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Hard Rock Collapse In NOLA Cancels 'Wicked' Performances
Bruce Mikells
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Many of the streets and businesses that are in the immediate area of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans are closed this morning. The closures are the result of a tragic collapse that occurred at the construction site over the weekend. In that collapse at least two people were killed, a third person has yet to be located.
In response to the tragedy and because the scene around the area is quite confusing the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans has announced a change in their scheduled performances of the Broadway Musical "Wicked"
The post from the theater explains how fans may get refunds for the canceled performances.
The theater is located directly across the street from where the construction incident occurred and is currently included in the city's no-entry and evacuation zones. Those zones are expected to remain in effect for the next several days as crews continue to comb the accident scene for clues as to what caused the collapse at the site.
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Consumers can now be confident that claims about health on New Zealand food labels will be true and accurate. On 7 April 2013, Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye signed the standard that will give legal effect to a new food regulation for making claims about the health properties of food on labels. This covers more than 200 pre-approved food health claims.
The New Zealand and Australian Ministers responsible for food regulation approved the new joint standard regulating nutrition and health claims on food standards in December 2012. The standard will take effect in New Zealand from 9 May 2013, now that it has been signed off by the Food Safety Minister. Food companies have 3 years to fully comply.
The standard applies in New Zealand and Australia, and covers claims on food labels ranging from 'low in fat' to more specific claims such as 'diets high in calcium may reduce the risk of osteoporosis in people 65 years and over'. Health claims will only be permitted on certain foods and there will be strict requirements to ensure the claims are evidence-based.
Summarised from a New Zealand Government media release by Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye, 7 April 2013.


This is what i learned in life. If you are taking things foolishly and lazily easy today, you will be hard pressed tomorrow.
During college, life was a breeze. Booze here and there, a party or two or even three every week. No beer for a week was a miracle. Going college was just secondary for me. Just practically wasted my parents' money.
Consequently, grades were not good to look at. Had to retake some of them the following year. I took the board exam for architects thrice. I had to go through the eye of the needle when looking for a job. Had to humble myself and go for a job that pays peanuts.
READ Evolution Theory is Not Science!
Take this as an advice especially for the teenagers.
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Q: Number of inversions with merge sort: Why do I not need to initialize a global variable here? I implemented merge sort in python and am trying to get the number of inversions of a given array. An inversion is defined as a pair of indices 0 ≤  <  <  such that  > . This problem is also described as 'how far away is an array from being sorted'.
Here is my code:
def merge(a,b):
    c = [] # Output array
    i, j = 0, 0 # Indices of the left and right split arrays

    global num_inversions
    # It looks like there is no need to initialize this? I don't understand this

    while i < len(a) and j < len(b):
        if a[i] <= b[j]:
            c.append(a[i])
            i += 1
        else:
            c.append(b[j])
            j += 1
            num_inversions = num_inversions + len(a) - i

    if i == len(a):
        c.extend(b[j:])
    else:
        c.extend(a[i:])

    return c

def mergesort(a):
    # Base case
    if len(a) <= 1:
        return a

    mid = len(a) // 2

    left_array = mergesort(a[:mid])
    right_array = mergesort(a[mid:])

    return merge(left_array, right_array)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    #inp = input()
    #n, *a = list(map(int, inp.split()))

    a = [6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] # Sample input. Gives the correct answer 15
    a_sorted = mergesort(a)
    print(num_inversions)

I seem to be getting the correct result. What I don't understand is why the global variable num_inversions can be declared in the function, and why it doesn't need to be initialized.
Initializing it in the function is obviously wrong because the value will keep getting rewritten each time the function is called recursively.
Edit: Sorry, this question was incredibly stupid. I realized I did initialize it at some point while testing it, and forgot.

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Q: Couchdb rereduce understanding and sum I don't know if this is really rereduce but that's why I'm here.
I have this:
"afrikan"   ID: f6733302df85ac109397f4b6030005bf    [1, 2]
"afrikan"   ID: f6733302df85ac109397f4b6030006d1   [1, 3]
"afrikan"   ID: f6733302df85ac109397f4b6030012b6   [2, 4]
"chinese" ID: f6733302df85ac109397f4b6030012eb   1
"chinese" ID: f6733302df85ac109397f4b603001d87   1
I know how to calculate the sum if the value wasn't an array (like in
chinese). But I can't manage to sum the values in the array and it
results in this: "afrikan"   "02,41,31,2"
And one more question: is there a way to sum all the values regardless
of keys?
View code:
function(doc) {
  if(doc.food) {
  emit(doc.food, doc.type);
  }
}

Reduce code:
function(keys,values,rereduce)
{

return sum(values);

}

Thank you a lot :)
UPDATE:
I found an answer for Couchdb.
Here is the code:
function(doc) {
if(doc.food) {
if(doc.type.length>1) {
 doc.type.forEach(function(tag) {
emit(doc.food,tag);
});
}else {
emit(doc.food,doc.type);
}
}
}

Reduce:
function(keys,values) {
return sum(values);
}

A: The reason you get "02,41,31,2" is because Javascript will convert a number + an array into a string. It is very strange, but true.
> 0 + [2, 4] + [1, 3] + [1, 2]
'02,41,31,2'

> sum([0, [2, 4], [1, 3], [1, 2]]) // Same result
'02,41,31,2'

I think you do not need to worry about rereduce. Just add every value together. If it is an array, add all the values in the array.
function(keys, values, rereduce)
{
  var total = 0;
  var i, j;

  for(i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
    if(typeof values[i] == "number") {
      total = total + values[i];
    }

    else {
      for(j = 0; j < values[i].length; j++) {
        total = total + values[i][j];
      }
    }
  }
}


October is the American Riviera's foodiest time of the year.
October is the American Riviera's foodiest time of the year. Chef Cat Cora will be in town, and a host of demos and tastings will dot the cuisine-packed calendar.
THYME & ENERGY BOURBON & JERKY PAIRING: This unusual duo'll make a cameo at Ty Lounge during the epicure.sb run, and we'll just go out on a limb -- or a strip of jerky, perhaps -- and guess that the dried meat doesn't always get to share the spotlight with a tony spirit. Maybe a new trend is afoot? A tamale and tequila tasting downtown gives those who like their masa 'n mescal to come in one beautiful forkful, sipful flow, and a Funk Zone wine tasting pairs well with a visit to the Santa Barbara Farmers Market. Chef Cat Cora will also helm the Quickfire Cooking Challenge at the Santa Barbara Public Market on Oct. 8.
CHOOSE YOUR CHOWDOWN: Truly, even those food-obsessives who call Santa Barbara home can't make every single to-do during the multi-day run, so for those out-of-towners calling upon the American Riviera during epicure.sb, some choosing is in order. Are you into wine? The Vintners Celebration over the second weekend in October is for you. About popcorn? There's a vino pair-up with the famous movie snack. Just check the dates, since everything is not every day of the month, and land upon the most luscious of foodie happenings in Santa Barbara's most luscious of foodie months.


