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Jim Zumwalt is now a regular speaker and contributing journalist at Happenings Q&A Radio and Happenings Magazine.
James Zumwalt is a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the 1989 intervention into Panama and Desert Storm. He currently heads a security consulting firm named after his father—Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc.
His thoughtful perspectives earned him an invitation to join the prestigious Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), of which the honorary co-chairmen are Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Jon Kyl, former Secretary of State George P. Schultz and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey. The CPD is a non-partisan organization with one goal—to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism & the ideologies that drive it.


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from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

from commoncode import fileset
from commoncode import filetype
from itertools import chain
from commoncode import fileutils

"""
Support for ignoring some file patterns such as .git or .svn directories, used
typically when walking file systems.
Also handle .ignore-like file and provide common default ignores.
"""

def is_ignored(location, ignores, unignores, skip_special=True):
    """
    Return a tuple of (pattern , message) if a file at location is ignored
    or False otherwise.
    `ignores` and `unignores` are mappings of patterns to a reason.
    """
    if skip_special and filetype.is_special(location):
        return True
    return fileset.match(location, includes=ignores, excludes=unignores)

def is_ignore_file(location):
    """
    Return True if the location is an ignore file.
    """
    return (filetype.is_file(location)
            and fileutils.file_name(location) == '.scancodeignore')

def get_ignores(location, include_defaults=True):
    """
    Return a ignores and unignores patterns mappings loaded from the
    file at `location`. Optionally include defaults patterns
    """
    ignores = {}
    unignores = {}
    if include_defaults:
        ignores.update(default_ignores)
    patterns = fileset.load(location)
    ign, uni = fileset.includes_excludes(patterns, location)
    ignores.update(ign)
    unignores.update(uni)
    return ignores, unignores

#
# Default ignores
#

ignores_MacOSX = {
    '.DS_Store': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '._.DS_Store': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '__MACOSX': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.AppleDouble': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.LSOverride': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.DocumentRevisions-V100': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.fseventsd': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.Spotlight-V100': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',
    '.VolumeIcon.icns': 'Default ignore: MacOSX artifact',

    '.journal': 'Default ignore: MacOSX DMG/HFS+ artifact',
    '.journal_info_block': 'Default ignore: MacOSX DMG/HFS+ artifact',
    '.Trashes': 'Default ignore: MacOSX DMG/HFS+ artifact',
    '\[HFS+ Private Data\]': 'Default ignore: MacOSX DMG/HFS+ artifact private data',
}

ignores_Windows = {
    'Thumbs.db': 'Default ignore: Windows artifact',
    'ehthumbs.db': 'Default ignore: Windows artifact',
    'Desktop.ini': 'Default ignore: Windows artifact',
    '$RECYCLE.BIN': 'Default ignore: Windows artifact',
    '*.lnk': 'Default ignore: Windows artifact',
    'System Volume Information': 'Default ignore: Windows FS artifact',
    'NTUSER.DAT*': 'Default ignore: Windows FS artifact',
}

ignores_Linux = {
    '.directory': 'Default ignore: KDE artifact',
    '.Trash-*': 'Default ignore: Linux/Gome/KDE artifact',
}

ignores_IDEs = {
    '*.el': 'Default ignore: EMACS Elisp artifact',
    '*.swp': 'Default ignore: VIM artifact',
    '.project': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.pydevproject': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.settings': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.eclipse': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.loadpath': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '*.launch': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.cproject': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.cdtproject': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.classpath': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.buildpath': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',
    '.texlipse': 'Default ignore: Eclipse IDE artifact',

    '*.iml': 'Default ignore: JetBrains IDE artifact',
    '*.ipr': 'Default ignore: JetBrains IDE artifact',
    '*.iws': 'Default ignore: JetBrains IDE artifact',
    '.idea/': 'Default ignore: JetBrains IDE artifact',
    '.idea_modules/': 'Default ignore: JetBrains IDE artifact',

    '*.kdev4': 'Default ignore: Kdevelop artifact',
    '.kdev4/': 'Default ignore: Kdevelop artifact',

    '*.nib': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode artifact',
    '*.plst': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode plist artifact',
    '*.pbxuser': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode artifact',
    '*.pbxproj': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode artifact',
    'xcuserdata': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode artifact',
    '*.xcuserstate': 'Default ignore: Apple Xcode artifact',

    '*.csproj': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.unityproj': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.sln': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.sluo': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.suo': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.user': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.sln.docstates': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',
    '*.dsw': 'Default ignore: Microsoft VS project artifact',

    '.editorconfig': 'Default ignore: Editor config artifact',

    ' Leiningen.gitignore': 'Default ignore: Leiningen artifact',
    '.architect': 'Default ignore: ExtJS artifact',
    '*.tmproj': 'Default ignore: Textmate artifact',
    '*.tmproject': 'Default ignore: Textmate artifact',
}

ignores_web = {
    '.htaccess': 'Default ignore: .htaccess file',
    'robots.txt': 'Default ignore: robots file',
    'humans.txt': 'Default ignore: robots file',
    'web.config': 'Default ignore: web config',
    '.htaccess.sample': 'Default ignore: .htaccess file',
}

ignores_Maven = {
    'pom.xml.tag': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'pom.xml.releaseBackup': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'pom.xml.versionsBackup': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'pom.xml.next': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'release.properties': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'dependency-reduced-pom.xml': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
    'buildNumber.properties': 'Default ignore: Maven artifact',
}

ignores_VCS = {
    '.bzr': 'Default ignore: Bazaar artifact',
    '.bzrignore' : 'Default ignore: Bazaar config artifact',

    '.git': 'Default ignore: Git artifact',
    '.gitignore' : 'Default ignore: Git config artifact',
    '.gitattributes': 'Default ignore: Git config artifact',

    '.hg': 'Default ignore: Mercurial artifact',
    '.hgignore' : 'Default ignore: Mercurial config artifact',

    '.svn': 'Default ignore: SVN artifact',
    '.svnignore': 'Default ignore: SVN config artifact',

    '.tfignore': 'Default ignore: Microsft TFS config artifact',

    'vssver.scc': 'Default ignore: Visual Source Safe artifact',

    'CVS': 'Default ignore: CVS artifact',
    '.cvsignore': 'Default ignore: CVS config artifact',
    '*/RCS': 'Default ignore: CVS artifact',
    '*/SCCS': 'Default ignore: CVS artifact',

    '*/_MTN': 'Default ignore: Monotone artifact',
    '*/_darcs': 'Default ignore: Darcs artifact',
    '*/{arch}': 'Default ignore: GNU Arch artifact',
}

ignores_Medias = {
    'pspbrwse.jbf': 'Default ignore: Paintshop browse file',
    'Thumbs.db': 'Default ignore: Image thumbnails DB',
    'Thumbs.db:encryptable': 'Default ignore: Image thumbnails DB',
    'thumbs/': 'Default ignore: Image thumbnails DB',
    '_thumbs/': 'Default ignore: Image thumbnails DB',
}

ignores_Build_scripts = {
    'Makefile.in': 'Default ignore: automake artifact',
    'Makefile.am': 'Default ignore: automake artifact',
    'autom4te.cache': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    '*.m4': 'Default ignore: autotools artifact',
    'configure': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'configure.bat': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'configure.sh': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'configure.ac': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'config.guess': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'config.sub': 'Default ignore: Configure script',
    'compile': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'depcomp': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'ltmain.sh': 'Default ignore: libtool autoconf artifact',
    'install-sh': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'missing': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'mkinstalldirs': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'stamp-h1': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'm4/': 'Default ignore: autoconf artifact',
    'autogen.sh': 'Default ignore: autotools artifact',
    'autogen.sh': 'Default ignore: autotools artifact',

