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by Tawid News TeamPosted on April 1, 2013 March 31, 2013
Senator Alan Cayetano is now statistically tied for the number one slot with fellow Team PNoy candidate Senator Loren Legarda in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey of senatorial candidates.
The latest SWS survey ranked Legarda at first place with a rating of 59 percent while Cayetano garnered a rating of 57 percent. With a +/- 3 margin of error, Legarda and Cayetano are now statistically tied for number one.
"Throughout this campaign we have been going around the country listening to ordinary Filipinos and their families talk about the issues that concern them the most: high prices, unemployment, and low income. I'm very glad and grateful that in the process of listening to our people it seems we've also managed to win their trust and support," Cayetano said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Cayetano pledged to continue his fight against corruption. "The strong message of trust from the people only strengthens my resolve to continue my crusade against corruption in order for good governance to translate to a stronger economy that is felt by all families," he said.
Cayetano also shared that he has been conducting a non-traditional kind of campaign that is more grassroots-based. "We have been going around the country on a Listening Tour instead of having big rallies or sorties," he explained. "It was a risk because we are meeting small groups instead of huge crowds. But at least the survey results show that people appreciate the fact that you are personally listening to them to address their concerns."
"The best thing that I have gotten out of this Listening Tour is that I have personally heard from the people not only their problems but also their proposed solutions. Together, we can address all these issues regarding high prices, lack of jobs, and low income comprehensively," Cayetano said.
Cayetano's Listening Tour has so far taken him to places like Tiwi, Naga, Legazpi, Benguet, Cubao, Tondo, Daet, Baguio, La Trinidad, Cagayan de Oro, Bulacan, Pampanga, Cebu, Marikina, Makati, and many more. In these places, he has been able to talk to teachers, market vendors, senior citizens, factory workers, construction workers, shoemakers, fishermen, farmers, and barangay officials among others.
Cayetano said that he plans to continue his Listening Tour after the Holy Week in order to give his constituents time to reflect and be with their families during this time of prayer.
The SWS survey was conducted from March 15-17 using face-to-face interviews with 1,200 respondents.#


