CATS IN RIGA, Latvia, 2014, 15 min.
This view of the Latvian capital through cats' eyes and ears adds a new perspective on news reports. The camera focuses not on the human population, but on the felines in Riga's streets, houses and offices. While TV reports concentrate on the encroaching threat of Russia, the cats purr, sniff and yawn. There are cats in apartment blocks, government buildings and on the mayor's conference table. There are hordes of silent witnesses all over the place, looking like they're keeping a sharp eye on what's going on around them. The only sound that interrupts the constant background TV noise and the hum of humanity comes when a musical cat parades on piano keys. We visit a cat exhibition and a pet salon, and attend a commemoration service and a political gathering, but scenes in which a mouse is found or a dog has to be avoided seem more important. From highly original camera angles we see a leaky shower providing a challenge to a thirsty cat, and a staircase transformed into a labyrinth. The everyday sound of footsteps is a mystery to the ears of a cat. This experimental ode to cathood plays with the notion of subjectivity, with the shift in perspective encouraging viewers to reflect on their own perception of reality.
JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE, Denmark, Sweden, 2013, 83 min.
For many families in the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles, an idyllic, peaceful middle-class existence is just a facade. What lies beneath is the unseen domestic turmoil: teens addicted to drugs, breaking the law and engaging in violent outbursts—and parents at their wits end. Interventionists, like Evan "Bullet" James and Dana "Hodges" Goller, specialize in entering these suburban homes in the night and ripping troubled teens from their beds to transport them, against their will, to a reform school in Utah. Just the Right Amount of Violence, crafted in John Bang Carlsen's signature dramatized vérité style, combines elements of documentary and fictional interpretations to create an indelible and emotionally gripping portrait of families in crisis. Carlsen also inserts himself into the narrative, reflecting on his own troubled relationship with his father. Carlsen's film overall seeks to highlight the tension between artifice and reality, where truth can be found.
Dubrovnik, 1941. The idyllic life of three young friends, Nike who is Croat, Toni the Italian and Miho a Jews, is roughly interrupted by the war and the establishment of the Ustasha and occupation authorities. Toni, who is engaged to Niko's sister Ane, becomes the Blackshirts, Miho hardly avoid the Ustasha slaughter, Niko joined the partisan movement. Ane is, despite everything, in love with Nick and marries him. Her father, Captain Baldo, is bittered of fascist atrocities, so, the same as Niko, he also begans to cooperate with the illegals….
The oil pipeline that is being laid between the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas is of great geopolitical interest. It will be 1,110 miles long, 155 of which will run through Georgia, along Sakiré, a poor village with muddy roads and houses that the paint is flaking off of. Without interviews or voiceover, as an unnoticed bystander, director Nino Kirtadze films the villagers who, especially in the street, vehemently discuss this unexpected clash with world politics: the health risks, the governmental corruption, who actually owns the land, the possibility of an attack by Bin Laden and especially the level of financial compensation from BP, the oil company responsible for the pipeline. The filmmakers contrast the quiet valley and its village with noisy images of the construction of the advancing pipeline. Emotions get roused more and more: the elected village leader storms out of a chaotic meeting, where the resistance is led by the self-confident and self-appointed Leila. An equally chaotic court case against BP is lost, but the oil company grows tense, too: the filmmakers are in the car with the general manager of BP in Georgia and attend talks about the villagers' objections. In the end, the general manager decides to pay a personal visit to the village.
A documentary film about the Košice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.
…and other challenges we again and again are facing with resistance, obstinacy and irritation. Lecture by likka Vehkalahti including clips and examples.
Personal approach of Peter Kerekes, a prominent director and producer, to research methods and principles in the formation of the documentary.
Some dramaturgical considerations on the development and presentation of character driven documentary films, by Mikael Opstrup, the main lecturer of the European documentary Network (EDN).
One of the most innovative Danish documentary film director who is known for his approach of creating the reality in front of the camera.
Dalibor Martinis will describe his interests and intentions as an author, from the perspective of factuality of the process instead of interpretation, and in configurations instead of meaning.
Ivana Pauerova Milošević, Czech Television, and Robert Zuber, HRT, about their personal experiences while working in public television and cooperating with the independent directors and producers.
Masterclass dedicated to the film form and inner harmony of the film presented by a cult Croatian film director, author of over 80 films and a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave.
From the creation of storyboard, script, and shooting to editing. Nino Kirtazde is talking about the gradual shaping of the film idea, until the birth of the film.


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Q: When to use Tween animation in flutter I am learning how to do animations in flutter and could not understand one thing that is why do we even use Tween for getting values ?
The basic function of Tween is to give values in between of the begin and end values like a color or for position but one can also do that with AnimatedContainer. AnimatedContainer provides a curve property and it also changes values after a setState. So why should we even use Tween

A: As you noticed AnimatedContainer is used in conjunction with setState. Tween animation can be use in conjunction with AnimationController. So you will receive more flexibility working with animations. For example, you may use one controller for few tween animations.
All Animated... widgets are lightweight options for making simple animations.

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Q: Хранение данных в контексте приложения (java) Мне нужно сохранять результаты функций и/или данные, полученные с формы на сайте, с помощью контекста приложения на языке Java. Я узнал об интерфейсе ApplicationContext, но не смог разобраться с его реализацией(

A: у  вас есть несколько уровней хранения формы для  передачи между  пользовательскими запросами.  request,  session, application, flow.  самые коротко живущие обьекты  живуь  о обьекте request самые долгоживущие  живут  пока живет приложени -Application scope.  Соотвественно сохраняйте свои формы  в том  обьекте которым  пользуетесь.
У обьектов  Application,request,session есть  пары  методов  для  работы с атрибутами: setAttribute("myAttr",  myObj ),  и getAttribute("myAttr").
Application  ctx= request.getContext.setAttribute("request", myLoveObject ());
Но сейчас  появились  CDI со своим  жизненым  циклом. Если  используете нормальный сервер j2ee , то лучше смотреть в сторону  CDI.


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Eren Derdiyok (ur. 12 czerwca 1988 w Bazylei) – szwajcarski piłkarz kurdyjskiego pochodzenia występujący na pozycji napastnika, grający w Galatasaray SK.

Kariera klubowa
Eren Derdiyok zawodową karierę rozpoczynał w 2005 roku w klubie BSC Old Boys. Strzelił dla niego 10 bramek w 18 meczach.

FC Basel
Latem 2006 roku trafił do pierwszoligowego FC Basel. W debiutanckim sezonie w barwach "Bebbi" pełnił rolę rezerwowego. Na boisku pojawił się 12 razy (2 razy w podstawowym składzie), jednak spędził na nim łącznie tylko 220 minut. Podopieczni Christiana Grossa wywalczyli wicemistrzostwo kraju mając jeden punkt straty do FC Zürich.

W kolejnych rozgrywkach Derdiyok grywał już znacznie częściej. 2 marca 2008 roku zdobył hat-tricka w meczu przeciwko FC Thun. 6 kwietnia wraz z drużyną wywalczył puchar kraju. W tym samym czasie w mediach pojawiła się informacja, że Derdiyok latem odejdzie być może do angielskiego Newcastle United. Łącznie w 27 ligowych spotkaniach sezonu 2007/2008 piłkarz FC Basel zdobył 7 goli, a jego zespół zdobył tytuł mistrza Szwajcarii.

27 sierpnia 2008 roku Derdiyok strzelił zwycięską bramkę w meczu z Vitórią SC (2:1) i zapewnił swojej drużynie udział w fazie grupowej Ligi Mistrzów. 4 listopada zdobył natomiast gola w zremisowanym 1:1 spotkaniu z Barceloną. FC Basel zajęło jednak ostatnie miejsce w swojej grupie i odpadło z rozgrywek Champions League. Łącznie dla szwajcarskiego klubu Derdiyok w 64 ligowych pojedynkach strzelił 20 bramek.

Bayer
28 maja 2009 roku Derdiyok podpisał kontrakt z Bayerem 04 Leverkusen. Umowa z klubem obowiązywała do 30 czerwca 2013 roku. W nowym klubie stworzył duet napastników ze Stefanem Kießlingiem.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2 maja 2012 podpisał czteroletni kontrakt z TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Umowa obowiązuje od 1 lipca 2012 roku.

