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Fuels Airmen: the foundation of 86th AW's mission
Tanks filter fuel coming in through European pipe lines at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. Long before being used, incoming fuel is filtered and stored in facilities across base in large tanks that can hold approximately one million gallons. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Phillip Nguyen, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, samples and analyzes fuel at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. It is the job of fuels specialists to manage every aspect of the refueling for every aircraft on the flightline, from the time they obtain the fuel to the moment it's pumped in the planes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, parks a fuel truck beside a C-130J Super Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. Fuels specialists work with maintenance Airmen as well as pilots throughout the process of transporting fuel to aircraft across the flightline. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, carries a hose from the fuel truck to a parked C-130J Super Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. Fuels specialists are also responsible for operating the vehicles, equipment and storage facilities that are essential to the refueling operation, while also ensuring the compliance of all safety regulations involved with handling these volatile liquids. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, adjusts the output from a fuel truck during a refueling operation at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. It is the job of fuels specialists to manage every aspect of refueling for every aircraft on the flight line. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, observes as fuel is pumped into a C-130J Super Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. Fuels specialists work with maintenance Airmen, as well as pilots throughout the process of transporting fuel to aircraft across the flightline. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, observes as fuel is pumped into a C-130J Super Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 2016. It is the job of fuels specialists to manage every aspect of refueling for every aircraft on the flightline. More than handling fuel, these professionals are also responsible for operating the vehicles, equipment and storage facilities that are essential to the refueling operation while also ensuring the compliance of all safety regulations while handling these volatile liquids. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer)
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By Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany – Technology is advancing every year. It keeps us warm during the winter, cooks our food, and ensures transportation gets us from point A to point B. But no matter how far we technologically advance, we will always need fuel.
Here, fuels technicians must work across the base to ensure the mission gets done, because without fuel pilots are pedestrians.
One of these technicians, Airman 1st Class Austin Bashaw, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels distribution operator, works with JP-8 jet fuel, unleaded, and diesel fuel every day, ensuring it's transported to the right place at the right time.
"The primary thing I do day-to-day is refuel aircraft," Bashaw said. "This task is accomplished with either one of our R-11 fuel trucks or a pantograph, which is essentially stainless steel piping with a meter on wheels. The R-11's have a tank that holds a capacity of 6000 gallons. The pantographs are hooked up directly to the underground fuel hydrant system and fuel is supplied directly to the aircraft from the tanks."
It is the job of the fuels management flight to manage every aspect of refueling for every aircraft on the flightline. More than handling fuel, these professionals are also responsible for operating the vehicles, equipment and storage facilities that are essential to the refueling operation, while also ensuring the compliance of all safety regulations involved with the handling these volatile liquids.
Here, the process begins when fuel enters the base from the European pipelines. It is then directly received in storage tanks scattered across the base. Some hold more than 1 million gallons. The fuel is then issued via truck or pantograph. Throughout the process, fuels laboratory technicians periodically sample and analyze the fuel to ensure it is clean, dry and serviceable prior to being issued to the customers on the flightline.
"Some of the challenges include meeting response times so that planes may leave on time," Bashaw explained. "Sure you have to work pretty hard most days, but working in fuels has been a very rewarding experience for me."
These are just some examples of what fuels Airmen manage every day, Bashaw said.
The fuel mission itself is similar to many around the world, but the scale and location of it makes it different, according to Master Sgt. Terrance Ladd, 86th LRS Fuels Superintendent.
"Ramstein's heavy airlift mission and being the gateway allows our Airmen the opportunity to see immediately how their job impacts missions across the globe," Ladd said. "Our Airmen have an unique ability to wake up to some news channel about a humanitarian ops mission in Europe, come to work and issue fuel to the aircraft supporting that mission, then read about how successful the mission was later in the week. They have a sense of accomplishment knowing they had input."
From point A to point B, fuels specialists take on the task of ensuring planes have the energy to provide air power across the world. And while technology advances how we complete our day-to-day tasks, the fuel it needs to function will never go unneeded.
"The way I see it, no matter how well an aircraft or vehicle is put together or if it has all the newest parts put into place, the aircraft will never move off the ground if it does not have fuel," Bashaw said. "You can't have an Air Force without working planes."
Editor's note: The original story can be viewed on the Ramstein Air Base website.
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Les championnats de France de curling ont été créés en 1951 pour les hommes et en 1971 pour les femmes par Emmanuel Muntlak. Cette liste désigne également les équipes et les joueurs ou joueuses de la sélection nationale représentant la France aux compétitions internationales.

Équipes masculines
La France a son championnat national masculin depuis 1951. Depuis 2021, le comité de la CSN et de la FFSG a décidé de ne plus organiser de championnat à proprement parler mais a instauré un chemin de sélection obligatoire ainsi que des confrontations entre les équipes compétitives.

Équipes féminines

Liste des équipes vainqueurs des championnats de France de curling. Depuis 2021, le comité de la CSN et de la FFSG a décidé de ne plus organiser de championnat à proprement parler mais a instauré un chemin de sélection obligatoire ainsi que des confrontations entre les équipes compétitives.

Championnat de France Junior

Championnat de France double mixte

Championnat de France mixte

Championnat de France Elite de tir à la cible

Le Championnat de France de tir à la cible est une compétition organisée au sein des championnats de France Elite organisée par la FFSG. C'est une compétition de courte durée adaptée pour les

championnats de France Elite afin de montrer la discipline du Curling lors de ce regroupement sportif. Les règles consistent en des confrontations de LSD (Last Stone Draw) en 1 contre 1. Chaque joueur joue 3 pierres et le joueur avec la plus petite moyenne de distance par rapport au centre de la maison l'emporte.

Championnat de France Open air
Défini depuis quelques années lors du tournois Open air des Contamines-Montjoie, les champions de France Open air sont organisés en parallèle du tournois international Open air des Contamines-Montjoie.

