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Canonical enables Ubuntu on SiFive's HiFive RISC-V boards
on 23 June 2021
With Canonical announcing Ubuntu support for so much new hardware, the announcement of Ubuntu ported to a new architecture can go unnoticed. But today, we have a big one. Working with the leading RISC-V core IP designer and development board manufacturer, SiFive, we are proud to announce the first Ubuntu release for two of the most prominent SiFive boards, Unmatched and Unleashed.
RISC-V, a new paradigm for Open Source hardware
In the last decade, open source and open standards have reshaped the world we live in. Such technologies have produced long-lasting results and RISC-V consortium has extended open-source to develop a standard open-source processor architecture.
This free and open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) can enable a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration with rapid industry-wide adoption. The architecture can be applied to a broad range of processors, from low-end microcontrollers to high-end server-grade processors.
SiFive and RISC-V International were founded with the intention of building a collaborative community of software and hardware innovators, all based on the RISC-V ISA, providing a great alternative to closed-source classical architectures for companies with the long-term view of developing their own processors. It has even become a national endeavour for countries like China, India, and Pakistan.
Consolidating reference hardware and software architectures
As RISC-V gains momentum, the emerging industry of vendors is creating an ecosystem of products, with a pile of early adopters eager to begin the application development. However, there is a need for top-notch development systems for developers that can then be taken seamlessly to production.
While RISC-V enables stable reference architectures and hardware, running stable software on new boards can still be challenging. A great effort on cross-toolchain development is required, allowing the cross-compilation of software. The portability of applications is of great importance to move code to the new processor architecture.
The cornerstone of the necessary software is the underlying Operating System (OS), which provides reliability and stability to the system. This demand makes the development on Linux even more attractive, since Linux is the most popular OS for developers and hobbyists, across kernel, drivers, and distributions.
Open source initiatives are backed up by Canonical
At Canonical, we believe that open source is the best way to accelerate innovation. This motivates us to enable a wide range of open source communities under the Ubuntu umbrella. Open source software comes with its own set of challenges. Yes, the code can be accessed easily, but there is a gap when it comes to commercial deployments. What if there is a critical vulnerability (CVE) found in OSS used that is imperative to fix? Who provides updates with bug fixes when there are millions of boards out in the field? Canonical aims to position Ubuntu as not just the reference OS for innovators and developers, but also as the vehicle to enable them to take their products to market faster by letting them focus on their core application, without having to worry about the stability of the underlying frameworks. RISC-V has a lot of potential and is becoming a competitive ISA in multiple markets. With this premise in mind, porting Ubuntu to RISC-V to become the reference OS for early adopters was a no-brainer.
SiFive taking the lead
SiFive (founded by the inventors of RISC-V) is one of the largest investors in RISC-V solutions, delivering a portfolio of commercial RISC-V products that is the most widely adopted in the world.
In addition to the wide portfolio of processor Core IP, the SiFive ecosystem of products include the portfolio of HiFive boards based on different flavours of RISC-V processors and peripherals.
SiFive HiFive Unleashed is the first Linux-capable development system; it is based on the Freedom U540, the world's first Linux-capable multi-core RISC-V processor. Although currently discontinued, there is a legion of early adopters and developers using this board from the initial release.
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched is the latest platform, based on the Freedom U740 processor, a high-performance multi-core, 64-bit dual-issue, superscalar RISC-V processor. With a PC form factor, the board is a turning point for developers having an eye and a half on production projects.
SiFive and Canonical bring Ubuntu to the latest boards
"As SiFive brings best-in-class RISC-V cores to market, upstream OS and toolchains support ready for silicon availability is a very important part of the software ecosystem. Developers rely on critical components such as Ubuntu to develop and test their software and products", said Yunsup Lee, CTO and co-founder, SiFive.
The availability of Ubuntu running on the HiFive boards comes as the result of the joint work between Canonical and SiFive engineering teams. Canonical's team is engaged in an ongoing process of porting Ubuntu to HiFive boards, backed by the SiFive engineering team, as part of a long-term collaboration between the two companies.
"Collaboration is at the heart of successful, strategic, and lasting industry adoption," shares Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V. "The RISC-V community and our industry benefit from the contribution and collaboration that Canonical and SiFive have brought to RISC-V." "Congratulations on this amazing milestone together!"
Ubuntu, backed by Canonical, provides a commercial-grade Linux distribution that is also free to use by innovators and developers. "We are delighted to bring Ubuntu to SiFive hardware. Having first-class Ubuntu support enables the RISC-V ecosystem to scale fearlessly to production, with the assurance that they have access to the same enterprise-grade support and security as on other processor architectures." said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO and Founder at Canonical.
Canonical's ability to validate and certify boards with Ubuntu provides a decisive factor for developers enabling them to focus on application development, feeling confident about platform quality and stability, including both – hardware and the underlying OS.
Promising future
As RISC-V platforms mature, there are a large number of initiatives striving hard to position products and provide for the increasing market demand. Canonical's goal is to standardise the underlying OS, providing a stable, secure Linux distribution for top-notch boards, helping early adopters to focus on their applications development and business case, and providing a reliable and out-of-the-box experience, followed by a path to commercial support for a successful go-to-market. Canonical's initiatives, including the security-hardened Ubuntu Core operating system, snap-based containerization and an app-based mindset to embedded systems, promises to smoothen the path for industrial, robotics, and automotive deployments as the industry moves to a 5G-enabled IoT era.
Ubuntu on HiFive boards available now
Three different Ubuntu images are now available for SiFive's HiFive boards, and more work is expected to include new features and a port to the latest Ubuntu releases.
HiFive Unmatched is supported by Ubuntu 21.04. The riscv64+unmatched.img.xz image can be used on any SiFive HiFive Unmatched board or under qemu. The Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS will also support the HiFive Unmatched.
HiFive Unleashed is supported by Ubuntu 21.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. The riscv64+unleashed.img.xz image can be used on any SiFive HiFive Unleashed board or under qemu.
For guidance and discussion on the images and the best ways to install them please use the Ubuntu discourse under the documentation itself so everyone can benefit from your experience.
Discourse documentation in Ubuntu
SiFive Forums
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The Saints were able to get on the board first in the game as in the 27th minute Chris Ornelas (Junior, Belding, Mich.) scored a goal courtesy of an assist from Brent Rodden (Senior, Taylor, Mich.). However, the Wolverines would strike back later in the half and tie the game up.
Going into the second half the Saints were outshooting the Wolverines 11-4. Justin Gray (Sophomore, Fraser, Mich.) scored to give SHU the lead in the 65th minute. Just like the first half UM-Dearborn would score again to tie the game up.
Just as it looked like this game was going into overtime, Matt Lentine (Senior, Fraser, Mich.) scored in the 89th minute to seal the win for the Saints.
The Siena Heights University men's soccer team will be back in action on Friday Oct. 5th, 2018. The Saints will host Indiana Tech at 4pm.


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Q: Android onClickEvent in adapterview i have GridView with each Grid as a simple TextView. i need a scrollbar for the TextView inside each Grid in the GridView. but encorporating a scrollbar disables my onClickListener for my gridview. i tried a using a ScrollView encapsulating a TextView and also using the built in scroll-bar of textview. either way i lose getting onClick events for my GridView.
i have heard about problem of using childviews that can be clicked or focused inside an adapterview and getting the onclick listener disabled. if have tried to set the Scrollview property of clickable and focusable to false and yet couldnt able to solve the problem.
i want a feature such that when the grid is clicked the onClick event registered for GridView be invoked and when a gird is dragged (preferrably in vertical direction) the textview must scroll.
Thanks in advance

A: A slight modification to your idea can make it implementable.
Initially keep all textviews scrolls disabled. When a tap occurs on it (this will be gridview's onItemClick) enable the scrollable state of the textview and set the onclicklistener for it. Now it can be scrolled as well as clicked.  You got to maintain a member reference to current scrollable texview. When tap occurs on a different item set the current items textview unclickable and set the tapped item as currrent scrollable with click listener to it.
The gridview can still be scrolled by dragging on any area apart from the current scrollable textview.
Just a suggestion if you can use it.

