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Current Affairs Quiz: December 21, 2021
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Current Affairs 21 December 2021 Quiz
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As per Centre for Science and Environment report,which city is Most Polluted City in North India?
A) New delhi
B) Noida
C) Ghaziabad
D) Lucknow
Explanation: Ghaziabad is the most polluted city in north India and its annual average PM2.5 levels are much worse than those of Delhi, according to data from 137 continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS) spread across 56 cities in the region.
Which state topped the chart in the 'large states'category on the 'Index on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy'?
A) WestBengal
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Karnataka
Explanation: West Bengal topped the chart and Bihar languished at the bottom in the 'large states'category on the 'Index on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy' — an indicator of literacy among children below 10 years.
Which state government announced 'Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu,'?
A) TamilNadu
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Telangana
D) Andhra Pradesh
Explanation: The Tamil Nadu government announced 'Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu,' an invocation sung in praise of Mother Tamil, as the state anthem and directed that all present during its rendition should remain standing.
How much amount was released by Union Cabinet to the Delhi government Under National Clean Air Programme?
A) ₹20 cr
B) ₹15 cr
C) ₹9 cr
D) ₹11 cr
Explanation: The Union Environment Ministry has released Rs 11 crore to Delhi under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to cater to critical gaps in air pollution management, officials said.
India's first International Arbitration and Mediation Centre opened in which city?
B) Hyderabad
C) NewDelhi
Explanation: India's first International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC) was jointly inaugurated by Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, and Telangana Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Ra.
With which country,India announced program titled 'Technology-based Energy Solutions: Innovations for Net Zero'?
A) France
B) UK
C) USA
Explanation: India and the US have announced a new program supporting innovations to tackle climate and clean energy challenges. The program titled 'Technology-based Energy Solutions: Innovations for Net Zero' constitutes a call for Ignition Grants by the United States-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund.
Which became the first country in the European Union to agree to formally legalize the use and growing of marijuana for recreational purposes?
A) Uzbekistan
B) Eithopia
C) France
D) Malta
Explanation: Malta became the first country in the European Union to agree to formally legalize the use and growing of marijuana for recreational purposes, the latest sign of a more liberal approach to the substance being taken in the bloc in recent years.
As per report by Truecaller,what is the rank of India in most affected country by spam calls in 2021 ?
A) 4th
B) 1st
C) 2nd
D) 3rd
Explanation: Spam call rates in India have spiked again, with the country moving up in global rankings from 9th position to 4th position owing to a significant increase in sales and telemarketing calls in 2021, according to the latest insights by caller ID, spam detection and blocking company, Truecaller.
Recently which bank got approval by RBI to collect indirect taxes?
A) RBL Bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) IDBI BAnk
D) YES Bank
Explanation: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has authorised RBL Bank to collect indirect taxes on behalf of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), the private sector lender informed
Who will head the committee that has been formed by IFSCA for creating framework for transfer of stressed loan?
A) G Padmanabhan
B) Mahesh Jain
C) Mukesh Rana
D) LV Prabhakar
Explanation: The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) sets up a committee for creating a framework for transfer of stressed loans from domestic lenders to financial institutions in IFSC.
Recently Tata Motors partnered with which state to Set Up Vehicle Scrappage Facility?
A) Maharashtra
B) Andhra Pradesh
D) Uttrakhand
Explanation: Tata Motors said it has joined hands with the Maharashtra government to support setting up of a registered vehicle scrapping facility (RVSF) in the state.
Who created eight national records on the way to a gold in the women's +87kg category at the Commonwealth Championships?
A) Madhurima Pandey
B) Tanya Tyagi
C) Lokesh Kumari
D) Purnima Pandey
Explanation: Indian lifter Purnima Pandey created eight national records on the way to a gold in the women's +87kg category at the Commonwealth Championships.
Who won the girls singles event at the 2021 ITTF Hopes and Challenge table tennis tournament in Amman?
A) Hansini Mathan
B) Lovepreet Singh
C) Anuradha Singh
D) Tanya Patwal
Explanation: India's Hansini Mathan Rajan defeated Syria's Hend Zaza, the youngest athlete of this year's Tokyo Olympics, to win the girls singles event at the 2021 ITTF Hopes and Challenge table tennis tournament in Amman.
Who won the women singles gold at BWF World Championship 2021?
A) Akane Yamaguchi
B) Tai Tzu Ying
C) Saina Nehwal
D) Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Explanation: Second seeded Akane Yamaguchi clinched the title of women's singles at the BWF World Championship in Huelva (Spain). The 24-year-old Japanese shuttler beat World No.1 and top seed Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei with convincing win in two games, 21-14, 21-11 in 39 minutes at Carolina Marin Stadium.
Who was elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society, an apex body of Publishers of Newspapers, Magazines & Periodicals in the country?
A) L Adimoolam
B) K a Raja
C) Mohit Jain
D) Rakesh Sharma
Explanation: Mohit Jain of The Economic Times was elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society, an apex body of Publishers of Newspapers, Magazines & Periodicals in the country, for the year 2021-22.
Recently who was sworn in as Austria's third chancellor in two months?
A) Karl Nehammer
B) Angela Merkel
C) Krishteina Georgia
D) Angelia Jolie
Explanation: Karl Nehammer was sworn in as Austria's third chancellor in two months, capping a round of upheaval triggered by the decision last week of Sebastian Kurz, the country's dominant political figure of recent years, to bow out of politics.
Who has been adjudged as the world's 12th 'Most Admired Man', as per a survey conducted by YouGov?
B) Sachin Tendulkar
C) Saurav Ganguly
D) MS Dhoni
Explanation: Legendary Sachin Tendulkar has been adjudged as the world's 12th 'Most Admired Man', as per a survey conducted by YouGov, an internet-based market research and data analytics firm.
Which country Successfully Testsed Nuclear-capable Ballistic Missile 'Agni P'?
B) Malaysia
C) China
D) Pakistan
Explanation: India successfully tested the new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile 'Agni P' from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the Odisha coast, the Defence Research and Development Organisation said.
Recently RL Jalapa passed away,He was related to which field?
A)Author
B) Sports
C) Actor
D) Politics
Explanation: Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister R.L. Jalappa passed away in Kolar following age-related issues. He was 96.
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Where is the HQ of Badminton World Federation?
A) Malaysia
B) Thailand
C) India
D) Singapore
Where is the HQ of IFSCA?
A) Uttarakhand
B) NewDelhi
C) Gujarat
Where is the HQ of RBL Bank?
A) Mumbai
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Reliever Tony Zych survives shaky ninth inning in Mariners victory
Fri., March 11, 2016, 6:27 p.m.
By Bob Dutton Tacoma News Tribune
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – It is the nature of spring training that Mariners reliever Tony Zych might have proved more Friday by turning a three-run lead into a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
Zych gave up three straight hits to start the ninth inning, which scored one run and put runners on second and third. But he then closed out the victory by retiring the next three batters – two on strikeouts.
"He went to the slider today," Mariners manager Scott Servais said. "They were on the fastball. They went up looking for it, and they squared a few up on him. That's why you have to have the second pitch – and the command of it."
Zych ended the game by stranding the tying run at third when he struck out Grant Green by throwing sliders on 3-1 and 3-2 counts.
"In the pen," Zych said, "my fastball felt great. It felt great in warmups. I actually thought the pitches were fairly decent. They just came out swinging, and they got on a couple of them.
"I had to make the adjustment. In that situation there, nobody wants to give up any runs, but the truth is you've got to win the game there. Three runs ties it, but two doesn't kill us. We still get a win."
The Mariners (6-4) never trailed.
Hisashi Iwakuma opened the game by breezed through three shutout innings. That followed a spring debut last Sunday when he pitched two perfect innings against Texas.
"I think my fastball was pretty sharp," he said. "I think the ball came out of my hand pretty well. I was able to command like I did last time. I felt I was able to throw a little harder today. So, overall, I think it was good."
The Mariners caught an immediate break when Ketel Marte's leadoff drive to left turned into a double when Mac Williamson lost the ball in the sun. Leonys Martin then sent a hard grounder up the middle for an RBI single.
Seager's two-out single in the third ignited a two-run burst. Franklin Gutierrez followed with a slicing drive into the right-center gap that eluded a diving Gorkys Hernandez for an RBI double.
Stefen Romero made it 3-0 with a line-drive single to right.
The Giants (5-6) closed to 3-2 on Hunter Pence's two-run homer in the fourth against Joel Peralta, who retired the first two batters before yielding a double to Buster Posey.
Chris Taylor's two-out bloop double in the eighth against Clayton Blackburn boosted the Mariners' lead to 4-2. Taylor scored when one-day call-up Tyler O'Neill followed with an RBI single.
That proved to be the winning run.
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Il singolare del German Open Tennis Championship 2010 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte dell'ATP World Tour 2010.

Nikolaj Davydenko era il detentore del titolo, ma ha perso nel 3º turno contro Andrej Golubev.

Andrej Golubev ha battuto in finale Jürgen Melzer 6-3, 7-5.

