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Out This Week: 09 April 2020 – WFH Edition
Abdullah Y
– April 9, 2020Posted in: News
This week on our WFH Edition, we selected for you acclaimed biographical films that our critics recommends. Let's check them out.
Che (2008)
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
With: Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Demián Bichir, and Rodrigo Santoro
What is it about: A two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. Part One is titled The Argentine and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries in Cuba to their successful toppling of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship two years later. Part Two is titled Guerrilla and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise.
Heads Up: The two parts of this film were shown separately to the general public after they were shown as one in their festival run. Our own Faizan Rashid luckily watched it as one during DIFF2008, and in his ★★★★★ review, he has this words of wisdom: "If there are two sides to every story, it is almost certain that those who watch Che as two separate films will miss out on the completeness that a back-to-back watch provides. The achievement of director Soderbergh is monumental not only because of how difficult it must have been to show the same man from different angles (in victory and defeat) but also because the entire film is in Spanish and feels rigidly authentic. As far as pure, visceral cinematic experiences go, it doesn't get better than Che".
How to Watch it: Netflix / iTunes
Directed by: Steve McQueen
With: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Liam McMahon, and Stuart Graham
What is it about: Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Heads Up: Another gem from DIFF2008. about a freedom fighter who would rather sacrifice his life than compromise his convictions. Not only is it Steve McQueen's directorial feature debut, it is also Michael Fassbinder's breakthrough role. The movie is without any lines of dialogue or narration, except for a jaw-dropping verbal debate between Bobby Sands and a priest in the middle of the movie. In his ★★★★★ review, Shariq Madani wrote:"Steve McQueen, the director of Hunger gives us enough time and reason to understand the character and the reason behind the protest, until eventually taking us through Sands' harrowing journey of torture, defiance and suffering".
How to Watch it: iTunes
Directed by: Tom Hooper
With: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, and Michael Gambon
What is it about: The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Heads Up: If the two previous picks are too heavy for your taste, have no fear, we got you covered. This inspirational crowd-pleaser will lift your spirit. I remember seeing this one on the beach at an outdoor screening during DIFF2010 and it was an audience hit. This 4 times Oscar winner was also well-liked by our critic Faizan Rashid, who wrote in ★★★★☆ review: "the film is an inspiring, entertaining, feel good, crowd-pleaser, one that's actually very good and sustained in no small part by two performances that enthrall".
With: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, and Tommy Lee Jones
What is it about: As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
Heads Up: Steven Spielberg's historical drama about President Abraham Lincoln is a tale of political intrigue, and behind-the-scenes dramatizations of events that lead to one of the most important turning points in American history. In his 4½ stars review, Lloyd Bayer wrote:"This is one of the most important films of the year and perhaps even the times we live in. By its very making, Spielberg has written the greatest obituary for one of the greatest leaders of the modern world. Lincoln is to Steven Spielberg what Gandhi is to Richard Attenborough; the commonality being crucial moments in history, rather than a history lesson per se". Special nod to Daniel Day-Lewis who won his third Oscar for his transcendent performance as the titular Lincoln.
How to Watch it: Google Play / iTunes / OSN Store
With: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, and Brad Pitt
What is it about: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Heads Up: This heart wrenching story of suffering and injustice is beautiful work of an auteur director and perhaps its McQueen's most acclaimed. This 3 times Oscar winner was screening during DIFF2013 (sigh!! We do miss DIFF), and our own Lloyd Bayer spoke very highly of it. In his ★★★★★ review he wrote: "To say that 12 Years a slave is a milestone achievement in filmmaking would only be half truth. It is every bit a masterpiece as much as it is essential cinema. From Sean Bobbitt's captivating cinematography and Hans Zimmer's moving original music, to flawless performances from an ensemble of top actors". On a final note, this is a film you may wanna watch as a double-bill with Lincoln, for they are two faces of the same period of American history.
Directed by: Pablo Larraín
With: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup
What is it about: Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
Heads Up: Screened at DIFF2016, not one, but two of our esteemed critics reviewed this film. In his 4½ stars review, Faizan Rashid wrote:"This is not a film you should watch to feel good or be entertained. Don't look for a plot either. Jackie is entirely about an event and the performance that brings this to life is an achingly raw embodiment of personal anguish". Lloyd Bayer was even more enthusiastic about it, and in his ★★★★★ review he wrote:"It takes a few minutes to get used to Natalie Portman mimicking Jacqueline Kennedy's voice, but once you do, it becomes hypnotic like everything else in this film. Starting with those wailing violins followed by unflattering close-up cinematography, Jackie becomes a haunting experience and ultimately a crushing story about grief".
Tags: benicio del toro, Billy Crudup, brad pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, colin firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, david strathairn, Demián Bichir, Geoffrey Rush, Greta Gerwig, guy pearce, Guy Pierce, Helena Bonham Carter, joseph gordon-levitt, Julia Ormond, Liam Cunningham, Lupita Nyong'o, michael fassbender, Michael Gambon, Natalie Portman, oscar isaac, Peter Sarsgaard, Rodrigo Santoro, Sally Field, Steve McQueen, steven soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hooper, Tommy Lee Jones
About Abdullah Y
Abdullah Y is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is an avid consumer of everything Pop Culture; movies, TV, music, photography, podcasts, and social media. He loves to travel and to share his experiences.


A CRAFT workshop in Gosport will be giving people the chance to create their own Christmas presents for their loved ones.
Lovely and Vintage Jewellery is hosting the craft session on Wednesday, November 21 at Twist of Creativity, Basepoint Business Centre, from 5-9pm.
The session costs £5 per person, plus the project item you choose to craft.
Call 07917 611127 for info.


