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Undergrad Research Abstracts Journal
Formation and Characterization of Gold Nanostructures
Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Learning and Memory in Nonhuman Animals
Message from John Francis
The Personal Journal of George A. Smith, 1850-1852, and the Iron County Mission: A Model of Mormon Colonization in the Great Basin
Ph Dependence Studies of the DNA Glycosylase Mutty
Contrasting the Executive Function and Medial Temporal Hypotheses of Autism
Discovering the Mysteries of Pha-4
Paraneoplastic Disorder Study: A Look at the Effects of Cancer on Certain Cells in the Brain
Fine Linkage Mapping of a Novel Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Gene Locus
Screen for Negative Regulators of RNA Interference
Electron Spin Resonance in Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon
The Effect of Sterilization Method and Resin Type on the Oxidation of Ultra-High Molecular Weith Polyethylene
Working Memory Modulates Facilitation Effects in Structured Versus Unstructured Lists
Effectiveness and Methods in Which Medical Institutions Teach Cultural Diversity
Obfuscating the Eastern Front: How it Dealt With Our Nation's Public and Publishers
The Ethics of Suicide: A Historical Sourcebook
The Ethical Implications of Using Age as a Factor in Health Care Delivery
Greetings from the Director
A Doorway to Higher Education
Title University of Utah Undergraduate Research Abstracts, Volume 1, Spring 2001
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Title Obfuscating the Eastern Front: How it Dealt With Our Nation's Public and Publishers
Creator Mares, Robert G.
Obfuscating the Eastern Front: How It Dealt With Our Nation's Public and Publishers by Robert G. Mares, Ronald M. Smelser and Edward J. Davies II The on-going project of my sponsors focuses on American understanding of World War II in Russia both during the conflict and especially after the war. More specifically, how through the written works of former Wehrmacht officers, such as Heinz Guderian, Erich von Manstein, as well as subsequent authors like Charles Witting, James Lucas and others have managed to romanticize the people and events of the Germans who fought on the eastern front, and show how a subculture has evolved out of this romanticization. My task was to investigate the popular opinion of these works. Of particular interest to my sponsors was the opinion of not only the contemporary public, but also of the people who published these works, as well as the academic circles both within and outside of the US military. This investigation brought me to a variety of sources. Major sources such as "The New York Times Book Review" and "Book World" provided a national perspective. "Military Affairs Magazine" and "Library Journal" provided sources more closely connected to academic circles. For contemporary public opinion I retrieved both reviews and letters to the editor in newspaper sources like "The New York Times Book Review." A most valuable resource appeared through "Amazon.com", where readers would express their reactions. To increase sales, distributors like "Blitzbooks" would also post their opinions and preferences. The reaction of US critics to the first generation of German accounts of the war in Russia were mixed. Reviewers tied to the US military praised the German authors for their authenticity and analysis. Academics, on the other hand, roundly criticized Manstein and others for their deceptive accounts. After the 1960s such critics gradually diminished and slowly the German view emerged as the dominant vision of the east. As a result, a subculture exonerating the actions of the Wehrmacht and the SS began to develop. As the subculture further developed, authors like Charles Whitting published works of virtual fiction, notably his book on the infamous Joachim Peiper. Now, very few legitimate scholars even review these books. Their absence leaves only military personnel and civilians sympathetic to this subculture to review the bulk of these through some publications, but mostly through the internet.
Subject World War II; Russia; Wehrmacht officers; Germans
Contributors Smelser, Ronald M.; Davies, Edward J.
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Iran Claims Military Satellite Launch Success
The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed the launch "expands the realm of our abilities".
Tom Sables
22nd April 2020 at 3:11pm
After months of failed attempts, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has sent a military satellite into orbit.
On its official website, the paramilitary force said the launch from Iran's Central Desert is the first of its kind to be achieved by Tehran.
There was no independent confirmation of the launch which has raised concerns among experts.
The head of the IRGC, General Hossein Salami, described the satellite as "multifunctional" and a "strategic achievement" that "expands the realm of our abilities".
"The world's powerful armies do not have a comprehensive defence plan without being in space," he added.
Iran Increases Gulf Patrols Amid US Tensions
The US and some European nations have previously claimed such launches could help Iran develop intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
However, Western missile experts have questioned the validity of these concerns.
Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, previously maintained its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component.
The IRGC said the satellite reached an orbit of 425km (264 miles) above Earth's surface, using a previously un-heard of system.
The force said it used a Ghased, or "Messenger", satellite carrier to put the device into space during a three-stage launch. The satellite was referred to as "Noor", or light.
Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, said the launch "raises a lot of red flags".
Tensions between Iran and the US have increased after an incident in the Gulf last week (Picture: US Department of Defense).
One Small Step For...? US Undecided On What To Call Space Force Personnel
Iran has failed with several satellite launches in recent months - the latest in February.
However, the successful launch comes amid heightened tensions with the US.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has instructed the US Navy "to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea".
It comes after an incident in the Gulf last week, involving the US Navy and the IRGC.
The American military has also been focusing on space and in December, launched the US Space Force.
The service is tasked with monitoring around 25,000 satellites and in January, it was used to detect Iranian missiles being fired towards US troops in Iraq, following the death of top Iranian General Qasseem Soleimani.
The general was killed by a US air strike in Baghdad and saw tensions between the two countries reach a boiling point.
Cover image: Library image of an Iranian military parade (Picture: PA).
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U.S. Open Cup: Meet the first-round winners
The big story from last night's U.S. Open Cup first round is Harpo's FC of the Colorado Amateur Soccer League, billed as Colorado's Most Competitive League. It must be pretty good — Harpo's is only in third place in Division 1 East.
They're bringing a lot of attention to the U.S. Specialty Sports Association, which was only added to the U.S. Open Cup field in 2013. And I'd imagine a lot of people now have an interest in checking out Harpo's Bar and Grill in Boulder. At the very least, I know where I'm going if I'm ever in Boulder while a UFC event is on.
And hirsute goalkeeper Zac Gibbens will surely be a cult hero for stopping several shots, including one in the PK shootout.
The starting points for reading about the first round are:
1. TheCup.us first-round preview, with each club's Cup history.
2. USSoccer.com recap
3. TheCup.us recap
Other first-round results (home teams listed first):
PDL over NPSL
West Virginia Chaos 1, Fort Pitt Regiment 0: Two first-timers in the Cup. West Virginia will get a few more players for the next round; they were busy with finals this week.
Long Island Rough Riders 3, Brooklyn Italians 1: The Italians won the Cup a couple of times in the pre-MLS days but couldn't hang in here despite the heroics of keeper Mike Bernardi. The Rough Riders, who got two goals and an assist from Hofstra/England midfielder Joe Holland, are two decades old and were a big-time player in the USL A-League days. Footnote for women's soccer fans: Former co-owner Louis Ederer represented Dan Borislow in his legal action against WPS.
Michigan Bucks 3, Detroit City FC 0: The perennial PDL and Cup contenders are still kings of the warehouse. And we have a Peri Marosevic sighting — goal-scorer for the Bucks. DCFC's noisy fans were the talk of Twitter last night and impressed Detroit Free Press columnist Jeff Seidel.
Midland/Odessa Sockers 3, Tulsa Athletics 1: Yet another first-timer advances, in this case over a second-timer. TheCup.us counted eight countries represented on the Midland/Odessa roster. The Sockers' coach flew in three hours before the game.
FC Tacoma 253 2, Kitsap Pumas 5: Please don't name yourself after an area code. The other interesting tidbit from TheCup.us: Tacoma features a player on loan from an Italian Serie D side. Didn't help here — Kitsap took a 5-0 lead and cruised.
NPSL over PDL
Western Mass Pioneers 1, Greater Binghamton Thunder 1 (GB 4-3 on PKs): First Cup win for the Thunder, knocking off a Cup perennial. Pretty impressive for a team with one player on the roster. The Pioneers were down to 10 men by the end.
AC Connecticut 2, Virginia Beach City FC 3: Each club was appearing in the Cup for the first time. ACC was formerly known as Connecticut FC Azul. I'm guessing this is the first time a Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads team has advanced since the Virginia Beach Mariners did it in 2006. I'd love to know how #7 Player Name and #13 Player Name fared.
Miami United 2, SW Florida Adrenaline 1: 93rd-minute winner. These two teams are also first-timers. The Adrenaline lost a player in the second half and then squandered an equalizer from 17-year-old Ray Gerke. Miami United also beat the Miami Fusion a few days ago. Yes, Fusion.
Chattanooga FC 1, Ocala Stampede 1 (CFC 5-3 on PKs): Late equalizer for the home team, which upset the Wilmington Hammerheads last year and will advance to face … the Wilmington Hammerheads. Chattanooga keeper Greg Hartley pulled a Matt Reis, stopping two PKs and making the winner.
Sonoma County Sol 2, Burlingame Dragons 1 (AET): Goals in stoppage time and extra time for the Cup veterans over the first-timers. The Sol roster includes a lot of players from "local high schools, Santa Rosa Junior College or Sonoma State."
NPSL over USASA
Lansing United 0, RWB Adria o (Lansing 4-2 on PKs): Only one shot on goal for Cup debutant Lansing. Nice scarves. And nice camera angles on the PKs:
Upward Stars 3, Triangle Brigade 3 (Upward 3-1 on PKs): Back and forth in Spartanburg. What, you didn't guess their location from the name "Upward Stars"? TheCup.us says the Brigade was formed in 2014 by a bunch of UNC club players.
PDL over USASA
Jersey Express 3, New York Greek American Atlas 0: Four-time champion Atlas, part of the New York area's strong Cosmopolitan Soccer League, just couldn't hold off the Express. Juan Correa had two assists.
Reading United AC 1, Maryland Bays 0: If only the debutant Bays could've found a home field. No, the Kris Ward who played in goal for the Bays is not the former Spirit assistant coach.
Global Premier Soccer 1, Seacoast United Phantoms 2: Down 1-0, down 10 men on the road in Massachusetts, the New Hampshire club scored in the 70th and 88th minutes. GPS falls to 0-3 in the Cup. Former Phantom captain Ben Brewster now plays for the Tulsa Roughnecks, their next opponent.
Des Moines Menace 2, Madison Fire 1: The perennial PDL powerhouse had little trouble with the Cup first-timers from the Wisconsin Soccer Leagues Major Division. Fifth-year Menace player Charlie Bales had two assists.
Laredo Heat 0, NTX Rayados 0 (Laredo 4-2 on PKs): Both teams have advanced in the Cup before. The last PK was converted on a retake — keeper moved early.
Ventura County Fusion 3, Cal FC 3 (Fusion 6-5 on PKs): The 2012 underdogs that knocked off the Hammerheads and Timbers couldn't do it this time — this is the first time they've been ousted by another amateur team.
USASA over PDL
FC Tucson 1, Chula Vista FC 2 (AET): The visitors scored the equalizer in the 82nd minute. Tucson missed a chance to equalize on a PK in extra time.
PSA Elite 7, Golden State Misioneros FC 1: They went to PKs last year. Not this time, apparently.
Have anything to add? Comment away.
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The entire wall is now covered, and it never made a dent in the buckets of strips. I started sewing the pieces together today. It is brainless sewing, since I used a template for the half hex.
I finished listening to Prayers for Sale while sewing. Not my favorite book, but not awful either. Next up to listen to is The Glass Castle. I may start it tomorrow. Or not. Sometimes, I need a day or two between books. For some reason, I like to let the finished book "settle" before I start the new one. Same is true for movies. We watched Precious last night, and that will take a week or so before it "settles".
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Iran says nonproliferation system unfairly favors nuclear powers
Iran's president said on Tuesday that there is no effective system preventing the transfer of weapons technology between nuclear powers, and that the UN... 29.07.2008, Sputnik International
Iran's president said on Tuesday that there is no effective system preventing the transfer of weapons technology between nuclear powers, and that the UN Security Council is unable to solve global nuclear problems.
TEHRAN, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's president said on Tuesday that there is no effective system preventing the transfer of weapons technology between nuclear powers, and that the UN Security Council is unable to solve global nuclear problems.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the opening ceremony of the 15th ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, said: "There is not a single influential or powerful body that can resolve issues of nuclear disarmament with governments owning nuclear weapons."
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Q: Why do I get a KeyError when using writerow() but not when using print()? I'm designing a program that works as designed to take a csv file in the form of last name, first name, Harry Potter house and write it to another csv file in the form of first name, last name, house. It works fine when I print it locally to my terminal (when the part commented out is used), but throws the following error when I run it as is.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspaces/107595329/scourgify/scourgify.py", line 26, in <module>
    writer.writerow(row[first], row[last], row[house])
KeyError: ' Hannah'

