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Ghost in the Shell Headlines Pictures Videos
Scarlett Johansson's Thermoptic Bodysuit From GHOST IN THE SHELL Among The Many Costumes Up For Auction
Though far from a well-received film, many of the beautiful costumes from the live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell are now being auctioned off, including the Major's form-fitting thermoptic suit...
Bliahansade | 4/25/2018
Filed Under: "Ghost in the Shell" Source: Prop Store
Last year, the live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime Ghost in the Shell hit theaters. Despite the director Rupert Sanders creating some beautiful imagery for the Scarlett Johansson led film, the adaption was met with a less than positive reception.
However, any fans or collectors who wish to own a piece of some of the film's beautifully designed costumes and prop — and have rather large wallets — may just be in luck. From now until May 4th anyone interested in owning some memorabilia from the film, will be auctioning off several costumes from the film.
A few of the costumes up for auction, specifically those worn by the Major, can be seen below, but to check out the full collection, which includes Batou's tactical gear, click here!
The Major's (Scarlett Johansson) Battle-Damaged Thermoptic Suit
The Major's (Scarlett Johansson) Bomber Jacket Costume and Medi Packs
The Major's (Scarlett Johansson) Billboard Jacket
Based on the internationally-acclaimed sci-fi property, "GHOST IN THE SHELL" follows the Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section 9 is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic's advancements in cyber technology.
GHOST IN THE SHELL: New 4K UHD Blu-Ray Edition Coming This September
GHOST IN THE SHELL: New Visual Revealed For The Upcoming Stage Play
Iconic anime film Ghost in the Shell is finally getting the 4K treatment with a new home video release from Lionsgate! Hit the jump to check out when to expect the movie to hit shelves!
A brand new Ghost in the Shell Stage Play is coming; with that a brand new key, and eerily beautiful, visual! Hit the jump to check it out!
GHOST IN THE SHELL: SAC_2045 Officially Renewed For Season 2 Ahead Of The First Season's Debut
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 1 released on April 23rd. Prior to the first season's debut, Netflix has renewed the 3D CGI animated series for a second one. Hit the jump...
GHOST IN THE SHELL: SAC_2045: New Character Posters Released For Netflix's Upcoming Anime Series
In just two days, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 will be available on Netflix. Ahead of the impending release, the streaming service has shared some awesome character posters. Check 'em out...
GHOST IN THE SHELL: SAC_2045 Releases A Brand New Clip
The upcoming CG Netflix series, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, has released a brand new clip for the new series! Hit the jump to check it out!


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Q: How to save message object or id of just sent message? I need to save and keep a message-object(?) so i can do some stuff with that message later.
How can i save it for example when using:
await client.say("something that i'll change later")

A: Just found the solution.
You can assign this action to a variable:
mymsg = await client.say("something that i'll change later")

And later use 'edit_message':
await client.edit_message(mymsg,"new text")

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Mirissa coastal belt is very famous among the tourists of all over the world as an ideal spot for watching whales. We have provided facilities to those who came to watch whales for a long time. We are in possession of a special vessel for their purpose and arrangements are being made with the supervision of Sri Lanka Navy. In a few hours you could watch whales and return. The journey starts at 6.30 am. Sometimes you could get the chance of watching Dolphins too.


Food Safety Talk episode 171 is now available here and at iTunes.
The show opens with Ben recounting of his thoughts on Temple Grandin's talk in North Carolina, and the Humboldt Broncos tragedy. Don mentions his shout out on Do By Friday. Ben starts off by the nominal food safety talk regarding sock microwaving and the Cold Pressure Council seal. Don counters with the NJ Panera outbreak which seems to be part of FDA outgoing multistate outbreak of E. coliO157:H7. Next up are blockchain and Canadian food recalls. Listener feedback covers restaurant grading, killing lobsters, glitter, flour heating, milk spoilage, farmers market and recipe safety.
Episode 150 is available on iTunes and here.
Food Safety Talk 90: What if it's a service dragon?
This episode starts with a discussion on running really long relay races and unplanned home repairs.
Don and Ben then edible cookie dough validation (or lack thereof), sour milk pancakes and backyard chicken eggs. The episode ends on a discussion of moldy, fermented rice used as a meat flavor enhancer, glitter beer and Listeria in frozen corn.
Episode 149 is available on iTunes and here.
Don and Ben start the episode talking about some notable weather, seeing each other in Atlanta, and food safety stories from the recently retired ranks. The conversation moves to listener feedback about contaminated supplements and spices, Japanese designers, thawing and using time as a public health control. The show ends with a discussion on sampling fresh herbs and Russian trolls' attempt to cause confusion about a turkey-related non-outbreak.
Episode 146 is available on iTunes and here.
The guys jumped right into the food safety talk this week with a discussion of the Jimmy John's sprout outbreak. From there the conversation turns to a whole lot of listener questions and feedback: Instant Pot, more on edible gold and silver, the safety of pots left on the stove as well as refrigerator leftovers, fiddleheads, proper spatula use, burger temperatures, and food safety gadgets. There's a little bit of popular culture talk right at the end. Below are show notes so you can follow along at home.
Episode 144 is available on iTunes and here.
Episode 143 can be found here and on iTunes.


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Q: Scraping images from newspaper sites Apologies for the remedial question (I'm an old professor and not terribly technological).
I'm using rvest to scrape images from newspaper sites using this code:
read_html(url) %>% html_nodes("img") %>% html_attr("src")

Some work well, but some do not.  I've had particular difficulty with:
https://www.argusleader.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/03/28/photos-coronavirus-impact-sioux-falls/2932927001/
The code returns:
character(0)
My best guess is that I am not properly identifying the node or attribute tags in the original html code.  I have tried numerous variations with little success.
Can someone provide guidance on common node or attributes that can be used to scrape images from sites such as these?
Thank you.

A: The website you gave uses JS to provide code dynamically. The solid way is to use RSelenium, but you can take a look at the page source first. In this situation, the website has the urls in <slide> tags and somehow converts them to <img> tags. This code will give you the result you probably desire:
library(rvest)
pg <- read_html("https://www.argusleader.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/03/28/photos-coronavirus-impact-sioux-falls/2932927001/")
imgs <- pg %>% html_nodes("slide") %>% html_attr("original")


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If you are new to CBD, It is suggested to begin with 2 dropperfulls (2mL) per day allowing 7-10 days before determining to increase your dosage. This allows the cannabinoids to become fully active in supplementing your endocannabinoid system. You may take the oil at any time of day. This is a non-psychoactive product that will not effect your ability to complete your daily tasks.
For our furry friends, it depends on the size, try beginning with one dropperful (1mL) per day and watch how that works and increase from there!
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Malnutrition among pregnant women is believed to be a serious problem in Niger, but there is only limited information available about their nutritional status and about the factors that contribute to the problem.
As an indication of the scope of the problem, the results of a 2008 nutrition survey showed that 46% of all women in the country were anaemic. Given the greater nutritional needs during pregnancy, it is assumed that this rate is considerably higher among pregnant women.
The Ministry of Health of Niger has in place a set of policies related to maternal nutrition that are well-aligned with global best practice. But without thorough data about the current health and nutritional status of pregnant women, it is not known whether the prescribed interventions meet the current needs.
More information is needed about the risk factors among pregnant women, the barriers that prevent them from receiving care, the quality of services, and the adoption of health and nutrition practices. With this data, appropriate and effective interventions need to be developed and implemented.
A comprehensive study and pilot project was undertaken to strengthen uptake, quality of care and access to antenatal care (ANC) in rural Niger that will ultimately guide the government of Niger's development of a revitalized maternal health policy.
2,305 women were reached through this in-depth research study. Niger's Ministry of Health is currently working on a five-year strategic plan for nutrition. The findings of the research study should guide the development of this plan.
Qualitative assessment of belief, barrier, and enabler factors for ANC and pregnancy outcomes and the quality of prenatal care services evaluated at the health centre.
Baseline survey to assess the nutritional status (weight, height, presence of anaemia, and biomarkers of iron and vitamin A status) and stage of pregnancy in pregnant women.
community volunteers disseminated behaviour change messages for improved uptake of ANC to pregnant women, their families, and community influencers.
A rigorous evaluation of the strategy, including an assessment of the nutritional status of pregnant women.
Promotion of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements, provided at facility-based ANC, to decrease the prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy at term.
Gestational weight monitoring and nutrition counseling throughout pregnancy to ensure adequate gestational weight gain.
The baseline and impact surveys are currently being implemented in all 12 intervention villages and 922 pregnant women have been enrolled.
There are 172 community volunteers implementing the Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) component of optimization strategy.
Qualitative study is complete and revealed high demand/importance for ANC, but also found issues with quality of care and supply of commodities.
The project has leveraged additional financial support from UNICEF to include an iodine intake assessment in both pregnant women and school-aged children, undertaken by UC Davis.
The project has generated significant interest from the Ministry of Health, which has taken an active role in overseeing implementation and utilizing results and has resulted in a Project Steering Committee being formed.


