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Andrena és un gènere d'himenòpters adscrit a la família Andrenidae. És el gènere més ric en espècies i un dels gèneres d'abelles més nombrós. És de distribució gairebé mundial, exceptuant Oceania i Amèrica del Sud. Compta amb més de 1.300 espècies.
En general són abelles marrons o negres amb pèls abdominals blanquinosos. Malgrat això algunes són vermelloses i unes poques tenen colors metàl·lics verdosos o blavencs. El cos mesura de 8 a 17 mm, els mascles són més petits i prims que les femelles.

En zones de clima temperat mascles i femelles emergeixen de cambres subterrànies a la primavera. Després d'aparellar-se les femelles cerquen llocs on construir els seus nius subterranis. En general prefereixen els sòls sorrencs prop d'algun arbust que protegeixi el niu de les glaçades. Els ous que hi ponen es desenvolupen i passen per diversos estadis larvaris per passar l'hivern en estadi de pre-pupes.

Bibliografia
 Michener, Charles D. (2000) The bees of the world. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Londres.
 O'Toole, Christopher, Raw, Anthony (1999) Bees of the world. Cassell Illustrated.

Enllaços externs

 Andrena Galeria d'imatges Atlas Hymenoptera
 Bugguide
 Andrena Guía d'identificació (femella)
 Andrena Guía d'identificació (mascle)
 Llista d'espècies
 Mapa mundial d'espècies

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Productivity Vs Busy: Which Is Ruling Your Life?
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Hey, everyone. Charity Preston here from Teaching Blog Traffic School. The question is always, are you working productively, or are you just busy? A lot of you might think that that's basically the same thing. If I'm super busy, obviously I'm getting a lot of things done, and I'm being very productive. It turns out busy and productive are 2 completely different things.
I can be busy by folding my laundry, making sure the dog gets to the groomer, checking my Facebook pages. All of those things definitely keep me super busy. Right? Are they productive, as in did I move closer to my daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly goals? Probably not. Yup, my dog is going to look pretty good. Of course my clothes definitely need to get folded, and checking my social media sites is beneficial, and that might get me a little closer to it. The return on investment probably isn't as great as what could be if I were productively working on tasks that I know would move me closer to the goals that I set for myself.
Today I want to show you a really fun website that I have come across, and it's called Rescue Time. From what I'm reading, it works on all different operating systems including your mobile devices and your phones, your desktops, your laptops, all of that great stuff. I really like it. Rescuetime.com is what the website is, and it's pretty cool. I will show you my dashboard here in a second. I just signed up for this. You can set alerts. This is pretty cool. I'm going to show you this. Focus Time. It shows you how well that you are staying on task.
If you're anything like me, I have to be honest, I'm a bit ADHD on the computer when it comes to working. I might work for 2-3 minutes. Of course I always have 3 or 4 tabs open, and I'm flipping over to Facebook, and then I see an email come come through, so I'm going over to see what the email says so I can respond to it right away. All of those things are not keeping me productive. The best way to do that would be to complete a chunk of time getting something finished. Then, you'll look at Facebook for a small chunk of time. Maybe go check my email 2-3 times a day, that's it. Then, spend the rest of the time just chunking out my big work things that will help keep me productive. The things that are going to make you a revenue. Right? Things that only you can do, as in creating products, creating new webinars or videos. Actually, cross-promoting with someone else, building some of those relationships. Only you can do some of those things.
This Rescue Time is pretty cool even if you wonder if you're being productive, or you're like, "I'm definitely way too busy." I would say install it, and just see what the stats say on it. It's pretty cool. I'm going to go and sign in to show you what my dashboard looks like. Again, I just signed up for it a little while ago. This shows me. I honestly just clicked through a bunch of different sites a little while ago. I could see some of the differences in some of the things. As you log more time, we'll be able to show you more interesting facts.
It basically breaks it down to your business stuff and then your distracting time. Things that you should not be doing. Then, it sets up a target. You can change this goal if you want to. It shows you what you have been working on in some of those different goals. That's kind of interesting. When you first start, it gives you a little survey and it ask you, "Which of the following items are the most productive for your work?" Then, "Which of the following items are distracting?" Like shopping, social media, entertainment, stuff like that. You up to 3, and then they have different websites categorized by which ones that it is.
Obviously I'm not going to get a whole lot here for daily pattern, but this is kind of interesting, to see times. You'll be able to see the changes over times. They give you some cool wall stats. Here it is. The average desk worker spends 28% of their day on email. I would believe that, because I spend a lot of time doing that for sure. You have lots of reports. You can change categories, look at your productivity. Very productive time, productive time, input sources. It will show me these things. You can update your goals and change them if you want to. Create a new goal. Create a goal.
Less than 1 1/2 hours per day in communications. That the whole email thing if you want. All of those different things. I can go back to my regular dashboard. The one thing I wanted to show you. You can set your goals and alert over here. You can categorize activities. You can also, like I said, install this application on your mobile devices as well, so it kind of all syncs up together. You can do more things with you data, with other integrations like ITTT, Zapier, and some of the other things.
The last thing I wanted to show you is Focus Time. Focus time is actually free with their premium account. Right now, if you happen to be one of the random people that are chosen … I don't know how random it is to be honest with you. If it is, then I got lucky I suppose. Right now, they're collecting information from the people who are using their application, and for 6 months I get a free premium account. You do need the premium account for this. I think they said it's $9 a month. I'll just use if for 6 months and see how I can improve my productivity. Focus Time basically allows you to do what it says. Focus for however many minutes that you say you want to do. It will block any kind of website that doesn't equal productivity for you. It's kind of handy. Right. It will unblock it after a short wait, or whatever. It all works with some of these different integrations as well.
You can go in and actually set it up. I want to focus for this long. You can't get to Facebook. You can't get to your email for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever. It won't allow you to so you have nothing else to do but focus on your work. Right? I can only imagine how much more productive I will be by using this. I would definitely suggest check out the free version if nothing else of Rescue Time. Go to rescuetime.com and check it out there. Then, see on here. It's showing me some different things. I spent 14% of my time already on entertainment. That's probably not good.
It will show you what your goals are for each of those. Right? Definitely head on over to rescuetime.com, download it, try it out for a couple days, and see what you think. I would love to hear your comments in the blog posts at teachingblogtrafficschool.com for Rescue Time to hear what you thought about it, or if there's another productivity app that you really enjoy using as well, because the goal here is not to be busy but to be productive. We want to set our goals, and to move toward our goals. Not just say, "Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy," all the time. In fact, the most productive people are actually usually less busy, because they found a way to use their time, and work smarter, not harder.
I hope this was helpful to you. Leave us a comment below. Feel free to follow us on our YouTube channel. Of course we have lots of great tips and tricks for our teacher bloggers right here at the blog too!
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package com.sun.media.imageioimpl.plugins.pcx;

import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOInvalidTreeException;
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataFormatImpl;
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataNode;

import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import com.sun.media.imageioimpl.common.ImageUtil;

public class PCXMetadata extends IIOMetadata implements Cloneable, PCXConstants {

    short version;
    byte bitsPerPixel;
    boolean gotxmin, gotymin;
    short xmin, ymin;
    int vdpi, hdpi;
    int hsize,vsize;

