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First of all, Peter, can I just offer my congratulations, as I think this series is going to please a hell of a lot of people. It's a masterpiece. How long until it's finished?
Thank you. That's actually a very good question and I actually can't answer it because we're still editing. Normally I do interviews when the project's finished and ideally when the interviewer has had a chance to see the whole thing, but this is an extreme case, as I'm still editing. So I don't know how long it will be, but I'm trying to make sure everything that should be in there is in there. It won't be short. It's very linear, so it literally begins on day one, on 2 January, and finishes on day 22, which is 31 January, and we go through each day, telling the story. Let It Be took a very different approach, as it was randomly cut and then finishes with the rooftop concert.
What was the original brief? Did Apple Corps basically ask you to make The Beatles look like they liked each other?
I wasn't given any brief, really. I was in a meeting with Apple Corps because they had heard I was interested in doing a lot of experiments with AI. They were thinking of doing some kind of travelling Beatles exhibition, which is no longer happening, I don't think. I asked them what happened to all the rushes from Let It Be, as couldn't we utilise some of that in the exhibition? They said they didn't want to use any, as they were thinking of making a documentary using the outtakes. And so I said, "If you're looking for someone to do that, I'd be interested." So I asked to see the rushes and I was hooked immediately. Growing up as a Beatles fan, I had the perception of it being a completely miserable period of time and thought that if Let It Be used the best bits, then the rest of it must be awful. I took the rushes back home here to New Zealand on an iPad and I phoned them up and said, "Yep, I'm in." We've been editing this series for about two years now and it's the longest editing I've ever done in my career. I mean, you normally edit a movie, like a Lord Of The Rings type, in about three or four months, but this has been two years. It's a very complicated thing to cut.
Why has it taken so long?
Well, they were only using two 16mm film cameras, there was no clapperboard and the audio wasn't synced. So, on any given day The Beatles worked for about eight or nine hours, you might have five or six hours of sound but a lot less film and so you had to match it all up. The sound would be rolling and so when we look at the dailies, we've got a black screen. Then suddenly we've got picture, but the picture might last for 17 seconds and then it goes off and then we're back to black screen again.
It's incredibly exhilarating watching all the Beatles interact with each other, because we've always been led to believe the sessions were unbearable.
The moment when George is arguing with Paul, which you see in the original film, is actually the worst of it; you know, when George says, "I'll play whatever you want me to play. Or I won't play at all if you don't want me play." You know, "I'll do anything to please you" sort of thing. I've tried to use nothing at all from Let It Be, so Get Back is completely different. I didn't want to usurp the original film, so this is a companion piece. But the one area we did break that rule is that little exchange between Paul and George, because I didn't want to be accused of sanitising the films by not having that, because that's the bit everyone remembers. But we've given people the context for the interaction by showing the full six-minute conversation. It no longer feels like an argument. It no longer feels like Paul is getting on George's nerves. You understand what Paul's trying to achieve. You understand where George is coming from. And the whole thing actually makes sense. The thing is, when the film was released, The Beatles were breaking up, but they weren't breaking up when they were making Let It Be, which was recorded a year earlier. So I suppose it would have been odd to release a film where they are all enjoying each other's company.
It's lovely to watch the rapport between them all.
They're all good friends and they remain good friends all the way throughout the series. This is before the Allen Klein period, when they start to argue. It's fantastic to see them still be mates, still composing. I read books that say that in this period John and Paul no longer wrote songs with each other, but that's not true, as we've got many scenes where John and Paul are sitting writing songs. I mean, it's on film, it's on camera. So it's really amazing to see how wrong a lot of these accounts have been. And it's not because I have special insight or I have secret understanding; it's just that it's there on camera. You get overwhelmed by it all.
The postproduction of Let It Be went through into The Beatles' breakup, and then by the time of the premiere, in May 1970, they had broken up, so the whole film was very heavily influenced by the breakup. I've gotten to know Michael Lindsay-Hogg quite well and he's really supportive of what we're doing. He says he wasn't influenced by the breakup, but I'm not sure how you wouldn't be, because Let It Be does appear to show the sort of atmosphere at the time that led to the breakup, which is actually just simply not true, because the film was shot 14 months prior to that and long before the breakup. So our movies are a very different time. I think, somehow, Michael's editing may have been influenced by the fact that he was editing while they were breaking up. So do you have a film that is going to come out after they've broken up, showing them being happy and cheerful, or do you have a film that shows them being gloomy? I mean, to be a relevant film, at the time of its release, you have to sort of go with the breakup version. Look, I don't know. I'm putting words into Michael's mouth. He doesn't really think that influenced him, but I'm not sure.
What's your favourite bit of your films?
That's a question. I've never actually had that thought. I mean, I guess as a Beatles fan I love seeing them create songs out of nothing, really. I mean, what gives me a lot of what I like is when they are working on a particular song and it's not what you are used to hearing on the record. They're working and you think, "Oh, no, that's not right and the words are different," then they get the right words, the right riff and the right bass notes and suddenly you see the song that you've grown up with your whole life, you see that sort of clicking into shape one bit at a time and there's a sense of just wanting to go, "Yeah, guys, you keep on going. You're almost there." I also like the humour. I mean, there are lots of bits that make me laugh out loud, lots of funny quips and gags.
