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Al Di Meola: 'Never Idle, Always Stretching'
By Bryan Reesman
Witnessing jazz legend Al Di Meola teach a class of young guitarists, then perform an acoustic show to a packed house, is a rare treat. The 64 year-old virtuoso appeared for a day at John Petrucci's Guitar Universe school this past August at the Mansion at Glen Cove on Long Island. A four day-event in its second summer, it was founded by the Dream Theater guitarist for budding six-stringers to learn about the art and craft of playing from iconic players and watch some all-star jam sessions. It was heartening to see a room full of rockers listening intently to Di Meola's songs as well as his stories, including a fun one about unwittingly renting a house next to Paul McCartney and getting to interact with him (Di Meola adores the Beatles).
When he sits down to chat with JAZZed a couple of weeks later for a 75-minute phoner, the revered axeman says he enjoyed the Guitar Universe experience and loves doing events like that. He also appeared at Steve Vai's Vai Academy 3.0 in January 2017. While Di Meola usually plays in an ensemble setting, it was difficult to assemble his bandmates for Guitar Universe, thus he came solo. Behind his group class and well-received set in the evening, the guitarist would have loved to have conducted some private lessons, but there was just not enough time.
Although Di Meola likes working in a group setting, his latest album Opus he recorded "virtually by myself," he tells JAZZed. "I played a lot of the bass parts and played about 90 percent of the percussion. What would've been the keyboard parts I played on the guitar, so you have guitar on guitar quite often, and sometimes electric on acoustic. It was really just to get everything that I wrote down exactly right. It's a risk, when you're playing with other players, that you're going to get it the way you want it. Sometimes they inflect their own thing which gives you a plus or a minus. There's also the consideration of time and budget, much more so now than it was in the '70s and the '80s when the budgets were about 100 times bigger."
As I learned while observing him in Glen Cove, when Di Meola is teaching in a solo setting he starts off by playing, then gradually lets students ask questions about what he is doing or make other queries related to the guitar. He does not believe that sitting and lecturing for a half hour or more is enough. He is essentially practicing while teaching and offering a musical springboard for inquisitive disciples.
"I use it as a little opportunity to break in some things that are challenging, and it might be something I've been playing for a long time and it's still challenging to me," he remarks. "It might be a rendition of the Beatles, and the way that I changed it is still a challenge to play in that particular fashion with that kind of syncopation. When I'm off the stage and dealing with organizations of tours and things of that nature, and I'm not recording or rehearsing, I'm not playing so much, so this gives me an opportunity."
His master classes employ a different strategy. "Maybe we'll talk more about exactly how I do what I do," he explains, "and certain things that are related to picking technique and chords I use and scales and where I come from."
Di Meola has not given private lessons since he was a teenager. He had students his age and younger, but once he jumped on board with Chick Corea and Return To Forever at age 19, he never looked back. He had no desire to teach for extra money or become a well-known session player. "I didn't want to be on everybody's record," he asserts. "I wanted to be special, [do] my records, and it took all that time to develop sounds and songs, my own writing and technique. I had enough to work on."
Over the course of the next four and a half decades, Di Meola has fashioned a career that is incredibly diverse and influential. A rock-ish album such as 1982's Electric Rendezvous is likely one of the releases that enthralled aspiring young rock virtuosos. His studio and live albums with fellow icon John McLaughlin and the late virtuoso Paco de Lucia were brimming with incendiary Spanish guitar playing. He has recorded the music of tango composer and innovator, the late Astor Piazzolla, who he became friends with when he was younger, and released an instrumental Beatles covers album entitled All Your Life. His 1995 collaboration with bassist Stanley Clarke and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, Rite of Strings, is effervescent and magical.
The guitarist's influences range from the Beatles and Piazzolla to jazz guitarist George Benson and bluegrass picker Doc Watson. He credits really good training when he started playing at nine years old at the local music store in New Jersey. "They just assigned me this guy who is still my friend today," recalls Di Meola. "His name is Bob Aslanian. He lives down in Forked River, New Jersey and he still teaches. He comes from the Barney Kessel/Howard Roberts school. He was a great teacher in the sense that he was teaching different chord forms, different types of scales, reading in all positions, and learning the standards that I had not a tremendous interest in. But I had to learn them. At the same time, he recognized the beauty and the aesthetics of groups like the Beatles. He would write out the chart for 'Yesterday' or 'Michelle'. There is a good amount of harmony in those songs. I had the best of both worlds. I was given a rounded beginning and approach to music, which was very beneficial."
In light of that statement, he recommends that young players find a good teacher who will instruct them more in a jazz tradition. "You could stay liking what you like, but your world expands when you have knowledge of scales and reading in every position of the guitar," explains Di Meola. "So if you give me something written in a low register, I can read that just as easily above the 12th fret. That's a big plus. You want to be able to look at the music and read it, especially complicated music."
That is the first step. Di Meola then suggests trying to copy one's favorite players and to emulate what they are doing. "You're never going to do exactly what they're doing, but in the process you learn a lot and eventually develop your own voice," he says.
When he was a young adult, Di Meola would attend as many shows possible in New York City. "Not only absorbing the great shows at the Fillmore East and the Village, but I would go to jazz clubs on occasion," he recalls. "I would go to flamenco clubs on occasion. I still don't know why, but I would go by myself to 86th Street uptown to the Corso, which was a Latin salsa club. As a teenager, I was going up there by myself, up the stairs into this giant ballroom listening to a big band. I was just enthralled with Latin music and absorbed it all."
Al Di Meola performing at Glen Cover Mansion (Glen Cove, New York) in the summer of 2018
After commencing his studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston in the early '70s, Di Meola practiced relentlessly. About two years into his tenure there – during which he spent a few months back in NYC working with the Barry Miles Quartet – he received a phone call that changed his life. After hearing Di Meola's playing with the Quartet as recorded by a mutual friend, Chick Corea asked the young prodigy to audition for Return to Forever, who with their next studio album, 1974's Where Have I Known You Before, would hit the Billboard Top 40 albums and help cement the mainstream reputation of this influential fusion group. RTF also happened to be Di Meola's favorite group at the time, and he appreciated that their music was highly inflected with classical elements and offered "really cool lines to play." He auditioned and landed the gig. The guitarist says the music required a high level of technical ability, and given that he was now playing with musicians that were legends to him, it was either sink or swim.
"God passed me the football, and man, I had to maneuver through a lot of Scientology crap that was thrown at me from those guys," reveals Di Meola. "But I knew that was really going to get me to another level. By the way, I didn't know what that level was, but while I was in Return To Forever we had achieved such a level of popularity that we were able to have our own solo contracts at the same time we had a group contract. I think it was the first group ever to have that. I was really fortunate, but I was thrown into the world of writing and I didn't know if I could do it."
As the group's commercial peak hit with the gold-selling Romantic Warrior in 1976 (internal friction led to their dissolution after one more studio album), Di Meola embarked on his own career with his first solo album, Land Of The Midnight Sun. "I was still shocked that I got that far," he recalls. "With Elegant Gypsy, my second one, is when I realized that I had something that I could call my own. I had a stamp of some kind."
While his ability to move between acoustic and electric guitar and play fluidly and rapidly on both instruments has impressed many, Di Meola does not consider himself a shredder. "I'm not even a fan of shred, but I think a lot of shred fans are fans of mine," he observes. "It is because the emphasis of what they do is a kind of shred, and the kind of shred I'm talking about is the kind that you just can't get away with on acoustic guitar. You can pick a note and hammer-on a million [notes] or do that sweep thing that so many guys do, but you're just not going to be able to get away with it on an acoustic guitar. You have to man up."
Given the era he grew up in, the guitar virtuoso loves the music of the '60s and feels it still holds up today because of its "damn good quality – great harmony, great melody, great production." But he also points out that that music – and this could apply to any modern music that stands the test of time – is a result of the intense focus of the players themselves.
"Back then, [working on] a great record you'd be thinking about the next three months to six months to a year," he explains. "And then it remained great your whole lifetime because there was such focus from the whole band, whatever that band may have been. Everybody, after they did a basic track, went in to listen to that basic track, not out in the hallway on their phones or on their computers, which everyone does now."
Don't mistake these comments for the clichéd griping of an older musician. Di Meola feels that are more talented players than ever before, and many of them are searching for new ways to do things, such as taking hammer-ons and sweep picking to another level. "It's all kind of gimmicky and interesting," he says. "Some of them do it well, and I don't knock it. It's a whole different way of expressing yourself."
That being said, he is not sure if many or any of these newer players can read music, and he thinks that is a mistake. Even a good pop tune is "extremely aesthetic" and requires more than just a basic understanding of music. The Beatles are a great example.
"When you really analyze and play [their music], instrumentally you realize this music's got stuff, but it doesn't have to go on for 10 minutes like my songs," he assesses. "I'm playing a different kind of music. I don't have a voice like them. So when I tell a story, I have to tell it with notes. If you have a long 12-page chart – those guys that are doing that kind of heavy metal, sweep, hammer-on stuff, it sometimes appears gimmicky to me. They better learn how to read, and I don't mean tab."
Di Meola's picking technique is important to take note of. He has explained that he does not move his right arm as he picks really fast. Instead, he frees up his wrist to get the speed and dexterity he needs. "If you lock your wrist and try to pick some kind of velocity it usually sounds as bad as it looks, which is stiff," he elaborates. "I consciously try to rotate my wrist. It's quite natural. Looking at other players and trying to evaluate what it is that just doesn't sound right, I noticed that they've got their wrist locked and they're picking from their elbow. That really does not work."
An important aspect of Di Meola's career is the fact that he has spanned numerous genres and blended them together in exciting ways. A great example is the highly rhythmic "Gumbiero" from his 2011 album Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, which fluidly mixes jazz, tango, African music, and a little flamenco. It begs the question as to how he finds the different connections between genres to be able to create that kind of music.
"Everything is based on the sensibility of have feeling the clave, which is how to syncopate against the time," he notes of such a blend. "It's the only thing you cannot learn in music. You can learn harmony and every other aspect of things that are related to scales, but not when it comes to rhythm. Most guitar players in particular think they have great rhythm, but when it comes to syncopating, if you were to divide [out] the lower half of your body, your foot would be tapping the time and your upper body would be playing accents against the time. If your foot goes off and out of time because of the influence of your upper body rhythm, then you're off clave. That's not good. And there are guys that just cannot ever get it because they don't have it in them."
