September 2, 2016 ~ We made several a trips to Anahauc National Wildlife Refuge during the early part of the summer specifically to photograph Purple Gallinules. Before all the flooding and re-flooding, Brazos Bend State Park was a reliable location for Purple Gallinules, but the park has been closed more than it has been open lately. The trip to Anahuac is longer and more exciting since we have to travel I-10 East, otherwise known as The Beast. Every time we make the trip, we see an eighteen-wheeler wreck. Either on the other side, or blocking several lanes in our direction. The usual route south to the refuge has been blocked by a washed out bridge, but it is about the same distance to go through the town of Anahuac.
When you reach the refuge, just past the Visitor's Center is the road down to Shoveler Pond for the Auto Tour. There are several places you can pull over, some benches where you can sit and binocular bird. Anahuac has boardwalks and interior trails, but around the water there are always alligators. Just be aware.
Purple Gallinules can walk on water. Well, on lily pads.
Most of the days we were there were bright and sunny, not the best for photographs. But, if you were careful and kept the sun behind you and the birds in a parallel plane, you could avoid the worst of the harsh shadows.
Purple Gallinules breed here along the coast and their chicks are almost as ugly as the Moorhen's IMO. It was a bit late for tiny chicks but we did see a few. I have no good photos to show you; they were swimming away or obstructed by reeds.
But, on one of the last trips over, we did see an adult with a lily bulb for her offspring. There is no sexual dimorphism in Purple Gallinules; the males and females look alike. In fact, they look the same year round as there is no plumage change for breeding season. The chicks are quite pretty at this juvenile stage; a soft brown with just a hint of the future iridescent blue. Purple Gallinules eat bulbs, roots and insects. And seeds. One of the first times I photographed a Purple Gallinule was at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and he was eating seeds from long, droopy grass. You never know when you will find an interesting bird.
We had some fleeting clouds, you can see how the iridescent feather colors change with the light. I think I was sitting on the pavement with the camera and lens propped on a bench here. It was really hot.
Sometimes they are not graceful at all. This one had suddenly appeared out of the thick reeds and was making his way across in front of us. And he slipped.
This one had climbed to the very top of some reeds to keep an eye on us. Sometimes we are ignored and not perceived as a threat, other times you can just stop the vehicle and they will bolt.
In the water in front of the reeds, we found a young Pied-billed Grebe. They have such a sweet expression and didn't seem to think we were any threat at all. We had our crates out, tripods set up and the sun behind us. I think I took about 400 shots. He swam between the clear water and some cluttered areas, repeatedly diving and coming up with Freshwater Pipefish. They are tiny fish that look like straight seahorses and are evidently very tasty to a young grebe.
We made three trips in June to Anahuac and another at the end of August. It was reliable for different species of birds: Purple Gallinules, Eastern Kingbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Great Blue Herons, plus Green Herons, and even an occasional Least Bittern. Late in the afternoon flocks of White and White-faced Ibis, Tri-colored Herons, Snowy and Cattle Egrets came in to roost in the reeds for the night.
We stood in the truck bed and did hand-held shots until we were tired and they still were coming in.
Anahuac is such a peaceful place. It is so isolated there are no man-made structures on the horizon; even at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge you can see far off refineries and sometimes barges in the Intracoastal Canal. Anahuac is just open land and big sky.
Do you feel the need to get away from the city and have uninterrupted horizons? Have you ever wondered how the landscape looked to the first settlers? Do you think you could have homesteaded in the wild and wide open spaces of early Texas?