Update: Bountiful has been closed since 2007.
Bountiful Bakery is a combination bakery/coffee shop and deli-style restaurant. Customers order up front and seat themselves. The overhead menu lists several exotic-sounding sandwiches and hot dishes at fairly reasonable prices. After ordering, you get a small cup for your soft drinks (fortunately, you get your own refills). There is a somewhat long wait, but I don't think that most of the people who eat here are in a hurry.
The main dining area offers several computer terminals along the large picture windows for the nerd types, but most people sit in booths or at tables. There is a somewhat darker area that is protected from the brightness of the picture windows with a wall. There is also a semi-private room that can be used for informal meetings (plus I believe it has multimedia connections for business-type meetings). A large bakery with all sorts of fat-and-sugar-laden pastries and desserts is opposite the meeting room. Between the two, there are several tall bar style tables and chairs.
The sandwiches are served either as a whole sandwich, or a half sandwich with a soup or salad. I usually choose a whole sandwich; my wife has a half sandwich with a soup. When the entrees arrive, they are generously sized and rather exotic. The last sandwich I ordered there had what appeared to be baba-ganouj on it (I've never had anything that combined baba-ganoudj and pork products before). It was quite good. The entrée comes with a side of chips, green beans, or potatoes. I prefer the latter. The potatoes are prepared with garlic and vinegar, and are liberally peppered with herbs and spices. The soups are also heavy with garlic, but not to the point that most people would mind.
The fare for children is simple, and has a choice of fresh fruit or chips. The fruit includes various melons, pineapples, and other fruit. My son likes the four cheese ravioli, which comes with a marina sauce.
My wife often gets a mocha to go, but it's not so popular in the 100+° New Mexico summer.
It is a casual deli-style restaurant that is convenient to much of the Lohman area shopping.


When your passion is helping the world with a focus on those suffering from a mental illness or addiction, you need to make sure that you are getting your name out there in every possible way. That is how people are going to know who to call when the time comes. That is why we here at His House take our networking events so seriously. Not only do we get our name out there, but we are also able to find out about other ways that we can extend the types of care we have to offer the people we serve.
If you are interested in coming to our next networking event, contact us! We are always on the lookout for people who can bring another facet to the care we provide. We are also on the lookout for people who care about this population as passionately as we do.


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Pretty nice little show that had 140 in attendance today. Something for everyone, I dug the international scout with a Cummins swap. Just a few awards and a lot of door prizes.
I put up a Facebook Album that should be set to publicly visible here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155058019741278.1073741831.512726277&type=1&l=32c14652cd If anyone is interested in photos, tried to get everyone, no doubt did not.
Nice work on the photos! Thanks for posting. It's always fun to check out the cars that are in attendance at a show that you're not able to attend.


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This article provides a list of divisional boards in the Australian state of Queensland between 1879 and 1903.

When Queensland separated from New South Wales as a colony in its own right in 1859, it inherited New South Wales's local government legislation, the Municipalities Act 1858, which allowed the creation of a municipality with its own elected council to manage local affairs, upon the petition of householders in the area. However, by 1878 only eighteen towns had incorporated in this way. The Government of Queensland passed the Local Government Act 1878, based on Victorian legislation enacted four years earlier, to allow more diverse forms of local government, but this quickly proved unsuitable to Queensland's requirements given its large, sparsely populated areas.

Its response was to enact the Divisional Boards Act 1879 (43 Vic No. 17), which established a new form of local government by dividing all unincorporated parts of Queensland into 74 divisions, and creating for each an elected divisional board which was responsible for a range of services and amenities within its area. Each board had a number of councillors, and a chairman who was appointed from amongst their number. The legislation was amended several times before being replaced by the Divisional Boards Act 1887 (51 Vic No. 7). By 1901, there were 30 municipalities, 6 shires and 120 divisions in Queensland.

In 1902, the Local Authorities Act (2 Edw. VII, No. 19) replaced all divisions with shires and brought them under the same legislation as that which governed the municipalities. This took effect on 31 March 1903.

Divisions created by the Act
On 11 November 1879, 74 divisions came into existence upon the proclamation of the Act:

Divisions created subsequent to the Act

See also
 List of former local government areas of Queensland

References

Queensland, divisional boards
Government of Queensland
Local government in Queensland
Former local government areas of Queensland
Queensland-related lists

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Measurement of code coverage is one of those things that always catches my attention. On the one hand, I often find that organizations don't necessarily know how much code they are covering during testing — which is really surprising! At the other end of the coverage spectrum, there are organizations for whom the number is so important that the quality and efficacy of the tests has become mostly irrelevant. They mindlessly chase the 100% dragon and believe that if they have that number the software is good, or even the best that it can be. This is at least as dangerous as not knowing what you've tested, in fact perhaps more so since it can give you a false sense of security.
Security. Code coverage can be a good and interesting number to assess your software quality, but it's important to remember that it is a means, rather than an end. We don't want coverage for coverage's sake, we want coverage because it's supposed to indicate that we've done a good job testing the software. If the tests themselves aren't meaningful, then having more of them certainly doesn't indicate better software. The important goal is to make sure every piece of code is tested, not just executed. Failing enough time and money to fully test everything, at least make sure that everything important is tested.
What this means is that while low coverage means we're probably not testing enough, high coverage by itself doesn't necessarily correlate to high quality — the picture is more complicated than that.
The first trap is the "we don't know our coverage" trap. This seems unreasonable to me — coverage tools are cheap and plentiful. A friend of mine suggests that organizations know their coverage number isn't good, so developers and testers are loath to expose the poor coverage to management. I would hope this isn't the usual case.
Therein lies the problem — mindless coverage is the same as mindless music. The coverage needs to reflect real, meaningful use of the code, otherwise it's just noise.
And speaking of noise… the cost of coverage goes up as coverage increases. Remember that you not only need to create tests, but you have to maintain them going forward. If you're not planning on re-using and maintaining a test, you should probably not waste the time creating it in the first place.
As the test suite gets larger, the amount of noise increases in unexpected ways. Twice as many tests may mean two or even three times as much noise. The meaningless tests end up creating more noise than good tests because they have no real context, but have to be dealt with each time the tests are executed. Talk about technical debt! Useless tests are a real danger.
What does it mean when the test passes?
Ideally, when a test fails, we know something about what went wrong, and if the test is really good, it will point us in the right direction to fix it. All too often when a test fails, no one knows why, no one can reproduce it, and the test is ignored.
Conversely, when a test passes we should be able to know what was tested —– it should mean that a particular feature or piece of functionality is working properly. If you can't answer one of those questions, you probably have a problem with your test.
If you can't answer either of them, the test is probably more trouble than it's worth.
The way out of this trap is first to understand that the coverage percentage itself isn't the goal. The real goal is to create useful meaningful tests. This of course takes time.
In simple code, writing unit tests is simple, but in complex, real-world applications, it means writing stubs and mocks and using frameworks. This can take quite a bit of time and if you're not doing it all the time, it's easy to forget the nuances of the APIs involved. Even if you are serious about testing, the time it takes to create a really good test can be more than you expect.