    'CMakeCache.txt': 'Default ignore: CMake artifact',
    'cmake_install.cmake': 'Default ignore: CMake artifact',
    'install_manifest.txt': 'Default ignore: CMake artifact',
}

ignores_CI = {
    '.travis.yml' : 'Default ignore: Travis config',
    '.coveragerc' : 'Default ignore: Coverall config',
}

ignores_Python = {
    'pip-selfcheck.json': 'Default ignore: Pip workfile',
    'pytest.ini': 'Default ignore: Python pytest config',
    'tox.ini': 'Default ignore: Python tox config',
    '__pycache__/': 'Default ignore: Python bytecode cache',
    '.installed.cfg': 'Default ignore: Python Buildout artifact',
    'pip-log.txt': 'Default ignore: Python pip artifact',
    'pip-delete-this-directory.txt': 'Default ignore: Python pip artifact',
    'pyvenv.cfg': 'Default ignore: Python virtualenv artifact',
}

ignores_I18N = {
    '*.mo': 'Default ignore: Translation file',
    '*.pot': 'Default ignore: Translation file',
    '.localized': 'Default ignore: localized file',
}

ignores_coverage_and_tests = {
    '*.gcno': 'Default ignore: GCC coverage',
    '*.gcda': 'Default ignore: GCC coverage',
    '*.gcov': 'Default ignore: GCC coverage',
    '.last_cover_stats': 'Default ignore: Perl coverage',
    'htmlcov/': 'Default ignore: Python coverage',
    '.tox/': 'Default ignore: Tox tem dir',
    '.coverage': 'Default ignore: Python coverage',
    '.coverage.*': 'Default ignore: Python coverage',
    'nosetests.xml': 'Default ignore: Python nose tests',
    'coverage.xml': 'Default ignore: Python coverage',
    '/spec/reports/': 'Default ignore: Ruby Rails test report',
    '/rdoc/': 'Default ignore: Ruby doc',
    '.rvmrc': 'Default ignore: Ruby RVM',
    '.sass-cache': 'Default ignore: Saas cache',
    '*.css.map': 'Default ignore: Saas map',
    'phpunit.xml': 'Default ignore: phpunit',
    '*.VisualState.xml': 'Default ignore: Nunit',
    'TestResult.xml': 'Default ignore: Nunit',
}

ignores_Misc = {
    'pax_global_header': 'Default ignore: Pax header file',
    'C++.gitignore': 'Default ignore: C++.gitignore',
    '.gwt/': 'Default ignore: GWT compilation logs',
    '.gwt-tmp/': 'Default ignore: GWT temp files',
    'gradle-app.setting': 'Default ignore: Graddle app settings',
    'hs_err_pid*': 'Default ignore: Java VM crash logs',
    '.grunt': 'Default ignore: Grunt intermediate storage',
    '.history': 'Default ignore: History file',
    '.~lock.*#': 'Default ignore: LibreOffice locks',
    '/.ssh': 'Default ignore: SSH configuration',
}

ignores_Compression = {
    '.zip' : 'Zipped file',
    '.tar' : 'Tar file',
    '.tar.gz' : 'Tar and Gzip file',
    '.bz2' : 'bz2 file',
    '.tar.bz2' : 'Tar and bz2 file',
    '.gz' : 'gz file',
    '.xz' : 'xz file',
    '.tgz': 'tgz file'
}

default_ignores = {}

default_ignores.update(chain(*[d.items() for d in [
    ignores_MacOSX,
    ignores_Windows,
    ignores_Linux,
    ignores_IDEs,
    ignores_web,
    ignores_Maven,
    ignores_VCS,
    ignores_Medias,
    ignores_Build_scripts,
    ignores_CI,
    ignores_Python,
    ignores_I18N,
    ignores_coverage_and_tests,
    ignores_Misc,
    ignores_Build_scripts,
    ignores_Compression,
]]))

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It's Pi Day! I'm not much of a math geek – in fact, I'm completely the opposite, but Pi Day means pies, so of course I had to make some. I purposefully made four tiny pies so I could cut into the last one and leave 0.14 of it. Get it?! 3.14 pies!
These guys are a take on Hainanese chicken, my most favorite way of eating chicken ever. The basic flavors of Hainanese chicken are ginger, garlic, scallions so I added those to the regular aromatics of a chicken pot pie. Topped off with a puff pastry hat, these pies are the perfect way to celebrate Pi Day!
Melt the butter in a large, heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, shallot, ginger, and garlic and cook, stirring, until translucent, but not brown, about 5-7 minutes. Sprinkle the flour on and stir to incorporate. Pour the chicken stock in a thin stream into the skillet, whisking constantly. Bring to a simmer to thicken.
Add the carrots, celery, and chicken. Simmer, stirring often, until the chicken is cooked through, about 10-15 minutes. While the chicken is simmering, trim the puff pastry into circles a little bit larger than the baking dishes you'll be using.
When the chicken is cooked, stir in the green onions, taste and season with salt and pepper. Spoon equally into 4 mini baking dishes. Top the baking dishes with the puff pastry and use a fork to crimp and adhere. Brush the tops with the lightly beaten egg. Place in the oven and bake until tops are puff and golden brown, about 20-25 minutes. Enjoy warm!
Bite-Sized! Bite-Sized is a recipe series that don't have any deep and ponderous thoughts: they're just yummy in my tummy and they can be yummy in yours too. They're quick and easy recipes that I don't have much to stay about, but I couldn't go without sharing the deliciousness. I hope you give them a go!
Hmmmm Hainanese chicken is such a childhood classic for me! Love how you incorporated that into a pot pie.
😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 I can't even! This is such an adorable idea! Love!
I bought the same little turquoise enamel ramekins last week! Yay canvas home. Haha.
These are so cute! I love the single servings. Using the eggwash on the puff pastry is such a great look, too!
Another great recipe! Looking at your food blog around lunch time is torture! Looks great and I can't wait to make it this week! Thanks again!
OH your pies are soooo cute!! I want some now!!
This is adorable! Totally forgot that today is Pi Day… might have to make these tonight for supper!! Thanks for sharing, and Happy 3.14!!!
Such a cool twist on a comfort food classic! I'll have to try this at my next potluck.
What a great post! Loved your story and the mini pies look so good! I'll have to try this!
Wish I would've seen this on Pie Day! But I think everyday is Pie Day! This is slightly out of my comfort zone but I am going to try this, looks Good!
YOURE SO CREATIVE! I love hainanese chicken too!
I love this! It's such a creative twist melding two classic dishes!


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Q: Получение результата хранимой процедуры с помощью Entity Framework Есть хранимая процедура:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[p_Test]
@intpparam int
AS
BEGIN

SELECT DllName FROM ComponentTable WHERE ID!=@intpparam

END

Возвращает множество всех DllName типа char удовлетворяющих запросу.
Как используя Entity Framework получить всё множество?
PS: Для случая если возвращается множество int/float и т.п (например если запрашиваю ID записи). вполне отлично отрабатывает код:
var tmp = DC.p_Test(1);//DC-контекст базы

foreach (var t in tmp)
 {
   var n = t;
  // Do some work
 }

Но в случае с char (string в интерпретации Entity) этот код генерирует ошибку "Результат запроса нельзя перечислить более одного раза".
И тем не менее даёт возможность получить первую запись следующим образом:
var tmp = tmp.First();

Но это только первая запись, и как получить остальные я не знаю....

A:
var tmp = DC.p_Test(1).ToList(); –  Konst 14 минут назад

Да, это решение. Как-то сразу не догадался...

