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import unittest
import mock
import tempfile
import shutil
import sh
import powerline_shell.segments.fossil as fossil
from powerline_shell.utils import RepoStats
from ..testing_utils import dict_side_effect_fn

test_cases = {
    "EXTRA      new-file": RepoStats(new=1),
    "EDITED     modified-file": RepoStats(changed=1),
    "CONFLICT   conflicted-file": RepoStats(conflicted=1),
    "ADDED      added-file": RepoStats(staged=1),
}

class FossilTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.powerline = mock.MagicMock()
        self.powerline.segment_conf.side_effect = dict_side_effect_fn({
            ("vcs", "show_symbol"): False,
        })

        self.dirname = tempfile.mkdtemp()
        sh.cd(self.dirname)
        sh.fossil("init", "test.fossil")
        sh.fossil("open", "test.fossil")

        self.segment = fossil.Segment(self.powerline, {})

    def tearDown(self):
        shutil.rmtree(self.dirname)

    def _add_and_commit(self, filename):
        sh.touch(filename)
        sh.fossil("add", filename)
        sh.fossil("commit", "-m", "add file " + filename)

    def _checkout_new_branch(self, branch):
        sh.fossil("branch", "new", branch, "trunk")
        sh.fossil("checkout", branch)

    @mock.patch("powerline_shell.utils.get_PATH")
    def test_fossil_not_installed(self, get_PATH):
        get_PATH.return_value = "" # so fossil can't be found
        self.segment.start()
        self.segment.add_to_powerline()
        self.assertEqual(self.powerline.append.call_count, 0)

    def test_non_fossil_directory(self):
        sh.fossil("close", "--force")
        self.segment.start()
        self.segment.add_to_powerline()
        self.assertEqual(self.powerline.append.call_count, 0)

    def test_standard(self):
        self._add_and_commit("foo")
        self.segment.start()
        self.segment.add_to_powerline()
        self.assertEqual(self.powerline.append.call_args[0][0], " trunk ")

    def test_different_branch(self):
        self._add_and_commit("foo")
        self._checkout_new_branch("bar")
        self.segment.start()
        self.segment.add_to_powerline()
        self.assertEqual(self.powerline.append.call_args[0][0], " bar ")

    @mock.patch('powerline_shell.segments.fossil._get_fossil_status')
    def test_all(self, check_output):
        for stdout, result in test_cases.items():
            stats = fossil.parse_fossil_stats([stdout])
            self.assertEquals(result, stats)


