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Ringleader Abaaoud was organizing attack on fiscal district on November eighteen or 19, prosecutor says
Mohamed Abrini is desired by authorities for his alleged role in the attacks
Yet another suspect's telephone was traced to the area where suspected suicide vest was found
An additional assault could have been just several hours absent when law enforcement shut in on the suspects' hideaway final week.
Suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and yet another gentleman had been preparing a suicide assault on the Paris fiscal district of La Protection on November 18 or 19, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins mentioned. Alternatively, the two guys have been killed during the remarkable raid in Saint-Denis that shook a neighborhood and collapsed an complete ground of an condominium constructing.
The prosecutor did not elaborate on how authorities deduced the plot was in the performs.
And even though Molins' most current assertion to reporters offered new details about a closely-watched investigation, numerous key queries stay unanswered:
• The place is suspect Salah Abdeslam?
• Did a suicide vest investigators identified in a Paris suburb this week belong to him? Was it supposed for another attack that in no way took place?
• Who is the guy who was killed after he detonated a suicide vest for the duration of the Saint-Denis raid previous Wednesday? Was he involved in the Paris attacks?
Here is a look at some of the threads authorities are pursuing as they look into the attacks and condition their reaction:
The suspects on the run
It really is been far more than a week since an international arrest warrant went out for Abdeslam.
Investigators have not detailed what they feel his role in the coordinated series of shootings and bombings was, but Molins presented a theory: Abdeslam may possibly have pushed suicide bombers to the Stade de France, dropped them off and then produced his way to an additional Paris neighborhood. Why? His fingerprints, Molins stated, had been located in a vehicle linked with the assaults, and particularly on the essential.
The hunt for Abdeslam has stretched to a number of international locations in Western Europe, but so much, he hasn't been noticed since authorities named him as a suspect.
Belgium, and exclusively a Brussels suburb that has a background of back links with terrorism plots, have been a emphasis of the investigation. Brussels, which has been beneath partial lockdown since Friday evening, is to stay at the maximum terror alert level right up until at the very least the start off of up coming week. Colleges and the metro will continue to be closed until finally Wednesday at the earliest, Key Minister Charles Michel has explained.
Sources in France close to the ongoing investigation believe Abdeslam could not have survived so extended on the run without assist, and that a support community in Belgium might be what is actually helping him steer clear of capture. They say that comprehensive raids in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, in which 21 individuals were detained in numerous places, specific men and women suspected of a position in the community that arranged the attacks.
Belgian authorities introduced the title and photo of one more suspect, declaring they are looking for him in link with the Paris attacks.
Police said Mohamed Abrini was driving yet another car that was located abandoned in a Paris neighborhood where one of the November thirteen shootings occurred. They said he experienced dropped off 1 of the bombers who attacked the Stade de France.
The suicide vest
As much as Abdeslam, a suicide vest identified in a garbage bin could give investigators new clues about his whereabouts and his attainable position in the assaults.
Investigators are still analyzing the vest, which was identified in the Paris suburb of Montrouge around locations exactly where Abdeslam's mobile mobile phone was traced on the night of the assaults, Molins explained.
CNN affiliate BFMTV documented that the vest contained bolts and TATP, the very same explosive identified in the suicide belts utilised by the Paris attackers.
Inquiries have already been raised over regardless of whether Abdeslam aborted element of the attacks ahead of fleeing toward Belgium. The Paris prosecutor advised that could have been the circumstance, noting that an ISIS concept declaring responsibility for the assaults described the 18th arrondissement, a Paris neighborhood exactly where no attack happened.
"Our investigation on that is even now ongoing, to figure out if Salah was arranging on a suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement and why it did not take place," Molins explained.
There are other concerns, also, CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank mentioned. If it is a suicide vest belonging to Abdeslam, why would it have been uncovered as late as Monday, ten times after the attacks? And if it does not belong to him, then whose is it?
"It is attainable that any individual else may possibly have jettisoned it, an attacker that we will not know a lot about at this point," Cruickshank mentioned. "So they'll be carrying out all types of forensics, attempting to build who this belonged to, and that will be a huge priority for French investigators."
Nearby authorities in Montrouge mentioned that the garbage cans in the location are emptied "as soon as or 2 times a 7 days," Le Monde noted, underscoring the puzzle more than how and when the feasible suicide vest ended up in 1 of them.
The world-wide battle in opposition to ISIS
Although investigators look for for suspects, French President Francois Hollande is in the midst of a week of whirlwind diplomacy aimed at developing a broader global coalition to struggle ISIS in its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
Following web hosting British Primary Minister David Cameron in Paris on Monday, Hollande satisfied with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, then will maintain talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday and journey to Moscow to see Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
France and Britain are previously part of a U.S.-led coalition which is been bombing ISIS targets. Russia has been conducting its possess separate airstrikes towards ISIS and other groups in coordination with the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Any efforts to form an alliance that includes the two Russia and the United States are most likely to run into thorny concerns like Assad's future function in Syria and global sanctions against Moscow for its interference in Ukraine.
Hollande has vowed to intensify the aerial marketing campaign in opposition to ISIS targets, and the French military began Monday to use the aircraft provider Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean to launch strikes.
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CNN's Margot Haddad reported from Paris, Catherine Shoichet and Ashley Fantz reported and wrote from Atlanta, and Jethro Mullen wrote from Hong Kong. CNN's Tim Lister, Ralph Ellis, Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz contributed to this report.
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Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: an Adaptive Randomised Controlled Trial (NIHR)
This randomised controlled trial explores whether debt advice provided by Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) counsellors for patients with debt and depression, accessed through general practices, makes a difference to their recovery.
Depression is estimated to affect 5-10 per cent of adults at any one time, and is a common presentation in Primary Care. However, research suggests that only around 2.5 per cent of patients are formally recorded by GPs as having active depression or depressive symptoms. Alongside anxiety and stress it is considered the commonest cause for prolonged work absenteeism, as well as presenteeism (working below normal capacity when unwell). Mental ill health is estimated to cost the UK economy £40B per year overall. Around 11 per cent of the population are estimated to be struggling with personal debt, with evidence of increasing episodes of suicide associated with rising debt. There are concerns that this situation may worsen the deteriorating economic situation.
Most episodes of depression are managed in Primary Care, following the NICE recommended four-stepped approach. This includes a range of low intensity interventions including; short-term talking therapies, social prescribing to support lifestyle changes (e.g. for exercise), and antidepressants for more persistent symptoms. A recent HTA trial found a marginal benefit of SSRIs (antidepressants) for new cases of mild-moderate depression managed in Primary Care over treatment as usual (TAU), but many questions about the most cost effective ways to manage depression remain.
Recognising the increasing burden of indebtedness and the link between debt and mental illness in the Foresight Report, the UK government provides web-based advice and guides on debt-management highlighting a range of providers. Topping this list is the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB), a charity-based service which is widely available across the UK in over 3,500 locations, providing support to over 2M people per year. Their principal on-line recommended site is provided by government, funded by statutory levy from the financial services industry, backed by a national advertising campaign: the Money Advice Service website at www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk. Unfortunately, those with depression, particularly if from socio-economically deprived groups, may be particularly likely to find on-line services insufficient or inaccessible (due to travel costs and/or low mood). As a result, a locally accessible, nationally provided advice service may be an important alternative. Debt is more common among poorer populations and around one in four among those experiencing mental health problems, who make up 50 per cent of those with debt overall. The strategic and economic cases for providing debt advice for people experiencing mental health problems have been made in recent influential reports; and the intervention being proposed here falls within the suggested service provision costs and model. This study explores an intervention designed to provide enhanced access to timely support for people with depression and anxiety about indebtedness, and will provide robust information on its cost effectiveness and acceptability.