With a heavy heart and a scratch of the head, we sadly acknowledge that today, Tuesday, November 23, 2010, is the day slated for the demolition of one of Philly Boxing's all-time greatest landmarks - the Spectrum. For those of us who grew up in the "Spectrum Era", the South Philly venue is very much a hallowed hall for the sport we love. During that era, numerous historic battles and an endless list of memorable fighters called the Spectrum home. It was the last time that boxing in Philadelphia was truly great.


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Simon Guillain, called Gigantibus or de Gigante (Paris, 1581 - Paris, 1658), was a French sculptor.

Biography

He approached sculpting thanks to the teachings of his father Nicolas, perfecting later at the Academy of court.

His stay in Rome at the beginning of the seventeenth century reinforced his interest in art, which Guillain expressed in works of great importance, such as the two statues of Saint Gervasius and Protasius for the church of Saint Gervais in Paris, some marble statues for the church of the Sorbonne, the Mausoleum of Charlotte Catherine, widow of the prince of Condé in the convent of the Daughters of the Ave Maria.

During his stay in Rome, Guillin made a copy of the Arts by way of Bologna: eighty etchings from drawings by Annibale Carracci, as well as a frontispiece adorned with a portrait of Annibale Carracci. The frontispiece of the work is as follows: Diverse Figure, al numero di ottanta, disegnato di penna, nell'hore di ricreazione di Annibale Carracci, intagliate in rame, e cavate dai originali da Simone Guilino Parigino. Dedicate a tutti i Virtuosi ed intendenti della professione della pittura e del disegno, A Roma nella stamparia di Lodovico Grignani, MDCXLVI, Con licenza di superiori, In foglio.

But his name has entered the history of sculpture above all for the colossal Monument to the glory of Louis XIII and his family, completed in 1648, coinciding with the Treaty of Westphalia, and placed at the entrance to the Pont-au-Change on the Seine.

The work consisted of a double architectural order and was decorated with coats of arms, trophies, animal and human figures as a corollary to the main bronze statues of Louis XIII of France, Queen Anne of Austria, and Louis XIV of France as an infant.

Guillain drew characters that he admired.

Every detail of his works was imbued with classicism, without detracting from the personal and genuine characterization of some specific aspects, such as the faces. He was a renewer of the French Renaissance.

He was elected captain of his district and in 1651 was one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris.

References

Other projects

  Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Simon Guillain

1658 deaths
1581 births
17th-century French people
French sculptors


The argument is that super teams not good for the NBA — small market teams need to have a chance and be able to compete or the NBA becomes MLB with a handful of rich teams and everyone else playing catch up. That argument looks at the NFL's parity as a model to strive for.
I don't buy it (and we'll get to that). But a lot of people do, a lot of people think the super teams are bad for the league.
And Hall of Famer and current big man guru Hakeem Olajuwon is one of them. Look what he told the USA Today.
"There are superstars and then there are franchise players," Olajuwon said. "There are superstars in their own right, but a franchise player is a player who can carry his team to the next level. There are always very few of those in any era, true franchise players. Once you have that player, you can build your team around him. Today, the ones who are franchise players are teaming up together, which makes it more difficult for the teams without a superstar or a franchise player.
Here are four reasons I don't think this holds water.
First, the NBA has always been a league of super teams. What do you think the 1960s Celtics were? So the Lakers went out and had to get Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain together to compete with them. It was true in the 1980s (Boston trades for Robert Parish and pick that becomes Kevin McHale for peanuts to pair with Larry Bird). Yes, those teams were assembled differently in an era before free agency, but they were still super teams. And for the record, Olajuwon himself was part of one, his Rockets went out and got Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler, they needed more star power to compete.
Second, fans love super teams. Look at the television ratings from the past couple years. Fans watch the Heat more than anyone else. It's the same way fans were drawn to the Bulls in the 1990s and the Lakers and Celtics before them. Some NBA fans claim to want parity, but their eyeballs don't lie and they tune in to watch these super teams in a way they do not parity.
Third, you can never have NFL style parity in the NBA anyway because great players can control the game in a way no single football player can. If you have LeBron James or Kevin Durant or Kobe Bryant or even peak Olajuwon you have a player who can change the game on both ends of the floor for 80 percent of the game's plays. Superstar basketball talent has a huge advantage and if you have one of those 10 or so guys franchise guys at any given time you are going to win a lot whether or not you pair them up.
Finally, fourth and to Olajuwon's point directly — small market teams in the NBA do have a chance if they are smart. Oklahoma City is a small market that is smart and drafted well. San Antonio is a small market. New Orleans is a small market that just got potential franchise player Anthony Davis. Cleveland is a small market and the reason they lost LeBron James is not the bright lights of Miami but their own missteps in building a team and how they let LeBron have too much power around the organization. LeBron didn't have to grow up in Cleveland, they enabled him in a way Pat Riley didn't in Miami.
The same is true in Orlando — they had a chance with Dwight Howard, they lost him. The fact he went to L.A. may gall Magic fans, but the organization lost Howard long before a destination was chosen.
Small market teams in the NBA have a chance — their margin for error is smaller than for Los Angeles or New York, but they have a real and legitimate chance. Fans will tune in to watch a small market super team just like they will a big market one. So long as they have the star power in uniform.
Because the NBA is a league of stars. Not parity.


