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Posted on April 1, 2018 April 5, 2018 by ezquniversemusic
Nigerian-American Hip hop Artist/Producer, Graphic Designer, Entertainment Lawyer and Motivational speaker with musical roots emanating from South Bronx, NYC. EZ-Q Universe is an Alternative Hip Hop protégé of the Native Tongues Crew of New York (which members included 'The Jungle Brothers', 'De La Soul', 'A Tribe Called Quest', 'Queen Latifah', 'Monie Love', 'Black Sheep', 'Chi Ali' etc). EZ-Q Universe embraces a positive and conscious style of classical hip hop with a touch of soul, r&b, rock and funk.
EZ-Q Universe is currently working on his debut EP Album entitled 'Soul Volution' which is largely infused with soulful musical instrumentation and vocals with a clean lyrical rhyme delivery. Soul Volution is like a trip back down to the 1988 – 1995 Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Lord Finesse, Show Biz and A.G. era with sound engineering of the current era.
A taste of Soul Volution is like entering into a time machine back into the future. The EP is set to be released in mid May 2018 with no compromises in style and quality. Just when it was thought that alternative soul hip hop was dead, EZ-Q Universe breathes fresh life into the niche genre and art form. A must listen for 90's golden era hip hop lovers.
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Eclectic Hip hop, R&B, & Soul music producer, rap artist and song writer with roots from the Bronx, NYC area currently based in South East England. EZ-Q Universe's sound and style is largely influenced by retro golden age hip hop from the late 80's and early 90's. EZ-Q Universe is over 25 years old in the his art form. He exudes originality and clean lyrical delivery.  Nigerian-American Hip hop Artist/Producer, Graphic Designer, Entertainment Lawyer and Motivational speaker with musical roots emanating from South Bronx, NYC. EZ-Q Universe is an Alternative Hip Hop protégé of the Native Tongues Crew of New York (which members included 'The Jungle Brothers', 'De La Soul', 'A Tribe Called Quest', 'Queen Latifah', 'Monie Love', 'Black Sheep', 'Chi Ali' etc). EZ-Q Universe embraces a positive and conscious style of classical hip hop with a touch of soul, r&b, rock and funk. EZ-Q Universe is currently working on his debut EP Album entitled 'Soul Volution' which is largely infused with soulful musical instrumentation and vocals with a clean lyrical rhyme delivery. Soul Volution is like a trip back down to the era of 1988 - 1995 Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Lord Finesse, Show Biz and A.G. era with sound engineering of the current era. A taste of Soul Volution is like entering into a time machine back into the future. The EP is set to be released later in 2017 with no compromises in style and quality. Just when is was thought that alternative soul hip hop was dead, EZ-Q Universe breathes life into the niche genre and art form. A must listen for 90's golden era hip hop lovers. 	View all posts by ezquniversemusic


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Оксид церия(III) — это оксид редкоземельного металла церия. Химическая формула — Ce2O3, цвет — золотисто-жёлтый.

Применение

Катализатор выхлопных газов

Оксид церия используется как каталитический конвертер для сокращения выбросов CO в выхлопных газах автотранспортных средств.

Когда не хватает кислорода, оксид церия(IV) восстанавливается оксидом углерода(II) до оксида церия(III):

 4CeO2 + 2CO → 2Ce2O3 + 2CO2

Если есть избыток кислорода, оксид церия(III), наоборот, окисляется до оксида церия(IV):

 2Ce2O3 + O2 → 4CeO2

Расщепление воды
Цикл CeO2 — Ce2O3 — это двухшаговое термохимическое расщепление воды.

Освещение
Оксид церия(III) в сочетании с оксидом олова(II) (SnO) в керамической форме используется для освещения с УФ-излучением. Он поглощает свет с длиной волны 320 нм и излучает свет с длиной волны 412 нм. Такое сочетание оксида церия(III) и оксида олова(II) является редкостью, и получается с большим трудом в лабораторных условиях.

Получение
Оксид церия(III) получают восстановлением оксида церия(IV) водородом примерно при 1400 °C. .

Оксиды церия

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Journey Vintage Concert T-shirt - Don't Stop Believing Detroit 1986. Women's Black Dolman
Polyester cotton rayon tri-blend
Our women's vintage Journey concert dolman t-shirt is from the classic rock band's 1986 concerts in Detroit, Michigan.
Presented over 2 nights, October 8 - October 9, 1986, these shows were part of a large United States tour performed to support Jouney's most recent album, at the time, titled Raised on Radio. The Raised on Radio tour was the last to feature Steve Perry as Journey's lead vocalist and also featured the absence of Ross Vallory and Steve Smith, Journey's long time bass player and drummer, who had been fired, while recording the Raised on Radio album. Released in April 1986, Raised on Radio featured the hit songs Girl Can't Help It, I'll Be Alright Without You, Suzanne and Be Good to Yourself.
Made from a 50%/25%/25% cotton-polyester-rayon tri-blend, our women's black dolman tee spotlights the Journey logo, the Don't Stop Believing song title and Detroit, Michigan 1986, with washed out effects for a vintage look and feel.
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This Journey women's concert tshirt, by Chaser, is from the classic rock band's 1978 U.S. Summer Tour. These shows were performed to promote, Infinity, the classic rock band's fourth studio album,...
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This update improves system software stability during use of some features, including the PlayStation Store.
New PSP 3000 hacked – Datel gives the green light to PSP 3000 service mode!
MaxConsole can exclusively reveal that the brand new PSP 3000 model is now perfectly hackable thanks to Datel's newest tool battery that will put the PSP 3000 into service mode.
Once you're in service mode, you can downgrade your PSP and pretty much do what you want with it! The new crypto processor based battery is called the LITE BLUE TOOL battery and will enable the service mode on both PSP 2000 and PSP 3000 models.
It will come with the option to toggle between a service mode and normal mode, and also features a built in LED power gauge. Look out for the LITE BLUE TOOL when it goes on sale from November 28th priced at $19.99 in the UK market and $29.99 across North America.
Well, this post is just to answer some mails that i've recieved.
1. To have a LED indicator ON, doesn't means that you can install cfw or hack anything. Remember 088v3 mobos? Right.
2. It's spreading like a timebomb that it can be hacked and so on. Well, what any user can see is an interesting campaign to promote an article that is not yet released. It would be interesting to see.. how about an old "hello world" like on Noobz time, instead of a "buy today" call?
3. Just to remember all this things up, LED indicator ON and nothing on screen means directly what Dark_AleX explained here about the preIPL.
Would be an interesting step, indeed, in case that the protection on 3k would be sort of a signal encryption or a change of protocol instead of just a change of the battery pin communication system; so, until more proofs come into play, i would not definetly go in a rush to buy it xD.
Nintendo has issued a new update that reportedly deletes any custom channels you have installed (homebrew channel) and deletes any invalid save data like the Twilight Hack. It is not advised to update at this point in time.
Notice: At this time, WiiBrew recommends that you do not update your Wii through Nintendo, as it disables some homebrew (DVDx, PatchMii). Recent reports suggest System Menu 3.4 removes all custom channels.


Everytime we visit the Design Museum we have to stop by the shop. If your little is a big music fan than this My Ukulele Hawaiian guitar is perfect. It comes unfinished and ready to be assembled and costumed. This famous four-string Hawaiian guitar is bound to be a household favourite.


