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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace DBlog.Tools.Web
{
    public class Renderer
    {
        public Renderer()
        {

        }

        public static string Render(object message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return Render(message.ToString());
        }

        public static string Render(string message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            string result = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(message);
            if (result.IndexOf("
", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) < 0)
            {
                result = result.Replace("\n", "
\n");
            }
            return result;
        }

        public static string RenderEx(object message, string basehref, string rewritehref)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return RenderEx(message.ToString(), basehref, rewritehref);
        }

        public static string RenderEx(string message, string basehref, string rewritehref)
        {
            string result = CleanHtml(message, basehref, rewritehref);
            if (result.IndexOf("
", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) < 0)
            {
                result = result.Replace("\n", "
\n");
            }
            return result;
        }

        public static Regex HtmlExpression = new Regex(@"<[^>]*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        public static Regex BrExpression = new Regex(@"
", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        public static string RemoveHtml(object message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return RemoveHtml(message.ToString());
        }

        public static string RemoveHtml(string message)
        {
            message = BrExpression.Replace(message, "\n");
            message = HtmlExpression.Replace(message, string.Empty);
            message = message.Trim('\n');
            return message;
        }

        public static string CleanHtml(object message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return CleanHtml(message.ToString());
        }

        public static string CleanHtml(string html)
        {
            return CleanHtml(html, null, null);
        }

        public static string CleanHtml(string html, string basehref, string rewritehref)
        {
            try
            {
                Html.HtmlReader r = new Html.HtmlReader(html);
                StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
                Html.HtmlWriter w = new Html.HtmlWriter(sw);
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(basehref)) w.Options.BaseHref = new Uri(basehref);
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rewritehref)) w.Options.RewriteHref = new Uri(rewritehref);
                while (! r.EOF)
                {
                    w.WriteNode(r, true);
                }
                w.Close();
                return sw.ToString();
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                return e.Message;
            }
        }

        public static string UrlEncode(string message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return HttpUtility.UrlEncode(message);
        }

        public static string UrlEncode(object message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return UrlEncode(message.ToString());
        }

        public static string UrlDecode(string message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return HttpUtility.UrlDecode(message);
        }

        public static string UrlDecode(object message)
        {
            if (message == null) return string.Empty;
            return UrlDecode(message.ToString());
        }

        static string HrefHandler(Match ParameterMatch)
        {
            string result = ParameterMatch.Value;

            // quoted results within other tags are ignored
            if (result.StartsWith("\"") && result.EndsWith("\""))
                return result;

            string afterresult = string.Empty;
            const string punctutation = ".,;:";
            while ((result.Length > 0) && (punctutation.IndexOf(result[result.Length - 1]) >= 0))
            {
                afterresult = afterresult + result[result.Length - 1];
                result = result.Remove(result.Length - 1, 1);
            }

            string shortenedresult = result;

            int cut = shortenedresult.IndexOf("?");
            if (cut >= 0)
            {
                shortenedresult = shortenedresult.Substring(0, cut) + " ...";
            }

            result = RemoveMarkups(result);

            result = string.Format("{1}{2}",
                result,
                shortenedresult,
                afterresult);

            return result;
        }

        public static Regex HrefExpression = new Regex(@"[\'\""]{0,1}[\w]+://[a-zA-Z0-9\/\,\(\)\.\?\&+\##\%~=:;_\-\@]*[\'\""]{0,1}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        public static string RenderHref(string RenderValue)
        {
            MatchEvaluator HrefHandlerDelegate = new MatchEvaluator(HrefHandler);
            return HrefExpression.Replace(RenderValue, HrefHandlerDelegate);
        }

        class NameValueMap : StringDictionary
        {
            public NameValueMap()
            {
                Add("[small]", "");
                Add("[/small]", "");
                Add("[h1]", "
");
                Add("[h2]", "
");
                Add("[h3]", "
");
                Add("[big]", "<big>");
                Add("[/h1]", "
");
                Add("[/h2]", "
");
                Add("[/h3]", "
");
                Add("[/big]", "</big>");
                Add("[b]", "");
                Add("[/b]", "");
                Add("[em]", "");
                Add("[/em]", "");
                Add("[i]", "");
                Add("[/i]", "");
                Add("[red]", "");
                Add("[/red]", "");
                Add("[green]", "");
                Add("[/green]", "");
                Add("[blue]", "");
                Add("[/blue]", "");
                Add("[img]", "");
                Add("[image]", "");
                Add("[center]", "
");
                Add("[/center]", "
");
                Add("[code]", "

");
                Add("[/code]", "

");
            }
        };

        static NameValueMap sMarkupMap = new NameValueMap();

        static string MarkupHandler(Match ParameterMatch)
        {
            string word = ParameterMatch.Value;

            if (word.StartsWith("[[") && word.EndsWith("]]"))
                return word.Substring(1, word.Length - 2);

            string result = sMarkupMap[word];
            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(result) ? word : result;
        }

        static string MarkupClearHandler(Match ParameterMatch)
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }

        static Regex MarkupExpression = new Regex(@"[\[]+\/*\w*[\]]+", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        public static string RenderMarkups(string RenderValue)
        {
            MatchEvaluator MarkupHandlerDelegate = new MatchEvaluator(MarkupHandler);
            return MarkupExpression.Replace(RenderValue, MarkupHandlerDelegate);
        }

        public static string RemoveMarkups(string RenderValue)
        {
            MatchEvaluator MarkupHandlerDelegate = new MatchEvaluator(MarkupClearHandler);
            return MarkupExpression.Replace(RenderValue, MarkupHandlerDelegate);
        }

        public static string SqlEncode(string Value)
        {
            return Value.Replace("'", "''");
        }

        public static string GetSummary(string summary)
        {
            string result = RemoveHtml(RemoveMarkups(summary));
            if (result.Length > 256) result = result.Substring(0, 256) + " ...";
            return result;
        }

        public static string GetLink(string uri, string text)
        {
            return string.Format("{1}", uri, text);
        }

        public static string ToRfc822(DateTime value)
        {
            return string.Format("{0} GMT",
                value.ToString("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
        }

        ///
        /// Transform a string into a slug.
        /// See http://www.intrepidstudios.com/blog/2009/2/10/function-to-generate-a-url-friendly-string.aspx
        ///
        /// <param name="s"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static string ToSlug(string s)
        {
            s = s.ToLower();
            // invalid chars, make into spaces
            s = Regex.Replace(s, @"[^a-z0-9\s-]", "");
            // convert multiple spaces/hyphens into one space
            s = Regex.Replace(s, @"[\s-]+", " ").Trim();
            // hyphens
            s = Regex.Replace(s, @"\s", "-");
            return s;
        }
    }
}

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Jennifer Garner has fast-tracked her divorce and wants to become single again by the end of the year (18).
The Dallas Buyers Club star filed for divorce in April, 2017, almost two years after she and her estranged husband Ben Affleck separated, and now Jennifer is looking to officially move on from the relationship by reportedly asking the judge overseeing the case to officially end the marriage as soon as possible.
According to TMZ, Jennifer has filed papers to move the divorce case from the court system to a private judge. The estranged couple has reportedly been trying to work out a custody deal, but the negotiations have been put on hold several times as Affleck fought to regain his sobriety.
Following Affleck's most recent rehab stint, which ended just days ago, Jennifer reportedly now feels they can work out a deal together.
Garner has been instrumental in helping her soon-to-be ex-husband with his alcohol abuse issues, and she reportedly staged an intervention at his home in Pacific Palisades, California at the end of August (18), before driving him to a rehab clinic in Malibu, California.
Affleck left the clinic last month (Sep18) and returned home.
He and Garner are still on friendly terms and they were spotted attending church together with two of their three kids on Sunday (30Sep18).
Meanwhile, Ben's brother Casey has credited his family for helping him to get better.
"Alcoholism has a huge impact on not just the person, but also their family, so I think for his kids' sake and for their mom, and for himself, he's trying to do the work and get it together," he recently told Entertainment Tonight.


