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EnvNet|CSOs activism|CSOs role|Providing inputs to policy development
By fostering citizen involvement and the oversight role of civil society organisations (CSOs), it is believed, governments can be held accountable for their reform promises and the political system as such becomes more transparent and inclusive. It is hence that civil society support lies at the heart of the EU's approach toward the next round of likely accession candidates in the Western Balkans.
CSOs can exercise pressure upon policy-makers to push for institutional and legislative adaptation. A series of mechanisms of influence do exist and can be used by CSOs in order to shape policy-making and foster approximation process:
It is the most obvious mechanism CSOs can use in their dealings with policy-makers, seeking to enhance the domestic costs associated to the non-compliance with an existing EU requirement. Essentially, pressure is either used to increase the accountability of policy-makers once a change has been adopted, or to demonstrate to them that a significant number of relevant actors stand behind a policy proposal. Indicators of the use of pressure can thus consist in monitoring efforts that seek to evaluate the degree to which policy-makers live up to their commitments, and which are commonly accompanied by a broad dissemination of the results through press releases and other contacts with public outlets. Moreover, CSOs can build coalitions to increase the weight and visibility of their recommendations by uniting different actors around a particular idea. The pressure exercised upon the decision-makers is thus amplified. [/tab] [tab title="Persuasion"] It is one of the major mechanisms of influence persuasion focuses on the appropriateness of a certain proposal, seeking to change the preferences of actors, thus going beyond mere interest-driven support. Both through direct, mostly informal communication with policy-makers and through more indirect attempts of fostering awareness through the media or through outreach activities, CSOs can foster a climate of opinion which is favourable to their specific policy goal. Besides depending on the individual contacts a CSO is able to establish, the possibilities for persuasion are limited by the degree of openness of the political system, and in particular by the number of potential access points available to the interested CSO [/tab] [tab title="Framing"] It allows CSOs to redefine the terms of the debate and to introduce new ideas into the policy-making process. Such an approach falls within the 'logic of appropriateness': CSOs try to present an issue in such a way that innovative solutions emerge or hitherto neglected alternatives receive more attention. The approximation process to the acquis is obviously very conducive to the mechanism of framing, since it raises a whole new range of issues that need to be addressed at the domestic level. Concretely, CSOs may engage in a media campaign seeking to promote a particular interpretation of a policy problem, which resonates with the wider public and can in turn transform the dominant beliefs within the policy-making community. A less public form of framing consists in fostering a new understanding of an issue through an in-depth study, with the results communicated to policy-makers through publications.
Finally CSOs are able to provide meaningful inputs to 'white papers' and other draft policy documents at a national level, and are certainly making significant contributions to local level policy document drafts. This type of contribution most commonly involves giving comment to the drafts at the consultative stage and, where necessary proposing amendments and can be made through:
expert groups or individual consultancies
citizens panels
online consultative mechanisms
written communication, i.e. 'shadow report' and opinion papers
It should be noted that a coalition of CSOs can contribute better than a sole organisation to a complex drafting process.
Sources and Useful links:
N. Wunsch, "Civil Society Organisations as Change Agents:Bottom-up Europeanisation in the Western Balkans"
TACSO "Manual on CSOs and citizens participation"


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Students Protest With Motto "Right to Live and Right to Study"
By Ankit Pradhan
Photo Courtesy: Navaraj Kharel It has been more than 100 days since the strike of Madhesi people in Terai region has led to massive economic disorder in Nepal. The blockade caused by India has caused a devastation in Nepal. Fuel crisis is affecting the lives in Nepal and everything seems chaotic at the moment. This strike hasn't just affected the life of people but the emergency services like hospitals, medicine and ambulance are also being affected. Children who are regarded as the future of the country are struggling to get education. Almost all the educational institutions in Terai are shut down because of the ongoing crisis. The year has come to the end, but the schools are unable to finish the courses in time. This is a great deal of concern and cannot be simply overlooked. Now, the students have started protesting against this meaningless strike. Recently in Ithara, Sunsari a huge mass of student were seen protesting against this strike. Their motto was "right to live and right to study" which has recently been snatched away from them. On November 27, 2015, a huge number of students from different schools and colleges around the Kathmandu valley took out on a rally protesting against the strike. Students were protesting in different areas like Gaushala, Chabahil, Koteshwor, Sinamangal, New Buspark and many other places of Kathmandu valley. Those students whose main aim is to focus on their studies and build their future are forced to come in open and protest. People in politics have their right to protest but that doesn't mean they can close educational institutions and other educational services. There are others ways of protesting as well. Their short term interest can have a long lasting impact on the country's future. Let those children study and live happily. Its their time to study and enjoy not go on open and protest. People in power should understand that.

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Sabbath Evening Readings on the New Testament, Volume 9
By John Cumming
wrath was already begun); so it should pursue and surprise them suddenly and unexpectedly, as the word rendered 'come' doth imply, and that to the uttermost, without all mitigation, or to the end, as the word in the original doth read, which speaks the continuance of their judgment until Jerusalem, wherein the great part of the Jews were at that time provi. dentially assembled, was taken, sacked, and destroyed by the Romans; after which the Jews have hitherto been no more a people, but scattered abroad through the face of the earth. (For confirming this sense of the words, see Dan. ix. 26.)"
Notice, here, how he regards the conduct of the fathers as visited on the children. These Jews that crucified Christ, did not kill the prophets—they were killed by generations that preceded them; but he regards them as a nationality, as a race, responsible to God. Hence, the meaning of the expression, which some have differed from, " This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be fulfilled," in Matthew xxiv. The common interpretation has been that "this generation of thirty years shall not pass away." But the Greek word yeved, when applied to the Jews, as it is applied here, denotes the nation ; and, therefore what I understand by that disputed phrase is, " This race, this people, shall not pass away, till all these things be fulfilled ;" for God regards a nation as a whole, and deals with it as a whole ; and regards the things done by the fathers as done by the children, when the latter do not repent and reform.
"We were taken from you for a short time; but though taken from you, we were present in heart, though absent in person ; and therefore we wish to
come to you again; but Satan, by bis persecution, by his inspiring wicked ones to thwart us, hinders us."
" The Lord, for good and wise reasons, may suffer his people so far to engage in a business, as once and again to enterprise it, having cleared their way for doing so much, and yet, having tried their obedience in that far, afterwards cast in, or suffer to be cast in, some invincible stop or let to mar them from throughing it; in which case he accepts the will for the deed, and a serious enterprise for full performance (1 Kings viïi. 18, 19); for the Lord did clear Paul's way to attempt a voyage to Thessalonica often, and yet permitted Satan to lay in a stop : We would have come once and again, but Satan hindered us.'
"It is the duty of saints to surcease from that which otherwise were a duty, when God doth call them to surcease from it, and consequently for the time doth make it no duty, either by giving them other more necessary work, or by making some inevitable hazard to their own life appear in that work, without any advantage, but with much prejudice to religion and the work of God; for Paul, upon Satan's casting in, through God's permission, some one or both of those impediments, he delays his voyage to Thessalonica, which otherwise was a duty: We would have come once and again, but Satan hindered us.'
" As the child of God can no sooner enterprise that which is really good, but usually he doth as soon meet with some impediment; so, whoever be the means or instruments for impeding us in the way of duty, the devil himself, through God's permission, is the prime author of that woful work, and all others do but fight under his banner; for though other means were doubt
less accessory to Paul's stay, yet • Satan hindered us,' saith he.
"When once the godly are by Satan's craft or malice disjoined or separate, whether in place, affection, or judgment, the same Satan doth bend his wit to hinder their reuniting and meeting together again in one, so great an enemy is he to that rich advantage which may be attained in and by the communion of saints; for saith Paul, "We would have come unto you, but Satan hindered us.' "
He exclaims, " What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even ye?" Does not there seem to be contradiction here ? Paul says that Christ's cross was his glory; he says that Christ was his rejoicing. What does he mean by saying that his people were so? I will show. A minister has two aspects; there is the personal of the Christian, there is the official of the minister. As a Christian, Paul's glory was in the cross-Paul's hope was in Christ-Paul's prospects were all through Christ; as a minister, he expected that the people to whom he had been useful would praise him, and acknowledge that usefulness, and be his glory and his joy as a minister in that day, and in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. But I will unfold this in our next.
What an affectionate intercourse is here revealed between pastor and people—what a beautiful resumé of the preaching of a truly devoted minister, and what a model for us! May the ministers of Christ have grace to follow it; may the people of this age, like the people of Thessalonica, receive the Word preached, not as the word of man, but as it is indeed—the Word of God.
CHAPTER II, 19, 20.
OUR CROWN OF REJOICING.
"For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy."
Paul asks a question, to which he himself presents an answer. "What"-appealing to his own congregation of Thessalonian Christians—"What do you think, now, is our hope as apostles and ministers of Christ ? or what is our greatest joy? or what do you think we anticipate as our brightest crown? Is it a crown of laurel, or ivy, or parsley, that withers on the brows that wear it? Is it the crown of the conqueror, that is soiled by the dust and smoke of next year's battle ? Is it the diadem of an emperor? What is it, do you think? Yourselves, believers and fellow-Christians, the converts of God's grace through my humble instrumentality," says Paul,"ye are ourjoy, our hope, our crown, our glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and at his coming." What thorough abnegation of extrinsic greatness, what indifference to all human ambition, what superiority to proud earthly prospects, was there in this gifted and devoted minister, the Apostle Paul ! His preferment was in the sky; his labours were here; his crown, his glory, his honour, his joy arose, as a minister, from springs that God himself had opened in
the desert, out of which he drank present and prospective joy, and from which he would receive yet more abundantly.
But it is important, as already noticed, to distinguish here. Paul distinguishes between the hope of Paul the Christian and of Paul the preacher. As an individual Christian, his hope was Christ, his joy was Christ, his crown was to share with him in his glory; but as a minister of the gospel, he had, additional to his individual hope, and joy, and crown, the joy, the crown, the glory that would come in brightness by God's blessing, as the issue of his ministerial labours. As an individual, he looked into the future for Christ alone as his hope; as a minister, the office sustained by the Christian, he looked for a joy, a crown, superadded to the crown and joy that the individual Christian looks for, namely, his success in his ministry, and the appearance at that day of them who should shine as jewels in his crown, and attest the multiplicity of his labours, the faithfulness of his preaching, the beauty of his example, and the success of his ministry.
In thus looking for joy, and hope, and a crown, it is worthy of note, that Paul assumes immortality as a thing certain. There are certain great truths in Christianity that the apostles do not pause to vindicate and inculcate. They are so patent, that they constantly assume them. Now, where does the apostle look for this crown, and joy, and hope? In the presence of Christ : " Absent from the body, present with the Lord;" and at that future day when "he shall come to be admired in all them that believe," and "unto them that look for him shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation." He assumes the certainty