I think people will be surprised by the series for two reasons. One, it'll be far more intimate than they imagined it to be, because everyone is used to seeing music documentaries being a bit kind of MTV-ish, sort of together in a poppy kind of way and it's just the music, music, music, you know? The music isn't at the forefront of this film: weirdly, it's what goes on behind the music at the forefront. I mean, even in the rooftop concert, we have the concept that we're inter-cutting all the time to the street and to the policeman and everything else. So we're not just sitting there on the concert for 45 minutes, we're showing a whole narrative of what's going on elsewhere during that period. And that's really true of the whole series – it's not a sequence of MTV video clips of them doing songs. There's probably more conversations with The Beatles in the films than there is actual singing. People won't be expecting that, I think, that sort of intimacy, that fly-on-the-wall aspect of it, where you're in a time machine and you've gone back and you're a fly on the wall with The Beatles. That will, I think, surprise people, because it is very intimate. It's The Beatles as you've never seen them before. And the other thing that I think will surprise people is how funny the films are, which, considering the reputation of this footage and the Let It Be movie, you don't associate with January 1969, but they're very funny films.
How much involvement have The Beatles had?
They have seen bits and pieces and they're about to see the whole series soon. I know that if it was me and if I was the subject matter of these movies and there was some guy in New Zealand with this sort of intimate footage, who disappeared for two years, I'd be a bit concerned and wondering what was going on. So what I've done is, every now and again, when we've cut a little three- or four-minute sequence, I send it out to them. But if it's something to do with Paul, I send it to Paul, or if it's John, I send it to Sean. And Olivia has George's and Ringo has his. So they've all seen several little five-minute clips and they've been very supportive. I mean, I think they've got the attitude that enough time has gone by that it's historic now; they are no longer trying to protect the legacy. But for a long time they didn't release any alternative tracks from it, but with the "Anthology" series they started to. So they've slowly warmed to the idea of letting people under the hood, as they say, to see how things were happening, and I think they now feel, with this series, that it is time, after 50 years, to just rip off the lid and show people what it was actually like. Because, I mean, this is The Beatles and you've never seen The Beatles like this before. There's stuff in our movies that if Michael Lindsay-Hogg had tried to put in Let It Be they would have said no straightaway. They would have said, "Nope, take it out," but the whole feeling has changed now.
Have you had notes? Have they made any suggestions?
No, none. No. I mean, they're very hands-off. They gave me the footage, I disappeared to the other side of the world with it and I've never gone back to Britain since. The first cut was 18 hours long and I'd hoped that there'd be an appetite to say, "OK, let's do a six-hour version." All the footage we've been cutting is there and we just left it as a cut scene, so it didn't take us long to put a longer version together. I knew in this world of the internet and streaming and everything else, that we would find a home somewhere for a longer version – so that took the pain away from having to cut stuff out.
The films obviously look beautiful. What was the decision-making process to pop the colour and make the Tommy Nutter suits so vibrant and put the background colours in and all of that stuff?
All we've done is use the technology we developed for the World War One film They Shall Not Grow Old, taking all this old First World War footage and restoring it. We haven't tried to push the primary colours of the clothing up or anything. We've done no tricks like that. We've just balanced the skin tones, and the colours that you see, I'm assuming, are the colours that were there on the day. I mean, it does make you jealous of the 1960s, because the clothing is so fantastic.
But there's one scene in the studio in Twickenham where there's a wall that looks completely green.
In Twickenham they had grey canvases around them. After the first day of filming, Tony Richmond the DP [director of photography] looked at the rushes and he thought the grey looked really boring, so he bought colour lamps and he put filters on them. He put blobs of colour on this grey wall. He put a big blob of green above a purple and yellow and blue colour and they sort of blend into each other and they cross over. So he turned this big grey cyclorama into a sort of Summer Of Love-type colour behind him, and that was from day two onwards.
Were there any idiomatic exchanges you had to cut because they just wouldn't have made sense 50 years later?
There are a lot of references to culture at the time, so what we've tried to do is to show photographs of what they're talking about and explain it. There's a thing where John's doing "Dig A Pony" and he starts singing these alternative lyrics, "Dickie, Dickie, Dickie Murdock". Apparently he was a heavyweight wrestler in 1969, so we've shown a photo of him as John sings. At one point the band turn "Get Back" into a protest song about Enoch Powell's immigration policies, and if you're going to use their Pakistani lyrics from the alternative version, satirising Enoch Powell, then you can't really do that without explaining to people who Enoch Powell was. The thing is, satire doesn't really work in a pop song, so they were in danger of sounding like they supported Enoch Powell, rather than trying to send him up.
It's quite disconcerting watching the rooftop session, because everything in that section of the film is so alien because it's 50 years old, but Savile Row is identical. Savile Row has not changed at all.
The last time I was in the UK I asked to go up on the roof, which is obviously now an Abercrombie & Fitch store. They've taken the staircase out and removed a few things but it's still the basic area where The Beatles stood and played. I looked at the skyline from the rooftop and the skyline on the left-hand side is identical and the skyline on the right-hand side is completely different. It's all modern buildings on the other side of the street there now.
A good friend of mine, David Rosen, actually lobbied to have the plaque that's now there commemorating the gig. How much of a Beatles fan are you yourself?
I obviously grew up with them, but the albums that really meant the most to me were the Red and Blue albums that came out in the early 1970s. I was walking down the street past the record store and I saw those covers on display and I just had to have them. They were the first Beatles albums I actually held in my hands, because my parents never had any big Beatles records. Then I started buying all the albums and any bootlegs I could get my hands on, including the Get Back sessions. I always found them interminable, but with pictures they're a lot better.
Finally, apart from being proud of these films and apart from the fact that you hope they're successful, what are your ambitions for The Beatles: Get Back in terms of legacy?
Well, I don't know how they can't become a pretty definitive portrait of The Beatles at work. There isn't any other footage of The Beatles at work. It's the only real footage of The Beatles during the creative process. You're seeing The Beatles in a more intimate way than you ever thought you would in your lifetime. I think it's a slightly magical thing.