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Zorea (în ) este un sat în comuna Hoholiv din raionul Brovarî, regiunea Kiev, Ucraina.

Demografie

Conform recensământului din 2001, toată populația localității Zorea era vorbitoare de ucraineană (100%).

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Zorea, Brovarî, Kiev
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Diocese of Buffalo
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Father John P. Mack is looking for a live liver donor
Pro-Vita Awards recognize dedication, service to life causes
Msgr. Herbert G. Engelhardt, 1916-2015
by KIMBERLEE SABSHIN
Thu, May 28th 2015 11:50 am
Msgr. Herbert G. Engelhardt
Msgr. Herbert G. Engelhardt, a retired diocesan priest, died May 23, 2015, at age 99.
Msgr. Engelhardt was born March 24, 1916, in Buffalo, the son of Peter and Anna (Yax) Engelhardt. He attended Diocesan Preparatory Seminary in Buffalo and Our Lady of the Angels Seminary at Niagara University before Bishop John A. Duffy ordained him to the priesthood on May 18, 1940.
He was named to a missionary apostolate in Sinclairville before being named assistant pastor of several parishes: St. Joachim in Buffalo from 1941-1942, Holy Cross in Buffalo from 1942-1943, Sacred Heart in Niagara Falls from 1943-1944 and St. Boniface in Buffalo from 1944-1945.
From 1945-1948, Msgr. Engelhardt was a U.S. Army chaplain for Howard Air Base in the Panama Canal Zone. Between 1950 and 1958, he was a U.S. Air Force chaplain at Stewart Air Base in Tennesee, Chaumont Air Base in France, McClellan Air Base in California and Itazuke Air Base in Japan. His military service earned him a U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal, which he received in 1975.
In 1958, Msgr. Engelhardt returned to the United States to serve as assistant pastor of Most Precious Blood Parish in Angola, after which he was administrator of St. Peter Parish in LeRoy until 1959. His longest assignment was as pastor of Good Shepherd in Pendleton, where he served from 1959-1971. From 1971 to 1982, he was pastor of Fourteen Holy Helpers in West Seneca.
In 1981, he was given the title of monsignor, after which he was pastor of St. John the Baptist in Boston from 1982-1991. He retired in July 1991.
Msgr. Engelhardt also served as a chaplain of the Reserve Officers Association, on the Priest Senate and was a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus. He received an achievement medal from Niagara University.
A funeral Mass was held at Fourteen Holy Helpers Church in West Seneca, with burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cheektowaga.
Sister Margaret Mahoney, OSF, 1921-2015
Father John Fox, 1933-2015
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Cloudophobia - Don't Let the Cloud Scare You! — Big Co. Small Co.
It's the time of year for conjuring up our fear of things that go bump in the night, but the cloud shouldn't be one of them.
Many businesses are reluctant to use the cloud because they don't understand it, particularly how it would fit the needs of their business and what steps to take to get started. This hesitancy leads to missed opportunity.
Spend Optimization - Done properly, with the right solution architecture, the cloud can provide more resiliency and higher asset utilization factors by right sizing resources and scaling with load.
So how about those Cloudophobias… Should we really be that concerned, or is it just the fear of change and different ways to do what we have always done?
I think is healthy to approach any shift in technology with a degree of concern and skepticism. That said, the public cloud has come a long way and many have helped blaze the original trails that are now becoming well defined patterns on how to approach planning, migration, and day-2 cloud operations.
When working with customers, I am adamant about ensuring that they have a current inventory of applications and a unique identifier tied to each of them… Think of this as the social security number or serial number of the application. This number is a critical component to the tagging strategy that will be used to manage automation tied to the resources, services, and maintenance tied to the respective application.
The next core component of managing risk in the cloud is having a solid tagging strategy and making sure that your tagging practices have been incorporated directly into your cloud deployment tooling, whether this is through a commercial CMP package, or within your CI/CD tool chain. Automating this as a set of predefined variables helps ensure consistency and adherence during implementation.
Once these two foundational objectives are complete, we can focus on how to manage the other key concerns around access & security, performance, cost and enterprise integration.
The core pieces that factor into the remaining concerns are the solution architecture of how both the cloud platform is implemented, and the architecture of the migrated applications themselves. The other is taking a position of least privileged access. Having an architectural strategy, tied to service account based access when used with CMP or pipeline based deployments go a long way in mitigating many of our concerns as IT leaders.
Ultimately we want to provide our teams with the maximum amount of freedom in the cloud to go fast and innovate… That said, we have to keep our names off the front page news as yet another company that has exposed customer data. Combined with the above strategies, I always recommend a compliance automation engine that can take action on your behalf when (not if) mistakes are inadvertently made. As an advisor and partner I recommend that DivvyCloud be a tool that is considered to ensure your cloud resources don't go bump in the night!
To find out how Big Co. Small Co. can help you overcome your fear of the cloud, contact us today for your free 30-minute session by visiting our contact page.


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<?php

/*
 * This file is part of staccato listable component
 *
 * (c) Krystian Karaś <dev@karashome.pl>
 *
 * This source file is subject to the MIT license that is bundled
 * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
 */

namespace Staccato\Component\Listable\Tests\Filter;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Staccato\Component\Listable\Field\NumberField;

/**
 * @covers \Staccato\Component\Listable\Field\NumberField
 */
class NumberFieldTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testNormalize(): void
    {
        $field = $this->createNumberField();

        $this->assertSame(0.5, $field->normalize(0.5, ['value' => 0.5]));
        $this->assertSame(1.0, $field->normalize(1, ['value' => 1]));
        $this->assertSame(1.5, $field->normalize('1.50', ['value' => '1.50']));
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider renderDataProvider
     */
    public function testRender(float $value, string $expectedResult, array $options): void
    {
        $field = $this->createNumberField($options);

        $this->assertSame($expectedResult, $field->render($value, ['value' => $value]));
    }

    public function renderDataProvider(): array
    {
        return [
            [1.23456, '1.23', []],
            [1000.00, '1000.00', []],
            [1, '1', ['precision' => 0]],
            [1, '1.0', ['precision' => 1]],
            [1.23456, '1.2', ['precision' => 1]],
            [1.65432, '1.7', ['precision' => 1]],
            [1.65432, '1,654', ['precision' => 3, 'decimal_point' => ',']],
            [1234567.89, '1 234 567,890', ['precision' => 3, 'decimal_point' => ',', 'thousands_separator' => ' ']],
        ];
    }

    private function createNumberField(array $options = []): NumberField
    {
        $field = new NumberField();
        $field->setOptions($options);

