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Remote Sensing Platform Mavrx is Testing the Power of "Free"
February 21, 2018 Emma Cosgrove	1 Comment
Remote-sensing-based farm management software platform Mavrx announced today that it would be making the fundamentals of its platform free of charge to all users.
Mavrx provides a visual intelligence platform that uses field imagery and machine learning to analyze crop growth patterns. The platform uses publicly available satellite imagery and in some cases, ultra-high-resolution imagery from planes to helps farmers assess potential problem areas and significantly reduce manual field scouting.
The new pricing scheme means that satellite imaging, satellite-based crop health tracking, and Mavrx's mobile app for scouting and tissue and soil-sampling will be free. Management zone creation and product prescription writing will also be free.
Essentially, any capabilities that Mavrx offers on the back of satellite imagery, as well as the imagery itself, is now free — the image granularity available for free is down to 10m. Aerial flights and other custom solutions are where paid services will really kick in. If ag retailers are working with growers on small field trials, for example, that's when they would need premium service to get to 12cm granularity.
Mavrx has a network of 100 aircraft pilots to monitor corn, soy, and wheat production in the US. It also works in the Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina monitoring corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, and potatoes.
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According to the company, several days after soft launching the new pricing strategy with existing customers and partners, Mavrx doubled its unique acres monitored in 2018 to 31 million.
New Strategy, New Customers
Mavrx founder Max Bruner said that the change isn't necessarily about boosting the registered user count, as one might guess. Though the company's core customer base remains ag retailers and therefore growers as well, Bruner told AgFunderNews that the shift is more of a decision to pave the way for more custom and 'white label' requests in the future from a more diverse set of clients including crop insurers, banks, and private equity funds, some of which Mavrx is already working with and all of whom need quality agricultural data.
Bruner has had insurance in mind since he founded the business in 2012.
"I started the company in South Africa and after seeing 10,000 hectare farms go out of business after one drought. That was really a big moment for me when I saw this opportunity to open up access to better financial tools," said Bruner. Since then Mavrx has raised $13 million in two rounds.
Bruner hopes that getting rid of the first hurdle in the sales process with large institutions, the "yes" that starts paid relationships, will cut down on a lengthy sales cycle and lead to faster development of tools that institutions will use, all while collecting more data.
"Instead of having them comparing us to five other tools and deciding how much they want to pay, they can start using Mavrx's tool first and know what they want from it when the premium conversion begins," said Bruner.
He also hopes that starting at "free" will help ag retailers "sell" the product faster and get more out of it.
"Now it's easier for them to push out our product and get their workforce trained. That enables them to sell our product and its then easier for them to buy aerial imagery. You have to get an organization to adopt and to train their workforce. That's the barrier to the next big check," he said.
The Value of Free
In light of Mavrx's announcement, AgFunderNews asked several other digital ag startup founders about the power and the drawbacks of free offerings – though not regarding Mavrx specifically.
Digital products outside of agriculture are of course no stranger to free offers — free apps with in-app purchases are the norm in Apple's iTunes store. But aside from the product itself, the pricing strategy around when the free offerings stop and payment is required can affect the customer's opinion of the product with equal weight.
"Free is not a sustainable differentiator, it's an offer that must have clear benefits for testing in a price elastic or skeptical marketplace," said Steve Sibulkin, CEO of Agronomic Technology Corp, an agricultural field modeling company for soil, water, crops, and fertilizer.
"Free" can start a relationship faster, said Sibulkin, but it can't sustain one, and for farmers with finite growing seasons per year, it can sting if the product doesn't deliver.
"A key bottleneck in many new categories is getting a user or prospect to take the first step of engagement. If the underlying solution is compelling a free or low-cost offer, great. If the underlying solution isn't, then you've accelerated your demise. In other words, free is too expensive if it the product doesn't work," said Sibulkin.
Crop forecasting startup Vinsight CEO Megan Nunes said that free offerings have not led her company, which relies heavily on remote sensing data, to good results in the past because they require so little commitment from the user.
"Anytime we've given something away for free, adoption has been more difficult than if it's paid. I don't know if that's because once they've decided to spend money on it, then they take it seriously," she said.
Both Nunes and Igor Ivanov, founder of remote sensing startup Gamaya, both said that especially in field imagery, satellite images are a commdity, so only the value of imagery analysis and recommendations can make a service, even a free one, valuable.
Free offerings from young startups are not uncommon. Even some very established digital ag platforms have unpaid tiers of subscription, but digital ag founders seem to agree that the devil is in the details in pricing strategy. Whether free or paid, any offer has to have real value.
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Jim Ballengee says:
Right on. Anyone second-guessing this decision should read Chris Anderson's book, "Free."


We had absolutely perfect conditions this morning, but the catching did not match the weather. We enjoyed a decent early morning bite on the redfish, but it was slow the remainder of the day for us. The highlight was a four foot blacktip that went ballistic after attacking a Lil John fished under a cork.
Our redfish were solid slot fish and we caught them on the same Lil' John and a 3/4 ounce silver spoon. We never ran across the large balls of shad that have been like fish magnets the past week or so. The outgoing tide was just picking up when we called in the dogs around noon. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day.


Video subscription service Netflix Inc reported a quarterly profit as the company added subscribers in the United States and abroad, sending its shares 27 percent higher.
Netflix had warned Wall Street it expected a loss for the quarter.
The company reported on Wednesday $8 million in net income for the fourth quarter, or 13 cents per share. Revenue rose to $945 million.
Shares of the company surged 27 percent after Netflix released its results, reaching $131.60 in after-hours trading. Netflix earlier closed at $103.26 on Nasdaq.
Netflix said it added 2.1 million customers to its U.S. streaming business during the quarter for a total of 27.2 million.
"They did surprisingly well with subscriber growth and profitability," Lazard Capital Markets analyst Barton Crockett said. "It was a very good quarter."
Wall Street analysts on average had predicted Netflix would report a loss of 13 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.


As much as 26 percent of the adult American population may have engaged with the midterm elections using their mobile phone, according to a study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Online politics experts from both the Democratic and Republican parties say this is a sign of things to come, and it will significantly change the messages that candidates and campaigns send to potential donors or activists. As smartphones decline in cost and adoption rates continue to rise, people will come to engage in political activity on their mobile phones more and more frequently — meaning campaigns will be seeking mere snippets of time from supporters on the go, but they may gain access with an unprecedented level of immediacy.
While only one percent of adults contributed money to a campaign by text message, according to the survey, 14 percent used their cell phones to tell others they had voted, and 12 percent of adults used their mobile phones to track news about the election or politics. The 26 percent figure is an aggregate based on all the adults polled who did one of a range of politics-related activities on their phones.
The Pew study reflected what online and mobile messaging experts already know: People who make frequent use of their cellphone are more likely to be people of color, or 18-29 years of age, or making over $30,000 a year, or with at least some college education, or some combination thereof. But other Pew studies have found that adoption of new technologies like social media is accelerating fastest among older Americans — addressing the way mobile users skew younger — and smartphones are getting cheaper, which may make them accessible to lower-income Americans.
Mobile messaging expert Scott Goodstein, who was external online director for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, closely watches the cost and capabilities of mobile devices. In my periodic conversations with him, he frequently brings up this or that phone for sale at a popular electronics store that a campaign can use to reach a constituent, such as play video or browse the web. Yesterday was no exception.
"You're talking about a phone that plays video, interacts with the web and can download types of applications into the phone, and cheaper than any type of Nokia or Motorola Razr flip phone," Goodstein said yesterday of a deal he saw in an electronics store circular.
But the level of engagement seen this year was already impressive. Compared to the 2008 presidential election, a watershed year for voter turnout, the 2010 midterms did pretty well in mobile engagement: In the 2008 election year, according to Pew, 29 percent of American adults said they used text messaging in the run-up to election day. That's not apples to apples with mobile in general, but it paints the picture.
Goodstein credited active Republican campaigns with mobilizing their constituents on their handheld devices, but National Republican Senatorial Committee online director Katie Harbath says some campaigns might not even know what they did.
"I actually think these campaigns were interacting with their folks mobilely and didn't know it," Harbath told me yesterday, later adding, "I think there was probably more interaction there via mobile than the campaigns know about because they're not looking at the data."
Harbath herself didn't even realize the extent to which Republicans were using their mobile devices until midsummer, when she noticed a big increase in mobile traffic and found that people were landing on donation thank-you pages via mobile. Her detailed analysis of mobile traffic for the NRSC in 2010 is already up on techPresident.
What a steady increase in mobile engagement means, Harbath says, is that campaigns will have to alter their calls to action.
"I think the asks have to be even shorter," she told me. "It needs to be even fewer clicks to make people do something, because the screens are so much smaller, and people don't want to take the time to fill out a long form."
Mobile politics, she surmised, will comprise the actions campaigns can get from supporters as they're in line at the grocery store or stuck in traffic.
"Campaigns [should] start testing and figure out what their activists are doing on mobile and how to work with them on it," she said.
The Pew study was based on a survey of 2,257 adults conducted from Nov. 3 through Nov. 24, 2010. It's available here.


