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"I got picked up and thrown to where I was going to be a mashed potato," Elias Quezada, who was hiding in his grandmother's trash can, said.
A young Florida boy narrowly escaped being crushed after hiding in a trash can during his play time landed him in a garbage truck.
Elias Quezada, 7, was playing outside his grandmother's home in Hillsborough County when he decided to climb in her trash can, the family told NBC affiliate WFLA in Tampa. He was soon scooped up and dumped into a sanitation truck as it collected trash in the neighborhood.
In a matter of seconds, Elias thought it was going to be "the end" for him.
"I got picked up and thrown to where I was going to be a mashed potato," he said.
But luckily for Elias, the driver was trained to observe every can in the truck's surveillance camera as it gets dumped into the back. Waldo Fidele said he saw something drop and immediately turned off the truck's blade. Fidele immediately called 911.
"I come outside, I see him, he seemed happy," Fidele said. "I said OK, you're OK now."
Carmen Salazar, Elias' grandmother, recalled the boy going out for only a few minutes before she suddenly heard the sound of the truck and Fidele outside.
"I'm very thankful that he was looking at that camera at that time and he acted so fast," Salazar said. "Because otherwise, he wouldn't be here."

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Going Crazy Over Terrorism
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I got a phone call from my son. He told me to turn on the TV, and I saw the World Trade Center towers burning.
October 13, 2016 Robert Zaller Politics 0
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I got a phone call from my son. He told me to turn on the TV, and I saw the World Trade Center towers burning. Ash, some of it human ash, drifted over from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Some of it, I realized, was falling on the hospital in Brooklyn Heights where I had been born.
I was stunned and a bit crazy about this, like everyone else. Not quite everyone; the Bush administration made sure that a plane with Saudi embassy personnel got out of the country the next day, when all other commercial flights were banned. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers who had attacked New York and Washington were Saudis.
We've never had a public accounting of the Saudi involvement in 9/11. That wasn't going to happen under George W. Bush, who was joined at the hip with the Saudis through the family's oil interests. It hasn't happened under Barack (never look back) Obama either. Obama never met a secret he didn't want to keep, at least from you and me, and this was the biggest hush of all. Conspiracy theories flourished in the silence, which added to the national paranoia, which in turn was perfectly okay with those who found fear a useful commodity.
Terrorists hit the jackpot with 9/11, but so did the Security State, already well ensconced but now given license to erect a surveillance regime of totalitarian dimensions. There was a brief struggle with the Constitution; the Constitution lost. Liberty bit the dust, and it's been gagging ever since.
After 9/11, America went into cringe mode at home, but lashed out overseas. The Saudis were off limits, but Afghanistan made a good whipping-boy. Osama Bin Laden, who claimed bragging rights for 9/11, was hiding out there; Al Qaeda had training bases on the ground; the fundamentalist Taliban were made to play the part of the terrorist state actor. Never mind, of course, that the Taliban themselves were largely the creation of Pakistan's security apparatus, the ISI. We needed a target: Afghanistan fit the specs. No target, no war. And the Bush regime had declared a war on terror.
If you've noticed, we fight wars all the time, all over the globe. The only ones we actually declare, though, are for publicity purposes. Fear is (always) the common denominator. Once upon a time, the medical-industrial complex declared a "war" on cancer. Many decades and many, many billions of dollars later, cancer is still around, as of course it always will be. Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, and the result of that was to quadruple the American prison population, to make war zones of large tracts of Central and South America, and to create instant millionaires both in and out of government. How's it going otherwise, by the way? The heroin epidemic in the State of Maine is so bad now that the governor recently threatened to call out the National Guard to cope with it.
The War on Terror is faring no better, so, naturally, we double down on it. It's not supposed to go better, of course; the idea is not to win the war but to prolong it indefinitely. We wac'ed the mole of Al Qaeda (though it's still happily in business, thank you), but, never to fear, hatched its successor, ISIS, in our Iraqi prisons. ISIS has had a good run lately, climaxing in the attacks in Paris last month, though the so-called caliphate is really a loose franchise operation with a home base that consists of a bank network, a Twitter account, and a lot of sand.
Paris is our glamour capital; even the Nazis left it unscathed, and so, first when Charlie Hebdo was hit in January and now with the far deadlier and more sophisticated November attacks, we've got the wind up again. It hasn't helped that the attacks have coincided with the Republican primaries, an audition for demagogues with a national megaphone. Donald Trump, having started out as a tin-pot Mussolini, has graduated since Paris into full Hitler mode, and his rhetoric drives the rest of the crowd. Continental walls to keep out unwanted immigrants, and detention centers to keep them while they're rounded up for deportation? No problem. Torture à la carte for suspected terrorists? Sure. And, Guantanamo forever. If we run out of space there, let's just take over the rest of Cuba as a prison island.
It takes very little to bring out the worst in us. 9/11 was more than sufficient, and Paris has been good enough, especially with the issue of admitting Syrian refugees on the burner. The atmosphere is now more poisonous than at any time since 9/11, and it is likely to result in fresh wind for the Permanent War syndrome that is the default option of American politics. It won't be just another turn of the wheel, either. We have become so inured to the routine of terror—the colored alerts, the habitual presence of men in fatigues with machine guns in public places, the constant injunction to see something and say something—that it takes little to stimulate our fear reflex, and our compliance to command. Meanwhile, there is the reinforcing effect of Paris itself, where we see the reflection of our own 9/11 hysteria in that of the French and their feckless president, François Hollande, whose immediate response to attack was a bomb's-away strategy without rhyme or reason. We are ready to accept tyranny even before it is imposed on us; indeed, to embrace it with a sigh of relief. At last, we will say, we have been able to do worse to ourselves than our enemies ever could. Maybe now someone will make us safe?
There is, though, another option. We could start by recognizing that we face, in fact, not an "enemy" but a ragtag troop of barbarians spouting a nihilist jargon supposedly cribbed from a holy book. It is nonsense to describe the measures to deal with it as somehow involving what Samuel Huntington called a "clash of civilizations." What we should call ourselves at this juncture is perhaps an open question, but ISIS represents, literally, nothing at all. It commits crimes and atrocities and acts of vandalism on historical monuments; it is a public menace. We need to understand where it came from and what fuels it, but it is, as Al Qaeda was after 9/11, essentially a police problem. We have been mistaking ourselves for a long time by militarizing our response to it, even if now and then military force may be a useful tool.
We need, above all, a sense of proportion. Since 9/11, exactly three lives have been lost to terrorism on American soil. This isn't World War II, which cost the lives of 2.6% of the world's population. It isn't London under the blitz, or Baghdad today, where a trip to the market can cost you your life. Terrorism is, finally, a symptom of social malaise and political injustice, cynically manipulated and opportunistically exploited. We have exploited it ourselves, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and scores of other places. We object to it not in itself—state terrorism is the commonest form of terror—but when it is turned against us. If we really want to get rid of it, we should stop practicing it ourselves, or fostering the conditions under which it flourishes. In the meantime, we can cope, without losing our cool or tossing our liberties into the nearest trash bin.
The first modern terrorist was François Ravaillac, a Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610. In the late nineteenth century, acts of terrorism were so frequent in Europe that, after a bomb had been thrown into the French National Assembly in the 1890s, its Speaker calmly dusted himself off and said, "Now, where were we?"
The French could use a little of that sangfroid now. So could we.
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Marquard Bohm (* 27. Juni 1941 in Hamburg; † 3. Februar 2006 in Wetter (Ruhr)) war ein deutscher Schauspieler.

