The fastest and most exciting formula on the UK ovals, these specialised and highly tuned hatchbacks and coupes are among the most professional setups in UK oval racing.
Built on specially designed spaceframe chassis, powered by race-tuned 16-valve engines and running on bespoke racing slick tyres, the speeds these cars can achieve in such a confined space has to be seen to be believed. Nelson Piquet once described racing a Formula 1 car round Monaco as "like riding a bicycle around your living room" – clearly he has never seen a National Hot Rod race! The drivers are the most skilful and talented on the ovals, circulating centimetres apart at full tilt.
The annual National Championship at Hednesford is the highlight of the Incarace calendar at the spiritual home of Hot Rod racing, but the NHRs provide large grids and incredibly close racing at all three of our tracks.


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Home Neighbour
Google removes 100 apps from Chinese developer
by NE NOW NEWS
NEW DELHI , April 27, 2019 4:13 pm
Suspecting malicious cyber attacks and data breach possibilities, Google is removing apps from a Chinese Android app developer – DO Global – which holds roughly 100 apps in the Play Store with over 600 million installs and is partly owned by Internet major Baidu.
46 apps from DO Global have already been removed from the Play Store and the company intends to ban DO Global overall with more app removals that would follow, BuzzFeed News reported on Friday.
"We actively investigate malicious behaviour, and when we find violations, we take action, including the removal of a developer's ability to monetise their app with AdMob or publish on Play," the report quoted a Google spokesperson as saying on Friday.
The search engine giant is further extending the ban to the Internet giant's ad products apprearing on Android as well.
"DO Global apps no longer offer ad inventory for purchase via Google's AdMob network," the report said.
The Chinese company claims to have more than 250 million monthly active users for its apps and the reach of nearly 800 million users through its ad platform on Android.
"Their removal from the Play Store marks one of the biggest bans, if not the biggest, Google has ever instituted against an app developer," the report noted.
DO Global was a subsidiary of Baidu until it was spun out earlier in 2018. Baidu retains a 34 per cent stake in the company.

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Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. This past week I along with around 22,000 others attended VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. For those of you in Europe, VMworld Barcelona is October 14-16 2014 with registration and more information found here. Watch for more post VMworld coverage in upcoming newsletters, articles, posts along with other industry trend topics. Enjoy this edition of the StorageIO Update newsletter and look forward to catching up with you live or online while out and about this fall.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) remains a popular industry and IT customer topic, not to mention being one of the favorite themes of Solid State Device (SSD) vendors. SSD component and system solution vendors along with their supporters love VDI as the by-product of aggregation (e.g. consolidation) which applies to VDI is aggravation. Aggravation is the result of increased storage I/O performance (IOP's, bandwidth, response time) from consolidating the various desktops. It should not be a surprise that some of the biggest fans encouraging organizations to adopt VDI are the SSD vendors. Read some of my comments and perspectives on VDI here at FedTech Magazine.
Speaking of virtualizing the data center, software defined data centers (SDDC) along with software defined networking (SDN) and software defined storage (SDS) remain popular including some software defined marketing (SDM). Here are some of my comments and perspectives moving beyond the hype of SDDC.
Recently the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) who works with the T11 standards body of both legacy or classic Fibre Channel (FC) as well as newer FC over Ethernet (FCoE) made some announcements. These announcements including enhancements such as Fibre Channel Back Bone version 6 (FC-BB-6) among others. Both FC and FCoE are alive and doing well, granted one has been around longer (FC) and can be seen at its plateau while the other (FCoE) continues to evolve and grow in adoption. In some ways, FCoE is in a similar role today to where FC was in the late 90s and early 2000s ironically facing some common fud. You can read my comments here as part of a quote in support of the announcement , along with my more industry trend perspectives in this blog post here.
Buyers guides are popular with both vendors, VAR's as well as IT organizations (e.g. customers) following are some of my comments and industry trend perspectives appearing in Enterprise Storage Forum. Here are perspectives on buyers guides for Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS), Unified Data Storage and Object Storage. EMC has come under pressure as mentioned in earlier StorageIO update newsletters to increase its shareholder benefit including spin-off of VMware. Here are some of my comments and perspectives that appeared in CruxialCIO. Read more industry trends perspectives comments on the StorageIO news page.
Despite being declared dead, traditional or classic Fibre Channel (FC) along with FC over Ethernet (FCoE) continues to evolve with FC-BB-6, read more here.
VMworld 2014 took place this past week and included announcements about EVO:Rack and Rail (more on this in a future edition). You can get started learning about EVO:Rack and RAIL at Duncan Epping (aka @DuncanYB) Yellow Bricks site. VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is at the heart of EVO which you can read an overview here in this earlier StorageIO update newsletter (March 2014).
Also watch for some extra content that I'm working on including some video podcasts articles and blog posts from my trip to VMworld 2014. However one of the themes in the background of VMworld 2014 is the current beta of VMware vSphere V6 along with Virtual Volumes aka VVOL's. The following are a couple of my recent posts including primer overview of VVOL's along with a poll you can cast your vote. Check out Are VMware VVOL's in your virtual server and storage I/O future? and VMware VVOL's and storage I/O fundamentals (Part 1) along with (Part 2).
The StorageIO calendar continues to evolve including several new events being added for September and well into the fall with more in the works including upcoming Dutch European sessions the week of October 6th in Nijkerk Holland (learn more here). The following are some upcoming September events. These include live in-person seminars, conferences, keynote and speaking activities as well as on-line webinars, twitter chats, Google+ hangouts among others.
Click here to view other upcoming along with earlier event activities. Watch for more 2014 events to be added soon to the StorageIO events calendar page. Topics include data protection modernization (backup/restore, HA, BC, DR, archive), data footprint reduction (archive, compression, dedupe), storage optimization, SSD, object storage, server and storage virtualization, software defined, big data, little data, cloud and object storage, performance and management trends among others.
In addition to the industry trends and perspectives comments in the news mentioned above, along with the StorageIO blog posts, the following are some of my recent articles and tips that have appeared in various industry venues.
Over at the new Storage Acceleration site I have a couple of pieces, the first is What, When, Why & How to Accelerate Storage and the other is Tips for Measuring Your Storage Acceleration.


