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<?php

/**
 */
require_once 'Opus11/AbstractComparable.php';
require_once 'Opus11/IContainer.php';

//{
/**
 * Abstract base class from which all container classes are derived.
 *
 * @package Opus11
 */
abstract class AbstractContainer
    extends AbstractComparable
    implements IContainer
{
    /**
     * @var integer The number of items in this container.
     */
    protected $count;

//}@head

//{
//!    // ...
//!}
//}@tail

    /**
     * Constructs an AbstractContainer.
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $count = 0;
    }

    /**
     * Destructor.
     */
    public function __destruct()
    {
        parent::__destruct();
    }

    /**
     * Purge method.
     */
    public function purge()
    {
        $this->count = 0;
    }

//{
    /**
     * Count getter.
     *
     * @return integer The number of items in this container.
     */
    public function getCount()
    {
        return $this->count;
    }

    /**
     * IsEmpty predicate.
     *
     * @return boolean True if this container is empty.
     */
    public function isEmpty()
    {
        return $this->getCount() == 0;
    }

    /**
     * IsFull predicate.
     *
     * @return boolean True if this container is full.
     */
    public function isFull()
    {
        return false;
    }
//}>a

    /**
     * Returns a value computed by calling the given callback function
     * for each item in this container.
     * Each time the callback function will be called with two arguments:
     * The first argument is the next item in this container.
     * The first time the callback function is called,
     * the second argument is the given initial value.
     * On subsequent calls to the callback function,
     * the second argument is the result returned from
     * the previous call to the callback function.
     *
     * @param callback $callback A callback function.
     * @param mixed $initialState The initial state.
     * @return mixed The value returned by
     * the last call to the callback function.
     */
    public function reduce($callback, $initialState)
    {
        $state = $initialState;
        foreach ($this as $obj)
        {
            $state = $callback($state, $obj);
        }
        return $state;
    }

    /**
     * Calls the visit method of the given visitor
     * for each object in this container.
     *
     * @param object IVisitor $visitor A visitor.
     */
    public function accept(IVisitor $visitor)
    {
        foreach ($this as $obj)
        {
            if ($visitor->isDone())
                break;
            $visitor->visit($obj);
        }
    }

//{
    /**
     * Returns a textual representation of this container.
     *
     * @return string A string.
     */
    public function __toString()
    {
        $s = $this->reduce(
            create_function(
                '$s, $item',
                'return array($s[0] . $s[1] . str($item), ", ");'
            ), array('',''));
        return $this->getClass()->getName() .  '{' . $s[0] . '}';
    }
//}>b

//{
    /**
     * Returns a hash code for this container.
     *
     * @return integer A hash code.
     */
    public function getHashCode()
    {
        $s = $this->reduce(
            create_function(
                '$s, $obj',
                'return $s + $obj->getHashCode();'
            ), 0);
        return $s;
    }
//}>c

    /**
     * Main program.
     *
     * @param array $args Command-line arguments.
     * @return integer Zero on success; non-zero on failure.
     */
    public static function main($args)
    {
        printf("AbstractContainer main program.\n");
        $status = 0;
        return $status;
    }

}

if (realpath($argv[0]) == realpath(__FILE__))
{
    exit(AbstractContainer::main(array_slice($argv, 1)));
}
?>

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50 Creative Writing Prompts for Student Blogging Educational technology tips for teachers, librarians and schools.
"Not only does blogging encourage students to write, it also motivates them to read and analyze texts, thereby improving their reading comprehension skills," said Stacy Zeiger, education expert with HelpTeaching.com.
Blogging also encourages non-fiction writing and provides students with an authentic audience to write for.
If you want to try student blogging but don't know where to start, use these creative writing prompts, which include ideas for personal writing, literacy- or skills-based writing, and more.
1. Write a blog post as the main character of [insert book].
2. Write a new last chapter for [insert book].
3. If you could change one thing about [insert book], what would it be and why?
4. Write a news report about the main conflict of [insert book].
5. Write a letter to your favorite author explaining what book you want him/her to write next.
6. Write a series of blog posts, three total, explaining the rising action, climax, and falling action of [insert book].
7. Write a plot twist for [insert book]. Include descriptive language and dialogue.
8. If you could be anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
9. If you could have any pet, what kind of animal would it be? Why?
10. Who would you help if you won one million dollars? Explain exactly how you would help this person(s).
11. Who is your hero? Why is he/she your hero and how can you be more like that person?
12. Why would you be a great president? Give at least three arguments.
13. What is your favorite word? Find at least three articles that use this word creatively.
14. Describe your perfect day. What would you do? Where would you be?
15. Choose one word to describe yourself. Explain why this word describes you.
16. You are now the CEO of Twitter. What changes would you make? What would you keep the same? Explain why.
17. What makes you stand out most as an individual? Do you like this quality about yourself? Why or why not?
18. If you could start your own business, what would it be? Explain why you would start this business and how you would do it.
19. Pretend you're a journalist at a championship sports event. Write your report for the game.
20. Find a current event from this week. Write your own article about this event, including details you found in the original source.
21. Write a Wikipedia article on [insert topic]. Be sure to include sources to support your facts.
22. If you could learn about anything, what would it be? Why do you want to learn about this and what resources would you turn to for learning?
23. Write a magazine-style article about a famous person. Include images and sources to support your article.
24. Write 10 new, creative headlines for one news article from your local town.
25. Write a cookbook entry for your favorite meal. Include images if possible.
26. What would a day in your life look like if you lived [insert country, state, etc.]?
27. You are Abraham Lincoln. Write a blog post as him after the Emancipation Proclamation.
28. Write a diary entry from [insert historical character].
29. Create a list of 10 reputable resources about [insert topic, subject, book, etc.]. Be sure to name every resource and include all the links.
30. What would life be like in [era students are studying about—i.e. middle ages]?
31. If you could talk to one historical figure, who would it be? Explain what you would want to talk about.
32. Write a rhyming poem about your pet or a friend's pet.
33. Write a haiku about your favorite food. Remember to be creative.
34. Write a narrative poem about a family event you recently attended.
35. Write a poem about going back in time. What do you see and feel?
36. Write a poem about the town you live in. Think about your favorite parks, stores and people, and be sure to include them.
Student Blog Prompt #19: Pretend you're a journalist at a championship sports event. Write your report for the game.
This awesome list of prompts comes from TheEduBlogger.
37. Live Blog – Create a 'Storify' for a topic or event that collects tweets, Instagram, links, and more into one place. Embed the story into a post and include an introductory summary and conclusion.
38. Infographic – use a tool like Canva to create an infographic and then write a post describing why you included the ideas you did.
39. Video – Produce a video with Animoto, or upload it to YouTube, embed it, and write about the decisions you made when making the video.
40. Poll – Use Google Forms or a plugin to publish a survey or poll. Follow up with a post that goes over the results, including graphs, charts and analysis.
41. Lists – Use Listly to create a list of resources, links, people, or ideas. You can even use this tool to crowdsource the list.
42. Talking Avatars – Create a speaking character using Voki to read your post or to interact with your blog's visitors.
43. Presentations – Publish the slides, Prezi, or video of your presentation in a post. Reflect on the presentation. What is one thing that went well and one thing that could be have been improved?
44. Comics – Create a cartoon using Bitstrips and share it on your blog.
45. Audio – Record yourself speaking or reading and then use a tool like Audioboom to discuss your audio in a post.
46. VoiceThread – Embed your VoiceThread project in a post and encourage your blog readers to leave a comment with feedback on the presentation.
47. Write step-by-step directions to complete [insert task—build a birdhouse, make a smoothie]. Embed images and/or videos to explain various steps.
48. What is your favorite quote? Write it in your blog post and explain why it's your favorite. Create and embed an image with your quote on it as well.
49. Write a countdown of your 5 favorite hobbies, using different sized headers for each hobby to show the least favorite to the most favorite.
50. Create a list of your favorite memes and embed each meme in your blog post along with your own caption.
What creative writing prompts have you used for student blogging? Tell us in the comments!


