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The state Department of Health is rolling out a statewide survey to learn more about food habits of residents and visitors, and find out if there are any behaviors associated with possible risks for foodborne illnesses, including rat lungworm disease.
Beginning this week, the official survey will be mailed at random to households throughout the state.
The survey will include questions about what residents like to eat, where foods are purchased or grown, where water resources come from and how foods are prepared.
Data gathered will be used to inform best practices for food safety, guide public health intervention and prevention strategies and enhance understanding of the risk for foodborne disease among residents and visitors.
Those who receive the paper-based survey also will be offered the option to submit responses online. Further instructions will be included in the hard-copy packets provided to recipients through the mail.
This particular survey on food consumption will not use phone or email to contact residents.
The department aims to collect 3,772 survey responses to gather a complete picture representative of households in the state. Those who receive a mailed survey are encouraged to complete it in full and return responses promptly in the included postage-paid envelope.
"We strongly urge residents and visitors who receive this survey in the mail to promptly fill it out," said state epidemiologist Sarah Park. "The more data we have to understand the average food consumption habits of people in Hawaii, the better equipped our team will be to respond quickly to identify implicated foods and respond faster to mitigate further spread of disease."
The data gathered will be used to analyze potential risk behaviors related to rat lungworm disease, such as specific food-item consumption; exposure to rats, slugs and snails in the area surrounding a survey respondent's home; food preparation habits; water sources; and eating habits outside the home.
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If you prefer to be among people rather than trees, Morocco's vibrant business-as-usual atmosphere continues throughout December – without so much as a nod towards the festive mayhem.
Treat yourself to the comforts of a riad hotel in Marrakech, such as La Sultana or Les Yeux Bleus, and you'll be a stone's throw from the food stalls and artistry of nearby Jemaa el-Fnaa Square. Steaming bowls of harira soup and spicy, slow-cooked tagines are a welcome change from turkey and Brussels sprouts, while people-watching with a pot of mint tea amidst the colourful chaos of the medinas is almost a must-do pastime.
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Home to just 30 beachside and over-the-water villas, the Drift Thelu Veliga Resort in the Maldives is a true antithesis to Christmas. Guests are encouraged to take their shoes off at the door and not put them back on until the day they leave.
Meanwhile, each villa has its own sand path leading to silky-soft white-sand beaches. Sign up for a snorkel or dive in the indigoes and blues surrounding the atolls, where fringing reefs are home to hundreds of colourful fish and reef sharks, while manta rays feed nearby. Back 'home', the restaurant chefs fuse together the flavours of Sri Lankan and Indian cuisine to produce mouthwatering options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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The archetypical Northern Hemisphere winter can be found in Finland, where snow-covered landscapes reach out to the horizon and reindeer graze among the holly brambles. Rural regions such as Lapland and Lakeland are stunning under the glistening snowfall that's commonplace in December, and log cabins rentals are a popular choice for visitors.
The cabins are typically Finnish holiday homes that have been transformed into glorious self-catering chalet-style havens for those seeking a little solace within the forest-covered landscape. These carefully designed homes offer a mindful retreat away from the crowds. Basics such as linen and blankets are provided, but do bring your own creature comforts, not forgetting a Kindle and a pair of walking boots.
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Should the pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns have you yearning to explore a long-haul destination, Japan is a wonderful option. Rather than remaining in the capital, Tokyo, jump on a long-distance train going north and enjoy the meditative beauty of slow travel, as you spend seven hours chug-chugging towards the northern prefecture of Hokkaido Island.
Away from buzzing Sapporo's central train station is the small coastal town of Otaru, where you can watch the sunset over the ocean, while enjoying the most authentic of Japanese food. Few tourists come here, so restaurants such as Yabuhan are low key but a delight for the (mainly local) tastebuds. While temperatures remain in low single figures, there are plenty of delicacies to keep you toasty, such as the region's famous warming butter-corn ramen and the perfect-on-every-occasion zangi chicken karaage.
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Tiny Middle Eastern nation Qatar enjoys temperatures around 24°C at this time of year. Qataris relish their own cultural celebrations throughout December, with a three-week food festival taking place this year at the Al Bidda Park.
Elsewhere, history buffs can enjoy the pop-up Flag Museum, where the story of the nation is told through an exhibition of photographs, paintings and scripts, while there are always exhibitions on at Katara Cultural Village. And style enthusiasts will enjoy the Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition (from 12-17 December), which showcases the work of women within the style industry, focusing on young entrepreneurs and up-and-coming designers.
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Q: Sort on the last octet of an IP address in a Python list Here's a bit of a brain boggler (for me at least). I'm utilizing a simple Python script to return a list of "up" hosts using fping. I'm storing each "up" host in a Python list, however the list.sort() won't obviously sort based on the last octet of the IP address stored as a string. I'd like to sort descending .1, .2, .3, etc.
Here's that portion of the code:
for addr in os.popen("fping -a -q -g " + subnet):
    addr = addr.rstrip('\n')
    addr_list.append(addr)

addr_list.sort()
for ip in addr_list:
    print ip

A: For just the last octet you can use rsplit() in the key:
addr_list = [  # Thanks @aneroid
    '10.11.12.13',
    '1.2.3.4',
    '127.0.0.1',
    '192.168.0.1',
]

>>> sorted(addr_list, key=lambda x: int(x.rsplit('.', 1)[1]), reverse=True)
['10.11.12.13', '1.2.3.4', '127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1']

Which is descending - but your example seemed to be ascending:
>>> sorted(addr_list, key=lambda x: int(x.rsplit('.', 1)[1]))
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1', '1.2.3.4', '10.11.12.13']

But think I would prefer a tuple sort as per @aneroid:
>>> sorted(addr_list, key=lambda x: tuple(map(int, reversed(x.split('.')))))
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1', '1.2.3.4', '10.11.12.13']

A: Assuming your addr_list list looks like this (you haven't specified it in your question):
addr_list = [
    '10.11.12.13',
    '1.2.3.4',
    '127.0.0.1',
    '192.168.0.1',
]

