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Besides that, its possible send **native contents** to some channels - like Messenger - which allows the usage of the channel capabilities without restrictions. See more details on **Native contents** item on left menu.

#### Metadata

Messages received from some channels may have unique **metadata** information coming from the channel. This information is included in the `metadata` property of the BLiP messages.

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The properties `messenger.mdi` and `messenger.seq` are specific to Messenger, but they are delivered together with incoming messages. In Messenger specifically, several different metadata properties can be delivered, being one of the most important the `messenger.ref` which is the referral generated when a client clicks on a` m.me/bot-name?ref=value` link from your chatbot or when it scans a [code](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/messenger-code) for the bot.

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{
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  "to": "mybot@msging.net",
  "type": "text/plain",
  "content": "Get started",
  "metadata": {
      "messenger.ref": "website",
      "messenger.source": "SHORTLINK",
      "messenger.type": "OPEN_THREAD"
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```

#### Spinning syntax support

BLiP suports sending text messages using the `spinning syntax` (or `spyntax`) format, which allows variations in the text that is delivered to the destination, creating a more natural conversation. The alternative values are defined in the text between braces (`{` and `}`) separated by pipes (`|`). For each message delivery, a text variation is randomically chosen to build the final text.

For instance, the syntax `{Hi|Hello}, how can {I|we} help you?` can generate any of the following texts:

- `Hi, how can I help you?`
- `Hello, how can I help you?`
- `Hi, how can we help you?`
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To use the syntax, the sender must provide the `#message.spinText` metadata with the `true` value, like bellow:

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    "type": "text/plain",
    "content": "{Hi|Hello}, how can {I|we} help you?",
    "metadata": {
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The syntax can be used in all documents that support text:

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'Senna' writer's feature film Heroes to release on Motorsport.tv
Senna writer's film Heroes to release on Motorsport.tv
Motorsport Network is pleased to announce that Manish Pandey's feature-length motorsport epic movie 'Heroes' is to be released for a global audience on Motorsport.tv from 16 January 2020.
Heroes, which is Motorsport Network's first film commission, brings together legendary drivers from Formula 1, the Le Mans 24 Hours and rallying who share never-before-heard stories of triumph and tragedy.
The film will be available to view on an TVOD basis on Motorsport Network's OTT platform Motorsport.tv.
Written and directed by Manish Pandey, who wrote the multi-award-winning Senna movie, the 111-minute film features two-time F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, former Ferrari grand prix ace Felipe Massa, nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen and Michele Mouton, still the only woman to have won World Championship rallies.
All four also share their intimate memories of competing alongside seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher, whose story is also told.
Across 10 chapters, the interweaving narratives of the motorsport stars are featured with both archive and first-hand testimony.
One of the underlying narratives is the human fragility of drivers and Heroes has officially partnered with the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinire (ICM), one of the world's leading brain and spine research institutes, which has enjoyed an enduring relationship with F1.
James Allen, Motorsport Network President said, "The response to Heroes has been overwhelmingly positive and through watching Mika, Felipe, Michele and Tom share their big breaks, successes, failures, personal struggles and life-threatening accidents you cannot help but be moved.
"Manish's skill as a writer and director really has crafted something special and we look forward to sharing our film with motorsport and non-motorsport enthusiasts alike."
Manish Pandey, writer and director said, "As a filmmaker, of course, you dream of creating something very special. And 'Heroes' is very special, quite unlike any documentary, out there.
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Q: web.config issues when migrating old .net 4.6.1 web api to .net 6 We have a legacy web api project developed years ago, it is supposed to be consumed by other internal projects (so not something to be exposed by users over Internet).
The prject was developed in .net 4.6.1 and I am looking at moving it to .net 6. By reading the code and web.config, I got confused with these:

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*Is it acceptable or best practice to keep on using web.config in .net 6 for these settings or it is better to do in other places? (seems I can't type web.config in stackoverflow and have to make a screenshot)

*In our web.config, we have this: <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true" requireSSL="true" />
For this web api, we just send some response back and I can't think a place that we use cookie. For authentication, as this web api is consumed by other internal products, we just authenticate the bear token each request sent with the identity server. So is this line really needed? I can't find an equivalent line in .net 6's web.config

A: *

*There are different ways on specifying application settings in .NET 6, depending on what kind of setting it is and how you want to structure your project. As Marc says the most common application configuration file for .NET Core is that I have seen is: appSettings.json.
You might want to configure some settings directly in your Program.cs and other settings (especially settings that need to be transformed between environments) could be in a transformable settings file like appSettings.json or lauchSettings.json. Read more about configuration in .NET 6 here.
To conclude I would say that it is not best practice to keep the web.config but rather to extract the configuration to the place you see fit. If you don't host you app on a server that needs web.config to run then remove it.

*This is a bit harder to answer. If you don't think you need this setting then you can try to omit it when you migrate your application to .NET 6. If you have multiple environments you should test your application (the .NET 6 version) in a non production environment and then you will get your answer if you need to configure that setting or not in the migrated application.
I wish you good luck in your migration journey! :)