Wypożyczenie do Bayeru
W 2013 roku został wypożyczony z opcją pierwokupu do Bayeru 04 Leverkusen.

Kasımpaşa SK
1 lipca 2014 roku Derdiyok podpisał kontrakt z Kasımpaşa SK, a kwota transferu wyniosła 2,5 miliona euro.

Galatasaray SK
5 sierpnia 2016 roku oficjalnie potwierdzono, że od nowego sezonu Derdiyok będzie bronił barw Galatasaray SK. Kwota transferu wyniosła 4 mln.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
Derdiyok ma za sobą występy w młodzieżowych reprezentacjach Szwajcarii. W juniorskich zespołach imponował skutecznością – dla drużyny do lat 19 strzelił 7 bramek w 7 meczach, a dla kadry do lat 21 zdobył 7 goli w 5 spotkaniach. W seniorskiej reprezentacji zadebiutował 6 lutego 2008 roku w pojedynku z Anglią rozgrywanym na Wembley. W meczu tym dwanaście minut po wejściu na boisko z ławki rezerwowych wpisał się na listę strzelców. Następnie Jakob Kuhn powołał go do 23-osobowej kadry na Euro 2008, na którym Szwajcarzy zostali wyeliminowani w rundzie grupowej.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Szwajcarii w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze FC Basel
Piłkarze Bayeru 04 Leverkusen
Piłkarze TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Piłkarze Kasımpaşa SK
Piłkarze Galatasaray SK
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Nożnej 2008
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2010
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Nożnej 2016
Szwajcarzy pochodzenia tureckiego
Ludzie urodzeni w Bazylei
Urodzeni w 1988

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Bouchrahil (en arabe : ) est une commune de la wilaya de Médéa en Algérie.

Géographie

Situation

La commune de Bouchrahi est située dans le tell central  dans l'Atlas blidéen  a environ 100 km au sud d'Alger et a 60 km au sud-est  de Médéa et a environ 12 km au nord-est de Sidi Nâamane et à  42 km l est de Berrouaghia  et a 90 km au sud-est de Blida et à 79 km a l'ouest  de  Bouira

Climat

Bouchrahil bénéficie d'un climat méditerranéen classique marqué par une sécheresse estivale, des hivers doux, un ciel lumineux et dégagé. Pendant les mois d'été, les précipitations deviennent rares voire inexistantes, et le ciel est lumineux et dégagé. L'anticyclone subtropical recouvre la région oranaise pendant près de quatre mois. En revanche la région est bien arrosée pendant l'hiver. Les faibles précipitations ( de pluie) et leur fréquence (72,9 jours par an) sont aussi caractéristiques de ce climat.

Relief et hydrologie
Bouchrahil est située au  centre de la plaine de la Beni Slimane.

Localités de la commune
Lors du découpage territorial de 1984, la commune de Bouchrahil est constituée à partir des localités suivantes : Bouchrahil, Ouled Allel, Chorfa, Ahl Louta, Ahl Draa, Ouled Sidi Moussa, Beni Maaloum, Ahl El Oued, Ouled M'Henni, Ouled Saïd, El Maïfia, Megualit (Sud).

Démographie

Histoire

Vie quotidienne

Sports
Le club omnisports  HR bouchrahil, fondé en 1985, comprend une équipe de football et une équipe de Athlétismelet  Handball.

Le club de Kick boxing fondé en 1989

Le club de Vovinam Viet Vo Dao fondé en 2009

Notes et références

Commune dans la wilaya de Médéa


FotoRobot.cz technologies not only bring very smart solution for 3D/360° product photography but moreover have actually focused on practicalities on its hardware design and workflow of photo studios.
FotoRobot.cz technologies not only bring very smart solution for 3D/360° product photography but moreover have actually focused on practicalities on its hardware design and workflow of photo studios. Daily routine of walking from one end to another in a photo studio, checking lights, sockets and all other things can be overseen as an unavoidable factor of such job. Our designers have focused on optimizing all details of working in photo studio in order to eliminate firstly few seconds resulting in hours in the end. The technology are based on interconnected system with focus on details. Therefore the whole product range from smallest Cube robot up to biggest Carousel can be used in various configurations. In addition every item has its own optimized design.
Let us take CUBE, multi-functional robot, that can be used in combination with other robots which means its installation should be easy and quick. For such purposes it is delivered with special docking plate and smartly hidden socket head tool for mounting, attached to CUBE by magnet so wherever you relocate the robot you have always necessary tools with you. It sounds like detail saving just few seconds but not knowing where your tools are may sometimes take even few hours and great portion of frustration. CUBE robot is equipped with adjustable bars for easy and precise positioning of the photographed item. The focus is aimed into such details because accurate positioning and avoidance of any movement during rotation lead to perfect 3D/360° photography where any small underestimation becomes a nightmare.
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The importance of details is being increased by competitive market and its pressures on durability, precision and competitive advantages. Our team is fully aware of such influences and therefore has a right to claim that PhotoRobot is the best partner for new era of product photographing.


WARNING: This article will likely upset a whole host of artists, and perhaps even a few art buyers.
Can you smell that? Inhale deeply through your nose. Smell that? That's the smell of change. And not just your run-of-the-mill, small-time basic change – it's the smell of significant change taking place in the world of art.
There is a profound shift taking place in the art market, driven by an entirely new breed of art enthusiast, collector and buyer. These are people with distinctive taste. These are people who have a firm and ever-lasting grip on technology; who thrive on "modern"; who consciously strive to separate from the rest of the flock; who collect and display art that reinforces how they envision themselves as individuals. These are people who look at a traditional landscape painting and wonder, "why"?
Landscape paintings are so ten years ago, yet artists today continue to create them in abundant supply. After all, there was a time (10 years ago) when art galleries sold nothing but landscapes. Those days are over. Buyers are more sophisticated now. They demand more, well beyond safe and mundane paintings of a quiet stream, a grouping of trees or a wispy field on a cool fall day.
Buyers today want modern, abstract, surreal, out-of the-ordinary realism, engaging figurative work. They are drawn to and demand art full of emotion and intrigue – landscape paintings don't even come close to fulfilling this need.
One thing is for certain about artists who create highly detailed, quality landscapes… these artists could paint anything their hearts desire. Landscape artists are typically extremely gifted and amazingly talented professionals. They just need to find new subject matter, and fast.
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Simply being part of a genre that is not landscape does not make art any more unique. There is just as many boring, mundane surreal works as there are landscapes. One thing's for sure, doing it purely for the market is a great way to insure it's generic. It should be about some more than that.
Brian, You're so absolutely right.
I'll try to follow your advice – as good as I can.
sounds like you need to get out more, or at least where there ARE "landscapes"…my personal experience: not being a professional photographer, when i have developed photo from WallMart or where ever, like most tourists, it is like "well…YEAH, that's what i saw, but….NO…it didn't capture what i FELT". an artistic interpretation can do that.
the OTHER aspect: what can a landscape interpretation DO to the the person looking at it?
what curdles MY milk: this crap as abstract…one piece comes to mind, at the Denver Art Museum: a HUGE , 30'x50′ canvas, pale green, with evenly spaced lines length and width, looking JUST like a subway wall in NYC, selling for 750K.
Brian, I'm really surprised at this from you.
Obviously I am not a landscape painter but those I know feel a spiritual relationship with nature. And as someone for whom environmental and nature conservation issues are important, I applaud them. Our landscapes are quickly vanishing and all we will have left to show they existed will be the paintings and photography.
Regarding technology, I know illustrators, animators, game designers who start by intensive training in traditional media and methods. In fact there is a great resurgence in classical training demanded by young artists today, influenced by these new technologies.
There is mediocrity in every art genre and every generation of art. I have seen much art that I personally may not like, but I make a point of learning about it. It is all part of the whole of art; it has the right to exist. Furthermore, ALL artists and art lovers, as a whole, are important to the support of the arts and should be encouraged to experience art.
You make not like landscape but you should try to keep an open mind. There are some really good landscape artists. If you do not want landscape in your gallery, then just say so. If you don't want traditional painting in your gallery, then say so. But don't just dismiss it as worth nothing.
Every once and a while a blog post is written that stimulates thought, discussion, disgust, anger, frustration, agreement and disagreement.
This particular post has generated the single highest number of comments (public and private) that we've ever received, both in support of the article's premise, and against. This is a good thing.
Part of our role here is to engage people in discussion about art. We've played it safe far too long in many of our blog posts, resulting in little to no interaction and engagement.
You've got to "shake the tree" from time to time to grab attention. Get people fired up. Engage them in conversation that stimulates, motivates – artist Cynthia Peterson is now going to go and paint a landscape painting in response to the article.
We have nothing against Landscapes, other than they are an easy target for inclusion in an article like the one written. We could have easily inserted Abstracts into the subject line.
Many people suggested that I may have something personal against landscape artists… please re- read the last paragraph of the article.
I run an online art gallery. I have the unbelievable pleasure of working 7 days a week, 12 hours per day doing something that I absolutely love – this is my dream job. Working with artists and buyers from all walks of life, from nearly every corner of the globe is, in my view, a God-given gift that I never take for granted – not even for one second.
I am in love with my job, the artists I have the pleasure of working with every day and the promise of a wonderful future in the art business. I don't have an elitist bone in my body.
A painting of a twee, predictable landscape is dull and boring, but there are some great artists out there whose landscapes are inspiring and powerful works of art. I have to disagree with the idea that landscapes are old fashioned passed it.
The excitement comes from how the artist paints, not the subject mater he/she chooses. Even the most mundane object can become a stunning painting if done by the right artist.
Therefore is it not that landscape painting has become passée, but that there are so many mundane artists around pumping out endless dull pictures?


