Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is best-known for his simple compositions of slashed, monochromatic canvases and heady manifestos. At first glance, the Met Breuer's huge retrospective of the artist, (open January 23) might sound like dry fare that's not the guaranteed blockbuster the institution needs to bolster attendance. (While the gorgeous modernist outpost has seen numbers about on par with The Whitney's when they ran the space, attendance hasn't yet risen to match the crowds drawn to exhibitions at The Met's main location on Fifth Avenue). But there's reason to believe it could be. The exhibition, called "On the Threshold," marks the first major stateside retrospective of the artist in over four decades, and the breadth of work on display from Fontana's surprisingly diverse career promises to appeal to a crowd beyond those with art history MFAs.
Somewhat ironically, Fontana didn't begin making the slashed paintings (or "Tagli") that most people remember him for until slightly before his first major retrospective in 1959. Born at the tail end of the 19th Century to a sculptor father who made funerary monuments for Argentina's Italian immigrant community, Fontana grew up immersed in aesthetics that were anything but minimalist.
The first decades of his career were spent making delightfully weird objects that blurred the lines between the "kitsch" of his upbringing and Europe's new modernist movements, well before the collapse of those distinctions became talking points of the art world. Think brightly-painted figurative plaster sculptures and lumpy ceramics in vibrant glazes and you start to get the idea.
There's a tense-yet-playful sense of exploration in Fontana's 3-D work that feels unexpectedly contemporary—so many of his ceramics in particular wouldn't look out-of-place in a trendy Lower East Side gallery today. The potential of "On the Threshold" to feel timely lies in the uncanny feeling that Fontana's era bears some resemblance to our own, as the artist's output was always influenced by uncertain political contexts.
Bouncing back-and-forth from Europe and South America, he lived through two World Wars and the rise of demagogues in both Italy and Argentina. His work flirted mischievously between the tastes of Italy's fascist mainstream and his avant-garde peers. One can see a populist naivety in Portrait of Teresita (Ritratto di Teresita), a mosaic-clad bust from 1940. And then there's a violent dynamism to Battle (Battaglia), a ceramic from 1947 that feels like a direct heir to the macho Italian Futurist movement.
But between experimenting with different modes of representation Fontana embraced abstraction, perhaps escaping into the uncomplicated enjoyment of materials and form. For anyone feeling a little lost and helpless in today's political climate, it's comforting to see that one of the 20th century's great creatives spent a lot of time soul-searching too.
By 1946, Fontana had fled the war in Europe and found himself working as an official sculptor back in Argentina. It was here that he and a group of students published their (unfortunately named) "White Manifesto." In it, they advocated for a new form of art—one divorced from reason, which they felt had plunged the world into chaos—and an embrace of the subconscious. When Fontana returned to Italy the following year he found his studio in ruins, destroyed by the allied bombing of Milan. This experience pushed Fontana to a near-total break with the past and the founding of a new art movement, Spazialismo (Spatialism). With Spazialismo, Fontana foreshadowed concepts such as installation art and environmental art—using lighting, color and architectural interventions to create spaces for the viewer to experience in real time.
"On the Threshold" is impressively re-staging several of these ambitious works. One, Spatial Environment in Red Light (first installed in Amsterdam, 1967), can be found on the fifth floor of the Met Breuer. Another, Spatial Environment at Documenta 4 (Kassel, 1968), is on view at El Museo del Barrio. The latter is notable as the last environment Fontana designed before his death in 1969. This is a rare opportunity to explore immersive installations from the godfather of the genre—authored well before the advent of the Instagrammable art experience.
For all of Fontana's experiments bringing four dimensions to various media, those he performed on canvas are what made him a household name in art circles (it always comes back to painting, doesn't it?). Globally, the 1950s were a time when artists strove to redefine painting as an "index" of an action—that is, the object being considered as the record of a performative act, rather than the act of "painting" existing in service of producing an object. In Japan, the artists of the Gutai movement threw themselves in mud. In the United States, the abstract expressionists downed whisky before throwing paint on their backdrops. A certain French artist famously covered naked women in paint to use them as "living brushes." What could be more Italian than stabbing a canvas?
But really, these works have to be seen in person to be appreciated. Fontana never thought of his paintings as images that could be reproduced by photography—like all of his works, they were experiments with space, shape, and time. For Fontana, the canvas picture plane was just another material object to be questioned and warped into new forms—something we haven't stopped doing since.


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Q: pip install vs python -m pip install with virtualenvs I know this has been asked several times here on StackOverflow and that some questions remained unanswered, but I want to give it a try.
On several remote machines I have access to, once activated a virtual environment (created with python -m venv, I am not using conda) I can run either pip install or python -m pip install with similar results: packages are installed within the current virtual environment. So, right after installing a new package P, I can run python and then run import P at the python prompt without errors.
Not on a machine I am working on right now (with python version 3.6.9, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS). On this machine the two commands are different. All the tests I describe below have been made with a fresh environment (the only one I have), created after I deleted all the references to previous installations from the hidden folders in ~.

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*if I activate the virtual environment env1, install a package P with pip install P, then run python and import the new package, the interpreter cannot find the package P.

*After 1, if I deactivate the virtualenv, run python and try to import P, I get another error due to the missing module P.

*where did pip install P?

*Installation within the virtual environment is fine with python -m pip install.

However, when I activate the environment env1, I get this:
$-> which pip
/home/user/env1/bin/pip
and
$-> which python
/home/user/env1/bin/python
Indeed, that folder is the first in the $PATH variable.
So, theoretically, pip resides within the virtual environment. Theoretically, it should install packages in the same environment as python -m pip install.
What did I not understand?
Is there any chance I can have pip install and python -m pip install behave in the same way with respect to the active virtual environment?
-- UPDATE & SOLVED thanks to @phd comment. You are right, phd, I should have checked the information you asked, you solved the issue!!! Thanks!
no active virtual environment:
type -a python pip
python is aliased to `/usr/bin/python3'
python is /usr/bin/python
bash: type: pip: not found

env1 active
python is aliased to `/usr/bin/python3'
python is /home/user/env1/bin/python
python is /usr/bin/python
pip is /home/user/env1/bin/pip

head -1 $(which pip)
#!/home/user/env1/bin/python3

The issue here was the python alias: I removed the alias (that I did not create btw, it is system-wide) and pip install became equivalent to python -m pip install. Very obvious now, not during the hour spent looking for the solution.
Thanks!

