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Tomoko Kawase, Singer
Kawase Tomoko is a well-known Japanese musician, mostly noted for her role as the vocalist for the brilliant green. She made her solo debut as Tommy february6, a character with an 80's-styled synth pop sound, in 2001. She made her debut as Tommy heavenly6, a character with a alternative rock sound, in 2003. Kawase is most known for such songs as "EVERYDAY AT THE BUS STOP", "je t'aime★je t'aime", "Wait till I can dream" and "pray". The Brilliant Green Kawase Tomoko was originally the lead vocalist and lyricist of the alt-rock band the brilliant green. She was asked to join the band in 1995 after her now husband, Okuda…
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Origa, Singer sing writer
Ok technically this isn't Jpop but hear me out. Origa is a Russian singer who works mostly in japan. I first heard a song that she did on ghost in the shell Stand Alone complex "Inner universe" she has also done songs for Gundam, Fantastic children and Final Fantasy among others. She now soulie produces music for the Japanese market so you can kind of put it in here 🙂 Lullaby Inner Universe "full" Ol'ga Vital'evna Yakovleva (Russian: Ольга Витальевна Яковлева, born October 12, 1970 in Kochenёvo, Novosibirsk oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union), better known as Origa, is a Russian singer who works mostly in Japan. After…
Ayumi Hamasaki
Thanks to Murder Princess today we have Back-On Back-On (stylized as BACK-ON) is a Japanese rock band from Tokyo, Japan. They are recognized for creating anime and game opening themes such as the Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 opening theme, "fly away"; Air Gear opening theme, "Chain"; Murder Princess opening theme "Hikari Sasuhou (fk Metal ver.)" and Eyeshield 21s "Blaze Line". etc., although they have also written ending themes for both anime and TV shows. These include "flower" and "a day dreaming…" for Eyeshield 21, and "Butterfly" for the late-night TV drama Shinjuku Swan, and most recently "Sands of Time" for the mobile robot TV drama Keitai Sousakan…
Thanks to the Anime Inuyasha I was introduced to Ayumi Hamasaki With a huge collection of songs ranging from chill out and relaxing to techno and club Ayu has a voice that will keep you listening time and time again. Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ Hamasaki Ayumi?, also 濱崎歩; born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of J-Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to pursue a career in entertainment. In 1998, under the tutelage of Avex CEO…
Yui-singer-songwriter
Today we have Yui.. I first heard Yui playing the starting song for a session of the Anime Bleach, and have been hocked 🙂 little more Yui (ユイ?, born March 26, 1987), stylized as YUI, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. Born and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, she played live at various locations in her hometown before being noticed by Sony Music Japan when she was 17 years old, and released her debut single months later. However her singles were only met with moderate success until her breakout "Good-bye Days", which charted for 44 weeks on Oricon and marked her as one of the Japanese music industry's rising stars.[1]…
What can I say.. if you like 90's sounding music that's amazing then you have come to the right place first heard Dog fight on a Anime shoutcast channel and well there worth the wait.. how did I miss them this long! Little more Move (styled as M.O.V.E or m.o.v.e, and previously as move) was a Japanese musical group. The group consisted of yuri (Yuri Masuda (益田 祐里 Masuda Yuri?)) on vocals and motsu (Mototaka Segawa (瀬川 素公 Segawa Mototaka?)) performing the rapping. t-kimura (Takashi Kimura (木村 貴志 Kimura Takashi?)) (producer) left the band in 2008. t-kimura formed the band move and by 1997 they released their first single "Rock…
I first heard Scandal playing the intro to Bleach and then after doing a little looking without me knowing it they also played the intro to Fullmetal Alchemist.. not to say that all the songs are amazing "happy bday to you" but apart from that one there always on my play list Scandal (スキャンダル, Sukyandaru?, stylized as SCANDAL) is an all-female Japanese pop rock band from Osaka. Formed in August 2006 by four high school girls, they started playing street lives until they were noticed and signed to the indie label Kitty Records. In 2008, they released three singles and a mini-album while performing shows in the United States, France,… | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,020 |
News | MARN + CULTURE HUB | Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
Shepherd Express, "Big Energy at MARN Coffee + Wine" October 10, 2022
In the Nā Pali Kona Forest Reserve, along the side of Mount Waialeale on the island of Kaua'i, Susan and I emerged into an extraordinary energy. The rocky and muddy path up Waialeale led us into shrouds of clouds and bursts of rain. It was beautiful. It was challenging. The peak of Waialeale is on […]
FOX6 News Milwaukee, "10th Annual Third Ward Art Festival" September 6, 2022
Milwaukee's Third Ward will be buzzing this Labor Day weekend during the 10th Annual Third Ward Art Festival. Brian Kramp is getting an early start on the fun with information on an event that will showcase the work of more than 130 artists from around the country. https://www.fox6now.com/news/10th-annual-third-ward-art-festival?anvt=2 Read the article written by FOX6 News Milwaukee […]
WISN, "Milwaukee Historic Third Ward voted No. 4 Best Arts District in US" July 26, 2022
MILWAUKEE — The Historic Third Ward has earned fourth place in the Best Arts District in the 2022 "USA Today" 10 Best Readers' Choice Awards. The award recognizes inspiring art districts that enrich their cities with culture and impressive art. The Historic Third Ward was established in 1976 and is home to a wide variety […]
OnMilwaukee, "5 reasons to stops by MARN's "Milwaukee's Big Gig" exhibit" June 23, 2022
Get an inside look at exclusive pieces of the Big Gig and various instruments signed by musicians over the years. Going all the way back to 1968, Summerfest has a long history full of major moments that have made the festival what it is today – and now you can experience more than 50 years of the […]
CBS 58, "Explore Summerfest's history at new showcase exhibit" June 22, 2022
A new exhibit was unveiled showcasing Summerfest mementos from over the years, including signed guitars and merchandise. The exhibit, "Milwaukee Biggest Gig," also pays tribute to Bob Babisch, who is stepping down as vice president of entertainment after 46 years. You can visit the exhibit from now through July 16 at the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network […]
Fox 6 Milwaukee, "Milwaukee's Biggest Gig' Summerfest exhibit at MARN" June 22, 2022
MILWAUKEE – Summerfest on Monday, June 20 invited the media for a walk through of the new exhibit "Milwaukee's Biggest Gig – Summerfest" at MARN (Milwaukee Artist Resource Network). It features Summerfest memorabilia — including signed guitars, microphones, and merchandise. Additionally, the exhibit is honoring the 46-year career of Summerfest's Vice President of Entertainment, Bob Babisch, with […]
WISN, "Milwaukee's Biggest Gig' exhibit celebrates Summerfest, Bob Babisch" June 22, 2022
Summerfest kicks off this week, and this year, there's a new memorabilia exhibit dedicated to the Big Gig. The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, in the Third Ward, has memorabilia from different artists from over years, and a special tribute to Bob Babisch, who is stepping down as vice president of Milwaukee World "Oh, it's great. It's […]
Journel Sentinel, "Eight Startups… Summerfest Tech" May 11, 2022
Summerfest Tech will be back in June, giving eight startups from around the world a chance to compete for $50,000. Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. announced the 5th annual event will take place June 28-30 across the city, including at the Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel, the new BMO Tower, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network's (MARN) new location […]
Shepherd Express, "Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and Cash Grants for Milwaukee Art Students" April 7, 2022
The Grilled Cheese Grant is an annual emerging artist exhibition program that fundraises for thesis projects of undergraduate seniors at UW-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). They have a kickoff event each year where attendees may donate $5 or more and receive a grilled cheese sandwich made with locally sourced cheese […]
Biz Times, "Summerfest Tech returning this year with expanded Pitch Competition" March 14, 2022
Summerfest Tech is returning this June with an expanded Pitch Competition. The event, which is being sponsored by Molson Coors in partnership with Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. and Young Enterprising Society, will be held June 30 and include eight contestants competing for a portion of the $50,000 prize. Last year, six contestants competed for a portion […]
UWM Post, "Milwaukee Artists You Should Know: Saige Lenzmeier" March 10, 2022
Milwaukee artist Saige Lenzmeier's disturbingly sweet piece is available at the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network Gallery. Milwaukee artist Saige Lenzmeier, 19, overlooked the view from her eighth-floor Lower East Side apartment while crafting her vision into reality. Surrounded by vibrant furniture, checkered floors and recently completed work, her excitement to keep creating led her through the […]
Shepherd Express, "MARN Closes 'Catch The 22' with Three Events" March 4, 2022
The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) has already utilized their recently opened space in the Third Ward well, with their first exhibition, "Catch The 22," which will close on March 20. Before that, though, a trio of events will cap off the display, beginning Thursday night. "Catch The 22" is a collective display featuring work […]
Shepherd Express, "Mal Montoya, President & CEO of Milwaukee Artist Resource Network" March 1, 2022
The current Milwaukee arts and culture scene continues to redefine itself and Milwaukee. Historically, truth tellers (beyond journalists) have been the artist who have been compelled to bare his or her soul. Vivid stories of strife, pain, and inequities have always been found in the voices of artists who chose a pen, or a brush, as […]
Milwaukee Magazine, "The Best Things to Do This Week, According to Our Editors: Dec. 13" December 13, 2021
1. Check Out the Density Variants at Good City Brewing CHRIS DROSNER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Winter is imperial stout season, and many of which breweries release to great fanfare at their taprooms. Good City Brewing's Density Day was Saturday, but really any day over the next few weeks can be Density Day. The brewery's phenomenal bourbon barrel […]
Shepherd Express, "MARN Opens Marketplace for Local Artists" November 12, 2021
Milwaukee-area residents will have another opportunity to support local artists and artisans this holiday season. The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) recently opened the MARN Marketplace, a retail shop, in its Art + Culture Hub, 191 N. Broadway St. MARN was founded in 2002, with an organizational mission to support diverse artists and artisans in […]
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Third Ward Space Creates Opportunities for Artists" November 1, 2021
The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network was launched 20 years ago to provide its members with resources needed to create a local, sustainable art practice.Now, that nonprofit group is getting a much higher profile – thanks to a new development in the Historic Third Ward that features a gallery, exhibit hall, store and even a coffee […] | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,021 |
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El vuelo 3379 de Flagship Airlines fue un vuelo regular de American Eagle desde el aeropuerto internacional de Piedmont Triad al aeropuerto de Raleigh-Durham durante el cual el British Aerospace Jetstream que lo operaba se estrelló durante una aproximación frustrada al aeropuerto de Raleigh-Durham durante la tarde del martes 13 de diciembre de 1994. Los dos pilotos y trece de los pasajeros a bordo fallecieron en la colisión, cinco pasajeros lograron sobrevivir al impacto.
La ruta de vuelo desde Greensboro a Raleigh comprende . Los testigos en la escena del accidente afirmaron que la climatología se componía de niebla y precipitaciones de aguanieve. El aeropuerto reportó una temperatura de (2,8 °C) con precipitaciones constantes.
Accidente
La tripulación del vuelo 3379 se componía del capitán Michael Hillis, de 29 años, y el primer oficial Matthew Sailor, de 25 años.
A las 18:05, el Flagship 3379 despegó desde Greensboro con retraso debido al embarque de equipajes. El avión ascendió hasta una altitud de crucero de y contactó con el control de aproximación de Raleigh a las 18:14, recibiendo la orden de reducir la velocidad a y descender a . Se contactó con el control de aproximación final de Raleigh a las 18:25 y las instrucciones recibidas fueron de reducir la velocidad a y descender a . A las 18:30 el vuelo fue autorizado a virar a la izquierda e interceptar el localizador a una altitud mínima de para efectuar una aproximación ILS a la pista 5L.
Poco después de recibir la autorización para aterrizar, la luz de arranque del motor número 1 se iluminó en la cabina como resultado de una condición momentánea negativa de rotación de los álabes cuando la palanca de hélices fue avanzada hasta el 100% y la palanca de gases se encontraba al ralentí. El capitán Hillis sospechó un incendio en un motor y decidió efectuar una aproximación frustrada. La velocidad cayó hasta los y sonaron dos advertencias de entrada en pérdida a los que el piloto respondió solicitando la máxima potencia. El avión se encontraba realizando un viraje a la izquierda a y la velocidad continuó cayendo hasta los , seguido de avisos de pérdida. La tasa de descenso se incrementó entonces rápidamente hasta superar los 1000 pies por minuto. El avión entonces impactó con algunos árboles y se estrelló a unas al suroeste del umbral de la pista 5L a las 18:34.
El avión había sido fabricado en 1991 y tenía registradas 6577 horas de vuelo.
Investigación
El 24 de octubre de 1995, la Oficina Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB) publicó su informe del accidente. El accidente fue atribuido al capitán Hillis al asumir que un motor había fallado. Hillis también erró al seguir los procedimientos aprobados para una aproximación, frustrada y recuperación de pérdida con un único motor tras un fallo de motor. La directiva de Flagship Airlines fue acusada de fallar en la identificación, documentación, monitorización y corrección de deficiencias en la preparación y formación de sus pilotos.
Filmografía
Este accidente fue presentado en el episodio 8 de la temporada 22 de la serie Mayday: catástrofes aéreas, titulado "Turboprop Terror", en Latinoamérica "Vuelo de prueba" y España "Terror en el turbohélice", transmitido en National Geographic Channel.
Véase también
Anexo:Accidentes más graves de aviación (1953-presente)
Anexo:Accidentes e incidentes notables en la aviación civil
Referencias
Estados Unidos en 1994
Accidentes e incidentes de British Aerospace Jetstream 31
Accidentes e incidentes aéreos en Estados Unidos
Accidentes e incidentes aéreos causados por error del piloto
Accidentes e incidentes aéreos de 1994
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1. Do you have an open mouth at rest posture or mouth breath?
2. Does your tongue rest against your teeth?
3. Have your teeth moved after orthodontia?
4. Do you experience frequent headaches?
5. Does your jaw and neck hurt often?
6. Do you chew food with your mouth open?
7. Do you sleep on your stomach or side?
8. Do you have habits like nail biting, pen chewing, frequent lip licking or chewing, thumb-sucking?
9. Do have a forward head position?
10. Do you lisp at times when pronouncing the "s" sound?
11. Does it seem your tongue comes forward when you swallow?
12. Do you drool or have bloating or stomach distress after eating?
The third common cause of an OMD is non–nutritive sucking habits, like fingers, thumbs, pacifiers, blankets and clothes. The constant sucking positions the tongue low and forward in the bottom of the mouth. Over time, this may cause a tongue thrust habit. It changes the shape of the upper arch, making it narrow. This can lead to crowding of the teeth.
Tongue-tie is when the tongue is restricted by the small cord under the tongue, It forces the tongue into low resting position. It isn't resting against the palate to aid in nasal breathing , swallowing and maintain the arches as it should.
Tongue thrust is the most common cause of OMDs. In adolescence and adulthood, it can be seen in 30-40% of the population. It occurs when the tongue moves forward and against the teeth instead of against the palate.
A low tongue resting position is another cause of OMD. It is seen when the tongue rests against the front, sides or between the teeth. The low constant pressure will cause teeth to move and open up the front teeth. When it happens after the braces are removed, it is called ortho relapse.
Infected or large tonsils and adenoid fight for space in the back of the mouth and force the tongue forward. Consequently, the tongue is forced forward and forces the lips and mouth open. With a restricted airway, nasal breathing is limited and mouth breathing takes over. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,025 |
Posts tagged with 'women's safety'
Lessons from Delhi on Making Mobility Data Work Better for Women
By Harshita Jamba and Vishal Ramprasad on March 26, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted public transportation as an essential service for the functioning of all cities. But especially for many women, the closures and general instability of public transit systems have meant loss of access to services and customers ...
New Study from Bogotá Shows How Women Experience Transport Differently
By Segundo López, Natalia Lleras and Claudia Adriazola-Steil on March 8, 2020
Cities around the world are slowly realizing that gender dynamics play an important role in how people interact with transport systems. Taken as groups, women and men tend to have different travel patterns, different safety concerns, and even make different ...
Traumatized and Trapped: After Sexual Assault, How Can Cities Welcome Women Back to Public Transport?
By Gwen Kash on July 15, 2019
Sexual assault on public transit is all too common. In Bogotá, Colombia, an incredible 37% of female riders of the bus rapid transit system report experiencing unwanted sexual contact while using the system, according to new research, funded in part ...
Delhi Announces Plan to Make All Public Transport Free for Women. Will It Work?
By Amit Bhatt on June 14, 2019
On June 10, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, announced a new proposal to make public transport free for women. Once cleared, the move – which will cost approximately ₹700 crore ($100 million) to the Delhi government – will make ...
Transport Needs More Women Voices. Here's Why.
By Hillary Smith on March 8, 2019
Nearly 60 percent of women in Britain feel unsafe walking alone in their cities. Seventy percent of women who use public transport in Mexico City have experienced gender-based violence. In too many cases, using public transport in cities is an ...
Live from Transforming Transportation 2019: The Convergence of Old and New Mobility
By Schuyler Null, Talia Rubnitz and Hillary Smith on January 18, 2019
Why is Transforming Transportation (TT) 2019 focused on new mobility? Tech-driven disruptions in transport are already having huge impacts on our cities, said Ani Dasgupta, global director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. "What do we need to do ...
Sergio Avelleda on How São Paulo Is Incorporating New Mobility into Its Transport Network
By Francisco Minella Pasqual on January 10, 2019
What city has more Uber riders than any other in the world? It's not New York or Mexico City but São Paulo. Recent research found ride-hailing was the most frequent mode of transport for 5 percent of the metropolitan population ...
Why it is Key to Include Gender Equality in Transport Design
By Jyot Chadha and Vishal Ramprasad on March 8, 2017
A 1996 iconic study from Vienna, Austria explored why there were fewer girls (above age nine) in public parks as compared to the number of boys. The researchers concluded that the boys were more assertive in their use of the ...
7 Women Voice the Need for a Gendered Perspective in Urban Planning
By Priscila Pacheco on December 16, 2016
While women represent more than half of the Brazilian population, they occupy only 10.7 percent of the seats in Congress and only 5 percent of CEO positions in the country's companies. The general absence of women's voices in the processes that define a ...
The Women Who Are Changing Mexico's Cities
By Dana Corres on March 30, 2016
In Mexico, the issue of gender often goes unrecognized. A popular blog documents the all-too-common "all male panels" or public events where all the speakers or participants are men, or where women only occupy placeholder positions, like hostesses. Even in ...
Reframing the Issue of Women's Safety in Public Transport in Brazil and France
By Neha Yadav on January 22, 2016
A city cannot be inclusive without ensuring women's safety in public transport. Women often remain a vulnerable part of the transit users, as many face violence, verbal harassment, physical abuse and discriminatory graffiti messages in stations. For example a third ... | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,026 |
Dizziness is a common medical problem. Thirty percent of people over age sixty-five complain of dizziness and 20 percent of all older persons experience dizziness severe enough to seek medical advice.
The syndrome of dizziness is varied and encompasses a wide range of symptoms. Getting a precise and accurate description of the individual's symptoms is therefore essential for making an accurate diagnosis and helps to differentiate between the four medical subtypes traditionally considered to be the most common causes of dizziness: vertigo, presyncope, dysequilibrium, and light-headedness.
Dizziness is a common and challenging problem for an elderly person, which requires a systematic and detailed approach. Once medical problems are identified, treatment requires careful management of each difficulty identified, with fastidious follow-up to determine whether treatment is effective or producing side effects. In some circumstances, dizziness will not respond to treatment, in which case supportive therapy will be necessary.
See also BALANCE AND MOBILITY; FAINTING; HEARING.
COLLEDGE, N. R.; WILSON, J. A.; MACINTYRE, C. C. A.; and MACLENNAN, W. J. "The Prevalence and Characteristics of Dizziness in an Elderly Community." Age and Ageing 23 (1994): 117–120.
FURMAN, J. M., and CASS, S. P. "Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo." The New England Journal of Medicine 341, no. 21 (1999): 1590–1596.
SLOANE, PHILIP; BLAZER, DAN; and GEORGE, LINDAK. "Dizziness in a Community Elderly Population." Journal of the American Geriatric Society 37 (1989): 101–108. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,027 |
Universal Studios Japan to Bring Back Attack on Titan, Sailor Moon Attractions
Posted By: Skie Jackson
Universal Studios Japan revealed that fan-favorite Attack on Titan and Sailor Moon attractions will return for Universal Cool Japan 2022.
During the annual event, Universal Studios Japan sets up rides and experiences based on Japanese media ranging from anime to films and video games. As reported by Natalie, one ride confirmed for this year is the popular Attack on Titan XR Ride, a virtual rollercoaster. By putting on VR headsets, fans can experience the world of Attack on Titan as they travel across the famous walled city in a horse-drawn carriage. The peaceful ride is soon interrupted, however, when Titans break through the walls, causing the carriage to fly beyond the confines of the city as members of the Survey Corps are deployed to bring down the giants. Fans can also further immerse themselves in the experience through purchasing Survey Corps gear, coats, jackets, cloaks and replica swords that will be available for sale.
Another ride that is set to return is the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Miracle 4D: Moon Palace Chapter theater show. While some fans may have seen the show when it debuted in 2019, this year's show will have an additional scene of the Sailor Guardians attending a ball. Special environmental effects will make it seem like viewers are actually within the hit series' world, seemingly able to interact with Sailor Moon herself.
With the second part of the final season premiering on Jan. 10, hype for Attack on Titan is bigger than ever as the anime thunders towards its conclusion. All four seasons of the anime have received acclaim from critics and audiences alike due to its engaging storyline, stellar animation, well-rounded characters and smooth action sequences. In fact, Attack on Titan was the most viewed TV show in the United States when the first half of the final season was airing in 2021, until The Falcon and the Winter Solider usurped the title shortly before the last episode premiered. The Attack on Titan manga is also one of the best-selling manga series in history, with over 100 million volumes in circulation worldwide as of Dec. 2019.
Sailor Moon has also enjoyed great success, with the shojo juggernaut still thriving today since the manga began its serialization in Nakayoshi magazine in 1991. Garnering around $13 billion in merchandise sales worldwide to date, the series has sparked multiple anime, stage musical, live-action and video game adaptations. A Sailor Moon ice skating show starring Evegnia Medvedeva was announced on June 30, 2019, and is set to premiere in June 2022 after being postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Attack on Titan XR Ride and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Miracle 4D: Moon Palace Chapter attractions will run from March 4 to Aug. 28 at Universal Cool Japan 2022.
Source: Natalie via Crunchyroll
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BANGKOK, Thailand has rescinded a COVID-19 prerequisite with immediate effect that required travellers entering the kingdom to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination.Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul… | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,030 |
COLUMBUS, OH – Top-seeded Connecticut will look to exorcise last year's Women's Final Four demons, where the Huskies lost to Mississippi State. They might get a shot at revenge with the Bulldogs in the title game, but first, they will have to defeat fellow top-seed Notre Dame on Friday.
Debbie Antonelli caught up with UCONN head coach Geno Auriemma ahead of the game. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,031 |
Legion M Brings the Power of Fandom to the Saturn Awards
When the 45th annual Saturn Awards show streams live on Friday the 13th of September, one nominee will walk away with a Saturn Award voted on exclusively by fans.
by LAZombieGirl September 5, 2019
Legion M, the world's first fan-owned entertainment company, is harnessing the power of fandom and demonstrating how it continues to open the gates of Hollywood to fans when it presents its inaugural fan-voted Legion M Breakout Director Award, celebrating the brightest new feature film directors in science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. The nominees include eight of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming directors and their first feature-length film from the past year:
The live online ballot for the Legion M Breakout Director Award features eight of Hollywood's hottest film directors and their first feature-length film from the past year, including Ari Aster ("Hereditary"), Michael Chaves ("The Curse of La Llorona"), Lee Cronin ("The Hole In The Ground"), Gary Dauberman ("Annabelle Comes Home"), Steven S. DeKnight ("Pacific Rim Uprising"), Boots Riley ("Sorry To Bother You"), Christian Rivers ("Mortal Engines"), and Emma Tammi ("The Wind"). The recipient of the Legion M Breakout Director Award will be the first Saturn Award winner chosen exclusively by fans, exhibiting Legion M's influence in the industry through the collective power of fandom.
"We're thrilled to be making history at this year's Saturn Awards by introducing this important award celebrating new directorial voices while empowering our fan-community with the votes to make the final decision, a privilege typically only offered to industry insiders," said Paul Scanlan, Co-Founder and CEO of Legion M. "Being directly involved in one of the biggest awards ceremonies of the year by introducing the Legion M Breakout Director Award, and having the winner selected by our members and investors, is yet another example of how Legion M is opening the gates of Hollywood."
"Legion M is the world's greatest fan-owned company and the perfect partner to launch the Saturn's first-ever fan-voted award," said Justin W. Hochberg, Executive Producer of the Saturn Awards. "Celebrating eight of this year's best first-time directors who are revolutionizing the way films are made with our first-ever Legion M Breakout Director Award is part of Saturn's never-ending mission to recognize great genre creators."
The fan-voted Saturn Awards category will give Legion M's more than 100,000 members, including nearly 20,000 investors, the opportunity to participate in a process typically only offered to industry insiders. From now until 11:59 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, September 11, Legion M members can cast their official Legion M Breakout Director Award ballot at legionm.com/saturnawards. Individuals interested in joining Legion M for free can do so by also visiting the ballot site.
Legion M is also giving its members an exclusive opportunity to attend the invitation-only industry event. From now until 11:59 a.m. PDT on Sunday, September 8, Legion M members can enter to win a pair of tickets to the Saturn Awards show at Hollywood's historic Avalon Theater, as well as entry to its pre-show cocktail reception and VIP after-party (No purchase necessary). A limited number of tickets to the awards show are also available for Legion M members only. Ticket giveaway drawing and ticket purchase details are at legionm.com/saturnawards.
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The eight novels of the Saga are almost impossible to classify. Yes, they are works of historical fiction -- but they are also love stories, mysteries, crime stories, allegories and regional novels. The seventh novel, called "Sacrifice", is best classed as a thriller, and the eighth, called "Conspiracy of Angels", might be called a "literary novel." They are enjoyed equally by male and female readers -- and all the readers are more than a little intrigued that author Brian John, a happily-married father and grandfather, should have "taken on" so enthusiastically (and successfully) the persona of a strong and passionate female in the telling of the tales.
The full story of Martha Morgan's life came to Brian during a night of delirium on Gran Canaria in 1999, after he had picked up something nasty on the flight from London. (He now thinks he was affected by aerotoxic syndrome.....) The full narrative, complete with characters, places, twists and turns in the plots, and even detailed conversations came into his head and stayed there until it was all written down. He still feels, to this day, that the story was a gift, but he has no idea where it came from!
The first novel, "On Angel Mountain", covers just one year of the heroine's life, when she is still a nervous teenager learning how to survive in a brutal world. The second, "House of Angels", deals with Martha's time as a young mother who discovers her own strengths and who sets a complex trap for the evil men who have designs on her and her estate. The third book, called "Dark Angel", is the most inward-looking of the novels, dealing with the themes of motherhood and female insecurity in the context of an ultimately tragic love affair.
Book four, entitled "Rebecca and the Angels", describes how Martha tries, in her middle age, to do something to make the world a better place -- and in so doing lands herself in a series of very dangerous situations. And Book five, called "Flying with Angels", covers the last years of the heroine's life, during which she has one last romantic fling and has to deal with a number of very determined and shadowy enemies. Book six, called "Guardian Angel", deals with the few years following Martha's recorded death. The heroine is somebody who goes by the name of Susanna Ravenhill -- but who is she?
And the seventh novel," Sacrifice", the only one which does not have the word "Angel" in its title, covers a period of about two years, and slots conveniently into a long gap in the story related in "Dark Angel." It is a very dark tale, with a number of traumatic episodes built into the narrative. "Conspiracy of Angels" is set in the year 1810, and the story immediately follows that of "Sacrifice"; it is an adventure story in which Mistress Martha become involved in the anti-slavery movement and in which she ends up dicing with death.
The eight novels of the Angel Mountain Saga now have accumulated sales around 100,000, with 36,000 copies of "On Angel Mountain" leading the field -- as one might expect. The first three titles were also published by Corgi, but Brian was very disappointed with the lacklustre marketing and publicity campaign for the titles, and he asked for the rights to be returned -- since when sales have steadily increased.
We are gradually moving towards a "house style" for the novels, with a highly ornamented letter "A" wherever the word "Angel" occurs in a title, and with a hint of Martha's handwriting towards the base of the cover. "Sacrifice" did not have a convenient angel in the title, so an ornamented letter "S" had to be used instead. Another recurring theme on the covers is the raven -- which has great symbolic significance, as readers of the series will know.
You can click on any of the above images if you want to read more about any particular title.
Good news on the audiobook front. In response to requests from readers (or rather "listeners") I have been trying to clarify the position regarding the two audiobooks recorded by WF Howes / Clipper Audio a few years ago and issued on cassettes. Tape recordings have rather gone out of fashion, and hardly anybody uses them any more. The taped versions have been discontinued, and are no longer on the catalogue.
But after discussions with the Contracts Dept of WF Howes they have decided that they want to re-issue both "On Angel Mountain" and "House of Angels" as digital audiobooks and in CD format. All being well, they will be available via libraries and through Audible and other outlets in the summer. Some editorial work needs to be done on the original recordings, but I now have the WAV files and they are of excellent quality.
Another piece of good news is that the Calibre Library, which makes audiobooks available for blind and partially-sighted people, wants to make a new recording of "On Angel Mountain" specifically for its own use. I'm happy to go along with that, even though the deal will not earn me any income -- since I'm a firm believer in getting as much "audio" literature as possible into the places where it is most needed and where it makes the greatest contribution to quality of life. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,033 |
Vive China Boss: First Gen VR Was 'Overhyped' But Standalone Will 'Change The Game'
It's no secret that the first generation of major VR headsets hasn't performed as well as many analytics companies were hoping, but HTC is betting that its new Vive Focus headset and others like it will mark a turning point for the industry.
Speaking to Mobile World Live at Mobile World Congress China last week, Vive China boss Alvin Wang Graylin explained why the first generation of VR tech didn't go as some predicted. "I think when HTC first introduced [the HTC Vive], and Oculus [launched the Oculus Rift], back in 2016, it was probably overhyped," Graylin said. "And because of that, 2017 there was a little bit of a let down because a lot of the growth people had expected from that hype didn't happen.
"But, 2018 and beyond, it's coming to, I guess, a new trajectory. Because all of the devices have now gone to second generation and there's products like this that I'm holding in my hand." He then gestured to the Focus in his hand, explaining that the standalone headset, which doesn't require any additional hardware to run, allowed users to experience "premium VR" that lets them walk around an entire space.
"The friction that used to be around getting into VR goes away," Graylin continued, "because in a few seconds you put this on and you're in a new world or you're underwater or you're in space and you're traveling with your family who's somewhere else in the world. That's the kind of stuff that just gets people excited."
As for first generation VR? Graylin suggests that there was just too much hassle involved for it to ever properly take off: "It was hard to explain before because people had to go and buy a big PC and set up a lot of wires, so nobody did it. Now, it's so easy to get this and people can just bring it home and try it and be in it right away. That's going to change the whole game completely."
Vive Focus is only available in China right now, but should be releasing across the globe later this year. As for PC-based VR, HTC recently released an upgraded headset named the Vive Pro.
Vive Reality System: Introducing Vive Origin and Vive Lens
https://youtu.be/OdFYgbkTmn0
Vive China Hackathon Reveals VR Sword Fighting Robot And Exoskeletons
Over the past week 18 developers have been going head-to-head in a huge HTC Vive…
First Official HTC Vive VR Cafe Opens in Shenzhen, China
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The day of my 32nd birthday we drove south to the Big Bend National Park area to an off the grid location. Our tiny shack in the middle of nowhere was our little solitude. Powered by rainwater and solar power we had quite the ordeal on New Years Day after an overnight frost blew through and we woke to find the toilets wouldn't flush and our dishes soaking in the kitchen sink had frozen solid. With no source of heat, it was probably the coldest I've ever felt in my life.
But outside of that, the area is breathtaking. A truly underrated part of the USA. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,035 |
\section{RangeViT} \label{sec:approach}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=0.97\linewidth]{figures/method.pdf}
\caption{\textbf{Overview of RangeViT architecture.}
First, the point cloud is projected in a 2D space with range projection. Then, the produced range image is processed by the convolutional stem, the ViT encoder and the decoder to obtain a 2D feature map. It is then processed by a 3D refiner layer for 3D point-wise predictions. Note that there is a single skip connection between the convolutional stem and the decoder.}
\label{model_architecture}
\end{figure*}
In this section, we describe our ViT-based LiDAR semantic segmentation approach, for which we provide an overview in \cref{model_architecture}.
\subsection{General architecture}
We represent a LiDAR point cloud of $N$ points with a matrix $\mathbf{P} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times 4}$. Each point $p = (x, y, z, i) \in \mathbf{P}$ has Cartesian coordinates denoted by $(x, y, z)$ and LiDAR intensity denoted by $i$, and is annotated with a label $\ell \in \{1, \ldots, K \}$ encoding one of the $K$ semantic classes.
\paragraph{Range projection.} The input of our RangeViT backbone is a 2D representation of the input point cloud. We use the well-known range projection~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++}. Each point $\mathbf{p} \in \mathbf{P}$ with coordinates $(x, y, z)$ is projected on a range image of size $H \times W$. The projected 2D coordinates satisfies
\begin{align}
\begin{pmatrix}
h \\
w
\end{pmatrix}
=
\begin{pmatrix}
\frac{1}{2} \left( 1 - \arctan (y, x) \pi^{-1} \right) W \\
\left( 1 - (\arcsin (z, r^{-1}) + |f_{\text{down}}|) f_{v}^{-1} \right) H
\end{pmatrix},
\end{align}
where $f_{v} = |f_{\text{down}}| + |f_{\text{up}}|$ is the vertical field-of-view of the LiDAR sensor. We associate $C{=}5$ low-level features $(r, x, y, z, i)$ to each projected point, where $r = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2 + z^2}$ is the range of the corresponding point (i.e., its distance from the LiDAR sensor), to create the range image $\mathbf{I} \in \mathbb{R}^{C \times H \times W}$. Note that if more than one point is projected onto the same pixel,
then only the feature with the smallest range is kept. Pixels with no point projected on them have their features filled with zeros.
