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Q: Resizing Layered Windows I'm hoping I can get away with communicating the issue I'm having clearly without posting a ton of source code.  The source is all ASM and while most would understand it, it's still not their primary "thing."
I have a layered window which is working perfectly - up to the point of resizing it. The window is all per-pixel alpha.  There are no transparent pixels.  The borders and caption are opaque (255 alpha); the client area is something like 128 alpha or whatever I put it at.  So no transparent pixels.
I have a function that handles redraws - it's actually geared toward rebuilding the frame for a new window size.  GetWindowDC is called on the layered window.  CreateCompatibleDC creates off of that DC.  The bitmap is a DIB section.  The bitmap is properly sent to UpdateLayeredWindow.  Again, everything works perfectly as long as the window is not in active resize (border drag).
I have tried using DefWindowProc to handle border drags, as well as completely handling all aspects of that functionality myself.  The results are the same: massive flicker but ONLY beyond the window boundaries that existed before border drag began, and then the window size does not ultimately change - sort of.  The original window area remains displayed without issue.  No flicker there.  However if (for example) I'm dragging the right border to the right, everything right of the original window right edge flickers rapidly then vanishes.  When I release the left mouse button, the display remains at the original size (the size the window was before dragging the border).  I've verified the bitmap is correctly rebuilt to the new size.  It seems like the DC for the layered window doesn't want to resize because the entire area of original window size is completely stable, but any new area appearing post-resize flickers then hides.
I've even tried removing the ws_ex_layered style before resizing the window in my manual handling (I've tried both MoveWindow and SetWindowPos) then resetting the ex style after SetWindowPos / MoveWindow but before dragging.
When I let DefWindowProc handle the updates, I got the exact same result.  So indications are that something is wrong with my repainting.  But I even whittled that process down (commenting out oodles of code for test) and just filled the bitmap with 0xFF0000FF (arbitrary test value, blue, full opacity) then jumped straight to UpdateLayeredWindow.  Same result.
The bitmap used for UpdateLayeredWindow is deleted before calling the "rebuild" function and within the function that bitmap is recreated to the new size.  I have verified the new size extensively - I can see the new bitmap as it high-speed flickers and it's all good.  The DC is GetWindowDC from the layered window.  The compatible DC creates off that DC.  The bitmap is selected into the compatible DC, and that compatible DC is passed to UpdateLayeredWindow.  If any of these things were off, I would never see the new bitmap displayed.  It's there - it just flickers at high speed ONLY beyond the window bounds that existed before resize began.  DefWindowProc yields the same results.  Within that original area, my caption buttons slide off to the right as I drag the right border to the right, further verifying everything is good.
I'm at a loss.  Any input would be welcome.

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\section{Introduction}
\label{section:intro}
Precision measurements of the Higgs boson and of the top quark are key objectives of the FCC-ee physics programme \cite{Abada:2019lih}, and define the requirements for the detector design and the reconstruction algorithms for the higher-energy stages of the machine at $\sqrt{s}=$\,240 GeV and 350/365 GeV. The four and six-fermion final states of HZ and $t\bar{t}$ events are typically characterised by the presence of multiple hadronic jets, heavy quarks, leptons, and neutrinos. To fully capitalise on the potential for precision measurements provided by the high integrated luminosity and the clean experimental environment at the FCC-ee, specific detector technologies as well as reconstruction strategies and algorithms are needed to achieve an optimal performance for the complex Higgs boson and top quark events. Jet energy resolution, flavour tagging in hadronic jets, and global event and missing energy reconstruction are the key ingredients to achieve this goal. By taking advantage of the knowledge of the initial state, powerful kinematic constraints can be applied, which have the potential to significantly increase the precision of the overall event reconstruction as well as that of individual objects.

In the context of Higgs boson physics, the quality of jet energy and directional reconstruction enters at various levels, from the quality of the identification of Higgsstrahlung events for hadronic Z boson decays, to the precision of the measurement of the Higgs boson mass and to the identification of distinct decay modes. Flavour tagging is central for the latter, given the dominance of hadronic decays of the Higgs boson. A highly efficient discrimination of $b$, $c$, and gluon jets allows to access novel decay modes that cannot be identified at the LHC, adding qualitatively new dimensions to the Higgs physics programme.

The identification of the complex events of top quark pair production profits significantly from an accurate jet and global event reconstruction via an excellent measurement of the invariant mass of gauge bosons occurring in the decay of top quarks and in background processes, and from an highly precise measurement of the invariant mass of the overall final state. Also here, flavour tagging is crucial, since top quark pair events are characterised by the presence of two $b$ quark jets. Their clean identification enables improved signal and background separation.

In the following, we discuss key reconstruction techniques that are being developed to achieve the goals for Higgs boson and top quark physics at lepton colliders. These are particle flow algorithms for physics object and overall event reconstruction, and advanced flavour tagging algorithms. Following this, the potential and future opportunities are discussed with selected examples. Since studies for FCC-ee are still in early stages in many cases, concrete examples are also taken from linear collider-based studies, which have a high degree of overlap in the physics goals, very similar experimental conditions, and provide starting points for setting goals for FCC-ee detector concepts, reconstruction and analysis strategies. In this context, full-simulation studies of detector performance and selected physics channels performed in the context of CLIC at centre-of-mass energies of 350 GeV and 380 GeV and in the context of ILC at 250 GeV are particularly relevant for the higher-energy stages of FCC-ee at 240 GeV, at the top quark pair threshold around 350 GeV, and at 365 GeV.

\section{Particle flow and beyond : reconstructing individual particles, jets, and global event kinematics}
\label{sec:PFA}

Particle flow (PF) aims to achieve the best possible reconstruction of individual final-state particles by optimally combining the information available from the different subsystems of the detector to achieve a global particle-level description of reconstructed events. Besides the clear benefits for jet energy reconstruction provided by improved single-particle measurements, this enables more performant heavy flavour tagging of jets, and the exploitation of kinematic constraints by global event kinematic fitting with advanced techniques, expanded further in the two following sections.
A first generation of PF was developed for the ALEPH experiment at LEP~\cite{Buskulic:1994wz}, which enabled that experiment to achieve the best jet energy resolution of all four LEP experiments. However, the performance of this algorithm was limited by the relatively low granularity of the calorimeters, allowing the detection of neutral hadrons only via a significant excess of calorimeter energy compared to the sum of particle track momenta in the same geometric region. The CMS experiment at LHC has developed a sophisticated algorithm that results in significant improvements of the jet energy resolution compared to calorimeter-only reconstruction \cite{Sirunyan:2017ulk}.

The detector concepts for the linear $e^+e^-$ colliders ILC and CLIC are specifically designed for the optimal performance of PF algorithms, achieving a jet energy resolution of 3\%--4\% over a wide energy range with sophisticated reconstruction algorithms \cite{Thomson:2009rp,Marshall:2012ry,ILD:2020qve}, as required for the efficient separation of $W$ and $Z$ bosons in hadronic final states. The crucial detector feature to achieve this performance is a high spatial granularity in the calorimeter systems \cite{Sefkow:2015hna}, which is exploited in the pattern recognition required to achieve an accurate matching of subdetector information, and also provides the potential for improved calorimetric reconstruction using software compensation methods \cite{Adloff:2012gv,Tran:2017tgr}. This principle is also adopted for the CLD detector concept \cite{Bacchetta:2019fmz} for FCC-ee, which is derived from the CLIC detector design, adjusted for the different experimental conditions in terms of collision energy and operation mode.

The accurate reconstruction of hadronic jets is of importance in many areas of Higgs boson and top quark physics due to the prevalence of hadronic final states in their decay. In general, improved performance in this area results in reduced backgrounds and higher signal significance or more accurate measurements. Comprehensive studies have been performed in the context of CLIC, which demonstrate the capabilities of a particle-flow-optimised detector, albeit for an energy range largely beyond that achievable at FCC-ee~\cite{Abramowicz:2016zbo,Abramowicz:2018rjq}. Similarly, studies in the context of ILC show the potential provided by the accurate reconstruction of top quark pair production events, and by the precise reconstruction of jet directions for the measurement of the Higgs boson mass in HZ events with H $\rightarrow$ $b\bar{b}$ and Z decaying into quark pairs \cite{ILD:2020qve}.