It only takes one hole to slowly sink a boat. The official Ottawa shooting storyline has more than one such hole. The following suggests the widely-reported October 22, 2014 Ottawa shooting was a staged event.
Former Australian Police Officer and prominent Port Arthur Massacre researcher Andrew MacGregor will discuss his research on the October 29 edition of Real Politik with James Tracy.
Mr. MacGregor maintains that Australia is years ahead of the United States in the how the enforcement of international gun control measures proceeds.
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the present situation in Australia in regard to the criminal events such as the recent spate of 'Drive-by' shootings in Sydney is the continuation of the same events dating from 1987 when the Australian Federal Government attempted to usurp the various State and Territory rights in regards to firearms.
How many of today's so-called "lone wolf terrorists" have been covertly manipulated to carry out their actions? Were "solitary" political assassins such Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Mark David Chapman, and John Hinckley Jr., products of mind control techniques? This important book, published close to four decades ago, cogently documents the US government's concerted involvement in mind control projects, some of which are now fully operational.
Is Ebola a Mass Mediated Fraud?
Is Ebola a fraud? Is it being used by certain forces for broader political purposes? Fresno State University Criminology Professor Jason Kissner joins James Tracy on Real Politik for a dynamic discussion addressing the important series of articles the former has written for Global Research dissecting the Ebola phenomenon and its accompanying media frenzy.
Ebola, AIDS Manufactured by Western Pharma Companies, US DoD?
Derrick Robinson, President of Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS) joins James for the hour. FFCHS has been in existence since 2005 addressing the issues of remote electronic assaults and surveillance.
The secret research and deployment of these devices and techniques affects multitudes of people in this country and the world, most of whom are unaware of their existence. FFCHS seeks to raise public awareness on the impact of these technologies, as well as a congressional hearing and investigation to expose and stop the perpetrators of these crimes.


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Q: Best way to find and remove hidden textures from memory I need to find a way to track positions where the loaded textures are drawn. When some of the loaded textures are overwritten, i have to delete them from memory.
I have a Remote User Interface (RUI) server which sends me a lot of small images, which are assembled and then shown on the RUI client's screen. In this scenario, i have no clue which textures are behind some other textures, so i am unable to delete them. Also, overwriting must be complete (texture behind must be totally hidden).
Is there any efficient way to achieve this tracking and deleting?
My use-case is something like this: i have a menu with button images stored on a server. Whole screen is made of fragments (buttons, scrollbars, animations etc.).
For example, when i click on a button, server sends me a multiple thumbnails of pictures stored in its storage, and i display them in ,for example, right half of the screen.
On other button click, list of songs, videos, ebooks or something else are shown.
I need to remove textures of picture thumbnails from memory and then show list of songs, for example. In this way, overwriting will disappear, and my memory usage will be significantly reduced.
My openGL ES 2.0 implementation is on Android platform, where whole job is done in JNI layer. There is no complicated drawing, just decoding png images, converting to textures, and basic textures displaying.

A: You can do something along the lines of reference counting to keep track of how many times the same image has been used. When an instance is entirely occluded or off-screen, you decrement the reference count, and delete all the textures with 0 references.
Reference counting could be as simple as a std::map<Texture, int>.
Your occlusion check could just be an O(n^2) AABB intersection/containment test and an extra O(n) test against the screen's AABB. If that's not fast enough for you, try a better data structure like a quadtree or spatial hashing.
Depending on how your application is set up, you could also track instances of your texture with a type of smart pointer and figure out when all of your hidden views have been deleted.
That being said, this is probably a waste of time unless you're actually bound by the amount of VRAM on the device or getting close to it. Loading/unloading images from either disk or a network location is going to be orders of magnitude slower than just keeping it in VRAM if you have it available.


The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said critics of the cedi denominated US$2.25 billion bond risk scuttling government's efforts at restoring the economy to a path of growth, following the devastating setbacks economic recovery efforts suffered in 2016.
The minister came under heavy criticism from members of the opposition NDC, who accuse him of favouring his friends in the US$2.25 billion cedi denominated bond issue, with US-based fund managers Franklin Templeton Investments taking as much 95 percent.
The ex-government officials accused the Finance Minister of influencing the sale to favor a certain Trevor Trefgarne, who happens to be on the board of Franklin Templeton and also serves as the Board Chairman of the Enterprise Insurance Group, a company which Mr. Ofori-Atta is said to have ties with.
According to the Finance Minister who briefed Parliament about the various bonds issued in April, it is more worrying when the criticisms were coming from certain quarters that are expected to be informed and responsible.
"For such a non-issue to be made such a big issue can make some wonder if the motive is to discourage and thwart efforts towards fixing the mess which the previous administration left behind," the Finance Minister said.
Explaining the bond issuance process, Mr. Ofori-Atta said, like previous bonds, these bonds were issued in a competitive and transparent bidding processes, managed by our Joint Book Runners (JBRs), namely: Barclays, Stanbic and SAS, who were appointed in 2015.
"As is the normal practice since the book building process began in 2015, the joint book runners announced the sale of the bonds as per the 2nd quarter issuance calendar. Subsequently, primary dealers, who are mostly banks, mobilised interested foreign and local investors to participate in the sale," he said.
The Finance Minister said foreign investors have been participating in domestic bonds since 2006 and that this particular bond is no different given that even as recent as last year, a 10-year bond issued had 90 percent foreign participation.
The bond issuance, Mr. Ofori-Atta said, was part of government's debt management strategy where short-term debts are being exchanged for long-term debt.
"We borrowed billions without adding a pesewa to Ghana's debt stock. Although in the initial instance, the gross domestic debt increases, because we have built up assets in our books, if the focus is to change the risk structure of the existing debt stock. We therefore recognise our liabilities and assets," he said.
Contrary to the minority's claims of financial loss, Mr. Ofori-Atta said, the expected savings from the transaction in respect of interest cost is estimated at GH¢612 million in 2017.
"This clearly shows the financial savings we have accrued to government. In other words, we borrowed not to increase our debt stock but rather to decrease the cost of servicing preexisting debts," he told Parliament.
Government, in early April, raised US$2.2 billion from a sale of long-dated domestic bonds, which boosted its central bank reserves by a third.
Offshore buyers constituted 90 percent of accepted bids, according to Barclays Bank Ghana sources.
According to Reuters, the sale represents the largest amount issued by a sub-Saharan African country in a day.
"(It) is an indication of the strong appetite for Ghana Bonds due to the markets renewed confidence in the long term prospects of the Ghanaian economy," Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said.
It is also a major vote of confidence in the new government's economic policies, fiscal measures and programmes as outlined in the 2017 budget, he added.