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International Women's Peace Service
HRR 2014
An Nabi Salih // النبي صالح
Asira al-Qibliya // عصيرة القبلية
Bruqin // إبروقين
Deir Ballut // دير بلّوط
Deir Istiya // دير إستيا
Hares // حارس
Iraq Burin // بورين العراق
Izbeit at Tabib // عزبة الطبيب
Wadi Qana // وادي قانا
Kufr ad-Dik // كفر الديك
Kifl Haris // كفل حارس
Kufr Qaddum // كفر قدّوم
Yasouf // ياسوف
Solidarity with occupied Palestine: Non-violence in action since 2002
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The House Team Reports describe in writing and pictures what day to day life may be like for IWPS volunteers in Palestine.
In contrast to the Human Rights Reports, which are written objectively, House Team Reports allow volunteers to tell the human side of the Palestinians living under a brutal, illegal Occupation, as well as times when IWPS women have the opportunity to spend time with Palestinian friends, leaving the Occupation in the back of our minds for awhile.
IWPS has been in Palestine since 2002; the house reports are the stories of the teams on ground throughout our (almost 10 years!) of living, struggling, laughing, resisting, and standing strong with our Palestinian comrades, other international and Israeli activists groups.
House Report No.40
A village tour around Salfit
A local contact from the village of Bruqin invited IWPS and ISM on a two-day village tour around the Salfit district. The purpose of the tour was to make new contacts and review the situation in those villages. Three people from the ISM and three from IWPS met in the municipality in Bruqin on Sunday 12 May. Bruqin, just like every other village in the area, has had settler problems for the past few decades.
Day One; Iskaka
First we visited a Bedouin family who live on the hills close to the city of Salfit. Originally from Beersheba (in the Naqab desert, southern Palestine '48), in 1948 they were forcefully transferred to al-Khalil (Hebron); from there, some 2 decades ago they were again transferred to the Salfit district; in 2004 the family were once again forced to leave as their village was destroyed by the Israeli army. The family has not been allowed to come back to the Naqab since their first eviction.
The family of ~60 spans three generations; they graze sheep, which are their main source of livelihood. The Palestinian owner of the land the family now live on lives in Salfit city; he has stated he is happy for them to live on his land, as by doing so they're protecting it from the Israeli army and the illegal settlers. The father owns two dunums nearby, but because the land is now zoned as Area "C", the Israeli military will not allow the family to have any standing structure. Almost every week, the family is given verbal eviction and demolition orders from the Israeli army which claims that the family lives and grazes their flock illegally and that the land belongs to the illegal settlement of Ariel which is soon going to utilize the area when they expand their industrial zone. The lack of water in the region is another huge problem for this family of herders; they have to buy it from Salfit city and it is very expensive for them.
The family identifies themselves as refugees and has two lawyers, one from the Palestinian Authority and another from UN OCHA. They refuse to be transferred yet again, this time to the Jordan Valley, where they hear the Israeli military is forcibly relocating Bedouins.
The second stop of the tour was the village Iskaka, with a population of 1,200; houses in the village are in Area B, while the surrounding land is classed as Area C. The villagers there are terrorized daily by wild pigs, which they state were placed on the land by the settlers. It is illegal for the Palestinians to kill the pigs or otherwise get rid of them, despite the animals consistently damaging Iskaka's crops, gardens, and plants, and attacking villagers. More than 300 dunums have been stolen from Iskaka by the neighbouring illegal Israeli settlements; the illegal settlement Nofei Nehemia, close to Iskaka, is an extremist religious one. Settlers frequently attack Iskaka and its residents; they also prevent villagers from working their land.
The Israeli army allows one or two days annually for the villagers to collect their olive harvest; the permissions are usually given to children, which causes delay in harvesting and enables settler abuses. In 2012 the settlers came during the olive harvest and stole it.
The main – and only – road in/out the village of Iskaka is frequently closed by the Israeli army which sets up a checkpoint, effectively blocking the access to Salfit or Nablus. Six dunums of the village's land were destroyed by the construction of a paved road. The power lines that supplied electricity to Iskaka were destroyed during the construction of the settler-only road, forcing the village to construct underground electricity lines that cost much more. The DCO recently informed the municipality of Iskaka that a new settlement will be built between Iskaka and the illegal Israeli settlement of Rechelim.
Our last visit of the day was at the Red Crescent local office in Salfit. There are around 75,000 in the Salfit district; it has a total of 19 Palestinian villages and 24 illegal Israeli settlements. More than 60% of the total income comes from olives. The district has plentiful water resources, yet they have been stolen by Israel which then sells the water back to the local Palestinians for much higher prices.
After talking to Red Crescent Salfit's representatives, we drove back to Bruqin with our local contact and had lunch with his family. He then showed us the polluted river in the village; sewage from the illegal settlement of Ariel makes the water stinky and undrinkable. In other surrounding villages much higher than average cancer cases have been recorded (with children and the elderly particularly affected); the villagers attribute this to the chemical and human waste from Israel's illegal settlements that contaminates their rivers, and with them, their lands, animals, and families.
Day Two; Az Zawiya & Mas-ha
The next day two people from IWPS and one from ISM attended the tour. We went to the town of Az Zawiya to meet its current mayor. Our contact also took us to a mobile clinic that travels around the Salfit area. Twice a month it stops in Az Zawiya; more frequently in bigger villages and towns. The clinic sells medical supplies for low prices (around 3 NIS) and offers free medical exams.
Az Zawiya's youth centre has a variety of programmes for youngsters from the village and the surrounding area. While at the centre, we were shown a film about local women farming. The Israeli army and illegal settlers cause a lot of trouble for Az Zawiya; for example, the army forbids women to take their sons with them to farm "for security reasons".
In 2004-2006 the village held daily demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall being built right next to homes, 3 metres from the secondary school. Through organizing and demonstrating, the villagers saved over 8,000 dunums of their land; the Wall was eventually moved 2 km west of Az Zawiya, but it stole 200 dunums of fertile farmland from the local people.
After Az Zawiya, we went to the village of Mas-ha whose water has been seized by the Israeli military for the use of nearby settlements. Mas-ha and other villages in the area are now forced to import water from Azzun, which is twice as expensive as before. The area used by Israel for the construction of the fence and the security road is stolen Mas-ha farm land. Villagers the Israeli government will replace the fence with a concrete wall, destroying even more olive trees and stealing even more land.
House report #34
Zatara Checkpoint
IWPS was informed about a settler demonstration organized by a group of religious settler women who call themselves "Women in Green" that was to take place at the Zatara checkpoint on May 5th at 09:00. Having arrived at 09:00 at Zatara, the team waited for two hours near the Zatara checkpoint, observing Israeli military preparation for the demonstration. Up to 12 army vehicles and border police cars gathered in the central area of the checkpoint. By 10:30 it became clear that the "Women in Green" had relocated their demonstration to the Yitzhar illegal settlement. By 11:00 all except one military vehicle had dispersed. At 19:00 the Israeli army had gathered at the checkpoint with around 50 soldiers. IWPS was informed that following the "Women in Green" meeting/demonstration at Yitzhar the group came en masse to Zatara and threw stones at Palestinian civilian cars. The settler demonstration was organized in the name of a recently deceased settler with the intention of constructing a new illegal outpost in the area.
Qabalan
*On Sunday, April 28th Alex and I and a friend from ISM met with a woman from the village and Qabalan at the Tanwen Center in Nablus. During an
earlier meeting, she asked if we would like to visit and discuss teaching some English classes. As we had never been to the town, we were very interested in going. On the service ride there, the women in the back seat told us to ''be prepared to be stared at!'' As Qabalan is a fairly conservative place. When we arrived, we met with the woman's family and they treated us to lovely sweets and fresh fruit from their garden. The mother and younger sister insisted on dressing us up in hijab before we went to the center in the middle of the town. The Qabalan municipality established the Wabalah youth council nearly a month ago. There are approximately 100 members between the ages of 18 and 24, though anyone who wants to use the center is welcome to. The center serves a number of functions. There are English lessons, classes for women, children and students. Members also organize activities with the municipality. The membership elects 11 members to the leadership council, both men and women and there is a weekly Friday meeting to plan events and workshops. When we arrived an English class for youth had just finished. A young profession from Bin Zeit University is regularly volunteering from time to come and teach. It was nice to hear her speak about what motivated her. She genuinely wants to help her people independently not through any organization, just for the well being of Palestine. After the youth council we visited a few people around the town before returning to home in Deir Istya. In the future we will stay in contact with the English instructor directly who said it could be nice if we come one day to practice speaking with the students.
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Jan 9, 2023 | Open Educational Resources
By Cailyn Nagle
As 2023 begins, we would like to take a moment to reflect on the successes and opportunities that 2022 presented.
It was a big year for open educational resources (OER)—from OpenStax becoming the fourth largest publisher of textbooks to OER outpacing traditional materials in quality assessments. There were significant anniversaries and events worth celebrating. While we were thrilled by some exciting ideas and progress, there were also moments that made us raise our eyebrows and say, "No thank you."
As with all Michelson 20MM Foundation initiatives, Spark Grants are a cornerstone of our OER program. Through Spark Grants, we support capacity building, research, and projects meant to quickly build ramps that launch our partner's work to the next level. Projects focused on two main areas of interest: building capacity within the California Community College system for the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree program and better understanding the impacts of automatic textbook billing nationally. This year, we look forward to opening another cycle of funding, focused on OER.
With the pandemic accelerating the uptake of "Inclusive Access," "Equitable Access," and other forms of automatic textbook billing, Michelson 20MM continues to inspect the impacts of these practices. Building on previous Spark Grants such as the Automatic Billing research from US PIRG and the launch of InclusiveAccess.org, we are excited to support SPARC in continuing to build out the understanding of these practices by looking into how large publishers use the student data harvested through automatically billed digital course materials.
With the opportunity created by Governor Newsom's historic $115 million investment in ZTC degree pathways within the California Community Colleges (CCC) system, Michelson 20MM is focused on supporting this project across the finish line. Both Creative Commons and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U's) capacity building initiatives support the rollout of this ambitious program by providing faculty and staff with resources and skills.
Early this year, Creative Commons, the CCC Academic Senate's OERI committee, Skyline College, and Michelson 20MM will team up for a bootcamp where 15 educators will earn a certification in Creative Commons licensing, a key underpinning of the open ecosystem. AAC&U first started their OER Institute two years ago, teaming participating campuses with professional development opportunities and mentors to build out OER plans for their schools. In the coming year, Michelson 20MM is proud to continue sponsoring five campuses.
In addition supporting the rollout of the ZTC program through our Spark Grant, we continue to advocate directly for a rollout of a program centering the needs of educators and students and based on best practices laid out by faculty and other OER experts. Whether we're making our voices heard in public comments at CCC Board of Governors meetings or through opinion editorials, Michelson 20MM continues to call for a transparent, equitable, and timely implementation of the ZTC pathways.
As we embark upon a new year, we want to applaud the broad and diverse world of OER advocates, practitioners, and creators. The work of creating a more inclusive and open world is challenging, but together we can unlock doors and then leave them open behind us.
Michelson 20MM is a private, nonprofit foundation seeking to accelerate progress towards a more just world through grantmaking, operating programs, and impact investing. Co-chaired and funded by Alya and Gary Michelson, Michelson 20MM is part of the Michelson Philanthropies network of foundations.
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Today the Council of Mortgage Lenders, (CML) has reported that mortgage lending in June showed a "significant rise", up 29% on the previous month to an estimated £20.5 billion. This is also a year on year increase of some 15%.
Whilst an increase in mortgage lending figures was expected, especially given the drop in service levels from lenders we have seen due to high numbers of applications, the end of the drawn-out election process and a new government has helped to push things forward.
With interest rates remaining low for the foreseeable future and a new wave of competition between lenders expected to rage over the second half of the year, I suspect that this upward trend will continue, albeit by perhaps more modest amounts.
The main constraints are not consumer demand, but rather lenders underwriting criteria and affordability considerations which are still tight following the implementation of the Mortgage Market Review. As competition between lenders begins to shift from simply cutting rates to opening up their criteria once more, this should help further, but with a drastic lack of housing stock, especially in high demand areas of the country limiting supply and keeping property prices high, there is only so far this can go.