    PCXMetadata() {
        super(true, null, null, null, null);
        reset();
    }

    public Node getAsTree(String formatName) {
        if (formatName.equals(IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName)) {
            return getStandardTree();
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a recognized format!");
        }
    }

    public boolean isReadOnly() {
	return false;
    }

    public void mergeTree(String formatName, Node root) throws IIOInvalidTreeException {
        if (formatName.equals(IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName)) {
            if (root == null) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("root == null!");
            }
            mergeStandardTree(root);
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a recognized format!");
        }
    }

    public void reset() {
        version = VERSION_3_0;
        bitsPerPixel = 0;
        gotxmin = false;
        gotymin = false;
        xmin = 0;
        ymin = 0;
        vdpi = 72;
        hdpi = 72;
        hsize = 0;
        vsize = 0;
    }

    public IIOMetadataNode getStandardDocumentNode() {
        String versionString;
        switch(version) {
        case VERSION_2_5:
            versionString = "2.5";
            break;
        case VERSION_2_8_W_PALETTE:
            versionString = "2.8 with palette";
            break;
        case VERSION_2_8_WO_PALETTE:
            versionString = "2.8 without palette";
            break;
        case VERSION_PC_WINDOWS:
            versionString = "PC Paintbrush for Windows";
            break;
        case VERSION_3_0:
            versionString = "3.0";
            break;
        default:
            // unknown
            versionString = null;
        }

        IIOMetadataNode documentNode = null;
        if(versionString != null) {
            documentNode = new IIOMetadataNode("Document");
            IIOMetadataNode node = new IIOMetadataNode("FormatVersion");
            node.setAttribute("value", versionString);
            documentNode.appendChild(node);
        }

        return documentNode;
    }

    public IIOMetadataNode getStandardDimensionNode() {
        IIOMetadataNode dimensionNode = new IIOMetadataNode("Dimension");
        IIOMetadataNode node = null; // scratch node

        node = new IIOMetadataNode("HorizontalPixelOffset");
        node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(xmin));
        dimensionNode.appendChild(node);

        node = new IIOMetadataNode("VerticalPixelOffset");
        node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(ymin));
        dimensionNode.appendChild(node);

        node = new IIOMetadataNode("HorizontalPixelSize");
        node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(254.0/hdpi));
        dimensionNode.appendChild(node);

        node = new IIOMetadataNode("VerticalPixelSize");
        node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(254.0/vdpi));
        dimensionNode.appendChild(node);

        if(hsize != 0) {
            node = new IIOMetadataNode("HorizontalScreenSize");
            node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(hsize));
            dimensionNode.appendChild(node);
        }

        if(vsize != 0) {
            node = new IIOMetadataNode("VerticalScreenSize");
            node.setAttribute("value", String.valueOf(vsize));
            dimensionNode.appendChild(node);
        }

        return dimensionNode;
    }

    private void mergeStandardTree(Node root) throws IIOInvalidTreeException {
        Node node = root;
        if (!node.getNodeName().equals(IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName))
            throw new IIOInvalidTreeException("Root must be " +
                                              IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName,
                                              node);

        node = node.getFirstChild();
        while (node != null) {
            String name = node.getNodeName();

            if (name.equals("Dimension")) {
                Node child = node.getFirstChild();

                while (child != null) {
                    String childName = child.getNodeName();
                    if (childName.equals("HorizontalPixelOffset")) {
                        String hpo = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        xmin = Short.valueOf(hpo).shortValue();
                        gotxmin = true;
                    } else if (childName.equals("VerticalPixelOffset")) {
                        String vpo = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        ymin = Short.valueOf(vpo).shortValue();
                        gotymin = true;
                    } else if (childName.equals("HorizontalPixelSize")) {
                        String hps = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        hdpi = (int)(254.0F/Float.parseFloat(hps) + 0.5F);
                    } else if (childName.equals("VerticalPixelSize")) {
                        String vps = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        vdpi = (int)(254.0F/Float.parseFloat(vps) + 0.5F);
                    } else if (childName.equals("HorizontalScreenSize")) {
                        String hss = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        hsize = Integer.valueOf(hss).intValue();
                    } else if (childName.equals("VerticalScreenSize")) {
                        String vss = getAttribute(child, "value");
                        vsize = Integer.valueOf(vss).intValue();
                    }

