннице»
 Т.Волкова «Событие, которого ждали!»
 Домашний пирог «Счастье» О вологодской поэтессе Ларисе Патраковой, даже не столько о ней...
 Ксения Иванова «Кто оживляет павлина?» // Метро. — 2011. — № 6.07
 Зинаида Скорнякова «Работайте Господеви со страхом и радуйтеся Ему с трепетом» // Гатчинская правда. — 2013. — № 14 (20307)
 Ксения Самарина «Бьют часы на старой башне...»

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Wolfram Mathematica est un logiciel de calcul formel édité par Wolfram Research depuis 1988 et utilisé dans les milieux scientifiques pour effectuer des calculs algébriques et créer des programmes.

Wolfram commence à travailler sur le logiciel en 1986 et en sort la première version en 1988. Il est disponible sur de nombreuses plateformes et supporte un large choix d'opérations.

L'entreprise a mis en service un site Internet dit intelligent, basé entre autres sur Mathematica : WolframAlpha. Il est ainsi possible d'utiliser les ressources de Mathematica gratuitement.

Caractéristiques
Mathematica peut être utilisé dans de nombreuses applications et comprend de nombreux outils, tels que :

Bibliothèques de fonctions mathématiques élémentaires et fonctions spéciales.
Outils pour manipuler des nombres complexes, de l'arithmétique en précision arbitraire, de l'arithmétique en intervalles et du calcul symbolique.
Matrices et manipulation de données, incluant le support pour les matrices.
Données en 2D et 3D, fonction et visualisation géographique et outils d'animation.
Il permet de résoudre différents types d'équations : équation diophantienne, équation différentielle, équation aux dérivées partielles, équation différentielle algébrique, et les suites définies par récurrence.
Analyse par éléments finis, incluant la génération de maillage adaptatif en 2D et 3D.
Outils de calcul numérique et symbolique pour l'analyse, y compris les transformations intégrales continues et discrètes.
Optimisation locale et globale avec contrainte et sans contrainte.
Bibliothèques de statistiques multivariées comprenant l'ajustement, les tests d'hypothèses et les calculs de probabilité et d'espérance sur plus de 160 distributions.
Support pour les données censurées, données temporelles, séries temporelles et données basées sur les unités.
Calculs et simulations sur des processus et des files d'attente aléatoires.
Outils d'apprentissage automatique supervisés et non supervisés pour données, images et sons, incluant les réseaux neuronaux artificiels.
Outils de fouille de textes, incluant les expressions régulières et l'analyse sémantique.
Outils de fouille de données tels que le partitionnement de données, l'alignement des séquences et le filtrage par motif.
Géométrie de calcul en 2D et 3D et des dimensions supérieures.
Bibliothèques pour le traitement du signal, incluant l'analyse par ondelettes sur des sons, des images ainsi que des données.
Bibliothèques de systèmes de contrôle linéaires et non linéaires.
Outils de traitement d'images en  2D et 3D et de traitement d'images morphologiques, y compris la reconnaissance d'images.
Outils de présentation permettant de générer des présentations professionnelles qui permettent au code d'être exécuté directement dans l'environnement de notebook.
Outils pour visualiser et analyser des graphes dirigés et non dirigés.
Outils pour résoudre des problèmes combinatoires.
Bibliothèque de fonctions de théorie des nombres.
Outils de calcul financier, incluant bons, rentes, dérivés, options, etc.
Théorie des groupes et fonctions tensorielles symboliques.
Outils de vérification automatique de théorèmes.
Outils pour la modélisation de systèmes, incluant la génération et l'exécution de modèles Modelica.
Importer et exporter des filtres pour les données, les images, la vidéo, le son, la conception assistée par ordinateur (CAD), les systèmes d'information géographique (SIG), les formats de document et biomédicaux.
Collecter des bases de données pour des informations mathématiques, scientifiques et socio-économiques et accéder aux données et calculs de Wolfram|Alpha.
Traitement de texte technique avec éditeur de formule et générateur de rapports automatisé.
Il offre un langage de programmation supportant les constructions procédurales, fonctionnelles, orientées objet et la programmation parallèle.
Boîte à outils pour ajouter des interfaces utilisateur aux calculs et aux applications.
Outils pour créer et déployer des applications et des services informatiques basés dans le cloud.
Outils permettant de se connecter à une bibliothèque de liens dynamiques (DLL), à un langage (SQL), à des systèmes basés sur Java, .NET, C++, Fortran, CUDA, OpenCL, et Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Utiliser à la fois des entrées linguistiques de forme libre (une interface utilisateur en langage naturel) et le langage Wolfram à travers le notebook quand vous êtes connecté à l'Internet.

Interface
L'interface de Mathematica est une interface de programmation interactive de type notebook. Mathematica a été un des premiers logiciels à proposer ce type d'interface pour la programmation scientifique.

Le système de Mathematica est formé d'un noyau, qui réalise les calculs et peut être exécuté sur une autre machine que celle de l'utilisateur, et d'une interface interactive pour entrer les données. Celle-ci prend en compte des entrées de l'utilisateur exprimées dans le langage de Mathematica, appelé Wolfram Language, et affiche le résultat des calculs sous forme de texte simple, de formules, de son, ou d'images.

Les formules en langage de Mathematica peuvent être converties en formules TeX ou en format XML.

L'interface interactive inclut des outils de développement tel qu'un débuggeur  et permet la coloration syntaxique.

L'interface interactive standard peut être remplacée par d'autres. Wolfram Workbench, est un IDE fondé sur Eclipse et a été introduit en 2006. Mathematica inclut aussi une interface en ligne de commande.

Développement
Plusieurs solutions sont mises en place pour utiliser des applications écrites en langage Mathematica. Mathematica Player Pro est un runtime de Mathematica qui exécute n'importe quelle application écrite en langage Mathematica, mais il ne permet pas l'édition de code. Une version gratuite, le lecteur CDF de Wolfram, permet d'exécuter des applications au format CDF. Le code de Mathematica peut être converti en code C puis en DLL.

Connexions avec d'autres applications
La communication avec d'autres applications se fait via le protocole MathLink. Il permet la communication entre le noyau et l'interface interactive mais aussi avec d'autres programmes.

Wolfram Research offre librement un kit de développement pour lier des applications écrites en C avec le noyau de Mathematica via MathLink.

En utilisant .NET/Link un kit de développement, Mathematica peut être intégré avec des applications qui utilisent le Framework .NET de Microsoft pour demander à Mathematica de faire des calculs. Réciproquement, une application écrite en langage Mathematica peut charger les classes de .NET et manipuler ses objets. On peut aussi utiliser le J/Link pour intégrer les applications de Mathematica avec des programmes Java.

La communication à une base de données est aussi assurée.

Licence

Mathematica est un logiciel propriétaire protégé par le copyright.

