On the cusp of his debut solo exhibition at Janet Kurnatowksi Gallery in Brooklyn, DeShawn Dumas discusses his love of unconventional materials, romanticism versus political conviction, and the importance of personal symbolism in painting.
DeShawn Dumas, The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (As They are Buried Beneath It), 2013, pages from the Book of Genesis and Revelation, vinyl, tar, flour, tulle and aluminum over canvas, 87 x 87 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery.
This past Sunday I met DeShawn Dumas, an artist who lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The dreary day had no impact on his upbeat manner as we walked toward his studio on Flushing Avenue. After he stopped me from entering oncoming traffic, he walked on the more dangerous side of the sidewalk [directly next to the street], because "that's how my mother raised me," he said with a smile. Arriving in one piece, I sat down in a chair upholstered with hot pink chiffon facing two of his newest paintings.
Dumas's diamond-shaped abstract works present the viewer with lofty concepts rooted firmly in both historical materialism and art historical interests. The initial surface of his paintings is composed of translucent scrims of chiffon, fiberglass window screens, geometric pieces of steel, and brightly colored layers of vinyl. These banal and industrial materials are suspended above a canvas support. It is on this foundational (canvas) substratum that Dumas engages in a ritualistic application of socio-historical substances: flour, coffee grinds, sugar, and pages from the King James Bible. Formally speaking, Dumas's paintings or self-described "vehicles" emphasize the flatness of the picture plane, while still asserting the sculptural concreteness of these visual objects. In a way Dumas's vehicles reference polygon modalities of Constructivist painting and the architectonic qualities of Minimalism. However, due to the use of translucent material, seemingly flat areas of color eventually permit the viewer's gaze to pass into the depths of these wall works.
DeShawn Dumas, Abstracting The Masses #1, 2008, coffee grinds, plaster, tar, dry pigment on board, 24 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery.
The final break with his traditional art education arose around the onset of the Israeli/Lebanon war in 2006. "I was following the underground media that was covering it, but that was it, nowhere else was there even talk of it. I thought—if human life can be destroyed, and be destroyed in a way that's unnoticed, why would I put so much time and be so careful making a painting? So I started burning my paintings and making these charred landscapes." This shift toward non-traditional art materials and politically motivated abstraction kept growing. Luckily for him, from 2008 to 2010 Marco the super of his Washington Heights apartment building allowed him to use the basement as a studio. For two years he didn't touch a brush or use paint. Instead, "I would just use fire and my hands." After entering Pratt's MFA program in 2010 his work rapidly shifted from semester to semester. In the fall semester of 2011 his artistic experimentation went full circle as he returned to painting modular monochromes with isolated passages of burnt landscape-like material. Although Dumas had gradually become comfortable with allowing his personal concerns and frames of reference to enter the work in oblique ways, he says, "I still had not liberated myself from a prescribed or tasteful use of color and the tradition of art history." He recalls the time when he avoided the bright, saturated colors found in his current paintings, opting instead for a more meditative palette. Even though he speaks fondly of the calming and alchemic process of making monochrome oil paintings, he wasn't sure what he was offering the viewer, and how honest he was being about his own aesthetic and psychic sensibilities.
DeShawn Dumas, No End in Blue, 2010, oil, tar, pages from the Bible on canvas, 48 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery.
A turning point for the artist came when he started veiling silk over burnt canvases. Dumas's use of the veil strains the eye and forces it to slow down as it searches to see what's underneath the surface. This gives his static objects a sense of duration through time. For example in The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (as they are buried beneath it) (2013), obfuscated Bible passages seem to emerge from a gaseous atmosphere. The pages are not randomly selected. Raised Pentecostal, Dumas was enthralled by the dramatic intonation of his Uncle's sermons, which often revolved around God's convent with man and potential damnation or salvation. "As a child I was obsessed with the end-time or eschatological prophecies and perplexed when I attempted to imagine the finality of infinity and the contradictions of God's vengeance and God's unconditional love." Turning the square canvas into a diamond imparts a sense of rotation that is grounded in this early preoccupation with infinity. The diamond becomes Dumas's "graphic symbol for the universe and the ceaseless flux of existence." Dumas also says, "I want my vehicles to have an ontology of their own, a type of binary presence that conveys contradictions simultaneously: dread, attraction, mystery and clarity. Or what the German theologian Rudolph Otto calls a numinous consciousness." Dumas's process and output oscillates between the abstract and the profane. His philosophical thoughts don't interrupt his experience of reality, and his paintings reflect a balance between these dualities.
Your work has come along way…. the maturity the religeous concepts are amazing. Your use of bright colors are inspiring. How u use everyday household stables and turn them into a work of art is amazing. Your vision and insight will be copied and studied for yrs to come!!!!!


VLUX with sites in Landen and Engis produces lighting equipment. The company is mainly known for its weather-resistant linear lighting fittings for industrial applications. VLUX applies various technologies including injection moulding, extrusion, thermoforming and pressure forming to manufacture its products. VLUX also provides assembly and electrical systems, thus selling end products ready to be used.
The outdoor lighting range is very extensive. Recently, a new asset was added: the ELX, a new type of IP65 fitting (dust and spray proof). This concerns a watertight linear LED device. This new lighting device was developed in consultation with the Sirris Production Development Hub. The two companies organised various brainstorming sessions together and cooperated to determine the required specifications. Technological advice was also provided to allow VLUX to find solutions on its own.
The outside of the device is fully made of plastic. The body is produced by means of extrusion and the end caps through injection moulding. Next, the end caps are glued on to the extrusion profile.
The new ELX outdoor lighting fitting was officially presented at the 2018 Light + Building trade fair.


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Q: In Alaska and Paper Towns you use a lot of nicknames. What's the reasoning behind that?
It's a way of writing about the relationship between the identities we're given (our names) and the ones we choose or adopt as we come of age (nicknames). Most of the nicknames in my books are nicknames that are given to, and accepted by, a character in his or her adolescence. Taking a nickname is a way of establishing identity and claiming some sovereignty over one's self. So Miles will not only be Miles, the person named by his parents. He will also be Pudge, the person named by his peers.
The relationship between these identities—and the shifting between them—is really interesting to me, because it's a way of thinking about how in adolescence you go back and forth between identifying as part of your biological family and identifying as part of the social network you're building separate from that family.
Q: Why did you make the Colonel and Pudge bad at ironing? It's like the simplest household task a person could hope to accomplish.
Because it's like the simplest household task a person could hope to accomplish.
I wanted that moment to show them as kids, albeit very different ones: Pudge doesn't know how to use an iron because someone has always done his ironing for him, and the Colonel doesn't know how to use an iron because he's never worn anything that needed to be ironed.
But neither of them knows the first thing about how to be an adult in the world.
Q: Why do none of your characters have pets?
Q: Why is it called "Looking for Alaska"? Is it because Pudge, the Colonel, and Takumi are looking for her in the metaphorical sense?
It is my experience that you don't stop looking for your lost friends simply because they are dead. In some ways, you search even harder for every scrap of information you can find that will help you to understand the people they were and also help you to understand what led to their deaths.
But as Pudge and the Colonel find out, while the search can be informative, it can also be destructive. The core question—why did this person I love die—cannot be answered by reading their diaries or retracing their journeys.
It is a question that must be asked of the universe. And this is why philosophy and the study of religious traditions and history etc. is not some abstract boring intellectual enterprise: It is the very stuff that makes it possible to go on and live an engaged, attentive, productive life even though the world contains so much suffering and injustice.
Q: Why did you have Alaska choose the name "Alaska" for herself?
I liked the name Alaska because it's grand and mysterious and far away, part of our country but a mythologized part, in much the same way that Alaska herself is (disastrously) mythologized by her classmates.
I also liked it because of what it actually means. It is often translated "that which the sea breaks against," and I think that is Alaska's experience of herself: She feels that the sea is breaking against her, again and again, with all the incumbent turmoil, excitement, and pain.


