What is Uninsured & Underinsured Motorist Protection?
Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Protection (designated UM/UIM) is a type of coverage under your own insurance policy. Pennsylvania law requires that every automobile insurance policy issued must offer the insured the option to purchase Underinsured and Uninsured Motorist Protection. The law is so clear and strong, that the only way an automobile insurance policy may be issued without providing this protection is if the insurance company provides the insured with a specific Waiver Form written by the State of Pennsylvania, and has the insured sign and date that form.
Unfortunately, some insurance companies make it extremely difficult to file for a UM/UIM claim and do not honor claims in good faith. It doesn't matter if you've paid coverage for months, or even years, they will resist paying fair value.
While being involved in an auto accident caused by another driver is difficult, being the victim in an accident caused by an uninsured or underinsured motorist can and often will add a layer of complexity to your claim experience. Victims of auto accidents caused by an uninsured or underinsured driver may be able to be compensated by their own insurance company if they have uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.
If your insurance policy states that the Underinsured and Uninsured Motorist Protection has been waived or your insurance company has denied benefits, you should call Mayerson Injury Law, P.C. for an immediate consultation. We will ensure that the insurance company has complied with Pennsylvania law. If it has not, we will work to ensure you are provided with the Underinsured and Uninsured benefits to which you would then be entitled.


Photographs have always been a special thing. Being able to immortalise a single moment on film is probably one of science's more underappreciated gifts to man. The significance of taking photographs plummeted with the introduction of digital photography. Specifically because people could now click away, taking thousands of pictures without worrying about wasting film. Nonetheless, we feel that there's nothing quite like an analog camera experience.
This #throwbackthursday, we zoom in on 3 trusty film cameras from the yesteryears that are guaranteed to invoke some nostalgia. It's time to stow away those fancy DSLRs and take one of these old boys out for a trip down memory lane.
This camera holds significant weight in history because it's Nikon's first SLR (single-lens reflex) camera. Introduced in 1959, the Nikon F signified the company's step away from the best cameras of the time, rangefinders, which were exorbitantly priced. Reputed to be extremely well-built, user-friendly and durable, this camera is a good pick for anyone looking to pick up the basics of photography.
This TLR (twin-lens reflex) camera is popular among enthusiasts because of reasonable pricing and sharp lens. The 124g uses an 80mm f/3.5 lens fixed to the body and a 6×6 format. For the layman, this means only the object you're shooting will be in focus. This can make for very artistic shots of your girlfriend standing in the streets. Although the TLR takes some geting used to, it can produce some incredible action shots.
What better way to jump on the Polaroid bandwagon than with an actual Polaroid camera? Perhaps the most unique thing about the SX-70 is that it's a foldable SLR instant camera. This bit of jargon basically means what you see through the lens is what you will get on your photograph a few seconds later. This is unlike viewfinder cameras that can be inaccurate. Although this camera tends to be a bit pricey, it is nothing short of quality. There must be a reason Impossible Project (a company that's dedicated to producing film for classic Polaroid cameras) continues to use it in demonstrations.
So there you go. Three vintage cameras worth checking out if you're in the market for an analog camera experience. You can rest assured they won't soon go out of style. Although these classics are available on sites like eBay, we suggest hitting a local vintage camera store first.


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Brnica je naselje u slovenskoj Općini Žalecu. Brnica se nalazi u pokrajini Štajerskoj i statističkoj regiji Savinjskoj.

Stanovništvo
Prema popisu stanovništva iz 2002. godine naselje je imalo 48 stanovnika.

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Naselja u Općini Žalec

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Jaspreet Singh (32) of Monroe, Ohio died of injuries he sustained when he was shot at by Broderick Malik Jones Roberts on the night of May 12, a report in the Journal News said.
New York: A Sikh truck driver, who was shot at two weeks ago in Ohio, has succumbed to his injuries, with prosecutors saying they will seek a murder charge against the 20-year-old accused in the case.
Following the incident, Roberts had been indicted for aggravated robbery, felonious assault and possessing weapons under disability for allegedly firing at Singh.
Since Singh died of his injuries, prosecutors said they will now seek a murder indictment against the accused.
According to a Hamilton Police report, the victim suffered a gunshot wound to the upper torso. Singh died on May 21, said Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser.
As per court documents, Roberts allegedly shot Singh "while he sat in his vehicle".
The police report added that Roberts' attorney David Washington entered a not guilty plea on his client's behalf but acknowledged a murder indictment is expected next week.
A native of India, Singh had been living in the US for about eight years.
Advocacy group The Sikh Coalition said no immediate evidence has been released to suggest that any bias was involved in the tragic accident.
The group's legal team has been in contact with relevant authorities in Cincinnati and continues to monitor the case. "Our prayers remain with his family during this very difficult time," it said in a Facebook post.
Judge Jennifer McElfresh has set a bond of $1 million, substantially increasing it from the initial amount of $1,25,000 in Hamilton Municipal Court. Roberts is scheduled to be back in court on May 31.
Manjinder Singh, a friend of Singh, said the victim was a devoted father and husband, leaving behind four young children.
"He was very well known and well liked in the Sikh community," Manjinder said, noting that his friend helped manage area stores but was recently employed as a truck driver.
He was an active at the Guru Nanak Society in the area, he said.
"It is just senseless," said Manjinder Singh, adding that "there is no way he would have engaged in any type of wrong activity. He would have just walked away".
Roberts has a criminal history and was sent to prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to trespass, unlawful restraint and assault, according to Butler County court records.


