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Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A portion of the northern section of the city is in Washington County. It was founded as Boones Landing because of the Boones Ferry which crossed the Willamette River at the location. The community became Wilsonville in 1880 and city was incorporated in 1969.
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Wilsonville is located on the southern edge of the Portland metropolitan area sitting at an elevation of 154 feet (47 m) above sea level. Primarily in the southwestern part of Clackamas County, the northern section is in Washington County. It is located on the north side of the Willamette River around where Alphonse Boone established the Boones Ferry. Neighboring cities are Tualatin on the north, Sherwood to the northwest, and Canby and Aurora to the southeast. Newberg in Yamhill County is approximately 14 miles west along Wilsonville Road. The Willamette separates the majority of the city from Charbonneau, a planned community and neighborhood within the city limits, on the south.
Wilsonville divides the city into 16 neighborhood groups, designated A through P. Within each of these planning areas are individual neighborhoods, and occasionally a neighborhood spans several of these groups. For instance the Villebois development covers areas D through G. Individual neighborhoods include Charbonneau, Wilsonville Meadows, Canyon Creek North, Town Center, RiverGreen, Frog Pond, and Old Town to name a few. Wilsonville's Old Town neighborhood, the oldest of the neighborhoods, is located south of Wilsonville Road along Boones Ferry Road adjacent to the landing of the old Boones Ferry and contains the original portions of the town.
Wilsonville has often had more jobs in the city than residents due to its location along Interstate 5. This location has led to the city becoming headquarters for several major local and national companies, as well as home to facilities of several national companies. Companies with their headquarters in the city include design software maker Mentor Graphics; imaging systems manufacturer FLIR Systems; and shoe retailer Solestruck. G.I. Joe's, a sporting goods and automotive parts retailer was based in Wilsonville until bankruptcy in 2009, as was drugstore chain Thrifty PayLess until it was bought by Rite Aid in 1996, and video rental retailer Movie Gallery and its subsidiary Hollywood Video were as well until bankruptcy in 2010.
Copier and printer manufacturer Xerox operates a large facility in Wilsonville, and is the city's largest employer. The company acquired the color printing and imaging division of Tektronix corporation in 2000. Xerox, Mentor Graphics, and FLIR are all adjacent to each other north of Boeckman Road along Parkway Avenue. Projector maker InFocus was headquartered in the city until December 2009 and was located next to FLIR. InFocus and Mentor were both founded by former employees of Tektronix.
Wilsonville is home to many other business located in industrial parks straddling Interstate 5 that are filled with manufacturing and distribution facilities. Xerox and Mentor Graphics are the city's two largest employers as of 2006, the only two to employ more than 1000 people. Other large employers in the city are Tyco Electronics (Precision Interconnect), Sysco, Rockwell Collins, and Rite Aid. Additionally, Coca-Cola operates a bottling plant in the city. Nike had one of its U.S. distribution centers for footwear in Wilsonville until closing it in 2009.
Retail in Wilsonville is concentrated mainly along Wilsonville Road near the Interstate 5 interchange. This includes the Town Center Shopping Center and related developments along Town Center Loop, which includes Fry's Electronics, one of the largest employers in the city. Fred Meyer opened a 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m2) store along with space for 20 other businesses at their Old Town Square where Boones Ferry and Wilsonville roads meet. At the north end of town is the 42-acre (17 ha) Argyle Square shopping center that opened in 2003, which includes a Target store, Office Depot, and Costco as anchor tenants. South of the Willamette River, Charbonneau has a small commercial center with about 10 shops.
Media in Wilsonville consists of the 28 radio stations and 7 television stations broadcast in the Portland media market, regional newspapers such as The Oregonian, and the local paper, the Wilsonville Spokesman. The Spokesman is published once a week on Wednesdays and has a circulation of 3,176. There is a single movie theater operated by Regal Cinemas, which contains nine screens. The theater opened in 1996 and featured the first stadium style seating in the Northwest.
Wilsonville Public Library, founded in 1982, is a member of Library Information Network of Clackamas County and had an annual circulation of 493,000 in 2006 to 2007. The library is located adjacent to Wilsonville Memorial Park, the largest and oldest of the city's 12 parks. Memorial Park includes a water feature, athletic fields, and the Stein-Boozier Barn used as meeting space, among other amenities. Town Center Park also has a water feature along with a visitor's center operated by the Clackamas County and the Oregon Korean War Memorial. Other parks in the city are River Fox Park, Park at Merryfield, Montebello Park, Hathaway Park, Courtside Park, Tranquil Park, Willamette River Water Treatment Plant Park, Willow Creek/Landover Park, Canyon Creek Park, and Boones Ferry Park located on the Willamette River at the landing for the defunct Boones Ferry.
The Wilsonville Community Center holds classes and community programs as well as community meeting space. Wilsonville holds an annual arts fair each May called the Wilsonville Festival of Arts. Another annual event, Wilsonville Celebration Days, started in 2000 and replaced Boones Ferry Days. A farmers' market started in 2009 at the Villebois development, held on Sundays from May into October. Charbonneau Golf Club is the only golf course in the city, with Langdon Farms and Sandelie just to the south and east respectively. Wilsonville also is along the Willamette Greenway series of open spaces and trails. Wilsonville is the setting for the 2008 film Wendy and Lucy.
Most of Wilsonville is in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District (WLWSD), however those portions south of the Willamette River are within the Canby School District. Areas just to the west lie within the Sherwood School District. Lowrie Primary, Boeckman Creek and Boones Ferry primary schools serve K-5 students from Wilsonville in WLWSD. Students in grades 6–8 attend Inza R. Wood Middle School, and high school students attend Wilsonville High School or the Arts and Technology High School (ArtTech). Neither the Canby or Sherwood districts operate schools within Wilsonville.
The city is also in the Clackamas Community College District and has a satellite campus on Town Center Loop. Opened in 1992, the campus was originally known as the Oregon Advanced Technology Center. The private, for profit Pioneer Pacific College operates a campus, their main campus, in the city along Interstate 5 near the Boeckman Road overpass.
Boeckman Creek Primary School opened in 1990 and has 649 students, with a mascot of the Bobcats. Boones Ferry replaced the old Wilsonville Primary School in 2001; its 809 students make it the largest primary school in the district, and are known as the Dragonflies. Wood Middle School opened in 1980 and has 699 students, known as the Wolverines. Wilsonville High has been the home of the Wildcats since the 1,002-student school opened in 1995. The ArtTech charter high school has 85 students, and opened in 2005.
Interstate 5 runs north-south through the middle of the city and crosses the Willamette River on the Boone Bridge. Wilsonville has two interchanges with the freeway north of the river, at Wilsonville Road on the south and where Boones Ferry Road meets Elligsen Road on the north end of town. To the south of the river, the Charbonneau interchange crosses I-5 at the southern limit of the city. Boeckman Road is the only other street that crosses I-5 and links the western and eastern parts of Wilsonville. Wilsonville Road, 95th Avenue, Boones Ferry Road (northern portion is Oregon Route 141), Boeckman Road, Town Center Loop, French Prairie Drive, Elligsen Road, Parkway Avenue, and Stafford Road are the main roads in the city.
Transit service used to provide by TriMet, but the city decided to "opt-out" and now operates South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART). SMART has connections with Salem's transit service, Canby's transit service, and TriMet. The Westside Express Service (WES), a commuter rail line to Beaverton, began operations in February 2009. Wilsonville Station is the southern terminus of the nearly 15-mile (24 km) line operated by TriMet, and the station is the hub for SMART services.
Freight rail service is provided by the Portland and Western Railroad over the same tracks as WES, with connections to BNSF Railway. These tracks run north-south and cross the Willamette over the Portland and Western Railroad Bridge. The city does not have an airport, with Aurora State Airport to the south as the closest public field and Portland International Airport 17 miles north as the closest commercial airport. Although located along the river, there are not any port facilities, though there is a marina located on the eastbank (south side) of the Willamette.
Wilsonville has one sister city relationship. The city established a relationship with Kitakata, in the Fukushima province in Japan in 1988. Kitakata in the northern part of Honshū has an estimated population of around 55,000. Then Wilsonville Mayor Jerry Krummel visited Japan in 1994 to attend a ceremony honoring Kitakata's 40th birthday. The mayor of Kitakata visited Wilsonville in 2008 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the relationship.
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Епархия Элфина (, ) — диоцез Римско-католической церкви, в составе митрополии Туама на западе Ирландии. По состоянию на 2016 год клир епархии насчитывает 80 священников (63 епархиальных и 17 монашествующих). С 2014 года епископом является .

