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National Museum Belgrade – Impressionists
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The Impressionists in the National Museum in Belgrade complete the story of this museum. In my previous posts, I wrote about the Serbian medieval art, Serbian 19th century painting and also about the international collection that you can see there. Surely, those are truly magnificent works of art.
But, the Impressionists collection is also special and unique. The museum in Belgrade is the only place where you can see these masterpieces, by some of the most famous painters.
IMPRESSIONISTS IN THE MUSEUM
The painters who predominantly lived in Montmartre and in 1874 became know as the Impressionists, carried out the first big revolution in the art of the modern age. The traditional painting depicted a moment that compressed within itself the meaning of complete duration. However, the Impressionists depicted single moments which were the fruit of the artist's personal perception.
They chose motifs from nature for such visual interpretation, in line with naturalistic ideas. They examined the effects of sunlight during various parts of the day. Thus, the artist solely focused his interest on matter and colour. That's why the Impressionism ties itself to the colouristic concept of painting.
The Impressionists found content for their paintings in everyday life, in events, places and people of the modern age: the city, the suburbs, parks, cafes and picnic spots.
Barges at Billancourt – Alfred Sisley (1877)
LATER STAGE IMPRESSIONISM
The paintings in the the museum mostly belong to the later stage of Impressionism. Nevertheless, they maintain the Impressionist pattern reflected in personal observation of nature. Thus, Claude Monet celebrated in his own way the landscapes of modern life. Additionally, Camille Pissarro's brilliant brushstrokes reshaped Hausmann's dehumanised Parisian boulevards. Finally, Pierre-Auguste Renoir transformed poor backyards of Montmartre into gardens of love.
A Landscape in Barneville, noon – Camille Pissarro (1900)
PISSARO'S EFFECTS OF THE SUN
Pissarro began working on urban themes in 1887, when he booked a room at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, with a view of the Avenue de l'Opera and the corner of the Place du Palais Royal. He created 15 paintings there, divided into two groups.
The painting below belongs to the first group. It depicts a section of the Rue Saint-Honoré and the Avenue de l'Opera in its entirety. The painting conveys the daytime atmosphere, hence its subtitle "The Effect of the Sun".
La Place due Théâtre Français – Camille Pissarro (1898)
Portrait of a Young Woman – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1883)
Woman Gathering Shells – Alfred Stevens (1883)
A Peasant Woman – Vincent van Gogh (1885)
A Woman at the Window – Fritz von Uhde (c. 1890)
MONET'S "CATHEDRAL IN PINK"
"Cathedral in Pink" or "Rouen Cathedral" is part of the eponymous series painted in 1892 and 1893. The painting depicts the western facade of the church, viewed from a window of the flat at 23 Cathedral Square. It was probably created in February or March 1892. The Rouen Cathedral series, which numbers 30 paintings, is one of the most important in Impressionism. This unique motif was used to examine the effects of the changing light during different times of the day.
Rouen Cathedral – Claude Monet (1892)
Sea – Jan Toorop (1889)
Binz on Rügen – Vasily Kandinsky (1901)
Garden of my Father – Maurice de Vlaminck (1904)
Still Life with Fish – Maurice de Vlaminck (1905)
Sailing Boats in Collioure – Andre Derain (1905)
The Pond – Theodor Verstraete
Edgar Degas and Mary Cassat had a deep and sincere friendship. Their connection was in a dedication to drawing and also in exploring different graphic techniques.
Edgar Degas focused on the particular refuges of modern city life, public places, cafes, the opera stage, but also on brothels. He didn't consider himself and Impressionist, but rather a Realist and Naturalist.
Unlike his paintings, whose actors were trapped in the cruel circumstances of those times, Mary Cassat depicted women and children in an idealised home environment.
Girl with a White Hat – Mary Cassat (c. 1902)
Purple Beeches – Henri Matisse (1901)
By the Window – Henri Matisse (1918)
Peasant and a Cow – Marc Chagal (1926-1927)
GAUGUIN'S TAHITIAN WOMEN
In 1895, Gauguin finally returned to Tahiti. After several big personal tragedies and the loss of his beloved daughter Aline, in poor health and ultimately disillusioned with the western civilisation, in 1897 he started working on a famous painting called "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
The "Tahitian Woman", the painting below, was also one of the preparatory paintings for that work. Iconographically, it belongs to themes from the Maori mythology, that speaks of mysterious meanings of nature.
Great Tahitian Woman – Paul Gauguin (1898)
Portrait of a Woman – Kees van Dongen (c. 1922)
Girl in a Black Blouse – Moise Kisling (1928)
INTERNATIONAL FROM MONTPARNASSE
The artists in Paris and other centres of Europe included the experimental procedure as the chief principle of work. Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo were active painters of Montmatre, the same as the artists who had come to Paris from different parts of Europe. Drawn in by the modernist metropolis, they brought with them their particular cultural heritage from home.
Rue Saint-Vincent – Maurice Utrillo (c. 1918)
They lived and worked in and around Montparnasse, in a bohemian atmosphere and exchange of ideas. They moved within the range of Fauvism, Cubism and Symbolism.
The Asylum – Maurice Utrillo (1925)
Although they were not connected by a single style, but rather by belonging to the same social stratum, their output was largely characterised by a sort of moderate Expressionism.
Cabaret Lapin Agile II, Montmartre – Maurice Utrillo (c. 1930)
Vase with Roses and an Oriental Rug – Suzanne Valadon (1929)
Two Sisters – Marie Laurencin (1931)
Terrace – Jules Pascin (1920)
Child at Breakfast – Pierre Bonnard (1900)
A Girl Reading – Pierre Bonnard (1905)
Still Life – Pierre Bonnard (c. 1930)
Landscape with Olive Trees – Andre Derain (c. 1930)
PICASSO'S ANALYTICAL CUBISM
Picasso did this painting in summer of 1909, during his stay in Horta de Ebro. It is one of the representative examples of Analytical Cubism. The model for the series of portraits executed in various techniques in drawings, paintings and sculptures, created between spring and winter of 1909, depicting a female bust or head, was Fernande Olivier. In these works Picasso endeavoured to consistently apply and to fully develop the Cubist principle of poly perspective.
Head of a Woman – Pablo Picasso (1909)
PATHS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
In the Analytical Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque the object was reduced to geometric surfaces, composed according to the principle of simultaneity. Thus, this discovery was the main iconographic model on which the avant-garde painting was based and from which it developed.
The visual avant-garde between the two world wars and its poetics were built on opposition to the cultural tradition of Europe, established in civil society.
The avant-garde movements empowered the freedom of exploration.
Ornamental Cubism – Serge Charchoune (1922)
Archipenko began working on Cubist sculpto-paintings in 1915, in Nice. These kind of works solved the problem of mass in space. They also solved the relations between internal movements and external surfaces. To that end, he used different materials, lighting effects and polychromy. Thus, he wanted to introduce radically new methods in sculpture. "Two Women", a masterpiece of this type of work, combined materials and techniques from both, sculpting and painting.
