Healthline and the Senate: Battling the modern-day HIV epidemic
John Omar Esguerra, Healthline
Posted at Dec 12 2016 04:21 PM
In commemoration of the World AIDS Day observed every 1st of December, Senator Risa Hontiveros, head of the Committee on Health and Demography, partnered with LoveYourself last November 29 in spearheading an HIV Testing campaign for the employees of the Senate of the Philippines. Together with the help of the Pasay City Social Hygiene Clinic, the testing was conducted from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Jose P. Laurel Hall.
Hontiveros recognizes the need to decrease, if not obliterate, discrimination and increase the level of health consciousness and solidarity in the general public[1]. With aims to raise awareness about the disease and emphasize the importance of early detection, this partnership between LoveYourself and the senate is a good leap towards the battle against HIV.
The Senate for the Youth
Senator Hontiveros voiced out her concern for the youth and emphasized that they are now part of the key affected population of the HIV epidemic. “This is highly important for our youth because they are at the forefront of the vulnerable key affected population”, said the Senator. (Higit na mahalaga ito para sa ating mga kabataan dahil yung atin pong mga young Filipinos ay nasa forefront ng vulnerable [na] bahagi ng ating populasyon.) This can be reflected in the latest data from DOH where 27% of the newly reported cases of persons infected with HIV are youth aged 15-24 years.
With the latest trend that the large portion of the newly diagnosed cases has become younger, there has been notions to lower the age limit of individuals undergoing voluntary HIV testing. Once approved, individuals, as young as 15, will be allowed to undergo voluntary HIV testing without the need to secure his or her parent’s consent. This, coupled with counseling and early treatment will open a lot of opportunities in the battle against HIV.
Pushing for Improvements
A public hearing at the senate on the same day was conducted for the bills filed seeking to amend R.A. 8504, otherwise known as the Philippines AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998. As per Hontiveros’ opening remarks during the senate hearing, there is a growing consensus among policy makers, program implementers and advocates that the R.A. 8504 “will not deliver an end to the HIV epidemic in the country.” The government’s response and initiatives are still based on a legal framework from the past where HIV cases were still low and HIV was considered as a terminal condition.
Back in 1998, the number of reported cases of people living with HIV is at 189, which is a far cry from the 7,756 reported cases by the end of the third quarter of 2016, which affirms that a lot has already changed, and that the provisions of the current law may no longer be applicable to modern-day situations. There are now modern pharmacological advances and HIV prevention approaches available that we could benefit from which were not yet available during the time of the passage of the said bill.
As stated by Hontiveros, all five bills filed this year seeking to repeal R.A. 8504 have a lot of commonalities. The proposed amendments highlight the need to reinforce the existing mechanisms of the government in suppressing the HIV epidemic, with strong considerations in the observance of human rights, abating discrimination, eradicating stigma and uplifting the welfare of the community, especially the key affected population.
Another First For Healthline
Being the first advocacy organization to have been invited to conduct testing at the Senate, the event is a milestone for LoveYourself as an organization and an honorable recognition of the efforts it has made over the past few years. Last December 12, the organization’s founder, Vinn Pagtakhan, was awarded as one of the country’s Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) for founding an organization leading the fight against the HIV crisis.
The non-government organization comprised of volunteers has steadily made its mark as the leading HIV advocacy group in the country. Earlier this year, it has expanded its range of services from HIV testing to include life coaching and PLHIVs. Furthermore, it has launched a unique line of service centered on counseling for couples, known as LoveYourself Purple. Finally, in partnership with PrEP Pilipinas, LoveYourself will be the pioneers of PrEP, a revolutionary intervention method for preventing the spread of HIV, administration of which will be carried out through its two clinics, Anglo and Uni.
John Omar Esguerra, Healthline
Posted at Dec 12 2016 04:21 PM
In commemoration of the World AIDS Day observed every 1st of December, Senator Risa Hontiveros, head of the Committee on Health and Demography, partnered with LoveYourself last November 29 in spearheading an HIV Testing campaign for the employees of the Senate of the Philippines. Together with the help of the Pasay City Social Hygiene Clinic, the testing was conducted from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Jose P. Laurel Hall.
Hontiveros recognizes the need to decrease, if not obliterate, discrimination and increase the level of health consciousness and solidarity in the general public[1]. With aims to raise awareness about the disease and emphasize the importance of early detection, this partnership between LoveYourself and the senate is a good leap towards the battle against HIV.