\paragraph{Convolutional stem.}
In a standard ViT, the image is divided into $M$ patches of size $P_H \times P_W$, which are linearly embedded to provide $D$-dimensional visual tokens. Yet, our empirical study in \cref{sec:ablation_exps} shows that this tokenization process of standard ViTs is far from optimal on both our task and datasets of interest. In order to bridge this potential domain gap between range images and standard ViTs, we replace the embedding layer with a non-linear convolutional stem~\cite{xiao2021early}. Non-linear convolutional stems have been shown to increase optimization stability and predictive performance of ViTs~\cite{xiao2021early}, whereas we leverage them primarily for \emph{steering} range images towards ViT-like inputs.
The first part of the convolutional stem consists of the first $4$ residual blocks of SalsaNext~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext}, called context module. This context module captures short-range dependencies of the 3D points projected in the range image and produces pixel-wise features with $D_{\text{h}}$ channels at the same resolution of the input range image, hence the tensor of context features $\mathbf{t}_{\text{c}}$ has size $D_{\text{h}} \times H \times W$\footnote{The first 3 residual layers actually have $D_{\text{in}}=32$ channels, which is typically smaller than $D_{\text{h}}$.}.
Then, in order to produce tokens compatible with the input of a ViT, we use an average pooling layer that reduces the spatial dimensions of the context features $\mathbf{t}_{\text{c}}$ from $H \times W$ to $(H/P_H) \times (W/P_W)$, and use a final 1$\times$1 convolutional layer with $D$ output channels. The convolutional stem thus yields $M = (H W) / (P_H P_W)$ visual tokens $\mathbf{v}_1, \ldots, \mathbf{v}_M$ of dimension $D$, i.e., matching the input dimension and number of tokens of a traditional ViT.
\paragraph{ViT encoder.}
The output of the convolutional stem can be fed directly to a ViT~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image}. The input $\mathbf{t}_0$ to our ViT encoder is prepared by stacking all the visual tokens $\mathbf{v}_1, \ldots, \mathbf{v}_M$ and a classification token $\mathbf{v}_{\text{class}} \in \mathbb{R}^{D}$, to which we add the positional embeddings $\mathbf{E}_{\text{pos}} \in \mathbb{R}^{(M + 1) \times D}$:
\begin{align}
\mathbf{t}_0 = [\mathbf{v}_{\text{class}},\mathbf{v}_1, \ldots, \mathbf{v}_M] + \mathbf{E}_{\text{pos}}.
\end{align}
The input tokens are then transformed by the ViT encoder to obtain an updated sequence of tokens $\mathbf{t}_L \in \mathbb{R}^{(M + 1) \times D}$, where $L$ denotes the number of transformer blocks. Then, we remove the classification token from $\mathbf{t}_L$ to keep only the deep patch representations $\mathbf{t}'_L \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times D}$.
\paragraph{Decoder.}
The representations $\mathbf{t}'_L$ provided by the ViT encoder are patch representations which are unfortunately too coarse to obtain good point predictions. Therefore, we use a decoder to refine these coarse patch representations. First, $\mathbf{t}'_L$ is reshaped in form of a 2D feature map of size $D \times H/P_H \times W/P_W$. Our convolutional decoder consists of a 1$\times$1 convolution layer with $D_{\text{h}} P_H P_W$ output channels, followed by a Pixel Shuffle layer~\cite{shi2016real} which yields feature maps with shape $D_{\text{h}} \times H \times W$, i.e., with the same resolution as the original range image. While the convolutional decoder can still produce coarse features or decoding artifacts, the Pixel Shuffle is particularly effective in recovering fine information from features. Then, we concatenate these features with the context features $\mathbf{t}_{\text{c}}$ from the convolutional stem and use a series of two convolutional layers with 3$\times$3 and 1$\times$1 kernels respectively, each of them followed by Leaky ReLU and batch normalisation, to obtain the refined feature map $\mathbf{t}_{\text{dec}} \in \mathbb{R}^{D_{\text{h}} \times H \times W}$.
\paragraph{3D refiner.}
Ultimately, we need to convert the pixel-wise features from the range image space into point-wise predictions in the 3D space. Most prior range-projection based methods first make pixel-wise class predictions and then un-project them to the 3D space, where at inference time often there is a post-processing steps relying, e.g., on K-NN~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++} or CRFs~\cite{krahenbuhl2011efficient}. The purpose of the latter post-process step is to fix segmentation mistakes related to the projection and processing of 3D points in a 2D space (e.g., multiple 3D points being projected on the same pixel, or 2D boundary prediction errors for points that are actually far away in the 3D space). Instead, we follow the approach of KPRNet~\cite{kochanov2020kprnet} that proposes an end-to-end approach that learns this post-processing step with a KPConv~\cite{thomas2019kpconv} layer.
KPConv~\cite{thomas2019kpconv} is a point convolution technique which works directly on the original 3D points.
It permits to leverage the underlying geometry of the 3D point clouds to refine features at the point level.
So, in our network, we project the 2D feature maps $\mathbf{t}_{\text{dec}}$ of the 2D decoder back to original 3D points by bilinear upsampling, thus obtaining point-wise features with shape $N \times D_{\text{h}}$, where $N$ is the number of 3D points. Then, these point features are given to the KPConv layer as input along with the 3D coordinates of the corresponding points, which outputs $D_{\text{h}}$-dimensional point features. Finally, the logits $\mathbf{s} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times K}$ are obtained by applying a BatchNorm, a ReLU and a final point-wise linear layer on these point features.
We provide more details about RangeViT's architecture in \autoref{sec:additional_implementation_details}.
\subsection{Implementation details}
\paragraph{Training loss.} \label{sec:approach_loss}
We use a classical training loss which is the sum of the multi-class focal loss~\cite{lin2017focal} and the Lov{\'a}sz-softmax loss~\cite{berman2018lovasz}. The focal loss is a scaled version of the cross-entropy loss~\cite{goodfellow2016deep} adapting its penalty to the hardness of the samples, making it particularly suited for datasets with class imbalance, such as semantic segmentation. The Lov{\'a}sz-softmax is developed specifically for semantic segmentation and built to optimize the mIoU.
\paragraph{Inference.} \label{sec:approach_inference}
As in~\cite{strudel2021segmenter}, we use a sliding-window method during inference. The network actually never sees the entire range images during training but only crops extracted from it. At inference, the range image is divided into overlapping crops of the same size as those used during training. The corresponding 2D features at the output of the decoder are then averaged to reconstruct the entire feature map, which is then processed by our 3D refinement layer.
\section{Conclusion} \label{sec:conclusion}
We studied the feasibility of leveraging (pre-trained) ViTs for LiDAR 3D semantic segmentation with projection-based methods. We discover that in spite of the significant domain gap between RGB images and range images and their high requirements of training data, ViTs can be successfully used without any changes in the original transformer backbone. We achieve this thanks to an adapted tokenization and pre-processing for the ViT encoder and a simple convolutional decoder. We show that ViTs pre-trained on large image datasets can be effectively repurposed for LiDAR segmentation towards reaching state-of-the-art performance among 2D projection methods. We release the code for our implementation and hope that it could be used as a testbed for evaluating the ability of ViT image ``foundation'' models~\cite{bommasani2021opportunities} to generalize on different domains.
\section{Introduction} \label{sec:introduction}
Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds permits vehicles to perceive their surrounding 3D environment independently of the lighting condition, providing useful information to build safe and reliable vehicles. A common approach to segment large scale LiDAR point clouds is to project the points on a 2D surface
and then to use regular CNNs, originally designed for images, to process the projected point clouds~\cite{aksoy2020salsanet, cortinhal2020salsanext, milioto2019rangenet++, zhang2020polarnet, kochanov2020kprnet, xu2020squeezesegv3}.
Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) were introduced as an alternative to convolutional neural networks for processing images~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image}: images are divided into patches which are linearly embedded into a high-dimensional space to create a sequence of visual tokens; these tokens are then consumed by a pure transformer architecture~\cite{vaswani2017attention} to output deep visual representations of each token. Despite the absence of almost any domain-specific inductive bias apart from the image tokenization process, ViTs have a strong representation learning capacity~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image} and achieve excellent results on various image perception tasks, such as image classification~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image}, object detection~\cite{carion2020end} or semantic segmentation~\cite{strudel2021segmenter}.
Inspired by this success of ViTs for image understanding, we propose to implement projection-based LiDAR semantic segmentation with a pure vision transformer architecture at its core. Our goals are threefold in doing so:
(1) Exploit the strong representation learning capacity of vision transformer
for LiDAR semantic segmentation;
(2) Work towards unifying network architectures used for processing LiDAR point clouds or images so that any advance in one domain benefits to both;
(3) Show that one can leverage ViTs pre-trained on large-size natural image datasets for LiDAR point cloud segmentation.
The last goal is crucial because the downside of having few inductive biases in ViTs is that they underperform when trained from scratch on small or medium-size datasets and that, for now, the only well-performing pre-trained ViTs ~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image,strudel2021segmenter,caron2021emerging} publicly available are trained on large collections of images that can be acquired, annotated and stored easier than point clouds.
In this context, our main contribution is a ViT-based LiDAR segmentation approach that compensates ViTs' lack of inductive biases on our data and that achieves state-of-the-art results among projection-based methods. To the best of our knowledge, although works using ViT architectures on dense indoor point clouds already exists~\cite{yu2022point, zhao2021point}, this is the first solution using ViTs for the LiDAR point clouds of autonomous driving datasets, which are significantly sparser and noisier than the dense depth-map-based points clouds found in indoor datasets. Our solution, RangeViT, starts with a classical range projection to obtain a 2D representation of the point cloud~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext, milioto2019rangenet++, kochanov2020kprnet, xu2020squeezesegv3}. Then, we extract patch-based visual tokens from this 2D map and feed them to a plain ViT encoder~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image} to get deep patch representations. These representations are decoded using a lightweight network to obtain pixel-wise label predictions, which are projected back to the 3D point cloud.
Our finding is that this ViT architecture needs three key ingredients to reach its peak performance. First, we leverage ViT models pre-trained on large natural image datasets for LiDAR segmentation and demonstrate that our method benefits from them despite the fact that natural images display little resemblance with range-projection images. Second, we further compensate for ViTs' lack of inductive bias by substituting the classical linear embedding layer with a multi-layer convolutional stem (i.e., a non-linear stem). Finally, we refine pixel-wise predictions with a convolutional decoder and a skip connection from the convolutional stem to combine low-level but fine-grain features of the convolutional stem with the high-level but coarse predictions of the ViT encoder.
In summary, our contributions are the following:
\textbf{(1)} To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to exploit the strong representation learning capacity of vision transformers architectures for 3D semantic segmentation from LiDAR point clouds. By revisiting in the context of our problem the tokenization process of the ViT's encoder and adding a light-weight convolutional decoder for refining the coarse patch-wise ViT representations, we derive a simple but effective projection-based LiDAR segmentation approach, which we call RangeViT.
\textbf{(2)} Furthermore, as shown in \cref{fig:training_strategy}, the proposed approach allows someone to harness ViT models pre-trained on the RGB image domain for the LiDAR segmentation problem. Indeed, despite the large gap between the two domains, we empirically demonstrate that using such pre-training strategies improves segmentation performance.
\textbf{(3)} Finally, our approach, despite its simplicity, achieves state-of-the-art results among project-based segmentation methods.
\section{Related work} \label{sec:related}
\subsection{CNNs for Point Cloud Segmentation}
\paragraph{2D Methods.}
Several works~\cite{behley2019semantickitti, cortinhal2020salsanext, kochanov2020kprnet, landrieu2018large, milioto2019rangenet++, hu2020randla, xu2020squeezesegv3, zhang2020deep, zhang2020polarnet, zhuang2021perception, razani2021lite, thomas2019kpconv} project the 3D point cloud into the 2D space with range, perspective or bird's-eye-view (BEV) projection and process the projected images with 2D CNNs. For instance, PolarNet~\cite{zhang2020polarnet} employs bird's-eye-view projection to polar coordinates and then processes the bird-eye-view features with a Ring CNN. DarkNetSeg~\cite{behley2019semantickitti}, SalsaNext~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext}, KPRNet~\cite{kochanov2020kprnet}, RangeNet++~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++}, Lite-HDSeg~\cite{razani2021lite} and SqueezeSegV3~\cite{xu2020squeezesegv3} use range projection and then process the input images with a U-Net-like architecture. PMF~\cite{zhuang2021perception}, a multi-modal segmentation approach for point clouds and RGB images~\cite{bai2022transfusion, li2022deepfusion, wang2021pointaugmenting, zhang2022cat, zhuang2021perception}, uses perspective projection to project the point clouds onto 2D camera frames and then it processes both the projected points and the RGB image with a dual-stream CNN network.
\paragraph{3D Methods.}
Instead of the 2D space, voxel-based approaches~\cite{graham20183d, han2020occuseg, meng2019vv, tchapmi2017segcloud} process the point clouds in their 3D space by first dividing the 3D space into voxels using cartesian coordinates and then applying 3D convolutions. Cylinder3D~\cite{zhu2021cylindrical} show that dividing the 3D space into voxels using cylindrical coordinates instead of cartesian improves the segmentation performance. Although voxel-based methods consider the geometric properties of the 3D space, their drawback is that they are computationally expensive.
Also, for indoor-scene point cloud segmentation there are many methods~\cite{engelmann20203d, pham2019jsis3d, thomas2019kpconv, yan2020pointasnl, velivckovic2017graph, wang2019dynamic, wang2019graph, wu2019pointconv} relying on PointNet~\cite{qi2017pointnet}-inspired architectures that directly process raw 3D points. However, these approaches cannot be easily adapted to outdoor-scene point cloud segmentation, which we consider in this work, as the large quantity of points cause computational difficulties.
\subsection{ViTs for Point Cloud Segmentation}
The recent rise to prominence of ViT architectures in computer vision has inspired a series of works for indoor point cloud segmentation~\cite{liu2022masked, wang2022bridged, yu2022point, zhao2021point, zhou2022self}.
Processing point clouds with a ViT model can be challenging and computationally expensive due to the large number of points. Point-BERT~\cite{yu2022point} uses farthest point sampling~\cite{qi2017pointnet++} and the KNN algorithm to define input tokens for the transformer.
Also, it proposes a self-supervised pre-training strategy for point data inspired by the masked token modeling approaches in the RGB image~\cite{he2022masked} and text~\cite{devlin2018bert} domains. Point Transformer~\cite{zhao2021point} has a U-Net-like architecture but without convolutional layers and it integrates self-attention mechanism in all of its blocks. Finally, Bridged Transformer~\cite{wang2022bridged} jointly processes point clouds and RGB images with a fully transformer-based architecture.
Using a transformer-based architecture for the semantic segmentation task on outdoor LiDAR point clouds remains challenging. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no work published yet about outdoor LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation with a ViT-based architecture.
\subsection{Transfer Learning from Images to Point Clouds}
ViT models have the capacity to learn powerful representations, but require vast amounts amounts of training data for it. However, large LiDAR point cloud datasets are less common due to the costly and time consuming annotation procedure. Recent works~\cite{gupta2016cross, liu2021learning, sautier2022image, xu2021image2point, qian2022pix4point, wang2022can} explore transfer learning of 2D image pre-trained models to 3D point cloud data.
Image2Point~\cite{xu2021image2point} inflates a 2D CNN into a 3D sparse CNN~\cite{xu2021image2point} by inflating 2D convolutions into 3D convolutions, which can be done by repeating the 2D kernel along the third dimension. SLidR~\cite{sautier2022image} is a self-supervised pre-training approach on LiDAR point cloud data. It is based on a student-teacher architecture, where the 2D teacher network pre-trained on images transfers information into the 3D student network.
Pix4Point~\cite{qian2022pix4point} and Simple3D-Former~\cite{wang2022can} study transfer learning from images to indoor point clouds with fully transformer-based architectures. They adapt the tokenizer and the head layer to be specialized for 3D point cloud data. Pix4Point~\cite{qian2022pix4point} applies farthest point sampling~\cite{qi2017pointnet++}, the KNN algorithm and then a graph convolution on the aggregated neighborhoods to extract input tokens for the ViT encoder. Simple3D-Former~\cite{wang2022can} memorizes the ImageNet~\cite{deng2009imagenet} representation of 2D image classification by incorporating a KL divergence term in the loss between its 2D image classification predictions and those obtained from a fixed ImageNet~\cite{deng2009imagenet} pre-trained ViT network.
\section{Experiments} \label{sec:experiments}
\subsection{Experimental Setup} \label{sec:experimental_setup}
\paragraph{Datasets and metrics.}
We validate our approach for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation on two different commonly used datasets: nuScenes~\cite{caesar2020nuscenes} and SemanticKITTI~\cite{behley2019semantickitti}. We conduct most of our ablation studies on nuScenes and the compare against previous works on both nuScenes and SemanticKITTI.
As evaluation metric, we use the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU)~\cite{everingham2015pascal}.
NuScenes~\cite{caesar2020nuscenes} consists of 1,000 20-second-length scenes of Boston and Singapore with various urban scenarios, lighting and weather conditions. The LiDAR sensor has 32 laser beams per height. Furthermore, there are 16 annotated semantic classes and the dataset is split into 28,130 training and 6,019 validation point cloud scans.
SemanticKITTI~\cite{behley2019semantickitti} is created from the KITTI Vision Odometry Benchmark~\cite{geiger2012we} and it consists of a wide variety of urban scenes collected in Germany. Sequences 00-10 are used for training, except sequence 08 is used for validation. There are 19,130 training and 4,071 validation scans. Sequences 11-21 are used for test and they contain 20,351 scans. The LiDAR sensor has 64 laser beams per height and there are 19 annotated semantic classes.
\paragraph{Model and pre-trained weights.}
For all experiments, we use the ViT-S/16 model~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image} as the encoder. It has $L{=}12$ layers, 6 attention heads and $D{=}384$ channels, amounting to approximately 21M parameters. Unless otherwise stated, (a) this ViT encoder is initialized with weights pre-trained on ImageNet21k~\cite{deng2009imagenet} for classification and then fine-tuned on Cityscapes~\cite{cordts2016cityscapes} for semantic image segmentation~\cite{strudel2021segmenter};
(b) the stem, decoder and 3D refiner layers, which are always randomly initialized, use $D_{\text{h}}=256$ feature channels.
\paragraph{Optimization.}
We use the AdamW optimizer~\cite{loshchilov2017decoupled} with $\beta_1 = 0.9$, $\beta_2 = 0.999$ and weight decay $0.01$. The batch-size is $32$ and $16$ for nuScenes and SemanticKITTI, respectively. For the learning rate $lr$, we use a linear warm-up from $0$ to its peak value for $10$ epochs and then we decrease it over the remaining training epochs to $0$ with a cosine annealing schedule~\cite{loshchilov2016sgdr}. For the SemanticKITTI experiments, the peak $lr$ value is $4 \times 10^{-4}$.
For the nuScenes experiments, the peak $lr$ value is $8 \times 10^{-4}$ when training from Cityscapes, ImageNet21k and random weight initializations and $2 \times 10^{-4}$ when training from DINO initialization.
\paragraph{Data augmentations.}
As point cloud augmentations we use: (a) flips over the $y$ axis (the vertical axis on the range image), (b) random translations, and (c) random rotations between $\pm 5^{\circ}$ (using the roll, pitch and yaw angles).
All augmentations are applied randomly with probability $0.5$.
Finally, after range projection, we take a random image crop with fixed size, which is $32 \times 384$ for nuScenes and $64
\times 384$ for SemanticKITTI. Note that the full size of a range image is $32 \times 2048$ for nuScenes and $64 \times 2048$ for SemanticKITTI.
\subsection{What makes a ViT architecture for 3D semantic segmentation?} \label{sec:ablation_exps}
\begin{table}[!t]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{llccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Stem} & \textbf{Decoder} & \textbf{Refiner} & \textbf{mIoU} & \textbf{\#Params}\\\midrule
Linear & Linear & & 65.52 & 22.0M\\
Conv & Linear & & 69.82 & 22.8M\\
Conv & UpConv & & 73.83 & 24.6M\\
Conv & UpConv & \checkmark & \textbf{74.60} & 25.2M \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Model ablations.} Results on the nuScenes validation set. To produce these results, we used $D_{\text{h}}=192$. The linear stem refers to the linear patch embedding layer. When the 3D refiner layer (Refiner column) is not used, we use the KNN post-processing technique~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++}.}
\label{tab:model_ablation}
\vspace{-8pt}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[!t]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
\toprule
\textbf{$D_{\text{h}}$ size} & 64 & 128 & 192 & 256\\\midrule
\textbf{\#Params} & 22.7M & 23.7M & 25.2M & 27.1M\\\midrule
\textbf{nuScenes mIoU} & 74.00 & 74.12 & 74.60 & \textbf{75.21}\\
\textbf{SemanticKITTI mIoU} & 58.48 & \textbf{60.73} & 60.45 & 60.55\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Impact of the $D_{\text{h}}$ channel size.} Used in the stem, decoder, and 3D refiner layers. Results on the nuScenes and the SemanticKITTI validation sets.}
\label{tab:impact_width_h}
\end{table}
Our aim is to adapt to LiDAR point clouds with the fewest possible modifications of the standard ViT architecture~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image}, which already follows faithfully the original self-attention Transformer design~\cite{vaswani2017attention}. Differently from ViT that is performing classification on images, RangeViT is performing semantic segmentation of point cloud-derived range images. We study here the possible choices for the input processing and decoder layers using for validation the nuScenes dataset.
\paragraph{Stem and decoder.}
In Table \ref{tab:model_ablation}, we study the impact of the convolutional stem and the UpConv decoder.
To that end, we report results using a linear patch embedding~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image} as a stem and a linear decoder\footnote{The linear decoder consists of a simple 1$\times$1 conv. layer, which predicts patch-wise classification scores, and nearest neighbor up-sampling to reach the input image resolution.}.
Starting from a model with linear stem and linear decoder, introducing the proposed convolutional stem leads to a significant mIoU boost ($65.52 \rightarrow 69.82$). This highlights the importance of having a non-linear network component for producing appropriate input token features for the ViT backbone. In addition, when using image pre-trained ViTs (\S\ref{sec:pretraining_exps}) the convolutional stem can effectively steer the distribution of input range images towards the image-based feature distribution the ViT has been pre-trained on, leading to smoother fine-tuning.
Then, also replacing the linear decoder with the proposed UpConv decoder leads to another notable improvement on mIoU ($69.8 \rightarrow 73.83$), validating this design choice.
Finally, replacing the K-NN refinement \cite{milioto2019rangenet++} with the KPConv layer (in the 3D refiner layer), leads to a small but non-trivial mIoU increase ($73.83 \rightarrow 74.60$).
In Table~\ref{tab:impact_width_h}, we study what is the impact on the mIoU performance of changing the number of feature channels $D_{\text{h}}$ on the stem, decoder and 3D refiner layer. On nuScenes, we observe that the results gradually increase when increasing the dimension $D_{\text{h}}$. In the SemanticKITTI case, $D_{\text{h}} = 128$ gives the best results and further increasing $D_{\text{h}}$ does not help.
Note that the size of the ViT's embeddings is fixed at $D=384$, regardless of the $D_{\text{h}}$ size.
\begin{table}[!t]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\resizebox{1.\linewidth}{!}{
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lccccccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Patch size}
& $16 \times 16$
& $8 \times 8$
& $4 \times 16$
& $4 \times 8$
& $4 \times 4$
& $2 \times 16$
& $2 \times 8$\\
\midrule
\textbf{mIoU}
& 68.45
& 72.04
& 72.72
& 73.30
& 73.70
& 73.88
& \textbf{75.21}\\
\midrule
\textbf{\#Tokens}
& 49
& 193
& 193
& 385
& 769
& 385
& 769\\
\textbf{Train time}
& $\times$1
& $\times$1.02
& $\times$1.02
& $\times$1.13
& $\times$1.43
& $\times$1.13
& $\times$1.43\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Patch size ablations.} Results on the nuScenes validation set. The mIoU scores are in increasing order. The train time is relative to the 16$\times$16 patch size case.}
\label{tab:patch_size}
\end{table}
\paragraph{What patch-size for range image ``tokenization''?}
The size of the input patch tokens is an essential factor for controlling the trade-off between speed and accuracy performance without changing the number of parameters in the model. Intuitively, reducing the patch-size results in a finer representation, but also a longer input sequence that takes longer to process. Conversely, larger patches lead to a coarser representation, yet faster inference. The performance impact of the patch-size can sometimes match the one of model size~\cite{strudel2021segmenter}.
For simplicity, standard ViT models use square patches of size 32, 16 or 8, as they are typically trained on square images. In contrast, range images have a much different aspect ratio (high width) and different layout of the content in the image (rows of points corresponding to LiDAR beams). With this insight, we revisit the practice of using square patches and look into rectangular patches with different aspect ratio (1:2, 1:4, 1:8) that would better capture the specific local patterns of the range images.
Table \ref{tab:patch_size} shows the mIoU scores for different patch sizes for dividing the range image to patch tokens. Note that the convolutional stem first produces pixel-wise features and then, given a patch-size $(P_H, P_W)$, reduces the spatial dimensions of these features to $(H/P_H, W/P_W)$ using local average pooling.
We observe that smaller patch area is better but not necessarily with a square patch, commonly used for ViT models. The wide range images benefit more from rectangular, patches ($2 \times 8$ performing best). The smaller patches enable the extraction of more fine-grained information leading to more precise predictions for smaller and thinner objects and points at object boundaries.
\subsection{Exploiting image pre-trained ViTs}
\label{sec:pretraining_exps}
\begin{table}[!t]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Pre-training} & Rand & DINO & IN21k & CS\\\midrule
\textbf{mIoU} & 72.37 & 73.33 & 74.77 & \textbf{75.21}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{ViT pre-training on RGB images.}
Comparison of different weight initializations of the ViT encoder on the nuScenes validation set. Rand: randomly initialized. The positional embeddings are initialized with the corresponding pre-trained weights or randomly when training from scratch. The convolutional stem, the decoder and the 3D refiner layer are randomly initialized.}
\label{tab:pretraining}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/plot.pdf}
\vspace{-15pt}
\caption{\textbf{Training efficiency with image-pretrained ViTs.}
Comparison of the validation mIoU curves for different weight initializations of the ViT encoder on the nuScenes validation set.}
\label{fig:pre_trained_weights}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}[!t]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c|ccc|cc}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Fine-tuning} & IN21k & CS \\
Model & LN & ATTN & FFN & \multicolumn{2}{c}{mIoU}\\
\midrule
(a) & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark & 74.79 & 75.21 \\
\midrule
(b) & & & & 67.88 & 68.03 \\
(c) & \checkmark & & & 69.08 & 69.31 \\
(d) & \checkmark & \checkmark & & 73.56 & 72.77 \\
(e) & \checkmark & & \checkmark & 75.11 & 75.47 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Partial ViT fine-tuning.}
We use a ViT encoder pre-trained on ImageNet21k (IN21k) or Cityscapes (CS) and partially fine-tune RangeViT on the nuScenes training set.
The convolutional stem, the positional embeddings and the UpConv decoder are always fine-tuned.
LN: fine-tuning the LayerNorm layers of the ViT encoder.
ATTN: fine-tuning the multi-head attention layers of the ViT encoder.
FFN: fine-tuning the feed-forward network layers of the ViT encoder.
Model (a) is full fine-tuning of the network.
The results are reported on the nuScenes validation set.
} \label{tab:finetuning}
\end{table}
So far, we have studied the architectural choices necessary for using ViT models for point cloud semantic segmentation. The final RangeViT model preserves the ViT backbone intact allowing us to initialize it with weights from models pre-trained on large datasets. We study now whether using such initialization and then fine-tuning helps or not and what fine-tuning strategies would be more suitable in this context.
\paragraph{Is pre-training on RGB images beneficial?}
In Table \ref{tab:pretraining}, we study the effect of transferring to our task ViT models pre-trained on natural RGB images.
In particular, we explore initializing RangeViT's backbone with ViTs pre-trained:
(a) on supervised ImageNet21k classification~\cite{dosovitskiy2020image} (entry IN21k),
(b) on supervised image segmentation on Cityscapes with Segmenter~\cite{strudel2021segmenter} (entry CS), which in its turn was pre-trained with IN21k, and
(c) with the DINO~\cite{caron2021emerging} self-supervised approach on ImageNet1k (entry DINO).
We observe that, despite the large domain gap, using ViT models pre-trained on RGB images is always better than training from scratch on LiDAR data (entry Rand). For instance, using the IN21k and CS pre-trained ViTs leads to improving the mIoU scores by $2.4$ and $2.8$ points, respectively. Additionally, as we see in \cref{fig:pre_trained_weights}, which plots the nuScenes validation mIoU as a function of the training epochs, using such pre-trained ViTs leads to faster training convergence of the LiDAR segmentation model. We argue that this is a highly interesting finding. It means that our RangeViT approach, by being able to use off-the-shelf pre-trained ViT models, can directly benefit from current and future advances on the training ViT models with natural RGB images, a very active and rapidly growing research field~\cite{touvron2021going, touvron2022three, he2022masked, radford2021learning}. Furthermore, from the small difference between the mIoU scores with the IN21k and CS pre-trainings, we infer that the pre-training can lead to consistent performance improvements even if it is not on the strongly-supervised image segmentation task, which requires expensive-to-annotate datasets.
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/qualitative_results.pdf}
\vspace{-20pt}
\caption{\textbf{Visualizing the segmentation accuracy.} This figure illustrates the ground truth and the segmentation accuracy on three validation point clouds of nuScenes for RangeViT. In the left column, the points are coloured with their ground truth label colour. In the right column, the good predictions are coloured in blue and the bad ones are coloured in red.}
\label{nuscenes_qual_res}
\end{figure}
\begin{table*}[!t]
\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-0.5pt}
\resizebox{1.\linewidth}{!}{
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lccccccccccccccccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Method}
&\rotatebox{90}{barrier}
&\rotatebox{90}{bicycle}
&\rotatebox{90}{bus}
&\rotatebox{90}{car}
&\rotatebox{90}{construction}
&\rotatebox{90}{motorcycle}
&\rotatebox{90}{pedestrian}
&\rotatebox{90}{traffic cone}
&\rotatebox{90}{trailer}
&\rotatebox{90}{truck}
&\rotatebox{90}{driveable}
&\rotatebox{90}{other flat}
&\rotatebox{90}{sidewalk}
&\rotatebox{90}{terrain}
&\rotatebox{90}{manmade}
&\rotatebox{90}{vegetation}
&\rotatebox{90}{\textbf{mIoU (\%)}} \\
\midrule
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Voxel-based}}\\
\: Cylinder3D~\cite{zhu2021cylindrical} &\textbf{76.4} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{40.3}} &\textbf{91.3} &\textbf{93.8} &\textbf{51.3} &78.0 &\textbf{78.9} &64.9 &62.1 &\textbf{84.4} &\textbf{96.8} &\textbf{71.6} &\textbf{76.4} &\textbf{75.4} &\textbf{90.5} &\textbf{87.4} &\textbf{76.1} \\
\midrule
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{2D Projection-based}}\\
\: RangeNet++~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++} &66.0 &21.3 &77.2 &80.9 &30.2 &66.8 &69.6 &52.1 &54.2 &72.3 &94.1 &66.6 &63.5 &70.1 &83.1 &79.8 &65.5 \\
\: PolarNet~\cite{zhang2020polarnet} &74.7 &28.2 &85.3 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{90.9}} &35.1 &77.5 &71.3 &58.8 &57.4 &76.1 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{96.5}} &71.1 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{74.7}} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{74.0}} &87.3 &85.7 &71.0 \\
\: SalsaNext~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext} &74.8 &34.1 &85.9 &88.4 &42.2 &72.4 &72.2 &63.1 &61.3 &76.5 &96.0 &70.8 &71.2 &71.5 &86.7 &84.4 &72.2 \\
\: RangeViT-IN21k (ours) & 75.1 & 39.0 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{90.2}} & 88.4 & 48.0 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{79.2}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{77.2}} & \textbf{66.4} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{65.1}} & 76.7 & 96.3 & 71.1 & 73.7 & 73.9 & 88.9 & 87.1 & 74.8 \\
\: RangeViT-CS (ours) & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{75.5}} & \textbf{40.7} & 88.3 & 90.1 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{49.3}} & \textbf{79.3} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{77.2}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{66.3}} & \textbf{65.2} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{80.0}} & 96.4 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{71.4}} & 73.8 & 73.8 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{89.9}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{87.2}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{75.2}} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Performance comparison} of different state-of-the-art methods on the nuScenes validation set. The best results are bold and the second best results are blue.}
\label{tab:nus_comp_results}
\vspace{-10pt}
\end{table*}
\begin{table*}[!t]
\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\resizebox{1.\linewidth}{!}{
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcccccccccccccccccccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Method}
&\rotatebox{90}{car}
&\rotatebox{90}{bicycle}
&\rotatebox{90}{motorcycle}
&\rotatebox{90}{truck}
&\rotatebox{90}{other vehicle}
&\rotatebox{90}{person}
&\rotatebox{90}{bicyclist}
&\rotatebox{90}{motorcyclist}
&\rotatebox{90}{road}
&\rotatebox{90}{parking}
&\rotatebox{90}{sidewalk}
&\rotatebox{90}{other ground}
&\rotatebox{90}{building}
&\rotatebox{90}{fence}
&\rotatebox{90}{vegetation}
&\rotatebox{90}{trunk}
&\rotatebox{90}{terrain}
&\rotatebox{90}{pole}
&\rotatebox{90}{traffic sign}
&\rotatebox{90}{\textbf{mIoU (\%)}} \\
\midrule
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Voxel-based}}\\
\: Cylinder3D~\cite{zhu2021cylindrical} &\textbf{97.1} &\textbf{67.6} &\textbf{64.0} &\textbf{59.0} &\textbf{58.6} &\textbf{73.9} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{67.9}} &36.0 &91.4 &65.1 &75.5 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{32.3}} &91.0 &66.5 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{85.4}} &\textbf{71.8} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{68.5}} &\textbf{62.6} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{65.6}} &\textbf{67.8} \\
\midrule
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{2D Projection-based}}\\
\: RangeNet++~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++} &91.4 &25.7 &34.4 &25.7 &23.0 &38.3 &38.8 &4.8 &91.8 &65.0 &75.2 &27.8 &87.4 &58.6 &80.5 &55.1 &64.6 &47.9 &55.9 &52.2 \\
\: PolarNet~\cite{zhang2020polarnet} &93.8 &40.3 &30.1 &22.9 &28.5 &43.2 &40.2 &5.6 &90.8 &61.7 &74.4 &21.7 &90.0 &61.3 &84.0 &65.5 &67.8 &51.8 &57.5 &54.3 \\
\: SqueezeSegV3~\cite{xu2020squeezesegv3} &92.5 &38.7 &36.5 &29.6 &33.0 &45.6 &46.2 &20.1 &91.7 &63.4 &74.8 &26.4 &89.0 &59.4 &82.0 &58.7 &65.4 &49.6 &58.9 &55.9 \\
\: SalsaNext~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext} &91.9 &48.3 &38.6 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{38.9}} &31.9 &60.2 &59.0 &19.4 &91.7 &63.7 &75.8 &29.1 &90.2 &64.2 &81.8 &63.6 &66.5 &54.3 &62.1 &59.5 \\
\: KPRNet~\cite{kochanov2020kprnet} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{95.5}} &54.1 &47.9 &23.6 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{42.6}} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{65.9}} &65.0 &16.5 &\textbf{93.2} &\textbf{73.9} &\textbf{80.6} &30.2 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{91.7}} &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{68.4}} &\textbf{85.7} &69.8 &\textbf{71.2} &58.7 &64.1 &63.1 \\
\: Lite-HDSeg~\cite{razani2021lite} &92.3 &40.0 &\textbf{\textcolor{blue}{55.4}} &37.7 &39.6 &59.2 &\textbf{71.6} &\textbf{54.1} &93.0 &68.2 &78.3 &29.3
&91.5 &65.0 &78.2 &65.8 &65.1 &59.5 &\textbf{67.7} &63.8 \\
\: RangeViT-CS (ours) & 95.4 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{55.8}} & 43.5 & 29.8 & 42.1 & 63.9 & 58.2 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{38.1}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{93.1}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{70.2}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{80.0}} & \textbf{32.5} & \textbf{92.0} & \textbf{69.0} & 85.3 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{70.6}} & \textbf{71.2} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{60.8}} & 64.7 & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{64.0}} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Performance comparison} of different state-of-the-art methods on the SemanticKITTI test set. The best results are bold and the second best results are blue.}
\label{tab:kitti_comp_results}
\vspace{-8pt}
\end{table*}
\paragraph{Which ViT layers is better to fine-tune?}
In the image domain, several practices have emerged for fine-tuning a pre-trained convolutional network on a downstream dataset. Taking into consideration the domain gap between the pre-training and downstream data and the amount of labeled data available, the entire network can be fine-tuned or only a part of the last layers. Here the domain gap between RGB images and range images is major and we would expect a full fine-tuning of the network to fare better. To better understand how much prior knowledge of the image pre-trained ViT is useful for point clouds, we study different fine-tuning strategies: fine-tuning all layers, only the attention (ATTN) layers or only the feedforward network (FFN) layers.
