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Naxos Largest island of the Cyclades. In the 3d and 2d millennia B.C. it was a center of Cycladic culture and art. The graves of this period, which are found all over the island, testify to a dense population, but very few remains of houses have been excavated. The graves indicate that Naxos was the chief center for the production of the marble Cycladic idols which were the forerunners of Greece's great sculpture. One of the local natural resources was emery, which was used to smooth the surface of the large-grained Naxian marble. Naxos was preeminent also in the Mycenaean period (LH III). The tradition that Dionysos was born in Naxos (his cult was transferred to Paros, according to Archilochos), the story of Ariadne, the capture of the island by the Thracians, the establishment there of the cult of Otos and Ephialtes, all reflect the importance of the island at that time. The Protogeometric and Geometric periods (11th-8th c. B.C.) are richly represented, but from the 7th c. on we can follow the development of the island in literary sources as well. It was a rival of Paros and joined the Chalkidian forces during the Lelantine war (8th-7th c. B.C.). With Chalkis, Naxos joined in the colonization of Sicily, where Naxos (founded 735 B.C.) took its name from the island. During the war with Paros, which may be considered a part of the Lelantine war, a Naxian killed Archilochos. The differing directions taken by their art illustrate the lack of accord between the two islands, as well as their respective fields of colonization: Paros in the Aegean and Naxos in the W. The power of Naxos during the 7th and 6th c. is witnessed by the number of Naxian dedications at Delos, but Naxian hegemony over the Cyclades is unlikely. The tyrant Lygdamis (ca. 540-524 B.C.), a friend and ally of the tyrants Peisistratos and Polykrates, put an end to the aristocratic constitution of Naxos. The ten-year naval supremacy of the island (thalassocracy) is attributed to him, but his tyranny was ended by the intervention of the Spartans. Naxos was the first to resist the advance of the Persians, ca. 500 B.C. The Persians were helped by the island's old enemy, Miletos, in their attempted expansion to the W, but Naxos, with luck and strength (8000 hoplites, numerous ships, strong walls, and the betrayal of the Persian plans by Miletos, according to Hdt. 5.28f) repulsed the attack. The island did not long escape subjection, however, and her city and shrines were destroyed during the campaign of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 B.C. During Xerxes' campaign the four Naxian ships joined the Greek fleet. A member of the Athenian Alliance, it was the first city which was subjugated by the Athenians (470) and later received Athenian cleruchies (ca. 450 B.C.). After the Peloponnesian war, Naxos regained her independence, but had lost the power to pursue her own policies against successive domination by the great powers (Spartans, Athenians, the Hellenistic kings, etc.) in the Aegean. The island, however, retained a measure of importance because of its situation and size. The few monuments preserved are scattered throughout the island. The polis lay on a hill commanding the harbor; the acropolis was probably under the modern town, Kastro. On the shore to the N (Grotta) portions of the Cycladic, Mycenaean (LH III) and Geometric city (several successive layers, all below sea level) are still being excavated. Inland a part of a square building ca. 60 m on a side has been uncovered. It has four colonnades on the sides and bases for dedications in front of it. This was perhaps the agora for the city of the Early Hellenistic period. Across the torrent bed, which cuts off the plain of the lower city, the hill of the Haplomata extends NE. On it is a necropolis notable for its finds, chiefly Cycladic and Mycenaean chamber tombs, in spite of destruction during expansion of the city in the Late Hellenistic period. A little nearer the shore at a site called Kaminaki, important finds have been made: pottery, jewelry, and a part of an archaic kore, from an unknown shrine. Its building has probably collapsed into the sea. Finds have demonstrated the existence of a shrine of Demeter behind and E of the present Gymnaseum of Naxos. A huge marble doorway (h. 7.9 m including the lintel, w. ca. 6 m) has always been visible on the hill called Palatia left of the modern harbor entrance. Excavation has shown this to be the door to the cella of an archaic Ionic temple from the time of Lygdamis (ca. 530 B.C.), the foundations of which are preserved. It was a peripteral temple with a double colonnade on the short sides (a form simpler than that of the great dipteral temples of Ionia) with a pronaos, cella, and opisthodomos, and it was never finished. During its conversion into an Early Christian basilica the floor was lowered, and the ancient flooring was destroyed along with the whole form of the temple. There is a jamb under a garden wall near the quarry of Phlerios which resembles those on the hill of Palatia and was destined for the temple. Very few architectural fragments have been preserved. The temple may have been dedicated to Apollo. Not far from the city, in the little valley of the Phlerios near the village of Melanes, among the marble rocks on the slope lies a kouros, ca. 5 m long, dating to the early years of the 6th c. B.C., which was abandoned shortly before the work was completed. There is another without a face, from the same period, a little higher up. From this point to Potamia there are numerous marble quarries. At the quarry on the N end of the island, on the promontory of Apollo, there is a colossal archaic statue (h. 10.05 m) a little above the sea. It still occupies the spot where work on it was begun. It is a male, bearded, clothed figure with right hand extended. It dates from ca. 570 B.C. and may represent Dionysos. The area is dedicated to Apollo, as is evident on a rock-cut inscription a short distance away: Boundary of Apollo's sacred territory. At the site called Gyroulas or Marmara, near the village of Sangri, are the remains of a square temple (13 m on a side) which was transformed into an Early Christian basilica. It was lengthened by an apse at the E, the entrance was moved from the S to the N side, the floor was lowered, and the inner columns moved down from the original stylobate into two rows of depressions cut in the living rock (these depressions may have belonged to an earlier building period). Three columns of each row can be made out, and each row was terminated at either end by a parastade of a simpler type than in the doorway at Palatia. The column bases are preserved, each with a two-banded scotia, also numerous fragments of the superstructure (beams, geison, etc.). The temple was square in plan, with a round bothros in front, and numerous dedicatory inscriptions which indicate the temple should be interpreted as a Thesmophorion. On a second acropolis at Epano Kastro is a Venetian fortress; under its side is a portion of an ancient wall. This acropolis is probably connected with a series of tombs of the Protogeometric and Geometric periods close to the nearby town of Tsikalario. Beside the tombs are huge, upright, unworked stones (marking stelai or stelai semata). About a three-hour drive SE of Philoti is the almost completely preserved round tower of Cheimarros. Most of the Cycladic tombs of the island have been found in the now uninhabited SE area of Naxos, but only minimal signs of Cycladic dwellings. There is a square granite tower in the area of Plaka near Agiersani. The museum of the city of Naxos has been much enriched by recent excavations, most notably its collection of Cycladic, Mycenaean, and archaic remains (pottery and plastic arts). A smaller museum at Apeiranthon houses Cycladic idols and pottery of the area, curious stones, and primitive carvings.
N. M. Kontoleon, ed. This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites, Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002
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This post is not a tutorial or tip or anything like that. I just wanted to let the world know that I finally got married! Yay for me! This is a picture of me and my beautiful wife.
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Without Bryan's assistance, guidance, vision, and patience with me, I would probably still be floundering out there in the real estate market for my perfect home. It was discouraging, not to find the right house at the right price. And, my ideas for what I wanted changed significantly. With Bryan's vision, he helped me look at a house I previously viewed at with distaste and see what could be done to make it to my taste. And it's almost complete and is coming along beautifully. The projects include opening the kitchen wall, ridding all the fluorescent dome openings and replacing with LED cans, ceiling fans, new appliances, correcting floor step downs, adding a sliding door to separate the vanity area in the master, adding a new vanity, expanding master closet, painting from top to bottom. Like any project, there's always a surprise behind every wall but they're manageable. Can't wait for the next project!!