        return $field;
    }
}


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Variety Plus Icon Read Next: James Cameron Admits There's One Way 'Jack Might've Lived' After Scientifically Testing 'Titanic' Door Raft: 'There's a Lot of Variables'
Sep 13, 2012 4:00pm PT
Patti Felker: Legal eagle in harmony with talent's family
Youth Impact Report 2012: Primo Percenters
By Addie Morfoot
Addie Morfoot
@kamorfoot
Doc Powerhouse Field of Vision Shops Four Films, Seeks New Backers at Sundance 1 week ago
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Bethann Hardison on Her Dual Role as Co-Director and Subject in Sundance Modeling Industry Doc 'Invisible Beauty' 2 weeks ago
When it comes to her clients, entertainment attorney Patti Felker doesn't care whether they're adults, adolescents or children. All that really matters to the power lawyer is inking the best possible deal.
In addition to negotiating contracts for Jeremy Renner and overall deals at Warner Bros. for Greg Berlanti, Felker has recently put pacts together for 24-year-old Zac Efron as well as such up-and-comers as 15-year-old Asa Butterfield, 17-year-old Callan McAuliffe, 19-year-old Bridgit Mendler and 23-year-old Corbin Bleu.
Felker credits "the rising success of movies based on young adult books" for making what was once a challenging bargaining marketplace for young talent into one that pays, for the most part, in accordance with a child thesp's market value.
"Especially since 'Harry Potter' there is and will be an emergence of young actors who will carry movies. We see the casting of these actors and the fees they are commanding becoming commensurate with their adult counterparts," says the legal partner at Felker Toczek Gellman Suddleson.
Felker says these days one of the trickiest components of handling youth talent is establishing that "the family unit is harmonious."
"When you decide to represent a minor, you don't just have to satisfy one client, you have to satisfy several clients because there are parents involved. So I'm really careful. I meet the whole family."
Felker, who has represented Brendan Fraser since he was 17, says she is particularly excited for her younger clients.
"There are more vehicles for them to appear in, which helps them maintain a career that carries them through adulthood."
Impact: Negotiated the "Hugo" and "Ender's Game" deals for client Asa Butterfield, among others.
Next: Client Callan McAuliffe will play a young Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby."
Causes: Inner-City Arts, Pups for Peace and Heifer Project Intl.
Return to the Youth Impact Report 2012 >>
Bridgit Mendler,
Callan Mcauliffe,
Corbin Bleu,
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Friday night Theatre Dates are our favourite - congrats @moderntimesstage on a resonant, layered and haunting show! Not pictured the later outburst of tears.... Runs till April 13th at @crowstheatre - check it out if you have the chance!
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A father and his son confront and rediscover each other.
Gaspard Dassonville is 63 years old, but he enjoys a lifestyle of a man half that age. A well-known television producer, he accumulates thirty-something companions and is intent on ignoring all signs of aging. But old age comes crashing down on him: Gaspard is forced to have his father, who can no longer take care of himself, come and stay with him. An untamable old man, Hubert comes to disturb his son's contentment with his illusionary youth. The duo is transformed into a trio with the arrival of Zana, an auxiliary nurse with questionable references and an unbridled imagination. Each fascinated in their own way by this unconventional woman, father and son confront and rediscover each other.
Behind this simple story, that makes these two wonderful actors meet – Pierre Arditi et Jean-Pierre Marielle, absolutely spectacular – there is a real concern about the place of the Elders in our society.