What is a google analytics session?
What is interaction and non-interaction hit?
Why are my %new sessions are higher than 100%?
Let us understand what is an Interaction?
For that, you should first know what is a hit.
Sessions is only counted for interaction hits. Also the metrics like Bounce Rate, Avg. Session duration,etc depend a lot on the type of hit (Interaction and non-interaction). If the hit is non-interaction hit, they are excluded from the calculation.
Then, I have created 2 segments for these 2 users & 1 segment combining both the users naming Interaction + Non Interaction hits.
So, the interaction hits resulted in 1 session while the non-interaction hits resulted in 0 sessions.
Notice how the metrics in the combined (Interaction & Non – Interaction) segment are reported. That would actually be the overall All users data you see everyday.
Users get counted in Non-interaction Hit but Session doesn't.
Avg. Session Duration, Pages / Sessions, Bounce Rate ignore the non-interaction hits. But due to page views being counted in the non-interaction hit, the overall pages/session metric is actually Pageviews (All Hits) / Sessions (Interaction Hits).
%New Users is actually New Users (All Hits) / Sessions (Interaction Hits), so remember if you have encounter such a situation where it is greater than 100%.
Now lets understand the hierarchy of Users, Sessions & Hits as in Google Analytics.
The session level comes in between the user and hit level. To understand Users more clear, you can check Google Analytics – Users – Metric Simplified, where I have explained about 'user' metric and how they are calculated in analytics.
Let's understand the hierarchy through a live example, I have created the segment of my clientId naming Ritwik's browser.
The User level is at the top in the hierarchy. So you can see that there is only one user here (i.e my browser).
A Unique user can have 'one or more' sessions. As you can see my browser had 3 sessions on 9th, 3 on 10th, 1 on 11th,…… and so on. This is the session level.
A Unique session can have 'one or more' pageviews. This is the hit level.
Here the user level is actually the browser level. If you change you device or browser or clear cookies,etc you will be treated as a new user. You can set up a user id tracking feature in analytics (more on this later) and that dimension will be at the top of the hierarchy given above.
You can also check Google Analytics – Users – Metrics Simplified to understand more about the users metric and why it is not additive (after applying secondary dimension) but the sessions and pageview metrics are.
You are free to decide when you want to start a session and end it. Let's say, you have a blog within your website. Whenever someone enters your blog site (blog.example.com) you can start the new session.
On the last second page, (/session-start3.html) I fired new session through the pageview hit.
As you can see, new session started on /session-start3.html page, as it became the new landing page. Also, metrics which depend on the sessions like Avg. Session duration, Pages/Session, Bounce Rate,etc are calculated differently for both the session.
As session control code fires at a collection phase, you cannot experiment it on a test view separately. But you can do so in test property.
You can always experiment and come up with new use cases for your website.


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First, the advantages of ball mill. 1, ball mill for a variety of materials can adapt to continuous production, production capacity, to meet the needs of largescale production. 2, ball mill crushing relatively large, easy to adjust the thickness of the product. 3, can be used for dry production, but also wet production.
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The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored and replayed in modern history. Yet India's extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. Karnad retrieves the story of a single family – a story of love, rebellion, loyalty and uncertainty – and with it, the greatest revelation that is India's Second World War. Karnad's essay detailing the origins of this book was described by Simon Schama as 'nothing short of brilliant' and the book lives up to expectation. A remarkable story of the largest volunteer army in history fighting for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it.


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Q: How to show text in pygame after button click I have a button created with pygame. Now i want to show some text on screen once the button is pressed. But i want to give it a varibale instead of string. How do i do that ? I tried adding the screen.blit(txtSmjerKretanja, (150,150)) to if gumbLijevo.collidepoint(mouse_pos) and if gumbDesno.collidepoint(mouse_pos): but it doesn't work.
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I looked at the suggested topics from other users, but it doesn't really solve my problem. Problem is that my program doesn't show text as soon as i use some varibale (in this case smjerKretanja) instead of usual string like ('some string..').
import pygame
import sys

def main():
    pygame.init()
    myfont = pygame.font.SysFont('Arial', 20)
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    fps = 60
    size = [500, 500]
    bg = [255, 255, 255]

    smjerKretanja = 0

    screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
    gumbLijevo = pygame.Rect(20, 20, 100, 30)
    gumbDesno = pygame.Rect(150, 20, 100, 30)
    txtLijevo = myfont.render('Lijevo', False, (0,0,0))
    txtDesno = myfont.render('Desno', False, (0,0,0))
    txtSmjerKretanja = myfont.render(str(smjerKretanja), False, (0,0,0))

    while True:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                return False

            if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
                mouse_pos = event.pos  # gets mouse position