Liens externes

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Palmarès championnat de France
Softpeelr
World Curling Federation
FFSG

Notes et références

Compétition de curling en France
Championnat de France
Curling championnat france

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Michigan transportation agency to auction excess properties
An office building and 21 parcels of vacant land owned by MDOT are scheduled for public auction.
Michigan transportation agency to auction excess properties An office building and 21 parcels of vacant land owned by MDOT are scheduled for public auction. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2lJCVE1
Detroit Free Press Published 12:47 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2017
At the MDOT road-monitoring facility in Detroit, MDOT monitors more than 300 cameras on the roads for accidents, construction and bad weather. The goal is to keep the traffic on the roads clear and moving safely to avoid major bottlenecks and accidents.(Photo: Jessica J. Trevino Detroit Free Press)
LANSING — An office building and 21 parcels of vacant land owned by the Michigan Department of Transportation are scheduled for public auction.
The excess property will be up for bid on March 20 at the agency's Office of Aeronautics in Lansing.
Officials say the excess properties are located in counties throughout the state and no longer are needed for transportation purposes.
The properties include a small lot along the Thornapple River in Kent County's Cascade Township, a more than 100-acre parcel in Gratiot County's Washington Township and a six-acre site in Macomb County's Sterling Heights.
Auction rules state that each property will be sold to the highest bidder and for not less than the minimum bid price.
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The Best and Worse Places to Live Gay in America (Aug.2017)
All my life I've loved Texas: those big skies, big steaks and big attitudes. I'm there several times a year.
But Texas doesn't love me back. Certainly its lawmakers don't, and lately they've been hellbent on showing that.
In June the governor signed a bill allowing child welfare groups to refuse adoptions that contradict their "sincerely held religious beliefs." They can turn away gay men like me.
That same month, the Texas Supreme Court approved a lawsuit challenging the city of Houston's provision of equal benefits to all married employees, including those with same-sex spouses. Although the United States Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, Texas bucks and balks.
Not New York. My state loves me something fierce. What it did in June was finalize the design of a monument to L.G.B.T. citizens in downtown Manhattan. New York legalized same-sex marriage back in 2011 without any federal nudge.
There's no such thing as L.G.B.T. life in America, a country even more divided on this front than on others. There's L.G.B.T. life in a group of essentially progressive places like New York, Maryland, Oregon and California, which bans government-funded travel to states it deems unduly discriminatory. Then there is L.G.B.T. life on that blacklist, which includes Texas, Kansas, Mississippi and South Dakota.
States with Pro-L.G.B.T. Laws
NUMBER OF POSITIVE LAWS
States with Anti-L.G.B.T. Laws
NUMBER OF NEGATIVE LAWS
Source: Human Rights Campaign
The differences between states — and between cities within states — are profound, and while that has long been true, it's much more consequential since the advent of the Trump administration, a decidedly less ready ally of L.G.B.T. people than the Obama administration was.
The federal government under Donald Trump won't be rushing in to help L.G.B.T. people whose local governments fail to give them equal rights, a sense of belonging or even a feeling of physical safety. Despite Trump's happy campaign talk about how fond he was of gays (and, Trump being Trump, how fond they were of him), his record as president has been hurtful and hateful. Immediately after his inauguration, references to the L.G.B.T. community were scrubbed from many federal websites, including the White House's and the Department of State's.
Plenty of the people he pulled into his cabinet have long histories of pronounced opposition to gay rights. One of them, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, leads a Department of Justice that recently went out of its way to make clear, in court filings, that it did not consider L.G.B.T. people to be protected by a federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination. The Obama administration had taken the opposite view.
states don't have laws prohibiting establishments from discriminating against L.G.B.T. customers
states don't have non-discrimination employment laws protecting L.G.B.T.
states don't have hate crime laws specifically protecting L.G.B.T.
Without consulting or even alerting the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, Trump announced a reinstatement of the ban on transgender people in the military, and he's now finishing the orders for how the Department of Defense should enforce it — within six months. His first Supreme Court appointment suggests that if he is able to ensconce several more, the same-sex-marriage ruling could well be revisited and changed.
But worry not! Ivanka Trump has our backs! She has tweeted as much, and I guess we're supposed to find consolation in those crumbs.
We're at the mercy of our ZIP codes: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are often affected most by their municipality, not their state. In Waco, Tex., the lone justice of the peace who presides over weddings recently admitted that she won't do so for same-sex couples no matter the federal law. But Houston, just a three-hour drive away, has in instances been a pioneer: Annise Parker, its mayor from 2010 to 2016, is the only openly L.G.B.T. person ever elected to lead one of the nation's 10 most populous cities. And Austin, the state's capital, is practically Key West, Fla. — minus the coconuts.
state's capital, is practically Key West, Fla. — minus the coconuts.
There's no such thing as L.G.B.T. life in America, a country even more divided on this front than on others. There's L.G.B.T. life in a group of essentially progressive places like New York, Maryland, Oregon and California, which bans government-funded travel to states it deems unduly discriminatory. Then there is L.G.B.T. life onthat blacklist, which includes Texas, Kansas, Mississippi and South Dakota.
states don't have laws prohibiting
establishments from discriminating against L.G.B.T. customers
Without consulting or even alerting the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, Trump announced a reinstatement of the ban on transgender people in the military, and he's now finishing the ordersfor how the Department of Defense should enforce it — within six months. His first Supreme Court appointment suggests that if he is able to ensconce several more, the same-sex-marriage ruling could well be revisited and changed.
Tyler, Tex.
"I came out at 60 ... and I was told I could no longer hold any positions of leadership in my church."I am—or was—Southern Baptist. After I was invited to share my coming-out story in the public library, patrons complained and the talk was canceled. I stay here because my childreLou Anne Smoot
78, lesbian, retired teacher
Austin, Tex.
"Austin is a little protected bubble: a blue bubble in a red state."There's a gay pride parade. There's a gay pride week. I never had to worry about letting bosses know that I was gay. I've been with my current partner for about 11 years. We can kiss on the street corner or in our front yard.
Charles Castle
71, Gay, retired school librarian
Our cities and our states often dictate how easily we can be our true selves at work, buy wedding cakes, construct families — even die. I asked Jon Davidson of Lambda Legal, an L.G.B.T. advocacy group, about current cases that illustrate just how repressive some corners of America remain. He told me about Picayune, Miss., where an 86-year-old gay man passed away last year, leaving behind his 82-year-old husband. They had been together for half a century.
Although prior arrangements had been made with a local funeral home, it refused even to pick up the dead man's body when it learned of his same-sex marriage, according to a breach-of-contract lawsuit by his husband that hasn't yet been resolved.
I told Davidson that I thought that such don't-make-me-touch-it hysteria ended 25 years ago.
"Many parts of the country are 25 years ago," he responded, drawing special attention to the southeastern quarter, from Texas to South Carolina, which, he said, may well generate more than half of the lawsuits that Lambda becomes involved in.
South Carolina: another state that I love, another state that doesn't love me back, and the home of Tommy Starling, 45, and his husband, Jeff Littlefield, 61. Starling told me that they live there, in the coastal community of Pawleys Island, because of Littlefield's job in the insurance business, but they dream constantly of moving somewhere that doesn't cast them as provocative social experiments, somewhere that doesn't put and keep them on edge.
