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Desmarais frères est une société française fondée en 1861 et qui n'existe plus aujourd'hui.

Active d'abord dans le domaine des huiles végétales, elle devient finalement un des principaux pétroliers français de son temps. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, elle devient le premier actionnaire privé de la Compagnie française des pétroles (CFP), qui donnera naissance à Total.

Avec ses stations-services « Azur », Desmarais frères était l'un des plus importants distributeurs de pétrole en France pendant l'entre-deux-guerres.
Desmarais frères fusionne en 1965 avec Total - Compagnie française de distribution (Total-CFD), filiale de la CFP.

Georges Lesieur, industriel français et fondateur des huileries du même nom, avait commencé à l'âge de quinze ans une longue carrière chez Desmarais, d'abord comme employé de commerce, pour devenir à moins de trente ans, cogérant de la société et participant activement à son développement.

Bibliographie

 Christian Rouxel, D'Azur à Total, Desmarais frères, le premier grand pétrolier français, Drivers, 2007, 272 p.
 Tristan Gaston Breton, Lesieur, une marque dans l'histoire, Perrin, 1998
 Henri Menjaud Desmarais frères. Un Siècle d'industrie française du pétrole : 1861-1961, Draeger frères, 1961

Liens externes
 Archives de France - Archives de la société Desmarais frères'.
 D'Azur à Total, Desmarais Frères, le premier grand pétrolier français, sur le magazine web Gasoline.

Entreprise disparue en 1965
Compagnie pétrolière ayant son siège en France
Négoce et transformation de l'arachide
Compagnie pétrolière disparue


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CFAM Announces Winter 2020 Exhibitions
December 17, 2019 - by Office of Marketing & Communications
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum announces three winter exhibitions illustrating history and democracy on view from January 18 to May 17.
Cameroon, Bamileke Beaded Shirt, 20th Century, Raffia, cotton, indigo dye, glass beads, 20 x 30 in., Collection of William D. and Norma Canelas Roth '65.
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College announces its winter season, which connects history, culture, and democracy through exhibitons and programs relevant to contemporary viewers.
From January 18 to May 17, the museum will host African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century, a large-scale exhibiton guest curated by art history professor MacKenzie Moon Ryan in collaboraton with Morgan Snoap '20 and Cristina Toppin '21. The exhibiton brings together 71 items of African apparel, including textiles, jewelry, headwear, accessories, and garments. Drawn primarily from the extensive collection of William D. and Norma Canelas Roth '65, this is the first exhibition in Central Florida to focus exclusively on African textiles and items of adornment, many of which will be seen publicly for the first time.
What people wear is deeply personal. It is also enormously impacted by historical, cultural, religious, and political realities, which change over time. These works highlight their indebtedness to global interactions, their embodiment of gendered realities, and their expression of generational conflicts and continuities. As worn garments, items of apparel are loved, lived in, labored over, and invested with salient meaning. Drawn from clothing and artistic traditions across the continent, African Apparel embraces globally influenced dress practices as a reality across Africa to display the breadth, diversity, and artistry of a continent.
Republic of Benin, Fon metal filigree bracelet, 20th century, Brass, 3½ x 2¼ in., Collection of William D. and Norma Canelas Roth '65
Textile selections include those hand-woven and dyed (for example, bogolanfini mud cloth from Mali, adire indigo cloth from Nigeria, and kente cloth from Ghana) alongside those factory-woven and machine-printed cloths (such as wax-print from West and Central Africa, kanga from East Africa, and isishweshwe from South Africa). Items of adornment include amber and silver jewelry from North Africa, beadwork-embellished clothing from southern Africa, and various headdresses from across the continent.
Presenting sponsor for African Apparel is June Nelson and Nelson Financial Planning, and a fully illustrated, 112-page scholarly catalog, published by Scala, accompanies the exhibition.
For Freedoms, Hank Willis Thomas, Emily Shur, Freedom of Speech, 2018, Archival pigment print, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara '68 and Theodore '68 Alfond. 2018.1.30 © For Freedoms
2020: Action, Freedom, Patriotism—on view from January 18 to April 5—continues the Cornell Fine Arts Museum's partnership with For Freedoms, the largest creative collaboration in American history and a national platform for discussion and participation in civic issues. Founded in 2016 by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, For Freedims is, in Thomas' words, "an opportunity to join our founding fathers in the making of America." The platform emphasizes participation over ideology as the fundamental characterstic of democracy.
Through a juxtaposition of historical and contemporary works by artists such as Norman Rockwell, Hank Willis Thomas, Emily Shur, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Jerome Meadows, among others, the exhibition questions traditional definitions of patriotism and freedom and re-examines them in context of our contemporary society, encouraging us to reimagine what it means to be American.
"The exhibition is a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions where historical voices are in dialogue with our present-day voices, with art as the interlocutor," says Gisela Carbonell, curator of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
In addition, a series of related events will bring to campus artists, activists, and scholars to consider the notions of patriotism and freedom in the context of an election year. To learn more, visit forfreedoms.org.
Antonio Martorell (Puerto Rican, b. 1939), ¿Quéslaque? Es que la..., 2018, Acrylic, collage and calligraphy on felt, Museum purchase from the Michel Roux Acquisition Fund. 2019.9
The ongoing exhibition—The Place as Metaphor: Collection Conversations—features a selection of collection favorites and several important new acquisitions that consider the mulitple meanings of place through diverse representations across time and region. Continuing its commitment to collect and exhibit works by artists who represent multiple experiences and diverse backgrounds, CFAM is proud to share the acquisitions of two new works by Puerto Rican artists—Rafael Trelles' La Autopista del Sur and Antonio Martorell's ¿Quéslaque? Es que la ..., which are featured in the museum for the first time.
These acquisitions are part of CFAM's efforts to continue diversifying its permanent collection. Martorell's piece, created in 2018, comments on the number of deaths in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria and critiques the poor handling of the effects of the disaster by the local government. The monumental work is the first piece by Martorell to enter the permanent collection of a Florida museum. Trelles' large-scale painting is inpsired by the eponymous short story by Julio Cortazar and depicts an evocative rendition of an imagined place. This piece is the first work by Trelles to be included in a museum's permanent collection on the mainland.
"Central Florida is home to a large Puerto Rican community that grew significantly after Hurricane Maria devasted the island," says Carbonell. "The acquisition of these works is the first step in what will become a strong collection of Puerto Rican art that resonates with our community, and we are espeically exicted to begin this initiative with artists of the highest caliber such as Martorell and Trelles, who are beloved on the island as well as in the diaspora."
The installation puts these contemporary pieces in dialogue with earlier works by old masters such as Lavinia Fontana and Gerolamo Bassano. The new iteration of the show will also include a video by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos.
Rafael Trelles (Puerto Rican, b. 1957), La autopista del sur (The Southern Highway), 2011, Oil and acrylic on canvas, Museum purchase from the Michel Roux Acquisition Fund. 2019.8
Related Programming
All events occur at the museum unless otherwise noted
Friday, January 17 | Exhibition Preview Celebration
Members Preview: 5-6 p.m.
Opens to the Public: 6-7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 24 | 11 a.m.
Tour: African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century
MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Guest Curator and Associate Professor of Art History
Tuesday, January 28 | 6 p.m.
Panel Discussion: African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century
MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Morgan Snoap '20, and Cristina Toppin '21, Guest Curators
Tuesday, February 4 | 6 p.m.
Conversation with Jammal Lemy
Filmmaker, designer, and former creative director of March for Our Lives
SunTrust Auditorium at Rollins
Wednesday, February 26 | 6 p.m.
Lecture: A Survey of Contemporary Native Art
Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Visiting Artist
Bush Auditorium at Rollins
Tuesday, March 3 | 12:30 p.m.
Town Hall: For Freedoms, a UCF and Rollins College collaboration
Tuesday, March 10 | 6 p.m.
Lecture: Silk, Amber, and Wool: A History of North African Dress
Cynthia Becker, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University
Thursday, March 12 | 12:30 p.m.
Presentation: Chocolate, Blood, and VHS Tapes: Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Art Conservation
Susan Libby, Professor of Art History, and Isaac Gorres '21, Fred W. Hicks Curatorial Intern, CFAM
Friday, April 3 | 10:30 a.m.
Symposium Panel: Rollins College Latin American & Caribbean Studies students
Tuesday, April 14 | 12:30 p.m.
Gallery Talks: Student Artists
Arte Y Café Con La Curadora (Art and Coffee with the Curator)
Tuesday, February 18 | 6 p.m.
Puerto Rican Artists: New Acquisitions
2020: Action, Freedom, Patriotism
Tuesday, April 14 | 6 p.m.
African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century
Forming Their Futures
CFAM Presents the 2019 Studio Art Senior Exhibition
Ena Heller and CFAM Elected to Association of Art Museum Directors

