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Two elementary schools decrease achievement gap
Jan. 26, 2006, midnight | By Isaac Arnsdorf | 14 years, 11 months ago
Principals credit new initiatives for student improvements
Two Downcounty Consortium feeder elementary schools have raised the most recent standardized test scores of both white and minority students, which MCPS officials commended as progress in closing the achievement gap.
At Oakland Terrace, 75 percent of second graders scored above the national average on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills last year, up from 64 percent the previous year, Superintendent of Schools Jerry Weast said in his Dec. 14 budget presentation speech. Eighty percent of both black and white students achieved above the national average. Latino students improved from 46 percent four years ago to 68 percent scoring above the national average. "Oakland Terrace has nearly eliminated the achievement gap," Weast said.
Both white and black third graders at Viers Mill earned 100 percent proficiency on the Maryland State Assessment, Weast said. Proficiency among Viers Mill students with limited English skills increased from 10 to 90 percent in three years, Weast said.
No other elementary schools have matched these results.
The Oakland Terrace student body is 20 percent black, 11 percent Asian, 36 percent white and 31 percent Latino. Ten percent of students are in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program and 37 percent receive Free and Reduced Meals (FARMS), according to the MCPS web site.
Viers Mill is 23 percent black, eight percent Asian, 54 percent Latino and 14 percent white. Thirty percent of its students are in ESOL, and 69 percent are enrolled in FARMS, according to the MCPS web site. The school receives federal Title I funds for schools with high levels of poverty.
"A model that others should look to"
Cindy Kerr, president of the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations, agreed that the scores were promising, but she said they were only the beginning of efforts to close the achievement gap. "We hope to see them replicated all over the county," she said.
Other MCPS elementary schools should follow Oakland Terrace and Viers Mill's example, said Nicolle Grayson, a spokesperson for the Education Trust, a national education advocacy group that focuses on the achievement gap issue. "The schools should be a model that others should look to, to figure out how to close the achievement gap," she said.
The schools' principals cited new MCPS student improvement initiatives for the schools' success, such as lower class sizes and an updated curriculum. Viers Mill also expanded extracurricular programming, including encouraging participation in before- and after- school clubs and working to educate and involve parents through family learning nights, according to Principal Matt Devan.
The principals of both schools mentioned the extension of planning blocks for team meetings of grade-level teachers as instrumental to their success. In these meetings, the Oakland Terrace faculty identified low math scores as a target area for student improvement, said Oakland Terrace Principal Cheryl Pulliam.
Requiring students to set goals for themselves also helped them achieve, Pulliam said. Students were assessed regularly, and teachers closely monitored their results. Some activities were sacrificed to increase instructional time, such as the school play, she said.
Sustained results
Both Pulliam and Devan agreed that the achievement is limited to the specific class of students, and only time will indicate the continuation of these results. Oakland Terrace is currently monitoring how the same group of students, now third graders, performs on subsequent standardized assessments.
The most significant test of the students' early success could arrive with their elementary- and middle-school promotions. If the students can maintain their high levels of achievement as they enter middle school, then a more concrete conclusion can be drawn about their success in closing the achievement gap, according to Kerr. For now, though, "it may be too soon to say," she said.
Grayson warned that a racial discrepancy could still emerge as the students mature. "National data shows that the achievement gap doesn't start till later," she said. The gap begins to grow at the middle-school level and intensifies through high school as students are exposed to different expectations, teachers, classes and programs, she said.
Despite the benefits of starting early, efforts to end the achievement gap must pervade all grade levels, Grayson said. "It's great to start at elementary school, but we can't leave out kids that by the time they reach [high school] still weren't taught the basic skills they need to be successful in life," she said.
But Devan believes that with continued academic rigor, the students can build on their foundation and continue to achieve.
In his speech, Weast addressed the continuing problem of the achievement gap still facing MCPS. "We cannot let the barriers of race, ethnicity, language, poverty and disability stand in the way of student success," he said. "We know we have a disproportionate number of African-American students being suspended and coded for special education and that too few are being identified as gifted or participating in honors and AP courses. This cannot continue."
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Exhibition: Curran Hatleberg
Dates: May 7 - June 18, 2016
Opening: Saturday, May 7, 3 - 6pm
Higher Pictures is pleased to present the first solo show of photographer Curran Hatleberg. Over the past ten years, Hatleberg traveled extensively across the United States, following the tradition of the American road trip, taking photographs of the places and people he encountered along the way. Without an itinerary for his journeys or an agenda for his pictures, Hatleberg feels his way; he meanders through one town to the next, relinquishing control of the experience in large part to the people he photographs—where they take him, what they show him, what they choose to reveal of themselves. The resulting portraits of American life are full of palpable compassion and stirring moments of intimacy.
The work on view marks the first time Hatleberg lived and photographed in a single place for an extended period of time. These photographs were taken over six months in 2014 when he lived near the Oregon border in Humboldt County, California. The extremes he encountered fascinated Hatleberg. The breathtaking natural landscape of ocean cliffs and redwoods was often in contrast with the social realities of an area marked by industrial decline and the presence of illegal drug infrastructure. The pictures move in and out between the granular and the grand: from a jarring intimate scene of a man getting his head shaved, to a shaft of sunlight streaming through a soaring Redwood forest, to a sea of fiery red clouds suspended above it all. Within each frame, there is a push and pull. Snapshot-like urgency yields to an exacting attention to the details of each photograph. In one image, a young girl picks flowers in the same pink hue as the polka dots on her sweater, but her expression is curiously defiant, and just outside the frame a seated adult man is visible at the left edge, but his intention, mood and relationship are unknown to us, throwing the nostalgic scene into a kind of tenuous unease. In another, a crowd of spectators gathers at the edge of a field, the foreground dominated by two long, white hoses and discarded papers. What the crowd is actually watching, the main event, lies again outside the picture's edge, highlighting a central idea that peripheral American life, beyond the edges of mainstream culture, geography and social class, is robust and enthralling, much like Humboldt county itself. Hatleberg's project turns on these points of ambiguity. Each quietly transfixing scene describes and transcends its ostensible subject, blurring whether they are documents or dreams, calling attention to the capacity for remarkable, strange beauty in the everyday, yet overlooked, American life.
Curran Hatleberg (b. 1982, Washington, DC) received his MFA from Yale University in 2010 and currently teaches at Yale and Cooper Union. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship grant, and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg's work is held in various museum collections, including the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lost Coast, his forthcoming monograph, will be released by TBW Books this fall.