However, Di Meola adds that if one discovers that they have the ability to play any kind of off-rhythms against the time, he encourages students, as he does at clinics, to always tap their foot. "It's very, very important to tap when you're playing, so you're not playing rubato all the time," urges the guitarist. "Or guys think they're playing in time when they're not. You have to be really aware of the foot. Chick was a good demonstrator of that tremendous ability to play against the time. Or Steve Gadd – killer, one of the best of what I'm talking about. And then almost every Latin guy from Cuba. It's in the blood. It's in the genes, man. I don't know how to help. I'm not from Cuba, but I totally felt this ability very early on."
Another area of Latin music that has captivated Di Meola is tango, specifically the work of the late Argentine composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla. "The tango thing is a whole different world than what we were just talking about," says Di Meola. "They have none of what I just talked about in their music. Piazzolla blended a love of European classical music into what was a traditional tango form, so he's really considered the father of the Nuevo Tango. For me, he's the most important tango figure and writer who ever lived."
Di Meola says that the most influential period of his life was when he met Piazzolla in the 1980s and became friends with him, and the composer expressed his love of the guitarist's music. He confesses that at the time he knew little about Piazzolla's music and was a little embarrassed to admit so, but the Argentinian innovator wrote a score for him that he hoped to hear him play someday.
"From that moment, we always included some Piazzolla in the show and still do," says Di Meola. "And sometimes Beatles too. They were two massively huge influences that are better suited for the acoustic group. Not that Chick wasn't an influence, but those two superseded that whole RTF thing which was more related to electric, bombastic stuff."
Given Di Meola's affinity for Spanish guitar and his strong sense of rhythm, he got along extremely well with Paco de Lucia. "We both had an understanding of that clave natural ability to play against the time without having the time slammed down by a drummer or percussionist," he explains. "So we could play off-rhythms for days, but the listener knows exactly what that time is because we're locked in a certain kind of groove. Whenever we played rhythm together, it was magic. He could play and then a big space of time would go by, but I know whenever he would come back in he wouldn't lose the time in between that big hole. And that's the magic of when you're tapping time, that you don't lose your sense of time when there is an opening in the space. It's so cool and it opens up a giant world of possibilities rhythmically. Just trying to convey what I'm talking about to a clinic class, you hope some of them are actually getting what I'm saying because it is kind of a hard thing to consume and have it register."
At his Guitar Universe concert performance, Di Meola played a piece from his 2015 album Elysium dedicated to his wife, but he apologized to her because he said that while it came from the deepest sentiment it also became very complex. However, this stripped down acoustic version necessitated leaving out the other five counterpoints he had written. Some people have remarked that his latest album Opus is very complicated, and it is densely packed with many different ideas and numerous rhythmic shifts. It is certainly not as straightforward an album as Electric Rendezvous.
"Opus is the kind of record where the more you listen to it, the more you really get it," says Di Meola. He believes that while it may be too advanced for some people harmonically, "it's just chock full of melodies. It's not like a record that's just complex for complex sake. There's a lot of jazz, avant-garde jazz, bebop, and even fusion music that's lacking in melody with an overemphasis on crazy lines, atonal lines, and tons of improvisation that is far harder to get into."
By contrast, 1985's Cielo e Terra, is "one of those guitar records for guitar players," notes Di Meola. "It was never ever meant to the same kind of expanded audience that I think Opus could appeal to or even the Beatles All Your Life compilation. It wasn't meant for that." It was inspired by another influence, classical guitarist John Williams. The making of Cielo e Terra invokes another problem he sees with contemporary musicians and composers.
"Today I listen to it and wonder how I did what I did," he muses. "But I know that I was in a period without cell phones and without computers and living alone. I called my parents and said I'm taking the phone off the hook for a month because I'm doing serious writing and don't send the police up to the house. I'll be fine. And you know what? You get so much more done. But who could do that today? I find it harder and harder to make a record because I'm more and more addicted to the modern devices that we have today. I think it is an epidemic and it's part of the reason, not the whole reason, that our music industry is in total collapse. You can also blame it on all the free music you can get on your computer."
Despite the difficulties that musicians face these days – not to mention the overwhelming competition from a deluge of new artists, plus all the tech devices competing for our time – Di Meola has found champions of his music in the world of hard rock and heavy metal. He was well received at John Petrucci's Guitar Universe and Vai Academy 3.0. The guitarist is also friends with rockers like Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and neoclassical shred master Yngwie Malmsteen. Back in 1990, American band Riot covered "Racing With The Devil On A Spanish Highway" from Elegant Gypsy on their album The Privilege of Power.
About that shred thing – while Di Meola is flattered by the attention from guitarists who love to rip across the frets, he does not embrace the term. He knows that a lot of his earlier music has a rock edge to it, more so than his newer material. "They probably like the fact that I wasn't your guy that you could really put into a shredding category, although I was playing with some kind of velocity," he notes. But the iconic musician feels that saying he shreds is a little bit of an insult (even if it is not being meant that way). "Shredding players mainly shred. You don't remember the composition – the little bit that I've heard, I may be wrong. A lot of them are not coming from a compositional side. A lot of them are coming from 'look what I can do.' It's kind of a masturbatory thing."
Something that Di Meola does have more in common with some of those rock players is grappling with tinnitus, that often-permanent ringing in the ears that results from too much exposure to loud music or sounds, and the gradual onset of arthritis, which is problematic for musicians (and music writers). Tinnitus is tough for people who regularly can be exposed to high volume. Like this writer, Di Meola has invested in custom made earplugs, but at some shows they can still only do so much, as he encountered at a bass heavy Rolling Stones show.
"It's tough sometimes for me as well," he says when we discuss the topic. "At times you'll find yourself so busy with some other stuff you're not thinking about it. And that's all there is. There is nothing on the face of the planet [to fix this], and I have investigated every country and been to a lot of laboratories. I have what is known as catastrophic tinnitus, and I would say almost all musicians that have lived through 20, 30, or 40 years of being a musician have some degree of [hearing] loss. Maybe one in 20 also have some ringing. So it is purely a genetic predisposition of the condition, just like diabetes might be for some people or certain types of cancer, God forbid. You're predisposed to get certain things."
As far as his own predisposition towards tinnitus, Di Meola suffered a fractured skull when he was seven years old after falling from a tree onto his driveway. "I was in the hospital for two months with little chance that I would live," he says. "But I lived through it, and I think it kickstarted the ringing. I hate to say, but if you ever hit your head, God forbid on pavement, you will hear ringing. If you're not predisposed there is a good likelihood that it'll dissipate over time. In my case, [I am predisposed] as opposed to somebody like Carlos Santana who plays way louder and has no loss or very little loss and no tinnitus whatsoever. Then you have somebody like myself or [The Who guitarist] Pete Townshend, who I talked so long with about tinnitus that I don't know if we ever talked about music."
Another malady that Di Meola has been coping with is arthritis, which inevitably starts hitting many people in middle age. "I have it in the joint of my index finger on my left hand," he says. "When I play a long, stretched out chord I feel the pain, and then when I wake up in the morning, I can't bend the finger all the way and have to work with it a lot. I have it in the lower joint of my thumb that connects to the hand." He points out that John McLaughlin has it as well, which seems to be the main reason he stopped touring. "I don't know what you could do for it yet, but I am at the point where I'm scared because now I know I have it. It runs in the family."
Watching Di Meola at the Guitar Universe show, one would be hard pressed to notice him struggling on stage. He still continues to play in both acoustic and electric formats, and he realizes that there are fewer people that excel at both than he thought. When he first played acoustically with McLaughlin and de Lucia back in Europe in 1980, he saw that the response was phenomenal. And he realized that that was his future.
"I said, when I'm a 70 or 80-year old guy and I want to still be in music, I do not want to be like Jeff Beck up there with a wall of amps killing myself with volume," notes Di Meola. "That's all he can do. He'll never be accepted as an acoustic player. None of those kind of guys, none of them. Their image is so electric that they're boxed in. I saw the acoustic guitar as the future in Europe. That's why I've been doing mostly acoustic over there and most of my work is over there because they prefer it."
While Di Meola reportedly swore off electric guitar a few years ago, he has resurrected it again, "but it's a real gamble to not worsen the condition I have," he says. "It's ten times the work and ten times the money to run it. There are more downsides to it, unless of course you have an audience of 1,500 to 3,000 people. It's not worth playing in front of 300 to 500 people when I can get the same amount of people for acoustic, if not more."
Fusion groups may not be headlining arenas as they did back in the '70s, and jazz seems to be struggling more for visibility in America than Europe, but Di Meola keeps moving forward. He fortunately has a global audience and an established name, but there are plenty of eventual successors waiting in the wings. The question is, how will they rise up at a time when the music industry has been compromised by the influence of the internet and technology?
"If your passion is that strong, continue to do it," advises Di Meola. "It's rough today, but how can you stop passion? If that's your passion, you've got to be 100 percent. If you're in it 90 percent, 80 percent, go learn how to become a plastic surgeon. It's a great future, and it's fun. I'm kidding, but it's rough out there. You've got to discover that you've got something special — [that] it's really what you want to do, and you want to face all the odds and you're going to make it. You have to have these blinders on and just go for it all the way. Not everybody has that."
Thankfully for us, Di Meola is in the game for life.
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The following is a summary of the meeting from December 2014. Fundraising was a focus of the meeting.
HoneyBaked ham sale was held for the Christmas holiday.
Settled on moving full speed ahead on coordinating a wine tasting around Valentines Day. Marsha will reach out to venues and start to coordinate. Marsha is looking for volunteers to assist with fundraising events.
Parent Donation (Robin Leuchtag not present): letter were mailed to all parents.
Business Donation (Maria Federico not present): business donation letters have been mailed to local business and colleges.
Decorating (Wayne Burwell): We have decorating site. Floor is prepped. Would like to start collecting cardboard. Need dads to help move things from the barn right after the holidays. Plan to make sets in stages. Will also need an electrician. Tamara confirmed with Andi Jahnke that her art students would love to help with After Prom.
Midway (Terri Lyles): The committee met last week and is planning to meet again next week. They are meeting with the decorating committee immediately after this meeting. They will have suggestions by the next meeting.
Prizes (Joan Bonfich): Some prizes have been purchased, but is being conservative on spending.
Food (Meg Clark): Is planning on setting up concessions at Girls Basketball games and possibly gymnastics.
No reports from other committees.
Discussion had again regarding the time of After Prom. Revisited discussion at the end of last month's meeting. Since prom ends at midnight and the students have been staying the last couple of years to the end. Voted to have After Prom from midnight to 3:00 a.m.


