In his solo-exhibition 'In Between the Light and Darkness', Hong Kong artist YAN Kallen pays tribute to the passion and processes of the craftsmen and artisans in Kyoto.
YAN has always been interested in the relationship between human and nature. After winning the KG+ Award from Kyotographie International Photography Festival in 2016 with his project on handcrafted brooms, he was given the opportunity to realise a project on the artisanal scene of Kyoto, a city known for its traditions in crafts and culture.
"It was fascinating to watch the artisans at work, making things in the traditional methods and using tools that are sometimes passed down for generations. In the process of observing them, I slowly recognise that it is not simply a matter of livelihood, or continuation of traditions. Their artisanal culture represented a way of life, an attitude for living in this world, driven by the passion for the crafts, and to be making and to live with these artifacts.
The title 'Between the Light and Darkness', describes the span of a lifetime, but also the reality of everyday, of repetition, of days and nights, and legacies, a moment in time, a photograph, a print.
YAN prints his images on thick handmade Washi paper with deckled edges, giving them a sense of timelessness as well as furthering the feeling of respect towards the physicality of the artisanal crafts.


The 5th Berwick upon Tweed Film Festival "Drawing the Lines" runs from 18 – 20 September. On offer is a selection of films screened at The Maltings including classics such as Laurel and Hardy and Woody Allen's "Sleeper", the world premiere of "Tokyo is Dreaming", a documentary about Sighthill in Glasgow and various short films.
Maltings film tickets cost £5 (£4 concessions) or you can buy a festival pass for £18 (£14 concessions). It's free of charge to go to the video installations and screenings at The Gymnasiun, Bankhill Icehouse and The Prison Cells.
It's easy to reach Berwick upon Tweed by rail from Edinburgh and Newcastle, so you can have a film themed day out in beautiful Berwick.
Have you been to previous Film Festivals in Berwick? I've been a volunteer steward and custodian at the 2007 and 2008 Festivals, which I've really enjoyed.
This entry was posted in England and tagged Berwick upon Tweed on August 29, 2009 by Karen Bryan.


"You can't go wrong with a good mascara."
Cara Delevingne has continually slayed with her looks on the runway and her IRL outings. The model may have been caught taking a snooze during a makeup application process, but she did reveal what beauty looks you might catch her trying when she's not in the makeup chair.
In a new interview with Vogue, Cara touched on a bit of everything from her beauty regimen process and as she revealed, most of her runway makeup moments don't make the cut IRL. "I am an eyes person but it depends," she said. "Sometimes it's just the brows, or no make-up. I think I like to do either a lot of make-up or none. I'm kind of all or nothing. It is very rare that I will go for eyes and a lip. Unless I want to really do something major, or just really do drag queen, with full contouring and everything."
Naturally, her love of all things eye makeup makes mascara her number one must-have. She believes "you can't go wrong with a good mascara," and also recommended a dab of concealer for under the eyes.
She continued, noting that she's often impressed by how well others can do their makeup. She actually credits the incredible looks she's seen to Rihanna. "Rihanna is teaching teens how to just get it right," she said. "It's weird, I feel like that awkward teenage stage is over and that I was one of the last to go through it. I remember when I was a kid, I was so bad - all I used to do was just cake on foundation and eyeliner. Now I look at teenagers today and I'm like "What?!" Less and less teenagers are looking like that. I see them and I'm like: "How do they do that make-up? It's so hard."
As for the rest of her beauty routine, Cara prefers having shorter hair. "There's a lot more to play around with when you have shorter hair," she said. "When I had long hair I was a lot lazier with doing stuff to it. As soon as you do start to play, you realize there's so much you can do. It's endless, and with short hair you can also always wear a wig."
The model may have improved when it comes to makeup application, but there's one beauty habit she just can't quit — popping pimples. " I'm a pop-oholic," she said. "My own and other people's spots too! 100 per cent - I am obsessed."
If you also struggle with the temptation to pop, you may want to think twice. Experts previously offered their advice on popping to Teen Vogue, and advised that there is a proper way for removal. Don't force any pimple to pop before it's ready and make sure your skin is completely clean before you attempt to remove it. Wrap your fingers in tissue when popping or use a Q-Tip. Be gentle with your squeezing and give the pimple a double check after popping.


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Q: sending data as an array but receiving it as [object Object] Hi In my stencil application I  have created a component which receives data as an array as well JSON.stringfiied like below:
<myComponent :data=[1,2,3,4] />
<myComponent :data="JSON.stringify([1,2,3,4])" />

in my stencil component it receives as [object Object], However it should be read as Array. Here is snapshot of stenciljs @prop part
 @Prop() data: string | Array<Record<'type' | 'value' | 'percentage', string>>;

User can send stringified (using JSON.stringify as well as directly can send  an array to the component.)
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Q: Is there a way to clear edittext before bluetooth barcode scanner input I have an Edittext and I want to clear it before receiving the input from the next scan by barcode scanner. The problem is that every time I scan a barcode, the input is added to the result of previous scan like this:
id=3id=12id=34
I tried beforeTextChanged event and it doesn't work for me!

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This simple code can clear the editext , Have you tried it ?

editText.getText().clear();


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Is The MLB's National League Closer To Adopting Designated Hitters?
Recent comments from the MLB commissioner put the debate over designated hitters in the spotlight once again.
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Article by Carter Woodiel
It doesn't take much to get baseball fans fired up over the designated hitter rule, and recent comments from the MLB commissioner have stoked the fire once again.
Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters he's seeing a "willingness to change" among National League execs regarding adopting the DH in the Senior Circuit, which has been used in the American League for 43 years. (Video via Fox Sports)
As you might expect, a few National League higher-ups are miffed by Manfred's comments. Phillies chairman Dave Montgomery quipped, "We would like to remain real baseball." (Video via Society for American Baseball Research)
That brand of ball appears to be dying out. Right now, the college game uses the DH, and though pitchers bat in Double-A and Triple-A minor league games, that's only when NL affiliates play each other, which means pitchers go through college ball and the minors with few at-bats under their belt.
This adds up to some ghastly production at the plate. On average, MLB pitchers hit just .132 last year with a .329 OPS, nearly 400 points below the league average.
In some cases, injury is added to insult; last year, Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright tore his Achilles at the plate, sidelining him for five months. (Video via The Increase)
Still, there are plenty of arguments to keep things as they are. For one, it adds strategy to the game as managers try to navigate a pitcher's spot in the lineup. And of course, with the DH in both leagues, we wouldn't get to see Bartolo Colon hit again.
Though, let's remember a league-wide DH rule isn't coming right away. Baseball's owners have yet to even take a hard look at this; Joe Torre, MLB's chief baseball officer, was clear it wasn't a topic of discussion at this week's quarterly meeting.
As for when they will be talking about it, MLB has one year left on its labor agreement with the players' union, which likes the DH since it gives more big contracts to hitters. (Video via Zepp Labs)
This means the resulting labor negotiations will likely be the arena the DH battle is fought in. NL fans — and Bartolo fans — will be watching closely. (Video via WNYW)
This video includes images from Getty Images.
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MLB stars such as José Abreu, Yordan Alvarez, Randy Arozarena, Yoán Moncada and Luis Robert can now decide to play for Cuba in the WBC in March.
By Abbie Parr / AP
Aaron Judge Lands 9-Year, $360M Deal To Remain With New York Yankees
The free agent slugger will return to New York for $40 million per season, the highest average annual payout for a position player in the MLB.
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Newsy's "In The Loop" dives into the latest behind-the-scenes stories of business and culture in sports in its series "Scoreboard."