Equally as impressive is the confirmed return of perhaps the greatest collection of upper echelon international nature and wildlife photographers in the world — a collection which continues to solidify Florida's Birding & Photo Fest as one of the premier and prized events in all of North America. And of course the community of St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, & all of Florida's Historic Coast is welcoming bird lovers and photography aficionados with all the gracious, friendly hospitality one would expect from the Nation's Oldest City and Florida's most world-class destination.
So without further ado, we welcome you to this Birding & Photo Fest—an event which glorifies the love we have for birds, nature, phtography and Florida's unique offering of the great outdoors. It will be yet another auspicious St. Augustine event which is destined to go down in History.
For more information go to the Festival website at www.floridasbirdingandphotofest.com. This year's event will be held at the Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, located at 5215 A1A S., St Augustine Beach, FL – Just 6 miles south of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.


英文摘要 Living in the 21st century, technology plays an important role in learning and instruction. Studies found that a number of factors, such as gender, age, pedagogical content knowledge and teaching beliefs influence teachers' use of technology. Recently, educators proposed a Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework to help teachers develop knowledge of technology integration. The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationships between junior high school mathematics teachers' TPACK and teaching beliefs. Based on Koehler and Mishra's TPACK framework and related studies, a survey with 51 items was developed to measure TPACK and teaching beliefs. 110 junior high school mathematics teachers in Taipei area completed the survey. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t test, ANOVA. The results showed that mathematics teachers have high-intermediate level in TPACK but TPK is lower than other aspects. Mathematics teacher's teaching beliefs incline to progressive approach, and the TPACK had middle and positive correlation with the teaching beliefs. Based on the study results, it was suggested that educational administration could hold more professional development activities to improve teachers' TPK and to encourage constructivist teaching.
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Genealogists are a ghoulish bunch. We talk about dead people all the time, we spend hours in cemeteries where we rarely know anyone buried there and we get absolutely silly about obituaries. If you find a printed obituary about one of your ancestors you may have hit pay dirt for information. One thing to remember about obituaries is that the person who gives the information out usually knew the deceased well and the data is pretty accurate. Mostly.
Looking for inspiration to make a hit one boring day, I called the library in the town where most of my father's family are buried. I found that the library had copies of all the old newspapers and the research librarian spent about two hours on the phone with me, finding all the obituaries she could based on death dates I gave her. I immediately sent off a check to cover copies, postage and a small donation for the library since they didn't charge for genealogy help. In a few weeks I received a large envelope full of goodies. I spent the better part of a day reading all the obituaries. It was just like Christmas. You know that feeling. You know you do.
A good example of serendipity is the obit I received for my Aunt Agnes (my father's older sister). My aunt Agnes was a character. She was one of the oldest of the eleven kids and my father being the youngest, she practically raised him. She drove an automobile before you had to have a license in this country, picked wild Muscadine grapes and made wine every year, held every office a woman could in the VFW auxiliary, USO and always won the best hat award at her Half Century Club meetings. Her and my Aunt Mabel went to funerals for people she didn't even know, and when one of my uncles died, she would stay at the funeral home all night long so they wouldn't be alone. And when the funeral was over, she would go back to the cemetery and spend hours just sitting and talking to her brother.
Even with all I thought I knew about her, the obituary gave up some great stuff. I learned that she was born in Baltimore, MD, and I always thought she was born in Petersburg, VA. I knew her grandfather was from Maryland but didn't know the city. On a hunch I started searching Baltimore and made a few connections. I also learned that she belonged to many more groups than I had thought.
Obituaries can reveal real treasure for the family historian. Read them carefully, they're solid gold.


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Demand spurs 12.5 million square feet of new retail construction and a department store renaissance
By bdeditor On Sep 25, 2013
Echoing a sentiment heard regularly at the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) annual Canadian Convention in Toronto earlier this month – that Canada has been one of the most sought after and dynamic retail markets in the world in recent years — CBRE Limited's 2013 Mid-Year Canadian Retail MarketView indicates that retailers continue to have long-term confidence in the Canadian retail market despite indications that consumers are spending more conservatively than in years past.
"Target's arrival in Canada was not the bookend to a dynamic period for the Canadian retail market. In fact, quite the opposite is true. The number of mergers and acquisitions that have been done in recent months combined with the inflow of major brands, underscores Canada's position as an active and highly sought after market," said Tom Balkos, senior vice president and a Canadian Director of CBRE Limited's Retailer Services Group.
"Never before in Canadian retail history has the department store segment been the subject of so much focus or been so heavily contested. Demand from European department stores, not just North American brands, will keep supply tight. Those looking to enter the market will do so in the form of smaller private label, store-in-store formats or by creating mall space with their own private brands and under their own banners. The next five to ten years will likely bring a renaissance of the department store in Canada, and the outcome will be reminiscent of the European/International shopping experience."
With Hudson Bay Company purchasing Saks Fifth Avenue and planning a Canadian rollout, Loblaws buying Shoppers Drug Mart, and Sobeys buying Safeway, sources of new demand for retail space and portfolio restructuring efforts are already evident.
"For smaller spaces, we continue to see a lot of activity across the country. Demand is strongest from retailers looking to enter Class A malls where available space is leased immediately and many high profile brands remain on waiting lists," remarked Balkos. "It has been difficult to satiate the demand. There are few regional malls in this country that are not undertaking or planning additions and renovations. New retail concepts, especially outlet malls and urban formats, are also performing well and are likely to be replicated across the country."
Retail construction activity increased in the first half of 2013, with 12.5 million square feet under construction nationally. Toronto represents approximately 50.5 per cent or 6.3 million square feet of space under construction, while Vancouver and Montreal have 2.5 million square feet and 1.3 million square feet under construction, respectively. All three markets have seen a marked increase in construction since 2012. Approximately 5.1 million square feet of new retail space will be completed across the country in the second half of 2013, the largest amount of new supply in a six-month period since 2009.
"While construction numbers are encouraging, data from the first half of the year shows that many Canadians are recalibrating their spending habits," said Ross Moore, Director of Research for CBRE in Canada.
Canadian shoppers bolstered the economy during a period of uneven economic growth over the last few years; however, retail sales were only up 1.8 per cent in the first half of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. This is a relatively mild increase and softer retail sales have been felt in malls where sales productivity grew a marginal 0.6 per cent on average in the first six months of the year. This is relatively unremarkable for a format that recorded a series of new record highs for sales productivity in recent years.
"There's no doubt that choppy macroeconomic data and fluctuations in the housing market have impacted retail spending, but demand from retailers has not wavered. Vacancy continues to average around 5.0 per cent overall in Canada compared to 12.3 per cent in the U.S., and construction activity indicates that landlords have long-term confidence in Canadian consumers," said Moore.
Investors are also exhibiting confidence in the market as the retail investment volume in the first half of 2013 reached $2.8 billion, just shy of the $3.0 billion record that was set in the first-half of 2011. Private Canadian investors were the dominant purchaser of retail properties in the first half of 2013, while pension funds increased their share of investment volume from 7.7 per cent in the first half of 2012 to 33.5 per cent in the first half of 2013. Notable pension fund activity included the 50.0 per cent stake CPPIB took in Upper Canada Mall for $251.5 million, as well as the OPB interest in the Primaris retail assets acquisition. REIT/REOCs accounted for 22.5 per cent of retail purchases in the first half, compared with 30.6 per cent in the same period a year ago.
"Toronto ranked 17th in the world in terms of its ability to attract foreign retailers in 2012 and continues to be high on the list of potential new locations for many retailers, especially those needing a launch pad from which they can establish stores in Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal," noted Balkos. "Zara Home opened its first North American store in Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre this past August, and additional stores have already been announced for Montreal and Ottawa. We expect that this year's ICSC Canadian Convention in Toronto will be a busy one."
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The executive who runs the Lakewood Ranch Cinemas sent an email apologizing to a Manatee County family for taking diabetic supplies from their 16-year-old son over the weekend.
"There is no excuse for the insensitivity shown to your son by our staff," Barbara Caras, executive director of the Sarasota Film Society, wrote in the email. "I accept full responsibility for their actions and offer my sincere apologies on their behalf."
The teen, Ryan Symens, said he was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and carries a leather backpack with him wherever he goes that contains his medical supplies. Symens said those supplies include a testing kit, needles, insulin an emergency injection called Glucagon, juice boxes and protein bars. The teen said a Lakewood Ranch Cinemas manager had a problem with the juice boxes and protein bars.
"He said that was not going to be acceptable and that I would not be allowed to bring the bag in with me," Symens said. "I continued to explain to him ... I'm diabetic and that this is extremely important for me being here and he just didn't really care."
Symens said the manager also pointed to a sign that states all food had to be purchased at the concession stand. The teen said the concession stand did not sell protein bars and the juice box was the wrong size, but he purchased one anyway.
"They did have juice boxes, but my juice boxes are a specific size because it has a total carb count in it," he said.
The teen's dad, Chad Symens, sent an email to Barbara Caras on Saturday complaining of the treatment his son received at the theater. On Monday, Caras responded to that complaint and wrote that "to say they (employees) were following instructions regarding our policy on food and beverage, although true, would not fit this particular criteria."
Caras also stated, "to prevent this from occurring again, the individuals have been spoken to and made aware of their mishandling of a very delicate situation.... As I have stated no malice was intended, however poor judgment was certainly used."
The teen's dad said he's not happy with that apology.
"So what we're looking for is for them to make a public apology to Ryan," Chad Symens said. "We're looking for them to change their policy that's written in their lobby so that it addresses the fact that medical supplies are necessary for diabetics. So they can stop discriminating against them."
The Sarasota Film Society forwarded that apology email to Bay News 9, but declined a request for an interview.
"Those are just words between a manager and her staff," Chad Symens said. "To make it clear for everybody who walks into that theater, I think it should be changed in writing because they referred specifically to the policy in writing when they were dealing with Ryan. So, if it's in writing there's no miscommunication."
"I was glad that they acknowledged the issue," Ryan said. "But I'm still not happy from the point that they told me their policy is not going to change."
Caras also wrote in the email that for two years the Sarasota Film Society has donated partial proceeds from a game room to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.