Une licence pour utilisation commerciale standard coûte  aux États-Unis,  en Europe. Ce type de licence permet l'utilisation de 8 cœurs en version standard, 16 cœurs en version Enterprise, pour exécuter des  calculs parallèles, une année de service qui consiste en des mises à jour, un support technique ainsi qu'une licence pour une utilisation à but non commercial, une licence de webMathematica Amateur, une licence de Wolfram Workbench. Des remises sont disponibles pour les gouvernements, les organisations caritatives, les étudiants, les écoles et pour une utilisation non commerciale. La licence  « étudiant » coûte  aux États-Unis et  en France. Des licences pour une utilisation non commerciale sont disponibles au coût de  aux États-Unis et  en Europe.

Environnement
Mathematica est disponible pour plusieurs versions de Linux, Mac OS X d'Apple, et pour les systèmes NT de Microsoft Windows. Les versions anciennes, jusqu'à la version 6.0.3, prennent en charge d'autres systèmes tels que Solaris, AIX, Convex, HP-UX, IRIX, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, Ultrix et Windows Me.

Mathematica est livré avec Raspbian sur Raspberry Pi.  La licence d'utilisation sur cette plateforme permet un usage gratuit mais non commercial.

Versions

 Mathematica 1.0 ()
 Mathematica 1.2 ()
 Mathematica 2.0 ()
 Mathematica 2.1 ()
 Mathematica 2.2 ()
 Mathematica 3.0 ()
 Mathematica 4.0 ()
 Mathematica 4.1 ()
 Mathematica 4.2 ()
 Mathematica 5.0 ()
 Mathematica 5.1 ()
 Mathematica 5.2 ()
 Mathematica 6.0 ()
 Mathematica 6.0.1 ()
 Mathematica 6.0.2 ()
 Mathematica 6.0.3 ()
 Mathematica 7.0 ()
 Mathematica 7.0.1 ()
 Mathematica 8.0 ()
 Mathematica 8.0.1 ()
 Mathematica 8.0.4 ()
 Mathematica 9.0.0 ()
 Mathematica 9.0.1 ()
 Mathematica 10.0.0 ()
 Mathematica 10.0.1 (septembre  2014)
 Mathematica 10.0.2 ()
 Mathematica 10.1 ()
 Mathematica 10.2 ()
 Mathematica 10.3 ()
 Mathematica 10.3.1 ()
 Mathematica 10.4   ()
 Mathematica 10.4.1   ()
 Mathematica 11.0.0   ()
 Mathematica 11.0.1   (septembre  2016)
 Mathematica 11.1.0   (mars  2016)
 Mathematica 11.1.1 ()
 Mathematica 11.2.0 ()
 Mathematica 11.3.0 ()
 Mathematica 12.0.0 ()
 Mathematica 12.1.0 ()
 Mathematica 12.2.0 ()

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Maple, un logiciel propriétaire concurrent
 Maxima, un logiciel libre concurrent
 SageMath, autre logiciel libre de calcul formel