The Senate for the Youth
Senator Hontiveros voiced out her concern for the youth and emphasized that they are now part of the key affected population of the HIV epidemic. “This is highly important for our youth because they are at the forefront of the vulnerable key affected population”, said the Senator. (Higit na mahalaga ito para sa ating mga kabataan dahil yung atin pong mga young Filipinos ay nasa forefront ng vulnerable [na] bahagi ng ating populasyon.) This can be reflected in the latest data from DOH where 27% of the newly reported cases of persons infected with HIV are youth aged 15-24 years.
With the latest trend that the large portion of the newly diagnosed cases has become younger, there has been notions to lower the age limit of individuals undergoing voluntary HIV testing. Once approved, individuals, as young as 15, will be allowed to undergo voluntary HIV testing without the need to secure his or her parent’s consent. This, coupled with counseling and early treatment will open a lot of opportunities in the battle against HIV.
Pushing for Improvements
A public hearing at the senate on the same day was conducted for the bills filed seeking to amend R.A. 8504, otherwise known as the Philippines AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998. As per Hontiveros’ opening remarks during the senate hearing, there is a growing consensus among policy makers, program implementers and advocates that the R.A. 8504 “will not deliver an end to the HIV epidemic in the country.” The government’s response and initiatives are still based on a legal framework from the past where HIV cases were still low and HIV was considered as a terminal condition.
Back in 1998, the number of reported cases of people living with HIV is at 189, which is a far cry from the 7,756 reported cases by the end of the third quarter of 2016, which affirms that a lot has already changed, and that the provisions of the current law may no longer be applicable to modern-day situations. There are now modern pharmacological advances and HIV prevention approaches available that we could benefit from which were not yet available during the time of the passage of the said bill.
As stated by Hontiveros, all five bills filed this year seeking to repeal R.A. 8504 have a lot of commonalities. The proposed amendments highlight the need to reinforce the existing mechanisms of the government in suppressing the HIV epidemic, with strong considerations in the observance of human rights, abating discrimination, eradicating stigma and uplifting the welfare of the community, especially the key affected population.
Another First For Healthline
Being the first advocacy organization to have been invited to conduct testing at the Senate, the event is a milestone for LoveYourself as an organization and an honorable recognition of the efforts it has made over the past few years. Last December 12, the organization’s founder, Vinn Pagtakhan, was awarded as one of the country’s Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) for founding an organization leading the fight against the HIV crisis.
The non-government organization comprised of volunteers has steadily made its mark as the leading HIV advocacy group in the country. Earlier this year, it has expanded its range of services from HIV testing to include life coaching and PLHIVs. Furthermore, it has launched a unique line of service centered on counseling for couples, known as LoveYourself Purple. Finally, in partnership with PrEP Pilipinas, LoveYourself will be the pioneers of PrEP, a revolutionary intervention method for preventing the spread of HIV, administration of which will be carried out through its two clinics, Anglo and Uni.


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Resource libraries provide an easy way to combine groups of resources into reusable components that can be used throughout the project as required.
Resource libraries are defined within project configuration. If they
are referenced by a module, included on a page, or are configured to be directly or indirectly included
on a page, Sage will insert their resources in the specified location (head
, body
or data
) of the pages that reference the library. The resources are inserted in order of dependency.
Example library
The following example shows a global library. Within the include
element there is only the
always
element, indicating that the library should be included on every view.
Reference
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p:library
Defines a resource library.
Attributes
-
@name
The unique name of the library
Parent elements
- None
Child elements
-
-
p:resources
Specifies the library resources.
Parent elements
Child elements
-
p:resource
Defines a single library resources.
Attributes
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@type
Specifies the type of the resource. Possible values are:
- script
- style
- icon
- document
-
@location
Specifies the location of the resource. Possible values are:
- head
- body
- data
-
@path
Specifies the path of the resource.
-
@limitTo
Specifies the user agent id to which this resource applies (i.e.
'ie6'
). If this value has been specified, the resource will be include only if the user agent id contains this value. This makes it possible to specify just a substring of the browser id.
-
-
p:include
Contains child elements that specify how this library will be included automatically.
or
products/(?:chewing|gums_r_us)/\d+/? catalog/(?:chewing|gums_r_us)/\d+/? Parent elements
Child elements
-
p:path
Defines an expression that specifies how a page URL should be look like in order for the library to be automatically included.
products/(?:chewing|gums_r_us)/\d+/? catalog/(?:chewing|gums_r_us)/\d+/? Attributes
-
@compare
Specifies the type of the expression. Possible values are:
- regex
- wildcard
- literal
Parent elements
Child elements
- None.
-
-
p:always
Secifies that the library should be included on all pages of the project. This element has no content or attributes.
Parent elements
Child elements
- None.
-
p:dependencies
Contains elements that specify other libraries that this library depends on. If there are library dependencies, they will always be automatically included preceding the library that references them.
