I'm currently on the road and writing this in a hotel. As always, I wish I could read more of the other stories but I should be able to pretty soon in the future.
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"I'll dress up for Halloween," he said, and propped a goat's skull in the crook of his branches.
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Hello every-one sorry I've not blogged much this week but I've not stopped with it being Armed Forces weekend and all and I have so much to tell you. As usual I've had shows all this week and this weekend started off with me singing down in Leytonstone for The Ex Serviceman's Club. I went down a day early and the club very kindly put me up at The Prince Regent Hotel in Chigwell which was just lovely. Sometimes it's great to get away and by arriving a day early I was able to be on hand for the club for Friday. The club had really gone to town and had non stop entertainment through the day with Steve Lucas and local chap Billy who payed music through out.
I wasn't on stage until 9.15pm and in fact I was booked at short notice as the artist who was booked originally had to pull out due to a death in the family. I was billed as a Wartime Extravaganza – so I opened with my "We'll Meet Again" ATS set and finished with my 40s glamour set. I didn't finish until 12.30am and by the time I had packed up it was 1.30am before I was able to hit the road. A very full day but a great day and a wonderful event to have been part of. So thank-you Ray Gross for inviting me I've never seen anyone work so hard as you. Your club should be very proud of you and clearly the members are if this cake is anything to go by donated by one of your ladies.
The wonderful thing about being a singer is I get to go to so many different places and meet so many interesting people. While I was at Leytonstone I met Chelsea pensioners Dave Thomson and John Back + the mayor. Before sitting on an ice cube. I then tried to dry my bottom off on a stage light before sticking it under the hand dryer before the march. Chelsea pensioner Dave said he would show me what to do as I've never done square bashing. Although he did say I should lead with the heel and not the toe as I march a bit like a gay chorus boy. To which I said with a wink and a smile "Where do you think they get it from darling". Gay men love me and want to be me – that's 25 years of Ballet for you ha ha!
So a big thank-you to every-one at Leytonstone Ex- Serviceman's Club for making me feel so welcome and congratulations on staging such a wonderful event!
By the time I got back to Leighton Buzzard it was gone 3am. I didn't get to bed until 4am but I was back on the road for 10am as I was booked to sing for Buckinghamshire's Armed Forces Day. They were expecting 10.000 people and as the afternoon wore on I think they must have exceeded that. I opened the event on the main stage and I also did the 3pm slot in the tea tent. Much as I would have liked to have stayed I had to make tracks as I had another show that evening over in Oxfordshire for the Adderbury Bowls Club. I was forchat in that they gave me the early slots which meant I could do both jobs. While I was there I met some great people. The ladies choir from High Wycome who sounded fantastic and lovely singer Gemma Aguilar. We were all sharing the same dressing room and it was lovely to meet you all.
It was a shame I couldn't stay as the event was really starting to swing and take shape as they had marching bands and all sorts. Just as I left they had a spitfire fly over + other air displays as the band played the Dam Busters theme tune. But then when you are a professional singer you have to get to places on time and can't always stay.
Adderbury Bowls club was a lovely event and once again I was booked to do 2 x 45 minute 1940s shows. I had a good journey over from Aylesbury's Armed Forces day and I was even able to stop off and have Dinner on the way. I do confess that by the end I was really tied as I have really pushed myself this weekend. I do feel a great sense of achievement because I did it on my own – all by myself and that does make me feel very proud.
I have shows all this week from Tuesday with 2 garden parties booked back to back for Saturday so once again its going to be all go. Speaking of which I must get to bed.
Thank-you for following and I hope you like the photos. I shall post up a few more of my weekend on my face book pages. So thank-you for following and Toodle Pip!


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On Jan. 31, the NJ.com website reported that Team Rice's starting lineup includes Eli Manning starting as quarterback, with Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry starting receivers. Adrian Peterson is the starting running back with John Kuhn as the fullback. Also on their starting lineup will be Joe Staley, Logan Mankins, Nick Mangold, Richie Incognito, Kyle Long, Travis Kelce on offense. For defense, it will be Khalil Mack, Aaron Donald, Fletcher Cox, Everson Griffen, Tamba Hali, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers, Marcus Peters, Vontae Davis, Mike Adams and Eric Berry.
Team Irvin is the surprising favorite for the game, possible due to them having Russell Wilson as the starting quarterback. He's joined by receivers A.J. Green and Julio Jones, also two of the league's best. Also on offense are Devonta Freeman, Patrick DiMarco, Tyler Eifert, Tyron Smith, Zack Martin, Travis Frederick, David Decastro and Branden Albert. Defensive starters include Michael Bennett, Calais Campbell, Geno Atkins, Ezekiel Ansah, Lavonte David, Navarro Bowman, Anthony Barr and Richard Sherman. Cornerback Desmond Truant as well as safeties Reshad Jones and Malcolm Jenkins round out the defensive starters.
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Know about Multimeters
Category, Electrical
Aryan Pathak / January 24, 2019
A Multimeter is an electronic instrument, every electronic technician and engineers widely use. A multimeter is mainly used to measure the three basic electrical characteristics voltage, current, and resistance. It can also be used to test stability between two points in an electrical circuit. The multimeter has multiple uses like, it acts like ammeter, voltmeter, and ohmmeter. It is a handheld device with positive and negative indicator needle over a numeric LCD digital display. Multimeters are used for testing batteries, household wiring, electric motors, and power supplies.
Types of Multimeters:
There are different types of multimeter like Digital, Analog and Fluke multimeters.
Digital Multimeter:
The mostly used multimeter is a digital multimeter. It performs all functions from AC to DC other than analog. It has two points positive and negative indicated with black and red color. The black point connected to COM JACK and redpoint connected by user necessity to measure ohm, volt or amperes. The jack marked VΩ and the COM jack is used for measuring voltages, resistance and for testing a diode. The two points are operated when LCD display that shows what is being measured (volts, ohms, amps, etc.).
The Digital Multimeter basically consists of an LCD display, a dial to select various ranges of the three electrical characteristics, an internal circuitry consisting of a signal conditioning circuitry, an analog to digital converter. The PCB consists of concentric rings which are connected or disconnected based on the position of the knob. Thus as the required parameter and the range is selected, the section of the PCB is activated to perform the corresponding measurement. To measure the resistance, current flows from a constant current source through the unknown resistor and the voltage across the resistor is amplified and served to an Analog to Digital Converter and the resulting output in form of resistance is displayed on the digital display. To measure an unknown AC voltage, the voltage is first reduced to get the suitable range and then rectified to DC signal and the analog DC signal is fed to A/D converter to get the display, which indicates the RMS value of the AC signal. Similarly to measure an AC or DC current, the unknown input is first converted to a voltage signal and then fed to an analog to digital converter to get the desired output.
Advantages of a Digital Multimeter are its output display which directly shows the measured value, high accuracy, and ability to read both positive and negative values.
Analog Multimeter:
The Analog Multimeter is made using a moving coil meter and a pointer to indicate the reading on the scale. The moving coil meter involves a coil wound around a drum placed between two permanent magnets. As current passes through the coil, a magnetic field is induced in the coil which reacts with the magnetic field of the permanent magnets and the reproduced force causes the pointer attached to the drum to deflect on the scale, indicating the current reading. It also consists of springs attached to the drum which provides an opposing force to the motion of the drum to control the deflection of the pointer.
For measurement of DC voltage, a resistor is connected in series with the meter and the meter resistance is taken into account such that the current passing through the resistor is same as the current passing through the meter and the whole reading indicates the voltage reading. For voltage measurements, the instrument is to be connected in parallel with the unknown voltage source. For multi-range measurement, different resistors of different values can be used, which are connected in series with the meter.
For the measurement of resistance, the unknown resistance is connected in series with the meter and across a battery, in such a way that the current passing through the meter is directly related to the unknown resistance.
For AC voltage or current measurement, the same principle is applied, except for the fact that the AC parameter to be measured is first rectified and filtered to get the DC parameter and the meter indicates the RMS value of the AC signal.
Advantages of an Analog Multimeter are that it is very cheap, doesn't require a battery, can measure fluctuations in the readings.
Fluke Multimeter:
The fluke multimeters are protected against the passing voltage. It is a small portable device used to measure voltage, current, and test diodes. The multimeter has multiple selectors to select the desired function. The fluke multimeter automatically ranges to select most measurements. This means the magnitude of the signal does not have to be known or determined to take an accurate reading, it directly moves to the appropriate port for the desired measurement. The fuse is protected to prevent the damage if connected to the wrong port.
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{{Infobox Cinéma (personnalité)
 | nom               = Alban Lenoir
 | image             = Alban Lenoir 2018.jpg
 | nom de naissance  =
 | date de naissance = 16 décembre 1980
 | lieu de naissance = Dijon (Côte-d'Or, France)
 | nationalité       =  Française
 | date de décès     =
 | lieu de décès      =
 | profession(s)     = ActeurCascadeurScénariste
 | séries notables   = Off PrimeHero Corp KaamelottLazy Company
 | films notables    = Un FrançaisAntigang Gueule d'angeL'interventionBalle perdue
 | site web          =
}}

