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Episode 15: Memoir as a Political Act
September 24, 2019 Julián Esteban Torres López Being Latina/o/x Series, Interviews, Podcast
How can memoir be a political act? When living under oppressive systems, the simple act of standing up and sharing personal stories that go against the mainstream is a political act. Mireya S. Vela and Julián Esteban Torres López meditate on this issue, which is an essential part of each other's work. Vela speaks from the perspective of an author, while Torres López forwards his experience as a publisher. Through their work, they both explore systemic inequities and injustice and use memoir to challenge, expose, and defiantly try to break down structures that have traditionally marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, and/or forgotten so many.
Mireya S. Vela is a Mexican-American storyteller and visual artist. Addressing the needs of immigrant and Mexican families, and the disparities they face every day, is a core aspect of her work. Vestiges of Courage, Mireya's debut book, is a collection of essays. She has received four Pushcart nominations. Her work can be found in Hippocampus Magazine, Noble/Gas Qtrly, Not Your Mother's Breastmilk, The Nasiona, Miracle Monocle, Blanket Sea, and Collective Unrest. An inspiring speaker and expert research specialist, Mireya holds a bachelor's in English from Whittier College and a master's in creative writing from Antioch University. She is found on www.mireyasvela.com.
Julián Esteban Torres López is a Colombian-born journalist, publisher, podcaster, educator, and editor. Before founding the nonfiction storytelling organization The Nasiona, he ran several cultural and arts organizations, edited journals and books, was a social justice and public history researcher, wrote a column for Colombia Reports, taught university courses, and managed a history museum. He's a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee and has written two books on social justice. Torres López holds a bachelor's in philosophy and in communication and a master's in justice studies from the University of New Hampshire and was a Ph.D. candidate at University of British Columbia Okanagan, where he focused on political science and Latin American studies. He is found on https://jetorreslopez.com/.
The Nasiona Podcast shares stories that explore the spectrum of human experience and glimpse into foreign worlds. We focus on stories based on facts, truth-seeking, human concerns, real events, and real people, with a personal touch. From liminal lives to the marginalized, and everything in between, we believe that the subjective can offer its own reality and reveal truths some facts can't discover. Hosted, edited, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López.
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Publishing has a race problem. Entertainment Weekly reported that only 7.8% of romance authors using a traditional publisher were people of color in 2016. For that same year, NPR found that only 22% of all characters in children's books were characters of color. This, in a country where people of color are expected to make up more than half of the population by 2044 according to The Center for American Progress. For this reason, writers like Anika Fajardo, who is Colombian and white, and F. Douglas Brown, who is African American and Filipino, are more important than ever. Both were contributors to The Beiging of America, mentioned in our last episode. […]
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Conversation with recovering sportswriter and emerging memoirist, Jim Cavan, about the industry, the craft, and how a rare cancer has affected his family. "To approach the other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in […]
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What first drew me to Mireya S. Vela was what initially attracted me to the work of Frida Kahlo. Vela's art and creative nonfiction consider an important question: What is Woman? Vela outwardly displays her pain […]
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You can have the same floral arrangements for the ceremony and for the reception. You just need enough manpower to move stuff around while you are transitioning from one venue to the other. If everything is one place or venue, it will be even more convenient for you and you will be able to make the most out of your wedding flowers.
The florist isn't your only source for wedding flowers. A quick trip down to the farmer's market to talk to the suppliers and to the wholesalers can cut you a price deal and can give you so much more option for the flowers for the wedding day. more than that, you can be rest assured that buying in bulk will give you more blooms for the wedding without stretching out your wedding budget that much. It is the perfect win for you as a bride. However, you need to know right out that it has always been and will always turn out to be a bit of a challenge because it means that you will be putting in a little bit of work somewhere along the way. This is a small price to pay though compared to the amount of savings you will be bringing in so it is still something worth thinking about.
When flowers are in season, you get to make sure that you are able to maximize your wedding budget at some point or so. Although it may be true that wedding flowers are bound to cost you a lot of money, buying the flowers in season will more or less help you level off the financial blow a little bit. Always think about this and always consider this as much as possible. Think about the time of the year that the wedding day is happening in. do your research ahead of time. Ask your florist about the flowers that are in season at around that time of the year and make the most out of it. You can go with flowers that are in season and things will work out for you so much better at the end of the day. Buds that are in season are always the best way to go because you get to make the most out of your money. It gives you enough rope to run with for the rest of the other expenses that you have for the wedding day so far.
Bigger buds are always better.
It comes as no surprise how wedding flowers in general can end up costing you a lot of money but one way around this would be for you to go for a bigger bud selection when you are getting your floral arrangements for the wedding taken into account. Bigger buds technically mean that you are making the most out of the flowers that are being included. You don't need as many buds and this can in turn save you a little bit of money somewhere in the process. More than that, the thing about bigger buds is that they are sturdier which technically means that they will last longer and take a longer time to wilt. You can even use them up as decorations long after the wedding is over so try to see how it will work out for you and ask your florist about it. Bigger buds are also more impressive looking so get this checked out one way or the other.