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Marquard Bohm war der Sohn des Obersenatsrats Walter Bohm und der Studienrätin Hildegard Bohm sowie der jüngere Bruder des Schauspielers und Regisseurs Hark Bohm. Aufgewachsen auf Amrum, besuchte er in Hamburg das Gymnasium bis zur zwölften Klasse. In Detmold begann er eine Gärtnerlehre. Dann arbeitete er in verschiedenen Berufen, unter anderem im Hamburger Hafenkrankenhaus, als Transportarbeiter und zwei Jahre als Volontär bei den Geyer-Kopierwerken. Nebenher betätigte er sich als Statist und kam in Kontakt mit jungen Hamburger Filmemachern. 1966 übernahm er in dem 30-minütigen Spielfilm Na und ..? die Hauptrolle als junger Arbeitsloser.

Seine Tendenz zum lakonischen, lässigen Unterspielen brachte ihm den Ruf eines "deutschen Belmondo" ein. Bohm wurde einer der bekanntesten Darsteller des Jungen Deutschen Films. Durch seine Arbeit mit Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Der amerikanische Soldat und in Wildwechsel wurde er international bekannt. Er arbeitete auch mit seinem Bruder Hark Bohm wie auch Rudolf Thome, Wim Wenders und Helmut Herbst zusammen. Ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre wurde er ausschließlich in Nebenrollen eingesetzt.

Von 1986 bis 2000 war er am Schauspielhaus Bochum unter den Intendanten Frank-Patrick Steckel und Leander Haußmann tätig. Dort war er auf skurrile Nebenrollen spezialisiert, so in Inszenierungen von Jürgen Kruse und Frank Castorf.

Marquard Bohm starb nach längeren gesundheitlichen Problemen in Wetter (Ruhr) an Herzversagen.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1965: Der Fall Kapitän Behrens – Fremdenlegionäre an Bord, Darsteller, Regie: Wolfgang Staudte
 1967: Na und ..?, Darsteller, Co-Autor und Co-Regie mit Helmut Herbst
 1969: Detektive, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1969: Brandstifter, Regie: Klaus Lemke
 1969: Die Revolte, Regie: Reinhard Hauff
 1969: Rote Sonne, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1970: Ein großer graublauer Vogel, Regie: Thomas Schamoni
 1970: Deadlock, Regie: Roland Klick
 1971: Supergirl – Das Mädchen von den Sternen, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1971: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 1972: Liebe so schön wie Liebe, Regie: Klaus Lemke
 1973: Zahltag, Regie: Hans Noever
 1973: Tschetan, der Indianerjunge, Regie: Hark Bohm
 1974: Angst essen Seele auf, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 1974: Ein bißchen Liebe, Regie: Veith von Fürstenberg
 1974: Karl May, Regie: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
 1974: Output, Regie: Michael Fengler
 1975: Faustrecht der Freiheit, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 1975: Umarmungen und andere Sachen
 1976: Satansbraten, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 1976: Nordsee ist Mordsee, Regie: Hark Bohm
 1976: Im Lauf der Zeit, Regie: Wim Wenders
 1976/1977: Eierdiebe (späterer Titel: Schattenboxer), Regie: Michael Fengler
 1978: Moritz, lieber Moritz, Regie: Hark Bohm
 1979: Theodor Chindler
 1980: Im Herzen des Hurrican
 1980: Theo gegen den Rest der Welt, Regie: Peter F. Bringmann
 1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 1980: Endstation Freiheit, Regie: Reinhard Hauff
 1981/1982: Eine deutsche Revolution, Regie: Helmut Herbst
 1984: Zielscheiben, Regie: Volker Vogeler
 1986–1989: Das Spinnennetz, Regie: Bernhard Wicki
 1987: Der Joker Regie: Peter Patzak
 1987: Der kleine Staatsanwalt, Regie: Hark Bohm
 1988: Der Philosoph, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1989: Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders, Regie: Xaver Schwarzenberger
 1993: Die Denunziantin, Regie: Thomas Mitscherlich
 1995: Das Geheimnis, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1995: Cuba Libre, Regie: Christian Petzold
 1997: Just Married, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 1997: Tatort-Tod aus dem All
 1998: Dealer, Regie: Thomas Arslan
 1999: Die Häupter meiner Lieben, Regie: Hans-Günther Bücking
 2000: Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen, Regie: Rudolf Thome
 2000: L'Amour, l'argent, l'amour, Regie: Philip Gröning

Auszeichnungen
 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2000: "Silberner Bär" für herausragende künstlerische Leistung des Darstellerensembles in Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen ausgezeichnet.

Literatur
 Jörg Schöning: Marquard Bohm – Schauspieler. In: CineGraph – Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film, Lieferung 9, 1987.
 Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 1: A – C. Erik Aaes – Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, S. 447.

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The first full day on Utö was misty and relatively mild, lending a rather alluring air of mystery as we toured around the island for the first time.
This is the yard right outside the hostel building as I saw it when venturing out for breakfast. The hostel and the rest of the buildings (such as these storage buildings) belonging to the hotel that owns it (Utö Havshotel) used to belong to the military, if I remember correctly.
The view out from the dining hall in the main building of the hotel; note the stone labyrinth.
A splash of color in a decidedly gray environment: lichen growing on the concrete railing of the balcony outside the dining hall.
An affectionate cat that we met outside the dining hall.
One of the only wooded areas on the island. The generous spacing of the trees makes me think of the Hundred Acre Wood, for some reason.
From the village, a view up to the lighthouse.
Here's a closer view of the lighthouse, with its highly distinctive colors.
Nearby is the pilot station. The waters around Utö are treacherously rocky, so cargo ships have to be led through them by a pilot, based here, who knows them inside out.
Stenhuset (Stone House, so called because it's one of the only masonry buildings on the island) is a museum about Utö; it's also (I think) the oldest building on the island, built, as see here, in 1753.
Swans in a Tanguyan unworld.
Helipad. Matt and James are a helicopter. Can you tell?
The heath that extends over most of the unsettled southern lobe of the island.
Here at the southern tip of the island are the two pavilions designed and built by the previous year's class. This is just one of them.
It's built over and around this old bunker.
A nearby memorial to a shipwreck.
Here's the other pavilion, whose shape follows the lay of the rocks underneath.
Another bunker on the way back to the village.
Mineral accretions on the bunker wall.
A Very Friendly Lab Retriever that we met and cuddled on the way back.
A typical view from the village toward the harbor; there are dozens of these boathouses over the water there.
Large cargo ship passing through.
Looking from my bedroom window to some other buildings of the hotel; the building to the left contains one of the saunas.
A few of us went back to the south end of the island that night to explore the bunkers further. It was a little creepy, but the gusty wind somehow mitigated that — it was far better than, say, a deathly calm. Not mitigating the creepiness was this kind of scene, where it looked like the inhabitants had vanished suddenly. The light source here is not the camera flash but the LED light from my headlamp.