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They find the tomb of Saint Philip in Turkey
A grave believed to be of Saint Philip the Apostle It was discovered during excavations in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis. Italian professor Francesco D`Andria said that archaeologists found the tomb of the biblical figure, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, while work was being done in the ruins of a newly discovered church.
"We have been searching for the tomb of Saint Philip for years", He assured D`Andria to the Turkish Anadolu News Agency. "She was finally found in the ruins of a church found a month ago".
"The structure of the tomb and the writings on the wall proved that they belonged to Saint Philip"Added the teacher.
San Felipe, recognized as one of the martyrs of Christianity, is believed to have died in Hierapolis around the year 80. It is also believed that he was crucified upside down, or beheaded.
Hierapolis, whose meaning is "holy city"Is an ancient city famous for its hot springs and a spa that dates back to the 2nd century.
After studying History at the University and after many previous tests, Red Historia was born, a project that emerged as a means of dissemination where you can find the most important news about archeology, history and humanities, as well as articles of interest, curiosities and much more. In short, a meeting point for everyone where they can share information and continue learning.
Video: Turkey: The tomb of Saint John The Apostle
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KLM Introduces Payment via Facebook and Twitter
As first airline in the world KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has developed a method of payment which enables customers to pay via social media. Customers using Facebook or Twitter to book or rebook a flight, make a seat reservation, or to arrange extra baggage, can now pay through these channels.
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Customers are already able to arrange extra services through social media, but until now payment has taken place over the telephone. Customers have regularly indicated that they would like to pay online through our social media channels. With this new method, contact with the customer takes place exclusively through the social media channel they have used. This enables KLM to provide an even better, more convenient service.
KLM sends a link to the customer in a private message on Facebook or Twitter. The customer can then select their preferred method of payment and complete the transaction. The social media service agent at KLM then receives a message to say that payment has been received and the customer in turn receives confirmation of the payment.
The 130 social media agents at KLM answer around 35,000 queries on Facebook and Twitter every week. Last week KLM welcomed its five-millionth Facebook fan, making KLM the airline with the most fans in the world.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was founded in 1919, making it the world's oldest airline still operating under its original name. In 2004, Air France and KLM merged to form AIR FRANCE KLM. The merger produced the strongest European airline group based on two powerful brands and hubs – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Retaining its own identity, the group focuses on three core businesses: passenger transport, cargo and aircraft maintenance.
In the Netherlands, KLM comprises the core of the KLM Group, which further includes KLM Cityhopper, transavia.com and Martinair. KLM serves all its destinations using a modern fleet and employs over 33,000 people around the world. KLM is a leader in the airline industry, offering reliable operations and customer-oriented products resulting from its policy of enthusiasm and sustainable innovation.
KLM is a member of the global SkyTeam airline alliance, offering customers an extensive worldwide network. The KLM network connects the Netherlands to every important economic region in the world and, as such, serves as a powerful driver for the economy.
About SkyTeam
SkyTeam is a global airline alliance providing customers from member airlines access to an extensive worldwide network offering more destinations, more frequencies and more connectivity. Passengers can earn and redeem Frequent Flyer Miles throughout the SkyTeam network. SkyTeam member airlines offer customers access to over 490 lounges worldwide.
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Q: Python - Get user purchases using Google API from GAE I'm trying to get a user's subscription using a google api call from server side (Google App Engine). I went over all the documentation I could find, but I couldn't clearly understand how exactly this should be done properly. So far I've tried the following :
    credentials = AppAssertionCredentials(scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher')
    http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http(memcache))
    service = build('androidpublisher', 'v2', developerKey='[DEVELOPER_KEY]', http=http)

    request = service.purchases().subscriptions().get(packageName='com.example', subscriptionId=self.orderId, token=self.token)
    response = request.execute(http)
    print json.dumps(response, sort_keys=True, indent=4)

But I'm getting the following response :

HttpError: https://www.googleapis.com/androidpublisher/v2/applications/com.ichoose.bettercalls/purchases/subscriptions/incoming_and_outgoing_single_line_monthly/tokens/dfsdfdsfds?alt=json&key=AIzaSyDdxzjIEZme76VEVMKGaE7R4qTdsQrNloA returned "Invalid Credentials">

The developer key is taken from google developers console --> APIs & auth --> Credentials --> Key for server applications --> API KEY. Is this right?
I would appreciate if someone could explain clearly (preferably with code samples) how this should be done. Thanks a lot.

A: Firstly, you have to make sure you have linked your Google Play Developers Console to an API project and then, you can set up the API Access Client. Please read this [1].
You would need to create/use a Service Account (generated on the Google Developers Console), more info here [2].
The typical code for OAuth Authentications would be the following:
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL = (
    'ENTER_YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL_HERE@developer.gserviceaccount.com')

def main():
  # Load the key in PKCS 12 format that you downloaded from the Google APIs
  # Console when you created your Service account.
  f = file('key.p12', 'rb')
  key = f.read()
  f.close()

  # Create an httplib2.Http object to handle our HTTP requests and authorize it
  # with the Credentials. Note that the first parameter, service_account_name,
  # is the Email address created for the Service account. It must be the email
  # address associated with the key that was created.
  credentials = client.SignedJwtAssertionCredentials(
      SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL,
      key,
      scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher')
  http = httplib2.Http()
  http = credentials.authorize(http)

  service = build('androidpublisher', 'v2', http=http)

where SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL would be the email address associated to the Service Account and the key.p12 would be a file with the key generated for that Service Account.
You can obtain both at  Google Developers Console --> APIs & auth --> Credentials ---> Service Account.
[1] https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/getting_started
[2] https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/auth/service-accounts


. (TMZ) "Terminator 3" star Nick Stahl has been charged with not paying a taxi driver -- after allegedly failing to come up with enough cash to cover an $84 fare.
TMZ broke the story ... Nick was arrested back in January when he took a long cab ride to Hollywood -- and found himself a little short on cash when it came time to pay the tab. Nick fessed up to the driver, who then flagged down a cop.
According to law enforcement sources, Nick was charged with "defrauding a taxi operator" -- and has since pled "no contest." As a result, Nick was ordered to pay a $50 fine.


That looks awesome... it reminds me of a somewhat similar Barefoot Contessa recipe for potato salad (though that one has green beans vice asparagus).
What a great idea! Me thinks you are too hard on white asparagus. But I love ya anyway!
This looks delicious!!! I've been craving asparagus lately and this recipe looks so easy I think I'm going to give it a go! Thanks!
I am so all about easy... it absolutely is. And I ate it the next day too, adding the vinaigrette to that portion then.
Oh dang...that does look fabulous :) Think I may have to make it this week!


Kingdom, she lectures widely in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
and Mechanisms, where she draws on computational ideas to explore human intuition, and the two-volume history of cognitive science, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, in which she investigates in a computational frame the range and latitude of consciousness itself. In this interview, Boden reflects on her diverse interests with special reference to the relationship of combinatory play to creativity and invention in science and technology, art and architecture, mathematics, philosophy, and literature.
I guest-edited Volume 7, Issue 1 of the American Journal of Play, so while it reads 'AJP' as the interviewer's name, I conducted the interview myself.


"...In most organisations, communication is not what it could be. On one hand employees complain of being deluged (usually by emails) with an overwhelming amount of useless information; on the other they feel they do not really know what those in power are thinking and planning, especially as it affects them. Communications between different departments, divisions, and sectors is usually poor, thus interfering with the emergence of a holistic culture where employees can see the patterns and connections at work in their organisation as a whole. The amount of fairness (or its lack) perceived to exist in an organisation has a direct effect on morale and on the likelihood that employees will give their all or grudgingly stick to what is required. It also affects teamwork and relationships in general. Relationships, trust and truth cannot be separated ‐ each impinges on the others. We need to trust that others will tell us the truth, however unpalatable, and we need to trust that they will stand by us in times of crisis or if we should make mistakes when taking risk on behalf of the organisation. Power permeates any organisation. It is necessary to any organisation, but how is it wielded? Is it perceived to be fair? Is it shared among a wide range of people? Does it lead to empowerment of individuals? Are the dictates of power themselves flexible, and does the organisation's power structure lead to easy flexibility in methodology and decision-making. The negative culture surrounding the 8 issues in business-as-usual accounts for the fact that at least 85% of the people in the workforce are influenced to act from negative motivation..and that in turn accounts for why business itself is driven by a culture expressing self-assertion, anger, craving and fear ... Business-as-we-know-it is caught in a vicious circle and unsustainable circle of negative motivation..."
The aim of this technique is to identify the "pressure points" in the organizational/community culture focus a shift in attitudes and/or behaviours.
If some of the statements do not apply to you, you need not answer them. Use your answers to identify the areas that need improvement; remember that there is always room for improvement.
Lower scores identify areas that need improving.