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Ila Bêka e Louise Lemoine
From their interest in the social dimension of architecture to new projects in Rome: Bêka and Lemoine – whose entire work has been acquired by The MoMA – talk about their work. #MDW2016
La redazione di Domus
Outsiders at the 2016 Salone, with Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine we mark the end of Milan Design Week and move on seamlessly to the "Festival on Festival" programme, a new project from the Milano Design Film Festival that for the XXI Triennale, presents 30 films from 11 major design and architecture festivals around the world.
Saturday 16 April at 8 pm at the Teatro dell'Arte at the Triennale, saw the screening of their latest film, The Infinite Happiness, dedicated to the residential complex 8 House designed by Bjarke Ingels on the outskirts of Copenhagen. In this generous interview they talk about their approach to working as a couple, cinematographic references and their projects that they call film-experiences, "where we simply seek to experience a space in a precise movement".
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, The Infinite Happiness
Domusweb: Architecture, philosophy, cinema... How does your background relate to the films you make? And how is it working together?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: It's not easy for two people to make a film together. The only way is to be siblings, so separation is impossible, or lovers, so in difficult moments you can always count on a candlelit dinner.
But the advantage of having two of you is that the discussion is ongoing, every decision is evaluated and decisions taken are always the result of a shared reflection and exchange. In our case we could say that one of us is instinct and the other is reason. Alone we might produce chaos or rigour but together we balance one another.
It is true, our backgrounds are different but we have a lot of shared interests. We made our first film because we wanted to whisper to the world that architecture without people is death. We wanted to put the human body back at the centre of space and give a voice to those who experience spaces and are subjected to them on a daily basis. We have been criticised for this approach but now we are starting to see that more interest in general is being shown in the things that we care about.
Domusweb: You've been compared to Jacques Tati of Mon Oncle, Wim Wenders of If Buildings Could Talk or Wings of Desire What are your role models cinematographically speaking? What films have marked a cultural turnaround in your formation?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: Jacques Tati is definitely an important reference for our films: his humour, the detached vision but at the same time affectionate of the mechanisms that regulate social relationships and attention to the effects that architecture can have on people who live in it. If we inserted a short scene from Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati in Koolhaas Houselife it is because Guadalupe, our protagonist, could be compared to Monsieur Hulot, in so much as he embodies a traditional culture in total detachment with the radical modernity of the house in which he works. But we also feel close to the documentary cinema of Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Johan Van der Keuden, Werner Herzog or the documentaries of Pasolini. A direct cinema, spontaneous and highly subjective in which the relationship with people is the most authentic possible. It is a kind of cinema that interests us however in relation to our films, apart from that there are other directors we really love, João César Monteiro, Béla Tarr, Fellini…
Domusweb: Barbicania, Gehry's vertigo, 25bis, The little Beaubourg, Koolhaas houselife… the protagonists in your accounts are the buildings seen by those who live in them on a daily basis. The architects have at the most a walk-on part. But is it really the architecture that attracts your attention, is that the starting point? Or is it more the human context that surrounds it and therefore the possibility of constructing a narrative?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: Architecture was invented by man to improve his life. It started out as shelter from the elements or from attack from other beings. Then man began to build more complex infrastructures such as roads, aqueducts and bridges. With the construction of temples, amphitheatres and churches it proved to also be an extraordinary tool for conveying the image of power. Architecture then became portrayed in all its highest forms and most of the time the image became more important than the actual architecture. This aspect is still very much present today. Images of contemporary architecture are prepared with great care by those who deal with its promotion.
Exploring what is hidden behind the images can help us to understand how great their responsibility is for the knowledge that we have of a place or a space. For this reason we have tried to represent places with a great collective attraction with great honesty, taking as much distance as possible from any promotional end. We made the first 7 films completely independently, producing them ourselves, trying to eliminate any kind of pragmatic functionality: they are not educational films, historic or technical. They are not even promotional. They are film-experiences, where one tries simply to experience a space in a particular moment.
At the beginning it was hard but after those first films, we were approached by art institutions, museums and architects who asked us to work on a particular building guaranteeing complete freedom. To our great surprise we realised that these new artistic commissions enabled us to be even more free than before. The doors that we initially had to break down were now opened for us...
Domusweb: What is on your wish list? Are there works of architecture you would like to describe but it hasn't been possible to yet or that for some reason will not be possible?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: A while ago we were asked to come up with a film project for a very complex building by Frank Gehry that at the time was still under construction. Visiting the site, we had the feeling that nobody really fully understood what the building would be like when it was finally built. Looking at the models made it even more confusing. Each technician or worker knew well their task but the overall vision escaped everyone.
One day, the services engineer managed to describe in minimal detail the journey of a drop of water inside a labyrinth of pipes that had to be installed. But when we asked him to draw the overall building, on the sheet appeared the image of a strange creature that resembled an elephant with the body covered by transparent wings. Looking at that drawing, we realised that all the people who were working on the building site had developed their own particular image of the building and that we should describe these visions before the definitive form of the construction eliminated them.
The idea was to work on the imagining of a mental space that day after day disappeared, to leave room for a real space. It was a project that we really cared about but perhaps a bit difficult to explain and unfortunately nothing more was done. It's a real shame, all that world of fantasy vanished in nothing...
Domusweb: How much time on average does a film need and what kind of work, research, study is behind it?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: The research that we do is focused more on our method, or rather on the capacity to successfully create and manage relationships with human beings.
I would say it is an exploration that extends to everyday life. How do you act in such a way that the person before you trusts you and agrees to talk openly? Perhaps by opening up yourself first. In our films they are not interviews but real encounters and shared experiences. We find ourselves in a set place and start to talk to the people that happen to be there. Talking about this and that, in the end these incredible stories emerge. In the film 24 Heures sur Place, filmed at the Place de la République in Paris, at a certain point we found ourselves talking with a lady who was passing with her dog on a lead. Suddenly the dog started to lick the feet of a girl sat on a bench right by. Asking the girl how she felt about that we noticed that on her hand she had a tattoo of an ace of spades. "It's to remind me of the hurt that my boyfriend did" she says quite calmly. Continuing the conversation we realised that on the same bench there is a guy listening. "Have you got tattoos?" we asked "yes, I had one of my mother's name but when I was arrested I was tortured and they erased it with acid." We found out he was a political refugee who had fled from Iran because he was a dissident. In an instant, from the lady with the dog to the political refugee, the real essence emerged of one of the most symbolic piazzas in Paris. It's people's stories that make a place.
Domusweb: Why do you start making a new film? Who ideally are you aiming at?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: We make films to observe and analyse the relationships that people establish with the space that surrounds them. This helps us to reflect on how one can live better and how architecture can help us. Man has the capacity to adapt to terrible spaces, submitting to them in silence. But has also the capacity to recognise those in which he feels good, able maybe to even change his life. When the mayor of Medellin decided to change the face of the city that in that moment was one of the most dangerous in the world, he decided to build new schools, cultural centres and libraries of high architectural quality. The inhabitants discovered good architecture and the city began a process of transformation.
Domusweb: The narrative documentary is a genre that is gaining ground. You only have to think of documentaries made from books like Cooked by Michael Pollan, is it the same for design and architecture?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: What we are interested in is an individual vision of architecture and the relationship that it can to create with people. Finding out everything about the genesis of a building, from the design up to the construction, understanding the extraordinary ideas of the architect who designed is something more of interest to students of architects or the architects themselves. But architecture is not a subject that is exclusive to these groups, architecture is one of the rare disciplines that is able to reunite a great variety of universal issues: social, economic, political, historic, stylistic etc. In each project we try to work on all these aspects. We don't enter therefore in the classic definition of "architecture films" because our films don't enable an understanding of the whole building but just try to offer a lived experience. Often at the end of our films, many say to us: perhaps I don't know much more about that piece of architecture but I feel like I've actually been there...
Domusweb: You're in Milan, at the Furniture Fair, because your film The Infinite Happiness opens the first edition of "Festival on Festival" the new project of the Milano Design Film Festival. What does Milan Design Week represent for you? Have you ever thought of getting into design?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: Architecture interests us mainly in its dimension of long term social experimentation, rather than its aesthetic dimension and the latest styles. The design by Bjarke Ingels, even though it is more than five years old, is the most recent building we have worked on. We are interested in works of architecture that have already passed a period of maximum media attention and have now entered into maturity, in such a way as to understand how they function in the ordinary everyday. A while ago we were asked to make a film on the chairs that Pierre Paulin designed in the 1960s. We suggested looking around the world for the original pieces that were bought at the time and that were still sat on by them.
Working on the relationship that a body and a chair have established for over 50 years could be something extraordinary. We must absolutely find time to make this film...
Domusweb: "Festival on Festival" brings together 11 festivals from all over the world. Which are in your opinion the best festivals of cinema and design architecture today? What is the best documentary of recent years?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: When we finished our first film Koolhaas Houselife there were only a few festivals where you could present a film like that. And those few were not interested in a film such as ours. The only French Festival specialised in architecture films at the time refused it outright! Then came the cover of Abitare edited by Stefano Boeri and a few months later they selected it for the Venice Architecture Biennial of 2008.
The director Aaron Betsky decided to show it in a room in the central pavilion, alongside the galleries of Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron. The success was extraordinary, it was sold-out during the three months of the exhibition. Just by word of mouth, visitors came into this dark space where the extraordinary Guadalupe hoovered, washed and scrubbed, trying to clean the image of the architecture of that patina acquired over the years. This recognition for a film of architecture changed many things. Today the situation is different, there are many new festivals that deal with films of architecture: we chose for our film "Festival on Festival" the project of MDFF in collaboration the XXI Triennale Milan, precisely for the merit of having combined 11 international festivals, giving for the first time to the Italian public the possibility to see original works and to provide a precise overall picture.
Festival on Festival poster
Domusweb: What projects have you got coming up? What are you working on at the moment?
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine: We are preparing a film that we will soon be filming at a piazza in Rome. We will be there for 24 hours on the go, like we did at Place de la République in Paris, filming what happens in the space in a day. At the moment that thing that interests us most is taking the same methodology developed with architecture but applying it to the scale of the city. We have just finished a film on a big public space, the riverbank in the city of Bordeaux and now we would like to concentrate on bigger cities. Like Mexico City for example...
16 April 2016, h. 20
Infinite Happiness
by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine (Living Architectures)
Festival on Festival
Teatro dell'Arte, Triennale di Milano
Ila Bêka
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10 Vassar Bubble Norms That No One in the Outside World Understands
February 23, 2017 // by Maria Bell
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Womp-womps, Vcards and Meryl Streep—only Vassar students understand the true significance of these terms. Squirrels are bad while groundhogs are good (except they're not called groundhogs). And we don't eat, we deece. Cocooned in our "Vassar Bubble," we develop our own lingo and everyday realities that make sense to every person we interact with on a daily basis. Then every once in a while you run into a bewildered brand-new freshman or prospective student's parent and you remember how strange we really are.
Pop that Vassar Bubble and get used to the fact that absolutely no one gets these 10 quirks.
1. STUDENT FELLOWS
What is an RA? Disciplinary watchdogs don't roam on the halls of Vassar College. Instead we have Student Fellows. The concept of fearing your RA is foreign to us. If freshmen get in a less-than-smart situation, they'll bang on their Stu Fel's door instead of running from it. "Last semester I tried having one-on-one session with all of my fellowees to check in. This past weekend we all got together for brunch to catch up," sophomore Catherine Hernandez said. It's basically a big sib/little sib deal, college edition.
2. EXTROVERTED SQUIRRELS
Squirrels, like most small wild animals, usually run away when humans get close. That's how it works. Vassar squirrels apparently didn't get the memo. It's unsettling at first, but we all got pretty used to giant squirrels invading our personal bubbles. "They say that the squirrels on campus are so aggressive because they're the wandering souls of English majors who didn't get good jobs. I prefer to believe that they're the souls of English majors who have returned to frighten us so we stay indoors and do all our readings," senior Elizabeth Dean said. Whichever one it is, no squirrel attacks at Vassar have been reported—yet.
3. LOSING YOUR V-CARD MORE THAN ONCE
Some people have lost it many more times than that. For the first couple weeks the freshman giggle like fifth graders every time "VCard" comes up in a sentence. I mean, who thought calling student ID cards "VCards" sounded like a good idea? But after the joke gets old, Vassar students soon don't think twice about it. Sophomore Lucy Ellman said, "Over finals week I dropped my VCard down the elevator shaft. Not the place I thought I'd lose my VCard for a third time. When I went to get it replaced, they felt sorry for me so they didn't make me pay for it. I'm sure there's a prostitution joke in there somewhere."
4. MERYL STREEP AND LISA KUDROW SIGHTINGS
"I was at a fancy Alumnae House reception when I thought I saw Meryl Streep make an appearance at the far end of the room," sophomore Taylor Lodise said. "I remember being frozen in my seat, not sure what to do. Did no one else see this famous figure against the wall as I did, staying for a mere few minutes still in her coat and then proceeding to walk out? I know that it could very well have been Meryl Streep. But I also know that I could have just seen someone who looked like her."
While Meryl Streep chilling in the Alumnae House might seem far-fetched, it's indisputable fact that she walked out on stage in the middle of a student orchestra concert last fall and proceeded to narrate a story that accompanied their piece. So when a possible sighting surfaces, Vassar students pay attention. Because really, isn't having Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep as alumnae why we're all here anyway?
5. WE JUDGE DORMS BY THEIR BATHROOMS
Dorm pride is big thing at Vassar. In most cases, the dorm you live in as a freshman doubles as the dorm you stay in for your first three years. Because of this, we argue pretty often over who has the best dorm. One of the main pieces of evidence used? The state of the dorm's bathrooms. For some reason, Vassar students talk about bathrooms a lot. Josselyn House's location is less than ideal, but its expansive, modern bathrooms more than make up for it. Those who live there perhaps utilize their bathroom bragging rights a bit too much.
6. THE DEECE
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If you ask a Vassar student where to find the All Campus Dining Hall, you're pretty much guaranteed to draw a blank stare. "You can always pick out a newcomer or a non-Vassar student by listening to what they call the dining hall. Quickly, Vassar students realize that calling the dining hall anything but the Deece is a surefire way to show you're a freshman," sophomore Emily Laschanzky said. But the Deece isn't just a building. It's a verb. You'll hear "want to deece with me tonight?" or "we're deecing now" around campus. "Deece" is even its own aroma. "One time I went to the Deece and my friend turns to me as we are waiting in the line to swipe in and says 'Ugh it smells like Deece,'" sophomore Olivia Hodel said.
7. WOMP-WOMPS
Definition 3 on Urban Dictionary: "A mid-sized, adorable rodent that resides exclusively on the campus of Vassar College. When startled, these creatures womp-womp away." No one has any idea how the name began, but at Vassar you'll never hear the word "groundhog." Instead, we call it a womp-womp. Period. Like our squirrels, you'll find many abound that do not get easily intimidated. But unlike the squirrels, we actually love the womp-womps. If Vassar students got any say, the womp-womp would probably be our mascot.
8. THE PROLIFERATION OF BOOZE-HAPPY ORG NAMES
Since three-quarters of Vassar's student population is under legal drinking age, it's rather ironic that we refer to Vassar's sport teams as "The Brewers." Matthew Vassar founded both Vassar College and a brewing company. At some point the two got lumped together. The name gave rise to many beer-inspired organization names over the years, including "Iced Brew," "Brewskis," "Home Brewed" and "On Tap." The orgs themselves have little to do with beer, but we can't blame an outsider for getting confused.
9. GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS
This one will freak parents out on tours, and new students often squirm about it. But once into the swing of things, Vassar students don't bat an eye. Many colleges are adding gender-neutral bathrooms but most are single-stall and if not, the hall takes a vote. At Vassar you won't find a gendered community bathroom in any dorm but the one all-women's. To us it's bewildering how much of a big deal the world outside campus makes of it.
10. BREAKING A WORLD RECORD IS NOT A POSSIBILITY
Every Vassar student knows the story: We broke the world record for the longest unsuspended tree branch. Except it wasn't really unsuspended. One year the Guinness representative showed up before the cable could be removed like usual, and well, we got banned from the book. The factual nature of this story is up for debate, but whether it's myth or reality doesn't particularly matter. We all hold a sweet appreciation for the tale and our giant controversial tree. But if you aspire to break a world record before you graduate, Vassar might not be for you.
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About Maria Bell
Maria is a sophomore English major at Vassar College. She adores dark chocolate, hot tea, a good book, and any activity that permits being barefoot. She has a pet rabbit in her dorm room.
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This latest release from Roger Harvey finds him recording live on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee at Ronnie's Place studio. He grew up playing in punk bands, writing and recording with Indie-punk band White Wives, moving around the East Coast exploring different variants of his singer/songwriter incarnations, touring the world with the likes of Against Me!, Frank Iero and The Menzingers. Harvey's first solo release Twelve Houses was released in 2015 on Black Numbers Records. Two Coyotes was written throughout 2016 in Philadelphia and on the road, and pays homage to his strongest influences Neil Young and Willie Nelson, destined to be recorded at the home of Country Music.