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Daily Current Affairs Update (19th-20th June 2016)
1. Kannada film "Thithi" wins top award in Shanghai film festival:
Kannada film 'Thithi' has won the best film award and best script writers award at the Asia New Talent Awards in the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival.
The director, Raam Reddy has made his debut through this film.
It is the only Indian film that has been selected for screening in the festival of Shanghai.
"Thithi" has already been screened in over 12 international and national film festivals and won 13 awards.
2. PM Narendra Modi, Sri Lankan President inaugurate Duraiappah stadium in Jaffna:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena have inaugurated Duraiappah Stadium in Jaffna which was renovated by India.
Sri Lankan President Sirisena was present at the stadium in Jaffna while PM Narendra Modi joined the event through video-conferencing from New Delhi.
The newly renovated Duraiappah Stadium has been named in honour of a former Mayor of Jaffna late Alfred Thambirajah Duraiappah. The Indian government has renovated the stadium at a cost of over 7 crore rupees which has the seating capacity of 1,850.
3. Govt approves 100% FDI in aviation, defence, e-commerce:
The government has permitted 100 per cent FDI in civil defence, aviation, animal husbandry and trading, including through e-commerce, in respect of food products manufactured or produced in India.
Defence Sector: Present FDI regime in this sector permits 49% FDI participation in the equity of a company under automatic route. FDI limit also has been made applicable to Manufacturing of Small Arms and Ammunitions covered under Arms Act, 1959.
Aviation Sector: 100% FDI under automatic route in Greenfield and Brownfield Airport Projects to aid in modernization of the existing airports to establish a high standard.
Single Brand Retail Trading: Entities undertaking single brand retail trading have been relaxed from local sourcing norms up to 3 years.
4. International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence:
First International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict was observed on 19 June 2016.
The day was observed to raise awareness for the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence.
5. World Refugee Day observed on 20 June:
It is observed annually to draw attention to the plight of refugees, celebrate their courage and resilience and renew commitment to solving refugee problems.
The UN General Assembly via its resolution 55/76 on 4 December 2000 decided to observe the World Refugee Day on 20 June every year.
6. NASA unveils X-57 Hybrid Electric Research Plane:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 17 June 2016 unveiled the iconic X-57 Hybrid Electric Research Plane nicknamed as Maxwell.
The artist's concept of the X-57 shows the plane's specially designed wing and 14 electric motors.
NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the Maxwell to demonstrate that how electric propulsion can make planes quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.
7. Punjab Government launches Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund:
The Punjab government has launched a special fund "Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund" to provide free treatment for patients affected by Hepatitis C.
Punjab became the first Indian state to provide free treatment to confirmed cases of Hepatitis C.
20 crore rupees fund will provide all the residents of Punjab affected by Hepatitis C free treatment.
The scheme is considered important in the public health measures of the state as the prevalence rate of patients affected by Hepatitis could be as high as 3%.
8. India, Thailand signed 2 agreements:
India and Thailand signed two agreements that are aimed at enhancing cooperation in culture as well as educational sectors.
The agreements were signed in New Delhi during the 3-day visit of Thailand Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha that concluded on 18 June 2016.
9. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's statue unveiled in Malaysia:
A bronze statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose has been unveiled at the Indian cultural centre premises in Malaysia in the presence of nine Indian National Army (INA) veterans.
It was announced during the last year visit of PM Modi to Malaysia. At that time, he has also announced the renaming of Indian Cultural Centre as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indian Cultural Centre.
The bust was unveiled by the traditional lighting of the lamp which was sculpted by Ram Sutar and sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
10. 106-year-old Aida Gemanque becomes oldest Olympic torch bearer:
world's oldest skydiver, Aida Gemanque (106-year) has become the oldest Olympic torch bearer on 18 June 2016 when she carried the flame in the Amazonian city of Macapa, aged 106.
She broke the record formerly held by Alexander Kaptarenko, who was 101 when he took part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay
The 95-day torch relay will pass through 325 Brazilian cities and involve some 12,000 runners before ending at Rio's Maracana Stadium for the lighting of the Olympic cauldron on August 5.
11. Former Cricketer Chetan Chauhan as named NIFT Chairman:
Former BJP MP Chetan Chauhan, who had played Test cricket for India, has been appointed as the Chairman of the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).
NIFT, the premier fashion institute was set up in 1986 and has centres across the country.
It comes under the Union Ministry of Textiles.
12. Nico Rosberg wins 2016 European Grand Prix of F1:
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg from Germany has won the 2016 European Grand Prix of Formula One.
The race was run on a street circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
It was Rosberg's overall ninetieth championship title of F1 in his career and the fifth win in the 2016 season.
Earlier he had won Australian Grand Prix, Bahrain Grand Prix, Chinese Grand Prix and Russian Grand Prix in the 2016 season.
13. India wins Silver medal at Archery World Cup in Antalya:
The Indian mixed recurve team of Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das has won the silver medal at the Archery World Cup in Antalya, Turkey.
In the final match Indian team lost to South Korea by 1-5 score at Konyaalti Beach Park.
The Archery World Cup is a competition started in 2006. It is organized by the World Archery Federation.
14. Australia won Hero Hockey Champions Trophy 2016:
Australia has won the Hero Hockey Champions Trophy 2016 at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London.
It defeated India 1-0 in a shoot-out.
With this victory, Australia claimed the Champions Trophy title for the 14th time. While, Germany defeated Great Britain to win the bronze medal.
15. Sri Lankan pacer Shaminda Eranga suspended by ICC for illegal action:
International Cricket Council has suspended Sri Lanka's fast bowler Shaminda Eranga from bowling.
He was suspended after an assessment of his bowling action. But he can play domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, with the consent of the country's cricket board.
The assessment revealed that all deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations.
16. Renowned Educationalist Jeppiaar passes away:
Renowned politician-turned-educationalist and founder of Jeppiaar Educational Trust Jeppiaar Pangiraj (85-year) has passed away due to brief illness at Chennai.
He had a law degree from Madras University following which he pursued a Master of Arts degree from Mysore University and a his doctoral degree in Anna University on Water Resource Management.
He was a pioneer in the setting up of private engineering institutions in Tamil Nadu.
In 1987, he founded the Sathyabama Engineering College which later became Sathyabama University.
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Фрасивулос Георгиадис (; 4 января 1907, Афины — 15 марта 1977, Мюнхен) — греческий музыковед.

Учился в Афинской консерватории по классу фортепиано, одновременно получая образование инженера по специальности «мосты и дороги» (1923-1928). Позднее совершенствовался у Карла Орфа и изучал музыковедение под руководством Г. фон Фичера в Мюнхенском университете, где защитил диссертацию на тему «Englische Diskanttraktate aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts», опубликованную в Вюрцбурге в 1937 году.

Был профессором Афинской консерватории, которую возглавлял с 1939 по 1941 годы. Преподавал в Гейдельбергском университете (1948-1956), а позднее занимал кафедру музыковедения Мюнхенского университета.

Значительная часть его научных трудов посвящена греческой музыке, в частности византийского периода. Исследовал также общие соотношения между музыкой и речью (а также поэзией, танцем и т. п) и творчество классических австрийских и немецких композиторов.

Основные труды
 Englische Diskanttraktate aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Mehrstimmigkeit im Mittelalter.  Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität München, München 1937.
 Der griechische Rhythmus: Musik, Reigen, Vers und Sprache. Schröder, Hamburg 1949 (ursprünglich Habilitationsschrift der Universität München als: Bemerkungen zur antiken Quantitätsmetrik, 1947).
 Musik und Sprache: Das Werden der abendländischen Musik dargestellt an der Vertonung der Messe. Mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Springer, Berlin/Göttingen 1954 (diverse Neuauflagen).
 Musik und Rhythmus bei den Griechen: Zum Ursprung der abendländischen Musik. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1958 (diverse Neuauflagen).
 Sakral und Profan in der Musik. Hueber. München 1960.
 Musik und Schrift. Oldenbourg, München 1962.
 Das musikalische Theater. Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 1965.
 Kleine Schriften. Schneider, Tutzing 1977.
 Schubert: Musik und Lyrik. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967 (diverse Neuauflagen).
 Nennen und Erklingen: Die Zeit als Logos. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985.

Источник
 "M. Honegger." Dictionnaire de la musique. Paris: Bordas, 1979, vol. 1, p. 403-404.
 Doris Dorner: Musik als Repräsentationsgeschehen: Ein musik-philosophischer Rekurs auf Thrasybulos Georgiades. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
 Hans-Georg Gadamer: Thrasybulos Georgiades. In: Hans-Georg Gadamer: Hermeneutik im Rückblick (= Gesammelte Werke. Bd. 10). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1995, S. 423–426.
 Τάκης Καλογερόπουλος, Λεξικό της Ελληνικής μουσικής, εκδόσεις Γιαλλελή, Αθήνα 2001.