Alban Lenoir, né le  à Dijon, est un acteur français.

Il joue au cinéma dans des films comme Les Gamins, Antigang ou Un Français, et à la télévision dans Kaamelott, Hero Corp ou Lazy Company. Il est également figurant cascadeur dans des films comme Taken (il joue un vigile qui se fait frapper par le héros) ou Narco.

 Biographie

En 2005, il coécrit avec Simon Astier la pièce de théâtre Entre deux, dans laquelle il joue. Il s'agit en réalité d'une série de 13 sketches racontant quelques aventures de deux personnages, Alban et Simon.

En 2007, il incarne un personnage dans la série Kaamelott nommé Ferghus, un des guerriers de Lancelot. Ce personnage se fait remarquer, entre autres, pour son vocabulaire limité et sa naïveté.

Toujours en 2007, il est aussi l'un des acteurs et auteurs principaux de la série Off Prime, où il tient le rôle de « JB », l'assistant de Virginie Efira.

De 2008 à 2017, il interprète le rôle de Klaus « Force Mustang » dans la série Hero Corp, un héros ayant le pouvoir de télékinésie mais préférant devenir l'homme le plus fort du monde. C'est un personnage touchant et un peu rude, meilleur ami du personnage principal John interprété par Simon Astier, créateur de la série.

En 2011, il a participé au clip Mon coloc' de Max Boublil diffusé sur Internet le .

En 2012, il joue le rôle de Romain aux côtés d'Alain Chabat (Gilbert), Max Boublil (Thomas) et Sandrine Kiberlain (Suzanne) dans le film Les Gamins de Anthony Marciano.

De 2013 à 2015, il interprète le rôle du sergent Chester, militaire ambitieux mais assez malchanceux qui souhaite montrer sa force et son courage, dans la série Lazy Company de Samuel Bodin et Alexandre Philip.

Durant l'automne 2014, il tourne à Paris le dernier film de Benjamin Rocher, Antigang, en compagnie de Jean Reno et Thierry Neuvic.

Mais c'est en 2015, que sa carrière prend une nouvelle dimension, avec Un Français réalisé par Diastème. Un film qui lui vaudra une nomination au Révélations des Césars en 2016.

Confirmant sa montée dans le milieu du cinéma français, il tourne en 2015 Brice 3 aux côtés de Jean Dujardin et Bruno Salomone (le film fera un peu moins de  d'entrées), monte les marches du festival de Cannes 2018 au côté de Marion Cotillard pour Gueule d'ange de Vanessa Filho et joue le rôle principal dans L'Intervention de Fred Grivois en 2019, film tourné au Maroc.

En 2019, il est à l'affiche du film Les Crevettes pailletées et tourne dans la série Marianne pour Netflix.

En 2020, il tient le rôle principal dans Balle perdue de Guillaume Pierret pour Netflix, pour lequel il a également participé à l'adaptation et aux dialogues. Il tient également le rôle principal de sa suite, Balle perdue 2, sortie en novembre 2022 sur la même plateforme. Il en est également co-scénariste.

 Filmographie
 Télévision
 Acteur
 2006 : Engrenages : un policier
 2006 : Kaamelott : Ferghus
 2006 : Boulevard du Palais : Gilles Ravelli
 2007 : Off Prime : JB
 2008 : Les Enfants d'Orion : Ben
 2008 : Central Nuit : Stagiaire Vigny
 2008 - 2017 : Hero Corp : Klaus alias "Force Mustang"
 2008 : A.K.A : Un pilote
 2011 : Saïgon, l'été de nos 20 ans : Soldat infirmier Pujol
 2012 : Interpol : Pierre Combaz
 2012 : WorkinGirls : Un laveur de vitres
 2012 : Enquêtes réservées : Ralph Mortensen
 2013 - 2015 : Lazy Company : Sergent, puis Lieutenant, puis Major Lee Chester
 2014 : Le sang de la vigne : Aurélien Orgelet
 2014 : Scènes de ménages : Nico
 2015 : En Famille : Un ami de Kader et Roxanne
 2015 : Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie : Paul Coupet
 2015 : Loin de chez nous : Le soldat au garot
2017 : T.A.N.K : Alexandre Braun
2019 : Marianne : Inspecteur Ronan
 2020 : Cheyenne et Lola (série OCS)
 2021 : La Bonne Conduite d'Arnaud Bedouët : Pierre
 2022 : Visitors (série) de Simon Astier : Pierre Emmanuel