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Isaac Mizrahi: The Fashion World Is 'Condescending' Toward Plus Sizes
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Isaac Mizrahi did a quick HuffPost Live segment the other day, in which he discussed the fashion industry's treatment of plus size women. When asked when, or if, Project Runway will feature contestants who specialize in plus sizes, Mizrahi responded that it's a "very good idea, I love that idea." Fashion, Mizrahi says, ought to be more integrated and less "condescending" when it comes to bodies above a size 10.
Via HuffPo:
"I don't want to speak to a plus-sized woman differently than I speak to a woman," he says, recounting stories of his childhood when he was constantly "ushered off to the husky section," which had some long-term emotional effects.
Mizrahi then talks about the "right way" that the fashion industry should be embracing various sizes. "I don't like segregation, I like incorporation, I like integration," he says when it comes to clothing. "If you're going to do clothes, you need to do them in a whole size range."
Mizrahi loves working with QVC, for instance, because they don't split his brand up between "regular" and plus sizes—every garment is made from a XXS all the way up through a XXXL. (Pssst, Isaac: If you want to get even more radical—and helpful!—in sticking up for plus size women, go higher!!!)
Man, Isaac Mizrahi seems like a complete fucking dear and I appreciate this sentiment so much. "Condescending" is the perfect descriptor for much of the plus size shopping experience—like, here, weird monster woman, you can have this poorly-made, ill-fitting, garbage version of an old trend! You can't try it on—you can only order it online, so if you need something right now you're fucked. Also, I'm going to charge you twice as much for it as for straight-size clothes of equivalent quality, and pat myself on the back for being so enlightened and progressive as to deign to clothe the groveling, slightly-larger-than-some-other-people masses. Now THANK ME FOR IT AGAIN OR NO MORE COLD-SHOULDER CAFTANS FOR YOU. (And to all the amazing plus size indie designers and plus size retailers doing it right and the plus size online community making nonstop gold out of nearly nothing, all of my REAL thanks go to you.)
Fashion is so integral to self-expression—to figuring out who you are and communicating that to the world—and limiting fat people's access to on-trend, high-quality, diverse clothing options is a sad, oblique form of silencing. It says, "We don't care who you are."
That dividing line between "normal" and plus size—the idea that there are women and then there are these other thingies—is dehumanizing for plus size women, especially in concert with the other structurally-imposed gender expectations that shape all women's lives. For most of my teenage and young adult years, I felt very strongly that I didn't "count" as a woman at all. I was just a thing. I didn't fulfill any of my "duties" as a woman—being pretty, being desirable, being fashionable, being small—and none of the things that were "supposed" to happen to women ever happened to me. I was ignored, overlooked, pushed aside, mocked. So how could I presume to call myself female at all?
And plus size clothing, particularly at that time, felt like such a disdainful afterthought—as though the clothes only existed to forestall the horror of a world without them. Because the only thing worse than having to make clothes for fat people's bodies would be having to see us naked.
Now, of course there are some styling issues that disproportionately affect fat people (which, by the way, could make for a super interesting Proj Runway season!), and I think that self-identifying as "fat" can be an incredibly empowering breakthrough. It was for me. So I'm not arguing that fat people should abandon that part of their identity, and I don't think that simply sizing up straight-size clothes with no regard to proportion and fit is any kind of a solution. But we can talk about the ways in which every body is different—curvy here, flat there, long here, lumpy there—without creating this stark, artificial division between straight and plus sizes. "Fat" is a spectrum, and there's no reason why clothing sizes can't exist on that same spectrum. Clothes are clothes. Some people wear these clothes, some people wear those clothes. Some people identify as fat, some people don't.
So, for the millionth time: CLOTHING DESIGNERS. LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEY. I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU.
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Leave the fox alone. At the last game, on the big screen, Tech's uniform pants looked green in Section 104, and likely elsewhere. Please have someone who doesn't have ear phone on listen to the sound and adjust. Leave the fox alone.
We've seen it for five years during games, bothering no one but stray cats and vermin. Leave the fox alone.


