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Will Smith: 21st Century cool even in the 60s.
(2012) Science Fiction (Columbia) Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger, Alice Eve, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mike Colter, Bill Hader, David Rasche, Michael Chernus, Keone Young, Cayen Martin, Lanny Flaherty. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Men in Black is an iconic film from the 90s, one which helped establish Will Smith as the superstar he is today. It has been 15 years since that film came out and ten since its sequel. Does the world need a third, or care about it?
Judging from the early numbers, it does. Agents J (Smith) and K (Jones) are doing what they do best, taking care of aliens violating the law in and around the Manhattan area, but they are both getting too old for this sh….stuff. The two are like a couple that has been married so long that there's no longer any passion; and J is frustrated that he doesn't know the close-mouthed K any better than he did when they first met.
On the moon, one of the most dangerous and nastiest aliens to ever be arrested by the MIB organization – Boris the Animal (Clement) – has been imprisoned for forty years, his arm shot off by Agent K at the time of his arrest. He has his first visitor in 40 years – a pen-pal girlfriend (Scherzinger) who brings him a cake that appears to be mostly organic. Not that a file baked into it would do any good – his cell is solid steel. However, there's a nasty little surprise in the cake that helps him get out of the lunar hoosegow.
Back on Earth, the MIB are mourning the late Zed who is eulogized by O (Thompson), the new leader of MIB, in an alien language that sounds something like seals mating. J and K are continuing to be catty to one another like that previously mentioned old married couple. The next morning J comes to work – and K has been dead for 40 years. He's also got an insatiable craving for chocolate milk, which according to O is a sure sign of temporal displacement.
But that's the least of their worries now. The Earth is under attack by the Boglodites, the race of Boris the Animal which should have been impossible because his race died off 40 years early when K had captured Boris and enacted the ArcNet shield around the Earth, preventing the Boglodites from invading back then and causing them to starve to death as a species.
O and J deduce that Boris the Animal must have gone back in time and killed K, leading to the events that were now transpiring. It's up to J to go back to 1969, rescue K, allow him to put the ArcNet shield up and restore the space-time continuum to where it belongs.
Once in 1969, J discovers that it's not that easy. Trying to ambush Boris at Coney Island (where J knows he'll be, owing to the file on the killer stating that he would murder an alien named Roman the Fabulist), unfortunately, J is too late and winds up being captured by the younger K (Brolin) and the 1969 MIB team. It takes a little bit of convincing but J manages to get K to understand that he's from the future trying to prevent an invasion of Earth – although J leaves out the part that he is also there to prevent K's death. They are aided by Griffin (Stuhlbarg), a gentle alien who lives five-dimensionally and is able to see every possible future. Now that's a big help, although it would be, as Griffin himself puts it, a pain in the ass.
However, that is easier said than done. K has no idea what an ArcNet shield is, or how to erect it. There are two Boris the Animals out to murder K, who to J's astonishment, has a romantic link with the young O (Eve). Plus in order to save the world, J and K are going to have to get through one of the tightest security nets in the history of the United States.
It's nice to see Smith back on screen again (it's been three and a half years since he's been in a movie) and especially in a role that is so identified with him and let's be frank – a role he does better than anybody else. His chemistry with Jones is scintillating but what's surprising is that Brolin steps right into the role as the young K and not only mimics Jones perfectly, but also in terms of the chemistry with Smith – it's almost indistinguishable between the actors. That's part of what makes the movie worth seeing.
The movie holds up pretty well with the second (although not as well with the first). Rick Baker returns to make plenty of oddball aliens, including Boris the Animal (who has a little spider-like thing that resides in his remaining arm which is able to shoot out fang like darts that can be lethal). I can't help think about what's missing from the other films – notably Frank the Pug (who only shows up as a painting in J's living room), the worm aliens (who make a brief cameo) and Rip Torn as Zed, whose funeral is near the beginning of the film. These were part of the indelible charm of the first two movies and their absence is noticeable.
Other than the time travel element, this is really business as usual for the franchise. Strangely, the filmmakers opt not to use the 60s as much more than a background for the movie (other than a scene set in the Factory of Andy Warhol (Hader) who turns out to be an MIB agent) which is a wasted opportunity; the setting could have enhanced the film a lot more than it did. In some ways, they could have easily set the past sequences in any decade from that standpoint. I would have liked to have seen a bit more use of the time period as a part of the movie.
Don't get me wrong; this is fine summer entertainment and anyone who chooses to go see it is not going to leave disappointed unless they're incredibly anal about time travel continuity and the franchise in general. Of course, if you didn't like the first two films in the franchise, chances are you aren't going to like this one either since it pretty much is more of the same. Which, to my mind, is a good thing.
REASONS TO GO: Brolin does a great job of channeling Jones. Will Smith is, well, Will Smith. Touching coda.
REASONS TO STAY: Not quite as memorable as the first MIB.
FAMILY VALUES: There's just a little bit of sci-fi violence and a smidgeon of sensuality – mostly implied.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The mother and daughter in K's apartment (after he disappears from the timeline) that J gets chocolate milk from are an actual mother and daughter.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 5/27/12: Rotten Tomatoes: 68% positive reviews. Metacritic: 58/100. The film got decent reviews.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: X-Files: Fight the Future
CHRYSLER BUILDING LOVERS: Will Smith makes his leap into the '60s from one of the gargoyles at the top of the Chrysler Building.
NEXT: A Town Called Panic
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Four-Warned: May 2012
Posted on May 3, 2012 by carlosdev
Every month I'm going to look at every movie on the release schedule and try to assign them a numerical value corresponding to how anxious I am to see it. The lower the number, the more I want to see it. A one means I would walk through hell and high water to see it; a four means there's no interest whatsoever. The numbers are not arrived at scientifically but they aren't arbitrary either.
The numbers aren't a reflection of the artistic merit of any of these films, but merely a reflection of my willingness to go to a movie theater and see it. The top four scores will be gathered as a means of reflecting the movies I'm anticipating the most; you may use that as a guide or not.
Each entry is broken down as follows:
NAME OF FILM (Studio) Genre A brief description of the plot. Release plans: Wide = Everywhere, Limited = In selected markets. RATING A brief comment
Keep in mind that release dates are extremely subject to change, even at this late date.
FOUR TO SEE
1. MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS (1.0)
2. MEN IN BLACK 3 (1.4)
3. THE CHERNOBYL DIARIES (1.8)
4. DARK SHADOWS (1.9)
FOUR TO SEEK OUT (FILMS NOT IN WIDE RELEASE)
1. THE INTOUCHABLES (1.2)
2. POLISSE (1.3)
3. DEATH OF A SUPERHERO (1.5)
4. 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (1.6)
TIE. HYSTERIA (1.6)
RATING SYSTEM: 1) Must-see, 2) Should-see, 3) Perhaps-see, 4) Don't-see
A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN (Millennium) Genre: Romance. An irreverent young woman with health issues falls in love with her doctor. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.3 Sounds like a lot of different movies, but this one has the great Peter Dinklage in it.
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (Fox Searchlight) Genre: Dramedy. Seven English retirees lured to an Indian resort with the promise of posh amenities arrive to find it not quite ready for occupancy. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.2 Looks charming and fun from the trailer with a solid cast.
DEATH OF A SUPERHERO (Tribeca) Genre: Drama. A young boy with a brilliant future as a graphic novelist discovers his life is in danger from a real life enemy. Release Strategy: Seattle only. RATING: 1.5 Andy Serkis is rapidly becoming one of my favorite actors; I hope this sees a more general or at least a limited release.
FIRST POSITION (IFC) Genre: Documentary. Filmmakers follow six young ballet hopefuls through the trials and tribulations of one of America's most prestigious ballet competitions. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.7 Kids chasing their dreams in the arts; haven't we seen this before?
JANNAT 2 (FIP) Genre: Crime Thriller. A streetwise gun runner infiltrates a vicious gun smuggling ring to help the cops take it down but when he falls in love with a beautiful doctor everything is thrown into chaos. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.0 Trailer was a little disjointed; kinda looks cheesy.
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS (Participant/ATO) Genre: Documentary. Looks at the very real and grim possibility that in the not too distant future there may not be enough water to sustain life on this planet. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.9 Looks very grim and haunting.
LOL (Lionsgate) Genre: Dramedy. A mother reads her daughter's diary and realizes she doesn't know her at all. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.8 Nice cast but a little bit heavy on the teen angst.
MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS (Disney/Marvel) Genre: Superhero. The world's most powerful heroes must take on an alien invasion led by a disgraced god. Release Strategy: Wide (Standard, 3D, IMAX 3D). RATING: 1.0 Long anticipated, finally here.
MEETING EVIL (Magnet) Genre: Thriller. A depressed unemployed family man offers to help a stranger with his car and becomes involved in a murder spree. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.4 They had me at Samuel L. Jackson.
MOTHER'S DAY (Gigapix) Genre: Horror. A sadistic mom and her bank robbing sons take control at a birthday party held at their former home, terrorizing the new residents. Release Strategy: Wide. RATING: 2.9 I don't think this has anything to do with the 80s slasher film of the same name.
THE PERFECT FAMILY (Variance) Genre: Drama. A matriarch up for the Catholic Woman of the Year award tries to get her dysfunctional family to pull it together. Release Strategy: New York City (Opens in Los Angeles May 11). RATING: 2.2 Kathleen Turner gives what looks to be a marvelous performance.
PATIENCE: AFTER SEBALD (Cinema Guild) Genre: Documentary. A group of artists and writers interpret the work of W.G. Sebald, one of the 20th century's most challenging writers. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 3.8 Black and white images and music pass by while the text is being read; just shoot me now.
A BAG OF HAMMERS (MPI Media Group) Genre: Caper Drama. A pair of charming con artists find themselves "adopted" by a neglected young boy and consequently their world view begins to change. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.7 Looks very indie but not in a good way.
THE CUP (Myriad) Genre: True Sports Drama. A rising star in the Australian horse racing world must decide whether to participate in the prestigious Melbourne Cup race days after his brother dies in a tragic accident. Release Strategy: Los Angeles only. RATING: 2.8 Even though this put goosebumps on me, I still couldn't help thinking "Gee, another inspirational sports story."
DANGEROUS ISHHQ (Reliance Big Picture) Genre: Thriller. A supermodel whose wealthy industrialist boyfriend has been kidnapped must rescue him before time runs out – and the clues to his freedom lay in her past lives. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.0 Not typical Bollywood fare but definitely shows some visual flair.
DARK SHADOWS (Warner Brothers) Genre: Gothic Comedy. A vampire is inadvertently released from captivity in the 1970s after centuries of imprisonment. Release Strategy: Wide (Standard, IMAX). RATING: 1.9 The legendary 60s gothic soap opera as reinvented by Tim Burton – what's not to love?
DRAGON EYES (After Dark Action) Genre: Action. A town ruled by gangs and corrupt police vie for the services of a newly arrived martial arts phenom, but he has another agenda in mind. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.7 While it does have the great JCVD, the trailer makes him look like more of a cameo and the film like a B movie Walking Tall clone.
EL GRINGO (After Dark Action) Genre: Action. A violent thief crosses the border into Mexico with his ill-gotten gains, intending to live out his life on a beach with the rest of it but the townspeople have other ideas. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.9 Certainly a riff on El Mariachi but why not take from the best?
GIRL IN PROGRESS (Pantelion) Genre: Coming of Age. A single mom immersed in her career and in the affections of a co-worker fails to notice her own teen daughter's move into adulthood. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.9 The tagline "Lessons in motherhood – taught by a kid" sure doesn't help this movie's cause any.
GOD BLESS AMERICA (Magnet) Genre: Black Comedy. A man, tired of rudeness, crudeness and the cult of personality goes on a killing spree aided by an eager teen. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.0 Caught Bobcat Goldthwait's latest at the Florida Film Festival – read my review here.
HICK (Phase 4) Genre: Dramedy. A small town girl with big dreams hitchhiking to Las Vegas runs into some shady characters on the way there. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.9 Sounds like a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Neal Cassady.
I WISH (Magnolia) Genre: Drama. A young Japanese boy separated from his brother by divorce dreams of a miracle that he believes will happen when bullet trains on a new line pass each other at full speed. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.7 From acclaimed director Hirokazu Kareeda comes this look at fractured families and faith.
NESTING (Steele) Genre: Romantic Comedy. A 30-something couple, fearing the loss of their relevance, squats in their old apartment with unforeseen consequences. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.3 Kind of like John Hughes in reverse.
THE PHILLY KID (After Dark Action) Genre: Action. A former wrestling champion, fresh out of prison, takes up underground MMA fighting to help his best friend get out of debt and winds up in more trouble than he bargained for. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.9 Another *yawn* underground fighting movie.
PORTRAIT OF WALLY (Seventh Art) Genre: Documentary. Egon Schiele's painting Portrait of Wally, the pride of the Leopold Gallery in Austria, becomes the focus of a legal battle which brings light to bear on Nazi art looting and the ramifications of private collectors vs. public museums. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 2.6 A very complex case that deserves a serious examination which I hope this documentary gives it.
THE ROAD (Freestyle) Genre: Horror. When a cold case of three teenagers who disappeared on a country road is re-examined, it's discovered that there is more to that stretch of road than meets the eye. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.2 Looks deliciously creepy and sensationally scary.
SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Tribeca) Genre: Crime Thriller. A previously honest cop steals a bag of cocaine from a vicious drug dealer who kidnaps his son and demands the drugs back in exchange. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.8 Looks like a non-stop top notch action film.
SMALL BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS (Long Shot Factory) Genre: Comedy. An anxious pregnant technophile goes on a road trip to meet her technophobic mom. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 2.0 The trailer has some wonderful heart; this is inspired by the syndicated web series "Sparks."
STASH HOUSE (After Dark Action) Genre: Suspense. A family moves into a new home only to discover that a stash of heroin is stored in its walls – and the criminals want it back. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.5 Generic home/fortress action flick.
TONIGHT YOU'RE MINE (Roadside Attractions) Genre: Romantic Comedy. During a big music festival, a star performer is handcuffed to a brand new performer. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.8 Could have an excess of indie preciousness.
TRANSIT (After Dark Action) Genre: Action. A man returns home after serving out a tax evasion sentence goes on a camping trip to reunite his family, but discovers that they are being pursued by four ruthless killers after the stolen money they hid in his family's car. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.6 Jim Caviezel is moving higher on my list after his work on "Person of Interest" this year.
UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (A&E Indie) Genre: Musical Documentary. Paul Simon in making the album Graceland defied a UN ban to work with South African artists; 25 years later he returns to South Africa and discusses the fallout of his actions. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.9 Has the potential to examine an art vs. politics question that rarely gets examined.
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (Sony Classics) Genre: Dramedy. A group of women in a Lebanese village of Muslims and Christians try to hold on to peace when tensions threaten to bring violence back to the village. Release Strategy: New York City/Los Angeles. RATING: 2.0 Charming and heartrending at once.
THE DICTATOR (Paramount) Genre: Comedy. A heavy-handed dictator of an Arab nation goes to New York City to address the UN. Release Strategy: Wide. RATING: 3.0 I've never really been a big fan of Sacha Baron Cohen but this one looks like it could have potential.
ELENA (Zeitgeist) Genre: Thriller. A golddigging Russian wife hatches a scheme to maintain her inheritance. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 2.2 Looks veritably Hitchcockian and the Philip Glass score doesn't hurt.
AMERICAN ANIMAL (Screen Media) Genre: Fantasy. A young man whose roommate is moving out tries to get him to stay in one night of partying. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 3.3 From the trailer, seems to promote the idea that crazy is better. Crazy is just crazy.
BATTLESHIP (Universal) Genre: Science Fiction. Naval vessels are trapped in an ocean-based alien invasion. Release Strategy: Wide. RATING: 2.8 Alien invasion films have been remarkably bad of late; this doesn't seem to be much better based on what I've seen.
BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (Magnet) Genre: Sci-Fi Mystery. A young woman in the 1980s undergoes experimental therapy that opens up new vistas but threatens her sanity. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.9 Looks a bit avant garde.
CROOKED ARROWS (Freestyle Releasing) Genre: Sports Drama. A coach at a primarily Native American school leads the lacrosse team to a State championship game against their prep school rivals. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.8 Meant to be an allegory on the treatment of aboriginals in South America.
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (Goldwyn) Genre: Documentary. The story of one of fashion's most influential figures of the 20th century. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.9 As I've said before, fashion is a subject that I'm absolutely not interested in.
FOLLOW ME: THE YONI NETANYAHU STORY (International Film Circuit) Genre: Documentary. The tale of the young soldier who led the Israeli commandos on the Raid on Entebbe. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 2.5 Sounds kind of interesting but at the same time maybe has a bit of an agenda.
HYSTERIA (Sony Classics) Genre: Romantic Comedy. The story of the guy who invented the vibrator, a man whom many lonely housewives should bless. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.6 Looks hysterically funny (pun intended) and has a great cast.
LOVELY MOLLY (Image) Genre: Thriller. A young newlywed returns to her childhood home only to have the memories of her past abuse creep back – and maybe something else as well. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.3 The newest from The Blair Witch Project director Eduardo Sanchez – but it's nothing like that film.
MANSOME (Paladin) Genre: Documentary. Morgan Spurlock takes a look at modern male grooming in the age of metrosexuality. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.6 The newest from the suddenly prolific Morgan Spurlock looks kind of irreverent and fun.
POLISSE (Sundance Selects) Genre: Drama. This intense Cesar-nominated film follows the daily lives of the police Child Protection Unit in Paris. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.3 Gritty, heartbreaking, intense and funny – could be one of the best films of the year judging from the trailer.
THE SAMARITAN (IFC) Genre: Action. A grifter trying to make a new life after a 25-year prison stint is ensnared by his old life. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.0 With Samuel M*****F****** L. Jackson in the house, that's all I need to hear.
VIRGINIA (EOne) Genre: Drama. A single mom's life gets harder when her affair with the married sheriff threatens to become exposed in an election year. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.3 Looks kinda offbeat but with Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly in the cast, you can't go wrong.
WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU'RE EXPECTING (Lionsgate) Genre: Romantic Comedy. Five couples discover that their lives become much more complicated once they get pregnant. Release Strategy: Wide. RATING: 2.8 A strong ensemble cast but looks kinda weak in the humor department.
THE CHERNOBYL DIARIES (Warner Brothers) Genre: Horror. A group of "extreme tourists" visit Chernobyl and when their van breaks down quickly discover that the town and plant aren't quite as deserted as they were led to believe. Release Strategy: Wide. RATING: 1.8 From the creators of the Paranormal Activity series this looks balls-out scary.
COWGIRLS 'N ANGELS (Goldwyn) Genre: Family. A little girl searching for her absent dad (a rodeo rider) is brought into the Sweethearts of the Rodeo after displaying skills as a trick rider. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 3.7 A little bit – shall we say – over-sweet.
HIDE AWAY (MMC Joule) Genre: Drama. A broken once-successful businessman tries to turn his life around by refurbishing a dilapidated boat in an idyllic seaside village. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 2.3 Sounds kinda maudlin but SXSW doesn't usually book maudlin.
THE INTOUCHABLES (Weinstein) Genre: Limited. A disabled French man develops an unexpected bond with his caregiver, an ex-con with an unusually upbeat attitude. Release Strategy: Limited. RATING: 1.2 A box office record-holder in France, this was a big hit at the recent Florida Film Festival.
MEN IN BLACK 3 (Columbia) Genre: Science Fiction. Agent J must go back in time and save Agent K and correct the time line or the Earth is doomed. Release Strategy: Wide (Standard, 3D, IMAX 3D). RATING: 1.4 Looks like one of the big hits of the summer.
MIGHTY FINE (Adopt) Genre: Dramedy. A man relocates his family from Brooklyn to New Orleans in the 1970s in search of a better life. Release Strategy: New York City/Los Angeles. RATING: 2.8 Why cast Chazz Palminteri as a Jewish man? Aren't there enough Jewish actors?
MOONRISE KINGDOM (Focus) Genre: Romantic Comedy. A New England town in 1965 is turned upside down when a pair of kids run away into the woods when a big storm is brewing. Release Strategy: New York City/Los Angeles. RATING: 3.0 Doesn't sound like a romantic comedy but with Wes Anderson in the director's chair anything can happen.
OSLO, AUGUST 31 (Strand) Genre: Thriller. An alcoholic gets a day pass out of rehab in order to go to a job interview in Oslo but the pressures of the day and of family and friends puts his sobriety in jeopardy. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 2.1 Looks like another home run from Norway.
5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Kino Lorber) Genre: Documentary. A documentarian and a farmer together decide to document five years in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Release Strategy: New York City only. RATING: 1.6 The title refers to five cameras during the course of the filming of the documentary that were shot or broken by Israeli soldiers.
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Sometimes we just look and seen something unusual, what take our attention and made think outside the box. Its could be unusual light or pattern of shade, or some colour and shape, leading lines or some repetition. Only you know what touch your soul, what speak with you, and what you want to capture.
I just show you one picture what i took today - its just pot with some flowers near my entrance door. But its not a flowers what took my attention, its a shades patterns on the concrete - game light and shadow. And I just wanted took camera in my hands and capture it.
Its always good to pay attention to details!
Other picture - nature on the beach. It was usual morning when I took kids on the beach. And was so nice fresh air and some smoky fog at the back. So I just feel I need capture this moment :) And you could also turn it into black and white conversation and get just magic atmosphere.
So what special for you? What make you feel better, happier, what speak to you? Just take camera and capture this moment, documenting history. Or just invite me over and I help you to capture these special moments!


