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Мистецькі змагання входили до складу сучасних Олімпійських ігор в перші роки їх існування, з 1912 до 1952 року. Змагання були частиною початкових задумів засновника олімпійського руху П'єра де Кубертена. Медалі вручалися за твори мистецтва, що були пов'язані тематично зі спортом, змагання проводились в п'яти категоріях: архітектура, література, музика, живопис і скульптура.

Проведення конкурсів мистецтва були припинені 1954 року, тому що митців вважали професіоналами, а в той час олімпійські спортсмени повинні були бути аматорами.

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Зі створенням Міжнародного олімпійського комітету (МОК) 1894 року, і проведенням першої сучасної Олімпіади, французький барон П'єр де Кубертен бачив виконання своїх ідеалів — тренувати розум і тіло, і конкурувати у спорті, а не у війні. Одним з його бажань було об'єднати мистецтво і спорт, і таким чином, він вважав художні твори достойними до участі на Олімпійських іграх.

У травні 1906 року, барон де Кубертен організував зустріч у Парижі для членів МОК та представників організацій художників. Зустріч закінчилася пропозицією МОК провести мистецькі конкурси на Олімпійських іграх в п'яти областях: архітектура, література, музика, живопис і скульптура.

Планувалось провести такі змагання на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1908 в Римі, Італія. Але італійські організатори зіткнулися з фінансовими труднощами і були змушені відмовитись від проведення Ігор, тоді МОК доручив організацію Лондону. Британці планували провести мистецькі конкурси, але через короткий час на підготовку, вони були скасовані. Організатори вважали, що митці не мати б достатньо часу, щоб створити свої роботи.

П'єр де Кубертен включив мистецькі змагання до програми літніх Олімпійських ігор 1912 року, які відбулися в Стокгольмі, Швеція. Хоча шведи спочатку заперечували проти ідеї мистецьких змагань, вони врешті-решт були проведені: 35 митців відправили свої твори мистецтва в Швеції, а золоті медалі були присуджені у всіх п'яти категоріях.

Перші післявоєнні Олімпійські ігри були проведені в розореній війною Бельгії, мистецькі змагання були в програмі Ігор. На Літніх Олімпійських іграх 1924 року в Парижі конкуренція була досить високою, а 193 митці представили свої робот. До їх числа входило три митця, що представляли Російську імперію (російську еміграцію в Парижі), тоді як Радянський Союз офіційно не брав участь в Олімпійських іграх, бо вважав їх «буржуазними».

Зростання кількості учасників продовжилося 1928 року в Амстердамі, де понад 1100 творів мистецтва були виставлені в міському музеї, а також були представлені твори з літератури, музики та архітектури. Художникам було дозволено продавати свої роботи в кінці виставки. В той час починаються суперечки в МОК, чи можна вважати митців аматорами, чи вони є професіоналами. В Амстердамі, число конкурсів також була збільшена, з чотирьох до п'яти.

Через економічні труднощі та віддаленість розташування Лос-Анджелеса, число учасників в Олімпіаді 1932 року було нижче, ніж у 1928 році. Але мистецький конкурс не страждають від цієї проблеми, а кількість творів мистецтва залишалась стабільною. Виставку подивилось 384000 відвідувачів в Лос-Анджелеському Музей історії, науки і мистецтва.

Мистецькі конкурси були проведені також в Берліні (1936) і Лондоні (1948), хоча число робіт значно скоротилося до 1948 року.

На конгресі МОК 1949 року обговорювалося доповідь, згідно з якою практично всі учасники мистецьких конкурсів були професіоналами, які займаються мистецтвом за гроші, що не відповідало аматорському статусу Олімпіад. Тому змагання вирішено було замінити на виставки без нагород і медалей. Це викликало запеклі дебати в рамках МОК.

1951 року МОК вирішив знову повернути художні конкурси в програму XV літніх Олімпійських ігор 1952 року в Гельсінкі. Проте фінські організатори відмовилися від цієї ідеї під приводом недостатнього часу на підготовку.
На конгресі МОК у 1954 році остаточно вирішили замінити художні конкурси виставками. Спроби переглянути це питання виявилися безрезультатними. Тим не менш, в Олімпійській хартії прописані додаткові зобов'язання для організаторів — включати в програму Олімпіад культурні заходи, щоб «сприяти розвитку взаєморозуміння, дружби і гармонійних відносин між учасниками та глядачами».

Див. також
 Піфійські ігри
 Дельфійські ігри сучасності

Література
 Richard Stanton: The forgotten Olympic art competitions — The story of the Olympic art competitions of the 20th century. Trafford Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-55212-606-4