Liens externes

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Logiciel pour Mac OS
Logiciel pour Unix
Produit lancé en 1988
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Bailey attended Rhodes College and received his Ph.D. from Boston College, where his dissertation was the 2004 co-winner of the APSA' s E. E. Schattschneider Prize for best dissertation in American politics. He joined the University of Houston in 2007, and, in 2014, he was awarded the University's Provost Core Teaching Excellence Award. He is the director of the Phronesis minor in the Honors College and the co-director of the Tocqueville Forum in American Ideas and Institutions.
James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
The Contested Removal Power: 1789-2010 (University Press of Kansas, 2013). With J. David Alvis and F. Flagg Taylor
Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power (Cambridge University Press 2007, paper 2010)
"Reexamining the Use of Unilateral Orders: Source of Authority and the Power to Act Alone," American Politics Research 42 (2014): 472-502. With Brandon Rottinghaus
"Opposition to the Theory of Presidential Representation: Federalists, Whigs, and Democrats," Presidential Studies Quarterly 44 (2014): 50-71
"Should We Venerate that which Cannot Love?: James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection." Political Research Quarterly 65 (2012): 732-44
"The New Unitary Executive and Democratic Theory: The Problem of Alexander Hamilton." American Political Science Review 102 (2008): 453-65
"Constitutionalism, Conflict, and Consent: Jefferson on the Impeachment Power." Review of Politics 70 (2008): 572-94
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Port concessions: when time is money
Ineco is collaborating with Puertos del Estado in the legalisation of the concessions for public property following the legislative reform of 2014, which extended their maximum duration from 35 to 50 years. Concessions are the legal instrument by which the State allows private companies to make use of the public port domain, and their duration is essential to improve the operations of the Spanish port system.
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Olympic Port of Barcelona. / FOTO_JORGE FRANGANILLO (FLICKR)
Whether it is a cargo terminal, a yacht club, a luxury marina or a waste collection service, the facilities and services of Spanish ports are subject to a public concession. This is due to the fact that Spanish law establishes that both the land and sea areas where port activity takes place are State property. Therefore, they constitute a public domain, and cannot be sold or seized, although they may be occupied and their use can be conceded to the private sector for a specific period of time paying the corresponding fees.
These services subject to concession include port services, such as berthing, loading and unloading, stowage, pilotage and towing, repairs, supplies (water, fuel, electricity, cleaning, etc.), and commercial services: hotel and catering or nautical sports and leisure activities, among others; some with high added value, such as those linked to luxury nautical sports, a booming sector with a high economic impact on port hinterland (area of influence).
Among the services subject to a concession are those relating to the port itself and commercial services
For each case, the awarding of port services and activities is carried out through legal authorisation, for those that do not require permanent infrastructures, and for a maximum of three years, or through a public concession, at the request of the applicant or at the initiative of the port authority. The duration of concessions is very important to the operation of the port system, as applicants must make a long-term plan, propose new investments and assume all financial risks in compliance with the parameters established by current legislation.
Since 2015, Ineco has been providing technical support to Puertos del Estado for the analysis of the files subject to these extensions. More than 300 extension requests have been submitted to 28 port authorities.
Port of Valencia pilots' base. / PHOTO_VALENCIAPORT
Since the start of the project, Puertos del Estado has coordinated meetings with the different port authorities together with Ineco and has participated in the preliminary work to standardise the criteria for processing the requests for extension of deadlines, in order to improve the analysis and speed up the drafting and issuing of reports.
It should be noted that, due to the procedure carried out, and reviewed at the end by Puertos del Estado with the company's support, concessionaires are making significant investments to improve the productivity and environmental quality of their operations, by introducing new technologies that increase their competitiveness in the ports.
Ineco also provides technical assistance for land valuations, reports on the concessionary use of lighthouses and advice on the management of extensions.
Loading area of the port of Algeciras. / PHOTO_PORT OF ALGECIRAS
Port of Ibiza. / PHOTO_PORTS DE BALEARS
Maritime bulk terminal at the port of Valencia. / PHOTO_VALENCIAPORT
More involvement of the private sector
In addition to extending the maximum limit of the concessions, Royal Decree Law 8/2014 has also made other changes in the management of Spanish ports, which open up new ways of participation for the private sector. Among them, a new case of extraordinary extension associated with the funding of port connectivity infrastructures and improvement of freight transport networks, as well as the creation of the Financial Fund for Land Access to Ports. With these measures, the extension of the concessions is linked to the contribution of the successful bidders to the improvement of land connections to ports, promoting their intermodality, one of the main axes of national and European transport policies.
Another of the novelties of the 2014 regulatory change was the lifting of the ban on the use of certain disused port infrastructures located within the public port domain, such as lighthouses, for hotel, hostel or accommodation purposes. Puertos del Estado launched the project 'Spanish Lighthouses' (see ITRANSPORTE 60) in 2015 to give new complementary uses to part of these facilities such as the lighthouse keepers' dwellings, without affecting their operation as maritime signalling elements, while ensuring their conservation as historical heritage. Therefore, 187 lighthouses throughout Spain were analysed and inventoried for this purpose. Ineco developed the website that gives visibility to the initiative, and the platform on which the inventory can be accessed.
Ineco organised a visit to the port of Valencia, in coordination with the Directorate of Operations of Puertos del Estado, to know in detail its operation and internal structure.
Although some of them already had facilities such as exhibition halls, training or research centres or cafeterias, until 2014 none of them had been converted into tourist accommodation, as has already been done in other European countries, the USA, Chile, South Africa or Australia. As part of the port public domain, the refurbishment and operation of the former lighthouse keepers' dwellings is subject to a public concession, pending the approval of the corresponding port authority. The Isla Pancha Lighthouse, in Lugo was the first to be converted into a hotel in 2017, followed by Punta Cumplida, in Tenerife, in 2020, through a 35-year public concession awarded to the German company Floatel. In the meantime, half a dozen other similar projects are still in the pipeline throughout Spain.
A legislative change for competitiveness
Spanish ports are governed by the Consolidated Text of the Law of Puertos del Estado and the Merchant Navy, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 2/2011, of 5 September (TRLPEMM). On 5 July 2014, Royal Decree Law 8/2014, of 4 July, approving urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency, was published in the Official State Gazette. This regulation amended article 82 of the TRLPEMM, extending the maximum term of port concessions to 50 years and adding a transitional provision, subject to certain requirements, that allowed the extension of the initial term of concessions granted prior to the entry into force of the Royal Decree Law. Subsequently, Law 18/2014, of 15 October, approving urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency, definitively approved both precepts. In application of the Law, the concessionaires of the authorities of ports of general interest were granted a period of one year to request an extension of the initial term of their concessions. This period could be extended by the port authorities, at the request of the concession holder, subject to a binding report from Puertos del Estado.
Land lord: a mixed model For Spanish ports
In Spain, the European country with the most kilometres of coastline, ports are infrastructures of great importance, not only in the transport sector, but also in other major sectors of the national economy, such as tourism. There are currently 46 ports classified as being of "general interest", managed by 28 port authorities, coordinated by the public body Puertos del Estado. The rest are managed directly by the autonomous communities, through their own port laws.
In addition to commercial ports, Spain has some 300 marinas along its coastline, most of them in the Mediterranean.
The Spanish ports are managed under the land lord system, a decentralised system in which port authorities have a high degree of authority to make their own decisions and apply business judgement, which is considered to improve economic and operational efficiency.
This model is the most widespread in Europe: port ownership is state-owned –a condition that, in the case of Spain, is maintained even in ports managed by the autonomous communities– and it is the private sector that provides the services, unlike the tool lord model, in which ownership and services are combined under a single public or private agent.
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Q: Separating objects into a constrained number of groups where data is known about all object pairs In Frequency Planning, we may know the interference between one cell and another cell. You may be a able to operate a specific number of frequencies. How would one separate them into the best groups. I have been toying with Classify but am unable to see how to program it to perform the required grouping.
I have a program to produce sample data.
Combinations[all___] := Flatten[Outer[List, all, 1], Length[{all}] - 1];
all=ToString/@Range[6];
groups=ToString[#]&/@Range[2];
contents=Association[];
(contents[#]=groups[[1]])&/@all[[;;3]];
(contents[#]=groups[[2]])&/@all[[4;;]];
contents;
reverseContents=contents//Normal//GroupBy[Last->First];
makeValues[{a_,b_}]:=Module[{},
If[a==b,Missing[],
c=contents[a]==contents[b];
If[c,
{a,b,RandomReal[{-28,-50}],{a,b}->"same group"},
{a,b,RandomReal[{0,-30}],{a,b}->"different group"}
]]];
training=Select[makeValues/@Combinations[all,all],Not[MissingQ[#]]&];

The data as I have programmed gives the following dataset where the fourth column is the recommendation. Either the nodes should be in the same group or they should be in different groups.
Grid[training]
1   2   -36.0319    {1,2}->same group
1   3   -33.4696    {1,3}->same group
1   4   -26.8633    {1,4}->different group
1   5   -18.9969    {1,5}->different group
1   6   -14.5339    {1,6}->different group
2   1   -42.4544    {2,1}->same group
2   3   -32.0968    {2,3}->same group
2   4   -25.3401    {2,4}->different group
2   5   -19.9827    {2,5}->different group
2   6   -7.73741    {2,6}->different group
3   1   -49.5421    {3,1}->same group
3   2   -41.9788    {3,2}->same group
3   4   -13.1989    {3,4}->different group
3   5   -18.0183    {3,5}->different group
3   6   -10.5025    {3,6}->different group
4   1   -17.6852    {4,1}->different group
4   2   -0.997097   {4,2}->different group
4   3   -5.0447     {4,3}->different group
4   5   -47.2881    {4,5}->same group
4   6   -43.6139    {4,6}->same group
5   1   -20.8662    {5,1}->different group
5   2   -29.4012    {5,2}->different group
5   3   -4.96949    {5,3}->different group
5   4   -31.5497    {5,4}->same group
5   6   -29.7002    {5,6}->same group
6   1   -3.60692    {6,1}->different group
6   2   -28.6723    {6,2}->different group
6   3   -12.8056    {6,3}->different group
6   4   -44.3089    {6,4}->same group
6   5   -48.3195    {6,5}->same group

This is a simple example I plan to expand to hundreds of cells and up to 10 groups. Anybody's help would be much appreciated.

