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How Web3 is leading the paradigm shift in player-owned gaming [Podcast]
|In Opinion, Podcast, TechNode Global Insider, Web3
|By The Human & Machine
The world of gaming is undergoing a revolutionary shift. From hyper-realistic graphics to massive multiplayer worlds, the gaming industry is constantly pushing the boundaries of virtual immersion.
One of the most exciting developments in this evolution is the rise of metaverse gaming, where players can interact with each other and the environment in real-time, creating a truly immersive gaming experience.
However, the future of this industry holds even more exciting developments. The integration of Web3 technologies is set to revolutionize the way players engage with games.
QORPO, a Web3 game studio composed of experienced professionals from Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, and Riot Games, is innovating the entire gaming experience with these major advancements.
Player ownership redefined
The advent of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has had a significant impact on the gaming industry, transforming the way in which players interact with and monetize their in-game assets. Not to mention, NFTs have enabled the emergence of NFT marketplaces, where players can trade digital collectibles for other items of real-world value.
The new paradigm shift surrounding NFTs is fixing the skewed dynamics that exist between players and game developers. As QORPO CEO Rastislav Bakala explains, "the price of maxing out a character's attributes and inventory in a game like Diablo Immortal can reach over $100,000, yet players are unable to sell or monetize these assets in any way. This is an abuse of the free-to-play system by the developer."
In an effort to address the problem of player ownership, QORPO Game Studio has implemented the use of NFTs in their free-to-play shooter game, Citizen Conflict. In this dystopian metaverse where "Citizens" battle against "Corporations", players acquire characters, masks, and weapons that are each represented as NFTs.
Citizen Conflict players retain full ownership of their characters, masks, skins, and weapons as NFTs (source: citizenconflict.com)
By leveraging the Web3 standards powering NFTs, QORPO Game Studio has been able to allow players to rightfully own, upgrade and trade their assets using their digital profile. By doing so, players are able to explore new ways of experiencing game rewards.
QORPO is not the only one bringing the benefits of NFT digital ownership to gamers. The $5.9 billion Web3 company, Animoca Brands, is also "advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse". Other Web3-based games such as The Harvest and Illuvium are also pushing this paradigm forward.
Beyond gameplay, players have new monetization choices
Gamers have a long-standing tradition of showcasing their in-game achievements. And this tradition has given rise to secondary markets for in-game content, particularly weapon skins, even before the introduction of NFTs.
One example of this is the market for weapon skins in the popular game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). The CS:GO skins have gained immense popularity among gamers, with some fetching exorbitant prices on the secondary market. For instance, an AK-47 rifle skin in CS:GO was sold for $150,000.
Since the onset of NFTs, the scenario of in-game asset trading has changed significantly. Today, there are new revenue models for both players and game studios.
Players have the freedom to list their items on NFT trading platforms and sell them using non-custodial Web3 wallets, ensuring that no one, including the game developer, can take away their assets without consent.
Users have the freedom to buy, sell and trade game items on NFT marketplaces (source: qorpo.market)
However, that is not the only way to earn. Games and developers can also benefit from the sale of assets as NFTs, as well as from recurring royalty fees.
NFTs have resulted in a significant amount of royalties being paid out to creators, with over $1.8 billion being distributed on the Ethereum network alone. OpenSea ranks among the platforms that have paid out the most royalties. Notably, the average royalty percentage paid out to creators on OpenSea has seen a significant increase from 3 percent to 6 percent in the past year.
The possibilities of monetization and player engagement are just beginning. It is a trend that will continue to grow as the industry discovers the benefits of the concept and the technology behind it.
DAOs and social gaming communities
When we talk about the advancements in immersive gaming, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) cannot be overlooked.
DAOs are revolutionizing the gaming space by allowing players to have direct influence in the game's development and rules. They can be used to fund game development, manage in-game economies, and vote on game updates.
DAOs also help to enforce fair play and resolve community disputes through trustless smart contracts. "Once the voting ends, there is a clear verdict made by anonymous users, fully transparent, written on the blockchain, and managed by a smart contract," says Bakala.
Via the Citadel DAO, Citizen ID holders collectively vote on game features (source: citizenconflict.com)
With DAO involvement, players have a voice in the game development process, allowing them to have stronger emotional ties to the game's evolution.
QORPO's team experience working on hit titles such as Overwatch, Stray, DayZ, Mortal Kombat 11, and Arma III inspired them to recognize the importance of social inclusion. "DAO voting is the cleanest and most honest statistic that the developers can get from gamers – pure feedback regarding their product from the perspective of gamers and their opinions," adds Bakala.
A new era for gaming and beyond
The immersive gaming space is ripe with potential for innovation and growth. The future of gaming is in the hands of players and game developers, who have the power to shape new gaming standards. Games are heading towards a future where it's not just fun to play, but also deeply immersive, interactive and engaging to break the boundaries of traditional experiences.
The Human & Machine podcast is dedicated to inform and demystify the crypto, DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and blockchain industries for the average person.
Tlahui is a man in love with words and blockchain. His storytelling and passion to communicate led him to co-host The Human & Machine, a podcast and YouTube channel. Where he rightfully plays the role of an average-minded Human trying to understand and explain in layman terms, the lingo and complexities thrown at him by The Machine, his heartless, yet brilliant co-host.