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Warner Shorthorns strives for both
Riverton – Bryan and Marti Warner moved to Fremont County from Colorado in 2002 and brought about 40 head of Shorthorn cattle with them. Today they sell registered Shorthorn bulls and females, in addition to providing some local 4-H and FFA kids with steer projects. Bryan raises alfalfa hay for their operation, in addition to custom baling for some of his neighbors.
"We raise breeding stock Shorthorns and treat our cattle like a commercial herd, for the most part. We'll cull if they have a bad attitude, bad udder or aren't functional," explains Marti.
"We don't keep bull calves we wouldn't be willing to use in our operation. We don't sell bulls just to sell bulls – they have to be pretty spectacular for us to keep them as a bull. We do guarantee all our bulls and the Shorthorn Association also has a guarantee we follow as a breeder," adds Bryan, noting the same strict criteria is used on the female side of their operation.
One example of the criteria used in their herd is calving ease. "We've worked really hard to produce calving ease, low birth weight bulls. We don't use anything with a high birth weight and we don't keep a bull if he weighed over 90 pounds at birth," says Marti. She adds this attention to specific traits pays off in their customer base.
"I think a lot of the older guys who used to use Shorthorns got away from them, in part, because of their frame size. Shorthorns were large, and now we're scaling them back and making them more moderate, in addition to selecting for other traits, including low birth weight," notes Bryan.
"We also select on horns. If a bull calf has horns he gets to be a steer," adds Marti.
"I was raised in Teton County and my family had Herefords – just about everyone did them. When we lived in Colorado we had a nice a little 40-acre place and thought it would be nice to have some cattle. We thought club calves might be fun, and we had some red cows so we bought a Shorthorn bull. We just liked the cattle so much we ended up getting more and more of them and have stayed with the breed," says Marti of how they started raising Shorthorns.
She adds that while the steers Warner Shorthorns has sold locally have done very well in county fairs, that's not what they're geared toward. "We think of our cattle as breeding stock. The club calf thing is fine, and some guys do it very well, but we're not willing to raise such extreme cattle and sacrifice a cow just to get a $20,000 steer. Our cows are part of our living and they have to last a while. If they aren't functional and producing a calf, they go down the road."
The Warners run their cattle on pasture in the summer and raise hay to feed in the winter. A recent purchase of additional farmland added to their hay production, and they now sell some alfalfa hay.
They also attend about four shows a year, where they compete and market the majority of their cattle.
"We show at the NILE, the Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City, S.D. a small show in Columbus, Neb. and another in Kearney, Neb. We focus on taking bulls and some female breeding stock to those shows, and we sell through the shows too," explains Bryan.
Last year they had the high-selling Shorthorn bull at both Rapid City and Kearney. They have shown the reserve champion Shorthorn bull in Rapid City twice and Kearney once.
"We sold a heifer to a family from Columbus, Neb. last year. She was the Supreme Champion Heifer out of all the breeds at their county fair. We were pretty excited about that," says Bryan.
"We work pretty close ly with the kids who buy our calves and love to be involved with any of the kids in 4-H or FFA. We don't have any of our own, so it's fun to 'borrow' somebody else and help those kids try to be successful in what they're doing," adds Marti.
As part of helping kids, Bryan and Marti traditionally hold a fitting workshop at their place each summer. This year it didn't happen, partially due to less interest and the economy.
"The NILE has a Merit Heifer Program for youth, and we signed on last year to donate a Shorthorn heifer. Even kids from this area can apply. They have to turn in an application and have letters of recommendation. The idea is to help kids interested in beef production start their own herd. It's a good deal to be involved in, and the kids have to do a pretty in-depth application to be considered," explains Bryan.
"The semen companies will donate semen if they want to AI their heifer. After the first year they will help develop a business program, and if they want to flush embryos they will help them get a loan through Farm Credit Services. They're really trying to help kids focus on a future as a beef producer, and they are willing to help educate them," adds Marti.
Bryan and Marti also utilize technology such as AI and embryo transfer to continue to improve their herd. They have some Shorthorn/Hereford crosses they are very happy with, and are working to develop a "black" Shorthorn. "It will be a Shorthorn/Angus cross, and will be eligible for an Appendix registration through the Shorthorn Association," says Bryan.
Today Warner Shorthorns markets about 10 bulls annually, and have recently started selling more bulls locally. "We've also noticed the guys who purchase our cows and heifers are typically younger guys, they're the next generation coming up, and that's great to see," notes Marti.
"This is a wonderful community and the people are nice and friendly. I just think Wyoming is a place where people are independent and respect your right to do whatever you want to do," concludes Marti.
Heather Hamilton is editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at heather@wylr.net.
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Juliette Losq is colonising a room with installations for this year's festival, displaying works including Polydorus. This piece takes its title from Virgil's Aeneid, in which the prince Polydorus is killed by his enemies' spears. Afterwards, these spears grow into a grove of trees. When the hero Aeneas hacks at them, the trees bleed and the slain prince cries out to him. In her installation, Juliette exploits the anthropomorphic qualities of a found corner cabinet, which appears to have a body, legs and eyes, by painting a bronchial tree inside the cabinet. As Polydorus also refers to a kind of butterfly, the shape of the cabinet suggests a butterfly's body.
Juliette studied at Wimbledon College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Recent solo exhibitions include Nemora at London's Fine Art Society Contemporary in 2014.
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Waterloo Road star tells seasonal tale
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Award-winning Scottish actor Georgie Glen narrates Raymond Briggs' The Snowman for RSNO's Christmas Concerts
Georgie Glen, most recently known for portraying history teacher Audrey McFall in BBC One show Waterloo Road, will make her Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) début this month, narrating the classic story of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman, as part of this year's RSNO Christmas Concerts.
The Helensburgh-born actor will be known to many, with Georgie's film credits including Les Misérables, Mrs Brown, My Week With Marilyn and Calendar Girls. On the small screen she has appeared regularly in Heartbeat, as well as in numerous comedy series, including Alan Partridge, Little Britain and The Thick of It.
The Orchestra takes its popular RSNO Christmas Concerts (sponsored by the RSNO's Transport Partner ScotRail) – now firmly embedded as one of Scotland's traditional seasonal events – to the Music Hall, Aberdeen (Thursday 17 December, 7.30pm); the Caird Hall, Dundee (Friday 18 December, 7.30pm); the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Saturday 19 December, 2.00pm & 6.00pm), and to the Usher Hall, Edinburgh (Sunday 20 December, 3.00pm). Led by conductor Christopher Bell, the Orchestra will perform Howard Blake's iconic soundtrack synchronised with the screening of the animated film, with vocal soloists for the famous ballad Walking in the Air drawn from the RSNO's own Junior Chorus. The concerts also feature well-known festive musical favourites, audience participation, the RSNO Chorus or Junior Chorus, and a few surprises.
Scottish actor Georgie Glen: "It is my distinct pleasure to be performing with Scotland's national orchestra this Christmas. The Snowman is such a wonderful tale, and to narrate the story along with the animation and full symphonic support is something I'm sure I'm going to treasure."
On Sunday 3 January 2016 the Orchestra welcomes audiences to a new year at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for its matinee performance of Handel's Messiah (3.00pm), with historical performance conductor Matthew Halls joined onstage by soprano Ailish Tynan, counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, tenor James Gilchrist, bass-baritone Matthew Brook and the RSNO Chorus .
The RSNO's Viennese Gala with conductor Jean-Claude Picard and soprano Ailish Tynan present Viennese Gala at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline (Friday 8 January, 7.30pm); the Buccleuch Centre, Langholm (Saturday 9 January, 7.30pm); Reid Hall, Forfar (Sunday 10 January, 7.30pm), Eden Court, Inverness (Wednesday 13 January, 7.30pm) and at Albert Halls, Stirling (Thursday 14 January, 7.30pm). For more information please go to www.rsno.org.uk.
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Childrens Court judges (i.e. a District Court judge sitting as the Childrens Court) are also able to quickly review the sentencing decisions of magistrates, hear bail applications for serious offences and review bail decisions made by magistrates.
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Maine Coast Fishermen's Association receives grant to increase mental health awareness and promote well-being for commercial fishermen.
For immediate release-- (Brunswick, ME) The Maine Coast Fishermen's Association (MCFA), an industry-driven organization dedicated to restoring the fisheries in the Gulf of Maine and sustaining Maine's fishing communities for future generations, recently received a grant from the Fisher Charitable Trust to begin work increasing mental health awareness and promote well-being for commercial fishermen.
Maine's fishermen and their communities are facing unprecedented changes that are beyond their control; from climate change to regulations, and an increasing cost of doing business. Commercial fishing is also one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.
Alex Todd, a commercial fisherman from Chebeague Island and MCFA board member says, "It's important to me and my friends and family who go fishing that there are resources available that can help us deal with some of the challenges we are facing. There is so much we have to deal with right now and it's really taking a toll on a lot of us. I think even just letting people know that some fishermen are pretty anxious and depressed right now is important."
Fishermen aren't alone in their daily struggles, but the lack of resources dedicated to fishing communities puts them particularly at risk. The agriculture industry, which deals with many of the same stressors as the fishing industry, has shown that investing in preventative and reactive programs brings value to the community, and can help humanize and preserve a significantly important industry.
For example, the state of Kansas recently announced a new program dedicated to farming families "coping with ag-related stress." It is the hope of Maine Coast Fishermen's Association that by starting this discussion and engaging with fishermen, that their health and wellbeing becomes a priority for Maine.
"It is time for us as a state to invest in our fishermen just as much as we invest in our businesses," says Ben Martens, Executive Director of MCFA. "We hope that by providing opportunities for mental health awareness and self-care education that we can give fishermen the resources they need to be healthy on the water and in their communities."
The Maine Coast Fishermen's Association (MCFA) is an industry-based nonprofit that identifies and fosters ways to restore the fisheries of the Gulf of Maine and sustain Maine's fishing communities for future generations. Working with fishermen and fishing communities we strive to ensure that the next generation of fishermen has the community infrastructure and environmental resources to maintain Maine's coastal cultural identity and sustain vibrant working waterfronts.
The Fisher Charitable Trust is a private operating foundation established by Dean L. Fisher, late of Rockport, Maine, which became active in 1997.
For more information contact Monique Coombs at monique@mainecoastfishermen.org.
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Orwellian Google: Assange Talks Afshin Rattansi
'Afshin Rattansi goes underground on when WikiLeaks met Google. Julian Assange discusses the meeting he had in 2011 with Eric Schmidt, then a top executive and now chairman of Google, and 3 others. He says the meeting was nominally over a book that was being written, which was published and had pre-publication endorsements from the likes of Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger, but the question he wanted to know was why was this book being written? He examines the networks behind Google, and their 'in-house state department' Google ideas, and reveals that they are pushing the position that the State should control what is and is not published, to the extent of a state body overseeing whistleblowers that they have to go through before they can release any material. He says that Google is in bed with the state department, citing as an example that the girlfriend of Eric Schmidt contacted him regarding arranging a meeting with Hilary Clinton. He also points out that the argument the US military use against WikiLeaks, that the publication of cables could theoretically cause harm, was undermined when the general charged with investigating any harm caused by WikiLeaks testified under oath at the trial of Chelsea Manning that they couldn't find a single person that had been harmed. He also talks about the mistakes he believe the Guardian made, and how HBGary tendered $2 million a month to attack WikiLeaks and Glen Greenwald. He talks about some of the more recent publications he has made, such as FinFisher, a cyberweapon which can hijack mobile phones and turn on the microphone, and can infect massive amounts of computers by putting itself in the major gateway of a country or ISP. He warns whilst people may be suspicious of the intentions of the NSA and the like regarding the internet, associations you may perceive to be working the other way are funded by the same players. He also points out that the amount of people with security clearances in the US has more than doubled since 2010, with 6 million people now part of this 'state within a state' who are subject to extra laws and requirements that are classified – 'an extremely alarming phenomenon'. Published on Sep 22, 2014′.
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Snowden in Moscow: Whistleblowers Talk
'Edward Snowden's revelations about the activities of NSA forced him to go on the run and seek sanctuary from US intelligence agencies. But it also won him a lot of support and praise. Just yesterday he received the Sam Adams prize for 'Integrity in Intelligence'. RT welcomes whistleblowers and activists Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Andrews Drake, Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley in the studio. They saw the whistleblower in Moscow and presented him with the award (10 Oct 2013)'.
The good people of Wikipedia inform us that the 'Sam Adams Award is given annually by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers, to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes the physical form of a "corner-brightener candlestick". Many recipients have been whistleblowers'.[1] Today, as the New Cold War is being waged behind the scenes, Snowden seems to have become a symbolic figure that epitomizes the new balance of power in the making . . .
[1] "Sam Adams Award" Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_Award.
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Hearings are underway on the case of John Kiriakou, a former CIA official turned whistleblower. He first told the world about waterboarding in secret prisons, but scandals like that might never break again of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have their say. Congress is on a mission to silence journalists from ever publishing classified information and, in fact, want to make doing so a crime under the Espionage Act. Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights Director of the Government Accountability Project, joins RT's Liz Wahl to explain what that could mean for the freedom of press in America (24 July 2012).
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Assange on TV: The World Tomorrow, episode 4
In the fourth episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist. His parents were human rights campaigners under Anwar Sadat; his sister Mona Seif became a Twitter star during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and is a founder of the No Military Trials for Civilians group formed under the post-Mubarak military junta. El-Fattah was imprisoned for 45 days in 2006 for protesting under the Mubarak regime, and released after "Free Alaa" solidarity protests in Egypt and around the world. In 2011, from abroad, El-Fattah helped route around Mubarak's internet blockade. Nabeel Rajab is a lifelong Bahraini activist and critic of the Al Khalifa regime. A member of a staunch pro-regime family, Rajab has agitated for reform in Bahrain since his return from university in 1988. Along with the Bahraini-Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, he helped establish the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002. Rajab is reasonably new to the limelight — becoming a face for the Bahrain uprising of February 14 2011, after the sit-in at Pearl Roundabout. Since then, he has been a public face for the revolution, waging a social media war on Twitter with PR companies working for the regime. After al-Khawaja was imprisoned, he led protests for his release. He has endured beatings, arrests and legal harrassment for engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations. On Saturday 5th of May, he was arrested atManama airport , and charged the next day with encouraging and engaging in "illegal protests." Nabeel Rajab remains in detention at the time of broadcast (8 May 2012).
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Estill ups Thermal Angel production
DALLAS, July 16 (UPI) — Estill Medical Technologies has increased production of its trauma victim body temperature warming system to support the U.S. military.
KVH to support remote weapons stations
MIDDLETOWN, R.I., July 16 (UPI) — KVH Industries Inc. has been contracted to support remote stabilized weapon stations deployed by the United States and allied military forces.
Lockheed Martin, GSM to upgrade antennas
MARION, Ga., July 16 (UPI) — The U.S. Navy has contracted a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Granite State Manufacturing to upgrade submarine antenna technologies.
Raytheon selected for Space Fence program
TEWKSBURY, Mass., July 16 (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force has selected Raytheon to provide prototype services in support of the Space Fence situational awareness program.
Air Force awards deal for deicing trucks
MAIDEN, N.C., July 16 (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force has awarded a follow-on contract to Air T Inc. to continue providing its deicing trucks to support equipment operational readiness.
LaBarge to support Black Hawk helicopters
ST. LOUIS, July 16 (UPI) — Kaman Aerospace Corp. has contracted U.S. company LaBarge Inc. to provide wiring harness technology for installation on Black Hawk helicopters.
Textron Scorpion tech completes review
WILMINGTON, Mass., July 16 (UPI) — Textron Defense Systems says its networked sensor and munitions platform has successfully completed a U.S. Army critical design review.
UNDT's detection kits certified by DHS
LOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) — Universal Detection Technology announced its handheld threat-detection kits have received a certification by the U.S. Homeland Security Department.
SDS to release central database
NEW YORK, July 16 (UPI) — U.S. company Suspect Detection Systems announced plans to release a central database to provide analyses of test results for its interrogation technologies.
BAE, GD move to next stage of FRES SV
LONDON, July 16 (UPI) — The British Defense Ministry has selected BAE Systems and General Dynamics for the Future Rapid Effect System Specialist Vehicle program's next stage.