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Q: Logrotate docker container's logs when user doesn't exist on host I mounted my containers' logs to the host (e.g. /var/log/container1, etc). Now I want to use the host's logrotate.
But suppose I need to do this:
create 660 mysql mysql

There is no mysql user/group on the host, so logrotate fails with:

unknown user 'mysql'

So I tried:
create 660 999 999   # 999 is mysql user's uid/gid within container

But then I get:

unknown user '999'

So I tried:
create 660 999 999
su 999 999

But that gives the same error.
How can I do this, without creating a dummy user on the host?
(BTW, before you tell me to rely on docker's own log rotation... this is just an example. I use various containers which do not log to stdout/stderr so I need to do log rotation myself.)

A: I think the problem is logrotate does not recognise a non-existent uid/gid, even though the filesystem does.
Workaround:
#create 660 mysql mysql                # break it: will use default of root:root
postrotate
  chown 999:999 /var/log/container1/   # fix it
endscript

This could lead to a race condition though.
If you have a better solution, please post it.

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This beautiful floor lamp is topped with a custom-printed translucent Giclee Glow shade with Southwest Bohemian pattern.
Add a stylish and unique accent to your living space with this shapely floor lamp which is topped off with our patented Southwest Bohemian pattern giclee shade. Warm light shines through illuminating the pattern and creating a truly distinctive look. Shade printing process U.S. Patent # 7,347,593.
Custom-printed giclee lamp shade with Southwest Bohemian pattern.


I started real estate in 1989, and have been serving the great people of Northumberland County ever since. In 2004, I earned my broker's license and branched out on my own. Buying the local franchise from Sutton Group Realty Services, I named my new firm Sutton Group Northumberland Realty Inc. My goal was and continues to be, to provide outstanding real estate services through a small, boutique type brokerage. With that in mind, I purchased the office building at 3 Main Street where I proudly served the Village of Warkworth for 12 years.
In additional to my career in real estate, I have extensive experience (42 years) in farming. Bringing my passions of real estate and farming together, I moved my Brokerage to my farm location and ''Real Estate at the Farm'' was born.
I love the country, the beautiful rolling hills of Northumberland County. Waking up on the farm each day and working the area that my great grandparents settled over a century ago. I have deep knowledge of the area from Havelock in the north to Brighton in the south and west to the Durham Region. I work with residential sales, farm and vacant land sales, cottages and condos. I like to think 'outside the box' and delight in making deals come together and making people realize their dreams. I take great pleasure in working with strong women, looking to buy or sell on their own.
Please call me if you require real estate services. From first time buyers to empty nesters, seeking rural or town living, or even a complete lifestyle change from big city living, I would be honored to assist you.


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Abhilash Mishra
Director, Kevin Xu Initiative on Science, Technology and Global Development
About Abhilash Mishra
Abhilash Mishra is a scientist, entrepreneur, and educator working on problems at the intersection of technological innovation and social inequality. Abhilash is the founding director of the Xu Initiative on Science, Technology, and Global Development at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. He is also the founder of EquiTech Futures, a talent incubator and research lab for inclusive innovation.
In his work, Abhilash combines tools and insights from computing, data science, economics, and behavioural science to develop solutions that can make scientific and technological innovation more equitable and inclusive. His policy work includes: using field experiments to test interventions that can improve STEM education outcomes among underserved students in India, proposing a framework for decarbonization using digital agricultural platforms, a proposal for American Science Corps to bolster public trust in science and technology, and developing technology re-skilling programs for youth from underserved backgrounds.
Abhilash helped co-found Science for All (2011-2019), India's first teacher-residency for STEM undergraduates as well as a summer program for mathematically gifted school students from rural India. In his work as a physicist, Abhilash developed data science tools for astronomical surveys and proposed a new method to detect gravitational waves.
Abhilash is trained as a physicist and holds a PhD from Caltech and an MPhys from the University of Oxford. He is the recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, the Clinton Global Initiative Distinguished Alumni award, the KVPY Fellowship from the Government of India, and the Goldman Sachs Global Leader Award. He serves on the selection committee for the Rhodes Scholarships and as a technical advisor to social impact startups. He grew up in western Odisha and currently lives in Chicago.
abhilashmishra@uchicago.edu

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CHICAGO – Everything old is new again. It's fall 2010 and there are millions of gamers playing a new incarnation of "Castlevania" (review here), a reboot of "Medal of Honor" (review coming soon) and yet another variation on another of the most legendary franchises in gaming history in "Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light," an immensely-enjoyable downloadable title now available on both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.
CHICAGO – The best way to explain my reaction to "Tomb Raider: Underworld", the latest next-gen console adventure for the legendary Lara Croft, can be summed up with an anecdote.


Czech Republic gaming operator Sazka Group has acquired Croatia's largest sports betting operator SuperSport.
Last Friday, the Sazka Group announced that it had bought a controlling stake in SuperSport, Crotia's leading online and land-based sports betting operator in revenue terms. The price Sazka paid to SuperSport owner Danko Ćorić to complete the transaction wasn't disclosed.
SuperSport began life in 2000 and quickly established itself as a major player in Crotia's legal gaming market with over 300 retail betting shops and an online sportsbook. An online casino site launched in 2016, and the market's first locally licensed online poker site followed in 2017. The company has a payroll of roughly 1k staff and its Croatian betting license is valid until 2025.
Local media reported that SuperSport generated annual revenue of HRK400m (US$64.5m) and a net profit of HRK170m in its most recent results, although this was down from the HRK480m in revenue the company generated in 2014.
SuperSport has reportedly been shedding market share to local rival Prva Sportska Kladionica, an offshoot of Hattrick Sports, which was acquired by Sazka's Czech rival Fortuna Entertainment Group in 2017 for €135m.
The Sazka Group's existing portfolio includes the Sazka lottery and betting operations in the Czech Republic, as well as significant stakes in Italy's Lottoitalia, Austrian Lotteries, Casinos Austria and Greek betting and lottery operator OPAP.
Sazka Group revenue hit €1.13b in 2017, 177% higher than the year before, primarily due to the consolidation of OPAP's operations for the entire year. Earnings rose a similarly extravagant 165% to €353.4m while after-tax profit gained 105% to €189.5m.