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This article is from The Lethbridge Weekly Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, page 9. Saturday, July 16, 1938.
The HUMAN SIDE OF THE NEWS BY EDWIN C. HILL
Greatest Living American Inventor Working On Invention of Death Ray, With Which He Hopes to Be Able to Put a Stop to Wars.
To the moon with America's greatest living inventor, Nikola Tesla! Well, not precisely--though if Father Time were to grant Mr. Tesla another half century or so of life I, for one, wouldn't bet against the moon adventure under his eager auspices. The man has lived long and wrought greatly, and the keenest desire of his life is to live longer and materialize the dreams which haunt his scientist's imagination.
He is working now on an energy-transmitting device to project electrical waves to Lady Luna, waves of such potency and power that a tract of light as large, perhaps, as the state of Connecticut could be fixed momentarily upon the surface of the moon. If he lives long enough he will do it, and that's a fairly safe prediction, for Dr. Tesla has accomplished many marvels in his 82 years upon this earth.
His birthday fell on July 10, and found him in fair health for one of his years. It was 40 years ago, B.M. (Before Marconi), that Nikola Tesla predicted the coming of radio communication and sent electrical waves racing around the globe from high voltage generators.
Ship-Protecting Ray
Another dream of this truly great scientist is to perfect what we laymen might call a "Magic ray" which would protect ships from the mariner's greatest peril, fog, and bring them unfailingly to port. It might indeed--so far does his dream range out over the troubled field of human life--put an end to war. A magic ray so terrible, so powerful that raiding airplanes could not last one second above their designed victim of a city.
Mr. Tesla lives and dreams and works at a New York hotel and there, usually you may find him upon any proper business--amiable, charmingly conversational, intensely interesting with his glimpses of new marvels and promises of new world. He is the only American inventor with 750 basic patents to his credit--the only inventor who ever lived, so far as this writer knows, who ever explored so many fields with patented results to prove his rovings and wanderings. Half the civilized nations of the world have honored him with orders and medals.
Nikola Tesla is an Austrian. He was only 28 years old when he came from the University of Praha to enter the laboratory of the great Edison. That was the beginning of an amazing career. For more than 50 years he has been a man of magic. Full-fledged from his amazing brain have come marvel after marvel. He gave us the induction motor which made possible alternating electric current. He gave us innu-
merable indispensible electrical appliances. His imaginative mentality reaches out into the hereafter itself. He wonders if life cannot be recalled--as to whether a man electrocuted in the death chair could be restored to life by the application of an electrical current. He really thinks it could be done.
Message From Mars
It was 30 years ago, on Pike's Peak, that he is sure he plucked from the air at that 14,000-foot height signals from the planet Mars. Mr. Tesla believes, as the late Prof. Lawrence Lowell believed, that there are living, humanlike creatures on our nearest neighbor in the family of planets, and much more intelligently advanced than we are. He thinks that they have been trying for many centuries to reach our dull intelligences.
Now, at 82, Nikola Tesla is working not only on an apparatus to prove unfailing communication, to insure safety of ships, to locate hidden treasure and to determine the earth's physical constants, but also on a means to end war. Mr Tesla is reaching into the infinite to snatch a bolt of lightning for the salvation of mankind. It is to be the Tesla death beam--literally a lightning bolt. It will have such a terrific energy that a thousand invading airplanes could be sent earthward in flaming fragments within 10 heartbeats--annihilated. Two hundred thousand men, horse, foot and artillery crossing the border of a defending enemy could be dropped dead in their tracks.
Dr. Tesla will tell you--an you believe him--that it will summon a force, a weapon, which will be so irresistible that war will become sheer insanity.
Submarine warfare would be made impossible by the Tesla death beam. One human being, sitting in a glass tower, gently pressing a forefinger on an ivory button, could hurl a lightning bolt hundreds of miles out to sea and 200 feet below the surface, to destroy in one blinding flash the lurking submarine.
With Dr. Tesla still dreaming and planning with youthful enthusiasm, there is not such thing as old age. At 82 his imagination reaches out for new worlds to conquer, and visions the day when we can put in a call for Mars and get an answer.