Squale is continuing to add to its line up of divers based on the original Squale Master divers of the 1960s. Last year, we got the gorgeous Squale-Matic, which was a nice update to the standard 1521 model. But this year, Squale is upping their game with the release of the new T183 diver. The T183 retains the classic Master/1521 case shape, but instead of steel, this time they are going with an innovative layered carbon fiber and fiberglass mix that, to my eye, looks really damn cool.
The T183 will be available in three different case colors: red/black, blue/black, and black/gray. The layering of the carbon and fiberglass gives the case a striped look, and the effect is quite striking. I can usually take or leave carbon cases, but this layered look is something I haven't seen before, and I like what it does here. The weight is light-ish — not as light as you might expect from carbon, but obviously lighter than metal. The bezel is done in ceramic with a Super-LumiNova triangle at 12:00.
The dial color is black for the red and blue cases, and gray for the black case, and features painted lume indices. While I love the applied steel hour markers of the Squale-Matic, I feel that the painted lume paired with a matte black dial really works with this case material. Squale has fortunately kept the long-standard 42mm case size, as well as the sapphire crystal and screw down crown.
Powering the T183 is a Sellita SW200, essentially a drop in for the 2824. The T183 will come with a ballistic fiber strap made of the same material used in bullet-proof vests with colors matching the case color.
Christoph (Instagram's @vintagediver) is a long time collector and lover of all things vintage, starting with comic books when he was a kid (he still collects them). His passion for watches began in 1997 when he was gifted a family heirloom vintage Omega Genève by his step-father. That started him on the watch collecting path—buying and selling vintage watches of all sorts, with a special appreciation for vintage dive watches and Seiko.
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Merine Kilian is a student living in New York. The following story was told to Jessica Chou and edited for length and clarity.
I started donating my hair when I was a kid. I have chronic kidney disease, so I grew up in the hospital for the first five years of my life. For the longest time, my hair wouldn't grow at all because of the medication I was on, but it didn't really bother me. Instead, I just wanted my hair to grow so I could donate it because I had friends in the hospital who were losing their hair because of cancer. My mom used to always say, "When your hair is longer, you'll be able to cut your hair and donate it so they can make a wig for someone like your friend Marisa." That just stuck with me.
Once my hair started growing, I would always let it grow eight inches, then cut it to donate. But I would only cut my hair to my shoulders — never any higher. Then, my cousin and my aunt were both diagnosed with cancer, and I thought, Okay, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to support them wholeheartedly. On August 2014, I had my last haircut for three years, and in December 2017, I chopped off 33 inches of hair, buzzing it all off to donate it and raise awareness.
This was a particularly emotional experience for me. Right before my buzzcut, I went to the doctor for a check up, and my doctor noticed I had lost a lot of weight. The day before my buzzcut, they told me to go get screened to make sure I didn't have cancer. My mom and I scheduled the appointment, and she asked me, "Do you still want to shave your head?" And I said, "Yeah. If I have cancer, there's no way I'm letting cancer win my hair."
The day of the shoot, I was nervous and excited. It's really thanks to my amazing family and friends that I had the courage to go through with it and share my story. It's such a silly fear now that I think about it, but I kept thinking, "What if I have dandruff, and everyone can see it?" But when it was done, I could feel the air on my head, and it felt so light. I remember my first time showering after the shoot, and thinking, Oh my gosh. The water does hit your head and it feels so different. It was crazy.
For some people, losing their hair might feel like losing a part of their identity. But buzzing all my hair off felt like I was gaining a part of myself. Before the cut, I was known as "the girl with the long hair." But I never felt like people would take the time to get to know me. And right when I decided to chop off all my hair, I was becoming a part of a new friend group, and I didn't really talk to them about all the volunteer work and donations I do.
For some people, losing their hair might feel like losing a part of their identity. But buzzing all my hair off felt like I was gaining a part of myself.
Now, my hair is conversation starter. After I chopped it all off, I was with my best friend and her older brother's friend came over. At first, I felt like he was like, Who is this guy she's talking to? But when he saw my face, he said, "Merine? Your haircut looks super nice." And then he asked why I cut my hair, and it was a moment for me to talk about how I wanted to raise awareness about cancer, and how easy it is to donate your hair.
Another friend watched the video and told me about her own family history with cancer, and I realized it was something we had never talked about before. So now it's something that unites us, and now I know when I want to go to a cancer walk or another fundraising event, I have some friends who are going to help. I feel like a part of myself is now open to the world, and if someone's weird about it, they're the crappy person — not me. I'm just being who I am.
My cousin is now cancer-free, and thankfully, I am also cancer-free. But my aunt is still going through it. When I sent my cousin and aunt the video, they both cried. My cousin told me, "Losing my hair was a big part of what I was going through, and it was really tough for me. But it's hair, it'll grow back, and I know if it doesn't, I'll look beautiful."
Next, I'd really like to dye my hair purple to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis, but once you dye your hair you can't make it into a wig. So I'm torn. I've definitely noticed when you do something more dramatic, people notice more; they pay attention. Now, I'm no longer the girl with the long hair — I'm the girl with the buzzcut, who donated all her hair to charity.


Allison Task is a career and life coach who has helped hundreds of people transform their lives. By actively pursuing meaningful personal and career goals, Allison's clients have changed careers, launched companies, retired early, moved their families across the country — and around the world.
Allison has a degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University, a coaching certificate and Master's Degree from New York University, and a culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives with her husband and their four children in Montclair, New Jersey and is the author of Personal (R)evolution: How To Be Happy, Change Your Life, and Do That Thing You've Always Wanted To Do.
Dr. Yaron Moshel is co-director of The Brain Tumor Center of New Jersey at Atlantic Health System's Overlook Medical Center in Summit and part of the neurosurgical team at Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists in Morristown. He is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Dr. Moshel is one of a select few surgeons who specialize in removing deep-seated brain tumors using technology that includes computer-guided navigation, awake intraoperative brain mapping, endoscopy, and microsurgery. Dr. Moshel is a vital part of Overlook Medical Center's CyberKnife Program making it the largest CyberKnife Program in the tri-state region for the treatment of brain tumors. Dr. Moshel is also actively involved in advancing the treatment of brain tumors and actively participates in national multicenter clinical trials, most recently working with an autologous dendritic cell vaccine and on a retroviral vaccine trial for recurrent brain tumors.
Previously Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Dr. Moshel's clinical interests and neurosurgical abilities extend beyond the treatment of brain tumors. He is experienced in the surgical approaches for skull base and spine tumors and in endoscopic transnasal surgery for pituitary and skull base lesions. His practice also encompasses the surgical treatment of epilepsy and minimally invasive treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
Dr. Barbara Minkowitz, MD is a pediatric orthopedic surgery specialist in Morristown, NJ and has been practicing for 24 years. She graduated from New York Medical College in 1987 and specializes in pediatric orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, and more.
Jennifer Pilia and Ken Sims are physical therapists at, SportsCare Institute. The institute offers many innovative techniques to return you to your previous level of performance.


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The Bible says, ' John 6: 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed'.
The term 'temporal' connotes a limited time, something that's not perpetual. On the other hand, 'eternal' means unending, forever or everlasting. There are examples of these two different words, the earth, this world falls under the temporal category, while heaven/hell falls under the eternal category. While the eternal has options, the temporal stands alone, do you know why? It is because *the temporal determines the eternal.* Are you confused ? ? Don't be, I'll explain better.
Your lifestyle in the temporal (on earth) determines where you will spend your eternal (heaven or hell). *While you didn't have the option of being born into this world or not, you do have the option of where to live forever after this world. Life and death is in your power of choice* but our loving Father admonishes us to choose life so that we may live forever.
Evaluate your life this morning beloved, *when you draw the fleeting breath, when your eyelids close in death, when you soar to world unknown, where will your soul appear?* "I don't know" is not an answer because if you are sincere to yourself at this point, you know what your heart is saying. If you are living for Christ or not, you know it. If you are still doubting or have fears, then, you need to visit Calvary and ask for a happy and secured eternal abode.
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The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has sworn to abide by the ruling to be made on Tuesday by the State Council as to whether Bogota's ex-mayor should be re-instated. President Juan Manuel Santos said in a statement on Tuesday that if ordered by the State Council to reinstate dismissed Bogota Mayor, Gustavo Petro, he will do so, in order to abide by Constitutional Law.
"If a judicial authority comes and tells me to reinstate Mayor Petro, I will follow their requests and reinstate him, because that is my obligation. That is what I swore to do," he said.
Colombia's State Council met on Tuesday to discuss the case of ex-Bogota Mayor, Gustavo Petro who was removed from office and banned for 15 years over supposed "irregularities" that occurred during his attempts to transfer the city's private garbage collection system into public hands.
Controversy arose when President Santos decided to enforce Petro's dismissal despite human rights organizations stating that to do so would be in breach of the Mayor's rights.
The appeal submitted last week by Petro was initially supposed to be reviewed by the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca, but that court declared itself incompetent in making a ruling on the former mayor's case.
Rafael Prado was sworn in as interim mayor after Petro's dismissal.