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Patient Safety & Outcomes
The persistence of CIED infections: A progress report on improving outcomes and lowering costs
Staff - Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
The past several years have seen a significant decrease in healthcare-associated infections, in particular central line-associated bloodstream infections and certain surgical site infections. There is, however, one major exception to this successful trend. Infections associated with cardiac implantable electronic devices have not only persisted, but have actually been increasing.
This content is sponsored by Medtronic
Consider this fact alone: CIED implants increased by 96 percent over a 15-year period, and the incidence of CIED-related infection increased by more than double that rate (210 percent), according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Such infections may not only have potentially serious — even fatal — consequences for patients, but they may also result in higher healthcare costs for hospitals.
As noted by Ibrahim Hanna, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology at Baptist Health Centers in Birmingham, Ala., "The rates [of CIED-related] infections have been steadily increasing. We're seeing not only more infections, but also more serious infections, despite the best efforts of physicians."
Risk factors behind the rising incidence
Which risk factors may be contributing to this dramatic increase in CIED infections? Several have been identified, in particular older implant patients burdened with more comorbidities. Because patients are living longer, they are more likely to need a CIED. In turn, implants may also need to be revised, replaced or upgraded at a later time.
Other factors may include longer procedures, as well as the presence of organisms increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Certain organisms, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus and S. aureus (S. epidermidis, MSSA, MRSA) for instance, which are known to be responsible for approximately 70 percent of CIED infections, are increasingly resistant to the antibiotic methicillin. As noted by Dr. Hanna, this increase in antibiotic resistance has made infections more difficult to prevent and more difficult to treat.
Risk factor importance assessed by odds ratio
Odds ratios quantify a patient's risk of infection based on their particular medical characteristics and history, the medications they take and medical procedures they have undergone. Renal failure, to cite one example, has an odds ratio of 11.97; a patient with renal failure is approximately 12 times more likely to get a CIED infection than a patient who does not have renal failure.
Other significant risk factors for CIED infection include early re-intervention (odds ratio 15.4), use of corticosteroids (13.9), diabetes (3.5) and device replacement or revision (3.67).
In relation to device replacement, Christopher Ellis, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., shares that "patients in the last five to 10 years are living longer, and I'm doing more and more device change-outs [replacements], and those specifically have much higher infection rates than a new implant." Two clinical studies published in the journals Circulation and Heart Rhythm had similar findings.
Worsened patient outcomes and increased treatment costs
Regardless of risk factor, the increase in infection rates has a significant impact not just on treatment outcomes, but also on healthcare costs.
Statistics reveal that preventing CIED infections can, in fact, be the difference between life and death. In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, patients with CIED infection experience relatively higher admission mortality rates, as well as lower survival rates beyond three years, even after successful treatment of the infection.
As a result, "The economic consequences, including healthcare resource utilization, of CIED infections are substantial," according to the American Heart Association. Hospitals may be financially penalized by CMS when a patient undergoing a CIED procedure acquires an infection during their hospital stay.
In several studies, CIED infections cost a healthcare facility an average of approximately $52,000, with some costs exceeding well over $100,000. "The big question in the near future is who is going to pay for that," Dr. Ellis notes.
The solution may lie in novel perioperative technology
Dr. Hanna's practice has taken several approaches to help reduce instances of CIED infections to zero. One tool he has added to his arsenal is the TYRX Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope.
FDA-cleared in May 2013, the fully absorbable TYRX Envelope, made from a large-pore knitted mesh coated with a bioabsorbable polymer holds a CIED securely in place to provide a stable environment when implanted in the body. This stability, studies show, helps keep the CIED from moving or twisting, which can reduce its effectiveness.
Within two hours of implantation, the TYRX Envelope elutes therapeutic levels of the antibiotics minocycline and rifampin locally into the tissue pocket; this elution of antibiotics continues over a minimum of seven days. The TYRX Envelope is fully absorbed by the body about nine weeks after the procedure. Additionally, the TYRX Envelope requires no adjustment to standard surgical techniques during revision or upgrade procedures.
Dr. Ellis also started using the TYRX Envelope to more effectively protect his patients from CIED infections approximately four years ago.
Even though the Envelope may be used on any patient with an implanted device, many physicians, like Drs. Thomas, Ellis and Hanna, have opted to use it only on patients at the highest risk of developing a CIED infection.
"We don't use it on everybody, but we do use it on people with multiple risk factors for infection," Dr. Ellis explains. "By limiting use, we keep costs down and have gotten the best benefit we can from the product."
Proven effective at reducing CIED infection rates
"Strategies to reduce perioperative infections can significantly improve outcomes," declares George Thomas, MD, an electrophysiologist with Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
Physicians who already use the Envelope have seen positive results within their practices. Dr. Ellis notes his practice has experienced a much lower infection rate in CIED patients. A study he co-authored, appearing in the journal Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology in 2015, demonstrated the Envelope's effects. In the trial, there were zero CIED infections among patients who received an absorbable TYRX Envelope (0.0 percent infection rate) while infection was reported in 6 patients who did not receive a TYRX Envelope (4.8 percent).
Similar results have also been observed by Dr. Hanna. In his practice, CIED infections have been "significantly reduced" by the TYRX Envelope. In fact, even though infection rates in his practice were low to begin with, a greater than 50 percent decrease was achieved by using the Envelope.
"It's quite substantial," Dr. Hanna states. "I have felt a significant change and improvement, even though we're still treating the same population and doing the same types of procedures. It's been effective in my own institution."
As found in a number of clinical studies, patients treated with a TYRX Envelope experience 70 percent to 100 percent fewer infections compared to those without it. While smaller studies have proven the Envelope's effectiveness, more trials are on the way. For example, Dr. Ellis, as of mid-April 2016, has enrolled his first patients in a four-site randomized controlled trial. The objective is to determine whether the Envelope can "stand on its own legs" and still prevent infections even if clinicians skip a perioperative antibacterial pocket wash and send patients home without any oral antibiotics.
Now in progress: The first global, large-scale study in at-risk patients
On a larger scale, a major new RCT is now underway that may build on the positive results seen in the earlier, smaller-scale studies. This study, called WRAP-IT (The World-Wide Randomized Antibiotic Envelope Infection Prevention Clinical Study), is the first large-scale study of its kind to evaluate an antibacterial envelope in CIED patients at risk for infection. This ongoing CIED replacement complication study, which is currently evaluating the effectiveness of the Envelope in CIED patients and assessing related treatment costs, is concentrating on the two most common complications related to CIED implants: infection and lead system events.
The study will compare the rate of major CIED infections through 12 months after the device is implanted, between patients treated with and without the TYRX Envelope. Medtronic, the manufacturer of the TYRX Envelope, will utilize the results of this study to evaluate not only the outcomes achieved by the TYRX Envelope, but also to evaluate its effect on consequent healthcare cost.
In this study, up to 7,764 subjects are expected to be enrolled in up to 225 investigational sites worldwide, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, Middle East, greater China, New Zealand, Latin America, Singapore, Malaysia and India. The study was initiated in January 2015, with patients being followed for a minimum of 12 months.
Meeting the challenge with new technology
In a single-center, retrospective cohort study from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the TYRX Envelope when used as a standard of care was associated with significantly lower rates of CIED infections. In a hypothetical projection, the use of the Envelope as a standard of care prevented 6.2 infections, equating to roughly $340,000 in avoided treatment costs.
While the rising incidence of CIED infection — and its associated higher treatment costs — has proven persistent, the technological advances of the TYRX Envelope offer the potential to protect CIED implants from the cost and complications of infections. As studies show, the sustained local delivery of antibiotics where needed most, may improve patient outcomes and reduce treatment costs.

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This family is getting ready to send not their first, not their second but their THIRD child to Navy Boot camp! What an honor and a privilege is was to capture lots of hugs and laughter as this family was enjoying some quality time together.
Everyone had a little PT fun, Eileen and Dan were beaming with pride. Not just for Nathaniel but for all 5 of their amazing children.
Andrew, Daniella and Nathaniel- Thank you for your service to our country. It's because of men and women like you I can raise my children in a free country, your daily self sacrifice doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Dan and Eileen- You have raised 5 amazing, beautiful, handsome, talented, godly children. Your sacrifice of not being able to see them as often as you would like also doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated. It took blood sweat and tears to raise these 5 awesome men and women, well done my friends, well done!


The Man Waits', originally released as part of Mr. Mitch's 'The Room Where I Belong' EP in early 2014, was the first record to exhibit Mitch as a master of emotion – a producer with an ambition to make you feel.
The pre-cursor to debut Planet Mu album 'Parallel Memories', it was a track that took complex, introverted emotion and laid it bare for all to digest, in turn freeing Mitch from producing more aggressive strands of grime music that – by his own admission – never fully connected. Reissued for 2015, 'The Man Waits' – a hazy, melancholy, dream-like record by way of its composition – has now been reimagined by three of producers each riding on a wave of their own in 2015; Logos, Iglew and Gage.