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Celery juice is having a moment. The juicing trend, which never stops whirring along, has moved on from kale smoothies and acai chasers to its newest craze.
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"There are some beneficial flavonoids that have been discovered in celery that have been shown to perhaps play a role in reducing inflammation in the brain or reducing age-related memory decline," Lisa Drayer, a registered dietitian, told CNN.
It also is a good source of fiber, vitamins C and K, and potassium and it is a super low-calorie snack. Where the fad runs afoul is when you juice it, some say.
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While celery juice may sound like liquid gold, there's more to superfood status than hype, experts warn.


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Noelia Gil Pérez (Madrid, España, 23 de mayo de 1994), es una futbolista profesional española. Actualmente juega en el Alhama CF EL Pozo..

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Debutó en el Atlético de Madrid donde estuvo hasta 2016 cuando fichó por la U.D. Granadilla Tenerife, en 2018 firmó con el Sevilla F. C., en 2019 fichó por el Málaga CF Femenino y en 2020 ficha por el Valencia C. F.en 2022] ficha por el recién ascendido Alhama El Pozo.

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FondsHR-DADU-22 - Intentiones Cancellariae; Intentiones de Cancellaria (Court applications submitted to the Chancellery and first depositions in civil litigations)
Fonds HR-DADU-22 - Intentiones Cancellariae; Intentiones de Cancellaria (Court applications submitted to the Chancellery and first depositions in civil litigations)
HR-DADU-22
Intentiones Cancellariae; Intentiones de Cancellaria (Court applications submitted to the Chancellery and first depositions in civil litigations)
1380-1383, 1457-1459, 1574-1576, 1568-1569, 1581-1583, 1601-1603, 1605-1815 (Creation)
64 volumes; 3.4 linear metres; textual records
Chancellery of the Dubrovnik Republic
Preserved interstate treaties and other documents from the 12th century provide enough data to conclude that the authorities would already at that time oversee the work of the public notary and the chancellery. Based on key provisions made during the 15th century, the central administration consisted of five offices located in the Rector's Palace, and these were: The Public Notary (legal private affairs), the State Chancellery (legal public affairs), the Judicial Chancellery (criminal justice affairs), the Office of the State Secretary (legal state affairs) and the Slavic Chancellery, which would be transformed into the Turkish Chancellery.
The fonds has been linked to the archive since its inception. In times of the Dubrovnik Republic, the books of the fonds were stored in the Rector's Palace. The books remained in the Rector's Palace after the fall of the Republic (1808). In 1891, the archives were consolidated and became available to researchers. The archive in the Rector's Palace has been functioning as an independent institution since 1920 and it was dislocated to the Sponza Palace in 1952, where it is still located today.
The fonds contains registers with letters of applications and first statements in civil litigations dating to the 80s of the 14th century, mid-15th century and those dating to the period between the 70s of the 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century, which were first settled by Curia maior and Curia minor, and then by civilian judges (consuls). The data show that in the 13th and 14th centuries, civil and criminal cases were settled by Curia Maior and Curia Minor (for disputes worth up to 5 perpers), two legal bodies that consisted of members of the Minor Council (iudices). The central position in the judicial council until the 15th century was held by the Rector. The Civil Court was established in 1416, and initially there were six judges, and later their number decreased. The most common topics of litigations are found to be disagreements over the payment of rents, rental of real estate, arable land and other land, or disagreements over construction and remodelling, division of property, loans, etc. If it was deemed necessary, the proceedings would continue with a further examination of prosecutors, defendants, and witnesses. The statements in real estate litigations were entered in the Stabilia books (HR-DADU-25), and those related to litigations on movable property were entered in the books Mobilia (HR-DADU-26).
The fonds contains significantly less information about Jews if compared to the records of the Criminal Court. The data of the fonds are important for researching business affairs of Jewish people both in Dubrovnik, and in the Ottoman Empire, as well as in the countries of the Apennine Peninsula. The topic matters of the applications are mostly unpaid debts and trade disputes, or problems with the delivery of trade goods to Dubrovnik and their shipment to Italian ports. The fonds contains some references to Jewish women, widows, and fatherless girls. These women would defend their rights and their property, most usually from other family members such as their male in-laws, in person, or through their guardians (i.e., vol. 60, ff. 90v-91v). The fonds contains data on famous figures from Jewish history such as Isac Ergas, who was the business representative for Gracia Mendes and conducted all her affairs in Dubrovnik, as well as his brother Samuel, and Abraham Coen de Herrera and his brother Jacob Coen de Herrera (i.e., vol. 13, f. 161). The data of the fonds mainly reference to Jews who were living in Dubrovnik and belonged to families Abeatar, Abenun, Abuaff, Almoslino, Altarac, Ambonetti, Arari, Azubi, Bensahen, Campos, Cittanova, Coen, Costantini, Danon, Esperiel, Fermo, Franco, Gaon, Israel, Lanciano, Levi, Levi Mandolfo, Luzzena, Maestro, Miranda, Oef (Ohev), Pappo, Pardo, Penso, Piade, Ribero, Russo, Salama, Saralvo, Sarfatin, Terni, Tobi, Tolentino, Valenzin, Vitali. The fonds could also be important to a certain extent for the reconstruction of the Jewish business network in the Balkans and the Mediterranean since the names of Jewish merchants from Italian and Ottoman cities are occasionally referenced to in the Civil Court proceedings. The members of families like Zonana, or Benvenisti and Galante from Sofia, Maestro and Tobi from Belgrade, or Franco and Pappo from Venice are also referenced in the fonds.
The fonds is fully accessible to researchers in accordance with the Ordinance on the work in the reading room of the State Archives in Dubrovnik and the Law on Archival Materials and Archives NN 61/18 (Pravilnik o radu u čitaonici Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku and Zakon o arhivskom gradivu i arhivima NN 61/18).
Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.
Croatian (Slavic language)
Paper. The archival material is well preserved.
Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku, box 17, folder 14. Josip Gelčić,»Catalogus i. r. Archivii Ragusini.« Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini 22 (1910): 537-588.
State Archives in Dubrovnik
The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of archives.
Sententiae Cancellariae (HR-DADU-18), Stabilia (HR-DADU-25), Mobilia (HR-DADU-26), Sequestra (HR-DADU-27), Registrum citationum de foris (HR-DADU-30.2)
Publication note
Konstantin Vojnović, »Sudbeni ustroj republike dubrovačke.« Rad JAZU 108 (1892): 99-181. Nella Lonza, Kaznenopravni sustav Dubrovačke Republike u XVIII. stoljeću (Summary: Criminal Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Dubrovnik), doctoral thesis, Zagreb: Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 1995.
Most registers contain subject indexes according to the first name of the plaintiff, indicating with a number the page on which the case begins.
Fonds of the Dubrovnik Republic and the territory of the former Republic under the French Administration, series 54
Descriptions of fonds, series and sub-series are made according to the ISAD (G) standard (general international standard archival description).
Archivist's note
Description prepared by Vesna Miović (Fonds, Series, Subseries) Croatia [The Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA)] Translation to English by Zrinka Friganović Sain
Chancellery of the Dubrovnik Republic (Creator)


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Q: echo prints in cron job of linux system Where does the echo prints of the cron job in linux goes [ If i didnt redirect into a file ]?
Have read about Mail transfer agent, Bit Bucket, STDOUT buffer are some of the options..
Not sure which option my linux system is using. Also how much size limits these options has

A: By default, the output stream of a cron job is collected into a mail message and sent to the job owner.
But that's only the default. There are a great many way in which that can be changed.

A: Your output will go to email. If nothing setup specifically, it will go to the user who setup the cron job. The mail for jobs in /etc/crontab go to root
You can set MAILTO in your crontab file to redirect the output via email to a specific email address.