Parent elements
Child elements
-
p:library[@ref]
Specifies a library that the current library depends on.
Attributes
-
@ref
Specifies the name of the referenced library.
Parent elements
Child elements
- None.
-


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There are two versions of the generated documentation:
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litelist v0.0.1 Litelist.Posts
The Posts context.
Link to this section Summary
Functions
Returns an %Ecto.Changeset{}
for tracking post changes
Creates a post
Deletes all Posts created by a given Neighbor
Deletes all posts returned from Posts.get_expired_posts_query
Deletes a Post
returns the query that will return expired posts
Ecto query that returns how many pending flags a post has iex> get_pending_flag_count(post) 2
Gets a single post
Returns a list of all posts with a given url
hide_post_if_over_flag_limit(post) If the posts has more flags than is allowed (a value that can be changed in /admin/settings), then the post will have soft_delete set to true
Returns a list of posts, ordered by title
Returns a list of posts, ordered by updated_at, desc
Returns the list of posts
Returns the list of posts created by a given neighbor
Returns the list of posts with a given search query
Returns the list of posts based on the type of post (eg. for_sale, job)
restore_post_if_flags_cleared(post) If the post has 0 flags, set to soft_delete to false
Updates a post
Link to this section Functions
Returns an %Ecto.Changeset{}
for tracking post changes.
Examples
iex> change_post(post)
%Ecto.Changeset{source: %Post{}}
Creates a post.
Examples
iex> create_post(%{field: value})
{:ok, %Post{}}
iex> create_post(%{field: bad_value})
{:error, %Ecto.Changeset{}}
Deletes all Posts created by a given Neighbor.
Examples
iex> delete_post_by_neighbor(neighbor)
Deletes all posts returned from Posts.get_expired_posts_query
Deletes a Post.
Examples
iex> delete_post(post)
{:ok, %Post{}}
iex> delete_post(post)
{:error, %Ecto.Changeset{}}
returns the query that will return expired posts
Ecto query that returns how many pending flags a post has iex> get_pending_flag_count(post) 2
Gets a single post.
Raises Ecto.NoResultsError
if the Post does not exist.
Examples
iex> get_post!(123)
%Post{}
iex> get_post!(456)
** (Ecto.NoResultsError)
Returns a list of all posts with a given url
hide_post_if_over_flag_limit(post) If the posts has more flags than is allowed (a value that can be changed in /admin/settings), then the post will have soft_delete set to true.
Returns a list of posts, ordered by title
Returns a list of posts, ordered by updated_at, desc
Returns the list of posts.
Examples
iex> list_posts()
[%Post{}, ...]
Returns the list of posts created by a given neighbor.
Examples
iex> list_posts_by_type(type)
[%Post{}, ...]
Returns the list of posts with a given search query.
Examples
iex> list_posts_by_search_term(search_term)
[%Post{}, ...]
Returns the list of posts based on the type of post (eg. for_sale, job).
Examples
iex> list_posts_by_type(type)
[%Post{}, ...]
restore_post_if_flags_cleared(post) If the post has 0 flags, set to soft_delete to false
Updates a post.
Examples
iex> update_post(post, %{field: new_value})
{:ok, %Post{}}
iex> update_post(post, %{field: bad_value})
{:error, %Ecto.Changeset{}}


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Files which were not created by bzip2 will be detected and ignored, and a warning issued. bzip2 attempts to guess the filename for the decompressed file from that of the compressed file as follows: filename.bz2 becomes filename filename.bz becomes filename filename.tbz2 becomes filename.tar filename.tbz becomes filename.tar anyothername becomes anyothername.out If the file does not end in one of the recognised endings, .bz2, .bz, .tbz2 or .tbz, bzip2 complains that it cannot guess the name of the orig‐ inal file, and uses the original name with .out appended. As with compression, supplying no filenames causes decompression from standard input to standard output. bunzip2 will correctly decompress a file which is the concatenation of two or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity testing (-t) of concatenated compressed files is also supported. You can also compress or decompress files to the standard output by giv‐ ing the -c flag. Multiple files may be compressed and decompressed like this. The resulting outputs are fed sequentially to stdout. Compression of multiple files in this manner generates a stream containing multiple compressed file representations. Such a stream can be decompressed cor‐ rectly only by bzip2 version 0.9.0 or later. Earlier versions of bzip2 will stop after decompressing the first file in the stream. bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output. bzip2 will read arguments from the environment variables BZIP2 and BZIP, in that order, and will process them before any arguments read from the command line. This gives a convenient way to supply default arguments. Compression is always performed, even if the compressed file is slightly larger than the original. Files of less than about one hundred bytes tend to get larger, since the compression mechanism has a constant over‐ head in the region of 50 bytes. Random data (including the output of most file compressors) is coded at about 8.05 bits per byte, giving an expansion of around 0.5%. As a self-check for your protection, bzip2 uses 32-bit CRCs to make sure that the decompressed version of a file is identical to the original. This guards against corruption of the compressed data, and against unde‐ tected bugs in bzip2 (hopefully very unlikely). The chances of data cor‐ ruption going undetected is microscopic, about one chance in four billion for each file processed. Be aware, though, that