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Монжо́ (, ) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Окситания. Департамент — Аверон. Входит в состав кантона Сен-Бозели. Округ коммуны — Мийо.

Код INSEE коммуны — 12153.

География
Коммуна расположена приблизительно в 530 км к югу от Парижа, в 130 км северо-восточнее Тулузы, в 39 км к юго-востоку от Родеза.

Население
Население коммуны на 2008 год составляло 393 человека.

Администрация

Экономика
В 2007 году среди 259 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15—64 лет) 177 были экономически активными, 82 — неактивными (показатель активности — 68,3 %, в 1999 году было 62,7 %). Из 177 активных работали 163 человека (101 мужчина и 62 женщины), безработных было 14 (6 мужчин и 8 женщин). Среди 82 неактивных 26 человек были учениками или студентами, 33 — пенсионерами, 23 были неактивными по другим причинам.

Достопримечательности
 Дом Бермон (XIII век). Памятник истории с 1930 года
  (XII век). Памятник истории с 1909 года
 Дольмен Пюш. Памятник истории с 1889 года
  (XV век). Памятник истории с 1978 года

Фотогалерея

Примечания

Ссылки

Коммуны департамента Аверон

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The bad news is that the first few episodes in the DVD set of the '80s action-adventure show "Streethawk" made me wonder why I enjoyed watching episodes on Sunday afternoons; the good news is that it is because everything about the series improved greatly after the first few episodes. I believe strongly that the program would have benefitted, and likely lasted beyond its 13 episodes, if some later produced episodes had aired earlier in its run.
The premise behind this show is that an unnamed federal agency recruits risk-taking passionate motorcycle cop Jesse Mach, played by Rex Smith, to test out a high-powered tricked-out motorcycle named Streethawk that is designed to combat urban crime.
Every episode has Mach using Streethawk to investigate the crime of the week in which Mach has a personal involvement. One of the more clever techniques has the rider of the motorcycle, who the public knows only as Streethawk, wear a highly tinted motorcycle helmet that facilitates having a stunt rider fill in for Smith. A less clever technique has Mach lounging around the secret Streethawk headquarters wrapped in a post-shower towel each week to show off Smith's well-toned body.
The sixth episode, which involves a relatively clever arson scheme, is a good example of the improved quality of the show. Smith's accent had stabilized, the character of Norman his handler and Streethawk's creator had reached a better balance between being a techno worry wart geek to being a strong sidekick and real friend to Mach, and Smith had learned that a baby-faced blonde-hair blue-eyed pretty boy needs to rely on more subtlety than intensity in intimidating the bad guys.
As a side note, I was excited to learn that Smith is currently performing in "The Sound of Music" at a Maine summer stock theater. This prompted images of him throwing Julie Andrews on the back of Streethawk and racing across the Alps one step ahead of the Nazis. I do hope to attend the performance and get Smith to sign my DVD set.
Other fans of "Streethawk" or Smith are welcome to e-mail me at tvdvdguy@gmail.com.


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El óxido de wolframio (VI), también conocido como trióxido de wolframio o anhídrido wolfrámico, WO3, es un compuesto químico del oxígeno con el metal de transición wolframio. Se obtiene como producto intermedio en la recuperación de wolframio a partir de sus menas. Los minerales del wolframio son tratados con álcalis para producir WO3. La reacción con carbono o hidrógeno gaseoso reduce el trióxido de wolframio a metal puro.

Depósitos naturales
El óxido de wolframio (VI) se encuentra en la naturaleza en forma de hidratos, que incluyen minerales: Tungstita WO3 · H2O, meymacita WO3·2H2O y hidrotungstita (de la misma composición que la meymacita, sin embargo a veces se escribe como H2 WO4 ). Estos minerales de tungsteno son poco frecuentes.

Preparación
Se obtiene trióxido de wolframio mediante la calcinación, y consiguiente descomposición térmica, del hidrato WO3 • H2O (ácido wolfrámico)  Como paso preliminar a la obtención del ácido wolfrámico se hace reaccionar la scheelita, CaWO4, con HCl.

También se puede descomponer el parawolframato de amonio: (NH4 ) 10 [H2 W12 O42] • 4H2O a una temperatura de 500-800 °C.

Otra método de obtención es la oxidación del wolframio metálico en una atmósfera de oxígeno a temperaturas superiores a 500 °C.

Estructura
La estructura cristalina de trióxido de wolframio depende de la temperatura. A temperaturas superiores a 740 °C tiene una estructura tetragonal de 330 a 740 °C es ortorrómbica, mientras que 17 a 300 °C es monoclínica. Se le supone una estructura triclina 17 a -50 °C. Es evidente que la estructura más común de trióxido de tungsteno es el uno con monoclínico grupo espacial : P21/ n

Usos
El trióxido de wolframio posee varios usos.

 Por a su color amarillo intenso el óxido de wolframio se emplea como pigmento en las industria de cerámica y pinturas.

 Se utiliza con frecuencia en la industria para la fabricación de wolframatos para las pantallas de fósforo de rayos X. Para la ignifugación de tejidos y en sensores de gas.

 El WO3 se emplea en óptica, mediante películas de óxido de ultra-delgadas se consigue un revestimineto resistente a los arañazos para las lentes ópticas. El trióxido de tungsteno se emplea en la producción de ventanas electrocrómicas o ventanas inteligentes. Estas ventanas son de vidrio que cambiar las propiedades de transmisión de luz mediante la aplicación de un voltaje. Esto permite al usuario para teñir las ventanas, cambiando la cantidad de calor o la luz que pasa a través.

 Es un catalizador de hidrogenación y craqueo de hidrocarburos.