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Amy Gibbons, PA Political Correspondent
British politician (born 1967)
The safety of high-rise buildings has been under the microscope since dozens of people lost their lives in the tragic Grenfell Tower blaze.
The Government has now pledged to take fresh action to relieve the burden on leaseholders, who have so far faced eye-watering costs for remediation work.
It says it will not hesitate to introduce a developers' tax to hit those responsible for dangerous cladding if firms do not voluntarily step up to fix safety defects.
Here is what is known about the plans so far:
Grenfell Tower (Steve Parsons/PA)
– What is the problem?
A spotlight was cast on the use of flammable materials in the construction of high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which killed 72 people.
Many leaseholders have since been left facing potentially ruinous bills after discovering that cladding on their homes could be dangerous.
Some have reportedly been hit with costs of more than £100,000 to replace the unsafe materials or pay for so-called "waking watches", where someone is employed to patrol a building checking for fires.
It was an honour for us to be part of the #HillsboroughLaw event today.
Truly humbling to speak alongside families that have been failed by the system for decades, yet still demanding change & Justice so others will not go through the same.#YNWA ♥💚 #HillsboroughLawNow https://t.co/y0atOlzvau
— Grenfell United (@GrenfellUnited) January 7, 2022
– What action has been taken so far?
In February 2021, the Government announced a multibillion-pound package in a bid to ensure no leaseholders in high-rise blocks in England face charges for the removal of cladding.
The measures were intended to protect those who own homes in taller buildings.
They mean leaseholders in blocks over 18 metres (59ft) in height can access grants to replace unsafe cladding.
The case has so far been different for those who own homes in smaller buildings.
For blocks of between 11 metres and 18 metres (36ft and 59ft), the Government said in February it would introduce a "long-term, low interest" loan scheme under which "no leaseholder will ever pay more than £50 a month towards the removal of unsafe cladding".
But Michael Gove, who subsequently took over the housing brief, said in November: "I'm still unhappy with the principle of leaseholders having to pay at all, no matter how effective a scheme might be in capping their costs or not hitting them too hard at any one time."
Speaking to MPs on Monday, he said: "We will also ensure that those who profited and and continue to profit from the sale of unsafe buildings and construction products must take full responsibility for their actions and pay to put things right.
"Those who knowingly put lives at risk should be held to account for their crimes, and those who are seeking to profit from the crisis by making it worse should be stopped from doing so. Today I am putting them on notice.
"To those who missold dangerous products like cladding or insulation, to those who cut corners to save cash as they developed or refurbished people's homes, and to those who sought to profiteer from the consequences of the Grenfell tragedy – we are coming for you."
Michael Gove (Peter Byrne/PA)
-What is the plan going forward?
During a speech on Monday, the Housing Secretary said that no leaseholder living in a block above 11 metres would have to pay for fixing dangerous problems.
Mr Gove said he was seeking to convene a meeting with industry to find an agreed way, he was ready if necessary to "impose a solution on them in law" to cover the estimated £4 billion costs to deal with the issue.
Potential action also includes restricting access to Government funding and future procurements, the use of planning powers, and pursuing firms through the courts.
Under the plans, leaseholders in buildings between 11 metres and 18 metres tall will no longer have to take out loans to cover the costs of remediation work – despite no new money coming from the Treasury.
Instead, developers have been told to agree to start contributing this year to cover the "full outstanding cost".
House builders who failed to put in fire breaks, ensure robust internal compartmentation, made & continue to make huge profits through taxpayer funded schemes now upset that they might be held accountable for the own mistakes.#BuildingSafetyCrisis #NotJustCladding https://t.co/tLxU7Fr6TN
— UK Cladding Action Group (@ukcag) January 10, 2022
– What do campaigners and MPs make of the news?
A spokesman for the End Our Cladding Scandal said they welcomed the plans, but said Mr Gove's talk needed to be backed by "tough action".
David Renard, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association – which represents 350 councils across England and Wales, warned that leaseholders were "not the only innocent victims" of the scandal.
"The construction industry must also be made to fix the fire safety defects it has built into blocks owned by councils and housing associations," he said.
Shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy said it was a "welcome change of tone and some good steps forward", but warned cash for levelling up schemes or housing projects could be used if the Government fails to make developers pay to fix all building safety defects.
It's a welcome change of tone and some good steps forward, but the Government's promise to fix the building safety crisis is unravelling in front of our eyes ⬇ https://t.co/1ACktH2o0l
— Lisa Nandy (@lisanandy) January 10, 2022
Following questions she posed to Mr Gove in the commons, she tweeted: "It's now clear Gove doesn't have permission from the Treasury to raise taxes on developers. So how will he get them to pay up? He can't say.
"If they don't pay up who does? Will he raid his levelling up budget instead? Or take money away from affordable and social housing?"
Meanwhile, Stewart Baseley, the executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation, accepted that leaseholders should not have to pay for remediation, but said builders should not cover the costs alone.
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American husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames are world renowned for their hugely influential modern designs across media—furniture, architecture, graphics, and products—all characterized by a playful, clean aesthetic, which has proved highly accessible and enduring. Their work can be seen to parallel the evolution of postwar American design, from the rise of the West Coast to the global proliferation of American culture.
Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied architecture at Washington University before being asked to leave for demanding more focus on modern designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1936, he accepted a fellowship to the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, where he became head of the new design department. There, he collaborated with Eero Saarinen on the wooden furniture that won the Museum of Modern Art's competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings in 1940. The series included experimental molded plywood chairs.
Ray (née Kaiser) was born in 1912 in Sacramento, California. She spent her formative years in New York, studying with painter Hans Hofmann. Along with other of Hofmann's students, she was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, an organization that picketed galleries who refused to show non-representational art, and which contributed to the spread of Abstract Expressionism.
The two met at Cranbrook, married in 1941, and moved to Los Angeles, where they collaborated on mass-produced, low-cost furniture designs. During the war, they earned a contract with the US Navy to develop molded plywood leg splints for injured servicemen. Their ongoing work in domestic furniture was bolstered by access to the military's resources, and, on establishing an office in Santa Monica, led to great successes with molded plywood. The first plywood piece, the iconic ECW (Eames Chair Wood) model, was initially produced in 1946 by Evans, and is still in production today. Charles and Ray Eames designed prefab architecture to meet the postwar housing demand, and, in 1949, designed their own California home as part of the Case Study House Program sponsored by Arts & Architecture Magazine. They continued to experiment throughout their career, with materials—expanding to furniture in fiberglass, plastics, and metals—and on a spectrum of projects, ranging from toy design to photography and film.
Nearly every design developed by the Eames Office has become beloved and collectible. Standout pieces include La Chaise, developed for MoMA's International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design (1948); Molded Fiberglass Chairs (1950); Eames Storage Unit (1950-52); Lounge Chair & Ottoman (1956); and Aluminum Group Office Chairs (1958), with pieces manufactured by both Herman Miller in the US and Vitra in Europe. The Eameses received many honors in their lifetime and after: the Organic Furniture Competition, Museum of Modern Art (1940); Emmy Award in Graphics for The Fabulous Fifties (1960); Kaufmann International Design Award (1961); 25 Year American Institute of Architects Award (1977); Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, Harvard (1971); Queen's Gold Medal for Architecture (1979); "Most Influential Designer of the 20th Century" by WORLDESIGN (1985); Industrial Designers Society of America (1985); and The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, Traveling Exhibition by the Library of Congress (1999).
Charles passed away in 1978; Ray passed away exactly a decade later, to the day.
Swiss founders Willi and Erika Fehlbaum launched Vitra in 1934 as a shopfitting business in the Basel region, near the border of Germany and Switzerland. During a visit to America in 1953, the Fehlbaums became enamored with the innovative designs of Charles and Ray Eames—known today for the iconic Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman (1956). In 1957, Vitra obtained licensing rights to produce Herman Miller furniture for the European market and began to manufacture the work of Charles and Ray Eames, as well as George Nelson—famous for the Pop Art-inspired Marshmallow Sofa (1956).
In 1967, after working closely with Danish designer Verner Panton, Vitra introduced the Panton Chair (originally conceived in 1959/60). The design was deemed a modernist landmark because it was the first wholly plastic, stackable, cantilever chair made in one piece. Vitra soon became internationally recognized as a company that collaborates with talented, progressive designers to create cutting-edge, high-quality products.
Rolf Fehlbaum (b. 1941), eldest son to Willi and Erika, became Vitra's Chief Executive in 1977. In 1981, after a disastrous fire at the Vitra facilities in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Rolf commissioned British architect Nicholas Grimshaw to design a new manufacturing hall. More architectural commissions followed, and the Vitra Campus (as the architectural ensemble came to be known) earned acclaim for the way its high-concept, contemporary buildings integrated into the surrounding natural landscape and residential areas. Architect Frank Gehry designed the first public building, the Vitra Design Museum (1989), to house Rolf's ever-growing collection of chairs, the largest collection in the world. Other buildings on campus were designed by the esteemed architects Tadao Ando (Conference Pavilion, 1993), Zaha Hadid (Fire Station, 1993), Alvaro Siza (Factory Building, 1994), and Herzog & de Meuron (VitraHaus, 2010).
After thirty years, Vitra's partnership with Herman Miller was mutually terminated in 1984. Vitra, however, acquired the design rights to pieces by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Europe and the Middle East. For six decades, Vitra has been producing first-class furniture from iconic and internationally renowned designers and architects. Other famous designs in Vitra's collection include Isamu Noguchi's Noguchi Table (1939), Shiro Kuramata's How High the Moon Chair (1986), Borek Sípek's Ota Otanek Chair (1988), Philippe Starck's Louis XX Stacking Chair (1992), and numerous patterns and textiles created by Alexander Girard. Vitra has also won countless design-related awards, such as the Lucky Strike Design Award in 1994, and their pieces can be found in design museums around the world, including the Tate Modern and Design Museum in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and, of course, Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.
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Blue Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen, 2000s
Large Plastic & Textile F553 Globe Lounge Chair by Pierre Paulin for Artifort, 1960s
Birthmark Bronze Statue by Gong Dong, 2000s
Abstract Glass Sculpture by Rachel Daeng Ngalle, 2001
Woman with Dog Glass Sculpture by Elio Raffaeli, 1980s
Desk Chair by Friso Kramer for Ahrend De Cirkel, 1960s
Murano Glass Table Lamp from Cenedese, 1980s
P125 Executive Armchair by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, 1970s
Barcelona Lounge Chair from Knoll Inc., 1981
Bara Bara Floor Lamp by Jean-Francois Crochet for Sergio Terzani, 1980s
Nara Ceramic Object from Studio Superego, 2000s
Fabric and Metal Mobilis 045 Lounge Chair by Marcel Wanders for Artifort, 1980s
Elda Armchair by Joe Colombo, 1960s
Italian Hand Blown Glass Sculpture by Marco Panisson, 1970s
Danish Wooden Dining Chairs by Børge Mogensen for FDB, 1960s, Set of 4
Pallavah Murano Glass Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Venini, 1990s
Eye-Catcher Glass Light Sculpture from Angelo Brotto, 1970s
Large Glass Ommagio a Jean Arp Sculpture from Romano Dona, 1950s
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Former 2008 British F3 National Class Champion, and BRDC Rising Star Jay Bridger, is stepping up to the British Formula 3 International Series with Litespeed F3 team. The Kent-based 22-year-old will drive a Volkswagen-powered Dallara chassis.
Jay's competitive career began at the age of nine in karts. After a season in BRDC single-seaters in 2005 he moved on to Formula Ford, in which he was Festival runner-up in 2006 and fifth in the British championship the following season.
Five class wins in a Fluid-prepared Dallara netted him the British F3 National title in 2008, and the following season he took his maiden steps in the championship's International class with a Litespeed F3-prepared Mygale chassis.
It will be Jay's third season in Europe's most competitive single-seater championship, and Jay plans to work hard to impress Litespeed F3, which recently announced a talent-spotting affiliation with the reborn Lotus F1 team.
"Litespeed F3 helped me through a difficult season in 2009 and I am looking forward to demonstrating to both Litespeed and to my new sponsors, H2 Industries, just how competitive I can be," said Jay. "I have unfinished business in British F3 and the package that Litespeed F3 has put together for 2010 is very strong. I can't wait for the season to start."