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Networked Homes Prepare for the Sound of Music
First iPods, now tablets. The numbers of consumers using their tablets to listen to music--more than 60 percent, according to Dallas-based research firm Parks Associates--is reportedly going to trigger a widespread increase in the embedded network technologies in home audio products.
Parks Associates' latest report, Networked Audio Products: Market Update, released Tuesday, predicts that audio product manufacturers will add networking capabilities in order to connect their products to popular mobile devices and streaming services such as iTunes and Pandora.
"The continuing popularity of music services is pushing consumers to find new ways to enjoy their growing libraries of audio content," Kurt Scherf, the Parks Associates principal analyst who wrote the report, said in a statement.
"Consumers are using products such as smartphones and media tablets for music access and playback, and they want ways to distribute that content around the home. Networked audio products give them the ability to have a high-quality multiroom music experience."
In fact, the report forecasts that by 2016, more than 90 million home audio units will ship with embedded wireless networking technologies, which represents almost 60 percent of a global market that includes everything from A/V receivers, MP3 speaker docks, sound bars, and home theater systems. The most likely technologies, according to Scherf, are Apple's AirPlay and those from the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).
Scherf acknowledges that this could be an issue for users. "The whole notion of home server has changed over the last five years. It could be a tablet computer or a PC rather than a dedicated server. But the biggest issue is that the DLNA have given every manufacturer the freedom create an interface. The wide variety of user interfaces could be an inhibitor for end-user adoption."
Apple has set the bar high with Airplay technology, giving users an onscreen menu that simply asks which connected device should play the music, he adds. "If DLNA-based devices are going to be as successful, that's the model they need to emulate."
From the article, "Networked Homes Prepare for the Sound of Music" by Howard Baldwin
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From verification schemes to ambitious and hefty investments in increasing production capacity and from a partial breakaway from the age statement taboo to flavour sophistication experiments, overproof extensions, 'cocktail forward positioning' and the rise of Japanese varietals, whiskies will continue holding the sceptre among the key spirits categories for the foreseeable future.
With the gates of China now finally open following legislative amendments that allow 100% blue agave varietals to be legally sold in the country, super premium tequilas will extend their seemingly unstoppable march beyond Western metropolitan centres. Patron will lead the race, capitalising on its established pioneering position within the luxury segment, but the sipping gospel will now also be preached by the likes of DeLeon and Don Julio. On the other hand, lower-end varietals will continue flirting with flavour sophistication at the same time that agave shortages could exert extreme pressure on the segment's profitability and medium-term viability. Mezcal has already made the first steps from esoteric oddity to mixology essential and will continue carving its own niche in mature tequila markets.
Reiterating Euromonitor International's earlier commentary and cautionary projections, the flavoured fad appears to be stalling in the key US market. With pre-prohibition classics monopolising the upmarket cocktail arena across the West and additional rises planned for minimum prices in the already moribund Russian market, headwinds for this most ubiquitous of spirits are expected to be severe in the short term. Vodka's unrivalled mixability will remain its most important line of defence, but additional avenues for clawing back growth potential from the inevitable peak of the flavoured segment will prove critical; a potential revisiting of proprietary-flavoured recipes, harking back to the category's rich Eastern European heritage, could assist in overcoming the alcopop-like hangover and saccharine fatigue.
Providing a platform for playful experimentation through flavoured extensions for historically conservative, conformist and traditionalist categories like Scotch whiskies and tequila, liqueurs will cement their fledging momentum. Premium offerings will also increasingly make an impact, both as cocktail ingredients and exotic local specialties, capitalising on the millennial generation's adventurous palates and their pursuit of unique narratives.
Major cognac houses' monolithic focus on luxury sales to China is already casting a long shadow on their deliriously optimistic projections suggesting infinite growth. While bespoke, personalised and limited editions will continue to target the country's nouveau riche, a sea change is already underway following the Chinese politburo's crackdown on lavish consumption. A shift in positioning away from bling associations and into craftsmanship-driven propositions will signal the coming of age for the premium end of the category in China. On the other hand, entry-level VS offerings will be utilised as a safety net, capturing aspirational middle-class drinkers that are looking for more affordable and casual hues of Westernisation. Across Western markets, the focus will be on embracing mixology, deconstructing the category's traditionalist connotations and expanding sales beyond the limitations of special occasions.
Above and beyond the sobering top line figures reeling under the weight of the declining Indian dark rum market, the category will retain its otherwise healthy trajectory, while driven by golden and aged varietals, alongside the solid spiced rum niche. The likes of Kraken and Sailor Jerry – both interestingly boasting their own unique narratives, designs and cult following that are proving as appealing to millenials as their signature flavours – will spearhead rum's Western mainstream aspirations. On the other hand, premiumisation will continue unabated as aged expressions will increasingly jostle with whiskies for a share of mind and wallet in metropolitan centres across developed and emerging nations alike.
The gin renaissance is now in full swing. It involves hipster ambassadors and adventurous mixologists, a dollop of English eccentricity and American irreverence, a cornucopia of botanicals and a new generation of mixers. A unique, surreal and edgy brand narrative will continue to be the real protagonist, while micro-distilleries popping up across the UK (and beyond) will inevitably become the category's flag bearers and evangelists. While volume growth will remain relatively subdued, the value growth story will finally establish the category as a mainstay of the premium proposition. Whispers of a lingering juniper crisis are probably exaggerated but should be watched closely for the potential to derail the current boom, while diversification will be essential in escaping the potential for macroeconomic headwinds in the category's limited number of core markets.
From consolidation initiatives bringing local specialties under the limelight to the nostalgia-inspired revisiting of categories once exiled to the furthest shelves of the proverbial drinks cabinet, other spirits continues to hold huge potential. Euromonitor International's previous assertions highlighting baiju, cachaca, pisco, raki, and absinthe as niches to watch out for have all been proven correct. Now it is time for moonshine. Capitalising on the romanticised view of the prohibition era still sweeping the US and the a priori embrace of the localisation and micro-distilling trends by such once vilified products, alongside a uniquely controversial narrative, premium versions of moonshine could finally enter the mainstream. Centerview Capital's recent investment in Ole Smokey Tennessee Moonshine and Short Mountain Distillery's recreation of a 100-year-old bootlegger's recipe are merely the first signs of the trend to come.


Enjoy the deliciousness of a classic fireside treat with this Hershey's S'mores mug set! Combining the rich taste of Hershey's milk chocolate with tasty graham crackers and fluffy marshmallows, the campfire favorite is perfect for year-round use. Includes two mugs to pair with the yummy dessert.
Total net wt.: 5.55 oz.


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Q: form_for structure for namespaced resource in index view I've tried to follow the Rails docs when constructing a form_for under a namespace.
The pecularity with my case is that I'm rendering one form for each object instance, all together in the index view (see code below).
Why do I get the following error message:
"undefined method `textfield' for #  < ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder:0x00000103f04188>"

routes.rb:
namespace :admin do
  resources :plans
end

controllers/admin/plans_controller.rb:
def index
  @plans = Plan.all
end

views/admin/plans/index.html.erb:

      Title

    <% @plans.each do |plan| %>

        <%= form_for [:admin, plan] do |f| %>
        <%= f.textfield :title %>
        <%= f.submit "Save" %>
        <% end %>

    <% end %>

A: It's Synatx issue it's f.text_field

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Air Quality Testing on a Grand Scale
Here At AQC, It's our goal to ensure that everyone has clean, safe air to breathe, regardless of the size of the space where you live or work. Most of the time, we are called to test the air of average-sized homes and offices. However, occasionally we are asked to inspect much larger spaces.
Recently our team at AQC had the enormous privilege to conduct air quality testing on two 900-foot long Shughart-class vehicle cargo ships: the USNS Yano and the USNS Shugart.
A combined space of nearly 800,000 square feet!
USNS Shughart
Originally called the Laura Maersk, this cargo ship was constructed in 1980 and used by the Dutch shipping company Maersk for sixteen years until the US MIlitary acquired it in 1996. The Vessel was then renamed the USNS Shugart after Medal of Honor recipient United States Army Sergeant First Class Randall D. Shughart. Since her installment into military service, Shugart has served as the lead vessel in a three-ship fleet, including the USNS Yano and the USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham. Like the other ships in its class, Shugart can carry up 900 trucks, 58 tanks, and 48 other tracked vehicles at a time.
USNS Yano
Named after Medal of Honor recipient United States Army Sergeant First Class Rodney J. T. Yano, this Stugart class cargo ship entered military service in 1997 under Military Sealift Command. Since its installment, the principal role of the USNS Yano has been the transport of material to military bases around the globe. The USNS Yano played a vital role in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, bringing overseas soldiers much-needed supplies.
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Carlos Sastre defends his yellow jersey in the penultimate stage, a time-trial through the Forêt de Tronçais, just 30 km from where we were staying for the Fête des Chavans. Google Maps have done a Street View of the whole of this year's Tour, but they've got the route wrong here - they've got it turning left at the entry to the village, in fact it went straight through the centre and out the other side, which is where we were standing. So unfortunately you can't compare Google's View with our photos, which is a pity, but then ours have got cyclists in them.
You can then browse through various videos (let me know if you spot me) and blogs before you move on to the Classements page, where you can switch between the Classement Général and the Classement de lÉtape. More than you need to know.
What I have not yet been able to do is create a link from here to the Google Earth placemark - it would be nice if you could click on a link here and open up Google Earth (if you've got it installed) at this location.