In Table \ref{tab:finetuning}, we show results with these different fine-tuning strategies.
Interestingly, the best result are not achieved with full fine-tuning (model (a)) but when the attention layers are kept frozen (model (e)). This suggests that the pre-trained ATTN layers are already well learnt and ready to generalize to range images. With CS pre-training ATTN layers may capture the layout of the scenes more easily without much fine-tuning, as the LiDAR scans have been also acquired from urban road scenes. Fine-tuning FFN may have more impact due to the different specifics of the LiDAR data compared to RGB images. In addition, FFN layers are in practice easier and more stable to optimize (they are essentially fully-connected and normalization layers) than ATTN layers that usually require more careful hyper-parameter selection. These findings align with recent ones from the image domain~\cite{touvron2022three}, confirming that the convolutional stems do steer the input LiDAR data to behave like image data once on in the ViT backbone.
\subsection{Comparison to the state-of-the-art}
Tables \ref{tab:nus_comp_results} and \ref{tab:kitti_comp_results} report the final comparison on the nuScenes validation set and on the SemanticKITTI test set including class-wise IoU scores. We observe that our model achieves superior mIoU performance compared to prior 2D projection-based methods on both datasets, while being on par with the performance of the state-of-the-art voxel-based Cylinder3D~\cite{zhu2021cylindrical} approach in the nuScenes dataset.
\vspace{-6pt}
\paragraph{Class-wise IoU result analysis.}
In Tables \ref{tab:nus_comp_results} and \ref{tab:kitti_comp_results}, we can see that RangeViT often achieves the best or the second best class-wise IoU scores. In both datasets, the classes are imbalanced and due to the sparsity and varying density of LiDAR point clouds, some classes (e.g., bicycle, pedestrian) are represented with few, not necessarily structured points per scene, so it is difficult recognize them. This problem could possibly be reduced by jointly processing point clouds and RGB images,
since RGB images might provide extra cues about the outline and the shape of these objects.
\subsection{Qualitative Results}
We visualize the 3D point clouds with the ground truth semantic labels as well as the predictions with CloudCompare~\cite{girardeau2016cloudcompare}. Figure \ref{nuscenes_qual_res} shows the predictions of RangeViT on three validation point clouds of nuScenes. Minor problems include that RangeViT predicted sidewalk for some manmade objects and that the vegetation borders are not perfect. However, there are some significant problems as well, such as difficulties in recognizing pedestrians and predicting driveable surface for some points when sidewalk was the ground truth class.
We provide more qualitative results in \autoref{sec:additional_visualizations}.
\section*{Supplementary Material} \label{sec:supplementary_material}
\section{Additional visualizations} \label{sec:additional_visualizations}
Fig. \ref{fig:vis1} and \ref{fig:vis2} show visualizations of the segmentation accuracy of RangeViT and Fig. \ref{fig:vis3} shows instances of correct and incorrect predictions. The visualizations are made on nuScenes validation point clouds. More information is provided in the captions of these figures.
\section{Model parameter count analysis} \label{sec:parameter_count}
\paragraph{Model ablations.}
In Tab. \ref{tab:model_ablation} of the main paper, we studied the impact of the non-linear convolutional stem and the UpConv decoder. In \ref{tab:model_ablation_v2} here, we complete the results of Tab. \ref{tab:model_ablation} with a model (e) which, like model (a), has a linear stem and a linear decoder but for which the ViT backbone contains $L=14$ transformer layers\footnote{Note that as pre-trained weights for the additional $2$ transformer layer of model (e), which were placed at the top of the existing $12$ transformer layers of ViT-S, we used the pre-trained weights from last available transformer layer.} instead of $L=12$. Hence, this additional model (e) and our full RangeViT solution (model (d)) have a similar number of parameters.
This experiment shows that the significant performance improvement of our full solution (d) is not simply due to a higher number of parameters, since model (e) performs much worse than our RangeViT (d).
Besides, our full RangeViT solution with $D_{\text{h}}=64$ (model (f)) also reaches a significantly better mIoU than models (a), (b) and (e) while having nearly the same number of parameters as model (a). This confirms that the proposed convolutional stem and UpConv decoder play an important role in the performance improvement.
\paragraph{Projection-based methods with CNNs.}
As a reference, we note that the total number of model parameters of SalsaNext~\cite{cortinhal2020salsanext} is 6.7M, while that of KPRNet~\cite{kochanov2020kprnet} is 213.2M.\\
\section{Additional implementation details} \label{sec:additional_implementation_details}
\paragraph{Convolutional stem and UpConv decoder.}
Fig. \ref{fig:stem_decoder} shows the detailed architecture of the convolutional stem and the UpConv decoder. All convolutions that are applied before the average pooling layer in the convolutional stem or after the Pixel Shuffle layer in the decoder do not change the spatial dimensions of the feature map $H \times W$, so appropriate paddings were applied where necessary.
As described in Sec. \ref{sec:approach} of the main paper, the average pooling layer reduces the spatial dimensions from $H \times W$ to $(H/P_H) \times (W/P_W)$. To achieve this, we use kernel size $(P_H + 1) \times (P_W + 1)$, kernel stride $P_H \times P_W$ and padding $(P_H / 2) \times (P_W / 2)$.
In the convolutional stem, the first three residual blocks use $32$ feature channels and the change of dimensions from $C=5$ input channels to $32$ channels happens in the first convolutional layer of the first residual block. The fourth residual block in the stem uses $D_h$ feature channels and similarly the change of dimensions from $32$ input channels to $D_h$ channels happens again in the first convolutional layer. Finally, the last convolutional layer in the stem (that is after the average pooling layer) uses $D$ output channels.
\paragraph{KPConv layer of the 3D Refiner.}
The KPConv~\cite{thomas2019kpconv} layer of the 3D Refine
has $D_{\text{h}}$ input and output feature channels. Its kernel size is $15$ points and the influence radius of each kernel point is $1.2$.
\begin{table}[!h]\centering
\footnotesize
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-2pt}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cllccccc}
\toprule
& \textbf{Stem} & \textbf{Decoder} & \textbf{Refiner} & $\pmb{L}$ & $\pmb{D_{\text{h}}}$ & \textbf{mIoU} & \textbf{\#Params}\\\midrule
(a) & Linear & Linear & & 12 & N/A & 65.52 & 22.0M\\
(b) & Conv & Linear & & 12 & 192 & 69.82 & 22.8M\\
(c) & Conv & UpConv & & 12 & 192 & 73.83 & 24.6M\\
(d) & Conv & UpConv & \checkmark & 12 & 192 & \textbf{74.60} & 25.2M\\\midrule
(e) & Linear & Linear & & 14 & 192 & 65.52 & 25.6M\\\midrule
(f) & Conv & UpConv & \checkmark & 12 & 64 & 74.00 & 22.7M\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\vspace{-8pt}
\caption{\textbf{Model ablations.} Results on the nuScenes validation set. The linear stem refers to the linear patch embedding layer. When the 3D refiner layer (Refiner column) is not used, we use the K-NN post-processing technique~\cite{milioto2019rangenet++}.}
\label{tab:model_ablation_v2}
\end{table}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/stem_decoder.pdf}
\caption{
\textbf{Convolutional stem and UpConv decoder architecture.} In the upper left corner, there is an overview of the RangeViT architecture from the convolutional stem until the UpConv decoder. The stem and the decoder are also shown in more details. A convolution with kernel size $(s,s)$ is denoted by $k = s$ and the dilation is denoted by $d$, where it is applied. Note that all the rectangles in the figure with $k$ inside them are convolutional layers.
The batch normalisation layers are denoted by BN.}
\label{fig:stem_decoder}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/vis1.pdf}
\caption{
\textbf{Segmentation accuracy visualizations} of RangeViT on validation point clouds of nuScenes. In the left column, the points are coloured with their ground truth label colours and in the right column they are coloured with the colour of the predicted label colours. In the middle column, the good predictions are colored in blue and the bad predictions are colored in red.
}
\label{fig:vis1}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/vis2.pdf}
\caption{
\textbf{Segmentation accuracy visualizations} of RangeViT on validation point clouds of nuScenes. In the left column, the points are coloured with their ground truth label colours and in the right column they are coloured with the colour of the predicted label colours. In the middle column, the good predictions are colored in blue and the bad predictions are colored in red.
}
\label{fig:vis2}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[trim={0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm},width=\linewidth]{figures/vis3.pdf}
\caption{
\textbf{Segmentation accuracy visualizations} of RangeViT on validation point clouds of nuScenes. The correct predictions are circled in blue, the incorrect ones in red and predictions that are mostly correct except for a few points are circled in half blue-half red. In the first example, the truck, the bus and the pedestrians are correctly predicted. The motorcycles are mostly correctly predicted except for a few points that were predicted as vegetation or manmade. However, part of the sidewalk is predicted as driveable surface and as we can see in the image, there is no height difference between the two, so it is difficult to recognize the sidewalk. In the second example, the truck was correctly predicted. In the third example, the truck was incorrectly predicted as a car and the traffic cones next to the bicycle were predicted as bicycle. The traffic cone next to the truck was however correctly predicted as well as the bicycle.
}
\label{fig:vis3}
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2018–2022: Przed debiutem
Po premierze zespołów dziewczęcych YG Entertainment, 2NE1 (2009) i Blackpink (2016), wieści o następnym zespole dziewczęcym wytwórni krążyły już w 2018 roku. Przyjęli kandydatów z różnych krajów, z których niektóre zostały przyjęte do programu szkoleniowego już w wieku 10 lat i trenowały średnio cztery do pięciu lat. Pod względem liczby rekrutacji, każda potencjalna członkini zajęła pierwsze miejsce w swoich odpowiednich przesłuchaniach, pokonując tysiące innych kandydatów. W styczniu 2020 roku, pisemne formy nazwy "BabyMonster", jednej z wielu nazw początkowo rozważanych dla Blackpink, oraz "Baemon" (skrócona wersja poprzedniej nazwy) zostały zarejestrowane jako znaki towarowe po angielsku i po koreańsku przez wytwórnię, a tymczasowo używane przez media, do czasu oficjalnego ujawnienia ich oficjalnych nazw. Skład zespołu został ostatecznie ustalony z trzech członkiń z Korei Południowej (Ahyeon, Haram, Rora), dwóch z Japonii (Ruka, Asa) i dwóch z Tajlandii (Pharita, Chiquita).
Kilka członkiń miało wcześniejsze doświadczenie w przemyśle rozrywkowym. Ruka zadebiutowała jako członkini japońskiego girlsbandu i trenowała najdłużej ze wszystkich siedmiu członków w YG Entertainment. Haram została modelką dziecięcą w wieku dwóch lat i wzięła udział w przesłuchaniu do wytwórni w 2018 roku. Rora zadebiutował jako członkini dziecięcej grupy USSO Girl (2017) z Hyein z NewJeans i wzięła udział w przesłuchaniu w maju 2018 roku. A następnie Ahyeon w grudniu 2018 roku. Pharita była modelką w konkursach China Trendy Children's Selection Competition 2019 i Inter Model Thailand 2021, wzięła udział w przesłuchaniu do programu survival reality Idol Paradise (2021) i została wybrana spośród 1226 kandydatów na stażystę w YG Entertainment w lipcu 2020 roku. Tajlandzka członkini Chiquita trenowała najkrócej ze wszystkich siedmiu członkiń i została ostatnią członkinią po trzech miesiącach szkolenia od jej rekrutacji w 2021 roku. W trakcie ich treningu ujawniono, że wokale członków zostały nagrane w ostatnim refrenie głównego singla "Iyah" (아이야; aiya) przez kolegę z wytwórni, Kang Seung-yoon.
2023: Wprowadzenie i Last Evaluation
YG Entertainment zasygnalizowało formalne wprowadzenie septetu 30 grudnia 2022 roku za pomocą plakatu i podpisu"YG Next Movement". To zapowiadało krótki film opublikowany na YouTube w Nowy Rok, który zgromadził 15 milionów wyświetleń w ciągu trzech dni i zawierał udział członków Winner i Blackpink, rodzeństwa AKMU, tancerki i choreografki Leejung Lee oraz założyciela wytwórni Yang Hyun-suk. Wprowadzenie BabyMonster, wraz z ogłoszeniem możliwego powrotu G-Dragona jako solisty tego samego dnia, przyczyniło się do wzrostu akcji wytwórni, osiągając szczyt na poziomie 11,74%. Siedem członkiń zostało ujawnionych publicznie poprzez stopniowe publikacje filmów z występów na żywo, zaczynając od 12 stycznia (w kolejności: Haram, Ahyeon, Chiquita, Asa, Rora, Pharita i Ruka). Kanał BabyMonster na YouTube szybko przekroczył milion subskrybentów w ciągu 52 dni od utworzenia 28 grudnia 2022 roku. 5 marca YG Entertainment zaprezentowało zwiastun programu internetowego zatytułowanego Last Evaluation, będącego kroniką powstania grupy, którego miała premierę 10 marca.
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Samovarteateret
Samovarteateret (the Samovar Theatre) is the world's northernmost professional theatre space.
The theatre was established by Bente S. Andersen in 1990, in Kirkenes, Norway—on the border between East and West.
Note: These projects were organized prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See Barents Secretariat's statement on the invasion and cross-border cooperation here.
COURTESY SAMOVARTEATERET.
Samovar (Russian tea boiler) means self-boiling. It is warm, beautiful to look at, something that you can fill up, drain from and it is constantly simmering. Just what Samovarteateret believes that a theatre should be. Samovarteateret produces (on average) two newly-written performances every year.
The theatre is strongly engaged in Northern society, and believes that stories from the North should be told from the North. The aim is to create performances that focus on, or question, our present time.
The Samovar Theatre's artistic practice is about creating a meeting point between people, between different artists and cultural actors, between artists and the audience, across national borders, cultures and professions.
The theatre has developed a unique method for creating performances; the "Samovar methodology." It consists of collecting and processing different themes, ideas or stories from the border region, and transferring them into our present time.
Performing artists and collaborators from the theatre's international network are engaged and contribute with their unique culture and artistic competence in the process. The network reaches from Norway to Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Poland, to Spain, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia—and it is still growing.
The result is performing arts with a transnational expression, where newly written text, movement, multilingualism and music merge into a whole. The theatre believes that performing arts can communicate and touch where politics and words do not reach.
Director Bente S. Andersen and actor Turid Skoglund reflect on their work in this interview:
Credit: COURTESY SAMOVARTEATERET.
Get a glimpse into a couple of the theatre's productions:
Lost in the Horizon
Supported by BarentsKult
Credit: This video was originally published by Samovarteateret on February 13, 2020. COURTESY SAMOVARTEATERET.
Lost in the Horizon was a collaboration between Samovarteateret, Kirkenes, Norway and The National Theatre of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia.
In the performance Lost in the Horizon, the theatre focused on borders, horizons and how they affect us as human beings; our hopes, dreams and everyday life. It focused on power, and what it does to us as human beings—and on clinging to the hope and freedom that is on the horizon. And maybe the most important thing of all; human dignity, and the value of a human life.
Lost in the Horizon is a highly relevant performance, seen in the light of today's worldview. According to the UN, today 82 million human beings are moving across national borders, in search of a better future. At the same time, new walls and border zones are created all over Europe, all over the world. Closed borders. Strictly protected borders.
Lost in the Horizon. COURTESY SAMOVARTEATERET.
Langt ut i Tåkeheimen:
Credit: This video was originally published by Samovarteateret on November 1, 2021 COURTESY SAMOVARTEATERET.
Langt ut i Tåkeheimen was a dance performance by Samovarteateret, performed next to the sculpture Holding the Light, made by Taibola. Taibola is a group of independent artists from Arkhangelsk, Russia.
This is a commissioned work from Pomorfestivalen (in Vardø, Norway) with Norwegian and Russian participants.
Langt ut i tåkeheimen was a pilot project which will be further developed into a full-length performance.
To learn more about Samovarteateret, visit the theatre's website.
https://en.samovarteateret.com/
This story is part of the Barents Secretariat Spotlight. View more content from the Spotlight here.
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat strongly condemns Russia's unprecedented military aggression against Ukraine.
The Barents Cooperation was established as a peace project in 1993, after 45 years of cold war. The foundation of the Barents Cooperation has always been people-to-people contact. The goal of the Barents cooperation is to remove cultural barriers and to build bridges across borders. During almost 30 years, we have gone from closed borders to close ties between the people in the Barents Region. The cooperation between people from all areas of society like schools, municipalities, NGOs and cultural institutions, the so-called people-to people-perspective, is an important keystone. Through meetings between people in the region we build down barriers and increase our mutual understanding.
Unfortunately, people-to-people cross-border cooperation in the north has long been constrained due to the increasingly authoritarian regime in Russia. The situation for civil society is now extremely difficult, and the uncertainty arising from Russia's military attacks makes effective cross-border cooperation even more challenging. Unfortunately, the impacts of this will be felt at the local level, particularly by people living in the north.
In our spotlight the Norwegian Barents Secretariat will focus on the positive and successful cooperation between artists and cultural institutions that normally takes place across the Norwegian-Russian border.
While the Norwegian Barents Secretariat stands behind the Norwegian government's demand that Russia immediately ceases its military operations and seeks a peaceful solution, we will continue to support people-to-people cooperation and contact. In the current situation we have suspended contact and cooperation with official Russian entities, but encourage contact and cooperation with independent Russian artists and organisations.
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Q: How to tell where an item was dropped in qlistview? I have a custom QListView:
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from Diagnostics import Trace2 #writes to log file
import traceback
class ListOrderView(QListView):
itemMoved = pyqtSignal(int, int, QStandardItem) # Old index, new index, item
def __init__(self, parent=None):
try:
super(ListOrderView, self).__init__(parent)
self.setAcceptDrops(True)
self.setDragEnabled(True)
self.setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView.InternalMove)
self.setDefaultDropAction(Qt.MoveAction)
self.setEditTriggers(QAbstractItemView.NoEditTriggers)
self.setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView.SelectRows)
self.setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView.SingleSelection)
self.dragItem = None
self.dragRow = None
self.indexesMoved.connect(self.onIndexesMoved)
#self.installEventFilter(self)
except:
Trace2.WriteLine(str(traceback.format_exc()))
def onIndexesMoved(self, indexes):
Trace2.WriteLine("indexes were moved")
def dropEvent(self, event):
try:
super(ListOrderView, self).dropEvent(event)
self.selectionModel().setCurrentIndex(self.model().indexFromItem(self.dragItem), QItemSelectionModel.SelectCurrent)
Trace2.WriteLine("[LISTVIEW] item dropped")
Trace2.WriteLine("[LISTVIEW] current index is %d" %self.selectionModel().currentIndex().row())
Trace2.WriteLine("[LISTVIEW] current selection is %d" %self.selectionModel().selection().indexes()[0].row())
self.itemMoved.emit(self.dragRow, self.row(self.dragItem), self.dragItem)
self.dragItem = None
except:
Trace2.WriteLine(str(traceback.format_exc()))
def startDrag(self, supportedActions):
try:
self.dragItem = self.currentItem()
self.dragRow = self.row(self.dragItem)
super(ListOrderView, self).startDrag(Qt.MoveAction)
except:
Trace2.WriteLine(str(traceback.format_exc()))
def currentItem(self):
index = self.currentIndex()
item = self.model().itemFromIndex(index)
#Trace2.WriteLine("[LISTVIEW] currentItem = %s" % item.data(Qt.DisplayRole).toString())
return item
def row(self, item):
#index = self.model().indexFromItem(item)
index = self.selectedIndexes()[0]
row = index.row()
#Trace2.WriteLine("[LISTVIEW] row = %d" %row)
return row
And I really need to know where the item was dropped after a drag and drop operation so other things can be properly updated (I'm trying to put drag and drop into something never designed for it, big app, not my design). The selection model's current index and selection don't follow the dropped item, they stay behind effectively selecting a new item and screwing things up. Is there a way to make them move with the dropped item? The signal indexesMoved seems exactly like what I want, but it never fires. Am I using it wrong? Is there a different/better way?
A: I think you might need to actually have the model tell you where something was dropped, since it will ultimately handle the move:
class Model(QStandardItemModel):
rowDropped = pyqtSignal(int)
def dropMimeData(self, *args):
success = super(Model, self).dropMimeData(*args)
if success:
self.rowDropped.emit(args[2])
return success
This will emit, from the model, the row number on which the drop occurred. Your view already knows which item was dragged and dropped from its own events.
I am sure there are other ways in terms of tracking the object and then querying it again after the drop has completed.
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Lady Gaga's Poker Face Tops 2009 UK Sales
Hit single sold 800,000 copies in the United Kingdom in 2009.
The success of Lady Gaga's single "Poker Face" was confirmed as new year's festivities drew to a close, with the hit finishing the year as the biggest-selling song of 2009 in the United Kingdom.
Poker Face sold 800,000 copies in the UK alone in 2009, edging out the Black Eyed Peas' single "I got a feeling" and another Lady Gaga hit, "Just Dance" for the honor of most sales.
This latest success comes just months after the Official UK Charts Company announced that Poker Face was the most downloaded song since the download charts began five years ago.
First released in late 2008, Poker Face uses lyrics based on a Texas Hold'em theme to describe Lady Gaga's pursuit of a man, beginning with the opening verse in which she sings:
""I wanna hold em like they do in Texas plays; Fold em, let em hit me, raise it baby, stay with me, I love it; Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start; And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart."
The video clip also follows the poker theme, at one stage featuring the American singer at a table featuring the Bwin logo.
The song topped the charts in at least 17 countries in 2009, including the United States, Australia, Canada, and of course the UK. It also placed 96th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 best songs of the last decade.
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The United States federal executive departments are among the oldest primary units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States—the Departments of State, War, and the Treasury all being established within a few weeks of each other in 1789.
Federal executive departments are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but, with the United States being a presidential system, their heads otherwise equivalent to ministers, do not form a government (in a parliamentary sense) nor are they led by a head of government separate from the head of state. The heads of the federal executive departments, known as secretaries of their respective department, form the traditional Cabinet, an executive organ that serves at the disposal of the president and normally act as an advisory body to the presidency.
Since 1792, by statutory specification, the cabinet constituted a line of succession, after the Speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate to the presidency in the event of a vacancy in both that office and the vice presidency. The Constitution refers to these officials when it authorizes the President, in Article II, section 2, to "require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices." In brief, they and their organizations are the administrative arms of the President.
All departments are listed by their present-day name and only departments with past or present cabinet-level status are listed. Order of succession has always included the Vice President; at times – including presently – the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate have also been included.
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typedef void(^GeoIPsMapCompletionBlock)(NSArray *);
typedef void(^GeoIPsMapErrorBlock)(NSError *);
@interface GeoIPListMapViewController () <MKMapViewDelegate>
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray *geoIPs;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet MKMapView *map;
@end
@implementation GeoIPListMapViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[self setupMap];
self.title = @"GeoIP Map";
[self updateMapList];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(updateMapList) name:NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChangeNotification object:nil];
}
- (void)setupMap {
self.map.delegate = self;
}
- (void)updateMapList {
__weak typeof(self) weakSelf = self;
[self loadGeoIPsOnCompletion:^(NSArray *geoIPs) {
weakSelf.geoIPs = geoIPs;
} onError:^(NSError *error) {
NSLog(@"%@", error);
}];
}
- (void)loadGeoIPsOnCompletion:(GeoIPsMapCompletionBlock)completion onError:(GeoIPsMapErrorBlock)errorBlock {
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:[GeoIP entityName]];
NSError *error;
NSArray *geoIPs = [self.childContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
if (error) {
errorBlock == nil ? : errorBlock(error);
return;
}
completion == nil ? : completion(geoIPs);
}
- (void)setGeoIPs:(NSArray *)geoIPs {
[MapHelper clearAnnotationsFromMAp:self.map];
for (GeoIP *geoIP in geoIPs) {
[MapHelper addAnnotationToMap:self.map onLatitude:geoIP.latitudeValue andLongitude:geoIP.longitudeValue withTitle:geoIP.country];
}
_geoIPs = geoIPs;
}
#pragma mark - MapKit Delegate
- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation
{
if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[MKUserLocation class]])
return nil;
MKAnnotationView *annotationView = [[MKPinAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:@"loc"];
annotationView.canShowCallout = YES;
return annotationView;
}
@end
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Friday 17th March 2017 @ 11:14 by Nigel P.
Tameside leader Councillor Quinn and fellow Councillor Greenhalgh meet with their Derbyshire party colleagues Sheila Yamin and Becki Woods to harmonise plans for road development that will pass through North Derbyshire linking Sheffield with Tameside.
Recent weeks has seen a flurry of cross border diplomacy between Tameside's Labour leadership and the prospective Labour candidates in the forthcoming Derbyshire County Council elections.
Sheila Yamin and Becki Woods, Leading campaigners for investment in Trans-Pennine links between Tameside and Glossop visited Dukinfield for talks with Tameside Council Leader Kieran Quinn.
The pair are also the Labour Party candidates for the Glossop and Charlesworth and Etherow seats respectively in this year's elections.
They met with Councillor Quinn to discuss a mutually acceptable solution to local congestion problems. The talks included a discussion about a double planning application for the Mottram by pass and Glossop spur and the Trans-Pennine tunnel.
The two sides also discussed what enviromental benefits could be derived from the construction of the tunnel to minimise the impact on the Peak District National Park.
Traffic jams such as the above are a feature of life in the Derbyshire villages to the east of Tameside as the existing road systems struggle to accommodate the volume of vehicles trying to reach Sheffield or returning from there to Greater Manchester.
The County Council candidates have now demanded a new memorandum of understanding between the County and Tameside as the saga of the Mottram by-pass continues to generate debate and argument.
The election hopefuls requested a further meeting in Glossop to progress discussions on the two Authorities co-ordinated lobbying effort.
The Leader of Tameside Council, Kieran Quinn, and highways Officers, met with current Derbyshire Councillors and candidates to discuss overcoming what were described as 'ongoing and unacceptable delays' in delivering the much needed bypass for the people of Glossopdale and Tintwistle.
The meeting agreed it was important that there was not a cigarette paper's difference between the positions of Derbyshire and Tameside, with each authority taking responsibility to cement the terms of the memorandum into the programmes of both the Midlands Engine and the Northern Powerhouse.
The aim of this cross border diplomacy was ensure that representatives of both areas are all on the same page in respect of lobbying for the much needed road transport linking Greater Manchester with Derbyshire and Sheffield.
For over 40 years the lack of a sufficient road, has been the missing link between the North West South Yourkshire and the East Midlands.
It is inconceivable that the much vaunted Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine could proceeed without this vital piece of infrastructure.
On a human level, notwithstanding enviromental considerations of building a highway through an area of outstanding natural beauty, the residents of Mottram, Tinwistle, Glossop and Hollingworth have suffered pollution and congestion for too long and deserve relief from unacceptably high volumes of traffic.
Becki Woods, Labour's candidate for Hadfield said that the people of Tintwistle have suffered for too long from the noise and poor air quality caused by heavy lorries passing through the village.
"A Mottram only by-pass will not solve the problems of Tintwistle and Hollingworth and is acceptable only if there's evidence of a long term plan to alleviate congestion on both sides of the border in both Hollingworth and Tintwistle," she said.
Cllr Damien Greenhalgh, undertook to talk to decision takers in Matlock and in the East Midlands to ensure that the importance of the scheme was fully accepted and that nothing would prevent it going ahead at the earliest convenience.
Members also agreed to take a closer look at the tunnel proposals for a trans- Pennine road and rail route and to work together to try to ensure the chosen route was that which is closest to Tameside.
Councillor Kieran Quinn, Tameside Council Leader a long time supporter of a Trans-Pennine tunnel as part of a Manchester Sheffield link is also a vocal advocate of the Northern Powerhouse concept and regional devolution.
He wants big regional city areas to be able to decide the way they spend their money, targeting infrastructure and investments projects that have been overlooked by successive governments.
Both the Derbyshire and Tameside contingents agreed that they would work through a number of possible options together in seeking to draw up the Memorandum of Understanding between the two Authorities with a target date for an agreement in mid-June.
Last year the Department for Transport unveiled five different possible tunnel routes to link the M1 with the M67 or M60. However at this stage the proposed tunnel options at a projected cost of £9 billion are far from a reality.
Plans for a Mottram by-pass have been in existence since the early 1930s so nobody either side of the border is holding their breath, but if the longest and largest motorway project does get the green light these pre- project negotiations may serve to hurry the process along. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,047 |
Clarence Mumford faces 45 counts of conspiracy and fraud.
Clarence Mumford faces 45 counts of conspiracy and fraud. The feds say people paid him thousands of dollars to arrange for someone else to take their licensing exam.
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I have received a document in font droid serif, which has been replaced. How can I tell what font it is in now?
You might try the TestFonts extension which gives some information that may help.
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Matthew Harris completes basic training.
Arriving in the world on January 2, 1980, Matthew Lawrence Harris made his debut in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He would live on a ranch outside of Chugwater, Wyoming, until his parents moved to Pine Bluffs when he was ten years old. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,051 |
Join your colleagues to celebrate and recognize the special contributions that our employees have made to Adams State, including faculty promotions, tenure, and emeritus status.
"Great Stories: Right Here, Right Now" is the topic of alumna Cathy Mullens' commencement address for this year's spring ceremony. A 1982 Adams State graduate, Mullens served as District Attorney for the 12th Judicial District, the San Luis Valley, from 1992-96. She had the distinction of being the first woman elected District Attorney in the state.
Mullens received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government from Adams State and went on to earn a J.D. in law from Campbell University in Raleigh, N.C., in 1985. She began her legal career in the San Luis Valley Office of the District Attorney.
After leaving office she worked in several District Attorney's Offices throughout the state, retiring in 2009 after serving as Chief Trial Deputy in the Pueblo District Attorney's Office. She worked mainly in the area of felony domestic violence cases, including prosecuting homicides.
Mullens is currently an Instructor at the Law Enforcement Academy at Otero Junior College in La Junta and works as a photographer and reporter for The Signature Newspaper in La Veta. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,052 |
The Earth is the fifth biggest planet in the solar system.
The form of Earth is 'Oblate spheroid'.
The axis of the earth is inclined to the plane of Earth's orbit at an angle of 66 l/2°giving rise to different seasons and varying lengths of day and night.
At equator, day and night are of equal length throughout the year.
The Mid-day Sun shines vertically overhead at least once a year between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Thus, this region receiving the maximum heat is called Torrid Zone.
Temperate Zones are the areas where climatic condition is not extreme. The area lies between the tropics and polar region C231/20 x 66V20) having moderate climate.
Frigid Zones: These are the two extremely cold zones situated in the Polar Regions extending to the Arctic circle in the North and to the Antarctic circle in the South.
Equinox: It is a day of the year when the duration of day and night is equal and the position of the Sun is in its zenith. In a year there are two equinoxes. September Equinox, i.e.
September 23rd, and March Equinox (March 21st).
Solstice: Like equinoxes there are two solstices also, June 21st and December 21st . This is the time when Sun reaches either its highest or lowest point at noon resulting into shortest and longest day of the year in a hemisphere.
Earth rotates on its own axis from west to east once in every 24 hours causing day and night.
It revolves round the Sun in an orbit once in every 365 1/4 days causing the seasons of the year.
Latitude is the angular distance of a point on the Earth's surface measured in degrees from the centre of the Earth.
Equator, i.e. 0° is the biggest latitude that divides Earth into two equal hemispheres (North and South).
This is the Prime Meridian from which all other meridians radiate eastwards and westwards up to 180°.
Bahamas, Mexico, Mauritania, Mali, Western Sahara, Algeria, Niger, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Abudhabi, Oman, Bangladesh, Burma, and Taiwan.
Equador, Colombia Brazil, Sao Tome & Prince, Gobon Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia.
Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Australia, French Polinesia, Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Coolis Island, etc.