the check occurs upon decompression, so it can only tell you that something is wrong. It can't help you recover the original uncompressed data. You can use bzip2recover to try to recover data from damaged files. Return values: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, &c), 2 to indicate a corrupt com‐ pressed file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which caused bzip2 to panic. OPTIONS -c --stdout Compress or decompress to standard output. -d --decompress Force decompression. bzip2, bunzip2 and bzcat are really the same program, and the decision about what actions to take is done on the basis of which name is used. This flag overrides that mecha‐ nism, and forces bzip2 to decompress. -z --compress The complement to -d: forces compression, regardless of the invo‐ cation name. -t --test Check integrity of the specified file(s), but don't decompress them. This really performs a trial decompression and throws away the result. -f --force Force overwrite of output files. Normally, bzip2 will not over‐ write existing output files. Also forces bzip2 to break hard links to files, which it otherwise wouldn't do. bzip2 normally declines to decompress files which don't have the correct magic header bytes. If forced (-f), however, it will pass such files through unmodified. This is how GNU gzip behaves. -k --keep Keep (don't delete) input files during compression or decompres‐ sion. -s --small Reduce memory usage, for compression, decompression and testing. Files are decompressed and tested using a modified algorithm which only requires 2.5 bytes per block byte. This means any file can be decompressed in 2300 k of memory, albeit at about half the nor‐ mal speed. During compression, -s selects a block size of 200 k, which limits memory use to around the same figure, at the expense of your com‐ pression ratio. In short, if your machine is low on memory (8 megabytes or less), use -s for everything. See MEMORY MANAGEMENT below. -q --quiet Suppress non-essential warning messages. Messages pertaining to I/O errors and other critical events will not be suppressed. -v --verbose Verbose mode -- show the compression ratio for each file pro‐ cessed. Further -v's increase the verbosity level, spewing out lots of information which is primarily of interest for diagnostic purposes. -h --help Print a help message and exit. -L --license -V --version Display the software version, license terms and conditions. -1 (or --fast) to -9 (or --best) Set the block size to 100 k, 200 k ... 900 k when compressing. Has no effect when decompressing. See MEMORY MANAGEMENT below. The --fast and --best aliases are primarily for GNU gzip compati‐ bility. In particular, --fast doesn't make things significantly faster. And --best merely selects the default behaviour. -- Treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they start with a dash. This is so you can handle files with names beginning with a dash, for example: bzip2 -- -myfilename. --repetitive-fast --repetitive-best These flags are redundant in versions 0.9.5 and above. They pro‐ vided some coarse control over the behaviour of the sorting algo‐ rithm in earlier versions, which was sometimes useful. 0.9.5 and above have an improved algorithm which renders these flags irrele‐ vant. MEMORY MANAGEMENT bzip2 compresses large files in blocks. The block size affects both the compression ratio achieved, and the amount of memory needed for compres‐ sion and decompression. The flags -1 through -9 specify the block size to be 100,000 bytes through 900,000 bytes (the default) respectively. At decompression time, the block size used for compression is read from the header of the compressed file, and bunzip2 then allocates itself just enough memory to decompress the file. Since block sizes are stored in compressed files, it follows that the flags -1 to -9 are irrelevant to and so ignored during decompression. Compression and decompression requirements, in bytes, can be estimated as: Compression: 400 k + ( 8 x block size ) Decompression: 100 k + ( 4 x block size ), or 100 k + ( 2.5 x block size ) Larger block sizes give rapidly diminishing marginal returns. Most of the compression comes from the first two or three hundred k of block size, a fact worth bearing in mind when using bzip2 on small machines. It is also important to appreciate that the decompression memory require‐ ment is set at compression time by the choice of block size. For files compressed with the default 900 k block size, bunzip2 will require about 3700 kbytes to decompress. To support decompression of any file on a 4 megabyte machine, bunzip2 has an option to decompress using approximately half this amount of memory, about 2300 kbytes. Decompres‐ sion speed is also halved, so you should use this option only where nec‐ essary. The relevant flag is -s. In general, try and use the largest block size memory constraints allow, since that maximises the compression achieved. Compression and decom‐ pression speed are virtually unaffected by block size. Another significant point applies to files which fit in a single block -- that means most files you'd encounter using a large block size. The amount of real memory touched is proportional to the size of the file, since the file is smaller than a block. For example, compressing a file 20,000 bytes long with the flag -9 will cause the compressor to allocate around 7600 k of memory, but only touch 400 k + 20000 * 8 = 560 kbytes of it. Similarly, the decompressor will allocate 3700 k but only touch 100 k + 20000 * 4 = 180 kbytes. Here is a table which summarises the maximum memory usage for different block sizes. Also recorded is the total compressed size for 14 files of the Calgary Text Compression Corpus totalling 3,141,622 