They had trouble trying to adopt in South Carolina, so they turned to California and to surrogacy to have their 11-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son. Starling said that his family stands out in Pawleys Island in a way that it wouldn't in Brooklyn — or, for that matter, Atlanta — and disparaging, even menacing, remarks have come his way. To protect his kids from such ugliness, he has created, and works to preserve, a bubble of open-minded people around them.
"But it's getting exhausting," he said, adding that the family's occasional travel sustains him. He recalled a trip not long ago to San Francisco, where his husband reached out to hold his hand in public and he reflexively tensed.
"He had to remind me that it was O.K. there," Starling told me.
"My fiancé and I get disgusted looks
when we hold hands walking into places."
Holding hands. Such a small thing — and yet so incredibly big for many gay couples in conservative environments and even for some couples in more liberal areas that can nonetheless seem threatening. That came through poignantly in more than 1,000 responses that The Times received after asking L.G.B.T. readers to share their reflections on the freedoms and limitations of where they live.
Laramie, Wyo.
"Wyoming doesn't have any state laws that protect us from discrimination or hate."They recently tried to pass a bill letting business owners, on religious grounds, deny service to L.G.B.T. people. It makes me feel very unwelcome. I feel powerless. I feel attacked almost.
Josiah Masie22, gay, in Laramie, near where Matthew Shepard was fatally beaten in a gay-related hate crime in 1998
"I definitely feel as though I can be 100 percent open here."The comfort is so alien compared to Montana or Wyoming. There hasn't been a single day that I haven't seen some variety of pride flag on someone's car, on their home or in storefront windows. I feel grateful.
Keleigh Russell23, lesbian, grew up in Wyoming, went to college in Montana
Keleigh Russell
23, lesbian, grew up in Wyoming, went to college in Montana
Readers were acutely conscious of the absence or presence of employment-related anti-discrimination laws in their cities or states. (Only 22 states have such laws governing all gay and lesbian workers, in both the public and the private sectors, while only 20, including New York, have them for transgender workers as well.) Readers mentioned the vigor, or laxness, with which their local governments patrolled against and prosecuted hate crimes.
And one after another, readers said they wished that a modest public gesture of affection wasn't a potent magnet for stares, slurs or worse.
From a 45-year-old lesbian in Laingsburg, Mich.: "Sometimes I fantasize about living in parts of N.Y.C. or Provincetown, where I would be able to feel comfortable walking down the street holding hands with my wife, but our roots are here." From a 34-year-old lesbian in Lubbock, Tex.: "My fiancé and I get disgusted looks when we hold hands walking into places."
I mentioned Brooklyn earlier when I was talking about climes unlike Pawleys Island because Dennis Williams, an executive with HBO who lives in the borough's Boerum Hill neighborhood, was on my mind. He, too, is a gay dad, although unmarried. At 44, he's just a year younger than Starling. But his experience is worlds apart.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
"I get the, 'Oh, there's no mom?' But then it's like they're proud of me."I can't think of a single instance when anyone has been weird or I've had to confront any kind of homophobia. I don't know that I could find this level of reinforced diversity outside of where I am now.
Dennis Williams44, unmarried gay father of a 3-year-old
Pawleys Island, S.C.
"Somebody said that our kids should be taken away from us and we should be hanged."If it wasn't for my husband's job, we wouldn't be here. We're constantly under a microscope, two dads raising kids. We were featured in a local publication and some comments were really nasty.
Tommy Starling45, married gay father of two children, ages 4 and 11 and about with his 3-year-old son, Elan, he's pretty sure it's because he's a black man and there has been so much discussion about black children growing up with absent fathers. Acquaintances who learn or know that he's gay don't register any surprise or signal any disapproval.
"I don't take this for granted," he added, noting that he grew up in Kansas and knows gay men in cities less cosmopolitan than New York.
Of course there are enclaves in Kansas where Williams would find a warm welcome. The college town of Lawrence has a municipal ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, even though Kansas itself doesn't. (In 2015, Gov. Sam Brownback rescinded one that covered only public employees.) And there are rural pockets of upstate New York that have none of Brooklyn's progressivism or diversity.
The geographic variations for transgender
people may well be the starkest.
"We have great equality laws in Maryland, which is unusual in its protections for trans people."
I've been tolerated. I've even been welcomed. I have a dog, and I remember one gentleman coming up with his dog and asking, "Are you a transgender?" I said, nervously, "Yes." And he said, "Well, good on ya!"
Stevie Neal
63, transgender woman living just outside Washington, D.C.
Peyton, Colo.
"I've gotten slurs. 'Y'all should be put to death.' This is just walking down the street."
Ten miles away from me is the Focus on the Family headquarters, which we, in the L.G.B.T. community, consider a hate group. I get the feeling there are people who want to hurt me. I've had people brandish guns at me.
Jamie Shea
39, transgender woman living near Colorado Springs
On the state level, the yardsticks for measuring respect for L.G.B.T. people include, recently, restrictions on "conversion therapy," which attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. More and more mental health professionals are speaking out unequivocally about its dangers, and more and more state legislatures are outlawing it for minors. New Mexico, Nevada, Rhode Island and Connecticut did so in recent months; New Jersey, Vermont, Illinois, Oregon, California and the District of Columbia had previously done so. But that leaves 41 states without any such prohibition.
The geographic variations for transgender people may well be the starkest. Harper Jean Tobin, the policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, noted that there are states — Nevada, for one — where changing your designated gender on a government document requires only affidavits from people who know you. "It can be a medical provider, your therapist, your minister, your parent," Tobin said. But other states, like Tennessee and Alabama, demand proof of surgery and a physician's signature.
states have laws prohibiting transgender people from receiving I.D.s reflecting their preferred gender identification
states don't have laws protecting youths from conversion therapy
states don't have explicit bans on excluding trans individuals from receiving health insurance coverage
states don't have laws for gender-neutral single-occupancy restrooms
Ah, Alabama. In May, under the aegis of "religious freedom," its governor signed a law that allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny the placement of children in homes with gay parents. Patricia Todd, 62, who serves in the state's House of Representatives, remembers the heated discussion there beforehand, because she played a special role. She's openly lesbian — the only open L.G.B.T. person ever in the Alabama Legislature.
"I'm the only open L.G.B.T. person ever in the State Legislature."
I tell people, "This is my missionary work, and I want to be in the hardest place to do it, and I will not live in Mississippi." I love the South: the culture, the food, the people. It's the politics I want to change.
Patricia Todd
State representative, 62, lesbian
"There are four L.G.B.T. people in the Senate and four of us in the Assembly."
It's the all-time high. The interesting thing is now our straight allies are carrying a lot of our L.G.B.T. bills. Sometimes even my opponents will say, "I never understood that. That's a new perspective."
Ricardo Lara
State senator, 42, gay
"I tried to stop the bill as best I could," Representative Todd told me. "I practically had the sponsor in tears when we were debating this on the floor." Why? "Because he really likes me. They all really like me. I said, 'I want everyone to realize: If you vote in favor of this, you're telling me that I'm not fit to be a parent. And I want you to look at me. You know me.' "
The Alabama House voted 60 to 14 in favor of the bill, after which the Alabama Senate voted 23 to 9.
Fifty years from now — heck, maybe just 20 — that kind of thing won't happen. There's only one long-term trajectory here. But in the meantime, it's not O.K. for the federal government to be as cold to L.G.B.T. Americans as the one we have now is, because some of those Americans live in Alabama — or Texas. And those places don't exactly brim with love.
Most of this information and some of the pictures and graphs appeared on the New York Times
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Q: How can i enable selection on TableView in QML Qt6.3? I'm having trouble in make selection on QML model/view in Qt6.3.
In order to understand the behaviour i took the example given by Qt on the documentation of Table View about selection (see here).
This is my whole main.qml file:
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Controls
import Qt.labs.qmlmodels