The whole world has been divided into 24 standard time zones.
Each zone is separated by 15° longitudes or by 1 hour or by 1° for 4 minutes.
In India, the longitude of 82° 30° E, passing through the area near Allahabad is considered as the Standard Meridian. This is known as Indian Standard Time (1ST). 1ST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT. Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 states of India: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
A traveller going eastward gains time from Greenwich where he will be 12 hours ahead of GMT.
Similarly, going westwards, he loses 12 hours till he reaches 180° W.
Apogee: Period of the farthest distance between the Moon and the Earth (407,000 km).
Perigee: Period of nearest distance between the Moon and the Earth [356,000km).
Perihelion: Period of the nearest distance between Earth and the Sun (a 147 million km). The date of perihelion varies between 3rd to 5th Jan.
The Crust is the outer most part of the Earth which is solid, cool and brittle. The thickness of the Earth's crust varies between 8 and 60 km which is divided into two parts: upper crust and lowe crust. The density of crust varies between 2.8 to 3.0 g/cm3. The temperature of crust varies between 200°C to 400°C from top to bottom.
The Mantle -The mantle extends from 60 km to 2900 km of depth.
The Core- Inner solid core also known as Barysphere having temperature up to 6000°C, goes up to a depth of 6371 km at the centre of the Earth. The average density of core ranges between 13.3 to 13.6 g/cm3. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,053 |
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by DougNic
OK so I am sorry about ripping off Nat. Geo. and especially their brilliant photogrphy. Plus the hours that it takes could be better used. Please click the link below and see the photos for themselves.
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Joining the mainstream never really interested Frank and Lisa Mauceri. Both proud dreamers even before they met at a Los Lobos concert back in college 20 years ago, the Mauceris use outside-the-box thinking as a creative technique to nurture their eco-friendly life. By merging their record company ambitions and their love of the environment they have created an environmentally inspiring live/work space they hope will ignite the imaginations of their Chicago community and colleagues in the recording industry. Their newly renovated building, a former old corner store and bar located in Chicago's artistic Bucktown neighborhood, is the United States' first and only residence that is LEED certified—a green-building rating system designed by the U.S. Green Building Council—generating its own electricity through the use of solar panels and wind turbines, and using geothermal heating and cooling.
Although the couple was on a traditional corporate track—Frank worked as an attorney and Lisa worked in finance—they dreamed of ditching the 60-hour work weeks that were feeling increasingly pointless. As devoted rock-and-rollers, they wanted to dive headfirst into their musical passions. After stints in Cleveland and Reno, the pair decided to reinvent their life in Chicago. "Chicago stood out to us," says Frank. "The Windy City has one of the strongest green initiatives in the country and is striving to be the greenest metropolitan area in America."
Photography made possible by National Geographic Image Collection; Dawn Kish, photographer.
With the help of a green-savvy architect, they en a building plan that includes two wind turbines, electric panels, geothermal heating and cooling 1,900-square-foot green roof that serves as the yard. "The wind turbines in combination with th< panels should create at least 40 percent of a electricity we need. Under ideal conditions it will 100 percent," says Frank. And there's even a d that the Mauceris' system might produce more than is needed for their home, in which case trn electricity is distributed back to the city's energj and they receive a credit on their electric bill. 1
As with any construction project, there were stm blocks. Despite Chicago's green reputation, the residential height restrictions prohibited buildinj wind turbines. But by working with the city, the c helped Chicago create new ordinances which i exempt wind turbines from the height restriction
"Our neighbors are really fascinated by what's hap on the roof," says Lisa. "We had to get the okay them to do the wind turbines, and they were like go for it.' They had no problems at all." One of couple's favorite design features is the use of o record bits in the flooring material, which they hi to create. Frank smashed the records with a ha and then Lisa ground the bits with a blender. *l really personal way to recycle and it really sere 'us,'" says Lisa.
"I felt, and still feel, that the more people I tell i this way of living, the bigger positive impact I'll I and the less negative impact we will all have on environment," adds Frank.
The 5,600-square-foot structure offers plenty of room for their record company, Smog Veil Records.
Frustrated by the amount of waste in the music business the Mauceris are running Smog Veil under strict green guidelines. One first
step is starting to release in MP3 format instead of as CDs. "We're are eliminating the use of jewel cases and using Cardboard packaging instead
, replacing paper press kits with PDF's. offering downloadable digital booklets from our website instead of CD inserts, and taking the
message of greening the music industry to others in the hopes that they will implement those practices within their business," says Frank.
In addition to these moves, the Mauceris say they practice the everyday acts that anyone can do: being careful about the amount of energy
they use in the office, recycling paper, and composting. "We'd also like to replace our inefficient delivery truck with a waste-vegetable-oil,
biodiesel, or electric model," says Lisa. Measuring their efforts is an important part of the Mauceris' plan.
"It's important for us to be able to track what our efforts do," he says. "We're taking special care to measure how much
paper we've used in the past in our business and how much we'll be using once our
green agenda is fully implemented. "In the music industry, the one thing that's going to make a difference is showing
that the implementation of green practices within your business reduces your overhead and increases your net profits.
" Like so many people who crave an epic life they can be proud of, the Mauceris kept their eye on the future and harnessed
their dreams. "Now I feel like I can go sleep at night under this very green roof and feel good about. myself, my house, and
the way we choose is Lisa. "If I can make a difference, even if its avery small personal difference, I'm glad to do it.s our
dream come true."
When asked if she and Frank view themselves as dreamers, Lisa responds with an affirmative
yes: "Absolutely. It's always important to be optimistic about life and what you're doing so you're not stuck in a bubble.
I think you see limitless possibilities when you're dreaming, and then it gives you excitement
and the vision to keep going forward."
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The Club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (Sept. – May) at 10:00 am. Enjoy an informal sandwich luncheon after the program. If you have children in the Preschool Program, join the Garden Club for the program. If you are a new resident in Arden Park come see what the Garden Club has to offer. We welcome new members. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,055 |
Citrus fruit is hand picked in the field and brought to our facility in bins. When it is ready to be packed the bins are placed on our state of the art dump line. The the bins are submerged into water which allows the fruit to gently float out of the bins and onto the production lines. The fruit is then washed before being electronically graded by our Aweta-Autoline grader. It is then waxed to help preserve and protect it during its journey to stores around the world. After it has been dried it is carefully looked at by our well trained and experienced personnel in order to verify the citrus meets our high quality standards. It is then electronically sized by our Aweta-Autoline sizers and sent to various packaging stations. The majority of the fruit is then packed using automated packing and bagging systems, though some packaging and sizes still require packaging by hand. Once in its container the box is labeled by our ProduceJet system with key product and tracing information.
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A new Executive Director leads Rediscover the Falls
Thu 5 Apr 18
Andrew Mason has been selected as the first full-time executive director for Rediscover the Falls (RTF), the nonprofit organization created in 2015 to raise resources and advocate for the revitalization of the former Blue Heron paper mill site in Oregon City and the riverwalk experience.
The riverwalk, one piece of the larger Willamette Falls Legacy Project, will connect downtown Oregon City to Willamette Falls. It will create a world-class public space with views of Willamette Falls that have been hidden from the public for over a century.
Mason, who assumed his new role on April 2, 2018, has a strong background in fundraising, strategic planning, program development, and executive leadership. He has knowledge and experience in government relations, collaborative management, and a recent capital campaign. He has also successfully secured federal, state and local public and private sector funding. He most recently served as the executive director for Open School in Portland, OR.
Mason holds a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College and a Master of Social Work from Portland State University.
"I come to this project with a strong sense of its value to our community, state, and nation. Its success will take committed and unwavering investment from the entire region and an ability to leverage and extend our community connections and assets. I look forward to working with the RTF Board and the many voices involved in visioning such a challenging and inspiring future for the Willamette Falls Legacy Project," Mason shared.
The RTF Board is comprised of volunteer leaders from business and industry, education, labor, civic and environmental organizations, and engaged citizens.
RTF Board president Alice Norris expressed her appreciation for the groundwork laid by retiring executive director, Shelly Parini. "Rediscover the Falls has thrived under Shelly's active leadership, with new communication materials, a strategic plan and a capital campaign plan. Andrew will help us build, execute and leverage our broad base of supporters and champions."
For more information, visit www.friendsofwflp.org or reach out to Andrew at [email protected].
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59th MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DEL NUOVO CINEMA | 17-24 JUNE 2023
The Jury
Accreditation request
Places and hospitality
Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema
Friday 25-06-2021
Teatro Sperimentale - Sala Grande
Special Event - Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani
DOVE SIETE? IO SONO QUI
Italia 1993 , 120'
The Obstinate and Contrarian
Liliana Cavani is a living paradox, as a woman, as a film director, and as an intellectual. This might be the reason why a deep understanding of her cinema is difficult to reach, as it is made of paradoxes and extreme challenges; it is imbued with a restless spirituality, seeking answers that are not there. Her films embody this contradictory nature that is conveyed through faces, eroticism, and bodies in search of transcendence. It is a deeply earthly cinema, and yet it constantly tries to reach for the sky. Not everyone is so brave as to plumb these depths – she did, putting together an extremely consistent career. Her body of work can be enjoyed all in one breath, with films responding to each other and going back to themes, disquietudes, conflicts, and questions never to be answered.
From the St. Francis of Assisi trilogy to the St. Claire of Assisi of the documentary Clarisse; from the German trilogy – The Night Porter, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Berlin Affair – to the rarefied Ripley's Game; her film-making is as relevant as ever when it is not prophetic.
The purpose of the volume that we have edited to accompany the Pesaro Film Festival Retrospective (Liliana Cavani. Il cinema e i film, Venice, Marsilio 2021) is to discuss the complexity, obstinacy, and contrarian quality of a film director whose cinema remains at times unfathomable, even repelling with regard to certain extremisms, the sometimes graphic violence that is never concealed, the role confusion between tormentor and victim, and the lucid gaze cast on the history of the 20th century and of humankind. To do so, we have relied not only on the instruments of film criticism, but also on the opinions of scholars apparently far removed from film studies.
In this book, reviews of her films that were released theatrically and will be screened during the Festival are written by various generations of critics and scholars, also with a view to verify how the cinema of Liliana Cavani is still relevant today. A safe bet, thanks to the universal nature of the themes she has tackled, which sets her apart from any narrative contingency. She has proved to be an extraordinary 'author' in the etymological sense of extra ordinarium.
This is why we decided to dedicate the Italian Cinema Special Event – a feature of the Pesaro Film Festival since 1987 – to Liliana Cavani, the first woman over the Event's longstanding and illustrious history.
Pedro Armocida, Cristiana Paternò
FRANCESCO D'ASSISI (Italia, 1966, 126')
GALILEO (Italia/Bulgaria, 1968, 95')
LA BATTAGLIA (Italia, 1962, 30')
I CANNIBALI (Italia, 1969, 95')
MILAREPA (Italia, 1973, 108')
IL PORTIERE DI NOTTE (Italia, 1974, 122')
LA PELLE (Italia/Francia, 1980, 131')
INTERNO BERLINESE (Italia/Germania Ovest, 1985, 118')
INCONTRO DI NOTTE (Italia, 1961, 10')
DOVE SIETE? IO SONO QUI (Italia, 1993, 120')
AL DI LA' DEL BENE E DEL MALE (Italia/Francia/Germania Ovest, 1977, 127')
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE WITH RESERVATION
PFF57
With the contribution of
MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE
DEL NUOVO CINEMA
P.le Albani, 12 c/o
Teatro Rossini - 61121 Pesaro (PU)
[email protected]
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By Reinhard Rurup and Werner T. Angress
You'll find the 'Topography of Terror' exhibition in Berlin today, on the site where, between 1933 and 1945, the principal instruments of Nazi persecution and terror were located: the headquarters of the Gestapo, the high command and security service of the SS, and (from 1939) the Reich Security Main Office. This book – Topography of Terror – isn't a souvenir of the exhibition, but it is a brilliant companion to the location, the story behind the buildings and what happened there, and the historical legacy overall. It's one of the books you'll add to your collection which, it has to be said, you might not read cover to cover for pleasure – but you will dip in and out of it many times: learning about the 15 information stations where the most horrific crimes were planned. How the Gestapo operated during these times is an eye-opener. Just to give you a flavour of what you're buying, you'll find over 200 black and white photographs, more than a dozen maps, as well as plans, drawings and charts to chronicle the goings-on of the Gestapo headquarters building and activities in Berlin.
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Q: Which is the best method for Paypal Recurring/Subscription? I am implementing papyal with php and I found that there are some different methods available to integrate Paypal Recurring/Subscription.
My account and requirement details are following:
*
*Merchant Account is of US/Canada,
*Dont want to pay any amount,
*Can cancel activate profile by code (not depend on user to click on unsubscribe button),
Which is the simple and best method?
1) NVP(Name Value Pair) API - It is deprecated, do not want to use.
2) Billing & Agreement API - It told me 'DPRP is disabled' and for enable it dont want to pay monthly $30 for Credit card payment.
3) Payflow - It asks me to complete profile and charge $10 for enable Recurring feature.
4) Subscription Button - Can I integrate it with checkout.js like Incontext Integration?
Please help me which should i prefer in my case ?
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Q: Flex builder4 - Compilation issue I'm using FB4 and my project will take atleast 30 minutes to compile entire project since it has 20 modules.
Everyday i have to logoff my machine since our company policy.
My problem is :
Everyday i have to spend 30 minutes to compile my entire project.
I have to spend another 30 minutes again to compile all modules in my project if i accidently closed my project or closed my Flex builder IDE.
Do you have any suggestion to avoid flexbuilder to compile my project again if i closed?
Thanks in advance.
A: Eclipse Java could probably use more memory to speed that up.
How can you speed up Eclipse?
Max value of Xmx and Xms in Eclipse?
Is 'Build Automatically' selected?
Maybe how you link your projects will also impact performance. Linking SWC instead of project references should improve time.
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Cultural & Public Art Development
Public Art FAQs
Photo by Estlin Haiss
What is Public Art?
The City of Durham defines public art as original visual art including, but not limited to, sculptures, murals, photographic renderings, mosaics, and electronic art installations installed on a permanent basis in spaces that are visible from public streets and pedestrian walkways. The art must be completely free of any admission fees, and be administered through a public process that provides opportunities for the community to share their input.
In addition to permanent works of art, the City also allows original visual art installed on a temporary basis--usually for a period of at least 90 days--in public spaces designated as public art exhibition areas for temporary installations.
When did the City establish the Public Art Program?
The City Council created the Public Art Program in 2011. Like a number of cities, Durham established a Percent-for-Art Program to encourage and fund public art projects. With this funding model, each fiscal year the City Manager recommends an amount, up to 1 percent of the proposed General Capital Improvement Project (CIP) budget, to be set aside in the project fund for public art. This money is used to commission and install permanent public art at the sites of major CIP capital projects, or other locations determined by City Council. This fund is also used for maintenance and repair of existing public art works, project administration costs, and to fund temporary installation of works of art at designated public art exhibition areas.
How does the City determine where to install Public Art?
The City's Cultural Advisory Board, and its Public Art subcommittee, makes recommendations to the City Manager for the location of public art. For projects funded from the project fund for public art, priority is given to projects in the Downtown Development Tier including the Parrish Street Project Area, the Community Development Area outside downtown, and designated gateways to the city. This priority does not preclude projects in other areas of the city, and often times the Cultural Advisory Board receives input from residents about ideal locations that should be considered for public art.
For temporary, free public art exhibitions, City Council has designated spaces at CCB Plaza, Central Park, Five Points, Durham Convention Center Plaza, grounds of the Durham Performing Arts Center, City Hall, Hayti Heritage Center, Durham Arts Council, Carolina Theatre, Durham Athletic Park, and any other location as ideal sites for such art. Usually, the art is displayed in outdoor settings, but sometimes temporary projects will be held indoors due to the design of the work or weather considerations.
Can private businesses or neighborhoods also contribute to public art?
Absolutely! The City proactively encourages private developers to voluntarily participate in the Public Art Program by installing public art on their private properties. In addition, the City has also established provisions in the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that allow developers to exchange public artwork in place of street trees on their property, and to include public art signage in design districts without a sign permit.
Who is responsible for selecting the public art that gets installed?
The City's Cultural Advisory Board is ultimately charged with providing advice to the City Council and the City Manager on commissioned public art works and to advise on whether works offered for donation should be accepted by the City. The Cultural Advisory Board has a designated subcommittee called the Public Art Committee to carry out these two functions, and to make recommendations to the Cultural Advisory Board.
The Public Art Committee is made up of a diverse group of residents, including professional artists and professionals in related fields, such as architecture and landscape architecture and members of the general public with knowledge or experience in public art projects or related activities. The Committee actively seeks diverse members of the population to encourage broad community participation. Committee members must live or work in Durham, with priority given to city residents.
What considerations are taken into account when approving an artist?
A number of criteria are involved in selecting a public artist.
Design Criteria. The review considers the creativity, originality, and aesthetic excellence of past work. In addition, past artwork must appear appropriately suited to the location, expressing a clear intention and point-of-view that is easily accessible to the anticipated audience.
Expertise in the Intended Medium. Artists must demonstrate their experience in the required medium for the project. For instance, if the Call for Artists is requesting a sculpture, the Cultural Advisory Board will rank an artist higher if they have created sculptures in the past, versus a muralist who has never before worked in sculpture.
Previous Experience. After the Artist Selection Committee makes a recommendation for an artist, the City checks references from past projects to ensure the artist has a proven track record of successfully completing their projects on time and within budget. We also ask previous project managers about their experience working with the artist, especially their ability to actively engage the public; their technical competence working with the right materials, installation methods and maintenance; and the comparable scale of past work, including budgets and timeframe.
Local Artist Consideration. The Triangle--and particularly Durham-- are fortunate to have a diverse and talented group of artists here in our region, and we often give extra consideration to those local artists who also meet all of the other criteria. In fact, some of our projects are only advertised locally so that we can showcase and support the work of our gifted local artists.
How is the public involved in the public art process?
The City goes to great lengths to ensure residents are engaged throughout the public art process.
Before an artist is selected for a project, the City establishes an Artist Selection Committee for that particular project. The committee is comprised of neighborhood residents, local artists, design professionals, businesses, community organizations, members from the Cultural Advisory Board and Public Art Committee, and representatives from relevant City departments. We work to ensure that a wide variety of voices and viewpoints are included in the selection process, and that there is input from neighborhoods, businesses, and other institutions in the area in which the work will be installed.
After an artist is selected and approved by the Artist Selection Committee and the City, the selected artists are then required to hold public engagement sessions to provide opportunities for public input prior to concept development. Those sessions are advertised through news releases, on the City's social media pages, in the City Manager's Report, and on the City's Public Art webpage. The artist is expected to take the information gained from the sessions into its design proposal. In addition, the City also gives consideration to educational components of the project in its design review.
Can the public give input on the chosen design?
Yes. Before the final design is selected, the project is brought before the City's Cultural Advisory Board and Public Art Subcommittee meetings. Both of those meetings are open to the public, and are a great way to voice an opinion about the proposal. In addition, for certain projects the City may hold an Open House where the community has an opportunity to view the design and provide feedback.
Who manages the Project Fund for Public Art?
Projects commissioned through the project fund for public art are administered by the City's General Services Department (GSD) in conjunction with the primary department responsible for the location to be used. GSD frequently collaborates with departments like the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Parks and Recreation, and Transportation as those departments are heavily-involved in managing the City's infrastructure and buildings.
I am a local artist and interested in applying to one of Durham's public art calls, but I've never done any work at that level. How can I become eligible for such projects?
Stay tuned! The City is interested in growing the capacity of Durham-based artists to be successful as art entrepreneurs. The City's General Services Department is committed to connecting our local artists to technical assistance that will make them more marketable for Durham public art calls, and public art calls around the world. Check the GSD website for more information about this program's launch.
We also encourage artists to take advantage of other capacity-building opportunities available throughout the Triangle. The Durham Arts Council and Triangle Art Works are two excellent sources for training opportunities. Durham artists should also visit the North Carolina Arts Council for professional artist development opportunities available to state residents.
Durham has a robust local artist community. How can they participate in this process?
The City of Durham releases a "Call for Artists" for each of its public art projects on its website. Artists should visit this website regularly to learn about any upcoming opportunities to participate in the process, or to apply to a public art call. In addition, the City sends out regular communication about public art, and artists can sign up to be added to that email list for more information. Artists wanting to be involved in the selection of public art can also apply to the City's Cultural Advisory Board and Public Art Committee.
Where can residents and artists learn about current and upcoming public art projects?
Visit http://durhamnc.gov/publicart to learn more about the City's public art project schedule, upcoming community engagement opportunities, and more. Residents who want to learn more about the process should also attend a monthly Cultural Advisory Board or Public Art Committee meeting. Visit http://durhamnc.gov/publicart for the meeting schedule, past meeting minutes, and upcoming agendas.
In addition, artists interested in applying for public art calls both locally and nationally should sign up for the following listservs, and check regularly for new postings:
North Carolina Public Art Network: This listserv moderated by the NC Arts Council provides information about public art calls around the US.
Cafe Call for Entry for Artists: Cafe is the leading online application for finding public art calls for entry. New calls are listed daily.
Who can I call for additional questions or information?
Stacey Poston, Special Projects Manager
City of Durham General Services Department
2011 Fay Street, Durham NC 27704
919.560.4197, or Email
Stacey Poston
Rebecca Brown
Cultural & Public Art Program Manager
919-560-4197 x21245
Alexandra Benson
Cultural & Public Art Program Assistant
General Services Department
Phone: 919-560-4197 x21254
About the Cultural Master Plan
Cultural Advisory Board
Durham Calls for Artists
City-Funded Grant Opportunities
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Who I Am and What Delusions of Ink is about.
Yes, I spelled the title right.
Over the last week I've been writing a second book to go with the one I finagled to write in a month.
I thought I should go into the second book. sIt was on my mind more than any other story, what happened is I hit the wall and the brakes went out.
I didn't break, but the brakes failed when the wall approached.
I've never tried to write a follow-up. I didn't know what it entailed. I had no idea that staying within one universe in my head, at least for me, caused me to reevaluate.
Now that I'm through the wall, onto the other side I'm working on something else. Its different from the fantasy I'd been writing.
It will take reading a genre I've had difficulty reading in the past.
There are many reasons for the difficulty of the genre but I had realization about it and it "should " be better now.
Now that I'm through the wall, braking down may have been the best thing to happen.
My mind needed a break from the story. This morning I slept longer than I have in a while, I thank my wife for letting me rest.
Sometimes our work comes crashing to halt because our mind is telling us to take a break. So I've tapped the brakes on the story, started another because I don't have a button that says stop.
Have you hit a wall recently in your writing or life? This one took me a couple of weeks to sort out. But I'm better for it.
Like what you've read? Please share and spread the word.
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package org.onosproject.vtnweb.web;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static org.onlab.util.Tools.nullIsIllegal;
import org.onlab.packet.IpPrefix;
import org.onosproject.codec.CodecContext;
import org.onosproject.codec.JsonCodec;
import org.onosproject.vtnrsc.DefaultFlowClassifier;
import org.onosproject.vtnrsc.FlowClassifier;
import org.onosproject.vtnrsc.FlowClassifierId;
import org.onosproject.vtnrsc.TenantId;
import org.onosproject.vtnrsc.VirtualPortId;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
/**
* Flow Classifier JSON codec.
*/
public final class FlowClassifierCodec extends JsonCodec<FlowClassifier> {
private static final String FLOW_CLASSIFIER_ID = "id";
private static final String TENANT_ID = "tenant_id";
private static final String NAME = "name";
private static final String DESCRIPTION = "description";
private static final String ETHER_TYPE = "ethertype";
private static final String PROTOCOL = "protocol";
private static final String MIN_SRC_PORT_RANGE = "source_port_range_min";
private static final String MAX_SRC_PORT_RANGE = "source_port_range_max";
private static final String MIN_DST_PORT_RANGE = "destination_port_range_min";
private static final String MAX_DST_PORT_RANGE = "destination_port_range_max";
private static final String SRC_IP_PREFIX = "source_ip_prefix";
private static final String DST_IP_PREFIX = "destination_ip_prefix";
private static final String SRC_PORT = "logical_source_port";
private static final String DST_PORT = "logical_destination_port";
private static final String MISSING_MEMBER_MESSAGE = " member is required in Flow Classifier.";
@Override
public FlowClassifier decode(ObjectNode json, CodecContext context) {
if (json == null || !json.isObject()) {
return null;
}
FlowClassifier.Builder resultBuilder = new DefaultFlowClassifier.Builder();
String flowClassifierId = nullIsIllegal(json.get(FLOW_CLASSIFIER_ID),
FLOW_CLASSIFIER_ID + MISSING_MEMBER_MESSAGE).asText();
resultBuilder.setFlowClassifierId(FlowClassifierId.of(flowClassifierId));
String tenantId = nullIsIllegal(json.get(TENANT_ID), TENANT_ID + MISSING_MEMBER_MESSAGE).asText();
resultBuilder.setTenantId(TenantId.tenantId(tenantId));
String flowClassiferName = nullIsIllegal(json.get(NAME), NAME + MISSING_MEMBER_MESSAGE).asText();
resultBuilder.setName(flowClassiferName);
String flowClassiferDescription = (json.get(DESCRIPTION)).asText();
resultBuilder.setDescription(flowClassiferDescription);
String etherType = nullIsIllegal(json.get(ETHER_TYPE), ETHER_TYPE + MISSING_MEMBER_MESSAGE).asText();
resultBuilder.setEtherType(etherType);
String protocol = (json.get(PROTOCOL)).asText();
resultBuilder.setProtocol(protocol);
int minSrcPortRange = (json.get(MIN_SRC_PORT_RANGE)).asInt();
resultBuilder.setMinSrcPortRange(minSrcPortRange);
int maxSrcPortRange = (json.get(MAX_SRC_PORT_RANGE)).asInt();
resultBuilder.setMaxSrcPortRange(maxSrcPortRange);
int minDstPortRange = (json.get(MIN_DST_PORT_RANGE)).asInt();
resultBuilder.setMinDstPortRange(minDstPortRange);
int maxDstPortRange = (json.get(MAX_DST_PORT_RANGE)).asInt();
resultBuilder.setMaxDstPortRange(maxDstPortRange);
String srcIpPrefix = (json.get(SRC_IP_PREFIX)).asText();
if (!srcIpPrefix.isEmpty()) {
resultBuilder.setSrcIpPrefix(IpPrefix.valueOf(srcIpPrefix));
}
String dstIpPrefix = (json.get(DST_IP_PREFIX)).asText();
if (!dstIpPrefix.isEmpty()) {
resultBuilder.setDstIpPrefix(IpPrefix.valueOf(dstIpPrefix));
}
String srcPort = json.get(SRC_PORT) != null ? (json.get(SRC_PORT)).asText() : "";
if (!srcPort.isEmpty()) {
resultBuilder.setSrcPort(VirtualPortId.portId(srcPort));
}
String dstPort = json.get(DST_PORT) != null ? (json.get(DST_PORT)).asText() : "";
if (!dstPort.isEmpty()) {
resultBuilder.setDstPort(VirtualPortId.portId(dstPort));
}
return resultBuilder.build();
}
@Override
public ObjectNode encode(FlowClassifier flowClassifier, CodecContext context) {
checkNotNull(flowClassifier, "flowClassifier cannot be null");
ObjectNode result = context.mapper().createObjectNode()
.put(FLOW_CLASSIFIER_ID, flowClassifier.flowClassifierId().toString())
.put(TENANT_ID, flowClassifier.tenantId().toString())
.put(NAME, flowClassifier.name())
.put(DESCRIPTION, flowClassifier.description())
.put(ETHER_TYPE, flowClassifier.etherType())
.put(PROTOCOL, flowClassifier.protocol())
.put(MIN_SRC_PORT_RANGE, flowClassifier.minSrcPortRange())
.put(MAX_SRC_PORT_RANGE, flowClassifier.maxSrcPortRange())
.put(MIN_DST_PORT_RANGE, flowClassifier.minDstPortRange())
.put(MAX_DST_PORT_RANGE, flowClassifier.maxDstPortRange())
.put(SRC_IP_PREFIX, flowClassifier.srcIpPrefix().toString())
.put(DST_IP_PREFIX, flowClassifier.dstIpPrefix().toString())
.put(SRC_PORT, flowClassifier.srcPort().toString())
.put(DST_PORT, flowClassifier.dstPort().toString());
return result;
}
}
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@interface IDEBuildIssueWarningAnnotation : IDEBuildIssueAnnotation
{
}
+ (unsigned long long)scrollbarMarkerType;
+ (id)editedTheme;
+ (id)focusedTheme;
+ (id)normalTheme;
+ (id)sidebarIcon;
+ (unsigned long long)severity;
+ (double)precedence;
- (id)annotationDisplayName;
@end
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The winning ticket in the latest Powerball drawing was sold in Lexington, central South Carolina, officials say.
The $400 million Powerball jackpot is the nation's fifth-largest ever.
Lottery officials said that the ticket was sold at the Murphy USA station. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were 7-10-22-32-35 with the Powerball of 19.
The actual value is $399.4 million, with a direct cash option of $233 million.
It's the largest Powerball winning ticket sold in South Carolina and the fourth largest in the history of the game.
South Carolina also had a $1 million winning ticket sold at a gasoline station in Hampton. That ticket matched the first five numbers.
The latest jackpot comes after a $448 million prize in early August, which was split among three tickets.
of 16 Ocean County, New Jersey, employees – dubbed the "Ocean's 16" – who had gone through Hurricane Sandy together and each put in $6 to purchase lottery tickets.
In May, a Florida widow won the biggest Powerball jackpot in history – a $590 million pot.
The game's rules were changed in early 2012 to boost payoffs and now organizers of the country's other big lottery, Mega Millions, are planning changes of their own.
Although Mega Millions still holds the record for the largest jackpot in U.S. history – a $656 million prize in March 2012 – organizers are hoping to more regularly see huge jackpots by lessening the odds of winning big while upping a player's shot at smaller but still hefty prizes.
Mega Millions doesn't plan to change its $1 ticket price, but an extra $1 option already in the game will be expanded to allow players to increase their secondary prize total to between $1 million and $5 million, a major increase from $250,000.
Game changes also include boosting the starting jackpot from $12 million to $15 million, and allowing the jackpot to grow by at least $5 million between drawings when no top winner is selected.
It's those jackpots, not the name on the game, that ultimately draw in 45-year-old Trent Shenefield.
"Depends on what's up the highest," the electrician said Tuesday while at a QuickTrip convenience store in suburban Kansas City.
But fellow lottery player Bob Knowles, a school bus driver in Iowa, said the changes didn't really matter.
The 62-year-old said he purchases tickets for both games several times a week and would be happy with any jackpot.
"That's nice, but I don't care. I can get by with $10 million. I can get by with $3 million," he said after buying Powerball tickets at a grocery store in Des Moines. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,066 |
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Geoengineering threatens oceans, say campaigners
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Members of a global coalition formed by 195 organisations on 45 countries are raising the alarm about the threat of geoengineering to delicate, life-sustaining ocean ecosystems worldwide.
Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean
The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Campaign is calling on civil society and government officials worldwide to vigorously oppose marine geoengineering experiments.
A recent announcement of the first open-air test of solar geoengineering technology in Australia is said to be one of several types of geoengineering that could cause permanent damage to ecosystems if implemented at scale. However, Australia is not the only such dangerous, precedent-setting experiment.
"Geoengineers are flying in the face of global moratoria agreed at the UN," said Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group. "The potential for large-scale versions of these projects – driven by the fossil fuel industry's motivation to keep extracting, selling and burning – poses a clear and present danger to our oceans."
Geoengineering is a set of proposed technologies based on the idea that, instead of reducing emissions to prevent catastrophic global temperature increases, we can instead impose a series of large-scale interventions to manipulate planetary systems. These include a variety of unproven schemes for blocking sunlight or reflecting it back into space or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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"Geoengineering does not address the causes of climate change," said ETC's Ribeiro. "Undertaking megaprojects that would change the dynamics and the chemistry of oceans is a high-risk enterprise that entails serious uncertainties about impacts on marine ecosystems."
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Brazilian Journal of Botany
Print version ISSN 0100-8404On-line version ISSN 1806-9959
Rev. bras. Bot. vol.30 no.4 São Paulo Oct./Dec. 2007
Clonal growth and dispersal potential of Leiothrix flagellaris Ruhland (Eriocaulaceae) in the rocky grasslands of Southeastern Brazil
Crescimento clonal e potencial de dispersão de Leiothrix flagellaris Ruhland (Eriocaulaceae) em campos rupestres do Sudeste do Brasil
José Eugênio Côrtes FigueiraI, 1; Mário César Laboissiérè Del SartoII
IUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Biologia Geral,, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
IIUniversidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universitário, 36571-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Leiothrix flagellaris is a small clonal plant that grows in sandy/rocky, nutrient poor soils in the rocky grasslands ("campos rupestres") of southeastern Brazil. In the rainy season most of their flower heads differentiate into small rosettes, produced by pseudovivipary, and connected to the mother-plant by flexible, elongated stalks that can reach up to 90cm. Most of these rosettes remain suspended over rocks or over the sparse herbaceous surrounding vegetation, while a few arch low enough to come into contact with the surrounding soil and take root. These suspended rosettes can reach diameters comparable to currently rooted and reproductively active rosettes produced during previous reproductive periods. As the rooted rosettes grow up, their potential to generate and disperse new pseudoviviparous rosettes increase rapidly. This unusual guerrilla strategy of L. flagellaris seems to congregate a suit of traits that promote a fast increase in photosynthetic area and improve recruitment, thereby helping to circumvent dispersal and establishment failures in its severe environment.
Key words: canopy development, clonal reproduction, demography, dispersal, pseudovivipary
Leiothrix flagellaris é uma pequena planta clonal que se desenvolve em solos arenosos/pedregosos e pobres em nutrientes dos campos rupestres do sudeste do Brasil. Durante a estação chuvosa, a maioria dos seus capítulos se transforma em rosetas geradas por pseudoviviparidade e que são ligadas à planta-mãe por hastes flexíveis que continuam seu crescimento e alcançam até cerca de 90cm. A maioria destas rosetas permanece suspensa sobre pedras ou sobre a rala vegetação herbácea local, enquanto que uma pequena fração toca o solo e se enraíza. Estas rosetas suspensas alcançam tamanhos comparáveis ao de rosetas enraizadas e produzidas nas estações reprodutivas precedentes e que já se reproduzem. À medida que as rosetas enraizadas crescem, seu potencial de gerar e dispersar novas rosetas pseudovivíparas aumenta rapidamente. A estratégia de crescimento guerilha de L. flagelaris parece reunir características que permitem rápido incremento da área fotossintética e elevam as chances de recrutamento, provavelmente reduzindo insucessos na dispersão e estabelecimento em seu severo ambiente.