Split on the .'s and use the last item (the last octet) as the key to your sort. Of course, for '127.0.0.1' vs '192.168.0.1' you then probably want to then sort against the 2nd-last octet, and then the 3rd-last octet and then the first.
So using this behaviour as the key:
>>> list(reversed('10.11.12.13'.split('.')))
['13', '12', '11', '10']
>>> sorted(addr_list, key=lambda ip: list(reversed(ip.split('.'))))
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1', '10.11.12.13', '1.2.3.4']

Notice that 13 got listed before 4. So also ensure that it compares each item as a number and not a string:
>>> sorted(addr_list, key=lambda ip: map(int, reversed(ip.split('.'))))
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1', '1.2.3.4', '10.11.12.13']

Either assign that to another list or do an in-place sort:
>>> addr_list.sort(key=lambda ip: map(int, reversed(ip.split('.'))))
>>> addr_list
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1', '1.2.3.4', '10.11.12.13']

A: sort can take as an argument a function is uses to perform the comparison. The function takes two inputs returns 1 if the first argument is considered greater, -1 if the second argument is greater, and 0 if they are equal for the purposes of sorting. Here is such a function for your case:
def compare_ips(ip1, ip2):
    last_octet1 = int(ip1.split('.')[-1]) # splits the ip and grabs the last octet
    last_octet2 = int(ip2.split('.')[-1]) # splits the ip and grabs the last octet
    if last_octet1 > last_octet2:
        return 1
    if last_octet1 < last_octet2:
        return -1
    return 0

You then just supply that as a keyword argument to sort:
>>> ips = ['192.168.1.101', '251.39.0.103', '127.0.0.1']
>>> ips.sort(cmp = compare_ips)
>>> ips
['127.0.0.1', '192.168.1.101', '251.39.0.103']

A: Sorting by just the last octet is a very bizarre requirement, given that the higher octets usually tell you more about the address (e.g. country/region of origin for publicly routable addresses, subnet for smaller networks).
More generically, this will sort a list of IP addresses by their numeric representation:
import socket
ip_list = ['192.168.1.120', '192.168.1.30',  '127.0.0.1']

# numeric sort, leveraging inet_pton to convert valid IPv4 address
# notation to a 'packed' string of 4 bytes, which will then sort correctly.
print sorted(ip_list, key=lambda (x): socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET, x))

# strict string-based sort for comparison
print sorted(ip_list)

Or if you'd prefer not to use the socket module for inet_pton:
def ip2int(ipstr):
    octets = [int(x) for x in ipstr.split('.')]
    return sum( (o << (8 * 3-i) for i,o in enumerate(octets)) )
sorted(ip_list, key=ip2int)

A: addr_list = [
    '10.11.12.3',
    '1.2.3.4',
    '127.0.0.1',
    '192.168.0.2',
]

# lambda x=192.168.0.2 , ip.split= ['192','168','0','2'][-1] = 2
sorted_ips = sorted(addr_list , key=lambda ip: ip.split('.')[-1])
for ip in sorted_ips:
  print(ip)

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SBL Day One | Ketuvim: the Writings of James R. Getz Jr.
S17-63 Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature: The session was devoted to discussing Karl van der Toorn's new book Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible (Harvard, 2007). The responses of the panel basically confirmed my own views of the book: it does a great service to biblical studies but has a few problems (mainly in regards to the composition of Jeremiah and Deuteronomy).
S17-107 Biblical Law: The section was to be on ethnicity in biblical law, but only one panelist really dealt with ethnicity (and, coincidentally, was the only one not to deal with biblical texts!). While I am sure that most of the papers will look great when in print, my mind kept coming back to the things they were not dealing with. Some days I really wish I could have the footnotes to the papers being read.
S17-134 SBL Presidential Address: The title of Katherine Sakenfeld's paper — "Whose Text is It?" — led me to the false assumption that she would be speaking on canonicity. Her paper on post-colonial feminist readings from the developing world was amazing, but I probably would have gone back to my hotel for a nap if I had known what it really was — which would have been my loss. If you weren't there, read it in the first JBL of next year.
As a general statement on the conference so far, I must note that I have never hear the word "liminal" used so many times in my life (and most of them incorrectly!). If this trend continues, I might have to grow my hair out for the sole purpose of then pulling it out.
Stay tuned for further updates from the man who slept too little.


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Warren McLean
Ex-Divinyls Drummer Warren McLean Dies
by Paul Cashmere on January 4, 2021
Warren McLean, a one-time drummer for Divinyls and I'm Talking, has died in Bali.
Warren was the drummer on Divinyls Temperamental album.
He also did time with The Party Boys, I'm Talking and Machinations.
Melbourne singer Nikki Nichols posted, "Yesterday at noon, my friend Warren McLean passed away in a Bali hospital. He had been diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago and chose not to have treatment. His life had been a constant struggle as he lived each day with Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar however his talent and creativity was still able to shine through.
He was a killer drummer playing with The Divinyls, I'm Talking, Machinations, Eric Burdon … back in the 80's & 90's.
When I was recording my album "Bridesmaid" he came down to Melbourne from the Central Coast in NSW to produce and play on some tracks adding his awesome guitar parts and quirky flair to the title track and others. We wrote 'Complicated Connection' together.
Those weeks however were very difficult as his undiagnosed (at the time) BPD and Bipolar was quite extreme.
He returned to the Central Coast and became his mother and father's carer in their final years. After losing his Mum, he moved into the Aged Care facility to look after his Dad. During this time, he spent some weeks in Bali and found the peace he had been searching for.
With the blessing of his father, he moved to Bali to live out his days in his newfound tranquillity. He made videos of 'Life in Bali' and created his YouTube channel collecting thousands of subscribers who fell in love with him and his vlogs. Today, there are many people from different parts of the world who are feeling the sadness of his passing. I am one of them.
"Thank you Wazmac for your care and friendship, your quirky humour and creativity and your 'must fuck it up a bit' music. The heavy burden you have carried throughout your life is no more and you can now sleep peacefully. Love always, Nikki xxx"
A posting at the I'm Talking Facebook page reads,
"Sad news for 2021 with the passing of our Australian Made period drummer Warren McLean today in Bali, a place he truly loved. Goodbye from all of us. Rest in Peace . Take it to the bridge brother".
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Remember Seona Dancing, Ricky Gervais' 80s Band? Nah, Me Either
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Introduction to computer-controlled machining operations. Emphasis on tools and materials as applied in a wide variety of manufacturing and modeling applications. Prerequisites: IT 1210, IT 1220, and IT 1460, or consent of instructor.