A new public platform to hear new voices and critical response on the arts forms of Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle in Ireland today.
If you are interested in submitting a review or article we would love to hear from you. Please contact info@isacs.ie for further information.
As part of the new voices initiative, we have created the DELVE Programme and invited ISACS members to get out, see and learn about street, circus and performance arts happening all around Ireland. The programme involves going to various festivals, seeing and observing work from the street, circus and spectacle sectors, meeting the artists, the crew and discovering new ideas, inspiration and delving into these art forms with fresh eyes! The aim of DELVE is to encourage dialogue and discussion around a variety of arts forms in Ireland, and to offer critical discussion and analysis and dynamic practices. Participants are encouraged to submit feedback from the events which can be read on our DELVE page.


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Organ donor campaign gets massive boost
Published: 8:30 AM March 17, 2011
A HARD-HITTING campaign launched by a woman with one of the world's rarest lung diseases has received strong backing in Saffron Walden.
Duddenhoe End resident Teresa Sandeman-Charles, known as 'T', started Save5 last year after being diagnosed with two incurable lung diseases. She is one of only eight people in the world to have been diagnosed with idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis.
The aim of Save5 is to get 10,000 people to register online as an organ donor. The campaign has, so far, received the backing of 935 people from across the country – and it has been given a boost locally after 17 employees of Saffron Insurance signed up.
"Saffron Insurance has been wonderful," said Mrs Sandeman-Charles, who has donated a great deal of her own money to the campaign.
"I have been a client for 12 years and asked for 10 minutes of [managing director] David Beswick's time because I know he is a busy man. Since then, they have taken it on board and gone that extra mile which is just incredible.
"When a company like that shows so much support it is both humbling and overwhelming. It is great for me because I can't do this alone. I need people to say that they believe in this and then do something about it."
Mrs Sandeman-Charles, a former cookery demonstrator, is being attacked by the diseases on two fronts: one causes her lungs to lose the ability to move in and out, while the other means her lungs are fibrosing, meaning that breathing becomes more and more difficult.
A transplant is her only chance of survival.
"Unfortunately the chances of a transplant are slim but I am determined that something positive will come out of these diseases.
"It can't just kill me and nothing come out of it," said Mrs Sandeman-Charles.
"Save5 has been brilliant for me because it has kept me focused. I want to be around for some time and to get 10,000 people to sign up is my goal, the driving force that keeps me going. When somebody registers they could save or transform five lives – a potential impact on 50,000 lives."
She added: "It is not for me to say whether people should or should not donate but what I am concerned about is that people should take time out to consider organ donation. They can then make a decision one way or the other and act on that decision if appropriate.
"I speak to many people about this and most are pro-transplant. I think that people have good intentions but get sidetracked. It is not that they don't want to, it is just that it is not top of the agenda for most people.
"Yet it takes just one minute to register."
Managing director of Saffron Insurance David Beswick hailed Mrs Sandeman-Charles as an inspiration.
He said: "T is an outstanding woman who through her own unique circumstances has the courage to support others. She is saving lives and making a real difference to the future of so many.
"We have many customers in the business world and we are putting T in touch with them."
About Save 5
? 935 people have registered online to be an organ donor – in the future 4675 lives could be saved or transformed.
? To register online and for further details visit save5.org.uk and follow the two very simple steps.


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Traditions and History of Mexican Clothing
Mexican attire has always been so full of intriguing color and fascinating designs, right? Actually, after some research, I found that hundreds of years ago they were plain and boring. Here's what I found:
Men's Clothing:
Traditional Mexican men's clothing were all originally made in neutral colors like greys, blacks and most commonly, brown. Shirts and pants most often were a single color and relatively plain to modern-day clothing. The hat Mexico is known for is called a 'sombrero'. 'Sombrero' comes from the Spanish word sobra, which means 'shade', and translates literally into the word 'hat' in English.
Sombreros are broad-brimmed straw hats that more often than not had a chin strap to accommodate for riding on horses at a full gallop. Men would sometimes also wear capes that went to or below the knee. Like the sombrero, ponchos were popular in Mexico remain a symbol of that country today. The most popular material at first was cotton and then later silk.
A Mexican cowboy's uniform always included black pants and the typical sombrero. The button-up shirts usually had silver buttons and other elaborate designs.
Traditional Mexican Women's Clothing
The women wore long skirts that typically reached their ankles. Sometimes a shorter skirt would reach the knee, but they were normally no shorter than that.
The women's shirts were mostly made out of wool or sometimes silk. They were always white and lightweight to help them not be too hot. Sometimes instead of the typical quarter or half-length sleeves, they wore sleeveless shirts called 'huilips' when it got even warmer.
Mothers would often use a shawl-like piece of fabric called a 'rebozo' made to carry infants easily.
Modern-day Colors Used in Mexican Clothing
So what changed this clothing into the Mexican clothing we know today?
The modern-day Mexican clothing is heavily influenced by the Hindu and Indian sari! The story begins with an Indian named Mirra (also known as Catarina de San Juan) who was a slave to a Chinese family in Kochi, India. She was captured by pirates and eventually made her way to Mexico where she was sold as a slave to a Pueblo merchant. She refused to wear anything except for her traditional Indian dress (the sari). She always stood out and was very lovely in her beautiful, draping dress. Other women were attracted to it and started putting elements of the sari into their own clothing.
Due in large part to the the influence of Mirra and her sari, Mexican clothing (especially for women) has changed dramatically from what it was hundreds of years ago. Women's clothing is now a lot more colorful. Even though they still wear brown, they wear brighter colors like red, yellow, green, pink, blue, purple and orange. In fact, the more vibrant the colors, the better. Mexican clothing is now known to include an array of vibrant colors in the skirts as well as embroidery and patchwork on blouses made for Mexican women. Patchwork patterns used in Mexican blouses allow the use of more colors and an all-around more decorated top.
For religious services, crosses are frequently are stitched on their blouses. Symbolic, meaningful, and ornate embroidery adorns their shirts and skirts too.
Mexico's traditional clothing as we know it today has been and continues to be a favorite style throughout the world, being known for their bright and energetic colors, embroidery, frills, and ornaments.
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Stacy is wet (because she just did water aerobics) and Sarah can't stop laughing. Stacy just lathered herself in Vitamin C cream (hopefully to combat the effects of pool water chlorine) and she's wondering if that's actually effective.
Sarah isn't sure! And she's more than happy to admit that she doesn't know the answer!
Sarah's keynote was on the gut microbiome and she had a blast sharing it with practitioners because she totally got to nerd out!
Unfortunately, Sarah's NTA keynote will not be available online, however, she will do a similar presentation at this year's PaleoFX!
Sarah enjoyed talking about the need to stay rooted in scientific evidence in order to effectively educate people. When we start to let pseudo-science creep in, we undermine the validity of the much more important messaging we're doing.
However, it's important to acknowledge that we don't know everything and there are a lot of unanswered questions. When we're faced with evidence that disproves theories, we need to be open to that evidence.
We need to be cautious of our tribalism and not dismissing things because they don't agree with our beliefs.
8 people told Sarah it was the best NTA panel they'd ever seen!
(36:05) Check out Sarah's special issue of Paleo Magazine, The Autoimmune Protocol Guide!
Only available while supplies last so don't wait to get your copy!