Teste di serie
Tutte le teste di serie hanno ricevuto un bye per il 2º turno

  Nikolaj Davydenko (terzo turno)
  David Ferrer (Non partecipa)
  Jürgen Melzer (finale)
  Gaël Monfils (Non partecipa a causa di un infortunio alla caviglia destra)
  Nicolás Almagro (secondo turno)
  Juan Carlos Ferrero (quarti di finale)
  Thomaz Bellucci (quarti di finale)
  Albert Montañés (secondo turno)

<li> Gilles Simon (secondo turno)
<li> Philipp Kohlschreiber (terzo turno)
<li> Tommy Robredo (secondo turno)
<li> Victor Hănescu (secondo turno)
<li> Philipp Petzschner (secondo turno)
<li> Guillermo García López (Non partecipa)
<li> Aleksandr Dolgopolov (secondo turno)
<li> Michael Berrer (secondo turno)

Tabellone

Finali

Parte alta

Sezione 1

Sezione 2

Parte bassa

Sezione 3

Sezione 4

Collegamenti esterni

German Open Tennis Championship 2010
ATP World Tour 2010

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Tako Kichi (Kite Crazy): Chico Kite Day was a winner!
Chico Kite Day was a winner!
The winds were already above 10 MPH when I got up on Sunday morning. It looked like it could start raining any minute, so I dressed for wet weather. My flying buddy, Jim Stainback, picked me up before 11 AM, and when we arrived at Community Park, we found kites already in the air (Kite Day officially starts at noon). By 11:30 Jim & I had kites up, and friends, Mike Hagen and Rhonda Davidson, had arrived and were unpacking their wagon-full of kites. By about 12:15 we had at least eight kites in the air (surrounded by hundreds more) plus two stuntkites, a TOTL Hawaiian Team Kite and a Widowmaker.
Like every Chico Kite Day (except for last year's rain-out), kids and families were in abundance and having a great time.
We didn't quite make it to 4 PM; a light rain let loose around 3:30, prompting us to wind it all in. As Kite Days go here in Chico, CA, this one was pretty darn good. The favorable winds were steady, the weather held, hundreds of kites were flown... and there were smiles and laughter all over the park.


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Eight Political Myths That Were Shattered in the Primaries This Week
By Brogan Morris | March 11, 2016 | 10:45am
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It's been an odd, unpredictable seven days in the presidential primaries. In a week where nine states went to the polls, chunks of the electorate defied voting expectations, pollsters lost significant bets, and candidates near-enough counted out made shocking comebacks.
Some of what went down was just business as usual. The GOP continues to inspire a high turnout, the electorate is still voting against the establishment candidates (first goes Bush, now Rubio appears to be on his way out), while Dem voters choosing between Clinton and Sanders remain divided along lines of age and fortune. Otherwise, it was a week where presumed truths were proven false, and where Ted Cruz possibly outing himself as a Brony wasn't even the most surprising thing that happened. Here are some key myths that got shattered this week.
1. Bernie Sanders doesn't appeal to non-white voters
In southern states like Alabama and South Carolina, Hillary Clinton had been winning with as many as 90% of black voters, easily beating Bernie Sanders with that demographic. So, quite rightly, the pundits had been asking whether the Sanders campaign was ever going to make inroads with more than just Caucasians. Well, on Tuesday, in Michigan, Sanders got 31% of the African-American vote, a significant enough number to bring him victory in a state where 20-30 percent of likely Democratic voters are black. Either the Sanders campaign was right on the money when it assumed black voters in the north would be more receptive to Sanders' message, or Clinton's firewall is breaking. (It's probably not the latter, considering Sanders suffered his heaviest defeat in Mississippi — the state with the largest percentage of African-Americans — the same night he won Michigan.)
This follows Sanders' strong showing among Latinos in Colorado and a heavily disputed 'victory' with Hispanic voters in Nevada. It's also interesting to note that Sanders did very well with Michigan's Arab-American Muslim community on Tuesday night, though that's perhaps not so surprising: Sanders is, after all, the most popular of any candidate among Asian-Americans.
2. It's strictly a Trump revolution
It was said before this week that the only evidence of a 'political revolution' was to be found on the Republican side. Rather than Bernie Sanders, it looked like Donald Trump was actually the one driving people to the polls. This week, however, that changed.
Of Bernie Sanders' wins since Saturday, there was reportedly "massive" turnout in the Nebraska caucus; record breaking turnout in Kansas (more than 40,000 voters, 10% up from 2008); and record breaking caucus turnout in Maine (about 48,000), with some areas so overwhelmed they were forced to cancel the actual caucusing and just hand out paper ballots instead. Turnout in Tuesday's Michigan primary also broke a record held since 1972, with 2.5 million stepping out to cast their vote. Many of these were for the GOP, but the Democratic field was also flush with voters, with some Dem polling stations even running out of ballots early. Bernie Sanders' 'revolution' may have started later than he anticipated, but he'll be pleased to see it's finally underway.
3. The polls are rock solid
A lot of faith has been put into polls by pundits this primary season, and for good reason. The polls, up until this week, had been predicting the outcome in most states with a solid degree of accuracy. It got to the stage where commentators had basically been calling votes before they'd even happened. Then along came Michigan.
Hillary Clinton's shock loss in the Wolverine State proved that not a 10, nor 20, nor 37-point deficit in the polls necessarily means a loss on the day. In what has been called "one of the greatest upsets in modern political history," Bernie Sanders defied an average 21-point shortfall in the polls to win Michigan by some 19,000 votes. On the GOP side, both Ted Cruz and John Kasich also made unexpectedly strong showings through the week, with Cruz snatching three states from Donald Trump and Kasich in seven days doubling the number of delegates he'd amassed in the previous month. This was after Trump had been declared the runaway frontrunner, with pollsters finding him ahead in most states polled.
4. Voters don't trust Hillary Clinton
Though we've learned the hard way that the polls aren't always foolproof, we have to assume based on the still-high level of accuracy that there's some value in them. So, we look to the question of voter trust for Hillary Clinton. While it's true that, nationally, trust for Clinton remains a problem, some individual states reveal rather different results. After South Carolina voters declared Clinton more honest than Bernie Sanders, Mississippi exit polls this week revealed voters there trust Clinton on race relations much more than they do her opponent. So, Clinton isn't entirely the least trusted of the presidential hopefuls. Depending on what state you're in, she might be the candidate you trust most.
5. The young aren't voting
Bernie Sanders is big with young voters. His problem? Well, as Salon put it, a good number of them "never bother voting." And this may have been true prior to this week, as even Sanders himself complained low turnout was keeping him from coming out on top in some states. But on Tuesday 18-29 year-olds made up 21% of the vote on the Democratic side in Michigan, while voters under 45 made up in total around half of the state vote. It was these folks more than any others that helped bag the state for Sanders, and proved that young voters, when motivated, do GOTV.
6. Donald Trump is loved best by "the poorly educated"
We know Bernie Sanders performs well amongst the young and that Hillary Clinton is big with older voters and African-Americans, but what about Donald Trump? Does he continue to do best amongst the "poorly educated," as he calls them Well, yes, white voters without college degrees are still Trump's bread and butter, but this past week the Donald has perhaps surprisingly been picking up the college graduate vote as well. In Michigan, Trump split graduates with John Kasich roughly evenly, and he was shown to perform very well in areas with high numbers of graduates in Mississippi, too.
7. Trump is inevitable
Marco Rubio might not be posing too much trouble these days, but John Kasich did well enough to steal a big portion of the delegates in Michigan, where late-deciding voters went for the Ohio governor first and Trump third. Kasich isn't the major threat in the long-run, however (though the most recent poll out of Ohio has Kasich regaining his lead over Trump there, unsurprising considering it's his own state). That would be Ted Cruz.
Cruz not only won, but performed much better than expected in Maine on Saturday. Even more impressively, he defied the polls to beat Trump in both Idaho and Kansas, and proved a stronger-than-anticipated challenge in Kentucky and Louisiana. With home state Texas behind him, it was assumed this "Southern niche candidate" was only on a downward curve, but after a fortnight of Trump taking flak from both the media and the GOP establishment, Cruz has been making a comeback. There are now less than 100 delegates separating Trump and Cruz, with 25 states left to vote. Cruz taking over in first place is easily within the realm of possibility, especially with so many winner-takes-all states coming up.
8. Hillary Clinton is inevitable
If we're to assume that the Republican Party is, in fact, dead as an electable entity, then the race to decide the nominee on the Democratic side is by default the more interesting one. It shouldn't be, because it wasn't ever even supposed to be a race: from the start, Hillary Clinton has been the runaway favourite, and she remains the favourite today. On Tuesday night, though, just as the punditocracy was about to disregard Bernie Sanders altogether, the battle for the Dem nomination heated up with his unexpected Michigan win. Sanders has a lot of catching up to do delegates-wise, but with the Deep South vote done on 3/15 (after North Carolina, it gets tougher demographically for Clinton) and with Sanders proving he can perform well in major rustbelt states, this competition just got very, well, competitive again.
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Complaints as a proportion of telcos' services in operation (SIO) dropped a further 15 per cent in the September quarter of July to September, according to the Telecommunications Complaints in Context report.
The Telecommunications Complaints in Context report is a quarterly release jointly published by the TIO and Communications Alliance.
The result for all participating providers reflected 5.5 complaints per 10,000 SIO, a decrease of 15.4 per cent as compared to the April to June 2015 quarter (6.5 complaints) and a dip of 20.3 per cent when compared to the July to September 2014 quarter (6.9 complaints).
Complaints in Context results reflected the overall trend of reduced complaints to the TIO, which fell 14.8 per cent year-on-year to the lowest level since the July to September 2006 quarter.
In the period, all industry participants' complaints per 10,000 SIO also showed a decrease, with Telstra recording its lowest result to date at 5.5 complaints per 10,000 SIO. Telstra recorded a SIO of 6 last quarter and a SIO of 6.8 the same time last year.
With 4.1 complaints per 10,000 SIO, Vodafone's result was almost a third of that reported in the same period last year (12.2 complaints). The telco had the most drastic change, recording 12.2 SIO complaints in the July to September quarter last year and 6.3 complaints last quarter.
Optus' complaints in context also decreased – from 8.5 complaints in the previous quarter to 6.7 this quarter. However, even though its complaints in context decreased between the July to September 2015 quarter and the former, it showed a rise when comparing it to the same time last year.
Optus reported an SIO of 4.4 complaints in July to September 2014, 2.1 complaints lower than the July to September 2015 complaints.


