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Trine 3 developers release apology video
By Andy Chalk 2015-08-27T19:44:48.238Z
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has not gone over particularly well with fans of the series. Criticism of the game's length—it's apparently quite short—and cliffhanger ending were persistent enough that the studio issued a response earlier this week saying, basically, that its ambition exceeded its financial capability. Today, Frozenbyte's Kai Tuovinen and Joel Kinnunen went a step further with a video apologizing for its shortcomings as well as their ineffective marketing efforts, and said that the next step will be "do or die" for the studio.
What that next step will be—paid DLC, a standalone sequel, or even some kind of freebie—still hasn't been settled on, something that Tuovinen believes is a big reasons for the negative reaction to the game: because the studio wasn't certain about how it was going to finish the story, it simply said nothing about it at all.
"We decided to stick with it and just see how it goes, because the sequel would heavily depend on the reception and how well the first part would do financially. So we didn't want to make any promises that we might not be able to keep in the future," he says. "Basically, we took the easy route and didn't say anything, and instead of rewriting the story completely so it would fit, like, five levels of a shorter game, we decided to stick with the original story that would then span over to other games in the future."
Frozenbyte has been around for 15 years, according to Kinnunen, much of it spent on the first two Trine games, which were financially vital but apparently left the studio feeling like it was in a bit of a rut. "We really wanted to do something new, and we really wanted to do something new with the Trine series," he says. "We do have some other projects going on, but they still don't sort of satisfy the hunger we had for a new Trine game that was really cool and different. So we went with the 3D, and, yeah, that may not have been as smooth as we had hoped."
"We're still figuring out our future plans in this aftermath," Tuovinen says at the end of the video. "But it looks like it's pretty much do or die for us at this point. Back to the drawing board, completely."
It's kind of hard to watch, because both Tuovinen and Kinnunen look incredibly downcast throughout. There's also a rather surreal bit starting at the 5:55 mark, when somebody walks into the frame and tosses a large Trine poster into the garbage pails behind them. I would almost think it was a planned maneuver, except that absolutely nothing about the video suggests that any of it is being played for laughs. It's more like they're talking about how somebody shot their dog.
Andy Chalk
Andy covers the day-to-day happenings in the big, wide world of PC gaming—the stuff we call "news." In his off hours, he wishes he had time to play the 80-hour RPGs and immersive sims he used to love so much.


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Touted tax 'modernizing' effort staggers in week three
By Andrew Graham, WyoFile.com
Despite the early endorsement of Republican leadership, property and sales tax bills appear dead in the water at the end of the third week of the 2019 legislative session.
Speaker of the House Steve Harshman (R-Casper) and Senate President Drew Perkins (R-Casper) entered the session saying they supported an effort to broaden the state's sales tax. They wanted to "modernize" the tax to cover many previously untaxed services, remove some exemptions, including groceries, while also lowering the sales tax rate by a half percent.
Harshman also said he wanted to see debate on a bill to raise property taxes for public education.
But for three weeks, the sales tax bill sat in committee without a public hearing and the property tax bill was not assigned to any committee. By Friday morning it seemed both efforts were aground.
House Bill 67 – Sales tax revisions sought to raise money for local governments by broadening the sales tax to include a host of previously exempted products and untaxed services. To make the bill more palatable to the tax-wary Wyoming Legislature, the bill also lowered the overall sales tax rate by a half percent.
But in a Friday morning news conference, Harshman said the bill may not get a public hearing this session because there is little appetite for it on the House floor.
House Bill 68 – School funding revenue, which would raise property taxes to fund education, probably won't be assigned to a committee either, Harshman said. Sponsored by the Joint Revenue Committee, HB68 would have raised $68 million a year for public schools by 2022.
"I just don't think we're there," the speaker said.
Death of a sales tax
Prior to the session, Perkins and Harshman both backed the sales tax initiative, calling it an effort to "modernize" the state's tax structure in order to collect revenues from the diversified economy Wyoming policy makers seek to build. They pitched the bill as "broadening and lowering" the sales tax, as opposed to a mere tax increase.
House Bill 67 would have raised $33 million a year for local governments by removing exemptions on the purchase of food, manufacturing equipment and equipment for data processing centers.
Harshman assigned the bill to the House Appropriations Committee, whose chairman, Bob Nicholas (R-Cheyenne), is an ally of the speaker. The bill was set for a hearing the evening of Jan. 22, but Nicholas tabled its discussion.
The bill was not put back on the committee's schedule, and discussions moved behind closed doors and into huddled off-record conversations on chamber floors, out of public hearing.
Through a spokesperson for the Republican caucus, Nicholas declined to comment on the bill's status on Thursday. On Friday, Harshman didn't completely rule out a hearing on the bill, but said it seemed unlikely as its supporters struggled to rally the votes they would need on the House floor or in the Senate.
"I think the committee is still kinda pondering and working it," Harshman said. "I don't know if the bill's going to make it, to be honest with you, or if they're even going to take it up."
On the Senate side, Perkins said senators had expressed disinterest in the bill in closed-door Republican caucus.
"I know where enough people stand that I don't think it will pass," Perkins said. "It's only fair to let the House know so they don't have to have that battle just to have it come down here and fail."
Without public discussion, it's not clear what made the bill unpalatable for lawmakers despite leadership's support. The Senate wouldn't back the bill without the provision lowering the sales tax from 4 to 3.5 percent, which the bill currently includes, Perkins said.
"If it doesn't lower, then I think it's simply a tax raising bill," Perkins said.
If House proponents had sought to push the bill without that provision, the suggestion was made behind closed doors. Another House Appropriations Committee member, Rep. Tom Walters (R-Casper), told WyoFile he didn't know what was being done with the bill on Thursday, suggesting Nicholas was running the bill.
Harshman implied that the number of previously untaxed services — and therefore constituencies — that would have faced a sales tax under the bill doomed it. "You're trying to bring in 60, 70, 80 more services," he said, "you've probably got 60, 70, 80 more no votes."
With no evident appetite for the bill on the House floor, Harshman said, you might as well table the topic for study during the period between sessions.
"You spend all your time on something that maybe we can just work on in the interim," he said.
The sales tax bill was sponsored by the Joint Revenue Committee, which studied the topic during the last interim. That committee also sponsored the property tax bill.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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Farcountry Press - Appalachian Babies!
Meet thirteen lovable baby animals from the Appalachian Mountains in Appalachian Babies! Delightful rhymes complement thirteen colorful and engaging photographs by some of the best wildlife photographers in the region. The photographs offer a rare treat: close-up views of animals at play in their natural habitat. A bobcat kitten peeps from a hiding spot, a deer fawn explores its forest home, and owlets snuggle in their nest. With this addition to the popular Babies! board book series, parents can introduce their young children to the baby animals of the Appalachians.


A painful sunburn can ruin the day, so follow good sun safety practices as you enjoy outdoor summer activities. Apply sunscreen regularly, per label instructions, and pack extra to reapply for when you'll be out longer than an hour. And consider making green tea your new favorite beverage. The healthy drink appears to improve skin health, and may even lessen your risk of sunburn!
Researchers randomly selected sixty 40- to 65-year-old women to drink a tea beverage with polyphenols—the healthful nutrients found in green tea—or a green tea–like beverage without polyphenols, for 12 weeks. Neither the participants nor the researchers knew which women were selected to drink which version of the tea.
All of the women in the study had type II skin on the Fitzpatrick phototyping scale. On this scale, type II skin is characterized by light to normal ultraviolet light (UV) sensitivity, and generally includes people of middle European skin type, with blond or light brown hair.
The women were exposed to a solar simulator, a UV lamp that can cause sunburn and tanning, at the start of the study and 6 and 12 weeks later. Skin color was measured before, and 24 hours after, solar simulator exposure. The amount of exposure was 1.25 times the minimal erythema dose—or 1.25 times the smallest amount of sun exposure that leads to a slight reddening of the skin. The researchers collected other measures of skin health, including elasticity, roughness, scaling, skin density, and delivery of blood and oxygen to the skin.
significantly improved blood and oxygen flow to the skin.
Get loose. Try loose green for the most benefit. One cup of green tea brewed from loose leaves provides around 200 mg of polyphenols.
Go icy. Try a thermos of iced green tea for your next outing to the beach or a picnic. Brew tea as you would if planning to drink hot, then refrigerate for several hours in a glass container to chill before adding ice.
Add citrus. Sip green tea with a squeeze of lemon for best absorption of healthy nutrients. The vitamin C can prevent polyphenols from breaking down.
Avoid dairy. Adding milk to green tea may decrease the benefit by blocking polyphenol absorption.
Drink liberally. Aim for up to seven cups of green tea daily to reach the level of polyphenols—around 1,400 mg per day—the women in the study drank. Replace your morning coffee with green tea, or try decaf green tea if you need to limit your caffeine intake.