An investigation into the design of a Six Meter.
At the turn of the century some of the larger sailing clubs in Europe were using sail-area / length based rules. These had several forms such as the Club de France Rule and the Y.R.A. Rule in Britain. Because these rules varied from club to club as well as from country to country, it was difficult to create fair competition. Although the Club de France Rule was used in the first Olympic regatta it was not considered adequate. In 1906 an effort was made to consolidate the various Rules and it was decided that the new Rule should produce seaworthy and desirable yachts with scantling design to conform to standards set down by the Lloyd's Register. This was the beginning of the International Meter Rule, and the birth of the Six-, Eight- and Twelve-Meter Classes. (4) The most popular of the Meter Classes is the Six having been an Olympic Class from 1908 until 1952. However since 1950's the class has been in decline although it still has large fleet racing on the Mediterranean and the lakes of Europe. The Meter Classes were the major development classes of the early part of the twentieth century with the first Genoa headsail appearing on a Six-Meter yacht racing at a regatta in Genoa. Because of their draft-limiting rule, most of the wing keel developments since Australia II (A Twelve Meter) have been in the Six-Meter class. Unlike other development classes the development has not come at the expense of the seaworthiness of the yachts and this is truly a credit to the architects of the Rule.


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Sony Confirms Facebook On PS3, Details Firmware Update 3.10
As Facebook and Twitter launch on Xbox 360 today, Sony confirms that native Facebook support will be coming to the PlayStation 3 as it details the console's next firmware update, 3.10.
Today's the official launch date for a variety of social networking features on Xbox 360, including integration with Facebook and Twitter -- and at the same time, Sony reveals that Facebook is coming to PlayStation 3, too. The company confirmed previous reports that Facebook integration will be part of the PS3's next firmware update, version 3.10. The update has yet to be officially dated, but PSN operations director Eric Lempel says on the official PlayStation Blog that it's coming "soon." "By linking your PlayStation Network account to your Facebook account, you will have the option for the PS3 to automatically update your Facebook News Feed with Trophy and PlayStation Store activity," says Lempel. The update will also allow developers to add game-specific Facebook compatibility to their titles, so that games can publish additional info to Facebook news feeds. Although PS3 hasn't announced the same native Twitter support Xbox Live gets today, Lempel notes that PS3's built-in web browser lets users see their friends' Facebook and Twitter updates. Firmware update 3.10 will also add a revamped photo viewing system, and a modified Friends List based on user feedback. Users can also choose the color in which their PSN ID is displayed on the Xross Media Bar.

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У математиці похідним функтором називається певна послідовність функторів, які можна ввести для точних зліва коваріантних функторів на абелевій категорії, що має досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Також за допомогою двоїстості подібні функтори можна задати і за інших умов на функтори і категорії (див. #Варіації). Дана операція є досить абстрактною, але об'єднує велику кількість конструкцій в математиці.

Мотивація
В багатьох ситуаціях коротка точна послідовність може бути використана для побудови довгої точної послідовності. Поняття похідного функтора пояснює ці спостереження.

Нехай задано коваріантний точний зліва функтор F: A → B між абелевими категоріями A і B. Якщо 0 → A → B → C → 0 — коротка точна послідовність в A, то, застосовуючи F, отримуємо точну послідовність 0 → F (A) → F (B) → F (C). Виникає питання: чи можна продовжити цю точну послідовність вправо, щоб отримати довгу точну послідовність? Строго кажучи, це питання не є коректним, так як завжди існують різні способи продовжити дану точну послідовність вправо. Але виявляється (якщо категорія A є досить «хорошою») що існує один канонічний спосіб зробити це за допомогою правих похідних функторів функтора F. Для кожного i ≥ 1 існує функтор Ri F: A → B і наведена вище послідовність продовжується як: 0 → F (A) → F (B) → F (C) → R1 F (A) → R1 F (B) → R1 F (C) → R2 F (A) → R2 F (B) → ....

Звідси зокрема випливає, що F є точним функтором якщо і тільки якщо R1F = 0; тобто певним чином F вимірює наскільки далеким є функтор F від того, щоб бути точним.

Якщо A в короткій точній послідовності є ін'єктивним об'єктом, тоді послідовність розщеплюється. При застосування адитивного функтора до розщепленої послідовності одержується розщеплена послідовність і тому R1F(A) = 0. Тобто функтори (для i>0) є нульовими для ін'єктивних об'єктів: це є мотивацією для побудови нижче.

Побудова і основні властивості

Ін'єктивні резольвенти
Ключовим припущенням щодо абелевої категорії A є те, що в ній досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів, в тому сенсі, що для будь-якого об'єкта A з A існує мономорфізм A → IA, де IA — ін'єктивний об'єкт у A.

Нехай F: A → B — коваріантний точний зліва функтор і X — об'єкт категорії A. Оскільки існує досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів, можна побудувати довгу точну послідовність виду

де Ii ін'єктивні об'єкти. Дійсно, якщо позначати IA ін'єктивний об'єкт в який вкладається об'єкт A і послідовно jn — відображення у точній послідовності у об'єкт In, то індуктивно можна ввести jn+1 як композицію

Одержана послідовність називається ін'єктивною резольвентою X.

Властивості
Ін'єктивна резольвента не є однозначно визначеною оскільки вкладення об'єкта в ін'єктивний об'єкт не обов'язково є єдиним. Проте вона має багато хороших властивостей з точки зору гомологій:

 Будь-який морфізм  продовжується до морфізму ін'єктивних резольвент, як ланцюгових комплексів, тобто існує комутативна діаграма в якій рядки є ін'єктивними резольвентами:

 Два такі морфізми ланцюгових комплексів  що продовжують морфізм  є (ланцюгово) гомотопними, тобто існують морфізми  (з очевидними корекціями на початку послідовності), такі що  де  — морфізми у ін'єктивних резольвентах у об'єкти In і Jn, а  — n-ні компоненти морфізмів ланцюгових комплексів  (знову ж умову гомотопності треба змінити на початку послідовності але це неважко зробити аналогічно до загального випадку).
 З попередньої властивості випливає також те, що дві ін'єктивні резольвенти  для одного об'єкта категорії є гомотопно еквівалентними, тобто існують морфізми ланцюгових комплексів  такі що морфізм  є гомотопним  а морфізм  є гомотопним

Побудова похідних функторів
При застосуванні функтора F до ін'єктивної резольвенти після відкидання першого члена одержується ланцюговий комплекс

Загалом він не є точною послідовністю оскільки функтор F не є точним. Проте можна обчислити його когомології i-го порядку (ядро відображення з F(Ii) по модулю образу відображення в F(Ii)); результат позначається RiF (X).

Якщо f : X → Y — морфізм, то з попереднього можна побудувати ін'єктивні резольвенти X* і Y* і морфізм f* : X* → Y*, що продовжує f. Тоді F(f*) є морфізмом ланцюгових комплексів і тому він породжує морфізм на когомологіях, тобто морфізми із RiF (X) у RiF (Y), який і є образом fпри дії функтора RiF.

Якщо X* і Y* є двома ін'єктивними резольвентами для об'єкта X то вони є гомотопно еквівалентними і тому F (X*) і F (Y*) теж є гомотопно еквівалентними (за допомогою морфізмів F (kn), де kn як вище задають гомотопну еквівалентність між X* і Y*). Тобто когомології для X* і Y* є ізоморфними і тому Ri F (X) є коректно визначеними.

Також, якщо f* і g* є морфізмами ін'єктивних резольвент, що продовжують f : X → Y, то f* і g* є гомотопними, а тому і F (f*) з F (g*) є гомотопними. Звідси випливає, що F (f*) і F (g*) породжують один морфізм на гомологіях тобто морфізм Ri F (f) є коректно визначеним.

Властвості

 З точності зліва випливає, що

 0 → F (X) → F (I0) → F (I1) є точною, так що R0F (X) = F (X).