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Photograph by Rock Fig Luxury Villas
Rock Fig is an exclusive, privately owned luxury safari lodge in the western area of Madikwe Game Reserve. Madikwe is regarded as one of the most prestigious conservation areas in Africa, spanning north from the town of Groot Marico all the way to the border with Botswana.
Madikwe Game Reserve has a thriving population of 86 mammal species, 350 bird species and 104 varieties of trees, all existing in a completely malaria-free environment that offers guests a wealth of wildlife experiences.
Habitats include riverine thickets, vast plains and the towering cliffs of the Rant van Tweedepoort, accompanied with the Enselbergs and the Dwarsberg mountain ranges.
Rock Fig offers guests the perfect opportunity to explore the pristine African bushveld that Madikwe encapsulates. It promises a world-class African safari experience while ensuring guests have plenty of opportunity to relax and unwind. The venue prides itself in allowing guests to tailor their own safari experience, making memories that last a lifetime.
The property features an underground hide overlooking a watering hole. The hide is visited by a range of wildlife from the smallest klipspringer antelope to the largest of elephants. The low angle of the hide gives photographers the ideal position to capture incredible wildlife shots.
The charm and appeal of Africa is reflected in the hues and textures applied in the decor of the luxury suites, through the fusion of South African design and modern comfort, serving as a reminder of the untamed bushveld on your doorstep, waiting to be explored.
The open-plan suites are designed to enable guests to absorb the breathtaking vistas, with panoramic views from the personal plunge pool and outside lounge — perfect for basking in the South African sun.
Upon return from an evening drive, guests are welcomed home to an open boma fire. This is the place to dine in style while looking up at the stars in the clear night sky, sipping Champagne in total seclusion as dusk falls, lulled by birdsong and the majestic roar of lions.
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Mangaluru legislators seek more time for property regularisation
Additional deputy commissioner Kumar said at present unauthorized houses measuring below 600 sqft in the city are eligible for regularization under 94 CC.TNN | September 16, 2016, 15:00 IST
MANGALURU: Elected representatives of the district including forest and environment minister B Ramanath Rai demanded extension of the last date for regularization of properties under 94C and 94CC beyond October 31.
Rai said the process of disposingof applications under 94CC should be expedited. Officials disclosed at a review meeting chaired by revenue minister Kagodu Thimmappa here on Thursday that there is a pendency of large number of applications u Money mattersnder 94CC to regularise unauthorised constructions of dwelling houses on government lands in urban areas in the city. While a total of 21,841 people have submitted applications for regularization of their houses in the district, 21,694 are yet to be disposed of. In Mangaluru, as against the 14,315 applications received, 14,280 are yet to be cleared.
Rai, food and civil supplies minister U T Khader, legislators K Abhaychandra Jain, Ivan D'Souza, J R Lobo and B A Mohiuddin Bava urged the revenue minister to take initiatives to speed up the process and modify the land ceiling.
Additional deputy commissioner Kumar said at present unauthorized houses measuring below 600 sqft in the city are eligible for regularization under 94 CC. Applicants from general category will have to pay Rs 10,000 and for those belong to SC/ST and other reserved categories, the fee is Rs 5,000.
Rai said that the rule should be relaxed and all applications, including 94C (pertaining to constructions in rural areas), need to be expedited.
While minister Thimmappa sought speedy disposal of files under the scheme, officials pointed out that the revenue department is short staffed. The district has sanctioned posts of 845 including tahsildars, special tahsildars, deputy tahsildars, shirastedars and other positions, of which 220 posts are vacant.
Thimmappa said steps will be taken to fill the vacancies at the earliest. The minister also directed the officials to vacate encroachments in the district.
It was brought to the notice of the minister that 14,724 acres of revenue land in the district has been encroached. of which only 1,508 acres have been reclaimed. They urged steops to clear encroachments on remaining 13,216 acres.
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How do you sell food on the sims 3 ambitions?
The Sims 3 : Ambitions Expansion for PC (2010, PAL). Your hand is steady as you fill in the deep red heart and start defining the clear letters. Your hand is steady as you fill in the deep red heart and start defining the clear letters.... 6/06/2010 · I'm not all that sure how to fix the problem but I've been having a similar problem from when I installed the Sims 3 Ambitions and so I think it might be the game and I've seen similar stories that have both the problems we are having so odds are, it's the new expansion.
5/07/2010 · http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.h... for the upgraded version of this house. I love the way the inventor and science career compliment one another.... Inventing is one of the skills introduced in the Ambitions expansion pack. An inventor sim can make toys for children, decorative items, items that help you around the house, and simbots. An inventor sim can make toys for children, decorative items, items that help you around the house, and simbots.
8/06/2010 · The Harvester invention from Sims 3 Ambitions. Not very effective.
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What about an invention workbench, like in sims 3 ambitions. I would love to see some good new inventions, like the ARSENAL, it's a arm mounted super computer.


The setting could not have been more perfect for Eastern Illinois' Kylie Bennett in her attempt to break the school's single-season mark for home runs.
Senior weekend. Family in the stands. Final home games of her collegiate career.
In the fourth inning of EIU's 6-1 victory over Southeast Missouri in Game 1 of a doubleheader, the senior first baseman hit a two-run homer, her 10th of the season, tying her for first place.
In her next at-bat, Bennett belted a solo homer, giving her sole possession of the top spot.


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La Micro-Folie de Sevran est un lieu culturel français basé sur le réseau des Micro-Folies du parc de la Villette. Située dans le quartier des Beaudottes, à Sevran dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, elle existe depuis 2017.

Histoire
La Micro-Folie est un équipement culturel et numérique imaginé par Didier Fusillier, située à proximité de la gare des Beaudottes et du collège Évariste Galois.

Lieu dédié aux échanges culturels et professionnels, sa programmation donne également accès à la culture par une approche virtuelle de célèbres musées tels que le musée du Louvre ou le musée d'Orsay. C'est aussi un lieu de vie dédié à la créativité.

L'établissement est constitué d'une

Le lieu est inauguré en 2017, par le maire de Sevran, Stéphane Gatignon, et par la ministre de la Culture, Audrey Azoulay.

Composition de la Micro-Folie
La Micro-Folie Sevran comporte trois grands espaces, qui, chacun, remplissent une tâche différente :
 le « Fab lab », musée numérique,  ;
 « L'Atelier »
 le « Little Folie », espace de jeux pour les enfants et coin lecture.

La Micro-Folie est également un lieu qui permet la réalisation de projet, surtout en ce qui concerne la micro-entreprise.