Примечания

Музыковеды Греции
Музыковеды Германии
Члены Гейдельбергской академии наук
Члены Баварской академии наук
Члены Баварской академии изящных искусств

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2014 – Army Corps of Engineers announces the selection of Alternative 20, the most comprehensive alternative in their Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study for the Los Angeles River.
2014 – April 11, 2014 is declared 'One Water Day' in the City of Los Angeles.
2014 – Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio obtain water rights for beneficial use of Los Angeles River water as part of Bending the River Back into the City.
2014 – Community Advisory Committee created to assess the Pilot Recreation Zone in the River recommends making it permanent in collaboration with the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority (MRCA).
2014 – California State Parks breaks ground on the permanent Los Angeles State Historic Park.
2013 – The Army Corps of Engineers releases recommendations for the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study.
2013 – The Ad Hoc Committee for the Los Angeles River is integrated into the Arts, Parks, Health, Aging and River Committee, a standing committee of the Los Angeles City Council.
2013 – The Los Angeles River Pilot Recreation Zone opens in the Glendale Narrows, managed in partnership by the MRCA.
2013 – Ed P. Reyes River Greenway completed in Lincoln Heights.
2013 – NBC Universal agrees to contribute $13.5 million towards the LA River bike path between Studio City and Griffith Park.
2013 – Completion of Sunnynook River Park including the naming of Lewis MacAdams Riverwalk
2013 – The City Council adopts the Cornfields Arroyo Seco Specific Plan (CASP), which establishes new mixed-use zoning districts along the Los Angeles River as well as a greenway buffer.
2012 – City of Glendale creates the Glendale Narrows Riverwalk
2012 – The City of Los Angeles receives a Sustainable Communities Federal Partnership Grant and establishes the Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) Riverfront Collaborative.
2012 – International Design Competition held to select a design for the replacement of the iconic 6th Street Bridge over the Los Angeles River.
2012 – The Old Lincoln Heights Jail along the River receives Community Development Block Grant funding to study revitalization options.
2012 – Opening of N. Atwater Park Expansion and Creek Restoration project along the River
2012 – Confluence Plaza is completed in partnership with the MRCA at the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco tributary.
2011 – Low Impact Development Ordinance (LID) passed by the City Council to enhance stormwater regulations in Los Angeles
2011 – The Paddle the LA River pilot program begins in Sepulveda Basin led by the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC).
2011 – The Los Angeles River is chosen as one of a few Federal Urban Waters Pilot programs.
2011 – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa holds first LA River Day of Service
2010 – Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and other White House officials attend America's Great Outdoors Listening Session and visit the Los Angeles River.
2010 – Los Angeles River is affirmed as a Traditionally Navigable Waterway under the Federal Clean Water Act.
2010 – Completion of LA River Bike Path through Elysian Valley
2010 - Funding is appropriated by Congress to the Army Corps of Engineers for the Bowtie Parcel Demonstration Project in Cypress Park along the River.
2010 - LA River Corps is established in a partnership between the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps to create job training for youth to serve as River Ambassadors, helping to clean, restore, and provide bicycle patrol along the river.
2009 – The Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, a nonprofit entity, is established and Board members are appointed by the City of LA.
2009 – Prop O funding used to purchase Albion Dairy site along the Los Angeles River.
2009 – City Council establishes the Watershed Infiltration for Supply and Environmental Restoration (WISER) Committee to coordinate water issues between LADWP, Sanitation, and the Bureau of Engineering.
2009 – River Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) signed by the City and County of Los Angeles establishing the River Cooperation Committee.
2008 – First annual LA River Day on Capitol Hill is hosted by Congressmember Lucille Roybal-Allard.
2007 – Senator Boxer and Congress includes authorization of $25 million for the Los Angeles River in the Federal Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
2007 – Rio de Los Angeles State Park opens at Taylor Yard.
2007 – The City Council adopts the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan (LARRMP) establishing a blueprint for future revitalization of the River.
2006 – Los Angeles River Street Ends Biofiltration Project in partnership with the City of Los Angeles and Northeast Trees creates a green street at Oros St.
2006 – The State passes Proposition 84, The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond.
2006 – The Interim Public Use at Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) opens.
2006 - First Youth Workshop on the Los Angeles River takes place. Over 500 students from local high schools attend.
2006 – Studio City greenway opens along the River.
2006 - Integrated Regional Water Management Plan is approved for the region.
2006 - City signs an agreement with US Army Corps of Engineers to co-sponsor the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Study and establishes a future cost-share and partnership with the Federal government.
2006 – City of Los Angeles' Integrated Resources Plan (IRP), a stakeholder based water resource planning strategy, is approved.
2006 – The Los Angeles River Planning Unit is established in the Department of City Planning.
2006 – First Sister River agreement signed, marking international dialogue and information sharing about revitalization efforts.
2005-2007 - As part of the LARRMP, over 20 public workshops are held to encourage community input.
2005- Funded by DWP, the City issues a RFP for the Revitalization Master Plan and Tetra Tech Consultant Team is selected to develop the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan.
2005- The Plastic Bag Taskforce for the City of LA is established to address plastic litter in the Los Angeles River.
2005- Los Angeles River and Ballona Creek trash TMDLs were revised and adopted.
2005 - Catch basin inserts and covers are the first project funded by Prop O that would install 8000 inserts and 6000 covers to prevent trash from flowing into the Los Angeles River and Ballona Creek.
2005 - A portion of the zanja madre, or "mother ditch," the original water system for the City, is discovered during Metro Gold Line construction near the Cornfields.
2005 – City of Los Angeles approves and completes official river signage and mileage markers program for the River.
2005- The "mile marker" pilot program along the River becomes fully operational.
2004 - First Los Angeles City River Appreciation Day is celebrated.
2004 - The County Master Plan Advisory Committee establishes official landscape and signage guidelines for the river and the right-of-way.
2004 - The City passes Proposition O, which raises $500 million in bonds for watershed protection.
2003 - Los Angeles River City Department Task Force is established and Chaired by the City Engineer.
2003 - Los Angeles River Nutrient TMDL was adopted.
2002 - Los Angeles River Trash Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) was adopted, which establishes pollutant limits a water body can receive without violating water quality standards.
2002– The Ad Hoc Committee on the Los Angeles River is established by City Council and Chaired by Councilmember Ed Reyes.
2002 – The Alex Baum Bicycle Bridge opens along the LA River.
2002- The State passes Proposition 40, which allocates $2.6 billion in bonds for natural resource conservation, parks, and historical and cultural resources.
2002- The State passes Proposition 50 to allocate money to clean up the drinking water supply and watershed.
2000- The State passes Proposition 13, Safe drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act.
2000- The State passes Proposition 12 for Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean air, and Coastal Protection, contributing millions of dollars to Los Angeles River projects.
1998: SMMC and MRCA purchase Lawry's and renovate for Los Angeles River Center and Gardens (with City, County, state funding).
1997 - First segment of Los Angeles City Los Angeles River Bike Path opens, adding to 17 miles of Los Angeles County Los Angeles river bike trails.
1996 - The County of Los Angeles River Master Plan is approved by the Board of Supervisors.
1996 - The City passes Proposition K, which secures money for improvement, construction, and maintenance of City parks.
1994: Knox Avenue/ "Elysian Gateway Park", SMMC and MRCA buy land and build first of series of pocket parks along LA River in Elysian Valley.
1993 - The California Costal Conservancy publishes The Los Angeles River Park and Recreation Survey, identifying potential projects along the River.
1992 - Los Angeles County establishes the Los Angeles River Advisory Committee to oversee the County's Los Angeles River Master Plan.
1992 – Proposition A: County receives open space assessment district funds to provide new River access through parks and bike trails (with additional funding occurring in 1996)
1990 - County of Los Angeles River Task Force is formed and restoration efforts begin.
1989 - Mayor Tom Bradley establishes first task force on the River to look at potential River improvements.
1985 - Group of artists and poet Lewis MacAdams found the Friends of the Los Angeles River (FOLAR).
1979 - Legislation to establish Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) (Jan 1, 1980: SMMC born)
1979 - Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve is established
1941 - Sepulveda Dam is completed
1938 - Most devastating flood on record
1935 - Army Corps begins channelization
1934 - Massive flooding occurs causing Congress to authorize concrete channels
1921 - Flood control construction moves the mouth of the River one mile east
1918 - Increasing industrialization along the River's banks
1914 - Major flood causes widespread damage
1910-1933 - Many of the historic bridges are built, while levees are built along more than a third of the River
1910 - City passes ordinance prohibiting dumping in the River
mid 1800's - Development boom results in homes and businesses being built in the floodplain
1850 - Los Angeles incorporated as a City
1825 - A massive flood cuts a new path south of the pueblo to San Pedro Bay
1781 - El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles is founded where Olvera Street now exists.
1769 - Gaspar de Portola and father Juan Crespi name the River Nuestra Señora de la los Angeles de la Porciuncula.
5,000 B.C.E. - 1700's - Tongva and Yangna Indian villages inhabit the River area