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Patent on production of L-glutamic acid still in force
The Federal Patent Court completely dismissed an action for annulment against a patent for the production of L-glutamic acid. It is a patent for the biotechnical production of flavour enhancer E 620, widely used in ready-made meals.
Patent on biotechnological production of flavour enhancers
The Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht, BPatG) has dismissed the action for annulment against the European Patent EP 1 831 250, which is effective for Germany, with its now published judgement. The patentee and defendant is Ajinomoto Co, Inc. (Japan), the content and title of the patent in dispute is "Microorganism and process for the production of L-glutamic acid".
As a food additive, L-glutamic acid (E 620) is used as a flavour enhancer, especially in Asian cuisine and in ready-to-eat meals, especially in ready-to-eat sauces, ready-to-eat meals, snacks and ready-to-eat vegetables. In this respect, this judgement is of great relevance for all food manufacturers.
Known knowledge about the yggB gene
The patent law and technical issues concerned the 12 patent claims of the patent, including the mutated yggB gene of the valid patent claim 1. The plaintiff invokes lack of inventive step as a ground for invalidity and relied on known knowledge and corresponding numerous publications (referred to as NK9 to NK54) which were made public prior to the patent application or the claimed priority of the disputed patent (December 2004).
In particular, the plaintiff claimed that the authors of NK13 (D. Nottebrock et al., FEMS Microbiology Letters, (2003) 305 to 309) stated that Corynebacterium glutamicum possesses the two mechanosensitive channels MscL and MscS/YggB which are homologous to the corresponding channels in E. coli. In addition, the publication NK14 (S. Ruffert et al., European Journal of Biochemistry, (1997) 572 to 580) reveals that the outflow of glutamate in Corynebacterium glutamicum is restricted by a mechanosensitive channel and that this channel is similar to the MscS/YggB channel of E. coli.
Does an expert consider emergency response in hypoosmotic shock?
According to the defendants, Ajinomoto Co, Inc, an expert is looking for an improved production process for glutamate and therefore does not take into account knowledge about the emergency reactions of cells in hypoosmotic shock. All amino acid exporters known in the professional world are classified as carriers.
Even the "Gain of Function" mutants in the MscS/YggB channel or MscL channel of E. coli, which are described in the state of the art, do not give the expert any suggestion which points in the direction of the patented solution, since the bacteria are so severely damaged by it that they are hardly able to survive.
Publications on the export system of corynebacteria relevant
The Federal Patent Court considered the published publications dealing with the removal of glutamic acid from corynebacteria to be relevant for this case, since glutamic acid is always extracted on a large scale from the culture medium, the court explained. In addition, the expert felt compelled to consider further publications in his search for a solution for the patentable task, namely those dealing with the export system of corynebacteria.
No expectation that glutamate output will increase channel activity
However, the BPatG ruled that an expert had no suggestion that the activation of osmoregulatory channels in coryneform bacteria could improve glutamate output. The expert also has doubts about the success of such an approach because the opinion prevails in the specialist literature that the ejection of glutamate from coryneform bacteria is mediated by a so-called carrier, which – unlike a channel – can also eject substances against a concentration gradient using energy, whereas substances can only escape from the cell interior via a channel if their concentration in the medium surrounding the cell is lower than in the cell interior.
In the publication NK14, which was asserted by the plaintiff in particular, the technical opinion was expressed that the channel in the Corynebacterium glutamicum responsible for the efflux of small dissolved molecules under hypoosmotic shock could resemble the MscS (= mechanosensitive channel of small conductance) channel of E. coli – which in the technical literature is also referred to as the YggB channel. An expert also knows the homology of mechanosensitive channels in E. coli and Corynebacterium glutamicum.
However, the authors of NK 14 themselves state that E. coli exhales almost all molecules of low molecular mass under a severe hypoosmotic shock, while Corynebacterium glutamicum still selectively releases molecules under these conditions. An expert did not associate the channel with the expectation that the glutamate output in Corynebacterium glutamicum could be increased under the conditions of fermentative glutamate production.
No analogy between E. coli and coryneform bacteria
In the opinion of the court, the replacement of alanine residues in the TM3 transmembrane helix of the Corynebacterium glutamicum by helix-destabilizing residues such as threonine or valine was equally unlikely to be a viable option for the expert, because in publications NK15 to NK17 there is no analogy between the observations on the MscS/YggB channel in E. coli and the homologous MscS/YggB channel in coryneform bacteria.
There is no doubt that the expert knows the molecular basis for the opening of mechanosensitive channels through targeted mutagenesis in the area of the transmembrane helix TM3, which forms the pore of the channel, as well as the techniques required for the preservation of such GOF mutants. However, BPatG explained that despite this knowledge, NK36 did not suggest the search for corresponding GOF mutants in the TM3 of the MscS/YggB channel of coryneform bacteria.
Action for annulment dismissed by BPatG
The action for annulment against the patent for the biotechnical production of flavour enhancer E620 was dismissed in its entirety. An appeal may be lodged against the judgment of the BPatG; it is therefore provisionally enforceable against security amounting to 120 % of the amount to be enforced, but has not yet become final. The patent "Microorganism and process for the production of L-glutamic acid" therefore remains in force.
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Q: Access pass through query I have a very easy Stored Procedure in SQL (this is my first one!) and I can run it after researching how to accomplish this. Essentially, it deletes all the current records in a table and appends a new set of records. (I have read that having two queries in the same Stored Procedure may cause the problem I am having.)
This works very well the first time I run it. I make a change to the open table to see if it works the second time. It does not. I can even close the database, reopen and rerun the code and it still doesn't give me what I expect.
What I have figured out is that if I try to open the "CurrentProc" query in the Access window, I get an error that says "Pass-through query with ReturnsRecords property set to True did not return any records." That's fine, because after I hit "OK", the code will work again and give me the expected return.
My question is what can I do with the code below so that I can make whatever change I want to in a table, but have it all reset whenever I call the function without having to open the CurrentProc query and getting the error message. (Yes, I have tried opening the query with OpenQuery, but that didn't work either.)
Please understand that, while I have been an Access developer for (yikes!) nearly 20 years, this is my first time trying to use SQL stored procedures. Running this same query in Access takes about 45 minutes. Using the Stored procedure, it literally takes seconds! I will be adapting this for use with much larger recordsets and rewriting some Access code as SQL stored procedures to leverage this power, so any ideas you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Dim qdf As dao.QueryDef
Dim dbs As dao.Database
Dim rst As dao.Recordset
Dim sSQL As String

strConnect = "ODBC;DRIVER={SQL Server}" _
            & ";SERVER=ourserver\equipment" _
            & ";DATABASE=BDS"

Set dbs = CurrentDb
Set qdf = dbs.QueryDefs("CurrentProc")
qdf.Connect = strConnect
qdf.SQL = "exec AppendtoFRPbyModel1"
DoCmd.OpenTable "FRP by Model1"

Set rst = Nothing
Set qdf = Nothing
Set dbs = Nothing

Josetta

A: Here's what worked:
I changed ReturnsRecords to "no" and that didn't do anything, HOWEVER, when I added "DoCmd.OpenQuery "CurrentProc" I did not receive an error (as I did before when I tried to run it outside of code) and I did get the expected results every time. Thank you!!