Palavras-chave: demografia, dispersão, formação de copa, pseudoviviparidade, reprodução clonal
Clonal reproduction in plants may be described as an extension of the individual's ability for indeterminate modular growth that duplicates the whole individual without the need for sexual reproduction (Tiffney & Niklas 1985). The asexual recruit, or ramet, produced in this way is a modular unity of clonal growth that can potentially exist independent of the parent plant (conversely, the genet is a genetic individual, product of a zygote) (Harper 1977). The production of ramets may compensate for seedling recruitment failures (Seligman & Henkin 2000, Arizaga & Ezcurra 2002), reducing the mortality risks of the genet by spreading the risk among an assembly of ramets, with potentially independent life (Cook 1985, Eriksson 1993). The ability to 'move about' by virtue of rhizomes, stolons or rooting shoots allow clonal plants to form large clonal stands, of exploiting patchy habitats by jumping over barriers of unsuitable substrates, or insinuating themselves through a dense matrix of taller plants (Crawley 1997). This is allowed because when a clonal plant spreads, the connections linking the old established individual to the new recruited ramets may enhance temporally their maintenance, growth and/or survival under unsuitable environmental conditions (Hartnett & Bazzaz 1983, Cook 1985, Peltzer 2002). This integration may be especially beneficial in environments where resources are scarce and/or patchily distributed both in time and space, such as sand dunes or rocky ground (Pitelka & Ashmun 1985, Alpert & Mooney 1986), since resources can be re-distributed within the clone from sites of acquisition to sites where resources are scarce (Hutchings 1988, Hutchings & Wijesinghe 1997). Thus, clonality increases stress-resistance in the bromeliads Aechmea nudicaulis (L.) Griseb. and Vriesea neoglutinosa Mez that colonize the patchy resource-poor coastal plain environments of southeastern Brazil (Sampaio et al. 2002). On the other hand, the large A. nudicaulis ramet system creates settlement opportunities to other less-stress resistant plant species (Sampaio et al. 2005), highlighting the importance of clonal integration even to such ecosystem processes (see Scarano 2002).
Two general strategies of clonal reproduction are evident in terrestrial plants. The non-linked strategy typifies bulbils and seeds generated by agamospermy, whereas the linked strategy is found in plants that spread by stolons or rhizomes (Tiffney & Niklas 1985). For plants using the linked strategy, the branching of daughter ramets within the clone may be interpreted as a form of foraging when there is plasticity in internode length and branching frequency (Bell 1984). This may be achieved by two extreme growth forms: 1) "phalanx", in which the genet expands as a broad front, developing tightly packed modules close enough to overlap their resource depletion zones; and 2) "guerrilla", which minimizes the overlap in resource depletion zones, due to the large spacing of modules (Lovett Doust & Lovett Doust 1982, Harper 1985). A phylogenetic analysis of 2300 clonal plants from Europe indicates that phalanx is more associated to open, dry, nutrient poor environments, while guerrilla is associated to wet, shady, nutrient rich environments (van Groenendael et al. 1996).
The rocky grasslands ("campos rupestres") of the Espinhaço Mountain Chain are the center of genetic diversity of plants within the South American genus Leiothrix (Eriocaulaceae) (Giulietti & Hensold 1990). In some species of this genus, center-apical meristems from the flower heads differentiate into a small caulinar axis containing leaves and roots, after the production of seeds (Monteiro et al. 1976, F. Vale unpublished data). Connected to the mother-plant by long stalks, these rosettes eventually touch the soil and then root (Monteiro et al. 1976). This type of clonal reproduction is known as pseudovivipary, a condition where vegetative propagules differentiate in some or all normal sexual flowers in the inflorescence (Grace 1993, Elmqvist & Cox 1996). The revision made by Elmqvist & Cox (1996) points to rarity of pseudovivipary: it was described for approximately 50 species of angiosperms belonging to families such as the Agavaceae, Alliaceae, Liliaceae, Poaceae, Polygoneaceae and Saxifragaceae. The Eriocaulaceae family was not cited in this revision (Coelho et al. 2005).
In this study we describe the pseudoviviparous reproductive strategy of L. flagellaris Ruhland on a gravel, dry, open, and nutrient-poor environment. Despite a general lack of natural history information concerning aspects of sexual reproduction and population ecology of this species, and the fact that our study was restricted to one sampling season, we could address the following questions: a) how does the production and potential dispersal of the ramets vary with rosette diameter?; b) what is the potential contribution of this clonal reproductive mode to population growth?; and c) does soil texture influence the chances of ramet rooting and spreading?
Material and methods
Study area – The rocky grasslands comprise an extremely diverse community of grasses, herbs, and scattered shrubs, dominating the dry, shallow, sandy and/or gravel, nutrient-poor soils on the mountain tops of the Espinhaço Mountain Chain, Brazil (Giulietti et al. 1987, Rizzini 1997, Giulietti & Menezes 2000). The study was conducted in the "Parque Municipal Ribeirão do Campo" (19°03'-19°07 S and 37°31-37°37' W), a preservation area which has around 3,150 ha, with altitude between 650 and 1,500 m ("Prefeitura Municipal de Conceição do Mato Dentro" 1999). The mean annual temperature of the region is 21 °C and mean rainfall around 1,500 mm. The dry (May-September, with rainfall around 124 mm) and rainy seasons are well defined (source: "Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia/Belo Horizonte"). We made three short field trips for field observations and data collecting. Most data regarding demographic and morphometric relationships were collected at the beginning of the rainy season of 2001 (from September 25th to the 30th); probability of ramet rooting was estimated at the end of the rainy season of 2004 (June 26th).
Study species – Leiothrix flagellaris was studied on a hilltop of about 900 m altitude (figure 1). The soil patch where the plants occurred was predominantly sandy or gravel, covered with sparse tussocks of grasses, a single species of Velloziaceae and a few other herbaceous plants. The rosettes of L. flagellaris can reach 11 cm in diameter. Very few were connected to other rosettes by rhizomes. Each rosette produces flower heads, that may contain seeds, and differentiate into small rosettes (ramets) that may be dispersed tens of centimeters from the mother-plant by very long stalks, which can attain up to 70 cm (figures 2-4). Some Leiothrix species from the "campos rupestres" (as L. spiralis (Bong.) Ruhland, L. curvifolia var lanuginosa (Bong.) Ruhland, L. curvifolia var mucronata (Bong.) Giul., and L. crassifolia (Bong.) Ruhland) reproduce during the rainy season (Coelho 2005). Therefore we suppose that the reproductive event observed in L. flagellaris could have started in the previous rainy season. However, in L. vivipara (Bong.) Ruhland the production of flower heads and pseudoviviparous rosettes is spread throughout the year. Besides, these pseudoviviparous rosettes can remain unrooted and connected to their mother rosettes by stalks for more than 2 years (F. Coelho unpublished data). Thus, we cannot discard the possibility of having observed the cumulative product of more than one reproductive event in L. flagellaris.
Developmental stages – The sampled rosettes were classified according to three easily distinguishable developmental stages: (I) young immature, (II) old immature, and (III) old reproductive. The young immature stage was comprised of rosettes produced during the studied reproductive event, and connected to their mother rosettes by new functional stalks. Some were beginning to root, whereas most of these rosettes were suspended above the soil level, sometimes held by the surrounding vegetation. The old immature and old reproductive rosettes were produced in previous reproductive seasons. Most of them were still connected to their mother rosettes by old stalks (field experiments are necessary to determinate if they remain functional), while others were not connected (in this case, some of these rosettes could have been originated from seeds). All old immature and reproductive rosettes were rooted.
Changes in population structure due to clonal growth – Changes in population structure due to clonal growth were evaluated in 2001 from a sample of 749 rosettes measured along a transect, positioned in the gravel soil patch. We discriminated young immature from the old immature and reproductive rosettes. Rosettes were grouped in 1.0 cm diameter classes.
Reproductive probability – The sample of 749 rosettes was used to test whether probability of reproduction depended on rosette diameter. We estimated the diameter-related chances of reproduction: ratio between old reproductive to old immature plus old reproductive rosettes, grouped in 1.0 cm diameter classes. We adjusted a sigmoid curve, using the Gauss-Newton method, relating reproductive probability to rosette diameter. This was due to the existence of a minimum diameter for reproduction to occur, beyond which there is a sharp increase in the probability of reproduction up to 100%.
Production and maximum dispersal potential of ramets – The number of young immature rosettes produced and the maximum dispersal potential were estimated for 24 reproductive rosettes, sampled to cover the whole range of observed rosette diameters. We measured the rosette diameter and counted the number of young immature produced. We also measured the length of the longest stalk connecting the young immature to the mother rosette. The relationships between number of young immature and length of the longest stalks, and diameter of the mother rosette, were determined through linear regressions.
Growth and potential spreading of ramets – We measured the rosette diameters and the length of their stalks in 7 reproductive rosettes that had produced from 4 to 116 young immature. We tested whether the diameter of those rosettes and stalks were correlated within the genets, by using Spearman's rank correlation.
Soil type and ramet rooting – To test whether the rooting distance depended on soil texture, during one-hour two persons searched for young immature rooted and measured rooting distances in the gravel, while a single person did the same in the sandy soil, along random transects. Rooting distances were measured for 59 rooting ramets belonging to different plants found in the sandy soil, whereas 51 were measured in the gravel. The average rooting distances in both soils were compared by Mann-Whitney test. Notwithstanding differences in L. flagelaris density and differences in search efficiency among the three persons, sample sizes obtained during the same searching time indicated the comparative difficulty of ramets rooting in gravel as compared to sandy soil.
Probability of ramet rooting – At the end of the rainy season of 2005 we estimated the chances of young immature rooting (n = 593, out of 110 clones) along a transect in the sandy soil. Spearman's rank correlation was used to test whether the number of rooted ramets increased with the number of ramets/clone. Probability of rooting was defined as the ratio between the number of rooted ramets/total of ramets/clone (suspended plus rooted).
All the statistical analyses were done using the program SYSTAT (Wilkinson 1989).
L. flagellaris clones – Each clone of L. flagellaris consists of a mother-rosette connected by stalks to a small population of pseudoviviparous ramets, most of them suspended above the soil and some rooted. Although in some clones at least three generations of rooted rosettes connected to each other by old stalks have been found, the stalk connections are not permanent. The stalks become dark with time, and eventually break. The death of mother-rosettes can cause the death of their suspended ramets. Notwithstanding, we have also observed ramets that remained alive while their mother rosette appeared dead. In this case, two situations were noticed: a) the mother rosette was unconnected and b) the mother rosette was connected to other rooted rosettes.
Population structure – As a result of the reproductive event of 2001 (and possibly, also, to prior reproductive events) the population structure acquired a "reversed-J shape" (figure 5). This was due to the incoming of new ramets (n = 295), most of them unrooted and supported by the surrounding vegetation. Young immature were present in the first two diameter classes. From the first diameter class and on, old immature became progressively more infrequent, being substituted by reproductive rosettes.
Many of the rooted rosettes smaller than 2 cm in diameter were probably generated in the previous reproductive episode, as suggested by their small diameter and old stalks. These two diameter classes can potentially have their numbers elevated in a short time period, once the young immature succeed in rooting. None of the young immature, some already rooted, were reproducing, although the old rooted rosettes of the same diameter were already capable of reproduction (figure 5).
Reproductive probability – In 2001, rosettes with diameter < 1 cm rarely reproduced. From this diameter class on, the probability of reproduction increased quickly, becoming 100% in rosettes measuring more than 5 cm in diameter (figure 6A). This can be described by the sigmoid function:
Probability of reproduction = 100 [1 – e (-1.4 diameter)] 6.3, r2 = 0.99, n = 10.
Growth of ramets and stalks – The old reproductive rosettes produced from a few to tens of flower heads, most of them differentiated into young immature generally connected by stalks of different lengths (figure 2). This seems to occur early, as flower heads from stalks about 4 cm long were already differentiating into young immature. Larger young immature observed in 2001 were generally associated with longer stalks, suggesting correlated growth. This was partially confirmed by our small sample: young immature diameter and stalk length were positively correlated in the two larger clones (> 19 young immature) (rs = 0.58 and rs = 0.45, P < 0.05, figure 6B), but not in the other 5 small clones (< 13 young immature), in spite of some positive correlations (-0.55 < rs < 0.33, P > 0.05).
Production of ramets and maximum dispersion potential – Larger rosettes produced more ramets than the small ones (regression excluding the two possible stressed clones – white dots of figure 6C: number of ramets = 6.5 diameter – 15.2, r2 = 0.88, n = 22, P < 0.001). While they grow, the reproductive rosettes can spread their ramets to increasingly longer distances (stalk length = 5.1 diameter + 14.1, r2 = 0.52, n = 24, P < 0.001; figure 6D). The shortest stalk measured 3 cm and the longest one 70 cm in the measured plants, but 90 cm stalks were also observed.
Soil type and ramet rooting – The distances of ramet rooting are generally shorter than the length of their stalks. The rooting distances of the young immature stage were greater in sandy soil than in gravel (figure 7A, 7B). In sandy soil, the modal distance was 20-25 cm, while in gravel it was 5-10 cm (U = 503.5, P < 0.001, df = 1). The shortest observed distance in sandy soil was 5 cm, and in gravel 3.3 cm, while the largest distance was 45 cm in both soil types, corresponding to about 50%-75% of the length of the largest stalks. Based on differences in sampling effort (two persons vs. one person finding similar number of rooted rosettes during the same searching time), it is possible to infer that in sandy soil the chance of rooting is about twice as great as in gravel.
The number of ramets rooting in sandy soil, at the end of the rainy season of 2004, increased with the number of ramets produced by old reproductive rosettes (figure 7C). However, these chances are small: the proportion of young immature rooted was only 14% (83 rooted and 510 suspended ramets).
Pseudovivipary has been described for about fifty species of flowering plants. These are mostly found in arctic, alpine, or arid habitats, where the probability of an offspring to be dispersed in time or space to a patch better than the parental patch is very low. This feature reduces the advantages of seed dormancy or seed dispersal (Elmqvist & Cox 1996), thus success in such environments relies on the parental care provided by the mother-plant to the offspring until establishment (Richards 1986). The patch occupied by the population of L. flagellaris has a low richness and density of other plant species, indicating rigorous restrictions to establishment and/or survival. In addition to the hilltop location (where leaching is severe and infiltrating rainwater probably disappears first), the soil is sandy and/or gravel and the plants are exposed to high solar radiation and/or winds. Isolated or in combination, these factors may subject these hilltop plants to nutritional and hydric stress.
The clonal growth of L. flagellaris probably starts during the rainy season, when both young immature and seedlings will probably have greater survivorship and/or establishment chances. It seems to be an effective strategy for rapid increase in photosynthetic area, reproduction and ramet spreading, which altogether enhance chances of survival. This species seems to combine the main pseudoviviparous strategies observed in two other Leiothrix species: L. vivipara (development of a "canopy of ramets") and L. spiralis (production and dispersion of ramets) (see Coelho et al. 2005). The small and numerous flower heads of L. flagellaris differentiate early in their development into small photosynthetic ramets that are spread around the mother-plant by long and flexible stalks. This contrasts with non-pseudoviviparous species of the genus, as L. curvifolia and L. crassifolia, in which short (< 10 cm), less flexible stalks keep the flower heads elevated above the mother rosettes (Coelho 2005). As the stalk elongates, the mother-rosette provides water and nutrients to the small ramet, for its maintenance and growth before and probably some time after rooting. However, many young immature are suspended and seem to be pushed over the sparse local vegetation. This is composed mainly of small Velloziaceae, grasses, and a broad mesh formed by hundreds of L. flagellaris stalks, and reduces the chances of rooting of the young immature. The suspended ramets kept alive, although connected to dry rosettes, indicates that even after the death of the aerial portion of one of the members of the clone, their roots and stalks still allow the flux of water, carbohydrates and nutrients among the remaining members, suggesting a high level of physiological integration. Therefore, physiological integration allows a clone to even out spatial heterogeneity, and may benefit the clone as a whole (Silvertown & Doust 1993). A high risk of resource shortage combined with dispersal barriers imposed by clusters of bad sites can exert a sufficiently strong selection pressure for integration to become advantageous (Mágori et al. 2003).
Probably many young immature root soon after touching the soil for the first time. However, there is a possibility of some being pushed to the soil surface, before rooting, by the growing stalks (which would be more effective while the stalks are still short, due to their higher rigidity). Although stalk lengths were not measured, in gravel soil the rooting distances seems to be shorter, probably because of the greater number of obstacles blocking ramet movement. This probably also reduces the chances of ramet rooting, decreasing the ratio of rooted to suspended ramets, as compared to sandy soils. As the hanging young immature plants do not show developed roots, root growth is probably induced soon after soil contact.
In a habitat where resources are distributed in patches, the capacity to detect gradients of nutrients, produce roots, and establish shoots may greatly increase the success of the clone (Cook 1983). Considering the difficulties for rooting, what advantage would be associated to the precocious differentiation of L. flagellaris flower heads into young immature, while stalks are still very short? This strategy possibly increases chances of young immature rooting, especially in gravel soils, where narrow sandy patches alternate with gravel surfaces. Along the whole growth period of stalks, the young immature would have several chances to touch the soil and then root. Another possible advantage associated to the long stalks of L. flagellaris is that they might represent a demographic benefit of dispersal, placing offspring well away from the parent, which would be advantageous when resources are patchily distributed (see van Groenendael et al. 1996).
Although several of the L. flagellaris young immature belonged to size classes in which reproduction is almost imminent or even possible for rosettes, none of them (either suspended or rooting) were reproducing. This suggests that: a) the mother-rosette inhibits, at least for a while, young immature reproduction; b) the young immature plants have the diameter but not the appropriate physiological age to reproduce; and/or c) some environmental stimulus is necessary for young immature reproduction to occur. However, it can be supposed that soon after establishment such young immature will be able to reproduce. The possible advantages of precocious reproduction, as opposed to late reproduction, for population growth are known: organisms that mature earlier may have higher fitness because their offspring are born earlier and start reproducing sooner (Stearns 1993). During development the chances of L. flagellaris reproduction and the number of produced young immature increased with rosette diameter. Since these plants experience several reproductive events during their lifetime, each genet has the potential to propagate many times within the population. Nevertheless, in L. flagellaris young immature production seems mainly associated to a fast increase in the photosynthetic area, since most of the ramets do not root. The genet will be composed of a young immature population, photosynthesizing and/or acquiring resources from the soil at different distances from the mother-rosette. This guerrilla-type expansion strategy, as found for L. flagellaris, is associated with fast habitat occupancy (Harper 1985), and low resource supply (Hutchings 1988).
Many L. flagellaris young immature do not succeed in rooting and must be temporarily nourished, imposing costs to the mother-rosette (if on the one hand the young immature are photosynthetic units, on the other they are points of water expenditure). Water loss may be critical during the dry season, due to a combination of high winds, high temperatures and dry sandy/gravel soils where this species occurs. While connected, the young immature can be supported by the mother-plant, while seedlings would be more prone to environmental hazards.
Although some results of this study should be interpreted cautiously (because they were obtained through static sampling), they indicate that L. flagelaris has an odd suit of demographic traits that enhance fitness in the hostile rupestrian field environment. In this species it seems to occur an environmentally-induced division of labor also verified in other clonal plants, in which the ramets can specialize functionally in the performance of different tasks such as resource uptake from above vs below-ground sources, vegetative spread and sexual reproduction (Stuefer 1998). The differentiation of flower heads into rosettes represent the profit of these reproductive structures that otherwise would be lost after senescence. The early maturation of established rosettes and the increased potential for clonal proliferation during growth suggest the importance of this strategy to the species. Furthermore, the early development of the young immature connected to long growing stalks probably enhances their chances of rooting. Traits such as those are predicted to characterize clonal plants associated to resource-poor environments, subjected to disturbances that may damage or kill offsprings (such as drought) and spatial variation in favorable sites (see Grace 1993).
Acknowledgments – We would like to thank the City Hall of Conceição do Mato Dentro, especially its Environment Secretary Luiz Claudio Ferreira de Oliveira, for the lodging and food supplied during field work; Junio D. de Souza, Christina D.L. Capelo and Ana C. Neves, for help in field work; Fábio R. Scarano, Sérvio P. Ribeiro, Carlos A.K. Miranda and anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and critical review; Fernando Vale for clarifying the anatomy of pseudoviviparous rosettes.
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Q: Toggling a class and setting an active class in React I know how to toggle a class in React and I know how to make a class active. However, I can't work out how to put them both together.
I map over my recipes and render each one. I want to expand a recipe once its clicked and then if clicked again return to it's natural state. but if I have a recipe open and I hit expand on another one then it should close the first one and then expand the new one.
this is my entire component:
state = {
term: '',
selectedRecipeId: 0
}
handleInput = (e) => {
const { value } = e.target;
this.setState({term: value})
}
expandRecipe = (recipeId) => {
this.setState({ selectedRecipeId: recipeId })
}
renderExpandedView = (recipe) => {
if (this.state.selectedRecipeId === recipe.id){
return 'recipeContainerExpanded'
}
else {
return null
}
}
resetView = () => {
this.setState({selectedRecipeId: 0})
}
render(){
const { recipes } = this.props;
const { term } = this.state;
return (
<div>
<h1>Recipes</h1>
<button onClick={this.resetView}>Reset View</button>
<input onChange={this.handleInput} />
<div className="recipesContainer">
{recipes.filter(recipe => recipe.name.toLowerCase().includes(term.toLowerCase()) || recipe.ingredients.some(ingredient => ingredient.startsWith(term.toLowerCase()))).map((recipe, index) => (
<div key={index} className={`recipeContainer ${this.renderExpandedView(recipe)}`}>
<h3>{recipe.name}</h3>
<button onClick={() => this.expandRecipe(recipe.id)}>Expand</button>
<h4>Ingredients</h4>
<p>{recipe.ingredients.map(ingredient => <p>{ingredient}</p>)}</p>
</div>
))}
</div>
</div>
)
}
this code will expand a recipe and then if you click on another one, it will expand that one and close the previous one. I just want to add functionality that on the second click, closes that recipe but I cant work how to do it without applying the javascript to every recipe.
hope that makes sense
A: I just did a demo with my assumptions check the link :
demo
is that you need ? or give me more details to solve this issue
A: You can extract recipe to Recipe component and use shouldComponentUpdate lifecycle method to let React know if a component's output is not affected by the current change props.
export default class Recipe extends Component {
expandRecipe = () => {
const {onExpand, recipe, isExpanded} = this.props;
onExpand(isExpanded ? null : recipe.id);
};
shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps) {
const {isExpanded} = this.props;
return isExpanded !== nextProps.isExpanded;
}
render() {
const {recipe, isExpanded} = this.props;
return (
<div className={`recipeContainer ${isExpanded ? 'recipeContainerExpanded' : ''}`}>
<h3>{recipe.name}</h3>
<button onClick={this.expandRecipe}>Expand</button>
<h4>Ingredients</h4>
<p>{recipe.ingredients.map(ingredient => <p>{ingredient}</p>)}</p>
</div>
)
}
}
Pls check the demo
A: Create separate component which will be responsible for expandable.
Expandalbe.js
class Expandable extends React.PureComponent {
constructor() {
super();
this.state = {
isExpand: true,
selectedRecipeId: 0,
};
this.togglePar = :: this.expandRecipe;
}
expandRecipe(recipeId) {
this.setState({
isExpand: !this.state.isPar,
selectedRecipeId: recipeId,
});
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<h3>{this.props.name}</h3>
<button onClick={() => this.expandRecipe(this.props.id)}>Expand</button>
{this.state.isExpand && <div>
<h4>Ingredients</h4>
<p>{this.props.ingredients.map(ingredient => <p>{ingredient}</p>)}</p>
</div>
}
</div>
);
}
}
ActualComponent
render() {
const { recipes } = this.props;
const { term } = this.state;
return (
<div>
<h1>Recipes</h1>
<button onClick={this.resetView}>Reset View</button>
<input onChange={this.handleInput} />
<div className="recipesContainer">
{recipes.filter(recipe =>
recipe.name.toLowerCase().includes(term.toLowerCase()) ||
recipe.ingredients.some(ingredient =>
ingredient.startsWith(term.toLowerCase()))).map((recipe, index) => (
<Expandable key={index} props... />
))}
</div>
</div>
)
}
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Here is a summary of article I thought you might be interested in. Over-treatment reduces life expectancy says Black Swan author, Nassim Taleb "I believe that the healthcare system... now... reduces life expectancy of patients... [because of] over-treatment," said Nassim Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Visiting Professor at London Business School and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Taleb noted this on MSNBC's show, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, on August 3rd, 2009. Here is the link to the entire article. http://www.fatnews.com/index.php/4052
Over-treatment reduces life expectancy says Black Swan author, Nassim Taleb
"I believe that the healthcare system... now... reduces life expectancy of patients... [because of] over-treatment," said Nassim Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Visiting Professor at London Business School and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
Taleb noted this on MSNBC's show, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, on August 3rd, 2009.
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Former Pubs of Soho
Posted on 15 February 2009 | 12 Comments
Long time, no update: I'll bet you thought I'd gone away. Well, it's the New Year and I've been fairly lax about updating here, so I'm thinking of adding more short blog-like posts to fill the downtime between me getting around to writing longer pieces. My compulsion to ensure I have a photo of all the relevant pubs, rather delays me actually writing anything.
Something to get us going again are buildings in the centre of the West End which you'd be forgiven for not realising had ever been pubs in the first place. Probably the original ground level entrances have been completely remodelled, or you've just been in such a rush to get out of the crowds you hadn't noticed the buildings themselves, some of which have giveaway clues (for example, the name of pub in permanent architectural lettering1), many of which don't. In fact, most of these buildings I hadn't myself noticed until I'd done some research and had compared the addresses.
Figure 37. The Excelsior (Soho WC2), now demolished.
Take our first example, The Excelsior (Soho WC2, fig. 37) at the top of Charing Cross Road. Putting aside the pane of glass which makes up most of its frontage, it's just about possible to imagine the pub signage running above street level where now it says "Harmony", and those boxy pillars framing a street-level window. There remains some rather nice ironwork around the discreet entranceway to Falconberg Court on the left, too, though when this was a pub, there would hardly have been any need for smokers to stand huddled under there. It hasn't been a pub for a long time, probably not since the early part of the 20th century. In any case, it is now condemned, along with the Astoria Theatre it sits alongside, and indeed the rest of this city block, destined to become an enlarged Tottenham Court Road station as part of the vast new cross-London underground railway which has fetchingly been named Crossrail.
Moving further south along the street, the provenance of what is now a rather bleak-looking restaurant called Scotch Steak Houses is more obvious, thanks to its prominent lettering (it was, as it proclaims, rebuilt as the Tam o' Shanter, though was called the Palace Tavern after that, before closing as a pub in 1960).
A building that's less obviously a former pub, due to its extensive reconstruction, is The Rose and Crown (Soho WC2). It has been part of Foyle's since very early in the 20th century (Foyle's moved to the road in 1906), and the interior has been completely gutted and integrated with the larger adjoining buildings (this was done around 1913).2 Its name comes simply from the names of the streets at the corner of which it sits: Crown Street and Rose Street. Its identity however, has been doubly erased, as the former is now Charing Cross Road and the latter Manette Street.
Figure 38. The Rose and Crown (Soho WC2), now Foyle's bookshop.
Returning to our starting point and turning left into Oxford Street, one quickly comes across a couple of buildings which, like almost every other on this street, have been completely remodelled at ground level and now present discount goods for undiscerning buyers, often with English language schools upstairs.
The Primrose (Soho W1) is up first, less obvious and now more garish. Moving a few doors along, The Queen's Head (Soho W1) gives itself away by featuring prominently its former identity (on the garret tower reads "1880 | Walton | Old Queen's Head" — in other words, when the pub was rebuilt and the name of its publican at the time, William Walton).
Figure 39. The Old Queen's Head (Soho W1), now converted to a shop.
Further along Oxford Street, few other former pub buildings survive (if any), certainly if the evidence of the spectacularly unattractively rebuilt Hog in the Pound (Mayfair W1) is anything to go by.
Inside Soho
Moving in from the borders, a number of buildings stick out. Still one of the most famous pubs in the area is The Intrepid Fox (Soho W1), on Wardour Street, which after several hundred years finally closed in 2006 amid much outcry,3 though it has since relocated to a new site behind Centre Point tower. Even now, the original building still remains in place, boarded up, surely making no profit for its owners who were so hasty to be rid of its occupants.
Turning into Broadwick Street from Wardour, one quickly comes across another former pub building, now in use as a celebrated (and very fine) record shop called Sounds of the Universe. Back when this stretch was called Edward Street, this was The Bricklayers' Arms (Soho W1). Unlike a lot of former pub buildings in the West End, the tiling on the pub's facade hasn't been painted over (or removed to be replaced by a new ground level), so it still shines out from the other buildings along this stretch of road — except that is, of course, the Blue Posts which sits on the very next corner. There's certainly no shortage of pubs around here even now.
Figure 40. The Bricklayers' Arms (Soho W1), now a record shop.
Turning up Berwick Street (away from the Blue Posts), there is a building on the corner now occupied by yet another prospective fast food chain franchise, and which was once The Crown and Apple Tree (Soho W1). Of course, in the familiar fashion, the ground level is completely reconstructed, so there's little left to suggest its former use.
These are just a few buildings in this area which once were pubs. Many more have been demolished to make way for new uses: new shopping centres or stations, new roads or office blocks. The Excelsior, featured at the start of this post, is just another example of this impulse in London to make way for the new by getting rid of what went before.
[1] "Architectural" lettering is embedded in the very fabric of the building. It's often to be found at the top of old pubs. It must be distinguished from "fascia" lettering, which are signs affixed to the facades of buildings, usually advertising the shop or pub name.
[2] Dates are taken from F.H.W. Sheppard (ed.), Survey of London, volumes 33/34 (1966), available online at British History. The reference to these buildings is here.
[3] See contemporary reports on BBC News for further information on the background to this.
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12 responses to "Former Pubs of Soho"
Donnie | 16 February 2009 at 11:24 am | Reply
Nice post. Along similar lines, I would suggest taking a look at Jane's London – http://www.janeslondon.com/ – which has a section on closed / former pubs around London.
Ewan M | 16 February 2009 at 11:30 am | Reply
Yes, she comments on my Flickr photos, and has a very fine website indeed.
Kake | 16 February 2009 at 1:47 pm | Reply
Amazing how tall some of these buildings are! Would the pubs have had accommodation upstairs, or something else?
Ewan M | 16 February 2009 at 1:58 pm | Reply
I suppose it's possible; I'm not entirely sure. It looks as if some of them may have had extra levels added in subsequent years (I'm looking at the Foyle's building in particular).
Mike | 1 March 2009 at 3:54 pm | Reply
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Krista | 6 April 2009 at 7:53 pm | Reply
What do you suppose it is…people drinking less? Better public transport making people more likely to travel for beer?
Ewan M | 13 April 2009 at 10:40 pm | Reply
Oh hi Krista! I enjoy your blog and if I spent more time on my WordPress setup I'd link to loads more great blogs like yours!
Anyway, yes, I suspect that as far as Soho goes these days, there probably is less drinking than in Victorian days, though the media types, they do try their hardest. A combination of a movement towards the residential suburbs (a lot fewer people live centrally, of course, as you suggest in an age of greater public transport and rising costs/living standards), and also the demand for office space driving licensed establishments out in favour of more lucrative office and retail conversions. You can witness the sad fate of the Intrepid Fox, which was undoubtedly making a very healthy amount of money, from what I read at the time, yet this wasn't even enough to save it. (And they still haven't done anything with the site! I suspect the exterior may be listed, which is putting people off converting it? Thinking about it, it's even more likely that a similar fate has befallen the Barley Mow in Marylebone, given its history and its highly-regarded interior.)
Jeff (Stonch) | 16 April 2009 at 2:21 pm | Reply
Sublime post. Would you mind if I copied the idea for Clerkenwell?
Ewan M | 16 April 2009 at 2:25 pm | Reply
Sure, go right ahead. I'd be very interested to learn more about the pub history of your neighbourhood.
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great blog ,amazing pictures.
Miles Brown | 7 September 2010 at 11:32 pm | Reply
About the Palace Tavern on Charing Cross Road.
My great great grandfather, Arthur Robert Cripps, owned the pub when it changed names a little before 1900 I believe. My great grandmother was in-fact born there with several of her siblings! As to the question what were the upper floors used for, I have an account of what it was like living there, written as part of a series of biographies by one of my great great aunts who also, grew up there. I now live not far from you near Brockley.
I've transcribed the actual piece for you to read (it goes into some depth about the conditions of the area):
"Arthur decided upon a public house. A boyhood friend, Harry Weeks, had been in the publican line and would go in with him as barman and knew the ropes, his father said. So Dad took over the PALACE TAVERN on Charing Cross Road, engaged a pretty barmaid with copper-coloured hair and started business. Mamma had to help him, of course. There were sandwiches to be cut and light refreshments to be prepared and assistance in the bar when necessary. It was larger then than the same Pub is now, a cinema having been built on part of the site. Dad thought that being in the centre of London was a good thing and put every penny into it. (The Brewers knew it was no good, or it would not have been a 'free'house). So the family left our nice house in Brockley where Lily, Arthur and I were born, and started life afresh in the heart of London.
The first spell of bad luck: a bad smell pervaded the place and all the drains had to be taken up and fresh drainage installed. All the family suffered and I, a toddler, was the worst affected. The poison went to my eyes and a Specialist said on one visit that there would be a crisis that night and if there was not a turn for the better I would be blind the rest of my life. Dear Mamma spent the night on her knees by my cot and my sight was saved. There were rats around the place and the 'ladies' of the town frequented the bar with their clients. At the end of the year poor Dad was declared bankrupt.. "
"With the help of his father, Dad bought a Tobacconist and Newsagents in Old Kent Road with the posh name "The Old Kent Cigar Stores""…
From what my father has told me, they lived and worked in the rest of the building and only the ground floor was used as the pub.