Above photo: The NATO and Gulf State-funded White Helmets handling alleged Sarin gas victims with their bare hands goes against all medical procedure for this type of attack. From Twitter.
The chances that the Syrian military actually carried out the gas attack in northern Syria are pretty much ZERO. The Syrian government has absolutely nothing to gain from such an attack, and a lot to lose. They are steadily gaining more ground, and the terrorist groups are on the run. The Trump administration announced this week that it will not seek Assad's ouster. Peace talks to end the war are about to resume. So who benefits from this horrific attack?
The sources for the gas attack reports are the rebel forces, their own media, and the "White Helmets," who are notorious for creating "regime change" propaganda against the Assad government. Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has documented that the last large sarin attack blamed on the Syrian government was actually carried out by terrorist groups with the support of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Hersch also documented that chemical weapons were transported from Libya to U.S.-backed rebel groups in Syria by the CIA and Hillary Clinton's State Department.
Yet the mainstream media do not mention any of this. They immediately jump all over this story like trained dogs. They ask no tough questions. They entertain no doubts. They repeat previous lies that have already been debunked. They unashamedly interview sources who have long been cheerleaders for military intervention in Syria.
The enemies of Syria don't even wait for an investigation to begin. As if on cue, the White House, Members of Congress, Israel, the UK, France, the European Union and even Amnesty International are condemning the Syrian government.
So sit back and enjoy the show. Watch a False Flag operation in motion. Marvel at the coordination and power that the plotters have at their command. See if you can solve the mystery.
Who is really behind this False Flag? Besieged and desperate terrorists? Their supporters in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, NATO and the U.S.? What is their intention? Is it a last ditch attempt to revive "regime change" war and terrorists in Syria? Is it an excuse for deploying more U.S. troop to Syria? A cover for the apparent U.S. strategy of breaking up Syria into small pieces?
I recommend the following article by Patrick Henningsen in 21st Century Wire. You will also find links to other valuable articles by Seymour Hersch, Robert Parry and Swedish Doctors for Human Rights.
The first victim of war is always the truth followed swiftly by the innocent.


It is time for a new challenge again today and our theme is "Anything Goes + optional all that glitters". You're welcome to join us with the optional as most of the DT did, but as it is an optional, you can also chose not to do it - it's totally up to you.
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Improved patient care and workload support for Scotland's GPs.
A new GP contract has been formally accepted by the profession.
The agreement, jointly designed and agreed between the Scottish Government and the British Medical Association (BMA), will bring the biggest reform of GP services to Scotland in over a decade.
Health Secretary Shona Robison welcomed the agreement, which will come into effect on 1 April, backed by £100 million of Scottish Government funding in 2018-19 to support the implementation.
"GPs are an integral and crucial part of our health service. This new contract, which is a historic joint agreement between the Scottish Government and the BMA, will ensure that GPs are able to spend more time with patients and less time on bureaucracy. It will cut doctors' overall workload and make general practice an even more attractive career prospect.
"We've worked shoulder to shoulder with the British Medical Association to develop this contract, and the fact it has the support of the members means I am confident it is the very best deal for GPs right across the country as well as for patients themselves.
"We are continuing to work closely in partnership with the BMA on shaping the future of general practice and primary care more widely and together we are confident that this new contract best supports Scotland's healthcare needs right across the country, and I am delighted that GPs across the country have voted to implement this.


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Three ProPublica Finalists in 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards
Reporters Jesse Eisinger, T. Christian Miller and Paul Kiel are among those honored for their distinguished business and financial reporting.
by Minhee Cho
May 14, 2015, 10:56 a.m. EDT
The UCLA School of Management has named three ProPublica investigations as finalists in its 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in business journalism.
The following projects were chosen from more than 480 entries submitted by local, regional and national news outlets:
Jesse Eisinger's bi-weekly column, The Trade, has been nominated as a finalist in commentary.
ProPublica and PBS Frontline's multimedia collaboration, Firestone and the Warlord, is a finalist for international coverage.
ProPublica and NPR's series on wage garnishment is a finalist in the video/audio category.
You can see the full list of finalists here. Winners in the 11 competition categories will be announced during the awards banquet in June.
Minhee Cho
Minhee was ProPublica's director of public relations.
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This is a dish I came up when I had two baby chickens in the fridge and an overgrown rosemary plant waiting to be used up.
Rosemary is one of my favourite Mediterranean herbs – it is woody and tough. When combined with garlic and olive oil, roasted with chicken and vegetables the flavour and aroma is amazingly delicious and appetising.
I have used baby chicken in this recipe but it can be made with normal size chicken as well. Please adjust the roasting time accordingly.
Cut chicken into half using scissors and keep aside.
Crush peeled garlic cloves, rosemary springs, crushed chilli and salt in a pestle and mortar, add olive oil and mix well.
Marinate the chicken halves and cut vegetables in the garlic and rosemary mixture for an hour.
Roast in a pre heated oven 180- 200°C for 25 -30 minutes or until cooked.
Serve warm with crusty bread and salad.
Made this for dinner last night-came out excellent!!
made this for dinner last night-came out excellent!
Rabina, really happy to hear that it came out well. Hope you will make it again..