Nagli odraz od tla, odraz u visinu ili daljinu.
Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts); SYN. bouncing.
The quality of a substance that is able to rebound; SYN. bounciness.
ETYM Old Eng. braunche, French branche, from Late Lat. branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch, bough.
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
A part of a forked or branching shape; SYN. fork, leg.
A stream or river connected to a larger one.
An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization; SYN. subdivision, arm.
A crime (especially a robbery); SYN. job.
ETYM Old Eng. hoppe; akin to Dutch hop, hoppe, Old High Germ. hopfo, German hopfen; cf. Late Lat. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. and Dan. humle.
An informal dance where popular music is played; SYN. record hop.
The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward, especially on one foot).
ETYM Cf. French jupe a long petticoat, a skirt. Related to Juppon.
The act of jumping; propelling oneself off the ground; SYN. jumping.
Descent with a parachute; SYN. parachuting.
A sudden and decisive increase; SYN. leap.
In films: a transition from one scene to another.
A light springing movement upwards or forwards; SYN. leaping, spring, bound, bounce.
An abrupt transition; SYN. jump.
The distance leaped (or to be leaped).
Advancing as if in the game of leapfrog.
A mischievous trick; a practical joke.
A gait in which steps and hops alternate.
The act of searching someone for concealed weapons; SYN. frisking.
Programska instrukcija koja prebacuje izvršavanje na neku drugu lokaciju - pesnički rečeno "preskočiti" deo programskog koda.
In computing, a programming instruction that causes the computer to branch to a different part of a program, rather than execute the next instruction in the program sequence. Unconditional jumps are always executed; conditional jumps are only executed if a particular condition is satisfied.


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Swamy Cine Enterprises (SCE) was established in 1979 in Chennai, India. It all started by blessings of Mr.A.Kuppuswamy (1925-1971) Mentor of our chairman Mr.M.Duraiswamy has started his career in cinema in the year 1964, so with the Professional experience from his guru he started manufacturing 35mm Cinema Projectors & Carbon Lamphouses in the brand name of "SWAMY" for theatres in India. SCE installed 35mm Projectors in the southern states of Tamilnadu, Andrapradesh & Karnataka in India. SCE Caters installations to Theatres, Multiplexes & Recording Studios. In the mid 80's SCE started manufacturing of Rack & Roll projectors and installed in prestigious Studios in Tamilnadu & Andrapradesh. In the late 80's there was a big decline in the cinema industry in India and sales of projectors have reduced by 75% .At that time SCE started distributing sound systems & lighting systems from around the world revived the cinema in southern India.
SCE started distributing
Arc Lamp reflectors
Stereo Cells
Analog Surround Systems
Precision spares for various types of Projectors.
SCE has a solid knowledge & hands on experience in all types of leading projector brands and has good technicians who can service any type of 35mm Projectors.
In the early 90's world of cinema has changed from the evolution of Digital Sound from DTS & Dolby Labs. After this evolution people around the world started seeing movies in the theatres which also changed in Indian Cinema. At this time, SCE got hands on experience in installations of DTS & Dolby systems in theatres from USA and started distributing & installing these systems in the theatres.
In the beginning of 21st Century SCE started manufacturing its own Xenon Lamphouses which gives constant lighting and ease of operation which had replaced the old carbon Lamphouses.
From 1979 till today SCE keeps updating the latest trends in the Cinema industry from the World to the Indian Cinema and it will keep continuing to bring the most advanced technologies to the Indian Cinema Projection.
SCE Participates in major Cinema Shows throughout the world:
Showest, Las Vegas
Show east, Orlando
Cine Asia, Macau
Cinema Expo International, Amsterdam
Cinema India Expo, Mumbai


March 4, 2015 by Ecommerce News. About Marketing with tags The United Kingdom. 2754 views.
After an online and offline debate over the color of a dress, British womenswear retailer Roman Originals made some good money off it. Unintentionally at first, because their black and blue (or what is gold and white?) dress went viral without them doing anything about it.
#TheDress is what everyone was talking about online for the last week. At its peak, the hashtag was tweeted out more than 11,000 times per minute. People couldn't agree: was it black and blue or gold and white? Whatever the answer is (it's black and blue), fact is that dress became instantly popular among women, especially from the US.
The whole thing drove Roman Originals' sales up by 560% on February 27, compared with a typical Friday. It got 1,800 back orders for the dress that sells for about 68 euros. Of those orders, 1,200 came from the US, a country which usually accounts for about 2% of its online sales, Drapers writes. And if things couldn't get any crazier: creative manager Ian Johnson saw the dress selling for almost 700 euros each on eBay.
Although it hadn't had to do anything to let the dress go viral, Roman Originals did however jump on the success wagon by creating a white and gold version of the dress. This one is being auctioned on eBay from March 3 to 10 to raise money for the British charity Comic Relief.
"Our existing customers are very loyal, but where we don't already have stores people don't tend to know about us. The dress debate has been absolutely fantastic", said Johnson.


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Village of the Giants is een Amerikaanse Sciencefiction/komediefilm uit 1965. De film werd geregisseerd, geproduceerd en deels geschreven door Bert I. Gordon. De acteurs waren grotendeels uit tieners en jonge volwassenen.

Verhaal

De film speelt zich af in het fictieve plaatsje Hainesville. Een groep feestende tieners uit de grote stad (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, en hun vriendinnen Merrie, Elsa, Georgette en Jean) krijgen een ongeluk met hun auto, en komen zo vast te zitten in het plaatsje. Een oude vriendin van Fred, Nancy, woont in Hainesville dus zoeken ze haar op. Nancy blijk ondertussen een relatie te hebben met Mike. Haar kleine broertje "Genius" is een wonderkind die voortdurend bezig is met scheikundige experimenten in de kelder.

Een van Genius' experimenten resulteert in een explosie. Nadat de rook is opgetrokken blijkt er enkel nog een beker over zijn met een vreemde drap erin. Dit spul, wat de naam "Goo" krijgt, blijkt een ongewoon effect te hebben. De kat van de familie eet ervan en groeit vrijwel meteen tot het formaat van een tijger. Ook de hond Wolf eet ervan. Mike is onder de indruk en suggereert dat het spul kan worden gebruikt om grotere dieren te fokken en zo de honger uit de wereld te helpen. Genius probeert meteen zijn experiment te herhalen, maar zonder succes.

Ondertussen breken Fred en zijn bende in bij een theater daar ze Nancy niet hebben kunnen vinden. Ze zien een paar eenden langslopen die ook door de Goo tot enorm formaat zijn gegroeid. Tijdens een dorpsfeest de volgende avond proberen ze te achterhalen hoe de eenden zo groot zijn geworden, maar niemand vertelt het hen. Elsa heeft echter geluk: ze vindt Genius en verleidt hem haar te vertellen over de Goo.

Terwijl iedereen op het feest is breekt Pete in bij Genius's kelderlab en steelt de Goo. Hij haast zich terug naar het theater waar Fred en de anderen zijn. Na enige discussie over wat ze het beste met de Goo kunnen doen dagen Harry en Rick de groep uit er zelf van te eten. Door de Goo veranderen ze alle acht in 15 meter hoge reuzen. Ze gaan terug naar het dorpsfeest, waar ze iedereen angst aanjagen met hun enorme formaat.

Die nacht isoleren de reuzen Hainesville van de buitenwereld door de telefoonpalen te vernielen. Ook gijzelen ze de dochter van de Sheriff om te voorkomen dat iemand hen zal tegenwerken. Mike dringt er bij Genius op aan dat hij meer Goo maakt zodat ze Fred en zijn bende met gelijke wapens kunnen bestrijden. Ondertussen moet de bevolking van Hainesville de reuzen te vriend zien te houden. Alleen de tieners besluiten terug te vechten. Ze proberen Fred te vangen, maar hun plan mislukt en Nancy wordt eveneens gegijzeld.

Mike en Horsey maken een plan om de gijzelaars te bevrijden. Red en Mike leiden de reuzen af terwijl Horsey en een paar anderen het theater binnengaan om de gijzelaars te bevrijden. Ondertussen slaagt Genius er niet in meer Goo te maken. Zijn laatste poging resulteert enkel in een vreemde oranje wolk. Deze wolk blijkt echter de effecten van de Goo teniet te doen. Genius maakt snel nog wat meer van het spul, en haast zich ermee naar het theater. Daar verspreidt hij de oranje wolk, waarna Fred en zijn bende terugkrimpen tot normaal formaat. Nu ze niet langer een bedreiging vormen, worden ze door de woedende inwoners de stad uitgejaagd.

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Achtergrond
De film is losjes gebaseerd op H.G. Wells's boek Het voedsel der goden en hoe het op aarde kwam.

De film was een low-budget exploitatiefilm, en niet echt een groot succes. De film werd vooral vertoond in drive-ins. Wel staat de film tegenwoordig bekend als een cultfilmklassieker.