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Home Banking & Finance AUB to launch QR-based digital payment system
AUB to launch QR-based digital payment system
April 10, 2018 | 12:03 am
ASIA UNITED Bank (AUB) is set to launch its own digital wallet to take advantage of its customer base.
Maria Magdalena V. Surtida, AUB vice-president and credit cards business head, said the Ng-led bank will launch its own QR code-based payment system called AUB Pay.
"We will also have our own AUB Pay local wallet. We will also do that," Ms. Surtida told BusinessWorld on Wednesday, adding that the lender wants to take advantage of its customer base.
"I think we need to because we have a bank customer base that we would like to take advantage so that they can also use AUB Pay in the same merchants we partnered with for WeChat Pay."
Similar to WeChat Pay of China's Tencent Holdings Ltd., AUB Pay will enable the bank's partner merchants to accept digital payment from local customers.
"To the merchant, it's more markets. So aside from accepting payments from Chinese tourists, they can now also accept payments from local customers via AUB Pay," Ms. Surtida added.
Late last year, AUB signed a licensing agreement with Tencent to accredit Philippine merchants to accept payments using WeChat Pay's QR code-based technology.
Ms. Surtida added in a text message that AUB's partner merchants can accept payments from AUB Pay using the same platform for WeChat Pay.
Having their own digital wallet will be advantageous for its customer base, according to the bank's credit card business head, since they do not need to transfer their funds to the already established local digital wallets such as GCash and PayMaya.
"It also means our own base base [doesn't] need to transfer their funds to a PayMaya or GCash account."
Ms. Surtida said that AUB Pay will be launched this year. "Give us a few months. It's in the works already."
AUB booked a net income of P2.8 billion in 2017, 23% higher than the P2.3 billion logged in the previous year, supported by growth across its businesses.
Shares of AUB closed at P55.59 apiece on Friday, up 30 centavos or 0.51%. — Karl Angelo N. Vidal
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Google and GoPro are teaming up for virtual reality
Brandon Stefanowitz, AOL.com
Today, Google announced that they will be introducing a new virtual reality platform known as Jump. This new partnership is hoping to introduce GoPro camera technology, virtual reality, and push it all towards YouTube.
This new product, called the Array, will put together the video that is recorded by 16 GoPro cameras together as one file. Google has designed this technology to allow 3-D videos to go on YouTube. The top users and producers partnered with YouTube will be able to get their hands on this new technology in July.
Google's VP of product management, Clay Bavor, announced the news Thursday at the company's annual developer conference, known as I/O. The videos designed on Array will be available on Google's virtual reality headset that Google announced at last year's I/O. Within the near future, Google really hopes to break into the 3D and virtual reality realm with the help of the new technology.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: Google senior vice president of product Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: Google Android Wear smart watches are displayed during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: An attendee plays with a virtual reality gun during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: A rig holding 16 GoPro cameras designed for Google Jump is displayed during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: Google Android Wear director David Singleton announces Androidwear updates during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: Google Photos director Anil Sabharwal announces Google Photos during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Terminally Ill Italian Man Tells Court He Sold Drugs to Pay for His Funeral
A terminally ill Italian man who was arrested this week near city of Bergamo on drug charges, says he did so in order to pay for his funeral and leave some money behind for his loved ones.
It sounds like a pitch for a sequel to Breaking Bad, but, that's what one ailing 61-year-old retiree told an Italian judge Tuesday afternoon after authorities discovered about a half-ounce of cocaine in his car, wrapped and ready to be sold.
Police said they found the drugs inside tubes meant to carry vitamin C tablets.
"It didn't surprise us that much," an officer involved in the case told NBC News. "The other day we arrested a 71-year-old man with a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cocaine, and we have even seen mothers hiding drugs in their babies' strollers."
The ailing 61-year-old was also discovered with about $1,000 in cash, investigators said. He was released on bail pending a future court hearing. His name was not released by authorities.
This isn't the first time someone has drawn inspiration from the award-winning AMC television series. A group of British drug dealers received a combined 56 years in prison after authorities discovered the operation that sold illegal drugs like Valium, Ecstasy, LSD and other drugs on the dark web earlier this year.


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Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who became famous around the world for his rosy pronouncements when he served as Information Minister to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, staged a stunning political comeback today by being named the chief spokesman for the Pentagon in Washington.
Mr. al-Sahaf, who made headlines as "Baghdad Bob" three years ago by repeatedly proclaiming that the Iraqi army was demolishing invading U.S. forces, appeared at a press briefing at the Pentagon this afternoon with a beaming Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who called the former Iraqi Information Minister "the right man for the right job at the right time."
Explaining his decision to tap Mr. al-Sahaf as chief Pentagon spokesman, Secretary Rumsfeld said, "I realized that our spokesmen have been trying to do the same thing that Muhammed did three years ago, only they aren't as credible as he was."
Stepping up to the microphone, an ebullient Mr. al-Sahaf said that conditions on the ground in Iraq "have never been better" and that the insurgency was "all but vanquished."
"Democracy is flowering in Iraq so fast you wouldn't believe it!" Mr. al-Sahaf added. "People think the new constitution is awesome!"
When asked by a reporter about the burned-out cars that litter the streets of Baghdad and other cities, Mr. al-Sahaf was unfazed, explaining, "Their engines overheated."
Elsewhere, President Bush acknowledged that prewar intelligence about Iraq had been false, and said that the U.S. would discontinue its practice of ordering military intelligence from Costco.
Elsewhere (2), after Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko called President Bush "terrorist No. 1 on the planet," Osama bin Laden said that the ranking should be determined by a tournament and demanded that he be included in the Final Four.
Elsewhere (3), in what Washington insiders believe is an attempt to mend fences with an increasingly contentious White House press corps, Vice President Dick Cheney today invited veteran journalist Helen Thomas on a quail-hunting trip to Texas.


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Microsoft Exchange Server attacked by Chinese state-sponsored Hackers
Microsoft has notified its customers against a new sophisticated nation-state cyber-attack that has its source in China and is originally targeting on-premises Exchange Server software of the tech giant.
After investigating the matter, Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Centre has informed that the attacker's group is known as "Hafnium". Operating from China, the cybercriminals mostly attack infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks, and NGOs in the US for the purpose of extracting data.
"While Hafnium is based in China, it conducts its operations primarily from leased virtual private servers (VPS) in the US," stated Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President, Customer Security, and Trust at Microsoft.
"We are sharing this information with our customers and the security community to emphasize the critical nature of these vulnerabilities and the importance of patching all affected systems immediately to protect against these exploits and prevent future abuse across the ecosystem," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center addressed in a blog on Tuesday.
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"After exploiting these vulnerabilities to gain initial access, Hafnium operators deployed web shells on the compromised server," the Center further stated. "Web shells potentially allow attackers to steal data and perform additional malicious actions that lead to further compromise."
Furthermore, this is the eighth time in the past year, where the tech giant has publicly reported nation-state groups targeting organizations critical to the civil community.
Moreover, in January, Microsoft had confirmed that the alleged Russian hackers were behind the extensive SolarWinds attack that had affected numerous top-notch companies and government agencies, attempted ventures beyond just the presence of malicious SolarWinds code in its surroundings.
As per Burt, the latest China-based escapades are "in no way connected to the separate SolarWinds-related attacks". "We continue to see no evidence that the actor behind SolarWinds discovered or exploited any vulnerability in Microsoft products and services," he stated.
Source: BBC News
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Mon. 8:43 a.m.: Unvaccinated Italians face new restrictions as holidays near
A man receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in April at a vaccination center set at Rome's Cinecitta' film studios. Italy is making life more uncomfortable for nonvaccinated people as the holidays near, excluding them from indoor restaurant dining, theaters and museums into the New Year in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get the shot. Starting today through Jan. 15, police can control whether diners seated in restaurants or bars have a "super" health pass certifying that they are either vaccinated or have recovered from the virus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
MILAN (AP) — Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theaters and museums starting today to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their shots.
Italian police can check whether diners in restaurants or bars have a "super" green health pass certifying that they are either vaccinated or have recently recovered from the virus. Smart phone applications that check people's health pass status will be updated and those who have merely tested negative in recent days for COVID-19 will no longer be allowed into concerts, movies or performances. The measures run through Jan. 15.
Authorities also imposed a requirement for a "basic" health pass, which can be obtained with a negative test, on local transport and to check into hotels.
In the capital, Rome, local transportation hubs were controlled by dozens of police checking both green passes and personal identification, finding a cooperative mood among commuters. Still, a 50-year-old Roman became the first to receive a 400-euro fine after getting off the bus at the northern Flaminio station without the "basic" health pass, said Stefano Napoli, deputy chief of Rome's municipal police force.
"It was about time that they checked it," said Sara Ben, a Rome commuter, noting the absence of controls on local transportation throughout the pandemic.
Milanese were enjoying the first long weekend of the season, including Tuesday's celebration for the patron saint of Saint Ambrose and Wednesday's national holiday, leaving the city a little more empty than usual. But few checks were evident around the main Central Station, either for regional trains or local buses and subways.
Commuter Veronica Bianchi said she wasn't checked on a regional train arriving in Milan and was not asked for her health pass. "But they didn't check the ticket either," she said.
She favors the government's moves to encourage more people to get vaccinated, and said she noted that people in their 20s like her are more apt to get the vaccine. "Frankly, I think we are tired of being locked down. I work in a young company, and it was a race to get the vaccine," Bianchi said.
The number of new COVID-19 infections in Italy has been on a gradual rise for the past six weeks, even before concerns arose about the new omicron variant.
That's a worrying trend as Italians look forward to holiday parties and getaways to spend time with friends and family, after being deprived of such festivities last year due to a steeper rise in contagion before vaccines were widely available.
While both Germany and Austria are moving toward making vaccines obligatory, Italy is instead tightening free-time restrictions on the unvaccinated at the most convivial time of the year — while allowing those who are vaccinated go about life more or less as usual.
With an eye on the holidays, Switzerland from today is allowing event organizers to bar anyone who hasn't been vaccinated or hasn't recovered from COVID-19, and Sweden introduced digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate for indoor events with more than 100 people indoors starting Dec. 1.
On Nov. 12, Danes reintroduced the phased-out coronavirus pass which must be shown by all those over the age of 15 when entering nightclubs, cafes, party buses and indoor restaurants but also at indoor events if there is more than 100 spectators / participants. It also applies to outdoor events where the number of people exceeds more than 1,000 spectators / participants.
Italy's vaccination rate is higher than many of its neighbors, at 85 percent of the eligible population aged 12 and older and 77 percent of the total population. But people in their 30s, 40s and 50s have proved the most reluctant to get vaccinated, with nearly 3.5 million still not having received their first doses.
They are also the same age range that is now being hardest hit by the virus, according to Silvio Brusaferro, head of Italy's National Health Institute.
So far the delta variant remains prevalent, with only seven confirmed cases of omicron In Italy, related to two businessmen returning from southern Africa.
With the holiday shopping season heating up, many cities including Rome and Milan have ordered mask mandates even outdoors.
Public health officials say vaccinations, along with prudent public behavior including wearing masks in crowds indoors or out, are key to reducing infection levels as winter weather pushes more activities indoors. They credit Italy's relatively high level of immunization as one reason that the infection curve is not as steep as last winter, when broad restrictions were imposed with the spread of the delta variant.
"It is clear that after two years of the pandemic, we cannot easily close schools to physical classes and shut down economic activity," said Gianni Rezza, the health ministry's director of prevention.
"Therefore, you can try to keep the virus spread down with measures that are sustainable, and with proper use of the health pass. Then, the big bet is on the vaccinations," he said.
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WATERVILLE, OH (WTOL) - Waterville City Council held its first meeting since the passage of their Community Bill of Rights.
During Monday's meeting, the law director gave an update on where the process of the proposed NEXUS pipeline stands before packed council chambers.
According to the city, they have sent a letter to NEXUS saying they now have a law preventing them from building the pipeline.
The Community Bill of Rights that passed on Election Day allows the city charter to be changed so that it keeps natural gas infrastructure from being built within the city limits.
The city is hoping this will stop NEXUS's natural gas pipeline from being built in their town.
They also plan to work with an expert from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund to take this process to the next level.
The president of Protecting Air for Waterville or PAW says this will likely go to court.
"When you look at NEXUS, they're not going to go away, but we aren't either. So we will fight this and now turn it over to Mr. Lodge and the city law director and they will take it to the next level," said Dave Bourland with PAW.
The city is also waiting on the Lucas County Board of Elections to certify the ballot. The Community Bill of Rights passed 60 to 40.
"NEXUS is a federally-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has exclusive jurisdiction to approve the route of the project. Therefore, the ballot initiative is not expected to affect NEXUS's route nor timeline. NEXUS remains on track to receive its Final Environmental Impact Statement from FERC on Nov. 30, 2016 and its FERC Certificate in the first quarter of 2017."


