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The fragile lightness of freedom: The Berlin Wall thirty years after
Thirty years after it disappeared, the memory of the Wall that divided Berlin cries out to us as a protest against all the walls that must be broken down so that we can complete the more fraternal world that, in the euphoria of the surprising and unexpected celebration that November 9, 1989 became, then seemed within our reach.
The democratic revolutions that followed were "velvet revolutions", as Vaclav Havel's described the Czech revolution. In them, unlike in Hungary in 1956, there were no more tanks in the streets, rolling through the blood of their martyrs. The progress towards political and social rights in a kidnapped "Central Europe," of which Milan Kundera spoke in 1984, still remains, showing that the utopia of a united and democratic Europe could still be achieved.
Once the fear of the nuclear holocaust, Gorbachev's primary motivation for ending the Cold War, had vanished, peace became possible. And with it came an unprecedented decade of international cooperation, based on revived multilateralism, regional integration and meaningful progress to protect fundamental rights, symbolized by the creation of the International Criminal Court.
Further, during the 1990s – a decade of hope above all – we witnessed the end of Apartheid, the independence of East Timor, the consolidation of democracy in Latin America and a vast movement of economic reform in Asia which ushered in an end to the poverty and misery of hundreds of millions of people.
Liberal democracy, then, should have triumphed forever, as Fukuyama rashly predicted it would, as the End of History. But little attention was paid to those who were left behind, those for whom this democratic feast left a bitter after-taste.
Thus, from the Balkans, from the mass graves of Srebrenitza, came a tragic warning that claims of no alternative to liberal democracy were premature, to say the least. Identity nationalism had also returned to Europe, with a demagogic discourse drawn from past chimera and made up of historical resentment, resentment that was to be fed by the 2008 financial crisis and discontent with social inequality.
In short, in the frenetic pace of those early years of a new era, after the implosion of the Soviet Union, we overlooked the fact that it was not only freedom, but also a particular vision of society that had triumphed, a vision in which profit and consumption were the supreme good.
The triumphalism of the major victors of the Cold War, freed from the spectre of communism, was based on the conviction that nothing could still oppose neoliberal globalization, that the risk of social revolt which had legitimized social democracy, had collapsed like the stones of the Wall that they had demolished. However, the proposed remedy, embodied in the Washington Consensus, was to prove deadly for the transition from a centrally-planned economy to one based on capitalism.
The democratic transition in Russia was the first victim. Capitalism had to be restored in full immediately and those left behind were the 'undeserving' who did not know how to adapt to a new world in which economic success was the barometer of happiness.
When I visited Moscow in 1991, in the years of Yeltsin's and Jeffrey Sachs' experiment in "shock therapy", I saw how the brutal deregulation of the economy had left many starving in poverty. I also saw the oligarchy that today, under the arch-nationalistic, Vladimir Putin, holds power, being built on a policy of unrestrained privatisation. It struck me then that the opening of the world's largest Mc Donald's, inaugurated in 1990 with pomp and splendor in Moscow, bizarrely mirrored the Soviet flag hoist over Berlin in 1945.
It proved to be a salutary insight and, when we now read that nationalism and the extreme-right is rising in East Germany, we should recall François Mitterrand's cautious words to his friend Helmut Kohl about the dangers of rushing the absorption of East and West Germany into a single state in 1991.
There could, though have been another way for freedom could have been combined with equality and social justice. That was, after all, the model that had transformed the European Union into the ideal to which those who had freed themselves from totalitarianism aspired.
With the defeat of the communist model, it had become clear that the suggestion that equality could be guaranteed without freedom was no more than a delusion for it only through freedom equality and social justice could be achieved. Sadly, even though freedom has brought about enormous progress in achieving equal rights since the fall of the Wall, social inequalities have worsened.
Today, populist politicians are the heralds of inequality, with their defence of white supremacy, their attacks on women and minority rights, and with their hate-speech towards migrants and Muslims. Even worse, they are in power in critical democratic countries including in the United States. Yet there is no point in continuing to debate whether freedom or equality should prevail. What the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no equality, and without equality freedom is fragile and vulnerable.
The European Union is still our greatest hope, but only if political Europe can become a community of values, enshrined, as Edgar Morin proposed at the IEEI Lisbon Conference in 1993, in a destiny seeking a 'community of shared humanity'.
Autor: Álvaro Vasconcelos
Investigador CEIS20 Universidade de Coimbra; Diretor IEEI (1980-2007), Diretor Instituto de Estudos de Segurança da União Europeia(2007-2012), Professor colaborador do Instituto de Relações Internacionais da Universidade de São Paulo Ver todos os artigos de Álvaro Vasconcelos
Autor Álvaro VasconcelosPublicado a Novembro 10, 2019 Novembro 10, 2019 Categorias Uncategorized
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Lina Iris Viktor
SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT — DARK MATTER
13 Sept 2019 - 25 Jan 2020
LONDON: AUTOGRAPH
Curated by Renée Mussai
Lina Iris Viktor's distinctive work unites mythical symbols and intricate patterns, creating her own language reflecting humanity's search for sacred experiences. Utilising an opulent palette of blue, white, black and 24-karat gold, Viktor often features her own body abstracted through different lustres of black.
Autograph is developing the first institutional solo exhibition of the Liberian-British artist's work in the UK.
The exhibition will feature new and existing works by Viktor: more than 48 works on paper from her series The Dark Continent, a selection of unique paintings on canvas, an immersive installation and a new artist commission.
Lina Iris Viktor: Dark Matter - Some Are Born To Endless Night starts 13 September 2019.
An artist monograph will accompany the exhibition, launching in Autumn 2019 at Autograph's gallery in Shoreditch. Published by Autograph in partnership with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago.
Lina Iris Viktor chooses to work in a strictly limited world - it is a mythical one of her creation existing within the zen-influenced, blurred lines of the real and the imagined.
Viktor is a conceptual artist, performance artist, and painter. She lives and works itinerantly between New York and London.
Raised in London to Liberian parents, she traveled extensively in her youth also living in Johannesburg, South Africa for many years. The multi-disciplinary approach to her work, which weaves disparate materials and methods belonging both to contemporary and ancient art forms calls into question the nature of time and being. Her works are a merging of photography, performance, abstract painting, along with the ancient practice of gilding with 24-karat gold to create increasingly dark canvases embedded with "layers of light".
Viktor regards these dark canvases to be 'light-works'. Each provoke a philosophical commentary through material that at once addresses the infinite and the finite, immortality and mortality, the microcosm and macrocosm, in addition to the socio-political and historical preconceptions surrounding 'blackness' and its universal implications.
Viktor's multi-disciplinary practice is informed by a background in film which she studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and her continued studies within photography & design at The School of Visual Arts, along with an education in performance arts during high school.
Viktor creates her own mythology as a painter, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist.
Her work has been exhibited at New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Harvard Art Museums and The Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Boston; The Kentucky Museum of Arts & Craft, Louisville; and Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Georgia. Viktor has engaged in critical talks, panels & lectures at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Harvard University, New York University, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), King's College London, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Saint Louis Art Museum and Autograph.
Accessibility at AUTOGRAPH
Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Our building Rivington Place is an accessible space with a step-free entrance at street level, and a lift to all floors. Unisex, accessible toilets are located on all floors.
Download our Accessibility Guide for detailed access information about our venue and transport.
We are happy to help. If you would like to discuss your visit, or have any questions, please contact us at info@autograph-abp.co.uk or 020 7749 9200
Banner image: Lina Iris Viktor, II. For Some are born to Endless Night. Dark Matter., 2015-19. Pure 24 Karat Gold, Acrylic, copolymer resin, print on cotton rag paper. Courtesy of the artist / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago.
Page images, from top left: 1) Lina Iris Viktor, KNOW WE WILL BE REBORN AMIDST ALL THE STARS. EX NIHILO. (2015-8). Courtesy of the artist / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago. 2) Lina Iris Viktor, KNOW WE WILL BE REBORN AMIDST ALL THE STARS. EX NIHILO. (2015-8). Courtesy of the artist / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago. 3) Rivington Place, home of Autograph. Photograph by Zoë Maxwell.

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Well whilst it's true that technology rapidly shape shifts in front of our very eyes, human evolution and behaviour doesn't. Certainly not enough in the eight or so years mobile technology has been around.
As educators, mentors, parents and adults, one of the things that we are not too bad at is supporting children's development, knowledge and behaviour. We've done it for centuries through the careful crafting of educative programmes; trialling, reviewing, evaluating as we adapt to the ever changing demands of the world. The one area we haven't really organised well is how we educate for those same things in this new environment we call "online".
Whilst many organisations, including our own, have created a vast raft of resource to meet the issues as they develop, the whole landscape is confusing and disparate to those who need to draw on those resources relevant to the needs of the age-group they work with. We very often sing from different hymn-sheets aligned with our cause.
What if we pooled our collective knowledge about what we already know; from what research tells us; from the professional dialogue we have across organisations; from the issues we deal with on a daily basis; from the wider global dialogue on online behaviour? And what if we used that global audit to establish a set of expectations; a set of skills, knowledge and behaviours we would expect a child or young person to have that allows them to flourish in their use of technology?
Over the last eighteen months, SWGfL, with the UKCCIS Education Group, has begun the process of mapping those expectations against eight key areas of online behaviour in a framework that provides scope and sequence from very young children through to 18 year-olds.
Published by the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and announced by the UK Prime Minister on Safer Internet Day 2018, this UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) framework has been designed to identify those opportunities for anyone shaping their teaching and approach in this area: schools; social care; police; health; youth organisations. It brings the current online technology landscape into one document and maps those opportunities against age/developmental stage.
It has a relevance to all of us who want to create opportunities to have conversations that affect positive change. It is currently in consultation phase and we would love to know what you think.
Karl Hopwood, independent online safety expert, looks at the new UKCCIS education framework for a Connected World and how it can help young people build resilience, develop critical thinking and become responsible users of technology.


Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) is a U.S.-based non-profit, non-political, tax-exempt charitable organization founded in 1991 to assist Vietnamese with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups to regain mobility and improve their socio-economic status. Over the past 27 years, VNAH has implemented development projects and volunteer activities that have benefited several million people in Southeast Asia.
Build and equip rehabilitation centers and health clinics to improve capacity and access to health services for persons with disabilities and the rural poor.
Provide health care, rehabilitation services, and assistive devices to persons with disabilities, war and land-mines/UXO victims.
Support vocational training, employment and livelihood development for persons with disabilities and disadvantaged youth.
Capacity building training for health workers, rehabilitation practitioners, assistive devices producers and staff of vocational training and employment service centers.
Improve access to and quality of education for children in remote areas by building school, teacher training and international education exchanges.
Support curriculum development of higher education and teachers training in subjects including barrier-free access design in construction, social work with disabilities, occupational therapy and vocational rehabilitation.
Volunteer health care services in rural, remote areas.
Provide clean water for rural and ethnic communities.
Thank you for supporting VNAH!
Technical assistance to the development and enforcement of disability policies in Vietnam.
Promote programs and policies at the national and sub-national levels to integrate persons with disabilities into all aspects of their community's social and economic affairs.
Technical support to national efforts for the development of disability information system in Vietnam.
Support the development of disabled people's organization (DPO) and training for disability advocates.


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Hemmatabad-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Hemmatābād-e Soflá; also known as Hemmatābād, Hemmatābād-e Pā'īn, and Himmatābād) is a village in Takab Rural District, Shahdad District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 247, in 57 families.

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Populated places in Kerman County

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We're also excited for your members to see the improved members portal and start creating conversations. Yes, the Dashboard section now contains a News Feed where members can post. You can also add posts, label them as informational or important and pin them to the top. To give it a try, navigate to Apps/Feature, enable News Feed and Member Posts and create the first posts from Community/Posts.
And that is not all. The e-commerce section on the members portal is also improved – it is simplified and focused on shopping. To make it even better, you can edit your public plans and add images to them to make their appearance on the portal even more appealing.
Your customers billing details include a PO Number field. When your customer provides you with their PO number, you can add it in OfficeR&D and the system will associate it with your customer's subscriptions and will display it in all their invoices.
You can define a Reference number when creating an invoice.
You can see the team member who created an invoice and the invoice creation date in the invoice view.
You can create contracts for all types of plans – hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices and services. You can also set the plan to be fixed-term when it shouldn't roll over.
You can configure door access systems (Kisi and Salto) to map your private offices to specific door access groups.
Space owners can receive weekly occupancy reports. You can enable this feature from the Settings/Reports section.
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You can apply a location to resource rates as well as filter them out by location.
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Cannot check-in member when the Day Pass does not have a value for the validTo property.
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Most people who pursue an MBA know their main career options: finance and banking.
These careers continually draw MBA graduates because they are stable, high-paying (an entry level financial advisor can make over $100,000 per year), and dependable careers in the field, and are typically seen as being among the top 10 MBA careers to have.
But what if a traditional MBA-path career isn't appealing to you?
With so many new sectors hiring MBA graduates, the options with your degree are expanding rapidly. Fields like sports, social media, and even boutique retail are interested in employing MBA holders for their business expertise and ability to manage information and people.
These MBA careers are outside the traditional box and provide fresh and exciting options for MBA graduates who aren't attracted to more traditional options.
For people who love sports and sports statistics, this position is the perfect match. Sports teams hire sports data analysts to analyze data in order to identify patterns to help the team improve. This information helps teams with strategy, including on-field/court moves and hiring players and coaches.
USA Today reports that data analysts as an umbrella category of business jobs can make $125,000 per year right out of school. The sports team's prestige and level will determine salary for a sports data analyst, but someone working for a team in a league like the NBA or MLB can expect to make this much and more. Because data analysts are in hot demand right now in all fields, this career easily tops this list of the top 10 MBA careers outside the traditional box.
Working for a professional sports team has an appeal for anyone who loves sports and has strong communication and management skills. Earning an MBA teaches you those skills, so if you love sports, there are positions available for professional teams at all levels in management and development. A sports team manager/developer is responsible for helping the team with marketing and development, insuring its financial success.
According to BusinessWeek, this position starts at between $95,000 to $110,000 per year. Of course, the higher up in sports you go and the more popular the team is for which you work, the more money you can make.
These managers are usually in charge of specific government programs. Since federal and state government programs range from environmental initiatives to assistance to military veterans to educational programs in school systems, the range of options is quite large. Whatever your interests are outside your MBA, you can combine those with the skills you learned at your MBA program and work as a public servant.
MBA graduates are valued in architecture and design firms, IT companies, and biotechnology companies, just to name a few. Companies in all sectors are in need of business development directors to help plan and implement business strategies for the entire company. Marketing, advertising, and consulting skills are needed in this job as well as the ability to work well with others, all skills that are earned through an MBA program.
Helping small, boutique business owners with their marketing strategies can be a very rewarding career. Marketing strategists for small businesses can work directly for a luxury business (like a clothing store, for example) or can work for a consulting firm. Ambitious strategists can also start their own consulting or marketing firm that's geared toward securing small businesses as clients. The size and location of the business really determines salary.
Salary.com estimates that marketing managers/strategists who work at small businesses make about $78,000 per year, but the pay could be significantly less or more than that average.
Owning a small business can be a sustainable career choice for some MBA graduates.
Of course, it takes a lot of know-how and an attractive product or service to stay afloat. According to Business Know How, 29 percent of small business owners make between $50,000 and $75,000 per year. There are many small business owners who make less than this and many who make more than this, but if your business is moderately successful and doesn't fail or struggle, you can expect to make about $75,000 per year from it. These small businesses have less than 10 employees. Think food trucks and tiny boutique stores with regular business hours.
Pairing writing skills with technical knowledge in a specific field can turn into a career. Technical writers work on writing projects of varying lengths, including articles, manuals, and press releases, to convey a company's message and research/data to the public. Fields that demand technical writers include technology, engineering, and science.
If you came to your MBA program with a background in any of these subjects, becoming a technical writer for a company or writing firm could be a great career option that's outside the traditional box.
Companies know that having social media presence is key to getting out the word about their products and services. If you have a knack for managing social media content and helping companies with their social media campaigns, becoming a social media strategist might be an enjoyable career.
The salary range varies greatly from region to region.
For example, in New York, social media strategists can make over $100,000 per year, while in Phoenix, Arizona, social media strategists only make between $36,000 and $68,000 per year, according to Onward Search.
Non-profit organizations not only need passionate employees who care about the organization's mission, but they also need highly trained managers to develop and maintain various programs. Someone with an MBA is a great fit for a non-profit.
All of the skills needed to succeed as a non-profit manager are learned in an MBA program: data analysis, effective communication, problem solving, and working on teams.
Real estate investors put their money into properties and make a profit by either re-selling those properties or keeping them as rental units.
Real estate markets are drastically different across various US regions, so there's no average salary or profit potential. Plus, the more investments you have, the greater risk you are taking to either make or lose money. Becoming a real estate investor takes initial capital and a desire to take risks. Even though this career is last on this list of top 10 MBA careers, it has great potential to make someone a lot of cash.
Except where noted, all salary data was provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Payscale.com.


