"It's hotter'n a pig in a wool suit doing the Lambada".
Well, let me tell you, it's HOT out right now. Summer has hit and hit hard. And the pigs feel it too.
I don't know about dance moves... but they seem to be into waterobics!
i guess in that sense, dogs and pigs aren't much different!


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He likens his approach to gardening. That is to say, he views the design process as being like the earth in his garden in which different trees grow. In this case the trees are advertisements, book designs and illustrations. The trees influence each other and he tries to find similarities that connect them. He draws his inspiration from philosophy, history and logic and endeavours to create logical depictions and universal expressions that can be appreciated by everyone. He tries to find ways of conveying abstract ideas using visual communication that is easy to understand.
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Guests began to arrive at 11:30am to feast on a catered meal from 5 Flavors. Lunch options included grilled beef tenderloin with red wine reduction and pan-seared salmon. Both were excellent selections. Guests were welcome to enjoy a mixed greens salad, focaccia bread, mashed potatoes blended with forest mushrooms, and grilled vegetables. A plethora of dessert options served as the perfect sweet end to lunch. The fan favorite was apple bars drizzled in caramel. Yum!
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package com.tngtech.test.junit.dataprovider.custom.converter;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;

import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;

import com.tngtech.junit.dataprovider.DataProvider;
import com.tngtech.junit.dataprovider.UseDataProvider;

class CustomStringConverterAcceptanceTest {

    // @formatter:off
    @ParameterizedTest
    @DataProvider(value = {
            "2016-02-19                  | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 000 | UTC",
            "2016-02-19T20:15:22.629 GMT | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 629 | UTC",
        }, splitBy = "\\|", stringConverter = DateTimeAwareStringConverter.class)
    // @formatter:off
    void testDateTimeDirectAnnotation(Date date, int year, int month, int dayOfMonth, int hourOfDay, int minute,
            int second, int millis, String timeZone) {
        // Expect:
        assertThat(date).isEqualTo(date(year, month, dayOfMonth, hourOfDay, minute, second, millis, timeZone));
    }

    // @formatter:off
    @ParameterizedTest
    @CustomConverterDataProvider(value = {
            "2016-02-19                  | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 000 | UTC",
            "2016-02-19T20:15:22.629 GMT | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 629 | UTC",
        }, splitBy = "\\|")
    // @formatter:off
    void testDateTimeDirectMetaAnnotation(Date date, int year, int month, int dayOfMonth, int hourOfDay, int minute,
            int second, int millis, String timeZone) {
        // Expect:
        assertThat(date).isEqualTo(date(year, month, dayOfMonth, hourOfDay, minute, second, millis, timeZone));
    }

    @DataProvider(splitBy = "\\|", stringConverter = DateTimeAwareStringConverter.class)
    static String[] dateTimeMetaAnnotationAndDataProviderMethodProvider() {
        // @formatter:off
        return new String[] {
            "2016-02-19                  | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 000 | UTC",
            "2016-02-19T20:15:22.629 GMT | 2016 | 02 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 629 | UTC",
        };
        // @formatter:off
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @UseDataProvider("dateTimeMetaAnnotationAndDataProviderMethodProvider")
    void testDateTimeAnnotationAndDataProviderMethod(Date date, int year, int month, int dayOfMonth, int hourOfDay,
            int minute, int second, int millis, String timeZone) {
        // Expect:
        assertThat(date).isEqualTo(date(year, month, dayOfMonth, hourOfDay, minute, second, millis, timeZone));
    }

    private Date date(int year, int month, int dayOfMonth, int hourOfDay, int minute, int second, int millis, String timeZone) {
        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(year, month - 1, dayOfMonth, hourOfDay, minute, second);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, millis);
        TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZone));
        return calendar.getTime();
    }
}

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d) can convincingly go Action Star if he needs to (Source Code, Jarhead, End of Watch).
I know it's easy to make fun of Prince of Persia and its Lego ostrich rides, and I know there are still people who confuse Gyllenhaal with Tobey Maguire. But seriously: This is one of our very best actors, valiantly out there searching for that one perfect role. He may have found it.
2. Nightcrawler isn't a perfect movie, not by any stretch, but it's without question the role that will coax you on the Gyllenhaal bandwagon if you weren't there already. He plays Louis Bloom, a petty thief/con man who seems to never sleep and spends almost every second of his day online, desperately and single-mindedly trying to find whatever plan he can for self-betterment. He finds it when he discovers the secret subculture of "nightcrawlers," basically freelance guys with cameras who listen to police scanners and run to scenes of accidents/crimes to take disturbing footage and then sell it to local news stations. Because he's essentially a cold-blooded remorseless psychotic, Bloom takes to this job immediately, hooking up with a ratings-starved local TV producer (Rene Russo), where they both raise the stakes to increasingly horrifying levels.
3. On one hand, this is writer/director Dan Gilroy's polemic about news culture, about the whole "if it bleeds, it leads" mindset. (Unfortunately, Gilroy actually has one of his characters say this exact line.) As a satire of the news media, it's fairly weak, all told; that news producers are insensitive, amoral ratings monsters wasn't really that shocking when Network exposed them nearly 40 years ago. It's particularly strange because it's so out-of-step with the way the news business works now; these nightcrawlers might have been a big deal five years ago, but in an age of Twitter, everyone's a nightcrawler, all the time. Gilroy is claiming that news media often care less about actual news and instead more about stories that will get them the most eyeballs, and I congratulate Gilroy on this staggering epiphany.
4. Fortunately, Gyllenhaal just burns through all that. He's riveting every single second of the film, gaunt, ghoulish, and insanely intense, his eyeballs bulging with sociopathic ambition. The reason his character succeeds is because he is willing to do anything, seeing other humans as mere obstacles in his path to greatness and self-actualization. Gilroy might not have much new to say about media, but I love how he turns Gyllenhaal's ambition, and his cold cruelty in following it, into a quiet critique of unfettered capitalism itself.
Lou, through all his online research, has begun to parrot the world of entrepreneurialism and its embrace of "growth opportunities" and "maximizing my self-worth and potential." The secret joke of Lou is that once he decides to embrace this new job and his ability to thrive at it, the rest of the world becomes pointless except as something to be destroyed en route to his self-actualization. He is the logical conclusion of an "every man for himself" philosophy. Lou keeps giving speeches to his (barely paid) assistant about improving his longterm opportunities in the global marketplace, and you know that if he hadn't chosen this field, he could have been a huge hit in boardrooms across the country ... before cutting your throat, literally and figuratively, when it benefited him most.
5. And Gyllenhaal holds this all together with his ghoulish, haunted performance. He appears to have had his skin pulled a little too tightly, and he's jumpy and nervy and souless and utterly terrifying in every way. (I found Gyllenhaal far scarier in this movie than anything in any Saw sequel.) He digs down deep into this guy, and never looks for a way out; his performance is uncompromising and utterly committed. I know to many, he's still just Donnie Darko, or Maggie's brother, or the other guy from Brokeback Mountain, or Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend, or the guy you think played Spider-Man but actually didn't. But that boyishness is starting to fade, and in its place, we are discovering one of our fiercest, most daring actors. After Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal won't be underestimated any longer.