While the main motivation for PF, and for detector concepts optimised for its application, is generally given by the jet energy resolution, the benefits of this concept extend far beyond that one metric alone. PF algorithms improve background rejection, as implemented for CLIC in particular for the higher-energy stages. The additional precision of the reconstruction at the level of individual particles also supports more powerful flavour tagging of reconstructed jets, as discussed further in section \autoref{sec:Flavor}, and provides the potential for flavour tagging strategies exploiting the full event information. The information provided by a global particle level PF-based event reconstruction also allows for a precise reconstruction of global event kinematics, which can be used together with the constraints provided by the well-known initial state of the collision in kinematic fits to significantly improve the measurement of kinematic variables. In the context of Higgs boson and top quark physics, this is for example beneficial for the rejection of physics background in hadronic and semi-leptonic final states, for the kinematic reconstruction of particle masses and for the constraints on the jet energy scales, as shown for top quark pair events in \cite{Seidel:2013sqa}. It is expected that significant additional improvement on several aspects of jet and event reconstruction with PF can be achieved with machine learning techniques that use the available information on various levels: from low-level object reconstruction, to jet finding, to global event reconstruction aspects such as jet pairing and other key aspects of precision measurements of the complex final states characterising many Higgs boson and top quark events at the FCC-ee.

\section{Flavour tagging: separating bottom and charm quarks, and gluons}
\label{sec:Flavor}

The identification of the flavour of the parton that initiated the formation of a jet, known as flavour tagging, is a crucial ingredient to determine the complex final states that result from Higgs boson and top quark decays. The measurement of the     coupling of the Higgs boson to quarks and gluons directly relies on the ability to identify the flavour of these jets. One of the highest priorities of the FCC-ee physics programme is to measure with O($\sim 1\%$) or better precision the coupling of the Higgs boson to bottom and charm quarks, and gluons. Moreover, measurements of top quark properties also crucially rely on the identification of bottom quarks. Yet, to achieve the desired precision requires advancements in the detector design and on the flavour tagging algorithms.

Jet flavour identification algorithms were already developed at LEP~\cite{Abdallah:2002xm,Proriol:1950599}. The cornerstone of these algorithms are tracks with significant displacement from the beam axis, which originate from the large lifetime of the weak decays, $\sim$1.5 ($\sim$0.4--1.0) ps for B (C) hadrons, as opposed to ``light'' hadrons that are produced with a vanishing displacement. Such a property of the tracks can be used to identify possible displaced ``secondary'' vertices (SV) in the event. Therefore, the precision at which the track impact parameter can be measured directly translates into the discrimination power between heavy and light flavour jets. For future detector designs, vertex and tracking detectors with high granularity and as little material as possible, are necessary. In addition, constraints related to the beam pipe are parameters that have to be carefully studied.  Ideally, the first layer of the vertex detector would be placed within the beam  pipe. However, this approach requires  shielding to reduce noise and interference from the beam current, which results in an increased  material budget for the signal readout of this detector. An alternative approach that can be explored is to investigate different beam pipe sizes allowing to reduce the distance between the inner tracking layer and the interaction point.

Additional information such as the track multiplicity, the mass of the SV, and potentially the presence of a non-isolated lepton from semi-leptonic heavy flavour decays, were also some of the main ingredients of the flavour tagging algorithms. These algorithms were based on either simple selections on a combination of these SV properties, or, in more advanced implementations, exploited likelihood ratio methods using these properties. The first generation of jet flavour tagging algorithms at the LHC, e.g.\ in Refs.~\cite{CMS-PAS-BTV-11-004,ATLAS-CONF-2010-041,ATLAS-CONF-2010-042,ATLAS-CONF-2010-070,ATLAS-CONF-2010-091} were based on very similar principles, yet applied under the harsher data taking conditions of the LHC. However, taking advantage of the developments in computing (e.g.\ graphics processing units) and the availability of very large Monte Carlo simulated and collision data samples, a new era in jet flavour identification has begun. These algorithms explore directly much lower-level information (e.g.\ reconstructed particles from the PF algorithm or even reconstructed hits), which are processed using state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms, tailored to the jet tagging problem. The full spatial and energy distribution can be exploited in jet flavour identification, particularly in the separation between quark and gluon jets~\cite{CMS-DP-2017-027}.

Finally, the nature of each of the jet constituents, or particle identification (PID), is expected to provide another useful handle in discriminating between different jet species. Powerful particle identification capabilities based on ionisation energy loss (via dE/dx or cluster counting), or via precise time-of-flight measurements, could be highly beneficial for jet flavour tagging at the FCC-ee allowing the full jet content information to be exploited.

At the LHC, these new approaches can bring more than an order of magnitude improvement in background rejection compared to the traditional approaches~\cite{CMS:2020poo}. They are now also being explored in the context of the FCC-ee, leading to the development new flavour tagging algorithms which aim to explore the full potential of the detectors and the significantly more benign FCC-ee environment. A recent development~\cite{fftforEE} explores directly the particles reconstructed by the PF algorithm, which are then used as input to ML based flavour tagging algorithms. The algorithm is based on ParticleNet~\cite{Qu:2019gqs}, a novel approach using state-of-the-art jet representation and a neural network (NN) architecture. Preliminary results of the performance of the algorithm are displayed in \autoref{fig:fccee_dnn_flavour tagging} in terms of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, for bottom and charm quark tagging. Different jet flavours from hadronic Higgs decays are taken from a Higgsstrahlung sample at $\sqrt{s} = 240$~GeV. The IDEA~\cite{Abada:2019zxq}  detector concept was used and the detector's response is simulated using the Delphes~\cite{deFavereau:2013fsa} fast detector simulation framework. Compared to previous flavour tagging algorithms, e.g., in Ref.~\cite{ILD:2020qve}, a significant improvement in performance is observed.

\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{figures/fccee_idea_btag.pdf}
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\caption{Background contamination efficiency as a function of jet-tagging efficiency for bottom (left), charm (centre) and strange (right) quark jets in HZ events at a centre-of-mass energy of 240 GeV in the IDEA detector.}
\label{fig:fccee_dnn_flavour tagging}
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Another important aspect that is expected to further improve the physics performance is the development of flavour tagging algorithms with the ability to simultaneously discriminate between multiple different jet flavours. For example, in the $\textrm{H}\rightarrow \textrm{c} \bar{\textrm{c}}$\ process where the  $\textrm{H}\rightarrow \textrm{b} \bar{\textrm{b}}$\ and $\textrm{H}\rightarrow \textrm{g} \textrm{g}$\ background processes are copiously produced, this is expected to bring important improvement. Having this in mind, the jet flavour algorithm under development provides a probability for each jet to originate from different particle species, namely, up or down, strange, charm, or bottom quark, or from a gluon. In addition, this approach gives the opportunity to explore the potential of strange quark tagging in virtually unexplored physics channels, such as $\textrm{H}\rightarrow \textrm{s} \bar{\textrm{s}}$\ or flavour changing neutral currents (FCNC) in the top sector. Further improvements can be obtained when PID information is also included in the algorithm. PID is already exploited at the LHC to provide powerful discrimination between pions, kaons, and protons~\cite{Hines:2011uf,Powell:1322666,Giammanco:1095044}. Particularly for strange quark tagging, exploring such handles yields in an improvement in the discrimination power against first-generation quark jets. \autoref{fig:fccee_dnn_flavour tagging} (right) shows preliminary results on strange jet tagging that indicate that a powerful discrimination against up, down and gluon jets can be obtained with the use of PID. Further studies will explore the impact of timing information on PID and subsequently on jet-tagging performance.
Finally, apart from the clear challenges in the detector and algorithm design, another big challenge is the calibration of such algorithms with the required precision in order to achieve relative uncertainty for most of the Higgs coupling measurements better than 1\%. The FCC-ee running scenario includes the operation at the Z pole with the goal to collect O($10^{12}$) events. This will provide excellent conditions for the calibration of the jet flavour tagging algorithm with unprecedented precision.

\section{Exploitation for precision measurements and opportunities for further development}

The physics potential of the techniques outlined above has already been studied for Higgs boson and top quark physics, primarily in the linear collider context. In the following, we discuss one concrete example, and then highlight areas where we see significant potential for further developments that address key remaining challenges.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{figures/HZ_Hadronic_250_350.pdf}
    \caption{Reconstructed di-jet Z candidate mass, $m_{qq}$ versus reconstructed hadronic recoil mass $m_{rec}$ for a centre-of-mass energy of 250 and 350 GeV assuming the CLIC luminosity spectrum for signal HZ events (top), and standard model background (bottom). Figure taken from \cite{Thomson:2015jda}.}
    \label{fig:HZHadronic}
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A concrete example for the exploitation of precise jet energy reconstruction in the context of Higgs physics is the reconstruction of HZ Higgsstrahlung events for hadronic decays of the Z boson. The recoil mass measurements in the HZ process give model-independent access to the total HZ cross section, and with that to the coupling of the Higgs boson to the Z, and thus also allow to constrain invisible Higgs boson decays. In principle, the extension from considering only Z $\rightarrow$ $\mu^+\mu^-,\, e^+e^-$  to the inclusion of hadronic Z boson decays increases the number of HZ signal events by one order of magnitude. The actual improvement achievable by adding these events depends on the level of background in the signal region, which in turn is influenced by the accuracy of the recoil mass reconstruction, which is determined by the jet reconstruction and the beam parameters. Concrete full-simulation studies have been carried out in the context of CLIC and ILC, using the PandoraPFA algorithm \cite{Thomson:2009rp,Marshall:2012ry}. Due to the constrained phase space at 250 GeV close to the threshold of ZH production, there is significant background in the signal region from four-quark final states that end up being reconstructed near the kinematic limit, resulting in only modest improvements in the measurement of the ZH cross section on the order of 20\% compared to leptonic Z decays only, assuming the CLIC luminosity spectrum \cite{Thomson:2015jda}. Nevertheless, \autoref{fig:HZHadronic} (left) demonstrates the capability for a clean reconstruction of the hadronic Z decays and the associated recoil mass. The technique unfolds its full potential at energies of around 350 GeV, where signal and background are well separated, as shown in \autoref{fig:HZHadronic} (right). Here, an improvement of the cross section measurement by a factor of 2.3 is achieved in a CLIC study \cite{Thomson:2015jda,Abramowicz:2016zbo}.