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Jamey Johnson Plans New Album, Produces Other Artists
Sarah Skates • May 24, 2011
Jamey Johnson and the Blind Boys of Alabama
Jamey Johnson has been working on a new album for Mercury Nashville, as well as manning production for other acts. His upcoming project will be his follow-up to the gold-certified, critically acclaimed two-disc set The Guitar Song. "I've written some and recorded a bunch," he says, "not necessarily new songs that I wrote, but just finding songs that I've never done before. That has been a lot of fun for me. Songs that I never thought to break out onstage, it seems kind of easy in the studio when you have a little help from musicians and can put a little more focus into it and a little more style on it."
Johnson also produced the new album for the Blind Boys of Alabama, Take the High Road. He offered guest vocals for the project and recruited Hank Williams Jr., Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, Willie Nelson and the Oak Ridge Boys to do the same. The album includes classics such as "Have Thine Own Way, Lord," "I Saw the Light," and "Jesus, Hold My Hand." They celebrated the release with a recent listening party at Ben's Studio in Nashville.
Johnson is also producing a project for up-and–coming singer-songwriter Erin Enderlin. She will be one of the numerous artists joining Johnson on Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown Tour 2011 this summer. The outing kicks off May 27 in Philadelphia, stops June 3 at Nashville's The Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel, and ends July 4th at Nelson's famed picnic in Fort Worth.
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Ramco Aviation sets foot into Greater China with Far Eastern Air Transport win
Chennai - January 19, 2016
Taipei, Taiwan / Chennai, India – January 19, 2016 – Ramco Systems, the global Aviation software provider on cloud, mobile & tablets, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) to automate the Taiwanese carrier's maintenance and engineering operations.
Under the agreement, FAT will install Ramco Aviation Suite V5.7, to streamline its Maintenance and Engineering functions, enabling it to track aircraft components more effectively while minimizing paperwork and human error.
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Sagan releases Metro 6 LX
By Brad Cook
Macworld JAN 20, 2004 4:00 pm PST
Sagan Technology recently announced the release of Metro 6 LX, the middle brother in the company's line of music-making applications. While Metro 6 is the full-featured big brother, Metro 6 LX is the middle child, offering less options but still more robust than its younger sibling, Metro 6 SE. Sagan notes that Metro "stands alone as a complete and integrated MIDI, audio and video production system."
The LX edition offers 16 sections with up to 48 tracks each, 10 simultaneous audio tracks, 10 simultaneous real-time plug-ins, 3 synthesizer plug-ins, support for both VST and AudioUnit plug-ins, and more.
You can use Metro 6 LX to edit audio with drag-and-drop simplicity, compress audio files with QuickTime, use context-sensitive searchable online help to find answers, monitor audio and MIDI with its VU meters, review online tutorials to get you started, record at variable sampling rates up to 96kHz and sample sizes up to 16-bit, apply effects in real-time and make offline edits, and more.
Metro 6 LX also doubles as a jukebox for playing MP3s and other audio files and it includes a note pad you can use to make comments on each file, as well as a Note Spray tool that turns your music into art. Finally, its Rhythm Explorer allows you to experiment with a variety of rhythms in real-time.
Unlike the other Metro 6 applications, the LX version runs only in Mac OS X v10.2 (Jaguar) or higher. The rest of the system requirements call for a PowerPC processor running at 200MHz or faster, 64MB RAM, 10MB available hard drive space, and third party audio hardware for recording and playback at greater than 16-bit and 44.1kHz. Sagan strongly recommends a hard drive that spins at 7200RPM or faster. Metro 6 LX is available only as a download from the Sagan Web site for US$129.99.


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Tag: December 29
Today in History, December 29, 1778:
It appears Christmas time is not lucky for Savannah, Georgia in war time. On this date in 1778 British forces over powered the Colonials and took the city; they would hold the city, despite a seige by American and French forces, until the end of the Revolutionary War.
86 years later on Dec. 22, 1864, Union forces under William T. Sherman would take Savannah again, presenting it as a "Christmas gift" to President Lincloln during the American Civil War.
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Texas Statehood
The United States annexes the Republic of Texas, the only US state to have been an independent nation. The Republic had gained quite a bit of debt in it's short life, and part of the bargain was for the Republic to relinquish parts of modern day Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming to the US in exchange for ten million dollars in bonds. As a sovereign nation, the new state of Texas gained rights most other territories and states did not, which is why Texas has profited from her oil rights on land and off her shores.
"A People's Dream Died There…"
Today in History, December 29: 1890 –
Massacre at Wounded Knee. "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream … the nation's hope is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." – Black Elk, Lakota Sioux Medicine Man.
"scuffle occurred between one warrior who had [a] rifle in his hand and two soldiers. The rifle was discharged and a battle occurred, not only the warriors but the sick Chief Spotted Elk, and a large number of women and children who tried to escape by running and scattering over the prairie were hunted down and killed." – Gen. Nelson A. Miles, US Army.
Most of the Lakota were demoralized by life on the reservations due to the impoverished and bitter conditions. A new religious belief began to spring up and gave them hope…that by performing the Ghost Dance, their dead would return, the Bison would become plentiful again, and the white men would leave, allowing them to return to their former lives.
There were no plans to attack anyone, but the increasing fervor of the movement made the Indian Agent nervous and he called for military protection. It came in the form of the 7th Cavalry, Custer's old command, and some of the soldiers at Wounded Knee had been with Capt. Benteen at Little Big Horn.
Earlier in December an attempt was made to arrest famed Sitting Bull at his home, who was not part of the movement. When he pulled away from one of those attempting to arrest him, he and several others were killed. Tensions rose…
On December 28th a contingent of the 7th intercepted a band of Lakota and escorted them to Wounded Knee Creek, where they all camped. On the 29th the remainder of the 7th arrived and surrounded the camp, supported by 4 rapid fire Hotchiss guns…
Col. James Forsyth ordered that the Indians be disarmed. Troopers moves about the encampment, seizing weapons. When they attempted to take Black Coyote's rifle (he was deaf and didn't understand their commands) he protested. A scuffle ensued and a shot was fired. Nobody knows if it was his rifle going off or a nervous participant, but that is all it took.
The troopers surrounding the camp opened fire with all they had, and chased fleeing men, women and children across the plains. When it was over 150 Lakota and 25 troopers lay dead. Most of the Sioux bodies would not be recovered until a blizzard occurring the next few days passed. This was the last battle (if you can call it that) of the Plains Indian Wars. Commanding Gen. Miles removed Forsyth from his command, but he would be reinstated.


