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Jonah Hex 2010
I hadn't heard anything very good about this movie, it pretty much tanked at the box office, even my wife didn't really like it very much. I don't watch too many westerns, but I do occasionally enjoy them, especially westerns with a slight sci-fi twist, something along the lines of the rarely duplicated Brisco County Jr. So my expectations were fairly low coming into this movie and I was not let down. I was surprised that it wasn't a horrible movie by any means, it was just mediocre. There weren't any laughably bad scenes with cheesy acting nor were there any edge of your seat action setpieces. The concepts were far-fetched, the humor was uneven, and the action was nothing special. I didn't hate it, but I won't be eager to watch it again anytime soon.
Jonah Hex is a defector from the Southern army near the end of the Civil War, he killed his best friend in a disagreement over a direct order to burn down a hospital. The superior officer in question also happened to be his best friend's father who tracks Jonah down to his home with his wife and children and burns them alive while forcing him to watch in revenge before branding him in the face with his initials. From what I understand, in the comics Hex was just a disfigured bounty hunter in typical Western fashion. But in this movie they also give him the superpower of being able to bring people back from the dead while he is touching them in order to get information out of them. There's also some convoluted rules alongside that concept like they start burning if they're kept "alive" for too long, unless they have dirt on them – because the dead like dirt and dirt likes the dead. Not only that, but the dead are able to see anyone they have come in contact with during their life, which ends up being an easy way to give Jonah Hex some information. I didn't like this concept at all, I don't mind some mysticism in a western theme, but this felt way to convoluted and just an easy way to further the plot while giving Jonah Hex a superpower he didn't really need. On top of that, there was a lot of stilted lines of exposition dialog in order to bring all that information across during the movie.
As far as the character himself, I thought Jonah Hex was rather dull. He has a scarred face which gives him an interesting look, he has the whole "talking to the dead" thing, he can also talk to animals which is something that's never really explained or makes much sense in the movie. His horse and a random dog he rescues seem to have a connection with him. He talks to them and they seem to understand, and yet his horse is just named "horse", and the dog doesn't seem to have any impact in the story whatsoever aside from being around and bringing the Crow Tribal Shamans to Hex when he gets fatally wounded in order to save him once again. He also has a variety of over-technological weapons, like his horse-mounted gatling guns, and a pair of repeating dynamite crossbows that he empties then just throws away. I never understand why many modern action movies set in the past have to have an excuse for rapid-fire weapons and explosions, it does not make for better movies.
The other characters felt similarly uninteresting, Megan Fox plays the hooker with a heart of gold and a pistol in her corset. She loves Jonah and wants to run away with him, but something something something that's not really spelled out in the movie. I felt like she could have been cut out of the movie completely and it would have been better for it. John Malkovich as Quentin Turnbull, the villain of the piece was too much of a motivation-less villain. His goal was to destroy the entire country because… the South lost? He's also using this technological marvel "nation killer" which is basically a two stage explosive device powered by dragon-ball looking orange orbs. It basically shoots a bunch of canonballs at a small town and the dragon-ball makes them all explode. I know the country's still young, but I don't see how two dozen or so of these dragon-balls is enough to destroy the entire nation. Another thing that bugged me a little was the casting of Will Arnett as an egotistical army officer who doesn't like Jonah Hex but plays the whole thing completely straight.
Funnily enough, I didn't realize how much these really did look like Dragonballs until I made this picture.
The movie did have a few things going for it that I did enjoy. There were a handful of nice gunfight scenes showing that Jonah could actually be a badass when he wanted to. I also liked his general sense of humor. As much as I didn't like the entire concept of his talking to the dead ability, I did enjoy the scene where he talks with his long-dead best friend and son of Quentin Turnbull. The biggest problem with the movie was that there just wasn't enough interesting stuff happening between all the exposition, there's just so much explaining that has to be done, and none of it is interesting, like the nation-killer, most of Hex's backstory, his powers, his connection with the Crows. It wasn't a bad movie, but it sure wasn't very interesting. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
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todayiwatchedamovie | March 10, 2013 at 9:58 pm
I remember enjoying this more than most did, but probably because I know very little about his comic book origins.
Bubbawheat | March 10, 2013 at 10:02 pm
I also knew very little about his origins, but I did read about how the talking to the dead was only for the movie. I didn't dislike it, but it was very "ok".
todayiwatchedamovie | March 11, 2013 at 8:25 am
I remember loving it…except for Megan Fox
Terrible film, I liked the comics and this wasn't a good adaptation. On a separate note, could you imagine if they made a good Dragonball film 😀
Well, in my opinion they would have to start with a good anime first. The only Dragonball I've been able to get into is the pretty funny abridged version on YouTube.
That abridged series is hysterical!
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Did you not like the tv series?
Honestly I haven't seen more than maybe one episode, but just based on the description and what little I've seen it doesn't sound like something I'd like much. Which is weird because my favorite RPG series is Dragon Quest, and the same person created the character designs for both.
It's weird as weird gets so I get that 😀
I think making a good live action Dragonball film would be one of the most difficult cinematic challenges ever attempted! One day, soon I will have my film 😀
Did the mini guns on the horse not make you cry with laughter?
More like roll my eyes and prompt a tweet mentioning how every modern action movie set in this era or earlier has to have some version of an automatic weapon, whether it's a portable gatling gun or a rapid fire crossbow which makes absolutely no sense. It would have been much more impressive for him to take down half as many guys with only two six-shooters.
My favourite segment from the comics is a scene where he is in a bar throws a table over shoots three guys and then it cuts to outside and you see him throw a guy through a window and shoots him. How cool would that have looked in a film 😀
Nice, too bad most directors are more interested in flash rather than style.
Morgan R. Lewis | March 13, 2013 at 2:14 am
One of these days, I'll have to check this out for the Morbid Curiosity Files. Even my brother didn't like this, and he often has pretty low standards.
It has it's good points in there, but it just doesn't quite get there.