bytes. This col‐ umn gives some feel for how compression varies with block size. These figures tend to understate the advantage of larger block sizes for larger files, since the Corpus is dominated by smaller files. Compress Decompress Decompress Corpus Flag usage usage -s usage Size -1 1200k 500k 350k 914704 -2 2000k 900k 600k 877703 -3 2800k 1300k 850k 860338 -4 3600k 1700k 1100k 846899 -5 4400k 2100k 1350k 845160 -6 5200k 2500k 1600k 838626 -7 6100k 2900k 1850k 834096 -8 6800k 3300k 2100k 828642 -9 7600k 3700k 2350k 828642 RECOVERING DATA FROM DAMAGED FILES bzip2 compresses files in blocks, usually 900 kbytes long. Each block is handled independently. If a media or transmission error causes a multi- block .bz2 file to become damaged, it may be possible to recover data from the undamaged blocks in the file. The compressed representation of each block is delimited by a 48-bit pat‐ tern, which makes it possible to find the block boundaries with reason‐ able certainty. Each block also carries its own 32-bit CRC, so damaged blocks can be distinguished from undamaged ones. bzip2recover is a simple program whose purpose is to search for blocks in .bz2 files, and write each block out into its own .bz2 file. You can then use bzip2 -t to test the integrity of the resulting files, and decompress those which are undamaged. bzip2recover takes a single argument, the name of the damaged file, and writes a number of files "rec00001file.bz2", "rec00002file.bz2", etc., containing the extracted blocks. The output filenames are designed so that the use of wildcards in subsequent processing -- for example, "bzip2 -dc rec*file.bz2 > recovered_data" -- processes the files in the correct order. bzip2recover should be of most use dealing with large .bz2 files, as these will contain many blocks. It is clearly futile to use it on dam‐ aged single-block files, since a damaged block cannot be recovered. If you wish to minimise any potential data loss through media or transmis‐ sion errors, you might consider compressing with a smaller block size. PERFORMANCE NOTES The sorting phase of compression gathers together similar strings in the file. Because of this, files containing very long runs of repeated sym‐ bols, like "aabaabaabaab ..." (repeated several hundred times) may com‐ press more slowly than normal. Versions 0.9.5 and above fare much better than previous versions in this respect. The ratio between worst-case and average-case compression time is in the region of 10:1. For previous versions, this figure was more like 100:1. You can use the -vvvv option to monitor progress in great detail, if you want. Decompression speed is unaffected by these phenomena. bzip2 usually allocates several megabytes of memory to operate in, and then charges all over it in a fairly random fashion. This means that performance, both for compressing and decompressing, is largely deter‐ mined by the speed at which your machine can service cache misses. Because of this, small changes to the code to reduce the miss rate have been observed to give disproportionately large performance improvements. I imagine bzip2 will perform best on machines with very large caches. CAVEATS I/O error messages are not as helpful as they could be. bzip2 tries hard to detect I/O errors and exit cleanly, but the details of what the prob‐ lem is sometimes seem rather misleading. This manual page pertains to version 1.0.6 of bzip2. Compressed data created by this version is entirely forwards and backwards compatible with the previous public releases, versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and above, but with the following exception: 0.9.0 and above can correctly decompress multiple concatenated compressed files. 0.1pl2 cannot do this; it will stop after decompressing just the first file in the stream. bzip2recover versions prior to 1.0.2 used 32-bit integers to represent bit positions in compressed files, so they could not handle compressed files more than 512 megabytes long. Versions 1.0.2 and above use 64-bit ints on some platforms which support them (GNU supported targets, and Windows). To establish whether or not bzip2recover was built with such a limitation, run it without arguments. In any event you can build your‐ self an unlimited version if you can recompile it with MaybeUInt64 set to be an unsigned 64-bit integer. AUTHOR Julian Seward, jsewardbzip.org. http://www.bzip.org The ideas embodied in bzip2 are due to (at least) the following people: Michael Burrows and David Wheeler (for the block sorting transformation), David Wheeler (again, for the Huffman coder), Peter Fenwick (for the structured coding model in the original bzip, and many refinements), and Alistair Moffat, Radford Neal and Ian Witten (for the arithmetic coder in the original bzip). I am much indebted for their help, support and advice. See the manual in the source distribution for pointers to sources of documentation. Christian von Roques encouraged me to look for faster sorting algorithms, so as to speed up compression. Bela Lubkin encouraged me to improve the worst-case compression performance. Donna Robinson XMLised the documentation. The bz* scripts are derived from those of GNU gzip. Many people sent patches, helped with portability problems, lent machines, gave advice and were generally helpful. bzip2(1)


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Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (1)Updated: Mar 15, 2004
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NAME
mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpointSYNOPSIS
/bin/mountpoint [-q] [-d] /path/to/directory/bin/mountpoint -x /dev/device
DESCRIPTION
Mountpoint checks if the directory is a mountpoint.OPTIONS
- -q
- Be quiet - don't print anything.