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Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 7 Review: A Complete MasterPiece
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Last week's episode of Attack on Titan was every bit as amazing as I imagined. Ever since I read the manga, I've been eagerly waiting to see anime's version of The assault on Marley, and so far, they have not disappointed me. The entire episode felt like a proper war. And asides from the story itself, it was all thanks to the anime's incredible soundtrack and quality animation.
However, even though I loved every portion of this brilliant chapter, they were five major moments that stood out for me.
Don't worry anime-only fans, I won't spoil anything from the manga.
5. The Scouts Vs. The Cart Titan
Sasha Braus
One massively underrated moment from this episode was The Scouts taking out the Cart Titan. Specifically Jean and Sasha. The move was not only brutal but incredibly well executed. And even though I love Pieck's character (for reasons that will soon become clear), I still enjoyed seeing her unit go down.
Since the start of the raid on Marley, I've been excited to see how much everyone within The Survey Corps have grown since we last saw them.
Seeing Sasha develop from a food addict into a merciless sniper has been very satisfying. And both Jean and Connie have definitely become more ruthless since the last season. However, the scouts still have a long way before the battle is won. And luckily, they have the best person on the job.
4. Armin's Arrival
Armin's Colossal Titan
They are several insane moments from the Attack on Titan manga I can't wait to see animated. And Armin's explosive entrance was definitely one of them.
The scale of the blast from his transformation was just jaw-dropping. And the effects helped The Scouts turn the tide of the battle. However, although he had just committed mass genocide, I was happy Armin's personality hadn't changed.
Even though this was his plan, you could see the regret in Armin's eyes before and after he murdered all those people. And knowing Armin, this guilt will stay with him forever.
3. Reiner, Falco and Gabi
Reiner's Armoured TItan
One thing I appreciate about this episode is how it tells the story from both sides of the conflict. Thanks to this, we're able to understand the wants and frustrations of major players within the story, such as Reiner.
Since the start of this season, Reiner has been tormented by the guilt of his past actions. However, the only reason he hasn't killed himself yet is because he wants to stop his cousin Gabi from inheriting his Titan and suffering the same fate as him.
At this point in his life, saving Gabi is Reiner's only goal. And this is the reason why when she and Falco scream for his help, Reiner powers through his exhaustion to face Eren in the episode's finale.
2. Levi Vs. Zeke
The Beast Titan Falls Again
Ever Since the mission to take back Wall Maria, every Attack on Titan fan has looked forward to the day that Levi finally kills Zeke. And while this episode was not that day, it was so satisfying to see Levi bring down that dammed Monkey to his knees (again).
Last season, Zeke nearly exterminated the entire Survey Corps, and had it not been for Erwin's incredible plan, they would be no Scouts today. Before he died, Erwin's final command to Levi was to kill Zeke, and Levi will not rest until he fulfills those orders.
1. The Fate of The War Hammer Titan
The Jaw And War Hammer Titan
Eren mercilessly using Porco's Jaw Titan to break the War Hammer's crystal was the best part of the entire episode. The whole fight sequence was amazing, and the emotions on everyone's face as Eren ate Lara Tybur said it all.
However, while Porco lost to Eren and Misaka, this outcome wasn't unexpected.
Unlike the rest of Marley's warrior unit, Galliard has no idea of what The Scouts can do because he has never faced them before. And it's for this very reason that Pieck warns Porco to approach them with caution. But when Zeke and Pieck fall, Porco rushes in without thinking and soon finds himself at Eren's mercy.
With the Founding Titan, The Attack Titan, and The War Hammer Titan, Eren is now officially the strongest Titan shifter in the series.
With just seven episodes, the fourth season of Attack on Titan has already become one to remember. However, they are still many incredible moments ahead of the series. Most of which will leave fans shocked and divided.
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Spirit of the West has been a band I've been listening to for over 16 years. They played their last show as a band this month since 2 members have really bad illnesses, including frontman John Mann. Filmmaker Pete McCormack follow Mann (who has early onset Alzheimer's disease) and the band around last year up until their final shows. The result of that is this documentary called Spirit Unforgettable.
I really want to watch this documentary but I have a feeling I'll be crying for a lot of it. The film will be screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this weekend. I guess I'll see this when it's available on Digital HD or VOD.
If you're a fan of the SOTW's music and just music in general, you'll probably want to see this documentary film.


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Nation Current Affairs 05 Dec 2020 Farmers call Bharat ...
Farmers call Bharat bandh on Dec 8, threaten to intensify agitation
Published Dec 5, 2020, 12:54 pm IST
Updated Dec 5, 2020, 12:54 pm IST
This hardening of stand came a day ahead of the fifth round of talks with the government
Farmers shout slogans during a protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 5, 2020. (AFP)
New Delhi: Upping the ante, farmers protesting against the Centre's new farm laws on Friday announced a Bharat bandh on December 8 and threatened to intensify their agitation and block more roads leading to the national capital if the government does not accept their demands.
This hardening of stand came a day ahead of the fifth round of talks with the government.
According to sources, the government has worked out possible solutions to the provisions on which the farmer leaders have raised objections in a bid to break the deadlock.
Farmer leaders held a meeting during the day to decide the future course of action. Addressing a press conference later, one of the leaders Gurnam Singh Chadoni said if the Centre on Saturday does not accept their demand of repealing the three farm laws, they will intensify their agitation.
"In our meeting today, we have decided to give a Bharat bandh call on December 8 during which we will also occupy all toll plazas," said Harinder Singh Lakhwal, general secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union.
"We have planned to block all roads leading to Delhi in the coming days if the farm laws are not scrapped," he also said.
He said that farmers will protest against the central government and corporate houses and burn their effigies on Saturday, adding that on December 7, sportspersons will return their medals in solidarity with the farmers.
The farmer leaders stuck to their demand that the Centre call a special session of Parliament to repeal the new farm laws, adding that the protestors do not want amendments but their scrapping.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will lead the government side, also comprising Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State of Commerce and Industry Som Parkash, in the crucial round of talks on Saturday.
In the previous meeting on Thursday, Tomar had assured 40 farmer union leaders that the government is open to considering ways to strengthen APMC mandis, create a level-playing field with proposed private markets, and provide a provision for approaching higher courts for dispute resolution, while asserting that procurement at minimum support price (MSP) will continue.
But the other side stuck to their demand of repealing the three "hastily-passed" farm laws, saying that the legislations with several loopholes and deficiencies cannot be amended.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said the farmers are hoping that the government will meet their demands during the fifth round of talks.
"The government and the farmers did not reach any decision during the meeting held on Thursday. The government wants to make amendments to the three laws, but we want the laws to be completely repealed..." Tikait told PTI.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the farm reform legislations were brought in after elaborate stakeholder consultations and a lot of homework, and will benefit farmers. Asserting that the reforms were not done in a jiffy, she said the agriculture minister is meeting farmers with an open mind and hoped that a solution will be found soon.
Throughout the day, Delhi's border points remained choked as thousands of farmers from Haryana, Punjab, and other states held demonstrations for the ninth consecutive day. Traffic moved at snail's pace at several border points of the national capital as police kept key routes connecting Delhi to Haryana and Uttar Pradesh closed.
A senior police officer said that the situation at Chilla and Ghazipur borders remained peaceful, adding that tight security arrangements are in place as part of precautionary measures.
Farmers staying put at the Chilla Border between Delhi and Noida performed a 'havan' on a partially closed highway and offered prayers wishing "good sense" for the government.
The farmers' groups continued to garner support from various quarters with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee assured them that her party TMC stands by them.
The Indian National Lok Dal said the government should listen to the farmers and expressed its willingness to join any front floated by the Shiromani Akali Dal for their cause.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar said it will take out a demonstration in Patna on Saturday in protest against the agriculture bills.
Party leader Tejashwi Yadav said the dharna will be "held at Gandhi Maidan, in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi whose vision is under attack from the proposed legislations which intend to give a leeway to big private players in agriculture sector".
In Delhi, India summoned Canadian High Commissioner Nadir Patel and told him that the comments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others in his cabinet on the farmers' protest constituted an "unacceptable interference" in the country's internal affairs and these actions, if continued, will have a "seriously damaging" impact on the bilateral ties.
Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of Minimum Support Price and scrap the mandis, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates. The Centre has repeatedly asserted that these mechanisms will remain.
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A dance scene of Jang Geun Suk and Yoona is staged in episode 2 of KBS 2TV's Love Rain broadcast on March 27th, 2012.
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Q: error with font paths I have a situation regarding font paths. Something is not using the specified path and it causes a critical failure at the pdf build step. What is strange is that the the fonts seem to have been correctly selected as indicated further up in the log. I am going to highlight that my font path is ../font/ as these are standalone files which exist in a subdirectory. I use a switch option in my package file. When I run the compilation from main everything works correctly.
package path option switch
\def\mypath{..}