· Proactively monitor progress against the plan and schedule, resolving issues and proposing corrective action as appropriate.
· Ensuring all commissioning work is carried out safely and in accordance with the relevant commissioning, work management, safe system of work and risk assessment processes.
· Effectively manage day-to-day liaison with the subcontractors to obtain all the necessary permissions to allow commissioning work to be progressed.
· To be trained and appointed as nominated person for mechanical and process plant isolation.
· Provide a weekly report to the offshore substation commissioning manager cover all activities.
· Min 3 Years' experience within the oil and gas or offshore wind industry.
· Good understanding of specific engineering discipline and interdisciplinary activities.
· Preferred offshore substation experience and background.
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Midterms 2022
Mark Judge's book validates Christine Blasey Ford's timeline of the alleged Kavanaugh assault
Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
September 27, 2018 at 12:51 p.m. EDT
Christine Blasey Ford said Sept. 27 that she saw Brett Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge about "six to eight weeks" after the alleged sexual assault. (Video: Reuters, Photo: Melina Mara/Reuters)
During her testimony Thursday morning, Christine Blasey Ford offered one piece of information that she felt could narrow down the time frame of the alleged incident in which she says she was assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at a gathering at a house in Maryland when they were in high school.
She described having seen Kavanaugh's classmate Mark Judge — who she alleges was in the room when the attack occurred — shortly after the alleged incident.
"I did see Mark Judge once at the Potomac Village Safeway after the time of the attack," she said, "and it would be helpful with anyone's resources if — to figure out when he worked there if people are wanting more details from me about when the attack occurred. If we could find out when he worked there, then I could provide a more detailed timeline about when the attack occurred."
Responding to questions from Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), she gave more details about that alleged encounter.
"I was going to the Potomac Village Safeway, this is the one on the corner of Falls and River Road," she said. "And I was with my mother and I was a teenager, so I wanted her to go in one door and me the other. I chose the wrong door because the door I chose was the one where Mark Judge — it looked like he was working there and arranging the shopping carts."
"I said hello to him, and his face was white and very uncomfortable saying hello back," she continued. "And we had previously been friendly at the times that we saw each other over the previous two years. . . . I wouldn't characterize him as not friendly, he was just nervous and not really wanting to speak with me. He looked a little bit ill."
"How long did this occur after the incident?" Durbin asked.
"I would estimate six to eight weeks," she replied.
To Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ford offered some ways in which the time frame of Judge's employment might be ascertained by the committee: perhaps "through employment records or the IRS or anything," she said.
There's a better source, as it turns out: Judge's book, "Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk," published in 1997.
In one passage, beginning on Page 92, Judge describes his time working at a grocery store in the context of his drinking problem. Emphasis added.
It was the summer before senior year, and by now, even though I wasn't drinking every day, I was completely hooked. Going a week without getting drunk was unthinkable. I was spending between four and seven nights with the gang, either at a party or at O'Rourke's.
Elsewhere in the book, Judge describes one of his acquaintances at the time, someone named "Bart O'Kavanaugh," who vomited in a car after a party.
Judge continues. Emphasis again added.
Of course, alcoholics also get into all kinds of trouble because of their drinking. When they supersede their own tolerance, they suffer catastrophic hangovers. These can make getting through the day an Olympic event. This was never more evident to me than when, to raise money for football camp, I spent a few weeks working as a bag boy at the local supermarket.
My job was simple. People would leave their grocery baskets against a rail in front of the store, then pull their cars around. I would then sling their groceries in the car, sometimes get a small tip, and then wait for the next car.
It was a nightmare. Invariably I would be hungover — or still drunk — when I got to work at seven in the morning, and I spent most of the first hour just trying to hold myself together.
Judge graduated from high school in 1983. The summer before his senior year, then, would be the summer of 1982.
We know when that football camp occurred because Kavanaugh, in an effort to demonstrate that he hadn't been at any such party as described by Ford, released his personal calendar from that summer.
Here's the entry for August.
Football camp started Aug. 22, 1982. Judge worked for a grocery store for several weeks before that camp, meaning that he probably worked there for a period in late July to mid-August.
Ford said she saw him working at a store between six and eight weeks after the alleged incident. The end of that period — obviously just an estimated window — could overlap with any point of Judge's tenure at the store. The alleged incident could have been six weeks before Aug. 22, for example, or it could have been eight weeks before the end of July.
That window, it's worth noting, could include July 1, a day on which Kavanaugh's calendar lists, "Go to Timmy's for Skis w/ Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi." What "skis" refers to isn't clear, but it might be a reference to "brewskis," a then-popular slang term for beer. "Judge" refers to Mark Judge; "PJ" to Patrick Smyth, who Ford on Thursday again indicated was also at the gathering where she alleges she was assaulted.
The precise date is still murky. Judge's book not only suggests that the summer of 1982 was probably the period during which the alleged incident occurred but also makes the likelihood that he was heavily intoxicated — as Ford has claimed — greater.
Judge's book also might help explain why he looked ill the morning she says she saw him.
Alice Crites contributed to this report.


