Prošek is the most well known Croatian dessert wine. Despite its name it has nothing to do with the Italian Prosecco, which is a sparkling wine. There are no similarities between the products either with regards to production method, style or the grapes used, nor is there any relation between the origins of the two names.
Prošek is more likely to compare with the (less known) Italian dessert wine Vino Santo (holy wine). These are straw wines since they are produced by drying the freshly harvested grapes on straw mats in a warm and well ventilated area of the house.
This is the same style of production in Croatia. The composition is typically of Bogdanuša, Maraština or Vugava (all native Croatian white grapes) with higher-end versions being a blend of the base white grapes and Plavac Mali (a red Croatian grape).
Prošek is a sweet dessert wine that is traditionally from the southern area of Dalmatia. It is usually much more expensive than other wines due to an average of seven times more grapes being needed to make the same amount of wine.


They will share these concepts Tuesday, April 26 at a City Heights community-wide workshop. They need your input on problem locations and preferred solutions. Vision Zero is a City of San Diego initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries to zero by 2025 through engineering, education, and enforcement.
The City is conducting a specific plan for the area around the future trolley station at Balboa Avenue. The purpose of this plan and the website is to engage the Pacific Beach and Clairemont Mesa communities and develop a strategy that addresses land use, urban design concepts, and multi-modal improvements to increase bicycle, pedestrian, and transit access to the station. This plan will also establish goals and policies to guide future public and private development to facilitate transit-oriented development (TOD) adjacent to the planned Balboa Avenue Trolley Station, and identify strategies to fund infrastructure improvements.
Check out the new website and take the survey, leave a comment, and participate in the community discussion.
Circulate San Diego is looking for volunteers to help with business and resident surveys regarding safe streets and Vision Zero. Weekday afternoons and weekend shifts. Volunteering is a great way to be part of the safe transportation transformation in the region.
As a part of our continuing campaign to fix the Compass Card, Circulate San Diego sent a letter last week to the MTS board.
We are heartened to see that MTS has taken immediate action to apply for a grant to fund an upgrade to address PCI compliance for the Compass Card, and to hold a hearing to update the public on the Compass Card at the MTS April board meeting. We are pleased to submit this letter with suggestions regarding how MTS can enhance fare payment systems for our region's transit systems [PDF].
Also, be sure to read the article KPBS published last Thursday - MTS Board Approves Mobile Ticketing Contract.
UC San Diego recently solicited input from the campus community regarding transportation and parking policy.
Supporters for smart transportation choices let the administration know they support more access to campus for transit, walking, and bicycling. Circulate San Diego submitted a detailed comment letter, outlining a variety of ways UC San Diego can improve access to the campus, without relying only on more expensive car storage and added traffic.
You can read a full copy of our letter here [PDF].
The 2016 PedsCount! Summit is headed to Long Beach, June 6 & 7, 2016. The PedsCount! Summit is a terrific opportunity to network with community advocates representing walking, safety, design, public health, planning, education, equity, transit and sustainable transportation. The summit will allow practitioners to explore the planning, transportation infrastructure, institutional and educational issues, as well as successful strategies for creating safe, walkable communities in California.


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U.N. General Assembly Rejects Russian Annexation of Crimea
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to reject Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. The resolution was proposed by Ukraine and backed by the United States and European Union. Ukraine's acting minister for foreign affairs, Andrii Deshchytsia, spoke before the vote.
Andrii Deshchytsia: "Over the last months, we have witnessed the most flagrant violations of international law since the inception of the United Nations. After two weeks of military occupation, an integral part of Ukraine has been forcibly annexed by a state that had previously committed itself to guarantee the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of my country."
The resolution declares this month's referendum for secession in Crimea invalid. But Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said the people of Crimea had made the choice to join Russia.
Vitaly Churkin: "Mr. President, on March 21, an event occurred which is of truly historic significance, following the referendum in the Crimea, during which the overwhelming majority of the Crimean population voted in favor of being with Russia. Following that, there was a reunification of Crimea and the Russian Federation. We call on everyone to respect that voluntary choice, just as Russia has done."
Ukraine plans to hold elections on May 25 following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday she intends to run.
U.S. Congress Backs $1 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine
U.S. lawmakers in both the House and Senate have voted nearly unanimously to pass a $1 billion aid package for Ukraine. Senator Bob Menendez, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Congress could take further steps if needed.
Sen. Bob Menendez: "We will continue to engage in whatever we think would be helpful to position the United States in a way that exerts leadership with our European allies, gives President Putin a real sense that there are real consequences for any further actions, and also says to other global actors in the world: 'Don't think about it, because it's not going to be worth your time.'"
The U.S. aid package adds to $18 billion in loans to Ukraine from the International Monetary Fund in exchange for austerity reforms.
U.N. Committee Criticizes U.S. Record on Human Rights
The U.N. Human Rights Committee has issued a wide-ranging report criticizing the human rights record of the United States. The report assessed U.S. compliance with a key human rights treaty and found it lacking in more than two dozen areas. Issues of concern included the Obama administration's drone program, National Security Agency spying, the death penalty, detention of homeless people and immigrants, life sentences imposed on juveniles, racial profiling and police brutality. The committee called for closing Guantánamo, releasing the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the George W. Bush administration's torture and rendition program, and prosecuting those involved in torturing prisoners.
Scores Killed in Baghdad Blasts; 400,000 Displaced This Year in Western Iraq
Four people have been killed after three bombs went off in a market area in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Today's attack follows a wave of bombings that killed more than 30 people in Baghdad on Thursday. Meanwhile, the U.N. envoy to Iraq says about 400,000 people have been displaced so far this year by violence in western Iraq, including the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
Obamacare Enrollment Tops 6 Million Before Deadline
President Obama announced Thursday insurance enrollment under his signature healthcare law has reached six million people. Signups have spiked in the lead-up to Monday's deadline. The administration issued an extension until mid-April for those who apply but are not able to complete enrollment by March 31.
Italians Protest Obama's Record During Rome Visit
President Obama was in Italy Thursday where he met with Pope Francis for the first time. During his visit, protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Rome to criticize Obama's policies. Among them was Piero Bernocchi, leader of the Cobas trade union.
Piero Bernocchi: "Obama has not changed the U.S. government policies, be it for the wars they engage in, nor the divisions the U.S. creates in several countries to be then able to intervene, or be it for the economic accords like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which will be destructive for the environment and the social conditions in this country. Therefore we are here to say that he is not a welcome guest."
Washington State: Mudslide Death Toll to Rise "Substantially"
The death toll from a mudslide northeast of Seattle, Washington, stands at 25 with 90 still missing. Officials have warned the toll could rise "substantially" today or tomorrow pending reports from the medical examiner's office.
BP More Than Doubles Size Estimate for Lake Michigan Spill
BP has more than doubled its estimate for the size of its oil spill in Lake Michigan, which supplies drinking water to millions of people. The company now says up to 39 barrels or about 1,600 gallons of oil spilled from an Indiana refinery that processes tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada.
9 U.S. Nuclear Commanders Fired in Cheating Scandal
The U.S. Air Force has fired nine commanders entrusted with the oversight of nuclear weapons amid a cheating scandal at a base in Montana. A 10th official, who was the senior officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, is also resigning follow reports of widespread cheating on exams.
Report Details Claim Gov. Christie Was Told of Lane Closings, Did Not Remember
A law firm hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Christie had no prior knowledge of lane closings on the George Washington Bridge that were carried out in an apparent act of political retaliation. According to the report, the Port Authority official who oversaw the closings, David Wildstein, said he told Christie about them while they were in progress. But attorney Randy Mastro said Christie did not recall that conversation.
Randy Mastro: "We found that Gov. Christie had no knowledge beforehand of this George Washington Bridge realignment idea and that he played no role whatsoever in that decision or the implementation of it. We further found no evidence that anyone in the governor's office, besides Bridget Kelly, knew of this idea in advance or played any role in the decision or the implementation of it."
The report cost taxpayers more than $1 million. Attorneys were unable to interview key figures at the center of the scandal, including David Wildstein and Bridget Anne Kelly, the former Christie aide who approved the closings.
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Texas Restrictions That Shuttered Abortion Clinics
A federal appeals court has upheld anti-choice restrictions that have shuttered a third of abortion clinics in Texas. Providers challenged the provisions on constitutional grounds, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them. Following the law's passage, there are no abortion providers left in the Rio Grande Valley, the poorest part of Texas. When another provision requiring hospital-style building standards comes into effect in September, the statewide total could drop to six. This week, Planned Parenthood announced it would open a new clinic in San Antonio, Texas, that meets the building standards.
Texas Executes 4th Prisoner This Year; Judge Orders Disclosure of Drug's New Supplier
Texas has executed its fourth prisoner this year. Anthony Doyle was pronounced dead 25 minutes after being injected with pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy. His execution came hours after a state judge ordered prison officials to disclose the name of the state's new supplier of pentobarbital to attorneys for two prisoners set for execution next month. The ruling came a day after an Oklahoma judge struck down that state's law hiding information about execution drugs. An Amnesty International report Thursday ranked the United States fifth worldwide in the number of executions it carries out, after China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
U.N. Council to Probe Possible War Crimes in Sri Lanka
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to open a probe into possible war crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the final phase of a military assault to crush Tamil separatists. Both sides are accused of carrying out serious abuses during the 26-year conflict, which ended in 2009. The council's high commissioner, Navi Pillay, requested the inquiry into both the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels, or LTTE.
Navi Pillay: "Almost five years since the end of the conflict, it is important for the Human Rights Council to recall the magnitude and gravity of the violations alleged to have been committed at that time by the government and by the LTTE (Tigers of Tamil Eelam) which left thousands of civilians killed, injured or missing. Failure to address the grief and trauma among victims and survivors undermines confidence in the state and reconciliation."
Domino's Workers Win Restitution for Stolen Wages
In New York City, Domino's workers have won nearly $450,000 in restitution after being paid below the minimum wage and denied overtime. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he reached the deal with the owners of 23 Domino's stores. It follows a similar victory by McDonald's employees, bringing the total amount of stolen wages regained by fast-food workers in New York City to nearly $1 million in two weeks. The Fast Food Forward campaign says more than 80 percent of New York City's fast-food workers report wage theft. In related news, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has signed a bill raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour starting in 2017.
U.S. Army Vet Placed in Solitary Confinement After Protest Bid at Immigration Jail
A U.S. Army veteran imprisoned at an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, says he has been placed in solitary confinement after calling for a work stoppage among prisoners. The Northwest Detention Center is owned by the for-profit GEO Group. Hassall Moses says he tried to type up a letter calling for fellow prisoners to protest by halting work, but the letter was intercepted, and he was placed in solitary confinement. Moses spoke in an audio recording made by an attorney.
Hassall Moses: "Basically, this facility is run by detainees. And if we everybody stopped working, then we could negotiate like the pay raise, because right now everybody's working for a dollar. You know, we can negotiate. We could talk about the quality of the food, the living conditions."
Immigrants at the prison are in their third week of a hunger strike for better conditions and an end to record deportations.