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Die Resolution 1952 (2013) des Europarats wurde am 1. Oktober 2013 von der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarats in Straßburg auf seiner 31. Sitzung beschlossen. Sie trägt den Titel "Das Recht der Kinder auf körperliche Unversehrtheit". Sie betrifft die körperlichen Integrität von intergeschlechtlichen Kindern sowie weitere Themen wie weibliche Genitalverstümmelung, die Beschneidung von Jungen aus religiösen Gründen und die Unterwerfung oder Nötigung von Kindern zu Piercings, Tätowierungen oder Schönheitsoperationen. Berichterstatterin war Marlene Rupprecht.

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Date: Monday June 25, 2018
Location: Plenary, Grand Ballroom (350)
Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University where she currently teaches courses on livestock behavior and facility design, and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. The curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on their animals during handling. Dr. Grandin has appeared on numerous television shows and has been featured in several popular magazines. In 2010, Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people. In 2016 she received the Meritorious award from the OIE World Organization for Animal Health in Paris, France for her work on developing animal welfare guidelines. This same year she was also inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Visit Dr. Grandin's Personal Website to learn more!
Nicholas Clinton
Google Earth Engine
Talk Title: Geospatial Processing in the Cloud with Google Earth Engine
Date: Tuesday June 26, 2018
Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm
Nick Clinton is on the Earth Engine developer relations team. He received a bachelors, masters and PhD from the department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. From 2008-2011, Nick worked in the Airborne Sensor Facility of NASA Ames Research Center, producing science quality calibrated imagery and supporting sensor maintenance for thermal, multispectral and hyperspectral imagers. From 2012-2015, he was on the faculty of the Center for Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China. He joined Google in 2015.
Learn more about Dr. Clinton here!
CEO and President of the U.S. Dairy Export Council
Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Strategic Adviser of Food & Water Initiatives at the National Western Center
Talk Title: Climate Smart Agriculture: our Past, our Present, Our Future
Date: Wednesday June 27, 2018
As president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), Tom Vilsack provides strategic leadership and oversight of USDEC's global promotional and research activities, regulatory affairs and trade policy initiatives. This includes working with industry leaders to develop a long-term vision for growth and consumer trust in U.S. dairy. Vilsack joined USDEC in January 2017 after serving eight years as the Nation's 30th Secretary of Agriculture. As leader of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Vilsack worked hard to strengthen the American agricultural economy, build vibrant rural communities and create new markets for the tremendous innovation of rural America. In 2017, Tom also joined Denver Water and the Colorado State University System as a Strategic Adviser of Food & Water Initiatives at the National Western Center and as Global Chair for the International Board of Counselors on Food & Water Initiatives where he is responsible for forming and chairing the Board of Counselors to advise CSU, Denver Water, and the National Western Stock Show on priorities around the interface of food, water, energy, the environment, and human health.
Learn more about Secretary Vilsak here!
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I had so many profound reflections to detail after seeing Colony at the NGV, and then going to Sydney to see the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries at the Art Gallery of NSW, and the 21st Biennale, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art, also in Sydney. Oh, and an exhibition of contemporary Mexican art in Melbourne. Art has been everywhere.
But, I got sick and it floored me. It put all my plans on hold. Then I got some work, and that had me putting my sick-bed on hold. Thus, I haven't been quite up for meditating on my experience of seeing some very fine ancient art, and some equally as complex and satisfying new art.
Any who, this is a placeholder to say my thoughts about all this art and more will appear here, eventually. But in the meantime, go see the tapestries if you can. They are returning to France towards the end of June. And all the rest. Basically, it might be winter in Australia, but the sun is shining on the art world so go out and see some art.
And there is new exhibitions at the NGV International I want to see too.
Ah, so much to see and write and so little time.