Міжнародні конкурси

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Here is the List of Top 09 CEOs under 40 Worldwide
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Here is the list of young CEOs
The world is in need of young CEOs who are able to lead their countries and companies for success in the world. Successful companies don't just spring up overnight. They are human creations. People make decisions, put policies into place, and manage the financial and human resources at their disposal to ensure the success of the company. These are the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs).
Age is really just a number, as a huge majority of the young CEOs have shown. In their first few years in command, the majority of company leaders in their 30s and 40s have guided their firms to significant success. The list of the world's youngest CEOs as of 2022 is presented to you in this article.
Young professionals under 30 are successfully managing their own businesses. These are capable individuals who meet the requirements for the jobs they hold. They constantly lead by example and develop their own businesses in a cutthroat market.
The CEO is the most influential person in a corporation. Age is not a factor in being one.
So, if you have talent, just keep up with the Joneses and develop your skills. The CEOs on this list all went after their intrinsic desire to be famous. Don't hesitate to get started straight away.
Being late is preferable to being never. One day, perhaps, you too will rank among the youngest CEOs in the world. So let's take a cue from the top 10 CEOs under 40 in the globe as of 2022. The order of this list is by age, from the youngest to the oldest.
One: Advait Thakur
Advait Thakur is only 19 years old, but even at that young age, he has accomplished so much.
One of the industry's youngest chief executives, he is talented and multifaceted. He is an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), a software engineer, and the CEO of Apex Infosys India, one of the biggest software exporters in the nation. A global technology and innovation company with a focus on Internet of Things (IoT) services and goods is Apex Infosys India. In order to help NGOs acquire awareness online and satisfy his passion about technology, he launched the Apex Business Solutions Digital Agency in 2015.
Two: Ritesh Agarwal
OYO Rooms was founded by the millionaire Indian businessman Ritesh Agarwal, who is also its CEO. Agarwal founded the online hotel reservation service Oravel Stays to cater to travelers on a tight budget.
It was accepted into Venture Nursery's accelerator program in September 2012, and it later won a $100,000 grant as one of the 2013 Thiel Fellowship program's winners. In May 2013, the company debuted under the name OYO Rooms. OYO made almost $1 billion during a five-year period. After that, Agarwal didn't turn around. Later, to increase his profits, he increased the wager.
As of February 2022, he is the second-youngest billionaire in Asia on the Forbes under 30 list. According to Celebrity.com, the billionaire, who is 38 years old, will be one of the youngest CEOs in the world in 2022 with a net worth of $1.1 billion.
Three: Ben Kaufman
The CEO and founder of CAMP, a national chain of family friendly stores established in 2018, is Ben Kaufman. When he was 18 years old, he started his first company, Mophie, but he quickly saw how difficult it is to launch and manage a product.
In 2009, he served as Quirky's creator, CEO, maker, and breaker, among other roles. The creators' market Quirky was established by inventor and businessman Ben Kaufman, but it closed in 2015.
At the age of 18, Kaufman founded his first company, Mophie, and saw firsthand how difficult it is to introduce a single product. At the age of 28, Kaufman launched Quirky in 2009 to help remove obstacles to creativity and provide creative people everywhere the opportunity to express themselves.
After Quirky, Kaufman founded Scroll, which would later grow to become the parent company of the design companies Auxiliary, Thrice.com (which sells pool floats), and Homesick Candles (which makes state-scented candles). In 2016, BuzzFeed acquired Scroll to launch its own internal retail division called BuzzFeed Product Lab. The management of that online business has been transferred to Kaufman.
Four: Thomas Spiegel
Bobby Murphy, Reggie Brown, and Thomas Spiegel, American businessmen, launched the social media start-up Snap Inc. while they were Stanford University students. He is also the CEO of the business. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. He amassed a $2.1 billion net worth by the age of 26.Spiegel achieved fame and wealth at a young age.
This tremendously successful entrepreneur's journey began when he presented the idea for his final product in 2011, a messaging service that would allow people to send messages in a split second.
His classmates insulted him at the time and dismissed his proposal as a joke. They now understand that the corny joke was actually Snapchat, one of the most popular social networking services!
He was one of the richest young CEOs in the world, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion, according to celebritynetworth.com.
Five : Jared Hecht
Jared, 35, is the 35-year old CEO of Fundera, an online marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with the most suitable I enders.
Jared cofounded GroupMe, a service for group chat that was acquired by Skype in August 2011 and later by Microsoft in October, before launching Fundera.
He is an investor and advisor for startups like TransferWise, SmartThings, and Codecademy. Hecht graduated with a political science bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2009.
He currently has a position on the advisory board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization. While attending Columbia University, he worked as the executive director and publisher of the student-written guidebook Inside New York.
Six: David Karp
A $200 million online entrepreneur from the United States is named David Karp. A well-known blogging platform called Tumblr was co-founded by him with his partner Macro Arment. Tumblr had 75,000 members in just two weeks, and there are now more than 100 million active blogs on the platform. He was a businessman and software developer who started out in animation before switching to software consulting when he was still in his late teens. In order to pursue his career goals, Karp dropped out of high school and, with his parent's approval, was homeschooled for three years.
Karp, 36, will be among the world's youngest CEOs in 2022 with an estimated net worth of $200 million.
Seven: Suhas Gopinath
Suhas is the company's founder, CEO, and chairman. Global Inc.
At the age of 17, three years after the company was founded, he assumed leadership as CEO.
He completed everything before turning 18, making him history's youngest CEO.
Using literature and selfstudy, he developed his first website, www.coolhindustan.com, when he was just 14 years old.
In 2000, he also registered Globals Inc. as a business. He is honored to have received the Rajyotsava Award, the young Achiever Award, and numerous other distinctions.
Young and talented Suhas received his degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School.
Eight: Prag Agrawal
The CEO of Twitter.inc. and a software developer from India is Prag Agrawal. Former Chief Technical Officer of Twitter (CTO). His main contributions include making Twitter Ads systems extensible for future development and improving the relevance of the home timeline.
Prag also led the company's forays into decentralized technologies including Blockchain, Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).The youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company is Parag, 38, and he receives a yearly benefits package and salary of more than $1 million.
He worked as a research intern for Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and AT&T Labs before joining Twitter.
Nine: Mark Zuckerberg
In 2022, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg will be one of the world's youngest CEOs. He is a well-known American philanthropist, online entrepreneur, and media magnate. He is well-known for cofounding the social media platform Facebook and the business that owns it, Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), of which he serves as chairman, chief executive officer, and major stakeholder.
He cofounded Facebook in February 2004 with his Harvard University roommates Eduardo Savrin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Initially launched on a few college campuses, the website soon gained popularity and, by 2012, had attracted one billion users. Zuckerberg listed the company and the vast majority of the shares in May 2012.
When he was only 23 years old and the youngest selfmade millionaire in the world in 2007, he held that title. Zuckerberg's net worth was $62.7 billion as on August 18, 2022, when he was 38 years old, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires. In 2022, Zuckerberg will rank among the CEOs with the highest salaries in the world.
The list of young CEOs in the World shows us how young people when they work hard could achieve. However, in this list if you see well you can see that there is no a single woman as a young CEO. This should be a wake up call that women too should be given an opportunity to lead their countries and companies.
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Stress eating is very effective. This is because we can't simultaneously engage our Sympathetic Nervous System (stress response) and our parasympathetic nervous system (eating response). If you eat when you are stressed, you will calm down….temporarily. You will also build a connection in your brain that says, "I'm stressed. Cookies take stress away. Yes. I should eat cookies". The more you engage in stress eating, the stronger this connection will become. Then, you if you decide to go on a diet, your stress system will likely freak out because you only know how to solve stress by eating. What adds to this problem is that our stress response is rather archaic. It can't tell the difference between actual danger and our run of the mill stressful every day problems. So, when you think you need to outrun a deadline at work, your body thinks you need to outrun a tiger and reacts accordingly. To do this, it puts sugar in your blood stream to ready you for fight or flight. Then, it assumes you have effectively fought off the tiger, so it puts more sugar in your blood to "replace" the sugar you would have used with the tiger. To keep the sugar in a utilizable state, it creates insulin resistance. Now, on top of the stress and stress eating, you have told your body to help you gain weight. It becomes a vicious cycle. The good news is you have a few things you can do!
Breathe. By increasing your oxygen and specifically extending your exhale, you can calm your brain. The next time you feel stressed, breathe in for about 6 counts, hold for 2-3 counts and breathe out for 8-10 counts. This doesn't need to be exact, but the exhale needs to be at least a couple of counts longer than the inhale. Do this 5-10 times. You will likely feel something physically shift because it will bring your parasympathetic nervous system online (no food needed!).
Get some sleep. Sleep is usually the first thing to go when we are stressed or pressed for time, but that is when we need it most. If you (like me) struggle with insomnia when stressed, use the extended exhale breathing at night. Also, having a night time routine and minimizing screen time before bed are crucial.
Exercise. Like sleep, exercise usually fades quickly during stressful times and we need it. In Spark, Eric Hagerman and John Ratey discuss the impact exercise has on the brain. One of the pieces that stood out for me was that if you exercise when stressed, you can actually utilize the stress hormones as they are intended and then you will no longer marinate in their toxins. Also, exercise releases dopamine which can block the food cravings stress can create. Fun huh?!
Consider trauma therapy. Our inability to cope with stress gets impaired early on when we haven't been given the appropriate tools or we grow up in an unsafe environment. While this can mean abuse, it can also mean growing up in a family where emotions were not addressed or valued. If any of this applies to you, consider EMDR Therapy or Accelerated Resolution Therapy to heal any past wounds that may be contributing to your relationship with food. Trauma occurs on a spectrum, so the things that hold you back may not be considered trauma in the typical sense. However, anything that creates emotional distress and stays with you in any way is trauma.
The next time you feel stressed and find yourself reaching for food, breathe, take a walk and have a nap. Then, think about contacting me!