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At Kronborg Castle, you can learn about the history of Denmark. Walk in the footsteps of kings, queens, famous actors, and the legendary hero Holger the Dane.
The history of the castles dates back to 1420 when it was built on the coastal tip of the Northern town Helsingør (Elsinore). And since then has been noted as one of Northern Europe's finest Renaissance castles.
The Castle is listed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. Besides the ballrooms, royal suites, and art covered walls, the historical castle walls host events such as theatre and Christmas Markets.
During the summer, you can experience a live version of William Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of Hamlet', which has made Kronborg world famous. When you walk around in the castle, the Hamlet play is performed through short and interactive theatre performances.
In the winter, Kronborg Castle is filled up with 'hygge' and cosiness for 'Christmas at Kronborg'. Here, you can experience Christmas stalls, concerts, and storytelling for the children.
Denderupvej 19, DK-4690 Haslev
www.campadventure.dk
Did you know that the Forest Tower in Gisselfeld Kloster's forests is on the 2019 list of the World's Greatest Placesin the American TIME Magazine?
It is easy to understand why because when you reach the top of the tower, you have a 360 degree view of the clattering beechwoods from a height of 45 metres. The Forest Tower is designed by EFFEKT architects who has made sure that the tower blends into it's surroundings by designing it weathered steel and locally sourced oak.
A visit to the tower is an active excursion. The walk through the beechwoods, to the towertop and back is 3,2 kilometers and last about 2 hours.
Ny Kronborgvej 1, DK-3000 Helsingør
www.mfs.dk
Do you want a maritime and subsurface cultural experience that makes you think of brave naval heroes with tattoos on their upper arms and flapping sails that seek for the top of the mast?
The M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, is placed in a well preserved and glass framed dry dock that invites plenty of light inside.
In here, you can explore between old ships, movies, acoustic images, and background music that tell stories about Denmark and its status as one of the world's leading maritime nations since the seventeenth century.
Frederiksborg Slot 10, DK-3400 Hillerød
www.dnm.dk
At Fredriksborg Castle, you find the Museum of National History. It tells 500 year old stories about Denmark's cultural heritage through portraits, paintings, furniture and industrial art.
You can also take a boat trip in the Castle Lake or take a walk in the beautiful palace garden.
Frederiksborg Castle was build by Christian IV in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was build as a mark of his powerful position in the Northern European monarchy. The castle therefore gives you an insight into the royal life back then.
Gl. Strandvej 13, DK-3050 Humlebæk
www.louisiana.dk
Do you feel like being wrapped up in an artistic universe of contemporary creations and sense impressions?
At Louisiana, the art does not only take the shape of paintings and sculptures, but also of architecture and landscapes. Therefore, you can look forward to both traditional, virtual and lively exhibitions with illusionistic rooms of colours, lights and mirrors.
Outside the museum, you can wander around on winding paths in the Sculpture Park or enjoy a coastal breeze from the ocean.
Rungsted Strandvej 111, DK-2960 Rungsted Kyst
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Experience the artistic home in which the Danish writer, poet and storyteller Karen Blixen was born. It is also where she wrote her world known stories and lived until her death in 1962.
At the Karen Blixen Museum, you can get a deep insight into the life of the famous writer and see many of the original furniture brought back from her farm in Africa.
You can also look forward to a peaceful experience of nature. In the bird sanctuary you can listen to twittering from 40 different bird species.
Kongevejen 100, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby
www.natmus.dk
At the Open Air Museum, you can travel 350 years back in time. Here you can get an insight into the agricultural life that has formed the foundation of the Denmark we know today.
As a visitor, you can grind flour, cut flint stones or make snaps to take home. You can also stroll around in peaceful surroundings and experience more than 50 original timber framed houses with thatched roof and mills.
The authentic experience is underlined by the volunteers who wear period clothing and live in the museum during the summer.
Vindeboder 12, DK-4000 Roskilde
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk
At the Viking Ship Museum, you and your family can get a shared experience that awakens your senses and creates memories. Memories that make you think of Mead wine drinking seafarers, dangerous expeditions and roaring sea waves.
You get a rare chance to explore five original Viking ships, cultural history, and maritime workmanship. From the 1st of May to the 1st of September, you can even hoist the sail and grab the oars before you set the course and head for Roskilde Fjord in a hand built and secure Viking boat.
Domkirkepladsen 3, DK-4000 Roskilde
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If you visit Roskilde Cathedral, you get close to architecture that tells 1000 year old stories. The cathedral has been the burial church of the Danish monarchs for decades. Besides the majestic size and brick architecture, this makes the building one of the oldest and most important heritage symbol of Danish history.
In the cathedral, you can go for a tour and be fascinated by murals, artistic details, high arches, and the historic organ built by Herman Raphaelis.
Skovvej 100, DK-2635 Ishøj
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When you visit the art museum ARKEN, you also step into spectacular architectural building, which put the suburban town of Ishøj on the map.
The pointy bow and the reflection in the surrounding water's surface make the museum look like a stranded ship. The maritime experience continues inside, where you can wander between 400 artworks in frames that make you think of the hull of a ship.
The museum offers Danish, Nordic and international contemporary art from both upcoming and well established artists.
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Anavar has gained popularity amongst many anabolic steroids that are preferred by bodybuilders all over the world. This is due to the fact that Anavar is able to bring to the table a safe profile with extraordinary anabolic results. By using Anavar as the choice anabolic steroid, it guarantees bodybuilders and especially the beginners, that they be able to have increased muscle growth together with body strength when they use the product. By boosting protein synthesis in bringing about the disposition in muscles, Anavar works perfectly ensure there is the building of the size of the muscles. Anavar can also be combined with other strategies that are aimed at weight loss such as exercise and dietary plans as it is a synthetic testosterone compound that is able to assist in weight control.
There are a lot of consequences when it comes to using steroids and Anavar is no exception. Liver damage is one of the side effects of having to use Anavar as the choice anabolic steroid for long periods of time. Combining the steroid with alcohol or even taking overdoses to be able to increase the performance and results to other liver damages. Unexplained headaches and dizziness and also some of the symptoms together with body enlargement in males.


Sorry fellows I forgot all above it this, gonna ring the bank tomorrow and get it paid.
Payments not received by close of business Thursday, won't have a manifold.
Supplier has informed me there's a delay (should have been 4th May) and will be finished 25/26th May.
Now received - these will be packaged tonight and shipped before the bank holiday.
For those of you who wish to collect, I would appreciate a timely collection as storage space is at a premium. Please PM me to arrange.
P.S - I have a spare manifold as someone pulled out, PM me if you want it!
They fit with a standard gasket as far as I know (where it mates with the head) the other end is just an open pipe so would use a clamp as it fits the next part of the exhaust.
That one is 20 euro, pretty sure if you just go to your local parts place you'll get the gaskets for about ten quid, probably over the counter, or same /next day at worst.
A long shot I know but is there any manifolds currently available?