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The Essence of Essence
I've been reading manifestos by several early modernist artists from Europe recently (Kandinsky, Boccioni, Doesburg), and a recurring thought comes out in all of their writings. It is the idea that the physical reality of a subject is less important than art that expresses the essence of the object. It is easy to see how reduction of a subject to its simplest form is related to the idea of the essence of a subject, and thus, how abstraction was nourished. If we extend the idea of essence to the realm of non-tangible subjects, such as music, then we can see how non-objective abstraction developed. In my mind it is also easy to see why these artists were so passionate about the integrity of abstraction!
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957, France, born Romania), Bird in Space, 1928. Bronze, unique cast, 54" x 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" (137.2 x 21.6 x 16.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (MOMA-S0103bzars)
I really like Brancusi's series of "Bird in Space" sculptures because he was not really summing up the physical bird, but the idea of flight, and he summed it up so beautifully. Initially trained as a furniture maker, he also studied under Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) in Paris. Brancusi really liked Rodin's sculptures that featured fragments of human figures—allusions to the human form rather than the slavish veneration of a perfect human form that academic realist sculptors at the time emphasized.
As early as 1910, Brancusi introduced the bird form as a focal point of abstraction in his "Maiastra." The bird was a perfect vehicle for Brancusi to explore his concentration on the essence of a subject rather than its physical nature. He produced a series of nine bronzes and seven marbles of "Bird in Flight" between 1923 and 1940. The highly polished surface extends the idea of flight and speed even further by allowing the form to reflect and, in effect, merge with its setting, blurring the boundaries between the form and its space.
Ancient China, Yi (vessel for ritual food storage/preparation), 1200s–1000s BCE. Bronze, 8" x 4 1/2" x 3 13/16" (20.3 x 11.4 x 9.8 cm). © Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (AK-268)
A symbol can also represent the essence of an idea or object. In China, the dragon has been a potent symbol represented in art for centuries. It has symbolized positive energy, good fortune, and is considered a sign of perfect balance. For scholars it represents wisdom, enlightenment, and truth. Images of the dragon continue to play an important role in art to the present day.
The Chinese mastered bronze-casting by 2000 BCE. The first recorded dynasty, the Shang (ca. 1700–1028 BCE) perfected the production of sophisticated, elegant, and beautifully decorated bronze vessels for ritual use. These vessels, based on forms usually made of wood or ceramic, were symbols of status in wealthy burials. They almost all are decorated with the tao-tieh, a split, flattened dragon face, usually surrounded by elaborate scroll work. This symbol of the dragon was an appropriate one for burials, helping to ensure a successful afterlife.
Papua New Guinea, Yimam People, Hook Figure (Yipwon), 1900s. Wood and shell, 92 15/16" x 7" x 4" (236 x 17.8 x 10.2 cm). © Brooklyn Museum. (BMA-1609)
The Yimam people live in the Korewori River region of northeast New Guinea. New Guinea is one of the many islands that form the Oceanic region known as Melanesia in the South Pacific. New Guinea is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean. As in Australia, most arts are related to spiritual beliefs and are related to supernatural communication. Rituals and ritual art are primarily the province of men.
The hook figures were stored in the men's ceremonial house. They represented spiritual and ancestral forces, or were meant to channel those forces for luck in hunting and warfare. The figure itself represents the external and internal aspects of the spirits. A head and a leg are clearly visible. The central section represents a body, with beautifully carved hooks representing the ribs, surrounding a central element that represents the heart. Although much care went into the carving of ritual objects, they were often discarded or allowed to deteriorate after they had served their function, or were perceived as ineffective.
Max Weber (1881–1961, US, born Poland), The Dancer, 1946. Pastel on brown paper, 18 3/16" x 13 1/4" (46.2 x 33.7 cm). © Brooklyn Museum. (BMA-5052)
Max Weber, born in Russia, was probably the first American artist who experimented extensively with Cubism. He studied at the Pratt Institute under the influence of modernist painter Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) in New York and then spent 1905 to 1908 in Paris, participating in Cubist and Fauve exhibits. After he returned to the US, his work was a highly personal form of Cubism. Although he returned to more figurative work in the 1920s, there was a Cubist simplification in his work throughout his career.
The Cubism movement emphasized the idea of time as a component of two-dimensional art. The Futurists added the idea of the time component including movement (dynamism). Weber produced numerous studies of dancers in the Cubist vocabulary, using it as a way to distill the basic idea of a dancer's movements.
James A.M. Whistler (1834–1903 US), Nocturne, Blue and Silver, ca. 1872–1878. Oil on canvas, 15 1/2" x 24 3/4" (39.4 x 62.9 cm). © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. (GM-50)
Whistler's concern for abstract qualities found expression in a number of paintings (and prints) on the "nocturne" subject. While it is tempting to consider it the influence of Impressionism, Japanese art, particularly the prints of Hiroshige, were the major impetus. Like his portraits, Whistler worked with a limited palette to emphasize the surface of the painting. In 1872, Whistler declared that violinist friend Francis Leyland (1832–1892), who was devoted to Chopin, influenced his use of musical terms in his painting titles.
While the title of this series of paintings, "nocturne," alludes to the French tendency to equate art with music, the painting itself relies heavily on the Japanese idea of art as decorative and aesthetically valuable rather than philosophical. Like Japanese prints, which had fascinated Whistler, the scene of the Thames in London is reduced to simple, horizontal bands. While the bands astutely imply recession, they also help create a flat surface that verges, like Monet's late water lily works, to deny the traditional Western perception of painting as a two-dimensional window into a three-dimensional "world."
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974 Mexico), Essence of a Tree, 1965. Oil on panel, 47 1/2" x 12" (120.7 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum. © 2015 David Alfaro Siqueiros / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (BMA-5106sqars)
Siqueiros was one of the "big three" of Mexican muralists (including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco). A member of one of the armies vying for political control during the Mexican Revolution (ca. 1910–1917) and a labor activist from a young age, he studied art in both Mexico and Europe. He was affected by the frescoes of Michelangelo (1475–1564) and illusionistic Baroque ceiling and wall paintings. His murals in Mexico, on a variety of themes of social justice and a more equitable society in Mexico, are characterized by dramatic, often violent movement; distortion of forms; and a limited palette.
Siqueiros often used tree-like forms in his murals to act as divisions between themes within a greater composition. This extraction of the essence of a writhing, gestural tree is typical of his Expressionistic mural forms.
Correlations to Davis programs: Explorations in Art Grade 2: 2.7, 2.22; Explorations in Art Grade 4: 6.35; Explorations in Art Grade 6: 6.5, 6.25, 6.26; A Personal Journey: 6.1, 6.5, 6.6; A Community Connection: 1.1; A Global Pursuit: 1.1, 1.3; The Visual Experience: 1.1, 2.1; Discovering Art History: 1.2, 2.1
Labels: abstraction, Asian art, Brancusi, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Hispanic artist, Oceanic art, simplification of form, Siqueiros, symbolism, tao-tieh
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The Long Arm of Resistance: Gender-Equalizing Reform and Parental Care [1]
Rachel Brulé
Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
Center for the Advanced Study of India 3600 Market Street, Suite 560 (5th floor) University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
About the Speaker:
Rachel Brulé is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi, where she is a tenure-track faculty member of the Social Science Division's Politics Program. She is also a Research Affiliate with NYU's Global TIES for Children: Transforming Intervention Effectiveness and Scale and a member of the Empirical Gender Research Network (E-GEN). Her research on the political economy of development, gender equality, and the role of legal institutions in altering social conventions has been published in Asian Survey, with R&Rs at the Journal of Politics, and at Cambridge University Press for a book manuscript titled Representation & Resistance: Positive & Perverse Consequences of Indian Laws for Gender Equality. She is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and Truman Scholarship, and received her BA in International Relations & African Studies from Mount Holyoke College, an MSc in Forced Migration from Oxford University, an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.
About the Lecture:
Quotas for women in government have swept the world as a revolution in female political representation. However, we know very little about quotas' ability to alter the public's welfare, and whether they ultimately benefit the women they are meant to empower, especially in domains beyond the political sphere. In related work, Brulé finds quotas for female representatives enable women to demand property rights. In this talk, Brulé investigates whether enforcement of India's reforms equalizing women's rights to inherit property can facilitate equality by bringing about meaningful reorganization of familial responsibilities. She identifies how local representatives' enforcement of gender-equalizing reforms may have varied effects over time: acting as source of backlash within households in the short term and potentially changing norms in the long term around children's—traditionally son's—paramount duty to care for parents as they age. This work helps us understand when state-led reforms for women's empowerment are sources of backlash and when they may act as levers for individual women and their natal families to renegotiate slow-moving norms about the formation and distribution of obligations within families.
Listen to podcast (in conversation with Bilal Baloch, CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow) [2]
Source URL: https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/rachelbrule
[1] https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/rachelbrule
[2] https://soundcloud.com/user-722693669/spring-2018-podcast-with-rachel-brule


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The Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR (English: Brazilian Network Information Center) is a non-profit organization created to implement the decisions and projects designed by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. Some of NIC.br's responsibilities include maintaining Registro.br, responsible for the .br domain name, handle internet security and network security in Brazil, handle infrastructure for the Internet in Brazil, and gather and publish statistics about internet usage in Brazil.

The organization is also responsible for the Brazilian chapter of the World Wide Web Consortium organization. In May 2020, CEPTRO.br launched the Layer 8 podcast, with monthly episodes to discuss issues related to Internet infrastructure, communication networks and technology.

Membership and composition
According to NIC.br's by-laws, its membership is composed of three types of members: founding, special and honorary. Generally speaking, they are always full members, acting alternates or former members of the CGI.br. However, only the acting members of the CGI.br have the right to vote.

 Founders: are those members of the CGI.br who were in office when NIC.br was constituted, those who were in office when its statute was approved.
 Special: are those who, not being founders, become so at a later date.
 Honorary: those founding or special members who are no longer full members of the CGI.br and, eventually, those who have rendered relevant services to the Brazilian Internet, according to the criteria and approval by the entity's General Assembly.

Attributions
 The registration and maintenance of domain names using .br, and the distribution of Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the country, through Registro.br.
 Handling and responding to computer security incidents involving networks connected to the Internet in Brazil, activities of CERT.br.
 Creating projects which support or improve the country's network infrastructure, such as the direct interconnection between networks (PTT.br) and the distribution of Brazilian Legal Time. These projects are the responsibility of CEPTRO.br;
 The production and disclosure of indicators and statistics and strategic information on the development of the Internet in Brazil, under the responsibility of CETIC.br;
 To promote studies and recommend procedures, norms and technical and operational standards, for the security of Internet networks and services, as well as for its increasing, facilitated and adequate use by the Brazilian society;
 Technical and operational support to LACNIC, the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry.
 Hosting the Brazilian Office of the W3C, whose main attribution is to develop Web standards.