(b Seligenstadt, nr. Frankfurt, c.1430/40; d Bruges, 11 Aug. 1494). Netherlandish painter, active in Bruges from 1465. He was German by birth, but nothing of this background is evident in his paintings, which show close connections with Rogier van der Weyden, by whom—according to plausible tradition—he was taught. His softened and sweetened version of Rogier's style (there is some influence also from Bouts) made him the most popular Netherlandish painter of his day.
Whereas Rogier excelled in the depiction of intense emotion, Memlinc's impeccably crafted paintings are quiet, restrained, pious, and beautifully balanced. Tax records indicate that he was one of Bruges's wealthiest citizens and his large output shows he must have had a busy workshop. His style changed very little and it is difficult to place undated paintings in a chronological scheme. He painted numerous portraits and showed rather more originality in this field than in religious painting. Among his patrons were Italians then living in Bruges (Tommaso Portinari and his wife Maria Portinari, c.1468, Met. Mus., New York), and his portraits seem to have influenced artists such as Giovanni Bellini in northern Italy. Gerard David was among the local artists who continued his tradition. Memlinc's work is in many major collections, but it can be best seen in the museum devoted to him in Bruges.


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Q: imported variable update is not reflecting in the parent module i have two modules, main and update.
in main, i declare a dictionary of references and a list for each value. In update i update the age, but i do not see the update reflecting in the main module again.
main module

candidates = {'goutham': {'Age': 30}, 'teja':{'Age': 27}}

for s in candidates:
    portfolio[s] = [0,0] # some value which i use for other calculations

update module
from main import *

portfolio['goutham'][0] = 32

Now when i come back to main and print the portfolio['goutham']. It still shows the values as [0,0]

A: E.g. this should work print  {'goutham': [32, 0], 'teja': [0, 0]} when you run run.py which I added:
main.py
candidates = {'goutham': {'Age': 30}, 'teja':{'Age': 27}}
portfolio = {candidate:[0, 0] for candidate in candidates.keys()}

update.py
from main import *
portfolio['goutham'][0] = 32

run.py
import update
from main import *
print(portfolio)

As a side comment: right now you have in your modules that is being executed when the module is imported. If it is your main logic, consider putting it in some main() function instead of relying on implicit execution on import.

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Ramadan Mubarak is the month of blessings from Allah. So if we celebrate this month by wishing our friends and family with quotes, sms and greetings then it'll be better for us.
Here I have some Ramadan Mubarak Blessing Quotes for friends and family. Blessing quotes are like Dua. Means you are giving Dua to your friends and family.
Also use these images while sending these Ramadan Mubarak blessing quotes. It'll leave good impression on your loved ones because everyone likes images.
Remember everyone in your Prayers because this is the month when Allah opens the doors of His Blessings for all Muslims. And don't forget to send these Ramadan Mubarak blessing quotes to each other.


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Coast Guard investigates Penobscot Bay yacht-rock crash
The Archangel lost its mast when it crashed into East Goose Rock, off Lasell Island this afternoon, grounded out, and rolled onto its side. (Photo courtesy Leonard Lookner)
(Photo courtesy Vicki Doudera)
PENOBSCOT BAY — The 70-foot sailing yacht Archangel, a charter boat with a homeport of Newport, R.I., hit East Goose Rock in the early afternoon, Aug. 7, went aground, dismasted and rolled onto its side. On Aug. 8, few involved with its rescue and salvage were talking about the recovery, given its status as a marine casualty.
The fiberglass boat was built two years ago, and valued at $2.4 million.
No one was seriously injured in the collision with the rock, according to U.S. Coast Guard Station Northern New England Chief Matthew Couling and the boat was stabilized by a crew from Wayfarer Marine, who were among the first on the scene. Crews from Coast Guard Station Rockland also assisted.
As of late Wednesday night, a crew from Prock Marine was at the boat, waiting for the return of high tide to float the boat off the rocks and haul it to shore. While the Coast Guard identified the grounding at Goose Rocks, some more familiar with the waters there said the boat went aground on Appledore Ledge, which is close by the rocks.
The eight onboard the boat were transported to Camden, said Couling.
The Archangel hit the rocks between 1 and 2 p.m., while under full sail, said witnesses who were out on the water. The force of the crash caused the mast to fall. Sailors on the water estimated the boat was traveling at six or seven knots. The boat was apparently on a course for North Haven.
High tide was close to noon and the wind was out of the south-southeast, at approximately 10 knots.
Lasell Island lies at the southern end of Islesboro in Penobscot Bay. Sailors say at high tide, the rocks have approximately four feet of water above them. The Archangel, others sailors said, hit the rocks soon after 1 p.m. The Archangel, it is estimated, draws seven feet, six inches.
On Aug. 8, the Coast Guard said the crash is considered a marine casualty and is therefore under investigation. Officers with the Coast Guard station in Belfast are now interviewing the captain and passengers. Parties involved with the rescue and salvage of the boat are declining to comment on the situation, given its investigatory status.
The boat has been hauled to Wayfarer Marine in Camden.
The Archangel was built in 2011 and was valued then at $2.4 million, and is a Hylas 70, designed by yacht designer German Frers.
A marine casualty is, according to the Coast Guard:
(a) Any casualty or accident involving any vessel other than a public vessel that (1) Occurs upon the navigable waters of the United States, its territories or possessions;
(2) Involves any United States vessel wherever such casualty or accident occurs; or (3) With respect to a foreign tank vessel opera ting in waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, including the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), involves significant harm to the environment or material damage affecting the seaworthiness or efficiency of the vessel.
(b) The term ''marine casualty or accident'' applies to events caused by or involving a vessel and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) Any fall overboard, injury, or loss of life of any person.
(2) Any occurrence involving a vessel that results in (i) Grounding; (ii) Stranding; (iii) Foundering; (iv) Flooding; (v) Collision; (vi) Allision; (vii) Explosion; (viii) Fire; (ix) Reduction or loss of a vessel's electrical power, propulsion, or steering capabilities; (x) Failures or occurrences, regardless of cause, which impair any aspect of a vessel's operation, components, or cargo; (xi) Any other circumstance that might aff ect or impair a vessel's seaworthiness, efficiency, or fitness for service or route; or (xii) Any incident involving signifi cant harm to the environment.
(3) Any occurrences of injury or loss of life to any person while diving from a vessel and using underwater breathing apparatus.