                # checks if mouse position is over the button

                if gumbLijevo.collidepoint(mouse_pos):
                    # prints current location of mouse
                    # print('button was pressed at {0}'.format(mouse_pos))
                    smjerKretanja = smjerKretanja - 10
                    if smjerKretanja < 0:
                        smjerKretanja = 350
                    print smjerKretanja
                    screen.blit(txtSmjerKretanja, (150,150))

                if gumbDesno.collidepoint(mouse_pos):
                    # prints current location of mouse
                    # print('button was pressed at {0}'.format(mouse_pos))
                    smjerKretanja = smjerKretanja + 10
                    if smjerKretanja > 360:
                        smjerKretanja = 10
                    print smjerKretanja
                    screen.blit(txtSmjerKretanja, (150,150))

        screen.fill(bg)

        pygame.draw.rect(screen, [255, 0, 0], gumbLijevo)
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, [255, 0, 0], gumbDesno)
        screen.blit(txtLijevo,(30,20))
        screen.blit(txtDesno,(160,20))

        pygame.display.update()
        clock.tick(fps)

    pygame.quit()
    sys.exit

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A: You only update txtSmjerKretanja at the start of the code, in order to update it constantly you need to add
txtSmjerKretanja = myfont.render(str(smjerKretanja), False, (0,0,0))