 Якщо сам об'єкт X є ін'єктивним, то можна взяти ін'єктивну резольвенту 0 → X → X → 0 і отримати, що Ri F (X) = 0 для всіх i ≥ 1. На практиці, цей факт, разом з існуванням довгою точної послідовності, часто використовується для обчислення значень правих похідних функторів.
 Послідовність функторів RnF є δ-функтором, тобто для точної послідовності

 існують морфізми  що дозволяють утворити точну довгу послідовність:

 і для комутативної діаграми виду

 де рядки є точними, утворені довгі точні послідовності є частинами комутативної діаграми:

 Нехай η : F → G є натуральним перетворенням від точного зліва функтора F до точного зліва функтора G. Це перетворення породжує природні перетворення Riη : RiF → RiG і Ri стає функтором із категорії точних зліва функторів із A в B у категорію всіх функторів із A в B. Цей функтор узгоджується із довгими точними послідовностями. А саме, якщо

 є точною довгою послідовністю, тоді утворюється комутативна діаграма:

 Результати про довгі точні послідовності у цьому і попередньому пунктах одержуються за допомогою леми про змію.

 Навпаки, якщо задана послідовність функторів Ri: A → B, що переводять короткі точні послідовності у довгі, задовольняють умови попередніх двох пунктів і для кожного ін'єктивного об'єкта I в категорії A, Ri(I)=0 для всіх додатних i, тоді ці функтори є правими похідними функтора R0.
 Більш загально, якщо Gi де  є δ-функтором для точного зліва функтора F тоді існує єдине натуральне перетворення δ-функторів RiF → Gi (де ),  що комутує з ізоморфізмами R0F і G0 з F. Якщо також Gi = 0 (де ), то це натуральне перетворення є ізоморфізмом.
 Нехай F: A → B і G: B → C є функторами між абелевими категоріями, де A і B мають досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Нехай також G є точним зліва, F є точним і для кожного ін'єктивного об'єкта I в категорії A, виконується властивість RiG (F(I)) = 0, n>0. Тоді існує натуральний ізоморфізм між  і
 Нехай F: A → B і G: B → C є функторами між абелевими категоріями, де A і B мають досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Нехай також G є точним і F є точним зліва. Тоді існує натуральний ізоморфізм між  і

Варіації
Якщо починати з коваріантного точного справа функтора G і в категорії A є досить багато проективних об'єктів (тобто для будь-якого об'єкта A категорії A існує епіморфізм P → A, де P — проективний об'єкт), то можна аналогічним чином визначити ліві похідні функтори Li G. Для об'єкта X категорії A побудуємо проективну резольвенту

де Pi — проективні об'єкти. Застосовуючи G до цієї послідовності і відкидаючи останній член можна обчислити гомології Li G (X). Як і у випадку правих похідних функторів, L0G (X) = G (X).

В цьому випадку довга точна послідовність буде продовжена вліво, а не вправо:

дає

 .

Ліві похідні функтори занулюються на проективних об'єктах.

Можна також розглядати контраваріантний точний зліва функтор F; отримувані праві похідні функтори тоді також будуть контраваріантними. Коротка точна послідовність

перетворюється в довгу точну послідовність

Ці праві похідні функтори занулюються на проективних об'єктах і, отже, обчислюються за допомогою проективних резольвент.

Усі вказані конструкції мають аналогічні властивості із правими похідними функторами для коваріантних точних зліва функторів, переформульовані із врахуванням двоїстості у кожному окремому випадку.

Приклад

 Якщо  є абелевою категорією, тоді її категорія морфізмів  теж є абелевою. Функтор  що переводить кожен функтор у його ядро є точним зліва. Його правими похідними функторами є

 Двоїстий функтор  є точним справа і його лівими похідними функторами є

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Когомологія пучків.. Якщо X — топологічний простір, то категорія всіх пучків абелевих груп на X є абелевою категорією, в якій є досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Функтор, що зіставляє пучку L групу глобальних перетинів L(X) є точним зліва, і його праві похідні функтори називаються також функторами когомологій пучків і зазвичай позначаються як Hi(X,L). Трохи більш загально: якщо (X, OX) — окільцьований простір, то категорія всіх пучків OX-модулів — абелева категорія, в якій є досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів, і можна побудувати когомології пучків як праві похідні функтори функтора глобальних перетинів.

Функтор Ext. Якщо R — кільце, то категорія всіх лівих R-модулів є абелевою і в ній досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Якщо A — фіксований лівий R-модуль, то функтор Hom (A,-) є точним зліва і його праві похідні функтори позначаються ExtRi(A,-).

Функтор Tor. В категорії лівих R-модулів досить багато проективних об'єктів. Якщо A — фіксований правий R-модуль, то тензорний добуток з A є точним справа коваріантним функтором на категорії лівих R-модулів; його ліві похідні функтори позначаються TorRi(A,-).

Когомологія груп. Нехай G — група. G-модулем  M називається абелева група M разом з дією групи G на M. Це те ж саме, що і модуль над груповому кільці Z G. G-модулі утворюють абелеву категорію, в якій досить багато ін'єктивних об'єктів. Нехай MG — підгрупа M, що складається з елементів M, інваріантних відносно дії G. Це точний зліва функтор, його праві похідні функтори — функтори когомологій груп, зазвичай позначаються як Hi(G, M).

Див. також

 Абелева категорія
 Гомологія
 Ін'єктивний об'єкт
 Ланцюговий комплекс
 Лема про змію

Література

 И. Букур, А. Деляну Введение в теорию категорий и функторов. — М.: Мир, 1972.

Гомологічна алгебра
Теорія категорій

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Overuse and misuse of antibiotics given to animals we raise for food is endangering children. That's according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which summarizes evidence linking widespread and inappropriate use of the drugs in livestock and poultry with the development of fierce bacteria that don't respond to many antibiotics.
The World Health Organization has called the rise of resistant bacteria one of the world's most serious health crises, putting us on the verge of a "post-antibiotic era." In the U.S., more than 2 million Americans fall victim to antibiotic-resistant infections each year; 23,000 die as result, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
How often do you buy meat raised without antibiotics?
Antibiotics are used very differently in livestock and poultry than they are in humans. Most are not prescribed by a veterinarian to treat illness, but instead are routinely added to the food and water of healthy animals to prevent disease and to promote faster growth with less feed.
Bacteria that commonly cause food poisoning, such as salmonella and campylobacter, have increasingly become resistant to antibiotics. "When resistant infections do occur in children, they can be much harder to treat," says Paulson. For example, some of the bacteria lurking in contaminated food are resistant to the antibiotics approved for treating food poisoning in children.


When small airline corporations open their connections in Poland, individuals from here start to tour all around the world. When we like, we may visit distant continents,such as Australia and America, to see our relatives. And what is the most important, we can go to different cities in Europe for a penny. Here are two alternatives to try on.
A lot of people from our country now are living in United Kingdom. When you know someone in there, or maybe just like to visit the capital, you can find airline tickets to London in really reasonable cost. And this city is very worth to be visited. It has astonishing architecture - you can take a tour around New Gothic parliament, called Westminster Palace, which use to be reconstructed after the fire in 18th century (go here). Beside, if you like really old buildings, you need to go to Tower, former jail for royal prisoners - even Mary the Suart were kept in there. If you're searching for entertainment, go to Gallery of Madame Tussauds, where you can admire the largest exhibition of wax figures.
Another good alternative for a city break is to reserve flights to Serbia. That beautiful country, use to be forgotten by tourists, because of morbid events, that took place dozens years ago.
There are plenty of interesting areas to enjoy in Old Continent. London is very common, but plenty of Polish citizens never been there - when you don't also, you need to modify it. On the other hand we have Serbia, beautiful place with sad history, also worth to be seen.


West of the 100th Meridian people like to quote the adage, Whisky's fer drinkin'; water's fer fightin'! We don't believe that has to be true. Dialogue is about listening actively to try to understand - and not to judge - another person's viewpoint about a strongly held value, in order to discover whether at some level you share common ground. "Water dialogue" encompasses our Board's attempts to discover ways to address contentious issues about how we will share, manage and protect this scarce and vital substance, and be stewards of its sources, so that they will continue to sustain us and those who will follow us.
monitoring and publicizing major water policy developments."
Revised mission statement (2011) and bylaws of the NMWD.