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Q: Multiple service injection in directive causes huge CPU load I've created a LibraryResolver which is intended to load libraries via WebPacks "import" and then provide it as an Observable.
It looks like this.
@Injectable({
    providedIn: 'root'
})
export class LibraryResolver {

    public readonly math$: Observable<any> = from(
        import(
            /* webpackChunkName: "math" */
            'mathjs')
    ).pipe(
        share()
    );

    public readonly popper$: Observable<any> = from(
        import(
            /* webpackChunkName: "popper" */
            'popper.js')
    ).pipe(
        pluck('default'),
        share()
    );

    public readonly imageEditor$: Observable<any> = from(
        import(
            /* webpackChunkName: "image-editor" */
            'tui-image-editor')
    ).pipe(
        pluck('default'),
        share()
    );

    constructor() {
        console.log('new')
    }

}

This service is injected in a directive in constructor. And as soon as it is I have a performance problem (the page is frozen with CPU load up to 20-22%).
I apply this directive to an Input and I have about 50 inputs on a page.
So as soon as this page is being opened everything is stuck.
I remove this service from constructor and everything works fine.
The constructor of my directive what causes freeze
constructor(
        private resolver: LibraryResolver,
        private elementRef: ElementRef<HTMLElement>,
        private renderer: Renderer2
    ) {
    }

And if I do this it goes well
constructor(
        // private resolver: LibraryResolver,
        private elementRef: ElementRef<HTMLElement>,
        private renderer: Renderer2
    ) {
    }

The most interesting thing for me is that it doesn't even require any interaction to stuck. Only dependency injection. I've commented all the code out so nothing is happening but creating an instance of the directive.

Update #1
My investigation has shown that the problem is caused by
 public readonly imageEditor$: Observable<any> = from(
        import(
            /* webpackChunkName: "image-editor" */
            'tui-image-editor')
    ).pipe(
        pluck('default'),
        share()
    );

Because if I comment it out everything works fine. Also the noticeable thing here is that imageEditor$ is not being used anywhere yet. So this "dead" property causes freezes.
I've tried to open another page with 3 inputs to let all libraries load (by some reason WebPack imports them as soon as service is instantiated if I work in a dev environment) but it still freezes on a huge form.
Any ideas what it might be?