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Chi Nei Tsang is abdominal work that brings Life energy and awareness to the Internal Organs directly and, on a more global scale, through out the whole body . Though CNT is done by a practitioner, a strong component of CNT is learning to do CNT on one's own abdomen as well as learning supportive meditations and energizations.
The navel, is where each of us originated. Within the womb of our mother we developed off of the navel and all our systems grew outwards from there navel. The abdomen holds our core emotions and physical patterning. Working on the abdomen influences the whole body. People can experience a wide array of benefits from postural to emotional clearing to detoxing, but the work is directed at an over-all balancing versus treating a specific condition. Clearing the abdomen is like dropping a stone in a pond…it radiates out throughout the rest of the body. It is our energy center; what in China they call the Dan Tien, our "Sea of Qi". When that is cleared, the body transforms.
Through abdominal massage, breath work, meditations and energizations, this work increases awareness and life energy of one's body/being and connects us with the life energy that supports us. From that awareness, the body begins its healing process.
You can take greater responsibility for your health, cultivate your own energy, detoxify, process stagnant energy and live life with more vitality.
Corinne was taught CNT by Gilles Marin through the Chi Nei Tsang Institute. If you are interested in CNT you might also be interested in Food Healing System.


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Launched September 3 1944 and commissioned November 14 1944.
Fate Sunk by Japanese Kamikaze Aircraft off Okinawa May 28 1945.
164 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.


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had already removed hyperlinks previously, but now finally thought of removing a pdf graphic I had inserted into a sub topic and voila it has now exported.
So I am pleased that it does work; only drawback: in future I basically have to avoid adding any pdfs as attachments to MM projects.
Would be nice if engineers could fix this.
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The time has come to sell my van! You can tell by the fact that I keep this blog that I LOVE the Sprinter Westfalia 🙂 But I've just bought a house and I can't keep the van anymore. I'll be saving up my money for another one, though – there's absolutely nothing like these vans in the USA.
The van is near Maltby, WA – about 30 miles northeast of Seattle. Price is $55k.
The generator fires up each time, the propane stove works beautifully, the hot water heater provides plenty of shower time, the fridge stays cold. I upgraded the black water system on the van, replacing the stock tank with a custom tank twice the size (20 gallons).
At the same time that I replaced the plumbing, I added digital tank sensors to the black and grey water tanks. Instead of the 33% / 66% / full gauge that came stock, the new sensors provide 1% levels to the digital display.
There's a Stowaway Max cargo carrier in the rear hitch, which provides 16 cubic feet of storage on a swingaway frame. We carried firewood for the trip, camp chairs, Tonka trucks, and more! It has a locking lid and a locking hitch pin, and is completely waterproof.
Even without the box, the van has an amazing amount of storage. There are cupboards and shelves throughout the entire vehicle, and we happily camped as 2 adults and 2 young kids with all of our stuff.
The engine runs beautifully, and I've always used Mobil 1 synthetic. There are 44,000 miles on the odometer – barely broken in for these 5-cylinder diesel engines! I've averaged over 20mpg this whole time. Though I never took the plunge, many have run straight biodiesel in their identical Sprinters with fantastic results.
So there you have it! I'm sure there's stuff I've forgotten to mention. You can get in touch with me through the contact form on this site. I'd love to talk with anyone on the phone, too – just email me first and I'll send you my number.
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Seriously, I'm sorry you're having to sell and hope you can come back in the coming years. I have gotten into habit of checking your site on a weekly basis.
On another note, re: anti sway bar brackets, when you replaced your brackets did you replace with both brackets and bushings for the 35oo size bar?
Haha! Yes, I think they're trying to corner the market on Westies! Thanks for checking the blog – it's been fun, and I'm really not ready to part with my van, but we're happy to be in a new house (which is the reason I'm selling).
I would like to talk about the Westy.
Hi Mike! Thanks for your interest – I've sent you an email.
just wondering if the van is still available. we are looking at upgrading from our 89 westy and have realized their is no perfect vehicle for 2 adults and 2 teenage boys. They, along with their socks should be outside anyway.
we live in coeurd'alene so driving over is easy.
The van's still available – I've sent you my contact info by email.
Any idea on replacement cost of the roof AC?
We have a very steep driveway and wonder if the diesel has enough torque to make it up.. any experience in that regard? We had a dodge diesel truck which was the only way to haul a 27′ 5th wheel up the hill. I realize there is a huge difference between these rigs, but it is mandatory we have any RV on our property. Thanks for any info, everything you have posted has been thorough.
I think it would cost about $1200 to put a brand new air conditioner in there – $700 for the unit itself (Polar Cub or Coleman) and maybe $500 for labor.
As far as torque, the van has heaps! (243 ft lbs at 1600rpm.) It'll accelerate nicely up any hill. I was shocked when I first drove it – I expected it to be a lumbering thing, but it turned out to be quick and agile and really easy to drive.
Feel free to send any other questions my way!
Looks like it sold, is that correct?
Hey Tom – I do have a sale pending.
Is the Van still available? They are hard to come by and I've been looking for about a year. A friend of mine owns one and loves it..
Sorry Caroline – it's sold! I'll post others as I hear about them.
HI MIKE.. THANKS FOR YOUR RICH ENTRIES.. INTERESTING AND ENCOURAGING !
JUST TOURED THRU MY FIRST LOOK OVER SUCH A CRITTER ! NICE ONE OWNED BY A LOVEL COUPLE TOURING FROM SANTA FE . PLEASE KEEP ME IN THE LOOP OVER YOUR ADVENTURES !


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Extrusomes are membrane-bound structures in some eukaryotes which, under certain conditions, discharge their contents outside the cell.  There are a variety of different types, probably not homologous, and serving various functions.

Notable extrusomes include mucocysts, which discharge a mucous mass sometimes used in cyst formation, and trichocysts, which discharge a fibrous rod.  The stinging nematocysts found in Cnidarian animals may be regarded as extrusomes as well. Extrusomes found in dinoflagellates are important in the formation of red and black tides.