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Pieces (1982)
Director: Juan Piquer Simón
Unrated | 1hr 29min | Horror, Slasher
The slasher was my first real insight into the idea that a film doesn't have to be particularly good to be enjoyable. I fell in love with action B-movies much earlier, those gloriously cack-handed Golan-Globus productions just as sketchy, but as an uneducated tyke I genuinely believed that Michael Dudikoff was the greatest actor alive (it might be worth noting that I also had serious aspirations of becoming a ninja).
As I approached my early teens horror became my unbridled fascination, the likes of Fred Krueger and Jason Voorhees consuming me absolutely. I had no awareness of pacing, dramatic tension or the dozen other facets that make a movie great in the traditional sense, even if, with the likes of Halloween, I was aware on some primal level that what I was experiencing was something special. All these years later, I'm much less passive, but I don't enjoy so-called lesser movies any less. I actually enjoy them more, understanding that there's as much fun to be had with films that are so inept from a technical standpoint that highlighting their various flaws is a fun and fulfilling experience in itself.
When it comes to sheer ineptitude, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger perpetrator than the slasher sub-genre. Called out for its lack of invention and general artistry during its dominant 80s run, it was damned by critics who cited a moral bankruptcy that not only degraded the art of filmmaking, but a generation of slasher fans clamouring for the kind of creative violence that was much closer to reality, and as a result more damaging. Not that it mattered. As proven by Sean Cunningham's commercial catalyst Friday the 13th, a blatant Halloween rip-off with an inspired summer camp setting that made a whopping $59,800,000 on a budget of only $550,000, it was the cheapest and easiest way to turn a profit during the 80s home video boom. As long as there was a demand for cynical, blood and guts horror, the slasher was here to stay.
Morally bankrupt? Never!
Cries of creative regression were certainly valid. If you look back at the evolution of how the slasher came to fruition, you'll witness the equivalent of a human baby evolving into a fully formed ape. Psychological suspense films such as Michael Powell's claustrophobic exercise in voyeurism Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's gallows humour masterwork Psycho, movies which invited audiences into the minds of killers in a way that posed deeply uncomfortable questions, were witty, cerebral endeavours that were arguably the genre's true progenitors. Giallo films, though written off as Hitchcock derivatives with unseemly lashings of gore, were bold, inventive, and visually and technically brilliant, as were American efforts The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas and Halloween. The slasher's golden age was merely an exercise in formula, a fast food approach to cinema that fed audiences no frills slaughter and fulfilled their anarchic urges, transforming characters into vacuous stereotypes, employing familiar settings, setups, and other endlessly regurgitated tropes.
Because of their relative simplicity in terms of execution (at least in theory), the slasher was the perfect entry point for upstart filmmakers and indie distributors fishing for the next commercial phenomenon. On paper it was pretty straightforward: make a movie in which a masked killer stalks promiscuous teens through a series of heavily contrived set-pieces while a perverted revelation draws nearer. Slasher fans aren't a picky bunch. Not only do we anticipate such a generic approach, we demand it. We don't expect to be mentally stimulated or inspired or taken by surprise, even if the movie in question happens to have a twist, because ninety percent of the time we see it coming a mile away. Characterisation means squat. Technical panache? We'll take it where we can but good luck finding it for the most part. A memorable villain is something we hope for, but again they're few and far between. Ultimately, we go into a movie for cheap thrills, to test the limits of our nihilism and vicariously expel our throbbing immoralities. We know what we're about to see is brainless, exploitative trash, but that's why we dig it.
That's not to say that all slashers are acceptable. The sub-genre's early-80s boom led to an overabundance of shoddy, low-budget efforts that were not only devoid of artistry, but in many cases mind-numbingly boring and from a technical standpoint borderline unwatchable. Even the most die hard genre fanatic will admit to having endured some absolute stinkers, the kind so devoid of ingenuity they qualify as a slasher in business sentiment alone. The very cream of the crop, movies such as My Bloody Valentine, The Burning and The Prowler, excelled in creative violence, were redolent of a landmark era of horror movie censorship that saw films cut to ribbons or even banned outright and rented under the counter. Others, like The Slumber Party Massacre, Sleepaway Camp and The Boogey Man, were notable for their narrative quirks and/or outright silliness, attaining cult status for altogether different reasons. Fewer still had violence and humour in abundance, but if one slasher managed to tick all the boxes, it was Juan Piquer Simón's Pieces.
Clearly innocent…
The motive-establishing setup is textbook slasher fare, but Pieces isn't the kind of movie that does things in half-measures, revealing its savage tone and goofy shenanigans from the get-go. During the opening prologue, the boy who'll grow to be our unnamed killer is scalded by his mother for piecing together a nudie jigsaw. He hacks her to pieces for her fit of parental outrage, first with relentless axe blows to the skull and then with a hand saw. It's absolutely brutal, perhaps the most brutal opening to a golden age slasher I've ever witnessed, yet I was laughing hysterically all the way through. Not because of the violence itself, but because of the camp nature of the execution and Simón's general apathy towards the details.
For one thing, events begin forty years prior in 1942, but the jigsaw in question features a naked lady who looks distinctly 80s — unless women in the 40s had a similar penchant for hairspray and all-over tanning. I mean, how would you even get your hands on a jigsaw of a naked woman back then, especially if you were an eight-year old boy? Finding the mutilated corpse of our killer infant's mother, the local police presume that the bloodsoaked boy hiding in the same room is merely an innocent bystander, the gruesome evidence hardly registering with police and a neighbour lady who quickly stop by to check on the commotion. It's as if they were expecting to find the room caked in a woman's innards! "Not to worry, kid," one of them calmly assures as clumps of viscera drip from the ceiling. One of them even asks for a plastic garbage bag — an insensitive remark, but also a dubious one as they hadn't been invented yet. Perhaps he had a few prototypes in his patrol wagon.
In it's pure, uncut form, Pieces is unapologetically violent, peddling trash with the ruthless efficiency of a Madison Avenue ad exec employed by Patrick Bateman. It's also crazier than a shithouse rat let loose in a crack lab, teeming with pricelessly woeful actors, insane plot developments and all manner of cinematic faux pas, some characters appearing randomly with absolutely no bearing on the plot. Early in the movie, a random girl skateboards through a plate of glass being carried by two workmen. You presume she's dead, or at the very least injured, only moments later the same actress is having her head lopped off with a chainsaw while smilingly reading a book on the campus grounds in broad daylight. Is it the same character? Have we leapt dramatically forward in time? According to actress Roxana Nieto, they are the same character, the intent being that she survived the crash without any injuries, the broken glass acting as a trigger for our killer's obsession with making a fully formed body from the limbs of his victims, only that isn't established with any kind of clarity. We're barely past the credits and I'm already confused as hell.
Bluto's Tony Soprano audition did not end well.
During the movie's equally dissonant second act, an ex-tennis pro-come-undercover cop (Lynda Day George) is attacked on a college campus by a Bruce Lee lookalike who attempts to spin-kick her into oblivion, relentlessly attacking the camera like Lee from Enter the Dragon. After George's character, Mary Riggs, manages to disable the attack with a swift kick in the knackers, a student assures her that her random aggressor isn't the killer as she'd assumed, but his totally harmless kung-fu professor. Kung-fu professor?!! That's a new one! Producer Dick Randall, who was simultaneously making kung-fu movies in Rome, actively created a cameo for famous Brucesploitation star Bruce Le for no logical reason, and it's a jarringly dissonant scene, an absolute mindfuck that throws you even further off course. George is a terrible actress too. Just look for her screaming reaction after stumbling upon the movie's most sickening display of mutilation. Never has the repeated use of the word Bastard been simultaneously more and less emphatic.
The silliness isn't restricted to characters who are shamelessly shoehorned-in. At barely 85 minutes, Pieces is a pitilessly economic exercise in mindless slaughter that has little time for narrative subtleties, slapping us in the face with red herrings so suspicious they smell like they've been fished out of the back of an old man's sofa. Our first curveball comes in the form of campus handyman, Willard, an insane-looking brute with the patience of a geriatric mountain bear who stalks the campus with a bright yellow chainsaw, the same weapon responsible for a spate of grisly murders involving missing body parts. Not only is Willard the most suspicious man walking god's green earth (just look at his expression in the above image), he's suspicious of every person he comes into contact with, lashing out at students and laying waste to an entire police force while under investigation. He deserves to be locked up regardless. Portrayer Paul L. Smith has all the subtlety of Bluto auditioning for the part of Tony Soprano after a case of Popeye's spinach, which is presumably why he was cast as the character in Robert Altman's hugely divisive film adaptation. He basically gives the exact same performance completely out of context.
Another suspect is written in a way that should absolutely make him the killer barring an unimaginable level of coincidence. Not only does this person have the wiry features and shady pencil moustache of a shifty Disney waiter, he's unmarried, lives with his mother and specialises in anatomy, professionally and when confronted by big-breasted harlots looking to embarrass him in a way that begs for brutal vengeance. He even handles a bloodied chainsaw at the scene of the film's latest murder as if trying to contaminate the evidence. But don't be fooled. There's no rhyme or reason to the movie's mystery elements. Our killer, who somehow wanders the college campus dressed like The Shadow without ever arising suspicion, is visually reminiscent of a giallo killer, but narratively it's closer to a Scooby Doo Mystery, and with one-dimensional teens being hacked to pieces and smeared all over the walls, it's certainly a slasher in spirit.
Handling the suspected murder weapon: probably not the best idea.
Indie distributor Film Ventures, who were more concerned with the movie's graphic content, weren't initially keen on optioning Pieces, but representative Edward Montoro, who was "stunned with shock" after first experiencing the film's relentless abattoir, had a change of heart after witnessing the reaction of a test audience. "I didn't want to take the film until producer Steve Minasian said, 'Go screen it for an audience'," he would tell Fangoria. "Well, I screened it for a paying audience in San Diego, and they screamed at the gore parts, but basically they laughed all the way through the film. They absolutely loved the picture. That's what made them change my mind about this particular film; I normally wouldn't want this type of slasher picture, but the audience started laughing right away. You know, you put 200 people in a theatre and they start to laugh and it's infectious. There's a lot of gore, but for the most part it's really very unintentional camp."