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Sarcina ventriculi in blood: the first documented report since 1872
Tamara Tuuminen1,2,
Päivi Suomala2 &
Sakari Vuorinen3
In 1872, in British Medical Journal (BMJ) Dr. David Ferrier published that Sarcina ventriculi (Goodsir) constantly occurred in the blood of man and the lower animals. His observation was based on bleeding experiments, incubation of blood at 100oF (37.8oC) and later examination. He found "immense numbers of beautifully formed sarcinæ". In the next issue of BMJ Dr. Charlton Bastian expressed concerns that Sarcina might indeed be "really a living thing" or "might be partly organic and partly mineral in its constitutions".
Anaerobic gram-positive giant coccae assembled in tetrads were recovered from one anaerobic blood culture bottle of a 48-year-old female who in her early childhood was diagnosed with congenital chloride diarrhoea. This is a rare recessively inherited disease that belongs to the Finnish disease heritage. The bacteria were identified with the 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
Here, after more than a century we present the first report that Sarcina ventriculi can indeed cause bacteremia in a susceptible person.
In 1872, a physiologist, Dr David Ferrier at the King's college of London published a paper in the BMJ entitled "The constant occurrence of Sarcina ventriculi (Goodsir) in the blood of man and the lower animals: with remarks on the nature of sarcinous vomiting" [1]. Dr. Ferrier explained that he collected blood with sufficient aseptic precautions from the carotid or other big vessels of rabbits, cats, dogs, and frogs into sterilized tubes which were then sealed into flasks which were stopped with cotton wool. Human blood was collected from a slight incision in the arm or hand. The blood was incubated at 100°F (37.8°C) and examined after 7-10 days, or in some cases after two months. He found "immense numbers of beautifully formed sarcinæ". He wrote that the blood of frogs and humans, as well as the blood of patients in the peak of enteric fever, produced particles of the size and characteristics of Sarcina ventriculi, and that no other organisms of putrefactive changes were observed. He concluded that his aseptic precautions "would of itself sufficiently establish the fact of freedom from external contamination". This communication was commented in the next issue by a pathologist, Dr. H Charlton Bastian, in his article entitled "On the nature of the co-called Sarcina ventriculi" [2]. He expressed concerns that Dr. Ferrier's observations "might be partly organic and partly mineral in its constitutions" and questioned the very nature of Sarcina of being "really a living thing". At that time it was assumed that "sarcinæ could be an unusual form of some one of our common mucors". It was also believed that "the blood…is not the only source of Sarcina" but they may reside also in the stomach and may be associated with sarcinous vomiting in patients with gastric cancer. In his publication, Dr. Bastian referred to the finding that Sarcinae were also found in stagnant water and soil.
Later, using 16S rRNA gene sequencing Sarcina ventriculi was phylogenetically placed into Clostridiaceae family, Firmicutes phylum. At present 67 species of Sarcinae are known. These are strictly anaerobic, gram-positive giant cocci of cuboidal cell arrangements (Figure 1). They produce small, non-fluorescent, dry, greying colonies with a flower-like structure on anaerobe basal agar with 10% horse blood (ABA, Oxoid, Basingstoke, UK). In our laboratory Sarcinae or Sarcina-like bacteria were also recovered from faeces of a person with norovirus gastroenteritis in whom faeces was examined for Clostridium difficile. The bacteria grew in pure colonies after the sample was treated with ethyl alcohol, the routine procedure used for the cultivation of Clostridium difficile.
Gram stains of four clinical isolates to illustrate the giant size and peculiar architecture of the blood isolate of Sarcina ventriculi (B). To demonstrate the size of the Sarcina cells other images (A, C, D) are presented for comparison at the same magnification x 100. Note that the size of Sarcinae is as big as that of yeast and much bigger than that of Finegoldia magna. A. Candida parapsilosis, staining from the colony. B. Sarcina ventriculi, staining from an anaerobic blood culture bottle, 2 images (isolated from the patient presented). The identification was based on 16S rRNA sequencing. C. Finegoldia magna, big anaerobic coccus, staining from the colony. D. Sarcina-like bacteria recovered from faeces of another patient with norovirus gastroenteritis, staining from the colony. The suspicion of Sarcinae was based on typical colony morphology and gram-staining. E. Sarcina ventriculi, staining from an anaerobic blood culture bottle (as picture B), one image taken with magnification 1000, oil objective. Note tetrad assembling. F. Zoomed image of the tetrad of Sarcina-like bacteria (from picture D).
Below, we present a case of isolation of Sarcina ventriculi from the blood of a patient suffering from congenital chloride diarrhoea (CLD). This condition is a rare recessively inherited disease that belongs to the Finnish disease heritage [3]. It is caused by mutations in the SLC26A3 gene on the chromosome 7 leading to the disturbances in the function of the major anion exchanger on the surface of intestinal epithelial cells. Untreated, the chloride-bicarbonate transport system disturbance leads to chloride, sodium and water deficiencies and chronic diarrhoea during the foetal life.
A 48-year-old female was diagnosed with CLD in her early childhood. She was on a lifelong oral substitution of sodium and potassium chloride and otherwise healthy. Suddenly one evening she felt feverish, had stomach cramps, vomited 10 times and experienced extensive watery diarrhoea. She was tachycardic, but not hypotensive. She had no respiratory symptoms, and her oxygen saturation was normal. She was transferred to the ward, where her liquid and salt homeostasis was balanced. She had no prior antibiotic treatment, nor received any toxic substances, nor had a history of travel abroad. She was not an intravenous drug abuser. None of her family members had similar symptoms. Her C-reactive protein increased slightly from normal to 51 mg/l, and she had leucocytosis 11,2-22,6 × 10E9/l. Her secondary hypopotassemia (2,8 mmol/l) and lactic acidosis (3,40 mmol/l) were corrected, and plasma creatinine and alanine aminotransferase values returned to normal (from 126 to 72 micromol/l and from 592 to 17 U/l, respectively). Serum alkaline phosphates, γ-glutamyltransferase and bilirubin were normal. At admission she was hyperglycemic, but not during the follow-up. The abdominal ultrasound examination and thyroidal functions were normal. Faecal pathogens and Clostridium difficile were not recovered. Tests for viral enteritis or specific hepatitis pathogens were not done because her clinical presentation was septicaemia, and because Hepatitis A is not endemic in this region. From one anaerobic blood culture bottle gram-positive anaerobic coccae were recovered. The isolate was identified in a reference laboratory (Huslab, Helsinki, Finland) by sequencing a 528bp fragment of 16S rDNA gene as described [4]. The primers for amplification were (5'->3') AGAGTTTGATCMTGGCTCAG (position 8-27) and GTATTACCGCGGCTGCTG (position 536-519). The sequence had 100% similarity with Sarcina ventriculi strains with accession numbers AM902707.1; AF110272.1; NR_026146.1; D14151.1 when compared to NCBI data base using BLAST analysis.