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A young secret Santa who helps brighten up Christmas for thousands of people in hospitals and care homes has been chosen as the UK face of #givingtuesday 2016.
Courtney Hughes, 18, from Oxfordshire, will help front the global day of giving which calls for people to do something good on Tuesday, 29 November – four weeks today.
Five years ago, with her great grandmother unwell over the festive period, Courtney decided to use her pocket money to take Christmas to the hospital. Inspired by seeing other patients away from their loved ones, she started a local campaign to collect Christmas gifts for people spending that time of year in hospitals, hospices and care homes.
Since then her campaign has gone from strength to strength. Working with charities, schools and businesses she collected, wrapped and distributed 4,000 presents last year. Courtney also helps to collect and deliver food parcels to homeless people and emergency refuges.
Courtney's charitable efforts saw her chosen as this year's UK #givingtuesday champion by a panel of judges which included Paul Stanworth, Assistant Editor at BBC Newsbeat; Mika Simmons, actress and founder of Gynaecological Cancer Fund's Lady Garden campaign; Zoe Parkinson from Vice Magazine; Mike Buonaiuto, CEO of social change company Shape History; and last year's winner Andrew Davies.
She will now help inspire others to do something in support of a good cause this #givingtuesday.
The international campaign, led in the UK by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), encourages people to 'do good stuff' for causes they care about following the shopping frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Last year it broke a Guinness World Record for the most online donations in 24 hours and was the top trending item on Twitter, with support from celebrities including JK Rowling, Lily Allen and Gary Lineker.
"It is a real honour to have been chosen and something I never expected, especially seeing the stories of the other candidates who were shortlisted.
"It has made it all the more special to me that I found out I had been picked to be the #givingtuesday champion on what would have been my great-grandmother's birthday.
"Courtney is a fantastic example of what #givingtuesday is all about.
"This is a day to shine a light on the countless good deeds people do every day to make life that bit better for others.
"From a young age Courtney has made a remarkable contribution in spreading festive cheer among people going through times of difficulty.
In the UK it is backed by around 1,400 partners including Morrisons, Sainsbury's, the Financial Times, Royal Mail, London Zoo, Sue Ryder, Cancer Research UK, the RSPCA and the NSPCC.
Last year the event was the top trend on Twitter throughout the day with more than 100,000 mentions using #givingtuesday. Celebrities and politicians including Stephen Fry, JK Rowling, Emma Watson, Miranda Hart, Gary Lineker, Lily Allen, David Baddiel, Peter Andre, David Tennant and Jeremy Corbyn backed the day.
#givingtuesday 2015 broke a Guinness World Record for the most online donations in 24 hours as people gave away £35 million to good causes globally. Online donations raised £6,000 a minute for UK charities with more than 1,400 charities and businesses connecting with the movement which reached hundreds of thousands of people.
The Charities Aid Foundation, which leads #givingtuesday in the UK, is one of the largest charitable foundations in Europe. CAF provides financial services to support charities and manages donations on behalf of wealthy philanthropists, 2,500 businesses and more than 250,0000 people.


Where is the data on who is riding the Rattler?
(RECENTLY) I attended a great tourism planning afternoon for The Mary Valley.
So many great ideas were discussed but none included the Mary Valley Rattler.
It is no one's fault but The Rattler only just gets into the Mary Valley these days and the townships of Kandanga, Imbil and Brooloo are currently disconnected from The Rattler.
'The Elephant not in the room' yesterday was The Rattler.
Any successful project always starts with quality data.
1) What are the current numbers on The Rattler based on days of the week and what was the percentage that started their experience at Gympie or Amamoor?
2) How does this match up with the MV Rattler business plan and budget?
3) What are these initial visitors saying about the experience and do they want more?
4) Where are these visitors coming from?
Without good data and a genuine collaborative approach, how can Mary Valley B&Bs, food outlets and other potential partners make their good business decision?
As GRC ratepayers I believe we should all want transparency around this basic data.
We are shareholders/stakeholders as our council has made a substantial investment in The Rattler on our behalf.
Surely we all want Rattler 2.0 to work!
The Mary Valley townships and businesses south of Amamoor want to engage to create a win win situation but don't know how.
No data - no direction.
A lack of engagement and transparency is a lack of governance - pure and simple.
The GRC residents and ratepayers absolutely and legally deserve better.
Lift your game Rattler management.


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package net.skoumal.joogar.integration;

import net.skoumal.joogar.util.model.EnumFieldAnnotatedModel;
import net.skoumal.joogar.util.model.EnumFieldExtendedModel;
import net.skoumal.joogar.shared.JoogarRecord;
import net.skoumal.joogar.util.CrudTestCase;

public class EnumFieldTests extends CrudTestCase {
    public void testNullDefaultEnumExtended() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldExtendedModel());
        EnumFieldExtendedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldExtendedModel.class, 1);
        assertNull(model.getDefaultEnum());
    }

    public void testNullOverriddenEnumExtended() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldExtendedModel());
        EnumFieldExtendedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldExtendedModel.class, 1);
        assertNull(model.getOverrideEnum());
    }

    public void testNullDefaultEnumAnnotated() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldAnnotatedModel());
        EnumFieldAnnotatedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.class, 1);
        assertNull(model.getDefaultEnum());
    }

    public void testNullOverriddenEnumAnnotated() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldAnnotatedModel());
        EnumFieldAnnotatedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.class, 1);
        assertNull(model.getOverrideEnum());
    }

    public void testDefaultEnumExtended() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldExtendedModel(EnumFieldExtendedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE,
                EnumFieldExtendedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO));
        EnumFieldExtendedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldExtendedModel.class, 1);
        assertNotNull(model);
        assertEquals(model.getDefaultEnum(), EnumFieldExtendedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO);
    }

    public void testOverriddenEnumExtended() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldExtendedModel(EnumFieldExtendedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE,
                EnumFieldExtendedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO));
        EnumFieldExtendedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldExtendedModel.class, 1);
        assertNotNull(model);
        assertEquals(model.getOverrideEnum(), EnumFieldExtendedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE);
    }

    public void testDefaultEnumAnnotated() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldAnnotatedModel(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE,
                EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO));
        EnumFieldAnnotatedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.class, 1);
        assertNotNull(model);
        assertEquals(model.getDefaultEnum(), EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO);
    }

    public void testOverriddenEnumAnnotated() {
        JoogarRecord.save(new EnumFieldAnnotatedModel(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE,
                EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.DefaultEnum.TWO));
        EnumFieldAnnotatedModel model = JoogarRecord.findById(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.class, 1);
        assertNotNull(model);
        assertEquals(EnumFieldAnnotatedModel.OverrideEnum.ONE, model.getOverrideEnum());
    }
}