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Human Rights, Women, Globalization: Eurasia Review
Women represent nearly half the world's population yet confront inequities that include dowry requirements, female infanticide and sex-elected abortions as well as with health, poverty, education and domestic violence. Women should understand that globalization favors self-reliant and self-regulated economic enterprises, suggests Rajkumar Singh, a professor of political science. Securing human rights requires an understanding, and development of the concept differs in eastern and western cultures, emerging from religious, social, philosophical and economic codes of conduct to counter oppression. Singh categorizes human rights: a first generation of classical political and civil rights, a second generation of socioeconomic rights, and a third generation emerging from "the worldwide anti-imperial movement in different parts of the world" that "includes cultural rights, environmental rights, right to development, minority rights." Societies, including women, are in an unending battle against persecution and injustice. – YaleGlobal
Women, in an unending battle against persecution and injustice, must note that globalization favors self-reliant and self-regulated economic enterprises
Rajkumar Singh
Read the article from Eurasia Review about women's human rights.
Rajkumar Singh, PhD, is professor and head of the P.G. Department of Political Science, BNMU, West Campus P.G. Centre, Saharsa, Bihar, India.
Gender and human rights: The UN developed a minimum set of indicators organized by economic structures and access to resources, education, health, public life and human rights of women and children (Source: UN Statistics, 2019)
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Warm Winter Weather Seen Hurting Greece's Most Prized Olive Oil
(Photo by Eurokinissi/Tatiana Bollari)
ATHENS – Renowned for its quality – one brand just won the award for the world's best, and the next three spots – Greece's "green gold," extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) crop could face a downturn because the winter has been too warm so far.
Temperatures have regularly hovered around 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) which isn't favorable to the crop and Olive Oil Times said that during an otherwise bounty and an expected yield of 300,000 tons, the weather is bringing worry.
"The harvest has been delayed due to the weather conditions and the lack of workers," said Yiorgos Kokkinos, a producer from Messenia in southern Peloponnese, one of the regions best known for its olive oil and olives.
"However, the weather has not cooled off yet, and the existing high humidity helps the gloeosporium and the fruit fly thrive," Kokkinos added.
"All these have an impact on the quality of the olive oils, with the acidity levels ranging from 0.8 to 1 in the last few days. I see that high-quality olive oils are reducing, something that will eventually bring a rise in prices."
That was in reference as well to the insect proliferating in some areas of the country during the summer that led to crop-dusting operations, especially in parts of Crete and the Peloponnese on the mainland, the site said earlier.
Hopes by Greek olive oil producers for a big crop and prices passing 4.50 euros ($4.83) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the extra virgin quality were being jolted by the threat of the olive fruit fly.
In the region of Ilia in western Peloponnese, the fly has been detected primarily in coastal producing areas and small olive groves, according to the local department of agriculture, the report added.
That was believed because of a combination of temperature and humidity prevailing in the area and brought a warning to producers to take measures to protect their expected bounty.
Greece exports nearly $39 million worth of olive oil, ranking it third in the world, but most of that goes to Italy, which re-brands it as Italian and Greek producers don't market their own brands worldwide aggressively.
Producers across the country are accustomed to colder weather this time of the year, the site said, because it keeps humidity levels low and prevents olive pests from emerging to wreak havoc.
On Crete, where the harvest is halfway through, the higher-than-usual temperatures have also spread anxiety among olive oil producers.
"The fact that it is hot and it doesn't rain is bad," said Vagelis Protogerakis, the head of the producers association of Heraklion. "The fruit fly is present and causes some damage. I hope that the weather will change so that we have no further problems."