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The ABCs of LGBTQ+: A Glossary of Terms
Language is constantly shifting to help people better understand the world around them. This includes providing new words and definitions to help people better describe themselves and their experiences.
Below please find a list of simple definitions for terms related to the LGBTQ+ community. This list is by no means comprehensive and is intended as a simple reference tool, especially for people new to these terms.
It is very important to note that this list centers mostly on identities. We have done our best to use broad meanings for each term, but as we're dealing with how someone describes themselves and their own experiences, not every definition will work perfectly for everyone who uses it.
We will revise, expand, and augment this list as time goes on, and, as always, welcome your feedback.
Agender: A person whose internal sense does not identify with having a specific gender. People who identify as 'agender' may also call themselves 'genderfree', 'genderless', or 'gender neutral', among other terms. Gender identity can be independent of physical appearance or outward presentation.
Ally: A person who supports and respects all of the identities within the LGBTQ+ community. While generally used to describe someone who is straight and cisgender, an 'ally' can also include an individual whose personal identity falls under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. For example: a cis-gendered person who identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual supporting the rights of the transgender community.
Asexual: A person who experiences little to no sexual attraction for other people independent of gender.
Bigender: A person whose identity is represented by two genders, such as male and female. Gender identity can be independent of physical appearance or outward presentation.
BIPOC: Acronym for 'Black, Indigenous, and People of Color'. Has widely replaced the umbrella term 'People of Color'.
Biphobia: The fear, hatred, or erasure of bisexual people.
Bisexual: A person who is sexually attracted to multiple genders, including both men and women.
Cisgender: A person whose personal gender identity corresponds to the physical gender attributes they were identified or "assigned" as having at birth. Sometimes shortened to 'cis'. Gender identity can be independent of physical appearance or outward presentation.
Coming Out: A metaphor within the LGBTQ+ community used to describe the self-disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity. Also known as 'coming out of the closet'.
Demisexual: A person who experiences sexual attraction only after developing an emotional connection or bond. Demisexuality is independent of sexual orientation e.g. gay, straight, bisexual, etc.
Drag King: A person—often either a self-identified cis-woman or transgender man—who personifies male gender stereotypes through performance art (e.g. singing, dancing, lip-syncing, acting, etc).
Drag Queen: A person—often either a self-identified cis-man or transgender woman—who personifies female gender stereotypes through performance art (e.g. singing, dancing, lip-syncing, acting, etc).
FtM/F2M: Shorthand for "female to male", usually related to the transition process of a
transgender man.
Gay: A person attracted more or less exclusively to people of the same gender.
Gender Dysphoria: A condition wherein someone feels a disconnect between their personal gender identity and the gender they were assigned at birth.
Gender Identity: A person's personal sense and definition of their own gender. Can include 'cisgender', 'transgender', 'non-binary', or any related identities.
Gender Non-Conforming: A person whose personality attributes, behavior, physical appearance, or outward presentation doesn't conform to traditional cultural or social gender expectations.
Genderfluid: A person without a fixed gender who experiences changes or shifts in personal gender identity on a fairly consistent basis. Gender identity can be independent of physical appearance or outward presentation.
Genderqueer: A person who identifies outside the binary spectrum of man or woman. Gender identity can be independent of physical appearance or outward presentation.
GSM: Shorthand for "gender and sexual minority". This is an umbrella term used to replace LGBTQ+ in some circles.
Heterosexual: A person whose sexual orientation is defined by being more or less exclusively attracted to the opposite gender.
Homophobia: Hatred or fear of people who identify as gay or lesbian.
Homosexual: A person whose sexual orientation is defined by being attracted more or less exclusively to people of the same gender.
Intersex: A person born with a combination of male and female sex traits and physical characteristics.
Lesbian: A cis- or transgender woman who is more or less exclusively sexually attracted to other women.
LGBTQ+: Shorthand for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning. The "+" sign denotes all of the other identities related to sexual orientation or gender identity included under the umbrella.
MtF/M2F: Shorthand for "male to female"; usually related to the transition process of a transgender woman.
Pansexual: A person who experiences sexual attraction independent of gender.
Polyamorous: A person who engages in romantic and/or sexual relationships with more than one person with the full informed consent of all partners involved.
Queer: An adjective used in modern times by some to describe sexual or gender identities that are not exclusively straight or cisgender. Also: an offensive term used against those who engage in same-sex relationships. Generally, use as a personal identifier, but refrain from use in describing someone else's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Questioning: A person who is engaging in the process of exploring their own sexual orientation or gender identity.
QPOC: Acronym for 'Queer Person of Color'.
Sexual orientation: A person's pattern of sexual attraction, whether to the same or opposite gender and/or independent of gender.
Sexual preference: An outdated and offensive term. Do not use. Instead: 'sexual orientation'.
Straight: A slang term for a heterosexual person; that is someone who is more or less exclusively sexually attracted to the opposite gender.
They/Them/Their: The preferred pronouns of some agender, genderfluid, or transgender individuals. The English language already allows for the use of 'they' or 'them' whenever gender is unknown or identified as other than 'he' or 'she'. For example, "The winner of the contest will be by today to collect their prize. Hopefully, they are very happy with it."
Transgender: A person whose gender identity is something other than the one they were assigned at birth. Identifying as 'transgender' can be independent of engaging in the process of changing one's social identity (e.g. pronouns, name, etc.), physical attributes (such as through hormone treatment or other medical intervention) or outward appearance to better represent their personal gender identity.
Transitioning: The process of a transgender person changing or publicly defining aspects of themselves to better represent their gender identity. This can include stating preferred pronouns, changing their name, or making changes to their outward presentation or physical body.
Transphobia: Hatred or fear of people who identify as transgender or have a gender identity other than cisgender.
Looking for more? Check out these glossaries and usage guides by trusted sources:
Human Rights Campaign Glossary of Terms
PFLAG National Glossary of Terms
GLAAD Media Reference Guide
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE
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Baseclick, a spin-off from BASF SE and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, has raised an additional €1.2m (£1.1m) from private investors and BASF Venture Capital in a second round of financing.
Baseclick's technology allows users to label multiple dye molecules on DNA strands in a sequence-specific manner.
The attachment of multiple dyes enables several or highly complex analyses to be carried out in a single operation.
Applications include analyses for pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis, or even tumour cells. The technique can also be used to detect mutations in human, animal and plant genomes.
'We will use the capital raised to expand our existing activities in DNA technologies,' said Dr Thomas Frischmuth, general manager of Baseclick. In addition, the company will build up a business for diagnostic technologies.


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68-2208. Acquisition of land, when. When the secretary of transportation determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway, road or street will not permit adequate screening of any junkyard lawfully in existence, or the screening of such a junkyard would not be economically feasible, the secretary shall have the authority to acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or condemnation, such interests in lands as may be necessary to secure the relocation, removal or disposal of the junkyards; and to pay for the costs of relocation, removal, or disposal, thereof. When the secretary determines that it is in the best interest of the state the secretary may acquire such lands, or interests in lands, as may be necessary to provide adequate screening of such junkyards.
History: L. 1967, ch. 357, § 8; L. 1973, ch. 271, §6; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 216; Aug. 15.


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Q: Django "dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required" I am trying to make multi-page registration form to work, and I think that I am close to making it work, but I keep getting errors. I am using built-in user model and extending it with one-to-one relationship.
This is models.py file:
class Dadilja(models.Model):
    korisnik = models.OneToOneField(User)
    ime = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    prezime = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    datum_rođenja = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True)
    mjesto = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    mjesto_obavljanja = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    broj_telefona = models.CharField(max_length=20)

    slika_profila = models.ImageField(upload_to="slika_profila", blank=True)
    iskustvo = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    dostupna = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    about = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    broj_djece = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    dodatno = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    cijena = models.PositiveIntegerField()

forms.py:
class Forma1(forms.ModelForm):
    password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())
        class Meta():
            model = User
            fields = ("username", "email", "password")

class Forma2(forms.ModelForm):
    datum_rođenja = forms.DateField(widget=forms.SelectDateWidget(years=reversed(range(1930,2000))))
    class Meta():
        model = Dadilja
        fields = ("ime", "prezime", "datum_rođenja", "mjesto", "mjesto_obavljanja", "broj_telefona")

class Forma3(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta():
        model = Dadilja
        fields = ("slika_profila", "iskustvo", "dostupna", "about", "broj_djece", "dodatno", "cijena")

and most importantly, views.py file:
def dadilja_registracija_3(request):
    dadilja2 = Forma3(data=request.POST)
    if request.method == "POST" and dadilja2.is_valid():
        print(dadilja2.cleaned_data)
        korisnik = request.session['form_data_page_1']
        dadilja1 = request.session['form_data_page_2']
        user = User(username=korisnik['username'], email=korisnik['email'], password=korisnik['password'])
       user.set_password(user.password)
       user.save()