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Is your focus a lifestyle change?
The "deal-killer" list should be much shorter than the list of negotiable points.
Develop a fair understanding of your financial worth to an employer. Be prepared to illustrate your value to the organization you wish to join.
Leave your ego at home. When emotions get involved, bad business decisions follow. This is business; you are a well educated professional, don't let your emotions reduce you to a pouting, temperamental teenager.
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Remember, in the Primary Care specialties, many moves are lateral or worse in terms of compensation. A new employer's starting salary rarely matches income levels built through years of patient care in one location.
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Bonuses for sign on, moving, marketing, etc. are one time events and must be considered separately from the salary offer.
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Almost all contracts contain restrictive covenants/non-compete clauses.
Employer desires to prevent a situation where they have paid to bring someone into the community, helped them weather their first year, only to see them become competition.
Avoid a contract with clearly unreasonable time or geographic restrictions. (Most non-competes are for a single year and a distance under thirty miles).
Clarify any requirement to share earnings from work done outside the employer's practice (clinical trials, speaking, consulting, publishing, operating a medical business unrelated to the practice).
Some employers will want a share of any dollar you earn.
Every contract should undergo review by an attorney with at least a basic understanding of medical employment contracts.
Work with someone who can get the job done quickly and who will focus on key issues. Some attorneys will take weeks and spend time changing inconsequential wording ("six to half-dozen," "happy to "glad" ) as a way of justifying their fee.
You want the review done right, done quickly and done by someone who understands the business end of medicine.
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STORGY's Basement of Horrors! – Mother!
By storgy	in film	on October 24, 2017 October 24, 2017
"I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives."
Charles Hermite
Joshua Moulinie takes an in-depth look at Darren Aronofsky's mother! as part of STORGY's Basement of Horrors. It's the last full week before Halloween, so we're hoping to send some shivers down your spine with reviews, play throughs and retrospectives leading up to the 31st. This video is a shortened version of the full review. Check out Joshua's whole review of mother! at STORGY.com Check back with us tomorrow where Tony and Charlotte will be playing Amnesia!
2017 has been a mostly stagnant year for cinema; devoid of any true standouts, most efforts have been decent at best, in a scene dominated by franchises and sequels, being choked under the hefty hands of corporate profit. Until recently, we were yet to have the first standout film driven more by art than profits to hit mainstream British cinemas; then, from the darkness, came a unique vision, as Aranofsky made a step back from the larger scale of Noah to the smaller, independent projects he is known best for. With talent like Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris involved, high hopes were had; and the film, while somewhat puzzling and ambiguous, delivers an atmospheric tour-de-force.
The film acts as an allegory for the story of creation, told via the guise of domestic relationship. Bardem's The Poet is a stand-in for God; The narcissistic who creates first Earth (The Mother) before Man. Man who would then go on to abuse the Earth while worshipping the creator, in reaction the Earth loses faith in God, and everything eventually culminates in a last act of pure insanity, as man eventually causes the entire collapse of creation, and the cycle begins anew. The key to understanding, and ultimately enjoying Mother! is to figure out this central metaphor. Once you do, everything you've seen makes a lot more sense, and suddenly the crushing atmosphere and imagery has a very real and poignant point to it.
The film is extremely metaphorical, and to explain too much would be to ruin it. This is a thinking man's film, designed to be examined and unpacked. The sort of film that burrows into your subconscious, and refuses to leave. Whilst I've given away the central metaphor, which I somewhat regret doing but felt was necessary, due to the controversy and swarm of people referring to it as 'incomprehensible' which, of course, is nonsense, I have still left a significant amount untold. I would normally say it's best to go in completely blind, and it indeed is; yet, seemingly, the mainstream public have been unable to do so, and I felt it necessary to explain the crux of the story, hopefully to avoid future freak-outs.
The film begins relatively slowly, with a crushing sense of ambiguity, isolation, and claustrophobia; building a slow mystery that reveals effectively nothing, before turning a switch in the final act and delivering one of the most insane, yet endlessly entertaining, final acts in the history of mainstream cinema. The incredible escalation, the amount of 'Did that just happen?' moments is utterly mind-blowing, and if you walk out before this sequence, you will be doing yourself an extreme disservice. This is achieved, mostly, through intellectually provocative writing; make no bones about it, this may be the best screenplay Aranofsky has ever worked from. It's clever, it's subtle, it's everything you need from a screenplay for a good mystery, which, at it's core, Mother! is.
The film carries itself with a dream-like atmosphere, comparable to Dario Agento or David Lynch (Two of my favourite film-makers, incidentally enough); time is distorted, often ignored, and scenes seem to skip over entire periods, moving with a pace that makes no sense within what we perceive as reality. It all feels entirely deliberate, designed to disorientate and bewilder, creating an ambient experience that keeps you bemused and amused until the very end. Perhaps it is this, alongside THAT scene (which we will get to later), that has caused the mainstream audience to switch off. Perhaps we are now so conditioned to traditional sequential storytelling that something with this sheer artistic audacity was too much for the popcorn crowd to swallow. It is, funnily enough, the same issues Twin Peaks:The Return ran into. Simply put, we are, artistically speaking, the most dumbed-down we have ever been as a society. We demand simple entertainment and refuse to think. Films like Mother!, unfortunately, may well go the way of the dinosaurs before too long.
I compared Mother! To a dream, in terms of the way it feels, yet, a more appropriate term would be a nightmare. If, like me, you are somewhat anti-social and agoraphobic, the way the story unfolds, as more and more faces flood into the house, worshipping the narcissistic poet, and things become relentlessly crowded, the situation ever-worsening around her, then this will make you incredibly uncomfortable. I found myself continuously shifting in my seat, thinking 'Dear God, that's my worst nightmare.' It works not only on a metaphorical level, but on a more literal one as well, which is, for me, usually the sign of a wonderful film.
The message about religion, the narcissism of God, the absurdity of the cult like following of Christianity, is well executed, yet doomed to controversy and hatred. It makes a clear and distinct point; and a very valid one. Christianity and the customs are, to some, baffling, and God is a narcissist. Only a narcissist would possibly demand you worship them every weekend, and flood the entire Earth when he doesn't get the worshipping he wants. That Aranofsky had the balls to do this on a large scale is commendable, but perhaps somewhat suicidal, particularly in America, a country not exactly known for being tolerant to criticisms of Christianity. I can't even imagine how it would have gone in Italy.
It also says a lot about humanity, and our neglect of the natural world while worshipping supposed higher powers, told via the clever guise of a relationship conundrum. It's subtle enough to not feel patronising, yet enough clues are given to figure it out, thanks to the stellar writing. It is a fascinating and intriguing point, if not exactly a new one, that has a lot of interesting things to say about the nature of religious worship…so naturally everyone's focused on a singular scene taken out of context, because people will always be people.
While the criticism is frustrating, it is completely understandable. In taking one of Christianity's central symbols – the eating of the body of Christ – and depicting it in a literal sense, they may have pushed things too far for the general public to handle. Art, in my opinion, should know no boundaries, and, so long as a genuine point is being made, and it isn't violence for violence sake, nothing is too far. However, not all share my opinion, and the hate for the film proves this. Though I would argue disgust has nothing to do with quality, and personal tastes being upset do not a bad film make. It has a powerful, poignant message, and should be applauded for having the sheer testicular fortitude to take such risks.
It is also perhaps a sad reflection of us, the audience, and people in general, that one scene of an infant being murdered would cause us to have a breakdown on such a massive scale. We see films all the time that focus on taboo and disgusting themes; rape, murder, drug abuse. We've become conditioned to not be particularly bothered by this; in fact, in films such as Friday The 13th, we actively root for the murder of innocent teenagers, getting a sick delight out of seeing them dismembered viscerally. Yet, kill a single baby, and the whole world screams out in disgust. Frankly, it's a double standard; as anybody with intelligence and rationality knows a babies life is no more valuable than that of a teenager. Yet, we root for the death of one, and crucify a film (pun intended), for the death of another. As far as I'm concerned, there is no controversy here. We've created the controversy, as per usual, via our hypocrisy.
Visually, it's classic Aranofsky, delivering what is effectively a polished version of the Dogme style populated by Von Trier and Vinterberg. Mostly handheld and close-ups, creating a sense of instability, discomfort and claustrophobia, while simultaneously looking like a polished production. Nothing spectacular, yet effective in conveying the intended atmosphere, with the occasional breathtaking shot thrown in for balance. The score, unfortunately, is not memorable, though not terrible either. Simply there, effective during the duration, but forgotten as soon as the credits role.
Bardem and Lawrence are fantastic as the central pillars of the film, both executing their roles with maturity and complete control. Bardem as the detached narcissist, trading in his humanity as his fame grows and his ego with it. His cold, emotionless eyes are, at times, quite disconcerting, and he once again shines as one of the finest performers in Hollywood today. Lawrence goes a long way towards shedding her image as the darling child of commercial crap, and puts in a performance we see too rarely from her. Emotionally vulnerable at first, yet growing in strength as the narrative progresses, it is a career-defining performance that may well be her best. If she could stick to more challenging roles like this, and leave the popcorn nonsense alone, she could well go down as a great. Michelle Pfeiffer is also wonderfully cold and bitchy, and a delight throughout.
The film is not perfect, no film is, but flaws are hard to pick out in this instance. Perhaps one could argue it did indeed go too far with a particular scene, and it has certainly harmed the public perception of a great work, but I feel strongly the film deserves no criticism for this. If the aim of art is to provoke discussion, it has done just that, while also revealing something about ourselves. It, perhaps, could have been slightly better paced; the end sequence is absolutely spectacular, but the beginning does take a while to get moving, with the atmosphere taking time to settle.
Still, an incredible watch by a director who stands among Hollywood's greats. Artistically driven with a point to make, refusing to shy away from undertaking the necessary steps to drive that point home, this is bold and brave film-making from a true visionary director. Featuring a stellar cast and looking beautiful, this is an incredible piece of work that provides 2017 with the shot in the arm it so desperately needed. Cinema is dying. While companies such as Disney, and franchises such as The Fast and The Furious continue to turn over ridiculous sums, so the financial side of Hollywood stands firm, pure cinema is upon its knees. We need films like this, brave and visionary films that remind us what cinema can truly be when allowed; not just a product designed for mass entertainment and corporate gain, but an art-form used for expression. I can only hope that the criticism and controversy does not panic studios into vetoing future works such as this one, but I will not be holding my breath for a positive outcome. Cinema is dying. We need to save her.
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Dan O. says:
A crazy movie. But it worked for me. Nice review.