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RSpec.describe ThreeScaleToolbox::CRD::Remote do
  let(:system_name) { 'some_system_name' }
  let(:name) { 'some name' }
  let(:description) { 'some descr' }

  let(:backend_01_metrics) do
    {
      'hits' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'Hits',
        'unit' => 'hit',
        'description' => 'Number of API hits',
      }
    }
  end

  let(:backend_02_metrics) { backend_01_metrics }

  let(:backend_01_methods) do
    {
      'backend_01_method' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'my backend_01_method',
        'description' => 'backend_01_method desc',
      },
    }
  end

  let(:backend_02_methods) do
    {
      'backend_02_method' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'my backend_02_method',
        'description' => 'backend_02_method desc',
      },
    }
  end

  let(:backend_01_mapping_rules) do
    [
      {
        'httpMethod' => 'GET',
        'pattern' => '/v1/pets',
        'increment' => 1,
        'last' => true,
        'metricMethodRef' => 'backend_01_method',
      }
    ]
  end

  let(:backend_02_mapping_rules) do
    [
      {
        'httpMethod' => 'GET',
        'pattern' => '/v1/pets',
        'increment' => 1,
        'last' => true,
        'metricMethodRef' => 'backend_02_method',
      }
    ]
  end

  let(:metrics) do
    {
      'hits' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'Hits',
        'unit' => 'hit',
        'description' => 'Number of API hits',
      },
      'mymetric01' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'my metric01',
        'unit' => '1',
        'description' => 'mymetric01 desc',
      },
    }
  end

  let(:methods) do
    {
      'mymethod01' => {
        'friendlyName' => 'my method01',
        'description' => 'mymethod01 desc',
      },
    }
  end

  let(:mapping_rules) do
    [
      {
        'httpMethod' => 'GET',
        'pattern' => '/v1/pets',
        'increment' => 1,
        'last' => true,
        'metricMethodRef' => 'mymethod01',
      }
    ]
  end

  let(:gateway_response) do
    {
      'errorStatusAuthFailed' => '1',
      'errorHeadersAuthFailed' => '2',
      'errorAuthFailed' => '3',
      'errorStatusAuthMissing' => '4',
      'errorHeadersAuthMissing' => '5',
      'errorAuthMissing' => '6',
      'errorStatusNoMatch' => '7',
      'errorHeadersNoMatch' => '8',
      'errorNoMatch' => '9',
      'errorStatusLimitsExceeded' => '10',
      'errorHeadersLimitsExceeded' => '11',
      'errorLimitsExceeded' => '12'
    }
  end

  let(:limit_01) do
    {
      'period' => 'eternity',
      'value' => 1000,
      'metricMethodRef' => {
        'systemName' => 'hits',
      }
    }
  end

  let(:pricing_rule_01) do
    {
      'from' => 1,
      'to' => 1000,
      'pricePerUnit' => 1,
      'metricMethodRef' => {
        'systemName' => 'hits',
      }
    }
  end

  let(:basic_plan) do
    {
      'name' => "Basic Plan",
      'appsRequireApproval' => true,
      'trialPeriod' => 0,
      'setupFee' => 0,
      'custom' => false,
      'state' => 'hidden',
      'costMonth' => 0,
      'pricingRules' => [pricing_rule_01],
      'limits' => [limit_01]
    }
  end

  let(:plans) { { 'basic' => basic_plan } }

  let(:backend_usages) do
    {
      'backend_01' => { 'path' => '/v1' },
      'backend_02' => { 'path' => '/v2' },
    }
  end

  let(:apicast_policy) do
    {
      'name' => 'apicast',
      'version' => 'builtin',
      'configuration' => {},
      'enabled' => true,
    }
  end

  let(:policy_chain) { [apicast_policy] }

  let(:security) { { 'hostHeader' => 'my_hostname', 'secretToken' => 'my_secret_token' } }