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Paralysing Paragraphs, Scary Speeches
Today is October 23rd, meaning that we're 8 days away from Halloween. Yay! I can tell you're getting excited now because you're flapping your arms around and twisting your eyes in strange directions. Oh, wait…that's just my reflection in a mirror.
Alright, maybe so far I've failed to put you into a "ghouls and goblins" mood. Hmm, what else can I do? Let's see, what are the basics or Halloween? Scary costumes, scary monsters, scary mansions, scary lighting, scary weather, scary music, and of course my specialty; scary movies…but what about scary stories? Yes, I'll try that.
So, this blog is strictly about films (don't know if you noticed) and not literature per se. Ultimately I have barred myself from discussing anything that is not in some way film-related…so how am I going to pull this one off? Well, what about stories told within films? I don't mean the actual plot or events of a movie, I mean stories that are literally told by the characters themselves, simply in the form of lengthy dialogue. In fact, there's a name for those; they're called monologues.
Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Let's do that! I'll grab a handful of stories and speeches, you sit yourself down in a rocking chair with a glass of wine (or brandi, or beer, or…mouthwash…whatever…) and we'll go through them. I'll pick 5…no…6…no no…7 horror themed monologues! Yes, that's it! It'll be…
It's a celebration of the marriage between the written and spoken word. Perfectly crafted dialogue is useless unless it's articulated in the right way. So, let's jump in with number 7…
Apparently people hate this movie. It's one of those films that I, personally, found very creepy when I first saw it – but afterwards I found out that it was highly disliked.
It's a remake of Robert Wise's The Haunting from 1963, and in many respects follows it pretty closely. In the original film the ghosts were represented merely by noise and interesting uses of camera, as well as ridiculously expositive dialogue from the characters – like "I just felt someone holding my hand". Much of that remains in this update, and even certain key scenes remain largely unchanged, but the leaps made in technology since the 60's impressed the filmmakers so much that they couldn't help but overindulge in them. They use CGI far too much in this movie, and as a result most people didn't find it very scary. Not surprising, as it's directed by Jan De Bont, the man behind Speed and Twister. Don't get me wrong, those are both great films, but they're action films. This movie marketed itself as "scary", and the ridiculously lavish use of theatrics and visual effects proved that to be largely a misnomer.
I do still think it's creepy…ish…creepyish. Watching it again now at 23 I did start to wonder what exactly left me so sleepless at 11. Was I just so young that everything scared me back then? No, it's more than that. There's definitely something here, and I think it's the story.
"When Eleanor, Theo, and Luke decide to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion they get more than they bargained for when Dr. Marrow tells them of the house's ghostly past."
– IMDB
Let's keep it real – a group of strangers taking part in a sleep study at a haunted mansion, it's a great set up. As if that's not enough, the details are very masterfully tuned. The name of the mansion, Hill House, instantly gives you chills. There's an indication of solitude, solemnity, and sinisterness all embodies by the forging of those two words. It implies not only a fortress that stands alone, isolated from every other living thing, but also that it does so for a reason. Personally, I wouldn't want to spend the night in a place called Hill House, would you?
So now we get to the meat of this dish, which is a monologue. I actually think this is one of the, is not the single, eeriest moments in the movie. What's interesting is that, while the entire rest of the movie relies on dramatic music and operatic effects, this section has practically no score whatsoever. It's just a simple story, chillingly told, with enough time given for the emotional weight to really sink in to the characters – and into us.
Yeah, thanks Liam, but I'll spend the night at a local motel if that's alright with you. Oh look, there's one now – it's called the Bates Motel! Much better, see ya'!
Now this next one is very short, but god damn is it good!
Everyone should know the story of Dawn of the Dead by now. It's just about the simplest concept you can imagine:
"Survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall."
There really isn't much more too it than that. What works so well about this little speech, though, is the social commentary that it provides. None of what the televangelist is saying has any real world significance or thematic impact on the story. However, he represents both the best and the worst of mankind; the search for answers and the vicious opportunism of providing false ones. The monologue ends with a montage of the characters falling asleep to the sounds of zombies scratching at the walls.
How any of them could get any significant 'shut-eye' with that going on, is beyond me, but that's also kind of the point of the scene; they're all struggling to deal with the situation internally instead of openly talking about it.
From short and punchy to long and dramatic. Poltergeist is a movie that crams as much candy into its piñata as possible. That's why it's one of my favourite horror films.
We now live in an age where found-footage flicks like Paranormal Activity are all the rage. People have decided that the best way to represent a ghost is by knocking over a lamp. Ooh scary. Yeah, fuck that! I'm a Poltergeist devotee. I think in order to show the supernatural you have to go big or go home. If you're unfamiliar with Poltergeist…
"A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts."
…then I'm afraid IMDB won't help you with that. Yes, it's a haunted house movie, but there's more to it as well. See, in the middle of the picture one of the children in the house literally disappears; sucked through a closet and into another realm. The family cannot make heads or tails of it, so they seek the advice of an expert of "spiritual matters". She's short, strange, and sounds like she's worked in a helium factory for most of her life…she is Tangina Barrons, and she gives one hell of an explanation!
I'm not exactly sure why what she says makes me shudder so…but it really does! I think every filmmaking technique is utilised very precisely here; the writing, the line delivery, the camera moves, and editing, and the music all work very effectively.
…from the movie Candyman, if you hadn't already guessed that. Before I praise Candyman, though, I have to give a shout out to Clive Barker. The man is a god…that is all!
Alright, google Clive on your own time, now let's talk about the hook man himself.
"The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is said to appear when you stare into a mirror and chant his name five times. He is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth."
This movie is, beyond the obvious horror, about class. The myth of the Candyman is invoked by poor residents living in the slums of Caprini-Green, a public housing project. He is used almost as a voodo-like entity in order to either blame their troubles on or beg to for vengeance. Because the legend of how he died is so wrapped up in the history of racism and economic inequality, the rich laugh him off as a mere story but the poor acknowledge him as a reality. This film is about what happens when someone from the top end of society, used to swivelling wine and pinching cigarettes, descends into a harsher luxury-less world.
The beautiful thing about that scene is its clarity. If you were at all tone deaf to the significance of class in this story – this scene shoves it in your face. The almost caricaturing way it portrays the self-induging world of upperclass academia clashes so blatantly with the graffitied back alleys that Virginia Madsen's character is documenting, and that's the heart and soul of the film. If you like the way this little scene plays out, then you should really check out C…ooh, I almost did it there!
Maybe a lot of these were obscure to you. You're saying to yourself "Ey? The Haunting? Dawn of the Dead? Poltergeist? Candyman? Where on God's green earth are the classics?". Alright then, here's a classic; it's Quint's Indianapolis story from Jaws. Everyone knows Jaws, so it's a useless exercise, but for the sake of consistency…
"When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it."
…and that grizzled fisherman is Quint.
Don't worry, I'm not crowbaring this monologue in just appease the snobs, I really think it deserves to be number 3. Why? Probably because it's the one and only real insight we have to Quint's past. This mysterious character is bombastic and sharp-toothed to say the least, but up until this point he never truly lets us in on any of his real history. We know what he does for a living, he kills sharks, but not why he does it. Well, that all changes in one scene:
Suddenly all of Quint's personal quirks and 'certifiable' actions can be tied to one event. It doesn't need to be said, but it obviously affected him in ways that Brody and Hooper will never understand. The look of awe on Hoopers face says it all. Suddenly the man sitting in front of them is a bit more than just the old crotchety mariner they thought he was.
If you're any kind of champion of british films, then forget Harry Potter. Harry Potter is british talent funded by american money. No no, what you need to do is go out and get yourself a copy of Dog Soldiers; it's as english as it gets. This low-as-hell budget werewolf fright-fest pits the combined forces of foul-mouthed witty British-army recruits against a predatory pack of razor clawed lycanthropes. Unpretentiously put…
"A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find themselves locked in an epic battle against a family of werewolves."
The cast consists largely of 'unknowns', but you should take note of one name in particular; Sean Pertwee. Pertwee has the voice, accent, and mannerisms to turn this monologue from cheesy exposition into a god-forged stone tablet. It's almost my favourite monologue of all time and every time I hear it, it makes me squeeze the edge of my seat.
Did you take my advice from before about having a glass of wine? If you did, then this is the point where you raise your glass and say "…to Eddie!".
That was a hell of a story if you ask me. It brings the two themes of the film together masterfully; the friendships build between soldiers and the haunting dangers surrounding them. Neil Marshall, the director of this film and The Descent, described Dog Soldiers as a soldier movie with werewolves – rather than a werewolf movie with soldiers. I concur, and this speech is a shining monument to that fact. It's harsh, twisted, frightening, and shrouded in perplexity – and yet still manages to show the warm cordial side of brother-in-war, as well as the sadness that lingers over a settled battlefield.
It's almost perfect, and would be 'numero uno' if it weren't for…
Hold on to your childhood, kids – this one's rough.
How should I describe Gremlins? Well, let's just say that it's about as far as you can push a kids movie while still calling it a kids movie. In fact the ratings board disagreed with that, and literally created the PG-13 rating because of this film. That's how much it straddles the line!
"A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town."
Just like with Labyrinth, watching this movie made for a pivotal moment of my childhood. I was super charmed and super creeped out by it. The nasty little gremlins are nasty, but also hilarious. They have no respect for order and this movie has no respect for sticking to the conventions of family entertainment.
So the movie is the movie, with funny parts, scary parts, ridiculous parts – but suddenly in the middle of all of it the film just stops. It stops so that the lead female character can tell a story about an experience she had at Christmas years ago. The weirdest thing is that it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie…at all.
However, thematically…it's completely appropriate. Gremlins is about the mash up of festive yuletide joy and the undeniable malevolent persistence of destruction. Kate's story completely embodies that, and it burrows frostily into the warm tissues of your heart like a murderous pointy icicle.
This may quite possibly be the most deliciously evil piece of writing in all of screen history. It beats anything that ever came out of Hannibal Lecter's mouth or has been announced by any James Bond villain. I mean, what kind of sick filmmakers would purposefully set out to create a creepy Christmas-themed urban legend backstory for such a sweet young female character? Chris Columbus and Joe Dante, that's who!
Now all that is diabolical in itself, but to make matter even worse – listen very carefully to the background music; it's a "horrorfied" version of 'Silent Night'. Wow, that's cruel.
Alright, that's another list listed. 8 days to go till Hallowthreen!
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package com.microsoft.azure.management.synapse.v2019_06_01_preview;