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As well as the practicalities of providing care during the current Covid-19 crisis, care home providers will be acutely aware that they are currently subject to many demands for information, including daily reports to CQC via the Capacity Tracker. On top of that care home providers will be contacted by their local authorities for information, as set out below. Care homes should do all they can to cooperate with this, as the data gathered will allow Local Authorities to release funding from the Infection Control Fund.
In correspondence dated 14 May 2020, the Minister of State for Care, Helen Whately MP, wrote to Council Leaders. She began by thanking them for the work undertaken by local authorities (LAs), care providers and the NHS for their combined Covid-19 response, and then moved to emphasise the need for data which would allow the Government to enhance the coordinated nature of that response.
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A short description of the approach that commissioners (LAs and CCGs) are taking to address short-term financial pressures experienced by care providers;
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Lund, May 4, 2022
Terranet AB (publ) (Nasdaq: TERRNT-B) today shares an update on the development of its BlincVision technology, next steps in the development process and the key milestones to commercialize the solution for the global automotive industry.
In 2021, BlincVision progressed from lab testing to Proof of Concept, when its functionality was tested in a live demonstration in a vehicle in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz at StartUp Autobahn in Stuttgart in July. The functionality test validated the concept of the innovation, confirming that BlincVision can detect objects considerably faster and with greater precision than any other lifesaving ADAS solution today. BlincVision thus becomes an essential complement to existing ADAS, particularly suitable for reducing traffic accidents in urban areas with heavy and varied traffic.
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Up to 138,000 attendees were registered at the new Gran Vía venue for the third edition of the fair.
The third annual Barcelona Games World convention blew away all previous records with the venue taking in over 138,000 at the Fira Barcelona venue on the city's iconic road Gran Via. The event beat its own record that it set with last year's show, which more than 135,000 people attended.
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Research & Reviews: Journal of Botanical Sciences
A Pressing Need: Standardisation of TCM Granule Products
Edmund F Tian*, Huan Li, Martin Cai and Matthew Kong
School of Applied Science, Temasek Polytechnic, Republic of Singapore
Edmund F Tian
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Received Date: 16/09/2017; Accepted Date: 20/09/2017; Published Date: 23/09/2017
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of ancient medical practice that differs from modern medicine in its substance, methodologies, and philosophies. It has become increasingly pursued as a means of therapy worldwide, with sound medical methodologies complemented with herbs prescribed mainly based on knowledge documented in the Compendium of Materia Medica and various modern pharmacopoeias. However, modernisation and the demand for consumer convenience has led to a shift from the use of conventional herbs to TCM granules. TCM granules are produced after TCM herbs undergo modern extraction and processing, and are now prescribed by a majority of TCM practitioners as therapeutic drugs. However, unlike herbs, there are no available standards or monographs for the quality control and regulation of these TCM granules. Our preliminary study of one such product, Cortex Magnoliae officinalis, suggests that there is significant variation in the quality of TCM granules despite being labelled as identical products. There is therefore a pressing need for the standardisation of TCM granule products at both local and international levels in order to better safeguard patients' interests and integrate TCM into the mainstream healthcare system.
TCM granules, Quality control, Standardisation, Modernisation, Clinical efficacy and safety, TCM regulation
For thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has played an important role in disease prevention and treatment among Chinese people. It is now recognised as a complementary or alternative medical system in most western countries and is generally considered as a safe and natural health care system that emphasizes disease prevention and holistic treatments [1]. Today, with an aging population, a predicted increase in the global burden of chronic diseases, and a stronger emphasis on individualized person-centered care, there is a continuing demand for the use of TCM. Over 100 million Europeans are currently users of TCM or other complementary medicines (CM), with many more TCM users in Africa, Australia, North America, and Asia [2,3]. A survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Singapore in 2004 showed that 53% of the population had consulted a TCM practitioner in the previous year [4]. In addition, available data suggests that the global TCM market is substantial. The output of Chinese materia medica (CMM) was about US$83 billion in 2012 and the global market for all herbal supplements and remedies could reach US$115 billion by 2020 [5,6].
Despite its widespread use and substantial market, there are still major challenges in the standardisation of TCM products in terms of their clinical efficacy and safety. Quality control of TCM products is a critical prerequisite for ensuring their therapeutic efficacy and safety, particularly when rationalizing their use in healthcare [7,8]. Unlike conventional medicines, TCM products present some unique problems in quality standardisation due to the nature of herbal ingredients present. Natural factors such as species variability, geographical climate, cultivation conditions, and harvest time can collectively influence the quality of plant material available [9,10]. Furthermore, the constituents responsible for the claimed therapeutic effects are often unknown, while analysing the complex compositions of these products demands very high sensitivity and multiple assays. In spite of these challenges, there exists a general consensus regarding quality control of raw CMM. Standards for the minimum acceptable quality of raw CMM are comprehensively listed in pharmacopoeia monographs such as the Chinese, United States, British or European Pharmacopoeias. For instance, the 2015 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopeia gives details of relevant methods to determine the identity, presence of and acceptable levels of impurities, and other techniques to evaluate the minimum levels of 'chemical markers' in more than 500 raw TCM herbs. Likewise, the Hong Kong government has developed the Chinese Materia Medica Standards (HKCMMS) for a total of 275 CMM [11,12].
Traditionally, TCM products are CMM that include Chinese herbs and medicinal materials obtained from animal and mineral sources used in the practice of TCM, and include:
a) Raw CMM: CMM that are either in their natural state or that have undergone simple processing (e.g. cutting, drying etc.).
b) Chinese Proprietary Medicines (CPM): CMM preparations in final dosage forms (e.g. tablets, pills, liquid preparations etc.).
However, with the modernization of TCM and increased consumer demand for TCM therapies that are convenient to administer, a third category of TCM products has emerged:
c) TCM Granules: Raw CMM that are extracted with water, concentrated at a low temperature, spray dried, and then mixed with excipients in specified proportions to form concentrated granular products. These products are also known as Chinese Patent Medicines in Taiwan.
With no consensus on the evaluation criteria of TCM granule products, the TCM industries in Singapore and Greater China find themselves in a dilemma. Societal pressure brought about by the demand for convenience has made TCM granules a popular choice for TCM practitioners, but at the same time there is an obvious lack of recognised standards and monographs for TCM granule products. To demonstrate the need for such standards, we preliminarily assessed the consistency of commercially available TCM granule products that were labelled as identical, to determine if there are variations in product quality.
To evaluate the quality of TCM granules, three Cortex Magnoliae officinalis (CMO,厚朴) products were analysed (Table 1) using High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) and Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC). HPTLC was used for a quick qualitative analysis by visual comparison of separation profiles of granules while UPLC was applied to accurately quantify the chemical markers specified in the Chinese Pharmacopeia. The assays were performed following the protocols described in the Chinese Pharmacopeia and HKCMMS.
TCM product studied
Nature of product
Supplier/manufacturer
Content of magnolol andd honokiol combined
CMO 1 Raw CMM Supplier from Singapore 5.4%
CMO 2 CMO granule product Manufacturer 1 from Taiwan 1.7%
Table 1: Three Cortex Magnoliae officinalis (CMO) products from independent suppliers.
The Chinese Pharmacopeia (2015 ed.) specifies that a CMO product shall contain not less than 2.0% of the total content of magnolol and honokiol calculated with reference to the dried substance. The results showed that CMO 2 contained less than 2.0% of the total amount of magnolol and honokiol. Moreover, HPTLC fingerprinting demonstrated visually that the HPTLC profiles of the three CMO products were significantly different (Figure 1). A similar trend was observed in several other TCM granule products analyzed in this study.
Figure 1: Chemical fingerprinting of the three CMO products by HPTLC.
These results clearly indicate that there are consistency issues with the quality of TCM granule products. In addition to the factors mentioned previously contributing to product variability, different granule manufacturers may employ very different processes when producing their granule products. More importantly, these TCM granules are used interchangeably with raw CMM in TCM clinics and are prescribed by TCM physicians and consumed directly by patients as therapeutic drugs. Further differences exist in the prescribed dosages as TCM granules are considered to be more concentrated than raw CMM. Although the availability of TCM granules makes it convenient for patients to prepare these TCM therapies, the lack of internationally recognised standards and monographs for TCM granule products makes it very difficult to evaluate the quality of these products.
With the modernization of the TCM industry and the integration of western and eastern medical practices, TCM products are set to play a major role in the future of healthcare. As such, medicinal products such as TCM granules will be increasingly used as therapeutic drugs by patients, and should be backed up by scientifically proven safety and efficacy data. There is therefore a pressing need for the establishment of standards, specifications, and monographs of TCM granule products in order to safeguard patients' interests and better integrate TCM and orthodox medicine in the healthcare system.
We are grateful to Temasek Polytechnic (TP) for providing the research funding support and acknowledge the contributions of many colleagues from the School of Applied Science, TP.
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Polar caps of Mars
by space · January 6, 2017
Exactly as our characteristic mother Earth, Mars also has the southern and northern polar caps. It is about ice caps in which not only water ice, but also a lamina of artificial ice which covers polar caps as if with a blanket is concentrated.
The frozen CO2 also known as "dry ice", increases and decreases in thickness depending on change of seasons on Mars. Long time for scientists there was a big riddle a characteristic of a carbon dioxide which is below the most ancient ice layers. However in 2006 when the Martian prospecting Device MRO arrived to an orbit of the Red Planet, the situation changed a little to the best.
Onboard this satellite there was a scientific SHARAD tool. It is the radar which helped scientists of a mission to define what is on and under the surface of Mars. Having made over 2000 orbits around the Martian poles, the MRO spacecraft collected enough data for creation of three-dimensional model of ice layers in these areas of the Red Planet. Then MRO came to the rescue the spacecraft of Mars-Express which also made a huge contribution to a research of polar caps of the planet. Having all this information, scientists hope to trace as the climate on Mars throughout the last millions changed.
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I'm giving a workshop on blogging/social media at the Southern California Writer's Conference in San Diego in February.
I asked people on Facebook if there were particular questions that I should address.
Canadian novelist Adrian Kelly made this point:
….I'd like to hear less about the end of the book, and more about how we still need to make room for the book, for deep, attentive reading and writing, even as we explore the benefits of blogging and social media. Good writing, good reading, takes time and silence and solitude, three things that blogging and social media, used injudiciously, erode.
My first response was, I always take this as a given. And because we tend to project ourselves on the world – we think that other people think like we do (except, of course, when they don't, which can be so annoying) – I assumed that other people did as well.
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White collar conservative flashin' down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me. They all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. — Jimi Hendrix
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Tetris is a simple game in which four kinds of shapes fall from the top of the screen, and the player can move or rotate them until they hit bottom. When they create an unbroken line across the screen, the line disappears. The point of the game is to manipulate the falling shapes to create as many unbroken lines as possible.
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Q: Error class expected! Com este código obtenho o erro:

error: class expected

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class MenorIdade {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] nomes = new String[5];
        int [] idades = new int[5];
        int maisJovem = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++) {
            nomes[i] = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Informe o nome");
            idades[i] = int.parseInt(JOptionByte.showInputDialog("Informe a idade"));

            if (idades[i] < idades[maisJovem]) {
                maisJovem = i;
            }
        }

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, nomes[maisJovem] + " é mais jovem e tem " + idades[maisJovem] + " anos.");

    }
}

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public static void main(String[] args)
{
    String[] nomes = new String[5];
    int [] idades = new int[5];
    int maisJovem = 0;
    String showInputDialog = "";
    for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++) {
        nomes[i] = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Informe o nome");
        showInputDialog = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Informe a idade");
        idades[i] = Integer.parseInt(showInputDialog);
        if (idades[i] < idades[maisJovem]) {
            maisJovem = i;
        }
    }
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, nomes[maisJovem] + " é mais jovem e tem " + idades[maisJovem] + " anos.");
}

A: Na linha 11:
idades[i] = int.parseInt(JOptionByte.showInputDialog("Informe a idade"));
Você não pode utilizar o tipo primitivo de uma classe para fazer chamada de métodos, então o correto seria Integer.parseInt();. Não sei se seria só comigo, mas meu IDE(Eclipse) não reconheceu a classe JOptionByte.
Uma forma seria substituir a parte JOptionByte e utilizar a JOptionPane mesmo, ficando assim:
idades[i] = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Informe a idade"));