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Fire tears through historic Atlanta Krispy Kreme on Ponce
It left significant damage to the backside of the structure.
Author: Katherine Wiley (11Alive)
Published: 3:47 AM EST February 10, 2021
Updated: 6:36 PM EST February 10, 2021
ATLANTA — A fire left behind significant damage to an iconic Atlanta structure overnight Wednesday.
The historic Krispy Kreme on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown was left heavily damaged by a fire that videos and pictures showed engulfed the back part of the building, sending flames high into the air.
Atlanta Fire Rescue confirmed two employees were inside the building when the fire broke out and escaped.
"A fast moving fire gutted the building this morning just before 1 a.m.," the fire agency said in a tweet.
11Alive's Joe Ripley reported the back overhang of the building is gutted and the menu is melted, among the damage.
Officials said the fire started in the back right of the building. Photos from the scene showed the gutted backside of the building:
Iconic Atlanta Krispy Kreme on Ponce goes up in flames
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This historic location opened more than 60 years ago, opening the same year as Atlanta Fulton County Stadium in 1965. It was one of the first Krispy Kremes established outside the young company's main bases of operation in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Nashville.
Basketball legend and media personality Shaquille O'Neal bought the store in 2016. Shaq told 11Alive's Francesca Amiker in a statement: "I hope no one was hurt and we will bounce back better than ever."
RELATED: Shaq buys Krispy Kreme on Ponce... because he loves doughnuts
Jack Farmer, a marketing executive representing the Ponce Krispy Kreme, released a statement which said there was no clear timetable for a return.
"We are working with authorities to assess the damage and are uncertain at this point how long the shop will be closed," the statement said. "However, we plan to reopen the shop as soon as possible. In the meantime, our Ponce team members will continue to receive full pay while we identify and offer them roles at other area Krispy Kreme shops."
The store has long been a fixture in the fabric of Atlanta life - when thousands of mourners came to the city for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral in April 1968, the Krispy Kreme donated 150 dozen donuts to local churches who were trying to keep the people fed.
Around the city, Atlantans mourned the damage done to a site where many locals have fond memories.
Atlanta Fire crews were called to the scene just after 12:30 a.m.
Battalion Chief Douglas Hatcher said the fire started in the back of the building, but crews were able to save a majority of the building.
No injuries have been reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
This is a developing story. Check back for more details.
The Krispy Kreme is so much a part of Atlanta lore. It was constructed the same year as Atlanta Fulton County Stadium for the Braves and the same year the Beatles came to town. April 9, 1965, in Atlanta—against the Detroit Tigers—as Milwaukee Braves. @11AliveNews #krispykreme pic.twitter.com/FwgS3kmJ3s
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The Jesuit University in Silicon Valley
2019 Feature Stories
Hubble's Mr. Fix-It Engineers Generous Gift
A giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
By Tracy Seipel
Solving urgent problems is part of the family legacy for Frank J. "Cepi" Cepollina '59.
You might say Frank J. "Cepi" Cepollina's groundbreaking work that enabled NASA to repair satellites in orbit—earning him the nickname Mr. Fix-It—stems from a family trait of solving urgent problems.
Family tradition also explains his penchant for giving back.
This fall, 20 years after establishing the Frank Cepollina Family Endowed Scholarship for undergraduate engineering students, the NASA retiree increased his commitment to the fund with a generous bequest intention from his estate that will expand affordability and accessibility to even more Santa Clara University engineering students.
"The essence of what SCU brought to me was the spirit of innovation," says Cepollina, a new member of the University's Thomas I. Bergin Legacy Society.
"We must focus on maintaining within students that spirit to come up with solutions that have never been thought of before."
Never taking no for an answer
Growing up in Castro Valley, Cepollina had taught himself how to solve mechanical problems while working on his grandfather's tractors. That's where he also learned an important lesson that would serve him well, especially after joining NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 1963: problems can give rise to opportunities.
On April 9, 1984, NASA had a big problem.
Astronauts from the space shuttle Challenger were trying to capture and repair Solar Max, a failed solar research satellite.
For years, despite his bosses' skepticism, Cepi had promoted the idea that spacecraft in orbit could be repaired by robotics and humans. After all, he reasoned, the cost of building a new satellite would be far more than fixing the Solar Max in orbit.
That day, Cepollina saw that the satellite was spinning too fast for the shuttle's robot arm to grab it. The spinning also prevented the spacecraft's solar panels from catching sunlight, meaning its batteries would die within 12 hours. On top of that, a software error had surfaced. Cepi's dreams were about to shatter.
Somehow, engineers managed to upload new software, allowing the satellite to move into daylight for 10 minutes—enough to re-energize the batteries of the solar panels. The next day, the astronauts not only repaired the satellite, they installed new electronics.
Yet that was nothing compared to the complexity and difficulty Cepollina and his team faced in 1993, when astronauts had to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, the most successful scientific instrument ever launched into space. The SCU-trained engineer would oversee four more HST in-orbit repair and upgrade missions, and what was once deemed impossible is now considered almost routine. For his achievements, Cepollina was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003.
"It was all those years of training, the indoctrination of never taking no for a final answer," recalls the 83-year-old, who has at least six U.S. patents bearing his name.
Frank Cepollina at work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
A boy and his tractors
His grandfather's broken tractors had started it all.
"I would tear them apart to figure out how they worked, what was broken, and some practical way of keeping the tractor running," says Cepollina.
Meanwhile, his electric model train—he remains an O-gauge train buff to this day—taught him the fundamentals of electrical engineering.
The chance to learn more about the way things worked led him to enroll at Santa Clara University as a mechanical engineering major.
It wasn't easy.
"The only way I made it was by studying my tail off day and night," he recalls of the grueling coursework. "It formed within me a philosophy that says nothing is impossible if you try hard enough."
By his senior year, the Space Race with the Soviet Union had already begun. While working on his senior thesis on hot water rocketry, SCU's chair of mechanical engineering arranged for Cepollina to attend a preview of the latest advances in the rocket science, just nine miles up the road at Lockheed Martin.
A heritage of risk and reward
An exciting new world had opened up for Cepollina, who in 1963 joined NASA. Though he retired in 2017, he continues to work as a consultant.
"The greatest part of engineering is the first four to six years after students graduate from college, the most creative time they will have in their lifetimes," says the first son in the Cepollina family to attend college, and the proud grandson of immigrants.
Like millions of other newcomers in the 1890s, his grandfather Giobatta Cepollina had left Europe, specifically northern Italy, for a better life in the U.S. By the time he settled down in Alameda, he was a farmer growing artichokes, tomatoes, lettuce, and onions. What started as a job delivering his produce to customers around the East Bay soon expanded to hauling garbage from their homes.
To do that, Cepollina needed three more horses and wagons—and a loan from fellow Italian A.P. Giannini, who founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in 1904. Their meeting proved to be propitious.
When the pre-dawn earthquake struck San Francisco in 1906, the bank building collapsed. But it wasn't the rubble Giannini worried about: it was the devastating fires that followed, eventually destroying 28,000 buildings. Quickly realizing he had to move the bank's money outside the burning city, Giannini contacted Cepollina to help him haul as much of the bank's $2 million that he could carry in his garbage wagons, hidden under refuse. As a result, Giannini was soon able to open his bank after the historic disaster, and help rebuild the city.
"My grandmother begged him not to do it," recalls Cepi. "The whole city was on fire. But it was his friend who had lent him the money to start his business."
In appreciation, Giannini gave Cepi's then-teenage father a job at the bank. Years later, after retiring from what had become the Bank of America, Frank Cepollina Sr. bought a nearly bankrupt French bakery, turned it around, and sold it to the renown Toscana Bakery in Oakland. His business savvy in the industry earned the admiration of General Mills, which hired him as a consultant to work with other Bay Area bakeries that were struggling.
Cepollina's love of rocket science started at SCU. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.
Serendipity, and the art of giving back
Like his father and grandfather before him, Cepollina was at the right place at the right time in life, and Santa Clara University had played a crucial role. (His love of SCU inspired one of his sons, Joseph Cepollina '95—married to Alyson Cepollina '94—to become a Bronco.)
His affection for his alma mater also shone in 1999, when Cepollina established the SCU endowed scholarship in his family's name, fulfilling a commitment to his grandparents and parents, whose hard work and lifelong savings had paid for his education, and his sister's at UC Berkeley.
Supporting SCU's Jesuit foundation and principles, a bedrock for Cepollina during his undergraduate years, was another goal.
"The professors and Jesuits at Santa Clara gave me the strength to put out the extra energy to study and survive, and make it through four years of engineering," he says. "And I needed every bit of that, especially before exams."
Through his estate gift to SCU, Cepollina is helping to prepare the next generation of engineers and inventors who might one day change the world.
"Kids today are so much smarter than we were—seniors in high school have taken half the courses we could have in college!" he says.
"That's why it's important to put these students together with SCU's 'hands-on' professors, who can get them to focus on innovative kinds of things, and see what the students come up with."
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Q: How do I read data from bar 0, from userspace, on a pci-e card in linux? On windows there is this program called pcitree that allows you to set and read memory without writing a device driver. Is there a linux alternative to pcitree that will allow me read memory on block 0 of my pcie card?
A simple use case would be that I use driver code to write a 32bit integer on the first memory address in block zero of my pci-e card. I then use pcitree alternative to read the value at the first memory address of block zero and see my integer.
Thank you