 En 2010 la AIST informó un rendimiento cuántico del 19% en la división de agua fotocatalítica con un fotocatalizador de óxido de cesio-tungsteno mejorado

Precauciones

El trióxido de wolframio es nocivo por inhalación (y también por el contacto con la piel y por ingestión). Los síntomas de intoxicación pueden presentarse después de muchas horas, por lo tanto, acudir a un médico dentro de 48 horas después del accidente

Notas

Enlaces externos
 International Tungsten Industry Association
 Preparation of tungsten trioxide electrochromic films
 Sigma Aldrich (supplier)

Compuestos de wolframio
Óxidos


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To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of households subject to the benefit cap that have moved into work in comparison with the number of households that have moved into work that are not subject to that cap.
The Department published its evaluation of the original benefit cap levels "Benefit cap: Analysis of Outcomes of capped claimants" in December 2014. From the findings the Government estimated that capped households were 4.7 percentage points (41%) more likely to flow into work after a year compared to similar uncapped households.
Households working more than 16 hours a week and eligible for working tax credits or entitled to Universal Credit and earning at least £542 (£569 from April 2019) a month are exempt from the benefit cap.
Statistics published on 7 February 2019 show that in November 2018, out of a total of 196,840 capped Housing Benefit awards since May 2013, 55,360 were no longer capped because they had moved into work. In addition, out of a total of 19,660 Universal Credit awards capped since October 2016, 2,420 were no longer capped because they had earnings above the earnings threshold (currently £542). These figures will include some households that would have moved into work in the absence of the cap.


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UF/CALS student facilitates national 4-H conference roundtable with FBI
Please see caption below photo.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida student recently led a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., with Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives on cyber bullying. Students even got advice from former 4-H participant FBI Director James Comey.
During the 2017 National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C. from March 25 to 30, UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) student Jose Alvarez led the social equity roundtable of 4-H delegates. Alvarez was partnered as a facilitator with FBI representatives to guide the delegates in creating a social media campaign and slogan to address cyber bullying.
Comey told the 4-H delegates about his 4-H experiences as a child and spent some time with them answering career-related questions and how to leverage their 4-H skills in their future occupations.
The 4-H delegates presented their final project, titled "Celebr8 Us," to FBI representatives on March 28 to be considered as a potential solution to be implemented by the bureau. The social media project incorporated eight pillar topics from the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The students aimed to create a welcoming environment on social media with their project presentation. Messages focused on testimonials and positive solutions, such as "giving compliments generously."
After participating as a counselor for CALS' Florida Youth Institute last summer, Alvarez said he had the desire to continue working with youth involved in agriculture and leadership.
"I'm so fortunate to have been a facilitator with this team of 14 delegates," Alvarez said. "Pre-teens and teens are involved in so much hate and negativity that stem from social media and cyber bullying. I was impressed by how the young delegates worked as a team and developed campaign ideas as well as a formal presentation within 48 hours. We will all be staying in touch afterward."
The delegates met with U.S. senators and representatives from their states and shared their social media campaign ideas to address cyber bullying. Alvarez said the officials were interested in implementing some of the ideas if feasible.
One particularly impactful experience for Alvarez during the conference was his interaction with a delegate who opened up to participate more fully in the activities after Alvarez challenged him to have a speaking role in the presentation. When the conference ended, the delegate thanked Alvarez and said Alvarez was the first person who truly wanted to get to know him and his talents.
"Jose is invested in seeing others do well," said Kate Fletcher, a UF/IFAS family, youth and community sciences senior lecturer. "His leadership, determination, ability to tap into resources and encourage others to use their own talents in a positive way is motivating. He truly wants to see the next generation of students thrive."
Caption: 4-H delegates met with FBI representatives, including FBI Director James Comey, to discuss their ideas for a social media campaign to address cyber bullying. UF/CALS photo
By: Dana Edwards, 352-392-1963, dana.edwards@ufl.edu
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) administers the degree programs of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). The mission of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is to deliver unsurpassed educational programs that prepare students to address the world's critical challenges related to agriculture, food systems, human wellbeing, natural resources and sustainable communities. Visit the CALS website at cals.ufl.edu, and follow CALS on social media platforms at @ufcals.
by sgrenrock@ufl.edu
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馬に乗る,乗馬する 《★【比較】 具体的な乗る動作を表わす時には get on a horse を用いる》.
She rode there at full gallop. 彼女はそこへ全速力で馬を走らせた.
He jumped on his horse and rode off [away]. 彼は馬にとび乗って走り去った.
I rode over to see her yesterday. 私は昨日馬に乗って彼女に会いに行った.
〔+前置詞+(代)名詞〕〔乗り物に〕(乗客として)乗る,乗っていく 〔in,on〕《★【比較】 自転車・バイク・馬などに自分一人で乗る場合は 他動詞 1 の用法となる》.
ride in [on] a bus [train] バス[列車]に乗る.
She rode on her father's shoulders. 彼女は父親に肩車してもらった.
Surfers rode on the crests of the waves. サーファーたちは波頭に乗った.
She's riding along on a surge of popularity. 彼女は人気の波に乗っている.
The moon rode high in the heavens. 月が空高く上がっていた.
This new model car rides very smoothly. この新型車は乗り心地が実にスムーズだ.
The course will ride hard [soft] today. 今日は走路は固い[柔らかい]だろう.
The wheel rides on the axle. 車輪は車軸で回る.
All these changes ride on that decision. これらの変更はすべてその決定いかんにかかっている.
〈馬・自転車・オートバイ・バス・列車などに〉乗る 《★【比較】 車など「中に入りこむ乗り物」に乗って運転する場合は drive (ただし飛行機は fly), その他の交通機関に乗客として乗る場合は通例 自動詞 2 の用法が一般的》.
ride a bicycle [bus] 自転車[バス]に乗る.
ride one's horse at a fence 垣根を飛び越そうと馬を駆けさせる.
ride one's horse to town 馬に乗って町に行く.
We rode a race (with each other). 我々は競馬をした.
ride a child on one's back 子供を背に馬乗りにさせる.
ride the wind like a hawk タカのように風に乗る.
The ship rode the waves. 船は波に乗って走っていた.
I watched surfers riding the waves. 私はサーファーが波に乗っているのをじっと見た.
His spectacles rode his nose low. 眼鏡が彼の鼻の先のほうにのっていた.
〈…を〉支配する,圧制する; 悩ます,苦しめる 《★通例受身で用いる; また過去分詞で形容詞的に用いる; ⇒ridden》.
He's ridden by doubts [prejudices]. 彼は疑惑[偏見]にとらわれている.
They rode him about his long hair. 彼らは髪が長いといって彼をからかった.
give a person a ride 人を乗せてやる.
pick up a ride 車に乗せてもらう.
thumb a ride ヒッチハイクをする 《★【由来】 親指を出して車を止めることから》.
go for a ride (馬・自転車・列車などを)ひと乗りしに出かける; (他人の運転する)車に乗せてもらって出かける.
have a ride on a camel [in a car] ラクダ[車]に乗る.
It's a long bus ride to and from the school. その学校への往復はバスでかなり時間がかかる.
This car has [gives] a rough [soft] ride. この車は乗り心地が悪い[柔らかい].
He jumped on his horse and rode away.
The boy liked to ride on a motorcycle.
She rode in the back of the wagon as far as the crossroads.
Little boys like to ride on their fathers' shoulders.
She rode on the merry‐go‐round in the park.
The ship rode precariously on the rough seas.
The politician rode on image rather than substance.
Please give me a ride.
An hour's ride in the bus will take you to your destination.
She took a three‐day train ride to Denver.
This car's ride is improved by the new shock absorbers.
This car has an easy ride.
Since he was so naive they took him for quite a ride.
Shall I ride your little son on my lap?
The surfer rode the waves well.
She was ridden with fear.
The success of the project is riding on the weather.
With a little luck we should be able to ride out this recession.
I think he is riding for a fall.
The project was riding high.
I learnt to ride as a child.
From Middle English riden, from 古期英語 rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ-.
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride ("to ride"), Saterland Frisian riede ("to ride"), West Frisian ride ("to ride"), Low German rieden ("to ride"), Dutch rijden ("to ride"), German reiten ("to ride"), Danish ride ("to ride"), Swedish rida ("to ride").
From Indo-European: Welsh rhwyddhau ("to hurry").
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
The cab rode him downtown.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
"One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, 'thongs have nowhere left to go': but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
(Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
(Britain, dialectal, archaic) A saddle horse.
(Ireland) A person (または sometimes a thing または a place) that is visually attractive.
Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.