        privremeno = {}
        for dadilja in dadilja2.cleaned_data:
            privremeno.update(dadilja)

        dadilja1 = Dadilja(korisnik=user, ime=dadilja1['ime'],
            prezime=dadilja1['prezime'],
            datum_rođenja=dadilja1['datum_rođenja'],
            mjesto=dadilja1['mjesto'],
            mjesto_obavljanja=dadilja1['mjesto_obavljanja'],
            slika_profila=privremeno['slika_profila'],
            iskustvo=privremeno['iskustvo'],
            about=privremeno['about'],
            broj_djece=privremeno['broj_djece'],
            dodatno=privremeno['dodatno'],
            cijena=privremeno['cijena'])

        if 'slika_profila' in request.FILES:
            dadilja.slika_profila = request.FILES['slika_profila']

        dadilja1.save()

    else:
        dadilja2 = Forma3()
    return render(request, 'accounts/dadilja3.html', {'dadilja2' : dadilja2})

I keep getting Value error: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required. The problem is in view called "dadilja_registracija_3" in dictionary "privremeno" that I higlited.
This is making me crazy, I don't know what to do anymore. Tnx in advance

A: This does not work, as you have noticed:
privremeno = {}
for dadilja in dadilja2.cleaned_data:
    privremeno.update(dadilja)

You can either just add all of cleaned_data like this:
privremeno = copy(dadilja2.cleaned_data)

or
privremeno = {}
privremeno.update(dadilja2.cleaned_data)

or
privremeno = {}
for key,value in dadilja2.cleaned_data:
    privremeno[key] = value

or
privremeno = {key:value for key,value in dadilja2.cleaned_data}

EDIT: It's worth having a look at the generic form views of Django. They will do all this for you and you can concentrate on creating the markup in your template using the form data that is added by Django automatically: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing/

A: Update your dict like this
privremeno = {}
for k, v in dadilja2.cleaned_data.items():
    privremeno.update({k:v})

A: You need to pass dictionary to update()
privremeno.update({dadilja: dadilja2.cleaned_data[dadilja]})

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Mentel had filed the paperwork last November to challenge incumbent Democrat Paula Brooks. Now Mentel is supporting the candidacy of State Representative, former council member and former state treasurer Kevin Boyce. Mentel said at the time he was encourage to run in the primary, but did not say who did so. Brooks and former Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman's ally, Commissioner John O'Grady, have been at odds in recent years. Court records and law enforcement sources have linked Mentel to the red-light camera bribery scandal, but he says he did nothing wrong. City Hall lobbyist John Raphael pleaded guilty last year to extorting money from red-light camera company Redflex and funneling it to the campaigns of Columbus politicians when Mentel was council president.
Federal prosecutors say former deputy state treasurer Amer Ahmad has been extradited from Pakistan to serve a 15-year prison sentence for a kickback scheme.
A former deputy state treasurer has lost his appeal of his 15-year prison sentence for bribery, wire fraud and money laundering.
A federal judge has sentenced two people for their roles in an alleged kickback scheme at the state treasurer's office.
A conspirator in a bribery scheme involving a former deputy state treasurer has been sentenced to four years in prison.
A federal judge has declined to sentence in absentia the former deputy Ohio treasurer who pleaded guilty last year to federal bribery and money laundering charges in an alleged kickback scheme in the office.
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to start the process of extraditing the former deputy state treasurer from Pakistan.
The state Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of a former bank lobbyist following his conviction in a bribery and money-laundering scheme under Ohio's former state treasurer.
A former Ohio deputy treasurer facing 15 years in prison for bribery and conspiracy has been arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of traveling using fake documents.
A former Ohio deputy treasurer has pleaded guilty to federal program bribery and conspiracy charges in a kickback scheme.


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Title: 'Cree' and 'Nantucket' Viburnum
Citation: Pooler, M.R. 2010. 'Cree' and 'Nantucket' Viburnum. HortScience. 45:1384-1385.
Interpretive Summary: Viburnums are versatile shrubs that have become a mainstay of American landscapes for their showy and often fragrant spring blooms, richly colored sometimes evergreen foliage, and persistent winter fruit. Valued as a tough shrub that can tolerate various environmental stresses, over three million viburnums are sold annually in the United States with a wholesale value of over $22 million. The viburnum breeding program at the U.S. National Arboretum has resulted in the release of 20 viburnum cultivars including the latest two, 'Cree' and 'Nantucket', described here. 'Cree', a selection of Viburnum rhytidophyllum, is an evergreen, fairly upright multi-stemmed, coarse-textured shrub that reached a height of 2.5 m and a width of 2 m in 12 years of growth in Washington, D.C. White to cream-colored flowers are 8-10 cm in diameter and appear in mid-May in Washington, D.C. Red fruit ripen to near black and can persist into winter. 'Nantucket', a hybrid between V. 'Eskimo' and V. macrocephalum f. keteleeri, is a semi-evergreen upright, relatively compact shrub that has reached a height of 4 m and a width of 2 m in 16 years of growth in Washington, D.C. White branched inflorescences are 10-13 cm in diameter and appear in mid-May in Washington, D.C. Fruit ripen from red to black, although fruit set is generally light. Both cultivars work well in the landscape as a single specimen plant, an evergreen hedge, in a mass planting, or as a backdrop in the shrub border.
Technical Abstract: Viburnums comprise a diverse genus with approximately 160 species and taxa found primarily in the northern temperate regions of the Americas, Europe, and Asia. They are versatile shrubs that have become a mainstay of American landscapes for their showy and often fragrant spring blooms, richly colored sometimes evergreen foliage, and persistent winter fruit. Valued as a tough shrub that can tolerate various environmental stresses, over three million viburnums are sold annually in the United States with a wholesale value of over $22 million. The viburnum breeding program at the U.S. National Arboretum was begun in the 1950s by the late Donald R. Egolf with the objectives of developing improved viburnum cultivars using diverse parental material that had a combination of fragrant and colored flowers, small stature, evergreen or brilliantly colored fall foliage, and showy fruit. This program has resulted in the release of 20 viburnum cultivars including the latest two, 'Cree' and 'Nantucket', described here. 'Cree', a selection of Viburnum rhytidophyllum, is an evergreen, fairly upright multi-stemmed, coarse-textured shrub that reached a height of 2.5 m and a width of 2 m in 12 years of growth in Washington, D.C. White to cream-colored flowers appear on flattened cymes 8-10 cm in diameter in mid-May in Washington, D.C. Red fruit (drupes) ripen to near black and can persist into winter. 'Nantucket', a hybrid between V. 'Eskimo' and V. macrocephalum f. keteleeri, is a semi-evergreen upright, relatively compact shrub that has reached a height of 4 m and a width of 2 m in 16 years of growth in Washington, D.C. White branched inflorescences, containing sterile florets around the margin and interspersed in the inflorescence, are 10-13 cm in diameter and appear in mid-May in Washington, D.C. Fruit ripen from red to black, although fruit set is generally light. Both cultivars are readily propagated by semi-hardwood cuttings, and both work well in the landscape as a single specimen plant, an evergreen hedge, in a mass planting, or as a backdrop in the shrub border.