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Lewis Hamilton is on top of the F1 world yet again.
Hamilton claims fifth F1 world title
29th Oct 2018 7:10 AM
LEWIS Hamilton became only the third Formula One driver in history to capture a fifth world title on Sunday as Max Verstappen won the Mexican Grand Prix.
The 33-year-old Briton drew level with Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio with only seven-time champion Michael Schumacher ahead of them in the record books.
He was adding the 2018 crown to his championship wins in 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
Going into the race, the Mercedes driver only needed to finish and ensure Sebastian Vettel did not win, to secure the title.
He had been wary of a repeat of last year's collision with the Ferrari driver.
"Well, you saw what happened last year with the red car behind," he said, responding to a question about his thinking for the start.
"So, I don't know -- it really depends how we get away, but third place is a nice place to start because you get a good tow from the guys ahead.
"So, naturally, I'm going to be fighting to at least try and gain a position, but, of course, I'm aware of the Bulls ahead."
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In a bowl, combine warm water, yeast, and sugar. Stir to combine. In the food processor, combine flour and salt and pulse. Add the yeast mixture, cold water, and oil. Pulse until a ball is formed: this will happen quickly, be careful not to overwork the dough. Scrape dough out onto a lightly floured counter and knead for several minutes until dough is smooth. Allow dough to rest for 2 to 3 minutes. Place dough in oiled bowl and allow to rise at room temperature for about 1 hour.
Punch dough down, divide into 2 to 4 balls, let rise another 30 minutes.
Heat up pizza stone in a 500 degree F oven. Form a 10- to 14-inch pizza crust and place on a piece of parchment paper sprinkled with yellow cornmeal. Place topping on the crust and place the pizza, with the parchment paper in the oven on the pizza stone or on hot inverted cookie sheet (not aluminum). Bake until golden, about 10 minutes.
In a small heavy skillet cook the sausage over moderate heat, stirring, until it is cooked through, transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl, and discard all but 1 tablespoon of the fat remaining in the skillet. In the fat cook the garlic, oregano, basil, and salt and pepper, to taste over moderately low heat, stirring, until the onion is soft and transfer the onion mixture to the bowl.
Top uncooked pizza dough rounds with sausage mixture, tomatoes, artichoke hearts, mozzarella, Parmesan, and salt and pepper, to taste and bake the pizzas on the bottom rack of a preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the crusts are golden brown.
Trim any tough stems from arugula and thinly slice the cheese.
Top pizza dough with pizza sauce, spreading with back of a spoon to within 1/2-inch of edge.
Arrange mozzarella slices evenly over sauce.
Bake the pizza for 6 to 7 minutes, or until dough is crisp and browned, and transfer with a metal spatula to a cutting board.
Scatter arugula over pizza and arrange prosciutto slices on top.
In a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, cook onions in oil, stirring frequently, until deep golden, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vinegar, radicchio, and salt and pepper, to taste.
Top uncooked pizza dough with onion mixture, goat cheese and thyme, leaving a 3/4-inch border.
Roll out pizza. Pipe ricotta around the edge of the round and fold the edges over. Or, cut mozzarella into logs and place on the edges of the round and fold over the edges. Top with desired toppings and bake as above.
Roll out dough balls to about 9-inch rounds. Place fillings over half of each round. Fold plain dough half over filling, forming half circles. Pinch edges together to seal. Transfer to baking sheet. Cut 3 slits in top to let steam escape. Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes .
Char bell pepper over gas flame or in broiler until blackened on all sides. Enclose in paper bag and let stand 10 minutes. Peel, seed, and slice pepper. Alternatively, use jarred roasted pepper.
In heavy large skillet over medium-high heat, heat olive oil. Add red onions; saute until brown, about 25 minutes. Set aside. In heavy medium skillet over medium heat, saute sausage until cooked through, breaking into 1/2-inch pieces with spoon, about 15 minutes. Set aside. Mix both cheeses and oregano in bowl, season with salt and pepper to taste.
If making 4 calzones, spread 1/3 cup cheese mixture on half of each round of uncooked calzone dough, leaving 3/4-inch border. Cover cheese on each with 1/4 of onions, 1/3 cup cheese mixture, 1/4 of sausage, 1/3 cup cheese mixture, then 1/4 of bell peppers. Fold plain dough halves over filling, forming half circles. Pinch edges of dough firmly together to seal.
Mix spinach, onions, ricotta, Gorgonzola, and Fontina in medium bowl to blend. Season with salt and pepper.
Oil a cookie sheet. Roll out dough and place in cookie sheet. Make indentations with your fingertips. Top with desired flavorings and toppings. Let rise in warm place about 1 hour and then bake until golden.
Combine garlic and oil in a very small metal bowl and set on a baking sheet. Bake in lower third of oven for 1 hour. Cool on a rack 30 minutes. Pour oil through a small sieve into another bowl and discard garlic. Roll out the focaccia, drizzle with some garlic oil and sprinkle with rosemary, coarse salt, and pepper, and bake until golden brown.
For thyme focaccia, knead thyme into dough after 1st rest.
For Parmesan focaccia, sprinkle dough with Parmesan before baking.
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Client Testimonials: "Paige Martin is the Best Houston Realtor"
Paige Martin is ranked as one of the top Realtors in Houston. She has been featured on TV and in dozens of publications, including: Fox News in the Morning, Houston Business Journal, the Houston Chronicle, Downtown, Houston Magazine, and Texas Monthly Magazine.
…in addition to over 198 additional awards since 2003.
Paige also serves a variety of non-profits, civic and community boards and has been recognized for fundraising by the Houston Police Foundation.
Below is a short YouTube video of some of Paige's former clients talking about their experiences working with her.
Paige was named the #1 Ranked Individual Agent in the Keller Williams Memorial Office for 2012, 2011 and 2010. She has been a consistent top producing agent, with an ongoing seven-year roll for receiving awards due to her production levels.
She was recently named as a 2013 Five Star Real Estate Agent – a level of excellence achieved by less than 7 percent of the real estate agents in Houston. Other awards include Houston Realtor of Excellence Award, Houston Realtor Par Excellence Award, Top Google Houston Real Estate Award, and Talk of the Town Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction.
"I am highly recommending Paige as a real estate agent and would definitely use her again in my future real estate needs. Paige is very knowledgeable about the real estate market in Houston. She is a great listener and understand fully my housing needs. Given this, she was able to recommend high quality properties in great locations that satisfy my needs. She is very responsive and flexible in working around my schedule in order to make the search very effective and efficient.
"We first met Paige in summer of 2005. We were first time homebuyers and relatively new to Houston. My husband and I were impressed with Paige from our first conversation. She was exactly the type of realtor we were looking for: smart, straightforward, and "up-to-date" on what's going on in the Houston real estate market. We would have never been able to get through the process with such ease if we did not have Paige as our realtor. She was very patient when educating us and she pointed out things (good and bad) about each property we would have never thought of (or thought of when we had already moved into the house).
She carefully listened for what was important to us and kept us focused on what we desired as a "must have" in our future home. As a result, she found us our perfect first home. Paige was always prepared for our meetings, was always on time, and was always very pleasant to do business with.
We keep in touch and reach out with questions to Paige even today (we have since relocated to another city). We value her opinion and we gain valuable perspective (whether it concerns general real estate trends or sell vs. rent decisions) during our short conversations. We have yet to find a realtor in our new city that would come close to the level of service Paige provides.
"Paige is a highly effective real estate agent who focused my search down to the home I purchased within three appointments. She listened to what I wanted, worked within my budget and ultimately found me a great house in an area I absolutely love and never would have considered without her expertise.
"I first met Paige in late 2008, when she was highly recommended to me by a co-worker. Paige ended up helping my wife and I not only find our first home, but also negotiate a great deal on the house. Paige was extremely informative and patient in walking us through the home-buying process, and we couldn't be happier with her services.
"I cannot write enough GREAT comments about Paige. I honestly believe she is THE BEST Real Estate Agent in the Houston metropolitan area.
My wife and I first met Paige Martin in the summer of 2005. We had been interviewing realtors at various showings but had not found anyone with the "IT" factor we desired. One Sunday, we randomly walked into a town-home near downtown Houston where she was hosting an open house. It did not take long for us to see the talent of this individual. After speaking with her for 30 minutes we knew this realtor was the real-deal!!! We did not buy that home, but we knew we wanted to do business with her. She has energy, drive, focus, and personality. She is punctual, and a hard negotiator. Her professionalism is second to none, and she has been a valuable business contact ever since!
In the fall of 2005 we closed a deal on a lovely condo near the popular Washington Avenue area, near the Historic Heights neighborhood. We could not have been happier then, nor now! We would never have been able to get through process without a realtor like Paige Martin. We were first-time homebuyers, and she handled our business with the care as though we were family, and the courage of a prizefighter. She was an educator and a leader for us in this new world of real estate. She made us feel confident about our purchase, and made sure we weeded out properties that were not to our standard of selection. She will listen to what you want and keep you aware of what you need, and she will find you the perfect home.
Paige is so good at what she does, that the only tough decision you have to make when it is said and done is to choose your favorite! She helped in so many ways that to say more would make this endorsement seem insincere.
I have recommended her services to all my friends, neighbors, and business contacts in and around Houston who are looking to buy or sell, and I will continue to do so.
I am confident in saying that she will do the same for all who use her service. She comes prepared with numbers, statistics, and valuable insight of the real-estate world given any type of circumstance in the volatile market of today. I would not do business with anyone else.
Sadly, we had to move to another city, and we have yet to find any realtor as talented as Paige.
Even today, we call and email Paige with questions and she has always makes time to help. She is never short of professionalism, nor courtesy.
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She guides clients through all aspects of learning about Houston, relocating to Houston, buying a home, buying a highrise or condo, tips for selling your home and ensuring that your transaction goes as seamlessly as possible.