Hikaru is a blockchain lover with a weakness for cooking. His outstanding understanding and experience in blockchain technologies, plus his unhuman work ethic have earned him the nickname of The Machine. In the show, he plays the role of a hybrid all-knowing robot that goes out of his way to explain blockchain concepts to The Human while trying not to lose faith in humanity.
Kenny Au, aka The Brain, is a #Web3.0 #FutureofWork #DistributedOrganizations Outerspace OG. His brain functions in spacetime. Plus his innate visions and strategies in Web 3.0 have developed him the nickname of The Brain.
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Lindsay Rugby Football Club Development Fund
One of the challenges faced by all amateur sport is getting the athletes on the playing field. Traditionally, one of the barriers has been that families and individuals must make choices between where to allocate the limited resources they have and in many cases the choice to be involved in organized sport takes a lower priority than food, shelter and other demands.
We want as many people to be involved in the sport of rugby as possible, because it is a great sport with a sense of community. We also want to improve rugby in Canada and improve Canada on the world rugby fields. Developing more players at the grass roots level has an impact at the National level. As more people become involved, the amount of resources input into the sport also increases. Players will be better, more-skilled athletes, who will strengthen the game at all levels domestically. By having better rugby players at the regional levels, there will be a bigger and more talented pool of players for selectors to choose from at the National level. This pool will aid in Rugby Canada's vision of putting all of our National Teams back into the top 10 in the world.
With that vision in mind, the Lindsay Rugby Football Club (LRFC) has created a development fund to assist athletes participate in the game of rugby, whether it be at the Club, Provincial, National or International level.
This fund has been started through seed money generated by fundraising and it is the intent of the LRFC to continue to raise funds to supplement and replenish the fund, so that the money can be used to support players for many years to come.
If you are an athlete, or parent of an athlete, who needs assistance to be involved in rugby, please complete the application below and submit to:
LRFC Development C/O Amanda Pascoe info@lindsayrugby.com
Application Form (in pdf format)

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Four Pensacola area prep baseball teams remain in the postseason with Tate vs. Milton as the local showcase on Tuesday.
The backdrop has become even grander at this stage of the high school baseball season, and Tate and Milton are in the center of it.
In the only local region playoff game Tuesday night among the final four Pensacola area teams left in postseason, the Aggies (23-4) and the Panthers (15-12) will meet in a rematch of last season in their Region 1-7A semifinal game. This time, the game is at Milton High.
"It was packed out last year at their place, and they got us," said Milton Panthers coach George Blake of the game that Tate won 4-2. "It's going to look even more packed at our place, because don't have the same amount of room at our field. It's special. It will be a great atmosphere for high school baseball."
While this game is happening, Catholic High and Gulf Breeze will attempt road upsets in their regional games.
Gulf Breeze (20-7), which has produced a breakthrough season with its first district championship in 37 years, will head to Panama City on Tuesday night to face state power Lynn Haven-Mosley in the Region 1-6A semifinal. Mosley boasts a 24-2 overall record and is the No. 1-ranked team in all classifications in Florida by MaxPreps.com.
Catholic (22-6) meanwhile, has a rematch with Providence (23-5) in the Region 1-4A championship game, but this time the Crusaders are making the long trek across Interstate-10 to Jacksonville. A year ago, Providence won 5-4 in what became the final postseason game for the Crusaders' longtime head coach Richard LaBounty.
Providence is ranked No. 4 in the MaxPreps poll of Florida teams. Catholic is No. 15.
"They didn't graduate many and we didn't either, so basically it is the same two teams," said Catholic's first-year coach Sonny Reedy, whose team advanced a week ago in dramatic fashion with a five-run walkoff rally to beat Jacksonville-Episcopal. "It should be a great matchup. They have great players."
For all four area teams, there is already the achievement of advancing this far. Catholic has reached the state's elite eight in Class 4A. Gulf Breeze, Tate and Milton are now among the final 16 teams in the state in their classifications.
Of course, Tate vs. Milton pairs two of those teams in 7A located about 40 minutes apart.
"It is special," Blake said. "There are lot of really good baseball teams around here. In our area, getting out of the district is tough. So to reach the final 16 is big. But my guys are not looking at it like that. We want to get to final eight and the final four. I don't know the last time Milton has made it to a region final in baseball."
Milton won the regular-season meeting between these teams in a 9-0 rout.
Both Tate and Catholic are coming off dramatic wins. Tate rallied in the sixth, then held off Niceville in the seventh to win last week's regional quarterfinal. Gabe Castro was on the mound then and he's expected to be there again.
Castro has been the guy with the ball in many of Tate's biggest wins.
"It doesn't get any easier," said Tate coach Greg Blackmon. "It doesn't matter who you play, they're going to have a guy (on mound) who is great and they are going to play hard. At this point, it is mano a mano and the best team wins ... . If you don't play well ... turn your stuff in."