Кафедральный собор — храм Непорочного Зачатия Пресвятой Девы Марии в Слайго.

Территория
Епархия охватывает графство Уэстмит и часть графств Роскоммон, Слайго и Голуэй. Кафедра епископа изначально находилась в Элфине, графство Роскоммон, однако во второй половине XIX века была перемещена в Слайго. Самыми большими городами являются Атлон, Бойл, Каслрей, Роскоммон и Слайго.

История
Престол в Элфине возник на заре распространения христианства в Ирландии во второй половине V века (миссия святого Патрика). Святой Патрик основывал монашеские поселения, и одно из таких поселений было образовано и в Элфине (тогда известном как Коркохлан) в 434 или 435 году. Первым игуменом-епископом монашеского поселения был святой Асик, который по преданию выполнял для святого Патрика работы по железу. Святой Асик теперь является покровителем епархии.

Епархия была официально сформирована на  в 1111 году. Собор был освящён во имя Пресвятой Девы Марии.

После английской Реформации в XVI веке собор в Элфине и многие монастыри были разрушены. Лишь в 1874 году тогдашний епископ Лоуренс Гиллули решил восстановить собор в городе Слайго.

Примечания

Ссылки
 ElphinDiocese.ie Официальный сайт
 Diocese of Elphin GCatholic.org
 Catholic-Hierarchy.org - Diocese Profile
 Profile from NewAdvent.org - info from Catholic Encyclopedia