  let(:deployment) do
    {
      'apicastSelfManaged' => {
        'authentication' => {
          'userkey' => {
            'authUserKey' => 'my_user_key',
            'credentials' => 'mycredentials',
            'security' => security,
            'gatewayResponse' => gateway_response,
          }
        }
      }
    }
  end
  let(:product_raw_base) do
    {
      'apiVersion' => 'capabilities.3scale.net/v1beta1',
      'kind' => 'Product',
      'metadata' => {},
      'spec' => {
        'systemName' => system_name,
        'name' => name,
        'description' => description,
        'methods' => methods,
        'metrics' => metrics,
        'mappingRules' => mapping_rules,
        'deployment' => deployment,
        'applicationPlans' => plans,
        'backendUsages' => backend_usages,
        'policies' => policy_chain,
      }
    }
  end

  let(:backend_01_raw_base) do
    {
      'apiVersion' => 'capabilities.3scale.net/v1beta1',
      'kind' => 'Backend',
      'metadata' => {},
      'spec' => {
        'systemName' => 'backend_01',
        'privateBaseURL' => 'https://b1.example.com',
        'name' => 'Backend 01',
        'description' => 'some desc',
        'methods' => backend_01_methods,
        'metrics' => backend_01_metrics,
        'mappingRules' => backend_01_mapping_rules,
      }
    }
  end

  let(:backend_02_raw_base) do
    {
      'apiVersion' => 'capabilities.3scale.net/v1beta1',
      'kind' => 'Backend',
      'metadata' => {},
      'spec' => {
        'systemName' => 'backend_02',
        'privateBaseURL' => 'https://b2.example.com',
        'name' => 'Backend 02',
        'description' => 'some desc',
        'methods' => backend_02_methods,
        'metrics' => backend_02_metrics,
        'mappingRules' => backend_02_mapping_rules,
      }
    }
  end
  let(:product_raw) { product_raw_base }
  let(:backend_01_raw) { backend_01_raw_base }
  let(:backend_02_raw) { backend_02_raw_base }
  let(:product_raw_list) { [product_raw] }
  let(:backend_raw_list) { [backend_01_raw, backend_02_raw] }
  let(:products) { product_raw_list.map(&ThreeScaleToolbox::CRD::ProductParser.method(:new)) }
  let(:backends) { backend_raw_list.map(&ThreeScaleToolbox::CRD::BackendParser.method(:new)) }

  subject { described_class.new(products, backends) }

  context 'product metrics and methods not unique' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['metrics'] = {
          'mymetric01' => {
            'friendlyName' => 'my metric01',
            'unit' => '1',
            'description' => 'mymetric01 desc',
          },
        }
        new['spec']['methods'] = {
          'mymetric01' => {
            'friendlyName' => 'my metric01',
            'description' => 'mymetric01 desc',
          },
        }
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /metrics and method system names that are not unique/)
    end
  end

  context 'product mapping rules have wrong ref' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['mappingRules'] = [
          {
            'httpMethod' => 'GET',
            'pattern' => '/v1/pets',
            'increment' => 1,
            'last' => true,
            'metricMethodRef' => 'unknownref'
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /referencing to metric unknownref has not been found/)
    end
  end

  context 'product backend usages wrong ref' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['backendUsages'] = { 'unknownref' => { 'path' => '/v1' } }
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /backend usage reference to backend unknownref has not been found/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan limit wrong backend reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['limits'] = [
          {
            'period' => 'eternity',
            'value' => 1000,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'some_system_name',
              'backend' => 'unknownref',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the backend unknownref has not been found in backend usages/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan limit wrong backend metric reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['limits'] = [
          {
            'period' => 'eternity',
            'value' => 1000,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'unknownref',
              'backend' => 'backend_01',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the metric unknownref has not been found in backend backend_01/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan limit wrong metric reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['limits'] = [
          {
            'period' => 'eternity',
            'value' => 1000,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'unknownref',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the metric unknownref has not been found/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan pricing rule wrong backend reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['pricingRules'] = [
          {
            'from' => 1,
            'to' => 10,
            'pricePerUnit' => 1,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'some_system_name',
              'backend' => 'unknownref',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the backend unknownref has not been found in backend usages/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan pricing rule wrong backend metric reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['pricingRules'] = [
          {
            'from' => 1,
            'to' => 10,
            'pricePerUnit' => 1,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'unknownref',
              'backend' => 'backend_01',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the metric unknownref has not been found in backend backend_01/)
    end
  end

  context 'plan pricing rule wrong metric reference' do
    let(:product_raw) do
      product_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['applicationPlans']['basic']['pricingRules'] = [
          {
            'from' => 1,
            'to' => 10,
            'pricePerUnit' => 1,
            'metricMethodRef' => {
              'systemName' => 'unknownref',
            }
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /the metric unknownref has not been found/)
    end
  end

  context 'backend metrics and methods not unique' do
    let(:backend_01_raw) do
      backend_01_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['metrics'] = {
          'mymetric01' => {
            'friendlyName' => 'my metric01',
            'unit' => '1',
            'description' => 'mymetric01 desc',
          },
        }
        new['spec']['methods'] = {
          'mymetric01' => {
            'friendlyName' => 'my metric01',
            'description' => 'mymetric01 desc',
          },
        }
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /Backend backend_01 contains metrics and method system names that are not unique/)
    end
  end

  context 'backend mapping rules have wrong ref' do
    let(:backend_01_raw) do
      backend_01_raw_base.clone.tap do |new|
        new['spec']['mappingRules'] = [
          {
            'httpMethod' => 'GET',
            'pattern' => '/v1/pets',
            'increment' => 1,
            'last' => true,
            'metricMethodRef' => 'unknownref'
          }
        ]
      end
    end

    it 'raise error' do
      expect { subject }.to raise_error(ThreeScaleToolbox::Error, /referencing to metric unknownref has not been found/)
    end
  end

  context '#list_services' do
    it 'one product is listed' do
      expect(subject.list_services(page: nil, per_page: nil).length).to eq 1
    end
  end

  let(:product_id) { subject.list_services(page: nil, per_page: nil)[0].fetch('id') }

  context '#show_service' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.show_service(product_id)).to include('name' => name)
      expect(subject.show_service(product_id)).to include('system_name' => system_name)
      expect(subject.show_service(product_id)).to include('deployment_option' => 'self_managed')
      expect(subject.show_service(product_id)).to include('backend_version' => '1')
    end
  end

  context '#list_backend_usages' do
    it 'backend 01 returned' do
      expect(subject.list_backend_usages(product_id).find { |bu| bu.fetch('path') == '/v1' }).not_to be_nil
    end

    it 'backend 02 returned' do
      expect(subject.list_backend_usages(product_id).find { |bu| bu.fetch('path') == '/v2' }).not_to be_nil
    end
  end

  let(:backend_01_id) do
    subject.list_backend_usages(product_id).find { |bu| bu.fetch('path') == '/v1' }.fetch('backend_id')
  end

  let(:backend_02_id) do
    subject.list_backend_usages(product_id).find { |bu| bu.fetch('path') == '/v2' }.fetch('backend_id')
  end

  context '#backend' do
    it 'backend_01 expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.backend(backend_01_id)).to include('name' => 'Backend 01')
      expect(subject.backend(backend_01_id)).to include('system_name' => 'backend_01')
      expect(subject.backend(backend_01_id)).to include('private_endpoint' => 'https://b1.example.com')
    end

    it 'backend_02 expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.backend(backend_02_id)).to include('name' => 'Backend 02')
      expect(subject.backend(backend_02_id)).to include('system_name' => 'backend_02')
      expect(subject.backend(backend_02_id)).to include('private_endpoint' => 'https://b2.example.com')
    end
  end