Window {
id: mainWin
visible: true
width: 640
height: 480
title: qsTr("QML Test")

TableView {
    id: tableView
    anchors.fill: parent
    clip: true

    model: TableModel {
        TableModelColumn { display: "name" }
        rows: [ { "name": "Harry" }, { "name": "Hedwig" } ]
    }

    selectionModel: ItemSelectionModel {
        model: tableView.model
    }

    delegate: Rectangle {
        implicitWidth: 100
        implicitHeight: 30
        color: selected ? "blue" : "lightgray"

        required property bool selected

        Text { text: display }
    }
}

}

and a very basic main.cpp
#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QQmlApplicationEngine>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
#if defined(Q_OS_WIN)
    QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling);
#endif

    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    engine.load(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/main.qml")));

    if (engine.rootObjects().isEmpty())
        return -1;

    return app.exec();
}

The application start, and the table is shown with proper data, but rows are not selectable.
What am i missing?
Thank you.
Michele

A: You need to do the selection yourself. The example only shows how to render the selected state, but not how to actually select something.
In order to select an item in the ItemSelectionModel you could add the following to your Rectangle delegate.
MouseArea {
    anchors.fill: parent
    onClicked: tableView.selectionModel.select(tableView.model.index(index, 0),
                                                ItemSelectionModel.Select)
}

When the Rectangle is clicked it will add the item via its index to the selection model. Have a look at the different selection flags.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtqml-models-itemselectionmodel.html#select-method