Catholic had its improbable rally last Tuesday, after trailing Episcopal 4-2 entering the bottom of the seventh. Carl Gindl's two-run single tied the game. Matthew Estrada, who had homered in the sixth to give Catholic a 2-1 lead, followed with a three-run, walkoff homer.
Esrada also started the game and worked four innings, after being used only sparingly on the mound during the season. He's heading to the University of West Florida next year.
"These kids, they never quit, and they always believe they can win," Reedy said.
TICKETS: $7 (all region game prices set by FHSAA).


Easy, delicious Caramel Apple Pumpkins are the perfect no-bake, cute and festive treat for every Fall occasion!
I don't know when or where or how it happened exactly, but Summer just got swept away when I wasn't looking and somehow it's practically Fall. September snuck up on us so fast this year! I can't believe I am planning my soon-to-be two-year-olds' birthday party and picking out Halloween Costumes.
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I'm so sad Summer is over, but I am really looking forward to so many fun things ahead of us right now. My kids are in the best stage right now, everything is magical and they are starting to "get" things. I'm so excited to take them trick or treating and plan lots of fun holiday activities. Fall really is my favorite time of the year and a huge part of that is the food!
I adore pumpkin, cinnamon, and apple everything, so this time of year I feel like I'm in my own personal flavor heaven. These delicious caramel apples are a fun and easy twist on the traditional Autumn treat and they are no-bake and completely kid-friendly!
Turn your classic caramel apples into adorable edible "pumpkins" with just a couple of easy peasy extra steps. Happy caramel apple dipping!!
Push wooden dowels into the top of the apples. Line a large platter or baking sheet with nonstick foil.
Place caramels and heavy cream in a medium bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Stir, return to microwave for 20 seconds at a time until smooth.
Dip apples in the caramel, turning the apple and spooning caramel over the apple as necessary to cover the apple as much as possible. Place on prepared foil-lined platter or baking sheet.
In a medium bowl melt orange candy melts in the microwave for 20 seconds at a time, stirring after each, until smooth.
Dip caramel apples in the orange candy melt mixture, turning as necessary to coat evenly. Return to platter/baking sheet.
In a small ziplock plastic bag, melt green candy melts in the microwave for 20 seconds at a time until completely melted. Snip off a very small corner of the plastic bag, then use to "draw" green squiggly lines at the top of each caramel apple.
Allow to cool and harden. Store at room temperature up to three days.


Our lab studies the immune response to filariae, tissue-invasive roundworms transmitted by arthropods. Filariae are parasitic organisms that cause devastating diseases throughout the tropics. Pathogenic human filariae include Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi, which cause lymphatic filariasis, Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness, and Loa loa, which causes African eyeworm. Lymphatic filariasis alone infects approximately 100 million people worldwide and causes painful and disfiguring manifestations such as genital swelling and lymphedema in over 40 million of these individuals. Onchocerciasis infects between 30 and 40 million people, causing skin disease in most and blindness or severe visual impairment in almost one million, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Because these diseases maim, but do not kill, they cause lifelong suffering and are a leading cause of morbidity worldwide.
The immune response to filariae is markedly different than that to most viral, bacterial, and fungal infections. Like other helminths, filariae induce a type 2 immune response characterized by eosinophilia, elevated serum levels of Ag-specific and polyclonal IgE, and increases in T-cell production of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13. When a person is infected for a long time, however, the immune response to filarial worms diminishes, though the rest of the immune system continues to function against other infections. While it is clear that IL-4 plays a central role in driving type 2 responses, the exact factors responsible for the initiation, maintenance, and eventual diminution of the Th 2 immune response in filarial infections remain unknown. Recent studies from our group have demonstrated that basophils function to amplify type 2 immune responses and that the immunoregulation induced by chronic filarial infection does not impair the host's ability to control tuberculosis.
By studying the immune response to filarial worms, our lab hopes to develop novel methods to prevent and treat these infections.
We conduct studies in basic parasitology to increase our knowledge of filaria biology, enhance our ability to work with these organisms, and gain insights into novel anti-filarial drug and vaccine discovery. Studies in this area include proteomic analyses of different anatomical structures of filariae, development of model systems of filariasis, enhancement of in vitro cultivation of filarial worms, and identification of the nutritional requirements of filariae.
In addition to conducting research on filarial diseases, we also study the beneficial effects of parasitic worms on allergy and autoimmunity. By increasing our understanding of how worms protect against these inflammatory conditions, we hope to develop insights into novel approaches to treat these diseases. Diseases studied in the lab include type 1 diabetes, lupus, immediate cutaneous hypersensitivity, and immune complex-mediated (Type III) hypersensitivity. Recently, we demonstrated that worms induce protection against type 1 diabetes by increasing host production of IL-10, a downregulatory cytokine. We have also shown in both mouse models and humans that chronic helminth infections make it more difficult to fully activate basophils, which are important allergy-effector cells, through their IgE receptors. Finally, we actively work to develop new therapies for allergic and autoimmune diseases by identifying mechanisms to replicate the immune responses induced by worms without using live parasites.


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A Taste of Blood and Ashes
By Jaden Terrell
When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down during an attack by a frenzied stallion. Jared believes someone else is behind the arson.