A: This seems like it would be best interpreted as a graph partition problem instead of looking at it like a 'machine learning' problem.
data = {
   {1, 2, -36.0319, {1, 2} -> "same"},
   {1, 3, -33.4696, {1, 3} -> "same"},
   {1, 4, -26.8633, {1, 4} -> "different"},
   {1, 5, -18.9969, {1, 5} -> "different"},
   {1, 6, -14.5339, {1, 6} -> "different"},
   {2, 1, -42.4544, {2, 1} -> "same"},
   {2, 3, -32.0968, {2, 3} -> "same"},
   {2, 4, -25.3401, {2, 4} -> "different"},
   {2, 5, -19.9827, {2, 5} -> "different"},
   {2, 6, -7.73741, {2, 6} -> "different"},
   {3, 1, -49.5421, {3, 1} -> "same"},
   {3, 2, -41.9788, {3, 2} -> "same"},
   {3, 4, -13.1989, {3, 4} -> "different"},
   {3, 5, -18.0183, {3, 5} -> "different"},
   {3, 6, -10.5025, {3, 6} -> "different"},
   {4, 1, -17.6852, {4, 1} -> "different"},
   {4, 2, -0.997097, {4, 2} -> "different"},
   {4, 3, -5.0447, {4, 3} -> "different"},
   {4, 5, -47.2881, {4, 5} -> "same"},
   {4, 6, -43.6139, {4, 6} -> "same"},
   {5, 1, -20.8662, {5, 1} -> "different"},
   {5, 2, -29.4012, {5, 2} -> "different"},
   {5, 3, -4.96949, {5, 3} -> "different"},
   {5, 4, -31.5497, {5, 4} -> "same"},
   {5, 6, -29.7002, {5, 6} -> "same"},
   {6, 1, -3.60692, {6, 1} -> "different"},
   {6, 2, -28.6723, {6, 2} -> "different"},
   {6, 3, -12.8056, {6, 3} -> "different"},
   {6, 4, -44.3089, {6, 4} -> "same"},
   {6, 5, -48.3195, {6, 5} -> "same"}
};

edges = UndirectedEdge @@@ data[[All, 1 ;; 2]];
weights = data[[All, 3]];

g = Graph[edges, EdgeWeight -> Thread[edges -> weights],
  VertexLabels -> Automatic]

recommendedg =
 Graph[Select[data[[All, 4]], #[[2]] == "same" &][[All, 1]],
  VertexLabels -> Automatic]

ConnectedComponents[recommendedg]
(* {{4, 5, 6}, {1, 2, 3}} *)

FindGraphPartition[g]
(* result {{4, 5, 6}, {1, 2, 3}} *)

The recommendation agrees with the result of FindGraphPartition which takes into account the weights (presumably decibel values for interference strength). This might not scale well to more cells because you could get good groupings that minimize the total interference - but it might make more sense to minimize the maximum interference - in which case it becomes a more difficult optimization problem.

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Malcolm Rodriguez announces he's returning to Oklahoma State
The senior linebacker will return in 2021.
By Matt A. Harris Dec 29, 2020, 3:08pm CST
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— Ryan Simmons (@RyanSimmonsOSU) December 29, 2020
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Malcolm Rodriguez has told us that he will return to Oklahoma State next season. Great news!
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HASTINGS (Rev Robin Golding and Rev Graeme Henshaw)
Our church family camp in October, with Gerald Bradley of the O.A.C. as guest speaker, was a happy time of fellowship. Over Labour Weekend Bev Holt conducted a Youth Leaders' training camp which was attended by about 30 young people. As a result of the outreach programme last year, the number of children attending the Junior Department of the S.S. has doubled - we will need all those new leaders. Mr Doug Bewley's resignation from the diaconate has brought to an end 28 years as an elected church officer. For 13 of those years Doug was secretary, and his contribution to church life has been immeasurable. At Zach's Place in Flaxmere a successful craft exhibition and sale of work was held. Then on Christmas Day Zach's became a restaurant and provided Christmas dinner for the lonely people of the district. Through January our evening services have catered for the whole community, including holidaymakers, by screening a series of Christian films on various aspects of family life. These were very well attended.
HASTINGS (Revs. R. Golding and G. Henshaw)
In preparation for our 1983 outreach programme, a team from our church visited Wanganui Central Baptist to observe and learn from their key resource people. The thank offering given at this year's thanksgiving service is to be used for this programme also. On "commitment Sunday" we were asked to commit ourselves to whatever aspect of the programme each of us felt able to assist with. A cricket match between the B.Y.M. and the young marrieds was no less exciting than the T.V. matches we have seen this summer with the B.Y.M. accepting their defeat graciously. Palm Sunday came alive in a special way with a real donkey taking its appropriate place in the role play during morning service.
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Back Row: H. McMullan, J. Dewdney, R. King, G. Colville, H. Phillips, N. Jeans.
Third Row: T. Geddes, N. Ono, L. Standen, S. Taylor, I. Simister, G. Galtry, R. Low, D. Rogers, A Gamman.
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Front Row: J. Barllett, M. Hensman, Rev. B. K. Smith, Or R. J. Thompson, Mrs S. Thompson, Rev. H. J. Pidwell,
J. McMullan, R. Jensen.
The church has been looking particularly beautiful since a floral art workshop, dealing particularly with flowers for church decoration was held there. Another instructional and entertaining evening resulted when the "over 40s" were initiated into the magic of food processors and various other items of kitchen gadgetry. Their successful use provided delicious items for supper. After 4 years as pastor at Zach's Place (Flaxmere Fellowship), Rev. Graeme Henshaw is moving to Mangere. He is leaving behind a flourishing group of Christians who will miss the love and care which has been poured out so liberally by Graeme and his wife Sally. Our church has been full each Sunday night for the Joyce Landorf series of films, "His Stubborn Love," which is currently being shown in Hastings, at three locations each week. All screenings have been well attended, and a number of troubled people have been helped through the telephone counselling service we have offered to complement the films.


Apparently, I can't be trusted to buy Easter candy in advance of Easter. I've walked down that road and totally failed. I was at Target last weekend and the Easter section literally sucked me. It was the strangest thing. I mean, I tried to steer my cart away, but it was like some sort of magical vortex that I couldn't turn away from. The next thing I knew, I was walking out of the store with Twizzlers and jelly beans, and Cadbury Eggs.
Walking out of Target with candy wasn't the problem. What happened at home was. I ended up eating all the Twizzlers. I didn't mean to. I was just going to nibble one while I put the groceries away and the next thing I knew, the bag was empty and candy remorse immediately set in.
If you're planning to make Easter baskets for the kids over the next few days and if candy is your weakness, here are a couple of ways to keep yourself from totally pigging out and then dealing with regret afterward.
If you go into basket making with the mindset that you're not going to eat a single piece of candy, you're just going to be disappointed when your willpower fails and you eat a whole bag of Pull & Peel Twizzlers. I speak from experience. Compromise with yourself and allow yourself a taste of whatever candy is your favorite, but only a taste. Not the whole bag!
I love jelly beans- especially the Jelly Belly and Starburst brands, but let's get this out in the open- jelly beans are the perfect example of 'empty calories.' What this means is that when you eat them, you're dumping a bunch of calories into your body, but you're not getting anything nutritional from them. Yes, they taste delicious, but if you've been trying to stay on track with your weight and health, jelly beans are one of the worst things that you can eat.
Ha, I know what you're thinking! Your mind probably instantly jumped to the thought that this is the perfect excuse to stuff your cheeks hamster style with all the leftover candy. What I mean by avoiding leftovers is that you should focus on only buying what you need to fill the baskets you're making and then if there's any candy left over, take it work and share it with mouths other than your own.
Source: Is Eating Easter Candy Really Worth the Splurge?