                    child = child.getNextSibling();
                }
            }

            node = node.getNextSibling();
        }
    }

    private static String getAttribute(Node node, String attrName) {
        NamedNodeMap attrs = node.getAttributes();
        Node attr = attrs.getNamedItem(attrName);
        return attr != null ? attr.getNodeValue() : null;
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Those who found themselves wandering around the market, were able to stop and rest in the center square while chefs prepared and served delicious local treats. Besides showing up and taking pictures, something I'd do anyways, Sarah and I volunteered to do what we could for a couple of hours. Showing up just before 10, we found fellow blogger and volunteer The Brulee Blog, getting ready to hand out Chef Brad Smoliak's fantastic looking version of eggs benedict.
After Chef Smoliak, I put down the camera and put on the gloves in preparation for helping Chef Elaine Wilson. It was a delight to hear Chef Wilson do her thing as I handed out her Thai inspired treats. On top of handing out samples, I was given a knife at one point and asked to breakdown her bbq'd chicken thighs! Now handing out samples to the people is great, but being asked to help prepare…now that gets the blood going.
After Chef Wilson stepped away form the microphone, the crowd was treated to more goodies from Chef Blair Lebsack, who runs the kitchen over at Madison's Grill. Having yet another local blogger, What's For Dinner, to hand out samples, Sarah and I stepped away at this point, to feed our growing hunger and to find myself the lucky recipient of a City of Edmonton parking ticket. Without being around, I have no doubt that Chef Lebsack served up a tasty treat. The Cook Book Festival was not just profiling local chefs, it was also putting our local ingredients into the spotlight. And as such, it was no surprise to come back from lunch and see Julianna Mimande promoting the very local, and beautiful cookbook, We Eat Together. I should say, I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting the team behind this book, so if the above picture is not Julianna, just let me know!
The event was fantastic, and something Sarah and I were glad to be a part of. A big thank you to market manager Maria, who extended the volunteer invitation, and to the chefs and suppliers who continue to show how easy it is to prepare delicious treats with our local products.
*** You can read about The Brulee Blog's rundown of her experience here.
Im the owner of Irie Foods my name is Kirk. I was wondering if you had a chance to come by the restaurant yet to try some of the dishes. I was reading some of your articles and didnt see anything on Irie. I'm always curious and open to the publics comments.
Wow! NOw that's an invitation for a review, isn't it (above comment). The day looked spectacular and what fun for you all to be involved. I heard Sharon was at the Slow Food booth. Great stuff happening in the summer in the city. I hate to miss it all. Next year, we will travel in the fall… so, I will be home to garden and participate in the city;s foodie adventures. What a gorgeous day for that event! I love the photo with the beets!


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Q: LibGDX Texture drawn on FrameBuffer is darker then original Texture UPDATE 1
As you can see LibGDX Texture drawn on FrameBuffer, then on SpriteBatcher is darker then original Texture in comparison with Texture drawn directly on SpriteBatcher.

Left part is original image, which is 50% smaller of phone 1080x1920 screen.
Middle part is drawn directly from TextureRegion on SpriteBatch, and is mirrored horizontally for better comparison with left and right images. It is little distorted, but I enabled Linear filtering as you can see in code:
texture = new Texture("texture.png");
texture.setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
image = new TextureRegion(texture, 0, 0, 1024, 1024);

batcher.begin();
batcher.draw(image, 0, 0, screenWidth, screenHeight);
batcher.end();

Right part is TextureRegion drawn on FrameBuffer first, then drawn on SpriteBatch, like in following code:
texture = new Texture("texture.png");
texture.setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
image = new TextureRegion(texture, 0, 0, 1024, 1024);

pixmap = new FrameBuffer(Pixmap.Format.RGBA8888, screenWidth, screenHeight, false);
pixmapregion = new TextureRegion(pixmap.getColorBufferTexture(), screenWidth, screenHeight);

pixmap.begin();
batcher.begin();
batcher.draw(image, 0, 0, screenWidth, screenHeight);
batcher.end();
pixmap.end();

batcher.begin();
batcher.draw(pixmapregion , 0, 0, screenWidth, screenHeight);
batcher.end();

Like you can see, it is little darker than image drawn directly from texture. And when I draw it with shader, the results are real mess in comparison with texture drawn with shader.
So the real question is what FrameBuffer do to texture that mess with it, so it is unusable with shader. And I need to draw it on pixmap first, so I can blend two transparent FrameBuffers. All this time I thought problem is with shader, and I lost 3 days finding what the problem is, so if someone could help me I would be very grateful! :)
Note: I tried to enable blending when drawing on FrameBuffer, to clear it first with Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL20.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); but nothing made difference.
UPDATE 2
It looks like there is something I should do with setting one kind of GL blending when drawing on FrameBuffer, and setting osecond kind of blending when drawing FrameBuffer, but I can't get the right combination yet...
OLD QUESTION

Left image is made in Photoshop, with alpha transparency, but I put black background so it can be seen better. Right image is screen shoot from android screen. This is my code, i first draw texture on pixmap, then i draw that pixmap on screen, and texture quality is very bad, and alpha channel is very distorted as you can see.
texture = new Texture("drop-blue.png");
texture.setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
image = new TextureRegion(texture, 0, 0, 1024, 1024);

pixmap = new FrameBuffer(Pixmap.Format.RGBA8888, screenWidth, screenHeight, false);
pixmapregion = new TextureRegion(pixmap.getColorBufferTexture(), screenWidth, screenHeight);

pixmap.begin();
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
batcher.begin();
batcher.draw(image, screenWidth/2 - 512, screenHeight/2 - 512, 1024, 1024);
batcher.end();
pixmap.end();

batcher.begin();
batcher.draw(pixmapregion, 0, 0, screenWidth, screenHeight);
batcher.end();

A: This is normal and how blending works. You are rendering a texture with transparency onto a framebuffer with transparency, which in turn you render onto the screen (backbuffer). This causes the blending to be applied twice.
Let look at what is actually happening by looking how a single pixel is transformed from the texture to the fbo to the screen. First by looking at what happens when rendering to the FBO:

*

*Let's say that pixel in the texture is [r:0.5, g:1.0, b:0.0, a:0.75], this is will be our source pixel.

*When you render that to the framebuffer then the destination pixel is initially [r:0.0, g:0.0, b:0.0, a:0.0], which is your glClearColor.

*The blend function by default is for the source SRC_ALPHA and for the destination ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA.

*When rendering to the FBO this will result in: [r:0.75 * 0.5, g:0.75 * 1.0, b:0.75 * 0.0, a: 0.75 * 0.75] + [r:(1 - 0.75) * 0.0, g:(1 - 0.75) * 0.0, b:(1 - 0.75) * 0.0, a:(1 - 0.75) * 0.0] which results in [r:0.375, g:0.75, b:0.0, a:0.5625]
Now let's see what happens when rendering the FBO to the screen:

*

*The source pixel is: [r:0.375, g:0.75, b:0.0, a:0.5625]

*The destination pixel (glClearColor of the screen) is [r:0, g:0, b:0] (no alpha channel)

*So the blended result will be: [r:0.211, g:0.422, b:0.0] (no alpha channel)

Note how the result gets darker and darker. This is because it gets blended with the original color, which in your case is black. If you'd use e.g. white then it would actually get brighter and brighter.
If you don't like this behavior then you can disable blending altogether using Batch#disableBlending(). If you only want to blend once then you can use a FBO without alpha channel (e.g. RGB888 instead of RGBA8888). Or, if you want to customize the behavior then you can use a different blend function using Batch#setBlendFunction.
BTW, while I was typing this, I remembered I did that before. Here's practically the same question and answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31146449/2512687