The wildlife at the Safari West African wildlife preserve, northeast of Santa Rosa, has gotten a little bit wilder lately, as they try to encourage a little rhinoceros romance. If you're wondering just how that works… just listen.
The power of social media and the Internet can be a remarkable thing. One current example is a local woman—someone well-known to KRCB listeners—who has used the web to mobilize bird lovers nationally and world-wide, in defense of threatened ravens in southern Idaho.
Click here to learn more about the campaign to protect ravens in Idaho. To see or sign Michele's petition, go here.
A pair of rescued beavers at a local wildlife shelter will be returned to the wild, just as soon as they can demonstrate the ability to survive there.
Because the two young beavers have bonded to each other, their chances of a successful release are enhanced, says Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue director Doris Duncan, and their time at the shelter can be shorter and more productive.
With spring-like weather conditions and warming temperatures, conditions are ripe for swarms of honeybees to be out looking for a new home. But even though they can be frightening, these buzzing clouds of bees aren't really a hazard. So rather than getting out a spray or pesticide, the best response is to call a local beekeeper. That's what Bruce Robinson did to get more detailed advice.
It's a classic win-win. The Hungry Owl Project is providing habitat and boosting populations of bar owls in the North Bay, enabling the nocturnal predators to feast on mice, rats and other rodents we'd rather not be allowed to proliferate unchecked.
Barn owls are just one of several species of owls that are common across the North Bay. Although they, like most owls, are nocturnal, Alex Godbe, Director of the Hungry Owl Project, says barn owls are easy to recognize when seen in flight. But don't expect to hear one fly past.
Part of the fun of being outdoors here in the North Bay is recognizing the birds, wildlife and flora that surround us. A trained naturalist will know more of the names and patterns all those things, but that's not the only thing that separates him or her from us more casual observers. A program in Sonoma tomorrow night offers insights into those differences, and Bruce Robinson talks with the presenter for that event.
Drought affects far more than human endeavors—it also poses some severe consequences for wildlife in our region, which in turn can have impacts on us.
WildCare maintains a clinic for wildlife, and they are getting ready for an extra busy season between April and August. This is the time each year, notes the Marin County non-profit's Allison Hermance, when animal young are born and maturing—and when getting enough water is critical to their survival.
They're huge, prodigious divers, and familiar visitors to parts of the northern California coast. Yet Elephant Seals are also calm and approachable for scientists who are gradually coming to understand the massive mammals.
Elephant seals are so named for the males' large proboscis, as well as their overall size. And it is the inner workings of that prominent nose, explains Dr. Bob Rubin, that enables the creatures to remain ashore, awaiting their mating season, for up to three months, without eating or even drinking water for that entire time.
Mountain lions still roam the hills of the North Bay, but not as many as there once were. And we humans are not making their lives any easier.
It was McDonald's own face to face meeting with a full-sized adult male in the Marin Headlands that fueled her passion for working with the big cats of the world. She was out running above Sausalito near dusk, she recalls, when she had that life-changing encounter.
The number of options for getting rid of the mice that cover the Farallon Islands is shrinking, but the controversy over that plan is not. KRCB's Bruce Robinson reports that it's now down to applying one of a pair of poisons, or conceding that the mice are there to stay.
There will be a public hearing on the EIS for the island at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Thursday, August 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 29 in the General's Residence.
Egrets and herons were nearly driven to extinction by fashionable hatmakers more than a century ago. Today they are a popular symbol of wildlife conservation. Bruce Robinson talks with a scientist who studies them.
Native plants that grow where we don't want them are one sort of weed problem. Escaped exotics from other climates can be quite another. The University of California's leading weed expert discusses both sorts with KRCB's Bruce Robinson.
You can find links to a weed identification database here, and tips on home weed control techniques in the video below.
Snow Leopards are found only in the high, wild mountains of central Asia, where harsh climate just one of the dangers they face. But the rare cats also have an ally, in Sonoma zoologist Dr. Rodney Jackson. Bruce Robinson talks with him.
Dr. Rodney Jackson will talk about snow leopards in a presentation at the Sonoma Veterans Hall tonight at 7 pm. The program is hosted by Sonoma Birding.
Protection for endangered orcas or "killer whales" off the Pacific Coast may be about to disappear. Lori Abbott reports.
Sick raccoons are nothing new in northern California, where distemper is fairly common among them. But some don't fit that pattern for raccoon deaths, and new laboratory studies have found out why.
Sometimes, researchers have an idea of what they will find when they begin their investigations. This was not such a case, says Dr. Patricia Pesavento, a pathologist at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. In fact, their findings surprised everyone involved.


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Эрнст Виктор фон Ле́йден (; 20 апреля 1832, Данциг — 5 октября 1910, Берлин) — немецкий врач-терапевт.

Биография
Лейден изучал медицину в Берлине под руководством известных профессоров Траубе и Шёнлейна.

В 1853 году, по окончании курса, поступил на военную службу. В 1865 году был назначен ординарным профессором и директором клиники внутренних болезней в Кёнигсбергском университете. В 1872 году перешёл в Страсбургский университет, в 1876 году — в Берлинский университет. Лейден известен рядом выдающихся работ, особенно по нервным болезням (Die graue Degeneration der hinteren Rückenmarksstränge, Die Klinik d. Rückenmarkskrankheiten). Большинство его казуистических сообщений и экспериментальных исследований напечатаны в основанном им в 1879 году совместно с Ф. фон Фрериксом журнале «Журнал клинической медицины» (Zeitschrifft für klinische Medicin).

В России Лейден консультировал императора Александра III (1894) и других членов российского императорского дома.

Его имя носит Синдром Лейдена–Мёбиуса — мышечная дистрофия в области таза, которую он изучал вместе с доктором медицины Паулем Юлиусом Мёбиусом.

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Члены Леопольдины
Масоны Германии
Участники Австро-прусско-датской войны
Члены-корреспонденты Французской академии наук


Bellator 158: "London" takes place at O2 Arena in London, England, this Friday night (July 16, 2016), featuring a Welterweight fight between Paul "Semtex" Daley taking on former 170-pound champion Douglas Lima. It has been nearly one year since Lima was last seen in Bellator, dropping his title to Andrey Koreshkov and, in the process, snapping a five-fight win streak, all of which Lima won via (technical) knockout.
"The Phenom" doesn't get an easy opponent after a lengthy absence. After originally being scheduled to face Chidi "Bang Bang" Njokuani at Bellator 156, Lima will fill in for Josh Koscheck and step into a Spike TV-televised main event opposite Paul "Semtex" Daley.
In an exclusive interview with MMAmania.com that spanned two opponents and two months, Lima talked about getting back in the cage after a lengthy layoff and how he feels about headlining an event in Daley's hometown.
For Lima, the biggest opponent has been his health. Multiple knee surgeries and complications kept him on the shelf and may have contributed to his loss to Koreshkov.
The joy Lima feels at overcoming these obstacles comes across clear as day. He's just about as excited to get back in the cage again as a fighter can possibly be.


There are a few important things to factor in if you're looking for an architect to design your home.
Unless you already know the architect, you should shop around before deciding on the right one to design your new home or renovation.
Architects offer different fee structures and services, which can make it difficult to compare quotes easily.
Budget, timeframe and what you want are the three key elements to address when briefing an architect.
Get a feasibility report before any designs are started. This will give you a guide on cost per square metre, inclusions and exclusions, issues with the site and any complexities involved in the building process.
Get clarification on inclusions such as blinds/curtains, floor coverings, appliances, landscaping, fixtures and fittings.
Use a 'mood book' to brief an architect. This is simply a file that includes images of homes, rooms, materials, fixtures and designs you like. Anything that eliminates interpretation makes it easier for everyone.
Check out examples of their work and talk with their customers. Determine if they have experience with your type of construction, particularly if you have a difficult site, or unusual construction methods or materials.
Check if there are additional fees. Most architects charge a progressive fee for the different stages of the project. Initial design concepts, first drawings, final drawings, briefing of builders and ongoing project management if required. This may be split between fixed costs until building starts, usually charged as a percentage of the build cost, then an hourly rate for project management.
Confirm how many designs they will initially provide and the flexibility for revisions. You'll also need to know how much influence they allow you in the design process and how redesigns affect cost.
Clarify the level of detail of the drawings. Do they include electrical plans with data points, switch heights, reflected ceiling plans showing bulkheads and cooling vents and the like, so a builder can work directly from the plans?
Discuss fees and permits. There will be council fees, engineering, geotechnical and surveyor's fees, as well as permits and other unexpected payments to make. Your architect should be able to prepare the submissions and applications for these, so ask if they are included in their fees.
Establish regular meetings. If your architect is going to be your project manager, then establish regular meetings where you, the architect and the builder meet to discuss work in progress and make decisions as you go. This eliminates any delays or indecision and records decisions via meeting notes shared between all parties.
There are three key elements to any building project — quality, time and cost. It's often difficult to get all three in harmony. The closer you work with your architect and builder and the clearer the responsibilities of each, the easier the building process.