Two Women – Alexander Archipenko (1920)
Evidently, the principles of Analytical Cubism represented the cornerstone of Orphism, created in Paris in 1910. The founders of this movement, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Terk Delaunay, then expanded their expression towards pure abstraction, with emphasis on colourism.
The Runners – Robert Delaunay (c. 1924)
In this and my previous posts, I've tried to present an insight into the National Museum in Belgrade.
It's a precious museum, full of surprisingly beautiful artworks. I am glad that I took these photos, because I can look at these beautiful paintings again.
But, whenever I have the opportunity, I go back. Certainly, one visit is not enough to see everything properly and to remember.
I strongly recommend to everyone visiting Belgrade to make sure to visit this museum too.
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DOT updating rules for driver's licenses
July 23, 2016 By Dar Danielson
The Iowa Department of Transportation is updating its rules for young drivers to reflect changes in law approved by the Iowa Legislature.
Sara Siedsma with the motor vehicle division says one update involves the restriction on passengers.
She says a person under 18 with an intermediate license is restricted to driving with one unrelated minor passenger when driving without supervision unless the parent waives the restriction at the time the license is issued. Drivers must have an instruction permit for one year without an accident or conviction for traffic offense before getting an intermediate license. Siedsma says drivers have to wait six months after a conviction before the clock can start again, but the year period does not have to be 12 consecutive months.
"They would be able to count valid periods of hold that instruction permit prior to a conviction and then after a conviction," she explains. They've also updated the process for parents seeking a waiver of driver's education. "Currently that must be submitted on a department form. This change would allow a parent or guardian to sign a written statement at the school rather than having to do the form," Siedsma says. There's also a change designed to give more flexibility for school permits.
"For minor children who have divorced or separated parents, they would be able to drive from the school and either parents' residence — as long as the parent resides in the district of enrollment, or a contiguous district," Siedsma says. She says the students often alternate staying with each parent and this allows them to still drive using their school permit as long as they meet the requirements.
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One thing about Z Nation is they take every opportunity they can find to make Murphy own his emotions. Odd, considering Murphy prides himself on being everyone's pal, but aloof in order to insulate his feelings. He's been through a lot in the apocalypse. Used as a lab rat. Transformed into something no one understands or can replicate. Dragged across the country by strangers. Shot at. Stabbed. Attacked. Insulted. Degraded. He lost his friends, lover, and daughter. The woman he thought he could trust abandoned him when he was dying, leaving his daughter to sacrifice herself for him. A guy who got into all this trouble because of postal fraud, for all things, never stood half a chance of becoming a thriving member of the apocalypse community. That doesn't mean he won't try now, though.


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and state insurance regulators are developing stricter standards to address the concerns of consumers who say that many health plans under the Affordable Care Act have unduly limited their choices of doctors and hospitals, leaving them with unexpected medical bills.
Consumers often chose health plans this year on the basis of price, without paying much attention to their provider networks. Even some careful, well-informed shoppers say they were misled.
Joshua P. Worth, a 43-year-old graphic designer in Los Angeles, said he and his wife had been expecting a baby. They chose a health plan offered by Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of WellPoint, after checking to be sure that its network included their obstetrician and pediatrician.
But after his wife gave birth in March, Mr. Worth said, Anthem notified him that her visits to the obstetrician were not covered because the doctor was "out of network." In April, they visited the pediatrician with their baby, presented their insurance card and were told that the doctor did not accept their plan.
Kristin E. Binns, a vice president of WellPoint, said Anthem Blue Cross was working to improve the accuracy of its provider directory. Since January, she said, the company has added more than 3,800 doctors to its California exchange network, an increase of 10 percent.
Dr. Lindsay K. Botsford, a family doctor in Sugar Land, Tex., said it was often difficult to find specialists willing to take her patients. Even when specialists were listed as being in a health plan's network, she said, many of the doctors had quotas limiting the number of patients they would take from plans purchased on the exchange.
The federal government has years of experience applying network adequacy standards in Medicare. The standards specify the minimum number of primary care doctors and specialists to be included in the network of a Medicare Advantage plan, depending on the population of a county, the population density and other factors.
In addition, Medicare sets maximum travel time and distance criteria. For example, in Muscogee County, Ga., which includes Columbus, 90 percent of the Medicare beneficiaries must have access to primary care providers within 10 miles and 15 minutes of their homes, and to cardiologists within 20 miles and 30 minutes.
In a large metropolitan area, Medicare beneficiaries are supposed to have access to primary care doctors within five miles and 10 minutes.
Insurers oppose highly prescriptive federal rules, saying consumers should be free to choose cheap plans with narrow networks or more expensive plans with broader networks.
For many health plans sold on insurance exchanges, premiums were lower than expected this year. One reason, insurers say, is that they were allowed to devise health plans with fewer doctors and hospitals than have typically been included in employer-sponsored plans.
Moreover, insurers say, when they are selective, they can exclude lower-quality doctors and hospitals.
June 27 was the deadline for insurers to file applications with the Obama administration if they wanted to sell insurance next year in the federal marketplace serving 36 states.
In their applications, insurers were required to list every doctor, hospital and pharmacy in their networks. Federal officials are analyzing the adequacy of those networks with the same computer software they have used to evaluate Medicare Advantage plans.
The software, developed by Quest Analytics of Appleton, Wis., is also used by many insurers.
The software measures the distance between each potential beneficiary or policyholder and each doctor and hospital in a geographic area, performing hundreds of thousands of calculations.
Under the new standards, insurers will generally be required to have contracts with at least 30 percent of "essential community providers" that treat "low-income, medically underserved individuals" in their area. These providers include community health centers, clinics for people with H.I.V./AIDS and family planning clinics.
Some states are setting higher standards. Monica J. Lindeen, the commissioner of securities and insurance in Montana, said she had told insurers on the federal exchange that they must strive to include 80 percent of essential community providers in the state.


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From IoT to IoP: The Internet Of Pet (Food)
Buying dog food at the pet store? How 2015. Obe's smart pet food bowls leverage Amazon's Dash Replenishment Service to automatically reorder dog or cat food through Amazon's website. The August issue of The Internet of Things Tracker™ features an interview with Hilary Jensen Wade, Obe co-founder and CEO, who shares her vision of leveraging the IoT to deliver the Internet of Pet – food. That, plus a directory that rates and ranks about 100 providers awaits.
By PYMNTS
Pet owners, rejoice! Soon, you may own a pet food bowl — integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Amazon's Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) — that will automatically reorder dog or cat food. Pet owners may not have to worry about running out of pet food ever again.
So says Obe, a San Francisco-based startup, whose ProBowl, a new IoT-enabled device, can track supplies and reorder food. The IoT-enabled device is slated for release in September. Obe is taking preorders for the pet bowls on its website.
ProBowl comes in three sizes for dogs and a small size for cats, features a smart base that connects with Wi-Fi, and has a built-in scale that measures food and water. When the bowl is filled with an appropriate amount of food, it lights up. If too much food is dispensed, ProBowl notifies the caretaker.