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Tag Archives: Lon Chaney
WALLACE WORSLEY'S THE PENALTY (1920) STARRING LON CHANEY
July 21, 2011 Alfred Eaker	1 Comment
Wallace Worsley made five films with silent movie icon Lon Chaney. Lamentably, two of those, Voices of the City (1921) and The Blind Bargain (1922), are lost. The Ace of Hearts (1921) survives, but their most famous collaborations remain The Penalty (1920) and the epic Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). It is for these two films Worsley, an otherwise undistinguished commission director, will be remembered, if at all. The Penalty was Chaney's first starring role, and the film justifiably made him a major star.
The plot of The Penalty is beautifully absurd, operatic, and addictive. An injured young boy has been unnecessarily mutilated by a young Dr. Ferris (Charles Clary). A seasoned colleague arrives and tells Dr. Ferris that amputating the boy's legs was not at all necessary, but the veteran promises to remain silent about the malpractice. The bed-ridden boy hears the conversation and tells his parents what has transpired. However, the boy's revelation is dismissed as delirium cause by a contusion.
Twenty seven years later, the boy has become Frisco's criminal master-mind, nicknamed the Blizzard. Chaney's performance as the Blizzard is a tour-de-force that was achieved through a painful pulleys, belts, leather stumps, and a harness which strapped his legs behind him. Because of the extreme contortion and discomfort to the actor, Chaney's scenes were filmed in short takes. His performance is amazing. He swings, pulls, and climbs with such robust, Tex Avery-like vigor that the illusion is feverishly complete. Only Douglas Fairbanks could exude as much screen energy, but while Fairbanks grinned his way through elaborate stunts, Chaney invited you to see him sweat and even laugh with him through his pain.
The Blizzard runs a complex syndicate which local law enforcement cannot penetrate. Desperate, officials send an undercover agent, Rose (Ethel Gray Terry) into Chaney's lair. The criminal is abusive, misogynist, seedy, and initially lacking in sympathy. There is a dark, latent sexual undercurrent between the Blizzard and Rose. Only music calms the Blizzard, and Rose serves as his feet, pushing the pedals of his piano while he plays.
The Blizzard is part Ahab and part Dr. Mabuse, plotting an elaborate (and far-fetched) revenge against the entire city (which involves utilizing the straw man communist menace. The fifties was not the first Red Scare era, and Worsley's earlier Ace of Hearts projected a similar paranoia). Continue reading WALLACE WORSLEY'S THE PENALTY (1920) STARRING LON CHANEY →
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VICTOR SJOSTROM'S HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) STARRING LON CHANEY
July 7, 2011 Alfred Eaker	2 Comments
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) is part of the 2011 Warner Archive Lon Chaney collection, and in this film Chaney gives one of his most natural, assured performances—in no small part due to director Victor Sjöström, who also directed Chaney, with Norma Shearer, in the following year's Tower Of Lies (unfortunately, yet another lost film). Victor Sjostrom is something of an icon. He was a favorite director of stars Greta Garbo and Lillian Gish, and his masterpiece, The Phantom Carriage (1921), was a considerable influence on Ingmar Bergman. After the coming of sound Sjostrom retired from directing to return to his first love of acting, but he still served as mentor to the young Bergman; Bergman repaid the favor by casting Sjostrom in the extraordinarily beautiful role of Dr. Isak Borg for Wild Strawberries (1957, possibly Bergman's greatest film).
After seeing the films Sjostrom had made in Sweden, Producer Irving Thalberg recruited Sjostrom to Hollywood. He Who Gets Slapped was the first film the director made at MGM, and it proved to be a lucrative endeavor for all concerned. Sjostrom was one of the few directors respected by both Louis B. Mayer and Thalberg. He Who Gets Slapped is based off the 1914 play by Leonid Andreyev. The resulting film looks, thinks and acts far more European than anything Hollywood studios had produced at that time.
It is a tale of degradation, humiliation, pathos, and sacrifice. Thankfully, it is a film in which we do not find ourselves rooting for the Donald Trumps or Paris Hiltons of the world. Chaney is the destitute but prolific scientist Paul Beaumont, so dedicated in his work that he, inevitably, is rendered the oblivious fool. Beaumont's filthy rich patron is the Baron de Regnard (Marc McDermott). Regnard has been helping himself to Beaumont's selfish wife Maria (Ruth King) and additionally plans to steal the fruit of Beaumont's scientific labors.
The world of Paul Beaumont comes crashing down when Regnard presents Beaumont's work, as his own, to the Academy. Beaumont tries, in vain, to convince the Academy of the theft, but they take the side of the affluent Regnard as opposed to the unknown, poverty stricken Beaumont. Beaumont is belittled by his patron's betrayal, by the mocking laughter of the academy, by the discovery of his wife's infidelity, and, finally, by Regnard's humiliating slap to his face. It is a slap which Beaumont now obsessively echoes in repetition every night. On the Continue reading VICTOR SJOSTROM'S HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) STARRING LON CHANEY →
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ROLAND WEST'S THE MONSTER (1925) STARRING LON CHANEY
June 30, 2011 Alfred Eaker	4 Comments
The Monster (1925) is part of the extensive Warner Archive Collection 2011 releases. This film, directed by Roland V. West and starring Lon Chaney, goes a considerable length to prove the adage that "there is nothing new under the sun." Essentially, The Monster is the precursor for the tongue-in-cheek old-dark-house-with-malevolent-horror-star-as-host movie. Considerably later,Vincent Price and William Castle visited The Monster's familiar territory in the House on Haunted Hill (1959), a film that has become the stereotypical example of the genre.
Director Roland V. West revisited The Monster territory again in the following year's hit, The Bat and, yet again with sound in The Bat Whispers (1930) (for which he is most remembered—well, he may actually be best remembered for giving a deathbed confession that he murdered his girlfriend Thelma Todd).The Monster is the least known of West's dark house trilogy and, although it is the weakest of the three, it retains interest for several reasons.
The Monster is an oddity in the way it uses star Chaney. Chaney's body of work goes a considerable distance in debunking his reputation as a "horror" actor. The few horror films Chaney appeared in are more aptly described as bizarre, densely psychological melodramas. The Monster, however, could serve as a prototype for a genre celebrity in a B-movie parody. Chaney's Dr. Ziska is strictly cartoon horror. He could romp with Baron Boris in Mad Monster Party (1967), or brew up a Gossamer with Bugs in Hare-Raising Hare (1946).
Hick amateur Johnny (Johnny Arthur) has just gotten his detective license in the mail, just in time to try and solve a local whodunit disappearance. Johnny, the local nerd, has his eye on Betty (Gertrude Olmstead) but she's on the arm of the local jock hero. If only Johnny could solve the case and win the girl. This setup leads the three teens to the local spooky house run by Dr. Ziska, a mad surgeon running a former sanitarium. Ziska is aided by caped ghoul who rolls imagined smokes and, with the aid of a mirror, plays saboteur to cars on lonely back roads. Ziska is also assisted by the hulking mute, Rigo.
Trap doors, laundry chutes, secret basements and an electric chair are the props in West's dream-world. Chaney's Ziska is surprisingly foppish with smoking jacket, a flapper-like quellazaire, and a wayward eyebrow. Ziska wears a menacing grin at all times, making him a possible first member of a Grand Guignol Three Stooges which might include Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi in their lean salad days. Foppish or not, Ziska is man enough to get aroused when he straps poor Betty to the table. With Rigo's Frankenstein monster-like presence, about the only thing missing is a Vampirella to play opposite Ziska's Dr. Deadly.
The Monster is not great cinema, its not the best West, best Chaney, or best Old Dark House movie (James Whale would deliver that seven years later), but it is silent pulp and, in the right mindset, it can take you back to the days of milk duds and acne.
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TOD BROWNING'S OUTSIDE THE LAW (1920)
June 2, 2011 Alfred Eaker	1 Comment
Although Lon Chaney has two roles in Outside the Law (1920), he is not the star; rather, the film features early Tod Browning favorite Priscilla Dean. Dean plays Silky Moll, daughter of mobster Silent Madden (Ralph Lewis), and both are attempting to reform under the guidance of Confucian Master Chang Lo (E. Alyn Warren).
Black Mike Sylva (Chaney) interrupts the reformation by framing Silent Madden for murder, so that Silky Moll, like Lorraine Lavond in The Devil Doll (1939), now has a wrongly imprisoned father. Silky and Dapper Bill Ballard plan a jewel heist with Black Mike. Unknown to Mike, Silky is aware of his betrayal of her father and, with Bill, she double-crosses Mike.
Escaping with the heisted jewels, Silky and Bill hole up in an apartment. The time the criminals spend holed up in a claustrophobic setting is awash with religious symbolism that points to transformation. Browning, a Mason, repeatedly used religious imagery and themes. In West of Zanzibar (1928) Phroso stands in for the self-martyred Christ and calls upon divine justice under the image of the Virgin. In The Show (1927), the sadomasochistic drama of Salome is reenacted and almost played out in the actors lives (Martinu's opera 'The Greek Passion' would explore that possibility in a much more sophisticated, and jarring, degree). Where East is East (1929) utilizes Buddhist and Catholic symbology. Priests and crucifixes play important parts in The Unholy Three (1925), Road to Mandalay (1926), Dracula (1931- possibly the most religious of the Universal Horror films) and Mark of the Vampire (1935).