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25.09 – 20.11.19
KURA. is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Milan by the Italian artist Patrizio Di Massimo (born in 1983, lives and works in London): a body of new works which further explores on a larger scale many themes dear to the artist.
Patrizio Di Massimo sets up a vocabulary with endless combinations of information and references: from Renaissance painting, through Mannerism and the late nineteenth century French artists, to the icons of contemporary photography, to unidentified images found on the web, to an archive of personal drawings and photographs.
The artist works at an ever-present space-time junction, creating an imaginary world in which if he anachronistically seems to draw on a past tradition, he actually makes an ancient language current, bringing it back to our time, instilling new energy and a new vision into it with images relating to the personal and the universal, to the public and the private.
Images that have the challenging appeal of an advertisement, with their firm tone, vibrant colors, plentiful details, movement, story-telling.
Clad in clever irony and classic elegance, Patrizio Di Massimo's paintings become paraphrases of a much larger world in which the artist includes friends, family, acquaintances and people close to him. His characters take shape, move, leave the studio and the mind of the artist to confront the real world – no longer a plain representation of themselves, but main actors and presences, the interpreters of their own life and defined identities. Masculine and feminine merge in the artist's practice, and the so-called "gender roles" are constantly redefined, questioned and recoded.
The artist therefore represents himself, his self-portrait, in a multitude of works and in a continuous externalization of himself, aimed at a process of constant identity validation.
The self-portrait that welcomes the viewer, Self-portrait as abstract painter (after Annie Leibovitz), sees the artist ironically mimicking the American actor Steve Martin in front of a work by Franz Kline, a photograph made in 1981 for the cover of Rolling Stone and a pop expression of the cult of personality. A self-portrait as an icon acts as a perfect counterpart to the more intimate representation of the self, no longer in first person but reflected in his daughter's eyes. Diana (6 months) reciprocates her father's gaze in wonder, as if in a conversation to find out about each other.
Prussian Love and Bauhau continue the "quarrel series" which the artist started in 2018. The dynamics within a couple's relationships are metaphorically represented by Alan Prada and Fabio Cherstich and by Goshka Macuga and Nabil Bouhir. Two distinct and contrasting environments, a luxurious brocade room and an artist's studio, act as backdrops for the bodies in their clashing for emotional survival.
Another couple, in this case two women, intertwines in the subversion of the typical representation of a medieval theme, the damsel-in-distress saved by the knight. Epico Cavalleresco (After Joseph Paul Blanc) [Knightly Epic (After Joseph Paul Blanc)] updates a scene etched in the patriarchal collective memory, in this case the story of Ruggiero and Angelica as painted by Joseph Paul Blanc in the second half of the nineteenth century.
History, in the classical sense, gives way to a plurality of stories told by invented characters, friends and family of the artist's, in a kaleidoscope of intertwined glances and bodies. In Untitled (Green Triptych), in the background we catch a glimpse of a detail taken from a work by Balthus (The Street, 1933), a controversial artist who explored the border between voyeurism and representation. Di Massimo does not give up either of these practices, being at the same time the main character and the author of the triptych; stripped, in female lingerie, submissive to the pleasure of the other and perhaps of his own, sodomy and masochism meet.
To a vision of the world so rich in angles, imperfections, timbres, and devoid of any possible objectification, Patrizio Di Massimo's pictorial clarity seems to respond as a magnifying glass capable of looking into the folds of reality and thus becoming the only true and possible key to understanding. It is a painting that amplifies, that highlights, that seems to scrutinize without judgment. The cathartic effect of the gaze impressed on the canvas can only highlight a perfectly imperfect world, which includes desires, feelings and inclinations that the artist cleverly brings to the surface. The representation thus becomes an allegory of contemporary man, a character with a thousand faces à la Pirandello, who similarly to an interpreter is able to play different roles and offer the viewers the possibility of choosing their favorite.
◊ The exhibition anticipates the first monographic book by Patrizio Di Massimo, published by CURA. and to be released in November 2019.
(b. 1983, Italy) lives and works in London, where he graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art. Solo shows include: Palazzo Ducale, Urbino (Upcoming: November 2019), ChertLüdde, Berlin (2018), Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2017), NICC, Brussels (2016), Monteverdi, Tuscany (2015), T293, Rome (2014), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2014), Gasworks, London (2013), Villa Medici, Rome (2012). Recent group include: A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2019), Museion, Bolzano (2018), EVA International, Limerick (2018), HangarBicocca, Milan (2017), BASEMENT ROMA, Rome (2016), Fiorucci Art Trust, London (2015), Triennale di Milano (2015), MuHKA, Antwerp (2014), Castello di Rivoli, Tourin (2014), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2013), MAXXI, Rome (2012).
Thanks to the support of T293, Rome, and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Installation views photos by Alessandro Zambianchi
Single works photos by Andrea Rossetti
Courtesy the artist, ChertLüdde, Berlin and T293, Rome