Antioxidants are nutrients and enzymes that occur naturally in many foods, and they are essential when it comes to counteracting the effects of sun damage and aging. This video takes a closer look at the importance of using antioxidants after any type of cosmetic procedure.
Whether you have undergone a laser procedure, chemical peel, or surgical procedure such as a face lift, using antioxidants on a daily basis is one of the best ways to maintain the results. Watch the complete clip for more information about the benefits of antioxidants.
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How is the idea for a book born? Let me count the ways.
Most often in the mind of an author or writer–I often scribble an idea–or lots of them–on a scrap of paper. Sometimes on a blank computer document. Sometimes through lively staff discussions or brainstorms in the lunchroom.
Fifty Shades of Grace: Stories of Inspiration and Promise was launched in our lunchroom at MennoMedia on Dec. 12, 2012, as an "answer" of sorts to a certain other popular Fifty Shades book.
An email went out soliciting stories. Deadlines were established, with a desired release date of April 15.
A designer got busy working on a cover in time for the 2013 Catalog.
Oh, and then in this case, a project manager (me) is assigned to pull the stories and chapters together cohesively.
Mostly we work with manuscripts electronically, but sometimes, when organizing a book of this nature with more than 50 submissions, you eventually have to print it out and work hands on. At least I do.
There! It feels more like a book. Funny, since many readers will end up accessing this as an ebook–which is fine!
We hope you look for this book April 15 or thereabouts!
Watch this for a lovely quick peek how books are still made in some places. Today many titles can be handled as print on demand only books. MennoMedia has many books available as ebooks through standard sources like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo.
–Melodie Davis, MennoMedia author, columnist, producer, blogger.
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You probably already know MSG is bad for you.
But did you know just how bad?
And did you know that the problems are not just that's it's incredibly bad for you…there are two other problems?
MSG has proven links to chronic inflammation, dysplasia, fibromyalgia, obesity, fatty liver, high insulin and blood sugar, high cholesterol, liver toxicity, metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, disturbance to the gut-brain connection, neurological and brain damage and more.
It's not just disgustingly bad for you, it's also making really unhealthy foods taste really, really good and really, really addictive.
In the simplest sense, it tricks our taste buds and intuition into eating things that are intrinsically very bad for us in so many ways.
You think you can avoid MSG by looking at the label on a food and searching for exactly that: MSG.
MSG goes by a whole lot of different names, hiding itself away in foods you'd never have suspected.
Most canned soups, cottage cheese, yoghurts, reduced fat/fat-free milks, packaged dips, salad dressings, crackers/chips and the worst…takeaway or frozen pizza.
Just check out the image from FoodBabe at the bottom of this post, listing the sheer volume of ingredients and menu items that contain MSG.
I've seen these in SO many foods, and I'm actually, actively trying to shop healthy!
Imagine how often MSG would appear in the shopping trolley of someone who ISN'T trying to shop healthy!
Live as close to the Earth as possible – live clean, create your own meals, and enjoy whole, natural, nourishing foods.
SEE ALSO: My Alkaline Diet Recipe Book is a great start – giving you hundreds of delicious recipes that are TOTALLY free of MSG and PACKED with nutrients!
Finally, check out this eye-opening piece of research from Vani, and think again before ordering pizza!


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News: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern Talk Vision, Origins and Jobs
Posted 7:48 PM July 26th, 2013 by Sara Vizcarrondo
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The iPhone might have sealed Steve Jobs' place in history alongside Edison, but director Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) begins Jobs, his biopic on the Apple Computers visionary, with Jobs' introducing the iPod. In a press conference after a screening of the film in San Francisco's Century 9 Theater, Stern said his goal was to make an origin story. "What people know about Jobs is the mythology that became Steve, the black mock turtleneck, the glasses, the priest of the technology." Star Ashton Kutcher says Jobs portrays "the story of Steve Jobs from the perspective of a guy who wasn't always Steve Jobs…People say they remember where they were when JFK died; I remember where I was when Steve Jobs died."
Kutcher says, "We make movies about iconic figures all the time but he's a person, and the products he created are things people love. Most of us have something in our hands that's of him. I look at those products and see the conduit for most of my important relationships. People remember his keynotes, the creative inspirational showman, but I realized I didn't fully appreciate him…we wanted to tell the good and the bad and inspire people to innovate."
When Kutcher read the script he says he got "defensive about Steve's legacy," which inspired him to do his homework on the man and his work. "I loved a man I never knew." Kutcher, who supports entrepreneurs in technology, felt the project spoke to many of his interests. "We wanted to show Jobs hit brick walls and get kicked out of his company and to show that it's really hard. We need entrepreneurs now more than ever. The industrial revolution is officially over and the great innovation in the world is happening in technology. We need to inspire people. If you get out of college and can't find a job: build one."
Perseverance ranked high among Jobs' traits but Stern was most interested in his faults. "What I heard a lot was how flawed he was and how socially difficult it was for him to communicate. In my research I was told early on by a person in one of his groups that he'd get very frustrated trying to explain his ideas. It's like having the cure for cancer and trying to tell someone "this is what it is" but no one else knows what he's saying."
Kutcher explains, "You look at what Steve Jobs built: he didn't invent email, the telephone, the calendar, he wasn't even the sole inventor of those things. Many of the great things he built he stole," Kucher carefully quotes "good artists borrow, great artists steal." And after much proselytizing about Jobs, Kutcher finally says: "what he did was engineer things to make them beautiful, useful, simple, accessible, and commercial."
The production asked Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak to consult on the film but Stern explained Wozniak had been recruited to consult on another Jobs film currently in pre-production and based on the biography by Walter Isaacson. Naturally we can expect to see a few more biopics on the Apple founder and visionary.
Kutcher compares Jobs to Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla cars. "He [Musk] might be the next guy, I don't know, but at the end of the day the qualities [of visionaries] are the same…The next person will be driven, and focused and work hard and fearlessly approach failure and falls down and gets back up and I guarantee the next person who innovates in that way will be someone who's failed many times in their life. I think they're out there."
Jobs hits theaters nationwide August 16.
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North Carolina Quit Claim Deed Form
The North Carolina quit claim deed is a legal form used to convey real estate in North Carolina from one person to another. A quit claim, unlike a warranty deed, does not come with a guarantee from the seller, or grantor, as to whether the grantor has clear title to the property or has the authority…
North Carolina Notice to Enter (to Tenant)
A North Carolina notice to enter is used to notify a tenant that their landlord intends to enter their rental unit for a particular purpose. North Carolina state law does not specify requirements for landlords to provide this notice, but whenever possible it is wise for a landlord to provide some sort of notice to…
North Carolina Non-Compete Agreement Template
The North Carolina Non-Compete Agreement Template can be deployed when a Business Entity intends to disclose Confidential or Proprietary Information under the condition that such disclosure does not result in any unfair competition caused by the Contract Recipient. Both of these parties will benefit from having the expected Recipient's code of conduct regarding the Business'…
North Carolina Notary Acknowledgment Form
TheNorth Carolina notary acknowledgment form is used when an individual needs a document notarized for legal purposes or for their own beneficial interest. The notary public must verify the individual's identity and confirm their intention to sign the document before filling out the acknowledgment form. Once the notary public has applied their signature and seal or…
North Carolina Revocable Living Trust Form
The North Carolina revocable living trust is similar to a Will in that it makes a plan for how an individual's estate is to be handled in the event of their death. The key differences being that the estate's ownership is transferred to the trust, there are plans made not only for death, but also…
North Carolina Self-Proving Affidavit Form
The North Carolina self-proving affidavit form is written testimony attached to a last will and testament that supports the validity of said will when submitted to probate court. After the testator's death (creator of the will), probate will review the contents of the will to ensure that it is valid and was executed in accordance…
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There are several North Carolina name change forms that residents will need to fill out and file in order to legally change their name. However, when getting married or divorced, individuals only need a copy of their marriage certificate or divorce decree to change their surname. For any other name change, individuals will need to…
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The North Carolina do not resuscitate (DNR or DNAR) order form serves residents who wish to order medical personnel not to administer CPR on them if they have a cardiac or respiratory arrest. In accordance with the Right to Die a Natural Death Act (Article 23), a declaration to disallow the use of CPR or other life-prolonging…
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While Obamacare is in the process of being repealed and replaced, Trump promises insurance for everybody. This is certainly contrary to the stance of his party. This video makes sense of Trump's statement with regards to insurance.
So Donald Trump probably means affordable insurance will be available for many. That makes a lot more sense than just handing out insurance for everyone. When he said "insurance for everybody" that certainly ruffled the feathers of many Conservatives.


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class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :post
  belongs_to :user

  validates :body, length: { minimum: 5 }, presence: true
  validates :user, presence: true

  after_create :send_favorite_emails

  default_scope { order('updated_at ASC') }

  private

  def send_favorite_emails
    post.favorites.each do |favorite|
      if should_receive_update_for?(favorite)
        FavoriteMailer.new_comment(favorite.user, self.post, self).deliver_now
      end
    end
  end

  def should_receive_update_for?(favorite)
    user_id != favorite.user_id && favorite.user.email_favorites?
  end
end

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Los Angeles, CA—Westwood Village is the neighborhood where UCLA is located. I took a walk there the other day with my little $200.00 Flip HD camera. The music reflects my unusual demeanor that day.
Westwood has been hit hard by the economy's troubles as two of its many grand and historic theaters will be closing. Please enjoy the sights and sounds.
Hey at the end it said 3009. The world will be gone by then. And it wont be due to global warming.
I was doing a little time traveling while editing!
Today, they begin tearing down Chicago's Ickes CHA Development so that our mayor can build mixed income housing [wink, wink]. How 'bout we put those folks on a bus to Westwood. It looks like Westwood needs some economic diversity.
I understnd its just too much work to go back and fix/edit videos. Just playing with ya. But I was serious about where this world will be in 3009.
I've been holding out for a higher quality (more options) HD camera (at 5X the price) but you're getting such good results -- and that little flip camera is so discrete -- I think you've "flipped" my plans.
Hopefully Westwood will survive all the economic turmoil. Nice area.
I like the part where you camp out in front of the Victoria's Secrets store. Should have stayed put for a bit longer. Also curious why you left the Obama likeness the way you found it. Should have broken out your magic marker and put glasses and a mustache on his commie mug.