Here, Bill tries to convince Silky that they can have a normal life. Puppy dogs and small boys begin to have effect on Silky, but it is not until she sees the shadow of the cross in her apartment that her tough facade gives way. Browning is not one to allow for a genuinely supernatural mode of transformation and reveals that the cross shadow is merely a broken kite, but its psychological effect on Silky is manifested in her actions, and her beauty. Bill notices the origin of the cross shadow and, realizing that Silky's naive interpretation of that image has inspired her to renounce her crimes, Bill allows her to continue in her naivete. He draws the blind so she cannot see that her inspiration comes from a child's kite. As Silky begins to drift away from a life of bitterness and crime, towards redemption, she physically grows more beautiful (a transformation achieved through soft lighting and composition). It is not the inspired symbology of the cross alone, but the prophecy of Chang Lo that frames the outcome. Chang Lo has been consistent in his belief that Silky will reform and he strikes a deal with the investigating constable that, should Silky return the jewels, all charges have to be dropped. Here again, Browning's heart is too much with the criminal to allow for a full-blown punishment, something that later Hays Code Hollywood would demand.
Chaney's small bit as Ah Wing is so subtle and so effective as to almost be unnoticeable. Browning remade Outside the Law in 1930. The remake starred Edward G. Robinson and received comparatively poor reviews. While the remake is not available on DVD, this original is. Kino Video has done a good job in its presentation, but the last quarter of the film is marred by nitrate deterioration, which is not altogether intrusive to viewing.
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TOD BROWNING'S WHERE EAST IS EAST (1929)
April 21, 2011 Alfred Eaker	1 Comment
Like a true auteur, Tod Browning essentially kept remaking the same film. He was a peculiarity in Hollywood. He refused an agent, generally refused assignment scripts and, instead, consistently sought out material that interested him.
Where East is East (1929) was the last of the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney collaborations, it was the last of Browning's silent films, and it contained many themes from their previous efforts together.
The heavily scarred, large-feline-monikered Tiger Haynes (Chaney) is an animal trapper who has an uncomfortably playful relationship with his daughter Toya (the bubbly Lupe Velez). Their relationship alters between games of feline patty cake and overt protection. Daddy and Toya's relationship gets thrown its first monkey wrench when Toya acquires a new boyfriend, Bobby (Lloyd Hughes).
Acting like a jealous lover, Tiger refuses to warm up to Bobby, until Bobby assists Tiger in saving Toya from a real tiger. Now Bobby is a real swell and welcome to the pride. While delivering tigers on a cruise to the East, Tiger and Bobby run into Tiger's ex-wife and Toya's mother, Mme. de Sylva (Estelle Taylor, the real-life one time wife of Jack Dempsey). For Bobby, Sylva is the embodiment of oriental fantasy. She is a true tigress with a jealous, soothsayer-like female servant (hints of a lesbian relationship). Sylva spews her man-baiting poison on the intoxicated Bobby, in order to exact sexual revenge on Tiger and parental revenge on their daughter,Toya. This is a reversal of West of Zanzibar (1928), in which Chaney was the parent exacting parental revenge on a whelp. The incestuous relationship hinted between Tiger and Toya (on Tiger's part, twice unrequited) is paralleled in Bobby and Sylva.
Sylva enters Toya's world and repressed, invisible secrets threaten the illusory fabric of Tiger's world. Of course, some animals devour their young, and Sylva, one step removed, attempts to incestuously devour Toya. Unfortunately for Sylva, behind a fragile cage she has a nemesis in a gorilla holding a grudge for secret, past abuses. It is the savage animal kingdom that will exact revenge. Chaney, impotently declawed, scowls and threatens Sylva from the sidelines until he unleashes the beast, which will end in paternal sacrifice for the daughter he cannot possess (shades of West again).
Where East is East hands the film to Taylor, who, reportedly, managed her off-screen relations with men in a fashion similar to Sylva. Luckily, Taylor is up to the part, as is Velez, who conveys innocence, diverse emotions, and energetic sexual charm. Chaney is excellent as usual, in the secondary, castrated role.
One off-screen note of interest: "Mexican Spitfire" Velez and Taylor became quite close after working together in this film. Velez, pregnant and abandoned, spent her last hours on earth with Taylor, before departing her mortal coil with the aid of Seconal. Somehow, in the Browning universe, that is an apt, dark underside to the narrative.
Needless to say, Where East is East does not subscribe to any sort of orthodox realism. It is representative of the blue collar surrealism that both Browning and Chaney espoused and can be best enjoyed with a heaping plate of elephant ears and cotton candy, along with a well-worn copy of "The Interpretation of Dreams."
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TOD BROWNING'S THE BLACKBIRD (1926)
April 14, 2011 Alfred Eaker	3 Comments
The Blackbird (1926) is a typically deranged underworld melodrama from the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney canon. It has, lamentably, never been made available to the home video market, even though the restored print shown on TCM is in quite good condition and, surprisingly, is missing no footage. The Blackbird is also one of the most visually arresting of Browning's films, which makes its official unavailability doubly unfortunate.
Browning opens the film authoritatively with close-ups of Limehouse derelicts fading in and out of the foggy London setting. Lon Chaney plays dual roles, of a sort. He is the debilitated cripple Bishop who runs a charitable mission in the squalid Limehouse district. Bishop's twin brother is Dan Tate, better known as the vile thief The Blackbird. Actually, in this highly improbable (and typical, for Browning) scenario, Bishop and the Blackbird are one and the same. The Blackbird feigns the role of his own twin brother as a front, which means contorting his body as he acts as if he's in excruciating pain (shades of Chaney, behind the scenes).
The Limehouse district unanimously loves the Bishop and dreads the Blackbird, save for the Blackbird's ex-wife, Limehouse Polly (Doris Lloyd, the only one of the principals players who did not die young). Polly inexplicably still loves and believes in Dan. In a vignette, Browning does not hesitate to show the ugliness of the Blackbird's racist side (an extreme rarity for the time), but the Blackbird has a slither of a soft spot himself for French patroness and music hall marionette performer Fifi (Renee Adore).
Dan is competing for Fifi's attention with his partner in crime, West End Bertie (the amazingly prolific silent actor Owen Moore). At times, Bertie resembles a virile, monocled Bond villain. The suave Moore makes a worthwhile nemesis for the grimy Chaney. Unlike the Blackbird, Bertie is willing to convert from the dark side, for the love of a classy woman. Of course, this turn of events arouses jealousy and leads to intensified competition between the former partners, a frame-up job, and an ironic twist of fate when the two "brothers" will merge into a third, ill-fated persona.
The scenes of Chaney frantically changing identities with constables from Scotland Yard waiting below are deliriously incredible. The constables buy it, and so does an audience open to allowing the capered stream to wash over it.
Browning spins his elastic yarn a bit like Albert Finney's Ed Bloom in Big Fish (2003). Aided enormously by Chaney's energetic conviction, and with his penchant for a tenebrous, commanding climate, Browning pulls the ultimate con job on his audience. During its running time we are so drawn into the commanding perversity of Browning's fable that the inherent haziness of the narrative's essence rarely obscures his inclusive vision.
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TOD BROWNING'S LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927) & MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935)
April 7, 2011 Alfred Eaker	4 Comments
London After Midnight (1927) is the most sought after and discussed lost film of the silent era. Whether it actually deserves to be the most sought after has been intensely debated, but the fact that London After Midnight is lost is solely the fault of MGM.
MGM head Louis B. Mayer was something akin to the devil incarnate. For Mayer, film was strictly profitable, escapist fare to corn feed and increasingly dumb down audiences. At the opposite end of the spectrum was his in-house studio competitor, producer Irving Thalberg, who nurtured the Tod Brownings and Lon Chaneys of the world. Thalberg was hardly infallible (he sided with Mayer, against Erich von Stroheim's 9-hour version of Greed [1925,] which resulted in the film being excised and led to an actual fistfight between Mayer and Stroheim). However, Thalberg's concern was to make quality films, as he saw quality. Hardly the egoist, Thalberg never took a producer's credit. He could turn out escapist family fare, but he was eclectic in his tastes and had a penchant for edgy, risk taking films with only the side of his eye on the profit meter.
Sometimes the devil wins, and when Thalberg died at the age of 37, Old Nick (Mayer) had no one to rein him in. MGM, under Mayer, had a notorious habit of buying out rivals—the original versions of the studio's watered-down remakes—and then would make every attempt to destroy and/or suppress the superior original. For instance, they bought out the 1940 British version of Gaslight and unsuccessfully attempted to destroy all the copies just in time for the debut of their inferior 1944 version, starring Charles Boyer. MGM did destroy many, but not all, Continue reading TOD BROWNING'S LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927) & MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935) →
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Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image
data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays.
It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) file format.
It is written and is maintained by software engineers at
the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ),
the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI),
and other contributing entities.

