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Bose SoundLink Flex speaker will work even when submerged in water, will get 12 hours of battery life
Audio product maker Bose has launched the Bose SoundLink Flex Wireless Bluetooth Speaker as its latest speaker. The new wireless speaker is the latest in the American company's range, and is one of its smaller and more affordable wireless options focused on outdoor and rugged use. The new wireless speaker features a portable and lightweight design for outdoor use. Due to its IP67 build, there is no impact of dirt and water on the speaker. The Bose SoundLink Flex Wireless Speaker offers long battery life and can be paired with other Bose speakers.
Bose SoundLink Flex: Stays safe even if you wash it under the tap
The Bose SoundLink Flex is a portable Bluetooth speaker that sits alongside the rest of the SoundLink range, which also includes the Bose SoundLink Mini 2 and Bose SoundLink Color 2. The company says that this is an outdoor-friendly wireless speaker that can be used unhindered even in conditions where it is more likely to be exposed to dust and water. The IP67 dust and water resistant rating promises to ensure that the speaker will stay safe even with considerable exposure, and it can be safely washed under the tap for cleaning.
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For charging, the Bose SoundLink Flex has a USB Type-C port and an included cable in the box. The speaker weighs around 590 grams and features a soft-touch silicone exterior with a steel grille covering the speaker drivers. The company claims that it gets around 12 hours of battery life and it is being said that it takes about 4 hours for the speaker to be fully charged with the cable that comes in the box. It can be linked wirelessly to other Bose speakers for stereo pairing and wireless daisy-chaining.
The Bose SoundLink Flex uses Bluetooth v4.2 for connectivity and has an inbuilt microphone system for voice calls, including voice calls and the ability to interact with the voice assistant on your smartphone via a Bluetooth connection. There are controls for power, volume, and Bluetooth on the speaker itself, and the SoundLink Flex can also be customized and controlled using the Bose Connect app.
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Bose SoundLink Flex: Price and Availability
The Bose SoundLink Flex is priced at $149 (approximately Rs 11,200). However, it is currently available for sale only in the US. At present, the company has not given any information on availability in other global markets including India.
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package org.spongepowered.api.advancement.criteria.trigger;

import org.spongepowered.api.Sponge;
import org.spongepowered.api.util.CopyableBuilder;

/**
 * Represents something that will filter the context
 * of the {@link Trigger} to determine whether a criterion
 * will be granted.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public interface FilteredTrigger<C extends FilteredTriggerConfiguration> {

    /**
     * Creates a new {@link Trigger.Builder}.
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     * @return The builder
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    static Builder<?> builder() {
        return Sponge.game().builderProvider().provide(Builder.class);
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     * Gets the {@link Trigger}.
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«Хондо» () — американский художественный фильм режиссёра Джона Фэрроу, вышедший на экраны в 1953 году. Экранизация одноимённого рассказа Луиса Ламура. Лента была номинирована на премию «Оскар» за лучший литературный первоисточник (позже снята с номинации), а также за лучшую женскую роль (Джеральдин Пейдж).

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1869 год, территория Аризона. Разведчик-метис Хондо Лейн (Джон Уэйн), потеряв в стычке с апачами свою лошадь, вынужден пешком добираться до расположения американских кавалеристов. В глухой местности он набредает на одинокое ранчо, где живут молодая женщина Энджи Лоу (Джеральдин Пейдж) и её шестилетний сын Джонни (Ли Аакер).

Несмотря на заверения Энджи о том, что муж «где-то поблизости», Хондо быстро понимает, что в доме давно не было мужчины. Он помогает женщине с мужской работой по хозяйству, и та проникается к нему доверием. Выясняется, что в молодости Хондо долгое время жил в племени мескалеро со своей женой-индеанкой, умершей от болезни.

Одолжив у миссис Лоу лошадь, на следующее утро Хондо отправляется в путь и успешно доставляет донесение о том, что обманутые белыми людьми апачи твёрдо встали на тропу войны во главе со своим вождём Викторио (Майкл Пейт). Случайно встретив в форте непутевого мужа Энджи Эда (Лео Гордон) и осознавая, что ей с ребёнком грозит неминуемая опасность, Хондо возвращается на ранчо, чтобы защитить её...

В ролях
 Джон Уэйн — Хондо Лейн
 Джеральдин Пейдж — Энджи Лоу
 Уорд Бонд — Буффало Бейкер
 Майкл Пейт — вождь Викторио
 Джеймс Арнесс — Ленни
 Ли Аакер — Джонни Лоу
 Лео Гордон — Эд Лоу
 Родольфо Акоста — Сильва
 Том Айриш — лейтенант Маккей
 Пол Фикс — майор Шерри

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Вестерны США
Экранизации произведений Луиса Ламура
Фильмы США 1953 года
Фильмы Warner Bros.

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NEWS IN THE NUMBERS
Inflation, corruption, inequality top list of Chinese public's concerns
By Jacob Poushter
This weekend, top leaders in China plan to focus on a whole host of reforms, ranging from initiatives to open up the nation's economy to addressing challenges such as corruption, environmental problems, and social issues. In our years of asking the Chinese questions about their views about the state of their country, here are their answers on key issues:
Inflation – Rising prices are seen as a very big problem by 59% in China, according to a spring 2013 Pew Research Center survey. When asked which is the issue most important for the government to address first, 53% of the Chinese public said inflation, while 26% named inequality and only 11% cited unemployment. Inflation shot up to 3.1% in September, making it a pressing issue for China's Communist party elite.
Corruption – Just over half of Chinese (53%) said that corrupt officials were a very big problem, according to the spring 2013 survey. The recent conviction of Bo Xilai and accounts of personal enrichment among former Communist leaders from China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) make the issue even more salient. Many observers believe SOE reform will be one of the top goals of this weekend's leadership meeting. It is estimated that 35% of business activity and 43% of profits in China result from SOEs.
Inequality – Just over half in 2013 (52%) said that the gap between the rich and the poor was a large concern, according to the spring survey. Earlier this year, Chinese officials released an updated Gini coefficient of .474 (a measurement of inequality where 0 represents perfect equality and 1 equals maximum income inequality), down from a peak of .491 in 2008. Many were skeptical of the accuracy of this rating, but Pew Research polling shows the number concerned about inequality has fallen since 2008, when 72% said it was a very big problem.
Environmental issues – An increasing number of Chinese are concerned about environmental issues, as suffocating air pollution makes international headlines. In the spring 2013 survey, 47% in China said air pollution was a very big problem and 40% describe water pollution as a big concern.
Social issues – Lurking in the background of this year's plenum are increasing concerns about ethnic tensions within China. Recent attacks in Beijing and Taiyuan have highlighted the issue and there have been tough questions from abroad for the Chinese government on its treatment of its own citizens. A spring Pew Research survey found that only a median of 36% across 38 countries surveyed in 2013 said the Chinese government respected the personal freedoms of its people. Furthermore, China had among the worst rankings on government restrictions of religion, according to the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project Government Restrictions Index.
Jacob Poushter is an associate director focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center.
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That moment arrived 24 hours later, when Swansea announced that the first American to manage in the Premier League had been sacked after less than three months in charge. Bradley won only two out of 11 games, picked up just eight points, conceded 29 goals, shipped three or more on eight occasions, made a total of 33 team changes after starting his reign with a 3-2 defeat at Arsenal and fielded six different back-four combinations.
Quite a set of numbers, all in all, and it is fair to say that by the end of the drubbing at the hands of West Ham United on Boxing Day, during which a significant number of Swansea supporters chanted "we want Bradley out", the former USA coach was none the wiser as to what was the best starting XI to select from the woefully ill-equipped squad that he inherited.
Swansea's American owners, Stephen Kaplan and Jason Levien, had been determined to stand by their man and give Bradley a chance to bring in a few players of his own in January. Yet the West Ham match shredded those plans. The performance was abject and the atmosphere inside the Liberty Stadium poisonous. Swansea had been well beaten for the third successive game and Bradley had reached the point of no return.
His position was untenable and there is no escaping the fact that results were awful under his watch, yet anybody conducting a wider inquest into where everything has gone wrong at Swansea, in particular the question as to how a model club have turned into such a mess in the space of a season and a half, would not spend too long going through Bradley's 85 days as manager.
Instead the spotlight is likely to shine an unfavourable light on the people running the club, especially the chairman, Huw Jenkins, who was as influential as anybody in the rags-to-riches story behind Swansea's rise from the depths of the Football League to the top flight. Once the man who could do no wrong, Jenkins has presided over a number of desperately poor decisions in recent times, both managerially and in the transfer market, and the result is that Swansea have lurched from one crisis to another.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the club's decline is the speed with which everything has unravelled. In May last year Swansea finished eighth in the Premier League with a club-record points total. Their attractive and distinctive playing style – "The Swansea Way" – was deeply ingrained and integral to their success. Garry Monk, a bright, young, homegrown manager was in charge of the team, supporter representation on the board won admirers, and the club operated in the black. Swansea, in short, provided a blueprint for many to follow. Fast-forward 19 months and they have become just another Premier League club.
Monk lost his job last December after a bad run of results and it will not have escaped the attention of many Swansea supporters that while they were being thumped 4-1 by West Ham this Boxing Day, their former manager was overseeing a victory at Preston by the same scoreline for his promotion-chasing Leeds United side.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the decision to sack Monk, the bottom line is that so much of what Swansea have done since has made little sense, arguably no more so than when Jenkins announced in May that he was giving Francesco Guidolin a permanent contract to continue as manager. It was a decision that stunned people within the club, never mind outside, and meant that Swansea missed a crucial opportunity to rebuild.
Guidolin had been appointed in January on a short-term basis after a protracted search for Monk's replacement initially ended with Alan Curtis, the highly respected and long-serving first-team coach, being given the job until the end of the season. Curtis, however, was asked to stand aside 11 days after being handed the reins to make way for the Italian. Swansea ended up finishing 12th, on the face of it vindicating the decision to bring in Guidolin, yet there was little appetite among staff and players for him – a likeable man but uninspiring coach – to stay on as manager.
Jenkins would have known that was the case – the chairman has his ear to the ground and canvasses opinion from time to time to gauge the mood – yet he still opted to give Guidolin the job. Five months later came the predictable news that Guidolin had become the first Premier League managerial casualty of the season.
By that point, though, it was clear that Swansea's problems ran much deeper than their flawed choice of manager. Some poor dealings in the transfer market over the course of the past three windows left the squad looking painfully short of quality, with the ins and outs in the summer compounding the errors that had been made before and raising serious questions about the recruitment strategy headed up by David Leadbeater and ultimately overseen by Jenkins.
One of the more bizarre issues that has come to light in recent years and prompted a level of bemusement among some working at the club, including managers, is the frequency with which Swansea scouts turn up for Swansea matches. It is a curious practice to say the least.
Kaplan and Levien soon realised that the process of identifying players needed to drastically change and take on a much more analytical approach, yet in terms of what happened in the summer, the damage was done. Ashley Williams, the captain, and André Ayew, last season's top scorer, were sold without being adequately replaced, so much so that players such as Jordi Amat, who would have been on the fringe under previous regimes, were thrust into the role of being regular starters.
A club-record £15.5m was spent on Borja Bastón, who has scored only once since joining from Atlético Madrid and looks set to follow in the footsteps of Éder and Alberto Paloschi, two strikers who were brought in from overseas in the last 18 months and failed to make any sort of impact.
Other decisions have been odd. Nathan Dyer was farmed out on loan to Leicester at the start of last season because he was deemed surplus to requirements, returned after failing to make one Premier League start for the champions and was rewarded with a new four-year contract.
If there was one key error of judgment, though, it was the failure to re-sign Joe Allen from Liverpool. Allen was available and everything seemed to be set up for the Welshman to return to the club, yet Swansea dragged their heels over the finances and Stoke jumped in to take a midfielder whose ability and character would have been invaluable at the Liberty Stadium this season.
During that period Swansea were undergoing a change of ownership that earned Jenkins and several other board members millions from selling shares and at the same time, prompted accusations from some supporters that those directors had taken their eye off the ball and put their own interests before those of the club.
Jenkins, who has supported Swansea for more than 50 years and continues to run the club on a day-to-day basis, would no doubt deny that was the case. He did, however, concede prior to the win over Crystal Palace last month that mistakes were made in the close season. "I will be the first to admit that there are a number of things I personally could have dealt with differently in the summer which may have helped us to start the season in a far more upbeat and positive way," Jenkins wrote in his programme column.
Either way, the focus for Swansea now has to be forward rather than back. All eyes are on the managerial search and the long list of candidates, including Ryan Giggs, Roy Hodgson, Chris Coleman, Gary Rowett, Paul Clement and Alan Pardew. Yet anybody who has watched Swansea on a regular basis this season will know that the players need to be changed as much as the manager if the club are to have any hope of avoiding relegation, and therein lies the huge challenge facing Jenkins and Swansea's American owners.