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Mods and 1960s culture celebrated in new book to be launched this weekend
Everything for Leicester Mods was within 200 yards, all in one street
Leicester Mod Chris Busby
A new book about the 1960s Mod scene in Leicester and Nottingham will be launched at the Exchange Bar in Leicester this weekend.
Mods: Two City Connection tells the story of how the scenes in both cities were connected via exclusive first-hand eye witness accounts and unpublished images.
The book also links into the 40th anniversary of the release of The Who's cult Mod film, Quadrophenia, in 1979, and includes a foreward by the film's story consultant and author, Alan Fletcher.
Filming of Quadrophenia in Brighton, based on the Mods and Rockers battles of the mid 1960s, starring Phil Daniels and with British rock group The Who providing the music. (Image: Mirrorpix)
The book, by Leicester author Shaun Knapp, challenges some of the perceptions associated with the Mods while exploring several key themes including fashion, music, individuality, transport, drug use, gender and race, anti-social behaviour and legacy.
"The Mods and their counterparts were the first post-war generation to reach their teenage years without suffering the combined misery of national service or austerity and they were going to make the most of it" said Shaun.
"Mod culture provided teenagers with a way out from the mundane lifestyle that their parents and older siblings had experienced, and most importantly, it provided them with an identity."
Revealed: Exhibition celebrating Mods to attract thousands to Leicester's New Walk museum
The book takes a generic "story of the Mods" approach but told from the standpoint of youngsters who weren't from the established trend-setting areas of London, Manchester or Liverpool.
The book revisits legendary hang-outs visited by the Leicester and Nottingham Mods including The Nite Owl, The Il Rondo, The Mojo, The Twisted Wheel and the Dungeon.
It also includes a series of chapters written by the creatives and "Faces" from the two cities.
"Both sets of Mods visited each other's cities to explore the various venues and to attend the now legendary all-nighters at The Dungeon, the Nite Owl and The Burlesque" said Shaun.
The Burlesque was a former Mod haunt in Leicester in the 1960s
"They all shared a common desire to embrace a new found financial and parental freedom and to stand out above the crowd with regards to originality in fashion, music and social status and what they achieved still influences aspects of contemporary life."
Silver Street was at the heart of the Leicester Mod scene - within three venues you could find four key factors which contributed to the essence of Mod life: music, fashion, sociability and amphetamines.
"Silver Street boasted the Il Rondo, the now legendary live music venue which played host to the likes of Mod super groups The Who, The Action and many more," said Shaun.
"In the nearby Silver Arcade, The Irish provided the latest in fashionable off the peg menswear and across the road from the Il Rondo was Churchills, a bar which provided the more amphetamine-minded Mod an opportunity to purchase a wide variety of drugs.
"Everything together on the one street, just a couple of hundred yards apart from each other. It was Mod nirvana."
Mod Brian Plews from Leicester
For some of those original Mods interviewed, the process of sharing their thoughts and memories with Shaun was nothing more than a pleasant chat over a cup of tea.
To others, however, it was almost a confessional.
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"These amazing stories clearly demonstrate the demarcation line between Mod fact and Mod fiction," said Shaun.
"Not everyone wore a parka or a suit, took amphetamines, fought on the beaches at Margate and Brighton or rode a scooter. Nor did they want to.
"However, many of them did exactly that. While some critics may see Quadrophenia as a pastiche of what actually happened, to many the film, or aspects of it, were spot on, it was exactly how the young people of Leicester and Nottingham lived their lives as Mods in the 1960s."
Mods: Two City Connection, which is published by DB Publishing, will be launched at the Exchange Bar, Rutland Street, on Saturday, March 30, between 3pm and 6pm.