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Q: How to return a numpy arrays with expected shape from large csv file? My expected shape of the return array S1 are (20,10). Why it is (22,10)? (2)How can I extract some rows from df0 and df1 and to construct a new array efficiently?
The csv files is not large but they can be more than 8G and the parameter M can be larger than 2000.
My code is as follows.
import dask.dataframe as dd
import numpy as np
from tensorflow.keras.utils import to_categorical

# Define df's
file0 = './dataset_zeros.csv'
file1 = './dataset_ones.csv'
df0 = dd.read_csv(file0,dtype="str",header=None)
df1 = dd.read_csv(file1,dtype="str",header=None)
#Drop the index
df0 = df0.drop(0,axis=1)
df1 = df1.drop(0,axis=1)

def generate_S(file0, file1,init,M,N_in,N_out):
    a = int(M/N_out) # if M=20, N_out=2, then a=10
    #Read csv files
    df0 = dd.read_csv(file0,header=None)
    df1 = dd.read_csv(file1,header=None)
    # Drop the index
    df0 = df0.drop(0,axis=1)
    df1 = df1.drop(0,axis=1)

    start = init*a
    end = (init+1)*a

    # extract a=10 rows from df0 (Part 1)
    train_X0 = df0.loc[start:end,:] # select rows
    train_X0 = train_X0.iloc[:,:10] # select columns
    train_X0 = train_X0.values # Convert dataframe to array

    # extract a=10 rows from df1 (Part 1)
    train_X1 = df1.loc[start:end]
    train_X1 = train_X1.iloc[:,:10]
    train_X1 = train_X1.values

    # concatenate the two parts to a new array
    new_X = np.concatenate((train_X0, train_X1), axis=0)

    #================================
    #res = new_X.reshape(M,N_in)
    res= new_X
    return res

# Examples of Parameters
init = 2
M = 20
N_in = 10
N_out =2

# Call the function
S1= generate_S(file0,file1,init,M,N_in,N_out)

The dataframe df0 and df1 looks like

Then I run
S1.compute_chunk_sizes()

The result is

A: "My expected shape of the return array S1 are (20,10). Why it is (22,10)?" This is because I did not understand and check the index start and end: In df.loc[], both the start and end are taken into account! For example, if I want to extract 10 rows, I should set start=20; end=29, instead of start=20; end=30.
The correct piece of code is:
start = init*a
end = (init+1)*a - 1
# extract a=10 rows from df0 (Part 1)
train_X0 = df0.loc[start:end,:] # select rows

Therefore, the function generate_S() is modified as follows.
def generate_S(file0, file1,init,M,N_in,N_out):
    a = int(M/N_out)
    #Read csv files
    df0 = dd.read_csv(file0,header=None)
    df1 = dd.read_csv(file1,header=None)
    # Drop the index
    df0 = df0.drop(0,axis=1)
    df1 = df1.drop(0,axis=1)

    start = init*a
    end = (init+1)*a - 1

    # extract a=10 rows from df0 (Part 1)
    train_X0 = df0.loc[start:end,:] # select rows
    train_X0 = train_X0.iloc[:,:10] # select columns
    train_X0 = train_X0.values # Convert dataframe to array

    # extract a=10 rows from df1 (Part 1)
    train_X1 = df1.loc[start:end]
    train_X1 = train_X1.iloc[:,:10]
    train_X1 = train_X1.values

    new_X = np.concatenate((train_X0, train_X1), axis=0)
    new_X.compute_chunk_sizes()

    #Test
    print("new_X.SHAPE:")
    print(new_X.shape)

    res = new_X.reshape(M,N_in)
    return res

The function will return an array with shape (M, 10) (in this code, M=20). Part 1 of problem is solved.
Part 2 of the problem is : new_X.compute_chunk_sizes() in the function generate_S() is very time consuming, when the csv files are large. Even worse, it gives a wrong result. For my large csv files, the shape of the new_X is:
new_X.SHAPE:
(1170, 784)

But the expected one is (a, 784). Here, a=10. It seems that the function generate_S() operate on each chunk! (There are 117 chunks in this example.) I really want to it operate only once.
I hope to find a correct and efficient method to implement this function.
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I have found the right method. dask is not necessary here. To generate the array from the large csv file, I can use keywords skiprows and nrows in pandas.read_csv(). Here is my new version of the function. It read lines from two csv files and merge them into one array.
import pandas as pd

def generate_S(file0, file1,init,M,N_in,N_out):
    a = int(M/N_out)
    #Read csv files
    df0 = pd.read_csv(file0,header=None,skiprows=(init-1)*a, nrows=a)
    df1 = pd.read_csv(file1,header=None,skiprows=(init-1)*a, nrows=a)
    # Drop the index
    df0 = df0.drop(0,axis=1)
    df1 = df1.drop(0,axis=1)
    #0
    train_X0 = df0.iloc[:,:-1] # select columns
    train_X0 = train_X0.values # Convert dataframe to array
    #1
    train_X1 = df1.iloc[:,:-1]
    train_X1 = train_X1.values

    new_X = np.concatenate((train_X0, train_X1), axis=0)
    return new_X

The problem is solved.

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Avengers: Endgame (2019) Review
This review does not contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame! Avengers: Endgame manages to do what many other franchises and long-running television series fail to do; perfectly end a captivating saga. The Marvel Studios movies have been 21 films and eleven years … Continue reading Avengers: Endgame (2019) Review
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Review
May 2, 2018 May 1, 2018 Ben
Since Samuel L Jackson stepped out of the shadows and told Robert Downey Jr about "The Avenger's Initiative," studios have been desperate to replicate Marvel's success and create a shared universe that rivals the superhero behemoth. All others have failed because they never got what made Marvel's Cinematic Universe work so well; characters you cared about, stories that were exciting and interesting, a drip-fed saga that was teased from the very beginning and actors who not just established the key roles but fully owned and created these characters so that you want to see them again and again. Or more importantly, … Continue reading Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Review
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100 Greatest Scenes Number 22 – "You're all not worthy."
July 20, 2016 July 19, 2016 Ben
Although the second Avengers movie was not quite up to the scratch of the first, it did have moments which showcased the work that Marvel had put in up to that point. This scene in Age of Ultron, also used to … Continue reading 100 Greatest Scenes Number 22 – "You're all not worthy."
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Captain America: Civil War (2016) Review
The movie releases within the Marvel Cinematic Universe are no longer sequels or origin stories – they are chapters. More than ever, each movie seems to interlink and connect with the others almost seamlessly and effortlessly, with the studio having created … Continue reading Captain America: Civil War (2016) Review
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What If… Marvel had owned all their characters from the beginning?
June 1, 2015 Ben
What If… is a self-indulgent look at how things could have been. I take an event or a rumour and let my imagination run wild. It's rarely based on fact and completely based on guess-work and conjecture. Marvel made the … Continue reading What If… Marvel had owned all their characters from the beginning?


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Where can I buy a microwave sensor in Shenzhen?
If you are in Shenzhen, just lacking the microwave sensor as the company's intelligent light control management equipment, Shenzhen as an international city, has great advantages in technology and technology in the world.Then if you want to buy Shenzhen microwave sensor, Editor recommends you to Shenzhen Tiankele Communication Technology Co., Ltd.
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Veterans group says Dakota Access pipeline won't be built on their watch
Protesters rally against Wells Fargo in solidarity with the people of Standing Rock in Hollywood, California, on December 21, 2016. / AFP / TOMMASO BODDI (Photo credit should read TOMMASO BODDI/AFP/Getty Images)
According to CNBC, a group consisting of U.S. military veterans has taken it upon themselves to stand in the way of the completion of the Dakota access pipeline.
"We are committed to the people of Standing Rock, we are committed to nonviolence, and we will do everything within our power to ensure that the environment and human life are respected. That pipeline will not get completed. Not on our watch," said Anthony Diggs, a spokesman for Veterans Stand.
"Veterans Stand" is a GoFundMe that was started to help fund the veteran's group protesting the pipeline, and as of this writing it has raised just over $56,000 of it's $500,000 goal after five days.
These veterans are going to stand in the way, despite the Army Corps of Engineers being involved.
The secretary of the Army instructed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to grant Energy Transfer Partners the easement it needs to complete the final stretch of its $3.7 billion pipeline, Sen. John Hoeven and Rep. Kevin Cramer, both of North Dakota, said Tuesday.
Just last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that to put the Dakota Access Pipeline's completion on the fast track. This has naturally upset the protestors that have made standing in the way of the completion of the pipeline something of a full time job. In fact, the protestors have become such a problem that even the Sioux tribe on standing rock has had to take measures to get the protestors to go home.