For August's Internet of Things Tracker, PYMNTS caught up with Hilary Jensen Wade, co-founder and CEO of Obe, to talk about how her company partnered with Amazon with an eye on improving Obe's product.
Here's a sneak peek:
Pet owners can decide what notifications they want to have sent to their mobile devices with updates on whether the dog or cat needs to be fed by downloading the smart iOS app.
"The amount of time that people spend worrying and actively communicating about whether the dog or cat is being taken care of and fed is substantial," Wade said. "The dog may play the 'I haven't been fed' game and try to work you over. We have taken care of that by pressing the button on the bowl, and you'll know if the dog has been fed because the bowl lights up red. If the light is green, you can go ahead and feed them."
By monitoring a pet's consumption behavior, Wade said the ProBowl can serve as an early warning to pet owners that something may be amiss with their dog or cat. She says that Obe supplies health-related recommendations — not solutions — which can be shared with a veterinarian, so a trip to the vet's office is still necessary.
News Highlights From The IoT World
While Obe prepares for the release of the Pro Bowl next month, other companies have recently introduced their innovative products and services to the marketplace.
Wilson Sporting Goods has entered the IoT playing field with its release of a technologically inspired football that can track a wide range of data, including how far it has been thrown and whether the person on the receiving end caught or dropped the pass. The football also measures velocity, spin rate and spiral efficiency.
Meanwhile, Nokia Technologies and Withings worked together on Thermo, a recently launched app-based Wi-Fi personal thermometer. Thermo is the first non-intrusive thermometer with the ability to connect to the internet, and it can get a temperature reading by closely scanning someone's skin.
Amazon was busy with its recent IoT endeavors, which included receiving a patent for smart headphones and launching the Dash Wand, a grocery ordering device, in the U.K. The headphones feature noise-canceling functionality when a distinct sound is heard.
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Doc Hastings, R-WA 4th, 4 minutes
Rush Holt, D-NJ 12th, 2 minutes
Gerry Connolly, D-VA 11th, 1 minute
Doc Hastings, R-WA 4th
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, the primary purpose of this underlying legislation is the premise that Federal lands should be open for hunting and fishing recreation rather than being closed. I believe this should be the policy of all of our multiple use Federal lands. The default option should be open regardless of whether your interests are mountain biking, rock climbing, hunting, fishing, logging, building a solar energy facility, mining, wind power, or developing oil and gas. Our Nation's multiple use lands
were designed to be used for the benefit of the Nation. This open-before-closed concept is the foundation of what we are trying to do through this legislation.
We are trying to raise the bar of bureaucracy that the bureaucracy has placed between hunters and the outdoors.
Reckless disregard of our Nation's hunting and fishing traditions means too often our Federal lands are closed off arbitrarily, and not just without public input, but against public sentiment.
Now the gentleman is proposing that we give the Secretary another new tool to close lands, without scientific decisionmaking, without accounting for their actions. The gentleman proposes that we simply grant the Secretary the sole authority to dictate that we close off any and all of our Nation's lands from hunting and fishing based simply on the Secretary's mere opinion that hunting and fishing are a threat to our Nation's land because of climate change.
Hunting and fishing are traditions and foundations that this Nation was built upon. They are not burdens to our national lands. They are one of the many purposes of our national lands.
Just yesterday, Mr. Chairman, before the Rules Committee, one of my Democrat colleagues was commenting that he had a BB gun at age 7 and a .22 rifle at age 12. He talked about how, as a young man, he learned to respect guns and traditions. Yet that same Member is concerned about what children are learning today--the lack of respect for guns and the traditions of the outdoors.
Mr. Chairman, I believe that this is one of the many benefits and reasons that we are here today, to help restore the opportunity for hunting and fishing traditions to take root on our Federal lands, to remind our Federal land managers that the exercise of these traditions are not a burden on our lands but one of the foundations of our lands.
Finally, let me say this. Regardless of one's views on our climate, this amendment is not about climate change. It is about granting the Secretary a blank check to ban hunting and fishing. Nothing in the bill changes the Secretary's ability to manage our lands to ensure responsible management. The bill does require lands to be opened, however, before closed; but when closing lands, the Secretary must act in a measured fashion to ensure that our hunting and fishing traditions are protected and
valued.
I urge my colleagues to reject what I consider to be an antihunting and -fishing amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Gerry Connolly, D-VA 11th
Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague.
As the cochair of the Green Dogs of the SEEC Caucus, I rise in support of this amendment and proud to cosponsor it.
The bill before us purports to be about expanding opportunities for sportsmen on Federal lands, yet it fails to recognize the significant effect climate change will have on such opportunities. For example, what will climate change mean for hunters who are forced away from parks because of drought or threat of wildfire? As we witnessed this year, wildfire seasons are now longer, larger, and longer-term than ever before because of climate change. The migratory patterns of ducks and, for that matter,
the patterns of fish, to name just two species, are also being negatively affected.
What will climate change mean for anglers who find streams drying up and killing fish? Last September, Montana officials closed the Blackfoot River--not the Secretary, they did--the iconic backdrop for the book and film, ``A River Runs Through It,'' to protect fish from the stress of low-level river flows.
Mr. Chairman, if we really want to protect and expand outdoor recreational opportunities, shouldn't we understand what climate change will mean, not only for hunters, but for the affected wildlife and their habitat?
I urge my colleagues to support this simple, commonsense amendment.
Rush Holt, D-NJ 12th
Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the remaining time just to address a couple of points that my friend, the chair, from Washington has raised.
There is nothing in this amendment that gives the Secretary any new authority. It simply says that the Secretary should consider climate change in policies for managing these lands.
Climate change is the problem that needs to be addressed. You can deny it all you want, but climate change will do more to restrict hunting and fishing and recreation on public lands than these imagined administrative reductions or restrictions or lawsuits or restrictions on lead shot or any of those things.
There are a variety of adaptation strategies to promote resilience of fish and wildlife populations and forests and plant communities and freshwater resources and ocean resources. These are being studied by academic and scientific and, yes, government and nonprofit organizations.
A great deal of thought is going into this. We want to make sure that there is nothing that restricts the Secretary from using these best adaptation strategies, these best management practices, to take into account what is real. It is not imagined. The climate is changing. It is affecting the ecology of all of these public lands.
I urge support of this amendment and yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
I just want to point out that the gentleman wanted to clarify by saying this doesn't give authority, but the Secretary should consider. What if the Secretary considers under current law and then decides to take action?
That is the point of the argument that I made, and that is that that action, then, on climate change could cause limited or no access to our public lands. That is why I said this amendment is kind of cloaked in different clothing, because it does not speak to climate change; in fact, it speaks to the potential closing of our public lands.
I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt). [Page: H1583]
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes appeared to have it.


Some of today's most significant writers and poets explore the relation between what we call the sacred and what we witness in the apparent world.