A: I found some code online that does what I want here github.com/billfarrow/pcimem.
As I understand it this link offers code that maps kernel memory to user memory via the system call "mmap"
This was mostly stolen from the readme of the program, and the man pages of mmap.
mmap takes

*

*a start address

*a size

*memory protection flags

*file descriptor that that is linked to bar0 of your pci-card.

*and an offset

mmap returns a userspace pointer to the memory defined by the start address and size parameters.
This code shows an example of mmaps usage.
//The file handle can be found by typing "lspci -v "
//    and looking for your device.
fd = open("/sys/devices/pci0001\:00/0001\:00\:07.0/resource0", O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
//mmap returns a userspace address
//0, 4096 tells it to pull one page
ptr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
printf("PCI BAR0 0x0000 = 0x%4x\n", *((unsigned short *) ptr);

A: I use the way to get PCI BAR0 register described above but get the segmentation fault back. I use gdb to debug the error from my code as follows and it shows the return value of mmap() is (void *) 0xffffffffffffffff
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#define PRINT_ERROR \
        do { \
                fprintf(stderr, "Error at line %d, file %s (%d) [%s]\n", \
                __LINE__, __FILE__, errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); \
        } while(0)

#define MAP_SIZE 4096UL
#define MAP_MASK (MAP_SIZE - 1)

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

    int fd;
    void *ptr;
    //The file handle can be found by typing lscpi -v
    //and looking for your device.
    fd = open("/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:05.0/resource0", O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
    //mmap returns a userspace address
    //0, 4096 tells it to pull one page
    ptr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
    printf("PCI BAR0 0x0000 = 0x%4x\n", *((unsigned short *) ptr));

    if(munmap(ptr, 4096) == -1) PRINT_ERROR;
    close(fd);
    return 0;
}

A: On a system with functioning /dev/mem in the kernel it is possible to read a bar for a device using:
sudo dd if=/dev/mem skip=13701120 count=1 bs=256 | hexdump

Look at the dd man page. In the above example 13701120 * 256 is the start physical address at which 256 bytes will be read.

