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Q: Mongo "prealloc" files taking up room I'm trying to free up some space on an Ubuntu server running Mongo. I've attached a new, empty 8GB volume, and have the room to move stuff around.
I have several large (1GB) files in /var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc, is it safe to delete these or move them? If I can move them--can anyone give me a pointer on how to do this for Mongo?

A: Add "smallfiles=true" in the MongoDB configuration file.

A: So in theory, the prealloc files are preallocated journal files. This is opposed to in use journal files which have the format j._X, where X is a digit.
The goal here is to have "the next" file already allocated when the last file runs out of space. Pre-allocation is often much faster than on-demand allocation.

is it safe to delete these or move them?

The answer you seek is in the documentation here. The docs there seem to provide the key answer to your question:

prealloc files do not contain data, but are rather simply preallocated files that are ready to use that are truly preallocated by the file system (i.e. they are not "sparse"). It is thus safe to remove them, but if you restart mongod with journaling, it will create them again if they are missing.*

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First Official STEVE JOBS Trailer and Image are Here!
Reaction to "The Walking Dead" Season 3 Premiere!
Win Free Advance Screening Passes To RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET in Houston, TX
Devil May Cry HD Collection out now for the PS4, Xbox One and PC
Will Green Lantern Show Up on THE FLASH TV Series?
The Flash and Arrow tv shows have had their fair share of easter eggs and name drops of characters in the DC universe including Ferris Air, but one of the biggest Easter eggs was dropped in last night's episode of a The Flash when someone asks why Ferris air is always abandoned. Barry then mentions that it was closed due to a missing test pilot. For those of you who don't know, Ferris Air is where Hal Jordan a.k.a Green Lantern was a test pilot before becoming the hero.
There's no confirmation that Green Lantern would in fact come to the show but it's very interesting to know that somewhere Green Lantern exists. Now given that the hero won't hit the big screen until Justice League Part Two, and his solo film doesn't hit theaters until 2019, there's nothing to say we can't get a green lantern on the show. The TV show and Movie universes aren't connected and we already have Ezra Miller as The Flash and Grant Gustin on the TV show, so there's still a possibility that we can see Green Lantern on the small screen.
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The C-Word with Cosplayer Megan Golden
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Just like its landscapes and culture, South Africa has a wide range of accommodations on offer that suit different styles and pockets. You could cosy up in a lodge in the Drakensberg, or experience history in the hospitable guest houses in the Battlefields. Or why not hide away amongst the Big Five in the middle of the African bushveld in one of the game lodges? You could also experience the excitement of Cape Town, Durban or Johannesburg, by staying in one of the hotels.


Deacan is a consultancy firm providing common sense project management. We are expert project managers who have experience across a range of projects and industries.
Deacan's goal is to make projects work for you. We make things clear, simple and straightforward, and we only do what's really necessary. At Deacan we focus on what is needed in order to get the job done.
All Deacan people use our unique methodology of project management; you are assured of the same common sense approach every time.
Deacan Consulting was founded in 2008 by Collette Tully and Eddie Moloney. Collette came into project management from the banking sector, while Eddie's background is in IT and other technical environments. They have over 25 years of project management experience across many sectors.
Collette and Eddie had previously worked together a number of times and realised that they shared the same views about what good project management entailed. Importantly, they also recognised that they both really enjoyed what they do.
They put together their own project management methodology, using the best parts from recognised frameworks such as PMI, Prince2 and Six Sigma. They then enclosed this framework in a wrapper of common sense. This approach and methodology is both flexible and scalable, and is used by Deacan for all engagements.
Deacan's project managers are all highly experienced, having held senior positions in industry before moving into full-time project management. Deacan's consultants have experience managing projects across a wide range of industries, arming them with valuable subject matter expertise.
We regard our employees, consultants and clients, past and present, as being part of a Deacan family. We enjoy sharing our knowledge and experience as well as keeping in touch long after the job is done.


Day two of the 2014 Reggae in the Hills started off much earlier in comparison to Friday's 3pm start. Saturday's festivities began roughly at 11am, with the crowd half bright-eyed and ready to party, while the other half massively hung over from the night before, presumably from the after-party which went on until the early morning. The lineup for day two included heavy hitting acts such as Luciano, Tribal Seeds, Marlon Asher, Junior Reid and many more spread across two stages throughout the day.


Anarkism, brandbomber och vhs-fragment i Camila José Donosos estetiska experiment som genom innovativ klippning leker med fiktion och verklighet.
Den 65-åriga Nona lär sig tillverka molotov-cocktails för att kunna ta hämnd på sin gamle älskare. Efter brandattentatet tvingas Nona fly från Santiago. Plötsligt börjar mystiska bränder blossa upp på landsbygden utanför staden, men Nonas roll i händelserna är inte helt självklar. Camila José Donoso (Naomi Campbel, GFF 2014) regisserar den fascinerande historien med en särpräglad, uppklippt visuell stil som delvis för tanken till Verano, ett annat modernt mästerverk från Chile. Ibland visas fragment av både dåtid och framtid tätt intill varandra, eller så repeteras en identisk dialog två gånger i rad med olika bilder. Titelrollen är inspirerad av regissörens egen mormor.
Camila José Donoso was born in Chile in 1988. She studied film and directed several shorts and video performances. As a director and screenwriter, she made Naomi Campbel (FICValdivia and CPH:DOX, 2013) and Casa Roshell (Berlinale, 2017), both of which were screened and awarded at many film festivals. In 2016, she founded and created Transfrontera, an encounter between Chile, Peru and Bolivia centering around film and politics, attended by such people as Ignacio Agüero, among others. She will soon release her third film, Nona, si me mojan, yo los quemo.
Nona comes from the intimate relationship I have with Josefina Ramirez, an extraordinary woman who turns out to be my grandmother. I wrote Nona with the desire of depicting a woman like I would depict a generation that was scarred by numerous struggles in this country, which lies stuck between the cordillera and the ocean. The script grounds itself in real life events, but also imaginary ones, re-created ones, from Josefinas life, and they are motley and intriguing. In my first movie, Naomi Campbel, which was a documentary portrait of a transsexual woman, fiction occurred discreetly. In Nona, fiction outpowers the real world, even though every single element is derived from Josefinas life. I wanted Nonas character to have depth. I wanted the viewer to discover Nona like I knew her; a grandma, an extravert housewife who occasionally lied, a fickle woman, but all of that that was far from the pyromaniac femme fatale I later discovered. I wanted the viewer to be able to live in Nonas intimacy, without judgment: for Nonas beauty also dwells in that complexity, that ambivalence of her character. It is astonishing to picture this old lady with a Molotov cocktail in her hand. From today's perspective, I look at the scars that my country's history has left on people, how it created seemingly quiet characters but deeply broken, and sometimes violent. This is a reflection from the present as my generation lives it; like Nonas life, which seems quiet and tidy, Chiles situation seems quiet and prosperous.
Josefina Ramírez, Eduardo Moscovis Gigi Reyes, Paula Dinamarca.