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'Parasite' and 'Jojo Rabbit' Score Oscar Rebound at Indie Box Office
GKIDS also releases Makoto Shinkai's "Weathering With You" this weekend
Jeremy Fuster | January 19, 2020 @ 9:44 AM	Last Updated: January 19, 2020 @ 11:10 AM
"Parasite" / Neon
NEON's "Parasite" and Searchlight's "Jojo Rabbit" both got a box office boost this weekend from their Best Picture Oscar nominations, as their theater counts significantly expanded to accommodate renewed audience interest.
"Parasite" expanded by nearly 500 screens to 843 locations, adding $2.1 million over the 4-day weekend to bring its total to $28.1 million. The Bong Joon-ho film became the first Korean movie ever to earn a nomination for Best Picture and took six nominations in all, including Best International Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
"Jojo Rabbit," meanwhile, added 895 screens to bring its total to 1,005, the largest expansion of any Oscar contender. The result is a $1.8 million total over the 4-day weekend, bringing its total to $23.8 million. "Jojo Rabbit" was one of two films that Scarlett Johansson earned Oscar nominations for, taking a Best Supporting Actress nod for her work here to go with her Best Actress nod for "Marriage Story. "Jojo" took six nominations overall, including Best Adapted Screenplay for writer-director Taika Waititi.
Also Read: 'Bad Boys for Life' Heads to $68 Million 4-Day Opening for Best MLK Launch Since 2014
Among new releases, the highest profile arrival is GKIDS' anime film "Weathering With You," Makoto Shinkai's follow-up to the Japanese box office record-breaker "Your Name." After a series of select fan screenings on Wednesday and Thursday via Fathom Events, the film was released on 500 screens and is estimated to earn $2.1 million for a per screen average of $4,245 and an overall total of $5.1 million. While reviews haven't been as strong as "Your Name," they are still overwhelmingly positive with critics and audience scores at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
9 Female-Led Superhero Films in 2020, From 'The Eternals' to 'Wonder Woman 1984' (Photos)
Next year is going to be a big one for super-powered women, with 9 female-led superhero movies hitting theaters in 2020. And if rough estimates pan out, these films could combine to gross over $4 billion at movie theaters worldwide. Not only that, but if 12 months from now "Birds of Prey," "Mulan," "Black Widow, "Wonder Woman 1984," and "Eternals" are among the year's 10 highest grossing films, it will be the first time ever that the list will have gender parity among directors. Read on to see which women will be kicking asses in movie theaters throughout 2020.
1. "The Rhythm Section" -- Jan. 31
January kicks off with Blake Lively's long-anticipated spy thriller "The Rhythm Section," a possible franchise-starter led from the long-time producers of the James Bond films, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli. Lively's got dark hair, an icy cold stare and is looking to settle things violently in the movie written by Mark Burnell based on his book of the same name. Directed by Reed Morano, best known for her work on Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale," it also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown.
2. "Birds of Prey" -- Feb. 7
Margot Robbie once again plays Harley Quinn, now broken up with the Joker and teaming up with a crew of badass women like Black Canary (Jurnee Smollet-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to stop the villain Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) before he can have Cassandra Cain (Basco) murdered.
3. "Mulan" -- March 27
Director Niki Caro's live action take on Disney's 1998 animated stars Liu Yifei as the legendary Chinese warrior woman who risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest fighters the middle kingdom has ever known.
4. "The New Mutants" -- April 3
Staring Maisie Williams ("Game of Thrones" and Anya Taylor-Joy, this horror film set in the X-universe was filmed two years ago -- but has been in limbo ever since. It was originally supposed to debut in April 2018 but has been delayed over and over again. The film's director confirmed the film was still being tinkered with as of December 2019, but with release scheduled for April, the first trailer is supposedly coming in January.
5. "Black Widow" -- May 1
Set immediately after the events of "Captain America: Civil War"; "Black Widow" follows Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) as she reunites with former members of the (former) Soviet assassin squad she grew up with to defeat an even greater threat.
6. "Wonder Woman 1984" -- June 5
Set during the late height of Cold War tensions, the film sees Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) facing two new enemies, including the villain Cheetah (Kristen Wiig), and dealing with the unexpected return of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine). Patty Jenkins returns to direct the sequel to the 2017 box office hit. Watch the spectacular trailer here.
7. "Monster Hunter" -- Sep. 4
Based on the Capcom video game series, "Monster Hunter" stars Milla Jovovich as the leader of a military unit transported to a parallel world dominated by ferocious monsters. In her desperate battle for survival, she teams up with a mysterious man (Tony Jaa) who has found a way to fight back.
8. "The Eternals" -- Nov. 6
Starring Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, and Gemma Chan, Marvel Studios' next heroic team up movie centers on a race of ancient human beings created a million years ago by the cosmic entities known as the Celestials. There's still no trailer, but fans at Comic-Con experience Brazil saw the first public showing of footage. Read about that here.
9. "No Time to Die" - April 2 (UK)/April 8 (U.S.)
Yes, technically this is a James Bond outing fronted by Daniel Craig in his final appearance as James Bond. But we're including it because the story sees 007 teaming up with the first female OO, "Nomi," played by "Captain Marvel's" Lashana Lynch. "So stay in your lane. You get in my way, I will put a bullet in your knee. The one that works," Nomi tells Bond during the recent trailer.
Move over boys — 2020 looks like it will go down as the year female-fronted superhero movies will dominate the box office
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The left said it wouldn't happen. Back in May, when the Obama Administration decided that public schools had to open high school locker rooms to any student who "identified" with the opposite gender, aka transgender, people who understand natural sexual orientation sounded the alarm that the order itself would be abused by men and boys looking to take advantage of helpless women.
The left denied it would ever happen.
In one small town in rural Minnesota, Virginia (a name that causes quite a bit of confusion given that there is another transgender locker room lawsuit in the state of the same name), school officials complied with the federal order, assumingly, in order to keep from losing funding. And in what is most likely to be the first lawsuit of its kind, a "transgender" male abused the privilege of being just one of the girls by traumatizing them with twerking, and other assorted behavior that just is not done in the privacy of a girls-only space while participating as a member of a girls' athletic team.
According to the Todd Starnes piece at Fox News, this occurred in an elementary school. The plaintiff girls were allowed to use another locker room – the vacant at that hour men's basketball locker room – and the "transgender" student essentially joined them.
"Plaintiff B and nearly half the junior varsity squad changed in the secondary locker room in hope that their privacy would not be violated," the lawsuit states….
Hence a lawsuit naming not just the school district, but Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Secretary of Education John King.
It also shows that there is no getting around natural biology, no matter what the progressives desire.
The true victims in the transgender wars are not the people with screwed up mental wiring. It's the women and girls who are subjected to having their privacy violated by men who take advantage of the self-identification. In a restroom or locker room, women are at their most vulnerable. To force abridgement of privacy in this way demonstrates a lack of respect not just for rights, but for women as women. In a way it's a war. And women are the victims whether we want to be or not.