The Ginga toolkit centers around an image display object which supports
zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several
automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable
geometric forms.  In addition to this widget, a general purpose
"reference" FITS viewer is provided, based on a plugin framework.
A fairly complete set of standard plugins are provided for features
that we expect from a modern FITS viewer: panning and zooming windows,
star catalog access, cuts, star pick/FWHM, thumbnails, etc.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2011-2022  Ginga Maintainers.  All rights reserved.
Ginga is distributed under an open-source BSD licence.  Please see the
file `LICENSE.txt` in the top-level directory for details.

## BUILDING AND INSTALLATION

The current release of Ginga can be downloaded and installed from `pip` using:

    $ pip install ginga

From source code, you should also use `pip`, e.g.:

    $ cd ginga
    $ pip install -e .

The program can then be run using the command "ginga".

For further information, please see the detailed installation
instructions in the documentation.

## DOCUMENTATION

It is online at
http://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (dev) and
http://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (latest release).

## CODE OF CONDUCT

See `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`.

## FOR DEVELOPERS

See `examples/*/example{1,2}_*.py` .
There is more information for developers in the manual.

## ON THE WEB

http://ejeschke.github.com/ginga

## ETYMOLOGY

"Ginga" is the romanized spelling of the Japanese word "銀河"
(hiragana: ぎんが), meaning "galaxy" (in general) and, more familiarly,
the Milky Way.  This viewer was originally written by software engineers at
Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; thus the
connection.

### Pronunciation

Ginga the viewer may be pronounced "ging-ga" (proper japanese) or
"jing-ga" (perhaps easier for Western tongues). The latter pronunciation
has meaning in the Brazilian dance/martial art capoeira: a fundamental
rocking or back and forth swinging motion. Pronunciation as "jin-ja"
is considered poor form.

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Waterfalls, crystal pools and clouds like 'marshmallow puffs of pink and white'… Brain surgeon shares his experience of life after death
Nobody knows what happens for certain when you die, but brain Dr Eben Alexander has described how he felt there was something in the 'great beyond' after having his own near death experience
Natalie Keegan
Updated: 1 Jan 2020, 15:35
A BRAIN surgeon claims to have experienced a form of life after death.
Nobody knows what happens for certain when you die, but many people have their own beliefs and theories about what happens when our time is up.
A surgeon has given his version of what happens during a near death experienceCredit: Getty - Contributor
While there is no proof of what happens beyond this world, a brain surgeon and author of the book Living In A Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into The Heart Of Consciousness, has told of being in a coma for a week in 2008 and all of the things he experienced.
In the book, which was published earlier this year, Dr Eben Alexander describes how he felt there was something in the "great beyond" - and even claims he now has a deeper understanding of what comes after life.
In the book he writes: "I was in a coma for a week, suffering from meningoencephalitis - a brain infection - of such severity that my odds of survival were estimated at 2 per cent.
"After a week, my doctors gravely told my family that it was time to let me die."
Dr Alexander says that he saw 'clouds, like marshmallow puffs of pink and white'Credit: Getty - Contributor
Dr Alexander, now 63, was then placed on a ventilator.
At this point, the doctor added: "A light came slowly down from above.
"It was a circular entity, emitting heavily music that I called the Spinning Melody.
"The light opened up like a rip and I felt myself going through the rip, up into a valley of lush and fertile greenery, where waterfalls glowed into crystal pools.
Light at the end of the tunnel? Many NDE's involve seeing a bright lightCredit: Getty - Contributor
"There were clouds, like marshmallow puffs of pink and white. Behind them, the sky was a rich blue-back, with trees, fields and animals and people.
"There was water, too, flowing in rivers or descending as rain. Mists rose from the pulsing surfaces of these waters and fish glided beneath them."
While this is not definite proof of anything, the surgeon now believes that the evidence of an afterlife is increasing.
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You might be using your Android apps to play games, download movies and books, banking and many more. But the same is now being used by cyber-thieves to build their own ransomware. A new tool, called Trojan Development Kit helps even neophyte hackers to create any file locking malware on your Android device.
This ransomware developing tool comes all the way from China. Earlier, ransomware attacks were detected in PCs or laptops. But now, with the evolution of technology the malware strains have arrived in your handsets too.
The point to note is here is that this kit which has recently surfaced, is being distributed for free via underground means. With this trojan development kit, you need not type a single code for the malware. This information was furnished by the Principal threat analysis engineer at Symantec, Dinesh Venkatesan. "The entire process of creating a ready-to-use piece of malware is done on a smartphone without any requirement to write a single line of code," he said.
You might not catch it in your Google Play Stores. As of now, the TDKs are being distributed through China's Great Firewall. It is also observed to circulate by advertisements on a social networking app of China.
This ransomware is designed especially for the Chinese wannabe virtual looters. While, the tool might show up in different languages at later stages, modifying the interface language.
"These apps are not just useful for aspiring and inexperienced cyber criminals as even hardened malware authors could find these easy-to-use kits an efficient alternative to putting the work in themselves. We expect to see an increase in mobile ransomware variants as these development kits become more widespread," Venkatesan continued.
The TDKs are up for subscription. A one-time payment may even allow you to contact the criminal mastermind.
These TDKs operate with the support of Device-Aided Malware Engineering (DAME) or Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool models. It allows customization of messages displayed on locked screens as well as mathematical operations for randomizing the code, key to unlock any infected device, and the malware icon.
Symantec security researchers report that this tool runs on the Lockdroid pattern. It means that hackers can lock your device with this tool. You would be notified with a System Alert Window, where you would be asked to pay money to unlock your device. In this way, the growth of the Android ransomware market promulgates.
However, you should maintain safety at your end. You should primarily install a sound mobile security app, while keeping your firmware updated. Do make back-up of your mobile data. Install your required apps only from trusted official sources, and keep a watch over unnecessary permissions for installations.


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é um jogo eletrônico de RPG de ação desenvolvido e publicado pela Square Enix. É o décimo sexto título principal da série Final Fantasy e está programado para ser lançado em 22 de junho de 2023 para PlayStation 5. Está sendo dirigido por Hiroshi Takai e produzido por Naoki Yoshida.