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Industrial Revolution had rendered physical labour mostly irrelevant; Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is now set to make our cognitive abilities redundant. Self-driving cars are on the cusp of taking over transportation, algorithms are gaining the ability to produce poems, compose music, draft news reports and translate literature books accurately. What if a sufficiently advanced AI gains enough power and dexterity to replace even doctors, engineers and scientists?
Even if such a scenario plays out, I believe sports and performing arts would remain insulated from an AI onslaught precisely because the appeal of both these fields stems from human performance. For instance, technological advancement in sports has provided modern athletes with scientific diets, better training and computer aids to devise the perfect game strategy, but the athletes themselves aren't in any way different from say, marathon runners of classical Greece. We pay to watch these athletes perform and compete within the realm of human possibility and we steadfastly detest technology having an overbearing impact on the game. This is why FIA regulates car wingspan, ATP restricts racquet size and every sporting authority bans drug use.
I believe even with a supremely advanced AI, people would still come to watch an inferior, slower and less agile human species battling it out on the field, than watch two machines engage in a pointless duel. An AI doctor might be in greater demand for diagnosing cancer, but no one would want to watch an AI footballer dribble its way past humans and score a goal. Even in the game of chess, ever since IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, the supremacy of machines over humans remains undisputed, but there's hardly any allure for AI chess tournaments.
Regardless of how intelligent and dexterous machines might become, sportsmen and performing artists will remain invaluable to our society. In a future world inundated by AI, I wouldn't be surprised if the most popular aspiration among kids is not on becoming doctors or scientists but on becoming the next Lionel Messi.
Wow 😍 sir your words are just so meaningful I'm a big fan of your thought process 🙏.
Sir why don't you start YouTube channel it helps alot to many UPSC aspirants..
Not a fan of video making. I prefer writing.
Thanks, we are fortunate. Reading a good article always gives more pleasure than watching a video explaining the same content.
Yes, so true. Useage of AI to improve the living standards and being a helping hand for mankind in their future quest is desirable. And not becoming a replacement for humans.
To say the least, the article is very well articulated. Enjoyed reading.
Biggest Realisation in today's era!
so sad that he couldn't get a better team for the world cup.
and also continue writing such wonderful articles and all the best for your future brother.
Sir your thought process and expression is amazing.
U make believe in an instant what others have not realised yet,by the way u use your words.
Country needs ppl like u… bring the change.
Thank you for the kind words, Anon.
Such a iconic player ever ……Thank you for revitalizing again with your inspirational blog….
wonderful words…….,different style of expression…..and more than that truth about today's society…….thanq for all these sir.
Isn't it strange that to develop and use that AI machine humans need high cognitive ability and the whole of AI's existence and emergence is based on how we enhance our conginitive skills.
With AI we can have a doctor with excellent diagnosing ability but can we have a doctor with empathy?
AI can compose a poem, but a poem without emotions and feelings? No reader would be able to relate to them.
AI can definitely complement other professions. But do you really think it can replace any or all fields will be equally insulated?
AI's emergence is dependent on our cognitive skill. But once we develop a self-improving AI, there's no end to how good AI can become.
Regarding your example on AI doctor, sure, essential human values like empathy, compassion, love, care are most difficult to emulate by an AI. But that's not an insurmountable task. Physicist Max Tegmark presents a wonderful analogy. He says that human advancements are dotted across a mountainous landscape with each mountain peak representing one cognitive human skill. AI is the water level that's rising and drowning these peaks as the technology advances over time.
Some mountain peaks are short, like say the ability to win a chess game, which AI has already inundated. Some are moderate, such as diagnosing an MRI scan for tumours. This peak is also being drowned as we speak. The highest peaks are the ones I mentioned earlier (love, care, empathy etc) which will be overtaken too, given sufficient time.
The same argument goes for poems. In fact, AI technology has already improved to the point that it can accurately translate literature without loss of essence. I'd give it 5 years before we see AI passing the Turing test for poems i.e., you'll be unable to figure out whether the poem's written by a human or an AI algorithm.
I genuinely believe that the threat from AI is imminent and existential. We need to get the technology right and make it safe.
You seem to be a professional in giving a sharp n precisely furnished expression of thought and equally artistic in injecting your arguments provided proper reasons and references….
Great Article. But i think the youth of today are more interested in playing warfare games in computer rather than going out to play outside.
Well, that's a topic for another day.
Most of the commenters are goats.
With such a level of advancement man may get subducted to AI. Our cell phone is the best example.
There will never be humans but the world will see super humans, outputed from gene manupulations. People will be far more superior and talented than Messi.
Yes, trans-humanism is an exciting field of research right now. But per my understanding it's pretty nascent as of now. My bet is on Elon Musk's company Neuralink to make the first commercial breakthrough.
Yes brother i totally agree with you. Artificial intelligence is created by humans but today it (AI) is taken as it's(human's) alternative . Day by day we are becoming slave of technology. It is a burning topic to be discussed and think about. It is very beautifully explained in your article.
Yes, that's in the works.
One has to be absolutely clueless about football to think Ronaldo is better than Messi. He is nowhere near Messi. It's not even a debate.
I guess divergent opinions should not be talked down !
Sir I like your selection of words.
AI for poems!!! That's something I did not know. Nice article, something fresh and positive! Thank you I'm your fan.
Why do we value politics? Politics is about power, and power is about deciding who gets what, and how much.
Once we have a supremely advanced AI that can chalk out perfect economic plans, produce valuable goods, reduce economic inequality and propel the world to unbridled prosperity, politics and politicians would lose their grip over people. Once people have enough in their bank accounts, they can't care less about politicians or their speeches. I think this is why the electoral voting percentage in urban India is less compared to the rural areas. With a supremely advanced, benevolent AI, politics as a performing art would lose its charm.
PS: But the trick is in making that supremely advanced AI benevolent, for which our politicians need to get their policies right.
Convinced! But that benevolence would need those individuals who know the heights of human development which is only rare like in some Buddhas, others just know it upar upar se. Problem is you know, humans will start venerating those AI also as they will be so good. Infact I read a research wherein humans get emotionally attached to robots, it showed that humans start ascribing humanly qualities to robots too ( humans where supposed to swith off their power supply but as robots begged humans to not do so, considerable number of people's judgement got affected and the decided against switching off their power supply).
Hello Sir, I'm an aspirant from Chennai . I'm immensely thankful to you for this platform which has various dimensions of post not only helpful for upsc but also to enrich an overall personality of every aspirant !!
I have a request from our side sir , In future please do write about your experiences in training & about your upcoming big event on August 15 . Because I personally feel like these are special boost tonics which makes us even more focused & excited about our preparation ,gear up our stamina to run the marathon.
Will keep the blog updated about my training at LBSNAA.
I liked the Title as much as the article. Thanks Sir !
There's no doubt about it that a strong AI is our future…..but i personally feel that progress is just a kind of illusion…(i mean i am saying this here in a metaphorical way..of-course..i am upsc aspirant and NOT a pessimist definitely…I am a firm believer of welfare state and believe in adequate use of latest technology for realizing it)…..
As the society has progressed we proudly call ourselves "the civilized society" that just by keeping our innate animal like tendencies behind the veils of well behaved personalities and that frequently come out in open…..you know what i mean…..
By the up-gradation of AI its highly likely that employment patterns of people may change on large scale…as people were doing some other things for living before taking up driving as a means of employment..but for me it seems an utopia that AI will change things for any better….
so RESPECTED SIR, as you are a student of anthropology, i would feel myself blessed if you could please comment on this ….Is progress any real?
sorry…. if you found my query out of context of our article….
Sorry if you found my query out of context of YOUR article…..
But sir, I think we are only talking about AI and its impact on cognitive ability and thinking physical ability would be of high value in the future but we also should consider the impact of science & technology in the field of genetics in future, the genome editing can be a game changer in the field of sports, bringing out the best of the abilities of a human.
You are absolutely right sir. This article has a very deep meaning and i believe choosing sports and performing arts as profession will bring a lot of satisfaction and happiness and a healthy life.
" I write to find what I think " Stephen King , this is indeed, inspiring Anudeep I even tagged you in my story on instagram, the word you pen down is just goes straight to my nerves and deep understanding , you have audacity to fetch the dead soul alive through your inspiring words, you made see the world which really exist and that is one's dream, and working hard to achieve that particular, which will remain constant as proud and smile .
Thank you for all those words of igniting minds and hearts.
Sir i am nilesh, i have just cleared tje mains. My hobby is playing football and following european league. Could you suggest some resources preparation.
But I guess a new era of alternative sports can emerge, bot fights can be seen as its beginning.
I believe and as you mentioned once in your Roger Federer post, that it's the beauty with which they play that takes us away from the reality and we appreciate the efforts s/he would've put in to reach god level.