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Toys 'R' Us, Back From the Dead, Will Open U.S. Stores in 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/toys-r-us-back-from-the-dead-will-open-u-s-stores-in-2019
A Toys 'R' Us store in New York in 2018.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
Maybe American kids will only have to live through one Christmas without Toys "R" Us.
About a year after
shuttering U.S. operations, the remnant of the defunct toy chain is set to return this holiday season by opening about a half dozen U.S. stores and an e-commerce site, according to people familiar with the matter.
Richard Barry, a former Toys "R" Us executive who is now CEO of new entity Tru Kids Inc., has been pitching his vision to reincarnate the chain to toymakers, including at an industry conference this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public.
The stores are slated to be about 10,000-square feet, roughly a third of the size of the brand's big-box outlets that closed last year, the people said. The locations will also have more experiences, like play areas. The startup costs could be minimized with a consignment inventory model in which toymakers ship goods but don't get paid until consumers buy them, some of the people said.
A spokeswoman for Tru Kids said the company wasn't ready to publicly share details on its U.S. strategy.
New Rivals
It remains to be seen how much of a boost the retailer's comeback will provide the toy industry, including giants such as
Hasbro Inc. and
Mattel Inc. The original Toys "R" Us, the only national toy chain, left a
huge hole when it went under. It had been generating about $7 billion in sales a year in the U.S. through more than 700 locations, including the Babies "R" Us brand.
Walmart Inc.,
Target Corp. and
Amazon.com Inc. have swooped in to fill the void. They have all expanded toy assortments and marketing, including a printed
toy catalog from Amazon. Other non-traditional chains jumped into the category, including grocery stores and
Party City Holdco Inc.
There is also a question of how many toymakers will do business with the new Toys "R" Us after many lost money when the former company announced liquidation in March 2018, just months after filing for bankruptcy.
MGA on Board
MGA Entertainment Inc., one of the best-performing toymakers in the world, is already on board to sell at the re-imagined Toys "R" Us shops, said Chief Executive Officer Isaac Larian, who said he has been pitched the plan. His company's properties include Little Tikes, L.O.L. Surprise! and Bratz dolls.
"This market needs a self-standing toy store, that's for sure," Larian said in an interview. "We will sell them inventory."
Related: Tears 'R' Us: The World's Biggest Toy Store Didn't Have to Die
During the chain's bankruptcy, lenders led by
Solus Alternative Asset Management and Angelo Gordon took control of the company's assets. After results didn't improve, they opted to shutter operations in the U.S. Units in Australia and other regions also closed, with divisions in Asia and Canada acquired by new owners.
This group tried to sell the intellectual property, but opted to keep it to garner a better return. As owners of the intellectual property, they have been collecting licensing and other fees from the units still operating and selling them private-label goods. The lenders then formed Tru Kids with the goal of
reviving the brand in the U.S. and other regions it exited. It has since hired several industry veterans and signed a deal to bring Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us back to Australia through a partner.
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Q: Projection onto a convex subset, need help proving some identities Let $K:= \{ u \in L^2(\Omega) : |u| \leq 1\}$ where the absolute value means the $L^2$ norm. Consider the Hilbert space projection operator $P:L^2(\Omega) \to K$, which satisfies by definition
$$(Px-x, Px-a) \leq 0$$
for all $a \in K$.
I read in here that:

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*If $|x| > 1$, then $Px = \frac{x}{|x|}$

*If $|x| = 1$, and $w \in L^2$ and $t > 0$ (can be chosen sufficiently small) is such that $|x+tw| \leq (1+t^2|w|^2)^{\frac 12}$, then $P(x+tw) = \frac{x+tw}{\sup(1, |x+tw|)}$.
I don't see why either of these are true. I tried plugging these expressions into the definition, but I wasn't able to prove it. ANy help please.

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Greece walking into a quagmire – Erdogan — Apsny News
The president of Türkiye blasted its neighbor and rival in the Mediterranean for alleged militarization of the Aegean islands
Greece is not Türkiye's equal and will get itself into a quagmire by confronting it, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned. He criticized Athens for an alleged militarization of its islands in the Aegean Sea.
The real goal of Athens' confrontational stance towards Türkiye is hindering the country's progress towards greatness, the president said, in a speech on Monday following a meeting of the Turkish cabinet.
"This is a dangerous game for Greek politicians, the Greek state, the Greek people, and those who use them as puppets," Erdogan stated.
"Neither those military buildups nor that political and economic support is enough to raise Greece to our level, but these wrong steps are enough to drag Greece into the swamp in every sense," he added.
The Turkish leader was commenting on the reported deployment of additional weapons to the islands of Lesbos and Samos. Last week, media in Türkiye showed what they claimed to be footage shot by Ankara's military drones, showing armored vehicles being unloaded from a Greek landing ship. The hardware was allegedly donated to Athens by Washington.
Ankara summoned the Greek ambassador to lodge a formal protest on Monday, but Athens rejected its accusations as baseless. The Greek government says its military activities in the Aegean are reactive to Türkiye's aggressive policies.
Erdogan accused Greece of being engaged in "manipulations and escalations" and warned that the outcome of a possible confrontation with Türkiye would be disastrous for the Greek people. As an example, he mentioned the losses that Greek expeditionary forces in Türkiye suffered a century ago, during the Turkish War of Independence.
Lesbos and Samos used to be part of the Ottoman Empire, but Istanbul's grip on them dwindled by the start of the 20th century. Greece incorporated the islands along with several others in the early 1910s.
Athens sealed its sovereignty over them under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which ended Türkiye's hostilities with European nations. The agreement's terms specifically banned Greece from building naval bases or fortifications on four of them, including Lesbos and Samos.
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The viewpoint that binds federalism, development, and democratization is heavily linked to neo-liberal economics where, in broad terms, the preference is less of government and more of market. Particularly needed to make this work is the redistribution of power from central to subnational levels of government and the establishment of market facilitating institutions, which is attributed to what scholars call the neo-institutionalist project. In doing so, it fosters efficiency, encourage innovation, and limit predation. This kind of thinking has been prominent among international development organizations such the World Bank, USAID, and the ADB that, in turn, has influenced many decentralization projects in developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s including the Philippines.
However, the link between federalism, development, and democracy is not as straightforward as one may think it is. Empirical evidence from the extensive literature on decentralization and federalism is, at best, mixed.
The sweeping statements that connect federalism and development in the current debates in the country are worrying. There are many aspects of development that people assumed as true such as the belief that raising individual incomes will reduce inter-jurisdictional disparities, or that a decentralized fiscal policy will allow for better matching of demands and eventually overall satisfaction of needs of the community.
However, economic development is unavoidably uneven and this has little to do with the presence of absence of a decentralized fiscal policy. Some scholars believe that the reason for this unevenness has more to do with the place's histories rather than policies. In fact, policies emerge as a response to the contextual challenges rather than the other way around. In some cases, economic development preceded the demand for autonomy and not the other way around.
Hence, more than the distribution of goods and services, decentralization as a policy should take into consideration how power is distributed between the state and society. Particularly interesting would be to determine whose interests are at play, how production was pursued, what the nature of the relationship is between public and private sector, and how the labor-management relations is structured.
It will be irresponsible to talk about the federal project that is detached from the social realities, local government capacities, and histories of particular places. The tendency to discuss its consequences from a national perspective is therefore misleading. Any discussion on the effects of a multi-level system of governance on development must by localized, because after all, development happens in particular places.
Neo-institutionalists embrace rationality in decision-making and therefore assume that decentralization and federalism will neutralize vested interests and therefore lead to democratization. However, diverging outcomes are seen across municipalities, cities and provinces in the Philippines' twenty-seven years of devolution. This is also true even across countries and regions. Why is there so much disparity even though spaces for citizens participation in local development and planning is in place?
One way of understanding this is to look at democracy not just a state but as a process that requires strong and genuine local opposition parties that will continuously challenge the status quo. When preferences are not expressed in the people's votes, then there is very little opportunity for democracy to deepen.
If there is one concern that must be raised at this point, it is the fact that local predatory powers remain resilient despite the establishment of democratic institutions after Martial Law. Democracy has shifted power from the top to below, but it was mostly the local elites that benefited from this. That the country is dominated by political dynasties, some as old as a century, is an indication of power not being able to permeate to the grassroots.
The current federal project should not be hi-jacked by local predatory interests. What we do not want to happen is to transfer power to the local level but there is no avenue for local power to be contested.
A broad range of societal actors should be allowed to take part in the discourse and debate on the technical, legal, and political aspects of federalism. Cases of decentralization as a 'failed experiment' in some African and Southeast Asian countries are attributed to it being an external project not rooted on the quality and capacity of the country's local participatory institutions. And in cases where citizens participation is observed, they remain to be passive players in local policies and politics.
A restructuring of institutions does not guarantee the intended reform outcomes. Hence we must be cautious to assume that decentralization and federalism leads to development and democratization. This points to two important intermediaries that connect federalism, development, and democracy. First, we know that institutions matter, but which ones? And second, do these institutions support genuine local political competition, or do they perpetuate predatory tendencies that stifle participation in the local policy processes?
Particularly for developing countries, it must be pointed out that federalism's role is not creating growth at the local level, but redistributing economic benefits that would narrow the gap between the rich and poor. In other words, development in the context of decentralization should not be about growth, but it must be about social justice. Debates therefore should focus on how the processes can be fair and inclusive rather than the normative principles behind.
What it means to be poor in one municipality is different in another. Therefore, what it will take to correct this inequality should be different from one place to another. In doing so, institutional reform policies must take into account the history, context and specificity of the place or places. Local political realities constrain even the most well-thought and well-designed policy.
The path toward greater local autonomy, whether in a devolved or federal form, should be gradual but strategic because the constraints that our local governments have are deeply embedded. The gravity and seriousness of these constraints necessitates a process of reform that is mindful of the realities of the local institutions.
It, therefore, should not be viewed as simply a technical or policy strategy, but a political process that is influenced by the distribution and contestation of power. Hence, to look at federalism as this one pill that cures the illnesses of political and economic inequality is a dangerous path to undertake. It is important that we distinguish between symptoms and causes. If not, we might, at the end of the process, end up be more sick than well.