It seems like every time Facebook introduces a new feature, people are polarized in all kinds of ways. I still remember when The Wall was taken down and something known as Timeline was introduced. It took me a while to get used to it, but I used to grumble about these changes every day.
Another such change lately is the ability to let user uploaded videos to play automatically. Oh, this not only is an annoyance (especially if you're at work) but also a bandwidth hog. On a computer, it won't make such a difference, but on a limited data plan, it's a pain in the wrong places.
Thankfully, there is an easy to turn it off and carry on Facebook-ing peacefully. Let's see how to do that.
Once you are logged into your Facebook account from your computer/laptop, you will need to find the Settings option on the top-right corner menu.
Once there, on the left hunt for the Videos option, which should ideally be dead last. Click on it and on the right, there are only 2 options, the second one is which you need to pay attention to. Hit the drop-down button and select Off for the Auto-play Videos option and breathe a deep sigh of relief.
Whether you are on the latest iOS or not, if you have an iPhone, you need to first head over to the Settings menu of the phone. From here, navigate to Facebook and then to the Videos and Photos section. Here you will find an Autoplay option which wasn't available earlier. Tap it and then select Never Play Videos Automatically, which will ensure that you won't be interrupted while scrolling through your Facebook feed.
Android being Android, you get the right settings directly from the app. So, open the Facebook app and tap the hamburger menu on the top-right corner. From here, head to the App Settings and here you will need to select Videos Play Automatically.
Once you change the option to Off you know that you are never going to see those annoying videos on your Android device ever again.
Facebook app alternative: If you're looking for alternatives to the default app on Android, look no further than Metal, which we've quite liked here on GT.
These simple steps are all it would take for you to disable auto-playing Facebook videos on all platforms. While the number of views on some of the videos seems ridiculous, I'm not sure if this can be the way for Facebook to grow. But that's just my opinion, join us in our forum to have a cold glass of your favorite ale and discuss it sensibly?


We're excited to offer a new way to view and manage exceptions within our Time Clock Module.
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There was an issue with employees outside the Eastern time zone attempting to sync shifts with their personal calendar. This has been fixed.
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Once you filter the Time Clock Exception Report, eSchedule will now remember your most recently used filter when leaving the report and returning.
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A brand new refreshed look to the Events Calendar is now live in all eSchedule accounts.


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NEW YORK • This summer, American white supremacists have put on a show of force, the United States President is fighting for a wall to keep out immigrants... and a Spanish-language song has achieved record success.
Despacito, Luis Fonsi's infectious dance track rooted in Puerto Rico's reggaeton music, on Monday marked 16 straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It ties for the longest reign at the top of the US singles chart with One Sweet Day, the 1995 tear-jerker by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.
The feat is all the more remarkable as non-English music rarely dominates US airwaves. The kitschy Macarena was the last Spanishlanguage song to hit No. 1 in the US, back in 1996.
In some markets, such as Miami, Los Angeles and New York, however, millions of Spanish-speaking locals do make up a large minority or, in Miami's case, a majority.
Celebrating on Instagram, Fonsi hailed the record as "historic for Latin music".
The cultural moment comes just months after President Donald Trump won an election on promises to crack down on immigration. Last week, he threatened to let the government shut down if he does not win funding to build a wall on the Mexican border.
While Despacito does not come from Mexico, its Latin flavour is unmistakable.
Hispanics are the US' largest minority group. And most Hispanic Americans - more than 60 per cent - are Mexican-American.
On the song, veteran Puerto Rican pop singer Fonsi turned to the beats of reggaeton, the often testosterone-heavy dance music of the US territory's historically marginalised Afro-Puerto Rican community. He also featured reggaeton star Daddy Yankee.
Despacito had its break on the mainstream US chart as a remix, with Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, who added a breathy English-language opening verse.
But it is the original that has soared to an all-time record on YouTube, reaching more than 3.4 billion views worldwide since January.
Music professor Robin Moore at the University of Texas at Austin said Bieber undoubtedly gave the song a lift.
But he noted that reggaeton itself was "fundamentally about cultural mixture and international influences" and that politics rarely stopped such fusion.
Reggaeton's sources include Jamaica's dance-hall rhythms, New York's rap and beats from Panama, where Jamaicans and other West Indians came together to build the canal.
"So perhaps the disconnect between tendencies in politics and in the realm of popular culture is to be expected," Dr Moore said.
"It's possible that the tendency is even more marked right now, with many listeners consciously or unconsciously demonstrating their rejection of anti-immigrant rhetoric coming from the Trump administration and instead embracing diversity."
Data from analytical firm BuzzAngle Music showed that Despacito had, by far, the most sales and streams in New York and Los Angeles - unsurprising considering they are the largest US cities - and fared especially well in other left-leaning coastal cities, such as San Francisco and Boston.
The song has also won an audience far beyond the US, topping charts across Europe, Latin America and Asia - although it was banned in Muslim-majority Malaysia over its lyricism, which even to a non-Spanish speaker is palpably full of sexual innuendo.
Musicology professor Alejandro Madrid at Cornell University said Despacito succeeded in part by reinforcing the image of Latinos in a way made "more palatable to American taste".
The song - whose title means "slowly" in English - plays on sexual metaphors, but Prof Madrid said it was not nearly as explicit as much of reggaeton, including earlier works by Daddy Yankee.
"It is reproducing what one would expect from someone who is Latino, but in a sort of toned-down version," he said.
"It allows an interaction with Latino culture - without it being aggressive, but still keeping some of the 'wild' overtones," he added.
He also tied the song's success to the greater visibility in the US of Latinos, who are facing political attacks, but also speaking out.
He drew a parallel to the 1990s, when California saw a boom in Mexican-rooted banda music - just as then Republican Governor Pete Wilson was pushing Proposition 187 to deny services to undocumented immigrants.
"What I hear with Despacito is Latinos saying, 'We are here, we are Latino. Whether you like it or not, we are here to stay. And we are part of America,'" he said.