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(93061) Barbagallo est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

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(93061) Barbagallo est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à Bologne par l'observatoire San Vittore. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,58 UA, une excentricité de 0,12 et une inclinaison de 10,3° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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Next PostLibido and pregnancy: an impossible marriage?
Up until 2009 when I was talking about it I hadn't found good jokes about my sexuality. And that's the only reason why I never really talked about it.
Stand-up comedian Gina Yashere, the daughter of Nigerian parents, was born and raised in London, England. She is now based out of the United States where she moved in 2007. We had the opportunity to meet her in Montreal on the occasion of her sixth participation in the Just For Laughs Festival. She is a black woman, a lesbian and has been doing comedy around the world and on television for the past 20 years. Her « plural identity », on which she prides herself for not being reduced to a single "label", allows her to discuss a variety of topics and issues.
1- I read that you "came out" on stage in 2009. How did that go?
I never came out in 2009, not as far as I know!
2- I think it was at Dinah?
Oh yeah, I did Dinah Shore. Of course. It wasn't really that I "came out", I just happened to be in front of a lesbian audience and so I talked about the fact that I'm a lesbian. It's never been anything that I've hidden, but it's never been anything I've talked about extensively either, because I just don't see it as something that should be a big deal.
3- Is it because you don't want to talk about it or because you just want it to be considered 'normal'?
In showbiz, or in life, you get labeled a lot, but in showbiz it's particularly prevalent that they're always trying to put you in boxes. And being a black, female, stand-up comic I was already in two boxes. So I didn't want to be just labeled as "the lesbian comic". So I never made a point of going on about the fact that I was lesbian, or the fact that I'm female or the fact that I'm black. I just talk about myself, I'm just me on stage. I just do observational stuff about me and my upbringing. But obviously, I've been going for 20 years now so, over the years, I've talked about more and more aspects of my life, and being a lesbian is a part of it.
4- So what are the topics you talk about the most?
A bit of everything. Anything that comes to my attention. I talk about some of the countries I've travelled to, about race, about making racial profiles, I talk about my parents and my family and were I came from, the experience of being a British person living in America and my views as an outsider. Basically my stand-up covers all aspects of life. It's not just about one thing. I'm not just a black comedian talking about race, I'm not just a lesbian comedian talking about being a lesbian, I'm not just a British person talking about Britain. I talk about everything. It's my life through a lens.
If I can make it hilariously funny and different, then I'll do it. I'm completely free on stage to talk about whatever, because I'm not hiding anything, I'm just completely free.
5- In your personal life, was being a lesbian in any way complicated? With your family, your community or your co-workers?
I am who I am, I've never hidden it. My family was actually quite accepting, even my mum who wasn't that happy about it. I've never had issues with my family wanting to disown me or anything like that. And my friends never had a problem. In my career I didn't come out for a long time because I didn't want to be labeled. It took me a while to talk about it publicly because I thought "oh boy", I'm giving them another box to put me in. But then I got to the point in my career where I'm past caring. I am what I am, you take me or leave me. I'm good at what I do, I'm funny and if you're not going to come to my show because you don't like my lifestyle, then it's probably best that you're not at my show anyway, because I'm not the type of comedian that will hold back on my opinions.
6- Are you aware of whether or not you have a LGBT specific audience?
When you come to any live show of mine you'll see black people, white people, Asian people, Indian people, old people, young people, gay people, straight people, trans people, and that's what I love. I love the fact that I'm funny to everybody and not a specific audience. I don't cater my comedy specifically to anyone. My comedy is very inclusive. It's all fun, and nobody's uncomfortable, and that's how I like it. So that's what you expect when you come to my show. It's all about complete freedom and being who you want to be.
There aren't many comedians – black, female, lesbian comedians – that can attract a crowd as diverse as mine. I'm bringing people together in laughter!


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Q: Is it possible to simultaneously debug VB6 and a C++ COM dll? I have a VB6 dll that is loaded by a VB6 frontend. This VB6 dll calls a C++ ATL dll via its COM interface. So, I can run from code in VB6 and I can debug in C++ also, however I can't seem to step through the VB6 code and then get into the C++ code. I feel that this should be possible. Currently I am doing the following steps

*

*Start VB6 debugging

*Start C++ debugging. This involves starting the VB6 front end and setting the working directory to the VB6 front end directory using the VS2008 Debugging Properties in the Options.

*Execute the code and step through the VB6 code to the point where I should be entering the C++ code. I see the loaded symbols window changing in the VS2008 IDE.

Now, it looks like it should work, but I never hit any breakpoints in my C++ code. I hit the breakpoints if I don't start the VB6 debugging first.

A: You should be able to set vb6.exe as the startup program for your project in C++ and start debugging.  Then in VB6, open the project and start debugging.

A: Make sure the PDB files for both projects are available for your debugger. If you see . Loaded '\filename', no matching symbolic information found in debug out, you need to add debug symbol search path in tools->optios->debug->symbols.


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Mousoy ist eine Oase im Norden des Tschad im südlichen Teil des Tibesti-Gebirges. Der Ort liegt 21 Kilometer östlich von Zouar, der zweitgrößten Siedlung des Tibesti und zugleich Sitz des Derdé, und 19 km westlich der Oase Débasan. Mit der administrativen Neugliederung des Tschad vom 10. August 2018 wurde die Provinz Tibesti in vier statt bisher zwei Départements eingeteilt (Bardai, Zouar, Aouzou und Wour), wobei Mousoy ebenso wie Goubonne zum neuen Département Zouar gehört. Davor hatte Mousoy zum Département Tibesti-Ouest ("West-Tibesti") gehört.

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 Mousoy mit Koordinaten, Höhenlage und Nachbarorten auf mapcarta.com

Ort in Afrika
Ort im Tschad
Tibesti (Provinz)
Oase (Tschad)
Oase (Sahara)


History is about time. I have been using old calendars like this to help me construct a WWI timeline. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia.
In my last post I wrote about Sue Castrique's conception of history as drama and how it helped me with how I tackle the writing of my book. I am writing about how Australian soldiers reconciled their experience of World War I with their beliefs, whether they be agnostic, adherents to one of the large Christian denominations or held more unorthodox beliefs for the time. Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing a major review of my writing task with the goal of producing a book that you will find is a riveting read.
National Library of Australia at sunset. I took this as I dragged myself away from interesting research to have dinner one night this week.
At times research is like pulling teeth but then there are the wonderful times when you race through the work, doors open one after another revealing hints that suggest that you might be close to a big break through. Over the last few months my research has been humming along. In the couple of weeks it has been particularly fruitful. This week I have been pursuing some fascinating stories in Canberra at the Australian War Memorial and the National Library of Australia.
I am immersed in the thoughts of some of the most reflective men in the Australian Army during World War I through their diaries. While these soldiers are among the most forthcoming soldiers to wield a pen in the AIF (Australian Imperial Force), they often stop writing when I find the subject most interesting. Over the last few months I have been working with other sources to reveal more about those tantalising stories.
The beliefs of the soldiers of the AIF were cloaked by the larrikinism of some soldiers and derisive comments about army chaplains. Their letters and diaries are dominated by accounts of the work of war but every now and then there will be a sentence or two which sheds light on the complex beliefs of the soldier. Surrounded by death every day and charged with the task of killing others, some Australian soldiers pondered the great spiritual questions of life and death as well as the moral questions which a war inevitably brings. I am now searching in other archival sources to find out more about the comments soldiers made in their diaries. In particular I am researching the stories of soldiers who may not have left any writing for us to research today.


We would like to consult with parents who are currently accessing a Flying Start Childcare setting in Swansea.
The Flying Start programme is fully funded by a Welsh Government grant. Due to a reduction in the grant money we receive, we are proposing to reduce the number of weeks of childcare available via Flying Start from 43 to 39 weeks, this is in line with school term times.
The proposal will affect the timetable for those flexible sessions that currently run for 2.5 hours during some holiday periods. Attendance levels recorded during these times have historically been below the required levels outlined by Welsh Government.
There are no proposals to change any other aspects of the Flying Start service under this current consultation.


"The plaid button down has been getting plenty of attention of late. We built the Taos Plaid Shirt to outlast every trend with timeless designs and the performance of wool. Snap enclosures keep an authentic feel and the fit – a regular cut – is comfortably close without being snug.
Our casual blend of Wool and nylon for a smooth fabric foundation on Ibex pieces like our Beacon Shirt and Taos Plaid Shirt. Lightweight twill weave keeps this warm fabric feeling wearable and comfortable."