De film werd bespot in een aflevering van de televisieserie Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Film uit 1965
Amerikaanse film
Tienerfilm
Komische film
Exploitatiefilm
Sciencefictionfilm
Cultfilm
Film van Bert I. Gordon
Film gebruikt in Mystery Science Theater 3000

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Q: Upgrading from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7 I just don't get this damn error and it's driving me crazy.
Problem 1
    - The requested package magento/product-enterprise-edition 2.2.7 exists as magento/product-enterprise-edition[2.2.6] but these are rejected by your constraint.
All i'm trying to do is upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7
Here is my composer.json file and when i first opened it up it said version 2.2.5 and the require was magento/product-enterprise-edition": "2.2.6",
{
    "name": "magento/project-enterprise-edition",
    "description": "eCommerce Platform for Growth (Enterprise Edition)",
    "type": "project",
    "version": "2.2.7",
    "license": [
        "proprietary"
    ],
    "require": {
        "magento/product-enterprise-edition": "2.2.7",
        "composer/composer": "@alpha",
        "magemojo/m2-ce-cron": "^1.2",
        "gene/bluefoot": "^1.0",
        "mageworx/module-advancedproductoptions": "2.15.0",
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'SNAP Gap' distributions reach more than 12,000 people
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Mark Dwyer
Last month, Foodlink partnered with the United Way of Greater Rochester and several community partners to hold additional food distributions to help those impacted by the federal government shutdown earlier this year.
The early release of February SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits in mid-January resulted in a "SNAP Gap" for thousands of families in the Rochester region. Foodlink and the United Way — with key funding support from the ESL Charitable Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, and Max & Marian Farash Charitable Foundation — held 14 "SNAP Gap" distributions during the week of Feb. 18-23. The distributions provided 180,000 pounds of food to more than 12,000 people throughout Foodlink's 10-county service area.
Foodlink provided food to 3,412 households — 52% in the City of Rochester and 48% in rural/outlying counties. Overall, approximately 7,000 adults and 5,000 children were served and the distributions provided nearly 140,000 meals. Three of the highest 5 zip codes served during the week were among the most food-insecure zip codes in the entire state.
The week leading up to the distributions required plenty of coordination as food arrived in Foodlink's distribution center from around the region. More than 500 volunteers helped pack 40- to 50-pound bags of product — and dozens more assisted at several distribution sites. The City of Rochester helped set up distributions at four city R centers, and the Salvation Army also stepped up to host an additional distribution. The other nine distributions were held at pre-scheduled Mobile Pantry sites outside of Rochester.
More than 78,000 pounds of product were donated by local companies including: Barilla (pasta), Bonduelle (frozen vegetables), General Mills (cereal), Kreher's (eggs), LiDestri (marinara sauce), Regional Distributors (supplies), Seneca Foods (canned goods), Perfect Granola (granola bars), Orbakers Fruit Farm (apples), and Wegmans Food Markets (bread).
From everyone at Foodlink, and all of those whom we served, thank you to all of the volunteers, donors and community partners who helped pull this off. Your support means the world, and our neighbors were appreciative of our collective efforts.
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package gaia3d.quartz.jobExecutor;

import gaia3d.domain.Health;
import gaia3d.domain.cache.CacheName;
import gaia3d.domain.healthcheck.HealthCheckLog;
import gaia3d.domain.microservice.MicroService;
import gaia3d.domain.microservice.MicroServiceType;
import gaia3d.quartz.AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory;
import gaia3d.service.HealthCheckLogService;
import gaia3d.service.MicroServiceService;
import gaia3d.support.LogMessageSupport;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.quartz.*;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.QuartzJobBean;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

@Slf4j
@PersistJobDataAfterExecution
@DisallowConcurrentExecution
@Component
public class HealthCheckJobExecutor extends QuartzJobBean {

    private static final SimpleDateFormat TIMESTAMP_FMT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSSS");
    //public static final String EXECUTION_COUNT = "EXECUTION_COUNT";

    @Autowired
    private static AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory autowiringSpringBeanJobFactory;

    private static ApplicationContext ctx;

    @Override
    protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext context) throws JobExecutionException {

        ctx = autowiringSpringBeanJobFactory.getApplicationContext();

        System.out.println(context);
        JobDataMap map = context.getJobDetail().getJobDataMap();
        String currentDate = TIMESTAMP_FMT.format(new Date());
        String message = map.getString("message");
        System.out.println("======log======");

        MicroServiceService microServiceService = ctx.getBean(MicroServiceService.class);
        HealthCheckLogService healthCheckLogService = ctx.getBean(HealthCheckLogService.class);

        List<MicroService> microServiceList = microServiceService.getListMicroService(new MicroService());

        for (MicroService microService : microServiceList) {

            String health = getHealthCheckService(microService);

            HealthCheckLog healthCheckLog = new HealthCheckLog();
            healthCheckLog.setMicroServiceId(microService.getMicroServiceId());
            healthCheckLog.setStatus(health);
            //healthCheckLogService.insertHealthCheckLog(healthCheckLog);

            microService.setStatus(health);
            microServiceService.updateMicroServiceStatus(microService);

        }

        System.out.println(String.format("[%-18s][%s] %s", "execute", currentDate, message ));
    }

    public String getHealthCheckService(MicroService microService) {
        //String serviceUrl = microService.getUrlScheme() + "://" + microService.getUrlHost() + ":" + microService.getUrlPort() + "/" + microService.getUrlPath();
        String serviceUrl = createServiceUrl(microService);
        RestTemplate restTemplate = ctx.getBean(RestTemplate.class);
        HttpStatus status = null;
        String health = null;
        try {
            if(MicroServiceType.CACHE == MicroServiceType.valueOf(microService.getMicroServiceType().toUpperCase())) {
                StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                stringBuilder.append("cache_name=" + CacheName.MICRO_SERVICE.toString());
                String authData = stringBuilder.toString();

                ResponseEntity<String> result = restTemplate.postForEntity(serviceUrl, authData, String.class);
                status = result.getStatusCode();
            } else {
                ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.getForEntity(serviceUrl, String.class);
                status = response.getStatusCode();
            }
            if (HttpStatus.OK == status) {
                health = Health.UP.name().toLowerCase();
            } else if (HttpStatus.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE == status || HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR == status) {
                health = Health.DOWN.name().toLowerCase();
            } else {
                health = Health.UNKNOWN.name().toLowerCase();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            status = HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
            health = Health.UNKNOWN.name().toLowerCase();
            LogMessageSupport.printMessage(e, "@@@@@@@@@@@@ exception. message = {}", e.getClass().getName());
        }
        log.info("@@ httpStatus = {}, serviceUrl = {}", status, serviceUrl);
        return health;
    }

    private String createServiceUrl(MicroService microService) {
        return microService.getUrlScheme() + "://" + microService.getUrlHost() + ":" + microService.getUrlPort() + microService.getUrlPath();
    }
}

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Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, it has also been rented out to some businesses in the state of Louisiana and the city of Los Angeles. No official or unofficial association exists between the .la domain and any government in the United States (see .gov and .org).
The .la domain is also used for domain hacks in the French language and the Chinese language. là means "there" in French and in Italian, and in other Romance languages; "啦" (pinyin: la) is a common modal word at the end of a sentence or a phrase in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese.
Mozilla Foundation's URL shortener uses it with the "mzl.la" domain hack.
Tesla Motors uses "ts.la" domain hack as a shortener and a redirect.
Digikala, the largest e-commerce startup in Iran and the Middle East uses "dgka.la" domain hack as a shortener.
The Network information center of .la is oriented to pages based in Los Angeles.
Intel Latin America uses intel.la.
The Digital Public Library of America uses dp.la.
This text was written in the article .la on Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. A List of the authors is available on Wikipedia.