\DeclareOption{main}{%
    \def\mypath{.}%
}%

file structure
main.tex
  |font/
    |EurostileLTStd-condenced.otf
    |EurostileLTStd-demioblique.otf
  |chapters/
    |standalonefile.tex
  |images/
    |background.png
  |mypackage.sty

line 236, illustrating correctly specified font paths
(fontspec)             'EurostileLTStd' with options [Path =
(fontspec)             ../font/,Extension = {.otf},UprightFont =
(fontspec)             {*-condenced},BoldFont = {*-demioblique}].

Here is the error, at the very last part of the log.
line 1457
 78 fonts using 6816975 bytes
 128i,15n,123p,627b,1102s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
! error:  (file ) (type 0): cannot find file ''
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

And I know whats happening but not how to fix it. The path of the fonts are not being preserved or respected. If I add a copy of the font/ directory to the chapters directory (which is a subdirectory for standalone files) the compilation is successful, and you can see in the log the paths have changed from what I specified. Keep in mind I did not alter the path specification between the two builds, and the font loading path logged on lines 236 did not change.
line 236, note how these still properly read ../font/
(fontspec)             'EurostileLTStd' with options [Path =
(fontspec)             ../font/,Extension = {.otf},UprightFont =
(fontspec)             {*-condenced},BoldFont = {*-demioblique}].

line 1457, showing that the path is now ./font/
 78 fonts using 6816975 bytes
 128i,15n,123p,627b,1102s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
<./font/EurostileLTStd-demioblique.otf><./font/EurostileLTStd-condenced.otf>
Output written on main.pdf (1 page, 27356 bytes).

As a final note, I use the same path switch for loading images from images directory, and these work just fine.
These are compiled with lualatex.


Citizens Advice Waverley ran a stall at the Godalming Christmas Fair on Saturday 10th December 2016 to help raise awareness of our charity. The stall raised £187 through a Christmas Hamper raffle donated by Waitrose and a 'Name the Giant Teddy' competition. A big well done and thank you to all the volunteers who helped man the stall on the day. Special thanks go to Nina Howells for her sterling efforts organising the stall and the volunteers. Thank you also to Waitrose, Godalming for donating the Christmas Hamper. Finally we're very pleased to report the giant Teddy, with his new winning name 'Caleb', went to a loving home!


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RIM actually has a KB article. You need a TSupport login though. I have pasted the document below.
Not sure what that is all about, I was referring to the complaints by some Members that the materials included with the Pearl did not include any "how to" or software related to videos or MP3 files.
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In the year 2009, Wiz Khalifa was in the the midst of an inevitable rebrand from Pittsburgh street rapper to region-less stoner heartthrob. Meanwhile, New Orleans upstart Curren$y was establishing his footing post-Young Money deal, having just walked away from an association with the biggest name in rap music. That year, they released How Fly, a collaborative mixtape that let them shine against each other's talents while helping to certify their respective transitions from underground heroes to overground stars. Ten years later, their individual legacies cemented, the pair delivers 2009, the How Fly follow-up fans never stopped calling for.


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Jackson Browne To Receive Les Paul Innovation Award At NAMM TEC Awards
The Les Paul Foundation honors highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology in the spirit of Les Paul.
The NAMM Foundation has announced that singer-songwriter Jackson Browne will receive the prestigious Les Paul Innovation Award at the 33rd Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (NAMM TEC Awards), being held Saturday, January 27, 2018 in Anaheim, CA.
The award is given on behalf of the Les Paul Foundation to honor individuals that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology in the spirit of the famed audio pioneer, inventor and musician, Les Paul.
Browne has written and performed some of the most iconic and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion, and personal politics. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. His debut album came out on David Geffen's Asylum Records in 1972. Since then, he has released fourteen studio albums and four collections of live performances, and has sold over 18 million albums in the U.S. Browne will be on tour in the spring of 2018.
"Jackson Browne's success as a singer, songwriter and guitarist has had a prolific impression on the music industry throughout his successful career," says Michael Braunstein, executive director of the Les Paul Foundation. "Like Les Paul, Jackson has never shied away from expressing his emotions or thoughts through his music. I have no doubt that Les would have liked to share a few jams with Jackson along the way."
Dubbed the "Knights of Soft Rock" by Rolling Stone, The Section will also be honored during the evening event as the newest inductees to the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame. Reaching their height in the 70s playing alongside the biggest names in the business, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Section also released three of their own imprints and toured and recorded with Jackson Browne in earlier years. While no longer recording collectively, each artist now actively works in the studio and on tour and consists of Danny Kortchmar (guitar), Craig Doerge (keyboards), Leland Sklar (bass), and Russ Kunkel (drums). They'll reunite on stage for a rare performance of some of their best-known hits in support of the evening's celebration.
The NAMM TEC Hall of Fame award was started in 1988 to honor pioneers of audio technology, as well as the music industry's most accomplished producers and audio technicians. In 2017, Aerosmith engineer and producer Jack Douglas was inducted into the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame, and joined luminaries Skunk Baxter, Ed Cherney, Hal Blaine, Nathan East and others.
The NAMM TEC Awards, held during the global gathering of music, sound and event technology at The NAMM Show, are bestowed annually in honor of the many individuals, companies and technical innovations used in sound recordings, films, broadcast television and video games.
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I have an embroidery function on my two of my Pfaff sewing machines. I have been holding off doing quilt labels for some time now. What got me moving on them was a request from the quilters at St. Anthony's for a label or two. It's good timing since I have had 3 quilt finishes lately and they should have labels too. For me, machine embroidery not my favorite thing, so when I set up, I do all that I can. I decided I would trudge through and get them done no matter what.
After having troubles with my newer Pfaff, I set up my older Pfaff. It worked like a charm. Mind you it took me most of the day to do the embroidery because I don't like to leave the machine stitching stitching by itself. You never know what can go wrong..
Now I have two the same. Both started a year or so ago, but only one was finished back then.
And it's done just in time for this cold day a month before our official winter starts. It's now hanging in my foyer. Guests who drop by for a visit will be wowed by this quilt. The pattern is by Crabapple Hill Designs. Many thanks to Andrea Renick of quilti.com for quilting it for me.... She took on my blue WW and freehand quilted swirls, snowy hills, snow people, snowballs and of course music notes. I'm just delighted with all this totally custom freehand work she did.
This Cobbled Streets Shawl is a great exercise in making different knit/purl patterns in a single project. I'm already on the 7th pattern of 14 stitch patterns, and row 100 of 200 rows. I bought this single skein of local wool in Estonia this summer. I've been itching to use it. I know it's not enough for the whole shawl, and to finish my project, I intend to use a ball of fine alpaca from my stash. But darn, I wished I had bought two skeins of this Estonia yarn. My big dilemma now is ... do I use the alpaca in the center of the shawl like it was intentional, or on the end. Hmm... I'll have to give it some thought.
It's taken me a whole week to make. After shopping for wood, my hubby cut the wood to the exact sizes that I needed. It took days to paint a couple of coats, then varnish a couple of coats, then to let dry. Hubby put it together for me yesterday. I'm so pleased. For now, I've just put all the projects that were hanging on hangers, banisters etc, on the ladder to test it out. It's perfect.