Patients with a history of depression (with or without anxiety) within the last 12 months and who are worried about personal debt will be recruited through participating GP practices at the study sites. Depression at screening will be classified according to the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) score where 14-19 = mild depression, 20-28 = moderate depression, >28 = severe depression.
age ≥18
scoring ≥14 on the BDI
self-identifying as having worries about debt.
housebound and/or unable to get to CAB advice sessions
actively suicidal or psychotic and/or severely depressed and unresponsive to treatment
unlikely to comply with the intervention or follow-up e.g. experiencing severe problems with addiction to alcohol or illicit drugs
unable or unwilling to give written informed consent to participate in study
currently participating in another research study including follow-up data collection phase
has received CAB debt advice in the past 12 months.
Main aim:
To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of the addition of a Primary Care debt counselling advice service to usual care, for patients with depression and debt.
Specific objectives:
(i) To compare depression between intervention and treatment as usual groups.
(ii) To compare anxiety, mental wellbeing, debt/financial status, satisfaction, health-related quality of life and societal costs between intervention and control groups.
(iii) To explore outcomes referred to in (i) and (ii) in terms of the following potential predictors - substance misuse problems, self-esteem, life events and difficulties, hope, optimism, resilience, and attribution style.
(iv) To determine core outcome domains and measures using the COMET Initiative approach to define a Standard Outcome Measure for mental health trials in deprived and hard to reach groups in primary care, adapted to this specific study.
(v) To manualise debt assessment and counselling intervention & joint comprehensive assessment (GP/patient/CAB) for use within the intervention.
(vi) To recruit new and chronic/recurrent cases from a variety of practices and populations to enhance generalisability.
(vii) To undertake a mixed method process evaluation to assess fidelity of intervention (using Normalisation Process Theory) and explore reasons for outcome differences and relationship between depression, anxiety, debt, stigma, shame and psycho-socio-economic factors triangulating economic, psychological factors analysis and qualitative interview data.
(viii) To undertake Knowledge Exchange events to inform adoption into care pathways (implementation).
(ix) To work closely with Service Users in Research/Patient and Public Involvement groups across the study sites to inform trial methodology, intervention development, aspects of analysis and the implementation of preparatory work.
(x) To recruit a virtual group of commissioners, providers and Health and Wellbeing board members to check willingness to commission intervention and advise on domains and measures.
(xi) To work with CAB leads, GPs and PPI advisors on developing the intervention and comprehensive assessment, qualitative topic guides and aspects of data analysis.
Pilot aim:
The aim of the internal pilot phase is to test the procedures, recruitment processes and operational strategies that are planned for use in the main trial, identifying and resolving any problems and thereby assessing the feasibility of continuing with the main trial. Specific objectives are:
1) to confirm methods for recruitment of practices
2) to confirm the ability to recruit patients via the proposed approaches
3) to confirm the acceptability of the study interventions
4) to confirm acceptability of data collection (outcome measures)
5) to assess contamination and confirm the randomisation method for the main trial
6) to assess the level of participant attrition
7) to check robustness of data collection systems
8) to identify and resolve potential difficulties in implementing the shared assessment to assess intervention fidelity.
The study is an adaptive parallel two group pragmatic randomised controlled trial with 1:1 allocation to intervention or control with a nested mixed methods process and economic evaluation. Patients who have current depression and are worried about debt will be recruited through general practices in three areas of UK. After screening and consent, participants will be randomised to receive either General Practice treatment as usual (TAU) supplemented by a debt management advice leaflet (control group) or General Practice treatment as usual supplemented with a debt management advice leaflet and primary care based CAB debt advice including a shared GP/Advisor comprehensive assessment (intervention group). Primary (Beck Depression Inventory) and secondary (health-related quality of life, cost effectiveness, satisfaction, and explanatory factors) outcomes will be assessed in all participants at baseline, 4 and 12 months. In addition, qualitative in-depth interviews will be undertaken, to explore causal models of how debt counselling works.
The study includes an internal pilot phase in which intervention fidelity will be assessed and implementation problems identified and resolved without change to the intervention, so that data collected in this phase can be used in the final analysis. Both individual and cluster randomisation methods will be used in the pilot phase to assign participants to intervention or control arms with the aim of using individual level randomisation in the main trial if the pilot phase shows no strong evidence of contamination
Phases: set up phase (months -3 to 0)
This phase will include detailed theoretical modelling of the intervention based upon the existing systematic review literature on collaborative care and social prescribing, supported by knowledge from the evaluation of the Liverpool CAB primary pilot.
The intervention will be implemented in one practice per each site (possibly those where RB and MG currently work), focussing on use of the joint formulation. Detailed quantitative and qualitative process data will be collected using telephone and face-to-face interviews at each site and data recorded by the CAB workers in each practice with a small number (5-10) pilot participants. The model will be refined and manualised and a training programme developed for CAB workers and GPs. We will also finalise organisational agreements between CAB and practices. Fidelity assessment procedures (intervention by CAB, GP TAU and shared comprehensive assessment) will be developed during this stage.
Months 4-15, feasibility trial and review
The intervention will be implemented utilising manuals, training and organisational agreements developed above. Fidelity will be assessed and qualitative interviews will be used incorporating the Normalisation Process Theory to assess implementation problems and facilitators and resolve these to ensure the intervention is implemented as closely to the model as possible. Refinements to training and the manual may be made to help ensure fidelity to the original model. The original model itself will not be changed so as to enable the feasibility trial participants to be included in the full dataset (i.e. the feasibility trial will act an internal pilot for the main trial).
Full trial months 16-39
The intervention will continue to be implemented with any additional procedures developed in the feasibility trial to ensure closer fidelity to the model.
At the end of the internal pilot trial, recruitment methods, acceptability of the intervention, attendance rates at advice sessions and willingness of commissioners to continue the CAB service will be assessed.
DeCoDeR intervention
The trial intervention brings together two existing services:
1) Debt counselling provided by third sector providers e.g. the Citizens Advice Bureau.
2) Primary care mental health services provided by general practices, supplemented by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services in England, and a variety of counselling and psychological therapies services in Wales.
This combined assessment will combine social, psychological, environmental, economic and medical perspectives in a formulation which will incorporate personal goals and a bio-psycho-social management plan. The intervention as a whole will incorporate four organisational mechanisms to optimise utility of the comprehensive assessment and the debt counselling.
Title Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: An Adaptive Randomised Controlled Trial
Study location Primary care settings in England and Wales (lead site Liverpool)
Study aim To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of the addition of a Primary Care debt counselling advice service to usual care, for patients with depression and debt
Study design Adaptive parallel two group multi-centre randomised controlled trial with nested mixed methods process and economic evaluation. An internal pilot phase will be used to check intervention fidelity and need for cluster randomisation
Planned number of sites 3 (Liverpool/Cheshire, Plymouth, Bridgend)
Main inclusion criteria Age ≥18; Scoring ≥14 on the Beck Depression Inventory; Self-identifying as having worries about debt
Main exclusion criteria Housebound and/or unable to get to CAB advice sessions; actively suicidal or psychotic and/or severely depressed and unresponsive to treatment; experiencing severe problems with addiction to alcohol or illicit drugs; unable or unwilling to give written informed consent to participate in study; currently participating in another research study including follow-up data collection phase; has received CAB debt advice in the past 12 months
Planned sample size 195 patients/arm across both feasibility and main trials if single randomisation or 235 patients/arm across both feasibility and main trials if cluster randomisation