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As home to a large public university with exceptional programs in the arts and sciences, Iowa City features a vibrant intellectual and cultural scene. Lectures by guest scholars of international importance, as well as a wide selection of weekly "in house" colloquiums, nightly live music in local clubs, as well as concerts by internationally recognized orchestras, readings by local authors in independent bookstores and displays by local artists at galleries all underscore the fact that Iowa City has something for everyone. Combined all this with easy access to the outdoor attractions in and around the area and it is not surprising that Iowa City is consistently ranked amongst the best places to live:
Named by Livabilty.com as one of the nation's Top 10 College Towns
Best Places to Live No. 19 "Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)"
Forbes Magazine No. 12 "Best Small Place for Business and Careers 2012"
The Atlantic No. 4 "America's 25 Brainiest Metros 2013"
Forbes Magazine No. 8 "Top Up and Coming Tech Cities "
Kiplinger No. 10 "Smart Places to Live"
There are many activities in the region available throughout the year to satisfy any indoor and outdoor palate. The university is the location for many different cultural attractions, from fine arts in the University of Iowa Museum of Art; touring acts and Broadway shows at Hancher Auditorium; and a seemingly endless number of recitals and plays produced by various departments at the University of Iowa. Outdoor activities abound from minor-league baseball and hockey to Lake MacBride, numerous rivers for canoeing and kayaking, and plenty of biking, hiking, and walking trails.
Downtown Iowa City is the center of activity for the metropolitan area, home to numerous independent restaurants and shops along with a smattering of national chains. The center of downtown in the Pedestrian Mall (aka Ped Mall), a three-block area of shops and restaurants where Iowa Citians gather throughout the summer for events such as the Friday Night Concert Series, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Downtown Iowa City is also home to the bi-weekly Iowa City Farmer's Market, running from May through October, where farmers and artisans from around Iowa peddle their wares. At the heart of Iowa City is the University of Iowa. With a campus located next to downtown Iowa City, the University and downtown area seamlessly mix, creating a vibrant central core that most cities would envy. And while downtown Iowa City bustles, there are many quiet, historic neighborhoods filled with tree-lined streets hiding classic, Midwestern homes.
Of course, what would life be without plenty of food and drink? The Iowa City/Coralville area offers numerous unique dining options, along with many of the standard chains. Downtown Iowa City hosts many of the most eclectic dining options, with Ethiopian, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Mediterranean, and vegetarian/vegan restaurants all found in close to the University of Iowa campus:
Journeys; 36 Hours in Iowa City - New York Times
Worth special mention is the Hamburg Inn No. 2, a must-stop for all Presidential candidates making their way through Iowa before the Iowa Caucuses. Featured in the book Road Food as well as on TV's "The West Wing," the 'Burg is Iowa City's classic diner known for their annual Coffee Bean Caucus. Of course, there are plenty of other dining establishments getting rave reviews in the region, from delectable meals served in fine-dining establishments to greasy spoons. Iowa City is also a center in the slow-food movement, with a number of restaurants and grocery stores specializing in locally produced food.
On Saturdays in the fall and winter, Iowa City bustles with the excitement of Hawkeye sports. Activities don't stop in the winter either, with cross country skiing and Hawkeye basketball taking center stage. In the spring, cyclists take to the streets in the annual Old Capitol Criterium as well as along the miles of biking and walking paths in the Iowa City/Coralville/North Liberty area. Summertime finds area residents enjoying Lake MacBride. Minor League Baseball in the Midwest League is also an essential part of summertime fun, as future major leaguers are found 20 minutes up the road in Cedar Rapids along with slightly longer trips to the Quad Cities, Burlington, and Clinton. A summer evening watching baseball in the Quad Cities while the Mississippi River flows by the outfield berm is not to be missed!
There's a lot more to the area than Iowa City – there are a number of fantastic regional attractions that should be explored. Just 20 minutes west of Iowa City are the Amana Colonies, seven former communal villages that retain their German heritage and their historical architecture. In NE Iowa – besides the fantastic natural scenery – lies the Field of Dreams movie site just outside of Dyersville, IA. In Dubuque, the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium – affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution – is a new addition to the attractions of the area, serving as the official showplace of the Upper Mississippi River. Burlington's Snake Alley competes with San Francisco's Lombard Street for the title of "Crookedest Street in the World." And Fairfield/Vedic City is the home to the Maharishi University of Management, founded by followers of Maharash Maresh Yogi. The presence of followers of the Yogi has brought a number of unique and unexpected businesses and residents to the Fairfield area.
There are a number of fantastic natural attractions in and around the Iowa City area, as well. Within 45 minutes of Iowa City, a person can stand on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River and watch the river traffic march by. In NE Iowa, generally above Dubuque, starts the most scenic stretch of the Mississippi River, with wintering eagles found amongst the majestic bluffs of the river and its tributaries (especially the Upper Iowa River, Turkey River and others). Parks such as Effigy Mounds National Monument, Pikes Peak and Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge provide scenic vantages of the countryside while quaint towns such as Decorah, IA and Galena, IL certainly surprise first-time visitors. For a long day trip, nothing beats the Loess Hills in western Iowa – a rugged landscape of windblown silt deposits that are only rivaled by China's Yellow River deposits.
Surrounding cities also feature a wealth of cultural activities, including American Regionalist paintings (from artists including Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood) at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the new Figge Museum of Art in Davenport, IA (in a David Chipperfield designed-building theNew York Times calls "a monument to that notion of good taste"), and Legion Arts/CSPS, a Cedar Rapids performance space and art gallery house in a former Czech social club. Additionally, Cedar Rapids features several other museums and cultural attractions such as Science Station, the African-American Historical Museum & Cultural Center of Iowa, and the Cedar Rapids Symphonic Orchestra.
Life in the Quad Cities focuses on the Mississippi River, and Davenport's River Music Experience explores the music of the Mississippi River. Additionally, the Quad Cities are known for their annual Bix 7 road race, a race that attracts top runners and is best-known for the steep bluffs that participants must run up at the start and the end of the race. Des Moines offers an increasingly bustling central core along with the amenities of a large metropolitan area, including AAA baseball, a Botanical Gardens, Zoo, and Adventureland Park. Des Moines is also home to several renowned annual events, including the Arts Festival and the Iowa State Fair, featured in the book 1000 Places to See Before You Die. Additionally, major cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis are all within 3-5 hours and great for a weekend away.
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Top 10 Facts About The Stone Age!
Do you want to know more about the Stone Age? Well you've come to the right place! Check out these 10 facts about the Stone Age...
The stone age is the earliest period of human culture, where stone was first used to make tools.
1. The Stone Age began around 2.5 million years ago
It may have started millions of years ago but it only ended in 2500BC, that was just 4,520 years ago!
2. There were 4 different types of humans in the stone age
Seems strange to think there were different types of human (I thought there was only one right?) but it's true!
Tool-makers (called homo habilis)
Fire-makers (called homo erectus)
Neanderthals (called homo neanderthalensis)
Modern humans (called homo sapiens). That's us!
They also created artwork…
3. In the early stone age, humans lived in caves
Yes, they didn't have house's yet – caves were the best they could do.
Later on in the Stone Age they did start to build huts made out of wood and animal skins and then towards the end of the stone age, they started to build permanent places to live – with a roof!
4. The only two things humans had to do was to look for food and protect themselves from wild animals
That's right, no school to go to or homework to complete or chores around the house to do. The only thing they had to worry about was finding food to survive and not being eaten by wild animals!
5. Humans learnt to farm during the Stone Age
Early on in the stone age, humans hunted animals and gathered fruits and nuts.
By the end of the stone age period, they learnt how to farm. They grew crops including maize, wheat and barley!
6. Humans used animal skins to keep them warm
That's right! Humans used to take the skin off animals and use that to keep them warm.
Humans hadn't figured out how to make warm clothes yet so they had to find a way to stay warm when it got cold. Especially as they wouldn't be able to just turn the radiator on.
7. Some of the animals that lived in the stone age are now extinct
There used to be lots of animals around in the Stone Age that just don't exist anymore. We either killed them all or they couldn't adapt to the changing world well enough to survive.
Some animals that are now extinct include the Woolly Rhinoceros, Woolly Mammoth, Cave Bear and Giant Deer.
They also had some animals that we still see today like sheep, wolves, hyena, hippopotamus and wild boars.
8. Stone Age people made their own tools
They weren't very advanced and mostly made out of stone (which is why we call it the Stone Age), but they made tools like stone or wooden clubs, bone needles, bone flutes, stone axe, stone knife and even a bow and arrow.
9. Modern man appeared around 200,000 years ago!
Modern man is what we are, they are just humans.
In history there were a few different types of human but it was around 200,000 years ago that humans like us started to appear.
Modern humans are also called Homo Sapiens.
10. Dogs became domesticated in the stone age
Before dogs were domesticated they would not have made good pets, they were wild animals!
It was in the Stone Age when humans started to domesticate them which means that they started living with humans.
Homo Erectus image from Cicero Moraes
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Further troubles ahead for the pound might manifest on Wednesday with the latest industrial and manufacturing data released, showing what is expected to be continued deterioration in the sector. A key factor this week too is UK GDP data, predicted to show meagre growth, just above 0%, as the UK economy looks likely to have stalled in the lead up to the previous exit date of 29th March.
Will Brexit help or hinder GBP/CHF exchange rates?
The pound to Swiss franc might also find movement ahead from the latest conversation from the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday. This will be an opportunity for the market to question Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, over his expectations and plans for the future.
Right now, there is an expectation that the euro will continue to weaken further in the future if the German economy continues to show signs of slowing, this can link to the franc as concerns there emanate in the region. A slowing Eurozone economy buying less goods from Switzerland might negatively influence the Swiss franc.
There has also been growing pressure on the political situation across Europe, with the far-right pact, between Europe's leading hard-right parties likely to shake up the European elections in May.
There is a growing concern over more extreme parties across Europe which could offer mixed fortunes on the franc. Brexit is of course another political factor and again the influence on the franc is mixed.
As a safe haven currency the franc will appreciate in times of uncertainty, as investors flock towards it to protect themselves from uncertainty elsewhere. This can see the franc rise in value, should no-deal be looking increasingly likely.
I expect GBP/CHF to continue to be swayed by the ongoing developments surrounding Brexit, with a real chance to slip below 1.30. Longer term progress on Brexit might see a stronger pound.