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A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention — a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist for the same day.
Genre : Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actors : Chantal Lambert, Grant Swanby, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Ivana Milicevic, Kevin Otto, Patrick Lyster, Sean Astin, Thorsten Wedekind, Verity Price, Victoria Bartlett, Vinnie Jones
Director : David van Eyssen
Country : Germany, South Africa, United States of America, USA, Zambia
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Lessons for an Assassin
Criminal Gavin Matthews finds himself an unwilling recruit, who's identity and past has been erased by "The Corporation," a secret underground organization that acts as a rogue "Justice Department," righting the wrongs the courts cannot. Now, held with other "recruits" at The Corporation's training and reeducation facility, Matthews and the others will become useful and professional assassins…or they will be eliminated. As his training is completed, Matthews and his trainer discover The Corporation's true purpose and learn they are to be eliminated when their assignment is complete. Now they must execute their own form of justice before it's too late.
House of Games
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Butterfly is a suspense/horror hybrid about NICK COLE, a straight-to-video horror director who is kidnapped by, LANEY, an over zealous fan, determined to impress him with her own film project. The situation goes from bad to worse when Cole realizes that the murders in Laney's film are real, and that the victims are all people from his own dark past.
Murder on the Bridge
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
Country: Italy, West Germany
They Are Mine!
Michael, who is known to tell tall tales, believes he sees a young girl get kidnapped. On their day off from high school, Michael convinces his friends to hunt down this perpetrator, leading them on a journey they'll never forget.
The Guest House
When a single dad rents the GUEST HOUSE of a wealthy bachelor, he soon discovers his new landlord's generosity does not come without a price.
An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. Will the few survivors fight successfully against this nightmare…?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
Genre: Action, War
A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.
Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.