the while loop

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'So shocking:' MU Dentistry student makes history as 1st African-American class president
MILWAUKEE — Dental tools in hand and teeth to work on is Chante Parker's comfort zone. But being the first African-American class president for Marquette University's School of Dentistry is still sinking in.
Chante Parker
"I'm the one that's imprinting on history and it's like, I never thought that," said Parker.
Park has been class president since July of 2019 and serves as an ambassador for her class to create new initiatives for the dental school. She had no idea she'd be the first African-American to step into those shoes in the school's 125 years of existence.
"I realize the magnitude of this opportunity, but it's just so shocking to believe that it's me," Parker said.
Parker grew up in Atlanta and completed her undergraduate degree at The University of Miami, so she said moving to Milwaukee was a culture shock.
"It's very segregated in where people live and where people thrive, and how the city runs itself," said Parker. "I'm not used to that."
Being hands-on helps Parker learn how to create beautiful smiles while she hopes to bring smiles to the community by setting an example.
"To help shift that dynamic and change the perspective and show that black people can do well, you can do anything that you want to do," Parker said.
As Parker preps a crown, some might say she wears one herself as a catalyst for an inclusive community.
Marquette University School of Dentistry
"It made me feel like I had purpose in being here," said Parker.
Parker will graduate in 2022. She hopes to open her own practice and offer free services to underprivileged communities.
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Nedžad Ajkić
French, Bosnian
"I would say that my dream would be… to have a vehicle fitted out and to go around the world and draw people," says Nedzad Ajkic (46), a French and Bosnian artist living in Paris. Born in France, at age 10 he moved to Yugoslavia with his family. When he was 17 they returned to France, fleeing the Yugoslav Wars. "We sensed the tension that was coming. Political divisions, the first conflicts of people between themselves." Leaving was "very, very complicated. I remember, after 50 km, a bunch of guys stopped the bus we were leaving in to get to Zagreb and pulled us all out… I remember they traumatized me a little." Nedzad feels guilty that he left. "I suddenly left everything and then, from afar, I heard how it all ended, they are all at the front, there is the other who died, the other he's missing two arms…" He has faced other challenges, too, but, "whatever the period of my life, drawing has always accompanied me to overcome these difficulties."
Hello, hello Nedžad!
Hello, Mirza.
Can you introduce yourself, just for the project? What's your name?
I'll try to do the best, at the shortest. My name is "Nedzad Aïe-kitche." My name is also "Nedzad Age-kique". It depends on who I'm addressing. I was born in 1974 in Paris. I stayed in Paris until I was 10 years old and from 10 to 17, I went to Yugoslavia with my parents. The war began. I returned to France to continue my studies in France. First to finish college, and then graphic art and visual communication studies. So today, I live and work in Montreuil as a graphic artist, illustrator. I have several caps, in the visual communication sector anyway.
And you live in Montreuil. In an apartment, a house?
I'm in an apartment that I managed to acquire and build, rebuild, and in which I live with my darling, and my cat.
And your cat. And so, are you happy with your living conditions, etc., or would you like to have a house or what…?
Ah, I aspire to a lot more space. I aspire to a studio, nature and ideally, continuing to carry out my work but often it's not… I guess it's not very compatible to work in my sector and at the same time live isolated. Ideally, I aspire to isolation in nature.
Okay. So how do you feel in Paris, Montreuil and Paris?
Very good, very good. I have always lived in Paris and from the day I moved to Montreuil, I decided to never return to live in Paris again. We have much more space here, more than 50% of the population works in the arts sector. I have an interesting community living in Paris – in Montreuil, sorry – and who, there's a group of friends, there are people who we see, who we don't see. I really like to be in Montreuil, anyway, as much as possible. This is a city that I chose and in which I feel pretty good.
And to get back to what you said, so you said you were born in France, can you tell me a little about your first years and how, did you feel French, did you feel Yugoslav? How'd it go?
You mean the first years since I was born?
Until the moment you returned to Yugoslavia.
Yes. Yes, I never felt foreign. I always felt French, much more than Yugoslav. But I knew I was Yugoslav, because my parents were Yugoslav so at home, we spoke Yugoslav. And I also have a name – and a first name – which is very marked. So, little by little, I realized that I was not of French origin, because I really had a first name, I mean, I really have a name that is identifiable. But I always felt integrated, totally, the same as my fellow people at school. And I was in the 1st arrondissement, that's where I grew up, near Étienne Marcel, in a multicultural school, with many different origins, so there were no more French than Maghreb. There were even four Yugoslav people in my class.
And do you remember how you felt when you came back to Yugoslavia?
Erm, yes.
How old were you? About 10, yeah, 10 years old. I arrived there too, with, certainly a kind of pretentiousness. I arrived there saying, "I am French, you're not French". So very quickly, I was put in my place. I learned things that I had never learned in France before, including the relationship with nature, animals, fishing, late games in the evening on the street. I felt a great pleasure in this new way of living and in addition, schooling is not at all the same. There, we go to school only in the morning or in the afternoon. There's no school holidays as long as in France. So they were new habits to get into. But very quickly, I got them, I integrated them with no problem.
What year was this?
So, I left France in '83.
Okay. And do you remember the events that led to the war?
Yes, very well. I was right in the middle of it and we felt, we sensed the tension that was coming. Political divisions, the first conflicts of people between themselves; political divisions often marked by religious affiliation. And then, little by little, the first conflicts of '91 and so late '91, a little bit in-extremis, I managed to leave Yugoslavia to return to France. But yes, yes, I felt them when they came. '89-'90 already, it was quite tense.
And do you remember how you felt at that time? Were you scared? Were you confused? What were the feelings that predominated in you?
Well at that time, precisely, I was 15-16 years old. What I was most concerned about was… I didn't have these feelings yet, for me, it was obvious that there would be no war. What worried me was: will I go out tonight, will I be playing basketball, will I go fishing. So yeah, I was more concerned with questions of my age. But we didn't feel the possibility yet, I think very few people, not many people anyway, were surprised by the sudden way the war came, the first attacks and the first conflicts.
Do you remember where you were when it started?