- -d
- Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.
- -x
- Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout.
EXIT STATUS
Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not.NOTES
Symbolic links are not followed, except when the -x option is used. To force following symlinks, add a trailing slash to the path of the directory.The name of the command is misleading when the -x option is used, but the option is useful for comparing if a directory and a device match up, and there is no other command that can print the info easily.
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Convenience API¶
NNC provides convenience APIs for its usage. You can use it by simply #include <nnc/ccv_nnc_easy.h>
. But being convenience API, it is optimized for shorthand coding, and may collide the naming space with others.
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const int ccv_nnc_no_ofs[CCV_NNC_MAX_DIM_ALLOC]¶
Offsets all zero.
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const ccv_nnc_hint_t ccv_nnc_no_hint¶
No hint available.
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const ccv_nnc_symbolic_graph_compile_param_t ccv_nnc_default_compile_params¶
The default symbolic graph compile parameters.
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const ccv_nnc_cmd_param_t ccv_nnc_cmd_auto¶
Derive the command parameters automatically if possible.
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const ccv_nnc_tensor_param_t ccv_nnc_tensor_auto¶
Derive the tensor parameters automatically if possible.
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TENSOR_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of tensors to NNC functions that accepts (tensor array, tensor array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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TENSOR_PARAM_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of tensor parameters to NNC functions that accepts (parameter array, parameter array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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NO_TENSOR_SYMBOL¶
This represents a tensor symbol that is empty (tensor = nil)
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NO_GRAPH_EXEC_SYMBOL¶
This represents a graph exec symbol that is empty (exec = nil)
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TENSOR_SYMBOL_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of tensor symbols to NNC functions that accepts (tensor symbol array, tensor symbol array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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TENSOR_VARIABLE_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of tensor variables to NNC functions that accepts (tensor variable array, tensor variable array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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TENSOR_BIND_MAP(...)¶
Pass a list of tensor bindings to NNC functions that accepts (tensor binding array, tensor binding array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one. Since tensor binding requires two: symbol and a tensor, you should use this like: TENSOR_BIND_MAP(KV(symbol1, tensor1), KV(symbol2, tensor2)).
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TENSOR_SYMBOL_MAP(...)¶
Pass a list of tensor symbol pairs to NNC functions that accepts (tensor symbol pair array, tensor symbol pair array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one. Since tensor symbol pair requires two: source symbol and destination symbol, you should use this like: TENSOR_SYMBOL_MAP(KV(symbol1, symbol2), KV(symbol3, symbol4)).
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GRAPH_EXEC_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of execution nodes to NNC functions that accepts (execution node array, execution node array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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GRAPH_EXEC_SYMBOL_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of execution node symbols to NNC functions that accepts (execution node symbol array, execution node symbol array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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SYMBOLIC_GRAPH_SOURCES(x)¶
Pass both default sources and default sources size to function that accepts (sources, source size).
- Parameters:
x – A given symbolic graph.
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SYMBOLIC_GRAPH_DESTINATIONS(x)¶
Pass both default destinations and default destinations size to function that accepts (destinations, destination size).
- Parameters:
x – A given symbolic graph.
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SYMBOLIC_GRAPH_PASSES(...)¶
Pass a list of simplification passes to NNC functions that accepts (pass array, pass array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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MODEL_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of CNNP models to NNC functions that accepts (model array, model array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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MODEL_IO_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of CNNP model IOs to NNC functions that accepts (model IO array, model IO array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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MODEL_CMD_EXEC_IO_MAP(...)¶
Pass a list of CNNP tensor params to ccv_cnnp_cmd_exec which accepts (tensor params array, tensor params array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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MODEL_CMD_EXEC_IO_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of CNNP tensor type to ccv_cnnp_cmd_exec which accepts (tensor type array, tensor type array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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COLUMN_ID_LIST(...)¶
Pass a list of dataframe column ids to iteration function that accepts (column id array, column id array size). This method effectively gives two parameters as one.