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Having tried a number of different mediums he eventually decided that Gouache gave him the qualities he was looking for, because this water based paint had the versatility to be thinned and used with an airbrush, or used in its natural state thus enabling him to create his wonderfully detailed images.
The photo-realistic style of Nigel's work is entirely self-taught. His work is now exhibited in respected galleries throughout the UK and has sold his original paintings at the Royal Academy Art Fairs in London and are now sought after both in the UK and abroad.
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World News: Economic, domestic, and political instability
Ángela Ramos
political instability
"I was earning 20,000 bolivars every two weeks I used to live in the state of Zulia in Venezuela. That's less than 2.00 dollars. I was earning 4.00 dollars a month." This is how Saul, a former Venezuelan fireman, began narrating his tragic arrival to Colombia. His story is no different from the stories of the thousands of people that cross the Colombian border hoping to find a job to sustain their families. "My wife and I could only eat once a day so we could feed our kids(…) I came to Colombia and started working in a restaurant, now I can send them money." The steadily growing crisis that began with Hugo Chavez's death in March 2013, was followed by the succession of Nicolas Maduro and it worsened with a severe oil price crash in 2014 that devastated the local economy. "At times they would pay me with a 'ticket-shop' that can only be used to buy food, those were worth 108,000 bolivars so roughly 10.00 dollars(…) that amount had to last one month." recalled Saul. By 2016 the situation was out of control, Venezuela had the highest inflation in the region, its currency was completely devalued, shortages became the norm and therefore mass migration began.
The Colombian government opened its borders in several occasions to allow more than 63,000 Venezuelans buy medical goods, food and even basic products like toilet paper. However, the crisis escalated extremely fast and last year alone there were more than 350,000 people emigrating permanently to Colombia. According to professor Jorge Alves, one of the main challenges for neighboring countries is that they are not entirely capable of receiving so many people. "Frontier towns in Colombia are typically smaller, have limited economic capacity and have underdeveloped infrastructure and social services…The complicating factor is that many countries, such as Brazil, are experiencing a deep economic contraction and domestic political instability of their own. Therefore, this makes them less likely to be able to offer the support needed by people fleeing Venezuela."
Nonetheless, Colombian citizens have been exceptionally sympathetic and, for the most part, have received the immigrants quite well. Colombians such as Juan Carlos Facciola stated "They did this for us once during the 1960s, we owe it to them, we are just returning the favor." The Colombian government is awarding two-year temporary resident permits to people affected by the crisis. Yet locals say the government should do more for them. "I think the government has provide complete healthcare for them, it's the least they can do, a work visa it's not enough." said Juan Carlos. On the other hand, not all Colombians feel like Juan Carlos. Low income families feel threatened by the presence of so many Venezuelans that work for half of the minimum wage. Another concern is that Venezuelans take on informal jobs such as street-stands, cleaning services and gardening; which also happens to be a source of income for the Colombian lower class.
Despite that, Colombia has become a refuge and most people like Saul have been able to find a temporary solution, most Venezuelans wonder about their future and if the crisis will ever be resolved. Part of their struggle is to see that the Venezuelan media has been heavily censored and the world hasn't been paying much attention to their situation. Maduro's regime has closed about 46 radio stations and 3 TV stations. Jaime Nestares, one of the most renowned radio hosts in Venezuela, said in a press release that censoring the media is a sign that "Democracy is involuting and totalitarianism is moving forward, freedom of expression is at the stake." A lot of what goes on in Venezuela is not shown at all. However, Adriana Rausseo a Venezuelan who moved to Colombia in 2009 feels that "Social media has been a great tool to spread awareness …People do have knowledge about the situation but there's no action…I feel that the international community can do more for Venezuela."
Many South Americans wonder about the impact of immigration in their countries. Could the increasing influx of immigrants destabilize the region? Could Venezuela become Latin America's 'Syria'? Professor Alves says no. "I think that numbers would have to significantly increase before it destabilized the region. It could, however, increase certain pre-existing tensions …Venezuela's migrants are in small number both in relative and absolute terms compared to Syria…The population is clearly suffering the effects of economic crisis, food and basic goods shortages, and, for the opposition, political persecution. But Venezuela is not undergoing civil war."
But just because Venezuela will not become the next Syria does not mean the public should keep ignoring the crisis. One way to help Venezuelans is to raise awareness of the issue. This can have a significant impact as they do not have a platform to call attention to the crisis. As for neighboring countries, the best way to help Venezuelans is to keep welcoming them and reassure them that even if the crisis is not solved in a near future they still have a place to call home.


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KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Still Life with Daffodils" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts a floral still life of daffodil flowers resting against a polished kettle. Fruits occupy the foreground of the painting, which is rendered in a highly traditional style for mass appeal. Ackerman-Martin's delicate brushwork marries vitalic color and form to create a satisfying, postmodern composition, tipping her hand to her artistic sophistication. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is unsigned by Ackerman-Martin. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Blonde in Blue Shirt" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts the portrait of a blonde haired woman in a blue shirt against a dramatic background of teal and earthy tones. Ackerman-Martin intermingles thin, translucent washes with opaque brushwork to create an image arrested in time with beautiful, modern sensibility. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is unsigned by Ackerman-Martin. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Variety of Flowers" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts a floral still life subject with multitudes of colorful flowers resting in vases against a dark background. A painting with wide appeal, Ackerman-Martin's delicate brushwork marries vitalic color and form to create a satisfying, postmodern composition. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is signed by Ackerman-Martin in the lower right hand corner of the canvas. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Iris and Poppies" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts a floral still life of iris and poppy flowers resting in a decorative purple vase; distressed linen sheets comprising a dramatic background. Working with her husband, Robert, Ackerman-Martin's work harkens back to the expressionist painters of the early 20th century, conjuring a blend of haptic color and form that will appeal to any collector. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is faintly signed by Ackerman-Martin in the lower right hand corner of the canvas. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Violinist" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts the figure of a violinist against a neutral background. This painting appears to be an unfinished study, with Ackerman-Martin's brushwork and thin, translucent washes conjuring an image of intrigue and unique beauty. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is unsigned by Ackerman-Martin. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
KAY ACKERMAN-MARTIN "Purple and White Iris" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Kay Ackerman-Martin depicts a floral still life of purple and white iris flowers resting in a decorative pink vase, an umber background looming. Working with her husband, Robert, Ackerman-Martin's work harkens back to the expressionist painters of the early 20th century, conjuring a blend of haptic color and form that will appeal to any collector. Housed in a beautifully distressed frame, this painting is faintly signed by Ackerman-Martin in the lower right corner of the canvas. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) Original Charcoal Sketch on Canvas of a French Cathedral
Original charcoal sketch on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts the interior of a French cathedral. Rendered in a loose, mark-making technique, this drawing is likely a study for another, larger work. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, the canvas is unsigned by Martin. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) "Brown Eyed Susans in Vase" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts a floral still life of Brown Eyed Susan flowers resting in an ivory vase against a background of rust, brown, and alizarin crimson, grapes lying at the base of the vase. A modern painter who understood the depth of free expression, Martin's loose, washy brushwork creates an image that should be commonplace, yet somehow feels in motion and abstract. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is signed by Martin in the lower right corner of the canvas. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) "Seated Nude" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts a seated, nude female figure against a chartreuse background. A painter who was gifted with modern sensibility, Martin's loose, washy brushwork creates an image that still appeals to the contemporary collector. Likely a study for another, larger work, this painting is mounted on the original stretcher bars and is unsigned by Martin. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) "Seated Woman and Woman with Mirror" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts two female figures: one seated and one admiring herself in a small handheld mirror. Expressionistic and almost surrealist in nature Martin's loose brushwork lends itself to create a haunting image against a darker palette. Likely a study for another, larger work, this painting is mounted on the original stretcher bars and is unsigned by Martin. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) "Victorian Village Construction" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts a worker amongst construction vehicles, a darkened sky formed overhead. Intended to capture the construction of historic Victorian Village in Columbus, Ohio, Martin's loose, washy brushwork creates an almost surrealistic scene. A darker, earthy palette intermingles with the yellows and reds of the vehicles to create a truly modern piece of art. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is unsigned by Martin. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
ROBERT MARTIN (1918-1998) "Red Flowers" Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil on canvas by Ohio-based artist Robert Martin (1918-1998) depicts a floral still life of red flowers against an undulating sea of green. A painter who was gifted with modern sensibility, Martin's loose, washy brushwork creates an image that should be commonplace, yet somehow feels in motion and abstract. Mounted on the original stretcher bars, this painting is signed by Martin in the lower right corner of the canvas. About the Artist: Robert Martin (1918-1998) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by his grandmother. His grandmother, having grown up in the Victorian Era, is responsible for the period's influence on his early works. Martin studied the painting from books of the masters, old and new. He worked from life, enjoying the process and interaction that was created. In the 1980s, he began working from photographs with his series of Victorian Village scenes. An ever-learning student, his work has distinctly different decades reflecting his progress and interests. Persisting was his use of oil on canvas, despite his training in other mediums. His poetic soul was evident in his philosophy as an artist. This painting is amongst hundreds of pieces of art that are available at our location in Grandview! Come in today and see the full collection.
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38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.
The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she soon finds herself persecuted by the apparent visitations of an unsettling stranger. Who is this man from nowhere and just why is he tying to scare her away?
First bell is a 1992 Indian Malayalam film, directed by PG Vishwambharan, starring Jayaram, Anusha and Sainudeen in the lead roles.
Somerset, 1894. A house that's almost as old as the English countryside itself. A brilliant young couple inherit the farm and are determined to start a new life together. But their presence in this isolated corner of England starts to unleash strange, unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that will start to threaten their marriage.
A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English, filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German industrial firm. Through such characters as a German Baron, a child molester, a Nazi Storm Trooper, an innocent man framed for murder, and a Captain in the German SS, "Damned" thus shows how so called "German Upper Class Nobility" first resented Adolf Hitler, then accepted him, and at last embraced him.