El Escorpion Park (Also Known As Castle Peak Park) Is Located In The West Hills Of The San Fernando Valley. The Small Park Sits In The Simi Hills Adjacent To The Expansive 2,900-Acre Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve.
The Three-Acre Park Is Open To Hikers, Bikers, Equestrians, And Dogs. It Has Two Main Trails That Run The Length Of The Park Along El Escorpion Creek, With A Network Of Connecting Trails That Leave The Park. To The North, A Path Leads To Caves On The Hillside Canyon Wall. Also To The North, A Rough, Dangerously Steep Path Ascends The South Slope Of Castle Peak, The Prominent Rocky Mountain Towering Over The Landscape. (The Trail Gains 1,000 Feet In A Short Distance.) To The South, The El Escorpion Trail Connects With The Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve (Hike 142). A Third Trail Heads West, Connecting With The Las Virgenes Trailhead And Cheeseboro Canyon (Hikes 137-141).
From The Ventura Free Way/Highway 101 In Woodland Hills, Exit On Mullholland Drive/Valley Circle Boulevard. Drive 3 Miles North On Valley Circle Boulevard To Vanowen Street. Turn Left And Drive One Block To The Trailhead On The Left, Located As The Road Curves Right Onto Sunset Ridge Court. Park Along The Curb.
From Highway 118/Ronald Reagan Freeway In Chatsworth, Exit On Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Drive 2.5 Miles South To Plummer Street. Turn Right And Continue 5.5 Miles To Vanowen Street. (En Route, Plummer Street Becomes Valley Circle Boulevard.) Turn Right On Vanowen Street, And Drive One Block To The Trailhead On The Left, Located As The Road Curves Right Onto Sunset Ridge Court. Park Along The Curb.
Walk Through The Trailhead Gate And Curve Right. Follow The Old Dirt Road West Along The Base Of The Oak-Studded Hillside To A Y-Fork. Begin The Loop To The Right Beneath Jagged Castle Peak. Cross The Seasonal El Escorpion Creek Drainage And Veer Left, Continuing Up Canyon. A Couple Of Side Paths On The Right Ascend Castle Peak. Connector Paths On The Left Recross The Drainage And Join The Parallel Return Path To The South. Meander Through A Mixed Forest With Palms, Oaks, Chaparral, And Riparian Vegetation. At The Trail'S West End Is An Open Fence That Separates The City Portion Of The Park From The Santa Monica Conservancy Land. Pass Through The Fence To A Junction. The Right Fork Leads Up A Side Canyon A Quarter Mile To The Base Of Weather-Carved Sandstone Formations Pocketed With Caves. This Route Invites Exploration.
Back At The Drainage Floor, The Left (South) Fork, Leads 100 Yards To Another Junction. The Hunter Allen Trail Heads West And Curves South, Leading One Mile To The Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve At The Victory Trailhead (Hike 142). A Short Distance Past This Junction, A Path Veers Right And Heads West, Winding Through The Oak-Dotted Rolling Hills And Sycamore- Lined Canyons To Cheeseboro Canyon And The Las Virgenes Trailhead (Hikes 137-141). To Return, Head Back Down Canyon On The South Canyon Wall, Completing The Loop Near The Trailhead.


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Axpo sells Bisaccia wind farm to Edison
International business Italy Wind power
28.07.2022 - Axpo has agreed the sale of its 66 MW wind farm in Bisaccia/Italy to Edison S.p.A., one of the country's leading utilities, it was announced today. The sale is consistent with Axpo's strategy of focussing on new growth initiatives.
In pursuit of its ambitious goal to develop onshore wind farms and solar plants with an installed capacity of 3 GW and 10 GW respectively by 2030 internationally, Axpo's strategy includes the continuous review of options to redistribute wind and PV assets across Europe and divest selected plants and shareholdings. This enables the company to redeploy the resulting financial resources in these key growth areas. The sale of the Bisaccia wind farm to Edison has received all necessary approvals from the relevant authorities, and is with immediate effect. The parties have agreed not to disclose any details regarding the sale price.
Through its subsidiary WinBis, Axpo has been managing 22 Vestas V90 turbines in Bisaccia, in the Italian province of Avellino, each with an installed capacity of 3MW, since its commissioning in September 2012. The operating performance of the wind farm has been strong and stable ever since, with annual production averaging 98.5 GWh over the last six years and an average annual availability of 98.6%.
Italy remains one of Axpo's most important European markets. Entering the Italian energy market in 2000, Axpo Italia has become the company's largest subsidiary and an important pillar of its international operations. Firmly established as the fourth largest participant in the Italian electricity market, Axpo Italia places innovation at the heart of its renewable energy activities, taking advantage of the country's significant wind and solar potential. The company is also committed to increasing its focus on the development of hydrogen and battery storage initiatives in the near future.
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10 Things You Might Not Know About Pixar's 'Cars'
While Cars would eventually come to be about hotshot racing car Lightning McQueen, Cars was originally titled "The Yellow Car" and was going to be about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world. This is just one of the facts packed into the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies, which speeds off with Cars!
The computers used to create Cars were 1,000 times faster than the ones used to create Toy Story, Pixar's first film. But despite this increase is processor power, it took those computers over 17 hours to process each frame of the film. At an average of 24 frames-per-second in a 116-minute film, that would take approximately 5.5 million hours to process the entire film. (Luckily they had a lot of those computers all working at once otherwise it would've taken 229,166 days (or 627 years) to finish the movie.
"You Think You Know Movies?" is a ScreenCrush original series that dives deep into the cinematic worlds of your favorite movies and freeze frames a few tidbits you might not have known. We've already tackled Star Wars, The Avengers and Spider-Man, but now, you've got a friend with these Toy Story facts!
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If you have citizenship in Sweden, you have a great deal of traveling power - Swedes can fly to 158 countries without ever showing a visa. This makes international travel cheaper and easier than it is for citizens of many other countries, like those of Afghanistan, who can enter just 23 countries without a visa.
The US makes the top 15, but that could change over the next four years under the Trump administration, according to Arton Capital CEO John Hanafin. If US foreign-policy relations sour with other countries, like Mexico and Germany, visa-free agreements could freeze or break, which would damage passport power for Americans.
The European Commission recently told the Wall Street Journal that it will not impose visas on American travelers after the US excluded five EU countries from its no-visa list, however.
Here are the 19 countries with the highest-ranking passports.


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package azure

import (
	"bytes"
	"context"
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/base64"
	"encoding/hex"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/storage"
	humanize "github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
	"github.com/minio/cli"
	miniogopolicy "github.com/minio/minio-go/pkg/policy"
	"github.com/minio/minio/cmd/logger"
	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/auth"
	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/hash"
	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/policy"
	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/policy/condition"
	sha256 "github.com/minio/sha256-simd"

	minio "github.com/minio/minio/cmd"
)

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	globalAzureAPIVersion      = "2016-05-31"
	azureBlockSize             = 100 * humanize.MiByte
	azureS3MinPartSize         = 5 * humanize.MiByte
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	azureBackend               = "azure"
	azureMarkerPrefix          = "{minio}"
)

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FLAGS:
  {{range .VisibleFlags}}{{.}}
  {{end}}{{end}}
ENDPOINT:
  Azure server endpoint. Default ENDPOINT is https://core.windows.net

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
  ACCESS:
     MINIO_ACCESS_KEY: Username or access key of Azure storage.
     MINIO_SECRET_KEY: Password or secret key of Azure storage.

  BROWSER:
     MINIO_BROWSER: To disable web browser access, set this value to "off".

  CACHE:
     MINIO_CACHE_DRIVES: List of mounted drives or directories delimited by ";".
     MINIO_CACHE_EXCLUDE: List of cache exclusion patterns delimited by ";".
     MINIO_CACHE_EXPIRY: Cache expiry duration in days.

  UPDATE:
     MINIO_UPDATE: To turn off in-place upgrades, set this value to "off".

  DOMAIN:
     MINIO_DOMAIN: To enable virtual-host-style requests, set this value to Minio host domain name.

EXAMPLES:
  1. Start minio gateway server for Azure Blob Storage backend.
      $ export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=azureaccountname
      $ export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=azureaccountkey
      $ {{.HelpName}}

  2. Start minio gateway server for Azure Blob Storage backend on custom endpoint.
      $ export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=azureaccountname
      $ export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=azureaccountkey
      $ {{.HelpName}} https://azure.example.com

  3. Start minio gateway server for Azure Blob Storage backend with edge caching enabled.
      $ export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=azureaccountname
      $ export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=azureaccountkey
      $ export MINIO_CACHE_DRIVES="/mnt/drive1;/mnt/drive2;/mnt/drive3;/mnt/drive4"
      $ export MINIO_CACHE_EXCLUDE="bucket1/*;*.png"
      $ export MINIO_CACHE_EXPIRY=40
      $ {{.HelpName}}

`

	minio.RegisterGatewayCommand(cli.Command{
		Name:               azureBackend,
		Usage:              "Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.",
		Action:             azureGatewayMain,
		CustomHelpTemplate: azureGatewayTemplate,
		HideHelpCommand:    true,
	})
}

// Returns true if marker was returned by Azure, i.e prefixed with
// {minio}
func isAzureMarker(marker string) bool {
	return strings.HasPrefix(marker, azureMarkerPrefix)
}

// Handler for 'minio gateway azure' command line.
func azureGatewayMain(ctx *cli.Context) {
	// Validate gateway arguments.
	host := ctx.Args().First()
	// Validate gateway arguments.
	logger.FatalIf(minio.ValidateGatewayArguments(ctx.GlobalString("address"), host), "Invalid argument")

	minio.StartGateway(ctx, &Azure{host})
}

// Azure implements Gateway.
type Azure struct {
	host string
}

// Name implements Gateway interface.
func (g *Azure) Name() string {
	return azureBackend
}

// NewGatewayLayer initializes azure blob storage client and returns AzureObjects.
func (g *Azure) NewGatewayLayer(creds auth.Credentials) (minio.ObjectLayer, error) {
	var err error
	var endpoint = storage.DefaultBaseURL
	var secure = true