import java.util.Collection;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.microsoft.rest.ExpandableStringEnum;

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Mercury: AM16 mic preamp, Grand Pre mic preamp | Tape Op Magazine | Longform candid interviews with music producers and audio engineers covering mixing, mastering, recording and music production.
Under the Mercury Recording Equipment Company moniker, David Marquette has made a splash with a flurry of new, high- quality, vintage-style outboard gear. In Tape Op #49, I reviewed the initial Mercury offerings: Pultec, Fairchild, and Telefunken- inspired tube devices that wowed me. These units are top- notch-and top-dollar. Now Mercury has a pair of solid state mic preamps that are no less impressive, yet a bit more affordable.
The Grand Pre (why hasn't anyone used that name for a mic preamp before?) is a 2U-height, dual mic preamp based on the classic but sometimes-overlooked British Calrec PQ15s input module. In an email exchange, Marquette told me his motivation. "The PQ15s has always been one of my favorite pre/EQ modules... Personally I like it better than the 1073/1272 sound and always thought the 'Clone War' was funny because to me the Neve wasn't even the best British sound to copy. Although I love Neve and appreciate the build quality and excellence, I personally prefer the creamy, smooth sound of Calrec." The Grand Pre features 1/4'' DI inputs with selector switches, 12 dB-stepped coarse input controls, +/- 8 dB fine input controls, phantom-power and polarity switches, and output trims. The front panel is black with a not-over-the-top racing car graphic theme - kind of a nice combination of fun and serious.
The AM16, on the other hand, takes inspiration from the Yank side of the Atlantic. It's based on the classic American Langevin AM16 module and has a slightly different set of controls than the Grand Pre. Each channel has a DI input with selector switch, five-step coarse input control in 6 dB increments, a generous 24 dB input pad, polarity-reversal switch, phantom-power switch, and an output trim. I should mention the housing on both the AM16 and the Grand Pre is extremely rugged, heavy-gauge hammer steel. The AM16's graphics are a bit more subdued than its sibling's-tasteful, grey powder-coated finish with classic 50s-style red and black utilitarian markings.
Recently, I was joined at Verdant Studio by engineers Chris Fortin and Justin Jacobs. The three of us tried out the Grand Pre and AM16 with a variety of mics and sound sources and subjectively compared them to two other high-end solid state mic preamps, a Universal Audio 2108 and a Neve 33114 channel.
With a PPA R-One ribbon mic about three feet in front of a drum kit, the Grand Pre sounded dark, with a nicely defined midrange, while the AM16 seemed a bit crisper in the upper end. We noticed a similar result with the ribbon mic about a foot off a Vox AC30 with Justin strumming a Rickenbacker. In both of these instances, the Mercury units sounded quite similar to the UA and Neve ones, but perhaps not quite as "warm." I should stress that this is not to say the Mercury preamps sounded "cold"-the sonic differences were extremely subtle. We tried some vocals through an Audio-Technica AT4047 large-diaphragm condenser and enjoyed great results, preferring the AM16, which had a nice silkiness to it. The Grand Pre behaved similarly, but with an ever-so-slightly grainier midrange. In this application, we felt that in comparison, the UA preamp seemed just a tad muddy while the Neve sounded a bit smoother on the upper mids. We briefly tried mic'ing a kick drum with an AKG D 112, and although the drum was not really sounding good tuning- wise, we were able to notice that the Grand Pre handled the super-lows a bit more gracefully than the AM16. A snare drum mic'ed with an SM57 sounded surprisingly bright through the Grand Pre, whereas the AM16 imparted a subtly smoother sound with a noticeably quick response. Meanwhile, the UA sounded fine, but perhaps a bit generic, and the Neve was not as bright, but had an appealing milkiness.
In general, we all agreed that the Mercury preamps held their own in this informal shootout. Any differences were pretty subtle, and it never really seemed like any particular preamp "blew away" another; it was more a matter of somewhat different colorations that would be subject to personal taste. Chris, who may have the most critical ear of the three of us, posited that the AM16 was well-rounded and clean, while finding the Grand Pre to be heavier in the low end and more aggressive in the upper mids. It should be mentioned that Chris, Justin, and I were all on the same page in feeling that overdriving either of these units did not yield pleasant results. When pushing the input gain on either of them, the signal drive was choked, harsh, and square-wave sounding. The user really needs to watch his/her gain staging.
Overall these are very nice preamps that fill a gap in today's mic preamp market. Each has its own sonic character, with plenty of headroom and gain, low noise, and good, clean, no-fuss operation. In a sea of Neve clones, it's refreshing to know that there are some other options out there to provide us with a few more sonic flavors. Calrec and Langevin are certainly very worthy of imitation, and it's cool that Mercury Recording Equipment has figured out a way to make them available at a not-outrageous price.


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Two days ago Dreamhost moved my sites to a new server and new images I upload are not showing up. New images uploaded to my static sites show up just fine, but don't on my Wordpress blog. I am running Wordpress Version 3.0.1 on a custom install, not a one-click install.
I usually upload all my images with an FTP (I use WinSCP) and store them all in a specific subfolder such as http://www.myblog.com/my-imgs/image1.jpg I don't use the primary WP image directory for images very often.
This has worked just fine since starting my blog quite a few months ago, but now that they've moved my blog to a new server, every image I uploaded now does not show — if I try to access the image alone in that folder from my browser, I get a "Not Found" or "Page not found" error, while I can access the old images through the browser just fine in the very same directories.
I've also double checked the file permissions of the old and new images and they are identical.
Is there some setting I should change to make it work. Again, all the old images in my image folder and subdirectories show up, but newly uploaded images I can't get any access to.
Go to the WordPress admin panel for Settings -> Media. The path should be /home/USER/DOMAIN/my-imgs. Right now I'm guessing it looks like /home/.SOMETHING/USER/DOMAIN/my-imgs, so get rid of the .SOMETHING in the path.
Okay, I got it to work. My problem was that when it was all moved to the new server, the DNS pointers with my URL registrar (which was different than Dreamhost) had not been updated, so I had to go do that. It had been accessing the old server for everything. That's why when I uploaded images to the new server, it couldn't find them. Now with the DNS pointers changed everything is working dandy! Yay!