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Blog Lists
Dale Greig and the women's marathon in the 1960s
9 Sep 2020 | Women's endurance running history | 0 comments
Imagine a time when women did not run in road races. Imagine a time when women were told distance running would harm their health. Imagine a time when running in a marathon meant risking being jeered at or even assaulted. This time was in my lifetime. I was born in...
Road running in the UK in the 1950s
16 Aug 2020 | Women's endurance running history | 0 comments
Road races in the 1950s in the UK were very different from today's races. Most races were over 10 miles and distances varied. The only standard distances were 20 miles and the marathon. Petrol rationing ended in 1950 but the number of vehicles on the road was...
Christine Oldfield – a runner with staying power
10 Jul 2019 | Running after fifty | 1 comment
**Guest post** I'm delighted to feature this article from my friend and fellow club member Christine Oldfield. Her running story started more than 30 years ago and, now in her seventies, Christine is definitely a runner with staying power....
The Avon International London Marathon, a first-hand account
19 Apr 2019 | Women's endurance running history | 2 comments
On 3rd August 1980, 200 women from 27 countries lined up in Battersea Park in London to run a marathon: the third Avon International Marathon. Maureen Fitzpatrick was one of those women, excitedly waiting at the start and hoping to complete her first marathon at the...
Meeting Mara Yamauchi
8 Apr 2017 | Women's endurance running history | 3 comments
In March I was fortunate to have the chance to meet Mara Yamauchi, the UK's second-fastest marathon runner, when she came to Nottingham to talk to England Athletics Run Leaders about coaching and training. Mara Yamauchi was inspired to run by watching the Los...


Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Ntpwedit.exe article may be too technical for most readers to understand. Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Security Accounts Manager, is a database file in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8. 1 and 10 that stores users' passwords. The user passwords are stored in a hashed format in a registry hive either as a LM hash or as a NTLM hash. In an attempt to improve the security of the SAM database against offline software cracking, Microsoft introduced the SYSKEY function in Windows NT 4.


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Thanks you for hosting, I've linked a new twist on the old honeycomb ornaments.
Jane Austen is a favorite of mine too! I love your teacup ornament. How clever! I just love your tree!
o this teacup in your tree is just zo gorgeous!!
So beutiful things you have done for your christmastree ! I like !
I love your tree and the dedication y once put into it, think its a fab idea. The cup makes me swoon..it looks absolutely real but glittery, how clever! Don't worry about grainy photos...I doubt if the were many taken back then, let alone really clear ones!
Your Jane Austen tree is just so wonderful.. can't believe you made that tea cup. How did you do it? It is beautiful. Thanks for all the holiday inspiration!
Your tree is really beautiful, love all the ornaments you have made!
What a wonderful tree! I love Jane Austin's work as well and also love reading The Bronte Sister's novels. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Terri, it' all just beautiful! You are such a talented lady! I'm writing about some of my Christmases past, on my Nostalgic Sunday posts. Please stop by if you have a chance. And one of these Sundays, I'm going to post a photo of an adorable little tree I know you'd love! Thanks for sharing with us!
Your Jane Austen tribute is coming out very well. I can't wait to see the final display!! You make so many very beautiful things. I really wouldn't all them "things," I meant art pieces!
I love your Jane Austen Tree! It is perfect and I can tell you love everything about it! The colors are my favorites!
Wow Terri! I just love your Jane Austen inspired Christmas tree. Of course, loving that there are teacups included too. You're so inspiring!
Hope you're enjoying the Christmas season so far.
A Jane Tree!!! Love it!! Are you putting any of these ornaments in your Etsy? I feel the same way about Jane - even referring to her as though she is an old friend. Yes, in her humble life she left such a model to follow for women who love to write - and love to tell stories - two categories I fit in quite well! I have been promising to do a Jane Austen tea post - just need the time to plan it form all the material I have. 2012 looks promising for this . . .
Your ornaments is beautiful!!! Any chance you'll post the image of the teacup? I'd love to make an ornament, too.
Wow..gorgeous!! and how cool..another new linky..looks like fun sharing decorations! Everything you create is magical...thankyou for sharing your beuaty!