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Balachandran, Prasanna
My interests are in materials informatics, density functional theory, machine learning, bayesian inference, and optimal design methods applied to accelerate the search and discovery of novel 2D materials, metallic alloys, ferroic and electronic materials.
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Materials Informatics Group
Bart-Smith, Hilary
Professor Bart-Smith joined the University of Virginia faculty in the fall of 2002. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland and her PhD degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. Dr. Bart-Smith came to UVA...
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Bart-Smith Labs
Blemker, Silvia Salinas
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Silvia Blemker uses experimental and computational models to characterize the relationships between muscle structure, biomechanical properties, biology, and function in order to develop new treatments for musculoskeletal disease. She did her undergraduate and Master's work in Biomedical...
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Multiscale Muscle Mechanophysiology ("M3") Lab
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Chang, Cindy
Professor Chang joined UVA as an Associate Professor in December 2018. Prior to her position at UVA, Dr. Chang was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. Dr. Qing (Cindy) Chang's research has focused on improving sustainability and efficiency of smart...
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Chelliah, Harsha K.
Professor Chelliah joined the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1992. He received his B.Sc. degree (First-Class Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka in January 1981, MS degree in Mechanical...
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Crandall, Jeff R.
Professor Crandall served as the Director of the University's Center for Applied Biomechanics from 1994 to 2019. His research focuses on understanding human response and injury with applications in automobile safety, sports, and military protection. He has extensive experience with experimental...
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Dedic, Chloe
Dedic received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. After graduation she worked as a visiting scientist with the National Institute of Aerospace at NASA Langley Research Center and joined the University of Virginia in the spring of 2018. Dedic is...
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Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
Professor Dong joined UVA as an Associate Professor in August 2012. Prior to his position at UVA, Dr. Dong was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Wright State University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA in 2003. After completing his doctorate...
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Exercise of authority and responsibilities by the Director General is derived from and consistent with the Ghana Health Service Act1996, Act 525 sections 3 & 11 as well as authority and responsibilities delegated by the immediate superiors. Additional functions envisaged include the representation of the interest of the Ghana Health Service to external organisations, the Ministry of Health, other agencies and donors. Though functions and authority needed to execute these functions has been delegated to the Deputy Director General, Divisional and Regional Directors, the Director General is not absolved of responsibility for this functions. In effect, the Director General as head of the Ghana Health Service Executive mediates inter- divisional issues and inter-corporate affairs and discrepancies and may re-allocate responsibilities and functions as may be appropriate in consultation with the Deputy Director General and relevant Directors.
The functions of the Secretary to Council are determined in Act 525, 1993. Without prejudice to the provisions of the relevant sections, the functional responsibility of any officers in the Director General's office does not translate into an administrative authority or responsibility over the Divisions, Regional Directorates or their subordinate Departments, units or sections. Such an authority remains with the Director General and/or the Deputy Director General.


This doctoral consortium is open to doctoral students at all levels of study. It offers an interactive forum where "seasoned" faculty share insights with young scholars seeking to maximize the potential impact of their research and teaching in organizational communication; it is also a venue for discussing professional and career issues relevant to doctoral students. The goal is to have participants leave with valuable advice and direction as they begin productive careers in organizational communication.
Over the history of the organizational communication field, the status of its central notion--communication--has generated significant debate. Though many acknowledge that communication is best understood as a complex and dynamic practice, our studies have frequently studied fairly conventional units of analysis: individuals, groups, organizations, links, messages, and the like. As the "practice turn" and the "ontological turn" gain steam among organizational communication scholars, analysts are increasingly challenged to relinquish their dependence on entities and their attributes and, instead, to re-imagine working and organizing such that our gaze remains always on communicative practice.
There are, of course, a wide array of approaches to studying and representing practice, but communication scholars still encounter significant challenges when they argue for the constitutive power of distinctly communicative practices. These challenges arise as we gather data and produce interpretations of those data, but they also influence numerous other scholarly activities. Specifically, they infuse our interactions with university colleagues (not to mention interviewers during the job search process), affect the accessibility of our pedagogy, and shape our stakeholder engagements in research and applied settings.


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Immortal Dominion names new timekeeper, adds guitarist
Dave Herrera | June 24, 2009 | 8:55am
A little over a month ago, we reported that Immortal Dominion was seeking a new drummer to fill the slot vacated by Ben Huntwork, who parted ways with the group after fifteen years. Evidently, Huntwork was displeased with the band's decision -- at the behest of producer Sterling Winfield -- to enlist a studio drummer to record the Primortal, the act's latest effort. After a brief search, the outfit has named Ben Mangina, formerly of Apt 213, Do Unto Others and Crimson Reigns, as its new timekeeper. And while they were at, the members of Immortal also added another guitarist to the fold. Louis Micciullo, a six-stringer whose earned accolades for his video game composing work and film scores and played previously with Yog Sothoth and Skinned, has landed the co-staring role of FNG alongside Mangina in Immortal Dominion.


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Q: Polymer 1.x: Formatting paper-icon-button-lite How do I format the paper-icon-button-lite to match the paper-icon-button? (i.e., No outline and no shadow.) How did they accomplish this in this paper-icon-button-lite demo? Whatever they did, it apparently was not necessary in this paper-icon-button demo. Why not? What am I missing?
Here is my jsBin.

http://jsbin.com/vatuyopodu/1/edit?html,output

<!doctype html>

  <meta name="description" content="iron-data-table beta3">
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <base href="https://polygit.org/components/">

  <link href="polymer/polymer.html" rel="import">
  <link href="paper-icon-button/paper-icon-button.html" rel="import">
  <link href="paper-icon-button/paper-icon-button-lite.html" rel="import">

  <dom-module id="x-foo">
     <template>

        <paper-icon-button src="https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/logos_page/Octocat.png" alt="octocat" title="octocat"></paper-icon-button>
        paper-icon-button

        <button is="paper-icon-button-light" title="octocat">

        </button>
        paper-icon-button-lite

How do I format the paper-icon-button-lite to match the paper-icon-button? (i.e., No outline and no shadow.) How did they accomplish this in the demo? What am I missing?

        Here is the demo.
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A: Adding transparent background and removing border to  button[is=paper-icon-button-light] should do the trick
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    width: 40px;
    height: 40px;
    padding: 8px;
    margin: 10px;
    border:none;
    background-color:transparent;
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<link href="polymer/polymer.html" rel="import">
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<link href="paper-icon-button/paper-icon-button-lite.html" rel="import">

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      <paper-icon-button src="https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/logos_page/Octocat.png" alt="octocat" title="octocat"></paper-icon-button>
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Hi – I've a M-Trax 420 Dynatech. I've had it c 20 years. Bought it secondhand in 2007. It has almost all its original components, but I can't find the spec anywhere for bottom bracket etc. Want to undertake some maintenance but before I dive in want to ensure I can get suitable replacements. Any help appreciated.


JINJA: City prominent lawyer and Managing Partner at Waibale Advocates, Alex Waibale breathed his last Saturday afternoon at his home in Jinja.
Waibale served as Jinja West MP from 1980 to 1985.
The law icon, further, served as chairperson of the National Consultative Council, the second Parliament of Uganda in 1980 replacing Edward Rugumayo after he absconded from the chair.
Waibale resigned his Speakership after only four months following disagreement with the leadership.
Waibale returned to the limelight when he appeared before the Bamughemereire led commission of inquiry into land disputes.
The lawyer was accused of mismanaging land titles in the care of Jinja District.
He is survived by a widow and seven children.