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The Beginning After The End
King Grey has unrivaled strength, wealth, and prestige in a world governed by martial ability. However, solitude lingers closely behind those with great power. Beneath the glamorous exterior of a powerful king lurks the shell of man, devoid of purpose and will.
Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World
Ryu Han-Bin was a normal person who just had been discharged from his mandatory military service, when he was transported to another world. Left to fend for himself, he was given the goal of surviving and growing stronger in a desolute world riddled with monsters. The problem is the 'Guideline' that was supposed to be his guiding system to survive is filled with errors.
Medical Return
Kim Jihyun, who lived his life as a disreputable surgeon, gains a second chance to relive his life. He then goes back to his middle school days, and live his life to the fullest unlike before, he studies nonstop. His goal is to become a dermatologist who make lots of money instead of the poor surgeon he was from previous life!
Dungeon Kurashi no Moto Yuusha Manga
After killing the Demon Lord, Blum Dilmond was pursued by the kingdom and forced to leave the country. While spending days trying to avoid the assassins aiming at his neck, he suddenly came up with an idea. He could hide inside the dungeon that was once the Demon Lord's hideout. If it's there, then he could be safe.
Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha summary:
After 2000 years has passed, the ruthless demon lord has just been reincarnated! But his aptitude at an academy for nurturing candidates for demon lords is, "inept"!?
Having the capability to destroy humans, elementals, and gods, after a long period of countless wars and strife, Arnos the demon lord became sick and tired of all that and longed for a peaceful world, so he decided to reincarnate to the future.
Isekai de Skill wo Kaitai shitara Cheat na Yome ga Zoushoku Shimashita: Gainen Kousa no Structure
Isekai de Skill wo Kaitai shitara Cheat na Yome ga Zoushoku Shimashita: Gainen Kousa no Structure summary:
When an entire bus of people are summoned to another world, Souma Nagi doesn't go along with the idea of being a Hero like the rest. Thus he leaves the palace and starts his life in another world with his ability to restructure skills. Based off the Light Novel by the same name.
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised.
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
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"Now that I'm back, I won't allow my loved ones to die again!"
The Shadow Labyrinth - the most catastrophic existence humanity has faced in history.
Desir Arman is one of the six remaining survivors of mankind within it.
The six attempt to clear the final level of the labyrinth but ultimately fail, and the world comes to an end.
However - when Desir thought he would meet his demise, what is revealed before him is the world... thirteen years ago?!
Chainsaw Man Manga
Broke young man + chainsaw dog demon = Chainsaw Man!
The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita! Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter. But he's got a lot to learn about his new job and chainsaw powers!
Peerless Dad
Peerless Dad summary:
Its an amazing story about one martial arts journey through marriage, fatherhood, and battles.
After overcoming the threat of Acnologia and Zeref, Fairy Tail has become stronger and more energetic! The 100 year quest which Natsu and company left for, and also to the members who had remained at the guild, something new is going to happen!? Although the story was supposed to have concluded, a new adventure now begins!


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Health assessment pinpoints Kents needs
| By Paul R. Kopenkoskey |
Inside Track: Aquinas president sees the need for change in education
Report paints bleak economic picture for Kent's families
Equal access to quality, affordable health care in Kent County is a laudable goal that's still out of reach for too many of its residents, according to a recently released Kent County Community Health Needs Assessment. The level of a person's education, their ethnicity and a dearth of medical providers who serve Medicaid patients are leading reasons for a chronic health care gap.
As a result of the study, which was conducted last year and required a coalition of service agencies, community hospitals, mental health providers, community aid foundations and the Kent County Health Department to work in tandem to craft a long-term systemic strategy, the CHNA has arrived at some lofty goals. They include tackling chronic diseases, promoting healthier lifestyles, reducing health disparities and getting a tighter rein on health care spending.
Input was culled from a racially and ethnically diverse group of individuals from throughout Kent County who possessed a broad range of life experiences and economic backgrounds. The study involved more than 80 partners and 12 focus groups with nearly 120 participants and 395 interviews, all of which transpired over several months last year.
Access to health care was residents' most salient concern during focus groups and intercept interviews. The reasons for the dearth of health care include: an inability to afford preventive health care; primarily using emergency rooms to address deteriorating health; an inability to access dental and mental health providers; lack of availability of low-cost and free health providers; and lack of providers who serve patients who are insured through Medicaid.
Dr. Erin Inman, director of Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, said she does not believe the CHNA will languish on a shelf, as is sometimes the case with well-intentioned studies.
The next step will be to develop and implement new programs and services to meet residents' needs, and to take another needs assessment in three years to determine if it has paved the way for improvements, Inman said.
"I've been in health care for 17 years and this feels different because of the number of individuals we have at the table who have the same goals, and because we have tangible data and because we have narrowed our priorities into pieces that we can tackle, that we can address," said Inman. "I also believe, because this works hand in hand with other projects going on that will provide dollars to build a plan, that will also help address these same areas."
The "other projects" Inman refers to includes a $1 million Community Transformation Implementation Plan grant awarded to Kent County by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The grant is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Community Transformation Grants to support public health efforts to reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles, reduce health disparities and control health care spending. The three-year grant requires multiple organizations to work together to create a strategic approach to reduce three health measures by 5 percent: death and disability due to tobacco use; death and disability due to heart disease and stroke; and obesity rates.
The CHNA charted more than 40 health-related issues that residents indicated they wanted addressed. Of that number, the steering committee narrowed the list to five strategic priorities intended to build a stronger bridge between residents' access to health care:
**Increase the proportion of community members, including the uninsured and working poor, who have access to affordable health care.
**Increase the number of providers available that accept Medicaid or offer low-cost/free services.
**Reduce disparities that block adequate prenatal care.
**Increase healthy eating by ensuring access to healthy foods.
**Reduce the disparity in health risk factors and protective factors between students.
One reason data was collected for the CHNA is because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 require tax-exempt hospitals to meet new requirements to maintain their tax-exempt status under IRC Section 501(c)(3). Tax-exempt hospitals and nonprofit organizations must conduct a community health needs assessment once every three years and adopt an implementation strategy to meet the community health needs identified in the assessment.
Although she wishes more time was devoted to culling data, Deanna Demory, Heart of West Michigan United Way's director of community impact and health strategies, said the CHNA carries sufficient credibility to serve as a road map for revamping her nonprofit's focus on its methods of funding, education and the health of those it serves.
"I call it the golden egg for United Way," Demory said. "We are looking at revamping how we fund and what we focus on. What we will do with this information is take it and use it and figure out where we need to put our strategic energy. We divided that up into three areas: education, income and health and in order to do that, we need a community health needs assessment. It's nice that we don't have to do it by ourselves because the rest of community is involved."
The CHNA coalition gathered data by forming two workgroups that collected population and community input data that spoke to community health access groups. Among the population data workgroup's responsibilities was to review existing local, state and national secondary data sources to compile a comprehensive overview of the health status across populations within Kent County.
The community input workgroup gathered information from the community whose voice and health status may not be represented through local, state and national data sources. This involved setting up "community input walls" in large public venues so feedback from the public could be culled. Intercept interviews were conducted with vulnerable populations, and focus groups were used to gather feedback from diverse and hard-to-reach populations within Grand Rapids and Kent County.
Here is what these two workgroups discovered:
13.6 percent of adults had no health care access during the past 12 months. However, the proportion increased for adults with less than a high school education (45.3 percent) and those lacking health insurance (54.9).
10.7 percent of adults in Kent County report that they have no health care coverage. These numbers increased to 16.9 percent for African-Americans, 19.7 percent for adults with only a high school education and 23.6 percent for adults with less than a high school education.
Only 52.4 percent of youth who receive grades of D/F in school had received a check-up in the past 12 months.
25.8 percent of adults in Kent County had not seen a dentist in the previous 12 months, and this proportion increased to 47.9 percent for adults lacking health insurance.
The current supply of dentists to serve low-income patients is about 55 percent of what is needed in Grand Rapids and only 29 percent of what is needed countywide.
Those who are white are more likely to receive adequate prenatal care in Kent County than if a person is Arab, black or Hispanic/Latino:
White: 78 percent said their prenatal care was adequate while 9.6 percent said it wasn't.
Arab: 69.1 percent said their prenatal care was adequate while 17.5 percent said it wasn't.
Black: 67.1 percent said their prenatal care was adequate while 19.8 percent said it wasn't.
Hispanic: 67.2 percent said their prenatal care was adequate while 17.9 percent said it wasn't.
Moreover, the Kent County Fetal Infant Mortality Review found that African-American babies are significantly more likely to die before their first birthday than any other race. Further, African-American and Hispanic mothers were more likely to receive Medicaid, have had late entry into or no prenatal care, and experience distrust, fear or dissatisfaction with their health care.
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Campus Ministry Event Addresses Islamophobia
Josh Merchant, Investigative Editor|February 8, 2017
ELISE WANG • THE SPECTATOR
Following President Donald Trump's executive order, which restricted travel to and from seven Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, Campus Ministry, in collaboration with the Office of Multicultural Affairs, hosted an event called "Bias and Hate Crime in the Current Political Climate." The event featured a selection of speakers both from campus and the surrounding community.
Students attempt to challenge personal biases.
"We felt like it was important to address that this is an issue that is happening, even in our community in Seattle," said Multi-Faith Campus Minister Amina Ibrahim. "And that here are the tools for students that are experiencing it, and here are the ways that we can prevent it from going further than what it is now."
Ibrahim opened the event by discussing the rapid progression of Islamophobia since Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. She said that they started planning the event a few weeks ago and wanted to address the issues of hate crimes and biases in the country, especially toward Muslim Americans.
"Hate crimes have increased tremendously in the last few months, even in our so-called progressive, liberal city—they happen here too."
Ibrahim said the in the last few weeks in particular, the rhetoric surround immigration and Muslim Americans has worsened.
A student sticks a personal bias to a communal wall.
"What are you, as an individual, doing to help marginalized groups? What is your responsibility as a person?" she asked the crowd at the event. "Tonight, we must ask each other and ourselves these uncomfortable and difficult questions, because it is unacceptable for us to be comfortable during our current political climate."
This event featured Dale Watanabe, assistant director at the International Student Center, Arsalan Bukhari, executive director at the Center for American-Islamic Relations in Washington, and a hate crime survivor from the University of Washington.
Watanabe spoke about Japanese internment during World War II, or as many are beginning to refer to it, "Japanese incarceration."
"Internment refers to legally permissible detention of enemy aliens in a time of war," he said. "Those that were detained were American citizens."
Watanabe spoke about the gradual escalation to incarceration during World War II, drawing connections to modern-day attitudes toward Muslims.
"Now's the time for all of us to be silent no more," he said. "Many of us were silent, back in 1942, when they came for my grandparents and family. But I hope, in the people of 2017, that we will not repeat the same tragic mistake we did in 1942."
Bukhari spoke about bystander prevention, as well as how to make a difference as an individual in this presidency. He emphasized that individual citizens have a great amount of power to create change.
"You have the power to educate millions of people and to change the minds of hundreds of thousands of people," Bukhari said. "You all have a cell phone, right? So, I know all of us, when we hear something cool, when we learn about something, we post on Facebook for our friends, our 'bubble' to hear about, right? So the easy way to educate millions of people, is to simply write the same thing, but email it to [email protected]"
When the hate crime survivor spoke, she provided evidence to the fact that Islamophobia is real, even in Seattle and on university campuses.
"It was after five o'clock and I was leaving my classroom, and I was walking down the staircase," she said. "I was struck by a man with a glass bottle. He hit me right on the face, on the right side. Didn't say nothing, didn't do anything, he just hit me, started laughing and walked away."
This student was at a loss for why someone would attack her.
"Was it because I'm a Muslim? Was it because I was wearing a hijab?" she said through tears. "I told [the police] that I didn't really know what his reason was for attacking me like that. And that's not right. No one should ever have to be treated like this."
Attendees write down their biases on Post-it notes.
As for how to prevent hate crimes in the future, this survivor called for education and activism.
"We need everyone to start spreading awareness, and we need government officials to start speaking up," she said. "Without their power, it's not gonna get any better."
Ibrahim echoed these calls to action.
"Be aware," she said. "Be aware that people are going through some very real experiences and fears. The survivor that spoke, that happened to her a week and a half after the election, on a college campus, where no one spoke out against it. Things are happening, and you can't just ignore it."
Ibrahim concluded, "This is no time for complacency."