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Стаффанторп () — населённый пункт на юге Швеции в южном административном регионе Швеции — Сконе, центр одноимённой коммуны. Стаффансторп расположен на юге от города Лунд и северо-востоке от города Мальмё.

История
В 1857 году гостиница в Стаффансторпе, которая находилась на пересечении проселочных дорог Арлёв-Далбю а также Лунд-Треллеборг, получила право на прием и размещение гостей. В 1885 здесь открылась фабрика по производству сахара, которая вплоть до закрытия в 1963 году являлась важной промышленностью в городе. Рабочие фабрики снимали жилье в близлежащих деревнях и впоследствии часть из них смогла купить участки вдоль проселочных дорог. В 1896—1960 годах Стаффансторп был железнодорожным узлом, где сходились железнодорожные пути между городами Мальмё-Симрисхамн а также Лунд-Треллеборг. Единственное ограбление на железной дороге произошло в Швеции 18 марта 1907 года на ветке между Стаффансторпом и Юрслёв.

О происхождении названия города
Название местности впервые упоминается в 1304 году в форме Stafnsthorp. Согласно шведскому словарю географических названий часть слова соответствует вероятно старому мужскому имени Стафн (Stafn). Это имя скорее всего не имеет ничего общего с именами Стефан/Стафан (Stefan/Staffan), а происходит от шведского слова «stäv» — форштевень на корабле. Название деревни затем трансформировалось в повседневной речи в Стансторп (Stanstorp). Когда в 1875 здесь была построена железнодорожная станция место получило название Стаффансторп (Staffanstorp). Это название встречалось ранее с начала 1800-х и использовалось затем чтобы избежать путаницы с другим городом с названием Стансторп. Когда в 2000 году сформировался ныне существующий церковный приход он получил название приход Святого Стаффана и на веб-странице прихода писателем Иваном Пфейфером утверждается тем не менее, что Святой Стефан в конечном итоге дал Staffanstorp свое имя. Благодаря этому приход и получил своё название. Таким образом существует два толкования названия города.

Здания
Самые старые здания сконцентрированы на севере города вдоль дорог с названиями Мальмёвэген (Malmövägen), Сёдра лундавэген (Södra Lundavägen), Вальхалавэген (Valhallavägen) и Ярнвэгсвэген (Järnvägsgatan). Район рядом со старой железнодорожной станцией формировал ранее центр населенного пункта вместе со зданием коммуны (муниципалитета), зданием почты и телекоммуникационной сети. В этом же районе есть городская гостиница, старое здание полиции и так называемый район производства сахара с сохраненными постройками и большой парковой зоной. Здания отличаются в основном фасадами из красного или жёлтого кирпича. На севере города также располагается большой жилой район Окерхус. В центре города расположена школа Балдерскула, рядом с которой расположен парк Балдернс Хаге. В городе расположены также дом престарелых, художественная галерея, библиотека и поликлиника.

Здания в населенном пункте состоят в основном из вилл и здания городского управления, а также высшей школы Хагвлидскулан с примыкающими к ней спортивными постройками. В течение 1990-х начался большой проект по жилой застройке в Стаффансторпе, чья центральная часть носила черты шведской/датской архитектуры. Во время жилищной ярмарки 97 зданий в центре города привлекли особое внимание и было решено строить на востоке города новые застройки. Как результат повышающихся цен на жилье в близлежащем крупном городе Мальмё в течение 2000-х годов, коммуна строит новый жилищный регион на месте бывшей пахоты.

Дороги
Несколько километров севернее от города пролегает автодорога Е22 около города Лунд и около 5 километров западнее находится Е6/Е20/Е22 (внешнее кольцо дороги). Рядом со Стаффансторпом проходит окружная дорога 108 и шоссе 11. Через внешнее автокольцо в Мальмё можно уже через 15 минут доехать до Эресуннского моста. Если воспользоваться местными автобусами Сконетрафикен, то в Мальмё можно оказаться через 20 мин (автобусы 174,172), а также в Лунде (автобус 166).

Железная дорога
В Стаффансторпе есть старая железнодорожная станция с прилегающим железнодорожным двором, ранее они использовались для обслуживания дорог Мальмё-Симрисхамн и Лунд-Треллеборг. Железнодорожные пути до сих пор остались в Стаффансторпе, хотя сама дорога не используется, а в бывшем здании станции сейчас расположен ресторан. Ближайшая железная дорога находится в городе Лунд.

События в городе
В мае ежегодно проходит благотворительная акция от Lions club, который также проводит культурную ночь в Стаффансторпе в октябре.

Спорт
Несколько спортивных объединений организуют многочисленные спортивные мероприятия в городе.