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In 1969, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote of the abysmal disinterest of scientists or intellectuals in violence as a subject of serious study, "No one questions or examines what is obvious to all." She was writing during one of the more potholed stretches in human history, with violence and assassination having become a political weapon, deployed in the spaces between the larger, tectonic frictions of the Cold War. The rise of television had made these sporadic occurrences of violence feel universal. It would take an eccentric, an academic with an extreme persona, to look closer at what was hanging in the air.
Three years after Arendt's baffled pronouncement, a Mexican anthropologist named Santiago Genovés took up the cause. A veteran of multiple long-distance rafting experiments (a thing in the nineteen-seventies, apparently), the fifty-year-old researcher devised an experiment fit for the extremities of the era. With four men and six women, he'd set sail on a boxy steel raft with no motor across the Atlantic Ocean, to better observe human conflict, which, he believed, was guaranteed to spark under these mind-bending conditions. On the raft, the nature of violence could be measured in the sterile confines of his floating behavioral laboratory. "Is violence something that is built into our genes?" Genovés wrote once the raft was at sea, "Or is it something that we learn? Will an isolated group of people on a raft cooperate to survive?"
Except that the conflict, as Genovés planned it, never flared up. Surprising when you consider that he engineered the raft, named Acali, after the Nahutal word for "the house on the water," to be a floating tinder box. The crew members, selected partially on the basis of their sex appeal, spent more time fending off seasickness than fornicating. So much for sexual jealousy. As for emasculation, the men, who were relegated to menial roles on the ship, willingly followed the commands of their capable female captain. The crew was banned from bringing books; they passed the time singing songs and swapping stories, unperturbed by multiple language barriers (another hindrance arranged by Genovés) and the grind of daily psychological exams. In spite of this, and despite three near sinkings, two broken rudders, one case of appendicitis, and near collisions with a storm and a seventeen-thousand-ton oil tanker, the Acali peacefully reached its destination, a hundred and one days after setting sail, in Cozumel, Mexico, with nothing aberrant to report except for an extremely tanned crew. So why, more than forty years later, was the story of this experiment, and its hard-earned conclusions on violence, power, and human behavior, seemingly still lost at sea?
In "The Raft," a new documentary by Marcus Lindeen, the surviving volunteers of this experiment are gathered to set off on a psychological search expedition for any possible answers to the question. Lindeen, a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director with a fascination for radical journeys, built his own Acali from plywood, meticulously crafted to scale on a studio soundstage. The documentary itself is as artistically ambitious as Genovés's own experimental design—16-mm. footage of the original voyage is given a lush oceanic backing track, intercut with archival photos, news footage, and sparsely lit interviews of the now-wrinkled volunteers, as they venture to make sense of the study, and its effects on their lives, so many years later. Lindeen steers viewers toward an impression of science's inability to reckon with the obviousness of human nature, good or bad. But, in restaging the saga, and by pressing the crew once more into subjects, "The Raft" reveals a different truth: no matter how well-intentioned an experiment, or documentary, the power dynamics that shape these undertakings taint the potential of their results—or, as was the case with Genovés's audacious experiment, leaves them misunderstood, and mocked, by the outside world.
The most glaring example of this comes quickly in the film. What Genovés's referred to as his "Peace Project," viewers learn, was rather immediately dubbed the "Sex Raft" by the press, who made headline hay of the study's supplementary examination of "sexual behaviour." A U.P.I. cable announcing the Acali's arrival in Mexico leeringly described its crew as "bare-chested men and bikini-clad women" on a craft "skippered by a buxom Swedish blonde." (The label is proving even more potent in the digital age, as neither the film's marketing nor recent reviews can resist its click-bait appeal.) Unfortunately for Genovés, the crude designation became the public's primary reference to the study. In a paper, published in 1977, he estimated that eighty per cent of the questions he received about the experiment were sexually oriented. Genovés's researchers back on land tracked the media's repeated references to free love and group sex on the raft and noted their outsized influence in how the volunteers' families perceived the experiment. Even Genovés's home institution, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, came to distance itself from its student, a fact he learned mid-voyage over a radio broadcast.
The stigma faced by the "Peace Project" recalls other bold-lettered group experiments of the era, such as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Though entirely lacking in sex appeal, or sunshine for that matter, the infamous 1971 group experiment is also known for all the wrong reasons, specifically, man's supposed predilection for violent domination, and not, as Maria Konnikova noted in an essay for this magazine, the influence of a prison environment on human behavior. Like that study's lead researcher, Philip Zimbardo, Genovés's own outsized presence on the Acali took on authoritarian tendencies as he attempted to produce conflict and preserve his experiment. He relieved the captain, Maria Björnstam, of her duties when she insisted on pulling into port to avoid a storm. Disappointed by the lack of sexual jealousy, Genovés began to play "the game of truth," where he read aloud the crew's sexual appetites as a means to inspire an emotional response. Mary Gidley, one of two Americans on the raft, claims that Genovés, unprovoked, threw a bucket of water in her face. "It was like a shock treatment," she says, as Lindeen blows a high-powered fan in her face for effect. "Maybe he was trying to see what he could get away with."
What these methods inspired turned out to be a near mutiny. Genovés proved to be an inept captain after panicking during a near-collision with an oil tanker. The crew quickly reinstalled Björnstam at the helm, and the macho Spaniard effectively resigned himself to the cabin. Lindeen turns this into the narrative crest of the film, as it should be. The cunning, resilient maneuvers of the crew, the women specifically, prevented major conflict, or accidental death. Even at their most abused state, the crew's worst impulses are kept in check. The raft's other American, Fé Seymour, tells of her fantasy to murder Genovés, whom she accuses of racist antagonism. (She was one of two black crew members on the raft.) The conflict that Genovés had been agitating for during the original experiment managed to slip by, unbeknownst to him, then and now. (He died in 2013, before the documentary began production.) Seymour's own personal conclusions serve as the film's sole answer to Genovés's question of violence. "Isn't love the answer to violence?" Seymour asks. "We had it on the Raft . . . [Genovés] was so focussed on the violence and conflict, but [the answer] was right in his hands."
Yet it's debatable whether Genovés felt this way. Even though the film provides clear evidence that his thinking evolved toward Seymour's conclusion, that humans tended to exhibit coöperation, Lindeen denies Genovés such absolution. Following Genovés's removal from activity on the raft, he wrote in his diary: "Only one has shown any kind of aggression and that is me, a man trying to control everyone else, including himself." For the first time since childhood, Genovés claimed, he cried. One wonders if Lindeen would rather viewers leave with his own narrow conclusions than those of a scientist who, against type, likely learned from his misguided methods. In Genovés's case, this meant dedicating the remainder of his academic life to affirming that violence was not an innate human tendency. As it turns out, the man who brought us the so-called sex raft was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1981. Genovés would become the central author of "The Seville Statement on Violence," a 1986 paper signed by twenty scientists from around the world, in what was the first global pronouncement to reject "biological pessimism." Even Arendt was certain of man's genetic lust for violence, not to mention Freud, Spinoza, and St. Augustine. "The same species who invented war," the statement says, "is capable of inventing peace. The responsibility lies with each of us."
As we learn in the documentary, the architect of an experiment can easily, even unwittingly, become its subject just the same. In the case of "The Raft," the same distortions afflicting Genovés's experiment—hubris, sensationalism, power, and manipulation—obscure Lindeen's own message. Viewing the film, its unclear if he hoped to correct the experiment's rampant mischaracterizations, deliver a gawking tribute to a far-out science project (the kind of retrospective made with numbing frequency in the streaming-content era), or offer a welcome feminist rebuke to patriarchal science. At times, it appears to be all three. It seems that Lindeen, only in retrospect, away from his own model Acali and the power he held over it, was able to interpret the results with clear eyes. In a recent essay, he recounts how a crewmember had jokingly referred to him as "Santiago No. 2" during production. A personal breakthrough came in waves: "I had built an enormous raft, just like him. I had raised the funds and gathered people from all over the world to get onboard the raft, just like him. And just like he wanted his participants to behave a certain way for his experiment, all those years ago, I now was trying to manipulate the exact same people to perform a certain way for my film. I had turned into the nemesis of my own movie." It would seem that the raft still has lessons to teach.
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Ohio Court Strikes Down Wrongful Entrustment Charge
Article: Ohio Court Strikes Down Wrongful Entrustment Charge
The Court of Appeals for the Twelfth District of Ohio last week struck down a "wrongful entrustment" ticket handed to a father who had allowed his son to borrow his Jeep. West Chester Township police were intent on collecting $500 plus court costs from John R. Tranovich because his son Mark's license was suspended on June 21, 2008 when the twenty-year-old took the vehicle. A trial court heard the case and imposed a suspended six-month jail sentence on the father.
Ohio's wrongful entrustment law imposes harsh penalties that include the mandatory seizure of a vehicle's license plate for thirty-days on a first offense and permanent seizure of the loaned vehicle on a third offense.
"No person shall permit a motor vehicle owned by the person or under the person's control to be driven by another if the offender knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the other person does not have a valid driver's license," Ohio Code 4511.203 states.
Mark Tranovich had previously had a one-year suspended license. After it had expired, his father had arranged for an SR22 automobile insurance bond, giving him every reason to believe his son's license was fully restored. John Tranovich never received any notification from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles about his son's second suspension, and so he testified that he did not know anything about it. A previous appellate court decision established that there is "no affirmative duty" to check drivers' licenses before lending one's car.
"Given appellant's testimony and the officer's admission that appellant never told him he knew about Mark's current suspension, we find the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that on June 21, 2008, the day of the entrustment of the Jeep to Mark, appellant knew or had reasonable cause to believe Mark had no legal right to drive," Judge William W. Young wrote for the three-judge panel. "Given the evidence presented, the trial court could not reasonably find that the state proved the offense of wrongful entrustment beyond a reasonable doubt."
The court tossed out John Tranovich's conviction for his son's offense. Judge Young has a special connection with father-son issues as he was the first Ohio judge to serve on the bench with his father, Warren C. Young. A copy of the decision is available in a 40k PDF file at the source link below. Source
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Equatorial Guinea won independence from Spain in 1968. There were constitutions in 1968, 1973 and 1982. The current constitution dates back to 1991. The 1968 and 1973 constitutions were presidential. However, the post of prime minister was introduced in 1982 and has been present ever since. Usually, the introduction of a prime minister into a system with a directly elected president is a sure sign of semi-presidentialism, but not so in the case of Equatorial Guinea, though only just.
The 1982 constitution provided a raft of powers to the directly elected president, who was designated as both the head of state and head of government (Art. 88). The president was "assisted" (Art. 109) by a prime minister, who was responsible to the president (Arts. 108 and 112). Ministers were subject to interpellation by the Chamber of People's Representatives, but there was no collective responsibility. So, despite there being a prime minister, the 1982 constitution was not semi-presidential.
In 1991 there were hopes of democratisation and a new constitution was passed. In 1995 there were constitutional amendments that did affect the president's powers, but there were no real changes in relation to the semi-presidential nature of the document. The current constitution is available online.
The president continues to enjoy quite considerable powers (to coin a phrase), but since 1991 the prime minister has been officially designated as the head of government (Art. 53). However, the Council of Ministers is required to carry out the general policy of the Nation, as "determined by the president" (Art. 45) and to "assist" the president on political and administrative matters. All members of the government are personally responsible to the president (Art. 38), but there is no mention of responsibility to the Chamber of People's Representatives.
The absence of any governmental responsibility to the legislature means that one of the conditions for semi-presidentialism is not met. However, there is a clause that places Equatorial Guinea on the cusp of semi-presidentialism. Article 52 states that the prime minister "shall be chosen from within the political party that has obtained a majority of seats in the Chamber of People's Representatives." In theory, this means that cohabitation is constitutionally possible – though currently there is, to all intents and purposes, a one-party system and no effective opposition. Given my definition of semi-presidentialism stresses responsibility to the legislature rather than the possibility of cohabitation as a defining criterion, then I do not class Equatorial Guinea as semi-presidential. But, thanks to the wonders of constitutionalism and its almost infinite variety, the 1991 constitution of Equatorial Guinea places the country on the cusp of semi-presidentialism.
This entry was posted in Difficult cases of semi-presidentialism, Equatorial Guinea on 27 February, 2008 by Robert Elgie.