Veteran filmmaker and producer Jane Murago-Munene was trained at Voice of Kenya, the name was later reverted back to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. Her first production, The Tender One, was produced during the first United Nation's International Year of the Child in 1979. It was this UN project that made her realize her interest in documentaries as they "give you a chance to tell things as they are and a chance to go deeper into issues than you would otherwise do". Founder of CineArts Afrika in 1990, she is also chairperson of the Kenya National Film Association and Eastern Africa regional secretary of FEPACI (the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers). Other works to her credit include: The Chosen One co-directed in 1991 with Dommie Yambo-Odotte, the 14-minute documentary Women, Water, and Workload (1994), Enkishon: the Maasai Child in Kenya (1995), a 28-minute documentary. Out of Silence, a 23-minute documentary produced in the early 2000s. The fiction films The Price of a Daughter and Behind Closed Doors were released in 2003 and 2004 respectively. The most recent production, Turning Tide: Women Entrepreneurs in Africa is a 13-part series made in 2008 in collaboration with the (IFC) International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, to showcase successful businesswomen from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It has been also broadcast in those countries.
"This series looks at the challenges businesswomen face in Africa and how these challenges can be overcome. I hope their stories will serve as inspiration to other women who dream to begin their own business."
Capital Talk with Jeffrey Koinange, in four-parts, features Jane Murago-Munene discussing her journey into film production and the significance of the Turning Tide: Women Entrepreneurs in Africa project.