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Q: How do I set loop such that a core in my PC do half while the other the other half in R I have R scrip that simulates ARIMA data and check the same data 100 times for ARIMA order ARIMA(p, d, q). I have 2 core on the system CPU, how can I give an R command for a core to compute 1 to 50 while the second core to compute 51 to 100 simultaneously and then combine the result so that.
library(forecast)
system.time({
  for (i in 1:100) {
    a <- arima.sim(n = 50, model=list(ar = 0.8), sd = 1)
    b <- arimaorder(auto.arima(b, ic = "aicc"))
    #print(b)
  }

I am using windows 10 64 bits

A: I use foreach and doParallel libraries to divide for loop into many parts.
I believe processing is better for the computer to decide how to divide the loops between the available cores.
#…
library(parallel)
library(foreach)
library(doParallel)

#detectCores()                   ### Count number of cores available
numCores  <- 2
registerDoParallel(numCores)

#for (i in 1:100) {          ### Original For loop
foreach(i = 1:100) %dopar% { ### Replacement parallel foreach loop
    #…
}
#…

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Schoolcraft closer to brew pub
Schoolcraft College took delivery of some $1 million in brewing equipment for its new program.
Schoolcraft closer to brew pub Schoolcraft College took delivery of some $1 million in brewing equipment for its new program. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/livonia/2016/05/13/schoolcraft-step-closer-brew-pub/84324226/
Brad Kadrich, hometownlife.com Published 10:38 a.m. ET May 13, 2016
Brewer Tom Block helps steady one of the largest tanks as it moves up a loading dock ramp. He estimates that it will be about six weeks before the equipment is set up and ready for the first run.(Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographe)
Schoolcraft College students taking the school's new Brewing and Distillation Technology course won't have to travel to Howell for hands-on training much longer.
Schoolcraft officials, who started the curriculum last fall, accepted delivery on some $1 million worth of brewery equipment this week and began the process of setting up the school's own brewery in a portion of the culinary arts department.
In the first year of the program, students had to go out to Block Brewing in Howell for the hands-on portion of the class. Now, they'll be in the VisTaTech Center right near the equipment.
"It'll be better both for myself and the students," said Tom Block, who owns Block Brewing and teaches in the brewing course at Schoolcraft. "It was challenging to have them travel to get the hands-on experience. Now I can lecture for an hour, and then we can walk over to the brewery."
The equipment was delivered Monday from Quality Tank Solutions in Oconomowoc, Wisc., which is the same company from which Block got his equipment in Howell. The equipment is being installed in a former demonstration area for Schoolcraft's culinary arts program.
Block said he expects the brewery to be operational by the end of the summer, in time for the fall classes. That's a good thing, since some 70 students have already expressed an interest. Having the equipment on-site will be helpful to the learning process.
"This is a trade, and you have to learn how to do things," Block said. "You can't learn this all from a book. It has to be hands-on."
Brad Jonckheere, a Brighton resident who is a brewer at Block Brewing and a recent graduate of the Schoolcraft program, said having the equipment handy will be a big benefit to future students.
"The biggest advantage will be being on site so you don't have to travel," Jonckheere said. "It's nice to see other breweries, but this will be nice to be a lot more hands-on."
Schoolcraft College got unanimous approval for its new Class C liquor license earlier this year from the Livonia City Council.
Schoolcraft College would be the first brewpub to open in Livonia. Several other communities have seen brewpubs open up in recent years, including in Farmington, Lyon Township, and Northville.
Block said the program is currently conducting a naming contest, and hoped to be able to sell the beer at American Harvest, the restaurant located at the VisTaTech Center. He said American Harvest would likely be transformed into a brew pub to take advantage of the new brewery.
"We wanted an outlet to sell the beer," Block said. "We have a license to do it, and we'll have the beer, so why not give ourselves a way to sell it?"
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Q: How to create arrays with jquery and alter session? How to create arrays with jquery and alter session?
I want to store in $ _SESSION ["playlist"] a list of songs with titles, urls mp3 and authors
This is an example of my html code
    Add to List
    Download

    Add to List
    Download

    Add to List
    Download

and my jquery is so
    $( document ).ready(function() {
    $('.add-music').click(
function() {
  var songNew=new Array ({
    title: $(this).attr('data-title'),

    artist: $(this).attr('data-artist'),
    mp3: $(this).attr('href')
  });
});
});

I want to know how to store in session several songs with their titles, authors and url of mp3
I read that with json, I can make each song set of values for a string, and an array with several strings, this array save session
thanks for any help

A: I think you want to send arrays through ajax to server and then save it in session.
If you don't know how to send you can use javascript object notation.
var data={title:"sometitle",song:"song"}

you can even use nested javascript object notation to use it like arrays.
and then you can use this in $.ajax call using post. you can retrieve these values in php
by using $_POST['title']; and $_POST['song'];


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Q: How to use QStackedWidget() Am trying to use QStackedWidget() to switch to my next window but when i do that i get some errors that don't have when i run my ".py" files separately.
what my app should do is ... activate my group box with a click, then if i click the button, a new transparent window should pop-up with a mouse-cross listener, then when you click something it should stops returning the mouse cursor to normal and closing the transparent window.
window1.py
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtGui import QColor, QKeySequence, QIcon, QCursor
from window2 import *

class Ui_Form(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Ui_Form, self).__init__()

    ##if i use this method, it does not show my transparent window, also it shows an error that i dont get when run it separately.

    def goToTransparentWindowMethod(self):
        self.goToTransparentWindow = TransparentWindowClass()
        myWindow.addWidget(self.goToTransparentWindow)
        myWindow.setCurrentIndex(myWindow.currentIndex()+1)

    def setupUi(self, myWindow):
        myWindow.setObjectName("myWindow")
        myWindow.resize(627, 327)

        self.horizontalLayoutWidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(myWindow)
        self.horizontalLayoutWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 300, 270))
        self.horizontalLayoutWidget.setObjectName("horizontalLayoutWidget")

        self.horizontalLayout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        self.horizontalLayout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        self.horizontalLayout.setObjectName("horizontalLayout")

        self.gpb_main = QtWidgets.QGroupBox(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        self.gpb_main.setCheckable(True)
        self.gpb_main.setChecked(False)
        self.gpb_main.setObjectName("gpb_spell_main")

        self.btn_main = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.gpb_main)
        self.btn_main.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 40, 88, 27))
        self.btn_main.setObjectName("btn_main")
        self.btn_main.clicked.connect(self.goToTransparentWindowMethod)

        self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.gpb_main)

        self.retranslateUi(myWindow)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(myWindow)

    def retranslateUi(self, myWindow):
        _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
        myWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("myWindow", "Window1"))
        self.gpb_main.setTitle(_translate("myWindow", "example"))
        self.btn_main.setText(_translate("myWindow", "click me"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    myWindow = QtWidgets.QStackedWidget()
    ui = Ui_Form()
    ui.setupUi(myWindow)
    myWindow.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

window2.py
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from pynput.mouse import Listener
import pyautogui

class TransparentWindowThreadClass(QtCore.QObject):

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(TransparentWindowThreadClass, self).__init__()

    @QtCore.pyqtSlot()
    def on_click_main(self, x, y, button, pressed):
        try:
            if pressed:
                self.pos_main = pyautogui.position()
                self.get_rgb_main = pyautogui.pixel(self.pos_main[0], self.pos_main[1])
                r = self.get_rgb_main.red
                g = self.get_rgb_main.green
                b = self.get_rgb_main.blue
                self.get_rgb_main = r,g,b

                Transparent_Window.unsetCursor()#error here when is called from window1
                Transparent_Window.close()#error here when is called from window1

                #Pressed
                self.pressed_Msg = 'Pressed at x:{0}  y:{1} RGB:{2}'.format(x, y, self.get_rgb_main)
                print(self.pressed_Msg)
            else:
                #Released msg
                self.released_Msg = 'Released at x:{0} y:{1} RGB:{2}'.format(x, y, self.get_rgb_main)
                print(self.released_Msg)

            if not pressed:
                return False

        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            print('you pressed ctrl+c')
        except NameError:
            print("Error on_click_main")
        except RuntimeError:
            print('run time error')
        except TypeError:
            print('ype error')
        except AttributeError:
            print('Attribute Error')