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This Artist Creates Jaw-Dropping Masterpieces Using Both Hands — At The Same Time!
In a world where only 1 percent of the population is ambidextrous, Colin Darke has discovered an incredibly cool niche as an artist.
Like his mother before him and his youngest son, Colin is able to do any task with either of his hands — with total ease! When it comes to creating art, his favorite way to do so is with both hands at the same time. As rare as this talent is, he didn't start appreciating his gift until a couple years ago.
Although he grew up with the goal of becoming a lawyer, Colin always made time for his creative passion. That is, he did until his workload from law school started to take over his life. In his first semester, he only managed to create four pieces of art, which was a dramatic decrease for him at the time.
"I create so much art and it's always such a meaningful part of my life that that kind of upset me," he said. "So then I just kind of told myself, 'You have to at least draw every day just so that you're honoring this desire to draw and create that you have.'"
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He told himself that he would start drawing every day — and actually followed through! Making time for his art was life-changing, and it led to all kinds of wonderful opportunities within the art world. But Colin's work really took off once he started posting videos of himself drawing in his truly one-of-a-kind way.
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His first push into social media was the Gary Vee Challenge, which encouraged people from all backgrounds to start posting content regularly through tons of tips and advice.
Not only did this give Colin the knowledge and the confidence to share more of his art online, but he also received "Best in Class" for the challenge.
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"I learned I was somewhat of an art snob initially which I didn't think I was," he said. "I didn't appreciate that I was censoring myself until I opened myself up more, and then I didn't appreciate that putting myself out there for others would be so rewarding."
He didn't realize how much his art could mean to total strangers, but once his videos went viral, he was flooded with comments from people around the world who felt moved by his work. He also discovered that his art was inspiring others to make time for their own creative pursuits!
Did you know you can draw with screwdrivers?
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Wanting to use his newfound following for good, he began sharing writing tips through his various social media platforms. On his website, where you can view and purchase his work along with art-related products, he has shifted his focus to growing his platform to raise money for local art programs, starting with the nonprofit Arts & Scraps in Detroit.
"Don't try to project this different person or this person how you think the world should view you," Colin said. "If you have fun doing something and you bring joy to others then you should lean in on that."
Don't forget to share this article with a friend to encourage them to chase their passions in life.
Meet Rose And Winston, 2 Sugar Gliders Who Will Soar Right Into Your Heart.
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People with Duchenne are at risk of developing rhabdomyolysis, which can be a life-threatening condition.
Rhabdomyolysis occurs when massive amounts of muscle fibers breakdown and release their myoglobin (a muscle protein) into the bloodstream. This release of myoglobin can cause serious complications such as kidney failure. If the kidneys fail, they can not get rid of harmful waste in the body such as potassium, which can lead to dangerous heart rhythms.
Rhabdomyolysis can happen with too much physical activity and dehydration or with exposure to certain types of inhaled anesthetics (i.e. during surgery or a medical procedure).
Why are people with Duchenne at risk?
In Duchenne, the fragile membrane around muscle fibers puts them at higher risk for breakdown. Children love to be active and sometimes they forget to drink enough water to help them to tolerate the activity. An increase in activity can lead to muscle breakdown and symptoms of rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis can also worsen with dehydration.
Certain types of anesthesias can be dangerous in Duchenne as they can increase the rate and amount of this muscle breakdown. People with Duchenne should never receive the inhaled anesthetic 'succinylcholine' (suxamethonium). This drug is sometimes used in emergencies to relieve breathing difficulties in anesthetized patients. However, when succinylcholine is given to patients with any kind of ongoing muscle atrophy, it can cause rhabdomyolysis. However, there have also been causes of rhabdomyolysis in Duchenne patients given other inhaled anesthetic gases even when succinylcholine was avoided. Therefore, we recommend that when possible, inhaled anesthetic gases should be avoided and IV anesthesia used instead. Learn more about surgery and anesthesia precautions in Duchenne.
What are the signs and symptoms of rehabdomyolysis?
If urine becomes dark, aggressive hydration with oral fluids should be started and your NMS called. Usually, with aggressive hydration, the urine will returns to it's normal color by the 3rd pee. If the urine does not return to it's normal color by the 3rd pee, and rhabdomyolysis is suspected, make your way to the emergency room. In the emergency room, rhabdomyolysis should be treated with IV fluids and kidney function (evaluated by drawing blood to check a "renal panel") should be checked. Rhabdomyolysis should be treated as a medical emergency. As with any emergency, be sure to bring your PPMD emergency card or download the PPMD mobile app to show to the emergency room staff. It is also important to call your NMS to ensure they are aware of the emergency and can work with the emergency room staff to develop a care plan.
If you or your child is found to have rhabdomyolysis, you may be admitted to the hospital to receive treatment. IV fluids help maintain urine production as well as prevent kidney failure. Clinicians will also monitor and manage any electrolyte abnormalities to help protect the heart and other organs. Rhabdomyolysis can be reversible with prompt treatment.


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Q: Should reprojecting on the same ellipsoid be the identity operation, regardless of CRS? I have images georeferenced to EPSG:32612 and coordinates in EPSG:4236. I see that both use the WGS84 ellipsoid. I want to convert the images to EPSG:4326 to mark positions in the images using lat/long, so I used gdalwarp to warp the image, like so:
gdalwarp -s_srs EPSG:32612 -t_srs EPSG:4326 infile.tif outfile.tif

I expected this to simply change the metadata in the TIFF because, so far as I understand, these two coordinate systems are only a translation and scale apart.
I then imported both infile.tif and outfile.tif into QGIS to double-check, and was surprised to see that the warp had actually changed the pixel values. Below you can see me swapping between the two images with a Google Satellite layer in the background.

So, is my understanding incorrect? Is a reprojection using the same ellipsoid not an identity operation on pixel values? If not, why not? If it is, why does QGIS give noticably different pixel values when rendering each image? Is gdalwarp simply not pixel-perfect? Or is QGIS doing a bad "nearest" reprojection for display?
Practically speaking, if it should be the identity, is there a way to modify just the meta-data for a tif image using GDAL, or rasterio? (I tried rasterio.warp.calculate_default_transform, but it requires RPCs and anyway ends up more than 10 metres incorrect)
Note: I know that I could translate the coordinates into EPSG:32612. But, this effect would still occur and I'm just trying to understand why the positions are slightly different.

A: Your basic error is that you think a rectangular UTM image would easily reproject to an identical WGS84 rectangle. But latitudes and longitudes are bended in any UTM projection, and vice versa a kilometer grid in a WGS84 projection.
Same goes for the extent of every single pixel.
So GDAL has to create a new rectangle that is slightly expanded to get all your pixels into. And it has to resample the content of the UTM file pixels to get values for the WGS grid.
If your source file has paletted colours, this goes totally berserk. You might get better values if you transform to a RGB image before reprojecting.
Regarding points, your understanding of identity is however correct.
For lines and polygons, you will see differences if you densify the geometry before or after the reprojection.
For illustration, I have created a 10m-grid in UTM12 (blue) over Salt Lake City, and put a WGS84 grid in red with the same cell size on top of it:

You see that they align only in the left bottom of the map. Each square should represent a pixel of a low-res satellite image.

