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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Arthur Murphy Irish Writer
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland American Activist
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James American Philosopher
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson American President
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka Austrian Novelist
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama American President
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I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Cole Younger American Criminal
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Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
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Q: LLVM. AddressSanitizer.Is a value operand of store Instruction function parameter In a file AddressSanitizer.cpp there is a function AddressSanitizer::instrumentStoreInstruction(...)
void AddressSanitizer::instrumentStoreInstruction(StoreInst *S, Instruction *I) {
    assert(nullptr != S);
    assert(nullptr != I);
    Value* V = S->getValueOperand();
    assert(nullptr != V);
    Value* P = S->getPointerOperand();
    assert(nullptr != P);
    DEBUG(dbgs() << "ASAN Store Value : " << " " <<*V << "\n");
    DEBUG(dbgs() << "ASAN Store Pointer" << " " <<*P << "\n");
    Value* vL = 0;
    if (isa<Instruction>(V)) {
        vL = getStoreInstructionValueShadowBit(V, I);
        handleStorePointerOperand(P, I, vL);
    } else if (isa<ConstantExpr>(V)) {
        instrumentConstantExprStoreInstruction(V, P, I);
    } else if (isa<ConstantInt>(V) || isa<ConstantFP>(V)) {
        //TODO: need to change to ConstantData after LLVM porting
        instrumentConstantIntStoreInstruction(V, P, I);
    }
}

How to check is store Instruction value operand is a function parameter.

A: You can use isa<Argument>(V) to check if a value V is a function argument. Documentation for the Argument class can be found here: http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Argument.html.

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I recently wrote about how we can manipulate our audience for personal gain. I was certainly being somewhat satirical, yet the main purpose of the piece was to highlight how easily we can be manipulated and how often we unintentionally wind up promoting the types of people we would rather not see become even more influential than they already are.
In that blog post, I hinted that language, and the way we phrase (or frame) it, can often act as a nudge to produce some desired outcome in others. The use of such techniques are broadly referred to as behavioural economics, yet the history of behavioural economics lies both within behavioural science generally and the art of the confidence trickster in more specific ways.
Behaviour change can occur through many different pathways, from rather simple stimulus-response associations to more sophisticated rewards and punishments. We can make a dog salivate by associating a particular sound with the anticipation of dinner, or teach a pigeon to tap a button with its beak to receive food (be aware, however, that if the pigeon flaps its wings and receives food it will begin to believe that the mere act of wing flapping will somehow magically cause food to appear, a phenomenon generally referred to as pigeon superstition).
Stanley Milgram's notorious obedience to authority studies also highlighted the role of what we call gradual commitment; its difficult to make a person commit an awful act if we just tell them to do it, but if we build up the obedience in incremental stages, there is a greater likelihood that they will eventually do the most dreadful things. Milgram had participants administer electric shocks to another person, but these shocks gradually rose in severity, from a mild discomfort to potentially lethal (don't worry, the shocks weren't actually real). In the real world, it's likely that ordinary German citizens weren't particularly shocked by the prospect of Jews having to wear a yellow star to identify them, but this was just the start of what became one of the most horrendous chapters in human history, and gradual commitment was used to devastating effect.
Thanks to psychology (or perhaps not) we now understand a great deal about human behaviour. This has equipped us with the skills to alter behaviour in more sophisticated ways, resulting in everything from smoking cessation to getting us to buy more stuff (there is a reason why all the fruit and veg are located at the front of the supermarket*). A particularly interesting way is by being very careful with the language we use.
How fast were the cars going when they [blank] each other?
The blank in the question was then replaced with contacted, hit, bumped, collided or crashed.
Those who received the question with the word smashed estimated the speed much higher than those who received the question with the word contacted (see table).
Words, therefore, make a big difference.
Which of the following products would you be most likely to choose?
A) 80% lean ground beef?
B) 20% fat ground beef?
In studies, people are more likely to pick option A in both these scenarios, even though A and B are identical in terms of the information (they're just reversed).
The above questions are either positively framed (95% effective) or negatively framed (5% ineffective), but even though the outcome is the same (both are effective to the same degree) people tend to choose the option that avoids risk. This is why many governments now emphasise employment rates rather than unemployment rates; saying that they have 80% employment is much better than admitting to 20% unemployment.
Program A – 200 people will be saved.
Program B – There is a 1/3 probability that 600 people will be saved and a 2/3 probability that no people will be saved.
72% of participants chose program A.
Program C – 400 people will die.
Program D – There is a 1/3 probability that nobody will die and a 2/3 probability that 600 people will die.
In this group, 78% of participants chose D.
You may have noticed that option A and C are identical, as are options B and D, all that has changed is the way in which the option has been framed. It appears that when the options are framed positively (in terms of lives saved) we make a more careful choice than when there is a greater degree of uncertainly, suggesting that people generally prefer the absolute certainty of a positively framed effect but are willing to take a risk when negatively framed.
Irwin Levin, Sandra Schneider and Gary Gaeth have identified three different types of framing; risky choice framing (as in the disease example described above), attribute framing (for example, 80% lean versus 20% fat) and goal framing. Goal framing concerns both the positive consequences of performing an action and the negative consequences of not performing an action. We might, therefore, offer an incentive for engaging in a behaviour or a penalty for not engaging in it. The key would be to ascertain which frame was most persuasive in promoting the desired behaviour.
Research shows that women who do BSE have an increased chance of finding a tumour in the early, more treatable stages of the disease.
Research shows that women who do not do BSE have a decreased chance of finding a tumour in the early, more treatable stages of the disease.
Note that in goal-framing, the behaviour (BSE, in the example, discussed) is seen as good in both frames, however, one frame (the positive frame) concerns obtaining gains while the other (negative) frame is about avoiding losses. This is different from the outcomes seen in attribute framing.
If the goal is to motivate (as is the case with goal framing), then framing statements to avoid losses should be more successful than framing them to achieve gains. This supports the view that people are driven more by loss aversion than from gains, for example, we experience more hurt at losing £10 than joy at finding £10; we are, therefore, more sensitive to losses than we are to gains.
There is little research into how framing can be used in educational settings, with the majority of studies directed towards improving health outcomes. Behavioural management strategies in schools are still primarily dominated by basic behaviourist techniques. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing interest in socio-cognitive factors that influence behaviour, retaining some of the behaviourist methodologies but combining these with socio-cognitive explanations of human behaviour (those that take into account both what people are thinking and how they are affected by wider social structures). Framing takes into account the cognitive aspects of linguistic processing and how our words shape our behaviour.
Yes, yet most techniques, strategies and interventions require some degree of manipulation. If we wish to raise self-esteem, then we manipulate existing self-beliefs and help individuals to re-frame their self-image. Rewards and sanctions remain the backbone of society (even if they often fail) and these would certainly count as a form of manipulation. Framing might be more subtle and could even seem a little sinister, but used constructively to improve the life outcomes of all students, it can certainly prove to be a useful technique.
* Placing the fruit and veg at the front of the supermarket forces the customer to do the healthy shop first. This then makes us more likely to fill our trollies with junk food because we feel proud of ourselves for shopping healthily.