This unprecedented anthology brings together a provocative mix of new and well known writers whose poetry and prose broaches the possibility of something "bigger" going on, something more significant at stake. Is some powerful agency at work in what we see or are we just wishing (or fearing) that there were? Who can say? Who would dare? What's most intriguing about the selections in this volume is that the authors do dare. What's most attractive about them is that they resist answering that dare with reductions. They prefer the swoon of multiple possibilities over the relative comfort of conclusions. Various as they are, the works collected in The Sacred Place share a common reverence for the word itself, and perhaps best of all—they share a common understanding that no one of them comprehends fully what that means. They seem to desire instead a sense that the humble stuff surrounding us affords a likely enough habitation for the sacred, even now.


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Q: You are the head of the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation. In your opinion, how much interest is there in Russian science and technology in the rest of the world?
A: There is great interest and that is only natural. In the second half of the 20th century our country launched the first artificial space satellite and sent the first man into space, built the first-ever passenger jet, the first nuclear reactor and the first quantum generator. Such a research potential cannot dissipate overnight no matter how adverse the circumstances. Even today our scientists and engineers get impressive results. Take the SU and MIG planes which have no analogies in the world and epitomize the most advanced and innovative engineering trends of our day.
Q: Does the Center act as an intermediary in contacts between Russian and foreign companies?
A: Yes, but our mediation is limited to assisting research organizations and businesses in establishing contacts. There is no commercial interest as far as we are concerned. I can give a few examples. In June 1997, we, together with the Ministry of Science, organized a presentation for the All-Russian Institute of Aviation Materials in our offices in Prague, and 15 Czech companies concluded agreements on joint research and deliveries of Russian-made aviation materials.
We also organized an exhibition featuring advanced technologies for water purification together with the NIIKHIMMASSH joint stock company in Tunisia last year. As a result seven contracts were signed with local firms to deliver plants for sea water purification and for the purification of water at olive oil-making factories there.
Q: Does the Center work with regions of the Russian Federation?
A: As far as the regions are concerned, we primarily organize presentations for various subjects of the Russian Federation at our missions in other countries. We also organize conferences and seminars, concerts and other artistic events, to which we invite regional officials as well as noted scientists and artists. In the past two years we have organized such events in 38 countries of the world. All in all we have done a presentation for 30 republics, territories and cities there, including the Udmurtian and Mordovian republics, and the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Tula, Yaroslavl and other regions. Our goal is to help the regions put their considerable potential in circulation internationally, so to speak, and to raise the awareness of the public in foreign countries of the situation in contemporary Russia.
Q: I understand that one of the Center's main activities is spreading the Russian language. How popular is Russian in the world today? What language programs does the Center support?
A: Interest in the Russian language abroad has always been quite high. People want to read the masterpieces of Russian literature in the original and many are keen to learn the language for their professional careers. According to the International Association of Teachers of the Russian Language and Literature, there are 27 million students of Russian in the world. Our Center has its own Russian language courses and a staff of experienced teachers who regularly deliver lectures and conduct methodological seminars in universities and other schools in foreign countries. In quite a few countries the Center's missions support local associations of Russian scholars as well.
Lately, intense short-term courses running from three weeks to a year have been the most popular. They fit the needs of business people, journalists, all sorts of government officials, such as customs officers, for example, and tourist guides. We also run crash courses - 12 to 20 hours long - for tourists. We also provide individual tutors for business people and, at the same time, prepare people who are planning to enroll in Russian universities.
Some 20,000 students attend the Russian language courses operated by the Center in 40 foreign countries. These courses have been very popular for years. We also have classes for school and even preschool children. For example, last year the Center's office in Mongolia launched a school for kindergarten children where they can study not only Russian but also the Mongolian language, music and basic math.
We also conduct contests for students of Russian in many countries, and some of the winners win trips to Russia. Last year such trips were organized for students from Yugoslavia, Rumania, Poland, Hungary and several other countries. Finally, on the eve of the 200th birthday anniversary of Pushkin, our national poet, the centers are organizing literary parties, exhibitions and conferences aimed at familiarizing the public with the poet's life and work.
Q: What about the Center's work in the field of higher education? How many foreign students come to Russia to get a higher education? Which professions are in most demand?
A: Some 60,000 undergraduate and graduate students and trainees study in Russian universities. Most of them pay their own expenses. But our country offers scholarships to some of the foreign students. As a rule, the recipients are those who major in fields which are most important in cooperation between Russia and other countries. As for the professions which are in special demand among foreigners, I can mention architecture and civil engineering, machine-building, medicine and jurisprudence. As a matter of fact, many graduates of Russian schools have become prominent politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs in their countries.
Our center in Moscow and its offices in other countries are keeping the public abreast of the system of Russian higher education, its research and pedagogical potential at exhibitions and presentations for various schools of higher learning.
Together with diplomats working at Russian embassies abroad, the Center's staffers decide whom among the applicants to give state scholarships to study in Russian universities. Incidentally, we have a good tradition of helping maintain contacts between alumni of Russian schools and their alma maters.
Q: I know there was the first all-Arabic conference of graduates of Soviet and Russian higher educational establishments held in 1997. Can you tell me more about it?
A: It was the first meeting of this kind for a whole region. It was organized by the Lebanese association of graduates, the Center and the international corporation of graduates of Soviet and Russian schools of higher learning called Inkorvuz. It was held May 2 through 4 in our center in Beirut and was attended by representatives of Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria as well as representatives of 14 Russian universities and colleges.
Unfortunately, I could not attend the meeting, but my colleagues say the atmosphere there was exceptionally cordial. People expressed their gratitude to our country which has over the years given tens of thousands of citizens of the Arab countries a new start in life. I am told that Mr. Alexander Golubev, who headed a department for foreign students training at the Ministry of Higher Education for 20 years and was a guest of honor at the conference, was given a standing ovation.
Q: Ms. Tereshkova, this summer will be the 35th anniversary of your historic space flight. Many people today are speaking about the hard times that have fallen on the Russian space program. What do you think about it?
A: It would be more correct to say that the conditions in which Russian space science is developing now are not the best. But Russia has not yielded its lead in space research, and there is much proof of this. Just take the work of the Mir orbital station. It is a unique experiment in the 20th-century engineering practice. A tremendous amount of research has been performed on the Mir station, including the longest space flight - up to 438 days. Cosmonauts from Afghanistan, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, India, Syria and the US have worked on board the Mir. I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
Furthermore, Russia is an active participant in major international commercial space projects. It is playing a leading role in the development of the Maritime Start platform in the Atlantic from which earth satellites will be launched and is collaborating with the US, Japan, Canada and the European Space Union in the construction of the Alpha international space station, where it is responsible for eight of the 18 modules.
Therefore Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Q: Do you remember what you felt at the moment your space flight was over and you were again among us here on Earth? What was the hardest thing for you during those several days in outer space?
A: First of all I felt that I had done my duty and had become convinced that men and women could work in space. Throughout the flight I was so preoccupied with the desire to cope with my assignment that it overshadowed the natural feeling of risk I was taking. But I was aware of the risk involved. So when I landed, I was simply overwhelmed with joy that it was all over and behind - the weightlessness, the closed space of the ship, and all sorts of extraordinary situations which, theoretically, might have happened. And when I was back among people, I repeated the words of Frederic Jolios after the flight of Yuri Gagarin: "Mankind is no longer chained to its planet."