As a happy birthday present to WRAP, I worked with Em Richards, Jane Winterling and Ed Anthes to develop a video, WRAP Retrospective, that chronicles the development of WRAP. It includes many old pictures and some video footage. I think you will like a lot. I hope you enjoy it; Please do let me know. Share it with everyone.


As previously announced, the 25th Anniversary special limited edition of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux will include a 6-disc soundtrack set. The full track listing has now been revealed, in addition to samples of a selection of tracks and arrangements.
Discs 1 and 2 are a two-disc album: "Shin Megami Tensei: Law and Chaos Disc," which included both the original BGM and arranged tracks from Shin Megami Tensei, and was originally released in February 1993.
Discs 3 and 4 make up the two-disc album: "Shin Megami Tensei II: Sound Relation," which included the original BGM and arranged tracks from Shin Megami Tensei II, and it originally released in April 1994.
These two album re-releases are remastered and reprinted, with improved audio quality.
4Gamer has also uploaded samples of six tracks from the Law and Chaos album. They can be listened to through the player on their website.
Arranged tracks composed by guest artists from outside of Atlus.
Arranged tracks composed by artists from within Atlus.


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The Subjectivity of Reading: How Do Your Favorite Books Fare on Amazon?
20 JULY 2014 The Subjectivity of Reading: How Do Your Favorite Books Fare on Amazon?
I noticed recently that one of my favorite books, Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning Hotel Du Lac, averages only 3.7 stars with 82 Amazon reviewers. Not a terrible rating, but surprisingly low to me since I love the book. Amazon features this sentence, quoted from one of the reviews: "The main character was dull and not very likeable, but that may have been the point." Amazon adds, "10 reviewers made similar comments."
Review of This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
SALLY WHITNEY
Author of When Enemies Offend Thee and Surface and Shadow, plus short stories appearing in journals and anthologies, including Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017.
10 JULY 2014 Review of This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
7/10/14—A REVIEW OF THIS BRIGHT RIVER BY PATRICK SOMERVILLE
Sometimes a novel is interesting because of its story. Sometimes because of its characters. And sometimes because of the author's writing techniques. I started reading This Bright River by Patrick Somerville expecting to be enticed by the novel's story. I had read Somerville's previous novel, The Cradle, a few years ago and liked the story about expectant parents' search for the mother's childhood cradle, an effort that brings them much more than a cradle. From the beginning, however, This Bright River is different and much darker.
On Rereading Anna Karenina
MARK WILLEN
Author of Hawke's Point, Hawke's Return, and Hawke's Discovery.
7 JULY 2014 On Rereading Anna Karenina
7/7/2014 — WHY YOU SHOULD REREAD ANNA KARENINA — AT LEAST ONCE A DECADE
I have a confession to make. I don't read long books—not even after e-books eliminated two of my complaints (hard to hold in bed and painful if dropped on a toe). The problem is that too many long books just aren't worth the investment of time, often because of authors who don't know what to leave out or editors too submissive to cut. I did try to read The Goldfinch to see what the fuss was about, but the laborious writing and the abuse of the semicolon (my favorite mark of punctuation) led me to give up after five pages.
Of course there are exceptions to my big book phobia—beginning with almost everything Tolstoy and Dickens wrote. And it's one of those exceptions that I want to talk about today. I want to urge you to reread Anna Karenina at least once a decade. And if you're a writer, make that a requirement, not a suggestion.
INTERVIEW WITH JUDITH FRANK, AUTHOR OF ALL I LOVE AND KNOW
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Author of The Bliss of Solitude, Time's Fool, Do Not Go Gentle, and the new novel Permanent Makeup as well as many nonfiction works including The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Alternative Medicine for Dummies, and Nameless Diseases.
4 JULY 2014 INTERVIEW WITH JUDITH FRANK, AUTHOR OF ALL I LOVE AND KNOW
7/4/14 – INTERVIEW WITH JUDITH FRANK, AUTHOR OF ALL I LOVE AND KNOW
Ever since she sat beside me in 11th grade English class, I suspected that Judith Frank had something to tell the world – and the writing chops to tell it. Over the years Judy confirmed my suspicions repeatedly, winning prizes for her poignant poetry even back in high school and going on to become an author of both scholarly works and prize-winning fiction. If I had any lingering doubt, her new novel All I Love and Know, has shattered it.
Re-reading Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
20 JUNE 2014 Re-reading Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
Afraid my Kindle might run out of juice, I wanted a small book for backup for a recent flight and, because I wanted something light to carry, grabbed off my bookshelves the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. I'd read it at least three times over the years and thought I might be bored. Think again. Capote amazed me.
Teen author Melanie Batchelor's promising debut novel
7 JUNE 2014 Teen author Melanie Batchelor's promising debut novel
6/7/14 — TEEN AUTHOR MELANIE BATCHELOR'S DEBUT NOVEL
There's something special about discovering a young author who's really good. You can savor that first book while looking forward to the next, knowing that chances are, each succeeding work will be even better than the last. So imagine the kick of discovering an impressive author who's only sixteen. Remember Me, a young adult coming of age novel written in verse, was published last month by Bold Stroke Books. The author, Melanie Batchelor, is a high school junior, who actually penned the novel when she was fourteen.
MAKING TIME FOR SERENDIPITY
4 JUNE 2014 MAKING TIME FOR SERENDIPITY
6/4/14 – MAKING TIME FOR SERENDIPITY
Inexplicably, I found A.S.A. Harrison's novel The Silent Wife, on my nightstand. Where did this book come from? Did my mother leave it for me? Did I buy it for a book club meeting I couldn't attend and abandon it? I had no clue, but I picked it up and started reading.
5-23-2014 Stolen Remains: A Lady of Ashes Mystery REVIEWED by Sonia Linebaugh
SONIA LINEBAUGH
Author of At the Feet of Mother Meera: The Lessons of Silence, and the (unpublished) novels The Wisdom Project, The American Year, and the Hardest Thing.
23 MAY 2014 5-23-2014 Stolen Remains: A Lady of Ashes Mystery REVIEWED by Sonia Linebaugh
5-23-2014 A REVIEW OF CHRISTINE TRENT'S STOLEN REMAINS: A LADY OF ASHES MYSTERY
A lady undertaker, a summons from Queen Victoria, a questionable death, a grieving housekeeper, arguing relatives, a body gone missing. In this second of the Lady of Ashes mysteries, when Queen Victoria summons her, Mrs. Violet Harper can't refuse. She leaves her ill mother, her harried father, and her beloved second husband on their own while she rushes to London to tend to a dead viscount whose burial must be delayed until the Queen gives permission. The Queen trusts Violet's discretion because she was so very kind and helpful when Prince Albert died.
Dave Barry, The Complete Guide to Guys
13 MAY 2014 Dave Barry, The Complete Guide to Guys
A HUMOROUS EXCERPT FROM DAVE BARRY'S THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GUYS
At Three Editors Journal I read the excerpt below from Dave Barry's The Complete Guide to Guys, immediately went to Amazon, read more, and bought the book. Here's the excerpt from the Journal:
Let's say a guy named Fred is attracted to a woman named Martha. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else.
And then, one evening when they're driving home, a thought occurs to Martha, and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: "Do you realize that, as of tonight, we've been seeing each other for exactly six months?"
The Hunting by Kerry Peresta: Review & Interview
7 MAY 2014 The Hunting by Kerry Peresta: Review & Interview
5/7/14 — KERRY PERESTA'S THE HUNTING: HOW A GUY LEARNED TO LOVE CHICK LIT
When Pen-L Publishing offered a contract for my first novel, I went into high research mode, ordering a bunch of their books to see what they were like. I needed to know whether the books were well edited, well designed, and professionally produced. I also wanted to find out whether Pen-L's stable of authors was any good; after all, I had a little of that natural insecurity, wondering how good could the company be if they wanted me.
Author interview: John O'Hern, Sweetspot, Confessions of a Golfaholic
20 APRIL 2014 Author interview: John O'Hern, Sweetspot, Confessions of a Golfaholic
4/20/14 INTERVIEW WITH JOHN O'HERN, COMEDIAN, PLAYWRIGHT, AND AUTHOR OF THE LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY NOVEL SWEETSPOT, CONFESSIONS OF A GOLFAHOLIC
The International Network of Golf named Sweetspot its 2013 Outstanding Achiever, and the New England Golf Monthly said, "If you're crazy about golf or you're a golf widow, then you have to put the book Sweetspot, Confessions of a Golfaholic by John O'Hern on your must-read list." Or if you just plain like to laugh, I say.