Garlands make your home become festive and give a great atmosphere during the season. While you can buy them from high street stores and department stores, they can often be expensive. Besides this, it is better to make your own from home. You can get the whole family involved and really enjoy the process. Here are 3 inexpensive Christmas garlands you can make yourself.
You can turn a traditional green and brown magnolia garland into something very special with the addition of some silver leaves and holly branches.
The best way to do this is by attaching the garland to your banister rail at home. From here, you just need to spray paint the branches of holly with silver paint. You can then add magnolia leaves to the garland, as and where you want, to give that special finish. After you have wired the holly branches together, you then simply add them to the garland on the banister rail.
This garland looks best when it is hung over a picture, or a mirror. It would look great in the dining room, or in the main room of your home. The reflection in the mirror adds that extra special effect. Another good place is to hang it is around a window. You will need a sewing needle, some white thread, map tacks and crocheted snowflakes to make this garland.
Start by laying out a row of flakes together on the table. You can arrange the patterns to your own tastes. Now use the needle and white thread to sew them together, from one end to the other. Next, loop the thread back over the holes at the end a number of time, to give some security to the decoration. You can now simply hang your line of snowflakes up with map tacks.
This is a great garland to make, as it can hang on your staircase, banister, or in a room. The combination of the garland and greeting cards adds that special touch to your home.
Start by coating one side of the clothespins with glue, and press it onto gift wrap. You now need to cut around the clothespins to remove the unneeded paper. Next, repeat on the other side. When you want to hang the clothespins you have created, clip them to some ribbon and hang it along the banister or staircase. You can now pin cards along the ribbon to complete the effect.


Less than a week before the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis pulled into Pearl Harbor to participate in National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day events as a part of the Pearl Harbor 75th Commemoration.
On December 2, as the aircraft carrier passed by the USS Arizona Memorial, sailors aboard the USS John C. Stennis paid their respects and saluted.
December 7, 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu, leading the United States to enter World War II.
The theme of this years commemoration is "Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future." Events will be held through December 11 for those who are attending.
Remembrance events, concerts and performances by military and civilian groups, movies, the Honolulu marathon and events for World War II and Pearl Harbor veterans and survivors will be held.
New ISIS Spokesman Tells Jihadists To "Kill The Disbeliever" & "Attack Them In Their Own Countries"


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The best ways to eat vegetarian on St. Patrick's Day.
You don't need to eat corned beef, black pudding or lamb to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. All you need is a tall pint of Guinness and one of these delicious, festive, meat-free recipes.
Good quality Irish butter is the key to this simple dish.
This terrific cheddar-Jack cheese fondue includes whiskey, which adds a great kick.
These classic Irish potato pancakes are usually a side dish, but are hearty enough to be a main.
This is a deliciously rustic recipe for a traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage.
You can use almost any vegetable you have in your fridge in this vegetarian take on a classic pub dish.
A simple mix of vegetable stock and olive oil replaces the usual milk and butter in this lightened-up mashed potato casserole. A little cooked spinach adds even more goodness.


What do you do when a company has been around for decades and is a local food cult? Our new logo design is an evolution of the original symbol, which was more than ready for an update. The customer did not want to get too far away from the original chef that was beloved by the locals. Here is JImmy's logo, rebranded.
The time to hire a professional photographer is when you just cannot catch the essence of the food any other way. The website slider shows different dishes that Jimmy's creates. We applied several "call to action" buttons to send the customer to the Menu or Phone Ordering.
Grotto's is famous for their "Ponza Rotta", which is prominently placed front and center, along with how long Jimmy's Grotto has been in business. Take a look at the finished product… Jimmy's Grotto website.
To keep the new brand intact, WurkHub created a Style Guide for this client. Our Guideline file details usage, color, type styles, and offers some variations of this logo for various uses.
In pdf format, this file can be emailed and used for any "vector" high-resolution artwork for the printer, signmaker, screenprinter, or embroiderer. Anytime you need to send out art this package will help to maintain the graphics standards you expect.
Once you have a new logo, why not come up with some snappy slogans and a new t-shirt? Available for sale in their on-line store via the Jimmy's Grotto website. This is actually 2 shirts, the front is the attractive new Jimmy's logo, and the backs will have different graphics sayings. Not only are these a profit center, they also promote the new brand.
A custom Baseball Cap for employees and the Jimmy's Grotto softball team.
Customers love to collect glassware. A Jimmy's Grotto pint glass is a perfect accompaniment for a Ponza Rotta and a cold glass of beer! Similar to the T-shirt, the glass is 2-sided, with the Jimmy's logo on the face and the slogan on the back. These also will be available in the Jimmy's Grotto online store.
Promote and keep track of daily specials with a magnet on your fridge. This graphic is used in a number of ways from the website to social media marketing.
Branding on the go. Magnetically attached (w/ alternate strap), Illuminated, and powered by the lighter outlet in the vehicle.
Tri-fold menus for take out customers that matches the website and branding programs.
See what you can do with a logo?
The time to hire a professional photographer is when you just can not catch the essence of the food any other way. The website slider shows different dishes that Jimmy's creates. We applied several "call to action" buttons to send the customer to the Menu or Phone Ordering.
Customers love to collect glassware. A Jimmy's Grotto pint glass is a perfect accompaniment for a Ponza Rotta and a cold glass of beer! Similar to the T-shirt, the glass is 2-sided, with Jimmy's logo on the face and the slogan on the back. These are also will be available in the Jimmy's Grotto online store.
Tri-fold menus for take-out customers that match the website and branding programs.