Knowing the arsonist is almost certainly someone in community of those who breed and show Walking Horses, Jared and his new assistant, his half-sister Khanh, attend a local horse show in hopes of flushing out the culprit. There are suspects aplenty, including a groom on the run from a powerful cartel, a modern day robber baron, and a beautiful gold-digger whose dreams are filled with fire.
Secrets pile on top of secrets, and as Zane's memories of the events leading to his accident begin to return, the situation becomes deadly. Jared and Khanh find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer who will do anything to keep the past in the past.
Jaden Terrell is a Shamus Award finalist and the internationally published author of three Jared McKean mysteries. Terrell is a contributor to Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for writers of crime fiction and is a recipient of the 2009 Magnolia Award for service to the South-eastern Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Terrell is active in the writing community, serving as special programs coordinator for the Killer Nashville Thriller, Mystery, and Crime Literature Conference and as a board member for MWA and the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime. A graduate of the Citizen Police Academy and the FBI/TBI Citizen Academy, the former special education teacher has a red belt in Tae Kwan Do and is certified in Equine Sports Massage Therapy.


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Augusta, ShotLink Notes
November 02, 2005 / Geoff Shackelford
Two interesting notes from PGA.com:
MASTERS PREVIEW: Ben Crane is assured of playing in his first Masters (through the PGA Tour money list), and he wasted no time getting his first look at Augusta National.
A week after the club had its fall opening, Crane spent four days at Augusta and played five rounds.
"I hadn't played in a few weeks and wasn't expecting anything,'' he said. "I shot 4-under, made eagle on No. 13. I thought, 'This is no problem.' And I never came close to that the rest of the week.''
For those curious about the latest batch of changes, stretching the course to 7,445 yards, Crane confirmed suspicions that the par-3 fourth hole will be a beast. It has a new tee box some 35 yards longer, making it play about 240 yards. He hit 2-iron one day, and 3-wood the other four times he played.
SHOTLINK: Officials at the Chrysler Championship thought Dennis Paulson had made history as the first player to reach the 605-yard fifth hole in two. According to the Shotlink system, which uses lasers to track every shot by every player, Paulson's second shot went 287 yards and onto the green.
Statistics showed he took two putts for a birdie.
Alas, Shotlink is operated by humans, and humans do err.
"I was through the green,'' Paulson said, noting that his 3-wood went just beyond the fringe into the first cut. Told that Shotlink had him taking two putts, he rolled his eyes and said, "Great. As if my putting stats weren't bad enough.''
It wasn't the first time Paulson has been subjected to a Shotlink mix-up. At the Reno-Tahoe Open, he said the system operators had him mistaken for playing partner Paul Goydos throughout the round.
"One hole, they had Goydos 70 yards past me,'' he said. "My driving distance average went down that week.''
November 02, 2005 / Geoff Shackelford/ 5 Comments
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Indian River Loses Referendum, Many Voters Lack Confidence In Leadership
The News Journal is reporting Indian River lost their referendum by a mere 30 votes, with 3,321 for and 3,351 against. It reminds me of a recent election in our country. I have no doubt the district will roll the dice with a 2nd attempt in the next couple of months. But the district has to own up to the audit investigation last week. By stating the referendum has nothing to do with that report, they are shooting themselves in the foot. I have a very hard time with Susan Bunting and her credibility at this point. If Patrick Miller, the former CFO, was controlling everything with finances in the district then she let him do that. She turned a blind eye to what was going on and that shows a clear lack of leadership. As well, the Board has the capability of determining the district's finances.
Bunting said issues need to be addressed across the board to ensure the referendum passes if it is held again. Although an audit was released late last week detailing financial issues over the past five years, Bunting said she won't blame the audit for the failure for the referendum to pass.
If it was one year or possibly two that Miller played with school finances, that would be one thing. But this went on a long time. Even more frightening that it took tips to the Auditor's office to get to the bottom of it. Not only was Bunting and the Board asleep at the wheel, so was our state. What happened in Indian River should give our legislators a wake-up call as well. They should somehow get funding from somewhere and beef up the State Auditor of Accounts Office. Every school district and charter school in this state needs a thorough audit. We cannot continue like this. Our children lose every single time. All this talk of extra funding for schools… the funds are already there. We just need to redefine the existing funding and find a system where those funds are used equitably for all students. We can't afford to stick with the status quo and then act shocked when we see reports like the Indian River one last week.
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Sanjeev Krishan, Chairman, PwC India
Sanjeev Krishan is Chairman of PwC in India. Previously, he served as the Deals leader. Sanjeev has been with the firm for 29 years, having joined in 1991 as an articled trainee. He became a partner in 2006 and has successfully led the firm's Transactions, Private Equity and Deals business over the years, getting the firm to a pre-eminent position amongst its Private Equity clients and their investee companies.
Sanjeev has served in diverse leadership and client service roles and has extensive India and overseas experience in Deals work across a range of sectors, such as technology, consumer and industrial products. Among his prior roles, he was a member of the team that set up the Transaction Services practice in India, and has spearheaded the relationship with most global private equity funds, personally looking to raise the firm's focus on numerous funds. Sanjeev did a brief stint with PwC Sweden as part of an International Exchange programme, where he worked with several Private Equity funds and Corporate clients, mostly on cross-border deals.