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Terrors and errors with wind turbines
by Harvey Wrightman
The wind battles are over in the areas of Adelaide, Bornish, Bosanquet and the wind company landmen have moved on to "greener" pastures for their prospecting and duping.
In their wake they have left a cluttered mess of leaning towers and graceless power lines above ground, and less noticeably – the barely hidden maze of electrical 34 kV cabling that conveys the power to the substations and the grid. There's a big punch in those cables when the wind chooses to deliver.
Trenches for these cables meander back and forth from private to public property. According to the regulations, they must be buried a minimum of only one metre below the surface, but who's checking. Regardless, these are very dangerous cables to locate in a zone where others might be digging. A breached collector cable by an excavator could cause a massive explosion. We have heard of two incidents where collector cables have been "touched" in the NextEra Jericho wind project in the former Lambton County township of Bosanquet.
In the first case a drainage contractor who was replacing a collapsed header drain along Thomson Line, east of the Arkona Rd., hooked onto the control cable of the adjacent 34 kV collector line. That would have been very scary!! The line had been marked for location with stakes, but the cables either weren't where they were supposed to be as they were too shallow, or not ID'd properly by the highly qualified "locate company". Regardless, it should never have happened.
A similar incident occurred over on the 8th Concession, only the cable was struck by a post hole auger for a new fence, even though the line had been ID'd by the same locate contractor. See the pattern here?
Safety is also an issue that seems to be lacking on the turbine job site. In an incident on a NextEra tower site, we have heard a worker fell 50+ feet when a trap door inside the tower was left up and down he went. Went to hospital for 3-5 days and was released.
Then at Suncor's Cedar Point wind project a boilermakers pin wrench for aligning the tower sections fell 50+ ft and pierced a worker's shoulder, through his chest and just touched a vertebrae. Some damage to his back but he walked to the ambulance and was released several days later.
A vast number of errors by the wind company operatives are being reported by those who live in the area – not too surprising as the unthinking clods who work for the wind companies are not masters of detail and they follow a basic corporate culture of ad hoc action – "Get out of our way. It will be built as we see fit."
There was a reported problem of property lines that came to notice when a farm was sold. The survey showed that the neighbouring farmer had over the years "moved the line" ~40 ft. A minor skirmish between the two sides was finally settled when the new owner reclaimed his lost property by taking his plow to it. But there was a problem – NextError had placed a wind turbine so close to the line that it was now on his land. That would present a problem with the power contract they have with the OPA. Lawyers will sort that one out, but informed local sources tell us that the new owner is now getting paid for the turbine.
All kinds of farmers are pissed at both NextError and Scumcor for not repairing the drains and laneways. BUT as the man in charge of Suncor told one farmer, the contract says they have 50 years to remediate the land, "so don't call me anymore." No heroes in this one, the farmers did sign the contracts.
In the Suncor Adelaide wind project, one by one the nacelles are being removed for replacement of worn out bearings that have been leaking oil. Suncor is in a dispute with the turbine maker, Siemens, as to who pays what. Lots of work for the big crane and they are hardly a year old.
Supposedly Suncor can't allow the Cedar Point turbines to operate at capacity even if there is enough wind. Rumour is they wouldn't spend the money to buy the heavier cable and are afraid of overloading the buried collection cables. Hard to imagine such a basic error; but, as pointed out before, planning is not their strongest suit.
One farmer over north west of Forest sold his farm to some insurance company from Toronto for twice what he was asking for it. It has one turbine and the 115KV line going across it. Apparently the lease money from these will more than pay the mortgage. According to local sources, the Suncor transmission line pays $200/pole/year plus an initial fee.
Needless to say, lucky landowners will brag when they score big. Accordingly sources say that Suncor is paying as much as $50,000/year per turbine. It all depended on where and how long people held out for more.
They are finally fixing up the mess along Elginfield Rd in the ditches and are planting trees and sowing grass seed. Here's a question: the transmission line easements that some dupes so willingly signed, stated that signers for the line would receive the final payment when the line was in service and all parties involved had signed off. Even though the trans line has been operating a year, we understand that no one's been paid.
Unfortunately this is just the beginning of "the rest of the story".
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ScepticalGord on 12/02/2015 at 18:29 said:
For me, its like a Toyota "Blue Crush" moment: I'm taking this in, taking that in …
Just sitting back, watching the farmers reap what they sow, make their beds and lie in it, play with the bull and get the horns, etc.,etc.
My sympathies only lie with those who are collateral damage in this whole sordid affair.
Wish the Ombudsman's office would do their job. They have a LOT of information but seem to be sitting on it….still…
Sommer on 12/05/2015 at 14:51 said:
Yes, the Ombudsman has been a real disappointment!
After speaking with an investigator at one point, I felt certain that we would be protected, but it's a 'complaints driven' process and they need enough complaints before they can take action, was my understanding. Did people report to the Ombudsman?
People in rural Ontario need to bombard their office. It's not too late.