 Cascadeur
 2011 : Braquo Cinéma
 Acteur
 2003 : Monsieur N d'Antoine de Caunes : un des porteurs du cercueil de l'Empereur
 2003 : Le Convoyeur de Nicolas Boukhrief : Un homme du commando
 2006 : Les Aristos de Charlotte de Turckheim : Un voyou
 2007 : Pur Week-end d'Olivier Doran : Un gendarme
 2008 : Taken de Pierre Morel : L'agent de sécurité devant l'ascenseur de Saint-Clair
 2009 : Le missionnaire de Roger Delattre : Le concessionnaire
 2011 : L'Art de séduire de Guy Mazarguil : Philippe
 2012 : Bye bye Blondie de Virginie Despentes : Un policier
 2013 : Les Gamins d'Anthony Marciano : Romain
 2013 : Gibraltar de Julien Leclercq : Philippe
 2014 : Goal of the dead de Benjamin Rocher et Thierry Poiraud : Sam Lorit
 2014 : Drama de Sophie Mathisen : Peter
 2015 : Antigang de Benjamin Rocher : Cartier
 2015 : Un Français de Diastème : Marco Lopez
 2016 : Brice 3 de James Huth : Gregor d'Hossegor
 2016 : La Folle histoire de Max et Léon de Jonathan Barré : Un résistant
 2017 : Le Semeur de Marine Francen : Jean
 2017 : Sparring de Samuel Jouy : Marvin Mathis
 2018 : Gueule d'ange de Vanessa Filho : Julio
 2018 : Mauvaises herbes de Kheiron : Franck
 2019 : L'Intervention de Fred Grivois : André Gerval
 2019 : Les Crevettes pailletées de Cédric Le Gallo et Maxime Govare : Jean
 2020 : Balle Perdue de Guillaume Pierret  : Lino
 2020 : La Forêt de mon père de Vero Cratzborn : Jimmy
 2021 : Kaamelott : Premier Volet de Alexandre Astier : Ferghus
 2022 : Big Bug de Jean-Pierre Jeunet : Greg
 2022 : La Revanche des Crevettes pailletées de Cédric Le Gallo et Maxime Govare : Jean
 2022 : Selon la police de Frédéric Videau : Drago
 2022 : Le Monde d'hier de Diastème : Patrick Hérouais
 2022 : Couleurs de l'incendie de Clovis Cornillac
 2022 : Balle perdue 2 de Guillaume Pierret : Lino (également scénariste)
2023 : Antigang, la relève de Benjamin Rocher : Niels Cartier

 Cascadeur
 2004 : Narco de Tristan Aurouet et Gilles Lellouche
 2006 : Les Brigades du Tigre de Jérôme Cornuau
 2008 : Les Femmes de l'ombre de Jean-Paul Salomé
 2008 : Taken de Pierre Morel
 2009 : Le missionnaire de Roger Delattre
 2010 : La Princesse de Montpensier de Bertrand Tavernier
 2010 : Hors-la-loi de Rachid Bouchareb

 Courts métrages
 Acteur
2003 : The Green Hornet d'Aurélien Poitrimoult
2011 : Juste Avant l'Aube de Romain Quirot
 2011 : La Vitesse du Passé de Dominique Rocher : Joseph
2012 : Jeux Funèbres de Christophe Binder
2016 : Arborg d'Antoine Delelis
2018 : L'Amazone d'Alexandra Naoum
2020 : Love U Hiroshima de Jules César Brechet

 Clips
 Acteur
 2011 : Mon Coloc de Max Boublil
 2012 : Whisper de Superbus
 2012 : Nobody but you de Nadéah
 2012 : Spite de Vandaveer
 2012 : Fly de Mr John Lewis
 2014 : Kamikaze de Disiz

 Théâtre
 2005 : Entre deux, coauteur avec Simon Astier, metteur en scène et acteur avec Simon Astier, Théâtre de Lulu sur la colline, (Lyon)
 2011 : Lady Oscar de Guillaume Mélanie, adaptation d'après Oscar de Claude Magnier, mise en scène Éric Civanyan, Théâtre de la Renaissance

 Jeux vidéo
 2004 : Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 2006 : Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2008 : Haze 2009 : I Am Alive (capture de mouvement)

 Distinction
 Nomination
 2016 : Lumière de la révélation masculine pour Un Français''

Notes et références

Liens externes

Acteur français de cinéma
Cascadeur
Acteur de Kaamelott
Naissance en décembre 1980
Naissance à Dijon

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Q: HTML - Load Selenium content after the rest of the page is done loading A section of my website includes some content that I need to acquire from another website using selenium. But getting that info causes the page to load with 3-4 second delay to account for the web scraping process. I would like to load everything BUT the Selenium  content first, THEN load the section containing the acquired content (maybe even display a flashing "loading" label while that's happening, but that's not strictly necessary.)
Example page:

      // This part should load instantly //

Current Stock Information

Here is the information for the stocks you want (wait until it loads):

      // This part should load when Selenium has done its thing //

         // For reference: data is passed in through Flask and for simplicity's sake let's say
            there's only one company I'm interested in //

{{ company_name }}

{{ stock_val }}

Edit: Flask Code
from flask import Flask, render_template
from selenium import Webriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

app = Flask(__name__)
url = '...'

def get-values(url):
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()
    browser.get(url)
    html = browser.page_source
    souppage = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
    elements = souppage.find_all("strong")  # returns list of 2 elements
    mylist = []
    for element in elements:
        mylist.append(element.text)
    return mylist

@app.route('/')
def index():
    values = get-values(url)
    company = values[0]
    stock = values[1]
    return render_template('example.html', company_name=company,
                           stock_val=stock)