This example demonstrates that the potential for Higgs boson precision measurements profits significantly from increasing performance of the jet energy resolution, resulting in corresponding requirements on the calorimeter and tracker imposed by the PF reconstruction. At the same time, it shows that this performance alone does not guarantee precision, with kinematic boundary conditions and the quality of the association of final state particles to jets also highly relevant.

In the context of top quark physics, we have already discussed in \autoref{sec:PFA} with the example of \cite{Seidel:2013sqa} that the exploitation of kinematic constraints in the event reconstruction can improve quantities such as the reconstructed invariant mass, and with that can also serve as a means of signal selection. Measurements that use the top quarks as tools to explore physics beyond the standard model impose further requirements on the overall event reconstruction.
 It is crucial to assess the flavour and the correct association of the jets to the final state partons for measuring asymmetries or searching for CP-violating couplings. Moreover, these will help also increase the sensitivity for the search for FCNC in the top sector, where the current expectation obtained with a traditional analysis approach is comparable to that for the HL-LHC \cite{Abada:2019lih}.

In general, it is important to make use of the fully hadronic six jets final state. A kinematic fitting strategy is necessary to minimise the background contribution, but it is even more crucial to have the correct association of all the decay products to the top and anti-top. Fully exploiting all the event information, such as jet flavour, composition and charge, is necessary to maximise the precision of this measurement. This requires the extension of the PF reconstruction and the flavour tagging strategies outlined in earlier sections with algorithms that provide an accurate determination of the jet charge to enable a unique identification of the top and anti-top quarks.

With the object reconstruction that is required for precise hadronic energy measurements already well developed, the limitations on global event reconstruction imposed by the uncertainties of the association of individual particles to jets emerge as a key challenge for the full exploitation of the physics potential of the inherently clean $e^+e^-$ collisions. This area has not yet been thoroughly explored, and may hold significant potential for further improvement with more advanced analysis strategies. For Higgs boson physics, strategies for ``colour singlet clustering'' \cite{LC-REP-2013-021,ColorSinglet_TopLC2018,Zhu:2019uve,Ju:2020tbo}, that exploit the physical properties of colour-neutral particles decaying into two hadronic jets, may improve the matching of particles to jets, resulting in a better measurement of the properties of the underlying original partons.
Such techniques, if proven to be capable of improved precision for the reconstruction of signal final states while also being robust against backgrounds, would improve the measurement of the global event kinematics, and would result in a clearer separation of signal and background. Following this direction may enable further advances, and is expected to lead to new reconstruction paradigms that consider the overall event from the start. Further potential is provided by the increasing power and sophistication of machine learning techniques, which are expected to open new avenues, such as radically different approaches, where the PF candidates are processed directly via ML algorithms to obtain a full event reconstruction \cite{Pata:2021oez,DiBello:2020bas}. Such methods would by-pass the more traditional approaches which rely on the precise reconstruction of the physics objects as an intermediate step.
This is clearly a very bold approach, yet promising given the clean event topologies at the FCC-ee, as well as the current and future developments in the detector design and the PF algorithm.

\section{Summary}
\label{section:conclusion}

Some of the major priorities of the FCC-ee physics programme, and of the High Energy Physics community in general, is the measurement with unprecedented precision of the Higgs boson and top quark properties. Breakthroughs in multiple areas from detector design, physics object reconstruction and identification, and analysis techniques, are necessary to achieve this goal. It is observed that the detector concepts currently being discussed for future $e^+e^-$ colliders, with high resolution, low mass trackers and highly granular calorimetry, enable object reconstruction and flavour tagging with unprecedented precision. At the same time, this increased precision puts new limitations in the focus, which currently drive the uncertainties in high-multiplicity final states as present in Higgs boson and top quark physics. Novel, more radical approaches to global event reconstruction combining physics-driven algorithms and machine learning techniques may hold significant additional potential for the full exploitation of the excellent experimental conditions provided by FCC-ee.

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The 2012 spring session of the legislature began, ironically, on Saint Valentine's Day. You could not feel the love.
How novel, using a radio talk show microphone to deliver a B.C. micro-throne. The cries of outrage were instantaneous. It is customary to open the spring session with a formal throne speech crafted by the premier's spin doctors and delivered by a somnolescent lieutenant governor.
This year is different because a throne speech was delivered last fall and the Liberal brain trust opted not to duplicate the effort so soon. Regardless, it was stupid in the extreme to suggest that the premier's appearance Monday morning on her old radio station opposite her former airwaves crony would satisfy those nursing expectations of accountability in the legislature.
Bill Good was ticked. He's often accused of being soft on Christy. He even took a round out of Clark's communications minion Rebecca Scott (a former Bill Good Show producer) for her "unfortunate" suggestion that the premier's appearance was in lieu of a formal engagement in the legislature.
Clark's office backed down hastily, but the fact of the matter is that she saw the CKNW gig as a golden opportunity to perch on friendly turf and reach a broad, captive audience of shut-ins; an opportunity to deliver her feel good message about jobs and families free of NDP scrutiny and media cynicism.
And that is exactly what she got — an hour and a half of thoughtful, collegial banter during which the toughest commentary on the premier's first 11 months in office came from one of CKNW's advertisers, IntegrityBC, a non-partisan advocacy group that champions accountability in B.C. politics.
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Thoughts and comments typed onto pink, squared sheets of paper sit pinned alongside their companion drawings on three walls in the Whipple Fine Arts building. These pink sheets of paper share an anonymous Tumblr artist's and her followers' struggles, feelings and even secrets as they search together for comfort through art.
Throughout this spring term, from April 3 to May 1, The Art Gallery at UCC is displaying art work from Ambivalently Yours, the anonymous Tumblr artist, that is eponymously titled, "Ambivalently Yours: as seen on Tumblr." The show will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as well as during events held in the Centerstage Theatre.
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The Art Gallery has chosen a simple design to showcase the Ambivalently Yours illustrations as well as a digital kiosk to leave comments, zines and animations in this term's exhibition.
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Ambivalently Yours can easily be seen as more than art. It has become an online community of empathy and expression, albeit that expression is flavored in ambivalence. The contrast to Facebook's communication style of narcissistic assurance is notable.
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Kenya National Library Service is jointly working with a Kiswahili Book Author Mr. Almasi Bin Ndangili and Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in organizing a programme named "Tamasha ya Kiswahili" which is schedule to take place on 14th October 2017 at knls Buruburu branch from 10:00am. The main agenda for the event is to promote Kiswahili language in Kenya especially through the youth. The event plans to promote reading using the Swahili Language through the form of edutainment such that it shall promote creativity while passing out an educational message through education. Some of the Key guests that have confirmed participation include; Prof Ken Walibora, Dr Hamisi Babusa, Pauline Kea, Swaleh Mdoe, Alamin Somo and John Kimotho among other. Some of the activities that are scheduled to take place include; shairi (poems), spoken word, Kiswahili plays, narratives, cultural dances, exclusive interviews with prominent authors, open mic for students and author interactive sessions.
We have invited both primary and secondary schools within Nairobi which include; Strathmore School, Starehe Boys, Utumishi Academy, Ofafa Jericho Secondary, Eastleigh Secondary, Buruburu Girls, Mt Camel Girls, Citam Secondary; Thomas Burke Primary, Bidii Primary, Shephard Junior Academy, Happyland Academy, Juja Preparatory and Baraka Primary Schools. Each school shall also send atleast two Kiswahili teachers to the event, who are key in the promotion of Kiswahili language among children and teenagers.
Some of the activities that are scheduled to take place include; shairi (poems), spoken word, kiwahili plays, narratives, cultural dances, exclusive interviews with prominent authors, open mic for students, author interactive sessions, brand endorsements for partners and finally awards. Best performing students in the activities shall receive mentorship from the key guests invited.
The long-term goal is to roll out this kind of event in different regions in the country at least once in every quarter. The program shall aspire to tap and nurture talents as far as possible from every County who are passionate about Kiswahili. In addition, it shall play a key role in the promotion of Kiswahili and African Literature.