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process.stdin.resume();
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// // console.log('hey');
const uuidv1 = require('uuid/v1');
const fs = require('fs');
const { exec } = require('child_process');

var nativeMessage = require('chrome-native-messaging');

function startProxy(port) {
  exec(
    `mitmdump --listen-port ${port} -s /usr/local/bin/mitmproxy-script.py > /dev/null`,
    (err, stdout, stderr) => {
      if (err) {
        // node couldn't execute the command
        return;
      }

      // the *entire* stdout and stderr (buffered)
      process.stderr.write(`stdout: ${stdout}\n\n`);
      process.stderr.write(`stderr: ${stderr}\n\n`);
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          msg: 'hello!',
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        msg: {
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        '/usr/local/bin/tamper_mapping.json',
        JSON.stringify(message.rules, true, 4),
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      return { msg: message };

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      let fullFilePath;

      while (true) {
        filename = uuidv1() + '.' + urlFilename;
        fullFilePath = '/usr/local/bin/tamper_overrides/' + filename;
        if (!fs.existsSync(fullFilePath)) {
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      fs.writeFileSync(fullFilePath, message.responseContent);
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      } catch (err) {}

    case 'update-rules':
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process.stdin
  .pipe(new nativeMessage.Input())
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    new nativeMessage.Transform(function(msg, push, done) {
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Beat eggs, milk, salsa, 1c cheese, and your choice of fillings in a mixing bowl. Then pour into casserole dish, and top with the other cup of cheese. Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes. (Feeds 4, I have doubled it for more people).Voila, instant omelet with no standing by the stove and trying to get it to cook evenly and fold perfectly!! Mine usually ended up looking like scrambled eggs! We used this recipe many nights after ball games when we didn't want a heavy meal so late. With this easy dish you can celebrate a win or try to dry tears from a loss. Either way you are not stuck at the stove!!! "And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works." (Hebrews 10:24) So, let's start sharing God's love at home with our own families around the dinner table.


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Events in Rome, Exhibitions 25 September 2017 <26 September 2017
PICASSO: Between Cubism and Classicism 1915 – 1925
by Federica Rustico
Pablo Picasso Deux femmes courant sur la plage (La course) [Due donne che corrono sulla la spiaggia (La corsa)], 1922 Parigi, Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 © Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2017
Pablo Picasso's "Italian" period
Scuderie del Quirinale celebrates 100 years since Pablo Picasso's visit to Italy by opening the curtains on a time period that strongly marked the Spanish artist's personal life and artistic style.
Along his friend Jean Cocteau, Picasso travels to Italy in 1917 to assist in the realization of Diaghilev's Parade for the company Ballets Russes. It's in Rome that he meets and falls in love with one of the Ballets Russes' ballerinas, Olga Khokhlova, who later became his wife.
Pablo Picasso Portrait d'Olga dans un fauteuil [Ritratto di Olga in poltrona], 1918 Musée national Picasso-Paris, Parigi Photo: Mathieu Rabeau / RMN-Réunion des Musées Nationaux/ distr. Alinari © Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2017
From paintings and sketches to postcards and stage dresses, embark on a journey through Picasso's "pastiche" period, where you are taken through 100 works of art – carefully selected by curator Olivier Berggruen with Anunciata von Liechtenstein – depicting his fluency of stile.
The artworks include paintings on canvas, gouache and drawings, while on the second floor, Picasso's unpublished documents – including postcards, letters, pictures and precious works on paper – are on display.
The exhibition's artistic journey focuses on the methods and procedures used by Picasso in the service of Modernism, on a path from Realism to the most original and extraordinary Abstract Expressionism.
Along working in the production of Parade, during his stay in Rome Picasso realized two artworks: Harlequin and Woman with a Necklace and Italian Woman, which are on display. In both he adopts a language of flat and articulated surfaces that recall Art Dèco.
Picasso was also inspired by characters of the Commedia dell'arte, such as Pulcinella and Arlecchino, and portrayed people close to him in the guise of these street artists. Among these paintings, Harlequin (Léonide Massine) is exposed.
While Picasso's time in Italy was brief, it had an immense impact on his artistic style. The archeological treasures of Rome, Naples and Pompeii and the joie de vivre of the people impressed the Spanish artist so much as to push him towards an unexpected and personalized ideation of "Classicism", which served as inspiration in paintings such as the Seated Nude Drying Her Feet and Three Women by a Fountain on display.
Pablo Picasso La Flûte de Pan [Il flauto di Pan], 1923 Parigi, Musée National Picasso-Paris © Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2017
It's in 1924 that he finishes The Pipes of Pan, bringing to mind the late Roman reliefs and the Etruscan motifs that he had discovered during his trip to Italy.
With this exhibition, Scuderie del Quirinale pays tribute to Pablo Picasso's "Italian" period in an exhibition where Cubism crosses Classicism and leaves space for a new Realistic vein to appear.
Among the paintings in the exhibition are Picasso's famous Portrait of Olga in an Armchair, Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), Harlequin with a Mirror, Paul Dressed as Harlequin and Paul Dressed as Pierrot and The Dance.
From works coming from Museée Picasso, Centre Pompidou of Paris, Tate London, MoMa, the Metropolitan Museum, New York's Guggenheim and Berlin's Museum Berggruen (as well as 38 art lenders around the world), PICASSO: Between Cubism and Classicism 1915 – 1925 is an exhibition you cannot miss.
Scuderie del Quirinale
Via XXIV Maggio, 16 (Monti)
Till January 21, 2018
Opening hours: Sun-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri-Sat 10am-10.30pm
Entry fee: €13 – 15
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Q: Interaction.Triggers fail in MVVM listbox view The xaml below works correctly when I click (MouseDown) anywhere on the background of the listbox. The problem is that I can not get it to work when I click on any single  item in the listbox. I've tried putting the trigger code inside the border, image or TextBlock with no success.
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Also the mouse events are intercepted by the ListBoxItems, use the tunneling versions, i.e. PreviewMouseDown.


I am a huge fan of second-hand books and love nothing more than scouring second-hand book shops and charity shops for weird and wonderful titles to read. As I had a disappointing June I consoled myself with a long-overdue visit to my favourite book shop in Bangor. It's hard to describe the place but if you remember the book-shop Bastian runs into in 'The NeverEnding Story' you'll have a fair idea of what I see when I go in I picked up a real eclectic mix of old and new, popular and obscure titles and I'll be sharing these reviews with you over the coming months.
Suffice to say, July was a GREAT reading month: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' was a BBC radio recommendation, Forster and Camus are authors I always enjoy reading and Grafton's book is one I've read before but many years ago. Be sure to check in again next month and please feel free to send me your recommendations.