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Kinnuverse » Culture » A Fresh Look at Contemporary Art » What is Street Art?
What is Street Art?
Street Art's Controversy and Acceptance
Street Art and Money-Making
Modern Graffiti
Stencil Graffiti Artist: Blek le Rat
Stencil Graffiti Artist: Banksy
Poster Graffiti Artist: Shepard Fairey
The Future of Street Art
Although street art comes in many different styles and forms, it all (usually) has one thing in common: it is created in public locations and for public visibility.
Are street art and graffiti the same?
Graffiti is a category of street art.
There are many different genres and movements that fall under the category of street art.
This type of visual art including varieties of modern graffiti, independent art, guerrilla art, post-graffiti and neo-graffiti, some kinds of mural and statuary, and even flash mob performances, guerilla gardening and yarn bombing.
When did Graffiti Become Street Art?
Although the history of graffiti and street art – as well as guerrilla and public protest art – can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia, the terms 'street art' and 'graffiti' generally refer to art created since the 1960s.
While it occurs around the world, many art critics contend that the form was born in New York City and continues to be the heart of Street Art.
Besides NYC, many notable street art pieces have been created by French artists in the streets of Paris.
Street Art grew into its current form out of a long tradition of public political and social protest art.
An early example, and sometimes thought to be a starting point of contemporary street art, is the Killroy Was Here spray paintings of World War II.
Germany's Berlin Wall (1961-1989) was also an important target of street artists and has become an iconic symbol of the power and resilience of protest art.
The Origin of Graffiti
New York became the center of the graffiti boom, starting in the 1960s and reaching critical mass in the 80s. Artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat (SOMA) were critical to the movement, in particular, a shift away from text-based works to imagery and figures.
When was stencil art popularised?
Stencil art, a central graffiti style, took root with John Fekner in 1968 and was perfected and popularized by artists including Blek le Rat, Banksy, and Shepard Fairey in the decades to follow.
Why is it called Graffiti?
The name graffiti is derived from the Italian word "graffio" meaning scratch. It's thought the term was first coined in the 1850s when the graffiti and graffiti writing in Pompeii was discovered.
What is another name for Graffiti?
While graffiti is a type of street art, there are a few other names for graffiti. This includes the rarely used plural for graffiti, graffito.
There is no doubt that Street Art continues to have a complicated relationship both with the world of Fine Art and with the general public, particularly governments and law enforcement.
As some artists and styles of art have become more accepted, these struggles have also begun to cause tension within creator communities, especially between paid artists who utilize a graffiti style and guerilla artists.
What is The Difference Between Fine Art and Street Art?
The situation is made more complex when we examine definitions of Fine Art and why some artists are embraced by the Fine Arts community while others are not. The answer to this question continues to be contentious and is far from settled.
While there is no formula for fame, one reason certain artists receive wider recognition is for their participation in public discourse, gaining power through popular opinion.
Another source of "value" comes from the art market and what collectors are willing to pay.
Street art and artists have a complicated relationship with capital. Many street artists go financially unrewarded for their work, and there are many anonymous artists like Banksy. Most guerilla artists create under pseudonyms.
Why will some artists gain more recognition than others?
Other artists including muralists, 3D artists and graphic artists may garner recognition and fame, leading to exhibitions, collaborations, or commissions.
There can be significant tension between anonymous artists who consider their work more authentic for its rebellious resistance to commercialism and artists who 'sell out' their work to paying customers.
Why do some graffiti writers opt to market their work?
On the other hand, some artists (and artists' estates), choose to market their work, due to the inaccessibility of street art (while it is created for public consumption, audiences have to travel to a specific place to view it).
Keith Haring, for example, opened a storefront to sell reproductions of his work, and Basquiat's estate has expanded the artist's legacy through a variety of collabs. Some street artists also sell their work at auction.
What are the three major types of graffiti?
'Graffiti' is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of artistic styles and mediums, and blurs the line between high and low art.
Spray paint cans, street gangs and graffiti sprayed on subway trains is most often associated with graffiti art, but the genre is far more expansive than just some spray painting.
Graffiti generally falls into three categories: lettering, stencil, and slap and paste-up.
What is Graffiti lettering like?
Graffiti lettering comes in all shapes and sizes, and it is the most common style of graffiti.
There are levels of skill and complexity to lettering, starting with tagging, throw-ups, and Blockbuster, with Wildstyle as the most complex – it's often large, colorful, and features interlocking letters.
You can see this kind of graffiti writing in hip hop graffiti styles.
What is Stencil Graffiti like?
Stencil is the most globally popular and can have lettering and/or images. Using a stencil makes the art easy to put up and reproduce.
Arguably stencil played the largest role in bringing graffiti into the mainstream.
What is paste-up Graffiti like?
Paste-up and slap are images that are produced off-site, usually digitally.
Paste-up utilizes posters applied with wheatpaste, and Slap uses stickers, either mass-produced or hand-drawn.
Blek le Rat, whose real name is Xavier Prou, was born in the Paris suburbs in 1952. He is recognized as one of the first French graffiti artists and has been described as the "father of stencil".
He is a French graffiti artist like Banksy. His work has had an indelible impact on Banksy and other graffiti artists to follow.
Prou began his career as Blek le Rat in 1981, painting stencils of rats, which he called "the only free animal in [Paris]".
Why was Blek le Rat inspired to become a graffiti artist?
Blek was inspired to begin his work by a trip to New York City, though he adapted from spray paint (NYC's medium of choice) to using stencil because he thought it better fit Paris' architecture. Blek worked anonymously until 1991 when he was arrested and police made the connection between him and his art.
Blek's work, often in black and white, is known for its social commentary; it regularly depicts portraits of individuals alone or standing against an oppressor.
Banksy is both an acclaimed and notorious figure in today's art world.
Their work is recognized and reproduced across the world, and original pieces sell for millions.
What is Banksy's true identity?
Their true identity remains a mystery, some history is known. Banksy has been active since the 1990s, originating in the Bristol underground scene in England. Banksy often creates surprise in their works through the juxtaposition of objects and symbols, and their style is recognizable by its use of stencil, and black and white paint with pops of red.
Banksy has a complex relationship with the fine art world. Although they create works for auction and have received millions in compensation, their antagonism towards commodifying art is renowned.
In 2018, while in the midst of an auction, Banksy activated a hidden shredder, destroying their work Balloon Girl. This actually made the piece more popular, and the shredded work sold in 2021 for $25M.
Shepard Fairey is an American artist and activist whose work originated in the skateboarding scene of the 1980s.
He is known for his OBEY Giant images, from which he launched the clothing line OBEY, and for designing the Hope poster used for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Fairey creates his designs digitally, then prints them to be pasted up by himself or others. His distinctive style uses bold, high contrast imagery paired with a word or phrase.
Where did Fairey's OBEY works originate from?
Fairey's OBEY works originated in 1989 with a sticker design titled Andre the Giant Has a Posse. Fairey designed the sticker, while in art school, to be easily distributed through the skater community and by graffiti artists.
The popularity of the piece led Fairey to create a complete OBEY Giant campaign that simplified the image and utilized a text style reminiscent of Barbara Kruger. His later work HOPE sparked national interest in Fairey's art.
Street Art and contemporary graffiti art are active and evolving art forms. While some of the movements' biggest names today have become part of the institution of Fine Art, there are many young and growing artists that are redefining the field and pushing back against art's formal institutions and definitions.
At the same time, Street Art, and mural work in particular, is becoming a more accepted art form, and many artists are finding ways to display their art legally and for a commission.
Some neighborhoods, such as Bushwick in Brooklyn, Shoreditch in London, and Belleville in Paris, are awash in colorful art.
A new generation of artists including Barry McGee, Swoon, and the Os Gêmeos twins are paving the way for an exciting shift in street art that blends classical styles of art with the tools and wit of the street.
What is Digital Art? NFTs and Beyond;
Learn about the growing world of digital art and what the changing face of Contemporary Art may look like in the future.
Art in Social Movements: Feminist, Postcolonial, and LGBTQ+ Art;
Explore a variety of artistic styles brought together by a drive for social awareness.
What is Neo-Expressionism?;
Learn key elements of 1980s Neo-Expression and its origins as a revolt against Minimalism and the rise of Neo-Expressionism.
What is Figurative Art and Stuckism?;
Discover the role of the human form in Contemporary Art and uncover the full range of representational art from abstract to portraiture.
What is Contemporary Photography?;
Explore the expanding world of Contemporary Photography, and see how changes in the 60s and 70s continue to affect photography today.
What is Installation Art?;
Find out more about Installation Art and Sculpture, and subgenres Found Object, Large-Scale, and Non-Representational Sculpture, plus learn about some of the movement's key creators.