See also
 CGI.br (Brazilian Internet Steering Committee)
 IX.br
 Registro.br
 Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet

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 (in Portuguese)

Internet in Brazil
Government agencies of Brazil


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According to a release from the South Sioux City Police Department, a white Cadillac containing several unidentified individuals was seen leaving the area. Police located five spent small caliber shell casings at the scene and two occupied residences were hit with a total of five rounds. There were no reported injuries during the incident and the investigation is currently ongoing.
South Sioux City Police are investigating a Shots Fired call that was reported at 417 W19th Street in South Sioux City at 7:15pm on Friday evening.
According to a Witnesses, a White 2001 Cadillac Deville license plate DHV075 with 3 Hispanic Males and a Native American Male driver stopped near this address and fired 7 shots into the air. Police located .22 shell casings at the scene.
About the same time, Police received a call that a White late 90's style Dodge was chasing a White Cadillac and blew through a stop light headed for Sioux City. Police also located a vehicle with a back window missing at 414 W19th, it's not known at this time if it's related.


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Let me show you how easy it can be to simply play with your children all while having family pictures taken.
You have this amazingly unique family you've built and you deserve to have pictures that reflect that.
Talk to me about your journey…the joys, the chaos, the love…I want it all.


From left to right, Peter Marley, Ann Brozek and Brian Schultz, won the 2013 Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition for Dimien, a company that develops and commercializes next generation materials. Credit: Nancy J. Parisi.
Blackstone LaunchPad at UB is a game-changing entrepreneurship program and resource that will serve UB's approximate 30,000 students, regardless of major or experience.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Entrepreneurship at the University at Buffalo is about to get a big shot in the arm.
On Monday, the university will unveil the Blackstone LaunchPad at UB, a game-changing entrepreneurship program and resource that will serve UB's approximate 30,000 students, regardless of major or experience.
What: The grand opening of Blackstone LaunchPad at UB, a hands-on learning environment designed to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career option to all students.
The event will include speakers (see below), tours of the LaunchPad's new facilities, and student demonstrations of their new entrepreneurial venture or idea.
When: The event starts at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 7. Requests for interviews will be accommodated at 2:30 p.m., prior remarks, and during the tours of the LaunchPad following remarks.
Where: Room 210 of UB's Student Union on UB's North Campus (building No. 29 on this map: http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/shared_assets/campus_maps/NorthCampus_bus-routes-opt.pdf). Parking is available on Putnam Way and in the Furnas Lot. A UB media hang tag may be needed.
Who: Scheduled to speak are UB President Satish K. Tripathi; Joshua Krapf, BA '03 and MA '05, managing director at Blackstone's Hedge Fund Solutions group in Manhattan; Markel Vega, a student entrepreneur and senior marketing major in UB's School of Management; and Minahil Khan, UB Student Association president and winner of UB's 2015 Elevator Pitch Competition.
Why: Student interest in entrepreneurship at UB is very high. The Blackstone LaunchPad will build on existing UB entrepreneurial programs designed for students.
Background: Last October, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation's Entrepreneurship Initiative announced a three-year, $4.5 million grant to establish a presence at UB and four other institutes of higher learning in New York State: Cornell University, New York University, Syracuse University and University at Albany.


It took us just a few tries to finally make this shoot happen, but I am so glad that I finally got to meet up with Andrew and Erin to grab a few shots before their big day in August.
We met in downtown Raleigh and stopped by a few places that were important to them early on in their relationship, and then we decided to just roam around. That's when we stumbled upon a local festival that led to some hat shenanigans.
I can tell this is going to be a fun one... See you guys in August!
It's always an honor to get hired as the 'official' family photographer. A few years back, doting mother Alexis Hinds hired me to capture some senior shots of her son Ryan, and now here we are again. This time it's her daughter Julia's turn! Not only did we get to do some beautiful shots at a local park, but I also got some really fun shots of Julia all dressed up as a Belle for the Azalea festival.
Good luck to you as you head to Appalachian State University (go Mountaineers!) this fall, Julia!
I've known Hunter Wilson since he was just a freshfaced-freshman at UNCW, and now it's pretty darn cool that I had the honor of photographing him asking the love of his life to share life. Hunter did a great job of planning this surprise for Brooke and it definitely paid off!
*I do want to make one note for the sake of the story below: Right before Hunter dropped to his knee, there was kayaker nearby in the water that got hilariously stuck in the sand and came close to interfering with a beautiful moment. Luckily, the kayaker broke free before the proposal happened and I was able to capture a great moment of his panicked tipping into the water.
Hunter and Brooke, I can't wait to see what the future holds for you two!


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Tigers host an evening of comedy this Tuesday
17 November 2014 2:36 PM
The new season's programme of supporters' events at Welford Road kicks off tomorrow (Tuesday) with the popular Try Comedy night - and supporters can still secure their place.
Held in conjunction with Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival in the Try Line Club in the Goldsmiths Stand, it promises to an evening of top-class comedy.
Tickets are priced £10, which includes a free pint of Everards Tiger bitter, the official beer of the Leicester Tigers, and food will be available to order. Doors open at 6.30pm and the show starts at 8pm.
Lloyd Griffith will compere the night, which also features the talents of Marcel Lucont, Kate Lucas and Johnny Pelham.
Griffith was the compere at the last Try Comedy event at Welford Road in March and also hosted a tour of the stadium with a difference to coincide with Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival in February. Dressed in full Tigers kit, funnyman Griffith's tour took in all areas of the ground and incorporated some fabulously funny - and fictional - stories from Tigers' history.
As seen on BBC3's Russell Howard's Good News, Live at the Electric and Sky Atlantic's Set List, Marcel Lucont is the self-proclaimed greatest French comedian in the UK. He is the winner of the 2012 Amused Moose Award for the Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe and the 2013 Fringe World Award for Best Comedy. Click here to get a flavor of his act.
Kate Lucas is this year's Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, joining previous winners such as Johnny Vegas, Jason Manford and Rhod Gilbert, and has supported the likes of Ed Byrne, Jo Brand and Harry Hill.
Johnny Pelham, meanwhile, was a finalist in last year's BBC Radio New Comedy Awards and runner-up in the Chortle Student Comedy Award and So You Think You're Funny in 2012.
Tickets are available now from the Welford Road ticket office, on 0116 319 8888 (option 2) or online by clicking here.
Tickets are also available for all other Try Tuesdays supporters events, including the popular Pub Quiz on Tuesday, February 10 and the DX End of Season Awards Night on Tuesday, April 28. Click here to book your place.