Years ago someone gave my sister a macaw named Freddie. She and the bird had bonded, and I think the original owner just wasn't interested enough to make enough time for being the owner of a bird like him. I will be honest and tell you that Freddie always kind of frightened me because, damn, his beak is BIG, and he is fast, and it was quite easy to tell that he did not have warm feelings toward me the way he does for my sister. I will also confess that I had essentially zero clue about parrots. I just knew I didn't want to get bitten.
The Buffon's Macaw is now an endangered species, with only 1,000 or fewer birds left in the wild due to habitat destruction and poaching. According to his vet, he has none of the tattoos or bands that one finds on a bird brought into the United States legally. His vet believes Freddie was probably brought to the US some time in the 1970s. We have no information about him prior to my sister encountering Freddie and his previous owner. He is about 40 years old, and has a life span of 60-80 years.
As you can see from the above picture, Freddie's beak is indeed big. When my niece was 6 or 7 she put her finger into his cage and got bitten. Her finger was small, his beak is big. She had to go to the ER and has a scar to this day, more than ten years later. You can see that Freddie's cheeks are reddish. That's because he is very interested in this picture taking business. Normally, they'd be white. He is amusing himself on the side of a mostly decorative cage that on the deck. We put seed in it for wild birds.
In the picture below, you can see most of Freddie's tail. The majority of it is in shadow, but you can see the red and blue side tail feathers. You can also see that he's mostly a chartreuse/ bright green. And that he's pretty big. He's not the biggest of the macaws, but he's not small.
He also doesn't fly (doesn't, not can't) and the vet no longer feels his wings should be clipped. They haven't been for some years.
Anyway, I decided for lots of reasons that Freddie and I needed to be friends. First, because I like him, and he's pretty, and we have a responsibility toward the animals in our care. But also because more than one person needs to be able to handle him. This is a bird that could, potentially, outlive me and my sister.
So. I began by watching loads of YouTube videos about Macaws. Freddie was aggressive toward me, but from those videos I learned how to make him comfortable around me.
It was like magic. I can now give Freddie treats without asking him to stretch. I am, of course, learning to read his moods, which is also critical.
Parrots are foragers, so they are both entertained and interested in food they must work to get at. Today, for example, I made several DIY "toys" that required him to work to get the nut inside. This was super simple in that I wrapped a nut inside a clean sheet paper that he had to chew to get to the nut. This was also like magic. He was thrilled and engaged.
Then I took half a cardboard paper towel roll and showed him exactly how I was hiding a nut inside. I used paper to block one end, showed him that I was dropping a nut inside, then put paper in the other end, and plugged up that too. He was beside himself. There's a happy cooing sort of noise that he makes when he's happy and excited that that's what he was doing.
I am also now able to give him head rubs. He shows me when he wants his head scratched and voila!
There's a lot more friend-making we need to do, and I will be working toward learning how to get him to step up on my hand. This requires that I know what I need to do so keep him feeling safe and appropriately rewarded.
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My week started of with some anxious thoughts and inconsistency in my meditation routine. That led to feeling tired, unmotivated and just a general BLEH feeling. I had urges to EAT MY EMOTIONS and had no desire to get moving. I realized very quickly what was going on and immediately started to change it. For starters, when I feel super anxious I meditate for a minimum of one hour per day so that's what I did. I got back in tune with how I was feeling versus how I actually wanted to feel.
I could have let this bump in the road TOTALLY derail my goals of creating peace and calm in my life on a daily basis. I could have told myself that being consistent is just too hard and I would never be able to achieve it. I could have eaten anything and everything because I was feeling HOPELESS about my journey. I could have given up because I didn't follow through with my plan and succeed in my goal, this time. This is what MANY people go through in the process that is life and why they go on to quit and NEVER fulfill their PURPOSE.
Just because you fall off every now and then does NOT mean that you have FAILED. All it means is that you have learned a lesson, WHAT NOT TO DO THE NEXT TIME. Often times, when we fall off we go into a series of negative self-talk and negative thoughts that lead to negative behaviors that take us to a place of paralyzing fear where NOTHING grows. Many people never fully recover from these hits and settle in the fact that they will never get to where they desperately want to be. This leads to a life that is unfulfilled, shadowed in "what-ifs" and creates bitterness and negativity within. Let's find out how to avoid this mess!
· Think about the GOALS you have for your life.
· How can you ACHIEVE these goals?
· What's is IN THE WAY of you achieving your goals?
· Are you willing to make the HARD DECISIONS and CHOICES needed to reach your goals?
There are other areas that must be addressed in order for you to succeed. We believe in a holistic approach to health and wellness. We have the MIND, BODY and SPIRIT to nurture and strengthen. For you to be successful in sticking to your plan and achieving your goals your MINDSET has to be on POINT. All of the baggage you have been carrying with you has to go. You CAN NOT step into your PURPOSE with that "mess" dragging behind you. No matter how far you get the "mess" will show up and disrupt what you are building. Yes, there are highly successful people that make it, but many end up with addictions, mental health and social issues to cope with the unresolved thoughts and feelings. Negative coping skills are what result from not addressing your problems. Many of us deal with these issues EVERY DAY and they keep us from living the healthy, balanced lifestyle we want.
We have to make goals that have real purpose for us, GOALS THAT SPEAK TO THE DEEPEST DESIRES OF OUR HEART. Those are the goals that get achieved because we are tied to them in a very personal way. Those goals MEAN something to us and we NEED them. We have to be UNAPOLOGETIC in our pursuit of our goals. It's all right that no one else understands WHY you have this need. The DREAM that is placed on your heart is your own, you don't need VALIDATION from anyone.
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On the tough days, remember your WHY! When you start this process write down your thoughts, your dreams and your purpose. Write down your fears and your doubts. Document WHY you want these things to happen in your life. What will be the benefit? What results will you get? How will these goals change your life? When you get down and fall off the wagon look at what you wrote, see how far you have come and celebrate every win. This has helped me TREMENDOUSLY! To look back in my journal and see how far I have come is HUGE. It assures me that I can in fact accomplish things and that I am not where I started. That gives my willpower a boost of much needed confidence to pick up right where I left off.
Don't let setbacks keep you from living your dreams. Don't let the past and the baggage you carry keep you achieving your goals. It's time to SHED the negativity that creeps into your mind and heart robbing you of dreams. Aren't you tired of giving yourself goals that you never even ATTEMPT to reach? Stop letting FEAR paralyze you and make you feel like you have nothing to offer the world. We teach women how to process through the junk and come into their purpose of living a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Once you have created healthy habits and dealt with your "mess" you can go on to accomplish great things!
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The Quick-Lock 2.1 mounting system means you can quickly and easily put the pannier on the bike or take it off again.
The panniers can be fitted to both a lowrider front rack and a rear luggage rack.
The Ortlieb Gravel Pack is lightweight and fully waterproof.
Comes with 8, 10, and 12 mm reduction parts, convenient when the tubes of your luggage rack are on the slim side.
Comes with the 5 year Ortlieb warranty.
Roll-up closure takes a little more effort to use than a zipper or flap on the pannier.
The Ortlieb Gravel Pack was specifically designed with multiple-day cycling trips in mind. The Ortlieb pannier has sufficient space to store all your important travel items in. It's also extremely easy to hang onto the bike or take it off. It features reflective elements and an integrated inner compartment. The Gravel Pack is suitable for both front- and rear luggage racks, and even children's bicycles. The practical roll-up closures ensure it's 100% waterproof.
Il prodotto è veramente ottimo come mi aspettavo, Ortlieb è un marchio attento anche al più piccolo dettaglio, un ringraziamento a Mantel perché sono rimasto molto soddisfatto del servizio.. la spedizione è arrivata addirittura un giorno prima di quanto previsto, sicuramente comprerò ancora da loro, affidabilissimi, li consiglio senza nessuna riserva.
Mooie tas om te zien. Vind ze wel wat dun, vraag me wel af hoe lang het heel blijft en hoe gravel bestendig het is. Daarnaast er niet op gerekend dat ze klein zijn ipv normaal ortlieb formaat. Eerder een frontroller.


New and improved energy storage technologies are required to overcome non-dispatchability, which is the main challenge for the successful integration of large shares of renewable energy within energy supply systems. Energy storage is proposed to tackle daily variations on the demand side, i.e., storing low-price energy during off-peak or valley periods for utilization during peak periods. Regarding electrical energy storage, several technologies are available with different potentials for scalability, density, and cost. A recent approach for grid-scale applications is based on transcritical carbon dioxide charge and discharge cycles in combination with thermal energy storage systems. This alternative to pumped-hydro and compressed air energy storage has been discussed in scientific literature, where different configurations have been proposed and their efficiency and costs calculated. The potential of the concept has been demonstrated to be an economical alternative, including hybrid concepts with solar thermal storage. Even at low temperatures, the addition of solar energy has proved to be cost effective. This paper explores the effect of introducing solar-based high temperature heat on the performance of different configurations of "Transcritical carbon dioxide ‒ thermal energy storage system" cycles. A base-cycle with 8-hour discharge time is compared with different layouts. Discussions include details on the models, parametric analyses -including solar technology alternatives-, and simulation results. Round trip efficiency of the base case, without solar support and at pressure ratio of 9.4, is 52%. When solar input is considered, the efficiency is above 60%, increasing the turbine inlet temperature to 950 K. Estimated levelized cost of electricity values are in the range of pumped hydro and compressed air energy storage, 90-140 USD/MWh in agreement with other works on this thermal storage technology. The global analysis shows clear advantages for advancing in the study and definition of this technology for exploitation of synergies at different power ranges, integrated with mid/high temperature solar power plants and with smaller-scale renewable installations.
Keywords: Energy storage, Hybrid energy storage, Solar, Carbon dioxide cycle.