In Episode 42, Scott has a fireside chat with Microsoft MVP John Liu about Microsoft Flow.
John is a Microsoft Office Services MVP and Senior SharePoint Consultant for SharePoint Gurus, based in Sydney, Australia. Originally from a technical background in ASP.NET, he made the jump and has worked on numerous SharePoint projects since MOSS 2007. He specializes in custom development, Microsoft Flow, workflows and InfoPath, and blogs frequently on client-side scripting. John loves to find ways to bring the latest ASP.NET and client-side technologies to the SharePoint world, to apply the latest web developments to extend SharePoint's capabilities.
John is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Saturday events around Australia, and helps to organize the Sydney SharePoint User Group (e.g., consuming all the pizza).


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EDITOR'S TABLE.
EXPLANATIONS THAT DO NOT EXPLAIN.
THERE is a certain class of minds whose efforts to explain things generally leave them more obscure than they were before. In undertaking to represent a question they complicate rather than simplify it, and instead of helping the learner to understand a subject they hinder him. This failure to make things lucid and comprehensible is due to various causes. Oftenest, it comes from a total neglect of the art of luminous writing, and it is unfortunate that many scientific men are not a little perverse about cultivating this art. They do not, as a matter of conscience, make any effort to enter into the state of mind of the parties addressed, and their expositions, therefore, often fail from lack of adaptation. Sometimes a subject familiar to teachers of great capacity is still too abstruse to be grasped by common minds. Sometimes the expounder does not understand the subject himself; and not unfrequently hypotheses are invented to explain unexplainable things, and which serve only to increase existing difficulties. A marked illustration of this is afforded by a lecture delivered not long ago before the Royal Institution, by the eminent physicist and mathematician, Sir William Thomson, who announced as his topic of discourse the curious subject, "Maxwell's Sorting Demons."
The lecture was mainly devoted to an explication of the phenomena of the diffusion of liquids and the principles it involves. Professor Thomson bad many tubes prepared, each containing two liquids of different colors, to represent the progress of diffusion, while some ingenious experiments were made by throwing the spectra of various solutions upon the screen with an electric light. The diffusibility of solids and gases was also referred to, and a just tribute paid to the memory of Graham, whose name stands most prominently associated with this branch of research.
Sir William Thomson's reasons, however, for bringing forward these phenomena of diffusion were that they stand very closely related to the present theories and speculations concerning the molecules of matter, and which aim to account for their motions. In diffusion, the molecules gradually intermingle, according to definite laws, which are variable in different cases. The molecules do not move capriciously or irregularly, as all chemical action and all crystallization prove. But why do they move this way or that, and why always go the same way in the same conditions? This "why" is the perplexing word of science, and when we get down among objects the very existence of which is hypothetical it carries us far beyond our depth. But Professor Maxwell thinks he gives us aid here by inventing a host of little demons—living creatures with wills and infallible intelligence—which sort the molecules and regulate their extraordinary motions. In a very brief abstract of his lecture which Sir William Thomson has published, he thus explains the attributes and offices of these remarkable agents:
Clerk Maxwell's "demon" is a creature of imagination having certain perfectly well-defined powers of action, purely mechanical in their character, invented to help us to understand the "dissipation of energy" in nature. He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility. He can at pleasure stop, or strike, or push, or pull any single atom of matter, and so moderate its natural course of motion. Endowed ideally with arms and hands and fingers—two hands and ten fingers suffice—he can do as much for atoms as a piano-forte player can do for the keys of the piano—just a little more, he can push or pull each atom in any direction.
He can not create or annul energy; but, just as a living animal does, he can store up limited quantities of energy, and reproduce them at will. By operating selectively on individual atoms he can reverse the natural dissipation of energy, can cause one half of a closed jar of air, or of a bar of iron, to become glowingly hot and the other ice cold; can direct the energy of the moving molecules of a basin of water to throw the water up to a height and leave it there proportionately cooled (1° Fahr. for seven hundred and seventy-two feet of ascent): can "sort" the molecules in a solution of salt or in a mixture of two gases, so as to reverse the natural process of diffusion, and produce concentration of the solution in one portion of the water, leaving pure water in the remainder of the space occupied; or in the other case, separate the gases into different parts of the containing vessel.
The classification, according to which the ideal demon is to sort them, may he according to the essential character of the atom: for instance, all atoms of hydrogen to be let go to the left, or stopped from crossing to the right, across an ideal boundary; or it may be according to the velocity each atom chances to have when it approaches the boundary: if greater than a certain stated amount, it is to go the right; if less, to the left. This latter rule of assortment, carried into execution by the demon, disequalizes temperature, and undoes the natural diffusion of heat; the former undoes the natural diffusion of matter.
This looks to us like a somewhat ridiculous way of evading the real difficulties in the explanation of molecular motions and their effects. All nature is supposed to be filled with infinite swarms of absurd little microscopic imps, which are so omniscient that they direct the invisible and insensible movements by which the whole order of nature is determined and maintained. When men like Maxwell, of Cambridge, and Thomson, of Glasgow, lend their sanction to such a crude hypothetical fancy as that of little devils knocking and kicking the atoms this way and that, in order to explain the observed changes of natural phenomena, we may well ask, What next? This is a palpable case of contriving an artifice to explain a subject which yet leaves the subject more obscure than ever. There were difficulties enough with the molecules considered alone, but when complicated with another hypothetical order of beings the difficulties are redoubled, for we have now to explain the explanation. There is a great proneness to invent explanations which only remove the trouble one step further away. Sir William Thomson's hypothesis of the origin of terrestrial life by means of germs, brought to our planet from some unknown source by meteorites, is another example of explanations by assumptions, in which nothing is explained. There is a class of scientific men who feel it incumbent upon them to answer all questions. They do not seem to appreciate the fact that there are limits to our knowing, which had better be honestly acknowledged, instead of offering conjectures which are mere travesties of legitimate theory, and absurdities in science.
MR. BERGH AND THE SPARROWS.
We print an indignant letter from Mr. Bergh the philanthropist, denouncing one of our eminent ornithologists for saying that the English sparrows among us are interlopers, and, instead of being protected, should be left to shift for themselves, and be exposed to the raids of the street boys. We have a very high respect for Mr. Bergh and his mission, and have never been disposed to criticise his peculiarities or find fault with the way in which he has chosen to perform his duty. It is enough that such a man was greatly needed in the community, and it is not well to raise questions of taste, or to carp at mistakes committed in the performance of a disagreeable but most beneficent public service. We cordially approve of his practical work in protecting animals against the infliction of cruelty, whether from wantonness, carelessness, or insensate stupidity. But because Mr. Bergh's labors are important they ought to be maintained on proper grounds; though, judging from his letter, we should rather trust his instincts than his logic.
As regards the sparrows, Mr. Bergh seems not to recognize that they are at present under indictment, and, while we have no disposition to prejudge their case, it certainly is not to be settled on purely sentimental grounds. The question of their treatment depends upon whether or not they have become pests and nuisances. If it is true, as maintained by reputable naturalists and those who have observed their habits and history, that these birds are extremely prolific, hatching out several broods in the same season, and that, besides this, they have been so coddled and cared for as greatly to increase the usual rate of their multiplication; if it is true that they are quarrelsome and pugnacious little creatures, and by their bad dispositions and excessive numbers are driving out other birds, and consuming the means of subsistence, which all should share, and, moreover, if they are specially destructive to buds, fruits, and grains, as is also alleged, so that on the whole they may do a great deal more mischief than good—then it is just as proper to destroy them as to destroy any other pests. If such is their character, protection should be withdrawn from them, and they should be exterminated in all suitable ways. Mr. Bergh ought to have addressed himself to these considerations, and shown if he can that the charges against the sparrows are false, and that they are entitled to all the favors they get.