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Home » Movie Reviews » Film Review: "Mardaani" (2014)
Film Review: "Mardaani" (2014)
Posted by Ulkar Alakbarova in Movie Reviews // 1 Comment
Directed by: Pradeep Sarkar
Written by: Gopi Puthran
Cast: Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Gautam Babbar, Anil George, Rio Kapadia, Avneet Kaur, Peter Manuel, Sharika Raina, Digvijay Rohildas, Sanjay Taneja, Eddie Teel, D.V. Vivek, Ashish Warang
According to the UN, 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide for sexual exploitation. India is the world`s 'hub' of child sex trafficking and a tremendous amount of children are abducted every year.
Senior inspector of the Mumbai police, Shivani Shivaji Roy, is endowed with boundless courage and integrity. Her experience and instincts never fail her at crucial moments, and this is what makes her one of the best in the police department. The head of the Mafia, which specializes in the sale of children, makes a tremendous mistake. They kidnap a teenage girl, Pyar, who is a member of Shivani`s family, and who is treated like a daughter. When Pyar does not appear for several days, Shivani understands that there`s something wrong. In her search for the girl, Shivani has to face a world of decadence and debauchery, cruel desires, and the exploitation of children.
Bollywood produces more films than Hollywood, which no one can deny. However, quantity does not mean quality. Nevertheless, this film, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, proves some skeptics wrong. Touching on a quite sensitive subject, and unlike most Bollywood films, it is filled with real drama; is an intense and good story. Also, the film has no music or banal dances; neither does anyone commit suicide in the end or get killed, nor does it end like a fairy tale- with happily ever after.
Unfortunately, India is one of those countries where women, in some part of the cities, are abused every day, or are kidnapped and disappear without a trace. This is why it is very important to see "Mardaani" as it truly lets us see the Indians for who they are; where not everyone commits crimes against the fairer sex. Pradeep Sakhar`s idea was to show us that women can be as strong as a men and can stand for up for their principles and rights, and the desire to be heard, even though there is no one who will hear their screaming voices – only themselves.
The storyline of "Mardaani" revolves around a female police officer, who is capable of solving any unsolvable case. But, when a local Mafia kidnaps someone who is really close to her, she acts immediately, and starts her own cat-and-mouse game against those who are also responsible for the disappearance of many other teenage girls, and whose fates still remain unknown to their loved ones.
Rani Mukerji, who plays police officer, Shivani Shivaji Roy, has already appeared in another of Sakhar`s films- Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman (2007)- which tells the story of a woman who sacrifices her own happiness and reputation to financially support her family by working as a call girl. But, unlike her previous role, in "Mardaani" she plays a very strong woman who is like a female version of Rambo; showing the courage and determination to fight alone against the head of an organized crime unit to find all those abducted girls.
In conclusion, "Mardaani" might appear, for some of us, to be a typical, naïve, and silly Bollywood film. But when we set aside all the negative thoughts that we might have for Bollywood films, we will see quite an engaging drama with an important message that says- in the end we will celebrate a woman's power, and that we need to begin to stand against domestic violence, abduction, and sexual exploitation. These crimes occur in every single country and some have done nothing to further the prevention of these atrocities.
where is the end we all will celebrate a woman power, as a beginning to stand against domestic violence, or abduction, or sexual exploitation that occurs in every single country, where in some of them done nothing to prevent it.
Anil George
Ashish Warang
D.V. Vivek
Digvijay Rohildas
Eddie Teel
Gautam Babbar
Gopi Puthran
Mardaani
Pradeep Sarkar
Rani Mukerji
Rio Kapadia
Sanjay Taneja
Sharika Raina
Tahir Raj Bhasin
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That Moment In // October 26, 2014 at 2:06 pm // Reply
Have to check this one out. Nice review. Sounds like this Bollywood movie could be good.


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Чемпионаты СССР по теннису проводились с 1924 по 1991 год. Целью чемпионатов было определение сильнейших теннисистов СССР в данном году. Всего было проведено 60 летних чемпионатов и пять зимних (проходивших с 1986 по 1990 год вместо Всесоюзных зимних соревнований).

История
Медали чемпионатов СССР в мужском одиночном, женском одиночном и мужском парном разрядах разыгрывались с 1924 года, в смешанном парном разряде с 1925 года и в женском парном разряде с 1927 года. Одиннадцати спортсменам за историю удалось стать абсолютными чемпионами СССР, победив в один год во всех трёх разрядах (одиночном, мужском или женском парном и смешанном); Александр Метревели стал абсолютным чемпионом СССР шесть раз (с 1970 по 1973, 1975 и 1976), а Анна Дмитриева четырежды (1959, 1961, 1962, 1964). В целом в чемпионатах доминировали представители РСФСР, завоевавшие по 39 титулов в мужском и женском одиночном разряде (соответственно, 14 из 20 и 17 из 28 спортсменов, становившихся чемпионами в этих разрядах, представляли российские города), а среди спортивных обществ больше всего наград завоевали представители ДСО «Динамо».

Чемпионаты СССР проводились в 15 разных городах: Москве (21 летний и 4 зимних), Донецке, Ташкенте, Тбилиси (по 5 летних), Ленинграде, Харькове (по 4 летних), Таллине (3 летних), Киеве (два общих летних и женский летний 1988 года), Алма-Ате, Ереване, Калининграде, Юрмале (по 2 летних), Адлере, Ростове-на-Дону (по одному летнему), Красноярске (1 зимний) и Ужгороде (мужской летний 1988 года).

Рекорды соревнований
 Наибольшее число побед:
 Мужчины — Александр Метревели — 29 (12+11+6); Метревели также является рекордсменом по числу побед в одиночном разряде
 Женщины — Ольга Морозова — 22 (5+10+7); в одиночном разряде рекорд принадлежит Нине Тепляковой — 7 титулов
 Наибольшее число появлений в финалах:
 Мужчины — Николай Озеров — 39 (10+16+13), из них 24 победы
 Женщины — Татьяна Налимова — 29 (2+15+12), из них 21 победа
 Самый молодой чемпион — Наталья Медведева (зимний чемпионат 1987 года, 15 лет)
 Самый молодой чемпион среди мужчин — Андрей Черкасов (1988, 17 лет)
 Наибольшее число геймов в финале — 63 (1975 год, Какулия/Метревели — Волков/Коротков 9:7, 10:12, 6:3, 3:6, 6:1)
 Наибольшее число геймов в женском или смешанном финале (до двух побед в сетах) — 40 (1939 год, Налимова/Тис — Клочкова/Коровина 9:11, 6:4, 6:4)
 Наименьшее число геймов в финале — 13 (1961, Дмитриева — Кузьменко 6:1, 6:0; 1928, Суходольская/Кудрявцев — Махмуд-Бек/А. Дементьев 6:0, 6:1)
 Наименьшее число геймов в мужском финале (до трёх побед в сетах) — 19 (1964, Лейус — Мозер 6:1, 6:0, 6:0)

Победители чемпионатов СССР в мужском и женском одиночном разряде

Победители чемпионатов СССР в мужском и женском парном и смешанном разряде

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Nokia launched a new app 'City Lens Point' which allows users to search places as well as get directions & reviews to popular restaurants and shops.
NEW DELHI: Finnish handset maker Nokia today launched a new app 'City Lens Point' which allows users to search places as well as get directions and reviews to popular restaurants and shops.
The application has been launched for its Lumia series of phones and other smartphones.
"Using the augmented reality app, when the user holds their device up, the City Lens overlays information about restaurants, shops, hotels and other popular destinations nearby," Nokia India Director Sales V Ramnath told reporters here.
It also allows one to make reservations or navigate to the location via turn by turn walking map, he added.
"This application from Nokia's Location service bouquet allows users to sense the world around and discover places by simply holding up their smartphone instead of having to perform web searches. It's simple and it's spontaneous," Ramnath said.
The free application is available for Lumia 800, 710 and 900, while it is also available for Nokia's other smartphones like Nokia 700, 701 and N8.