Difficult Customer Help - Answering Angry, Frustrated And Abusive Customers - How Do Employees Lose Self-Control With Angry Customers?
How do we lose self-control with angry customers?
Every one of us has experienced getting angry, and behaved in angry or hostile ways, so we all have some sense as to how it happens. Still, it's useful to review the pattern.
doing. We call these things "triggers", though you may be more familiar with the phrase "getting your buttons pushed".
When you get triggered, you tend to react quickly and with little thought - what we call a knee-jerk reaction.
That is why the loss of control is so dangerous. Recall that in an earlier section we mentioned that angry behavior is learned very young, and that when people are under stress, they tend to go back to ways of responding that remain from childhood. These immediate, almost automatic responses are almost always the incorrect ones.
This is one situation where your immediate gut reaction is going to get you into trouble.
By acting quickly, you will enter into the escalation cycle, and as both people get angrier, the interaction moves faster and faster, and becomes more intense. As the pace quickens and intensifies, neither party listens.
With respect to maintaining selfcontrol, the critical part is appearing to the customer like you master your emotional reactions. Two ways: You simply don't GET upset at nasty customer antics OR, you do get upset and you mask it so the customer doesn't get the satisfaction from it. Guess which is best?


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Home Business Only BS-VI compliant vehicles permitted in India from April 2020: SC
Only BS-VI compliant vehicles permitted in India from April 2020: SC
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that only Bharat Stage VI compliant vehicles will be sold from April 1, 2020, as there can be no compromise with the health of the citizens.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said no BS IV vehicles shall be sold with effect from April 1, 2020.
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"Once BS VI emission norms are enforced, there will be a 68 per cent improvement in PM2.5. This is not a small change. It is a vast improvement and the faster it is brought, the better it is," the bench said, refusing to extend the deadline for manufacturers to switch from BS IV compliant vehicles to BS VI.
The top court also prohibited all vehicle registering authorities from registering BS IV compliant vehicles from April 1, 2020.
"No motor vehicle conforming to the emission standard Bharat Stage IV shall be sold or registered in the entire country with effect from April 1, 2020," said the apex court.
Bharat stage emission standards are emission standards instituted by the Centre to regulate the output of air pollutants from motor vehicles.
In 2016, the Indian government announced that the country would skip the BS V norms altogether and adopt BS VI norms by 2020.
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The manufacturers had moved the apex court seeking more time to switch from BS-IV to BS-VI and to exhaust their existing inventory of BS-IV vehicles.
"We are dealing here with a situation where children and unborn children suffer from pollution and issues of inter generational equity are involved. Do we as a society or as manufacturers of automobiles have a right to manufacture more polluting vehicles when we have the technology to manufacture less polluting vehicles? The answer is obviously a big NO. If we were to factor only economics even then it makes no economic sense to have more polluting vehicles on the roads," the bench argued.
"The effect of pollution on the environment and health is so huge that it cannot be compensated in the marginal extra profits that the manufacturers might make. The amount spent on countering the ills of pollution such as polluted air, damaged lungs and the cost of healthcare far outweighs the profits earned," it added.
The apex court opined that March 31, 2020 is almost one-and-a-half years away and there is sufficient time for the manufacturers to change over to the new system. "Therefore, we see no reason why they should be given a window of three or six months for sale of accumulated vehicles," said the top court.
It was further of the view that every vehicle sold after the scheduled date of April 1, 2020 is "bound to cause more pollution" and, therefore, the manufacturers "cannot be permitted to sell any non BS-VI compliant vehicle on or after April 1, 2020".
"There can be no compromise with the health of the citizens and if one has to choose between health and wealth, keeping in view the expanded scope of Article 21 of the Constitution, health of the teeming millions of this country will have to take precedence over the greed of a few automobile manufacturers. The automobile manufacturers must behave responsibly," it added.
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When will Bollywood's Obsession with Punjabi Songs End?
July 11, 2019 July 11, 2019 admin 57 Views 0 Comments English News, home, The Quint	min read
The words 'Bollywood' and 'Punjabi' are hardly unrelated. After biopics, Punjabi songs seem to be the new obsession that Bollywood has chosen to cling to. I've lost the count of Punjabi songs that have been remade for Bollywood films in 2019 itself. Right from Luka Chuppi to Jabariya Jodi, no film is complete without having a popular song remake. Where does this obsession stem from, especially when a large proportion of the audience doesn't even completely understand the language?
After biopics, Punjabi songs seem to be the new obsession that Bollywood has chosen to cling to.
'Punjabification' of Bollywood?
This influx of Punjabi songs in mainstream cinema isn't a recent phenomenon, though. Since as long as I can remember, the setting and characters in most movies have been North Indian. Unless the story requires the characters to be non-Punjabi (like 2 States, Chennai Express or Super 30), each and every plot is based on Delhi, Chandigarh or some town in Punjab. Also, most filmmakers do make one of their characters into a chirpy, bubbly and exuberant one. And all of this is attributed to the character being 'Punjabi'. Hence, naturally, inclusion of a peppy Punjabi number becomes inevitable.