Last week I had a dream in which my brakes failed.
Let me start by saying, my brakes are fine. Someone who also drove my car in the past ten days reported that the brakes were so good we might stop harder than desired because the brakes back home took more effort. And I've had a car (a Toyota purchased for $900) with brakes that needed to be replaced, so I've lived with that problem, and I'm sure the brakes on my Volvo are fine.
Therefore, I moved immediately to the symbolic.
Without telling you any more about the dream, I will say I felt among other possibilities it could be applied to my (I know, I know, it's as-yet-unspecified) Lenten Discipline.
And always willing to explore a metaphor, I Googled "what to do when brakes fail." This turned up an incredibly helpful list on the Auto version of WikiHow.
First of all, the title of the article is "How to Stop a Car with No Brakes." Somehow that has a different nuance for me than "brake failure," which was the phrase in my mind after the dream. The car had brakes, but they didn't work for some reason. That's different than no brakes at all, but no brakes at all seems to be more like the way it feels when I engage in the habit of mind from which I am trying to fast this Lent.
It had eleven recommendations, almost all worth exploring, but let's start with just the first two.
1. Don't panic! Overreacting to this situation will only make it more dangerous.
This made me laugh. How would you not panic when your brakes don't work? But it works as a suggestion when I pair it with the second.
2. Take your foot off the gas and turn off cruise control (if on). Cruise control systems should turn off as soon as you touch the brake or clutch, but to be safe, make sure it's switched off.
Here's a reminder of a car I admired when I was a little girl.
The Flintstones powered their car with their feet. It didn't need brakes. All they had to do was pick their feet up and stop.
or the FLintstones dragged their feet to bring things to a stop (I always wondered how Fred didn't hurt his feet with that maneuver. Sometimes we need an anchor to slow us down.
🙂 Ahhh. Thank you. Just back from a prof dev session on "dealing with difficult students" which was presented by a university police officer and really had a lot more references to "shooter incidents" than I was happy about. Decelerate, decelerate.
Thanks for your reflections. Failing brakes (ha! I originally typed "bakes"–entirely different). Anyway, ahem. Failing bRakes is one of my most frequent nightmares. The other? not being able to see (hello, nearsighted astigmatism). The worst? put those two together.
esperanza, that would be very scary! Ack!


I've noticed something about my motivation structure. This might be contingent on my level of stimulation, not universal. But, positive reinforcement doesn't function well for me as a reward. Negative reinforcement is awesome. I don't like it when some system does "nice" things that attract my attention for doing the thing, except on fairly short focused timespans. I love it if I can make something annoying go away by doing the thing.
I've tried habit-building apps like Epic Win and Fitocracy (HabitRPG seems to be the new popular one), which give you points each time you log progress, let you "level up" after a certain number of points, and sometimes have cute sounds or animations to make it feel more like a reward. But I hate logging things, and the apps make me hate it even more because they cost time and attention. Fitocracy made me hate taking the stairs for a while. Trying to reward myself for doing to-dos, checking email, and so on, has the same problem – so far, I've ended up more annoyed by the attentional cost of any reward system than pleased by the reward.
"You can't kill me," growled Bruce. He had been stupid enough to allow himself to be captured – and he would have to resort to desperate measures to avert permanent failure.
Dr. John Kinyago had first noticed the problem when one of his research assistants had spilled her coffee on a test subject. After recovering from the unpleasant surprise, the subject had looked at her with clear suspicion. "I'm sorry, it was an accident!", the research assistant said, truly but unconvincingly.


On a chilly, grey, midwinter morning at Waterperry Gardens the international nurserywoman, Derry Watkins, sparkled with fabulous tales of her expansive planting hunting travels. Her seemingly limitless knowledge of plants and their varieties would surely quell even the most addicted plantaholic. Her nursery, Special Plants, in Somerset is a joy to visit – so many amazing varieties of plants and seeds on offer and also wonderful gardens and views. Derry teaches quite regularly, including free "Tuesday" talks at her nursery. Bounding with energy, wit and erudition she's West End quality and a show not to be missed.