Coordinated School Health (CSH) is an initiative to help students, parents, and staff to improve their overall well-being.
The Tennessee Department of Health is partnering with the Tennessee Poison Center to provide a free Flu Information Line for all Tennessee residents. The number is 1-877-252-3432. Information will be available weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The time may be varied according to the number of calls received. Information will be available for English and non-English speakers.
Coordinated School Health is an effective system designed to connect health (physical, emotional and social) with education. This coordinated approach improves students' health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and schools working together. The Office of Coordinated School Health works with many partners to address school health priorities.
GetFitTN.com is a great place to find information about Tennessee's rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and risk factors that lead to diabetes, like obesity. It's aimed at educating both adults and children that Type 2 diabetes can be delayed or even prevented with modest lifestyle changes like increasing physical activity and a healthier diet.


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Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, said something interesting when he addressed the Digi-Dhan mela today. He said that Bill Gates told him that more than 100 Cr have mobile phones, 109 Cr have Aadhar cards, digital economy will boom in India.
By generating an income for them from the routine transactions of every citizen's day to day living.
Preventing withdrawal of cash from banks by people who want to make more economical choices instead of paying commissions for every use of money.
Jaitley's direct quote of incorrect statistics allegedly provided to him by Bill Gates, that he used in order to justify the demonetisation at the Digi Dhan mela, even as all statistics of any reputable source point to the opposite. The RBI's data even shows that while the number of card transactions at PoS has increased (out of necessity), the value of transactions has actually gone down, clearly indicating a reluctance to adopt cashless transactions more widely than what was going on naturally.
While in opposition, the BJP itself has pointed out that the CIA works through the USAID programme acting through philanthropic foundations to destabilize countries. There is considerable evidence to support this that BJP were already aware of. USAID has been implicated in covert operations to support subversive activities in countries from Cuba to Pakistan and notably the backing of Al Qaeda affliated rebels in Syria recently.
Ford Foundation grants have in the past preceded at least two major political upheavals in the country – the Janlokpal Andolan and the creation of the Vivekananda International Foundation (which backed it and later ran subversive slander campaigns undermining the newly emerging AAP) were both preceded by grants by the Ford Foundation to their founding members or organizations. The Jan Lokpal Andolan discredited the government then in power. The Vivekananda International Foundation masterminded the rise of the current government, discredited the Aam Aadmi Party that was on the rise and now has an extraordinary number of members appointed to government positions, including the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, under whose "able guidance", India's regional foreign policy has collapsed. There are allegations that he influenced a controversial supercession in the appointment of the next Army Chief.
Contributed by reader Prem A (in comments below): The conflict of interest doesn't stop there, Dr Nachiket M. Mor is the country directory of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and he is also one of the directors of RBI.
Usual sources of reliable advice and information to the government appear to have been bypassed in this apparently "well planned" demonetisation, indicating that other sources of information were likely used – the government may potentially have been misled to use information that was not in national interest. This needs investigation given the mounting damage being inflicted on the country.
Strangely, neither the government's joining the Better than Cash Alliance, nor the Catalyst were reported in India at all. For a government that proudly publicizes its every sneeze and hiccup that is dutifully given maximum publicity by a subservient media, if this were indeed a move that would benefit India, it is unclear why the Prime Minister would not proudly declare it.
Brave article.Love it.do something concrete on ground.
Bill Gates is doing his job as business development for his Organisation & USA. How can @arunjaitley act on his advise w/o looking in to India needs.
@arunjaitley has failed to look #DeMonetisation from all perspective & arguing to bail out him Self.
Cashless is utter nonsense thrust on non banking, illiterate citizen of India.
#DigitalIndia is a slow process & many infrastructure has to be developed.
1.Broad band reach.2. Banking reach & culture 3 Education 4. security of transaction 5. Above all Indian Economy ability to with stand glitches. 6.world economy & its impact.
@arunjaitley & @PMOIndia are behaving like #banana republic authority.
India is the fastest growing economy inspite of world economic slow down.
Any more slow down of US & China economy might reverse our growth.
Cash economy has hardly any black money most of the black money is in #BenamiProperty, Realestate, unauthorised #Gold holding & #swiss&Panama banking black money deposits.
Consumption economy is the only sector holding Indian economy. Now with Demonetisation it probably showed to the extent of 40% & in turn over all #GDP.
Only #Freekonomics can come to rescue #Modi Govt.
The conflict of interest doesn't stop there, Dr Nachiket M. Mor is the country directory of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and he is also one of the directors of RBI.
It's so frustrating that no one is reporting these things in the mainstream media. Is there any way to get this information known to more people? We desperately need a popular alternate media in our country otherwise US corporate interests are going to ruin us like they have done in South America. This is basically a Deep State being created where policy is controlled by private interests and not by the organisations created by our constitution. Really troubling times ahead for India.


Davis College Lady Falcons picked up their 5th win of the early season on Tuesday, beating visiting Cayuga Community College in a non-conference match-up by a score of 77-68.
The game remained close for most of the contest as neither team was able to take much of a command over the other. Finally the Falcons were able to separate themselves just enough down the stretch as Brooke Lewandowski scored in 3 straight possessions to extend the lead for Davis to 11 in the 4th quarter.
Thanks to their 2-3 defense, Davis was able to limit the visitors to just 29.5% FG shooting and grabbed a total of 57 rebounds on the evening. Despite Cayuga's poor shooting, they hung around by causing 19 turnovers. Senior, Jamie Brown, had a monster game posting 30 points, shooting 5 from 8 from the three point line to go along with 8 rebounds and 6 assists. Lewandowski finished with a double double pouring in 26 points and 14 rebounds in the win.
The Falcons improve to 5-2 on the season and take to the road on Thursday as they play at Penn State Brandywine at 6:00 p.m.