Notes et références

Sevran

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On July 27, 2019, Fortnite celebrated its second birthday by internet hosting an enormous extravaganza, fittingly dubbed because the Fortnite World Cup, and gave away thousands and thousands of {dollars} in prizes. (By some accounts, the corporate gave away over $30 million in prizes). Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, a 16-year-old from Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania gained $three million and the bragging rights of changing into Fortnite's first World Cup champion.
Fortnite is a free-to-play online game set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. It was created by Tim Sweeney and launched by Epic Video games Inc. in July 2017. Fortnite has been an enormous success, though the sport's format is just not fully distinctive; there's a prevalence of shooter-type video games within the business. There are variations to its free-to-play enterprise mannequin, however everybody can play a completely practical recreation for free of charge.
Fortnite's writer, Epic Video games, is presently engaged in a authorized battle with each Apple and Google over the phrases of each firms' app shops, and has been pulled from each the Apple App Retailer and Google Play Retailer. Extra particulars are beneath within the "Key Challenges" part.
This free-to-play enterprise mannequin set Fortnite other than its friends and has confirmed to be one of many causes for its success. In its first 10 months, it amassed an viewers of 125 million gamers and netted $1.2 billion in income. When the Fortnite App launched on iPhone on April 1, 2018, it reportedly made $2 million a day from gamers on Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS. Whereas different video games have netted $1 billion within the first yr after their launch, Fortnite was the primary recreation to generate such an enormous quantity of income as a recreation that's provided without spending a dime by its developer.
Fortnite is a free-to-play online game set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world that was created by Tim Sweeney and launched by Epic Video games Inc. in July 2017.
In 2019, Fortnite introduced in revenues of $1.Eight billion.
Whereas most console releases generate income from promoting a tough copy or digital model of the sport itself, Fortnite's income comes fully from microtransactions.
In 2019, Fortnite introduced in revenues of $1.Eight billion, in response to information reported by SuperData Analysis, a Nielsen Firm. As of March 2019, the CEO of Epic Video games, Tim Sweeney, reported that there have been near 250 million Fortnite gamers.
Fortnite's Enterprise Mannequin
There are two video games that fall beneath the Fortnite umbrella: Fortnite: Battle Royale, and a more moderen model of the sport, known as Fortnite: Save the World, which was launched in a paid-for early entry model in July 2017. Though a free-to-play model was rumored, it has but to turn into accessible. In Fortnite: Battle Royale, 100 gamers drop onto a storm-torn island and survive, battle, or construct their means by a shrinking map in an effort to be the final one standing.
Fortnite is a multi-platform online game, so it may be performed on computer systems, cellphones, or consoles, together with Sony's (SNE) PS4, Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox One, and Nintendo's (NTDOY) Change system. The sport is performed, watched, and talked about obsessively by youngsters, celebrities, and athletes alike, which is the kind of advertising and marketing muscle that permits Fortnite to generate income, regardless of being free to play.
Whereas many widespread taking pictures video games, similar to Activision Blizzard's (ATVI) Name of Responsibility franchise, try and mimic actuality with graphic violence, Fortnite units itself aside with its inclination in the direction of comedian mischief and customizable whimsy. Though gamers are competing for the coveted "Victory Royale," they're additionally given the choice to crew up with each other within the "Save the World" model of the sport.
Fortnite followers not solely can play collectively, however they will additionally watch collectively. On March 14, 2018, a recreation of Fortnite attracted 630,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch TV, Amazon's YouTube-like service for watching aggressive online game streams, shattering the earlier report of 388,000. Throughout an October 2019 occasion hosted by Fortnite, there have been greater than 7 million concurrent viewers throughout Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.
Ranked by February 2020 earnings, Fortnite was the fourth-highest grossing online game on consoles, in response to SuperData Analysis. So, what's the secret behind Fortnite's success? How have they managed to generate income by giving freely their product free-of-charge? Whereas most console releases generate income from promoting a tough copy or digital model of the sport itself, Fortnite's income comes fully from microtransactions.
The monetization happens when the participant desires to amass additions, dubbed "costumes" and "skins," which they need to buy. Whereas customers can proceed to play Fortnite without spending a dime, a overwhelming majority of gamers pay for these ancillary merchandise that generate huge quantities of income for Epic Video games. The sport additionally features a distinctive function known as the "Battle Cross," which prices about $9.50 for a quarterly subscription.
Battle Cross generates the majority of Fortnite's income. The quarterly payment provides the buying participant unique entry to the sport's system updates–like adjustments to the map and character options–{that a} free participant doesn't get. Moreover, it permits the participant to purchase the sport additions for a less expensive worth than in the event that they had been to purchase them individually.
As well as, Fortnite gamers even have the choice of spending cash on in-game foreign money, known as "V-Bucks," which can be utilized to make in-game purchases. Though there are particular offers that incentivize gamers to buy greater portions of the in-game foreign money, the alternate fee is roughly one U.S. greenback to 100 V-Bucks.
Gamers can't use V-Bucks to purchase something that may truly have an effect on their efficiency within the recreation. As an alternative, the foreign money is used to buy beauty skins, dances, and pre-released recreation modes, which vary from 200 to 2,000 V-Bucks (or $2 to $20). Many equipment within the Fortnite store can be found on a limited-time foundation, prompting gamers to buy coveted objects earlier than they disappear from the digital retailer.
The creators of Fortnite have managed to leverage the idea of exclusivity and merge it with an pleasant consumer expertise that includes a social part. This has proved to be a successful mixture. Enjoying Fortnite without spending a dime can be enjoyable for some time, however for a lot of customers, no matter sense of accomplishment they get from simply taking part in the sport might fade. By buying costumes, skins, Battle Passes, and V-Bucks, gamers can improve their consumer expertise.
This seems so as to add to their sense of accomplishment and compels them to proceed taking part in. For instance, as soon as a participant purchases a Battle Cross, and is uncovered to the additional perquisites that it provides, they're unlikely to return to taking part in the free model. Apart from the psychological rewards of experiencing one thing that's unique, the prospect of unlocking extra content material for his or her avatar seems to provide enjoyment, and customers are prepared to proceed paying for this.
Has Free-to-Play Impacted the Gaming Business?
Fortnite grew to become a nationwide and world phenomenon so rapidly that business leaders, similar to Take-Two Interactive Inc. (TTWO), and Digital Arts Inc. (EA), haven't been capable of supply a lot in the best way of competitors.
For its recreation, "Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 4," the corporate Blizzard Activision introduced the event of a Fortnite-style recreation mode. Whereas the online game big seemed to be following in Fortnite's footsteps, it caught to a well-known enterprise mannequin. Name of Responsibility was priced at $59.99 and provided in-game purchases. This means that many within the analyst neighborhood attribute Fortnite's success to its modern recreation mode quite than its enterprise mannequin.
So, so long as Fortnite continues to be modern, then it ought to proceed to expertise success. However what occurs if that spark of creativity wears out? What if the discharge of latest skins, new dances, and new options doesn't translate to the anticipated quantity of microtransactions which are the inspiration of Fortnite's profitability? Epic Video games appears to be cautious of simply such an consequence and has made efforts to diversify the Fortnite expertise in an effort to keep forward of its competitors.
Though Fortnite has been unbelievably widespread over the previous few years, there's proof that the phenomenon is fading considerably. Notably, viewership for aggressive Fortnite video games has declined. As well as, information for the highest-earning video games within the month of June 2019, launched by Superdata, exhibits a major drop in Fortnite's income in relation to each its previous efficiency in addition to its rivals.
The important thing problem for any product is to maintain its current buyer base, whereas additionally attempting to draw new clients. Within the gaming business, that is very true given the fickle nature of the gamers, largely youthful with restricted consideration spans. The consensus seems to be that Fortnite lacks selection, particularly when in comparison with its foremost rivals.
Whereas it has slipped, Fortnite continues to be thought of to be a money cow for Epic Video games. Whether or not it continues to be a constant moneymaker going ahead will largely rely on whether or not it may be profitable in adapting to a rapidly altering market. Epic Video games has not indicated that it'll undertake a extra conventional enterprise mannequin.
A significant battle began between Apple and Fortnite's creator, Epic Video games, starting on August 13, 2020 when Epic Video games launched a model of Fortnite on the Apple App Retailer that allowed customers to make in-game purchases with out giving Apple the 30% Apple usually takes from micro-transactions. Apple pulled Fortnite from the App Retailer and Epic Video games sued Apple the identical day, saying Apple's cost system violated antitrust legal guidelines. Afterward that very same day, Google pulled Fortnite from the Google Play Retailer and Epic Video games responded with the same lawsuit. Fortnite continues to be accessible on Android gadgets, simply not through the Google Play Retailer. Apple's management over its app retailer had already been beneath investigation by European regulators, the U.S. Justice Division, and U.S. state attorneys basic. On August 28, Apple prevented Epic Video games from creating or updating apps on Apple platforms by suspending Epic's developer account, and on September 8, 2020, filed a breach of contract go well with towards Epic Video games.
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This subtlety exists in every practice I've at any time dealt with. The workers might even necessarily mean properly, but nobody likes transform. The personnel figures that given plenty of time, the medical professional will fail to remember about increasing points and return on the status quo. Guess what? That attitude is your fault. It's your dental business office, could it be not? You're the a single who permit points get by doing this simply because you were an absentee dental landlord.
I previously stated that i recognized why you might be frequently mentally absent through the administration job expected of the medical doctor. You've got obligation after responsibility piling up with your again everyday. Incorporate to everything the every day issues that come from the individuals and personnel, and you simply contain the method for main worry.
I despise conflict myself and i understand that I am not by yourself on this. I have certainly had that sensation exactly where I understood I need to accurate someone, but I realized they might blow up more than the issue. So, I just let it experience. It can be really basically less complicated often to only go to the business office, place your head down, and go residence at the conclusion of the day, leaving the personnel to deal with themselves. Fortunately, we've got loved these types of prosperous periods in dentistry that we've got been ready for getting absent with some astoundingly awful administration methods.