Sanjeev frequently interacts with the media on various issues ranging from insolvency to mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, he regularly participates in seminars, panel discussions and events held in India, as well as overseas, and is also part of FICCI's National Committee on Stressed Assets. Sanjeev is a member of the Rotary Club of Delhi, South.
He is a certified Chartered Accountant, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Sanjeev graduated with First Class in Economics from the University of Delhi and remains an active and proud alum. A New Delhi native, he joined the firm after graduation.
Sanjeev is passionate about playing a part in building a sustainable future for the society we live in, and actively advocates the causes of conservation, socio-economic inclusion and diversity. He has also been specifically focussed on sponsorship of women employees, especially to get them back to work after their mid-career breaks.
A nature lover, Sanjeev sets out for weekend getaways with his family every few months, whenever his schedule permits. He enjoys his morning walks and exercise regimen, and until recently, played squash to keep healthy. He lives in New Delhi with his parents, wife and two children.


OrionHealth has an exciting opportunity to assess and treat a very interesting and diverse chronic pain patient population. As a Physician in our program you would supported by a skilled interdisciplinary team of professionals, including Pharmacists, Psychologists, Clinical Counsellors, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Kinesiologists.
We are currently seeking the services of a Physician who will be responsible for performing medical assessments to determine rehabilitation and treatment requirements, starting at 1 day per week.
The OrionHealth CARF accredited Pain Management Program has an excellent reputation with third party referrers, medical specialists, and community physicians for its comprehensive successful approach to assisting individuals suffering persistent pain. You will be providing service in the OrionHealth Surrey clinic, a large well equipped facility attached to the Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex. The patient population is non-MSP, referred through third party insurers such as WorkSafeBC, RCMP, Veteran's Affairs, and LTD.
If you are already working in a pain management practice and seek a different setting to utilize your expertise, or if you are a recent graduate with an interest in this area of practice and would like to be mentored by experienced Physicians, this opportunity is for you!
Determine and recommend suitability for program, medical closure and risk issues, assessments, investigations, medication changes and treatment as required.
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Liaise with the multidisciplinary treatment team.
Document medical status and progress.
Contribute to the staff and program development aspects of the programs by providing input and seminars at clinical development meetings and in communities of practice.
Knowledgeable of medication best practices for pain, mood, and sleep issues.
Proven ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.


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OCC Flags Warning Signs of Operational, Credit and Interest Rate Risks
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In its Fall 2019 Semiannual Risk Perspective, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) highlights operational, credit and interest rate risks among key risk themes posing threats to the financial institutions it regulates. The themes, addressed by the OCC in this report, cover current and emerging risks facing national banks and federal savings associations as of June 30, 2019.
The highlighted risks in the latest report align with the OCC's 2020 fiscal year bank supervision operating plan, which lays out the regulator's top supervisory priorities based on its view of significant risks impacting the banking system.
According to the OCC, banks' exposure to operational risks is on the rise as they adapt to a changing and increasingly complex operating environment. A key factor driving the elevation in operational risk is the need to adapt and evolve current technology systems for ongoing cybersecurity threats. In the regulator's view, advances in technology and innovation in core banking systems create challenges and risks if they are not effectively understood, implemented or controlled.
Additional drivers of operational risks are the increasing use of third-party service providers, which requires effective planning and ongoing oversight, and the continued threat of fraud. The potential for operational disruptions underscores the need for effective controls and operational resilience to help ensure the ongoing delivery of financial products and services in a safe and sound manner.
The OCC's comment on operational resilience is notable given the recent significant efforts by UK supervisory authorities to begin to formalize policy ideas around operational resilience. The Bank of England (BOE), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued the policy proposals in a series of coordinated consultation papers on December 5, 2019.
While UK regulators are leading the global regulatory effort to increase resilience supervision, operational and cybersecurity resilience have been on the OCC's radar for several years. In the 2020 bank supervision operating plan, the regulator emphasizes threat vulnerability and detection, access controls and data management, and managing third-party connections, among its supervisory objectives. It also announced its intention to expand examinations into cybersecurity and operational resilience risks to include information technology risk management evaluation and institutions' information technology systems maintenance.
Credit Risks
The latest report also highlights the OCC's concern about credit risk, which the regulator stated has accumulated in many portfolios. While credit performance remains strong, the OCC warns banks to prepare for a cyclical change by maintaining robust credit control functions, particularly credit review, and by focusing on problem loan identification and workout, collections, and collateral management.
Banks should also be on the lookout for borrowers that are most vulnerable to reduced cash flows from slower than anticipated economic growth. Direct and indirect credit risk should be actively managed, and management should understand how risk outside the federal banking system, such as the leveraged loan market where nonbank entities continue to increase their participation, could migrate into the banking system or affect borrowers or the bank's credit risk, the report states.
In response to the OCC's concern about credit risk, its 2020 supervisory plan directs examiners to focus on evaluating credit risk appetites, risk layering and portfolio risk exposure.