	// If user provided some parameters
	if g.host != "" {
		endpoint, secure, err = minio.ParseGatewayEndpoint(g.host)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	}

	if endpoint == fmt.Sprintf("%s.blob.%s", creds.AccessKey, storage.DefaultBaseURL) {
		// If, by mistake, user provides endpoint as accountname.blob.core.windows.net
		endpoint = storage.DefaultBaseURL
	}
	c, err := storage.NewClient(creds.AccessKey, creds.SecretKey, endpoint, globalAzureAPIVersion, secure)
	if err != nil {
		return &azureObjects{}, err
	}
	c.HTTPClient = &http.Client{Transport: minio.NewCustomHTTPTransport()}

	return &azureObjects{
		client: c.GetBlobService(),
	}, nil
}

// Production - Azure gateway is production ready.
func (g *Azure) Production() bool {
	return true
}

// s3MetaToAzureProperties converts metadata meant for S3 PUT/COPY
// object into Azure data structures - BlobMetadata and
// BlobProperties.
//
// BlobMetadata contains user defined key-value pairs and each key is
// automatically prefixed with `X-Ms-Meta-` by the Azure SDK. S3
// user-metadata is translated to Azure metadata by removing the
// `X-Amz-Meta-` prefix.
//
// BlobProperties contains commonly set metadata for objects such as
// Content-Encoding, etc. Such metadata that is accepted by S3 is
// copied into BlobProperties.
//
// Header names are canonicalized as in http.Header.
func s3MetaToAzureProperties(ctx context.Context, s3Metadata map[string]string) (storage.BlobMetadata,
	storage.BlobProperties, error) {
	for k := range s3Metadata {
		if strings.Contains(k, "--") {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.UnsupportedMetadata{})
			return storage.BlobMetadata{}, storage.BlobProperties{}, minio.UnsupportedMetadata{}
		}
	}

	// Encoding technique for each key is used here is as follows
	// Each '-' is converted to '_'
	// Each '_' is converted to '__'
	// With this basic assumption here are some of the expected
	// translations for these keys.
	// i: 'x-S3cmd_attrs' -> o: 'x_s3cmd__attrs' (mixed)
	// i: 'x__test__value' -> o: 'x____test____value' (double '_')
	encodeKey := func(key string) string {
		tokens := strings.Split(key, "_")
		for i := range tokens {
			tokens[i] = strings.Replace(tokens[i], "-", "_", -1)
		}
		return strings.Join(tokens, "__")
	}
	var blobMeta storage.BlobMetadata = make(map[string]string)
	var props storage.BlobProperties
	for k, v := range s3Metadata {
		k = http.CanonicalHeaderKey(k)
		switch {
		case strings.HasPrefix(k, "X-Amz-Meta-"):
			// Strip header prefix, to let Azure SDK
			// handle it for storage.
			k = strings.Replace(k, "X-Amz-Meta-", "", 1)
			blobMeta[encodeKey(k)] = v

		// All cases below, extract common metadata that is
		// accepted by S3 into BlobProperties for setting on
		// Azure - see
		// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPUT.html
		case k == "Cache-Control":
			props.CacheControl = v
		case k == "Content-Disposition":
			props.ContentDisposition = v
		case k == "Content-Encoding":
			props.ContentEncoding = v
		case k == "Content-Length":
			// assume this doesn't fail
			props.ContentLength, _ = strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64)
		case k == "Content-Md5":
			props.ContentMD5 = v
		case k == "Content-Type":
			props.ContentType = v
		}
	}
	return blobMeta, props, nil
}

// azurePropertiesToS3Meta converts Azure metadata/properties to S3
// metadata. It is the reverse of s3MetaToAzureProperties. Azure's
// `.GetMetadata()` lower-cases all header keys, so this is taken into
// account by this function.
func azurePropertiesToS3Meta(meta storage.BlobMetadata, props storage.BlobProperties) map[string]string {
	// Decoding technique for each key is used here is as follows
	// Each '_' is converted to '-'
	// Each '__' is converted to '_'
	// With this basic assumption here are some of the expected
	// translations for these keys.
	// i: 'x_s3cmd__attrs' -> o: 'x-s3cmd_attrs' (mixed)
	// i: 'x____test____value' -> o: 'x__test__value' (double '_')
	decodeKey := func(key string) string {
		tokens := strings.Split(key, "__")
		for i := range tokens {
			tokens[i] = strings.Replace(tokens[i], "_", "-", -1)
		}
		return strings.Join(tokens, "_")
	}

	s3Metadata := make(map[string]string)
	for k, v := range meta {
		// k's `x-ms-meta-` prefix is already stripped by
		// Azure SDK, so we add the AMZ prefix.
		k = "X-Amz-Meta-" + decodeKey(k)
		k = http.CanonicalHeaderKey(k)
		s3Metadata[k] = v
	}

	// Add each property from BlobProperties that is supported by
	// S3 PUT/COPY common metadata.
	if props.CacheControl != "" {
		s3Metadata["Cache-Control"] = props.CacheControl
	}
	if props.ContentDisposition != "" {
		s3Metadata["Content-Disposition"] = props.ContentDisposition
	}
	if props.ContentEncoding != "" {
		s3Metadata["Content-Encoding"] = props.ContentEncoding
	}
	if props.ContentLength != 0 {
		s3Metadata["Content-Length"] = fmt.Sprintf("%d", props.ContentLength)
	}
	if props.ContentMD5 != "" {
		s3Metadata["Content-MD5"] = props.ContentMD5
	}
	if props.ContentType != "" {
		s3Metadata["Content-Type"] = props.ContentType
	}
	return s3Metadata
}

// azureObjects - Implements Object layer for Azure blob storage.
type azureObjects struct {
	minio.GatewayUnsupported
	client storage.BlobStorageClient // Azure sdk client
}

// Convert azure errors to minio object layer errors.
func azureToObjectError(err error, params ...string) error {
	if err == nil {
		return nil
	}

	bucket := ""
	object := ""
	if len(params) >= 1 {
		bucket = params[0]
	}
	if len(params) == 2 {
		object = params[1]
	}

	azureErr, ok := err.(storage.AzureStorageServiceError)
	if !ok {
		// We don't interpret non Azure errors. As azure errors will
		// have StatusCode to help to convert to object errors.
		return err
	}

	switch azureErr.Code {
	case "ContainerAlreadyExists":
		err = minio.BucketExists{Bucket: bucket}
	case "InvalidResourceName":
		err = minio.BucketNameInvalid{Bucket: bucket}
	case "RequestBodyTooLarge":
		err = minio.PartTooBig{}
	case "InvalidMetadata":
		err = minio.UnsupportedMetadata{}
	default:
		switch azureErr.StatusCode {
		case http.StatusNotFound:
			if object != "" {
				err = minio.ObjectNotFound{
					Bucket: bucket,
					Object: object,
				}
			} else {
				err = minio.BucketNotFound{Bucket: bucket}
			}
		case http.StatusBadRequest:
			err = minio.BucketNameInvalid{Bucket: bucket}
		}
	}
	return err
}

// getAzureUploadID - returns new upload ID which is hex encoded 8 bytes random value.
// this 8 byte restriction is needed because Azure block id has a restriction of length
// upto 8 bytes.
func getAzureUploadID() (string, error) {
	var id [8]byte

	n, err := io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, id[:])
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	if n != len(id) {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("Unexpected random data size. Expected: %d, read: %d)", len(id), n)
	}

	return hex.EncodeToString(id[:]), nil
}

// checkAzureUploadID - returns error in case of given string is upload ID.
func checkAzureUploadID(ctx context.Context, uploadID string) (err error) {
	if len(uploadID) != 16 {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.MalformedUploadID{
			UploadID: uploadID,
		})
		return minio.MalformedUploadID{
			UploadID: uploadID,
		}
	}

	if _, err = hex.DecodeString(uploadID); err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.MalformedUploadID{
			UploadID: uploadID,
		})
		return minio.MalformedUploadID{
			UploadID: uploadID,
		}
	}

	return nil
}

// Encode partID, subPartNumber, uploadID and md5Hex to blockID.
func azureGetBlockID(partID, subPartNumber int, uploadID, md5Hex string) string {
	return base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("%05d.%02d.%s.%s", partID, subPartNumber, uploadID, md5Hex)))
}

// Parse blockID into partID, subPartNumber and md5Hex.
func azureParseBlockID(blockID string) (partID, subPartNumber int, uploadID, md5Hex string, err error) {
	var blockIDBytes []byte
	if blockIDBytes, err = base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(blockID); err != nil {
		return
	}

	tokens := strings.Split(string(blockIDBytes), ".")
	if len(tokens) != 4 {
		err = fmt.Errorf("invalid block id '%s'", string(blockIDBytes))
		return
	}

	if partID, err = strconv.Atoi(tokens[0]); err != nil || partID <= 0 {
		err = fmt.Errorf("invalid part number in block id '%s'", string(blockIDBytes))
		return
	}

	if subPartNumber, err = strconv.Atoi(tokens[1]); err != nil || subPartNumber <= 0 {
		err = fmt.Errorf("invalid sub-part number in block id '%s'", string(blockIDBytes))
		return
	}

	uploadID = tokens[2]
	md5Hex = tokens[3]

	return
}

// Shutdown - save any gateway metadata to disk
// if necessary and reload upon next restart.
func (a *azureObjects) Shutdown(ctx context.Context) error {
	return nil
}