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Pinhal de São Bento ist ein brasilianisches Munizip im Südwesten des Bundesstaats Paraná. Es hatte 2021 geschätzt 2.742 Einwohner, die sich Pinhalenser nennen. Seine Fläche beträgt 97 km². Es liegt 502 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel.

Etymologie
Der Name Pinhal geht auf den ersten Namen des Ortes zurück, der Pinhal dos Rutes (deutsch: Pinienwald der Rutes) lautete. Die religiöse Gemeinschaft der Rutes nannte sich so nach ihrem Anführer, einem Heiler.

Geschichte

Besiedlung
João Rute war ein Heiler, der mehr als siebzig Familien um sich scharte. Ein Kuriosum unter seinen Anhängern war die Verehrung einer riesigen Kiefer, deren Äste ein Kreuz bildeten. Ein anderes Gebot war, keine Tiere zu züchten oder zu essen, deren Hufe gebrochen waren. Marciano de Sá, der für die Verteilung der Ländereien im Gebiet von Pinhal de São Bento zuständig war, und der Pionier Algemiro Mota waren mit dem Verhalten der Ruteanhänger nicht einverstanden und gerieten in einen offenen Konflikt mit der Religionsgemeinschaft. 1954 packten die Rute-Anhänger ihr Hab und Gut in Fellkoffer und zogen in einer Karawane mit Lasttieren fort. Ihr Anführer João Rute hinterließ einen Fluch: rührt die Kiefer nicht an, schlagt sie nicht um, denn wer das tut, ist verflucht, ebenso wie seine Familie. Und er drohte, der Ort werde sich nicht entwickeln, wenn der Baum umgestoßen würde.