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A series of free family events – including nature crafts, a geocaching trail and fun quizzes – is taking place at Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve this summer.
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Movies! Movies! Movies!
L.A. Weekly December 20, 2000
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
It's impossible to know if Billy Bob Thornton succeeded in bringing Cormac McCarthy's great novel to the screen, at least in the film's present two-hour form. The widely reported contretemps between the director and Miramax Films, which is distributing the movie, resulted in it being taken away from Thornton and whittled down from his original four-hour cut. Although it's feasible that the longer version was unbearably slow (as Sling Blade showed, the director favors phlegmatic pacing and Important Moments), in its current incarnation the film verges on incoherent; certainly it is inconsequential. Matt Damon plays John Grady Cole, a young cowboy who heads off to Mexico from Texas after the death of his grandfather. Henry Thomas is his friend and fellow traveler, Rawlins, and the talented young actor Lucas Black plays the runaway Jimmy Blevins, less innocent than primitive, who joins them on the trail. What happens when the three cross into Mexico is shocking and profound. Ted Tally's screenplay winnows down the more easily translatable and material parts of the journey — a drunken interlude, days and nights of breaking horses, a nightmarishly surreal prison term — but it tells the story with prose and no poetry.
It also, less surprisingly, omits the politics — the novel is a saga of dangerous longing, for lost fathers and a lost America both, and it's rigorously unsentimental. That makes it interesting, but what makes it breathtaking is McCarthy's writing, which, with its lush and lapidary language, gets at a depth of meaning the characters can't articulate. They don't speak their minds or hearts, because he does it for them. The book is rich in sensuous detail, and it's the mystery of the natural world surrounding the three boys that tells us the most about the worlds inside them. "He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep," McCarthy writes of Cole, "while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within." But there's little opportunity to contemplate much of anything in this film, especially when every shot seems to last merely three or four beats. (The whole thing plays like an extended coming attractions; you keep waiting for it to actually begin.) And unlike the idyllic Pacific-island scenes in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, or the nocturnal river ride in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter, the world in the film seems less a place of wonder and terror than a backdrop to a soapy romance. In McCarthy's book the sun is often blood red; here it simply shines.
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
In his memoir, Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas writes that he grew up "surrounded by trees, animals, apparitions, and people indifferent toward me. My existence was not even justified." It's not a statement of self-pity. In the lines that follow, the late Cuban writer makes it clear that the combination of the familial shrug, his own imagination and the unqualified embrace of nature (the farm animals that he played with, the trees that whispered their secrets to him) granted him a profound freedom. It's what turned him into a sensualist whose rage at political oppression was both intellectual and spiritual, whose awe at rainstorms, great literature and male beauty flowed poetically through him. His was a slyly offhand humor that did more than just deliver a punch line; it encapsulated a pungent point. In one passage, he tells of the sundry livestock that bore the brunt of male libido on his family's farm. Of a rooster that died after one such encounter, Arenas writes, it "died of shame from getting fucked."
With the filmed adaptation of the book, '80s-art-star-turned-director Julian Schnabel captures the spirit of Arenas' words and life with surprising skill and unexpected artfulness. While the film is kept somewhat at a cool distance due to the thickly accented voice-over by leading man Javier Bardem (there are moments when it's impossible to decipher what he's saying), Bardem's soulful performance and Schnabel's sigh-inducing visuals are hypnotic; they convey the essence of its subject's voice and richly contoured perspective. Little in Schnabel's 1996 feature debut, Basquiat, gave proof that he had any real facility for filmmaking, and only the always-fantastic Jeffrey Wright in the title role made the film worth seeing.
In Before Night Falls, though, the director gracefully fuses performance, politics and style into a film that's social commentary, coming-of-age tale and glimpse into the psyche of the artist all in one. Epic in scope and ambition, tracing Arenas' journey from unwanted bastard to political prisoner to American exile, the film maintains a real sense of intimacy throughout. Credit for that goes largely to Bardem, whose liquid eyes are almost lethal in their emotional precision. He gives a delicate performance, one in which his sissy-sway stops short of caricature, conveying strength and vulnerability, wit and self-aware humor. His Arenas is fiercely intelligent, but never loses sight of the fact that he lives in his body.
Schnabel fills the screen with breathtaking images — raindrops sliding off leaves, a billowing hot-air balloon — and there is one scene in particular that is among the best in film this year. The young Arenas is being driven to a nightclub by his new beau (we see the trip in languid slow motion), who promptly abandons the writer to dance with a woman. There's no dialogue, only sparse, evocative music that has an undertow of sadness. Elegantly dressed people dance and laugh on the crowded floor while Arenas watches wistfully, as another handsome young man approaches him for a dance. Desire is palpable. It's a perfect moment, a captured memory — an elegy not only to a time gone by, but to the beauty and possibilities that would soon be vanquished. In the joy and heat of the exchanges — the lust, looming loss and whisper of melancholy behind the smiles — Schnabel has captured that which is both fleeting and eternal, the human life force in all its transcendent fragility.
—Ernest Hardy
AN EVERLASTING PIECE
During the mid-'80s, in the midst of the Troubles, two Belfast hairdressers employed in a hospital for the criminally insane enter the toupee business. Since this is meant to be an Irish comedy, albeit from an American director of expressly American films, what ensues is a little wordplay (Toupee or Not Toupee), a little more wackiness (one character wears panties like hairnets to keep the cigarette smoke out) and a whole load of shite. What inspired Barry Levinson, best known for his various Baltimore outings (Diner, et al.), films rooted in American places and mindsets, to make a movie set in Northern Ireland is anybody's guess. The unfunny screenplay is by Barry McEvoy, an Irish immigrant and actor who made a strong impression in Sidney Lumet's remake of Gloria and here exploits the Irish Republicans as grievously as do the British, with whom the film's sympathies finally lie. (McEvoy also plays one of the hairdressers, but not well.) While it's likely that Levinson's reasons for delving into this new territory are as banal as his movie, it is worth commenting on the fact that the Irish seem to have become this country's new cultural lawn jockeys. Given that our old models no longer rest easily on the vast expanse of the white collective imagination, and that the Irish are so damn cute, what with their brogues, riverdancing and murderous civil war, perhaps it's inevitable. Still, after Waking Ned Devine, The Closer You Get ad nauseum and ad infinitum, one might have thought that Levinson would have been too embarrassed to gnaw on the bones of a gimmick already sucked dry of marrow.
FINDING FORRESTER