The patient was treated with oral amoxicillin for 5 days. Since this episode she has been asymptomatic. In the absence of invasive sources (e.g. catheterisation, dialysis, and intravenous drug abuse) it seems reasonable to consider that the gastrointestinal tract may have been the source of entry of this organism into the blood stream. The patient's symptoms were caused by Sarcinae blood-borne infection because she responded quickly to antimicrobial therapy.
The information on Sarcinae is very scarce in veterinary and human clinical microbiology textbooks with the exception of a few reports [5–8]. Colonisation of Sarcinae in human intestine and the influence of diet on the colonization human intestines by Sarcinae was investigated, and it was found that viable Sarcinae were detected in more than 50% of vegetarians, whereas the bacteria were not found in those with mixed diets [5]. Recently, an interesting report on five cases with Sarcina-like organisms identified in the upper gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsies was presented [8]. This report raised an intriguing question whether Sarcinae can cause disease in humans or whether it is a bystander with the stomach as their natural habitat. The authors [8] noted that Sarcinae have a peculiar tetrad packeting architecture. Micrococcus species can also occur in tetrads, however these species can be easily distinguished from Sarcinae: Micrococcus is regular size coccae and aerobic while Sarcinae are strict anaerobic, and the size of the cell is as big as of yeasts.
Dr David Ferrier ended his article "Sarcinæ still remain as mysterious as ever. What is their true nature? Are they parasites, or are they a normal constituent of the blood? are question on which one might speculate, but which I reserve rather for experimental solution". Since that time molecular biology techniques facilitating exact taxonomy of microorganisms have been developed, but the clinical significance of Sarcinae both in humans and animals still remains obscure. We also do not know whether we name Sarcina same microorganisms as our colleagues a decade ago. However, as far as we are aware this is the first report substantiated by molecular methods to document Sarcina ventriculi bacteremia. Interestingly, this report of Sarcina ventriculi blood stream infection was detected in a patient with a predisposing intestinal malfunction typical for CLD. In our country, the CLD trait is more prevalent among the population of Eastern Finland (our patient). The risk for intestinal inflammatory diseases is higher in the patients with CLD, being on the average of 6% of affected cases [9]. CLD might predispose to mucosal integrity break down leading to occasional leak of intestinal microbiota such as Sarcina. Exact mechanisms triggering gut inflammation in CLD patients are not yet fully elucidated. A plausible scenario is that higher chloride concentration in the lumen lowers pH of the intestinal content exposing mucosa to occasional damage. This case report emphasizes that bacteremia can be a serious sequela of Sarcina, in addition to the previously reported emphysematous gastritis and sarcinous vomiting. This case highlights the importance of recognizing the clinical presentation (intractable sarcinous vomiting) for a potentially serious and deadly Sarcina infection. In addition, given the severity of disease, recent resurgence of Sarcina seen in the human gut [8], and the gut being a known access point for hematologic invasion, increased recognition of this entity is important.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this Case report. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor of this journal.
Ferrier D: The constant occurrence of Sarcina ventriculi (Goodsir) in the blood of man and the lower animals: with remarks on the nature of sarcinous vomiting. Br Med J. 1872, 1 (578): 98-99. 10.1136/bmj.1.578.98.
Bastian HC: On the nature of the co-called Sarcina ventriculi. Br Med J. 1872, 1 (579): 123-124. 10.1136/bmj.1.579.123.
Norio R, Nevanlinna HP, Perheentupa J: Hereditary diseases in Finland. Rare flora in rare soul. Ann Clin Res. 1973, 5: 109-41.
Bosshard P, Zbinden R, Altwegg M: Turicibacter sanguinis gen. nov., sp.nov., a novel anaerobic, gram-positive bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2002, 52: 1263-1266. 10.1099/ijs.0.02056-0.
Crowther JS: Sarcina ventriculi in human faeces. J Med Microbiol. 1971, 4: 343-50. 10.1099/00222615-4-3-343.
Laass MW, Pargac N, Fischer R, Bernhardt H, Knoke M, Henker J: Emphysematous gastritis caused by Sarcina ventriculi. Gastrointest Endosc. 2010, 72: 1101-3. 10.1016/j.gie.2010.02.021.
Vatn S, Gunnes G, Nybø K, Juul HM: Possible involvement of Sarcina ventriculi in canine and equine acute gastric dilatation. Acta Vet Scand. 2000, 41: 333-7.
Lam-Himlin D, Tsiatis AC, Montgomery E, Pai RK, Brown JA, Razavi M, Lamps L, Eshleman JR, Bhagavan B, Anders RA: Sarcina organisms in the gastrointestinal tract: a clinicopathologic and molecular study. Am J Surg Pathol. 2011, 35: 1700-5. 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31822911e6.
Hihnala S, Höglund P, Lammi L, Kokkonen J, Örmälä T, Holmberg C: Long-term clinical outcome in patients with congenital chloride diarrhoea. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2006, 42: 369-75. 10.1097/01.mpg.0000214161.37574.9a.
We thank our reviewers Dr. Dora Lam-Himlin and Dr. Martin Laass for their valuable suggestions to improve the quality of our case report. We thank the reference laboratory (HUSLAB, Helsinki, Finland) for sequencing analysis.
Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, PO Box 21, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
Tamara Tuuminen
Eastern Finland Laboratory Centre Joint Authority Enterprise (ISLAB), Mikkeli District Laboratory, Porrassalmenkatu 35-37, Mikkeli, 50100, Finland
Tamara Tuuminen & Päivi Suomala
Mikkeli Central hospital, Porrassalmenkatu 35-37, Mikkeli, 50100, Finland
Sakari Vuorinen
Päivi Suomala
Correspondence to Tamara Tuuminen.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
TT investigated blood cultures of the patient, performed the literature survey and drafted the manuscript; PS participated in the microbiological workup; SV treated the patient and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Tuuminen, T., Suomala, P. & Vuorinen, S. Sarcina ventriculi in blood: the first documented report since 1872. BMC Infect Dis 13, 169 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-169
Sarcina ventriculi
Blood stream infection