The Stanford Medicine Music Network held its inaugural concert on Dec. 3, 2014. To view the concert, click here.
There has long been a vibrant relationship between medicine and music. Music has been called "medicine for the brain," and provides a direct human connection among performers and listeners. Many caregivers and patients use and play music for its soothing and restorative power. The Stanford healthcare community has innumerable musicians among its faculty, students, staff, and alumni who previously had no easy way to connect.
To facilitate that connection and support the development of a vibrant music community at Stanford Medicine, we are pleased to launch the Stanford Medicine Music Network (SMMN, pronounced summon) through Stanford's Medicine & the Muse Program. SMMN hopes to become an enthusiastic network of musicians and music lovers who come together to share music with each other and the wider Stanford community.
We invite musicians of all abilities to join this effort. If you are not a musician but would like to support the SMMN, we invite you to participate in other ways, including organizing events, volunteering, graphic design and hosting concerts. By filling out the short online form, you can add your name, contact information, instrument and musical interests for other SMMN members to see. Then refer to the database to find your musical peers.
Initially, the SMMN will provide an online meeting place for musicians in the Stanford healthcare community looking to share their love of music. As we grow, we hope to organize concerts and events to honor and support healthy communities, connecting Stanford Medicine to the Bay Area and beyond through music. We look forward to seeing your name on the list, and hearing you play!
For more information on the Stanford Medicine Music Network, please contact Jacqueline Genovese.
Stanford Music and Medicine (SMAM) is a new initiative that strives to bring awareness of the health and medical benefits of music to the Stanford and Bay Area community. In addition to organizing volunteer events, we seek to host and sponsor events that educate the community on the effects of music on the brain, mind, and soul.
Click here to view the SMMN piano schedule. The grand piano is located in the 2nd floor lobby of LKSC.


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Q: Set Image Name and Positions Programmatically Before I have hardcoded the positions of Image view and name but now I am retrieving it from the parser
I have ArrayList of the  Positions i.e. X , y and Image name which I retrieved from the xml. Now I want to assign it to my main3.xml layout which has Relative Layout and child as no of  ImageViews of which I have assign positions and this name.
Do I need to inflate the layout or any other idea ? or I should make 10 image views programatically
here is my main3.xml layout this is the hardcoded one now I want to give those topmargin_left and top via code..
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            android:id="@+id/Level1Layout"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:onClick="objectClick"
            android:background="@drawable/hh_gmw_03">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="593dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="998dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image1"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l01"/>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="39dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image1"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l02" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="153dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="497dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image3"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l03" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView4"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="524dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="998dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image4"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l04" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView5"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="183dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="715dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image5"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l05" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView6"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="413dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="557dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image6"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l06" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView7"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="53dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="532dp"
        android:onClick="objectClick"
        android:contentDescription="Image1"
        android:tag="Image7"
        android:src="@drawable/hht3l07" />
</RelativeLayout>

A: You still may continue using your main3.xml layout and set the margins programmatically:

*

*Find identifier for each ImageView with Resources.getIdentifier(..) method, where "name" argument would be generated within some loop as "imageView" + i.

*Set the layout parameters for each ImageView with ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams.setMargins(..)

*Call View.invalidate() on the parent of the ImageViews, in your case it's RelativeLayout with Level1Layout id.


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j1Window::j1Window() : j1Module()
{
	window = NULL;
	screen_surface = NULL;
	name.create("window");
}

// Destructor
j1Window::~j1Window()
{
}

// Called before render is available
bool j1Window::Awake(pugi::xml_node& config)
{
	LOG("Init SDL window & surface");
	bool ret = true;

	if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0)
	{
		LOG("SDL_VIDEO could not initialize! SDL_Error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
		ret = false;
	}
	else
	{
		//Create window
		Uint32 flags = SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN;
		bool fullscreen = config.child("fullscreen").attribute("value").as_bool(false);
		bool borderless = config.child("borderless").attribute("value").as_bool(false);
		bool resizable = config.child("resizable").attribute("value").as_bool(false);
		fullscreen_window = config.child("fullscreen_window").attribute("value").as_bool(false);

		SDL_DisplayMode default_resolution;
		SDL_GetCurrentDisplayMode(0, &default_resolution);
		bool resolution_manual = config.child("resolution").attribute("default").as_bool(false);
		if (resolution_manual == true)
		{
			width = default_resolution.w;
			height = default_resolution.h;
		}
		else
		{
			width = config.child("resolution").attribute("width").as_int(default_resolution.w);
			height = config.child("resolution").attribute("height").as_int(default_resolution.h);
		}
		scale = config.child("resolution").attribute("scale").as_int(1);

		if(fullscreen == true)
		{
			flags |= SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN;
		}

		if(borderless == true)
		{
			flags |= SDL_WINDOW_BORDERLESS;
		}

		if(resizable == true)
		{
			flags |= SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE;
		}

		if(fullscreen_window == true)
		{
			flags |= SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP;
		}

		window = SDL_CreateWindow(App->GetTitle(), SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, width, height, flags);

		if(window == NULL)
		{
			LOG("Window could not be created! SDL_Error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
			ret = false;
		}
		else
		{
			//Get window surface
			screen_surface = SDL_GetWindowSurface(window);
		}
	}

	return ret;
}

// Called before quitting
bool j1Window::CleanUp()
{
	LOG("Destroying SDL window and quitting all SDL systems");

	//Destroy window
	if(window != NULL)
	{
		SDL_DestroyWindow(window);
	}

	//Quit SDL subsystems
	SDL_Quit();
	return true;
}

// Set new window title
void j1Window::SetTitle(const char* new_title)
{
	//title.create(new_title);
	SDL_SetWindowTitle(window, new_title);
}

void j1Window::GetWindowSize(uint& width, uint& height) const
{
	width = this->width;
	height = this->height;
}