  context '#list_backend_metrics' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_backend_metrics(backend_01_id).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(backend_01_metrics.keys + backend_01_methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_backend_metrics(backend_02_id).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(backend_02_metrics.keys + backend_02_methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_backend_metrics(backend_01_id).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array((backend_01_metrics.values + backend_01_methods.values).map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
      expect(subject.list_backend_metrics(backend_02_id).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array((backend_02_metrics.values + backend_02_methods.values).map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
    end
  end

  context '#list_backend_methods' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_backend_methods(backend_01_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(backend_01_methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_backend_methods(backend_02_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(backend_02_methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_backend_methods(backend_01_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array(backend_01_methods.values.map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
      expect(subject.list_backend_methods(backend_02_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array(backend_02_methods.values.map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
    end
  end

  context '#list_backend_mapping_rules' do
    let(:metric_index) do
      subject.list_backend_metrics(backend_01_id).each_with_object({}) { |metric, hash| hash[metric.fetch('id')] = metric.fetch('system_name') }
    end
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_backend_mapping_rules(backend_01_id).map { |m| m.fetch('pattern') }).to match_array(backend_01_mapping_rules.map { |mr| mr.fetch('pattern') } )
      expect(subject.list_backend_mapping_rules(backend_01_id).map { |m| metric_index.fetch(m.fetch('metric_id')) }).to match_array(backend_01_mapping_rules.map { |mr| mr.fetch('metricMethodRef') } )
    end
  end

  context '#show_proxy' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.show_proxy(product_id)).to include('auth_user_key' => 'my_user_key')
      expect(subject.show_proxy(product_id)).to include('credentials_location' => 'mycredentials')
    end
  end

  context '#show_oidc' do
    let(:deployment) do
      {
        'apicastSelfManaged' => {
          'authentication' => {
            'oidc' => {
              'authenticationFlow' => {
                'standardFlowEnabled' => true,
                'implicitFlowEnabled' => true,
                'serviceAccountsEnabled' => true,
                'directAccessGrantsEnabled' => true,
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    end
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.show_oidc(product_id)).to include('standard_flow_enabled' => true)
      expect(subject.show_oidc(product_id)).to include('implicit_flow_enabled' => true)
      expect(subject.show_oidc(product_id)).to include('service_accounts_enabled' => true)
      expect(subject.show_oidc(product_id)).to include('direct_access_grants_enabled' => true)
    end
  end

  context '#list_metrics' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_metrics(product_id).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(metrics.keys + methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_metrics(product_id).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array((metrics.values + methods.values).map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
    end
  end

  context '#list_methods' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_methods(product_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(methods.keys)
      expect(subject.list_methods(product_id, 1).map { |m| m.fetch('friendly_name') }).to match_array((methods.values).map { |m| m.fetch('friendlyName') })
    end
  end

  context '#list_mapping_rules' do
    let(:metric_index) do
      subject.list_metrics(product_id).each_with_object({}) { |metric, hash| hash[metric.fetch('id')] = metric.fetch('system_name') }
    end

    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_mapping_rules(product_id).map { |m| m.fetch('pattern') }).to match_array(mapping_rules.map { |mr| mr.fetch('pattern') } )
      expect(subject.list_mapping_rules(product_id).map { |m| metric_index.fetch(m.fetch('metric_id')) }).to match_array(mapping_rules.map { |mr| mr.fetch('metricMethodRef') } )
    end
  end

  context '#list_service_application_plans' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_service_application_plans(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('system_name') }).to match_array(plans.keys)
      expect(subject.list_service_application_plans(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('name') }).to match_array(plans.values.map { |p| p.fetch('name') } )
    end
  end

  let(:plan_id) { subject.list_service_application_plans(product_id)[0].fetch('id') }

  context '#list_application_plan_limits' do
    let(:metric_index) do
      subject.list_metrics(product_id).each_with_object({}) { |metric, hash| hash[metric.fetch('id')] = metric.fetch('system_name') }
    end

    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_application_plan_limits(plan_id).map { |p| p.fetch('period') }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('limits').map { |l| l.fetch('period') })
      expect(subject.list_application_plan_limits(plan_id).map { |p| p.fetch('value') }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('limits').map { |l| l.fetch('value') })
      expect(subject.list_application_plan_limits(plan_id).map { |p| metric_index.fetch(p.fetch('metric_id')) }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('limits').map { |l| l.dig('metricMethodRef', 'systemName') })
    end
  end

  context '#show_policies' do
    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.show_policies(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('name') }).to match_array(policy_chain.map { |p| p.fetch('name') })
      expect(subject.show_policies(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('version') }).to match_array(policy_chain.map { |p| p.fetch('version') })
      expect(subject.show_policies(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('configuration') }).to match_array(policy_chain.map { |p| p.fetch('configuration') })
      expect(subject.show_policies(product_id).map { |p| p.fetch('enabled') }).to match_array(policy_chain.map { |p| p.fetch('enabled') })
    end
  end

  context '#list_pricingrules_per_application_plan' do
    let(:metric_index) do
      subject.list_metrics(product_id).each_with_object({}) { |metric, hash| hash[metric.fetch('id')] = metric.fetch('system_name') }
    end

    it 'expected attrs' do
      expect(subject.list_pricingrules_per_application_plan(plan_id).map { |p| p.fetch('min') }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('pricingRules').map { |l| l.fetch('from') })
      expect(subject.list_pricingrules_per_application_plan(plan_id).map { |p| p.fetch('max') }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('pricingRules').map { |l| l.fetch('to') })
      expect(subject.list_pricingrules_per_application_plan(plan_id).map { |p| p.fetch('cost_per_unit') }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('pricingRules').map { |l| l.fetch('pricePerUnit') })
      expect(subject.list_pricingrules_per_application_plan(plan_id).map { |p| metric_index.fetch(p.fetch('metric_id')) }).to match_array(basic_plan.fetch('pricingRules').map { |l| l.dig('metricMethodRef', 'systemName') })
    end
  end
end

