Keith Haring’s Most Risqué Mural Is Hidden in a Public Bathroom. Haring was gay and active in the 1980s LGBT rights movement, and made striking posters and paintings advocating for safe sex, awareness, and research around HIV and AIDS. One of his most searing pieces shows three figures with large X’s on their torsos, and hands over their eyes, ears, and mouth.
Slogans that read “Ignorance = Fear” and “Silence = Death” box them in. When the LGBT Community Center invited Haring in 1989 to create a work in their new 13th Street home, he enthusiastically accepted, choosing to locate the mural in the building’s second-floor men’s bathroom. “The work really powerfully captures a time and an energy when our community was fighting for our lives— trying to stay resistant, and celebrating what we could,” says Glennda Testone, the LGBTQ Community Center’s Executive Director. Haring titled the piece Once Upon a Time, a nod to the gay community’s halcyon days of free love.
Cause And Effect: The Revolutionary New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart — The Physics arXiv Blog. One of the most commonly repeated maxims in science is that correlation is not causation. And there is no shortage of examples demonstrating why. One of the most famous is the case of hormone replacement therapy, which was studied by numerous epidemiologists at the end of the last century. These studies showed that women who took hormone replacement therapy had less chance of developing heart disease.
Naturally, doctors suggested that hormone replacement therapy somehow protected against heart disease. That turned out to be an erroneous conclusion. Later studies showed that women who took hormone replacement therapy were likely to be from higher socio-economic groups with higher incomes, better diets and generally healthier outcomes. It was this that caused the correlation the earlier studies had found. In the absence of controlled trials, statisticians have widely assumed that it is impossible to determine cause and effect from an observed correlation alone. arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3773v1.pdf.
Comparison of C Sharp and Java. Summarized differences[edit] Data types[edit] Unified type system[edit] In Java, compound types are synonymous with reference types; methods cannot be defined for a type unless it is also a class reference type. In C# the concepts of encapsulation and methods have been decoupled from the reference requirement so that a type can support methods and encapsulation without being a reference type. Only reference types support virtual methods and specialization, however. Both languages support a number of built-in types that are copied and passed by value rather than by reference. The C# primitive/simple types implement a number of interfaces and consequently offer a number of methods directly on instances of the types - even on the literals.
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We exist in an artificially segregated world, where the common characteristics that bond us as a species have been largely ignored and instead, we are taught from a very early age to internalize an identity within a much smaller in-group: as the adherent of a religion, as the citizen of a nation, as the diehard fan of a sports team, and so on. In many societies we enforce these internalizations by celebrating them, and in our celebration a chasm is implicitly created between our in-group and everyone else (the out-group). This chasm is the thing that groups must take advantage of in order to mobilize armies.
(this response was copied from an earlier thread) Vasa förr och nu. Rafael Olin Rafael Olin (1937-2004) verkade som pressfotograf på Vasabladet 1961-1971. Hans negativsamling omfattar ca 100 000 bilder och finns bevarad vid Österbottens traditionsarkiv. Olin hade planer på att ge ut fotoboken ”Det Vasa som försvinner”, men hann aldrig förverkliga den. Hans tanke var att jämföra stadsbilden i Vasa på 1960-talet och 2000-talet. Webbutställningen Vasa förr och nu presenterar 42 utvalda motiv ur Olins produktion parallellt med motsvarande motiv fotograferade 40-50 år senare. Bilderna från 2009-2012 är tagna av Kai Martonen. Ta gärna kontakt med traditionsarkivet om du har frågor eller kommentarer om bilderna. Välkommen på en rundtur i Vasa! Starta webbutställningen genom att klicka på pilen till höger.
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Worse, seldom is it explained how to square the circle. How can confidence be restored as the crisis economies plunge into recession? Follow Project Syndicate on Facebook or Twitter. This we should know by now: markets on their own are not stable. How To Root "Jailbreak" Amazon Kindle Fire On 6.2.2.
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Stare at this long enough and you could mistake the scene for something adorable—birds building a nest. Over the last couple years, videos like these ones from UPenn have become a mainstay of science and tech blogs. The technology is not standing still. Home. Flash Downloader For Firefox - Free Flash Save, Flash Download. International Film Awards: A Selection of the Strangest Categories. “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood finally gets the release it deserves. Pick of the week: The greatest French love story of all - Our Picks: Movies. Until watching the magnificent new restoration of Marcel Carné’s 1945 “Children of Paradise” a few days ago, I hadn’t seen this legendary love story — arguably the most famous and beloved film ever made in France — in more than 20 years.
I was a little apprehensive. “Children of Paradise” is a highly theatrical and conspicuously artificial production, a vibrant, teeming costume drama set on the “Boulevard of Crime” in early 19th-century Paris, and entirely shot on soundstages. It’s exactly the kind of highfalutin, quasi-literary, star-centric, pseudo-Hollywood picture (often called the tradition de qualité) that Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and the rest of the French New Wave would so forcefully reject, 15 or 20 years later.
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_why came to Pittsburgh and presented his latest project to a room full of a student programmers and artists. He was scruffily handsome, seemingly in his early- to mid-30s, with shaggy brown hair falling in his eyes and a constant half-smile. He looked like a member of an indie band—he actually was in an indie band—or the leader of an experimental improv troupe. At this symposium, he wore a pair of oversize sunglasses and a tidy sports coat with a red pocket square, a silly riff on a stuffy professor’s outfit. Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby Related Story: Where's _why? Why? That’s it. Easing Eye Strain With the Right Lenses. Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? Abdulelah Haider Shaye. Credit: Iona Craig. On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said “had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP.”
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