To be fair to our ludicrously conspicuous killer, the film's cast sure make it easy for him, particularly Lieutenant Bracken, whose investigation is so insouciant and without reason you wonder if he's the killer himself (trust me, anything is possible here). Surely the best solution to a relentless siege of on-campus slayings, one that sees a torso sawed in half and another girl stabbed through the head and out through her mouth, would be to close the school down until the culprit has been identified. No such luck! Not only does Bracken allow the campus to operate, he fails to provide them with a proper police presence, illegally acquiring the help of campus hunk Kendall (Ian Sera) and even denying the murders to a local reporter investigating rumours of a campus killer. "Those kinds of rumours are spread at the university every couple of months", Bracken claims, which apparently does the trick. Presumably the victims' parents weren't informed either.
Bracken is played by horror and exploitation stalwart Christopher George, wife of co-star Lynda, who starred in a whole host of sleazy productions during the home video revolution, including vigilante exploitation flick The Exterminator, Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead and golden age slasher Graduation Day. Once again, he's right at home, performing his best Columbo impression amid so much implausibility and scattergun plotting. Watching it all unfold is an absolutely priceless experience.
Her tickling fetish would prove problematic.
The contrived nature of our killer's victims also contributes to the ease of his discrepancies. Many questions spring to mind as the film's antagonist, as conspicuous as a black ninja strolling through a blanket of the purest snow, descends upon his victims at will on what is supposed to be a heavily populated campus, the obvious one being, where the hell is everyone? Budget probably took care of that oversight, but students should still be aware of the dangers. You know those moments in slashers when a victim mindlessly runs into a remote forest in the dead of night? Those girls are geniuses compared to the vacuous creatures forged during a production in which dialogue and scenes were improvised based on the 30-page treatment of a made-for-TV movie. At least those other characters are typically taken by surprise in a remote area miles away from anywhere. These girls are fully aware that their classmates are dropping like flies and yet they insist on hanging around alone at night, skinny dipping alone, showering alone, partaking in solitudinal dance sessions as the devil incarnate looms. You'll be screaming at them until your voice grows hoarse.
Ultimately, plot and general logicality are peripheral in a movie whose sole purpose is to garner notoriety and make some cheddar. What's crucial are the abundance of mutilations on display, the kind so horrific they barely have an effect on the many witnesses who continue to stroll around without a care in the world. Sarcasm aside, it's pretty damn gruesome, about as grim as you'll find in the sub-genre's golden age. Simón, who owned his own independent studio in Madrid, Spain, designing many of his own special effects sequences, knows how to pile on the gore. Particularly gruesome is a moment in which a cornered student takes a chainsaw in the gut. You actually see the weapon tearing through what appears to be her waist but is actually the flesh of a real, no-fooling pig. When her body is later discovered you get the most shocking image in a movie crammed with them: the woman's mutilated corpse and a mess of real internal organs slopped across the room, dripping off the walls and ceiling like a blood-based Jackson Pollock thrashed out in an abattoir. If it weren't for the fact that everything in-between is so insanely ludicrous, you'd be reaching for the sick bucket.
Being their first unrated movie at a time when blood and guts horror was a veritable goldmine for indie distributors, Pieces represented something of a breakthrough for Film Ventures, convincing Montoro that their target demographic weren't just a bunch of sickos out for perverse kicks as sections of the media had suggested. "The Italians had a whole run of cannibal/gore movies, but I never distributed any of those pictures," he would explain. "They distinctly lacked any sense of humour, either intentional or unintentional. To me, they weren't entertaining. Pieces, most likely unintentionally, certainly has a sense of humour about it. And at the same time, the picture incites enough of a scream from the audience to make it pay off for the gore aspect. Personally, when I see things that are very explicit, I usually turn my eyes away. I like being scared, but I don't like gore. With Pieces, though, I didn't take my eyes off the screen, because it never affected me, maybe because the fun parts took the edge away. It was too ludicrous."
Be Aware, Be Very Aware
If you happen to attend a college campus where teens are hacked to pieces at will, it's probably best to err on the side of caution; be suspicious of everyone, not just the fella wandering the corridors dressed like a superhero villain.
After fleeing the whiff of danger, one girl is relieved to recognise an unidentified individual who she enters a tiny elevator with, only she fails to notice the giant yellow chainsaw half-heartedly hidden behind his back, the same weapon that's already slayed several of her friends.
Just kill her already!
Tennis Dub
Being a Spanish/American venture, Pieces also suffers from some rather lousy (and hilarious) dubbing.
One particularly ridiculous scene sees Lynda Day George's tennis instructor-come-super sleuth giving her first tennis lesson to a college student, the two partaking in a match on a small campus court. Despite its low-key nature, an invisible umpire calls the match through an imaginary speaker system, the dozen or so watching spectators dubbed to sound like a particularly raucous Wimbledon crowd.
It's really quite surreal.
All the Pieces Fit
As if the 84 minutes that preceded it weren't insane enough, Pieces features a final scare that somehow makes the rest of the film seem coherent by comparison, so if you haven't seen it, stop reading now.
If you have: how does a corpse made from dead women's body parts suddenly come alive and grab a person's testicles? And when did you ever see a pair of jeans bleed from the outside?
Elementary, My Dear Bracken
Nothing screams second-rate horror like a woefully inept detective, and they don't come much more clueless and ineffective than Lieutenant Bracken. Not only is he unable to ascertain the fact that the bloodied chainsaw sitting next to a pile of limbs is in fact the murder weapon, he later fails to search a crime scene where our killer lurks, putting his teenage assistant in danger as our drug-induced damsel lies paralysed on the sofa, her eyes almost popping in disbelief as he decides to search out in the hallway first.
His observational skills are just as dubious. Stumbling upon a mutilated body lying next to a bloodied chainsaw, the slasher genre's very own Inspector Clouseau has some questions for Professor Brown:
Lieutenant Bracken: Now look, professor, I don't want to wait for the coroner's opinion, so can you give me yours? Now, could that have been done [points to woman's mutilated corpse] with a chainsaw like that one [points to chainsaw] over there?
Gee, let me think..?
Contrived, pitilessly violent and completely devoid of logic, is laugh-out-loud silly, achieving a rare matrimony of unintentional humour and unconscionable splatter that will please slasher fans no end.
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Dollar Weakening Tuesday As FOMC Meeting Approaches
The dollar has weakened in comparison to its major competitors on Tuesday, before the FOMC meeting begins on Wednesday. There has been speculation among investors that the Federal Reserve will announce further economic stimulus on Thursday, at the conclusion of its 2-day meeting. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's press conference Thursday afternoon will also be closely watched.
Germany's top court is set to deliver a crucial judgment on the viability of the European Stability Mechanism, or ESM, and the fiscal pact on Wednesday, which would decide the fate of the EUR 500 billion bailout fund and the future course of the region's fight with the protracted debt crisis.
While politicians expressed confidence that the bailout fund will survive, many economists feel that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe may delay the ruling or even impose some conditions, rather than rule against it. Both houses of the Parliament approved the ESM and the fiscal pact on June 29, with two-thirds of the German lawmakers voting in favor of it.
Peter Gauweiler, a lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling party and one of the plaintiffs who lodged a temporary injunction request against the ESM, said in a statement on Sunday that the fund should not be ratified until the ECB revoke its plans to become "a hyper rescue fund."
Europe still has a "long way to go" in resolving its debt crisis, International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Zhu Min reportedly said Tuesday.
"The crisis is not over," he was quoted as saying during a speech at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. "We are still in the middle" and "there is a long way to go," he said. Zhu also urged Europe to keep faith in the single currency.
The dollar has fallen below yesterday's range around the $1.2800 level versus the Euro on Tuesday and has set nearly a 4-month low of $1.2870.
Germany's wholesale price inflation accelerated for the second consecutive month in August, data released by the Federal Statistical Office showed Tuesday. The wholesale price index increased 3.1 percent on an annual basis in August, faster than the 2 percent growth seen in July. In June and May, the index rose 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent respectively.
French payroll employment in principally market sectors declined 0.1 percent in the second quarter, final data from the statistical office Insee showed Tuesday. That follows a 0.1 percent rise in the first quarter.
The buck has also dropped below yesterday's range near the $1.600 level versus the pound sterling and has set nearly a 4-month low of $1.6083 on Tuesday.
The U.K. visible trade deficit narrowed sharply in July driven by strong growth in exports, weathering the global economic slowdown. The visible trade gap fell more-than-expected to GBP 7.1 billion in July, the smallest since February 2011, data from the Office for National Statistics revealed Tuesday. The deficit was forecast to drop to GBP 10 billion from GBP 10.1 billion in June.
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Business confidence among Japanese major firms improved to 2.2 in the third quarter, marking the first increase in four quarters, a quarterly survey published by the Ministry of Finance showed Tuesday.
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Q: Changing background color animation not working I am trying to make the background color of the body change every second using the button.
I need the background to change on the click of the button for other reasons (I cannot use a normal interval, timeout, or @keyframes).
I can not figure out what is wrong with my code. Any ideas?
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A: So looks like the defautl background color for the body is really "transparent". So when you check for the white value its never found. So you just need too add an OR statment to check for the transparent value.