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The Hijab Outcry
In Sweden, the simple wearing of a headscarf has transformed in a terrifiant incident with controversial implications
28 Aug 2013 | tags: freedom, Europe, Religion, Sweden, hijab, oppresion and Muslims
Ata Pata
Last Friday night, a pregnant woman was beaten up by an unknown man on the outskirts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The aggressor grabbed the woman's head, and while shouting racist insults, he hit it hard against a car, with the result that she fell unconscious. Her only crime was that she was wearing a Muslim headscarf, a hijab. The event sparked great resentment among many Swedes, and became the starting point for what has become known as the "Hijab Outcry".
The initiators of the hijab outcry demand "that measures to be taken in order to ensure that Swedish Muslim women are guaranteed the right to personal security and freedom of religion, without being exposed to verbal and physical attacks". During the last few days, the outcry has received international attention, and the initiators have met with the Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask. However, the initiative remains as controversial as the hijab itself, and it exposes discords within the Swedish society that do not necessarily comply with traditional political divides.
Many Swedish women, men and children have shown support for the outcry on Twitter and Instagram, where they have posted pictures of themselves wearing headscarves under the hashtag #hijabuppropet. Among the most well-known supporters of the initiative are politicians and TV hosts. The supporters refer to the growing numbers of reported hate crimes against Muslims, and claim to protect the freedom of religion. Gudrun Schyman, spokesperson for the Feminist Initiative party and former leader of the Swedish Left Party, says that she supports the outcry on the basis that a woman should have the right to dress how she likes – in a short skirt or a veil – without fear of assault. She calls the current situation a gigantic security political issue. Journalist Mona Masri, another feminist and supporter of the hijab outcry, states in Dagens Nyheter that being a feminist means standing up for everybody's right to make their own decisions. However, it is also within the feminist movement that we find some of the most outspoken opponents to the hijab outcry.
Among the latter is Hanna Gabden, feminist debater and Muslim. Her first reaction when she heard about the hijab outcry was anger. "I regard the headscarf as a cultural, religious, sexual and political symbol. Of course we should have religious freedom, but how many women do actually choose to veil themselves? This consolidates racism, and benefits those who already oppose Islam and the veil", she says. One of the initiators of the hijab outcry, debater Bilan Osman, said in an interview that "the headscarf should be normalized", a statement that received immediate criticism from journalist Maria Haldesten in Göteborgsposten. Haldesten questions whether or not normalizing the headscarf would imply a normalization of the oppression of women, since that is what the headscarf symbolizes for millions of women all over the world. She further pointed to the fact that the original intent of the headscarf hardly was to liberate women, but to confine them, and that the whole idea behind the hijab outcry is tremendously naive.
In recent years, few things have been as fervently debated in Europe as the headscarf. In France, Belgium and the Netherlands, face-covering veils are now prohibited in public places, despite the fact that only a tiny number of women within those countries ever wore face-covering veils. The law thus affects a very limited number of individuals, but has still received a huge amount of attention. Are such laws the right way forward? Opponents argue that they violate freedom of religion, whereas supporters claim that they protect women from oppression. An expression of the latter view is the French law which requires anybody who force a woman to wear a veil to pay a fine. The French legislators apparently established that existing laws were not sufficient in order to protect women from such constraint, and that a law was needed which specifically targets Muslims.
The Swedish debate revolves more or less around the same lines as in France, although it has matured to a certain extent over the last few years. Many people realized that it was somewhat contradictory to argue that the state should tell the women who actually chose themselves to wear headscarves, not to do so, in order to liberate the unknown number of women who were forced to wear veils. While Muslim men were described by the extreme right as ruthless oppressors of women, moderate debaters also became more careful not to generalize and target the entire group. However, the extreme right claims to care about the rights of women is laughable; it is a known fact that their ideology only values one sort of strength: the masculine. Let us just hope that their tendency to reduce women to child producers constitutes yet another obstacle in their search for further influence in Europe.
Moreover, it is interesting to note that both France and Sweden are among the least religious countries in the world. The fact that so many people of both countries primarily seem to regard religious symbols, such as the Muslim headscarf, as signs of oppression may depend at least to some extent on tradition. During much of the history of Europe, religion was something that was employed by rulers in order to control their subjects. The church had enormous power. Wars were fought over religion, killing thousands of people. Heresy was punished harshly, and witch hunts brought death upon hundreds of innocent women. With history books full of such stories, it is no wonder that many Europeans today have difficulties to see the liberating qualities of religion. In most of Europe, religion has never been the liberating force that it became in America, perhaps with the exception of parts of Eastern Europe under communist rule.
However, irrespective of our personal views on religion, it is our task to find a way to respect both freedom of religion and individual freedom. As long as women are beaten up in the streets for wearing hijabs, all we know is that we are in desperate need of change.
Edited by: Ana Postolache
Photo Credits: Ata Pata via flickr
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Q: We seem to notice some fine fuzz on the surfaces of our oak and yellow-poplar lumber after sanding. It seems to be in streaks or in certain pieces of wood, but not others. It also comes and goes; some days it is worse than others. The fuzz is a real problem if we let it go into the finishing room. Any ideas?
A: The wood fibers are usually quite strong and can be cut cleanly by the minerals in the sandpaper. However, if the sandpaper is worn out, then the mineral is very dull. Dull sandpaper will push the fibers over rather than cut them off. If you look closely at the surfaces right after sanding, you will notice the fuzz from these uncut, pushed-over fibers.
Things will be worse when these pushed-over fibers are subjected to water (such as from a water-based finish) or high humidity. This will cause them to "stand at attention" and the fuzz will look terrible. This fuzz problem can also be caused if the fiber is exceptionally weak. The weak wood fibers are a result of a special growth feature in wood called tension wood (in hardwoods only). With tension wood, the wood is typically 10 percent or more lighter in weight (and is proportionally weaker, too). Except for poor machining or low density, tension wood is hard to detect. If you suspect that you have tension wood, you can use glue sizing or sanding sealer to coat and stiffen the fibers before sanding. However, sharp sandpaper will probably be an acceptable solution to successful machining of this special fiber.


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Metro says ridership for Women's March on Washington higher than Inauguration
WASHINGTON - Washington's Metro says ridership for Saturday's Women's March on Washington eclipsed numbers for Donald Trump's Inauguration.
Figures released Saturday by the transit system estimate that 1,001,616 individuals used Metro during Saturday's march, compared to 193,000 as of 11 a.m. Friday. Metro has not yet released a figure for Friday's total ridership, but by 11 a.m. Saturday 275,000 people had used Metro.
For comparison, Metro says Saturday's ridership by 11 a.m. was more than eight times a normal Saturday and busier than most weekdays.