Study intervention
Control arm Debt advice leaflet provided by GP and treatment as usual (TAU)
Trial intervention Debt advice leaflet provided by GP, debt counselling advice from a Citizens Advice Bureau Advisor and TAU
Summary of outcome measures
Primary Beck Depression Inventory II
Secondary Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), short form of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS), EQ-5D-5L, Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life questionnaire (MANSA), adapted version of the Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI), Stanford presenteeism scale, general satisfaction questionnaire (GSQ), short Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LED-S), The Adult Hope Scale, , Response Style Questionnaire - 24 (RSQ-24), Other as Shamer Scale (OAS), alcohol use Audit questionnaire, substance misuse screening tool (DAST)
Duration of study 45 months
Study timelines Set-up 3 months. Internal pilot 11 months. Full trial 25 months. Data cleaning, analysis, reporting 6 months. Total duration 45 months
End of trial Completion of last follow-up visit of last participant
This project is led by Professor Mark Gabbay at the University of Liverpool with Professor Richard Byng as a co-applicant from the Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences. Further co-applicants include Professor Michael King from UCL, Professor Rod Taylor from UEMS, Professor Carl May from University of Southampton and Professor Peter Huxley and Professor Ceri Phillips from Swansea University.
Trial email: decoder@plymouth.ac.uk
This project is supported by the National Institute of Health Research's (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South West Peninsula (PenARC).
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Majority of Democrats want to ban semi-automatics, half want to ban all guns
When pro-gun control advocates tell you they don't want to take your guns, they actually want to take your guns.
At least, that's the key takeaway from a YouGov survey released this week, which shows a significant number of self-identified Democratic respondents support the idea of total gun confiscation.
The poll, which was conducted between Feb. 25 and 27 and has a margin of error for registered voters of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, surveyed 1,500 adults.
Of that number, YouGov found that 73 percent of self-identified Democrats "strongly" favor banning semi-automatic firearms. The survey found that an additional nine percent "somewhat" favor a ban of that sort.
Translation: 82 percent of surveyed Democrats say they favor a ban on semi-automatics, which would include not just rifles like the one used in the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, but also most handguns.
That's a hell of a ban.
Fifty-three percent of Republican respondents said they'd oppose such a ban.
To be fair, though, the YouGov survey doesn't bother to define terms, so it's possible respondents just assumed the semi-auto question was in reference to AR-15-style rifles only. Still, that doesn't speak well to the general population's literacy regarding a fairly common product and an extremely topical subject.
Amazingly enough, this isn't even the survey's most shocking find. That distinction goes to how respondents answered the question: "Do you favor or oppose … [banning] the sale of all handguns, except those that are issued to law enforcement officers."
If you can believe it, Democratic respondents were split on this question. Forty-four percent said they would support such a ban, while a oh-so-slightly larger 46 percent said they would oppose it.
In contrast, 81 percent of Republican respondents said they oppose the proposal.
Unlike the semi-auto question, there's no ambiguity here for respondents to hide behind. The question is clear, and it's amazing that these numbers would appear while we're also having a national conversation about police brutality, Black Lives Matters, criminal justice reform and systemic racism.
That's not all! The survey also found that Democratic respondents were loosely split on whether the Second Amendment ought to be repealed. Thirty-nine said they'd oppose it, while 41 percent said otherwise. The broader population, on the other hand, overwhelmingly opposed the idea by 60 percent to 21 percent.
There is, however, a moment of bipartisan consensus to be found in YouGov's data. When respondents were asked if people with a "history of mental illness" should be prohibited from owning a firearm, both Republicans and Democrats said "yes."
Eighty-six percent of Democratic respondents said they supported the idea, while 81 percent of Republicans said the same.
How we plan for authorities to define "mental illness," or when a person should be found as sufficiently "ill" as to bar them from exercising their Second Amendment rights is going to a very fun and rewarding conversation when we get to it.
Oh Look, Another Reason Why We Should Be Skeptical Of Democrats On Gun Control
YouGov Poll: Half of Black Democratic Voters Back Biden
Rep. Steve Scalise: Democrats don't want you to hear what I have to say about guns and the Second Amendment
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Mutt Lange is known for his massively over-produced arrangements and vocal harmonies. However, that meticulousness to achieve the hard-hitting sonic perfection has made him one the most successful and in demand in the music producers in the business. His track record speaks for itself-to date 111 million albums have been sold sporting Lange's production credit.
Love him or hate him ,there is no doubt that Lange has created some of the most successful and endearing records in arena rock.
Essential Listening
1. AC/DC-Back in Black (1980)- At 25 million units and counting Back In Black is the measuring stick for which all hard rock albums are measured against.
2. Def Leppard- Hysteria (1987)- At the time Hysteria was the perfect blending of flawless songcraft and cutting-edge technology, selling more than 15 million copies worldwide.
3. Foreigner- 4 (1981)- If you were to look up the word arena rock in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Foreigner 4 album right beside. The album had it all: heavy rockers (Nightlife), anthems (Juke Box Hero) , raunchy R&B vibes (Urgent) and one of the greatest ballads ever (Waiting For A Girl Like You). The record sold six million units and made Foreigner a staple on rock radio.
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THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL Spoilers 12/5/17 — Thorne Wants the Truth About Ridge!
The sibling rivalry between Thorne and Ridge is exploding once again in these spoilers from THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. Brooke is trying to make peace between the two brothers, but Thorne is out to prove something and Ridge seems unable to give up on the grudge they're both carrying! Will this battle tear the Forrester family apart?
While catching up with his father, Thorne admitted that he knows what happened between Ridge and Brooke in Hawaii. But he doesn't know all of the details, including the fact that Ridge was making moves on Eric's wife! "Brooke is one of the most accomplished, beautiful women in the world," Thorne declares. "Who would Ridge cheat with?" Might someone fill him in on exactly what Ridge got up to with Quinn? That would be just the ammunition Thorne needs to bring his brother down!
Ridge wasn't pleased to see Thorne back again, and he got even more annoyed when he found out that his little brother was staying in Brooke's guest room. Brooke dismisses his concerns, but Ridge insists that Thorne must be up to something. "Why can't you just be happy that he's back?" she asks her ex. "Why does it have to be such a mystery?" Ridge sighs and admits: "Because it is a mystery! And I didn't make it one, it is!" Is there anything that anyone can say or do to bring an end to Ridge and Thorne's war?
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Crime expert urges shoppers to keep safety in mind
Parking lot surveillance cameras rarely monitored, ex-FBI agent says
As shoppers prepare to trek to malls and box stores to find perfect gifts for the holidays, experts said they need to be aware that thieves will be watching them for opportunities to strike.Retired FBI agent Jeff Lanza said busy shoppers don't pay enough attention to their surroundings."I think what happens is people get distracted. Not paying attention, you are a more likely victim," Lanza said.He discouraged people from shopping with large amounts of cash. He said men should carry wallets in their front pockets and women should hold purses tightly under their arms.He said parking lots are also common places for crime, despite efforts from stores to make them safe."All mall parking lots have security cameras and the misconception is what's being recorded on those cameras is being watched at all times. They don't provide a deterrent to crime. They just record what's happening," Lanza said. "If someone is in the parking lot and they think they'll be protected because of security cameras, they are not."
As shoppers prepare to trek to malls and box stores to find perfect gifts for the holidays, experts said they need to be aware that thieves will be watching them for opportunities to strike.
Retired FBI agent Jeff Lanza said busy shoppers don't pay enough attention to their surroundings.
"I think what happens is people get distracted. Not paying attention, you are a more likely victim," Lanza said.
He discouraged people from shopping with large amounts of cash. He said men should carry wallets in their front pockets and women should hold purses tightly under their arms.
He said parking lots are also common places for crime, despite efforts from stores to make them safe.
"All mall parking lots have security cameras and the misconception is what's being recorded on those cameras is being watched at all times. They don't provide a deterrent to crime. They just record what's happening," Lanza said. "If someone is in the parking lot and they think they'll be protected because of security cameras, they are not."