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Sushmita Sen, boyfriend Rohman Shawl break-up: 'The relationship was long over, the love remains'
Sushmita Sen, boyfriend Rohman Shawl break-up: 'The relationship was long over, the love remains'
Sushmita Sen took to Instagram to open up about her break up with boyfriend Rohman Shawl. She first opened up about dating him in 2018.
By: Entertainment Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: December 24, 2021 8:19:17 am
Sushmita Sen first opened up about dating Rohman in 2018. (Photo: Rohman Shawl/Instagram)
Bollywood actor Sushmita Sen took to Instagram on Thursday to open up about her break-up with boyfriend Rohman Shawl.
Sushmita shared a photo of the two and wrote in the caption, "We began as friends, we remain friends!! The relationship was long over…the love remains!!❤"
A post shared by Sushmita Sen (@sushmitasen47)
In the hashtags, Sushmita also included 'no more speculations' along with 'cherished memories' and 'live and let live'.
Earlier in the day, there were reports doing the rounds that Rohman Shawl has moved out of Sushmita Sen's house, and it seems like the Aarya 2 actor has posted about the break-up to put an end to the speculations. A few weeks ago, the two had unfollowed each other on Instagram which gave rise to the rumours.
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In an earlier interview with Zoom, Sushmita had revealed that she and Rohman met through Instagram DMs. The two started appearing on each other's social media handles in 2018 and soon after, Sushmita opened up about dating Rohman.
Sushmita Sen is currently basking in the success of Disney Plus Hotstar web series Aarya 2.