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Q: bootstrap carousel doesn't work I tried to use bootstrap carousel with a little fixes.
I need to show three elements, and move the one.
I tried to repeat code from http://www.bootply.com/94444
but my code doesn't work http://heidel.tw1.ru/test3/
The first element moved one, and the all stops.
In console I get an error
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'slice' of undefined
What's wrong? Why my code doesn't work? How can I fix it?

A: I don't know if it has to do with the carousel but in your javascript file main.js, the error 'Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'slice' of undefined' has to do with this. It might not be able to find the 'li' element in 'this'. Check if these are the correct variables, and if 'li' actually exists in this' context.
var lis = this.find('li')

lis.slice(i, i + 3).addClass('visible');

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James A-Bates Interview (PAX AUS 2016) … Chroma Shift
Tell us about your new game Chroma Shift?
CHROMA SHIFT, has two players take control of our robots Theta and Psi, with their objective to restore power to a broken down facility. They will utilize different coloured energy sources, to solve and proceed past puzzles.
Spread throughout the environment are coloured orbs that when the players interact with them, change the player to the same colour. Any puzzle element in our environment that shares the same colour as the players will aid them, or not hinder them. Conversely any puzzle element that is a different colour will be a hindrance. As an example, If a blue platform has a blue player stand on it, the platform will move, aiding the player's progress. Similarly a red laser that touches a non-red player will destroy them. However if the player was red, the laser would let the player pass unharmed.
What's the favourite aspect about Chroma Shift?
My personal favorite aspect of CHROMA SHIFT is the focus on cooperation. Being able to grab a friend or sibling and work together and go through an experience together nothing really beats that. We wanted to make game that not only requires more than one player but is enhanced by it and we believe we have achieved this.
In developing this game, what kind of challenges did you face?
Every game comes with tonnes of challenges. For us in particular was getting the right feel and look for CHROMA SHIFT. We knew from the start that we wanted to make a cooperative colour platformer but we also wanted this interesting, dark lore and background story to go with it. So we want through a lot of art changes and level changes of how we wanted the game to look.
Another surprising challenge challenge for us was actually our double orb particle. Many of our testers thought it was a bug when both characters switched colours, as they didn't realise the difference between the single orb and the double orb.
One of the challenges that we knew from the start we would have to face is how to deal with colour blindness. Because we didn't want to just put words saying the colours or anything like that. So we did research into certain shades that they can see and we will have the option to enable color blind mode which changes the colours to colours that may not be as bright and interesting but people that are colorblind should be able to see the difference with the orbs.
And rewards?
My biggest reward is not only being able to work full time with my amazing team and on CHROMA SHIFT but also hearing the feedback and seeing people play CHROMA SHIFT and have a good time with their buddy, is just one of the best feelings in the world.
What do you think Chroma Shift brings to the world of gaming?
A fantastic cooperative experience. To show that a game can focus on co-op rather then it just be an additional feature.
With PAX just a few weeks away, what are you most looking forward to this event?
To show people CHROMA SHIFT and to hopefully see people enjoying themselves with a friend or even a stranger playing our game. What I'm looking forward to as well is networking with other developers and to get the name of CHROMA SHIFT out there.
Besides Chroma Shift what are you playing now?
When I get a bit of free time I am currently enjoying playing Gears of War 4 with my mates and I also try and get a game or two in Starcraft 2 as that is one of my favorite games.
Top 5 games of all time?
Starcraft 2 really just love the strategic fast paced gameplay in this and playing with my brother in its co-op mode which is a tonne of fun.
Halo Reach just has a place in my heart as one of the best FPS experiences I played with LAN parties and awesome co-op campaign.
Inside is a game with creepy atmosphere and the dark and confusing setting was just a treat. It was a short game but after finishing it I just had to make everyone I knew play it and experience this unique game.
Soma may not have the most interesting gameplay but what struck me was the story and the idea of what makes you human. The voice acting and sounds were top notch and I really enjoyed the game and I still talk about it to this very day.
My most favorite game as a child/teenager was Timesplitters 2 on the PS2. Playing it for hours on end with my brother we just couldn't get enough of the game. With its great co-op campaign, arcade challenges, playing against bots with a lot of different game modes. But where I spent most of my time was creating story levels in their really in depth map maker. Which helped me become the game maker that I am today.
How did you become involved in gaming development?
I've always enjoyed playing games and when ever a game had a map maker or something I would always spend hours upon hours on it. So in year 9 in High School there was a class called Website and Game Creation which was my first real attempt with making my own game. Using beginner game engines like Scratch and Game Maker I would spend most of my free time working on fun little platformers. Because of how much time I spent on my work the teacher brought me aside and showed me a brochure to AIE. Which after high school I did my programming course there and now I'm part of a start up indie company making games I want to make.
What advice would you give people wanting to become involved in game development?
Create stuff is the best advice I can give.Whenever you have free time make something with free game engines like Unity or Unreal which there is an insane amount of videos and documents on how to create games on those engines or start with more beginner like engines with Scratch and Game Maker. Create something small and show it to people and get critiqued on it. Because if you're looking for a job in this industry it's not really about what degrees you have it's about what you have made in the past and if you can show that you create your own games in your free time people will want you on their team.
Another piece of advice is to go to networking events as much as possible through social media pages like the IGDA Melbourne. There are a lot of higher up developers that are more then happy to give you their time to support and give you advice. One of the things that I have learn't through making this game is how supportive this industry is and to use that support with every opportunity you get.
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Frederic Ira Parke  is an American computer graphics researcher and academic. He did early work on animated computer renderings of human faces.