Hannah being the first of the first names in the file. How can I re-write the writer.writerow() line(line 26) to write first, last, and house to my after.csv file?
Code here:
import csv
import sys

students = []

try:
    if len(sys.argv) < 3:
        print("Too few command line arguments")
        sys.exit(1)
    if len(sys.argv) > 3:
        print("Too many command line arguments")
        sys.exit(1)
    if not sys.argv[1].endswith(".csv") or not sys.argv[2].endswith(".csv"):
        print("Not a CSV file")
        sys.exit(1)
    elif sys.argv[1].endswith(".csv") and sys.argv[2].endswith(".csv"):
        with open(sys.argv[1]) as file:
            reader = csv.DictReader(file)
            for row in reader:
                students.append({"name": row["name"], "house": row["house"]})
        with open(sys.argv[2], "w") as after:
            writer = csv.DictWriter(after, fieldnames = ["first, last, house"])
            for row in students:
                house = row["house"]
                last, first = row["name"].split(",")
                writer.writerow(row[first], row[last], row[house])
                #print(first, last, house)

except FileNotFoundError:
    print("Could not read " + sys.argv[1])
    sys.exit(1)

A: Is it possible that you have a "Hannah" entry, while you actually are looking for a " Hannah" entry (with a whitespace as first character)?
That would make sense, since the print statement uses your "first", "last" and "house" variables, while the writerow command reads entries from a dictionary first. The split command in
        last, first = row["name"].split(",")

will then probably output ["lastname", " firstname"] as the data probably is stored as "lastname, firstname", right?
I'd recommend using string.strip() or something similar to manage your keys properly

A: This is the line of code in question:
 writer.writerow(row[first], row[last], row[house])

Per the error message you're getting, one of first, last or house (first, I'm guessing) has the value "Hannah", and the error is due to an attempt to find a key with that value in row.  The error is saying that row has no key named `"Hannah".
So what is row in this context?  Well, looking at your code, row is each time through the surrounding for loop one of the values in the list students.  So then what is in students?  Well, values are added to students via the following line of code:
students.append({"name": row["name"], "house": row["house"]})

So students is a list of dicts, each of which contains two keys, "name" and "house".  So it seems that any particular element in students is never going to be a dict containing the key "Hannah".  There's your problem.
The two lines of code just above this line have it right:
house = row["house"]
last, first = row["name"].split(",")

Here, the two keys we know are in each element in row are being properly extracted.  So at this point, you should be done with row.  row contains nothing more than exactly what you've already read from it.
...and what do you know!  Your commented out print() statement had it right all along.  I assume that what you really want here is:
writer.writerow(first, last, house)

A: Some notes about the OP code:
        with open(sys.argv[1]) as file:
            reader = csv.DictReader(file)
            for row in reader:
                students.append({"name": row["name"], "house": row["house"]})
            # "row" is already the dictionary being formed here, so
            # students.append(row) is all that is needed
            # Could also do the following and skip the for loop
            # students = list(reader)

        with open(sys.argv[2], "w") as after:
            # fieldnames is wrong.
            # fieldnames = ['first','last','house'] is what is needed
            writer = csv.DictWriter(after, fieldnames = ["first, last, house"])
            for row in students:
                house = row["house"]
                last, first = row["name"].split(",")
                # DictWriter.writerow takes a single dictionary as a parameter.
                # correct would be:
                # writer.writerow({'first':first,'last':last,'house':house})
                writer.writerow(row[first], row[last], row[house])

Frankly, DictReader is overkill for this task.  Open both files at once and re-write each line as it is read with using the standard reader/writer objects.
An input file wasn't provided, so given the following from the code description:
input.csv
name,house
"Potter, Harry",Gryffindor
"Weasley, Ron",Gryffindor
"Malfoy, Draco",Slytherin
"Lovegood, Luna",Ravenclaw

This code will process as needed:
test.py
import csv

# Note: newline='' is a requirement for the csv module when opening files.
#       Without ends up writing \r\r\n line endings on Windows.
with (open('input.csv', newline='') as file,
      open('output.csv', 'w', newline='') as after):

    reader = csv.reader(file)
    next(reader) # skip header
    writer = csv.writer(after)
    writer.writerow(['first', 'last', 'house']) # write new header
    for name, house in reader:
        last, first = name.split(', ')
        writer.writerow([first, last, house])

output.csv
first,last,house
Harry,Potter,Gryffindor
Ron,Weasley,Gryffindor
Draco,Malfoy,Slytherin
Luna,Lovegood,Ravenclaw

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 Fujica X-mount, a bayonet lens mount used on manual-focus Fujica 35mm film SLR cameras in the 1970s and 1980s
 Fujifilm X-mount, a fully electronic bayonet lens mount used on Fujifilm mirrorless APS-C digital cameras and XF lenses since 2012

See also
 Samsung NX-mount

Lens mounts

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Q: When I train my Autoencoder I always get the same output Im creatting an autoencoder to learn features from markets images, but when I train the model I always get the same output. Could anyone help to me?
This is the code:
from keras import layers
input_img = keras.Input(shape=(224, 224, 3))
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same',activity_regularizer=regularizers.L2(1e-4))(input_img)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same',activity_regularizer=regularizers.L2(1e-4))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)

encoded = layers.AveragePooling2D((14, 14), padding='same')(x)

x = layers.Conv2D(784, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(encoded)
x = layers.Conv2D(784, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(784, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((7, 7))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)

decoded = layers.Conv2D(3, (3, 3), activation='softmax', padding='same')(x)

autoencoder=keras.Model(input_img, decoded)
autoencoder.compile(optimizer='adamax', loss='mse',metrics=["accuracy"])
autoencoder.summary()

I dont know how to deal with this problem, Im new in this kind of task.