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Mar. 18, 2019 3:06 p.m.
An especially warm and sunny Sunday broke a daily high temperature record that has stood for 127 years.
Not only did Sunday top the charts, but Monday, March 18, also pushed the mercury past a previous record high.
The measurement was reported by Nanaimo Airport.
Monday was also a record breaker. Shortly, after 2 p.m. Environment Canada reported 18.1 C, breaking a 91-year-old record for March 17, also 16.1 C, set in 1928.
The normal average daily high temperature for this week in March is 11 C.
March has been dry too. With just three rainy days that deposited 19.3 millimetres of precipitation on Nanaimo. The normal amount of rain for the entire month is 78.4mm and March normally has 16.7 days of rain.
"So, you know, we're past the halfway point for days of the month, but definitely not in terms of (precipitation)," Hartt said.
Cold temperatures and dry arctic air throughout the first half of March are responsible for the lack of rain. Hartt said to expect scattered showers this weekend. Environment Canada isn't predicting a period of sustained precipitation, but Hartt said the remainder of March will feature more spring-like warmer temperatures.
Hartt also said people should pay attention to the ultraviolet index and to keep sunscreen handy due to the higher risk of sunburn.
"The [ultraviolet light] depends on the strength of the sun. In March the maximum the maximum the UV gets is around five, which is moderate, but that still does mean, depending on the person, you can have a sunburn in 45 minutes," Hartt said.