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'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' to premiere at Cannes Film Festival
by Editorial Team 4th May 2022
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Eminent Indian actor and filmmaker R Madhavan's much-awaited directorial debut, biographical drama Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, will receive its World Premiere during the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The Palais des Festival premiere will take place during a prime-time slot at 9pm on Thursday 19th May as part of the celebration of India as the official country of honour at the Cannes Film Market this year – an inaugural tradition that will be continued at future editions. The launch of the festival tradition is particularly significant during its 75th year, coinciding with 75 years of Indian independence. India's Ministry of Culture has officially selected Rocketry: The Nambi Effect for its Red Carpet World Premiere at the prestigious venue.
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect has been shot simultaneously in multiple languages including Hindi, Tamil and English, with the English version premiering at the prestigious, international film festival. Its theatrical release, scheduled for 1stJuly, will also feature Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada versions. R Madhavan plays the role of the eponymous, Indian scientist, Nambi Narayanan, a former ISRO scientist and aerospace engineer, and has also directed, produced and written the film.
Staged on a mammoth scale, the film has been shot in India, France, Canada, Georgia, Serbia and Russia. It features an ensemble star cast comprising acclaimed, international actors Phyllis Logan, Vincent Riotta and Ron Donachie alongside R Madhavan, Simran, Rajit Kapur, Ravi Raghavendra, Misha Ghoshal, Gulshan Grover, Karthik Kumar and Dinesh Prabhakar, with special appearances from superstars, Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya.
Tracing the life of Narayanan, renowned for developing the Vikas Engine – one of the most efficient, liquid fuel engines in the world today that continues to be a workhorse at The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in almost every launch with the unique distinction of never having failed – the former ISRO scientist and aerospace engineer was inevitably embroiled in a spy scandal. The biographical drama will unveil the truth behind the mystery as it unravels in an interview by celebrated superstar of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan (in English and Hindi) and Suriya Sivakumar (in Tamil) on a TV programme.
Speaking about Rocketry: The Nambi Effect's World Premiere during Cannes Film Festival, R Madhavan says, "I'm in a daze! I just started by wanting to tell the story of Nambi Narayanan and I'm unable to believe all that's happening. With God's grace, we've waited long and I'm grateful and thrilled to watch all good things happening for the film. As a debut director, my nervousness is making it difficult for me to breathe and all I hope is to make India proud!"
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is produced by TriColour films, Varghese Moolan Pictures and 27th Investments. The film is being distributed by UFO Moviez in India, with Red Giants distributing in the South, and distributed internationally by Yash Raj Films and Phars Film Co.
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SMMTA eyes more government support in taking yachting industry to next level
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The marine sector is driving the need for highly skilled employment, like rigging specialists.
PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten is potentially missing out on millions of dollars in revenue from the yacht industry, according to St. Maarten Marine Trades Association (SMMTA) president Christopher Marshall.
"Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, the international yachting industry has grown over the past year, and steady growth is projected at a rate of 5.2 per cent," he said.
Due to government's quick action in the face of the lockdown in the spring of 2020, St. Maarten was able to have a successful 2020-2021 yachting season, said Marshall. "St. Maarten even saw a number of large vessels in our waters during the summer of 2020."
The SMMTA board worked hard in 2020 to put a COVID-19 protocol in place, to make the entry rules clear for yachts. Marshall: "We worked very closely with the Ministry of TEATT [Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication – Ed.] and Maritime Affairs, creating a Task Force for the yachting industry with participation of police, Coast Guard, Immigration and Collective Prevention Services (CPS). The cooperation with them and with the Tourist Office was very good."
There are government officials who see the benefits of the marine industry and are in favour of putting new rules in place, Marshall said. "This public-private sector cooperation was hugely successful and enabled St. Maarten's marine industry to welcome a significant number of yachting clients this past season."
Although there is change happening, as is evidenced from the successful protocol, Marshall emphasised that "we need to go a lot deeper and a lot faster to capture a significant market."
A report by Frank Bruinsma and Thomas de Graaff in 2015 under Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam commissioned by the Superyacht Builders Association determined that the annual global expenditure on maintenance, repairs and operations on yachts over 30 metres was valued at 11.9 billion euros. "Note that the yachting market in St. Maarten covers a much broader spectrum of yachts from as small as 10 metres to as large as 150 metres," Marshall said.
Furthermore, recent surveys suggest the market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2 per cent from 2021 to 2028. This year's Global Order Book for superyachts paints the picture of an industry in robust health, with 821 superyacht projects being built or ordered globally, an increase on last year's number of 807.
St. Maarten is one of the most popular countries for superyacht visits. With 43 mega-yachts docked in Simpson Bay Lagoon and at Port St. Maarten in 2019, the island was ranked number six in the world in terms of superyacht visits.
"It would be a fair guess to say that over the course of a season, from November to May, the combined value of the large and small yachts that spend some time here could easily be over US $5 billion. Nevertheless, our sector is not facilitated by government at the level and pace that we would like to see as a provider of economic growth and opportunities for the local labour market."
Data on the size of the yachting industry in St. Maarten are not readily available. According to a 2020 report by the National Recovery Program Bureau, the sector is "too private for data collection." Marshall contradicts this.
"It is not difficult to determine a value for the contribution of the sector," he countered. "For this you do not need to talk to the owners of mega-yachts, but can instead engage organisations such as the SMMTA. Even more, data does exist: a survey in 2012 found that the sector generated more than $300 million per year and represented 15 per cent of St. Maarten's GDP [gross domestic product]. Now, almost 10 years later, it seems quite clear that these numbers have not decreased, so why can't we take action based on what we do know?"
Hurricane Irma wrought total devastation on St. Maarten on September 6, 2017. However, the marine sector, in comparison to most sectors, recovered quickly, and was one of the most significant economic contributors to the St. Maarten economy in the 2017-2018 season. Although many land-based facilities were unable to repair in time to benefit from the season, the marine businesses were quick to recover.
The post-COVID economic recovery has been similar – with the marine industry driving the sole economic activity in the spring and summer of 2020, and foreshadowing a very strong winter season, even while most land-based businesses were far from average numbers.
Marshall continued: "We believe that these two experiences show that not only does yachting have huge potential in normal times, but it is also an industry that recovers quickly, and thus permits St. Maarten to generate economic activity even during the most difficult and trying times."
SMMTA is convinced that the yachting sector in St. Maarten can grow much more, said Marshall. "If you want to argue that data is insufficient you can rely on a calculation formula that is used worldwide in the yachting industry, which is that 10 per cent of the value of a yacht is spent annually on its maintenance and operation. Therefore a $90 million mega-yacht spends about $9 million annually. Our aim must be to increase time spent in St. Maarten to capture a larger piece of this pie," he argued.
"Looking at the total vessels visiting our shores per year and the average time that they spend here – data readily available from Simpson Bay Lagoon Corporation (SLAC) and Port St. Maarten – the potential expenditure per year is fairly easily calculable. To capture the available market, however, there is need for improvement and expansion of the service package in St. Maarten to boost this industry and keep it competitive in the region."