Book Review: Dislocation by Margaret Meyers
7 APRIL 2014 Book Review: Dislocation by Margaret Meyers
4/7/14 – BOOK REVIEW: DISLOCATION BY MARGARET MEYERS
With more than a million books published each year in the United States alone, it's all too easy to overlook a wonderful author. Don't do that to Margaret Meyers, whose new story collection, Dislocation, has just been published by Entasis Press.
Meyers's multilayered stories are charming, insightful, and significant, with writing that's filled with wit and humor. There's no better way to capture the power of her prose than to quote it. Consider the opening of Doing Good:
"As the young black woman climbs into the front passenger seat of the VW Bug, Delia, crosslegged in the back, notes that her mother's ears are still ripe-tomato red. Her mother speaks to the young woman in her calm, warm, Sunday-morning voice but those ears, generally very pale with tiny gold freckles, tell Delia that her mother is very far from calm."
IN PRAISE OF THE LONG NOVEL
4 APRIL 2014 IN PRAISE OF THE LONG NOVEL
4/4/14 – IN PRAISE OF THE LONG NOVEL
Pundits have it that the age of the long, rambling novel is over. Having just read two super long books with book clubs that couldn't get enough of them, I beg to differ.
Should only positive book reviews be published?
7 MARCH 2014 Should only positive book reviews be published?
3/7/14 – IS THERE STILL A ROLE FOR THE NEGATIVE BOOK REVIEW?
The world of the book review is getting mighty hard to navigate. With more and more publications tightening their belts, eliminating book supplements, and pink slipping reviewers, serious literary criticism (think James Wood in the New Yorker or Dwight Garner in The New York Times) has become a very rare commodity. At the same time, online book review sites of widely varying quality are proliferating, with new ones popping up every day.
REVIEW: THE DEATH LOTTERY BY GERALD M. WEINBERG
4 MARCH 2014 REVIEW: THE DEATH LOTTERY BY GERALD M. WEINBERG
3/4/14 – REVIEW: THE DEATH LOTTERY BY GERALD M. WEINBERG
Full disclosure: I love books about serial killers. So I was destined to love The Death Lottery, Gerald M. Weinberg's new novel about a serial killer randomly terrorizing Manhattan and a team of math geniuses determined to find a method to the madness.
Stoning the Devil, Garry Craig Powell, book review and interview
20 FEBRUARY 2014 Stoning the Devil, Garry Craig Powell, book review and interview
2/20/14 STONING THE DEVIL, GARRY CRAIG POWELL, BOOK REVIEW AND INTERVIEW
Time and fortune happen to everyone. Before my other half, Todd, read Garry Craig Powell's Stoning the Devil, I told Todd that when he finished I would want him to tell me if he could see any difference between Stoning the Devil and the novels on the New York Times notable books lists over the years. Because I can't see any difference, in quality of writing or in the relevance and significance of topic.
Todd couldn't see any difference, either.
BOOK REVIEW: COBALT BLUE BY PEGGY PAYNE
10 FEBRUARY 2014 BOOK REVIEW: COBALT BLUE BY PEGGY PAYNE
2/10/14 BOOK REVIEW: COBALT BLUE BY PEGGY PAYNE
Cobalt Blue is a novel about sex, and then it's not. If you're looking for steamy sex scenes, you'll find them here, but you'll also find much more in the struggles of Andie Branson, a 38-year-old artist who is suddenly caught up in a puzzling chaos of inspiration and desire. Frustrated that her career is floundering (her most recent job includes the lowly work of napkin design), Andie's interest in creating art is waning, so she's surprised when an unexpected surge of pleasure grows into an urgent passion to paint. And so the journey begins.
What Dickens Knew: The Importance of Character
7 FEBRUARY 2014 What Dickens Knew: The Importance of Character
2/4/14 WHAT DICKENS KNEW: THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER
Near the beginning of Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, there is a delightful moment in which Mr. Watts tells his students that they will soon be meeting Mr. Charles Dickens of London, England. The students rarely see a white man in their isolated village in Papua New Guinea so they come back the next day with great expectations. Initially disappointed to learn the author has been dead for over a century, they quickly become enthralled as Mr. Watts starts reading Dickens's last novel aloud.
Stoner, John Williams' overlooked gem of a novel
7 JANUARY 2014 Stoner, John Williams' overlooked gem of a novel
1/7/14 – STONER: IT'S TIME YOU READ THIS BOOK
A few months ago, the New Yorker reviewed Stoner under the headline, "The Greatest American Novel You've Never Heard Of." It was a clever line, but after Britain's Waterstones named it the Book of the Year for 2013—and with U.S. sales finally topping 100,000—it may no longer be true. Admittedly, it's taken 48 years to get to this point and the novel is still far from a popular favorite, but it's clearly beginning to get the attention it deserves.
Edith Wharton's Letters
7 DECEMBER 2013 Edith Wharton's Letters
12/7/13 — THE LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON
When I was having trouble with the first chapter of a novel I was writing, a good friend and writing mentor suggested I take another look at Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Its first chapter is a classic; it not only draws you into the story but it also lays the groundwork and foreshadows everything that is to follow.
In fact, the opening was so good I couldn't stop and quickly reread Wharton's wonderful classic. But as I put it back on my shelf, my eye caught the volume next to it: The Letters of Edith Wharton, edited by her Pulitzer prize-winning biographer R.W.B. Lewis and his wife, Nancy Lewis. And what a marvelous treasure that turned out to be.
REVIEW: THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS
10 NOVEMBER 2013 REVIEW: THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS
11/10/13 BOOK REVIEW: THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS BY ANTON DiSCLAFANI
I like a good mystery, especially a mystery embedded in a mainstream novel. So I was hooked when Anton DiSclafani started dropping hints of an unnamed "trouble" at home in the first chapter of her debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. The "trouble" is the reason fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell's parents have sent her away from home in Florida to a boarding school where wealthy young women learn to be accomplished equestriennes in the mountains of North Carolina.
10/26/2013 – Along the Watchtower
M L DOYLE
Author of mystery and memoir with a military theme
26 OCTOBER 2013 10/26/2013 – Along the Watchtower
10/26/2013 – Along the Watchtower by David Litwack – a review
David Litwack says, "Nothing inspires his writing like the beautiful scenery of Cape Cod." The chilled crash of the shore and the craggy trees of the Cape are starkly evident in the pages of Litwack's Along the Watchtower. The atmosphere he creates by means of the Cape is just one of the many successful aspects of this novel.
Fredrick Williams is an Army Lieutenant leading his squad on a patrol in Iraq when he is gravely wounded. A man obsessed with the video game, World of Warcraft, Fredrick believes his distraction with the game is what diverted his attention and led to his injuries and the death of his closest friend, the man he calls archangel.
Review of The Preservationist by Justin Kramon
23 OCTOBER 2013 Review of The Preservationist by Justin Kramon
10/23/13, Review of The Preservationist by Justin Kramon.
Justin Kramon's book is just out. He says it's "a psychological thriller, written as a tribute to some of the classic thrillers I love, from Hitchcock to Ruth Rendell to Stephen King to Patricia Highsmith to Henning Mankell."
I don't know the last time a had so much to say to a character while I was reading a book. Most often I was saying aloud: No! Don't do it! Don't go there!
Review of Ron Cooper's Purple Jesus
20 OCTOBER 2013 Review of Ron Cooper's Purple Jesus
10/20/13 "Purple Jesus is so perfectly written, it's exhilarating to read," wrote Eric Miles Williamson in The Washington Post. "The publication of Purple Jesus is a literary event of the first magnitude."
Ron Cooper's Purple Jesus is the heartbreaking tale of a hapless, not always well-intentioned young man—Purvis—being led around by his penis and his penchant for fantasy by a young woman determined to escape the backwoods rural poverty that asthmatic Purvis lacks the self-esteem to ever really imagine himself escaping. The book is also the best explanation—illumination—I've seen of how some modern-life tragedies come into being, the kinds of fatal tragedies that leave all of us gawking at the TV news and saying, "Why would anyone do that? What was he thinking?"
Washington Independent Review of Books' Carolyn Sienkiewicz, Guest Blogger
CAROLYN SIENKIEWICZ
Our 10/1/13 Guest Blogger from the Washington Independent Review of Books
1 OCTOBER 2013 Washington Independent Review of Books' Carolyn Sienkiewicz, Guest Blogger
First, let's get this out the way: Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larsson. There, I have evoked his name so no one can say I overlooked him.
Mr. Larsson's successful works notwithstanding, everyone loves a good mystery and I'm no exception. Humans are hard-wired to try to solve puzzles and problems, a survival skill basic to understanding one another and trying to get along so we don't kill each other.