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Folksinger, Songwriter Jean Ritchie Dead at 92
Johnny Cash, Kathy Mattea Among Country Acts Who Recorded Her Songs
by Edward Morris 6/3/2015
Folksinger and songwriter Jean Ritchie died Monday (June 1) at her home in Berea, Kentucky, at the age of 92.
Although she never reached star status as a recording artist — even during the folk boom of the 1950s and '60s — she was hugely influential on many who did, including a variety of country acts.
Kathy Mattea recorded two Ritchie songs on her 2008 album, Coal — "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" and "Blue Diamond Mines." Johnny Cash cut "L&N" as well on his 1979 album, Silver, as did June Carter Cash on her Grammy-winning Press On in 1999.
Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt included Ritchie's "My Dear Companion" on their 1987 album, Trio, and Harris sang the song live with Ritchie on the PBS series, Mountain Stage.
The Kingston Trio adapted its "Shady Grove" from Ritchie's version of the old folk tune.
Ritchie was born Dec. 8, 1922 in the tiny settlement of Viper, in eastern Kentucky, the youngest of 14 children. One of the family's chief entertainments was singing the ballads passed down from their Scottish and Irish ancestors.
During her childhood, she learned and memorized a vast repertoire of folk songs that would fuel her lifelong career. After earning a degree in social work at the University of Kentucky in 1946, she moved to New York City.
There she met song collector Alan Lomax, who recorded her for the Library of Congress. She also entered a circle of fellow folk enthusiasts that included Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Oscar Brand. In 1949, Brand began featuring her regularly on his folk music radio show on WNYC.
In the 1950 Lead Belly Memorial Concert at New York's Town Hall, organized by Lomax, she shared the stage with such titans as Guthrie, the Weavers, Sidney Bechet, W.C. Handy and Count Basie.
Richie was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1952 that enabled her to collect and perform folk songs throughout Britain. That same year, Jac Holzman signed her to his fledging Elektra Records. Her first of three albums for that label was Jean Ritchie Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family. Between 1952 and 1997, she recorded more than 30 albums.
In 1955, she published her first book, Singing Family of the Cumberlands. It was illustrated by the soon-to-be-famous artist and children's book author Maurice Sendak.
Ritchie routinely accompanied herself on a three-string Appalachian dulcimer that provoked such interest that she and her husband, photographer George Pickow, set up shop under the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn to make and sell the instruments. She also wrote The Dulcimer Book, an instructional manual.
Over the ensuing years, Ritchie's high, crystalline, unadorned voice would ring out from the minuscule stages of folk clubs to such exalted venues as the Newport Folk Festival, Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall.
Even though she spent most of her life in New York, she remained nostalgically centered in Appalachia, always attuned to the glories and tragedies of those who chose or were forced to remain in that historically turbulent region.
One of her most moving songs is "West Virginia Mine Disaster." Inspired by the 1968 flooding of a mine in Hominy Falls, West Virginia, that trapped 21 men and killed four, she wrote it from the point of view of a woman who must explain to her children what has happened to their father. Mattea included the song in her 2012 album, Calling Me Home.
In 2002, Ritchie was awarded the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
After her husband died in 2010, Ritchie returned to Kentucky, settling in the college town of Berea.
Last year, she was honored by the 37-track, two-CD collection Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie, Among those featured on the album were Mattea, Brand, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Judy Collins, Suzy Bogguss, Janis Ian, Tim O'Brien, Robin and Linda Williams, Alison Brown and Dale Ann Bradley.
Edward Morris
Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.
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Settings of the Te Deum by British Composers from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
St Machar's Cathedral Sunday 30 April 2017
Since Aberdeen Bach Choir was constituted in its present form by Willan Swainson in 1956 and gave its first performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in St Machar's Cathedral on the 17th December 1956, we can still say that until the end of this year, the Choir continues to celebrate its Sixtieth Anniversary. I would therefore have expected the current Musical Director Peter Parfitt to choose something really special for his Spring Concert – and that indeed is exactly what he did. The programme explored the Te Deum sung in English in settings by seven different British Composers ranging from Thomas Tallis to William Walton. We have to say British rather than English since C. V. Stanford was Irish, having been born in Dublin, but I suspect that many Anglicans would like to claim him as one of their own.
There was a recent programme on the History Channel in which Professor David Starkey explored English Church music from its beginnings to the present day. Today's performance by the Bach Choir managed to achieve much the same thing in a purer way by selecting just one musical format, the Te Deum and demonstrating how it changed radically from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. The variety of musical styles explained so helpfully by Peter Parfitt's lavishly presented programme and performed magnificently by the Bach Choir took us on a thrilling and wonderfully revealing musical journey across the centuries. Our journey started in a period when music somehow survived the turmoil of Catholic versus Protestant regimes perhaps because composers like Tallis and Byrd were just too good to have been prosecuted by Queen Elizabeth I or her predecessors. They recognised true talent when they heard it. In the twentieth century some of the music could well have been enjoyed in the happy and relaxed atmosphere of a Choral Evensong (even though as the programme informed us the Te Deum in the Anglican tradition was more closely associated with Matins).
The performance opened with the Te Deum laudamus by Thomas Tallis. The full choir sang from the rear of the Cathedral behind the congregation and a quartet of soloists for three sections of the music were situated on the raised platform at the side of the Cathedral. This gave a delicious sense of the antiphonal qualities of Tallis's music. The full choir sang with praiseworthy clarity as they delivered the text and the solo quartet was very nicely balanced.
There were quite a number of solo parts throughout the performance and I thought Peter Parfitt had selected the voices with remarkable skill. Whether solos or in groups they fitted their parts so well. There were fifteen soloists in all chosen from the choir, every one worthy of praise although there is no room to mention them all.
William Byrd's Te Deum is more complex in its part writing than that of Tallis. The beautifully clear and limpid singing of the first sopranos was particularly alluring and the rich blend of male voices was really exciting to hear. The complexities of the music were put across with remarkable clarity from such a large choir. I was thoroughly impressed by the singing and by Peter Parfitt's steely control.
The first two works were sung a cappella but since all the others had organ accompaniment it was time to hear from our virtuoso guest organist David Gerrard. His initial offering was another work by William Byrd, his Fantasie, MB 46. Its counterpoint matched the complexities of the vocal music we had just heard. The single manual playing with only the simplest touches here and there from the pedals was remarkably rich in its decorative fingering. The central section of the piece developed an almost dance-like quality while the conclusion became ever more richly complex.
Purcell's Te Deum may have had a rich instrumental accompaniment but David Gerrard accomplished this with considerable brio on the organ imitating both brass and strings. This was the piece which had most of the solo parts. Almost the entire front row of the first sopranos took part. It would be wrong to suggest that this setting was operatic but it was certainly theatrical and perhaps Purcell's theatrical work had its influence on this music. This was the piece which most impressed me in the first part of the concert but I have always liked Purcell.
After the interval we were in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century with Stanford's Te Deum. His setting was more hymn-like concentrating more on harmony with hardly any contrapuntal writing. The singing was rich, well balanced and the text of the Te Deum came through with exceptional clarity. I liked David Gerrard's changes of organ registrations which matched the changes of mood in the singing splendidly well.
Much of the Te Deum by Vaughan Williams had sturdy unison passages and the use of melisma was also paramount. These sections only made the harmonised passages stand out even more brilliantly.
In preparation for the Te Deum by Herbert Howells, David Gerrard introduced it by playing Howells's Psalm Prelude, Op.32 no.1. It was essentially a quiet and meditative piece with an almost pastoral feel although the harmonies delivered a definite mystical sheen. Not a particularly complex piece on the surface it had remarkable depths of feeling and spirituality. I loved it.
Howells's Te Deum matched the organ piece rather well. With beautiful harmonies sung richly by the choir there was a gentleness and meditative feeling to the music although the soaring sopranos and a magnificent crescendo towards the conclusion added an element of colour and excitement.
These last three pieces might well be chosen for a Choral Evensong supposing that the Cathedral Choir in question could match the Bach Choir. The final two pieces both by William Walton were from a totally different musical world however. Crown Imperial is a magnificent march which lives up to its title. Pomp and Circumstance would be great if Elgar had not got in there first. David Gerrard played it with proper aplomb. He seemed to be enjoying playing it every bit as much as we in the congregation did and from the smiles on the faces of many in the choir, they were obviously transported by Gerrard's performance as well.
Walton's eight part Te Deum projected a sense of occasion every bit as exciting as his Crown Imperial. The interplay between the male and female voices was magnificent and this arrangement for choir and organ by Simon Preston is surely as good as it gets.
contributed by Alan Cooper


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December 1, 2020 March 1, 2021 MG Study Hub Uncategorized
The MG Circular- December 2020
THE MG CIRCULAR – December 2020
A season of gratitude and learning
Celebrating milestones as we prepare for the road ahead
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IB Year 2 Students
After the new year, it's easy to become overwhelmed in the midst of playing catch-up with all the tasks you put off doing before the holidays. Here's a broad plan that you should be aiming to follow a few months into 2021 (this may vary by school).
By end of February
Complete revision of all chapters for concept-based subjects, including but not limited to the Sciences, Maths, Economics and Business & Management
Complete annotations, quote collection and analysis for all prescribed texts in English Literature/Language & Literature
By end of March
For concept-based subjects, start practicing past paper questions by topic
For English, start practicing unseen analysis for Paper 1 and write practice essays for Paper 2
By end of April
Conduct full exam drills to test performance under timed conditions, with the aim to complete all past papers from 2010-2019 by the end of this month
While it's not necessary for Year 1 students to adhere to the above plan, getting good predicted grades is as important as doing well in your final exams. You're expected to give unit tests, internal assessments, and mocks your best shot to maximize your predicted grades, so this is no time to slack off!
MG SPOTLIGHT
At MG, we celebrate excellence. Although scoring 98% on a test is absolutely an excellent result, we don't just draw the line at academic results. Tutor or tutee, excellence comes in many different forms for us, whether it be an outstanding work ethic, the ability to make others smile or just being authentic and unique.
Our spotlight for this month features MG's very own: Cyril Ma!
How this man looks 12, 24 and 36 at the same time is beyond us
Cyril Ma – is he a poet? A musician? Maybe an actor? Or a diva? If you answered yes to all these questions, then you are absolutely right. As a man of many talents, he could easily add competitive eater to that list without any additional effort. Known around MG as 'The Abyss', Cyril is an unstoppable force that will devour anything remotely edible and more. His coworkers have theorized that he was born with a rare genetic condition that prevents him from ever feeling full. 'Leftovers' is not a part of his vocabulary.
Cyril is the proud father of three feline juveniles and it seems that the apples don't fall far from the tree. As three of the few beneficiaries of the global pandemic, Eggplant, Vermicelli and Sticky Rice have been conditioned to meow up a storm during Cyril's Zoom classes because they've learned that if he's talking to the computer, then he has to shut them up by offering treats.
If you're ever at the MG office and want to say hi to Cyril, look for the bearded gentleman with long, majestic locks of jet black hair. Just make sure he's not busy delivering a transcendent masterpiece of a lesson in his subjects of English, Music and Theory of Knowledge. Rumor has it that one of these lessons was so captivating that a student's computer caught on fire.
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1. Place sticks in apples, and dip in boiling water for 5 seconds to remove wax, then dry with a towel.
until boiling, stirring constantly, then reduce heat to medium.
from heat and stir in vanilla.
Add 1oz at a time of regular milk to pan if caramel becomes too thick.
Each batch of caramel sauce has approx 350mg THC; 8 apples are 44mg THC each.
Use leftover caramel sauce for dipping sliced apples! Store in mason jar in refrigerator for later use with ice cream and desserts as well!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and butter a casserole dish.
Add macaroni, and cook until not quite done, about 6 minutes. Drain.
In a separate saucepan, melt the cannabis butter over medium heat. Blend in the flour, mustard powder, salt and pepper until smooth. Slowly stir in the milk, beating out any lumps.
Add the cheeses, (reserving 1/2 C for later) and stir constantly until the sauce is thick and smooth.
Drain noodles, pour into casserole dish and stir them with beaten eggs.
Pour warm cheese sauce over noodles, and stir well.
Cover the dish, and bake for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven, top with remaining cheese and bake for an additional 5 minutes.