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Losing weight is already difficult enough as it is, especially if you have a lot to lose. And, the next most challenging aspect is keeping the weight off. Now that you've reached your goals in terms of body size and shape, it's critical to maintain your success. The last thing you want is to yo-yo diet. You've already put in the hard work, now it's time to enjoy your achievement. Keep reading to learn more.
Many people have lost weight on highly restrictive diets, but they're hard to maintain because the options were so limited. For instance, eating only 900 calories a day will cause weight loss. Yet, can you eat only 900 calories a day for the rest of your life? Also, now that you've lost weight, you might want to celebrate by eating all the cakes and chips you couldn't have previously. But, when do you put an end to unhealthy eating? Instead, go on a diet that you know you will enjoy--and stick to--for the rest of your life. For instance, the Mediterranean diet is quite healthy and filling, so are Atkins or Keto. And, give yourself the option for cheat days so that you won't ever feel deprived.
Many of us like to eat cakes at a celebration, or often host parties filled with food to acknowledge a major milestone such as an anniversary or even a holiday. As a result, we tend to get used to eating after any accomplishment. To maintain a weight loss diet, it helps to use different rewards for positive accomplishments. Perhaps you can buy yourself a nice treatment at the Santé MD Wellness Center, or go shopping for a new style of clothing that you didn't think you could wear when you were carrying around extra weight.
This isn't about being obsessive, but it is important to track your weight fluctuations after a major weight loss. A few pounds here and there are normal due to water weight or perhaps the occasional illness. But, if you've gained 15 pounds--then it may be time to re-asses your current eating and lifestyle habits. Furthermore, a scale is more accurate than how you look in the mirror or how your clothing fits. If you look at yourself every day, you won't be able to tell that you have gained some weight. On the other hand, a calibrated scale doesn't lie.
While 80 percent of weight loss and maintenance has to do with diet, exercise does play a key role. To illustrate, if you have issues with emotional or stress-related eating, then exercise can help to moderate your emotions so that you feel more positive as opposed to sad. Moreover, if you engage in weight training, you will build muscle which will then increase your metabolism. Not to mention, exercise gives you something to do in your free time instead of digging into a tub of ice cream.
You should always be very proud of yourself for successfully losing weight. Now, use the tips above to keep it off for life.


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UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms
Danijel Sinani Department of Ethnology and Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
UFO, extraterrestrials, close encounters, UFO religions, contactees, alien abduction, science fiction, supernatural, UFO eschatology
This paper looks at UFO religions, and considers the major factors that have played a role in the emergence and development of these alternative religious movements - from reports of close encounters of the third and fourth kinds and science fiction production, to alternative ideological elaborations of contacts with extraterrestrial worlds. It looks at the basic theological premises, iconography, activities, and, more generally, cultural precepts of several UFO religious movements (the Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Unarius, the Raelian movement). Attention is drawn to the religious connotations of UFO discourse, and its motifs of "otherness" and "supernaturalness". In addition, the relation between the roles and themes promoted within the contactee movement and the accounts of persons claiming to have been abducted by aliens is explored. Finally, the paper highlights the key existential questions and identifies the themes and motifs with which UFO religionists present themselves to the public.
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Q: Multi threaded global object access Ok, I've a application which has two additional threads.
Thread one accesses object O and inserts data into a deque which is part of object O and increments a counter variable.
Thread two accesses object O and pulls out and deletes data from the deque and decrements the counter variable.
This turned out to give unexpected results since one thread tells me there are x elements inside of the deque and the other thread tells me there are no elements. I assume I have to use some kind of synchronization. I tried to use semaphore which I must have misunderstood since it didn't work (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686946(v=vs.85).aspx).
So I want to know how to access a global object from two threads. Be aware that the access to the global object O happens quite often since the access is within a while loop which results in continues insertions and polls. (Would the possible solution block the other thread from accessing the object and therefore the while loop?)
So far I only know of semaphore and mutex but have never used any of them, please be so kind and enlighten me.

A: The easiest way would be to use EnterCriticalSection/LeaveCriticalSection around the code you want to use in an exclusive manner:
CRITICAL_SECTION critSect;

// Later in the code
EnterCriticalSection(&critSect);
// Do stuff with O
LeaveCriticalSection(&critSect);

You would of course use this in both threads. Only one thread can be inside the enter/leave zone at a time. The EnterCriticalSection will block until the other thread calls LeaveCriticalSection.

A: When accessing an object from multiple threads with one access possibly changing the object, you need some from of synchronization. For the scenario described you probably want to have a queue class which does the necessary thread protection and signalling. Here is a simple implementation:
#include <mutex>
#include <condition_variable>
#include <deque>

template <typename T>
class queue
{
private:
    std::mutex              d_mutex;
    std::condition_variable d_condition;
    std::deque<T>           d_queue;
public:
    void push(T const& value) {
        {
            std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(this->d_mutex);
            d_queue.push_front(value);
        }
        this->d_condition.notify_one();
    }
    T pop() {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(this->d_mutex);
        this->d_condition.wait(lock, [=]{ return !this->d_queue.empty(); });
        T rc(std::move(this->d_queue.back()));
        this->d_queue.pop_back();
        return rc;
    }
};

The code uses C++ 2011 constructs but it can easily be changed to avoid their use and rather use C++ 2003 constructs instead except that these aren't standardized.
The key points are:

*

*A std::mutex is used to make sure only on thread accesses the queue at a time.

*When putting something into the queue a lock on the mutex is acquired and the object is inserted into the queue. Once the object is inserted the lock is automatically released and a condition variable is signaled.

*When extracting something from the queue a lock on the mutex is acquired and the thread waits for the queue to be non-empty using a condition variable: if there is something in the queue already, the condition will be true and wait() returns immediately, otherwise the thread is put to sleep until it gets a signal at which point the condition is reevaluated. Note, that the condition may be evaluated multiple times because there may be spurious wake-up to the condition variable.

*The lambda captures its context by value: all it really captures is this; member variables cannot be captured directly because they are not part of the local context.

*The result from pop() is returned by value: the moment the lock gets release, the container may be changed, making it impossible to return objects by reference, even if they were put into a suitable location.

The main reason this is somewhat of a toy example is that it doesn't have a nice way to shut down the system: If a thread is blocked on the queue it waits until there is another object. A real implementation would have some way to signal that it is time to shut down, possibly throwing an exception from pop(). Also, sometimes it is useful to have queue which doesn't force blocking to extract an object. Instead, it would have a function try_pop() which acquires a lock, checks if the queue is non-empty and depending on the result extracts and object or signals failure. A function like this is easy to implement, though.