A: The resampling is to maintain orthorectification between the two CRS.
If the images are not orthorectified, then measuring the image boundaries in different units doesn't affect the pixel information. However, reprojection typically implies using orthorectified images and going from an image orthorectified on EPSG:4326 to an image orthorectified on EPSG:32612 involves a resample operation.
Why?
EPSG:4326 is measured in degrees, but EPSG:32612 is measured in metres. EPSG:4326 are polar coordinates, but EPSG:32612 are cartesian coordinates. gdalwarp assumes that you have provided an orthorectified image. That is, each pixel represents some unit area. e.g. each pixel is 0.001 degrees across for EPSG:4326 vs each pixel is 1m across in EPSG:32612.
Imagine laying a uniform grid on the surface of the Earth for each of these CRS. Clearly these grids will never overlap perfectly, regardless of your pixel size (because of cartesian vs polar). For gdalwarp to produce an orthorectified image in the new CRS, it must resample the image on a new grid. It will choose the pixel size such that there is minimal difference and the resampled image looks most similar. But the area covered by each pixel has changed.

The ellipsoid only describes the surface that these projections are coming from. If the ellipsoid changed, that would be an extra reason to resample the image.

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Two fiercely strong women raised me. They might not look like you'd expect. My mom and grandma were both businesswomen until they each had one daughter. Mom owned her own art gallery, and Grandma served food and worked the cash register at her husband's company after World War II. They were recent college grads ready to take on the world!
Ever since my grandfathers used the G.I. Bill to go to college, higher education became an expectation in our family. My parents made sure I was enrolled in a top-notch, private elementary school, and my mom gave up her gallery to be home with me. We weren't religious; school was our church. Every family dinner conversation began with "what did you learn in school today?", and homework became a group activity, something that bonded the three of us.
In line with the college "track" I seemed to be on since age 5, I attended the best local all-girls institution for middle and high school, and between varsity and club sports and demanding AP classes, I was an extremely busy, competitive teenager.
When I got to college, I figured out that I could be more than an athlete; I was a singer, a feminist, a writer, a comedian, a museum curator. I was especially proud of my senior thesis, which was born from a conversation with my grandpa my junior year: "Did women qualify for G.I. Bill benefits?" He had no idea. In fact, no one had any idea (including most U.S. historians) – and yet 65,000 women used this incredible piece of legislation to further their educations and their lives.
Battling a narrative of women as homemakers in the 1950s, these female veterans, now in their 90s or older, demonstrated exceptional commitment not only to their education and career pursuits, but also to gender equality and women's empowerment. Moreover, many of them became teachers themselves, committed to giving back to their communities just as they had served their country during wartime.
I loved learning about the evolution of higher education at the same time that I was living it, and the project sparked this passion I have to tell the stories of people who have been forgotten. It also started to inform my day-to-day choices and how I began to see a career not as something I could compartmentalize from my personal life but necessarily ingrained in my human experience.
The women in my family understood these newfound values, perhaps because their work as primary caregivers was, by society's definition, more personal than professional. Sure, my mom, grandma, and many of the women featured in my thesis led fulfilling, privileged lives, but they also fought against the stigma that parenting and caring for a family wasn't hard work. It is hard work, and I am who I am today because they took their job so seriously.
Now it's just my grandma, my mom, and me. And even when we fight and want to throw things at each other, we remember what our girl tribe has given us: friendship, empathy, power, gratitude, persistence, and self-respect. I've seen what happens when women lift each other up – we all get a boost – and that's what I want for as many people in this world as possible.
One way I try to accomplish this mission is through supporting education, the driving force behind my own success. I work with organizations like KIPP Public Charter Schools, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Landed because they're in the business of creating opportunities and upholding those who uphold us. Like parents, educators and community-builders deserve respect and support, and the Landed team is developing innovative ways to make their dreams a reality.


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What can we expect from Serbia's new Dačić-led government?
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Serbia's new government is set to take office next Monday.
It will be led by Ivica Dačić, the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије / SPS), the nationalist, center-left party that finished a surprisingly strong third place in May's parliamentary elections.
The SPS is perhaps most notorious for being the party that Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević himself founded in the 1990s. But Dačić, who has been a fixture in Serbian politics since the post-Milošević era, and has previously served as interior minister, has worked to pull his party back into the Serbian mainstream and has vowed that his government will not mark a return to the 1990s.
His government comes after a Hamlet-esque back-and-forth in choosing a coalition partner. Dačić's ultimate choice was to form a rather unexpected coalition with the nationalist center-right Serbian Progressive Party (Српска напредна странка / SNS). In the May elections, the SNS emerged as a narrow winner — it won a plurality of seats in Serbia's parliament and its presidential candidate Tomislav Nikolić defeated incumbent Boris Tadić. Tadić had served as president since 2004 and leads the pro-western, center-left Democratic Party (Демократска странка / DS) that has essentially governed Serbia since the fall of Milošević. Continue reading What can we expect from Serbia's new Dačić-led government? →
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This research builds on work carried out in England looking at how faculty negotiate their personal and professional identities. It focuses on a sample of full-time faculty in a private secular university in Kenya. Weekly time logs with follow-up individual semi-structured interviews were used as a basis for an examination on how faculty spend their time and cope with the dilemmas they face. The research probes the motivations and priorities of faculty and draws tentative conclusions regarding their professional identities. The picture emerges of a rapidly increasing workforce, very positive about teaching, facing the challenges of intensification of labour, conflicting priorities, outside pressures and a sense of lack of control over their professional lives. In contrast to the UK findings, what was most striking was the lack of dilemmas and agonising between competing claims on time that characterised the work of the UK lecturers. The Kenyan faculty appeared to approach tasks in a pragmatic way, with priority often given to family matters and a tendency to let things happen. Notions of professionalism appeared to be less well developed and appeared to point to compliance and acceptable standards of behaviour.


2 individuals from Arizona named Jessika McNeill and Ryan Osmun got entraped in Quicksand. They went to Zion National Park in Utah during that time. Initially, Jessika landed in quicksand as she stumbled and then Ryan additionally got trapped while trying to rescue Jessika. This was actually extremely regrettable and appeared like a scary movie's scene. They never ever assumed that they would certainly deal with such a scenario. They didn't have cell function additionally as well as felt very powerless.
This occurrence taken place on Saturday when both Jessika as well as Ryan Osmun who is 34 years of ages were simply a couple of hours right into the trail route and instantly their journey deviated. It was Jessika McNeill who got entraped first. Ryan obtained hidden while trying to help her yet they were lucky enough to find out active. Osmun told the media that his whole leg was surrounded by the sand and it ended up being actually difficult to move and also find a way out. Mire is usually created when air or water obtains trapped in sand. It ends up being unpredictable when exposed to any kind of sort of tension or an unexpected shock. It is extremely difficult ahead out of it if our arm or leg obtains immersed. Alyssa Baltrus that is a representative there said that the climate played a crucial duty in this. Both Jessika and also Ryan were later on rescued with the aid of a rescue group.