Wearable smart technology has been promised for over a decade now, but nothing has really hit production until now. (And no, we're not including smartwatches.) Google and Levi's partnered to create an attractive and functional "smart jacket."
The jacket uses Levi's Commuter jacket and embeds technology from Google's Advanced Technology and Products group. Project Jacquard was announced in 2015. However, no one heard much of its development until this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
Project Jacquard uses tiny circuits woven throughout the fabric to create connectivity. Those 15 conductive threads allow a small patch on the sleeve to respond to touch. A cufflink-looking Bluetooth connection links the jacket's wiring to the smart device of choice. It makes changing songs on a playlist as simple as tapping the sleeve.
The jacket will come with a companion app to customize specific functions and movements. It also can vibrate slightly to notify users of incoming messages or calls.
But the real question: is it washable? Yes. All users have to do is remove the Bluetooth device from the pouch and the whole jacket can be washed, circuitry and all. (However, Levi's Brand and CEO Chip Bergh recommends not washing its denim that regularly. Bergh said once every four to six days depending on heavy usage.) The durability came into question when Google approached Levi's about the partnership.
"It's called singing denim," said Paul Dillinger, vice president for global innovation at Levi's. "You expose the cloth to an open flame which burns excess cotton. So we said, 'You have this great tech, but you understand we're going to blow torch this right? We're going to do this to an open flame.' Frankly, I was doing it to scare them off, but then Ivan's response was 'what's the fuel source for this flame?' He wanted to learn how to solve this problem."
Levi's also had quite a bit of say in maintaining the overall style of its popular Commuter jacket. Google initially planned on making the technology a lot more visible, an idea that proved a detriment to the company's Google Glasses project.
"At first, we wanted to put a display on it, the bigger the better," the leader of Google's Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) group, Ivan Poupyrev, told the crowd at a SXSW panel.
"But [Levi's] said 'No, there can't be blinks on the jacket, we don't do that. Our customers are cool urban people and blinking on your jacket is uncool.'"
Google said the starting price for these jackets will run $350 (£288) and are expected to hit retailers this fall in the U.S. Most reviews from SXSW have been positive. However, that public testing has been largely under the controlled comfort of Levi's brand installation near the Austin convention center.
"Project Jacquard will allow designers and developers to build connected, touch-sensitive textiles into their own products," said the project website.


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CARY, N.C. (Sept. 19, 2016) — At the moment, the top priority at DAA Seattle is finding space to park all of the cars arriving at the auction.
"That is a short-term focus though," said Brian McConkey, the auction's human resources manager.
"Under normal circumstances, the top priority is developing leaders," he said. "We are constantly identifying future leaders and molding our team to lead others from a place of love and dedication rather than power and control. That is at the center of everything we do."
Besides the aforementioned parking challenge caused by the supply boost, more cars and more clients create addition hurdles for the auction. But DAA Seattle has been able to maneuver with a bit of extra effort and teamwork, McConkey said.
"Things at DAA Seattle have been a bit hectic lately. We've added a number of large accounts lately and we're hiring as fast as we can right now to stay ahead of the current workload. That means a lot of our people have been working longer hours than they're used to and are being asked to take on extra responsibilities that they haven't done before," he said.
"Our team has responded amazingly well and we are so proud of everyone here. It certainly hasn't been easy — you can ask anyone that works here — but everyone has some ownership in what is going on here and there is a tremendous sense of pride throughout the entire team that we are doing something special here," McConkey continued. "There is a sense that all of the extra work we're putting in right now will pay off. All that is left for us to do is give people autonomy and let them take pride in their work.
"We constantly encourage and thank our staff and we try to learn from people at all levels of our team by working alongside them and taking interest in what they're doing. We pay attention to people who are putting in the extra work and reward them for it and publicly recognize them for their outstanding effort. The last thing is encouraging everyone to do these same things with each other," he said.
Going back to McConkey's points on leadership and leadership development, that's part of what makes DAA Seattle unique, he said.
"DAA Seattle stands out as a great place to work because we have great people that work here. It starts at the foundation and leadership of course, but it is throughout every part of the company. When our leaders are committed to treating people right, both employees and customers, those habits and behaviors spread and create a new normal for what a workplace looks like," he said.
"Normal is now treating everyone respect, working hard for each other, making time to have fun and laugh with each other, and encouraging relationships across departments and management levels. We have lots of policies and benefits and things that are great, but the real reason DAA Seattle is a great place to work is because we have been lucky enough to hire a lot of great people who are committed to loving each other every day," McConkey said.
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Q: I suffered with my wife? I referred to many dictionaries and found that the verb suffer
is not followed by the preposition with
I have found the following sentences.

1. I suffered from fever.
2. One has to suffer for one's  sins.
3. You have to  suffer in the end.

But I found a website which says suffer can be followed by the preposition with.

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*I suffered with my wife  due to some financial problems.

*I suffer with gout.

Are the sentences  grammatically  correct  and acceptable to  native speakers?
I herewith attach the link for your kind perusal.

A: IMO, the use of suffer with fits in the context when you want to add someone with you.
An example there is -

"Heidi suffered with her grandpa when they ran low on food and firewood during the cold winter months."

To understand it better...think like this

"Heidi suffered (with her grandpa) when (they) ran low on food and firewood during the cold winter months."

But still, I'd prefer an alternate way to tell the same ...

My wife and I suffered from financial crises.

To answer, native speakers may not find it idiomatic.


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Fighting Great Lakes Invasives on YouTube
July 9, 2017 Bill Kubota
By Bill Kubota
If you give Tom Alwin a minute of your time, he'll show you an invasive you ought to know.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality aquatic biologist is the star of some short and snappy explainer videos rolling out now.
He talks about aquatic plants and animals that shouldn't be here, and how you can keep an eye out for them.
Alwin's latest MDEQ Minute explains the yellow floating heart. They're like water lilies but produce distinctive yellow flowers. His video shows ways to identify them.
Yellow floating heart is native to Eastern Asia and the Mediterranean, brought to North America in the late 1800s as an ornamental plant, according to Michigan State Extension.
It was originally discovered on the campus of University of Michigan-Dearborn, but was eradicated a few years ago.
Alwin tells Great Lakes Now the invasives he talks about in the videos are not a threat in Michigan yet, but he says he hopes if viewers spot them they will report back to the MDEQ.
He says, "If you catch them early enough, you might be able to eradicate them."
Alwin is a native of Houghton, Michigan and has a master's degree in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University. He's been with MDEQ since 2011.
The YouTube videos came about when Alwin was tasked with explaining invasives to others at MDEQ along with people with the state's Department of Natural Resources and Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. That's when they realized they should take the message public.
Last year, Alwin hosted a series of longer videos about invasives and one did so well it has more than 15-thousand views. It was suggested shorter videos could do even better.
That begat the MDEQ Minutes which are not big budget, Hollywood productions. The videos are done in-house, according to Alwin, who gives credit to talented producer Katrina Robinson.
The goal was to produce one every month or so, depending on the staff's workload.
Alwin says to expect more videos from MDEQ, not just about aquatic invasives but about forest pests like oak wilt and hemlock woolly adelgid.
Check out MDEQ's YouTube channel, you might see them soon. More about invasives can be found at michigan.gov.
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"Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country," warned President Bush just two weeks before launching the war. U.S. troops will be greeted as "liberators," the Vice President predicted. A servile press corps, perhaps better called a press corpse, went along and asked few questions. Washington invades Iraq on totally false pretenses and then turns a SNAFU into a FUBAR with "Mission Accomplished" photo ops, bogus stories about Jessica Lynch, endless turning points, tipping points, milestones and a so-called surge. Meanwhile in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, the U.S. is building the largest embassy in the world, elsewhere in Iraq it has built permanent bases. For Iraqis, the carnage is destroying their country, one of the cradles of civilization.
Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. She appears as commentator/analyst on PBS, NPR, BBC, and CBC. She's the author of Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis and Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN. Her latest books are Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Challenging Empire.