Parke graduated from the University of Utah with a BS degree in physics in 1965. He was then a graduate student of the  University of Utah College of Engineering where he received his MS (1972) and PhD (1974) in computer science.

In 1972, in a project partially financed by DARPA, Parke made the first 3D animation of a representation of a human face, his wife's face. This animation used a wireframe geometry overlaid with Gouraud shading that produces approximate renderings of curved surfaces. The technique was invented by Parke's Utah colleague Henri Gouraud.

A Computer Animated Face
In 1974, he created a more complex, parametric model of a human face, demonstrating various expressions and speech synchronization.  Snippets of this animation, along with Ed Catmull's 1972 animation of his left hand, were used in the 1976 film Futureworld. Several of the faces also appeared in the music video of Miley Cyrus' 2013 song "We Can't Stop".

He has worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory.

Parke teaches at Texas A&M University in the Visualization Sciences program.

References

External links

 Homepage of Frederic I. Parke at Texas A&M University

1943 births
Living people
Computer graphics professionals
Texas A&M University faculty
University of Utah alumni
New York Institute of Technology faculty
Scientists from Salt Lake City


For reasons which are not entirely nostalgia based – I promise – I've been looking through old photos. I've scanned a few and put them at the front of the gallery. They cover a random mix of people, in different places and in the date range 1998-2002. I resisted scanning anything from when I was at school – to the chagrin, i'm sure, of any old, nostalgia junky, school-friends who may read this blog (you know who you are).
This, among other things, stops you getting confused when a sound comes at you from two speakers at once.
Now, if you drop something and record the sound, and then play it back backwards, you can hear the echos that are normally masked.
B.C.J. Moore, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 5th Ed., Academic Press, San Diego (2003).
Tom: It is Good and True and those are some of our favourite things.
Matt: Good. True. Easy. Choose Two.
London, when will you be worthy of your overblown reputation?
London, when can I go into the supermarkets and buy back the hours I lost commuting?
Are you really going to let your emotional life be run by mammon?
Do we all really believe our own PR?
It's true I don't want to be in Westminster or drink in expensive wine-bars, I'm misanthropic and maladjusted anyway.
As of now I am based in Sheffield. With apologies to Allen Ginsberg.
new professional developments which will have a significant impact on the lives of others.
Phenomenon: For many decisions the average of many judgements is often better than the judgement of a single, albeit expert, individual. Example: judging the number of jellybeans in a jar – typically even individuals who have previously been most accurate ('the experts') will be outperformed by the average answers.
Seems analogous to the 'less is more' effect. This is, roughly, that sometimes an overabundance of information can distract you from applying an on-average-correct heuristic. Example: Answer this question Which city has more inhabitants: San Diego or San Antonio?. Who should do better at this question, Germans or Americans? The Germans, typically, have little knowledge of the size of American cities. So when given this pair they guess that the one they have heard of is larger (San Diego), and they are correct. The Americans know lots about American cities. They try to use all the information they have to make a correct decision. Which is more politically important? Which has more people I know living in it? Which felt bigger when I visited? Sometimes this information is helpful, sometimes it is distracting. Sometimes decision making based on more knowledge is outperformed by that based on less knowledge (here the analogy with the wisdom of crowds i guess). In one study  the German group using their simple recognition heuristic scored 100%. More generally, often neither method/group is always correct, but the simple, one criterion, rule can often be more correct.
So one mechanism by which the wisdom-of-crowds effect works is probably just reducing the level of knowledge that is contributing to the decision. A dumb kind of wisdom!
But crowds can often be dumb-dumb too, especially when they become herds. What are the conditions under which they keep their dumb-wisdom, the conditions when a mixture is better than the best expert?
Requires certain conditions for the crowd to make good decisions: members of group must be willing to think for themselves; they must be mostly independent of each other; must be reasonably decentralised; must be some means of aggregating opinions into a collective judgement. If people start second-guessing each other, or following each other, the crowd becomes a herd and herds are bad at decision making…Crowds do not do well the question is not a straight-forwardly cognitive one. They are not good at moral judgments.
You might argue that a group of people which are all thinking for themselves isn't really a crowd. You might also argue that the wisdom of crowds doesn't apply to moral judgements because individual judgements are non-commensurable in so many ways, not just because they are subject to lots of weird biases. If the choice is the same, but the individuals are making different decisions (e.g. they have access to contradictory information and/or they are using different criteria to select what a 'good' answer is) then aggregation isn't possible.
I think a more helpful book would not be The Wisdom of Crowds – Why the Many are Smarter than the Few but The Wisdom of Crowds – How the Many can be Smarter than the Few. Anyway, good to have some starting notes on when crowd decisions will outperform individual decisions – and when 'emergent' decisions will be herd-like and unproductive.
Asked about what would count as a fair exchange, !Xoma wouldn't answer. Would three strings of beads be fair in exchange for a spear? Would two? Would one?
Excerpted from Deborah Tannnen's (1990) You just don't understand: Men and Women in Conversation, which is far better, far more sociolinquistically weighty and far more fun than it probably sounds.


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As part of our mission to pave the way for children's success worldwide, Therapy Source is currently seeking a full-time Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) to provide services for students aged 3-21 in a private school. This position is for the remainder of the 2018/19 school year.
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Application Diagnostic manufacturing for Lipase and Triglyceride assays.
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Once a year, Troegs releases their Nugget Nectar, an excessively hopped Imperial Amber Ale, and now is the time!
There's no better time than the present to truly enjoy the sweet piney resin and mango flavors that this limited brew offers. But be sure to get it while you can, before it's too late.
As this beer rolls out, be sure to find us at Troeg's First Squeeze Events, listed below. They will be your chance for some fresh Nugget Nectar, as well as some swag, posters and even some NITRO Nugget Nectar!
February 6th from 6 PM to 8 PM at Cambridge Common.
February 7th from 5 PM to 10 PM at Smith's Billiards in Springfield.