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Il cloruro di vanadio(III) o tricloruro di vanadio è il composto inorganico con formula VCl3. In condizioni normali è un solido di colore viola scuro, molto igroscopico e sensibile all'ossidazione. VCl3 è disponibile in commercio. Viene usato industrialmente come catalizzatore per produrre gomme e polietilene, e come precursore per la sintesi di altri composti di vanadio.

Storia
Il composto VCl3 fu ottenuto per la prima volta nel 1869 da Henry Enfield Roscoe, per decomposizione termica di VCl4.

Struttura molecolare e configurazione elettronica

VCl3 è un solido polimerico. Allo stato solido possiede una struttura cristallina esagonale analoga a quella dello ioduro di bismuto, gruppo spaziale R con costanti di reticolo a = 601 pm e c = 1734 pm, sei unità di formula per cella elementare. Gli atomi di vanadio risultano esacoordinati. La struttura può essere descritta come un impacchettamento compatto esagonale di anioni cloruro, mentre i cationi V3+ sono situati in uno strato sì e uno no, occupando i due terzi degli interstizi ottaedrici. Lo ione V3+ ha configurazione elettronica d2, e i due elettroni spaiati rendono paramagnetico il composto.

Sintesi
VCl3 si può preparare in vari modi.

Una possibilità è riscaldare VCl4 a 160-170 °C usando un flusso di gas inerte per allontanare il cloro:

2VCl4 → 2VCl3 + Cl2

Si può ottenere anche per sintesi diretta facendo reagire in un tubo sigillato cloro liquido
con vanadio metallico:

2V + 3Cl2 → 2VCl3

Alcune altre possibilità sono:

V2O3 + 3SOCl2 → 2VCl3 + 3SO2

V2O5 + 6S2Cl2 → 4VCl3 + 5SO2 +7S

Reattività
VCl3 è un composto molto igroscopico e molto sensibile all'ossidazione. È anche molto sensibile alla presenza di ossigeno, che provoca la formazione di ossicloruri come VOCl, VOCl2 e VOCl3.

Sciolto in acqua forma lo ione esaaquo [V(H2O)6]3+. Da queste soluzioni si può ottenere il sale idrato VCl3•6H2O che in realtà ha struttura trans-[V(H2O)4Cl2]Cl•2H2O.

In soluzione in presenza di altri leganti si formano complessi paramagnetici, vista la configurazione elettronica d2 dello ione V3+. In genere si formano complessi ottaedrici tipo [VL6]3+, [VCl2L4]+, [VCl3L3] o [VCl6]3–, ma sono possibili anche altre geometrie, come ad esempio [VCl4]– (tetraedrico) e [V(CN)7]4–
(bipiramide pentagonale).

Tossicità / Indicazioni di sicurezza
VCl3 è disponibile in commercio. Il composto provoca gravi ustioni cutanee e gravi lesioni oculari. È nocivo per ingestione. Non ci sono evidenze di effetti cancerogeni. Non sono disponibili dati su effetti ambientali.

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Cloruri
Composti del vanadio


If you wanted to hear a bunch of famous guys in bands list a bunch of other famous guys in bands, you should've hit up the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards last week. Thankfully Fuse was there to document all the red carpet shenanigans for you.
So, we wondered aloud, If these bands were to create their dream tour lineup, who would they choose? Luckily for All Time Low, they're about to go on their dream tour, which includes Blink-182, A Day to Remember and DJ Spider. Woo!
If you're into bands listing bands, watch our video below, where the APMAs guys fire out their favorite albums of the year. It's all full of love when it comes to alt-rock... and testosterone.


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Geralt waves goodbye in a touching Witcher 10-year anniversary video
By Jon Martindale	 September 5, 2017
The Witcher series has featured a lot of death, destruction, and devastation among a range of monster and human populations. After all his adventuring though, Geralt now prefers to kick back and enjoy some wine and a few games of Gwent with friends. You can believe it, too, as in a video that is one part 10-year anniversary celebration and one part fond farewell, we see him enjoying his time with a number of familiar faces.
When CD Projekt Red first picked up the rights to Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series, it could not have imagined the impact the series would have on the role-playing genre and gaming in general. However, over the past decade, Geralt and friends have helped evolve gaming visuals and playstyles immeasurably, from the original The Witcher game, right through to Wild Hunt. But as the new anniversary video showcases, it's not just about the developers. Geralt would never have gone on such grand adventures if it wasn't for the players controlling him.
"It's been ages since we last saw each other," Geralt's voiceover says as the video begins, and he wants to show you what he's been up to. As it presents to us his home and his friends, and how they're all still in contact with one another, he talks about how all of their lives have gone on since the events of the various games they've taken part in.
Geralt himself seems happy. Content even. Although still possessed by that wandering, Witcher spirit, it seems to have been calmed by time and events. He may even be "getting old," as one friend tells him.
"Been through hell and high water, you and me," he says candidly to the player. Breaking the fourth wall isn't something that Geralt makes a habit of, but he gives a true nod to the players who have followed his adventures for the past 10 years.
"Thanks for everything," he says, before toasting the player with all of the characters who featured in the video thus far. It seems like a fitting send-off for them and the setting. It leaves the door open for future adventures in that world, but gives Geralt a peaceful end to his story, despite the trials and tribulations he's been faced with over the years.
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The switch it is hooked up to is a HP Procurve 5412zl.
Check cabling or jetdirect firmware.