Q: Do you ever see your colleagues from the first cosmonaut unit?
A: Of course, I do. We are all great friends. We have lived together through triumphs and failures and the death of our comrades. I also have professional ties with the "Zvezdnyi gorodok." Last year we celebrated the anniversary of the launching of the first earth satellite by holding an international symposium featuring Russia's accomplishments in space exploration and international cooperation in space. It was organized by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, which at present is headed by a friend of mine, Cosmonaut Pavel Klimut, together with the European Space Agency. It was held at the Berlin headquarters of the Russian Center for Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.
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2018年3月11日 アメリカ、シカゴのフレンドリー テンプル チャーチ オブ ガッドイン クライストの日曜礼拝に置いてエドゥイン・ウォーカー牧師が招いて下さり、「一羽の雀」を特別賛美させて頂きました。動画を主人がYoutubeにアップしてくれたので是非ご覧下さい。On March 11, 2018 I worshipped at Friendly Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Pastor Edwin Walker invited me to praise the Lord in song. Here is what I sang.
Welcome into Yuko Ichioka's website. I am a singer, inspirational speaker, choir director, and voice trainer. I hope you will enjoy your visit here! God bless you!
I wil extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.
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Doc: 'Finding A Good Clinical Trial is Worth A Second Opinion'
By Lynette Summerill
If you have ever thought about participating in a clinical trial, the best place to start is with your primary care doctor, even if he or she has not mentioned it before. It's best to be frank in your discussion, and express the reasons why you feel a clinical trial is a good option for you.
Typically speaking, most people consider clinical trials when a treatment for their disease or condition isn't available or if the standard treatment hasn't worked. Clinical trials can offer hope for many people and an opportunity to help researchers find better treatments for people in the future, but they aren't for everyone. There are many considerations before starting any clinical trial.
Your doctor might be familiar with clinical trials for an experimental or established drug or therapy, or he or she may refer you for a second opinion. In either instance, ask the doctor to discuss with you the benefits and risks of any clinical trial you are considering and whether you might be eligible to participate.
If you seek a second opinion, the best time is at a major decision point, typically before ever starting therapy or at progression before starting a new kind of treatment, says Dr. Jared Weiss, an assistant professor of Clinical Research for Hematology/Oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, and a member of Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE).
"The very least productive time is right after starting a new line of treatment," he says, because "unless the chosen regimen is truly terrible, most doctors will not recommend changing it until it has failed. Further, once the first drop of a regimen has been started for a given line of therapy, the patient becomes ineligible for clinical trials for that line."
Some patients (and their doctors) wait to get a second opinion when they've run out of standard options, Dr. Weiss says.
"An academic doctor may have clinical trials that can offer treatment when no good FDA-approved options are left. However, some of the very best clinical trials are restricted to patients in early lines of therapy and it would be a shame to miss out on even considering these. So, I recommend seeing at least one second-opinion at a major academic center as soon as possible after diagnosis."
Dr. Weiss says too often, patients see him a day or two after starting a new treatment, with the idea that if he has a good trial for them, they'll switch.
"No clinical trial allows this. They can't, because they would have no way of knowing if a response was due to the trial regimen or to whatever was given before it. It is reasonable to want to start treatment right away," he said. "So, if you truly want to consider options from a second opinion, don't start a new line of therapy before seeing the expert," he said.
If you plan to seek a second opinion, Dr. Weiss recommends providing the new doctor with as much information about your health condition as possible. This will enable him or her to provide you with the best and most accurate information.
Include doctor's notes, laboratory reports, pathology reports (and actual tissue or slides for further testing), radiology reports, and CDs of the actual diagnostic images if they are available. Many academic centers have new patient coordinators that will help you to transfer this information, he says.
"Seeking good clinical trials is the most important reason to seek out a second opinion. Clinical trials are not the best choice for every patient at every time point, but I feel strongly that optimal care should at least consider them at every major decision point," he said.
Lynette Summerill is an award-winning writer and Scuba enthusiast living in San Diego, CA with her husband and two beach loving dogs. In addition to writing about cancer-related issues for EmpowHER, her work has been seen in newspapers and magazines around the world.
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The Wagah gate between India and Pakistan – straddling the Great Trunk Road that has for centuries connected Kabul to the Bay of Bengal – is one of the happiest and saddest border posts in the world.
It's a happy experience for crowd-weary travellers, who find themselves in two of the emptiest immigration and customs halls in the Indian subcontinent. As the border opened at 10am on Monday morning, I was one of only two people crossing the frontier on their way from Amritsar to Lahore, emerging within minutes on the Pakistani side.
But what could be sadder or more absurd than the near-absence of communication between the two halves of Punjab, where people speak the same languages but have been severed from each other by religion, violence and national pride since British India was partitioned at independence in 1947?
There is some desultory trade across the militarised border. Indian trucks, garishly painted and laden with vegetables, queue for hours on their way to Pakistan; the delays are reciprocated for the even more ornately decorated Pakistani vehicles taking limestone to Indian cement factories. But such traffic is a fraction of what it should be for two economically needy neighbours sharing a border of nearly 3,000km and making up a fifth of the global population.
Luckily for me there were no queues for foot passengers as I had an appointment on the outskirts of Lahore with a Pakistani (and Punjabi) politician – one who prides himself on having made peace with India and would do it again for the good of his country.
Nawaz Sharif, twice prime minister, has entered the final days of the country's election campaign as the favourite – his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is expected to win the most parliamentary seats once the votes are counted on Saturday night.
But the patrician Mr Sharif seemed relaxed, even insouciant, amid a pre-electoral throng of aides, relatives and manservants as he expounded his policies: urgent economic reforms and talks with Pakistani Taliban extremists to end terrorism.
He was speaking from his vast home at Jati Umra, a place named after the Sharif family's original village near Amritsar on the Indian side of the frontier. Peacocks strut across the manicured lawns and between the fruit trees. Inside, two stuffed African lions stand guard in the hall.
Saturday's poll will be a historic election for a country plagued by violence and military dictatorships. If all goes well, it will be the first time that power has passed from one democratically elected Pakistani government to another – and Punjab, with 60 per cent of the nation's voters, is the crucial battleground.
Lahore, capital of Punjab and one of Asia's largest cities, is home not only to Mr Sharif but also to Imran Khan, the former cricket star who has mobilised huge crowds with his call for an end to corruption and a new, clean style of politics.
For many Pakistanis, and Indians with family ties in Pakistan, Lahore represents all that is best about the country: it is cultured, commercial and tolerant, with open-air restaurants and a red-light district that abut the main mosque, and a Lahore Fashion Week that was celebrated without incident last month.
This week, however, is all about politics. The Mughal fort has closed to tourists, and schools are to shut their doors from today until after polling. The streets are festooned with the banners of the two main parties, Mr Sharif's PML-N and Mr Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice).