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TRAVERSE_FULL¶
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ALL_PARAMETERS¶
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CPU_NUMA_TENSOR_NHWC(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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CPU_NUMA_TENSOR_NCHW(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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CPU_NUMA_TENSOR_CHWN(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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CPU_TENSOR_NHWC(dt, ...)¶
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CPU_TENSOR_NCHW(dt, ...)¶
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CPU_TENSOR_CHWN(dt, ...)¶
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GPU_TENSOR_NHWC(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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GPU_TENSOR_NCHW(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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GPU_TENSOR_CHWN(device_id, dt, ...)¶
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HINT(...)¶
Simpler method to create hint. HINT(stride), HINT(stride, border), HINT(stride, border begin, border end)


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by Chuck JonesPresident Trump campaigned on bringing back the coal industry. Unfortunately for coal miners, who have to be some of the hardest workers in the country by going underground and risking their health and lives to supply energy to tens of millions of people, economic forces outweigh any rhetoric from Trump.
Coal companies are struggling
Coal companies are reporting disappointing financial results and filing for bankruptcy. It is an extremely tough financial environment as the price of coal has fallen 38% from its recent high in October 2018 and is back down to 2016 prices.
Peabody Energy reported a larger EPS loss for the September quarter than analysts had forecast ($0.57 vs. $0.41) compared to positive EPS of $0.63 a year ago. Revenue fell dramatically to $1.4 billion, down over 21% year-over-year. Price declines hurt the results but sales volume also fell almost 9% to 44.8 million tons. Analysts are also projecting a $(1.07) per share loss for 2020, so the outlook is pretty bleak.
On July 1 Blackjewel filed for bankruptcy, which impacted about 600 workers. While the mines have been bought by another company and mining resumed in October, this isn’t a picture of a healthy industry.
Another indication was Murray Energy, the nation’s largest privately owned coal producer and the third largest overall, filing for bankruptcy at the end of October. This coincided with Peabody’s disappointing results and cratered the Dow Jones U.S. Coal Index.
Coal plants continue to shut down
The U.S. Energy Information Administration or EIA’s data shows that, “between 2010 and the first quarter of 2019, U.S. power companies announced the retirement of more than 546 coal-fired power units, totaling about 102 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity.”
It also appears that in the past few years power generation companies are willing to retire larger and newer plants than previously. The EIA has found that, “Coal-fired units that retired after 2015 in the United States have generally been larger and younger than the units that retired before 2015. The U.S. coal units that retired in 2018 had an average capacity of 350 megawatts (MW) and an average age of 46 years, compared with an average capacity of 129 MW and average age of 56 years for the coal units that retired in 2015.”
If this trends continues future retirements should continue to have a large impact on coal miners, even though fewer plants are closing.
Coal used to generate electricity forecast to decline
The EIA estimates that coal was used to generate 1,800 million megawatthours of electricity in 2010 for the PJM Interconnection transmission area and should fall to 900 million megawatthours in 2020. As a percentage of electricity generation coal fell from 54% in 2010 to a projected 20% in 2020. Natural gas and wind are forecast to be the fastest growing sources.
It may only get worse
The Association of American Railroads publishes weekly and year-to-date data on U.S. rail shipments. The latest information as of November 2 had coal shipments down 7.8% for the year and a dramatic decline of 17.5% for the week. As you can see from the previous six weeks coal shipments have declined over double digits year-over-year.