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import QuestionMatrixModel from "../question_matrix";
import {MatrixRowModel} from "../question_matrix";
import ReactQuestionFactory from "./reactquestionfactory";

export default class SurveyQuestionMatrix extends React.Component<any, any> {
    private question: QuestionMatrixModel;
    protected css: any;
    constructor(props: any) {
        super(props);
        this.question = props.question;
        this.css = props.css;
    }
    componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps: any) {
        this.question = nextProps.question;
        this.css = nextProps.css;
    }
    render(): JSX.Element {
        if (!this.question) return null;
        var firstTH = this.question.hasRows ? 	 : null;
        var headers = [];
        for (var i = 0; i < this.question.columns.length; i++) {
            var column = this.question.columns[i];
            var key = "column" + i;
            headers.push({column.text}	);
        }
        var rows = [];
        var visibleRows = this.question.visibleRows;
        for (var i = 0; i < visibleRows.length; i++) {
            var row = visibleRows[i];
            var key = "row" + i;
            rows.push(<SurveyQuestionMatrixRow key={key} question={this.question} row={row} />);
        }
        return (

                        {firstTH}
                        {headers}

                    {rows}

        );
    }
}

export class SurveyQuestionMatrixRow extends React.Component<any, any> {
    private question: QuestionMatrixModel;
    private row: MatrixRowModel;
    constructor(props: any) {
        super(props);
        this.question = props.question;
        this.row = props.row;
        this.handleOnChange = this.handleOnChange.bind(this);
    }
    handleOnChange(event) {
        this.row.value = event.target.value;
        this.setState({ value: this.row.value });
    }
    componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps: any) {
        this.question = nextProps.question;
        this.row = nextProps.row;
    }
    render(): JSX.Element {
        if (!this.row) return null;
        var firstTD = this.question.hasRows ? {this.row.text}	 : null;
        var tds = [];
        for (var i = 0; i < this.question.columns.length; i++) {
            var column = this.question.columns[i];
            var key = "value" + i;
            var isChecked = this.row.value == column.value;
            var td = <input type="radio" name={this.row.fullName} value={column.value} checked={isChecked} onChange={this.handleOnChange}/>	;
            tds.push(td);
        }
        return (
{firstTD}{tds}
);
    }
}

ReactQuestionFactory.Instance.registerQuestion("matrix", (props) => {
    return React.createElement(SurveyQuestionMatrix, props);
});


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Q: Using Sci-Kit learn to classify text with a large corpus I have about 1600 articles in my database, with each article already pre-labeled with one of the following categories:
Technology
Science
Business
World
Health
Entertainment
Sports

I am trying to use sci-kit learn to build a classifier that would categorize new articles. (I guess i'll split my training data in half, for training and testing?)
I am looking to use tf-idf, as I don't have a list of stop-words (I can use NLTK to extract only adjectives and nouns, though, but i'd rather give scikit-learn the full article).
I've read all of the documentation on scikit-learn, but their examples involve word-occurence and N-grams (which are fine), but they never specify how to tie a piece of data to a label.
I've tried looking at their sample code, but it's too confusing to follow.
Could someone help me with this, or point me in the right direction?
Thanks.

A: Maybe start with the example here: http://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/document_classification_20newsgroups.html#example-document-classification-20newsgroups-py
A somewhat more advanced example is this:  http://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/grid_search_text_feature_extraction.html#example-grid-search-text-feature-extraction-py
There are quite a few more text examples in the example gallery:
http://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/index.html

A: I think you faced the same problem I did when I started to feed my own data to the classifiers.
You can use the function sklearn.datasets.load_files, but to do so, you need to create this structure:
train
├── science
│   ├── 0001.txt
│   └── 0002.txt
└── technology
    ├── 0001.txt
    └── 0002.txt

Where the subdirectories of train are named as the labels, and each file within the labels directory is an article with that corresponding label. Then use load_files to load the data:
In [1]: from sklearn.datasets import load_files

In [2]: load_files('train')
Out[2]:
{'DESCR': None,
 'data': ['iphone apple smartphone\n',
  'linux windows ubuntu\n',
  'biology astrophysics\n',
  'math\n'],
 'filenames': array(['train/technology/0001.txt', 'train/technology/0002.txt',
       'train/science/0002.txt', 'train/science/0001.txt'],
      dtype='|S25'),
 'target': array([1, 1, 0, 0]),
 'target_names': ['science', 'technology']}

The object returned is a sklearn.datasets.base.Bunch, which is a simple data wrapper. This is a straightforward approach to start playing with the classifiers, but when your data is larger and change frequently, you might want to stop using files and use, for example, a database to store the labeled documents and maybe having more structure than just plain text. Basically you will need to generate your list of categories (or target_names) like ['science', 'technology', ...] and assign the target value for each document in the data list as the index of the labeled category in the target_names list. The length of data and target must be the same.
You can take a look to this script that I wrote time ago to run a classifier: https://github.com/darkrho/yatiri/blob/master/scripts/run_classifier.py#L267


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package com.onboard.service.sampleProject;

import com.onboard.domain.model.User;

/**
 * 创建示例项目服务
 *
 * @author xingliang
 *
 */
public interface SampleProjectService {

    /**
     * 在一个团队中创建一个用于示例的演示项目
     * @param companyId 需要创建演示项目的团队的主键
     * @param creator 所有操作的执行人,通常即为该团队的创建者
     */
    void createSampleProjectByCompanyId(Integer companyId, User creator);
}


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10. 29. 14 by Jolene Creighton
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Scientists Resurrect 700 Year-Old Virus
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An ice core containing ancient caribou feces. It contains caribou DNA, digested plants, and ancient viruses. Credit: Brian Moorman
Scientists recently found two 700-year-old viral sequences that were frozen in caribou dung in an arctic ice patch. After this discovery, the researchers isolated the complete genome of the DNA virus, and they infected several living plants with this virus.
Eric Delwart, of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, reported this research in a paper that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Viruses have been in the news a lot recently. Every day, computer screens and newsfeeds are littered with articles about Ebola. Although this is understandable, as Ebola has become an epidemic in parts of Africa, the story has been a bit sensationalized. Of course we should be wary and informed; of course it is important to know about what is going on in other countries; however, everything must be placed in its proper context.
Ebola is not doomsday.
It is just the most recent disease to take center stage. Before this there was West Nile, Swing Flu, HIV, SARS, Avian Flu...the list of (what the news has called) potential global epidemics goes on and on.
In short, it is important to remember that scientists take a number of precautions when dealing with viruses and other materials that could cause harm, and global killers are amazingly, amazingly rare.
And it is important for scientists do experiment on viruses as, currently, we don't know too much about how viruses evolve. Understanding the structure of ancient viruses will help us better comprehend virus evolution, and this (in turn) could help us better combat modern diseases.
Unfortunately, scientists have sequenced only a small number of ancient viruses. This is largely because the nucleic acid content of ancient viruses can degrade quickly. Even when it does not degrade, reconstructing ancient viruses can be difficult because they change so quickly.
One of the ways that we can obtain samples of ancient viruses is by looking deep within the frozen parts of our planet. And this is precisely what Delwart and his team did. They examined caribou feces that was located in a 4,000-year-old ice patch in Canada's Selwyn Mountains. As they were looking at nucleic acids that were buried in frozen fecal pellets (which were taken from a 700-year-old ice layer), they identified two sets of well preserved viral sequences.
Nicotiana benthamiana plants inoculated with the ancient viral DNA displayed evidence of infection including replication of viral DNA in inoculated leaves (orange arrow) and newly emerging leaves (white arrow). Credit: Li-Fang Chen
The first was part of a genome for a RNA virus that belonged to the insect-infecting genus Cripavirus (the scientists believe that the caribou ate insects that were infected with the virus). Delwart's team was also able to reconstruct the entire genome of a DNA virus from the other viral sample.
This virus does not closely resemble any modern sequenced virus (again, viruses change very rapidly).
In order to better understand the DNA virus, the researchers introduced it to the plant Nicotiana benthamiana. The virus replicated itself in newly emerging leaves that were infected with the sample. However, the infected plants did not develop any disease symptoms. The researchers believe that this could be because Nicotiana benthamiana is not an ideal host for this virus.
It is, perhaps slightly troubling to note that many scientists believe that climate change could release some of these frozen viruses back into the ecosystem. As the melting of arctic ice increases, more viral particles could escape into the environment. However, this is only slightly troubling. Global epidemics are, after-all, exceedingly rare.
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Marina Santos M Arch '18 Wins AIA Honor
M Arch second-year student Marina Santos is the winner of a 2016 American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS) Student Award. The honor is for her project "Reach," a design proposal for an art gallery at Brooklyn College. Santos will receive a scholarship and have her work exhibited at the Quad State (AIANYS, AIANJ, AIAPA,
Spitzer School Atrium Gallery Approximately 12:00 p.m. (immediately following college-wide City College Commencement ceremony) Celebration of graduation day, with ceremony, refreshments, and end-of-year student exhibit. Open to all graduating students, family, and friends.
MLA Alum Awarded Public Design Commission Design Excellence Award
As Assistant Landscape Architect at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Shastine van Vugt (MLA '12) helped design the new park, Van Name Pelt Plaza, at the Richmond Terrace Wetlands in Staten Island. The project has been awarded a 2016 Public Design Commission Design Excellence Award.
MLA Professor and Alum Publish Book
Adjunct Professor Marcha Johnson and Amanda Bayley (MLA '09) have edited the book Coastal Change: Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities published by Springer in 2016. This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors
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7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30.) Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, southwest corner Reservations Introduction by: Catherine Seavitt Nordenson Lecture by: Dr. Eric Sanderson In this talk, Dr. Eric W. Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society will attempt to find the soul of New York City in its waterways, some missing, others less so.