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Expulsive medical therapy enhances post-ESWL outcomes
San Antonio--Results of a prospective, randomized, controlled study undertaken by Italian urologists indicate that expulsive medical therapy is a useful adjunct to extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in the treatment of ureteral stones.
San Antonio-Results of a prospective, randomized, controlled study undertaken by Italian urologists indicate that expulsive medical therapy is a useful adjunct to extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in the treatment of ureteral stones.
Fifty patients were randomized to the control group and received ketorolac (Toradol) twice daily for 7 days after the procedure to control pain and inflammation; 63 patients were randomized to receive ketolorac plus expulsive medical therapy for 14 days using the calcium channel blocker nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia), 30 mg/day for patients with upper or middle ureteral stones, and the alpha1-adrenergic antagonist tamsulosin (Flomax), 0.4 mg/day for patients with lower ureteral stones.
The primary endpoint was attainment of a stone-free condition, defined as complete stone clearance or the presence of residual fragments <3 mm. Results from follow-up, which included renal ultrasonography and radiograph of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder performed after 30 and 60 days, showed that patients receiving expulsive medical therapy achieved a significantly higher stone-free rate than controls (84.1% vs. 54%) and at a significantly earlier time following ESWL.
One key aspect of treatment
"This controlled study confirms previous reports regarding the efficacy of expulsive pharmacologic therapies for facilitating ureteral stone expulsion after ESWL. Based on its effectiveness and safety, we believe such therapy is suitable to improve the overall outcomes of ESWL," said Dr. Micali.
"Importantly, however, medication is just one component of our treatment for ureteral stones. The use of a good lithotripter with sufficient force to break the stones is the foundation for achieving good results. We also believe it is important to encourage patients to drink a lot of water to help flush out the fragments," he added.
Dr. Micali's group chose to study nifedipine for upper and middle ureteral stones and tamsulosin for lower ureteral stones on the basis of existing reports describing the use of these drugs for stones in those particular locations. Although corticosteroids also have been used in a combination approach in some other studies, the only other treatment administered in this trial was ketorolac.
The researchers also analyzed stone-free outcomes based on stone location. For each of the three ureteral sites, there were statistically significant differences favoring use of expulsive medical therapy. For patients with upper ureteral stones, the stone-free rate was 77.7% (14/18) in the treated group compared with 47.3% (9/19) for controls. A stone-free rate of 94.1% (16/17) was achieved in patients treated with nifedipine for middle ureteral stones compared with 60% (6/10) for the controls, and 82.1% (23/28) of patients who received tamsulosin for treatment of lower ureteral stones became stone-free compared with only 57.1% (12/21) of controls.
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'Good copy'. It's a radio acknowledgement used by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) drivers and watchmen in Jahun, Nigeria. It's a simple response that mixes together 'Roger', 'Affirmative' and 'Reading you loud and clear'.
I heard the term mostly when returning to base from the hospital.
The driver would notify the base of our approach, and the crackling response of "Good copy" assured us that a guard would be ready to open the gate when we pulled up at the compound moments later.
"The phrase carries a certain 'esprit de corps' – a way of saying 'this is a Jahun thing - a Médecins Sans Frontières thing - and I'm part of it.'"
The term was also used by enthusiastic international staff trying to get into the swing of things, and as a light-hearted affirmative response to any question e.g. "Shall we have a coffee?" "Good copy".
As such, the phrase carried a certain 'esprit de corps' – a way of saying "this is a Jahun thing - a Médecins Sans Frontières thing - and I'm part of it."
The significance of that would soon become apparent.
The national staff were mainly from the south—Lagos, Abia, Rivers. Some had worked with MSF before, but all were fulfilling a long held dream to work for the NGO whose foundation was laid in Nigeria.
The international staff were a mixed bunch: an Indian, a Pakistani, a Liberian, a Congolese, a Brazillian, a Japanese, a Kiwi, a couple of Aussies, a Somali, and a Chilean born Italian obstetrician and gynaecologist who used to live in Australia but now lives in London – Dr Carlos Pilasi.
MSF's Dr Uche Daniel and Dr Carlos Pilasi, conducting an ultrasound on a patient prior to obstetric surgery, in Jahun hospital, northern Nigeria.
Carlos and I were in Jahun for two weeks to film as many emergency obstetric surgeries as we could.
Our aim was to produce a series of training videos to help equip and prepare MSF surgeons going to any project where emergency obstetric surgery is likely to happen.
The rationale is simple: a lack of adequate and affordable healthcare means women do not seek or have access to antenatal care during pregnancy. The result is that obstetric cases seen in places like Jahun are rarely seen in the west.
Validating our project was one recently retired obstetrician and gynaecologist who remarked that he had worked his entire career and never seen what he had in his few weeks in Jahun.
"The more prepared our obstetricians and gynaecologists can be - the more they know what they will encounter, the more familiar they are with correct procedures, and the more they understand the resource limitations - the better."
And that underpinned our purpose: the more prepared our obstetricians and gynaecologists can be—the more they know what they will encounter, the more familiar they are with correct procedures, and the more they understand the resource limitations—the better.
Jahun was chosen because the project exists purely for obstetric care. With more than 1,000 admissions every month we knew we would capture a significant number and variety of cases.
By the end of our two weeks, we had filmed 21 emergency and life-saving obstetric surgeries.
Those cases included eclampsia, ruptured uteruses, obstructed labour, retained placentas, placenta abruption, peritonitis, molar pregnancies, prolapse, vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) and the list goes on.
Operating Theatre Supervisor, Samuel Uduma, preparing a syringe during surgery, in Jahun Hospital, northern Nigeria.
Every case was similar yet surgically different. But unfortunately some outcomes were inevitable – there were women whose lives were saved but who would never fall pregnant again.
And there were those whose lives would be at a significant risk if they did.
And every day there were stillbirths or newborns that never made it past their first few moments.
Jahun can be a tragic and horrifying place.
Yet paradoxically the nickname for Jahun is 'Paradise' because it exists as a quiet haven amidst a country caught in continuous conflict.
"Welcome to Jahun Paradise", I heard time and again.
It was a name I had an increasingly difficult time reconciling to what I was filming.
Yet it is to this 'paradise' that so many women choose to travel.
Unity Sylvester, the VVF Supervisor agrees. "They come here because most of them are not very well-to-do," she said, understating the intense poverty of the region. "And they get testimonies from others that we really give them care – maximum care – more than they could get from any other facility in the country.
And come they do, from as far away as the capital Abuja to the south, or crossing over from conflict-ridden Borno state to the east, Kano state to the west or from neighbouring countries like Niger to the north.
So as conflict continues amid the ever-present threat and uncertainty of Boko Haram; and as a desperate malnutrition crisis unfolds; and as Nigeria's health system struggles under intense need and financial hardship, it is little wonder that our project in Jahun seems like paradise.


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Giurgița è un comune della Romania di 3.128 abitanti, ubicato nel distretto di Dolj, nella regione storica dell'Oltenia.

Il comune è formato dall'unione di 3 villaggi: Curmătura, Filaret, Giurgița.

Collegamenti esterni

Comuni del distretto di Dolj

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Q: Python / Tkinter Grid - Placing PNG Labels below Entry boxes Here's the code I am using (one example):
import os
import win32api
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
from tkinter import filedialog
from PIL import ImageTk, Image
#...
def mainloop():

    root = Tk()
    mainframe = ttk.Frame(root)
    mainframe.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky=(N,W,E,S))
    root.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
    root.rowconfigure(0,weight=1)
#...
    pillarImg = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open("pillars.png"))
    pillars_label = ttk.Label(root)
    pillars_label['image'] = pillarImg
#...
    rldir_entry = ttk.Entry(mainframe, width=40, textvariable=rldir)
    pillars_entry = ttk.Entry(mainframe, width=10, textvariable=Pillars)
#...
    rldir_entry.grid(column=0, row=0, columnspan=5, sticky=(W,E))
    pillars_label.grid(column=0, row=1, columnspan=2, sticky=(N,W,E,S))
    pillars_entry.grid(column=0, row=2, sticky=(W,E))
#...
    root.mainloop()

mainloop()

This code results in the two entry boxes being above the image, even though I set the grid to have the image between the two entry boxes...?
Here's a pic of what I mean:

A: Ahh I just figured it out.
here:
pillars_label = ttk.Label(root)

I added the label to root.
While here:
rldir_entry = ttk.Entry(mainframe, width=40, textvariable=rldir)

the entry boxes are in the mainframe. lol.