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Jose Zepeda KO 5 Ivan Baranchyk is The Ring Magazine Fight of the Year 2020
Zepeda (right) in his war with Ivan Baranchyk. Photo by Mikey Williams/ Top Rank via Getty Images
by Brian Harty
A five-round fight with eight evenly divided knockdowns is either an embarrassment or a classic. It's the competence and the will of the fighters that decide which distinction is earned.
California native Jose Zepeda came into The Bubble at the MGM Grand on October 3 with two blemishes on his record – one (a majority decision in favor of Jose Ramirez) was the rare example of a losing performance good enough to get a fighter into The Ring's junior welterweight top 10, and the other was a two-round corner stoppage that was the result of Zepeda dislocating his shoulder. He'd also won 32 fights, 25 of them by knockout.
The man Zepeda faced on that Saturday night in Las Vegas was Ivan Baranchyk, a Belarusian marauder whose only defeat was against current 140-pound champion Josh Taylor in May 2019. It was a loss with implications, for here again was Baranchyk, the straight-ahead pressure specialist, against a boxer-puncher who could counter and initiate attacks from various angles – the kind of ruler vs. protractor matchup in which Baranchyk had proven vulnerable.
Baranchyk doesn't seem like somebody who spends much time worrying about comparisons, though. Less than 10 seconds into Round 1, he launched a left-handed skyhook that caught Zepeda on the cheek and sent him backward into the ropes. We'd see the same punch many times in the coming rounds, but this was only a taste. There was no follow-up. Instead, there was the coiling tension of this volatile mix of styles, with Zepeda inching in reverse, watching intently for opportunities, and Baranchyk shadowing him like a starving vulture, head lowered between his gloves.
The first knockdown came at 1:15 of the first round when Zepeda threw a straight left and Baranchyk countered with a well-timed, sweeping right. The second came when the muscular Belarusian smacked his opponent in the chest with a right hook and followed with a left that didn't land too cleanly, but it was enough to do the job. Such is the power of even Baranchyk's glancing blows.
At this point, it was looking like Baranchyk might have his way, and he started the second round the same as the first, with a giant, looping left. But Zepeda had picked up on a flaw and took a judo-like approach to exploit it: Baranchyk throws punches that are so completely committed that if they don't actually hit something, his momentum carries him forward like a train that has jumped the tracks on a curve. Zepeda simply leaned back, let the punch whiff by his face and then hit the unbalanced Baranchyk as he spun past. The result wasn't ruled a knockdown, but it was another sign of things to come.
At 2:15 of the round, Baranchyk again overextended himself and lost his balance, and this time Zepeda landed a short, chopping right that put him down on all fours. Baranchyk quickly got up, but there was something a bit exaggerated in his attempt to appear unconcerned. He'd been hurt. Zepeda noticed, and he rushed in when the fight resumed. Suddenly Baranchyk's head was bouncing in every direction as his foe cut loose, and then he was falling into what looked like a possible pre-knockout retreat. But when they got to the ropes, Zepeda unwisely paid tribute to his opponent's technique with a high, looping punch, which Baranchyk avoided and then put Zepeda on his ass with a short right.
And so it went, one violent reversal after another, but Zepeda was learning how to read the signals in Baranchyk's game, both for timing counters while falling back and for getting inside to score with short left hooks at all levels. He landed one to the body after ducking another sweeping right hand, decking Baranchyk in the third round for knockdown number five.
Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank
Perhaps triggered by the canvas' caress, Baranchyk pressed harder in the fourth. At one point, he absolutely nailed Zepeda with an uppercut that put the Californian's chin over his own shoulder, and it seemed like if any punch thus far could've ended the fight, it would've been that one. But Zepeda took it, and very soon after that, Baranchyk whiffed another wide right and paid for it again as Zepeda dribbled his head between a pair of hooks and then caught him flush with another one, fully loaded. Hello canvas, my old friend.
This time, Baranchyk stayed on his back for a very brief moment, probably as his body said "enough" before his heart replied, "Never." He started the fifth round in rampage mode again, but the tread had clearly slipped off the tank's wheels a bit. His punches – each one still a full-bodied investment – had the lurching quality of somebody on the verge of collapse. Zepeda, in turn, was putting something extra on his counterpunches and landing some thudding one-two leads.
But this was, after all, the Fight of the Year, and it wasn't over yet.
With only 45 seconds left in the round, Baranchyk decided to use something neither fighter had shown much interest in: the jab. He stepped forward with a quick double poke while preparing a right cross that would land hard and send Zepeda crashing into the corner pad. That backstop being the only thing that kept Zepeda upright, referee Kenny Bayless delivered the seventh count of the fight.
When the action resumed, it was one of the calmest moments of the contest. The exhausted combatants didn't move much, Baranchyk just taking baby steps forward, Zepeda waiting for the next move. When Baranchyk finally lunged with a jab, Zepeda countered over the punch and then followed with a left that had enough leverage to cause a quarter pirouette on his front foot. The knockout was so sudden and so complete that Baranchyk's feet remained planted and his head would've fallen as straight as a dropped bowling ball had it not been for his body, which crumpled and, his right foot pinned underneath, folded back in a way that would make any knee surgeon wince. It would be a full four minutes before he was able to sit up.
In his post-fight interview, Zepeda summed it up as "two guys in there giving their all, and at the end of the day I think it's whoever wants it more." It's difficult to grasp how two people could want something so much as to push each other so far. He was also asked what he told Baranchyk after the fight, and he said: "Thank you." It's a sentiment we'd all co-sign. A classic deserves gratitude.
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Colby College's weekly, student-run, editorially independent newspaper
Robert Augustine and Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier (SUMO)
Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a rise in global temperatures, which has led to heat waves, heavy rainfall, droughts, and other changes. A more extreme result of climatic changes is an increase in the unpredictability of our environmental phenomena, which can have a large impact on crop yields around the globe. For this reason, climate change is one of the primary drivers of global hunger today, with reports from the World Food Programme citing that the past decade has seen upwards of 1.7 billion people affected by weather and climate-related disasters.
Although many methods of combating food insecurity have been proposed, some proposed mechanisms, like expanding agricultural acreage, also bring about deforestation, which further increases global temperatures. The issue of climate change and agriculture thus becomes an issue of managing resources within a finite amount of land.
One way to circumvent this challenge is to improve the efficiency of farmland, which brings us to the topic of today's column, namely, how scientists are studying the way plants respond to environmental stress in order to genetically engineer crops able to withstand the ever-changing weather conditions.
One of these scientists, Dr. Robert Augustine, works as the College's new plant molecular cell and biochemical researcher and professor. I had the chance to speak with Augustine about his work in this field. He explained that plants are constantly pummeled by stresses like changes in temperature, UV exposure, and much more. In order to survive, plants have developed complex molecular defense mechanisms such as the protein SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier). SUMO is a small protein that attaches itself (SUMOylates) to other proteins in order to modify their development and respond to environmental stress. Upon binding, there are many possible outcomes. In fact, one way to think of SUMO is as a great cellular multitasker capable of causing or protecting against protein degradation, promoting or breaking protein/protein interactions, changing localization of proteins, or changing enzymatic function. Overall, these attributes lend to the complexity of SUMO.