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The Top 10 Glorious Failures in TV Talent Show Auditions
13 Now-You-Know Tidbits About Movies, History, And More
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Welcome back! The Top 10 TV Audition Failures continues! If you're tuning in late... click at the end of this sentence, right before it says nude boners, to go back and read Part One nude boners. 5. Mikey! X-Factor In the movie Better Off Dead, John Cusack was tormented by an Asian drag racer who learned to talk by watching Howard Cossell. Life imitates art, because twenty years later, it really happened. Enter: Mikey. He strides into the audition room announcing, "Hi! My fellow trembuelders!" Mikey sounds like a game show host having a stroke, who just happens to be doing it near a little Asian man moving his lips. "Trembuelder!" The judges have no idea what they've been called. If white people got offended by racists making fun of their accents, Mikey's top hobby would be getting his ass kicked. "Trem!" It's a linguistic fact that due to the power of Eastern magic and Oriental gods, Mikey's original language only ever required three sounds. This makes many of our words complicated if not impossible for him to form, especially during a Howard Cossell impersonation. He tries again. "Drembuelder!" Still nothing. Then a light bulb goes off: "Drem Construction Worker!" After he and the three judges finally know that they share the same occupation --Dream Construction Worker-- he starts crooning. In his own words, it's a Frank Cinetra song that he redecorated himself. The whole thing feels like a scene in a comedy about an alien that has to pretend to be Human at a karaoke bar. There's all this comical tension that he'll be found out, and Steve Guttenburg can't help because he's still in the body of a dog.
Youtube - Watch it, fellow Drem Construction Worker 4. Michael Machell Britain's Got Talent Michael Machell has the personality of pudding in a coma and can't play piano, but that won't stop him from achieving his life's dream: getting the Star Wars theme song to contain fewer trumpet sounds. The thing just doesn't sound like outer space to him, and he's tired of living in a world that allows it. His solution: going on stage and hitting the bossanova beat button on a 1983 keyboard. After a long pre-show of saying whoops and hitting different trumpet sounds, he haltingly pecks out the Star Wars theme while the crowd laughs. You can see that he's reading from a book called HOW TO PLAY KEYBOARDS, but what we can't see is that the second part of the title is WHEN YOUR HANDS ARE FLIPPERS. To make things even more confusing, it kind of works! It's awesome AND makes you feel in space. You would never, ever mistake it for an Earth song. On most talent shows, that would be the end of it. The ridiculous contestant would be led off camera to the pulping chamber where they could be rendered into chum for the show's livestock. However, the thing that makes Britain's Got Talent so good is that two of the judges, Amanda and Piers, will put lunatic contestants through just to piss Simon Cowell off. So Michael Machell's crazy ass made it to the semi-finals! In the semi-finals, Michael knew he had to take it to the next level. So he plays the Star Wars song, worse, while descending from the ceiling in a tiny flying saucer. You may feel in space so much that you'll explosively decompress. You couldn't mix failure and outer space any better if you invented Ewoks.
Youtube - Meet Michael! Youtube - Michael in the Semi-Finals 3. Blue Velvet America's Got Talent When we first meet Blue Velvet, they're backstage having a giggly adrenaline dump. At first glance, it's a trio made up of a man and two women, but all of them are shaped like potatos and it's gay enough that no one's gown or suit should be trusted as a gender indicator. So proceed at your own risk, drunk guys! They take the stage and introduce themselves, "Hello, everyone! We are Blue Velvet!" I'm not sure if they are a singing act or a weaponized sonic paint remover, but each of them takes turns screeching a part of "Blue Velvet! Blue Velvet! Blue VELVEEEEEEEETT!" The judges, with comic timing more precise than Van Damme punching a Swiss watch maker in the dick, answer back with a rejection of "Ding! Ding! ACCCKKKKKK!!!" It's like fifty years of fucking up were compressed into ten seconds of nuclear failure. Failure so massive that astronauts could do Tang spit takes as they watched it from space. The band's TV career, in its entirety, was screaming its name three times and opening up a wormhole of rejection. To put that into perspective, Failokalypse, the demon who feeds on mistakes, only managed to shout, "NOOO! TOO! MUCH!" before bursting into banana peels. Blue Velvet is the reason America's Got Talent added a trap door and seven rifle towers to the set. But get this: to make matters worse, Blue Velvet even taints their own perfectly hilarious performance by debunking it on their
myspace page. They link to a video of the "real" performance before the America's Got Talent editors made their masterpiece, and it turns out the judges actually let these chicken monsters squawk for about a minute before buzzing them. God damn it, that's like finding out Santa Claus isn't real and then getting molested by him. Thanks for ruining it, Blue Velvet! You can't even suck right!
Youtube - The Original, and Best Version 2. Martik Manoukian American Idol Sometimes when a woman eats too many thermometers during pregnancy, Mother Nature decides to try a few new things out. Martik "X-Centric" Manoukian is one of them. If you ask the right person, X-Centric is the most exciting half-panther performer the world has ever seen. He is also very fiery. So much so that he has "fire equaling three men." I'm not sure, but I think "fire" is Armenian for "overdose of mood regulators." For his audition, X-Centric goes through a very typical werepanther preparation process. Keep in mind all of this is done before he says a word or begins singing.
1. He throws his Trapper Keeper. Because singing while you're holding a Trapper Keeper would just be stupid. 2. He turns his back to the judges and spreads his legs. The average Armenian Werepanther has hearing far greater than ours, so singing the wrong direction is considered polite. 3. Oops, he actually meant to stand the other way, so let him turn around and then spread his legs again. 4. X-Centric removes his sunglasses and flings them! Nearby, an American Idol production assistant is found dead, a smear of paste in the center of a sunglasses-shaped impact crater. They'd ask for a moment of silence, but through a lucky turn of events, most of X-Centric's performance is already a moment of silence.
5. X-Centric begins the twenty minute process of removing his vest and shirt. During this part of the performance, ladies who like boy-shaped playdough will want to set their X-Centric brand vibrators to FULL. 6. He crawls towards the judges making cat sounds. It's exactly how I imagine my parents doing foreplay when I'm trying to dislodge a scream from my throat. 7. He stands and lumbers back to his starting position. I think he forgot something. Armenian Werepanthers are often confused when performing near multiple food sources.
8. Oh, I see, it looks like he forgot to dance first. A real treat, he performs a traditional Armenian Werepanther dance of three seconds of full body wiggle, meerkat, meerkat, and super spin. During the super spin, the fake microphone he had in his back pocket flies out, almost certainly because he meant it to. NOW, he struts up the judges to shirtlessly whisper "X-Centric!" Lady viewers, remove your X-Centric brand vibrators and, as quickly as possible, sit in your bucket of X-Centric brand cooling gel before serious injury occurs.
9. Singing! When X-Centric finally sings his original X-Centric song, it's sort of a rap battle between a baby and its multiple personalities. If the baby had asthma and sang like a little bitch. Ultimate face!! Youtube - Rowr! and the number one... 1. Marc Griffin American Inventor Everything good has already been invented. You can buy hot dogs with cheese in the center, dolls with vaginas, and hundreds of combinations of all four. So on the show American Inventor, most people come in with a pile of junk and a story about how patent lawyers took all their money and left them with only a prototype for Mayonnaise Mittens, the gloves that make sandwiches safe. Marc Griffin stood above them all. He sold everything he owned to make BulletBall. BulletBall combines the fun of air hockey with the misplacement of all your air hockey equipment. In it, two players bat a ball across a coffee table and the winner is the one who does the best! Sometimes the best ideas are simple ones.
Sometimes. He invented the game 26 years ago with his ex-wife, a lot of wine, and a cat toy. Coincidentally, those were the exact three things used to invent the first tampon. Wait, I think it wasn't an ex-wife until right after the invention process. Marc is certain that BulletBall will be an Olympic sport. Not only because it's high caliber and for the 21st century, but because it's age and gender neutral. No listen-- no matter who or what you are, you're as good at BulletBall as anyone who will ever live. If you want proof, I found these pictures of Marc on his website playing BulletBall as hard as he can against disinterested people in wheelchairs. "Who's the BULLETBALL MASTER!!??" Where is he now? Marc is still selling and rapping about BulletBall and BulletBall extreme tables. He's even dropped the price for a limited time from $399.99 to only $299.99. Sorry, poor people, but Marc was a little busy inventing sports to learn how supply and demand work. If you want to bat a cat toy around, you'll have to do it on a knockoff BulletBall table, also sometimes known as any table. Youtube - BulletBall, BulletBall, that's a BulletBall!
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A merger between AOL and Yahoo: You've got fail?
Mathew Ingram Sep 9, 2011 - 3:00 PM CDT
Credit: Flickr user Hans Gerwitz
The idea that AOL (s aol) might want to merge with Yahoo (s yhoo) — as it reportedly does, according to a pair of anonymous sources who spoke to Bloomberg News on Friday — isn't all that surprising. There have been rumors about merger talks between AOL and its fellow former web giant off and on since 2008, with the most recent round coming at the end of last year. The only question left is which analogy you prefer when it comes to picturing this potential combination: two old dogs roped together? Two bricks tied up in the hope that they will float? Two drunks trying to prop each other up as they stagger down the street? Feel free to fill in your own suggestions below.
According to the Bloomberg report, AOL has opened up discussions with Yahoo's financial advisors, and suggested the two companies could be combined, with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong emerging as the CEO of the new entity after the deal. Yahoo, of course, is currently in need of a chief executive, since it just finished giving its old one — Carol Bartz — the heave-ho earlier this week, something Bartz apparently took with her usual display of tact and grace (there have also been reports that co-founder Jerry Yang might be trying to mount a bid to take Yahoo private).
Is Yahoo playing hard to get?
Within minutes of the Bloomberg report hitting the web, CNBC (c cmcsa)(s ge) posted to its Twitter account that it had heard from a Yahoo source that the company had no interest in merging with AOL. That doesn't necessarily mean a deal couldn't happen, however — Yahoo's response could be a negotiating tactic, or the board of directors may not want to show its hand publicly at this point. It's also possible Yahoo could wind up in play whether it wants to be or not. According to the Wall Street Journal, (s nws)the last AOL bid to merge involved several large private-equity firms who wanted to finance the deal.
CNBC: Source Close To Yahoo Says No Interest In A Deal With AOL @Yahoo @AOL
— CNBC (@CNBC) September 9, 2011
AOL's interest in a deal is easy to explain: As we noted in a recent post, Armstrong is likely feeling some heat as a result of the company's moribund financial performance, and is looking for some kind of way to generate value. Like his former counterpart at Yahoo, he has spent two years cutting costs and trying to generate new lines of business — including the purchase of The Huffington Post for $315 million, and more than $150 million spent on building out the hyperlocal Patch.com network.
But while AOL's chief executive has continually promised that a turnaround is near, with every quarterly report that goal continues to recede into the distance. Analysts say he either has to split the company up and sell the pieces, or find some other way of generating value — or be removed from the job so someone else can. And while merging with Yahoo probably wouldn't be a great long-term strategy, it might produce enough of a short-term benefit for the company's investors that Armstrong could justify doing it.
The proposal that Bloomberg described in its report is similar to the one that AOL was apparently floating in the fall of last year, which would have seen Yahoo either acquire AOL outright (since it is much larger than AOL, with a market capitalization of about $18 billion, compared to AOL's $1.6 billion), or merge with the former web portal in a complex deal involving the sale of Yahoo's investment in Chinese web giant Alibaba — which is responsible for much of the company's current market value.
Memories of 2008 and a rejected Microsoft bid
The idea of an AOL-Yahoo merger was also discussed in 2008, when Microsoft (s msft) made a $45-billion takeover bid for Yahoo — a bid the web company no doubt wishes it had taken at this point, since its market value is less than a third of that now (something that likely contributed to the poor reviews for former CEO Bartz). Eventually, Microsoft withdrew its bid for Yahoo, and the talks about a merger with AOL never proceeded.
Are the chances of a deal any better this time around? It's hard to see how. The biggest stumbling block to a merger is the lack of any compelling rationale for doing one, despite efforts to make that case. Both companies are suffering from the same overall problem: They have millions of visitors to their web properties, but the advertising revenue that they are able to generate from that traffic remains unimpressive, and is likely to dwindle. AOL has the added problem of watching its dial-up access business — which generates the majority of its cash flow — continue to disintegrate.
Hence the "two rocks tied together" metaphors. A merger may make Tim Armstrong look (at least briefly) like a success, and possibly catapult him into the CEO's chair at Yahoo — but combining these two ailing giants isn't going to magically produce a competitive web business, no matter how many financial architects get their hands on the deal.
Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr user Hans Gerwitz
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11 Responses to "A merger between AOL and Yahoo: You've got fail?"
J. Stewart September 12, 2011
If Yahoo joined forces with Samsung, LG and developed a platform around MeeGo OS then it could be a winner.
Larry September 11, 2011
This is the two ugliest people at the dance hooking up. The offspring would not be attractive
Eliot Spitzer September 10, 2011
You have got to be joking. Tim Armstrong as the CEO of the merged companies? The guy has been a disaster for AOL. Why would he be considered for anything other than being fired from AOL for poor performance?
Mae Loraine Jacobs September 10, 2011
I am not so sure where these pieces of news about Yahoo are leading to, but one thing is for sure: they are all grim information. AOL is another lost soul, so to speak. If Yahoo wants to save itself desperately, it might as well sell itself to Microsoft.
ronald September 10, 2011
Since you asked:
Two drunken sailors washed overboard in the middle of the ocean in a Hurricane at night given each other directions how to swim to the nearest beach.
S September 10, 2011
It's a race to the bottom and they want to tie!
Michael Smith September 10, 2011
The best thing about this merger is the resulting shorter time that we would have to hear about either company.
Nico September 9, 2011
Don't underestimate the Yahoo board, they've proven they got the ability to screw anything up. The only way AOL or any company should think of working with them is if the whole board resigns!
rohit sharma September 9, 2011
the combo would be just a ship short of a shipwreck.
Aaron Crowder September 9, 2011
A merger between the two wouldn't really hurt either right now. Both are pretty much at rock bottom, and they can only go up from here.
Maybe together they can figure out something worthwhile to do?
Will White September 9, 2011
I'm thinking you need to look up the definitions of both Rock and Bottom. Neither of these companies are going anywhere.


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Ferdinand Julius Cohn, född 24 januari 1828 i Breslau, Schlesien, död 25 juni 1898 i Breslau, var en tysk botaniker och mikrobiolog, som blev extraordinarie professor 1859 och 1872 ordinarie professor i botanik vid universitetet i Breslau och föreståndare för den av honom 1866 grundade växtfysiologiska institutionen där. Cohn behandlade i sin forskning främst algers, svampars och bakteriers biologi, morfologi och utvecklingshistoria, samt beskrev hjuldjuren. Tillsammans med Robert Koch anses han vara en av grundarna av modern bakteriologi. Benämningen bacill går tillbaka till Cohn. Hans officiella författarförkortning som botaniker är "COHN".

Biografi
Cohn var son till oljehandlaren och senare konsul Isaac Cohn och hans hustru Amalie, född Nissen. Hans bror blev en välkänd författare med namnet Oskar Justinus. Efter att ha gått ut gymnasiet vid sexton års ålder 1844 vid Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium i Breslau studerade han naturvetenskap (botanik) i Breslau. På grund av sitt judiska ursprung fick han inte doktorera i Breslau, varför han 1846 flyttade till Berlin, där han studerade med handledning av Eilhard Mitscherlich, och tog 1847 sin doktorsexamen vid 19 års ålder.