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Saving forests one of the most efficient climate remedies: WWF Sweden
WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency - to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change. A new report shows combatting deforestation to be second only to energy efficiency as a way of combatting climate change.
Stockholm, Sweden - WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency - to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change.
"Sweden should follow the examples set by its northern neighbors in developing systems to halt deforestation," said WWF CEO General Lasse Gustavsson.. "Stemming deforestation is one of the most efficient tools wehave to slow down climate change."
Gold in Green Forests, a report issued today by WWF-Sweden, says that next to energy efficiency halting forest loss and degradation is the most cost-effective method for mitigating climate change.
The annual loss of natural forests in developing countries is equivalent to one third of Sweden's surface area. Forest fires, the conversion of forests to agricultural land and the cultivation of energy crops are responsible for the high rate of forest loss.
A program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is currently being discussed in the negotiations for a global climate deal. REDD aims to make it worthwhile for developing countries to maintain their forests, as opposed to cutting them down.
In order for REDD to succeed it needs a suitable framework and international finance, including aid to developing countries will be required. Potential investors recently surveyed by WWF said they would be ready to support a forest carbon market if certainty and support were forthcoming from the international community and key national
" solutions can be good for both the environment and our wallets"
In Indonesia, where large areas of forests are cut down and prepared for palm oil plantations, 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation. Halting deforestation would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but would also secure the livelihoods of people living in these forests.
"We should see that many solutions for climate change are good for both the environment and our wallets. - Sweden's cautious attitude in this area is therefore very surprising," said Gustavsson, who calls for the government to take action during the ongoing climate change conference in Bangkok and secure a system to finance the protection of the world's forests.
"Norway, Finland, Denmark and Germany have already guaranteed financing for REDD between 2010 and 2012. It's time for the Swedish government to take action - both domestic and as EU President," he said.
If parties are able to come to an agreement on a new climate deal in Copenhagen, it will not enter into force until 2013. Meanwhile deforestation will continue to accelerate in large parts of the tropics.
"Time is passing and the possibility of reaping the positive climate effects that a stop in the loss of forests entails is decreasing rapidly. Complex social, economic and ecological are involved which is why a global cooperation for REDD must be carefully prepared," says Stefan Henningsson, Climate Director, WWF Sweden.
WWF negotiators in Bangkok are urging a an insitutional structure for REDD which guarantees transparency, effectiveness and longterm financing from developed countries in support of measures in developing countries. In financing, WWF is seeking the equivalent of $US 42 billion per year after 2013, a key element of an estimated financing requirement of $US 160 billion annually for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
The scheme would aim for a goal of zero net deforestation by 2020, with WWF also emphasising that forestry and climate projects must also contribute to the conservation of biological diversity and respect the rights of local and native populations.
WWF Sweden is urging its government to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss.
© Staffan Widstrand, WWF