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Q: SharePoint 2019 App Icon Missing I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to configure add-in icons for SharePoint online/19?.  For sites deployed to 2016 instances I can see the icon configured in Visual studio.
Thank you

A: You can specify the file name in /config/package-solution.js:
{
    "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/spfx-build/package-solution.schema.json",
    "solution": {
        "name": "...",
        "id": "...",
        "version": "...",
        "iconPath": "AppIcon.png",
        "skipFeatureDeployment": true
    },
    ...
}

And upload the 'AppIcon.png' to ./sharepoint folder of your solution.
Also, you can define iconPath as base64-encoded image.


Cheri Jacobus was one of the early targets of Trump and his allies: Smeared, catfished, hacked, threatened, blacklisted.
As one of the first victims of Donald Trump's thuggery during the election, and the first person to experience the influence he has on his media friends who control what the public is fed, I am no longer surprised or the least bit fazed by the sleaziness of all things Trump.
It's clear to me that Trump team had the ability to have my email hacked. It's clear to me that they then tried to launder information from my hacked emails through other sources so that they could use it against me. Importantly, it's clear that if this is what Trump and his team of thugs could do to me -- have me hacked, launder the info, and then try to use it against me without having their paw prints on it - they certainly are capable of doing it to Hillary, the DNC and others.
I believe that not only did Trump know WikiLeaks had the hacked emails of his political "enemies", but that it's likely Trump and his associates arranged in advance to have the emails hacked, or at the very least were involved in the planning and coordination of the hackings -- just as in the hacking of my email.
In May of 2015 I received a request from a long-time professional acquaintance to consider being Donald Trump's campaign communications director. The friend had informed me he was soon heading over to work on the Trump SuperPAC and was, at that time, working for the Trump presidential exploratory committee.
He brought along a guy named Corey Lewandowski, who I'd never heard of. He was to be the Trump campaign manager after the campaign official launch.
Lewandowski told me all about the Trump superPAC. In my presence a few weeks later he even asked someone at the Trump HQ if the superPAC papers had been filed.
As they courted me and asked me for a second meeting (which I stalled for 3 weeks) I then witnessed a Lewandowski temper tantrum and let my friend know that while I appreciated him thinking of me for this, I did not appreciate Lewandowski's "hazing". I wished him good luck working on the superPAC and told him I hoped he would have fun in his new role. He left the campaign shortly thereafter, but did not work on the superPAC.
Despite being turned off by Trump and Lewandowski, I defended Trump on TV, giving him the benefit of the doubt, just as I did Jeb, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson and the other GOP primary candidates.
My first public criticism of Trump came when he maliciously smeared Senator John McCain's POW status, indicating that he preferred "people who don't get caught." For me and millions of others who spoke out on this, it was a bridge too far and was evidence Trump was not fit to be the nominee, let alone president.
Months later in October, The Washington Post published a report that Trump had a superPAC even though he'd been claiming he had none, slammed others for having them, and lied to voters as he told them he was self-funding and therefore beholden to no one. Lewandowski and Trump denied it all. Lewandowski hung up the phone on the reporter after threatening to sue the paper. But Trump had attended two fundraisers for the superPAC -- including one at Jared Kushner's parents' home -- with Jared's mother seeding the superPAC with $100,000 and Trump casino owner pal Phil Ruffin giving it $1 million.
I tweeted several enumerated tweets confirming The Washington Post report, confirming Lewandowski was lying and that he'd told me all about the superPAC.
The Washington Post then mentioned this to Lewandowski, where he then confirmed that he'd had meetings with me (at Team Trump's request, not mine). After initially claiming he did not know Mike Ciletti, the guy running the superPAC, Lewandowski was then forced to admit that in fact he knew him -- and knew him well, as they had worked together previously. Ciletti had also been seen at Trump Tower for meetings in the weeks leading up to the official campaign announcement. (Ciletti is a Colorado GOP operative and long-time Lewandowski pal.) The Washington Post ran a follow-up piece.
I confirmed The Washington Post's report was correct and that Lewandowski and Trump were lying. I was immediately canceled on by FOX News where I'd been a regular for many years (and nine times after that until the invitations stopped altogether other than one rear-end covering appearance months later.) The odd catfishing of me (as later reported by POLITICO) began that day. Months later when I brought up the super PAC on CNN, Trump defamed me in tweets, as did Lewandowski on TV, and after many years and 180 appearances, I was suddenly banned from CNN.
Since I could prove Trump lied about me and caused me damage, my lawyer sent him a cease and desist letter. Trump's response was to defame me again in a tweet, claiming I'd "begged" him for a job -- twice -- and was turned down, and that was the reason I was going after him. In fact, I show communication proving that Team Trump approached me, asked to meet with me, and asked for a second meeting, and my stated distaste for Lewandowski after witnessing his meltdown. And, I'd defended Trump well after my Trump Tower meetings and telling them thanks but no thanks, again proving Trump was lying about me.
Don McGahn, a former commissioner for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was Trump's campaign counsel and later chief White House Counsel. Upon receipt of the cease and desist letter, he contacted my then lawyer and wanted to know how they could "dial this back" to avoid a lawsuit by me. My lawyer said we wanted the defamatory tweets by Trump taken down immediately, and an apology.
Trump agreed he would delete the defamatory tweets about me. HOWEVER, I would be required to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) whereby I would be prohibited from publicly discussing anything about my meetings at Trump Tower where I was told all about that Make America Great Again Super PAC by Lewandowski.
McGhan drafted the NDA which interestingly, along with my silence, was to last only until just after the election -- an indication that Trump and his team obviously were confident they would never win. But negotiations took more time than I was comfortable with, and the damage was done. CNN had banned me and would not talk to me despite the fact I could prove to them that Trump had blatantly lied about me. I later realized that Jeff Zucker clearly knew good and damned well Trump lied about me, but was doing his ratings gold old pal from their "The Apprentice" show a favor as a way to continue their long-time mutually beneficial relationship. I also later got confirmation from a CNN employee that indeed, the order to ban me came from the top.
At that time, I'd also just discovered that the person pretending to represent GOP donors opposing Trump who wished to hire me was a fraud -- the catfisher -- and it was clear to me it was Trump team doing it.
I shut down all discussions and negotiations on NDA language with McGahn. I refused to enter into any legal agreement that gave Trump any power over what I said or wrote. Since it was apparent there was a lot more going on to target me including the catfishing and a growing, daily twitter assault and abuse by Trump neo-nazis, white nationalists, Breitbart News, and a slew of other disturbed and disturbing alt right Trump lackeys, I knew that whatever was going on, this was much more than "just politics as usual" or "counter punching" and something much more sinister was going on as reported in The New York Times.
Word got back to me that McGahn was extremely upset ("We thought we had a deal!!!") and that Team Trump was quite nervous.
As well, the night we realized the catfishers (and assuming it was Trump people) likely learned I was onto them, I was told by a now Trump supporter (a D-lister) who was not supporting him then, and who was friends with Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and other Trump associates, that we needed to get a police squad car in front of my brownstone asap, that now that it seemed likely Trump's people knew that I was onto the catfishing scheme, I was not safe, and that Trump had "guys in Queens" who could very well be on their way over to cause me harm. (The police precinct station in my former Upper West Side neighborhood can confirm my call that night.) After 30 years in politics where things could get pretty rough, this was far over the threshold of anything I'd ever been involved in.
It was chilling. I couldn't breathe.
The FBI launched an investigation. (Preet Bahara's office had already been dealing with the catfishing case, and then helped get the FBI involved.) Over the course of the next year, two more data points occurred that indicated people associated with Trump were in possession of personal information about me that seemed to have been garnered from my hacked email. In one instance, they were trying to confirm something through another avenue that they thought would help Trump in court, but knew they could not bring up on their own, thus exposing themselves as having access to my hacked emails. They were wrong about the information being damaging in any way, but since access to my personal communications ended in late August of 2016, they would not have known anything further after that point, since I changed my email account.
As these new developments took place, the FBI (SDNY) increased their contact with me, and then said they needed to meet with me. While I had a good idea what they had found based on their 3 1/2 hour meeting with me, I was not made privy to it at that time, nor in the subsequent contact with them. Last fall they informed me that this had gone beyond their initial investigation of mere computer intrusion (this particular division dealt with cyber crimes) and they were passing the information to the Special Counsel's office. They told me they did not know if the Special Counsel's office would be contacting me or not, that it was entirely up to them.
Through all of this, I didn't back down. I had no idea what Trump thugs were going to do to me next. At that time I knew I was up against some serious evil. Since that time, we've all come to learn just how bad Trump is. I suspect there is much, much more to come that shows how he has harmed our country. And that terrifies me.
I don't doubt a word of your story. These dirtbags are orders of magnitude worse than anyone thinks. The country has been taken over by a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy. Will there be justice? I doubt it.