The transformation of Gus Van Sant into a lesser Steven Spielberg has at last been realized with Finding Forrester, an aggressively bland exercise in industrial craft and audience coercion. The story is as familiar as that of Good Will Hunting, and indeed, the film is essentially a remake, set this time in New York instead of Boston, with Sean Connery in the Robin Williams role and newcomer Rob Brown taking on Matt Damon's part. (In the most promising metamorphosis, Ben Affleck is now Busta Rhymes.) Connery is the lost title figure, a shut-in and a drunk who, though Scottish by birth, wrote the great American novel some four decades earlier. Brown's character is worse yet, that of a brilliant basketball player and towering if untapped literary genius, a high schooler from the ghetto who dunks like Michael Jordan, writes like June Jordan and whose taste runs bold — Joyce, Mishima, er, de Sade. Connery is fine, as blustery and obvious as his character, but Brown has the thankless job of playing a saint, though unfortunately not one of those wild-eyed types running around in hair-shirts and inflamed with passion — the kid is as dull as dishwater. If you've seen Good Will Hunting or, for that matter, any American movie in which a leading black character is wearing a halo rather than a gun, and the white leading character is in need of redemption, you know the rest. (Screenwriter Mike Rich greases his assembly-line plot like a machinist.) As was proved by his remake of Psycho, one of the boldest conceptual gambits ever to be released by a major studio, Van Sant remains a provocative filmmaker. As Finding Forrester confirms, though, he just doesn't care enough not to look like a hack.
If this atmospheric Southern gothic had been made without the benefit of any of its high-profile actors, it could easily have become a modest find, a film to discover privately in a second-run theater or on the video-store shelf. But its story is too small to justify the high-octane combination of Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi, Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes. Not that any of them are bad; Reeves, Ribisi and especially Blanchett are good, even good together. It's just that when taken together they strain at the story's flimsy architecture — you end up watching them, not their performances. Blanchett plays newly widowed Annie Wilson, a mother to three boys, who in a little room ä in her run-down house reads cards for the neighbors, divining secrets and telling fortunes. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson (who together also wrote One False Move), the story is familiar in both right and wrong ways. As in all good horror movies, things go bang in the night the way that you want (at a press screening, the audience burst into well-disposed laughter when a character ran a bath), but the villain is uninspired and the plot is puffed up with filler, though not the ambient kind. A court scene drags interminably, and Ribisi's character, essentially a more tightly wound version of the simpleton Thornton played in Sling Blade, has no real reason to be in the film. Here, it's the creepily quiet stuff, the stuff that might be rushed over in a different movie — Annie shivering alone in bed or being visited by her dead grandmother as she hangs out the wash — that makes the film more than a generic distraction.
MALÈNA
Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900) has always been a master of cheap sentiment, but in his latest nostalgic ramble, he takes it to a new level. At the outset of World War II, in a small Italian town, 13-year-old Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) has fallen in love with Malèna (Monica Bellucci), a lush beauty whom Tornatore fetishizes long before we see her face, in a sequence detailing the intricacies of attaching stocking to garter belt. When her beloved soldier husband is reported killed in action, Malèna is stranded amid the town's vicious gossips and lecherous menfolk. Over time, she is denounced in court by a jealous wife, molested by her attorney, reduced to whoring for occupying Germans, then beaten and shorn in the town square. At every turn, Renato, who is gradually growing into manhood, hides nearby, taking it all in with a wide-eyed expression of concern. If Tornatore was trying to craft some sort of metaphor for Italian fascism, he's failed dismally, denouncing the town's collusion in Malèna's ruin — from actual aggression to passive non-action — when he himself has had such an important hand in her dehumanization. To position her tragedy as just another part of a boy's wondrous coming of age betrays the filmmaker as someone more emotionally fucked than any of his previous work could have revealed.
—Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is an ace FBI agent, but not quite a lady: Her clothes are stained, her hair unbrushed, her doe eyes hidden under heavy black frames. Slovenly and tough (she can hold her own against a male agent), Gracie is nevertheless chosen to go undercover as a beauty-pageant contestant to catch a mad bomber and, as the film intimates, learn a thing or two about being a woman. Bullock, despite intermittent glimmers of her trademark frisk, all but throws up her hands with the role, radiating the sullen frustration of an actor who's seen her career devolve to the point where her character's most crucial conflict is whether a makeover will take. (How mystifying, then, to discover that she is the movie's producer!) The film's concept of femininity would be offensive if the picture itself weren't so pathetic. The screenplay is by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford and Caryn Lucas, who, among them, have written the ill-conceived Mary & Rhoda reunion as well as episodes of Family Ties and The Nanny, while director Donald Petrie, who made his debut with the sweet sleeper Mystic Pizza, has also helmed Grumpy Old Men, My Favorite Martian and Richie Rich. All of which gives you an idea of the bottom-of-the-barrel indignities visited upon Bullock, Michael Caine (as a gay pageant consultant) — and Benjamin Bratt, who, as Gracie's FBI colleague, takes off his shirt.
—H-D.D.
NOWHERE TO HIDE
"Wasting time is what detectives do," says Woo (Park Joong-Hoon) to his impatient partner, Kim (Jang Dong-Kun), as they wait to shake down a drug dealer for information about a vicious assassination-style killing. It's an ironic line in a strikingly laconic film that itself has no patience for inactivity. Right from the opening fight scenes, which establish Woo and Kim as cops who prefer direct and violent confrontation — their weapon of choice is the baseball bat — Korean writer-director Lee Myung-Se doesn't hesitate to strip away dialogue and plot, as if such elements were excess fat clogging the action film's true heart. A hit at this year's Sundance, where it screened in the World Cinema category, Nowhere To Hide is almost all hypnotic image and exhilarating movement. In following the two Inchon detectives from set piece to set piece as they pursue a murderer, Lee pulls out all the stylistic stops — slow-motion, fast-motion and step-motion photography, morphing, multiple film stocks, rapid-fire edits. In so doing, he dares his audience to complain about a lack of narrative substance while he's so clearly and effectively confronting them with essence. Rain is a barrage of vertical lines; blood, in the Godardian sense, is just the color red. Which isn't to say that Lee completely abandons meaning, at least with regard to investigating the nature of the genre. Throughout the film, Lee pays homage to John Woo's operatic style, but, late in the story, when Kim falls into depression after killing a suspect, the sudden shift in tone — from the acceptance of police brutality as routine procedure — highlights the forced, theatrical quality of Woo's brand of melodrama. Such baroque emotionalism is here presented as an alien presence, a distraction from the task at hand, which is nothing short of an attempt to achieve pure cinema.
—Paul Malcolm
O BROTHER, WHERE
ART THOU?
In Preston Sturges' classic Sullivan's Travels, the film from which Joel and Ethan Coen derive the name of their latest feature, Joel McCrea's comedy director sets out to commune with victims of the Depression before making his social-problem film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Along the way, McCrea's bleeding heart learns that the downtrodden don't want downer pictures, they just want to be entertained. Know-it-all filmmakers, the Coens regularly invert this lesson to give art-house audiences vacuum-sealed stories about poor folk (Raising Arizona), regional caricatures (Fargo) and lovable lowlifes (The Big Lebowski) whose ways of being in the world are given as inherently entertaining. When such characters escape the bounds of the Coens' ironic clutches, it's usually because the actors portraying them (Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Jeff Bridges) have more faith in their personas than the filmmakers can muster. In George Clooney, who leads a ragged trio of escaped convicts (with John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson making up the remainder) on a picaresque sojourn through the Depression-era heartland, the Coens have an actor who takes his self-aggrandizing yokel at face value. Clooney's Everett Ulysses McGill and his cohorts are never more than buffoons offered up for our amusement. And to be fair, O Brother is frequently amusing as a nostalgia-tinted tall tale about three losers who stumble into a series of American myths as they're being born — Robert Johnson, "Babyface" Nelson, Huey Long — and who, with a touch of grace, become smalltime legends themselves. It's also a faux musical, and this may be the Coens' biggest misstep. While their framing of the Ku Klux Klan as a travesty of a Busby Berkeley number is a stroke of biting genius, the authentic, plaintive sounds of the bluegrass and gospel songs that elsewhere punctuate the story only heighten the one-dimensionality of O Brother's central clowns. The songs stand as genuine period expressions of faith and camaraderie in the midst of turmoil. Too bad, then, that every laugh in the film comes with the nagging sense that it's at some undeserving fool's expense.