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Trans Woman Released on Parole from Texas Men's Prison
December 13, 2016 | By Sam Sanchez
Self portrait: Passion Star
A transgender woman named Passion Star was granted parole on December 6 after serving 14 years of a 20 year sentence at all-male detention facilities, most recently at the Telford State Prison in Bowie County, Texas.
"Passion's experience in custody has been punctuated by acts of interpersonal and institutional violence," Demoya Gordon, an attorney with Lambda Legal's Transgender Rights Project, said in a statement.
According to Lambda Legal, during her incarceration, Star experienced repeated rapes, physical assaults and a razor attack that left slash wounds on her face.
Passion Star (Via Towleroad)
"Throughout her sentence, she has remained resilient," Gordon added. "She will leave Telford as a powerful advocate against sexual violence and assault in prisons."
Star was originally incarcerated when as a teenager she pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping based on allegations that she and her boyfriend at the time refused to return a used car they were test driving.
The boyfriend, who was at the wheel of the car with the auto salesman in the passenger's seat and Star in the backseat, drove the car 40 miles out of town and abandoned the salesman on the side of the road. The salesman notified police who pursued the couple. The car ended up in a ditch when the boyfriend lost control during the chase.
In 2014, Lambda Legal filed a complaint on behalf of Star in the U.S. District Court in Houston maintaining that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice staff did not attempt to protect her, but rather displayed "deliberate indifference" to her safety and "cruel and unusual punishment," which suggested a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
In her complaint Star claims prison officials told her to "suck dick," "fight," or stop "acting gay" to escape assault.
The complaint was decided in Star's favor and the Department of Criminal Justice agreed it would place her in a program established to help protect prisoners vulnerable to abuse in the general population.
Star's plight was the subject of a May 2015 report in the New York Times.
In their announcement of Star's parole, Lambda Legal said, "Her story is not one of a victim bent and broken by a faulty system, but of a fighter who braved incredible odds to see justice done."
Lambda Legal has created a "Stop Prison Rape" campaign. Find out how you can encourage Texas's leadership to work more actively to end sexual assault and violence in Texas prisons at this link.
Tags Demoya Gordon, Lambda Legal Defense, Passsion Star, prison, transgender issues, transgender rights
Demoya Gordon, Lambda Legal Defense, Passsion Star, prison, transgender issues, transgender rights
Texas Supreme Court allows child abuse investigations into families of transgender teens to continue
Group buys billboards in San Antonio, other Texas cities to fight governor's anti-trans order
ACLU and Lambda Legal sue to block Texas from investigating parents of transgender youth
Judge Denies New Trial for Man Who Assaulted Lesbian Couple, Killed One
A judge has denied the motion for a new trial for a convicted killer who sexually assaulted a lesbian couple,...


The tiny Museo Cerio is a jewel of a museum in the center of Capri town.
No one wants to spend their time on breathtaking Capri inside a museum, but take a few minutes out from visiting Capri town to stop in the tiny yet lovely Museo Cerio just off the famed Piazzetta.
The halls hold an eclectic mix of collections covering botanics, natural history, and zoology...but the most interesting part of the museum is the venue itself: a restored historic island home. The museum is located in a noble palazzo where the decor and flooring date to the building's origins in the last century. While wandering the halls, you can imagine what it must have been like to live here in the 1800's.
Among the most charming objects is the goat skeleton, the "capra" from which the island's name originates...indeed, Capri comes from the Latin Capreae, or goat pasture.
From the top floor, you can look out from the balcony over the Piazzetta and snap a few pictures of Capri town from the heights of the Museo Cerio Centro Caprense.


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Сорочан — молдавская фамилия, образованная от румынской фамилии Сорочану.

Известные носители:
 Сорочан (Исакова), Галина Ивановна (род. 1927) — композитор, автор песен и эстрадных спектаклей.
 Сорочан, Игорь Павлович — директор филиала ОАО «Силовые машины» ЛМЗ (с 2004).
 Сорочан, Ипатий Христофорович (1900—1964) — ректор Кишинёвского Государственного медицинского института (1945—1948).
 Сорочан, Николай Антонович (1928—1999) — передовик производства, Герой Социалистического Труда.
 Сорочан, Сергей Борисович (род. 1953) — историк и археолог.

См. также
 Сорочаново
 Сорочаны

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The Union defeated NYCFC on this night, 2-0.
In a chippy match that saw a little bit of everything, the Union played the role of hostile host and sent NYCFC back to the Big Apple with nary a point Saturday night in Chester, winning 2-0.
Cory Burke scored his sixth goal, Ilsinho added a dazzling insurance tally, and Andre Blake recorded his sixth shutout of the year.
The first half was an open affair with both teams having ample chances. Each side registered five shots with two apiece on goal; both Andre Blake and NYCFC keeper Sean Johnson were called upon to make dazzling stops to keep the match scoreless, with Blake's coming just two minutes in. Union defender Auston Trusty was repeatedly beaten in what appeared to be miscommunication on the back line, sending attackers repeatedly in on Blake almost unchecked, but Blake handled the pressure with aplomb.
The pitch became a running subplot in this match, with players from both sides slipping on the recently rained-upon surface. Multiple attacks for both sides were snuffed out by questionable footing, and it caused some wonder if anyone was going to be able to score at all. We would get our answer early in the second half just moments after NYCFC subbed Villa off, when an inch-perfect Borek Dockal pass sprung Cory Burke free on the left side of the box. Burke made no mistake about it, beating Johnson low and hard to the right and sending the ball into the corner of the net for a 1-0 Union lead in the 57th minute.
Ilsinho would add to the Union lead in the 71st minute when Dockal found him on the right, and he took on two defenders on the right side of the box, split them, then beat a third defender with a step-over to open up a left-footed shot for himself, which gave Johnson no chance and doubled the advantage.
NYCFC kept pressing but couldn't crack the Union D (which had steadied itself from a wobbly first half), which led to visible frustration. Ronald Mattarita got tangled up with Ilsinho, causing Ilsinho to go down injured; moments later, Mattarita gave a studs-up challenge to Ilsinho in stoppage and was shown red, leading to an automatic one-match suspension.
The win kept the Union in fifth in the East and tied with Montreal (who stole a win from the fading Fire at the death Saturday night) in the standings on 33 points each. The boys in blue also have two matches in hand on the Impact. If the playoffs started today, the Union would travel to Columbus for the first round.
Notes: Cory Burke took the Union goal-scoring lead with his sixth goal tonight… Borek Dockal added to his Union-leading assist total of 12, and moved into a tie for second place in the league with that total…the Union all-time single-season assist record is 15, held by Chaco Maidana…Fafa Picault served a one-match suspension for accumulation tonight and will be available for selection next week against New England at home.


A cruiser on the Norfolk Broads, the boat "Swan Romance" is a cruiser belonging to the boat-yard Richardson's Cruisers, and is good for exploring the rivers around Hickling & Stalham. Swan Romance sleeps 5 people, with the bedrooms laid out as 2 double and 1 single. this cruiser can be steered from the forward. Keep warm in the evenings with the heating available. Bed linen is provided during your holiday. No need to miss any television, as this boat has a TV. Bring those box sets you've been meaning to watch - this boat has a DVD player. You can bring your CD collection with you, as this boat has a CD player. There is a radio on Swan Romance. There is a hairdryer on Swan Romance. There are bed linen and duvets available. No need to let your hygiene slip - there is a shower on board. Plenty of space to park your car. Forward steering position on Swan Romance. You can moor Swan Romance easily with the bow thruster.
This is the plan of Swan Romance. To give you an idea of the size of your boat, Swan Romance is 35ft x 12ft (10.67m x 3.66m)Plan may alter under construction..
The Cruiser above is Swan Romance - in the Richardson's Cruisers region of Hickling & Stalham. We've also listed several other boats in Richardson's Cruisers; or for a bigger choice, look at all the boats available in Hickling & Stalham. Hopefully you'll find something to suit your holiday needs!