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| Total edits | 165 |
| Editors | 111 |
| Assessment | Disambig |
| Pageviews (60 days) | 1,118 |
| Minor edits | 45 · (27.3%) |
| IP edits | 46 · (27.9%) |
| Bot edits | 9 · (5.5%) |
| (Semi-)automated edits | 28 |
| Reverted edits | 28 |
| First edit | 2004-12-15 06:13 • Nickj • 18 |
| Latest edit | 2021-08-06 23:41 • ClueBot NG • 94 |
| Max. text added | 2005-09-05 21:11 • Boivie • 3,017 |
| Max. text deleted | 2007-11-17 16:21 • Sgeureka • -3,791 |
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| Average time between edits (days) | 36.8 days |
| Average edits per user | 1.5 |
| Average edits per day | 0 |
| Average edits per month | 0.8 |
| Average edits per year | 9.9 |
| Edits in the past 24 hours | 0 |
| Edits in the past 7 days | 0 |
| Edits in the past 30 days | 0 |
| Edits in the past 365 days | 6 |
| Edits made by the top 10% of editors | 47 · (28.5%) |
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| Links to this page | 28 |
| Redirects | 2 |
| Links from this page | 24 |
| External links | 0 |
| Categories | 7 |
| Files | 2 |
| Templates | 49 |
| Prose | |
| Characters | 89 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sections | 5 |
| References | 0 |
| Unique references | 0 |
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46 (27.9%)
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120 (72.7%)
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45 (27.3%)
Top 10%
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47 (28.5%)
Bottom 90%
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118 (71.5%)
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Bkonrad
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E Pluribus Anthony
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RC711
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InternetMeme
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PamD
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Boivie
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Gary
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Sbvishal
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Sgeureka
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Boivie
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RC711
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Sbvishal
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SchreiberBike
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Froid
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<IP_ADDRESS>
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E Pluribus Anthony
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Matthiaspaul
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<IP_ADDRESS>
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Zero Blazer
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| 1 | ClueBot NG | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 3 |
| 2 | SmackBot (Former bot) | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
| 3 | ZéroBot (Former bot) | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
| 4 | CmdrObot | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
| 5 | Addbot | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
| 6 | Yobot | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
| 7 | Snotbot | Top Edits · Edit Counter | 1 |
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005 | 11 | 1 | 9.1% | 7 | 63.6% | |
| 2006 | 7 | 1 | 14.3% | 2 | 28.6% | |
| 2007 | 20 | 7 | 35% | 3 | 15% | |
| 2008 | 27 | 8 | 29.6% | 5 | 18.5% | |
| 2009 | 12 | 6 | 50% | 4 | 33.3% | |
| 2010 | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | 2 | 25% | |
| 2011 | 5 | 2 | 40% | 3 | 60% | |
| 2012 | 6 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 2013 | 7 | 2 | 28.6% | 1 | 14.3% | |
| 2014 | 24 | 6 | 25% | 6 | 25% | |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2016 | 5 | 2 | 40% | 2 | 40% | |
| 2018 | 9 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 2019 | 9 | 4 | 44.4% | 5 | 55.6% | |
| 2020 | 8 | 4 | 50% | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 25% |
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| 2005-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005-09 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2005-11 | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | 7 | 87.5% | |
| 2005-12 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-01 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-02 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-03 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-04 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-05 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-07 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2006-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2006-11 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2006-12 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-01 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-02 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-03 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-04 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-05 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 2007-06 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-08 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2007-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-10 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2007-11 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2007-12 | 5 | 3 | 60% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-01 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-02 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-03 | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 25% | |
| 2008-04 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-05 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-06 | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-07 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 1 | 25% | |
| 2008-08 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-09 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2008-10 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2008-11 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2008-12 | 6 | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 2009-01 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-02 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2009-03 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2009-04 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-05 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-07 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-10 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 2009-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2009-12 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2010-01 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010-02 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010-03 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2010-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010-09 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2010-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2010-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010-12 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2011-01 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 100% | |
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| 2011-05 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2011-06 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2011-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2011-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2011-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2011-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2013-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2013-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2013-12 | 4 | 2 | 50% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2014-02 | 4 | 4 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2014-04 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2014-05 | 10 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 40% | |
| 2014-06 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2014-07 | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 2014-08 | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2014-09 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2014-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2014-11 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2014-12 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2015-05 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2015-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-08 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2015-12 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2016-02 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2016-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016-12 | 5 | 2 | 40% | 2 | 40% | |
| 2018-01 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-02 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-03 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-04 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2018-05 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2018-08 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-09 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018-12 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019-01 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 2019-02 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2019-03 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2019-05 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019-06 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2019-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019-08 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2019-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 100% | |
| 2019-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019-12 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2020-07 | 5 | 3 | 60% | 1 | 20% | |
| 2020-08 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2020-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020-12 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-01 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
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| 2021-05 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-06 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-07 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-08 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| 2021-09 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-10 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
| 2021-11 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
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| Undo | 6 |
| Bot revert | 3 |
| Popups | 2 |
| AutoWikiBrowser | 2 |
| STiki | 1 |
| XFDcloser | 1 |
| Dabfix | 1 |
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The meaning of art is often culturally specific, shared among the members of a given society and dependent upon cultural context. The purpose of works of art may be to communicate political, spiritual or philosophThe nature of art has been described by philosopher Richard Wollheim as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture." It has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. More recently, thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger have interpreted art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation.
Since I was a kid I had some type of attraction towards art and design. Both my parents are interested in art. During my weekends I would often spend my time in art galleries taking my time to learn and appreciate the work of all great artists. After experimenting different techniques, I soon realised that i was more interested in abstract art and am now working on developing my skills on it.