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Cholera Epidemic In Haiti Far From Over
Cholera patients at MSF's cholera treatment center in the Delmas 33 area of Port au Prince.
News Americas, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mon. June 6, 2011: The cholera epidemic in Haiti is far from over, with a sharp increase in cases seen in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and outbreaks reported elsewhere in the country.
That's the word from te international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The organization says while the cholera epidemic in Haiti began to decline in February, it has not yet ended and since mid-May, medical teams in Port-au-Prince have witnessed an increase.
By the end of May cholera had killed nearly 5,000 people from among the 300,000 cases reported in the country. Three percent of the country's population has contracted the disease.
"Since May 29 – in one week – MSF has treated almost 2,000 patients in the capital, and we have also been asked to intervene in other areas in the interior of the country," said MSF head of mission, Romain Gitenet. "Workload should be shared and coordinated in order to increase cholera treatment capacity in Haiti. Too many public facilities are still inadequate."
MSF had to reopen emergency more centers to prevent existing treatment centers in Carrefour, Delmas, Martissant, Cité Soleil and Drouillard from being overwhelmed, the organization said.
MSF is urging Haitian authorities and their humanitarian partners to mobilize to stop the spread of the disease by strengthening national surveillance systems and treatment facilities.
They urged for immediate improvements in hygiene, sanitation, and drinking water supplies should be a national priority, in order to protect the most vulnerable people.
"Vigilance is still the best protection," said Gitenet. "People must be strict about their hygiene and drink treated water. As soon as cholera symptoms appear, such as vomiting and diarrhea, it is vital that people go as quickly as possible to a treatment center. Cholera is treatable, but without medical care it kills quickly."
MSF says it has treated 130,000 Haitians for cholera or 43 percent of total cases.
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Le  d'artillerie coloniale, puis  d'artillerie de marine était une unité de l'armée de terre française, de l'artillerie de marine.

Création et différentes dénominations
 Le , une unité d'artillerie de marine, composée de 2 bataillons est en garnison à Toulon. il s'agit du futur  d'artillerie de marine.
 En 1813, ces 2 bataillons d'artillerie de marine appartiennent au  d'armée du maréchal Marmont.
 En 1815 ils sont dissous.
 Le  est recréé le Corps royal de l'artillerie de marine.
 En 1822, ces deux bataillons prennent le nom de régiment d'artillerie de marine, il comprend 24 compagnies.
 En 1893 le régiment prend le nom  RAMa. Le  il est en garnison avec 9 batteries à Brest et à Cherbourg, puis toujours avec 9 batteries dans les colonies.
 Le  il prend le nom de  d'artillerie coloniale. Il participe à la Première Guerre mondiale.
 Fin 1918 il est dissous, le personnel puis son matériel vont constituer le  RAC.
 Recréé en 1919 à Brest et Cherbourg, il est transféré à Bordeaux et à Libourne.
 Dissous en 1923.
 Recréé en 1929 il prend garnison à Nîmes,Toulon, et Bastia. En 1939 il est stationné à Nîmes, il se dédouble avec le  d'artillerie coloniale.
 Dissous en 1940.
 En février 1943 il est reconstitué en Égypte dans la banlieue du Caire.
 Dissous le  pour former le  du  Régiment d'artillerie des Forces françaises libres (RAFFL)
 En , il reprend le nom de  Régiment d'artillerie coloniale. Sa garnison est à Nimes, mais il est transféré à Castres pour devenir un régiment d'instruction avec une implantation outre-mer comme à Bordj Bou Arreridj
 Le  il reprend le nom de  RAMa.
 Dissous le .
 Recréé en 1967 sous forme de régiment de réserve. Il est constitué de réservistes du  d'artillerie de marine.
 Il est dérivé par le  d'artillerie, dépôt au CM 29 de Provins puis à Melun. Puis CM 11 de Boissise-la-Bertrand le  RA sera dissous.
 En 1986 sous le nom de  RAMa il retrouve le  RAMa de Montlhéry il sera affecté à la  DIMa, il renforce le  RAMa.
 Dissous le .

Chefs de corps
le  R.A.Ma.
 1792 : Colonel Pierre François Lhermitte d'Aubigny (*)
 1803 : Colonel Jean-François Lepaige (*)
 1814 : Colonel Augustin Pons
 1929-1932 : Colonel Pierre-François Simon
1934-1936 : Colonel Joseph-Edouard-Henri-Marie-André Bourély
  -1968 : Lieutenant-colonel Abadie Édouard.
 1968-1972 : Lieutenant-colonel Van den Bogaert Georges.
 1972-1977 : Lieutenant-colonel Claudon Jacques.
 1977-1981 : Lieutenant-colonel Jacquemet Lucien.
 1981-1986 : Lieutenant-colonel Vincent Jean.
 1986-1990 : Lieutenant-colonel Chevillot Philippe.
 1990-1994 : Lieutenant-colonel Fraisse Daniel.

Historique des garnisons, campagnes et batailles du  RAC

Jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale
Le , l'Artillerie de Marine est rattachée à l'Armée de Terre et prend le nom de « Coloniale », ce qui est fait pour le  d'artillerie coloniale le , il est en garnison à Cherbourg, Le Havre, Brest, Lorient puis le Maroc.

En 1870, il sera dans l'une des deux brigades de la Division Bleue. Il recevra l'ordre de protéger la retraite du . La brigade soutient une lutte acharnée contre les bavarois à Bazeilles les  et .

La Première Guerre mondiale
Il y participe au sein du  d'armée coloniale. Avec son frère d'arme le  RAC, le régiment est engagé dans les batailles de Rossignol, de Champagne, sur la Somme puis encore en Champagne, dans l'Aisne puis dans les Vosges. Il sera titulaire de deux citations à l'ordre de l'armée. Il est finalement dissous à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Le  du  combat indépendamment de son unité mère. Il est formé de deux batteries de six canons de  et rejoint l'artillerie divisionnaire de la   (AD/73). Ensuite, ce groupe est rattaché à la   (AD/76) du  au . Le groupe est ensuite réorganisé avec trois batteries de quatre canons de 75 et est rattaché à l'artillerie de la   (AD/70). Il rejoint en avril 1917 l'artillerie du  d'armée, qui prend le nom de  d'artillerie de campagne.