When a company finally decides to take the plunge and invest in video, that's one small step for the communications or marketing area, and one giant leap for the business. This is when the real decision making begins, and it is key for those in charge of the production to choose the format, idea, script, message and ultimately, the right partner to produce the video that will suit the business perfectly. Of course things can go wrong… Nobody really knows how wrong things can go however. So we thought we'd share some of the most common mistakes organizations can make when producing a video, so you can learn how to avoid them.
1. Looking for all the bells and whistles? That's great, but hang on- what was the message about?
Yes, we know what's hot right now, what trends rock and what style is in vogue. That does not necessarily mean it will make your video the coolest though. Just because you loved a certain video, it does not mean that style will be the best fit for what you are trying to communicate. So go past the bedazzlement and keep in mind, if pimping your video up will actually convey your message the right way.
2. Step it up, and own it.
Video sometimes works as the best channel to communicate a certain type of idea, product or service. For example, if you need to explain something new; that can be confused with something the audience already knows. By using animations, graphics and cartoons you will open viewers' minds to the new concept. While telling that same concept in person may lead them to think that they already understand or they already know.
3. Find that match made in heaven.
With one or plenty of concepts in mind, be sure to find the production company that is right for you. This means finding a company that 'gets you' and won't give no for an answer. Sometimes the production company may have a limited offer of video styles and may find a solution to fit your concept to what they can do, but that may not necessarily be the best possible solution for the challenge.
4. Time may not be on your side.
Now that the concept has been approved and you've met with your dream production company, there's a timeline both parties have to work by. Producing a video may take a bit longer than what you expected. Why? The back and forth of corporate approval and the company's feedback sometimes can be the main reason the project starts to fall behind. It is important to never underestimate the amount of time the back and forth can consume.
5. Involving the right people at the right time.
In some companies, every step of production has to be approved by a committee. In others, the approval power relies on few people, that is, until the video is almost done, and then the Director has to give the final approval. Only, the director hates it. So it's back to square one, and it's a nightmare of delays and budget overruns. Before any decision can be made, make sure the right people are involved in the right moment of the process.
6. It's not about what you have, it's about what they need.
Many companies tend to make the video about what they have to offer, when in reality, it should be about what the viewers need. There's no space for 'me me me' here, you need to make it all about 'them them them'. And they will love it. Always remember to add the call to action at the end of the video. What's the point if there isn't one?
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Good day, kind people. Thanks for coming to check out another episode of The Mandate. During the end of our last episode on The Nun, I made the statement that the next episode would be for the Shane Black directed The Predator. After the news surfaced that Shane Black had hired an actor friend of his that has a history of sexual assault on a minor and did not tell Olivia Munn, who was the only lead actor to be in a scene with him, about the actual predator being on the set, we made the decision here at The Mandate that we'd skip over giving the film any press. We did end up seeing the movie and to sum, it was not good. So it's a mess all around.
With that said, I have returned with something that is something that is about as far from The Predator as possible with the Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish lead Night School. Joining me for this potential gut buster is Matt Vietri, who hosts his own local podcast Movies In The A.M, which you should check out if you are interested in a little more of the technical side of film making to go along with movie reviews.
I've recently started taking the approach of not doing much research into a film before seeing it to give myself a better pure response. I used to want to know anything and everything about a movie, sans the ending, before going in and I found that gave me a certain level of expectation. Going in blind is giving me more of a raw reaction. It might not be the most professional approach to reviewing a film but for the purpose of this podcast, it works. Much like myself, Matt didn't know much more than what the trailer gave away going into this film but I feel you got enough with it. This movie follows Kevin Hart going back to Night School after being a high school drop out, to help better his life after a series of mishaps. Tiffany Haddish plays his hard-nosed teacher who doesn't let him take any short cuts. An ensemble of misfits including Rob Riggle, Taran Killam , Keith David, Romany Malco, and Fat Joe round out most of the rest of the cast.
Despite the star power and the general easy digestion of a film starring Kevin Hart, neither myself or my guest had any high expectations with this film. Both Matt and myself figured it would be a safe film that we'd ultimately laugh and have a good time with, but leave with the thought that we could have not seen it and been just as fine. I predicted that the PG-13 rating was going to hold the film back because Haddish and Hart together should be allowed to riff unfiltered with eachother and censoring the jokes would ultimately hurt the film in the long run.
When we left the film we felt that our expectations were pretty much met. The movie is full of laughs and a general good time. We discuss in detail that, while the movie was really funny at times, there were some bits that didn't work for us and why these particular scenes fell flat. Matt and I are both the type of people that can go see a movie in the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday with no one else in the theater and be completely fine with it. However, we both agreed and discussed that, for certain movies, the experience is enhanced when you see it with a crowd. Night School is one of those films and it had an effect on how we mandated whether not you should see this film at all. Press play and listen to the breakdown.
Next week, barring any last minute scandals, The Mandate will be covering the hotly debated Venom film featuring everyone's dream man, Tom Hardy. As always, thanks for listening. Continue to follow all things Cinepunx and don't forget to share with your friends….because sharing is caring.
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Steve Jermanok's Active Travels
Active Travels: Biking the Confederation Trail, P.E.I.
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By Steve Jermanok
Biking slightly uphill outside of Hunter's River, horse farms replace dairy farms and the velvety green pasture flourishes. Purple lupines line the trail to add their color to the brilliant canvas. I was on my final ride of a three-day bike tour of Prince Edward Island one September, on assignment for Canadian Geographic magazine. Hunter's River is less than a 15-minute drive from the fabled dunes and red cliffs of Cavendish, the PEI tourist hub made famous by that young girl in braids, Anne of Green Gables. Close to civilization yet far enough removed to relish the solitude (I've only greeted one other biker this day), I'm lost in a bucolic setting that has changed little since Lucy Maud Montgomery penned her timeless novel in 1908.
Oh yes, there is one difference. The Canadian Pacific railroad that once connected the island's small villages last roared through the interior in 1989, leaving in its wake hundreds of kilometers of track. By 2000, the tracks were pulled and the line replaced with a surface of finely crushed gravel, creating a biking and walking thoroughfare called the Confederation Trail. It starts in Tignish on the island's western tip and rolls 279 kilometers to the eastern terminus in Elmira.
The hum of trains long gone, I hopped on my bike and pedaled through a tunnel of dense pines that effectively blocked out the world. There was not a soul around and the chaos of modernity was replaced with the melody of birds chirping. I was biking into a bygone era, a serene spot where a girl named Anne could have easily grown up without too much duress.
Steve Jermanok Working as a columnist for National Geographic Adventure, contributing editor at Budget Travel, and regular contributor for The Boston Globe, Men's Journal, and Yankee Magazine, Steve Jermanok has written more than 1500 articles on 80 countries. He's also authored or co-authored 11 books, including Outside Magazine's Adventure Guide to New England and Men's Journal's The Great Life. With his wife, Lisa Leavitt, Steve launched a boutique travel agency, ActiveTravels.com, in May 2012. His clientele includes many people in the travel business, including Steve Kaufer, founder of TripAdvisor (designed his honeymoon to Turkey), and Mark Snider, owner of The Winnetu Resort on Martha's Vineyard and The Nantucket Hotel on Nantucket. You can follow him @ActiveTravels
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sounds really nice and very tranquil. wish I was there. It's noisy in the city.