// StorageInfo - Not relevant to Azure backend.
func (a *azureObjects) StorageInfo(ctx context.Context) (si minio.StorageInfo) {
	return si
}

// MakeBucketWithLocation - Create a new container on azure backend.
func (a *azureObjects) MakeBucketWithLocation(ctx context.Context, bucket, location string) error {
	// Verify if bucket (container-name) is valid.
	// IsValidBucketName has same restrictions as container names mentioned
	// in azure documentation, so we will simply use the same function here.
	// Ref - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/naming-and-referencing-containers--blobs--and-metadata
	if !minio.IsValidBucketName(bucket) {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.BucketNameInvalid{Bucket: bucket})
		return minio.BucketNameInvalid{Bucket: bucket}
	}

	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	err := container.Create(&storage.CreateContainerOptions{
		Access: storage.ContainerAccessTypePrivate,
	})
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	return azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
}

// GetBucketInfo - Get bucket metadata..
func (a *azureObjects) GetBucketInfo(ctx context.Context, bucket string) (bi minio.BucketInfo, e error) {
	// Azure does not have an equivalent call, hence use
	// ListContainers with prefix
	resp, err := a.client.ListContainers(storage.ListContainersParameters{
		Prefix: bucket,
	})
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return bi, azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
	}
	for _, container := range resp.Containers {
		if container.Name == bucket {
			t, e := time.Parse(time.RFC1123, container.Properties.LastModified)
			if e == nil {
				return minio.BucketInfo{
					Name:    bucket,
					Created: t,
				}, nil
			} // else continue
		}
	}
	logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.BucketNotFound{Bucket: bucket})
	return bi, minio.BucketNotFound{Bucket: bucket}
}

// ListBuckets - Lists all azure containers, uses Azure equivalent ListContainers.
func (a *azureObjects) ListBuckets(ctx context.Context) (buckets []minio.BucketInfo, err error) {
	resp, err := a.client.ListContainers(storage.ListContainersParameters{})
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return nil, azureToObjectError(err)
	}
	for _, container := range resp.Containers {
		t, e := time.Parse(time.RFC1123, container.Properties.LastModified)
		if e != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, e)
			return nil, e
		}
		buckets = append(buckets, minio.BucketInfo{
			Name:    container.Name,
			Created: t,
		})
	}
	return buckets, nil
}

// DeleteBucket - delete a container on azure, uses Azure equivalent DeleteContainer.
func (a *azureObjects) DeleteBucket(ctx context.Context, bucket string) error {
	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	err := container.Delete(nil)
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	return azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
}

// ListObjects - lists all blobs on azure with in a container filtered by prefix
// and marker, uses Azure equivalent ListBlobs.
// To accommodate S3-compatible applications using
// ListObjectsV1 to use object keys as markers to control the
// listing of objects, we use the following encoding scheme to
// distinguish between Azure continuation tokens and application
// supplied markers.
//
// - NextMarker in ListObjectsV1 response is constructed by
//   prefixing "{minio}" to the Azure continuation token,
//   e.g, "{minio}CgRvYmoz"
//
// - Application supplied markers are used as-is to list
//   object keys that appear after it in the lexicographical order.
func (a *azureObjects) ListObjects(ctx context.Context, bucket, prefix, marker, delimiter string, maxKeys int) (result minio.ListObjectsInfo, err error) {
	var objects []minio.ObjectInfo
	var prefixes []string

	azureListMarker := ""
	if isAzureMarker(marker) {
		// If application is using Azure continuation token we should
		// strip the azureTokenPrefix we added in the previous list response.
		azureListMarker = strings.TrimPrefix(marker, azureMarkerPrefix)
	}

	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	for len(objects) == 0 && len(prefixes) == 0 {
		resp, err := container.ListBlobs(storage.ListBlobsParameters{
			Prefix:     prefix,
			Marker:     azureListMarker,
			Delimiter:  delimiter,
			MaxResults: uint(maxKeys),
		})
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return result, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, prefix)
		}

		for _, blob := range resp.Blobs {
			if delimiter == "" && strings.HasPrefix(blob.Name, minio.GatewayMinioSysTmp) {
				// We filter out minio.GatewayMinioSysTmp entries in the recursive listing.
				continue
			}
			if !isAzureMarker(marker) && blob.Name <= marker {
				// If the application used ListObjectsV1 style marker then we
				// skip all the entries till we reach the marker.
				continue
			}
			objects = append(objects, minio.ObjectInfo{
				Bucket:          bucket,
				Name:            blob.Name,
				ModTime:         time.Time(blob.Properties.LastModified),
				Size:            blob.Properties.ContentLength,
				ETag:            minio.ToS3ETag(blob.Properties.Etag),
				ContentType:     blob.Properties.ContentType,
				ContentEncoding: blob.Properties.ContentEncoding,
			})
		}

		for _, blobPrefix := range resp.BlobPrefixes {
			if blobPrefix == minio.GatewayMinioSysTmp {
				// We don't do strings.HasPrefix(blob.Name, minio.GatewayMinioSysTmp) here so that
				// we can use tools like mc to inspect the contents of minio.sys.tmp/
				// It is OK to allow listing of minio.sys.tmp/ in non-recursive mode as it aids in debugging.
				continue
			}
			if !isAzureMarker(marker) && blobPrefix <= marker {
				// If the application used ListObjectsV1 style marker then we
				// skip all the entries till we reach the marker.
				continue
			}
			prefixes = append(prefixes, blobPrefix)
		}

		azureListMarker = resp.NextMarker
		if azureListMarker == "" {
			// Reached end of listing.
			break
		}
	}

	result.Objects = objects
	result.Prefixes = prefixes
	if azureListMarker != "" {
		// We add the {minio} prefix so that we know in the subsequent request that this
		// marker is a azure continuation token and not ListObjectV1 marker.
		result.NextMarker = azureMarkerPrefix + azureListMarker
		result.IsTruncated = true
	}
	return result, nil
}

// ListObjectsV2 - list all blobs in Azure bucket filtered by prefix
func (a *azureObjects) ListObjectsV2(ctx context.Context, bucket, prefix, continuationToken, delimiter string, maxKeys int, fetchOwner bool, startAfter string) (result minio.ListObjectsV2Info, err error) {
	marker := continuationToken
	if startAfter != "" {
		marker = startAfter
	}

	var resultV1 minio.ListObjectsInfo
	resultV1, err = a.ListObjects(ctx, bucket, prefix, marker, delimiter, maxKeys)
	if err != nil {
		return result, err
	}

	result.Objects = resultV1.Objects
	result.Prefixes = resultV1.Prefixes
	result.ContinuationToken = continuationToken
	result.NextContinuationToken = resultV1.NextMarker
	result.IsTruncated = (resultV1.NextMarker != "")
	return result, nil
}

// GetObject - reads an object from azure. Supports additional
// parameters like offset and length which are synonymous with
// HTTP Range requests.
//
// startOffset indicates the starting read location of the object.
// length indicates the total length of the object.
func (a *azureObjects) GetObject(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, startOffset int64, length int64, writer io.Writer, etag string) error {
	// startOffset cannot be negative.
	if startOffset < 0 {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.InvalidRange{})
		return azureToObjectError(minio.InvalidRange{}, bucket, object)
	}

	blobRange := &storage.BlobRange{Start: uint64(startOffset)}
	if length > 0 {
		blobRange.End = uint64(startOffset + length - 1)
	}

	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	var rc io.ReadCloser
	var err error
	if startOffset == 0 && length == 0 {
		rc, err = blob.Get(nil)
	} else {
		rc, err = blob.GetRange(&storage.GetBlobRangeOptions{
			Range: blobRange,
		})
	}
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	_, err = io.Copy(writer, rc)
	rc.Close()
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	return err
}

// GetObjectInfo - reads blob metadata properties and replies back minio.ObjectInfo,
// uses zure equivalent GetBlobProperties.
func (a *azureObjects) GetObjectInfo(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string) (objInfo minio.ObjectInfo, err error) {
	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	err = blob.GetProperties(nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}

	return minio.ObjectInfo{
		Bucket:          bucket,
		UserDefined:     azurePropertiesToS3Meta(blob.Metadata, blob.Properties),
		ETag:            minio.ToS3ETag(blob.Properties.Etag),
		ModTime:         time.Time(blob.Properties.LastModified),
		Name:            object,
		Size:            blob.Properties.ContentLength,
		ContentType:     blob.Properties.ContentType,
		ContentEncoding: blob.Properties.ContentEncoding,
	}, nil
}