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Accessibility questions raised over demolition of 'perfectly workable' Halifax hospital parkade
By Alexa MacLean	Global News
Posted October 31, 2019 4:07 pm
Updated November 8, 2019 8:27 am
2:08 Accessibility questions raised over demolition of parkade on Halifax Infirmary site
WATCH: The province has approve a $29.5-million project to demolish the Robie Street parkade on the Halifax Infirmary site and build a new one on Summer Street. But as Alexa MacLean reports, one accessibility advocate says the move will create a slew of challenges for people with mobility issues – Oct 31, 2019
Accessibility advocates are voicing concern over Nova Scotia's plan to build a new parkade as part of the QEII New Generation project.
The province announced on Thursday that it has approved $29.5 million in funding for QEII's parking strategy, which includes the construction of a parkade across from the Halifax Infirmary site on Summer Street.
READ MORE: Nova Scotia's QEII redevelopment project begins search for design team
The current parkade on Robie Street will remain open while the new parkade is being constructed before eventually facing the wrecking ball. The parkade's demolition will make space for a new inpatient centre, with hospital beds and operating rooms, to be built as part of the hospital's expansion.
"We got approval to move ahead because we need to start preparing for the construction of the new facility which will involve the removal of the existing parkade," said Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines.
1:48 Opposition MLAs voice concern over P3 model, transparency for QEII Hospital redevelopment
Opposition MLAs voice concern over P3 model, transparency for QEII Hospital redevelopment – May 14, 2019
Accessibility questions over location of new parkade
The current Robie Street parkade was built in 2003 and is practically adjoined to the Halifax Infirmary site, making it easily accessible for persons with mobility issues.
Paul Vienneau is a wheelchair user and is questioning why another location wasn't considered for the inpatient site, considering the current parkade also allows access to the hospital.
Placing the parkade on Summer Street changes the equation, Vienneau said, and forces people to cross a busy Halifax street.
"They're going to tear down a perfectly workable and very adequate parking situation, with a parking structure that's almost attached to the building," Vienneau said, "which creates a whole bunch of other problems, not only in the winter but in rain.
"There's no direct crossing spot from that parking lot."
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Hines acknowledges accessibility issues will have to be considered by the successful parkade project bidder.
"We're looking at ways to mitigate that. If you look at the parking currently, it's pretty ideal but that is where the new inpatient facility will be going, which is a major component of the rebuild," Hines said.
Vienneau says accessibility is a human right and needs to be part of the design phase of any construction project — even if that involves spending extra money, like building a pedestrian bridge.
"We need to encourage people to take care of their health issues and make it safe to cross from the museum parking lot," he said.
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You can only build Star destroyers or Mon Calamari cruisers onFondor, Kuat Sullest, or Mon Calamari, and only if you have thehighest level of space station there.... 19/01/2011 · Star Wars: Empire at War - Mon Calamari This is a hint / walkthrough for a planet in Star Wars: Empire at War. The index of all our guides for Empire at War is here.
Drag the droids onto the steal icon, and select the Empire technology you want to steal. The rebels have very little technology of their own in the game, from a gameplay angle the only rebel technologies are Z-95's, and Corvettes. You have to steal everything else from the Empire, including X-Wings and you even have to go through the process of "stealing" mon calamari cruiser technology.... 14/06/2015 · Surprisingly, it's the second Mon Calamari cruiser that is destroyed first, probably 'cause I switched all the big guns to attack it instead. After that it was pretty much home free, so I engaged the cinematic camera for some nice pictures.
14/03/2006 · After the wookie battle, I built a sizeable fleet and took over mon calamari with auto resolve. I continued building up a massive fleet that I put every single one of my troop in and continued to take over every single planet available with auto resolve. Then I had no probs just concentrating on the storyline missions.
14/06/2015 · Surprisingly, it's the second Mon Calamari cruiser that is destroyed first, probably 'cause I switched all the big guns to attack it instead. After that it was pretty much home free, so I engaged the cinematic camera for some nice pictures.
24/02/2009 · I thought EaW was pretty darn cool. I could play the open-ended galactic conquest maps all day. Nothing like seeing Mon Calamari Crusiers get blown to bits and seeing those self-righteous Rebels in full retreat. the camera could be quirky, but i thought it worked well 95% of the time.


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Mighty No. 9 beefs up its mode selection ahead of Feb. 9 launch
By Sam Prell 2015-11-30T20:47:26.333Z News
Mighty No. 9 from Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune and development studio Comcept will make its debut on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Wii U, 3DS, and PC come February 9. But today, you get to see what's coming with new footage of three extra modes in the game. There's Boss Rush, which has you taking on the game's toughest enemies back-to-back; Challenge, which will force you to become the best, most accurate energy-blasting android you can be; and Maniac, where just one hit means it's all over.
This new trailer is also the first time we've seen Mighty No. 9's multiplayer in action, and it looks pretty slick. Whether you want to team up with a friend in co-op mode or compete against them, you can do it. As the trailer points out, you can also play with strangers - including people with "creepy" names like "Vernon." (And if your name is Vernon and that's offensive to you, keep in mind this is coming from a robot named "Beck." I wouldn't take it to heart.)
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Ha insegnato "Teoria e tecnica del restauro" presso l'Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo".

Biografia
Nasce a Parma nel 1948. Allievo diretto di Giovanni Urbani, si forma nella metà degli anni 1970 presso la scuola internazionale dell'Istituto Centrale del Restauro (ICR) a Roma. Come allievo di quella scuola, tra il 1974 e il 1977 partecipa ai restauri condotti dall'ICR su una parte cospicua degli affreschi della Basilica Inferiore di San Francesco di Assisi, monumento e cittadina che resteranno centrali nella sua biografia, a cominciare dalla sua Tesi di diploma dell'Icr. Il restauro, da lui stesso eseguito, d'un frammento d'affresco di una delle porte urbiche di Assisi, opera di quel momento semi-illeggibile che un documento d'archivio attestava dipinta nel 1341 da Puccio Capanna, uno dei grandi giotteschi attivi nella Basilica Inferiore. Un intervento che riporta l'affresco a una perfetta leggibilità critica consentendo a Zanardi di scrivere un saggio in cui smentisce la ricostruzione fatta da Roberto Longhi del misterioso "Stefano fiorentino", allievo di Giotto di cui racconta il Vasari, attribuendo correttamente a Puccio Capanna il corpus di opere già detti di Longhi di Stefano.