I apologize for the buzzwordy, markety blog title. But I am confident that the war between cloud databases and relational databases is partially, perhaps primarily, a question of marketing, and a marketing concept is therefore relevant: Disruptive technology.
Disruptive technologies start at the low-end of the market, (like microcomputers, or TCP/IP) and work their way up, disrupting "enterprise" solutions like minicomputers and value-added networks. Just as microcomputers did not completely replace minis and mainframes, I don't expect cloud databases to completely eradicate traditional databases, but I hope to show why they will grow tremendously in the next few years: to the point that it is very unclear exactly what will happen to traditional databases over the long term.
provided as part of a hosting package by large web companies like Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Microsoft and even smaller ones like Joyent and Heroku.
designed so that they scale up automatically as traffic and content grows, rather than requiring new architectural and deployment decisions to be made as traffic grows. The hardware behind a cloud is finite, but consumers should only bump into limitations as they approach the limits of the cloud itself, rather than the limits of a particular box or cluster.
These product are still in their infancy, and I suspect that some of the vendors listed in point 1 do not actually achieve the linear scalability requirement. I haven't tested them all myself.
I know the limitations of databases like App Engine and SimpleDB, which is why Ayogo has not jumped on that bandwagon (yet).
But imagine I was a decade younger and I was making a decision about what system to use for my world-beating new dorm-room headquartered startup.
On my left shoulder is a little relational database angel, on my right shoulder is a little cloud database devil.
Cloud Devil: "Wow….this is getting complicated. Do you really want to choose a minority relational database that for some reason is less popular than MySQL?
I hope you can see how this debate is going to turn out.
You might wonder what the inevitable popularity of cloud databases will have to do you or your business. That's where we need to consider the nature of disruptive technologies: they start with the snotty nosed kids. And some of those kids go on to be Larry or Sergey or Mark Z or Kevin Rose or Jerry Yang, and are therefore influential because of their success.
And what about the rest of those kids? Eventually (a few years from now) the other kids arrive at your department, having failed at their dorm-room startup. But they start asking why you're maintaining your own servers for the customer support site on a managed RDB instead of just deploying it for free into the cloud? After all, not all corporate data is equally secretive.
Then the snotty nosed kid gets the ear of an architect or CIO and asks: "Why don't we run a cloud database cluster within the firewall? Wouldn't that be easier than tweaking each relational database to the requirements of each app?" The next thing you know…the old timers need to defend their decision to use "legacy" technology that does not "scale smoothly" and has been rejected by "thought leaders" like "Google".
I'm not claiming that the old timers will necessarily and consistently lose that debate. Analytics and flexibility are very valuable in the enterprise. But I am saying that by the time you have that debate, you'll probably have about 15 small internal, departmental systems running on cloud databases that you did not authorize rather than on the "blessed" Oracle installations that you're paying through the nose for. At some point, the relational database will need to constantly justify its existence, rather than being the default choice.


A guy walks into a bar wearing a set of jumper leads as a tie.
The bartender says "I'll serve you, but you'd better not start anything!"
A guy walks into a bar with a steering wheel poking out of the front of his pants.
The bartender says "what's up with the steering wheel in your pants? "
The guy says "I dunno, it was there when I woke up and it's been driving me nuts all day! "
A guy runs into a bar in a frantic state.
"Quick, give me a double scotch before the trouble starts!"
He downs it in one swallow.
"Quickly man, two more, hurry up!"
He downs them in two swallows.
"Quick, hit me with another couple before the trouble starts!"
The bartender quickly pours two more and says "what's going on mate, what's this trouble you're talking about? "
"I haven't got any money!"
I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with but I've been trippin' all day.
These two nuts were walking down an alley late last night, one was a salted.
Did you hear about the gynecologist that got arrested while visiting the town he grew up in?
He was trying to look up a few old girlfriends.
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A war horse walks into a bar, the bartender says..
Not a joke, but a REALLY funny Amazon review for "Black Cleaner Beetles"
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Q: Conexión Firebird php7 quiero realizar una conexión a firebird por medio de ibase-connect, según la documentación de php esta presente en php 7, pero de momento solo lo he hecho funcionar en php 5.6, necesito hacerlo funcionar con una versión mas reciente de php.
$conect_db = ibase_connect($host, $username, $password);

donde el host, usuario y contraseña ya lo defino antes, con dicho código solo me dice que la funcion no esta definida, ya he instalado las dll respectivas, modificado el php.ini sin ningún resultado favorable, de antemano gracias por la ayuda.

A: Por si te sirve de orientación, yo utilizo la siguiente sintaxis con php7 y pdo:
$host = "localhost";
$bbdd = "YOUR_DB_PATH";
$charset = "utf8";
$userFR = "YOUR_DB_USER";
$passFR = "YOUR_DB_PASSWORD";

$str_conn="firebird:host=".$host.";dbname=".$bbdd.";charset=".$charset;

$dbh = new PDO($str_conn, $userFR, $passFR);

$res=$dbh->query("YOUR_QUERY");

Además, tienes que tener en cuenta las siguientes configuraciones en xampp/wampp o el gestor que utilices, ya que la mayoría no vienen preparados para firebird:
1 - Habilitar permisos en el php.ini de librerías:
    Apache->Config->php.ini (descomentar: extension=pdo_firebird, revisar el resto de librerias pdo ó firebird)
2 - Copiar librería fbclient.dll:
    Copiar el archivo fbclient.dll en C:/Windows/SysWOW64 y C:/Windows/System32
3 - En windows10 puede dar error de "PHP no se reconoce como comando interno o externo..." en algunos IDEs
    Ir a Equipo->propiedades->Configuración avanzada del sistema->Opciones avanzadas->Variables de entorno ->Variable: Path->Editar->Editar Texto
        Agregar al final de texto lo siguiente: ;C:/xampp/php/
Suerte!!


Dare to sing out, bust out, cry out, and be.
Dare to dream it, believe it, see it, and feel it.
No one can hurt you, fool you, drop you, without your consent.
Dare to dream and stand and cry and shout.
Dare to fight it, try it, fail it, and start over.
I don't normally write poetry, but the words just wanted to come.


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The culmination of the glorious festival of Karthigai Deepam took place on Friday 5th December. On this day the sacred flame or the holy beacon is lit on the summit of Arunachala hill. The prelude to the Lighting of the Great Flame started inside the big temple at 2 o clock in the morning. At this time, a Yagna or sacred fire Homa is kindled in the Mahamantapam while the Abhishekam to Lord Arunachaleswara is performed in the inner sanctum.
After the puja, Arathi is done by the priests by lighting a huge chunk of camphor on a golden plate and waving it around the Lord. The temple bells start clanging and the musicians beat on their drums. Amidst all these sounds, the temple walls resound with loud cries of devotion. The Arathi is brought outside and shown to the five lamps lit on earthen plates for which the Yagna has been going on. This is Bharani Deepam, the prelude to Karthigai Deepam. Its significance is that the universal Lord manifests as the five elements during the day and in the evening He again becomes the One Absolute Being and shines as Tejolinga when the Deepam is lit on the Hill. (Bharani is one of the 27 stellar constellations through which the moon is believed to pass through successively each day and according to the hindu almanac, Bharani precedes Krithika which is the constellation of Karthigai Deepam).
The earthenware lamps of Bharani Deepam are taken in procession around the temple. A fire torch is lit from the fire of these lamps and taken to the Hill top. Here on the summit there is a huge copper cauldron filled with ghee (poured in by devotees) and a wick made from many metres of cotton cloth rubbed with camphor after being steeped in the ghee. Millions of people have already arrived since morning and start walking giripradakshina around the Hill. The roads are packed with an ocean of people still increasing as the day goes by.
Around sunset, at 6 p.m. to be exact, the deity of Lord Ardhanaareeswara is brought out ceremoniously and installed in the DeepaMantapam in the big temple, facing the Hill. After Arathi is shown to the Lord, a thundering blast of fire crackers gives the signal to the men on the summit of the Hill to light the Flame. It is a Full Moon night and as the sun sets in the western sky and the beautiful full moon rises in the east, the flames of the Maha Karthigai Deepam spring forth into the sky on top of Arunachala, creating a wave of ecstatic devotion among the people. A tremendous roar of "Annaamalaiyurukku Haro Haraa" is heard from all directions. The Deepam burns brightly and fills our hearts with the powerful and vibrant presence of the Lord. Everyone stands awe-stricken in front of this splendid sight and thousands fall down on their hands and knees doing Pranaam to the Great Lord. And thus the great festival of Deepam is completed.
However, True Completion happens when it is not only outside with the Lighting of the Flame on the Hill but also inside when the Flame of Jnana is lit correspondingly in the Heart of each being.