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Landscape Lighting Design: BRIGHTNESS AND TEMPERATURE
How much light? Outdoor lighting designers hold to the maxim that "less is more." Homeowners are concerned with security, safety, and utility. A good design, professionally installed and maintained, fully addresses these practical concerns while knocking everyone's socks off with stunning aesthetics.
Beauty, safety, security, and practicality seem at first blush like conflicting demands. After all, isn't as much light as possible the best deterrent to burglars and vandals? Isn't safety best ( and potential liability least) with light as bright as day? And won't the property be an eyesore lit up at night like a refinery?
If light came in cans, like soup, and all cans were the same, all that would be true. But light is more complicated than that.
First, there's a difference between luminance and brightness. The luminance of a light source can be measured by a machine in units of candela or lumens, and the result will be the same as long as the source operates consistently. Brightness is a human perception. A person can judge two identical light sources to have very different levels of brightness. The perception of brightness depends on things like the contrast between a light source and what's around it, and on the state of the person's pupils when looking at the source. A bulb seen against a bright background appears less bright than when it's seen against a dark background, and that same bulb appears dimmer or brighter depending on what the person was looking at previously.
And then, there's a light source's color temperature, a crucial ingredient in a lighting design's visual appeal. An incandescent bulb, producing light by heating a metal filament, is as hot to the touch as it looks. An LED, in contrast, can provide the same luminance (measured in lumens) as that incandescent, but is cool to the touch and can look cooler, or look warmer than the incandescent, according to its color. LED color temperature is rated as Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) as degrees Kelvin.
Landscape lighting design is a lot more involved than it seems to many, as illustrated by this introduction to some of the underlying physics and perceptual complexities a designer's skill set and experience are grounded in. An understanding of visual paths and destinations, for example, helps keep eyes adapted to brighter lighting from awkward transitions to softly lit areas, which in turn allows for realization of the "less is more" principle.
There's more a pro works with, much more. Factors like specularity, diffusion, reflectance values, and glare, among others. These are the things that make the difference between a good outdoor lighting design and a great one. You see, there's more to it than meets the eye.