L'entre-deux-guerres
Il est recréé en 1919, et mis en garnison à Brest et à Cherbourg. Il sera ensuite transféré à Bordeaux puis à Libourne. Il est rapidement dissout lors de la réorganisation des unités d'artillerie décidée en 1923 et devient le  d'artillerie coloniale le .

Reformé en 1929 à partir du  d'artillerie coloniale, il sera stationné à Nîmes, Toulon, Bastia. À la mobilisation de 1939, le régiment est dédoublé pour former le  RAC.

La Seconde Guerre mondiale
En 1939 il se battra aux avant-postes avec son frère d'arme le  RAC dans le Gâtinais et sur la Loire. Il sera ensuite dissous à l'armistice. Reconstitué en février 1943 en Égypte au camp de Mena avec des éléments du groupement d'artillerie coloniale de la Côte française des Somalis, puis le  comme  du  R.A.F.F.L. Quelques mois plus tard, il sera reconstitué une fois de plus à Nîmes en décembre de la même année, en tant que  d'artillerie coloniale, et sera rapidement transféré à Castres comme régiment d'instruction.

L'après Seconde Guerre mondiale
Le  il prend le nom de  d'artillerie de marine. Il est dissous le , avant d'être recréé en 1967 sous forme de régiment de réserve. Il sera dérivé par le  R.A. Il retrouve son nom en 1986, et est alors affecté à la . Il sera dissous le .

Étendard du régiment
Il porte, cousues en lettres d'or dans ses plis, les inscriptions suivantes:
 Lutzen 1813
 Vera-Cruz 1838
 Sébastopol 1855
 Puebla 1863
 Sontay-Langson 1883-1884
 Champagne 1915
 Somme 1916
 L'Aisne 1917-1918
 AFN 1952-1962
 Son étendard est versé au service historique de l'Armée, après la dissolution du  R.A.Ma le , cet étendard a été confié temporairement au  RCS à Dinan le , puis à partir de  au  RA à Melun.
 Il sera ensuite de nouveau confié au régiment jusqu'au , date à laquelle le  d'artillerie de marine est dissous. Son étendard est alors remis au gouverneur militaire de Paris.

Décorations

Sa cravate est décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918 avec deux citations à l'ordre de l'armée (deux palmes).

Il a le droit au port de la fourragère aux couleurs du ruban de la croix de guerre 1914-1918.

Insigne du  d'artillerie de marine
Ancre et canons croisés de l'artillerie coloniale puis de marine, carte d'Afrique avec les possessions françaises en rouge, couronne de feuilles de chêne et de laurier évoquant la conduite héroïque du régiment en 1914-1918.

Devise du  d'artillerie de marine

Personnages célèbres ayant servi au  RAC
 Augustin Pons ( d'artillerie de marine) en tant que major.
 Ernest Psichari.
 Louis Ribadeau-Dumas

Sources et bibliographie
   Historique du 2e Régiment d'Artillerie de Marine
 Sources : - Les Troupes de Marine - Quatre siècles d'histoire - Edition LAVAUZELLE.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Troupes de marine
 Troupes coloniales
 Régiments des colonies

Liens externes

 Musée des troupes de marine de Fréjus
 Association du  d'artillerie de marine.

Régiment décoré de la croix de guerre 1914-1918
Unité des troupes de marine française dissoute
Unité d'artillerie française dissoute
Troupe coloniale française