But he puts the case on different grounds. He objects to the killing of his pets for teleological reasons—that is, because it thwarts the purposes of Divine Beneficence, and, by the prominence he gives to this notion in his letter, we must assume that he regards it as imperative. He looks upon Dr. Coues as a man who would exterminate one of the "pretty little creatures of the Almighty," and that he is therefore an "enemy of God"; and Mr. Bergh expresses a somewhat sanguinary wish that he could get hold of him, and subject him to the guillotine of New York law.
Now, there is something wrong here. Whenever one party wants to give another party the law in the name of God, the matter requires looking into. Mr. Bergh assumes to know the Divine intentions: does he probably understand much more about them than his neighbors? He seems somewhat reckless in his mental movements, but is he not aware that the water hereabouts is very deep? He plays off theology upon Dr. Coues, but we suspect that the naturalist might give the philanthropist large odds, and still beat him at the game.
For when Mr. Bergh says to Dr. Coues, "You would let loose the street boys upon the sparrows, and are therefore an enemy of God," Dr. Coues may reply: "How do you know that the propensities of boys are not among the divinely appointed means of dealing with sparrows? And if it is a question of Divine purposes, who created the sparrow-hawk—the most destructive little savage ever set free in the sky? If you wish some pointed information regarding the intentions of the Almighty in respect to the treatment of sparrows, consult the excellent volume on birds by the Rev. J. G. Wood, page 85."
Should Mr. Bergh see fit to comply with the suggestion, he will there find that sparrow-hawks for some purpose have been provided on a very large scale, being plentifully found in all quarters of the world. That it may do its work of destruction effectually, the sparrow-hawk was made one of the most vicious, sanguinary, and cruel of all birds of prey. Usually very wild, shy, and wary, it is difficult of approach, except when "hovering about a flock of sparrows," and then "the ardor of its destructive propensities is so great that all its faculties seem to be absorbed in the gratification of the ruling passion, so that it is evidently unmindful of anything but its flying prey. A sparrow-hawk has even been known to dash furiously at a man, who endeavored to rescue a small bird which it attacked."
Hawks, as is generally known, are capable of being domesticated and trained to hunt as in the art of falconry; but the sparrow-hawk is so fierce and untamable that it is the worst of all its tribe for this purpose. It is indeed courageous, and will dash at any quarry that may be pointed out to it, but it is crabbed, intractable, and so treacherous that it can not be trusted. Besides, it "is so quarrelsome that if several of these birds should be fastened to the same perch or placed in the same cage they will certainly fight each other, and in all probability the conqueror will eat his vanquished foe! Such an event has actually occurred, the victrix—for it was a female—killing and devouring her intended spouse." A naturalist, writing in the "Field" newspaper, gives a very interesting account of the proceedings of "this handsome little hawk," showing it to be a most vicious wretch, and thus sums up its character: "The sparrow-hawk is, in my opinion, the wildest, in some sense the most intractable, the most ungrateful, the most provoking and temper-trying of all birds or beasts that ever were taken under the care of man from the beginning of the world."
"Now," Dr. Coues might say to Mr. Bergh, "if it be true, as Professor Agassiz always maintained, that animals are but embodiments of Divine ideas, we must consider this hawk, with its destructive weapons and murderous instincts, as representing the Divine conception of the sort of discipline to which sparrows should be subjected. It is divinely designed that their numbers should be kept down, so that other birds may have a chance. You thwart the Divine intention by artificially fostering them, and bringing about an unnatural state of things that is injurious. I would leave them to the Creator's universal and fundamental law of natural selection, which is a safer guide than blind, impulsive philanthropy, and I merely included street boys, with hawks, parasites, and a thousand other destructive agencies as the means of preserving the great balance among the orders of life."
The difficulty with Mr. Bergh is, that he puts behind his philanthropy, and as an impelling motive to it, an erroneous view of nature. The doctrine of Divine designs is a dangerous one to handle, because it cuts both ways, and proves too much. If the beneficent indications in nature are to be accounted for on the hypothesis of "intentions," so must the maleficent indications, and how are we to escape from the conclusion that cruelty also is designed? If we should say that the world was constructed and is administered on the principle of the "prevention of cruelty to animals," would it be quite true? Are not the means and appliances of destructive cruelty universal, and, if "intended" at all, were they not intended for their cruel uses? It would require an extensive museum to show us all the exquisite contrivances with which living creatures have been furnished to torment and kill each other. They were not made each with a gland to secrete chloroform that might be used in producing painless death. But, in place of any such kindly contrivance, there are claws, talons, beaks, tusks, fangs, hooks, saws, blades, stings, and malignant poisons in infinite variety of modification and adaptation for crushing, rending, tearing, lacerating, and torturing living and sensitive creatures; and these grim implements are furnished to all the grades of animate beings on the earth, in the sea, and in the air, from microscopic infusoria to colossal beasts that range the forests. Nor is this all: the creatures that are armed with these weapons of destruction are animated by the deadliest instincts to use them; in fact, they are driven to it by the very law of self-preservation. "Kill, that you may live," is the mandate of universal necessity.
But the roots of all this pitiless carnage strike still deeper into the method of nature. Life is wasted through these sanguinary devices with an infinite prodigality. Sensitive organisms to be sacrificed by suffering seem to be the cheapest things in the universe. The amount of inanimate matter is limited; but creatures formed out of it, and capable of pain, are boundlessly unlimited. Space restricts the material, but living organisms are multiplied forever in time. Destruction but makes room for more destruction; and not only is the onflowing river of life full to its banks, but ten thousand-fold more creatures are born than can be preserved. Each species reproduces at a rate that is out of all relation to the possible means of subsistence. If Mr. Bergh's sparrows could multiply at their normal rate, unchecked by the agencies of decimation, they would take possession of the world, and humanity and philanthropy would end together. And so it has ever been through the countless ages of the earth's history; so that its very rocks, for miles in depth, are filled with the fossil remains of innumerable tribes of creatures, which warred with each other through geological periods, and have now utterly perished. And it is to-day as it has been through the immeasurable past-millions of species scattered over the earth's surface, from pole to pole, are engaged in a struggle for existence, that is carried on everywhere with unrelenting severity.
From the point of view of sentiment alone, this is not a pleasant picture. Considered by itself, a hawk with a sparrow in its talons is not suggestive of beneficent intentions. If all this remorseless destruction has been beneficently designed, we must widen our notions of beneficent design. Science does this, by showing that out of the universal agony Nature is slowly, very slowly, working up to a better condition of things. In the sanguinary struggle the fittest survive, the ill-adapted and less perfect are slain, and there comes improvement. The value of this progress is to be estimated by its terrible cost. Through the destruction of tribes with what seems an almost infinite wantonness have finally come creatures with higher capacities of enjoyment, as well as correlative suffering, and an order of beings that have acquired great power over the conditions of pleasure and pain. In man, the last term of advancement in the animate series, ameliorations and modifications of his primal savage propensities have gone on, until there has grown up a set of feelings that are kindly, merciful, sympathetic, and benevolent; and they have at length become so strengthened and organized in our nature that they are characterized as "the humane sentiments," or the "spirit of humanity." These are the final product of man's moral evolution, and, although the reminiscences and survivals of savagery in the shape of military systems still linger, yet the kindly, merciful, and generous emotions are steadily gathering force in the hearts of men, and are becoming more and more the predominant law of the social state. Terrestrial life has had a tragic history, but, when under the stern discipline of a mortal competitive strife the primitive cannibals have been so utterly transformed that many of their descendants have come to find their highest pleasure in the gratification of the sympathetic feelings, and even to regard the brute creation with a tender solicitude, as evinced by the organization of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, who shall say that the grandeur of the end does not justify all the terrible means by which it has been attained?
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Monoclonal antibody of 100 μg targeting Runx2/Cbfa1/AML-3 for ICC, IPP, WB, ELISA, IHC.
Runx2, also known as Cbfa1 or PEBP2αA, is an essential transcription factor of skeletal tissues that is involved in the regulation of osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Runx2-null mice have neither bone tissue nor osteoblasts. FGF receptor signaling, TGF-β, and BMP all activate transcription of Runx2, resulting in inhibition of myogenesis and myogenic differentiation. BMP-induced Runx2 cooperates with BMP-activated Smads to induce osteogenesis. Runx2 has also been shown to play a role in the regulation of chondrocyte hypertrophy and tooth eruption.
This antibody reacts with human Runx2/Cbfa1 (66kDa) and mouse Runx2/Cbfa1 (55kDa) by Western blotting.