Thousand Provable Revenue Money Advances-Should You Take The Opportunity?
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Getting maintain of a $one thousand money advance won't be a cinch by any means. You would need to perform a preliminary research of respected money advance firms willing to lend $1000. Although it's easy to find money advance of round $250 to $500, you might need to buy around a bit with the intention to bag $1000. It is suggested to maintain a number of choices open during your quest for a money advance. This way, if one cash advance agency leaves you high and dry, you can easily switch to another.
Sums of $1000 and beneath are thought-about trifling amounts by bigger loan firms' standards. Therefore, it's highly unlikely to acquire a $1000 mortgage from a mortgage firm. Nonetheless, cash advance firms are a viable choice for folks in pressing want of around $1000. Money advance companies would gladly approve your utility, supplied you've gotten a provable earnings source. However, money advance firms usually charge a better charge of interest relative to bigger mortgage firms.
All in all, money advance is a nice and quick technique to acquire that a lot wanted cash in a jiffy. But since the rate of curiosity is on the upper aspect, it's greatest to take up a loan from a loan agency, if possible. Generally, you should turn to a cash advance agency only when you have no different technique of acquiring cash.


According to the George Town Festival 2014 facebook page. The sensational cyber dance troupe Wrecking Crew from Japan will be performing in the festival.
That is one orignal and creative dance sequence. The Wrecking Crew will definitely be one of the highlights of the GTF 2014.
Together with acrobatic Race Horse Company of Finland and The Shanghai Starlight Acrobatic Troupe. They will perform in a performance event named Circus Circus that will run from the 1st to the 3rd of August 2014. Circus Circus is one of the main highlights at the fifth annual George Town Festival (GTF) in Penang, Malaysia. George Town Festival is a month-long celebration of art, music, theatre, dance, opera, film and more.
To purchase the tix for Circus Circus. Click here.
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Inside the Lesage dream factory, where Chanel tweed comes to life
By Emily Cronin, Senior fashion editor 19 February 2018 • 3:33pm
Kaia Gerber walking for Chanel spring/summer 2018 in Paris Credit: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images
Turn your back on the bustle of central Paris, navigate towards the city's northeastern outskirts, locate an anonymous industrial park and knock on a grey metal door labelled 'Lesage': this is how you access the dream factory.
Since 1924, the Lesage embroidery atelier has expertly adorned pieces for the likes of Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, Christian Dior and Chanel, which acquired the company in 2002. Since the 1990s, Lesage has also devised the tweeds that form the foundations of many of Chanel's signature designs.
Inside the Lesage atelier, fabric is shredded into strips ready to be woven into the tweed Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
Upstairs in the tweed workshop, just across from the vast studio where dozens of embroiderers ply their delicate trade, Laura Arguelles is walking in the narrow aisle between seven manual looms. She oversees all tweed development for Chanel, a process that begins some six weeks before a Chanel show.
For each of Chanel's eight annual collections (ready-to-wear, cruise and haute couture), her studio team creates around 200 original tweed swatches. Anywhere from zero to a dozen of these may make it into runway designs.
"We begin with an image. Or a single word: Greece," Arguelles says, fanning out reference pictures her team compiled before producing samples for the tweed-rich Resort 2018 collection: a photograph of Santorini's white domes hovering over a cerulean sea, the Parthenon and its caryatids, assorted urns and antiquities.
Experimental methods are often used to create Chanel's latest looks of colour and fabric combinations Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
These translated into a loose-weave fabric in blue and white tones – the Aegean Sea captured in tweed – and a tighter-woven gold, cream and black fabric. "Our first job is to tempt the [design] studio, so we did a lot of research, then made our proposals."
Arguelles has been with Chanel for nine years and learned to weave on a loom 25 years ago. The actual mechanics of tweed production are almost unchanged since the handloom was widely introduced in the 13th century.
The mechanics of tweed production are unchaged since the 13th century Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
Tweed specialists weave the (vertically strung) warp and (horizontal) weft with a range of different-textured threads. Up to 12 warp threads serve as the background for the fabric, and weavers can use an almost unlimited number of weft threads. Then they record their patterns in a technical map on graph paper, bringing order to an often spontaneous-looking art.
Within these formal constraints lie a near infinite number of possible permutations. The fabric may be taut, loose, regular, plaited, random, textured. "Each collection we start from scratch, and we always find new ideas," Arguelles says.
Every piece is handwoven using centuries-old methods and the utmost precision Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
Modern Chanel tweeds bear little resemblance to the sturdy shooting fabrics that first inspired Coco Chanel in the 1920s, during trips to the Scottish Highlands with her lover the Duke of Westminster. She commissioned tweeds in colours inspired by the landscape, sending her dyers leaves and earth as colour references.
Today, Arguelles's team weaves in ribbons, laser-cut strips of silk mousseline, bouclé yarns and twisted-together "fancy yarns" . The results are more art than fabric.
Sometimes, Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld's briefs can lead the tweed studio down experimental avenues that are daunting in their complexity. Asking Arguelles for an example, she wordlessly retrieves yardage of a fringed suede tweed from the December 2013 Métiers d'Art, held in Dallas, Texas.
Finished fabrics can take months to complete Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
"This was a nightmare – very beautiful, but really my nightmare." Lesage created the fringes, the colours ("deep burgundy and red suede that had to be just right, and often weren't" ), and produced the full fabric order by hand, as a commercial loom would have trapped the fringes.
Originally, Arguelles's team thought Chanel would order 25 metres due to its expense; in the end the fashion house asked for 1,000 metres. It took three months. "It was the most difficult work of my life."
Creativity and a sense of colour are the most important traits in the Lesage atelier Credit: Courtesy of Chanel
Despite all this precision and innovation, Arguelles insists that the only traits she values in her team are, "a sense of colour, and imagination". She presents two near-identical red strands – a test, because they aren't identical at all; one has a slightly bluer cast. "You can learn the rest here, but creativity and a sense of colour – if you don't have it, you can't learn it."
"Creativity feeds the studio, and then the creativity is backed up by the techniques you see in the tweed department," says Caroline Le Borgne, the managing director of Lesage, sitting at a vast table in the archive room. Here the walls are stacked with boxes holding some 80,000 embroidery and tweed samples dating back to the earliest days of the house.
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Arguelles's work reaches its most intense pitch in the weeks before she must deliver her cloth to the studio for runway samples. But there's still a feeling of crescendo with each haute couture and ready-to-wear show she attends.
"Watching the runway, I feel very proud," she says. "Not surprised, but very, very proud. We say, 'We did it' – and then we start working again."
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Q: How to write query with multiple models in Django How to write a query for student who logged in(student = self.request.user.id) to view his assignments titles (belong to his
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student belong to a intake and each intake many modules.
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A: Because when you use objects.get there should be only one row matching your query. No row or multiple rows result in errors --ObjectDoesNotExist and MultipleObjectsReturned respectively.
You may use this query to get your desired result:
AssignAssignment.objects.filter(intakedetails__intake_id=Student.objects.get(user_id=student).intakecode)


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Q: What in common have families of line segments between sets and those sets (in $R^n$ with euclidean metric)? Let us define $I(a,b)$ as a line segment between $a,b\in \mathbb{R}^n$ ($(a,b) \in I(a,b)$)
There is a family of problems where there are two sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and both of them have some topological property and the task is to show that the family of segments between those two sets have the same properties.
For example
(1) We have two sets  $A \subset \mathbb{R}^+$, $B \subset \mathbb{R}^+$
and $A, B$ are both compact (or connected) and we have to show that $I(A,B) = \bigcup\{I((a,0),(0,b)): a\in A, b\in B\} \subset \mathbb{R^2}$ is compact (connected)
(2) $A \subset \mathbb{R}^2\times\{0\}$, $f: A \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and $f$ continous let $$X = \bigcup \{I(a,b): b=(0,0,f(a)), a \in A\}$$
prove that if A is  compact (or connected) then X is  compact (or connected).
How can I prove statements like these? Which tools (or theorems) are useful in these kind of proofs?