NIO ES8 comes to compete Tesla Model X in half price. Electric vehicle startup headquartered in Shanghai on Saturday held ES8 electric SUV debut as the first car at a price of 448,000 yuan (US$67,788) in high performance, seven seats and connectivity technology.
"Tesla is a company founded in the Internet age while NIO was born in the era of mobile internet. Smartphone and applications play a bigger role in the daily life of society, giving us the opportunity to revolutionize the automotive industry," said NIO founder and CEO William Li, in Beijing.
The startup set up in 2014 earned excellent funding by Chinese technology giants such as Tencent Holdings, Baidu and Xiaomi. ES8 is sold in Beijing at a price of US$67,788 before a subsidy where Tesla Model X is popular in mainland China starting at US$128,000 after import duty.
NIO will also compete other Chinese startups such as Xiaopeng Motors Technology which will hit the market soon with its first product being the Xpeng Identy X SUV. These companies are delivering electric vehicles and accentuate internet connectivity and new technologies.
China is the largest outo market in the world and the government has determined to stop petrol and diesel vehicles in an effort to reduce emissions where pollution has choked big cities and strategies to reduce dependence on imported oil.
The ES8 features an automatic emergency-assistance and emergency braking system. Also an AI system called NOMI to regulate temperature, take photos and play music on voice requests. NIO Power allows swapping ES8 batteries in three minutes at more than 1,100 stations by 2020.
In November NIO raised US$1 billion of funding led by Tencent to enter the mass production stage. NIO claims to be a global startup with more than 4,000 employees in 40 countries and has a production capacity of 100,000 units per year in collaboration with JAC Motors.