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Leapsters at $30 at Walmart, and I needed TWO of them. That's $40 in savings. My plan was to just get up, not even shower, mosey the twenty minutes into town, sweep in, and pick them up, and be back within the hour. Leapsters are so last year. No one was going to want them.
I was about to go home when I spotted a Leapster in a cart, waiting to be reshelved. I grabbed it. While I was chatting up the cashier about needing two, but one would do, she pulled over a restocker person who had one more in their cart!
Now, I say "new" loosely. It is brand new, but I have flipped through it. Grilling just isn't my thing, but it might be your thing. So if you would like to enter to win my flipped-through copy, please just leave me a comment! I'll announce winners sometime Saturday or Sunday!
There is nothing like the smell of gingerbread to make your home smell like Christmas. I like to make these in the morning before I start pulling out the Christmas decorations.
Line or grease 12 muffin cups. Blend applesauce, oil, brown sugar, and egg. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt, ginger, 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, and cloves. Beat until just combined. Spoon batter into liners, filling 1/2 way. Spoon 1/2 tsp. of jam on top of each. Cover with remaining batter. In small bowl, combine the 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 2 Tb. sugar. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp. on top of each muffin. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
Not far from where I grew up is Cranberry Glades. When we were in school, we often went on field trips here to study this natural wonder. This is what I learned from all those field trips. At some point doing the past, glaciers from the north made their way to little ol' West Virginia. When the glaciers began to recede, the elevation of this certain place and the little "bowl" created by several mountains, left some glacier intact for several more years. When it melted, it left behind seeds native to a more northern climate. Since this little "bowl" is still protected by the mountains, there is now a bog with plants not normally suited to West Virginia, like cranberries.
The National Forest Service has built a half-mile boardwalk over the area so that you can walk through the bog without disturbing the plants. It's a beautiful walk at any time of the year.
The cranberries are not harvested commercially. So even though you may not see West Virginia-grown cranberries in your grocery store, you can still enjoy this recipe with fresh cranberries found in grocery stores at this time of the year.
Stir together cranberries and 2 Tb. sugar in a small bowl. Combine the 2 cups of flour, baking soda, oats, 1/2 c. sugar, and brown sugar. Stir in melted butter until crumbly. Reserve 1 cup of this mixture for later. Press remaining crumb mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Then, sprinkle dates, pecans, and cranberries on top. Stir together caramel sauce and 1/3 c. all-purpose flour together. Spoon over cranberries. Sprinkle the remaining reserved crumb mixture on top. Bake 20 minutes more or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack. Makes 2 dozen.
We were home yesterday with a snow day. Because Frack wasn't feeling well, we cuddled and watched some Noggin. I have to admit that at first that I was repulsed by Yo Gabba Gabba. Now, I have become a little fan. It's cute. My kids love it. It has groovy tunes.
I'm only a little fan, because I can only watch it in little periods. I've seen this episode with Elijah Wood. I even danced the Puppet Master in the living room. I must say that this music pumps it up. Enjoy.
Our first snow day of the year! We are in a winter storm warning until midnight tonight. We are expected to get up to a foot of snow! Bring it on!
Frick and Frack are playing with play-doh in the kitchen, while I make Pumpkin Pie Squares from My Sisters' Cucina. My kids will play with play-doh for hours. This was one of last year's Christmas presents. It was worth the money.
We have a fresh new batch of Play-doh from Trick-or-Treating at school. Normally, we make our own. If you find yourself with an unexpected snow day, you can make your children some fun.
Today was weigh-in day for our little weight loss group. Two pounds, baby! That brings my total to nine pounds! To motivate myself, I have picked out my twenty pound goal - a dress from Shabby Apple.
I can't make up my mind. It will probably be which ever one is on sale. I love wearing dresses, but it is difficult to find dresses that are flattering (and modest) without making me look like the frumpy schoolmarm that I am.
Here's a family-friendly dinner that's easy to make in one pan. It simmers quietly giving you time to putter around the kitchen doing other things.
It's almost time for holiday parties! My mama taught me to never show up empty-handed. Usually, that means that I make something to take. But with working full-time, it is hard to have something ready to go all the time.
are a must for the holidays. Most of the mixes need only an 8-ounce cream cheese and 2 tablespoons of butter. The toppings for the cheese ball is included. There are also recipes on the box to make more elaborate appetizers or desserts.
These also make excellent hostess gifts. Pair one of these mixes with a cute little serving plate and tie with a bow. You can't go wrong.
When I get back on the weight-loss wagon, I always struggle with what to pack for lunch. I have eaten my weight in Lean Cuisines. After time, the Lean Cuisines begin to taste like carboard with sauce.
I love this recipe because I can make it for dinner and eat it for a couple of days for lunch. I just keep everything is small, separate bowls until I am ready to assemble it at lunch.
Combine the first three ingredients in small bowl. Combine chicken and barbecue sauce in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at high for 1 minute or until heated. Divide chicken mixture among tortillas; top with slaw. Roll up tortillas. 4 servings.
I am not a big gadget fan. However, I do have a salad spinner. I love my salad spinner. I eat salad just so I can pull out the salad spinner.
It is mesmerizing to watch the salad whirl around. And then, to see the water that comes off of it - and to see the color of the water. Ugh. Try it sometime with bagged salad. That prewashed stuff has a lot of dirt on it. I no longer buy salads in the bags.
My salad spinner came with a berry bowl that is great for gently spinning the water off berries.
So why would you need a salad spinner?
It makes your lettuce so much crisper. You know how you eat salad out at a restaurant and you wonder why your salads don't taste like that at home? It's the spinner. Dry lettuce is crisp lettuce.
You can use a clean pillowcase with the same effect. Just make sure to do this outside.
Some ladies that I work with tried to get a person to come and lead a WW meeting at school. Right now, my only option is WW online, and that is not going so well. I really need the probing eyes of a weigh-in person to keep me motivated.
Because we work in Podunk, no one was willing to come and help us lose weight. One lady has organized a weekly weigh-in meeting at school. Yesterday was the first day.