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31.05.2014. Like most Americans, when someone would mention Georgia, I would think the state in the south. That began to change for me last year when I heard the International Wine Tourism Conference would be held in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgia is a fascinating country, situated north of Armenia and south of Russia with its western border on the Black Sea. Although several people I visited with prior to my going expressed surprise that wine is produced near Russia, Georgia is also known as "The Cradle of Wine." Georgians have made wine for more than 8,000 years.
After very little rest, I joined a group of fellow bloggers and headed out to the Tbilisi market. Covering several square blocks, the market offers its visitors everything from spark plugs to sausages. Row after row of vendors featured fresh produce, freshly baked bread, meats, cheeses, pickled garlic, honey, clothes and practically anything else you could imagine. I brought home a garlicky curry powder that I've used in a few dishes. After our market visit, we split our group into two cabs and challenged our drivers to find Cafe Kala, a place that came highly recommended. After twisting and turning our way through narrow city streets, we reached our destination. I chuckled when I saw the name of the bar next door – KGB Still Watching You. As this was our first Georgian meal, we ordered a little bit of everything and it was mighty tasty.
29.05.2014. Georgian wine companies are trying to find an alternative way in order to restore export to Russia. Due to the landslide occurred in the Darial Gorge on May 17, the road connecting Georgia and Russia is still closed. According to Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Telavi Wine Cellar', the Lars customs check-point is the only way for alcoholic beverages from where the products are exported to Russia. Zurab Ramazashvili says that at this stage there is no shortage of the company's wine in Russia thanks to wine stocks, but if the road is not open in the next week , there will be a shortage. In his words, Telavi Wine Cellar exports its products to 22 countries and is less dependent on the Russian market .
Marniskari winery has also suspended wine export to Russia. The company's CEO explains to Georgian radio Commersant that they are looking for alternative routes, but containers loaded with wine are still staying in the Darial gorge and waiting for the resumption of traffic. Lasha Revazishvili notes that at this stage the company doesn't suffer losses, but if export to Russia is not restored in time, it will create a shortage in the market.
29.05.2014 (Hvino News). Georgian producer Winery Khareba has won two gold awards and one silver at Citadelles Du Vin wine contest in Bordeaux, France.
Winery Khareba's huge success in 2014 is building upon the company's participation in Citadelles Du Vin in 2013, which was also successful. Last year Winery Khareba's dry white Chateau Lipartiani 2011 won the silver award.
25.05.2014. Wine lovers had a great opportunity to enjoy fine Georgian wine at the New Wine Festival 2014.
Hundreds of people gathered at Tbilisi's Open Air Ethnography Museum today and tasted sweet samples of some of Georgia's best wine, listened to live music and ate fresh food.
Organized by the Wine Club Georgia, the festival was held for the fifth time this year. The annual event offered guests the privilege of tasting a full array of wines from all of Georgia's leading wine companies, local wine cellars and boutique wines from all regions of Georgia.
As guests sipped on their wine, local musicians from Jazz Quartet IrReSoNic and Folk Ensemble Akhlukhlebi entertained the crowds.
In addition to tasting various Georgian wines, visitors could watch a potter in action and even make their own pottery creation.
22.05.2014. Georgian wine-makers hope that a road connecting Georgia and Russia will be opened on Sunday or Monday.
Director of the Kakhetian Traditional Winemaking Mr. Zurab Chkhaidze notes that they are waiting for the road opening to immediately restore the export. Moreover, about two-week supplies have been sent to Russia. According to him, if the road is not opened within two weeks, then they will have to search an alternative road: the company's products will enter Russia from the Azerbaijani or Ukrainian territory.
Director of Dugladze Wine Company Mr. Zaza Dugladze says that they managed to send one consignment of the product before the landslide in the Darial Gorge while another remains on the Georgian territory.
"We hope that the road will open on Sunday or Monday, but if this does not happen, then we'll face problems,"- Mr. Dugladze adds. In his words, the company is going to send cargo to Russia by plane, which, naturally, will be more expensive.
20.05.2014 (Hvino News). A special jury has selected 40 participants wishing to participate in the New Wine Festival. The festival organizer Malkhaz Kharbedia, head of the Wine Club, explained that the participants will arrive from almost the whole Georgia. According to him, almost all leading wine companies operating in Georgia will present their own products in the festival.
The New Wine festival will be held at Tbilisi's Ethnographic Museum on May 24.
Kharbedia explains that the main criterion during the selection of the participants was that wine should be healthy. "One of our main goals is to eradicate the problem of weak home-made wines. Wines in many cases are weak," - the Wine Club founder said.
19.05.2014. A week-long festival showcasing traditional Georgian culinary delights in the capital of Indonesia has come to an end.
Today was the last day of the Georgian Food Festival Week, which opened in Jakarta on May 12.
To coincide with a month of celebrations, the Georgian Embassy to the Republic of Indonesia held a seven-day Georgian Food Festival.
A famous Georgian chef from the Georgian culinary show "Gurmani" was invited to take part in the celebration to ensure Indonesian guests got a taste of true Georgian flavours.
The opening ceremony was held at Fiesta restaurant inside Hotel Sari San Pacific and saw Georgian food and drink served to an array of guests, who listened to the smooth tunes of Iriao, a Georgian ethno-jazz band, as they ate traditional Georgian food.
15.05.2014. The first wine bar will be opened in Georgia. "Schuchmann Wine Bar" will be located in old Tbilisi, in the historical building of Karvasla (Karvasla shopping mall), and will start functioning in June.
The bar is owned by the German-Georgian wine company Schuchmann Wines which plans to sell the project, as a brand, abroad.
The company's general director Nutsa Abramishvili said the bar will be designed mainly for foreigners and its purpose is to acquaint tourists with Georgian wine culture and traditions.
She notes that wine tasting will be held in the bar, sommeliers will tell the guests about winemaking in Georgia and in general, about the history of wine.
Abramishvili is sure that the selling of brand will contribute significantly to awareness of the Georgian wine abroad. She noted that gastronomy and small pizzerias brought the world fame to the Italian wine.
The company wishes "Schuchmann Wine Bar" becomes a business card of Georgian winemaking and gastronomy. As for the prices, Abramishvili adds that the prices in the bar will be above average.
11.05.2014. Schuchmann Wines will reduce export to Russian market next year. Nutsa Abramishvili, general director of the joint German-Georgian wine company explains this decision by the diversification of business and says the company must not depend on the market of any country, especially when there are some risk factors, including the political situation or the embargo experiences.
Starting from 2015 Schuchmann Wines policy will cover several stable markets, where products will be exported in almost equal quantities and sales will be increased.
"We want to become more active in China, Europe, Americas, however, our products are sold in several U.S. states. Schuchmann Wines is also represented in Cyprus, Greece, Australia, Germany, Austria. We are the only company from Georgia selling wines in France. We also cover post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine", - says the head of the company.
As for the situation in the Russian market, Abramishvili notes that the situation in Russia is stable in terms of export and sale of products, and the company has no problems in this regard, however, adds that the Russian market was still a private project for Schuchmann Wines, and the company focuses on diversification and export expansion of export destinations.
10.05.2014. Large-scale export growth to Russia has led to wine price hike in the local market, writes the Georgian daily Rezonansi. According to the newspaper, family wine of local production became more expensive by 30-50%, and one liter of wine costs on average 4-5 GEL, while in some cases cost reaches 12-17 GEL.
Winemakers say that the family wine supplies expired in the regions and some factories face serious wine shortfalls.
Entrepreneur Otar Berdzenishvili notes that, compared with last year, the family wine price has almost doubled in regions. According to him, price of Kakhetian family wine of high quality is on average 4-5 GEL. Last year at this time it costed 2.5-3 GEL.
Price of family wine has changed in Kartli region as well. Family wine price ranges between 2.5- 5 GEL in the consumer markets. In the same period of the previous year one liter of family wine varied between 2- 3 GEL.
09.05.2014 (Hvino News). Georgian wines have won one gold and two silver medals at Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, one of most prestigious international wine competitions. In May 2014 the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles celebrated its 20-th anniversary. Its results were announced today in Brussels, Belgium.
Gold medal was awarded to Tamada Mukuzani 2011 by Georgian Wines & Spirits Company.
Founded in 1994, the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles has since then achieved the status of a world wine tasting championship. Twenty years experience have enabled the competition to become a benchmark among international wine contests. The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles has garnered its reputation by rigorously selecting renowned judges of proven expertise.
08.05.2014 (Hvino News). According to Georgian television, one of the best known country's film directors Nana Jorjadze has started shooting of 35 series documentary film "for the purpose of promotion of Georgian wine". The film is supposed to become a presentation and promotional material for Georgia wine - "a business card" - for foreign as well as Georgian spectators.
The film series will be dedicated to Georgia's 8,000 years of history of wine production, wine tasting rules, major regions of Georgian viticulture and wine-production, leading varieties, other alcohol products (chacha, brandy, sparkling wine), wine cellars, wine producers and the interesting stories related to them. Separate series will be dedicated to Georgian cuisine, unique dishes and their matching with wine.
The National Museum of Georgia plays an important role in the creation of the film. The project supporters are the Georgian Wine Association, Association of Sommeliers, and the Center of an Intellectual Property "Sakpatenti". Tamar Bartaia is the author of the script. Georgian television showed a press conference with Nana Jorjadze and other project leaders.
Nana Jorjadze directed several films including including 1996's "A Chef in Love", which became the first, and so far the only Oscar-nominated Georgian film.
07.05.2014 (Hvino News). 32 Georgian wines have received awards of International Wine Challenge (IWC), including one gold and two silver awards. The results of annual IWC competition were announced recently in London. The IWC gold was awarded to Marani Mukuzani 2012, produced by Telavi Wine Cellar. Congratulations!
Georgia made an excellent progress this year compared to the previous years' results, doubling the total number of awards, and winning more top awards including the gold. In 2013 and 2012 Georgia won 15 and 12 IWC awards respectively. No gold awards were awarded to Georgia in 2012-2013.
IWC assesses every wine blind and judges each for its faithfulness to variety, region and vintage. Every wine is assessed independently of its price; "great value for money" awards are made after the wine has been judged for quality.
05.05.2014. You have in front of you the third, 2014 edition of the Georgian Wine Guide. It is fortunate that this publication became a tradition so early; one may even be so bold as to say that this is a stable, annual publication which enables its readers to acquaint themselves with all of last year's important events in the world of Georgian wine. I would like to repeat the fact that Georgian wine is currently going through an important stage of its development. 2013 was especially interesting in terms of viticulture and wine-making in our country: many believe that the year's grape harvest was a particularly successful one and that the quality of the harvested grapes was high, and the vineyards did not suffer from the effects of any natural disasters (unlike 2012); in 2013, furthermore, viticultors and wine-makers were pleased with the yield of grapes they harvested.
The second most important, and yet alarming, development of 2013 was the reopening of the Russian market. The latter promises great profits to Georgian wine-makers, and, with them, the temptation to let Georgian wine fall back into to its Soviet-age inertia and completely reverse the achievements of recent years. Particular attention should therefore be paid to this matter-among viticultors, wine-makers, the state, non-governmental organizations, large companies and small producers, consumers, the media, and all those who care about and have been enjoying Georgian wine during recent years.
02.05.2014 (Hvino News). According to the Georgian Wine Agency total of 3,4767,935 (0,75L) bottles of wine were exported to 21 countries in April, 2014.The overall export as of April amounts to 18,965,119 (0,75L) bottles, being 180% higher vs last year same period.
Five leading export destinations of Georgian wine are as follows: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland and Latvia, where Russia holds 70% of total volume of exports. China and Lithuania being on 6th and 7th places in volumes respectively.
Exports in value as of April 2014 amounted to US$ 62,173,917 which is 215% higher vs last year same period.
In April 2014 there are 492,528 bottles (0,5L) brandy exported, and as of April 2014 – 4,382,119 (0,5L) bottles. In value, the brandy exports amounted US$ 15,936,308 as of April 2014, being 84% up as compared to the same period of previous year. Ukraine is leading Georgian brandy export destination with 2,547,720(0,5L) bottles as of April 2014, whereas Russia as second with 1,570,506(0,5L) bottles the same period.
01.05.2014. Happy birthday, Hvino! We say that on May 1. Though Hvino News opened in April 2012, exactly two years ago - on May 1 - Hvino News was launched officially.
During two years Hvino.com has been offering a daily news service on Georgian wine for the global readership, having posted over 1775 articles in English and Russian.
Recently Hvino's founder and chief editor Alexander Kaffka was interviewed by EurasiaNet.org, New York-based website that provides information and analysis about developments in the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The text of the interview to EurasiaNet's Yigal Schleifer can be found here. Below we publish an expanded version.
How did you get the idea for Hvino?
I must explain I was born in Georgia, and was seeking for ways to contribute professionally to the country's progress. As my experience is largely in publishing, PR and marketing, I started with writing an article for a Tbilisi-based business newspaper, in which I shared my views about necessity for better international promotion of Georgia's "signature products," including wine and tourism. At that time – back in 2012 – someone interested in Georgian products faced a complete information vacuum. Despite a declaration that wine plays a special role in Georgia's culture and history, neither the government agency responsible for wine nor the business association of wine producers had any presence on the internet.
New Wine Festival in Tbilisi to focus on "family wines"
01.05.2014 (Hvino News). Fifth New Wine festival will be held Tbilisi's Ethnographic Museum on May 24. New Wine Festival is the only event where large enterprises as well as farmers can participate.
Last year the festival was a great success – the Wine Club hosted about 20,000 visitors, mostly individuals interested in wine and consumers trying to learn more about Georgian wine. The festival also hosted numerous foreign guests and students that are now actively involved in promotion of Georgian wine.
Last year, almost all large wine companies participated in the festival along with small wine houses and wine-maker farmers, selected by the Wine Club in the regions. Wines of only last harvest were presented at the festival.