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DOASKDOTELL MOVIE REVIEW of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley's Game, American Psycho; The Interview ; The King; The Ax; Tell No One, Fired! ; Secret Things; The Walker; Belle du Jour
Title: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Nationality and Language: USA/UK/ English
Running time: approx 105 minutes
Distributor and Production Company: Paramount (USA), Miramax (Europe)
Director; Writer: Anthony Minghella, based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith
Cast. Matt Damon, Jude Law, Cathe Blanchett, Gwenyth Paltrow, Jack Davenport
Technical: Standard aspect
Relevance to doaskdotell site: Gay-themed thriller
Movie Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Paramount (USA) and Miramax (Europe)
Starring: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Cathe Blanchett, Gwenyth Paltrow, Jack Davenport; Director: Anthony Minghella; based on the 1995 novel by Particia Highsmith; previously filmed in France by Rene Clement as Purple Noon (1960)
9.5/10 MPAA Rating: R (soft, could be PG-13)
This film is a mixture of genres: the art-house, period-piece (Italy in the "glorious" 1950's) literary epic (The English Patient, which Minghella directed in 1996) and plain-old Hitchcok. Indeed, this has the intense character-probing, the close-up shots (precluding use of wide-screen format) of Vertigo. The story also bears a resemblance to the arch-plot as in The Postman Rings Twice and Body Heat (1980). (In Body Heat, the villain [female in this case] gets away with it, too.)
Other sources (such as Time, Dec. 27, 1999) have reported the story ("plot") of deception and impersonation in detail, so I won't recount it here. Minghella has taken this film into psychological territory that deserves special notice.
One line from Ripley's mouth, "I'd rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody," seems to aim at what I call narcissism elsewhere on this site. Earlier, just before Ripley's second-degree murder of Greenleaf on the little boat near San Remo, Greenleaf (Jude Law) calls him a "leech" and also "boring." Now, in Do Ask, Do Tell Introduction I talked about the unarticulated old-fashioned "prohibitionist" impression of gay men as "freeloaders," so the script here uses the metaphor, "leech." Ripley has indeed laughed when Greenleaf announces he will validate himself by "getting married," and quite correctly accuses Greenleaf of running away from himself. "You're a fake, and I know who I am," Ripley screams, moments before conking him. A good gay fight. Indeed, Greenleaf's own manner is a bit precise and "faggoty." Another interesting line: Greenleaft, despite his obvious initial attraction to Ripley, calls him "boring" as well as a leech. I met that same charge in an interview for a closed talk group at the Ninth Street Center (explained in DADT Chapter 3), although I was struggling with my own perception of myself a physically ungamely and gawky, hardly a Talented Mr. Ripley. There are some great intimate scenes, such as when Ripley contemplates getting in the bathtub with Greenlead ("oh, not with you in it! - we know how Damon's voice comes across with a line like that!)
I do have a problem with the boat scene (and with an earlier scene in the train station with similar discussion). When you want somebody to split, to kiss off, you don't invite them to a 1:1 on a kayak-sized boat. You ignore them, turn off the mail controls to reject their email, change your phone number. You give no detectable response. Because this did have the makings of a typical stalking setup.
The thing about the narcissism was that (apart from having never skiied) Ripley is a lot more talented than Greenleaf. With any calculation at all, he could have made a lot of himself with legitimate means. Cathecting someone is something a lot more subtle than just following hi, around or stepping in his shoes and living a similar life, although earlier in my own coming out process, it took me time to learn that.
There is something else to say about the movie's viewpoint about marriage and "girlfriends." Both are shown as basically a sham. Ripley tells Law, "you don't love her, you love me." And he's right. And here we enter my philosophy: to really strengthen (traditional) marriage and "family values," you have to allow men the freedom to understand what they are doing, and take the extra responsibility that goes with taking care of yourself first. None of the characters except Smith-Kingsley's (Jack Davenport) gentle homosexual one at the end (the cuddling scene with Ripley is quite touching… but then what???) seem to get that.
I love the line "officially, there are no homosexuals in Italy." Mussolini, still? But Smith-Kingsley comes out with, "then forget about Michaelangelo." 50's society just couldn't tale knowing, or even peeking. Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
And still another great line is the exchange "you don't choose your parents," when Greenleaf Senior retorts "you don't choose your children, either." So people try several times to get one "winner"? Lots of social issues here.
Another thing about the deception puzzles me: Ripley unclothed, looks a lot different (smoother) than Greenleaf, and Greenleaf comes back with "you're so White." Even the girl friends later don't "notice" men's bods as much as gay men do.
Ripley does come across to me as a "subjective masculine." And whatever his "Cunanan like" sociopathy, he comes across as more "masculine" sometimes than most straight men. The computer then predicts that Greenleaf is an objective feminine; and that fits, because Greenleaf is pretty bitchy sometimes.
This film is one of the best examples of a new trend in Hollywood: to take a compact, cohesive plot with relatively few characters and mine it for all the social meaning possible. Literary agents like to see this in manuscripts from new authors.
Ripley's Game (2002, Fine Line, dir. Liliana Cavani) is based on a subsequent novel by Patricia Highsmith but it hardly comes across as a sequel. John Malkovich plays an older, balding and more less redeemable Tom Ripley. He seems like a Dark Angel, a sociopath who either came from another planet or came from nowhere. He sets up a complex assassination scheme targeting a Russian mobster and others in Germany and Italy, and indirectly hires a family man Jonathan (Dougray Scott) scheduled to die of chronic leukemia. Jonathan gradually becomes a partner in crime himself while Ripley shares snippets of his nihilistic philosophy in little one liner's (it's my game). The bodies pile up, especially in a train first class lavatory, where several accidental victims are garroted. The film is more entertaining for its style and spectacle than for any explorations of character, and that is its failing.
There has been some controversy about this film because here Ripley is shown as having "gone straight," as in one scene where a girl friend teases his chest hair through a bathrobe. But he does kiss a male early on. I guess he is bisexual. Though prim and in control, his appearance belies a certain decadence, going bald in the legs. It is hard to imagine Matt Damon playing this reincarnation of Ripley; he isn't "evil enough"—although there is that scene in Dogma where Damon's "angelic" character shoots everyone in a corporate boardroom in cold blood.
American Psycho: A couple other films relate to the idea of the anti-hero getting away with it. "Baleful" Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie, at the perfect age, 27, who can focus absolutely everything on himself, in American Psycho (2000, Lions Gate Films). Well, despite the 10-minute skin cream facials, his face in some shots does look a bit older, with creases underneath the eyes and around the mouth. Great bod, all right. But, unlike Damon's character in Ripley, Bateman really is nothing inside, no talents except for show, consumption, and sociopathic, pathological serial killing. (He says, in the opening scene, "I'm really not there.") He really does make physical beauty temporarily symbolize something repulsive. At the end, he goes on a shooting spree out in the open and he can't convince his own pals that he's really guilty, poor guy. This is not Hitchcock, and seems removed from Hitchock's 1960 BW thriller. Almodovar's Bad Education comes much closer.
The Interview: There's a great new Australian psychodrama, The Interview (1999, Cinema Guild and Pointblank Pictures) directed by Craig Monahan. The Aussies can make their cinema intense, as we remember from the films of Peter Weir. Eddie Flemming plays a 44-year-old down-and-out drifter whom the Sydney police single out to add to their conviction rate. Well, Flemming's character (I can imagine Billy Bob Thornton in this one) turns the police upon themselves, by making up a story about serial killings with sling blades and fires, in the outback. The well-photographed grisly scenes, against open scenery, give you the outcome. But the police get what they deserve. The bad guy walks, having contributed to society by showing he can beat the system. Effective, moody soundtrack with abrupt key signature modulations, almost as effective as the music in Ripley, and wonderfully recorded in Digital. The occasional Sydney background looks surprisingly sterile. This may be one of the great ones, in the tradition of The Usual Suspects and The Spanish Prisoner.