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If you don't want to do this you could just always set the body color to white on load. But you really probably should be using some type of reset Reset CSS. This way you know values like this are the same across all browser instead of finding out later what went wrong. Never know, maybe the default value of the background color could change in the future to something else.

A: there is a mistake in your code you didn't setted the background color for the body and trying to get it so you are getting empty value every time and you have if conditions on the basis of white and black color so didn't working try this code I had runned this on my local system its working now
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Set white as default!


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Caribou are an iconic Canadian species, appearing on the Canadian 25 cent coin. With their tall and flat antlers, they are the only members of the deer family where the males and females both have antlers. While they are more broadly known globally as "reindeer," we more commonly refer to the species as caribou in North America.
In 2012, woodland caribou in Canada were listed in the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA), triggering a sequence of recovery plans for this species. Part of this recovery includes the development of range plans – plans that are tailored to the needs of individual caribou ranges (or herds). The range plans include actions and strategies that will meet caribou habitat needs. West Fraser has been contributing to these provincial plans in Alberta and British Columbia, through research, sustainable forest management planning, harvesting strategies, and conservation practices.
For decades, our foresters and biologists have been observing and tracking caribou along with the government of Alberta and BC. By gathering this scientific data, we can research and apply better forest management practices for caribou. Our efforts are important to do our part to help support sustainable caribou populations in Canada. For instance, we study and map caribou food sources in the forest to understand the distribution and health of their food. One example of the research that we do that is designed to inform our forest management practices involves a long-term study of ground (or terrestrial) lichen.
Caribou are uniquely adapted to certain food sources in the forest that other similar animals, like moose, elk and deer, cannot rely on. This food source is called lichen. If you are an avid hiker, you have probably walked over and around a lot of lichen. It can be crusty, leafy, hairy, rusty, shrubby, or powdery. The lichen that caribou enjoy as an important food source is primarily found on the forest floor, aptly named "reindeer lichen".
Lichen is very slow growing and flourishes where most plants can't. Plants need nutrients, sufficient water in the soil and sun exposure. Lichen, on the other hand, can get by with a lot less of these factors, as long as it has space to grow. Because it cannot outgrow most plants, lichen takes advantage of places that have unfavourable conditions for other plants. For this reason, lichen is found in forests where the soils are poor in nutrients and lack water, and the ground is too shaded for most plants to survive.
Back in 1997, West Fraser, along with several other forest product companies and the University of Alberta conducted a study of forest management and harvesting strategies. The study measured the effect of different harvesting strategies on lichen growth. The aim was to see how we could limit disturbance of mature lichen and improve lichen growth after harvesting trees.
We experimented by logging cut blocks of various sizes in different seasons of the year and leaving 20%, 40% or 60% of trees to expose the lichen to varying levels of sunlight. We discovered that on the right soils for lichen, other plants won't establish post-harvest. Our research question then was: what combination of site conditions and forestry practices improves lichen growth after logging? Due to its naturally slow growth, we had to wait 20 years to get the results. So, in 2016, we re-visited those previously-logged areas with fRI Research to gather the data.
After two decades, lichen grew back to the same amount it was before we logged. Logged sites had about the same amount of lichen regrowth as comparable areas that had experienced forest fires.
We also found that after 20 years, some harvest strategies increased lichen growth. In this case, which season the harvesting took place in (summer or winter) and scarification (loosening up the topsoil to help seedlings establish themselves) were factors we found that could improve ground lichen growth.
What we can learn from this study is that we can use different harvesting strategies, such as what time of year we harvest in caribou habitat and how to prepare the site for forest regeneration in a way that better supports lichen growth. These strategies can play a role in maintaining abundant, rich lichen environments for caribou. Our harvest rotations in this region range from 80 to around 100 years, which means healthy lichen can be plentiful for caribou within actively managed forest areas, even assisting more lichen growth over time.
Learn more about how fRI Research surveys lichen growth.
Keep a lookout: West Fraser will be covering additional caribou stories in the future that will focus on vital topics of the range plans.


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Biografia
Fiorentino, originario dell'antichissima famiglia del Buondelmonti, da canonico del Duomo divenne arcivescovo il 15 novembre 1532, dopo la rinuncia di Niccolò Ridolfi, e prese possesso della sede il 24 dello stesso mese.

Durante il suo episcopato, nel 1533, ci fu un terribile incendio nel palazzo Arcivescovile che distrusse soprattutto la parte più vicina al battistero. L'arcivescovo approntò pagando di tasca propria i necessari interventi di sistemazione, anche se per avere una vera e propria ristrutturazione si dovette aspettare il 1573 con Alessandro di Ottaviano de' Medici.

Fu uno scrupoloso amministratore dell'arcidiocesi e ne organizzò l'archivio. Ammirato per la sua umiltà, morì il 27 novembre 1542. Dopo la sua scomparsa il Ridolfi prese di nuovo la sede per altri cinque anni.

Genealogia episcopale
La genealogia episcopale è:
 Arcivescovo Francesco Minerbetti
 Arcivescovo Andrea Buondelmonti

Note

Bibliografia
La chiesa fiorentina, Curia arcivescovile, Firenze 1970.