Unless the story requires the characters to be non-Punjabi, each and every plot is based on Delhi, Chandigarh or some town in Punjab. Naturally, inclusion of a peppy Punjabi number becomes inevitable.
A lot of it started in 2012 with Cocktail, when Pritam remixed Main Sharabi and Angreji Beat, by Yo Yo Honey Singh and Jugni by Arif Lohar. The trend picked up with Bollywood hits like Soch Na Sake, Kala Chashma, High Heels, Saturday Saturday, Main Tera Boyfriend and the list goes endless from there. The singers and composers noticed the trend and it almost became mandatory for every film to have a remake of a popular Punjabi number.
Non-Punjabi Characters Singing Punjabi Songs?
As an audience, we do tend to believe a lot of weird things that Bollywood serves us with. And as long as we were getting peppy dance numbers, it was great. However, when non-Punjabi characters, started lip syncing to Punjabi songs, things went a bit overboard, didn't they?
Here are some of the massively popular movies that did this.
1. Student of the Year 2
As soon as the movie began, we were made quite sure that the plot is based in Mussoorie and nowhere near the Punjabi-speaking belt. Yet, whenever the characters are celebrating love, heartbreak or even weddings, they start singing in Punjabi. Strange, much? Be it Fakira or Mumbai Dilli Di Kudiyaan, the songs use some definitive Punjabi lyrics which surely aren't in use in Mussoorie. Though there were other problems with the film too, this one for sure could have been avoided.
2. Luka Chuppi
So the film is set in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh and the characters have even pulled off the accent to an extent. The sets, the dialect, the clothes are all believable and in accordance to the setting of the movie. However, as soon as the first song starts i.e, Photo, we know what's going to happen. Then the other songs follow, Duniyaa and Tu Laung Main Elaichi, and these two too are in Punjabi. How unnatural is it for two people to be talking in one language and singing in a completely different one. And we all thought only Meenamma from Chennai Express made this mistake.
3. Jabariya Jodi
Though the film hasn't released yet, it is quite evident that it is set in Bihar. Siddharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra have also been receiving praise for carrying off the Bihari dialect fairly decently. And then, the inevitable happened. The first song from the album was dropped recently and it turned out to be another remake of a Punjabi song. Moreover, the song isn't one with bare minimum Punjabi lyrics, but has some significantly authentic lyrics. How are we, as an audience, supposed to buy something as eccentric as this.
4. Simmba
Well here, not were Ranveer and Sara just said to be from Maharashtra, but were also extremely fluent in Marathi. It was completely believable for the setting to be in Maharashtra. But then Tere Bin happened and they started singing in Punjabi. This is where the problem comes in. The movie began with Simmba's introduction which had parts in Marathi, and then a song comes in Punjabi. Guess I'm not the only one who found it weird.
These are just a few of the songs which have had this strange problem. While remixing a popular Punjabi number for marketing is more of a norm now, it just doesn't justify the sudden change in characters' accents. There is a dire need to move away from this obsession now and inculcate other regional language songs too, if at all there is a need to do so.
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Q: Saving current directory (using os.cwd) to a TCP server Python I am trying to build a concurrent TCP server that can accept the command "cd" (change directory) to browse around different directories/files similar to Unix. Eventually I will add the ability to download a file from one of these directories you can "cd" to.
I successfully have a client send the directory in a command line argument, and the server successfully receives it. However, when I try to change the directory of the server, the server reset's its directory every time. In other words, the server does not save its new directory location and just resets back to default (where the file is located). Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
def changeDir(D):
    os.chdir(D)

def currentDir():
    return os.getcwd()

def handler(clientsocket, clientaddr):  #child process
    print "Accepted connection from: ", clientaddr
    while 1:
        data = clientsocket.recv(1024)
        if data:
            if data == "BYE":
                print "recvd BYE"
                clientsocket.send("BYE")
                clientsocket.close()
            elif data == "DIR":
                print "recvd DIR"
                DIR = currentDir()
                clientsocket.send(DIR)
                print DIR
            elif data.find("CD:") == 0:
                print "recvd CD"

                DIR = data[3:] #Stores the rest of data (user types 'cd:' then directory)

                changeDir(DIR)

#               os.chdir(DIR)
                msg = currentDir()
                clientsocket.send(msg)

            print "ending"

            return

edit: I should mention this is a concurrent server using processes and the rest of my code is down here
if __name__ == "__main__":

    TCP_IP = '127.0.0.1'
    TCP_PORT = 5004
    BUFFER_SIZE = 1024

    print 'socket()'
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

    print 'bind()'
    s.bind((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))

#    f = open('recv.txt', 'wb')

    print 'listen()'
    s.listen(5)

    workerProcesses =[]

    while 1:
        print "Server is listening for connections\n"
        clientsocket, clientaddr = s.accept()
        p = Process(target=handler, args = (clientsocket, clientaddr))
        p.start()
        workerProcesses.append(p)

    serversocket.close()