uint j1Window::GetScale() const
{
	return scale;
}

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Tier 1 Investor is indeed the easiest way for wealthy foreign nationals to move to the United Kingdom.
As this visa route involves a significant financial investment, investors would normally be asking a lot of questions about how to get this visa, how to extend it, how to get permanent residence in the UK (also called ILR or settlement) and later apply for naturalisation and British passport. Imperial & Legal advisers offer you answers to top 10 frequently asked questions about British citizenship by investment.
1. What benefits are offered to foreign investors in the UK?
Applicants for a Tier 1 Investor visa are required to make a significant contribution to the local economy. To make this investment mutually beneficial, the UK government offers them a lot of benefits in return.
You can bring a family to the UK including a spouse and children under 18.
To apply for a Tier 1 Investor visa, you don't need to speak English or know anything about the country. However, if you plan to apply for an indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the future, you will have to integrate into the society and learn the language.
You and your family members can do in the UK whatever your heart desires: work, study, do business or enjoy high living standards in a safe and modern European country.
You do not part with your money for good. Moreover, it is under your control while you are in the UK on a visa and you can even change the investment portfolio. If done correctly, you will not only get your capital back, but also increase it because Great Britain is one of the top investment destinations in the world.
If you apply for an investor visa to move to the UK, in half a year you will be able to use tax laws in your favour for tax optimisation.
2. Where to invest to get a Tier 1 Investor visa to the UK?
Unfortunately, it is not possible any more to invest in government bonds or real estate in the United Kingdom to apply for an investor visa. The rules have changed.
It is possible, however, to invest in UK-registered companies unless they are involved in real estate construction, management and sale. By limiting investment options, the UK government is trying to encourage investments into a real sector of economy.
On the one hand, new rules increase investment risks. On the other hand, no more headache related to property management and you can make real profit. To minimise risks, prior to making an investment, talk to experts that could recommend you a best solution.
3. How much money do I need to invest to get a UK investor visa?
The minimum amount you must invest is £2,000,000. However, if you plan to stay in the UK and are prepared to invest more into UK companies, you can become part of British society significantly faster.
A table below shows when you can apply for settlement and citizenship in the UK based on how much money you have invested.
Investment amount ILR application Application for British citizenship
£2,000,000 After 5 years After 6 years
£10,000,000 After 2 years After 5 years
The more money you invest in shares of trading UK companies, the faster you can settle in Great Britain. A settled person has almost the same rights as a British national. Moreover, once you obtain ILR, you can get your money back.
To sum it up, you must hold your investment for at least 2 to 5 years in order to settle and stay in Great Britain. The holding period depends directly on how much you have invested.
4. Are there any requirements to investment funds?
As the United Kingdom has never positioned itself as an offshore or tax haven, applicants for a Tier 1 Investor visa must demonstrate a legal source of money to be invested in UK economy.
If for any reason you cannot demonstrate where you have got that money from, it must be held on your account for at least 2 years before the date of application.
5. What are criteria that I must meet to apply for an investor visa?
Firstly, you must prove that you have free access to the funds you plan to invest and you can transfer them to an investment account in a UK bank any time.
It is important to remember that the funds do not have to belong to you alone, they can be also held by your second half (partner or spouse). In this case, all you need to do is to provide evidence to the Home Office that you have access to the money and are free to do what you want with it.
Secondly, though there are not many requirements to applicants for an investor visa, UK authorities would not let anyone into their country with criminal records or infectious deceases.
Therefore, you must provide a criminal record certificate for the last 10 years and test negative for a tuberculosis test.
Furthermore, for your Tier 1 investor visa application, you must obtain and submit a letter from a UK financial institution confirming that you have opened an investment account with them. Bank or another credit organisation officials conduct their own background checks on you and the source of your funds.
If you are thinking about moving to the UK, you might find useful our article on how to prepare for relocation to Great Britain, what things to factor in and what issues to address.
6. How long before I get my Tier 1 investor visa?
To speed up obtaining an investor visa to the UK, get in touch with qualified immigration lawyers from the very start. This will help you to avoid unwanted mistakes and save time and money.
It normally takes 1 to 2 weeks to prepare all necessary documents. Once your application is submitted, you must attend a visa centre in person. The Home Office allows up to 8 weeks to process your application. If you want to fast-track it, you can pay an extra fee and get a decision in 5 working days.
After your Tier 1 investor visa is granted, you will have up to 90 days to enter the country and another 90 days after arrival to transfer money to your investment account and buy shares or bonds of UK companies.
7. How long will my investor visa be valid for?
If you are applying for an investor visa outside the UK, in the country of your residence, it will be valid for 3 years and four months. If you switch to the investor category within the UK, your investor visa will be granted for 3 years.
Before your current visa expires, you can either extend it for another 2 years or apply for settlement, provided you have invested enough money to qualify for it.
8. How to get an indefinite leave to remain in the UK?
Tier 1 investors do not have to live in the country all the time. However, if you plan to stay in the UK for good, you must not be absent for long. In the period before applying for ILR, you must not leave the country for more than 180 days in any 12-month period.
Apart from this continuous residence requirement, you must comply with additional requirements to apply for settlement:
You must not withdraw the money you have invested in UK economy. If you decide to restructure your investment portfolio, make sure its total amount does not go lower than the required amount, especially if you have invested much more than £2 million to be able to settle faster.
You must prove you speak good English by passing a language test to Level B1 of European classification. You must also pass a Life in the UK test consisting of 24 questions that you can prepare for in advance.
If you apply with a family, all adults dependants must also pass an English and Life in the UK tests to evidence their language skills and integration in British society.
How much you have invested will determine how fast you will be able to settle in the UK – in 2, 3 or 5 years of living on the British Isles. We have shown in the table above how the more money you invest, the faster you can obtain ILR.