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PHITSANULOK, Thailand- The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force joined Exercise Cobra Gold 2014's command post exercise with a 21 person team dedicated to Humanitarian Aid and disaster relief, from Feb. 10 through 20. The focus of the CPX was how to assist during natural disasters in an international environment.
Although HA/DR table top exercises are regularly conducted within the country of Japan, Exercise Cobra Gold is a multinational multilateral exercise. CG 14 offered an opportunity to participate with multiple nations, much like in real world HA/DR.
The team is headed by JGSDF Col. Toshiya Sasaki, chief of the Humanitarian Aid/Disaster Relief operation at Cobra Gold 2014. Although this is the first time Sasaki has be to Cobra Gold, he has real world HA/DR experience from the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and tsunami.
"Our two objectives is to heighten interoperability with other countries and to heighten the friendship, and these objectives have been accomplished," said Sasaki.
Real world situations apply directly to this team, particularly for the three on Sasaki's team that just returned from assisting the Republic of the Philippines for recovery from Hurricane Haiyan.
"They spent months providing HADR services to the country of the Philippines," said Liaison officer Lt. Col. Roy Sabalboro, U.S. Army I Corps Forward, Camp Zama, Japan. "So they literally came off of real world HA/DR and that real world event happened to also be a multinational support."
Sabalboro acted as primary U.S. consultant during the exercise for the Japanese forces as they played a notional concept in order to prepare themselves for real world emergencies.
"They all came here to do role play, that's the uniqueness, they don't usually get that in Japan when they do their own local exercises, they still have U.S. military that's stationed on Japan that's part of the exercises, but they won't have the breath of nations that are here at Cobra Gold," said Sabalboro. ?"All these nations that are here, they don?'t usually get that unless they are at an exercise of this size. "In Cobra Gold, they use lessons learned from the Philippines disaster relief during Typhoon Haiyan," said Sasaki. "If they have the chance to be dispatched to other countries for HA/DR, they can use these lessons learned from this experience.
According to Sabalboro, the best benefit for the JGSDF at Cobra Gold is the multinational coordination. "The multinational environment is part of the exercise. It's what makes this different from other HA/DRs, because it's a military to military coordination with some flavors of interagency, meaning the government of Thailand, the UN."
Also assisting from the U.S. was U.S. Marine Corps Col. Mike Silven, liaison officer. "The two officers from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps are very helpful. The assistance is outstanding and contributes to achieving the objective of this exercise," said Sasaki.
Nine of the staff were from Japan's Central Readiness Force, two from the Air Self Defense Force, and one from the Defence Intelligence Headquarters in Tokyo.
According to Sasaki, the team worked together well, despite this being their first time working together.
"It's our first time to be a team here but I believe each person in our team is very experienced and can speak English fairly well, so they are not hesitant to make connection with other participants from other countries," said Sasaki.
Following Cobra Gold 2014, there will be a Concept Development Conference in March in Hawaii, three Japanese officers will attend and address how they want to address future scenarios.
"They look forward to participating in future exercises, and they did an excellent job, given the scenario that they were given, and the Kingdom of Thailand has been a gracious host, allowing them to participate in this exercise," said Sabalboro.


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Q: Using Square's Tape library how do i handle calling abstract classes I'm using Square's Tape library and i've run in to a requirement where i basically need to have an abstract TapeTask class. The problem though is that the deserialization process for the GsonConverter (which implements the library's FileObjectQueue.Converter - as demonstrated in the sample project) doesn't play well with interfaces/abstract classes.
I thought it was a Gson deserialization problem so i registered my Gson instance with a custom TypeAdapter, but that still doesn't do the trick. I figure it has something to do with the FileObjectQueue.Converter.
I'm currently trying to work around this problem, with a nasty wrapper callback interface from my sub-tasks.
My requirement is to have a single TapeQueue and be able to send in multiple types of tasks. So I have a TapeTask abstract class and have concrete implementations like ImageDownloadTask, ImageUploadTask, UrlPostWithRetrofitTask, GoogleAnalyticsTrackerTask ... etc. all going in to a single queue.
Is there a way to achieve this. I guess my question boils down to:
What do i need to do to make the FileObjectQueue.Converter play well with abstract classes?
hint :P : The javadoc for that class says "..you need to also include the concrete class name in the serialized byte array" but i'm not sure what that means. If anyone could post an explanation of how the name can be included in the serialized byte array, in a way that achieves my purpose, i'd be grateful!

A: I went ahead and wrote an Abstract Gson Convertor. I don't think it's super-efficient but gets the job done:
/**
 * Use GSON to serialize classes to a bytes.
 *
 * This variant of {@link GsonConverter} works with anything you throw at it.
 * It is however important for Gson to be able to understand your inner complex objects/entities
 * Use an {@link InterfaceAdapter} for these purposes.
 *
 */
public class GsonAbstractClassConverter<T>
    implements FileObjectQueue.Converter<T> {

    public static final String CONCRETE_CLASS_NAME = "concrete_class_name";
    public static final String CONCRETE_CLASS_OBJECT = "concrete_class_object";
    private final Gson _gson;

    public GsonAbstractClassConverter(Gson gson) {
        _gson = gson;
    }

    @Override
    public T from(byte[] bytes) {
        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
        JsonObject completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson = _gson.fromJson(reader, JsonObject.class);