George, my Mom also died in 2002 and I often have thoughts of calling her concerning a recipe or some thought about family history I am unsure of - from there I go to happy memories of our family. I am excited for you for your trip - hopefully we will be headed to Mexico in a few days - wish our time in Mazatlan would cross with your time in Mazatlan. Enjoy every minute and traveling mercies for your trip.
Thank you so much for sharing about your Mom!
Would be great to see you in Mazatlan!
Safe Travels George have fun!
Hope you have a good trip and that you have a really good time.
So glad you are talking to us again. Have missed sharing your everyday happenings from your days with Miss Tioga.
Guava Gardens can be pretty cool too. More on your balcony garden, please.
Have a great trip and tell us all about it!
It took me over a year and a half in order to settle in to apartment life and become a blogger again. I just didn't feel that I had interesting stuff to share with you.
I have pics of the ton of impatien flowers growing on my balcony. I'm getting the hang of publishing those pics on my blog. Soon I will show you flower pics, Suz. Promise!
Wait 'till I see you both. You will get such hugs from me!
Yes! FatFish ribs Thursday nite!
Just got back from an rv trip to Mazatlan. We took the Devil's Backbone both ways. The scenery in Durango and the Coahuilan desert was fantastic. We stayed on the Isla de la Piedra in Mazatlan. Hardly ever use an rv park but we did this time to be with friends. Front row on the beach, couldn't get much better. I don't know if you drink beer but there is a great place called The Beer Company with hundreds of international micro-brews including Mexican. Enjoy and post lots of pics.
George you live an exciting life. Love to hear about your travels. My mother passed away in 1995. Before she passed we would talk on the phone often. For a few years after she passed I would have to catch myself because I would go to the phone to tell her about some relevent event. Doesn't happen anymore but fond memories.