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New Grounds of Discrimination: Russia is Going to Ban Any Representation of LGBT People
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Russia is planning to toughen the punishment for the so-called "gay propaganda". ECOM is concerned about the future work of LGBT organizations.
In mid-summer, a draft law on the so-called "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" was submitted to the State Duma. It introduces fines of up to 400,000 rubles for citizens and up to 4 million rubles for legal entities. It covers both offline and the Internet, the media, books, audiovisual services, cinema, advertising which contain "LGBT propaganda, propaganda of pedophilia or display of LGBT and information that encourages sex change".
What was before?
Let us remind you that Russia already has a law, adopted in 2013, that prohibits the so-called "gay propaganda", which applies exclusively to minors. The new draft law toughens the punishment for LGBT propaganda regardless of age. Amendments are proposed to the Code of Administrative Offenses and five sectoral laws.
Will they pass the new law?
On October 17, public hearings were held. Among the participants were the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, deputies, representatives of relevant departments, parent and expert communities, public organizations and religious denominations. Unfortunately, everyone voiced their approval and supported the speedy adoption of the amendments. To finalize the draft law, an inter-factional group will be created and it is planned to submit amendments to the State Duma in the coming days. In case it is supported by deputies, and then by senators, in November the amendments will end up on the table of the President of the Russian Federation for signing.
How will the law affect LGBT activism?
The law will significantly reduce visibility of LGBT people in the public space or even make it impossible, because the representation of the LGBT community in films, books and media may be practically prohibited. The vague wording makes it possible to hold accountable book publishers, film distributors and Internet sites that raise awareness of the LGBT community rights violations. The "gay propaganda" law created online barriers for Russian LGBT rights organizations by requiring their websites to be labeled 18+. But if the proposed bill passes, then those sites are likely to be shut down.
ECOM is concerned that the law will make life and work more difficult for everyone who works with the LGBT community, from activists to researchers:
ECOM condemns the adoption of this draft law as stigmatizing and discriminating against LGBT people.
ECOM is concerned that the adoption of this draft law will increase the level of crimes against LGBT people, as it was after the 2013 law.
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Nancy shares her love of our feathered friends in a new monthly column.
Lately I've been spending quite a bit of time with catbirds. How is that, you ask? We have at least 3 nesting pairs on our small farm, each with its own distinct territory. And while these birds tend to be solitary and secretive, I've noticed that they often flit around in the shrubs and small trees where I'm gardening, entertaining me with their distinctive cat-like mew as well as their wide-ranging collection of gurgles, whistles and parts of other birds' songs.
Gray Catbirds are wonderful mimics, much like their well-known Mockingbird relative.
For the last several years, we've had a catbird that likes to join us for lunch. Although we can't be sure it's the same bird every year, the arrival date of May 1st has remained the same for three years running. Knowing they are fruit eaters, I started leaving a few grapes on the armrest of my Adirondack chair to see if I could entice the bird closer. And indeed he or she learned to recognize the sound of the kitchen screen door closing as we brought our lunch tray outside.
He or she would watch us from the branches of a near-by witch hazel or magnolia, waiting for us to leave before gobbling down the proffered treat. There is no difference in color or field markings between male and female Gray Catbirds. I like to think they take turns gallivanting around the garden scavenging for insects, other invertebrates, and berries with which to feed their young.
Photo by Richard Wines
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Nancy Gilbert is a board member and a conservation easement donor — as well as avid bird enthusiast and master gardener. In December 2001, Nancy and her husband Richard Wines, donated a conservation easement to the Trust on their property, Winds Way, in Jamesport. This easement protects 9.9 acres of agricultural land as well as 1.7 acres of scenic beachfront woodlands and wetlands on Great Peconic Bay. Also protected by the easement are the facades of the historic buildings located within the 3.2-acre development area, including a Greek-Revival residence, an historic barn, and a mid-19th century one-room schoolhouse. You can learn more about Winds Way and its history on their website: windswayfarm.com
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Short-term treatment with rapamycin, a drug used to treat transplant patients, reduces bone loss, inflammation and changes to oral bacteria in older mice with gum disease.
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A drug that has life-extending effects on mice also reverses age-related dental problems in the animals, according to a new study published today in eLife.
Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is a common problem in older adults that causes painful inflammation, bone loss and changes in the good bacteria that live in the mouth. Yet there are no treatments available beyond tooth removal and/or having good oral hygiene. The findings suggest that treatments targeting the aging process in the mouth might help.
Rapamycin is an immune-suppressing drug currently used to prevent organ rejection in transplant recipients. Previous studies in mice have also suggested that it may have life-extending effects, which has led to interest in studying the drug's effects in many age-related diseases.
"We hypothesised that biological aging contributes to periodontal disease, and that interventions that delay aging should also delay the progress of this disease," says lead author Jonathan An, Acting Assistant Professor at the Department of Oral Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, US.
To find out if rapamycin might slow periodontal disease, An and his colleagues added the drug to the food of middle-aged mice for eight weeks and compared their oral health with untreated mice of the same age. Similar to humans, mice also experience bone loss, inflammation and shifts in oral bacteria as they age.
Using a 3D-imaging technique called micro-computed tomography, the team measured the periodontal bone, or bone around the tooth, of the rapamycin-treated and untreated mice. They showed that the treated mice had more bone than the untreated mice, and had actually grown new bone during the period they were receiving rapamycin.
The work also showed that rapamycin-treated mice had less gum inflammation. Genetic sequencing of the bacteria in their mouths also revealed that the animals had fewer bacteria associated with gum disease and a mix of oral bacteria more similar to that found in healthy young mice.
"By targeting this aging process through rapamycin treatment, our work suggests that we can delay the progress of gum disease and actually reverse its clinical features," explains senior author Matt Kaeberlein, Professor of Pathology and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington.
However, Kaeberlein adds that while rapamycin is already used to treat certain conditions, it can make people more susceptible to infections and may increase their risk of developing diabetes, at least at the higher chronic doses typically taken by organ transplant patients. "Clinical trials in humans are needed to test whether rapamycin's potential oral health and other benefits outweigh its risks," he concludes.
Emily Packer
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First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13 (8)
Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
Alleluia: Matthew 5:3
Gospel: Luke 12:13-21
These readings are about the virtue of poverty. Ecclesiastes begins with the hopelessness of this life. All is vanity. Despite that hopelessness, Ecclesiastes still maintains faith and hope in God. The Faithful maintain this faith and hope at all times.
Psalm 33 urges the Faithful to stay focused on God, if today you hear his voice. Colossians is about Christ as the beginning and end of all things. Finally, Luke is about the rich farmer, who finally seems to have amassed enough riches to eat, drink, and be merry, when the hopelessness of this life becomes apparent and he dies.
These days, the hopelessness of life seems apparent in the current papacy. Even Raymond Arroyo is criticizing how the papacy is handling the sexual cover-up crisis. All is vanity, and then we die. For the Faithful, eternal rest is only found in the Father.
Material above the double line draws from material below the double line. Those uninterested in scholarly and tangential details should stop reading here. If they do, however, they may miss some interesting details.
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
Eccles 1:2-11
J. Gerald Janzen, "Qohelet on Life `Under the Sun'"
Qohelet is the author of Ecclesiastes. Despite the vanity of all life under the sun, Qohelet keeps the faith, if only finding some solace in work, family, and food.
Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13 (8)
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
Different languages perceive reality differently. The ancient Greeks used pronouns for emphasis. Translating this emphasis from the original Greek into English is an object of the highlighting on the last page of the hard copy, not found on the web site. The purpose of the highlighting is to transfer the Greek emphasis on personal pronouns into the English translation. Pronouns highlighted in blue have greater emphasis than in English, but are not as intense as the words marked in red.
Words marked with a vertical line, rather than fully highlighted, indicate places where the English translation lacks a pronoun corresponding to a pronoun in the Greek. Words underlined with a horizontal line, indicate places where the English translation uses a noun, corresponding to a pronoun in the Greek. A highlight over blank space, as in Luke 12:15, indicates a pronoun that is not translated.
Anyone wanting a copy of the highlighted verses, please ask me at Jirran@verizon.net. Thank you.
Colossians 3:11 is intense at Christ is all and in all.
Col 3:5
Reggie M. Kidd, review of Brian S. Rosner, Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor
Rosner presents a reasonable argument that Colossians presents greed as idolatry and, therefore, subject matter to which theologians might pay more attention.
Col 3:10
Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer, "Sanctifying Grace in a `Methodical Theology'"
Jacobs-Vandegeer argues for a new self to enable the Faithful to love better.
Mark Kiley, review of Jerry L. Sumney, Colossians: A Commentary
From the following sentence, I wonder just how seriously Kiley took his responsibility for an academic review of this book. "S. does tip the hat to a Herodotus parallel, but Colossians' neighboring historian from Halicarnassus also describes the Scythians as influenced by a matriarchal society of warriors, which may help recover a male-female duality in Col 3:11." "Recover," because a male/female duality does not seem present in Greek and Jew and the rest.
The Greek uses five intense pronouns: verse 13, share the inheritance with me, verse 15, guard against all greed, verse 17, He asked himself; verse 18, all my grain, and verse 21, store up treasure for themselves.
Garwood P. Anderson, "Seeking and Saving What Might Have Been Lost: Luke's Restoration of an Enigmatic Parable Tradition"
This is an interesting and complex article. Anderson argues that Luke actively reworked the material available to him. For example, Anderson compares the rich farmer in Luke with a similar farmer in the more primitive Gospel of Thomas to show what Luke may be doing with his material. Luke explains and clarifies.
Dino Dozzi, "`Thus Says the Lord' The Gospel in the Writings of Saint Francis"
Interestingly, where Luke has guard against all greed in verse 15, Francis uses beware of all malice and greed. Where Rosner argues for idolatry, above, Francis uses malice here.
For more on sources see the Appendix file. Personal Notes are on the web site at www.western-civilization.com/CBQ/Personal%20Notes.