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The UK began 2021 by abolishing a 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) on women's sanitary products, often referred to as the "tampon tax" and which many activists had described as sexiest.
It now joins the list of countries that have already eliminated this tax, which includes India, Australia, and Canada. The measure had been promised by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer (equivalent to finance minister) Rishi Sunak in March last year, and is part f a wider UK government effort called "End Period Poverty".
Announcing the tax's removal, Sunak said, "I am proud that we are today delivering on our promise to scrap the tampon tax. Sanitary products are essential so it's right that we do not charge VAT."
Until December 31, the UK was a part of the EU, where period products; such as sanitary napkins and tampons are classified as non-essential, and member states; are required to levy a 5% tax on them. Now that the UK is out of the 27-member bloc, it is not bound by its directives, under which sanitary products; had been subjected to five different VAT rates since 1973 – with the lowest 5% slab being applicable since 2001.
The removal of the tax has thus been praised by women's rights activists and Brexit proponents at the same time. According to the BBC, the EU itself has been in the process of removing the tax on period products. In 2018, the bloc published proposals to change the tax rules, but these are yet to be accepted by all members.
In the Republicans of Ireland, however, there is no VAT on such products despite the country being an EU member. This is because Ireland's tax rates were in place before the EU imposed its own tax laws, the report said.
Scotland, which is a part of the UK, made history in November 2020; by becoming the first country in the world to make period products free of cost to those who need them.
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Home / Opinion / Online-views / Opinion | Will India seize the wave of disruptive technology?
Opinion | Will India seize the wave of disruptive technology?
4 min read . Updated: 12 Oct 2018, 05:34 AM IST Federica Saliola
Technology is also reshaping every industry and setting new demands for skills in every profession. Photo: iStock
Digital technology helps firms to innovate and scale up quickly, challenging traditional production patterns and blurring boundaries
There are many ways to 'Make in India'. What we know is that technology is going to be at the forefront of the quest to create more jobs in India. But how can India benefit from the opportunities that the advent of new technologies provide?
In its latest World Development Report, The Changing Nature of Work, the World Bank examines the global implications of the ongoing technological shift that is dramatically altering the nature of work. In so doing, it highlights many of the challenges facing India and other emerging economies as they seek to create jobs for their people.
As Asia's third-largest economy, India needs to create jobs on a huge scale to absorb the large number of young people entering its working age population. The challenge is to turn this technological shift to everyone's advantage, so that its benefits are shared more widely.
Technology is also reshaping every industry and setting new demands for skills in every profession. The skills needed for work are changing, literally, every day. New jobs will require specific skills—a combination of technological knowhow, problem solving, and critical-thinking skills, as well as soft skills such as perseverance, collaboration, and empathy. That means countries must invest much more—and more effectively—in their people to build human capital.
Investing in human capital is the key mechanism to ensure that the next generation is ready for the changing nature of work. However, too many countries are under-investing in these critical areas—especially in the early formative years of childhood, when the ability to learn new skills quickly is decisively molded. When countries don't invest in good education and health to build human capital, it puts successive generations—especially the poorest—at a severe disadvantage, exacerbates inequalities that already exist, and threatens to create instability when rising aspirations are met with frustration instead of opportunity.
Some features of the current wave of technological progress are notable. For instance, digital technology helps firms to innovate and scale up quickly, challenging traditional production patterns and blurring boundaries. New business models—digital platform firms—evolve rapidly from local start-ups to global behemoths, often with few employees and tangible assets, or "scale without mass".
Think of IKEA, today a ubiquitous global brand. Yet it took IKEA 75 years to reach the point where it generates $45 billion in global revenues across 50 countries. Now compare IKEA's glacial pace of expansion with the turbo-charged ascent of Alibaba, which reached a million users in just two years.
The rise of digital platform market places allows the impact of technology to reach more people more quickly than ever before, bringing economic opportunity to millions who do not live in industrialized countries, or even in the industrial areas of the developing world.
Platform-based businesses are on the rise in India too, harnessing technology to reach more people faster than ever before. For instance, the online consulting platform Indiez, founded in 2016, brings together a widely distributed community of talent from remote locations—mainly from India, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. Indiez takes a team-based approach to online freelancing and works on technology projects all over the world. Their clients include the Domino's Pizza restaurant chain in India, as well as the Aditya Birla Group, the Indian multinational conglomerate.
So what are the downsides of new technology?
First, digital markets create new opportunities for firms to stifle their competitors through user data and lead to the emergence of monopolies. Second, firms that possess "scale without mass" create new challenges for taxation. It is difficult to determine where value is created when businesses have a combination of users and ideas and production takes place across borders.
Profit shifting continues to be a challenge, despite recent multilateral efforts to combat it. Multinationals—digital and traditional—shift about 45% of their profits to tax havens, resulting in a loss of 12% of global corporate tax revenue. India, along with Australia, Brazil, France, Japan, Mexico, and the US, as well as much of Africa, are among the countries estimated to be most hurt by profit-shifting.
Revenues generated through digital advertising can also be hard to capture. Two years ago, the government of India introduced a 6% equalization levy on online advertising revenue paid by Indian companies to non-resident e-commerce companies.
These are hurdles that must be overcome because providing the new kinds of social protection that people need in the changing nature of work will be costly but achievable with sensible tax reforms. Even so, it's clear that digital platforms provide new economic opportunities to people. As long as they have access to the internet, women and people living in rural areas have the ability to create their own businesses, or work from home for employers who are thousands of miles away.
The internet and digital technology are the new superhighways of trade. India, where most workers are employed in the informal sector and the participation of women in the labour force is low, has an opportunity to seize the opportunities that digital technology provides. Innovation is also a friend to entrepreneurs and India's entrepreneurial spirit makes it an ideal incubator for start-ups to thrive.
Federica Saliola is joint director of the World Development Report 2019.
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Beclabuvir (también conocido por el nombre de investigación BMS-791325; abreviado BCV) es un medicamento antiviral para el tratamiento de la infección por el virus de la hepatitis C (VHC) que se ha estudiado en ensayos clínicos. En febrero de 2017, Bristol-Myers Squibb comenzó a patrocinar un ensayo postcomercialización de beclabuvir, en combinación con asunaprevir y daclatasvir, para estudiar el perfil de seguridad de la combinación con respecto a la función hepática. De febrero de 2014 a noviembre de 2016, se llevó a cabo un ensayo clínico de fase II sobre la combinación de asunaprevir/daclatasvir/beclabuvir (beclabuvir se denomina BMS-791325 en el ensayo) en pacientes infectados por el VIH y el VHC. Además, un reciente metaanálisis de seis ensayos clínicos publicados mostró altas tasas de respuesta en pacientes infectados por el genotipo 1 del VHC tratados con daclatasvir, asunaprevir y beclabuvir, independientemente del uso de ribavirina, del tratamiento previo con interferón o de la restricción a pacientes no cirróticos, del genotipo IL28B o de las variantes asociadas a la resistencia de base.

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For those visiting Milton Keynes, there need never be a dull moment no matter what it is you are interested in.
If you want an energetic end to the day, then the Xscape MK could be just what you are looking for with its indoor ski slope, indoor rock climbing, Evans Cycles and the Sweat Shop. The latter two of which organize regular cycle and running training times respectively.
For a more relaxing end to the day choices include a visit to the cinema or to the theatre. There are three theatres in Milton Keynes: Stables, Stantonbury Campus and Milton Keynes Theatre. So, there is always something for you to go and watch. The Cineworld and Odeon cinemas have a good selection of latest movies. Or, there are a number of restaurants and pubs located in the City Centre or surrounding villages if you prefer by more relaxed settings.
If you are after a more lively night out, Milton Keynes has a number of bars and clubs dotted around the place for you to dance the night away. From luxurious cocktail bars, DJ's playing the latest soul, funk, disco to retro bars you're bound to find a fantastic night out!
To end a perfect night-out, there are a great choice of places to stay while in Milton Keynes from Hotels to serviced apartments. If you are planning a short-stay in Milton Keynes then contact a Cotels representative who will take you through the many advantages of staying in an apartment versus a Hotel room. All apartments in Milton Keynes are fully furnished and inclusive of free-parking and broadband.