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Samar Sen Gave Indian Revolutionary Journalism A New Dimension
in Life/Philosophy — by Harsh Thakor — 27/08/2021
On 23rd August, we commemorated the 34th death anniversary of Samar Sen, one of the most creative and dynamic persons in Indian history. His writings and poems had the subtle touch which geniuses possess traversing almost surreal regions. What was most pertinent is how he formulated the path he wished to take and how in each juncture, he confronted the forces of evil and oppression .The legacy of Samar Sen in the revolutionary world, will shimmer like an inextinguishable flame. He took art of revolutionary journalism to a higher dimension.
Few ever in Indian history dipped their pen to create such tremors in the camp of the opressive ruling classes or embarras the proponents of bourgeois ideology. as Samar Sen. In the days of repression on the Naxalite movement, Samar dipped his pen in the very backyard of the ruling Congress exposing how they were preventing a spark of liberation to shimmer. In the post-emergency days few ever exposed that the opressive social order remained intact even with the Janata govt.
Only a book could do justice to what lit the first revolutionary spark to crystallize the spiritual metamorphosis, to turn Samar Sen into a new man. Samar had evolved from a creative individualist into a marxist revolutionary, in the manner of Pablo Neruda.
Samar Sen proved more than almost every Indian that one did not have to be a part of an organisation, to serve the cause of emancipation of the people. No one better reflected how an independent intellectual, could be a sword in the flesh of the bourgeois enemy and mascot of Marxist Leninist ideology. I can't forget the tribute paid by Rajani Desai,convenor of the All India Federation of Organisations for Democratic Rights in journal "In defence of Democratic Right's after his passing away in 1987.She expressed great admiration for the manner 'Frontier' in contrast to the glossy pages of magazines ,portrayed social reality at the very core. In her view his death was a loss to the democratic rights movement
Samar Sen was one of the most open-minded Marxist intellectuals who never got swayed by the line of any particular group. Even if an admirer of Stalin or Mao, he was the least dogmatic, and never eulogized them like prophets. In the nature of his writings one could foresee his open mindedness to even be critical of the mistakes of Stalin and not blindly eulogise Mao's China. Most bravely in the early 1970′ he braved a threat from revolutionary Saroj Dutta.I would have loved to read Samar's own tribute and analysis of Mao Tse Tung, who died in his lifetime or even Charu Mazumdar.
What ignited the flame of metamorphosis in his life was his bitter resentment of the Bengali intelligentsia, which in his view had no links with the broad masses and completely divorced from them. It was his firm conviction that the intelligentsia should play an integral part in the lives of the common people, sharing their labour and distress.
The events of world war 2 period in Russia, China and India touched the core of Samar Sen' soul and virtually made him shove his poetry down the grave, which he first was manifestation of bourgeois individualism. His heart burnt with the collaboration of leaders like Gandhi to profiteers and the spirit of the revolutionaries in Vietnam and Russia sparkled in his heart. I can't forget a line in hi poem "I am a sheer frog in the well."
It is difficult to accurately gauge how Samar Sen gauged De-Stalinised Soviet Russia under .Krushhev,when he lived in Moscow as a translator .He was deeply impressed by Soviet planning but I am curious whether he was critical of the 'thaw' initiated by Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin. In the late 1950s, he spent a few years in Moscow as part of a team engaged in the translation of Indian literature into Russian. Sen was particularly busy with the translation of Tagore's works. While in the Soviet Union, he wrote periodic columns in the Economic Weekly of Mumbai and the Hindusthan Standard of Kolkata. He wrote about a range of things—not only politics and socialist planning but also about daily life in the Soviet Union. He wrote about the de-Stalinization campaign, Khrushchev's speeches, the deification of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the multiethnic cultural life in the Soviet capital, the reaction to the publication abroad of Dr Zhivago, the Cuban missile crisis. Sen was aware of the fact that he was in the Soviet Union as an employee of a Soviet publishing house. He was also sympathetic to the cause of building socialism. His despatches were never overtly critical. But ever so often, there was just a slight undertone of irony that gave away his scepticism. Take his report on a campaign flagged off by Khrushchev encouraging academics, writers and artists to engage in some productive manual labour. That way, the campaign insisted, the quality of intellectual work would also improve. Samar Sen added as comment: "Personally I am for the new scheme. In the Calcutta school I went to, polytechnical training was compulsory and for four years I laboured at carpentry, weaving and dyeing. The result has been most fortunate. I can sharpen my pencil with a blunt knife, thanks to my knowledge and practice of carpentry."
Originally as a writer Samar Sen flashed on the scene in the Journal 'Now' on October 9th, 1964.Samar Sen reflected a need for an articulate, independent analysis, which was absent in the Social media. He wrote "This Weekly (Now) will not be committed to any party or dogma. Our commitment will be to certain principles, proclaimed in the Constitution and often in public speaking, but not always practised. and Socialism? It is still a far cry. For most people life is a harsh cold war with shooting prices and misery is still amongst the most AND widest communally spread. In the year of 1964 he protested in 'Hindustan Standard' against anti-Muslim tirade and had to leave 'Now' after protest with Humayun Kabir.
What was most admirable that Samar Sen admitted his major flaw in not overcoming the barrier of middle class prejudices. This was a sparkling honesty that followed a trail till the end of his life. His life illustrated the inner or spiritual essence of a Marxist revolutionary.
Some even in his lifetime branded him as an enemy of the revolution or a CIA agent, but with the calmness of stream water, Samar Sen remained unpeturbed.Still he was most hurt by revolutionary Saroj Daata branding him a pseudo-revolutionary, which continuously embedded his mind.
The founding of Journal 'Frontier' in 1968 on April 14th , marked a new epoch in the history of progressive or revolutionary democratic journalism in India and worldwide. Few journals ever gave an opportunity or a venture to such a wide spectrum of writers within the revolutionary left camp to dip their ink. Perhaps never in the history of the world was such a vast platform created for such a wide range of Marxist –Leninist groups or intellectuals to express their views. The pages of Frontier at the very backbone exposed the brutalities of the terror unleashed on the Naxalite movement as well as the opressive social order that sowed the seeds of the uprising. Frontier also faced the wrath of the criticism of the ultra-left trend within the Naxalite movement .Thus at times he was virtually trapped in a crossfire. Some quarters felt Samar was harshly critical of the Charu Mazumdar line, but in essence he was critical of the trend of 'annihilation of class enemies.' and violating the 'massline.'
''Frontier' also printed reports of the mass line movement in Punjab in the Moga Sangram rally of October 26th 1974, representing the Nagi Redy line by the Punjab Co-ordination Commitee.The pages of Frontier, were a platform for every stream in the Communist revolutionary camp to voice it views.
No journal also in such a balanced manner defended the achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China and the positivity of Marxist-Leninist ideology. Most illustratively it portrayed the great achievements of the Vietnamese in overpowering America. I don't have words for ho w consistently it defended Socialist China, publishing writings of Wiliam Hinton,Joan Robinson,Felix Greene etc.
Some writers are amazed that Samar Sen was not a victims of the fascist attacks of the 1970's.In the manner of a boulder weathering a thunderstorm Frontier withstood the fascist repression of the the early 1970's .After emergency it was unequivocal in exposing ho win essence the Janata party was no different.
No journal could be such a historical source of research material as 'Frontier'. on the days of the Naxalite movement.'Frontier' anthology is a must read for cadres. The publication of 'Frontier' knit or wove a cohesive force of intellectuals to challenge the opressive social order. No journal dispensed as much justice to the movements led by Marxist Leninist forces as Frontier.
In the 1980's Frontier continued where it left of in the 1970's with its pages launching a crusade against the proto-fascist developments of the Congress govt led by Indira Gandhi and the Hindu saffron terror of the RSS or Bharatiya Janata party. Tooth and nail it condemned attacks on democratic rights and at an unmatched frequency carried reports of civil liberties organisations. At the very base it exposed the fulcrum of Hindutva fascism as an integral part of the Indian social order and promoted worldwide propaganda challenging it.
Great moral support was given by 'Frontier' to the movement of the Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Samiti in Jehanabad and surrounding areas in Bihar ,Detailed coverage was given to the land movements in Jehanabad,Gaya ,Aurangabad ,Daltangonj ,as well as the killing of Krishna Singh and the Arwal massacre .In 1987 in Dalechauk-Baghaura in Aurangbada when the Maoist Communist Center launched a counter attack against the Rajputs,it flashed many a page with supportive and critical views. However morally 'Frontier' defended how it was a revolutionary retaliatory action to the brutal killing of lower castes.
Most consistently it gave a voice to intellectuals supporting the C.P.I.(M.L) Peoples War group and the reports of mass organisations like Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union,Rytu Coolie Sangham,Virasam etc.However it also voiced the views of writers supporting trends of Chandra Pulla Reddy or T.Nagi Reddy.Great moral support was also given to C.P.I.(M.L)Party Unity with regular publication of reports and statements.
It published many a report of the struggles and martyrs in the Khalistani error ,with reports of the struggles of the Revolutionary Centre, Punjab and the 'Front against Repression and Communalism."'Frontier' also played the role of a pivot in defending the civil liberties and democratic rights movement in Andhra Pradesh ,igniting a spark at it' s optimum to condemn the assassination of activists like Ramanadham or Laxma Reddy.In 1987 a report was published by Chaman Lal of the conference of the Association for Democratic Rights ,Punjab.
In the early stages 'Frontier' detected how Perestroika' inducted by Gorbachev was another variety of revisionism. The journal also gave a lot of space to writers who were critical of Gandhian non-violence .
In the view of some "Frontier' Weekly after Samar Sen,was completely different from that of what was brought out after his death. by Timir Basu. In their view it lacked the same level of democratic revolutionary consistency. This included the likes of late Suniti Kumar Ghosh ,Rajani Desai and late Dipankar Chakraborty.I can't forget the esteem in which they all held Samar babu.
Frontier, after Samar's death, became too permeated with a liberalist tendency, wavering towards bourgeois -democratic,Neo- Trotskyite or new left ideas. Debatably 'Frontier' lost a lot of its revolutionary Democratic or Leninist cutting edge which was so prevalent in the days of Samar Sen. I feel there is some credibility in this argument but perhaps we must respect the changing times in post-globalist period. Perhaps 'Frontier' has invited too much space for criticism of Marxism-Leninism, been too harsh on Maoist China classifying it as nationalist from 1969 itself and also given a pro Gandhian or pro-Ambedkarist dose to its journal. The frequency of articles admiring Gandhi distorts his partisan support of the opressor classes during British rule. Personally I think it has over encouraged intellectuals who launched a tirade against ex-Socialist Societies or post-modernist ideas.
Still I complement 'Frontier' for still promoting the revolutionary democratic stances of intellectuals like Arundhati Roy,Gautam Navlakha, late Jan Myrdal, Bernard De ;Mello ,Venugopal Rao or Amit Bhattacharya.I can't forge the moral support it gave me to write my reports on Punjab and analysis of Maoism,Naxalbari , and Nagi Reddy trend and movements. It still boldly dips its ink in exposing the Hindu Saffron or Brahmanical fascism. I have to pay it a great complement for being so co operative to my work or views. Still I feel 'Frontier' of Samar Sen would have played a far more role in curtaining the anti-communist tide after fall of Soviet Union in 1991 and the propaganda backing globalization and liberalization from 1991.It' s pages would far more poignantly illustrated or exposed the lies of the bourgeoisie.
I can't express how much I miss Samar Sen today, with Hindutva or Brahmanical fascism at a helm and globalization transcending regions unscaled.His writings on the nature of fascism in India today, on why Communist movement has received such a setback internationally, on why the Naxalite movement is so splintered, the mode of production in globalization era and the path of revolution in India, evaluation of C.P.I.(Maoist) ,Role of B.R.Ambedkar,post-modernism would have been invaluable.
We dearly need to ressurect Samar Sen today with the forces of reaction at their strongest and lack of a team of coherent intellectuals to cut it's tumours. I would love to visualize what 'Frontier' would have been today with Samar Sen in charge. I would have strongly backed Samar to leave no stone unturned in confronting the Trotskyite,Gandhian,Ambedkarist and New Left trends perpetrating the democratic movement.Neverthless he would be the first one to challenge dogmatism or mechanical approach, which still prevails. Few intellectuals gave as much space to spirit of dissent or debate within a Socialist camp as Samar. I am sure he would have been a vocal critique of the misdoings prevalent in the Naxalite or Maoist movement today. I would have dearly loved to have read an essay by Samar Sen on the 50th anniversary of Naxalbari and the Centenary of the Russian Revolution or even the Centenary of Chairman Mao. I presume it would have had a different touch from that of any writer.