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Today's top entrepreneurship and business stories (14 July)
Published by Staff Writer at 14th Jul 2016
Asian woman and chalk money tree drawing on blackboard.
South Africans are starting businesses but closure rates remain high
FNB revealed that there about 75 000 new businesses created each month. "This could be close to one million new businesses each year," said Sanjeev Orie, CEO of FNB Business Value Adds at a media briefing in Rosebank yesterday.
While South Africa is entrepreneurial, up to 40% of new businesses don't make it past the first two years, Orie said.
"The closure rates for businesses are high.
"South Africans are very entrepreneurial, but even though they are entrepreneurial, they are not successful at being entrepreneurs," he explained.
However, this should not be the end for these entrepreneurs, said Orie, who says more entrepreneurs need to heed the message "fail fast, fail often, recover even faster." Orie said entrepreneurs normally succeed after their third or fourth attempt, adding that small businesses are still a hotbed for job creation.
To overcome the challenges Orie said there was a need for advisory and administration services.
De Beers launches diamond beneficiation mentorship
South African diamond cutting businesses, particularly for BEE entrants to the sector, face competitive challenges both locally and internationally. Therefore De Beers, the government and the South African diamond cutting industry have launched an enterprise development project for diamond beneficiators, which will work with selected black South African-owned diamond cutting businesses.
The programme has both a transformation aspect and a growth of the sector objective.
It includes: interventions to improve industry and business knowledge; fostering opportunities to gain experience in rough diamond purchasing; manufacturing (cutting diamonds); and marketing and distributing finished product into the polished diamond market.
Barend Petersen, chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM), says: "For beneficiation to succeed here there is a need to involve multiple stakeholders who will bring innovative thinking, skills and resources to ensure that South Africa remains a competitive player in the global diamond industry." (Bizcommunity)
May retail sales – consumers are changing the composition of their spend
May retail trade sales registered growth of 4.5% year on year, well ahead of FNB's and market expectations.
FNB reports that on a month-on-month basis, sales accelerated 3.4% from a -1.5% contraction in April. Year-to-date, sales are up 3.3% on last year.
The growth was driven by a 4.5% year on year increase in general dealer sales which accounted for 1.8% of the improvement. This was contrasted by a -4.7% and -8.7% year on year contraction in food and beverage and furniture sales respectively, which shaved a collective -0.8% off the total number.
"Pharmaceutical sales improved 5.2%, clothing by 6% and hardware by 7.5%. Our take on this is that consumers are changing the composition of their spend, redirecting cash that would, in better times, have gone to paying off a new car or other durable purchases. The poor performance in vehicle sales and furniture, which contrasts with the strong growth in general dealer sales give credence to this, but also suggest that retail margins are coming under pressure as retailers are forced to offer discounts in order to maintain revenue momentum," reports FNB.
With inflation threats abating somewhat, and in the context of weak domestic growth, FNB expect that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will leave rates unchanged at its next Monetary Policy Meeting (MPC), which will provide some much needed relief for consumers. Moreover, much of the impact of previous rate hikes are yet to be fully felt by consumers. We remain of the view that household consumption expenditure will expand at just 0.2% this year after a large -1.3% contraction in the first quarter of 2016.


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You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you're lucky one post a month. Sorry about that.
I can't really put my finger on why my blogging output has decreased.
I still like writing, I mayn't be any good at it, but I do enjoy the process. Writing in this type of format is liberating and can be very creative. Very different from corporate report speak of business .
Yes it does sometimes get busy, especially on the home (non business) front. Still even business wise I have crazy periods and slow ones. Sometimes for the first time in ages it's been at a complete dead stop. So I don't think it's an overload of work. I always seem to have the capacity for more.
The lack of time to stop reflect, to have that down time or moments between, may be a contributing factor. Often during these times I will mentally formulate and draft design ideas and posts. So this reduction of this time would be a factor.
The other day I worked out how much time I dedicate to general volunteer work. From organisating two meetups, mentoring people, the occasional presentation and organising the Australian Web Awards. This does take up a lot of time. Often leaving me will little personal time. It's this personal time I used for blogging.
Well not really. I have at least three to four ideas for posts every day, most I forget to document, especially when I haven't had the time to act on them.
Well my twitter and other social media output has dropped as well. So that's not it.
So it comes down to time and lack of it – doesn't it always. Seems I'm filling my life too much with volunteer work for others and not enough for me.
Now to do something about that.


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An Indonesian technology startup is doing its best to establish its reputation as a provider of high-end simulators for Southeast Asian militaries. During the recent IndoDefence 2018 arms show in Jakarta IndoCertes displayed its simulator for the M113 APC. This is barely two months after IndoCertes were in Manila for ADAS 2018 hoping to raise the company's profile. Aside from the M113 APC, considered by some as one of the most prolific armored vehicles ever made, IndoCertes can assemble an immersive training solution for the M109 self-propelled howitzer.
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Outside Indonesia, the M113 APC is still the most widely used tracked armored vehicle among ASEAN militaries and hundreds remain in service throughout the region. The Battle of Marawi in 2017 is the most recent conflict where M113's performed an essential role as a combat vehicle and protected transport. M113's are renowned for their ease-of-use and reliability no matter the terrain they're driven on. These traits were apparent as early as the Vietnam War (1965-1973) when thousands of M113's gave US and South Vietnamese soldiers a dependable troop carrier that can be armed to the teeth.
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Larry King to Help Israeli High-Tech
American television legend joins the Technion in Haifa to establish the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce.
Elad Benari
Technion Hi-tech Startups Larry King Silicon Valley
Hi tech exhibit Israel news photo: Flash 90
American television legend Larry King is joining up with the Technion in Haifa to establish the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce.
The Globes financial newspaper reported that the initiative will foster Israeli high tech, by strengthening ties between the two locations and to channel budgets from multinationals for the opening of R&D centers in Israel.
King, the former CNN host who currently hosts a successful show over the internet, and Technion president Prof. Peretz Lavie will serve as the presidents of the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce, the report said. Its chairman will be Niv Jacobi, who manages much of King's businesses.
King will be involved in financing the project through a NIS 2 million investment via a holding company, and in opening doors in Silicon Valley, reported Globes. The project will try to help start-ups from the concept stage through funding and the opening of suitable doors for sales.
The new chambers of commerce will be launched on February 26 in Tel Aviv, followed by a launch at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Speaking to Channel 10 News on Sunday about the project, King said, "I've always felt a close, emotional tie to the State of Israel. I've been there in the 1990s and I hope to go there again this year. I remember, when I was a little kid, putting dimes into a little box to support the hopefully, some day, State of Israel."
King noted that he has interviewed every Israeli Prime Minister "except for Ben Gurion", adding that Israel and the Silicon Valley are "the two greatest technical powers in the world" and that bringing them together is only natural.
"I think it's a wonderful idea and anything I can do to help, I'm here," he said.
"I think Israel is one of the high-tech leaders in the world," added King. "Silicon Valley is where it all began and I think this idea of merging together in a chamber of commerce is a great idea. I think it can work. So any small help we can be, anything I can do to help promote Israel and Israel's advance in the technical area."
Success, said King, would be defined in more growth and in getting American and Israeli companies to exchange ideas. "As the Silicon Valley invests in Israel, Israel benefits and so does Silicon Valley. It's a mutually beneficial thing," he said.
Just last month it was reported that Israeli high-tech startups have sparked a flurry of mergers, acquisitions and investment bids unseen since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000.
In the third quarter of 2013, Israeli new ventures raked in $660 million, up from $488 million the year before, according to IVC Research Center.
From 2003 to 2011, nine Israeli startups were bought, whereas six have been sold already this year, the most recent sale being that of 3D motion-sensor developer PrimeSense to Apple for roughly $350 million.
Other recent acquisitions include Facebook's $150 purchase of Onavo, IBM's purchase of security software provider Trusteer for $1 billion in September, and Google's purchase of map application Waze by Google for $1.3 billion.
Companies such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo have established offices around the Technion, recruiting students and turning the area into a "second silicon valley."