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We worked hard since early morning. New patients were coming in a great number. With no break we were receiving calls ordering home appointments. Until that day there was only one polyclinic in Malinovka.
Modern architecture. Multidisciplinary. It was designed for 850 visits per shift. It had even a day hospital. In here medical aid will be provided to people living in two new built microdistricts: Malinovka-8 and Brilevichi. The patients will be transferred over here gradually, since the polyclinic will start working in full power in a month.
Sophia Strelchenya, the Radiology Department, the Chief Officer says: I have worked for many years as a radiologist and have been used old equipment for twenty years or even more. And now new equipment has less radiation impact on patients and gives a better picture quality.
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Robert Wilonsky | June 29, 2006 | 2:21pm
Today, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he's shut down a housing scam that his office claims defrauded folks "out of tens of thousands of dollars" locally. This permanent injunction stems from an April 2005 lawsuit filed under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), which claimed that Dallas-based FCI Equities, Inc. and others "participated in a scheme that involved the sale of homes without valid property titles." The AG says FCI and other people associated with the "company" told would-be home-owners, most of whom were Hispanic, that they could buy a house in Dallas (usually in Oak Cliff) for between $20,000 and $40,000, and that most of the victims were preyed upon at a Mexican food restaurant owned by one of the men involved in carrying out the scheme, which entailed hastily written notes of ownership and cash up front. According to the AG's press release:
"The court imposed fines of $103,000 toward consumer restitution against the operation and its associates, to be paid by the operation's lead proprietor, Jose Demetrio Murrugarra of Dallas. Jose Menjarez, a Dallas man who posed as an attorney to offer legal services to victims of the housing scam, was charged with $10,900 in civil penalties and restitution for consumers for his part in the deceptive scheme.
'It is a disgrace that these scam artists preyed on consumers' dreams of putting down roots in Texas by exploiting their lack of knowledge about the home-buying process,' Attorney General Abbott said. 'Housing scams like this are a flagrant violation of the law, and I am determined to shut them down.'"
Should you want to see some of the properties involved in the scheme or read the lawsuit and the final order against FCI, go here. The AG's office is nothing if not thorough. --Robert Wilonsky