It was truly remarkable how Samar Sen did not succumb to the lure or temptation of a lucrative career He earned only eighty repress a month, as his monthly salary. and travelled by a 2nd class monthly ticket. His lifestyle was simple, even austere. He earned a pittance, especially in his Frontier years, lived in a dank, ground-floor flat in south Kolkata, used public transport, the gentle, leisurely tram being his preferred mode of transport.
It is sad that Samar Sen never lived on to read the publication 'Aspects of India' s Economy' by Research Unit for Political Economy ,which has done the most creditable and consistent work in exposing the anti-people nature of the economic policies and social fabric. I can't visualise anyone admiring 'Aspect's more than Samar Sen, whose publishers themselves were his ardent admirers.Samar Sen was an ardent admirer of the All India Federation of Organisations for Democrat Rights, convened by Rajani Desai.
Perhaps intellectuals today have to re-create the work of Samar Sen in a form in accordance to the present reality. Today's left intellectuals have a tendency of being too dogmatic or mechanical, and eclecticism is the order of the day within the revolutionary Democratic camp. His balanced writing style is a lesson for all cadres, who can often be swayed by emotionalism and romanticism. A kind of Samar Sen memorial school could be set up training democratic intellectuals who evaluated political events and write.
It is my deep regret today that the Communist Party Re-Organization Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist) or CPRCI(ML)which is the main protagonist of 'proletarian revolutionary mass line ' does not send it's statements for publishing in 'Frontier' .I can't forget how in the 1970's statement and reports of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries led by T.Nagi Reddy/DV Rao were regularly published. Even a statement of Harbhajan Sohi in 1987 was published. In 1988 activists of the Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India approached 'Frontier 'but still after 1987 no statement published of that stream.
On his birth centenary we missed enough tributes from the actual revolutionary rank, activists or leaders who knew him. I strongly feel they would have placed him in a more correct perspective or portray his contribution in better light, than those who did in the 2016 Autumn Number of Frontier, who were generally liberals. I would have loved to read about any of his encounters with Tarimela Nagi Reddy.In some ways I regret that he never vistd China in Mao' s time or met him personally. It is personalities like Sanar Sen who sowed the seeds for intellectuals like Bernard De Mello to sprout or Professor Amit Bhattacharya.
Nevertheless I praise 'Frontier' for still sailing along when the tides are most unfavourable .In their own right they are doing commendable work even today.
Harsh Thakor is a freelance journalist. Toured India, particularly Punjab .Written on Mass movements ,,Massline,Maoism on blogs like Democracy and Class Struggle and frontierweekly .An avid cricket lover too who has posted writings on blogs like Pakpassion Indian Cricket Fans and Sulekha.com.
Email-thakor.harsh5@gmail.com
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New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Created Panel with Roses
Created Part of Screen for Church
Exhibited Fountain
Made Five Panels for Choir Stalls
Made Figure of St Cecilia in Finial
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Made Chimney Piece, Grate, Fender, Fire Irons and Dogs
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Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1895
Cat. Nos. 205-213, pp. 83, 257
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The world's longest sea-crossing bridge is now open to traffic. Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the marvel of infrastructure, officially called the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge, on Tuesday during a ceremony in the southern city of Zhuhai.
CNN reported the bridge cost $20 billion to construct and better connects mainland China with the Hong Kong and Macau territories. Both territories are semi-autonomous from the central government of China, but the 34-mile-long bridge brings them closer. The bridge will help tourists and commuters to travel the region with greater ease.
But motorists can't simply pass through. Private car owners will need a special permit to travel on the bridge. Otherwise, motorists will have to park their cars and take a shuttle bus or hire a private driver to carry them across the bridge. A single trip costs $8 or $10.
The Hong Kong–Macau–Zhuhai bridge becomes one of the world's longest bridges of any kind. The United States cracks the top nine with just one bridge—the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. The causeway measures 24 miles long, or ten miles shorter than the new Chinese bridge. The world's longest bridge, the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge, is also within China and covers 102 miles of railway.
Far-spanning bridges are nothing new, but China is home to most of them. One proposal from 2015 called for a Trans-Eurasian Belt Development bridge to span London to New York City. Russia proposed the intercontinental bridge, which would also connect the United States and Russia via the Bering Strait. The original proposal noted a drive from London to New York City would span nearly 13,000 miles.
Since 2015, there hasn't been any news suggesting that such a bridge and superhighway will come to life, however.
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Strong as an oak tree and at the same time flexible in the face of any changes and challenges – this is Philippine Duchesne. It is not only her name that evokes an oak tree; it is even more her character – or is it more than that? Is it her rootedness in God?
The oak tree sends its roots deep into the earth, which makes it strong, resistant to heavy winds and severe thunderstorms. At the same time the oak tree can adjust to different conditions, such as changes of climate.
Especially in her early years, Rose Philippine Duchesne had to overcome many difficulties, which challenged her not to give up but to adapt to different situations: called to religious life soon after her First Communion, she had to overcome her father's objections to letting her enter the convent. Having entered the Visitation convent of Sainte Marie-d'en-Haut at last, she was forced by the French Revolution, along with all the nuns, to leave the convent. Philippine returned to her family and looked after the poor and sick, until she got into contact with Madeleine Sophie Barat, the founder of the Religious of the Sacred Heart.
What gave her the energy not to give up but to follow her initial vocation? Was it her strong will or rather was it her rootedness in God that gave her the strength to persevere despite all difficulties and failures? This rootedness let her reach out into the whole world, as the oak tree stretches out its branches.
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Must Reads: College admissions scammers found 'the hole in the Death Star'
William "Rick" Singer, who was among several charged in an alleged college admissions scam, leaves federal court in Boston. Experts say the scam could prompt big changes in higher-education admissions.
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By Suhauna HussainStaff Writer
There have long been serious concerns about the fairness and equity of the admissions process to elite universities.
But the sprawling college admissions scandal has exposed serious weaknesses that experts say will result in far-reaching changes.
"This is like Luke Skywalker finding the hole in the Death Star. In this case, they did it, they found a way to beat the system," said Peter Lake, a professor of higher education law at Stetson University. The charges show "really determined criminal behavior can penetrate the systems we have in place."
The scheme, which began in 2011, centered on a Newport Beach college placement firm run by William "Rick" Singer. Wealthy parents paid Singer to help their children cheat on college entrance exams and to falsify athletic records of students to enable them to secure admission to elite schools, including UCLA, USC, Stanford, Yale and Georgetown, according to court records.
Prosecutors allege that Singer instructed parents to donate funds to a fake charity he had established as part of the scheme. Most of the parents paid at least $200,000, but some spent up to $6.5 million to guarantee their children admission to top universities, authorities said. The parents were then able to deduct the donation from their income taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
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The scheme itself was fairly simple, prosecutors said: Singer instructed parents to seek extended time for their children on ACT and SAT exams. In at least one instance, a student claimed to have a learning disability to obtain medical documentation required by the College Board and ACT Inc. to grant additional time on the tests, according to court documents.
Exploiting weaknesses
Experts said the allegations are notable because the masterminds seem to get past safeguards.
Testing systems generally have a lot of built-in safeguards, Lake said. For example, he said people taking the bar exam have to get their fingerprint taken. It's a way to trace if the person taking the test is actually the person whose name is attached to the score.
And athletic directors usually make tremendous effort to make sure there aren't improper moves made in terms of athletic selection and recruitment, Lake said. The NCAA has compliance standards, he said, and it's not like schools don't follow these rules.
"We assume there's the occasional person who scams their way into higher education, but this is very organized and systematic. It has the feeling of white-collar crime and insider trading — people working inside systems to gain advantage," Lake said. "The fact that it was so widespread, with so many people involved at one time and the deliberateness of it, is disturbing."
There are always loopholes though, Lake noted, such as the phenomenon of students who have accumulated a negative record in college applying to other colleges with their middle name instead of their first name, so that they don't carry their transfer credits or records from their previous school.
It's an issue most admission systems aren't built to detect, he said.
"If you have a valuable commodity, more people will get creative on how to cheat the system," Lake said.
The next step colleges might look at is figuring out how to implement ways to monitor those people applying the safeguards, such as coaches and test proctors.
Spotting suspicious admissions
Stefanie Niles, president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, has worked in admission for 22 years and read thousands of applications. But she can only think of a handful of times where she became aware that something in the application seemed off and took extra measures to determine if there was information that was falsified.
It's not always easy to spot anomalies, she said. For example, a student who has very high test scores and a low GPA wouldn't usually raise alarms. There are many students who have the aptitude for test-taking but haven't honed their work ethic in class for schoolwork, she said. "There's not necessarily something nefarious going on," Niles said.
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From the admissions offices' perspective, ensuring integrity in the athletic recruitment department is a difficult question, Niles said. Building relationships with those in athletic departments and implementing training might be a way to make sure the right questions are being asked of applications.
Niles, who is also vice president for enrollment and communications at Ohio Wesleyan University, said the scandal will probably prompt her and others in admissions to scrutinize the holes in their programs, Niles said.
"We'll pick apart the hows, the whys and the could-haves over the coming weeks," Niles said.
Higher education is supposed to be a meritocracy, but we've seen in recent years how some are willing to go to extremes to get their children accepted into highly coveted schools, Niles said. Even without resorting to illegal means, the wealthy have access to test-prep classes and paid college consultants, for example, and paying for their children to participate in the interesting activities that make their resume stand out is something not every student can take advantage of.
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The wealth factor
But engaging in illegal activity to do so is extreme, and indicative of the high-stakes college admissions culture some students from wealthier families find themselves in, Niles said. She said counselors can do more to shift the culture and educate students and their families about the wide range of colleges where their children would be happy.
"There are some parents that have high expectations of gaining admittance to a small number of selective institutions. But there are multiple institutions that would fit the needs of those students. We've seen that it's part of our responsibility to help alleviate some of the pressures in that rat race."
The way the system is set up, there's little incentive for institutions to break the cycle of wealthy families being able to game college admissions, said Rachel Fishman, the deputy director for research with the Education Policy program at New America, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.
"There are a lot of legal ways in which really rich parents can game the system that other students just do not have access to," Fishman said.
She said there's a whole cottage industry of legal ways for wealthy families to get a leg up in admissions, such as high-priced counselors, more one-on-one help with college applications, donations to the school, legacy preference and resources to play certain sports that give students a side door into coveted universities. A large portion of students who are athletic recruits are white and wealthy, Fishman said.
"It's really hard for institutions to guard against this unless they do away with these preferences, such as legacy admissions and athletic preference," she said.
RELATED: College admissions scammers found 'the hole in the Death Star' »
Suhauna Hussain
Suhauna Hussain is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, she wrote for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.