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MSGUNIQ

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO

NAME

msguniq - unify duplicate translations in message catalog

SYNOPSIS

msguniq [OPTION]
[INPUTFILE]

DESCRIPTION

Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog.
Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such
duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt,
msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged
together. When using the --repeated option, only
duplicates are output, and all other messages are discarded.
Comments and extracted comments will be cumulated, except
that if --use-first is specified, they will be taken
from the first translation. File positions will be
cumulated. When using the --unique option, duplicates
are discarded.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.

Input file location:

INPUTFILE

input PO file

-D, --directory=DIRECTORY

add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

If no input file is given or if it is -, standard input is
read.

Output file location:

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write output to specified file

The results are written to standard output if no output file
is specified or if it is -.

Message selection:

-d, --repeated

print only duplicates

-u, --unique

print only unique messages, discard duplicates

Input file syntax:

-P, --properties-input

input file is in Java .properties syntax

--stringtable-input

input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings
syntax

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-t, --to-code=NAME

encoding for output

--use-first

use first available translation for each message, don't
merge several translations

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do not use C escapes in output (default)

-E, --escape

use C escapes in output, no extended chars

--force-po

write PO file even if empty

-i, --indent

write the .po file using indented style

--no-location

do not write '#: filename:line' lines

-n, --add-location

generate '#: filename:line' lines (default)

--strict

write out strict Uniforum conforming .po file

-p, --properties-output

write out a Java .properties file

--stringtable-output

write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings file

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set output page width

--no-wrap

do not break long message lines, longer than the output page
width, into several lines

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generate sorted output

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sort output by file location

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display this help and exit

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output version information and exit

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REPORTING BUGS

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COPYRIGHT

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PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

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Texinfo manual. If the info and msguniq
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Q: Is getting the table size in JPA an expensive operation? I implement server-side pagination for table viewing in my web application.  This means the user has buttons to activate first-page, last-page, next-page, and prior-page.   Each click results in a server request where only the records to be shown are returned.
To implement that "last page" function and a scroll bar I need the client to have the size of the table.   I can get this on the server-side with the following method:
public long getCount(Class entityClass) {
    CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
    CriteriaQuery<Long> query = builder.createQuery(Long.class);
    Root root = query.from(entityClass);
    Expression<Long> count = builder.count(root);
    query.select(count);
    TypedQuery<Long> typedQuery = em.createQuery(query);
    return typedQuery.getSingleResult();
}

This table could be very active with millions of records.  Does running this function cause a lot of CPU cycles in the SQL server to be utilized?
The concern is how well this application will scale.

A: That depends entirely on the database, all JPA implementations I know will translate count to select count(*) from Table. We have a Postgresql with single table with 130GB data, and most rows are only a few kilobytes. Doing select (*) from table takes minutes; a developer once did a simple undeindexed select query, and a full table scan takes about 45 minutes.
When doing pagination, you often have a filter, and it is important to apply the same fileter to both the data-query and the count-query (one of the main reasons for using CriteriaBuilder is to share the filtering part of the query). Today I would recommend using Spring-data, since it makes pagination almost effortlessly.
If you have a lots of data, you can do like google, which say there are 1.340.000.000 results for 'zip', but only allows you to jump 10 pages ahead, and if you run it to the end you will see that they only actually load 1000 pages. In other words they cache an estimate size, but require you to narrow the search to give you more precise results.

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WITCO Managing Director, Jean-Pierre du Coudray.
Shareholders of West Indian Tobacco (WITCO) have agreed to a subdivision of each ordinary share into three ordinary shares.
The decision was taken at Special Shareholders Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad on Tuesday.
WITCO Managing Director, Jean-Pierre du Coudray, confirmed that no payment would be required from shareholders for these additional shares and the split would not change a shareholder's proportionate ownership in the Company.
He indicated that he expected an improvement in the liquidity of shares in the market and this should make shares more accessible to smaller investors.
The Managing Director also took the opportunity to discuss the performance of the Company for the first 9 months of the year and noted an increase in Profit Before Tax of 10.2 percent over last year.
He recognised that the local market had its challenges but was pleased with the results to date despite the increasingly more competitive environment.
He also reflected on the sound performance of the factory and its high levels of service deliveries of quality product to its CARICOM customers.
Further, du Coudray pointed out that there were no lost time injuries over the last 750 days and highlighted the importance of safety of employees, contractors and business partners on the compound.


Teamcenter users used to be able to electronically sign documents and it used a workflow for it in Teamcenter 9.1. In Teamcenter 11.3, the workflow can only work as a IMAN reference in the PSU-signature-block within the Start folder in the handlers in the Workflow Designer.
Is there any way you know to add a IMAN specification from a workflow? Currently testing it, the process will become stuck in the workflow.
I was told it may come down to just the permissions so I'll be checking into that. Attached is a screenshot of the simplified workflow.
You can create a relation in a Workflow using the EPM-create-relation workflow handler.
But I'm not sure I understand your question correctly.
Are you asking about the EPM-apply-digital-signature workflow handler? What does it have to do with creating a IMAN_specification relation?
It is not a digital signature.
We are using a workflow to capture approvals for drawings. We have a custom handler that creates a Form and captures the approvers on the Form. The problem is that since the Part Revision is in a workflow, we cannot attach the Form with IMAN_specification. We did not know if there was some way to override that or escalate privileges in that step so that we can complete the workflow. As it is, it creates and populates our Form, but then it cannot attach so the Form is just out in limbo and the workflow never ends.
Note also this is not a TC9 vs TC11 issue, it did not work in 9 either.
Hi Randy, please see my reply above.
That is indeed likely to be an Access Rights issue.
If so the solution is to use a Workflow ACL on the task which tries to create the IMAN_specification relation.
The EPM-create-relation workflow handler first mention from GAP (big thanks to you!) was actually just what the Signoff Workflow needed.
The specification relation was not created, so when the form was trying to be generated it would be stuck in the workflow.
All is good and well now.