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We stopped to look at at their extensive impressive range of cheese. Stayed for lunch. The corn fritters with chilli sauce were delightful. My brother-in-law thought the same about the beef burger. Then we all tried the cherry ripe gelato. We swooned.
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Very disappointing, thought we would stop for coffee and cake. The coffee came and was barely drinkable as it was cold, the cakes came 10 minutes. The customer service was poor. I suggest trying somewhere else.
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Are We Safe? Review of Todd Haynes' Safe
After watching the much acclaimed Carol (2015) by Todd Haynes, I decided to watch one of his earlier movies Safe (1995) with the great (and at the time aspiring) Julianne Moore. Although I thought Carol was pretty good, it did not thrill me as much as I had hoped and expected, at least not like the brilliant mini-series Mildred Pierce (2011), which I had seen previous to it.
The movie Safe is about a young married woman incidentally also named Carol (!) who seems to have a safe albeit dull well-to-do life in the San Fernando Valley. The movie opens with a drive home at night and then a scene of love-making with the focus on her face. She, unlike her groaning husband Greg White face unseen, does not enjoy the sex very much as her facial expressions do not change and definitely do not show any kind of pleasure gained. At the end of their intercourse, she merely taps her husband lightly on the back.
Her life is filled with boredom. They have a Mexican servant who fulfills all the everyday necessities including the care of her stepson, while she is in charge of some of the interior decorating of the spacious house. She is upset that the new furniture is not the color she had ordered and complains about this to the factory.
Apart from that, she meets with some of her female friends at the gym. Those women seem superficial and are interested (one might say even obsessed) with their looks and appearance. One of them urges Carol to try out a new diet fad that includes the sole consumption of fruits, and she accepts.
Yet gradually, her health begins to deteriorate. She has a very persistent coughing fit one day when driving home from work as she was forced to tailgate a truck emitting substantial amounts of exhaust fumes. Then she has a serious asthma attack at a baby shower of her friend, not to mention an ominous nosebleed at the hairdresser's. Her doctor, however, insists that she is physically fine and suggests for her to see a psychiatrist.
None of these remedies work for her. She is then sent to an allergy specialist who determines that she is highly allergic to milk. Yet cutting out dairy products and returning to a regular non-fruit diet does not alleviate her symptoms; in fact, over time her symptoms worsen and she even faints at the dry-cleaner.
Then she hears of a group claiming that many people are allergic to their environment and that they are suffering from what they term multiple chemical sensitivity or the Twentieth-Century Disease. Curious about this group, she goes to one of their meetings and finds people who seem to have similar symptoms. Slowly, she becomes convinced that the reason for her malaise lies in her environment, a dangerous cocktail of chemicals and pollutants that can even potentially kill a receptive and sensitive person like her.
Soon enough she joins some of these more extreme group members in a retreat in a deserted area where they sing songs, hold hands and are given motivational speeches by Peter Dunning, the author and so-called inventor / discoverer of this disease and its so-called cure. The cure, he insists, lies in positive thinking and to shelter oneself from all the evil that happens in the world, including violence and pollution. The retreat Wrenwood then becomes their "happy" and "safe" place.
As we witness this group, we are reminded of both New Age philosophies as well as religious cults. Although the members are not openly religious or Christian, there is a lot of overlap there. We can sense that at first Carol is not comfortable in this place, but soon she comes to accept it as a possible alternative to her ills.
Curiously enough, she keeps getting worse until she decides to find shelter in a highly secluded place that has its own ventilation system. She basically lives in a bubble, far from any contact with other individuals, be they the members of the retreat or even her husband.
This is a very sad movie that offers various layers of meaning and interpretation. First off, it shows the disillusionment and dissatisfaction of upper-class women who consign themselves to the home. The founding member of the group Peter Dunning (who himself incidentally suffers from AIDS) claims that each of their members is to be blamed for their ills. The reason they got sick was because they did not accept themselves as who they are and, more importantly, they did not love themselves sufficiently.
Partly, this may apply to Carol, but also it can be expanded to many other people in the modern industrialized world. We live in a place that has become too convenient for our own good and although the movie was made before the era of iPhones and iPads, it seems even more relevant and urgent now.
Our technological progress has left an indelible mark on us making it more difficult to communicate with each other and of having a satisfying and fulfilling relationship with ourselves and others. This malaise that she feels might also apply to us in a world in which we find it hard to find personal meaning and relevance; while technology in its heydays used to spellbind us only in our homes with television sets, it has now become ubiquitous in the form of our handy and mobile smartphones.
Another layer of the film includes the fact that we are exposed to chemical hazards and pollutants in our daily life. The food that we eat is for the most part artificial and filled with chemicals and genetic manipulation; the air is mostly unfit for us to breathe filled with constant exhaust from cars and factories; our climate is becoming erratic and uncontrollable due to our own greed and negligence.
The more health-conscious groups these days may think they are evading some of these aspects by eating organic non-GM food, but they are also deluding themselves. There is no real safety from these growing pollutants and one needs to be as radical as she is in the end, to live in a self-contained bubble with self-grown food and sterilized water etc. to be "safe" for that matter.
As defeatist as that may sound, we are trapped in the consumer world and there seems to be no safety net and no exit from it all. The idea of completely blocking or isolating ourselves from others or even from these dangers and hazards is equally, if not more, harmful than accepting and living with them.
Add to this, the fear of lethal and contagious diseases, like the AIDS syndrome or more recently, the unpredictable Ebola virus or the antibiotic-resistant super-bug. These are just a few of the dangerous and even mortal infections that plague us and make us paranoid. The dark irony is that despite our advances in medicine, we are not safe yet. There is still danger lurking around the corner. (I am omitting other kinds of dangers here, in terms of incipient wars including those on drugs and terror, natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, and also tragic accidents like that of Chernobyl dipping surroundings with all its sentient beings and food and plantations in harmful radiation.)
Considering the fact that the film is set in the 80s makes it plausible that Carol's mysterious, never clearly identified disease could be indeed AIDS. Not only does the founder of this group openly state that he is infected, but the movie also shows us a sex scene at its inception. She might have been infected by her husband, which is merely a theory as we are not given any concrete proof of his philandering. Nonetheless, the movie also captures some of the paranoia, helplessness and, in the case of AIDS, even prejudice and ignorance that are often associated with new unknown and infectious diseases.
Finally, the movie has another layer that includes a possible criticism of New Age philosophies and of religion and religious cults. In our despair, we are ready to swallow and believe anything that could get us out of this mess, that could give our life a little more sense, meaning and security. Although Haynes does not openly criticize the group (they are for the most part seen as rather honest if slightly deluded and naïve people), there is a sense that none of this will actually help but merely exacerbate the problem. At the same time, the raison d'être of this group seems to most likely be the financial rewards achieved by its founding author who himself does not live in the sheds like the members but in his luxurious home above the hill.
I very much enjoyed this film as much as it frightened me. This is the world that surrounds us, and so many of us walk around in a daze or in pain. The illness may be invented but it does hit the nail on identifying our own malaise in this modern consumer world of ours. There is a spiritual vacuum that each has to find on their own; unfortunately, there are many charlatans out there that claim to guide and help us find our ways, while in many cases, they confound us even more.
At the same time, doctors and psychologists do not seem adept to help and heal us in a profound manner. Science addresses and redresses many ills and diseases, but some parts of us remain untouched, while the malaise still persists. The film itself urges us to look into that direction of our dis-ease, of our lack of ease in the modern world; to first recognize it and then to find something worthwhile to hold onto in the faint hope of remedying it one day.
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Entering the World of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Berlin Alexanderplatz Review
When it comes to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his reputation exceeds him. He is known as the enfant terrible of the New German movement. He was openly gay. He was openly self-destructive. He was a workaholic and a drug and sex addict. He made about forty films before he died at the young age of 37. He left an undisputed legacy, while critics, regardless whether they like him or his work, acknowledge his important contributions to the art and world of cinema.
My first encounter with Rainer Werner Fassbinder happened more than a decade ago with the bizarre Beware of the Holy Whore (1971). Having heard so much about the director and not having been exposed to any of his films before (strange considering my German upbringing combined with my steady and steadfast love for cinema) I watched this particular movie with great enthusiasm and expectations.
And I was let down. I would definitely not recommend this film as an entry to the world of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It felt for the most part pointless and there were only two scenes that made an impact on me. One, if I remember correctly, had the director of a movie, Fassbinder casting himself as the director, fall in great despair to the ground and ask for five (or more) Cuba libres.
The other scene was a strange and quite inventive fighting scene towards the end and it was acted in slow motion and on replay. Everything else did little to impress me, and I discarded Fassbinder for the time being and did not approach him again until a number of years thereafter.
Then within the past year or two, I decided to give him another shot. This time I was more strategic and hunted down the movies that were among his most celebrated and known. So I watched The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) and Ali or Angst essen Seele auf (1974). The first one I thought well-made, but still did not understand why there was so much fuss about this film-maker. The second one I thought very well done and again, with the exception of a few idiosyncratic directorial touches and flourishes here and there did not see anything truly outstanding or unique.
And that is exactly what draws me to a specific director or artist in general. It is not just craft, but something that makes the director truly different from others. It is not unlike falling in love with someone; they may look and be similar to everyone else on the surface level, but there is something extraordinary or special about them, and we feel ourselves inexplicably drawn towards them. Yet until we notice that particular quality which the French (of course!) render best with je-ne-sais-quoi (and not everyone has it in fact), there is little to attract us.
So I decided to give Fassbinder another try and this was an experiment and a significant investment of time and probably effort: I tackled his magnum opus Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) based on Alfred Döblin's Ulysses-like novel. It is purportedly one of the longest movies in movie history clocking in about 15 and a half hours. I was apprehensive, nervous and thrilled to embark on this cinematic adventure.
The very first minutes were great. The main character, an unassuming rather sympathetic Franz Biberkopf was released from prison for the manslaughter of his wife. Yet he hesitates to leave the prison grounds, scared about leaving behind his accustomed confines and worried about the world he might find outside.
Then followed about half an hour of bizarre events and I was getting worried that I would not be able to continue, but it got better; I vowed come what may I will finish this as I had heard praise and bewilderment regarding the final episode (and I was more than fourteen hours away from it).
Berlin Alexanderplatz is not a mini-series by any standards. It is more a very long and drawn-out movie. In fact, it is a movie that would have surely benefited from tighter editing; it could have been much better had it been cut by say about thirteen hours or so. As it stands it is self-indulgent, meandering, and repetitive.
The movie has cases of poor plotting, scenes and dialogues that go far beyond the necessary running time, while the murder scene that haunts poor Biberkopf is repeated a dozen times (I lost count after a while) as a flashback, each time with different commentaries.
By now, you might think that I disparage of this movie, but against my own statements above, I must confess that I think Berlin Alexanderplatz to be brilliant. Yes, it has its various flaws, but they are, like the beloved person mentioned earlier in this post, part of its attractive features. In fact, only someone like Fassbinder could make such a movie and get away with it.
Berlin Alexanderplatz also has flashes of brilliance that blow any cinephile's mind. Strangely enough, it is a take-it or leave-it affair. The poor plotting is, in fact, one of its trademarks. We come to expect and cherish it. It is as detailed as a good old-fashioned literary book. The movie is, at the same time, inventive and is more than a movie. It is a documentary, a novel, a music video, a treatise and much more. It is ingenious and wildly imaginative.
Fassbinder has made another literary adaptation, namely the also very good Effi Briest (1974) based on Theodor Fontane's classic novel. Fassbinder played around with some of the stylistic devices, such as intertitles and dialogues that are taken directly and verbatim from the book.
Yet all of that is taken a step higher in Berlin Alexanderplatz, while Fassbinder shows more mastery than before. In Effi Briest we are treated with beautifully composed shots and ingenious mise en scène and constant play with mirror images, yet despite or rather because of these effects we distance ourselves from the characters and their plights.
In Berlin Alexanderplatz, it is quite the opposite. We are literally thrown into the world and particularly mind of its protagonist. We hear his thoughts, we see his deliriums and flashbacks, we know of his fears and obsessions. The image quality is purposely imperfect and occasionally blurry; yet it all works in its own ways and on its own terms. There are tracking shots that left me in a state of wonder. And we had not even reached the madness of its final episode!
I will not give away any particular or relevant plot details (although in movies like these, plot does not matter much anyhow), but I have two observations to make. First, the movie showed me something that had not occurred to me before. The protagonist had spent years in a prison and was weary about the world outside. In fact, the world turns out to be bad, if not worse than what he had imagined. At one point of despair, he catches a cab to the prison grounds and begs to be let in again.
It is strange how the prison confines can over time become someone's home and I am reminded of the old man in Shawshank Redemption who had difficulties adapting to the real world out there. For a long-term prisoner, the prison can be their structured and secure home.
The second observation is about a scene in which Franz Biberkopf orders various pints of beer and talks to each of them. This scene is completely redundant and even pointless by any standards; yet it has Fassbinder written all over it. It is funny and quirky though, and we see the protagonist Biberkopf drink them one after the other and still able to deliver (most of) his lines. The surreal meets cinema verité!
As can be seen, I finally seem to have gotten Fassbinder. Something clicked within me and I understood. From now on, I will see his movies with different eyes. I would not mind re-watching some of the previous films with this renewed knowledge and, moreover, appreciation for this great film-maker.
I also understand now why he is considered so good. Because, put simply, he is. He is an acquired taste for sure, just like sushi or Hitchcock. You may not like his films at first or see nothing special in them (as I had done), but delve deeper and you will find a treasure trove.
Am I going to watch all of his movies? I doubt it. Just like Alfred Hitchcock whom I admire now (but about whom I did not always feel that way), Fassbinder also has some misses. There are also movies that are fraught with violence (or so I have heard). But I will add many of this director's movies to my (alas endless) watch list and give them a fair hearing and seeing.
And I am confident that there is something I will see in his movies that I do not find in many other films, something bold, something unique, that je-ne-sais-quoi, the secret, mysterious and often missing alchemical ingredient that transposes craft into genius.
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Healing from Harm and Unlearning Violence
by Sonya Shah
Sonya Shah is an assistant professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a volunteer facilitator in the Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) at San Quentin, an activist, and a writer.
"I just want to know," Mack paused and took a moment to ask what was in his heart, "how do I live with the stigma of being a murderer?" Mack was on the brink of tears. His face was red with vulnerability. Serving twenty-five to life, this man in his mid thirties was participating in a dialogue between victims and offenders at San Quentin State Prison in California. He had just finished revealing the details of his crime thirteen years earlier and was left with more truthful questions about the meaning of his life.
On the surface, Mack had just "taken accountability" for the violence he had committed. But in the deeper poetry of accountability, Mack held the pieces of his life in his hands, felt each for texture, and placed them on the table. Then, in the nakedness of truth, he began the painful journey of fitting them together until the real picture of his life unfolded in a circle of ten incarcerated men, three facilitators, and three victims of violent crimes in the room.
In this exercise, offenders meet with "surrogate" victims— real victims, but of harm caused by other offenders. I was one of three victims serving a surrogate role. Before Mack spoke, I had just finished explaining how childhood sexual abuse had stunted my emotional development. I talked about the years I had spent unlearning patterns I had adopted at age six for survival, and the grueling process of learning new patterns in my twenties and thirties. I told the group I still have trouble trusting men; that I still shove my feelings inside and, like an untended pressure cooker, I explode periodically onto the closest bystander, an emotional event that has cost me many meaningful relationships.
Perpetuation by Darius White. Prisma Pencil.
Offenders and Victims Talk Face-to-Face
For many, the moment when a victim and an offender come together is a peak moment of a restorative process. This is the moment when the victims express how they were harmed and what they need today and the offenders take accountability for their crimes. But what is all of the "invisible" work that comes before this moment? For me it's a commitment to confronting negative behaviors and stunted emotional growth that originated in my childhood. And for the "offenders"— what does it take for them to truly articulate their crime and its impact? What does it mean to make accountability not a buzzword but a solid foundation for a life path? Can one engage in processes of accountability without healing, and shouldn't they be connected?
True accountability can't be faked. True accountability requires an offender to commit to entering those deep, dark, scary, shut-down places and attempt to heal. Healing is hard work. There is nothing easy about finding a new relationship to unresolved trauma in one's life. There is nothing easy about picking apart how exactly one is locked into the emotions and thinking of a child. There is no simple or singular way out of feelings of shame and humiliation from childhood experiences of abuse or poverty. And for some offenders, what does it take to confront the structural oppression and the historical legacy of colonialism, slavery, immigration, war, or genocide that are lodged in their bodies?
When offenders can see how all of the pieces of their past fit together, they can connect the dots of their life that led up to a crime and experience accountability in a deeply embodied way. There is a saying in this work: "the only way out is through." It means the way to self-liberation, the way to hold the stigma of murder, to reclaim one's rightful place in humanity, to repair relationship to community, is to commit to "doing the work" of healing. In restorative justice, we need to embrace all of the important restorative processes—in particular the lifelong work of healing that victims, offenders, and people in the community need to undertake in order to repair.
Members of a Victim Offender Education Group graduating class of 2010 in San Quentin prison pose with facilitators Rochelle Edwards (at front), Jaimee Karroll (at back), and Jack Dison (far left).
The Process of Unlearning Violence
A year later, I am a volunteer facilitator in the Victim Offender Education Group program at San Quentin, the same program where I sat as a surrogate victim. The program was founded by Rochelle Edwards based on the work of David Doerfler, and is heavily influenced by the principles of restorative justice. It is a twelve-to-eighteen-month program that is spreading: five classes are offered in San Quentin, which is an all-male prison, and 125 men are on the waiting list there. The program is reaching prisons in Dublin and Alameda, and working with post-release programs such as Homeboys in Los Angeles. This is thanks to the tireless work of Edwards and the staff of Insight Prison Project, the nonprofit that houses the Victim Offender Education Group.
I often step back and ask myself why programs like the Victim Offender Education Group or the Resolve to Stop the Violence Program in San Francisco are successful. What makes these models, above others, work? In my heart there is also "the other" questions. The questions that we as a society are dying to know because our humanity depends on it: If "violence is learned and can be unlearned," how do we know when someone has changed? How do we know when someone is no longer violent? What is the evidence? How does someone transform, exactly?Periodically I study the literature on violence and its causes with the excuse of presenting it to my undergraduate students. I review James Gilligan's work around shame and humiliation; I look at the complex sociopolitical and historical patterns of different genocides. But mostly I pay attention to the men at San Quentin: I listen to what they say in trainings, graduations, and in my class; I talk with my co-facilitator, Jaimee Karroll; and I write down the words of wisdom that the men at San Quentin, Edwards, Karroll, and other facilitators say in passing. Their anecdotes are precious evidence of transformation and how it occurs as a real process of liberation from violence.
The other day I went to an information session for the Victim Offender Education Group. Edwards stepped up to the microphone in the San Quentin Catholic Chapel and rattled off a list of "evidence" of transformation to a room full of more than one hundred men waiting to get into the program. The evidence, although delivered casually, is teased out of an assessment that the Insight Prison Project is conducting of its programming and impact. Below is the gist of some of Edwards's comments (italicized), followed by my own observations:
After attending the Victim Offender Education Group, the men in the program report:
1. A decrease in violent or negative behavior. This is perhaps the most significant, tangible, and commonly heard evidence. I heard a story at the program's graduation a few months ago that captured this. The graduate said, "Yesterday a man on the yard came up behind me and smacked me on the back of the head with a few rolled up sheets of paper. Then let me tell you where my mind went—it went to taking a baseball bat and beating him up. But that isn't what I did. I walked away, man; I just walked away."
2. The ability to connect the dots of their life to the day of their crime. At a training session for outside facilitators, one of the program's inmate facilitators captured it in a way no one else could: "How did I go from being a boy who wouldn't step on an ant to a gun-toting gang banger? In this program I was able to retrace my steps, learn, and apply the tools to process that."
3. A real connection to one's emotional self. At that same training session, another man said: "When I came to the program I was skeptical. I am an intellectual and not in touch with my emotions. But people said to me—if you want to go home, you have to go to the Victim Offender Education Group. I had to know my emotional side. I know stuff about everything else but not me. In the program, I learned about me."
4. An increase in thinking critically. Critical thinking and critical self-reflection are important mechanisms the men in this program learn to build into any moment in which they are triggered by someone else's actions or behaviors. By creating the reflective space to step back, step away, or go talk to a friend, a man can move away from engaging ina violent incident to "checking in with himself," meaning processing on an emotional, intellectual, cultural, or historical level why he was triggered.
5. Recognition that anger is not a primary emotion but a secondary emotion. Once a man recognizes he is getting angry, he can look for the feelings behind the anger to primary emotions such as fear or hurt.
6. An increase in empathy. At the program's graduation, a man said, "In my family we shed blood before we shed tears. Not only did I learn how to cry in this group, I couldn't stop crying when I heard the other brothers in the group tell their stories." Once he developed compassion for himself, he was able to develop empathy and compassion for others.
7. A better understanding of the body-mind connection. Another inmate co-facilitator commented, "Mind-body connection is paying close attention to one's experience in the moment without the mind judging or evaluating that experience. It has a lot to do with redirecting the activity of
the mind to feeling bodily sensations."
8. Learning conflict resolution skills and better communication skills.
9. Healthier relationships with family members and friends.
10. A desire to "give back." Some of the men at San Quentin find that with healing and transformation comes the next step—the desire to share, teach, and facilitate others through the same process.
This is not just a list. The more time I spend with the men in the Victim Offender Education Group, the more I see how they actualize these transformations in everyday interactions. I also see the desire these men have to continue to grow and learn about themselves. Most importantly, as a witness to the process of transformation, I am convinced this evidence of change confirms that violence is a product of social conditions; that violence is learned and it can be unlearned. It gives me great hope for our shared humanity
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Der Satz von Sylvester (Arithmetik) ist benannt nach James Joseph Sylvester und beschreibt einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Summendarstellung einer natürlichen Zahl und deren Teilern.