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Predatory Pricing & the Competition Act: a False-Positive?
December 4, 2015 Editorexclusionary conduct, GNN, media, Media24, predation, Tribunal Leave a comment
We have previously, on African Antitrust, reported on South Africa's first predatory pricing case in the Media 24 matter. In light, however, of the recent cases on exclusionary conduct — particularly predatory pricing, which has received significant attention from competition law agencies across a number of jurisdictions of late (see, for instance, the Paris Court of Appeals' dismissal of the predatory pricing and exclusionary conduct allegations made against Google by an online maps rival. The Indian Competition Commission has also launched an investigation into alleged predatory pricing in the taxi industry, and the European Commission has launched investigations into predatory pricing in the potato-chips / crisps industry) — a more substantive evaluation of predatory pricing in South Africa is called for. The following article on predatory pricing, in light of the Media 24 case, neatly sets out and evaluates the landscape of predatory pricing in South Africa.
Predatory Pricing & the South African Competition Act: a False-Positive?
By Michael J. Currie
Intro & Summary
"From an antitrust perspective, predatory pricing is a particularly difficult problem with which to deal. If we are to prevent anticompetitive monopolization, it is a strategy that must not be permitted. The paradox, however, is that such a pricing strategy is virtually indistinguishable from the very sort of aggressive competitive pricing we wish to encourage."
D L Kaserman and J W Mayo, 'Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation' (1995) Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press at 128
In September 2015, the Competition Tribunal ("Tribunal"), for the first time in South Africa's sixteen-year history of competition-law enforcement found, in the Media 24 case that the respondent had engaged in predatory pricing in contravention of the South African Competition Act, 89 of 1998 ("Act").
The Media 24 case, despite being dragged out for nearly six years, was set to be the leading jurisprudence on the laws pertain to predatory pricing, and in particular, how Section 8(d)(iv) of the Act would be interpreted and applied by the Tribunal. The finding by the Tribunal was, however, based on Section 8(c) of the Act, which is a broader 'catch-all' provision, and left some important questions as to the interpretation of Section 8(d)(iv) unanswered. Most notably, whether or not Section 8(d)(iv) permits complainants to utilise cost measurement standards other than Average Variable Costs ("AVC") or Marginal Costs ("MC") to prove that a dominant firm has engaged in predatory pricing in contravention of the provision.
Having said that, however, the Media 24 case provides some insight as to the precise relationship between Sections 8(d)(iv) and 8(c) of the Act as they relate to predatory pricing, and may have offered, by way of certain obiter remarks, an indication as to how the Tribunal may interpret and apply Section 8(d)(iv) of the Act in the future.
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Predatory Pricing and the South African Competition Act: a False-Positive?
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First predatory pricing case before the Competition Tribunal
September 30, 2015 Editorexclusionary conduct, GNN, media, Media24, predation, Tribunal Leave a comment
Media24 excludes GNN, Tribunal finds
By Julie Tirtiaux
A year ago, we at AAT reported on the intervention by competitors in the merger between Media24 and Paarl Media. Today, we want to highlight a "one-year-later" feature about that same company, which has now been found liable of predatory exclusion of its rivals by the South African Competition Tribunal (the "Tribunal"). The Tribunal found on 8 September 2015 that Media24 had engaged in exclusionary conduct due to predation by removing a rival community newspaper publication, Gold Net News ("GNN"), out of the market. [1]
Two routes explored by the South African Competition Commission's ("SACC") to sanction Media24's predation conduct
In 2009, GNN exited the newspaper community market. Within 10 months of the exit of GNN, Media24 closed down one of its titles, Forum. From then until today, Vista which is another title owned by Media24, is the only title to survive in the Welkom market.
According to the SACC:
If Vista is the only local paper operating in the Welkom market, it is because Forum was used as a predatory vehicle to exclude its competitor, GNN.
The strategy consisted in pricing Forum's advertising rates below market cost despite repeated loss making and failure to perform to budget forecasts.
Media24 operated Forum as a fighting brand, meaning that Media24 sacrificially maintained Forum in the market to exclude its competitor.
For the SACC the reduction of choice of community newspapers during the period January 2004 to April 2009 can only be explained by Media24's predatory pricing conduct. In order to condemn this conduct as predation, the SACC relied on two provisions of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 (the "Act") which respectively lead to different sanctions.
First and ideally, the SACC alleged that Media24 should be sanctioned for its predatory behaviour in terms of section 8(d)(iv) of the Act, which is the explicit predation provision and enables the Tribunal to impose a fine for a first offence.
Second, should the predation not be captured by the express predation provision of section 8(d)(iv), Media24 should at least be found responsible for engaging in general exclusionary conduct, prohibited by section 8(c) of the Act which only gives the Tribunal the power to impose remedies. No fine is available for a first contravention. Only a repeated offence may be subject to an administrative penalty.
Following the Commission's investigation after the allegations brought by Hans Steyl, who ran GNN from 1999 until its eventual closure in 2009, the Commission referred the case to the Tribunal in 2011.
The denial of predation conduct by Media24
Media24 (whose slogan is, somewhat ironically perhaps: "Touching lives through the power of media") denied any casual link between the fates of the Forum and the GNN's papers. Forum was not used as a predatory vehicle to exclude GNN. Media24 attributed the closure of Forum to the 2008 recession, on-going downsizing in Media24 as a whole, and to the problem of publishing two newspapers, Forum and Vista, in the Welkom area. It further argued that GNN had exited because it was not viable.
The difficulty to prove a direct predatory pricing conduct
For the first time in the sixteen years in which the new Competition Act has been in operation[2], the Tribunal assessed a predatory pricing case.
Predatory pricing means that prices charged by a dominant firm are not market related but below what would be expect to be a market price. Predatory pricing is only a transient pleasure for consumers as once competitors are eliminated or new entrants are deterred from entering, then the low price honeymoon is over and the predator can impose high prices to recoup the losses sustained in the period of predation.
In terms of section 8(d)(iv) of the Act, to find an express predation contravention, the Commission is required to prove that Media24 priced below "its marginal or average variable cost" ("AVC") (our emphasis)[3]. The Commission argued that this wording is broad enough to include pricing below average avoidable cost ("AAC")[4]. This is the cost the firm could have avoided by not engaging in the predatory strategy.[5]
To find exclusionary conduct and thus a contravention of section 8(c) based on predation[6], the Commission would not necessarily need to establish that the dominant firm's pricing is below any specific cost standard. All that is required is that the conduct (in this case, low pricing) has an anti-competitive exclusionary effect.
In the Media24 case, the Tribunal has effectively established a new test for predatory pricing which does not meet the test under section 8(d)(iv). It said that if Media24 is found to have priced below its average total cost ("ATC")[7] accompanied by additional evidence of intention and recoupment of the loss of profits sustained during the predation period, then a contravention of section 8(c) has taken place.
As ATC include more costs than AAC and AVC of marginal cost, it makes a finding of predation more likely. The AAC test is thus more stringent than the ATC test. This follows the logic of the consequences of each section. As a contravention of section 8(d)(iv) of the Act leads to a fine while a contravention of section 8(c) of the Act only leads to a remedy, it is more difficult to fill the requirements of the specific predation section – section 8(d)(iv).
Consequently, a central issue in this case was to determine Media24's costs, and compare them to the prices charged during the relevant period. This is no simple matter.
The Tribunal's findings trigger questions about how section 8 of the Act on abuse of dominance is structured
Following lengthy discussions about what constitute avoidable costs, the Tribunal held that opportunity costs[8] and re-deployment costs cannot be factored into the calculation of Forum's AAC. Accordingly, the Tribunal found that Media24 did not contravene the express predation section 8(d)(iv) of the Act.
Interestingly, the Tribunal did however found that Media24 contravened the general exclusionary section 8(c) of the Act. Indeed, after establishing that Media24 was a dominant firm in the market for community newspapers[9], the Tribunal found the evidence of predatory intent which resulted from statements and the implementation of a plan that was predatory in nature. Moreover, the Tribunal held that the pricing of Forum was below ATC.
As a result, it was found that GNN's exit of the market affected both advertisers and readers. While advertisers paid higher prices as they lost an alternative outlet, readers lost the choice of an alternative newspaper.
Accordingly, the Tribunal concluded that Media24 engaged in exclusionary practice because of predation but didn't find a contravention of the express predation section of the Competition Act.
The implication of this finding is that Media24 is not liable for a fine. The only power left to the Tribunal is the imposition of another form of remedy. Only if Media24 does the same thing again, will it be subjected to a potential administrative penalty under section 8(c).
Such a finding triggers two interrogations about how section 8 of the Act deals with abuse of dominance.[10]
Firstly, how can deterrence be guaranteed when the only consequence of a predatory exclusion conduct, in certain circumstances, is a remedy without a monetary fine? This case leaves food for thought as to the necessity to empower the Tribunal to impose a fine for a first offence when a general exclusionary conduct is found.
Secondly, if the required test to prove a contravention of the explicit predation section is too stringent and almost impossible, not only a predatory conduct will never lead to a fine but more generally the utility of this section should be seriously considered.
[1] See the Tribunal's decision: http://www.comptrib.co.za/assets/Uploads/Reasons-for-Decision-Media24-Section-8-Case-Signature-Documentfinal.pdf
[2] See the Tribunal's press release: http://www.comptrib.co.za/publications/press-releases/media24-press-release/
[3] A variable cost being a cost that varies with changes in output. The AVC is defined as the sum of all variables costs divided by output.
[4] The important difference with AVC is that AAC include an element of fixed costs.
[5] AAC has become a widely accepted cost standard for the assessment of predatory pricing. This acceptance is evident both from its inclusion in the EU's Guidelines, the recent International Competition Network Guidelines, and a Department of Justice Report.
[6] See Nationwide Airlines (Pty) Ltd v SAA (Pty) Ltd and others [1999-2000] CPLR 230 (CT), page 10. The Tribunal stated that a predatory pricing could lead to a finding in terms of section 8(c).
[7] ATC includes fixed, variable and sunk costs (sunk costs being costs that have already been incurred and thus cannot be recovered).
[8] An opportunity cost is a cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action.
[9] Media24 would have had a market share of approximately 75%.
[10] On this topic, see the articles of Neil Mackenzie, "Are South Africa's Predatory Pricing Rules Suitable?" and "Rethinking Exclusionary Abuse in South Africa".