Great work, I'm addicted to this report !! BTW, your Paypal donation link refers to "TechPaladin Printing". Is that you ?
KWin never crashes at all for me when I run fullscreen games, but then I'm not much of a gamer so I don't have much of an opportunity to see the issue.
No, nothing of such sort on Manjaro on intel/nvidia bumbllebee proprietary drivers.
Thanks for another batch of great improvements, – it's nice to see so much attention to refinement and polishing. Are you able to do a post on what is happening to Activities in the future? If I understand correctly, they'll be going away and merged in with multiple desktops? The individual wallpaper per desktop option would be great to have again!
I'm not heavily involved with Activities at the moment, but conceptually, I am very supportive of merging them back into Virtual Desktops to reduce user confusion.
It would be really great if Plasma would provide juts one additional "sample" activity by default to demonstrate what they can do (e.g. one with a cheat-sheet wallpaper that explains what in this activity has been defined specifically for that activity and how to change it. I am sure that this would boost the use of activities. Presently it's one of the best hidden gems.
Now that is a FANTASTIC idea.
Yeah, they confuse people but I do like the functionality and use it. If merging happens, I expect to have all usual activities options still there (different wallpaper, latte supporting different layout).
I'm not sure if getting rid of activities is a good idea thou. On other side I do understand the problem. I also couldn't understand on the beginning what this option really does and frankly, only with latte layouts it really shines. Without it, it was only a way to have different wallpaper to distinct a workspace.
Currently, I have two activities, the usual one for home with mac layout and work activity with windows alike layout. Latte layouts are important because we may use computer differently for certain purposes. I love mac layout but I need more windows workflow and be able to see all open apps all the time (hence panel with task manager in this layout).
I really hope you really think this through and make the merge (if it happens) with care, meaning: don't loose functionality, work with latte developer to still have automatic layouts system.
Now that I'm thinking about it longer, this may be problematic. Activities are here to switch workspace and workflow for a longer time and still having virtual desktops. When I use virtual desktops, I switch frequently between them and use them in different way and I cannot imagine constant layout changes. So I would rather keep both functions.
I don't know if getting rid of activities is such a good idea. It is surely confusing but… it is harmless and those who figure it out and use it, we are happy because of it.
Hmm.. Maybe… instead getting rid or merging activities you could just make them switchable? Meaning, by default Plasma would come with switched off activities and those who need it would turn it on? On other hand it would create a lot of work for a little gain. People who are confused about activities simply don't use them so why work on shortcuts, active corners and other stuff to make it switchable?
Or do some pools or data gathering on that. Activities option is confusing, there is no doubt about it. But is getting rid of it a good solution for that? I heard from many people who use and love activities. It is a feature for advanced users and the only real issue here is: a medial confusion about it, meaning: newbies asking what it does and having hard time to understand it. My proposition is: create a video with a good explanation and cases (with latte) to show potential gains and link to it as a replay. Sure some will have still their opinions about it (positive or negative) but the real opinions should be only from people WHO USE IT. Those who don't, why does it bother them to have this option? Why people who use activities should pay for those who don't?
Or do the smart merge with lot of options on virtual desktops so we could figure out something reasonable with it.
– activities are there to have completely different setup that not only requires a different wallpaper to be distinctive but also a different workflow (thanks to latte layouts) so activities are switched for longer time periods, it may happen that we need virtual desktops in activity.
I'm sure if you start topics on distro forums like "How do you use activities in Plasma", you will see lot of use cases and people who really enjoy them! We sit usually quiet about it because we like what we have, while newbies are coming and still get confused about what it is.Tell them "IT'S AN ADVANCED FEATURE and here is the link how you can use it:".
I am also a user of activities and hope that they don't go away (and are not merged with virtual desktops in a way that they lose functionality). It's a shame that, as far as I can tell, activities have never really reached their full potential. But even in their current state they're a very useful tool for organising work in a way that can reduce distraction and help focus, in a way that goes beyond what virtual desktops alone can offer.
I see that (unfortunately) even some long-time users of KDE/Plasma are confused about what exactly activities are for… But I'm not sure how merging them with virtual desktops would reduce user confusion. In this particular case, I'm not sure the "user confusion" is a big problem (as in, if someone is confused about what they are for, they can just not use activities).
For me one of the weakest aspects of activities is not having a browser that fully supports activities. At the moment I use a different Firefox profile for each activity which works well enough (with some manual configuration) but I wonder if the browser integration project could help make this more seamless and better supported?
I guess Falkon could support them, as it's a KDE browser project ?
I really love activities – no other desktop environment I know offers such a feature! It differs Plasma from any other desktop environment!
You can use activities to fully concentrate on a special task – hearing music, watching movies (different energy options), work on Project A (different windows, widgets, resources visible) than in project B, be creative (different widgets visible) etc. It is as you would raise a signboard with a text on it: Project A, now! The desktop, the window manager, the widgets, all applications supporting activities know now that they should adapt their contexts to this currently chosen activity. You see the environment you need for your new task, you get the behavior you require. Fantastic! We need many more applications to adapt their behavior to activities – not less! Mail clients showing mails/activity, dolphin favorites folders per activity, browser bookmarks per activity, sound settings per activity, monitor settings per activity and much more!
Virtual desktops, in contrast, give you some more space inside you current activity. If you have no special activity, inside your default (only) activity. So easy. Virtual desktops are to be used complementary.
I think that many people just use activities and enjoy them silently. For newcomers, there is of course clarification demand.
P.S.: Really good job, Nate! Thank you!
In fact, I'm working with a Google Summer of Code student to do just this! He's already done a bunch of work already.
Can I somehow follow this? Or will it be published in planet.kde when finished?
I am keeping fingers crossed !
Thanks for your feedback about Activities, everyone. There's a lot to chew on there! I'll mull it all over and see if I can present your points of view the next time the topic comes up internally.
Those are good ideas! I'll keep them in mind.
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Is anyone working on making the new (and very ugly) blur effect for login and lock screens able to be disabled?
Fair enough that some people may like and want this functionality, but for the rest of us that prefer unblurred and beautiful wallpaper backgrounds it is a bit ridiculous that this cannot be disabled (or even configured).
A regression bug has already been raised.
One of the great things about Plasma functionality is that eye candy stuff is usually opt in, what you don't like you can simply switch off or disable. Ramming this blur crap down our throats like a foie gras duck is poor form and terrible design.
Hopefully this will be fixed by the next point release.
> Ramming this blur crap down our throats like a foie gras duck is poor form and terrible design.
That's not a very polite way to express appreciation for people who are doing work on your behalf for free. The blur actually fixed a prominent usability issue: before we darkened and blurred the background, it was quite common for the white text and buttons to be unreadable against a background that was light-colored or very visually busy.
There's always room for improvement, of course, but I would appreciate if you could express your suggestions constructively rather than in the form of accusations and insults, which tend to provoke defensiveness and resistance. This is true in all walks of life, not just bug reporting.
It would also be helpful if you linked to the bug report so people don't have to hunt for it.
I have heard many such comments too and plan to look into the matter.