Aussage
Eine natürliche Zahl n > 1 ist genau dann als Summe mindestens zweier aufeinanderfolgender natürlicher Zahlen darstellbar, wenn sie mindestens einen ungeraden Teiler ungleich 1 besitzt.

Herleitung und Veranschaulichung
Betrachtet werden die beiden Fälle, dass die Summandenanzahl ungerade, bzw. gerade ist. Wegen der analogen Vorgehensweisen werden ohne Beschränkung der Allgemeinheit eine beliebige ungerade, bzw. gerade Summandenanzahl sowie jeweils ein beliebiger kleinster Summand gewählt.

Erster Fall: Ungerade Summandenanzahl

Erste Implikation
Wenn eine natürliche Zahl n > 1 als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit ungerader Summandenzahl darstellbar ist, besitzt sie mindestens einen ungeraden Teiler.

Vorgegeben sind fünf aufeinander folgende natürliche Summanden mit ungerader Summandenzahl beginnend mit 4. Sie lassen sich als 30 trapezartig angeordnete Plättchen darstellen (Abbildung links). Dann ist die der Mittelparallelen im Trapez entsprechende Mittenzahl 6. Nach Umordnung der Plättchen (Drehung der drei oberen Plättchen um 180° und anschließende Verschiebung in die freien weißen Felder des grün umrahmten Bereichs) entsteht ein Rechteck, dessen Seitenlängen 5 und 6 betragen (Abbildung rechts). Demnach ist 5 ein ungerader Teiler.

Zweite Implikation
Wenn eine natürliche Zahl n > 1 mindestens einen ungeraden Teiler besitzt, ist sie als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit ungerader Summandenzahl darstellbar.

Vorgegeben ist die natürliche Zahl 30 mit dem ungeraden Teiler 5. Sie lässt sich als Rechteck mit 5 mal 6 Plättchen darstellen (Abbildung rechts). Nach Umordnung der Plättchen links und rechts der aus 6 Plättchen bestehenden Mittelreihe entsteht eine trapezartige Anordnung der Plättchen, bestehend aus insgesamt fünf Reihen mit jeweils 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 Plättchen (Abbildung links). Demnach ist 30 als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit ungerader Summandenzahl darstellbar.

Zweiter Fall: Gerade Summandenanzahl

Erste Implikation
Wenn eine natürliche Zahl n > 1 als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit gerader Summandenzahl darstellbar ist, besitzt sie mindestens einen ungeraden Teiler.