Algemiro Geittenes fällte die Kiefer, sobald die letzten Rutes das Dorf verlassen hatten. Nach der Fällung überkam die Familie Geittenes die Angst, so dass sie nach Salgado Filho umsiedelten. Ob Zufall oder nicht, es dauerte nicht lange, bis Algemiro Geittenes auf einer Party bei einer Schlägerei wegen seiner Tochter getötet wurde. Einige Einheimische sagten, dass sich ein Teil der Prophezeiung erfüllt habe.

Im Jahr 1958 kamen die Pioniere Primo Savoldi, Constantino Jeleznhk und Oswaldo Mazzuco aus dem Süden. Sie errichteten Schulen, Mühlen, Sägewerke, Lagerhäuser und andere für die kleine Bevölkerung notwendige Betriebe.

Erhebung zum Munizip
Pinhal de São Bento wurde durch das Staatsgesetz Nr. 9278 vom 29. Mai 1990 aus Santo Antônio do Sudoeste ausgegliedert und in den Rang eines Munizips erhoben. Es wurde am 1. Januar 1993 als Munizip installiert.

Geografie

Fläche und Lage
Pinhal de São Bento liegt auf dem Terceiro Planalto Paranaense (der Dritten oder Guarapuava-Hochebene von Paraná). Seine Fläche beträgt 97 km². Es liegt auf einer Höhe von 502 Metern.

Vegetation
Das Biom von Pinhal de São Bento ist Mata Atlântica.

Klima
Das Klima ist gemäßigt warm. Es werden hohe Niederschlagsmengen verzeichnet (1961 mm pro Jahr). Im Jahresdurchschnitt liegt die Temperatur bei 20,3 °C. Die Klimaklassifikation nach Köppen und Geiger lautet Cfa.

Gewässer
Pinhal de São Bento liegt im Einzugsgebiet des Iguaçu. Der Rio Capanema bildet mit seinem rechten Nebenfluss Rio Tamanduá die westliche Grenze des Munizip. Der Rio Quinze de Novembro bildet die nördliche Grenze des Munizips.

Straßen
Pinhal de São Bento ist über die PR-878 mit der PR-481 zwischen Santo Antônio do Surdoeste und Ampére verbunden.

Nachbarmunizipien

Stadtverwaltung
Bürgermeister: Paulo Falcade de Oliveira, PSD (2021–2024)

Vizebürgermeister: Aliqueu Savoldi, PT (2021–2024)

Demografie

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Quelle: IBGE, bis 2010: Volkszählungen und für 2021: Schätzung

Ethnische Zusammensetzung

Quelle: IBGE (Stand: 1991, 2000 und 2010)

Wirtschaft

Kennzahlen
Mit einem Bruttoinlandsprodukt pro Einwohner von 20.088,36 R$ bzw. rund 4.500 € lag Pinhal de São Bento 2019 auf dem 342. Platz der 399 Munizipien Paranás.

Sein mittelhoher Index der menschlichen Entwicklung von 0,695 (2010) setzte es auf den 256. Platz der paranaischen Munizipien.

Weblinks

 Website der Stadtpräfektur, Prefeitura Municipal (brasilianisches Portugiesisch)
 Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil: Pinhal de São Bento  (sozialstatistische Angaben, brasilianisches Portugiesisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Paraná
Município in Paraná
Stadtrechtsverleihung 1993