If you are looking at flooring options for a spa room, there is no doubt that tiles are the best option.
They are durable and can handle the moisture in a spa room. Alok Goel, CEO of Nitco Ltd, offers the following tips when you are looking at flooring options for your tiles.
* The most important aspect of choosing your spa room tile is the ambience that it creates. You will want the colours to be relaxing and fun. Consider the tone and complementary colours carefully to make sure your spa does just what's intended.
* Of course, you should match colour and texture with your architectural style. Why not go a bit further and consider a mosaic, or other structured design for laying your tile. You can find many pre-designed formats or you can create your own. Because you are working with tiles, it's not difficult to cut and format almost any type of design.
* The floor of your spa bathroom will occupy a significant portion of your field of view, so be sure to spend the extra time picking the flooring that works with the rest of your motifs.
* The two most popular materials to be used in spa bathroom floor construction are ceramic tiles and laminate wood flooring.
* The material must be chosen not only for its aesthetics, but also for its durability and slip resistance, which is extremely important in a wet and slippery area such as a spa.
* The colour palette of the tile must be kept light, to reflect a natural environment. Additionally, the neutral tones of the tiles bring a soothing feel to the spa, providing a relaxing atmosphere where people can unwind. The overall design of the spa must be inviting and relaxing.
* While the soft shades of ceramic tiles enhance the comfortable feel, their durability and slip resistance are crucial in ensuring safety.
* Since the infancy of ceramics, up to this very day, the process is still very much the same; for the creation of all ceramic materials, one needs to bake a mixture of clays at a very high temperature.
* A ceramic tile, therefore, is the resulting product, after a mixture of clays have been treated appropriately, pressed, fired at a high temperature and cut to size.
* A ceramic tile consists of two parts: the body, which is called the 'bisque' and the surface, which is called the 'glaze'.
* Ceramic tiles are available in a wide variety of sizes, textures and colours, just be sure to stick to a neutral colour that accents your wall colour. If you have dark walls, choose a lighter coloured floor or vice versa.
* Laminate wood flooring, although less exotic-looking than its natural hardwood counterpart, is better for a bathroom because natural hardwood tends to expand and contract more with temperature and humidity.
* In addition, it will absorb more water than comparable manufactured flooring such as laminate. If your budget allows for it, you may also consider natural stone flooring such as marble or travertine. Whatever you do, please do not use vinyl flooring, it may be more cost effective to do so but it definitely will be reflected in the end result.
The Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India) is conducting a three-day national seminar and exhibition on recent developments in construction (REDECON 2012 – Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting at the Convention Hall, NIMHANS campus, Hosur Road in Bangalore on February 22, 23 and 24.
The aim of the fifth edition of the conference aims at developing and understanding standard practices for repair, rehabilitation of structures, alternate and new materials.
The themes of the conference are issues in restoration of structures, development in restoration techniques, structural health monitoring systems, use of alternate materials and construction chemicals, diagnostic devices, distress mitigation, techno-legal issues and case studies. Repair, rehabilitation and retrofit is the first mantra that needs to be followed owing to the high cost of replacement.
Research in the areas of specifications, materials, methods, strategies and systems that been carried out by many eminent researchers shall be the emphasis. Presenters would highlight and present their findings and case studies on materials, methods& techniques, ways to cope with increasing loads and deterioration factors. This seminar will help in providing details and ideas of repairing, rehabilitating and retrofitting of structures to extend its life span for increased performance and maximising economic returns.
Eminent speakers like A K Chatterjee, P Y Manjure, A K Sinha, N Rajagopalan, S K Manjarekar, C V Kand, Prof. B R Srinivasa Murthy, G Narayanan, Amol Shingarey, Prof. S K Gandhi, Prof. L R Kadiyali, Mohan Ramanathan, Prof. K Rajagopal, Prof. Mahesh Tandon, Craig Ballinger, Dilip Mase and others will share their research findings, case studies on materials, methods and techniques.