The King (2005, ThinkFilm/Tartan/Content, dir. Paul Marsh, wr with Milo Addica, 105 min, R) has a Patricia Highsmith kind of story, even if not by her. From the title and story, we can see at least a distant relationship with Shakespeare's "King Lear" (which I had to read in Senior English in high school). The setup is simple. A troubled, discharged sailor and secret illegitimate son of a fundamentalist Texas pastor returns "home," and literally kills his way into a place in the family. Sound like Patricia? I think this could have been a Hitchcock film, although it would have come across a much classier if it had. Here Gael Garcia Bernal plays Elvis Valderez, and he is made to look like a crossbreed, as if the anglo Pastor David Sandow's (William Hurt) indiscretion had been with a Latino. Sandow has a wonderful family, with wife (Larua Harring), teenage daughter Malerie (Pell James), and blond high school senior son Paul (Paul Dano), who is on his way to Baylor next year. Paul plays Christian rock music and has written a paper on "intelligent design" which the local Corpus Christi, Texas school board (even in a conservative area) cannot include in its curriculum because of political correctness. Paul, in fact, is cast as the perfect kid, although a minor indiscretion in one of his songs angers his father. In the mean time, though, Elvis has been moving in on the family, challenging the Pastor, and then sleeping with the daughter, to the point of impregnating her (so this would be a child of a man and half-sister, incest). Their intimate scenes are done with some care. Paul goes to the motel where Elvis stays to confront him, and Elvis suddenly stabs him in the stomach, ripping his aorta and killing him almost instantly. Now we are in Highsmith territory. Paul covers up the crime by dumping Paul in a lake and burning the clothes, and then moves into the family and becomes part of it, taking Paul's place. The police think that Paul ran away because of the minor confrontation. But there is more hellfire and damnation to face, even if the retribution at the ending is a bit ambiguous. Pastor Sandow (like Jimmy Swaggart) comes clean about his past sin with his congregation, but we are left wondering if anyone but Paul gets saved.
Viewed at a distance, the film gives a telling account of how important family position is to most adults. It makes it all the more remarkable that it means so little to the rest of us.
Though small, the film is in anamorphic widescreen, and looks good visually with the on location Texas Gulf area scenery. The soundtrack was a bit noisy. The first two times I tried to see this film, at two different theaters (in Washington, DC) at different venues on a platform release, the shows were canceled because of film print problems. I called Thinkfilm in Toronto myself about this, but finally the second theater had it working.
The Ax ("Le Couperet",2005, Mars, dir. Costa-Gavras, novel by Donald E. Westlake, 122 min, NR but would be R, France). A paper company executive Bruno Davert (Jose Garcia) and lead chemist in France loses his job to restructuring and downsizing, shortly after turning 40, with a family and a young son. He gets fifteen months severance page but five years later is still unemployed. Popular culture and head hunters consider him washed up. He rails against their expectation of conformity. He decides to apply for a new position, with a new strategy: identify (with Google, perhaps) competitors for the position, stalk them and shoot them. Some of the executions are quite brutal, and happen in bucolic French and Belgian suburbs. (One point is that European capitalism can be every bit as materialistic and overdone as American.) This turns into black comedy, yet is dead serious. His now teenage son Maxime (Geordy Monfils) gets in trouble with the law shoplifting. The police start visiting him, telling him his family is in danger because paper executives are getting, well, executed.
The film narrative is a bit choppy, as some of the story is told in flashbacks from a point where he is hiding out from his last murder (including striking and running over a guy with his car) in a motel; and it is sometimes unclear when we are in flash mode.
The film, while from France (and apparently not yet having American distribution), certainly fits the Patricia Highsmith genre. The novelist, Donald Westlake, is American (New York), and the story was adopted to a European setting.
Fired! (2007, Shout! Factory, dir. Chris Bradley, Kyle La Brache, wr. Annabelle Gurwitch, 71 min) Mentions the company Right Management, which did my own outplacement when I "retired" at the end of 2001. Has a great opening black and white scene where Woody Allen fires Annabelle, and it really hurts. blogger link.
Tell No One (("Ne le dis a personne"), 2006, Music Box / Europa, dir. Guillaume Canet, based on US novel by Harlan Coben, France, sug. NC-17. A pediatrician is investigated by police for apparent murder of his wife 8 years ago when he gets an email from her saying she is alive -- but then no one believes it. Blogger discussion.
Secret Things ("Choses secretes", 2004, First Run Features, dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau, 115 min, NC-17, France). Two young women Sadrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) and Nathalie (Coralie Revel) (a barback and nude dancer) get fired from a night club. They move in together, and after some lesbian masturbatory experimentation get themselves into the corporate world in order to seduce and corrupt the men. They're all too prepared to take advantage of the expectations of upper-class men. But one of them (Christophe -- Fabrice Deville) is a manipulative voyeur (who can turn on his own boss) and it can turn deadly. The plot takes some twists, climaxing in an orgy scene at a palace that recalls "Eyes Wide Shut." The ending, where a vulture feasts on the teats of dying Christophe (after a discarded ex mistress shoots him) is one of the grossest I have every seen. A bizarre thriller, to be sure. DVD is full screen.
The Walker (2007, ThinkFilm/Pathe, dir. wr. Paul Schraeder, 107 min, R, UK/France) is a curious mixture of 50's style Fox Cinemascope fashion spectacle with Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith mystery plotting, and a touch of modern concerns about government corruption and the horrible risks (including ultimately terrorism) associated with it. The film opens inside a condo decorated with a lot of orange, and soon you see a foppish gay may Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) playing canasta with some rich older ladies (Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin). Page speaks southern, as if to echo "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". He puts on a lot pretense (even wigs, that are well disguised). In the 50s, maybe gay men could get rich this way because they were no conceivable threat. But pretty soon we see laptops, and we know we are in present day. The movie, while shot in London (like "Eyes Wide Shut") reconstructs outdoor Washington DC well, especially the Meridian Hill area on upper 16th Street (probably with CGI reconstructions). One day, Lynn's (Thomas) male lover is found dead in his plush condo, his cat watching, his genitals sliced. Page makes the mistake of being the first on the scene (why is he there?) and becomes a suspect. Here the details of the movie, while posing interesting questions and speculations, don't seem to quite add up; maybe too many scenes were deleted. He is arrested but is released without bond (the DC police wouldn't do that). The victim's cat bonds to him when he takes the pet in, which may help establish his innocence (presumably the feline knows who did it). Page has a boyfriend who dabbles in gumshoe hi-tech amateur investigations of matters like the S&M aspects of Abu Ghraib (there is a bizarre effect where the boyfriend shaves a chained, hooded figure's chest on a computer). There is a subliminal or perhaps direct message that amateurs who get involved with such matters can attract trouble (perhaps criminal, perhaps terrorists, or perhaps being framed) to themselves and others around him. This impression is reinforced in later developments, such as a confrontation with Senator Lockner (Willem Dafoe)and "Bush brain" Ethan (Michael Reynolds) who warns Page that he is on the wrong side of history. By this time, we also get the innuendo that some combination of Bush's Brain and the Vice President are behind illegal tortures and it is being covered up (I saw this film at the Reel Affirmations 17 film festival the same weekend that "Rendition" opened). The denouement, with a hit and run, doesn't quite add up. But this turns out to be a rather bizarre thriller, mixing genres (even recalling "Advise and Consent"), using established stars in an independent movie that seems to be trying to be all things to all people. But it just moves too slowly.
Belle du Jour ("Beauty of the Day", 1967, Miramax/Zoe, pr. Martin Scorsese, dir. Luis Bunuel, 100 min, R, France) In this rather notorious film, Catherine Deneuve plays Severine ("Belle"), a frigid housewife who can't make it with her physician husband Pierre (Jean Sorel), so she becomes a daytime prostitute. Unfortunately, some of her customers have some rather sadistic intentions, and one of them is a potential assassin (however "smooth"). Finally, well, she learns. (No wonder the other women are jealous of "Belle" on "Days of our Lives" with her two men.)
Related reviews: Bad Education Strangers on a Train (Highsmith) Rendition Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Advise and Consent
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org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel
usermodel package maps HSSF low level strutures to familiar workbook/sheet model