As I'm sure several of you know, besides PHPDeveloper.org, I've also been running another news site, AjaxDeveloper.org. Unfortunately, I just didn't have time for both, and rather than allowing both news sites to suffer, I'm no longer going to post over on AjaxDeveloper.org.
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Discoveries - the award-winning newsletter of the AKC Canine Health Foundation, published quarterly.
Meet Jean Luc. He is our featured dog for the month of April in the 2018 Champions for Canine Health Calendar.
The AKC Canine Health Foundation (AKC CHF) and the V Foundation for Cancer Research announce a collaboration to fund cancer research for dogs that will also benefit people.
The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF), in partnership with Zoetis Inc., is pleased to announce the funding of two grants that will help accelerate novel, emerging technology in canine chronic kidney disease and heart disease.
Meet Brooklyn. He is our featured dog for the month of March in the 2018 Champions for Canine Health Calendar.
An update about ongoing clinical trials using stem cell transplantation therapy in dogs with Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
The progress toward identifying the genes that determine coat color and the connections between coat color and health of the dog.
Summary of presentation on cancer treatments made at the 2000 Dog Owners and Breeders Symposium at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
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UNSC to discuss Kashmir dispute today
Pakistan got major diplomatic breakthrough at international level against India as the UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold a session to discuss the occupied Kashmir dispute today, as China also backed Pakistan's request.
"The UNSC will discuss the Jammu and Kashmir situation behind closed doors most likely on August 16," UNSC President Joanna Wronecka told reporters on Wednesday.
This is a big success for Kashmir and Pakistan as the debate is happening after decades. Last time when Jammu and Kashmir found a reference in UNSC resolutions was in 1998 in resolution 1172 after Pakistan conducted nuclear tests. However, the mention under India Pakistan question is after decades.
Pakistan on Tuesday had called on the United Nations Security Council to convene an urgent meeting on India's decision to revoke autonomy for the disputed Muslim-majority state of Kashmir, a move it says could spark a new conflict between the two South Asian nuclear powers.
India's recent actions "pose a threat to international peace and security, wilfully undermine the internationally recognised disputed status of Jammu & Kashmir," and violate the human rights of the Kashmiri people, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi wrote in a letter Tuesday to the Security Council.
China supported Pakistan's request for the UNSC meeting to discuss the revocation of article-370 that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and asked for the body to meet behind closed doors on Thursday or Friday, diplomats said.
However, France responded to the request by proposing that the council discuss the issue in a less formal manner — known as "any other business" — next week, diplomats said. Reuters reported that it would be up to Poland, president of the council for August, to mediate an agreed time and format among the 15 members.
Meantime, a Russian representative at the council said his country will not object to the meeting. "Moscow doesn't object to holding such a meeting, but the matter should be discussed behind closed doors," said Russia's acting UN envoy, Dmitry Polyansky, while talking to reporters on Wednesday. He said the UNSC members need to coordinate their positions first, because the issue hasn't been on its agenda for quite a while.
Foreign Minister Qureshi on Thursday hailed Pakistan's 'landmark diplomatic achievement' of securing a discussion on Kashmir in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after four decades.
In an interview with Pakistan's state-owned broadcaster, the foreign minister said the UNSC had last discussed Kashmir in 1971, except for a cursory mention in 1998 following Pakistan's nuclear tests.
He said India opposed any discussion on the matter in the UNSC but its concerns had been dismissed.
"The world needs to realise that this issue is greater than a piece of land between two countries. This is an issue of humanity," he said.
"India has placed a complete clampdown on the movement of Kashmiris. There are reports of food and medicine shortages but no international observers or media organisations are being allowed to visit IOK."
FM Qureshi said New Delhi was bent on carrying out a genocide of Muslims to achieve its aim of changing the demographic composition of Kashmir.
The foreign minister said he had discussed India's brutal actions in IOK with his counterpart from Poland, which holds the UNSC presidency at present.
Special assistant to Prime Minister on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan has termed convening of UNSC session after five decades a diplomatic victory of Pakistan. Russia has also supported Pakistan demand.
She said in a tweet "World is taking notice of unilateral and illegal step taken by Modi. UNSC meeting is a severe blow to India claim. Pakistan will plead the case of oppressed Kashmiris on every forum.
India revoked the special status of IOK on August 5. Several Kashmiri leaders and former chief ministers were also placed under house arrests before the very move.
Political leaders and experts have warned of a severe backlash against the Indian move, with local resentment amplified after authorities imposed severe movement restrictions in the Kashmir Valley and severed all public telecommunications links, including mobile phones and internet.
Pakistan retaliated by suspending bilateral trade and all public transport links with India, as well as expelling New Delhi's ambassador to Islamabad.
Prime Minister Imran Khan travelled to the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Muzaffarabad, on August 14, marking his first visit to the region since becoming the premier.
In an Independence Day speech, PM Imran warned the army was fully prepared and revealed India was planning to attack AJK to divert the global attention from the IOK which remains in lockdown since New Delhi scrapped Article 370 of its constitution.


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HomeBoxing ProfilesThe Connection: Stephen Edwards and Julian Williams Share a Unique Bond
The Connection: Stephen Edwards and Julian Williams Share a Unique Bond
December 4, 2019 Joseph Santoliquito Boxing Profiles
Image Credit: Stephanie Trapp/TGB Promotions
The impromptu sit-downs weren't meant to be hands-on tutorials. They just turned out that way. Stephen "Breadman" Edwards was raised on the "Four Kings": Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, and Marvelous Marvin Hagler in the 1980s.
He would sit on the edge of the family sofa in the living room alongside his maternal grandfather, Stanley Edwards Sr., a Korean War veteran and boxing fanatic who witnessed, live, Sugar Ray Robinson take apart Kid Gavilan at Philadelphia's old Municipal Stadium on a hot July night in 1949.
Edwards and his grandfather watched their version of the classics: Leonard‒Hagler, Leonard‒Duran, Hearns‒Duran, Hagler‒Hearns, and with each fight came more wisdom and insight. It came with, "Look at the way Leonard uses positioning, and how Duran and Hagler wedge their way in to attack, and how Hearns can transform from a puncher to a boxer."
The words stuck in Edwards's head.
It's why Stephen Edwards is like a forty-three-year-old with the wisdom of an old man. He's an anachronism, someone you easily see on black-and-white film leaning over next to Jack Blackburn working Joe Louis's corner.
Edwards carries the old soul of a generation of fight fans, and the spirit of a man who taught the importance of discipline, which Edwards now gives one of boxing's best, and most underrated fighters, super-welterweight world champion Julian "J-Rock" Williams.
Boxing was always in Edwards's blood.
A 1994 graduate of George Washington High School, Edwards was a basketball player and had until a knee injury his senior year derailed his aspirations in that sport. But that setback led him to his true love—boxing.
Edwards bounced around a little. He briefly went to Temple University, though he began working out in a local boxing gym to stay in shape—and more importantly, because he liked it. He dabbled in the sport and sparred Philly contenders Yusaf Mack and Robert "Bam Bam" Hines, but he never thought about taking his boxing love to another level.
He made his living working for the TSA, working in health care, owning some real estate, and for a time, driving a bus. But everything changed one cold night on December 8, 2007. Edwards was hosting a fight party for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.‒Ricky Hatton pay-per-view. He had about twenty people crammed into his home, including a young, skinny amateur named Julian Williams.
Edwards and Julian talked and gradually formed a bond. Edwards liked the way Williams carried himself, and Williams liked Edwards's old-school ideas about boxing and training.
"We just became cool, I would go see him fight in Golden Gloves, and started talking and exchanging thoughts," Edwards said. "When we first met, I had no idea who he was. We just became cool. I remember him telling me how he was thinking about turning pro, because he wasn't going to wait around for the 2012 Olympics.
"When I first met Julian, I thought he was a little too headstrong but, to be as good as he is, and to be a world champion, you have to be headstrong. Julian was a good kid, and he's turned into a good man.
"But when I first met him, I thought he was doing and relying too much on natural ability. His diet wasn't good, and he wasn't conditioning the way I thought he should. I let him know, and he listened."
Today, in boxing circles, you can't really mention one without the other. "J-Rock" is more recognizable to fight fans, but, to those in the know, the two are synonymous with one another.
They even sound alike.
"Yeah, that's been said sometimes," said Williams, whose one fight in 2019 was a classic when he beat Jarrett Hurd in May at EagleBank Arena, in Fairfax, Virginia, Hurd's backyard. "I trusted Steve because he was very eager to learn, and he put forth the most effort in helping me improve, how to eat right, train right, and instill certain things in me.
"I wouldn't be where I am without Steve, and he's been the other half of this success. We work so hard together, and Steve and [co-trainer] Aasim Beyah, they know how hard I've worked. We're a team. Steve is extremely optimistic, and that's one of his strengths. That's rubbed off on me because, through the year, I've started to think that way.
"You can say he's like a Papa hawk, protecting me. Steve is my guy, and he'll go to the furthest extent. I keep my focus on boxing. Steve believed in me after the [Jermall] Charlo fight, because no one thought I could beat Hurd. I mean, no one!"
Williams has developed coping skills through time, and what kept their faith in each other was a pact that they would never point fingers at each other. What they did was step back from the Charlo loss, regroup, and figure out what to do differently.
"I had family—I mean family—that didn't think we could beat Hurd," Edwards said. "We shut everybody up. Julian fought the fight no one thought Julian could fight. We caught a train down there. We didn't get a press conference after the fight.
"We had to catch a Lyft after that fight. That was our choice. We wanted to do that. No limos or special car service for us. We wanted to keep it old school and humble. It was just us, and we wanted to keep it just us. That's me, Aasim, Mike Rodriguez, our cutman, and Julian. Our small team is the only ones who thought we would win."
Afterward, Edwards had some private time to reflect. He got back to the hotel and didn't go to sleep, just like he did when Williams lost to Charlo. This time, his grogginess wore a smiley face, and somewhere, Edwards was thinking, Stanley Edwards Sr. was somewhere smiling, too.
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A simple mod which adds a gory yet satisfying effect when head shotting an enemy. This was script was snipped from my Melee Overhaul REvamped mod and made it so bullets affect decapitations.
Once head shotting an enemy, blood will spew out from their necks. Along with its goriness, their bodies will slightly twitch. All in all, these cops will have it rough on them.


