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package io.fabric8.openshift.client.handlers;

import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Watch;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Watcher;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Config;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.ResourceHandler;
import io.fabric8.openshift.api.model.Group;
import io.fabric8.openshift.api.model.GroupBuilder;
import io.fabric8.openshift.client.OpenShiftConfig;
import io.fabric8.openshift.client.dsl.internal.GroupOperationsImpl;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Service;

import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

@Component
@Service
public class GroupHandler implements ResourceHandler<Group, GroupBuilder> {
  @Override
  public String getKind() {
    return Group.class.getSimpleName();
  }

  @Override
  public Group create(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item) {
      return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).create();
  }

  @Override
  public Group replace(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item) {
    return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, true, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).replace(item);
  }

  @Override
  public Group reload(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item) {
    return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).fromServer().get();
  }

  @Override
  public GroupBuilder edit(Group item) {
    return new GroupBuilder(item);
  }

  @Override
  public Boolean delete(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item) {
      return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).delete(item);
    }

  @Override
  public Watch watch(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item, Watcher<Group> watcher) {
    return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).watch(watcher);
  }

  @Override
  public Watch watch(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item, String resourceVersion, Watcher<Group> watcher) {
    return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).watch(resourceVersion, watcher);
  }

  @Override
  public Group waitUntilReady(OkHttpClient client, Config config, String namespace, Group item, long amount, TimeUnit timeUnit) throws InterruptedException {
    return new GroupOperationsImpl(client, OpenShiftConfig.wrap(config), null, namespace, null, true, item, null, false, -1, new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String[]>(), new TreeMap<String, String>()).waitUntilReady(amount, timeUnit);
  }
}

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OPEC cuts 2020 oil demand forecast, trims 2021 outlook on pandemic fallout
14 Sep 2020, 11:40 by Sam Meredith
OPEC has downwardly revised its outlook for global oil demand to an average of 90.2 million barrels per day in 2020.
The report comes as energy market participants become increasingly concerned about a faltering economic recovery and stumbling fuel demand in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Looking ahead, OPEC said the negative impact on oil demand in Asia was expected to persist through the first six months of 2021.
LONDON — OPEC has cut its forecast for oil demand growth this year, citing a weaker-than-expected recovery in India and other Asian countries, and warned risks remain "elevated and skewed to the downside" for the first half of next year.
In a closely-watched monthly report published Monday, the group of oil-producing nations downwardly revised its outlook for global oil demand to an average of 90.2 million barrels per day in 2020. That's down 400,000 bpd from the previous month's estimate and reflects a contraction of 9.5 million bpd year-on-year.
The Middle East-dominated group, which consists of some of the world's largest oil producers, said on Monday it had revised oil demand in OECD countries up by around 100,000 bpd due to less-than-expected declines in all sub-regions during the second quarter.
However, oil demand was revised down by 500,000 bpd in the non-OECD region due to weaker oil demand performance in Asia, particularly in India.
"Additionally, risks remain elevated and skewed to the downside, particularly in relation to the development of Covid-19 infection cases and potential vaccines," the group said in the report.
"Furthermore, the speed of recovery in economic activities and oil demand growth potential in Other Asian countries, including India, remain uncertain," it added.
As such, OPEC now expects global oil demand to grow by 6.6 million bpd to an average of 96.9 million bpd next year. This updated forecast was also 400,000 bpd lower than its previous estimate.
International benchmark Brent crude traded at $39.76 a barrel on Monday, down around 0.2%, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stood at $37.26, roughly 0.1% lower.
Oil prices have dropped around 40% since the start of the year.
'Dismal' oil demand growth
Marking the group's 60th anniversary, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic was "one of the greatest global challenges of modern times."
"Beyond the terrible human suffering it has caused, it has triggered one of the worst global economic recessions and oil market downturns in OPEC's history," he added.
OPEC, alongside non-OPEC allies, a grouping known collectively as OPEC+, will meet on Sept. 17 to discuss oil production policy. The energy alliance has agreed to cut output by 7.7 million bpd until December.
"Infection rates are on the rise again, there are localized lockdowns introduced in a growing number of countries hindering regional economic growth and the number of unemployed is failing to fall significantly," Tamas Varga, senior analyst at PVM Oil Associates, said in a research note published Monday.
"This leads to dismal oil demand growth as reflected in last week's weekly and monthly EIA report."
Earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration cut its outlook for 2021 global demand growth by 500,000 bpd on lower predicted consumption growth in China.

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Now that the suspects have been handled, the good citizens of Boston must start to heal. This is a timely process, most will not start to comprehend the emotional trauma until weeks later. "There is no shame in seeking assistance", much help is available. Mental Health Disorders has been on the front page lately due to citizens seeking gun control legislation. This is the positive aspect of mental health, treatment, putting the parts of life back, parts that have been taken away due to traumatic events.
Acts of terrorism is not mental illness for the most part, it is an emotion of misguided faith, creeds, attempts to violate human rights and produce a sense of fear to a community or nation. Law Enforcement culture is to gather and discuss operations over a beer. Peer discussion is a good source for addressing feelings,emotions. However, if peer discussion cannot control anxiety then there may be the need to seek professional counseling. Mental Health America provides Workplace Wellness. "Remember, there no shame, you have just experience an act unlike any in the history of your Boston." Continue good health and thanks for stopping by.


If you've read my blog post on using content types to modify your NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx pages, you know how fond I am of using SharePoint Designer workflows to flip the values in my Content Type fields. Since content types control which fields are displayed on your forms, they provide an easy way to customize the input forms for your lists and libraries. The trick is building SharePoint Designer workflows that automate the transitions between your content types. By flipping the value in your Content Type field via workflows, you make your list and library forms look dynamic–all without the effort of building custom ASPX pages.
Unfortunately, I hit a major snag this week while trying to modify the Content Type field in a reusable workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010. No matter how I set up my reusable workflow (e.g. assigning the workflow to work with one content type or ALL content types), I couldn't use the Set field to… action in SharePoint Designer to reset the value in my Content Type field. Neither the Content Type nor the Content Type ID field appeared in the list of columns I could select to update. And I couldn't add the Content Type or Content Type ID field as Associated Columns either.
I did some research, talked with a few smart folks and finally figured out why the Content Type field cannot be modified via a reusable workflow. Unlike "normal" list workflows, reusable workflows aren't tied to a specific document library or list when they are created. Reusable workflows are built and published independently so they can be ported–or assigned–to any of your site collection's libraries or lists. Unfortunately, the portability that makes the reusable workflows so useful also inhibits the workflow's ability to modify the Content Type field.
When you associate a content type to a document library or list in SharePoint, the document library or list sees and recognizes the new content type's ID. Because it knows the content type IDs that are associated to your list/library, SharePoint Designer allows you to query against the content type and update it via a workflow. Reusable workflows aren't associated with document libraries or lists until after they're published. As a result, SharePoint Designer can't see or obtain any relevant content type ID(s) during workflow creation. This is why SharePoint Designer locks out the Content Type and Content Type ID fields from being updated via reusable workflows.
Use list workflows instead of reusable workflows.
Use reusable workflows, but leave out the Content Type field flipping. Your users will just have to reset the Content Type field by hand.
Just to make sure I understand, are you switching the content types only between new, edit and display forms to dynamically display or not display certain fields in each form type? Or are you switching the content types based on some other criteria?
I'm tying content types to different steps in my work processes and then changing out the content type on the fly via workflow so I can change out which fields display on the new form and edit form.
This may be a solution for switching fields in my New vs. Edit forms, but would it also solve the issue of needing several versions of my Edit forms?
I don't think the ShowInEditForm would solve the problem of multiple versions of an Edit form for a single list. I must have missed that requirement when I was reading through your posts.
Ok, so I read your other post. I think the answer to my previous question is that you want certain items to show in the new form and certain items to show in the display form. Another way you can do that is set the property on the SPField (List Column) ShowInNewForm (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfield.showinnewform(v=office.12).aspx) and ShowInEditForm (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfield.showineditform(v=office.12).aspx) to true. There are a variety of ways to set these properties (PowerShell, code, web services) but my guess (although I haven't tried) is that you can set them in SharePoint Designer too.
Good to know changing content types only work in List Workflows. Wish you could do a reusable and just have it automatically add any needed content types.
'Course I also want someone to pay my Visa bill automatically, too.
4. Use a if condition in #3 to check the "content type to change to field" to change the Contact record to, add as many if conditions for the content type value.
did you find a good answer to how to handle this fully? I have reusable workflow that creates a copy of a task for a new date when completed but I cannot set the content id so it is would not create as needed with the correct content type fields.


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CLIR Tips
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In this repository are some files from a study on how to support cross-language recommendations for an existing research paper recommender system.

We focused on German, English and Spanish.

Unpublished paper available as pdf file in home folder of repository.

This was a project carried out in the University of Magdeburg Oct 2014-Feb 2015

Apart from surveying some available alternatives for implementing cross-language information retrieval, the aim of this project was to allow the comparison of different approaches to the cross-language support:

- Latent Semantic Analysis (based on user provided cross-language training data + a controlled vocabulary approach during indexing)
- Traditional per-language indexing (with Lucene) and automated query translation (using one of several systems: Apertium, Google Translate API and Moses), further improved by:
	- User mediated query refinement
	- Translation post-processing: Query expansion, by adding synonyms found in ontologies (after tagging with Stanfords PoS tagger) was tested. In the end only support for using MultiWordNet over its English resources was included. For Spanish, MultiWordNet could be also used, and GermaNet (http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/) for the German language (this requires an agreement with the author's).
	- Additional improvements at the point when results from different indexes are merged (i.e. boosting scores of hits in under-represented languages).
	- Other pre-processing improvements.

Additional notes:
- At this stage our system represents a simple framework that could be used as a starting-point for comparing cross-language services happening at different processing stages, and their contribution to the end results.
- Sense disambiguation for the query expansion was not supported (most common sense is chosen so far), but it could be added. Some recognition for searching phrases as opposed to words could also be a useful improvement to our approach.
- Code for PoS tagging German and Spanish is included but not used.

Code structure:
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Overall the provided library consists of the following packages:

Control package:
Classes that encapsuate the Business logic:
- Main class, that starts the GUI or allows a console run.

Mgmt sub-package:
- LanguagesManager: Singleton in charge of the overall information on languages.
- SpecificLanguageManager: Singleton looks after index and repo of a given language.
- RecommendationsHandler: Singleton that generates the recommendations.

Querytermgen sub-package:
- Query term generator: Called by the RecommendationsHandler.

Index sub-package:
- LSA indexer: LSA indexing.
- Per-Language indexer: Lucene indexing.
- Indexer: dummy super-class from which the 2 former inherit.

Query sub-package:
- Query handler: dummy super-class
- Per-language query handler
- LSA query handler: Querying with LSA.
- CL query handler: Cross-language query handler. Implements optimizations.

Utils sub-package:
- TranslationHandler: Singleton allowing to use translation services of Apertium, Google Translate and/or Moses.

Model package:
Data classes:
- LanguageFolder: Matches a language to its repository and index.
- PaperHit: Resulting item from a query.
- ResultsList: List of resulting items from a query.
- QueryTerms: Encapsulates a query string over each language, or one string that combines all languages.
- IndexedDocLSA: Data for indexing a document in LSA.

View package:
GUI related classes.

More information in the included JavaDocs and UML class-layout.

List of some open-source resources used:
===============

For title and plain-text extraction from pdf files:
- PDF-Inspector: https://github.com/Docear/PDF-Inspector

For matrix operations during LSA:
- Apache Commons Math: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/

For automated translation:
- Apertium Java Api: https://github.com/rmtheis/apertium-translator-java-api
- Apertium Web Service: http://api.apertium.org/

- Google Translate Api: https://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-java/
- Google Web Service: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs

- MOSES statistical machine translation system: http://www.statmt.org/moses/
- Aditionally Giza++ statistical translation models toolkit was required for alignment: https://code.google.com/p/giza-pp/
- Corpora used (still to be defined).

For PoS tagging in all languages:
- Stanford's PoS tagger: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml
Note that this required Java 1.8+

And specific PoS models:
English model:
- wsj-0-18-bidirectional-distsim.tagger

Trained on WSJ sections 0-18 using a bidirectional architecture and
including word shape and distributional similarity features.
Penn Treebank tagset.
Performance:
97.28% correct on WSJ 19-21
(90.46% correct on unknown words)

German model (not used in current version):
- german-fast.tagger

Lacks distributional similarity features.
Performance:
96.61% overall / 86.72% unknown.
Based on:
german-hgc.tagger
Trained on the first 80% of the Negra corpus, which uses the STTS tagset.
The Stuttgart-Tübingen Tagset (STTS) is a set of 54 tags for annotating
German text corpora with part-of-speech labels, which was jointly
developed by the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung of the
University of Stuttgart and the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft of the
University of Tübingen. See:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/CQPDemos/Bundestag/help-tagset.html
This model uses features from the distributional similarity clusters
built over the HGC.
Performance:
96.90% on the first half of the remaining 20% of the Negra corpus (dev set)
(90.33% on unknown words)

Spanish model (not used in current version):
- Spanish-distsim.tagger

For adding synonym sets as a form of post-processing query expansion:
- MultiWordNet: http://multiwordnet.fbk.eu/english/home.php (English ontology kindly provided by email).
- Additionally we used a MySQL server running a database with the ontologies provided in .sql format.

For indexing and parsing:
- Lucene: http://lucene.apache.org/

Information on specific versions, authors, etc., can be found in the repository itself.

Known issues:
===============
- Portability needs improvement: Facilitate the server configurations so as to make the system more portable.
- Field extraction with PDF Inspector must be improved. Buggy behaviour has been observed, such as breaking up words when extracting terms in German and Spanish. This must be corrected so we can consider indexing other fields (citations, keywords, authors, etc.) and their benefits/shortcomings. Perhaps other PDF parsers could be tested, as Lemur.
- Observed issues while using Apertium (one translation request EN->ES or ES->EN stalls from time to time).

Future work:
===============
- Extend LSI to accept new terms during indexing. Configure with realistic training data/parallel or comparable corpus available on the Web. Study benefits of alternative corpora. For this some pre-processing per language has to be added. So as to limit dictionary growth, feature selection could be done in the stage preceding semantic reduction, so as to speed the resulting matrix calculations for indexing and querying (this would be a variation from regular feature selection, for we have to keep the approximately paired relation between features in each language). Evaluate time for querying and improve if needed, by using better matrix algorithms.
- Check and upload Moses model support, add this to documentation. Evaluate possibilities for using extended features. Once more, study the potentials of alternative comparable corpora which could be mined from the web.
- Use WordNets from the other languages and extend with word-sense disambiguation and NER. This might lead to more accurate terms. Perhaps migrate to EuroWordNet. Study adequateness of current POS given that we have incomplete sentences.
- Consider alternatives for adding lexical/semantic support for users during query refinement.
- Test other boost-on-merge options.
- Consider pre-processing alternatives for each supported language.
- Study and consider solutions for dealing with out of vocabulary words.
- Comprehensive evaluation under a more realistic configuration + testing scheme.
- Additional improvements to the existing approaches with semantics and NLP, as well as extensions to the current LSA model, would be of interest too.

- Optionally other configurations could be studied.
	- The use of aditional information available to the recommender system, as a way of supporting translation-disambiguation, could be of interest for it represents a stronger embedding of the system with the translation services, and a benefit almost exclusive to cross-language recommender systems (since, by comparison, most cross-language information retrieval systems rely on much more limited information for disambiguation). Several approaches could be tested:
		- A less embedded approach would be to provide the translation services with a larger body of text and then extract only the parts that are required.
		- Also with Moses a bag-of-words approach could be used for it to return potential, instead of exact, translations. Each of these words can be assigned an associated weight, which serves to signal the most likely translation to the document retriever or the indexer. The weights can be further tuned with a knowledge or corpus-based approach.
		- Inter-lingual nets coupled with good word-sense predictors, could be considered as a form of dictionary tranlation.
- Embedding the cross-language aspects into the inner workings of recommender systems. For this our query definition has to be extended so it includes any additional data that the recommender system might use needing translation. The matching itself can be performed in any way the recommender system does, and finally the merging can be adapted to suit the existing system. Of particular interest would be supporting translation of citation-related information (such as citation context), for this might enable the research paper recommender system to produce better cross-language recommendations, by having a multi-language characterization of how a paper is cited. This could be a fruitful area of research. Also, supporting other characteristics of the recommender, for example, recommendations of sequences of papers.

-Considerations of relevance feedback could be added.

-Language recognizer functionality could be added, perhaps to deal with OoV words, or other issues.

-Other indexer systems might provide benefits instead of Lucene: Wumpus, Indri (packed with Lemur project, for parsing pdfs)...

-Extensions to other languages + devising a clean process for incorporating these sort of extensions.

-Future studies on potential benefits of using semantic net-based similarity measures for cross-lingual queries might be of interest, since it's not a much researched topic.

- Finally, with a basis on our work and the large amount of technologies available, aditional cross-language services could be further built for users, such as cross-languge query suggestions,  providing multi-lingual explanations for the cross-language recommendations, etc.


The Central Hospital in Kristianstad, Sweden (CSK) is the world's first hospital to introduce the resource efficient, ultra hygienic shower system, Shower of the Future, by award winning Swedish start-up, ORBITAL SYSTEMS.
ORBITAL SYSTEMS' patented recycling technology saves up to 90% of the water and, since the purified water only needs reheating, up to 80% of the energy as well. The nano technology filter system is so effective that the hot water actually contains less bacteria than shower water straight from the tap, according to tests performed by the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (current Public Health Agency of Sweden). The purification system ensures that the shower water is completely free from Legionella bacteria, which otherwise poses a significant threat to patients with reduced immune system capacity, and thereby also is a major cost in preventing it from spreading.
This first installation is an important part of the regional healthcare environmental program in Southern Sweden for 2010 – 2020, where patient hygiene until now has been a significant cost. A reduction to 10 – 20% of today's consumption is an important step towards a climate neutral and sustainable healthcare.
- Looking to energy and water savings alone, we expect the investment to have paid for itself within three years. After that, we save money for every shower, says Sten Velander, environmental strategist at CSK. If we consider the reduced costs from eliminated Legionella prevention, it will have paid for itself much sooner.
The Shower of the Future has been granted Certified Space Technology by the United States Space Foundation, since the technology is developed along the same principles applied for space shuttles, where water and energy are limited resources. The technology itself has won the price as Sweden's greatest invention (SKAPA 2014) and in the US as one of the world's leading innovations (Edison Award 2015) as well as being a finalist for the biggest European price for environmental technology in Germany (Green Tech Award 2015) and the world's most acknowledge design price (INDEX: Award 2015) in Denmark.
- We are proud to be a part of the development towards a more sustainable healthcare in Sweden and we see that our technology really does make a big difference, says Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, Founder and CEO, ORBITAL SYSTEMS. Swedish healthcare is pioneering new technology and CSK is leading the way in Sweden.
Even though ORBITAL SYSTEMS' showers provide a 90% lower water consumption, the water pressure is still 50% higher than in a conventional shower. This means improved comfort and hygiene, but also a much better shower experience for the user.
The showers have met the regional healthcare system's comprehensive standards regarding economy, hygiene, sustainability and materials, where all the relevant levels of staff and management at the hospital, have participated. The installation at CSK sets a new standard for healthcare providers in the Nordic and northern Europe, securing the Nordic lead in sustainable healthcare.


text:
Stone man lands on tough times
Archibald Hawkins of Flower Hill in St James showing off his works of art.
Archibald Hawkins' house in Flower Hill, St James.
Archibald Hawkins of Flower Hill in St James is a self-taught landscaper. His works of art are laden throughout his yard space for all passersby to see. They range from a simple wall to more intricate designs such as tables, chairs, and more.
The pieces are made from thousands of individual rocks which were compacted neatly without support or reinforcement.
"Mi start do this thing when P.J. Patterson was the prime minister and is about three years now since mi finish everything," the 79-year-old farmer told Western Star.
"I gather stone from the community and build the wall first. I had no understanding about them yah thing before. One Friday, mi deh yah and mi reap some tobacco. Mi never have no money at all. Mi have two foot a tobacco and mi go a road and sell it. Mi use the money and buy some herb, rizzla, and lighter and come in the house and make a spliff. Mi go a the doorway and light it and make one big draw and leggo the smoke, and same time me see the image start come right before mi eyes," he said.
Hawkins said that this was the motivation he needed to further nurture his talent and create even more stone designs.
"People come and admire it and a say it sell off. They like the designs. I don't use no cement. If rain fall, or anything, them stand up steady same way, nah mash up," said Hawkins.
The elder lives alone in a small two-room board dwelling, which he once shared with his now-deceased mother. Unfortunately, the structure has seen better days, with huge chunks of the flooring, sides, and roofing missing.
Hakwins has no kids or immediate family members, and no one to help him with his troubles. He worries whenever its rains and has to face the heat during the day and the cold air at night-time.
"I would really want some help with the house because a me one and mi no have nobody to turn to," he said, solemnly.
Persons who wish to contact Hawkins can do so at 876-507-6996.


The Complainant is Inter IKEA Systems B.V., Delft LN, Netherlands, represented by Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services AB, Sweden.
The Respondent is Privacy Protection, Moscow, Russian Federation.
The disputed domain name <ikea37.com> is registered with CJSC Registrar R01 (the "Registrar").
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on December 14, 2012. On December 14, 2012, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On December 17, 2012, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details. In response to a notification by the Center that the Language of the registration is Russian, the Complainant filed an email communication confirming its request for English to be the language of the administrative proceedings. The Respondent did not respond to the Language of Proceeding Notification.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on January 4, 2013. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was January 24, 2013. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on January 29, 2013.
The Center appointed Piotr Nowaczyk as the sole panelist in this matter on February 26, 2013. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
The Panel determined in accordance with the Complainant's request and paragraph 11(a) of the Rules, that the language of these administrative proceedings shall be the English language. The Panel finds that it would be appropriate to conduct the proceedings in the English language since the Complainant has sent the cease and desist letter in English, and the Respondent has never answered it. Moreover, the center proceeded in both the English and Russian languages and indicated that it would accept a Response in either language. The Respondent has ignored all attempts to solve this issue amicably, and the Panel finds it cannot profit from its intentional default, hence the language of these proceedings shall, upon the request of the Complainant, be English.
The Complainant is the owner of a unique concept for the sale of furniture and home furnishing products marketed under the trademark IKEA. The Complainant's business model is developed through a franchise system in which only approved and licensed retailers are authorized to participate in the exclusive distribution system and make use of the IKEA trademark. Today, there are 338 IKEA stores in 38 countries operating under IKEA franchise agreements.
The Complainant owns over 1,500 trademark registrations for IKEA and IKEA variants in more than 80 countries around the world, covering goods and services in the International Classes 2, 8, 9, 11, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42, and 43, among others. The Complainant has several trademark registrations valid in the Russian Federation with the most senior dated September 24, 1982 (registration number: 71843). There are currently 14 IKEA stores located in the Russian Federation which is the country where the Respondent apparently resides. The Complainant has also registered the trademark IKEA incorporated in more than 300 gTLDs and ccTLDs domain names worldwide, among these; <ikea.com>.
The Complainant underlined that the mark IKEA is an invented name. It is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd), and his home parish (Agunnaryd) and it has no meaning in any language other than as a trademark identifying IKEA as a source of origin. The Complainant also submits that the trademark IKEA is considered to be significant. In 2012, IKEA websites had over 1.1 billion visitors. The trademark IKEA is one of the most well-known trademarks in the world. The mark IKEA is in possession of substantial inherent and acquired distinctiveness.
The disputed domain name comprises the word "Ikea", which is identical to the registered trademark IKEA, therefore the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's world famous trademark IKEA. The addition of the suffix "37" is not relevant and will not have any impact on the overall impression of the dominant part of the name, IKEA, instantly recognizable as a world famous trademark.
The domain name was registered by the Respondent on February 19, 2012, decades after the Complainant registered the IKEA trademark in the Russian Federation. The mere registration of a domain name does not give the owner a right or a legitimate interest in respect of the disputed domain name. Therefore, in the Complainant's view it is highly unlikely that the Respondent would not have known of the Complainant's legal rights in the name "Ikea" at the time of registration. It is rather obvious that it is the fame of the trademark that has motivated the Respondent to register the disputed domain name.
In the Complainant's opinion anyone who sees the disputed domain name is bound to mistake it for a name related to the Complainant. The likelihood of confusion includes an obvious association with the trademark of the Complainant. With reference to the reputation of the trademark, IKEA, there is a considerable risks that the public will perceive the Respondent's domain name either as a domain name owned by the Complainant or that there is some kind of commercial relation with the Complainant. The trademark also risk being tarnished by being connected to a website owned by a third party. By using the trademark as a dominant part of the disputed domain name, the Respondent exploits the goodwill and the image of the trademark, which may result in dilution and other damage for the Complainant's trademark. The Complainant is confident that anyone who sees the disputed domain name, even without being aware of the content, are likely to think that the disputed domain name is in some way connected to the Complainant, ("initial interest confusion").
The Complainant states that the Respondent has registered and is using the disputed domain name in bad faith. The Complainant has not found that the Respondent has any registered trademarks or trade names corresponding to the disputed domain name. Nor has the Complainant found anything that would suggest that the Respondent has been using the name/trademark IKEA in any other way that would give them any rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. Consequently, the Respondent may not claim any rights established by common usage. It is also clear, that no license or authorization of any other kind has been given by the Complainant to the Respondent to use the trademark IKEA.
Furthermore, the Respondent is not using the disputed domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services. Instead the Respondent has intentionally chosen a domain name based on a registered trademark in order to generate traffic to his own website, offering home delivery services of products sold by the Complainant.
By doing this, the Respondent is misleading Internet users to a commercial website. It is highly likely that visitors would be confused into falsely thinking that this is a website owned, or sponsored, by the Complainant. No evidence has been found that the Respondent uses the name as a company name or has any other legal right in the name IKEA.
A complaint may only be admitted if the above criteria are met simultaneously.
The Complainant has proven that the disputed domain name <ikea37.com> is identical or confusingly similar to the name, trademarks and service marks of the Complainant.
The Complainant's trademark IKEA is an invented word with no meaning and therefore inherently distinctive. It is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd), and his home parish (Agunnaryd).
The confusing similarity of the disputed domain name <ikea37.com> to the Complainant's trademark IKEA is apparent from a simple visual comparison. The disputed domain name is a replica of the Complainant's mark with the non-distinctive numerical suffix "37". This is sufficient to satisfy the requirement that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to a mark in which the Complainant has rights (see also Oki Data Americas, Inc. v. ASD, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2001-0903 wherein the UDRP panel found that "when a domain name incorporates a complainant's mark in its entirety, it is confusingly similar to that mark despite the addition of other words"). Any added words, most obviously the suffix comprising of the number "37" is not sufficient to establish that the disputed domain name is not confusingly similar to the mark IKEA.
Moreover, the disputed domain name <ikea37.com> contains a famous, trademark owned legally by the Complainant IKEA and is confusingly similar to other domain names largely owned by the Complainant (i.e. <ikea.com>).
The Panel therefore finds that the disputed domain name <ikea37.com> is confusingly similar to the Complainant's trademark and as a consequence, the Complaint brought by the Complainant meets the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy.
From the evidence submitted before the Panel it is clear that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name.
The Respondent is not the Complainant's licensee in any respect, nor is the Respondent authorised to use the Complainant's marks. There is no evidence of the Respondent's use of, or demonstrable preparation to use, the disputed domain name or a name corresponding to the disputed domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services. There is no evidence that the Respondent is making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the disputed domain name, noting the use of the Complainant's trademark in the Respondent's website which appears to be for a commercial purpose.
Nonetheless, the Respondent was also given the opportunity to contest the Complainant's prima facie case against it. However, the Respondent did not submit any evidence that would demonstrate that it has any rights to, or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name <ikea37.com>.
The Panel therefore infers from the Respondent's silence and the Complainant's contentions that the Respondent has no serious arguments to prove its rights to, or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name <ikea37.com>. The Panel considers the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy fulfilled.
The Panel considers the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy fulfilled.
The Complainant is the owner of the trademark and worldwide known mark IKEA and the owner of the domain name <ikea.com>, under which it runs its official website.
The trademark IKEA belonging to the Complainant has the status of a well-known and reputed trademark with a substantial and widespread reputation throughout the world. Finally, as rightly pointed out by the Complainant according to the provisions of Article 6bis of the Paris Convention for protection of Industrial Property ("PC"), confirmed and extended by Article 16.2 and Article 16.3 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPS Agreement"), the statute of a well-known trademark provides the owner of such a trademark with the right to prevent any use of the well-known trademark or a confusingly similar denomination in connection with any products or services (i.e. regardless of the list of the products and services for which the trademark is registered). Thus, the Panel shares the Complainant's view that the protection for the IKEA trademark goes far beyond furniture and goods similar to furniture. Bad faith has already been found where a domain name is so obviously connected with a well-known trademark that its very use by someone with no connection with the trademark suggests opportunistic bad faith (LEGO Juris A/S v. Reiner Stotte, WIPO Case No. D2010-0494; Sanofi-aventis v. Nevis Domains LLC, WIPO Case No. D2006-0303).
Furthermore, the Complainant advised the Respondent by letter that the unauthorized use of the IKEA trademark within the Domain Name violated the Complainant's rights in said trademark, requesting the Respondent to voluntarily transfer the disputed Domain Name. The Respondent, however, did not react to this request.
Given the fame of the IKEA mark and also the activities of the Complainant in Russian Federation , it is inconceivable that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant before registering <ikea37.com>. It can therefore reasonably be excluded beyond any doubt that the Respondent created a name, which happened to consist of the word "ikea" and the number "37".
Moreover, the Panel is persuaded that the Respondent is using the disputed domain name to intentionally attempt to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of its website. The Respondent does not adequately disclose the relationship, or lack thereof, between the Respondent and the Complainant and does therefore conveying the false impression that the Respondent is an authorized service center for the Complainant's products. Further, there is no visible disclaimer that the website is not endorsed or sponsored by the Complainant to explain the non-existing relationship with the trademark holder. Instead there is a copyright text displayed at the bottom of the website. Rather, the Respondent in the opinion of the Panel is trying to impersonate the official website of the Complainant by adding the IKEA logo to the website.
In the similar case InterIKEA Systems B.V. v. Michael Huang, WIPO Case No. D2004-0908, the disputed domain name <wwwikea.com> was connected to a website offering furniture. In this case the UDRP panel held; "In view of the above, it can be concluded that the goal of the Respondent's registration was to intentionally attract internet users interested in the Complainant's website for the Respondent's own commercial gain." The same discussion applies in the current case.
As a result, the Panel finds that the disputed domain name <ikea37.com> was registered and is used by the Respondent in bad faith and considers the requirements of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy to be fulfilled.
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name, <ikea37.com> be transferred to the Complainant.


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/*global describe, Touche, expect, it, before, beforeEach, after, afterEach*/
describe('Gesture', function () {
	var body = document.body,
		resetSupportedEvents,
		el;

	describe('#LongTap - Mouse', function () {

		before(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents = Touche.simulate.setSupportedEvents();

			el = document.createElement('div');
			el.style.position = "absolute";
			el.style.top = "0px";
			el.style.left = "0px";
			el.style.width = "100px";
			el.style.height = "100px";
			body.appendChild(el);
		});

		beforeEach(function () {
			var context = this;
			context.called = false;
			context.intervalCount = 0;
			context.cancelled = false;
			context.gesture = {
				options: {
					timeThreshold: 200,
					interval: 10
				},
				start: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				update: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				end: function () {
					context.called = true;
				},
				cancel: function () {
					context.cancelled = true;
				}
			};
			Touche(el).longtap(context.gesture);
		});

		it('should get called when tapping in center point and time threshold is met, update should get called 20 times, for mouse events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(500);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				mouse: ['down']
			}, 'mouse');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					mouse: ['up']
				}, 'mouse');
				expect(context.called).to.be(true);
				expect(context.intervalCount).to.be(20);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(false);
				done();
			}, 225);
		});

		it('should be cancelled when tapping in center point and time threshold is not met, for mouse events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(250);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				mouse: ['down']
			}, 'mouse');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					mouse: ['up']
				}, 'mouse');
				expect(context.called).to.be(false);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(true);
				done();
			}, 100);
		});

		afterEach(function() {
			Touche(el).off('longtap');
			expect(Touche.cache.data.length).to.be(0);
		});

		after(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents();
			body.removeChild(el);
		});
	});

	describe('#LongTap - Touch', function () {

		before(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents = Touche.simulate.setSupportedEvents({ touch: true });

			el = document.createElement('div');
			el.style.position = "absolute";
			el.style.top = "0px";
			el.style.left = "0px";
			el.style.width = "100px";
			el.style.height = "100px";
			body.appendChild(el);
		});

		beforeEach(function () {
			var context = this;
			context.called = false;
			context.intervalCount = 0;
			context.cancelled = false;
			context.gesture = {
				options: {
					timeThreshold: 200,
					interval: 10
				},
				start: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				update: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				end: function () {
					context.called = true;
				},
				cancel: function () {
					context.cancelled = true;
				}
			};
			Touche(el).longtap(context.gesture);
		});

		it('should get called when tapping in center point and time threshold is met, update should get called 20 times, for touch events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(500);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				touch: ['start']
			}, 'touch');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					touch: ['end']
				}, 'touch');
				expect(context.called).to.be(true);
				expect(context.intervalCount).to.be(20);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(false);
				done();
			}, 450);
		});

		it('should be cancelled when tapping in center point and time threshold is not met, for touch events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(250);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				touch: ['start']
			}, 'touch');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					touch: ['end']
				}, 'touch');
				expect(context.called).to.be(false);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(true);
				done();
			}, 100);
		});

		it('should be cancelled when tapping in center point and using more than one finger, for touch events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(250);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				touch: ['start']
			}, 'touch');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, [new Touche.Point(50,50), new Touche.Point(50,50)], {
					touch: ['move']
				}, 'touch');
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					touch: ['end']
				}, 'touch');
				expect(context.called).to.be(false);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(true);
				done();
			}, 25);
		});

		afterEach(function() {
			Touche(el).off('longtap');
			expect(Touche.cache.data.length).to.be(0);
		});

		after(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents();
			body.removeChild(el);
		});
	});

	describe('#LongTap - MSPointer', function () {

		before(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents = Touche.simulate.setSupportedEvents({ pointer: true });

			el = document.createElement('div');
			el.style.position = "absolute";
			el.style.top = "0px";
			el.style.left = "0px";
			el.style.width = "100px";
			el.style.height = "100px";
			body.appendChild(el);
		});

		beforeEach(function () {
			var context = this;
			context.called = false;
			context.intervalCount = 0;
			context.cancelled = false;
			context.gesture = {
				options: {
					timeThreshold: 200,
					interval: 10
				},
				start: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				update: function() {
					context.intervalCount++;
				},
				end: function () {
					context.called = true;
				},
				cancel: function () {
					context.cancelled = true;
				}
			};
			Touche(el).longtap(context.gesture);
		});

		it('should get called when tapping in center point and time threshold is met, update should get called 20 times, for ms pointer events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(250);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				MSPointer: ['Down']
			}, 'MSPointer');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					MSPointer: ['Up']
				}, 'MSPointer');
				expect(context.called).to.be(true);
				expect(context.intervalCount).to.be(20);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(false);
				done();
			}, 225);
		});

		it('should be cancelled when tapping in center point and time threshold is not met, for ms pointer events', function (done) {
			this.timeout(250);
			var context = this;
			Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
				MSPointer: ['Down']
			}, 'MSPointer');
			setTimeout(function() {
				Touche.simulate.gesture(el, null, {
					MSPointer: ['Up']
				}, 'MSPointer');
				expect(context.called).to.be(false);
				expect(context.cancelled).to.be(true);
				done();
			}, 100);
		});

		afterEach(function() {
			Touche(el).off('longtap');
			expect(Touche.cache.data.length).to.be(0);
		});

		after(function() {
			resetSupportedEvents();
			body.removeChild(el);
		});
	});
});


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Suchitra's Response to Swara's Letter Shows 'Men-First' Mentality
Director of 'Anaarkali of Aarah' responds to Krishnamoorthi's criticism of Swara Bhasker's letter on 'Padmaavat'.
Avinash Das
Updated: 02 Feb 2018, 3:33 PM IST
Actress Swara Bhasker wrote an open letter to director Sanjay Leela Bhansali after watching his film Padmaavat. Although Bhansali himself hasn't responded to it, many others have come forward with their opinion on the letter.
If you leave out all the abuse and trolling, the crux of most opinions against the letter is that Bhansali cannot change history and jauhar is not an imaginary climax to the story of Padmaavat, but an actual one.
From what I understood, Swara wasn't talking about altering history or the climax, rather she was talking about the directorial approach.
How we look at historical incidents, centuries after they have occurred, is significant.
In Bhansali's approach to Padmavati's jauhar, you see faith, there is no doubt about it. But actress and singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi's tweet over Swara's letter stunned me a little.
Suchitra dismissed Swara's point because the latter has portrayed the character of Anarkali on screen, and since, according to Suchitra, this was a 'dirty' character someone who had portrayed it shouldn't say anything for women.
I thought, the woman who couldn't understand Anarkali, how could she ever understand Padmavati's pain! Since I created the character of Anarkali, I felt I should put forward my thoughts on Suchitra's tweets.
Have Right to Express My Opinion: Swara After Padmaavat Criticism
The story of Anarkali came to me in 2006. It was a very small incident. I used to work for a TV channel those days and was searching for videos on YouTube during a night shift.
I found a Bhojpuri song and started watching it. The song was bawdy and had a vulgar video. It was made to titillate the audience. But the voices singing the song were so beautiful that I continued to listen.
For a few seconds in the video, the two women singing the song appear on screen behind a microphone. The song these thin emaciated women with sunken cheeks were singing can be roughly translated to "these green, green limes are really round, touch them and see, you will love it".
I noticed that despite singing such an intoxicating song, there was no lasciviousness on their faces. I played it over and over and realised that they were singing mechanically. They didn't feel the song, their hearts were not the source of the provocative lyrics. This was the bit that made me look inside for the pain such singers hide, and it led me to the story of Anarkali.
Bollywood Shifts Gaze From Glitzy Lands Abroad to Ground Realities
In a feudalistic society, if a woman is a mother or a sister, she is still a commodity – and if she is a prostitute, she is still commodity. A woman has no identity of her own.
The number of women who have managed to free themselves is so low when compared to the female population of the country that we can't say with confidence that women are standing united against this age-old enslavement.
They are so used to their fate that they do not find their condition unnatural. So, when Suchitra Krishnamoorthi says that Swara Bhaskar, who played the role of Anarkali, is only pretending to separate herself from the naturalness of Padmavati's jauhar and it is her double standard, she is not really saying anything wrong.
There is a social history of honouring Padmavati's jauhar and it is because of the jauhar only that Rajput women idealise Padmavati. But it pains me when a woman who lived with the maker of Bandit Queen (Shekhar Kapur) does not see Padmavati's jauhar as a tragic episode in the history of Indian women. Bandit Queen was the first authentic recital of a woman's pain in Hindi cinema.
Let us look at our society today, where women are no longer responsible for setting up fires to light the night because we have electricity, where women have mobile phones, which they use to communicate with their lovers regularly. If even in this era we see Padmavati's jauhar as a final justice for women, then we'll have to accept that our consciousness does not evolve with technological advancement.
Consciousness evolves with parity between the genders, and with believing inequality to be illegal. However, these social ills still have a strong hold over us.
Suchitra is a modern, self-reliant woman. However, she still holds a view that a prostitute is just a pleasure-giving object. This is why she shamed Swara Bhasker – because how can a woman who portrayed the character of prostitute raise a finger at Padmavati?
Anyway, people can think whatever they want and they have the right to do so, but if they express their thoughts publicly, others will surely react.
Swara put her view forward, and people responded. The same way, what Suchitra said also needs to be discussed.
I am surprised that instead of an ideological response, she chose a personal attack. This is where she lost, because the person who couldn't understand Anarkali's context of freedom, cannot question Padmavati's jauhar.
I had the option of letting Anarkali get lost in society's darkness. But I chose to show her breathing free. I took the story forward with Anarkali's perseverance and hope.
The society that doesn't see a woman as more than a vagina, which gives banal responses to the numerous incidents of rape, how will it accommodate Anarkali stepping out of the marketplace and at their doorstep? This is exactly what Suchitra has said – how can one who portrayed the character of a prostitute say such a big thing?
Had No Idea My Open Letter Would Create Such Chaos: Swara Bhasker
But Swara Bhasker is not Suchitra Krishnamoorthy.
While, in all her political statements, Swara Bhasker has constantly questioned and attacked deep-rooted social assumptions, Suchitra's tweet has clearly shown what her understanding of society, politics, tradition, and women is.
This characteristic of hers is the reason why she blended so well with the liberated consciousness of Anarkali in the movie. This is why she gets angry and starts shouting at every anti-freedom opinion.
After watching Padmaavat, I had also written that in a male-centric society, women are born with a destiny for sacrifice.
Alauddin Khilji of Delhi considered women to be playthings, and Mewar's Rawal Ratan Singh also, in giving Padmavati permission for jauhar, denied the possibility of a woman's identity existing separately from a man.
It would have been great if in the guise of Khilji and Ratan Singh's story, Bhansali had made a film on the condition of the women in those times.
Krishnamoorthy's response reminded me of a few lines from the Hindi poem Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan (Rebelling Girls) by the poet Alok Dhanwa. He says,
"Ladki Bhaagti hai jaise safaid ghorde par sawar/ Lalach aur jue ke aar par/ Jarjar dulhon se kitni dhul uthti hai… tum jo patniyon ko alag rakhte ho vashiyaon se/aur premikaon ko alag rakhte ho patniyon se/ kitna atankit hote ho jab stri bekhauf bhatakti hai dhundti hui apna vykatativa/ ek hi saath vashiyaon aur patniyon aur premikaon mein… ab to who kahin bhi ho sakti hai/ un aagami deshon mein/ jahan prayan ek kaam hoga pura ka pura!"
(The girl runs, like riding a horse/ beyond greed and gambling/ so much dust rises from these crumbling bridegrooms…you who keep your wives separate from whores/ and your lovers separate from the wives/ how terrified you are when the woman roams fearlessly searching for her individuality/ together in whores and wives and lovers…now she can be anywhere/ in the ensuing realms/ where wooing her will be a project in itself.)
I hope Krishnamoorthy reads these lines and reflects on her comments.
(Avinash Das is a journalist and 'Anaarkali of Aarah' was his second stint as director. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author's own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for the same.)
(This article has been translated from Quint Hindi.)
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Topics: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bandit Queen Swara Bhaskar
Published: 02 Feb 2018, 8:15 AM IST


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Snapshots and Other Updates Reviewers Love About Creo 8
Written By: Cat McClintock
Read Time : 2 min.
For the second year in a row, Develop3D, an international publication focused on new product development technologies, has named Creo among the 30 best of the year.
Selected entirely on merit, Develop3D believes that each of their top 30 selections will change the way the industry uses technology to design, engineer, and manufacture products.
For 2021, the magazine specifically cited new Snapshot commands in Creo 8 for the honor. With Snapshots, Develop3D writes, PTC surpasses the state of the art. "Snapshots… provide a quick insight into a model's history and allow you to reuse any of the geometry from that history in just a couple of clicks."
Video: Show Snapshot command in Creo 8 demonstrated.
What Reviewers Say About Creo 8
In a recent review, editor-in-chief of Develop3D Al Dean, praised Creo 8 overall, saying that it continues adding "brand new tools and technologies, without being afraid to revisit existing tools and workflows and improve them." He notes that those same qualities landed the 3D CAD software on the top 30 list last year.
In the review, Dean spotlights several advances in Creo 8 such as the following:
Modeling Basics
While updates to core modeling don't grab headlines, Dean writes that these changes are among his favorites.
Indeed, he launches his review with a look at "seemingly minor but key improvements" in the Creo 8 core user interface. He then spotlights two new capabilities in Creo 8 "that look set to impact almost every user's workflow and efficiency":
Design Items folder, which gives users the power to organize bodies and surfaces in the model tree.
Snapshot feature, which allows you to see the geometry used to create a feature.
Dean cites both capabilities as examples of PTC revisiting old workflows without fear. He even suggests other vendors should think about adopting that approach themselves!
Further, Dean covers Creo 8's new inseparable assemblies functionality, which is particularly useful for purchased parts and subassemblies. He then devotes several paragraphs to updates for working on holes. For example, support for wider hole types, including NPT, PTF and ISO 7 standards…"
Model-Based Definition (MBD)
Moving into some specialized areas of the software, Dean writes, "PTC has been ahead of the MBD curve for quite some time, pouncing on it before many of its competitors."
Creo 8 further expands users' options with a symbol gallery and a newly streamlined placement and editing workflow added to its MBD capabilities.
Dean noticed. "While other software companies are still trying to get their houses in order to support these processes, PTC is already tackling some of their nuances and finer points, ensuring that users who choose to go down this path have the tools they need," he writes.
Simulation technology has taken great strides in Creo in recent years, largely due to PTC's partnership with industry leader, Ansys.
As for Creo 8? "Once again, we've seen the partnership with Ansys bearing fruit and extending Creo's simulation capabilities," writes Dean. "This applies to both the real-time Simulation Live tools and the more traditional tools, and now extends to including the Ansys Mechanical solvers directly in the Creo interface. If you're going to partner with a simulation vendor and take advantage of its knowledge and capabilities, Ansys is a pretty solid bet, right?"
Work in generative design continues as well. The Develop3D review illustrates how Creo and cloud computation work together to create multiple design alternatives: you set up loads, constraints, and design criteria to generate a design locally using topology optimization. Then, you can also send the same study to the cloud to simultaneously generate multiple designs, even apply filters and compare alternatives to select the best option, and more.
If you're curious about how generative design works in product development, the illustrated workflow included in the article provides a quick education. (You can download a copy of the review here.)
Machining and Additive Manufacturing
Dean reviews manufacturing updates in Creo 8, citing, among other things, 5-axis operations for both roughing and automatic deburring and capabilities for converting toolpaths into 5-axis operations.
Last but not at all least: the review examines additive manufacturing. "PTC offers a set of AM tools that's better than most," writes Dean. "The last few releases have seen latticing tools added into the system for lightweighting and the development of more structured parts/materials. For the Creo 8 release, this work continues with … simulation driven lattices and formula-based lattice structures."
To read the entire Develop3D review of Creo 8, download a PDF copy of Al Dean's review.
Develop3D Reviews Creo 8
For the second year in a row, Develop3D has placed Creo among its top 30 technologies for product developers. Find out why in their recent review of Creo 8.
DEVELOP3D REVIEW
Cat McClintock
Cat McClintock edits the Creo and Mathcad blogs for PTC. She has been a writer and editor for 15+ years, working for CAD, PDM, ERP, and CRM software companies. Prior to that, she edited science journals for an academic publisher and aligned optical assemblies for a medical device manufacturer. She holds degrees in Technical Journalism, Classics, and Electro-Optics. She loves talking to PTC customers and learning about the interesting work they're doing and the innovative ways they use the software.
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I am no longer a Paris virgin; the city of romance is the latest to be knocked off my 'yet to get to' list. In fact, while a month ago I had still not been, I've now already made two short visits. And, stereotypically, I have fallen in love with the place.
Visit one was the less planned of the two – a few unexpected places became available on a school trip, so I ended up as one of the three adults accompanying 10 students – dream numbers or what? And while I say students, the truth is that they are all aged 17-20, so they hardly needed close supervision. Let's call this the more educational of my two trips to the capital – taking in the Louvre, the Père Lachaise cemetery, Notre Dame cathedral and so on. Of course, this being my first time, a gaze at the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tour were also obligatory. This was also the cheaper of the two trips (though neither were expensive) – free travel there, back and around, free accommodation and breakfast – my only expenses were on a couple of meals and a ticket to a comedy show. Free is good.
Visit two was all about the steak, the sorbet and the sangria – and damn good it was too. This time was a weekend break, planned for some months now, with two university course mates, one still in the UK and one on placement with the CBI in Brussels. CBI-girl's boyfriend was kicked out of his central Parisian apartment (walking distance from the Champs d'Elysée) for the weekend, to allow us to take over. Free walking tour, a visit to the Sacré Coeur basilica and a general wander around the Montmartre area, and of course more gazing at the Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower (this time by night – pretty) ensued. Plus possibly one of the nicest meals of my life.
L'Ecurie, a cute little place in the 5ème arrondissement, came by recommendation from CBI-girl and her boyfriend, who chose it for a romantic new year's eve dinner and ended up being paired up with two British couples (CBI-girl and her boyfriend are German, but both study in the UK) – oddly, one of the couples ended up being there on our return to the restaurant. The word divine is overused, but it's well justified for this place – in equal measures for the food, lovingly prepared to order (literally – we were sat opposite the chef, and he was keeping a close eye as we munched on our entrée, to see when we would be ready for round 2) but also for the service – which is simply unbeatable.
Now this is by no means silver service, and the staff spent most of the night running around like blue arsed flies, but they were clearly passionate, and passion like that rubs off and really makes the atmosphere – which makes the place, no more so than here. Having failed in our attempts to get to the top of the Arc de Triomphe by night, we turned up half an hour early for our 9pm table reservation, and the whole place was full – but we ended up being plied with sangria and antipasti plates, all on the house. The staff's jovial nature – they clearly love running the place – meant that even though we ended up waiting past nine, it was a pleasure.
Three courses for 20€, up to 24,50€ with a jug of sangria to share and an espresso to finish. Not a bad intro to Paris, I'd say.


I have to say I enjoyed this book immensely more than the second book. This one for one actually had a plot that advanced very quickly and there was hardly any grammatical errors. The plot itself while not spectacular was just alright, but 8 times better than the second book.
This book basically starts off right where the second book ended. Konstantin shows up where Bryn is hiding and he offers her friendship. They go off to try to get support for their cause and to try to clear Bryn's name. For the most part, I don't see why Konstantin is always trying to help out Bryn when she doesn't even appreciate everything he did and just questioned every single motive.
Byrn still annoyed me in this book, but I am very happy that Konstantin is there to basically slap some sense into her. Every time she demanded something "for the good of the people", he was there to remind her that this was a war and one person can't come before the good of the many. It also annoyed me that she was ok if the war was happening anywhere except Doldastam, but as soon as it was suggested to bring it to them everyone there was an innocent bystander and shouldn't be brought into the war. I think she is seriously missing what the idea of a war is.
The addition of Konstantin helped a lot in the book. He just added something that was missing from the first two books. It also seems as if he is the most flushed out character for one that just became one of the cast. One aspect I did not like was the addition of a love triangle between him, Bryn, and Ridley. Thankfully though the love triangle was a little more one sided until the end (but I won't spoil it for you).
If you could just read the first book and this one, I think for the most part you will enjoy the series. If of course you can ignore all the parts where the author says that a character does something because they are a troll and it's the troll thing to do. Overall, I give this trilogy a 3 out of 5 stars (the second book really dragged it down for me).
I am a huge Kelley Armstrong fan, and I cannot wait for this book to come out!!! This seems a little bit different from what she normally writes, and it has a creepy mystery factor going on. Are you excited for this book as well? What are you waiting for this week?
Reading this book, I realized that I should have reread the first book before diving in. I remembered some aspects of the first book, but I forgot a lot of it. It might have helped me enjoy this book more, but realistically I don't think it would have helped.
I really wish the blurb matches the actual book. There is an impression that there is some deep long-hidden secret/mystery, but in reality that isn't the case until about the last chapter of the whole book! This book it seemed really suffered from the middle book syndrome. The plot didn't move that much, and the tension didn't rise until the end. The ending is what really helped the book get another star rating than what I would have given it.
Byrn didn't grow at all as a character in this book. She took everything as someone else's fault (if she didn't blame herself for something that wasn't even her fault), and it was either her way or the high way. I really don't know why so many people listened to her when her partner was of higher rank. (Also, I would like to note that the blurb says Ridley was in charge of the mission, but he wasn't even in Skojare. So no heating up of anything).
One aspect that bothered me throughout the book was the lack of editing. There was typos everywhere!!! Normally, one or two don't bother me, but this one had a bunch. Words were missing, words were duplicated, or there was missing punctuation. Which this isn't the authors fault, but her editor should have caught almost all of these before print.
I could go on and on about the negatives of this book, but I think I'll just stop here. Thankfully the book wasn't that long or I would have probably DNFed it, but I wanted to read the third book so I pushed my way through.
It's sad to say that I have not read this book yet, even though I have had it on my shelf since it first came out. I think at this point I will have to reread the first book before picking this one up. I guess it can all be in preparation for the third book that is coming out this May! I loved the first one, so I have high expectations for this one. Especially with all of the rave reviews that have been going around since it came out!
What is on your Goodreads TBR shelf this week?
At the end of Yellow Brick War, Amy had finally defeated Dorothy. Just when she and the rest of the surviving members of the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked thought it was safe to start rebuilding the damaged land of Oz, they realized they've been betrayed -by one of their own. And Dorothy might not have been so easily defeated after all.
In the fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, the magical Road of Yellow Brick has come to the rescue, and whisked Amy away -but to where? Does the Road itself know where she needs to go to find the help that she needs?
Hello, my fellow bloggers! I realize that I have been seriously slacking lately in my blog posts and haven't posted in about 2 weeks!!! Oops. I promise that this month will be a better month for me as hopefully I'll be gaining more energy after passing the first trimester. Man growing a baby is so exhausting. Do any mommy bloggers have any tips?
I have only read the first two books, and I have enjoyed them immensely. I did the mistake of reading the first novella and it kind of turned me away from this series. I do own the third book, so hopefully it will redeem the series for me. I also hope that this is the last book in the DMD series.
Side note: who wrote this synopsis? Does it really need "4th installment of the NYT bestselling Dorothy Must Die series…" twice?!


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