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A mutation in a gene called SCL24A4 that causes enamel hypoplasia, or poorly formed enamel of the teeth in Samoyed dogs has been identified by researchers at the Center for Companion Animal Health, University of California, Davis. The findings are published in the open access journal Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.
Affected dogs have discoloured and malformed teeth and the condition can lead to tooth loss, severe erosion and root infections. The researchers developed a test for the mutation that can enable breeders to eliminate the faulty gene in Samoyed through selective breeding.
Dr Niels Pedersen, lead author of the study said: "Fortunately, our research showed that this genetic disorder could be eliminated by breeders without any further loss of genetic diversity in the Samoyed breed. That is important information, because some attempts to eliminate deleterious genetic traits can actually result in loss of genetic diversity and greater inbreeding which could have other adverse health effects."
Dr Pedersen added: "Enamel hypoplasia in Samoyed is an autosomal recessive disease which means that two abnormal versions of a gene must be present in an individual for disease to develop. It also means that seemingly healthy individuals can carry an affected version of the gene and pass it on to their offspring."
The authors found that out of the 182 dogs whose genetic material was used in this study 14 dogs suffered from enamel hypoplasia. They all tested homozygous for the SCL24A4 gene mutation, which means they carried two affected genes. Twenty out of the remaining 168 healthy dogs tested heterozygous - they carried one affected version of the gene. The remaining 148 dogs did not carry the mutation.
The findings suggest that the SCL24A4 mutation has been present in the breed for several decades but may be increasing in frequency now because the faulty gene has been amplified due to inadvertent positive selection for a favourable physical trait encoded by genes in the same region of the genome. The authors also studied the existing genetic diversity in Samoyed from various parts of the world. Knowledge of breed-wide genetic diversity is important for decisions on how to best combat harmful genetic traits now and in the future.
Dr Pedersen said: "This is probably one of the first times that a newly recognized simple genetic trait - the SCL24A4 gene mutation - has been described in the context of the overall genetic background of a dog breed."
Dr Pedersen added: "Although previous research suggests that Samoyed are not in any immediate danger, genetic diversity may not be as great as presumed and that the current practice of random breeding must be sustained in order to reduce the chances of other deleterious mutations in the future.
The authors used gene samples from 182 Samoyed from North America (144), Europe (32) and Australia (6). Samples were sourced from breeders and owners using DNA sampling kits. The findings suggest that Samoyed from these distinct regions belong to a single breed with only small genetic differences caused by relative geographic isolation.
The authors found that even though all Samoyed descended from the same small set of founders, most dogs examined in this study were as unrelated as possible. One quarter of Samoyed dogs had a higher degree of parental relatedness, one quarter had a lower degree of relatedness, and half were random genetic representatives of the breed. Parental relatedness refers to how genetically similar an individual's parents' genes are to each other.
Seven out of 14 dogs affected by enamel hypoplasia and five healthy dogs were selected for genome wide association studies, which examines the entire set of genes in an individual to determine if any gene variant is associated with a trait - in this case the mutation in SCL24A4 was found to be associated with enamel hypoplasia. Work by one of the co-authors shows that the resulting health problems in affected Samoyed can be minimized by routine dental care.
1.	The disease was brought to the attention of the researchers by a veterinary dentist with a special interest in Samoyed dogs. Dr. Bonnie Shope, co-author of the study, a practicing Veterinary Dentist, recognized the condition in Samoyed as a potentially inherited disease, and initiated contact with Dr. Pedersen to prove this hypothesis and investigate the potential underlying genetic mechanisms.
3.	Canine Genetics and Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed, open access journal addressing genetic, genomic and epidemiological research in both domestic and wild canids, relating to breed and species diversity, and canine evolution.