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Lawyers Request Location Change In Montana State Fund Lawsuit
Montana Public Radio | By Corin Cates-Carney
Montana Public Radio
Montana House of Representatives.
State lawyers want to move a case challenging part of the special session fix to balance the state budget to Lewis and Clark County. The lawsuit, filed in Lake County last week, calls a law plugging $30 million into the state's budget gap unconstitutional.
In November, Governor Steve Bullock proposed, and lawmakers approved, a 3 percent fee on the state's largest workers compensation insurance provider. The fee applies to Montana State Fund assets above a billion dollars.
The State Fund's governing board sued to block this fee when it became law but withdrew the challenge under pressure from Governor Bullock. Now, a coalition of policy holders of the Montana State Fund are suing to stop the law.
The group is led by Polson Republican Representative Greg Hertz.
"It violates both the U.S. and Montana Constitution, which both don't allow the Legislature or Congress to pass laws violating contracts," Hertz says.
Last Friday, the state asked to move case to Lewis and Clark County, which the state says is closer to witnesses in the case.
The governor's office says the fee on the State Fund is needed to keep the state's budget balanced, and it was part of the bipartisan deal during the special session.
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Corin Cates-Carney is the news director at Montana Public Radio. He joined MTPR in 2015 and is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism.
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Noam Bierstone is a Canadian percussionist and curator dedicated to modern artistic performance. Committed to the creation and development of new music, Noam is a founding member of three primary artistic ventures: the saxophone and percussion duo scapegoat, which has extensively toured and performed across North America, Europe, and Australia; the Montreal concert series and performance collective NO HAY BANDA, that has quickly grown to be recognized as a leading voice of experimental new music in Canada, and the Montreal-based percussion quartet Architek. Noam pursues ongoing collaborations with various composers and artists, with a particular interest in works that expand the notion of percussion playing through new techniques, hybrid instruments, theatrical and choreographic elements, and performer-controlled electronics. Noam is regularly invited to perform at international festivals and with leading new music groups across Canada and Europe, and his discography includes releases on KAIROS, New Focus Recordings, NMC, and Cantaloupe Music. In his spare time, Noam enjoys cooking, baking, gardening, and folk dancing.
Noam holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from McGill University (supervisors: Aiyun Huang & Fabrice Marandola) and a Master in Percussion and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. His research has been published in the CeReNeM Journal.
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mountains move like clouds
Out on No Hay Discos on October 29, 2021, Noam Bierstone's debut album mountains move like clouds features three works for solo percussionist by composers Hanna Hartman, Pierluigi Billone, and...
NO HAY BANDA is a Montreal-based non-profit organization committed to the production, performance, and promotion of live musical events rooted in exploratory and avant-garde practices. NO HAY BANDA...
scapegoat is an experimental saxophone and percussion duo. Close creative collaboration and multi-media projects form the basis of their pursuit for artistic innovation and expression. Programmes...
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GSR vows not to produce ocean-mined minerals before the environmental risks are comprehensively understood
GSR is fully committed to the research required to provide the necessary evidence and is collaborating right now with an independent EU funded monitoring program as part of an ongoing research campaign for its pre-prototype nodule collector, Patania II. Kris van Nijen, Managing Director of GSR, said: "Deep seabed mining is an industry in the exploration, research and development phase. Years of detailed scientific work lie ahead before there is any prospect of commercial activity." "The research that campaigners are calling for is required by the International Seabed Authority. In effect, campaigners are simply, and rightly, asking for the current regulatory processes to be followed and requirements applied." "GSR will only apply for a mining contract if the science shows that, from an environmental and social perspective, deep seabed minerals have advantages over the alternative – which is to rely solely on new and current mines on land." Editors notes About GSR Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) is the deep-sea exploratory division of the DEME Group, a world leader in marine engineering, dredging, and environmental remediation. Using its 140 years of know-how, DEME is helping to address many of the most pressing global challenges, including climate change, rising sea levels, and the transition to renewable energy. What is Deep Seabed Mining? Deep seabed mining (DSM) is the term applied to processes and technologies designed to collect metal-rich resources from the deep seafloor. There are three types of deep seabed mineral resources that are of interest to mining companies: seafloor massive sulphides, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, and polymetallic nodules. Extracting sulphides and crusts entails cutting into the seabed surface. By contrast, polymetallic nodules are rock-like accretions that lie unattached on the surface of the ocean floor and can be collected without cutting or drilling. Most interest and investment in DSM is focused on polymetallic nodules and this is the sole focus on GSR's exploration and research. There are trillions of these nodules, roughly the size of potatoes, lying at a water depth of 4,000 to 6,000 metres in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a six million square kilometre region of the Pacific Ocean's seafloor between Mexico and Hawaii. Since the early 1970s, there has been growing interest in collecting these nodules due the high-grade and multiple metals they contain – metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese, and copper. The limits of recycling and substitution The metals found in polymetallic nodules are critical for clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicle batteries and other energy storage devices. The World Bank estimates that more than three billion tons of these metals will be needed to deploy the wind, solar and energy storage technologies required to keep climate change to below +2°C[1]. As with clean energy technologies, urban infrastructure is metal intensive. By 2064 the number of people living in resource-hungry urban locations is forecast to increase by 1.93 billion[2]. Remarkably, to accommodate this swelling urban population, the equivalent of 229 New York Cities will need to be built in the next 40 years, putting huge pressure on already strained resources. In the long-term, a fully circular economy in metals is achievable but all credible studies[3] conclude that enormous quantities of primary resource will be required first. Current land-based sources will make a contribution, but they can't do it all. Expanding recycling will also play a part but can only make a modest contribution. That's because of long in-use lifetimes (an offshore wind turbine is expected to last more than 30 years for example) and also because of low efficiencies in collecting and processing end of life materials. Beyond recycling, strategies such as material substitution, product re-use and product re-design may be able to place a brake on society's thirst for metals, and future technological advances may also help to dampen demand. However, the scale and pace of forecast demand is so high that significant new sources of metal will still be needed in the coming decades. Diversity of supply Today all of the world's primary metals are sourced from land-based mines. About 70 per cent of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the balance coming from Russia, Australia, Cuba, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and Canada. Nickel is primarily mined in Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, and New Caledonia. Because the ore grade of land-based deposits is declining, new sources of metal supplies are being explored, often in remote and ecologically sensitive regions, including rainforests. While many mining companies act responsibly there is no escaping the fact that land-based mining is carbon intensive, often results in deforestation, creates mountains of waste – some of it toxic – and can lead to the displacement of peoples. Nickel, copper, manganese and cobalt never appear together in terrestrial deposits; two to three separate land-based mines are needed to extract them. The multi-metal nature of polymetallic nodules means that a deep seabed mining area is, in effect, two or three land-based mines in one, which means there is the potential to reduce waste and CO2 emissions per tonne of metal mined and minimise a number of other negative environmental and social effects. The world is certainly not running out of land-based metal. There are enough resources to meet demand. The problem is that mining these resources comes with a heavy environmental burden, and as exploration takes miners into ever more remote and biodiverse areas, the scale of that burden will only grow. Deep seabed mining may represent a better way of meeting future metal demand and expand diversity of supply. It certainly won't replace land-based mining entirely, but it may contribute to a less carbon intensive way of providing the metals we need, and it may have fewer ecosystem effects overall. Continued research will provide the evidence that all stakeholders need to draw rational conclusions about how best to proceed. Patania II trial Named after the world's fastest caterpillar, Patania II is the pre-prototype seafloor nodule collector built by Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR). GSR commenced its technical development programme in 2012. In 2017, the company tested a robot with a tracked propulsion system designed to crawl across the deep seafloor (Patania I). Using the learnings about trafficability and manoeuvrability from this test, GSR engineered Patania II, a 12 m-long, 4 m-wide, 4.5 m-high, 25-ton nodule-collecting robot, also on caterpillar tracks. Patania II is equipped with the latest cameras and sensors, including environmental sensors. The robot is controlled from a surface vessel via a 5 km-long cable that provides power and communication capabilities. Patania II is being trialled in 4500 m water depth on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean in April and May 2021. The trial will aim to confirm the trafficability and manoeuvrability of Patania II and its ability to pick up nodules. The trial follows the submission of an Environmental Impact Statement, which was made publicly available through the websites of the International Seabed Authority and Belgium government. The results of this research will also be made public. Independent environmental monitoring Environmental monitoring is a key component of GSR's development program, ensuring the effects of its activities are understood, can be accurately predicted and improved upon and so that appropriate environmental management strategies can be developed and implemented. For the Patania II trial, GSR is collaborating with the European research project Mining Impact. Scientists from 28 European institutes will join efforts with the German exploration contract holder, BGR, to independently monitor the trial to help understand the environmental effects of collecting mineral resources from the seafloor. [1] Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition, World Bank, 2020 [2] Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study, Stein et al, 2020 [3] Institute for Sustainable Futures – Responsible Minerals Sourcing for Renewable Energy, 2019; Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition, World Bank, 2020; Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency's Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios. Watari et al.,2018