We are a team of independent, trained doulas serving the Kansas City Metro. In Kansas and Missouri, these fine women have had the privilege to assist over one hundred KC area families as they welcomed their babies.
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Walnuts are rich in omega-3 fats and contain higher amounts of antioxidants than most other foods.
Eating walnuts may improve brain health while also helping to prevent heart disease and cancer.
Add the walnuts to a food process and process until it's finely chopped then add the soaked bread and blend again.
Gradually add some of the stock while blending until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Add the mixture to a large saucepan. Add the remaining broth.
Mix together over medium heat and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes until it reaches a thicker creamy texture, if the sauce is too thick, add some water and mix well.
To make the garlic mixture, in a spray some oil or put 1 to 2 teaspoons oil in a pan, Add the garlic and the coriander and stir for 2 minutes then add to the sauce.
Serve with boiled chicken and rice.


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Probation is a workplace trial period
Discipline & dismissal
Probation periods are dealt with in some detail, in Section 8 of Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act (Code of Good Practice: Dismissal). To begin with, it is imperative that employers include a probation period in contracts of employment, and equally imperative that the process of probation is properly managed, so as to ensure that all the benefits from including a probation period in the employment contract, are realized.
Probationary periods are only applicable if they are specifically referred to in a contract of employment. Probation periods ought not automatically therefore form part of an employment relationship.
Section 8 of the Labour Relations Act begins by stating that "an employer may require a newly-hired employee to serve a period of probation before the appointment of the employee is confirmed". It continues that "the purpose of probation is to give the employer an opportunity to evaluate the employee's performance before confirming the appointment".
In Crawford v Grace Hotel (2000) 21 ILJ 2315 (CCMA) the purpose of probation was described as follows – "Employment decisions may, and, with hindsight, often do turn out to have been imprudently made, which is not surprising considering the limited information and knowledge of the (employee) available to the employer at the time of recruitment. It is to afford employers a reasonable opportunity to correct such errors in recruitment and selection without having to incur costs to the business, financial and otherwise".
Probation periods can vary in length, Schedule 8 of the Act deals with this in providing that "the period of probation should be determined in advance and be of reasonable duration. The length of the probationary period should be determined with reference to the nature of the job and the time it takes to determine the employee's suitability for continued employment". It follows that relatively uncomplex jobs will have a relatively short probation period, and more complex positions a longer probationary period. For example, when hiring a finance manager after completion of a year-end, it would be deemed reasonable for there to be a 12-month probation period, as it would take a further 12 months to assess the competence of the newly appointed financial manager in completing the next financial year end, which would be approximately 12 months after his or her appointment. The probation period for a switchboard operator, however, could be relatively short, as competence in the management of a switchboard could reasonably be assessed in a matter of weeks.
In the CCMA arbitration of Yeni v SACP (Case number: KN2250-97), it was noted that "the circumstances of the job relate to the nature of the job and the time it takes to evaluate the employee's suitability. A simple job with very little required skills will need a far shorter period than a high-powered job with special required skills to establish the employee's suitability of the job. A probation period could therefore be days or months depending on the circumstances".
Importantly a probationary employee's performance should be assessed during the course of the probationary period, with feedback on performance and compatibility being given to the probationary employee, at regular intervals. Schedule 8, Section 8 of the Labour Relations Act, deals with this in Section 8(e) which states that "during the probationary period, the employee's performance should be assessed. An employer should give an employee reasonable evaluation, instruction, training, guidance or counseling in order to allow the employee to render a satisfactory service. In practice, more especially regarding smaller employers, it is required that the employee is made aware of their shortcomings in performance, and given reasonable time to improve upon them.
Probationary employees should be informed of areas of performance which the employer is unhappy with, and given reasonable time to improve.
If, at the end of a probationary period, the employer is not entirely happy with the employee's overall performance, the employer is quite entitled to extend the probation period, to afford the employee further time to close performance gaps. This may only be done, however, after the employer has invited the employee to make representations and has considered any representations made".
The same applies to dismissal during, or at the end of, a probationary period.
Importantly, section 8(j) of Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act states that "any person making a decision about the fairness of a dismissal of an employee for poor work performance during or on expiry of the probationary period ought to accept reasons for dismissal that may be less compelling than would be the case in dismissals effected after the completion of the probationary period".


IN the early days of the automobile, nighttime drivers marked their presence with candles and lamps that burned kerosene or acetylene gas -- the sorts of devices that had been used on carriages and ships. Those early marker lamps were quickly replaced by focused electric headlamps that could light the road ahead, then by sealed-beam lamps in which the bulb, reflector and lens were housed in a single, reliable unit.
That classic round headlamp, the industry standard for decades, eventually acquired a rectangular shape. Then, in the early 1980's, Federal regulations allowed more powerful headlamps with replaceable halogen bulbs and conical reflectors like those of flashlights. These simple reflector headlamps have evolved into complex reflector lamps that have opened a world of possibilities for auto designers: While providing excellent forward illumination, they can be made in almost any shape or size.
Sealed-beam and halogen-bulb headlamps contain a glass or plastic lens with a focusing grid -- dozens of crisscross lines that organize the light into the broad, flat beam required by Federal standards. But with complex reflectors, the light is focused not by the lens, which is clear polycarbonate, but by the shape of the reflector around the bulb. The reflector may be smooth, gridded, faceted or a combination of textures. Made of lightweight, durable aluminized plastic, the reflectors shine brilliantly.
With the front lens transparent, a lighting designer can make the complex reflectors and the individual bulbs part of a car's front-end design, complementing or even replacing the traditional grille.
The shape of conventional optic headlamps is restricted by the need for the lens to focus the light; a radically curved lenses would end up being impractically thick. But with complex reflectors, which made their debut on the 1989 Honda Accord and are used today on a wide variety of domestic and import models, designers can make the headlamps match the smooth, almost seamless, aerodynamic shape of a car body.
Mike Dorogi, optical engineering manager for Osram Sylvania Products, a headlamp producer, said that because manufacturers and lighting suppliers were designing cars and parts with the same computer-aided-design software, they could make the lamps fit flush with body panels. And complex reflectors do not require aiming, as conventional sealed-beam headlamps do, because they are fitted precisely into a car's front end. Minor beam adjustments can be made under the hood.
With the arrival of complex reflectors, designers no longer have to find a place for a headlamp, another place for a turn signal and another place for a cornering lamp, since all three functions can be integrated into a single assembly, requiring fewer holes in the body, fewer wiring connectors, less wire and fewer switches and relays.
HIGH-INTENSITY DISCHARGE If you drive much at night, you have seen this technology, which can be used in either conventional or complex reflector designs, on the road. H.I.D. produces a distinctive, icy blue-white beam that cuts through darkness.
Whereas a conventional headlamp bulb produces light when a metallic filament is charged with electricity, H.I.D. lamps light up when electricity charges a sealed quartz vessel full of metal halides and xenon gas.
Since there is no filament to burn out, H.I.D. lamps never have to be replaced. Their light is three times more intense than that from conventional bulbs, and they use less power: a halogen headlamp bulb requires 55 watts to create about 1,000 lumens of light, while an H.I.D. source requires only about 35 watts to produce 3,000 lumens.
BMW introduced H.I.D. lamps in Europe in 1991 and in North America in 1993; Mercedes-Benz also offers H.I.D. lamps with conventional optics. The only car that combines a complex reflector with H.I.D. is the Lincoln Mark VIII coupe.
PROJECTOR BEAMS These round lamps, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, project an extremely clean and uniform light pattern, using conventional bulbs and reflectors along with a projector lens of clear, solid glass from 1 to 1.5 inches thick. Projector beams offer the designer a small, round shape (four per car: two main beams and two high beams), but the lamp package is deeper, heavier and more expensive than conventional lamps. Projector beams are used on a few models from Acura, BMW, Lexus and Porsche.
ZONED LENS A type of projector-beam lamp, the zoned lens uses concentric-circle optics -- akin to a lighthouse's piercing beam. With a diameter of 3.5 inches, the zoned lens is lighter and less expensive than a projector beam; the cheaper, lighter polycarbonate plastic lens is only 3 to 4 millimeters thick, compared with a projection beam's glass lens of 1 to 1.5 inches. This Osram Sylvania technology is expected to show up on a yet-unidentified 2000-model car.
HALOGEN INFRARED A technology that can be used with or without complex reflectors, H.I.R. headlamps were pioneered by General Electric's automotive lighting division. Hank Burgess, director of North American sales for the division, says this technology allows a regular halogen bulb to use energy generated by the filament, which would otherwise be wasted, as heat. The heat is reflected back onto the filament to create more energy for light. Dodge Viper sports cars use H.I.R. high-beam lamps, as do police cruisers and John Deere farm tractors.
LIGHT ENGINE This system marries fiber optic technology -- like the lights on the floor of an airliner -- with automotive lighting. Its ''engine'' is a single 70-watt light source -- it could be H.I.D. or H.I.R. -- that illuminates every lamp in the car. The light is distributed through fiber optic cables -- fiberglass filaments in tubes that can transmit light over long distances and around corners. At the end of each cable, the light could be focused differently, depending on use: lots of focused light for headlamps and taillights, medium amounts for interior lighting and tiny dots for instruments and gauges.
Mr. Burgess of G.E. says a car with light-engine technology will be on the road in 2001.