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Home 9 Media freedom and development 9 Government commends media's response on self-regulation
Government is keen to create a media environment where journalists operate freely, without fear of political intimidation and violence
Minister of Information and Media, Honorable Chushi Kasanda has commended the media fraternity in Zambia for being proactive and mobilising themselves to translate the presidential pronouncement on self-regulation into action a few days after the announcement.
Speaking at the third Media Self-Regulation Insaka at Golden Peacock Hotel in Lusaka on Wednesday,13 October 2021, the Minister said the Presidential pronouncement on media self-regulation can only be achieved if concerned people take action to make the pronouncement a reality.
''On behalf of the Government, I wish to commend the media fraternity for being proactive as they did not wait for further instructions after the President's pronouncement'', the Minister said.
The Honourable added that Government is looking forward to seeing how the Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) will promote responsible journalism both in mainstream and social media platforms.
''Government is keen to create a media environment where journalists operate freely, without fear of political intimidation and violence'', said the Honourable.
She has urged every Zambian to take positive action whenever the President makes a pronouncement related to their sector of interest.
She also urged the ZAMEC to embrace social media platforms in its resolutions as they play a significant role as a communication tool alongside traditional media.
''While most newspapers today have circulation figures under ten thousand, there are Facebook and Twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. Some have even crossed the one million mark. If we are to think outside the box, such platforms should be embraced by the Media Council so that their administrators observe media ethics and generate advertising revenue'', she said.
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Piața Vasile Alecsandri este una dintre cele mai mari din Europa (7324 m²). Piața este delimitată perimetral de cele mai prestigioase edificii publice din oraș: Teatrul Național "Vasile Alecsandri", Palatul orășenesc, magazinul universal UNIC, hala comercială, clădirea poștei și telecomunicațiilor, cinematograful "Patria", cel mai mare magazin de cărți din republică "Prometeu", Hotelul "Bălți", Oficiul stării civile (Casa Bodescu), Pinacoteca "Antioh Cantemir" etc. Piața publică comunică spațial cu Parcul central și Piața Independenței.

Această piață, un veritabil bulevard pietonal, constituie o prezență urbanistică unică nu numai la nivelul republicii. Unicitatea îi este conferită prin existența străzii Ștefan cel Mare, amplasat paralel, care asigură circulația transportului urban.

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Bandwidth Capacity of Fiber Optic Cable
by Eric Novinson
Fiber optic cable transmits information using light signals. Fiber optic networks operate under the standards 10 Base-F, 100 Base-F, FDDI, FDDI duplex, 1000 Base-F and 10 Gbase, which include bandwidth capacity in their definitions.
Single and Multimode Fiber
Single mode fiber optic cable is the earliest form of fiber optic cable. This type of cable sends a single beam of light down the cable. Multimode fiber optic cable is an improved version of fiber optic communication. Because multimode fiber sends several light beams that combine into one signal, performance may be slightly higher, as the multimode installation includes several lasers which may combine to produce a maximum transmission rate greater than the specification standard rate to improve reliability. For example, a 10 gigabyte multimode network may include four lasers sending at 3 gigabytes.
10 Base-F
Older installations operate with lower bandwidth, especially if the signal is sent over long distances without amplification. The 10 Base-F standards from 1993 are the earliest standard for fiber optic transmission over Ethernet networks, according to the University of California, Berkeley. 10 Base networks send information at 10 megabytes per second.
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDDI, or fiber distributed data interface, is an alternative to an Ethernet network. FDDI is specifically designed for fiber optic communication, unlike Ethernet specifications designed for use with copper wires. FDDI uses both single mode cable to connect separate structures and multimode cable inside a structure, according to the University of California, Berkeley. FDDI networks are arranged in a ring of computers that pass an electronic token around the ring to communicate, this structure is known as a token ring network. The FDDI standard is a 100 megabyte per second network. FDDI-2 sends video images as well as data with a 100 megabyte per second standard. FDDI duplex mode sends data at double speed, allowing 200 megabyte per second communication.
Some networks send data at 100 megabyte per second. The standards that govern these fiber networks are included in the 100 Base-F family. Any of the 100 Base, or 100 megabyte per second, standards including the fiber optic standard are referred to as Fast Ethernet.
1000 Base-F
Fiber Ethernet networks are installed under the 1000 Base-F standard. This standard allows transmission of data at one thousand megabytes per second. As with the other standard families there are related Ethernet specifications, such as 1000 Base-FX, that also operate at the same speed.
10 GBase
The 10 GBase standard covers Ethernet networks that include copper wires, wireless signals and fiber optic cables, so there is no separate 10 GBase-F standard. 10 Gbase standards govern networks that send information at 10 gigabytes per second.
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Andrew Stanton Wiki, Bio, Married, Wife and is Divorced?
Andrew Stanton is an American celebrity, who has got his hands full in lots of major entertainment business. With his natural ability to copy and caricature voice of different personalities, Andrew able to applause the audiences of his multi-talent personality as an actor and a director. Andrew Stanton is popularly recognized as the Academy Award-winning director of movies WALL-E and Finding Nemo. He also is known for his portrayal as the Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2.
Andrew Stanton is an American celebrity, who has got his hands full in lots of major entertainment business. With his natural ability to copy and caricature voice of different personalities, Andrew able to applause the audiences of his multi-talent personality as an actor and a director.
Andrew Stanton is popularly recognized as the Academy Award-winning director of movies WALL-E and Finding Nemo. He also is known for his portrayal as the Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2.
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Andrew Stanton Married, Wife
Andrew Stanton is a married man and has been relishing time with his wife, Julie Stanton, and two kids. Back in 1991, he and his girlfriend shared the wedding vows in an intimate wedding ceremony. The pair is also a parent of two kids, a son named Ben and a daughter named Audrey.
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With much love and respect between the couple, it doesn't seem like the pair has now divorced. Moreover, the smooth relationship between Andrew and his wife is visible on their social media post. On the occasion of the Valentine's Day 2012, Andrew retweeted the tweet of Lee Unkrich, and he wrote: "That's love."
Andrew Stanton attended Disney's John Carter held at Regal Cinemas L.A alongside wife, Julie Stanton, and daughter, Audrey. (Photo: Getty Images)
Likewise, in one of the tweets on 13 June 2013, Andrew told that if anyone asked him about his best for Father's Day, then it would be watching 'See This Is The End' with his son.
As of now, Andrew Stanton is maintaining a warm relationship with his family.
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Andrew Stanton's Net Worth
Alongside a lot of fame and success, Andrew Stanton reportedly has earned a huge net worth of $40 million. With almost 30 years in this business, he has achieved massive success and is currently working at "Pixar Animation Studios."
After watching a lot of cartoons, Stanton wanted to make one and thus studied character animation at The California Institute of the Arts. Along with acting and animating, he later started to write scripts and slowly moved on to become a director.
Although most of Pixar's movies are always hits, some of the famous movies that he has worked in are Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), John Carter (2012), Monsters University (2013) and a lot of others. He has also contributed his voice in some of the video games like Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (1999), Cars Mater-National Championship (2007) and Disney Infinity (2013) amongst others.
As of 2019, Rockport-born actor has been working on his upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy Toy Story's sequel, Toy Story 4. The film is set to release on 21 June 2019.
Andrew Stanton Wiki And Bio
Andrew Stanton was born as Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr., on the 3rd of December, 1965 in Rockport, Massachusetts, Boston. He was raised with his family in Rockport area where he spent his childhood between school and sports.