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Why is redevelopment needed?
Landmark Mall is an aging center built in 1965 and last updated 25 years ago.
It became part of The Howard Hughes Corporation portfolio six years ago. The company has continued to operate the mall to serve the community, but redevelopment is needed to once again make it viable and competitive in the marketplace and better address community needs.
What part of Landmark Mall will be redeveloped?
The center enclosed portion of the Landmark Mall, along with the former Lord & Taylor and Macy's anchor space, will be redeveloped. Sears is independently owned and will remain open.
What is planned?
A walkable, mixed-used urban village will bring approximately 317,000 square feet of modern shops and restaurants along with up to 400 new residential units and an updated parking structure.
In addition to the new retail and residences, the new Landmark will be an open-air community destination featuring multiple plazas and green spaces, outdoor seating, seasonal entertainment and public art. There will be numerous full-service and fast-casual dining options, along with a luxury cinema—and more.
Has the redevelopment been approved?
The redevelopment has been through several rounds of approval with the City of Alexandria. Final site plan approval and other reviews are pending.
Why has redevelopment taken so long?
Stakeholders agree Landmark Mall has languished too long. Remaking it has stymied multiple owners because it is a complex and expensive undertaking. The Howard Hughes Corporation envisions a true community destination that will be an amenity for the entire city.
The Howard Hughes Corporation took over Landmark Mall in November 2010, and received rezoning approval for the redevelopment in 2013. Significant progress has been made in 2015, and that effort is continuing.
What is the timing?
As stated earlier, the redevelopment of Landmark Mall is a very complicated process. Work is underway to advance the project into the next phase. Significant progress has been made in 2015, and excitement about the future is growing as many retailers and restaurants are expressing interest in the new project.
Is the mall open?
In connection with the future development, the interior portion of the mall will be closed to the public on February 1, 2017. Sears will remain open as well as businesses operating on the outparcels/parking field portion of the mall.
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The UK Has Impounded a Private Jet With Suspected Links to a Russian Billionaire
A Bombardier Global 6500 has been detained while the UK investigates whether it's linked to oligarch Eugene Shvidler.
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The UK is toughening up its aviation sanctions against Russia due to the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Just days after the European Union and the UK closed their airspace to Russian-owned private aircraft, a private jet with suspected links to Russian oligarch Eugene Shvidler has been impounded at an airport in Hampshire under new powers handed to the UK's aviation authorities.
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The Bombardier Global 6500 arrived in Farnborough airport (pictured above) from New Jersey on Friday, March 4, and was detained on the orders of UK transport secretary Grant Shapps just a few hours before it was due to fly to Dubai on Tuesday, March 8, as reported by the BBC.
Under the new measures announced late Tuesday, Shapps gave Britain's Civil Aviation Authority the power to "detain" aircraft suspected of having links with Russia. It's also now a criminal offense for planes owned or chartered by Russian nationals to enter UK airspace.
Bombardier's Global 6500 Business Jet. Courtesy of Bombardier
Shapps said the jet, which costs between $44 million and $56 million new, had been detained while an investigation into its connection with Shvidler was carried out. The transport secretary revoked the jet's foreign carrier permit to stop it from legally carrying passengers and issued a restriction of flying order to ground the plane. Shvidler has himself not been personally sanctioned by the UK at any stage.
Worth about $2 billion, Shvidler is the chairman of Millhouse Capital, a British-registered company that manages the assets of Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich and his partners.
"We will always work to deny [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his cronies the right to continue as normal while innocent Ukrainians suffer," Shapps said.
The cabin of Bombardier's Global 6500 Business Jet. Courtesy of Bombardier
Although relatively new, the widespread aviation sanctions are already having a major impact on Russia's private jet market. In fact, the number of private jets flying out of the country has already nosedived some 25 percent in the past few days.
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Eco-industrial park – a sustainable approach for VN's development
Seventy-two enterprises in four industrial parks in Ninh Binh, Can Tho and Da Nang have saved a total of 6.5 million USD per year by using technology, efficiently utilizing natural resources.
VNA Thursday, June 13, 2019 15:44
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Vietnam expedites eco-friendly industrial park initiative
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 20:59
Greening industrial production in Vietnam
Hanoi (VNA) - Seventy-two enterprises in four industrial parks in the northern province of Ninh Binh, the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho and the central city of Da Nang have saved a total of 6.5 million USD per year by using technology, efficiently utilizing natural resources and enhancing clean production.
More than 3,100 managers and technicians have been trained in eco-industrial park (Photo: VietnamPlus)
The project "Implementing Eco-industrial park (EIP) initiative for sustainable industrial zones in Vietnam" has been jointly carried out by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) for a year. It has a total investment of more than 5 million USD co-funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the Swiss Government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the framework of the Global Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) Programme.
The initiative was piloted at Khanh Phu and Gian Khau industrial parks in Ninh Binh; Hoa Khanh industrial park in Da Nang; and Tra Noc 1 and Tra Noc 2 industrial parks in Can Tho.
It focused on increasing the transfer, deployment and diffusion of clean technologies and practices for the minimisation of hazardous waste, greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollutants and the good management of chemicals in the industrial parks.
Via the project, enterprises in the above-mentioned industrial parks are provided with information on the latest technology and advice on cleaner production solutions, helping them take full advantage of raw materials,use energy efficiently, save water as well as ensure safety in using chemicals and managing wastewater.
The project's solutions for resource efficient and cleaner production have led to total saving of annual demand of more than 22,000 MWh of electricity, over 600,000 m3 of freshwater, some 140 TJ of fossil fuels, and nearly 3,600 tonnes of chemicals and waste. These solutions also led to a decrease of 32 kt of CO2 every year.
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
At a workshop to review the project on June 12, Swiss Ambassador to Vietnam Beatrice Maser Mallor said the government of Switzerland will support Vietnam in its transformation to a greener economy.
The initiative is one of the flagship programmes in Switzerland's economic cooperation and development framework for Vietnam, she stressed, noting its main objective is to demonstrate the viability and benefits of sustainable industrial parks in Vietnam's industrial development policy.
The project provided training for more than 3,100 managers and technicians, towards creating a common understanding of EIPs and sharing international experience, good practices and their application in Vietnam.
The training helped attendees to learn EIP resources and tools available; and understand and learn about the opportunities as well as associated challenges in applying and replicating the EIP concept in Vietnam.
The project also supported the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam in developing policies and guidelines to facilitate the transformation of industrial zones into EIPs. They include guidelines on how to access green financing, what to do to prevent, prepare and respond to environmental accidents, and many others.
UNIDO Country Representative in Vietnam Le ThiThanhThaosaidthe transformation of conventional industrial parks into eco-industrial parks will be a good opportunity to attain inclusive and sustainable industrial development in Vietnam.
The EIP initiative constitutes another step forward in UNIDO's supports for Vietnam in efficientenergy use and cleaner production in industry over the past 20 years, Thao said.
She expressed her belief that the project's successes will create a firm foundation for expanding the EIP model in Vietnam, contributing to protecting the environment, gaining sustainable development, raising Vietnam's competitiveness and attracting high quality investment into the country, especially from the private sector. -VNA
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Raiden is looking pretty dark in Mortal Kombat 11.