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Ever After (spoilers)
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 30, 2016 7:24:48 GMT
Post by omega on Oct 30, 2016 7:24:48 GMT
4. Ever After by Scott Handcock
London, 2016. The end.
Last Edit: Dec 4, 2016 8:36:44 GMT by omega
Be sure to check out the indexes for the various Big Finish ranges!
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 30, 2016 7:25:46 GMT acousticwolf and Trace like this
It's sad to think in just over 24 hours there will be no more Dorian Gray to look forward too.
acousticwolf
Keeper of the Matrix...Broken Chameleon Circuit
"John Smith"
It's the end ... But the moment has been prepared for
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 30, 2016 9:09:58 GMT via mobile elkawho, barnabaslives, and 1 more like this
Post by acousticwolf on Oct 30, 2016 9:09:58 GMT
Oct 30, 2016 7:25:46 GMT omega said:
I really hope they go out on a high but at the same time I'm just gutted it's the end.
Last Edit: Oct 30, 2016 9:10:37 GMT by acousticwolf
"I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star."
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 30, 2016 23:51:49 GMT barnabaslives likes this
Post by Trace on Oct 30, 2016 23:51:49 GMT
Same here. I don't think I've ever been so affected by a series and so sad to see it end! I keep hoping beyond hope that Scott and Alex will do some special releases at some point in the future. No matter how things end for Dorian tomorrow, the nice thing about supernatural themes is that endings don't have to STAY endings forever.
It's almost here!
eightelements
Post by eightelements on Oct 31, 2016 5:28:39 GMT
Stop teasing us!
Oct 31, 2016 5:28:39 GMT eightelements said:
It's left the Ordered But Not Released page and is on the All Released page. I'm just waiting for the download option to kick in (which will be Ever After and the Behind the Scenes material for me).
It's out!
Downloading Ever After and Behind the Scenes as I type. Can't wait!
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 7:01:37 GMT Trace likes this
The opening montage of clips is simply amazing. There are even clips from Shades of Grey and The Darkest Shadow!
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 8:17:37 GMT kimalysong and Trace like this
Wow. Just wow. I'm going to need to process that. Overall it's been a very unconventional set of stories, but that's The Confessions of Dorian Gray all over.
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 9:58:58 GMT via mobile
I'm going to have to wait to listen to this as I'm away for a few days but at least I won't be spoilered for the end .
kimalysong
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 11:10:33 GMT via mobile acousticwolf likes this
Post by kimalysong on Oct 31, 2016 11:10:33 GMT
Oct 31, 2016 9:58:58 GMT acousticwolf said:
I would definitely stay far away from this thread
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Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 12:33:41 GMT kimalysong, acousticwolf, and 3 more like this
Post by kastoniago on Oct 31, 2016 12:33:41 GMT
Well, that was... unexpected.
Perhaps I should elaborate. I understand what Scott meant when he said that it was going to be a controversial end to the series, and that some listeners may not like how the series concludes. Here's what I think, bearing in mind these are my initial thoughts based on only listening to the story once:
Spoilers hereafter:
At first I really wasn't sure what to make of the whole "Was Dorian Gray's life a deluded dream, or genuinely real and this is the dream" premise. That idea in general has always irked me as most of the time it is handled quite poorly.
Either because its supposed to be played as a mystery, but we already know the answer before we go into it, which is slightly self-defeating (e.g. Smallville: Labyrinth) or its entirely illogical and is just designed to act as a twist ending to the series (e.g. The Brittas Empire)
When I went into the story realising this premise, I expected the standard big reveal at the end with Dorian breaking free from Lucifer's dream, defeating him and getting Toby back (and admittedly, the sentimental side of me was half hoping for that ending). But thankfully, Mr Handcock was cleverer than that, and the story subverted my expectations in the way that this series does. Even though part of me wanted an answer, I realised that what I may have wanted might not have been what was beneficial for the story, and enjoyed the experience a lot more for that fact.
It uses those troupes that have been established time and time again (people in the 'real' world having familiar faces to those in the 'dream' world), all as a means of making you think the story is progressing to an expected conclusion. But when it doesn't, it knocks you for six when you realise that there not going to give you the answer. You have to make your own answer!
And I think that makes perfect sense for the final episode of Dorian. As a series, Dorian Gray means different things to different people. Some appreciate it more for the horror aspects of the series, some more for the romantic aspects, or as a vehicle to tell small supernatural stories. Even the character of Dorian himself can have multiple interpretations by audience members regarding his motivations and feelings. So its only logical that the final story would be one where the audience themselves have to interpret their conclusions about the ending.
In my mind, this is Scott Handcock saying "This is your series as much as it's mine. You can decide your ending for your Dorian Gray." And to be given that level of involvement from an audience point of view is the reason why being a fan of this series has been such a rewarding experience since the series began back in 2012. You feel like when you experience it, you own a small part of it. Its for that reason why I think The Confessions of Dorian Gray is the single best standalone series to come out of Big Finish, and this conclusion has proven a very satisfying final chapter to this series I have been committed to since it was first released.
Particularly bookending this series with a quote from the first episode that has resonance throughout the series was a beautiful touch!
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 12:42:44 GMT acousticwolf and Trace like this
Yes definitely not what was I was expecting at all. I'm heartbroken but I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I do think the ending is still open to interpretation but the actual ending of what seems to be happening is gut wrenching I'm not going to say more right now I will after I had some time to gather my thoughts
Just want to say this has become my absolute favorite Big Finish series (if that much wasn't already obvious). I love it & will miss it so so much but I am so glad for all the wonderful stories I experienced on the Dorian journey. I am also happy at least we have another project of Scott & Alex's to look forward to in the future...they make an incredible team.
kastoniago Brilliant analysis
Last Edit: Oct 31, 2016 12:56:04 GMT by kimalysong
Ever After (spoilers) Oct 31, 2016 14:37:51 GMT
Post by mark687 on Oct 31, 2016 14:37:51 GMT
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Ever After (spoilers) Nov 1, 2016 3:30:40 GMT elkawho, acousticwolf, and 3 more like this
Post by literatedead on Nov 1, 2016 3:30:40 GMT
I'm going to be pretty negative here, so I apologize ahead of time.
I know this ending is going to be lauded for being a complex and ambiguous story, but it just left me cold and feeling rather miserable.
The worst part of this season is that I knew it wasn't going to work for me, because I already intensely disliked the Spirits of Christmas set. I knew that any resolution beyond that ending was going to be disappointing, and that it might have been better to leave this set alone.
But of course, I couldn't do that. I had to know. It's who I am.
To note, I hate the 'is it real' story in any series, because it's a story that's intended to disappoint the audience. We are going to be left questioning whether Dorian or Charles are the right person and if the whole series has been thrown under the bus or if the devil is playing a game that Dorian inevitably loses. Both possibilities are unsatisfying, probably intentionally, and from the beginning this led me to realize that I wouldn't enjoy this one. By the end I was counting the time to the ending, waiting for the inevitable vague-but-possibly-downbeat-in-any-situation scenario. I knew early on this wasn't going to be clear-cut, and that we as an audience would be left to find our own answers, but I also saw it coming, and it made the whole experience a misery to listen to.
Performances were excellent as always, and the direction was fine in this one, but... it just feels like this entire series ends with an infuriating shrug, leaving me feeling disappointing and unsatisfied. I was intending to start over with This World Our Hell tomorrow, but I need some time away from this series after this. I undoubtedly will come back to it eventually, re-listen to my favorites (particularly the first two seasons), but I feel I need to get to a point where I can let these ill feelings go before I do so.
I don't want to be 'that guy' in posting this. Hell, I barely post, so I feel bad taking this opportunity to vent, but... I feel like I need to type something out, just to process my negative feelings. I wouldn't begrudge those who love this ending (and I feel pretty certain I'll be the odd-one-out on this story), and I give credit for trying something so different, but this last season mostly just left me cold.
On another note, if you look at it in a certain way, Dorian Gray never actually appears in this final set. Three stories are vague remembrances, while the last leaves so much room to debate that there's no 'official' appearance of a definite Dorian. So the series ends without its title character ever truly appearing.
(And on the note of owning one's own ending, I still consider the Bernice Summerfield story Shades of Gray canon. So there! )
Last Edit: Nov 1, 2016 3:31:35 GMT by literatedead
Ever After (spoilers) Nov 1, 2016 7:29:38 GMT acousticwolf likes this
Post by eightelements on Nov 1, 2016 7:29:38 GMT
literatedead summed up my feelings well (although I enjoyed The Spirits of Christmas).
To note, I hate the 'is it real' story in any series, because it's a story that's intended to disappoint the audience. We are going to be left questioning whether Dorian or Charles are the right person and if the whole series has been thrown under the bus or if the devil is playing a game that Dorian inevitably loses.
Thanks, literatedead. After listening I wasn't sure how to articulate why I dislike "is it real?" episodes. Now I realise why: the throwing the series under the bus element. The subtext is always "all that time you spent following that series? Well, you may have wasted* it because none of it [may have] happened, even in-universe. Gotcha!"
I can handle a few stories being rendered out of existence because they will influence how a character acts (usually because the character remembers the ex-timeline) in following episodes. However, not only will there be no following episodes here, but it was also five years. Not only five years, but the entire range.
I was intending to start over with This World Our Hell tomorrow, but I need some time away from this series after this. I undoubtedly will come back to it eventually, re-listen to my favourites, but I feel I need to get to a point where I can let these ill feelings go before I do so.
I am also disappointed because I prefer endings that leave open the possibility of future adventures to happen off-screen. Seasons 1 and 3 fit that better. I also liked Season 2's ending because it mirrored the book's ending (but flipped the underlying emotion around).
* I realise that time spent following entertainment can be seen as always time wasted (or never time wasted) depending on your perspective.
Last Edit: Nov 1, 2016 7:30:10 GMT by eightelements
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Ever After (spoilers) Nov 1, 2016 7:30:43 GMT via mobile kimalysong, acousticwolf, and 1 more like this
Post by rosekitten on Nov 1, 2016 7:30:43 GMT
These are my thoughts
Its an absolute perfect ending, it wasn't what I expected at all and I'm extremely glad about that. I agree with Kim for it being open to interpretation.
My ears were so glued to episode while I was listening. I was shocked I became emotionally numb. Only something of complete brilliance can make that happen to someone.
The story and script was fantastic, Scott should be really proud, its complete genius.
I am incredibly impressed with Alex's Performance, I know he's phenomenal in everything but I can't help but feel that this completely tops them all at the moment.
Last Edit: Nov 1, 2016 10:10:21 GMT by rosekitten
Ever After (spoilers) Nov 1, 2016 9:42:12 GMT via mobile acousticwolf, Trace, and 1 more like this
Post by kimalysong on Nov 1, 2016 9:42:12 GMT
If there was one thing that tied the entire boxset together it was the ambiguity of all stories including the final one. In the first story we never find out who did the killings, in the second we never find out if Dorian recognized James, and in the 3rd story we don't know if the second adventure happened with Dottie or if Dorothy was just relating a story because she missed her friend, etc.
And yes in this last story Charles could have died or this could have just been an elaborate scheme the devil is playing on Dorian & he will wake up again after that death scene. We don't see what happens after so we make our own end. I understand people are upset by the ending but I actually think that is how we are supposed to feel unsettled, uncomfortable, etc. This was horror in its purest form for me as I was right there with Dorian terrified as he tried to prove his existence. After being alone losing all the people he loved he was now also losing the one thing he had left his sense of self. The last scene with the painting felt symbolic to me in this sense. And I feel what makes this work is we also have to feel the same doubt that Dorian does.
The ending is absolutely shocking and gut wrenching and yes perhaps you want an answer but I think giving an answer would have sacrificed the impact of the ending. I personally think the ending was brilliant in the way it makes me feel and in the way it leaves room open for discussion and interpretation.
However, the ending doesn't prove that Dorian isn't real not at all. In fact as my friend philomina pointed out the first 3 stories of this boxset almost do prove his existence because we have 3 other characters that aren't Dorian talking about their experiences with Dorian Gray. In the end it's up to us. I choose to believe in Dorian's existence and that he woke up after he flatlined. Perhaps Satan will continue to make Dorian's life miserable for awhile in 2016 but by 2017 Dorian will find a way to overcome him and continue on his journey, maybe a way to get Toby back because I'm a romantic at heart. But either way the journey may end for us but I don't believe it's the end for Dorian. He's probably still not at peace but will live on and accumulate more regrets.
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Q: How do I tell the `date` command to only show the time? I am trying to display only the current time using "date", not all that information Day, Month, Year etc.. , only the current time.
i.e.:
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Any ideas?