To become a writer, says Anne Fine, first of all, you have to write.
Anne Fine advises would-be writers to "read, read, read. The practice for writing (whatever teachers say!) is not writing, but reading. If you don't have a library card (and not in the teapot on the mantelpiece) you cannot be serious. Then as Philip Larkin says, write the book you yourself would most like to read". She should know, she was the Children's Laureate from 2001 to 2003, and is one of the most successful children's writers in Britain today. Fine was awarded an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours list in 2003 for services to Literature. Her most well known book is Madam Doubtfire, which became a hit film. Other well known titles are The Tulip Touch, Flour Babies, and Bill's New Frock. She has also won a number of awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Publishing News' Children's Author of the Year in 1990 and 1993.


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Methodists move toward racial reconciliation
A racial split in the Methodist church dates back centuries. At a meeting in May, the nation's second largest Protestant church will begin reconciliation efforts.
Richard Allen loved Methodism. He just did not think Christians should be pushed around during prayer or relegated to the balcony of the church because of the color of their skin.
When he and other black members left St. George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in protest at the end of the 18th century, they set in motion more than 200 years of racial separation in a church that continues to be divided into predominantly black and white denominations.
With the onset of Christianity's third millennium, the nation's second largest Protestant church hopes to take the first step toward reconciliation at its quadrennial meeting in May in Cleveland.
Delegates to the United Methodist General Conference will consider amending the church's constitution to recognize its own "sin of racism," and will participate with representatives of three major black Methodist denominations in a service of repentance.
When United Methodists repent and black Methodists forgive, major changes can take place, said the Rev. Gena Thornton, pastor of St. Paul AME Church in Cleveland.
"I would like to see the people in these congregations, both black and white, feel a sense of God to such a degree we would be willing to learn to mingle, to live next door, to work in equal jobs," Thornton said. "Right now, we're all in our own camps. Christianity goes no farther than these camps and it's tragic. . . . God expects more of us."
The origins of Methodism began in the early 1700s when John Wesley led a renewal movement within the Church of England. Methodism spread to the North American colonies shortly before the American Revolution, and in 1784 the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Baltimore.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church developed out of the Free African Society, a mutual aid organization founded by Allen in 1787. Two decades of racial friction, symbolized for many by the manhandling of worshipers bowed in prayer at St. George Church, led to the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has more than 2-million members.
In New York City, persecution within the church led members of John Street Church to found the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1796. The church has 1.2-million members. The 800,000-member Christian Methodist Episcopal Church gained independence from the Methodist Episcopal Church-South, and was founded by former slaves as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America in 1870.
At its last quadrennial meeting in 1996 in Denver, the United Methodist Church voted to establish a Commission on Pan-Methodist Union that would draw up a plan for closer relationships among the four churches.
The three predominantly black denominations also voted to create such a commission.
When they started talking about what should happen next, what became clear was the first thing the 8.5-million-member United Methodist Church needed to do was to seek forgiveness for past acts of racism, church officials said.
"No one is ready to talk about structural union," said Bruce Robbins, general secretary of the United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns.
One of the first acts toward reconciliation involves repentance, Robbins said.
The Commission on Christian Unity, along with the General Commission on Religion and Race, is proposing adding a paragraph to the United Methodist Constitution decrying racism within and without the church and calling on the denomination to "confront and seek to eliminate racism, whether in organizations or individuals, in every facet of its life and in society at large."
The church is also planning at its May General Conference a service of repentance to which members of all four churches throughout Northeast Ohio are being invited. A choir with representatives from each of the denominations also is being formed.
These actions are important, said Rhymes Moncure Jr. of the Commission on Christian Unity.
"I am deeply moved by the presence of hope in our church. What happens after General Conference, who knows? Here is something that reaches inside of us, brings out the best in us," he said.
But leaders of the church unity effort are hopeful the acts of repentance will lead to closer relationships. A national dialogue is planned, and church officials hope it will encourage other exchanges among the four churches.
Ultimately, change in the church should lead to change in the streets at a time in race relations where patience is wearing thin, Thornton said.
"We're getting to where the rubber hits the road. We're either going to do it or destroy each other totally," she said. "We're just going to have to do it. If it doesn't happen in the Christian church, you can forget the world."
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Q: Headless install of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength? Is there a way to install Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength jars without having to download them manually and accept the terms and conditions? I would like to set this up on my servers such that they are able to install these files at startup time.