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MAJOR MILESTONE IN SA GOVERNMENTS COMMITMENT TO BUSINESS EVENTS EEAA AND MEMBERS CELEBRATE COMPLETION OF ADELAIDE CONVENTION CENTRE
By Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia , 1 September, 2017
The Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia (EEAA) and its Members celebrated the completion of the Adelaide Convention Centre's redevelopment – a major milestone in the South Australian government's commitment to supporting the business events industry.
EEAA President, Spiro Anemogiannis and Chief Executive, Joyce DiMascio were on site with past EEAA Presidents – Domenic Genua and Matt Pearce – as well as other EEAA Members, to welcome the official opening of the Adelaide Convention Centre's East Building – the final element of the $397 million redevelopment.
"This building was nine years in the making – its opening adds another jewel in the treasure chest of Australia's infrastructure for the business events sector." Ms DiMascio said.
"Australia's competitiveness in bidding for major events and in developing home grown meetings and exhibitions hinges on the availability of fit-for-purpose venues.
"We welcome the opening of the magnificent East Building and congratulate our Member, Alec Gilbert, CEO of the Adelaide Convention Centre and his team, as well as all the companies who worked on the project. The opening of the new facility will be a major boost for the South Australian economy and will provide new opportunities for Australian and international event organisers." Ms DiMascio said
"The EEAA Board visited the Adelaide Convention Centre last year for an update on developments so it is wonderful to see the venue completed and ready for use.
"This is another milestone in the South Australian government's investment in business events and all those industries that prosper around doing business face-to-face through meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions. We commend the South Australian government and Premier Jay Weatherill for their continued investment in exhibition and event infrastructure."
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill MP said the expansion and renewal of the Adelaide Convention Centre is expected to bring an extra $1.92 billion into the State's economy over the next 25 years.
He said it establishes another premium Riverbank venue for events and conferences, and also provides yet another reason for people to visit South Australia.
The first major event to be held in the new East Building will be the 68th International Astronautical Congress in September.
Tourism Minister Leon Bignell MP said that 95 conference events have already been secured for the Adelaide Convention Centre between now and 2020, bringing more than 71,000 delegates to Adelaide and delivering $200 million in economic benefits to the State.
Adelaide Convention Centre Chief Executive, Alec Gilbert said the opening of the East Building doesn't simply mark the completion of the expansion of the Convention Centre, it marks the start of a new era.
"The East Building brings together rotating drums, hinged seating and operable walls in one building for the first time, making it one of the most flexible convention centres in the world.
"We will be hosting a series of public tours in early September providing the opportunity for people who have watched this amazing building take shape to tour the East Building and learn more about its striking design features." He said.
The new East Building has a state-of-the-art 3,000sqm Plenary Hall with a 3,500 seat capacity. The hall can be divided into more than 15 configurations to accommodate a wide range of conferences, exhibitions and other events and features the world's largest rotating seating platforms, which can be rotated 180 degrees in a matter of minutes.
It also features tiered hinged seating stored in the roof, which can be lowered to convert the room into a theatre-style auditorium, and operable walls, which can be used to subdivide the space or retracted to open up the Plenary to full capacity.
Stage Two of the redevelopment also included an 800sqm paved plaza fronting North Terrace, providing a striking entrance as well as an ideal space for trade or public displays.
For more information on the Adelaide Convention Centre, click here.
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Source: Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia
A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF INSPIRATION AND LEADERSHIP | EEAA INVITES INDUSTRY TO REGISTER FOR ITS 2018 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY BREAKFAST
EEAA'S 'PULSE' SHOWS EXHIBITION INDUSTRY IN GOOD HEALTH
EEAA CALLS FOR BUSINESS EVENTS SECTOR TO EMPLOY ENTRY LEVEL STAFF ON NEW TRAINEESHIPS
EEAA WELCOMES THE INCLUSION OF AUSTRALIAN REPORT IN UFI'S GLOBAL BAROMETER ON THE EXHIBITION INDUSTRY


three years. However there's a condition. According to the order issued on Thursday last week, "the diplomatic equation of the officer i.e. First Secretary (with RG) will not be upgraded during the course of his posting abroad due to any reason such as revision of pay scale from a prospective or retrospective date, earning of annual increment (s) and promotion in parent cadre etc."
Originally belonging to Tamil Nadu, Sambandan completed his post-graduations in agriculture before getting selected as an Indian Police Service officer.
Meanwhile, Mukesh Nigam, an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer and director (operations) in Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), has been elevated as CRIS' Managing Director. The CRIS, an autonomous organization under the ministry of railways, develops and manages the information technology applications of the Indian Railways, and provides IT applications for non-railway government and public sector organisations.
Also, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) last week approved the proposal for appointment of Supratim Bandopadhyay, MD and CEO of LIC Pension Fund Ltd. as a Whole-Time Member (Finance) in Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) for a period of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office, or till the age of 62 years, or until further orders.
Typical example of the foolish way Indian government is run. Why would anyone post a 2006 batch IPS officer in the UN mission? Does his training prepare him for this? Did the years he spent as SP / DySP help? I understand he can be posted in Interpol / other law & order / police organisations but UN !?
This is not an isolated case. Every few months the government doles out the occasional "foreign" posting to non IFS officers as a sop rather than as a meaningful move.
In a private company this would be be like moving an officer from security to sales. A sad reflection of incompetence at its best.
An example of official favoritism.
Indian bureaucracy is full of such examples of favoritism.
Previous comments have been made without full understanding of the requirement of the job. Someone with security background will do a great job as First Secretary in the India's mission to the UN. Among the many duties of the officer, the person will have to represent India in the Peace and Security commission as well as the many relevant UN bodies that are increasingly dealing with terrorism and related issues.


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The perfect throw to adorn your favorite reading spot! The Reilly Afghan shows off multiple cable panels with lots of texture, perfect for knitters looking for a larger project that highlights cables. The larger central panel of entwined diamond-shaped cables is enclosed by five different columns of cables while a border of seed stitch completes this impressive throw.


It's great to have all the right camping gear on hand and ready to go when you are feeling the need to retreat into the wilderness for a little R&R.
There is nothing more fun and exciting than traveling into the wilderness and experiencing Mother Nature. A few tents in the woods, a campfire and starlight not filtered through light pollution is all a true camper needs. It's a dream come true and you can experience it using our camping gear.
We have lightweight tents ideal for backpacking through the forest that are simple to setup and take down. They're perfect for less experienced campers just starting out. If you need a shower while trekking through the woods, then some of our shower and shelters are for you. Sometimes you want a little privacy from the prying eyes of nearby campers, so these easy to setup shelters keep you modest and don't cost an arm and a leg. Sleeping on the ground can be a pain in the neck…and back, but with our comfortable cots, you'll get a good night's sleep. They're easy to build even in the dark and portable enough to take anywhere. Does your child plan a sleepover and a few extra bodies show up? A cot is the perfect spare bed.
In the case of natural or man-made disasters, a tent setup in the living room can conserve body heat in case the electricity is out for an extended period.
Keep all your camping gear together and ready to go.
Tent, shelters, backpacks, cots, sleeping bags, coolers, stoves, flashlights, first aid, spare clothes and cooking equipment along with emergency rations and bug spray should be organized and stored together so when the opportunity presents itself to get away for the weekend, you are not wasting time pulling things together.