15.2m Americans had confidential personal and financial information compromised last year.
A vast database maintained by the US Government's Department of Health and Human Services records every major data breach by a health clinic, doctor, dentist or hospital since 2009. Each entry chronicles how 500 or more confidential records were compromised in a single breach.
You will find stories of stolen laptops, leaked paper records, hackers stealing data and employees accessing and disclosing information that should have been beyond their reach - often by accident.
But those confidential records contain personal and financial information with a Dark Web market value that far exceeds stolen passwords and usernames.
So, researchers at data loss prevention specialists Safetica USA have explored the database to reveal the key findings across the United States last year.
There are two basic ways of looking at which states were worst affected by data breaches last year: by the number of cases, and by the number of individual records compromised. When it comes to the highest number of cases, the list of the worst-hit states closely follows population.
Overall, the number of major breaches across the US increased last year to its highest level on record: 318 cases in 2016 compared to 270 in 2015.
California, New York, Texas, Florida and Illinois were also the five worst affected states in 2015.
A slightly different top 10 emerges if you look at the number of records compromised. A single hacking incident suffered by Banner Health revealed last summer affected 3.7m people and pushed Arizona to the top of the list.
However, six US states avoided major healthcare data breaches last year, according to the database. That's not to say they were immune from data loss - just that healthcare organizations in these states did not experience a breach of 500 records or more.
A further seven states only suffered one case each in 2016: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
Headlines make you think that hacking is the biggest problem. But the dataset paints a different picture: the biggest threat to data comes from inside an organization.
Unauthorized access and disclosure by insiders was also the biggest cause of data loss in 2015 - followed by theft of paper records or electronic devices like laptops, smartphones or external memory drives.
Safetica's forecast suggests that 2017 is likely to be a record year for cases - unless there are significant changes in the healthcare sector.
But ask healthcare practitioners why they entered their profession the chances are they won't say "to manage IT". Their mission and vocation is providing the best possible medical care and patient outcomes.
There's technology in the marketplace right now that can mitigate the primary risk of healthcare breaches: insider errors and misjudgments.
However, the best technology doesn't't place a heavy burden on staff to learn new processes, adopt new workflows and tailor their activity to a system. It's intuitive.
Audit data security. Data tends to flow around an organization and into places you never intended it to go. That means files being saved onto laptops, attached to emails, even uploaded to the cloud rather than being stored securely. The first step is to work with an auditing partner who can assess where data lives in a business, how it's being used, by whom and on what device. The audit is the first step to understanding weak points in internal processes and working practices that needed to be strengthened.
Implement a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution. There's no better way to mitigate the risk of data leaks than limiting access to confidential files – and preventing those files from being saved or sent places they shouldn't't go. That means having a technical barrier in place that prevents documents from being saved to external drives, screenshots being cut-and-pasted into emails, or data being uploaded to cloud storage or file sharing services. That's precisely what DLP does.
Advocate security with contractors and partners. Every organization is part of a network of suppliers and partners. The Department of Health & Human Services is expecting business "associates" of healthcare providers to demonstrate data-safe working practices. You should expect that too.
So, whether it's an IT contractor, marketing agency, maintenance or facilities service, healthcare providers should demand the highest standards of data security from their partners. The end of one year and the start of the next is the perfect time to check.
So, what will happen in 2017?
This time next year, what story will the dataset tell?
More cases? Our forecast suggests the number of cases will top 325 across the United States next year.
Will the insider threat continuing to grow?
It's within the power of healthcare organizations to write their own end to that tale.


The Principles of Supervision DSST exam covers the material that would typically be taught in an undergraduate introductory course on management or supervision. InstantCert's course for this subject is a general overview of the field of management with special attention to each of the five functions of management, which is what the majority of the actual exam will focus on.
Supervisors are responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and ______________ the work of employees.
The following exams have a significant amount of overlap with the Principles of Supervision exam, so you should consider taking them back-to-back or studying for them at the same time:.


We are evaluating using Optimizely on our Community page but would like to better understand how Optimizely is protecting personal identifiable information (PII) that might be captured during experiments.
Does it capture any private information at all?
Maybe there's even a documentation somewhere out there I can use to please our data protection guys?
Great question. We don't store any PII by default so unless you forceably add something that sends PII to us, there's nothing to worry about. Please feel free to check out https://www.optimizely.com/security for more information, and let us know if you have any further questions!
Thank you, Bonnie. That looks like exactly what I was hoping for and even more.


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Q: Password Reset Confirm don`t work After successful password reset (first step) I have message in my email with next redirect link to next step:

127.0.0.1:8000/en/account/password-reset-confirm/NA-4ei-53e725f1ba4cbfc54fb8/

Unfortunately I always have this Message in password_reset_confirm.html template:

The password reset link was invalid, possibly because it has already
  been used. Please request a new password reset.

Question: Whats wrong I did?!

urls.py
    url(r'^password-reset/$',
        ResetPasswordRequestView.as_view(),
        name="reset_password"),
    url(r'^password-reset-confirm/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P<token>.+)/$',
        PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(),
        name='reset_password_confirm'),

views.py
class ResetPasswordRequestView(FormView):
    template_name = "registration/password_reset.html"
    success_url = '/account/password-reset'
    form_class = PasswordResetRequestForm

    @staticmethod
    def validate_email_address(email):
        try:
            validate_email(email)
            return True
        except ValidationError:
            return False

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        form = self.form_class(request.POST)
        try:
            if form.is_valid():
                data = form.cleaned_data["email_or_username"]
            if self.validate_email_address(data) is True:
                associated_users = User.objects.filter(Q(email=data) | Q(username=data))
                if associated_users.exists():
                    for user in associated_users:
                        c = {
                            'email': user.email,
                            'domain': request.META['HTTP_HOST'],
                            'site_name': _('Requirements Management System'),
                            'uid': urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)),
                            'user': user,
                            'token': default_token_generator.make_token(user),
                            'protocol': 'http',
                        }
                        subject_template_name = 'registration/password_reset_subject.txt'
                        email_template_name = 'registration/password_reset_email.html'
                        subject = loader.render_to_string(subject_template_name, c)
                        subject = ''.join(subject.splitlines())
                        email = loader.render_to_string(email_template_name, c)
                        send_mail(subject, email, DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, [user.email], fail_silently=False)
                    result = self.form_valid(form)
                    messages.success(request, 'An email has been sent to ' +
                                     data + ". Please check its inbox to continue reseting password.")
                    return result
                result = self.form_invalid(form)
                messages.error(request, _('No user is associated with this email address'))
                return result
            else:
                associated_users = User.objects.filter(username=data)
                if associated_users.exists():
                    for user in associated_users:
                        c = {
                            'email': user.email,
                            'domain': '127.0.0.1:8000',
                            'site_name': _('Requirements Management System'),
                            'uid': urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)),
                            'user': user,
                            'token': default_token_generator.make_token(user),
                            'protocol': 'http',
                        }
                        subject_template_name = 'registration/password_reset_subject.txt'
                        email_template_name = 'registration/password_reset_email.html'
                        subject = loader.render_to_string(subject_template_name, c)
                        # Email subject *must not* contain newlines
                        subject = ''.join(subject.splitlines())
                        email = loader.render_to_string(email_template_name, c)
                        send_mail(subject, email, DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, [user.email], fail_silently=False)
                    result = self.form_valid(form)
                    messages.success(request, 'Email has been sent to ' +
                                     data + "'s email address. Please check its inbox to continue reseting password.")
                    return result
                result = self.form_invalid(form)
                messages.error(request, _('This username does not exist in the system.'))
                return result
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)
        return self.form_invalid(form)