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Nachtlieder interview (02/2016)
With: Susanne Hansson
Nachtlieder
We had the opportunity to chat with Nachtlieder mastermind Dagny Susanne. She talked to us in detail, not only about her latest album, but life in general. Thanks to Bad English who took the time to write down the questions for this very informative interview.
Bad English: Hi. Thank you for doing this interview with us at Metal Storm.
Dagny Susanne: Thanks!
Bad English: Can you introduce yourself and your band, Nachtlieder?
Dagny Susanne: My name is Dagny Susanne and I'm the sole member of this black metal project that I started in 2008. I suck at describing my own music so I usually say it's standard '90s-influenced black. My first album was a little bit more laid back with some pinches of avant-garde. But the new one, The Female of the Species, is a lot more aggressive. A lot of people say it sounds like Marduk; I totally understand that reference.
Bad English: Let's start from the beginning: how did you first start listening to metal?
Dagny Susanne: I never had any friends who were metal fans growing up so I found everything using the Internet. I was looking for heavy and rough music in online forums and downloaded stuff using Napster with a modem. Kids today probably don't remember, it could take a whole evening just to get half a song down so lets just say my discovery was very slow… Why didn't I buy any albums? Because there was no fucking record store where I lived.
Bad English: In one of your Facebook posts you mentioned you're from Kiruna. How did spending your childhood so far north inspire you as a musician and artist?
Dagny Susanne: Back then it didn't inspire me at all; it was too familiar I guess. But it has certainly affected me in some ways, both good and bad. On one hand there were no genre groups in this small town, if you were interested in music you spent time with other people who were interested in music, no matter what genre. It gives you a broader perspective on things which I believe is always good. On the other hand, if you had a special interest in for example metal then opportunities were limited. The city is kind of isolated; Luleå is the biggest town in the region and it is three hours away. When I lived in Kiruna my only goal was to leave. I wanted to go to gigs, meet musicians and form a band. But when I moved to Gothenburg I only partly succeeded. I'm very happy where I am now, but considering how I create music now I might as well have stayed, a bigger city didn't help at all.
Now I'm kind of nostalgic thinking about Kiruna. It's certainly a beautiful and serene place. I can't say that it inspires my music directly, but being there inspires me to work. In the winter you can take a walk in to the city on a saturday and not meet a single person until you reach the center. Needless to say I like that. It makes you be able to clear your head and put you in a good state of mind, ready to create something. And I definitely don't want to talk down on this city anymore. One would believe that nothing happens in such a small town, but it's actually a really great place to live if you're interested in culture. I was psyched to see they're even planning a new festival now, Kiruna Winter Metal. I really believe it could draw a lot of people from abroad, people who want to listen to some great metal bands and experience the arctic winter. I'm sure as hell gonna be there!
Bad English: Do you agree with the assertion that cold winters and dark winter days are the reason why Scandinavian and Finnish metal is so unique, dark and cold?
Dagny Susanne: No, because the famous bands are from the damn south, they don't know what darkness and cold is! Joke aside, the musicologist in me believes that the bands have influenced each other and that the sound was a matter of circumstance. You can also see that the difference between the Norwiegan, Swedish and Finnish scenes are also huge, for example. But sure, that the bands wanted to portray the extreme conditions that can exist here in their music and succeeding in doing so, it's an appealing thought. I hope it is that way.
Bad English: I have said that to understand Norwegian black metal, one needs to live one year in Norrland to see total darkness in winter and total sunlight in summer. Would you agree with this?
Dagny Susanne: Depends on what bands we're talking about of course. But yeah, I agree. In the south it's like there are no contrasts in the seasons, everything is just kind of a blurred mess of everything throughout the year… You're from the north too I understand, you also know that the contrasts of midnight sun and arctic darkness goes through your whole body. And the contrasting changes between the seasons comes very rapidly, just as the contrasting changes in black metal music. To me there's definitely a clear connection. Maybe growing up in Kiruna did affect my view on music more than I first thought…
Bad English: It's quite unusual to see a one-woman black metal band; the only other one-woman band I can think of is Myrkur. Why do you think we have so few women in black metal?
Dagny Susanne: I get that question over and over and frankly I'm getting sick of answering it. Because I don't know. But ok, I'll try to summarize my ideas: girls and boys don't have the same networks because of conscious and subconscious difference in social sex, from the day we're born we're not encouraged to do the same things and this includes the music we "should" listen to and perform and the instruments we "should" play. Also, see Bourdieu's Habitus.
Bad English: Speaking of women in metal, what are your thoughts on so-called ''female-fronted metal,'' which some have begun to label a separate genre?
Dagny Susanne: Yeah it's been an established term for quite some years now, hasn't it? It doesn't make any sense, I'm sure everyone understands why. Like the term "female vocals" you often see used instead of "clean vocals" when the singer is not male, how stupid is that? When I say Nachtlieder is a female-fronted metal band with female vocals, which it is, you wouldn't exactly associate it with my kind of music…
Bad English: Nacthlieder is German for "night songs," unless I'm mistaken? Was this the original intention behind the band's name? If so, why?
Dagny Susanne: Yeah, that's pretty much the literary translation. I actually don't remember the original intention, but I like how it has grown together with the music I have created over the years. Melancholic, dark and nostalgic, and also a bit twisted at times. Like we become at night when we don't get enough sleep.
Bad English: Guessing from the band's name, as a musician, does your inspiration come in the night?
Dagny Susanne: Not really, my inspiration comes from my instrument and what I'm playing at the moment. You know, that magical moment when you find that "something" while jamming, that's my inspiration. I did like to write at night back when I was studying and was able to do so. Like so many others I love the calm and relaxed feeling in the middle of the night. I kind of miss it. Since I started working in 2011 I've gone to bed at like 9 in the evening every night, I'm not exactly living a rock star life. I remember writing the lyrics for "Nightfall" at night though. Some rows were inspired by, or rather stolen from, the first part in the Schoenberg opera Pierrot Lunaire, Mondestrunken. "Moondrunk." Thet's pretty much how I felt that night, staying up way too late and getting dizzy. So yeah, maybe the night still inspires me a little.
Bad English: In your interview with Transcending Obscurity, you said that your latest album was inspired by book The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates. Do you read a lot, and is literature your biggest inspiration for music?
Dagny Susanne: I used to work in a public library and after that I got kind of fed up with reading fiction. It was over a year ago I finished a novel the last time. But I do appreciate good literature and I think it's necessary to read in order to write lyrics. Literature doesn't influence my music at all, but has almost a 100% influence on my lyrics. When I write I usually start with really small text fragments, then I come up with what the text should be about and I always, always need help somewhere to finish it up. See how other writers have portrayed the same thing and see if I can find something there. Because why invent the wheel twice? Except on my first album, I have no idea what I was doing half of the time, there's so much gibberish in those lyrics!