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import {Resource} from '../resource';

export class RowModel {
	constructor() {
		this.resource = new Resource();

		this.mode = 'single'; // single | multiple | all
		this.unit = 'data'; // data | details
		this.height = element => element && element.offsetHeight || 64; // number | function(element, index)
		this.status = new Map();
		this.shortcut = {
			toggle: 'space|enter'
		};
		this.canDrag = false;
		this.canResize = false;
		this.frozen = [];
	}
}


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After 33 years, the contentious BP sponsorship of the Royal Opera House ends
As BP's sponsorship ended after 33 years, the Royal Opera House has become the most recent cultural institution to sever ties with the company.
The decision was made in response to environmental activists' complaints about the company's funding of the London venue and other cultural organizations.
The National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Shakespeare Company were both no longer sponsored by BP in recent years.
The news, according to pressure group Culture Unstained, was "a seismic shift.".
The Royal Opera House's BP Big Screens, which broadcast opera and ballet in Trafalgar sq\. and other locations across the UK, were sponsored by BP.
In recent years, "recovery post-pandemic and supporting our drive towards net-zero" were also included in the support, according to a representative of the Royal Opera House, and they were "grateful" for it.
Until its contract expired last month, BP said it was "proud to have supported the Royal Opera House for more than three decades.".
Chris Garrard, co-director of Culture Unstained, said: "What we are witnessing is a seismic shift, a near-total rejection of BP's brand and the climate-wrecking business it represents across the arts. ".
There is no information available about the sponsorship's cost. In addition, the Royal Opera House is getting ready for an Arts Council England cut of £2.9 million that will reduce its annual grant to £22 point3 million starting in April.
The British Museum, which is also supported by BP, has not indicated whether it will continue to receive funding from the company after February, when its current contract is reportedly set to expire.


Deep in to the woods & lakes.
Xosar, Svengalisghost and a hefty batch of local DJs have been added to the lineup for this year's event.
An Ostgut Ton showcase also featuring Ryan Elliott is the first billing for the Lithuanian festival's tenth edition.
The low-key Lithuanian countryside festival has also added to Sven Weisemann to its bill.
The popular Lithuanian event will take place for the ninth time in June.


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HSE publishes proposed RIDDOR changes
23 Jul 2013 | Employment, Finance, Governance, Health & Safety, HR & Payroll, Legal, News
The Health and Safety Executive (the HSE), has reported that from 1 October 2013 certain changes will be introduced to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. This is to simplify the mandatory reporting of workplace injuries.
What are the employment notice periods?
23 Jul 2013 | Employment, HR & Payroll, Legal, News
In most cases, where an employee or employer wishes to terminate an employment contract, notice should be given providing a clear indication of the date of termination.
Notice periods can be statutory or contractual. Statutory notice is the minimum period that can be provided. The statutory notice periods are set out in s 86 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Pre-termination negotiations and settlement agreements
23 Jul 2013 | Employment, Finance, Governance, HR & Payroll, News
On 29 July 2013, provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 relating to pre-termination negotiations (s 14) and settlement agreements (s 23), will come into force following a commencement order to this effect made on 4 July 2013.
Challenge to employment tribunal fees
Following a hearing on 9 and 10 July 2013, the Court of Session in Edinburgh, has refused an application for interim interdict (injunction equivalent) sought by a Scottish law firm against the UK Government's decision to introduce employment tribunal fees on 29 July 2013.
Collective redundancy and 'at one establishment'
23 Jul 2013 | Employment, Finance, HR & Payroll, News
In the case of USDAW and others v Ethel Austin Ltd (in administration) and another case [2013] UKEAT/0547 (also referred to as the 'Woolworths case') the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned the decision of an employment tribunal in finding that the words 'at one establishment' in s 188(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidations) Act 1992 (TULCRA) are to be disregarded in the context of a collective consultancy.


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February 2013 – Illustration. Design. Subversion.
At Serenity Airlines we aim to misbehave!
"Fly the Friendly Skies" is available for just $12 February 15th-18th at Nowherbad!
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Q: Swift 4: Passing from table view to view controller - Firebase? I've spend hours looking at identical questions but none of the answers I've found are helping this issue. Need data from Firebase Database passes to another view controller from the tableview.
P.D. Data to need to be displayed is not in cell, I need to get from firebase from ID which is clicked form table view row.
I've and photo handwritten to explain what I need.

Here is my code from VC 1:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return guestsList.count
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "guestCell", for: indexPath) as! GuestTableViewCell
    let guest: GuestModel
    guest = guestsList[indexPath.row]

    cell.guestNameLabel.text = guest.guestName
    cell.attendingLabel.text = guest.attendingStatus
    cell.menuLabel.text = guest.menuStatus
    cell.ageLabel.text = guest.ageStatus
    cell.tableLabel.text = guest.tableNo

    return cell
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let selectedGuest = guestsList[indexPath.row]

    let controller = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(identifier: "GuestDetail") as! GuestDetailsViewController

    controller.guestUser = selectedGuest
   self.present(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)

}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCell.EditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

    if editingStyle == .delete {
        let guest = guestsList[indexPath.row]
        self.guestsList.remove(at: indexPath.row)
        self.guestsTableView.reloadData()
        self.deleteGuest(id: guest.id!)
    }
}

And VC 2
var ref: DatabaseReference!
let uid = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid
var guestDetail = [GuestModel]()
var guestUser: GuestModel?
var documenID: String?

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

  showGuestDetails()

}

func showGuestDetails(){
    ref = Database.database().reference().child("userInfo").child(uid!).child("guests")
    ref.queryOrderedByKey().observeSingleEvent(of: .value) { (snapshot) in

        if snapshot.childrenCount>0{
            self.guestDetail.removeAll()

            for guests in snapshot.children.allObjects as![DataSnapshot]{
                let guestObject = guests.value as? [String: AnyObject]
                let name = guestObject?["guestName"]
                let familyName = guestObject?["guestFamilyName"]
                let phone = guestObject?["guestPhoneNumber"]
                let email = guestObject?["guestEmail"]

                let guest = GuestModel(guestName: name as? String, guestFamilyName: familyName as! String, guestPhoneNumber: phone as? String, guestEmail: email as? String)

                self.phoneNoLabel.text = guest.guestPhoneNumber
                self.emailLabel.text = guest.guestEmail
            }
        }
    }
    self.nameLabel.text = guestUser!.guestName
}'''

A: You can achieve desired result via 2 ways:

*

*Pass the autoId from 1st VC to 2nd Detail VC, and in showGuestDetails() make your reference as
ref = Database.database().reference().child("userInfo").child(uid!).child("guests").child(passedAutoID)

*Keeep the same reference but use if condition to check if the user is same as required
for guests in snapshot.children.allObjects as![DataSnapshot]{
     let guestObject = guests.value as? [String: AnyObject]
     guard let email = guestObject?["guestEmail"] as? String,
           email != guestUser?.email else {
           continue
     }

     let name = guestObject?["guestName"]
     let familyName = guestObject?["guestFamilyName"]
     let phone = guestObject?["guestPhoneNumber"

     let guest = GuestModel(guestName: name as? String, guestFamilyName: familyName as! String, guestPhoneNumber: phone as? String, guestEmail: email as? String)
     self.nameLabel.text = guest.guestName
     self.phoneNoLabel.text = guest.guestPhoneNumber
     self.emailLabel.text = guest.guestEmail
 }

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China earthquake centre reports that the 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the North Hamgyong province of North Korea at 8.30am GMT.
They say the quake is believed to have been caused by a suspected explosion and was detected in the same location as previous tests.
Head of nuclear test monitoring agency CTBTO is analysing the "unusual seismic activity".
This comes despite US President Donald Trump's threatening speech last night denouncing "rocket man" Kim.
South Korea's weather agency said it was analysing the nature of the quake and its initial view was that it was natural.
Many also fear the world is going to end today with conspiracy theorists claiming Nibiru will smash into Earth.