This was a random song title selection from my music library. Maybe she's a rainbow in pink and white?
My own half-double-crochet pattern, size using HeartHookHome's sizing chart. I used the last of the pink, left over from Show Me and added a new yarn I had sitting within arm's reach.


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Right At School provides families flexibility in enrollment options and a comprehensive enrichment curriculum to keep students engaged while they participate. Students will have a healthy snack, engage in dynamic fitness activities, student-driven projects, team building, leadership development, and have the opportunity to complete homework. The program also features an enriched curriculum in the form of two-week units. Examples of units include: Getting Down to Business: students are introduced to money and commerce; Icky Experiments: students experiment with sticky substances to learn chemistry; and Variety Show: students rehearse and perform individual talent acts.
Right At School hosted a virtual "Family Information Night" to provide an overview of their programs on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Here is a recording of the presentation that provides a more detailed overview of Right At School programs.
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In gold, greens and pinks. I've had this owl for ages, waiting for just the right wreath. The gold branch as well. This one just flowed out of me. Like the gods of birds twittered in my ears and tingled my fingers.


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Have you been to Midtown Miami lately (NE Second Avenue and 36th Street)? What about West Kendall, Coconut Grove, Doral, or even Brickell Avenue Bridge? If you have recently visited any of these places, then you know that traffic is an ever-present problem in Miami—and in Florida, generally. And with more cars come more car accidents.
Did you suffer an injury resulting from a car, motorcycle, or big truck accident? Did some other kind of accident cause your injury? In either case, Florida law may entitle you to compensation.
Florida law entitles personal injury victims to receive monetary compensation for legally recognized losses. These can include lost wages (due to time off), lost future wages (due to diminished earning capacity after the accident), and medical and hospital bills (resulting from the accident). These losses can also include pain and suffering, emotional and mental distress, and other non-economic damages that, while less obvious, still disrupt your ability to live a normal life in the way that you did before your accident.
According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, 403,111 in-state automobile accidents in 2015 resulted in injuries. Many of these victims, perhaps like you, didn't know what to do next. It is easy to feel overwhelmed after an accident. You probably have many questions and few, if any, answers.
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Personal injury refers to injuries of the body, as opposed to damaged property. Personal injury claims arise when people act unreasonably, and their actions lead to your harm. The law actually requires every person to act reasonably toward everyone else—what the average, sane, law-abiding citizen would do. This is called a duty of care, and it means that people may not act however they want, harming others, without consequence.
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The use of Gemthepax during the year is strongly recommend, especially during breeding and racing.
It has been specially developed and carefully controlled to have a specific positive effect on the beneficial gut micro flora by providing essential nutrients in a highly bioavailable form.
BREEDING:-You will rear better youngsters when they are raised on GEMTHEPAX. The robustness and feather quality of Y.B.'s on weaning has to be seen to be appreciated. You will see the difference around the nest bowl, the quality of the droppings tells you that the birds are doing well.
RACING:-We firmly believe that using GEMTHEPAX during racing will give your birds the edge needed to reach the top.Use at the rate of 5ml per litre of drinking water 3/4 times a week during both racing and breeding. The rest of the year twice per week to keep the birds in top condition.
Excellent in combination with Strike II.


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Patrick Marie Roger Schiffer (* 29. Januar 1973 in Eupen, Belgien) ist ein deutscher Politiker. Er war von 2013 bis 2016 Vorsitzender der Piratenpartei Nordrhein-Westfalen sowie von August 2016 bis Oktober 2017 Vorsitzender der Piratenpartei Deutschland. Anfang 2018 wechselte er zu Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.

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Ausbildung und Beruf
Schiffer verbrachte fünf Jahre seiner Kindheit in Alexandria, Ägypten. 1992 machte er am Anne-Frank-Gymnasium in Aachen sein Abitur. Nach dem Zivildienst studierte er Bauingenieurwesen an der RWTH Aachen. Nach dem Vordiplom in Bauingenieurwesen ging er in die Niederlande und studierte an der Academie Beeldende Kunsten in Maastricht Screendesign mit den Schwerpunkten Webdesign, Video und Typografie. Schiffer arbeitet als Designer und ist für eine Digitalagentur in Düsseldorf tätig.

Politische Karriere
Schiffer war früher in der Grünen Jugend aktiv und stand der Sozialistischen Alternative nahe. Im März 2012 trat er in die Piratenpartei ein.

Am 27. April 2013 wurde er auf dem Landesparteitag in Bottrop zum Landesvorsitzenden der Piratenpartei Nordrhein-Westfalen gewählt. Schiffer setzte sich hierbei gegen vier Mitbewerber, unter anderem Michele Marsching, der nur zwei Stimmen weniger als Schiffer erhielt, durch. Für die Bundestagswahl 2013 kandidierte er außerdem im Wahlkreis 107 – Düsseldorf II als Direktkandidat sowie als Listenkandidat auf Platz 13 der Landesliste. Auf dem Landesparteitag in Kleve wurde er am 30. August 2014 als Vorsitzender wiedergewählt und war damit der erste Vorsitzende im Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen der Piratenpartei, der länger als eine Amtszeit im Amt blieb.

Am 5. Juli 2015 wurde er in Warschau zum Vize-Vorsitzenden der Pirate Parties International (PPI) gewählt.

Am 27. August 2016 wurde Schiffer beim Bundesparteitag in Wolfenbüttel zum Bundesvorsitzenden der Piratenpartei Deutschland gewählt. Von seinem Amt als nordrhein-westfälischer Landesvorsitzender trat er gleichzeitig zurück.

Schiffer kandidierte für ein Direktmandat bei der nordrhein-westfälischen Landtagswahl 2017 im Wahlkreis Düsseldorf II. Er kandidierte nicht über die Landesliste. Bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 kandidiert er auf der NRW-Landesliste auf Platz 1.

Auf dem   vom 21. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober in Regensburg stattfindenden Bundesparteitag verzichtet er auf eine erneute Kandidatur bei der Wahl zum Bundesvorsitzenden. Ende 2017 trat er aus der Piratenpartei aus und kurz danach bei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ein.