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I totally love this song.
Been listening to it non-stop.
I pretty much love every song Pitbull is on.
Two of my favorite things, Chanel and Lipstick.
new lip colors from Chanel was called Marie.
Of course, she had to get me one.
Ha! It's a pretty pink.
In fact, Keira Knightley wore it to the Oscars.
No, I haven't used it and don't plan on it.
I just like to look at it.
haha, am I crazy or what??
A friend of mine was telling me about these Chocolate bars.
She insisted that I try them.
Let me tell you, these are yummie!!
They make a great little afternoon snack.
Four pieces are 110 calories.
around $2.00 a bar. A bar lasts me about two weeks.
I don't have it as a snack everyday, only when I need a little sugar rush.
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Some times the days all seem like the same and it's easy to get stuck in a rut.
I thought this was a great quote for the week.
Life isn't about merely surviving, it's about thriving, do things you love, do things with passion but always have compassion and having some style never hurt anyone.
Today is the first day of spring and let me tell you, it does NOT feel like it here.
It's so cold, I had to break out my puffy coat again. BOO.
Spring best be around the corner.
I'm so glad that this week is over, it was soooo long.
It didn't help that I had to work late almost every single night.
All I have been doing is working and sleeping, literally.
This weekend will be spent getting some much needed rest.
Plus, a mani and pedi. I'm so overdue.
Linking up with Melissa, Jodi, & Rachel.
I confess that I have really struggled with blogging lately.
It's hard coming up with blog post ideas.
I feel like I have nothing to add to the blogging world.
I'm loving that after a very very long winter, the snow is FINALLY starting to melt.
The massive snow banks that are all over the place are slowly getting smaller.
It's starting to get easier to drive and walk around.
You can even see grass!!
I will miss the snowman when he is gone.
I confess that I cannot stop binge watching on Netflix.
Currently, I'm watching Season Four of The Killing.
What should I binge watch next?
Should I be concerned about how much t.v. I'm watching lately or what?
I'm loving this big pink Peep Bunny.
I confess that I hate sitting in traffic on my way home from work.
I can tolerate it in the morning but NOT on the way home.
talking on the phone rather than paying attention to what is in front of them.
Get off the phone and drive!!
That is what I'm loving this week and some confessions.
What' are you loving this week or what is your confession??
I can't believe it's Monday already.
Why does Monday morning come so fast.
I did a little bit of everything this weekend.
Here is what my weekend looked like.
Recently, I signed up for an Netflix account.
Why haven't I done this sooner?
I binged watched Season Two of The Fall.
I also indulged in a little retail therapy.
But came home empty handed.
That was probably a good thing, since I'm going on vacation soon.
Save that money for vacation.
This also happened this weekend!!
It is official, this was the Snowiest Season on Record.
I think it's pretty cool that we broke a record. That's the history buff in me.
Jenn sent this to me this morning and I just had to share it.
What did you do this weekend??
Rght now I'm really digging Game over By Machine Head.
It's off of their new album Bloodstone and Diamonds.
I saw these guys in January, and they were simply amazing!
I waited a long time to see them and they were totally worth the wait!
It was 2 and half hours of pure awesomeness!
Probably one of the best shows I have ever seen!
I cannot wait to see them again.
This winter has been a total killer of my skin! It's so dry!
Even my lips are dry, which almost never happens!
So lately, I have been using this lip balm more then a few times a day.
to go back to normal!
Well it's Easter Candy time, and my favorite has always been Cadbury Mini eggs!
I can eat these by the bagful! They are that yummy!!
I get so excited when I spot that first bag of the season.
I am so excited to be going to London soon, I will so be stocking up.
I was able to enjoy mini eggs until December.
it was still yummie. You gotta buy these when you see them, the closer it gets to Easter, the less likely you can find them. Isn't that just crazy??
one of them kills the other ones son.
which are three of my favorite actors.
the same sort of character in every movie.
I just love love love that movie.
One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite writers, Edgar Allan Poe.
It's been fun filling in for Marie.
case of strep throat ever since.
Hopefully, she will be all better soon.
Heck, she better, we go to London in a few weeks.
I confess that I'm not a fan of reality television.
I don't watch any of the million reality shows that are on.
In fact, I wish their were better scripted shows than all the reality shows.
Law and Order SVU is my favorite show.
I'm loving my New Balance sneakers.
This is my first pair but not my last.
I cannot get over how comfortable they are.
Had I known they were so comfortable I would have gotten a pair sooner.
I confess that I hate dressing up.
I'm a jean and sneakers type of gal. I hardly ever wear a dress.
I think you can wear nice jeans for anything.
that had a dress code (no jeans) and I said no way.
I think this comes from the fact, that I had to wear a uniform growing up.
I hate being told what to wear and hate uniforms.
I'm loving the Matte Finish Topcoat by Butter London.
I love this shine free topcoat. It took me forever to find it and I'm so glad I did.
While I do get gel manicures, I have my technician use this as the top coat.
Love how the matte look and haven't had any problems using it over gel manicures.
I'm not a New England Patriots fan.
I root for the New York Giants.
although I do get some nasty glares.
That wraps up what I'm loving this week and some of my confessions.
I first heard this song a few weeks ago at work and fell in love with it.
. This song has such a great beat, I just want to get up and dance.
I bought this at wrap cardigan at Nordstorm and literally have been wearing it non-stop.
I'm not really crazy about the button so I usually cover it up with a scarf.
It's just so fantastic for this time of year as it is cozy and warm.
It's not to heavy but at the same time, keeps me nice and toasty.
1) Career advice from Anna Wintour.
2) 9 Simple Rules Good Sleepers Swear By.
3) 7 Face-Cleansing Mistakes You Might Be Making.
4) 18 Things Twins Are Damn Tired of Hearing.
1,5,7 and 8 are my favorites.
And if you are wondering, Jenn is totally the evil twin.
This was too good not to share.
It's the History of Duets with Kelly Clarkson and Jimmy Fallon.
I think Kelly is beyond talented and Jimmy, well he is just awesome.
You really have to watch the video.
it is a really bad habit.
I'm trying so hard not to do that.
and need to keep telling myself that.
you will always be short sighting yourself.
I'm so so excited for the weekend.
I have absolutely no plans and couldn't be happier about that.
After working 14 days straight, I'm just happy to have a day off.
I just signed up for Netflix and can't wait to binge watch a few shows.


Moscow, SANA – Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, said that liberating Idleb province from terrorism is a priority, whether this is done via reconciliation which the Syrian government prefers, or via military action, adding that the international community must acknowledge that Idleb is Syrian territory and thus it is the duty of the Syrian state to reclaim all its lands, and others have no right to prevent that.
In an interview given to RT on Saturday, al-Moallem said that Jabhat al-Nusra which is active in Idleb city is a terror organization as acknowledged by Security Council resolutions, and Syria and its friends agree that it is necessary to liberate the city.
He noted that in order to protect civilians from the risks of military operations, a humanitarian corridor was opened at Abu al-Duhour Airport through which hundreds of families came from Idleb and headed to areas controlled by the Syrian Arab Army.
Al-Moallem said that factions that which to pursue settlement must declare their position and fulfil their obligations.
On the information indicating that an alleged chemical attack is being staged in Idleb by the White Helmets, the Minister said that the White Helmets have abducted scores of children and started to broadcast fake testimonies by them, and a number of chlorine gas containers were smuggled into areas controlled by the White Helmets by Jabhat al-Nusra and in cooperation with the British intelligence to stage a scenario to be broadcast to the world once the military operation begins in Idleb.
Al-Moallem said that this isn't the first time that a tripartite aggression was set up under the pretext of using chemical weapons, as the US had attacked al-Shairat airbase under the claim that chemical weapons were used in Khan Sheikhoun in Idleb, and after that the US-British-French aggression on Syria took place in April based on claims of chemical weapons being used in Douma, all before any investigation into the alleged incident could be conducted.
The Minister affirmed that the US presence in Syria is illegal and against the interests of the Syrian people, and that the US has been openly hostile towards Syria since 2011, adding that there is tangible evidence that the US still supports Daesh (ISIS) and arms Jabhat al-Nusra, and now the US is planning for a tripartite aggression under the pretext of chemical weapons.
He said that Gulf states don't make their own decisions as they obey the orders of Washington and fund the illegal US presence in Syria, noting that what the Saudi foreign minister said during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart represents a new discourse in the Saudi position, which is welcome, even if it comes late, adding that Syria would welcome any Arab state that wishes to resume relations with it.
Al-Moallem affirmed that the Syrian-Iranian relations are deep and strategic and not up for bargaining, and that the Russian-Turkish understanding is important, adding that Syria doesn't want a confrontation with Turkey, but the Turks must realize that Idleb is Syrian territory.
The Minister said that the reconstruction process has begun with efforts and funding by the Syrian government, noting that this process needs foreign expertise and funding, which are available in friendly countries like Russia, Iran, India, Malaysia, China, and Brazil.
On the efforts for the political settlement of the crisis in Syria via the Geneva, Astana, and Sochi meetings, al-Moallem said that each platform has its role in the process, as Astana led to the de-escalation zones, and Sochi was where intra-Syrian dialogue was launched, but sadly Geneva is still subject to Western pressure which is why no progress was made there.
He said that Israeli threats to Syria are constant and nothing new, as Israel as targeted several areas in Syria, asserting that Syria will respond and it is currently responding by striking Israel's terrorist pawns in the southern provinces.
In response to a question regarding dialogue with Kurds, al-Moallem said Kurds are a part of the Syrian social fabric, and regardless of the promises made to them by the Americans, they should look back to their own experiences throughout more than 100 years in terms of relying on major countries that eventually abandons them.
"The Syrian government is prepared to resume dialogue with Syrian Kurds without any foreign interference," he added.
The Minister said that Syria is betting on the Americans is an illusion because they are notorious for abandoning their allies, while betting on the homeland is a sure bet, because Syria is determined to reclaim all its territory including the area east of the Euphrates, as it will not allow for separatism or federalism.
Al-Moallem reiterated the Syrian government's invitation to displaced Syrians to return to their homeland, saying this return is welcomed and desired, as it will benefit both the displaced and Syria since the government wants them to be part of the reconstruction programs.