Really. I needed to go to the grocery store. Farmer Brown was available to keep Frick and Frack. Going to the grocery store without kids is a miracle you can't pass up.
I really don't like rushing the holiday season, but I couldn't leave those there. In our small town, if you see something at Walmart, you'd better get it then. Without any competition, everyone shops there.
Gingerbread Pop-tarts with frosting filling. I ate one in the car on the way home. I then decided that they would be much better in the toaster. I was right. I did have to share that one with the kids.
5 points WW per Pop-tart. They were good but not really worth those points. I do, however have a whole box left and a whole week until weigh-in.
First of all, my camera has bit the dust. Not that it was a great camera as my older posts can attest, but it was my camera. I am now in the market for a great camera on a low budget. Any suggestions would be welcome.
As a teacher, I am thankful that they use the schools for polling places. My guilty mom voice only scolded me once for sending the children to preschool while I stayed home and tried new recipes.
I was in a mini kind of mood. I made Mini-Chocolate Pumpkin Cakes with Cream Cheese Frosting and Mini-Almond Coconut Cheesecakes.
The recipe for Chocolate Pumpkin Cakes came from Country Living. My friend's birthday was today and I wanted a little something to send to her. I made the recipe and used my Pampered Chef mini fluted pan. It made six perfect little cakes that popped right out. This recipe is a little more involved than I usually make. But with the children away and the extra time, it was relaxing to concentrate on a cake truly from scratch.
I frosted the cakes and placed them on little plates. I wrapped each one with parchment paper and tied them with a pretty ribbon. If I had my camera, I would have taken a picture to share the love with you.
Beat 6 oz. softened cream cheese using a mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add 1 1/2 c. of confectioners' sugar, 2 1/4 tsp. cocoa, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, and 3/4 tsp. vanilla and beat until well combined on low speed. In a separate bowl, beat 1 1/2 c. heavy cream with 3/4 c. confectioners' sugar on medium-high speed to soft peaks. Gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture until well combined.
Two years into our marriage, I had a new recipe to make that called for a Bundt pan. I didn't own a Bundt pan. When I called my in-laws house to ask to borrow one, my father-in-law answered. He said, "Honey, as much as you bake, you don't own a Bundt pan?"
I figured he really didn't know what a Bundt pan was. Two hours later, he arrived at my house with my very own, brand-new Bundt pan. Navy blue. He went to Walmart and asked around until he found me the best that Walmart carried.
Every time I use my Bundt pan, I think of my father-in-law and his graciousness to me. And not only to me. He will do anything for anyone at anytime.
There are things that you hope to give to your children. I hope to give his selflessness to them.
To you, I give this Bundt cake recipe to make and share with someone else. If you don't have a Bundt pan, you can call my father-in-law. I'm sure he'll deliver you one, too.
In medium bowl, combine pumpkin and cinnamon. In large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, sour cream, sugar, oil, and water. Beat on low speed until moistened. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Stir 2 1/2 cups batter into pumpkin mix. Alternately spoon plain and pumpkin batter into greased Bundt pan. Bake 375 degrees for 40 - 45 minutes. Cool in pan for 2o minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool.
Combine sugar, flour, and salt in a saucepan. Stir in water and butter. Cook over medium heat until mix comes to a boil. Boil for three minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Drizzle over cake.
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Categories Columns|Horizons|July 2020 Issue
A Ministry Born in Kentucky and Chile
By Laura McKillip Wood
Published on : June 14, 2020
Ignacio left the Catholic church long before he began studying at a university in Santiago, Chile. Although he was a self-proclaimed agnostic, a friend from his neighborhood invited him to El Oasis, a student group designed to provide students with a Christian community to call "home" during their college years. Ignacio loved music and discovered that an alum of his university led the band at El Oasis.
Before long, Ignacio was a regular, hanging out with the other music lovers who attended. His interest in the band grew, and he asked to join it. The staff of El Oasis had a dilemma. Should they allow a professed nonbeliever to join the praise band? They decided to allow him to join as long as he understood that the purpose of the band was to lead people to praise God. He readily agreed, and he began practicing and playing with the worship band.
After just a few weeks, the others at El Oasis began to notice a difference in Ignacio. He became interested in spiritual topics. He told the leaders that even though he did not know God, he was glad to be part of something that helped people experience him. He joined a small group, where he had plenty of one-on-one conversations with the leader. After four years of participating in El Oasis, Ignacio decided to be baptized. He has grown to become a key leader in the ministry and is the current band leader.
Greg's Story
Greg and Eli Klass worked with El Oasis in Santiago when Ignacio became a member. Greg grew up in Kentucky. At age 17, he dedicated his life to Christ and decided to attend Manhattan Christian College in Kansas. There he joined the soccer team and met the missions professor, who became an important mentor to him. Greg saw in his professor's life what he wanted for his own: a nice family, a productive ministry, and a solid relationship with God.
Greg began to think God might be leading him to cross-cultural ministry. When he heard about an opportunity to do an internship in Santiago, he jumped at it. After graduation, Greg returned to Santiago to be part of the team. "Coming to Chile, I saw how God had prepared me with different gifts," Greg said. "I couldn't speak Spanish at the time, but I developed relationships through soccer."
Eli's Story
Eli (short for Elisabet) grew up in a Protestant family in Santiago, a city that is primarily Catholic. Her parents, former missionaries themselves, raised her with a desire to serve God and share her faith. Her church also encouraged that, but it wasn't until she went on a mission trip to Peru that she began to understand how different life is for people who do not know Jesus. She saw poverty and hopelessness in Peru, and she returned home with a desire to serve God full-time. Since colleges do not train Christian workers in Chile, she chose to study social work, thinking it would give her a way to live out her faith and also help others.
During her junior year of college, Eli's brother invited her to El Oasis. She began to learn how to share her faith with her peers, not just with people in poverty who live far away. She grew to understand how God could use her in her own community. In 2012, she graduated from college and began an internship with El Oasis. She eventually took a job as a social worker in order to pay some of her student loans, but she felt God was leading her to a different ministry.