Yes, so it was my first year of electrical engineering. It's a school I chose to do because basically there weren't too many choices when you're in Bihać – the city where I grew up – when you're a boy, you do electrical engineering and when you're a girl, you go to textile school. Basically, that was how things went so a lot of boys were in that school, so I was in that school, too. And so that was in '91, '90-'91. I was already beginning to feel conflicts, if only with my teachers who were not of the same faith as me, who sent me back to my origins. I did not understand why, having done the same job as Darko or Mladen, Nedžad had a score that was lower. It happened to me several times. My parents were alerted to this kind of thing too, they went to see the teachers, so there were conflicts already beginning between people and that's where I felt that there were separations that were operating. And then, very, very soon afterwards, the events with Croatia, so '91-'92, and it was at the end of '91 that we decided to leave before it seriously broke. I still had the opportunity to return, I was 17 years old, I could still apply for my nationality in France, and so I came back and made all the necessary steps to obtain nationality.
Would you describe this departure as a flight because you still wanted to stay in Bosnia?
Yes, a little bit, because, well I really wanted to go to an art school and for me it wasn't possible in Bosnia. So that year, '90-'91 I was not a good student at all. I've never been a bad student, but that particular year I wasn't going to school, I was running away from school, spending a lot of time on basketball courts. I drew a lot too, so I was isolated often. In any case I went very, very little to school and I was criticized a lot about that. So for me, it was in a way an opportunity to leave a school that didn't suit me. But at the same time, it was very, very painful because I left all my friends, all my family there. We left with my parents and sister. And then, to leave, it was very, very complicated too.
Do you remember the way?
Yes. I remember, after 50 km, a bunch of guys stopped the bus we were leaving in to get to Zagreb and pulled us all out of the bus. And that they looked me right in the eyes in a nasty enough way to ask me, "What am I doing, where am I going?" I don't know who they were exactly, but I think they were sort of wild checkpoints, improvised by people who wanted to see if there was anything to take on this bus or not. I don't know who they were exactly but they were not beautiful soldiers to see, whatever their vocation. I remember they traumatized me a little, I felt a control like that, difficult. And then the most complicated thing for me was to be in France and find that the war started, and then start counting the dead.
Do you remember how you felt returning to France once here?
Once back here, I tried to incorporate the codes of a schooling of a secondary school student who arrives and settles in France. I was 16 and a half, 17 years old and I was put in ninth grade, so I was 17 years old when all my classmates were 14 or 15, but I didn't have a French level good enough to, for a… It was also not too bad to be in a non-francophone class, so they said we will put him in ninth grade. Anyway, so I was ninth grade with children who were 14, 15 years old and… Well, I have an anecdote, I noticed that there were those who played basketball, they had Nike – there are codes like this that did not exist in Yugoslavia – so I didn't have Nike, I didn't want to have any, but I had a sweatsuit like the one I wear today where I embroidered and drew the sign of Nike. I thought like that I'd be buddy with those who play basketball at school. So it turned against me very violently… Not violently, but they jerked me around. So I spent a rather difficult year in secondary school when I returned to France, because older than the others, but yet considered like someone who has no experience, at least not theirs. And then, very quickly afterwards, I went for an art school, where there it began to be more comfortable.
Would you say art helped you overcome these difficulties?
Ah, whatever the period of my life, drawing has always accompanied me to overcome these difficulties.
And your relationship to the country of origin, once you were here, those first years, how did you see Bosnia? What happened when you were thinking about Bosnia? Did your parents tell you a lot about it? Were you interested in what was going on there?
So I had a lot of friends in France. When I came back, so 17-18 years old, I still turned a lot to a Yugoslav community and went out to places where there was rock music that I knew and recognized, in which I had immersed myself before coming. And in those circles, I also met friends. I never cared too much if they were Serbs, Bosnians, or Muslims, or Orthodox or Catholics. These are things that have never – even today – been decisive for the choice of the people I'm with. But it was then, yes, that I realized that some, on the other hand, had bad opinions about me, because I wasn't from their community. So little by little, I also stopped frequenting the Yugoslav group, because still loaded with preconceptions and prejudice, just because you bear a name that sounds a bit Muslim.
When did you stop…?
Oh, I must've been 20 years old, 19-20. It was especially from that moment that I turned to an artistic environment where, surprisingly, I haven't met a lot of people from Yugoslavia, but well, I was mostly with, let's say with French people who grew up in France, and who were moving towards an artistic profession. I also worked a lot in my profession with Yugoslavs, mainly musician artists, because there are still many musicians artists in Yugoslavia and who are settled in France as well.
Did you look for this connection with the community? Was that something voluntary on your part? Or did it come by chance, like that?
More by chance, but undeniably also that I had to look for it somehow. But it was never a step, it was never a step. Neither to them nor to the French, it was, uh a combination of factors, and meetings.
And when we wrote, you told me that you consider yourself a half-refugee, 'polu-izbeglica'. Yes.
Can you explain a bit, why is that?
Well, what I like to say sometimes is that I'm a second generation Bosnian immigrant. My father is an immigrant, he arrived in about '70 in France. I was born in France, but then, when I went to Yugoslavia, my little nickname there was "Francuz" – "the French boy" – and returning to France, I was regularly made to understand that I was a foreigner. So there is this phenomenon of "stranger here, stranger there", which I actually like because the idea of having a homeland, I admit, is not at all anything that animates me. I'm not attached to one country more than to another. Yes, I am more attached to France and Bosnia than to Belgium, of course, but I do not feel more French than Bosnian. Even though I say that, but still, I still feel a little more French, but I don't really know. So half-immigrant, why? Because there, it's this situation of being sometimes, well, I spend quite a lot of time with my parents or at least once a year I go to Bosnia, there is like a switch that's happening in me… When I speak Yugoslav or Bosnian, I have a different voice than when I speak French. Another intonation, another, not another personality, but almost.
Okay, and you said half-immigrant, but half-refugee is not exactly the same thing, so…?
Not at all, I don't know, I don't think that…
Would your parents have stayed in Bosnia, do you think, if there hadn't been a war?
And would you have stayed too?
I would have done everything I could to ask them to let me, to make sure that I joined a school that interests me because otherwise, I would not continue in an area that was electrical engineering, which was absolutely not interesting for me at all. So maybe I would have managed to convince them, at the age of 18, to return to France to try to join a school. There would have been no war, it would be either France, or it would be a big city in Yugoslavia, like Zagreb or Sarajevo, I don't know, where there are art schools that are notable, almost. But, uh, for me, France was also the idea of the capital of art where I was going to find my happiness in schooling. So yes, no I really wanted from the age of 16 to 17 to return to France, as far as schooling was concerned.