As credit risk concerns increase, Protiviti's experts recommend the use of troubled asset tracking and reporting as a tool to support lender performance programs and facilitate timely and open communication between management and the board. These efforts can greatly enhance a bank's ability to identify and manage borderline loans. Executive and board involvement should not be limited to loan approvals; it can also contribute to successful collection strategies for large non-performing credit relationships.
Interest Rate Risks
The report notes the elevated levels of interest rate risks due to recent volatility in market rates. Global banks are jittery about the potential effects of a prolonged low or negative interest rate environment given the potential impact on bank activities and risk exposures. The OCC expects lower interest rates with a flat or inverted U.S. yield curve to compress banks' net interest margins (NIM) and profitability. Should the interest rate environment worsen, it could also impact loan growth and economic growth, and cause credit quality to deteriorate.
LIBOR Phaseout Risks
The potential phaseout of the London Interbank Offering Rate (LIBOR) as a reference rate after 2021 is another major risk concern on the OCC's radar. In the latest report, the OCC said it will increase regulatory oversight of this area to evaluate banks' awareness and preparedness for the change. The regulator said its examiners intend to evaluate whether banks have begun to assess their exposure to LIBOR to determine potential impacts and develop risk management strategies.
Financial institutions already have myriad concerns over the transition to a LIBOR replacement, including how legacy contracts that reference LIBOR would be altered to reference the new rate and document management challenges. Advanced data mining technologies and artificial intelligence are among the creative solutions that can help institutions manage the expected workload and transition risks.
Other Notable Risks
In its discussion of strategic risks facing the federal banking system, the OCC cited the following:
Non-depository financial institutions (NDFI) continue to disrupt retail and commercial lending markets and are strong competitors to bank lending models. According to the OCC, the pressure from NDFIs may lead banks to reduce costs, including those associated with risk control units.
Banks continue to invest in research and development to incorporate sophisticated capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to support Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML) compliance programs, and sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control under the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The OCC said the increasing interest in innovative and evolving technologies, such as sharing utilities to implement BSA/AML and sanctions processes and controls, exposes banks to strategic risks.
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Nightforce 42x44mm Competition Scope Review by James Mock
Nightforce's 42x44mm fixed-power Benchrest scope mounted on James Mock's 6mm Dasher.
Nightforce 42x44mm Comp Scope for Benchrest Shooters, by James Mock
Among long range shooters the name Nightforce has long commanded respect because of NF's great optics and durability. However, the Benchrest disciplines that require either a 10-lb or 10.5-lb rifle had to forego the use of the Nightforce scopes because of their two+ pounds of weight. Some used the Benchrest model in the Heavy Varmint category (13.5-lb max weight) but not many in the Light Varmint, Sporter, or Hunter categories. That may change thanks to a new scope from Nightforce.
The folks at Nightforce Optics listened to benchrest shooters in the lighter classes and developed a new, light weight 42x44mm Competition Scope that weighs just 20.7 ounces. This scope comes as a fixed-power 42X and is without some of the "bells and whistles" of its larger cousins.
Key features of this scope important to Benchrest shooters are: ED glass, 42X power, 44mm objective lens, 88mm eye relief (~3.5 inches), 45 MOA elevation adjustment, 35 MOA windage, 10 MOA per revolution, 2.87-foot field of view at 100 yards, quick focus, click value of .125 inch, parallax adjustment from 10 meters (~33 ft.) to infinity, and an overall length of 15.2 inches. Also, you can set a "zero" easily. After obtaining conventional zero simply loosen one set screw per turret and set the dial at zero.
I received this scope on Monday, February 15th and mounted it on my BAT-action 6mm Dasher and zeroed it for a 600-yard match on Saturday, February 20th. My first impression of this scope was the amazing image produced by the ED glass. Although it is made with a 44mm objective lens (to save weight), one cannot say that the image is not clear. The image is outstanding from edge to edge and the image color is true. Nightforce offers two reticle options: the CTR-2 and CTR-3. Both reticles feature .016″ MOA vertical and horizontal lines, but the CTR-2 includes a .095 MOA center dot.
It took a small amount of faith to shoot the scope in a 600-yard match a few days after receiving it. Although I had shot only a few rounds with the scope mounted on my BAT Dasher, I knew that the Nightforce reputation was solid and my results would depend on the "nut" at the end of the rifle.
At the match, I fired a few shots to confirm zero and really appreciated the scope's crisp 1/8th-MOA clicks. The adjustments were spot on at the 600-yard range and there was no problem getting my zero at the 600-yard distance. Remember, I had not shot at 600 yards with this scope, but I dialed in 11.5 MOA from my 100 yard zero and the resulting impact was correct. Each eight clicks delivered a precise one-MOA movement (about 6 inches) on the 600-yard target. The picture below is at the range as I was preparing for the first relay.
Our 600-yard match (non-registered) features 20 record rounds fired on the IBS target with steel gongs for sighters. The winter mirage can be brutal in this part of the country, but the Nightforce handled it without problems. Before the match was over, the left to right wind caused me to dial in two minutes (~12 inches) of windage and the scope was precise and I posted my 3rd best score with 191/200. The very fine .095″ dot allows for great precision in aiming.
Actual target shot by James Mock at 300 yards using Nightforce 42x44mm scope. James won the match.