A: I'd use brute force. The cases you've written are easy to imagine (and even draw) so for compactness you should prove closure and boundness, and for connectedness, path connectedness (build the function) e.g.:
(1) Compacness: As $A,B$ are bounded, we can define $M=\sup(A\cup B),m=\inf(A\cup B)$ and as they're close $M,m$ are reached, so $I(A,B)=[m,M]$ which is compact.
Connectedness: Set $x,y\in I(A,B)$. As $I(x,y)\subset I(A,B)$ we can define $f:[0,1]\rightarrow I(A,B),f(\lambda)=\lambda y+(1-\lambda)x$ which is continuous.

A: Images and products of compact sets are compact, and images and products of connected sets are connected.  Then, because $[0,1]$ is compact and connected, it follows:
1) $I(A,B)$ is exactly the image of the continuous function $A\times B\times [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}^2$ sending $(a,b,\lambda)$ to $\lambda (a,0) + (1-\lambda)(0,b)$. Therefore, if $A$ and $B$ are compact, $I(A,B)$ is compact.
2) $X$ is the image of the continuous function $A\times B\times [0,1]\to \mathbb{R}^3$ sending $((a_1,a_2),b,\lambda)$ to $\lambda (a_1,a_2,0) + (1-\lambda)(0,0,f(a))$.  Therefore, if $A$ and $B$ are connected, $X$ is connected.


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Graham recently had the privilege to work with a young woman who came to him because her fledgling Training and Facilitation Business was going nowhere fast. She was feeling lost, stuck and desperate about her future.
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Also known as the Rosendahl Bend, it's perhaps the best way to connect two ropes that there is. It's exceptionally secure and shake-resistant in all materials and its perfect symmetry makes it simple to check. It's also remarkably easy to untie after heavy strain, even when wet.
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Honestly, we were just kids!
Forty-eight years ago yesterday I said yes to this very cute little Italian guy. Of course it was a bad idea: we were two kids who were partway through university and not a cent to rub together. We were too young and had no idea what we were getting into. Now two daughters, four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren later, we seem to have bumbled through. One of our daughters is Victoria Maffini with whom I write The Book Collector Mysteries as Victoria Abbott. The Marsh Madness, book four, is coming September 1.
Four generations of us went to see The Minion Movie on Sunday, proof that you never really have to grow up if you play your cards right.
At any rate, the joke around here is that the first forty-eight are the worst.
Our decision was that I would teach school while he finished his degree and then I would finish mine.
Of course, the stats were against us and two of the middle-aged teachers at the school where I worked would regularly make a point of telling me that men usually leave wives who put them through school. This was followed by knowing smirks on their part.
Too bad I didn't have money riding on that one. When he finished, I returned part-time. None of it was easy and I do remember the years when a run in my pantyhose spelt financial disaster, but somehow we managed.
We like flowers too. Here is this years 'bouquet': a weird gathering of protea and small orchids, bark, leaves and vines. I'm thinking Star Trek but I love it.
We've had many laughs and—with my Irish genes (and short fuse) and his Italian upbringing—there have been many 'lively discussions' and even fireworks over the years. But as the French say, "Vive la difference!" Around here that could mean many things, including: No, I thought you put the dog out.
As we had a very big scare in 2011, on so August 12th, we felt lucky and grateful for every extra year we have together, (no matter who put the dog out) because many of our friends and family had different outcomes. So here's to happiness and laughter and fireworks, however you find them!
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Happy Anniversary! We were just kids, too - and coming up on our 40th. Our one liner was that we couldn't afford a divorce (and he couldn't afford child support for 5 kids!) so we had no choice but to stick together. The motto of our marriage has always been and continues to be "one step forward, two steps back". If you marry your best friend, you have someone to battle through life with! Your celebration sounds wonderful!
Oh my gosh! We have the same wedding anniversary! My husband and I celebrated 15 years on the 12. Best day ever! Happy anniversary Mary!
Congratulations! Sounds like you two came through well. My husband & I just celebrated our 43 years together on the 12th as well.
He's *still* cute! And you don't look old enough to have great-grandchildren! What a lovely story. My husband and I have had some of our best celebrations at home with a bottle of champagne and some good food. My first husband died after 22 years and present hubby and I just celebrated #13. Am I allowed to add them together?
Thanks so much, Cordella! We are planning a back yard bash for the fiftieth - just hoping we finally get the bleepin' grass fixed by then.
Thank you, Dru! We are lucky with our friends (like you!) too.
LOL! I love your reasons and your motto! I'll pass it one to you know who.
The same to you, Sheryl!: Happy 15th plus one day! I think it's a great day - usually good weather and a relaxed time of year.
Is that fun, Jody! I love sharing anniversaries with friends. Forty-three is quite and achievement too.
I always like your ideas, Peg! Add them together - it's all about being happy together. And I'll tell he's still cute.
Awww. Congratulations! One of you must be very stubborn, because I think that's what it take to stay together that long. It must be him, right? ;-) I had a birthday party for my 14th birthday. Nobody came except one girlfriend of mine, a younger son of one of my mom's friends, and future hubby. He sent his mom off to drive around the block a few times when she came to pick him up. Told me he would call me "in a couple weeks when my schedule opens up." Phone call 7:30 the next morning, one terrific bicycle ride around the lake and the rest is history. We fought like crazy all through high school, everyone said we'd never make it but 46 years later I guess HE is too stubborn to call it quits.
I love your story, GC! That is so beautiful and I love your theory about someone being stubborn! It sure takes something.
Hugs and congrats to you and your hubby.
Good for you, Maggie! A civilized divorce is a great gift to the entire family. The alternative is a lot of grief.
Let me chime in as well. Happy Anniversary. What a lovely post.
What an awesome testimony - happy, blessed anniversary! May you have many more years of joy and love!!
Lovely to see you here, Ellen! Thanks for the good wishes!
Thank you, Mama Cat! Glad you like it and we appreciate the wishes.