Okay. Are there still things from that time, the war, etc., that follow you and that you still think about?
Yes, yes, a lot, every day. Every day. Especially one day, I earned a lot of money in one day, while I did nothing and it broke me down because so much money is the equivalent of four salaries of any of my cousins who are… I really say four wages, I mean four months' salary, sorry. What happened was that I was asked to come to draw portraits of people at a seminar, so I came. No one came to get drawn. I was still paid by the day, so for three days I was given 1,000 euros a day. So, after three days, I got 3,000 euros and nobody came to get drawn. They all wanted to eat appetizers, chat with each other. This animation here, this attraction there, did not interest them, and even worse, at the end of the second day I was told, "Listen, nobody is interested in this, go home, it's okay. You'll be paid three days anyway". So I was delighted, but when I got home I broke into tears in the subway because I thought about the situation of some of my cousins, friends who, for ten euros, will work all day to clean a bar, to do the service, to do the checkout, to do the account, to close the bar, to throw out the last drunk and will earn 7-8 euros.
And in relation to the events and what happened during the war, and all that, are there things that come back too?
There are small traumas. I wouldn't call them big traumas, but small, it can be translated into the form of a dream or a… (Thinking). I am easily satisfied with everything at the end of the day because I think it could have been much worse if I had stayed there. At the same time, it's a strength, but nothing very, too traumatic or things like that.
Okay. And where do you find strength – I imagine in your art – but where do you find strength, in general, to overcome these kinds of difficulties when you think about it or when you think about the country?
It's going to be a lot in some very precise pieces of music that are from there. It can be from time to time images and photographs, or thoughts. But I find, I mean I don't think I need to look for strength somewhere, it's also a memory of my childhood and I have spent much, much more time in France than in former Yugoslavia. But the period I spent in the former Yugoslavia is very important. It remains, well between 10 and 17 years, we learn a lot of things from life.
And so do you remember at that time, in that period, precisely where we learn a lot, what was your dream actually at that time? And for the project, they actually ask that it be said, if you can answer, "My dream, before coming to France, my dream was to…"
Before coming to France, returning to France, my dream was really to have a job which is at the heart of one, to have a passion that is my job. Yes, it was really my desire to work in the field of drawing and visual communication. Or in any case to evolve in this environment and not in another. It could be…
And what about today? If you can also repeat the same sentence again, "Today, my dream is to…" Do you have a dream today?
Given the current international situation, it is very, very difficult to look to the future. But yes, I can say that my dream would be… I don't have great material needs, but to have strictly the minimum, I want to say necessary, which allows me to be well and to be elsewhere than in a city. To have a large space to be able to produce, to work and possibly have a more personal artistic production, less oriented towards industrial control, and why not aim at the art and exhibition market. This is a vocation that I have never developed, I have always responded to orders. I'm not an artist, I mean I'm not someone who's in his studio, producing for an upcoming exhibition.
So if you can just say, like, "My dream would be to…" What, to become an artist who produces and exhibits his works, for example? Would be it, or…?
We can say that. I would say that my dream would be to stop responding to orders related to the industrial sector and to make graphic arts and illustrated visuals, more personal and more unique works, indeed, rather than things that are drawn at 10,000 or 50,000 copies. So yeah, to be… More independence. Independence, it's true that it's something that is very important to me. So I've always been independent, I have been very little paid as a salaried employee in my life. Very quickly, when I got out of school, I aimed at independence and freelance.
Well, thank you.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend: You could also say: go in a truck, draw around villages and draw people?
That, yeah, it's one of the dreams, this one. Thank you, Isabelle. Indeed, this one is… If I had money, enough not to worry, "Where am I going to find money? How am I going to eat at the end of the month?", the ideal would be to have a vehicle fitted out and to go around the world and draw people and their living environment, that is, portraits or artists in their workshops, with their tools, to draw, distribute, give my drawings, sell them…
Draw the world?
Draw the world. Or redraw it. And yes people, I really like…
People especially.
I really like the question of, not really portrait, actually yes, it's the portrait or the caricature, it doesn't matter but… The people.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend And the interaction too.
And the interaction too, the interaction it fosters, of course. Because, ideally, if I could, yes, go, I don't know, to Africa, in exchange for ten drawings, that I get offered two, three nights in a box with tiep chicken or mafé, yeah, move around like that. So that is a material exchange, but other than that, meeting with people and giving them the best of myself while I don't have it… I mean It's not something I bought somewhere, it's something I know how to do and I know that a child maybe… I've already seen this in a child, or a man or a woman, whatever, but people can be very, very happy with a drawing and it really doesn't require much of me, and I can do it. So having this exchange with the world, I would like that a lot.
Okay, thank you very much Nedžad. And one last general question that I always ask is: is there something you would like to add on the subject of refugees, something that you would have, I don't know, anything you would like to to say, anything in particular you would have experienced or realized maybe?
Refugees, yes, foreigners, immigrants, these are all notions that have been invented by minds – not necessarily nationalist minds – but the statistics are upfront: there are more and more foreigners in the world. This is undeniable. You can't say that… That's how it is, population movements have always existed, sometimes we called them refugees, in other times, we called them travellers. So yeah it's erm, I don't know if I'm answering the question?
No, no, it's just, do you also think like that?
Yeah, yeah. I remember a sentence I had read which really said, "Statistics are upfront. There are more and more foreigners in the world". I like that phrase because we're all a stranger to someone, we're all migrants, we don't know what's waiting for us in the future. I also remember a picture where… It is a boat that's leaving the port of Marseille, it's in '45 and it's French people fleeing the Nazi regime, en masse, for African lands and it is a boat that is filled, filled, filled with people. So yeah, France also could have been a country that wanted… It all depends on the history and its unfolding. I don't know how to say it.