At SC CTSI, Sydney is a Clinical Research Coordinator III in the Clinical Research Support Office. She is currently assigned to the Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy.
With over 10 years of clinical research experience, Sydney's background includes working in the fields of psychology, social work, pathology, and many years involved in Autism research and the greater Autism community. In her previous role prior to joining SC CTSI she was actively involved in the research community in the general Los Angeles area where she honed her skills in subject recruitment and retention. Understanding the complexities involved in the decision to participate in a research study and translating "scary science" into language the families can understand is always her goal and she enjoys the relationships and trust that comes with being a research coordinator.
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Seizing opportunity of 'Apparel 4.0'
Sabbir Rahman Khan | Published: December 09, 2019 21:15:48 | Updated: December 13, 2019 21:21:55
The world today is beefing up on cross-fertilisation of technology-uptake and job diversification. And when it comes to labour-intensive industries like the apparel sector, this discussion gets a leapfrog.
The apparel industry is undergoing a revolution which is termed 'Apparel 4.0' meaning the digitasation of apparel production processes ranging from concept to post-retail. This revolution is believed to be enabling companies to monitor and automate the entire production process with complete supply chain transparency.
Apparel 4.0 branches in to application of cutting-edge terminologies spelled as smart clothing, robotics (e.g. sewbots), simulation, industrial IOT, augmented reality, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication in knitting machines, smart factory, 3D printing, smart fabrics, AI-infused Industrial ERP (enterprise resource planning) etc.
Bangladesh's regional peers like India, China and Vietnam are equipping their factories with Apparel 4.0 technologies. In India, Raymond has embraced sewbot technology while smart clothing, augmented reality, and 3D printing are much in use in Chinese factories. Vietnam has made significant progress in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device), additive manufacturing and ERP.
However, all the crispy terms spelled above come at the cost of job losses, meaning machines replacing humans. McKinsey Global Institute, in a study, predicts that by 2030, as many as 800 million jobs could be lost worldwide due to automation. In the context of Bangladesh, the textiles and garments sector will be the worst sufferer of Industry 4.0 (IR4.0) as there is a possibility of around 60 per cent (5.0 million) of jobs being lost in the next 15 years, according to a2i (access to information) programme of the government of Bangladesh.
a2i, in its study on future skills, has identified five major sectors of Bangladesh to be mostly encountered by Industry 4.0-led automation. They are 'Readymade Garment and Textile', 'Leather & Footwear', 'Agro-food Processing', 'Furniture' and 'Tourism & Hospitality'. Among the five, the share of jobs with a high probability of automation is the highest in furniture and readymade garment sector (60 per cent) respectively. Inarguably, our textile and garment sector is strongly characterised by low skills and labour-intensive production. Given the fact, the bulk of salaried jobs in this sector (such as sewing machine operators) mostly require repetitive and manual tasks. So, the large part of our garment wage workers are at high risk of automation since we largely make basic garments.
Furthermore, a2i study shed light on possible job losses for certain occupations due to the advent of Industry 4.0 in the area of textile and garment sector (see chart).
Against this backdrop, this industry will have to embrace new lines of occupation. For instance, fabric handling for sewing will be supervised by 'Pick and Place Robot Operator' while fabric inspection/colour solutions/retail management will be handled by an 'Artificial Neural Network Expert'. Adding to these, designations like 'Numerical Controller', 'Automated Fusing and Pressing Machine Operator', 'Computer-aided Process Planning Professional', 'Enterprise Resource Planning Expert' will be much-heard in this sector.
In Bangladesh perspective, there are very few applications of automation in important manufacturing industries related to RMG. However, a debate has already started in various public forums specifically on the consequence of automation led by Apparel 4.0 in countries having labour-intensive manufacturing. Think-tanks and policymakers are quantifying ins and outs of the possible impact of Apparel 4.0.
The ray of hope is that there are a few companies in Bangladesh that are at the cusp of implementing automation in their operation in a bid to cushion the advent of Apparel 4.0. However, instances are very few. Reportedly, Mohammadi Group has installed automated knitting machines that require human intervention only in case of programme designs or to clean machines while Envoy Textiles Ltd (ETL) has employed robotic autoconers. Similarly, DBL Group has made their dyes and chemical dispensing system automated. In addition, Beximco Group is using AI-infused ThreadSol software offering integrated planning process which will reduce material wastage by using effective concepts of fabric utilisation.
However, such developments are evident only in giant factories. But our RMG sector has a large representation from SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and unfortunately, they will face the worst hit of automation. So, the government-led training and upskilling initiatives, especially for small factories, are an absolute requirement.
Moreover, holistic upskilling is imperative in this sector and, it should be ranging from shop floor through to management and board level to harness an all-out paradigm shift in operational competence.
Considering the importance of technological upgrades for future success of apparel industries, our competing countries have introduced special policy support like Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) for the garment and textile industry, which has already been introduced in India. To bring similar best practices in our country, the leaders in this sector should negotiate with the government for similar facilities.
Moreover, to create a technology-proof workforce in our textiles and garments sector, we have to reduce our dependence on basic products. Because, the scope of applying IR4.0-led technology is limited in basic product manufacturing whereas high-end value-added opens the opportunity to implement latest technology and compel the management to train its workers on the latest industrial applications.
It is, therefore, imperative to attend to the need for capacity building of our garments industry and make it compatible for disruptive technologies so that it may meet the demand of high-end and branded fashion segments.
Sabbir Rahman Khan is a Research Associate at Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI). The views expressed in this article are personal.
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Top 10 Best Blogs Around the World AND THEIR OWNER
Top 10 Best Blogs Around the World
IN world, we are in the era of Transition from dependency of other to self dependency as the Indian working Environment regard everything changes day by day. Some of them prefer to go with top private or Government college. They prefer to do job for other without any risk.
some people took the risk for their life they are those who prefer business or they took any step for their carrier beyond other's capacity.
Blogging is one of them risky jobs in those all risky jobs. blogger are those who does blogging.
Blogger are those who write about themeselves or their idea related to anything as like technology, success story and many more.
YOU MUST READ;
TOP 10 Best Bloggers In India
LETS GET LOOK OF THEM
1. Meet Gary Vaynerchuk @GaryVaynerchuk.com
He's a very loud and charismatic New Yorker who gained internet fame as the crazy and outgoing host of Wine Library TV, a video blog that obsessively talked about everything related to wine. Through online video blogging, he built his wine business from a $3-million-dollar-a-year wine retail store to a $60 million dollar wine wholesale business.
Gary Vaynerchuk has built a multi-million dollar empire relating to his personal brand. He's a two-time best-selling author and co-founder of Vayner Media, a very large digital marketing agency that works with some of the largest brands in the world.
He's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, and Time Magazine, as well as appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
2. Meet Rand Fishkin @SEOmoz.org
Rand Fiskin is a college dropout who started blogging about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) back in 2004 while working for a family-run web development company. He was also providing SEO consulting services to a few small clients.
SEOmoz has since left the consulting business and instead focuses exclusively on creating awesome SEO software, as well as supporting a large community with educational resources related to the search industry.
It is rumored that the company generates millions of dollars each and every month from its software and subscription services. The company also raised $18 million in 2012, which it has been using to acquire other companies. Rand is still actively running the company and occasionally posts on the main blog.
3. Meet Pat Flynn @SmartPassiveIncome.com
Pat is one of the most inspirational bloggers in the world. After losing his job a few years into his career, he was forced to scramble to support his growing family. He started a website called "SmartPassiveIncome.com" to track his progress with various websites and online money making projects.
He has since built a massive following and readership thanks to his transparency and honesty. Still to this day, Pat discloses his monthly earnings to readers, which has inspired countless individuals.
Pat currently attends industry conferences, runs a regular podcast for his readers, and spends as much time as he can with his family. Pat has earned, on average, around $50,000 USD per month.
4. Meet Brian Clark @Copyblogger.com
Brian Clark is the founder of Copyblogger. He started the blog back in 2006 as a resource for entrepreneurs to learn to be better copywriters, content marketers, and all around "kings of content." The blog has since grown to become an authority on creating killer content for the web.
With 100k+ subscribers, Brian got smart and leveraged his readership to launch Copyblogger Media, which launched several spinoff companies. These software companies include Scribe, Synthesis, Premise, and StudioPress.
The genius behind his business model is that his loyal readers love him and line up to buy the marketing software his company creates. Brian is still very active in the day-to-day of running Copyblogger.
5. Meet Andrew Sullivan @thedishdaily.com
Andrew started his blog, The Daily Dish, near the end of 2000. By the middle of 2003, he was receiving about 300,000 unique visits per month.
In 2013, Sullivan made some big changes and decided to leave his other his other blogging gigs (formerly at TIME, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast) to work on The Daily Dish full-time. On launch day, the blog reportedly took in over $330,000 in recurring revenue, charging an average of $20/month to readers.
6. Meet Harvey Levin @TMZ.com
Harvey is an American lawyer, legal analyst, blogger, and celebrity reporter. His website TMZ is a leading authority on celebrity gossip.
You can frequently see Harvey hosting his own TV show or appearing as a guest on celebrity related matters on CNN, FOX, and other networks. He managed to leverage the popularity of his blog to build a personal brand for himself.
7. Meet Michael Arrington @TechCrunch.com
Michael is one of my favorite bloggers of all time. He started out as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer working on tech deals in California. After realizing his passion for the startup world, he decided to start a tech blog called TechCrunch.com, where he profiled and reviewed some of the best up-and-coming tech companies and entrepreneurs from around the world.
TechCrunch became one of the most widely read blogs in the tech industry, and as a result, it was Acquired by AOL for $30 Million dollars. Michael used the proceeds of the sale to become an angel investor and to set up his own investment fund, CrunchFund, to invest in startups. Today, Arrington is still considered to be a mover and shaker in the valley.
8. Meet Tim Ferriss @Fourhourworkweek.com/blog
Tim is a self-proclaimed life hacker who built a massive following online through his blog posts. He is the author of the "4 Hour Work Week" which became an instant bestseller. He has also gone on to publish two other best-selling books.
He's a frequent lecturer around the globe. He has also popularized the idea of "lifestyle design" and living an unconventional life.
Tim is credited with popularizing the "internet lifestyle" or the ability of lifestyle entrepreneurs to work on their laptops from wherever in the world.
9. Meet Timothy Sykes @TimothySykes.com
Tim started blogging to document how he turned $12,000 of his Bar-Mitzvah Money into over $1 million dollars. He has gained internet fame for being an authority on Penny Stock trading.
His blog has hundreds of thousands of visitors, which has allowed him to launch additional companies like Profit.ly, which educate other traders on trader strategies.
He can frequently be seen making television appearances on ABC, CNN, FOX, and CNBC about stock market matters.
10. Meet Darren Rowse @Problogger.net
Darren is another blogger who you have to know about. He started blogging as a hobby. He blogged about the Olympics and his passion for photography, then eventually started Problogger, a website dedicated to helping other bloggers.
Darren is currently a full-time blogger and started making money from advertising deals, affiliate programs, adsense, and selling an e-book.
Darren has gained quite a bit of fame online and was named to the Forbes Internet Celebrity list in 2007. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his family and still makes a full-time living from blogging!
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package org.anddev.andengine.entity.scene.background;