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Every ordinary person has a story to share but we will hear it only if we open our hearts and listen.
I had to hold back the tears. The patient saw it all over my face. I had been wondering all along how I would feel when the time would come to observe giving bad news to my first patient. We practiced it so many times in school but nothing really prepares you for the real world in a real-life setting with a real patient who has a story.
What intrigued me and brought so much emotion to my face that I tried so hard to hide was his act of pure selflessness.
As the Attending Physician had just performed a cystoscopy and we had seen one of the worst cases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder. The physician's jaw dropped when the patient left the room; we were all stunned at the images. As I sat there listening and observing the nurse give him the bad news, I knew the patient could feel my tenseness, as he did not look in my direction. If he had, the tears would have come streaming down. The Attending Physician reported from experience that it was a large tumor that invaded the bladder and was terminal. But the nurse assured the patient that it was a small cancer-like growth that had to be confirmed by biopsy.
This gentleman was a tough cookie that couldn't be broken. He was standoffish and reserved in the beginning of the interview until he heard the bad news after the procedure. The "Spikes" method we learned ever so often, that's embedded into our long term-memory, was not mentioned. The patient wasn't asked if he wanted or didn't want to know the results of the cystoscopy. The nurse blatantly said you've got cancer.
However, what bemused me the most was the patient's initial reaction, as he suddenly shifted from this stone-cold individual to a human being. He wasn't concerned about what he had just heard but he was more concerned about not telling his young lover who just started her career as a photographer as they were going to travel the world together. He was hopeful and had no idea of the severity of his terminal cancer. But he was grounded in that he was prepared for the worst case scenario.
He continued to sit there, wide-eyed, still tough with not a tear in his eye. He repeatedly said, please do not tell my partner, I do not want her to know as she is happy and finally launched her career. Even if it is bad news, even if I don't make it, I don't care about what happens to me. I care about her; if she finds out, she won't go on this trip, and I don't want to stop her from that.
This act of selfless love and real, young love triggered a response in my heart. I have seen many cancer patients before; this wasn't the first time I dealt with such cases. However, it was simply this chap's compelling story that sparked something within me. There was something so beautiful and genuine in his love for his significant other as he sat there so unknowingly helpless against the unfortunate future of his terminal disease.
I pondered and reflected on my own reaction at that moment. I questioned whether or not I reacted in a correct or professional manner. I understand you have to be tough if you want to be a doctor. I've seen much worse in my life. But I thought, is there something wrong with me that I was able to feel this way in this moment or should I not feel anything?
The nurse who had been doing this for years was laughing and smiling and was ready for the next patient while I continued to process what had just happened. When the nurse turned towards me after the patient left and saw my eyes were teary, she looked at me confused as she tilted her head to the side, then walked away. For the clinic, the patient was just another number before lunch, just another tick box crossed off the list of patients seen. I sat there, still baffled.
I realized that in practice, I would never forget that moment and how it made me feel. Years down the line, no matter how much experience I gained, I would always have empathy and compassion towards my patients because of it.
In my eyes, he wasn't just a hospital number, the last call on a list before lunch. He carried a powerful message that inspired and impacted me. When he spoke of his partner, it struck a chord. Yet, what was so powerful in his message was when he had absolutely nothing in life (he just gotten laid-off from work and was living alone), he thought of and cared for her, and that showed true courage.
I put myself in his shoes and questioned whether I would do the same if I were in his situation. That's when the tears in my eyes became a flood. I tried imagining so terribly hard what this man was going through in that moment and that's when my heart began slightly breaking.
It's an incredible thing when the masks come off and you see human nature in its most raw form. Only if you listen, and not make judgments based on external appearances or first impressions, will you really understand that human beings not only carry amazing stories but are products of love and give love freely in the universe.
This simple act of strength reassured me that there are kind and selfless people in the world. All you have to do is listen to their stories.
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Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins, född 5 juni 1938 i Amsterdam, död 26 september 1987 i Antwerpen, var en nederländsk fotbollsspelare. Prins spelade 184 matcher för Ajax från 1959 till 1966 där han gjorde 60 mål.

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Senate may seek PHCN privatisation reversal .
NNPC receives 34 bids for digitisation of documents .
We must produce enough fuel by 2019 or I'll resign - Kachikwu .
NNPC finalising $6 billion worth of oil for product swaps .
We're working to retain petrol at N145 –Kachikwu .
Government receives N11 trillion from SPDC JVs in four years .
NNPC to resume oil search in Chad Basin .
ExxonMobil, PENGASSAN row threatens oil production .
'Power recovery programme will correct privatisation pitfalls' .
Few interest groups lock down oil sector – Kachikwu .
NUPENG seeks dialogue over Capital Oil crisis .
NNPC chief executives sign performance bond with GMD .
Nigeria's oil production increases by 274,000bpd .
Electricity: Investors offer $5.6 billion for 10 NIPP plants .
NNPC awards Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline to Chinese firm .
Marginal fields bid round to commence this month – Kachikwu .
'Nigeria lost N523 billion to gas-flaring in two years' .
Power firms struggling to repay $1.42 billion loans .
Power Sector Recovery Plan: Electricity tariff may rise in July .
$6 billion needed to fix refineries, says NNPC .
FG to withdraw idle oil refinery licences .
Petrol, kerosene, gas imports gulp N760 billion in first quarter – NBS .
Oil price sinks to five-month low of $48 .
'No attack on oil facilities in three months' .
Refined petroleum products imports to end 2019, says Baru .
We cannot develop power alone – FG .
Investments return with $20 billion in oil sector – Barkindo .
37 bid to supply NNPC six trucks .
NLNG partners NLPGA to boost cooking gas supply to North .
PIB: Nigeria loses $235 billion investments amid $9 billion debt .
'Nigeria saves $7 billion from local content law application' .
BEDC tackles low supply, estimated billing .
Bonga oil field resumes production after TAM .
Power: Gencos back plan to monitor Discos' accounts .
Economy on growth, recovery part, says NNPC .
Oil recovers lost ground, but market under pressure .
FG, two others sign 120MW solar project .
Power generation inches closer to 5,000MW .
FG fails to release N100 billion subsidy, say power firms.
FG cash-call exit a positive dev – NAEE .
FG, NLNG begin talks on N120 billion Bonny-Bodo road .
NCDMB boss assures local oil, gas firms of support .
NLNG revenue hits seven-year low amid oil slump.
NERC to set recapitalisation guideline for power sector investors .
Local Content: Nigeria retains $5 billion of yearly spend in oil and gas sector .
Operators must account for every loss in electricity market, Fashola insists .
'Wrong contracting cycle threatens $100 million oilfield investments' .
'Nigerian content created 35,000 jobs in 7 years' .
Power firms oppose plan to centralise revenue accounts .
NNPC didn't remit $81.2 billion in four years – Reps' panel .
FG begins $5.1 billion debt payment to IOCs .
NNPC resumes loading at Mosimi .
No import licences for debtor oil marketers – FG .
Petrol price template unaffected by bridging cost – PPPRA .
Investors wary of power sector investment .
NNPC reopens Warri refinery after power outage .
Nigeria's crude oil production decreases to 1.6mpd .
New bridging cost won't cause petrol price hike – NNPC .
Non-gas based electricity to rise by 1,120mw – Report .
Power supply fluctuates as Abuja Disco targets 0 percent electrical accident for 2017 .
Transmission, distribution obstacles deny Nigerians electricity .
NNPC defends government's stance on illegal refineries .
'Poor power sector coordination causing low electricity supply' .
NNPC to transform into integrated Energy Company .
Power firms urge CBN to sustain forex interventions .
Oil prices rise above $51 .
Niger Delta: Illegal refiners to be shareholders of modular refineries .
FG plans new approach to resolve Niger Delta crisis .
Aiteo pays $202m for under-delivered crude oil – NNPC .
NPDC hands over OML 30 to new operator .
FG denies indebted oil marketers import license .
Bodo Clean up: Shell to begin clean up next month .
Strancton mulls waste-to power plant for Kaduna .
PTDF unveils strategic framework for capacity building .
Lafarge to support power generation efforts .
'Nigeria imports 70 million generators' .
Electricity generation rises to 4,303MW .
OPEC secretary discusses enhanced cooperation with IEF .
Six turbines not functional as power firms reject allocation .
FG approves N2 billion for Rural Electrification Fund .
FG okays power service improvement plan .
Oil slides on output cut extension talk .
IBEDC to invest $400 million in metering programme, network infrastructure .
Electricity: AfDB to invest $12 billion in Nigeria, others .
CBN releases forex to fuel importers .
Kashimbilla hydro power plant to take off this year – Fashola .
Researchers discover large quantity of oil in Bida Basin .
Time to prioritise gas in Nigeria, says NLNG chief .
Nigeria's oil production declines, active rigs rise .
Transcorp Power inaugurates $28.3 million gas turbine .
Lack of investment threatens global oil supply .
Oando divests interest in captive power plants .
Military, others owe power firms N51 billion, says FG .
Proposed NLNG Act amendment threatening investors – Baru .
Nigeria may lose OPEC's oil production exemption .
NLNG chief to lawmakers: Don't tamper with NLNG Act .
Penalty awaits Discos over metering deadline default .
Oando, Conoil owe PPMC N7.6 billion: Lawmaker wants subsidy debts cleared .
Ikeja Electric to cut supply .
NNPC shuts Warri refinery over power outage .
NERC orders Discos to set up more complaints units .
NNPC calls for tariff harmonisation of non-oil products .
Reps seek appropriate pricing for petrol .
World Bank inspects N1.9 billion Karu power station .
Oil production to hit 2.2m barrels budget benchmark by Q2 – NNPC .
'$10 billion yearly investment in oil, gas coming' .
We'll pass PIGB latest by April, says Senate .
Petroleum products' importation a fraud, must end – Kachikwu .
NNPC lists steps to achieve 40 bbl reserve by 2020 .
Nigeria, Algeria, others lost $1 trillion to oil crash – OPEC .
Electricity grid hits 4,500mw .
OPEC records 94% compliance on output cut – Barkindo .
Power consumers grumble despite rise in generation .
FG offers 3-year tax waiver for new private refineries, pipelines .
'FG still owes over N300 billion subsidy money' .
Nigeria produced oil at $27 to a barrel in 2016 – NNPC .
Nigerian oil firms emerging stronger competitors – NNPC .
Global oil, gas production spending fell by $300 billion – OPEC scribe .
16 power turbines now functional, generation rises – Report .
DPR Intercepts 1.5 Million Litres Of Contaminated Petrol In Lagos.
Militancy deprived Nigeria of $100 billion in 2016 – Kachikwu .
Angola overtakes Nigeria as Africa's top oil producer.
NERC demands review of gas pricing for GENCOs .
NNPC increases petroleum products importation .
Why gas generation drops – NPDC .
IBEDC decries vandalism of 250 transformer stations .
NERC: Why we review tariff bi-annually .
NNPC refinery loses N2 Billion to illegal tappers .
'Why oil marketers 're not getting forex' .
Fed Govt loses $1b yearly to gas flaring .