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Ex-Lehman Banker Parlays Bonuses Into Cycling Berth at Olympics | Evelyn Stevens
Evelyn Stevens bought her first racing bicycle while working as a fund manager in 2008. Nervous of New York's traffic, she left it in her Manhattan apartment and hung bags on its aluminum frame.
Yesterday, she raced at the London Olympics.
It was the latest notch in the cycling career of 29-year- old Stevens, who in 2009 quit her Wall Street job helping to manage a $480 million fund at Gleacher Mezzanine to try and become a professional rider.
The 5-foot-5 (1.7-meter) Stevens said she's using savings from banking bonuses to "cushion" the blow of lower earnings. She began her career as an investment-banking analyst at Lehman Brothers Inc., leaving in 2007 before the bank collapsed.
"I was able to save a lot of my bonuses," Stevens said. "I don't have to survive on a $10,000 or $8,000 purse from cycling. If I hadn't been in investment banking, I wouldn't have been able to be at the Olympics."
She was 24th in yesterday's Olympic women's road race, finishing among a group including teammate Shelley Olds that was 27 seconds behind gold-medal winner Marianne Voss of the Netherlands. There were 66 riders at the start.
Kristin Armstrong, the U.S.'s defending time-trial gold medalist, crashed about halfway through the 87-mile race in driving rain and finished about 20 seconds further back just ahead of the other American, Amber Neben.
Stevens said it took her about 10 miles of riding to get accustomed to the thousands of spectators lining the route.
SURREAL EXPERIENCE
"It was surreal, I was kind of staring at everything that was going on," Stevens said, a rain coat draped around her shoulders at the finish line. "It was literally one of the most incredible experiences of my life."
Stevens's other cycling marks include a stage win in the women's Giro d'Italia, victory at Belgium's Fleche Wallonne and two U.S. national time-trial titles. In her third year as a professional, she said she is still learning her new trade on a team sponsored by Morgan Hill, California-based Specialized Bicycle Components Inc.
While there's a "big discrepancy" from what she once earned, Stevens said her quality of life has improved. After leaving behind a 90-hour working week in banking, she lives in Girona, Spain during the European racing season and Boulder, Colorado.
EVERYONE STRESSED
"In New York there's pressure, and it's kind of negative, everyone was stressed," Stevens, dressed in U.S. team tracksuit and lycra three-quarter length pants at the London Olympic Park, said July 27. "I don't get so much money now but my quality of living has gone up."
Back in 2008, Stevens, who had played on the Dartmouth College tennis team, said she was nervous about taking her first $1,000 aluminum Cannondale Corp. bike out for a ride in New York traffic for the first time.
"I was very uncertain about how to ride it," Stevens said. "I was so nervous of traffic. Then finally I started taking it up the West Side Highway and I would ride it all the way up to the 96th street and cut across."
She said she built up confidence after a class at the Century Road Club Association at 5 a.m. with 50 other women including actors, lawyers and teachers in Central Park. She soon started to win interstate races.
LEHMAN DEAL
Stevens would cycle on a home trainer after work from 9 p.m. until midnight to prepare for the weekend events, Phil Krall, a former colleague at Gleacher, said.
"On Monday mornings at work, I would ask her how she did," Krall said by telephone. "She would always say 'Oh, I won.'"
Gleacher, which specializes in buying debt in leveraged buyouts, has since been renamed Arrowhead Mezzanine LLC and relocated to Greenwich, Connecticut, said Krall, who is senior managing director.
Stevens worked on deals including Lehman's 2008 acquisition of a stake in bicycle component maker Sram International Corp. (SRAM), Krall said. Her next assignment is a nine-day stage race in France in August
"In investment banking when you've finished a deal, you get a gift for what you've done," Stevens said. "But there's nothing in the world that comes close to winning a race, it's the best feeling in the world."
To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Duff at the London Olympic Park at aduff4@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Elser at at celser@bloomberg.net
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Lo sceicco Abū l-Fiṭyān Aḥmad al-Badawī (o, per rispetto, al-Sayyid al-Badawī), è stato un musulmano che fondò la ṭarīqa sufi detta Ahmadiyya Badawiyya.

Di famiglia che poteva tracciare la sua ascendenza fino ad ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib - quarto califfo "ortodosso" e primo Imam per gli sciiti - il sunnita sciafeita maghrebino Aḥmad al-Badawī nacque a Fès (attuale Marocco) nel 596 dell'Egira, corrispondente al 1199 d.C. e morì a Ṭanṭā (Egitto) nel 675 Egira, corrispondente al 1276.

Quando aveva sette anni, la sua famiglia si spostò alla Mecca, dove giunse al termine di un viaggio durato quattro annie dove più tardi suo padre ʿAlī.

Nel 1236, poco dopo i suoi 35 anni, decise di ritirarsi dalla mondanità, dedicandosi a pratiche devozionali ascetiche, dopo aver studiato a fondo il Corano con tutte le sue possibili e ortodosse "letture" (qirāʾāt), e di recarsi in Iraq (dove si trasferì col fratello al-Ḥasan), ubbidendo ad alcune indicazioni rabbanī (suggestioni di provenienza divina) che gli avevano ingiunto di compiere un simile passo.
Dall'Iraq il fratello tornò poi alla Mecca, mentre Aḥmad si spostò a Ṭanṭa, dove la sua fama di sant'uomo cominciò ad attirare persone. Tra esse si può ricordare anche il Sultano mamelucco bahri Baybars, che si dice gli abbia baciato i piedi in segno di somma considerazione per i suoi altissimi meriti spirituali.

I suoi seguaci affermano che egli avesse compiuto un gran numero di miracoli (karāmāt) mentre senz'altro certificabili sono alcune preghiere da lui composte e di un ḥizb particolarmente apprezzato.

La sua confraternita è particolarmente popolare in Egitto, malgrado in periodo ottomano dovesse sopportare la non esplicita ostilità degli ordini religiosi più legati alla tradizione turca. Qui egli viene annualmente ricordato in aprile nel cosiddetto mawlid al-rajabī e in ottobre nel suo vero e proprio mawlid (il più popolare in assoluto dell'Egitto, paese che celebra non meno di 60 mawlid), che nel corso di una settimana vede la partecipazione di circa 2 milioni di aderenti e simpatizzanti della tarīqa, che si caratterizzano per il turbante di color rosso orgogliosamente indossato.

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Bibliografia
ʿAbd al-Samad al-Miṣrī, al-Jawāhir al-saniyya fī l-karāmāt wa-l-nisba al-Aḥmadiyya, Cairo 1277/1860–1.
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Sulamī, Ṭabaqāt al-ṣūfiyya, (a cura di J. Pedersen), Leida, 1960, ed. Nūr al-Dīn Sharībā, Cairo, 1372/1953.
al-Imām Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī al-Aḥmadī, Sīrat al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī, al-Maktaba al-Azhariyya li-l-turāth, Il Cairo.
Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine, Al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi: un grand saint de l'islam égyptien, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire (IFAO), 1994.