Islands as far south as Grenada are embracing their marine sector, Marshall said. "The governments of Antigua and St. Kitts have officials that are dedicated to the yachting industry, and they have put laws and rules in place that promote investments in this sector. Yachting is considered an export industry; you are selling goods and services to people that will not be staying on the island. Several islands have changed their laws to facilitate the industry, but so far in St. Maarten we have not put any similar effort.
"Other islands are way ahead of us. We have to understand that St. Maarten is not primarily a destination, but more of a hub," he continued. "We are the home base for yachts for their Caribbean season, and this role has the potential of significant and lasting economic impact.
"St. Maarten must be the place where the yachts fuel, provision, start and end charters, take on crew, do maintenance and repairs and so on. We need to put policies in place to harness the unique position that we have. This requires a thorough examination of all rules, services and practices in place – from immigration to tax, from security to levels of service at the fixed-base operators (FBOs) with private terminals for business aviation.
"We have come a long way, but there is much farther to go. Swift and significant action is needed to capture this market that could be one of the key economic drivers of our economy, not only by bringing in sufficient spending, but also by driving the need for highly-skilled employment and the capacity to invest to train the St. Maarten population to learn those skills.
"Our cooperation with numerous agencies in government last year was a powerful and successful start. It is imperative that we continue together to address remaining issues and secure St. Maarten's place as the yachting hub in the Caribbean."
~ This is the first in a series of three articles on St. Maarten's yachting industry. ~
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Movie Review – Live By Night
Director : Ben Affleck
Principal Cast : Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Glenister, Matthew Maher, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Miguel Pimentel, Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Titus Welliver, Max Casella, JD Evermore, Clark Gregg, Anthony Michael Hall, Chris Sullivan, Derek Mears.
Approx Running Time : 128 Minutes
Synopsis: A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
In making the transition from actor to film director, Ben Affleck has produced a resume of considerable strength. From Gone Baby Gone to The Town, and Oscar-winning Argo, Affleck has solidified himself as a major player in Hollywood's directorial pool, and Live By Night is a worthy companion piece to his previous efforts. Set in prohibition-era Boston and Florida, Affleck's film version of Dennis Lehane's novel (a writer he'd previously adapted with Gone Baby Gone) is solidly acted, well directed and handsomely mounted, and in every other aspect is a terrific film – save one. It lacks grit. It lacks an edgy, salacious keeness typical of period films of this type (think Tom Hanks' Road To Perdition) and while there's moments that transcend its ambivalence, Live By Night never quite achieves the heights to which is so obviously aspires.
Affleck plays Joe Coughlin, a returned Great War serviceman working the streets of 1920's Boston as a petty crook and thief. Approached by local Italian Mob boss Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) to be a part of his operation in Tampa, Florida, Coughlin initially refuses due to his romance with competing Irish Mob boss Albert White's (Robert Glenister) mistress, Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), before their affair is discovered and Joe's life is saved only by his police officer father Thomas (Brendan Gleeson). Reluctantly taking the job in Florida, Joe and his associate Dion (Chris Messina) soon become powerful underworld figures in Tampa, making the Pescatore family a fortune running bootleg liquor, and even approaching a gambling opportunity with Tampa's first casino. Joe meets Graciela Corrales (Zoe Saldana), sister to a local businessman with whom Joe falls in love. Desperate to escape the violent end coming to him at the hands of Maso's cocksure son Digger (Gianfranco Terrin), and having to handle local sherrif Chief Irving Figgis (Chris Cooper) and his born-again-Christian daughter Loretta (Elle Fanning), Joe must muster all his wiles to come out on top. But the price he must pay might very well be too high.
It's awfully hard to go wrong with a cast as stunning as the one Affleck assembled for Live By Night. Throw the names Fanning, Gleeson, Saldana, Cooper, and Miller at me and I'm there for the duration, and if you add Affleck's name above the line I'm a student of his teachings. Lehane's book (not one I've read) feels through Affleck's lens like it's partially a love letter to Boston-strong criminality and Floridian sweat, a combination that works quite well on the screen despite Affleck being unable to make the best use of this framework. Ben is credited with the screenplay and to his credit the film's core motifs, including family and escaping one's apparently destiny (or changing it) are the stuff of tragedies and fables throughout history and work pretty well. At times the dialogue is poetic, fanciful or overripe, and the conversational moments within the film are genuinely terrific in and of themselves; often, however, they feel like they belong in a different film, not a gun-totin' bloodbath film of this scope and style.
Coughlin's an eponymous criminal figurehead, a man wrestling with his inner demons despite being good at his job, and the internal struggle of escape, the desire for fulfilment in something better than we have, is archetypal of literary construction. Through Coughlin, and through his wrestling with the dichotomy of honour and violence in his world, the film becomes almost nostalgic for a time as Joe's romance with first Emma Gould and then Graciela Corrales becomes the throughline of a story tinged with melancholy tragedy. While the film's focus feels a touch wonky, Affleck's hand behind the camera isn't, allowing several subplots and textural sidebars to play out with conviction and resolution; chief among the undercard stories is Elle Fanning's luminous Loretta Figgis, as tragic a figure as the film projects despite virtually every character lacing innocence or virtue simply by their connection to Joe. Joe himself becomes a sympathetic bad guy, or rather a good guy trapped in a bad world, forced to do terrible things to stay alive. It's not a new idea, nor is it particularly refreshing here, but Affleck's writing is solid and the cast do well enough with the material to sell it.
If you run through the high profile period films mirroring what Live By Night tries to accomplish, you encounter modern efforts like Lawless, Gangster Squad and even Black Mass, all of which have problematic issues of feeling too clean, too sanitised in spite of inherently violent subject matter. Affleck's film unfortunately suffers similar indictment: the film is pretty, yes, and emotionally competent, but there's a feeling of safety within Live By Night's steady pulse, as if Affleck is unwilling to take any risks or push the envelope in any way. Character-driven pieces like this, much like Black Mass, live or die on how gritty and brutal they are, especially in the modern age of Hollywood, and Live By Night feels like it's too restrained to really make the impact it should. In many ways, I felt echoes of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven within the genetic flavouring of this film, neutered to resolve in a stylish but limited manner. It's emblematic of modern gangster movies that they look stunning but lack a certain frisson of danger. Tension is within Affleck's direction (and William Goldenberg's terrific editing) but one can't help but wish the pulp-inspired tone of the story had been matched by less highbrow artistry behind the camera.
I'll always be a fan of Live By Night simply because it's a Prohibition-era film, and I have a huge soft spot for them. The film isn't without flaw, and I'm not about to argue the finer points of Affleck's work except to say that I can see where he was aiming with this Award-season tempter. Cluster a sizeable cast like this in a single film, throw high-value production quality at the screen and tick the boxes of the genre's template and Live By Night ought to have knocked it out of the park. Live By Night is by no means a fizzer (despite the lacklustre box-office and middling critical reception), it's just not at the same level as Affleck's other films, which, while disappointing, doesn't make it a terrible film.
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brikhaus	August 6, 2017
This was probably the first positive review I've seen of this movie. I have to admit it looks like utter garbage, but maybe I'll give it a shot now. Thanks, Rodney.
Rodney Twelftree	August 7, 2017 — Post Author
Ha ha, yeah I'd heard some pretty average-to-poor reviews about it, but was still surprised. It's not at The Town level of filmmaking but it's pretty decent. Having said that, I'm pretty sure I know what you'll say about it, LOL!!!