    @QtCore.pyqtSlot()
    def loop_onclick_listener(self):
        try:
            with Listener(on_click=self.on_click_main) as listener:
                listener.join()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            print('you pressed ctrl+c')
        except NameError:
            print("Error onclick_listener")
        except RuntimeError:
            print('run time error')
        except TypeError:
            print('ype error')
        except AttributeError:
            print('Attribute Error')

class TransparentWindowClass(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(TransparentWindowClass, self).__init__()

        self.monitorResolution = pyautogui.size()

        # create a QThread and start the thread that handles
        self.thread = QtCore.QThread()
        self.thread.start()

        # create the worker without a parent so you can move it
        self.worker = TransparentWindowThreadClass()## my custom thread class
        # the worker is moved to another thread
        self.worker.moveToThread(self.thread)

        # if the thread started, connect it
        self.thread.started.connect(self.worker.loop_onclick_listener)

    def setupUi(self, Transparent_Window):
        Transparent_Window.setObjectName("Transparent_Window")
        Transparent_Window.resize(self.monitorResolution[0], self.monitorResolution[1])
        Transparent_Window.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
        Transparent_Window.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_TranslucentBackground, True)
        Transparent_Window.setCursor(QtGui.QCursor(QtCore.Qt.CrossCursor))

        self.retranslateUi(Transparent_Window)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Transparent_Window)

    def retranslateUi(self, Transparent_Window):
        _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
        Transparent_Window.setWindowTitle(_translate("Transparent", "Transparent Window"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    Transparent_Window = QtWidgets.QWidget()
    ui = TransparentWindowClass()
    ui.setupUi(Transparent_Window)
    Transparent_Window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: You are making things too complex.
Also, even assuming that no other possible solution could be used, you must remember that widgets are not thread-safe, and can not be directly accessed from external threads. The only safe and correct way to communicate between threads is by using signals and slots.
That said, there is no need for pyautogui nor pynput if you just want to get the color of a pixel on the screen.
If you want to grab a pixel on the screen, you can use the QScreen function grabWindow(), using 0 as window id (which matches the whole screen), and with a single-pixel area.
Then you can use grabMouse() to ensure that you always receive mouse events, even if the mouse is outside of the widget and no mouse button was being pressed. Note that grabMouse() can only work on visible widgets, so we need to "hide" the window by moving it off-screen.
Then, overriding mousePressEvent() you can use grabWindow() with the global position of the mouse, it will return a QPixmap that can be converted to a QImage and get the pixelColor() of the grab above.
The grabbing can be canceled by pressing Esc.
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *

class GrabTest(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.resize(200, 200)

        self.button = QPushButton('Grab!')

        self.colorLabel = QLabel('No color', alignment=Qt.AlignCenter)
        self.colorLabel.setFixedSize(120, 30)
        self.colorLabel.setStyleSheet('border: 1px solid black;')

        layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addStretch()
        layout.addWidget(self.button, alignment=Qt.AlignCenter)
        layout.addWidget(self.colorLabel, alignment=Qt.AlignCenter)
        layout.addStretch()

        self.button.clicked.connect(self.startGrab)

    def mousePressEvent(self, event):
        if QWidget.mouseGrabber() == self:
            self.getPixel(event.globalPos())
        else:
            super().mousePressEvent(event)

    def keyPressEvent(self, event):
        if QWidget.mouseGrabber() == self and event.key() == Qt.Key_Escape:
            self.stopGrab()
        else:
            super().keyPressEvent(event)

    def startGrab(self):
        self.grabMouse(Qt.CrossCursor)
        self.oldPos = self.pos()
        deskRect = QRect()
        for screen in QApplication.screens():
            deskRect |= screen.geometry()
        # move the window off screen while keeping it visible
        self.move(deskRect.bottomRight())

    def stopGrab(self):
        self.releaseMouse()
        self.move(self.oldPos)

    def getPixel(self, pos):
        screen = QApplication.screens()[0]
        pixmap = screen.grabWindow(0, pos.x(), pos.y(), 1, 1)
        color = pixmap.toImage().pixelColor(0, 0)
        if color.lightnessF() > .5:
            textColor = 'black'
        else:
            textColor = 'white'
        self.colorLabel.setStyleSheet('''
            color: {};
            background: {};
        '''.format(textColor, color.name()))
        self.colorLabel.setText(color.name())
        self.stopGrab()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    grabber = GrabTest()
    grabber.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec())