STATE AND MAIN
Several Americas collide in State and Main, a very funny new film written and directed by David Mamet. The place is rural Vermont, where a picturesque town has been taken over by a film company, there to make a period feature called The Old Mill. "Does it have to be a mill?" becomes the question when it's discovered that the one in the town's brochure actually burned down half a century before. The psychological Grand Canyon that divides Hollywood from the rest of the country fuels a wealth of fresh, fish-out-of-water satire in the same instant that, paradoxically, Mamet shows how movies succeed precisely because America is the land where everybody has a big fantasy and, on some level, wants to be a star — or at least enjoy what he imagines to be a star's freedom (that being the most toxic fantasy of all). William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rebecca Pidgeon, David Paymer, Alec Baldwin and Julia Stiles all harmonize wonderfully in the mix of farce and morality play that Mamet typically balances so well, as he piles a wide assortment of treacheries atop the eighth commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Plainly, this is a piece of advice the movie business never heeds enough. Mamet takes it to heart, and with a smile.
—F.X. Feeney
THIRTEEN DAYS
The crisis seems deceptively simple in retrospect — the Russians had planted a set of nuclear missiles in Cuba — but the danger was absolute to men who, when young, had risked their lives ridding the world of Hitler, among them U.S. President John F. Kennedy. For a fortnight in October of 1962, the world (to use a shopworn but still potent phrase) stood not only at the brink of war but of complete annihilation. Thirteen Days is a vivid and urgent chronicle of those two weeks, seen from the personal viewpoint of Kenneth O'Donnell (Kevin Costner), who was a key aide to President Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and lifelong chum of first brother and attorney general Robert Kennedy (Steven Culp). Writer David Self has clearly read and absorbed all the most thorough accounts of the crisis, and the result is a refreshing breakaway from both idolatry and cynicism. New Zealand–born director Roger Donaldson (Smash Palace, The Bounty, No Way Out) uses his native detachment well to regard these wildly mythologized figures as the rounded, flawed but fundamentally remarkable men they were. For the real struggle, he suggests, was not with the Soviets, who had basically strayed into a self-made trap. It was a cold ä war between violently opposed philosophies, represented at one end by the diplomatic stealth of the Kennedys and Adlai Stevenson (wonderfully played by Michael Fairman), versus the bomb-communism-to-hell lunacy of generals like Curtis LeMay (Kevin Conway). Across this abyss stretched a WASP power structure from which the Kennedys were no less alienated. The intimate dialogue is sometimes wooden ("You're president of the United States. The people can wait"), and Costner's Boston accent sometimes sticks out like a licorice mustache. But Greenwood (whose boar-bristle voice projected such virile menace in The Sweet Hereafter) is an ideal JFK, and the film movingly dramatizes his heroism as being (like his arrogance) the byproduct of an agile intelligence. Sheer verbal acumen not only enabled the president and his brother to craft shrewd responses to Soviet threats, but freed them from the entrenched thinking of their own advisers. However brief JFK's moment of glory, this film makes a persuasive case that he was, like FDR and Lincoln, above all a commander of language.
—F.X.F.
VATEL
Adapted by Tom Stoppard from a screenplay by Jeanne Labrune, and directed by Roland Joffé, Vatel dramatizes the true story of Francois Vatel (Gérard Depardieu), the master steward to a 17th-century French country prince. When Louis XIV arrives with his court in tow for a three-day visit, the fate of the prince, a skilled general who is also deeply in debt, hinges on his steward's extraordinary talent for entertaining — with France on the verge of war, a favorable impression could mean a military commission and monetary relief. Also a general of sorts, Vatel coordinates armies of cooks, craftsmen and performers to stage extravagant parties fit for a sun king. "Harmony and contrast, all beauty comes from these things," he tells his apprentice. That idea is at the heart of the film, which is itself a fugue of balancing acts — between the splendor of the festivities and the dread that underlies them, between Vatel's freedom to create and the servitude that compels him to create for others, even between the film's carefully coordinated color scheme and Joffé's fondness for parallel imagery. (A sequence with feet that begins the film is brilliantly matched to another at its end.) The symbolism can be less deft — caged birds, a deer hunt — and the filmmakers are not above corset-drama bed-hopping and back-stabbing. It's more delicious than not, though, when the beds and backs belong to Uma Thurman, as a willful lady in waiting, Tim Roth, as a piquantly scheming Marquis, and Julian Sands, who endows Louis with a modicum of cunning as well as the requisite self-absorption.
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES | Written by TED TALLY | Based on the novel by CORMAC McCARTHY | Directed by BILLY BOB THORNTON Produced by THORNTON and ROBERT SALERNO Released by Miramax Films | Citywide
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS | Written by CUNNINGHAM O'KEEFE, LÁZARO GÓMEZ CARRILES and JULIAN SCHNABEL Based on the memoir by Reinaldo Arenas Directed by SCHNABEL | Produced by JON KILIK | Released by Fine Line Features At Sunset 5, Nu Wilshire, Playhouse 7
THE GIFT | Written by BILLY BOB THORNTON and TOM EPPERSON | Directed by SAM RAIMI Produced by JAMES JACKS, TOM ROSENBERG and GARY LUCCHESI | Released by Paramount Classics | Citywide
AN EVERLASTING PIECE | Written by BARRY McEVOY | Directed by BARRY LEVINSON Produced by MARK JOHNSON, LOUIS DiGIAIMO, JEROME O'CONNOR, LEVINSON and PAULA WEINSTEIN | Released by DreamWorks | At AMC Century City
FINDING FORRESTER | Written by MIKE RICH | Directed by GUS VAN SANT | Produced by SEAN CONNERY and RHONDA TOLLEFSON Released by Columbia Pictures | Citywide
MALèNA | Written and directed by GIUSEPPE TORNATORE | Produced by HARVEY WEINSTEIN and CARLO BERNASCONI | Released by Miramax Films | At Landmark's Cecchi Gori Fine Arts, Laemmle's Santa Monica 4
MISS CONGENIALITY | Written by MARC LAWRENCE, KATIE FORD and CARYN LUCAS Directed by DONALD PETRIE | Produced by SANDRA BULLOCK | Released by Castle Rock Entertainment | Citywide
NOWHERE TO HIDE | Written and directed by Lee Myung-Se | Produced by CHUNG TAE-WON | Released by Lions Gate Films | At the Nuart; Friday-Thursday, December 22-28
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? | Written by ETHAN and JOEL COEN | Based on The Odyssey by HOMER | Directed by JOEL COEN Produced by ETHAN COEN | Released by Touchstone Pictures and Universal Pictures | At AMC Century City, Leammle's Santa Monica 4, AMC Santa Monica
STATE AND MAIN | Written and directed by DAVID MAMET | Produced by SARAH GREEN Released by Fine Line Features | Citywide
THIRTEEN DAYS | Written by DAVID SELF Directed by ROGER DONALDSON | Produced by ARMYAN BERNSTEIN, PETER O. ALMOND and KEVIN COSTNER | Released by New Line Cinema | Citywide
VATEL | Adapted by TOM STOPPARD from the screenplay by JEANNE LABRUNE | Directed by ROLAND JOFFÉ | Produced by ALAIN GOLDMAN and JOFFÉ | Released by Miramax Films | At Laemmle's Music Hall