Jacques Bloque | 22 June 2012 at 6:18 am | Reply
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Europe – Nothing but a shame – Statements by youngsters from Moria
May 21, 2020 by Beyond Europe
For more than two weeks, young people from Fridays For Future in Germany have been on hunger strike. From the very beginning the protesters in Germany tried to establish a contact to youngsters at the Moria refugee camp. At a joint press conference on 19th of May, young people from the Moria slum camp prepared and read out very moving statements. Two youngsters from the small German town of Landau. Under the name "Colored Rain" they called on people to join their protest. Sooner said than done: Another hunger strike by a person from Dresden followed. Also in Trier two other activists joined the action. On May 19, the hunger strike in Landau was ended by a protest march to the state capital Mainz. There their demands were symbolically handed over to the state government. Earlier, the activist from Dresden had already ended his action, while the hunger strike in Trier continues.
The youths criticized above all the inactivity of the politicians in meeting the demand to evacuate the camps. Even if the hungerstrike is now partly done, the exchange between the young comrades from Germany and Moria is still active. This is an important thing to strengthen each other and create a common understanding of a joined fight against the border regime.
The situation has not improved. The European migration regime is too deeply inhumane, Moria is an example of this. So let us fight together to counter the policy of exclusion and dehumanisation. The words of the young people of Moria urge us not to give up this fight!
https://beyondeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alireza_17.mp3
https://beyondeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hussain_Ali_16.mp3
https://beyondeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nazanin_26.mp3
https://beyondeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Milad_21.mp3
https://beyondeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Yassir_16.mp3
The statements in text form:
Alireza (17)
Moria Refugee Camp, Greece, 19th of May
Usually people describe happiness as improvement, or they say if you want to have a happy life you should live in the moment, but when I look at my situation in the camp, I realize I am going backward instead of improving and I am experiencing a bad period of life, I don't know, maybe this is my punishment because of I was born as an immigrant.
Hussain ali (16)
I'm Hussain Ali. I'm 16 years old and I live in section where they keep minors. Coming from illegal ways is like you accepted a challenge of life or death. When we decided to come from illegal ways I didn't know this but slowly slowly I knew that coming from this ways is like a suicide but there was no way for us. For being alive we used to accept this challenge and we started as I was a teenager it was hard to come but I thought that I can pass this bad way and I will reach to Europe and the problems will be finish.After a lots of hard days and many problems I reached to Greece and I thought I finished my problems but that was just a dream. Moria is a small Afghanistan.insecure, not safe and a place where we get mental problems and many other problems.
We are the most bitter story of the world.
Nazanin (26)
When it comes the name of Moria, immediately all the thoughts go through the terrible available situations inside the camp such as overcrowding problems, horrible sanitation, lack of basic needs like water, electricity fuel and…
Definitely these can be the most important and problematic issues that are visible at a glance but if we pay attention deeply there are more hidden and unsaid things, let's think about the mother who crossed the dangerous borders to make her child's future but lost her in the fire, nothing left but burnt bones.
The father who lost his innocent boy during the crazy fights and no one asked why? How?
Or Someone who came here to find peace and safety but is living in a more dangerous, unsafe and stressful place even more than the land he has come from.
The child whose toy was changed to a fake knife and trying to do, talk and shout just what he saw in the adults.
The girl who tried to learn, be independent and stand on her own feet but is even more vulnerable than ever that should rely on someone else to take one step out of his living area.
The people who are losing their mind, patient, tolerance due to living in this awful situation and dealing with so many challenges.
Milad (21)
My name is Milad, 21 years old from Afghanistan. Before entering the European soil, I had some imaginations from Europe, for example, European countries respect a lot to human rights, so that Europe will be the best place to have a safe and comfortable life, but unfortunately, Moria refugee camp proved that it's nothing but an imagination, I realized that in the first days in Moria. And I've been in this hell for five months.
In Moria, at days I'm facing to the danger which is treating people's lives all around the world, COVID-19, which is treating my life as well because in this camp, unlike the rest of the world which people have the ability to protect themselves from this virus by washing their hands frequently, keeping their distance from each other or even having sufficient and suitable medical equipments and supplies to be far from getting infected by this virus, we don't have enough medical supplies, we don't have enough water to wash our hands, even we can't keep our distance between each other because of long lines like food lines, shower lines, toilet lines, market lines, Doctor lines or even ATM line, and the reason is that because it is an overcrowded camp. And at nights I'm facing to the danger of being injured or killed in huge fights between refugees, which keeps me awake for hours at nights. I have to be awake in nights when fights are happening because of my safety.
Europe was a strong big hope for me like a narrow bright light in the deepest terrifying darkness days of my life, but Moria proved that it was nothing but an imagination and took that light from me and took me to another deepest terrifying darkness days of my life again in another place.
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Moria, hell of migrants, it's a good place for criminals, murderers, rapists, thieves and fighters, a place where people have to stay in lines for hours, a place where there is only few clinics for 19000 of migrants, a place where there is no school for thousands of youngsters who came for a brighter future, a place where there is no water to wash our hands, a place full of trash, a place where police has no control over fights in there own homeland.
Three days ago a fight happened between volunteers of Movement and Team humanity, it was a huge fight more than five people were stabbed and police did nothing, later that day at night there was another fight between two Hazara and Panjshiri nations and I am pretty sure more than fifteen people were stabbed that night, in that morning I witnessed cut fingers on the ground.
Is that the how safe Europe is? Is this the humanity they are always talking about?
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You might recall our discussion with Grant Ritchie from the place-data corp Locationary a while back. The company has since landed a couple million dollars to hire developers in an effort to produce a "powerful new local data management system," MobileBeat reported at the time.
Seems the wait is over and Locationary is now unveiling Saturn, its shiny new beta product referred to as a "Federated Data Exchange Platform." I queried Ritchie recently about what the system can do, and how location-based startups can use it.
Things get a little wonky here, but bear with us — Ritchie's new release might actually have something for everyone.
What does Saturn mean for the future of Locationary?
Saturn is a new technology system that acts as a universal translator for local business profile information. It helps participants exchange business profile information even when they use different systems and formats that couldn't otherwise "talk" to each other. As a result, Saturn helps local businesses update a participant once and automatically distribute their authorized updates to all Saturn-connected publishers.
Locationary is also working with Neustar, the Local Search Association (LSA) and others to create a national industry standard to manage and distribute every business' "official data" (meaning, the information authorized by them). The Internet has a standard for sending email from any one to any one instantly, but there is no such standard for broadcasting official business information. Saturn's success will bring about a new Internet where businesses can update their products, prices, coupons, deals, events, job postings, etc. and all mobile apps and websites will have access to the latest details in real-time.
Are you sort of laundering other people's data?
Saturn does two things: 1) it makes it easy for participants to exchange this information with each other in real-time (currently updates can take 3-6 months to take effect), and 2) it identifies data that complies with the Official Data standard that the LSA is implementing, so that participating publishers can instantly recognize which data was authorized by the particular business' owner.
It's important to note that Saturn is only the exchange platform. Participants control what they share or receive, and with whom. Participants own and control their own data (and set their licensing prices) as they do now. Saturn just makes it easier to deliver data from one participant to many others.
Who is Saturn targeted at primarily?
Saturn is targeted to companies that wish to distribute or receive local data. These companies include the various Yellowpages publishers, search engines like Google and Bing, social networks like Facebook, mobile apps like Foursquare and Yelp, marketing agencies like ReachLocal, navigation products like Garmin, etc.
Typically, these companies are either using local business profile information in their websites or mobile apps, or are working with local businesses to help them with their online marketing. They're typically integrating dozens of separate feeds from different data providers.
How many providers are delivering data to Saturn? How much is available (via API) to startups looking for clean feeds?
Right now, we're running a beta trial, integrating various customers of Neustar, and members of the Local Search Association. We're in the process of on-boarding their various data-sets and testing out the system. Neustar's customers include practically every major search engine, large publisher, telco, and mobile operator (across 19 countries). The LSA has about 300 members, representing about 5 million local businesses (including all of the major Yellowpage publishers).
Please keep in mind that Saturn isn't intended to be an API replacement for systems provided by Urban Airship (formerly SimpleGeo), CityGrid, or InfoChimps). These companies specialize in helping startups access and search local data information, and to incorporate it into their apps.
Saturn, rather, helps large publishers merge 10s or 100s of different feeds, containing hundreds of millions of places, and creating composite profiles for each local business containing the best information from the various feeds. These publishers will get back from Saturn a composite database of tens of millions of deep profiles that they'll integrate into their production environments like they do now. Most startups would be ill-equipped to deal with this data in this form. Startups will still want to work with providers like CityGrid (who's participating in the Saturn beta trial).
For publishers, Saturn will help them get access to official updates from the various LSA members, including the latest products, pricing and other details that change quickly. As a result, the publishers' apps and websites will be more engaging for their users. Users, likewise, will be able to make better decisions, and save money by having access to accurate real-time business information at their fingertips in any app, and through any device.
Businesses will regain control over their business profiles across the web, and on mobile apps. They'll have a system to distribute their info to reach more potential customers. Presently there's no way for these businesses to fix misrepresentations, or to distribute their marketing or commercial details to every publisher that displays their profiles. They won't have to re-verify themselves across various publishers, or worry that their data will be tampered with. Businesses will be able to update an LSA member once, and have these official details be instantly synchronized across every Saturn participant.
Is competitor data merged or co-mingled? If not, how are you enabling a singular clean data creator?
Think of Saturn as a type of Dropbox for local data. If you're a data provider, you can put your local data in a private cloud storage area and decide which publishers you want to distribute some or all of it to. Whatever you authorize others to access becomes available to them, in the format that they use. You update data in your format, and Saturn automatically translates the data into the formats of your various recipients, matched to the place IDs that they use.
For a publisher, you can subscribe to data feeds from various data providers and merge this data into a composite based on your preferences. For example, you might prefer telephone numbers from a particular feed that you believe has higher quality. Like data DJs, publishers can mash-up data to create a unique composite based on their needs, from the highest quality data from across all the various feeds that they have access to.
Where does the money get exchanged? Subscriptions to use Saturn to ingest data or to access data?
Data providers might charge publishers to have access to their data, and Saturn can help facilitate these premium feeds (by tracking usage, and collecting and remitting fees).
Participants pay to use Saturn like publishers pay to use Amazon's cloud services like EC2. Saturn's model is that "data in" is free, "data out" has a small delivery charge. In addition, for publishers that wish to reduce their data cleaning costs, or who don't have a call center or existing staff to track down and fix or verify data errors, they can use Locationary's trusted community. There is additional data cleaning / collection fees for publishers that take advantage of this integrated service.
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Sony's highly rated The Show baseball series returns with this 2010 edition. The realistic baseball simulator includes a bunch of new features and improves on many of the faults of the '09 version including online gameplay. Note that the PSP version of this game only features ad-hoc online compatibility.
For the first time in the series, MLB 10: The Show lets you experience baseball through the eyes of the guy in the catcher mask. The all new Catcher mode allows you to call pitches from the backstop and control the game just like Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, the cover athlete for this edition. Homerun Derby also makes a return to the series as both a standalone mode and as an experience during the All-Star Break. Not to be forgotten is the Movie Maker mode which allows you to combine saved replays of a game to turn into a highlight reel and save to your hard drive, and also the updated Road to the Show 4.0 with new settings and stat features.
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As of 1998, these mammals have lost about 40% of their natural habitat.
By 2013 there was a 63% rise in their population making it 198 out of which 120 were present in Chitwan, 50 in Bardia, and the rest in other national parks. When searching for wildlife, part of the experience is the thrill of the search and being hopeful….there's always a chance…and luck too. There were once nine subspecies of tigers: Bengal, Siberian, Indochinese, South Chinese, Sumatran, Malayan, Caspian, Javan and Bali. More than 300 poachers and traders were arrested in Nepal in 2011 alone. However, such habitats have not been extensively surveyed for tiger presence, prey and habitat status although they hold great ecological value, and tiger protection plans can boost the overall conservation of such precious habitats. Amur-Tiger schützen und Urkunde erhalten! In Nepal, fragmentation and loss of natural habitat and poaching are the major impediment to effective conservation. The world runs at a swift pace; so do our daily lives. Der WWF hat allein 170 solcher Biogasanlagen gemeinsam mit der Deutschen Entwicklungsbank (KfW) und dem Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) finanziert und rund 400 Stallungen für den Schutz von Rindern und Ziegen bereitgestellt. Kein Tigerland darf sich hinter den Staaten verstecken, die ihren Tigerschutz erfolgreich umsetzen. "Tigers are a part of Nepal's natural wealth and we are committed to ensuring these magnificent wild cats have the prey, protection and space to thrive," said Megh Bahadur Pandey, Director General of …
Tigers are never replaced on their range until they die.
"Really, tiger tourism only exists in Nepal and India. "This is proof that doubling the number of wild tigers is achievable if efforts by local communities and rangers on the frontlines of tiger conservation are complemented by high-level political support," said Shubash Lohani of WWF's Eastern Himalayas program. Over the years there has been a decline in their population due to loss of habitat, poaching, and fragmentation of habitat. Auf diese Zahl kann Nepal stolz sein: 235 Tiger wurden laut einer Studie aktuell in Nepal gezählt. In the dense jungles this camouflage makes them very, very difficult to spot….even in broad daylight. Für das große Ziel, die Verdopplung der Tigerzahlen bis 2022, ist in den kommenden Jahren noch ein weiter Weg zu gehen. Out of the nine subspecies, the last three have already been extinct and the rest are … They are the most giant wildest cats to be found in the jungle. World Wildlife Fund Inc. is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization (tax ID number 52-1693387) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Doch der beste Schutz frei lebender Wildtiere in einer so dicht besiedelten Landschaft ist vor allem, wenn sich die Anwesenheit der Tiere für die Menschen vor Ort auch finanziell lohnt. View our inclusive approach to conservation. However, sometimes 2 tigers with neighbouring territories may have a friendly interaction with each other.
A majority of them are found in national parks, conservation areas, and zoos. Additionally, these forests are well connected to Jogbuda and Brahmadev forests within the Terai Arc Landscape, Nepal and with Boom, Danda and Champawat forest ranges in India. Tiger is the national animal of countries like India and Bangladesh. Rangers and park authorities have been able to curb poaching with improved patrolling operations and coordination with law enforcement. km of potential high-altitude tiger habitat in Nepal. The Bengal tiger is a tiger from a specific population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to the Indian subcontinent. With the creation … Tigers are facing a serious danger of becoming extinct in the wild. We also organized trainings for field staff and technicians. Thus, it becomes clear that in-depth studies to learn more about this high-altitude address of Bengal tigers are the need of the day.
Trekking, along with yoga and meditation, can truly enrich your experience of the scenic natural beauty of a site with the increased... You have entered an incorrect email address! Bardia is also home to the Asian elephant, the one-horned rhino, leopard, mugger crocodile and even the Gangetic dolphin.
The study also emphasized that in-depth investigations of tiger adaptation and movement in high-altitude areas are essential to creating a future conservation roadmap. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
They weigh about 363 kg and can measure up to 3.3 m long. ( Log Out / Bardiya National Park now has nearly 100 tigers — an increase from 87 recorded in the last tiger census.
Taking the cue from local reports of tiger sightings in the forests of Mahabharat Range in Dadeldhura, the Divisional Forestry Office set up 32 camera traps in the region to capture evidence of the presence of tigers. The Bardia National Park is the largest National Park in the entire Terai region of Nepal and is indeed also home to the Bengal Tiger. Various species of deer, pheasants, porcupines, civets, red foxes, and even leopards were recorded - all this in a habitat that is not even within the limits of a protected area.
Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. But, no sightings of any wildlife are ever guaranteed and should certainly never be taken for granted. §5 I 9 KStg.
If you've never seen a wild Tiger, then let us tell you….it's a thrill that you'll remember for the rest of your life. The overall population of these mammals has been compromised due to the lack of abundance in prey, poaching/hunting, and habitat loss and fragmentation. The study mentioned several factors that encourage the presence of tigers in the Western and Eastern Himalayan regions. Gerade die südostasiatischen Länder halten sich sehr bedeckt, was ihre Tigerbestände und ihre Bemühungen zum Schutz dieser Tiere betrifft. At present they occupy only about seven percent of their former range and are confined only in South and Southeast Asia, China and the Russian Far East. Bardia National Park lies in the remote far west of Nepal. Significant decrease in tiger population was noticed during 1960s and 1970s. Damit hat sich die Zahl der bedrohten Großkatzen von 121 im Jahr 2009 bis heute nahezu verdoppelt. A majority of the tiger population is concentrated in South and Southeast Asia, far Eastern Russia, and parts of China. Although there are several species of animals in the world like the Indochinese Tiger, Siberian Tiger, Malayan Tiger, and Sumatran tiger, Nepal is only home to the second most prominent species of these animals, the Bengal tiger. Essential challenge now lies in setting appropriate priorities in responding to these threats.
"This is a great achievement, and shows that the nature corridors offer connectivity for wildlife.
Nepal's Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Krishna Prasad Acharya said: 'The tiger population in Parsa Wildlife Reserve has significantly increased since the last census, this is fantastic news for tigers and it demonstrates that Nepal's dedicated conservation efforts are delivering clear results. Nepal is a significant habitat for these animals which are currently on the verge of extinction. of Nepal aims at doubling the nation's population by the year 2022. Change ). Der WWF kämpft seit Jahren gegen diesen absurden Handel und setzt sich für Aufklärung, aber auch für höhere Strafen bei Wilderei und illegalem Wildtierhandel sowie für nachhaltige Einkommensquellen für die Menschen vor Ort ein. Uncontrolled hunting of wild animals occurred until the mammalian species including tiger and rhino were nearly exterminated from the area. Based on their studies, the Chitwan National Park was extended to 932 sq km in 1977. Das bedeutet auch, dass sie besser darauf aufpassen, dass diese Tiere nicht durch Wilderei verschwinden. Nepal has recorded its highest tiger sighting ever at 2,497 meters. They are mainly nocturnal…..they can see you in the dark, but you can't see them! Even by private vehicle, Bardia is an arduous 12-16 hour drive from Kathmandu.
Being further away from Kathmandu too, Bardia is nothing like as busy as Chitwan is nowadays.
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The camera trap sighting of the tiger thus provides solid evidence for furthering the cause of tiger conservation in the Mahabharata Range and other high-altitude regions of Nepal. The need for a hassle-free, prompt delivery service is paramount... Before we delve into the list of Gotra and Thari in Nepal, let's find out what each term means in Hindu culture. Over 300 species of birds also call Bardia home.
Er stellt, sowohl heute als auch historisch, die zahlenmäßig am weitesten verbreitete wild lebende Subspezies dar. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Chitwan National Park is certainly Nepal's most famous National Park. Together with the loss of their habitat, tiger numbers have also been tremendously reduced. Pate werden für Tiger und ihre Lebensräume. Daher ist der Aufbau von Ökotourismus ein weiterer wichtiger Ansatz. Nepal setzt Maßstäbe für Antiwilderei-Arbeit und für den Tigerschutz. All over in a matter of seconds, but never forgotten.
Bleiben Sie mit dem WWF-Newsletter auf dem aktuellsten Stand - mit Themen, die Sie interessieren. Paradoxerweise setzt der großartige Erfolg das kleine Land aber auch enorm unter Druck. It's also the closest National Park to Kathmandu for tourists hoping to see some of the jungle wildlife of Nepal. After the start of the agriculture and human settlements, the Swap deer began to disappear, which is a primary prey for the tigers. Here at Snow Cat Travel we specialise in arranging custom wildlife tours, so Chitwan, Koshi Tappu and Himalayan wildlife can all feature in one big Nepal wildlife adventure. Dieses Ziel wurde 2010 auf dem "Tigergipfel" in Sankt Petersburg von 13 Tigerstaaten formuliert, in denen heute noch Tiger leben oder vor nicht allzu langer Zeit vorkamen. Das Jahr 2022 gilt nicht nur als realistische, sondern auch als symbolische Zielmarke, denn es wird laut chinesischem Kalender wieder das Jahr des Tigers sein. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
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Is Chelsea's title ALREADY LOST after derby stalemate?
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Though the Premier League table is still largely taking shape by mid-September, the lethal nature of the two Manchester clubs has not gone unnoticed. At the very least, the bookmakers that placed City and United as favourites above reigning champions Chelsea appear to have been fully vindicated.
Derby draw + Luiz red = Chelsea trouble
Such vindication has been given further backing by the results of the Premier League's fifth round of games. On Saturday, City went to Watford and knocked the Hornets for six, just four months after winning 5-0 at Vicarage Road. The very next day, United once more drew level on points with City. While the 4-0 scoreline by which United beat a freefalling Everton somewhat flattered the Red Devils, it was as sure a sign as any that United are going to mount a genuine title challenge in 2017/18.
While there is no credible reason to rule Chelsea out of the title equation just yet, there can be no denying that the two Manchester clubs look nothing short of invincible at the moment. While there was already an expectation that Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero could combine potently long before August, the sheer transformation in United after the summer arrivals of Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic has been nothing short of revelatory. This has taken many teams by surprise, as evidenced by United's towering goal difference.
Two hours before United's demolition of Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal had played out a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge. Nobody that watched the game would ever believe that Arsenal, who marginally shaded the first half, were the same outfit that so meekly surrendered 4-0 at Anfield. While the game itself did not lack entertainment, there can be no disguising the fact that the result represents vital territory lost for the West Londoners. The imminent absence of David Luiz, after a murderous derby tackle which rightly yielded a red card, will only complicate matters further for Chelsea. It seems, however, that fate is conspiring against Chelsea in more ways than one.
European commitments do not help Chelsea's cause
The weekend of 9 December already looks like one that will be decisive in the title race, and perhaps represents the Chelsea squad's best opportunity to atone for its early-season shortcomings. Should the derby at Old Trafford end in a stalemate, Chelsea's own derby showdown with West Ham will become a must-win for Conte's men. However, the weekend in question also follows a Champions League week. City make the long trip to Shakhtar Donetsk during that week, while United host CSKA Moscow.
This scenario plays directly into United's collective hands, and bodes poorly for Chelsea – as well as City – with significant swathes of the Stamford Bridge faithful no doubt hoping for a Manchester derby draw.
While Chelsea will have the luxury of home advantage in the week before 9 December, the game is the return encounter with Atletico Madrid. Unless Diego Costa's old club suffers a major collapse in European form, the game will presumably be the one that decides the group winner. With fatigue then becoming a potential issue for Chelsea, the idea of the Blues waltzing into the London Stadium, and taking a vital three points with minimal effort, is one without much credence.
Though both of Chelsea's pre-Christmas games against the Manchester clubs take place at Stamford Bridge, both will be played after Chelsea make two short but difficult Champions trips. Before the City game on 30 September is a trip to Atletico Madrid, with Chelsea hosting United on Bonfire Night after a Champions League game at Roma. By contrast, both Manchester clubs will travel to Stamford Bridge for their games against Chelsea after playing at home in the week before.
'Strong' areas can save Chelsea's blushes
Though the fixtures do little to help Chelsea's title bid, the squad's wide play is (from a neutral perspective) unmatched by any other team in the league. Though much rides on the fitness of Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses, both again looked dangerous on the flanks against Arsenal, and frequently forced their markers into retreat.
With a newfound focal point in Romelu Lukaku, Manchester United's emphasis will be on core strength in the centre of the park. As such, Manchester City are considered Chelsea's main rival when it comes to dominating the wings from defence. The additions of Benjamin Mendy and Kyle Walker to the City squad represent a very real statement of intent from Pep Guardiola. They are, however, less familiar with a formation that places an emphasis on increased coverage for wide defenders. Conte cannot fail to realise this. As such, he can capitalise on the fact that his first choice wide defenders have a greater amount of (combined) Premier League experience than their Manchester City counterparts.
The centre of the park is, of course, where games are won and lost, and represents further territory upon which Chelsea can capitalise. Although both Manchester clubs look stronger than ever in that area, N'Golo Kante remains without equal when it comes to work rate and coverage. Such persistence and stamina will be crucial in Chelsea's pivotal league games against the Manchester clubs after European duties. All is not lost, but if Chelsea do finish behind either of the Manchester clubs come May 2018, then many of the Stamford Bridge faithful will look back to the afternoon of 17 September 2017 and wonder what could have been…
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Akshara Foundation - The Face of Modern Education
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By Deepak Malapur
Updated: Friday, October 7, 2016, 15:39 [IST]
Akshara Foundation, is a Bangalore-based charitable trust, well-recognized for its scalable and cost-effective solutions to improve the quality of education in government-owned schools in Karnataka, with an emphasis on joyful learning.
Set up in 2000 at Bangalore, at the request of the Government of Karnataka, Akshara's mission is to have 'Every child in school and learning well'. So far, Akshara's work has impacted over 1 million children in government primary schools in Karnataka.
The flagship initiatives of Akshara Foundation, among others, are:
● Akshara Ganitha - kits that use a fun activity-based method to explain basic and complex concepts of maths. The kits are aligned with the math textbooks that teachers follow in Karnataka.
Teachers are trained on the use of these kits, which they further use in classrooms with good impact. The success of these kits has led to a math movement named Ganitha Kalika Andolana.
● Ganitha Kalika Andolana - With the success of the Akshara Ganitha kits, Akshara Foundation has taken the lead to offer effective early math education to all children in grades 4 and 5 in the state of Karnataka.
It is significant to note here that the Karnataka Government has replicated the use of the math kits across the state, and while they invest to purchase the kits, Akshara continues to train the teachers in their use and monitor and evaluate the programme.
Down the years, Akshara Foundation has gained invaluable insights into what it takes to have a quality schooling system in Karnataka. Its insights and stories of change have the potential to actively shape discussions around education in India.
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NOW I bet they weren't prepared for this… When Lord Baden-Powell introduced Scouting for Boys on Brownsea Island at the start of the last century, it's doubtful he would have seen this coming.
For the first time in the movement's 104-year history, the number of girls joining the Scouts is outstripping boys.
In the 12 months to February this year, 4,330 girls signed up compared to 3,796 boys.
Female membership has almost doubled since 2005 and rose by a healthy seven per cent last year.
Mike Parkes, Dorset's Scout county commissioner, said: "We have a generation of girls who want to do the same things as boys.
"The fun and adventure we offer appeals to the girls as much as the boys.
Mr Parkes said Dorset's female intake had risen by six per cent in the last year.
The Scout Association first admitted women in 1976 and from 2007 it was made compulsory for all troops to admit girls.
However, the girls still have a long way to go before outnumbering boys in the whole UK movement.
Of the UK's 500,000 Scouts, barely 13 per cent are female.
But in some parts of the country new female recruits are outstripping boys by more than two to one.
Overall, the movement is thriving as teenagers embrace the adventurous spirit.
Numbers of 14-18-year-old Scouts have more than doubled in the past decade.
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DeSimone: Q&A with Chris Evert
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Chris Evert owned Roland Garros like no other
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No player, male or female, was more dominant on clay than Chris Evert. She went 197-1 on the surface from 1973-81 and captured seven total crowns at Roland Garros despite skipping the tournament three years in a row at the height of her powers. Her battles with Martina Navratilova there were among the most memorable slugfests in their rivalry. On the eve of the French Open, Evert tells ESPN.com where she is on the Roger-Rafa spectrum; looks back on the controversial open letter to Serena Williams she penned for Tennis Magazine last year; and talks about her passion for teaching at the Evert Academy.
ESPN.com: You're one of the few who can relate to putting together a streak like Rafael Nadal's. Do you think it's better or worse for him to have it broken right before the French?
Chris Evert: The focus isn't on you as intensely. It gives you some breathing room. It's better for him that it came at that time, the tournament before. He can take a deep breath and focus, say 'I lost what I was doing, let's get back to that.' On Federer's side of the court, he's got to feel like, 'I found a way to win. I'm stepping in, I'm taking balls early, I'm hitting shots on the rise, I'm not playing Nadal's game.'
Q: There's been a lot of talk about Nadal's improvement on hard court and grass, but have you seen an evolution in his clay-court game?
Evert: He's so comfortable and so at ease. Half the battle is moving and sliding. The other half is, anyone who gets on the other side of the net from him is going to have that panic and fear that the guy is going to throw up those topspin shots with power, and he's a great receiver who runs down balls that would be winners for anyone else. His confidence has gotten better and better. I don't think it's so much that his clay-court game has evolved as that he started out being a great clay-court player. If he's down 4-2, he's still going to win the set. Winning is a habit for him.
He blows people off the court on grass, he blows people off the court on hard court. He's about 10 percent away from blowing people off the court on red clay.
Chris Evert on Roger Federer
Q: How much of the Federer-Nadal rivalry is about the contrast in their images as opposed to their playing styles?
Evert: The beauty of that is they come from two completely different places and they have completely different personalities. Federer's calm, he keeps things inside. Nadal wears his heart on his sleeve, he's more fiery. Nadal is pumped-up and muscle-bound and hyper. Federer's more mainstream. He doesn't look like he'd be an unusual athlete until he goes out there. He's stately. He has so much stature out there. And they have completely different fan bases.
ESPN.com: Sometimes it reminds me of people at a political rally, carrying around pictures of their candidates.
Evert: [Laughs] As long as it doesn't get violent. I remember when Martina and I would go to L.A. in the early years when she was a bully, and everybody felt sorry for me. She'd say, 'You have so many more fans,' and I'd say, 'Your fans are so much more vocal.' She'd do something and you'd hear this big outburst from one corner of the court. With Federer and Nadal, it's like a soccer match. Everybody's so very adamant about supporting their man. It adds juice to the match.
Q: So who's your pick?
Evert: Well, for Tennis Magazine, I picked Federer. It was from the heart, because I hope he wins it. He blows people off the court on grass, he blows people off the court on hard court. He's about 10 percent away from blowing people off the court on red clay. If he were losing, and not really making an effort to get better on clay, maybe I wouldn't feel this way. But I want to pull for him because of the way he conducts himself. He's such a gentleman.
Q: Moving on to the women, there's a sense that this is a pretty weak field at the moment, except for Justine Henin and Serena Williams and maybe Jelena Jankovic, who's made a big move to No. 4 recently. A lot of other players are out or coming off injuries.
Evert: It's hard to put your finger on. They keep getting hurt. We don't have a consistent group of four or five women competing week in and week out.
Q: Do you see Henin repeating?
Evert: She's head and shoulders above anyone else. Very dedicated, mentally tough, committed. She doesn't have a lot of other peripheral things now, so she's focused. It's probably the Grand Slam she's most comfortable with. She's got to be considered the top favorite.
But I still feel in the back of my mind that when Serena is committed and in shape, she's the best player. She said after the Australian Open that she was focused on the French and wanted to win the French. The only thing is, she keeps bringing up this 'I'm going to show everybody' thing because people were talking about her last year when she wasn't playing. She's a great player when she's committed to the game, and she's shown that. The whole world saw her talent and personality. All they were saying is, 'We believe in you and we believe in your game.' She has taken that as a negative. I still hear quotes about what I wrote in my letter in Tennis Magazine.
Q: Did you ever talk to her about it? Do you regret writing it?
Evert: I've never talked to her about it. Look, when I write for Tennis Magazine, I may be a rookie, but I'm a journalist. I'm absolutely not sorry I wrote it. I did not take any potshots at her. All I said was, 'We miss you, come back. In 10 years, you might wish you had come back.' And she did get the urge to come back. Anyone who's ever commented on Serena has done it out of frustration, hoping she could benefit from it and would benefit from it, trying to get her to think. Now she's trying to get back at people. It's like having been in a bad relationship. You have to move on. Everyone's made their point. Her critics have made their point. She's made her point. Now let's get on with playing some beautiful tennis and winning titles and celebrating with her family.
Q: Is the Serena-Justine rivalry as compelling as Federer-Nadal?
Evert: That's another beautiful rivalry, two opposites in personality, style of play and fan base.
ESPN.com: It would be hard to find two great players with more different physiques.
Evert: I've got to hand it to Justine. She doesn't get enough credit for that. In the era after mine, when you had Gabriela Sabatini, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport and Arantxa Sanchez. I thought the day of the 5-foot-4, 5-foot-5 player was over, it was never going to happen again. Then along comes Justine.
Q: Why didn't you play the French those three years from '76 through '78, right in the middle of your streak?
Evert: Don't think I don't think about that now. I was playing World Team Tennis. Grand Slams weren't as important then. Nobody was counting titles like they are now. Same with the Australian. I didn't play that many, because it meant going down there in December, and it was just out of the question that I would leave my family during Christmas time.
Q: With your career success on clay, it must be painful to see how much American players struggle on it now.
Evert: It's logical. Americans are brought up on hard courts because the U.S. Open is played on hard court. The Europeans are brought up on clay. It depends on what surface your country's championships are played on. I do think that one of the draws for the USTA, in our talks was that half our courts are clay. For young players, number one, that helps develop your game on clay, and number two, it isn't as hard on your body. It's too late, maybe, but I definitely think the intent is to raise and groom players on clay. (editor's note: the Evert Academy in Boca Raton, Fla., run by Chris and her brother John, will be the site of the U.S. Tennis Association's residential development program starting this fall)
Q: I'm curious about your philosophy as you enter this partnership with the USTA. You and your brother grew up playing tennis in a family-oriented atmosphere, on public courts. A lot of people think of academies as the antithesis of family. How do you bring those two concepts together?
Evert: Wow. That's a big question
In a sense, our summers growing up at Holiday Park (in Fort Lauderdale) were like an academy. We played all day.
Our mission statement says we look at the whole child. We don't just think of them as tennis machines, like, 'Are they going to be good and make us look good?' We're not telling parents, 'We'll take care of them and adios, amigo.' Balance is a big word. We don't want to be a tennis factory, but we want to maximize each child's potential. Susie X might want to go to college and Susie Y might want to go on to the tour. That means hard work, but also nurturing from the coaches. If you're a kid, you need support and backing from your family. It's not just us and the child, it's us and the family.
Since I stopped playing, my children have been the most important thing in my life, but the academy has brought me a lot of pleasure and passion. It's seven minutes from my house, and I feel like it's home, not work.
Bonnie DeSimone is a freelancer who is covering the French Open for ESPN.com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,084 |
Dairy market slows down as growth of butter eases
The latest Dairy update covering the 12 weeks to 17 June.
Growth in the dairy market in the 12 weeks to 17 June slowed down to 3.8% from 4.5% in the previous period. Despite this slowdown the market is still growing faster than the overall grocery market and fresh and chilled, which decreased down to 2.2% and 2.6% respectively.