Ethereum is a world computer on top of a peer-to-peer network that runs smart contracts - applications that run exactly as programmed without the possibility of censorship, fraud, or third-party interference. Until now, businesses had to build their systems on database technologies that resulted in siloed and redundant information in typically adversarial contexts. Read more.
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Wuxiaworld > Broly The Saiyan of Legend! > 197 Repulsion
197 Repulsion
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Not knowing what to do, Broly decided to sit down cross-legged and dive deeper into his body and observe the reason why he can't compress the energy.
He kind of expected some problems otherwise he wouldn't have removed himself from the near periphery of Namek, but now he had to figure out what was wrong before he could proceed.
Since his body was several times larger than his base, it would take more time to sense every change and bits of energy.
Through the rough first analyzation, he didn't find anything wrong, now he would examine his body in precise detail.
With this some days has passed before he figured out what was wrong. After coming to the realization, he only slapped his own forehead. He already knew how to achieve Super Saiyan 4. It was to fuse his Super Saiyan with his Oozaru powers.
Usually he would transform into a Super Saiyan and then use his Oozaru powers in the form of Ikari to stack them on top of each other.
Now he had transformed into an Oozaru and then stacked Super Saiyan on top of it. Obviously, this wouldn't give him the form he wanted.
From what he had seen in the series was that Goku had first transformed into an Oozaru and then Super Saiyan, afterwards he somehow was able to combine them and achieve that form.
He had to have forced these two powers together. Afterwards he had probably used them together right from the start, which is probably a level higher on the difficulty scale.
So instead of compressing the energy, he had to fuse them.
Broly tried to discern these two powers. It took him a few more days until he finally had a vague grasp on the two powers that were slumbering deep inside. With his control over ki and over his body he guided these two powers into each other.
They were repelling each other, and a tremendous amount of pain followed with every step he went by forcing them together.
It was like forcing two magnets of the same polarity together, just that these magnets were able to destroy planets with ease.
He concentrated so hard that he was once again covered in sweat. He was straining his muscles so hard that some blood started leaking out of his closed eyes and ears. The more sensitive muscles in his body started tearing apart due to his extreme effort to combine these powers and it showed effects. Indeed, his giant Oozaru form showed signs of shrinking.
However, already at the start of the transformation, Broly lost the control of one of the powers and it was practically flung out of his grasp. The two powers immediately shot out and rampaged in his body, triggering the remaining energy as well.
He instantly reverted back to his base form and spat out a mouth full of blood. He could feel several ruptures inside him. His organs were in a bad state and his whole body gave him the illusion of trembling.
He couldn't control his ki at all in the moment. Even worse was the fact that he couldn't even hold up the technique that he was using to be able to survive in space and he was currently on a planet without an atmosphere.
It didn't take much energy to keep that technique going and to Broly it was almost as natural to use as walking but now he was in a state where he couldn't even get up. It was like he was completely drunk without being able to function even in the most basic way.
His head started to feel dizzier as the lack of oxygen was getting to him. He tried to move but all his muscles were on the verge of tearing apart, but he knew that he had to do something. Without bothering to move, he started to use his telekinetic abilities to guide a healing capsule into his mouth.
The energy of it directly started healing the wounds that were being caused, but it wasn't able to calm down the energy inside. Broly again threw another healing capsule and felt relieved seeing the energy lose momentum.
Now he was able to use his magi and lifeforce to supply his body with the basic energy it needed to function while also calming down the rampaging energy. He wasn't in a life-threatening state anymore.
After another three healing capsules, he was able to force his energy to calm down completely and heal his body considerably.
He laid down on the cold ground and started thinking about the failed transformation. He couldn't help but smile. The repulsion that the two energies were producing increased as they got closer to each other.
Through the repulsion, he got some insight on how much power he would gain. The moment he goes Super Saiyan 4, he would be officially a god tier level even without his soul.
He also now knew what one needed to have to achieve that form
An absolute control over one's energy and body, consciousness, an extraordinary firm will and a strong body that could actually sustain the process of transformation.
Since his energy was far more violent than Goku's, he needed an even better control than him, which would be incredibly hard to achieve. Normal ki control training wouldn't cut it, but didn't he just find out the perfect ki training?
What was a better way to train to achieve a transformation, other by trying it over and over again? He didn't need to forcefully proceed the transformation but could stabilize it in that extreme state until he was comfortable to fuse it further.
He would take step after step until he could handle all the energy with its repulsion. After he was done, his control would even exceed that of Goku's after he achieved Super Saiyan 4 or the Full Power version of it.
Although he knew how to proceed, he was already recovering on this planet for over a week and it would be soon time to state his wish. He didn't proceed his training and teleported back to the moon that revolved around Namek.
When he arrived, he saw several spaceships landing on the planet. In fact, there were already several stationed on the ground.
"Does someone covet my wish?" Broly frowned. He already waited for several months to lend the Dragon Balls and now some people were landing on Namek. He didn't think that anyone knew of the Namekian Dragon Balls. Maybe they were after something else, but what if they accidentally killed the creator?
Without thinking further, he directly flew towards the densest crowd on that planet. He was able to see that several Namekians were cornered in one area while some were lying dead on the ground, which looked like the warriors amongst them. It seemed even they weren't capable of fending these soldiers off.
"Hm? They again?" Broly recognized a symbol on one of the devices that one soldier was holding. It was the Universal Intelligence symbol.
Suddenly that device was destroyed, and the soldier was then scolded by his commander. It seemed like that idiot brought some company property with him on an undercover mission.
Broly was astonished to see such an idiot in an obviously elite team.
The Universal Intelligence probably heard of the Namekians Dragon Balls and wanted to use them to find the Super Dragon Ball that Broly had hid.
He had also thought of that method of using the wish to directly find the Super Dragon Balls but there was a reason why Broly suspected that it wouldn't work. He himself was able to extract himself from the normal Dragon Balls influence.
If he wanted to, he could use magic to hide himself completely. Of course, the dragon could see in the past and determine his position before he hid himself and if he could do that the creator could as well.
If the creator, Zalama, didn't want the probably most powerful objects in the multiverse to be found easily, he would have some countermeasures.
This once again showed the brilliance of Bulma who was able to determine the locations through technology, something even the greatest magicians and the gods of destruction wouldn't necessarily be able to.
All said and done, he would still try that wish himself otherwise he would just go to Champa's planet.
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INTERKULTUR mourns for Tian Yubin
Chairman of Chinese Choir's Association passed away in Bejing
The international choral world has lost an important personality: Tian Yubin, President of the Chinese Choir Association and a close friend of INTERKULTUR passed away today, July 31, at the age of 71 after a serious illness.
Tian Yubin supported the international work of INTERKULTUR in recent years up despite his illness and still sent INTERKULTUR his best wishes for the preparation of the 9th World Choir Games 2016 only a few weeks ago.
In a personal letter INTERKULTUR President Günter Titsch expressed his condolences to his family also on behalf of the World Choir Council and the World Choir Games Organizing Committee and appreciated once again his great work and merits for INTERKULTUR:
"We're mourning for a great model that set a pattern for the international choral world. Since 2006 Tian Yubin was our good and reliable friend and stood by our side with his advice and support. He acted as president of the Chinese Choral Association for more than 10 years and thus made an important contribution to the development of choral singing in China."
Tian Yubin's death is a big loss for the worldwide choral singing. INTERKULTUR is mourning for a close friend and great supporter.
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The Shakespeare Companion
Emma Jones, Rhiannon Guy
Pavilion Books, 29.09.2005 - 157 Seiten
From Bardolotry to sniggering at Shakespeare, this fascinating and unique book takes a long hard look at the man from Avon and unearths all the oddities, quirks and stories behind Shakespeare's world. It looks at the man behind the moustache and his works (did Queen Elizabeth really write the plays?) and at the effect he's had on the English language as we know it.
We find out why Shakespeare left his second-best bed to Anne Hathaway, about the great figures who hated him, the ongoing quest to translate the entire works of Shakespeare into Klingon and why exactly you can't mention 'the Scottish play' to an actor. 'The Shakespeare Companion' provides the reader with a folio of Shakespearean notes, quotes, facts and stats.
Shakespeare is still firmly lodged in the national conscience and almost four hundred years after his death he still rates as one of the greatest Britons of all time. Recent Hollywood adaptations of 'The Merchant of Venice' with Al Pacino prove that he is still a box-office draw, and it is a legal requirement that every school child is versed in his ways before they make it to the big wide world.
'The Shakespeare Companion' doesn't just contain fascinating snippets of information; it also offers extracts from some of the world's finest writers. Charles Dickens soliloquises with Phillip Roth while Jane Austen struts the boards with Aldous Huxley. And like all other books in the Companion series, there's a great piece of statistical trivia to match each page number.
The Shakespeare Companion: Bardly Brilliance, Spectacular Sonnets & Perfect Pentameters (A Think Book)
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Brush up on Bardolatry with this informative and entertaining book about everything Shakespeare. From statistics about his plays and sonnets, like the shortest and longest plays (The Comedy of Errors ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Titel The Shakespeare Companion
A think book
The Companion Series
Think book for Robson books
Autoren Emma Jones, Rhiannon Guy
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Verlag Pavilion Books, 2005