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Posted on January 21, 2020 at 9:43 am by InstinctBusiness
SunTrust Bank Limited Board has announced the appointment of Mrs. Halima Buba as its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer.
This was disclosed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a letter signed by its Director, Banking Supervision, Mr. Ahmed Abdullahi.
The statement explained that Buba, would take over from Mr. Ayo Babatunde.
A statement explained that her appointment was premised on her years of experience as a financial expert and a seasoned banker with over 20 years of experience in both the private and public sector with recognizable and impressive strides.
Buba who hails from Adamawa is a co-founder of TAJ consortium, a group of young dynamic technocrats.
She is currently sitting on the board of Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) as a non-executive director and participate amongst other key stakeholders in making critical decisions to ensure that the nation's wealth is being channeled to optimum use for the future generations of Nigerian.
Buba rose to the rank of deputy general manager in Ecobank Nigeria, in charge of FCT and the North, where she demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities in building cross-functional teams and focused on business development and market expansion.
Commenting on her appointment, the statement quoted her to have said: "These are interesting times for us as a country. The economy is still in its post-recession phase and the prospects of sustained growth are encouraging.
"Being appointed to take over the helms of SunTrust Bank at such a time is both humbling and challenging.
"I commend the good work my predecessors have done to establish, grow and stabilise a relatively young Bank. I plan to build on the foundation they have laid by propelling SunTrust to greater heights. "The idea is to position the bank as a financial institution of choice by consolidating and accelerating its growth, corporate reputation and service quality."
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The artist printing on a tobacco leaf. Images courtesy of the artist and the Aldrich Museum.
A tiger skin fabricated from an arrangement of filter cigarettes.
A detail of the tiger skin rug.
Chairman Mao's slogans printed onto cigarettes.
In 1995 Xu Bing was invited to visit Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (1). Exploring the area around Durham, he visited the Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum, tobacco farms, and the former Liggett & Meyers cigarette factory, experiences that planted the seeds for a body of work that now spans more than a decade.
It might come as a surprise that one of China's most significant contemporary artists chose to focus his attention on tobacco, but given the trajectory of the artist's career—particularly his interest in history, material culture, language, and the systems of meaning set up by society—it seems preordained that he would eventually gravitate to the subject.
Bluish tendrils born from the subtle smoke.
And leaves my mouth feeling like a divine furnace (3).
Xu Bing's interest in language has manifested itself in a body of work that is strongly conceptual in nature, and Tobacco Project's use of research, archival materials, and text points to the artist's idea-driven methodology. But, as with Xu Bing's other endeavors, Tobacco Project tempers its conceptual approach with the stunning use of materiality. The Museum's galleries are not only filled with a range of objects made from the world of tobacco culture, but also the strong and immediately identifiable aroma of cured tobacco products.
Xu Bing's personal circumstances are crucial to helping us to understand the artist's influences in the creation of Tobacco Project. During China's Cultural Revolution (4), when he was nineteen years old, he was relocated (as were many Chinese people) to a rural agricultural area. Spending nearly three years working in a farming community left him with an understanding and respect for farming as a way of life. This connection with the land and the people who farm it was reawakened during his visits to the tobacco farms of North Carolina and Virginia. But it was another personal connection that loomed larger over the subject of tobacco: in 1989, at the age of sixty-four, his father had died of lung cancer after a lifetime of smoking (5). Included in the exhibition are several works that allude to this fact, including Calendar Book, an assemblage that combines a plastic desk calendar with printed cigarette boxes, a double cigarette, and copies of the artist's father's medical records.
On entering the museum we are confronted with two works that speak of the transmission of tobacco culture from the New World to China. Traveling Down the River consists of a reproduction of the renowned 42-foot-long scroll painting, Along the River during the Quingming Festival, by the artist Zhang Zeduan (1058–1145). Created before the introduction of tobacco to China, it pictures a panorama of human activity along the Bian River in Henan Province. Overlaid down its length is a 42-foot-long cigarette that is lighted periodically during the duration of the exhibition (right & below), leaving a trail of ash (and burnt scroll) that marks the fire's progress (6). The rivers of China are the transportation arteries that brought Western influences, including tobacco, into China from abroad. It is believed that the Portuguese first brought tobacco to southern China as early as the 1540s, with the smoking habit enveloping most of the country by the middle of the seventeenth century.
While Traveling Down the River can be read as a visually poetic response to tobacco's spread (and its destructive impact on human well-being), the adjacent work Prophecy is a pointedly ironic chronicle that records the trade in tobacco products between the United States and China over the course of almost a century. Beginning with a copy of a British American Tobacco Company (BAT) stock certificate and marketing agreement with a Chinese firm, it includes documents showing BAT's subsequent profits in China, copies of correspondence regarding the donation of BAT's assets to Duke University by its owners, a check and related documents from Duke University to Xu Bing for the creation of Tobacco Project, and finally a copy of a check from an American collector who acquired a work from Tobacco Project. The linkage between the American and Chinese economies is not just a recent phenomenon, and Prophecy documents a circular connection across both time and space.
The dramatic centerpiece of Tobacco Project is the work 1st Class, a carpet-like sculpture resembling a tiger-skin rug that has been made of over a quarter of a million cigarettes. The piece's title refers to the brand of cigarette used in its fabrication: 1st Class, an American discount brand that is primarily marketed through convenience stores. In China, tiger skins have traditionally been status symbols, and the demand for the pelts along with a rapidly shrinking natural tiger population has led to the recent phenomenon of "tiger farms," where tigers are raised for both skin and bone (tiger bones are used in traditional Chinese medicine) (7). 1st Class is an object of undeniable beauty, yet it is made of the most common vehicle of nicotine addiction. By reveling in contradiction the work eloquently speaks of the allure, glamor, and status that humans connect with both consumer goods and risky behavior. What is more glamorous: James Dean with a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth, or a tiger skin rug underfoot?
In 2007 the artist made his first trip to Richmond to discuss the possibility of expanding Tobacco Project into an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The area around Richmond was also a major center of tobacco production, and this visit, along with subsequent ones over the course of the next three years, led to both the recreation and/or reconfiguring of earlier tobacco-based works and creation of new ones for this exhibition. For example, 1st Class is the recreation of Honor and Splendor, a similar work that was made for an exhibition of works from the Tobacco Project in China at the Shanghai Gallery of Art in 2004. Many of the new and/or reconfigured works in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition, including 1st Class, were made in Richmond with the help of students from Virginia Commonwealth University.
One of the new works that resulted from Xu Bing's time in Richmond was Backbone, a book project created in collaboration with his friend René Balcer. Visiting the archives of the Valentine Richmond History Center, a museum dedicated to the history of the greater Richmond area, Xu Bing became fascinated with a collection of historical stencils that were used to print tobacco brand names on boxes and crates. The romantic and suggestive nature of the brand names—DEW DROP, OH MY, VIRTUE, BLACK SATIN, QUEEN OF THE EAST, etc.—led Xu Bing and Balcer to conceive of work that would be a poem dedicated to the African-American women who worked tirelessly in the tobacco processing industry. Xu Bing's interest in language, coupled with Balcer's background as a writer (he has been a writer and producer for television's Law & Order, in addition to other television and film projects) proved to be a fruitful combination, leading to the creation of a piece of concrete poetry that has the rhythm and cadence of a traditional blues song. Indeed, this resemblance led to Balcer recruiting Captain Luke Theyer and Big Ron Hunter, blues musicians from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to record a song using the words from the piece (8). Xu Bing's and Balcer's unusual interrogation of history and material culture led to the creation of these genre-bending works that profoundly reveal underlying truths about the history of tobacco production in the American South.
Above: Reel Book, 2000; modified in 2011, Continuous roll of cigarette paper, typed with text from With the Poets in Smokeland (1875–90), wooden crank mechanism, printers ink, 16 1/2 x 29 x 10 1/4″. Typing by Andrea Donnelly; crank mechanism fabricated by Brad Johnson, Harvey Craig, and Alan Dippy, courtesy of the Duke University Museum of Art; rubber stamp by Jill Zevenbergen.
Many of the small works included in Tobacco Project are made of tobacco and cigarette ephemera. They juxtapose found language with found objects to uncover hidden truths embedded both in tobacco products and the cultures that created them. An example of this is the work Redbook, which combines a metal box of Chinese Zhonghua cigarettes with text from the book Quotations by Chairman Mao (see detail, left, below) (9). Zhonghua is a Chinese luxury brand, traditionally favored by the ruling elite, and recently adopted as a status brand by the rising class of Chinese entrepreneurs. A Chinese Web site that sells Zhonghuas advertises the brand by stating: "This is the preferred cigarette for factory bosses all around the southern coast belt of China. Bosses lose face if they smoke anything else." (10) Carefully rubber stamped on the twelve cigarettes in the box is the following quote from Chairman Mao: "Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism." In this simple work, Xu Bing has managed to summarize the sweeping changes that have swept over China in the last several decades. To contemporary factory bosses, Chairman Mao represents the past, yet they can't escape class struggle as they participate in China's role in the exploding global economy.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts originated Xu Bing's Tobacco Project, after which it traveled to the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Interestingly, Connecticut shares with Virginia a history of tobacco production, with the Connecticut River valley being the only region in the United States that produces premium cigar wrapper tobacco. As a fifteen year old in 1944, Martin Luther King, Jr., made his first trip outside the then-segregated south to pick tobacco for a summer in Simsbury, Connecticut. King came north with fellow Morehouse College students to earn money to pay for school, living in a dormitory built at the edge of a tobacco field (12).
Special thanks go to John B. Ravenal, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the VMFA, who was responsible for the complex task of organizing the exhibition; Xu Bing's assistants in the United States, Jesse Robert Coffino and Yao Xin, for their help with installation at The Aldrich; Kelly Burrow, assistant registrar at the VMFA, and Mary Kenealy, The Aldrich's registrar, for their logistical support; and Michael Muelhaupt, a former student of Virginia Commonwealth University, for supervising the installation of 1st Class. Both the VMFA and The Aldrich are particularly grateful to Caroline Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer for their support of the exhibition. Special appreciation goes to The New York Botanical Garden for growing the living tobacco included in the exhibition at The Aldrich (in blossom, left) , and, for providing the artist with materials, to Marvin Coghill, and to Phil James of Mundet International.
Of course, Tobacco Project is ultimately the result of the dedication and insight of the artist. We are grateful to Xu Bing for an extraordinary experience that transcends both Chinese and American culture to become truly universal.
1. Duke University was founded by Washington Duke (1820–1905), a cotton farmer who turned to growing tobacco in 1859. His sons subsequently founded the American Tobacco Company, helping make North Carolina the heart of an international tobacco empire.
3. Quoted from Charles C. Mann's book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2011), p. 165.
4. The Cultural Revolution was an often violent socio-political movement that occurred between 1966 and 1976. Set into motion by Mao Tse-tung, its goal was to enforce socialism by purging both capitalist and traditional cultural elements from Chinese society.
5. Details of Xu Bing's life were gleaned from both conversations with the artist and John Ravenal's essay "Tobacco as a Universal Language," included in Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia 1999–2011, the book published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2011 in conjunction with the exhibition at the VMFA.
6. The Quingming Festival is an annual springtime celebration where people remember and honor their ancestors at gravesites. One component of the festival that deepens the possible meanings of Traveling Down the River is the burning of "spirit money" and paper replicas of material goods, such as cars, homes, and most recently, mobile phones. In traditional Chinese culture it is believed that people still need these things in the afterlife.
8. BackBone: lyrics by René Balcer; music by Captain Luke Theyer, Big Ron Hunter, and Michael Sackler-Berner; musicians: Captain Luke (vocals) and Big Ron (guitar).
9. Commonly known in the West as "The Little Red Book," Quotations from Chairman Mao is a book of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings of Mao Tse-tung, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party. It was published and distributed from 1964 through 1976.
10. TigerPipes.com, a company specializing in the sales of Chinese tobacco products.
11. Xu Bing, "Tobacco Projects 1, 2, 3," in Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999–2011, p. 67.
12. Steve Hartman, Martin Luther King Jr. Shaped by Connecticut Town, CBS Evening News, January 17, 2011.