The sector driving the decline is butter, accounting for £10.5 million of the £18.25 million less spent on dairy year on year. Behind this was milk, with growth down by £4.4 million, and margarine at £2.1 million.
Commenting on the findings, Oliver Bluring, Client Executive, Kantar Worldpanel, said: "The retailer which has seen the steepest decline in butter is Tesco, having gone from £4.1 million growth in the previous 12 weeks to losses of £1.6million. The Co-Op saw the next biggest drop off, losing out on £1 million of spend. This is echoed when you look at the performance of these retailers in dairy overall, where Tesco sees a fall of nearly £15 million and the Co-Op £3.3 million. Additionally, Ocado saw an easing of £1 million, a proportionally greater amount to the smaller online retailer".
This slowdown in dairy comes through all life stages, though retired shoppers drive a considerable amount of the losses. When we look at social demographic groups, shoppers in lower-middle class and non-working families especially drive decline.
The fall back in butter sales have come through a mixture of both non-promoted lines and those being sold through the Y for £X mechanism. As temporary price reduction sales remain in marginal growth. When you look at the overall dairy market, the decline comes through all promotional mechanisms, though Y for £X more so than the others.
Oliver Bluring
Client Executive - Dairy
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Sales of dairy improve as price rises drive value
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The End of an Era….Middays With Dee Dee Coming to an End….
Noun: Tucket (TUCK-ut) Definition: Fanfare on a trumpet. Example sentence: I am not leaving this job with a tucket, but with a fond farewell and thank you to all my listeners.
Verb: Blench (BLENCH) Definition: To draw back or turn aside from lack of courage: flinch. Example sentence: I know my son will blench when I tell him we need to consider him moving out and making his own way in the world.
All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at the end, the graves are identical.
Adjective: Cursory (KER-suh-ree) Definition: Rapidly and often superficially performed or produced: hasty. Example sentence: James gave the instructions only a cursory look before he began to assemble the shelves and didn't realize until he was partway through that he would need a power drill.
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
Noun: Exegesis (ek-suh-JEE-sis) Definition: Exposition, explanation. Example sentence: James Michener had a real gift for using copius amounts of exegesis in his novels.
Don't wait for things to get easier, simpler, or better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you will run out of time.
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Our lives as social beings hinge greatly on good communication skills. As infants we learn to fuss in a certain manner to communicate a need or to smile and laugh in delight.
Children learn to communicate linguistically; teens develop more complex communication involving an ever-growing scope of vocabulary, body language and attitude. Generally speaking, our communication skills continue to grow. However, for people with dementia overtime the ability to communicate their needs overtime becomes impaired. Family members, friends and caregivers often develop strategies specific to the individual to communicate and connect to their special someone with dementia.
In other words, it isn't so much what you say, as how you say it.
Keeping your thoughts positive guides your body language and the pitch and tone of your voice. This creates a calming, trusting structure for communication and minimises frustration and agitation. It may also help you to keep perspective on the situation. While you may want to help the person with dementia clarify a thought by suggesting a specific word that has escaped him/her, there is no need to correct them or their thoughts. It's best to let them try to express themselves and listen intently. If you notice they are becoming agitated by not being able to remember or express what they want to, you may gradual try to help out or turn their attention to something that you know has a positive association for them. Listen with your ears, eyes and heart open to the message they want to deliver.
Eliminate competing stimuli so that all parties involved can focus on expressing and receiving information. Both visual and auditory stimuli distract people under the best circumstances. If it's possible, communicate in a quiet space with simple decor. You may choose to turn the television or radio off if you are trying to have a conversation with them.
Dementia Today makes this recommendation: Identify yourself. Approach the person from the front and say who you are. Keep good eye contact; if the person is seated or reclined, go down to that level.
Collect your own thoughts before hand. Know what you want to say and be prepared to state it simply and clearly. Allow plenty of time for your visit so that you freely convey patience.
Include gestures and facial expressions. Touching someone while you talk with him/her tells them you care and you're present with them.
Check your posture. Do you lean forward, indicating that you're listening attentively? Are your arms open or at your sides, as opposed to crossed in front of yourself?
To help him/her express, you may try using written notes or keep several different pictures available that identify people, places or activities he may want to communicate about. Any party to the discussion may point to pictures to increase awareness of the subject. This of-course will depend on how advanced the person with dementia is.
For topics that come up regularly, try to use the same wording and mannerisms each time. It may also be helpful to use cues for scheduled events. For example, a particular song may indicate it's time to eat. Another song may announce that it's time to gather for an activity. Still another song leads to bed.
Address the person by name and tell him/her specifically who you are. Refrain from asking difficult questions and from using too many pronouns. Avoid subtle gestures that indicate frustration, exasperation or boredom such as rolling your eyes, shrugging your shoulders or slumping.
Remember that you are talking to a person.
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"My Son is Dead, He Took the Vaccine – They're Killing Us" – Pastor From Trinidad Mourns After Son Died One Day After Receiving COVID-19 Shot (VIDEO)
Pastor Marva Peschier of Trinidad and Tobago mourned the loss of her son who died after taking the COVID-19 shot. She already lost another son before.
According to Pastor Peschier, her son took the vaccine on September 17th. He then suffered a massive stroke and experienced an internal hemorrhage of the brain on the same day. Her son was rushed to Mt. Hope Hospital and was pronounced dead on September 18th.
On September 18, Pastor Peschier took a live video on Facebook and expressed her outrage. Facebook has taken down the video on its platform.
According to a report, health officials decided to meet up with pastor Marva Peschier after her viral video.
Loop News reported:
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Health officials will be meeting with pastor Marva Peschier this week after the woman went live on Facebook and declared that her son died days after being vaccinated against COVID-19.
Commenting on the matter, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said there was a similar incident at a Regional Health Authority (RHA) which he was careful not to identify.
He said the clinicians sent a preliminary investigative report and further noted that they were instructed to meet with the family and disclose the findings.
Dr Parasram went on to state that a final report will be handed over to him and then Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh.
Peschier went on to urge government officials to stop vaccinating members of the public against the viral contagion.
However, it has not been confirmed that the vaccine caused or contributed to the cause of death.
Here's an excerpt from the video below:
"I am Marva Paschier. I came to tell the whole world what people is doing to the nations of the world. My son took the vaccine on Friday this week. On Friday night, he fell off his bed with a massive stroke with a bleeding in his head. He was bleeding. He was bleeding in his brain. This afternoon I went to the hospital and they pronounced him dead. I am sending a message to Prime Minister Rowley and I am telling you to stop this nonsense because it's killing people. It's killing people and you are all lying that this vaccine is not killing nobody but people are dying every single day. My son is dead because he took the vaccine. He's dead! They're lying! I am from Trinidad and Tobago and I am speaking about the lies that the people have telling you. My son is dead! He's dead because he took the vaccine. People are lying to you I'm telling you. Share this live, share to the world. Let the world know that it's time for us to come out and speak the truth. They're killing us! People from Trinidad and Tobago, people from Caribbean, people from all over the world, stop this nonsense because it is killing people. I am giving this message to the health department of the world and to all the people who took time to put this thing together and know that the vaccines are killing people. My son is dead. Can I get him back? God, vengeance belongs to God people."
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Nominations are invited through 21 September 2021 for the 2022 IAIA Awards. View the past IAIA award winners below.
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IAIA is pleased to recognize its 2020 award winners. Thank you to those who submitted nominations for the Awards Committee to consider.
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Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan receives the Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to impact assessment and IAIA. His dedication to connecting the practitioner with research and academia shows a commendable commitment to impact assessment. As a devoted trainer, past president, and author, Richard has been a true ambassador of impact assessment throughout his distinguished international career.
The Joint Initiative – Coordination of Assessments for Environment in Humanitarian Action between UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit and US Agency for International Assistance
Institutional Award
The Joint Initiative was chosen for the Institutional Award for their effectiveness in bringing together a wide range of environmental and humanitarian organizations to update the Rapid Impact Assessment in Disasters Tool, developing the Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool, and helping to improve the integration of impact assessment through the Environment and Humanitarian Action Network.
Francois Retief
Francios Retief was selected to receive the Individual Award for ongoing and sustained contributions to impact assessment academia, leadership in South Africa's ongoing IA practice, and for adding a 'fun' factor to the very serious world of impact assessment professionals. Francios's collaborative efforts with IAIA and the multitudes of publications that he has contributed, as well as many years of training new professionals, have added to his influence in the field of impact assessment.
Asociación Española de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental
Regional Award
Asociación Española de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental (AEEIA) receives the Regional Award for their continued aim of developing environmental assessment as an instrument for the defense of the environment at the service of society and for being a body for consultation and debate within its associates' diverse fields. The initiative with Network for Environmental and Social Assessment (RHEAS) will also help to advance best practice among the Spanish-speaking world.
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Outstanding Service to IAIA
Sara Bice has been awarded the Outstanding Service Award for her leadership, her attention to detail, her vision and her sheer hard work in shaping the recruitment of a new Executive Director (ED) for IAIA. The ED vacancy arose at the start of Sara's presidency of IAIA and it arose as the organisation was starting to consider its next strategic plan. With skill, good humour and diligence Sara made light of the additional workload and turned this into an opportunity for IAIA enabling, and encouraging, the organization to look forward confidently to the future.
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"Environmental assessment as an institution of liberal democracy" (Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 38(2) 109-112) by Sibout Nooteboom wins Best Paper of 2020 in the IAPA journal.
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Animals, Computers, and Distinctly Human Intelligence | Robert J. Marks II
December 13, 2018 Michael Medved Season 1
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Human intelligence sits between fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side: animal and artificial intelligence. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robert Marks and Michael Medved tackle questions like what it means for something to be not just unknown but "unknowable."
A Creative Mind
Robert Marks directs the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and an expert in the area of computational intelligence and neural networks. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 400 publications, including over 160 journal articles and books published by Oxford University Press and MIT Press.
00:00 | An opportunity to visit Israel — from archaeology to high tech — with Michael Medved, Stephen Meyer, George Gilder, and Titus Kennedy
03:25 | Swarm intelligence in nature and deriving algorithms
04:20 | Mysteries of salmon and Monarch butterfly migrations
04:40 | What are analogous mysteries in artificial intelligence?
05:00 | Alan Turing and the astonishing Halting problem
06:07 | What is the difference between being unknown and being unknowable?
07:05 | Something unknowable: the potential extent of image compression
09:55 | What are non-algorithmic distinctive properties of being human?
10:35 | Can computers age? That is, can they mature?
12:00 | Soul, spirit, and human uniqueness amongst the animals
13:30 | Deep learning and inferring from examples
14:45 | Can computers wonder or pose problems?
15:15 | Evolutionary computing to design an antenna at NASA
16:45 | Frankenstein and artificial general intelligence
17:30 | Unanticipated contingencies and allowing self-driving car casualties
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dsmtop is a long-awaited refresh of the wildly popular db2top. Like db2top, dsmtop is a free tool, included with DB2. It is in the base DB2 install starting with 11.1, and can be installed on DB2 10.1 or 10.5.
As I personally recall, db2top first came out of IBM AlphaWorks. My understanding of IBM AlphaWorks is that it was largely comprised of tools that were written by IBMers in the trenches in IBM Global Services to do their jobs better. Someone saw these and shared them to a wider audience. db2top became available as a separate download in the days of DB2 8.1. It was included with every install of DB2 starting with 8.2 fix pack 17, 9.1 fix pack 6, 9.5 fix pack 2, and 9.7 GA.
db2top was just a killer tool back then. And really still is today. In my opinion, it is the best tool for when you simply need to be monitoring and watching a database to look for problems. However, it was basically never improved, other than bug fixes, after it was introduced. I got the opinion that the community's love of this out-dated tool still drives some IBMers nuts. But there was no other easy way to simply watch a screen and look for things like negative locking phenomena while keeping an eye on key performance indicators like buffer pool hit ratios and the number of actively executing connections.
Another frustration I've always had working with db2top is that in the variety of environments I work in, it doesn't work on Windows. This makes switching between environments tough, especially since it is only a small percentage of my team's work that is on Windows – something that seems to be true for most DBAs.
dsmtop is a new, similar tool to db2top. It has a similar, text-based interface, but is java-based, and can run on Windows as well as on AIX/Linux operating systems. There are a lot of similarities, but there are a number of differences as well, so while I'm spending a day watching database performance, I thought I'd have the two up side-by-side to see what I can share about each.
dsmtop works with DB2 10.1 and higher, and can be downloaded from a developerWorks community (scroll to the bottom and the "Files" section). It comes with the code starting with 11.1, and may not continue to be updated on that community =(. Here's hoping they'll also incorporate it into a future fix pack for 10.5.
dsmtop will then prompt you for the password.
I'm not fond of using the type 4 driver syntax for so many things these days. I think the push that direction comes from the way Oracle does things, but it just doesn't feel like the DB2 way.
Here's the most basic screen (in my opinion), side-by-side. This is the database screen which is often my jumping-off point when watching database performance.
Please excuse the wide image, but this is how I'm running them while watching performance today. Having them up side by side is instructive.
The first difference to notice is that db2top's default refresh interval is 2 seconds, while dsmtop's default refresh interval is 5 seconds. No matter what I do, I cannot get the two sessions to refresh at exactly the same time, so I'm leaving them at the default intervals for now. This also means that I can never get the same exact numbers out of two different sessions, but running in cumulative mode, I should be able to get pretty close.
There are also far more fields on the dsmtop screen. db2top's database screen gives me 28 fields plus the graphs, while dsmtop gives me 40. Let's look first at what's on the dsmtop screen that was also on the db2top screen.
The loss of the sort overflow percent strikes at my heart. That's one I always look at. Yes you can calculate it in your head, but I like seeing the number right there. That's the only lost number I'll really miss.
All memory in dsmtop seems to be specified in bytes. There's an option on the "Options" menu that seems to point at being able to format it with K, M, G, but it doesn't appear to work for me on this server. This is mildly annoying.
I love the addition of the "System Physical Mem" – even though this is a value that isn't going to change, it's often a question that I ask while staring at this screen.
Note that there are some discrepancies in the numbers here, too. One that caught my eye was the Lock Wait count. In db2top, this is only populated with current lock waits and it flashes to black text on a white background if there is a current lock wait in progress. I'm still watching to see what an active lock wait looks like in dsmtop. That's new – to find myself hoping for a lock wait!
There is still information missing on this screen that I'd like to see, and fields that I never use. I want to see Lock Timeouts, and I want to see Read Efficiency (Rows Read/Rows Selected).
Only dsmtop can tell you about multiple standbys, so that is a point for it. However, dsmtop requires a database connection, which means you cannot run it for the standby, unless you have Reads on Standby enabled and apply a special build. db2top can be run on the standby, as it does not require a database connection. I don't often want to see what's going on for a standby, but during load tests, I do, and I have to use db2top for this on most systems. Most of my implementations do not enable reads on standby because of the licensing implications.
In dsmtop, the delta span feels incorrect, counting up to 60 seconds even with a 5 second refresh interval and changing figures.
In db2top, the collection interval and the refresh interval were the same, at least as far as this user could tell. If you had an interval of two seconds and you were looking at deltas, those numbers seemed to cover what happened over the last two seconds. dsmtop has a collection interval, which specifies the periods at which the delta baselines are reset. This is 60 seconds by default. It also has a refresh interval, which is how often the current metrics are updated. The default refresh interval is 5 seconds. I wonder if one could use this as a poor man's reset – how large can I make the collection interval? There are some experiments to be done here.
There is decent documentation on dsmtop. Oddly, it is not in the IBM DB2 Knowledge Center, but in a wiki. The reference page on what is in the various views is excellent.
I would love to see a screen that would show balance of memory and a few other metrics between all databases in an instance. I would also love to see a screen showing balance of memory between multiple instances on a server. I understand the difficulties with this, but they're still screens I would use from time to time.
As far as I can tell, there is no reset functionality in dsmtop. This is something that will keep me using db2top from time to time, because seeing only data since a certain time can be very useful, and is something that IBM is making it harder and harder to do without tools or scripts. I understand this is because dsmtop is not using the snapshot monitor, but even I have written tools to simulate a monitor reset – it is certainly possible.
In db2top, I could add numbers on cpu activity to the top right corner with a quick entry in my .db2toprc file. This is a number I find it useful to watch while watching load tests, even if it was a couple of seconds behind. I have not yet found a way to get that in dsmtop.
Maybe it's pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, but I'd love to be able to customize my own screen to show the metrics I want to see.
If you want to use the same keystrokes to get to the same screens you used in db2top, simply use your ALT button with them. The keystrokes changed for changing screens because there is more there. There are menus at the top with submenus and a lot of options.
I am still exploring to understand everything that is in dsmtop, because there is more there.
There are pluses and minuses to each of db2top and dsmtop. I'm trying to use dsmtop when it's available because I suspect I will grow to love it as I get used to it. I was absolutely thrilled when I heard it would work on Windows, and I need to be used to a tool that can be used on any OS.
In case it is relevant to anyone, the examples here are using DB2 10.5, Fix Pack 8, and dsmtop v1-3e.
What changes have DB2 V11.1 vrs DB2 V9.7?
Please, can give me your answer about this?
Do you mean in Db2 overall, since db2top hasn't changed in years and dsmtop isn't even available until 11.1?
Thanks for your answer and I need two data please.
1. 9.7 is no longer supported or patched by IBM. 11.1 is supported and patched, and has many bug fixes, security fixes, and new features that 9.7 does not.
Thank you for your answer and which another differences exists between db2 9.7 and db2 11.1, as product and version.
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Take My Breath Away, and Other News
A still from Top Gun, 1986.
Rivka Galchen on Kafka (or rather, his biography): "It has been said of Kafka's work many times that the thing to remember is that it is funny. Kafka was known to laugh uncontrollably when reading his work aloud to friends, and though that sounds more like anxiety than hilarity to me, the funny point endures. But what kind of funny is he? … One element of the comedy of Kafka's biography is the way his life, at whatever moment, is dwarfed by his work."
In the eighties, Hollywood's big-budget movies were teeming with sex scenes: The sex was often in silhouette, yes, and usually accompanied by a saxophone, true, but it was there, just as it is in the human experience. "In the era of Top Gun, The Big Easy, Body Heat, or other steamy Hollywood thrillers, the goal was to appeal to both men and women with the promise of (among other things) onscreen sex. (Ergo the fabled 'date night' movie.) Now the goal is to appeal to adults and their twelve-year-old kids with the promise of the absence of sex."
Kenneth Snelson's Needle Tower, a sixty-foot sculpture at the Hirshhorn, comprises thin steel wires and barely touches the ground. How does it stay upright in strong wind?
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Every December, the New York Public Library's literary lions, Patience and Fortitude, have wreaths hung from their necks—and every year something seems to go wrong, somehow. (Last year the wreaths were simply too big.)
Kenneth Snelson
Literary Lions
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After Dr. Cuéllar completes his evaluation of you and determines that you do not have a problem that requires surgery, such as nerve compression or spinal cord compression, he can make some recommendations for non-surgical treatments to try first.
There are several potentially beneficially ways to help you improve back and neck pain without surgery, including exercise or physical therapy regimens, massage, acupuncture, injections, holistic healing treatments such as an anti-inflammatory diet or nutritional supplements. Some examples of these are provided below.
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A good physical therapist can help you strengthen your core muscles, which are vital to supporting your spine. Having a strong core can not only get you out of pain but can help prevent spine problems in the future. Upon evaluation, we will taylor your referral to your particular needs. A few excellent therapists we recommend are Complete PT, Heather Milligan at Elite Ortho Sports, and Aspire Physical Therapy and Sports.
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Q: "The collection is inconsistent state" for multiple tests using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS but not while using Windows 10 I have an issue running tests for the payments-contract demo https://github.com/near-apps/payments-contract running on ubuntu the error messages are as follows:
running 3 tests
test tests::make_deposit ... ok
test tests::make_deposit_and_payment ... thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: HostError(GuestPanic { panic_msg: "The collection is an inconsistent state. Did previous smart contract execution terminate unexpectedly?" })', /home/simon/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/near-sdk-2.0.1/src/environment/mocked_blockchain.rs:165:54
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
FAILED
test tests::make_deposit_and_withdrawal ... thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: HostError(GuestPanic { panic_msg: "The collection is an inconsistent state. Did previous smart contract execution terminate unexpectedly?" })', /home/simon/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/near-sdk-2.0.1/src/environment/mocked_blockchain.rs:165:54
FAILED
No matter which one is first it will successfully complete the test however any subsequent test/s will always fail.
Whereas when I run the same repo on Windows 10 all 3 tests work fine. I am using the same lib.rs file. Do tests need to be cleared after each one completes?
I noticed a similar question was answered by revising how the TreeMap is given an id in the contract. The only map I have is
#[derive(BorshDeserialize, BorshSerialize)]
pub struct PaymentContract {
pub owner_id: AccountId,
pub deposits: UnorderedMap<AccountId, Vec<Deposit>>,
}
impl Default for PaymentContract {
fn default() -> Self {
panic!("Should be initialized before usage")
}
}
#[near_bindgen]
impl PaymentContract {
#[init]
pub fn new(owner_id: AccountId) -> Self {
assert!(env::is_valid_account_id(owner_id.as_bytes()), "Invalid owner account");
assert!(!env::state_exists(), "Already initialized");
Self {
owner_id,
deposits: UnorderedMap::new(b"deposits".to_vec()),
}
}
Testing looks like below
// use the attribute below for unit tests
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use std::convert::TryFrom;
use near_sdk::MockedBlockchain;
use near_sdk::{testing_env, VMContext};
fn ntoy(near_amount: u128) -> U128 {
U128(near_amount * 10u128.pow(24))
}
fn get_context() -> VMContext {
VMContext {
predecessor_account_id: "alice.testnet".to_string(),
current_account_id: "alice.testnet".to_string(),
signer_account_id: "bob.testnet".to_string(),
signer_account_pk: vec![0],
input: vec![],
block_index: 0,
block_timestamp: 0,
account_balance: 0,
account_locked_balance: 0,
attached_deposit: 0,
prepaid_gas: 10u64.pow(18),
random_seed: vec![0, 1, 2],
is_view: false,
output_data_receivers: vec![],
epoch_height: 19,
storage_usage: 1000
}
}
#[test]
fn make_deposit() {
let mut context = get_context();
context.attached_deposit = ntoy(1).into();
testing_env!(context.clone());
let mut contract = PaymentContract::new(context.current_account_id.clone());
contract.deposit("take my money".to_string());
let deposits = contract.get_deposits(context.signer_account_id.clone());
assert_eq!(deposits.get(0).unwrap().memo, "take my money".to_string());
}
#[test]
fn make_deposit_and_payment() {
let mut context = get_context();
context.attached_deposit = ntoy(1).into();
testing_env!(context.clone());
let mut contract = PaymentContract::new(context.current_account_id.clone());
contract.deposit("take my money".to_string());
contract.make_payment(0);
let deposits = contract.get_deposits(context.signer_account_id.clone());
assert_eq!(deposits[0].paid, true);
}
#[test]
fn make_deposit_and_withdrawal() {
let mut context = get_context();
context.attached_deposit = ntoy(1).into();
testing_env!(context.clone());
let mut contract = PaymentContract::new(context.current_account_id.clone());
contract.deposit("take my money".to_string());
contract.withdraw(0);
let deposits = contract.get_deposits(context.signer_account_id.clone());
assert_eq!(deposits.len(), 0);
}
}
Any help would be appreciated
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81 minutes, Germany, 1922, Black and White, D-Cinema
Closing on Thursday, October 31st 2013
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The first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula retains its chilling power. It is one of the most enduring films of the silent era, a classic example of German expressionist cinema, hugely influential on the horror genre and beyond.
Recently restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Germany, Nosferatu returns to the cinema accompanied by its original score. The plot concerns Jonathan Harker, a real estate clerk from the town of Wisborg, who is sent by his greedy employer into Transylvania to finalise an opportunistic business deal. Once there, Harker encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok (portrayed by the unforgettable Max Schreck), and, while given every reason to be suspicious of Orlok's manner and motives, sells him a house opposite Harker's own. Inspired by a photo he sees of Harker's love, Orlok makes his way to Wisborg, his arrival coinciding with a plague of deaths causing panic in the town. (Notes by Michael Hayden.)
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A Florida bankruptcy court ruling just made it harder for a debtor to claim that the things she tells her bankruptcy lawyer are protected by the attorney-client privilege. In re Smith Cutuli, No. 11-35256-BKC-AJC (Bky.S.D.Fla. Sept. 13, 2013), held that upon the filing of a chapter 7 case, ownership ofthe debtor's attorney-client privilege passes to the chapter 7 trustee.
Without this privilege, any papers, notes, worksheets, or other information given by the debtor to her bankruptcy lawyer, along with the content of any conversations she may have had with her lawyer, are fair game for the chapter 7 trustee, and could become public knowledge.
Of course, everyone relies on the expectation that when seeking a lawyer's advice about any legal matter, including bankruptcy, the attorney-client privilege protects against disclosure by the lawyer, or the client, of the discussions had with the lawyer. With some exceptions, this also protects any of the papers or other information gathered by the lawyer in connection with the case.
While the attorney-client privilege applies in all types of legal matters, it has had a checkered history in bankruptcy cases. Most practitioners agree that bankruptcy courts will uphold the privilege on behalf bankruptcy debtors, but add that there are asome reported court decisions to the contrary.
In fact,a careful reading of cases denying the attorney-client privilege in bankruptcy reveals that most involve claims that the privilege was somehow waived by the debtor, or that the debtor engaged in fraudulent or even criminal activity. Under longstanding federal court precedent, such actions negate the attorney-client privilege.
In re Smith Cutuli is just such a case. The debtor filed chapter 7 in Floridaon September 12, 2011. Among other things, the bankruptcy court found that she transferred over $2,000,000 to her husband's bank accounts three weeks later. The debtor had also been involved in complex litigation prior to her bankruptcy filing in Napa County, California. The California court had alsofound that there was a civil conspiracy between the debtor and others to commit fraud and hide assets.
While the bankruptcy court in Smith Cutulidid holdthat the debtor's attorney-client privilege passed to the chapter 7 trustee upon the filing bankruptcy, as is the rule in cases with this unfortunate holding, the debtor had committed multiple "bad acts" and there was a history of contentious litigation involving the debtor in other courts.
The Smith Cutuli case should be viewed as a warning that while the attorney-client privilege is alive and well in bankruptcy, and has plenty of well reasoned case law to support its vitality, canny bankruptcy trustees may be willing to ask courts to strip the privilege from debtors in some cases.
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I need you to help Abuja residents by warning them about 3They rent out sold houses or illegal houses or even sell them thereby making their customers victims of homelessness without feeling sorry about their actions. The police has got nothing on them as a hardened criminal with records in 2013,it's even onThey're owing a lady her rent For putting her in an illegal house and she asked them for 6 months refund of 250k including 25k legal fee which Dan has refused to pay. He eventually paid a month later with 150k out of 275k saying the girl left the house with a particular Ac installed in the house. Meanwhile the day the original Landlord came to eject the tenants in the house he did so with police and area boys damaging things but Dan didn't show up because he knew he had duped her by giving her an illegal house.
Please find attached his picture and expose this evil guy.
Hopefully you can save others from being duped .
Please find attached a link of one of his criminal records in the past.
If you want his phones numbers as a blogger or Abuja resident you can request for them.
Kindly help warn people about this guy!
& he is even married?
Is the bold the actual reason why the op opened this thread to defame your image?
cc: dammysel what do u have to say about this?
But ageva, wetin really happen??.....Why u rent sold house to her in the first place??
If u no ready render help, no even bother.
There is more to this matter than house stuff. If you are telling people I render you homeless. Has my wife also rented any house to you?? Why is her picture there?? She posted picture of my wife in all social media. What is the motive?? If someone wrong you, you go to authority and report that is the right thing to do. What is my wife picture doing there?? She trying to destroy my marriage I have given her 200k already yet she still posted our pictures and still coming here to respond to comments. What her target??
There is more to this matter than this house stuff. If you are telling people I render you homeless. Has my wife also rented any house to you?? Why is her picture there?? She posted picture of my wife in all social media. What is the motive?? If someone wrong you, you go to authority and report that is the right thing to do. What is my wife picture doing there?? She trying to destroy my marriage I have given her 200k already yet she still posted our pictures and still coming here to respond to comments. What her target??
I have pictures of our messages from day one. Evidence of the first rent I transferred to him and evidence of paying agency fee to John. I also have voice calls and SMS of Dan begging me for more time to pay my money and because he started dribbling us is why I came to social media and he paid 150k then paid another 50k after the Nairaland post. Only for people to call me tonight that he is writing this about me.
Don't fight with a Unclad man who has no integrity to protect....I refuse to fight a man who has no integrity to protect imagine you a married man writing shamelessly about sleeping with a girl and she didn't marry you and you say your wife is at home? No sir. I pity the woman that said YES to you. Choi.
Cc Ageva20 why did u rent out an illegal house?
Dammysel, no need attaching any chat history. Just tell us what you want now.
Yes I've removed it I guess my anger pushed me to the extreme and thus was the only picture we got. This guy rendered me homeless oh because the legal owner came and Dan ran away . Now for saying he slept with me. I'm thinking of a fresh case.
Dammysel, no need attaching any chat history. Just tell u what you want now.
Money isn't easy to come by & no one will take it lightly when he/she can't enjoy what they paid for.
I tot she said in one of her post that she removed all pictures she posted on social networks except the one on nairaland forum because she doesn't now how to do it, how come my wife's pic was removed? Someone is liein. Attaching our chat is useless because I never denied collecting money from you.
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Geospatial information systems provide an abundance of information for researchers and scientists. Unfortunately this type of data can usually only be analyzed a few megapixels at a time, giving researchers a very narrow view into these voluminous data sets. We propose a distributed data gathering and visualization system that allows researchers to view these data at hundreds of megapixels simultaneously. This system allows scientists to view real-time geospatial information at unprecedented levels expediting analysis, interrogation, and discovery. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,101 |
While the tech world waits for Pinterest to reveal a money-making strategy, social discovery rival Fancy is rolling out yet another shopping feature.
The New York-based startup, which lets people curate and purchase items through its site – and even compensates users for their actions – is now giving users the option to organize group gifting on its platform.
The new feature, which the company said has been a popular request, enables users to organize a gift, invite others to contribute and have the gift sent directly to the recipient. If the gift invitation doesn't receive enough contributions within seven days, it expires and the company refunds all of the money.
eBay (s EBAY), which acquired group gifting startup the Gifts Project a year ago, also gives users the option to chip-in on a joint gift. Swedish social gifts startup Wrapp offers a similar feature. The startup FriendFund provides a platform explicitly for group gifting.
For Fancy — which is steadily building a business but trails Pinterest in numbers — the group gifting option gives non-members a new reason to join the site.
The startup also announced a partnership with American Express (s AXP), which enables members who sync their cards with Twitter to receive $20 back on their next purchase of $100 or more if they tweet #AmexTheFancyOffer. The deal doesn't extend to all items and only lasts through the end of the September, but Fancy said it's the beginning of an extended relationship with American Express.
I've been using Pinterest and Fancy myself and I think that the inclusion of group gifting in the photo sharing platform is a perfect idea to monetize the site. I was thinking of similar sites like Jifiti and Wrapp and they'll work the same way with Fancy and Pinterest.
Yes – you're right. Correction made. Thanks for the note.
IGiftSocial is another social gifting platform looking to disrupt the gifting market. We allow users to regift/exchange/claim their gifts. Our team is determined to change how people exchange gifts. More exciting features and producta coming soon.
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Stills from this video have been trending the internet like wild fire!!! There has been some speculation that the stills are photo shopped. Do the goods look photo shopped to you?
Perri "Pebbles" Reid sets the record straight about the accusations made against her by TLC and addresses the way she was portrayed in the TLC movie in an exclusive interview on The Wendy Williams Show.
T-Boz responds to Pebbles tweets concerning the TLC movie .
After the highly anticipated TLC Movie was released Pebbles went on twitter saying that she didn't like the way that she was portrayed in the movie. This is the response that T Boz gave concerning the tweets.
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DANIL DAVYDOV: GAZPROM-UGRA IS MY SECOND FAMILY
The trainee and captain of our club Danil Davydov told us about his debut for the main team and about his most memorable moments. – I remember well my debut in 2006, my first game on home site against Ufa team "Dynamo-Timal". It was the first match of the season, I was announced for […]
The trainee and captain of our club Danil Davydov told us about his debut for the main team and about his most memorable moments.
– I remember well my debut in 2006, my first game on home site against
Ufa team "Dynamo-Timal". It was the first match of the season, I was announced for the game in the starting line-up and in the first half I scored two goals. It is interesting that one of the
scoring passes in that match I received from Sergei Koridze. We won that match, and those two goals became for me the only ones in that season, but very memorable.
I can say that over 12 years in Gazprom-UGRA I have experienced both the taste of great victories and bitter defeats, various defeats. This club gave me a lot: I also acquired life
experience, and, of course, my professional career. After such an amount of time, I can say with confidence: Gazprom-UGRA is my second family.
– What was the team at the time when you were just starting out as
professional futsal player?
– Then the team was just built. The backbone was laid, there were no such high-profile victories, we only gained experience. 10-12 years ago, we were faced with the task of getting into the top three and take medals. Now our only task is to be the first, regardless of tournament we play – the Cup, regular season or the international arena. But the main feature that distinguishes the team of those years from the team we have now is that we have become much more experienced in terms of decisive games.
– What do you especially remember, in addition to high-profile victories in the Russian and international arenas, during the years spent here?
– I can note the friendship between me, Lesha Petrov and Vova Goncharov. For a long time, we
three lived in the same apartment, spent almost 24 hours a day together, did everything together. We had an opportunity to move and live one by one, but we did not want to. Probably, this is the most memorable period from my team life. Our friendship lasts to this day – we stay in touch and our families are friends, we support each other. For me the relationship between people is one of the most important things in life.
– Since the new season, you deservedly became the captain of the team. What has changed since that moment?
– I want to thank the team for their trust, I will try to justify it and not let the team down.
For me, this is an additional responsibility, before I could not think of gaming moments about my emotions, now I try to control them. Maybe sometimes this restraint limits me in some way.
– What coaches and players do you remember working with the most?