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Police in Minnesota make bank selling seized cars, even if the owner's innocent
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Olson had three previous DWI convictions under her belt. That meant she may be charged with a first-degree count this time.
Getting slapped with a first-degree DWI meant the vehicle Olson was driving – a 1999 Lexus – was subject to forfeiture. It's one of a few offenses designated by state statute which allow the cops to seize property upon your arrest.
If you don't contest that seizure in court within the allotted time, the police can keep it, and they can sell it.
It's a measure intended to keep offenders from reoffending, but critics say it also punishes people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – like sitting in the passenger seat, letting a friend they thought was sober drive instead of them.
Or, in Olson's case, it seems to have unduly punished her mother, Helen, the actual owner of the Lexus. Helen couldn't contest the seizure until her daughter's criminal case was ajudicated. By the time Megan pled guilty to a first-degree DWI and the Olsons got a hearing on the Lexus, 18 months had passed, according to court documents.
They took their case to court, arguing that their right to due process had been violated, and managed to get the Lexus back. But their case also brought up questions about the statute's constitutionality, which made their way before the Minnesota Supreme Court last year.
The state high court found that the law was not, on its face, unconstitutional, though the way police were executing it might be. According to court documents, Minnesota law "provides no assessment whatsoever" that the State actually has the authority to seize a purportedly innocent owner's car.
Legislators have tried rewriting this law, one which police have a real financial interest in protecting. A recent investigation by KSTP found that police departments across the state have taken close to 14,000 vehicles and made nearly $10 million off selling them in the last three years alone. About three out of four of vehicles seized between 2016 and 2018 were related to drunk driving offenses.
Back in 2017, Minnesota House Rep. John Lesch (D-St. Paul) testified about his struggle, as an attorney, to help his client get an impounded Chevy back from authorities. Her ex-boyfriend had been the one driving it. Lesch called the whole process "insane."
"I could not believe we created a system like that," he said in a statement.
He's repeatedly authored bills trying to change it, but hasn't made any headway. He told KSTP opposition from the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association is partly responsible for killing this year's bill.
"When you're taking vehicles from innocent owners… you're not making anyone safer, you're just lining your pockets," he told KSTP. "It's not the right way to fund law enforcement… even law enforcement knows that."
From 2017 to 2019, the Minnesota State Patrol spent the majority of its forfeiture money on salaries ($686,000) rent ($493,000) and towing fees $(475,000).
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Overview of new museums. June 2013
In June, Russia has opened 20 new museums.
June 1. In Vladivostok, the museum was opened telephone.
At present, the exhibition features about 400 exhibits — telephone and telegraph apparatus, radios, television sets, switches, and other devices, as well as more than 1.5 thousand of documents and photographs depicting the development of the telecommunications sector in the Primorye Territory.The most interesting and valuable is on permanent display in the museum and exhibition centerfor example, the song "The workplace telephone operator in 1907" to the telephone switch brands.
Ericsson end of the XIX century. A special stand dedicated to the development of inner-city telephone network
Vladivostok — you can get acquainted with telephones that worked on the streets and in the room, including the first pay phone "Copper snout" and the telephone apparatus, which used the famous explorer of the Far East, geographer and writer Vladimir Arsenyev.
June 3. In Krasnokamsk opened Museum of Toys.
The idea of such a museum in Krasnokamsk hatched a few years. The building was found for him in
the historic center of the city — Technical township. In the "doll house" turned the one-story wooden structure of the last century. Repair of the premises was carried out and the old schemes photos. Stylized even museum display. Exhibition equipment has been designed in such a way to preserve the atmosphere of a living room, childhood. This showcase, cabinet, this bed, table, chairs.
The exhibits in this museum you can touch your hands and you can even try to make their
own wooden toy. For the birth of a small miracle, as the experience
craftsman's single, need only wood, paint and imagination.
http://www.uitv.ru/news/culture/2013/06/03/14151/
June 5. In Penza opened a virtual branch of the Russian Museum.
Penza-based art school named after Vladimir Tatlin on Thursday opened a virtual branch
Russian Museum. The largest collection of Russian art became available penzentsev.
In art school opened a special informational and educational class. He
equipped with multimedia equipment, which allows you to look not only at the palaces
and the halls of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, but also in his store, and even restoration
workshops. The information is constantly updated.
http://www.rg.ru/2013/06/…reg-pfo/filial-anons.html
June 5.In Voronezh, the museum was opened retrokompyuterov.
In Voronezh, opened the museum, which collects retrokompyutery. Exhibits from 25 to
30 years — for the PC is its age. The exhibition gathered the progenitors of today's PCs, laptops, tablets and gaming consoles. Here, Japanese, American, English, and even the Soviet computers that are used Our compatriots back in the nineties.
This "Elektronika MK-90" — a computer, which is more than twenty-five years, and the Russian
PK "Pentagon", created in 1991, handicraft. The exhibition is unfortunately not yet complete,
the organizers did not have windows, to show all the available technology. However, that which is
there, you can even try out a game of old games.
http://www.otr-online.ru/news/3621.html
June 6 In Moscow, opened the house-museum of Basil L. Pushkin.
June 6 at Old Basman, 36, opened the house-museum of the poet Basil L. Pushkin, uncles
Alexander Pushkin. The museum will take visitors from June 7.
In the museum restoration works were carried to the amount of 73.3 million rubles, begun
in February 2012.
As the press service of the Department of Culture of Moscow, in the process of refurbishing the house was
returned to the old layout of rooms, from surviving fragments recovered Corner
stove in the living room, renovated hardwood floors, made the front door of the suite of the first floor and mezzanine.
Among the gifts — unique album autographed by Elizabeth Demidova three previously unknown poems Vasily Pushkin, a 90-volume collection of the works of Voltaire, the views of Paris, engraved portraits of Boileau and Talma, genre lists, furniture and decoration.
The exhibition features two interactive panels with information about the history of the house on the Old Basman and its restoration, the biography of Vasily Pushkin and the most valuable artifacts. Also in the hall to show the films placed ultramodern television screen, which is still is unique in the Moscow museums.
http://www.m24.ru/articles/19215
June 6. In Kostroma, museum opened Peter's toys.
You can not only see the work Kostroma famous masters, but also with his own hands to create a work of folk art.
Guys with accordions, women with children, clowns with balalaika, and even dogs, horses, pigs.
On the shelves of the museum — a peasant village in the 19th century miniature. Peter's because the native
from the village of Peter that Susaninskaya area. There, out of 33 yards in only three did not
pottery. Toys fashioned from the remains of clay. To good not to disappear, and the kids on the fun.
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1092073
June 6In Tyumen Medical Academy has opened a museum.
Museum of Tyumen Medical Academy inaugurated today in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the university.Design of the museum was engaged in Tyumen artist Boris Trofimov and his team. They worked onproject for about two years.
In the main hall of the museum visitors at the door meets the banner of the Academy. His place in the window it
will periodically leave to participate in university activities. However, the whole exhibition
is built so that it can be easily changed, and Vice President for Academic Affairs TyumGMA Ludmila Suplotova assured that the exhibition is sure to be updated.
Now visitors can get acquainted with the milestones of the Medical Academy, learn about outstanding
doctors of the city, to see the medical literature published in Tyumen in Soviet times.
For the current generation of students will be interested to look at the medical tools long obsolete — old syringes, blood pressure cuff, surgical instruments.
http://www.vsluh.ru/news/society/266727
June 8. Police opened a museum of Nizhny Novgorod.
In the Main Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Nizhny Novgorod Region Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Russian Sergei Gerasimov opened the Museum of the History of the Nizhny Novgorod police.
After the reconstruction of the museum has received additional technical opportunities to demonstrate
Audio — photos and video. At present, the museum seven halls. In the first room —
origin and background of pre-revolutionary Russia Nizhny Novgorod police and militia
the first years of Soviet power before World War II. Heroic and patriotic part
the exhibition tells the story of the exploits of Nizhny Novgorod guards during World War II and today in "hot spots."
The museum tells about the hard work and dedication of staff in all divisions
MOI Russia in Nizhny Novgorod region: criminal investigation, investigation,
forensic services, licensing system,
patrol, inspection of the juvenile, district
Commissioners and achievements "of athletes in uniform."
http://mvd.ru/news/item/1036841/
June 9. Retro Museum "Ladies 'happiness' has opened in Moscow.
It was preceded by exhibitions in the capital and many museums of Russia: "Corner of my great-grandmother,"
"Women Stuff," "The language of the fan", "From which only made the boys? From which only made
girls? "now a permanent display of works at the Exhibition Centre in Hall number 2.
Here you can take a fascinating and exciting journey into the past, to meet
Beautiful stranger late XIX — early XX centuries. Guides in this journey
will serve as the real things of that era, which in France called Belle Epoque, and in Russia
— Silver Age era or modern.
http://www.museum.ru/prof/news.asp?Id=49972
June 9.InNovgorod the Great opened the museum traditsinnoy culture.
In Novgorod Institute of Humanities of the University opened the Museum of Traditional Culture
Novgorod region.It's designed for teaching and research laboratory "of Ethnology and Cultural History" on the basis of exhibits,collected by students and members of the laboratory for 12 years of field expeditions.
Hererepresented about 40 exhibits, plus audio and photo files. Clay pots, millstones,hand assistant, men's belt, wedding tablecloth — this is only a small part of what can be seen in a museum.
http://vnnews.ru/culture/…radicionnoie-kulturi.html
June 10. In the Perm regional court has opened a museum of history of justice.
It contains exhibits, documents and photographs from the 1920s of the last century.
On the old black-and-white photographs depicted the judges since the building of socialism in the USSR. Women in shawls and scarves, men are certainly in high — up to the knee, polished boots.
The museum has restored the tribunal workplace — three chairs with high backs on the table —
carafe with ink-neprolivashkoy.
On a separate stand — photos chairmen of the Perm regional court yet. Here those
guided him in the war and postwar years — Barbara Khlopina Dmitry Krokhalev, veterans
Vladimir Trapeznikov order bearers, Yuri Patrakov, Paul Zagvozkin.
http://www.rg.ru/2013/06/…pfo/perm-muzei-anons.html
June 10. The village SMAGIN (Nizhny Novgorod region). Museum opened hero Nikolai Sutyagin.
Back in the sixties, in the now-defunct school was set up a small exhibition
dedicated ace jet aircraft. The joint efforts of regional and rural administrations,
villagers, relatives of Nikolai and other participants of this initiative
has been created, it seems to me, a beautiful new museum space.
Exposition was added new gifts: on the jacket will be a duplicate of General Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and on display — a badge of "Pilot First Class" and a certificate of general. Notably, that there are personal things pilot and lots of pictures.
http://nn.mk.ru/article/2…a-nikolaya-sutyagina.html
June 16. In the Altai, the museum was opened deer.
The museum has three rooms. Exhibits tell the story of what began with the relationship between man and
Maral: first they were hunted, mined their skins and horns, and then the animals were
characters of fairy tales and poems. Images of deer appeared on the carpets, paintings, clothing and
even hats. Visitors will be familiar with the healing properties of reindeer meat and
horns.
http://politsib.ru/news/64804
June 16. House-Museum of Tsvetaeva Bolshevo (MO) was opened after restoration.
In suburban queen (Bolshevo) opened the memorial house-museum of Marina Tsvetaeva
is being repaired for about a year.
The restoration of the house-museum was started in August 2012. From the municipal and regional
budgets for these activities has been allocated 31 million rubles.
Was also re-equip the Square, where the poet was walking. "Most recently, all established themselves
— Dry uprooted trees, laid out paths, benches set "-
said local resident, noting that until recently there was an abandoned area.
http://lenta.ru/news/2013/06/19/dom/
June 17. In St. Petersburg, opened the museum in which you can play on the machines and the Soviet
drink a soda from my childhood.
http://www.mr7.ru/articles/85349/
June 23. On the Petrograd side in St. Petersburg opened a new museum — "The Art of the fan".
He was the first in Russia and the world's third largest museum dedicated fans.
The interiors of the museum, made in the Empire style, the palace to recreate the lost samples
decoration of the Imperial St. Petersburg and its suburbs. The collection has
250 fans — today it is one of the nation's largest collections of these accessories.
The oldest exhibits of the collection date to the end of the XVII century, according to the Committee on Culture
St. Petersburg. On display are exclusive copies made
first-class fan-firms, as well as fan-owned well-known historical
http://www.travel.ru/news/2013/06/23/219022.html
June 26. In Cheboksary opened Museum of Academician AN Krylov.
In Cheboksary — the capital of Chuvashia, Cheboksary in the Polytechnic Institute opened
museum of the famous scientist and builder, a native Chuvash land Alexis
Krylov. The first visitors to the museum were members of the International Scientific
Conference "Hydrodynamics of high speeds and shipbuilding — GBS-2013, dedicated to
150th birthday of A.Krylova. "
http://www.cheboksary.ru/…nn/24062013/page21384.htm
June 27. The museum was opened in Kazan K.Vasileva
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/35691/
June 29. Museum of the History Student Games officially opened in Kazan.
Museum Universiade officially began operation in Kazan. Its opening took place in the village
Universiade.
Student Museum is housed in the International Information Center. Now it
Participants can attend the Games in Kazan, living in the Universiade village, and in the fall it will be
available to everyone.
http://kazan2013.rsport.r…s/20130629/670988361.html
June 30. In Saratov, opened a museum of football.
In Saratov, the stadium "Locomotive" the opening of the Regional Museum of football.
The first two of the stand dedicated to the output of the "Falcon" in the semi-finals of the Cup of the USSR in 1967 and the highest
Division championship of Russia (2000), settled in a methodical class northern grandstand
stadium "Locomotive" (ibid. held a press conference after the match, "Falcon"). Among
exhibits — unique photos and printed materials, T-shirt Team "Falcon" -67, medal
for winning the first division-2000.
http://www.vzsar.ru/news/…rylsya-myzei-fytbola.html
Diagnosis and treatment of asthma
Diagnostics After the first manifestation of bronchial asthma should be examined by apulmonologist, that
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Anonymous in Germany to avoid new claims for hackers
According to dpa, GEMA (the German organization of the collection of royalties) refused to
This snowy winter in South Africa
This snowy winter in South Africa Weather and Climate A cold front brought almost
Transas has developed, produced and installed avtotrenazher the Kirov Polytechnic College
The specialists of "Transas" commissioned by the Committee of Education of the Leningrad region
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Residents of the Grodno district Folyush noticed an unusual phenomenon, the newspaper "Evening Grodno."