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The IRCM and COVID-19: The Challenge of security
"Thanks to everyone's sustained efforts, it was possible to get through this first year of a global pandemic relatively unscathed." Michel Charest
Michel Charest is Head of Security at the IRCM. From the earliest days of the pandemic, he and his team made sure that the IRCM's premises were safe in order to allow the research work to continue; A huge responsibility that they took on with rigour, tenacity, and perseverance.
Michel, thanks to the incredible work of your team, research was able to continue at the Institute. What did this entail?
From the onset of the pandemic, I knew that our department would have an important role to play in keeping our community safe. So, we had to quickly channel our concerns into actions. Our first big task was to implement the measures and instructions in record time to allow operations to be maintained without compromising the safety and health of the staff.
This involved a lot of complex logistics. We acquired astronomical quantities of sanitizer and masks, and we put up signs to remind everyone of the instructions to follow. At the same time, our maintenance staff conducted daily rounds of surface disinfection, and we established circulation corridors to minimize contact. Today, we can be proud of what we achieved!
What was your biggest concern?
My biggest concern was to not doing enough to prevent the virus from spreading throughout the Institute. We knew that, next to nursing homes and retirement homes, workplaces were the source of many outbreaks.
How did the community react to these instructions?
The community was very accepting of our measures. We received many words of encouragement. It helped us get through the most difficult months.
What will you remember about this first year of the pandemic?
It's a year we don't want to relive, and we hope we won't have to deal with another pandemic anytime soon. However, what I'll remember most is the fact that, thanks to everyone's sustained efforts, it was possible to get through this first year of a global pandemic relatively unscathed. Of course, we had to reinvent ourselves to change our work methods and routines, but it was all done in harmony and with the understanding that we were in an extraordinary situation.


If we are fortunate enough to reach our original target, we would love, love, love to be able to push to £12,000. This additional finance will mean that we can take the film to a professional post-production facility in Soho, London, where we can work with talented and established industry professionals who can work their magic on the picture colour grade and sound mix. This final element of the film's production will allow for the finishing touches that will really make the film a cinematic feast for the eyes and ears.
After that phase, it will be time for the film to fly the nest and make its way to film festivals around the world. We want to push the film to big, audience and industry heavy film festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, Venice Biennale, Berlinale, Tribeca and Tampere, giving the film and John & Tom Turrell international exposure, elevating them and pushing them forwards onto the next stage of their careers - feature film production.
A macabre and blackly comic revenge drama that takes sibling loyalty to the hidden dark corners of leafy suburbia.
Poison Tree is the next in an eclectic catalogue of beautiful, macabre and darkly comic short films from Nottingham's very own twin-talents, John and Tom Turrell. Inspired by a mixture of William Blake and the overwhelming feeling of unrest that can come over oneself when you think, "Oh my God - I could literally do anything right now and no one would be able to stop me", comes Poison Tree.
It is the story of Shirley, a young woman out to avenge her sister's untimely death by gatecrashing the birthday party of an old school friend, the sort of birthday party that only leafy middle class England could make so excruciatingly prim and proper.
And you're right, they can't. That's why they're working with Anna Griffin and Rachel Dargavel, the women behind Nottingham production company, Crybaby and will be mentored by Simon Ellis, famed as one of, if not the best, short filmmakers in the land.
Anna found her feet in research and development working with Great Dane, Nicolas Winding Refn, on Bronson, Valhalla Rises and Only God Forgives. As well as working with Crybaby, Anna works with BAFTA nominated production company, Wellington Films, where she is developing her debut feature film, and is also in the final stages of her feature documentary project, Paa Joe & The Lion, with award winning filmmaker Ben Wigley and his company Artdocs. In 2013, Rachel (who got Anna her first film job) decided that they should be making films together. Poison Tree will be the women's first project under the small but perfectly formed production studio, Crybaby.
Rachel has recently seen her debut feature film, Norfolk, premiere at the prestigious Rotterdam International Film Festival and it is due to hit cinema screens very soon. Rachel is an experienced Line Producer and Producer whose credits include Song For Marion, Weekend and most recently, 45 Years. She has great taste and even better dance moves.
Simon's short films have received many international festival awards and have been presented collectively in retrospective programmes at over a dozen film festivals worldwide. His BAFTA nominated and European Academy Award winning short film, Soft, won 38 prizes including the International Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Short Film at the BIFAs. He is the only director to feature twice in the prestigious Cinema 16 DVD series amongst heavyweights Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton and Mike Leigh. We couldn't hope for a better mentor for the project. Plus, Simon is also from Notts, d'ya get meh?
We are thrilled to be able to say that Poison Tree is supported by Creative England through their iShorts scheme and with this initiative comes a framework of industry support, which is kind-of invaluable. Poison Tree is an ambitious and thought-provoking drama that straddles the ordinary and the bizarre. In order for the film to be achieved to the level that the script deserves, the filmmakers need a crew of professional individuals and creative personnel around them, some fantastic locations, some heart-stopping performances from their lead cast, and, of course, nutritious food to keep everyone healthy and full of energy.
Tom Turrell is a super talented pianist and composer whose work you can hear here. Music is the expression of emotion and Poison Tree is laced with emotive tension between its characters. With this film, Tom & John would love the opportunity to work collaboratively with an established composer and musician who can help to create the world that our characters walk through, building an immersive soundscape that our audience, as with our characters, can't escape from.
As an emotionally complex piece, Poison Tree demands great performances. We will spend time auditioning and rehearsing to find our lead cast who will take us through Shirley's extraordinary world. We are very excited to be able to say that we are working with one of the industry's finest casting houses, Shaheen Baig Casting, to help us in our quest to find and attach talent of the highest calibre.
As a regional based filmmaking team, we know only too well how expensive it can be to film in the regions. This isn't because things are more expensive outside of London (of course not!) but because since the demise of the UK Film Council and its surrounding regional screen agencies, many crew members have been forced to relocate to the country's capital in order to remain in constant work. This means that traveling crew and ensuring they have a home-from-home becomes a very important line in any regional production's budget.
Poison Tree will be cinematic and bold and take the audience to a lustrous, eerie and textured world. To do this, we need some great camera and lighting equipment for our Director of Photography to get their hands on. We will aim high with our camera specs and are looking to join forces with Arri and utilise their fantastic Alexa camera. Click here to see just a few of the beautiful and visually absorbing feature films that have been shot on this camera in recent years. This will also prove to be a vital technical step forward for John and Tom as filmmakers.
Poison Tree has two "hero" locations - Shirley's house, where she lives with her griefstricken and silent father, and the birthday party house - the planned location for Shirley's revenge. These environments will be distinctly different from one another, both in terms of physicality and feel. We want to find real, lived-in and breathed-in homes to film in. Allowing a film crew into your home is a bold and brave move, and so we want to be in a position to pay home owners for allowing us to take over their environments and for their property to be seen on screen.
Along with the right location and the right camera and lighting equipment, Shirley's mysterious world and that of those around her needs to be designed and meticulously created. Props and set dressing need to be researched, sought, bought or made. We want to create a world that an audience hasn't seen before, but a world that at the same time seems weirdly familiar.
The way to a crew's heart really is through the catering and we want to work with Nottingham based food alchemist, Dena Smiles of D's Pop Up Kitchen fame. Dena's "eat yourself fit" cooking style produces delicious, low cost and easy to prepare sweet and savoury dishes free from sugar and low in gluten. Dena is a founder of Notts Nosh Artisan Producers and is a regular on the Nottingham creative-foody scene. Yummo!
We've got a stack of rewards, ranging from the bespoke to the bizarre, including an exclusive download of the film once it's complete, an exclusive take on William Blake's original A Poison Tree poem by wonderful illustrator Laura Gee, button badges, t-shirts and tote bags designed by John & Tom themselves, an exclusive Poison Tree poster design from the utterly brilliant Michael Cowell and complete one-off Poison Tree inspired pendants designed by Bolivian jewellery maker, Lorena Herrera. If you'd like all of them plus the chance to get your name on IMDb as an Associate or Executive Producer, then nab the top-spots before someone else does. And, if you're a business keen to see filmmakers being bold and taking risks with their art, then sponsorship deals are available too - get your logo included in the closing credits of the film and seen by audiences at film festivals around the world.
We can add rewards as the campaign progresses so if there's anything you think you'd like in return, get in touch and we'll see if we can make it work!
Thank you for reading, please SPREAD THE WORD and tell all your friends and family about Poison Tree!!! Follow #poisontree on Twitter for latest updates and if you'd like to get in touch directly then please email anna@crybabystudio.co.uk.
THE SEEDLING 2 rather smart Poison Tree button badges designed by John & Tom themselves.
BLACKTHORN A private download link to the finished film, plus 2 of John & Tom's unseen films, and the 2 button badges designed by the brothers.
ASH TREE A postcard from Shirley, sent from suburbia, designed by John Turrell, a digital download of the completed film, plus those rather smart button badges.
WILD CHERRY An invite to the Nottingham's cast & crew premiere at Broadway Cinema & pre-screening drinks with the filmmaking team, plus a digital download of the completed film and button badges.
GOAT WILLOW Gorgeous, hand-crafted solid wood Poison Tree coaster made by the John & Tom's Dad's own fair hands in his shed in the garden. Complete one of a kind reward!
STRAWBERRY TREE An exclusive Poison Tree tote-bag designed by the brothers: black on white or white on black, you choose! Plus a digital download of the final film and button badges.
HAZEL TREE An exclusive Poison Tree t-shirt, designed by the brothers: black on white or white on black, you choose! Plus a digital download of final film and button badges.
HORNBEAM TREE We are thrilled to be collaborating with one of our favourite artists, Michael Cowell (http://michaelcowell.bigcartel.com). Get your hands on a totally exclusive Poison Tree A3 artwork - you can't get this anywhere else! Plus a digital download of the final film.
WILLOW TREE A one off, beautifully designed and handmade pendant exclusive to Poison Tree by Bolivian jewellery maker Lorena Herrera, plus a digital download of the final film and a bundle of button badges.
FIG TREE The Poison Tree bundle - choose 3 items (t-shirt / tote / poster / illustration) plus hand-made wooden coasters by Adrian Turrell plus those rather smart button badges and download to the final film.
SILVER BIRCH Become our Associate Angel with an official listing on IMDb! Plus a tote or t-shirt, a button badge, invite to the Nottingham premiere & digital download to the final film.