// PutObject - Create a new blob with the incoming data,
// uses Azure equivalent CreateBlockBlobFromReader.
func (a *azureObjects) PutObject(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, data *hash.Reader, metadata map[string]string) (objInfo minio.ObjectInfo, err error) {
	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	blob.Metadata, blob.Properties, err = s3MetaToAzureProperties(ctx, metadata)
	if err != nil {
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	err = blob.CreateBlockBlobFromReader(data, nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	return a.GetObjectInfo(ctx, bucket, object)
}

// CopyObject - Copies a blob from source container to destination container.
// Uses Azure equivalent CopyBlob API.
func (a *azureObjects) CopyObject(ctx context.Context, srcBucket, srcObject, destBucket, destObject string, srcInfo minio.ObjectInfo) (objInfo minio.ObjectInfo, err error) {
	srcBlobURL := a.client.GetContainerReference(srcBucket).GetBlobReference(srcObject).GetURL()
	destBlob := a.client.GetContainerReference(destBucket).GetBlobReference(destObject)
	azureMeta, props, err := s3MetaToAzureProperties(ctx, srcInfo.UserDefined)
	if err != nil {
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, srcBucket, srcObject)
	}
	destBlob.Metadata = azureMeta
	err = destBlob.Copy(srcBlobURL, nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, srcBucket, srcObject)
	}
	// Azure will copy metadata from the source object when an empty metadata map is provided.
	// To handle the case where the source object should be copied without its metadata,
	// the metadata must be removed from the dest. object after the copy completes
	if len(azureMeta) == 0 && len(destBlob.Metadata) != 0 {
		destBlob.Metadata = azureMeta
		err = destBlob.SetMetadata(nil)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, srcBucket, srcObject)
		}
	}
	destBlob.Properties = props
	err = destBlob.SetProperties(nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, srcBucket, srcObject)
	}
	return a.GetObjectInfo(ctx, destBucket, destObject)
}

// DeleteObject - Deletes a blob on azure container, uses Azure
// equivalent DeleteBlob API.
func (a *azureObjects) DeleteObject(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string) error {
	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	err := blob.Delete(nil)
	if err != nil {
		return azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	return nil
}

// ListMultipartUploads - It's decided not to support List Multipart Uploads, hence returning empty result.
func (a *azureObjects) ListMultipartUploads(ctx context.Context, bucket, prefix, keyMarker, uploadIDMarker, delimiter string, maxUploads int) (result minio.ListMultipartsInfo, err error) {
	// It's decided not to support List Multipart Uploads, hence returning empty result.
	return result, nil
}

type azureMultipartMetadata struct {
	Name     string            `json:"name"`
	Metadata map[string]string `json:"metadata"`
}

func getAzureMetadataObjectName(objectName, uploadID string) string {
	return fmt.Sprintf(metadataObjectNameTemplate, uploadID, sha256.Sum256([]byte(objectName)))
}

func (a *azureObjects) checkUploadIDExists(ctx context.Context, bucketName, objectName, uploadID string) (err error) {
	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucketName).GetBlobReference(
		getAzureMetadataObjectName(objectName, uploadID))
	err = blob.GetMetadata(nil)
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	err = azureToObjectError(err, bucketName, objectName)
	oerr := minio.ObjectNotFound{
		Bucket: bucketName,
		Object: objectName,
	}
	if err == oerr {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.InvalidUploadID{UploadID: uploadID})
		err = minio.InvalidUploadID{
			UploadID: uploadID,
		}
	}
	return err
}

// NewMultipartUpload - Use Azure equivalent CreateBlockBlob.
func (a *azureObjects) NewMultipartUpload(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, metadata map[string]string) (uploadID string, err error) {
	uploadID, err = getAzureUploadID()
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return "", err
	}
	metadataObject := getAzureMetadataObjectName(object, uploadID)

	var jsonData []byte
	if jsonData, err = json.Marshal(azureMultipartMetadata{Name: object, Metadata: metadata}); err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return "", err
	}

	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(metadataObject)
	err = blob.CreateBlockBlobFromReader(bytes.NewBuffer(jsonData), nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return "", azureToObjectError(err, bucket, metadataObject)
	}

	return uploadID, nil
}

// PutObjectPart - Use Azure equivalent PutBlockWithLength.
func (a *azureObjects) PutObjectPart(ctx context.Context, bucket, object, uploadID string, partID int, data *hash.Reader) (info minio.PartInfo, err error) {
	if err = a.checkUploadIDExists(ctx, bucket, object, uploadID); err != nil {
		return info, err
	}

	if err = checkAzureUploadID(ctx, uploadID); err != nil {
		return info, err
	}

	etag := data.MD5HexString()
	if etag == "" {
		etag = minio.GenETag()
	}

	subPartSize, subPartNumber := int64(azureBlockSize), 1
	for remainingSize := data.Size(); remainingSize >= 0; remainingSize -= subPartSize {
		// Allow to create zero sized part.
		if remainingSize == 0 && subPartNumber > 1 {
			break
		}

		if remainingSize < subPartSize {
			subPartSize = remainingSize
		}

		id := azureGetBlockID(partID, subPartNumber, uploadID, etag)
		blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
		err = blob.PutBlockWithLength(id, uint64(subPartSize), io.LimitReader(data, subPartSize), nil)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return info, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
		}
		subPartNumber++
	}

	info.PartNumber = partID
	info.ETag = etag
	info.LastModified = minio.UTCNow()
	info.Size = data.Size()
	return info, nil
}

// ListObjectParts - Use Azure equivalent GetBlockList.
func (a *azureObjects) ListObjectParts(ctx context.Context, bucket, object, uploadID string, partNumberMarker int, maxParts int) (result minio.ListPartsInfo, err error) {
	if err = a.checkUploadIDExists(ctx, bucket, object, uploadID); err != nil {
		return result, err
	}

	result.Bucket = bucket
	result.Object = object
	result.UploadID = uploadID
	result.MaxParts = maxParts

	objBlob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	resp, err := objBlob.GetBlockList(storage.BlockListTypeUncommitted, nil)
	azureErr, ok := err.(storage.AzureStorageServiceError)
	if ok && azureErr.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
		// If no parts are uploaded yet then we return empty list.
		return result, nil
	}
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return result, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	// Build a sorted list of parts and return the requested entries.
	partsMap := make(map[int]minio.PartInfo)
	for _, block := range resp.UncommittedBlocks {
		var partNumber int
		var parsedUploadID string
		var md5Hex string
		if partNumber, _, parsedUploadID, md5Hex, err = azureParseBlockID(block.Name); err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("Unexpected error"))
			return result, azureToObjectError(fmt.Errorf("Unexpected error"), bucket, object)
		}
		if parsedUploadID != uploadID {
			continue
		}
		part, ok := partsMap[partNumber]
		if !ok {
			partsMap[partNumber] = minio.PartInfo{
				PartNumber: partNumber,
				Size:       block.Size,
				ETag:       md5Hex,
			}
			continue
		}
		if part.ETag != md5Hex {
			// If two parts of same partNumber were uploaded with different contents
			// return error as we won't be able to decide which the latest part is.
			logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("Unexpected error"))
			return result, azureToObjectError(fmt.Errorf("Unexpected error"), bucket, object)
		}
		part.Size += block.Size
		partsMap[partNumber] = part
	}
	var parts []minio.PartInfo
	for _, part := range partsMap {
		parts = append(parts, part)
	}
	sort.Slice(parts, func(i int, j int) bool {
		return parts[i].PartNumber < parts[j].PartNumber
	})
	partsCount := 0
	i := 0
	if partNumberMarker != 0 {
		// If the marker was set, skip the entries till the marker.
		for _, part := range parts {
			i++
			if part.PartNumber == partNumberMarker {
				break
			}
		}
	}
	for partsCount < maxParts && i < len(parts) {
		result.Parts = append(result.Parts, parts[i])
		i++
		partsCount++
	}

	if i < len(parts) {
		result.IsTruncated = true
		if partsCount != 0 {
			result.NextPartNumberMarker = result.Parts[partsCount-1].PartNumber
		}
	}
	result.PartNumberMarker = partNumberMarker
	return result, nil
}

// AbortMultipartUpload - Not Implemented.
// There is no corresponding API in azure to abort an incomplete upload. The uncommmitted blocks
// gets deleted after one week.
func (a *azureObjects) AbortMultipartUpload(ctx context.Context, bucket, object, uploadID string) (err error) {
	if err = a.checkUploadIDExists(ctx, bucket, object, uploadID); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(
		getAzureMetadataObjectName(object, uploadID))
	return blob.Delete(nil)
}