A: Current time 24h format:
date +%R

Current time 12h format with AM/PM:
date +%I:%M%p

A: date +%H:%M

for 13:45
date +%H:%M #(if you don't write these : it is shown as for exmp. 0145)

for 01:45
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will tell how long the system has been running (along with other information)
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A: I use this:
date +%T

for nanoseconds use this:
date +%T.%N

Example outputs:
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19:23:34
$ date +%T.%N
19:23:38.780062589

A: date +%R

will show you the 24 hour time, and
date +%r

will show you the time in 12 hour format. date +%H:%I also works.
Check out the "Conversion Specifications" in the manpage for more variables to pick and choose.

A: last displays info about recent logins. See http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_last.htm for more info about it. I think it can show shutdowns too. For the time try date +%r. See http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_date.htm for more info on date.

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Calls for action on climate change from Arnold Schwarzenegger and other luminaries should have been made decades ago (Global warming is not science fiction, warns Schwarzenegger, 22 July). In 1989 I wrote an editorial for the Lancet entitled "Health in the Greenhouse" which concluded as follows:
"Any strategy to combat global warming must be conducted on a global scale … This approach will require a new agenda for world leaders, a new role for the United Nations Environmental Programme, and a new awareness of man's fundamental reliance on the integrity of world ecosystems.The expense may be considerable, but the cost of doing nothing is incalculable".
Twenty six years on and nothing much has changed except that annual emissions of CO2 worldwide have risen by 60 per cent, whilst renewables account for just 2 per cent of global primary energy production. In the UK, the government is phasing out subsidies for on- shore wind whilst offering tax breaks to fracking companies. Stricter standards for new build have been shelved, energy conservation is being scaled back and feed in tariffs for solar are being cut.
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Juventus Sport Club and Palo Alto Soccer Club Partner Up to Expand Network for Elite Soccer Training
Redwood City, CA- April 5, 2017- Juventus Sport Club and and Palo Alto Soccer Club today announced the unveiling of Silicon Valley Soccer Academy, a U.S. Soccer Development Academy. The Academy's mission is to boost player development in our Silicon Valley community by providing elite players ages U12-U19 an opportunity to work with top-level coaches, play elite soccer and develop to their athletic potential during peak learning years, regardless of their financial situation. Players in the US Soccer Development Academy demonstrate passion and skills everyday on the field. Silicon Valley Soccer Academy provides member clubs a platform for the Bay Area's best players to showcase their talents, support their academics and college aspirations, and create life changing opportunities through a sport they love.
" Working collaboratively with our friends and neighbors at Palo Alto Soccer Club ensures soccer players from the broader Silicon Valley region will benefit from our efforts. At Juventus, we have a 60-year tradition of producing top-level players," said Juventus Sport Club Board President Michael Viviani . "By creating this elite player path, we are certain to continue this tradition, and extend Silicon Valley's reputation as a leader in technology, sport and player development. "
After forming a US Development Academy partnership between Juventus Sport Club and Palo Alto Soccer Club in 2016, the clubs furthered the relationship by creating Silicon Valley Soccer Academy. It is organized as a non profit 501(c)(3) organization with Juventus Sport Club and Palo Alto Soccer Club as its founding members. Silicon Valley Soccer Academy is the new name for the Juventus Academy.
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Another year has come and gone. 2018 is a year I wish wouldn't have ended simply because of the plethora of cinematic pleasure that it offered. The majority of the films on my best of the year list possessed an unceasing pursuit to locate and dissect deflated masculinity, crushed egos, and saying goodbye to the thing one loves most. Surprisingly, female directors had an enormous year in 2018 and they were at the forefront at perceiving that masculinity was in peril. Films such as Western, The Rider, You Were Never Really Here, Zama, and Private Life, all of which were directed by women, gave us a glimpse at what happens to a man when their masculinity is wounded. Egos were also susceptible to directors' probing cameras this year, ripe for endless rumination. How can a priest continue to maintain a strong image when he's slowly loosing his faith in First Reformed? The women in The Favourite care tremendously about their image and position, and will do whatever it takes to maintain it. An aging director in The Other Side of the Wind does things only his way, hardly listening to anyone within his circle, and the results are catastrophic. And the madman at the center of The House that Jack Built has the biggest ego of all, which eventually paves his way to enter Hell.
There it is, that faint, catchy tune written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington, and sung by Tex Ritter that continuously makes its way back in High Noon. It's beautiful, it's in nearly every frame, and finally is pervading the entire film, pretty much conquering it. Do not forsake me oh my darling. There it is again. It's a most haunting tune that astonishingly places us inside the head of Will Kane (Gary Cooper), a well respected marshal of a well established Wild West town desperately seeking to maintain its civilization rather than succumbing again to barbarism.
Already halfway through the year and we have experienced some grand films (still need to check out Paul Schrader's supposed masterpiece First Reformed). Such a reassuring fact since a lot of people proclaimed cinema to be dead a year ago or so. We have witnessed art house masterpieces, horror films that won't soon be forgotten, and blockbuster films that proved to have big topics on their minds and a beating heart. But the best of the best so far this year were films that made their characters approach something that was guaranteed to frighten and shake some to their core on their way to discovering truths, even if they were hard to handle. Here are the Best Movies of 2018 … So Far, presented in alphabetical order with an additional ten honorable mentions.
– Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.
By the time this dialogue occurs you begin to wonder why it took so long for it to be uttered. In 1975 America was striving to overcome the Vietnam War and still reeling from the pungent behavior of those corrupt individuals involved in the deceitful doings of Watergate. The influence of these events were inescapable, thus creating turbulent times all around, especially in cinema.
Night Moves, where the aforementioned quote is from, in particular, directed by Arthur Penn and scripted by Alan Sharp, is a feverish noir that was fully aware of the incessant confusion and mournful distress swallowing up our world at that time, rendering the population hopeless. It's this kind of cinema, so inextricably tied to its era, that still manages to achieve a sense of timelessness. That's because of its inquisitive nature to discern truth even if it means losing every now and then.
It seems like he is merely existing. His beard, unkempt with tinges of gray in it, is slowly beginning to swallow his face. He looks drastically out of shape. We see him prowling around at night with no oomph in his step. He's simply there, probably wishing he wasn't. More than likely he's been faltering for a long time now just waiting to fade away, overwhelmed by a past that has crippled him mentally and sucked a good chunk of life out of him physically. His name is Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) and he's a gun…or should I say hammer for hire.


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After a little down time over the Chrisy break we are pleased to inform that Asian Pop Radio are back for another year across our various platforms including our 24/7 online radio stream (listen here), asianpopradio.com, our podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast platform and of course our growing YouTube channel.
We look forward to bringing you the latest music from Asia (often tracks you wouldn't hear on other radio stations), news, reviews and competitions across our platforms and hope that you will be there beside us for the journey across 2018. From what we hear, Aussies who were spoiled for choice with various Asian pop culture events and concerts in 2017, will have to break into their piggy bank once again in 2018 as we are promised more and more local events by some of the leading promoters in Australia (time to take on that second job!).


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Q: How to clear the console after a line of code? I want to clear the console after each print/input statement to clean the screen up.  I don't want to just add 100 blank lines, but actually clear the console so it's blank before the next print statement.
import random

import time

input("Hello (click enter to continue after each line)")
# I want to clear the console here so it is blank before it prints again
print ("What is your name?")
# At this point, the line above is the only thing on the screen
lower_username = str(input("Enter Username: "))
upper_username = lower_username.capitalize()
input("Hello " + upper_username)

Thanks for the help!

A: Clearing the interpreter is platform dependent, but you can find out about the underlying OS:
import os
import platform

def clear():
    if platform.system() == 'Linux':
        os.system('clear')
    elif platform.system() == 'Windows':
        os.system('cls')

input("Hello (click enter to continue after each line)")
clear()
print("What is your name?")
# At this point, the line above is the only thing on the screen
lower_username = str(input("Enter Username: "))
upper_username = lower_username.capitalize()
input("Hello " + upper_username)

The answer is based in these two 1 and 2.

A: That is not in python's hands. Python can only print somewhere. it does not know where it's printing. If you are in a linux-like terminal, print("\033c") could work.

A: This isn't quite 'clearing the console' but one way to do a similar thing is using the \r character. This is called the carriage return and moves the cursor to the start of the line.
print('Line one\r', end='', flush=True)
print('Line two\r', end='', flush=True)

The above would print on the same line. Note that if the first string is longer than the other, then the end of it will still show. You can visually get around this by adding whitespace to the shorter string. For example:
print('Line long\r', end='', flush=True)
print('Line two\r', end='', flush=True)

Would output Line twog because the first string is longer by one character. The visual fix would be:
print('Line long\r', end='', flush=True)
print('Line two \r', end='', flush=True)

Note the extra whitespace after 'two'.
Adding end='' stops the print function adding a newline \n character to the end of the string, enabling you to print to the same line.