Am 16. Juni 2018 gab der Landesparteitag der NRW Grünen Schiffer ein Votum für die Listenplätze ab 20 bei Europawahllistenaufstellung auf dem kommenden Bundesparteitag der Grünen. Er bekam 52,74 % der Stimmen. Auf der Liste der Grünen zur Europawahl in Deutschland 2019 hat Schiffer aber schlussendlich nicht kandidiert.

Am 19. November 2019 wurde Schiffer einstimmig zum Sprecher der Stadtteilgruppe Flingern/Düsseltal von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Düsseldorf gewählt. Ab 2020 war er Bezirksbürgermeister im Düsseldorfer Stadtbezirk 2. Am 21. Dezember 2021 trat er aus privaten Gründen von diesem Amt sowie seiner Rolle als Wahlkampfmanager beim Kreisverband seiner Partei zurück. Zugleich legte Schiffer den Vorsitz im Verein "Flüchtlinge Willkommen in Düsseldorf" nieder.

Persönliches
Schiffer ist Vater einer Tochter und lebt in Düsseldorf-Flingern. Das Model Claudia Schiffer ist seine Cousine.

Weblinks
 Blog des Politikers
 NRW-Parteitag kürt Düsseldorfer – Patrick Schiffer ist neuer Piratenchef, 27. April 2013, RP Online

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Designer
Parteivorsitzender der Piratenpartei Nordrhein-Westfalen
Bundesvorsitzender der Piratenpartei Deutschland
Bündnis-90/Die-Grünen-Mitglied
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Politiker (Düsseldorf)
Deutscher
Geboren 1973
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Johan Bernhard Hjort (25 February 1895 – 24 February 1969) was a Norwegian supreme court lawyer, and was the son of marine biologist, oceanographer and director of fisheries Johan Hjort. With Vidkun Quisling he founded the Norwegian political party Nasjonal Samling on 17 May 1933. In 1937 Hjort broke with Quisling and left Nasjonal Samling. He was arrested by Gestapo in 1941 by the direct intervention of Josef Terboven, after Hjort published a scholarly article in a journal of Norwegian law that openly criticised the German occupation. He spent prison time in Oslo and then Berlin. After being released from prison, Hjort along with his family carried out important resistance work in Germany, playing a crucial role in the first stages of the White Buses operation. It is estimated that this operation saved 15,345 prisoners from mortal peril in concentration and prisoner camps; of these 7,795 were Scandinavian and 7,550 were non-Scandinavian.
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Pamela Smart Sues Over Solitary Confinement Sparked by Cheesecake Knife
Published July 28, 2016 • Updated on July 28, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Pamela Smart, the New Hampshire school employee who was sentenced to life after her teenage lover killed her husband, claims in a lawsuit that she was wrongly put in solitary confinement for 90 days.
Smart was a media coordinator at Hampton's Winnacunnet High School when she seduced a 16-year-old boy in 1990. He claimed she threatened to break up with him if he didn't kill her husband; she has denied planning the murder.
In a lawsuit amended this week, Smart says she was wrongly punished after a plastic utensil used to slice cheesecake was found in her cell in Bedford Hills, New York.
A spokeswoman for the New York attorney general's office, which is representing prison officials, had no immediate comment.
Smart's case inspired the novel and movie "To Die For."


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Chanson is the French word for "song". The word is often used in music to mean any song with French words, but it is more often used when talking about songs in which lyrics have been set to music by French classical composers.[1]
Very often "chansons" refers to the French songs that were sung in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. People who sang these chansons were called "chansonniers". They had various forms, including ballade, rondeau and virelai. Some composers at the time liked to set popular poetry to music. The earliest chansons were for two, three or four voices, many of them being for three voices. By the 16th century most were for four voices. Sometimes, the singers were accompanied by instruments.
1 Early chansons
2 Later chansons
3 Popular Chanson
Early chansons[change | change source]
The first important composer of chansons was the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut. In the Renaissance Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois wrote many simple chansons. Later Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez composed chansons which had lots of imitation between the voices. Clément Janequin wrote more simple, homophonic chansons. He worked in the area around Paris. Later composers such as Orlando de Lassus were influenced by the Italian madrigal. The style of music started to be used in music for instruments.
The first book of sheet music printed from movable type was Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of 96 chansons by many composers, published in Venice in 1501.
Later chansons[change | change source]
During the 16th century French songs started to be composed with lute or keyboard accompaniment. In the 19th century many composers wrote songs with piano accompaniment. These chansons were often called mélodies.
Popular Chanson[change | change source]
In France today "chanson" often refers to the work of more popular singers such as Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Édith Piaf, Camille, Olivia Ruiz. French chansons of Jacques Brel have been translated and are interpreted in English by Arnold Johnston, Professor at West Michigan University. More than 100 chansons of Brel, Brassens, Barbara, Bécaud, Ferrat, Aznavour, Trenet et Ferré have been translated and are interpreted in German language by the Duo Stéphane & Didier (see www.deutsche-chanson-texte.de).
↑ "Chanson: description of the genre, popular tracks".
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MSI Integrity Seeking Summer 2022 Legal and Policy Fellows
Protester holds up a sign that reads "Economic Justice" during a defund police rally in St. Paul, MN on December 12th, 2020. (Chad Davis / Flickr)
Law and graduate students, do you want hands-on experience working on system-shifting research and advocacy? You're in luck: MSI Integrity's Summer Fellowship program is back! Read about previous fellows' experiences here and here.
Seeking Legal and Policy Fellows
We're seeking Legal and Policy Fellows to join our team during the Summer of 2022 to advance the first project of our Beyond Corporations work: Shifting Power: Assessing Worker- and Community-Centric Alternatives to Conventional Corporations. Shifting Power is a user-friendly and visually appealing online platform that will explore and evaluate a range of different policies, reforms, and structural features of businesses that enable worker ownership and control in the decision-making of those businesses. Fellows will assist the organization with its work and develop a workplan and central project mutually agreed between the Fellow and MSI Integrity.
Examples might include analyzing how alternative corporate governance and ownership structures shift power to workers and communities, supporting targeted dissemination of Shifting Power by engaging in outreach with labor and corporate accountability audiences, and writing short publications and materials suitable for those audiences. We hope to find individuals who share our passion for economic justice and who are interested in pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo as it relates to corporate power and economic inequality.
The Fellowships are full-time (ordinarily 36-40 hours per week, however during COVID we have been enabling our team to reduce to a 32-hour work week given the additional stresses of the period—see our COVID workplace policies) and temporary (minimum 10 weeks). Our approach to working with summer fellows is to embrace you as full members of our team for the time you are working with us. This means attending weekly staff meetings, engaging in cross-organizational issues that might arise, being able to join working groups of interest to you and occasionally participating in our not-too-awkward remote zoom social hangs. MSI Integrity's fellowship program will be structured to provide a supportive and engaging environment. Fellows will work in close collaboration with supervising MSI Integrity staff and will receive feedback on their work product during regular check-in meetings with supervisors. We will support Fellows in developing a polished writing sample, if desired.
While we anticipate many Fellows will have funding sources from their universities or support organizations, we do not want the lack of funding to prevent interested candidates from applying. Applicants may indicate in their application if they are unable to secure funding from their universities or other sources, and we will work with such candidates to try to find financial support and assess if we can provide a small stipend.
Eligibility and Where to Apply
In order to be eligible for the Legal Fellowship, applicants must have completed at least their first year of law school by the summer. For the Policy Fellowship, applicants enrolled in any graduate university degree program will be considered, although projects will be matched relevant to skill level.
Do you want to shift power? See the full job description and learn how to apply on our Employment page.