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Q: Having a data set contains raw_data
Having a dataset which contains variables such as ordered units, average price and discount (example attached) how I could find the optimal discount numerically?
Plotting ordered units vs. discount, it seems the optimal discount is around 10% (considering more units to be ordered). How I numerically can support or reject this guess? However, maximising ordered units may not need maximising profit, but I got only that much of data to decide on the optimal discount.
ordered units vs. discount
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Turkey's Next Move
Posted on September 2, 2016 by jonathanspyer
Jerusalem Post, 2/9
The Turkish incursion into the north Syrian town of Jarabulus and its environs, which began on August 24, is the latest dramatic re-shuffling of the deck in a long and agonizing conflict. But what is its deeper significance? Does it represent a decisive Turkish entry into the broader effort to destroy the self-proclaimed Islamic State? Or is it, rather, the opening shot in a broader effort by Ankara to destroy the extensive gains made by Syria's Kurds and the putative federal entity they have established in the country's north east? And what will it mean for US relations with both the Turks and the Syrian Kurds?
As it currently appears, Turkey's intervention resembles previous foreign interventions into the Syrian war in the following way: It appears to have been more of an effort to stem an imminent unwanted outcome than an expression of a broader strategic plan.
Much as Turkey might like to, it does not currently have either the diplomatic or military ground prepared to embark on a wholesale campaign of destruction against the Syrian Kurds. It does, however, have the power to prevent further Kurdish expansion. It appears that it has just exercised this power. What will follow will depend on whether Ankara can content itself with this limited achievement.
Observe: The Turkish incursion came following the taking by the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of the strategic town of Manbij. Manbij is of significance in the fight against Islamic State because it was the last exit the jihadists controlled into Turkey. Its loss is therefore an important step in securing the isolation of ISIS territory from the outside world and hence from sources of revenue and supply.
Turkey, however, is less concerned about the pace of the war against ISIS. From Ankara's point of view, the taking of Manbij represented not a significant step in the war against ISIS, but rather a further advance by the Syrian Kurds, in the direction of uniting their cantons of Cezire, and Afrin along the Syrian-Turkish border, and thus achieving control of the entire long border between the two countries.
Turkey is currently facing a renewed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the southeast of the country. The Syrian Kurdish YPG is closely associated with the PKK. A further advance by the SDF would mean the entirety of an international border falling into the hands of a hostile insurgent organization from a Turkish point of view.
Turkey had hitherto been deterred from taking any such determined action against the Kurds because of the real possibility of Russian action against a Turkish incursion. Relations between the two countries were at a nadir, following the Turkish downing of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber on November 24, 2015. Rapprochement of some kind with Moscow was thus a necessary prelude to any incursion. And rapprochement came with the meeting between Presidents Erdogan and Putin on August 9.
The details and dimensions of any agreement reached between Moscow and Ankara remain unclear. The Russian media has been critical of the scale of the Turkish incursion into Jarabulus. But clearly the rebuilding of relations opened up enough diplomatic space for the Turks to dare to attempt the operation.
Nevertheless, any expectation that Turkish-Russian rapprochement must involve a Turkish abandonment of the Sunni Arab rebels of northern Syria appears at least for now to have been incorrect. On the contrary, the rebels formed the main ground component in the Turkish push into Jarabulus.
The US stance toward the Turkish move is perhaps most interesting of all. The Americans were apprised of an upcoming Turkish incursion. But the entry into Syria was earlier and on a larger scale than had been expected. The Americans, having supported the SDF's difficult fight for Manbij, appeared to change direction – calling for the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters to east of the Euphrates River and conditioning further US support on this action. The US supplied close air support to the Turks in the first two days of the operation. This was withdrawn once the Turks began to capture ground and villages south of Jarabulus.
The subsequent clashes between Turkish supported rebels and the SDF constituted an indisputable case of fighting between two US client groups. The SDF is the main component in the US war against ISIS (it constitutes a "Kurdish-American juggernaut," in the words of one American analyst of Syria).
The rebels used in the Jarabulus operation, meanwhile, consisted specifically of groups vetted by the CIA and receiving American support via the Military Operations Center in southern Turkey.
Were the fighting to spread, therefore, this would represent a disastrous situation in which two US proxies would be firing US supplied ammunition at one another.
To prevent this, the US appears to have put pressure on both sides. The Kurds, first, were clearly told that they would be left to face Turkish armor and artillery without US support if they continued to push west.
But US Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Monday noted that Washington also called on Turkey to "stay focused on the fight against ISIL and not engage Syrian Defense Forces."
Carter called on the Turks to keep their forces north and west of Jarabulus.
As of now, a tentative cease fire has been announced by the US between the Turks and the SDF-supported Jarabulus Military Council. It is not clear if this will hold, or indeed even if it exists. Turkish officials denied that any such truce has been agreed.
Much now depends on Turkish intentions.
The Kurds and their allies expended much blood and effort in taking Manbij from Islamic State. It is beyond doubt that they will fight to defend it should the Turks and their Syrian rebel allies seek to conquer it. At the same time, if the Turkish intention is merely to prevent Kurdish efforts to push further west, toward Jarabulus and al-Bab and thence toward uniting the cantons, it is likely that for now at least a further deterioration can be avoided.
US inconsistency left many Kurds furious. But the SDF is too successful an alliance to be entirely abandoned. Turkey would undoubtedly prefer a situation in which the rebel fighters under its sponsorship were chosen by the US as a replacement in the war against ISIS. This appears unlikely, however. The forces aligned with Turkey consist mainly of Islamist organizations, including hard-line Salafi jihadist groups ideologically close to al-Qaida.
Gen. Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command on Wednesday confirmed continued US support for the SDF.
It is now Turkey's decision whether to declare Operation Euphrates Shield a success or to continue to seek to destroy the SDF, even in the face of US opposition, and with the presence of 300 US special forces personnel deployed with the SDF. Perhaps the Turks will conclude that the Obama administration's record in defending its allies so far suggests that its objections can be brushed aside. This would not be an entirely groundless assumption. But if Turkey acts on it, it will open a new and very costly front in its war against the Kurds. As of now, Ankara looks most likely to follow a more cautious path.
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Here's my latest design for a Tunisian Crochet dishcloth -- a bright warm Sun pattern! I love how the variegated yarn works out its own design with the left side of the sun being mostly white and the right side being the two shades of yellow. However, I do think that a solid yarn is more conducive to showing off the design stitched into the cloth. I just had to try it, though, in this very happy color combination. It just seemed the appropriate thing to do!
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This cloth pictured above turned out a little too rectangular for my liking, so in the pattern below, I added 3 rows on the top and 3 rows on the bottom and adjusted the little sunbursts in the corners accordingly. According to my measurements of the finished cloth, this should allow my next cloth (or yours!) to come out more square.
For more Tunisian Crochet cloth charts, check the Crochet page under Crochet Patterns where you will find a chart for a Duck cloth, a Shamrock cloth and a pattern for a Mystery cloth. I have a few more charts finished that I will be sharing with you soon. And I am still working on adjusting these charts to use for knitting too, since a few of my faithful readers have expressed an interest in knitting these cloths with the designs in them.
Another pattern...yippee! You never stop, do you? LOL! I've printed the chart off...I have been making the multi-directional diagonal dishcloth on Ravelry...it's knit and looks really neat...can't wait to try yours!