A land of exile, you mean.
Yes, a land of exile and of exiles and exilers… Yeah. Anyway, today I have nothing against people who come from elsewhere, on the contrary. I think it has always been enriching for me to meet with different viewpoints and visions and perspectives and languages.
Thank you Nedžad!
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend Can I add something here? I don't think you talked about important things like the fact that you threw the TV when you were 19 years old.
There's a lot of things I haven't quoted on, that's true… I didn't think of that, that's true.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend That's why I'm telling you. It's your look at what was going on there when you were there, and how you might have suffered from it.
Yes, in relation to this question.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend It's part of this subject, I think. And it's important.
Yeah, that's very fair. I didn't mention my accident in '94. I didn't talk about…
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend That, and the TV.
Yeah, yeah, I want to know more about that. Thank you, Isabelle.
What happened, indeed, is that in '93 – here we are in 2020 – since 93, I don't watch TV anymore at all. I have never had a TV, I watch very little news, I find things out on different channels. But in '93, between what they said – it was Patrick Poivre d'Arvor at the time and Marie Claire Chazal – it was totally wrong. It was wrong. Clearly, it was wrong. I had news on the phone, it was wrong what they said about… We will not give names, but still, historically speaking, it was at the time of General Morillon, it was at the time of Mitterrand, at the time of what they were doing, what was happening in Srebrenica. We were in '94 more precisely – if I'm not mistaken – in '93-'94. And it made me hallucinate about the reality of this world that informs and that… It was the largest national channel that said things to the whole of France which were false, false, false, and oriented towards the peacekeepers who were there for good reasons, which is necessarily fair too. But the way they lied on television, it made me very, very frightened. Which led to, that day, I calmly took the TV, took it out on the street, I unplugged it. I took it out on the street, put it outside. My father came home from work in the evening, he said, "Where is the TV?," I told him that he shouldn't watch this. So I got a little yelled at because I threw the TV out. So he went to pick it up, but someone had already taken it. But I, since about '93, I've had a great, great distrust because it's the winners who write history and that they even write it while it's unfolding. So I don't believe too much in the news if it's not live, at the very source. So there was that, and then the second thing that's astonishing is that I had a big accident in '94 and stayed in the hospital for a year and a half, right at the time when many of my cousins, fellows, died, too. I almost went, too, while I was in France. Maybe it's important, but…
Did you think about it when you were in the hospital?
Yes, yes, a lot. And a lot of cousins from there were worried about me because they knew I was in a critical situation. I was in a coma for 4 months. And so yeah, they worried about me but I wasn't at all in a situation, I mean in a country, in a war situation, but yet, I was in the same conditions of repair and survival.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend On the question of guilt compared to others. There is a bit of that, isn't there? To ask yourself this question of whether this accident happened to you because you were feeling guilty about having your class friends who were dying there, while you were in Paris, all chilled out.
It's really an accident, it's not a suicide attempt, you know.
Isabelle, Nedžad's girlfriend No! But, I mean I don't know… But when you told me about it or what, there was still this question, that you felt a kind of guilt for being there, while they were there.
At that time, as soon as the war started, yes, I had no desire to go to war or anything, but I was not good because I knew they were locked in a… I just want to remind here that I left at about 16 and a half. I really had lots of girlfriends, I had lots of male friends, I had clubs where I was registered for chess, and fishing and basketball especially, and in drawing. I suddenly left everything and then, from afar, I heard how it all ended, they are all at the front, there is the other who died, the other he's missing two arms… So yeah, so I felt a little guilty of not also being in… Of having left. I certainly accused myself at one point of having fled. But they also reassured me by saying, "Don't worry, everyone who had the opportunity to leave, they left. Those who stayed were those who had no opportunity." I had the opportunity to leave because I had this dual nationality which meant that I was born in France too. So they let me leave the territory. But there are many who tried to get out who did not succeed.
And your parents applied for asylum here, or did they have the nationality?
Erm no, they asked for nationality because they've been here for a very long time, they had children here, they built things here, so.
So they applied for it at the same time as you did when you came back?
No, much later.
Later, okay.
Much later. They've been French for about 20, 15 years.
So they had asylum seeker status when they arrived?
I couldn't tell you.
Yeah, probably since you don't have a visa. Anyway, it's a technical question. It doesn't matter. Okay, so that's super interesting, this guilt thing…
Yes, that's true, it's… Maybe I kinda suppress it, but yes, very often, very often, at least once a day at that time, there was something that happened that we heard about on the phone, because we still had telephone communication until '94, '95. Afterwards, it was much more difficult. But we had very regular news of what really happened, of who was gone, how he went, and they're very, very close people.
Do you remember how you handled this feeling of guilt? Did it disappear little by little or was there a trigger moment, a moment when you thought to yourself,"No, I have to stop"?
No, I didn't, I've never triggered… I mean, this feeling of guilt is not that strong. It is very present today, as much as it was at the time. I know that at one point, I left and left people I love to be butchered. But it was able to leave me when one day, a philosopher friend reassured me by telling me that all those who could leave left and it is the same Emir, the same friend sorry who is called Emir – who is very interesting as a profile too – who immigrated to France, he arrived from Tuzla, he arrived in '98. He has a PhD in Bosnian Philosophy but here in France, his diploma is not recognized, he is a laborer and works here and there. I met him on the subway when I came back from those three days when I had earned 3,000 euros doing nothing. And I cross paths with him, I'm crying in the subway and he says, "What's happening to you? I'm Emir, etc." And then, Emir once again managed to reassure me by saying, "If you offer me 50,000 euros a day so that I can go draw someone, I will say no, because I can't draw". He made me understand that, yes, so I know how to draw, so I was there because I knew how to draw, not to draw. If I had drawn someone, it would have been good, but in any case, I would have been able to do it if someone had come saying, "Here, I want my portrait", I would have been able to do it. That's what counts, it's the ability to do things. It's important. I knew to be surrounded and reassured by a group of friends who are kind.
Okay. Well great, thank you.
Transcribed and translated by: Ambre L, Nicola Bigwood and Elise Gueilan Wolff
Edited by: Veronica Schorr