As settled status gives almost the same rights as British citizenship, it is common to stop at this stage and stay in the UK without applying for a UK passport. However, if you decide to naturalise and become a British national, you and your family can do it after a certain number of years based on how much you have invested. It would normally be 1 to 3 years after ILR. More details are in the next question.
9. How long before a Tier 1 Investor can apply for British citizenship?
Though it does depend on how much you have invested, but not as much as in case with ILR. You won't be able to significantly speed it up.
If you invest at least £5 million, you can apply to naturalise in the UK after 5 years of continuously living in the country.
If you can only invest £2 million or a bit more, you will only be able to submit your citizenship application in 6 years of arriving in the UK and 1 year after getting settled status.
To naturalise, you must also speak good English and have clean criminal record. Life in the UK test is also mandatory. These two tests apply to all adult dependants, including children who turned 18 while living in the UK on a dependant visa.
Another thing to remember, a number of days of absence from the UK for naturalisation applications is different for that of ILR applications: in the 5-year period before applying for British citizenship, you must not leave the country for more than 450 days in total, and not more than 90 days in the 12 months prior to submission. Therefore, these things must be kept in mind from the very beginning if your goal is to get a UK passport.
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Artist Profile: Heather Lowe
Heather Lowe; Photo credit Genie Davis
Heather Lowe: Dimensions in Art
Written by Genie Davis
Both in terms of medium and content, Heather Lowe is creating some audacious, astounding work. Her art has evolved over the years, as she's tried a variety of optical effects, pushing the envelope for new ways to express her vision, from painting with moires, and creating form through intersecting surface lines to stereo photography, and then, fifteen years ago, stereo paintings.
"These paintings were exhibited at LA Artcore Brewery Annex. It was a successful show, but the dependency on viewers for those who couldn't free-view, limited some people's experience. One day I saw a lenticular – a little winkie – on a card that my mother gave me, and it was an 'Aha' moment," she relates.
Lowe wrote to several companies listed on the back of cards until she finally found a lens manufacturer and was able to purchase five large lenses. She made a few pieces, and placed one in the Barnsdall Open Show, taking note of people looking at it.
"It was all very new and exciting, and I sold the one I exhibited. Since then, I've tried many different optical effects with lenticular, depending on the intention, and what the artwork calls for."
Lowe says she doesn't create pieces that hope for a result or outcome, but instead goes for the "genuine."
"I express what is essential, what is meaningful at a certain moment. My process is very laborious and rather complicated, but I want all of that to disappear when someone is looking at the object," she reveals. "I love learning about processes and new materials but that's not what my art is about. My art is about knowing you as well as knowing me."
There is a grace and inner Zen-like quality to her work; if she's exploring depths and patterns, and both illusions and impressions with her art, then she does so with a truly deceptive ease. Her work draws the viewer in, compels both study and pleasure. It is accessible on a variety of levels, so that the format she uses, however unique, is less important than the sense of beauty and simple joy she shapes. Her work is haunting because there are so many layers to it, and because she brings wit, a rich knowledge, and an appreciation of the wonderfulness of simply seeing, to it.
Currently, Lowe has an installation about to close at Shoebox Projects' The Closet space. Work that she terms a "departure, or should I say arrival. Before my Shoebox proposal was accepted, I had been working on a series of ink paintings inspired by a song cycle by Aaron Copland of poems by Emily Dickinson. I'll be taking that up now. It's some of the most beautiful music in the world, and if I can get a glimmer of it in lenticular, I'll be happy."
To that end, Lowe has already spoken to a potential collaborator who studied voice at USC, and says she hopes to work with her in a performance and exhibition.
But back to The Closet. The inspired, amusing, yet moving installation is based in part on Lowe's predilection to collect objects or images.
"My partner, Christopher Mulrooney, who died in 2015, used to bring in these clippings of missing persons that were placed in market ads and left at our doorstep. One day he said, 'Wouldn't you leave home if they expected you to become this?' He was referring to the computer age-progressed picture alongside the real face. I started to collect them. Each time we would talk about them, or laugh, or feel terribly sad. So, I knew I would do something with them, and four years later the opportunity arrived."
Lowe wanted to add the faces of people she knew so that the anonymity of the images would be broken.
She notes "They are us. We are them. I chose people that have a good sense of humor, or knew me well enough to know that it was partly tongue-in-cheek. I think empathy is so lacking today. I wanted to jolt people, and myself, out of that immobility. I may add a couple more and would someday like to extend this idea."
Lowe in many ways seems like an artistic alchemist. She fuses several worlds in her work, such as art and technology, or science and art. In fact, she's said that she is really a scientist at heart.
"I suppose fusing worlds is true in a sense. I love trying new inventions as it relates to visual perception, like VR," she asserts. "Technology becomes more interesting to me as it becomes more sensitive to the human spirit. Ian Cheng is doing some wonderful things there. But I love great music, film and literature as well, so all of these things play out in my art."
If Lowe has a mantra, it is possibly what she says next: "Why should we limit our curiosity?"
Looking to the future, she feels that lenticulars are here to stay for her, although she's created paintings, etchings, sculptures, and collage,in the past. She sometimes combines these other art forms with lenticular creation.
"I feel like I am very loyal to my materials and if I am perfecting something, I hope it is my art," she explains.
Asked what her favorite work has been, she finds that a difficult question. "I'm always in love with the one I am working on. But to go back a little, if there was a series of paintings I cherish, it would be the paintings I made after driving from L.A. to Santa Fe in 2001. Mulrooney and I drove straight there to see the exhibition Beau Monde, curated by Dave Hickey, and it was the most magical trip I have ever been on: the skies, the stars, and the clouds. When I got home, I painted and painted. It was a good time, full of inspiration."
And that is the best way to sum up Lowe's work altogether – it provides the viewer with a truly enjoyable, richly rewarding "good time" and fills one with a genuine sense of wonder — and inspiration.
Heather Lowe. ID. In The Closet in Shoebox Projects. Photo credit Kristine Schomaker
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One Day Crossing ist ein ungarischer Drama-Kurzfilm von Joan Stein aus dem Jahr 2001, in dem es um eine Jüdin, die sich zur Zeit des Holocaust als Christin verkleidet, um ihre Familie zu schützen. Der Film wurde als Bester Kurzfilm für die Oscarverleihung 2001 nominiert.