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confirmed for me that it has everything to do with the structure of FB. Thanks for your well stated and informative post.
Jeff – Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the post and thanks for taking the time to comment.
I'm a little late on this but you can reply to just one person in a group, if by group you mean there is a list of recipients…you just click on the one person's name (I think but I know I have done it, just not memorized, Lol) and the email begins a new thread.
The email used to have a forward feature but then got rid of it in some revision of the email system.
I agree with your comments but the one, as I understand it, is a little off but I might be thinking of a different kind of group.
I don't like the annoying try and try again interface that I have to hunt through.
I too, wish there was a search for old posted 'updates'!!
I also can't stand that some (newspapers, blogs etc.) sites have gone to just facebook comments so the comments have become banal!


At the invitation of President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Imran Khan, paid an official visit to Republic of Turkey on 3-4 January 2019.
PM Imran Khan was accompanied by a high-level delegation on the occasion.
President Erdogan and PM Khan held a tete-a-tete meeting followed by delegation level talks on 4 January 2019.
Reiterated their determination to continue taking steps in all areas of mutual interest for mutual peace and prosperity, especially by transforming the historic Turkey-Pakistan relationship into an increasingly stronger trade, investment and economic relationship for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries; and agreed to convene the 6th Session of the Turkey-Pakistan High Level Strategic Cooperation Council in Pakistan at mutually convenient dates for further discussion on these areas.


2007-09-15T21:02:30-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/78e/200888-m.jpgRaymond Ibrahim was interviewed about the book he edited and translated, The Al Qaeda Reader, published by Broadway. He translated key al Qaeda documents, some previously unavailable in English, that provide a window into the thinking of radical Islam's leadership. The book contains both theology and propaganda, focusing on the writings of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden. The guest interviewer was Lawrence Wright, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction for his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, published by Knopf.
Raymond Ibrahim is an historian of the Middle East and Islam. He works in the Near East section of the African and Middle Eastern division of the Library of Congress, where he discovered many of the never-before-translated Arabic texts that make up the bulk of The Al-Qaeda Reader.
Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed about the book he edited and translated, The Al Qaeda Reader, published by Broadway. He translated key al Qaeda documents, some previously unavailable in English, that provide a window into the thinking of radical Islam's leadership. The book contains both theology and propaganda, focusing on the writings of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden. The guest interviewer was Lawrence Wright, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction for his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, published by Knopf.


Members of a Surrey Neighbourhood Watch Group think they maybe ought to do something after that nosy woman who's always snooping on everyone from behind her net curtains hasn't been seen for a few days now.
At last night's meeting it was agreed group chairman, Mark Lansing, could perhaps just knock on her door. If there's no answer he may have quick 'shufty' through the letterbox, but if not met with an overpowering stench assailing his very senses, he will likely let things go for another few days and then maybe try again… well possibly.
'Naturally I hope she hasn't fallen over, hit her head on a coffee table and is now currently lying unconscious on the floor with the last of her life slowly ebbing away,' adds Mark thoughtfully.


