Mr. Pei was probably best known for designing the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the glass pyramid that serves as an entry for the Louvre in Paris. He was hired by William Zeckendorf in 1948, shortly after he received his graduate degree in architecture from Harvard, to oversee the design of buildings produced by Zeckendorf’s firm, Webb & Knapp. At a time when most of his Harvard classmates considered themselves fortunate to get to design a single-family house or two, Mr. Pei quickly found himself engaged in the design of high-rise buildings, and he used that experience as a springboard to establish his own firm, I. M. Pei & Associates, which he set up in 1955 with Henry Cobb and Eason Leonard, the team he had assembled at Webb & Knapp.

Researchers believe that the cardinal frequenting the Caldwells’ bird feeder in Erie, Pa., is a rare bilateral gynandromorph, half male and half female. Not much is known about the unusual phenomenon, but this sexual split has been reported among birds, reptiles, butterflies and crustaceans. No one can be sure the bird is a gynandromorph without analyzing its genes with a blood test or necroscopy, but the split in plumage down the middle is characteristic of the rare event, according to Daniel Hooper, an evolutionary biologist at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.

This study’s objective was to examine the effect of imprisonment on violent crime in the community among individuals on the policy margin between prison and probation sentences. Being sentenced to prison had no significant effects on arrests or convictions for violent crimes after release from prison, but imprisonment modestly reduced the probability of violence if comparisons included the effects of incapacitation during imprisonment. These results suggest that for individuals on the current policy margin between prison and probation, imprisonment is an ineffective long-term intervention for violence prevention, as it has, on balance, no rehabilitative or deterrent effects after release.

The SAT, the college entrance test taken by about two million students a year, is adding an “adversity score” to the test results that is intended to help admissions officers account for factors like educational or socioeconomic disadvantage that may depress students’ scores, the College Board, the company that administers the test, said Thursday. Colleges have long been concerned with scoring patterns on the SAT that seem unfavorable to certain socioeconomic groups: Higher scores have been found to correlate with students coming from a higher-income families and having better-educated parents. The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials.

Wiener’s bill, which would eliminate some zoning restrictions near major transit lines and job centers—and likely result in de facto upzoning of key parcels in major California cities and taller, more dense housing in these areas—faced the senate’s Appropriations Committee this week. In a brief and speedy hearing, the zoning plan ended up in suspense: In the language of Senate arcana, this means “a bill or set of bills, with a fiscal impact, set aside in Appropriations Committee by a majority of members present and voting” and that “[t]hese bills may be heard at a later hearing.” SB 50 survived a potentially hazardous April trial in the form of a committee hearing alongside a competing, less aggressive bills from North Bay Sen. Mike McGuire.

Hermes is the heart pumping messages in our microservice architecture. It pays to use Hermes when you have an environment with 20+ services developed by many teams. At Allegro for example, most developer teams use Hermes, but a few teams use raw Kafka directly.

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With above command we add all our files (you can specify them with whole directories or file by file) to somewhat container, i.e. we stage our changes, to make Git notice that they’ve been changed – created, updated or removed. Turns out it is such common thing to do, that Git provides a shortcut for that, in the form of command, which automatically fetches and merges your current branch with the main remote one. To push your changes from the current branch to remote one, you can use command.

Cleland teamed up with the California Deer Association, a hunting and conservation group, and the California Rifle and Pistol Association, the state’s National Rifle Association affiliate, to find a legislator open to the idea. In Idaho, 10,000 roadkill reports have been logged since the state implemented a similar program in 2012, according to Gregg Servheen of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. A legislative analysis of the bill notes that while the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has rarely exercised its authority for wild game, “if the consumption of road kill becomes widespread, there may well be an important assessment role for it to protect public health.”

“The whole idea that a 4.6-billion-year-old rocky body like the moon has managed to stay hot enough in the interior and produce this network of faults just flies in the face of conventional wisdom,” says study coauthor Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Since 2009, Watters has been using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map thousands of scarps all around the moon. Of the 28 recorded events, eight might have occurred within around 18 miles of a scarp, and six of those happened when the moon was at its farthest point from Earth, just when tidal stresses on the lunar surface should peak.

Numeric separators help improve readability for all kinds of numeric literals:

As of Chrome 75, V8 can stream scripts directly from network into the streaming parser, without waiting for the Chrome main thread. While previous Chrome versions had streaming parsing and compilation, the script source data coming in from the network always had to make its way to the Chrome main thread first before being forwarded to the streamer, for historical reasons. In Chrome 75, we connect the network “data pipe” directly to V8, allowing us to read network data directly during streaming parsing, skipping the dependency on the main thread.