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The space has been used before to display art for private clients, but its hazardous access conditions mean it has never been seen by the general public. But as we are endlessly being reminded, our current moment has no precedent. Mr. Bradford's online exhibition "Quarantine Paintings," which opens Tuesday, came into being through exceptional circumstances.
"When everything just closed down six months ago, I think I went into survival mode," the artist reflects. He canceled appointments. He told his team of seven studio assistants to stay home. (He has avoided having to furlough or lay off any of them.)
But Mr. Bradford is not a homebody. Ordinarily, he says, he eats out every night. His art, made via the accretion and subsequent abrasion of layers of paint, paper and other media, usually depends on him gleaning materials from the streets of Los Angeles — the city that has become the de facto subject of his work. The abstract paintings ("Q1," "Q2" and "Q3") hanging on the scarred walls at Hauser & Wirth are recognizably Mr. Bradford's, if only because their melting grids evoke, as with many of his past works, L.A.'s sporadically erratic street plan.
He made them — along with several others in the same series — alone in his studio, preparing the canvases with glued-on pieces of string and layers of colored paper before attacking them with an electric sander. Usually, assistants do the painstaking preparatory work, which Mr. Bradford does not relish, but for the first time in years, he had to do it himself.
Slowing down is not something that comes naturally to Mr. Bradford, so making these paintings felt therapeutic. "I'm a scared artist. When I started out, the only way I knew how to go from scared to not scared was to work really fast. I'd get to a place where I'd kind of built a shaky house, but at least it was a house." Often, he says, he rushes paintings and accidentally destroys them by sanding through too many layers. He has to build them up over again. This material rawness gives his work a sense of emotional vulnerability, although paradoxically, he says, "I'm actually always trying to cover up."
They are smaller, too, than most past works. His last exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, London, in October 2019, included paintings that were over 19 feet wide. The "Quarantine" paintings are on 6- by 8-foot stretchers — a format that Mr. Bradford, who has an extraordinarily wide arm span, can easily handle himself. The scale, and the delicacy of their surfaces, gives the paintings a newfound intimacy.
Paintings finished, he loaded them into a U-Haul truck and drove them over to the gallery. He could have had them photographed in his studio, but he wanted to see them out in the world. "My work doesn't come out of being a hermit," he says. "My work doesn't come out of isolation."
Meanwhile, Mr. Bradford continued his habitual walks around the city. On South Central Avenue, he observed a number of small immigrant businesses that were shuttered by Covid-19, and the ways in which the home-printed merchant posters — which he has previously incorporated into his paintings — were changing. He started a new collection of these signs, and pinned them to his studio wall: "Covid drive-throughs," barbers who offered to cut your hair in your backyard, signs calling for essential workers, signs offering to buy your house. Mr. Bradford views them as economic litmus papers for the poorest parts of the city, as companies laid off workers and stimulus checks ran out.
For Mr. Bradford, who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and who first showed with Hauser & Wirth in 2014, it has been a long time since he was poor. But his childhood in a boardinghouse in West Adams, then a low-income African-American neighborhood southwest of downtown Los Angeles, never seems far away. When he sees small businesses struggling to make ends meet, he asks himself, "What would I have done?"
Protests over racism and police violence; looting; military vehicles patrolling city streets; curfews: Mr. Bradford has seen them all before.
In 1992, when riots swept through Los Angeles, Mr. Bradford was 29 years old and working in his mother's hair salon in Leimert Park. (He enrolled for undergraduate studies at the California Institute of the Arts later that year.) When a curfew was enforced by the National Guard — as happened again this summer when protesters took to the streets over police violence against Black people — Mr. Bradford and his mother refused to close the salon early, the evening being their busiest time.
"We didn't stop, we just put up black paper and kept all the shutters up. The customers came in from the back," he says. "For me it was just a risk that I was willing to take." Mr. Bradford empathizes with the contractors with whom he stands in line, spaced six feet apart, waiting to enter Home Depot — where he buys many of his painting supplies. "You see so many people making economic decisions," he says.
The past six months have seemed familiar to Mr. Bradford in other ways, too. He lived through the AIDS crisis before it had a name, when the gay community in the early 1980s was told that there was nothing that could be done. He lost count of the number of doctors, he says, who told him, simply because he was a gay man, "'Get your business in order.' I'm 20 years old! What business do I have at 20?"
The language around Covid-19 — "the obsession with the number of people that are passing away, the graphs and the death tolls" — is very triggering of that time for him, he says. "What's different is that it is not moralized in the same way as AIDS was. There was an ethical or moral idea that these were bad people." Not until famous people started to die — Rock Hudson, for example — did the public take notice.
During Covid-19, the world has been forced to weigh one life against another — to reckon with unanswerable dilemmas about the price of preventing sickness and death, about who should get the last ventilator, about whether an older person's life is somehow worth less than a child's. "No, it's all wrong," Mr. Bradford says. It is surely no coincidence that the Black Lives Matter movement came sharply into the foreground of public consciousness during this time.
As with AIDS, the struggle for racial justice in this country depends on visibility. Once something becomes visible, Mr. Bradford says, it becomes everyone's problem. "So, if you choose to turn away from this moment, I feel that's your choice," he says. "But one thing you cannot say is, you didn't know."
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In Entertainment News we take a look at the trademark battle brewing between the United States Space Force and Netflix's Space Force for international merchandising. Then we'll close out the show with two great Insightful Picks of the Week. Michelle will talk about the Amazon Prime documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All'. Joe highlights the Netflix documentary "History 101".
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Mula, The Roman Villa of Los Villaricos
Mula, Villa Romano de Los Villaricos
Mula is the location of a major, large scale Roman agricultural villa, in the area of Villaricos, close to the banks of the River Mula.
This is one of the most important agricultural villas in the Region of Murcia and is a substantial villa, with evidence of several hundred years of occupation. The villa can be visited by groups on an appointment only basis and is open from time to time for general visits by the public, usually on days co-inciding with the monthly artesan market.
Although this is an extensive site, there are still large areas of the villa remaining unexcavated to date.
Contact the tourist office for an appointment. ( see Tourist Office , Mula.)
A little background history to the era in which this villa was built.
In 209BC the Iberian peninsula (Spain) was subjected to a new influence and catalyst for change: the Roman invasion of Cartagena.
Carthagena ( at that point Qart Hadast) had been under the control of the Carthaginians for 18 years, but during the second Punic wars between the Romans and Carthaginians(218-202BC), the Carthaginian General Hannibal left Cartagena defenceless and set off across the alps with his army and elephants to attack Rome directly.
Seeing an opportunity, the Roman Commander Publius Cornelius Scipio, invaded Cartagena, and this area fell to the Romans. Cartagena became Carthago Nova, a city from which the Romans spread out to conquer southern Spain and soon grew into a major Roman City.
The Romans were practical conquerors and viewed all their territories dispassionately, simply as a means of generating increased wealth for their own swollen empire, paying their armies and feeding the City of Rome, the largest city in the world at this point in history.
What is now Murcia offered a source of lucrative raw materials, the hills of the Sierra Minera holding minerals which could be smelted to make silver coinage, the hillsides of the north covered with esparto grass, used for ropes and household items, large plains for the production of wheat to feed the troops which continued to occupy further areas of Spain, water resources for producing olive oil, marble, sandstone and a coastline which offered opportunities for the production of fish sauces.
The Romans introduced new farming practices, working alongside the local populations to exploit the resources of the land, and gradually settled into their territories, bringing their own farming model, the villa, to the hillsides of what is now the Region of Murcia.
There are many Roman villas across the region, the term villa being generally understood as a single-family unit for agricultural exploitation on a plot of land of varying size. The villa included a building or a group of buildings which served as both a home for those who worked the land and a workshop and storehouse for the food products which came from the land.
Generally speaking, at the height of the Roman Empire the villas in Hispania were little more than workhouses, run by resident farmhands and visited only occasionally by the owners when increased activity on the farm made it necessary. However, 400 years after invading the peninsula, starting in the 2nd century AD and especially in the 3rd century, a series of events sparked socio-economic and cultural changes as the Roman Empire underwent a succession crisis and began to crumble.
As this process intensified, the structure began to change and more villas became primary residences, their accommodation more sumptuous and extensive.
( A more extensive history of the Roman occupation of the Murcia region can be found in the History of Cartagena.)
Development phases of the Roman Villa at Villaricos:
It is clear that this villa continued as a going concern and a family residence for a long time, with four different phases of construction and habitation having been identified.