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The Tejano Monument: 500 Years of History Cast in Bronze & Stone
April 1, 2012 By Jaime Puente Leave a Comment
Texas wasn't always Texas. Prior to 1836 it was part of the Mexican state of Cohuila y Tejas, and before that it was the land of the Comanche, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Karankawa, Apache, and numerous other native peoples.
But, up until this week, you would never know this if you were to walk onto the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Before this week, the only history of Texas set in stone and caste in bronze at the Capitol was a history made by Confederates and slave owners.
Today, with the unveiling of the Tejano Monument on the grounds of the state capitol, Texas acknowledges the contributions of Tejanos in the making of this great – and often times fucked up – state. Ten years in the making the Tejano Monument is representative of the history and enduring legacy of Texas Mexicans since the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s. Dr. Emilio Zamora, a premier historian of Tejanos at UT Austin, history addressed the importance of celebrating this history an editorial published in the Austin American Statesman:
The recently constructed monument to Tejano history on the Capitol grounds is arguably the crowning achievement of the growing professional and public interest in this area of Texas history. The longtime under-representation and misrepresentation of Tejano, or Mexican-Texan, history has led to impressive efforts since at least the 1980s to revise the record and recover some of its neglected and even disparaged parts.
Dr. Zamora, whom I've worked with at UT, speaks to the historical silencing of Tejanos in the official history of Texas. This silencing has been challenged continuously over the last 175 years, and with the erection of the monument Tejano contributions to the history of Texas stands for all to see.
The scene, sculpted by Tejano artist Armando Hinojosa, incorporates several important aspects of Tejano life. The conquistador stands tall to the right in a pose that. The the left is the Vaquero who is working the range with two Longhorns – a bull and a hefer. To the far left is the [heteronormative] Tejano family with a mother cradling a baby and the father with a brand in his hand – a tool of the Tejano trade. Below the family is a girl tending to a sheep which represents the importance of girls and women to the economics of ranchero life in Texas. To her right is a boy wrestling with a goat which is an acknowledgement to the Tejano contributions to sheep and goat herding.
The Tejano Monument is a culmination of years of work by very dedicated people. It should be applauded and celebrated for the monument that it is. But, we would be doing a disservice to ignore the lack of indigeneity or blackness being represented in the monument. Texas is indian country as much as it is Mexican and Anglo country. Texas is also a state built with the labor of slaves AND free blacks. Indios and African Americans, as much a part of Mexican society as the Spanish, were integral to the creation of Texas as we know it now. Indios and African Americans are part of Tejano history too and it would have been nice to have them represented in the Tejano Monument as well.
A Tejana Girl Tends to her Sheep
The Traditional Image of a Tejano Family
If there had to be a Spaniard, why couldn't have been Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca?
The Supreme Image of the Tejano – A Vaquero
"Everything Texas is Proud of is Tejano" – Dr. Tijerina
Dr. Andres Tijerina Introduces the Tejano Monument
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As part of the Global Engagements Initiatives of the World Bank Group's Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, the World Bank Group, in partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is pleased to announce the creation of the Global Expert Network on Competition Policy, Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth. The network's inaugural conference, which will be held at the World Bank Group headquarters in Washington D.C. in June 2015, invites submissions of research papers from policy makers, practitioners, academics, and researchers on the theme of promoting effective competition policies for shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
The ability of firms to contest and freely compete in product markets is acknowledged to be an important factor in the effective functioning of markets. Existing evidence suggests that a lack of competition in the market limits access to the benefits of growth for poor and vulnerable groups. However, the literature in this area remains in its infancy and there are a number of topics deserving further research.
Applicants are therefore encouraged to make submissions of research papers which will contribute to the body of knowledge on this topic. Initial submissions will be in the form of an extended abstract. Final submissions will then be reviewed by a committee of experts in the field of competition policy, competition law and industrial organization.
Authors of selected papers will become members of the Global Expert Network on Competition Policy and Shared Prosperity.* The selected papers (in the form of either completed papers, where available, or a detailed research proposal with initial results) will be presented at the Inaugural International Conference of the World Bank Group-OECD Global Expert Network on Competition Policy to be held in June 2015. The papers will be featured in a joint World Bank Group-OECD publication.
This call for papers invites proposals from policy-makers, practitioners, academics and researchers on topics relevant to the conference theme of promoting effective competition policies for shared prosperity and inclusive growth (i.e. linking economic growth, reduced inequality and poverty reduction). Papers may consider issues at the international, national, sub-national and institutional level.
Empirical analysis of the effect of pro-competition reforms on variables such as employment, entrepreneurship and wage-distribution, across households with differing socio-economic characteristics or across firms of different size (small- and medium-sized enterprises as compared to larger firms).
Empirical assessment of the effects of discriminatory policies and rules favorable towards incumbents on key economic variables.
Empirical assessment of the effects of institutional design of public bodies that promote and protect competition policy on market outcomes.
The impact of enhanced competition law enforcement action and better competition legal frameworks on improving consumer welfare and increasing shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
Methodologically rigorous estimation of cartel overcharges and their impact on welfare distribution across society as a whole, with a focus on consumers.
Effects of changes in the level of market contestability in terms of savings for consumers and businesses, shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
General equilibrium analysis of the effect of higher prices resulting from lack of competition on poverty, incorporating the second-order effects of market power on employment and factor incomes.
Empirical testing of whether the economic and social outcomes of non-competitive markets predicted by theoretical models hold for different sectors in low and middle income countries.
Assessment of the relationship between greater trade openness and the degree of competition in domestic markets in their effects on distributional outcomes of trade and competition policies.
Assessment of the impact of competition distortions in input markets on shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
Impact evaluation of regulations and policies that affect market competition.
The impact on the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution as consumers – For example, using various measures of consumer welfare.
The impact on the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution as producers – For example, using measures such as income, entry and growth of MSMEs, productivity and innovation.
The impact on the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution as employees – For example, using measures such as employment, wages and wage inequality (for example across skill level, gender, sector, etc.).
Proposals should be accompanied by a short biography of maximum 500 words.
Abstracts and papers must be submitted in English.
Authors will receive notification of acceptance of their abstracts by 10 April 2015.
Completed papers, where available, or otherwise, a detailed research proposal with preliminary results must be submitted by 8 May 2015. The submissions may receive comments with an option to revise and resubmit by 22 May 2015.
Final acceptances will be notified by 1 June 2015.
Accepted papers will be presented at the Inaugural International Conference of the World Bank Group-OECD Global Expert Network on Competition Policy, Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth to be held in Washington, D.C. in June 2015.
All final papers should be submitted by 1 September 2015 for inclusion in a World Bank Group-OECD publication.
*After receiving various expressions of interest from a number of institutions wishing to join the network of experts, the World Bank Group and the OECD have decided to focus, during its initial stage, on individual membership through the Call for Proposals. Institutional membership in this first stage will be centered on international organizations, regional organizations active in the field of competition and development policy as well as international and regional networks of competition agencies. Given the interest received, the possibility that other country specific organizations such as individual competition agencies, other national government bodies, think tanks, research centers or other academic institutions join the network as institutional members will be evaluated at a later stage. All experts affiliated with such institutions are encouraged in the meantime to submit papers in order to be considered as individual members of the network of experts.
The World Bank Group and the OECD will approach potential institutional members.
Queries should be directed to Martha Martínez Licetti mlicetti@worldbank.org (World Bank Group) or Ania Thiemann (OECD) ania.thiemann@oecd.org.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to become individual members of the World Bank Group-OECD Global Expert Network on Competition Policy, Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth.
Completed papers should not exceed 6,000 words and must have been reviewed by a native speaker of English.
Authors of selected papers will be expected to make a presentation of their findings not exceeding 10 minutes.
All selected papers will be published in a World Bank Group-OECD Global Report on "Promoting Effective Competition Policies for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth" based on the submissions to the inaugural conference and knowledge products produced with partners.
A committee formed by members of the World Bank Group and the OECD as well as independent academics will select the abstracts, provide comments to the completed papers, and decide on final acceptances. The names of the members of this committee will be announced on 25 March 2015 at closing of the deadline for submissions.


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Q: How to perform implicit derivative? I'm going to perform some symbolic calculus for a project and I'm starting with something simple.
I'm ttrying to calculate the derivative of L function in respect to variable fi, but using the following code I get the error shown.
syms x(t) y(t) fi(t) m IR t;
L = 1/2*(m*(diff(x(t),t)^2+diff(y(t),t)^2) + IR*diff(fi(t),t)^2)
D1 = diff(L,diff(fi(t),t))

ERROR:
Error using sym/diff (line 70)
Second argument must be a variable or a nonnegative integer specifying the number of differentiations.
Could anyone tell me what's going on? Thanks.
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A: You have a nested diff in the second line. For the outer diff, the second argument cannot  be the inner diff - it should be a variable or non-negative integer.


Former Secretary of State John Kerry has attacked President Donald Trump over his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, claiming that "people are going to die" as a result.
Speaking during an interview with The Guardian, the top Obama-era official said: "people are going to die because of the decision Donald Trump made.
Trump withdrew from 2016 Paris climate agreement saying that "The Paris accord will undermine (the U.S.) economy," and "puts (the U.S.) at a permanent disadvantage."
According to Breitbart, while Kerry has deep regrets over President Trump exiting the climate deal, he says he feels "better than a lot of people think" about the agreement.
The former secretary of state is hopeful the other 194 nations who are still signed on to the deal will work together in combating Climate Change.
During the interview, Kerry also criticized the Trump administration for pulling out of another agreement he helped negotiate: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly referred to as the Iran nuclear deal.
The Islamic Republic is still in talks with British, French, and Russian officials on how to salvage the agreement, Kerry told the outlet.
"I'm sorry for the world," he said.
Asked whether he will run for president in 2020, Kerry, who ran unsuccessfully against then-president George W. Bush in 2004, said he is still considering a potential bid.
"I haven't ruled it out – I'm just going to think quietly about whether I think it's… necessary.
"Whether I feel I can bring something to the table that's essential, that somebody else can't," he said.
"I've got to see what my friend Joe Biden does, I've got to see what Mike Bloomberg does.
"There's only so much space for genuine, capable candidates.
"Do I think I'm capable? Sure – I thought I was very capable and ready to be president 14 years ago, and came within one state of being it," he added.
In a September tweet, President Trump mocked a possible run by Kerry, saying he would be "so lucky" if the failed presidential candidate would run against him in 2020.
"I see that John Kerry, the father of the now terminated Iran deal, is thinking of running for President," he tweeted.