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Shaping Black Panther: An interview with Costume Designer Ruth Carter
by Leslie Combemale February 18, 2018 February 19, 2018 Leave a Comment on Shaping Black Panther: An interview with Costume Designer Ruth Carter
Ruth Carter has been breaking barriers and building her reputation in the film industry for over 30 years. She is the first woman of color to be nominated for an Academy Award in best achievement in costume design, for Malcolm X, and has also been thus recognized for Amistad, She has worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood, including Joss Whedon, Ava DuVernay, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Lee Daniels, Steven Spielberg, but she has a special place in her heart for her mentor and friend, director Spike Lee, with whom she got her start, and with whom she has collaborated on over ten movies.
In creating costume designs for historical figures like Martin Luther King, her attention to detail and commitment to research has been so intense, she attends to elements as small is the tilt of a hat, or the way a scarf is tied. She has now turned that passion for detail and interest in historical accuracy to the mythical world of Wakanda. I spoke to Ruth about her work helping build the world and characters of Black Panther, and the benefit of collaboration.
Leslie Combemale: I know research is a very important part of your work. It also means once you've done a project you're changed from being engrossed in so much history. In researching for Black Panther, and learning about the tribes you wanted to represent, what were a few surprises you found after you'd gone deep into your research?
Ruth Carter: I've always used African art and images of indigenous African tribes to inspire for color and design, even on modern films, but most of my other films were dealing with West Africa, where the Africans were taken for slavery. Sierra Leone for Amistad, and the countries on the coast. This was the first time where we really dealt with all areas of Africa, from Kenya to Mali down to South Africa so what it did was give me an opportunity to see regionally what the tribes were doing. If they were sub-Saharan, like the Tuareg tribe, it was one look. We noticed that with the Touring tribe the women, who are Muslim, don't cover their faces, the men do. In the Ndebele, we saw the neck rings, but we also saw the neck rings on a tribe that was a little bit to the Northeast. What it did was give me a sense of the map and how everything is set and how diverse the continent is. We always want to look at the West African side, to Nigeria and Ghana, that's important too, but that's not all Africa.
Most of the tribes are gone because everyone wants to move into the city and you know pop culture is universal, so you might see a Himba girl (of Namibia) walking with a leather drape, and then have the red clay and be walking a cow, but she'll have a cell phone.
LC: Speaking of research, it all leads to the details present in your designs and finished garments. More than many other films, the costumes in Black Panther really expand our understanding of the characters. Can you tell us a few things to look for that are some favorite elements we might miss?
RC: I implore anyone who wants to, to pick the movie's costumes apart and analyze them, because there was so much that went into them! I would say to look for the talismans on the front of the tabards for the Dora Milaje, their tabards have these protective ornaments. You could look for the Okovango pattern that's on the Black Panther suit, it's a triangular pattern that represents the sacred geometry and makes him an African king. You can look for the design pattern in Lupita's dress in the casino scene, it has a raised supplemental pattern created with a Kente cloth. We extracted the line work on the Kente cloth and made the pattern and printed it.
Marvel Studios' BLACK PANTHER..Black Panther Conceptual Character and Costume Design Sketch..Costume Design and Art: Ryan Meinderding and VisDev Team..©Marvel Studios 2018
Marvel Studios' BLACK PANTHER..T'Challa Conceptual Character and Costume Design Sketch..Costume Design: Ruth Carter.Concept Artist: Keith Christensen..©Marvel Studios 2018
Marvel Studios' BLACK PANTHER..Nakia Dora Milaje Conceptual Character and Costume Design Sketch..Costume Design: Ryan Meinderding and VisDev Team working w/ Ruth Carter..©Marvel Studios 2018
Marvel Studios' BLACK PANTHER..Nakia Conceptual Character and Costume Design Sketch..Costume Design: Ruth Carter.Concept Artist: Keith Christensen ..©Marvel Studios 2018
LC: I was going to ask you about the Kimoyo beads which make up the bracelets everyone wears. They serve so many purposes and yet straddle costume and special effects. I find that fascinating.
RC: Everybody wanted to be the person that came up with the Kimoyo bead and what it looked like. I created a bead in our meetings, and Hanna Beachler, our production designer brought one too. She's the one that won the Kimoyo bead contest, if you will. So her design was used and the prop guy was also part of it, because it's actually like a prop. There's a phone there, there's a hologram there. The serve many purposes. They are the way that people in Wakanda communicate so their look and design was really important, even though of course they had to have an organic look as well.
LC: Can you talk about the collaboration that was required for this film, from the costuming to production design, to hair and makeup and special effects? They all have to be tightly integrated!
RC: Moviemaking can be so disjointed. The production designer comes on before the costume designer, and the costume designer comes on before the makeup and hair designers, who come in with just a tiny bit of prep and are often having incredibly tough deadlines, so sharing is hugely important for a film like this. If you're the first one out of the gate, you're having conversations with the director about the sets about the coloring and the atmosphere and environment. That gets designed, and then the costume designer comes on. Then the production designer talks to the director about how the costumes will live in this world. Ryan had particular ideas about how costumes and my job is to take those ideas and figure out how to compose them in this atmosphere. So I start doing research, from tribes around Africa, historical information, what people look like now, Afro-futurism, Afro-Punk, and I organize them in a way that communicates what I think speaks of this world and is what all of our collective ideas represent, as well as my own. Then hair and makeup come to the table and usually they are a little panicked because on a film like this they may only have a few months of prep to create tattooing and scarification, it's important for me to share my ideas and my work with them and bring them up to the point of where our conversations have been so that they don't feel like they have to go back and have the same conversations or ask the same questions over and over again. Our sharing involved on this project them coming to my office, which was completely littered with images. You could sit at the break table for hours before you even talk to me and just absorb the world of Wakanda. They bring their cell phones and take pictures of what they see because i've already done the work of sorting so if I'm going to say one set is the royal family, one is the Jabari tribe..they are all laid out so all they have to do is drink it all in to know what direction i'm going in with color and textures and costumes and they also get to walk through the workshop and see how things are coming along and see what we're working on. We are working closely with them. Visual effects are less involved with that part but they're connected. The FX supervision Jeff in this case was active every day on set and he and his team are looking at the way things are lined up but for our collaboration, he would say, " if there's something you don't like, let me know, and we'll fix it!" so I love visual effects! Also they scanned every background person, every costume, they scanned the costumes on the background, on the actors, and off. If there was an item that they needed more detail on, they came to our department, and they brought it to wherever their scanners are, and they scanned them. Once they go into post, they can actually craft things, and have all the information that they need.
LC: The look of the film is universally timeless, which I love.
RC: That was intentional. When we think of African representation in films of the past, we could actually date it. You think of the films Shaka Zulu, Coming To America, anything that had to do with the African Diaspora, there's a date on it. Anything you look at in film history that has futuristic tech, you can date it. I was uncomfortable with wearable tech because once it's produced, it's already obsolete. For that reason I didn't want to create costumes that looked like they would do something. Like you get close to a door and your costume would open the door for you. I didn't want to do that because it just felt corny to me. There are fashion designers that I have seen throughout the ages that were forward thinkers, and they didn't have kitch-y gimmicks. A lot of them were Asian designers, like Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and also the Brits have a good handle on that. I have always loved Rick Owens , and I'm wearing a piece of his right now. Also Gareth Pugh . They were my favorites and my go-to's. Stella McCartney was doing some things with recycled materials where she made it into fabrics, and I thought those were much more interesting ideas and were timeless and I didn't want to put a lot of African prints because I thought it was expected. Those prints only live in one region of Africa and they are appropriated and were sent by the Dutch, so it was important for me to create an aesthetic that was timeless and that we can look at this film and it would stay relevant and beautiful and say "hey that was in the 2000s!" When we look at Roots or some of the ones that were produced and we look back we realize we are much better at that now.
LC: I know you do mentor and It's important to you. Can you speak to that? For example, I love the work Douriean Fletcher did on the jewelry, and I know you brought her on to the film.
RC: I worked hard to get her on that, she was not in the union so she actually worked on the balcony of my house in the back, set her up with a table, then we got her 30 days of work at our craft house, they totally embraced her and guided her on how to do the patterns for the designs so she worked diligently, alone a lot of the time, and hammered away, fired up her torch. I felt like it was nothing she couldn't do, and what she produced was so well done that was a joy to help a young artist like her to come into this industry and this genre of superhero films.
LC: Now she's the first jeweler in the costumer's guild.
RC: it's thrilling and it's a triumph and I feel it's what we are here to do. Not suck up all the attention and think that we're the superheroes… we really do work with a team.
When I started in the business there was no costume designer that looked like me that I could ask for an internship. It didn't really even matter if they looked like me, to be honest. I studied (Oscar-Winning costume designer for The English Patient) Ann Roth and loved the way her palettes came together. I just felt like it was my responsibility because I had done some work in the opera and on the stage as an intern and I had some incredible people that supported me in whatever I wanted to do in costume. In opera, I was the only person of color there at the time, I guess it was around 1985 at the Santa Fe opera. I just figured this is a field that people of color probably know very little about. When I get resumes or letters and I have from aspiring costume designers, I have evaluated them. It's not like it's an open door policy, and just I'm here to train everyone, but I have trained quite a few who were aspiring and are costume designers now. Rita McGhee is one of them, and it's something that when I was working with Spike Lee at Forty Acres and a Mule, he was big on internship programs, he'd go into LIU (Long Island University) and find those young filmmakers and when you start a film at Forty Acres you're going to meet a group of young people that are aspiring. That's just the landscape there. Coming from working on 12 films with that guy, I too have that same mindset. As they say, EACH ONE TEACH ONE.
See Black Panther in theaters starting Friday, February 16th, and read all about Ruth Carter's adventures in costuming on her blog, which you should do because it's fascinating.
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How Comiskey Group pulled off a COVIDSafe event for 4500 people
15 October, 2020 by Vanessa Cavasinni
Taking advantage of massive outdoor spaces, Comiskey Group has restarted its events program in a new, COVID-Safe manner.
Events have always been big business for Comiskey Group.
"It's not treated as an auxiliary use, it's treated as a focus. It's a whole department of our business. We've invested millions and millions of dollars over the years into creating events, but also marketing and running them," states Comiskey Group director Rob Comiskey.
So much so, that the company owns a $2.4 million stagetruck that "folds out like a Meccano set" for concerts, and nearly $200,000 worth of cash tills. The group puts on an annual program of large-scale concerts, music festivals, rodeos and other family events at Eatons Hill Hotel and Sandstone Point Hotel in Queensland's Moreton Bay region.
With such a substantial investment in an events program, when they disappeared thanks to COVID, it hurt the group a lot.
But with restrictions easing in Queensland as community transmission is kept low, the team decided to give events another go, to see if they could be pulled off in a COVID-Safe manner. With capacity restrictions around the one person per 4sqm rule, Comiskey Group decided to take advantage of its huge plots of land.
"We weren't prepared to take a lot of risk. We weren't prepared to go and spend millions of dollars on music line-ups, so we decided to lessen our risk and run with events that would work within restrictions and a lesser volume of people," explains Comiskey.
They decided to test the waters with Bonfire Night – a family-friendly event that would be easier to crowd control than a music festival. Bonfire Night has been running at Sandstone Point Hotel for the last four years with 9000 people in attendance. The night's entertainment is all about fire – think fire dancers, fireworks, fire shows that you would normally see in a stadium – but is centred around the lighting of a two-storey bonfire. There is also a host of food vendors and a marshmallow roasting pit.
This year the event would have to look a little different to ensure that the event was compliant with the current health restrictions. With enough land to still host 9000 people for the event under the 4sqm rule, Comiskey decided to cap the event to 4500 people, to ensure that they could pull it off safely. They also line-marked 12sqm areas for families to sit in, to ensure social distancing.
More than 50 sanitising stations were set up, and all food vendors had to undergo COVID training. Where the team knew people were likely to queue, they marked out 1.5m distances to ensure that no one stood too close to each other. Every one of the 4500 people in attendance had to have their name recorded and their temperature checked on entry. External security and police were also on hand to help with crowd control, and to ensure that guests complied with the state's restriction that eating and drinking took place while seated. There were also numerous inspections from Queensland Health and OLGR throughout the day.
"There was a lot of work that went into it. It was months and months of work. But we did it successfully."
Want to keep reading about how Comiskey Group pulled off Bonfire Night? Check out the full article below in our current issue of Australian Hotelier.
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Ismaël Boulliau (; Latin: Ismaël Bullialdus; 28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694) was a 17th-century French astronomer and mathematician who was also interested in history, theology, classical studies, and philology.  He was an active member of the Republic of Letters, an intellectual community that exchanged ideas. An early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, Ismael Bullialdus has been called "the most noted astronomer of his generation". One of his books is Astronomia Philolaica (1645).