Nearby, Shoaib, a younger trader selling plastic bracelets, disagrees. His allegiances are on public display. Next to the bracelets a stuffed animal – this time, a leopard – is holding a cardboard cricket bat in its jaws. He thinks Mr Sharif, a businessman, will be able to end the power cuts and restore prosperity to Lahore. Whoever wins, Saturday's election will be important, not just for the city but across Punjab – on both sides of the Wagah gate.


Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport, is working nonstop. But this time, it's giving back to the community. HMSHost, which have dozens of kiosks and restaurants at the Atlanta airport, donates about a ton of unsold food every week to the Salvation Army. Last year, HMS Host donated in Atlanta 20,000 food items and more than 3 million at airports nationwide. A Salvation Army van goes through security and parks on the tarmac to pick up hundreds of food items every other day.


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Department of Assessment: Property sales down, sale prices up in Tompkins
by Brian Crandall March 8, 2019 March 17, 2020
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Tompkins County Department of Assessment shared its latest report with county legislators earlier this week.
Tompkins County has 16 municipalities and 35,406 tax parcels with a combined value of $13.5 billion, or $8.1 billion when excluding the tax-exempt properties. The department, which is heading into its 50th year, runs with a staff of 12 and rotates the locations it reassesses in an effort to keep the work manageable. (If you're looking for an in-depth exploration of their work, have a read through last year's write-up here.)
For this year, residential reassessments were carried out for the towns of Caroline, Danby, Newfield, Enfield, Dryden, Ulysses, the West Hill and Planned Unit Development areas of the town of Ithaca, the villages of Trumansburg, Dryden, and Freeville. On the commercial side, the department reassessed fast food restaurants, cell towers, mixed-use properties, and mini-storage enterprises.
The result of these reassessments was an increase in countywide property value of $490,075,993 — a 3.91% increase, and about double the rate of inflation. The total tax base went up 2.8%, or $215,000,000. A little less than 95% of properties saw their property assessment stay the same or increase, with the average increase being $15,000.
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Continuing a trend seen for several years now, the department of assessment has found sales prices of homes are well above the assessed values of the property. Countywide, the average assessment for properties sold in 2018 was 92% of the sales price — so on average, a home sold at the median price of $236,000 was assessed at about $217,000. It's a reflection of the market – difficult for many buyers, but a boon for many sellers.
On that related note, the median sales price for a home in Tompkins County ticked up 2.6% last year to $236,000. The average home sales price went up from $256,708 to $268,341, but this value could be skewed by a higher number of higher-end and luxury home sales. The overall number of sales decreased slightly to 849, the lowest count since 2011.
Jay Franklin, director of the department of assessment, said he did not find any of the details of the 2019 report to be all that unusual.
"I don't think anything has surprised me," Franklin said. "We are just a different market as compared to our neighbors. Despite our challenges, Tompkins County is still a very strong market."
Tompkins County Department of Assessment. (File Photo)
Perhaps the biggest external change to the county's market was the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017, also called the "Trump tax cuts," or more derisively, the "Trump tax" due to the newly-imposed limitation of state and local income tax (SALT) deductions. Since the first year of taxes with the law in effect are still in the process of being filed, the impacts have yet to be fully determined, though the impacts on Tompkins County are expected to be somewhat limited by its relatively inexpensive properties in comparison to downstate.
"The SALT deduction is interesting. I haven't heard many issues around here yet – we shall see when everyone does their taxes for this year. My brother is an appraiser on Long Island, and he was saying the $2-3 million market down there was really affected by this change," said Franklin.
In an analysis of the market, the department noted that the student-oriented rentals appear to have some slack, thanks to the influx of new projects, including Cornell's Maplewood rebuild, and potentially the 2,000-bed North Campus expansion. Still, the market is considered to be very strong, if not as tight as it has been in recent years. The department is tracking real estate developments across the county, and has in its notes over 11,000 beds in some stage of development, whether proposed, approved or under construction (the Ithaca Voice project map adds up to about 10,000, so their notes appear to be more comprehensive).
Generally speaking, there's no across-the-board increase in the towns when it comes to assessment; the wide variety of properties means that each parcel is reviewed case-by-case, and some will increase in value more than others. Meanwhile, the village of Groton, despite its perceived issues, remains a strong market due to its relative affordability when compared to Ithaca and the inner suburbs.
Token public service announcement here, but should a property owner wish to dispute the reassessed value of their holdings, the deadline to file an informal review application is March 29. The formal review period when a property owner can file a grievance application with the Board of Assessment Review is from May 1 to May 28. Grievance day will be held on May 28 at the department of assessment. A small number of appointments for grievance day will be able to be scheduled starting on May 1, with a walk-in period from 4 to 8 p.m.
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A bad crash on the Schuylkill Expressway sent two people to the hospital early Saturday morning.
FAIRMOUNT PARK (WPVI) -- A bad crash on the Schuylkill Expressway sent two people to the hospital early Saturday morning.
The accident occurred around 3:25 a.m. near the Montgomery Avenue exit in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park section.
Two vehicles collided, and one of them reportedly caught on fire.
One person was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital, and the other victim was taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital.
So far, no word on their conditions.
Police closed the westbound lanes and detoured traffic onto Girard Avenue to investigate.
All lanes have since reopened near the crash site.


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My question is this, how can I have both, a week long session and also have the message sequence number reset daily.

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High Court Injunction looms in GatEx new train row
25/04/2016 in Network
Govia Thameslink Railway has issued proceedings at the High Court to seek an injunction enabling the operation of its new 12-car Gatwick Express trains.
Its move follows the refusal of ASLEF union members to drive the first two services that they were due to operate.
The driver of the first one refused to open the doors to let passengers on board, because the train is two carriages longer than the one it replaces.
Instead he drove an empty 0530 service from Victoria to Gatwick on April 9, kept the doors closed and returned empty again. The company said 30 passengers heading for the airport were left on the platform at Victoria station.
ASLEF opposes the use of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new 12-car Class 387/2 Gatwick Express trains, and has announced a ballot for industrial action.
A GTR spokesman said: "We launch legal action very reluctantly, but we have been left with no choice because of the position adopted by the ASLEF union.
"We will take any reasonable steps we can to defend the interest of our customers and maintain the Gatwick Express service with the new 12-car trains."
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Andy Nash - 25/04/2016 13:09
Trains need a guard.. end of..
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Andrewjgwilt1989 - 26/04/2016 22:27
What's next for GTR and Gatwick Express. Properly introducing 10-car trains with all 27 4-car Class 387/2's to have a 5th carriage added for longer trains as 2x5-car 387/2's=10-car 387/2's just like what Gatwick Express did have the Class 442's that are 5-cars and were cascaded from SWT as the 8-car Class 460's were taken away and to be converted into 5-car Class 458/5's for SWT that the 458/0's were 4-car trains operating between London Waterloo-Reading and Windsor & Eton Riverside routes.
Google - 01/05/2016 10:19
Bring on driverless trains...
Well that's not going to happen for at least 20-50 years time. Or even in 100 years time.