A: Easiest way would likely be to write up a bash or perl /python  script that does that in the background: (something like this)

/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/dialog --yesno "Agree = 'OK'   Disagree = 'Cancel'  Agree = 'OK'   Disagree = 'Cancel'"
if ( test 1 -eq $? ); then
      sleep 10

   exit 1

fi
exit 0
fi


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Written by John Smith
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John Smith, the avant garde film maker, has kindly offered Culture Matters his short film, Dark Light. Below, he introduces it.
The only time I've visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was first elected in Britain. I first visited the former East Germany in 1997, eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and a few months after Tony Blair's 'New Labour' government was elected. Recalling these experiences many years later, Dark Light questions our imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems, mirroring its narrative through its form. London and Warsaw, 1980. London and Leipzig, 1997.
More information on John Smith's films is available at www.johnsmithfilms.com
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John Smith is an award-winning avant garde film-maker, based in London.
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WATCH: Hit-and-run damages Monterey County fire station, engine
Updated: 11:41 AM PDT Apr 24, 2020
By Joan Maltese
Monterey County firefighters hope to find the hit-and-run driver who rammed a garage door at Station 1 on Portola Road early Thursday. Seen on surveillance video, a driver drove into the fire station multiple times. The hit, which looks intentional, damaged a fire engine. The incident took place around 6:30 a.m.Investigators will be going through surveillance video, but they're also asking for help.Anyone who saw anything suspicious on Portola Road near the fire station early Thursday morning is asked to call the California Highway Patrol, or the Monterey County Regional Fire District at 831-455-1828.
MONTEREY, Calif. —
Monterey County firefighters hope to find the hit-and-run driver who rammed a garage door at Station 1 on Portola Road early Thursday.
Seen on surveillance video, a driver drove into the fire station multiple times. The hit, which looks intentional, damaged a fire engine. The incident took place around 6:30 a.m.
Investigators will be going through surveillance video, but they're also asking for help.
Anyone who saw anything suspicious on Portola Road near the fire station early Thursday morning is asked to call the California Highway Patrol, or the Monterey County Regional Fire District at 831-455-1828.


Fast food franchise brands still remain the most popular choice when it comes to researching a franchise to buy. Whether it be burgers, chicken, pizza, kebabs, pastries...and even salads...there is something for everyone.
This popularity is mainly due to the wide-spread recognition of many of the brands. If you ask someone to name a franchise, the majority are bound to choose a food franchise as these are the brands we see on our high street and in our shopping malls. McDonalds, kfc, Burger King are just some examples of a fast food franchise; a franchise that benefits from fuss-free menus, quick service and a quick turnaround of customers.
People are loyal to fast food brands, mainly because they know what they are getting. As menus and recipes tend to be standardised across each network, with strict procedures in place to ensure that the same food products are produced with no deviation from the menu, you can be sure that you receive the same quality of food wherever you go. A Big Mac in London will taste the same as a Big Mac in Aberdeen!
Though if you do fancy buying a fast food franchise, you should expect to pay pay for the privilege of owning one. Because of all the advantages named above - brand recognition, prime retail location, customer loyalty - you will be expected to pay more than the majority of other franchise types. The bigger the franchise network, the bigger the investment!
Another consideration should be how you plan to develop your business or how the franchisor expects you to develop it. Most of the top fast food franchise brands only look to recruit those with the finances and ambition to develop a multi-unit operation. They would expect for a franchisee doing well to go on and open more units over a pre-defined period of time. This is a great opportunity for those looking for a more substantial franchise investment.
As well as fast food franchise brands already in the U.K., there is also the opportunity to buy a master franchise opportunity. These are franchises that having proved successful in their home country, are looking to develop their brand into new markets. McDonalds, Dominos Pizza, KFC etc all started out in this way which recent brands such as Krispy Kreme, Denny's and Tim Hortons all using master Franchising to expand into the U.K.
Another popular trend in the U.K. is the emergence of the healthier fast food franchise concept. Not only are many franchisors now moving away from the fast food title and choosing to be called casual dining or quick service restaurants but many are adopting a more healthier approach to fast food. As well as healthier options, brands are adapting their menus to also suit those with food allergies or intolerances, as well as cultural demands.
Fast food franchises, or whatever title brands choose to use, still remain as popular as ever. Consumer patterns may be moving towards the need for greater choices and healthier options but consumers and prospective franchisees, still remain loyal as ever to fast food franchising.