class PasswordResetConfirmView(FormView):
    template_name = "registration/password_reset_confirm.html"
    success_url = '/account/password-reset-confirm/'
    form_class = SetPasswordForm

    def post(self, request, uidb64=None, token=None, *arg, **kwargs):
        UserModel = get_user_model()
        form = self.form_class(request.POST)
        assert uidb64 is not None and token is not None
        try:
            uid = urlsafe_base64_decode(uidb64)
            user = UserModel._default_manager.get(pk=uid)
        except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, UserModel.DoesNotExist):
            user = None

        if user is not None and default_token_generator.check_token(user, token):
            if form.is_valid():
                new_password = form.cleaned_data['new_password2']
                user.set_password(new_password)
                user.save()
                messages.success(request, 'Password has been reset.')
                return self.form_valid(form)
            else:
                messages.error(request, 'Password reset has not been unsuccessful.')
                return self.form_invalid(form)
        else:
            messages.error(request, 'The reset password link is no longer valid.')
            return self.form_invalid(form)

forms.py
class PasswordResetRequestForm(forms.Form):
    email_or_username = forms.CharField(required=True,
                                        widget=TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': _('Email address or Username')}))

class SetPasswordForm(forms.Form):
    error_messages = {
        'password_mismatch': _("The two password fields didn't match."),
    }
    new_password1 = forms.CharField(
        widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'placeholder': _('Enter your new password')}))
    new_password2 = forms.CharField(
        widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'placeholder': _('Enter your new password one more time')}))

    def clean_new_password2(self):
        first_password = self.cleaned_data.get('new_password1')
        second_password = self.cleaned_data.get('new_password2')
        if first_password and second_password:
            if first_password != second_password:
                raise forms.ValidationError(self.error_messages['password_mismatch'], code='password_mismatch')
        return second_password

password_reset.html
            <form action="." class="form" method="post">
                    {% csrf_token %}
                    {{ form.email_or_username }}
                    <button type="submit" class="button">Send e-mail</button>
            </form>

A: I was facing the same problem then I removed the custom ResetPasswordRequestView view and used the default one given by django framework. All you need to do is create a template of named registration/password_reset.html and write url like below:
from django.contrib.auth import view as auth_view
url(r'^password-reset/$', auth_view.ResetPasswordRequestView.as_view(),{'template_name':'registration/password_reset.html'} name="reset_password")

You can do the same for other urls also.You can find the code of ResetPasswordRequestView that we are calling. here

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Russia's navy will incorporate a large amphibious assault ship, known as the Ivan Gren, into its fleet as early as next week, according to Russian state media.
The warship can carry 13 main battle tanks—or 36 armored personnel carriers—and up to 300 marines. It also has two Kamov Ka-29 attack helicopters, and it is expected to be ready for service by June 20 after years of trials and testing.
"The large landing ship will have the capacity to transport 300 troops, up to 13 main battle tanks or a maximum of 20 medium vehicles such as armored personnel carriers and fighting vehicles, or up to 30 trucks," a recent report on naval technology said.
"The vessel can support the operation of a single Kamov Ka-29 (NATO reporting name: Helix-B) military transport helicopter from the landing spot at the stern of the hull. The landing pad is integrated with optical facilities for allowing the take-off and landing of a helicopter weighing up to 12t. The ship will also provide hangar facility for embarked rotorcraft," the report continued.
Russia's navy has long been criticized for being an aging throwback to the Soviet era. But as tensions with the West begin to ramp up, Moscow has started investing more into its fleet. Some experts said that the Russian navy, although less technologically advanced than the U.S. Navy, plays an important strategic role in supporting Moscow's formidable ground troops. A doctrine signed in 2017 also lays out plans for Russia to maintain its position as the world's second most important naval power.
In response, the U.S. has also started ramping up its naval forces and extending their reach. In May, the U.S. announced that it would re-establish a fleet in the North Atlantic Ocean that had been abolished seven years earlier. The decision was made expressly to combat Russia's revanchist tendencies in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
In late 2017, the U.S. Navy expressed concern that Russia may be patrolling the North Atlantic Ocean to plan ways to cut or tamper with underwater Internet cables for espionage purposes.
Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are also paying attention to Russia's navy. Last month, 30 NATO member countries held simulated naval exercises in which they combated a foe that looked a lot like Russia.
In general, the U.S. Navy continues to be larger than the Russian navy and has better resources. The U.S. Navy has around 20 aircraft carriers, for example, while the Russian navy has just one. The Russian navy has around 62 submarines, whereas the U.S. Navy possesses 66. The U.S. Navy fleet consists of around 430 ships, including the immense Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which stretches more than 1,000 feet and recently landed in Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War.


from September 3 to 6, 9 a.m. – 13 p. m. – receipt of a welcome packet.
- Individual sightseeing of Cracow, museums and exhibitions.
- participation in all workshops and painting presentations.
- Opening ceremony and vernissage – 21st ECWS International Symposium Cracow 2018, The Palace of Arts in Cracow, Plac Szczepański 4 – at 6 p.m.
- Meeting in "Morskie Oko" restaurant (Pl. Szczepański 8) with regional music, at 8 p.m.
- Visiting the Salt Mine Wieliczka.
- Lunch in the salt chambers.
- Sightseeing tour through the nearby cities, painting outdoor.
- Return to Kraków from 8 pm to 9 pm.
Receipt of painting paper – 9 am – 11 am - Pl. Szczepański 6.
Submission of competition works – 2 pm – 4 pm - Pl. Szczepański 6.
- Meeting of Presidents ECWS and liaison officers – 2 pm City Hall in Kraków – Pl. Wszystkich Świętych 3 – 4.
- Post-competition exhibition – competition results.
- Official closing of the Symposium.
Thanks to the kindness of the Directorate of the National Museum in Krakow during the Symposium, we invite you to visit the permanent and temporary exhibitions of the National Museum in Krakow for free – from 4 to 9 September 2018.


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back	07.06.2018 Case Studies
For the first responders and those working in the emergency services, access to secure high-speed connectivity is critical.
Emergency services personnel often rely heavily on mobile internet access. However, limited network infrastructure, especially in rural and remote locations can affect speeds, reliability and access.
Project HYDRA, led by Avanti Communications, provides a secure 4G mobile network that is transportable and enables rapid deployment, whilst ensuring coverage, no matter the location. HYDRA provides a private and secure high-speed 4G overlay network anywhere in the UK. The project also supports 2G and 3G devices and as it's a completely transportable network, it can be deployed wherever it's required.
The service provides a complete small cell network that can operate in both standalone (private) or interconnected (roaming) modes. It has a range of up to 2km and can securely transmit data, make calls without interference and even locate disaster victims using the signal from their mobile phones. Avanti's High Throughput Satellite (HTS) link delivers end users with up to 60Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds and provides full coverage of the UK. This technology is highly transportable and quickly deployable, both of which are vital criteria for critical situations emergency services.
Project HYDRA was the world's first hybrid small cell technology combining the latest software and hardware to provide ubiquitous coverage of Ka-band satellite.
Staying ahead of the trade
Large areas of Kenya remain beyond the reach of reliable terrestrial broadband infrastructure. Businesses fortunate enough to have access to fibre still face connectivity challenges.
Secure government communication
Many organisations across Turkey have limited or no broadband connectivity, especially in rural areas.
Connecting ships across the North Sea
Woodsons of Aberden, a UK technology leader in the Maritime industry was looking for a cost-effective solution that would maintain secure data separation between ships operational data and passenger data.
Connecting South Africa's libraries
Many rural libraries across South Africa are used as community centres. However, due to the remote locations, the libraries experience limited network infrastructure.
Connecting Kenyan school children
In Kenya there are currently over 14 million school children in the education system.
Connected guests
Avanti enables The Lord Milner Hotel to receive always on, fast and reliable internet connectivity, which both staff and guests can use.