Mr Truth - 08/05/2016 14:41
This is not accurate. The driver did not refuse to take the train in service or open the doors, but instead gave Control three options; Provide a guard and run the train as a 12-car (as per the agreement between Govia and ASLEF), Run the train as an 8-car train in service without a guard, or to cancel the service. Control chose to cancel the service. This agreement isn't a 'you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours' type, it is a safety agreement. It provides a baseline, just like the zero-tolerance approach to drink and drugs...
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Color Psychology: Colors and Their Effects in Web Design
Sonja Hoffmann 25.03.21
Numbers, data, facts
Colors and emotions
Colors and their effect
How can I implement this?
Color theory and the strategies based on it provide a basic foundation for creating harmonious designs. But what psychological effects do your choices have? Is it possible to address your target your audience even more specifically through colors?
Colors play an important role in our daily lives. For creative people, in particular, colors take up a large part of your daily work. Small color changes can make a big difference. But the symbolism of colors is also important for the rest of the population. When was the last time you were "red with rage", "blue in the face" or "green with envy"?
All languages have associations with colors and use them unconsciously on a regular basis. If someone is described as being "blue" in English, for example, we understand is being melancholic or sad. In German, on the other hand, being blue means a person is drunk.
As you see, cultural characteristics play a not insignificant role in color psychology. That's why it's strongly recommended to read up on the cultural meaning of colors when designing for an international market. You can find a small overview here.
How colors work: Color psychology with positive energy
Dealing with color theory and color psychology is an absolute must as a web designer. With the choice of color, you ultimately determine your target group. However, it's worth breaking with stereotypical color assignments, questioning gender marketing - and celebrating social diversity.
Statistics on purchasing behavior
Carlfritz.net has compiled some interesting numbers for us:
More than 90 percent of purchasing decisions are determined by visual factors. 84.7 percent of respondents are most influenced by the color of the product.
Consumers make purchase decisions unconsciously during the first 90 seconds. The color of the article contributes about 62-90 percent to this decision.
Colored ads get 40 percent more attention than colorless versions.
The company emotivefeels provides a fascinating and instructive journey through the different worlds of color and the emotions associated with them.
Effect according to temperature
A warm color palette(source)
Warm colors have the property of being invigorating and active. However, if used too dominantly or distributed in an unharmonious way, they can also create restlessness. You can use these properties to your advantage as these colors directly catch the eye, e.g. sparsely and deliberately used as a call-to-action.
If you use too much red and yellow in your designs, it can lead to your actual message getting lost and users being irritated.
A cold color palette(source)
Cold colors, in contrast, have a calming and serious effect. The cold colors, some of which are also derived from warm colors, can have the properties from both warm and cold colors. Green, for example, often has a calming yet vibrant effect. Pure purple tones, on the other hand, stand out and seem rather "loud".
Cold colors in use(source)
Psychological effect of colors
Yellow is the color the human eye perceives first. Gastronomy and retail particularly like to use yellow because the color can emphasize or intensify feelings of hunger. Yellow also stands for summer feelings and good mood. We associate it with youth, lightness, optimism and openness.
We also associate yellow with discounts and discount purchases, however. A product with this color can therefore easily be judged as "cheap".
CeativeSpark use yellow on their homepage as a color for call-to-actions as well as a contrasting color to the white background. Their website looks young, modern and energetic.
Red attracts our attention. Red also stands for activity and a mood of departure. Objects and elements in red appear spatially closer than other objects. Moreover, we've been trained since childhood to recognize red as a signal and warning color.
We associate red with very different qualities. Thus, it represents the color for danger and for passion in equal measure.
The website of Five/Four website looks confident, energetic and authentic thanks to the use of red and bold typography.
Orange is supposed to inspire confidence and lead to impulse buying. Furthermore, we associate orange tones with creativity, optimism and joie de vivre. In addition, orange, like yellow, also stimulates the appetite. Composed of yellow and red, it is also said to have energetic properties.
The telecommunications provider Orange has not only made orange its logo color, it's also used the color for its company name. As a contrast to the orange, a lot of black is used in their design. This makes Orange look not only modern but also serious.
Among other things, green is the color of money. Green can increase the purchasing power of your customers. An article from epson.at (in German) also states:
Green is in the middle of the color spectrum and is therefore the most balanced color. When the world around us is green, it represents water and healthy plant life. In such an environment, we instinctively know we're not in danger. We feel safe and can shop with a secure feeling.
GoSimple's branding feels authentic as the name matches the visual design and color scheme. While the font, logo and illustrations are kept minimalistic, the green appears lush, fresh, vibrant and healthy.
The product range is additionally divided into those for women and for men - a clear use of gender marketing. Here, a further distinction was made: a sunny, young yellow for women and a serious blue for men.
Blue stands for relaxation, serenity, calm, freedom, depth, loyalty and longing. This color is rather unsuitable for the food industry because blue tones have an appetite-suppressing effect. Blue is statistically the color most often used for logos and corporate identity. Blue is perceived as serious, honest and safe. In addition, we associate blue with summer, sea and travel.
Coinbase uses a lot of white and blue as a contrasting color. The design appears clear, tidy and serious. This makes the product look transparent and inspires confidence.
The color pink stands for gentleness, caring and love. Pink is stereotypically often used for products for girls or women, e.g. for toys, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Therefore, we also often associate this color with femininity. Less intense than red, it still attracts attention but has a softer effect and also stands for compassion.
Libenar appeals specifically to parents of young children. The soft pink tones appear innocent and gentle.
Many shades of purple stand for extravagance, exclusivity and luxury. They are often used for cosmetic products and luxury items. We also often see violet used in connection with spirituality.
Cadbury 's colors of purple combined with gold stand for affordable luxury. The color background of the products in yellow and light blue softens the luxury tone somewhat and make the brand appear family friendly.
Brown is a warm, natural color. According to laprinta.de, brown is "used for coffee, outdoor clothing or wood. This is because it stands for closeness to nature as well as for safety, security and reliability. It embodies down-to-earthness and is not as obtrusive as green, but slightly friendlier than gray or black."
Brown tones are commonly used in the home furnishings and food industries.
Brown is suitable for products that reflect this color such as coffee or chocolate, as with Portuguese Coffee. The advantage is clear, our senses are immediately spoken to and we can almost smell the coffee.
Black is noble, modern and functional. We associate black with luxury and elegance, with seriousness, but also with sadness. Especially in combination with noble-looking colors like silver and gold, we often find black in high-priced products.
The bakery and confectioner's Verona have chosen black as the most present color even though it's not appetizing like yellow, red and orange. Despite these supposed limitations, the choice works well. Their website looks mysterious, luxurious and elegant.
We associate purity, innocence and perfection with white. White is especially popular in the wedding industry. White alone does not create emotions and takes on the attributes of the other colors.
The almost white background of Akson's website also appears transparent and honest. Minimalism doesn't distract from the actual product and instead brings it to the fore.
Gray is associated with professionalism and timelessness. Pure gray is the only color to which no emotions can be assigned from a psychological point of view. However, this doesn't mean that gray has no effect on us. The absence of color also has consequences.