        Class<T> clazz;
        try {
            String className = completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson.get(CONCRETE_CLASS_NAME).getAsString();
            clazz = (Class<T>) Class.forName(className);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            Timber.e(e, "Error while deserializing TapeTask to a concrete class");
            return null;
        }

        String objectDataAsString = completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson.get(CONCRETE_CLASS_OBJECT)
                                                                   .getAsString();

        return _gson.fromJson(objectDataAsString, clazz);
    }

    @Override
    public void toStream(T object, OutputStream bytes) throws IOException {
        Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(bytes);

        JsonObject completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson = new JsonObject();
        completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson.addProperty(CONCRETE_CLASS_NAME, object.getClass().getName());
        completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson.addProperty(CONCRETE_CLASS_OBJECT, _gson.toJson(object));

        _gson.toJson(completeAbstractClassInfoAsJson, writer);
        writer.close();
    }
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Anaxyrus canorus est une espèce d'amphibiens de la famille des Bufonidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique de la Californie aux États-Unis. Elle se rencontre dans la Sierra Nevada, du comté d'Alpine au comté de Fresno. Elle est présente entre  et  d'altitude.

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Bibliographie
 Sierra Nevada Research Center, Determining the Effects of Livestock Grazing on Yosemite Toads (Bufo canorus) and their Habitat: An Adaptive Management Study ; Programs and Projects (RWU-4202)

Publication originale
 * Camp, 1916 : Description of Bufo Canorus, A New Toad from the Yosemite National Park. University of California Publications in Zoology, , ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Anoure (nom scientifique)
Bufonidae
Faune endémique de Californie


RAMRush 1.0.5.817 has been released. It supports multi-language interface now. You could download it here.
How to use the language pack of RAMRush?
We have fixed a CPU usage bug in Windows 7 x64, and changed the default color settings in this version. Enjoy!
PS2: Double-click the form title or right-click it, you will see the menu, it is very useful in Windows 7.
Please, I need cyrrilic symbols support in Options window, I can`t translate RAMRush to Ukrainian & Russian languages.
Hi. I have installed RAMRUSH and it's working quite well for RAM memory but the grafics of CPU shows nothing. I'm using Windows XP SP3. Could you tell me how to fix this problem ?
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Now RAMRush can multi-language ,it's very good !!
But when the the windows restart, RAMRush will turn back in English language.
Hope the new version can save the language select option.
When RAMRush restart again, it will load that language first.
Then if the lang file not exist, load back in English .
RAMRush has saved the language settings. And when Windows restarts, RAMRush also can load the language pack you have saved. I just do a test in XP SP3 and it works OK.
I can't. I'm using windows 7. I changed into Traditional Chinese and restart.
It load back Engliah version.
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Two horses formerly with disqualified trainer Darren Weir have been successful at their first starts since being transferred to new stables.
Now in the care of Phillip Stokes at Pakenham, Sunrise Dancer won an 1100m-maiden while Westham, trained by his part-owner Josh Julius, was successful in a 2400m-benchmark 58 race at Bendigo on Friday.
Weir was disqualified on Wednesday by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board for possession of three electrical devices known as jiggers and for conduct prejudicial to the image of racing.
The ban has forced owners to find new homes for their horses while Weir has sold his training establishment at Ballarat to Ciaron Maher Racing.
Nineteen former Weir-trained horses will line up for a number of different trainers at Caulfield on Saturday including Brave Smash, Land Of Plenty, Fifty Stars and Whispering Brook in the first Group One race of the year, the C F Orr Stakes.