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Q: How to remove event listeners bound by external script I have 'black-box' type ASP framework, let's say I cannot modify it. But I can add HTML modules to it. I've made HTML module using AJAX for user logon and fetching data. The problem is I need to intercept submit event of the logon form. Then it has to call web service, return token and store it in a cookie before the page reloads.
First I need to stop the page from reloading. So I need to unbind events which cause the reload. But how? I don't have access to code which bound the events. It's not mine.
I was able to attach my own event handlers to submit button, login and password fields. They do their job - they start the AJAX request which should perform my logon procedure. Well, at least they try, because almost always my AJAX call is killed before it can finish, the page reloads, and my module has no token it should have by then. 1 in about 20 calls - it succeeds, so it looks like possible to do.
If there was a way to prevent page from reloading until the AJAX callback completes, it would probably be enough for it to work.
Is there absolutely no way of killing events which I din't bind in my code?

A: Well, I've found the way to achieve the goal without actually unbinding any events.
I needed to replace the form action attribute with '#', the same with special submit link href ('#'), and... DONE! After my AJAX call completes (or fails), it restores original hrefs and submits the naughty form.
So the question I asked was wrong - my fault. I needed to prevent a form from being submited and this is way easier than removing alien events!
TL;DR - kill hrefs first, then restore them :)


Thank you very much to all those that signed the statement. It's a really great list of 153 signatories from 24 different countries! The final statement and list of signatories is below and at http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/150-orgs-stand-french-repression-11117. Please share this link widely.
If you want to send along personal messages for the start of the trial tomorrow or over the next few days, this and other statements is being Tweeted out using the #solidariteprocesbds hashtag. Updates about how the trial and demonstration outside go will be posted on the same hashtag and on the BDSmovement.net website.
June 26 2013 – As more than 150 Palestine solidarity and social justice organizations from across the world, we stand in solidarity with all of the French campaigners for Palestinian rights facing legal action and repression for participating in demonstrations calling for a boycott of Israel.
In all of these cases, campaigners have been charged with "incitement, provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence against a person or group of persons, due to their ethnicity, race, religion or nation" following their participation in actions at supermarkets calling for a boycott of Israeli goods.


About 8 hours and tickets from 46 €: a train journey from Potenza a Turin is cheap and comfortable. You can count on 42 daily rides to get from Potenza to Turin: trains leave every 20 minutes on average. Trains leave from Potenza Centrale and arrive at Torino Porta Nuova and Torino Porta Susa. The railway company you will travel with is Trenitalia.
A train ticket from Potenza to Turin costs 74 € on average, but it's possible to find low cost tickets from 46 €, too. On Wanderio you can find the best Trenitalia deals for your train journey from Potenza to Turin. The best way to save money on your train trip is booking your tickets a few weeks in advance, so that you can benefit from all the Trenitalia promotions for the route Potenza - Turin. Trenitalia tickets start from 46 €. If you need a train ticket Potenza Turin this week, prices start from 7 € to a maximum price of 137 €. When booking your train ticket a few weeks in advance though, you can find low cost trains from Potenza to Turin with fares starting from 10 €.
Train journeys from Potenza to Turin take about 11 hours on average. If you travel with Trenitalia from Potenza to Turin there are 42 daily connections that will take you to your destination in about 11 hours. On Wanderio you can easily find all train schedules from Potenza to Turin. The first train from Potenza to Turin leaves at 05:40, whereas the last departure on working days is at 21:12.
On Wanderio you can easily buy train tickets from Potenza to Turin. With just one search you will find all train schedules for the day you selected, making it easy to book the option that suits you better. For on-the-go bookings (and to have tickets Potenza to Turin always at hand) download the free Wanderio App for iOS and Android.
Traveling by train is often easier than traveling by bus or flight, especially with high-speed trains, and it's rather cheap, too! Anyways, in order to benefit from Trenitalia promotions we suggest to book your tickets far in advance. Not sure what's the best way to get from Turin to Potenza? On Wanderio you can find alternative ways as well - compare high-speed trains buses, flights and choose the best option with just one click.


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Q: Themeroller for Jquery is messing up my images I am just testing out the themeroller thus threw in random colors to tryout the appearance. It seems to messy up the structure and now my images are kind of stacked onto one another. I have attached the link codes and images to refer. Please advice what I am doing wrong. Thank you.
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="newTheme.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile.structure-1.4.2.min.css" />
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.2/jquery.mobile-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"/>

How it looked prior to using themeroller:

After Using themeroller:

The random set up of the theme roller:

New Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="newTheme.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile.structure-1.4.2.min.css" />
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile-1.4.2.min.js"></script>

New image after the change in code:


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A501 bzw. A 501 bezeichnet folgende Straßen:
 Autobahn 501 (Belgien)
 Autoroute A501 in Frankreich
 A501 road in London

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A simple Sami Life
Quite a lot of people ask me about the spelling of tipi and why we spell it like we do. Well, the reason is because of where they are from- the far North of Sweden. They are Nordic tipis spelt the Nordic way, as opposed to a North American teepee. Having said this, and to clear up any more confusion, a tipi and a teepee is essentially the same thing- iconic tents that have been bringing people together for centuries, just from different continents.
Anyway, I thought I'd write a little a bit about the Nordic background of our tipis, why it's so important to what we do, and why we have chosen these tipis in particular.
It all started in the far North of Sweden, not far from the Arctic Circle, in the village of Moskosel. It was here that the idea to transform an ancient dwelling into a modern day super-sized event tent was thought up, and the idea came from a chap called Benght Grahn.
Benght was on a canoe trip in Lapland with a group of friends when he had his lightbulb moment. After a long day paddling the icy waters all he wanted was to gather around a fire with his friends and share some food, drink and laughs, but the modern tents wouldn't allow for this. He quite simply thought that modern tents were too small and unsociable. They had lost their soul. It took a few years to build his confidence in the concept of a modern tipi but eventually he quit his job as a church warden and started to sew tipis!
Since then he has grown a huge business, manufacturing all sorts of tipis worldwide for the camping and events industry- a business known as Tentipi. Here at Buffalo we are proud to use Tentipi and are not only inspired by the tipis Benght has designed, but also by how he runs his business.
Last year I was honoured to be invited up to Moskosel by Tentipi to explore the tipi factory, meet the makers, and best of all experience life in a tipi in an arctic environment. It made me realise how important it was to really get to know our supplier and their products, and be able to spread the amazing story behind the amazing tent.
Despite being a huge multinational business Tentipi still has a deep connection to the the people and the land of Northern Sweden. This is what is so special about them, and on my visit I saw so many examples of it. The most obvious being that the main factory is still there in Moskosel with a team of wonderful women who still hand make the tipis. Their attention to detail was phenomenal and how happy they were to work there was inspiring. Take the business to the other side of the world and you'd think the story would be different. It's not. Even in their Chinese factory their employees have been encouraged to adopt a Swedish way of life. They work normal hours (which is probably less than us), get free transport to work, and enjoy a good salary. This is unheard of in a typically intense Chinese working culture. The business culture at Tentipi is so reassuring and refreshing!
Apart from visiting the factory to learn about the business culture we were also treated to a 3 day skidoo safari to immerse ourselves into the tipi culture. We headed out into the wilderness and slept in tipis for 2 nights, getting to see them in their real home- minus 20 degrees celsius and surrounded by snow. The Sami tribes of northern Sweden were the tipi pioneers in these parts and have been living in them for hundreds of years, and for 3 days we lived a simple Sami life (except for the beer and skidoos). We drilled holes in the ice and caught fish for dinner, met the Sami people themselves, slept on reindeer hides and stoked the fire through the night to keep the tipi warm. To top it off we watched the northern lights! I can imagine it was just what Benght had dreamt up many years ago when he imagined tipis being enjoyed by the modern explorer.
Naturally, with any success product, people follow. So now, other replica Nordic tipis are widely available. For me though, the original is always the best. It has had the love poured into it and the passion that I believe every business needs for a long and sustainable life. When you hire a tipi from us you don't just get the most advanced canvas technology, the strongest timber and a tipi engineered with incredible precision, but you also get a tipi with genuine history and a real story. It's a tipi that's been made by friendly people who we know get treated well and love their work, and we wouldn't want it any other way.