Bad English: According to your Facebook, you're looking for musicians for live gigs. How big are the chances that we'll see it happen, and would that mean gigs in small Göteborg pubs or around the country, maybe Europe?
Dagny Susanne: I want to play live some time, but I can count the metal musicians in my network on one hand. And that's including me and my drummer! First of all I need to get to know reliable people who might be interested in participating. I haven't even begun to think about what I could do with a live band, plans will be made when I have the possibility to follow them through. I don't dare speculating about when it's gonna happen.
Bad English: Is it hard to compose all the tracks and write the parts for all instruments as just one person?
Dagny Susanne: Simple question with a simple answer: No. It's what I love to do and it can get challenging some times. Quite often actually, I like to challenge myself. But I would never describe it as difficult.
Bad English: The undying question: what are your thoughts about Spotify, illegal downloads, and the good side and dark side of the internet?
Dagny Susanne: Heh yeah, it's undying alright… But I basically think it's awesome. I'm a huge Spotify fan. They really came at the right time when I had become too lazy to download music. I used to be on The Pirate Bay, but there was never any seeders for the torrents I wanted! Now that I'm grown up and have a job I buy a lot of albums because I want to support artists and labels. Plus I appreciate albums as artifacts, I have always bought CD's even though I used to download the music first to see what it was. But if the albums I buy are on Spotify I almost exclusively listen to them there anyway, so I guess bands kind of get double support from me. What a good fan I am, haha.
The big trouble for us artists concerning illegal downloading is that we can't keep track of our listeners. Sure, I'd be making music even if I had no listeners, but knowing that there are people out there who appreciate what you do is a huge boost. I think people who can afford it should prioritize paying for their music consumption, but lets face it, there are people who truly can't. But being a part of marketing by for example being active on social media is also a way of supporting a band. Share their Bandcamp link on Facebook every time you listen to the album, or whatever. Even just a like or a comment on YouTube can mean a lot for a small band. What makes me sad though is when albums leak before the release date, like The Female Of The Species did. It doesn't harm anybody but it's just really disrespectful, especially towards the hard working labels.
Bad English: How far would Nachtlieder go if you had formed this band in the pre-internet era? Somehow I think online sites helped you promote the new album. (I picked it up when I saw your band on Metal Storm; otherwise I would not have known about it - sorry, one man cannot know all...)
Dagny Susanne: Pre-internet it's really difficult to see how I would have discovered metal in the first place, so Nachtlieder wouldn't have existed at all. But today, doesn't basically all marketing happen online? I feel like blogs and social media is where most of my listeners come from when I look at visitor stats. But I do feel like I'm missing out on a lot not playing live at the moment. Metal festivals for example are a good place where I personally find more bands. Without the Internet I suppose I would have been more dependent on live gigs.
Bad English: Do you have any ideas for songs with Swedish lyrics?
Dagny Susanne: Not at the moment but I'll see what happens. I'm not exactly a poet so I feel like I always repeat myself in english. Switching language might be a way to get around it, haha. I was supposed to participate on one of Asbel's "The Dark, the Withered" releases were he collaborates with female vocalists and my plan was to write swedish lyrics for that song, but it seems like the album never happened so the idea is on hold at the moment.
Bad English: What makes black metal as a genre - is it the guitar style or lyrics?
Dagny Susanne: I wrote my bachelor thesis in musicology about the black metal music style, trying to identify the elements that define the music. The most interesting thing I found was that certain intervals were used both in chord progressions and melodies, I called them "black notes," hehe (minor third, perfect fifth, minor sixth, major seventh if anyone is interested. I didn't want to call this the harmonic minor scale because the notes were mostly played in these intervals, not in the form of a scale, and notes not in harmonic minor were often included in riffs). Writing that thesis is one of the best things I've done in my life; I still use the knowledge I found there all the time. Some people think that black metal that is not about satanism should be called "dark" metal instead; I definitely don't agree. Lyrical content is always subjective - what is about satanism for one person means something else for another, and vice versa. And how much of the lyrical content would we count? Is Mayhem black metal based on the lyrics? Immortal definitely is not. No, that definition doesn't work, black metal is a music style.
Bad English: I am a homebody; I have a mental need to be at home as much as possible. Would you be able to cope with 300 days on the road, away from home?
Dagny Susanne: I don't think it would be any trouble. The only thing I really need is my guitar; I have a mental need to play music. As long as I got the practical details down being on the road for a long time would probably be fine. But who is gonna water my plants, feed my cat, pay my bills, make sure my apartment is ok and could I really get off work for that long..?
Bad English: I have read positive feedback for the newest album. Are you happy with it?
Dagny Susanne: With the album? Oh yeah. Considering how little planning there was around everything but the music I almost can't believe it turned out so good. I did the photoshoot, that ended up as the cover image, with Septikphoto over a year before booking the studio and the concept didn't exist at all. But it worked perfectly. I'm also very happy that I recorded with Tore Stjerna after all. Recording in Necromorbus Studio wasn't planned at all, I more or less contacted him by accident when I sent out my booking-inquiry spams, haha. He was really able to lift the details in the music that I didn't think of highlighting myself. The production is perfect for the music on this album and it certainly wouldn't have been the same if I had done it with someone else.
But of course there are some things on the album that I felt could have been better. A few of the songs were right on the border of being thrown away and I'm still not sure if I like them or not. But I don't like working too much on things, I'm just thinking "ok, it's finished, I'll make better songs next time." But luckily I kept them, because there are a lot of people who have appreciated these songs very much. And there wouldn't be any point in making music if you didn't feel you could improve.
Bad English: Do you have any plans for the future at the moment?
Dagny Susanne: Always. Not plans maybe, but ideas. Currently I have three separate paths for an upcoming release, plus a fourth that I yet have no music for. One of them contains older previously unreleased material that is very different from what have been on my releases so far, the other three are more in the vein of today's Nachtlieder but in contrast to The Female Of The Species very mellow. I'm not sure which one I will follow through with first though. I'm gonna start making arrangements for a few fragments that I have and I guess I'll see where I end up. And of course it's the live thing too. We'll see if I can find some people for it!
Bad English: I want to say good luck and thanks again. Do you have any words for our readers?
Dagny Susanne: Thanks for doing the interview and thanks to the readers for reading!
Thank you SSUS for proofread
As much as people give you shit around here - great job brother. Good read.
Written by tea[m]ster on 27.02.2016 at 16:14
Those are an intellectual answers, one of nest I read ... in last 20 years metal changed image, not any drunk ozzy in a pool pr bmsters talk about matches and burning ....
I read it was impressed, I like answers about nature, even I disagree whit Dagny . I never want to leave, I don't need see gigs, meet musicians, I prefer her up in a north
ManiacBlasphemer
Nice interview.