We got our first taste of Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay as footage was revealed at a live event Thursday.
Developer NetherRealm Studios also showed off the story prologue and some delightfully violent fatalities — including a variant on Sub Zero's klassic head-and-spine rip.
In terms of the characters, we saw Baraka, Sonya Blade (now played by WWE champion Ronda Rousey), Scorpion, Sub Zero, Raiden (who's gone a little dark), Skarlet and new fighter Geras — seven of the 25 slots on the selection screen.
There are different variations of characters like Mortal Kombat X, but now you can create your own. You can customize costumes — like Scorpion's mask, spear and swords — so there's potential for infinite aesthetic variety when you play online.
The gameplay mechanics are a little different now too — your souped attack and defense options are determined by horizontal and vertical meters respectively, while a perfectly timed Flawless Block gives you an opening to counterattack.
Baraka takes on Scorpion in the latest Mortal Kombat.
Story-wise, this game picks up directly after Mortal Kombat X, with the opening cinematic revealing the moment Raiden beheaded the defeated Shinnok. Series creator Ed Boon hinted that the Thunder God will suffer some consequences for his actions in this game, and we'll see some time travel elements (Raiden first tinkered with the timeline in 2011's Mortal Kombat).
Mortal Kombat 11 was announced with a violent reveal trailer at The Game Awards 2018 back in December, and its cover art was revealed last week.
It hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch on April 23, and preordering a copy will unlock series archvillain Shao Kahn as a playable character.
Those who preorder on PS4 and Xbox One will get access to a prelaunch beta sometime in March, our sister site GameSpot noted.
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Movie Review: Primitive and tribal, 'We the Animals' magically warms the body and soul (#BodyHeat)
By Brendan Cassidy
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Writers: Daniel Kitrosser, Jeremiah Zagar, Justin Torres (based on the novel by)
Stars: Evan Rosado, Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand, Josiah Gabriel, Isaiah Kristian
Synopsis: Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
Transitioning from documentary filmmaking to your first scripted feature can sometimes be problematic, as documentaries are defined by the way they document information, usually as a means of education or for historical context. We often say how movies should show and not merely tell, but documentaries require a crucial yet unique form of telling to succeed, a tactic that doesn't always work in fictional drama.
But with We the Animals, Jeremiah Zagar's scripted debut, I cannot recall ever seeing a documentary filmmaker tackle his first scripted feature with this much opacity.
There is a script to be sure in We the Animals (co-written by Zagar alongside Daniel Kitrosser, based on Justin Torres' loosely autobiographical novel), but it's one that refuses to let you in on the film's inner thoughts. You know what happens narratively, but maybe not-so-much thematically, a tactic that purposefully mirrors the mentality and confusion of our young central hero. Zagar understands that children are nature's most confused beings, which makes We the Animals wildly inventive and immersive in its innocence, and a primitive and tribal visualization of family life in pastoral America.
We the Animals almost unfolds like a series of vignettes; there is an overarching story, but it's a refreshingly simple one with very little setup. The film follows a family of five on the economic fringes of rural eastern Pennsylvania, seen through the eyes of youngest brother Jonah, played magnificently by Evan Rosado. Jonah and his brothers Joel and Manny (Josiah Gabriel and Isaiah Kristian) experience firsthand the "bipolarity" in their parents' relationship at the hands of such economic hardships; Paps (played by Raul Castillo, in a performance that should be garnering more awards consideration) periodically takes out his abusive frustrations on Ma (a wonderful Sheila Vand), acts of violence that all three young boys are sadly present for. Time and time again, Ma and Paps resort to their own form of reclusiveness and neglect, inadvertently creating a distance between themselves and their boys; this forces Jonah, Joel, and Manny to fend for themselves among the natural Pennsylvania landscapes, where their brotherhood is all they possess to keep each other warm (a reoccurring chant where the boys whisper "Body Heat" serves as that warmth).
Ma and Paps's actions may be flawed, but their love for their three boys is not. Zagar is equally as concerned with their mistakes as he is with their affections, and that awareness in both trickles further into Ma and Paps' own self-awareness, knowing how their selfish acts have an effect on their children. In one of the film's best scenes, Paps eventually returns home after a long stretch of reclusiveness, and in an instant where he briefly shows his physical affections for Ma, he neglects to see Jonah, Joel, and Manny tempting him for a game of hide-and-seek. Paps then embraces the game, only for the scene to conclude with all three boys beating their father while screaming, "You were supposed to find us." In the short term, their screams merely reflect that moment of gameplay neglect, but their screams take on a completely different meaning when viewed in the long run. Their lashings of violence are clearly influenced by Paps and his abusiveness toward Ma (tendencies that Joel and Manny eventually grow into), but following Paps' long stretch of selfish absence, perhaps the phrase "You were supposed to find us" actually translates to "Where were you when we needed you?" Paps has finally come home, but perhaps the boys' father didn't come back with him.
This is just one of many "vignettes" in We the Animals, but their narrative importance is merely secondary to Zagar's primary intent. Zagar is more concerned with simply capturing a fragment of time in one boy's confused youth, one that unfolds like scribbles in Jonah's own secret notebook. These events, all seen from Jonah's point of view, progress with fragility and uncertainty, but never lack in bright and optimistic coloration, as visualizations of Jonah's notebook pages come to life. There's plenty of magical realism at play here, sometimes to the point of fantasy (sequences under water and a muddy grave are standouts), but Zagar never explains them to us; his approach is clearly influenced by the likes of Terrence Malick, as well as Barry Jenkins' masterpiece Moonlight, but Zagar's voice is still his own. This may make for a narrative that feels too scatterbrained for some, but from the point of view of a child that's precisely the point; if we're confused, that's because Jonah is confused.
However, there is a reveal of sorts in the film's climax that does recontextualize much of Jonah's confusion, which in truth may be more rooted in loneliness and sexual identity. At one point, while in the family truck with Ma and his brothers, Ma asks if he would like to go to the city, to which he asks, "Are there more people there like me?" While in the moment this "revelation" didn't fully work for me (I initially found it somewhat pandering), I accepted it when I understood that Jonah himself doesn't even realize a revelation took place at all, and perhaps these feelings of his have been there all along. For only a brief moment, Jonah seems to reach some sort of clarity, but sadly that feeling is short-lived; if anything, Jonah's confusion and isolation only strengthens by the film's final minutes, regressing back to that earlier lonely spirit of his. Love was once strong in his family, but now neglect feels stronger than ever, even if it's only he who feels that way, never quite knowing why.
Initially I had little idea how much I enjoyed We the Animals, but like all primitive beings (especially children), Zagar's approach had a way of sneaking up on me, and as such the film continued to evolve. But never once did it merely evolve into just one idea; the film remained open-minded about one's fragmented innocence, continuously scribbling itself away like a young boy's secret notebook. I found myself warming up to We the Animals the more I pondered on it, even as I considered my own personal biases (as a Philadelphia native, the eastern Pennsylvania setting is literally near and dear to me), but I view that warmth as synonymous with love and affection, bringing us one step closer to Jonah himself. Adoration is what warms the body and soul, and sadly our central hero leaves this story colder than before.
Find those you love and continue to keep each other warm (#BodyHeat).
Overall Grade: A-
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We're participating in 30 Days Wild this month, which is a fabulous challenge run by The Wildlife Trusts. Admittedly, this was much easier for us to do before Jessica was stuck down with chicken pox but we're trying hard to keep going and do something inspired by nature every day in June.
So, one day last week we took inspiration from the poppies that Jessica has been growing this year and had a go at painting a picture of poppies using a blow-paint technique. We used ready mixed paints but I think liquid watercolours would have been better to be honest. We squidged a spot of paint at the top of each stem and blew the paint into the shape of a poppy. The blow affect is a bit lost as the paint was so thick but it was still an enjoyable activity and we'll learn from our mistakes and try watercolours next time!