Some thing I have done a few times to help warping is to print a couple of layers and then pause, then using some tape, tape the brim to the bed then continue to print, it provided just enough adhersion to keep the brim on the bed.
also I wish Cura would let us edit supports, I wanted to increase the foot area of some supports as the were too slim and tall and broke, I ended up using blue tack to stabilise them, I'm considering producing some stabilising towers at different heights that I can tape/tack in place to stabilise some taller structures.
Izzy wrote: Some thing I have done a few times to help warping is to print a couple of layers and then pause, then using some tape, tape the brim to the bed then continue to print, it provided just enough adhersion to keep the brim on the bed.
But if you engraved a grid into the glass you wouldn't get a smooth bottom surface.
The blue tack has worked well for beefing up the week support after it has built up about 10mm.
For the remov able support towers I was looking at some tacky tape that allows you to remove and reposition, although again using bluetac to hold them down would work, and using blue tack to hold to the vertical edge.
For your milling machine table look at some magnetic clamps, or producing your own using the magnetic base from a DTI.
It's vacation time, but this is not a reason to relax in 3D printing !
here Biofila PLA TEC print test, I really love this material !
Play with the nozzle size so that corners get full lines. Ifor a 0.4 nozzle you can go 0.33 if you have perfect zero drip between moves (and looks you do). Nice print!
Neotko wrote: Play with the nozzle size so that corners get full lines. Ifor a 0.4 nozzle you can go 0.33 if you have perfect zero drip between moves (and looks you do). Nice print!
Neotko ! I test the 0.33 nozzle setting, my home town's blazon (70x76x5.8mm ) low relief print (PLA TEC material) , it seems not so bad !
due to the characteristics indicated above the contact area with the hot end must be perfectly in plane and smooth as a specular surface OR when you have a minimal pressure in the hot end, will give you spillage of the material used (ABS, PLA, PA).
The contact interface between PBI and the metal part(hot end) must have the right sealing without overtightening of the parts.
I did some tests today, and it works quite nice IF you have a bondtech of high torque feeder.
There's a point, after 1000-2000 retractions where the heat crawls up on the filament, expands and increases the friction to the point that the feeder can't push the filament. It doesn't make a clog perse, since the filament can be push and atomic can be done without problems, but when that happens the filament need's a high torque feeder.
So for this today after testing again with the normal feeder (Gudo knows about my first test before the summer) I installed the Full bondtech (with his planetary motor and all the stuff) and it worked, 4 prints in a row with 1000-2000 retractions each and no problems, the filament didn't suffer so the print quality was ok but there's a point where it clearly needs a real MOTOR force to keep pushing pla.
I must add that the print quality was the same as with TFM and everything worked nice (except that it clearly needs high torque), I would like to try with my FatIRobertI version with a small 3:1 torque box to see if that's enough, but I'm flooded with stuff to do.
OFC Gudo if you read this msg, if you want the 2 PIB back so others can test it please just send me a PM, this couplers are a beauty of craftmanship.
This point is not clear to me... I mean how the heat could crawls up the filament if this one is moving down to the nozzle?


The 8th Material Fair blew the "green wind"
The 8th Expo, which will be held in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from October 14th to 16th, will showcase and discuss green logistics and low-carbon transportation. Throughout every corner of the Expo Museum, and affect the entire industry.
In addition to the new energy, logistics equipment and technology, and public transport exhibition areas, this year's Expo will be designed for green logistics. Sea-rail combined transport is a green transportation mode that is currently being developed by all countries in the world. It realizes the goal of "one declaration, one inspection and one release" to complete the entire transportation process. In the sea-rail transport area, the Shenzhen Pingyan Railway and dozens of sea-rail transport companies will jointly exhibit. The Pingyan Railway belongs to the Yantian International Container Terminal, which runs from Yantian in the south to Pinghu in the north. It is a total length of 23 kilometers. It is the Yantian International Special-purpose Shugang Railway. Now it has opened the container express express from Yanping to Yantian and the Yantian to Shaoguan, Kunming and Fuling. , Zhuozhou, Longnan land port transit and railway arrival service. In addition, the Kazakhstan Railway Group, the Russian Railway Group, and the Port of Hamburg will also participate in the exhibition of sea-rail transport activities to let everyone know more about the operation mode of green logistics.
In the modular exhibition area of the standard model, the Ministry of Transport will invite exhibitors, including tractors, trailers, urban distribution, clean energy, and lightweight models, exhibitors, Scania, Yongtong Trailer, Futian Auman, and Jiangling Motors. Will appear on the scene. Luantong Trailer is a well-known brand of light commercial vehicles in China. Relying on the Group's complete industrial chain and national technology research and development platform, it integrates domestic and foreign advantageous resources, and the Tongtong Trailer has fully promoted the research and development of lightweight commercial vehicles and seized the lightness of automobiles. To quantify the technical commanding heights, the company has now formed a production capacity of about 10,000 units/year.
BYD and Wuzhoulong are well-known objects in the field of new energy and public transportation, and they are also old friends of the Expo. BYD has always adhered to its own brand, independent research and development, and independent development. Its K9 is the world's first pure electric bus powered by iron batteries, and it has won the top ten in the world's best sustainable development plan announced by Sustainia in 2013. BYD is also the only Chinese company to be nominated for the tenth place in the Sustainia Awards. At present, Shenzhen has smoothly operated more than 3,000 new energy buses, including nearly 2,000 buses for Wuzhou Dragon New Energy. "Since we decided to develop new energy industries decades ago, we have combined the market demand and upgraded our products for 14 times. To provide customers with no worries, we have established a new energy GPS global monitoring and management system that can understand every single vehicle in real time. The operating status of the car, check the relevant data." Zhang Jingxin, Chairman of Shenzhen Wuzhou Dragon said. The Expo Expo will enable new energy bus customers from all corners of the world to experience the high-end technology of Wuzhou Long New Energy Vehicle at close range.
In addition to these professional demonstrations, this year the Department of Road and Transportation of the Ministry of Transport will hold a "Technical Exchange for the Application of Green Tires in Road Transport" at the Expo. Experts and scholars, leaders of government departments, and business elites in the field of Chinese and foreign tires will fully discuss the current The status quo of green tire development, advanced technologies, and practical application cases have helped transportation and logistics companies to "green" and "benefit" tires in the face of growing conflicts between economic development and environmental issues.