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America's Got Talent Picks a Winner
Find out which of the remaining four acts got the $1 million prize and a Vegas show
By Dahvi Shira
America's Got Talent came down to an eclectic mix of four acts Wednesday night to win $1 million and their own headlining Las Vegas act.
Was it singing jazz sensation Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., who recently told PEOPLE he is "the one to beat?" Or glow-in-the-dark dancers Team iLuminate? Or consistent fan favorites, Silhouettes? Or underdog music group Poplyfe?
Read on to find the Season 6 winner of the Nick Cannon-hosted show.
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Jazz singer Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., who went from washing cars and living on the street to performing in front of millions, won the competition.
As the crowd screamed, the West Virginia native put his hands over his face and was rushed by members of the second-place act, the dance group Silhouettes.
With mind-blowing vocal talent, the newly minted millionaire – who once struggled to support his family – previously told PEOPLE he planned to take his earnings and "invest it in my kids' future."
He narrowly beat out Silhouettes, which had the show's youngest contestant to date. The group wowed judges all season long by posing behind a screen and making shapes with their bodies that matched famous photographs that were typically American-themed.
Also in the top four were:
• Team iLuminate: Praised throughout the season by judges for their originality, the glow-in-the-dark dance act's choreography skills combined with unique presentation has made them a fan favorite.
• Poplyfe: Piers Morgan originally told the young, Oakland, Calif.-based band that all of its members except for front woman Kehlani Parrish were essentially useless. But after weeks of wowing all three judges with iconic songs by the Beatles and Jackson 5, Morgan took back his original critique.
RELATED: America's Got Talent: Team iLuminate Lights Up Competition


First of all, welcome to this wonderful hobby! We used to share with everyone why bettas are one of the simplest fish to care for. Here, we present to you some of the tips to make this hobby simple and enjoyable!
These 3 factors would affect the bettas' growth and development.
We use 3-liter tanks to raise our bettas from the moment they are separated from their community tank. Note, the smaller the tank is, the more frequent you have to change their water.
We recommend changing your bettas' water every 3 - 5 days to prevent ammonia build up. Percentage of water change per interval would depend on your tank size. 30-50% change is normal.
Remember to store your water with water conditioner (Anti-chlorine) before using.
We feed a variety of food to our bettas. For betta fry under 1 month old, we feed a mixture of brine shrimp and daphnia. Adult bettas are fed with pellets. You can choose to feed frozen bloodworms or live tubifex worms (ensure you clean them well). Recommended to feed them twice a day.
Similarly to us, a good 15-20 minutes of daily exercise keeps them healthy and active. A mirror or another betta shown would get them flaring up!


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What's 10 feet long, nine feet wide, seven feet tall, and weighs 2,000 pounds? NASA's Mars Curiosity. The rover was launched on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral and successfully landed on the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug. 6, 2012. With a price tag of $2.5 billion, there's been a lot of criticism and skepticism about Curiosity, with the media and public questioning why it cost so much and whether the money was well spent. This article looks at the mission and the costs surrounding this part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program.
NASA's Curiosity rover left Earth in November 2011 and landed in August 2012.
The mission was to last two years but was extended indefinitely.
The rover came with a $2.5 billion price tag, a cost that's being spread over a number of years.
According to NASA, space technology continues to be utilized in various economic sectors for non-space applications.
The Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program which aims to explore what NASA calls the most accessible planet. According to the mission's webpage, Mars is a unique planet because it has an atmosphere and climate, but its geology is also very complex—just like Earth. Curiosity's assignment is to "investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life."
The rover traveled silently through space for more than 350 million miles—a trip that took over eight months—before reaching the Martian atmosphere. This marked the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase of the mission. This phase, dubbed "seven minutes of terror," was a guided entry. Its descent was both parachuted and powered, with a sky crane bringing the rover to a soft landing on the surface.
Curiosity uses its advanced payload of scientific gear to collect and analyze rock and soil samples to determine if conditions are favorable for microbial life on the planet. The rover sends Earth high-resolution images and video using radio relays via existing Mars orbiters and NASA's Deep Space Network of antennas here on Earth, albeit with some delay since the signal will travel an average of 48.75 million miles.
The mission was originally supposed to last only two years. But NASA extended it for an indefinite period of time in December 2012.
NASA extended the deadline for the Curiosity mission indefinitely.
The Costs
It's difficult to hear or read about Curiosity without mentioning its price tag. While $2.5 billion is not a small chunk of change, it's important to consider that NASA spread the costs of the Curiosity mission over a period of time while it explores Mars. The budget covers a variety of expenses, including the rocket used to launch the spacecraft—a two-stage Atlas V-541 launch vehicle provided by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, accounting for about 20% of the costs—and salaries for a team of highly skilled engineers, programmers, managers, scientists, and independent contractors from around 20 states in the U.S., as well as Canada, Denmark, and the U.K.
The $2.5 billion averages out to about $312 million per year—or one dollar for every person in the U.S.—between 2012 and 2020. Just to set as a comparison, Americans spent almost $96 billion on pets in 2019. That's about $290 per person. This comparison does not imply that we shouldn't spend money on our pets but serves to illustrate how little money has been spent on the Curiosity mission.
Is It Money Well Spent?
Though we don't have the technology yet to travel at warp speed like the fictional Starship Enterprise, some of our most important technological advancements have been the result of U.S. space exploration. In his 2012 book "Space Chronicles," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson lists a host of technologies that can be attributed to space exploration, including (but not limited to) kidney dialysis machines, aircraft collision-avoidance systems, LASIK eye surgery, GPS, hydroponic systems for growing plants, digital imaging, cordless power tools, and athletic shoes.
Technological advancement is a primary source of economic growth. Space exploration and technology continue to be utilized in various economic sectors for non-space applications. NASA states: "The ancillary benefits of the space program (are) its ability to stimulate the economy; its applications to the solutions of earthbound problems; its contributions to international cooperation; and its creation of tens of thousands of jobs for our highly skilled scientists, engineers, and technicians."
Looking at the numbers, every person in the U.S. spent about $8 total—less than it costs to go see a movie—to get an advanced scientific spacecraft safely to Mars. Sure, space travel fulfills our innate need to explore and to help understand our place in the Universe. However, the ancillary benefits of the space program, and the thousands of technological advances that have been funded and discovered because of it, also have to be considered when deciding if missions like Curiosity are wise expenditures.
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Puerto Rico's cuisine is a unique amalgamation of ingredients, cultures, and recipes. The native Taíno Indians, the Spanish conquistadores, and the African slaves have all historically influenced what has come to be known around the island as cocina criolla, or Creole cooking. The local dishes usually incorporate different types of meat, garlic, olive oil, and rice. They also often contain a starchy regional staple—plantains—whose taste can be compared to a cross between a banana and a potato. Most notably, however, are the spice characteristics that mimic the vibrant Puerto Rican culture, making the island's most distinctive and representative foods worth a try.
Mofongo
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Mofongo is the unofficial king of Puerto Rican cuisine. This tasty concoction of mashed plantains, seasonings, and an unlimited choice of fillings—including vegetables, shrimp, steak, pork, and seafood— graces the menu of nearly every Puerto Rican restaurant. The plantains themselves are picked green, then fried, then mashed to form a ball around a savory middle. Roadside shacks, as well as the island's most refined local eateries, all have their own version of mofongo and there is little agreement as to what constitutes a traditional presentation.
Lechón Asado
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Lechón asado—or spit-roasted suckling pig—is one of the many traditional delicacies worth traveling to Puerto Rico for. In fact, it's such a beloved dish that there is a road in Guavate, Puerto Rico—the Ruta del Lechón (Pork Highway) dedicated to this dish. Along this road, which is roughly an hour south of San Juan via Highway 52, you'll see (and smell) the delicious lechoneras, or rustic, open-air roadside eateries. This dish is prepared by slow roasting the whole swine—swaddled in salt, pepper, oregano, garlic, and ajíes dulces (small sweet cooking peppers)—over a wood charcoal fire and is served cafeteria style with people taking their place in line to sample their favorite cuts.
Arroz con Gandules
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While mofongo may be the unofficial cuisine staple in Puerto Rico, arroz con gandules (Puerto Rican rice with pigeon peas) is the island's national dish. And while this ensemble has distinctively Caribbean roots, the Puerto Rican twist is in the secret sauce known as sofrito. This sauce, made with aromatic ingredients, is sautéed or braised beforehand and gives the dish it's zesty flavor. Arroz con gandules is typically made with pork, chorizo, red peppers, and olives, indicative of its Spanish influence (the Spaniards first introduced olives and other spices to the island).
Tip: If you'd rather eat a plate of rice and beans, do not ask for arroz con gandules. Instead, order arroz con habichuelas.
Asopao de Pollo
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Asopao de Pollo is Puerto Rico's answer to chicken noodle soup. This homemade savory soup—made with chicken and rice—usually graces the holiday or Sunday tables of many Puerto Rican families. Most restaurants have it on their menu, too, as it is a perennial favorite with the Islanders. Asopao de pollo is actually more like a gumbo than a soup and it can come in several variations (depending on familial recipes) that include chicken, shellfish, or pork alongside peppers, pigeon peas, olives, and tomatoes.
Alcapurrias
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Alcapurrias (or Puerto Rican stuffed fritters) can be found as street food all over the island. A beach food staple, these delights are usually made with a batter of green (underripe) bananas and stuffed with crab, shrimp, or lobster. Other variations include cuchifritos (stuffed with pork), almojábanas (cheese-filled rice fritters), bacalaítos (codfish fritters), and buñuelos (yam fritters). Most restaurants will have a sample of these fried delicacies for you to taste or pick them up roadside for a picnic lunch by the shore.
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PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (16 November 2021) – The Prosecutor's Office has requested a prison sentence of three years and a five-year ban on working as a civil servant against Member of Parliament and former high-ranking civil servant C.B. in the "Ruby" investigation. The case continued today, Tuesday.
Other suspects in the case are also facing possible penalties. M.B.M. is facing 12 months imprisonment and L.A.L.P. and R.B.F. are looking at one year suspended, on two years' probation, and 240 hours of community service. A conditional fine of NAf. 100,000 is requested from their company.
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If possible, the court will rule in this case on December 23, but in any event no later than January 13, 2022.
The "Ruby" case now before the Court of First Instance follows an extensive investigation into criminal acts concerning, among other charges, the tendering for management contracts of the landfill on Sint Maarten. In particular, he is suspected of the taking of bribes, abuse of position, forgery, and the misuse of government funds for personal purposes. M.B-M. is a co-suspect in accepting bribes. R.F. and L.L. are suspected of paying the bribes.
C.B. is charged with taking bribes from P., F., and their company in his capacity of Head of the Infrastructure Management Department of the Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure VROMI between May 1, 2015, and August 30, 2018.
He allegedly received in that period more than NAf. 600,000 for himself, his wife and his daughter and son. The funds were not only payments in cash, but also in other forms, such as a service agreement with his wife's company, and a labour agreement with his son.
The "Ruby" investigation was started in July 2018 by the Kingdom Cooperation Team RST under the leadership by the Anti-Corruption Taskforce TBO of the Attorney-General's Office of Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. On February 12, 2021, the Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the BES-islands allowed the prosecution of C.B.
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Blue Monday 2023.
16th January: This year, Fitness First is turning Blue Monday 2023, Fiery Red with a special edition, 'Burn Off Your Bills' nationwide event. If exercise is what you need, then do something positive for your body and mind at the only place where you will be happy to burn some serious energy!
Every year, Fitness First refuses to give in to the January blues and transforms Blue Monday into Red Monday, by offering everyone in the UK the chance to hit its gyms for free. This year, 39 Fitness First clubs across the country will give people an extra boost by offering the chance to 'Burn off Your Bills'.
Rising energy bills are one of the biggest concerns for the general population, with new research showing that more than 7 million people will be left struggling to pay energy bills without additional and ongoing government support.
The third Monday of January, commonly known as Blue Monday, is considered one of the most depressing days of the year. Fitness First wants to help those across the country combat the mental and physical struggles faced during colder months through health and fitness.
Previous Fitness First research found that getting your blood pumping on Monday can help set a positive trend for the week ahead, with 42% saying Monday exercise made them far more likely to exercise for the rest of the week
That's why, on 'Red Monday', anyone that visits a Fitness First club will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a month's worth of energy courtesy of Fitness First. Whether that's heading to a group exercise class, hitting the pool, or working up a sweat on the gym floor, you're in with a chance of winning.
The best bit – it's free! Simply walk in or book an appointment in advance, with free guest passes available for non-members. With 39 participating clubs across the country, Fitness First will randomly select winners after the event. The winners will get a £300 payment to cover the cost of their energy bill in January.
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Q: Detect root cause in heap dumps in java In a java heap dump how do I know exactly where in the code/which thread caused the dump?