On its own, gray can sometimes seem incomplete and oppressive. In combination with other colors, gray often takes on their emotional effect. In web design, gray is often used in connection with seriousness and elegance. Gray appears simple and authentic and doesn't steal the show from the actual product. In addition, gray doesn't have to be mixed from pure white-black and can thus take on warm or cold attributes.
How to choose the perfect color for your business
Now you know the meaning of each color, how do you go about choosing the perfect color for your business? ConceptDrop stress the important of brand identity in their article. Here, the focus of your brand personality is in one of these five areas and usually doesn't cover more than two of them.
Once you know what attributes you can find in your brand, it's easier to find the colors that correspond to them. Here are some examples of well-known brands and their corporate colors:
After that, I recommend finding out what colors other companies with similar products are using. Competitor analysis gives you information about what has already proven itself successful - and what hasn't. However, simply choosing similar color combinations to be on the safe side isn't necessarily the right approach.
It's important to learn from what's already there, but if your customers can't remember your brand because most of your competition is visually similar, then your product will be easily forgotten.
Standing out from the crowd is at least as important as finding the colors that appeal most to your target audience. You can use user testing, e.g. A/B testing, to check the success of existing designs.
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Conclusion: Psychology of colors
The designs in this introduction also show that it's not just the right choice of color that's important, the overall concept has to be coherent. If you use confident and loud colors with a small squiggly font, for example, you send two different messages.
In addition to the general effects we attribute to colors, how a color is experienced also depends heavily on the individual. Extroverted and introverted personalities, for example, are said to have different color preferences - but again, this doesn't have to be the case. Gender and other demographic characteristics are also often differentiated. But in the end, we all have our very own, often unconscious, associations.
Maybe the color of your favorite blanket was yellow and that's why a certain shade of yellow makes you nostalgic. We associate different colors and tones with different situations. While for some the terracotta tiles in a holiday home represent the color for summer, others may have spent most of their holidays at the local pool and therefore associate bright blue with warmth and summer.
More about colors and their meaning:
Colorcharts
Color symbolism and meanings around the world
How color impacts emotions and behaviors
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Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Cloudfire, May 9, 2015.
Hasee, a big chinese notebook manufacturer, had a conference in china few days ago.
Wu Haijun, the CEO of Hasee revealed that GTX 990M is coming in Q4 (September - December). Probably close to September to not put it too close to Pascal (June 2016 ish).
And the biggest news is that GTX 990M will be just about as powerful as GTX 980M SLI!
GTX 980 with 2048 cores have a TDP of 165W. Meaning a desktop GPU with 2500 cores will be around 190W. GTX 680 with 1536 cores was 195W, and we got GTX 780M with 1536 cores from that one.
Yes I know GM200 is 384bit, but if they can`t that to work with GTX 990M, they have disabled 4 memory controllers and it will be 256bit.
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A single mobile GPU based on Maxwell that performs like a GTX Titan X? Sounds way too good to be true.
I'd be able to believe that if it were Pascal. But I suppose if it is true, that's damn impressive, and I want one.
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990M would have to outperform Titan X because 980M SLI already does. Disable all those ROP & MC partitions in GM200 to make a 256-bit mobile GPU and you no longer have anything close to resembling Titan X performance. And then there's the little matter of fitting a 600mm^2 die inside a notebook.
So technically, not only would 990M have to be an overclocked full fat GM200, it would have to be somehow scaled down from 250W to 100-125W at the same time.
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With these HQ cpu's i dont see any point to more powerful gpu's right now. The current lineup of intel CPU's are bottlenecking the hell out of them.
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It's fun to think about, though. Even if this isn't true, we can expect to see similar performance output from the 1080M (Pascal).
Just imagine that, guys. It's going to be great.
That was my immediate reaction as well. I wonder if Skylake HQ will be fixed... It actually looks like it might be worse.
The GT80 is a weird case. Since it is such a large machine and has the cooling capability, MSI unleashed the core. The problem is that signs are pointing to Skylake being higher TDP than Haswell at the same clocks (the 4GHz desktop part is said to be 95W TDP when the 4GHz 4790k is rated for 88W TDP) which is worrying for mobile to say the least.
GTX Titan X is probably 10-15% faster than 980M SLI in average over a big set of games. 3072 cores - 15% is 2600 cores. Pretty close to the 2500 core GM200 it could be.
Im not saying GTX 990M is 980M SLI. Hasee is. Read the first post.
The TDP will go down to around GTX 780M if they disable memory controllers. Its only 500 more cores than GTX 980.
Its a pretty wild thing to think about. I was certaim we would see a full GM204 instead.
I don't see how this is possible. GM200 is too big for mobile and it makes absolutely zero financial sense for nVidia to release something so powerful now that AMD has bowed out of the race. It just would make expectations for Pascal even higher. I really can't see such a performance jump without competition being a driving force.
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Q: WinXP with two LAN cards: Howto route only port 3389 onto one LAN card? I have a Windows XP machine in remote location on which I need to debug an application.
It has two LAN cards both with internet access on different subnets.
Problem is related to LAN card A.
How can I force Remote Desktop (port 3389) through the other LAN card B only and make sure that all other trafic go via LAN card A.
Is it possible to set some static router rules somewhere in WinXP?
/Thanks,

A: I think the answer to this is, if interfaces A & B are on different subnets, they have different IP addresses.  If that's the case, then you can use B's IP address when connecting with RDC, instead of the computer name.  This should guarantee that interface B gets the connection instead of A.

A: All Remote Desktop and only Remote Desktop? You can't, not automatically. When the computer is deciding what device to send it out, it looks at the routing table, which is just a set of IP addresses. You'll therefore need to make sure that any IP addresses you'll want to RDP to are in the set of routes that go out card B. I'd encourage you to set your IP addresses and subnet masks this way, but you can cheat it by adding a static route as described on Microsoft's KB.

A: Are you trying to route out going traffic, or incoming traffic?
For Windows itself you can setup static routing rules (ROUTE ADD), however these won't apply to specific ports, and it only applies to outgoing traffic (incoming might use another route if it has already been discovered by outside equipment).
This really sounds like something you'll need to do on a switch (a managed switch, that is one that you can actually login into and program), or possibly on some models of router that support advanced traffic configuration.
One work around you might consider, if you are trying to connect to this computer from the outside (rather then run a connection from it) and this is a home setup, is to configure the port forwarding on your router to send traffic on that port to the IP address of the second card (you'll need to manually setup the IP of that card instead of using DHCP).
Alternatively a Linux computer running as a gateway could make it possible, but that would really just be a very expensive managed switch.

A: This is in fact something very buggy in XP... it doesn't work.
I have tested a situation with Nic1 connected to our LAN and Nic2 connected via WAN connection to a customer's LAN. Seperate IP range, good subnet masks, good & different dns suffixes and DNS server adresses.. and still XP will always try to connect through the Nic that handled your logon.
I even did a crazy test: reboot, logon, then swap LAN cables between the 2 cards: then it works... until you reboot/logon again, then you should swap cables again.
Buggy multiple network handling in XP... will perform the same test in Windows 7 now :-)


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