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When the AVMA's salary starter calculator asked women to dock $2,400 from their calculations, AVMA members were confused by the lack of explanation
By Veterinary Practice News Editors
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"A US veterinary group's salary calculator docks your pay rate for being a woman."
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The AVMA sincerely apologizes for any misunderstandings regarding the gender wage gap resulting from the recent online release of its New Graduate Starting Salary Calculator. Although this calculator was debuted during the March 2016 Student AVMA Symposium to rave reviews, in retrospect we realize that the difference between its in-person debut and broader release via internet was context—and we failed to sufficiently provide that earlier.
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"Like" isn't the right verb there, with its sense of preference and maybe even pleasure; maybe that was reflex. Reading and writing about Deep Adaptation has been painful from the start, and I would really rather be talking about anything else today. But I feel a certain responsibility toward Bendell's new research paper, which concludes that recent trends in key climate factors indicate we are headed for "near-term social collapse due to climate chaos."
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This may come off as a radical pronouncement in a climate conversation where most everyone concerned with "solving the problem" — scientists, activists, policymakers, philanthropists — labors to find cause for hope, or at minimum an avenue for preventive action.
But even if radical, Bendell's paper is hardly irrational (although in places it is, for research prose, untypically personal and emotional). His scholarship is in sustainability, at the intersection of environment and economics, and he has credentials: a Ph.D, a position at England's University of Cumbria, as well as industry experience, a CV that includes a bunch of papers in peer-reviewed journals (not including the one I'm discussing here; more on that later).
This new work has gone virtually unreported since Bendell self-published it at the end of July, though Bloomberg's Christopher Flavelle took notice and found that Bendell and his ideas are not without an academic following. And the paper's key point — that the velocity of climate change appears to have shifted so dramatically upward since 2014 that its progression is no longer "linear" — aligns with other mainstream research.
For instance, a paper published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discussed data on various "self-reinforcing feedbacks" that seem capable of driving further, "nonlinear" warming of the atmosphere even if emissions are reduced (the melting of the planet's great ice sheets being a prime example). That work, which got more coverage than Bendell's, framed future risk as a series of "tipping points" leading to a "Hothouse Earth" scenario:
This pathway would be propelled by strong, intrinsic, biogeophysical feedbacks difficult to influence by human actions, a pathway that could not be reversed, steered, or substantially slowed. Where such a threshold might be is uncertain, but it could be only decades ahead at a temperature rise of ∼2.0°C above pre-industrial, and thus, it could be within the range of the Paris Accord temperature targets. The impacts of a Hothouse Earth pathway on human societies would likely be massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive.
The authors urged a concerted effort to predict and avert these "tipping points," returning the planet to a more hospitable pathway. But they spoke in only mild, general terms about what sort of adaptation would be necessary if such efforts fail.
The option that's left
Adaptation (or, sometimes, mitigation) has always been one of the three leading strategies to address global warming, but until recently it was rarely anyone's first choice.
Courtesy of University of Cumbria Institute for Leadership and Sustainability
Jem Bendell
The No. 1 option has always been to make large, global cuts in those emissions — an effort that, as the IPCC report makes clear, continues to fall far short of what's needed. Option No. 2 has been a grab bag of engineering fixes, like making the planet more reflective with a blanket of upper-atmosphere aerosols, or building giant machines to suck carbon dioxide back out of the air. These notions have been hugely expensive, highly risky, or both (and, not infrequently, fanciful).
Option No. 3, adaptation, has been mostly about making existing systems and infrastructure more resilient — improving the electric power grid, hardening structures against heat waves and storms, making seawalls higher, expanding the wildfire buffer around vulnerable communities, tweaking the practices of industrial agriculture. Lately it has begun to include relocating communities displaced by coastal flooding.
But these approaches have been fundamentally about holding onto the familiar. Bendell says it's too late for that kind of thinking, because the world we know is so quickly disappearing. Key excerpts, lightly compressed and without footnotes:
The warming Arctic has led to dramatic loss in sea ice, the average September extent of which has been decreasing at a rate of 13.2% per decade since 1980, so that over two-thirds of the ice cover has gone. This data is made more concerning by changes in sea ice volume, which is an indicator of resilience of the ice sheet to future warming and storms. It was at the lowest it has ever been in 2017, continuing a consistent downward trend.
Given a reduction in the reflection of the sun's rays from the surface of white ice, an ice-free Arctic is predicted to increase warming globally by a substantial degree. Writing in 2014, scientists calculated this change is already equivalent to 25% of the direct forcing of temperature increase from CO2 during the past 30 years. That means we could cut CO2 emissions by 25% and it is already outweighed by the loss of the reflective power of Arctic sea ice. One of the most eminent climate scientists in the world, Peter Wadhams, believes an ice-free Arctic will occur one summer in the next few years and that it will likely increase by 50% the warming caused by the CO2 produced by human activity.
The observed phenomena, of actual temperatures and sea levels, are greater than what the climate models over the past decades were predicting for our current time. They are consistent with non-linear changes in our environment that then trigger uncontrollable impacts on human habitat and agriculture, with subsequent complex impacts on social, economic and political systems.
As for the consequences:
Already we see impacts on storm, drought and flood frequency and strength due to increased volatility from more energy in the atmosphere. Climate change has reduced growth in crop yields by 1-2 percent per decade over the past century. …
In ten years prior to 2016 the Atlantic Ocean soaked up 50 percent more carbon dioxide than it did the previous decade, measurably speeding up the acidification of the ocean. This study is indicative of oceans worldwide, and the consequent acidification degrades the base of the marine food web, thereby reducing the ability of fish populations to reproduce themselves across the globe. Meanwhile, warming oceans are already reducing the population size of some fish species.
Compounding these threats to human nutrition, in some regions we are witnessing an exponential rise in the spread of mosquito and tick-borne viruses as temperatures become more conducive to them.
Journal asks for brightening
Gloomy stuff, to be sure, but one would think also of interest to the professional readership of the Sustainable Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, where Bendell submitted his paper for review and publication. But the editors, he says, asked that he revise it to include "existing scholarship … on ecologically induced social collapse" at a global scale. He found that impossible; a literature review conducted in preparing his own paper hadn't found any such work (although I seem to recall plenty of work on collapse at local to regional scales, both modern and historical, and wonder why that wouldn't meet the journal's needs).
Also, they asked that he "not dishearten readers with the claim of 'inevitable near term social collapse,' " a request he rejected as "a form of censure" (maybe meaning censorship). This is an aspect he addresses in the paper itself:
As researchers and reflective practitioners, we have an opportunity and obligation to not just do what is expected by our employers and the norms of our profession, but also to reflect on the relevance of our work within wider society. … It is a responsible act to communicate this analysis now and invite people to support each other, myself included, in exploring the implications, including the psychological and spiritual implications.
This situation makes redundant the reformist approach to sustainable development and related fields of corporate sustainability that has underpinned the approach of many professionals. Instead, a new approach which explores how to reduce harm and not make matters worse is important to develop. In support of that challenging, and ultimately personal process, understanding a deep adaptation agenda may be useful.
"Deep adaptation agenda" appears to be Bendell's own coinage, and he has a three-part strategy in mind. It starts with that "resilience" component that everybody is already behind — seawalls and reinforced roofing, etc. — but veers away in advocating for a second stage of "relinquishment" (giving up treasured things that make climate chaos worse, like present-day living standards and homes that overlook the ocean).
And then a third: "restoration" of cultural values and practices "that our hydrocarbon-fuelled civilisation eroded":
Examples include re-wilding landscapes, so they provide more ecological benefits and require less management, changing diets back to match the seasons, rediscovering non-electronically powered forms of play, and increased community-level productivity and support.
The necessity of 'hope'
I don't know why it should come as such a surprise and disappointment to learn that this journal insisted an author restate findings to be less "disheartening." Science and scientific publishing should be above sugar-coating.
But then so should journalism, and over my four decades in the trade I have felt the same kind of pressure to search out and even amplify the hopeful note, the potential solution, the sign of progress, the thing going right instead of wrong, so as not to drive the readers to despair (or, more cynically, to another publication that's less of a downer).
This morning I am wondering if the biggest failing of American media on climate change hasn't been in giving too much credence to the denialist charlatans, but in raising too mild a challenge to assertions that, despite such heavy evidence to the contrary, there's still room to maneuver this runaway truck away from the cliff.
I am not speaking here of MinnPost, not in the slightest. I've never felt any pro-hopefulness pressure from my editors here. But, honestly, if I had, it might well have been redundant, as I long ago got into a bad habit of applying it all by myself.
Not this morning.
Jem Bendell's paper, "Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy," can be downloaded here without charge.
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open and hit F12 works too on fresh install, after the render I try Shift+Z/ render in 3d view and it crashes again.
open and hit Shift+Z gives me black models in 3d view, assign the same material again via dropdown: http://www.blackcrow.eu/ss/blender_2018-11-08_19-09-20.png and then it shows up properly in the 3d view: http://www.blackcrow.eu/ss/blender_2018-11-08_19-10-13.png. Then I hit F12 and it crashes again.
Bert Pauwels (Blackcrow69) raised the priority of T57708: Crash on Eevee Rendering OpenGL issue ? from Confirmed, Medium to Needs Triage by Developer.
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Published on March 13, 2015 in Favorite Things Friday and Seasonal. 1 Comment Tags: basil, bike ride, easter, easter eggs, lemon mint water, marquesa, open windows, peonies, springtime.
That little Marquesa number makes me weak at the knees… but it also makes me giddy for Springtime. Even though it's always Summer in California, I still get excited for this time of year… for everything in shades of pastels, for planting new flowers & herbs outside (OMG, I'm 107… but seriously, I can almost smell heirloom tomatoes on a vine in the garden)… just for a fresh start. And if you're any of my people back in the homeland, I bet the sun peeking through the grey skies and warming your face + the promise of green buds popping up from underneath the snow makes you so happy you could cry. Hit play on the ditty below and keep scrolling down to getcherself in the mood for Springtime!
Open a window – even if it's still freezing out, and even if it's only for a few minutes – just to let some fresh air in.
Or if it's warm enough, sleep with all the windows open, and wake up like this on Saturday morning. Which is precisely what I'll be doing.
Pick up some fresh flowers from the market.
Mix yourself some lemon mint water… a) because it's so good for you, but b) because it tastes like Springtime.
Go get – or DIY – a mani in a bright, happy hue.
Get stoked, even if you're over the age of 4, about Easter coming up, because even if you're not gluing sequins on Easter eggs, at least you get to wear a Easter-egg-colored-outfits that weekend.
Treat yo self to a bright staple, like this green Gigi New York oversized clutch.
Throw one bright piece into your wardrobe mix this weekend, just to perk things up a little.
Pot a basil plant in your kitchen window.