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SOME THOUGHTS: At first blush, these passages may seem a bit disjointed and the Numbers' contribution hardly prophetic. Let's take a closer look. As with many of the prophetic pronouncements, there is a reference to immediate history as well as to events in the future. Here, Balaam gives a message given him by God. A star, a symbol for a king, will rise out of Jacob. The scepter symbolized power and majesty. Put simply, a majestic and powerful king will come from Jacob. King David fit the description perfectly as he defeated the Moabites. Some 400 years prior to the time of Balaam – Jacob, in giving blessings to his sons, blessed Judah (David and Jesus' tribe), with the words that a scepter would not depart "until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor." (Genesis 49:10). About 1300 years later in Matthew 2:2 there is the reference to a "star rising in the east announcing the birth of the King of Israel." The Apostle John tells us that this eternal King took on flesh and blood and lived among us. Paul further comments in Galatians that God came to us at exactly the right time to set us free. In following all of this through, you can see that our God is a very patient God, working in and through the lives of very flawed people over a long period of time. Notice the phrase "But when the right time came, God sent…" Our God is the master of the "right time" both then and now. God's timing is perfect. We must always realize we are living in his time. Jacob and David were living in God's timing and part of his bigger story though they never met Jesus. It is the same for you and me today as we walk by faith, not by sight.


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Elmore és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Alabama. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 199 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Elmore tenia 199 habitants, 77 habitatges, i 55 famílies. La densitat de població era de 116,4 habitants/km².

Dels 77 habitatges en un 31,2% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 49,4% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 18,2% dones solteres, i en un 27,3% no eren unitats familiars. En el 23,4% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 9,1% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,58 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,07.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 26,1% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 8,5% entre 18 i 24, un 32,7% entre 25 i 44, un 21,1% de 45 a 60 i un 11,6% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 34 anys. Per cada 100 dones hi havia 89,5 homes. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 98,6 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 29.792 $ i la renda mediana per família de 32.500 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 30.179 $ mentre que les dones 23.333 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 13.533 $. Aproximadament l'11,7% de les famílies i el 20,5% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Pobles d'Alabama
Comtat d'Elmore (Alabama)


Christmas time frenzy, it turns up every year and in the last few years, it's been a very different experience for me and I never really know what to expect or where I will be. Alongside that, I never really know how I am going to feel on the day.
This year I have found myself in Sydney, Australia. I was here six months ago and I will be dog sitting on Northern Beaches. So one or two dreams will be coming true for me. Firstly I will be able to experience the beautiful beaches again, surely some of the best in the world and secondly, I will be caring for a dog, so in effect will be getting a dog for Christmas, be it a temporary one.
Plan your time so that you are under a little amount of stress as possible.
Plan your "escape" if need be, don't over commit.
Let your friends and family know that you need to take things slowly and as it comes.
Do something special for yourself – treat yourself to a massage or buy yourself a present.
For those of you who have lost a Dad or Grandad, I have attached a link to the little book my sister and I created some years ago. It's always nice to remember the loved ones we have lost at this time of year and offer a thought or prayer for their well-being and express our continued love for them.
My Dad used to dress up as Santa and give out presents at the local Catholic club, which he loved. We used to celebrate our Xmas on Christmas Eve and stay up late opening presents, and chatting after Midnight Eve Mass – those magical moments have gone. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing – how we choose to remember the past!


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South Carolina Running Back Matt Colburn Commits To Louisville
By Mike Rutherford@CardChronicle Jun 25, 2014, 5:22pm EDT
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Louisville added another running back to its recruiting class of 2015 when Dutch Fork High's (S.C.) Matt Colburn verballed to the Cards on Wednesday. The three-star prospect announced his decision on Twitter.
I'm officially committed to The University of Louisville!!! #GoCARDS'
— Sir Colbson (@Colburn31) June 25, 2014
Despite missing some significant time because of a knee injury, Colburn finished the 2013 season with a school record 2,488 rushing yards, 418 receiving yards and 42 touchdowns. He capped off his junior year by leading Dutch Fork to a AAAA Division 1 state championship, and was named the Division 1 Player of the Year.
Though he stands just 5'8, 186-pounds, Colburn has built a reputation for being one of the strongest running backs in the state of South Carolina, and one who isn't going to shy away from contact.
But let Colburn put on the green and silver Dutch Fork football uniform and he transforms. For the past two seasons, he has punished opposing defenses with a style where he would rather run through a tackler instead of around. Area coaches routinely game-plan ways to stop the 5-foot-8, 180-pound bulldozer.
"He has really grown up since his ninth grade year," Dutch Fork coach Tom Knotts said. "He was a fun-loving guy - not in any trouble - but he has developed into a very mature football player and teammate. He would do anything the coaches ask of him. We know we're going to get his best effort every time he steps on the field."
Colburn relishes contact in football. He is one of first ones in and last ones out in the weight room. One college player he likes to watch is South Carolina running back Mike Davis, another under-sized bruiser.
"Ever since my days at Seven Oaks in the Pop Warner league I have always tried to be the hammer and not the nail," Colburn said. "I try to run full speed and give it all my effort every play. But I do like the contact."
Despite "liking the contact," Colburn also has the speed to run away from defenders instead of into them. He recently ran the fastest 40-yard dash at the Tennessee camp in Knoxville, and has been described as a "legit 4.5 guy."
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All three albums initially in the possession of Miss Florence Hawker, the daughter of E. J. Hawker. The small and medium albums were given by her sister Mrs Margaret Evans.
The small and medium albums were presented by Mrs Margaret Evans in 1939, in response to Mr E. T. Leeds letter in <i>The Times</i>. The large album was presented by Miss Florence Hawker later in 1939.