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Q: Scrolling in SDL2, ie, changing integral coordinates of the giu's layout I'm trying to simulate 'scrolling' in an application in SDL2, however i dont think that moving each individual object on the screen every time the scroll event occurs is an efficient/elegant way of doing it. What i know of SDL2 is the top left begins at 0,0 in coordinates. For me to make this much easier to implement, is it possible to change the top left starting point of the GUI so that, when i scroll, it moves to say, 0,100 and next scroll, 0,200 etc. How could I do this? Thanks

A: Rather than changing the x,y position of the object itself, or changing the reference co-ordinate of SDL (which cannot be done), you can instead create offset variables.
For example, create an SDL_Point called ViewPointOffset:
SDL_Point ViewPointOffset;

The best practice is to put this in your window class (if you have one), or even better, a Camera class that is a member of the window class.
Then, when you're drawing, just subtract the offset from the x and y co-ordinates that you're drawing:
void draw(SDL_Renderer* renderer, const SDL_Point ViewPointOffset, SDL_Texture* tex, const SDL_Rect* srcrect, const SDL_Rect* dstrect){
    SDL_Rect* drawrect;
    drawrect->w = dstrect->w;
    drawrect->h = dstrect->h;
    drawrect->x = dstrect->x - ViewPortOffset.x;
    drawrect->y = dstrect->y - ViewPortOffset.y;
    SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, tex, srcrect, drawrect);
}

You can either create a second function, or attach a boolean to the input of that function, to allow you to ignore the offset; what if you have a GUI button that you don't want the offset to apply to, etc?
https://github.com/Helliaca/SDL2-Game is a small open source game using a similar method. You can find this code in base.cpp/.h


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Title 14. Aeronautics and Space
Chapter I. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Subchapter C. AIRCRAFT
Part 43. MAINTENANCE, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, REBUILDING, AND ALTERATION
Section 43.17. Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations performed on U.S. aeronautical products by certain Canadian persons.
14 CFR § 43.17 - Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations performed on U.S. aeronautical products by certain Canadian persons.
§ 43.17 Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations performed on U.S. aeronautical products by certain Canadian persons.
(a) Definitions. For purposes of this section:
Aeronautical product means any civil aircraft or airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, component, or part to be installed thereon.
Canadian aeronautical product means any aeronautical product under airworthiness regulation by Transport Canada Civil Aviation.
U.S. aeronautical product means any aeronautical product under airworthiness regulation by the FAA.
(b) Applicability. This section does not apply to any U.S. aeronautical products maintained or altered under any bilateral agreement made between Canada and any country other than the United States.
(c) Authorized persons.
(1) A person holding a valid Transport Canada Civil Aviation Maintenance Engineer license and appropriate ratings may, with respect to a U.S.-registered aircraft located in Canada, perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (d) of this section and approve the affected aircraft for return to service in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (e) of this section.
(2) A Transport Canada Civil Aviation Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) holding appropriate ratings may, with respect to a U.S.-registered aircraft or other U.S. aeronautical products located in Canada, perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (d) of this section and approve the affected products for return to service in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (e) of this section.
(d) Performance requirements. A person authorized in paragraph (c) of this section may perform maintenance (including any inspection required by Sec. 91.409 of this chapter, except an annual inspection), preventive maintenance, and alterations, provided -
(1) The person performing the work is authorized by Transport Canada Civil Aviation to perform the same type of work with respect to Canadian aeronautical products;
(2) The maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration is performed in accordance with a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement between the United States and Canada and associated Maintenance Implementation Procedures that provide a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the provisions of this chapter;
(3) The maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration is performed such that the affected product complies with the applicable requirements of part 36 of this chapter; and
(4) The maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration is recorded in accordance with a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement between the United States and Canada and associated Maintenance Implementation Procedures that provide a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the provisions of this chapter.
(e) Approval requirements.
(1) To return an affected product to service, a person authorized in paragraph (c) of this section must approve (certify) maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations performed under this section, except that an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer may not approve a major repair or major alteration.
(2) An AMO whose system of quality control for the maintenance, preventive maintenance, alteration, and inspection of aeronautical products has been approved by Transport Canada Civil Aviation, or an authorized employee performing work for such an AMO, may approve (certify) a major repair or major alteration performed under this section if the work was performed in accordance with technical data approved by the FAA.
(f) No person may operate in air commerce an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, or appliance on which maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration has been performed under this section unless it has been approved for return to service by a person authorized in this section.
[Amdt. 43-33, 56 FR 57571, Nov. 12, 1991, as amended by Amdt. 43-40, 71 FR 40877, July 14, 2005]