A: For reading the memory dumps:
I would recommend you to try "eclipse memory analyzer" From here
Another option (free) would be opening this with JVisualVM (available at $JAVA_HOME/bin)
jhat is cool too but was already recommended :)
Now, you're asking about the thread that caused memory heap-dump and not about how to proceed with memory dump...
It depends on how did you obtain the memory dump.
There are different ways to obtain the dump.

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*On your process you can instruct the JVM to produce memory dump once OutOfMemory error is encountered, in this case I believe it will be the JVM itself.

*You can trigger the heap dump creation from the MBean given you have a JMX Server running along with your JVM
Example

*You can even use system calls (on linux) externally to your application: kill -3 _YOUR_JAVA_PROCESS_ID_ will generation the heapdump.
But I hardly can imagine why would you need such an information. Later in comments you mention 'exact line of code' but these ways are usually external to your JVM... Are you sure you need a line of code that generated heap dump itself, or you're trying to identify the real issue?
Hope this helps

A: In java you create object some where, use it in many places  and the let GC to collect it back.  There is no single line causing a leak.
What you should look for in tools like MAP is objects count and  heap used by them. Pick each of the target class and see why they are not garbage collected. (some one is holding reference more than needed- say a static field )
You may find instructions from this page more useful - http://scn.sap.com/people/krum.tsvetkov/blog/2007/07/02/finding-memory-leaks-with-sap-memory-analyzer  (also linked from MAT homepage)

A: Try to use Java Heap Analysis Tool(jhat) or jconsole (that is in your JAVA_HOME\bin).

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Powiat jarosławski – powiat w Polsce (województwo podkarpackie), utworzony w 1999 roku w ramach reformy administracyjnej. Jego siedzibą jest miasto Jarosław. Powiat położony jest we wschodniej części województwa podkarpackiego. Jest częścią makroregionu południowo-wschodniej Polski.

Według danych z 31 grudnia 2019 roku powiat zamieszkiwało 120 247 osób. Natomiast według danych z 30 czerwca 2020 roku powiat zamieszkiwało 120 097 osób.

Podział administracyjny
W skład powiatu wchodzą:

 gminy miejskie: Jarosław, Radymno
 gminy miejsko-wiejskie: Pruchnik
 gminy wiejskie: Chłopice, Jarosław, Laszki, Pawłosiów, Radymno, Rokietnica, Roźwienica, Wiązownica
 miasta: Jarosław, Pruchnik, Radymno

Władze powiatu
 Przewodniczący Rady Powiatu – Marian Fedor
 Wiceprzewodnicząca Rady Powiatu – Grażyna Strzelec
 Wiceprzewodniczący Rady Powiatu – Andrzej Wyczawski

 Starosta Powiatu – Stanisław Kłopot
 Wicestarosta Powiatu – Mariusz Trojak
 Członek Zarządu – Marek Sobolewski
 Członek Zarządu - Krzysztof Cebulak
 Członek Zarządu – Marek Kisielewicz

Demografia

 Piramida wieku mieszkańców powiatu jarosławskiego w 2014 roku.