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Q: How to send multiple checkbox selections over a POST request to a Google Form with a ASP.NET Web Form/Sending duplicate keys with NameValueCollection I am working on automating a consent/sign-in Google Form utilizing our campus CAS system by creating a front end for the Google Form in order to allow admins to still keep all the analytics given by google from the google sheet it uses.
I am currently using the WebClient approach below and have had success with getting every field submit successfully through the POST request except the responses from a multi-select checkbox. When I try to send anything that does not match a response on my google form EX: Google Form has checkbox with value "Other" and I try and send a parameter containing the value "Other X1231" the client.UploadValues fails. Following this I am unable to send no more than one value from the checkbox which defeats the purpose of having a multiple-select checkbox. My current approach is utilizing info from this question How to post data to specific URL using WebClient in C#
EDIT: After further investigation I was able to get the prefilled link google uses and I was able to see what the URL looks like with checkbox values. Here it is. As you can see there are infact multiple entry.33031323's being sent. I found out that NameValueCollections do not allow duplicate keys which is what I need to do in order for this to work as far as I can see.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScojrZli-0eNGABtqHUmoClqu14R07lhcwkn6ZaHXB0t5wS0g/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.1441757426=lala&entry.1952327001=232&entry.112478472=Faculty/Staff&entry.1683121781=Swenson+Pool&entry.745164965=HIIT+IT!&entry.1194649100=5:30+PM&entry.33031323=Social+Media&entry.33031323=Website&entry.33031323=Word-of-Mouth&entry.33031323=Print+Media&entry.33031323=Other
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
        {
            var reqparm = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
            reqparm.Add("entry.2041020761", consentText);
            reqparm.Add("entry.1441757426", participantFullName.Text);
            reqparm.Add("entry.1952327001", wNumber.Text);
            reqparm.Add("entry.112478472", demographicDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.1683121781", classLocationDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.745164965", classTypeDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.1194649100", classTimeDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.33031323", "Word-of-Mouth");
            reqparm.Add("entry.33031323", "Other");
            byte[] responsebytes = client.UploadValues("https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLScojrZli-0eNGABtqHUmoClqu14R07lhcwkn6ZaHXB0t5wS0g/formResponse", "POST", reqparm);
            string responsebody = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responsebytes);
        }

entry.XXXX corresponds to fields on the google form. If I run the code above with two
 reqparm.Add("entry.33031323", "Other"); the result I get is pictured below.

However, if I just have one entry.33031323 like the following the form is accepted and recorded on the Google Sheet connected to the Google Form pictured below.
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
        {
            var reqparm = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
            reqparm.Add("entry.2041020761", consentText);
            reqparm.Add("entry.1441757426", participantFullName.Text);
            reqparm.Add("entry.1952327001", wNumber.Text);
            reqparm.Add("entry.112478472", demographicDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.1683121781", classLocationDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.745164965", classTypeDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.1194649100", classTimeDD.SelectedValue.ToString());
            reqparm.Add("entry.33031323", "Word-of-Mouth");
            byte[] responsebytes = client.UploadValues("https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLScojrZli-0eNGABtqHUmoClqu14R07lhcwkn6ZaHXB0t5wS0g/formResponse", "POST", reqparm);
            string responsebody = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responsebytes);
        }

I am able to get all the items from the checkbox through looping through/LINQ, however if I try and send that string of responses to entry.33031323 it throws the same error EX: "Word-of-Mouth Other Website" != any response on the form like "Website". How can I make this all work?
This is my CheckBoxList control
 How did you hear about the GroupX program? (Optional)
        <asp:CheckBoxList ID="howDidYouHearAboutUsCBL" runat="server">
            <asp:ListItem Text="Social Media" Value="Social Media"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="Website" Value="Website"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="Word-of-Mouth" Value="Word-of-Mouth"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="Print Media" Value="Print Media"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="Other" Value="Other"></asp:ListItem>
        </asp:CheckBoxList>

This is the checkbox group on the Google Form i'm using to test.

A: I was able to solve this by using a HttpWebRequest shown below.
 string consentText = "";

        if (rbConsent.Checked)
        {
            consentText = rbConsent.Text;
        }

        //address form is submitted to
        string sAddress = "https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLScojrZli-0eNGABtqHUmoClqu14R07lhcwkn6ZaHXB0t5wS0g/formResponse";
        string sContent = "entry.2041020761=" + consentText +
                          "&entry.1441757426=" + participantFullName.Text +
                          "&entry.1952327001=" + wNumber.Text +
                          "&entry.112478472=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(demographicDD.SelectedValue.ToString()) +
                          "&entry.1683121781=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(classLocationDD.SelectedValue.ToString()) +
                          "&entry.745164965=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(classTypeDD.SelectedValue.ToString()) +
                          "&entry.1194649100=" + classTimeDD.SelectedItem.Text;

        //iterate through howDidYouHearAboutUsCBL and append checked items to sContent
        foreach (ListItem item in howDidYouHearAboutUsCBL.Items)
        {
            if (item.Selected)
            {
                sContent += "&entry.33031323=" + item.Value;
            }
        }

        sContent += "&submit=";
        string sResponse = "";

        System.Net.HttpWebRequest req = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(sAddress);
        req.Method = "POST";
        req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
        req.Timeout = 10 * 1000;
        req.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
        byte[] bPayload = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sContent);
        req.ContentLength = bPayload.Length;
        System.IO.Stream str = req.GetRequestStream();
        str.Write(bPayload, 0, bPayload.Length);
        str.Close();

        System.Net.HttpWebResponse res;
        res = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
        System.IO.StreamReader rdr = new System.IO.StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.Default);
        sResponse = rdr.ReadToEnd();
        rdr.Close();
        res.Close();

I iterate through my checkbox and append a new "&entry.33031323=" for each checked item. sContent is then URL encoded and posted.

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After almost a year, it is time for an update! Times have changed - new silent products have been introduced, CPU's and Video Cards are getting hotter and hotter.
Therefore, I have updated EVERY SINGLE PAGE of the Build a Silent PC guide! I discuss the latest products available, and have updated each and every page to allow readers to find the lowest price possible for each product!


Celebrate your 40th Anniversary and your love story with a Personalized Heart Map showing your favorite place.
It could be where you met, were engaged, were married 40 years ago or your first home, in fact anywhere that has a US or UK postal address can be added.
Plus there is also space to add a small personal message, making it a great gift for your 40th Anniversary and it looks really stylish too. It would look lovely on a wall in your home.
It is also the perfect gift for your 41st Anniversary as well as this is celebrated with land.
And you can choose between a dark brown wood or white frame.
This gift can take up to 2 weeks to arrive.