Phase 1: The first indications of occupancy in the Roman Villa at Villaricos date from the second half of the 1st century AD, ie from AD50 onwards to the second half of the second century, ie AD150.
At this time there was a marked increase in the numbers of agricultural villas being developed in the Region of Murcia and there are other villas dating from this period in the same area, although none on the same scale as this villa, or indeed in such a good state of preservation.
Second phase: The second part of the 2nd century AD to the end of the 3rd century AD. After more than a century of existence, the villa was totally modified. The existing structures were demolished and a new structure constructed, giving the layout which is visible today. This was the most important era in the life of the settlement and would have been the period at which the villa was at its full splendour and production. During this phase the thermal baths and large water cistern were built.
Third phase. 4th century to the first half of the 5th century AD. During this phase the mosaic flooring was laid and a number of minor reforms undertaken. There are also indications of modifications made to the production areas of the villa, possibly marking a decline in production.
Fourth phase. Second half of the 5th century AD and the beginning of the sixth century.
This co-incides with the disintegration of the Imperial Roman Empire and the villa is abandoned.
The industrial activities of the villa have ceased altogether and only a residual population remains in or near to the villa.
A separate semi-circular building also relates to this period which was clearly used for religious purposes, and the area immediately around it became an improvised cemetery, or necropolis, with the dead being buried as close as possible to the walls of the building.
Parts of the villa structure were used to house the burials, breaking up the mosaic floors to inter around 50 bodies inside the former residential areas.
These are simple graves, covered with large slabs of sandstone and with the sides supported by smaller stones. Some are decorated with fragments of ceramics and tiles, and they are believed to date from the 5th to the 7th century. Many of the designs include decorative elements typical of Christian iconography.
The basic structure of a Roman agricultural villa.
In the 1st century AD the agronomist Columella wrote "De Re Rustica", in which he divided the typical villa into the following parts:
- the "pars urbana" or "dominica" was the area where the overlord of the property lived with his family, and where guests were received. Sometimes domestic servants also lived here.
The "pars rustica" included both the dwellings of the slave farm hands and other workers on the land and the area where animals and farming implements were kept. Inside this part was also the "pars frumentaria", where products were made, preserved and stored.
This Roman Villa at Villaricos is very typical of this type of villa, showing separate areas relating to the main residence on one hand and the manufacture and storage of products on the other, the main product in this case being the vital Roman provisions of olive oil and wine. Decorative remains have also been found here, including mosaics, paintings and items fashioned from marble, and these would have satisfied the desire for luxury and comfort of the rich agricultural landowners.
The Baths
The inclusion of baths ("balnea") in Roman villas became widespread and almost compulsory throughout Hispania in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, as it was impossible to make the trip to the nearest town every day to visit the public thermal baths there.
The bathhouse in Los Villaricos consists of two adjoining blocks, the northern one of which housed the cold baths and the southern one the heated rooms and warm baths. The way the baths were organized is typical of the Roman villas: the frigidarium (cold bath), tepidarium (lukewarm bath) and caldarium (hot bath) being laid out almost in a straight line, like a factory floor process. The remaining space is organized to facilitate the movement of bathers from one area to another.
Pars Urbana, residential area.
The pars urbana, where the owner and his family lived, is a typical example of Mediterranean house design of the time, with a central patio surrounded by a covered porch, from which there was access to all the main rooms. These were the rooms reserved for the owners, who would have had a similar distribution of their living space in their main residence in the town, when they still lived there in the 1st and 2nd centuries. At that time the villa was not only agricultural but also industrial, manufacturing and selling the products derived from the crops.
From the 3rd century onwards, though, the owners would have lived in the villa permanently, and the residence of the owner and his family became a clear indication of his status within the new rural aristocracy in the province, which was to develop throughout Hispania from that time on. The villas thus became houses of nobility, and this is reflected in the quality of the mosaic floors (opus tesselatum) with geometrical decorative designs which are visible in this villa. There are still many mosaics hidden from public view for protection purposes, although there are some sections currently on view.
The olive mill
One of the most interesting findings at the site of Los Villaricos is a torcularium (olive mill), the only one to have been systematically excavated in the Region of Murcia so far. The existence of this mill shows the extent to which the rural farms here depended on olive oil production and local trading in order to survive, far from the Lower Guadalquivir where olive farming was on a much larger scale in Roman times.
At the northern end of the central corridor are the structures designed for the production of oil, which, to judge by their size, must have accounted for a large proportion of the villa's economic activity. A series of rooms were used for pressing, decanting the oil into tanks, and storing in a large deposit known as a "lacus". All of these rooms were built using cement and rendered with red mortar.
At the far eastern end of the torcularium, room number 6 is a large rectangular storeroom measuring 30 metres by 10 metres. This was used to store the oil once it had been produced, awaiting its transport and sale. The room is divided into three separate areas by a series of limestone pillars from the quarry at Cerro de la Almagra.
One of the most spectacular discoveries in the villa was the large subterranean cistern which was discovered beneath the floor of one of the main residential rooms. This is the only cistern of its type discovered so far in the Region of Murcia.
The cistern provides 20 cubic metres of storage, measuring 4.5 by 3 metres, with a depth of 1.5 metres. It was supported by large rectangular blocks of stone, and its walls were sealed off with a waterproof sealing.
Water was collected from the roof of the central patio and funnelled down into the cistern, then distributed as required. Evidence of lead piping was also discovered inside the cistern.
The longevity of the villa inevitably brought about the need for places of burial for its inhabitants. As the years passed it became necessary to choose an area away from the residential buildings, and in the 1990s the remains of a tomb were discovered 100 metres to the north-east, although unfortunately over the centuries part of the contents had been ransacked by thieves. Further excavation and cleaning revealed it to be a double tomb, each of which had been covered with a stone slab underneath a mound of stones and mortar. Each grave is 50 cm wide, 2 metres long and 65 cm deep, and the two are separated by a wall 25 cm thick, which is finished in slake lime and fine ceramics, giving it a reddish colour. Only a few fragments of bone were found inside them.
Similar tombs have been found in other parts of the Region of Murcia, such as the later part of the burial ground of San Antón in Cartagena, La Molineta (Puerto de Mazarrón) and the centre of Águilas, all of them dating from between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD.
Where is the Roman Villa at Villaricos, Mula.
The villa can be clearly seen from the main Autovía del Noroeste, with a covered roof.
The site can be reached from the Autovía del Noroeste (C-415), travelling north towards Mula and Caravaca. After 30km turn off towards Mula Centro and Puebla de Mula, and take the MU-530 towards Mula. This passes underneath the motorway, and at the next roundabout take the exit towards the Pantano de la Cierva reservoir. The site is 500 metres along this road.
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This Case Study contributes up to 20% of the total mark for this Unit of Study. The expectation is that the activities associated with this assignment will culminate in a professionally written Case Study, and be presented in class.
In this Case Study you are required to research and report on a successful mobile application implementation by a business. The application can either be a B2C solution for customers or a B2E application for employees, and can either be an entire application or an individual task. Your case study should report on the business, the particular application you are reporting on and any associated benefits. Also, if possible report on any architectural features of the application, its interface to enterprise or legacy systems, the impact on the users and company and any business process redevelopment that was involved in the application. Discuss any reported problems with the applications (though these are rarely reported), and any future plans for the application.
You will present your case study to the class during the designated tutorial time in the week to be arranged with the lecturer. As well as the written case study you should prepare 4-5 five powerpoint slides to use during your presentation. Your presentation should be 5-10 minutes in duration. You will be graded on both the written case study and the presentation. Observation of the presentation time limits will be taken into account during the grading.
Every student should prepare their case study on a different topic. Case studies can be chosen from any business type such as Banking, other Financial services, Manufacturing, Health, Education, Government (local state or federal), Service Industries including Catering, Restaurants, Hospitality, Auto Clubs etc... Sporting Clubs and Societies, and non-profit industries such as charities.
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Forgotten Man is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his first recording for the Timeless label, featuring Donaldson's quartet with Herman Foster, Geoff Fuller, and Victor Jones.