Cohn var gift med Pauline Cohn, född Reichenbach (1844–1907), som tillägnade honom ett minnesmärke 1901. Han avled 1898 i sin hemstad Breslau där hans grav fortfarande idag (2021) finns kvar på den gamla judiska kyrkogården.

Karriär
År 1849 blev han medlem av Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie och hedersmedlem i Regensburg Botanical Society. År 1850 var han privatdocent i Berlin. År 1851 utnämnde universitetet i Breslau honom till privatdocent. År 1852 blev han medlem och 1856 chef för den botaniska delen av Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur. Ferdinand Cohn var medlem av Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte och Gesellschaft der Brüder.

År 1859 habiliterade han i Breslau och blev docent och chef för universitetets botaniska museum. År 1866 grundade han Institutet för växtfysiologi.

År 1870 upptäckte han en trådliknande bakterie i dricksvattenbrunnar. Han kallade sin upptäckt fontäntråd eller Crenothrix polyspora. Idag anses Cohns huvudsakliga vetenskapliga arbete vara hans ansträngningar att klassificera bakterier.

År 1872 blev han professor i botanik. Han ägnade sig åt biologin i de lägre livsformerna, särskilt bakterier, blev en av grundarna av mikrobiologi och etablerade användningen av sterila kulturmedier. Han återupptäckte också Den botaniska trädgården Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau i Breslau. År 1895 blev han korresponderande ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien i Paris och 1889 av Preussiska vetenskapsakademin.

Bibliografi (urval)
 Zur Naturgeschichte des Protococcus Pluvialis. Bonn, 1851.
 Die Menschheit und die Pflanzenwelt. Breslau, 1851.
 Der Haushalt der Pflanzen Leipzig, 1854.
 Untersuchungen über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Mikroskopischen Algen und Pilze. Bonn, 1853
 Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (Skriftserie, Breslau, startad 1870)
 Untersuchungen über Bacterien. In: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen. Band I, Nr. 2, 1872, S. 126–224.
 Neue Untersuchungen über Bakterien. Bonn, 1872–75.
 Die Pflanze. Leipzig, 1882, . Nachdruck des Originals. Salzwasser-Verlag, 2011.

Utmärkelser och hedersbetygelser

Carl Christian Mez har namngett ett släkte ananasplantor, Deuterocohnia, till Cohns ära. Eftersom det redan fanns ett släkte av liljeväxter som hette Cohnia vid den tiden, användes det grekiska prefixet deúteros (= andra) för att bilda ett nytt giltigt namn.

Ferdinand Cohn-medaljen från der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie för pristagare, som har gjort enastående tjänster till mikrobiologi och/eller hygien, instiftades för att hedra Ferdinand Cohn.

Referenser

 Svensk uppslagsbok. Malmö 1931.

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Vidare läsning
 Pauline Cohn: Ferdinand Cohn. Blätter der Erinnerung. Zusammengestellt von seiner Gattin. Mit Beiträgen von Felix Rosen. Kern, Breslau 1901.
 Wolfgang U. Eckart: Geschichte der Medizin. 3. Auflage. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 1998, .
 Margot Klemm: Ferdinand Julius Cohn 1828 – 1898. Pflanzenphysiologe, Mikrobiologe, Begründer der Bakteriologie. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, .
 Werner Köhler: Cohn, Ferdinand Julius. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (Hrsg.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin und New York 2005, , S. 266 f.
 Till van Rahden: Juden in Ehren. Ferdinand Julius Cohn, der erste jüdische Ehrenbürger Breslaus. In: Till van Rahden: Juden und andere Breslauer. Die Beziehungen zwischen Juden, Protestanten und Katholiken in einer deutschen Großstadt von 1860 bis 1925. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000,  , S. 300–316.
 Cohn, Ferdinand Julius, in: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1972, Band 5, Sp. 689.
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898) Mikrobiologe. In: Ekkehard Vollbach: Dichter, Denker, Direktoren. Porträts deutscher Juden, Leipzig: edition chrismon, , S. 53–65.

Externa länkar

 Ferdinand Cohn, Leben und Werk
 Dokument über Leben und Werk von Cohen (engl.) bei der Pacific Northwest Foundation

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Botaniker under 1800-talet
Tyska professorer i botanik
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Tyska mikrobiologer


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Heart Attack, 1970
© Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt born 1960
Scarred for Life
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Heart Attack, 1970 is a photo-lithograph by the Australian artist Tracey Moffatt. The work depicts a naked man seen from the side leaning threateningly over a young girl in a bedroom that is filled with natural light. The girl sits on the bed, facing away from the viewer, and the man appears to have a tight grip on her right wrist and shoulder. The caption accompanying the image explains: 'She glimpsed her father belting the girl from down the street. That day he died of a heart attack.' The camera angle places the viewer in the role of the child watching her father assault the neighbourhood girl through a doorway.
Moffatt made this lithograph in her studio in Sydney in 1994. It is one of nine off-set lithographs taken from colour photographs printed on white wove paper and finished with a smooth matt surface. All nine are part of Moffatt's 1994 series Scarred for Life 1994 (see also Tate P78100–P78102 and Tate P78104–P78108). The prints are not signed and no edition number is visible, and the artist has stated that the works can be shown either individually or as a group.
The work's title is a reference to the heart attack soon to be suffered by the man in the image, and the date in the title, 1970, suggests the year according to which the photograph has been styled by Moffatt, who employs actors and constructed scenes to create her photographs. Curator Filippo Maggia has compared Moffatt's photographic method to that of a film director, stating that she 'often does not take the photographs herself but directs a sort of bona fide movie set that she organises and controls after having pictured it in her mind again and again, meticulously decomposing and recomposing it' (Maggia 2006, p.12). As the artist has stated, 'I often use technicians when I make my pictures. I more or less direct them. I stand back and call the shots.' (Quoted in Maggia 2006, p.12.)
Moffatt's photographic series often deal with themes such as race, gender and the politics of identity. Drawing on memories from the artist's childhood, the Scarred for Life series mimics photo spreads from the American magazine Life, with their explanatory captions and focus on the family environment. The captions' terse descriptions hint at the traumatic stories behind the images. Moffatt has commented: 'a person can make a passing comment to you when you are young and this can change you forever. You can be "scarred for life" but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. The photographs can be read as both tragic and comic – there is a thin line between both.' (Quoted in display caption, Tracey Moffatt, Heart Attack 1994, Tate P78103, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moffatt-heart-attack-1970-p78103, accessed 28 August 2015.) Furthermore, Maggia has argued that the Scarred for Life series 'gives us life as it is, the harshness and aridity of human relations, adolescence with its fears of not being accepted' (Maggia 2006, p.13).
As the curator and writer Martin Hentschel noted in 1998, in Scarred for Life Moffatt's subjects are 'thoroughly unspectacular' and 'no gazette would print them' (Hentschel 1998, p.26): a father telling off his son (The Wizard of Oz, 1956, Tate P78100), the rejection experienced by a daughter after an argument with her mother (Birth Certificate, 1962, Tate P78101) or the despondency felt by a teenager who cannot find a job (Job Hunt, 1976, Tate P78107). However, there is also explosive potential in the moments captured by the artist, which result in experiences that, as Hentschel observes, 'are irrevocably implanted in the memory, from where they can break out at any time to attack the conscious' (Hentschel 1998, p.26). Hentschel argues further that this potential becomes even more exaggerated in the viewer's mind due to the relationship between the images and their captions: 'the possible narratives visibly extend themselves if we bring the father and brothers and sisters into the story. All of this is left open in the hiatus between text and picture' (Hentschel 1998, p.27).
Moffatt's Scarred for Life works were followed in 1999 by a second Scarred for Life series, which was based on stories recounted to the artist by people she had met. Maggia has noted that this later series is 'less aggressive than the first both in its images and in the accompanying texts, but it is every bit as effective, and perhaps even more universal' (Maggia 2006, p.13).
Martin Hentschel (ed.), Tracey Moffatt, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern 1998, pp.26–7, reproduced p.78.
Michael Snelling, Tracey Moffatt, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1999.
Filippo Maggia, Tracey Moffatt: Between Dreams and Reality, exhibition catalogue, Spazio Oberdan, Milan 2006, p.13, reproduced p.116.
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Drawing on memories from the artist's childhood, these works mimic photo spreads from the American magazine Life. The terse captions hint at the traumatic stories behind the images. Moffatt has commented: 'A person can make a passing comment to you when you are young and this can change you forever. You can be "scarred for life" but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. The photographs can be read as both tragic and comic - there is a thin line between both.'
Gallery label, August 2004
emotions and human qualities(5,366)
vulnerability(312)
interiors(4,562)
domestic(1,823)
bedroom(335)
adults(22,736)
man(10,497)
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Tracey Moffatt Birth Certificate, 1962
Tracey Moffatt Mother's Day, 1975
Tracey Moffatt Useless, 1974
Tracey Moffatt The Wizard of Oz, 1956
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Tracey Moffatt Doll Birth, 1972
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Q: AzureDevops : Allure Report Failed to publish test run data: System.ArgumentException: Unknown test runner I am not able to generate report. Below are my implementation
I am using Azure Self-Hosted Agent + Appium + Maven + Cucumber + Java
**1. File: pom.xml **
<groupId>org.demo.samle</groupId>
<artifactId>mycard</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<properties>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