Alabama Bloggers: Birmingham Restaurant Week Date Night: Little Savannah.
Birmingham Restaurant Week Date Night: Little Savannah.
As always, Birmingham Restaurant Week is the perfect opportunity to try new places, so we decided to enjoy our date night there.
Little Savannah is committed to local sourcing of their foods, some even coming from the Propreitress Maureen's garden out back. Their menu changes daily to ensure that they can offer the freshest local produce available.
They have a small, cozy, café/bar feel, offering quiet spots for chatting and catching up.
I ordered the restaurant week menu, and Chris ordered a couple of small plates. I quickly realized that I was totally unqualified and unworthy to review their food – it was far too phenomenal for my minimal culinary knowledge.
My first course was Roasted Corn Chowder with Basil Pistou.
Being that I'm not a true foodie but simple someone who really, really likes good food, I have to admit: I had no idea what Pistou was. In case you don't either, it's a cold sauce made with garlic cloves, basil, and olive oil. And, when stirred into an extremely beautifully made corn chowder, adds a perfect touch of seasoning.
I finished my Corn Chowder and scraped the bottom with my spoon, determined to get every last bit.
For his first course, Chris ordered the Slow-Roasted Pork Belly. His description can be translated as delightfully rich, ever-so-slightly crunchy on top, and meltingly tender underneath. In practice, his description was a series of primordial moans, facial expressions of surprise, and random words of exclamation.
My next course was the Fried Alabama Catfish, Stewed Tomato and Okra, and McEwen and Sons Grits.
The catfish is fried southern-style – It is a crispy, cornmeal batter that lends an awesome salty flavor to the fish. The stewed okra had a kick to it that was sharp enough for my husband to appreciate and mild enough for me to still enjoy.
Chris followed up with the wild caught Gulf Shrimp and Grits. He did not share this dish with me. He did not even offer, although he cleaned the plate completely. Per him, the grits were wonderfully thick and creamy, the shrimp perfectly firm, and he even ate the mushrooms – and he hates mushrooms. And of course, he wasn't opposed to the fact that half of the lovely little pieces were not mushrooms, but thick chunks of bacon.
We ended with the Southern-Banana Pudding, which was fabulous. It was creamy and rich without being too sweet, and was a perfect way to end the evening. Please note that this pudding is apparently prepared separately from and served over fresh, crunchy vanilla wafers. This innovation, according to my husband, is on a scale of societal change somewhere between the invention of the wheel and the Internet.
Little Savannah is a wonderful example of high cuisine paired with local sourcing, together creating a fabulous setting for casual southern romance.
Disclosure: I was compensated my entrée in exchange for participating as a Birmingham Restaurant Week blogger. We paid full price for the rest of our meal, and my opinions are always my own.
Rachel is a Birmingham-Based Blogger who writes at Grasping for Objectivity and runs this networking site for all Alabama Bloggers. She and her family love eating out, especially at local establishments where the food is divine and kids are welcomed with open arms.


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domOS Streamlining the roll-out of smart energy services in buildings
Latest Research / Winter 2022 / domOS Streamlining the roll-out of smart energy services in buildings
domOS: Streamlining the roll-out of smart energy services in buildings
By Dominique Gabioud, HES-SO, Zuzana Taťáková FENIX TNT
Buildings and smart energy services
Collectively, buildings in the EU are responsible for 40% of the energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions1. Therefore, buildings must do their share in the transition to a more sustainable and resilient energy system. Deep renovation is surely the way to go, but better performance can also be achieved in a much shorter time and with less investment with smart energy services.
Smart energy services improve the energy efficiency or the energy flexibility of buildings.
Open-loop services provide building occupants or facility operators with contextual information helping them to adopt more energy-cautious behaviours or supporting them in their decision to invest.
Closed-loop services use control algorithms to improve energy transformation or distribution inside the building.
Energy flexibility services use the intrinsic flexibility of energy processes to increase self-consumption, to avoid congestion on distribution grids, or to perform market operations. Heating, cooling, and EV (Electrical Vehicle) charging are typical flexible processes.
Status of digitalisation and smartness in buildings
Digitalisation is progressing in buildings, like in all other sectors: heat pumps, solar inverters, white appliances, thermostatic valves, blinds, lights, and even coffee machines feature nowadays a communication interface. But digitalisation progresses chaotically: each appliance/device comes with its application, generally made available by the manufacturer. While providing some level of smartness, this situation is not optimal for three reasons:
Building occupants or facility operators must deal with multiple applications, each one featuring its user interface and access control scheme.
Energy management requires the coordinated orchestration of multiple appliances. A silo approach prevents the implementation of such scenarios.
Smart services can't be readily deployed over multiple models of a given appliance type.
Larger buildings – typically those used in the tertiary sector – are equipped with building automation systems orchestrating energy, security, and comfort. Those systems are too expensive for smaller buildings, which accommodate independent energy appliances of different generations. For these buildings, costs must be reduced to boost the roll-out of smart energy services. Low costs can only be achieved if appliances of different types and manufacturers can be integrated in a "plug-and-play" manner.
Decoupling the in-building infrastructure and the smart services
Today, buildings accommodate independent appliances and their apps (Figure 1 (a)). The objective is to decouple the smart services and the in-building infrastructure (Figure 1 (b)).
Several approaches can be considered for integration:
implement the same communication standard in all participating appliances,
develop appliance model-specific drivers in smart services, or
personalise a universal driver with appliance-specific configurations.
Approach 1 requires that manufacturers agree on a common communication scheme. Such an expectation is not realistic, at least in the short/mid-term. Moreover, a new scheme would not be able to integrate the large basis of installed appliances. The Matter>sup>2 specification for smart homes promoted by the big internet players uses this approach, which is in this context reasonable as smart home products are comparably newer and less expensive.
Approach 2. requires the development of new drivers – i.e., new software code – to integrate new appliance models. This is the approach used by today's multiappliance services. The drawback is that the development of drivers requires many resources. Therefore, this approach misses the low-cost objective required for large-scale roll-out.
The advantage of approach 3 is that the integration of an appliance requires only a configuration document whose generation can be assisted. The challenge is the development of a universal parametrizable driver. The domOS approach, which is defined in the so-called domOS ecosystem, belongs to this category.
A glimpse into the domOS ecosystem
The specification enabling the decoupling between in-building infrastructure and smart services is called the "domOS ecosystem". It is made up of two components:
The protocol abstraction component: Energy appliances or devices speak Modbus, M-Bus, HTTP, MQTT and more communication protocols. To expose a uniform model to services, a component (driver) must translate a given protocol into a uniform model. In the domos ecosystem, this issue, which is not specific to the smart building domain, is handled by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in its Web of Things (WoT) architecture. A WoT-compliant library act as "universal driver". Appliance-specific configuration documents are called Thing Description (TD) in the context of WoT. A TD instructs a WoTcompliant library on how to concretely access the monitoring and control points of an appliance.
The nomenclature component: In itself, protocol abstraction is not sufficient to enable interoperability: the services and the in-building infrastructure must in addition share a vocabulary, with commonly understood definitions. In the domOS ecosystem, each participating building has a digital twin called Building Description (BD). A BD contains metadata associated with references to monitoring and control points in TDs. BDs are machine-readable documents written in a dedicated language (ontology) named domOS Common Ontology (dCO). Metadata are static description data like building location, size and category, constraints on building operation, features of the heat generation and/or distribution... Metadata elements can be linked to monitoring and control points in TDs.
domOS ecosystem-compliant platforms power the five domOS demonstrators. domOS partners in charge of demonstration contribute to the design of the ecosystem and provide feedback on its applicability in concrete use cases.
Demonstrators in Paris (F), Sion (CH), Aalborg (DK), Skive (DK) and Neuchâtel (CH) deal with multiple energy carriers, with multiple services and multiple IoT platforms with centralized (cloud) or decentralized (edge) architectures. This development process helps to define specifications adapted to the concrete situation of buildings in Europe.
Website: https://www.domos-project.eu/
Project coordinator: Dominique Gabioud
Contact email: info@domos-project.eu
domOS is a collaborative research project supported by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation. The 11 consortium partners from 4 European countries develop activities in smart energy services for buildings, either as a technology provider, as a service operator or as a research entity.
"The specification defined and experimented in domOS allows decoupling the infrastructure in buildings and the smart energy services. For example, an energy management service could orchestrate a heat pump, an electric vehicle charging station and a solar inverter independently of their brands. This is a big benefit for building owners – integration of appliances is seamless – and for the service developer – the service can operate transparently on all buildings with appropriate appliances whatever their brands are" says Dominique Gabioud, the Project Coordinator from the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. He concludes that "deploying smart services will become easier and therefore cheaper".