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This package contains common internal POI code for manipulating formulas.

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Classes in org.apache.poi.hssf.record.formula.atp that implement UDFFinder

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AnalysisToolPak

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          Collects add-in libraries and VB macro functions together into one UDF finder

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          Default UDF finder - for adding your own user defined functions.

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Introducing the East Surf Co. Wax Tool
The brilliance of East Surf Co. is in the reinvention of the mundane. The company launched with a single product: surf wax. Most surfers would have doubted it possible to launch a new wax. The market was flooded with a few big name brands that had dominated it for years. Plus, how do you reinvent a mundane simple thing like surf wax?
Well, the husband and wife team at East Surf Co. figured out a way. They developed a mix of organic wax and then a new mold that incorporates a crescent shape to make it easier to hold when waxing your board. Combine that with some real nice and totally memorable playing card graphics, a lot of hustle, and you've got a new player in the market.
East wax, which is hand-poured in Red Hook (check out this feature on Pilgrim's site to see how), is doing brisk business all over the country and in places like Japan as well.
And now they've launched their second product.
The East Surf Co. wax tool is made in Red Hook Brooklyn from American Walnut. It took months for the team to research and design, but it comes just in time for summer. I've got a bunch of cheap plastic surf combs that always end up between the seats in my car or somewhere forgettable. I like that East went with a wood design and incorporated the trademark crescent grip as well. Really brilliant.
"We were inspired by the craftsmanship of a surfboard and wanted to bring the same handcrafted process to the tool much like we did with the wax," says Matt Olerio.
And they did.
With care and maintenance instructions on the East site, it's a tool that's meant to last. And of course it's beautiful enough that you'll want to hold on to it for the long haul.
I've gotten to know Olerio a little bit over the last few months and I really admire the way he thinks about business. He and his wife are growing East slowing and steadily and have plans to launch more products in the future.
"Our aim is to create tools and accessories for surfing and everyday living," he says.
It's beginning to look like the building of a really strong brand and one I'm proud to support.
Check out the new wax tool ($30 with a bar of wax) on their site here.
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Cape Town-based insurance startup Hepstar has been selected to participate in the Plug and Play accelerator programme in Silicon Valley.
Hepstar is a tech-based travel insurance company that offers travel merchants a central point of call for accessing travel insurance content from multiple providers across multiple residencies.
It was among the 20 startups handpicked for the Plug and Play programme – which claims to be the largest in the world – from over 1,000 applicants globally.
The programme will see Hepstar connect with corporate partners in the insurance space.
"We are really excited about this opportunity. With partners like Turkish Airlines, Carlson Wagolit, TUI Group, Lufthansa and jetBlue Technology Ventures, Plug and Play provides a great opportunity to showcase our capabilities to some of the largest players in the travel sector," said Hepstar chief operating officer (COO) Claudia Snyman.
"In regards to new modes of distribution for the travel insurance market, Hepstar's strategy may be exactly the answer carriers and airlines are looking for," said Kevin Wang, head of travel for Plug and Play Ventures.
Disrupt Africa reported in February of last year Hepstar received US$$2 million in funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, which it said it would use to expand its global reach, accelerate its tech development and grow its brand.
Key Hepstar clients include CarTrawler, South African Airways, ClickBus, IATI, Flightsite and Travelstart, while the company has expanded outside of South Africa.


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Q: Is there a module to stop 304 Last-Modified checks? I have certain files that I know won't ever change or if they do we would create a new file and reference that version.
Now currently we are receiving 304 request to check if the file has been modified which I would prefer to eliminate.
If there any module I can add into my site or example code to create a module to do this?

A: I am not sure if I am just spouting rubbish, but I believe that these requests are due to etags, which IIS almost always pumps out, so the client will always do a head request to check to see if the etag still matches... I asked a question about this a while ago if this is your problem:
IIS 7.5 remove etag headers from response


"West Virginia fairs poorly when compared to other states in the areas of cavities and tooth decay."
"Daisy Alarcon was undergoing several painful drilling procedures that would make most adults cringe, but the six-year-old remained the model patient.
'Open wide like a tiger!' said dental assistant Kirsten Hoffman.
Daisy, of Edwards, needs seven pulpotomies, or root canals, and this may be her only chance to get the procedure done without charge."
"A recent county health assessment showed a great need for dental services, especially for children, public health nurse Bethany Van Wyk said."
"SHEVILLE - Like many kids his age, 5-year-old Titus Young has grown up consuming sugary drinks and foods. And now, like a growing number of children, Titus has three cavities and a crown on his baby teeth.
He is not unique. Local doctors say tooth decay is on the rise among young children."
"Local dentists say they are seeing more young children with cavities than ever before.
Dr. Joshua Paynich, a local dentist, said he diagnoses about 10-20 children a week with severe, early childhood tooth decay. Paynich said he sees children who have cavities, crowns and even have to get their teeth removed."
"Australian Dental Association Tasmanian president Errol Kilov said recent research had shown tooth decay in six-year-olds had risen by 56 per cent and by a massive 71 per cent among 14- and 15-year-olds in just six years."
Childhood tooth decay on the rise Seattle: "Four-year-old Brittany is just learning she'll need a new filling. It will be her fifth.
Dr. Chris Delecki, director of Odessa Brown Children's Dental Clinic, has seen many children like her."
"Dr. Nancy Sue Seale, chairwoman of the department of pediatric dentistry at the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, testified that only one in seven young Texans on Medicaid last year received the twice-yearly dental checkups that the federal government requires.
She called that fiscally imprudent because cavities and other problems are ignored until expensive surgery is needed.
Dr. Seale said a small number of children die from the general anesthesia required for many operations, which makes the state's failure to provide routine checkups not only foolish but inhumane."
Sierra Sun - Community: "The Placer clinic [California] had to recruit dentists from out of the county because there are no dentists in the area who perform sedation,"
"Most weekday mornings, children and their harried parents join a long line at the pediatric dentistry clinic of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. Dr. Indru Punwani sees patients as young as 2 with acute pain and facial swelling. Many have never had regular oral care, or they need a follow-up after emergency treatment elsewhere.
Punwani, head of the college's pediatric dentistry department, sees daily evidence that the incidence of tooth decay in young children is growing"
"Community health services are straining to meet demand. Cook County Bureau of Health Services officials said the county maintains five dental clinics in the suburbs and offers emergency treatment (usually tooth extractions) and oral surgery at Stroger Hospital. But the hospital's routine dental care for children and adults ended this year when three dentists were laid off, primarily because of budget considerations."
Maher has 13 patients under the age of 4 awaiting surgical removal of their cavities. They can't handle the typical in-office procedure so they must visit the hospital and have it done under general anesthesia."
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She told me she's made the choice to give up her teeth -- a choice she was forced to make only because she lives from paycheck to paycheck in middle class America."
"When David Woodman announced he was going to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for major dental work, his son Josef thought his dad had lost his mind. He had visions of untrained dentists burrowing into his father's mouth, clutching fistfuls of rusty needles.
Woodman's father is not alone in looking abroad for a medical overhaul. After all, if the American healthcare system is not completely broken, it is certainly dysfunctional: 47 million people have no health coverage, and 130 million have no dental insurance."
"The oral health of Victoria's preschoolers is so poor that Dental Health Services Victoria says the average six-year-old starts school with three to four teeth decayed, missing or needing filling.
While health authorities have poured money into campaigns targeting childhood obesity, what the dental service calls the 'twin epidemic' of the alarming state of juvenile oral health has been largely overlooked."