Voci correlate
Ahmadiyya Badawiyya

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The SAC-C, CHAMP (since 2001), GRACE, and COSMIC satellites (since 2002 and 2006, respectively) provide atmospheric parameters retrieved during RO events such as temperature, pressure, water vapor, and geopotential height. The obtained profiles have vertical resolutions ranging from 0.5 km in the troposphere up to 1.4 km in the stratosphere (Kursinski et al. 1997) (nevertheless, the data are usually interpolated every 200 m) and horizontal resolution of 150 km along each LOS.
have a predominant and nearly coincident North-South direction (de la Torre et al. 2006a).
is more adequate to use the T rather than refractivity, as its variations in the lower and middle atmosphere remain within the same order of magnitude.
Monthly global observations of WA between 2001 and 2006 reported in de la Torre et al. (2006b) revealed, in addition to general and specific features of energy distribution in the middle atmosphere (Fig. 1), the existence of singular extratropical locations with anomalously strong signatures. From each monthly tomographic latitude-longitude plot (not shown here), we selected two months that show intense WA in the region considered, during August and November 2001. A detailed insight among all the occultations registered in those periods, evidenced the influence in the mean of two intense events: August 30, 2001, 04:10 UTC and November 20, 2001, 03:58 UTC; hereinafter S1 and S2, respectively. In the following, we concentrate on the description of these events.
De la Torre et al. (2006b) performed an analysis of global distribution of WA in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere between June 2001 and March 2006, using GPS-RO T profiles retrieved from the CHAMP satellite. A significant WA with respect to the remaining extra-equatorial regions in the Southern Hemisphere was detected in Mendoza, at the eastern side of the highest Andes Mountains (70° W to 65°W and 30°S to 40°S).
As it was pointed out by the authors, this region constitutes a natural laboratory where the known sources of GWs coexist: (i) Between October and March, frequent severe deep convection processes and intense hail storms take place. Waves throughout the full range of phase speeds, intrinsic frequencies, vertical and horizontal scales are generated. (ii) The Andes mountains represent a very important obstacle to the intense westerlies blowing from the Pacific Ocean, generating large amplitude GWs. This North-South barrier (tops around 7 km) generates mountain waves (MWs), whose phase surfaces are aligned nearly parallel to the mountains. The presence of an intense tropospheric jet allows for GWs propagation in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, because possible critical level filtering is avoided. (iii) This jet is observed above the highest orographic tops and its space and time variability may affect the geostrophic balance (de la Torre and Alexander 2005). As a consequence, possible generation of inertia gravity waves (IGWs) by geostrophic adjustment near the permanent jet is expected. This process may take place when the timescale of the wind evolution becomes comparable or shorter than the inertial period (around 1 day at 30°S). This perturbed flow, relaxes then to a new balanced state with redistribution of momentum, energy, and potential vorticity, with an additional radiation of excess energy as IGWs. In fact, downward/upward phase propagations above/below jets have been reported (Hirota and Niki 1985), in spite of the ignorance of the dynamical mechanism of wave emission (Plougonven et al. 2003).
Mesoscale models can simulate realistic GW distributions in the troposphere and stratosphere and have been recently a major tool to study wave generation and propagation mechanisms (Zhang 2004). Mesoscale models can reveal detailed wave structures, energy sources, and maintenance mechanisms that are difficult to measure by satellite sensors. However, modeled GW properties and effects require observational verifications that are rarely available (Wu and Zhang 2004).
Fig. 2 Topography at the highest resolution domain for both simulations S1 and S2 and their corresponding horizontal projections of LTP and LOS. Observe that LTP corresponding to S1 is situated almost over the highest Andes Mountain, whereas for S2 it is situated approximately 200 km East of a lower part of the mountain range situated over the mountains, whereas S2 is situated, on average, at 200 km East of the mountains, over a plateau region. Note that in both cases, the respective LOSs (and LTPs) are close to parallel.
Typical westerlies are seen at and above 700 hPa during both events. An intense jet core with zonal speed greater than 50 m/s is seen in both simulations at 250 hPa. Figure 3 shows the jet core intensity variation for both events. It can be seen that the zonal wind speed, U, varies approximately 30% in a period shorter than the iner-tial (24 h) in both events. Probable IGWs radiated by geostrophic adjustment must then be considered here. It may be noted that the largest wind variation occurs just over the mountains. MWs generated at the Andes Range transfer energy upwards, decelerating the mean flow and possibly altering the geostrophic equilibrium.
Fig. 4 a-b: U and SU vertical and zonal variability, at constant latitude, for S1. Note the wave constant phase surfaces due to the orographic forcing. (c) 3D view of the jet core (speed > 50 m/s). The Andes Range generates MWs and decelerates the mean flow, possibly altering the geostrophic balance in the radiation of the atmosphere during the restitution of geostrophic equilibrium after the departure induced by the MW.
Figure 5 shows 8 W and SU at 300 hPa at the closest simulation time step output to each event. A stationary wave pattern with horizontal Xh > 50 km along LOS, both during S1 and S2 are found in 8W and SU. The mesoscale waves coincide with the highest orographic tops, as well as constant phase surfaces quite parallel to topography, suggesting their topographic origin. Note that in these cases, due to the relative oblique orientation of LOS and constant wave phases, in spite of the short horizontal wavelengths revealed during the simulations, it may be possible for the RO technique to resolve MWs with horizontal wavelengths shorter than its horizontal resolution.
Fig. 5 SW and SU at 300 hPa at the closest simulation time step output to (a) S1 and (b) S2. A stationary wave pattern with Xh > 50 km along LOS, during the events are found in both variables with height, proportionally to the inverse square root of the exponentially decreasing air density. To identify internal waves in the atmosphere, it is necessary to know how the velocity components vary in space and time. Taking into account the Earth rotation effects, linear wave theory predicts an elliptic polarization relation between zonal and meridional velocity perturbation components. This means that the velocity vector rotates anticyclonically (counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere) with time and hence also in space, as one moves in a direction opposite to the phase velocity (e.g., Gill 1982). Rotation effects are important in waves with horizontal scales greater than 100 km and they have no effect on shorter waves, which linear wave theory predicts a lineal polarization relation between SU and 8 V.
sense of rotation must be different above and below it. In order to identify the main source of GWs we studied the sense of rotation of the perturbation velocity vectors (SU, S V) at different pressure levels, above and below the jet, along different paths: (i) at constant latitudes and (ii) parallel to the LOS. We applied two different methods to identify the principal modes of oscillation in both velocity components: (1) a non recursive bandpass filter and (2) a CWT wavelet transform. The CWT coefficient corresponding to a certain wavelength can be interpreted as a bandpass filter for this wavelength. From both filtering methods we observe the velocity vector for modes with wavelengths greater than 100 km rotating in the same sense above and below the jet along all paths. From these results, we conclude that IGWs do not stem from geostrophic adjustment and the major source must be topographic forcing.
partial penetration of LOSs into the high wave amplitude atmospheric region. Taking into account these two examples, in addition to the systematic GPS-RO uncertainties mentioned above, it appears that GPS-RO T data alone are not enough to quantify and locate accurately WA during single events. At most, they would provide a useful qualitative indication. This should be complemented with independent observations or with mesoscale simulations. On the other hand, it seems reasonable to draw statistical conclusions from the global WA distribution derived from GPS-RO measurements alone.
A previous global analysis of wave potential energy using GPS-RO Tprofiles in the period 2001-2006 revealed a considerable intense WA in the Mendoza (Argentina) region, in comparison with other non-equatorial areas. After examining WRF and MM5 results for two selected cases in the vicinity of the RO LTPs, we found intense activity only near to the mountains. A wavelet analysis led us to identify principal modes with two main horizontal wavelengths, clearly corresponding to mountain waves. A hodograph analysis performed from the bandpassed results and from the wavelet coefficients evidences that IGWs do not stem from geostrophic adjustment at jet levels, but the source seems to be the topographic forcing. One of the simulations does not show intense WA in the vicinity of the tangent points, even though that the GPS-RO T profile detects it. The GPS-RO technique is not by itself reliable enough to quantify and locate accurately WA of single events, but it may be considered as a useful tool to measure the global distribution of WA.
Acknowledgements Manuscript prepared under grants UBA X021 and CONICET PIP 5932. A. de la Torre and P. Alexander are members and P. Llamedo holds a fellowship of CONICET. The GFZ contribution was partially funded through DFG project GW-CODE (WI 2634/2-1), DFG priority program CAWSES SPP 1176. We acknowledge data provided by the NOAA-CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder (CO), from their website http://www.cdc.noaa.gov and GFZ Potsdam and JPL for making available CHAMP and SAC-C GPS RO data for our study.
Zhang F (2004) Generation of mesoscale gravity waves in upper-tropospheric jet-front systems.
Abstact Comparative analysis of phase and amplitude variations of GPS radio-holograms allows one to separate the influence of the layered and irregular structures. A possibility exists to measure important parameters of internal waves: the intrinsic phase speed, the horizontal wind perturbations, and, under some assumptions, the intrinsic frequency as function of height in the atmosphere. A new technique was applied to measurements provided during CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and the Formosa Satellite-3/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) radio occultation (RO) missions. As an example of this approach, we establish the atmospheric origin of amplitude and phase variations in the RO signal at altitudes 10-26 km. We observed for the first time in the RO practice examples of internal wave breaking at altitudes between 38 km and 45 km. We obtained geographical distributions and seasonal dependence of atmospheric wave activity with global coverage within the years 2001-2003.
Atmospheric gravity waves (GW) have been a subject of intense research activities in recent years because of their various effects and their major contributions to atmospheric circulation, structure, and variability (Fritts and Alexander 2003). Radiosonde and rocketsonde GW measurements, balloon soundings, radar observations, and lidar studies have been limited to ground-based sites (Fritts et al. 1988; Wilson et al. 1991; Eckermann et al. 1995; Steiner and Kirchengast 2000; Tsuda et al. 2004; Wang et al. 2005) mainly over specific land parts of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The radio occultation technology incorporates high-precision GPS radio signals at two frequencies (f1 = 1575.42 MHz and f2 = 1227.6 MHz) for the investigation of internal waves. It allows the analysis of phase and amplitude of radio waves after propagating through the atmosphere. Analysis of temperature variations found from RO phase data furnishes an opportunity to measure the GW's statistical characteristics in the atmosphere (Steiner and Kirchengast 2000; Tsuda et al. 2000; Tsuda and Hocke 2002; Tsuda et al. 2004). Of particular importance are new ways to investigate locations of the layered plasma structures in the ionosphere. Radio-holographic methods for the analysis of RO signals have the potential and capability for the research and simultaneous observation of atmospheric and ionospheric waves (Igarashi et al. 2000, 2001; Pavelyev et al. 2002, 2003, 2004; Liou et al. 2002, 2003, 2006). However, up to now the assumption of global spherical symmetry of the atmosphere and ionosphere is a cornerstone in the analysis of GPS RO measurements (Hajj et al. 2002; Wickert et al. 2004).
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new technique for estimating parameters of internal waves, to demonstrate the examples of direct observation and location of quasi-regular internal waves, and to analyze seasonal and geographical distributions of internal wave activity at different levels in the atmosphere using amplitude and phase variations in GPS occultation signals.
equal to r0. The geographical coordinates of the ray perigee can be evaluated by use of orbital data of the GPS and LEO satellites. Analysis of RO data delivers the vertical profile of refractivity N(h) in the atmosphere and then vertical profiles of pressure p(h) and temperature T(h).
The projection of the point T on the Earth's surface determines the geographical coordinates of the RO region. The vertical velocity of the occultation beam path v± is about of 2 km/s. This value of v± is many times greater than those corresponding to the motion of layers in the atmosphere and ionosphere. Thus the RO radio-holograms record practically simultaneously the impact of the internal waves on the RO signal because the vertical displacement of a wave structure is negligible during the movement of the beam across it. However, the horizontal gradients in the atmosphere and ionosphere can disturb the spherical symmetry of the atmosphere and ionosphere (Wickert et al. 2004). Actually a local spherical symmetry can exist for inclined layered structures in the propagation medium. In the case of local spherical symmetry one can use the same relationships, which have been previously obtained for the case of global spherical symmetry (Pavelyev et al. 2002, 2004) with a change of the designation of the impact parameter from p to p' (Fig. 1). For simplicity we will not use the primes on p and O below.