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Facebook launches Messenger for Android beta, adds selective photo sharing to iPhone app
By Daniel Bader
Facebook launched a couple of important updates this week as part of its push to keep innovating on mobile.
The company launched a new beta program for its Android Messenger app, promising multiple updates per week as a way to test new features. The company requires users to join a Google Group and opt in to the beta program, then uninstall the current version of Messenger and re-install it to get the new code. At this point, nothing significant has changed, but down the road it will be interesting to see what Facebook has in store for its Messenger service now that it also owns WhatsApp. The company says that over one million testers signed up for the Facebook for Android beta, and this is a logical extension of that program. (See below for instructions on how to join.)
On the iOS side, Facebook updated its client to version 8.0, adding a new iPad interface that is cleaner and more aligned with its desktop counterpart. But the main feature addition on smartphones is the ability to share a photo with just one, or a specific set of people, something that Snapchat, Google+ and others have popularized in recent months.
How to join the Facebook Messenger for Android beta
1) Join the Facebook Messenger for Android Beta Testers Google group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/messenger-for-android-beta-testers
2) Allow beta downloads by clicking "Become a Tester" in the Play Store (you need to join the Google Group before becoming a tester)
3) Download Facebook Messenger from the Play Store to update your app
4) Turn on automatic updates, as the beta version of Facebook Messenger for Android will be updated multiple times per week
Source: Facebook, App Store
Facebook Messenger to go private with end-to-end encryption
Facebook Messenger's redesign is finally here and people don't like it


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'Doctor Strange' Review
Director: Scott Derrickson
Writers: Scott Derrickson, Jon Spaihts, and C. Robert Cargill
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Scott Adkins, Benjamin Bratt, and Tilda Swinton
Synopsis: A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
*Reviewer Note: This will be a spoiler free review.*
*Reviewer Note 2: There are two post-credit scenes.*
*Reviewer Note 3: I do think the best experience of watching the film is in 3D. I know the extra ticket price and 3D in general might be a pain, but I think it's worth it to gain the full experience.*
It feels like the last three years, Marvel has released films that everyone has either doubts about or feels like Marvel is taking too big of a risk. First it was Guardians of the Galaxy, then Ant-Man, and this year is Doctor Strange. And of course, every year those doubts are proven wrong. Not only is Doctor Strange another great addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it truly is unlike anything Marvel has ever done onscreen.
The film follows Doctor Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch), highly popular but arrogant surgeon whose life gets turned upside when he's in a sudden car accident that severely injuries his hands. When he runs out of options to gets his hands better, he heads to Nepal to search for someone that could potentially cure him. That person is The Ancient One (Swinton), who then reveals to Strange that her way is through the mystic arts. While Strange is learning things he never thought were possible, an old student of The Anicent One, Kaecilius (Mikkelsen) is trying to open a portal to The Dark Dimension and summon a dangerous entity in Dormammu.
Like the previous films I've mentioned, Doctor Strange was a risk for Marvel since not many causal movie fans will know who Doctor Strange is, but more importantly, the film is adding something and putting front and center in the MCU: magic. The interdimensional aspect of the film only works because of director Scott Derrickson. He was able to bring some really great and awesome looking visual effects that I've rarely ever seen on film. It also helps that Derrickson has worked in horror, because you can see that in some of the shots, especially when the Dark Dimension comes into play. You will definitely walk away talking about the visuals of Doctor Strange. Also, for a film that delves into magic quite a bit, I was surprised how much hand-to-hand combat there was in the film. Not complaining, just an observation.
When it comes to the film itself, Doctor Strange does feel familiar in terms of what we've seen before from Marvel in the way of an origin story. We see the arrogant and egotistical character on the top of his game when suddenly something tragic happens and he's having a self-made crisis until he has to rise to the occasion and prove himself. Of course, it's always nice to see those stories play out, and Doctor Strange does enough to make that formula work for it, instead of against it.
Benedict Cumberbatch is pretty much perfect as Doctor Stephen Strange. He finds the right balance of arrogance and likeability to keep us invested in his story until the very end. However, one of the big highlights – cast wise – is Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One. "White-washing" controversy aside, which never made sense to me because it's Tilda Swinton, she almost steals the show every time she's onscreen. She also has her own balance of being a mentor, but someone who must keep her distance from people because of the responsibly of being the Sorcerer Supreme.
Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mordo has his own history before the film that is hinted at, but is a by-the-books kind of warrior that teaches Strange along the way. Benedict Wong's Wong is another highlight of the film, although I wish we had a little more with him. When it comes to Mads Mikkelsen's villain Kaecilius, I'm sure many will see him as another underdeveloped villain that doesn't fix Marvel's villain problem. I wouldn't be doing a good job of a reviewer if I didn't agree with that to some extent.
Kaecilius doesn't see himself as a villain and that usually makes the best kind of villains. Everything he does he thinks is for a grander purpose and makes a sound enough reason for his actions when he goes face-to-face with Strange, something even he points out that sounds good in theory, but in action not so much. However, the thing that keeps us invest in Kaecilius' story – even for a moment – is Mikkelsen, who is always great in everything he does, and the same can be said here. But, it would have been nice to spend more time with him, and even see just a bit on how he became the way he becomes onscreen instead of just being told.
One of the biggest cast missteps is Rachel McAdams' Christine Palmer. There's no denying McAdams is a great actress, and anytime she's in something you know she's going to give one hundred percent. However, here, she entirely wasted. Palmer doesn't add much to the story. She does have one key moment before the final act of the film, but that is about it. Although, many probably won't know him too much, Michael Stuhlbarg pops in the film as Dr. Nicohemus West, a character from the comics, and somewhat rival to Strange, but it's nothing more than a lesser supporting role.
All in all, Doctor Strange is truly unlike anything Marvel has ever done before in terms of visuals and the "out there-ness" of it all. While the film does have some familiar beat-for-beat origin story Marvel moments, and loses just a bit of steam in the final act, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton keeps us invest from start to finish.
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'Hail, Caesar!' Review
Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill
Synopsis: A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
The Coen Brothers are known for making films they want to do, and don't try to make franchise films that the studios today try to make. They also have their own unique style and vision that makes their films standout in their own way. Hail, Caesar! is no different. Their new film acts as a love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood at times, but swings back and forth between that said love letter and showing us the craziness that existed in the time (and probably now too), and the overall absurdity of it all.
Set during the 1950s, Capitol Pictures (a fictional studio) is set to release their biggest picture to date titled Hail, Caesar! with the biggest star in Hollywood in Baird Whitlock (Clooney). However, during the last days of filming, Whitlock gets kidnapped by a group calling themselves "The Future" and it's up to the studio's fixer in Eddie Mannix (Brolin) to find him and make all this go away. Of course, Mannix is dealing with everything else like covering up the pregnancy of DeeAnna Moran (Johansson), moving his cowboy star Hobie Doyle (Ehrenreich) to a full fledge prestige drama with big time director Laurence Laurentz (Fiennes), dealing with twin sister columnists Thora and Thessaly Thacker (Swinton) and his own personal problems. During all this, Whitlock gets to known his captors in a different light.
Hail, Caesar! like a lot of other Coen Brothers films is going to be a film you either like, or don't, and while the statement can be said about any film it is no more truer than with this film. The trailers for Hail, Caesar! tell a bit of a different story than we see in the actual film, and that isn't really that bad of a thing. The film is pretty straight forward once things are put into perspective. That's not to say things get a little weird and are ridiculous at times, but Hail, Caesar! is great at showing us how every relationship is very topsy-turvy.
At the same time, Hail, Caesar! doesn't have a problem branching off and leaving the Whitlock story. We follow Hobie and his transition from doing cowboy films to doing his first drama, a water dance sequence by Johansson's Moran, and even a standout dance sequence that involves Channing Tatum's Burt Gurney. The scenes have nothing to do with Whitlock, but they show the absurdity that Mannix and Capitol Pictures deal with on a regular basis. The scenes are great, but again, have nothing to do with the main conflict of the story which is Whitlock's kidnapping.
I don't want to give away too much, but the film also has some religious overtones, the film Hail, Caesar! is a religious picture as well as it tells the story of a Roman tribune that eventually meets Jesus, and Mannix is a religious man himself as the film beginning of the film sees him in a confessional. Of course, it doesn't really help as his character is flawed and does something immediately after that well defeat the purpose for some, but it was a different time back then.
So even if Hail, Caesar! isn't your cup of tea, you have to admit the performances are worthwhile. The film belongs to Josh Brolin, who we see running around the lot to control everything in the studio. George Clooney's Baird Whitlock isn't a typical big star that is hard to work with, he's just an actor who happens to be good at what he does and gets kidnapped, and has a bit of a womanizer side. Alden Ehrenreich's Hobie is definitely a highlight of the film as he's just nice guy that is a bit naïve and goofy, who perfectly fits into a Coen Brothers film.
The supporting cast has surprisingly small and few scenes, with the only real connection being Mannix. Scarlet Johansson puts on a thick accent and fits into the Golden Age with her looks and wardrobe. Tilda Swinton chews up the scenery with her duel role as twin rivals, and Frances McDormand – who only has one scene – is another one of the highlights and one of the funniest scenes of the film. Jonah Hill also only has one scene in the movie, which in entirety is an okay scene. Finally, Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz is great to watch and arguably has one of the best scenes in the film with Ehrenreich.
All in all, Hail, Caesar! can be a bit all over the place, but that is exactly what the Coen Brothers were probably trying to do. Their film isn't afraid to pull any punches against their peers or what Hollywood was back in the day. The film won't be for everyone, but Hail, Caesar! definitely has something for everyone.
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Are pain relievers doing more harm than good?
Consumers should know more about common pain relievers.
There have been 70 million prescriptions and 30 billion over-the-counter sales for common pain relievers like ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and acetaminophen (Excedrin).
According to the American Heart Association, some 785,000 Americans suffer heart attacks every year while another 470,000 who have already suffered one or more heart attacks. The AHA also revealed that in 2010, heart disease cost the United States $ 316.4 billion. This total includes the cost of healthcare services, medications, and lost productivity.
The AIM study found that heart failure patients who used NSAIDs may be at risk for side effects and other dangers.
A recent National Institutes of Health study revealed that the number of men seeking information on alternatives to traditional pharmaceuticals and treatments rose by 18 percent between 2002 and 2007. This trend indicates Americans are getting smarter about taking responsibility for their personal health.
The truth is there are dozens of natural substitutes for NSAIDs, and many of these remedies lack the potentially harmful side effects and risks associated with NSAIDs.