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When Coaches Speak
by Paul Gardner , Nov 6, 2008
Listening in as coaches accuse each other of dirty tactics is a fascinating, if ultimately frustrating, exercise. If only because you know that while Coach A may today be accusing Coach B of encouraging roughhouse play, it won't be long before Coach A will be accused of the same crime by Coach C, while Coach B will be finding the same fault with Coach D.
And all of them will be correct. Because it is rare for coaches to speak objectively. Indeed, it may be impossible. So expect no consistency from coaches when it comes to the matter of fouling. Coach A complains bitterly of what he sees as a disgraceful tackle from one of Coach B's players -- and let's say that we agree, it was a bad tackle. But when, the following week, one of Coach A's players commits an almost identical foul, the coach will tell a very different story as he attempts to justify what he had condemned only a few days earlier.
Let us take Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal coach, whose team has a reputation of playing attractive soccer. One might almost say, given the unpleasant macho atmosphere that obtains in English soccer, that Arsenal are often accused of playing good soccer.
Whatever, Arsenal frequently play skilled soccer -- which ought to mean the opposite of roughhouse soccer. Generally it does. And when opposing teams resort to fouling, Wenger -- probably the most articulate of the EPL coaches -- springs to the defense of his players. He did it this past week and, to my eyes, he was exactly right to do so.
He directed his criticism at Stoke City, and in particular at the tackles that saw two of his players, Emmanuel Adebayor and Theo Walcott, stretchered off the field.
Both tackles were bad -- dangerous or clumsy, it makes no difference. Anyway, one surely has a right to expect that tackles in the league that claims to be the best on the world will not be clumsy.
Wenger questioned whether either of the Stoke tacklers - Ryan Shawcross and Rory Delap -- were even trying to play the ball. Of course the Stoke coach, Tony Pulis, defended his defenders, Delap in particular, who is "as honest and committed as they come." Of course. Then the Stoke goalkeeper, Thomas Sorensen, had to have his say, accusing the Arsenal players of "lacking that bit physically ... they lack that bit of spine you need." Spineless wimps, in fact.
No coach is going to take that, so Wenger pointed out that if it's a question of bravery on the field, then "you don't have to be brave to tackle from behind." No, he said, it was his Arsenal players who showed bravery by trying to play soccer in the face of such intimidation.
Again, I'm in agreement with Wenger. His complaints can be easily dismissed as the bleating of the losing coach, but I feel he is correct to sound off about the use of rough play as a tactical weapon. I do not find the attempts of Pulis or Sorensen to disguise intimidating roughness under that catch-all definition of direct play at all convincing.
Sadly, this confrontation between "physical" soccer, and "pretty" soccer is tilted, from the start, toward those of the physical persuasion. They play their game and if the real soccer players don't descend to their level, then they're wimps. If they do, they may get the satisfaction of kicking their opponents, but their chances of coming off best in a kicking contest are obviously not good.
And the sport itself suffers, of course. But it seems we're not to be concerned with that. As long as it's played in a manly way, everything is OK. On that point, as Pulis and Wenger were exchanging barbs, I was astonished to see another English coach -- Paul Ince of Blackburn, something of a Rottweiler in his playing days -- come out with a phrase I thought one didn't use these days -- "It's not a game for women," he said.
Perhaps all that needs to be noticed here is that Arsenal, despite being spineless, are considered one of the strongest teams in the EPL, while the manly Stoke City and Blackburn Rovers are among the weakest -- and among the worst, should you be looking for something worth watching.
In this instance, I'm in Wenger's corner. But I know that will not last because it will not be too long before Wenger is excusing or ignoring an egregious foul by one of his own players. After all this is the same Wenger who harbored the talented but undoubtedly violent Patrick Vieira on his team for years, and I certainly don't recall Wenger ever criticizing Vieira, despite his impressive collection of red cards.
2 comments about "When Coaches Speak".
, November 6, 2008 at 11:16 a.m.
Although I dislike it, physical play will be part of soccer for ever. When you have a huge difference in the technical and tactical ability of two teams, The lesser team will resort to defence and physical tactics to keep the better team from running the scoring board and embarassing them. I put the blame on the referees for not showing the cards earlier when they sense that the lesser teams are resorting to these kind if tactics. The majority of the physical players become less physical after they receive a yellow card.
Kent James, November 10, 2008 at 1:37 a.m.
Good column. I'm an arsenal fan because of the attractive style they play, but I'm also an aggressive (but clean) defender as well as a referee, so I've seen this difficult issue from many different angles. Intentional intimidating play needs to be dealt with immediately, and this is the referee's difficult job. Too many referees try to avoid giving yellow cards, and try to "keep players in the game". If someone has committed a foul that deserves a yellow card, they should get one. Sure, a foul in the grey area may be dealt with by admonishing the player, and wether or not a card is given in such a case is may depend on how the rest of the game is going. Even worse is when referees hesitate to give a 2nd yellow, in order to keep from ejecting a player. I've even had assignors (at the college level) criticize referees for giving too many yellow cards, even when the assignor had not seen the games (it was a blanket statement). Attitudes like this allow teams that intimidate to get away with it. At the higher levels, it is insulting to a player not to give a yellow card for a foul that deserves one, because to not do so essentially says "I think you did not really mean to do that and should be dealt with leniently because you can't help your lack of ability."
That being said, skillful players should not be encouraged to "draw fouls". Soccer, even soccer played cleanly, is a contact sport, and players who go down at the slightest contact are almost as suspect as players who foul on purpose (the only reason they're not is because they don't hurt anyone). Players who dive, or embellish fouls put the referee in a tough spot (especially the latter; divers you can card, but what about the player to "makes a meal" out of an incidental foul. Call the foul, one team sees you as falling for a dive. Don't call the foul, the other team thinks you can't see a foul. So if you're diving, then you should not complain if the referee misses some fouls because he assumes those are dives also.
The only solution I can see is to support referees in their attempts to crack down on illegal physical play. And at the highest levels, where there are videos of everything, allow post-game punishments (forcing players to miss games) for any bad tackles, and also for any dives (or embellishments). Referees can't get them all right, but with video evidence, they should be able to catch some that they missed initially. Soccer is a beautiful game when skillful players are allowed to play it.
One (significant) rule change that might encourage referees to eject players who deserve it would be to not make them play short (unless the player was ejected for preventing a goal scoring opportunity). Making a team play short certainly can change a game (and not always for the better), and referees (rightfully so) hesitate to "determine the outcome of a match." Such a change would hurt the individual but not punish the entire team (nor significantly change the nature of the game).
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Q: OpenCV's Rational model not returning 8 distortion co-efficients I have the following script to calibrate a bunch of images from a wide-angled lens camera but I am not able to get all the 8 distortion coefficients I need.
It returns an array of 8 zeroes and when passed as an argument and when not passed as an argument, I get the normal 5 distortion coefficients.
import numpy as np
import cv2
import glob