The Klass Story
Eli and Greg met while both were working at El Oasis. They became friends, which developed into a relationship that grew serious before long. Two years later, in 2015, they married. Greg even talked with Eli's parents before he proposed, a tradition not usually practiced in Chile. "My parents loved it!" Eli said with a laugh. At about the time of their wedding, Greg and Eli committed themselves to serving God full-time. "Wherever you want to send us, we will commit to being missionaries for life," Eli said.
Missionaries for Life
Early in March 2020, the Klasses moved from Santiago to Vina del Mar, a college town on the coast of Chile, to start a branch of El Oasis. All the team members except Greg are Chilean, and all are former members of the Santiago branch of El Oasis. They know how effective El Oasis can be in the lives of Chilean students because they experienced it firsthand. Their ministry provides a central gathering place for Vina del Mar's large student population, most of whom either live at home with their families or in apartments (since Chilean universities do not normally provide dormitories for their students).
At this campus house, students gather for Bible studies and worship, but they also play games, hang out, and socialize. "We reach out to students who wouldn't typically ever set foot in a church and then connect them with a Christ-centered community," Greg explained. As the students grow, the team helps them transition to a church so they can continue their walk with Christ and grow in community after college.
Eli and Greg and their teammates work with a ministry called Globalscope, which is the international student branch of Christian Missionary Fellowship International, or CMFI. Globalscope has locations around the world, including Spain, Germany, England, Scotland, Thailand, and Australia. Globalscope is planning to launch sites in Latin America, Mexico, and Uruguay over the next five years. They plan to do this by cultivating national leaders who already know the language and culture and can focus entirely on ministry.
At El Oasis, Greg and Eli have found a place to belong, and they are offering that same opportunity to students in Vina del Mar.
Laura McKillip Wood, former missionary to Ukraine, now lives in Papillion, Nebraska. She serves as an on-call chaplain at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha. She and her husband, Andrew, have three teenagers.
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The main objective of my idea is to introduce a bit of the past history of Mesoamerica. I have always liked the legends of Mayan and Aztec civilizations and they are part of my roots.
Legends of Mesoamerica will be a first-person explorer game. It is the year 1520 and the invasion of Spain in Mesoamerica has just begun. You will play as a Spanish expeditionist in the search of the amulets of the Mayan god Kukulkhan and Aztec god Xiuhtecuhtli. The player will need to make it through obstacles and lives within each temple in order to find the amulets. The gods have also unleashed beasts that are only found in the mythologies of both cultures, and you will need to defend yourself from them.
The player will need to infiltrate the pyramid within each city. The temples would be like a maze and the player will have to figure out their way around it. Just imagine being trapped in a maze inside of an ancient structure that you do not know and surrounded by deadly foes. You will need to make use of the environment around you in order to avoid obstacles, traps and enemy soldiers and creatures. The player will not count with any type of weaponry, however there will be items you will find that will aid you deceive your enemies and you can also use traps you find against them. At the same time, the items you find will give you a bit of story about the culture.
Aside from the items the player will collect to aid them, he would also collect relics that would tell the player more about the temple, traditions and inhabitants. The player will count with a journal with entries on creatures and enemies found. This way the player will put together the story through small fragments.
Description: An instrument used by the Aztec for the day of the dead celebrations and was also used during war.
The sound of the whistle would cause a psychological effect on their enemies. It is a very intimidating instrument.
I have been inspired by some exploration games that I have played before such as Dear Esther, Home Alone and Legend of Grimrock. The first two are unique on the way that they tell the player the story, where you have to put the pieces together in order to understand more about the situation. The last one contains more strategic and challenging elements that the player needs to solve while exploring levels created by other players.
The game would be aimed for PC, and I believe that in order to achieve the graphical expectations that I hope to achieve for the game Unreal engine would be the ideal tool to use. However, Unity would also be a tool to use.
I believe that there are two major challenges, the first one would be the creation of large 3D environments. Also, the design of the level could be challenging since it would be one of the key elements in the game.
I believe that in order to complete this project the group should be between 4 and 5 people, with at least 2 level designers. Level designers would focus on the creation of the level and adding the challenges and enemies that the player will encounter in each temple. My role on the team would mainly be as a programmer, but I know my way around Maya and 3ds Max so I would be one of the people creating 3D assets. I also know how to use Adobe Creative Suite so I will also help with 2D assets for the game's UI.
I believe that this idea could evolve and go into different routes when putting it together with other ideas. The main point to take from it is that Mayan and Aztec mythology have not been exposed in depth in the game industry, and there's a lot of content that could be explored through a game. At the same time, I believe that it would intrigue people since not a lot of people might know about the past of Mesoamerica.


Possibly my favorite exhibit (and I'm not one to use that term loosely) in the several art fairs I visited this past weekend was Japanese artist Sohei Nishino's amazingly intricate and simply spectacular Diorama Maps at Pulse. This ongoing series currently consists of thirteen cities from all over the world that Nishino visited. The artist walks around on foot shooting with film from various locations, taking thousands of photos and cutting up the multitude into small pieces then piecing the enormous mounds together by hand. The Diorama Maps are almost a bird's eye view of each city, emphasizing key elements that follow the artist's memory and perception more than a precise map. The results are truly breathtaking. These small images don't do them justice. Definitely worth clicking on the images for a larger view or looking at the cropped, close-up images. They remind me of David Hockney's photo collages, yet at a more massive—in their elaboration rather than size— and detailed level, but I did have a similar reaction the first time I saw Hockney's collages.
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