Un esordio – sconfessare con ragione una celebre e suggestiva attribuzione di Longhi – che già dice la singolarità della figura, la stessa confermata da tutto il lavoro da lui condotto nei decenni successivi. Nel 1977 è tra i soci fondatori di un gruppo di restauratori romani, "Conservazione beni culturali" (CBC), con cui conduce molti restauri, ma solo fino al 1982, anno in cui si dimette dalla presidenza di quel gruppo di colleghi. In quegli anni, con l'ICR, la CBC e altre équipes private, restaura parte della decorazione della Basilica Superiore di Assisi, quest'ultimo un lavoro che gli consente di pubblicare, con John White (e Sabina Vedovello), un saggio sull'organizzazione del lavoro del cantiere di Cimabue nel transetto sinistro e nelle Vele sull'altare. Inoltre interviene, sempre con la CBC, sui bassorilievi della facciata del Duomo di Orvieto, sui cinque pannelli giunti a noi del Polittico di San Domenico di Simone Martini oggi nel Museo di quello stesso Duomo, sugli affreschi di Giovan Antonio de' Sacchis, detto il Pordenone nella chiesa di Santa Maria di Campagna a Piacenza, sugli affreschi del Cavalier d'Arpino della "Sala degli Orazi" in Campidoglio e sui rilievi della "Fronte orientale" dell'Ara Pacis Augustae. Due interventi, questi ultimi, che lo portano a chiedersi come l'intervento di restauro stricto sensu, lo stato di conservazione e i dati sulle tecniche d'esecuzione originali possano essere documentati, oltre che con la consueta serie di fotografie prima-durante-dopo il restauro anche con una schematizzazione grafica. Sulla base di esperienze parallelamente condotte in quel momento dall'ICR, risponde al quesito mettendo a punto (a stampa) uno schema generale di relazione di restauro – testo e documentazione grafica e fotografica – utilizzabile per i dipinti murali e da cavalletto, come per i rilievi in marmo o in pietra, eccetera, schema in seguito quasi universalmente adottato nel mondo del restauro pur subendo un giusto aggiornamento con le moderne tecniche informatiche.

Dal 1983, lavora come libero professionista, intervenendo su alcuni importanti monumenti della civiltà figurativa dell'Occidente. Tra essi, la Colonna Traiana, gli affreschi di Pietro da Cortona nel Voltone di Palazzo Barberini a Roma, le sculture di Benedetto Antelami al Battistero di Parma, la decorazione del Sancta Sanctorum in Laterano, i mosaici paleocristiani e quelli di Jacopo Torriti nella basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore a Roma, gli affreschi del Correggio nella cupola della chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista a Parma, un intervento presentato, tra gli altri, anche Francis Haskell, gli affreschi di Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli e di Lattanzio Gambara nella volta e nelle pareti della navata centrale del Duomo di Parma, gli affreschi di Giovan Battista Tiepolo in Palazzo Labia a Venezia, di nuovo gli affreschi della Basilica di Assisi dopo il terremoto del 1997.

Monumenti restaurati

Colonna Traiana
Il restauro della Colonna Traiana gli consente in particolare di comparare lo stato di conservazione dei rilievi con quello attestato in via positiva dalle tre campagne di calcatura condotte sul monumento: quella eseguita dal Primaticcio nel 1540 per Francesco I di Francia, l'altra realizzata tra il 1665 e il 1670 per Luigi XIV e Colbert, infine l'ultima eseguita tra il 1861 e il 1862 dai formatori di Pio IX come dono del Pontefice a Napoleone III: le prime due arrivate a noi solo parzialmente, l'ultima per intero e replicata anche per altri musei in Europa. La rara opportunità di avere a disposizione dei calchi antichi, consente a Zanardi di rilevare un dato positivo del tutto inaspettato. Tutti i calchi dimostrano infatti che i danni da noi contemporanei attribuiti all'attuale inquinamento atmosferico erano già presenti dal Cinquecento negli stessi punti e con la stessa virulenza sui rilievi antico romani. Un importante dato conservativo che egli commenta in alcuni suoi scritti.

Battistero di Parma
Tra il 1986 e il 1992 restaura il Battistero di Parma: l'intero monumento: decorazione murale dell'interno, sculture policrome antelamiche e paramento lapideo dell'interno e dell'esterno. L'intervento è preceduto da una serie di prove da cui stabilire, tecniche d'intervento, durata e costi, così producendo Zanardi il primo "progetto di restauro" esecutivo nella storia del restauro delle opere d'arte. Un intervento  di enorme complessità diretto, su incarico della Curia vescovile di Parma, da Pasquale Rotondi e Giovanni Urbani che fu oggetto di controversie molto accese. Da una parte chi rimpiangeva la patina nerastra dei secoli rimossa con la pulitura: tra loro Annamaria Giusti, Elio Garzollo, Carlo Quintavalle, Giorgio Bonsanti e Maurizia Chierici. Dall'altra parte chi faceva notare che la rimozione di quella patina aveva rimesso in vista quasi intatta l'originaria e rarissima policromia delle sculture dell'Antelami, così come aveva riconsegnato a una perfetta lettura critica l'altrettanto la preziosa e fino a quel momento semisconosciuta decorazione romanico-bizantina della cupola: tra loro, Federico Zeri, Giuliano Briganti, Salvatore Settis, Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Giovanni Urbani e Enrico Castelnuovo.

I dati storici e materiali visti con il restauro del Battistero consentono inoltre a Zanardi di stabilire che una Madonna in trono con il Bambino conservata nella abbazia cistercense di Fontevivo, un piccolo paese tra i luoghi dei due grandi cantieri dell'Antelami di Parma e Fidenza, non era il pupazzo campagnolo che tutti credevano fosse perché sfigurata da una serie di rozze ridipinture, bensì scultura autografa di Antelami, come il restauro ha dimostrato.

Sancta sanctorum e Ciclo Francescano ad Assisi

Tra il 1992 e il 1994 restaura gli affreschi e il mosaico del Sancta Sanctorum, in Laterano fatti eseguire da Niccolò III Orsini, che fu Papa dal 1277 al 1280: un monumento misterioso e leggendario perché, col suo essere la Cappella papale delle reliquie, vi potevano entrare solo i pontefici, quindi era chiuso da secoli a tutti. Il restauro del monumento lo mette in contatto con Federico Zeri, che segue i lavori salendo quasi settimanalmente sui ponteggi. Da quel momento nasce tra loro uno stretto rapporto di amicizia e di stima, tanto che Zeri lo dirà uno dei più importanti restauratori italiani del Novecento. I due tengono conferenze lungo l'intera Italia (Roma, Rimini, Venezia, Milano, Bologna, Perugia, eccetera), sia sul restauro del Sancta Sanctorum, sia sul volume Il cantiere di Giotto, uscito nel 1996, un'opera monografica in cui Zanardi illustra l'organizzazione del lavoro nel cantiere del Ciclo Francescano di Assisi, confrontando i dati positivi raccolti nella materia durante i restauri (giornate d'esecuzione, tecniche di trasferimento del disegno, modi di esecuzione degli incarnati, eccetera) con la trattatistica tecnica dal medioevo in poi. Un saggio che ha avuto vasta eco internazionale di cui Zeri scrive la "Introduzione", dove Zanardi dimostra che in quel ciclo di affreschi sono attivi tre distinti capo-maestri e che diverso è il disegno di progetto nelle due pareti in cui si dipanano le storie della vita di San Francesco. Un dato reso indiscutibile dal fatto che tra la parete destra e quella di sinistra cambia radicalmente l'organizzazione del lavoro.