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British Oscars, the BAFTAS ~ What will they mean? If anything…
So tomorrow over in Blighty, the BAFTAs will be announced. The last major precursor award before the Oscars themselves, which are held on Feb.24.
Being socked in and basically locked in by the Blizzard of 2013, gives one time to really ruminate on the BAFTAS. It's broadcast live in London, but here it can only be seen online. Check out http://www.awardsdaily.com to see if it's live streaming there, or if not, they will tell you what, where and when to find it.
So, who's going to win at the BAFTAS? And will they mean anything at all to Oscar?
Like, for instance, Robert De Niro isn't nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Silver Linings Playbook." I think De Niro has the momentum at the Oscars, but since he's not nominated, then who? Some say German actor Christophe Waltz for "Django Unchained," why? Because he's a European,Then there's the other nominees from the states Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln", Phillip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master" and Alan Arkin for "Argo."
They've nominated Ben Affleck for BOTH Best Actor AND Best Directorand also "Argo" for Best Picture! So they really like "Argo," and I suspect it will prevail in both picture and Director, but if Ben Affleck wins Best Actor! LOOK OUT!
He's up of course against Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln", who may be the only BAFTA winner for "Lincoln" since Steven Spielberg isn't even nominated here! But on the other hand, OTOH, as they say in Internet-speak, if DDL doesn't win here and either Affleck or Hugh Jackman does, this could be the last nail in the boring, talky "Lincoln"s coffin. Hey! It could happen!
Likewise a win for Alan Arkin for "Argo" could signal a sweep is going on and that's what's going to happen the rest of the night.
But since the Weinstein monkeys are working like cra-zee over there, they've still got two entrants in Supporting Actor, PSH for "The Master" and Waltz for "Django Unchained", so either could win. As in American, Supp. Actor at the BAFTAs is really too close to call. Although that's what I'm supposed to do. So I'll call it for Waltz, simply because it's another Harvey Weinstein situation there.
And Anne Hathaway has best supporting actress sewn up there, for "Les Miserables" mais oui, as she has it here.
But Best Actress is really the one to watch. If 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva wins for the French language film "Amour" over Jennifer Lawrence for "SLP" and Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty," that win and Riva's acceptance speech could really impact the Best Actress race here. But then again, if she doesn't show up. But still wins anyway, it probably will not have the same impact, as if the still comely octogenarian French icon wins, is there to accept, and moves every one to tears, as she probably will, with a lovely French-accented acceptance speech.
Remember that BAFTA is really where Marion Cotillard, also acting in French in a French-speaking film "La Vie En Rose", won, and moved the whole world with HER acceptance speech, setting herself up very nicely for her Oscar win a few weeks later.
This is prime Oscar voting time, the balloting being opened only YESTERDAY, Friday. And who watches the BAFTAS? Well, the Academy members who are still undecided about who to vote for in tumultuous races, like this year's Best Actress assuredly is.
So I guess you could reduce this all to say "How many awards will 'Argo' win?" and who wins Best Actress? Riva, Lawrence or even Chastain? We shall very soon see.
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Best Actor Nomination Predictions
It's getting down to the proverbial wire. So here at long last are my Best Actor nomination predictions.
I'm thinking that "The Master"s Joaquim Phoenix 86ed himself for those "dirty carrot" remarks he made about Oscar. And Sir Anthony Hopkins didn't help himself by calling the Oscar Campaign "bullsh**t". O well guyz, these days you gotta act like you WANT it.
Also I note once again that if, say, it's Leonardo DiCaprio in Best Supporting Actor for "Djanjo Unchained" and not Samuel L. Jackson, that leaves only Denzel as the sole African-American or hispanic actor nominated this year. So once again, diversity even in a year with TWO majors with films about slavery, the Actors Branch remains 99 44/100s % white.
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Oscar Nomination Voting Closes! They BETTER nominate Samuel L.Jackson! Supp. Actor Predix!
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Producers Guild Award Nominees A DAY EARLY!
With the Oscars themselves experiencing technical difficulties with their new on-line voting system, the Producers Guild, or the PGA, decided to one-up them and announced their nominees a DAY EARLY! Everyone wants to be first!
Thanks to Oscar Goddess Sasha Stone at http://www.awardsdaily.com for this comprehensive list ~
PRODUCERS GUILD NOMINATIONS
"Argo" (Warner Bros.)
Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn
"Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)
Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher
(Universal Pictures)
Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life of Pi" (Fox 2000 Pictures)
Producers: Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark
"Lincoln" (Touchstone Pictures)
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
"Moonrise Kingdom" (Focus Features)
Producers: Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales
"Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
Producers: Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon
"Skyfall" (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
Not really shocked by any of these nominations except to note the "Beasts of the Southern Wild" got in (YAY!) and "Moonrise Kingdom" did, too! (Boo)
However "Skyfall" too was a bit of surprise. But I knew that "The Dark Knight Rises", "The Avengers" and "The Master" as well as "Amour" were NEVER going to make it in."Fllght" not getting in was also a surprise. And this could also indicate the Denzel Washington, the star of "Flight" could also be left at the Oscar altar this year.
"Amour" is NOT liked as much by the Industry types, as I've been saying for MONTHS, as opposed to critics who are putting it at the top of their lists. AND it's in French. AND it's a downer about D.E.A.T.H. It MAY get nominated for Best Foreign Film from Austria, but it could even get shut out there. It's on the short list.
"The Master"s not making this list is no surprise to me. The movie is NOT LIKED. AND it didn't make any money. This also may eliminate two if not all three of its' major actors. Which would mean no Joaquim(Dirty Carrot) Phoenix, Amy(she's been nominated enough already, 3x in this category, and they know she won't win this year either)Adams for a pallid perfomance as Phillip Seymour Hoffman's strange, always-pregnant wife. And yes, even maybe the great PSH himself might miss out on a nod for Best Supp. Actor. He's the only one who's still got a little life in his Oscar dance now, I think.
This helps ALLLLL the other films. And yes, with this early move the PGA IS trying to influence Oscar voters, who still haven't voted.
And it especially helps, on the cusp of being eliminated "Beasts of the Southern Wild" YAY!
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Oscar Maxims of Harvey Weinstein, Advice Taken and Not Taken
How dull would the Awards season be, that is now going full-throttle, well, at least the publicists are, during the holidays this year( more like Holidaze) because of the ridiculously truncated Oscar nomination voting period? How dull would it be withOUT OscarMeister Harvey Weinstein to continually spice things up?
Harvey has a couple of Oscar rules, I've gleaned over the years, more like Maxims, really. Words to the wise (if anyone's really listening, and I know the Oscar strategists are, AND Scott Feinberg (*waves* to Scott) 1) The picture that is seen LAST has the most impact. And 2) Only one nominee(from the Weinstein Co.) in each category.
He certainly seems to have applied Maxim 1) to "Django Unchained" opening as it did strangely on Christmas Day, but the box-office and critical accolades seem to bear out Harvey's wisdom in this case. I beg to differ on this one, but the Golden Globes nominated it all over the place. Though the SAGs did not get their screeners for "Django" in time, it is said. So no SAG nominations.
Started reading Liz Smith's "diary" i.e., blog, i.e., column in the http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com and she says about the Hollywood Foreign Press something to the effect that "Who are these people? Nobody you'd ever know, except that once a year the come together to get everyone's attention."(I'm paraphrasing) i.e. the Golden Globe Awards.
And Harvey plays the HFPA like a symphony. So, of COURSE, they are going to award his "Django" with a Best Picture, Best Director(Quentin Tarantino), and two Best Supporting Actor noms(Christophe Waltz AND Leonardo DiCaprio). Leo and Christophe may cancel each other out. And THEN who would win? Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln"? Jones does seem ahead at the moment. His main competition, "The Master"s Phillip Seymour Hoffman is slipping every day. And NOT because of Hoffman's stupendous performance. And "The Master" is ALSO a Harvey film. So he has THREE in this category! Which probably means that Jones does get it, because the THREE Weinsteins, may be just way too many nominees.
But right there in this past paragraph you can see that Harvey just contradicted himself big time. So while Maxim1 worked for "Django" with the Globes and at the Box-Office, Maxim 2 got him THREE nominees in the SAME category, something he always says he wants to avoid. Some may call it an embarassment of riches, but Leo and Waltz and Hoffman could cancel each other out.
It seems HIGHLY unlikely to me that the Academy is going to embrace "Django" on any level. It's just toooo bloody. One of the most violent films I've ever seen in the Oscar race. AND director Quentin Tarantno isn't due.
The Golden Globes are really not a good indicator of anything anymore, except trouble. THEY are the main reasons for this shortened voting period. AMPAS wants to get the Oscar nominations out FIRST, BEFORE the Golden Globes are held. Which they will be doing, effectively trumping the GGs from having ANY influence on the Oscar nominations themselves, which are announced on Tues. Jan.10 this year. Sooooo early. The earliest ever. And making voters jam all their holidaze with viewing screeners.