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Constitutive beta-catenin activation induces adrenal hyperplasia and promotes adrenal cancer development.
Evidence for an increased rate of cardiovascular events in patients with primary aldosteronism.
Comparison of adrenal vein sampling and computed tomography in the differentiation of primary aldosteronism.
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I think 2010 was just the beginning for the craft beer movement here in Houston and Texas as a whole with the emergence of Petrol Station, BRC, Queen Vic, Liberty Station and a few others along with Anvil. But not to leave out the stalwarts, Flying Saucer and the Gingerman. Houston has become a hotbed for craft beer and craft beer drinkers. The more establishments the merrier (except for my wallet) we'll all be.
Happy Hump Day, Dacano. See you at the bar?


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import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"net"

	"github.com/Cloud-Foundations/Dominator/lib/log"
	"github.com/Cloud-Foundations/Dominator/lib/srpc"
	proto "github.com/Cloud-Foundations/Dominator/proto/hypervisor"
)

func patchVmImageSubcommand(args []string, logger log.DebugLogger) error {
	if err := patchVmImage(args[0], logger); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Error patching VM image: %s", err)
	}
	return nil
}

func callPatchVmImage(client *srpc.Client, request proto.PatchVmImageRequest,
	reply *proto.PatchVmImageResponse, logger log.DebugLogger) error {
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	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
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		return err
	}
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		return err
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		}
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			logger.Debugln(0, response.ProgressMessage)
		}
		if response.Final {
			*reply = response
			return nil
		}
	}
}

func patchVmImage(vmHostname string, logger log.DebugLogger) error {
	if vmIP, hypervisor, err := lookupVmAndHypervisor(vmHostname); err != nil {
		return err
	} else {
		return patchVmImageOnHypervisor(hypervisor, vmIP, logger)
	}
}

func patchVmImageOnHypervisor(hypervisor string, ipAddr net.IP,
	logger log.DebugLogger) error {
	request := proto.PatchVmImageRequest{
		ImageName:    *imageName,
		ImageTimeout: *imageTimeout,
		IpAddress:    ipAddr,
	}
	client, err := dialHypervisor(hypervisor)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()
	var reply proto.PatchVmImageResponse
	err = callPatchVmImage(client, request, &reply, logger)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

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Castel Castagna ist eine Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern und liegt in der Nähe von Colledara und Tossicia in der italienischen Provinz Teramo. Die Ortschaft ist Mitglied der Comunità Montana Gran Sasso.

Geografie
Zu den Ortsteilen (Fraktionen) zählen Castagna Vecchia, Ronzano und Villa Ruzzi.

Die Nachbargemeinden sind: Basciano, Bisenti, Castelli, Cermignano, Colledara, Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia und Penna Sant'Andrea.

Die Gemeinde liegt rund 26 Kilometer vom Hauptort der Provinz, der Stadt Teramo und 38 Kilometer von der Adriaküste entfernt.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die Gemeinde verfügt über drei Kirchen: Chiesa parrocchiale di San Pietro Martire, Chiesa della Madonna della Grazie und Chiesa di Santa Maria in Ronzano.

Weblinks

 Offizielle Webseite der Gemeinde Castel Castagna (italienisch)
 Informationen über die Gemeinde Castel Castagna (italienisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in den Abruzzen
Weinbauort in Italien


The story out of Edmonton about the Queen's Court Justice Lawrie Smith dismissing a case against a scumbag, sorry, alleged scumbag, because the cop was "following his hunch" is outrageous.
Smith said, "Rather than use his head to honour the laws of this country, he (the officer) chose to follow his hunch." Let's see, the scumbag, sorry, alleged scumbag, is known to police as a gangbanger and dope dealer; he wasn't wearing a seatbelt so the officer used this as his reasonable grounds to stop the vehicle; the scumbag, sorry, alleged scumbag, couldn't speak properly because he had something jammed in his cheek; there were three other scumbags in the car with him. So, the cop investigated further and go figure, it turned out the scumbag, sorry, alleged scumbag, had eight spicballs secreted in his mouth. Surprise!
Gee, what a lucky hunch! Oh yeah, did I mention he was also known to police as a gangbanger and at the time of his arrest he had a handgun on him. Surprise! Hey, good hunch officer!
What nonsense. The cop was using the law to give him grounds to make the stop. He then found other grounds to make a search just as the law requires. Once done, he found what he knew he would all the while because the guy's a scumbag – sorry, sorry, alleged scumbag.
It's called good police work. Something this Judge, apparently, wouldn't recognize if it jumped up and bit her pampered posterior.
Ya gotta love the liberals….appoint 'em don't elect 'em….third world gov't at best.
Another judge who has chosen to offend common sense!
How can these people lay claim to have knowledge of what reasonable grounds are when they have little to no reason?
They don't appear to have any idea that police officers have amassed a wealth of street smarts which permit them to know when something is amiss. These are not "hunches", they are life preserving skills that are needed to protect the public and themselves.
A judge wouldn't know this as you don't need these skills when you live in a make believe world.
When you're in bed by 10:00 p.m and live a sheltered life, you wouldn't know what a gang member looks like and you don't have to be concerned about the thug putting the barrell of a gun in your face.
Not only should the Crown appeal this case, the police officer in question should file a complaint against this ignoramus. The officer used his head and got out of the situation without getting shot, he seized the gun and the dope and should be commended, not criticised by someone who wouldn't survive a week on the streets.
We should get photos of these scoundrels and post a wall of shame!
I guess the powers that be won't be satisfied until they take away every last tool we have at our disposal. I would define a hunch as a subtle observation based on experience and training. So I guess we have to now ignore good sense, training, experience and never detain anyone ever again!!!! God forbid we infringe on a CRIMINAL's "rights"!
Hello, he's GUILTY for crissakes!
Nice – the Judges are making themselves irrelevant to the average person.
Hey Buddy!, I found this information for you: "More stupidity from the Bench". Here is the website link: https://primetimecrime.com/more-stupidity-from-the-bench/. Thank you.