Vorgegeben sind sechs aufeinander folgende natürliche Summanden mit gerader Summandenzahl beginnend mit 3. Sie lassen sich als 33 trapezartig angeordnete Plättchen darstellen (Abbildung links). Dann existiert keine Mittenzahl, stattdessen wird eine der Mittelparallelen im Trapez entsprechende sog. Mittenlinie betrachtet, so dass links und rechts von dieser Linie jeweils drei Plättchenreihen liegen, welche die Summanden darstellen. Nach Umordnung der Plättchen (Drehung der Plättchen im rechten grün umrahmten Bereich um 180° und anschließende Verschiebung in die freien weißen Felder des linken grün umrahmten Bereichs) entsteht ein Rechteck, dessen Seitenlängen 3 und 11 betragen (Abbildung rechts). Demnach existiert mindestens ein ungerader Teiler, in diesem Falle sogar zwei, nämlich 3 und 11.

Zweite Implikation
Wenn eine natürliche Zahl n > 1 mindestens einen ungeraden Teiler besitzt, ist sie als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit gerader Summandenzahl darstellbar.

Vorgegeben ist die natürliche Zahl 33 mit den ungeraden Teilern 3 und 11. Sie lässt sich als Rechteck mit 3 mal 11 Plättchen darstellen (Abbildung rechts). Nach geeigneter Umordnung der Plättchen entsteht eine trapezartige Anordnung der Plättchen, bestehend aus insgesamt sechs Reihen mit jeweils 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 Plättchen (Abbildung links). Demnach ist 33 als Summe aufeinander folgender natürlicher Zahlen mit gerader Summandenzahl darstellbar.

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SOFIA (Bulgaria), November 2 (SeeNews) - Chemicals supplier Himsnab Bulgaria [BUL:58E] said on Friday that local insurance company Armeec increased its stake in the company to 5.0% on October 25.
Following the transaction, Armeec holds 124,759 Himsnab shares, the chemicals supplier said in a statement.
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COD: Ghosts – Infinity Ward Can't Push AI Development Further Until Next-Gen Hardware is Finalized
June 18, 2013 David Veselka 31
While Infinity Ward is hard at work crafting the next-generation experience of Call of Duty, development isn't without it's road bumps.
Studio Head Mark Rubin recently told Polygon that, when it comes to development of AI in Call of Duty: Ghosts, work can be "slower than some of the graphics." He explained that this is due to the lack of finalized hardware for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
"Obviously we are in crazy early development and we will have to see how the consoles play out," Rubin added.
He mentioned that the team is shooting for some very dynamic AI – enemies that will react differently depending on the situation they are in.
"They might behave differently to the dog, or behave a little differently compared to the events that are happening in the level," Rubin explained. "They take some of the environment cues and pay attention to them. A lot of times they just kind of ignore the environment, they are just like, 'OK this guy is supposed to be here I'm shooting, but the building is falling all over me… No, I'm still shooting you.' So sort of doing stuff like that. It is subtle, really subtle. AI in general is one of those things [where] the subtle things are often easy to notice when it is bad."
Infinity Ward is making "big strides" in development, but Rubin says they can't really push things any further until they know exactly what they are working with in terms of hardware.
"We need some hardware, some finished hardware, before we can really expand," he said.
If you're interested to see some of the development process for Ghosts, check out this recent tech-demo:
Call of Duty: Ghosts hits next-generation hardware sometime after its release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on November 5.
Thanks, Polygon.
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Comment on J. Christian Adams' Appointment to Trump Voting Commission
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – July 10, 2017: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today offered comment on the Trump Administration's decision to appoint PILF President J. Christian Adams to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
"J. Christian Adams brings years of experience in protecting the rights of legitimate voters both inside and out of government to this Commission," PILF Communications Director Logan Churchwell said. "Adams has successfully litigated against discriminatory voting districts, intimidation, jurisdictions failing to offer foreign language ballots, and counties with bloated voter rolls.
"Adams also brings deep experience in successfully dislodging voter data from states and locales that refused to disclose public records—most recently in the Commonwealth of Virginia," Churchwell added.
Under J. Christian Adams' leadership, the Public Interest Legal Foundation achieved the following in 2017:
Inked an agreement with the Wake County, NC, board of elections to more regularly perform voter roll maintenance procedures;
Co-authored a report, Best Practices for Achieving Integrity in Voter Registration, with fellow election law experts;
Published Alien Invasion II, finding more than 5,500 voters removed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for noncitizenship reasons—one third of them cast ballots;
Urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to clean up the "ideological rot" that has plagued the DOJ Civil Rights Division for decades and later commended the nomination of Eric Dreiband to be the next AAG for Civil Rights;
Defeated two Virginia jurisdictions' attempts to suppress voter roll maintenance data from public inspection; and
Developed a consent decree with Noxubee County, Mississippi, to clean bloated voter rolls.
Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm dedicated to election integrity. The Foundation exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections. Drawing on numerous experts in the field, PILF seeks to protect the right to vote and preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections.
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We are proud to announce the launch of a new initiative: The Mobile Video Industry Council (MVIC). It is a gathering of minds that will bring together thought leaders and innovators at an exclusive event in London on October 18 at The Tower Hotel. The event for mobile operators is designed to explore the trends, strategies and the impact mobile video will have on 5G networks and beyond.
Mobile video has reached a critical juncture. As the killer app for subscribers, it is growing at a phenomenal rate. Our research from the Mobile Video Index found that by the end of 2018, video traffic will be 62% and 50% will be High Definition (HD). Subscribers can't get enough of mobile video – whether that's watching live streaming sports, cute cats on YouTube or the latest Marvel series on Netflix. Are mobile operators celebrating? Not quite. Mobile video poses a clear and present threat to operators across the world.
Encryption such as QUIC from Google and 0-RTT from Facebook is darkening operator networks across the world. Our research estimates that by November 2018, approximately 90% of internet traffic will be encrypted. Why is this a problem? Most carriers are unable to manage Quality of Experience (QoE) on mobile data that is coated with encryption. As we all know, poor QoE leads to increased churn. And churn impacts the bottom line.
OTTs in the shape of FAANGs, ie Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, are investing record sums, in the billions, on content and technology vying to gain supremacy in the battle for video. Disney is set to launch its own streaming service in 2019 in a bid to shake the balance of video power. If that was not enough, 5G is looming over the horizon and that brings with it both unparalleled opportunities and existential threats. Let's face it, mobile video plays a pivotal role in the business model for many operators – yet, it scares many.
Our one-day event will feature insightful sessions and case studies, all focused on helping mobile operators overcome today's video challenges while preparing for a 5G future. The day's program and more information are available on our event page where you can also register to attend. We look forward to welcoming you in London.


"We have achieved 50 per cent year-on-year growth. In 2009-10, the company registered a turnover of Rs 260 crore.We are hopeful of surpassing Rs 1,000 crore by 2013," said S Satish Bhat, VP(retail operations), Arvind Retail Ltd, on the sidelines of the inauguration of a 20,000 sq ft Megamart showroom here recently.
The other Mega showrooms are in Pune, Thane, Bangalore and Chennai. By April 15 this year, another mega sized store would be opened in Pune, he said.
Currently, the company's focus is to expand in the South and strengthen presence in the Western region. In Tamil Nadu, there are 49 outlets, including a recently opened store at Karaikal. Another 12 outlets will be opened before the end of this fiscal. New stores will be opened in Pune, Nagpur and Mumbai and three more in Tamil Nadu, he said.
Seventy per cent of the brands sold are external brands and 30 per cent are their own, Arvind Ltd. Very soon, the market mix will be altered to 60:40, he said.
Future plans include strengthening its portfolio in the children's wear and non-apparel segments like cosmetics, hand bags, fashion jewellery and home textiles.
Arvind Ltd had signed a collaborative pact with Mosimo, a US-based youth apparel manufacturing brand, under which a new range of products would be launched before August this year, he added.