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On the corporate calendar, full-year numbers from Associated British Foods and Imperial Brands, and first-half figures from M&S, Burberry and Sainsbury's, will be worth watching out for, while in the US, earnings season continues to grind on.


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Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody in First 'Damsels in Distress' Trailer
Source: Yahoo! Movies
After becoming a mumblecore darling, the lovely Greta Gerwig (right) has since broken into mainstream cinema with No Strings Attached and Arthur, not to mention a forthcoming role in Woody Allen's next film Nero Fiddled. Now she leads the new film Damsels in Distress, the story of three girls who set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind. It doesn't look like the best film, but it's not without a few charms here and there. Basically Gerwig makes it worth a moment of your time. Watch!
Here's the first trailer for Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress via Yahoo! Movies:
Whit Stillman wrote and directed this film about a trio of beautiful girls, the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore) who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university. Adam Brody (Cop Out) and Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love) also star in the film which Sony Pictures Classics is bringing to theaters on April 6th, 2012.
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Aubrey Plaza!!!!
BSL on Feb 13, 2012
Thought that said Adrian Brody... woops
Zeus on Feb 13, 2012
This looks surprisingly good actually. Reminds me of the movie Strike with a little bit of Outside Providence
Bombadeer on Feb 14, 2012
Great trailer! Should be very entertaining.
Anonymous on Feb 14, 2012
That girl looks like Britney Murphy.
esophus on Feb 14, 2012


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Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin () was a 17th-century paytan and chronicler.

In the years of taḥ ve-tat (1648–49) he lived at Shcherbreshin, Poland, an honored member of the community, from where he escaped, on its invasion by the Cossacks, to Krakow. There he published his Tzok ha-Ittim (1650), an eyewitness account, in Hebrew verse, of Jewish persecution during the Cossack uprising. This book was afterward published by Joshua ben David of Lemberg under his own name; Moritz Steinschneider was the first to discover this plagiarism.

Meir wrote also Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat, a Sabbath hymn in Aramaic and Yiddish (Venice, 1639; Amsterdam, 1654).