Understanding SUMO's ability to cause a variety of outcomes also has important implications in changing the way plant-stress research is currently carried out. Typically plant researchers are interested in one type of stress. SUMO, however, plays a key role in responding to a wide array of stresses like irregular salt intake, UV protection, drought, nutrient limitations, and heat. As a result, SUMO is versatile and an important protein to study as understanding the pathways involved can allow scientists to genetically engineer plants capable of responding to multiple environmental conditions.
This versatility does make studying SUMOylation tricky, however. Most of the 1500 different proteins that SUMO modifies are within the nucleus, so it is no wonder that designing experiments to tease out these pathways is a lengthy undertaking. Furthermore, the proteins being SUMOylated within the nucleus indicate that changes being made are linked to gene expression and RNA splicing. The approaches Dr. Augustine takes are primarily genetic, meaning he knocks out genes that are involved in attaching SUMO to its targets and studies the effects on the plant in order to understand how the SUMOylated proteins impact plant function.
The way Dr. Augustine studies SUMO has also changed over the years. His research began in corn plants, but he has since transitioned to using moss as a model organism. A few advantages to working with moss, he explained, include its ability to be grown in smaller spaces and at a fast rate. Further, moss has a few genetic tricks such as its haploid cells that eliminate the need for knocking out two copies of the same gene. Additionally, moss has a simple lifecycle and has very thin cell walls, making it easy to image under a microscope. Finally, moss has the ability to regrow an entire plant from a single cell. If you cut the leafy-gametophore and isolate it on a petri dish, the leaf will revert into a stemcell state and eventually become filamentous cells again.
This is further evidence of the ease with which they are able to rewire their genomes – making it a good model for looking at questions of transdifferentiation. Although a complete connection has yet to be established, Dr. Augustine explained that transdifferentiation in moss cells may be similar to the way SUMO binds to many proteins and, according to the current hypothesis, acts as a way the plants can rewire their genomes in times of stress and possibly act as an on/off master switch for gene expression.
In moss the process of differentiating cells in their stemcell states is akin to rewiring the genome. One area of further study, however, comes in when translating between moss and flowering plants or agricultural crops, although basic concepts are likely to be shared between the two.
Another interesting feature of SUMO is that unlike most proteins which denature upon heating, SUMO can withstand incredibly high temperatures. Although the reason behind SUMO's high thermostability is not fully understood, it may play a role in SUMO's ability to protect plants against heat stress.
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How Do Options Affect the Volatility of the Underlying Equity Market? Evidence from the Introduction of Weekly Options
Yuan Wen
The Journal of Derivatives Summer 2020, jod.2020.1.100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jod.2020.1.100
is an associate professor of finance at the State University of New York, in New Paltz, NY
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We investigate how options affect the volatility of the underlying equity market using a quasi-natural experiment, i.e., the introduction of weekly options on individual stocks. We examine the change in crash risk surrounding the introduction of weekly options using a difference-in-difference approach that incorporates a control sample identified through propensity score matching. Among the six proxies for crash risk that we adopted, the extreme value theory (EVT)-based VaRs are better explained by the theoretically important determinant factors proposed in prior studies. However, no measure of the EVT-based VaR is significantly affected by the introduction of weekly options. The other four measures of crash risk, which are extensively used in prior studies, are not adequately explained by the proposed determinants and they do not become significantly higher for the optioned stocks following the introduction of weekly options. We use machine learning methods, such as a regression tree model and a random forest model, to better capture the nonlinearity and high-order interactions that may be inherent in the relationship between the introduction of weekly options and crash risk. The results confirm that the introduction of weekly options is not important in explaining the crash risk of the underlying stocks. We also examine the realized volatility of the underlying stocks and find that it is not significantly affected by the introduction of weekly options. Our study contributes to the literature on the impacts of derivatives on the underlying asset market and provides implications for empirical model specifications for crash risk studies.
TOPICS: Options, big data/machine learning
• The introduction of weekly options leads to an enormous increase in short-life options, which can significantly change the investment and hedging opportunities for investors.
• Our study focuses on the possible impact of weekly options on the crash risk of the underlying stocks because hedging and trading activities involving certain short-life options may impose considerable pressure on the stock price in the same direction as the price movement and make the underlying stocks more crash-prone.
• Our results suggest that the introduction of weekly options does not cause a significant increase in the crash risk or the realized volatility of the underlying stocks.
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ECB plans to redesign euro bills, decision expected in 2024
FILE - Euro coins and banknotes are pictured in a shop in Duisburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001. The European Central Bank said Monday that it plans to redesign its euro banknotes, with a final decision on the new look expected in 2024. The euro was introduced in cash form in 2002, with banknotes based on what the Frankfurt-based central bank for the 19-nation euro area calls an 'ages and styles' theme - with generic windows, doorways and bridges that don't represent any specific place or monument. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)
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The European Central Bank said Monday that it plans to redesign its euro banknotes, with a final decision on the new look expected in 2024.
The euro was introduced in cash form in 2002, with banknotes based on what the Frankfurt-based central bank for the 19-nation euro area calls an "ages and styles" theme — with generic windows, doorways and bridges from various eras that don't represent any specific place or monument. They have undergone one relatively minor update in that time.
"After 20 years, it's time to review the look of our banknotes to make them more relatable to Europeans of all ages and backgrounds," ECB President Christine Lagarde said in a statement.
She said that euro banknotes "are a tangible and visible symbol that we stand together in Europe, particularly in times of crisis, and there is still a strong demand for them."
The ECB said it will create focus groups to gather opinions from people across the continent on possible themes for the future notes. A "theme advisory group" with one expert from each eurozone country will then submit a shortlist of suggested new themes to the ECB's governing council.
The bank said it will seek public input on the proposals, then hold a design competition for the new banknotes before again consulting the public. Its governing council will make a final decision and decide on when the new banknotes might be issued.
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