Reconstruction will bring additional lanes, anti-noise barrier and wider bridge.
The reconstruction of the Sielnica intersection on the R1 expressway near Zvolen will be carried out by Eurovia SK construction company for €2.2 million (VAT excluded), the TASR reported on August 18, 2016.
The intersection provides a link between the R1 expressway and a third-class road that leads from the spa and airport in Sliač to the village of Sielnica (both Banská Bystrica Region). Reconstruction works include the construction of turning and connecting lanes, an anti-noise barrier and extension of a bridge.
The National Highway Company (NDS) originally estimated the price of the contract at €3.4 million (VAT excluded). Works on the intersection will not be co-financed from EU funds, TASR wrote.


Salena Jones (born Joan Elizabeth Shaw, January 29, 1930, 1938 or 1944) is an American jazz and cabaret singer. After performing and recording in the US as Joan Shaw from the late 1940s until the early 1960s, in various styles including jazz and R&B, she moved to England and from then on performed as Salena Jones. She has toured internationally and recorded over forty albums.


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Q: Parsing logic expressions in strings with known variables What I want to do is create a function that would take an input string with 1-3 variables (and it would require at least one), then parse that input for an expression. This expression would then be considered logical and return true or false.
For example,
"X == Y && 0.1 <= X < 1.0 && Z > 0.0"

Then first the variables in that string would be iterated through and replaced with actual values. After all of the variables have been replaced the modified string would be like this:
"1.0 == 1.0 && 0.1 <= 1.0 < 1.0 && 0.6 > 0.0"

Then that string would be logically tested. If it is true the function would return true, else false.
I was thinking the function would be something like this:
IsLogical(string, float X, float Y, float Z)

I've been searching for the past few hours for ways to do this and all I have found were arithmetic math equation parsers. So far all I have got done is the part where the variables are replaced with the three input values.
So if anyone is willing to help, can you tell me how it would be done? Showing me examples would definitely be great too.
This function can't use any external resources like boost or embedded Lua.
EDIT: This should include all the basic comparison operators in C++, such as less than, more than, less than or equal to, more than or equal to, equal to, not equal to, and, or, parenthesis. It would all be in C++ format. If the format of the input isn't correct the function would automatically return false.

A: This is a wild stab at your problem. I'm not going to code it in detail, and I'm not focusing on language semantics, perfect compilation etc.
Wrap your variables with a new type (ExpresionVar). Register each variable with an ExpressionBuilder, that contains logical operators registered in the beginning of the program. Refer to the comments (psuedo code) in result...
ExpressionVar
{
  float value_;
  std::string name_;
};

LogicalOp
{
  virtual std::string id() const = 0;
  virtual bool operator()(
    const ExpressionVar& lhs, const ExpressionVar& rhs) const = 0;
};

IsEqual : LogicalOp
{
  std::string id() const override{ return "=="; }
  bool operator()(
    const ExpressionVar& lhs, const ExpressionVar& rhs) const override
  {
    returns lhs.value_ == rhs.value_;
  }
};

//etc...

ExpressionBuilder
{
  void registerVar(std::initializer_list<const ExpressionVar&>);
  static void registerLogical(LogicalOp&&);

  bool result(const std::string& expression) const
  {
    //run through expression.
    // Search for known ExpressionVariable (EV), if variable found,
    // store as lhs, else throw.
    // Then search for LogicalOp until found, if another EV found
    // throw, else store op, whereafter searching of rhs, etc...
  }
};

bool IsLogical(
  const std::string& input,
  std::initializer_list<ExpressionVar> variables)
{
  //Logical ops registered prior...
  return ExpressionBuilder().registerVar(variables).result(input);
}

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Ping S59 Iron Set
• Small, bar-crossed cavity offers moderate forgiveness but also plenty of feel and distance control
• Shallow center of gravity encourages a more penetrating ball flight
• Slim top-line and beveled sole make alignment a snap
• The player-preferred Z-Z65 shaft, at just 108 grams, comes as standard equipment
Engineer and inventor Karsten Solheim got his start as an engineer working for GE in Ithaca, New York. His passion for the game set him on a journey to create a better putter. At the time he thought he was simply building it for his own personal use, but in 1959, Karsten's ongoing garage experiments yielded an innovative putter he called 1A design. This putter had very distinctive design qualities, among them, a unique tone at impact, a sound that would echo throughout the game for generations to come…"Ping." The Anser putter began a long and proud history of truly innovative equipment design throughout Ping's entire product line (ultimately resulting in over 400 patents) that has set Ping at the top of the list of golf design and manufacturing companies. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Karsten Solheim has passed away and his son John has taken the helm.
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Australia to trial new China visa rules to boost tourism
Reuters Thu, 14 Apr 2016 Thu, 14 Apr 2016
Shanghai: Australia will trial new visa rules for visitors and students from China, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, as the country seeks to boost tourism and education amid an economy struggling with the demise of a once-in-a-lifetime mining boom.
Government data released in January showed a record 1 million Chinese tourists flocked to Australia in the past 12 months, up from a mere 100,000 fifteen years ago. Beaten in absolute numbers only by New Zealand, China is the fastest growing group with a total spending of A$7.7 billion last year.
"China is Australia's most valuable tourism market. More than a million Chinese visited Australia last year (and) contributed A$8.3 billion to our economy," Turnbull said in Shanghai at the start of a trip to China.
Australia will make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit, trialing visa applications in a language other than English, in Chinese, online visa applications from China for the first time and trialing 10-year validity visas, he added.
Eight student visa categories will also be reduced to two, Turnbull said.
"This shows the commitment of Australia to strengthen this vitally important tourism relationship. And of course it's a very important part of our economic story, but it is also a key element in bringing our two countries and our two peoples closer together," he added.
"The more Chinese come to Australia, Australians go to China the closer we become together, the better we understand each other, the more opportunities for further engagement at every level - social, academic, economic, commercial."
Australia has launched a new A$40 million global tourism campaign to help fill the economic hole left by the commodities downturn, targeting a growing group of Chinese holidaymakers who favour independent itineraries over traditional large group packages.
The campaign is geared towards a new breed of young and independent traveller from China drawn to Australia's natural beauty.
Tourism Research Australia forecasts Chinese spending to double to A$13.7 billion by 2024-25.
Australia's A$1.6 trillion economy is struggling with sub-par growth.
Driven by Chinese arrivals, tourism is among the fastest growing sectors, employing half a million people. The government forecasts the industry to rake in A$113 billion by June 2016, with foreign tourists accounting for one third.