 СК Станстад — флорбол
 Стаффансторп Юнайтед — футбол
 ФК Стаффансторп
 Легкоатлетический клуб Стаффансторпа — прекратил своё существование в 2011 году
 Клуб борьбы «Актив»
 Гимнастический клуб «Невис»
 Боулинг клуб «Брохёг»
 Боулинг клуб Стаффансторпа
 Клуб настольного тенниса Стаффансторпа
 Хобби-клуб Стаффансторпа (Автомоделизм)
 Дзюдо-клуб Стаффансторпа
 Конный клуб Стаффансторпа
 Стаффансторп «Сэйвиорс» — Американский футбол
 СК «Тритон» — плавание
 Стаффансторпское объединение по Тхэквондо
 «Лилленс вэннер» — петанк
 Карате-клуб Стаффансторпа — Сётокан
 Бокс-клуб Стаффансторпа
 Велосипедный клуб Стаффансторпа
 Бадминтон-клуб

Примечания

Города Швеции

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text:
import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import minimize

import cv2

import sys
sys.path.append("..")
import image_utils as utils
import my_gradient_map

N = 10
img_list = []

def main():
    for i in range(0, N):
        img_name = "../../../input_image/basket/images/%03d.png" % (i)
        # img_name = "../test_data/small/%03d_small.png" % (i)
        img = cv2.imread(img_name)
        gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.cv.CV_BGR2GRAY)
        img_list.append(utils.normalize(gray_image))

    gradient_map = my_gradient_map.gradient_map(img_list)

    cv2.imwrite('output_diffuse.png', utils.denormalize(gradient_map))
    cv2.imshow('image', gradient_map)
    cv2.waitKey(0)

main()

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New World Heritage Sites to be Announced
New System Proposed to Help Protect Sites from Devastating Climate Change Damages
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN (July 2, 2019)—The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee will announce new World Heritage sites at its 43rd session in Baku, Azerbaijan, which began this week.
"Sites of great natural and cultural significance will receive this designation, including, we expect, a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the United States, among them Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City," said Adam Markham, the deputy director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). "But the elephant in the room is climate change. UNESCO is adding sites to the list, but we don't know whether they, or even the existing World Heritage sites, will be able to withstand the rising seas, intensifying weather events, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons that climate change is bringing."
To that end, Markham and scientists at James Cook University (JCU), in Queensland, Australia, have developed what they call the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), which governments around the world and World Heritage site managers can use to determine whether sites are at low, moderate or high risk from climate change. The group will unveil the CVI at the UNESCO session this week.
"Climate change is the fastest growing threat to World Heritage sites, degrading some of the most iconic, beautiful and biodiverse places in the world, including the Galapagos Islands, Easter Island, South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom and Yellowstone National Park," said Markham, who served as the lead author of the 2016 report "World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate," released by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Program and UCS. "But there is no standardized way to assess the vulnerability of these sites. We developed the index to fill that gap, so that experts and site managers can use local knowledge and the best available science to determine the risk level, and then take the appropriate action to protect the sites."
The index was piloted earlier this year at a workshop in Scotland, organized by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), the Scottish government's management agency for world heritage, UCS and other partners, to ascertain the threat that climate change poses to the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage site.
Scott Heron, a JCU researcher and co-developer of the CVI, said the index proved its worth. "The workshop participants ranked the vulnerability for the Orkney World Heritage site at the highest level, with the greatest risks coming from precipitation change, sea level rise and storm intensity and frequency," he said.
HES is immediately responding to the findings by integrating them into a new five-year management plan to protect and preserve the site. The agency plans to use the index to assess its other World Heritage properties. Norway, and possibly Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, also plan to use the index to assess their sites.
Ewan Hyslop, the head of technical research and science at HES, said, "We hope that the World Heritage Committee recommends that UNESCO adopt the CVI as a standard for measuring climate change risk to World Heritage sites."
For more information, read Markham's recent blog posts "It's Time to Stop Ignoring the Climate Change Threat to World Heritage" and "A New Way to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage."
How Climate Risks Get Compounded: Louisiana Grapples With Heavy Rain, Tropical Storm Barry, and Swollen Mississippi Rachel CleetusJuly 12, 2019

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Indonesians have discovered that tourists tend to shy away from regions where they cane people for drug and alcohol abuse.
Indonesians are finally admitting that Sharia law has not helped revive the struggling tourist industry.
A total 44.5 percent of Muslims surveyed said the bylaws did not improve the economy of regional populations, as it had been intended to. The study involved 1,000 respondents including 200 non-Muslims.
"In Bireun, the tourist sector has been drastically declining after the local authorities enforced caning punishments for adultery and alcoholism," CSRC researcher Syukran Kamil said.
Some 27.7 percent of the Bireun respondents said their economy had worsened, but 26.4 percent said their welfare had improved thanks to the Sharia bylaws.
However, the ordinances were backed by 94.7 percent of respondents, who said they believed said bylaws were needed as a "way-out" from the numerous problems facing the nation.
Support also came from almost half (46 percent) of non-Muslim respondents.
The Daily Mail posted a video of the caning of a drug smuggler in Malaysia in August.
Warning- It is a very disturbing-gruesome video.
UPDATE: Wow! The people of Aceh were actually thinking that Sharia would bring in the tourists!