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Information published on 7 July 2020 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 699.
UIC's Track & Structures sector publishes first edition of IRS 70719 "Earthworks and track bed layers for railway lines – Design and construction principles"
Railway Construction
UIC Leaflets 719 "Earthworks and track bed for railway lines" and 722 "Methods of improving the track formation of existing lines" are being reviewed in the framework of the update and migration plan of UIC leaflets for the Track & Structures sector.
An ad-hoc committee of technical experts for this task has been formed with representatives of different UIC members of the most important UIC European member railway administrations, such as Spain (ADIF), Belgium (Infrabel), Italy (RFI), Czech Republic (SZ), France (SNCF Reseau), UK (Network Rail) and Germany (Deutsche Bahn), and also from Asian members such as CARS and East Japan Railways.
This task is also overseen by both the UIC TEG (Track Experts Group) and PoSE (Panel of Structural Experts), so as to ensure that the update reflects the state-of-the-art of the subjects and coherence with the different international and national standards.
An initial output of the work already advanced by the IRS 70719 "Earthworks and track bed layers for railway lines – Design and construction principles" has been published and has therefore been in force since the end of June 2020. This document provides an integral approach to the subject that expands from the EN 16907 and the applicable Eurocodes including definitions, principles and general rules for the design of earthworks to be used in railway lines to support track bed layers.
Nevertheless, references in the IRS to values present in an EN standard even if they are intended for infrastructure managers within the CEN member states, can also be recommendations for infrastructure managers in non-CEN member states unless national or regional standards apply.
In this context, earthworks may be defined as a civil engineering process aimed at creating earth structures by changing the geometry of the ground surface, either by constructing an embankment or excavating a cutting.
The update of the document has consisted of almost 90 pages with a content that covers the following areas:
Definition of a cross section of a railway track (for ballasted and ballastless track)
Classification of materials for construction of new railway tracks
for embankments and prepared subgrade (soils and rocks)
present in cuttings
for frost protection layer
for sub-ballast layer
for ballast layer
Design principles and criteria for new lines
Transitions between structures and earthworks
Construction procedures and quality control
This document can be found in the UIC ETF-Shop at the following link:
https://www.shop-etf.com/fr/track-structure-earthworks-and-track-bed-layers-for-railway-lines-design-and-construction-principles.html?ref=1
A special mention must be made for all the UIC staff involved over the last few years in achieving this new IRS, especially for T&S advisors Harald Sattler, and David Villalmanzo Resusta as lead coordinator.
For further information please contact David Mirayo, Infrastructure and TTI Senior Advisor: mirayo@uic.org
UIC releases its 2019 activity report 10th UIC Covid-19 Task Force web-conference held on 7 July 2020 25th UIC Regional Assembly for Middle East (UIC RAME) held on 24 June 2020 online 8th Training Session on Railway Security held from 22 June – 3 July 2020 organised by ONCF and UIC Audiovisual material on Covid-19 available in the UIC mediacenter – 7 July Belarus: Belarusian railway launches new regular electric trains on the Svietlagorsk-Žlobin-Minsk route Business as usual for Europeans China: E-pass applied on China's conventional speed railways nationwide from 20 June Development of the international railway market challenges and objectives for the technical regulations and dangerous goods provisions Germany: Full power towards greener mobility – DB Schenker's new logistics service for the battery industry
e-News articles with keyword Infrastructure
Tenth Conference of Transport Ministers of the Countries of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO 5+5) held online on 6 October (7 October 2021) UIC to share expertise at International Railway Summit webinar debate on rail incident management (6 October 2021) UIC represented in Frankfurt for the Connecting Europe Express (30 September 2021) UIC publishes first edition of IRS 70727, "Railway Application – Track superstructure decision-making" (23 September 2021) European Year of Rail: UIC participates in the Rail Infrastructure Investment for the Green Deal high-level conference organised by the European Commission (Bucharest, 17 September) (22 September 2021)
e-News articles with keyword Rail System
Track Expert Group (TEG) meeting held on 4 and 5 October (18 October 2021) Railway engineering: play and learn (15 October 2021) Eighth training session on railway track maintenance organised by ONCF and UIC Africa held on 20-24 September 2021 (29 September 2021) Save the date and register: EUSPA-funded SIA project final event (15 October, online) (27 September 2021) UIC publishes first edition of IRS 70727, "Railway Application – Track superstructure decision-making" (23 September 2021)
e-News articles with keyword Railway Construction
United Kingdom: 11,000-tonne tunnel to be installed on the railway in first for UK engineering (13 January 2021) UIC's Track & Structures sector publishes first edition of IRS 70719 "Earthworks and track bed layers for railway lines – Design and construction principles" (7 July 2020) UIC participates in SSZD Conference (12 December 2017) Spain. The construction of the La Sagrera station has started (7 July 2010)
UIC and the Harmotrack management team are pleased to invite you to the fourth Harmotrack project plenary meeting (24 November 2021) Reminder: 2 weeks to register. UIC is pleased to invite you to the Symposium 2021 to launch its centenary celebrations! (17 November 2021) REMINDER: 3 weeks to register. UIC is pleased to invite you to the Symposium 2021 to launch its centenary celebrations!, Hybrid (Online and UIC HQ) (10 November 2021) Rail Freight Forward - the future of mobility (10 November 2021) Alstom video collaboration (3 November 2021)
e-News articles with keyword IRS
Interview with Asako Togari to mark her first mandate as Vice-Chair of the Standardisation Platform (5 May 2021) Interview with Laurent Schmitt, Chairman of the Standardisation Platform (5 May 2021) IRS 30301 Accountancy regulations for international passenger traffic (5 May 2021) IRS 60672: Joint efforts to promote IRS for high-speed rail (5 May 2021) IRS 70723: Technical aspects of vegetation control and tree risk management awarded in the "Proficiently Developed" category (5 May 2021)


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Q: Google Sheet & Form: Named Range So I'm using Google Sheets and Google Forms, and in Google Sheets, I'm using a VLOOKUP formula like this: =IF(B3="","",VLOOKUP(B3, tickID,5,false)) where tickID is a named range. The tickID is set to 'Form Responses 1'!A2:G102, however it changes to 'Form Responses 1'!A3:G102 when I receive a response.
Can somebody help me? Thank you!

A: Use full-column references:
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Title State Flag of Mississippi
Caption (back) The flag was designed by a committee appointed by the Legislature on Feb. 7, 1894. It incorporates the national colors and 13 stars of the original colonies. It has a union square with a ground of red and broad blue saltier thereon, broadened with white and emblazoned with stars. The field is divided into 3 bars of equal width, the upper blue, the center white, and the lower red.
Subject Flags
Location Mississippi
Printer H. S. Crocker Co.
Publisher Deep South Specialties
Period Photochrome Period, 1940-Present
Card No. B-MS-00-4
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Digital Publisher Miami University Libraries
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As a result of is an article on harry styles ship tattoo drawing.
There are numerous components of the ear you are able to get tattooed. Be it too huge and you'll appear to be something is trying to crawl out of below your skin, so make sure to help keep it very small.A Wherever you will get a tattoo inked on your entire body, it is painful.


I realize that one day my efforts to educate on the controversial subjects of ASPD and psychopathy may force me out of areas that I currently exist in. Being open about mental illness is a choice. It is not an easy choice. As I point out in the tweets listed at the beginning of this post, to speak is to lose and to stay silent is to lose. Significant others and employers want nothing to do with individuals that openly speak about mental illness. However, we have that choice. We can choose to go down in flames while being authentic and true to ourselves or we can scream into the deafening silence that surrounds us.
I've written before about the effects of not being open about mental illness. The internal contortion that one must go undergo is non-trivial and can leave permanent psychological damage. What message is conveyed to the afflicted if the only place they can talk about their struggles is within the four walls of a mental health professional's office? Now, I am not advocating that the lines blur to the point to where a person is authentic in all spaces as significant others need a break from the affliction of their partner(s) and the workplace primarily exists as a symbiotic relationship between employer and employee. That said, there should be accommodation by those dealing with the mentally ill to ensure that the afflicted can be open on their own terms in their own spaces.
We all know that this is not how society operates, however. The decree is clear. Sit down, shut up, and keep on keeping on as if there is no elephant in the room. So in that essence, we lose. We lose no matter whether we are true to ourselves or true to others. Ultimately, I would argue, we should be selfish. We are more intimately acquainted with ourselves and honoring ourselves is the greatest promise we can keep for ourselves. Being open about mental illness is about honoring one's ability to understand the framework in which they live in. And, it certainly goes a long way in ensuring that those with similar afflictions know that can have better outcomes with the same choice when they make it. Maybe as the years progress, we will get to a point to where there is actually a winning outcome.