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By theajaysharma November 18, 2010
Jarvis Cocker is gettin' the band back together! So far they only have two European festivals setup for next summer. I only saw them once when they opened for Blur on the Parklife tour, man, that was like the ultimate britpop gig.
Speaking of Blur, Damon Albarn said that they might do something "small" in the 2011. A US tour? Probably not.
BBC reviews 'The best of' Suede.
Listen/Download a Folk-Indie version of Nirvana's 'Drain You', done by Horse Feathers. Good on them for finding a way to get noticed in the otherwise crowded world of folk-indie bands. I'll be honest, there are a few jems but none of them really speak to me.
Watch the Pet Shop Boys perform "It's A Sin". You know you want to remember those days.
I guess I should mention that you can see Arcade Fire on SNL since it was pretty much the only news last Sunday: Gorilla v Bear, Pitchfork, 24bit, Stereogum
NME might be the cable news equivalent of music magazines. Apparently some journalist for Rolling Stone Italy misquoted Johnny Greenwood and said that the new Radiohead album is almost done. Then Greenwood posted on the radiohead.com that it's not done. No big deal. But you gotta get those damn clicks and ad views, so NME's headline: "Radiohead give new album and tour update". There's no update! It's totally NON-news. What does Johnny say, something like, "err, there's a mistake, the album's not done and we're not touring." But Radiohead are huge and I'll be honest, it made me click on the link thinking, "Maybe NME knows something that I don't." And as usual, they don't know anything.
The first big rumor to headline Coachella 2011 is Rolling Stones. Would be nice to see, doubt it's going to be anywhere near as amazing as Paul McCartney.
Mani (Stone Roses/Primal Scream) is 48.
One of my favorite blogs (thanks Albert), Slicing Up Eyeballs now has a streaming radio show on Strangeways Radio. It's kinda fun to listen to streaming radio from a shoutcast server again. These days are mostly dominated by Pandora, NPR, and my own music. I've been listening for a few hours and it's pretty great.
So Neil Young stored all this vintage stuff in a garage with a an old Lincoln Continental that he converted into an electric car. Nothing weird so far... until the car catches on fire and destroys all this stuff in his warehouse. wtf indeed.
JAMC Back in the US, DJ Shadow Comp, and Go Buy the Ride Reissue!
My Coachella Tweets
Bradford Cox Plays "My Sharona" For an Hour. WTF?
Long time...
Short One Today: Elbow, Banksy, BAD, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Mogwai, PJ Harvey
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Matanglawin and weatherman Kuya Kim Atienza renews it's contract with Adtel's Baron Antenna, the No.1 Aerial TV antenna in the Philippines, Adtel also Introduces its new digital antenna called Baron BRL Antenna, the first-of-its-kind digital antenna in the Philippines. In 2017, Baron BRL Antenna was bundled with ABS-CBN's TV Plus digital box in one convenient and affordable package called "The Power Bundle".
The Matanglawin host also signed a new contract with Adtel, the Philippine distributor of KENT Water Purifier, that makes water 100% pure by removing bacteria, viruses and dissolved impurities as well as retaining natural minerals in purified water. KENT Water Purifier is one of the trusted RO water purifier in the world.


Ever thought that mango is great in a Christmas fruitcake? And for sure – the recipe you are using rum does say to use just a little bit of rum…Here is one of my favourite recipes – and what would Christmas baking efforts be without a real fruitcake? This one is full of fruits and nuts and is sweet and moist….. real treat! Especially if you serve it with French Vanilla Ice Cream or real whipping cream (just forget the calories for once – this one is worth it!
Please send in your comments, suggestions and experiences, your input is always welcomed and very much appreciated!
The recipe sounds so good I am preparing to make it. One question: It's a bit unclear how much rum is used. When you soak the fruit in the 1/4 cup of rum, will there be any rum remaining to be used after it's baked?
Hello Anna! Thanks so much for your message – you will notice that the 1/4 cup of rum is in the recipe twice – once to soak the fruit and second time to add to the cake. Happy baking – I am sure you will love the result!