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Column: India lacks role models of product innovators
The talent is there, the capital is there, the ability to take risks is there. Perhaps what is lacking are role models of product innovators.
Vijay Govindarajan / Gunjan Bagla
Print Edition: Mar 01, 2015
Best-selling author Vijay Govindarajan (left) and management consulting firm Amritt Inc MD Gunjan Bagla
The most well-known examples of commercial innovation by Indian companies probably come from the automotive, pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. For example, Mahindra & Mahindra has gained market share and stock market respect due to their investments in world-class research and development (R&D), Mahindra Research Valley.
But some wonder whether Indians can truly innovate on a global scale worthy of a nation whose economy now exceeds Japan in purchasing power parity. In 2011, IIT Madras alumnus Lalit Mahajan was recognised for having the most individual patent registrations in India. While this is a great personal accomplishment, what struck us is that he was able to reach this milestone with just 23 patents at the time. Patents are valuable metrics of innovation because not only do they recognise that a novel product or process has been created, they also reserve the right to profit from the invention for 17 years to the inventor and his or her licensees.
Can Indians innovate? Surely they can. In Silicon Valley, thousands of technology companies boast of Indian-born engineers who lead their product development teams. The number of Indian Americans with more than 23 patents is at least in the hundreds.
Okay, so can Indians innovate in India? The successes of Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan from the Indian Space Research Organisation, as well as the development of missiles such as Prithvi and Agni are clear demonstrations of Indian scientists and engineers working largely on their own to develop and produce world-class projects. Tens of thousands of other scientists toil at labs run by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Department of Atomic Energy. But very little of their work gets commercialised or even affects the Indian business ecosystem. Some scientists in India are disdainful of commerce. "We worship Saraswati, not Laxmi," we have been told.
Let's limit the question further: "Can Indians working for companies in India innovate?" Again there are thousands of examples of products being developed by Indian outsourcers such as Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Cyient (formerly Infotech Enterprises) and others. But the intellectual property rights to these products typically belong to their Western clients, not to the Indian companies or their engineers. Likewise, rich country companies such as General Electric, Siemens and Philips host captive R&D centres in India where Indian engineers continue to develop innovative products and technologies. For instance, GE has innovated an ultra low cost, portable ECG machine in India which is now sold all over the world - the concept known as reverse innovation. While the salaries paid to the GE employees in India add to Indian wealth, the intellectual property from their innovations flows to western companies.
We believe that innovations from Indian companies could be the spark that ignites substantial wealth creation. The talent is there, the capital is there, the ability to take risks is there. Perhaps what is lacking are role models of product innovators. Where is India's Elon Musk or Thomas Edison? Soon that gap may be filled as well.
In January, the California-based XPRIZE Foundation announced milestone awards for the $40 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. Bangalore-based Team Indus won $1 million for creating a landing system, including all hardware and software, that support a soft-landing of the Google Lunar XPRIZE spacecraft on the moon. Bangalore-based Rahul Narayan, a graduate of IIT Delhi, has assembled a team of 40 engineers for this incredible success. "We started with little support and great cynicism. Over a period of time with progress, persistence, prototypes we have been winning over more people, partners and more," he says.
Another Indian team is competing for a second XPRIZE. The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE envisions a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. Team Davantri led by the Chennai-based CEO of the Indian subsidiary of American Megatrends, a company whose software is embedded into the motherboards of millions of personal computers. Sridharan Mani was inspired to innovate at an early age. "I was very fortunate to study in Hindu High School where the great Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar once studied. When I was in high school, he visited our school and explained in simple terms about black holes. We were truly inspired by his speech." The-20 member team led by Mani is developing a device to diagnose 15 diseases, including anaemia, diabetes, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, sleep apnea, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ear infection and leukocytosis.
Mani and Narayan will doubtless inspire additional young Indians to give up the security of traditional careers and pursue the path of invention.
Many of India's problems are unique and require specific innovation and invention for Indian needs. Force fitting product developed for a European, Japanese or American customer feels like fitting a square peg into a round hole. We have already seen the successes of companies such as Micromax based initially on the dual-SIM mobile phone. Indians can spawn hundreds of Micromaxes to meet the unique needs of Indian consumers and companies. We believe that India needs product innovation across all major sectors from consumer products, to transportation, to energy, to agriculture, to water resources. Innovation can lift hundreds of millions of Indians out from poverty and can also add to the wealth of millions of professionals whose intellectual accomplishments are on par with their western peers.
Our vision for Indian innovation goes further, however. While one might argue that a success such as Google or Cisco could only be created in the unique environment of California, there is little to stop India's software engineers from creating a Skype, which started in Luxembourg, or a Waze, which started in Israel. Indian innovators have the manufacturing customer ecosystem to create the next SAP, which began in Germany.