import org.anddev.andengine.entity.sprite.Sprite;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.Texture;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.TextureManager;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.TextureOptions;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.Texture.TextureFormat;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.region.TextureRegion;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.region.TextureRegionFactory;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.source.ITextureSource;

/**
 * @author Nicolas Gramlich
 * @since 15:11:10 - 19.07.2010
 */
public class RepeatingSpriteBackground extends SpriteBackground {
	// ===========================================================
	// Constants
	// ===========================================================

	// ===========================================================
	// Fields
	// ===========================================================

	private Texture mTexture;
	private final float mScale;

	// ===========================================================
	// Constructors
	// ===========================================================

	/**
	 * @param pCameraWidth
	 * @param pCameraHeight
	 * @param pTextureManager
	 * @param pTextureSource needs to be a power of two as otherwise the repeating feature doesn't work.
	 */
	public RepeatingSpriteBackground(final float pCameraWidth, final float pCameraHeight, final TextureManager pTextureManager, final ITextureSource pTextureSource) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		this(pCameraWidth, pCameraHeight, pTextureManager, pTextureSource, 1);
	}

	public RepeatingSpriteBackground(final float pCameraWidth, final float pCameraHeight, final TextureManager pTextureManager, final ITextureSource pTextureSource, final float pScale) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		super(null);
		this.mScale = pScale;
		this.mEntity = this.loadSprite(pCameraWidth, pCameraHeight, pTextureManager, pTextureSource);
	}

	// ===========================================================
	// Getter & Setter
	// ===========================================================

	public Texture getTexture() {
		return this.mTexture;
	}

	// ===========================================================
	// Methods for/from SuperClass/Interfaces
	// ===========================================================

	// ===========================================================
	// Methods
	// ===========================================================

	private Sprite loadSprite(final float pCameraWidth, final float pCameraHeight, final TextureManager pTextureManager, final ITextureSource pTextureSource) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		this.mTexture = new Texture(pTextureSource.getWidth(), pTextureSource.getHeight(), TextureFormat.RGBA_8888, TextureOptions.REPEATING_NEAREST_PREMULTIPLYALPHA);
		final TextureRegion textureRegion = TextureRegionFactory.createFromSource(this.mTexture, pTextureSource, 0, 0);

		final int width = Math.round(pCameraWidth / this.mScale);
		final int height = Math.round(pCameraHeight / this.mScale);

		textureRegion.setWidth(width);
		textureRegion.setHeight(height);

		pTextureManager.loadTexture(this.mTexture);

		final Sprite sprite = new Sprite(0, 0, width, height, textureRegion);
		sprite.setScaleCenter(0, 0);
		sprite.setScale(this.mScale);
		return sprite;
	}

	// ===========================================================
	// Inner and Anonymous Classes
	// ===========================================================
}


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package com.edgar.rxjava.hello;

import rx.Observable;
import rx.functions.Action1;

/**
 * Created by Administrator on 2015/10/10.
 */
public class HelloWorld {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        hello("Edgar", "Leona");
    }

    public static void hello(String ... names) {
        //These converted Observables will synchronously invoke the onNext( ) method of any subscriber that subscribes to them, for each item to be emitted by the Observable, and will then invoke the subscriber's onCompleted( ) method.
        Observable.from(names).subscribe(new Action1<String>() {
            @Override
            public void call(String s) {
                System.out.println("Hello " + s + "!");
            }
        });
    }
}


Parish of Enoggera, 1859 | There once was a creek . . .
This map from 1859 is held by the Queensland State Archives (Item ID620656) and the State Library (Record 727379). It features excellent depictions of Western Creek, Langsville Creek and Toowong Creek, as well as the lagoon between Cribb Street and Park Road. I have featured it in previous posts and articles including Milton – Brisbane's western frontier and The lost creeks rise again.
You can explore a specially prepared version of this map in the Google Earth window below.
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Q: Different CMAKEs, unable to remove one of them I have two cmake commands, one has a path /usr/local/bin/cmake, which I would like to uninstall. I tried running apt remove cmake but it gives Package 'cmake' is not installed, so not removed. The other one (which I installed using pip) is located in a virtual environment. However, I would like to keep this one.

A: To remove locally installed cmake you have to remove its executable file by
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/cmake

Also it is recommended to inspect whole /usr/local directory tree for other locally installed objects.


Austin S. Brown is an Associate at Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP. Prior to joining Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP as a law clerk in February 2017, Mr. Brown was a litigation paralegal with years of experience assisting in all aspects of construction law, personal injury, commercial litigation and trials.
Mr. Brown received his J.D. from Pace University School of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing and Management from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business.


With a tide as strong as the ones on the East Coast in the Bay Of Fundy, there can be all sorts of different things that can surface from the mass body of water. Since this is a fishing community, material like a piece of a fishing net is not uncommon to see around these parts.
Location: Mavilette Beach, Clare, Nova Scotia, Canada.