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Budget 2020: What India's Ecommerce Sector Wants Nirmala Sitharaman To Address
With various notifications in the past, the industry awaits a comprehensive ecommerce policy
Steps need to be taken to address consumer spending which could help lift demand, stakeholders told us
GST obligations for online and offline traders should be same, say stakeholders
India's ecommerce sector which is hardly 5% of the country's retail sector makes the most noise in the startup ecosystem. And, why not! When two of the biggest global players like Amazon and Walmart are key stakeholders, there's bound to be a lot of attention on this space. In fact, the duo is also influencing India's trade relations with the US now.
Be it Flipkart's acquisition by Walmart, or numerous policy initiatives, the last two years have shaped India's ecommerce in multiple ways AND 2020 will be crucial too as India is set to introduce its comprehensive policy on ecommerce and Reliance enters the game.
Reliance Jio has announced plans to launch Jiomart. And, it will be interesting to see how the conglomerate performs especially when other big groups like Tata have failed to make an impact in this sector.
As the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to introduce Union Budget 2020 in the Parliament on February 1, 2020, ahead of Delhi Assembly elections, we spoke to ecommerce startups on their demands from the Budget.
Interestingly, while the government is yet to introduce the National Policy on Ecommerce, the economic slowdown has forced every sector to agree on one basic demand — address the decreasing consumer spending.
While Amazon and Flipkart chose not to comment on the Budget 2020 expectations, among the other companies who spoke to Inc42, the major demands are:
Address the low consumer spending
Simplify GST for ecommerce vendors, bring more parity among offline and online vendors
Support small vendors and kirana stores
Provide more clarity on policy guidelines pertaining to ecommerce
Push for 5G and digital India to help build better digital infrastructure
According to Deloitte India and Retail Association of India's report, the retail market in India is expected to hit $1.2 Tn while the ecommerce too shall grow to $84 Bn by 2021 and $200 Bn by 2026. However, amid the slowdown as India's GDP is the lowest in the last decade, Morgan Stanley has now estimated that India's ecommerce market may only hit $200 Bn in 2027.
What's Plaguing The Ecommerce Market?
From GST to FDI in inventory model of ecommerce, the existing ecommerce policy has imposed numerous restrictions over the marketplaces, India's ecommerce companies have been struggling to find a balance between profitability and operability. Despite having received huge funding from VCs, ecommerce companies, on the whole, have been under huge loss every year.
According to Microsoft India Startup Research, over 75 ecommerce startups out of existing 450+ in the country have raised funding from VCs. And, most of these ecommerce companies in India including Amazon India and Flipkart have made huge losses.
Walmart owned-Flipkart's losses has grown by 69% in fiscal year 2019, despite having revenue shot up by 44%. Amazon India, for which Bezos has committed to invest $5 Bn, registered a cumulative loss of over INR 7,000 Cr across various units in 2018-19.
Another major ecommerce player Shopclues, which in 2016 had become India's fourth unicorn, was acquired by Singapore-based player Qoo10.
Related Article: Inc42 Pre-Budget Survey: What India's Startup Ecosystem Wants From Budget 2020
Paytm Mall, however, did manage to reduce its loss to INR 1171 Cr in 2018-2019.
Within ecommerce, we, therefore, are seeing a slew of emerging sub-sectors such as social ecommerce, recommerce, subscription-based ecommerce, vertical ecommerce focussing on women, children and male grooming and fashion which are exploring different revenue models.
Ecommerce Expectations From Budget 2020
Among the ecommerce sector, the expectations are geared towards the MSME sector, especially for B2B players. Amit Sharma, CEO and founder, ShopX, said that given the economic conditions of 2019, it would be welcome to see the government roll out measures that support and drive the growth of the small MSMEs and kirana stores who are a vital link to the Indian economy.
"The focus should be to spur consumption from Tier 2 and 3 cities. As an enabler of small retailers and kirana stores, we will work on supporting and digitising the 12 Mn stores across India that support the daily needs of 400 Mn middle-class Indians," he added.
Jatin Mazalcar, CFO, Meesho, leading the wave of social commerce startups and encouraging individual reselling said the government has to focus on home entrepreneurs. "We would like to see the lowering of income tax and putting more money in the hands of the consumer to give a boost to the economy, no GST obligations for small or home entrepreneurs and parity between online and offline suppliers with < INR 40 Lakh turnover."
Mazalcar added that significant investments happen in the initial phase of startups and refund of GST input credit to startups can free up a lot of working capital and spur entrepreneurship.
"This will be a big enabler for small or home entrepreneurs, generate employment and more importantly digitise the economy further."
He further spoke about helping startups streamline costs by lowering tax on ESOPs since there is a very high tax incidence at the moment. This can be changed by reducing the tax rate as well as not taxing perquisites at the time of exercise, he added.
Akshay Hegde, cofounder and MD, ShakeDeal told Inc42, "Increasing consumption power of the middle and upper-middle classes by rejiggering the direct tax slab rates is sure to drive more take home in the hands of consumers for discretionary spending."
Hegde also recommended increasing the exemption for income tax level up to INR 5 Lakh of an individual's income to increase the middle-class base and hence drive the demand for goods and services.
"The loss of tax revenue should be overcome and offset by the resultant increase in consumption. Further rationalisation and simplification of the indirect tax refunds system should be looked at closely. Freeing up locked up working capital in an economy already dealing with sluggish credit growth is key to improving cash flow and working capital flows for businesses."
He urged the government to create more startup-friendly and focused measures like in the first budget in Modi 2.0, where the government clarified on angel tax and helped the startup spirit. The government should also look into policies that bring in more FDI into the country especially for labour-intensive sectors. This would help address the unemployment issue facing the country.
Ramakant Sharma, cofounder and COO, Livspace, called for clarity on tax policies for individuals.
"We hope that the upcoming budget 2020 will allow greater tax benefits to enable larger part of the population to purchase homes."
Sharma added that now is a good time to invest in housing as the previous budget had addressed the issues surrounding liquidity of realtors through the recapitalisation of PSU banks and support to securitisation for NBFC assets.
"Our government has always been open to feedback, and we feel that home buyers and real estate developers will benefit from the upcoming budget which might allocate greater funds towards infrastructure thus contributing towards a healthier economy. With the upcoming budget, we are also expecting newer policies aimed at transforming buyer experiences."
Vikas Bagaria, founder of Pee Safe, which makes women-focussed hygiene products, believes that verticals such as femtech within the ecommerce industry have huge potential. It is expected to reach $50 Bn globally by 2025, as per estimates by Frost and Sullivan. "Though this is a relatively new industry, it aims to address some of the age-old problems women have been facing and is projected to be the next big thing in the women's health and hygiene market. It promotes the use of digital health applications such as hygiene products, diagnostics, reproductive health monitoring systems, etc. to help women take control of their health."
For Bagaria, the big expectation from the Budget 2020 centres around government policy and regulation to enable ease of doing business through centralised policies. "This will also attract more foreign investment opportunities in the segment. There is also a need to simplify the taxation process and make early-stage funding easier. While the government has done well in terms of facilitating foreign investments in India, this outlook needs to be maintained going forward to effectively promote more innovations under the Make in India campaign."
For Sanchit Gaurav, cofounder, Housejoy, technology as well as government-aided initiatives such as the Bharatmala scheme for logistics, UDAN and AMRUT are paving the way for some evolutionary advancements will make 2020 a landmark year for construction.
"There are also some roadblocks that need to be addressed and we hope this year's budget will bring out conducive policies. The Indian government has recently infused capital in real estate and infrastructure but more needs to come in, particularly in Tier 2 and 3 areas."
He added that timely tech intervention will not only help individual growth but also lead the economy towards recovery. "We hope the budget will enable this and more."
Need A Balancing Act Between Swadeshi And Videshi
Besides numerous restrictions such as no FDI in inventory-based model ecommerce, GST registration, the upcoming intermediary guidelines, the Personal Data Protection Bill and others will further increase the liability of the companies.
On the other end, there is a slew of accusations on the major ecommerce players such as Amazon and Flipkart for not fairly treating their online vendors. In fact, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has taken them to various courts on the same.
Given the number of jobs that ecommerce companies generate, and the support it extends to independent entrepreneurs and MSMEs, as well as other sectors such as fintech and logistics, encouraging the ecommerce industry has been top of the government's agenda for many years and should continue in 2020 as well.
While state governments have been collaborating with ecommerce players on various schemes such as Uttar Pradesh's One District One Product (ODOP) scheme, Flipkart has now partnered with the Indian government's Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).
Despite having grown this decade, traders and ecommerce players continue to lock horns on various issues. Part of the issue has been the delay around the various important ecommerce policies. Can Sitharaman find a balance and bring more clarity to the existing policies?
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https://inc42.com/features/startup-watchlist-agritech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-india-in-2020/
https://inc42.com/features/what-the-financials-despite-growing-revenue-medlife-losses-grow-1-4x-in-fy19/