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'Humans' First-Look Photo: AMC Series
At its TCA presentation, AMC released a first image from the upcoming sci-fi drama series Humans. AMC stepped in as U.S. partner for Kudos/Channel 4's eight-episode series when original U.S. outlet, Xbox Entertainment Studios started shutting down operations. An adaptation of Swedish series Real Humans, Humans is set in a parallel present, where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' – a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences. Pictured is co-star Gemma Chan as 'Synth' Anita. Also starring are William Hurt, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Colin Morgan, Rebecca Front andNeil Maskell.


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SIU welcomes top students for scholarship interviews Feb. 1 and 2
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- More than 320 high-achieving students and their family members will be at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Friday and Saturday for the Chancellor's and University Excellence Scholarship Interview Weekend.
Students will interview for the university's top scholarships, tour campus, visit colleges, and learn about the University Honors program, student life and more. About 60 of the students will stay overnight in campus residence halls.
"I'm looking forward to this weekend as an opportunity to show the nation's best and brightest students and their families what makes our university special," Interim Chancellor John M. Dunn said. "They will learn firsthand about our quality academic programs and committed faculty and staff. They also will have the chance to see what makes our region special and why their decision to become a Saluki will be a positive, life changing experience."
More than 800 visitors from 18 states
The students and families, together totaling more than 800 visitors to Carbondale and the campus, are coming from 18 states. All of the students are already admitted to the university.
Nearly 360 students invited
Students unable to attend the weekend event interviewed for scholarships on an alternate date. Overall, 360 students were invited to the interview weekend based on their ACT scores, academic credentials and high school activities.
SIU will award 25 Chancellor's Scholarships, which cover tuition, fees and room and board for four years, and a larger number of University Excellence Scholarships, which is a $9,500 award per year for four years.
On March 25, the university will host at least 50 students who will be interviewing for a Provost Scholarship. SIU will award five Provost Scholarships, which covers tuition and fees for two years for transfer students and a larger number of Transfer Achievement Scholarships, which are valued at $8,000 a year for two years.


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Q: Running into some problems linking my CSS So I've got down my basic html framework down and some basic CSS to make it look centered and adjust the background color, but I've tried a couple different adjustments and none seem to work properly when linking my CSS.
I've attempted to adjust the path to my CSS, tried to change the encoding between utf-8 and a few other random Windows 'save as' ones, and tried adjusting spacing:

    <!doctype html>

      <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/Computer/C:/Users/JohnDoe/Downloads/Test.css>

And in the .css file:
body {
   text-align: center;
   background: powderblue;
}

Whenever I run my program it just comes out looking like a normal black and white page that is off centered.

A: So it would probably be good to read up on building a website. But in the meantime, here are some things you need to fix:

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*link elements go in the

*link href should be an absolute server link (starting with https://...) or a relative path

*quote attribute values

*remove stray css at the end of the doc and put in css file

Relative path means it's the path relative to the file being served (for example, "index.html"). So if your index.html file is in /Computer/C:/Users/JohnDoe and your css file is in /Computer/C:/Users/JohnDoe/css/ then the relative file path is css/Test.css
Example
<!doctype html>

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/Test.css">

This text appears in the browser

A: You got a few things going on here:

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*First, for externally linked style sheets, the link goes in the ... tags, rather than the  tags.

Here's a quick reference:
https://www.dummies.com/web-design-development/html5-and-css3/how-to-use-an-external-style-sheet-for-html5-and-css3-programming/
Note the quote:

The <link> tag only occurs in the header. Unlike the  tag, the <link> tag can occur only in the header.

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*you're asking to link to an external style sheet, but also including some inline CSS (the body stuff you have a t the bottom. Also note that when including inline CSS you need to wrap it in

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if only cleaning the car was that easy. . .
I need one for my intake manifold to intecooler piping so I can cut it up and do the DV relocation on that side of the engine.
like a silicone replacement for the stock hose?
or just a straight 2.5" hose?
a silicone replacement. If I'm not mistake the stock is 2.25 right so I would go for a 2.5" one.
Evil isn't even a MOD anymore..
Like the silicone replacement that samco sells.
I think it is slightly larger than stock also.
Be sure to empty your SENT box as well.


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The Royal Mint team has been busy working on its latest coin launch, this time celebrating 40 years since the publication of the nation's favourite Christmas tale, The Snowman.
This launch follows a year of new launches from The Royal Mint team which have included partnerships with the team behind Beatrix Potter and the folk at Paddington. We've sold out the collections every time as we've helped establish a new gifting market for the brand and appeal to a new generation of coin lovers.
This time it was the turn of a Raymond Briggs classic, brought to life on The Royal Mint's latest 50 pence coin, featuring the iconic character flying over Brighton Pier.
This was the first fully coloured coin by The Royal Mint so we wanted to do something special to showcase the superb design. We teamed up with Penguin to shoot assets of the coin next to Raymond Briggs' stunning original illustrations – creating some truly beautiful imagery we knew the media and public would fall in love with.
Print coverage in titles such as Metro and Daily Star were followed by a stream of online coverage on national sites including Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, which were quickly followed by lifestyle sites including Prima, Heat and House Beautiful.
Following the raft of coverage we secured, people up and down the country were so keen to get their hands on the coins that they sold out within just three days. Nice.


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Q: table in local email client from web I have an html table in my web page.  The client has requested that I provide a link on the page which opens a new email message from the local mail client that has the table from the web page embedded in the body.  I can get the new message up with the mailto: link but I have been unable to figure a viable way to populate the table into that new message.
For background most of the users are using Firefox on Windows 7 with their local mail client being Outlook 2010.

A: I am sorry to inform you that this will be impossible. According to rfc2368 which defines the behaviour of the mailto uri scheme, the body hname defines the first text/plain portion of the mail and there is no way to define the text/html portion of the email.
The closest you would be able to get is to have a textbased representation of a table, but that (of course) won't look too well. Alternatively you could consider making an outlook only solution by generating an outlook template (.oft) which I believe will open a new compose email dialog when opened, but I would strongly discourage this solution.
In this case I don't know what the exact reason is that there is a requirement for the link to open the users mail client, but in general the right way to go would be to make a custom form on your website which is handled server side (and server side you of course can define the exact behaviour and content of the email).


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Starburst is a British science fiction magazine published by Starburst Magazine Limited. Starburst contains news, interviews, features, and reviews of genre material in various media, including TV, film, soundtracks, multimedia, books, and comics books. The magazine is published quarterly, with additional news and reviews being published daily on the website.

Publication history
Starburst was launched in December 1977 by editor Dez Skinn with his own company Starburst Publishing Ltd. The name Starburst was settled on after rejecting other names, including Starfall, as Skinn considered it too negative.

Starburst was taken over by Marvel UK with issue #4, as part of deal whereby Skinn was put in charge of the UK comic reprints division. Marvel put the title up for sale in 1985 and it was bought by Visual Imagination and published by them from issue #88.

Having reached issue #365 in 2008, the magazine ceased publishing due to Visual Imagination folding.

In early 2011 Starburst Magazine Ltd announced that Starburst would resume publication as an online magazine. Founder Dez Skinn was named Honorary Editor-in-Chief. The first online issue (#366) was released on 14 May 2011, and carried an editorial by Skinn.

Starburst was returned to print publication by Starburst Magazine Ltd in February 2012, with issue #374.

The magazine celebrated its 40-year anniversary with issue #443 (2017), which included an editorial by creator Dez Skinn. Starburst headquarters is now based in Manchester.

Editors-in-chief
 1977–1981: Dez Skinn
 1981–1985: Alan McKenzie
 1985: Cefn Ridout
 1985–1999: Stephen Payne
 1999–2001: David Richardson
 2001: Andrew Cartmel
 2001–2002: Gary Gillatt
 2002: Stephen Payne
 2003–2005: Simon J. Gerard
 2005–2009: Stephen Payne
 2009–2022: Jordan Royce
 2022–present: Kris Heys

Columns and features
Starbursts review sections were edited by writers and reviewers such as Alan Jones (films) and David J. Howe (books), and, for several years, the magazine also carried a column by the writer John Brosnan. Its television review column, TV Zone, was used as the title of its sister publication, TV Zone.

Current columns
 TV Zone by Paul Mount
 It's Only a Movie by Jordan Royce; previously penned by the late John Brosnan
 Horror Obscura by assistant editor Martin Unsworth
 Brave New Words (books) and Roll for Damage (TTRPGS) by literary editor Ed Fortune
 OST by Nick Spacek

Multimedia

Starburst radio
On 19 March 2011 Starburst magazine presented its first weekly radio show on Manchester Radio Online. The show has since moved to Fab Radio International.