// CompleteMultipartUpload - Use Azure equivalent PutBlockList.
func (a *azureObjects) CompleteMultipartUpload(ctx context.Context, bucket, object, uploadID string, uploadedParts []minio.CompletePart) (objInfo minio.ObjectInfo, err error) {
	metadataObject := getAzureMetadataObjectName(object, uploadID)
	if err = a.checkUploadIDExists(ctx, bucket, object, uploadID); err != nil {
		return objInfo, err
	}

	if err = checkAzureUploadID(ctx, uploadID); err != nil {
		return objInfo, err
	}

	var metadataReader io.Reader
	blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(metadataObject)
	if metadataReader, err = blob.Get(nil); err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, metadataObject)
	}

	var metadata azureMultipartMetadata
	if err = json.NewDecoder(metadataReader).Decode(&metadata); err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, metadataObject)
	}

	defer func() {
		if err != nil {
			return
		}

		blob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(metadataObject)
		derr := blob.Delete(nil)
		logger.GetReqInfo(ctx).AppendTags("uploadID", uploadID)
		logger.LogIf(ctx, derr)
	}()

	objBlob := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket).GetBlobReference(object)
	resp, err := objBlob.GetBlockList(storage.BlockListTypeUncommitted, nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}

	getBlocks := func(partNumber int, etag string) (blocks []storage.Block, size int64, err error) {
		for _, part := range resp.UncommittedBlocks {
			var partID int
			var readUploadID string
			var md5Hex string
			if partID, _, readUploadID, md5Hex, err = azureParseBlockID(part.Name); err != nil {
				return nil, 0, err
			}

			if partNumber == partID && uploadID == readUploadID && etag == md5Hex {
				blocks = append(blocks, storage.Block{
					ID:     part.Name,
					Status: storage.BlockStatusUncommitted,
				})

				size += part.Size
			}
		}

		if len(blocks) == 0 {
			return nil, 0, minio.InvalidPart{}
		}

		return blocks, size, nil
	}

	var allBlocks []storage.Block
	partSizes := make([]int64, len(uploadedParts))
	for i, part := range uploadedParts {
		var blocks []storage.Block
		var size int64
		blocks, size, err = getBlocks(part.PartNumber, part.ETag)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return objInfo, err
		}

		allBlocks = append(allBlocks, blocks...)
		partSizes[i] = size
	}

	// Error out if parts except last part sizing < 5MiB.
	for i, size := range partSizes[:len(partSizes)-1] {
		if size < azureS3MinPartSize {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.PartTooSmall{
				PartNumber: uploadedParts[i].PartNumber,
				PartSize:   size,
				PartETag:   uploadedParts[i].ETag,
			})
			return objInfo, minio.PartTooSmall{
				PartNumber: uploadedParts[i].PartNumber,
				PartSize:   size,
				PartETag:   uploadedParts[i].ETag,
			}
		}
	}

	err = objBlob.PutBlockList(allBlocks, nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
	}
	if len(metadata.Metadata) > 0 {
		objBlob.Metadata, objBlob.Properties, err = s3MetaToAzureProperties(ctx, metadata.Metadata)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
		}
		err = objBlob.SetProperties(nil)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
		}
		err = objBlob.SetMetadata(nil)
		if err != nil {
			logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
			return objInfo, azureToObjectError(err, bucket, object)
		}
	}
	return a.GetObjectInfo(ctx, bucket, object)
}

// SetBucketPolicy - Azure supports three types of container policies:
// storage.ContainerAccessTypeContainer - readonly in minio terminology
// storage.ContainerAccessTypeBlob - readonly without listing in minio terminology
// storage.ContainerAccessTypePrivate - none in minio terminology
// As the common denominator for minio and azure is readonly and none, we support
// these two policies at the bucket level.
func (a *azureObjects) SetBucketPolicy(ctx context.Context, bucket string, bucketPolicy *policy.Policy) error {
	policyInfo, err := minio.PolicyToBucketAccessPolicy(bucketPolicy)
	if err != nil {
		// This should not happen.
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
	}

	var policies []minio.BucketAccessPolicy
	for prefix, policy := range miniogopolicy.GetPolicies(policyInfo.Statements, bucket, "") {
		policies = append(policies, minio.BucketAccessPolicy{
			Prefix: prefix,
			Policy: policy,
		})
	}
	prefix := bucket + "/*" // For all objects inside the bucket.
	if len(policies) != 1 {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.NotImplemented{})
		return minio.NotImplemented{}
	}
	if policies[0].Prefix != prefix {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.NotImplemented{})
		return minio.NotImplemented{}
	}
	if policies[0].Policy != miniogopolicy.BucketPolicyReadOnly {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.NotImplemented{})
		return minio.NotImplemented{}
	}
	perm := storage.ContainerPermissions{
		AccessType:     storage.ContainerAccessTypeContainer,
		AccessPolicies: nil,
	}
	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	err = container.SetPermissions(perm, nil)
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	return azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
}

// GetBucketPolicy - Get the container ACL and convert it to canonical []bucketAccessPolicy
func (a *azureObjects) GetBucketPolicy(ctx context.Context, bucket string) (*policy.Policy, error) {
	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	perm, err := container.GetPermissions(nil)
	if err != nil {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
		return nil, azureToObjectError(err, bucket)
	}

	if perm.AccessType == storage.ContainerAccessTypePrivate {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.BucketPolicyNotFound{Bucket: bucket})
		return nil, minio.BucketPolicyNotFound{Bucket: bucket}
	} else if perm.AccessType != storage.ContainerAccessTypeContainer {
		logger.LogIf(ctx, minio.NotImplemented{})
		return nil, azureToObjectError(minio.NotImplemented{})
	}

	return &policy.Policy{
		Version: policy.DefaultVersion,
		Statements: []policy.Statement{
			policy.NewStatement(
				policy.Allow,
				policy.NewPrincipal("*"),
				policy.NewActionSet(
					policy.GetBucketLocationAction,
					policy.ListBucketAction,
					policy.GetObjectAction,
				),
				policy.NewResourceSet(
					policy.NewResource(bucket, ""),
					policy.NewResource(bucket, "*"),
				),
				condition.NewFunctions(),
			),
		},
	}, nil
}

// DeleteBucketPolicy - Set the container ACL to "private"
func (a *azureObjects) DeleteBucketPolicy(ctx context.Context, bucket string) error {
	perm := storage.ContainerPermissions{
		AccessType:     storage.ContainerAccessTypePrivate,
		AccessPolicies: nil,
	}
	container := a.client.GetContainerReference(bucket)
	err := container.SetPermissions(perm, nil)
	logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
	return azureToObjectError(err)
}

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text:
Q: Django Tutorail - Part 3 - Cannot Access Model Values I did the entire django site tutorial and I am now trying to redo it without consulting the tutorial, to see which parts I remembered and which I did not.
I can successfully load a template when I go to the correct url.
post_list.html

The Blogs Index Page

 Posts

{% for post in latest_post_list %}

 {{ post.title }}

{% endfor %}

models.py
from django.db import models

class Post(models.Model):
   title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
   body = models.TextField()
   pub_date = models.DateTimeField()

   def __str__(self):
       return self.title

Relevant views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

from .models import Post

def index(request):
   latest_post_list = Post.objects.order_by('pub_date')
   context = {'latest_post_list': latest_post_list}
   return render(request, 'blog/index.html', context)

The page only displays the H1 and H2 tag information, everything else is just blank. I have a suspicion that latest_post_list does not exist.
When using the shell, I am able to...
>>> from blog.models import Post
>>> Post.objects.all()
[<Post: First Post>, <Post: Second Post>, <Post: Third Post>]

So the titles exist. I am at a loss to why I can not access my post.titles from the Template.

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text:
<?php

namespace Rebase\BigvBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

use Rebase\BigvBundle\Entity\Division;

use Rebase\BigvBundle\Common\BasicFunctions;

class DivisionController extends _Season
{

    public function indexAction()
    {
		  $repository = $this->getDoctrine()
			  ->getRepository('RebaseBigvBundle:Division');

		  $divisions = $repository->findAll();
      return $this->render('RebaseBigvBundle:Division:divisionIndex.html.twig', array('divisions'=>$divisions));
    }

    public function createAction(Request $request)
    {
      //CreateVenue
      $division = new Division();

	  $form = $this->createFormBuilder($division)
            ->add('name')
			->add('GamesPerTeam')
			->add('FullName', 'text' , array('required' => false))
            ->getForm();

		if ($request->getMethod() == 'POST') {
			$form->bindRequest($request);
			if ($form->isValid()) {
				$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
      			$em->persist($division);
      			$em->flush();
      			//ViewVenue
      			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('_RBV_division_index'));
			}
		}

		return $this->render('RebaseBigvBundle:Division:divisionCreate.html.twig', array(
          	'form' => $form->createView()));
    }
    public function deleteAction(request $request, $divisionID)
    {
		$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
		$division = $em->getRepository('RebaseBigvBundle:Division')->findOneById($divisionID);
      	$em->remove($division);
      	$em->flush();
		return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('_RBV_division_index'));
	}

    public function editAction(request $request, $divisionID)
    {
      $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();

      if ($divisionID == 0)
      {
        $division = new Division();
        $division->setSeason($this->season);
      }else{
        $query = $em->createQuery("SELECT d FROM RebaseBigvBundle:Division d WHERE d.id=?1 AND d.season=?2")
                ->setParameter(1, $divisionID)
                ->setParameter(2, $this->season->getId());
        $division = $this->singleResultOr404($query);
      }