Handlung
Die Handlung spielt am 15. Oktober 1944 in Budapest, Ungarn. Die Regierung hatte sich an die Alliierten ergeben, die Pfeilkreuzler waren an der Macht. Die Figur der Teresa schützt ihre Kinder, indem sie ihre religiöse Identität verleugnet und sich als Christin ausgibt. Als ihr Ehemann einen jüdischen Jungen rettet und zur Unterkunft bringt, wird sie mit Fragen der Identität gegenüber der Chance auf Überleben im Krieg konfrontiert.

Produktion
Joan Stein begann 1999 in Budapest zu filmen, One Day Crossing war ihre Abschlussarbeit ihres Studiums an der Columbia University. Nach mehreren Monaten an Vorbereitungen begann sie mit Christina Lazaridi zusammenzuarbeiten, die selbst einige Ideen zu einem Film über die Zeit des Zweiten Weltkrieges hatte.
Das ursprüngliche Filmskript war in englischer Sprache verfasst, allerdings wurde es später zur Authentizität in Magyaren übersetzt.

Auszeichnungen
 Gewonnen
 2001: "Interfaith Award" des St. Louis International Film Festival
 2000: "DGA Student Film Award" & die "Goldmedaille" der Student Academy Awards

 Nominiert
 Bester Kurzfilm für die Oscarverleihung 2001

Weblinks

 Bill Desowitz: A Filmmaker Recounts Her Family's Time of Terror (), Los Angeles Times – Website, 10. Juli 2001.

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Filmtitel 2001
Kurzfilm
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Zweiter Weltkrieg im Film

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At the Quality in the Spotlight Meeting in Antwerp, Dr. Erna Lenters-Westra was the recipient of the 2018 Westgard Award. Her outstanding accomplishments in the field of HbA1c evaluation and assessment make this award well-deserved. .
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Verry nice . I like this atmosphere .
Congratulation with your well deserved PoD award dear Bilja.
Moje iskrene čestitke za POD. Puno pozdrava.
Congrats on the POD Biljana!
This reminds me, I will be doing some fishing tomorrow, of our dock :) Of course I will also have my camera.
Well deserved my dear Bilja! You know I love it!
It is a great image!
Sta da dodam.... :-) Predivna fotografija, svaka cast.
Prekrasna panorama, odlične boje i DOF. Posebno mi se sviđa svijetlo koje dolazi odozgo s ovim prekrasnim zracima sunca.
Nice colors & DOF. Splendid shot. Very nic e image. Regards and Congrats. Jan.
I love the light; excellent choice of the project!
WOW!, magia, belleza sin par.
Wow. That is an incredible piece of work.
Wow.. awesome shot.. What a masterpiece you captured here my dear friend. It should deserved an award.
Great light and the rays lead me to the subject. A beautiful moment and wonderful capture of the tones. Very well seen and shared.
Absolutely amazing image Biljana... the way you have powerful lighting and powerful darkness at the same frame is amazing... great stuff.
I like this atmosphere and the serenity!Beautiful moody seascape with amazing sunrays!!
WOW, this is awesome. Great lighting and lovely landscape indeed.
Beautiful light over here. In particular the sun rays are magnificant Bilja. Very well taken.
A comment about the framing, constructively said. The black frame and the panorama crop work fine, but the upper cut should have been slightly more rigorous. Some of the light popping in just at the top are artefacts of the framing.
Great Landscape view with perfect light conditions.


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Kavita Hatipoglu is program officer on the global education team at R4D, where she focuses on early childhood development. She works with foundations and funders to inform their early childhood development-related grant-making and advocacy efforts, especially when it comes to training and supporting the professional workforce who work with the youngest and most vulnerable children.
One of Ms. Hatipoglu's current long-term projects, sponsored by the Open Society Foundation, is an impact evaluation of a parenting program in Serbia called "Strong from the Start." She has also joined colleagues in preparing a series of country case studies on different early childhood development occupations in different countries (e.g., preschool teachers in Ukraine, home visitors in Peru) where generally undertrained, overstretched personnel lack guidance or services to help them; in Ms. Hatipoglu's case, she studied community health workers in South Africa and the barriers they faced.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Hatipoglu interned with the Aga Khan Foundation's Madrasa Resource Centre in Mombasa, Kenya, assessing design and implementation of their school transition program. Previously, she spent three years at Zero to Three, a U.S.-based non-profit working to support parents, policymakers and professionals by providing them with resources on early childhood development.
Originally trained in architecture, Ms. Hatipoglu worked in London during the lead-up to the 2012 Olympic Games on plans to transform Olympic Park for the general public as part of the Games' legacy.
Ms. Hatipoglu holds a master's degree in international educational development from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in architecture studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Neuman, M. J., & Hatipoglu, K. (2015). Global gains and growing pains: Pre-primary education around the world. Early Childhood Matters, 124, 43-50.