Infatti, se 546 sono le giornate di esecuzione in totale in cui le Storie francescane sono state realizzate, nella parete destra, quella con gli affreschi stilisticamente più antichi, le giornate sono 188, le figure 70, le teste 134, mentre nella parete sinistra, "più gotica", quei dati diventano quasi il doppio: 323 le giornate, 154 le figure, 378 le teste. Ciò che conferma la convinzione sempre avuta da Zeri – con lui, dalla critica anglosassone: Offner, Meiss, White, M. Meiss e Smart, eccetera – che non sia Giotto chi inizia a dipingere il Ciclo francescano, bensì un maestro romano, il cosiddetto "Maestro di Isacco", ciò a riprova della centralità di Roma, non di Firenze, nella costruzione dell'arte italiana e, più in generale di quella dell'Occidente. Da questa convinzione di Zeri nasce nel 2003 il volume di Zanardi Giotto e Pietro Cavallini introdotto da Willibald Sauerländer e la sua chiamata, nel 2004, a partecipare, unico studioso italiano, al Companion to Giotto dell'Università di Cambridge.

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Tra il 1997 e il 2000 restaura, con Corinna Ranzi e Marcella Orrù, i 27 riquadri a mosaico di V secolo nella navata centrale e nell'Arco trionfale della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, a Roma, opera commissionata da Papa Sisto III, e quelli realizzati da Jacopo Torriti nel 1295 nel catino absidale di quella stessa Basilica, mentre nel 2006 - 2007 restaura, sempre con la stessa équipe, i grandi clipei con figure a fresco di Apostoli siti nel braccio sinistro del transetto di quella stessa Basilica, già attribuiti da Pietro Toesca a Giotto, ma opera di un pittore romano attivo nel cantiere musivo di Torriti, ossia, più difficilmente, di uno degli artisti attivi a partire dal 1294 nel cantiere di Rusuti nella facciata della Basilica, la stessa oggi "nascosta" da quella settecentesca di Ferdinando Fuga; e anche in questo caso palmari sono le tangenze tra i mosaici di Torriti e le prime "Storie di San Francesco" in Assisi.

Professore universitario
Nel 2001 Zanardi fonda all'Università di Urbino il primo Corso di laurea in Italia per la formazione dei restauratori, un'esperienza rivelatasi per varie ragioni deludente perché a Urbino si preferirà seguire un progetto diverso da quello ideato da Zanardi, incentrato sulla conservazione preventiva e programmata in rapporto all'ambiente, incardinando invece il corso alla vecchia tradizione del restauro come mera rivelazione estetica delle opere. Nel tempo in cui dirige quel Corso (2004-2008) Zanardi organizza, con Rita Cassano e Christine Borruso, seminari internazionali estivi di specializzazione, in particolare sul restauro della carta e sulla chimica del restauro, quest'ultimo tenuto nel 2007 da Giorgio Torraca. Inoltre, nel 2008, dirige il "Primo corso di formazione al restauro e alla conservazione" per restauratori boliviani e di altri paesi andini tenuto al Museo Colonial Charcas di Sucre (Bolivia) coordinato da Grazia de Cesare, allora docente nel laboratorio dell'Università di Urbino.

Il suo impegno didattico come docente universitario si concreta nella scrittura di alcuni saggi tra teoria, storia e tecnica del restauro. Tra loro, nel 2004, pubblica la Voce "Restauro" per uno dei volumi di supplemento (III) della Enciclopedia Italiana del Novecento. Nel 2007 fa uscire nei "Rendiconti" della Accademia dei Lincei un saggio sul restauro di Giovan Pietro Bellori e Carlo Maratti degli affreschi di Raffaello nella Loggia di Psiche della Farnesina e nelle Stanze Vaticane da lui dimostrato  il consapevole punto di partenza del moderno restauro, sia sul piano critico, che tecnico. Nel 2012, pubblica un saggio in cui riassume il formarsi della azione di tutela, restauro in primis, nella nuova Italia Unita. Ma soprattutto il suo lavoro principale è stato ribadire la centralità della figura del suo maestro, Giovanni Urbani, nel superamento del restauro crociano d'impronta storicistica e estetica di Brandi e Argan, spostandolo verso la conservazione programmata e preventiva del patrimonio in rapporto all'ambiente. Tecnica da Urbani definiva in dettaglio nei vari progetti e piani di lavoro da lui realizzati quando fu direttore dell'ICR (1973-1983), indicandola come l'unico modo per salvaguardare ciò che rende unico al mondo il nostro patrimonio culturale: il suo essere un insieme indissolubile dal territorio su cui è andato infinitamente stratificandosi nei millenni.  Nel 2003 Salvatore Settis, coordinatore del nuovo Codice dei beni culturali (D.lgs. 42/04), gli chiede di collaborare (con altri) alla stesura dell'art. 29 ("Conservazione") di quel Codice, dove ai commi 1-5 si prescrive – nei fatti – l'attuazione della conservazione programmata di Urbani, tuttavia commi mai resi operativi ed è l'ennesima legge inapplicata nell'ordinamento giuridico italiano. Già vincitore nel 2003 del Concorso per Professore Associato di Museologia e Critica Artistica e del Restauro, nel 2013, è il primo e finora unico restauratore italiano a aver superato il concorso da Professore Ordinario, riconoscendo la Commissione nel suo giudizio "l'innovatività dell'approccio e considera positivamente il ruolo che il candidato si è dato nel corso degli ultimi decenni nell'aprire nuovi temi di studio e nuove chiavi di analisi di opere e artisti".

Premi
Nel 1993 riceve il "Premio Sanseverino" per il volume sul restauro del Sancta Sanctorum: lui e gli altri autori di quello stesso volume. Nel 2019 ha avuto il "Premio Gazzola" per i restauri degli affreschi del Pordenone e di Bernardino Gatti nella chiesa di Santa Maria di Campagna a Piacenza.