- Vijay Govindarajan, NYT and WSJ bestselling author, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Reverse Innovation; Gunjan Bagla is Managing Director of Los Angeles-based management consulting firm, Amritt, Inc., which advises Chief Technology Officers on global innovation
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Awkward Postures a Pain for Nurses.
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He bears down on the box and then decides to unload with a left-footer from 20 yards. But he skies it. Asesnsio skips down the left and plays in Vazquez, who ties to glide past Chiellini in the box.
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We are taking on the Champions League favourites. To knock them out would be a feather in our cap. Real manager Zinedine Zidane was once the darling of the Juventus supporters during his playing days.
When quizzed about the prospect managing I Bianconeri in the future, he told reporters: Blaise Matuidi misses out but will hope to make an impact from the bench.
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Costa curled in a cross from the left. Modric loses possession in his own half. Matuidi begins a Juve attack, which culminates with Higuain having a shot on the swivel from 20 yards.
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A sloppy pass by Matuidi gives the ball to Real, who have a chance to break forward. But they do not commit many players to the attack, such is their wariness.
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He nudges the ball past the last defender and goes around him to collect it. They keep giving the ball away. There will be a wibbly lower lip, at least!
Costa collects a pass to feet and dart past Marcelo, who dived in. He bears down on the box and then decides to unload with a left-footer from 20 yards.
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quedas atrás y conversas con las personas".
cuando vas medio kilómetro delante?
que Oso escuchó la conversación.
amables conmigo, pero estaré triste, triste, triste".
Y retorció lastimeramente sus patas.
1.// Said Bear, "I know I'm supposed to keep my eye/ on you, but it's difficult the way you/ lag behind and keep talking to people."// Well, how can you be keeping your eye on me/ when you're half a mile ahead?// "True," said Bear. "But I'm thinking of you/all the time."// 2.// I had to go away for a few days so I called/ the kennel and made an appointment. I guess/ Bear overheard the conversation.// "Love and company," said Bear, "are the adornments/ that change everything. I know they'll be/ nice to me, but I'll be sad, sad, sad."/ And pitifully he wrung his paws.// I cancelled the trip.
y el mapache son hermanos.
de más cosas de las que puedas nombrar.
No use to tell him/ that he// and the raccoon are brothers./ You have your soft ideas about nature// he has others,/ and they are full of his// white teeth/ and lip that curls, sometimes,// horribly./ You love// this earnest dog,/ but also you admire the raccoon// and Lord help you in your place/ of hope and improbables.// To the black-masked gray one:/ Run! you say,// and just as urgently, to the dog:/ Stay!// and he won't or he will,/ Depending// on more things than I could name./ He's sure he's right// and you, so tangled in your mind,/ are wrong,// though patient and pacific./ And you are downcast.// And it's his eyes, not yours,/ that are clear and bright.
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desconocidos, todos sedientos y felices.
entre los estudiantes. A los estudiantes les encantó.
Todos escribieron sedientos, felices poemas.
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ASA Ruling on Rustin & Mallory Wholesale Ltd t/a Motel Rocks
Upheld
Internet (on own site)
Rustin & Mallory Wholesale Ltd
Ad description
A website, www.motelrocks.com, for the online fashion retailer Motel Rocks seen on 19 January 2018, featured five images (ads (a) to (e)) of two women modelling their clothing.
The complainant, who believed that the photographs depicted unhealthily thin models, challenged whether the ads were irresponsible.
Rustin & Mallory Wholesale Ltd trading as Motel Rocks offered to remove the images and reshoot.
Upheld in relation to ads (a), (b), (c) and (e)
The ASA welcomed Motel Rocks' proposal to remove the images and reshoot.
We considered that the models in each of the ads were very slim and that their collarbones in ads (a), (b), (c) and (e) were highly visible.
We noted that the target market was young people. We considered that using models that adopted positions in which their collarbones were emphasised, that wore make up and that posed in ways that made their bodies appear thinner were likely to create the impression that the images were something to aspire to upon the target audience.
We considered that visible hollows were caused by the cooler lighting, particularly around the collarbones of the models in ads (a), (c) and (e), and both the collarbone and, to a lesser extent, the ribcage of the model in ad (b).
We therefore concluded that ads (a), (b), (c) and (e) were irresponsible.
We considered that the spine of the model in ad (d) was visible and that her shoulder blades were also noticeable. Although the cooler lighting used was similar to that of the other ads, we did not consider that there were any prominent, visible hollows caused by shadows, and therefore the position the model adopted did not cause any particular body parts to be accentuated to the extent of the other ads. We therefore concluded that this ad was not irresponsible.
Ads (a), (b), (c) and (e) breached CAP Code (Edition 12) rule 1.3 1.3 Marketing communications must be prepared with a sense of responsibility to consumers and to society. (Responsible advertising). We also investigated ad (d) under that rule, but did not find it in breach.
Ads (a), (b), (c) and (e) must not appear again in their current form.
CAP Code (Edition 12)
Dunlop Road
Hunt End
Number of complaints: 1
Agency: None
Complaint Ref: A18-436752
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Popsoda Ltd
Not upheld
Robinson Webster (Holdings) Ltd
Social responsibility: Body image
Weight control: Garments


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Hometown News / Politics / US News / World News | By Brandon Jones
Judicial Watch: Gitmo terrorists Obama traded for Bowe Bergdahl now 'reinforce' Taliban in Qatar
Remember when President Obama from swapped five Gitmo prisoners for a disgraced Army solider, Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban after deserting his post in Afghanistan.
Now Judicial Watch details how that horrible move is even worse than we knew.
Judicial Watch begins:
The Guantanamo terrorists released by Barack Obama in exchange for a U.S. Army deserter have joined the Taliban's "political" office in Qatar. The move reinforces the terrorist group's operations, according to the Spanish international news agency that broke the story this week. The five men were incarcerated at the U.S. military prison in southeast Cuba because they held positions of great importance with the terrorist group, including Chief of Staff of the Taliban Army and the Taliban Deputy Minister of Intelligence. One U.S. Senator referred to the freed jihadists as the "Taliban Dream Team."
"Bergdahl left his post and was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until May 2014…. He was released on May 31, 2014 in exchange for the five terrorists, Mullah Muhammad Fazel Mazlum, Mullah Noorullah Noori, Mullah Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa and Maulavi Muhammad Nabi Omari. All of them held high-ranking positions with the Taliban before going to Gitmo," Judicial Watch recounts in their post.
Bergdahl was charged as a "deserter" for his "misbehavior." Of course, there was "no jail time" for Bowe, a move Trump called a "total disgrace."
"The five terrorists released were the hardest of the hard-core," a veteran U.S. Senator wrote in a letter to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee after Obama freed them.
"They held positions of great importance within the hard-core anti-American Taliban, including the Chief of Staff of the Taliban Army and the Taliban Deputy Minister of Intelligence. They have American blood on their hands and surely as night follows day they will return to the fight. In effect, we released the "Taliban Dream Team." The United States is less safe because of these actions."
Judicial Watch investigated the controversial Bergdahl trade and sued the Department of Defense (DOD) for records involving then Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's determination that the terrorists were "no longer a threat to U.S. national security." Judicial Watch also litigated to obtain the bilateral Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Qatar relating to the terrorist release.
The article details how those release rejoin Taliban or terrorist factions all over the globe, particularly in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
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The Changing Shapes of Latin American Welfare States
Evelyne Huber and Zoila Ponce de León
Latin American welfare states have undergone major changes over the past half century. As of 1980, there were only a handful of countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) with social policy regimes that covered more than half of their population with some kind of safety net to insure adequate care during their old age and that provided adequate healthcare services. With few exceptions, access to social protection and to healthcare in these countries and others was based on formal employment and contributions from employees and employers. There were very few programs, and those few were poorly funded, for those without formal sector jobs and their dependents. The debt crisis and the ensuing neoliberal reforms then damaged the welfare state in all countries, including these leading nations. Deindustrialization, shrinking of the public sector, and cuts in public expenditures reduced both coverage and quality of transfers and services. Poverty and inequality rose, and the welfare state did little to ameliorate these trends. With the turn of the century, the economic and political situation changed significantly. The commodity boom eased fiscal pressures and made resources available for an increase in public social expenditure. Democracy was more consolidated in the region and civil society had recovered from repression. Left-wing parties began to win elections and take advantage of the fiscal room which allowed for the building of redistributive social programs. The most significant innovation has been expansion of coverage to people in the informal sector and to people with insufficient histories of contributions to social insurance schemes. The overwhelming majority of Latin Americans now have the right to some kind of cash assistance at some point in their lives and to healthcare provided by their governments. In many cases, there have also been real improvements in the generosity of cash assistance, particularly in the case of non-contributory pensions, and in the quality of healthcare services. However, the least progress has been made toward equity. With very few exceptions, new non-contributory programs were added to the traditional contributory ones; severe inequalities continue to exist in the quality of services provided through the new and the traditional programs.
Adoption and Evolution of Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America
Fabián A. Borges
The last two decades witnessed an unprecedented decline in poverty across the developing world, a decline partly explained by the adoption of social cash transfer programs. Ironically, Latin America, traditionally the world's most unequal region, has been a global trendsetter in this regard. Beginning in the late 1990s, governments across the region and across the ideological spectrum began adopting conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, which award poor families regular stipends conditional on their children attending school and/or getting regular medical check-ups, and non-contributory pension (NCP) schemes for low-income and/or uncovered seniors. There is robust evidence that CCT programs achieve their short-term goals of reducing poverty while increasing school attendance and usage of health services. However, they do not improve learning and appear to be failing at their long-term goal of breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Likely as a result of low-quality education, long-term CCT beneficiaries do not have significantly better economic prospects than comparable non-beneficiaries. CCTs also have electoral effects—there is robust evidence from across the region that they increase support for incumbent presidential candidates. CCTs were a response to the two big transformations the region underwent during the 1980s: the debt crisis and subsequent lost decade and the transition of most countries to democracy. Increased economic insecurity following the crisis and subsequent neoliberal reforms represented both a threat to the survival of newly elected governments and an opportunity for politicians to win over voters through increased social assistance. Pioneered by Mexico and Brazil in the mid-1990s, CCTs were by far the most effective policies to emerge from that context. They quickly diffused across the region, often with support from international financial institutions. Counterintuitively, adoption appears to be unrelated to the ascendance of left-wing governments in the region during the 2000s. The politics of CCT design are less understood. The myriad ways in which design can be conceptualized and measured, combined with the relative newness of this literature, have limited the accumulation of knowledge. It does appear that left-wing governments adopt more expansive CCTs and de-emphasize conditionality enforcement. Whereas their initial adoption and expansion, which coincided with the 2000s economic boom, proved politically easy, further reductions in poverty will require politically difficult choices, namely, raising taxes and/or redirecting funds away from programs benefiting the better-off. Improving the long-term effectiveness of CCTs will require improving education quality, which in turn will require challenging the region's powerful teachers' unions.
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Summer Update on Saving Mes Aynak!
An updated version of Saving Mes Aynak hit the air on Al Jazeera English on June 29th and streamed online for free on Al Jazeera's website for a limited time (outside the US).
Viewers expressed their excitement and emotional responses to the broadcast on social media, showing solidarity as always:
#SavingMesAynak an incredibly powerful, moving documentary on the fight to save Afghan culture – a must watch!! pic.twitter.com/uD35aBIuqn
— Annis Turner (@anniskturner) June 29, 2016
The Buddhas Of Mes Aynak: It's Time To Save Greatest Treasures Of Afghanistan – https://t.co/bsjXafYcXb https://t.co/DNq4BBfh8j
— AlvaroDBraga (@alisbuna) June 30, 2016
@narendramodi Pls consider sending Indian ASI team and/or professors, students of archaeological studies 2 this site https://t.co/Jyg47q7zj5
— Trilochana (@Trilochana888) July 1, 2016
Today is the rebroadcast of updated version…this is worthy of appointment viewing.
Hoping to see it myself! https://t.co/fTm8qCt5aF
— Mark LaMet (@LaMetTVNews) June 29, 2016
@AJEnglish @SavingMesAynak @AJWitness It shouldn't be on the archeologists shoulders. We have all failed the Afghan people.
— Hans van Dijk (@hansvandijk1603) June 30, 2016
@AJWitness @SavingMesAynak @AJEnglish I'm watching this and my heart is breaking. Stories and history gone, forever
— Lady Lovely Lumps (@Chemu18Cheryl) June 30, 2016
We now have French, Dutch, German, Italian, and Japanese subtitles available for the VHX streaming service. Impassioned viewers of Saving Mes Aynak volunteered to translate the film, making it possible for us to share the film with even wider range of audiences.
Home DVDs of Saving Mes Aynak will be released in November with the film's U.S. distributor Icarus Films.
Saving Mes Aynak continues to travel the world this summer! We have screenings being organized by audience members in Luxembourg and Kabul, Afghanistan. Spring 2016 was one of the busiest period for Mes Aynak, spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sweden,Bulgaria, Czech Republic, India, Hong Kong, France, Canada, and in the U.S., Seattle,New York, San Francisco, San Diego, and Santa Cruz.
Now Saving Mes Aynak will make its way to the Art Institute of Chicago, a premier museum in the U.S., Italy, Singapore, France, Greece, Lebanon, and Iran. We are also honored to be invited for an encore screening with the San Francisco Green Film Festival this October at the San Francisco Public Library! Furthermore, Saving Mes Aynak will be receiving the prestigious Green Spark Award at American Conservation Film Festival happening the 3rd and 4th weekend of October in Virginia.
Saving Mes Aynak will hit Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC later this year through the China Onscreen Biennial (COB), a showcase of Chinese film and media arts for American audiences. Saving Mes Aynak will be a part of COB's program called Dunhuang Projected, "named after the eponymous town in the Gobi Desert in northwestern China that was an important nexus of the Silk Road from 400-1400 CE, and the gateway for Buddhism from India into China. The town's complex of caves hold the largest extant collection of Buddhist art in the world, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site," according to the organizers.
Thanks to the initiatives of students, professors, and museum professionals, we continue to travel colleges and museums across the country! Director Brent E. Huffman will be in attendance for the post-screening Q&A at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Missouri. McDaniel College will host Saving Mes Aynak for the World Wise Documentary series.
Saving Mes Aynak is the winner of Green Spark Award at American Conservation Film Festival and the 37th Telly Awards & People's Choice Award.
The American Conservation Film Festival committee chose two winners of the Green Spark Award out of nearly 300 films submitted this year, citing Saving Mes Aynak as "the most deserving of the Green Spark Award for drawing attention to a conservation hero." Brent will be receiving the award in person in October.
An illustration created by National Geographic Magazine depicting what Mes Aynak may have looked like 2,000 years ago.
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Saving Mes Aynak continues to travel the world!
Saving Mes Aynak continues to travel the world in 2016. In April, Saving Mes Aynak played at a packed house at the San Francisco Green Film Festival (where the line stretched around the block and people had to be turned away!) and the Hong Kong screening with Buddhistdoor & Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong, where over two hundred people came out to support Mes Aynak.
Composer Momayoun Sakhi, Director Brent E. Huffman, Founder of SF Green Film Festival, Rachel Caplan during Q&A.
Lively discussion with Director Brent E. Huffman at the Hong Kong screening.
Spring 2016 was perhaps the busiest period ever for Mes Aynak events with international and local screenings⎯spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, India, Hong Kong, France, Canada, and in the U.S., Seattle, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, and Santa Cruz.
Director Brent E. Huffman on NHK
In celebration of the May 1st Buddha Day, Saving Mes Aynak was also highlighted on NHK, a premier broadcasting station in Japan.
Saving Mes Aynak won Silver Plaque of the 52nd Chicago International Television Awards. The film was expressly chosen from a long list of submissions, both domestic and international. In Bulgaria, Saving Mes Aynak received Special Jury Mention at the Master of Art Film Festival in Sofia. Saving Mes Aynak was further honored by the 37th Telly Awards, best in the Film/Video documentary category and voted for People's Choice Award.
American Conservation Film Festival selected Saving Mes Aynak for this year's Green Spark Award. Chosen out of nearly 300 films submitted, Saving Mes Aynak was cited as "the most deserving of the Green Spark Award for drawing attention to a conservation hero."
Artifact from Mes Aynak in spotlight at the National Museum of Czech Republic
Saving Mes Aynak will screened alongside an exquisite exhibition, Afghan Tales, by the National Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. The exhibition will feature 22 contemporary Afghan photographers and objects in the collection of the Museum. This continues the film's strong partnership with museums, starting with Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Seattle Art Museum, and currently at the National Museum of Czech Republic. Artifacts from Mes Aynak are in the spotlight at the exhibition coined "Afghanistan – Rescued Treasures of Buddhism" until the end of April.
Saving Mes Aynak has been shown to the Afghan community at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul and in Pakistan at the Center for Media & Design at Habib University. The Pakistani and international students, faculty, and special guests at this event discussed documenting and preserving the heritage and histories of diverse religious communities in the Middle East and South Asia.
Through the second half of 2016, Saving Mes Aynak will make its way to the Art Institute of Chicago, a premier museum in the U.S., Italy, Singapore, France, Greece, Lebanon, and Iran. The film will also have an encore screening with the San Francisco Green Film Festival this September at the San Francisco Public Library.
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Saving Mes Aynak on LA Times and CNN!
Director Brent Huffman was interviewed for Christine Amanpour on CNN to discuss Mes Aynak.
View the whole interview here.
Saving Mes Aynak was also featured on LA Times before the film's upcoming nationwide broadcast on "Witness" on Al Jazeera America. Read the re-cap of the film and interview with director Huffman here.
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Recent coverage on Saving Mes Aynak
The Saving Mes Aynak team launched Indiegogo campaign to continue the outreach work to educate the audience on the beauty and importance of Mes Aynak and appeal to the Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to spare the site from destruction and register the site as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Following is the continued coverage on Saving Mes Aynak and the Indiegogo campaign.
Popular Archaeology – cover story
Audience Everywhere – interview with director Brent Huffman
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Latest on Saving Mes Aynak
PBS NEWSHOUR with A Sneak Peek of Saving Mes Aynak
Ahead of the world premiere at IDFA (International Film Festival Amsterdam) 2014, we gave PBS NewsHour a sneak peek of footage from the finished film and a new interview with Brent Huffman about the Mes Aynak site.
FIPA To Host French Premiere of Saving Mes Aynak
Saving Mes Aynak has been selected for the prestigious FIPA Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, screening this January 21, 2015 in Biarritz, France.
SAVING MES AYNAK TO WORLD PREMIERE AT IDFA 2014
We are delighted to announce Saving Mes Aynak has been selected to World Premiere at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), the world's largest documentary film festival.
FAIR OBSERVER: Saving Mes Aynak, Revisited
Read the latest news story from the Fair Observer written by director Brent E. Huffman where he talks about making the film, significant updates on Mes Aynak, and the latest way you can help!
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Recent press for "Saving Mes Aynak"
Front page video and Op-Ed on The New York Times by documentary filmmaker and professor Brent E. Huffman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/opinion/a-chinese-threat-to-afghan-buddhas.html
"Saving Mes Aynak" is awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant:
http://www.macfound.org/documentaryfilm/380
LIVE CNN interview (broadcast on CNN International) from the ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak in Logar province:
http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/race-against-time-to-save-ancient-afghan-site/
Professor and documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman's CNN Opinion story about "Saving Mes Aynak" (front page):
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afghanistan-buddha-site-mine/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
The Independent in London – Sunday Edition:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistans-heritage-is-at-stake-8537560.html
Radio interview with director Brent Huffman on BBC's The World:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/afghan-buddhas/
The Diplomat – Front Page:
http://thediplomat.com/2013/06/10/saving-the-buddhas-of-mes-aynak-updated/
Behind-the-scenes article from the UK-based The Film Review:
http://thefilmreview.com/film-news/documenting-the-buddhas-of-aynak.html
The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/08/a-kickstarter-campaign-for-an-ancient-site-in-afghanistan/
PBS Newshour interview with filmmaker Brent Huffman and video (front page):
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2012/12/the-last-days-of-mes-aynak.html#more
An interview with filmmaker and professor Brent Huffman on Chicago NPR (WBEZ Worldview):
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-06/digging-copper-finding-buddhist-treasures-100415
Foreign Policy slideshow:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/21/afghanistans_vanishing_buddhas
ABC Australia Radio interview with Brent Huffman:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-05/interview-brent-huffman/4298578
AOL's Gadling travel website:
http://www.gadling.com/2012/11/28/mes-aynak-one-of-the-worlds-great-archeological-treasures-is/
Toronto Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1302159–afghanistan-archeological-site-in-a-race-for-survival
Fair Observer two-part interview with director Brent Huffman and photo essay by Huffman:
http://www.fairobserver.com/article/race-save-mes-aynak-part-12
http://www.fairobserver.com/article/race-save-mes-aynak-part-2
http://www.fairobserver.com/content/race-save-mes-aynak-pictures#.UvKxB_Vz82g.twitter
Toronto's Travel Culture magazine:
http://www.travelculturemag.com/mes-aynak-turned-into-a-copper-mine/
Norway's The Religioner:
http://religioner.no/archives/8979
United Press International:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/15/Filmmaker-helps-in-effort-to-save-history/UPI-32841339797721/
The Asia Society:
http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/are-chinese-miners-destroying-2000-year-old-buddhist-site-afghanistan-images#9
Three-page feature story about Mes Aynak by Brent Huffman in Tricycle Magazine – the largest Buddhist magazine in the US:
http://www.tricycle.com/feature/fate-mes-aynak
Tricycle Magazine's blog:
http://www.tricycle.com/blog/chinese-mining-company-might-destroy-ancient-buddhist-ruins-mes-aynak
Past Horizons Magazine:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2012/help-save-the-cultural-heritage-of-afghanistan
NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161677990/foreign-policy-golden-buddha-hidden-copper
Archaeology Magazine:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/675-130318-afghanistan-buddhism-mes-anyak/675-130318-afghanistan-buddhism-mes-anyak
The Majalla – the leading Arab Magazine:
http://www.majalla.com/eng/2012/11/article55235865
The University of Wisconsin-Madison:
http://news.ls.wisc.edu/?p=11629
"Erasing the History of Buddhist Afghanistan One Mine at a Time" by Brent E. Huffman – The University of Chicago's Divinity School:
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/erasing-history-buddhist-afghanistan-one-mine-time-brent-e-huffman
Northwestern University continuing coverage of "Saving Mes Aynak":
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/06/huffman-afghanistan.html
http://discover.northwestern.edu/stories/preserving-ancient-buddhist-site
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/01/preserving-an-ancient-afghani-religious-site.html
Asian Correspondent:
http://asiancorrespondent.com/62197/assistant-professor-showcases-afghanistans-cultural-treasures/
PolicyMic:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/20188/the-buddhas-of-aynak-the-afghan-cultural-site-that-the-world-does-not-care-about
Medill School of Journalism's National Security Zone – story by filmmaker Brent Huffman and interview:
http://nationalsecurityzone.org/site/chasing-chinas-tail-the-long-road-to-mes-aynak-afghanistan/
http://nationalsecurityzone.org/site/filmmaker-risks-life-to-document-ancient-afghan-buddhist-citys-imminent-destruction/
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art:
http://art-crime.blogspot.com/2012/09/documentarian-brent-huffman-warns-of.html
Evanston NOW:
http://evanstonnow.com/story/education/northwestern-news/2012-06-06/50103/nu-prof-films-efforts-to-preserve-afghan-heritage
China Digital Times:
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/05/resources-imperiled-buddhas-and-sino-afghan-relations/
Clyde Fitch Report:
http://www.clydefitchreport.com/2013/08/chinese-mine-threatens-afghan-buddhas/
South China Morning Post:
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1190941/china-digging-afghanistans-treasure-trove
Wright State University's continued coverage of filmmaker Brent Huffman's efforts to save Mes Aynak:
http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2014/02/04/wright-state-grad-wins-macarthur-grant-for-documentary-on-ancient-afghan-site/
http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/community/2013/filmmaker-in-the-spotlight/
The Temple Trail:
http://thetempletrail.com/saving-mes-aynak/
University of Hawaii's Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific:
http://www.msaphawaii.org/2014/01/30/news-chinese-copper-mine-in-afghanistan-threatens-2600-year-old-buddhist-monastery/
Official Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/buddhasofaynak
Official Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/Brent_Huffman
Many international reports like this one from Malaysia:
Jun 09, 2012 | Categories:Documentary Production, Films | Tags: Afghanistan, Brent E. Huffman, Brent Huffman, Buddha, Buddhism, China, Culture, documentary, film, Gandhara, German Camera Productions, human rights, Mes Aynak, mining, Xiaoli Zhou | Comments Off on Recent press for "Saving Mes Aynak"
Brent E. Huffman's Yuja Wang "Sound Tracks" videos for PBS Arts and Salon.com:
http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/quick-hits-yuja-wang/qh-yuja-wang-interview/
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Brent E. Huffman interviews Syrians in Jordan for TIME magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1432320499001_2106203,00.html
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Medill professor and professional documentary filmmaker Brent E. Huffman was interviewed by PBS about the importance of a documentary film education.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2011/11/should-documentary-filmmakers-go-to-film-school.php
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Brent E. Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou to speak and show a retrospective of their documentaries at the Forum for Global Engagement – Semester at Sea 2011.
http://www.semesteratsea.org/fge/speaker-bios
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