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Children At the Homefront in Edith Lelean Groves' Saluting the Canadian Flag and The Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmerettes
March 27, 2014 2014, Children's Books and WarChildren in WWI, Drills, Edith Lelean Groves, Exercises, Homefront, WWImatteo.cianfrone
Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmettes by Edith Lelean Groves
Saluting the Canadian Flag by Edith Lelean Groves
© Copyright 2014, Matteo Cianfrone
The First World War was a time of sacrifice and distress. Families across the globe faced the ever-increasing anxiety of never seeing their loved ones again. In Canada, however, the aim to suppress these daunting thoughts were subdued through the use of literature. In 1917 and 1918 the All Canadian Entertainment Series presents Edith Lelean Groves' dramatic drills, Saluting the Canadian Flag and The Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmerettes. The two paper-back plays were both published in Toronto by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart Limited. The books are held in the Children's Literature Archive at Ryerson University and are in incredible shape considering the books are almost one hundred years old to date.
Who is Edith L. Groves?
Edith Lelean Grove
Born in Cheltenham, England on January 22, 1870, Edith Sarah Lelean moved to Canada at a very young age. Educated in Toronto, Edith Lelean was very involved in the school system and eventually became a teacher herself. She taught at Ryerson School where she met her future husband, the school principal, William Edward Groves. After their marriage, she took her husband's name and became Edith L. Groves. After being actively involved for a decade on the board, as a trustee, her admirable dedication to education led to an eventual Toronto District School Board chairmanship in 1929 (The Globe). This was the first time a woman had ever received this position. She was well respected by her peers and when Edith passed away on October 17, 1931 she received a great number of accolades for her accomplishments. In a Globe article, the chairman at the time spoke highly of Groves stating, "Canada has lost one of its greatest friends of childhood."
During her days as a teacher, Edith L. Groves was also a writer. Before World War I, Groves authored a five-volume series of school drills for children to partake in at school (Gerson). However, she was again inspired in the late World War I years to revisit her writing ways. Why? As stated before, World War One was a time of anxiety and great sacrifice; this was no different for Edith L. Groves. By 1916, she had already lost one stepson at Passchendaele and the other was badly injured in the Battle of the Somme. However, her greatest heartbreak was in 1917 when she lost her husband (Gerson). To deal with the pain, she turned to writing. She continued to write drills and exercises for Canadian schools to perform. Somewhat inspired by sorrow, Groves wrote sixteen drills during the war years; four in 1916 and seven in 1917 alone (Gerson). Two of sixteen drills are the ones I will be visiting in this paper.
Intentions/Receptions of Edith Groves' Drills
The first patriotic drill in Canada was presented in 1899, during Canada's first Empire Day in Toronto. Empire Day was an annual in-school event that promoted loyalty to Canada through a series of presentations, speeches, or (in this case) drills. The exercise proved to be a success and caught on like wildfire. It became a tradition in every Empire Day celebration. The patriotic exercises "required the child to operate not as an individual but as part of a group – good preparation for becoming a loyal citizen and a reliable soldier" (Fisher 13). Thus, these drills did not only put pride in Canadian hearts, but prepared the children for battle. The drills would cultivate the habit of following the word of command and foster military preparedness. The drills became so important within schools, that it became mandatory for all teachers, across the nation, to acquire a certificate in drills as a prerequisite, before getting their license (Fisher 14). The patriotic maneuvers collectively united a group of children in the hope of one day unifying a battalion in the army.
Young Canadian boys practicing drills
Groves' publications were directed exclusively towards teachers and students. Both Saluting the Canadian Flag and Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmettes are advertised in publications like the Western School Journal. This was a book handed out to students and teachers within the School Board of Winnipeg. Sold at 15 cents per book, the Western School Journal includes each grades curriculum, a schedule for classes the next year, as well as the name of graduates. Therefore, Groves' drills were advertised so both students and teachers alike would purchase them. In addition to advertisements for school drills and exercises, the publication includes advertisements for "Loose Leaf Notebooks" and "Books for Teachers" (Western School Journal). This would suggest that Groves' drills were exclusively written to be performed in schools. The lack of reviews on the play would prove that these plays did not make it outside of the school walls. Unfortunately, Groves' drills stayed out of theatres and resided within the classrooms to boost school patriotism amongst the children (as opposed to an older, grander audience).
Groves understood that children, during the depressing years of World War One, had very little to be happy about. Fathers, mothers, siblings, and friends were going overseas to never be heard from again. Groves understood this, she experienced it herself. One of the most admirable traits possessed by Groves was, although she experienced the worst of the war's grievances, you would never see it in her writing. Her bitterness towards war, along with her experience of death, was never reflected in her books.
Groves, instead, used her drills in an effort to lift the spirits of these depressed Canadian children. In Edith L. Groves' Soldier of the Soil and the Farmerettes, she explicitly states, "This little Exercise, or Playlet, or Drill … is arranged to deal with the present situation in Canada" (Groves 1). Groves goes on to indicate the clear intentions of this drill. Groves states:
In giving this number at your Sunday School, or Young People's Entertainment, bring all the fun out of it that is possible, for we all know that just at present this world has troubles enough of its own, and any one who can make an audience laugh with genuine, wholesome fun is doing the world a service. (Groves 1)
Groves shows her clear objective in the opening statements so that teachers are well aware that this is to be an uplifting exercise for the students.
Edith L. Groves' in her other exercise, Saluting the Canadian Flag, focuses on another aspect of the war, patriotism. Groves assures the teachers that the students must not be lifelessly going through the motions. Instead, the students are expected to take on the responsibility their role entails. They are expected to mean the words they speak, they are expected to relate to their part in the drill. If they truly mean what they are acting out, the expectation is that this will feed their national pride. Groves states that "As Canadians we have done far too little of this" (Groves 3).
Duties at the Homefront
"Canada entered the war quite unprepared militarily and economically" ("The Homefront"). Not only was Canada lacking soldiers, but they were also lacking workers when their men travelled overseas. In order for Canadians to compensate, volunteers were essential towards the Allies success in World War I. Many organizations such as the Canadian Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., and a variety of Woman institutions made it possible for Canada to recover for their lack of preparation. The volunteers were able to offer their time and energy to raise money, provide food, or produce any necessities the troops needed overseas. ("The Homefront")
On July 1915, Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, increased the Canadian Expeditionary Force to 150,000 men. Noticing the military commitment was increasing, Borden raised it again to 500,000 men by July 1916. ("The Homefront") As the conscription numbers increased, the age of those being conscripted decreased. By the year 1917, workers began to debate against conscription. Workers pleaded that Borden exempt their sons from conscription due to the high demand for supplies during wartime. Borden, who was desperate for worker's (more specifically farmers) votes in the next election, obliged to their request ("Life at Home During the War").
Soldiers of the Soil Badge
With the success of the conscription debate, the young sons were able to assist with the labour shortages. The most deprived were farmers. "Soldiers of the Soil" (SOS) was a national initiative run by the Canadian Food Board. This project compelled children to become involved in the food production that was sent to the Canadian troops overseas. As oppose to "soldiers" who would fight in the trenches, the SOS would contribute to the war effort through their manual labour in the fields. Edith Groves perfectly portrays this in Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmerettes by having the children sing:
We cannot fight in a trench. Canadian children can't handle Bayonet, musket, or gun. What can we do in this struggle to help to conquer the Hun? … we can do our best to keep up the food supplies for the Allied armies and our own dear boys overseas. And we are doing it by planting our gardens and helping our farms. (Groves 15)
These "soldiers" were typically young adults, aged thirteen to eighteen, who were now assigned greater responsibilities in their household. Just fewer than 22,400 young men across Canada accepted the responsibility of "Soldiers of the Soil". Most these boys came from urban schools to live on rural farms for three months or more. These "soldiers" were rewarded for their efforts. Rewards included money, exemption from classes, in addition to a "Soldiers of the Soil" badge recognizing their services (Life at Home During the War).
A horse-drawn cart carries Farmerettes during 1918 Victory Loan and Bonds Parade in Montreal
However, the most prominent of these volunteers were women. By 1917, 30,000 women were involved in factory jobs. Those in the farm fields were known as the "Farmerettes". Similar to the "Soldiers of the Soil" campaign, the Farmerettes were responsible to replace the men lost in military service and assist in farm work. The Farmerettes were initiated by the Farm Service Corps and created labour never before experienced by women in Canada. The efforts by the SOS and the "Farmettes" are what led to the overall Canadian success in World War I ("Life at Home During the War").
Edith L. Groves was obviously inspired by these two initiatives. Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmettes is a drill meant to recognize the Canadian volunteers, as well as, encourage others to follow in their footsteps.
"Rest no more my laddie, for food we must supply to the boys "over there" who are driving back the Hun Who are ready both to dare and die." (Groves 15)
Attitudes at Home
As the war years dragged on, Canadians recognized that the nurturing of their children would prove to become important. The children were growing up in a period of war, and their teachings must be altered to address this. Canadian exercises at home consisted of day-to-day military driven behaviors. Children were not only expected to be on their best behavior, but were also expected to view their mother as a 'commanding officer'. As the commanding officer, the children were required to follow their mothers command as well as salute her. These standard military-like references immersed the children in an environment motivated by soldier-like customs. This nurtured a soldier even though they were far removed from the battlefield. (Fisher 6)
Saluting girl during WWI
The saluting didn't only stop at home. Edith L. Groves' Saluting the Canadian Flag demonstrates patriotic practices weren't limited to the household. "I call upon you boys and girls of Canada to step out each in turn and salute the Canada Flag" (Groves 7). In doing this, students collectively identify Canadians "have good cause to honor and love [Canada]. As you come forward, tell us why this Flag, above all others, is the one you salute" (Groves 7). After this, the students state their love for the Canada, explicitly spelling out why they love this country.
J.S. Gordon, a school inspector in Vancouver, states that students within the public school system have high spirits and a desire for service. Gordon assumes that the explanation is superior teaching. He compliments their desire to encourage patriotism and considers it to be truly heroic. Susan Fisher, the author of, Boys and Girls in No Man's Land, adds that during World War I at that time, the children did not find these war efforts as "onerous or burdensome" (Fisher 37). But, in fact, they "were exciting social occasions" (Fisher 37). Thus, Gordon and Fisher praise teachers like Edith L. Groves. Through her drills, Groves was able to properly cultivate patriotism within the school community. Teachers were able to make patriotism appealingly enough so the children weren't just 'going through the motions'. They actually supported the lessons being taught. Gordon and Fisher conclude that the children genuinely enjoy the drills and acknowledges the teachers for their efforts. However, there was no teacher more influential and dedicated to this endeavour than Edith L. Groves.
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A lot of writers have asked me who proofreads my manuscripts before I self-publish them.
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Since my market is mainly independent authors, I try to keep my prices low. I know authors in this situation have to cover all the expenses themselves up front to get a book published. I want to help independent authors get published, not hinder them.
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Mine Accident Shows a Potash Market Nervous About Supply Shocks
By Jen Skerritt and Aliaksandr Kudrytski
March 15, 2018, 10:00 PM CST
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-16/mine-accident-shows-a-potash-market-nervous-about-supply-shocks
The news, when it came late Friday night from a government ministry in Minsk, was grim: the ceiling of a potash mine in Belarus had collapsed more than half a kilometer underground, trapping two workers.
Halfway around the world, the reaction to the headlines was swift and dramatic. Shares of some of the largest potash producers soared in New York and Toronto on speculation that the accident could knock out a large chunk of global production capacity.
The March 9 episode vividly illustrates that after a decade of gluts, the industry is suddenly nervous again about supply shocks. Demand has been constantly increasing and any change in production from the world's top suppliers in Canada, Belarus and Russia has the potential to impact the market dramatically, said Daniel Sherman, a senior analyst for Edward Jones in St. Louis.
"If a large mine in one of those suppliers is hit, it's clearly going to put a dent in the supply," Sherman said by telephone. "One of the key things is the supply is very concentrated."
Potash Market Share
Belaruskali is the world's second-largest producer
Source: Green Markets data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence
State-owned Belaruskali is the world's second-largest potash producer and is one of three companies, alongside with Russia's Uralkali and North America's Canpotex, that accounts for more than 60 percent of total output. The fertilizer ingredient is used to strengthen plant roots and boost drought resistance.
While Belaruskali insists there is no threat to production, the accident has shown how vulnerable the market is to disruptions at a time when demand is poised to rise: India and China are negotiating supply contracts, buyers are looking to purchase fertilizer ahead of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and Canadian producers recently idled 1 million metric tons of output.
Mine Outages
Miners in Belarus and Russia are running at full capacity and "could not produce more" if they tried in the short term, said Jonas Oxgaard, analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Any outages could allow for higher prices for Canpotex, a joint venture which markets sales outside of North America for Nutrien Ltd. and Mosaic Co.
The removal of one of Belaruskali's mines would take out about 2.5 million tons, or roughly 4 percent of global production, Goldman Sachs analysts Adam Samuelson and Brooke Roach said in a March 9 report.
"If there's an upset, you're going to have a shortage somewhere," said Sanford's Oxgaard, adding that there hasn't been a major outage from a potash mine in several years, and "we are basically due," he said.
A supply squeeze could help potash prices to recover after years of ample inventories. It could also mean a rebound for fertilizer equities. U.S. producer Mosaic has climbed about 3 percent in 2018, but the shares are down more than 50 percent since the end of 2012 as a multi-year rout for crops cut farmer spending.
While outages are infrequent, they have caused supply shocks in the past. In 2006, Uralkali lost a mine after a sinkhole wider than 100 meters opened above the site. In 2014, a flood at Uralkali boosted prices at a time when companies were curbingoutput following the breakup of the company's sales alliance with Belarus.
In Belarus last week, the roof of the potash mine tunnel crashed down, with methane being discharged, Belaruskali Chief Executive Officer Ivan Golovaty said in a statement on the company's website. While "such phenomena do occur in our Starobin potash deposit," it was the first time an incident of such scale happened without any prior warning signs, he said.
Sudden outbursts of salt and gas in Belaruskali mines are caused by geological structures which have gas in their nucleus, contained under enormous pressure. Workers had no chance to react and escape and two people were caught by the falling rock and died "in a fraction of a second," according to the statement.