Life and career

Ismael Bullialdus was the second-born to his Calvinist parents, Susanna Motet and Ismael Bullialdus. His father was a notary by profession and an amateur astronomer who made observations in Loudun, France. His older brother was originally named after their father Ismael, but died shortly after birth.

At the age of 21, Bullialdus converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained at age 26. One year later, in 1632, he moved to Paris. Enjoying the patronage of the de Thou family, Bullialdus worked for 30 years in Paris as a librarian associated with the brothers Jacques and Pierre Dupuy, who were working on the Bibliothèque du Roi (Bibliothe), France's first royal library. After the death of his employers, the brothers Dupuy, Bullialdus became secretary to the French ambassador of Holland. After a dispute with him in 1666, however, he once again moved, this time to the Collège de Laon, where he worked again as a librarian.

Bullialdus published his first work De Natura Lucis in 1638, which he followed with many more published works, ranging from books to published correspondence during his time involved with the Republic of Letters. He was one of the earliest members to be elected as a foreign associate into the Royal Society of London on April 4, 1667, only seven years after the Society was founded. He spent the last five years of his life as a priest, the same occupation in which he started his career.

He retired to the Abbey St. Victor in Paris, where he died at the age of 89.

Involvement in the Republic of Letters

Bullialdus was an active member of the Republic of Letters, the long-distance intellectual correspondence network that had emerged as an international community of self-proclaimed scholars and literary figures. Bullialdus was a prolific correspondent, with around 5,000 letters that have survived to this day. His letters demonstrate the geographic reach of the Republic of Letters; he corresponded with scholars not only in nearby countries like Holland and Italy, but also in Scandinavia, Poland, and the Near East. Around 4,200 of them are in the Collection Boulliau of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (formerly the "Bibliothèque du Roi") with another 800 to or from him that are outside the collection in 45 different archives in nearly a dozen countries. Unfortunately, many of his manuscripts are lost; shortly after his death, his entire library—books, manuscripts and correspondence—was dispersed.

The most famous of the known letters included in the original Archive Boulliau include correspondence with notable thinkers, including Galileo, Marin Mersenne, Henry Oldenburg, Christiaan Huygens, and Fermat. In addition to his own letters, Bullialdus contributed to "The Archives of the Scientific Revolution". Among Bullialdus' papers were notes and examinations of rare manuscripts. Also found among his letters were copies of his contemporaries' manuscripts which he had preserved. Arguably most notable were the ten volumes of original autographs addressed to Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.

Principal works

De natura lucis (1638)
Philolaus (1639)
Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platonem utilium, translation of Theon of Smyrna (1644)
Astronomia philolaica (1645) e-rara.ch
De lineis spiralibus (1657)
Opus novum ad arithmeticam infinitorum (1682)
Ad astronomos monita duo (1667)

Ismael Bullialdus' most famous work is Astronomia Philolaica. Published in 1645, the book is considered by some modern-day historians of science to be the most important book in astronomy between Kepler and Newton. The book widened the awareness of Kepler's planetary ellipses, however, whereas Kepler used a physical cause to explain planetary motion, and called on math and science to support his theory, Bullialdus offered an entirely new cosmology, the "Conical Hypothesis".

Assumptions of Philolaic Astronomy

Bullialdus' Philolaic Astronomy consists of 14 main assumptions:

 Planets have a simple motion in a simple line.
 Planetary revolutions are equal, perpetual, uniform.
 They should be regular revolutions or composed of regular revolutions.
 They can only be circular.
 Or composed of circles.
 Motions should have a principle of equality.
 Since they admit of a certain inequality, the center of the zodiac must be the reference point of inequality.
 This point is in the sun.
 Half of the inequality is attributed to eccentricity, the other to another cause which makes the planet slower at aphelion, less slow at perihelion, without disturbing the equality of motion or transposing it to some other place, whether the circle or the surface.
 When the planet, moving from aphelion, comes to quadrature on the same surface, with equal motion, it should differ from the apparent motion of the first inequality completely or nearly so; but because the other half [of the inequality] is due to the distance [between] the circles, the center of planetary motion must be between the points of true and apparent motion.
 Since the equal motion in the first quadrant is greater than the apparent motion, that part of apparent motion must be greater, hence from the first quadrant to perihelion the arc described going to perihelion must be larger than the first.
  All revolution is composed of circular parts; the same is true of each part.
 Equal motion is uniform; thus, the motion in coming from aphelion corresponds to the larger parallel circles, which increase from aphelion to perihelion. This equal motion does not correspond to a single circle, but to several unequal circles to which the apparent motion also corresponds; the apparent motion includes all the circles on the same surface. The motion must [also] be eccentric and inclined.
 These circles follow one another in a continuous series and are all parallel among themselves; they do not overlap or enclose one another; the apparent motion forms a solid surface containing larger and smaller circles.

Bullialdus' hypothesis

 Conical Hypothesis: "The Planets, according to that astronomer [Boulliau], always revolve in circles; for that being the most perfect figure, it is impossible they should revolve in any other.  No one of them, however, continues to move in any one circle, but is perpetually passing from one to another, through an infinite number of circles, in the course of each revolution; for an ellipse, said he, is an oblique section of a cone, and in a cone, betwixt the vertices of the ellipse there is an infinite number of circles, out of the infinitely small portions of which the elliptical line is compounded.  The Planet, therefore, which moves in this line, is, in every point of it, moving in an infinitely small portion of a certain circle.  The motion of each Planet, too, according to him, was necessarily, for the same reason, perfectly equable. An equable motion being the most perfect of all motions.  It was not, however, in the elliptical line, that it was equable, but in any one of the circles that were parallel to the base of that cone, by whose section this elliptical line had been formed:  for, if a ray was extended from the Planet to any one of those circles, and carried along by its periodical motion, it would cut off equal portions of that circle in equal times; another most fantastical equalizing circle, supported by no other foundation besides the frivolous connection betwixt a cone and an ellipse, and recommended by nothing but the natural passion for circular orbits and equable motions," (Adam Smith, History of Astronomy, IV.55-57).

See also
 List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
 Republic of Letters

References

 Hatch, Robert A. (1998). Boulliau Bibliography. University of Florida. Retrieved 2013-11-19.

Further reading
Nellen, H. J. M., Ismaël Boulliau (1605-1694), astronome, épistolier, nouvelliste et intermédiaire scientifique, Studies of the Pierre Bayle Institute Nijmegen (SIB), 24, APA-Holland University Press, 1994. .