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Optical and theoretical investigation of Indian yellow
Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, A. Acocella, G. Accorsi, Diego Tamburini, Giovanni Verri, Amarilli Rava, Samuel Whittaker, Francesco Zerbetto, D. Saunders
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Department of Conservation of Wall Painting
The optical properties (photophysics and imaging) of Indian yellow were investigated both in solid state and in aqueous solution and correlated with its chemical composition. The analyses were corroborated by a theoretical study carried out on the different xanthone derivatives that comprise the pigment under investigation, both as isolated molecules and in a polar (protic) solvent, to help the assignment of the excited states involved in the photo-induced process. Knowledge of its relatively high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY 0.6%), excitation and emission spectra and lifetime decays enhances the potential for reliable identification using non-invasive photo-induced luminescence imaging techniques. New insights into the chemical composition of the pigment, such as the identification of a sulphonate derivative of euxanthone, and its extensive occurrence on a 17th-century Indian wall painting are also reported for the first time in this study.
Dyes and Pigments
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.05.034
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Pigments Engineering & Materials Science 100%
Photophysics Engineering & Materials Science 85%
Euxanthone Chemical Compounds 83%
Excited states Engineering & Materials Science 66%
Photoluminescence Engineering & Materials Science 64%
Martin de Fonjaudran, C., Acocella, A., Accorsi, G., Tamburini, D., Verri, G., Rava, A., Whittaker, S., Zerbetto, F., & Saunders, D. (2017). Optical and theoretical investigation of Indian yellow. Dyes and Pigments, 144, 234–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.05.034
Optical and theoretical investigation of Indian yellow. / Martin de Fonjaudran, Charlotte ; Acocella, A. ; Accorsi, G. et al.
In: Dyes and Pigments, Vol. 144, 05.2017, p. 234–241.
Martin de Fonjaudran, C, Acocella, A, Accorsi, G, Tamburini, D, Verri, G, Rava, A, Whittaker, S, Zerbetto, F & Saunders, D 2017, 'Optical and theoretical investigation of Indian yellow', Dyes and Pigments, vol. 144, pp. 234–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.05.034
Martin de Fonjaudran C, Acocella A, Accorsi G, Tamburini D, Verri G, Rava A et al. Optical and theoretical investigation of Indian yellow. Dyes and Pigments. 2017 May;144: 234–241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.05.034
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Bipartisan Group of Senators Call on President Obama to Take Action on VA Inspector General
"Permanent leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General is long overdue"
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a bipartisan group of United States Senators, led by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to nominate an Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as soon as possible to help rebuild the trust that was lost "through systematic failures in accountability and transparency" at the Department. In addition to Senator Baldwin, the letter was signed by U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tom Carper (D-DE), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Gary Peters (D-MI) and Jon Tester (D-MT).
"It is imperative that you nominate a permanent IG for the VA to provide stable leadership and oversight of the agency. Over the past two years, the VA has faced well-documented challenges, including the failure to provide timely health care nationwide. A permanent IG would help to address these failures and would play a critical role in auditing and evaluating VA programs, conducting health care inspections and investigating allegations of serious violations of policies and procedures by high-ranking members of the Department," the Senators wrote.
The former Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) left the position in late 2013 and Mr. Richard Griffin assumed the IG duties at the department. However, he is not serving in a permanent capacity. The absence of a permanent IG at the department has raised concerns about shortcomings in accountability and transparency at the VA.
The Senators wrote to President Obama, "Providing adequate programs and services for our nation's veterans is a one of our greatest responsibilities. We hope that you will ensure consistent management and accountability at VA by nominating a permanent IG as soon as possible."
Full text of the letter below:
Washington, D.C. 2050
We write to urge you to nominate an Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as soon as possible to help rebuild the trust that was lost through systemic failures in accountability and transparency at the Department.
On June 3, 2015, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing entitled Watchdogs Needed: Top Government Investigator Positions Left Unfilled for Years. At the hearing, a number of Senators expressed concerns about the vacant VA IG position and multiple Senators have written to you in the past urging you to nominate a permanent Inspector General for the VA. As you know, the former IG left the position in late 2013 and Mr. Richard Griffin assumed the IG duties at the agency. However, he is not serving in a permanent capacity. Simply put: permanent leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General is long overdue.
At the hearing, several witnesses stressed that IGs nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate are viewed as more independent by members of Congress and the public than acting IGs. The witnesses also stated that permanent IGs are more likely to address long-term and sometimes embarrassing issues at the agency.
It is imperative that you nominate a permanent IG for the VA to provide stable leadership and oversight of the agency. Over the past two years, the VA has faced well-documented challenges, including the failure to provide timely health care nationwide. A permanent IG would help to address these failures and would play a critical role in auditing and evaluating VA programs, conducting health care inspections and investigating allegations of serious violations of policies and procedures by high-ranking members of the Department.
Providing adequate programs and services for our nation's veterans is one of our greatest responsibilities. We hope that you will ensure consistent management and accountability at VA by nominating a permanent IG as soon as possible.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.


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