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Challenge #261 [Easy] verifying 3x3 magic squares

Description

A 3x3 magic square is a 3x3 grid of the numbers 1-9 such that each row, column,
and major diagonal adds up to 15. Here's an example:

8 1 6
3 5 7
4 9 2

The major diagonals in this example are 8 + 5 + 2 and 6 + 5 + 4. (Magic squares
have appeared here on r/dailyprogrammer before, in #65 [Difficult] in 2012.)
Write a function that, given a grid containing the numbers 1-9, determines whether
it's a magic square. Use whatever format you want for the grid, such as a
2-dimensional array, or a 1-dimensional array of length 9, or a function that
takes 9 arguments. You do not need to parse the grid from the program's input,
but you can if you want to. You don't need to check that each of the 9 numbers
appears in the grid: assume this to be true.

Example inputs/outputs

[8, 1, 6, 3, 5, 7, 4, 9, 2] => true
[2, 7, 6, 9, 5, 1, 4, 3, 8] => true
[3, 5, 7, 8, 1, 6, 4, 9, 2] => false
[8, 1, 6, 7, 5, 3, 4, 9, 2] => false

Optional bonus 1

Verify magic squares of any size, not just 3x3.

Optional bonus 2

Write another function that takes a grid whose bottom row is missing, so it only
has the first 2 rows (6 values). This function should return true if it's possible
to fill in the bottom row to make a magic square. You may assume that the numbers
given are all within the range 1-9 and no number is repeated. Examples:

[8, 1, 6, 3, 5, 7] => true
[3, 5, 7, 8, 1, 6] => false

Hint: it's okay for this function to call your function from the main challenge.
This bonus can also be combined with optional bonus 1. (i.e. verify larger magic
squares that are missing their bottom row.)

( source: https://redd.it/4dccix )
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read_matrix( data::DataType=Any, input::IO=STDIN, spacing::Char=' ' ) = readdlm(
input, spacing, data, header=false, skipblanks=true, ignore_invalid_chars=true,
quotes=false, comments=false )

function pseudo_magic_square( grid::Matrix{ Int } )
    local value::Bool = loop::Bool = false
    local missing::Int = tmp::Int = 0
    local last::Array{ Int, 1 } = Int[]

    for i in 1:size( grid, 2 )
        column = sum( grid[ :, i ] )
        missing = 15 - column
        push!( last, missing )

        if 9 >= missing
            for j in 1:size( grid, 1 ), k in 1:size( grid, 2 )
                if grid[ j, k ] == missing
                    loop = true
                    break
                end
            end
        else
            loop = true
        end

        if true == loop
            break
        end
    end

    if false == loop
        for i in 1:2
            tmp += grid[ i,i ]
        end
        tmp += last[ 3 ]
        if 15 == tmp
            value = true
        end
    end

    return value
end

function verify_magic_square( grid::Matrix{ Int } )
    local value::Bool = false
    local line::Integer = column::Integer = 0

    if 15 == trace( grid )  #   sums the value of the principal diagonal
        for i in 1:size( grid, 1 )
            line = sum( grid[ i, : ] )
            column = sum( grid[ :, i ] )
            if line != 15 || column != 15
                break
            elseif size( grid, 1 ) == i   #   if is the last verification and it's valid
                value = true
            end
        end
    end

    return value
end

#=
    I've modified the input format. So, that only be possibles input like:

        8 1 6                       8 1 6
        3 5 7           or          3 5 7
        4 9 2
=#
function main( )
    local input::Matrix{ Int } = read_matrix( Int )

    println( @time ( size( input, 1 ) == size( input, 2 ) ) ?
                     verify_magic_square( input ):
                     pseudo_magic_square( input ) )
end

main( )

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