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Westpac CEO David McLean explains the bank's latest profit figures, why it won't do loans over 80%, the outlook for the housing market and the importance of mortgage advisers.
Wednesday, November 8th 2017, 3:15PM
Westpac chief executive David McLean says while mortgage advisers "are a very important channel" to the bank, it has no plans to grow the segment.
The bank doesn't disclose the amount of business it gets through mortgage advisers, even though other banks do.
Westpac chief financial officer Jason Clifton says "the market tends to work at about one-third of business being written through brokers."
"We think of that through the cycle, as opposed to a particular number that we're aiming for at any point in time."
Clifton says "We don't see customers wanting to use brokers more than they have over the last couple of years."
Like other banks Westpac is increasing its digital offering and expects more business to come through those channels.
In the second half of the bank's most recent financial year 27% of sales came through digital channels compared to 18% in the first half of 2016.
In Australia more than 50% of home loans are originated through advisers and ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott, last week, predicted that market share would increase to 70% in the future.
McLean can't see the same happening in New Zealand. He says the Australian market differs because there are a lot of non-bank lenders who can only use advisers, and Westpac is pushing digital sales.
"We're not sure whether those market differences will flow through or not."
"We don't see ourselves inevitably going down the track which would lead us to the same percentage as Australia, but at the moment, and for the foreseeable future, brokers have an important part to play in the market."
Why no over 80s
At one stage, you weren't doing over 80% with mortgage brokers. Is that still the case?
McLean says Westpac's decision to stop doing mortgages over 80% through advisers is about trying to manage its limits under the Reserve Bank rules.
"The dynamics are such that customers come in for approval, we might have an internal limit of below 10%, and you're trying to manage that. If the market suddenly slows, what seems to happen is that the over-80s still proceed with their transaction, but the under-80s don't necessarily, or it's a different rate?
"So, what we thought we were operating to at a limit can get us closer to breaking it. That's where we sometimes have to pull a bit harder on the lever," he says.
Westpac reported cash earnings of $970 million for the 12 months to September 30, up from $886 million the previous year.
Underlying earnings for flat for the year and the overall increase was due to a write back of $76 million, from dairy and long-standing corporate debt.
McLean described the result as "Very solid result in a competitive environment."
Home loan delinquencies over 90 days are running and 0.12% and that is "about as good as it gets," he says.
Westpac had increased margins on its home loans during the year due to "disciplined growth and repricing of mortgages and business lending, partly offset by lower deposit spreads."
However, overall its home loan grew around 4% which is well below system growth of 6.5%.
McLean says the bank was being cautious in a very buoyant housing market, and trying to protect its margins.
He says in the long-term the bank aims to grow its market share, but it is also prepared to take tactical positions.
The bank has been looking at the housing market and expects the new Government's proposed policies will "see growth in market being low for much longer than previously thought."
"Our wish list is we would like to see house prices stay flat for an indefinite period," McLean says. "What we don't want to see is a big downward correction house prices which would have the effect of destroying a lot of wealth."
The affordability issue would be addressed by the market staying flat and wage growth rising.
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You must be aware of the task switching utility available on Windows that can be accessed by the key combination Alt+Tab. Except the one on Vista- the Flip 3D, the task switching on Windows XP is so plain boring. So dump the inbuilt Windows tool and use any of the following alternatives to spice of the looks as well as improve it's functionality.
1. WinExposé: This program emulates a Macintosh Desktop by floating windows over each other like the Mac Exposé function. On pressing a keyboard shortcut or moving the mouse pointer to one of the corners of the screen, it immediately shows all opened windows on the desktop.
2. Task Switcher Power Toy: This PowerToy is released by Microsoft. In addition to displaying the icon of the application window you are switching to, it also displays a preview of the page.
3. TaskSwitchXP: TaskSwitchXP is similar to Task Switcher but looks better. It provides the same functionality as the existing application switching mechanism in Windows XP today. In addition to displaying an icon list, however, the application will also show a thumbnail preview of the window that will be switched to. TaskSwitchXP is open source.
4. Alt-Tab Thingy: Alt-Tab Thingy is an Alt+Tab replacement that adds brand new features to help you switch tasks faster and more efficiently than ever before. I like it's slightly oval look and rounded corners. Apart from task switching, Alt-Tab Thingy provides a number of features like: drag and resize windows by clicking anywhere on the window; showing a preview of the open windows above the taskbar when you hover the mouse over a taskbar; minimizing of windows to the system tray and a few more.
5. iEx: iEx is a utility for Windows XP that displays a grid of thumbnails, each representing an open window on your computer. When you click on a thumbnail it brings the corresponding window to the front, so it can be very useful for people who like to have a lot of windows open at once.
6. Switcher: Switcher enables you to switch between your open applications by showing you a thumbnail view of each one by tiling them across the screen. It's somewhat similar to Expose function of Mac. Switcher is only for Windows Vista.
7. TopDesk: TopDesk is the closest you can get to Expose. TopDesk has a number of different styles of displaying the open windows. You can show them in a 3D style like in Windows Vista; you can tile them on your screen; you can change the orientation so that they appear at various angles on the screen. TopDesk can be triggered by pressing a keyboard hotkey or a mouse button or moving the mouse to a corner of the screen. It's the best looking task switcher available. TopDesk costs $19.95.
8. Exposer: This is another task switching utility for Windows. Though not as cool as TopDesk, it still is a nice way to use alt+tab. Exposer supports keyboard hotkey as well hot corner where it's launched by moving the mouse into the hot zones on the screen. Price: $7.
How could you forget WinFlip???!!
Wow! WinFlip is cool. I never heard about it. Stupid me!
Anyway, it's now added to the list. Thanks.