Starburst podcasts
Starburst produces the following podcasts:

 Starburst Radio Podcast: The podcast of the Official Starburst Radio Show presented by Martin Unsworth, Kris Heys and Mike Royce
 The Blue Box Podcast: The Starburst Doctor Who podcast presented by JR Southall
 Brave New Words: The Starburst book and graphic novel podcast presented by Ed Fortune, the magazine's literary editor
 TV Zone Plus: The podcast of the TV Zone column, presented by TV Zone columnist Paul Mount

Starburst festivals

1980: Marvel Comics Film & Fantasy Convention
On 18–19 October 1980, Starburst (at that point owned by Marvel UK) produced the  inaugural Marvel Comics Film & Fantasy Convention at Lawrence Hall, London. The guest of honor was Ray Harryhausen; other guests include Barry Morse, Paul Darrow, Jacqueline Pearce, Ingrid Pitt, Caroline Munro, Dana Gillespie, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew, Milton Subotsky, Roy Ashton, Martin Bower, Harley Cokeliss, Mat Irvine, Brian Johnson, Terrance Dicks, David Maloney, Dick Mills, and Richard O'Brien. The convention included the presentation of the 1980 Starburst Awards as well as the 1980 Eagle Awards.

2016: Starburst International Film Festival
From 26–28 August 2016 the first Starburst International Film Festival was held at Manchester Metropolitan Students' Union Complex. Guests included Dez Skinn, Doug Naylor, Steve Pemberton, and Toby Whithouse. The festival culminated in the Starburst Fantasy Awards 2016 on Sunday 28 August 2016 in which Doug Naylor won the Hall of Fame Award.

2018: Starburst MediaCity Festival
With a sponsorship deal secured with MediaCityUK the second annual festival was slightly re-branded. Starburst MediaCity Festival was held 16–17 March 2018. Guests included Dez Skinn and Tom Paton. Winners of the STARBURST Fantasy Awards 2018 included Emma Dark for Best Director with Salient Minus Ten, and Michael Melski for Best Feature with The Child Remains.

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SmallCapPower | May 1, 2018: Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX:WEED) Wednesday announced that it has launched Spectrum Cannabis Australia, the newest member of Canopy Growth family, in collaboration with the Victoria State Government in Australia. Over the next four years, Canopy Growth will invest up to A$16 million (~$16 million Canadian) in the State of Victoria for establishment of Spectrum's Asia-Pacific (APAC) headquarters and research and development facility.
Canopy Growth's facility at Victoria will have domestic cultivation and production of high-quality medical cannabis for patients while serving as a distribution hub for other jurisdictions in APAC. Furthermore, it will function as the APAC Research and Development Center for Canopy Growth and support the ongoing research partnership between Spectrum Australia and Agriculture Victoria on innovations in medical cannabis cultivation and production.
Spectrum Australia's launch by Canopy Growth builds on the cannabis producer's leadership position in the global medical cannabis space. The new venture's priority will be to improve the lives of patients and will be attained by focusing on three core areas – ensuring an affordable and consistent supply of medical cannabis is available to patients in Australia; building production and research infrastructure in Australia; and engaging in rigorous evidence-based physician and pharmacist education to ensure patients' access needs are met.
On April 24, 2018, Australia's AusCann Group Holdings Limited (ASX:AC8) announced that it has been granted an import permit under its existing import licence and will soon receive finished cannabis oils from Canopy Growth, its major shareholder, which will be AusCann branded. AusCann says medical cannabis is a $9 billion opportunity in Australia alone.
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Utorak, 05 Oktobar 2021 10:41
Pablo Picasso: The Many variations on Las Meninas of Diego Velázquez
In 1957, Pablo Picasso isolated himself from his family, friends, and the world to create a series of fifty-eight paintings, variations on one of the most influential paintings in the world, Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas. The series is a confrontation with one of the most important works in the history of Spanish painting and also a commentary on contemporary events in Spain, observed by Picasso from his exile in France. By painting this series, he sought to understand the key elements of a work he admired while also giving his Las Meninas a life of their own. Pablo Picasso himself understood this series as a whole and as such donated it to the Museum in Barcelona in May 1968 in memory of his secretary and close friend Jaime Sabartés who died the same year.
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Petak, 01 Oktobar 2021 11:29
Las Meninas, after Velázquez by Pablo Picasso is unambiguous variation of Las Meninas
Pablo Picasso was especially attracted to Diego Velázquez's masterpiece Las Meninas because it dealt with his central theme of painter and model. In 1957, he started an extended series of variations on Las Meninas where he produced a personal interpretation of the whole of Velázquez's work. Las Meninas, after Velázquez, is the first, largest, and most widely recognized variation of Las Meninas, and is the most faithful to the vertical composition created by Velázquez. It is situated in Picasso Museum, Barcelona.
Ponedeljak, 27 Septembar 2021 11:11
Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is a painting about art, illusion, and reality
At the most basic level, the painting Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is a group portrait of the five-year-old infanta Margarita, her ladies-in-waiting, and other members of the court, the King and Queen of Spain, and Velázquez himself. At the same time, it is essentially about the relationship between reality and illusion, life and art, a consuming preoccupation during the Spanish Baroque. Also, it might be seen as a summary of Velázquez's life and art up to that point. It contains his only known self-portrait surrounded by royalty, courtiers, and objects that represent him and his milieu.
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Četvrtak, 23 Septembar 2021 11:26
Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is one of the most written about paintings of all time
Las Meninas was among Diego Velázquez's, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, final works and speaks to the fact that he was no ordinary court painter. Most scholars continue to date the painting to 1656. Although it was originally described as a painting of Philip IV's family, in 1843, the work was dubbed Las Meninas in an effort to acknowledge its status as far more than a traditional family portrait. This group portrait perhaps most fully summarizes the pinnacle of Diego Velázquez's art. It was kept in the royal palace until 1819 when it was moved to the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Subota, 18 Septembar 2021 10:43
Inspiration by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts the moment when an artist receives inspiration
Many eighteenth-century artists, French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard among them, sought ways to depict artistic inspiration. The painting Inspiration, from 1769, in popular Rococo style, differs from many of his other paintings, especially the portraits painted during his early years, in that it is warmer and more longing than the others. This portrait, likely of Louis François Prault, a publisher in Paris, is one of a series that is now known as the Fantasy Figures. The painting Inspiration is today in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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Utorak, 14 Septembar 2021 11:09
The painter Claude Lantier: Nowadays we want something different
With the end of his brush he pointed to a study of the nude, suspended from the wall near the door. It was really magnificent, full of masterly breadth of colouring. By its side were some other admirable bits, a girl's feet exquisite in their delicate truthfulness, and a woman's trunk with quivering satin-like skin. In his rare moments of content he felt proud of those few studies, the only ones which satisfied him, which, as it were, foretold a great painter, admirably gifted, but hampered by sudden and inexplicable fits of impotency.
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Nedelja, 12 Septembar 2021 11:04
Émile Zola and Impressionists
Famous French writer Émile Zola was a close friend of many young Impressionists artists during the early stages of his career. He spent much time with them in the cafes and bars of Paris, visited them in their studios, watched them in work, and, when needed, posed for them. Also further organized evening gatherings at his large country home from 1866 onwards. By 1868, as the critic and novelist, Émile Zola wrote in defense of the young Impressionists. In appreciation for Zola's support, Édouard Manet devoted a portrait to the writer in 1868, one of his most beautiful ever painted.
The First Exhibition of the Impressionists was a bit of a bust
By 1874 the group of younger artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers that would become known as the Impressionists had been trying to achieve recognition by submitting their works to the annual Salon (exhibition) held by the Academy des Beaux-Arts for over a decade in an old studio that belonged to the famous photographer Nadar. Its founding members included Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro, among others. But the exhibition was a bit of a bust although 3,500 people came, most attended to sneer and scoff at the works on display. Art critics did not take it seriously, and the newspaper critics were remarkably hostile.
Impressionism: Bright and joyful painting
Impressionism is an artistic direction that emerged in French painting between 1860 and 1870 as a reaction to realism. It was set in motion with Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise. This painting was first shown alongside over two hundred works by thirty artists, including Edgar Degas, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley at what would become known as the Exhibition of the Impressionists in Paris in April 1874. However, of all of the pieces displayed there, Impression, Sunrise became the most famous due to the criticism it attracted, which gave rise to the name of the Impressionism movement.
Sreda, 01 Septembar 2021 20:31
The painting Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet inspired the name of the Impressionism
In 1872, Claude Monet visited Le Havre, his hometown. During this holiday, he completed a series of six paintings featuring the harbor at Le Havre "during dawn, day, dusk, and dark and from varying viewpoints, some from the water itself and others from a hotel room looking down over the harbor." Impression: Sunrise resonated more strongly than other works in this series. Two years after completing this painting, Monet exhibited it in the First Impressionist Exhibition, an independent show hosted by Paris' avant-garde artists. Despite its hostile contemporary reception, the painting sold instantly and was later gifted to the Musée Marmottan in Paris where it currently resides.
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