There is said to have been more Oscar-oriented parties in L.A. this year than ever. I don't know. I'm not there. I'm only reporting. In New York, it's been more or less status quo, as far as that's concerned, as far as I can see.
But this shortened voting period means the over-burdened Oscar voters have LESS time to see everything they have to see. So what do they do? They choose to see The BIG Must-Sees like probably "Les Miserables", "Lincoln", "Argo", "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Life of Pi" and maybe even "Django" too. Others, like the suddenly on the cusp(and yes, it's a Harvey film, too) "Silver Linings Playbook" and on down the line-up, may get seen less. Simply because there's less time.
And speaking of "Silver Linings Playbook" I think it will win Jennifer Lawrence Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for the Globes. But in the Best Director category, SLP's director David O. Russell got knocked out by – wait for it! Quentin Tarantino!!! So yes, that Maxim #2 really is something to go by.
Will O. Russell get Oscar nominated, like he was just a couple of years back for "The Fighter"?
I'm thinking not. And we don't have any DGAs to guide us, as in previous years, because yes, they, too, won't announce their five ALL IMPORTANT nominees til, yes, that's right, AFTER the Oscar nominations are announced on the 10th.
Speaking of the 10th. if I were in L.A. and covering the nominations, they occur there at 5:30AM( here, EST, it's at 8:30AM on the morning news shows) then THAT NIGHT there are the BFCA, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards which are USUALLY the most predictive of the Oscar race. That is ONE long day for all the nominees and everyone else involved. Phew!
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Oscar Double Shocker! 2 Best Actress slots may open! "Beasts" not nominated for Best Picture at Gotham Awards!
Still reeling from Joaquim Phoenix's "Oscar is utter bulls–t" remark, I think it's gone unnoticed by all except the astute Anne Thompson on this week's Oscar Talk podcast at www.indiewire.com and also on www.hitfix.com,where when partner Kris Tapley points out that the much-heralded "Beasts of the Southern Wild" did NOT get a Best Picture nomination from the upcoming Gotham Awards, she said "That's not a sign of strength."
"Beasts" did however get nominated for Best Breakthrough Performer for 8 Year-old Qu'venzhane Wallis and Best Director for 29-year-old Benh Zeitlin.
But not getting a Best Picture nomination from the Gothams, the East Coast's answer to the Independent Spirit Awards, is a real and unexpected slap in the face to "Beasts," and to Fox Searchlight. And may forecast what I am hearing about the way the Academy itself is responding to this beautiful, small Indie film. Which is not well.
Check out Pete Hammond on www.deadline.com, who has been saying this all along. Especially the Actor's Branch, who take the SAG disqualification of performers Qu'venzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry of "Beasts" from consideration from THEIR awards, VERY seriously. SAG is the Screen Actors Guild, whose large membership hands out their own awards and whose membership overlaps the Academy. The Screen Actors Guild is also a Union. The film version of Actor's Equity. And all voting members of the Actor's Branch are all members of SAG.
Non-actors when they started "Beasts of the Southern Wild "& critically acclaimed though they are, I hear that the super-powerful Actor's Branch especially is not liking the idea of nominating a non-actress,and a non-union member, who is an eight-year-old child.
"When there are so many PROFESSIONAL actresses who gave great performances this year." So goes the current AMPAS Actor's Branch thinking, I am told. And it's that powerful branch, the largest in the Academy and they are the ones, the ONLY ones who nominate the Actors. And the Actresses. And most Oscarologists have little Miss Wallis in their top five. See Tom O'Neill's http://www.goldderby.com charts, for one example.
Meanwhile, two of the other main contenders for Best Actress that are on everyone's lists of five potential nominees are French.
Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone," who is being honored by the Gothams and AFI and just about every which way you turn for her stunning turn as the legless victim of a whale attack. She's a whale trainer in a Sea World-like situation in the South of France and one of her Orcas attacks her. And even though Mlle.Marion is acting in her own language French, she's IN with a capital "I" and a capital "L" for Lock.
But the other Gallic contender, who very well may NOT make it, I'm hearing, is Octogenarian French actress Emmanuelle Riva. Riva plays the stroke victim in "Amour" The film won the Palme d'Or this year in Cannes. And the same-aged Academy is NOT digging this grim, unrelenting film about death. It's too much and too close for Academy members. It should've been called "La Mort" which is French for death.
So Riva's nomination is not a slam dunk, either though this difficult, gripping, unforgettable film may very well score a Best Foreign Film nomination.
So BOTH Qu'venzhane Wallis' and Emmanuelle Riva's slots may very well not be their slots at all come nomination day. But there are OTHERS, a few stellar Others who are waiting right in the wings right at their doorsteps,
Leaving two doors, or slots, in that suddenly contentious category, WIDE open for a pair of Dames. Always bet on the Brits. Dame Helen Mirren playing The Master of Suspene's wife Alma in "Hitchcock"(which has not been seen yet) and also perhaps Dame Maggie Smith as a retiring but disliked opera diva in "Quartet."
I saw"'Quartet' in Toronto and 77-year-old Maggie Smith could very well find herself Oscar bound. And then there's of course the beauteous Brit, Keira Knightley, much more likely as the tortured heroine of "Anna Karenina"which I also saw in Toronto, and which is still my favorite film of the year so far. For the record, I thought both performances were divine and definitely Oscar-worthy.
And the leader of the pack at the moment, according to all and sundry is Jennifer Lawrence of "Silver Linings Playbook,"which I'm finally slated to see this week.
Nevermind, the still-unseen Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty." We still don't know if she's a leading player or supporting, though.
But there are plenty of worthy, beautiful Oscar performances by actresses awaiting Oscar's nod this year if BOTH Qu'venzhane Wallis and Emmanuelle Riva don't make the cut.
So except for Lawrence's presumed lead, this is now a very wide open category, with a small, but stellar group to pick from. Cotillard, Knightley, Mirren, Chastain, Smith. There's enough. Or ALMOST enough. And all these ladies, I must point out are either Oscar nominees, and many of them winners! Cotillard and Mirren both have won. And Dame Maggie Smith has two wins out of SIX nominations! Knightley, Chastain and Lawrence are all previous nominees. They are all, as Anne Thompson likes to say, "In The Club."
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"Oscars are bulls–t"proclaims Joaquim Phoenix, eliminating himself from race!
Never one to suffer fools gladly, Joaquim Phoenix has declared in an interview with Elvis Mitchell in "Interview" magazine that "The Oscars are bullshit…." He goes further declaring Oscar "It's a carrot, but a dirty carrot and one that I don't want to eat"!!! He cites his negative experience campaigning full-tilt for "Walk the Line" and watching the less-than-stellar Reese Witherspoon his co-star in the movie as Johnny Cash's wife, June, waltz off with the Golden Guy.
He was stupendous in "Walk the Line" but that was a popular movie. He was playing a real person. "The Master" is not well-liked and not a box-office success, though I personally liked it. Audiences are staying away. I thought it was a marvelously told closeted gay love story set in the '50s against the backdrop of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic Lancaster Dodd's founding of a quasi-religion The Cause.
Perhaps if the film itself "The Master" had come out of the closet and revealed itself for the epic closeted gay love story it is, it might have gained at least the LBGT support en masse. Which,as it is, it doesn't have. This is the first case I can remember of "Don't Tell. Don't Win."
As it is, I think Phoenix just eliminated himself from the race. O, a nomination, sure. But that's probably it. When he's up against such heavy weights as Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln", John Hawkes in"The Sessions", Denzel Washington in "Flight" and Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables"(still yet to be seen).
There's also Sir Anthony Hopkins' Sir Alfred Hitchcock coming up fast, and Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook" which has the ever-effective Harvey Weinstein and co. behind it.
Of course, H. Weinstein has been known to drop one film on his slate in support of another, famously backing the flop-a-roonie "Nine," instead the much more effective "Inglorious Basterds."
"The Master", also a Weinstein co. effort, is failing fast at the box-office and with audiences. So Bradley Cooper may have a better shot with "Silver Linings Playbook" and I can see a scenario where Cooper gets in J. Phoenix does not.
In the distant past, you could refuse an Oscar like Marlon Brando and George C. Scott did, but the past is the past. And as recently as two years ago, the prickly auteur David Fincher proclaimed over and over again, in multiple interviews, that he didn't want nor/care about winning an Oscar for the then critics darling "A Social Network". And guess what? The Academy took him at his word and the world saw Tom Hooper win Best Director not Fincher. Hooper, and last year, an unknown Frenchman Michel Hazanviscius won for Best Directer of "The Artist" and both were at every Hollywood event imaginable, charming every one.
That's what counts these days. Although Mo'nique said "No" too. And won. But Supporting Actress is not as big a deal as Best Actor and "Precious" was a popular film, where "The Master" is divisive. So we shall see.
I don't think you can be an Oscar cry-baby anymore. Not with a Best Actor race as crowded as this one!
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How is everyone's 2015 going so far?
Wow you've had a buy few months!! I love that you took such a spur of the moment trip. So cool. I hope the next bit of the year is just as exciting!
Thanks! 🙂 It's been a bit of a roller-coaster start to the year.