Its always so wonderful to watch my little models grow – and boy has this one grown into such a cutie! J came in with mom and dad yesterday for a 2 year session and mini cupcake smash…from the looks of it he had a pretty good time! Thanks to Sherry B Dessert Studio, in Chappaqua for the delicious birthday cupcake!


Stash purge and new storage!
So I gave away half my stash and this is what is left of it. I also went to Howard's Storage World (Australian store) and bought myself a new organiser.
It's looking a bit different (and fuller…overflowing) now. Should do an update stash post!


"Inviting men with no symptoms to a one-off PSA test for prostate cancer does not save lives according to results from the largest ever prostate cancer trial conducted over 10 years by Cancer Research UK-funded scientists and published today (Tuesday) in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"An analysis of two influential studies of prostate cancer screening concludes that the much-debated test "significantly" reduces deaths from the disease, suggesting that current recommendations against routine PSA screening might be steering men away from a lifesaving procedure.
"Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation, finds a major study that directly tested and compared these options.


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Q: Representing the most recently clicked D3 node in a text field Observe this beautiful, collapsible radial tree (not my work):
http://codepen.io/fernoftheandes/pen/pcoFz
Here's a little chunk of the data that sits behind it:
var pubs =
{
    "name": "AUT-1",
    "children": [
        {
            "name": "PUB-1","children": [
                {"name": "AUT-11","children": [
                    {"name": "AFF-111"},
                    {"name": "AFF-112"}
                ]},

I would like to add an additional dimension like ID:
{"name": "AFF-111", id:"aff_111"},

The tricky part is that I would like to present the ID of the most recently clicked node (if it has one) in a text field. Is this possible or am I pushing the boundaries of sensible D3 behaviour?
Cheers,
Sam

A: You can add code in the node click listener function to display the id information for each node. Specifically:
function click(d) {
  d3.select("#text").html("<p>" + d.id + "</p>")
  if (d.children) {
    d._children = d.children;
    d.children = null;
  } else {
    d.children = d._children;
    d._children = null;
  }

 update(d);
}

Example plunkr here. (I only added id data for 'Pub-6 nodes', the same works for the rest of nodes after you add 'id' in source data).


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Australian Grain
"Wonka factory" of Aussie foods
Expect more delicious and premium Australian food in fridges across the globe, with the creation of The University of Queensland's Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.
The soon-to-be-established group is part of a two year pilot program, connecting UQ's research and education in agri-food science with Queensland's agrifood business thanks to $2.5 million in funding from the Australian Government's Strategic University Reform Fund.
Deputy Associate Dean for Research Partnerships, Professor Melissa Fitzgerald, said the pilot would lower barriers for industry collaboration, build strong links between academics, students and local industry and improve commercialisation of research.
"The UQ Agri-Food Innovation Alliance will work hand-in-hand with local agri-food businesses, transforming ideas into sustainable production methods, delicious new commercially viable foods and cybersecure supply chains," Melissa said.
"Expect new Aussie foods to be lighting up tastebuds in both domestic and international markets.
"The project will bring together cutting-edge science, education and entrepreneurship – it'll be South-East Queensland's Wonka factory for new-and-emerging Aussie food and beverages.
"UQ has a strong history of fostering food inventions – from probiotic-rich juices, to 3D-printed chocolate, to native Australian sweets – so we're thrilled to be investing in the development of a whole host of new collaborative creations along with job-ready graduates."
The project will see UQ working with food producers of all sizes and building relationships within the sector.
"We're particularly excited to be working with small businesses, and we have kick-starter grants ready to go," Melissa said.
"These range from new animal feed supplements to new food product development from camel milk, new processing methods for gelatine, sustainable packaging and developing a digital twin for Australian agri-food supply chains.
"These businesses will also have access to research translation facilities planned at AgriFood Connect AATLIS precinct, Toowoomba, where UQ researchers and students will work with industry-based infrastructure and pilot equipment.
"UQ is well positioned to value-add to these businesses, giving Aussie businesses the expertise and support they need to reach new or more distant markets.
"And we aim to attract multinational companies to the region, so it's really an investment that will continue to underpin the local economy and its development."
Further announcements will be made closer to the facility's completion.
UQ is the only Group of Eight university that was successful in this round of funding via the Strategic University Reform Fund.
Pictured is an example of native food confectionery creations from past UQ students, including medicinal lozenges flavoured with lemon myrtle, a bunya and boppal brittle, a quandong and burdekin plum sherbet, desert lime jubes and sour lollies from Davidson plums.
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What is LASIK? So LASIK is the most commonly performed laser eye surgery procedure in the world. It is a very well established, very safe, and very effective way of correcting vision so that patients no longer need to wear glasses. The procedure itself takes approximately four to five minutes in total to perform on
each eye.
The Two Steps to the LASIK procedure.
There are two main steps to the LASIK procedure. The first is using what's called a femtosecond laser to create a very thin flap on the surface of the eye in what we call the cornea.
The second laser is used to sculpt the correct shape lens onto the surface of the cornea in order to correct the vision. And we do this after peeling away the flap so that it is not in the way, and then the deeper part of the
cornea is exposed and we can sculpt the deeper tissues of the cornea with the second laser, which is called the excimer laser.
Once the excimer laser has done the appropriate amount of sculpting, we place the thin flap that we created back on the surface of the eye and give a gentle wash to ensure there's no particles in between the deeper layer and the flap. And then that's the treatment completed, taking four to five minutes, and the vision is instantly corrected.
What a patient can expect after surgery.
In terms of what the patient notices, initially they'll notice the vision is in focus but it's quite misty and steamy, and over the subsequent 24 hours, the steaminess, the fogginess disappears and the patient has, immediately, sharp vision.
Mr Alex J Shortt
MB BCh MSc PhD FRCOphth PGDipCatRef
Alex J Shortt is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Grange Eye Consultants. With many years of experience and expertise in Corneal surgery, Cataract surgery, and Refractive surgery, he is providing his patients with a wide range of treatment options. As he has worked as a consultant and trainer in advanced technologies for correcting vision for over 14 years, he has a broad knowledge of various eye conditions and can, therefore, find the best suitable solution for every individual client. Apart from working as an Ophthalmic Surgeon, Dr. Shortt is also involved as an editorial board member of the Cochrane Collaboration's Eyes and Vision Group and expert advisor to the European Medicines Agency.
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