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$600 million on two things: Interview with SenseTime CEO XU Li. Part (1/2)
Early this April, SenseTime (商汤科技) announced a fresh funding round of $600 million, just nine months after its then record-breaking (in the AI scene) Series B round of $410 million.
By KrASIA Writers Thu May 03 2018
Early this April, SenseTime (商汤科技) announced a fresh funding round of $600 million, just nine months after its then record-breaking (in the AI scene) Series B round of $410 million. The latest financing brought in new shareholders including Alibaba, Suning (苏宁) and Singapore's sovereign fund Temasek.
Recently, XU Li, SenseTime's CEO, sat down for an exclusive interview with 36Kr, a Chinese biztech media and parent company to KrASIA, in which he talked about the company's future strategies, the competitive landscape in the field of computer vision this year, as well as what he thinks a world that's increasingly driven by data will look like.
The following is an English translation of the transcript of the interview. Some parts have been edited by 36Kr and KrASIA for brevity and clarity.
This is the Part 1 of a 2-part series. Read Part 2 here.
$600 million on two things
Q: The rumour of Alibaba's investment began last year. When did you actually start discussing the possibility of an investment deal?
A: We had business contact with Alibaba Cloud late last year over its smart city project, and the investment is actually based on the fact that we two are strategically complementary. Alibaba Cloud needs our expertise in visual analysis to push ahead with its City Brain project,
Q: Last year saw a couple of computer vision unicorns raise hefty sums. Will there be a shift in investors' attitude this year?
A: At this stage, working capital has become a crucial factor for AI companies. I think capital will eventually flow to the few companies at the top. This is in fact the case with many industries: The top player gets to rake in high profit, the second much lower, and the third hardly profitable.
Q: How do you plan on spending the money raised?
A: I think you can liken what we are doing now to putting money in the bank. What matters at this stage is setting up barriers to ensure that we can collect higher-than-average interest in the future. We will spend the money on two things: developing our product mix and pooling resources along the value chain.
It's impossible to cover the entire market with a single product, so what we are offering is a product mix. For example, we may customize different facial recognition gates for office buildings, airports and hotels.
Pooling resources along the value chain is made possible when you have enough capital. And the rest is building the underlying infrastructure. This is what constitutes the core competency of our company. It affects our efficiency in developing and upgrading algorithms and allows us to finish in half an hour what others may take days or weeks to do.
Q: SenseTime has been investing in other companies that it thinks may help promote the application of its technology in vertical areas. What has it invested in so far?
A: We have invested in about six or seven companies, all of which operate in areas our technology can be applied in. Some are our clients. By buying their shares, we are able to collaborate with them more efficiently, and they all have their own products, which can become stronger when combined with our technology. For example, in the field of AR and VR, we invested in 51VR, and in the area of security, we joined hands with Terminus Technologies.
Q: What targets does the company have for this year?
A: We need to transform our operating model. SenseTime started out selling algorithms and later shifted to selling SDKs because our algorithms were not mature enough then and SDKs can be sold at scale.
Then we ran into a new problem: While it's a viable business model to sell software licenses in countries like Japan, Chinese enterprises are not used to spending too much on software.
They don't think it's worth it to buy a software package with tens of millions of yuan. More often than not, they would bargain with suppliers and ask them to cut the price, say, from 60 million yuan to 50 million yuan. They may demand heavier discounts the second year on the grounds that it seems the suppliers have offered little service during the first year. Chinese clients feel more comfortable spending money on physical equipment.
Therefore, faced with the prospect of a profit squeeze, this year we are focusing on bringing our upstream and downstream technology to the next level so as to strengthen our competitiveness before it's too late. We are looking for some investment or merger opportunities in the downstream segments of the value chain to boost our strength. We are not content with providing services in certain areas alone.
Q: What will be different after this transformation? Can you give us an example?
A: For example, in the field of security, we may sell just SDKs. We could also work together with system integrators and downstream partners to provide comprehensive industry solutions. For clients, such products are more acceptable. We can build a business ecosystem of our own if we pick the right partners and expand our presence along the value chain. Putting the focus on building a business ecosystem at the early stage pays off. It's the best decision we've made since we went commercial.
Reason for starting with the underlying technology
Q: You once said that SenseTime is one of few companies controlling original AI technology, and that in the long run, data and algorithms follow Moore's law. Can you expand on that?
A: Back when I was a college student, I wrote on my resume "proficient with operating systems" and was asked to explain during an interview. I said that I could use every command with ease. The interviewer burst out laughing and told me it should be "proficient with using operating systems."
From PC (Linux) to mobile phones (Android) to AI, the source code for operating systems has long been controlled by companies like Google and Microsoft, which are building their own ecosystems. It's true that using their trained and proven systems can save you investment in hardware and infrastructure, but there will be little you can do if their algorithms turn out to be not good enough or deviate from where you are going. This is the problem with everyone using the same system. That's why people say data is the most important .
The core competency of AI companies should be a better "brain" (operating systems). That's why SenseTime has kept investing to build training platforms. It's a process of setting up barriers to prepare itself for when the market turns from a blue ocean to a red ocean . There is only one way to stay original: make sure that your pace of innovation is faster than others. You'll miss the opportunity if you wait.
Q: What advantage does having your own underlying technology bring to your company with respect to user experience?
A: Take phone cameras for example. Regular dual-camera algorithms are particularly demanding on image registration. Many manufacturers have therefore designed a holder for the two cameras, which costs a few dollars. But if you develop your own underlying technology, you can conduct end-to-end training from the beginning, which saves the need for holders. It's like how human eyes work. They are actually not that demanding. When the cost of your products drops, users' experience improves and your competitiveness increases.
Q: How much has SenseTime invested in its supercomputer center?
A: Our supercomputer center has over 8,000 GPUs now. We invest hundreds of millions of yuan in it every year.
Q: Why do you think it's necessary to invest so heavily in the supercomputer center?
A: If we used others' "brains," for example, Google's TensorFlow, and train algorithms with our own data, we wouldn't have needed to invest so much in the supercomputer center.
But to develop our own training platform and "brain," we must conduct numerous tests and use massive amounts of data to validate our models. That's what makes our investment in computing power necessary. Outsiders may be impressed by the size of our early-stage investment, but that's exactly what has enabled us to stay ahead of others.
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Maintaining servers falls into two phases: First, bang head until server works; second, capture effort into some automation tool like Puppet or Chef. Recently, I've been playing around with making the first phase closer to the second. For lack of a better word, I'm calling it literate devops.
I've talked about using org-mode's literate programming model to investigate new ideas and crystallize thoughts, and this approach appears to work well for me, since I lack those esoteric sysadmin skills.
Which appends some lovely host-connection magic. Goody.
Now comes the literate devops. Since I always have Emacs hosting with my current sprint's notes, so instead of opening up a terminal to the virtual machine, I instead created a new header in my org-mode file, and started entering the commands in the file.
What good is this? Well, it allows me to log, document and execute each command.
Clicking the hyperlink gives me the online details I discovered, and I can enter prose about each command, and I can execute the commands from within Emacs.
Yes. I can execute the commands from within Emacs.
Hitting C-c C-c (Control-C twice) runs the code based on the language, and in this case, it runs it within my shell. The results are placed back into the buffer or written to a file, and more.
What about the Virtual Machine?
The first code block is some Emacs Lisp code that changes the default command for executing sh code, and the second block I run to see if it connects correctly.
Now, I can continue learning how to accomplish my target, all the while documenting and validating my steps. The end result can be exported to web or wiki page.
Yes, some executing some commands can be quite time-consuming and verbose, but often I need to search the results, and having the results in an Emacs buffer allows me better searching.
Can you Use the Output?
The results of some commands are often needed for the next command, and I'm sure you love using your mouse to copy and paste part of the output that you want to use.
Notice that I named this source block. Also notice how Emacs automatically broke the results up into a table. By default, the output from shell commands are split along newlines and spaces…which is quite useful for me.
For here is another source block that creates a variable named DEPENDS that uses rows 2 through 10 of the first column as an array. I can then download the RPMs I want without any mouse interaction.
No, this shouldn't replace real DevOps automation, but this seems like a good way to take notes before you sit down to write that cookbook.


Abstract: The self-media produced in the era of Web 2.0 has the characteristics of fast speed and low threshold, which is in line with the characteristics of sudden and real-time sports events. With the further development of China's sports industry, sports-based self-media began to appear in Chinese social networks and appeared in various social media platforms such as Weibo and Wechat. Sports media also completed a leapfrog development in a short period of time.
In the new media environment, users and operators can communicate more directly and communicate with each other. Knowing the user's ideas and feedback in the first place is a direct acquisition. In this process, the practitioners adapt to the needs of the media. Different population needs.
This article selects "I love women's volleyball", a professional sports micro-channel self-media public number for development and operation, as a case study. Through case studies, content analysis, in-depth interviews, and other research methods, we analyzed the "I love women's volleyball" WeChat public number. The internal causes and successes of rapid development, and research on its propagation characteristics and push characteristics.
The research mainly summarizes the characteristics of "I love women's volleyball" content push, namely the diversity of content and the accuracy of user positioning. This article analyzes the characteristics of content push, dissemination effect, and operation mode, and learns that the sports report is in the new social media. Features. Through online forms, sports reports construct new social groups, make sports communication more convenient, extensive, interactive, equal and popular, breaking through the boundaries between different classes and groups, and also promoting the spread of sports culture and sportsmanship. .


Good morning ladies and gentleman and happy Friday to you all. We made it and in a few short (long) hours it will be the weekend for most of us and it will also be the beginning of the American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Cleveland Indians. They take center stage tonight as the only game on the schedule. Good luck to both teams, just a little bit of extra luck to the Indians who did not help end the Yankees season in 2016. Yeah, a little spiteful.