Scritti
Dal 1987 scrive su "Il Giornale dell'Arte". Dal 1994 al 2007 ha continuativamente collaborato all'inserto culturale "La Domenica" del quotidiano "Il Sole24Ore". Ha scritto sull'edizione cartacea e on-line delle riviste "il Mulino" e "Aedon", sui mensili "Mondo Operaio" e "il Ponte", sul settimanale "Pagina99". Occasionalmente ha scritto su la "Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Pubblico" toccando il tema della legge fascista 1089 del 139 con cui per molti versi ancora oggi si esercita la tutela in Italia. È curatore degli scritti di Giovanni Urbani: Intorno al restauro (2000) e Per un'archeologia del presente (2012), nonché la voce "URBANI, Giovanni", del Dizionario Biografico degli italiani.
Tra i suoi scritti sono:
 Da Stefano Fiorentino a Puccio Capanna, in "Storia dell'Arte", XXXIII (1978), pp. 116–127;
 (con Filippo Todini) La Pinacoteca comunale di Assisi: catalogo dei dipinti, Firenze: Centro Di, 1980;
 (con John White) Cimabue and the decorative sequence in the upper church of S. Francesco, Assisi, in Roma anno 1300. Atti della IV Settimana di studi di storia dell'arte medievale dell'Università di Roma 'La Sapienza' (Roma 1980), a cura di A.M. Romanini, Roma 1983, pp. 103–117;
 Il Restauro e le Tecniche d'Esecuzione Originali, in Il Voltone di Pietro da Cortona in Palazzo Barberini, Roma 1983 ("Quaderni di Palazzo Venezia" 2), Roma: De Luca, 1983, pp. 15-49;
 Della natura del bianco sangiovanni. Un pigmento e la lettura delle fonti, in Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, 24 (1984), pp. 63-74 (con L. Arcangeli & L. Appolonia).
 Evoluzione del deperimento della Colonna Traiana. Dal tempo dei calchi di Luigi XIV e Napoleone III allo stato attuale, in La Colonna Traiana e gli artisti francesi da Luigi XIV a Napoleone I, catalogo della mostra, Roma 1988, pp. 253–258;
 Tecnica, successioni stratigrafiche e restauro nei dipinti murali della chiesa dei SS. Sergio, Bacco e Leonzio a Bosra (Siria), in XXXV Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina (Ravenna, 19-26 mar. 1988), a c. di R. Farioli Campanati, Ravenna 1988, pp. 225-232.
 (con Alfredo Bianchi) Una scultura di Benedetto Antelami e l'intitolazione dell'antica Abbazia di Fontevivo (PR), in Studi in memoria di Giuseppe Bovini, II, Ravenna 1989, pp. 745–761;
 Battistero di Parma: la decorazione pittorica, (note sul restauro di Bruno Zanardi), Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1993; ISBN 88-216-0928-6
 Sulle finiture a calce nella pittura medievale a fresco (Teofilo, Div. art. sch. I 15 e 16), in Bollettino del Museo Bodoniano di Parma, 8 (1994), pp. 249-257.
 Il cantiere di Giotto: le Storie di san Francesco ad Assisi, Milano: Skira, 1996; ISBN 88-8118-037-5
 Conservazione, restauro e tutela: 24 dialoghi, Milano: Skira, 1999; ISBN 88-8118-561-X
 Projet dessiné et "patrons" dans le chantier de la peinture murale au Moyen Age, in Revue de l'Art 124 (febb. 1999), pp. 43-55.
 Antelami in barca a Vercelli, "Il Sole24Ore" 24 Marzo, 1999, (ins. "La Domenica"), p. 40 (= in, Tesori ritrovati, a c. di M. Carminati, ED. Il Sole24Ore, Milano. 2000, pp. 8286; ISBN 88-8363-027-0.
 Giotto e Pietro Cavallini: la questione di Assisi e il cantiere medievale della pittura a fresco, Milano: Skira, 2002; ISBN 88-8491-056-0
 voce Restauro, in Enciclopedia Treccani del Novecento, Roma 2004;
 Bellori Maratti, Bottari e Crespi. Intorno al restauro: modelli antichi e pratica di lavoro nel cantiere di Raffaello alla Farnesina, in "Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei / Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Rendiconti", serie IX, XVIII (2007) pp. 208–285;
 Il restauro: Giovanni Urbani e Cesare Brandi, due teorie a confronto, pref. di Salvatore Settis, Milano: Skira, 2009; ISBN 978-88-572-0193-1
 La mancata tutela del patrimonio culturale in Italia, in "Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico", LXI (2011) n. 2, pp. 431–472;
 Hic catagrapha invenit, hoc est obliquas imagines (Plinio, Hist. Nat. XXXV56). L'uso del disegno nella pittura antica, in Vitruvio, disegno e architettura tra l'Antico e il Cinquecento, in Atti della II Giornata di Studi Vitruviani (Fano, Teatro della Fortuna, 7-8 ott. 2011), a c. di P. Clini, Marsilio editore, Venezia 2012, pp. 125-147.
 Un patrimonio artistico senza: ragioni, problemi, soluzioni, Milano: Skira, 2013; ISBN 978-88-572-1991-2
 Le forme occorrenti per il bisogno dell'arte". Il disegno in Caravaggio, "The Necessary Forms for the Needs of Art". Caravaggio's Use of Drawings (2015), Milano c.s.
 Manuale di Conservazione Programmata. Con una breve storia, Skira, Milano, 2020 (cs. st.).

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At the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, my colleagues and I gathered to discuss the principles of smart integration and its challenges, successes, and recommendations for implementation.
Smart integration means coordinating HIV & AIDS programs with other health programs that have operated independently in the past; providing comprehensive services at all levels of the health system – from households to health facilities and across the continuum of prevention, treatment, and care; and building stronger partnerships between public and private sectors.
There are three perspectives of integration that must be kept in mind when discussing integration – the client, provider, and the efficiency. Smart integration is important now because AIDS has become a chronic disease and we need to move away from the emergency response interventions.
"Ten years ago we could not have conversations like this because there weren't services available to integrate," said Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer of MSH. "I'm a family physician. Diseases are integrated in the patient's body, so we should provide integrated services to match their needs. Additionally, if an HIV positive woman on ART has a sick child with TB, she shouldn't have to travel to the HIV clinic and then to the TB clinic. Services should be close to home."
Bitra George, MD, Country Director of the FHI program in India, shared his experiences of integrating services for sex workers in Mumbai. There are over 600,000 sex workers in the dense city, there is a 7% prevalence rate among the sex worker population.
The program, funded by the Gates Foundation, provided services to 75,000 sex workers. The program integrated HIV testing, family planning services, STI testing, and tried to provide comprehensive services. It was successful because it responded to a need perceived and demanded by the sex workers themselves to integrate services
Dr. George explained that HIV and family planning integration took minimal effort and resources. FHI added family planning materials to the clinics, upgrades services, and trained the health workers. Dr. George quoted one of the client's as he concluded, "the life of a sex worker goes beyond HIV and STI's – we need advice on pregnancy and basic health needs."
Chifundo Kachiza, MPH, is the project lead for the Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TB CAP) in Malawi, and she noted an increase in TB patients accessing HIV services as well. "If we scale up ART, we should also scale up TB." She discussed the importance of integrating HIV and TB programs. In Malawi, 60% of people living with HIV/AIDS are co-infected with tuberculosis. Many patients live in remote areas and they had to travel a long distance to receive treatment and care. "We had a situation in Malawi that needed integration," said Mrs. Kachiza. "Many people think you need a lot of resources to integrate, but usually you can rearrange and synchronize the funding."
New HIV/TB clinics were developed and in the first quarter, 63% received access to the integrated services. Through this process, they learned that services need to be integrated at all levels- national, district, and community level to be successful.
Rwanda has a high burden of HIV and about 30% co-infection with TB. Jean Kagubare, MD, MPH, PhD, Principal Technical Advisor for HIV & AIDS and Other Services at MSH, presented on the integration of services in Rwanda. In 2005, the Ministry of Health decided to integrate HIV and TB services because there is a high burden on patients. Technical working groups managed to produce a policy at the national level and were able to integrate forms, tools, registration and provide one-stop services. They decided to only integrate half of the 420 health facilities in Rwanda because only a targeted population was co-infected. Dr. Kagubare suggests that integration only makes since in high prevalence areas. You can integrate very quickly, but you have to streamline donors and also establish a policy environment that enables integrated services.
As some audience members noted, there is not a one size fits all approach to integration. The needs of the community need to be considered. Integration can mean ensuring there is a proper referral from an AIDS clinic to a TB clinic or that both AIDS/TB services are performed in the same facility (partial integration) and integration the same facility and by the same health workers (full integration). Some said that health workforce skills need to be considered as well as work overload, particularly given the shortage of doctors and nurses. Co-infection guidelines are also key.
One health worker from Uganda compared the situation to two people in a race—one is fast and the other is slow. The options for the slow person are to either lose the race or catch up –in Uganda TB care is slower to scale up than ART.
Festus Ilako, MB, ChB, M.Med, Deputy Country Director of Kenya from AMREF said that integration is not the silver bullet and should only happen with significant public health issues. You must listen to clients, providers, and policy makers. You have to tailor integrated services to each local context – there is no way to integrate the same way everywhere. There will be a lot of resistance from many stake holders, but you must try to find the most effective and efficient way to implement the integrated services. High level leadership and commitment is needed and integration shouldn't happen without it.
The benefits of integration are evident, but there are also many challenges that remain. Integration is the best option in some instances, but not in others. The motive behind integration should be to maximize impact, efficiency, and sustainability by providing services that are accessible, useful, and are of good quality. It is therefore essential that an initial assessment is conducted to assess the feasibility of integration towards these results, build commitment to integrate, and identify underlying factors that must be addressed to maximize benefits of integration. What combination of services will give us maximum synergies deserve further study.
Daraus Bukenya is MSH's Global Lead on HIV/TB.
AIDS Conference, Health Systems Strengthening, HIV & AIDS, Integration
Amonia Morreen ...
Thanks for the mail, and I must say I had a great time at your booth during the AIDS 2010 Conference. I will want to agree that integration is absolutely necessary, but it has to be tailored towards local and community context. Regional perculiarities must be taken into consideration for effective integration. For maximum succees to be recorded, it must be at all levels, ensuring that services actually get to the people, especially those in the remote/rural areas, who cannot affort to pay for services. Thanks
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