My next match to use the scope was a 300-yard score match on March 5th. I had one chance to zero my rifle for this match and again I had no trouble changing the zero with the crisp, repeatable adjustments of this fine scope. The day was cool with bright sunshine and switchy tail winds. The new Nightforce handled the conditions very well, even with the horrible mirage. We shot two, 10-shot targets on the IBS 300-yard target. I shot 99-3X on the first and 99-3X on the second to win the match by one point over Mitch Young. Above is my second target, and the new scope let me see every shot through the mirage. There were many others who said that they could not see their bullet holes.
Summary of Nightforce 42x44mm Review
This 42x44mm optic is everything that I want in a scope. The 1/8th-MOA adjustments are crisp and repeatable. The center dot is small (.095 MOA). The image is sharp and clear all the way to the edges, and the ED glass provides a sensational image. The turret markings are distinct and there are 10 MOA per revolution. And you get all this in a scope that weighs 20.7 ounces with a 44mm objective lens. The low weight makes this scope viable for all benchrest classes. I believe the short range Benchrest shooters will welcome this scope and pay the sales price of $1742.00 (MSRP is $1795.00). Good shooting — James Mock
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I think a bit more active testing is required over shooting two practice matches. NF production quality in other scope options have been a bit hit and miss recently with glue seepage and tracking failures over extended matches.
Wow! Richard I've never heard of a Nighforce scope having tracking problems. What is glue seepage? You mean the glue around the lenses are melting and pouring into the tube?
Matt – I've experienced NF scopes failing due to tracking becoming an problem when the internals fail. There is also a current issue with the glue used to hold the lenses in place that is being quietly dealt with.
The issue I have with this scope is, for Short and Long Range BR, a scope needs to have these issues worked though before the release and not be drowned in the hoop-lat of marketing and brand loyalty.
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As the world's need for energy grows, research focuses on developing clean fuel initiatives to make the most of traditional fossil fuels while investing in cutting edge research to develop sustainable technologies which can be produced from diverse sources, including biofuels, wind and solar energy.
Learn more about the centers and institutes that focus on this area
Developing energy efficient technologies for buildings, homes, transportation, power systems and industry is a key component of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab work on bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace; and making a difference in the everyday lives of consumers by enhancing their energy choices and their quality of life.
Energy technologies can have profound consequences for the environment both over the long term, as evidenced by the global climate change from fossil fuel carbon emissions, and immediately, as was made vividly clear by the historic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Sustainable energy technologies will carry their own environmental impacts that must be understood before widespread implementation.
Even the most innovative and effective technologies cannot solve the world's energy and climate problems without commensurate changes in public policy. Understanding the potential social and economic impacts of sustainable energy technologies will be critical to their success.
The Berkeley centers and programs highlighted here are exploring a wide range of research related to energy production:
Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI)
EBI is a partnership between UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and the University of Illinois. Funded by a $500 million, ten-year grant from the energy company BP, researchers at EBI are charged with using biology, the physical sciences, engineering, and environmental and social sciences to devise viable solutions to global energy challenges and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on global warming. The world's first research institution solely dedicated to energy bioscience, EBI research is initially focused on the development of next-generation biofuels, but is also looking into various applications of biology to the energy sector.
Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
JBEI is one of the three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Centers. This scientific partnership is led by Berkeley Lab and includes the Sandia National Laboratories, the University of California (UC) campuses of Berkeley and Davis, the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). JBEI's five-year mission, which DOE has funded at $135 million, is to advance the development of the next generation of biofuels. JBEI carries out its research through four interlocking divisions: Feedstocks, Deconstruction, Fuels Synthesis, and Technologies.
Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC)
The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) is a multi-institution research effort to lay the foundation for the emerging field of synthetic biology. SynBERC's vision is to catalyze biology as an engineering discipline by developing the foundational understanding and technologies to allow researchers to design and build standardized, integrated biological systems to accomplish many particular tasks. In essence, we are making biology easier to engineer.
The Helios effort is a solar energy initiative at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and UC Berkeley. The primary goal of this effort is to develop methods to "store" solar energy in the form of renewable transportation fuel. Several approaches under investigation include the generation of biofuels from biomass, the generation of biofuels by algae, and the direct conversion of water and carbon dioxide to fuels by the use of solar energy.
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC)
The Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) is the Graduated National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Microsensors and Microactuators. We conduct industry-relevant, interdisciplinary research on micro- and nano-scale sensors, moving mechanical elements, microfluidics, materials, processes & systems that take advantage of progress made in integrated-circuit, bio, and polymer technologies.
Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
ERG is an interdisciplinary academic unit at UC Berkeley. ERG's mission is to develop, transmit and apply critical knowledge to enable a future in which human material needs and a healthy environment are mutually and sustainably satisfied. Established in 1973, ERG offers programs of study in Energy and Resources for graduate students leading to MA, MS, and PhD degrees. ERG also offers an undergraduate minor.
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
RAEL focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. The laboratory's mission is to help these technologies realize their full potential to contribute to environmentally sustainable development in both industrialized and developing nations while also addressing the cultural context and range of potential social impacts of any new technology or resource management system.