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We\'re ruled by incompetents:
People selling adult videos, including pornography, to children are to escape prosecution after the discovery of a Whitehall blunder that means that the 1984 law regulating the video industry was never enacted.
The disclosure that for 25 years the Act governing the classification and sale of videos, video games and now DVDs was never brought into force is a big embarrassment to both Conservative and Labour governments.
One very important question though:
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said that it had received legal advice that people who had previously been prosecuted and convicted would be unable to overturn their convictions or seek compensation.
If the law was not in effect then such prosecutions were illegal. Of course convictions must be overturned and compensation paid.
Sure, proffering money to people who sold hard core porn to little kiddies sticks in the throat but it\'s nowhere near as shaming as punishing the innocent.
Precisely because we do have rulers who are incompetent we have to insist upon the rule of law.
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Letters From A Tory August 25, 2009 at 9:30 am
Agreed, but that doesn't mean the Government won't use considerable sums of taxpayers' money trying to find a way out of this mess.
So Much For Subtlety August 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
They f**k up too often for them to be able to pay out everyone's costs. So much better to change the legal system to one where they can say "do what we mean, not what we tell you".
This was a nasty, nasty little law, inspired by Mary Whitehouse and her fellow puritans, and typical of our useless, miserable parliament. I read through the Hansard "debate" on its introduction, a while ago, and it's the usual crapola of MPs circle jerking about how jolly respectable they are, with sad little Graham Bright saying how he once saw a porn video by accident and how it made him throw up a little in his mouth and- most typical of how we do things here- "It's not state censorship because we've contracted it out to the BBFC".
This vile and stupid law should never have got on the books in the first place.
Umbongo August 25, 2009 at 11:58 am
When this law is re-enacted, what's the betting that it will be retroactive? Accordingly, there'll be no compensation for the innocent since they'll be "retroactively" guilty.
Ian Bennett August 25, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Notice the reason that the Act was never officially enacted; the Home Office failed to tell the EC about it, and was thus in contravention of a EU directive. ("Directive" in this context means "arbitrary ruling imposed by unelected crooks somewhere in Belgium, untouched by any vaguely democratic process".)
Rob August 25, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Parliament is sovereign, eh? Ahem.
Also, note the biased presentation of the article-
People selling adult videos, including pornography, to children are to escape prosecution
-presenting this law as *sigh* protecting the children, think of the children, oh lord, who will think of the children?!
The purpose of the Video Recordings Act was to introduce a comprehensive, extremely restrictive censorship regime, to prevent adults watching what they wished to watch; there was general despair among the Ruling Class that ordinary folks were renting lots of horror and porn videos when this new technology had, for a brief moment, let the sunlight of free choice slip through a break in the clouds of censorship.
Honestly, I'm sick to death of the children. To hell with the goddamned children. What about the grownups, for once? Oh lord, who will think of the adults?
Bill Sticker August 25, 2009 at 4:55 pm
"We are ruled by incompetents" This is news because…..?
john b August 26, 2009 at 3:49 pm
arbitrary ruling imposed by unelected crooks somewhere in Belgium, untouched by any vaguely democratic process
Unelected crooks nominated by Europe's elected heads of government, proposing legislation that has to be approved both by an elected parliament and by Europe's heads of government?
While I'd rather the EU parliament had more power at the Commission's expense, suggesting 'untouched by virtually any vaguely democratic process' is just otiose.
BTW, the reason why this law (unlike most laws) requires the EU to be notified is because it's a technical standard affecting which goods can be imported into and sold in the UK. In other words, it's a 'single market' thing, not a 'superstate thing'.
When this law is re-enacted, what's the betting that it will be retroactive?
None. Doesn't happen under English law.
there was general despair among the Ruling Class that ordinary folks were renting lots of horror and porn videos
Not quite: ordinary folks weren't renting lots of horror or porn; and there wasn't much despair among the ruling class.
Rather, there was a random Tabloid Moral Panic, which inevitably succeeded, as you're never going to get a sizeable array of prominent and respectable public figures standing up for the rights of porn-viewers, pirates and slasher-fans (see also: alleged terrorists; paedophiles).
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The State museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan invites those, who wishes, to visit an exhibition named «Educated generation – the powerful Motherland», devoted to the Day of knowledge and student youth, which will be opened on the 31-st of August 2018 at 15:00.
Turkmenistan is a country of happy childhood and youth, which has future security. The 1–st of September–Day of knowledge and student youth is f glorious date at the prosperous epoch of the powerful state. The knowledge is the most valuable heritage,which was left to us by our wise ancestors. All the times the knowledge was an integral part of our national upbringing, the necessity of life, took a place in the souls of generations. In Ashgabat city and in all the provinces of the country are constructed and put into operation new, modern higher educational institutions, secondary and specialized secondary schools and preschool institutions. In training of pupils is applied the new methodology and the most perfect technics. Among them should be noted a multimedia blackboard and an interactive method of training. New subjects are included into the educational program joins and old ones are improved for broadening of an outlook of youth. There are created all conditions to get Turkmen young people up to the world standard. Our honourable Arkadag carries out consecutive work in changing of educational system, including higher education, secondary and specialized secondary educational and keeps it under the special control. There are published new textbooks and learning aids. Children who enter the 1 class are presented a computer together with textbooks and school accessories.
This year declared by the honourable President «Turkmenistan – yje heart of the Great Silk Road» is signified by the historical events and cultural events of the state level are carried out regularly.
At the state museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan is organized an exhibition named «Educated generation – the powerful Motherland», devoted to the Day of knowledge and student youth, which consists of the values from the storehouses. Here are exposed along with the national vakues fine works od art, wise words of our honourable President about education, new textbooks, exhibits concerning natural sciences, laboratory equipment аnd notes about the historical activity in the field of education and photos made in ХХ century.
The young people thank our honourable President enough for his activity in updating of educational system and perfection of the quality of education up to the world standard.


Francesco Pergolesi's charming photos shine the spotlight on the overlooked champions of the corner shop. The stars of his project Heroes sweep their front stoops, cut their cloth, and bake their bread, working hard as the sun dips into dusk. Pergolesi highlights the efforts of these local vendors who put their heart and soul into their tiny Italian shops, emphasizing these emotions by offering his images from the perspective of a passerby at twilight.
Inspired by childhood memories of stolen moments of freedom at the local cobbler and baker, Pergolesi creates this photo series to celebrate the human connections that still remain at the root of market interactions. His artist's statement for the project explains that these "temple guardians [are] brave and full of passion, [as] they valiantly defend the meeting places for human exchange and relationships, set in unpretentious frames, nibbled by the passing of time." Through his photographs, one adopts the position of a pedestrian observer, glimpsing the often overlooked, behind-the-scenes labor that goes into maintaining these quaint community stores.
Heroes was shot in and around Rome, Milan, and small towns such as Spoleto, in the village Perugia where Pergolesi grew up. Through his work Pergolesi seeks to preserve the memory of the local shopkeeper who attempts to uphold tradition and principle in the face of crushing modern-day capitalism. Currently it is being exhibited at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago until July 1, 2016.


The Bachelor of Science degree in Dairy Science prepares students for many careers. Cal Poly's Dairy Science Program is one of the four largest and most dynamic dairy science programs in the U.S. The program is supported by extensive dairy production and dairy product processing facilities. The program serves an average enrollment of about 100 undergraduate and 15 graduate students, consisting of 5 full-time faculty and lecturers, several part-time lecturers, and 3 staff members. The program is focused on the sustainable production and management of dairy animals, applied research, and commercial production of dairy food products. This position plays a major role in supporting the teaching and research portions of the programs, and is responsible for the Cal Poly Dairy and the facilities involved with this herd of 300+ registered Holstein and Jersey dairy cattle.
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Other duties include facility maintenance, water system development and maintenance, waste management, road maintenance, livestock transport, marketing, fence building, and facilitation of alternate grazing management programs.
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