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SoftBank Board Calling Halt to Sprint-T-Mobile Merger, Reports Say
By: Wayne Rash | October 30, 2017
NEWS ANALYSIS: SoftBank's Board of Directors is reportedly calling off a long-discussed merger of wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile that would have put the combined companies on par with AT&T and Verizon.
The board of SoftBank, the Japanese internet and telecommunications company, surprised the industry by voting to abandon a proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile U.S.
Sprint, which is the smaller company, had sought to be acquired by T-Mobile in a stock swap with Deutsche Telekom, the German telecom giant that owns T-Mobile. Sprint needed the merger to stem significant losses.
Instead, the SoftBank board has decided to invest heavily in Sprint's network as a way to get ready for an impending move to 5G services. Sprint has been losing market share and subscribers to T-Mobile as well as the larger carriers, AT&T and Verizon.
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal SoftBank's board decided it didn't want to give up control of Sprint, despite the fact that Deutsche Telekom was buying controlling interest in Sprint, which it planned to make part of T-Mobile. After the merger T-Mobile would be the surviving entity with its CEO, John Legere, at the helm of the surviving corporation.
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According to reports, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had agreed in principle to give up control, but apparently changed his mind, believing that artificially intelligent robots would need Sprint's network in the future, according to reports from the board meeting. Normal business practice is that when a larger company merges with a smaller company, the larger company assumes control.
In some mergers, other arrangements are made in which operations and control are shared between the merged corporations, resulting in a combined organization that retained separate operations from each company. A good example of such a merger can be seen when United Airlines merged with Continental Airlines, resulting in a corporation that includes part of each airline.
In this case, however, Deutsche Telekom wanted to have controlling interest in the surviving corporation. This desire was based on multiple factors, including the fact that T-Mobile has dramatically out performed Sprint in recent years to the point that it went from being the smallest of the major U.S. carriers to third place. Sprint, meanwhile, has been losing customers, bleeding cash and falling ever farther behind the rest of the industry.
Furthermore, the international accounting rules that Deutsche Telekom uses include a provision that only allows the earnings of a subsidiary to be counted in overall earnings if the subsidiary is controlled by the company doing the reporting.
Until SoftBank pulled the plug, the merger between the two companies was set to be announced around the end of October 2017 or the beginning of the November.
There's some speculation in the financial press that Son is actually putting the T-Mobile merger on hold in an effort to get a better deal. However, his efforts to find other merger partners have reportedly been rebuffed. There's also a certain amount of pride at work, because Son considers himself a skilled deal-maker, thus losing control of the merged corporation would be a failure in his eyes.
It's worth noting that Son has a checkered history in acquiring and operating his U.S. corporate holdings. His stewardship of Sprint has driven the once number 3 carrier into a debt-ridden slide that shows no signs of ending.
Previously, Son had taken control of the technology trade show Comdex, which at the time was highly successful. There under his leadership, the show quickly diminished until it was broken up and eventually folded.
Had the merger gone through, the surviving T-Mobile would have rivaled AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the number of subscribers and in revenue. Unlike Sprint, T-Mobile has grown rapidly since a failed merger between the two companies in 2014, surpassing the rest of the industry in the rate of subscriber growth. T-Mobile accomplished its growth by doing something radical—giving its customers services that they really want, such as unlimited data.
T-Mobile's aggressive tactics have forced the rest of the industry to change to match it. AT&T and Verizon were forced to offer mobile service plans with unlimited data as well. T-Mobile started offering free Netflix subscriptions to customers in October and now AT&T has just started offering free HBO to customers with unlimited data plans.
Considering T-Mobile's track record of innovation along with its consistently growing market share and revenue, it's probably not surprising that Deutsche Telekom is reluctant to give up control to Son, with his checkered track record and the lack of market innovation at Sprint.
Since the Sprint and T-Mobile merger appears dead, at least for now Sprint will continue to burn cash at a spectacular rate, soaking up another round of investment from SoftBank as revenue falls and customers flee.
Without a merger of some sort that will inject a level of sanity, not to mention fiscal responsibility, into Sprint, it seems likely that the only real chance at salvation for Sprint will be Son's robots. Unfortunately, those robots don't seem to be appearing on Sprint's horizon so far. Since they are intelligent machines, perhaps they would prefer a more reliable network partner.
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Giles Terera meets Lin-Manuel Miranda
11may6:00 pm7:00 pmGiles Terera meets Lin-Manuel Miranda
We're thrilled to announce that 'Mountview LIVE – Giles Terera meets…' launches on Monday 11 May. In this brand new online feature, Mountview alumnus Giles Terera will host live-streamed conversations with leading
We're thrilled to announce that 'Mountview LIVE – Giles Terera meets…' launches on Monday 11 May. In this brand new online feature, Mountview alumnus Giles Terera will host live-streamed conversations with leading figures from theatre and entertainment worlds every Monday at 6pm.
The conversations will include each guest discussing their career as well as taking questions from Mountview students. Each conversation will be hosted on our YouTube Channel (click the photo below).
The series will begin on Monday 11 May at 6pm, with 'Giles Terera meets Lin-Manuel Miranda', when Giles will interview Lin-Manuel Miranda, the multi award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights.
Each subsequent conversation will take place on the following Mondays at 6pm. Mountview Honorary Doctorate Noma Dumezweni (Olivier Award winner for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and Mountview alumna and Honorary Doctorate actor/TV personality Amanda Holden will join Giles on 18 and 25 May respectively. Other guests will be announced in due course.
Giles Terera won the Best Actor in a Musical Olivier Award in 2018 for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the original London production of Hamilton, and recently appeared in Rosmersholm at the Duke of York's Theatre. He commented:
"I'm thrilled to be hosting Mountview LIVE – helping young artists is really important to me, and this is a fantastic opportunity for the next generation of theatre makers to learn from established figures within the industry. As I know from my time there, Mountview's commitment to providing training for everyone is a massive part of what makes it so special and I can't wait to get started on this project."
Watch the 'Mountview LIVE' series on the Mountview YouTube page from 6pm Monday 11 May.
Mountview LIVE is free for all. Sign up here for information on other free events.
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(P. Marselius). Year of birth unknown; died 1672. Owner of mills in Russia. The son of a Hamburg merchant.
Marselis arrived in Russia in 1629. From 1639 he was a partner of A. Vinius and then the owner of Russia's first metallurgical plants. Together with the Dutchman F. Akema, Marselis rebuilt the Tula plants and built four new plants in Kashira District. He received a property-granting charter so that he could organize iron mills on the Vaga, Kostroma, and Sheksna rivers (1644) and exploit copper mines in Olonets District (1665). In 1642-43, Marselis was in Denmark on diplomatic missions.


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