– I will note two coaches. It's Miltinho, I believe that it was he who completely revealed me as
a player. He opened my eyes to the fact that you need to believe in yourself in any situation. He did a lot not only in terms of strategy but in terms of psychology too. It was very interesting to work with him. And, of course, Kaka, there's not much to say. So much he worked with us, under his leadership we won all the trophies that could be won at the club level. He gave a lot
to our team in general and to each of us. If we talk about the players, then we have always had some of the best players in the world. But I can point out Aleksandr Kopeikin, Robinho and Lima, since we played for a very long time in one quarter formation, and I felt always comfortable with them on the court.
– What distinguishes the FC Gazprom-UGRA from other futsal clubs?
– We have one distinctive feature, it is self-confidence. This is both an advantage and disadvantage. As if paradoxically, we are so confident in ourselves that we can beat any team in the world, but this self-confidence can bring us down, just as we can lose to any team.
– What can you wish the club for 25-year anniversary?
– Further development and prosperity. I wish we never lowered our level of one of the strongest teams in Russia and again became the strongest team in Europe, as it was already two
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The Book Editor Whose Sessions With Authors Are Like Psychoanalysis
WORDS Posted: July 2, 2019 12:01 pm
Judith Gurewich, the publisher of Other Press. trained as a Lacanian analyst and still practices as one part-time. "She brings her intensity to her uniquely aural editing process, hosting authors at her home in Cambridge, Mass., for days at a time while they read their manuscripts aloud to her." – The New York Times
Read the story in New York Times Published: 06.27.19
Egypt's New Capital Will Have A Major New Cultural Complex (But Will Anyone Come To It?)
ISSUES Posted: July 2, 2019 5:07 am
New Cairo City, currently under construction on the edge of the metro area, about 25 miles from central Cairo, will become Egypt's administrative center; the "city of arts and culture" within it, to be completed in 2022, will have a 2,000-seat opera house, two other theaters for music and drama, cinemas, museums, art galleries, and libraries. While Egyptian arts figures welcome the facilities, they're warning that audiences won't come from the old city unless the government makes sure there are things worth seeing. – Al-Monitor
Read the story in Al-Monitor Published: 06.27.19
Maverick Conductor Teodor Currentzis Stomps Away From His Russian Home Base
MUSIC Posted: July 2, 2019 4:47 am
The Greek-born maestro, a naturalized Russian citizen, has been getting plenty of love-it-or-hate-it attention for recordings (particularly of Mozart operas) with his period-orchestra-and-chorus MusicAeterna. Since 2011, he and his ensemble have been in residence at the State Opera and Ballet in the Urals city of Perm. Now they're leaving, with Currentzis complaining of lack of understanding and interference from local and regional politicians: "Without their complete lack of understanding, the absence of all reverence and sensitivity, I would never have summoned the strength to make the decision to abandon my heavenly kingdom [at the opera house]." (in German; Google Translate version here) – Musik Heute (Germany)
Read the story in Musik Heute (Germany) Published: 06.27.19
Why You Choke Under Pressure
IDEAS Posted: July 1, 2019 2:31 pm
"When we are performing our normal, practiced tasks everyday, we often are – counterintuitively — not paying attention to all the little details of what we are doing; our prefrontal cortex is running largely on autopilot. But in times of intense stress, like a playoff game, major presentation, or a job interview, your prefrontal cortex can go into overdrive. When the pressure is on, we often start focusing on the step-by-step details of our performance to try and ensure an optimal outcome and, as a result, we disrupt what would have otherwise been fluid and natural." – Harvard Business Review
Read the story in Harvard Business Review Published: 06.27.19
Ideas And Progress Flow From Chaos And Complexity Of Ideas – But We're Retreating From That
IDEAS Posted: July 1, 2019 10:31 am
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: 'Confused by chaos, infantilized by ignorance, refugees from complexity flee to fanaticism and dogma.' But something else is happening too. Human history was formerly all about divergence; now, as cultural differences are eroded, we are converging. The result, according to his hypothesis, will in the end be a slowing down of the imagination and ideas." – Spectator
Read the story in Spectator Published: 06.27.19
Let's Talk About Contemporary Poetry's Use Of The Exclamation Point
WORDS Posted: July 1, 2019 6:15 am
Obviously, perhaps, they used to be more common in poetry than they are now – think Wordsworth, Dickenson, and so many more. Now, "exclamation marks are not exactly rare in contemporary poetry—but they are occasional enough for us to take notice. For all their ubiquity in texts and emails, exclamation marks call attention toward themselves in poems: they stand straight up." – The Millions
Read the story in The Millions Published: 06.27.19
The Overlooked Work Of Ernie Barnes, The Athlete Turned Celebrity Artist
VISUAL Posted: July 1, 2019 5:00 am
Barnes, a U.S. football player turned artist who did such things as "creating album covers for Marvin Gaye, receiving a commissioned by Kanye West and being named the official artist of the 1984 Olympics," still isn't really part of art history, curators of a new retrospective claim – and that's what they're trying to correct, of course. (But it's not every day that the artist's professional American football helmet is included in the artist's show.)- The Guardian (UK)
Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 06.27.19
Colson Whitehead Is The First Novelist On The Cover Of TIME Since 2010
WORDS Posted: June 30, 2019 11:30 am
As Emily Temple notes in LitHub, that 2010 cover was also the first in about 10 years – and as she also says, "Maybe in 2029 it will be a woman! (Just kidding, there definitely won't be magazines by then.)" Not to take away from Whitehead, of course; as the profile says, "If greatness is excellence sustained over time, then without question, Whitehead is one of the greatest of his generation. In fact, figuring his age, acclaim, productivity and consistency, he is one of the greatest American writers alive." – TIME Magazine
Read the story in TIME Magazine Published: 06.27.19
As Nataki Garrett Takes Over The Reins, She Talks To Bill Rauch About His Legacy At The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
THEATRE Posted: June 30, 2019 11:00 am
Rauch, who came into the festival wanting to change the audience and the acting company demographics (and who has succeeded in the latter; the former is stickier, as he also acknowledges in the interview), says, "I have, throughout my career, been very concerned with how marginalized voices can be put at the center of the art and the discourse in our field, and throughout my years at OSF, … I have been challenged by colleagues, audiences, and guest artists." – HowlRound
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AMC Theatres Says It Wants To Make Sure Franchises Don't Entirely Consume The Theatre Experience
MEDIA Posted: June 30, 2019 5:00 am
Yes, yes, AMC has done plenty of gobbling of arts theatres, or so say the (former) owners of those theatres, but now they're concerned about the films. Well, not just now: "This is not the first time AMC has sought to showcase its indie film bona fides, however. The company in 2010 launched something called AMC Independent in an effort to dedicate more screens to arty movies. That followed a similar 2006 initiative, AMC Select." – Los Angeles Times
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The So-Cal Native Who's Giving Cambodian Classical Dance A Queer Twist
DANCE Posted: June 28, 2019 11:01 am
"[Prumsodun] Ok, a Long Beach, California, native whose parents were Cambodian refugees, not only restages traditional works of Khmer classical dance but also uses the stories and vocabulary of the ancient style to create new works that center LGBTQ+ characters and perspectives. In the process, he's helped to revitalize and bring global attention to an art form that was nearly wiped out with the vast majority of its practitioners in the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s." – Dance Magazine
Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 06.27.19, sj
An Oral History Of The Orgy Scene In Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' (It Was Supposed To Be A Lot Better Than It Came Out)
MEDIA Posted: June 28, 2019 10:02 am
Turns out Stanley Kubrick and colleagues worked on and rehearsed the scene for weeks, and it was highly (if not always clearly) thought out. Then Kubrick died, and the rest of the team had to figure out how to avoid an NC-17 rating without him. Journalist Bilge Ebiri talks to Kubrick's assistant director and personal assistant, the choreographer (yes, there was one), composer, dancers, and actors involved (though not Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman). – New York Magazine
Read the story in New York Magazine Published: 06.27.19
Yannick And Jaap Sitting Around Talking
MUSIC Posted: June 28, 2019 8:04 am
Jaap van Zweden: "If you see Dallas, it's a real sports town. If you see Hong Kong, it's a real business town. And I think we are both very fortunate because New York is a real arts town. That is a big plus for us."
Yannick Nézet-Séguin: "At the same time, in New York we should always — and I know this is true for the Met — we should always be listening and watching what's going on elsewhere in the country, so we can represent it better." – The New York Times
Baltimore Symphony Board Sets Date For End Of Lockout, Pays Health Insurance For Locked-Out Musicians
Contributions from board members and others will cover the cost of the health insurance for July and August, and management will end the lockout on Sept. 9 if no contract agreement has been reached by then. – The Baltimore Sun
Read the story in Baltimore Sun Published: 06.27.19
Who Bought That Caravaggio That Was Found In An Attic? This Guy
VISUAL Posted: June 28, 2019 6:03 am
"The American billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson Hill is the mysterious buyer of an early 17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio, according to a person with knowledge of the sale." – The New York Times
London Specialist Dance Injury Clinic Abruptly Closes
DANCE Posted: June 27, 2019 3:03 pm
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital clinic had provided free specialist healthcare to more than 1300 dancers since 2012… RNOH's plan to transfer care to other sports and exercise medicine centres sounded good in theory, "but we specifically chose them when we set up the clinic because of their expertise in orthopaedics". – Arts Professional
Read the story in Arts Professional Published: 06.27.19
Look At Art. Be A Critic. Get Paid
VISUAL Posted: June 27, 2019 2:25 pm
The initiative is a socially engaged art project that pays people who wouldn't otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution, flipping the script between the institution and its public, the educator and the educated, the paying and the paid. – Hyperallergic
Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 06.27.19, sj1
Canada Imposes $4.5 Million Fine On TicketMaster For Misleading Consumers
ISSUES Posted: June 27, 2019 2:02 pm
The bureau found Ticketmaster's advertised prices did not reflect the true cost to the consumer as the online ticket service added mandatory fees later in the purchasing process that often added more than 20 per cent to the cost and in some cases over 65 per cent. – CBC
Read the story in CBC Published: 06.27.19
Designing For How People Experience Buildings Rather Than How Buildings Look
That idea of beginning with human experience rather than beauty, has applications beyond the deaf and blind communities. It's a design philosophy that can be applied to tackling problems of sustainability as climate change worsens, and of an aging population, and of increasing urbanization. – The Atlantic
Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 06.27.19
Propwatch: the lighter in 'Venice Preserved'
AJBlogs Posted: June 27, 2019 11:55 am
In the opening scene of the Restoration tragedy Venice Preserved at the RSC, a rebel recruits a desperate friend to the cause. His indignation is scorching hot, so of course he pulls out a lighter, itching to burn the rotten state to the ground. – David Jays
Read the story in David Jays Published: 06.27.19
UK Education Secretary Pushes Back: "We're Not Cutting Arts Education"
ISSUES Posted: June 27, 2019 11:31 am
Damien Hinds pushed back on references to the Fabian Society's Primary Colours report, which was published earlier this year and concluded there had been a "dramatic" decline in arts education. – The Stage
Read the story in The Stage Published: 06.27.19
Gender Equity Still Far Off In Orchestral Programming
Uncategorized Posted: June 26, 2019 6:14 pm
The results of this year's analysis of the 2019-2020 seasons of the world's top orchestras by DONNE, Women in Music, which is founded and curated by soprano Gabriella Di Laccio, show that out of 3,997 works presented, only 142 were written by women composers, or 3.6 percent of the total works performed." – Limelight
Read the story in Limelight (Australia) Published: 06.27.19, sjm
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About 5-10% of patients with myasthenia gravis concomitantly have other autoimmune diseases. However, the coexistence of myasthenia gravis and pernicious anemia is rare.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Here, I show that her physical ailments spanned 30 years and included sore mouth, pallor, paresthesias, the Lhermitte symptom, fever, headaches, fatigue, resting tachycardia[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Increased CD4/CD8 ratio and depressed NK cell activity were restored and levels of C3, C4, and immunoglobulins were elevated.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Abstract Autoimmune diseases are characterized by tissue damage and loss of function due to an immune response that is directed against specific organs.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] One week after admission, she developed fever, dyspnea, hypoxemia, tachycardia, and increased serum C-reactive protein level.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] […] with decreased depression.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Autoimmune thyroid disease, including Hashimoto hypothyroidism and Graves disease, often occurs in multiple members of a family.[emedicine.medscape.com] We report a case of hyperthyroidism induced by fluoxetine in a female patient with major depressive disorder.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Fetal tachycardia was detected at 17 wk in the fourth pregnancy.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
An evaluation for autoimmune disease, including for antipituitary antibodies, was negative.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Overdose can cause miosis, respiratory depression, and central nervous system depression. Rarely, hypoglycemia has been reported.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Signs and symptoms include tachypnea, respiratory distress, tachycardia or bradycardia, lethargy, and seizures 775.6 Excludes infant of mother with diabetes mellitus ( 775.0[icd9data.com]
Hashitoxicosis
Anyone genetically predisposed to autoimmune thyroid disease can develop Hashitoxicosis.[elaine-moore.com] I don't think I have depression but have been of Venafalaxine now since that time.[healthunlocked.com] The second patient The second patient was a 42-year-old female presenting with tachycardia and mood swings who was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in February 2008.[schildkliertje.blogspot.com]
Neurotic Disorder
First, There may be an underlying systemic disease, such as renal or hepatic disease, anemia or polycythemia vera, autoimmune disease such as dermatomysitis, or an occult[clinicaladvisor.com] For this reason the department is also known as the depressive and neurotic disorders department.[regionaalhaigla.ee] Autonomic and Visceral Symptoms Palpitations, Tachycardia, Sweating, Flushes, Dyspnea, Hyperventilation, Dry Mouth, Frequency and hesitancy of micturition, Dizziness, Diarrhea[rxpgonline.com]
Schmidt's syndrome or autoimmune polyglandurar syndrome type 2 represents an uncommon endocrine disorder composed by Addison's disease with autoimmune thyroid disease and[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] depression and/or anxiety (0.88).[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Definition (NCI_CTCAE) A disorder characterized by apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly[fpnotebook.com]
The association of Moyamoya disease and Graves disease in these cases is explained by the same autoimmune mechanism ( 10 ).[ajnr.org] Depression can also enter the picture. And, as mentioned above, blood pressure and heart rate can increase to dangerous levels.[thyroid-info.com] We report the case of a 10-year-old girl treated with atenolol and carbimazole for tachycardia and hypertension associated with Graves' disease who developed symptomatic 2[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Apathetic Thyrotoxicosis with Thyrotoxic Crisis
Prevalence and relative risk of other autoimmune diseases in subjects with autoimmune thyroid disease. Am J Med. 2010 Feb;123(2):183.e1-9.[webedcafe.com] The study group had a rather typical apathetic, placid, or depressed appearance often thought to represent "old age depression."[annals.org] Circulation: Tachycardia is common, either sinus tachycardia (most common rhythm) or atrial fibrillation (most common dysrhythmia).[cdemcurriculum.com]
Thyroid Gland Disorder
Autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland Hashimoto disease and Graves disease are two of the most common autoimmune disorders of the thyroid gland, the hormone-secreting organ[britannica.com] The symptoms it shares with depression include fatigue, memory loss and difficulty concentrating.[abcnews.go.com] Firstly, from the reports ( attachment removed to protect patient identity ) it appears that he is having bradycardia and sinus arrhythmia, but no tachycardia.[icliniq.com]
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Our graduate programs provide advanced research training in stem cell research, molecular genetics, pharmacology, and toxicology. The range of faculty projects and interests is outlined on the departmental home page and within individual faculty biosketches.
All graduate programs are tailored to meet the goals and expectations of the individual student. The department requires a minimum of core courses, thus allowing the greatest possible flexibility in program design. It is expected that students will earn the master of science degree within two to three years or the PhD degree within four to five years after enrolling. Students may earn the PhD degree without earning the master's degree. Doctoral degrees are designed to prepare competitive research scientists and effective teachers.
About half of current graduate students hold the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or equivalent degree. The department is committed to increasing the number of veterinarians educated to be competitive scientists. We also seek to increase our numbers of domestic students, especially with regard to under-represented minorities.
Applications, submitted with all supplemental materials, and a fee of $70 for U.S. students, and $90 for international students, are due by January 1 for admission in the Fall semester and June 1 for admission in the Spring semester.
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I am curious about your experiences with your Customs service.... I don't mean the usual "Oh man, I bought sth. in America and I really have to pay taxes for that here...", more about how it works (paperworks).
One thing you may know, or should know...Germany love paperwork and rules. I am quite sure there is some official paperwork for breathing here (you know...emissions and so on).
So, why all the hack. We have to send a sensor for a repair to the manufacturer in the US (and have done that before, too). Some years ago it was like taking the sensor, walk to the customs office in our city and do the paperwork with an officer there. Pack the parcel and post it. The Papers were needed for the return of the parcel, to show that VAT and so on is already paid.
Then it was only possible to go online (started begin of last year), search through some cryptical lists for the customs number of your part you want to send and fill out the forms online, print it and go with it and the device to customs. Then the checked it there, date, stamp, done....shipping.
That one worked and was a little more work (brainwork) than before.
Now you can still just do it online, but you have to register with your VAT number in a Platform that is also used for your tax declaration where you get a freaky file and pin code. These you need to log on in the system of the Customs service and fill out the forms and so on like before.
How is it in the US, Great Britain, France, Australia?!....Is it that much of a mess, too?
Customs is depending on your country rules, my experience with my customs will not be the same as yours. Our customs is ok, less hassle, during 3-5years online transactions, i only have minor issue with them1-2 times. i saw many sellers refused to send to South Africa or Italy (IIRC), maybe the customs or post service handle things very badly there.
I feel sorry for all the customs offices worldwide, the Chinese invasion ( thousands small packages daily) it had destroy even their launch break.
Even then just have the sender set the value to <$1000... my MSO came from the US with a value of over $9k, invoiced at $1k - blasted through clearance in less than five hours. Win.
Customs is depending on your country rules, my experience with my customs will not be the same as yours.
Yeah, that's why I was asking . To find out how it works on the other hemisphere/side of the world. I know each country is different but I have been curious if it's always a lot of work or if some country has fond a "painless" way of dealing with it .
Yeah import works here quite well, too (if it has been declared with this little green customs sticker and an invoice is attached on the outside). They also just xray the parcel to look what's inside, but the declared value has to fit to the content of course .
I just pay my taxes when the parcel is delivered or if I have to pick it up at the customs office.
If you buy a multimeter for 400USD and declare it as 100USD (not the legal way thogh) chances are high that it slips through, because they can't control and open every parcel.
So that direction is quite fast here, too. It usually goes through scanning/processing in one day.
Australia is usually great I get regular imports from China, Denmark, USA and New Zealand.
In most cases delivery varies from 1 to 7 days. China being the most random. From Europe and the US generally 2 to 4 days. Packages will at random be selected for a more thorough customs check at AU customs which generally will add 2 to 3 days.
The sub $1K exemption is a bane of contention here particularly for one noisy retailer used to too high margins.
A word of caution on this, if you are making more than the occasional purchase for business pay the GST, business isn't entitled to the exemptions even if regular orders fall below that $1K threshold.
I use a freight forwarder who pay the GST and bill me within 14 days, not the cheapest option but definitely the most reliable and least likely to have your package held in customs hell.
Our customs doesn't care, so long as the value of the package is low enough not to attract more than $50 GST (sales tax) which means we can import a USD value of around $320 including shipping.
If your consignment is worth more than the threshold however, they start adding all sorts of fees, taxes and levies that really push the price up -- plus, sometimes they'll require you to have (or use the services of someone who has) an importer's number. This means if it's just a "one off" import, the costs go even higher!
Underdeclaring the value of a package is one option -- but it is cheating and you also run the risk that if the package goes missing, the carrier will probably only pay out to the declared value. Worth the risk? I don't know -- I'd just rather pay the taxes in most cases.
I never care about cheating on taxes, but I was always afraid the freelancer agents fee, that was and is a stealing.
I guess I'm luckier, here where I live, since we considered ourself as a developing country, any technology related "tool"category like dmm and scope, are considered as a product that will contribute in developing this country, of course simple and low tech tools like silly screw driver or an hacksaw are not in the list , hence it has almost no import tax or at least very minimal like under 1 or 2% at certain cases, but on finished good for "consumer grade product" like those electronic like tv, blue disc player, cell phone etc..etc, they put quite some hefty tax for it.
There's one more thing about pricing and taxes more specific to EU countrier, the shipping cost itself. I'm not completely aware what are the shipping prices inside old EU countries, but shipping from any other country (EU or not) to Poland is usually a few times higher than national shipping.
For those not understanding how does it seem strange, most EU countries (plus Norway) have no border control between themselves (google for Schengen zone), the only clue that you are crossing the border is usually a small sign. One would think this would equalize costs of shipping inside EU, but it does not. I live in a city close to German and Czech borders and it really annoys me that it's cheaper to buy something in a shop over 500 km away, than buying something in Germany, just 100 km from here. It's even more annoying when you see free shipping from US or China on eBay.
I know what you mean, but I think that is common around everywhere. The courier services charge extra just to cross the border. At least we have the big advantage that we don't have to pay no extra takes for inner-eu purchases. Just buy on ebay and ship it .
As far as I experienced the shipping prices vary much from country to country. Sometimes it's ok, but one have to calculate if it's worth.
For example: a parcel in Germany via DHL is 4.10€ (smallest one), to UK it is 8.90€, Poland is 8.90€, France is 8.90, Switzerland is 15.90, US is 15.90.
"For example: a parcel in Germany via DHL is 4.10€ (smallest one), to UK it is 8.90€, Poland is 8.90€, France is 8.90, Switzerland is 15.90, US is 15.90."
It is becouse German coverment do something what is illegal in EU.
If there is Chinese company and China coverment supply them we are very agry and nearly put these things to "restricted list" or extremely high protectionist extra customes. Example some chinese bicycles maybe 70% customs just becouse in EU we do accept only honest business competition. How competition can be honest if some country coverment (or they hidden hand) give money to support they own country business for make low prices possible. many times our finger show to China and we forget look more close or maybe we close our eyes if problem is too close us.
Our coverment do not this and we have 2-4 times higher prices in shipping. Postal service and also example DHL here locally.
Very easy here I can pick-up one single parcel more than 100km with my self and still I win.
Quite hard to understand you, but I think I got it after several times reading. So you say because of taxes the country (GER) closes down the market to foreign competitor (i.e. China). I really believe you that part, but I don't believe you that the tax on a chinese bicycle is 70%. Maybe you mean the price will increase about 70% after shipping, VAT, customs. That may be possible (depending on the price of the bike of course). If it would be really so tough for china we wouldn't be flooded with cheap chinese products, because no one is going to struggle with customs and so on just to earn 1% on a product.
The other things you mention are subventiosn I think. Yeah, that is quite common around in the EU. Especially in agrar-industrie, to keep that one alive on the market because of low income regions where acres are grown and harvested by half-dead workers. Well, that's our fault because we always struggle if sth. gets more expensive.
And honestly, there must be sth. like that in China, too. Or how do I get an iphone cover for 1USD shipped from china. I barely believe that postage is that cheap.
I don't do enough international buying here to know the system well, but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as what I experienced living in Poland. I paid up to 100% of an items value in customs (not VAT) for items sent over by family by regular post. UPS was faster but required someone be home or go to their pickup point.
Here in the US the current issue is state sales tax in many areas. Online retailers must collect state sales tax for sales within their own state and within states where they maintain stores, but not for sales to other states with some exceptions. My state (Pennsylvania) is trying to enforce collection of sales tax for online purchases by forcing residents to declare their online purchases and paying sales tax on them at the end of each year. We'll see how this all ends - I know PA wants Amazon to collect (it's one of the biggest online sellers) but they're resisting.
That's interesting PetrosA... So that means if I buy from a shop in Texas for example, but get it delivered to Oregon for example, and the shop has no sideoffice there, they won't collect tax (as I expectd due to all the notes on US onlineshops).
To the Poland customs: maybe you got the wrong person there and they added "custom customs". My brother lost some things in customs in France. He bought a Blackberry (from a Reseller) in the US and got a quote that is has been confiscated as not genuine in customs. Then he called the customs office and well, the Filenumber he had been given didn't exist. There was no incoming parcel for him. A Friedn of him had the same issue with an Digicam has uncle bought on Amazon in Japan and sent him (his Parents are Japanese and moved to France).
These things never happened to me, but I also wouldn't buy very expensive parts in China or the US.
so this "anti dumping" duty is "only" 48.5% for Chinese made bicycles.
So if I buy 100 Euro bicycle. Duty is 48.5 euro. If there are no shipping cost, after 148.5 Eur (dependent of country VAT%) example after VAT25% price is now 186 Euro free inside country. Nearly 1/3 of VAT total is only just as tax over tax (duty and VAT both are "tax like" payments.. This VAT after duties and total including shipping etc... it is really from black hole..
BTW it is restricted in EU to give hidden subvention..... but some countries do not follow rules.. but still they ask others follow rules.
I do not like protectionism and double standards.
In Switzerland, VAT is 8%. If the value of VAT for the item (including shipping costs) is higher than CHF 5.- (5 Swiss Francs = 5.8 USD), then you have to pay VAT plus CHF 18.- for customs clearance. This means that you don't have to pay anything for items below CHF 62.- (= 72 USD). If you have to pay, you simply pay the postman when he delivers the parcel.
That's exactly how it works. I recently bought an Asus Transformer in a local store for $399, plus 6% PA sales tax (total = $422.94) plus fuel to get to the store. If I had bought it online from Amazon I would have paid $389.88 with no state sales tax AND I would have qualified for free shipping from Amazon. Since I wanted to use this for my business and include it as a cost, I have two options: I can either buy it locally like I did and pay a little more, or I can buy it from Amazon or someone else, fill out a bunch of paperwork and report the purchase to the state and pay the 6% sales tax. I personally REALLY hate paperwork, so I prefer to buy it locally and pay a little more. There are some online stores that calculate and collect various state taxes for their customers even if they don't have stores in that state, but it does increase their pretax prices since they have to do all the tax work.
On the one hand, it seems ridiculous that vendors don't collect state taxes but the other side of the coin is that there are 50 states with different tax codes and conforming to all of them can get very complicated. One company that I have bought from online that does this is Hilti. I had to call them because they had charged my card some outrageous tax amount and they explained that some states have state, county and township taxes that all have to be calculated and charged, and their system sometimes has hiccups because of this. It would be much easier if the 50 states could make their tax codes more uniform on this issue.
Ah OK, the official way is to report the purchase and pay tax, but it's interesting that they don't charge automatically.
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Recently, one motorist apparently failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. Rather than stopping, this driver appears to have proceeded through the intersection; the result was tragic for all involved. Upon running this stop sign, the driver collided with a motorcycle. The impact caused the motorcycle driver and his wife to both fly off of the motorcycle, causing injury. The driver, a husband and father of four, died as a result of his injuries; his wife suffered serious injury.
One of these accidents occurred after a driver crashed his vehicle into a tree. Investigators believe that the accident was the result of excessive speed. The safety concerns come from the fact that the retractable doors would not work after the crash, and the airbags prevented people from getting the driver out of the burning vehicle. A second accident occurred when a Tesla driver collided with a semitrailer, losing the roof of the vehicle yet still traveling for a quarter of a mile before stopping.
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25 Years Later, Dumb and Dumber Is More Than Just the Gold Standard for Toilet Humor
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in 'Dumb & Dumber', 1994.
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By Stephanie Zacharek
Toilet humor is probably as old as mankind. There could be a cave painting somewhere depicting one of our forebears stepping into a giant pile of dinosaur poo, but at the very least we know that Chaucer was into it in the 14th Century: In the Miller's Tale, the mischievous scholar Nicholas lets "fly a fart as loud as if it were a thunder-clap." If it's good enough for Chaucer, it's good enough for us.
You would think, then, that intelligent critics and moviegoers would have had plenty of time to prepare themselves for Dumb and Dumber, released 25 years ago this December. The reviews at the time were generally dismissive—or at least as lukewarm as a pop bottle full of pee—though in my experience, allegedly sophisticated grownups who hadn't even seen the film were its most vocal detractors: I recall, around the time of its opening, how often its conveniently descriptive title came up in casual conversation, as evidence that Hollywood movies were truly going down the tubes.
But Dumb and Dumber—and the sibling duo who conceived and made it, Peter and Bobby Farrelly—got the last laugh when the picture became the biggest hit of that year's Christmas season. The New York Times, in a box-office report at the time, lamented the film's climb to the top, identifying it dismissively as "a picture aimed at 16-year-old (or far younger) boys."
Well, yes. But maybe there's a 16-year-old boy inside each of us. The movie's popularity grew even further after its release on home video, and today it's considered a cult favorite, and not just among people who were little kids when they first saw it. There's no doubt that many of the allegedly sophisticated grown-ups who dismissed it at first eventually came around—because, to put it plainly, it's irresistible.
Even if the appeal of toilet humor is universal, not all of it is created equal, and Dumb and Dumber may be the closest we've got to the gold standard—the gold-toilet standard, if you will. Lloyd (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Jeff Daniels) are best friends, roommates and sworn partners in dumbness, living in a drab apartment in Providence, R.I. (the Farrellys' home stomping ground) and toiling away at modest jobs in the hopes of one day opening a pet store together. Harry grooms dogs—not very well—and drives them around in a van that is itself disguised as a dog. (It's covered with shag carpeting on the outside.) Lloyd is a bumbling chauffeur, and as the movie opens, he falls in love-at-first-sight with a very pretty and obviously very rich client, Mary (Lauren Holly, a superb straightwoman). She's headed to the airport. Lloyd, smitten, asks her where she's going; the answer is Aspen. "Mmmm, California! Beautiful," he responds, and proceeds to engage this sweet but rather distracted young woman in a weirdly graceful stream of idiotic small talk. Every sentence is loopier than the next—he tells her the name of his future pet store will be I Got Worms, because its specialty is going to be worm farms—yet he just keeps prattling on, supremely confident in his ability to navigate life with aplomb.
Jim Carrey silencing Lauren Holly in a scene from 'Dumb & Dumber.'
It's a brilliant opening: Harry and Lloyd are dumb, but they don't know that they're dumb—their optimism, their unerring certainty that they've got all it takes to get ahead in the world, is both charming and grating. These are brilliantly broad performances, with deeper shadings of subtlety than you'd think. Harry, with his cap of frizzed-out, straw-colored hair, his mouth arranged in an almost perpetual frown of slack-jawed skepticism, has the hotter temper, and also seems to be the more worldly of the two, though that's debatable. When we first meet him, he's delivering a passel of messily groomed dogs to their uptight owner just in time for a dog show. As she rages at him, he calls her "Mrs. Loogyburger" for no discernible reason. (Her name is Mrs. Bourne.) There's an aggressive edge to his sloppy innocence—one of the keys to the movie is that you like these characters, but they never play the pathos card. The Farrellys aren't going for sappiness here. Lloyd and Harry's most aggravating qualities keep coming to the fore. Sometimes they antagonize one another openly. But their friendship is hardy and true. They need one another badly; no one else would have them.
Lloyd is one of the great comic creations of Carrey's career, which, at the time of Dumb and Dumber, was just blasting off. (He had two other hits that year, The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.) As Lloyd, Carrey's sleek brown hair appears to have been cut around the rim of a bowl, most likely a sly homage to the Three Stooges' Moe Howard. (Later, we see a barber giving him a trim using a steel mixing bowl as a template—but of course.) His ingratiating, devilish grin is marked by a raffish chipped tooth. According to lore, that's Carrey's real tooth and not a prosthetic. As he told Entertainment Weekly at the time," Clark La Prairie jumped on my head in grade-school detention. The nuns sent me home with my tooth in an envelope." Carrey simply had his dentist remove the cap that had long been hiding the jagged remnant.
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels getting their hair cut in 'Dumb & Dumber', 1994.
Carrey's performance style owes a debt to his idol, Jerry Lewis, and you can see that here in the precision of his movements, and in the control he maintains over every muscle, from head to toe—sometimes a gag announces itself gradually, breaking across his face like the sun rising over a mountain range. During the course of the movie—in which Lloyd and Harry set out on a road trip to Aspen, to return the briefcase Mary has left behind in Lloyd's limo—Lloyd, seemingly so innocent, repeatedly nudges Harry to the edge of his patience. He's also flagrant about spreading misinformation. While flipping through a tabletop jukebox at a diner, he informs his friend authoritatively that the Monkees were a huge influence on the Beatles. Earlier, when he's trying to convince Harry to set out on that road trip, he describes Aspen with a sense of malapropian wonder: It's "where beautiful women flock like the salmon of Capistrano."
What a dumb joke! But it's one you'd never see coming, and that's what makes it so funny. In fact, the small, tossed-off gags are the ones that hold Dumb and Dumber together. Tiny, absurd and ticklish, they fly at you like little gnats. Dumb and Dumber was the Farrellys' debut—it was co-written by the brothers and Bennett Yellin—and it's beautifully written and made, particularly for a first film. The Farrellys clearly paid close attention to the movie's rhythms and tone, without drying all the life out of the thing. Although they've come under fire for some of the choices they've made—they were criticized for putting Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit for Shallow Hal (2001), and Peter Farrelly is the director of last year's Oscar winner Green Book, beloved by many but decried by many others for being tone-deaf about race issues—the Farrellys are genuinely open-hearted filmmakers, and Dumb and Dumber signaled that. Some of the jokes may be prankish, but there's no cruelty in them. And the directors always show affection for their characters, making allowances for their flawed humanity.
Which brings us to the movie's signature scene: If a diarrhea explosion isn't a metaphor for flawed humanity, I'm not sure what is. Lloyd has become angry at Harry, because he believes Harry has been putting the moves on Mary—which he has. Lloyd wreaks revenge by secretly pouring laxative into Harry's drink: It's in a bottle that's marked, with Wile-E-Coyote obviousness, Turbo Lax. Harry drinks up, then sneaks off to see Mary. By the time he gets to her house, he's ready to explode, but he makes it to her luxuriously appointed guest bathroom just in time. He lets it all out—his face is a rainbow of relief and surprise, even as the sounds emitting from the other end constitute an ungodly aria of fwaps and toots and graaaaaaaws.
Then he learns the toilet is broken.
Toilet humor is the great leveler. Our bodily functions may sometimes be a source of humiliation, but they also unite us. As that extremely useful children's book assures us, everyone poops. Yet as grownups, we're not supposed to talk about any of that, at least not in polite company. Dumb and Dumber is a glorious symphony of moronic gags, a work of absurdity that's deeply intelligent at its core—you have to be a genius to make humor this brilliantly dumb. But it also reminds us that none of us are above feeling embarrassment. The only solution is to laugh at the things we can't help. And then open a window.
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