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#include "thingdef/thingdef_type.h"

// Symbol information -------------------------------------------------------

enum ESymbolType
{
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};

struct PSymbol
{
	virtual ~PSymbol();

	ESymbolType SymbolType;
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protected:
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};

// A constant value ---------------------------------------------------------

struct PSymbolConst : public PSymbol
{
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	union
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};

// A variable ---------------------------------------------------------

struct PSymbolVariable : public PSymbol
{
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	intptr_t offset;
	bool bUserVar;

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};

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//   f = fixed point
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struct PSymbolActionFunction : public PSymbol
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As a former lead auditor and senior manager I have always seen myself as an influencer, always looking for opportunities to improve business practice and increase revenues. CI is a critical function for business regardless of the size and significant improvements can be made with CI due to its far reaching impact on all business functions.


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Postcommodity
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist. Postcommodity's art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. Postcommodity are the recipients of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2013), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2014), and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (2017). The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image in Mechelen, BE; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA; 18th Biennale of Sydney; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; Art in General, New York; Documenta 14, Athens, GR and Kassel, DE; and their historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON.
Postcommodity acknowledges the important contributions of its previous collaborators: Steven Yazzie (2007-2010), Nathan Young (2007-2015), Adam Ingram-Goble (Game Remains), Andrew McCord (If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing, and Promoting a More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution), Annabel Wong (Dead River) and Existence AD (Dead River).
Postcommodity is represented by Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
www.postcommodity.com
Year End / 2019
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Promethean fire, water from Sisyphus. Let us remember this day. As Hegel tells us, the world's history is not...
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Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family...
Look Back on 2018
2018 comes to an end, we can almost hear the fireworks. Let our solitude be a period of self...
Hyperobjects
Apr 13 – Nov 4, 2018
Ballroom Marfa
A landmark group exhibition to confront the scale of today's ecological crisis seeking to create encounters with artworks and...
So here we are, the last day of the year, 2017. We are wrapping up our first 6 months,...
Postcommodity: A Very Long Line
Sep 16 – Dec 22, 2017
Esker Foundation
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Lena Jeanne
Oscar Murillo
Arianna De Nicola
Valerie Chiang
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William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the latter half of the 20th century, credited with pioneering fine art color photography in his iconic depictions of the American South. (more…)
Sacha Turchi
Sacha Turchi currently lives and works in Italy and collaborates with various visual and sound artists. The interactions between individual and nature, body and psyche, constitutes the essential matrix of her research. (more…)
The Anonymous Project
Anonymous, this is not about any one person or a particular artist. This project is akin to finding fading pages from an anonymous diary and placing them in a time capsule for future generations.
Flavio-Shiró
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Margaux Fitoussi & Adam Tanaka
Flavio-Shiró is a cult artist, a painter's painter. His work defies categorization or association with any artistic group or movement. For more than six decades, his work has simply been modern.
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by Sinziana Velicescu
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Sinziana Velicescu's work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
Alex Prager
Prager's works are in collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Tasks of the Ombud for Equal Treatment
Cases in the Area of Equal Treatment irrespective of Ethnicity, Religion or Belief, Age or Sexual Orientation in Employment and Occupation
Ombud for Equal Treatment
Tasks of the Ombud for Equal Treatment (aktuelle Seite)
Cases in the Area of Equal Treatment and Equality between Women and Men in Employment and Occupation
Cases in the Area of Equal Treatment irrespective of Ethnicity, Religion or Belief, Age or Sexual Orientation in Employment and Occupation (aktuelle Seite)
Examples for Equal Treatment irrespective of Sex or Ethnicity in other Areas
Information and legal Advice
European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet)
Contact - Ombud for Equal Treatment
Most cases brought before the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment deal with discrimination on grounds of ethnicity and of age, followed by grounds of religion and sexual orientation. The principle of equal treatment is violated most frequently when employment relationships are established and terminated. Harassment at work is also a very common problem.
Example 1: Dismissal after harassment on grounds of ethnicity
A man of African origin worked as a dishwasher in a renowned enterprise of the restaurant sector for 16 years. After the enterprise was taken over by a new owner, several unpleasant incidents occurred. The man had the impression that they were provoked to make him quit his job, which would also entail a loss of his entitlement to severance pay. The boss instructed for example a colleague of the man not to carry out a specific task himself but "to tell the negro to do it". In the counselling meeting, the Ombud offered the man to send a letter of intervention to the employer, pointing out that harassment on grounds of ethnicity was inadmissible. Before the letter could be sent to the employer, the man was dismissed by the employer. The man decided to assert possible claims under labour law with the support of the Chamber of Labour and not to pursue his complaint about harassment any further.
Example 2: Discrimination in the context of salary classification due to older age
A 56-year-old woman contacted the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment as she felt discriminated against on grounds of her age by her employer due to job classification. With the support of her immediate supervisor, she had requested the department of personnel to promote her to a higher pay grade level some time ago because her predecessor had also been ranked in the higher pay grade. Her request was denied, explaining that she was not entitled to it and that the enterprise adhered to the principle of not reclassifying the jobs of employees "close to retirement". The Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment then submitted a request to the Equal Treatment Commission to initiate proceedings in order to examine whether the principle of equal treatment had been violated on grounds of age with regard to salary classification, career advancement or other working conditions. The ITC came to the conclusion that the woman had been discriminated against on the grounds of age and strongly suggested to reclassify the woman's job.
Example 3: Discrimination in access to employment on grounds of religion
A woman of Turkish origin contacted the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment after applying for the post of a cleaner in a private hospital with the foreman of a cleaning company. He informed her that the private hospital did not accept women wearing a headscarf as cleaners on their premises. As wearing a headscarf is an essential element of her faith, it was impossible for the woman to take on the job. The Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment therefore requested the cleaning company to provide its comments on this, pointing out that this was inadmissible discrimination on grounds of religion. The company then contacted the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment and offered a different post to the woman, who had, however, found another job.
Example 4: Harassment in vocational training on grounds of sexual orientation
Two men contacted the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment, seeking advice and support. Both of them participated in a qualification programme of a personnel leasing agency contracted by the Public Employment Service. They complained inter alia that they felt discriminated against on grounds of their sexual orientation due to various statements made by the employees of the agency. A female trainer had for example answered the question of one of the men affected why he could not find a job despite his exemplary application documents by remarking: "I can tell you why!….Because you can only work for a man who loves men." On behalf of the two men, the Ombuds Office for Equal Treatment submitted a request to the Equal Treatment Commission to examine whether discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation occurred in this case.


Each month we publish the 6 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) below which detail our previous months performance. We also keep a record of a further 2 months, prior to this, to show complete transparency of services and to help identify any trends over each quarterly period.
These are just a few of the KPIs we use to monitor and evaluate our performance, so we can continually improve what we do. We can report on pretty much any aspect of our service delivery and provide clients with detailed reporting to confirm that we are keeping our promises, exceeding expectations and delivering an excellent service experience.
Our website KPIs are chosen to reflect our clients' interests and earnestly reflect the excellent work performed by our Service Desk team.
We're scrupulous with these numbers and measure them from our clients' perspective, rather than being creative or inflating them to make us appear (unrealistically) good.
Compared with true industry benchmarks, our published KPIs are already excellent, but our Service Desk team are always working hard to improve them further.
This is how long the average waiting time is when you telephone our Service Desk. The lower the better. We like to be honest and transparent about any performance claims we make.
It's how long you wait to speak to a real person who is experienced enough to begin resolving the issue you're calling about. We don't employ call loggers, you'll always speak to certified support technician directly. Our Service Desk strives to deal with your issue straight away at the point of first contact, and if possible, with resolve it whilst you're waiting on the phone.
This is the percentage of support requests that were raised using all methods of contact by telephone, email, Service Hub and in person. It's the percentage of requests that were fixed on the same day as they were raised. Once more, the higher this number, the better.
We always try our best to resolve issues as soon as we can, at the point of first contact (or touch) – though this may not always be possible, for example parts may be needed. This KPI shows that we consistently resolve over three-quarters of all support requests in the same day. It demonstrates that delays are kept to a minimum and that we employ experienced and capable technicians who are in control of your issue.
This is the total number of support requests that our Service Desk resolved in the previous month. This figure does not include any automated tickets created by our remote management and monitoring systems which uses its own bench-marking KPIs.
Service Desk support requests cover a wide range of reported issues such as incidents, service requests, system changes and fixing problems. The total number of tickets closed each month depends on the level of demand – we have a well-staffed Service Desk that can scale quickly as workload fluctuates. Requests are received by all methods including email, telephone, Service Hub or in person. You get in touch and we get to work resolving issues.
We include this KPI to give you an idea of the workload we have. High KPIs are easy when there aren't many tickets each month and there is little to do. We want to assure you that we have the resources and skills needed to achieve service excellence, even when we're really busy.
Service level agreements (SLAs) are essentially our promise to deal with your IT issues and requests within a given time-frame. Our standard agreements are set to a target of 95% achievement. However, our Service Desk team goes beyond this and sets an internal target of 99% which we strive to exceed.
Our SLA KPI is calculated on how we score (on average) when it comes to achieving these targets – how long we take to get back to you, start fixing the issue, and resolving it. The higher the number the better.
We have all sorts of service Level agreements depending on the priority of your request and what it concerns. We make these promises to all our clients, based on your requirements, when you onboard with us. You'll get reports tailored for you that show how we're meeting targets.
Bear in mind that not everything is within our control though – we may have to wait for people to get back to us with information or approval sometimes.
Our customer retention rate is a key measurement of our success and that we're doing things right – creating loyal customers that are happy with our services. This is calculated by measuring the number of managed support clients we retain each month.
We're extremely proud of our high retention rate which has remained consistently around 95% since we began trading back in 2005.
We want to build long-lasting relationships with our customers – many have been with us from day one and remain loyal. This is a testament to our great people and the high quality service we deliver. This stability reflects the confidence our customers place in us in managing and supporting their technology and ultimately helping their businesses be successful.
We're first and foremost a service company and our main objective is to make sure our clients are happy. Measuring satisfaction levels and acting on feedback is key to our success and helps us continually improve service delivery.
As part of our customer experience (CX) programme, we conduct event-based satisfaction (CSAT) surveys after each support case is closed or a project is completed.
Clients are asked to rate how happy they feel about their recent service experience by clicking on the face that best represents their feelings – good, neutral or bad. Our CSAT score is the monthly average of all surveys received. We have a higher than average response rate of over 22% compared to an industry standard of 5%.
Clients can also add their own comments about the performance and handling of their issue or project. This is completely voluntary, and people can opt out if desired.
We read all comments, both positive and negative and any bad or neutral ratings we receive are investigated by our Service Desk Manager. Listening to our clients and taking their feedback onboard is very important to us in helping refine our services and to drive continual improvement.


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The 2021 Berlin state election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Left, and The Greens led by Governing Mayor Michael Müller. Müller did not run for re-election as Mayor, and former federal minister Franziska Giffey led the SPD in the election. The Berlin expropriation referendum was held on the same day, as well as the Borough council elections who function as the municipal elections of Berlin.

The SPD remained the largest party with 21.4% of votes cast, recording minimal change compared to 2016. The Greens narrowly surpassed the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to become the second largest party with 19% of the vote. The Left recorded a small decline to 14%, while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) lost almost half its vote share and finished on 8%. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) remained the smallest party in the Abgeordnetenhaus with 7%.