    <timestamp>${maven.build.timestamp}</timestamp>
    <maven.build.timestamp.format>MMM_dd_yyyy_hh_mm</maven.build.timestamp.format>
    <cucumber.version>7.7.0</cucumber.version>
    <assertj-core.version>3.23.1</assertj-core.version>
    <jdk.source.version>15</jdk.source.version>
    <jdk.target.version>15</jdk.target.version>
    <aspectj.version>1.9.9.1</aspectj.version>
</properties>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>15</source>
                <target>15</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>copy-resources</id>
                    <!-- here the phase you need -->
                    <phase>validate</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-resources</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>${pom.basedir}/target/allure-results</outputDirectory>
                        <resources>
                            <resource>
                                <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
                                <includes>
                                    <include>environment.xml</include>
                                    <include>categories.json</include>
                                </includes>
                            </resource>
                        </resources>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
            <configuration>
                <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
                <argLine>
                    -javaagent:"${settings.localRepository}/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/${aspectj.version}/aspectjweaver-${aspectj.version}.jar"
                    -Dcucumber.options="--plugin io.qameta.allure.cucumber7jvm.AllureCucumber7Jvm"
                </argLine>
                <suiteXmlFiles>
                    <suiteXmlFile>${project.basedir}/TestSuite/MainSuite.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                </suiteXmlFiles>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
                <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>

</build>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
        <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
        <version>8.2.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
        <version>24.0.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
        <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
        <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
        <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
        <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.ibm.icu</groupId>
        <artifactId>icu4j</artifactId>
        <version>71.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
        <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
        <version>7.6.1</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.json</groupId>
        <artifactId>json</artifactId>
        <version>20220320</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
        <version>5.7.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
        <version>5.7.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
        <version>1.15</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <version>1.18.24</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
        <version>1.15.3</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.aeonbits.owner</groupId>
        <artifactId>owner</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.12</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.mashape.unirest</groupId>
        <artifactId>unirest-java</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.9</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
        <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
        <version>${assertj-core.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
        <artifactId>allure-cucumber7-jvm</artifactId>
        <version>2.19.0</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

<reporting>
    <excludeDefaults>true</excludeDefaults>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
            <artifactId>allure-maven</artifactId>
            <version>2.11.2</version>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</reporting>

2. Added Allure Plugin in Cucumber Runner File. Here I have also specify junit xml file
@CucumberOptions(
        glue = {"stepDefinitions"},
        monochrome = true,
        snippets = CucumberOptions.SnippetType.CAMELCASE,
        plugin = {"pretty"
                , "summary"
                , "utilities.cucumber.listener.CucumberListener"
                , "io.qameta.allure.cucumber7jvm.AllureCucumber7Jvm"
                , "junit:target/allure-results/MotoEdge20Fusion.xml"
                , "html:target/cucumber-reports/Motorola Edge 20 Fusion/MotoEdge20Fusion_advanced-reports.html"
                , "json:target/cucumber-reports/Motorola Edge 20 Fusion/MotoEdge20Fusion.json"
        },
        features = {
                "classpath:features/01_Permission.feature",
        }
)
public class MotorolaEdge20TestNGRunnerTest extends TestRunnerBase {
}

3. Pipeline Settings:

4. Attached Allure Raw Log:
##[debug]Report successfully generated to D:\Software_Installed\Agent\_work\2\s\target\allure-report\133

##[debug]
##[debug]TestManagement.Server.UsePublishTestResultsLibInAgent is on
##[debug]Object of TestLogStore created.
Result Attachments will be stored in LogStore
##[debug]Object of TestResultsPublisher created.
##[debug]Object of TestLogStore created.
Run Attachments will be stored in LogStore
##[debug]Object of TestRunPublisher created.
##[debug]Object of TestLogStore created.
##[warning]Failed to publish test run data: System.ArgumentException: Unknown test runner
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.TestResults.TestDataPublisher.ParseTestResultsFile(TestRunContext runContext, List`1 testResultFiles)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.TestResults.TestDataPublisher.PublishAsync(TestRunContext runContext, List`1 testResultFiles, PublishOptions publishOptions, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[results.publish type=Allure;mergeResults=true;publishRunAttachments=true;resultFiles=D:\Software_Installed\Agent\_work\2\s\target\allure-report\133;]
(node:17216) Warning: Use Cipheriv for counter mode of aes-256-ctr
(node:17216) Warning: Use Cipheriv for counter mode of aes-256-ctr
(node:17216) Warning: Use Cipheriv for counter mode of aes-256-ctr
(node:17216) Warning: Use Cipheriv for counter mode of aes-256-ctr
(node:17216) Warning: Use Cipheriv for counter mode of aes-256-ctr
##[debug]task result: Succeeded
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Succeeded;]Return code: 0
Async Command Start: Publish test results
##[debug]TestManagement.Server.TriggerCoverageMergeJob is on
##[debug]Exception in Method:Access to the path 'D:\Software_Installed\Agent\_work\2\s\target\allure-report\133' is denied.
Async Command End: Publish test results
Finishing: Generate Allure Report

Please help to fix this error.


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This module is focused on growth – metrics that can be used to help manage it, and alternatives to consider if the company is not growing as it needs to.
Sometimes, the answer to the pivot or persevere question has to be "none of the above."
your value proposition in the way that you thought it would.
and you can't see your way through to a profitable business model.
In this lesson, I'm going to talk about failure.
their employees, and on themselves.
professionally, and personally, especially when it's handled poorly.
However, failure does not have to be the end of the road.
and how it made it possible for them to succeed later on.
trial and error is the accepted way to make new discoveries.
an entrepreneur to raise money or assemble resources for another startup.
This is a culture that many communities are now trying to emulate.
So, how can you do your best to handle failure well?
First, you have to be honest with yourself.
and this can lead to potential ethical issues.
you'll be able to turn things around.
You might be right, but you might just be making the whole you're in even deeper.
or some other white knight is about to say yes just because they haven't said no yet.
you'll find it much easier to be honest with your stakeholders about the situation.
your family members, and anyone else who's counting on you.
and why you believe the course of action you're proposing is the right one.
They'll be much less likely to question your integrity if things don't work out.
They might even respect you more for it.
If you need to make painful cuts, make them quickly.
demoralizing for employees than a single larger round.
when you're in one, stop digging.
and you should make sure that you understand the rules associated with it.
raise enough cash to pay its debts as they become due.
the members of your board of directors will change.
the best interest of your creditors rather than your shareholders.
You need to take steps to protect the value of your assets.
This doesn't mean you can't spend money or take on new obligations.
because otherwise the value of that crop would be lost.
maximize your ability to pay as many of your debts as possible.
Be aware that there's a hierarchy of creditors.
The IRS is at the top of that list.
the IRS because other bills seem more pressing, don't do it.
That's the kind of behavior that can lead to padlocks on your doors and even jail time.
Next, come your obligations to your employees.
You need to be able to pay them the wages and benefits that they've earned and are owed.
If it's temporary, that's great.
You can even offer rewards to employees who took voluntary pay cuts to stick with you.
so you have to retain some cash or have assets that can be liquidated.
the bag is a sure-fire way to destroy your reputation.
you should at the very least learn all that you can from it.
and go to market strategy worked and which didn't?
Did you build the right team?
Which team members would you want to work with again?
and what sort of team members you should recruit in your next venture?
You've heard the statistics about the percentages of small businesses that fail.
5, or 10 years later.
but I'm convinced that this type of survey overstates the odds of failure.
For one thing, incorporating a business is not the same as starting a business.
5 years later because they were successes rather than failures.
and the shareholders could have cashed out.
but nobody was left holding the bag.
the company without leaving a trail of unpaid debts and hard feelings.
A soft landing requires forethought and careful planning.
or be satisfied with the payments they receive through negotiations.
so that they can make alternative arrangements for products or support.
so that they're not surprised by sudden layoffs.
so that they can see the shutting down the company is actually their best option.
There are several ways to arrange for a soft landing.
license of the company's technology to another company.
and possibly equity in the acquiring business for the business shareholders.
It could be what's known as an acquihire.
your team even if it doesn't need your product or your other assets.
This happens frequently with information technology companies.
instead of hiring developers separately and hoping that they'll be able to work together.
the business even though they really only want the people.
and ongoing jobs for some of the key people.
tried to pivot several times without success.
down while there's still money in the bank and there are no unpaid creditors.
a partial return of their investment before the funds have all been spent.
integrity since it probably results in the best available outcome for the investors.
an entrepreneur they'd like to back again in the future.
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart.
I've heard people argue that planning for failure is essentially planning to fail.
full steam ahead. I disagree.
Failure happens even to the best of us.
Michael Jordan will tell you that.
You can maximize your chances of being able to pick yourself up and start over.
you're planning to fail badly.