Be more physically active. Studies show that not only does this reduce your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers by up to 50 percent, but regular exercise also increases your chance of living longer and improves your mental health and mood. If you're older, aerobic activity helps arthritis and reduces your chances of hip fractures by over 40 percent.
Check your numbers. In addition to checking your blood pressure, get a blood test to keep track of your cholesterol and blood sugar numbers. Keep in mind that there are no symptoms for pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes often becomes severe before there are any warning signs. Most medical professionals recommend levels of blood pressure less than 120/80, a total cholesterol score less than 200, and a blood sugar level less than 6 percent.
Eat more fruits and veggies. This has been show to help reduce the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and some cancers. In addition, fruits and vegetables are naturally low in calories and provide fiber to help you feel full. Dieticians often advise people to try to replace unhealthy food with at least five servings of produce a day - and more if you can.
Teach your kids to stay active. Most kids are naturally physically active, but often things like electronics and TV get in the way. Studies show that physically active kids are more likely to be academically motivated, alert, and successful. Most pediatricians recommend that children age 6 and older get at least an hour a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Get enough sleep. Not only does more sleep make you feel better, but it's also been found to reduce your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Medical professionals say that 7-9 hours a night is optimal for most adults.
So this month, put some heart into your home by educating your family about how to stay healthy. And have a Happy and Healthy Heart Month!


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Harvard place for Dame Jennifer
By Raymond Hainey
Published Dec 31, 2014 at 8:00 am (Updated Jan 1, 2015 at 1:17 am)
Leadership Initiative: Dame Jennifer Smith has been accepted on a course at Harvard University
Dame Jenifer Smith, the first elected Premier of the opposition party, is heading to Harvard Universit. (Photo by Nicola Muirhead)
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Former Premier Dame Jennifer Smith is going back to school — on a course for high-flyers at one of America's top universities.
Dame Jennifer has been accepted on the prestigious year-long Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and won a scholarship from the university, the oldest in America, to attend.
The course, which starts next month, is designed to prepare experienced leaders to take on new challenges in the social sector and will end with the preparation of a major project in a special area of interest.
Dame Jennifer said: "The idea is to give back to the community and that can be interpreted as widely as you like — it can be the community, the region, it depends on what the project is."
She added: "What they say is they don't want you coming with too many preconceived notions — they want you to be inspired by the courses you take and the people you meet and what fires your passion.
"I told them my passion was children, education and women's issues, women's rights in particular."
Dame Jennifer is one of fewer than 40 candidates selected for the course from around the world.
She said: "I don't have a project formatted yet. You have to present that in October. Some people have written a book or started a non-profit or a foundation or you could come up with a joint project. "I'm still wavering between children and early education and women's rights."
But she said a 2005 conference in Beijing on women's rights and representation in government, atttended by a delegation from Bermuda, had set targets which had not been met.
Dame Jennifer added: "We haven't achieved all we wanted — it wouldn't be so concerning, but in some areas we have gone backwards."
She said that the discovery of trafficked women being used as slaves in London showed how much work needed to be done.
She added: "In other places, there has been a violent backlash, if you will — we can't leave it unattended. If one is not free, we are not free."
The Advanced Leadership Initiative was set up in 2009 as a collaboration between the Harvard faculties of business, education, government, law, medicine and public health.
The university said the aim is "to build knowledge about societal challenges requiring interdisciplinary leadership skills and to capitalise on demographic changes that create opportunities to educate and deploy accomplished leaders at later life stages in public service."
Harvard added: "Harvard is seeking to tap the experience of a socially conscious generation of leaders and help redirect and broaden their skills to fill critical leadership gaps in solving major social issues."
And the course site said that "a select group of Fellows from diverse sectors with a track record of achievement and accomplishment have come to Harvard to transition from their primary income-earning careers and prepare for their next phase plan as change agents for society."
Dame Jennifer, retired from politics in 2012 after losing her St George's North seat in the December general election, which she had held since 1989 following a nine-year stint in Senate.
She became the first PLP Premier when the party won the 1998 general election and the first elected woman Premier in the Island's history, while her five-year term as the country's leader makes her the second-longest serving Premier after Sir John Swan, who occupied Cabinet Office for 13 years.
Dame Jennifer said: "As long as there is life, you have to be living it, enjoying it and giving back. You have to change what you're doing — never say never, but I doubt I'll be entering politics again."
She added: "I don't know what Bermuda will do with me, but I trust there will be some area, either here or elsewhere, where my experience and skills may be put to good use. I'm open to all the possibilities that might be presented during this year ahead."
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What was once considered a luxury is now a rising demand amongst customers. With the invention of manufacturing facilities in the early 1900s, people have found it convenient and even economical to purchase from a mass production, rather than have to sit through two fitting sessions for every piece of clothing made. However, those in middle and upper classes still retained the services of a tailor to ensure the clothing made fits to their taste and their fit.
However, as early as the 1980s, the garment industry has gone global, with the rise of inexpensive labour overseas and improved shipping logistics. As a result, materials, which was once a costly factor in bespoke clothing has lowered in price. In addition, the trend of overseas tailors offering their services to North America has become more popular especially since labor rates are much cheaper there.
More importantly, the revival of bespoke clothing was really made popular by celebrities and royalty who chose to incorporate their personal taste into the design of the clothing rather than purchasing a designer piece off the rack. Reinforced by the discerning taste of the rich, and services now made available to the masses, tailor services have successfully revived.
Thanks to the internet, you no longer need to be physically present at your tailors in order to have your clothing made. You just need to submit the measurements requested by the tailor, select the style and the materials in the catalogues and weeks later, your clothing will arrive at your doorstep waiting for your first fitting.
Once you have tried on the clothes and if they require further alterations, then you will need to ship it back to the tailor for refinement. However, with most tailors, usually after the second fitting, the clothes can be worn.
The rise of the overseas tailors does not mean that local dressmakers and tailors need to close their shop. Tailors work by reputation and your long term clients will continue to be loyal as long as you don't do anything too drastic like raise the prices or change the quality of your materials. On the other hand, there are still many customers who wish to be in the store to see and feel the materials for themselves, so no matter how economical an overseas vendor may be, these customers will still prefer to shop locally.
As a result, fashion students who are looking to make a mark in the local market as a designer or a tailor may have the opportunity to showcase their talent. Many neighbourhoods in North America tend to brag about their local designers, who care about the people and the trend, and not about the cheapness of the quality or the price. These are the talented individuals who will stay on to contribute to the flavor of the local fashion scene.
For more information about the local fashion scene, contact your high school counselor or the local fashion school.


Canangsari and Segehan is the most basic component in an offering by Hindus in Bali. Two of these facilities is a form of respect, devotion, and thanks of man to God. Not only that, canangsari and segehan is a manifestation of human brotherhood to the ancestral spirits and demons.
There are three basic components to any offerings by Hindus in Bali, namely flower / leaf / fruit, fire, and water. Canangsari is the most complete group of flower / leaf / fruit. Tirta is representing the water. Incense represents fire. See also: Canang sari is characteristic of Bali.
It is true that God does not take food from humans, but all offerings made by Hindus in Bali, with a number of very large and very many, it all is a manifestation of human devotion and gratitude for all fertility and blessing given by God. See also: Banten, canangsari, segehan, Pajegan, rarapan, all of it is a means to worship by Hindus in Bali.
The shape is more complex than a offerings to canangsari in it.