1605 births
1694 deaths
People from Loudun
17th-century French astronomers
French librarians
French notaries
17th-century French mathematicians
17th-century French Roman Catholic priests
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism
Fellows of the Royal Society
Catholic clergy scientists


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Miguel Loureiro Ameijenda (Cerceda, La Coruña, 21 de noviembre de 1996) es un futbolista español que juega como defensa en el C. D. Lugo de la Segunda División de España.

Trayectoria

Se formó en la cantera del Real Club Celta de Vigo, y tras acabar su etapa de juveniles firmó con el Pontevedra C. F. Debutó en Segunda B en la temporada 2015-16, disputando 8 partidos. En la siguiente temporada, la 2016-17, se convirtió en titular indiscutible para el entrenador Luisito en la zaga gallega, sumando un total de 37 partidos disputados entre liga y play-off de ascenso.

En julio de 2017 abandonó Pontevedra y llegó con la carta de libertad al Córdoba C. F., firmando por tres temporadas, hasta 2020. Un año antes de acabar su contrato se marchó al F. C. Andorra.

Para la temporada 2021-22 regresó al fútbol gallego después de firmar por el Racing Club de Ferrol. Allí solo estuvo un año, ya que en agosto de 2022 se comprometió con el C. D. Lugo para los dos siguientes.

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The twelfth edition of Mongolica is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of the classic of Mongolian studies in Russia, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, an outstanding specialist in the field of Mongolian linguistics, literature, history and ethnography - Boris Yakovlevich Vladimirtsov (1884-1931). By this momentous date the complete collected works of Vladimirtsov have been published, and the archive of the scholar has been enriched with materials deposited with the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archives of RAS by his relatives.
The issue consists of the following parts: Historiography and Source Studies, Literature, Folklore, Linguistics, Reviews, Our anniversaries, and Our Translations. The articles are written by both distinguished scholars and young researchers in the field of Mongolian studies. Reviews of new books make the issue topical.
The papers are written in keeping with the research priorities of modern Mongolian studies, with special regard to the matters of history and culture of the Mongolian peoples, which gives the articles great social, historical and practical value.
The issue will be of interest not only to the Mongolists, but also to specialists in philology, history and culture, as well as to those interested in the history of the Mongolian peoples and Central Asia.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Mongolian Derbet custom of honoring the Old Turkic stone monument mentioned by Ts.-D. Nominkhanov in his field materials. The author compares this custom with the Kalmyk ritual of worship of the deity Tsagan aav (White Old Man) in front of the coniferous tree ritual pillar on the barrows named ova. The work concludes that the stone images and the wooden ritual pillar are sacred objects connected with ancestor worship that ensure welfare during ritual celebrations — the Ursiyin Nadom of the Mongolian Derbets and the Urs sar of the Kalmyks.
The development of Russian-Mongolian relations in the first quarter of the 20th century, the formation of the Mongolian national state and the role of Russia in this process are discussed in this article; a modern characteristic of the study of these problems in Russian and Mongolian historiography is also presented.
There is an information about the features of Oirat stationary settlement's buildings during the period of the Late Middle Age in the article. These buildings were constructed on the lands of nomadic Oirats and for Oirats, which were represented by the disappeared in 18 century nomad people of Zungar Khanship and Kalmyks, who living in the south part of Russia.
The article deals with the history of the "Special" Expedition of the Ministry of Agriculture to Mongolia (Монголэкс) during World War I, connected with a mass purchase of cattle and meat. Amid the meat supply crisis in Russia, connected with the enormous consumption of meat products by the army, meat and cattle purchases in neighboring countries began to play a great role. The organization of Mongoleks, which was headed by the known Russian traveler and the expert on Central Asia colonel P. K. Kozlov, became the largest purchasing structure. As a result of the appropriate performance of the organization, the warehouses and stations of Eastern Siberia were stocked with meat that could not be shipped to European Russia in due time. The opposition used this fact in the race for power by spreading news in the press about meat allegedly «decaying» in the winter of 1917 beyond Ural. Anyway, the Russian purchases of products in Mongolia and Manchuria significantly smoothed the unfavorable development of the food crisis in Russia. The activity of Mongoleks allowed to supply meat to the Russian Siberia and partially — to the front of the Russian army.
The article, which is based on the fieldwork in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of the Qinghai province during July-August 2013, deals with the level of preservation and existence of the oral tradition of the Tibetan heroic epic "Ling Gesar".
The humour culture of the Mongols has a centuries-long history of development. Every decade and century it absorbed new shades of different kinds of the comic, such as humour, satire and irony. At the same time it has preserved its continuity and national flavour. Since the beginning of the 20th century the variety of comic works in Mongolian literature has been dazzling, keeping strong connection with the traditions of folklore and literature of the 19th century.
V. Inzhinash was the father of three kinds of novels: historical, domestic (common) and adventure (the novel with elements of satire and fantasy). He was not only the founder of new prosaic literature, but also the successor of poetic tradition. His heritage is very rich. The brightness of images and the abundance of metaphors in the prose of V. Inzhinash are connected with the well-developed poetic tradition of Mongolian literature. Chinese classical literature also influenced the poetics of V. Inzhinash. The brilliant use of a wide spectrum of traditional artistic techniques and epic methods of narration allows us to consider V. Inzhinash's creation an essential part of the whole literary process in Mongolia.
The article deals with a folk parable about the functional purpose of the musical instrument dombra, which accompanied the performance of the Kalmyk folk songs "dombrt keldg dud" (songs performed to the dombra). The genre nature of the songs is analyzed in close relationship with the dombra.
The article is devoted to the concept of "torma" in the original and translated texts of the fairy tales "Siddhi- Kür". The article analyzes the "depth of perception" of the Buddhist phenomenon of torma which transmits the national flavour not only in the original text, but also in the translation. The article is of interest to folklorists, ethnographers and cultural specialists.
«The Review of the Journey into the Kalmyk Steppe during the summer of 1886» belongs to the personal collection of K. F. Golstunsky (1831-1899) kept at the Archives of Orientalists at the IOM RAS. Scientific interests of K. F. Golstunsky included all aspects of life in the Kalmyk steppe. The author described the purpose of his journey as an intention to study the spoken Kalmyk language. These materials will be highly interesting for researchers as well as readers who would like to know more about life and culture of the Kalmyks.
At the IOM Department of the Manuscripts and Documents, The Catalogue of Texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. Vol. 1: Bka' 'gyur and Bstan 'gyur, by A.V.Zorin (chief editor), B.L.Mitruev, S.S.Sabrukova, A.A.Sizova, will be discussed.


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A Runcible Phone: the Nonsense Name for a No Nonsense Device
The word "Runcible" is a nonsense adjective invented by the English poet, Edward Lear. Here is an excerpt from "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" to help set the stage:
The company Monohm Inc. is taking a new spin on this children's classic by creating a new device called "Runcible", that will surely stand out amongst the sea of rectangular smart phones this coming year.
Pictured below is this cleverly unique device with various wood backings and a camera directly in the center. Running on a Mozilla Platform, the features are very limited, however I was told by the Founder, President & CPO George Ariolla, that this was an intentional decision.
Product-wise, holding one in your hand is a lot like holding a macaroon cookie. The shape and weight is about equal, light and beautifully delicious. I'm curious how the marketing strategy will play out, but I'm hoping it's something like....Meet Runcible. The phone cookie that is too beautiful to eat.
Macaroon cookie photo by Nad's Bakery
While the actual working device is still in prototyping phases, here is a glimpse at the flat screen on the front, shiny and perfectly symmetrical.
It makes sense that the founder of this company was searching for a way to simplify the mobile phone. As a family man, George recognizes his children's constant need for phone apps, which really mimics our own behavior. The device, which is somewhere in between a wearable and a smartphone does not host apps.
The Runcible phone does not run apps, but you can text, make calls and take photos. Isn't that all a family needs? The device aims to deter a constant attention to the phone, and encourage a simple lifestyle that brings our attention back to one another.
A glimpse at the upcoming interface reveals that you can still track your Twitter and Instagram counts, but the primary purpose is as watch and camera, not a distraction.
Swelling bubbles are the notification, not a blinking light
Runcible could make for a fine accessory - perhaps this will become a great work companion, something that will be the non-phone for the times when you should be paying more attention to the task at hand, rather than the constant notification feeds. Or it could be as simple as a smart pocket watch or makeup compact!
-XO Julia
...They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon...
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