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Supreme Court conservatives may reset balance between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty
by David G. Savage
The Latest Issue in Divorces: Who Gets the Embryos?
by Jenny Gross and Maria Cramer
Tags: Audio
It's Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
The Constitutional Right of Religious Liberty Squares Off Against the Newly Invented "Rights" of the LGBTQ Revolution at the Supreme Court
We are in between times. Now that's true in various ways, but in one specific way, we are right now in April 2021. In that in-between time between when the Supreme court of the United States here as oral arguments in a case and when it eventually hands down to decision, generally months later. The oral arguments in this case, and the decision to be expected, have to do with whether or not Catholic Charities in Philadelphia has a right to operate on the basis of Catholic conviction. The reality is that the case came to the Supreme Court, and we've talked about it when the oral arguments were held precisely because the city of Philadelphia has said that Catholic charities would have to surrender its Catholic convictions on issues of sex, gender, and marriage if it were to continue as a Catholic charity to participate in the city's program of foster care and adoption.
We need to recognize that this case has importance far beyond Philadelphia and far beyond Catholic Charities, because both sides and our cultural controversy recognized that the Supreme Court is going to establish a very important precedent with this ruling. And it will come down to whether or not religious liberty is going to be respected when it comes to religious organizations operating on the basis of their religious conviction. But here's where we also just need to pause for a moment and recognize that throughout most of American history, Catholic charities operating on the basis of a Catholic conviction was uncontroversial. Just about everyone in the society would have deferred to the right of a Catholic charity to operate as Catholic. The basic issue is religious liberty.
Now what has changed in our country that all of a sudden the situation as Catholic Charities in Philadelphia has gone from just about everyone in society recognizing the right of the charity to operate as a Catholic charity until now, when this is a very live issue before the Supreme court. And not only that, ii's Catholic Charities that has lost in previous court cases and has now had to appeal to the nation's highest court. How did we get here? The short answer is the LGBTQ revolution. And in the course of that revolution, in particular, the legalization of same-sex marriage, we all saw coming this inevitable collision. Now, in one sense, this collision didn't wait until the Obergefell decision in 2015. It's not brand new coming before the Supreme court in the year 2021.
It goes back years earlier to when the state of Massachusetts became the very first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage. And in so doing the state of Massachusetts made discrimination against same-sex couples, a reason for withdrawing any designation as a state recognized charity involved in foster care and in adoption. Therefore Catholic Charities in Massachusetts basically had to make a decision many years ago between maintaining its Catholic conviction and identity or continuing and adoption and foster care. And Catholic Charities decided it would keep the conviction and it would have to forego the adoption and foster care ministries. Children, we need to note, were the big losers. Here we also need to recognize that when we're talking about Catholic charities in Boston or in Philadelphia, we're talking about a religious ministry. And in legal terms, you could basically insert any Christian ministry or any religious organization into the same situation.
But you also notice something else. The LGBTQ revolutionaries are so intent upon transforming the entire society and bringing every dimension of the society into convergence with their moral agenda, that they are willing to make children go without the adoption and foster care ministries that organizations, Christian charities, Catholic charities had been providing. Or the requirement is, those organizations are going to have to get in line with the new morality of the LGBTQ revolution. Now there's a lot to be considered here, for example, when you consider the plight of the Catholic charities in Philadelphia, that organization is not the only foster care and adoption agency in the city. You have others as well. For example, when you had the city of Philadelphia crack down, originally, Bethany Christian Services was identified as an evangelical ministry operating on evangelical biblical conviction, but it quickly folded there in Philadelphia deciding that it would continue the foster care and adoption work even if that meant forgoing the Christian convictions concerning sex and gender and marriage.
As we have seen more recently, that organization has decided basically to surrender to the revolutionaries even nationwide, not just there in Philadelphia. But in this very interesting in-between time, it is extremely interesting to listen to the national conversation. One way to do that, even before the Supreme Court hands down its ruling is to look at the conversation in the media. For example, an article that appeared just in recent days at the Los Angeles Times by David Savage, the headline, "Supreme court conservatives may reset balance between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty." Very interesting headline. We are told that the new dominant majority of conservatives on the Supreme court bolstered by the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett late last year might, and hear are the headline words, reset balance between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty. Reset the balance? What would that balance be?
Furthermore, if you're going to use the language of balance, how could you possibly achieve what you would consider to be a balance? One other things we are noting here is that you have an established fundamental right of religious liberty mentioned in the first amendment to the United States constitution. And you have the new leaf synthetic and artificial right of same-sex marriage and all that goes with it. And you'll notice that the moral revolutionaries consider that it is the new artificial right that actually has to take superiority and trump the established constitutional right of religious liberty. But Savage begins with these words, "The Supreme Court is set to decide soon whether conservative Christians have a constitutional right to refuse to work with same-sex couples while participating in a city-funded foster care program that forbids such discrimination."
Now that's not an inaccurate lede to the article because those are the issues that are at stake, but you'll notice that the assumption in this lead is that when you have a city funded foster care program forbidding discrimination, even using the term discrimination is considered to be the rightful balance. That's considered to be the policy as it should be. And you're told that it is conservative Christians that have taken this issue to court. Conservative Christians? Very, very interesting. Usually when you see the phrase "Conservative Christians" used in a context like this, it's pointing to evangelical Christians. That's the issue. But in this case, yes, evangelical Christians have a lot at stake in this decision. But it's not an evangelical Christian ministry that's actually a party to this case. It is the Catholic Charities there in the city of Philadelphia.
But here's where you notice something interesting also. When you look at the national media, and we're talking about a generally very secular and increasingly very liberal media, one of the interesting things is that the media rarely will take on the Roman Catholic Church head on. Instead, it's usually by some other means, talking about conservatives in the Catholic church, you have groups that identify, those that supposedly hold to an extremist position when it comes to biblical standards of sexuality. And that's the rhetoric, propaganda language that is used. You'll notice they generally do not use that language when they're addressing or describing the Roman Catholic Church, which according to its own official teaching, is in a very clear position, identifying same-sex orientation and behavior as intrinsically disordered. This is a Catholic Charity at the center of this story. But you'll notice that in the lede, "Catholic Charity" is taken out, "conservative Christians" is put in. Itself quite interesting.
The story goes on to tell us, "It is the latest and possibly most significant culture wars clash between the first amendment right to the free exercise of religion, which has been bolstered of late by the court's conservatives, and the right-to-marriage-equality that was upheld in a five-four liberal decision in 2015." Now, I want to give credit to this writer and to the Los Angeles Times for that paragraph, because it does make very clear that religious liberty is indeed in the first amendment to the U. S. Constitution. And the language is very clear, the first amendment, right to the free exercise of religion. The article also, in this paragraph, points to the fact that the so-called right to marriage equality was indeed upheld by a five-four liberal decision of the Supreme Court in 2015. I'll give them credit for accuracy in that paragraph. But as this article makes clear, the reason will issue is whether or not you will have an understanding of a respect for, and an exemption for the religious organizations operating on the basis of religious conviction when it comes to this program.
Now, let me also back up and say, we are talking about government money and government programs when it comes to foster care and adoption. This is another major footnote. When you look at most of the adoption and foster care ministries in the United States, they were begun, no surprise here, by religious organizations. The vast majority were established either by Catholic or historic Protestant and evangelical charities operating on the basis of their own conviction. And caring of course, for children as a part of our spiritual responsibility. But the entire arena of foster care and adoption has been to use the sociological term rationalized. It has been largely overtaken by government and a regime of professionals. But here's what you need to note. The government cannot adequately care for these children directly. The government has to turn to partners. And the available partners in so many cases. And furthermore, in so many locations across the United States right now are overwhelmingly religious charities operating on the basis of religious conviction.
We really are talking about the reversal of a very long historic pattern in the United States. At one point in the article, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, David Cole, said this, "This claim"--that is the claim of Catholic Charities--"is more extreme than in Masterpiece Cake Shop." You may remember that was the case that came before the Supreme Court when an evangelical Christian baker had been told by authorities in Colorado that he was going to face what amounted to criminal sanctions for saying that he could not in good conscience, create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. It was a narrow ruling on behalf of the cake baker. But going back to this article, we're told that this case is more extreme, that's to use the language of the ACLU, than Masterpiece Cake Shop.
There, the baker argued that he could not be compelled to make a cake to celebrate a gay couples wedding. Here by contrast, said ACLU lawyer David Cole, "Catholic Social Services is not compelled to do anything. They argue that they have a constitutional right to get millions of dollars from the city to perform a government function, but to do so while violating the terms of the contract." Now there's a lot behind that. But one of the most important things we need to recognize is that the care of children here is defined as a government function. That was not a decision made by religious charities. That was a decision made by the government. But it is a service the government cannot itself deliver. It has to have partners. And in most places, as I have said, those partners are going to be overwhelmingly religious in origin and in conviction. It is actually the ACLU that is here proposing the extreme position.
And it will be at the cost of services to the very children that the government says it is seeking to serve. Mary Baunato, she is a Boston based lawyer who had been very important in the fight for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and nationwide. She said that she would be alarmed by a broad ruling, this according to the Times, that endorses a right to discriminate based on religion. So again, look at the word, discriminate. That's the charge here. She said, "If the court were to allow exemptions from laws that are supposed to apply to everyone, and for the benefit of everyone in accessing goods and services, then there will be more discrimination against many people." She went on to say, "There is a real danger of widespread refusals that goes back to treating LGBTQ people and couples as second class."
So that's where you see the logic. That's the logic of the LGBTQ revolution. If you do allow Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia to operate in Catholic conviction, it will be a dignitary harm to LGBTQ couples. That's the argument being made. All of this was clarified at the oral arguments for this case when justice Samuel Alito got to the bottom line and said this: "Look, if we are honest about what's really going on here, it's not about ensuring that same sex couples in Philadelphia have the opportunity to be foster parents. It's the fact that the city can't stand the message that Catholic Social Services and the Archdiocese are sending by continuing to adhere to the old fashioned view about marriage." That is profoundly right. It was prophetically right. It is importantly right.
So interesting right now in this in-between times to listen to the national conversation. But of course, everyone is now waiting, and waiting with very eager anticipation, the eventual ruling by the Supreme Court, which is expected now in a matter of weeks. But we don't have to wait for that decision to understand just how much is at stake, that much we know now.
A Shocking Reality Worth Grieving and the Tragic Results of Releasing a New Technology Upon a Society Redefining Marriage and Sexuality
But next, are we going to look at another development itself extremely interesting, tragic, no doubt, but incredibly revealing about the moral confusions of our age. And also the inevitability of many huge moral questions once you unleash technologies. In the case of our concern right now, modern reproductive technologies for human beings. Ginnie Gross and Maria Cramer, reporting for the New York Times, offer an article with this headline, "Latest Issue in Divorces: Who gets the Embryos?"
It turns out to be a really big issue. Divorce of course, is itself for Christians, on biblical terms, a very big issue. And of course, when you're looking at divorce, you're looking at a settlement. You're looking at a division, a separation, not only your spouses, but a division of whatever it is that they own, this marital property. And now we are being told that one of the hottest issues on the front line of this settlement is the disposition of frozen human embryos. The article begins, "When Peter Golden, a 44-year-old communications director and his husband decided to start a family through in-vitro fertilization, they faced mountains of paperwork at the fertility clinic." The article goes on asking the question, "What should happen to any remaining embryos if one partner dies or becomes mentally incapacitated, who would decide whether remaining embryos should be donated or destroyed, who would determine the disposition of remaining embryos in the case of divorce or separation?"
We are told that this couple, this is a same sex couple, two men, had used IVF or in-vitro fertilization technology in order to have a child in this case, a daughter. Now just pause for a moment. This is where Christians have to stop and say, "Wait, just a minute, we're talking about two men. There is no authentic sense in which they can actually have a baby. There's no biological process by which two men can have a baby. There's actually no biological process by which a baby can come about without both the man's contribution and the woman's contribution in the egg and the woman's womb. There is no technology that allows for that. There is no moral sense in saying that two men can have a baby."
Except, we are claiming now as human beings with the advent of modern reproductive technologies and what amounts to a wild, wild West of a free market and human gametes, including sperm and egg, and with surrogate pregnancy and surrogate motherhood now being legal in the United States and most jurisdictions. We're talking about the fact that you have people in this case, two men, who are claiming to be married and are also claiming to have had a baby. You'll notice the New York Times over all of this as if that's just in the background. But of course, for Christians, it's never merely in the background. We're talking here about a major redefinition of what it means for human beings to be related to one another and a major redefinition of what it means for human beings to have a baby. Christians understand that that is stupendous and its ramifications.
But in this case, the same sex couple divorced according to the law and in the divorce, the embryos that became a part of the contested settlement. It turns out that one of the men had signed a release saying that custody would go to the other man in the case of divorce. But once the divorce actually happened, it was contested after all. You have a statement being made by one of these men, "Nobody gets married with the intention of getting divorced, but it happens. And it happens all the time." And indeed the advent of easy divorce is a facilitating event in the moral revolution. Just to put it bluntly and very quickly, you could not have the development or acceptance of same-sex marriage before you had the weakening of heterosexual marriage by the advent of easy divorce. And then you also have the article going on and saying, "In recent years, with the use of artificial reproductive technologies on the rise, more couples have been confronting the even stickier question of what to do with frozen embryos."
The article in the New York Times goes on to cite some rather famous cases of these contested divorces. But the point for Christians is to understand that there's no right answer for Christians once you pass a certain barrier. That is to say, when you're looking at a contested issue like this, Christians understand the problem is prior to the settlement of a divorce. The problem is in claiming that two men can be married. The problem is in separating sex and reproduction. The problem is in separating human reproduction from the only context in which it naturally occurs, the context of marriage between a man and a woman. Once you break that picture into pieces, there's absolutely no way to try to stitch it back together on the other side.
In this case, when you're looking at a same-sex couple, getting a divorce, we believe that that is a legal fiction based upon the legal fiction that they were married in the first place. We do not contest, we do understand that the government around us defines marriage in those terms, but we cannot accept that those terms are right. One other issue that isn't treated as if it has any moral significance whatsoever is the fact that in this article, the times cites authorities indicating that at present in the United States, there are 1 million to 1.3 million frozen humans embryos in storage. That's up from about 500 to 600,000, just a decade ago. Here's where Christians grieve the knowledge that told here, that there are approximately one to 1.3 million frozen human beings in the embryonic stage, somewhere in the United States, contested as property held in a frozen state of suspension, and eventually likely to be destroyed.
What does that say about how we as a society value human life? It tells us that at least at the microscopic embryonic stage, we don't take it very seriously at all. And this is where Christians understand. If we do not understand the dignity and sanctity of life at the stage of the embryo, then it is discounted at every point thereafter. And when we say every point thereafter, we mean just that. At every point thereafter. Human dignity for every human life is subverted if human dignity is denied for any human life, even human life that we cannot yet see with the naked human eye.
Living in a Society at War: Why Christians Must Declare the Christian Truth about the Value of Human Life
As we come to an end for The Briefing today, we just need to recognize with very somber hearts, the reality that we are in a society that is at war with the most basic principles of human rights and human dignity, even with reality itself. We are surrounded by a civilization trying to convince itself that two men can have a baby, trying to convince itself that newly devised artificial rights, actually now trump established rights, such as religious liberty. We are looking at the fact that conservative Christians are here described as extremists. And those who affirm the moral revolution are just now considered as normal.
If nothing else, what this means for Christians is that we've got to do a lot of truth-telling to the world, yes, but also to ourselves. That truth telling has to begin in our own homes and in our own churches if we're going to be taken seriously anywhere else.
Thanks for listening to The Briefing.
For more information, go to my website at albertmohler.com. You can find me on Twitter by going to twitter.com/albertmohler. For information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu. For information on Boyce college, just go to boycecollege.com.
I'm speaking to you from Indianapolis, Indiana, and I'll meet you again tomorrow for The Briefing.