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SEATTLE - Dolls nicknamed Baby Jayden showed up on the streets of Seattle this week, capturing attention on social media and in the news. Social workers placed the dolls around town to represent the children waiting for care because of high caseloads for workers. Charles Loeffler, social service specialist with Washington State Children's Administration, says he and a coworker came up with the idea after a conference on mobilizing public support.
"We came up with this idea that, well, what if we actually had physical dolls to represent these children that are ultimately, at the end of the line, all the political decision making said and done, the people that are impacted," he said.
Loeffler is concerned that high caseloads and a high turnover rate could be affecting the children and families his department works with. There's also concern that, as the cost of living in King County goes up, social workers will struggle to keep up with rising costs.
The dolls garnered mostly positive feedback on social media. While Loeffler says this approach was able to gain attention for his profession, he is hoping other members of his union can also use social media to raise public awareness. The Washington Federation of State Employees represents workers from a broad spectrum of jobs across the state.
"They're doing important work as well, and what we need to do is start trying to figure out more ways to have their specific jobs, our specific jobs, and really hold up all of that, and all the very many diverse functions that state workers do," he added.
The Washington Federation of State Employees entered into bargaining with the state over compensation and working conditions this week. The union hopes to wrap up negotiations by September.


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Title Al-Fayed Harrods Dispute
Date 20 August 1984-11 October 1989
Description Documents relating to the dispute between the Al Fayed brothers and The Observer over the paper's calls for a Department of Trade and Industry inquiry into the purchase of Harrods.
File 1 includes press cuttings from various newspapers reporting the dispute, including those published by the Observer; notes by Derek Mitchell on the case; correspondence between the Independent Directors; copies of legal documents from the High Court of Justice for the case between the Al Fayeds and The Observer; publications; booklet entitled 'A fool and his money..' accounting the life of Mohamed Fayed; booklet regarding the case between Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and The Observer Limited & Lonrho PLC in the High Court of Justice; booklet entitled 'Sinking in corruption', and copies of letters sent by Francesca Pollard to Tiny Rowland.
Also includes list of names, addresses and telephone numbers of employees, Independent Directors and representative lawyers.
File 2 includes an account of Derek Mitchell on his experience of the publication of the special mid-week edition of The Observer (Thursday 30th March 1989); press cuttings from various newspapers covering the publication of the special issue and political fall-out afterwards; copy of the Special Edition and copies of Donald Trelford's affidavits to the Court of Appeal regarding the injunction against The Observer.
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New York State Added 41K Jobs in October as Jobless Rate Ticks Down
By Celia Young November 19, 2021 5:23 pm
A "help wanted" sign hangs on a window of a restaurant. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
New York State added 41,300 private-sector jobs in October as the unemployment rate trickled down slightly to 6.9 percent from 7.1 percent, according to data from the New York State Department of Labor released on Thursday.
The jobs added in October represent just a 0.5 percent increase for the entire state. While that uptick matched the national average, New York's unemployment rate stills ranks well above the national rate of 4.6 percent. And New York City's unemployment rate was an even higher 9.4 percent in October. But any improvement is improvement, said Elena Volovelsky, a labor market analyst for the Labor Department.
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"If you look at the number of unemployed, that declined for nine consecutive months," Volovelsky told Commercial Observer. "The situation is definitely getting better."
New York has been clawing its way back from the massive job losses seen in the early days of the pandemic where the state lost more than 2 million jobs in March 2020. The unemployment rate in New York City alone reached a record high of 17.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020, meaning almost one in five people did not have a job.
The leisure and hospitality industries suffered the most year-to-year job loss in New York City, with a 53.1 percent decline between March 2020 and March 2021. But as coronavirus restrictions have eased, the hospitality industry has brought back some jobs.
"We've just seen large hotels beginning to reopen, so some of those jobs probably have to do with [those and] other signs of normalcy that returned in October," Volovelsky said. "Obviously, that sector is still lagging [behind] the recovery for the rest of the city."
The number of jobs in the leisure and hospitality sectors in October still was about 30 percent below pre-pandemic levels, Volovelsky said. However, those industries saw the highest year-over-year job gains last month, with 121,400 jobs added between October 2020 and this October — a nearly 20 percent increase, according to the Department of Labor report. Information sector jobs had the second-highest growth of any industry at 6.9 percent, or 18,4000 jobs, in the same time period.
Construction saw the greatest number of job losses, 10,900 jobs, or a 2.8 percent drop from last October to this October. That industry may have seen a decline because construction jobs were unnaturally inflated last year, as city residents built out their home offices while stuck working from home, Volovelsky said.
But New York is still lagging behind the nation in terms of job gains in the past 12 months. While the nation saw the number of jobs increase 5.1 percent year-over-year this October, New York only saw a 4.2 percent increase.
Celia Young can be reached at cyoung@commercialobserver.com.
Keywords: Elena Volovelsky, New York State Department of Labor
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Michael Clunan is King's Lynn Town's unsung hero, says Setchell
Lynn's Michael Clunan. Picture: Ian Burt - Credit: Ian Burt
Gary Setchell believes Michael Clunan can continue to be King's Lynn Town's unsung hero.
The midfield playmaker has been a near ever-present since his arrival from Dereham Town in the summer of 2015. He scored seven goals last season and has already netted three times this term. Two of those strikes came during last weekend's 6-1 FA Cup breeze against Brigg Town and Setchell feels the 22-year-old is growing into a more advanced position ahead of today's trip to Chesham United.
Lynn's boss said: 'When Millsy (Gary Mills, player-assistant) plays, Michael plays in a slightly different role, higher up the pitch. His goal at Frome was better than both of them on Saturday. For our first goal (against Brigg) nobody will remember what he did.
'They'll remember the great ball from Toby (Hilliard) and the finish from Metts (Leon Mettam), but Michael ratted around three or four players high up the pitch, nicked the ball and slipped it down the line for Toby. A lot of his hard work and energy goes unnoticed because he's not a big tackler.
'He does intercept a lot of passes, a lot of our stuff goes through him, and I don't think he ever really fully gets the credit he deserves. He had a bit of a slow start to the season, maybe because of the way we were trying to play, but now he's found his feet and he's chipped in with three goals in three games so it's been a good spell for him.'
The Linnets, who took five matches to record a victory this term, have now lost just once in the same number of fixtures. The upturn has come as a welcome relief after a disappointing start. But Setchell is only too well aware that it needs to be built on quickly if his men are to start climbing the Southern League Premier Division table.
'I think we're over the rut now and over, hopefully, the fans booing us off for now,' added the long-serving manager.
'But we've still got a job to do in the league. We're 18th, we feel we're better than that, and we've got two tough away games – it doesn't get any easier – and then we've got the FA Cup and the games just keep on coming.
'People think the Northern Premier is a lot tougher, but I'm not so sure it is. There's a lot of good teams in this league. We'll keep going, keep trying to play the right way and hopefully we'll pick up results.
'It's a bit better than it was a month ago. The two defeats (St Neots and Banbury) could have absolutely crushed us, but we've regrouped. We've had two poor performances this season. They weren't just poor, they were sackable performances.
'Have another two of them on the spin and you can't see a way back from it. But we've managed to regroup, we've done a lot of talking, we tried to put a finger on it and we've tried to find a way for us to play.'
Versatile youngster Danny Emmington is in line for his debut after missing out against Brigg because of paperwork issues. Jacek Zielonka returns while Leon Mettam and Shaun McWilliams will hope to overcome fitness worries. Dan Quigley is suspended.
The Linnets have announced that Barsby Produce Ltd, of King's Lynn, and Wisbech security firm SWC are shirt and short sponsors respectively for the club's away kit.