The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict in the dispute over the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (AIADMK's) "two leaves" election symbol.
The development comes a day after the Supreme Court directed the High Court to dispose of the dispute within four weeks.
Judgment was reserved by a Division Bench of Justices GS Sistani and Sangita Dhindra Sehgal nearly 10 months after it . . .


Last month some of the Hillingdon BJJ team headed to Dartford to compete in the No-Gi English Open. They had some good fights and demonstrated some great progression. Raj took Bronze in the purple belt light weight division and Dan took Gold in the white belt heavy weight division. Well done to all that competed.


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Q: How does the copy and paste mechanism work and is it a standard design pattern as in GoF? How does the current copy and paste work on a computer?  Such as being able to copy some formatted text together with an image, and then when pasted to a text editor, it will intelligently paste only ASCII or UTF-8 text, while if pasted to some webapps or Microsoft Word or Pages on a Mac, it will paste the text together with the formatting info as well as the image.  (Is this actually one of the GoF Design Pattern or a design pattern that is well defined that actually has a name to it?)

A: The trick here is that when you start a drag operation, the application whose data you're dragging will give the operating system that data in one or more specific formats. Then, the application you drop the data on will ask the OS if it has data in one or more specific formats. Thus, when dropping "the same data" on two different applications results in two different pieces of data appearing, that simply means those two target applications made different choices out of the range of data formats provided by the source application.
For maximum interoperability, it's generally encouraged to provide your drag data in as many formats as possible. The OS might even "fill in" some extra formats for you where possible, or allow you to register your own custom data formats in addition to the standard ones it provides.
Since I feel like citing a source with some more concrete system-specific details, here is the MSDN page on clipboard data formats in Windows. I assume Mac and Linux have much of the same functionality.
As for design patterns, I'm not aware of anything you could call a "design pattern" that would be inherently appropriate for implementing this functionality. And I have no idea whether the big three operation systems actually contain any in their implementations.


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describe('navigation directive', function() {

    // declare some global vars to be used in the tests
    var elm,        // our directive jqLite element
        scope;      // the scope where our directive is inserted

    // load the modules we want to test
    beforeEach(module('navigation'));

    // before each test
    // creates a fresh scope
    beforeEach(inject(function(_$rootScope_, $compile) {
        scope = _$rootScope_.$new();
        scope.testModel = 42;
    }));

    function compileDirective(tpl) {
        // compile a fresh directive with the given template, or default
        // compile the tpl with the $rootScope created above
        // wrap our directive inside a form to be able to test
        // that our form integration works well (via ngModelController)
        if (!tpl) tpl = '

';
        tpl = '<form name="form">' + tpl + '</form>';
        // inject allows you to use AngularJS dependency injection
        // to retrieve and use other services
        inject(function($compile) {
            var form = $compile(tpl)(scope);
            elm = form.find('div');
        });
        scope.$digest();
    }

    describe('initialisation', function() {
        // before each test in this block, generates a fresh directive
        beforeEach(function() {
            compileDirective();
        });
        // a single test example
        it('should produce 2 buttons and a input', function() {
            expect(elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon').length).toEqual(2);
            expect(elm.find('input').length).toEqual(1);
        });
        it('should check validity on init', function() {
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeTruthy();
        });
    });
    describe('bounds detection for MIN', function() {
        it('should update form validity initialy', function() {
            scope.testMin = 45;
            compileDirective('<mle-input-integer min="testMin" ng-model="testModel"></mle-input-integer>');
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('should expose isOverMin method on the isolated scope', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMin).toBeDefined();
        });
        it('isOverMin method should return false when no min defined', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMin()).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('isOverMin method should return false when min not reached', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMin()).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('isOverMin method should return true when min reached', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMin()).toBeTruthy();
        });
        it('decrease button should be disabled when min reached.', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            var buttonDown = elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[0];
            expect(buttonDown).toBeDefined();
            var aElmAttr = angular.element(buttonDown).attr('disabled');
            expect(aElmAttr).not.toBeDefined();

            scope.testModel = 40;
            scope.$digest();

            buttonDown = elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[0];
            expect(buttonDown).toBeDefined();
            aElmAttr = angular.element(buttonDown).attr('disabled');
            expect(aElmAttr).toEqual('disabled');
        });
        it('min can be updated dynamically and update button disabled status', function() {
            scope.testMin = 42;
            compileDirective('