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Madama Butterfly in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th March 2009
Madama Butterfly was broadcast throughout much of the world today (March 7, 2009) in HD. Patricia Racette replaced the indisposed Christina Gallardo-Domâs in the title role. This replacement was of inestimable value to the performance as Racette's impersonation is much better than that of Gallardo-Domâs who lacks the vocal means for Puccini's daunting teenager.
I saw the first performance of this production on opening night of the Met's 2006 season. I wasn't very impressed with it. The two biggest reasons for my dislike of it were the vocally weak Cio Cio San of Gallardo-Domâs and the puppet used as Butterfly's child. I'll get back to the puppet in a bit.
The late Anthony Minghella's staging seems to work better on the big screen than it did in the house. The end of the first act was beautifully rendered – at least it was when video director Gary Halvorson pulled his camera back far enough to see most of the stage. Alas, video directors still haven't figured out how to broadcast a live opera performance. The TV directors of sporting events have their craft down perfectly, but we still have a long way to go with live opera.
Patricia Racette with Roberto Alagna
Opera in performance was meant to be viewed from one perspective at a distance. Watching a 43 year old singer pretend to be a 15 year old Japanese girl requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. Even more of this suspension is needed when the camera is half way up her nose. Racette managed to fully inhabit Butterfly despite Halvorson's intrusive cameras. Hers is a complete characterization that meets the opera's great vocal challenges and which also captures all of Puccini's pathos. It was a very moving performance.
And yet it failed Butterfly's crucial test of effectiveness. When Cio Cio San thinks Pinkerton has returned to her and gives a cry of triumph the audience always applauds. At least they did before big time directors had their way with the opera. In this case the lack of audience reaction was not the fault of Racette. It was that damn puppet.
The audience is sailing along in the second act sobbing itself blue when Butterfly brings out her son to show him to Sharpless. And what do we see? A bald puppet in a sailor suit manipulated by three puppeteers clad in black. The suspension of you know what disappeared as fast as hydrogen from the Hindenburg. Racette got a lot of it back, but not in time for a "can't fail moment" that failed. Also, the transmission was lost for a second or two during "Un bel di vedremo" A terrible place for this to happen.
Anthony Minghella is dead so it's not effective to beat his corpse with the puppet. Instead blame his wife Carolyn Choa who took over direction of this production. Furthermore, it seems that the puppet was her idea to start with. There are a lot of bad directorial decisions floating around the Met these days. This one is in Mary Zimmerman territory. I know Minghella did this before Zimmerman struck, but you get the idea. Racette said she loved the puppet – a white lie or dementia? You choose.
Marcello Giordani
Marcello Giordani was Pinkerton. Except for a few dry spots he was very effective in the role, though he was a little loud for the part or virile and passionate depending on your want. Since the Met uses him for everything except as the ladies room attendant (I really don't know if there's one in there) they should have had him sing Manrico in Il Trovatore instead of the weak Marcelo Álvarez. He could have squeezed it in during his break between acts one and three. You could easily fit Trovatore into that interval.
Dwayne Croft seems to have comfortably settled into his slot a permanent second banana at the Met. His top is getting a little tight, but he was effective in his undemanding role. Maria Zifchak also did as much as is possible with Suzuki. Remarkably David Won made an impression with Yamadori's few lines. A nice dark voice. It will be interesting to see if he's heard from later on.
Patrick Summers conducted. He was more attuned to Puccini's marvelous score than was James Levine who conducted when this production was first mounted. Maestro Levine was ailing back then which may explain his tepid reading. In summary, the best Butterfly I've seen since the great Diana Soviero. Good for Racette.
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Sylvia Burrage says:
Thank you so much. Racette is singing Butterfly here in May and I knew nothing about her in this role so I was reluctant about going. Hopefully its a different production.
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In recent weeks, we've been following progress on New Zealand's proposed second-tier "Advancement" patent with interest. As we moved from first, to second and then third updates, optimism that New Zealand's patent system would be tweaked in favour of "the little guy" quickly waned; it became apparent that support for the Bill (Patents (Advancement Patents) Amendment Bill 2018) was divided along party lines – and that the majority were quite strongly opposed to it.
On 8 August 2018, the Bill's first reading was concluded – and it was voted upon. As predicted, there were 57 "Ayes" and 63 "Noes". The notion of a second-tier New Zealand patent system – at least in the form proposed by the draft legislation, is now dead in the water.
Could this influence what happens with Australia's "Innovation" patent?
We are disappointed by this outcome and feel as though it's a case of "opportunity missed" for the New Zealand patent system. Whether the failure of the Bill at all influences the future of the counterpart "Innovation" patent system in Australia remains to be seen. As readers will know from our previous update, this has now returned to death row where its fate will doubtless be revealed over the next few months.
As always, we'll keep readers updated.


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News and Tidbits for the Temple University Film and Media Arts Community – A Temple Libraries Blog
TU Libraries' Website
recent additions to Silent Film Online
Silent Film Online has added 137 new titles to the streaming collection this month. They've also added some information about the score composer for some of the films. Highlights in the new content include:
British Film Institute: examples of early British and French cinema from the 1900s
A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works, 1906 This company publicity film is one of the earliest surviving examples of film documenting British industry.
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs, 1905. This 1905 Pathé Brothers production by director Segundo de Chomon is a French film version of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. An example of color stencil color film print, a technique patented as the Pathéchrome process.
A Day in the Life of a Coalminer, 1910.
Rescued by Rover, 1905. This highly successful kidnapping drama directed by Cecil Hepworth features the Hepworth family dog, Blair, who went on to be one of the first dog film stars. Recognized as the United Kingdom's first major fiction film, it is also said to have been the first film to have used paid actors.
Flicker Alley: first installment of over 80 hours of content acquired from Flicker Alley, this update features selections from the definitive Rudolph Valentino DVD, Valentino: Rediscovering an Icon of Silent Film, a compilation that details several aspects of the Italian actor's remarkable life and legacy.
Character Studies, 1927. This comedy features cameo appearances by Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Jackie Coogan, and Harold Lloyd.
A Trip to Paramountown, 1922. A behind-the-scenes look at the Paramount Pictures studio.
Valentino: Screen Snapshots. This documentary features a behind-the-scenes look at the 1921 Valentino film The Sheik.
Kino International
Harry Houdini: Archival Footage. This documentary features archival footage of Houdini's escapes, from the collection of the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department.
By the Sun's Rays, 1914. A silent one-reel Western film featuring Lon Chaney considered to be his earliest film that has survived.
The Silent Years. A 1970s PBS series hosted by Orson Welles which features stars like Lillian Gish discussing monumental silent films like Broken Blossoms.
Faust: Deluxe Edition. This special Kino edition contains the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation's meticulous restoration of the original German version of the film (with unique hand-painted intertitles), as well as a lengthier alternate cut prepared by the Ufa Studios in 1930.
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package com.netflix.runtime.health.core.caching;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.netflix.runtime.health.api.Health;
import com.netflix.runtime.health.api.HealthCheckStatus;
import com.netflix.runtime.health.api.HealthIndicator;
import com.netflix.runtime.health.api.HealthIndicatorCallback;

public class DefaultCachingHealthCheckAggregatorTest {

    @Test(timeout=1000)
    public void testCachedIndicatorNameNotHidden() throws Exception {
        DefaultCachingHealthCheckAggregator aggregator = new DefaultCachingHealthCheckAggregator(
                Arrays.asList(new TestHealthIndicator()), 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS, null);
        HealthCheckStatus aggregatedHealth = aggregator.check().get();
        assertTrue(aggregatedHealth.isHealthy());
        assertEquals(1, aggregatedHealth.getHealthResults().size());
        assertEquals(TestHealthIndicator.class.getName(), aggregatedHealth.getHealthResults().get(0).getDetails().get("className"));
    }

    private static class TestHealthIndicator implements HealthIndicator {
        public void check(HealthIndicatorCallback healthCallback) {
            healthCallback.inform(Health.healthy().build());
        }
    }
}