Collegamenti esterni

Vescovi e arcivescovi di Firenze
Buondelmonti

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// Code generated by go-swagger; DO NOT EDIT.

package security

// This file was generated by the swagger tool.
// Editing this file might prove futile when you re-run the swagger generate command

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"github.com/go-openapi/runtime"
	"github.com/go-openapi/strfmt"

	"github.com/netapp/trident/storage_drivers/ontap/api/rest/models"
)

// SecurityKeyManagerCreateReader is a Reader for the SecurityKeyManagerCreate structure.
type SecurityKeyManagerCreateReader struct {
	formats strfmt.Registry
}

// ReadResponse reads a server response into the received o.
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateReader) ReadResponse(response runtime.ClientResponse, consumer runtime.Consumer) (interface{}, error) {
	switch response.Code() {
	case 201:
		result := NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated()
		if err := result.readResponse(response, consumer, o.formats); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return result, nil
	default:
		result := NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault(response.Code())
		if err := result.readResponse(response, consumer, o.formats); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		if response.Code()/100 == 2 {
			return result, nil
		}
		return nil, result
	}
}

// NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated creates a SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated with default headers values
func NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated() *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated {
	return &SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated{}
}

/*
SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated describes a response with status code 201, with default header values.

Created
*/
type SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated struct {
	Payload *models.SecurityKeyManagerResponse
}

// IsSuccess returns true when this security key manager create created response has a 2xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) IsSuccess() bool {
	return true
}

// IsRedirect returns true when this security key manager create created response has a 3xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) IsRedirect() bool {
	return false
}

// IsClientError returns true when this security key manager create created response has a 4xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) IsClientError() bool {
	return false
}

// IsServerError returns true when this security key manager create created response has a 5xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) IsServerError() bool {
	return false
}

// IsCode returns true when this security key manager create created response a status code equal to that given
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) IsCode(code int) bool {
	return code == 201
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) Error() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("[POST /security/key-managers][%d] securityKeyManagerCreateCreated  %+v", 201, o.Payload)
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) String() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("[POST /security/key-managers][%d] securityKeyManagerCreateCreated  %+v", 201, o.Payload)
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) GetPayload() *models.SecurityKeyManagerResponse {
	return o.Payload
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateCreated) readResponse(response runtime.ClientResponse, consumer runtime.Consumer, formats strfmt.Registry) error {

	o.Payload = new(models.SecurityKeyManagerResponse)

	// response payload
	if err := consumer.Consume(response.Body(), o.Payload); err != nil && err != io.EOF {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

// NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault creates a SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault with default headers values
func NewSecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault(code int) *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault {
	return &SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault{
		_statusCode: code,
	}
}

/*
	SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault describes a response with status code -1, with default header values.

	ONTAP Error Response Codes

| Error Code | Description |
| ---------- | ----------- |
| 65536038 | A maximum of 4 active primary key servers are allowed. |
| 65536214 | Failed to generate cluster key encryption key. |
| 65536216 | Failed to add cluster key encryption key. |
| 65536310 | Failed to setup the Onboard Key Manager because the MetroCluster peer is unhealthy. |
| 65536341 | Failed to setup the Onboard Key Manager because the MetroCluster peer is unhealthy. |
| 65536508 | The platform does not support data at rest encryption. |
| 65536821 | The certificate is not installed. |
| 65536822 | Multitenant key management is not supported in the current cluster version. |
| 65536823 | The SVM has key manager already configured. |
| 65536824 | Multitenant key management is not supported in MetroCluster configurations. |
| 65536834 | Failed to get existing key-server details for the SVM. |
| 65536852 | Failed to query supported KMIP protocol versions. |
| 65536870 | Key management servers already configured. |
| 65536871 | Duplicate key management servers exist. |
| 65536876 | External key management requires client and server CA certificates installed and with one or more key servers provided. |
| 65536878 | External key management cannot be configured as one or more volume encryption keys of the SVM are stored in cluster key management server. |
| 65536895 | External key manager cannnot be configured since this cluster is part of a MetroCluster configuration and the partner site of this MetroCluster configuration has Onboard Key Manager configured. |
| 65536900 | The Onboard Key Manager cannot be configured because this cluster is part of a MetroCluster configuration and the partner site has the external key manager configured. |
| 65536903 | The Onboard Key Manager has failed to configure on some nodes in the cluster. Use the CLI to sync the Onboard Key Manager configuration on failed nodes. |
| 65536906 | The Onboard Key Manager has already been configured at the partner site. Use the CLI to sync the Onboard Key Manager with the same passphrase. |
| 65536907 | The Onboard Key Manager is already configured. Use the CLI to sync any nodes with the Onboard Key Manager configuration. |
| 65536916 | The Onboard Key Manager is only supported for an admin SVM. |
| 65536920 | The Onboard Key Manager passphrase length is incorrect. |
| 65537240 | The Onboard Key Manager passphrase must be provided when performing a POST/synchronize operation. |
| 65537241 | The Onboard Key Manager existing_passphrase must not be provided when performing a POST/synchronize operation. |
| 65537244 | Unable to sync/create Onboard Key Manager on the local cluster; Onboard Key Manager is already configured on the cluster. |
| 65537245 | Unable to sync/create Onboard Key Manager on the local cluster; Onboard Key Manager is not configured on the partner cluster. |
| 65537246 | Unable to sync/create Onboard Key Manager on local cluster. This cluster is not part of a MetroCluster configuration. |
| 66060338 | Failed to establish secure connection for a key management server due to incorrect server_ca certificates. |
| 66060339 | Failed to establish secure connection for a key management server due to incorrect client certificates. |
| 66060340 | Failed to establish secure connection for a key management server due to Cryptsoft error. |
*/
type SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault struct {
	_statusCode int

	Payload *models.ErrorResponse
}

// Code gets the status code for the security key manager create default response
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) Code() int {
	return o._statusCode
}

// IsSuccess returns true when this security key manager create default response has a 2xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) IsSuccess() bool {
	return o._statusCode/100 == 2
}

// IsRedirect returns true when this security key manager create default response has a 3xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) IsRedirect() bool {
	return o._statusCode/100 == 3
}

// IsClientError returns true when this security key manager create default response has a 4xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) IsClientError() bool {
	return o._statusCode/100 == 4
}

// IsServerError returns true when this security key manager create default response has a 5xx status code
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) IsServerError() bool {
	return o._statusCode/100 == 5
}

// IsCode returns true when this security key manager create default response a status code equal to that given
func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) IsCode(code int) bool {
	return o._statusCode == code
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) Error() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("[POST /security/key-managers][%d] security_key_manager_create default  %+v", o._statusCode, o.Payload)
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) String() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("[POST /security/key-managers][%d] security_key_manager_create default  %+v", o._statusCode, o.Payload)
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) GetPayload() *models.ErrorResponse {
	return o.Payload
}

func (o *SecurityKeyManagerCreateDefault) readResponse(response runtime.ClientResponse, consumer runtime.Consumer, formats strfmt.Registry) error {

	o.Payload = new(models.ErrorResponse)

	// response payload
	if err := consumer.Consume(response.Body(), o.Payload); err != nil && err != io.EOF {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

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A bulibuli or vunikau bulibuli is a Fijian war club.

Uses
The bulibuli has a straight and fair long handle (difference with a Ula Bulibuli) and a rounded percussion head. At its end the striking head is rounded and provided with round protuberances, similar to buttons, intended to strengthen the percussion effect. The bulibuli can be decorated with inlays (shells, etc.).

Bibliography
 Fergus Clunie, Fijian weapons and warfare. Fiji Museum 2003, .
 John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow, Art of Polynesia, Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990.
 Jean-Edouard Carlier, Archipels Fidji - Tonga - Samoa: La Polynésie Occidentale, Voyageurs & curieux, 2005.
 Rod Ewins, Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1982.