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AGO Celebrates Iconic Canadian Artist Group General Idea with Major Retrospective
Haute Culture to occupy AGO's contemporary tower through January 2012
"This is the story of General Idea and the story of what we wanted. We wanted to be famous, glamorous, and rich. That is to say, we wanted to be artists and we knew that if we were famous and glamorous we could say we were artists and we would be."
— General Idea, excerpt from "Glamour," FILE Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1, fall 1975.
(TORONTO – June 22, 2011) Next month, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will open an exhibition of unprecedented scale that celebrates the work of the Canadian artist group General Idea. Occupying more than 20,000 sq. ft. of Gallery space on the fourth and fifth floors of the AGO's Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art, Haute Culture: General Idea — A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994 will be on view July 30, 2011, through January 1, 2012. The exhibition features 336 works by the groundbreaking multidisciplinary group, including 107 works from the AGO collection, spanning their prolific and influential 25-year career.
Curated by Paris-based independent curator Frédéric Bonnet, Haute Culture is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to General Idea, a collaboration between artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal that began Toronto in 1969. The group's transgressive concepts and provocative imagery challenged social power structures and traditional modes of artistic creation in ever-shifting ways, until Partz and Zontal's untimely deaths from AIDS-related causes in 1994.
"General Idea is a truly seminal Canadian artist group whose diverse and increasingly influential production warrants deep and comprehensive consideration," says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO's Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO. "We are so pleased to mount an exhibition of their work on this large a scale, as I know that our visitors will find their exuberant and exacting vision to be intensely rewarding."
Haute Culture is organized around five themes central to the trio's production: "the artist, glamour and the creative process"; "mass culture"; "architects/archaeologists"; "sex and reality"; and "AIDS." In addition to the works on view inside the exhibition, the AGO will install the artists' two-metre-tall AIDS sculpture at the corner of Dundas West and Beverley streets. The lacquered metal sculpture, created in 1989, is based on Robert Indiana's 1970 LOVE sculpture and will be on view throughout the exhibition's run. Other highlights of Haute Culture include:
a selection of works that have not been exhibited in more than 25 years, including the installations Playing the Triangle, P is for Poodle and XXX (bleu).
documentation of The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant, a performance originally staged in the AGO's Walker Court, including a recently rediscovered 12-minute video clip from the performance;
Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, a gallery of 10 2.5 x 3-metre paintings depicting three neon-coloured poodles engaged in a variety of sexual positions;
elements from The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, including The Boutique, a dollar-shaped sales counter displaying various artist multiples, and Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion, an installation of 432 wall-mounted porcelain plates with television-style colour bars printed on them;
numerous large-scale photographic works, including Nazi Milk, P is for Poodle and Baby Makes 3; and
elements of their AIDS project, including paintings and wallpaper, which will be installed throughout the exhibition, recalling the posters, paintings, stamps and other iterations of the image that were circulated worldwide in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"Through a prolific creation, General Idea's body of work reveals a complex combination of reality and fiction, and of parody and rigorous cultural critique," says Bonnet. "Treating the image as a virus that infiltrates every aspect of the real world, the group set out to colonize it, modify it and so present an alternate version of reality. Their visionary influence has only become more apparent with the passage of time."
Haute Culture was first exhibited at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, from February 11 to May 29, 2011. The AGO's presentation of the exhibition is curated by David Moos, the Gallery's former curator of modern and contemporary art, and Georgiana Uhlyarik, the AGO's assistant curator of Canadian art.
A 224-page hardcover catalogue has been published to coincide with the exhibition. Edited by Bonnet, General Idea features more than 200 colour and black-and-white reproductions and includes contributions from Bonnet, Bronson and Moos, among others. Published by JRP|Ringier and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, the publication is available at shopAGO for $44.
AGO members receive exclusive early access to Haute Culture at the Members' Preview on Wednesday, July 27, from 10 am to 8:30 pm. AGO members receive unlimited free admission to the AGO's permanent collection, among other benefits and discounts. More information on AGO membership can be found at http://www.ago.net/membership.
Haute Culture: General Idea — A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994 is conceived and organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in conjunction with the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. The exhibition is generously supported by the Volunteers of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Thomas H. Bjarnason & Woodrow A. Wells and Paul E. Bain & Isa Spalding. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
With a permanent collection of more than 80,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block, along the Gallery's facade; and the feature staircase, spiralling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic African art gallery; from the cutting-edge works in the contemporary tower to Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
For more images and more information, contact:
Sean O'Neill, 416-979-6660 ext. 403, sean_oneill@ago.net
Antonietta Mirabelli, 416-979-6660 ext. 454, antonietta_mirabelli@ago.net
The AGO acknowledges the generous support of its Signature Partners: BMO Financial Group, Signature Partner of the Canadian Collection Program; Amex, Signature Partner of the Contemporary Collection Program; and Aeroplan, Signature Partner of the Photography Collection Program.
The Art Gallery of Ontario is funded in part by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture. Additional operating support is received from the Volunteers of the AGO, the City of Toronto, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts.
AGO to Present Major Exhibition of Picasso Works in 2012
In 2012, the Art Gallery of Ontario will present a major survey of masterworks by the most inventive and influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. The exhibition will be on view at the AGO for just 17 weeks, from May 1 through August 26, 2012.
AGO Exhibition Explores the Legacy and Future of Inuit Art
On April 2, the Art Gallery of Ontario will unveil a sprawling exhibition that displays for the first time highlights from one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Inuit art.
AGO Launches AbEx with Two Show-Stopping Events
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will celebrate the arrival of the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art with two major public events.
Tickets to AbEx On Sale April 30 at 10 am at the AGO
Tickets to Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art, which opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario on May 28, will go on sale to the public on April 30.
AGO to Present Masterworks by Pollock, Rothko, and Others from The Museum of Modern Art
Abstract Expressionist New York will go on view in summer 2011. Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Arshile Gorky. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning.
AGO and TDSB Team Up To Fuel Passion for Art
Hundreds of Toronto District School Board (TDSB) students and educators will be able to visit the Weston Family Learning Centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) each year for hands-on experience of art thanks to a new five-year partnership between the TDSB and the AGO.
Jeanne Beker Curates Special Exhibition for AGO's 2nd Annual Collector's Series
Canadian fashion icon shares personal collection of artwork November 15
Visionary Canadian Jack Chambers Celebrated at the AGO
Solo exhibition of the artist's life's works to open November 26


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Merson reveals results London Derby
Merson reveals results London Derby.
Paul Merson has predicted the outcome of the meeting between. Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League London derby game. This sunday night It is believed. That the pair will draw at the end of the match with a score of 2-2.
the gunners Which is currently leading the crowd with 44 points from 17 games play. Will visit Spurs, the 5th team in the table that has played 18 games with 33 points. Mikel Arteta won 3-1 at home last October.
Merson, who play for Arsenal in the 1990s and is now commentator and columnist for Sportkeeda, has made his predictions. This through the said website that
"I think Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka play brilliantly. Everyone has played outstandingly at Arsenal and that's why they've made their way up to this point. But on the other hand, I think Harry Kane can cause Arsenal problems and Arsenal can cause Tottenham problems as well.
"If Tottenham want to play defensively, Arsenal will immediately run out of ideas like they did against Newcastle and if Tottenham can be dangerous then Arsenal will be in trouble. "
"I don't see this game being preliminary. I hope Arsenal can take on Spurs. But I don't think they can do that. I gave it a 2-2 draw," Merson confirmed.
Tagged with: Arsenal, Bukayo Saka, London derby, Martin Odegaard, Merson, Mikel Arteta, Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur


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Armen Nalbandian (born April 6, 1978, in Manchester, England) is a British-born Armenian American jazz pianist, composer, author, and activist from Los Angeles, California.

Music
Highly influenced by Thelonious Monk, Nalbandian performs jazz, free and avant-garde jazz, improvised and experimental music. While his primary ensemble is the Armen Nalbandian Trio, he has led more than 30 different ensembles and composed over 1200 works ranging from music for string quartets, chamber music, orchestral music, electronic music, scores for theater, experimental hiphop, 'Conduction' pieces inspired by Butch Morris' approach, new Japanese and Armenian inspired folk music, and John Zorn inspired "game pieces" in addition to having performed a solo piano concert of Zorn's Masada music with the encouragement and blessing of the composer. His groups include the Armen Nalbandian Trio (with Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits), Armen Nalbandian V (with Jeff Parker Chris Speed, Eric Revis, and Alex Cline), and the Armen Nalbandian 3 (with Steve Lehman and Guillermo E. Brown).