Belaruskali Deputy CEO Anatoly Makhlai said company production is now stable and shipping is normal.
"There is absolutely no threat of us stopping production at this mine," Makhlai said by phone from Soligorsk. "The mine has several directions, and the incident affected only one mine tunnel in one of the several mine sectors. Idling it is out of question, everything is working."
Even so, the accident shows the risk associated with potash supply and could drive prices higher in the short term, Jacob Bout, an analyst at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said in a March 9 report. Canadian exports remain strong amid demand from Asia, and as prices tick higher, there's a possibility the Chinese supply contract may top $250 a ton, up at least 9 percent from a year earlier, he said.
— With assistance by Megan Durisin
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Hey there, Mike here (@MikeFirehammer). Welcome to "#MikeChat", a series where I'll dive into certain DuelCircle topics that the community wants to know more about, discuss some WIP stuff revolving DuelCircle, and share the decision making process from an organizer POV.
Check out my last post in this series here!
Those of you who keep up with DuelCircle's semi-annual tournaments know that our tournaments usually feature gamemodes that are in play alongside our general rules each round. We've tried out different things over the past 4 years but right now we're looking at the entire tournament itself and are thinking about how we can streamline the tournament.
Basically right now, everything is currently on the table. We're being extremely careful with how we want to approach this because it's a tricky grey area. We want to continue looking at statistics and want to conduct more research (potentially through the Fansite Festival and Luau) before we make any significant changes to the tournament itself.
As a participant, we want to know how you feel about match length, the amount of time you specifically need for preparations (with and without gamemodes involved), as well as your thoughts on the single-elimination format with best-of-threes designated for the semi-finals/finals.
Over the past few years, people have noticed a decline in the amount of participants in each tournament. During our inaugural year, we were capped at the 64 participant maximum with an extremely long waiting list. At the time, if someone were to drop out, we'd continue our lottery system to properly fill in each opening.
One of the changes we made in 2018 was the decision to not have any form of art prizing for our top 8 participants. We felt that most of the participants simply were not as interested in the art prizing as much as they had been in 2015.
The other key issue that we noticed was the lack of communication between members of the top 8 and the art donors. We tried making an art references channel in the participant discord server but it simply never got utilized. Although some of the artists went out of their way to find each winner, that was part of the responsibility of the winning participant.
So for this reason, we decided to shift away from art prizing for now. Even though some of our previous donors still want to support DuelCircle, we're trying to find an outlet that works well for everyone.
There have been tons of complaints regarding X spell not being banned or why X spell is banned. We're extensively looking at our general rules and monitoring the competitive scene to analyze any specific trends among players. Our goal is to make this as balanced and fair as possible, but not give participants too many restrictions. We plan on being open about our playtesting and we definitely could use feedback along the way. Be sure to keep an eye out very soon for some playtesting streams.
As a viewer, how do you feel about the overall experience? Over the years we've mainly done the same formatting for each tournament broadcast in terms of promotion, hype videos, and contests. Do you prefer casual chatting by our broadcast team or do you prefer actual shoutcasting?
We also want to know how you feel about the schedule itself. Do you like how we've split up the tournament into two separate days? We completely understand how it might be annoying to sit through a 30 minute planning period as well. We want to find a solution that's viable for our participants while not having to simply fill "dead air" time.
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This weekend I replaced my video card with an Nvidia geForce4 MX 440 based card. I downloaded and installed the driver without any trouble (using the install utility) and changed the driver to "nvidia" XF86Config. Unfortunatly, "startx" hangs the system hard.
This is a Redhat 8.0 box with the last RH patches, but no other updates and no unusual hardware.
It's currently fine with the nvidia driver uninstalled and the card setup with a plain 'vesa' driver (which is a bit disappointing).
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Apple releases App Store Review Guidelines comic book in partnership with Madefire
Greg Barbosa
- Jun. 13th 2016 6:23 pm PT
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During Apple's State of the Union and 15th annual Apple Design Awards, Apple explained that the App Store Review Guidelines would be receiving new updates this year. Currently on Apple's own App Store Review Guidelines page there are two different guidelines listed, pre- and post- June 13,2016. Apple has decided to take these changes one step further into a partnership with Madefire. At the end of the Apple Design Award ceremony this year, Apple announced a collaboration with Madefire to make reading the newly updated guidelines easier. By releasing it as a comic book.
Madefire, a comic book reader for iOS and now the Apple TV, has partnered with Apple to make reviewing the new guidelines process easier. Madefire helped developed a story to focus the guidelines into five clear sections within the story: Safety, Performance, Business, Design, and Legal. The comic book is filled with characters each representing different pieces of the story. The artwork was done in collaboration with Mark Simmons, Ile Wolf, Luján Fernández, Shari Chankhamma, Ben Jelter, Malcom Johnson, and Dailen Ogden.
Although a comic book may not be the number one place a developer would go to read all the latest changes that effect their products, it's a cute way to grab the attention of many younger developers. Apple made sure to iterate that this year at WWDC 2016 they had a lot of new young developers in the crowd, the youngest being nine years old.
Be sure to get caught up with all the App Store Review Guideline changes by heading on over to Apple's site. If you find anything you find particularly interesting, be sure to reach out to us or let us know in the comments below. The App Store Review Guidelines comic book can be downloaded from Apple's App Review page, or directly downloaded here.
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Markets, diasporas and social networks in Lebanon
by Francis Pisani — in Middle East
Despite their mere 110,000 km2 and 10 million inhabitants, Cubans used to joke 30 years ago that they had the largest country in the world: our population is in Miami, our army is in Angola, and our capital is in Moscow, they'd say. In some ways, Lebanon's situation (10,000 km2, 4.2 million inhabitants) resembles Cuba's. The army is in Lebanon, but the population is spread across the globe, the market extends across the Arab world, the economic capitol seems to shift towards Dubai, and its students are increasingly in the U.S., London or Paris.
Lebanon has many positive sides. It has a large proportion of highly qualified citizens, initially educated at prestigious institutions like the American University of Beirut, Saint Joseph University and Beirut Arab University, which graduate numerous executives and engineers, many of which continue their education in high-ranking European and American schools. There is also the entrepreneurial spirit and multiculturalism that has characterized Lebanon since the Phoenicians, and hasn't been minimized by integration into the Arab world.
Another advantage is that its internal divisions make Lebanon a trans-cultural laboratory, creating people particularly well-suited to understanding interpersonal problems caused by globalization. And when it comes to building a site, in Lebanon you can easily make it trilingual: English, Arabic and French, as Delphine Edde of Diwanee.com and Cyril Hadjithomas of Keeward.com explained.
Lebanon's civil society is creating innovative initiatives like the Beirut Green Project, which is attempting to create rooftop green spaces, and Metel Na shelta, reinventing cause pamphlets, and Twattarna.com, which facilitates debate between political powers via Twitter.
Outside of these strengths, Lebanon suffers. Besides the ever-present threat of war, it has a weak telecom infrastructure, placing it behind Lesotho and Uganda in download speeds, ranking 161st globally.