      $form = $this->createFormBuilder($division)
          ->add('name')
          ->add('FullName')
          ->add('GamesPerTeam')
          ->getForm();

		if ($request->getMethod() == 'POST') {
			$form->bindRequest($request);
			if ($form->isValid()) {
				$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
      			$em->persist($division);
      			$em->flush();
      			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('_RBV_division_index'));
			}
		}

		return $this->render('RebaseBigvBundle:Division:divisionForm.html.twig', array(
          	'form' => $form->createView(),
		  	'division' => $division));
	}
}


Bartelstein said Stephenson will have surgery to repair his torn groin in Philadelphia on Tuesday and likely will remain there for at least the first couple of weeks of a rehabilitation period that is estimated to last about two months. The Pelicans also have invited the 6-foot-5 Stephenson to conduct rehab at the club's New Orleans-area headquarters if he wishes to do so.
New Orleans signed Stephenson this past offseason to a one-year, non-guaranteed contract worth about $1.2 million. He played in New Orleans' first six games, averaging 9.7 points, 4.8 assists and 3.3 rebounds in 27 minutes per game.
New Orleans has two regulars - guard Tyreke Evans and small forward Quincy Pondexter - who are trying to come back from knee injuries and have guaranteed contracts. Meanwhile Holiday is on leave while his wife recovers from brain surgery performed last month, weeks after she gave birth to the couple's daughter. The fact that Holiday is absent while healthy makes it harder for the Pelicans to lobby the NBA for injury exceptions that would allow more than the usual league limit of 15 players on the active roster.
The Pelicans will cover Stephenson's rehab and pay him at least until he's healthy, Bartelstein said.
Stephenson is ''going to be back in the league as soon as he gets healthy, probably sometime in the next couple months, and he could very well be back with the Pelicans,'' Bartelstein said.
The 6-foot-5 Goodwin, a fourth-year pro out of Kentucky, has averaged 6.2 points in 150 career NBA games - all with Phoenix - since 2013.
Goodwin was able to join the team in time to be available to face the Warriors.


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This is just to get you started though. Afterwards you will have access to unlimited online training as part of your support package. This means you can learn how to get more out of your Reposs EPoS system in bite-sized chunks.


text:
Ryan Day CJ Stroud TreVeyon Henderson Sports College football Football College sports Podcasting Online media Media
Ohio State Big Ten
AP Top 25 Podcast: Ryan Day on Ohio State; Previewing Week 7
By RALPH D. RUSSO - Oct. 14, 2021 10:43 AM EDT
Ohio State head coach Ryan Day watches warm ups before an NCAA college football game against Rutgers, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Piscataway, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Ohio State has righted itself after an early loss to Oregon, winning four straight games in mostly blowout fashion.
On the latest AP Top 25 Podcast presented by Regions Bank, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day joins AP's Ralph Russo to talk about striking a balance between the urgency of high expectations and keeping a team from panicking after an early misstep.
Plus, Day discusses quarterback CJ Stroud's development, what makes running back TreVeyon Henderson an extraordinary freshman and the state of a defense that struggled through much of the first month of the season.
Then Richard Johnson of Sports Illustrated and the SEC Network joins the show to talk about Alabama after its loss to Texas A&M and whether unbeaten Iowa can sustain an unusual formula for success.
And a Week 7 preview of the five most intriguing games, including No. 12 Oklahoma State at No. 5 Texas and No. 11 Kentucky at No. 1 Georgia.
Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.appodcasts.com


text:
News Update for Mon., Sept. 1, 2014
Study says number of workers identifying themselves as members of unions are up over past year-and-a-half...
A new study suggests the number of working-age New Yorkers who identified themselves as members of labor unions rose in the last 18 months. The study was conducted by two professors at the City University of New York Graduate Center. They found that nearly one in four working New Yorkers belonged to labor unions. The New York Times says that compared to slightly more than one in five at the start of 2013. The primary cause for the rebound appeared to be a surge in construction and hotel industry hiring -- not the campaigns for better pay and benefits by fast-food workers and other low-earners.
Labor Day Festival rescheduled for today until 9 p.m....
Sunday's rains and standing water forced Jamestown city officials to call off the annual Labor Festival to today... when better weather conditions are forecast. The only event that took place yesterday was the annual Dan Feather 5-K Run-walk... which took place at 9:30 a.m. City Parks and Recreation Director Julia Ciesla-Hanley says the music gets underway on the Main Stage at Noon... and, the second stage at 12:30 p.m. The first group there will be "Teachers, Preachers and Trent." Ciesla-Hanley says a new group will perform there at 3 p.m., "The New Tenants." They're a group involved with the Infinity program. Cindy Love is the final performer on the second stage. The final group to take the Main Stage will be "Two for Flinching" which will play until the fireworks show just after 8:30 p.m. Ciesla-Hanley says they'll also have other -- "family-friendly" -- events going on... including Kids Games from 2 to 6 p.m. She adds they'll also have Bingo, a Magic Show, and Karoke. Ciesla-Hanley says 13 organizations and civic groups will be selling for and refreshments... including the Jamestown and Falconer High School Marching Bands.
Hagglund to get Ritzer Labor Award...
One of the high-lights during the day at the annual Labor Day Festival is presentation of the George Ritzer Labor Award. The award is given annually to a member of local labor who goes above and beyond the call of duty for not just their union... but, the community as well. Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi says the award has been given out since the mid-1980s by the Jamestown Central Labor Council. This year's Ritzer Award is being presented to Valerie Hagglund of the Association of Jamestown Paraprofessionals of NYSUT Local-04-217.
Two arrested in Ellery drug bust after traffic stop...
Two men were arrested early this weekend for allegedly being in possession of Heroin... and, a large amount of money when their car was pulled over in the town of Ellery. Sheriff's Deputies say they stopped the vehicle... driven by 27 year-old Dennis Syper of Mayville... about 10:30 p.m. last Friday night for failure to keep right. Officers say they spotted a number of envelopes containing heroin inside the car. Deputies brought in K-9 "Mitchell" to do a vehicle search... and, he found the drugs. Police add Syper was allegedly found to be under the influence of drugs. He and his passenger... 37 year-old Cesar Luis-Soto of Jamestown... were charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. The money was seized. Syper was charged with DWI-Drugs, and failure to keep right. Both men will appear in Ellery Town Court at a later date.


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My scientifie field is Gender Studes.
The research I conduct is primarily based on comparative analysis of guite definite phenomenon in two different socio-cultural environments. Fulbright program offers me a grant for work in the USA and my host institution allows me to collect the necessary materials and valuable datafor completing my PhD dissertation.
My academic year is supposed to start this tall at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey).


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Creating On Screen Chemistry will bring together Queensland screen practitioners and scientists to encourage collaborations – "creating chemistry together" – in developing and pitching screen content at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers being held in Brisbane from 27 – 30 November 2018.
Set against the backdrop of the World Science Festival Brisbane, Screen Queensland (SQ) is presenting a special event on Thursday 22 March from 2.00pm until 4.00pm at the Festival Lab, Cultural Forecourt, South Brisbane, where we aim to "create chemistry" between Queensland screen practitioners and scientists.
SQ is committed to supporting storytellers to tell strong stories, and we are excited about the prospect of merging the worlds of science and screen with our Creating On Screen Chemistry event. We aim to encourage and foster collaborations for stories to be discovered and told to a global audience.
with SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Join us from 2.00pm – 3.00pm for the Creating On Screen Chemistry Presentation + Panel, moderated by prominent broadcast personality Alison Leigh. Comprising a host of exciting Queensland scientists who have been selected to present their scientific research and with Alison, explore how it can be successfully translated into engaging and compelling screen content.
This is a huge opportunity for Queensland producers to hear of the latest developments in the scientific space and discover content for their next feature documentary, television series or online content.
A special guest speaker (in the science space) will also be speaking at this event. All details will be announced soon, along with the names of the Queensland scientist panellists.
Following the panel discussion from 3.00pm – 4.00pm is the Creating On Screen Chemistry Networking Event, a unique opportunity for Queensland screen content makers to network with Queensland scientists on the forefront of cutting edge research.
SQ's Creating On Screen Chemistry event is a pre-cursor event in the lead up to the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers being held in Brisbane from 27 – 30 November 2018.
The WCSFP is the top industry event for producers working in the factual and science space, providing insights into industry trends and issues, and featuring cutting-edge seminars, networking opportunities and pitch sessions.
With its focus on digital technology and science content, the WCSFP will put Queensland in the international spotlight and highlight the depth of local talent and content we have in our state.
Supported by the Queensland Government, Screen Queensland, ABC and SBS, the WCSFP takes place from 27 – 30 November 2018 and is expected to attract more than 600 industry professionals to Brisbane.
Make sure to mark these dates in your diaries today!
Alison Leigh has been Editorial Director of World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) for over a decade. Under her direction the session program has acquired the reputation of being the world's best for tracking the trends and engaging in provocative and engrossing debate around issues affecting our genre. Previously Alison played a leading role in producing and commissioning science TV programs in Australia, including six years as Series Producer and then Executive Producer ABC TV Science Unit. Alison helped develop National Science Week in Australia and is a founding member and past President of the Australian Science Communicators. Outside of WCSFP commitments, Alison works as a freelance writer and producer.


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