Reception
The album was awarded 2½ stars in an Allmusic review by Scott Yanow who stated "Although not essential, this album should easily please Lou Donaldson's fans, for it finds him in exuberant form".

Track listing
All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated
 "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 5:58
 "Whiskey Drinkin' Woman" (Lou Donaldson, Leon Spencer) - 5:34
 "This is Happiness" (Tadd Dameron) - 3:44
 "Tracy" - 4:37
 "Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) - 6:52
 "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 5:15
 "Exactly Like You" (Fields, McHugh) - 7:00
Recorded in Milan, Italy on July 2, 1981.

Personnel
Lou Donaldson - alto saxophone, vocals
Herman Foster - piano
Geoff Fuller - bass
Victor Jones - drums

References

Lou Donaldson albums
1981 albums
Timeless Records albums


Three Laurel High School cheerleaders raised money through fundraising beginning at the start of the school year to make the trip of a lifetime. They were selected to visit London and participate in the New Year's Day Parade. Marcus Simpson is a junior and Abigail Peterson and Avery Carlson are both sophomores.
Peterson and Carlson raised a majority of their money from an idea they got from Pinterest. Starting on the first day of school they started flocking houses. They first purchased 50 pink plastic flamingos. Ed Norman, LHS principal was their first victim when the girls started to go out at night leaving a pink flamingo in a person's yard with a note. The note would tell the victim that they had been flocked and if a ransom was donated to help fund their trip, they (Abigail and Avery) would flock friends and family of the victim's choosing. It worked wonderfully and many Laurel residents woke up to find their yard covered in pink flamingos.
During their trip to London both girls traveled together and saw the sights.
"It was the best experience of my life," said Abigail Peterson.
Abigail is still excited from the trip as she just landed back on American soil a few night ago and still remembers all the London splendor of a journey worth every flamingo.


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Import>Scripts>move should create the 'detect.js' script tag and 'hide.js', 'show.js' script tag.
Then create a paragraph of text inside the DIV which you'd like to move when a link is clicked or passed over.
The higher the zIndex number the higher the layer... so 1 is above 0.
Any DIV tags with ID's set should be recorded in a list which you can choose from later in the 'hide/show' dialog.
The hide.js and show.js scripts should probably be combined.


Syrians in government-controlled areas of the war-torn country went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a president in a contest that has been condemned and shunned by opponents of Bashar al-Assad, but which is certain to confirm him in office for seven more years.
Assad and his wife, Asma, voted in a school in the Malki area of Damascus, amid heavy security measures. Assad's two challengers – Maher al-Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri – voted in the Sheraton hotel.
But in Aleppo, thousands of residents of rebel-held districts fled for the countryside before a day of intensive attacks by government helicopters, jets and artillery.
State media trumpeted a process in which citizens would cast their votes "with freedom and transparency".
More than 15m Syrians were eligible to vote in 9,000 polling stations, but there were none in northern and eastern areas, which are in opposition hands.
In the late afternoon, voting was extended by five hours to cope with what official media called "the strong turnout".
In the Bab al-Salam refugee camp on the Turkish border, Ibrahim al-Khalilm, 43, who lost both his legs in an air strike last year, said: "If Bashar al-Assad would give me my legs back, then I would vote. But I can't bring my cousin, my brother and my uncle back either. All my life he will remain an enemy for me. Elections cannot be held in pools of blood."
Hajjar and Nouri are standing under a new constitution that was passed in 2012, part of Assad's response to the uprising that began peacefully the previous year and has since morphed into a fully fledged war that has outside military and political support on both sides. In 2007, Assad was the only candidate in a referendum in which he scored 97.6%.
The president of the western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, lambasted what he called "blood elections" in an article in the Washington Post. He said Assad was using the carefully managed contest to bolster his legitimacy and project confidence after more than three years of conflict in which 160,000 people have died and some 9 million made homeless, inside Syria and abroad.
Four anti-Assad Islamist groupings – including the Islamic Front and Jaish al-Mujahideen – warned Syrians not to go to polling centres, but pledged that they would refrain from targeting them. However, the Revolution Leadership Council reported several mortar bombs going off in central areas of Damascus including the Abu Rummaneh quarter, where several foreign embassies are located. Outgoing artillery fire continued to echo across the city as rebel-held areas in Ghouta came under bombardment. Foreign media coverage has been severely restricted.
In Hama students poured red dye into the Orontes river to symbolise the blood that has been shed, social media reported. Three explosions were reported from Latakia, in the heartland of the Alawite sect which forms the backbone of the Assad family's rule.
Assad is expected to win by a huge margin. Voters in one polling station in Damascus refused to go behind the curtain to cast their ballot and displayed their vote for the incumbent. "I think the elections are the best way to express our opinion," one man told Reuters TV. "We are with President Bashar al-Assad until the end of our lives." In many places government employees were bussed in en masse to cast their votes.
Observers from countries allied to the regime – North Korea, Iran and Russia – were on hand to supervise the voting.
Western and Arab governments kept up a barrage of criticism. Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, dismissed the elections as a farce. Nuri conceded he had little chance of winning, but added: "People are calling for stability and security, and to fight terrorism. They want military leadership and President Assad is doing well in this."
Abu Maher, a carpenter who remained in Aleppo's Hanano district, said: "Today the aeroplanes are using the skies as a highway. They are everywhere. Why are they holding this election drama in the midst of all this chaos?"
But on the western side of the city, a lecturer who called herself Riham said she was voting reluctantly. "I am doing so not because I like Bashar but because the opposition has given us no option."
Analysts are united in seeing the election as Assad's way of showing he is in charge. "Part of being a leader is demonstrating power, and making people line up and elect you, whether out of fear or devotion, is an important process that demonstrates to his supporters that he is loved and feared," Joshua Landis of Oklahama University told the Syria Deeply website. "And it demonstrates to his opponents that he has this massive approval and that he can bring people out on to the streets. It's meant to intimidate the opposition.
"It makes it very clear that Assad has every determination to stick around. And in many ways, it underlines the fact that he has been winning in the last year, not by a lot, but by inches."


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Industry leaders speaking....
...at the ICC in Birmingham on 20 May, 2010, included John Abbott of RSSB and Steve Fink, recently appointed Head of HSEA (Investment Projects) at Network Rail.
John Abbott set the scene describing the challenge for the "railway family" to improve upon safety. In an industry where accidents are viewed as a "barometer" of success, reducing the number of safety related incidents may "make or break" the railway. Last year there were 144 fatalities or serious injuries. Improvements have been made but increased focus should now to be given to reducing the number of "slips and trips" at the passenger interface.
Steve Fink of Network Rail illustrated dramatically with live case studies the challenge of trying to embed a safety culture in the working railway. The acceptance of "all orange" clothing has been a successful development, as has Network Rail's "Safety Central" promotion. "Plan to work and work to plan" was Steve's key message. The consequences of not doing so were vividly illustrated.
Steve also explained how Network Rail now employs senior staff from parallel engineering disciplines, including the marine and aviation sectors, and how these "non career railway" people, are bringing fresh ideas to the industry.
This theme was picked up later by ITIC who drew parallels with the lessons learned by the marine sector over the last two centuries. Rail is a far younger industry than marine and might learn some lessons from it. The marine sector has 13 of its own, industry owned, insurance companies for example. Aviation is also worth a look as they have developed practical risk sharing models between major contractors and smaller sub-contractors, thereby making insurance more affordable for the smaller company.