"It's a serious obstacle," says Elie Abou Saad, head of the multimedia and web agency, Creapix.net. But there's an advantage in that. "It forces planning around extreme conditions. It raises the quality of our work, and helps us have a global presence."
Despite Lebanon's small population, it has a competitive advantage similar to that of much larger countries: a vast diaspora of between 12 and 15 million people, from a country that has a population of just over 4 million. They have landed everywhere from Senegal to the U.S.; there are more Lebanese in Brazil than in Lebanon; and they're successful in their new homes. Maybe not as successful as Carlos Slim – the richest man in the world – but still. They make up a global network, with access to distant markets and, more and more frequently, a funding source for ambitious startups.
No matter how useful it is, the diaspora doesn't solve the problem of which markets young companies should target.
"The innovation we can create here really doesn't have a platform in Lebanon," explains Cyril Hadjithomas, head of Keeward, a media ecosystem operating in several francophone nations and the U.S., during an informal conversation between a group of local entrepreneurs at Berytech, Lebanon's oldest incubator.
"There's no viable business model that can limit itself only to Lebanon," Nicolas Rouhana, head of Berytech, says. "Investors don't fund companies that are only in the Lebanese market."
Of the twenty-odd people taking part in the conversation, two said they were aiming at the global market, an ambitious starting point. Another is present in Congo and in France, due to diaspora. A handful of others were targeting the Arab market. "The goal is to sell in the Emirates. That's more than enough to start with," one says.
But social networks clear up this complex panorama. Zeina Khoury, founder of Strat Associate, a student-prep program operating in Lebanon and elsewhere, explains: "They let me reach clients throughout the Arab world, at low cost." Hadjithomas adds that they're a vital part of "relaying, translating, accelerating, and pushing us internationally."
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As a result, walking around the Met Breuer's inaugural exhibition, "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible", a collection of some 200 works from the Metropolitan's own collection along with some stunning loans, is like going on a guided tour of modernity and its emergence. It gets off to a great start with Titian's "The Flaying of Marsyas" (1575), one of Titian's last paintings, some say his very last, which depicts the satyr Marsyas as he is hung upside down just seconds before his terrible death. It is signed, but the paintwork is uneven, the detailing hazy, the composition somewhere between draft and final copy – it may even have involved the work of later hands. Or did Titian's impatience with gleam and polish reflect his suspicion that his time was nearly up? In which case the interrupted quality of the work mirrors the interrupted quality of the life. We all shuffle off this mortal coil in some senses unfinished.
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After death, the next-best reason not to hand in your homework is genius – or at least the notion of genius as handed down to us from the Romantics, who spent the 19th century atop mountain peaks grasping for the unattainable. Most of the work of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, genius's poster-boys, comes to us in unfinished form. Even the "Mona Lisa" is a work-in-progress whose middle ground to the left and right of the figure is something of a fudge. "Let the sketching of compositions be quick with limbs not too finished," wrote Leonardo, inspiring subsequent generations to similar non finito freedoms – whether Titian's diaphanous brushwork, Bruegel's swift washes, or Rembrandt's almost-geological paint deposits.
The rest is history, inked here in great detail. I was fascinated to learn, for example, that a spate of famous deaths in the 1820s – Lord Byron's and Théodore Géricault's in 1824, Jacques-Louis David's in 1825 – opened up their estates and in so doing vastly expanded our notion of what constitutes an artist's oeuvre. "If only I had made five paintings, but I've done nothing absolutely nothing," lamented Géricault on his death bed, having exhibited a mere three paintings at the salon. Yet his atelier sale included more than 213. Turner presents a similar case. "Imagination and Reality", a landmark show put on by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1966, made the case for Turner as a precursor of the Modernists by means of a series of canvases – "The Thames Above Waterloo Bridge" (1830-35), "Margate Harbour" (1835-40), "Sun Setting Over a Lake" (1840) – that the artist never intended to exhibit.
The curators of "Unfinished", Andrea Bayer, Kelly Baum and Jayne Wrightsman of the Met and Nicholas Cullinan of the National Portrait Gallery in London, are for the most part scrupulous in distinguishing between that which is genuinely non finito and that which is intentionally so. The most arresting canvases, to my eyes anyway, are examples of the former that most look like the latter – works of "accidental" modernism, so to speak, like the late Turners, whose abstraction seems just a hair off that of Mark Rothko or Cy Twombly, or David's rarely seen "Death of Bara" (1794) (pictured above), in which the teenage revolutionary, cut down in battle, dies naked amid a field of ghostly squiggles, as if being beamed up by the Starship Enterprise.
Less satisfying is the latter portion of the exhibition, when the non finito aesthetic meets the modern artists who most fully embraced it – in other words, when the exhibition catches up with itself. Here are Janine Antoni's busts made of soap and chocolate (a visitor once bit the noses off three of the heads, a testament to their own impermanence) and Edward Ruscha's portfolio of lithographs, variously titled "That is Right", "Actual", "Correct", "Definite", "Certain", "Sure", "Exact" and "Final" – in direct mockery of our completist urges. Also, Andy Warhol's "Do It Yourself (Violin)" (1962), a facsimile of a paint-by-numbers kit with only the bottom half of the violin complete, the rest of its numbered blanks awaiting the bored housewife who is to be imagined dabbing at it while she waits for her husband to return from work.
It's not just the loftiness of the irony that is off-putting, but the fact that these monuments to the unfinished are painstakingly finished, inch by pedantic inch. It adds to one's suspicions that post-modernism, for all its supposed playfulness, is one of the most dogmatic of artistic movements, its ambiguities pre-programmed, its blurs perfectly focussed. As I trawled the perfectly executed corners and clear-cut ironies of the exhibition's latter stages, I grew hungry for the shade of genuine uncertainty that hangs over Ferdinand Hodler's haunting 1915 watercolour, of his dead lover lying in bed, a rosary twisted in her pallid hands, with the rest of the composition only sketched in; or Van Dyck's self-portrait, in which his head bobs in a sea of white, his gaze so piercing he scarcely has need of a body.
These works seem to enjoy special status, somewhere between the unfinished and the deliberately non finito, as if the artist had thought them unfinished only to return at a later date and find that – no, they were just right.


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Work continues on neutrino lab near International Falls
trobertson February 3, 2012, 10:59 AM Feb 3, 2012
Scientists are gearing up for construction this spring of a 15,000-ton neutrino particle detector that will be housed in a facility on the Ash River Trail, about 40 miles southeast of International Falls.
The detector will be part of a scientific investigation into the role of subatomic particles in the origin of the universe, according to a story in the The Journal newspaper in International Falls.
The lab is part of the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy. The detector will be on the receiving end of particles shot through the earth from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. The Ash River site was selected because it's the furthest possible location in the United States that's in a direct line from the Illinois lab.
Researchers say the new facility will expand the University of Minnesota's international reputation as a leader in neutrino research. The university also operates the Soudan Underground Laboratory near Tower, Minn.
Project spokesman Gary Feldman, a Harvard University professor, told The Journal the facility itself is now finished and preparations have begun to build the detector. Construction will begin in April and is expected to continue over the next year and a half.
Lab officials are now in the hiring phase. There's currently a crew of 14, but the construction team will grow to 40 by this spring.
Here's a Fermilab report that explains the scientific goals of the project.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided more than $40 million for the project.
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