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The adventure at Tahman Negara starts proper at the Jetty at Kuala Tembeling where we board a long boat with about 20 others for the 3 hour journey down the Tembeling River.
The river, muddy brown, wide and fast flowing, winds its way through the dense jungle that pushes right to the rivers edge for most of the journey with occasional sand bars and rocky outcrops on which bleached trunks of trees lay stranded. Not much to report on the little town and hotel except that there are several floating restaurants that all sit pretty low in the water with only minimal barriers to stop the diners from toppling into the strong current.
saw no one. Just us, huge trees, green leaves and a cacophony of insect noise. Walking in the jungle is hard work. Luckily it was a trail so did not have to cut our way through but even so the effort of moving was surprisingly difficult. The humidy is through the roof, the air often fetid and close and the heat of the sun, an rampant and rotting vegetation meant we sweated like never before. I am a sweaty chap at the best of times but I surpassed myself with no dry patches on my shirt, shorts, backpack or socks...both of us were just awash.
Just as were about to turn around we saw a marker to the top of a 500 metre hill called Bukit Indah (Indah Hill). To give the walk purpose we followed the trail and were soon hauling ourselves up fixed ropes, through rock clusters and along a narrow root trapped path with 40m sheer drop on either side to the top where the magnificent view made the effort all worth it but took the last of our reserves so the walk back for the next 2 hours went on and on and all done with no more water so were parched most of the way.
swung from tree to tree. Arrrrr Arr-A-Arrrr Ar-Ar-Arrahhhh! I can also confirm that Rachel swam in a brown river, with a squelchy bottom (the river not her) that has large fish, snakes and monitor lizards in it. Unfortunately today is our last day because we have ran out of money and there is no ATM so after doing a gentle jungle walk tonight (where we don't expect to see more than spiders) will pack and head off to KL tomorrow to see our lovely friends Melanie and Gary who are here to spend a week with us Perhentian Islands.
Footnote on the night time jungle walk. We went about 1km into the jungle and back and it took about 45 mins. We sweated so much and it was 8.00pm at night and pitch dark - see photo on return to room.
Didn't see too much to write about - a few fire flys, moths, a dog ran out of nowhere and Rachel nearly crapped her self, a couple of lizards and, oh yeah, a bloody huge tapir. We were walking out of the Park complex at the start of the trail and suddenly we saw this fabulous chap although I dont think he was wild going by his proximity and his total lack of interest in us.


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Hart In The Right Place for UniBrass
The UniBrass Foundation is excited to announce that they have appointed a new trustee, Sophie Hart, to the board after advertising for the position in October.
The UniBrass Foundation is made up of
a board of trustees devoted to widening participation and promoting opportunities for brass playing at University as well as supporting the UniBrass Contest Organising Committee.
A final year English literature student from the University of Southampton, Sophie is the current President of the University Brass Band and will be attending her 4th UniBrass next February in Bangor.
As well as being an integral part of her university band, Sophie's arts industry experience includes a year working in the marketing team of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. She has also undertaken work experience at BBC Music Magazine and with the són project, Southampton's only professional orchestra.
UniBrass Foundation Chair, Andy Straiton told A4B: "As we set out to recruit an external trustee for the first time, we wanted somebody who brings a different skill set to the Foundation, with her experience Sophie does just that and we are really looking forward to welcoming her to the team and working with her."
Sophie was appointed following an open recruitment process in which members of the brass band community were invited to apply. Following an interview with two UniBrass trustees and an external interviewer, Rachel Folzan, a music education worker from Bath, Sophie joins a young team that will
continue to promote and support University Brass Banding.
Sophie told A4B: "I'm really excited to be joining the UniBrass Foundation, brass banding has been a huge part of my university experience and I look forward to working with the board and contest organising committee in making it accessible and exciting for other students too!"
This year's UniBrass contest, featuring Sophie and the Southampton University Band alongside 21 other university brass bands, takes place in Bangor on the 2nd February 2019. For more information about the contest and the work of the UniBrass Foundation search UniBrass on Facebook or visit unibrass.co.uk


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Houston Restaurant Weeks raises more than $900,000 for Houston Food Bank
The culinary event produced by the Cleverley Stone Foundation makes a donation of $933,820 to the food bank for the 2021 fundraiser
Greg Morago	December 7, 2021Updated: December 8, 2021, 9:27 am
The rooftop patio dining at B&B Butchers & Restaurant, 1814 Washington, the top donor in the 2021 Houston Restaurant Weeks campaign.
Photo: Chris Brown
Houston Restaurant Weeks announced Tuesday it has raised $933,820 for the Houston Food Bank from the 2021 citywide culinary event that ran Aug. 1 through Sept. 6. The event was produced by the Cleverley Stone Foundation, headed by Katie Stone, the daughter of the late Cleverley Stone who established Houston Restaurant Weeks in 2003.
"The Houston Food Bank is again honored to be the beneficiary of Houston Restaurant Weeks, and work with Katie Stone to help carry on the legacy of her cherished mother Cleverley Stone," said Brian Greene, president and CEO of the food bank. "This unique event in many was supports both restaurants and the communities we call home."
The donation, made Tuesday at the food bank, adds to the more than $17.5 million that the event has raised since 2003. B&B Butchers & Restaurant was listed as the top donor for the 2021 campaign, raising $55,940, followed by Brennan's of Houston with $22,407, and Eddie V's Prime Seafood at CityCentre with $19,815. Other restaurants in the top 10 donations include Eddie V's on Kirby, Traveler's Table, The Annie Café & Bar, Mastro's Steakhouse, Le Colonial, Etoile Cuisine et Bar, and Rainbow Lodge. The participating restaurants made $5 donations for dinners priced at $49; $3 for $35 dinners; and $1 for brunch and lunch meals priced at $20.
This is the second restaurant weeks fundraiser conducted during the ongoing pandemic which wreaked havoc within the restaurant industry. Katie Stone said that participating restaurants were grateful for the business the event brought as the industry struggled. "It kept doors open," she said.
About 250 local restaurants participated in the 2021 campaign, Stone said, about 25 more than the 2020 event. To-go and curbside meal options, in recognition of COVID concerns, were added to the 2020 and 2021 events.
The 2020 campaign was the first conducted under the Cleverley Stone Foundation, a nonprofit established in July 2020 with Katie Stone as president. In previous years, restaurant donations were sent directly to the food bank. With the establishment of the foundation, donations were sent to the nonprofit which, minus administrative costs, dispersed the funds to the food bank. Katie Stone said those administrative costs were minimal and that the foundation will report its financial accounting on its website in mid-2022.
She added that she is not paid as president of the foundation. "Nobody is paid for anything," she said. "Nobody receives payment of any kind."
On Tuesday Katie Stone also announced a new event, Eat Drink HTX, which will be produced by the foundation. Running Feb. 15 to 28, 2022, the event will feature two weeks of prix-fixe brunch, lunch and dinner menus developed for the casual dining category during a traditionally slow period for Houston restaurants following Valentine's Day. That event's proceeds will go to the Houston Food Bank and Star of Hope.
Eat Drink HTX will offer $25 and $20 dinners, and $15 lunch and brunch meals, with donations from $3 to $1. Several restaurants already have announced their participation in the event, including NoPo Café, Marekt & Bar, Prego's, KP's Kitchen, Ciro's Italian Grill, Thai Cottage restaurants, Rim Tanon, Osso & Kristalla, Fadi's, Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co., Saigon Hustle, and Sunday Press.
The new fundraiser was in the works by Cleverley Stone before her death in May 2020. "We're operating from her playbook," Katie Stone said. "We're simply pressing the play button."
Greg Morago writes about food for the Houston Chronicle. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter. Send him news tips at greg.morago@chron.com. Hear him on our BBQ State of Mind podcast to learn about Houston and Texas barbecue culture.
Greg Morago
Greg Morago was a features editor and reporter for The Hartford Courant for 25 years before joining the Houston Chronicle as food editor in 2009. He writes about food, restaurants, spirits, travel, fashion and beauty. He is a native Arizonan and member of the Pima tribe of the Gila River Indian Community.