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NFL Playoff Picture
Can Panthers still make the playoffs after Week 17 loss?
We go over the Panthers' chances to make the postseason going into their Week 17 game against the Bucs.
By David Fucillo@davidfucillo Updated Jan 1, 2023, 1:26pm PST
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Update: The Panthers lost to the Buccaneers and are eliminated from the playoff picture.
The Carolina Panthers are 6-9, but head into Week 17 with a chance to take over first place in the NFC South. The division has been a dumpster fire and the Panthers seemed to be moving into a rebuilding period, but interim head coach Steve Wilks has the team playing well heading into their Week 17 showdown with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET at Raymond James Stadium and the Panthers are a field goal road underdog at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Panthers playoff chances
Odds to make playoffs: Yes +300, No -400
Remaining opponents: Week 17 @ Bucs, Week 18 @ Saints
It's not an easy road these final two weeks, but the Panthers control their own fate (as much as one can control fate!). If they win out, they clinch the NFC South title and the No. 4 seed. If they beat the Bucs in Week 17 but lose to the Saints in Week 18, they could still clinch the division if the Eagles beat the Saints in Week 17 and the Falcons beat the Bucs in Week 18.
The Panthers are eliminated from playoff contention with a loss, but would remain alive in the rare event of a tie.
Current playoff standings
1. Buccaneers, 7-8
2. Panthers, 6-9
3. Saints, 6-9
4. Falcons, 5-10
6. New York Giants 8-6-1
7. Washington Commanders, 7-7-1
8. Seattle Seahawks, 7-8
9. Detroit Lions, 7-8
10. Green Bay Packers, 7-8
11. Carolina Panthers, 6-9
12. New Orleans Saints, 6-9
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How Spider-Man and Assassin's Creed Odyssey made the real world your sandbox
2019-03-25 17:00:00by Jill Grodt
Ever wonder what it takes to enjoy swinging through high-rises and slashing through ruins?
There are games that let us fulfill our fantasies of pointing off into the distant horizon and follow our curiosity. They let us traverse, on and off the beaten track, to discover what lies just beyond our vision. Games like Skyrim or Breath of the Wild place towering mountains and monolithic structures within the gamer-explorer's grasp and give us amazing tools to reach them, like sure-footed steeds or sweeping hang gliders.
In a fantasy world, what you can find in a game is limited only by the developers' imagination and the technology they use to execute their designs. The challenge to create awe-inspiring sandboxes is infinitely increased, however, when those spaces of play are rooted in reality. Nonetheless, games like Spider-Man and Assassin's Creed Odyssey take up the challenge. This year at GDC, both Insomniac and Ubisoft held talks detailing exactly what they faced in recreating real life for our sandboxes.
Tackling Real Life
In recreating reality, sometimes the reality part flies in the face of playability and aesthetic goals. As Matthew MacAuliffe, material artist on Spider-Man, put it, in an open-world sandbox, "everything is big, and everything is a problem."
Insomniac wanted Spider-Man's world to be hyper-realistic, but also retain that Marvel superhero sheen. The game already required some suspension of disbelief -- your main mode of transportation through the city is web-slinging -- but keeping the world believable was a major focus. One problem with this for Spider-Man came when designing the city at night.
Senior lighting artist Brian Mullen described New York at night as obviously dark but having a vibrant nightlife. Also, as anyone who has played Spider-Man will know, there are a lot of collectibles. The backpacks were especially difficult for the night-time designers because Peter Parker had hidden them all over the city and not always in the most well-lit of spaces. The Spider-Man team faced the problem of needing to have darkness, visibility, and vibrancy all at the same time. So, as Mullen explained, night in the game, "departed the most from reality" as he and his team played around with slightly unrealistic lighting solutions that didn't break player immersion.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey had a similar problem when translating the real world into a sandbox. First, they also wanted to build a city that felt real and lived in, but, lacking a time machine, had no example of a living ancient Greek town. So, Ubisoft got the next best thing to a time machine: Dr. Stéphanie-Anne Ruatta, who became their in-house historian. Dr. Ruatta coached the team on everything from architecture to mythology. In an unusual move, they ended up splitting their team into level design and world design, so that one half of the team could put all their resources towards making the world as absolutely perfect as possible, while the other half of the team could focus on what created the most fun for the player. Luckily, their historian was there to guide them. "When we went too far with creativity," said art director Thierry Dansereau, "she would rein us back in."
Conjuring Atmosphere
Lighting assists in the overall storytelling in a subtle but vital way. The best lighting in a game enhances the players' experience, without calling attention to itself. Despite the thankless nature of the job, lighting artist on both Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Spider-Man contributed monumentally to crafting a believable sandbox.
To give every neighborhood its own feel in Spider-Man, they gave each one its own palette. Hell's Kitchen's street lights tended towards the warmer shades while the Financial District had LED-lit streets. To make life-like lighting conditions, the Spider-Man creators went out with an SLR camera to take pictures in both lighted and shaded areas, to get a base-line for the game. The disparity turned out to be too stark, making the light from the in-game sky appear blindingly white if the player were standing in a deeply shaded alley.
One of the most beautiful aspects of Spider-Man's sandbox is the way that the light plays across the surface of the buildings. Mullen explained how the team created those effects by splitting the lighting into four different locked types: day, sunset, overcast, and night.
The hardest by far, he asserted, was overcast. When everything is grey and bleak, it is less inspiring for both creators and players. He combated this by turning up the lighting contrast and shifting everything towards a greener tone. That way, he could still support the more somber story beats while highlighting the developers' work on the city. His favorite time was sunset and the golden hour. During this time, as Mullen put it, warm and cool colors create a visually interesting mix and the designers were able to play around with those spectacular god rays. The only problem? This type of light is the most prone to showing off little mistakes, sometimes from buildings blocks and blocks away, making it hard to find the source of the problem and fix it.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey had a somewhat different lighting challenge. While the team paid consideration to how natural sunlight in the game works in tandem with the various structures players could interact with, you can imagine they were more concerned with how the player would see in the ancient world at all. The only light source of the time being fire, game makers had to decide how the players would traverse dark areas, like the caves predominantly built by level designers to give players fun explorable spaces with important collectibles throughout the world. Ubisoft also wanted to deviate from other popular depictions of ancient Greece as being de-saturated, monochromatic, and flat, so vibrancy was key.
Creating Spaces
Ubisoft went all-out to faithfully recreate the ancient Greek world. They decided a group trip to Greece was essential to their creative vision. If only I'd thought to convince someone that writing this article absolutely hinged on a week-long trip to Greece. However, when the Ubisoft team made their trip, they took over 13,000 pictures to use as a reference for their urban hubs and the seven unique biomes they would create for the game. Though the fact that many buildings they wanted to recreate had long turned to dust -- temples and structures made of wood, for example -- it actually turned out to be an unexpected gift. With no pre-formed picture to emulate, the developers could bring in a little of their own flair. Much to the team's delighted surprise, most of the art for the ancient Greek world was vibrantly painted. This encouraged them to create pops of color in a world often depicted as having only stark white marble.
While they both had vastly different time periods to cover, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Spider-Man developers each admitted to sharing one tool: Google Earth. The street view function allowed Ubisoft to study ancient Greek ruins and the Insomniac team to explore New York City anytime they wanted.
The Spider-Man developers knew they wanted to reflect the variety of different cultures found in NYC in their game and that portraying the neighborhoods accurately would be important to telling the story of the world. To do this, the city was broken down into districts, which in turn were broken down into smaller neighborhoods. This allowed them to create micro-stories artistically for each place. The art direction was set for each neighborhood and then the districts further refined their own personalities, though staying true to the larger neighborhood's aesthetic.
The most frequently used textures for Spider-Man were, unsurprisingly, roads, sidewalks, and rooftops. But since each neighborhood had its own feel, the textures would eventually meet at a shared border. During their initial development, those converging zones just look like a wild clashing of different and jarring aesthetics. To solve this problem, the developers decided to create a shared layer of asphalt underneath each neighborhood's unique formula that would increasingly show through as they reached one of these shared borders, creating a satisfyingly homologous look without sacrificing each spaces individuality.
I admit that when I went into this talk, I didn't care about tiny details like how Insomniac blended together asphalt textures or how Assassin's Creed Odyssey's caves were built, but during the talks, both teams put the question to us: why is it important to get these minor details? Why not just place generic buildings and call it good? Insomniac's senior environment artist answered the question in the first few minutes. He insisted it was because these uniquely crafted spaces created a sandbox that rang true to real life, engaging the player in a way that a generic New York skyscraper simply wouldn't have been able to. The key to translating the real world, from Assassin's Creed Odyssey's ancient streets to Spider-Man's modern Manhattan, into a sandbox is all in the details.
Jill GrodtContributor gamer profile
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When your team needs a little inspiration, Spain is a treasure chest of unique experiences. It's a country fit for envy-inducing journeys.
The most effective travel incentives are those that motivate, encourage and reward through a variety of activities and experiences that enlighten while they inspire. We bring you a selection of travel incentives care of Independent Traveler that aren't only uniquely Spanish but also sure-hits.