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Jho Low up in arms over fire sale of superyacht
PETALING JAYA: Businessman Low Taek Jho may be on the run, but he is not sitting idle amid legal proceedings to speed up the sale of the Equanimity superyacht.
Hours before the Kuala Lumpur Admiralty court heard the application by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) to expedite the sale of the vessel, an army of Low's lawyers and publicists around the world issued media statements in protest.
Ahead of the court case which started at 2.30pm yesterday, a company linked to Low claiming ownership of the vessel issued a statement saying it had received no legally valid notice on the sale of the superyacht.
The statement by Equanimity (Cayman) Ltd was e-mailed to the Malaysian media by a British consultancy firm at 4.40am (local time) yesterday.
"For Malaysia to act unilaterally while there are pending court requests in the United States would be an affront to the international rule of law," the statement said.
It claimed that Malaysia's intent to immediately sell the superyacht, which has reportedly been valued at up to RM1bil, would drastically reduce its potential sale value.
"Due to the Malaysian government's precipitous, ill-conceived and misguided actions, the yacht is running 24 hours a day, seven days a week on generator power, which is unsustainable and harmful to the vessel," it said.
"Moreover, Malaysia has docked the yacht in a hazardous environment in which toxins such as water pollution and nearby smoke are greatly damaging it."
The statement claimed that since Malaysia apparently does not have – or does not want to spend – the necessary funds to properly maintain the vessel while it is prepared for a value-maximising sale, "Malaysia has instead proposed a 'fire sale', in which the yacht is to be sold for a fraction of its true value".
"To move for a sale in Malaysia immediately would be a remarkable violation of due process and international legal comity, and would call into question the actual ownership of the yacht for any potential buyer."
It said such actions would create a cloud on Equanimity's ownership that could easily take years to resolve in several courts around the world.
At 9.05am yesterday, Low's spokesman through his lawyers sent another statement denouncing Malaysia's legal proceedings to quickly sell the superyacht as a vindictive "sham".
"This is nothing more than a sham hearing as part of an unjust and arbitrary legal process subject to the whims of a vindictive regime regarding an asset whose ownership has yet to be determined," it read.
The statement was sent by a public affairs company based in Sydney, Australia.
It claimed the US government was willing to cover the cost of Equanimity's upkeep while proceedings were pending in the United States.
"Instead, as a publicity stunt, Mahathir has unnecessarily put this financial burden on the Malaysian government and, given the illegal manner in which he took the asset, it is unlikely any bid will come close to its fair market value," it read, referring to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
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