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Ten Years After – Discography (1967 – 2014)
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Blues Rock, Hard Rock
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Ten Years After was a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944, died March 6, 2013), guitar and vocals; Chick Churchill (born January 2, 1949), keyboards; Leo Lyons (born November 30, 1944) bass; and Ric Lee (born October 20, 1945), drums. The group was formed in 1967 and signed to Decca in England. Their first album was not a success, but their second, the live Undead (1968) containing "I'm Going Home," a six-minute blues workout by the fleet-fingered Alvin, hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stonedhenge (1969) hit the U.K. Top Ten in early 1969. Ten Years After's U.S. breakthrough came as a result of their appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute version of "I'm Going Home." Their next album, Ssssh, reached the U.S. Top 20, and Cricklewood Green, containing the hit single "Love Like a Man," reached number four. Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, typified by the gold-selling 1971 album A Space in Time and its Top 40 single "I'd Love to Change the World." Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of Positive Vibrations in 1974. They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, About Time, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for re-release when he discovered the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded its first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live double CD set Roadworks in 2005. Alvin Lee died on March 6, 2013 at the age of 68 due to complications from a routine surgery. ― Allmusic
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1967. Ten Years After (1989, Polydor K.K., P25L 25029, Japan)
1967. Ten Years After (2002, Deram, Universal, 8828972, UK)
1967. Ten Years After (2002, Universal, UICY-9220, Japan)
1969. Ssssh (1988, Chrysalis, 259010, Germany)
1969. Ssssh (1989, Toshiba-EMI, CP28-1029, Japan, 2800 Greenline)
1969. Ssssh (1990, Chrysalis, F2 21083, DIDX 2939, USA)
1969. Ssssh (2004, EMI, 724357894920, EU)
1969. Ssssh (2004, Toshiba-EMI, TOCP-67503, Japan)
1969. Ssssh (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, 2897928530-1, EU)
1969. Stonedhenge (1989, Deram, 820 534-2, W.Germany)
1969. Stonedhenge (2002, Deram, Universal, 8828982, UK)
1969. Stonedhenge (2002, Universal, UICY-9222, Japan)
1970. Cricklewood Green (1990, Chrysalis, F2 21084, DIDX1429, USA)
1970. Cricklewood Green (1994, Chrysalis, 7343 8 53858 2 7, Australia)
1970. Cricklewood Green (2002, EMI, 5330952, EU)
1970. Cricklewood Green (2004, Toshiba-EMI, TOCP-67504, Japan)
1970. Cricklewood Green (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, 2897928530-2, EU)
1970. Watt (1990, Chrysalis, F2 21085, DIDX 2940, USA)
1970. Watt (2004, Toshiba-EMI, TOCP-67505, IFPI 28A2, Japan)
1970. Watt (2004, Toshiba-EMI, TOCP-67505, Japan)
1970. Watt (2008, EMI, 5099920815622, EU)
1970. Watt (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, 2897928530-3, EU)
1971. A Space In Time (1990, Chrysalis, F2 21001, DIDX 1415, USA)
1971. A Space in Time (1997, BGO, BGOCD351, UK)
1971. A Space In Time (2004, Toshiba-EMI, TOCP-67506, Japan)
1971. A Space in Time (2012, EMI, Chrysalis, 5099962437929. CHRX 1001, EU)
1971. A Space in Time (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, 2897928530-4, EU)
1972. Rock & Roll Music To The World (1990, Chrysalis, F2 21009, DIDX 5037, USA)
1972. Rock & Roll Music To The World (1997, BGO, BGOCD348, UK)
1972. Rock & Roll Music To The World (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, 2897928530-5, EU)
1974. Positive Vibrations (2004, BGO, BGOCD617, UK)
1974. Positive Vibrations (2014, Warner, Chrysalis, CHRX 1060, EU, 2CD)
1989. About Time (2012, 4World Media, EW0078CD, EU)
2004. Now (2004, True North, TND394, Canada)
2008. Evolution (2008, Ten Years After, TYACD004, EU)
2. LIVE:
1968. Undead (1988, Deram, 820 533-2, W.Germany)
1968. Undead (1989, Polydor K.K., P25L 25030, Japan)
1968. Undead (2002, Deram, Universal, 8828992, UK)
1968. Undead (2002, Universal, UICY-9221, Japan)
1973. Recorded Live (2013, Warner, Chrysalis, 825646413393 CTYX1049, EU, 2CD)
1990. Live At Reading '83 (2014, Talking Elephant, TECD247, EU)
1993. Live 1990 (1993, Code 90, NINETY 3, Germany)
2001. Live At The Fillmore East 1970 (2001, EMI, Chrysalis, 7243 533297 2 3, EU, 2CD)
2005. Roadworks (2005, Ten Years After, TYACD003, EU, 2CD)
2014. The Name Remains The Same (2014, Ten Years After, NTYACD001, UK)
3. COMPILATION:
1975. Goin' Home (1991, Chrysalis, CDP 1C 538-3 21077 2, Holland)
1976. Hear Them Calling (2012, Talking Elephant, TECD188, UK, 2CD)
1976. The Classic Performances Of Ten Years After (1986, Chrysalis, CCD 1134, UK)
1987. Universal (1987, Chrysalis, VK 41580, DIDX 1427, USA)
1998. Premium Gold Collection (1998, EMI Electrola, 7243 4 95471 2 4, Holland)
2002. Love Like A Man (2002, Disky Communications, GO 793502, EU)
2010. Think About the Times. The Chrysalis Years 1969 to 1972 (2010, Chrysalis, 5099964214726, EU, 3CD)
2012. All The Best (2012, EMI, 50999 6 23594 2 9, EU, 2CD)
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Q: Type of singularities of $\frac{z}{e^z-1}$ I don't really understand how one can find the type of singularities for a given function. Say if
$$f(z) = \frac{z}{e^z-1}$$
then I know that the singularities are at $z = 2n\pi i$
However, how do I find the type? If I try to write out Laurent series for this by using
$$e^z = 1 + z + z^2/2! + z^3/3! + \cdots $$, then I got a summation in the denominator, which I don't know how to rearrange as a Laurent series.
Can anyone please give me a hint?

A: Some of key points to decide the type of the singularity
I am not claiming that these points are complete. But certainly these point may help you to decide about the types of singularity of a function at a point.
1:  A singular point $z_0 $is called an isolated singular point of an analytic function $f(z)$ if there exists a deleted $\epsilon$-spherical neighborhood of $z_0$ that contains no singularity. If no such neighborhood can be found, $z_0 $is called a non-isolated singular point. Thus an isolated singular point is a singular point that stands completely by itself, embedded in regular points.
2. An isolated singular point $z_0$ such that $f$ can be defined, or redefined, at $z_0$ in such a way as to be make it analytic at $z_0$ is called removable singularity. A singular point $z_0$ is removable if  $\lim _{z\to z_{0}} f(z)$ exists. For example The singular point $z = 0$ is a removable singularity of $f(z) = \frac{\sin z}{z}$
 since $\lim _{z\to z_{0}} \frac{\sin z}{z} = 1$. Dominic's answer says about when a singular point $z_0$ is a pole of order $k$.
3. A singular point that is not a pole or removable singularity is called an essential singular point.
4 Isolated essential singularity
Limit points of the sequence of a zeros of the nonzero analytic function $f(z)$ is an isolated singularity. Since it is not a pole it is an isolated essential singularity. For example consider the function $\sin \frac{1}{z}$ it has zeros at $z = \frac{1}{k\pi}$ . Limit points of the zeros is the zeros is the point $z =0$ hence, $z = 0$ is an isolated essential singularity of $f(z)$.
5 . Non -isolated essential singularity
Let $z_1, z_2,\ldots, z_n, \ldots$ be the set of points having limit point $z_0$ in a region $D$. Let $f$ be analytic in $D$ except at the poles  $z_1, z_2,\ldots, z_n, \ldots$, then $z_0$  is also singularity of $f(z)$. The reason is that $f$ is unbounded in the neighborhood of $z_0$. But  $z_0$ is not isolated because it is limit points of the poles. Hence $f(z)$ has a non-isolated singularity at $z_0$. For example consider the function $\frac{1}{\cos(1/z)}$ this function has poles at $k = \frac{2}{(2k+1)\pi}$ the point $z =0$
is the limit point of these poles hence given function has non -isolated essential singularity at $z = 0$.

A: On $z=0$ you can remove the singularity.
For the other use that a singularity at $z_0$ is a pole of order $k$ when $f(z)\cdot (z-z_0)^k$ does have a removable singularity at $z_0$.