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Title : New Paradigms for Private Sector Preparedness
Witness(es) : John R. Harrald
Research Professor, Center for Technology, Security and Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Co-Director and Professor, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University; and Chair, Disasters Roundtable Steering Committee, National Research Council, The National Academies
Chamber : Senate
Committee : Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
New Paradigms for Private Sector Preparedness
John R. Harrald, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Center for Technology, Security and Policy
Co-Director and Professor Emeritus, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
The George Washington University
Chair, Disasters Roundtable
Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Good morning, Mr Chairman and members of the Committee.
My name is John Harrald and I am with the Virginia Tech Center for Technology, Security and Policy and am the Emeritus Co-Director of the George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management. I am currently serving as the Chairman of the National Academies National Research Council's Disasters Roundtable. The National Research Council is the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science and technology. I am also a Member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response and I am the Executive Editor of the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The conclusions and recommendations that I am presenting today are my own and do not necessarily represent those of any of these organizations.
The preliminary title of this hearing, "New Paradigms for Private Sector Preparedness" is appropriate and timely. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in how we perceive the world, what we believe, and in the ways we act. In my opinion, we are at a point in time where such a shift in our policies and actions concerning extreme events is both necessary and possible. This paradigm shift will fundamentally effect how both the private and public sectors react strategically and operationally to these events.
As the images of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Andrew and the 9/11 attacks recede, and the issues identified seem less urgent, recent catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have once again reminded us that our world view must include extreme events and their impacts. We know that the United States is particularly vulnerable due to its large populations living and working in high risk areas: seismic zones, coastal and riverine flood plains, and urban terrorist targets. Catastrophic events can and will happen here. Are we resilient enough to ensure that our nation and society can recover and thrive after such an event?
Understanding and reacting to risk of low probability/high consequence events is a challenge for any society. It is difficult to envision that which has not yet happened. In our current paradigm, many view extreme events as such rare exceptions to the normal that preparing for them is a waste of time and money and that if an event should occur the government, the Red Cross, and others should be able to meet their needs. U,S. response doctrines imply that disasters produce victims that must depend upon the assistance provided by those trained and equipped to do so and, reacting to past events, we have created larger and more capable government-centric response systems. This system has worked well for large events such as the 9/11 attacks and the 1984 Florida hurricanes, but has failed during catastrophic events such as Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina with devastating social and economic impacts.
How can this paradigm shift to one that will work when we need it most? I believe that there are three areas where change is occurring now, and that with investment and leadership will lead to a fundamental paradigm shift. The private sector plays a critical and central role in each of these elements. The three areas are:
Building and sustaining community resilience.
Creating a collaborative and enabling preparedness and response culture.
Using science and technology to replace reactive doctrine with proactive, agile systems.
Community resilience is the key to preparedness. Relationships and resources that exist at the local level are primary predictors of the ability to absorb, adapt, survive and thrive when faced with extreme events. We have historically focused on promoting individual preparedness, supporting business recovery, and ensuring government continuity of operations. Resilience, however, requires the building of collaborative relationships that will enable communities and businesses to better absorb, adapt, survive, and thrive when confronted with extreme events. Significant national steps have been taken to make the development of community and national resilience a national strategic objective. A Resilience Directorate has been established within the White House National Security Council. In its Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has adopted the objective that the United States be "A Nation that is resilient to all threats and hazards". The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) emphasizes community resilience in the recently released National Health Security Strategy for the United States. The recently released DHS/HUD National Disaster Recovery Framework states that, for successful recovery to occur, communities should adopt sustainability and resilience strategies.
Disaster management culture is changing. Current preparedness, response, and recovery doctrine based on government centric control will be replaced by a culture that enables collaboration. Most people impacted by a disaster are uninjured, healthy, and willing and able to help those more seriously impacted and to rebuild their community. As stated by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, these willing and able citizens should be thought of as resources, not victims. Catastrophic events will exceed the capability and resources available to the national, state and local governments. The objective is not to create government organizations capable of doing things for people; we must be able to mobilize national resources, public and private, to work with citizens to help restore social, physical, and economic systems. The model envisioned in the National Response Framework will not scale up. The solution is not increasing government resources or tasking DOD, although some level of both will be required. The solution is in partnerships that creatively leverage the resources we have in both the public and private sectors.
Science and Technology are providing us with new knowledge, capability and opportunities. We are witnessing a very significant shift in how science and technology are used in disaster response. Physical science better informs us of our risk exposure and helps us develop credible planning scenarios. Social scientists have introduced the concept of social vulnerability into the preparedness, response, and recovery doctrine and have studied how people behave during the crisis and recovery periods. Preparedness must be based on what we have learned from science, not on disaster myths and fears. We are rapidly evolving from centralized, rigid, closed government systems to decentralized, agile, open, private sector owned and operated systems. The challenges of the future are three fold and will include: (1) recognizing the new capabilities technology is providing rather than being constrained by narrowly designed systems, (2) creating ways to capture and integrate the flood of information from unanticipated sources rather than relying on pre-existing formal lines of communication, and (3) creating the relationships and networks needed for each event rather than living with artificial organizational and physical constraints.
Already in 2010, there are two vivid disasters that exemplified the use of emerging technology: the earthquakes in Haiti and in Chile. In Haiti, after the January earthquake that measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, SOUTHCOM established an open web blog to coordinate activities with the NGO community resulting in critical military/civilian collaboration. Thousands of structural engineers around the world assisted in assessing damaged buildings using web based satellite imagery; and people checked on and were re-united with relatives using mobile phone applications designed during the Haiti crisis. About a month later, there was a larger earthquake in Chile, and thousands of people evacuated vulnerable areas in Hawaii and around the Pacific Basin in response to an accurate and timely tsunami warning system; and international aid organizations monitor the evolving situation by following Ustream and other web sources. As in these cases, we expect to see in future events that cell phones and mobile technology will play a key role in alerts and warnings and in social networking during response and recovery. Collaborative and display technology will create virtual operations centers, allowing open and agile collaboration between public and private organizations and individual citizens. The results of this increased use of technology is impressive. Just compare our awareness of the situation on the ground in Haiti and the rapid mobilization of appropriate resources with the confusion that followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Loma Prieta earthquake, Hurricane Andrew, or Hurricane Katrina
The Boards and Committees of the National Academies have analyzed the research available addressing many of these issues. For example, current committee efforts are examining public private partnerships and the use of mobile devices in alerting and warning systems. The Academies will soon undertake a study on increasing national resilience to hazards and disasters. I have attached a list of study and workshop reports published by the Academies during the last five years to my remarks.
In conclusion I would like to emphasize that the private sector involvement and leadership is key in all three paradigm changing trends I have described: building resilience, creating a collaborative culture, and creating new capabilities through technology. The policy implications for the federal government are, I believe, in three primary areas. The first is implementing policies and programs that enable local and regional capabilities to set their priorities and use their local resources and knowledge. The second is to ensure that federal grant programs that are intended to create resilience are adequately funded and coordinated. The stovepiping of current grants by agencies and programs can produce conflicting government mandated priorities that lead to competition for resources and discourage collaboration at the local level. Finally, the creation of trusted relationships is the basis of any collaborative network. This requires open and frequent information sharing---which conflicts with the cultural values of both the public and private sectors. Managers in both the private and public sectors are trained in and rewarded for the withholding and controlling of information. In my opinion, the trusted relationships needed to break down these barriers are most likely to develop at the local and regional level.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I look forward to your questions.
Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience: Workshop Summary (2010)
The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness (2009)
Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations (letter report) (2009)
Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience: A Workshop Report (2009)
Tools and Methods for Estimating Populations at Risk from Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Crises (2007)
Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management (2007)
Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (2007)
Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions (2006)
Workshops held by the National Academies Disasters Roundtable.
Children and Youth in Disasters: Closing Gaps among Research, Practice, and Policy (2009)
Cascading Disasters: How Disasters Unfold (2009)
Making the World Safer from Disasters: the U.S. Role (2008)
Disaster Risk Management in an Age of Climate Change (2008)
Recovering from Disaster (2008)
Creating and Using Multi-Hazards Knowledge and Strategies (2007)
Protecting our Lives and Property at our Coastlines (2007)
Citizen Engagement in Emergency Planning for a Flu Pandemic (2007)
Rebuilding for Health, Sustainability, and Disaster Preparedness in the Gulf Coast Region (2007)
Community Disaster Resilience (2006)
Facing Hazards and Disasters: The Human Dimension (2006)
Law, Science, and Disasters (2006)
The Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster: Implications for U.S. and Global Disaster Reduction and Preparedness (2005)
Lessons Learned Between Hurricanes: From Hugo to Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jean (2005)
Creating a Disaster Resilient America Grand Challenges in Science and Technology (2005)
Public Health Risks of Disasters: Building Capacity to Respond (2005)
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An archived webcast of the hearing can be found on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Web site.