Deus Ex: Human Revolution hit the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in late 2011 to critical acclaim. Combining an open world first-person cover shooter with a western-style RPG along with an extremely thought... A two level single player map following the story of an alternate Deus-Ex reality, where JC Denton wakes up to a strange sound in the middle of the night in his house. Won 3rd place in the Deus Ex Single Player Level of the Year Contest sponsored by ION Storm.
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If given the opportunity, I would totally play Deus Ex: Human Revolution fully in third person. When it was new, I would have even been willing to pay extra for the privilege. When it was new, I would have even been willing to pay extra for the privilege.
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What are the steps taken by a kerberos client to get and use a kerberos host ticket that allows single sign on to second machine?
In the steps in this example the user tetsu is logged into the source machine, deploy. He is using PuTTY to single sign on to the target machine, rhel68. The KDC (Key Distribution Center) is the Domain Controller.
In the image above, the Start Time and End Time on the ticket shows it is valid for 10 hours. This is the default value for MIT kerberos.
2) Tetsu uses a kerberos client (such as PuTTY, ssh or some other client) to login to the target machine rhel68. The client (PuTTY in this case) will first go to the KDC.
4) KDC will look into Active Directory to check for the SPN (Service Principal Name) for rhel68. If its there, the KDC generates the kerberos host ticket for rhel68. This image shows the SPNs that are available on the host rhel68 as seen in Active Directory.
8) If SPN is present (and the signature on the host ticket is valid and the time is not expired), rhel68 trusts (or accepts) the host ticket and grants access to tetsu.
The user must still pass through other elements of login before login is allowed. For example, the user still has to have authorization to login.
A) Tetsu wants to login through PAM enabled application (PuTTY or ssh for example). If SSO is being attempted, the client will present the host ticket from the above process.
B) The Centrify PAM module is called.
C) The Centrify PAM module does a series of checks to make sure the user's credentials are valid. This series of steps for single sign on would include checking the host ticket that is presented to make sure it has a valid signature and the timestamp is not expired. The Centrify PAM module will make calls to GSSAPI (kerberos libraries) to validate the host ticket.
D) If host ticket is accepted, the Centrify PAM module will also check that the user has the proper authorization (or "right") to login.
**NOTE: Even if Centrify grants the login, the next module in the PAM stack may be called and could still deny the login. In this case, the denied login is coming from other elements in the PAM stack and not the Centrify PAM module.


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Announcing the Winners of Anaplan's EMEA 2016 Partner Awards
Ed Hickling
VP Emerging Markets EMEA
We at Anaplan are very proud of our partners around the world. These great companies—some 100 strong in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) alone—help drive planning transformations around the world. Our Partners are hands-on Anaplan experts, and many package their expertise into apps—available in the Anaplan App Hub—that add even more value to the Anaplan platform and serve even more customers.
At Hub16 events held throughout Europe over the last few months we recognized several partners for outstanding work. Four were recognized for performance in specific geographies, and two others earned regional awards for delivery excellence—that is, we acknowledged their expertise in helping customers become smart businesses. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding partners:
Regional Partners of the Year for 2016
Deloitte Belgium —For the last two years, 15 consultants at Deloitte Belgium have provided outstanding assistance to Anaplan customers in the region. The consultants at Deloitte Belgium specialize in finance and supply chain work, focusing their efforts in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Janssen Pharmaceutica, Nederlandse Spoorwegen and many other customers benefit from the continuous commitment of the Deloitte Belgium team.
Atkan —In just 18 months, the ten consultants of Atkan have brought nine customers into the Anaplan family, including hyper-growth ridesharing company BlaBlaCar. Working with midmarket companies across industries, Atkan has deployed Anaplan in finance, HR, and supply chain departments. We can't wait to see what they'll do next.
Executit —Started in Sweden, Executit has built a fast-growing, Anaplan-centered operation with great business savvy. Its satisfied clients, including CircleK and BillerudKorsnäs, appreciate the combination of application intelligence and management skill that Executit brings to every job. The partner has now expanded into Finland and Singapore, and is building a suite of apps and offering them in the Anaplan App Hub.
Bedford Consulting—Bedford has worked with Anaplan since we launched our partner program almost five years ago. The company has 15 consultants exclusively focused on Anaplan, and this team provides planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation solutions to businesses such as the Carluccio's restaurant chain. Bedford has helped some of our largest, most complex customers succeed with Anaplan, and is also an excellent partner in sales and marketing campaigns.
Awards for Delivery Excellence
Accenture — For two years, the global consulting firm Accenture has helped customers in France deploy Anaplan. More than 20 Accenture consultants work with clients (including investment firm Natixis Global Asset Management) across lines of business and industries; the firm's biggest successes have been in insurance and banking. The company has also signed an Accelerated Growth Partnership (AGP) agreement with Anaplan.
PwC —Advisory firm PwC has worked with Anaplan in the UK for more than three years, helping joint customers like Provident Financial Group transform its finance operations—particularly in areas of planning, budgeting, and forecasting. The award recognizes PwC's significant partnership on strategic projects for some of the UK's largest organizations.
Please join us in congratulating our 2016 partners of the year. Learn more about Anaplan's fast-growing community of consulting partners at /partners/.


Twinkle Khanna's first attempt at fiction, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, was forecasted to be a phenomenal read, owing to her success as a columnist. The book doesn't fail your expectations.
The virtue of nepotism in bollywood made me question the credibility and ability of our very own Mrs Funnybones, as just another star wife with a privilege, sans any talent. Guilty as charged for this terrible mistake – for it was her satirical tone, cheeky sarcasm and critical commentary that made me ultimately appreciate her column and unique style.
Twinkle Khanna's first attempt at fiction, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, was forecasted to be a phenomenal read, owing to her success as a columnist. The book comprises of four short stories and is a light read. The first story, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad is about a gangly young girl who questions the patriarchal norms of her village. The story is about rural women empowerment and briefly touches the issues of female infanticide and dowry. The young feminist's abandonment of stereotypical notions of womanhood and rejection of feudal mindset ultimately revolutionizes the entire village. While Khanna managed to pen down a fast paced reformatory fable, the story moved along a familiar road and reminded me of my old story books.
The second story, Salaam, Noni Appa, revolves around an elderly woman Noureen Machiwala and her struggles with societal norms when an unexpected door of love is knocked upon by Anandji. The protagonist, Noni Appa finds herself in a strange position when love crosses her path years after her husband's death. She grapples with the baggage of morality and questions like 'what will people say?'. Even though a part of the story seemed nothing short of a so-so episode of Grey's Anatomy, the rest of it was delightful. It made me happy to read that ultimately love won without any sermon of ethics. Binni, Noni Appa's younger sister was a lovable character whose funny and quick comebacks not only portrayed the special bond that the sisters shared but also made the story worthwhile.
The book tries to portray simplicity through intricate descriptions. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad is a collection of short stories, consisting of minute observations of day-to-day life and unorthodox protagonists.
The third story, If The Weather Permits is about a Christian Malayali girl, Elisa Thomas. Being a Malayali myself, I'd say Khanna painted a very stereotypical picture of a Malayali household with meen moilee. The story of Elisa Thomas revolves around orthodox parents who propagate the cult of domesticity and encounters with strange strangers who eventually become her husbands. The resonance with this story was the least and when it ended abruptly, I was left alone to formulate a coherent explanation. Despite the witty retorts and deliberate attempts to tickle the funny bone, this story was bittersweet.
The fourth story is called The Sanitary Man From a Sacred Land. It is based on Arunachalam Muruganantham, an inventor, social entrepreneur and reformer of women hygiene. It is a fictionalized account of how Bablu Kewat, (his alter ego) successfully invents a low-cost sanitary napkin machine and changes the lives of women by freeing them from the taboos associated with their natural biological function. The story of the menstrual man is not only brave, but also inspirational.
Khanna's attempt at redefining feminism is commendable. From Lakshmi to Noni Appa to Elisa to Bablu, every character breaks stereotypes.
Khanna's attempt at redefining feminism is commendable. All the four characters are beautifully written. From Lakshmi to Noni Appa to Elisa to Bablu, every character breaks stereotypes. But the feminist in me is left wanting for more. Short stories are difficult to write and often exclude various significant emotions because you have to keep it short. This inherent curse makes it difficult for the readers to connect and involve themselves with the book.
The book tries to portray simplicity through intricate descriptions. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad is a collection of short stories, consisting of minute observations of day-to-day life and unorthodox protagonists. The strong undercurrents of feminism are visible through the rebellious teenager, old lady who rejects societal norms, the girl who belongs to herself and the menstrual man. All in all, it's definitely worth a read and Khanna's first attempt at writing fiction deserves an appreciation.