He cites witnessing a Cecil Taylor performance at LA's Jazz Bakery when he was 19 years old as a turning point in his life and career.

He is the protege of jazz pianist John Hicks but also credits Bill Dixon and McCoy Tyner for being important teachers in addition to Charlie Haden, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins, Art Farmer, and Harold Land.

Nalbandian has worked with Billy Higgins, Han Bennink, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits, Bennie Maupin, Jeff Parker, Chris Speed, Steve Lehman, Guillermo E. Brown, Derek Keller, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Tony Dumas, Carl Allen, and Alex Cline.

Nalbandian is also known for his multidisciplinary collaborations in visual and fine art which include a four-year residency at the Fresno Art Museum where he served as music director and Artist-in-Residence. Additional collaborations have included compositions featuring poets Sunni Patterson, Lee Herrick, and Tim Z. Hernandez; as a member of Nino Moschella's touring band for The Fix and Boom Shadow, composing and arranging the Music of Mexico for the Fresno Philharmonic, and composing the score for The Artist's Repertory Theater production of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. He established his record label Blacksmith Brother in 2006.

In 2008, Nalbandian was named a finalist in the 2008 Gilles Peterson Worldwide Talent Search and has received praise from Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, and Matthew Shipp.

In 2011 and 2012, Nalbandian had multiple improvised performances with comedian Dave Chappelle at Yoshi's Jazz Club in  Oakland and San Francisco.

In 2017, Nalbandian premiered two new ensembles to add to his work with his trio with Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits and his solo piano work. The first, a new quintet named Armen Nalbandian V featuring Chris Speed, Jeff Parker, Eric Revis & Alex Cline and the Armen Nalbandian 3 with Steve Lehman & Guillermo E. Brown; loosely inspired by Cecil Taylor's trio with Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille.

In October 2017, he premiered a solo piano piece by Wadada Leo Smith entitled "Majestic".

Recordings

Armen
Released in March 2006, Armen was Nalbandian's debut album as a leader and the debut recording featuring the first Armen Nalbandian Trio. The recording features Nalbandian on piano, and contains five original compositions by Nalbandian, and five by other composers including the rarely performed Thelonious Monk composition "Oska T", and the traditional spiritual "This Train". Nalbandian's composition "Need" is dedicated to memory of pianist Kenny Kirkland.

Manchester Born
Manchester Born was released in November 2007 and features The Armen Nalbandian Trio. This was Armen Nalbandian's debut recording on the Fender Rhodes. The recording consists of ten compositions by Nalbandian and is dedicated to his mentor John Hicks, and in memory of Alice Coltrane and Andrew Hill.

Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off
Initially inspired by avant-garde drummer Chris Corsano's solo drum album The Young Cricketer and the music of Ikue Mori, Armen Nalbandian's first solo recording was named after a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and features Nalbandian on the "prepared" Fender Rhodes. The recording was made by Nalbandian performing primarily on the inside of the Fender Rhodes, treating it as a percussion instrument, manipulating the hammers with drum cymbals, snare drum heads, wrenches, mallets, and keys. Nalbandian also employed an analog delay pedal and a wah-wah pedal. The recording is completely improvised with the exception of the composition "Blues to Steve Lacy", which was composed by trumpeter Dave Douglas. The sound of the album has elicit comparisons to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and John Cage's prepared piano music. The album has been featured heavily on WFMU, called by Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press as "the best radio station in the country."

Tirez Sur Le Pianiste & To Repel Ghosts
To Repel Ghosts is an experimental electronic production and live album comprising eleven compositions by Nalbandian. The album is Nalbandian's second recording named after the work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. To Repel Ghosts was Nalbandian's first digital-only album, released exclusively on the artist's website in its first year. Nalbandian's album Tirez Sur Le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) was released nine months before and includes three compositions that also appear on To Repel Ghosts. The music on both albums has been compared to Kid A/Amnesiac-era Radiohead and the LA beat scene.

Coup de Grace
On August 23, 2011, Nalbandian released two distinctly different albums. The first, Coup de Grace, is a live recording featuring Nalbandian on piano and drummer Han Bennink in an improvised duet setting. Bennink, perhaps best known as one of the pivotal figures in early European free jazz and free improvisation, is the co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool (ICP). Nalbandian and Bennink conclude the performance with a rendition of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman".

In both concept and art direction, Coup de Grace references Peter Brötzmann's 1968 album Machine Gun, which also features Bennink.

Quiet As It's Kept
Quiet As It's Kept, is the first studio recording of the Armen Nalbandian Trio with Eric Revis on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. Nalbandian is featured on the Fender Rhodes. The trio recording contains first takes of solely original compositions by Nalbandian.

Nalbandian is among an elite group of artists that perform with the Revis/Waits tandem which include Peter Brötzmann, Tarbaby, Oliver Lake, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Revis' own Parallax Quartet (with Ken Vandermark and Jason Moran). Quiet As It's Kept has been featured Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW.

Surrounded by Snakes
On March 15, 2013, he released his 8th album, Surrounded by Snakes, a 13-song album consisting of original compositions that feature him in an experimental electronic setting with improvised solos. Nalbandian is the sole producer and instrumentalist on the album. The album artwork was designed by Joshua Asante of the Arkansas blues bands Velvet Kente and Amasa Hines. The album artwork was designed by Joshua Asante of the Arkansas blues bands Velvet Kente and Amasa Hines.

Time Waits
Inspired by the intimacy and sparseness of Keith Jarrett's album The Melody at Night, with You, Nalbandian released his first solo piano album, Time Waits, on May 23, 2014. It consists of eight compositions, including a reworking of "Conflicted" from his album Manchester Born. The additional material includes "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by Hoagy Carmichael and popularized by Frank Sinatra, "Ugly Beauty" by Thelonious Monk, and "Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead. Time Waits and Alis Grave Nil consist of performances recorded at Nino Moschella's Bird & Egg studio.

Alis Grave Nil
Nalbandian's tenth album, Alis Grave Nil, is a follow-up to Time Waits. Originating from the same solo piano recording session as Time Waits; it was released on July 23, 2014. Alis Grave Nil (translated from Latin meaning "nothing is heavy to those who have wings") includes compositions by Nalbandian, Charlie Chaplin, Eubie Blake, & the first part of fellow LA-native Kendrick Lamar's song Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst from his album Good Kid M.A.A.D. City. The album artwork of both "Time Waits" and "Alis Grave Nil" feature paintings by Armen Nalbandian created only months prior to the recordings. Nalbandian has referred to both solo albums as "a requiem of my early career." Nalbandian contends "there is a great deal of symbolism throughout the first 10 albums and they are connected in many ways, AGN concludes the story."

2018 Albums
In 2018, Nalbandian released 8 albums chronicling his studio and live performances from 2017. The recordings cover his solo piano work, trio and V. The albums were released one at a time, each month for the first 8 months of 2018, culminating with a live trio performance in September 2018 in memory of Cecil Taylor; who had passed away earlier in the year.

Activism
Nalbandian has most often used his platform to recognize social and civil injustice and perform many humanitarian services. He has raised thousands of dollars in aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina by way of many benefit concerts. Nalbandian has also raised money for organizations as diverse as The United Way, The Red Cross, the ONE Campaign, Habitat for Humanity, The American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Research and The Relay for Life Foundation, among others.

In September 2009, Nalbandian appeared in the play Semblance: Notes from the Promised Land by Devoya Mayo. The final act of the play featured a soliloquy written and performed by Nalbandian, critical of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Nalbandian has made critical comments from the bandstand regarding America's proposed cuts to funding for the arts and its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, never addressing the administration by name.