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If running and nature is what you are looking for then this series of runs is just for you! For the first time in the UAE a series of X-Country runs will take place in and around Mushrif Park, Dubai, UAE. Run routes will take in several different surfaces and showcase the amazing surroundings and facilities of Mushrif Park. From advanced to fun runners, young or experienced, run or walk the above distances. Music, refreshments, parents & children running together and a community feel is what makes this race special. Discount on Family Entries. Lots of Parking close to Start / Finish line.


Vitol announced it has increased its Syndicated Revolving Credit Facility to USD 7 billion on October 8th, following strong demand.
ABN AMRO Bank N.V., BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Credit Suisse AG, Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (trading as Rabobank International), DBS Bank Ltd, London Branch, Deutsche Bank AG, ING Bank N.V., J.P. Morgan Limited, Lloyds Bank plc, Mizuho Bank Ltd, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (the corporate and investment banking division of Société Générale), Standard Chartered Bank and UniCredit Bank AG acting as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners signed a new USD 841 million 364-day and USD 6.159 billion 3-year revolving credit facilities (the "Facilities") for Vitol S.A. and co-borrower Vitol Finance B.V. ("Vitol" or the "Company").
These new Facilities will be used for general corporate purposes and to refinance the Company's maturing USD 5.220 billion 3-year revolving credit facility signed in October 2011 and USD 782,000,000 364-day revolving credit facility signed in October 2012.
The Vitol Group was founded in 1966 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since then the company has grown significantly to become a major participant in world commodity markets and is now the world's largest independent energy trader. Its trading portfolio includes crude oil, oil products, LPG, LNG, natural gas, coal, electricity, agricultural products, metals and carbon emissions. Vitol trades with all the major national oil companies, the integrated oil majors and the independent refiners and traders. Globally Vitol trades over 5 million barrels of crude oil and oil products per day and revenues in 2012 were $303 billion.


The IPM has today announced the official launch of their annual awards for 2019.
The call for entries opens on MONDAY 7th JANUARY next year and will close on Friday 15th March. The carefully selected winning entries will be announced at the Awards gala dinner on Thursday 4th July. Who can forget 2018 compere and IPM Diploma holder, Russell Kane's fantastic performance back in June?!
There are 31 categories, covering a comprehensive range of industry sectors, techniques, objectives and skills, including some brand new categories. This year, again, sees the inclusion of three special awards: Agency of the year, Brand of the year and the coveted Grand Prix.
For additional information, including a full list of categories and criteria, how to apply to be a judge and sponsorship opportunities click here.


Montalban, born in Mexico City, Mexico, was the youngest of four children of Castilian Spaniards who had immigrated in 1906 to the city, where Montalban's father owned a dry goods store, according to The Los Angeles Times. He ventured to Los Angeles as a teenager with his oldest brother, Carlos, who had lived in the city and worked for the studios.
Montalban was already a star in his native Mexico when he was discovered by an American producer in 1942. He became a popular contract actor for MGM from 1945 to 1955, and starred with several of Hollywood's most-glamorous leading ladies.
It was during Montalban's sixth season of playing the composed, almost emotionless Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island that he received the offer to reprise his role as Khan in The Wrath of Khan. "I was dying to do something other than Mr. Roarke," he told the New York Times Syndicate in 1994. "It was wonderful, because Khan had become so passionate and consumed with avenging his wife's death by getting Kirk."
Walter Koenig, after a screening of The Wrath of Khan in 2012 that was attended by StarTrek.com, called Montalban "a delightful man" and added, "That was his chest," drawing laughs. Koenig also shared a memorable story about a pre-shoot cocktail party. He and Montalban made small talk, and Montalban declared that they'd get on well. Montalban then asked Koenig who'd be playing Terrell. Koenig let his inner imp get the better of him. "Fernando Lamas," he replied. Lamas, of course, was a Montalban contemporary and frequent competitor for roles. Despite his joke, Koenig and Montalban apparently did get on well during production.
Montalban's long career encompassed the stage, screen and television. Along the way, he won an Emmy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. He earned his Emmy, for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series, for a turn on How the West Was Won (1976). And his Tony nomination -- as Best Actor in a Musical -- came in 1958, when he co-starred opposite Lena Horne in the Broadway production of the Caribbean fantasy, Jamaica.
He served as vice president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1965-1970.
In 1970, Montalban founded an organization called Nosotros to improve the image of Latinos and Hispanics in the entertainment industry, both in front and behind the camera, and to expand their employment opportunities in the industry.
The actor surprised many people with his fine comedic work in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! The 1988 film cast him as the villainous Victor Ludwig.
Pope John Paul II, in 1998, named Montalban a Knight Commander of St. Gregory, the highest honor bestowed upon non-clergy in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Ricardo Montalban Theatre opened in Hollywood in 2004 to serve as a training ground for artists and talents. It was the first major theater facility in the United States to carry the name of a Latino artist.
By the early 2000s, Montalban's spinal problems required that he use a wheelchair. Still, he continued to work. He lent his voice to such animated series as Kim Possible, Family Guy and American Dad!, and he appeared on screen in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, with the magic of visual effects enabling him to fly in the latter family film.
Montalban's Star on the Hollywood Walk of fame, awarded on February 8, 1960, can be found at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.


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Q: Shared data for GET and POST methods of one route in Laravel 5 My projects POST routes usually makes the same view on its GET version routes.
So POST route (controller) must pass the same data to the same view.
Is there any way to tell Laravel in POST route add some data to the same data which GET route passes?
I think it's me that is on the wrong way and there must be a better way.
For example see the following common data that both GET and POST methods pass to the view. In this example there is no much data but usually there are.
/**
 * @Route('/cp/users')
 *
 * @return \Response
 */
public function getUsers() {
    $users = User::all();
    $roles = ["admin", "personnel"];
    return view('cp.users', ['users' => $users, 'roles' => $roles]);
}

/**
 * @Route('/cp/users') POST
 * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Support\MessageBag
 */
public function postUsers(Request $request) {
    $users = User::all();
    $roles = ["admin", "personnel"];
    $rules = [
        'name'     => 'required',
        'surname'  => 'required',
        'email'    => 'required|email|unique:users',
        'password' => 'required|min:6',
        'role'     => 'required|in:admin,personnel'
    ];
    $validator = Validator::make((array)$request, $rules);
    if ($validator->fails()) {
        return view('cp.users', ['errors' => $validator->errors(), 'users' => $users, 'roles' => $roles]);
    }
    return view('cp.users', ['users' => $users, 'roles' => $roles]);
}

I do it this way:
/**
 * @Route('/cp/users') POST
 * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Support\MessageBag
 */
public function postUsers(Request $request) {
    $rules = [
        'name'     => 'required',
        'surname'  => 'required',
        'email'    => 'required|email|unique:users',
        'password' => 'required|min:6',
        'role'     => 'required|in:admin,personnel'
    ];
    $validator = Validator::make((array)$request, $rules);
    if ($validator->fails()) {
        View::share('errors', $validator->errors());
    }
    return $this->getUsers();
}