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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
By RT News
Thanks to him, we know what Western leaders' claimed support of free press is really worth
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
Assange's legal team will appeal the decision, reportedly with arguments that will include the fact that the CIA spied on him and plotted his assassination.
"It will likely be a few days before the (14-day appeal) deadline and the appeal will include new information that we weren't able to bring before the courts previously. Information on how Julian lawyers were spied on, and how there were plots to kidnap and kill Julian from within the CIA," Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton told Reuters on Friday.
And thank goodness. Assange's willingness to resist Washington's extradition attempts benefit us all, from his taking political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 until British police forcibly dragged him out in 2019, to his fighting US prosecutors in the courtroom tooth and claw during his incarceration in Belmarsh Prison.
Assange's fight against US extradition benefits us not just because the empire's war against truth harms our entire species and not just because he cannot receive a fair trial under the Espionage Act, but because his refusal to bow down and submit forces the empire to overextend itself into the light and show us all what it's really made of.
Washington, London and Canberra are colluding to imprison a journalist for telling the truth: the first with its active extradition attempts, the second with its loyal facilitation of those attempts, and the third with its silent complicity in allowing an Australian journalist to be locked up and persecuted for engaging in the practice of journalism. By refusing to lie down and forcing them to come after him, Assange has exposed some harsh realities of which the public has largely been kept unaware.
The fact that London and Canberra are complying so obsequiously with Washington's agendas, even while their own mainstream media outlets decry the extradition and even while all major human rights and press freedom watchdog groups in the Western world say Assange must go free, shows that these are not separate sovereign nations but member states of a single globe-spanning empire centralized around the US government. Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, more attention is being brought to this reality.
By standing his ground and fighting them, Assange has also exposed the lie that the so-called free democracies of the Western world support the free press and defend human rights. The US, UK and Australia are colluding to extradite a journalist for exposing the truth even as they claim to oppose tyranny and autocracy, even as they claim to support world press freedoms, and even as they loudly decry the dangers of government-sponsored disinformation.
Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, it will always reek of hypocrisy when US presidents like Joe Biden say things like, "The free press is not the enemy of the people — far from it. At your best, you're guardians of the truth."
Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, people will always know British prime ministers like Boris Johnson are lying when they say things like, "Media organisations should feel free to bring important facts into the public domain."
Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, more of us will understand that they are being deceived and manipulated when Australian prime ministers like Anthony Albanese say things like "We need to protect press freedom in law and ensure every Australian can have their voice heard," and "Don't prosecute journalists for just doing their jobs."
Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, US secretaries of state like Antony Blinken will have a much harder time selling their schtick when they say things like "On World Press Freedom Day, the United States continues to advocate for press freedom, the safety of journalists worldwide, and access to information on and offline. A free and independent press ensures the public has access to information. Knowledge is power."
Because Assange stood his ground and fought them, UK home secretaries like Priti Patel will be seen for the frauds they are when they say things like "The safety of journalists is fundamental to our democracy."
Extraditing a foreign journalist for exposing your war crimes is as tyrannical an agenda as you could possibly come up with. The US, UK and Australia colluding toward this end shows us that these are member states of a single empire whose only values are domination and control, and that all its posturing about human rights is pure facade. Assange keeps exposing the true face of power.
There is in fact a strong argument to be made that even all these years after the 2010 leaks for which he is currently being prosecuted, Assange is doing his most important work yet. As important as his WikiLeaks publications were and are, none of them exposed the depravity of the empire as much as forcing them to look us in the eye and tell us they'll extradite a journalist for telling the truth.
Assange accomplished this by planting his feet and saying "No," even when every other possible option would have been easier and more pleasant. Even when it was hard. Even when it was terrifying. Even when it meant being locked away, silenced, smeared, hated, unable to fight back against his detractors, unable to live a normal life, unable to hold his children, unable even to feel sunlight on his face.
His very life casts light on all the areas where it is most sorely needed. We all owe this man a tremendous debt. The least we can do is try our best to get him free.
Originnal Source: https://www.rt.com/news/557402-assange-extradition-press-freedom/
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A Long History of Media Monopolies /
A Long History of Media Monopolies
ABC can trace its origins back to 1919, when RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, was created by a consortium of General Electric, Westinghouse, AT&T and United Fruit. RCA and its allies controlled the patents for radio, and had a virtual monopoly until the alliance was declared to violate anti-trust laws in 1932.In the meantime, RCA had launched the National Broadcasting Company, NBC, which controlled two radio networks known as the Red and Blue networks. In order to reduce NBC's overwhelming dominance of the broadcasting industry--which threatened to monopolize the embryonic television medium--the Federal Communications Commission ordered NBC to sell one of its networks. In 1943, the Blue network was sold for $8 million to Edward J. Noble--the conservative businessman who invented Life Savers--and became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)In 1953, the ABC TV network, struggling in third place behind NBC and CBS, merged with the Paramount theater chain--itself a product of anti-trust actions that separated the movie studios from their theater chains. The breakups in the film industry were necessary, according to the Justice Department, because if the producers of a media product like film also controlled the distribution of that product, then the public would be denied the free access to competing ideas envisioned by the First Amendment.The ABC/Paramount Theaters merger raised similar objections--two FCC commissioners voted against approving the merger, saying that it threatened to create a "monopolistic multimedia economic power," as Dennis Mazzacco explains in Networks of Power. More successful protests were launched in 1966, when ITT, a multinational powerhouse and major military contractor, attempted a friendly takeover of ABC. Critics charged that ITT--which had financial interests in some 118 companies--would be tempted to slant the news to assist its international dealings. As described in Erik Barnouw's Tube of Plenty, three of the seven FCC commissioners charged: "A company whose daily activities require it to manipulate governments at the highest level is likely to be left with little more regard for a free and independent press...than for conscientious government officials," Nevertheless, a majority of the FCC board approved the merger, arguing that ITT owning ABC would be no different than the RCA conglomerate owning NBC. Commissioner Nicholas Johnson retorted: "To say that because RCA owned NBC, ITT must be allowed to acquire ABC, is to say that things are so bad there is no point in doing anything to stop them from getting worse." Despite FCC approval, the Johnson administration's Justice Department asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to block the takeover to protect ABC's journalistic independence. Faced with protracted litigation, ITT withdrew.But a very different Justice Department existed in 1985, when ABC was bought for $3.5 billion by Capital Cities, a media company with a somewhat mysterious past--then-CIA Director William Casey was one of its founding investors. (Casey, in fact, may have actually held down the price of ABC stock at the time Cap Cities was acquiring it, by asking the FCC to strip ABC of its broadcast licenses in retaliation for negative reporting on the CIA.)The way for the Cap Cities takeover was paved by the deregulation drive of the Reagan era. While networks could previously own only seven stations, under Reagan that number was raised to 12--allowing Cap Cities to combine the ABC affiliates it owned with ABC's owned-and-operated stations. (As Mother Jones magazine has noted, ABC News contributed to Reagan's re-election in 1984 by censoring several reports exposing administration corruption.)Under Cap Cities' management, ABC--like the other two networks, which also changed hands in the '80s--was under heavy pressure to cut costs and make its news operations profitable. By 1987, about 300 news staffers had lost their jobs--one-fifth of all employees there.The antitrust principles that broke up the radio trust, split up RCA's airwaves-dominating networks, severed the movie studios from their theater chains and blocked ITT from absorbing ABC are all but forgotten in Washington today. Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor who dominates ABC/Cap Cities, openly boasted that Disney's takeover of ABC was "a merger of the No. 1 content company with the No. 1 distribution company." Where are the objections from the Clinton Justice Department, which is supposed to regulate against such anti-competitive alliances?Disney, much like ITT, is a giant multinational corporation with interests around the world that will inevitably conflict with news decisions. Disney's Michael Eisner touted his vision of a world open to his company's bland, non-threatening fare: "There are many places in the world, like China, India and other places, that do not want to accept programming that has political content. But they have no problem with sports and they have no problem with the Disney kind of programming."Is that the vision of broadcasting that is going to guide ABC? Eisner may have found the key to creating programming that is acceptable to dictatorships around the world, but he clearly doesn't understand the kind of media that a democracy needs.