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On not having a weeding ceremony: "I get married all the time. I was in a wedding dress last week!" [She's been shooting The Art of Racing in the Rain, based on the 2008 bestseller, in Vancouver.] "I also go to premieres where people take my picture. I just don't care about all that stuff."
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Q: Updating entity child collection in EF6 I have a model called Driver which contains a list of 'DriverQualifications' and on update I would want to add/remove/update values of current DriverQualifications.
My current attempt to update by first clearing the list and readding all elements:
public void UpdateOne(Driver val)
{
    using (var db = new COMP1690Entities())
    {
        Driver d = db.Drivers.Where((dr) => dr.Id == val.Id).Include("DriverQualifications.Qualification").FirstOrDefault();
        d.DriverQualifications.Clear();
        foreach (DriverQualification q in val.DriverQualifications)
        {
            q.Fk_Qualifications_Id = q.Qualification.Id;
            q.Qualification = null;
            d.DriverQualifications.Add(q);
        }
        d.Phone_Number = val.Phone_Number;
        db.SaveChanges();
    }
}

This results in 'Multiplicity constraint violated. The role 'Drivers' of the relationship 'COMP1690Model.DriverQualifications_ibfk_1' has multiplicity 1 or 0..1.'
How I'm adding values to the DB:
    public void CreateOne(Driver val)
    {
        using (var db = new COMP1690Entities())
        {
            foreach(DriverQualification q in val.DriverQualifications)
            {
                q.Fk_Qualifications_Id = q.Qualification.Id;
                q.Qualification = null;
            }
            db.Drivers.Add(val);
            db.SaveChanges();
        }
    }

Driver model:
public partial class Driver
{
    [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Usage", "CA2214:DoNotCallOverridableMethodsInConstructors")]
    public Driver()
    {
        this.DriverQualifications = new HashSet<DriverQualification>();
        this.DriverTrainings = new HashSet<DriverTraining>();
    }

    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Phone_Number { get; set; }

    [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Usage", "CA2227:CollectionPropertiesShouldBeReadOnly")]
    public virtual ICollection<DriverQualification> DriverQualifications { get; set; }
    [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Usage", "CA2227:CollectionPropertiesShouldBeReadOnly")]
    public virtual ICollection<DriverTraining> DriverTrainings { get; set; }
}

DriverQualification model:
public partial class DriverQualification
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public Nullable<System.DateTime> Expiry_Date { get; set; }
    public int Fk_Driver_Id { get; set; }
    public int Fk_Qualifications_Id { get; set; }

    public virtual Driver Driver { get; set; }
    public virtual Qualification Qualification { get; set; }
}

A: pretty sure your problem is related to the way the EF context loads/tracks entities.
This code:
using (var db = new COMP1690Entities())
    {
        Driver d = db.Drivers.Where((dr) => dr.Id == val.Id).Include("DriverQualifications.Qualification").FirstOrDefault();
        d.DriverQualifications.Clear();
        foreach (DriverQualification q in val.DriverQualifications)
        {
            q.Fk_Qualifications_Id = q.Qualification.Id;
            q.Qualification = null;
            d.DriverQualifications.Add(q);
        }
        d.Phone_Number = val.Phone_Number;
        db.SaveChanges();
    }

does the following:
1)  Loads the driver and all it's driver qualifications (and each of their qualifications).
2)  Clears the qualifications from the current driver.
3)  Loops through the incoming qualifications
4)  Adds the "new" qualification to the current driver.
I believe the issue is related to #2 and #4.   Even through you "Clear" the qualifications, they are still being references by the EF context.   When you get to #4 and attempt to include those again, you get the multiplicity error that you are seeing.
I'm not entirely sure this will solve your issue as I've never tried this approach before, but I'm curious if you were to loop through the list of qualifications and manually set it's state in the context to deleted if that would resolve your problem.
So, instead of:
d.DriverQualifications.Clear();

Do this instead (inside a foreach loop):
db.Entry(d).State = System.Data.Entity.EntityState.Deleted;

Again...can't guarantee this will work, but I think you are going to have to so something of this nature to deal with the entities that are attached to the context during your initial get request.

A: When dealing with EF and references (DriverQualification -> Qualification) use the references, not the FKs. In fact, I generally advise not to even add FKs to the entities, but rather use shadow properties (EF Core) or .Map() in the entity configuration to avoid having them accessible.  The issue you are facing is that EF is still tracking DriverQualification entities that reference a particular Qualification, so setting a Qualification to null and updating a FK doesn't really work.
So you're passing back a Driver, want to load that driver entity fresh, and update their qualifications based on the passed in driver.
Assuming that the driver passed in came from a client (web app, etc.) and has been modified, we cannot "trust" it, or it's reference data, so it's good that you are loading it fresh rather than re-attaching it to the context.
edit: I recommend using a ViewModel rather than passing an entity, even if you don't intend to trust it. The main risk of passing the entity is that it can be tempting to re-attach/use it, or referenced entities when updating. I had to second-check this answer because I thought I'd broken that rule when getting the updated Qualifications! :) Passing entity graphs to a client browser for instance also exposes more information about your domain than you should. Even if you don't display various columns/fks/reference data, clients can view this data using debugging tools. It's also more data across the wire than may be needed. Automapper can make transposing entities to view models a snap, and works with IQueryable as well. (ProjectTo). /edit
I've renamed some of the variables for clarity.. (I.e. val => updatedDriver)
using (var context = new COMP1690Entities())
{
    var updatedQualificationIds = updatedDriver.DriverQualifications.Select(dq => dq.Qualification.Id).ToList();
    // Get the updated qualification entities from the DB.
    var updatedQualifications = context.Qualifications.Where(q => updatedQualificationIds.Contains(q.Id)).ToList();

    var driver = context.Drivers.Where(d => d.Id == updatedDriver.Id)
        .Include(d => d.DriverQualifications)
        .Include("DriverQualifications.Qualification").Single();

    var driverQualificationsToRemove = driver.DriverQualifications
        .Where(dq => !updatedQualificationIds.Contains(udq.Qualification.Id));

    foreach(var driverQualification in driverQualificationsToRemove)
        driver.DriverQualifications.Remove(driverQualification);

    var driverQualificationsToAdd = updatedDriverQualifications
        .Except(driver.DriverQualifications.Select(dq => dq.Qualification),
            new LamdaComparer((q1,q2) => q1.Id == q2.Id))
        .Select(q => new DriverQualification { Qualification = q })
        .ToList();

    driver.DriverQualifications.AddRange(driverQualificationsToAdd);

    driver.PhoneNumber = updatedDriver.PhoneNumber;

    context.SaveChanges();
}

This assumes that we want to remove qualification associations that are no longer associated to the driver, and add any new qualifications not already associated. (leaving any unchanged qualifications.)
The LamdaComparer you can find here
Basically, to avoid reference/key issues, stick with updating references and ignoring FKs entirely. For entities/contexts where I need to do a lot of "raw" updates I will declare just FKs and forgo adding references for performance.


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Mise à prix ou Coup fumant au Québec ou Carré d'As en Belgique et en Suisse () est un film anglo-franco-américain réalisé par Joe Carnahan et sorti en 2006.