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In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Orlando Del Valle who serves on the Board of Directors of The History Project. Del Valle's photos are part of a significant art exhibit "Pride: 40 Years of Protest & Celebration" that The History Project is presenting in collaboration with the Boston Center for Adult Education and runs through June 30th at the BCAE. The History Project was established in 1980 by a group of historians, activists and archivists. The organization is the only group focused exclusively on preserving the history of Boston's LGBT community and on making that history accessible to future generations. We talked to Orlando about the exhibit, The History Project and issues facing our LGBT community.
Drawn from The History Project's archive, "Pride: 40 Years of Protest & Celebration" traces the development of Pride in Boston from a sparsely attended protest against the War in Vietnam to a massive celebration that draws hundreds of thousands of participants in June. The pieces displayed in the exhibition showcase the immense cultural and political changes that have affected New England's LGBTQ communities over the decades. Along with Del Valle's photos are black and white portraits by photographer Joel Benjamin and artifacts including banners, buttons and t-shirts. The exhibit reflects the rich diversity of our LGBTQ community and the role of Pride in creating a safe space for self-expression. The exhibition is free and open to the public during the BCAE's normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 9:00P to 5:00P and on select weekends at 122 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
I sure don't know where the forty years have gone. My awesome partner and I have had the opportunity of sharing forty years together and have been through the thick and thin of it. Our journey to love and spirituality has unfolded in a way we never could have dreamed of. Perhaps the next forty years of Pride will be filled with more celebration, than protest. The pictures are absolutely stunning and paint history's tapestry with such clarity. Thank you for sharing.


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By Siliconera Staff March 25, 2011
Lucas and Anjali are the type of characters you would expect to see in a game Dungeon Siege III. Katarina is more like a medieval Lara Croft.
Armed with a rifle for long range attacks and two pistols to shoot enemies that get to close, Katarina isn't your typical mage. One of her spells summons a goblin mauling hound.
If you start the game with Lucas or Anjali you first meet Katarina early in the game as a non player character. She offers advice on how to find the other character after you regroup with Odo.
There's one more playable character for Square Enix to reveal and we shouldn't have to wait too long to hear about him since Dungeon Siege III comes out on May 31.


David Brown, Chairman, The Evangelism Commission, French National Council of Evangelicals, answers the question "What are some of the cultural obstacles to the Gospel in France?" related to his talk "Why Has the Evangelical Church in France Grown by 1,000%?" given at the 2017 European Leadership Forum.


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I had the pleasure of speaking with Rebecca Mandell, owner of Dog's Best Friend training. Rebecca is a wonderful and compassionate dog trainer and person. Her reputation proceeds her as she is known as one of the top dog trainers in the South Bay. She is compassionate about dogs and thinks of them as family members and approaches her training with that philosophy.
We discussed various topics and below is an overview of our discussion. I provided the questions and Rebecca answered them accordingly.
When should you start training a dog?
It is important to start training a dog when he or she is a puppy, or, in the case of a rescued or older dog, as soon as you bring him/her home. The world is new to them as is each and every experience. It's not only good for a puppy to learn about their new world, but for a dog parent to learn to understand and communicate with them.
During this time, dog owners have the chance to bond with their new puppy and set the path for his or her emotional well being. Each puppy comes to a family with different experiences so it is important for dog parents to pay attention to what each puppy's needs are and act accordingly.
Do you have a specific technique that you use for training?
Positive reinforcement is the only way to train a dog so he or she always has positive experiences. Dog parents want their dogs to feel safe in their home. Even if a dog makes a mistake, it is important not to punish them, but to see that you haven't taught them clearly , and need to better communicate what you're are asking of them. Punishment is never an option, and can lead to your dog being fearful of you and their world.
Instead, dog parents/trainers should reward their dogs for doing the right thing. It is imperative to look at why the dog is making a mistake. Is he or she scared, intimidated, confused, or simply hasn't been taught well enough? Once the cause is identified, then we can better understand how to approach and train that particular dog.
It is also important to understand that each dog is different and what works for one dog might not work for another. Dog parents really need to "listen" to what the dog is telling them by their dog's actions, and emotions, and approach the dog accordingly.
But let me be clear, no matter the issue or the dog, we ALWAYS use positive reinforcement.
A good dog trainer listens to the dog, has compassion, and is able to communicate well with all types of dogs, and dog parents. They have the dog's best interest in mind, not their own ego or goals.
Rebecca and I could have spoken for hours. She is really compassionate about her dogs and helping other dogs in an upbeat positive way. Take a look at her website and contact her for your dog's training needs. You and your dog will be much better off for it. Click here to learn more about Rebecca Mandell and Dog's Best Friend Training.