During three weeks recuperating from surgery, I decided to hit up as many old standbys as I could, all within an easy drive form the Seven Corners area of Falls Church/Arlington.
This former restaurant and butcher shop is now just a tiny butcher shop and market. But they still have a few prepared items. Their vegetarian stuffed grape leaves are a revelation. As good as they get. The kibbeh here is stuffed with chicken and is also first-rate.
Hidden within one of the interior corridors of Eden Center, the special garden rolls here are stuffed with delicious grilled sausage and a savory cookie, and served with an addictive orange sauce. The Mi Quay is a noodle soup with a chicken-y broth/gravy. The food here epitomizes the lightness and deliciousness of Vietnamese cuisine.
It had been so long since I last went to Popeye's, but I see why I loved it both then and now. The mild breast and wing are a true Chowhound delight.
This place still delivers as the premier spot for Persian delights. To get the full effect, it pays to over-order and get the torshi (pickles), yoghurt, bedamdjan, plus kabobs and stews. The specials are expensive but worth it.
The ginger salad remains one of the great dishes in all of Chowhounding. The kaukswee is a chicken noodle soup wit the noodles served separately from the thick golden gravy with tons of hardboiled egg. Very rich, unique, and delicious.
The fried oyster po boy is still good, though it does not hit all the right notes like it used to. This was the first time I tried their fries, and the skin-on version here is exceptional.
Burrata pizza is a consistent special here. The pizza was super delicious, though the burrata itself seemed a bit more funky and to have a 'whipped' texture.
This used to be a good neighborhood joint. Now since expansion, I am not sure it is even that. I doubt I'll return.


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Nigeria will announce details of its upcoming 2010 oil bid round in the next four weeks, the OPEC member's oil minister said.
"Within the next four weeks, you will be hearing an announcement from us," said Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke when asked for an update on the bid round.
She said the ministry was finalising which Nigerian fields will be made available to domestic and foreign oil companies.
"We are working on both the marginal fields and the 2007 bid round which was inconclusive." Nigeria's 2010 budget estimates federal revenue from signatures bonuses in this year's bid round will total around 132 billion naira ($880 million).


Is that pain and swelling you're experiencing just an allergic reaction? A bacterial infection? Or true gout?
It can be hard to tell sometimes. The body can act very similarly to widely different illnesses. In this article, we'll examine the different symptoms that gout creates, enabling you decide for yourself if you're likely to have it or not.
Before we continue, it's worth noting the obvious: seek the opinion of a medical professional to be sure. It's not worth saving a few dollars to self-diagnose and end up headed in the wrong direction.
As an arthritic condition, gout mainly causes pain around the joints. Gout specifically can be quite painful due to incredible pressure buildup of uric acid crystals in the affected limbs which were not made to hold any such deposits.
Watch for pain in the extremities. Uric acid crystals caused by gout need slightly colder conditions in order to build up.
The most common we affected joint is the big toe, which is one of the furthest away from the central mass of the body. Oftentimes a gout sufferer will endure extreme tenderness, along with a mix of warmth and painful swelling.
Due to the coolness of the nighttime, pain often starts as one climbs into bed and drifts off to sleep. The pain can be so severe that even mild pressure from a bedsheet can be excruciatingly painful.
Look for redness or purpleish skin around the affected area. The joint may have the appearance of being infected, even though it technically is not.
Gout also shows signs of change as it improves. If you see skin peeling, this is actually a good side that the gout is going away.
Some individuals experience the symptoms of gout nearly all the time. Older adults are especially vulnerable to chronic gout, which is often confused with other forms of arthritis because the pain is somewhat lower than acute gout attacks.
Obviously less pain is better, but individuals suffering from gout in any form should seek relief, as options are available.
As an imbalance-induced illness, gout can quickly and readily be reversed by providing the body with the right triggers and nutrients to restore its functions.
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A Day Late, A Dollar Short: Kevin Hunter Apologizes For Being A Trifling Husband
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Wendy Williams trifling husband Kevin Hunter is apologizing for his behavior after news broke Wendy served his ass divorce papers in a bow. Hunter allegedly fathered a child with his mistress while his wife bravely confronted her addiction issues in a sobriety house.
"I am not proud of my recent actions and take full accountability and apologize to my wife, my family and her amazing fans," Hunter said in a statement to People. "I am going through a time of self-reflection and am trying to right some wrongs."
"28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn't realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world. I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally," he continued. "No matter what the outcome is or what the future holds, we are still The Hunter Family and I will continue to work with and fully support my wife in this business and through any and all obstacles she may face living her new life of sobriety, while I also work on mine."
Hunter asked for privacy during this time. Wendy seemingly commented on her divorce yesterday during the "Hot Topics" segment of her show.
"I have to tell you, you know, I've been dealing with issues with addiction, alcoholism, and I have a whole new life that I planned for myself and my son," she said. "Believe me you, when you lay in a room with no TV and four gray walls all day … this is my life in the sober house, it's one of the best things, honestly, that could have ever happened to me."
We wish Wendy the best and Hunter…well, karma has no expiration date.
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The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals' location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state and has largely ignored the presence of a growing population of international migrants in western societies. At the same time, the emerging literature on transnational migration has largely neglected the question of social class. This article argues that the simultaneous privileging of the nation-state and the neglect of social class by these research traditions, respectively, has been unfortunate. Working from a Bourdieusian class perspective, the article discusses how today's enhanced international migration – whereby actors regularly cross national borders, physically and virtually, and live their everyday lives in multiple social spaces and class systems – produces class systems in which many actors hold multilocal, inconsistent and instable class identities. The discussion employs a mixed methods approach, drawing material from a community in Norway which includes a large population of Eastern European labour migrants recruited by the fish processing industry, to illustrate some key problems with Bourdieusian (and other) class theories' use of methodological nationalism as an analytical framework and to suggest how transnational theories might better incorporate class perspectives in their analyses.