First Sentence: The strangest memory of my childhood concerns my father's disappearance.
Reason for Reading: This is my final selection for the TBR Challenge and the 2nds Challenge.
From the Publisher: Ever since his father disappeared when he was nine years old, Ian Kennedy has had a penchant for stories about missing people–and a knack for finding them. Now he's a private investigator with an impressive track record. But when a woman enters his London office and asks him to find her lost daughter, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve–and one he knows he must.
Laura Lensky's stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years–a lifetime, under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth–and to the haunting case that launched his career, an early success he's never fully been able to explain. Though Ian suspects Peri may have chosen to vanish, his curiosity leads him to take on the search. Soon he finds himself drawing not only from the mysteries that have preoccupied his adulthood, but from the fables and folklore that pervaded his youth. What follows is a journey that takes Ian and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case–and in their lives.
Comments: I first came across this book in a publisher's newsletter two years ago and was intrigued by the premise and so scooped up a copy of the book quickly. But as often happens with my books, it sat on the shelf awhile, until the right moment came to give it a whirl. I actually ended up reading another of the author's books first, Silver Bough, earlier this year.
As with Silver Bough, Lisa Tuttle eases the reader into the more fantastical elements of The Mysteries slowly. She weaves Celtic myth into her tale seamlessly, creating an intriguing and eerie story. The Mysteries is a fantasy novel and a mystery all rolled into one. Bit by bit, the author brings the pieces of the puzzle together, never failing to leave the reader in wonder and sometimes even in awe.
The characterizations seemed somehow murky at times with even the protagonist not being quite fully fleshed out. And yet, it seemed sort of fitting given the story. The fairies and their kin always seemed to lurk just beyond the mist or in the dark, and the author, even in when writing about the "real" world, was able to capture that sort of atmosphere, as if the two were not all that different, and yet still worlds apart.
I know so little about Celtic folklore, and yet Lisa Tuttle's novels never fail to entice me and make me wish I knew more. The Mysteries did not captivate me quite as much as Silver Bough did; however, I definitely plan to read more by this author.
Favorite Parts: I especially enjoyed going back in time with Ian as he remembered his first visit to Scotland and his search for Amy. I took a liking to the character of Fred, and wanted to know more about her.
My second favorite part of the novel was when Laura and Ian are on their own, searching for Peri. Laura's bag begins to move and what emerges was unexpected and yet so fitting. Everything that happened in the novel had a reason, even if the reason was not always clear.
This one sounds interesting to me. The plot seems intriguing. I might want to check this out.
This sounds great! I love the Celtic folklore angle! I will definitely be looking for this author!
Melody - I enjoyed the book, although I do wish the author had given me just a little bit more.
Jaimie - I hope you will give her a try. I'd be curious to know what you think!
The Highlands of Scotland! Celtic Myth! This definitely sounds like something for me!
Sounds like just my kind of novel. I will definitely check out this author if it is their usual style thanks!
Rhinoa - It seems to be the direction her books go. At least the two I read. :-) I recently ordered a copy of her novel The Pillow Friend and am looking forward to reading that one.
This sounds like a winner. I'm adding a whole lot to my list for next year!
BookGal - I've been adding to my wish list like crazy. So many books and they all sound so good! I hope you will like this one.


UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen said he doesn't regret posting the photo that went viral earlier this year of himself wearing a "F--- Trump" hat.
UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen told SI's Pete Thamel he doesn't regret posting the photo that went viral earlier this year of himself wearing a "F--- Trump" hat.
In April, Rosen posted an Instagram photo of himself teeing off at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's golf course in California. In the photo, Rosen is wearing a hat featuring a photo of Trump preceded by the expletive.
Rosen told Thamel that he did not feel remorseful over posting the photo, but that he did regret the profanity used on the hat.


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Der Druwappelplatz war der erste bebaute und bis ca. 1955 der zentrale Platz des Ortsteils Reutershagen, Rostock. Auf ihm kreuzen sich der Liningweg und der Miningweg. Das Ortsamt West und der Markt Reutershagen als heutiges Zentrum mit der Reuterpassage befinden sich in unmittelbarer Nähe (100 m südlich).

Geschichte
Die Bebauung des Druwappelplatzes begann im Zuge der durch den Ersten Weltkrieg aufgeschobenen Gartenstadt-Bewegung Rostocks. Ursprünglich als "Kleinsiedlung Barnstorf-Bramow" geplant, entstanden 1920 die ersten Häuser am Siedlungsweg (heute Liningweg) und dem zentralen Siedlungsplatz (heute Druwappelplatz).
Die großzügigen Grundstücke wurden mit Doppelhäusern bebaut. Entsprechend dem Gedanken der Gartenstadtbewegung, befanden sich hinter den Häusern große Gartenbereiche zur Eigen-Erwirtschaftung des Gemüse-Bedarfes und für die höfische Tierhaltung. Zudem wurden die Felder hinter den Häusern von den Anwohnern für Getreide- und Kartoffelanbau gepachtet.

Die Benennung des Druwappelplatzes sowie des Lining- und des Miningweges sind erst seit 1922 belegt und dieses Jahr gilt als Gründungsjahr Reutershagens.

Auf dem Druwappelplatz als zentralem Platz spielte sich ein großer Teil des öffentlichen Lebens ab. Hier befand sich im Haus Druwappelplatz 2 neben der Poststelle des Postamtes auch der lokale Ortsbeauftragte des Landratsamtes für Rostock-Schutow. Entsprechend wurde auf dem Druwappelplatz auch der Kasten mit den amtlichen Bekanntmachungen aufgestellt. Um den Platz lief die Zulieferstraße der Post, die von hier aus in ganz Reutershagen verteilt wurde.

Mit der Erweiterung Reutershagens ab 1953 um den Bereich "Reutershagen 1" verlor der Platz seine Bedeutung. Einwohner erhielten Teile als Austauschfläche für hinter den Häusern weggefallene Flächen, die heute zur Conrad-Blenkle- und Mathias-Thesen-Straße gehören. Dieser Tausch wurde von der Stadt Rostock nach der Wende nicht anerkannt, da eine Eintragung ins Grundbuch zu DDR-Zeiten nicht vorgenommen wurde. Die betroffenen Einwohner zahlten seit dem Tausch und zahlen z. T. bis heute (Stand 2015) für die geänderte Fläche Grundstückssteuern an die Stadt Rostock. Der betroffene Bereich wurde gärtnerisch genutzt. Das Restgrundstück des Druwappelplatzes, das zu DDR-Zeiten offiziell im Besitz der Stadt verblieb, verwilderte. Der Besitzstand der Grundstücksanteile ist noch heute (Stand 2015) am Pflegezustand deutlich erkennbar.

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Der Druwappelplatz wurde mit der Benennung von den Einwohnern mit einer Linde vor jedem Haus und einem Druwappelbaum im Mittelpunkt gestaltet. Von der Ursprungsbepflanzung sind noch zwei ca. 100 Jahre alte Linden erhalten. Daneben gibt es weitere ca. 50 Jahre alte Linden und diverse Bäume, die im Baumkataster der Stadt Rostock geführt werden.

Der Druwappel ist seit mehr als 400 Jahren beschrieben und gehört damit zu den ältesten nachgewiesenen Obstarten. Er war in Norddeutschland sehr verbreitet und ist heute selten und bedroht.

Lining und Mining Nüßler waren zwei Geschwister aus den Geschichten von Fritz Reuter, die er wegen ihrer "gelben" Haare und roten Wangen als "Druwappels" bezeichnete. Diese drei Motive gaben den ersten Straßen und dem Zentralplatz den Namen und der Schöpfer wurde mit dem Stadtteil-Namen Reutershagen geehrt.

Reuter hat den Druwappel berühmt gemacht, so dass er in anderen bekannten Werken Aufnahme fand, ebenso Lining und Mining.

Bestrebungen zum Verkauf des Platzes
Die Stadt Rostock hat den Druwappelplatz zum Verkauf ausgeschrieben. Sie argumentiert mit dem Wohnungsmangel, dem einmaligen monetären Effekt für die knappe Haushaltskasse und der fehlenden öffentlichen Nutzung. Nur eine Linde von den zahlreichen Bäumen soll bewahrt werden.

Dagegen hat sich eine Initiative aufgestellt, die den Platz erhalten möchte.
Sie argumentiert mit der Widmung des Platzes aus Unvordenklicher Verjährung, da der Platz von den Einwohnern und vom Ortsamt und dem Ortsbeirat als öffentlich angesehen wird und schon seit Jahren für eine Denkmalsgestaltung vorgesehen ist (Protokoll Sitzung Ortsbeirat vom 8. März 2011: "Grundstücksfläche im Bereich des Druwappelplatzes ist der Ursprung von Alt Reutershagen, auf den öffentl. Grundstück wäre eine Kennzeichnung denkbar").
In diesem Sinne unterstützt die Initiative die Gestaltung der Fläche in Vorbereitung und Würdigung der 800-Jahr-Feier der Hansestadt Rostock und der 100-Jahr-Feier des Stadtteiles Reutershagen und hat Konzepte entwickelt, die vom Ortsbeirat und vielen Bürgern unterstützt werden. Die enge und laut Ausschreibung weitaus höher geplante Bebauung als der Bestand (11,50 m statt ortsüblich 8,50 m) wird bemängelt, da der Charakter Reutershagens als grüne Siedlung gerade an deren Ursprung zerstört würde. Das stünde im deutlichen Gegensatz zu den Leitlinien zur Stadtentwicklung Rostock 2025.

Für den Verkauf und die Bebauung des Platzes hat der Hauptausschuss der Bürgerschaft der Hansestadt Rostock mit der Stimme des Oberbürgermeisters Roland Methling gegen das Votum des Ortsbeirates, des Liegenschafts- und Vergabeausschusses sowie die Stimmen einer Bürgerinitiative am 17. November 2015 entschieden. Die Bürgerinitiative hat daraufhin beim Oberbürgermeister und beim Präsidenten der Bürgerschaft eine Petition eingereicht, deren Ziel die Annullierung des gefassten Beschlusses ist.

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