Premissa
Final Fantasy XVI é um jogo eletrônico do gênero RPG de ação que se passa no mundo ficcional de Valisthea, onde a população vive com conforto graças a enormes montanhas de cristal chamadas de Cristais-Máter. O mundo é controlado por seis países: o Grão-Ducado de Rosaria, o Sacro Império de Sanbreque, o Reino de Waloed, a República de Dhalmekia, o Reino de Ferro e o Domínio Cristalino. Um importante aspecto do mundo são os Eikons, monstros convocáveis controlados ou manifestados por humanos chamados de Dominantes; um grande mistério é o surgimento de dois Eikons de fogo, Fênix e Ifrit.

Os personagens principais são Clive Rosfield, o primogênito do Arquiduque de Rosaria que entra em uma busca por vingança depois de eventos trágicos envolvendo Ifrit; Joshua Rosfield, irmão mais novo de Clive, Dominante de Fênix e herdeiro aparente de Rosaria; e Jill Warrick, uma mulher dos Territórios do Norte que é a irmã adotiva de Clive e Joshua e sua confidente. A jogabilidade de combate envolve a combinação de ataques com armas brancas e habilidades mágicas em tempo real.

Desenvolvimento
Final Fantasy XVI está sendo desenvolvido pela Creative Business Unit III da Square Enix, a responsável pelo desenvolvimento de Final Fantasy XIV. O jogo está sendo dirigido por Hiroshi Takai, que anteriormente trabalhou em Final Fantasy V e na série SaGa, enquanto o produtor é Naoki Yoshida, o diretor e produtor de Final Fantasy XIV. Takai descreveu o processo de desenvolvimento como desafiador devido à necessidade de estabelecer um novo ambiente de produção e a transição para uma nova plataforma.

O título foi anunciado em 16 de setembro de 2020 e originalmente foi afirmado que seria lançado para PlayStation 5 e Microsoft Windows. Entretanto, pouco depois do anúncio oficial, todas as referências ao lançamento para Microsoft Windows foram removidas dos materiais de divulgação. XVI tem previsão de lançamento para 22 de junho de 2023.

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Eurodiaconia es una federación de iglesias y organizaciones Cristianas que proveen atención sanitaria, entregan servicios sociales y luchan para la justicia social. La secretaría de la organización está ubicada en Bruselas, Bélgica. El órgano con mayor capacidad de toma decisiones es la Asamblea General Ordinaria, organizada a turno cada año por los miembros de la organización en Europa. Eurodiaconia incluye 51 organizaciones nacionales y regionales repartidas en 33 países y territorios. La misión declarada de Eurodiaconia es de trabajar para un cambio social transformativo a lo largo de Europa. Los miembros de Eurodiaconia proveen servicios sociales y atención sanitaria a largo plazo para los más desfavorecidos.

Historia
La palabra "diaconia" significa "servicio" en Griego Antiguo y en su sentido bíblico quiere decir amor para el vecino. El trabajo diaconal tiene sus orígenes en el Nuevo Testamento, y tradicionalmente, ha sido llevado a cabo por iglesias. Normalmente se entiende como "práctica social Cristiana" que no distingue entre Cristianos y no-Cristianos, sino que tiene como objetivo la promoción de la inclusión social y la justicia. Hoy en día, el trabajo diaconal es también llevado a cabo por ONGs independientes o afiliadas a iglesias.

Eurodiaconia se registró como Organización No Gubernamental (ONG) en Estrasburgo, Francia en 1995. En 2008, la entidad legal de la organización fue trasladada en Bélgica como organización internacional sin fines de lucro.

El órgano con mayor capacidad de toma decisiones es la Asamblea General Ordinaria, organizada a turno cada año por los miembros de la organización en Europa. Cada año, los miembros de la federación deciden la estrategia y el plan de trabajo para el año siguiente y abarcan otros temas de importancia para la organización. En 2019, la Asamblea General Ordinaria se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Edimburgo, Escocia.<ref> Eurodiaconia es registrada como ONG en Bélgica y recibe el apoyo financiero del programa European Union for Employment and Social Innovation "EaSI" (2014 – 2020). Las mayores fuentes de ingresos para Eurodiaconia son las quotas de admisión pagadas por sus socios y la subvención de la Comisión Europea. El Secretario General actual es Heather Roy, nombrada en 2008.

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Social Platform
Eurodiaconia es miembro de Social Platform (Plataforma Social en Español): una red europea de organizaciones de la sociedad civil que trabajan en el tercer sector.

Research in Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi)
Eurodiaconia partecipa al trabajo de una sociedad internacional involucrada en el estudio y la investigación sobre la Diaconia – ReDi (Investigación sobre la Diaconia y prácticas sociales Cristianas en Español). Como miembro de esta red, Eurodiaconia participa a conferencias bianuales, colabora con otros investigadores y tiene acceso a una revista académica que abarca un gran número de temas como la evaluación, análisis contextual y los estudios teológicos, éticos, empíricos y hermenéuticos.

The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)
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Social Services Europe
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2011 Indian Premier League
The 2011 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 4 or the 2011 IPL, will be the fourth season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament will be hosted by India and the opening ceremony will be held in Chepauk Stadium, Chennai, the home venue for 2010 Champions Chennai Super Kings. The season will run from April 8 to May 28 2011. The season saw the addition of new teams: Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
With the introduction of 2 new teams, a new ten-team format was created. This new format consists of 74 matches and was introduced as retaining the previous format would result in 94 matches, significantly greater than the 60 matches from the previous season, where teams compete in a double round-robin tournament. The knockout stage was changed to a playoff format. If a match ends in a tie, a Super Over will be played to determine the winner.
The ten teams are divided into two groups of five. In the group stage, each team plays 14 games: facing the other four teams in their group two times each (one home and one away game), four teams in the other group once, and the remaining team two times. A random draw was used to determine the groups and who plays whom across the groups once and twice.
Each team plays the team in the same row and the same column twice, and all others once. For instance, Pune Warriors will play Chennai Super Kings and the other Group A teams twice but the other teams from Group B (Kolkata Knight Riders, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals) only once. Similarly Kochi Tuskers Kerala will play Delhi Daredevils and the other Group B teams twice but all other teams from Group A only once.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and playoffs
Host(s)	India
Champions	TBD
Matches played	74
Man of the Series	TBD
Most runs	TBD
Most wickets	TBD
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Group A	Group B
Deccan Chargers	Kolkata Knight Riders
Delhi Daredevils	Kochi Tuskers Kerala
Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Mumbai Indians	Rajasthan Royals
Pune Warriors India	Chennai Super Kings