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Banyan | Bangladesh's war-crimes trials
Bloodletting after the fact
The immediate effect of the tribunal's latest verdict was the worst single day of political violence in the country's modern history
Mar 1st 2013
By T.J.
THE immediate effect of the latest verdict from the "International Crimes Tribunal" was the worst single day of political violence in the history of modern Bangladesh. Actually a domestic court, the tribunal is tasked with trying the men who stand accused of committing atrocities during the 1971 war that gave birth to Bangladesh as a nation independent from Pakistan.
On February 28th it issued its third verdict: death by hanging, for Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, now one of the leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's biggest Islamist party, for the murder, abduction, rape, torture and persecution of his countrymen. His sentence had been expected.
Members of Shibir, the Jamaat's student wing, and their supporters reacted furiously to the sentence against one of their leaders. Within 24 hours at least 35 people were killed, including four policemen. The police fired into the protesters, shooting dead at least 23 of them. In southern Bangladesh, attacks on the homes and temples of Hindus were reported. By the night of February 28th the government had deployed the Bangladesh Border Guards, a paramilitary force, in a bid to maintain law and order around the country. On the morning of March 1st it imposed a ban on public assembly in four volatile districts; in one of those places, it has been reported, Shibir activists beat to death a supporter of the government's party.
The violent response to Mr Sayeedi's sentence casts doubt on the notion that a public act of vengeance against the Jamaat might inspire a sort of catharsis for the country. If the reaction thus far is any guide, something much uglier is yet to unfold. Mr Sayeedi is far from being one of the most important leaders on trial but he is a twice-elected member of parliament and a popular preacher. His sympathisers have endeavoured to frame the contest between the prosecution and the defence as a battle between anti-Islamic elements of society and the pious.
In all 50 people have died in protests and other responses to the trials in the weeks since the court condemned another Jamaat leader to death on January 21st, after a trial in absentia. Two weeks after that, the same tribunal sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, Jamaat's assistant secretary-general, to life in prison, on charges of murder, rape and torture. That judgment triggered huge protests centred around the intersection at Shahbag, in downtown Dhaka, against the Jamaat-e-Islami and its leaders. The demonstrations were peaceful, even as the demonstrators called for the maximum penalty to be brought to bear against the trials' defendants.
Seven more verdicts are due, most of them are expected to come within a matter of months. They include the cases of the Jamaat's current leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, as well as the party's head in 1971, Ghulam Azam. Under a newly amended war-crimes law the appeals process must be completed within 90 days. If, as is widely expected, the defendants are found guilty, then the entire leadership of the Jamaat, and also two senior members of the main opposition group, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), could be sent to the gallows this year.
At one point Mr Sayeedi's conviction had been expected by mid-December. It was delayed after the presiding judge, Mohammad Nizamul Huq, resigned as chairman of the tribunal on December 11th, following questions put to him by The Economist and the subsequent publication in Bangladesh of private e-mails which cast doubt upon his role and upon the court proceedings.
The reconstituted tribunal struck down applications for a retrial on behalf of Mr Sayeedi and other defendants. Anyone judging the trials by international standards will be thoroughly unimpressed by the process. Reacting to Mr Sayeedi's verdict, the International Commission of Jurists said the perpetrators of atrocities "should be brought to justice, not subjected to vengeance". In this case one of the three sentencing judges had heard only a fraction of the prosecution's evidence, another had heard none of it and the third had heard no evidence whatsoever.
The demonstrators at Shahbag, who had been calling for the death penalty, were jubilant at the news that Mr Sayeedi is to die. Many of them are calling too for a ban on the Jamaat itself, with the demand that its partisans should "go back to Pakistan". The Jamaat's violent reaction may sharpen some of these protesters' dissatisfactions, as well as their demands: for further capital punishment, for a vote to have Bangladesh declared a secular state or for even broader change of its rotted-out political system.
Already the political consequences of the trials and the backlash are momentous. The trials are likely to be a vote winner for the Awami League (AL), the party of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The AL have campaigned on the promise of holding the trials. When their spin doctors polled thousands of young Bangladeshis in the run-up to the 2008 elections they discovered something extraordinary: four out of five of their respondents supported the idea of holding the trials.
No matter if UN experts urge the government to ensure that the trials be fair. The awkwardness that comes with being a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will not bother most voters very much. The AL must hope that wrapping up these trials will help sway undecided voters in the next parliamentary elections—which the AL's politicians say they will aim to hold in December 2013.
In purely political terms, the chief consequence of the Jamaat's violent fight for survival is the existential dilemma it presents for the BNP. The conventional wisdom within the party's leadership has long been that the Jamaat's street-fighting capabilities and the votes from its marginal seats make it an indispensable ally. Looming executions within its leadership, along with the fact that it is now polling a mere 1% of the popular vote, may well force the rest of the opposition to reconsider its options.
(Picture credit: AFP)
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Anotherfactory in Suzhou, Shanghai, makes iPod shuffles. The workers arehoused outside the plant, and earn £54 per month - but they must payfor their accommodation and food, "which takes up half their salaries",the report observes.
As one commenter on the post has already pointed out, iPods and other Apple products are made in the same factories as many other electronic products, so we shouldn't necessarily single out Apple. However, brands like Bose or Sony don't actively trumpet how good they are for the world in quite the same way as Apple does.
Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't a company be held to a different ethical standard when it uses images of icons like Gandhi, Albert Einstein, or Cesar Chavez to promote itself?


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Putti on the Raleigh Cycles head office, Nottingham, listed at Grade II Photo: Historic England
Charles Wilson building, Leicester University Photo: Chris Matthews
Derby Cathedral, Photo: Chris Matthews
C20 East Midlands news September 2018
07/09/2018 by Susannah
The big news for us is the announcement on 22 August that the Raleigh Cycle Company head office has been listed at Grade II. Built in 1931, it is one of the last reminders of Raleigh's role as one of Nottingham's most important and prestigious manufacturing companies. The front of the building has decorative panels showing cherubic children holding bicycle parts and using the tools of the trade, mimicking a production line (above). More
John Dean
Leicester is well known for its severe 1960s road engineering which unfortunately cut the city centre from its Roman origins. Although this was not to the design of the town planner Konrad Smigelski, it unfortunately happened under his watch. In the following decade the succeeding Head of Planning John Dean pursued a more inclusive and conservationist approach. It has been sad therefore to hear of John's recent passing – his career and achievements at Leicester warrant re-appraisal. Until then, here's a lovely obituary from the Leicester Urban Observatory.
Charles Wilson Building, Leicester University
Historic England have recently refused an application for listing this building sited on the campus of Leicester University (above). It was designed by Denys Lasdun and is perhaps one of the region's most striking brutalist buildings. At present its future seems safe, although there has been talk about refurbishment, which potentially could alter the appearance of the building.
Imperial Tobacco
The fate of the Horizon Factory at Imperial Tobacco has been well documented here, particularly with regard to the unsuccessful attempts at listing and also the fate of the nearby 1930s Bonded Warehouses (RIP). Sadly, the latest is that new owners Henry Boot are intent on demolition in order to free up land for new business/industrial development.
Derby Cattle Market
Derby Cattle Market was perhaps never going to be in the architectural coffee books, but its history and design is rather interesting. There are few (if any?) other modernist cattle markets located so close to a city centre. Its location neatly shows how Derby in the twentieth century was still in some senses a County Town, with a rather significant rural hinterland. Given that, it seems a shame to destroy the whole edifice.
Derby Cathedral
C20 Head of Casework Clare Price, who handles C20 churches casework, recently attended a meeting to discuss extensive re-ordering proposals for the interior of Derby cathedral (above). Apparently this work may effect the 1939 organ, Comper Song School and ancillary spaces. Following the fire of the nearby Assembly Rooms, it seems as though the idea was to covert the church into a new events space. Unfortunately, this may actually harm one of the most impressive church interiors in the region. This issue was raised during our Derby tour last September, so it is good that C20 will be keeping a close eye on things.
The ongoing saga over the proposed demolition of the Derby Assembly Rooms is a bit like reading about Brexit, although this time the government comes out rather well. The Culture Sectretary Matt Hancock has questioned plans to replace the building, claiming that refurbishment could come at a quarter of the price.
Nottingham City Airport
C20 Society have objected to a proposed demolition of a Grade II listed pillbox at Nottingham City Airport. They have also urged that applicants should rebuild in facsimile a hangar demolished without permission and that the local authority consider prosecuting applicants. Shocking!
For more news – and some interesting finds from a recent trip to Cleethorpes – see my C20 East Midlands newsletter.
Chair, C20 East Midlands
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I am really looking forward to this – The Boys will be arriving on Amazon Prime in 2019.
Sure, I'd rather Karl Urban was playing Judge Dredd again, but I can live with this in its place.
Interesting. I wonder just how much of a faithful adaptation the tv show will be. And yeah. I'd have preferred Karl Urban play Judge Dredd again too.