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Тимоти Нгесан (; Приморска Сена, 18. септембар 1992) француски је рукометаш и репрезентативац који тренутно игра у АСОБАЛ лиги за Барселону на позицији левог бека.

Пре него што је прешао у Барселону на лето 2016, играо је у Француској за Шамбери у периоду од 2011. до 2016. године.

За Француску репрезентацију је дебитовао 2012. године са којом је освојио злато на Светском првенству  2017. године у Француској, сребро на Олимпијским играма 2016. у Рио де Жанеиру и бронзу на Светском првенству 2019. у Данској и Њемачкој и Европском првенству 2018. у  Хрватској.

Клупски профеји

Барселона
 АСОБАЛ лига (6) : 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
 Куп Шпаније (6) : 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
 Куп АСОБАЛ (6) : 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
 Суперкуп Шпаније (6) : 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
 ЕХФ Лига шампиона (2) : 2021, 2022 (финале 2020).
 Светско клупско првенство (3) : 2017, 2018, 2019.

Спољашње везе

 Профил на сајту ЕХФ Лиге шампиона

Рођени 1992.
Француски рукометаши
Рукометаши Барселоне
Рукометаши на Летњим олимпијским играма 2016.
Француски олимпијци на Летњим олимпијским играма 2016.
Освајачи медаља на Летњим олимпијским играма 2016.
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Carolyn Eisele (June 13, 1902 – January 15, 2000) was an American mathematician and historian of mathematics known as an expert on the works of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Education and career
Eisele was born on June 13, 1902, in The Bronx, New York City.
She studied at Hunter College High School and then Hunter College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1923.
She earned a master's degree in mathematics and education from Columbia University in 1925.
At that time, Columbia did not offer Ph.D.s in mathematics to women, but Eisele continued her graduate studies at the University of Chicago (where she studied differential geometry) and the University of Southern California before returning home to New York, without a doctorate, to care for her injured father. Her studies also included opera singing, with  Jeanne Fourestier in Paris in 1931 and later with Los Angeles-based voice coach Morris Halpern, whom she married in 1943.

Eisele taught mathematics at Hunter College for nearly 50 years. She began teaching as an instructor there after her college graduation in 1923, eventually reached the rank of full professor in 1965, and retired in 1972.

Eisele died on January 15, 2000 in Manhattan, New York City.

Peirce studies
As a student at Columbia University, Eisele took a course in the history of mathematics from David Eugene Smith, but her professional contributions to the subject began in 1947, when she took a sabbatical to prepare for a course in the history of mathematics that she had been asked to teach at Hunter College. While working in the George Arthur Plimpton collection at the Columbia University library, she found a manuscript by Charles Sanders Peirce on Fibonacci's Liber Abaci and in 1951 she published a paper about her discovery in Scripta Mathematica. Other early works of Eisele on Peirce included his correspondence with Simon Newcomb and his Peirce quincuncial projection for maps of the world. Her work on Peirce took a holistic view, in which his contributions to philosophy and logic were treated as part of a whole together with his contributions to mathematics and science, rather than as separate and unrelated chapters in his life.

Eisele served as the president of the Charles S. Peirce Society from 1973 to 1975.
In 1976, Eisele began publishing a multi-volume collection of Peirce's writings that she had edited, the New Elements of Mathematics, and in the same year she helped organize the Peirce Bicentennial International Congress in Amsterdam.

Books
Studies in the Science and Mathematical Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: Essays by Carolyn Eisele (1979)
Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic of Science: A History of Science (1985)

Awards and honors
Eisele was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1960.

On her retirement from Hunter College in 1972, Eisele joined the Hunter Hall of Fame. She was given honorary doctorates from Texas Tech University in 1980 and from Lehigh University in 1982.

In 1980, Eisele became an honorary member of the crew of the United States Coast Guard ship USC&GSS Peirce. In 1981, a symposium on Peirce studies was held in her honor at Hunter College, the proceedings of which were published as a festschrift in Historia Mathematica. In 1985, Eisele was given the Behavioral Sciences, History and Philosophy of Sciences award from the New York Academy of Sciences. Her other honors include a Doctor of Humanities degree awarded by Texas Tech University in 1980 and a Doctor of Science degree awarded in 1982 by Lehigh University.

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1902 births
2000 deaths
American women mathematicians
Charles Sanders Peirce
Hunter College alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Texas Tech University alumni
Hunter College faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century women mathematicians
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science


The village of Cold Marsh is a place of secrets, characterized by repression and guilt. Two young women have vanished under mysterious circumstances, and the country seethes with rumors of witchcraft and devilry. Even their God has abandoned them.
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Larga distancia () is a 2019 Peruvian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Finocchiaro (in his directorial debut) and written by Finocchiaro and Jorge Ossio Seminario. Starring Miguel Iza.

Synopsis
Astronauts, vampires and giant monsters destroying cities? What do these characters have in common? Well, Miguel, a fanciful office worker who has had his life on hold since Isabel, his wife, left him. However, he prefers to tell everyone that it is a temporary separation. He spends his days in an apartment with his daughter Camila, a withdrawn teenager whom he tries to get closer to but never fully understands.

One day, in Miguel's work center, it is announced that the worker with the highest sales quota at the end of the year will be rewarded with two tickets to any part of the world. Miguel sets out to win this prize to save his job and go to Isabel's. On the other hand, her teenage daughter Camila navigates an awkward and innocent love triangle between a confused skateboarder and her best friend.

Cast
The actors participating in this film are:

 Miguel Iza as Miguel
 Valquiria Huerta as Camila
 Fiorella Pennano as Nina
 Victor Prada
 Denisse Arreguí
 Diego Pérez
 Ximena Palomino

Financing
The film won the DAFO 2018 Post-Production Contest to start post-production.

Release
Larga distancia had an initial premiere on August 12, 2019, at the 23rd edition of the Lima Film Festival. The film was scheduled to be released in May 2020 in Peruvian theaters, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, It was commercially released on January 20, 2022, in Peruvian theaters.

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2019 films
2019 comedy-drama films
Peruvian comedy-drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s Peruvian films
Films set in Peru
Films shot in Peru
Films about teenagers
Films about families
Films about father–daughter relationships
2019 directorial debut films
Films impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic