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Ed Sheeran Sued for Allegedly Plagiarizing Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"
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"Blurred Lines" Copyright Verdict Upheld by Appeals Court in Favor of Marvin Gaye's Family
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Marvin Gaye's 1964 Passport Discovered in Record Bought at Garage Sale
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Marvin Gaye's Son Widens Robin Thicke Theft Accusations Beyond 'Blurred Lines'
Robin Thicke to Marvin Gaye's Family: Let's Get It On (in Court) Over 'Blurred Lines'
Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones Cover Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye, 'What's Going On: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition' (Motown/UME)


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Milan Konjević (Beograd,1970) srpski je scenarista i reditelj. Poznat je po radu na stripovima Generacija Tesla i Borci sumraka, i kao režiser TV emisije Utisak nedelje.

Biografija
Milan Konjević je diplomirao filmsku i televizijsku režiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti u Beogradu 1997.

Godine 1996. je sa kompanijom -{Luxor Co.}- započeo rad na oživljavanju srpske strip scene stvorivši tri popularne strip franšize: Generacija Tesla, Borci sumraka i Romero. Nakon toga je režirao dokumentarac -{Return to the 1984}- kao i različite emisije na televiziji B92.

Pet godina je radio na fakultetu kao predavač.

Bio je jedan od scenarista i jedan od reditelja filma Zona mrtvih, kao i scenarista stripova Divlja magija i Faktor 4.

Filmografija
Pomoćnik reditelja:
 Tito i ja (1992) (nepotpisan)
 Paket aranžman (1995)
 Urgentni centar (2014-2015)

Reditelj:
 Zona mrtvih (2009)
 Sinđelići (2013-2014)
Sumnjiva lica(2016)
Moja generacija (serija) (2019)
 Istine i laži (2017-2019)
 Neki bolji ljudi (2020)
 Jugoslovenka (2020)
 Tate (2020-2021)
 Kolo sreće (2021)
 Outpost (2021) (1. epizoda)
 Igra sudbine (2022)
 Luda godina (u pripremi)
izvor: -{Milan Konjevic}- na -{IMDb}-

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Рођени 1970.
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The Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID)'s mission is to promote the development of a culture of prevention in Latin American and Caribbean countries through the compilation and dissemination of disaster-related...
Health Action in Crises Annual Report 2005
In 2005, disasters affected more than 150 million people worldwide. WHO's Health Action in Crisis Program has published its annual report of a year that started with the South East...
New Bibliography on Tsunami
The U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has started a new bibliographic compilation series entitled ISDR-BIBLIO. Much like CRID's Biblio-des series, each new edition will be dedicated to a specific...
We Can Act! A Disaster Risk Management Communication Kit
National authorities in Guatemala, U.N. agencies and NGOs joined forces to produce this excellent communication tool for emergency preparedness and management before, during and following disasters.
New Website Collects Andean Experiences
DIPECHO-funded project to collect risk management tools, models and methodologies in the Andean Region that can be used in other communities. Information about the activities related to this project is...
Member States Continue Preparing
There is broad agreement that a pandemic would not be solely a health issue, but rather a common challenge faced by many sectors and that high-level authorities must act to...
Tobago Broadens Scope of its Disaster Office
Trinidad and Tobago's national emergency management agency has broadened its scope of work and has become the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management, ODPM.
Andean Community to Develop Disaster Information Network
Member States in the Andean Region of South America recognize the importance of information management in the prevention and mitigation of natural disasters and of timely access to accurate information...
Guatemala Reopens Health Facilities Devastated by Hurricane Stan
Although Hurricane Stan was never more than a category one storm, the heavy rainfall (as opposed to hurricane-strength winds) in the mountainous regions of Guatemala caused devastating landslides and along...
Methanol Poisoning Emergency in Nicaragua
Forty-eight persons died and 15 were blinded by the toxic effects of methanol in an incident of mass poisoning in Nicaragua. Between 2-20 September, 801 people were treated for methanol...
Disaster Myths Still a Popular Topic
For 30 years, the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado (U.S.) has served as a national and international clearinghouse of knowledge concerning the social science and policy aspects...
When Every Minute Counts: Earmarked Funds Save Time in Emergencies
Without immediate access to funding, response operations can be delayed in humanitarian emergencies. Unfortunately, the normal grant proposal process is not conducive to the urgency of these situations
Measuring the Socioeconomic Impact of Health Crises
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and PAHO/WHO have a great deal of collective experience in assessing the economic and health impact (respectively) of natural disasters.
New Tool Being Developed to Measure Hospital Safety
PAHO/WHO's commitment to Safe Hospitals emphasizes the importance of: a) building new hospitals with a level of protection so they remain functional in disaster situations; and b) applying appropriate mitigation...
Survey Results on Preparedness in PAHO/WHO Member States
One year ago, the ministries of health of the Western Hemisphere asked PAHO/WHO to report on the status of disaster preparedness and risk reduction activities in the Americas. A survey...
Post-Disaster Needs Assessments: The Critical First Step
There are a variety of reasons to carry out post-disaster assessments: determining the immediate, short-term emergency needs of the survivors (the topic of this editorial); inventorying damage to housing, hospitals...
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Federal spending on America's children is heading down, and the drop in funding could be dramatic.
Raise the banners and strike up the band, because the "War on Poverty" is won. Mission accomplished! And that means it's time to hack down the safety net that saved the nation's poor.
But while the language marked a rhetorical reversal of the usual conservative efforts to undo Johnson-era programs designed to aid low-income Americans—which hinge on the conceit that federal aid is wasteful, not that it nailed it—the intent is largely the same. This was an argument for work requirements in welfare, one of the Trump administration's top domestic priorities.
The Trump administration's declaration might also come as a surprise to the millions of American children (still) living in what looks and feels a lot like poverty. Kids are major beneficiaries of most safety-net programs for food, housing, and healthcare. Some 44 percent of the people who receive food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are children, for example. Cutting spending on poverty means cutting spending on kids—a downward trend that is already happening.
Declaring an end to the war on poverty allows federal agencies to pivot to other goals, namely "self-sufficiency," which is a watchword for setting strict work requirements for aid. Congress has yet to pass draconian cuts to aid, but spending on children is already declining, even as overall federal spending continues to rise since the Great Recession. A new report from the Urban Institute finds that by 2020, the federal government will spend more on interest payments on its debt than it pays to provide support for children.
Children will receive just one cent of every dollar from the projected $1.6 trillion increase in federal spending authorized under the Trump administration, according to the report. And over the next decade, the children's share of the budget will drop from 9.4 percent to 6.9 percent.
That dip is happening even without factoring in the changes now being proposed by chief White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett* and company—those who argue that poverty's a thing of the past. If and when work requirements and cuts to aid are implemented, the outlook for kids will only get darker.
Medicaid is the largest source of federal expenditures for children: about $90 billion in 2017. Tax provisions make up another big chunk of spending on kids, namely the earned income tax credit ($60 billion in 2017), the child tax credit ($49 billion), and dependent exemptions ($38 billion). Other large categories of federal spending on kids include nutrition, education, and income through various programs. Spending in these discretionary categories is dropping already. Local and state governments—who pay the lion's share of spending on education—will be left to make up the gap.
Federal spending on children increased sizably between 1960 and 2010, thanks to a mix of demographic and political forces. Over the next decade, though, this trend will reverse as millions of Baby Boomers enter retirement and spending on older adults under Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is projected to soar. Interest payments on the rising federal debt will also go up.
These projections don't take into account the newer policy priorities under the Trump administration, which would shift spending away from children even more dramatically. For example, the House version of the farm bill would cut spending for food aid dramatically and establish strict work requirements for recipients.
If the White House report is any indication, its war on welfare is only just beginning. Getting to a near-zero figure for poverty requires some creative math, namely a cherry-picked "consumption-based" measure for poverty based on families' spending. This measure is wildly out of step with traditional and official measures for poverty. As researchers from the University of Michigan show, a consumption-based poverty measure indicates that poverty was worse during the early 2000s than during the Great Recession.
Similarly, the report's call for work requirements assumes that work-able adults who receive aid aren't working. Organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation say otherwise. In the end, children will be hurt by the policies set under these faulty premises.
More than 14 million people under age 17 were living below the federal poverty limit in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That number has fallen since 2012, but still represents about 20 percent of all children in the U.S. The share of federal spending for children that reaches low-income families has grown over time— meaning that the war on poverty is achieving results. That doesn't mean it's over: Spending cuts on food, housing, and healthcare will hurt children disproportionately. Kids can't live on alternative facts alone.
*CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story named Gary Cohn as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. He left the office in 2017, and left the White House in March. Kevin Hassett now serves as the chief White House economist.


"180 gram vinyl, gatefold sleeve. The title obviously is a reworking of Clear Spot - Translucent Fresnel (Fresnel is a spotlight). From the late 1960s through to 1980 John Peel collected tapes of recordings of Captain Beefhearts live shows, particularly ones in the UK. During a tidy up at Nan Trues Hole in 2003 he discovered around six large reels of tape containing many of Beefhearts live UK performances and he sent these on to Ozit Morpheus Records. Here is Volume 1 of material from the tapes." - Ozit.
"A glorious 40th anniversary double gatefold LP on 180 gram red vinyl. Unearths a mixture of past classics from Tractors career and previously unreleased recordings." - Ozit. Includes a CD of the entire album.


New York Times opinion writer Ernesto Londoño said he is concerned about fact-checking -- and the public's lack of interest in it -- during this presidential campaign.
Londoño was the keynote speaker for this year's Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture in Journalism, held Monday in the Belo Center for New Media. The program attracted students, alumni and Austin residents.
His lecture, "Opinion Writing in the Age of Twitter," highlighted some of the work he's done as an editorial writer, including leading the movement to normalize relations with Cuba. Londoño has been a member of The Times' editorial board since 2014, focusing on foreign affairs. He said he hoped to give students a sense of what it's like to be an opinion writer in an age where most have access to social media and can express their unvarnished opinion.
Londoño said his goal as a Times opinion writer is to point out the issues that most people may not be aware of.
"When you do that, you will land on an issue that other people are not harping about," Londoño said. "I think it's easier to give readers something that they may not have considered and haven't been getting deluged with.
Londoño was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, before he studied journalism and Latin American studies at the University of Miami.
Londoño, who also teaches international reporting at the City University of New York, said he hoped to devote a good portion of the lecture to questions from students, which he did. He said he finds it valuable to have those kind of exchanges.
This post was updated at 7 p.m. on Oct. 3.


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#include <grpc/grpc.h>
#include <grpc/support/alloc.h>
#include <grpc/support/log.h>
#include <grpc/support/string_util.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <gflags/gflags.h>
#include <string>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>

#ifdef __FreeBSD__
#include <sys/wait.h>
#endif

#include "test/cpp/util/subprocess.h"
#include "test/cpp/util/test_config.h"

#include "src/core/lib/gpr/env.h"
#include "test/core/util/port.h"

DEFINE_bool(
    running_under_bazel, false,
    "True if this test is running under bazel. "
    "False indicates that this test is running under run_tests.py. "
    "Child process test binaries are located differently based on this flag. ");

DEFINE_string(test_bin_name, "",
              "Name, without the preceding path, of the test binary");

DEFINE_string(grpc_test_directory_relative_to_test_srcdir,
              "/com_github_grpc_grpc",
              "This flag only applies if runner_under_bazel is true. This "
              "flag is ignored if runner_under_bazel is false. "
              "Directory of the <repo-root>/test directory relative to bazel's "
              "TEST_SRCDIR environment variable");

using grpc::SubProcess;

static volatile sig_atomic_t abort_wait_for_child = 0;

static void sighandler(int /*sig*/) { abort_wait_for_child = 1; }

static void register_sighandler() {
  struct sigaction act;
  memset(&act, 0, sizeof(act));
  act.sa_handler = sighandler;
  sigaction(SIGINT, &act, nullptr);
  sigaction(SIGTERM, &act, nullptr);
}

namespace {

const int kTestTimeoutSeconds = 60 * 2;

void RunSigHandlingThread(SubProcess* test_driver, gpr_mu* test_driver_mu,
                          gpr_cv* test_driver_cv, int* test_driver_done) {
  gpr_timespec overall_deadline =
      gpr_time_add(gpr_now(GPR_CLOCK_MONOTONIC),
                   gpr_time_from_seconds(kTestTimeoutSeconds, GPR_TIMESPAN));
  while (true) {
    gpr_timespec now = gpr_now(GPR_CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
    if (gpr_time_cmp(now, overall_deadline) > 0 || abort_wait_for_child) break;
    gpr_mu_lock(test_driver_mu);
    if (*test_driver_done) {
      gpr_mu_unlock(test_driver_mu);
      return;
    }
    gpr_timespec wait_deadline = gpr_time_add(
        gpr_now(GPR_CLOCK_MONOTONIC), gpr_time_from_seconds(1, GPR_TIMESPAN));
    gpr_cv_wait(test_driver_cv, test_driver_mu, wait_deadline);
    gpr_mu_unlock(test_driver_mu);
  }
  gpr_log(GPR_DEBUG,
          "Test timeout reached or received signal. Interrupting test driver "
          "child process.");
  test_driver->Interrupt();
  return;
}
}  // namespace

namespace grpc {

namespace testing {

void InvokeResolverComponentTestsRunner(
    std::string test_runner_bin_path, const std::string& test_bin_path,
    const std::string& dns_server_bin_path,
    const std::string& records_config_path,
    const std::string& dns_resolver_bin_path,
    const std::string& tcp_connect_bin_path) {
  int dns_server_port = grpc_pick_unused_port_or_die();

  SubProcess* test_driver = new SubProcess(
      {std::move(test_runner_bin_path), "--test_bin_path=" + test_bin_path,
       "--dns_server_bin_path=" + dns_server_bin_path,
       "--records_config_path=" + records_config_path,
       "--dns_server_port=" + std::to_string(dns_server_port),
       "--dns_resolver_bin_path=" + dns_resolver_bin_path,
       "--tcp_connect_bin_path=" + tcp_connect_bin_path});
  gpr_mu test_driver_mu;
  gpr_mu_init(&test_driver_mu);
  gpr_cv test_driver_cv;
  gpr_cv_init(&test_driver_cv);
  int test_driver_done = 0;
  register_sighandler();
  std::thread sig_handling_thread(RunSigHandlingThread, test_driver,
                                  &test_driver_mu, &test_driver_cv,
                                  &test_driver_done);
  int status = test_driver->Join();
  if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
    if (WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
      gpr_log(GPR_INFO,
              "Resolver component test test-runner exited with code %d",
              WEXITSTATUS(status));
      abort();
    }
  } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
    gpr_log(GPR_INFO,
            "Resolver component test test-runner ended from signal %d",
            WTERMSIG(status));
    abort();
  } else {
    gpr_log(GPR_INFO,
            "Resolver component test test-runner ended with unknown status %d",
            status);
    abort();
  }
  gpr_mu_lock(&test_driver_mu);
  test_driver_done = 1;
  gpr_cv_signal(&test_driver_cv);
  gpr_mu_unlock(&test_driver_mu);
  sig_handling_thread.join();
  delete test_driver;
  gpr_mu_destroy(&test_driver_mu);
  gpr_cv_destroy(&test_driver_cv);
}

}  // namespace testing

}  // namespace grpc

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  grpc::testing::InitTest(&argc, &argv, true);
  grpc_init();
  GPR_ASSERT(FLAGS_test_bin_name != "");
  std::string my_bin = argv[0];
  if (FLAGS_running_under_bazel) {
    GPR_ASSERT(FLAGS_grpc_test_directory_relative_to_test_srcdir != "");
    // Use bazel's TEST_SRCDIR environment variable to locate the "test data"
    // binaries.
    char* test_srcdir = gpr_getenv("TEST_SRCDIR");
    std::string const bin_dir =
        test_srcdir + FLAGS_grpc_test_directory_relative_to_test_srcdir +
        std::string("/test/cpp/naming");
    // Invoke bazel's executeable links to the .sh and .py scripts (don't use
    // the .sh and .py suffixes) to make
    // sure that we're using bazel's test environment.
    grpc::testing::InvokeResolverComponentTestsRunner(
        bin_dir + "/resolver_component_tests_runner",
        bin_dir + "/" + FLAGS_test_bin_name, bin_dir + "/utils/dns_server",
        bin_dir + "/resolver_test_record_groups.yaml",
        bin_dir + "/utils/dns_resolver", bin_dir + "/utils/tcp_connect");
    gpr_free(test_srcdir);
  } else {
    // Get the current binary's directory relative to repo root to invoke the
    // correct build config (asan/tsan/dbg, etc.).
    std::string const bin_dir = my_bin.substr(0, my_bin.rfind('/'));
    // Invoke the .sh and .py scripts directly where they are in source code.
    grpc::testing::InvokeResolverComponentTestsRunner(
        "test/cpp/naming/resolver_component_tests_runner.py",
        bin_dir + "/" + FLAGS_test_bin_name,
        "test/cpp/naming/utils/dns_server.py",
        "test/cpp/naming/resolver_test_record_groups.yaml",
        "test/cpp/naming/utils/dns_resolver.py",
        "test/cpp/naming/utils/tcp_connect.py");
  }
  grpc_shutdown();
  return 0;
}

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Matthew McConaughey Once Got Kicked Out of Hirsch Coliseum
Matthew McConaughey and pro wrestling are apparently not a good combination.
Crying Texas Kid Became An Instant Meme After LSU Beat His Team
Football is back and we may have already hit peak meme levels.
DJ Digital
Matthew McConaughey Is Now A Professor at the University Of Texas
We hear he's an all right teacher.
Matthew McConaughey After School Program Set For Longview HS
Those enrolled in the program will hear from a variety of speakers, take fitness classes, travel to colleges, and learn how to cook healthy with a professional chef
Brandon Michael
Matthew McConaughey Naked Cliff Dives in the 'Serenity' Trailer
All right, all right, all right...
'Dark Tower' Review: Good Gunslinger, Bad Gunslinger Movie
The years-in-the-making adaptation of Stephen King's epic fantasy series finally comes to the screen. But was it worth the wait?
'True Detective' Star McConaughey Praises Mahershala Ali
True Detective Season 3 doesn't technically have a formal greenlight from HBO, but the casting of Mahershala Ali with input from Deadwood director David Milch already has us back on board. Season 1 star Matthew McConaughey is also excited to see Ali take over the franchise, as only Matthew Mc…
Elba Opposes McConaughey in 'Dark Tower' International Poster
You know those early 2000s romantic comedies that always had the two leads standing back-to-back with "WELP" expressions on their faces on the DVD covers? Imagine that, but with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and you've got the newest international poster for The Dark Tower.…
Emma Stefansky
Jimmy Fallon Enlists 'Sing' Cast For A Cappella 'Wonderful Christmastime'
Jimmy Fallon got some help from The Roots and the star-studded cast of 'Sing' for an a cappella version of 'Wonderful Christmastime.'
Matthew McConaughey Drove Lucky College Students Home
Matthew McConaughey picked up excited students at his alma mater, UT Austin, in promotion of their SURE WALK campaign.
Samantha Vincenty
'SNL' Thanksgiving Skits to Get You Through the Holiday
Between the famous Back Home Ballers + Adam Sandler's one-of-a-kind jingle, you really can't go wrong.
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Matthew McConaughey Said That Shreveport Has The Most Beautiful Women...Or Did He?
Here we go again...just because it's on the internet, of course it's true, right??
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COVID-19: Music star, Naira Marley in police custody
Following the conviction of Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele and her husband, Abdul Rasheed Bello, by a Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos, another music star, Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley is now in the police custody.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, made this revelation on Monday.
He said, "Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley is now in Police custody. He will also be charged to Court for violating the restriction orders.
"The Command has launched a manhunt for the remaining persons who attended the party. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu expressed his profound gratitude to Lagosians and other well-meaning Nigerians that speak up against the violations. Together we can stop the spread of COVID-19."
BREAKING….Kwara confirms two COVID-19 cases
Africans can't be used for COVID-19 vaccine test, AU warns European scientists


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Oswald Ziegler (* 21. Juni 1933 in Bauen; † 28. April 2014) war ein Schweizer Politiker (CVP).

Von 1979 bis 1987 war Ziegler Gemeindepräsident von Bauen. Von 1975 bis 1987 gehörte er dem Landrat des Kantons Uri an. In den Jahren 1984/1985 war er Präsident des Landrats. Von 1982 bis 1987 präsidierte Ziegler die CVP des Kantons. Er wurde 1987 in den Ständerat gewählt und gehörte ihm bis 1995 an. Im Ständerat war er Mitglied verschiedener Kommissionen, darunter als Präsident der Sicherheitspolitischen Kommission und als Mitglied der Finanzkommission.

Im wirtschaftlichen Umfeld war Ziegler auch tätig. Er war 31 Jahre Verwaltungsratspräsident der Auto AG Uri, welches ein öffentlicher Verkehrsbetrieb ist. Zudem war er Präsident der Treib-Seelisberg-Bahn und stand der Urner Kantonalbank als Präsident des Bankrats vor.

Weblinks
 Beschreibung auf parlament.ch
    Artikel in der Luzernerzeitung zum Gedenken an Oswald Ziegler
   Porträt Oswald Ziegler auf bauen.ch

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Gestorben 2014
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Home / News / Sports Cars
Sports Car Market Waning, Says BMW
Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 13, 2014 Comment Now!
BMW is well-known for its performance cars but the automaker hasn't offered a pure sports model for years. There's a good reason for this, according to its sales chief Ian Robertson, and that's because the sports car market is waning.
"The sports car market is roughly half of what it used to be," Robertson told Bloomberg. "Post-2008, it just collapsed—I'm not so sure it'll ever fully recover."
MUST SEE: Texas Armored Car Company Literally Stands Behind Its Product: Video
To be clear, Robertson isn't talking about high-end sports cars and supercars, which lately have been enjoying record sales (just ask Ferrari or Porsche if in doubt). Instead, the BMW exec is mostly referring to more affordable mainstream sports models like BMW's own Z4 as well as the Audi TT and Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class.
Combined global sales of this trio peaked at about 114,000 units in 2007 before slumping 45 percent by 2010, according to research company IHS Automotive. Moving to the lower end of the spectrum, Toyota execs have also stated that poor sales of the GT 86/Scion FR-S sports car has led the automaker to rule out launching additional variants.
Robertson cites the rising popularity of SUVs as being a factor behind the falling sales of sports cars, which is particularly true for emerging markets such as Russia and China. Then there's the issue of automakers now offering more practical sedans and SUVs that offer sports car-like performance. One could also argue that the car is no longer the major status symbol it once was, especially among younger buyers.
But the image-boosting affect a sports car can have on the rest of a brand is still a powerful one, and that is why automakers like BMW will continue to offer sports cars. But for BMW, it has meant teaming up with Toyota to share development costs. The two are working together on a sports car platform; Toyota will use it for a Supra successor while BMW is expected to use it for a Z4 replacement.
BMW News BMW Z4 News Industry Sports Cars
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Toronto Anti Lockdown protest November 7, 2020
Toronto Anti Lockdown protest November 7, 2020. The Line Canada. Thank you Toronto for the support and holding the grounds at Dundas Square while we attended Aylmer Ontario. https://t.co/qgpoWSqfm0 pic.twitter.com/lQmUlxrDnV
— THE LINE (@thelinecanada) November 8, 2020
Tagged new world order
Freedom protest in Aylmer, Ontario today.
Thousands of people are showing up. The line of cars is as far as the eye can see. END THE LOCKDOWN pic.twitter.com/zTs2BrBSlt
— BannerWolf (@Banner_Wolf) November 7, 2020
Angerfist – Diabolic Dice (Official Video)
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Toronto Pearson to London Gatwick *Full Flight*
Tagged Aviation
Black America Must Of Forgot!
I don't understand the celebration……. It's funny on while they're celebrating…they are overlooking the fact that black folks are becoming a permanent underclass….. But they're not ready to have that conversation……
Tagged leftists
GTA 5 – Martin Madrazo's Gang MASSACRE At The Beach (GTA 5 Funny Moments)
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Wael Kfoury – Enta Habibi – Isabella Arabic Belly Dance –
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3. True Science is the Enemy of the Evolutionist (Part 2) | Evolution is Religion Not Science
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There's No Hiding It…It's a Coup
We've read every day of ballots destroyed, not delivered, found in dumpsters, altered, held back during counting, back-dated, and harvested. For any criminal organization, it was a field day.
What we are witnessing from a front row seat, is nothing less than a carefully orchestrated coup d'état, the third coup attempt inflicted on President Trump. The first being the Russia conspiracy fiction, the second being the failed impeachment.
In an election where Democrats are getting a shellacking everywhere, Donald Trump is losing big?
The above quote, I believe, is no lie. Biden told the world a few years back that Seal Team Six conducted the raid on bin Laden, putting the SEALS and their families in grave danger. Was that a gaffe or dementia? I don't believe Biden is aware of what he says much of the time or their consequences. Whether gaffe or dementia, Biden told us the truth.
The Washington and corporate establishment, or swamp, if you prefer, was not going to accept an outsider, someone they could not control. For Donald Trump to be President of the United States meant the end of their power base, a threat to their rice bowl. This establishment takes care of themselves, not the citizens of this country. Contingencies were probably discussed the moment Donald Trump rode down the escalator. The conspirators were not going to stoop to using third-world methods, storming the castle so to speak. They were going to use righteous indignation, fabricated stories of Russian collusion, protecting democracy, yada, yada.
I have seen many election returns over the years, but I never saw returns like those I witnessed on Tuesday and into the weekend. Every one of them apparently had one thing in common…the craving to report a Trump loss. States that had a Trump lead of 5 or 6 points with 89% of the vote in were held back, not called, but states with 40 or 50% of the vote in with Biden with a lead of 1 or 2% were called. We are being led to believe that in an election where Democrats are getting a shellacking everywhere, Donald Trump is losing big?
This coup was planned well in advance. Whether the Coronavirus was planned or just an opportunity, it makes no difference at this point. It was used. Pelosi and Schumer pushed hard to eliminate voting machines and move to paper ballots; it gave the Left ample opportunity to skew the election results. We've read every day of ballots destroyed, not delivered, found in dumpsters, altered, held back during counting, back-dated, and harvested. For any criminal organization, it was a field day.
The polls were purposely falsified to show Biden winning the election by a healthy margin, to give a sense of expectation. How could the polling be so wrong twice in a row? Never mind that Biden couldn't draw flies, attracting maybe a few dozen people to a typical rally while Trump drew tens of thousands of dedicated fans at every rally. It is important to realize that these polls were not projections, but quotas.
The Democrat Party leadership has become an organized crime syndicate
Red states were apparently left alone since they couldn't be contained, but battleground states or states that Democrats controlled or had Democrat governors were the main targets. When the voting showed Biden losing or not meeting the quota, they either introduced more mail-in ballots or stopped the counting for the day so ballots could be delivered overnight under the cover of darkness. The media did their part by purposely delaying the calling of some states to give them more time to manipulate the vote tallies. It was never more obvious than in Michigan where tens of thousands of mail-in ballots suddenly appeared overnight after the election. Some wards in Milwaukee reported more votes than registered voters, with a state turnout of more than 85%, something that has never occurred in their history. In Wisconsin, 112,000 Biden ballots appeared between 3:30am – 4:30am. In 6 Blue states where Trump had a healthy lead, they suddenly stopped counting. Philadelphia, the birthplace of our constitutional republic, had one area with 23,777 ballots for Biden and none for Trump. Pennsylvania changed counting procedures and regulations just prior to the election that enabled them to accept votes days after the election with many of them with no clear postmark. In South Carolina, a federal judge ruled that signatures on ballots did not have to match. North Carolina had 100% of their precincts reporting with Trump in the lead and it wasn't called.
The Trump team needs to show that the USPS did not and could not deliver the mail-in ballots to a point where depending on them was a reasonable expectation. In addition, the mail-only voting in many states, due to differences in state laws, was either not possible or illegal. The legislators of the states of AZ, GA, PA, MI, NC, NV, and WI need to get involved and push for either an investigation or deem the elections in their states as invalid beyond correction and require new voting by machines and/or traditional absentee ballot.
The Democrat Party leadership has become an organized crime syndicate. It is filled with corruption and hatred for our country. They have caused our great nation to enter the realm of the third world.
As a nation, we cannot allow this corruption, this coup, to stand. Our nation will be changed forever in the eyes of the world. The honor, dignity, and prestige of our country is on the line.
Much of this nation has sinned greatly and will reap what it has sown, but for the rest of us…In God We Trust.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/theres-no-hiding-it…its-a-coup
Singapore suspends use of flu jabs after deaths in South Korea
Singapore has announced that it will temporarily cease the use of two flu vaccines after the post-vaccination death of 48 people in South Korea. With this move, the Southeast Asian city-state is among the first countries to halt the vaccines' use for immunization programs.
The country's Ministry of Health (MOH) said in an Oct. 25 statement that the suspension served as a "precautionary measure following reported deaths after influenza vaccination in South Korea." While Singapore has not seen any deaths associated with flu immunization, the ministry and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) are monitoring the situation closely. The MOH statement said: "HSA is in touch with the South Korean authorities for further information as they investigate to determine if the deaths are related to influenza vaccinations."
South Korea has reported a total of 48 deaths following seasonal inoculation as of Oct. 24, Yonhap News Agency reported. Despite the fatalities, South Korean Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said the country's flu vaccination program will continue as its suspension would be "unscientific" and "dangerous."
South Korean officials stated the casualties received seven influenza vaccine brands — two of which were available in Singapore. Thus, health authorities informed health practitioners to halt the use of SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu Quadrivalent and Sanofi's VaxigripTetra – but two other flu vaccines brought into Singapore for the Northern Hemisphere 2020-2021 influenza season may continue to be used.
The MOH said Singaporeans due to be immunized against the flu, including adults and children under their respective national immunization schedules, may continue to do so using other vaccine brands.
Even Singapore, whose health system is one of the world's best, is now aware of vaccine dangers
Vaccines approved for use in the city-state have been evaluated by the HSA to ensure they meet "required international standards of quality, safety and efficacy," the MOH remarked in its statement. It added that the HSA continues to oversee approved vaccine safety using an adverse monitoring system, which relies on the network of local healthcare professionals and international regulatory agencies to pick up adverse events suspected to be associated with the vaccines.
Nevertheless, the Singaporean health ministry espoused that flu vaccination was "generally safe and well-tolerated."
According to the ministry, vaccination provided "protection against seasonal influenza viruses" and reduced "the risk of complications and deaths" – most especially for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with pre-existing conditions.
It acknowledged "common side effects" following flu vaccination – such as soreness and redness where the vaccine was injected, fever, head and muscle aches, fatigue and nausea – and said these were "generally mild" and resolve on their own.
For more serious side effects such as high fever, breathing difficulties, wheezing and swelling around the eye area, the MOH advised seeking immediate medical attention.
However, what happened to the 48 South Koreans following their immunization was not just a common side effect – but a clear example of the risks associated with receiving toxic vaccines. (Related: If we ever do get a coronavirus vaccine, will it contain toxic ingredients?)
The Little Red Dot's progressive healthcare system faces the challenge of unvaccinated Singaporeans
A 2019 opinion piece by associate professors Hsu Li Yang and Alex Richard Cook of the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health remarked that the country had very low adult vaccination rates, most especially for influenza jabs.
Yang and Cook outlined a number of suggestions in their TODAY Online article to convince people to get vaccinated – such as educating the general population about herd immunity, incorporating vaccination reminders into mobile health apps, urging primary care physicians to recommend vaccinations and incorporating flu shots into workplace health initiatives.
The associate professors also urged including vaccines into the country's collaborative prescribing program despite the controversy the move may generate. Under the program, public sector nurses and pharmacists in Singapore can legally prescribe medicines without a doctor's counter-signature. Yang and Cook also called to permit experienced pharmacists and nurses to prescribe medicines under the program.
Despite having a world-class healthcare system, health freedom isn't exactly a priority in Singapore. Opting out of lethal vaccinations is never an option in the Little Red Dot.
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Haig Aivazian intervenes with a drawing and a text taking as starting point a construction site on hold since 2004, at a stone's throw from the Daily Star's Headquarters in Downtown Beirut. The selection is a part of Ivy Usurps the Place of Laurels, a series exploring historical motifs and investigate archaeology and architecture as powerful tools that shape ideology, and that have constructed visions of the world from the very first formulations of our global imaginary. The works mainly focus on displacements of earth that occur in three kinds of constructions sites: sports stadia, luxury apartment buildings, and museums.
Biography: Haig Aivazian (Lebanon) works across a wide range of media and he delves into the ways in which ideologies embed, affect and move people, objects and architecture. Often departing from known events, and weaving in lesser known narratives, he explores apparatuses of control and sovereignty at work in sports, finance, museums and music.


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Calabasas, located eight miles away from Malibu, welcomes pets to play and stay. For the playing part, you and your dog can head to the Calabasas Bark Park, an off-leash area managed by the city. For lodging, there are pet-friendly hotels in Calabasas and the surrounding areas. If you're looking for a permanent stay, Calabasas is also home to the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park, where many celebrity animals are buried.
Country Inns & Suites (countryinns.com) in Calabasas accepts pets that weigh 35 lbs. or less. Call ahead if you want to bring Fido -- pet-friendly rooms are only available on the first floor facing the highway. At the time of publication, the first night you pay an additional $35 for your pet; after that, the fee drops to $15 a night. For humans, the hotel features a fitness center and outdoor pool and provides complimentary breakfasts and fresh-baked cookies. All rooms come with refrigerators, microwaves, TVs and Internet access; suites also include fireplaces and full kitchens.
Extended Stay America (extendedstayamerica.com) offers pet-friendly lodging in Woodland Hills, less than five miles from Calabasas. At the time of publication, you can bring one pet that weighs 40 lbs. or less for $25 a day, with a maximum charge of $150. As the name suggests, Extended Stay America is designed to be a home away from home. Rooms have cooking and eating utensils plus refrigerators, microwaves and stovetops. You also have use of an iron, ironing board and on-site washing machines. Internet access is available for a one-time charge of $4.99 for each stay.
The temperature in Calabasas, California in April tends to be very predictable, so you can generally count on the forecast and travel light.
The temperature in Calabasas, California in April is somewhat unpredictable, so be on the safe side and prepare for a variety of conditions.
The temperature in Calabasas, California in April is highly unpredictable, so use the forecast as a guide, but be ready for anything!
Also located in Woodland Hills, the Hilton (hilton.com) accepts pets up to 75 lbs. This means you can bring one pet that weighs the full amount, or more than one as long as their total poundage doesn't exceed 75 lbs. No matter how many animals you bring, you pay a nonrefundable deposit of $50 per stay. The Hilton includes a fitness center, a business center and on-site restaurants. High-speed Internet is available for a fee of $9.95 a day.
At the time of publication, the Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills (marriott.com) accepts pets for a $75 fee per stay. You can bring two pets, but each have to weigh 50 lbs. or less. The hotel has a fitness center and indoor and outdoor pools, as well as a cafe, grill, bar and poolside lounge. For an extra $12.95 a day, guests can use high-speed Internet and make unlimited local phone calls.
Dunlap, Barbara. "Pet-Friendly Hotels Near Calabasas, California." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/petfriendly-hotels-near-calabasas-california-52788.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
King Gillette Ranch, main residence courtyard, designed by Wallace Neff in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style in the 1920s. Now in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Santa Monica Mountains, Calabasas, California.


As the world's first application built on an EOS ecosphere, OracleChain needs to meet the demands of the Oracle (oracle machine) ecosystem by efficiently linking blockchain technology services with various real-life scenarios, thereby delving into this immense tens of billions of dollars valuation market.
As a decentralized Oracle technology platform based on the EOS platform, the autonomous Proof-of-Reputation & Deposit mechanism is adopted and used as a fundamental service for other blockchain applications.
In addition to Oracle services that provide real-world data to the blockchain, Oracle services that provide cross-chain data are also offered. Given that OracleChain can accomplish the functions of several prediction market applications, such as Augur and Gnosis, OracleChain can also support smart contract businesses that require high-frequency access to outside data in certain scenarios, such as Robo-Advisor.
OracleChain will nurture and serve those blockchain applications that change the real world. Our mission is to "Link Data, Link World," with the aim of becoming the infrastructure linking the real world with the blockchain world.
By achieving intra-chain and extra-chain data connectivity, we aspire to create a service provisioning platform that can most efficiently gain access to extra-chain data in the future blockchain world.
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OracleChain will use data as a tool to connect the world and bridge the data chasm separating the real-world and blockchain applications, which will ensure connectivity between data in the real world and data in the blockchain world to promote the overall prosperity of the blockchain ecosystem.
OracleChain proposes the concept of "value of data" in blockchain. OracleChain also provides data service for blockchain applications and charges data consumers, thereby reflecting the value of data.
As the only application currently known to face the Oralce needs of the EOS blockchain ecosystem, OracleChain will serve the entire ecosystem and provide common data services for large-scale commercial blockchain applications.
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Babel — Recommend this title to your library
Volume 60, Issue, 2014
Babel - Volume 60, Issue 2, 2014
Rhetorical dissonance of unsynchronized voices: Issues of voice-over in news broadcasts
Author(s): Ali Darwish and Pilar Orero
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.01dar
Voice-over as an audiovisual translation modality has traditionally been described for its rendering of the truth or its faithfulness. The manipulation and deviation from the original text through translation has already been the object of study in documentaries. This paper looks at the translation of TV news through voice-over. Technical and content infidelities are rendering the broadcast actualities into sexed up copies of the original, which for all intents and purposes are in sheer contravention of what translation is for as a faithful reproduction of the original and of objective and factual news reporting.The effects of the translator's visibility in news voice-over is re-examined and the physical presence of the translator/voice talent is analyzed. This paper argues that the visibility of the translator in this instance pushes the boundaries of mediation beyond mere technicalities towards a sociopolitical sphere of reasoning and rationality by editorial policy makers.The paper also argues that synchronicity of voice-overs stemming from the rhetorical features of the voice-over styles of delivery and the idiosyncrasies of the voices creates dissonance and renders the original message with a degree of infelicities that undermine the long-celebrated standards of objectivity and neutrality. Consequently, this paper underscores the invisibility of the translator in this mode of translation mediation.
Synchrony in the voice-over of Polish fiction genres
Author(s): Katarzyna Sepielak and Anna Matamala
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.02sep
The increasing popularity of audiovisual translation in recent years has contributed to a better understanding of the audiovisual world. Nevertheless, some modalities such as voice-over have not received thorough attention. In Poland, where voice-over is the prevailing audiovisual, one voice talent reads out the entire dialogue list in a monotonous way. The translated version is subject to time and space restrictions, and both the original and the translated soundtracks are audible at the same time, making it interesting to analyze a key aspect of voice-over: the process of synchronization. Departing from a categorization which originated within the field of dubbing, and which was later extended and applied to the voice-over of non-fictional products by Franco, Matamala and Orero, this article aims to assess whether voice-over isochrony, literal synchrony, kinetic synchrony and action synchrony are maintained in the voice-over of fiction genres in Poland, and if so, what strategies are used to achieve this. The corpus is made up of four 15-minutes samples from movies belonging to four different genres: a comedy (Whatever Works, directed by Woody Allen 2009), a drama (Marvin's Room, directed by Jerry Zaks 1996), an action movie (Spy Game, directed by Tony Scott 2001), and a musical (Nine, directed by Rob Marshall 2009). The study highlights the specificities of synchrony in fictional movies and opens the door for future research into this previously underestimated audiovisual transfer mode.
The translation of wordplay in interlingual subtitling: A study of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and its English subtitles
Author(s): Lee Williamson and Raquel De Pedro Ricoy
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.03wil
It is frequently said that humor does not travel well, and wordplay, which is inseparably connected to humor, poses particular problems for the translator as it is intrinsically linked to the source language and culture, and consequently is often described as untranslatable. The translator's task is further complicated when instances of wordplay are encountered in audiovisual texts due to the constrained and semiotic nature of the medium. The aim of this paper is to examine the translation strategies applied to wordplay in the English subtitles of the French film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis [Boon 2008]. To do this, instances of wordplay in the source text and the target text were classified according to the typology of wordplay as proposed by Delabastita (1996), and subsequently analyzed using the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) (Attardo and Raskin 1991) in order to contrast the differences between source text and target text instances of wordplay. The findings show the trends in the application of translation strategies and demonstrate that GTVH, albeit with some modifications, is a useful analytical tool in the context of audiovisual translation in that it could show how the puns evolved in translation and therefore give a better understanding of wordplay to aid the choice of translation strategy. As long as a narrow view of equivalence is avoided, this study demonstrates that the translation of wordplay is possible even within the polysemiotic structures of audiovisual texts.
Translating film titles: Quentin Tarantino, on difference and globalisation
Author(s): José Santaemilia Ruiz and Betlem Soler Pardo
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.04rui
In Spain, as in the rest of the non-Anglophone Western world, English-language film titles have become texts (or paratexts) of great cultural importance. The titles of the films that one may encounter in Western cinema can be considered, on the one hand ephemeral, elusive, and inconsequential. However, on the other hand, despite their clear irrelevance, film titles are considered to be the genuine contemporary cultural texts, for their continued presence in the media and for their evocative nature: an important marketing tool. Moreover, the result of what happens when film titles are translated into other languages and cultures has always intrigued the audience: this is perhaps indicative of the vast universe of translation studies. The differences between languages are palpable, not only from a linguistic point of view but also from a pragmatic, historical or cultural standpoint.In this paper, we deal with the translation of Quentin Tarantino's film titles into a number of European languages, including Spanish, Catalan, French and German. Quentin Tarantino's films are controversial, self-reflexive and have acquired a significant recognition within popular culture. Most of the typologies employed so far have revolved around the notion of 'fidelity" in the translation of film titles, and involving such strategies as literal translation, transposition, addition, etc.We wish to propose here another avenue for investigation: that of film-title translation as a complex (and globalised) rewriting phenomenon that benefits the commercial and ideological interests of the film industry.
Los estereotipos sociales a través del filtro de la traducción: Algunos referentes culturales en las traducciones de <bi>L'Élégance du hérisson</bi> de Muriel Barbery
Author(s): Gemma Andújar Moreno
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.05mor
Cultural referents not only designate specific realities of a given culture which do not always exist in another but they are also semantic elements which trigger social representations. By conveying values and points of view about different social groups, cultural referents become linguistic instruments to build stereotypes. These thought patterns are shared by the members of a social or cultural community and act as a filter of reality. The aim of this paper is to study the role of cultural referents in the construction of social stereotypes, focusing on the socio-cognitive universe they evoke. To this end, we have analyzed the translations techniques applied in the Spanish, Catalan and English versions of a novel which has been very successful on the French literary scene: Muriel Barbery's L'Élégance du hérisson (2006). As show the results of this textual comparison, the explanations, descriptions and additional information observed in target texts do not trigger the same associations as cultural referents do in the source text. Translational approaches are too limited when it comes to achieve linguistic adequacy to different world visions. Therefore, translation must be conceived as an encounter between two cultural systems, in which the translator must build bridges, not so much between two linguistic systems as between the social perceptions and values of two different cultural communities.
Revisión y propuesta de clasificación de corpus
Author(s): Goretti Faya Ornia
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.06fay
In this article we first focus on some of the most important classification systems of linguistic corpora and discuss both the strengths and weaknesses. We pay close attention to the work of Sara Laviosa (1997), Joan Torruella y Joaquim Llisterri (1999), Gloria Corpas Pastor (2001) and Sylviane Granger (2003), not forgetting the contributions by Mona Baker (1995), Stig Johansson (1998 and 2003), Rosa Rabadán y Purificación Fernández Nistal (2002), Maeve Olohan (2004) and Paul Baker (2006). However, despite great advantage of all previous work, our study identified gaps for which we would respectfully suggest some solutions. Finally, we present our classification system in which we attempt to reflect clearly the hierarchical relationships that exist between different types of corpora. The ultimate goal is to offer a wide, comprehensive and flexible classification, which can be easily adapted to the needs of each research work and meet the requirements of linguistic corpora analysis, particularly in the field of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies.
Publications de la FIT
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.08pub
Michael P. Oakes & Meng Ji (eds.), Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies.
Author(s): Rongbo Fu
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.09fu
Translation and mass-communication: Film and T.V. translation as evidence of cultural dynamics
Author(s): Dirk Delabastita
The Myth of the Negro Past
Author(s): Melville J. Herskovits
Anomalous news translation: Selective appropriation of themes and texts in the internet
Author(s): Roberto A. Valdeón
Can "Metaphor" Be Translated?
Author(s): Menachem Dagut
Teleworking and collaborative work environments in translation training
Author(s): María Dolores Olvera-Lobo
Corpus-based contrastive analysis and translation universals: A tool for translation quality assessment English --> Spanish
Author(s): Rosa Rabadán, Belén Labrador and Noelia Ramón
Surtitles for Opera: A Specialised Translating Task
Author(s): Peter Low
E-Learning for interpreting
Author(s): María J. Blasco Mayor and Amparo Jiménez Ivars
Frame Semantics and the Translation of Humour
Author(s): Ana María Rojo López
Metaphor and Translation
Author(s): Kirsten Mason
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/15699668/60/2
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Q: Restricting access to page to certain times of the year Is it possible to implement a sortof restriction to my ASP.NET MVC application which will redirect users to a different View when trying to access the View at the restricted times.
I know theres a way of doing this using .htaccess and a simple if/else statement, and I am also aware of URL rediretcing in the WebConfig.cs file, but how exactly can I implement this in my ASP.NET MVC application?
Thank you for your time.
Edit
What I have done so far with help from @dekanidze
Attribute (TimeLim.cs)
 public class TimeLim : ActionFilterAttribute
    {
        public TimeLim() { }

        public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {

            if (DateTime.Now.Date > new DateTime(2021, 3, 1) && DateTime.Now.Date <= new DateTime(2021, 3, 31)
                || DateTime.Now.Date > new DateTime(2021, 10, 1) && DateTime.Now.Date <= new DateTime(2021, 10, 7))
            {
                filterContext.Result = new RedirectToRouteResult(
                    new System.Web.Routing.RouteValueDictionary(
                        new
                        {
                            controller = "TimeLim", //input right one
                            action = "PageNotAvailable" //input right one
                        })
                    );
            }
        }
    }

TimeLimController
public class TimeLimController : Controller
    {
        // GET: TimeLim
        [AllowAnonymous]
        public ActionResult PageNotAvailable()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }

View (PageNotAvailable)
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "PageNotAvailable";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

PageNotAvailable

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A: How about creating your own custom filter attribute? The code below will be executed before an action method is called.
UPDATE: the code is updated according to the OP comments:
public class MyCustomAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public MyCustomAttribute() { }

    public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {

        DateTime dateToCheck1 = new DateTime(2021, 03, 01);
        DateTime dateToCheck2 = new DateTime(2021, 10, 01);

        if ((DateTime.Now.Date > dateToCheck1 && DateTime.Now.Date < dateToCheck1.AddDays(7))
            || (DateTime.Now.Date > dateToCheck2 && DateTime.Now.Date < dateToCheck2.AddDays(7)))
        {
            filterContext.Result = new RedirectToRouteResult(
                new RouteValueDictionary(
                    new
                    {
                        controller = "Controller",
                        action = "Action"
                    })
                );
        }
    }
}

You can apply it on your controller's actions like this:
    [MyCustomAttribute]
    public IActionResult Action()
    {
        return View();
    }

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'Makani' translates to 'my place' from Arabic, and the beautifully serene ambiance spread across an expanse of lush greenery, complete with a makeshift stage at the front with live entertainment, is sure to make anyone feel right at home.
The night was pleasantly breezy, and we sat under a star-lit sky, sniffing whiffs of aromatic grills mingled with shisha puffs. The atmosphere was one of merriment, and the tables were all booked out.
The gorgeous Cuban duo from Flavours was back here, mesmerizing us with more numbers. They even attempted a few Arabic favorites, and won appreciative hoots from the crowd.
We started off with Makani Cafe's fresh juices. Hubby had a glass of fresh watermelon juice, and I opted for carrot.
We were served a variety of 6 mezzes (starters). These included Hummus (Arabic chickpea dip), Moutabbel (Arabic eggplant dip), an Arabic feta cheese dip, Kebbeh (an Arabic pastry made of bulghar and stuffed with meat and pine nuts), Falafel (deep-fried Arabic lentil patties), and pastry rolls stuffed with salty Arabic cheese.
We ordered the Makani Cafe mixed grill. It took a while to get to our table, but it sure came with a good deal of sizzling drama! The mixed grill is served on flaming hot coal, and includes delectable pieces of shish tawook (chicken and lamb pieces marinated in traditional Arabic spices, and flame-grilled), lamb chops, lamb kebabs, koftas and spicy Arabic sausages.
Its hard to choose a favorite from this grill. All the pieces were beautifully moist and tender, and brimming with individually good flavors.
We ended our meal at Makani Cafe with a bowl of Umm Ali (a rich Arabic variation of bread pudding). The pudding was sinfully rich and sweet, and we struggled to do justice to this very generously large helping.
Overall, we had a lovely laid-back evening at Makani Cafe. The outdoor setting under the stars coupled with the beautifully pleasant weather kept us seated there for longer than we had planned. The menu is not very extensive, but each dish was created with real attention to detail. If you are planning a staycation at Hilton Al Ain, an evening at Makani Cafe is a must.
Makani Cafe is located near the pool area of Hilton Al Ain. Table reservations are highly recommended. Call 03 7686666 for details.
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The RMS Ttitanic was the largest liners ever built between 1911 and 1912; she was 269 meters long and 28 meters wide made of 1-inch-thick steel and iron. When the wreck was later discovered in 1985 on the ocean floor, it was able to shed light on the details of the sunken ship.
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From Nordic: "Bluetooth Low Energy wearable uses sensors to monitor heart rate, sleep, and activity data including steps, distance, calories, and duration"
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Shenzhen DO Intelligent Technology (DO), a Shenzhen, China-based smart wearables company, has selected Nordic's nRF52832 Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) to provide the wireless connectivity and meet the processing demands of its 'ID115plus Color HR' wristband.
The wristband integrates a Nordic SoC-supervised accelerometer and heart rate sensor to track and record the user's health and exercise data. It functions as a 24-hour dynamic heart rate monitor, sleep monitor, and activity tracker for steps taken, distance covered, calories burned, and activity duration. In addition, the wearable can provide weather forecasts, sedentary alerts, a smart alarm, and message notifications for up to 16 applications including calendar, email, SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, and Skype.
Using the Bluetooth LE wireless connectivity provided by the Nordic SoC, exercise data is synced to the user's Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphone or tablet, where the information can be reviewed via DO's iOS- and Android-compatible app, Veryfit Pro. From the app, users can also configure the wristband's various settings and functions.
Weighing a lightweight 24.8g, the wristband comes in a 240 by 19.2 by 12mm form factor and features a TFT LCD color display and IP68 water resistance. Supported by the ultra low power consumption of the Nordic SoC, the device's Li-ion battery provides between seven and ten days of continuous operation.
Nordic's nRF52832 SoC is a powerful multiprotocol SoC ideally suited for Bluetooth LE and 2.4GHz ultra low-power wireless applications. The nRF52832 combines an 64MHz, 32-bit Arm® Cortex™ M4F processor with a 2.4GHz multiprotocol radio (supporting Bluetooth 5, ANT™, and proprietary 2.4GHz RF software) featuring -96dB RX sensitivity, with 512kB Flash memory and 64kB RAM.
The SoC is supplied with Nordic's S132 SoftDevice, a Bluetooth 5-certifed RF software protocol stack for building advanced Bluetooth LE applications. The S132 SoftDevice features Central, Peripheral, Broadcaster and Observer Bluetooth LE roles, supports up to twenty connections, and enables concurrent role operation.
"We selected the Nordic SoC for its CPU capability, power consumption, and large memory capacity, as well as its multiprotocol support and the availability of software development kits," says Lucy Ma, Overseas Sales Director at DO.
"We were also impressed with Nordic's technical information and fast response to development queries."
Source: http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/News/News-releases/Product-Related-News/Bluetooth-Low-Energy-wearable-uses-sensors-to-monitor-heart-rate-sleep-and-activity-data-including-steps-distance-calories-and-duration


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Q: connecting to remote mssql from linux plesk via php I am trying to connect to remote Microsoft SQL server 2012 service pack 2 database from my Linux machine which is having php 5.3,  php-mssql support and mysql version 5.5 enabled.  Meanwhile I am getting below error message even if the login details are correct.
The ms-sql database is using Persian collation which cannot be changed.  Is there any possible fix for this?
[root@i]#  /usr/bin/tsql  -H remove-server-ip -p 1433 -U mssql-user
locale is "en_IN"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
Msg 4075 (severity 16, state 1) from RAHKARAN Line 1:
    "

The USE database statement failed because the database collation
  Persian_100_CI_AI is not recognized by older client drivers. Try
  upgrading the client operating system or applying a service update to
  the database client software, or use a different collation. See SQL
  Server Books Online for more information on changing collations."

Msg 18456 (severity 14, state 1) from RAHKARAN Line 1:
    "Login failed for user 'mssql-user'."
Error 20002 (severity 9):
    Adaptive Server connection failed
There was a problem connecting to the server

Error 20002 (severity 9)

Freetds version is below
tsql -C
Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
                            Version: freetds v0.91
             freetds.conf directory: /etc
     MS db-lib source compatibility: yes
        Sybase binary compatibility: yes
                      Thread safety: yes
                      iconv library: yes
                        TDS version: 4.2
                              iODBC: no
                           unixodbc: yes
              SSPI "trusted" logins: no
                           Kerberos: yes


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package org.araymond.joal.core;

import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.araymond.joal.core.events.global.state.GlobalSeedStartedEvent;
import org.araymond.joal.core.events.global.state.GlobalSeedStoppedEvent;
import org.araymond.joal.core.events.torrent.files.TorrentFileAddedEvent;
import org.springframework.context.event.EventListener;
import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Async;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Intercept core event, method can be @Async. THey MUST NOT interact with JOAL state, otherwise this class
 * will soon turn into a god damn mess and we won't be able to maintain the code because of all the non explicit method calls.
 */
@Component
@Slf4j
public class CoreEventListener {
    @Async
    @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
    @EventListener
    public void handleTorrentFileAddedForSeed(final TorrentFileAddedEvent event) throws IOException {
        log.debug("Event TorrentFileAddedEvent caught.");
    }

    @Async
    @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
    @EventListener
    void handleSeedSessionHasStarted(final GlobalSeedStartedEvent event) {
        log.debug("Event GlobalSeedStartedEvent caught.");
        // TODO : add a log to tell which BitTorrent client.
        // TODO : detailed BitTorrent client log at debug log level
    }

    @Async
    @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
    @EventListener
    public void handleSeedSessionHasEnded(final GlobalSeedStoppedEvent event) {
        log.debug("Event GlobalSeedStoppedEvent caught.");
        // TODO : log that the seed session is over
    }

}


The Lightner Museum is the recent recipient of a $25,000 grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to improve its fourth floor collection storage space. IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. The Lightner Museum is 1 of 132 projects chosen to receive funding. Only 24 percent of this funding cycle's 558 applicants were selected.
Typewriters all in rows, rest in the 4th floor storage spaces in the Lightner Museum.
The grant will allow the Lightner Museum to hire a museum collections consultant to improve the efficiency and functionality of its collections workspace for staff. Under the guidance of the consultant, the museum will purchase furnishings for new workspaces, which will be used to enter 500 new objects into the permanent collection. This is the first phase in a multi-phase project to transform the current space into a state-of-the-art storage facility for fine and decorative art.
"The long-term goal is to secure and organize collection storage in a way that the public can have greater access to the museum's holdings. 'Open storage' concepts have proven to be very successful at institutions like the Met where visitors can actually walk into collections storage and see objects that would otherwise be kept behind closed doors," said Robert Harper, Lightner Museum Executive Director.
Natural materials including shrunken heads, (some more shrunken than others), and other interesting objects like a giant head made out of shells, is housed in one of the rooms on the 4th floor of the Lightner Museum.
The museum's fourth floor was originally used as living quarters for the staff of Henry Flagler's Alcazar Hotel, which opened in 1888 and closed in 1931. This area is included in new "Upstairs/Downstairs at the Alcazar" tours, which discusses the in-depth history of the building. The fourth floor also serves as the home to 100 percent of Otto Lightner's collection when it is not on exhibit.
A preserved crab from the natural history collection rests on a desk overlooking a plethora of shells and rocks in one of the rooms on the 4th floor storage space.
Institute of Museum and Library Services director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew states, "As centers of learning and catalysts of community change, libraries and museums connect people with programs, services, collections, information, and new ideas in the arts, sciences, and humanities. They serve as vital spaces where people can connect with each other. IMLS is proud to support their work through our grant making as they inform and inspire all in their communities." The museum's current exhibition, Dressing Downton™, has been a catalyst for raising money to invest in the long-term preservation and display of Otto Lightner's original bequest. For more information on how to "adopt an artifact" or support preservation projects, please visit www.lightnermuseum.org or contact give@lightnermuseum.org.
The Museum's mission is to preserve, maintain, research, and interpret the Museum's collections of nineteenth century art, decorative art, and material culture for the educational benefit of the visiting public.The Lightner Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that relies heavily on private donation and grant funding to continue its exhibits throughout the year. To learn more visit lightnermuseum.org.
A giant head made of shells is housed in one of the rooms on the 4th floor storage space in the Lightner Museum.
The Oliver Co. Typewriter No. 9 resides in its resting place in one of the rooms on the 4th floor of the museum.


Brandon Bollig knew coming out of last season that if he wanted to stick with the Blackhawks, he would have to make some changes. He could no longer just be the fighter. He needed to be a guy that the team could count on night in and night on for more than just his physical play.
Bollig worked assiduously during the offseason to make those changes, and Monday he was rewarded for it.
The Blackhawks announced Monday morning that they had signed Bollig to a three-year, $1.25 million AAV contract extension that would take him through the 2016-2017 season. Bollig, signed as a free agent during the 09-10 season, is currently having the best professional season of his career, tallying 6 goals and 6 assists so far and playing in every game of the season (previous seasons have seen Bollig as a healthy scratch as often as not). His play both with and away from the puck has improved dramatically, and he's starting less than 18% of his shifts in the offensive zone, playing against tougher competition nightly than guys like Bryan Bickell.


Anybody love paddlewheel boats as much as me?
This past weekend my husband and I, with our dear friends, went to the Sternwheel Festival in Marietta, Ohio, as we have for the last twenty years. What a great time we had. I love those old wooden sternwheelers! They hark back to a time when America was still young and wild. At least, life on the river was wild in the olden days. These boats traveled up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a trip you can still take today on one of the two passenger sternwheel cruises running down to New Orleans. I wanted to ride on the Delta Queen for so many years, and now will never have the chance. That boat was removed from service due to maritime regulations, I believe. It's hard to bring something designed for the nineteenth century into twenty-first rules and regulations. Anyway, I hope my readers will enjoy these photos of lovely old boats…still beautiful in our fast-paced, techno-world.
When his widowed mother marries an outsider, Levi Cooper's family leaves the Amish community and Levi is raised Englisch. But Levi's world is shattered when the only father he knows divorces his mother and turns his back on the family. In his anger, Levi causes an accident that alters his life forever and sets him on the path of self-destruction. Does the pretty Amish girl from his old community hold the key to his heart and his redemption? With her mother so ill, Rebecca Miller runs her household, cares for the small farm, and watches after her younger siblings while her father, unwilling to care for his wife, is absent for days at a time working out-of-town jobs. Even though she feels trapped in her dismal life, Rebecca is determined to fulfill the promise she made to a dying friend. Englischer Levi Cooper, with uncommon good looks and a mischievous glint in his eye, might be the boy who can help her do just that. But will his secrets tear them apart or will their growing attachment lead to the loss of everything she holds dear?
Next I asked her how she got started writing: My love for romantic fiction was born when my older sister discovered "Pride and Prejudice." She often shared her favorite passages with me. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. After hearing my sister read that, how could I not want to read the book myself? Jane Austen introduced me to the glorious world of romantic fiction. I jumped in with both feet. After my fourth daughter was born, I started writing. By juggling diaper changes, soccer games, music lessons, laundry, and two more children, I finished my first manuscript—a Western—in just under fourteen years. (I am happy to inform you that all my children have entered the public school system, and I can now write a book in significantly less time.) I sent my manuscript to an agent, who asked me to try my hand at writing Amish fiction. After much research and travel, I fell in love with the people and the genre. The Amish way of life reminds us of a simpler time when faith and family were more important than progress and possessions. I think people love reading Amish for that reason.
Kate's Song (book 1 in series) is about choices. Kate is torn between her Amish culture and her music. In the story, Kate realizes that "every choice involves some kind of pain. Choosing one path means rejecting another, along with everything down it." We all face heart-rending, life-changing choices. How do we seek God's will and move forward without looking back?
My goal is to write uplifting, inspiring stories with happy endings and hopeful messages. If my books make readers want to give themselves a big hug or jump up and down for joy, I've done my job.
You can find out more about me at jenniferbeckstrand.com or on Facebook at Jennifer Beckstrand Fans.
Here's your question, readers: Leave your answer on this blog to be entered in a contest to win Rebecca's Rose. Drawing in one week. Have you ever made a difficult choice? How has that choice affected the rest of your life?
Enjoy these waning days of summer!