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Q: Remove rows that share multiple columns in pandas dataframe I have a pandas df:
from collections import defaultdict
import pandas as pd

data = {'sample': ['R1', 'R1', 'R2', 'R3', 'R3'],
    'number': [1, 1, 1, 1, 2],
    'pos': [323, 323, 410, 71, 918],
    'type': ['a', 'b', 'a', 'a', 'c']}

vars = pd.DataFrame(data)

I want to remove rows where where the sample, number and pos fields exist in another row.
To do this I am incrementing the count of a defaultdict using the sample, number and pos fields as a key, and then removing rows where this count is > 1:
seen = defaultdict(int)
print vars

for index, variant in vars.iterrows():
    key = '_'.join([variant['sample'], str(variant['number']), str(variant['pos'])])
    seen[key] += 1
    if seen[key] > 1:
        print("Seen this before: %s" % key)
        vars.drop(index, inplace=True)

print vars

This works as expected but I feel like I am somewhat missing the point of pandas by iterating over rows like this. Is there a more panda-native way of achieving the same thing?

A: You can use:
vars = vars.drop_duplicates()

A: You could try to use pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates().

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Q: How to use React's context API outside of react's component scope : ReactJS I am using react's context API for storing USER_TOKEN  for authentication purposes.
Also I am maintaining a common fetch function in a separate module where I want to use this USER_TOKEN.
And Its obvious that I cannot use this USER_TOKEN inside this module as it is not a react component.
Is there any way I can use this USER_TOKEN inside this fetch function.
I am storing USER_TOKEN into a context API variable after successful sign-in. Yes I know we could pass the variable from context whenever we call this function. But the thing is , Any change in the future will have to change it in all places. So I was wondering If there is only one place where I can do this. Basically the idea is sending this token along with all the API requests, so trying to maintain a common place.
Help would be appreciated
Fetch Module

export module FetchModule {
  export async function fetch(obj: any) {
    let url = obj.url;
    let type = obj.type ? obj.type.toUpperCase() : "GET";
    let options: any = {};
    options.method = type;
    let idToken = obj.token;// Want to retrieve this USER_TOKEN from react's context API
    if (idToken) {
      options.headers["USER_TOKEN"] = idToken;
    }
    options.headers = { ...options.headers, ...obj.headers };
    const response = await fetch(url, options);
    return await response.json();
  }
}

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*create a folder named: Context in the src/components folder

*in this folder that you have created (Context ) create a file named index.js

*in the index.js file write:

import React, { Component } from 'react';

const AppContext = React.createContext();

export class Provider extends Component {

  state = {

      token: ''

  };

  setToken = (token) => {

    this.state.token = token;
    this.setState();

  };

  render() {

    return (

        <AppContext.Provider value = {{

                token: this.state.token,
                actions: {
                  setToken: this.setToken
                }

        }}>

        {this.props.children}
      </AppContext.Provider>

      );

  }

}

exoprt const Consumer = AppContext.Consumer;
export const AppContextObject = AppContext;

*

*in the src/index.js:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Provider } from "./compomemts/Context/";
import App from './App';

ReactDOM.render(
    <Provider>
        <App  />
    </Provider>
    , document.getElementById("root")
);

*

*let's say you have login component, in it write down:

import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Consumer, AppContextObject } from "../Context";

class Login extends PureComponent {

render() {

  return (

    <Consumer>
      {(actions, token) => (

        <button className="enter" id="enter-id" onClick={(event) => {
          if(token === undifined) {
            newToken = 'get the token from your system';
            actions.setToken(newToken);
          }

        }} >
                                connect
                            </button>

      )}
    </Consumer>

  )