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Big questions shape MMWD board election in November – Marin Independent Journal
By Christopher R. Tatum on	 December 25, 2021 Board Director
It is raining and Marin reservoirs are near historically normal levels for the end of December.
This good fortune does not change the political reality as the renowned 2022 local elections take place in November, when three seats are up for grabs on the five-member board of directors of the Marin Municipal Waters District.
The MMWD has long been divided into five "divisions" commonly referred to as districts. Board Chair Cynthia Koehler's Division 4 covers the Southern Sea. Director Larry Bragman, former Mayor of Fairfax, represents Division 3 centered in the Ross Valley and stretching east to Larkspur. Director Jack Gibson, a resident of Sleepy Hollow, has Division 1 located in the northern parts of San Rafael.
MMWD, one of California's premier public water agencies, provides drinking, irrigation, commercial, and fire water to consumers in southern and central Marin. Novato and much of West Marin rely on the independent North Marin Water District, which has avoided many of the issues MMWD consumers face today.
The three water directors running for re-election are veterans. None of them can claim that the status quo was someone else's. By the end of his current fourth term, Koehler will have served on the board for 16 years, Bragman for eight years, and Gibson has an incredible seven four-year terms for a total of 28 years.
They are not volunteers. Including meeting fees, as well as generous medical and dental benefits in fiscal year 2020-2021, Gibson earned $ 38,511, Bragman $ 34,983, and Koehler $ 32,743.
The Marin, North Bay, California, and much of the American West are inherently dry areas. Water scarcity will only worsen as the impacts of climate change deepen.
The problem that voters face is the lack of sufficient water during dry years. MMWD imports 25% of its water from Sonoma, but the remaining 75% depends on a sufficient amount of rain streaming down from the hills into reservoirs on Mount Tamalpais and West Marin.
The debate will focus on the failure of the MMWD to develop additional water sources. It was not due to a lack of forethought or incompetence; it's intentional. The licensees argue that Marin should depend on locally produced water. If this is insufficient to meet demand, then the environmentally correct answer is to reduce water consumption.
This 'less is more' ideology was well articulated by Bragman when he first ran for the board in 2014. He wrote, "The district is also pursuing a $ 45 million pipeline. across the Richmond Bridge. It is an invitation to dependence on water and over-development. Shouldn't we instead be working to live within our means and invest locally in conservation, efficiency and innovation? "
The counter-argument is that while preservation is a valid tool, you can just extract as much blood – or water – from the figurative turnip.
The election will determine whether a majority of MMWD ratepayers believe the district has a duty to pursue an "all of the above" strategy to locate water supplies to meet the needs and expectations of Marin residents.
In a nutshell, should the Marinites live with the county's natural supply or rather increase the height of the dams, increase storage capacity, continue desalination, and restore the transbay pipeline to import newly available water from the high? Sacramento Valley?
The $ 45 million Bragman pipeline is back before the Water Board for a final decision in early January. The eight-mile Richmond-San Rafael Bridge pipe is now predicted to cost $ 90 million, double the 2014 estimate. That's the price of the delay.
Credible groups recruit viable, qualified and well-funded candidates to oppose the list of outgoing candidates. Expect candidate announcements in the first quarter of 2022. Likewise, Koehler, Gibson and Bragman will have support from the influential environmental community.
Ultimately, the question at the polls is whether voters are tired of the conservation-only approach and are looking for new leadership to prepare for a drier future.
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GREENWICH, Conn. – August 3, 2016 – XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2016. Total gross revenue increased 202.9% year-over-year to $3.7 billion. Net income attributable to common shareholders was $42.6 million for the quarter, or earnings of $0.35 per diluted share, compared with a net loss attributable to common shareholders of $75.1 million, or a loss of $0.89 per diluted share, for the same period in 2015.


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Whenever the life and times of the people of Bogoro comes up for historical review, there is every indication that Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro will stand out.
The latest such indication comes from the people themselves as they rose in unison to honour their illustrious son with a significant traditional title, Jenndem Za'ar, that translates to Pillar of the Sayawa (Za'ar) people OF Bauchi State.
Apart from the self-explanatory meaning of the title, the emergence of a thoroughbred academician and professor, typically relishing blissful scholarly isolation from the mundane world in lofty towers of ivory, as the hero of the multitude of common folk way down below in his hometown, is a welcome departure from the norm.
The humble but high-achieving professor has thus demonstrated a remarkable ability to make a mark in the competitive circle of cogitative captains of academia while entrenching his feet firmly on the no less contentious ground of grassroots greatness! It's not a case of self-glorification that has overtaken many academicians' and public officers' endeavours such that acquisition of titles, both academic and traditional, has become a rat-race. Professor Bogoro is no ordinary academician.
He has attained international stature by dint of studious quest for excellence in his field of interest. From a Bachelor Degree in Agriculture in 1981 to a Master Degree in Animal Science from ABU, Zaria in 1988, he earned a Ph.D in Animal Science in 1997, with research and bench-work shared between ATBU, The Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland and The Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK. He was elevated to the rank of Professor of Animal Science (specializing in Biochemistry and Ruminant Nutrition) in 2003.
Notwithstanding these impressive academic accomplishments, Professor Suleman Bogoro's enviable international professional acclaim took root and blossomed in his exceptional exertions in impactful research work devoted to adding value and overcoming development challenges in various fields.
This is best captured in his deserving inclusion among accomplished members of the Council for UNIBADAN's pioneer National Think Tank for Translating Research to Innovations, Strategies and Evidence for Policies in Nigeria, comprising leading academics and national professional officers in technical, business and administrative sectors selected from universities, research institutions, national agencies and the media. Professor Bogoro is an outstanding researcher who has produced several publications in local and international, earning him recognition and consultancy on and management of international, national and regional projects supported by the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, DFID among several other world class agencies. Prof. Bogoro has taught, supervised and mentored several postgraduate students at M.Sc. and PhD levels and 14 of them are now Professors.
This distinctive track record powered Professor Bogoro's epoch-making appointment as Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFUND) where he again set a marvelous precedence as a principled administrator whose sterling legacy alone fought uncompromisingly against entrenched excesses during his first tenure from April 2014 to February 2016 when the system couldn't cope with his scrupulous stance. He got a rare, if not unmatched, vindication three years later by a news-breaking re-appointment in January 2019 that was greeted with tumultuous applause in a hero's welcome spontaneously staged by TETFUND staff!
It was an overwhelming event that not even the stoic Professor could withstand, as he addressed excited staff saying: "I struggled with tears on Monday when I resumed and I am so proud of you all and may God bless you. I will never forget your style of welcoming me because it has vindicated me. I give God the glory for my unprecedented re-instatement in a way that never happened before. I do not know how to thank the president for giving me a medal that no Nigerian has attained before and I pledge to do everything to manage the Fund's affairs very well. Other organizations will learn how to run and manage human beings with respect."
Then he reverted to his unfinished mission of making TETFUND a dynamic facilitator of the imperative for translating research to innovations, strategies and evidence for policy and national development which he activated by the establishment of a pioneer Department of Research and Development (R and D). Since then it has been giant strides in giving research priority hinged on Professor Bogoro's frank observation that "the reason why research has not taken its rightful place and is not contributing to the economy is because there is inadequate commitment of funds. That is why at TETFUND, we decided that one of the main recommendations is the emergence of a National Research and Development Foundation for Nigeria."
TETFUND has been steadily increasing its funding volume for research from N3b to N7.5b and hopefully, to N8.5b, which is the largest research grant in Nigeria.
Bogoro observed that most of the challenges confronting the nation today were due to the inability to inject science and technology for value addition, and remarked that Nigerian tertiary institutions only conduct research for awarding degrees, adding "if outcome of those researches are not problem-solving, we have failed our generation." Qualified institutions would draw a maximum of N50 million grant from the N7.5 billion National Research Fund (NRF) while it plans to fund establishment of more molecular laboratories and research on gene sequencing and phytogenic medicine in addition to vaccine research and production.
The Professor's exemplary attachment to his roots has also been evident all his life as he deployed his personal qualities of humility and broadminded embrace of people from all walks of life to earn respect, recognition and admiration in Bogoro. As far back as 2016 when he was bereaved with the demise of his younger brother, Engineer Yusuf Bogoro, the people of Bogoro, irrespective of age, tribe or faith, demonstrated uncommon solidarity and rapport with the Professor whom they regard as a son, a father and a worthy ambassador.
The solemn funeral witnessed a memorable convergence of Muslims, Christians and diverse ethnic groups genuinely empathizing with the illustrious family of Baba Elisha Bogoro and Mama Salamatu at a time Professor Bogoro was no longer Executive Secretary of TETFUND. He used the occasion to urge religious and community leaders in the country to continue to foster unity, peace and mutual co-existence among the compatriots through preaching and enlightenment.
Earlier this year, the Sayawa Muslim Community in Bauchi State hailed Professor Suleiman Bogoro for donating foodstuffs to them for the Ramadan fast.
Leader of the Sayawa Muslims under the aegis of 'Zaar Muslims Community', Danjuma Sheikh Bala Bar noted that Bogoro has been making such donations to the community in Bogoro local government yearly, adding that the gesture has brought succor to the less privileged people. "We are very proud of the TETFund Executive Secretary, for not only making the state proud through his significant projects but for his unbiased relationship with Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic and religious inclinations. We urge other politicians and public officers to emulate him", he said.
This narrative provides a factual panoramic testimony to Professor Suleiman Elisha Bogoro's unique attainment of outstanding international academic, professional and administrative stature combined with sustenance of down-to-earth humane respect, recognition and admiration among his people.
The people of Sayawa (Za'ar) have remarkably reciprocated with the traditional equivalent of professorship by conferring him with Jenndem Za'ar, Pillar of the People. Together they give modern meaning and relevance to their ancient motto of Sohrgha Nanbong Yi Tuhd Lihbah? (Can a stick of broom sweep a place?) in the symbolic unity of the diverse people of Bogoro and its bright prospects for peace, progress and prosperity, a welcome gesture in these troubling times.
ELEMDI AKOWE wrote from Ilorin
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If I Loved You sheet music for piano
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If I Loved You, (beginner)
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