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George, Larry St.
ST. GEORGE, Larry
67, passed away on February 8, 2022, in Hamilton, Ohio. Larry was born March 11, 1954, in Hamilton, Ohio, to Norman and Charlotte (Gabbard) George. He fought a hard
battle with Lewy Body Dementia with Parkinsonism.
A master hairstylist and colorist, he spent decades living out west to pursue his professional passion of cutting hair in the sunny climate he loved. His many dedicated clients nicknamed him "Hair God." Kind, creative and down-to-earth, he was known by his family and friends for lighting up the room with his amazing stories, cheeky grin and huge laugh.
"Hairstylist," as opposed to beautician or barber, was a new term when Larry started in the business. In high school, he
almost got expelled more than once because his hair length touched his shirt collar. Inspired by that experience to follow his own path, he graduated hairstyling school and opened Larry St. George Creative Hair Artist Salon. News anchors, prominent business people, Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders and other locals flocked to Larry's shop for his expert haircuts and fun, upscale service. (His younger cousins remember
"feeling like celebrities" at his salon in the '70s and '80s, where they had a chance to check out early tanning beds and get their ears pierced. They also have great memories of riding in his shiny Corvette, Joe Walsh tunes blaring, for trips to Friendly's or a "Pink Panther" movie.)
Bringing urban style to Hamilton, Larry hosted innovative fashion shows that highlighted both clothing and hairstyles. At 30 he moved to Newport Beach, California, where he opened Jazzz Hair Salon. His Hamilton clients heartbroken, gave him 12 round-trip plane tickets, as a going-away gift, to come back to town every month to do their hair, which he continued to do for 15 years, with appointments booked up to a year in advance.
Continuing to perfect his craft, Larry trained with Vidal Sassoon and José Eber in L.A. Redken recognized his rare
talent and made him a "traveling exhibition designer." He
also created his own product line and styling tools, based on years of experience and client feedback.
Larry had a lifelong love of music, cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles. He also loved boating and water skiing, which eventually took him to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where he opened Larry St. George Hair Studio and started a side business of building custom motorcycles. Larry's custom chopper, Purple Poison, took many awards at cycle shows around the nation. (As his nephew Jake remembers, riding and feeling the wind in his face was one of Larry's favorite things.)
Larry leaves behind his father, sister Jill (Paul) McCowan, granddaughters Kayla and Peyton Smith, nephews Jake and Doug McCowan, and his beloved three cats, Tiger, Jax and Socks. He was preceded in death by his mother, daughter
Tiffany Smith, and niece Stephanie McCowan.
However far he lived from Hamilton, Larry stayed tightly connected to his hometown thanks to long Sunday calls with his mom and visits with friends and family, who will miss him dearly. Larry had a gift for communicating with people from all walks of life and bringing them together. The world is a
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It isn't that we are not familiar with tough business decisions. We all know somebody who has been a victim of such acts.
HP's announced decision to let die WebOS and TouchPad - a product that lived just 49 days - in and of itself is stupendous.
Spinning off their PC's may seem surprising, unless you once sold IBM ThinkPads and remember selling IBM printers.
Go back to IBM, heck go back the the Mopier, the HP9065 and Edgeline; is it really a surprise that after investing a billion, shifting leadership, HP drops and adds?
There is more, much more here, and it is not all Dark.
At first I didn't HP had the savvy to change; I think differently now.
I was talking about the HP situation with a colleague the other day, cube to cube. He is somewhat market savvy.
His insight is a common one: this move is purely a response to stock holder value and recognizing change.
Take out all the emotion around this shift. And look at it this way: HP is a public company judged completely on profitability and shareholder value - that's all. The machine is not concerned about employee morale, saving the earth or carbon footprints. The machine does not sweat.
And for us to think differently is naive. For us to project this human quality onto a corporation is foolish.
The machine is built to return value to stockholders. The Captain is charged with guiding the machine into profit.
As clumsy as he may appear, Leo is steering the leviathan into new waters.
Yes, the communication of this course change was unbecoming of a company with such a high-intent pedigree - but the message is clear.
There is no future in PC's. Profit from PC's has been and will continue to shrink. It is time to leave The Cove.
What if HP is right?
Undoubtedly, HP believes she is correct - but what if she really is correct? Spinning PSG essentially creates a $40 billion start up. A brand new company whose sales are almost twice that of the nearest competitor's. Not a bad deal.
But what if PC usage is really declining? What if fewer companies are refreshing desktops? What if more and more thin clients, smart phones and tablets are accessing the ever growing cloud? How about those cheap, zero-client things from Samsung?
What if somebody at HP sees PC sales drying up in the next two years? I mean, for the world's largest PC manufacturer to get out of PC's it takes foresight, smarts, vision and balls.
Can you see the new technological landscape? How may IT staff are going to find themselves "rationalized"?
How about the channel? HP intends to get into the cloud, sell services and software - direct. Remember when there was a ComputerLand/MicroAge/Inacomp computer store in every city? And how crazy a thought it was at the time to consider IBM ever getting out of the PC market?
For the VAR channel, the message is clear, transformation now.
The New HP is the old IBM - Remember when IBM sold printers?
There is a good deal of comparison between IBM of the 90's and today's HP. Indeed, the process looks to be very similar: hardware company sells or spins off all it's peripheral divisions to evolve as a services provider.
IBM sold off Lexmark, in 1991 and held on to the PC division, Lenovo, until 2004.
How long do you think IPG has?
Léo Apotheker's vision for Hewlett Packard is a familiar shade of Big Blue.
"...An open, online marketplace where consumers and companies alike could buy apps; Features like infrastructure-as-a-service and platforms-as-a-service that allow companies to tap into cloud-based software; 100 million devices running webOS, many of which will connect to HP's infrastructure..."
Some investors were hoping for much more -- a radical restructuring maybe, or plans to spin off the low-margin PC division.
What they got was Apotheker's anodyne vision of an evolving IT industry, the disruptive force of cloud computing, and HP's role as a soup-to-nuts provider.
"All of us need a trusted partner to navigate this new world," he said. "Who but HP could deliver this leadership?"
VARs, MSP's, and channels all around, now is the time to transform.


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Q: Can we find the boundary condition of a function of diffusion process? given $dx_t=b(t,x_t)dt+\sigma(t,x_t)dW_t$, if it is in one dimensional case, one can use Feller non-explosion test to see if $x_t$ attains a particular boundary. How about $f(x_t)$, $f$ is any arbitrage $C^2$ function? Can we still use Feller non-explosion test?
How about if the Brownian motion is of high dimension? Do we still have similar result?