Gminy powiatu jarosławskiego
Stan: na 31 grudnia 2014 rok
Źródła: Główny Urząd Statystyczny

Kościoły i związki wyznaniowe
 Kościół rzymskokatolicki: 63 parafie
 Kościół greckokatolicki: 2 parafie
 Polski Autokefaliczny Kościół Prawosławny: 2 parafie
 Kościół Zielonoświątkowy: zbór
 Świadkowie Jehowy: dwa zbory
 Świecki Ruch Misyjny "Epifania": zbór

Środowisko geograficzne
Region jarosławski leży niemal w całości we wschodniej części Kotliny Sandomierskiej i tylko jego południowe krańce sięgają pasma pierwszych wzniesień Pogórza Karpackiego, tzw. Pogórzem Dynowskim. Rozległy obszar Kotliny Sandomierskiej dzieli się na szereg mezoregionów. Omawiany teren mieści się na Podgórzu Rzeszowskim i Płaskowyżu Tarnogrodzkim, przedzielonym Doliną Dolnego Sanu. Podgórze Rzeszowskie, zwane niekiedy Podgórzem Jarosławskim, obejmuje południowo-zachodnią część regionu. Tworzy je obszar łagodnych wzniesień stanowiący teren przejściowy pomiędzy Kotliną Sandomierską a Pogórzem Dynowskim, ciągnący się szerokim łukiem od Rzeszowa, aż po Przemyśl. Podgórze Rzeszowskie zbudowane jest z kilku pasm wzniesień, których wysokość wzrasta od północy ku południowi. W okolicach Jarosławia wzniesienia mają wysokość 210–240 m n.p.m., na linii Pruchnik–Rokietnica osiągają wysokość 240–280 m n.p.m. W tej części rzeźba Podgórza jest bardziej urozmaicona, wysokości względne są znacznie większe, a nachylenie stoków bardziej strome. W wielu miejscach wzniesienia poprzecinane są charakterystycznymi dla obszarów lessowych głębokimi wąwozami (parowami), zw. wądołami. Rozłożyste wyniosłości rozdzielają doliny kilku rzeczek i licznych strumieni, największe z nich to Mleczka oraz Łęg Rokietnicki. Próg Podgórza podnosi się stromą krawędzią 20–30 m ponad płaską dolinę Sanu, co uwidacznia się szczególnie w okolicach Jarosławia. Na wschód od doliny Sanu, aż po wał Roztocza, rozpościera się Płaskowyż Tarnogrodzki. Powierzchnię tego mezoregionu kształtują obszerne faliste płaskowyże (wysoczyzny) wyniesione 220–280 m n.p.m., przy wysokościach względnych sięgających 30–60 m oraz rozległe obniżenia. Wysokość Płaskowyżu podnosi się stopniowo w kierunku wschodnim. Dalej od doliny Sanu wysoczyzny stają się wyższe i bardziej wyraziste. Krajobraz urozmaicają piaszczyste wały i pagóry wydmowego pochodzenia, zwane górami, z którymi kontrastują często podmokłe doliny i obniżenia. Północną stroną Płaskowyżu przewija się rzeka Lubaczówka, meandrująca pośród płytkiej podmokłej doliny, wpadająca do Sanu w rejonie Manasterza. Przez część południową płynie rzeczka Szkło, uchodząca do Sanu nieopodal Wysocka.

Warunki klimatyczne
Powiat jarosławski położony jest niemal w całości w strefie klimatycznej nizinnej, tylko część południowo-zachodnia pozostaje w zasięgu klimatu podgórskiego. Z reguły występują tu długie i upalne lata, ciepłe i słoneczne jesienie oraz niezbyt ostre zimy. W okolicy Jarosławia średnie dobowe temperatury powietrza w okresie lata wynoszą +17, +18 °C (lipiec, sierpień), podczas zimy −5, −3 °C (styczeń, luty). Okres wegetacyjny jest tu stosunkowo długi, przeciętnie trwa 224 dni w roku – od 29 marca do 9 listopada. Na okres ten przypada około 86% dni pogodnych. Roczna suma opadów wynosi w Jarosławiu około 620 mm, na południowo-zachodnim krańcach dawnego powiatu osiąga 750 mm. Stosunkowo najmniejsze opady występują w okresie zimy, największe podczas miesięcy letnich (lipiec – sierpień). Czas zalegania pokrywy śnieżnej wynosi średnio dla całego obszaru około 70 dni – nieco dłuższy jest w okolicach podgórskich. Przy normalnych warunkach zimowych średnia grubość pokrywy śnieżnej sięga 10–30 cm. W poszczególnych częściach powiatu występuje nieznaczne lokalne zróżnicowanie klimatyczne wynikające z położenia i ukształtowania terenu, stopnia zalesienia i kierunku wiatrów. Najkorzystniejsze warunki klimatyczne istnieją w południowo-zachodniej części regionu.

Gospodarka
Powiat jarosławski jest powiatem rolniczo-przemysłowym, z przemysłem skoncentrowanym przede wszystkim w Jarosławiu. Teren powiatu obfituje w surowce mineralne: bogate złoża gazu ziemnego, surowce ilaste, wapienne i kruszywa. Posiada również znaczne zasoby wód podziemnych i powierzchniowych oraz wody mineralne.

Transport

  Autostrada A4 (E40): granica państwa – Jędrzychowice – Wrocław – Katowice – Kraków – Rzeszów – Korczowa – granica państwa
  Droga krajowa nr 77: Lipnik – Sandomierz – Nisko – Jarosław – Przemyśl
  Droga krajowa nr 94: Zgorzelec – Legnica – Wrocław – Opole – Bytom – Kraków – Tarnów – Rzeszów – Korczowa
  Droga wojewódzka nr 865: Jarosław – Bełżec
  Droga wojewódzka nr 867: Sieniawa – Oleszyce – Lubaczów – Hrebenne
  Droga wojewódzka nr 870: Sieniawa – Szówsko
  Droga wojewódzka nr 880: Jarosław – Węgierka
  Droga wojewódzka nr 881: Sokołów Małopolski – Łańcut – Kańczuga – Pruchnik – Żurawica

Partnerzy zagraniczni

Starostowie jarosławscy
 Mieczysław Kasprzak (1999–2001) (PSL)
 Franciszek Strzępek (2001–2002) (PSL)
 Tomasz Oronowicz (2002–2006) (PSL)
 Tadeusz Chrzan (2006–2010) (PiS)
 Jerzy Batycki (2010–2014) (PSL)
 Tadeusz Chrzan (2014–2019) (PiS)
 Stanisław Kłopot (od 2019) (PiS)

Sąsiednie powiaty
 powiat przemyski
 powiat przeworski
 powiat lubaczowski

Zobacz też
 Powiat radymniański

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Powiat jarosławski pod względem kulturalnym i oświatowym (1909) w bibliotece Polona

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TMZ reports that Conor McGregor has received approval from his bail bondsman for a trip to the Bahamas and flew out of New York City on Saturday. McGregor needs the approval due to his arrest over attacking a fighter bus prior to UFC 223. He has to get approval before he's able to leave the country.
Bondsman Ira Judelson said he did approve the travel but wouldn't confirm the location. He added that McGregor has been "100% compliant" with his bail package, which requires routine check-ins and avoiding crimes. He is supposed to be be back in New York on June 14.


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linker_section_placements_segments="FLASH RX 0x0 0x100000;RAM RWX 0x20000000 0x40000" ?
It is very important to understand how to properly set memory for the gzll device project. I had it already up and running in the ses environment, nevertheless the program was not able to correctly start an encrypted dialogue with the host. Apparently many routines in gzp.c file failed when calling memcpy: the routine was not able to copy memory in the right way, even when I used a custom memcpy implementation. May I ask if the information reported in the linker section placement macro is always in synch with the content of the .emProject xml file? The .emProject xml file should never be edited by hand?
I just got started using a clean gzll_ack_payload_device_pca10056 as a template project. In order to build the dynamic pairing device program, I had to copy the nrf_gzp_config.h file, add a gzp include directory, add nrf_gzp.c, nrf_gzp_device.c, nrf_ecb.c and nrf_nvmc.c. The project does build successfully, I'm trying to debug it, though. As it keeps going hardfault, using all other default configurations, when in Release mode. When in Debug mode the program seems to run but the gazell device transmission is like transparent to the host device (even if they share the same secret key and other parameters in nrf_gzp_config.h). Evidently the device it is not transmitting at all because of some internal error. I have to say that I'm sure that must be some issue about the device project configuration, in fact I proved the ses gzll dynamic pairing host project working putting it to the test using the device flashed with the binary as it comes from the Keil environment.
Perhaps it is this key information that is missing right now. Do you give this information through the flash_placement.xml file in the segger embedded environment? I have got the same flash_placement.xml file for the ses host project and the device one. In particular the <ProgramSection alignment="4" keep="Yes" load="No" name=".GZP_PARAMS" start = "0x00015000" size="0x1000" /> program section tag is present, though.
I also tried using the ble_app_gzll_pca10056_s140 as a starting point template, in order to have the gzll device dynamic pairing example working. This time, using default configurations and after adding a couple of existing drivers, I got the project apparently partially working and the device, when compiled in Release mode, was able to receive Host Id. Neverthless, the encrypted transmission doesn't work again and Debug mode keeps going hardfault. Forcing the debug in Release mode, even if optimizations are enabled, I see that after the gzp_add_validation_id function call the validation id seems that is not copied at all (it is always 0xff 0xff 0xff).


I cannot get the Crawler (or Crawler Extened) to work on one specific site. I tried it in the GUI and via the Cron but it is only giving the results below.
I have other sites where it is working but I cannot see why it is not working on this site.