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UEFA Championship: the Generalisimo's Legacy Lives On
This is the day that rabid futbol fans look forward to all year. The UEFA Champions League Final is the culmination of a season long tournament between the best clubs from the best leagues from across Europe. This year's tournament has seen some big surprises— the two favorites (reigning champ FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich) were both eliminated by an under the radar Atletico Madrid club. One thing that is not a surprise though is the total dominance of Spain's La Liga. In fact both finalists in today's big match are from Madrid! Later today scrappy Atletico Madrid will try to keep long-time powerhouse Real Madrid from taking a record 11th European championship. Sevilla has already won the Europa Cup (which might be compared to the NIT tournament in American basketball for reference). Amazingly Barcelona, arguably the best club in the world, winner of La Liga and the Copa Del Rey, is out. So how did Spanish futbol become so powerful?
Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world. Perhaps nowhere can this be seen more prominently than in Spain. Importantly, many of Spain's soccer clubs reflect the politics of the region they represent. The story really begins with the Generalisimo– Francisco Franco. It centers around what might be the most hated rivalry in sports, known as el clasico, between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. A rivalry that has at times seen such brutality, including state-sponsored murder and imprisonment, that to this day it is as much political, maybe more so, as it is sporting (see Catalonian separatist movement).
The Spanish Civil War has been described as the warm-up for the Second World War. The end came in 1939 when the insurgent rebel Nationalist forces of General Francisco Franco finally defeated the army of the popularly elected Republican Government to take control of the country. The unmerciful civil war, fueled by political, religious and sectarian hatred, had dragged on for three terribly bloody years. Franco's allies in the war had been Mussolini, Hitler and the Catholic Church. When Franco's troops captured Madrid on March 28th to end the war his primary task, after executing tens of thousands of his enemies, many in Barcelona, was to forcefully unify his new Spanish state. A long campaign of murder, torture and political oppression ensued leading to decades of fascist-style dictatorship. Separatists from previously autonomous regions, especially those in Catalonia and Basque country, came in for extra harsh scrutiny. Both fought Franco's policies very bitterly, so his gaze was squarely fixed upon them.
From the start the Generalisimo brilliantly co-opted the beautiful game as one of his most successful propaganda tools. He had seen how his benefactors, Mussolini and Hitler, had manipulated the sport in their own countries to great advantage and quickly followed suite. Immediately he adopted Real Madrid as his, and hence the nation's, club. He then used the club masterfully to build domestic support for the Falangist state, to build positive exposure for the regime in the eyes of the world, to divert domestic attention from the economic dislocation and bankruptcy that plagued the regime, and most importantly for this discussion, as a vehicle to crush the persistent Catalonian resistance and suppress Catalan language and culture. He did this in part by stigmatizing (criminalizing?) support for the other great Spanish club, FC Barcelona, the symbol of Catalonian pride. Barca, in turn, would become arguably the single most important symbol of republican resistance against the regime for decades to come. The rivalry was quite literally about life and death, and it escalated accordingly over the years with each side always striving to outdo the other.
Today most of the clubs competing professionally in Spain are listed under the legal status of sports companies, whose ownership is in the hands shareholders. With the appearance in recent years of mega-dollar private television deals many clubs have drastically increased income, allowing for the hiring of many of the best players in the world. But as these things go many clubs over-spent and with the collapse of the world economy in 2009 many have fallen into financial turmoil. The two powerful clubs, Real and Barca, have weathered the storm with great success, but many others have not been so lucky. Atletico Madrid, Sevilla (and occasionally Valencia) continue to be very competitive but have tiny war-chests by comparison.
So in a few hours from now, at San Siro stadium in Milan, built by the industrial kingpin Pirelli during Mussolini's fascist rule, Atletico Madrid will try to derail another title bid by Franco's club, the world's most valuable sports franchise. GO ATLETICO!
Check out this excellent BBC documentary on these times:
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For ships staying overnight in Alexandria this two day tour of Cairo with a hotel is an outstanding way to see all of the city's highlights. You will escape the crowded cruise line tours on a far more personable experience with your professionally licensed guide.
Your tour begins as you depart the pier for the approximate 3-hour drive through the flat desert landscape to Africa's largest city, Cairo. After arriving at the outskirts of Cairo, you will proceed to the Giza Plateau to discover the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World, the Pyramids of Giza. It is here that Three Pharaohs, Cheops, his son Chephren and grandson Mykerinus, erected great tombs to preserve protect their mummified bodies in the afterlife. You will then drive to the high western plateau for panoramic views and photo opportunities of the valley and pyramids below.
The next stop on your shore excursion is a visit to the guardian of the mortuary complex, the mysterious Sphinx. This mystical creature has the head of a man, and the body of a lion and stretches out to a length of 240 feet. It is believed the Sphinx was carved out of a solid natural rock around 2650 B.C. Following your visit, you will have lunch at a nearby hotel. After lunch, a stop will be at the Papyrus Institute to see demonstrations on how the ancient Egyptians made paper from reeds from the Nile. Spend some free time for souvenir shopping in the adjacent bazaar.
Your last stop is the magnificent Egyptian Museum, the most important depository of Egyptian antiquities in the world. The museum is home to over 120,000 items, only a portion of which are in display in its more than 120 rooms. The artifacts date from 2700 B.C. to the 6th-century A.D. It includes thousands of statues, jewels and the treasure of the boy king, Tutankhamun. Your tour includes a visit to the King Tut gallery which houses the golden mask and items from the treasury. It does not include a visit to the Royal Mummy room.
After an early breakfast, drive to the Citadel of Saladin, where panoramic views of the city of Cairo can be seen. Here you will also visit the spectacular Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
Your tour continues on to the area of Sakkara, located south of Cairo. Sakkara is one part of the great necropolis of Memphis, which was the capital of the Old Kingdom. It was thought that the section was for the kings of the 1st and 2nd dynasty only, but excavations have revealed the tombs of a prime minister, the son of one of the Dynasty's Kings and a queen's pyramid. Sakkara is probably best known as the location of King Djoser's Pyramid, better known as the Step Pyramid. It is the oldest known of the nearly 100 pyramids that have been discovered in Egypt. It was designed by the architect Imhotep, whose design was both unique and revolutionary.
From Sakkara, proceed to the old capital of Memphis. You will see the ruins of the Temple of Ptah and see the fallen colossal statue of King Ramses the second and the Alabaster Sphinx of King Amenhopis the second during your orientation drive. A stop will be made for lunch at a local hotel. After lunch, you will begin your drive back to Alexandria arriving in the late afternoon.
Please note: A visit inside the Pyramids is not included on this tour. There is no air-conditioning or elevator inside the Egyptian Museum; guests must use the stairs to access the 2nd floor. Cameras are not permitted inside the Egyptian Museum. The drive between the pier and Cairo is approximately 3 hours in each direction. Hotel rooms can accommodate up to three guests. Parties of 4 would need 2 rooms.
When visiting the Mosque (day 2) shoulders must be covered and men and women must wear long pants covering all of the leg. Women must also bring a scarf to cover their head. Comfortable, sensible walking shoes and sun protection are recommended.
Minimum age to participate is 6 years old. Guests must be able to walk approximately 1.5 miles each day over uneven, gravel, cobblestone and sandy surfaces with paved walkway. Stairs are required in the Egyptian Museum. Cameras are not allowed in the museum.


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Revere Man Summoned after Chase
A 39-year-old Revere man has been summoned to court after leading police on a chase May 6 through the city at speeds that approached 100 mph at times.
Around 2:42 p.m., officers observed the man pass through the Whelan School area at a high rate of speed during school hours. Officers pulled the man over and told him he was going too fast. He began to argue with police, and then took off. Police followed him at about 35 mph with their lights and sirens off.
He ran the red light at Broadway and Malden Street. Then he blew through the red light at Revere Street and Broadway.
As they approached Brown Circle, the man hit the gas and was travelling at speeds around 100 mph, police said.
At that point, supervisors called off the chase and the owner of the vehicle was summoned.
Mario Damore, 39, of Revere, was charged with failing to stop for police, operating recklessly, failing to stop, and speeding.
Fled the Scene
A Lynn man accused of drunk driving allegedly fled the scene on May 7 after hitting a car on Sargent Street.
Around 8 p.m., police got a report and several calls saying two vehicles had been in an accident on Sargent and Griffin streets. The operator of one of the vehicles was reported to have fled the scene. Witnesses said the driver of one of the cars hit another car in the rear.
They observed that driver to flee the car shortly afterward.
Police found the man two streets over, and after an investigation, placed him under arrest.
Joseph Quinn, 54, of Lynn, was charged with operating under the influence of liquor (second offense), negligent operation, speeding, and leaving the scene.
Lowell Man Fled
A Lowell man has been summoned to court after getting involved in an accident and fleeing the scene on Park Avenue May 4.
Witnesses called police around 11:41 p.m. and reported that a man had hit two parked cars, stopped his vehicle and fled the scene.
One witness observed the man to be bleeding from his face and tried to follow him on foot. However, the driver got away.
Police searched the area to no avail and have summoned the owner of the car.
They did find an open container of alcohol in the vehicle afterward.
Hector Aracena, 32, of Lowell, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, negligent operation, marked lanes violation, speeding, and possession of an open container of alcohol.
Movie Feud
One woman and her daughter were apparently assaulted by a loud talker in the bathroom of the Showcase Cinema on May 9.
The woman reported that the day before, she was at the movies with her daughter when she encountered a woman talking loud next to her during the movie. After unsuccessfully asking her to quiet down, a theatre worker came and stood next to the loud talker.
After the worker left, the woman began talking again loudly.
When the movie was over, the victim and her daughter went to the bathroom, and the loud talker followed them.
As they were inside, the victim reported that the woman blocked the doorway and wanted to know if they had a problem.
At that point, she pushed the woman and her daughter, but they were able to escape.
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