A: I think you are using route controller for that you getUsers for get and postUsers for post.If i am right then you need to use any prefix in function name that will get for both get and post method.Like that
public function anyUsers() {
$users = User::all();
$roles = ["admin", "personnel"];
return view('cp.users', ['users' => $users, 'roles' => $roles]);
}

this function will work both get and method using any prefix

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DOE PAGES Journal Article: Communication: On the difficulty of reproducibly measuring PbCl2 X-ray absorption spectra
Title: Communication: On the difficulty of reproducibly measuring PbCl2 X-ray absorption spectra
Schwartz, Craig P. [1];
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Prendergast, David [2]
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal Name: The Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Volume: 143 Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Schwartz, Craig P., and Prendergast, David. Communication: On the difficulty of reproducibly measuring PbCl2 X-ray absorption spectra. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4931404.
Schwartz, Craig P., & Prendergast, David. Communication: On the difficulty of reproducibly measuring PbCl2 X-ray absorption spectra. United States. doi:10.1063/1.4931404.
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author = {Schwartz, Craig P. and Prendergast, David},
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Cr L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Cr III(acac) 3 in Solution with Measured and Calculated Absolute Absorption Cross Sections
Journal Article Kubin, Markus ; Guo, Meiyuan ; Ekimova, Maria ; ... - Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces and Biophysical Chemistry
X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the L-edge of 3d transition metals is widely used for probing the valence electronic structure at the metal site via 2p–3d transitions. Assessing the information contained in L-edge absorption spectra requires systematic comparison of experiment and theory. We investigate the Cr L-edge absorption spectrum of high-spin chromium acetylacetonate Cr III(acac) 3 in solution. Using a transmission flatjet enables determining absolute absorption cross sections and spectra free from X-ray-induced sample damage. We address the challenges of measuring Cr L absorption edges spectrally close to the O K absorption edge of the solvent. We critically assess how experimentalmore » absorption cross sections can be used to extract information on the electronic structure of the studied system by comparing our results of this Cr III (3d 3) complex to our previous work on L-edge absorption cross sections of Mn III(acac) 3 (3d 4) and Mn II(acac) 2 (3d 5). Considering our experimental uncertainties, the most insightful experimental observable for this d 3(Cr III)–d 4(Mn III)–d 5(Mn II) series is the L-edge branching ratio, and we discuss it in comparison to semiempirical multiplet theory and ab initio restricted active space calculations. Finally, we further discuss and analyze trends in integrated absorption cross sections and correlate the spectral shapes with the local electronic structure at the metal sites.« less
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b04190
Soft X-ray spectroscopy of nanoparticles by velocity map imaging
Journal Article Kostko, O. ; Xu, B. ; Jacobs, M. I. ; ... - Journal of Chemical Physics
Velocity map imaging (VMI), a technique traditionally used to study chemical dynamics in the gas phase, is applied to study X-ray photoemission from aerosol nanoparticles. Soft X-rays from the Advanced Light Source synchrotron, probe a beam of nanoparticles, and the resulting photoelectrons are velocity mapped to obtain their kinetic energy distributions. A new design of the VMI spectrometer is described. The spectrometer is benchmarked by measuring vacuum ultraviolet photoemission from gas phase xenon and squalene nanoparticles followed by measurements using soft X-rays. It is demonstrated that the photoelectron distribution from X-ray irradiated squalene nanoparticles is dominated by secondary electrons. Bymore » scanning the photon energies and measuring the intensities of these secondary electrons, a near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectrum is obtained. The NEXAFS technique is used to obtain spectra of aqueous nanoparticles at the oxygen K edge. By varying the position of the aqueous nanoparticle beam relative to the incident X-ray beam, evidence is presented such that the VMI technique allows for NEXAFS spectroscopy of water in different physical states. Finally, we discuss the possibility of applying VMI methods to probe liquids and solids via X-ray spectroscopy.« less
First-Principles Predictions of Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectra of Semiconducting Polymers
Journal Article Su, Gregory M. ; Patel, Shrayesh N. ; Pemmaraju, C. D. ; ... - Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
The electronic structure and molecular orientation of semiconducting polymers in thin films determine their ability to transport charge. Methods based on near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy can be used to probe both the electronic structure and microstructure of semiconducting polymers in both crystalline and amorphous films. However, it can be challenging to interpret NEXAFS spectra on the basis of experimental data alone, and accurate, predictive calculations are needed to complement experiments. Here, we show that first-principles density functional theory (DFT) can be used to model NEXAFS spectra of semiconducting polymers and to identify the nature of transitions inmore » complicated NEXAFS spectra. Core-level X-ray absorption spectra of a set of semiconducting polymers were calculated using the excited electron and core-hole (XCH) approach based on constrainedoccupancy DFT. A comparison of calculations on model oligomers and periodic structures with experimental data revealed the requirements for accurate prediction of NEXAFS spectra of both conjugated homopolymers and donor-acceptor polymers. The NEXAFS spectra predicted by the XCH approach were applied to study molecular orientation in donor-acceptor polymers using experimental spectra and revealed the complexity of using carbon edge spectra in systems with large monomeric units. The XCH approach has sufficient accuracy in predicting experimental NEXAFS spectra of polymers that it should be considered for design and analysis of measurements using soft X-ray techniques, such as resonant soft X-ray scattering and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy.« less
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01353
Automated generation and ensemble-learned matching of X-ray absorption spectra
Journal Article Zheng, Chen ; Mathew, Kiran ; Chen, Chi ; ... - npj Computational Materials
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a widely used materials characterization technique to determine oxidation states, coordination environment, and other local atomic structure information. Analysis of XAS relies on comparison of measured spectra to reliable reference spectra. However, existing databases of XAS spectra are highly limited both in terms of the number of reference spectra available as well as the breadth of chemistry coverage. In this work, we report the development of XASdb, a large database of computed reference XAS, and an Ensemble-Learned Spectra IdEntification (ELSIE) algorithm for the matching of spectra. XASdb currently hosts more than 800,000 K-edge X-ray absorptionmore » near-edge spectra (XANES) for over 40,000 materials from the open-science Materials Project database. We discuss a high-throughput automation framework for FEFF calculations, built on robust, rigorously benchmarked parameters. FEFF is a computer program uses a real-space Green's function approach to calculate X-ray absorption spectra. Here, we will demonstrate that the ELSIE algorithm, which combines 33 weak "learners" comprising a set of preprocessing steps and a similarity metric, can achieve up to 84.2% accuracy in identifying the correct oxidation state and coordination environment of a test set of 19 K-edge XANES spectra encompassing a diverse range of chemistries and crystal structures. The XASdb with the ELSIE algorithm has been integrated into a web application in the Materials Project, providing an important new public resource for the analysis of XAS to all materials researchers. Finally, the ELSIE algorithm itself has been made available as part of veidt, an open source machine-learning library for materials science.« less
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-018-0067-x