The ongoing revolution in Syria erupted just over a year ago in March 2011. Thousands of Syrians hit the streets to demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down, starting a bloody battle between the security forces and protesters. Violence escalated as the military bombarded rebel towns and villages, especially Homs. At least 8,000 people have died so far, according to the United Nations Security Council.
During the uprisings that began earlier in Tunisia, Egypt and the rest of the Arab Spring, citizen journalism flowered and it was reasonable to expect a similar flood of Syrian tweets and Facebook messages–and perhaps even the emergence of something so iconic as the #Jan24 Twitter hashtag that helped spur the Egyptian mobilizations.
But it never happened in Syria. Why?
Some of the reasons are readily understandable. Syrians face a shortage of Internet aceess and an excess of fear. But one of the reasons was less predictable. After so much outpouring of social media from so many Arab uprisings, the world appears simply to be social-media fatigued.
SocialFlow, a social media optimization tool, estimates that Egypt was mentioned in 186,000 tweets per hour in January 2011, as the crisis ballooned there. In February of this year, when the international media was reporting daily on the frequent of Homs, Syria was mentioned in an estimated only 3,000 to 6,000 tweets.
Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the New America Foundation, tried to get at why Syria has not gone viral. Researchers found that people are in fact talking about Syria on social media, but the attention seems to be more focused among activists or Middle East specialists. The global social media audience has not been involved in the same way as it was with Egypt. the researchers concluded.
Accessibility has been key, of course. Syrians did have access to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But the access has been very limited, and for a limited period of time. Security officials of the Assad regime learned from what they saw as mistakes in Egypt and cracked down heavily on protesters' use of social media. Censors demanded that protesters divulge their Facebook passwords. They also regularly switched off mobile data networks – preventing rebels from sharing photos and uploading videos of protests and violence.
"Sometimes they cut off the Internet, and sometimes they make the Internet very slow, which means you can't upload YouTube videos," said Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, who has tried to document human right violations that have occurred since the uprising started in Syria. He said that the government was "just generally making everything very difficult" online.
The Syrian government has censored the Internet for a long period of time. So much so that the watchdog group Reporters Sans Frontières named the country "enemy of the Internet." The regime has previously blocked sites that contain human rights information, or sites that belong to the Kurdish people, and even recently, the Muslim Brotherhood.
But accessibility is only part of a bigger problem for the Syrian rebels. Some of them revealed that they were too scared to share their activity on social media because the Assad government has been keeping a close eye on the rebellion by rigorously going through blogs, Facebook updates and tweets. Social media has turned social media on its head by using it as a tool to track down activists. There have been reports of police officers raiding people's homes and confiscating personal computers. According to a Reuters report, the Syrian security forces have created a list of people who are on the watch-list because of their activity on Facebook. Some posted anti-government comments on Facebook or re-routed or "favorite" tweets supporting the rebels.
Another reason why people have been paying less attention to Syria than Egypt is what NPR's Andy Carvin calls as the "coverage fatigue." Egypt, according to Carvin, had a critical mass of people with Internet access. "When Mubarak unplugged the Internet, it became an international sensation. It became international news," said Carvin, who works as NPR's senior strategist in Washington D.C.
Carvin said Syria did not have that advantage mostly because of competition from Libya. He said coverage ramps up when death tolls are up. "Assad is very smart. He only allowed 10 to 15 people dying per day," said Carvin. "After a few days, editors of major networks were not interested in covering Syria anymore. There was coverage fatigue in the media." Egypt was a quick phenomenon. The uprising grew fast, leading to a revolution that was dramatic and lasted just over a month. Syria, on the other hand, has been a year long struggle and it's far from being over. It lost momentum in the process.
There have been exceptions. There were days, especially in February, when international coverage of Syria spiked. Bloggers and citizen journalists inside Syria posted a rash of videos on YouTube and tweet traffic was high. But the correspondents got tired or too scared of the dangers and left the country. The limited accessibility and fear factor, meanwhile, took their toll among Syrians. Compared to the rest of the Arab Spring, Syrian social media has since remained relatively low key, despite the continuing violence.