Essentially, a parador is a monastery or 14th-century Arab fortress that's been converted into a luxury hotel. Paradors are located across Spain and offer a rare throwback in time, with many showcasing original Moorish features, tilework and architectural gems. They can be a pricey option but undoubtedly offer an experience not to be forgotten.
For a team full of foodies (and less face it, who isn't?), a sensational culinary experience in the Basque country is a must. As Independent Traveler highlights, "Sharing a meal with loved ones is enormously important to the Basque people and is evident in the popularity of gastronomy clubs and pintxos (the Basque version of tapas) bars." For a fun group activity, why not opt for a regional culinary tour or cooking course? Available throughout Spain, sample the delights of each territory as you travel through it.
What better way to develop teamwork than to literally band together to form a tower? Learn from the experts in Catalonia where building human towers (or more commonly knowns a castells) is a tradition. In a town square, groups gather to climb onto each other's shoulders to build as sturdy a tower as possible. These towers can stretch up to 10 levels high, with kids sitting on the top, fortunately wearing safety helmets. "The practice, which has been passed down from generation to generation of Catalonians for about two centuries, is a striking feat of bravery, balance and strength, and has been recognized by UNESCO as an example of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity." Local workshops are available for those looking to learn the tricks to forming human pyramids.
Allow your team to immerse themselves in the evocative spirit of this soulful dance. Since the 18th century, the rhythm and pull of the flamenco dance has been luring in none-the-wiser men and women with its hypnotic allure. Born of a combination of Andalusian and Romani musical styles, the flamenco was declared "one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO. Arrange lessons for your team in Madrid and throughout Spain. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains there is a one-week course for those serious about acquiring the moves.
Of course, when it comes to travel incentives, nothing beats a little beach side luxury. After a whirlwind tour of Spain's most unique experiences, reward your team with some well-deserved rest in Spain's very own answer to paradise: Calpe. With luxury spas, sumptuous accommodation, quality cuisine and views for days, Calpe is the perfect spot to unwind, debrief and brainstorm in an environment where you team can feel more relaxed than ever.
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Guy Harvey Introduces Exclusive Shark Awareness Day Shirt
To commemorate Shark Awareness Day on Sunday, July 14 and just in time for this summer's shark celebration, world-renowned artist, scientist, conservationist and entrepreneur Dr. Guy Harvey has designed an exclusive limited-edition Great White Shirt available for purchase at https://www.guyharvey.com/2019-shark-collection.html.
The Great White Shirt features a pen and ink white shark design on the back with the iconic jaws on the front left chest. Men's short sleeve shirts are priced at $25 and long sleeve performance shirts for men and women are priced at $45.
"Sharks are iconic sea creatures that play a vital role in the health of our oceans," says Dr. Harvey. "That's why it is so important for us to fund scientific research. We must continue to protect our precious marine life and the ocean ecosystem."
As with all Guy Harvey official merchandise, a portion of proceeds from the sales of Shark Awareness Day shirts benefit the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, a non-profit organization that conducts scientific research and hosts educational programs aimed at conserving the marine environment.
Also available through the month of July is:
a unisex, waterproof whale shark bracelet with a steel charm, made from post-consumer recycled plastic and glass, in partnership with 4ocean, available at com/4Oceans-collection.html and https://4ocean.com/whale-shark-bracelet/ and priced at $20; and
commemorative Guy Harvey-designed whale shark short and long sleeve shirts priced from $25-$28 and long sleeve men's and women's performance shirts priced from $25-$45, available at com/4Oceans-collection.html.
Follow Guy Harvey on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DrGuyHarvey or Twitter and Instagram at @DrGuyHarvey.
About Guy Harvey
Guy Harvey is a unique blend of artist, scientist, diver, angler, conservationist and explorer, fiercely devoted to his family and his love of the sea. His childhood passion for the ocean and its living creatures not only inspired him to draw, but fueled a burning interest that prompted a formal education in marine science. Having graduated with honors in Marine Biology from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1977, Guy returned home to Jamaica to resume his education, earning his Ph.D. from the University of the West Indies in 1984. Though he gave up a budding career as a marine biologist for that of a highly acclaimed artist, Guy has continued his relentless pursuit to unravel the mysteries of the sea, traveling the world to better understand the habits and habitats of the marine wildlife he paints. For more information, please visit www.guyharvey.com. Follow Guy on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DrGuyHarvey, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/DrGuyHarvey, connect on Instagram at www.instagram.com/drguyharvey, on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/DrGuyHarvey, Snapchat @RealDrGuyHarvey, and tune in to see Guy's latest expeditions on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/DrGuyHarvey. Click here to add your own text
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Better nutrition of mothers, newborns and children in rural Tajikistan
Title: Mother Infant Child Nutrition (MICN) Project
Commissioned by: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Country: Tajikistan
Lead executing agency: Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP) of the Republic of Tajikistan
Overall term: 2016 to 2019
Malnutrition has been a problem in Tajikistan since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and there has been no significant improvement since the end of the civil war in 1997. The poor economic situation and the consequent high rate of unemployment means that Tajik households do not have sufficient access to income.
To improve the nutrition of mothers and children, Tajikistan joined the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) movement in 2013. This association of 60 nations aims to pool the activities performed in the respec-tive countries. Tajikistan also established a SUN platform in 2014 to coordinate the efforts of all Tajik stakeholders.
The nutrition of women of childbearing age, newborns and children has been improved in 20 villages of Khatlon Province.
The project works towards achieving a fundamental improvement in nutrition-related services in Tajikistan. It also increases the opportunities for lifelong learning in the field of nutrition.
One measure is to build up the institutional, human and organisational capacities of the public health centres. The project provides support in:
revising curricula for nurses and care personnel in relation to nutrition;
training nurses and care personnel whose core areas are working in the villages, one of the methods being tablet-based training;
supporting the Republican Centre for Family Medicine in the further training of personnel
establishing a Healthy Lifestyle Centre with specially trained volunteer nutritionists in villages.
The project additionally supports villages and schools in order to develop and implement a communication strategy which can alter traditional practices regarding food and hygiene. To this end, the project sets up counselling centres in the participating villages and schools.
Private households also receive advice from the project. Counselling centres provide information regarding a more balanced and varied diet in selected villages. In addition, mini-projects also help ensure improved dietary diversity.
Under the leadership of the national SUN Secretariat, all national stakeholders (such as ministries, private companies, civil society) have created, developed and adopted a strategy to implement the aforementioned measures.
60 volunteer nutritionists, selected by the residents of the villages, have completed a five-day training module and advised 4,215 villagers.
An experienced cook has conducted cookery courses in 20 villages. The courses mainly focused on preparing nutrient-rich meals from locally produced food in traditional ways, such as cooking with an open flame. Videos of all the recipes are available.
The project has revised the curricula for the participating schools; selected teachers have participated and worked through a two-day training module and integrated selected lessons into their teaching.
Three schools have organised events for Global Handwashing Day.
The project has conducted a basic study on the socio-economic situation of households in the participating villages. The study concentrated on access to clean water, the income situation and the level of education, among other things.
Working groups have been established in the villages to ensure an exchange of experience with regard to particularly successful agricultural methods.
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Game of the Week Preview: Callaway vs. Troup County
Since 2008, the rivalry between Callaway and Troup Couty has been evenly split.
Last year Callaway got the upper hand on Troup in a 42-24 win.
This year the Cavaliers have opened up their season with a grueling schedule in hopes of preparing the team for games like this one.
"We played two 4A and two 6A schools, so I feel like it makes us better. I think we've seen really good competition and we will see it again Friday night," says Callaway head football coach Pete Wiggins.
For Callaway they anticipate this game to be a hard fought battle with a lot of talent showcased on both teams.
"They got dudes, they got a lot of dudes, and that's one of the things we can counteract. I think we've got dudes that can match their dudes and we think it is going to work out in our favor," says Callaway senior offensive lineman Keiondre Jones.
One of those "dudes" he's talking about is Troup's quarterback Kobe Hudson.
"We have to keep him in the pocket and prevent him from getting up the field and making plays. We'll have to just watch out for him as well," says Callaway senior defensive lineman Destin Patrick.
For Troup County they see this game as a measuring stick for region play.
"It's a good test to see how good are we and I'm sure their coaches are feeling the same way and seeing the things we need to work on and seeing what each other exposes from one another, and so hopefully everybody comes out of it healthy and I think it will be a good game," says Troup County head football coach Tanner Glisson.
"You know it is going to be a huge environment. Everybody has been waiting on this game. The best teams in the state, probably going to be the big game in the state," says Troup County junior quarterback Kobe Hudson.
Both teams are 3-0 on the season and only one will walk off the field Friday undefeated.
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