Synopsis
Le boss de la pègre Primo Sparazza a lancé un contrat juteux sur la tête de Robert « Buddy Aces » Israel, un magicien louche qui a décidé de dévoiler au grand jour ce qui se passe dans le milieu de la pègre de Las Vegas. Le FBI, pressentant sa chance d'utiliser cet escroc à la petite semaine pour faire tomber le gros morceau que représente Sparazza, place Aces en détention provisoire, sous le contrôle de deux agents envoyés à la planque de Aces au lac Tahoe. Lorsque le montant de la rançon pour la tête de Aces se diffuse dans la communauté, des escrocs et escrocs en devenir, chasseurs de primes, gangsters, vieilles camées et traîtres du milieu se lancent également à sa poursuite. Les yeux rivés sur Tahoe, cette galerie de voyous tourne en course-poursuite hilarante afin de toucher le jackpot et liquider Aces.

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 Titre original :
 Titre français : Mise à prix
 Titre québécois : Coup fumant
 Autre titre francophone : Carré d'As
 Réalisation et scénario  : Joe Carnahan
 Directeur artistique : Maria L. Baker
 Chef décorateur : Martin Whist ; Brana Rosenfeld (décoratrice de plateau)
 Costumière : Mary Zophres
 Directeur de la photographie : Mauro Fiore
 Montage vidéo : Robert Frazen
 Musique : Clint Mansell
 Production : Tim Bevan et Eric Fellner ; Noel Donnellon et David Z. Obadia (séquence titre)
 Producteur exécutif : Liza Chasin et Robert Graf ; Jeff Abberley et Julia Blackman (Scion Films)
 Sociétés de production : Universal Pictures, Studiocanal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films et Scion Films
Sociétés de distribution :  Universal Pictures (Royaume-Uni, États-Unis), Studiocanal (France)
 Budget :
 Pays d'origine : , ,
 Langue originale : anglais britannique et américain
 Format : couleur -  - 2,35:1 - son Dolby Digital
 Genres : action, thriller, policier
 Durée : 109 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 États-Unis :  (Butt-Numb-A-Thon à Austin, au Texas})
 Royaume-Uni :
 États-Unis, Canada :
 Suisse :
 Belgique :
 France :  (Festival du film de Cognac) ;  (sortie nationale)
 Classification :
 États-Unis : R - Restricted
 France : interdit aux moins de 12 ans

Distribution

Ryan Reynolds (V. F. : Pierre Tessier ; V. Q. : François Godin) : l'agent Richard Messner
Jeremy Piven (V. F. : Lionel Tua ; V. Q. : Louis-Philippe Dandenault) : Robert « Buddy Aces » Israel
 Ray Liotta (V. F. : Bruno Choel ; V. Q. : Daniel Picard) : l'agent Donald Carruthers
 Andy García (V. F. : Bernard Gabay ; V. Q. : Jean-Luc Montminy) : Stanley Locke, directeur adjoint du FBI
 Alicia Keys (V. F. : Vanina Pradier) : Georgia Sykes, tueuse réputée du ghetto
Common (V.F. : Paul Borne ; V. Q. : Éric Gaudry) : Sir Ivy, le bras droit d'Israel
Jason Bateman (V.F. : Marc Perez) : Rupert Reed, dit Rip, avocat commanditaire de l'équipe
Ben Affleck (V. F. : Frédéric Popovic ; V. Q. : Pierre Auger) : Jack Dupree
 Curtis Armstrong (V. F. : Michel Mella ; V. Q. : Manuel Tadros) : Morris Mecklen
Chris Pine (V. F. : Fabien Jacquelin ; V. Q. : Jean-François Beaupré) : Darwin Tremor
Joel Edgerton (V. Q. : Patrick Chouinard) : Hugo Croop, garde du corps pas malin
 Taraji P. Henson (V. F. : Annie Milon ; V. Q. : Camille Cyr-Desmarais) : Sharice Waters, associée de Georgia
 Nestor Carbonell (V. Q. : Luis de Cespedes) : Pasquale Acosta, spécialiste de la torture
 Tommy Flanagan (V. Q. : Sylvain Hétu) : Lazlo Soot, spécialiste du déguisement
 Peter Berg (V. Q. : François Trudel) : Pete Deeks
Brian Bloom : l'agent Baker
 Martin Henderson (V. F. : Serge Faliu ; V. Q. : Antoine Durand) : Hollis Elmore
 Kevin Durand : Jeeves Tremor
 Christopher Michael Holley (V. Q. : François L'Écuyer) : Beanie
 Maury Sterling : Lester Tremor
 David Proval (V. Q. : Jean-Marie Moncelet) : Victor « Baby Buzz » Padiche
 Alex Rocco (V. Q. : Vincent Davy) : Serna
 Matthew Fox (V. F. : David Kruger ; V. Q. : Benoît Gouin) : Bill, le chef de la sécurité
 Joseph Ruskin : Primo Sparazza
 Wayne Newton : lui-même
 Joe Carnahan : un homme armé (caméo)
Sources et légendes : Version française (V. F.) sur Voxofilm et Version québécoise (V. Q.) sur Doublage.qc.ca

Production

Développement et choix des interprètes
Pour le personnage de Buddy Israel, le réalisateur-scénariste Joe Carnahan avoue s'être inspiré de Frank Sinatra :

Michael Shannon avait été initialement choisi pour incarner Darwin Tremor. Il sera cependant renvoyé après s'en être pris à une costumière. Il sera remplacé par Chris Pine. Ce dernier aurait fait fort impression au réalisateur lors de son audition.

C'est le premier long métrage dans lequel a joué la chanteuse Alicia Keys.

Tournage
Le tournage a lieu d'octobre à décembre 2005. Il se déroule en Californie  ainsi qu'à Las Vegas.

Bande originale

La musique du film est composée par Clint Mansell. L'album contient principalement des chansons présentes dans le film, à l'exception de Spottieottiedopaliscious d'OutKast. Il est par ailleurs possible d'entendre la chanson Assassin du groupe Muse pendant la bande-annonce, extraite de leur album Black Holes and Revelations.

Sortie et accueil

Critique
Le film reçoit des critiques partagées. Sur l'agrégateur américain Rotten Tomatoes, il recueille un certain pourcentage d'opinions favorables pour un certain nombre de critiques et une note moyenne de . Sur Metacritic, il obtient une note moyenne de  pour 32 critiques.

En France, le film obtient une note moyenne de  sur le site AlloCiné, qui recense 18 titres de presse.

Le cinéaste Terrence Malick a déclaré qu'il adorait le film qu'il trouve bien réalisé.

Box-office
Le film a rencontré un succès commercial modeste, rapportant  de recettes mondiales, dont  rien qu'aux États-Unis. En France, il totalise  durant toute son exploitation.

Suite
Une préquelle du film, intitulée Mise à prix 2 réalisé par , est sortie en 2010.

Distinctions
Le film reçoit 4 récompenses :
 Artios Awards 2007 : meilleure distribution d'un film d'action ou horreur
 Festival du film policier de Cognac 2007 : prix de la critique internationale et prix spécial du jury
 New York Festivals 2007 : meilleurs génériques

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Mise à prix 2
 Mindfuck

Liens externes

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Film mettant en scène un tueur à gages
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Film tourné à Las Vegas
Film interdit aux moins de 12 ans en France
Film classé R aux États-Unis