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The Farmstead and each other sort of dungeon that is broken up through the depths of this home itself differ. For starters, there is little to no mining which, following this Courtyard's corridors, feels different. By opening a totally out of place stone doorway into a place in the front of the comet and transported, of worried dungeon dwellers your celebration are thrown into battle. Your torchlight is substituted with a blue shine of this comet's translucent pieces, along with the upper right hand section of the display is home to another progress bar that's full as you ruin the poor souls who've been changed from the blue star stone.
And ruin them you need to battle is speaking brings. The venture to the Farmstead is a controlled adventure, providing you with a flavor. Your excursion pits you against the first of the bosses, the Miller of this Farmstead, before opening up to the comet threat, and Endless Horde Mode.
As much as I like Darkest Dungeon's battle, engaging in it without the dungeon exploration piece is the quickest approach to absolute insanity. Since it matches from the positions of those you have brought 24, there is a vileness into the match's selection of enemy. Though in my experience, you encounter one kind at one time Throughout the manner, the comet is totally free to swap between kinds of enemies. After murdering a certain number of creatures, denoted with a hash mark on the kill meter, then you're transported"through space and time" into a room using a curio. Unlike the benevolence tinged by wicked the vast majority of the curios bestow, almost all the Farmstead curios are favourable consequences, helping to cure one or all members of your party, or even gifting you using The Shade of Allergic 's new type of money, the comet shard.
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Measuring the success of experiential marketing campaigns comes down to three simple basics
In the increasingly intense battlefield that is consumer marketing, experiential marketing is growing in popularity due to its ability to engage consumers in a memorable way and to build meaningful, long-lasting relationships between brands and consumers.
But with experiential marketing campaign's cost per contact being far higher than any other advertising medium, agencies and clients alike are gradually growing concerned about whether their spend on experiential marketing campaigns can be justified. The key questions have become: "What value do experiential campaigns add to the brand?" and "How can this be measured?"
The debate about whether experiential marketing is measurable is an old favourite. The fact is that when planned and implemented effectively, experiential marketing is one of the most measurable media around. And the experiential marketing industry has worked its socks off proving ROI on their campaigns to justify being awarded larger parts of brands' overall marketing budgets.
The point that is often missed in this context, however, lies in the preparation and strategy behind the experiential campaign and its measurement. Any successful measurement of experiential marketing relies heavily on three basic requirements that are often overlooked:
The formulation of clear objectives before campaign start:
This is the most fundamental part of campaign measurement anywhere and yet it is frequently ignored: Without formulating clear objectives outlining what the experiential marketing campaign is looking to achieve, it is impossible to measure how well it has achieved its goals afterwards.
The measurement of the experiential marketing campaign in two stages:
The first stage of measurement for an experiential marketing campaign should be the activity stage, where the immediate reach of the campaign is determined. How many people have participated in the campaign, taken a leaflet, spoke to a member of staff etc? The second stage of post-campaign-measurement is the effect stage, demonstrating the "extended reach" of the campaign: Have sales figures increased, have consumer attitudes changed, are people blogging about the product?
Properly enabled post-campaign-measurement:
Agencies cannot evaluate the effects of their campaigns without key information that is only accessible by their client. In order to achieve accurate post-campaign measurements, clients need to share their research that shows propensity to purchase following campaign activities (e.g. sampling of a product) so agencies can project life time values and returns from the campaign.
It is only once these rudiments have been established and incorporated that the successful measurement of an experiential marketing campaign becomes possible. And it wouldn't be surprising if it turned out that many experiential campaigns claimed to be un-measurable failed on at least one of these counts.
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Relaxing the rules on condo rentals
By Pamela Dittmer McKuen, Special to the Tribune
One of the early issues tackled by the new Kedvale Gardens Condominium Association in 2004 was renters. The board decided that up to six units, or 15 percent, of the 41 units could be rented at any given time. The policy worked well until a couple of years ago.
"Then the economy blew up," said Kerry Smith, president of the association in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood. "People were begging and pleading for us to let them rent. They couldn't afford to keep their units, and they couldn't sell either."
The board responded by granting four one-year hardship exemptions, raising the number of rentals to 10.
A few years ago, renters were largely unwelcome in community associations. Among the arguments: Owners take better care of the property, frequent move-ins tear up hallways, and rental restrictions protect property values. Some associations were so averse to renters that they amended their declarations to ban them.
But times have changed. Financially stressed owners increasingly are asking for exceptions to no-renter policies. Boards often are granting them, just as Kedvale did.
Joanna Dziok, who owns Integral Residential LLC in Chicago and who manages Kedvale, said most of her client associations have "reluctantly" allowed more renters in recent years.
"Boards felt they needed to do something," Dziok said. "They were getting pressured from both sides, from owners who need to rent and from others who said, 'I didn't sign up to live in a rental building.'"
"We decided it was in our best interest to temporarily raise the cap," said Smith. "No one wants a vacant unit."
"This is a reversal of trends, driven solely by economic factors," said attorney David Allswang, of Holland & Knight in Chicago. "Today, when sales are (made) less often, to put it mildly, the option of renting is much more prevalent than the option of selling."
For some owners, the only other option is foreclosure, which will depress the value of everyone else's unit, he said.
Foreclosures also strain an association's budget. It can take six months to a year for lenders to sort out ownership and loan issues; meanwhile, assessments most likely go unpaid, said developer Garry Benson, chief executive of Garrison Partners in Chicago.
"Associations are sensitive about getting a transient reputation if they allow renters, but they often make exceptions because of the opportunity to recoup their overdue assessments," he said. "It's all about cash flow."
That sentiment is echoed by Gene Fisher, executive director of Diversey Harbor Lakeview Association, which represents 30 North Side associations.
"There is little question that the number of condo rentals has increased," he said. "It's a concern, but I have a sense that most buildings in this neighborhood have put their concerns about rentals on the back burner as long as assessments keep getting paid."
Boards are adapting their rental policies to economic conditions in various ways, ranging from rigid to permissive and from simple to elaborate.
Dziok said that some of her buildings lifted all restrictions for a year or two. Others raised prerecession rental caps, generally between 7 percent and 15 percent, to as high as 25 percent. Still others added a second cap for hardships on top of the regular cap. Percentages intentionally are set below Federal Housing Administration owner-occupancy requirements, currently 50 percent, so that buyers can seek government-backed mortgages.
Units that are rented to immediate family members usually don't count toward the rental pool, she added.
Hardship exemptions are tricky for boards to deal with, said association attorney Allan Goldberg, of Arnstein & Lehr in Chicago.
"Hardship is, pardon the pun, hard to define and can be quite subjectively applied, since the human dynamic can enter into a board's consideration," he said. "Each board has its own penchant for factors determining hardship."
Many boards take the view that the economy itself is not reason to determine a hardship, but they may be sympathetic to owners who have trouble selling their units or who are facing foreclosure, he added.
When considering hardship requests, boards must avoid appearances of favoritism or discrimination. Hard feelings can erupt and potentially lead to legal action when one request is denied and another is granted. The Illinois Condominium Property Act prohibits boards from creating two classes of membership.
Brian White, executive director of Lakeside Community Development Corp., urges associations to offer hardship exemptions, especially when doing so might keep owners from losing their homes.
Hardship exemptions can include reasonable conditions, perhaps requiring owners to undergo credit counseling or landlord training, or limiting the length of the rental to 12 months, he said.
"During that time, the unit owner should be making steps to resolve whatever barrier led to the hardship request," he said.
Some associations have determined how often units may be rented, set up waiting lists and protocols for moving up and down the waiting list, and made rules for sublets, said Goldberg.
Dziok separates hardships into two categories: medical and financial. Medical hardships, such as when an owner must temporarily move in with an ailing parent, are easier to prove. Financial hardships are a little tougher.
"To not get into a legal pickle, my boards have left open to interpretation what is needed to prove the hardship," she said. "They'll take whatever documentation the owner wants to provide, but they won't require specific bank or tax records. If the owner provides nothing, that doesn't work in their favor."
Allswang's preference is for boards to create a relaxed rental policy for all owners rather than hardship exceptions for a few.
"Administratively, it's easier," he said. "With a hardship provision, you need to deal with owners case by case, which can get very personal and very emotional. People aren't so keen on providing all the information why they have a hardship."
He offered an example of a relaxed policy: "You might say, 'The window is now open for two years for all owners, and after that, we'll re-evaluate. The market might be different then.'"
Before implementing a new rental policy, boards must check their governing documents to see if they have the authority to make changes. A declaration that prohibits all leasing must be amended by a supermajority of owners. A declaration that prohibits leasing but contains a hardship provision gives the board more leeway to allow exceptions. Rules and regulations that address leasing can be changed by a board vote.
Back at Kedvale, a couple of the hardship rentals recently sold. The board is hoping for speedy resolution for the other two cases, so they can get back to their original six rentals.
"The economy has been a real issue for us," said Smith. "We had to give people a chance to recover."
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