Visual and fine art collaborations
From 2004 to 2008, Nalbandian served as the Artist-in-Residence/Music Director of the Fresno Art Museum, artistic director of Jazz @ the F.A.M., artistic director of the F.O.R.M. (Festival of Resurrected Music), and curator of the Rhythms of Art in which he composed concerts of original music inspired by the exhibitions at the Fresno Art Museum on a monthly basis. The programming also included educational components for children and adults, concerts which highlighted the music of jazz masters and supplemental concerts that focused on collaboration. While Nalbandian's first season musically focused on a primarily traditional foundation, primarily inspired by Duke Ellington, his approach and compositions for the following 3 seasons were highly inspired by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Dixon, Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill & The Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Nalbandian concluded his artistic residency at the Fresno Art Museum by performing a solo piano program of composer John Zorn's Masada music encouraged with the composer's blessing.

Nalbandian has often referenced the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in his early work and song titles; compositions throughout his early discography reference specific Basquiat paintings and graffiti. Nalbandian presented a concert inspired by Basquiat's work in March 2008 during his tenure as Artist-in-Residence at the Fresno Art Museum.

Nalbandian has also composed and premiered music inspired by the work of Kerry James Marshall, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, David Hammons, Arshille Gorky, Anne Scheid, and Garo Antreasian, who wrote of Nalbandian's work in his 2016 biography, Reflections on Life and Art.

In March 2017, Nalbandian premiered a new composition, Heirloom, with his trio with Revis and Waits inspired by "Heirlooms and Accessories" by Kerry James Marshall after several viewings at both Marshall's retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The Underground Museum.

Discography
Armen (2006)
Manchester Born (2007)
Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off (2007)
Tirez Sur Le Pianiste (2009) (EP)
To Repel Ghosts (2010)
Quiet As It's Kept (2011)
Coup de Grace (2011)
Surrounded by Snakes (2013)
Time Waits (2014)
Alis Grave Nil (2014)
The Holy Ghost (2018)
Fire Sign (2018)
V (2018)
Live in Little Tokyo Vol. I (2018)
AMEN (2018)
Prayer (2018)
Orbits (2018)
Live in Little Tokyo Vol. II (2018)
Ghosts (2019)
Live on Sunset (2019)

Bibliography
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Improviser: Writings 2006-2007 by Armen Nalbandian (2013 Blacksmith Brother) . Essays and entries focusing on Nalbandian's compositions from 2006 to 2007.

References

External links

AllMusic Guide
Conquering One Heart at a Time Through Jazz
This Pianist Ain't Got No Wrong Notes
Armen Nalbandian on All About Jazz

1978 births
Living people
American jazz composers
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
American people of Armenian descent
British people of Armenian descent
British emigrants to the United States
21st-century American pianists
American male jazz composers
21st-century American male musicians


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IF <invantive:value-of expression="$P{Level}" /> GREATER THAN 3 THEN
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Programming Languages
<invantive:foreach block="A.languages"><invantive:value-of expression="$F{technicalname}"/></invantive:foreach>
Operating Systems
<invantive:foreach block="B.systems"><invantive:value-of expression="$F{technicalname}"/></invantive:foreach>
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A: You can do that the easiest way by putting the parameter check in a block. If possible, do that in the block that contains the data, or create an intermediate block to do so.
For example, put this in your query:
select ...
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where  $P{Level} > 3

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Return 0 rows when the criterium is not met, return 1 row when it is met:
select 'ignore' from dual where <BOOLEAN EXPRESSION>

Of course, you will need to replace dual by the corresponding singular table of the database platform used. On Oracle and Invantive SQL platforms, there is always a dual. On SQL Server you can skip the from dual. On other platforms, either create a table or query something known to only have one row, like a specific data dictionary table.
Then use the new block to create a nested foreach:
<invantive:foreach block="FILTERBLOCK">
TECHNICAL
Programming Languages
<invantive:foreach block="A.languages"><invantive:value-of expression="$F{technicalname}"/></invantive:foreach>
Operating Systems
<invantive:foreach block="B.systems"><invantive:value-of expression="$F{technicalname}"/></invantive:foreach>
</invantive:foreach>


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On Strips: Blues in the News
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Oliver Harrington was a Black cartoonist that started work in the 1930s and is probably best known for his character Bootsie that ran in strip of the same name (originally titled Dark Laughter). He also created strips called Jive Gray, The Lighter Side, Pages from Negro History, Peewee's Off Jive, and Scoop. Most only lasted a couple of years and all of them seem to have been limited to African-American papers. But he's often cited as one of the premier Black cartoonists in America, largely because of his pioneering work on Dark Laughter.
Harrington's first full-time job was as art director for The People's Voice, a weekly African-American newspaper that began in early 1942. I can find little that Harrington himself said of the paper, but he does relay this anecdote in an essay called "Our Beloved Pauli"...
My first real job was as art editor at the People's Voice. Adam Powell, Charlie Buchanan and Ben Davis published that great sheet and one day Adam called me into his office. "Ollie," he said, "there's someone I want you to meet." A beaming giant of a man left his chair, thumped me on the back with a hand as powerful as John Henry's sledgehammer and boomed, "Feller, I just wanted you to know that those cartoons of yours are great." Of course it was Paul Robeson.
In his introduction to the book containing the above essay, M. Thomas Inge elaborates very slightly on the work Harrington did for People's Voice...
In addition to the Dark Laughter panel featuring Bootsie, he contributed powerful editorial cartoons, illustrations, humorous panels and features, and, for a short while, even a comic strip.
Allan Holtz's American Newspaper Comics, An Encyclopedic Reference Guide -- while by no means an infallible source, it's the most comprehensive one I have easy access to -- seems to have nothing on what this mysterious unnamed strip might be. But Carol Tilley recently came across them in her research. She found a few dozen strips called Blues in the News; an insanely topical version of which is included with this post was actually in reaction to the riots in Detroit in 1943.
Beyond the couple scant notes I mentioned above, I have no other information I can find about the strip. I can find no reference to it in Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II, or The Blacker the Ink edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings, although all discuss Harrington and his other work to at least a fair degree. Tilly also noted that she could not find anyone who discussed Harrington's comics in People's Voice. Now admittedly, between myself and Tilly, that's only two people, but I'd like to think that we have access to a pretty wide range of resources between us and those resources include a lot of in-depth, first-hand research. So it would appear what she's come across here is a long-forgotten strip that is almost entirely unknown today, even to comics scholars.
And given the issues Harrington seemed to tackle in those strips, maybe it's time we make those strips known again.
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Order of Kutuzov
Order of Kutuzov, Type I, III Class
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The I and II Class of Order of Kutuzov were established on July 29, 1942 by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The III Class was established on February 9, 1943 and has a separate statute. The order was designed by N.I. Moskalyov.
This Order was established as a high-ranking award for officers. It was named after the Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813), who fought against Napoleon. The name was used to inspire Russian patriotism during the Second World War. Nearly all Orders of Kutuzov were conferred during the Second World War, however several were awarded for the 1956 invasion of Hungary.
The III Class medal was conferred upon regimental, battalion, and company commanders, as well as their executive officers, for a number of different criteria, which were: for displaying initiative in conducting a sudden attack that results in heavy enemy losses; for the capture of an enemy stronghold with minimal losses; for the organization and conduct of a pursuit operation against an enemy; for the destruction of enemy communication; for developing a solid battle plan with a successful outcome.
The Type I, III Class is made of silver and one piece. It is smaller than the I and II Class, measuring 26mm from point to point and 22mm from the center to any point. The small ring is a part o the order and is not a separately soldered ring. The suspension piece is marked with a Monetny Dvor mint mark. The reverse presents a large central dimple and the serial number is hand engraved at 5 o'clock. Serial numbers range from roughly 200-500.
The obverse Russian inscription translates to: "Mikhail Kuzurov".
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