Post-election, SPD's Giffey and Bettina Jarasch of the Greens both spoke out in favour of a coalition involving their parties. They ultimately renewed the outgoing government with The Left. Franziska Giffey was elected as Governing Mayor on 21 December and her cabinet was sworn in the same day.

Due to numerous irregularities that took place during the election, the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin annuled the results in November 2022. As a result, repeat elections were scheduled for the next year.

Election date
The last election took place on 18 September 2016. The Abgeordnetenhaus has a term of five years, so the next regular elections must take place no later than September 2021. Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer recommended that the election take place on the same date as the 2021 German federal election, which took place on 26 September 2021.

Electoral system
The Abgeordnetenhaus is elected via mixed-member proportional representation. 78 members are elected in single-member constituencies via first-past-the-post voting. 52 members are then allocated using compensatory proportional representation, distributed in each of Berlin's twelve boroughs. German voters have two votes: the "first vote" for candidates in single-member constituencies, and the "second vote" for party lists, which are used to fill the proportional seats. The minimum size of the Abgeordnetenhaus is 130 members, but if overhang seats are present, proportional leveling seats will be added to ensure proportionality. An electoral threshold of 5% of valid votes is applied to the Abgeordnetenhaus; parties that fall below this threshold are excluded from the Abgeordnetenhaus. However, parties which win at least one single-member constituency are exempt from the threshold and will be allocated seats proportionally, even if they fall below 5%.

Background

In the previous election held on 13 March 2016, the SPD remained the largest party with 21.6% of the vote, a loss of 6.7 percentage points. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was the second largest party with 17.6%, a loss of 5.7 points. The Left overtook The Greens to become the third largest party on 15.6%, while The Greens won 15.2%. Alternative for Germany (AfD) contested their first election in Berlin, winning 14.2%. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) re-entered the Abgeordnetenhaus with 6.7%.

The SPD had led a coalition with the CDU since 2011, but this government lost its majority in the election. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with The Left and The Greens.

Parties
The table below lists parties currently represented in the 18th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin.

Campaign

Lead candidates
On 5 October 2020, the Greens nominated Bettina Jarasch, spokeswoman for integration and refugees, as their lead candidate for the election. She previously served as chairwoman of the state party from 2011 to 2016. She was formally elected as lead candidate on 12 December.

On 9 October, state CDU leader Kai Wegner was selected as his party's lead candidate.

Prior to the election, incumbent mayor Michael Müller voiced his desire to move into federal politics rather than seek another term. On 30 November 2020, the state party executive nominated Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Franziska Giffey as lead candidate for the election. She was simultaneously elected co-leader of the Berlin branch of the party alongside parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh.

On 8 December, The Left nominated incumbent Deputy Mayor and Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer as its lead candidate for the election. Lederer is noted as one of the most popular politicians in Berlin, achieving consistently high approval ratings.

On 27 March 2021, the FDP elected parliamentary group leader Sebastian Czaja as their lead candidate for the election.

Opinion polling

Graphical summary

Party polling

Results

By constituency

Aftermath

Government formation
The results showed that the next government would have to consist of three parties, in order to get a majority; all parties ruled out the possibility of working with the AfD. Before the results, the SPD's candidate Franziska Giffey had stated that she was looking to form a coalition involving the CDU and the FDP. Post-election, both the SPD's Giffey and Bettina Jarasch of the Greens spoke out in favour of a coalition involving their parties but differed on a third partner, as Giffey favoured a traffic light coalition with the FDP, while the Greens voiced their desire to renew the incumbent red–red–green coalition with The Left. Giffey faced resistance within her party for her stance. The SPD and Greens agreed to seek preliminary discussions with both the FDP and Left. On 14 October, Giffey announced that the SPD would enter coalition negotiations with the Greens and The Left.

The three parties finalised a coalition agreement on 28 November. It was approved by 91.5% of delegates at an SPD congress on 5 December. On, 12 December, it was passed by the Greens congress 96.4% approval. The Left carried out a membership ballot on the coalition pact. Most party representatives endorsed the agreement, though some, such as Katalin Gennburg, campaigned against it. The results were announced on 17 December, with 74.9% of members voting in favour of the agreement.

Giffey was elected as Governing Mayor by the Abgeordnetenhaus on 21 December, winning 84 votes out of 139 votes. The Giffey senate, comprising four SPD, three Green, three Left, and one independent senator, was sworn in the same day.

Irregularities and annulment

Numerous irregularities were reported during the elections in Berlin, including shortages of ballot papers, unusually long queues to vote, ballots being delivered to the wrong locations, and in some cases voters being turned away or offered only ballot papers for the federal election. Problems were exacerbated by a marathon taking place in the city on the same day. Irregularities were especially common in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Friedrichshain districts. State electoral officer Petra Michaelis resigned three days after the election, taking responsibility for the failures in the election process. The state interior minister announced an inquiry into the events and stated that investigations would take place concerning incidents at approximately 100 of Berlin's 2,245 polling stations. This was later revised to 207 of 2,257 polling stations. Reviews and corrections are considered unlikely to change the overall results of the state or federal elections, but may affect the outcome of results in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 6 and Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1 constituencies for the state election. Preliminary results showed the SPD candidate ahead by 8 votes in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 6; a recount saw the seat flip to the Greens by a margin of 23 votes. The new result was later certified by the electoral office.

On 22 November, the state electoral committee and interior ministry requested that the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin rule on the validity of the election results in the Pankow 3, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 6, and Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1 constituencies. The court may determine that a repeat of the elections is necessary in the affected constituencies; it is expected to take several months to deliver its verdict. The interior ministry clarified that, although irregularities were recorded in many constituencies, they were only significant enough to change the result in the three specified. Nonetheless, the state government plans to establish an expert committee to investigate the irregularities.

After months of investigation and hearings, on 28 September 2022, the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin issued a preliminary assessment declaring that a full repeat of the both the state and district council elections was likely necessary. The court handed down its official ruling on 16 November, voiding the results and mandating a new election within 90 days.The president of the court  stated that the frequency and gravity of irregularities were severe enough to affect the outcome of the results, and that serious systemic flaws were present during preparation for the election.

The new election must take place within 90 days – 14 February 2023 at the latest. A likely date is Sunday 12 February. The repeat election will not reset the legislative period, meaning another full state election must still take place in 2026 or earlier.

In addition, the Election Audit Committee of the Bundestag reviewed the findings of the Berlin Constitutional Court to determine whether a repeat of the federal election was required in Berlin. On 7 November, the committee recommended that the elections be repeated in 431 affected polling stations. This was put forward by the governing coalition of the SPD, Greens, and FDP, who formed the majority in the committee. The CDU/CSU and AfD factions opposed this, insisting that a full repeat in the six affected constituencies should take place. The committee's recommendation was approved by the Bundestag on 10 November. Due to a differing process and anticipated legal challenges which could bring the issue before the Federal Constitutional Court, any repeat of the federal election in Berlin is unlikely to take place for a longer period of time, and may be delayed to 2024.

See also
 2021 Berlin referendum

Notes

References

External links

2021 elections in Germany
Elections in Berlin
Opinion polling in Germany
2021 in Berlin
Annulled elections


When you hear infrared therapy, it is unlikely that chiropractic care is the first thing that pops to mind. However, studies have shown the benefits of this kind of treatment. If you are looking for a chiropractor for Midtown West or anywhere in the NYC area, Rockefeller Health & Medical is the Midtown chiropractor for you.
Infrared therapy utilizes light and heat to treat a number of conditions. It is used for diagnostic purposes as well as for treatments. There are three main kinds of infrared radiation therapy: near, mid, and far. Each type of infrared radiation therapy is used to treat different conditions. However, they all use concentrated light rays to do this.
Infrared radiation therapy is used as a supportive pain-free method of improving mobility and reducing healing time that also lessens soreness and pain. As previously stated, there are three types of infrared radiation therapy that all have unique attributes and purposes.
Mid-infrared radiation therapy is helpful for pain relief and improved circulation. However, this is the least used form of infrared therapy used.
Imaging tests such as x-rays, EMGs, MRIs CAT scans, etc.
Another test that will be done before treatment with infrared radiation is begun is thermal imaging. This is used to determine where and how the blood is flowing throughout the body. It can help the doctor to determine where any disturbances to body temperature or blood flow lie. Those are the areas that will be targeted by infrared therapy.
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