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Eurovision- Hungary- Compact Disco- Sound of our Hearts
Updated on February 9, 2013
Hunor Barabás
Hi everyone! Today I decided to write about a band that has just won the Eurovision semi-final in Hungary, the Compact Disco. They have a song with a very important message, which the world needed in 2012 (and it's still actual). I think they have an awesome song, and I hope that the world will understand what they want to say. Enough from the band for now , but what is the Eurovision?
The Eurovision
In every year, since 1956, a song contest takes place in Europe, called Eurovision. In this contest participates (almost) all European country. Singers (or bands) can enter for the competition only with a brand-new song. Each country organises a semi-final to decide which song is the best to represent it's country in the European final. On 11, February Hungary selected it's competitor, the Compact Disco, for the big challenge, the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. They are going to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, because the previous winner was the Azeri team, Eldar and Nigar ) the name of their song was Running Scared) With their song, the Sound of our Heart, the Compact Disco won the heart of Hungary, but what can they show in Baku?...Let's see some information about the band:
Eurovision Song Contest 2017 / Various
The Compact Disco was found in 2008 as an electro-pop band. The members:
Behnam Lotfi - loops, grooves, additional tracks, effects
Attila Sándor – bass
Gábor Pál – keyboards
Csaba Walkó – vocals.
Their first bigger album was the Stereoid, published in 2009. The band won 3 awards in 2011: The Fonogram Award (for the Best Performance in Electronic Music), the Antropos.hu Award (for the Album of the Year 2010 - 'II'), and the MTV Europe Music Awards (Best Local Artist – Hungary).
They're giving a lot of concerts, and thay published some albums too, but the real popularity was given by this competiton. After they heard the song, one of the judges said that it could be up to any Coldplay song. 'Since this, we're the Hungarian Coldplay…' said Csaba, the vocalist in an interview. They promised that they will do everything to show Europe that Hungary's got talent…
Here's a part of the lyrics:
'This is the sound of our hearts,
If you listen.
This is a zeal from above
and it can say it all
This a fever they can't take away
This is the sound of, the sound of,
the sound of our hearts.'
Anyway, I love them, I love the song too, and I hope Europe will too.
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The trees, an assortment of local shrubs and other varieties imported from China, Spain and Thailand, will be grown at a nursery just outside Doha, reports say.
The organization committee of the event, Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, has also planned to plant grass around the venues.
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The tiny Gulf country, which is currently facing diplomatic isolation in the region by its neighbors, has been under constant criticism for the harsh work conditions of the 20,000 laborers used on the construction sites of the facilities.
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