chessboard_flags = cv2.CALIB_CB_ADAPTIVE_THRESH + cv2.CALIB_CB_FAST_CHECK + cv2.CALIB_CB_NORMALIZE_IMAGE
subpix_criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS + cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_MAX_ITER, 30, 0.01)
CHESSBOARD_SIZE = (6, 9)
calibration_flags = cv2.CALIB_RATIONAL_MODEL
term_criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS + cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_MAX_ITER, 30, 1e-6)
obj_p = np.zeros((1, CHESSBOARD_SIZE[0] * CHESSBOARD_SIZE[1], 3), np.float32)
obj_p[0, :, :2] = np.mgrid[0:CHESSBOARD_SIZE[0], 0:CHESSBOARD_SIZE[1]].T.reshape(-1, 2)

# Arrays to store object points and image points from all the images.
objpoints = []  # 3d point in real world space
imgpoints = []  # 2d points in image plane.

images = glob.glob(r'Images/*.png')

found = 0
for fname in images:
    img = cv2.imread(fname)
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    ret, corners = cv2.findChessboardCorners(gray, CHESSBOARD_SIZE, chessboard_flags)
    if ret:
        objpoints.append(obj_p)
        corners2 = cv2.cornerSubPix(gray, corners, (3, 3), (-1, -1), subpix_criteria)
        imgpoints.append(corners2)
        img = cv2.drawChessboardCorners(img, CHESSBOARD_SIZE, corners2, ret)
        found += 1

print("Number of images used for calibration: ", found)

mtx = np.zeros((3, 3))
dist = np.zeros((8, 1))
rvec = [np.zeros((1, 1, 3), dtype=np.float64) for i in range(found)]
tvec = [np.zeros((1, 1, 3), dtype=np.float64) for i in range(found)]

# calibration
ret, _, _, _, _ = cv2.calibrateCamera(objpoints, imgpoints, gray.shape[::-1], mtx, dist, rvec, tvec, calibration_flags,
                                                   term_criteria)

print("K = np.array(" + str(mtx.tolist()) + ")")
print("D = np.array(" + str(dist.tolist()) + ")")
print("RMS = " + str(ret))

A: Replacing the calibrateCamera line with the following fixed the issue.
ret, mtx, dist, _, _ = cv2.calibrateCamera(objpoints, imgpoints, gray.shape[::-1], None, None, flags=calibration_flags,
                                           criteria=term_criteria)

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