Last week I gave a short talk at BelfastJS outlining WebSockets: what they are, how you use them, examples, warnings and alternatives. That should cover the basics I think.
A few months ago I spoke at BelfastRuby and it was good again to be sharing some knowledge with a bunch of people enthusiastic about technology and the local community. Hopefully we can keep things going and help make Belfast a supportive environment for those involved in the knowledge economy.
The slides are online along with the code for the demo app.
Great post mate! That should help demystify things a little bit. Look like the support still isn't quite there yet. But at least people seem to be headed in the same direction. Nice to know there's alternatives there in the meantime.


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Q: Comparing the dates logic in Linq I want to query the result
public resultType GetData(int ClientID, DateTime CreatedDate)
{
    var Row = DB.tblPlans
                .Where(m => m.fkClient_Id == ClientID && m.PlanDate <= CreatedDate)
                .OrderByDescending(m => m.Id)
                .FirstOrDefault();
}

But the results are not coming as required because the "m.PlanDate" in the query is comparing the time also.
so The parameter "CreatedDate"  in the above function will always get  "12:00:00 AM" attached to it suppose  "2/17/2014 12:00:00 AM"
because it is a datepicker control and I am converting it into datetime but the value of created date with which I have to compare it is having original timing suppose "2/17/2014 11:58:35 AM"
and that is why I am not getting the desired result.
I think the result will be fine if time portions get removed.
I have  searched the above problem and it have many solutions like::
using AddDays(1); but I am not sure about it's working.
also I tried::
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/499987/LINQ-query-to-compare-only-date-part-of-DateTime
Please suggest me a better way to do this as this is not the first time I am getting this problem.

A: If you are using Linq to SQL (as you specified in question tag), then simply get Date part of DateTime:
var Row = DB.tblPlans
            .Where(m => m.fkClient_Id == ClientID && m.PlanDate.Date <= CreatedDate)
            .OrderByDescending(m => m.Id)
            .FirstOrDefault();

With Entity Framework you should use EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(m.PlanDate)

A: Have you tried this:
public resultType GetData(int ClientID, DateTime CreatedDate)
{
    var Row = DB.tblPlans
                .Where(m => m.fkClient_Id == ClientID && m.PlanDate.Date <= CreatedDate)
                .OrderByDescending(m => m.Id)
                .FirstOrDefault();
}

A: The recommended way to compare dates in linq queries if you are using EntityFramework 6 is DbFunctions.TruncateTime(m.PlanDate) and for previous versions EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(m.PlanDate)


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Your Honor, League of Legends (part 1)
Okay but why though Look, League of Legends is huge. It's the game that popularized the model of spending millions of dollars to run an international tournament so that a bunch of impressionable young nerds will spend hundreds on commemorative hero skins and dream of Hitting It Big. League has, rather infamously, 200 years of collective game design experience behind it. It is a household name, either because you play it or because you avoid it like the plague.
Hellwave Roadkill Devlog 2
Progress: Slow and Steady Right now I'm working part-time at Amazon–yes, that Amazon. Luckily, I work in an airport warehouse, and it's slightly less hellish here than it is in the dreaded Fulfillment Centers, which are exactly as dreary and dystopian as you'd expect. Unluckily, it's still modern capitalism, which means it's still fucked. The good news is, I'm making steady progress, despite the time I'm having to spend away from development.
There are two ways to deal with feedback, and they are both wrong. Broadly speaking, you probably fall into one of two groups. The first group is people who believe that the Customer Is Always Right. Sometimes it's because you haven't run into a particularly bad customer yet; sometimes it's because you've seen all too many games fail because they did something utterly mind-bogglingly stupid; but you firmly believe that players will never lead you astray, because who better to tell you if something is fun than the people playing the game?
Hellwave Roadkill Dev Log 1
I'm working on a game, in case you didn't know. This might not be as surprising as you'd think, depending on how well you know me. I'm basically always working on something. That said, a little while ago THIS happened: Combination https://t.co/21MhdYvSkx — El Oshcuro (@DaveOshry) June 20, 2021 In case you didn't know, that's the guy who runs New Blood Interactive, which is one of the few publishers I genuinely would love to work with.
My Love-Hate Relationship With Minecraft, Part 1
Minecraft is kind of a big deal. It's one of the most popular and most profitable games of the 2010s. It lost the status of Most Popular Ever to Fortnite, but it's still going strong, with a rabidly loyal fanbase and new content constantly on the way. Its simple premise of a world that can be built and broken on a whim drove it to the height of pop-culture awareness early on, and pretty soon it started getting things like monsters, survival mechanics, dungeons, villages, more monsters, more ways to fight those monsters, new dungeons, new treasures, new bossfights…
I'M RELOADING
Why, exactly, should this gun reload? I want to start by saying that, even though I fucking love boomershooters, this isn't coming from a "Doom didn't have reloading so neither will I!" point of view. This is not about cargo cultism. This is not about elitism. This isn't about whether or not games have gotten worse over the past 20 years (maybe) or why they've gotten worse (it's not any one thing).
Small Games
STOP MAKING SUCH HUGE GAMES. HOLY SHIT. A little while ago, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart launched. The folks announcing it were proud to say that they got it done without crunch. They rolled the game out the door (to the tune of 70 dollars) without a single case of pushing their workers too hard to make up for a bad schedule. And then people started complaining that tiny details were missing.
What Does Delta TTK Mean?
Time To Kill is a measurement of how long it takes for a player to defeat another player in a PVP game. It's mostly used in the first person shooter sphere, especially in games with many players running around the same map. Games with high TTK, like Halo, can feel forgiving–or they can feel like they're being played in slow-motion. Games with low TTK, like Counter-Strike, can be exciting and fast-paced–or they can feel exceptionally difficult, like playing chess against a grandmaster.
Different Kinds of Fun
Fun. It exists. Supposedly. People argue quite a lot about what it is. What counts as fun? What makes one game more fun than the other? Is any game 'fun', or is that just a thing people say when they can't come up with a reason the game is good? I propose that the question we're asking is inherently wrong. Fun is not a scalar value. It's not a binary, fun or not-fun.