}

}

Login.contextType = AppContextObject; // This part is important to access context values
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A reward is getting something good for doing a given task. It needs someone who has the power to give the good thing. It is the opposite of punishment.
Ideas like risk and reward, reward and punishment are based on the idea that people do things, or avoid doing things, to get rewards. In psychology there is another idea that this is not true. This other idea says that training (conditioning) and emotions (affective factors) are much more important than the rewards or punishments given by others.
In trying to catch criminals and other bad people, the government often offers money to people. This money is given to people who may capture the criminal, or give information that helps the police catch them. For example, after the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria in 1854, the government offered a big reward of 400 pounds for the capture of the people who had started it.
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"The ability to regulate emotions, to make friends, to transition from one subject to the next; these are the things that a child needs to succeed not only in school but throughout life," says Baby's Space founder Terrie Rose.
In this series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership," MinnPost is profiling such leaders in order to provide new insights — and, we hope in some cases, inspiration — for our readers. Each profile is paired with comments from a leadership expert. (See " 'Driving Change' panel: Rose uses 21st century tactics to lead.") The project is made possible by a grant from the Bush Foundation.
Terrie Rose calls herself a "baby geek," and that's exactly what she is. She has spent 30 years studying babies, and has developed a unique system to improve the way we rear our children. More impressive, she has put these methods successfully into practice and created a model that others can learn from.
And here's the kicker: The methods are developed from the baby's point of view.
Separation and transition are keys to emotional development, Rose says. Without the ability to separate effectively, kindergarten can become a nightmare for the child, teacher and parent. A good child care system works with parents and children on separation along with the other necessities of emotional – as well as intellectual and physical – development.
"The ability to regulate emotions, to make friends, to transition from one subject to the next; these are the things that a child needs to succeed not only in school but throughout life," Rose says.
Rose has created Baby's Space, which can best be described as a neighborhood-based care center for children from birth to age 8 and their parents. The child-to-staff ratio is kept well below the state mandated one staff member to seven toddlers or one staff member to 10 preschoolers.
It's important to keep the child-to-staff ratio low, she says, because if a day-care provider is in charge of too many children, the provider will make unrealistic demands of the children.
Knowing what is age appropriate not only requires knowledge of child development; it requires empathy. And according to Glenace Edwall, the director of the Child Mental Health Division at the state Department of Human Services, Rose has it in spades.
The idea for Baby's Space was an evolution for Rose. She graduated from high school in Denver and earned her bachelor's degree in child development from Tufts University in Massachusetts. She received her doctorate in child psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990. Her children were born in 1989, 1990 and 1992, so she stayed at home with them while working as a freelance statistician. One of her projects was to help develop a model for home visits for mothers who used alcohol or drugs when they were pregnant.
While describing the need for Baby's Space, Rose pauses for a moment to put the issue into a larger context. In the 1960s, the War on Poverty included the creation of Head Start, a half-day program based on the idea that even though one parent was still at home, children 3 years old and older could benefit from some help with nutrition, health care and education to make them ready for school. Not a bad plan, Rose says.
In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. "The Welfare to Work program of the 1990s has changed our culture," Rose says. "We'd like to think someone is at home with the children, but that's almost never the case." The legislation was a way to get parents to work, which, Rose points out, is a parent-work engagement strategy, not a child-development strategy.
In 1995, after her youngest was in kindergarten, Rose took a job in program development at the Community University Health Care Center at the University of Minnesota. She used that experience to help develop the Baby's Space model. Then she was hired as director of the Harris Center for Infant and Toddler Training at the U, where she was engaged in training professionals and further developed her ideas for Baby's Space.
In the early 2000s, the Educare program tried to organize in the Twin Cities. Educare uses money from philanthropists, foundations and the public to create early-learning centers that tackle the achievement gap and poverty. As director of the Harris Center, Rose was aware of the group's intentions. She saw Educare as a way to increase Baby's Space's network, funding base and outreach. "But the idea never made it to the Educare table," she says. In any event, Educare never took root in Minnesota, although it is active elsewhere in the U.S.
Baby's Space is a neighborhood-based care center for children from birth to age 8 and their parents.
But Rose knew the Baby's Space idea was too good to let it go. She decided to make a complete commitment to the plan so she quit her comfortable, secure job at the Harris Center ("You know, nobody ever leaves the university," she says), and dove full time into Baby's Space.
Today, there are about 60 preschoolers at Little Earth with about 20 staff, for a three-to-one student-to-staff ratio. About 75 percent of the staff are Native Americans who live nearby and have children in Baby's Space, Rose says.
The road to success wasn't immediate. While the Baby's Space model is effective at the Little Earth center, Rose's idea that other child-care centers would buy into the program never happened. She thinks there are two reasons. The first is that parents are very attached to their child-care providers and the methods they use, despite the existence of more effective models.
"Frankly, parents don't want to hurt their local child-care center director's feelings by suggesting they try a different method," she says.
The second reason is that "retraining adults is hard in any occupation, but it's really difficult in early education," Rose says. People become day-care providers because it fits their schedule and they enjoy working with children. They accept that there's little money in the business and they have come to expect very little government oversight. If they have a full roster, there's little incentive for providers to change their methods.
So, met with underwhelming interest from the day-care community, Rose retooled. First, instead of envisioning Baby's Space as franchise-style, brick-and-mortar centers with a nameplate, she decided to maintain the center as an example of how her methods can be used — which other early-childhood centers can appropriate and develop in their own time and in ways unique to their specific neighborhoods and clientele.
However, this required stabilizing the center's finances. Rose spent the next five years shoring up Baby's Space's finances. The U of M was Baby's Space's fiscal agent from 1999 until 2006, when the center received nonprofit status.
"I've spent about five years working almost exclusively on making Baby's Space financially stable," she says.
Two alliances are key to its long-term stability. One is with Social Venture Partners Minnesota, which brings donations and, more important, the experience and network of executives at some of Minnesota's biggest businesses to bear on subjects such as early-childhood education.
The second alliance is with Ashoka, which calls itself "an international association of social engineers." Begun in India nearly 30 years ago, Ashoka puts prospective fellows through a rigorous professional and ethical vetting process and, if successful, gives them access to a global network of innovators and funders. Rose is one of only about 3,000 Ashoka fellows in its 30-year history, one of about 100 in North America and the only fellow in the United States working on early education, according to Jen Aspengren, Ashoka's director in the Twin Cities.
"So with these two, I came up with a really strong business model," Rose says. Baby's Space is now a $1.5 million organization that looks after about 115 children and their families at two sites – the first site at Little Earth Learning Center is for infants and toddlers, and the second, in space at the former Tuttle Elementary in Northeast Minneapolis, is for elementary school children.
Is the program working? Rose says there are too few students who have come out of the program to cite definitive statistics, but she says that when Minneapolis Public Schools screen kindergartners for their level of school readiness, 90 percent to 100 percent of her students are ready for kindergarten.
With Baby's Space financially stable and showing success, Rose shored up the business's marketing. She made sure that if any early childhood providers want to use the Baby's Space model, it would be easy to assimilate and adapt to that center's individual needs.
She also designed a "hub and spoke" method of fundraising so that one Baby's Space center would be in charge of funding for, say, six others and would handle back-office tasks such as payroll and accounting, leaving the others to focus only on child care.
Baby's Space also has developed a line of products that promote emotional as well as academic readiness for school.
"Early-education teachers are well skilled at academic readiness, so we provide products that help with emotional readiness," Rose says. Say a teacher is having her class make snow pudding and is using the recipe as an exercise in math and reading. The Baby's Space material shows teachers how to use the same exercise to help kids learn how to share, work with others and control their emotions – all crucial to school success.
Rose has her sights set on her next target: early-childhood mental health. She has written a book "which will be titled 'Emotional Health,' subtitle to be determined," she says, and it will be released this summer as an e-book through Amazon.com.
Rose also has set her sights set on making mental-health screening available in early childhood. "I want a model that is timely and effective and accessible, like going to the doctor to check for an ear infection," she says.
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Last Dinosaurs finally announced their forthcoming Asia visit. The Aussie rockers will take their tour to Thailand, The Philippines and Singapore as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan this May.
Slated to be arriving in the continent with their new tour to support the band's third studio album—Yumeno Garden, the Aussie trio, Last Dinosaurs will be travelling around Asia this May.
The band will kick off with a show in Bangkok first on Wednesday, May 15. Thanks to THE VERY COMPANY. Last Dinosaurs will take the stage at Live RCA. Tickets will go on sale on Sunday, February 24, starting at 10AM onwards through Ticket Melon. Price is THB1,600.
Meanwhile, fans in Southeast Asia can catch the rock trio play on stage in Manila on Saturday, May 18 at Summer Noise.
Or you can witness them bringing Yumeno Garden to live with your eyes on stage at EBX Live in Singapore. The show will be on Wednesday, May 22 in which it will also be the last concert of Last Dinosaurs' Asia Tour of this year.
Aside from these three destinations, Hong Kong and Taipei will see them on stage as well on May 17 and 19, respectively.
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How Do Dogs End up Being Bow Legged?
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We are used to seeing bow-legged dogs in cartoons or in company logos meant to give a rugged, imposing image to their business, but in real life, bowed legs can be a serious problem in puppies and adult dogs. Bowed legs in dogs are an abnormality that is noticed when a leg grows curved or bowed instead of appearing straight as it normally should. This type of abnormality is most likely to be seen in young, growing due to problems in their development, but can also be seen as an aftermath to traumatic injuries sometimes even in older dogs. Whatever the cause, it's important to consult with a vet to determine the best course of action.
The Aftermath of an Injury
When puppies are developing, the long bones of their front and back legs are gradually growing, courtesy of growth plates, also known as ephiphyseal plates. These growth plates consist of soft, cartilage matter located at the end of the puppy's bones.
Growth plates tend to close when the puppy is 12 to 18 months of age. Around this time, the soft cartilage at the end of the bones hardens and mineralizes into hard bone.
If an injury occurs before the growth plates close, there are chances that the cells on the damaged side of the growth plate quit growing, while the cells on the non-damaged side continue to grow, leading to uneven growth and its associated curving, which ultimately leads to bowed legs. Traumatic injuries that may cause bowed legs in a puppy include being hit by a car or the puppy being accidentally dropped.
"An impact such as taking a fall and landing on the front limb with full force can drive this cone-shaped growth plate together and result in severe damage to the cells. This type of injury is common in short-legged dog." ~ Veterinary surgeon, Dr.Daniel A. Degner,
Breeds with Bowed Legs
In certain breeds, the appearance of bowed legs may be genetic, which means it's passed down from one generation to another. The American Kennel Club's Bulldog's breed standard calls for short, very stout forelegs that are straight and muscular, set wide apart and have a "bowed outline;" however, the bones of the legs should not be curved or bandy.
This particular conformation is what gives the bulldog its peculiar, shuffling, "rolling" gait. In other dog breeds, the bowed legs are due to a mutation in the gene responsible for converting cartilage to bone leading to what is known as "acondroplasia."
In these breeds, the bones of the legs appear shortened and deformed with bowed forelimbs. Common achondroplastic breeds include the basset hound, dachshund and corgi. In these breeds such bowing is acceptable, up to the point of being desirable in their breed standard.
In other breeds, bowing of the legs is considered a serious fault. Just like bad hips and eye and heart conditions can be passed down from one generation to another, bowed legs may be hereditary and considered an unappealing trait that breeders try to avoid from happening through careful breeding protocols. However, in some cases, temporary bowing may appear in certain breeds of dogs when they're puppies.
Veterinarian Dr. Deb, mentions that Rottweilers are a breed that tend to look "hocky" as they develop meaning they appear to be bow-legged in the hind legs but the good news is that most pups outgrow this as they mature.
Nutritional Problems
At times, bowing of the legs may be attributed to a nutritional imbalance. This is not common as it used to be, as most dog foods are now produced to be nutritionally complete, but occasionally, breeders may be feeding a homemade diet that isn't nutritionally complete as it should and this may have an impact.
Raw and homemade diets for puppies can be risky if there's a disruption in the calcium/phosphorus balance. "Homemade raw diets have been associated with nutritional imbalances, leading to skeletal problems in growing puppies," warns board-certified veterinary nutritionist Dottie Laflamme.
Rickets is a a nutritional imbalance of phosphorus or vitamin D in the diet which has been known to cause outward bending of the shafts of the long bones in dogs, poultry and certain farm animals.
"Rickets: Signs may include bone pain and swelling, a stiff gait or limp, difficulty in rising, bowed limbs, and fractures." Merck Veterinary Manual
Seeing the Vet
The above are just a few of the common reasons why puppies may have bowed legs. While bowed legs may seem like a cosmetic issue, in reality these limb deformities risk causing the dog to move in an abnormal manner which can lead to pain and arthritis.
Anytime a puppy goes through a traumatic injury, it's important to see the vet. The bowing does not occur right away, but generally about 2 to 4 weeks later.
It's important to carefully monitor the leg and compare it to the non- injured one so to recognize early signs of trouble.
An orthopedic exam done by a vet, or even better, an orthopedic surgeon can determine what may be causing the bowing along with the best treatment.
Did you know? There's a good reason why veterinarians and dog trainers discourage vigorous jumping and other forms of strenuous exercise in puppies: those growth plates are very vulnerable! It's a good idea to wait until these growth plates close and seal before engaging the pup in vigorous activities and canine sports.
Black's Veterinary Dictionary, By Edward Boden, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,; 19th edition (1998)
Merck Veterinary Manual, Disorders Associated with Calcium, Phosphorus, and Vitamin D in Dogs, retrieved from the Web on April 17th, 2016
Vet Surgery Central, Angular Limb Deformity, retrieved from the Web on April 17th, 2016
Adrienne Farricelli
About the author: Adrienne Farricelli is a certified dog trainer and behavior consultant. She is also a former veterinarian assistant, and author of the popular online dog training course "Brain Training for Dogs." Her work has appeared in several print and online publications including E-how, USA Today, Every Dog Magazine, Daily Puppy and Connecticut Dog Magazine.
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