See also
 Totokia
 Ula
 Gata
 Culacula
 Sali

References

Bibliography
 John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow, Art of Polynesia, Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990.
 Rod Ewins, Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1982.
 Bulletin of the Fiji Museum, Numeros 1–2, Fiji Museum, 1973.
 Fergus Clunie,Fijian weapons and warfare. Fiji Museum 2003, .

Clubs (weapon)
Primitive weapons
Ritual weapons
Fijian culture


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Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship
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Under the direction of Dr. Dan Murman, the Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry (BNNP) Fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center provides comprehensive training in all aspects of the subspecialty. Every year, we welcome one new fellow into our program to prepare them for independent practice in the subspecialty.
Core Faculty:
Dan Murman, MD (program director and director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Nebraska Medicine)
Thomas Magnuson, MD (director of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic at Nebraska Medicine)
Amelia Nelson Sheese, PhD (clinical neuropsychologist and director of the Neuropsychology fellowship program)
Matthew Rizzo, MD (chair of the Department of Neurological Sciences and director of the Mind and Brain Health Lab)
Steven Wengel, MD (chief of Geriatric Psychiatry and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Wellness)
Fellowship Tracks
The UNMC BNNP Fellowship is a one-year clinical fellowship where a majority of the BNNP fellow's time is spent in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry outpatient clinics. There are additional clinical experiences and educational modules in neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurophysiology, functional neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology and inpatient neuropsychiatry consult exposure. In addition, the BNNP fellow will participate in multidisciplinary outpatient clinics focused on geriatric assessment and for patients with Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease.
After successful completion of the one-year clinical fellowship, BNNP graduates would be eligible to sit for the UCNS BNNP board exam to become BNNP board certified. If BNNP fellows are interested in an academic career in BNNP, there is an opportunity to pursue a second year of fellowship training at UNMC were a majority of the fellow's time would be focused on academic pursuits.
A collegial team, nurturing environment and faculty dedicated to your success
Access to a large number of patients with a very wide variety of BNNP conditions
A structured curriculum with 3 hours per week of lectures and educational sessions
Free nights and weekends, with no call
Memory Disorders Clinic seeing patients with acquired causes of cognitive impairment and dementia, especially neurodegenerative diseases
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Multiple research opportunities, including clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease; BNNP imaging research studies with fMRI, MEG, OCT, and TCD; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment trials to enhance cognition; and research involving "real world" measures of cognition and function in the Mind and Brain Health Lab
The BNNP fellowship is accredited by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, and graduated fellows are eligible to sit for the UCNS Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry certification exam.
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Eligible to hold an unrestricted medical license in the state of Nebraska.
Please submit an application, along with a personal statement outlining your goals and interests, two or more letters of recommendation (including one from your residency program director) and a copy of your CV.
UNMC is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
UNMC's campus is located in the area of 10 square blocks in a central area of the city. Omaha is home to a world-class zoo, the nation's top-ranked playhouse and some of the best restaurants in the country.


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Princeton acquires the papers of Vicente Leñero and Alejandro Rossi
Posted on September 28, 2012 by Jeremiah LaMontagne
Alejandro Rossi at his desk [Alejandro Rossi Papers, 1812-2010, Box 31, Folder 6]
The Princeton University Library's Manuscripts Division has recently added the papers of Vicente Leñero (1933- ) and of Alejandro Rossi (1932-2009) to its extensive collection ofarchives, manuscripts, and correspondence by Latin American writers and intellectuals.
The Vicente Leñero Papers represent his work from the late 1950s to the present day. Leñero has produced a critically acclaimed and expansive body of work, including novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts and essays. In 1963, Leñero was awarded the Premio Biblioteca Breve for his novel, Los albañiles, which he later adapted for the stage. Although he evolved independent of any specific literary circle or milieu, as co-founder of the magazine Proceso, Leñero's place as a leading intellectual in Mexico is undisputed. Considered a champion of documentary theater and fiction based in real-life events, Leñero has defied easy categorization as a writer, though among his many achievements Leñero is considered one of Mexico's most important playwrights of the twentieth century. In later years Leñero has written prodigiously for Mexican cinema, and his credits include La ley de Herodes (1999), El crímen del Padre Amaro (2003), Fuera del cielo (2006) and Desde dentro (2012).
Alejandro Rossi was born in Florence, Italy, to an Italian father and a Venezuelan mother. He studied philosophy in Mexico, Germany, and England, before settling in Mexico City, where he became professor of philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1958. His book on analytical philosophy, Lenguage y significado (1968), confirmed his status as a philosopher, but when Octavio Paz asked Rossi to contribute articles to the literary magazine Plural, Rossi began to enter the world of letters. The writer Juan Villoro has described Rossi as the consummate conversationalist, a quality that characterizes his prose writing. With his friends Octavio Paz, Salvador Elizondo, and Juan García Ponce, Rossi helped found the influential literary journal Vuelta in 1978. A member of Mexico's El Colegio Nacional since 1996, and winner of the Premio Xavier Villaurruita for his novel Éden, vida imaginada in 2007, Alejandro Rossi enjoyed a long distinguished career, and with great pride became a Mexican citizen in 1994. He died in Mexico City in 2009.
The Vicente Leñero Papers and the Alejandro Rossi Papers are now both open to researchers. For additional information, contact the Manuscripts Division or Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Librarian for Latin American Studies (facosta@princeton.edu).
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Q: Which clients accept DHCP option 42 to configure their NTP servers? From what I can tell based on observations of my own OS X 10.8.5 machine, and the information in "Windows clients not using NTP server provided via DHCP," neither OS X nor Windows 7 are able to auto-configure their NTP servers. So, which DHCP clients do this by default, or after special configuration?

A: The ISC DHCP client (which is used in almost any Linux distribution) and its variants accept the NTP field. There isn't another well known/universal client that accepts this value.
If I have to guess about why OSX nor Windows supports this option, I would say is due the various flaws that the base DHCP protocol has, like no Authentification Method, since mal intentioned DHCP servers could change your systems clocks, etc. Also, there aren't lots of DHCP clients out there (I only know Windows and ISC-based clients), so that leave little (or no) options where to pick.
Maybe OS X allows you to install another DHCP client, Windows isn't so easy, but you could be sure that Linux does.

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*http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1570721

*http://althing.cs.dartmouth.edu/local/dhcp_flaws.html


In stark contrast to video, "Hand Made" focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing images with a flashlight in a darkroom without the use of a camera, labs, digital editing or any type of sound equipment.
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Dennis Spencer announces commissioner run
Dennis Spencer has thrown his hat in the ring for the office of Archuleta County commissioner, District 3.
Spencer, who has owned a local moving company for 13 years, said he decided to run for the position after the Board of County Commissioners declined to accept a series of 11 petitions regarding the Liberty Zone movement.
"I then realized that there needs to be shift in the leadership in our county. A shift where the county commissioners take their oath of office seriously to protect the Constitution of the United States of America and the Colorado Constitution thus protecting the rights of the people, not infringing them. Being a constitutionalist conservative makes me naturally driven to protect the people's rights," Spencer said in an e-mail to The SUN.
If elected, Spencer said he would like to see Archuleta County prosper and be free, stating, "Local government is the key to Liberty. Even if our nation were to go all out totalitarianism, our rural community, with deep rooted conservative values, can reclaim our individual rights here at the county level. My goal is see Archuleta County be the one of the freest counties in the United States which will bring us prosperity."
Spencer said he believes the biggest challenge he would face in the position is to educate the public on their rights and how to protect them, and said he hopes to eliminate "red tape and excessive regulation."
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