Electrical maintenance and modernisation is crucial in your home for safety, cost reduction and energy efficiency. How do you separate the necessary domestic electrical work from the rest? Below you'll find Jolt Electrical's most common jobs and their pros and cons to help you decide what's best for your home.
Every house needs safe and efficient wiring. The only problem is, this can be an expensive job. If you're building a new home, it's crucial to hire an experienced electrician to get the wiring right the first time. If you live in an older home, it's even more important to stay on top of the maintenance of your wiring to minimise risk and any wastage of electricity. The team at Jolt Electrical have three decades worth of wiring and rewiring experience. With our great prices, you can avoid the cons and enjoy the peace of mind of having a fully updated, safe and efficient wiring system in your home.
The importance of safety switches cannot be underestimated, especially in homes with kids running around. Switches provide a high level of protection against electric shocks by quickly shutting off the power when a fault is detected. Unfortunately, many older homes don't have safely operating safety switches installed. Call your local electrician to ensure the safety of your household today.
Security systems give you peace of mind and add an extra layer of protection for homes or commercial properties. The con, however, is that often security systems are hard to operate or difficult to install for maximum security. Make sure you choose an experienced electrician who will properly evaluate your needs and help you choose a unit that will meet your unique needs.
In our mind, eco-friendly appliances don't really have any cons. When properly installed, these appliances more than make up for their outgoing costs by saving you money on your energy bill in the future. Your back pocket aside, installing eco-friendly electrics in your home is an easy way to do your bit for our environment. Give your local electrician a call to discuss what eco-friendly technology would be best for your home.
Smart home technology is getting more and more popular as a way to make your home more efficient and streamlined. Unfortunately, this technology can be quite expensive if you want to install a comprehensive system in your home. However, a system of sensors, switches and timers can make your life much more efficient. Enquire with your electrician to find out more and start planning a smart home system to fit your budget.
If you're located in Sydney, there really is no better choice than Jolt Electrical for your domestic electrical needs. Give us a call on 0419 998 487 to discuss what our experienced team can do for you.


Photographs by Jennifer Massaux By Eléonore MarchandFashion Director: KRISTEN INGERSOLL & MARIA VERNETTA.Hair: HARRY JOSH for HARRY JOSH.COM at SATEMENT ARTISTS.
Makeup: ERIN GREEN at ART DEPT.Manicurist: LOLLY KOON for CHANEL VERNIS at ART DEPT.Text: NATSUKO KADOKURA. Translation: NAOKO SUGIYAMA.


The Stuck in the Middle with You podcast inquires about the topic of evolution. In this podcast Thomas Cornish and Jacob "Bam" Kovacs give the listeners a guide in how to think about evolution and how to discern the mechanisms in which the process acts. They discuss natural and sexual selection as well as memetic evolution. The meaning of life was even briefly discussed.
This episode of the Stuck in the Middle with You podcast explores the heritability equation and how environment may play a slightly more prominent role than some studies may suggest. Bam also gets banned from Reddit. . . political correctness.


Did Cyril Ramaphosa morph in the past few days from Teflon Man – to whom nothing sticks – to Mr Velcro, to whom every stain attaches?
Certainly, Bosasa is proving very sticky, and, given the sticky fingers of Gavin Watson and his gang who built their business on corrupting state tenders, that is entirely apt. But it is indeed unwelcome news for the president and his son, Andile. The former took, apparently without his knowledge, a hefty donation from Watson's crowd and the son knowingly went onto its payroll just after Dad became president.
Ramaphosa jnr's company is designated Blue Crane Capital, presumably a nod at SA's national bird. As our country's economic model appears to use know-who rather than know-how to achieve enrichment, there is some logic in that as well.
Of course, the Bosasa revelations will be, politically speaking at least, chump change by comparison with the fury of voters if electricity blackouts continue.
Here, Ramaphosa displayed rhetorical sleight of hand when he addressed the issue on Human Rights Day in Vereeniging. He channelled Harry Houdini to escape responsibility for what has gone wrong at the power utility in whose rescue he has been front and centre these past four years.
In his remarks near the site of the Sharpeville massacre, Ramaphosa performed a neat elision: he paired the entirely ANC-created Eskom disaster with the struggle against apartheid, and deflected presidential responsibility by invoking the collective.
Actually that is three collective calls in one sentence.
Fascinating and heart-warming as these calls to our collective consciousness might be, I interrogated them at one remove.
Noting that the official opposition DA was marching to Pretoria on Friday to highlight its plan of action on Eskom, and had unsuccessfully sought a recall of parliament to address this national disaster, I wondered how its proposals had been received by the president.
"Joining hands", "all South Africans working together" presumably means the head of state has reached across the political aisle to get a "collective response" to a national crisis?
It requires the willing suspension of disbelief to imagine that those who landed us in this mess are the best ones capable of extracting us from it.
The ongoing confidence of the governing party that it has the magic fix for our largely self-made crisis has a psychological explanation. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect, which leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability simply because they cannot grasp how much they don't know.
If that seems a little harsh, the best antidote to the current crisis is for a complete rethink on a raft of policies that have been largely modelled on the Watsons' formula: pay off the politicians and all will follow from that. But that of course can only work when cadres have been deployed in key institutions for their partisan loyalty, not their subject knowledge or expertise. Short of ditching this entire raft of policies and the obsession with fixed racial quotas, there is no end in sight.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel either, unless it's the light of the express train carrying our next national crisis. But we can always invoke the collective approach with that one as well. At least when making a public pronouncement.


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Success at sea!
We are delighted to have awarded a grant of £2,500 to Limpsfield Grange School for their Gold Duke of Edinburgh at Thames Barge Voyage project, which was undertaken by 8 schoolgirls between ages 16-18, who all struggle with a learning disability, medical condition or mental health illness.
The girls who participated had never sailed before and had no idea of what to expect. This sailing trip fulfilled the girls' expedition section within the Duke of Edinburgh Gold criteria.
Two of the girls who took part in the voyage were a pair of twins who had never been on a boat before and were extremely nervous and anxious. Their conditions make them hypersensitive to virtually everything and to undertake something like this was going to be a huge challenge for them. Bearing in mind they are both 17 years old, they are very young for their age and were very apprehensive. Over the course of the week they grew in confidence and by the end of the week they were doing everything the other girls were doing and more. When we handed them back to their parents they both said it was the best thing they had ever done and asked when they could go again. Hopefully this experience has instilled them with the 'can do' attitude that will stand them in good stead throughout their lives.
– Limpsfield Grange School
The Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award is regarded as equivalent to an A-level by employers and will help participants in their journey towards finding a job. The award indicates many achievements, such as; reliability, commitment, responsibility, confidence and team work – some skills which can be challenging for people with autism and other learning disabilities. Over the course of the year that is will take for the girls to complete their awards, they will understand how to work together, support one another and commit to the project.
It is expected that the girls have now successfully completed the other sections within their Duke of Edinburgh Award and have collected their awards by the Duke himself at St James' Palace earlier this year.


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