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A New Brooklyn Fragrance Destination Helps You Find Your Scent—And Watch It Get Made, Too
by Celia Ellenberg
Photographed by Bert Stern, Vogue, January 1965
There's a renaissance afoot in Brooklyn's industrial Wallabout neighborhood that's bringing a new generation of makers to the historic manufacturing enclave. The stretch of Flushing Avenue between the Navy Yard and the outskirts of the Fort Greene area is already home to the Mast Brothers chocolate production facility and Parlor Coffee's roasting and tasting room. Starting today, perfumer Frederick Bouchardy will join them with his Joya fragrance house's first-ever flagship. Part retail gallery, part fully operational production facility (candle, soap, and ceramic fabrication and small-batch perfume and diffuser blending all take place here), the unique multiuse space offers fragrance-philes a chance to pull back the curtain—or slide open the floating steel-and-wood panels, in this case—on niche fragrance manufacturing, and then take home a scented souvenir from the experience.
Bouchardy teamed up with the design firm Taylor and Miller to retrofit a 19th-century rigging garage that took more than two years to renovate. The 2,000-square-foot space opens into a small retail area outfitted with mobile shelving units that separate it from the production facility while simultaneously offering a view of the action. "It's more like we were just working here, and this sort of gallery thing landed in the middle of it," Bouchardy joked of the boutique area, which stocks Joya's own exquisite range of perfumes that sit in faceted ceramic bottles not-so-secretly designed in homage to Lanvin's original Arpege flacon, as well as a range of collaborative projects, including candles for the design firm Snarkitecture and hand-marbled vessels for the wallpaper company Calico. A curated selection of third-party products includes scented offerings from French pharmacy mainstay Claude Galien and Milan's 10 Corso Como, as well as seaweed body-care staples from Ireland's Mungo Murphy and ceramics from Nashville-based potter Sarah Cihat.
Photo: Courtesy of Joya Studio
But the real draw here—which more than makes up for the 15-minute walk from the nearest subway—is the opportunity to schedule a tour of the raw factory space and observe the artisans at work. "This is a real-deal industrial scent studio," Bouchardy said during a private tour earlier this week, pointing out zones where his 21-person team formulates fragrances, produces candles and soaps for scale, casts porcelain and ceramic prototypes, and makes silicon molds. "It's kind of the entire apothecary world, but we're doing it in a New York way and using modern ingredients."
Since starting Joya in 2006 with a small collection of miniature candles, Bouchardy has found considerable success as a private-label producer of scented votives and accessories for more than 100 brands, including skin-care favorites Malin+Goetz and lifestyle brands like Opening Ceremony and Shinola. (During my tour, fellow niche fragrance upstarts D.S. & Durga's candle collaboration with J.Crew had just been packaged, emitting a rich, spicy aroma into the air.)
Bouchardy hints at another retail location in Manhattan in the works for this year, as well as a handful of other "notes and dreams and beautiful things" to come. Look out for a revolving calendar of art exhibitions and events at the new space, as well as the opportunity to book bespoke appointments while drinking plenty of Parlor coffee. "I'm really happy to show what we do," he said. "That's the point of all this."
Joya, 19 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn; joyastudio.com.
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Her work is influenced by scientific concepts in physics, chemistry and biology. The pure fun of exploring what paint can do and her natural curiosity keeps the work fresh and lively. She is continually exploring new surfaces, materials and techniques. Her work is represented in galleries in the US and Australia and is found in corporate, civic and educational institutions and private collections globally.
She experiments, paints, writes and teaches at her studio in Santa Fe, NM. She also teaches around the US, Europe and Australia. She is the author of five art technique books, several DVDs and her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines.
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Onto the new season
Since the founding of SVS STRÖCK in autumn 2010, everything is different in the Austrian and European women's table tennis.
With immediate effect that Linz Froschberg was replaced as number one in Austria after
14 years of dominance -
SVS STRÖCK was team champion in 2011 as well as 2012 and also Europe was mixed up: in the first year of participation (2011/2012) the WSA partner club reached the final of the European Champions League.
On 10 September 2012 (19:00, Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat) the team will start into the second CL season.
First preliminary round opponent is the Croatian Champion CASL Zagreb, a very strong team with a star from Japan (Yoshida) and Croatian internationals.
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Q: String comparison in Tkinter I'm trying to write simple GUI that will generate numbers, write them to the string, and after pressing "Check" button it will compare the input from the user with generated numbers.In this code function print(x==y) should print me TRUE, since i provide the same numbers which were generated, but it prints me FALSE.What is the problem? Could you help me please?
from tkinter import*
from random import randint

def compare():
    global string2
    global string1

    string2=str(string2.get())
    print (string1 == string2)

def generate():
    global k
    number.config(text=string1[k])
    k=k+1
    number.after(2000, remove)

def remove():
    global repeat

    number.config(text='')

    repeat -= 1
    if repeat > 0:
        number.after(1000, generate)

root = Tk()

i=3
k=0
j=0
repeat = i
string1=str()
string2=StringVar()

while j < i:
    string1=string1+str(randint(1,10))
    j=j+1

number = Label(root, width=20, height=10)
number.pack()

ent = Entry(root,width=20,bd=3)
ent.pack()

but = Button(text="Check",command = compare)
but.pack()

generate()

root.mainloop()

A: The main problem is ranint(1,10) which can give values 1...10,not 1...9.
  So finally it generates 4-digits number instead of 3-digits one.
(but it could generate even 6-digits number "101010" - "10" + "10" + "10")
Use randint(1, 9) or randrange(1, 10)
import tkinter as tk
from random import randint

# --- functions ---

def compare():
    print(number_str == answer.get())

def generate():
    global index

    lab.config(text=number_str[index])

    index += 1

    root.after(2000, remove)

def remove():
    global repeat

    lab.config(text='')

    repeat -= 1
    if repeat > 0:
        root.after(1000, generate)

# --- main ---

number_of_digits = 3
repeat = number_of_digits

index = 0

number_str = ""

for _ in range(number_of_digits):
    number_str = number_str + str(randint(1,9))

#print(number_str)

root = tk.Tk()

answer = tk.StringVar()

lab = tk.Label(root, width=20, height=10)
lab.pack()

ent = tk.Entry(root, textvariable=answer, width=20, bd=3)
ent.pack()

but = tk.Button(text="Check", command=compare)
but.pack()

generate()

root.mainloop()


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Custom themes contain HTML and CSS templates using the Hugo blogging engine. Creating a new template in a custom theme will override a template with the same name in the built-in design you've chosen for your blog.
You can also pick the Blank design and clone an existing GitHub repository when creating your new custom theme. Micro.blog will download that repository and make its files available for editing in your custom theme.
Some special templates used by Micro.blog are stored in the Blank design and used by all themes. When picking a template to use, Micro.blog first looks in your custom theme, then one of the built-in designs, and then the Blank design. If you need to customize one of these special templates, you can copy it from our repository on GitHub.
There's a 6-minute screencast video showing more about how custom themes work on YouTube.
If you've created a theme and want to share it with other Micro.blog users, save it in its own repository on GitHub. Users can clone your repository when starting their own custom theme. If your custom theme depends on an existing built-in design, make sure to tell potential users of the theme to select that design too.
Micro.blog supports editing many common file types such as HTML files, Markdown, JSON, and CSS. When cloning a repository into a new custom theme, Micro.blog will skip any files that can't be edited. For example, it will not copy image files. If you need to use an image file in your theme, upload it to your blog under Posts → Uploads.