');

            var buttonDown = elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[0];
            expect(buttonDown).toBeDefined();
            var aElmAttr = angular.element(buttonDown).attr('disabled');
            expect(aElmAttr).toBeDefined();
            expect(aElmAttr).toEqual('disabled');

            scope.testMin = 40;
            scope.$digest();

            buttonDown = elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[0];
            expect(buttonDown).toBeDefined();
            aElmAttr = angular.element(buttonDown).attr('disabled');
            expect(aElmAttr).not.toBeDefined();
        });
    });
    describe('bounds detection for MAX', function() {
        it('should update form validity initialy', function() {
            scope.testMax = 40;
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('should expose isOverMax method on the isolated scope', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMax).toBeDefined();
        });
        it('isOverMax method should return false when no max defined', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMax()).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('isOverMax method should return false when max not reached', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMax()).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('isOverMax method should return true when max reached', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(elm.isolateScope().isOverMax()).toBeTruthy();
        });
        it('decrease button should be disabled when max reached.', function() {
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(angular.element(elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[1]).attr('disabled')).not.toBeDefined();
            scope.testModel = 45;
            scope.$digest();
            expect(angular.element(elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[1]).attr('disabled')).toEqual('disabled');
        });
        it('max can be updated dynamically and update button disabled status', function() {
            scope.testMax = 42;
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(angular.element(elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[1]).attr('disabled')).toEqual('disabled');
            scope.testMax = 50;
            scope.$digest();
            expect(angular.element(elm[0].querySelectorAll('.input-group-addon')[1]).attr('disabled')).not.toBeDefined();
        });
    });
    describe('ngModel integration', function() {
        it('should update form validity when min changes', function() {
            scope.testMin = 40;
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeTruthy();
            scope.testMin =45;
            scope.$digest();
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('should update form validity when max changes', function() {
            scope.testMax = 50;
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeTruthy();
            scope.testMax =35;
            scope.$digest();
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeFalsy();
        });
        it('should update form validity when model changes', function() {
            scope.testMin = 40;
            compileDirective('

');
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeTruthy();
            scope.testModel = 35;
            scope.$digest();
            expect(scope.form.$valid).toBeFalsy();
        });
        // same for MAX
    });
    describe('increment', function() {
        it('should increment value', function() {
            compileDirective();
            elm.isolateScope().increment();
            expect(scope.testModel).toEqual(43);
        });
        it('should update form dirty state', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(scope.form.$dirty).toBeFalsy();
            elm.isolateScope().increment();
            expect(scope.form.$dirty).toBeTruthy();
        });
    });
    describe('decrement', function() {
        it('should decrement value', function() {
            compileDirective();
            elm.isolateScope().decrement();
            expect(scope.testModel).toEqual(41);
        });
        it('should update form dirty state', function() {
            compileDirective();
            expect(scope.form.$dirty).toBeFalsy();
            elm.isolateScope().decrement();
            expect(scope.form.$dirty).toBeTruthy();
        });
    });

});

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TUNIS 16 to 26 July 2022
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE _ is the overarching theme of the TASAWAR PROJECTS 2022.
CONFERENCE | EXHIBITION | PUBLICATION
The series of practice fields of the TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS is dedicated to the questions of how artists engage with possible futures in times when doubts about the future are increasingly urgent. Climate change, violence, and war, poverty, and hunger are only a few of the problems that do not invoke sufficient action. The series of activities collects and presents voices of the arts that engage with present and future needs.
23 July 2022 SAT 5:00 – 10:00 pm at CENTRAL Tunis on invitation only.
On working and living conditions of artists, curators, and art professionals in the SWANA region
On 23 July 2022, from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm a conference dedicated to artists, curators, and art professionals will take place in the art space CENTRAL in Tunis Downtown. Participation is possible by invitation only.
Adham Hafez
Jessica El Mal
Morehshin Allahyari
Reem Aljeally
The conference outlines the living and working conditions of artists and curators, and explores contemporary writing practices, mute narratives, and the future of the digital sphere, within the SWANA region. The international and national guest speakers will present an array of engagements on these topics and their perspectives on the current status and possible futures. Three main panels are titled WHAT IS WHERE – WHAT IS HERE and WHAT'S THE STORY EIH EL 7EKAYA! and WHAT IS SPACE CURATION: ARAB FUTURISM.
The conference is a hybrid event of panel talks, activities, and movement workshops. The speakers are Safa Attyaoui (TASAWAR Alum, artist from Tunis.tn), Reem Aljeally (artist, curator from Khartum.sd), Jessica El Mal (curator from Morocco/UK), Morehshin Allahyari (Artist, Iran/USA) and Adham Hafez (curator, artist and founder of Wizara from Egypt/USA).
Where Do We Go From Here? Is a collaborative curational conference by the TASAWAR COLLECTIVE with Achraf Remok, Cyrine Ghrissi, and Marwa Benhalim. The conference is a parallel program to TASAWAR EXHIBITION Where Do We Go From Here? From 28 to 31 July 2022 in Bir Lahjar in the Medina of Tunis.
28 – 31 July 2022 THU – SUN 8:00 pm to Midnight at BIR LAHJAR
Open to all audiences
On possible futures
From 28 to 31 July 2022, in the evening from 8:00 pm to Midnight, a selection of different media artworks will be on display in BIR LAHJAR in the Medina of Tunis. Access is free for all audiences.
Amina Benbouchta
Asma Laajimi
Cristian Anutoiu
Esraa Elfeky
Gabriela Valdespino
Heidi Vogels
Hescham Al Karshan
Léa Djeziri
Nidhal Chamekh
Oussama Ben Sassi
The TASAWAR COLLECTIVE invited artists that address the future as a potential of the present. In different ways, and with different perspectives and formats; the exhibition looks at how we can speculate upon the future of our habitat. Each curator brings a different angle from disparate artists who explore a certain possible narrative interrogating the "here" state and its outcome and impact on nature, habitat, and environment. The curated collection of media artworks laces an itinerary that takes visitors on a journey to reflect and question issues and topics that stretch from our current present to the possibility of affecting our daily lives.
The TASAWAR Media Art Project will take place in parallel with the INTERFERENCE YOUNG MASTERS Exhibition. It is supported by the Goethe-Institut Tunis.


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China's reduction in reserve requirements for banks, the first since 2008, may signal government concern that a slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy is deepening.
Reserve ratios will decline by 50 basis points effective Dec. 5, the central bank said on its website yesterday. The move may add 350 billion yuan ($55 billion) to the financial system, according to UBS AG.
A report due today may show that China's manufacturing contracted for the first time since February 2009, and the nation's stocks had their biggest decline in almost four months yesterday. Premier Wen Jiabao aims to sustain the economic expansion as Europe's debt crisis saps exports, a credit squeeze hits small businesses and a crackdown on real-estate speculation sends home sales sliding.
"The deceleration of growth may have become faster than expected on increased external uncertainty, a sagging property market" and difficulties for smaller companies, said Liu Li- gang, a Hong Kong-based economist with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. who previously worked for the World Bank. The manufacturing report may be "worse than expected," Liu said.
The Purchasing Managers' Index may dip to 49.8 for November, a level marking a contraction, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 18 economists. That data is due at 9 a.m. local time today. Consumer price gains eased to 5.5 percent in October, compared with a government target of 4 percent, as exports rose the least in almost two years.
The policy move yesterday came two hours before the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the monetary authorities of the U.K., Canada, Japan and Switzerland said they were cutting the cost of emergency dollar funding to ease strains in financial markets.
Spurring lending in China, the nation that contributes most to global growth, may boost confidence as Europe's crisis worsens. Stocks and the euro rallied after the moves.
China is at "the beginning of monetary easing," said Qu Hongbin, a Hong Kong-based economist for HSBC Holdings Plc, adding that "aggressive" action is warranted. While more reserve-ratio cuts may follow, interest rates may remain unchanged until inflation is below 3 percent, he said.
The latest change means that reserve requirements for the biggest lenders will fall to 21 percent from a record 21.5 percent, based on past statements.
Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. said that the timing of the Chinese announcement "could be linked" to the move by the Fed and others. In October 2008, China cut interest rates within minutes of reductions by the Fed and five other central banks as the global financial crisis worsened.
Barclays Capital yesterday forecast at least three more reserve ratio cuts by mid-2012 and said two interest-rate reductions are likely next year.
Yesterday's move may have been partly a response to inflows of foreign-exchange drying up, according to UBS's Hong Kong- based economist Wang Tao. Central bank data released this month suggested that capital has been flowing out of China.
Growth is slowing across Asia, the region that led the world recovery, with India today reporting its economy expanded the least in two years and Thailand cutting interest rates. In China, the clampdown on property speculation has added to the threat of a deeper slowdown after a 9.1 percent expansion in the third quarter that was the smallest in two years.
Property risks are "overshadowing" the outlook as falling sales threaten to trigger developer collapses, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said this week. Agile Property Holdings Ltd. (3383), the developer in which JPMorgan Chase & Co. owns a stake, has said it will stop buying land until at least February and is slowing construction at some projects.
October housing transactions declined 25 percent from September and prices fell in 33 of 70 cities, according to government data. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 3.3 percent yesterday after Xia Bin, an academic adviser to the central bank, said credit should remain "relatively tight" and people shouldn't hope for a reversal of housing market curbs.
China hasn't raised interest rates since July, the longest pause since increases began in October last year. Benchmark one- year borrowing costs stand at 6.56 percent. The last interest- rate cut was in December 2008, during the global financial crisis.