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One initiative in the Philippine Local Government Unit (LGU) to strengthen integrity in the public sector is the Partnership for Integrity & Jobs (Project I4J) which is a project co-funded by the European Union and its partners. It is implemented by the consortium composed of European Union (EU), Konrad-Adenaur Stiftung (KAS), and the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (eccp), in partnership with the Centrist Democracy Political Institute, League of Cities of the Philippines, the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, and the League of Provinces of the Philippines.
The AIM Team Energy Center for Bridging Leadership, Asian Institute of Management (AIM), in partnership with KAS and the LoGIC Networks Philippines, has provided two capability development workshops thus far to support Project I4J's Countrywide Development of a Culture of Integrity through Multi-sectoral Local Government Integrity Circles. The first workshop held on August 7-9, 2018 introduced using the Bridging Leadership approach of ownership, co-ownership and co-creation of possible integrity mechanism solutions to address the problem of corruption. The second workshop held on January 14-16, 2019 focused on co-owning integrity mechanism and project initiation/project management.
Project management sessions were included to equip the LGU Integrity Circles participants to learn some fundamental project management concepts and tools to help them plan and implement their integrity projects. Compressing key project management concepts and tools in a less than one day workshop is challenging. Nevertheless, focusing on selected fundamentals on project initiation, such as preparing a project charter, in the given six hours is better than none and can help Integrity Circle members better articulate their specific project objectives, scope/deliverables, schedule and cost/budget.
Such a short introduction may not be sufficient, however, and providing more intensive practical project management training with coaching and mentoring on application as a follow-up can support the Integrity Circle members a longer way. The LGUs that are not used to the discipline and best practices of project management can definitely benefit from such training and coaching and mentoring. On the other hand, the top executives, our governors, vice governors, mayors, vice mayors and other key officials can benefit as well from project sponsorship training.
It is heartening to learn that while perhaps many LGUs may not yet have a Code of Ethics and programs to develop a culture of integrity, some have identified developing such a code as one of their integrity mechanism projects.
To learn more about the initiatives and organizations mentioned in this post, here are some links below.


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International Game Technology profit beats consensus by 41.2% in Q4
20 Apr, 2017 | 14:30
International Game Technology PLC said its normalized net income for the fourth quarter was 73 cents per share, compared with the S&P Capital IQ consensus estimate of 52 cents per share.
Normalized net income, which excludes unusual gains or losses on a pre- and after-tax basis, was $148.8 million, a gain of 26.7% from $117.5 million in the prior-year period.
The normalized profit margin increased to 11.3% from 8.6% in the year-earlier period.
Total revenue decreased on an annual basis to $1.32 billion from $1.36 billion, and total operating expenses decreased from the prior-year period to $1.14 billion from $1.18 billion.
Reported net income increased from the prior-year period to $234.5 million, or $1.15 per share, from $75.0 million, or 37 cents per share.
For the year, the company's normalized net income totaled 89 cents per share, compared with the S&P Capital IQ consensus normalized EPS estimate of $1.98.
EPS rose from 29 cents in the prior year.
Normalized net income was $179.2 million, a rise from $56.5 million in the prior year.
Full-year total revenue increased 9.9% on an annual basis to $5.15 billion from $4.69 billion, and total operating expenses rose 10.3% on an annual basis to $4.43 billion from $4.01 billion.
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Ramón García del Valle y Salas (Pravia, Asturias, 17 de enero de 1881 - Madrid, 27 de febrero de 1961) fue un jurista español.

Biografía
Nace en Pravia (Asturias) el 17 de enero de 1881, y es bautizado el día 26 del mismo mes en la parroquia de San Andrés de esa Villa (hoy Santuario de Ntra. Sra. del Valle). Era hijo del Magistrado de la Audiencia de León Dionisio García del Valle y Blanco (1840-1897), de Cangas de Tineo (hoy Cangas del Narcea) y de Susana Salas Rodríguez, de Pravia (descendiente de la familia del fundador de la Universidad de Oviedo, Fernando Valdés Salas), y nieto del abogado Francisco García del Valle y Pérez Pato (1818-1907).

Casó en Villacarrillo (Jaén) con Adela Gámez Poblaciones (1895-1927), el 5 de marzo de 1916, en la Iglesia de Sta. Isabel de los Ángeles, de cuyo matrimonio tuvo cinco hijos: José Ramón, Carmen, Francisco, Dionisio y Mercedes, y 7 nietos.

En 1901, con 20 años de edad, se licenció en Derecho por la Universidad de Oviedo, poco después ingresó en la carrera judicial y fiscal, siendo Egea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza) su primer destino. Después pasó a ejercer como Juez de Instrucción en Villacarrillo, donde conoció a la que sería su mujer.

En el año 1911, siendo Juez de Villacarrillo, aparece como uno de los organizadores y de las autoridades asistentes a los actos de inauguración de las Escuelas Graduadas (hoy Centro Parroquial), siendo Alcalde Miguel Poblaciones López.

De su vida profesional, durante la que fue muchos años número uno de su escalafón, cabe destacar su nombramiento como Director General de Justicia y Culto (1926-1930), siendo Ministro D. Galo Ponte Escartín. En enero de 1930 fue nombrado Ministro de Gracia y Justicia interino (BOE 10/01/1930). Entre otros puestos de interés ocupó el de Magistrado en Jaén (1916), y el de Teniente Fiscal en las Audiencias de Toledo (1917), Granada (1923), Badajoz (1925) y Guadalajara, Abogado Fiscal del Tribunal Supremo (1935), Fiscal Jefe de la Audiencia Territorial de Valladolid (1937), culminando su carrera con el cargo de Teniente Fiscal del Tribunal Supremo (desde 1938 y hasta su jubilación en 1956).

Autor de varias Memorias Anuales de la Fiscalía, presentó y prologó diversas publicaciones de carácter jurídico de la época. Presidió y fue vocal de tribunales de oposiciones a las carreras judicial y fiscal, y preparador de aspirantes a las mismas. Miembro del Ateneo de Madrid, por sus méritos le fueron concedidas la Cruz de Honor (2-02-1952) y la Gran Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort (23-01-1956).

También, perteneció a las Conferencias de San Vicente Paúl; fue miembro de la Cofradía de Ntra. Sra. de las Batallas de Covadonga, Hermano Mayor Honorario de la Cofradía de Ntro. Padre Jesús Nazareno de Villacarrillo e Hijo Adoptivo de Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén).

D. Ramón falleció en su domicilio de la calle Goya de Madrid, el 27 de febrero de 1961, a los 80 años de edad, tras una vida consagrada al trabajo y al estudio de los grandes problemas jurídicos y sociales. Villacarrillo y Pravia en gratitud y reconocimiento a su labor le dedicaron sendas calles.

Referencias
 Base de datos de la Gaceta de Madrid en la Web del Boletín Oficial del Estado
 Revista de la Asociación de Amigos de la Historia de Villacarrillo (Jaén) "AHISVI", N.º 2, p. 3, 2003 - DL-J-513-2001.

Juristas de España del siglo XX
Grandes cruces de la Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort
Fiscales generales del Estado interinos
Miembros de la Asamblea Nacional Consultiva

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Bhai Bala, (1466-1544), est un ami d'enfance de Guru Nanak, le premier gourou du sikhisme.

Ils habitaient le même village: Talvandi Rai Bhoi, aujourd'hui Nankana Sahib. Bhai Bala a accompagné le Guru une grande partie de sa vie, notamment lors de ses voyages en Chine, à la Mecque. Bhai Mardana était aussi un des leurs. Bhai Bala était issu de la caste hindoue des Jats, des fermiers du nord de l'Inde. Bhai Bala a écrit un Janam Sakhis, une hagiographie, sur le Guru; ce livre très célèbre chez les sikhs se dénomme: Bhai Bale Vali Janm Sakhi. Bhai Bala a aussi connu Guru Angad, le deuxième gourou du sikhisme. Néanmoins, à l'heure actuelle, il existe une controverse sur l'existence de Bhai Bala car Bhai Gurdas, un historien de cette époque qui a relevé les noms des proches de Guru Nanak, ne mentionne pas le nom de Bhai Bala.

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Saint du sikhisme
Personne dont l'existence est controversée
Personnalité sikh du XVe siècle
Personnalité sikh du XVIe siècle