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What Programming Language Is Primarily Used on the Web?
by John Mitchell
HTML is the primary programming language on the Web.
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The most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other while some can be used almost entirely separate from the other languages to create an interactive or static website. Although you may find other languages, these are the primary ones used to deliver content through a Web browser.
HTML is one of the most common programming languages used to create and design websites and pages. This type of programming language is known as a markup language, which means it is distinguished by markup tags. Markup tags are keywords surrounded by brackets and when used, they create a specific output in the browser window. Hundreds of different markup tags exist, and they all serve different purposes. Some of the most common markup tags include , which opens an HTML document;
, which is the main section where content is stored and displayed; and
, which starts a new paragraph.
CSS is a complementary language that helps to style HTML markup code. A page's CSS styles are usually called between the HTML tags. This method of styling a page is incredibly useful because it allows a website developer to change all of the same HTML elements on a page without the need to change each one individually. It allows developers to save time and to test new design styles with ease.
JavaScript resembles more traditional computer programming languages but allows Internet users to perform certain actions on a website and interact with the content. The scripting language uses function calls and supports object-oriented elements. It can be used outside of the Web, for example, in PDF documents. This language should not be confused with the similar sounding language, Java.
PHP is a preprocessor hypertext, server-side language. A server-side language means that all of the processing is done on the server rather than inside of the browser. The server processes the Web page before it is displayed to the user. PHP code can be embedded inside of a regular HTML document or used as a stand-alone file. Both instances require the server to have one of the latest PHP platforms installed.
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John Mitchell is an expert in all things technology, including social media and smart phones. He is a news ninja for Qwiki, bringing the latest news on the interactive platform. Mitchell graduated from the University of Sedona with a master's degree in pastoral counseling psychology and authored the book, "No More Taxes."
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By Andy Patrizio, Network World |
Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Intel introduces an AI-oriented processor
The Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) is expected to help companies develop new classes of AI applications. It is expected to be on sale before the end of the year.
There are a number of efforts involving artificial intelligence (AI) and neural network-oriented processors from vendors such as IBM, Qualcomm and Google. Now, you can add Intel to that list. The company has formally introduced the Nervana Neural Network processor (NNP) for AI projects and tasks.
This isn't a new Intel design. The chips come out of Intel's $400 million acquisition of a deep learning startup called Nervana Systems last year. After the acquisition, Nervana CEO Naveen Rao was put in charge of Intel's AI products group.
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"The Intel Nervana NNP is a purpose-built architecture for deep learning," Rao said in a blog post formally announcing the chip. "The goal of this new architecture is to provide the needed flexibility to support all deep learning primitives while making core hardware components as efficient as possible."
He added: "We designed the Intel Nervana NNP to free us from the limitations imposed by existing hardware, which wasn't explicitly designed for AI."
That's an interesting statement, since Rao could be referring to the x86 architecture — or GPUs, since Nvidia's CEO has never been shy about sniping at x86.
Rao didn't go into design specifics, only that the NNP does not have a standard cache hierarchy of an x86, and on-chip memory is managed by software directly. He also said the chip was designed with high speed on- and off-chip interconnects, enabling "massive bi-directional data transfer."
Using self-learning chips to develop AI applications
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had his own blog post on the subject.
"Using Intel Nervana technology, companies will be able to develop entirely new classes of AI applications that maximize the amount of data processed and enable customers to find greater insights — transforming their businesses," he wrote.
Krzanich also revealed that Facebook was involved in the design of the processor, although he did not elaborate beyond saying Facebook worked with Intel "in close collaboration, sharing its technical insights."
Now, why would Facebook care? Because one of the potential uses for the NNP as described by Krzanich is in social media to "deliver a more personalized experience to their customers and offer more targeted reach to their advertisers."
Neuromorphic chips are inspired by the human brain and designed to be self-learning, so as they perform a task they get better at it and look at new ways of executing it.
A recent documentary on the Japanese news channel NHK World illustrated that, where an AI application that practiced millions of games of shogi, a Japanese chess-like board game, came up with its own strategies that it had not been programmed into it, flabbergasting the developer and human player it roundly trounced. It thought for itself.
All of that reminds me of Ian Malcolm's comment in Jurassic Park: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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Dog and Music: Do My Pet Like Music, What Kind of It, and What Is the Reaction of My Dog
Jun. 21.2021 | Updated: September 16, 2021
Our pets are best friends. We love, care, and sometimes even dedicate songs. For example, Paul McCartney recorded a special song and dedicated it to his dog Martha of the Bobtail breed. However, dog's hearing is more sensitive than human hearing. So do dogs react to music positively? Let's find out!
Do Dogs Like Music?
To love music or not, this is an individual decision of a person. So it is with dogs. Your pet may love music and respond to it, but the dog old your neighbor doesn't. In 2002, an experiment was conducted that determined that dogs are listening to music. However, they behave better on quieter tunes.
What Kind of Music Do Dogs Like?
Dogs can't talk about their music preferences. We just have to turn on the composition and watch the reaction of the pets. Therefore, over the years, there have been experiments on this issue. Let's take a look at the most famous ones.
Canadian University Study (2012)
The experiments were carried out on 117 dogs of different breeds. Pets, individually or in pairs, are housed in the classic nursery, including tunes in different directions. For 45 minutes, subjects listened to classical music, heavy metal, and random melodies to relax. A 45 minute silence interval was used as a control. The essence of the experiment is to compare the behavior of pets when they listen to songs with their behavior when they are silent. If no difference is observed, we can talk about the dog's musical immunity. It turns out that animals react to melodies and songs. Also, different genres are considered to be different. Do dogs like classical music? Classics make pets sleepy. Compared to other genres, they calmed down more quickly in silence and fell asleep in classical works. Heavy music is crushing. Subject dusted himself off even more. Relaxation has a calming effect, the pet does not show anxiety.
Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (2017)
They wanted to know which genre is more preferable for dogs. And can dogs enjoy music? When listening to different compositions, several parameters were measured: heart rate, salivation, restless behavior. It turned out that the most positive influences are reggae and soft rock. Curiously, when listening to music, the dogs barked less than in silence. So we can say that they can enjoy it.
How Do Dogs React to Music?
If the dog begins to howl to a certain melody, there is no cause for concern, as dogs have good auditory abilities and can feel the music. Of course, some dogs howl very rarely, and there are those who "sing-along" to almost every melody.
If the owner of the dog is not worried about the howling of his/her pet, you do not need to take any measures to educate the pet. What do dogs think of music? We will never know for sure, but this is a sign that they like the tune. But when the howling of a dog is uncomfortable and causes complaints from neighbors and people around you, you can take the following measures.
Eliminate the sound source. If the owner of the dog knows that his pet is susceptible to sounds, it is necessary to make sure that no music is played in the presence of the dog, as this provokes the pet to undesirable actions.
Distract the pet. It is convenient to do this using a game. But it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that you can offer the dog a toy only when the pet is silent or even before it starts to howl. If the owner starts playing while howling, the dog can perceive this as a reward for the action, and in the future will make sounds with music even more often.
Do not punish your pet. During the upbringing of a pet, in no case should physical punishment be used. The dog howls not because it wants to do something unpleasant to its owner, it is just a natural reaction to sounds.
Dog and music. On the one hand, these words should not appear in the same sentence. On the other hand, why not. Dogs are also living creatures and they may like music just like we do. Does your pet like listening to music? Share in the comments. Thank you for reading the article to the end. See you very soon on the pages of our blog!