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House of Stone
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Hardcover - $26.95
House of Stone is a masterful debut that explores the creative—and often destructive—act of history-making.
In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. Since Bukhosi's disappearance, Zamani has been preternaturally helpful: hanging missing posters in downtown Bulawayo, handing out fliers to passersby, and joining in family prayer vigils with the flamboyant Reverend Pastor from Agnes's Blessed Anointings church. It's almost like Zamani is part of the family…
But almost isn't nearly enough for Zamani. He ingratiates himself with Agnes and feeds alcoholic Abednego's addiction, desperate to extract their life stories and steep himself in borrowed family history, as keenly aware as any colonialist or power-mad despot that the one who controls the narrative inherits the future. As Abednego wrestles with the ghosts of his past and Agnes seeks solace in a deep-rooted love, their histories converge and each must confront the past to find their place in a new Zimbabwe.
Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a sweeping epic that spans the fall of Rhodesia through Zimbabwe's turbulent beginnings, exploring the persistence of the oppressed in a young nation seeking an identity, but built on forgetting.
"With luminous language, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores the treacherous terrain of colonization and decolonization, remembering and forgetting, and love and betrayal. The result is a gripping account of revolution and its aftermath, both for a country and for one man."
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer
"Novuyo Tshuma is pure fire."
- Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
"Novuyo Rosa Tshuma has written a towering and multilayered gem. House of Stone is one of the greatest-ever novels about Zimbabwe. What a timely, resonant gift."
- NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names
Title House of Stone
Subtitle A Novel
Author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
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Clinical Trials Unit | The Aga Khan University
AKU at a Glance
Deans & Officers
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research
Centre of Excellence in Women & Child Health
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Institute for Educational Development
Graduate School of Media & Communications
East Africa Institute
Institute for Human Development
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Key Admissions Dates
University Research Council
Ethics Review Board & Committees
Clinical Trials Unit
Recognising our Donors
Clinical Trials Unit
Exploring New Horizons for Tomorrow's Cures
Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world, has a disease burden higher than the average in the South Asia region. This underlines the need to come up with innovative and effective diagnostic, preventive and curative regimens specifically designed for the local population.
Clinical trials are considered a necessity for tomorrow's cures. University hospitals are fast establishing units to streamline, govern and promote their clinical trial activities. In Pakistan too, major global agencies, independent research units and pharmaceuticals have actively initiated and participated in multi-national, multi-centric clinical trials, particularly as technology has helped bridge communication needs.
So far 44 multidisciplinary clinical studies have commenced at the Aga Khan University and an equal number expected to begin in the coming years.
To cater to the changing needs and global trends, in 2011, the Aga Khan University opened doors to the Clinical Trials Unit — a state-of-the-art facility that offers a full spectrum of core and supporting administrative services to local researchers as well as global organisations.
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President's Message
"In 2011, the University opened the Clinical Trials Unit – a centralised state-of-the-art facility. The Unit has since made its presence felt with its Good Clinical Practice-compliant standards and its spectrum of services..."
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With innovative regulations and procedures, the APMO has become a model for regional competitions around the world where costs and logistics are serious considerations. This 149 page book reports the first twelve years of this competition, including sections on its early history, problems, solutions and statistics.
"The Asian-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad has become one of the great regional mathematics olympiads."


So fellow travelers, it's November and suddenly our luxuriously warm and unseasonable weather has flown off with the migrating geese leaving behind chilly winds and rain.
My mood this week mirrors the grey skies viewed from my car as I wait for my morning coffee on my way to work.
Being a long distance mom is a tough challenge.
There comes a point when standing by in support mode is the most essential role we can take on as our kids take charge of their future. At times the need to be there nstead of here just to give my daughters a hug stretches my heart strings so much it physically hurts. It actually physically hurts.
but I still wish I for those hugs.
Both my daughters are visiting in the next few months and I will get to give them the hugs I wish for.
Until then I will seek joy in the shadows.
I am so fortunate that my children have decided to settle in their hometown. I am able to see them weekly. I can't imagine having them so far away that their visits would be months apart!!


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Q: Profile Card - placing image at the bottom center of my div I'm trying to place my image at the bottom center, like this:

how do I make this happen?
so far I got this, this works for large screen but it's not responsive. Is there a way to make this responsive without having to change my css for every breakpoing ?

.card-container{
  width: 20vw;
  height: 45vh;
  background-color: aliceblue;
  border-radius: 12px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

.top-card{
  background-image: url(/images/bg-pattern-card.svg);
  width: 100%;
  height: 40%;
  border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0 ;
  position: relative;
}

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  width: 90px;
  height: 90px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 4px solid white;
  position: absolute;
  left: 40%;
  bottom: -40px;

}

A: Use justify-content: center to center the image horizontally. Then align-items: flex-end to position the image at the bottom of the parent.
Then you can use transform: translateY to push the image down half of the image's own height.

.card-container {
  height: 300px;
  border-radius: 12px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.top-card {
  background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/900/300);
  height: 150px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: flex-end;
}

.top-card img {
  width: 90px;
  height: 90px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 4px solid white;
  transform: translateY(45px);
}


Arie Dubnov, an associate professor of history, is currently teaching the new course on the anniversary of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
A new course and conference this spring will mark the 70th anniversary of Israel's independence and study how it sparked the ongoing conflict with Palestinians.
The spring course, 1948 Triumph and Tragedy, and this year's annual Institute of Middle East Studies conference will delve into the historical and contemporary issues associated with the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the tension that has persisted between the two sides in the decades since. Faculty said these initiatives commemorate the historically significant events seven decades ago and enable interested students to learn more about Israel and the Middle East.
Arie Dubnov, an associate history professor who was born and raised in Israel, is teaching the new course on the anniversary of the war. He said the course focuses on war history and "how each side has different scars" and different memories of events.
"We're moving to a different angle of commemoration and memory."
"I'm trying to push my students to think about the connection between history and mythology – why specific battles became more famous than the others," he said.
Dubnov added that students in the course will examine the differences between the Palestinian and Israeli perspectives on the founding of Israel, and how those competing viewpoints might influence opposing grassroots movements on both sides of the conflict that continue to stall peace negotiations.
The 1948 war began when a group of Arab countries invaded Israel in 1948 after the country had declared independence. The war expanded Israeli territory and generated a mass-immigration of Jewish people expelled from Arab states into Israel. The war also triggered the "Nakba," which is Arabic for "disaster," when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were kicked out or fled from their homes in Israeli-controlled territory.
Like the course, this year's conference will also serve as a forum to discuss how the two sides of the 1948 war still shade current affairs, Dubnov, who is also one of the conference organizers, said. This year's theme is Nakba, Past and Present and will focus on Israel's independence and the post-war Palestinian refugee crisis, according to the website.
"We're moving to a different angle of commemoration and memory," Dubnov said.
The conference, which will be held in the Elliott School of International Affairs April 13, will start with a keynote address by University of California, Santa Barbara associate history professor Sherene Seikaly, followed by three panel discussions leading into the afternoon, according to the website.
Panels will feature interdisciplinary scholars and experts in both Palestinian and Hebrew literature from a variety of institutions, including Yale University and Aalborg University in Denmark.
Dubrov said having Hebrew and Palestinian experts speak together about their views on 1948 may lead to an engaging, fierce and potentially uncomfortable debate.
"I am sure the conference will lead some people to raise an eyebrow," he said. "But it's important to me to remind myself that a university is the place to do it. If we can't tackle issues here, we can't do it anywhere."
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict surfaced on campus last spring, when the Student Association narrowly rejected a resolution to call on the University to divest from corporations that profit off of the Palestinian occupation. The resolution sparked a wave of opposition on campus led by pro-Israel groups.
"Scholars have a role to play in discovering, understanding and analyzing what occurred."
Nathan Brown, the director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and another organizer for next month's conference, said the event is designed to focus on how the events of 1948 are remembered and discuss "new and fresh" research in the area.
"There has been a lot of research, much of it very recent, on the events of 1948," he said. "Scholars have a role to play in discovering, understanding and analyzing what occurred, how they were understood and any continuing relevance they might have."
Daniel Schwartz, the director of the Judaic studies program, said his program hasn't played any role in the conference because he opposes the framing of the event focusing only on Nakba, rather than exploring both the Israeli and Palestinian experiences in the conflict.
"The people from the Institute of Middle East Studies who wanted to put this conference together made their own decisions and decided to focus exclusively on the Nakba and we're not going to sponsor a conference that would be so one-sided in its focus," he said.