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Q: Update Custom Slider on Settings Update I'm creating a custom slider element for the WPBakery Page Builder plugin, as the built in carousels are not suitable for my purpose.
Everything works just fine except when I update the element settings, the slider disappears because the element is re-created in the DOM by removing the old HTML.
Here's the element code:
<?php
class WPBakery_Custom_Slider {
    /**
     * Setup class
     */
    public function __construct() {
        // Actions.
        add_action( 'vc_before_init', array( $this, 'custom_mapping' ) );

        // Shortcodes.
        add_shortcode( 'wpbakery_custom_slider', array( $this, 'shortcode' ) );
    }

    /**
     * Custom Mapping
     */
    public function custom_mapping() {
        vc_map( array(
            'name'             => __( 'Custom Slider', 'text-domain' ),
            'base'             => 'wpbakery_custom_slider',
            'description'      => __( 'The Custom Slider.', 'text-domain' ),
            'category'         => __( 'Content', 'text-domain' ),
            'icon'             => 'icon-wpb-carousel',
            'front_enqueue_js' => get_theme_file_uri( 'assets/js/wpbakery-page-builder.js' ),
            'params'           => array(
                ...
            ),
        ) );
    }

    /**
     * The element HTML
     *
     * @param array $atts Shortcode attributes.
     * @return string
     */
    public function shortcode( $atts ) {
        // Params extraction.
        ...

        ob_start();
        ?>

                ...

        <?php
        $html = ob_get_clean();

        return $html;
    }
}

And here's the wpbakery-page-builder.js file:
vc.events.on( 'shortcodes:wpbakery_custom_slider:update', function ( model ) {
    jQuery( document ).find( '.text-domain-wpb-custom-slider' ).customSlider();
} );

But when the event runs, it seems like the .text-domain-wpb-custom-slider does not exist. The variants I tried are:
vc.events.on( 'shortcodes:wpbakery_custom_slider:update', function ( model ) {
    jQuery( '.text-domain-wpb-custom-slider', document ).customSlider();
} );

And
vc.events.on( 'shortcodes:wpbakery_custom_slider:update', function ( model ) {
    setTimeout( function () {
        jQuery( '.text-domain-wpb-custom-slider', document ).customSlider();
    }, 1000 );
} );

All the above, when saving the settings of the element results in:
Uncaught TypeError: jQuery(...).customSlider is not a function

Because jQuery( '.text-domain-wpb-custom-slider', document ).length is zero even though there's a .text-domain-wpb-custom-slider in the DOM.
Any ideas of how to properly update a custom JavaScript-based element for WPBakery Page Builder/Visual Composer?

A: The problem is the scope of the document variable. It refers to the Builder edit page, not the page that needs to be edited (called model by WPBakery).
So here's the solution, use model.view.el instead of document to refer to the page:
vc.events.on( 'shortcodes:wpbakery_custom_slider:update', function ( model ) {
    setTimeout( function () {
        jQuery( model.view.el ).find( '.text-domain-wpb-custom-slider' ).customSlider();
    }, 1000 );
} );


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European Huawei and ZTE 5G ban would cost operators €55bn
By Steve McCaskill published 10 June 19
Leaked GSMA report reveals scale of impact
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A mobile industry report has claimed the widespread rollout of 5G across Europe could be delayed by up to 18 months and cost €55 million more than expected if operators are denied access to Chinese-made networking equipment.
Huawei, and to a lesser extent ZTE, command 40 per cent of the European telco equipment market but have effectively been frozen out of the US on national security grounds.
Last month, US firms were ordered to stop doing business with Huawei - a decision which has significant repercussions for the company's devices and networking divisions.
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Huawei has frequently denied any allegations that its products are a security risk, while the US government has produced no evidence of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, Washington is now urging allies to follow its lead and ban Huawei from their 5G deployments.
European operators have frequently voiced their opposition to any ban, arguing that excluding Huawei would result in decreased innovation and higher prices.
And now a report from the GSMA, seen by Reuters, has put a figure on the impact of such action.
"Half of this (additional cost) would be due to European operators being impacted by higher input costs following significant loss of competition in the mobile equipment market," the report supposedly reads.
"Additionally, operators would need to replace existing infrastructure before implementing 5G upgrades."
The UK has been carrying out its own assessment on the future role of Huawei in the UK's telecoms infrastructure. A report was expected to arrive in the Spring but has not yet materialised. Leaks suggested that operators will not be banned from using Huawei kit in the radio layer of their networks, but this has yet to be confirmed.
A separate report has claimed any ban would jeopardise the UK's position as a 5G leader by delaying the widespread availability of services by 18-24 months. This could cost the UK economy as much as £6.8 billion.
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Via Reuters
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Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids
H. S.V.S.Kumar Nunna, Dipti Srinivasan
The increasing population of microgrids with various kinds of plug and play energy resources and rapidly varying demand in distribution systems are multiplying the complexity involved in overall system management. This paper proposes an agent-based transactive energy management framework with a comprehensive energy management system (CEMS) as a solution to address the aggregated complexity induced by microgrids in distribution systems. In this framework, microgrids sell or buy the energy in transactive market, which is an inter-microgrid auction based electricity market, to manage the excess supply or residual demand. CEMS follows a dual phase energy management strategy. In the first stage local auxiliary resources such as demand response and distributed energy storage systems of the microgrids are optimally integrated into system operation to level off the forecasted energy imbalances in microgrids. In the latter stage, the operating configuration of the local auxiliary resources is adjusted in real time along with transactive energy to address the imbalances leftover in the former phase and the forecast errors. The efficacy of the proposed framework and CEMS is verified on a IEEE distribution test feeder system with microgrids.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2017.2679808
Demand response (DR)
smart distribution systems
transactive energy
Nunna, H. S. V. S. K., & Srinivasan, D. (2017). Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 13(5), 2241-2250. [7874097]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2017.2679808
Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids. / Nunna, H. S.V.S.Kumar; Srinivasan, Dipti.
In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 13, No. 5, 7874097, 01.10.2017, p. 2241-2250.
Nunna, HSVSK & Srinivasan, D 2017, 'Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 13, no. 5, 7874097, pp. 2241-2250. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2017.2679808
Nunna HSVSK, Srinivasan D. Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2017 Oct 1;13(5):2241-2250. 7874097. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2017.2679808
Nunna, H. S.V.S.Kumar ; Srinivasan, Dipti. / Multiagent-Based Transactive Energy Framework for Distribution Systems with Smart Microgrids. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2017 ; Vol. 13, No. 5. pp. 2241-2250.
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