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute (BNNI)
The Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute (BNNI) is the umbrella organization for expanding and coordinating Berkeley research and educational activities in nanoscale science and engineering. UC Berkeley has a number of unique strengths in this rapidly expanding field with over 90 faculty with active research programs in nanoscale science and engineering.
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
QB3 harnesses the quantitative sciences of physics and engineering to unify our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity—from atoms and molecules to cells, tissues, and entire living organisms. QB3 scientists make discoveries that drive the development of new technologies, products, and industries, ensuring that California remains competitive in the 21st century. In addition to driving California's economic development, a major goal of QB3 is to train a new generation of students able to fully integrate the quantitative sciences with biological research.
Two Department of Energy Frontier Research Centers have also recently been established:
Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2
The objective of this center is to use new investigative tools, combined with experiments and computational methods, to build a next generation understanding of molecular – to – pore scale processes in fluid-rock systems, and to demonstrate the ability to control critical aspects of flow and transport in porous rock media, in particular as applied to geologic sequestration of CO2. It is a collaborative effort led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of California campus at Davis (UC Davis) and Washington University in St. Louis.
Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies
In order to achieve a substantial reduction in carbon emissions, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) plays a significant role, as the predicted use of fossil fuels will continue to grow. There are two factors that determine the success of large-scale employment of CCS: the uncertainties associated with the sequestration in geological formations and the costs associated with carbon capture. This work of researchers at this Center focuses on the energy costs associated with the separation of CO2 from gas mixtures. The vision of our EFRC is to develop the science to create, understand, and predict novel materials that are tailor-made with exactly the right molecular properties to separate gasses relevant for clean energy technologies.
Research activities related to energy demand are concentrated in the following Berkeley centers and institutes:
California Institute for Energy and the Environment (CIEE)
CIEE is a University of California partnership of energy agencies, utilities, building industry, non-profits, and research entities. CIEE's mission is to increase the security and sustainability of energy systems in California, to help assure continued access to reliable, affordable energy services for all Californians, to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of California's agricultural, manufacturing, and service industries, and to contribute to improving the environment, including regional air and water quality and quality of the indoor built environment, while remaining sensitive to global warming issues. CIEE is a branch of the University of California Energy Institute.
BSAC is the Graduated National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Microsensors and Microactuators. BSAC researchers conduct industry-relevant, interdisciplinary research on micro- and nano-scale sensors, moving mechanical elements, microfluidics, materials, processes & systems that take advantage of progress made in integrated-circuit, bio, and polymer technologies
RAEL is a unique new research, development, project implementation, and community outreach facility that focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. The laboratory's mission is to help these technologies realize their full potential to contribute to environmentally sustainable development in both industrialized and developing nations while also addressing the cultural context and range of potential social impacts of any new technology or resource management system.
i4Energy Center
The mission of the i4Energy Center is to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution. The i4Energy Center is a collaboration among CITRIS; the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE); and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)
PATH is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Caltrans. PATH is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty, and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions.
Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR)
CEDR's mission is to foster research in environmental planning and design and to promote innnovations energy efficiency and green design and sustainability. The scope of environmental planning and design is broad, ranging from the local environments of people within buildings to region-wide ecosystems, from small details of building construction to large-scale urban planning, from the history of the built environment to the design process itself.
Center for the Built Environment (CBE)
CBE aims to improve the design, operation, and environmental quality of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on building technologies and design techniques. The CBE research team and industry partners are developing ways to "take the pulse" of occupied buildings - looking at how people use space, asking them what they like and don't like about their indoor environment, and linking these responses to physical measurements of indoor environmental quality. This feedback is highly valuable those who manage, operate, and design buildings. They also study technologies that hold promise for making buildings more environmentally friendly, more productive to work in, and more economical to operate.
The Green Building Research Center (GBRC)
GBRC was created to advance and promote sustainable building design and operation on the UC Berkeley campus, and provide resources to aid other universities in similar efforts across the state.
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry is advancing green chemistry through research, teaching and engagement in three interdisciplinary areas of inquiry: New Chemistries, Health and Environment, and Policy and Economy. Investigators in chemistry, the environmental health sciences, public policy, business, and law are developing new science and scholarship that is placing green chemistry, alongside carbon-neutral technologies, as a cornerstone of environmentally sustainable development and the green economy.
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS)
Research in the LMAS is concerned with the analysis and improvement of manufacturing processes and the development of tools to analyze sustainability. Specifically, research is focused on minimizing/removing contaminants and machining defects during manufacture, improving the precision and repeatability of chemical mechanical polishing, and modeling sustainable, environmentally-conscious manufacturing processes and systems.
The Berkeley centers and programs highlighted here facilitate a wide range of research projects related to the environment:
Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology
The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB) aims to facilitate and coordinate cutting-edge research in Global Change Biology. The approach of the Initiative emphasizes using integrated analyses of fossil, historic, and modern biological data, much of which is unique to UC Berkeley. By applying new technologies to understand past responses, researchers affiliated with the Initiative hope to develop predictions of future biological change.
Berkeley Water Center
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Nearly 9 in 10 Companies Plan to Hire MBA Graduates in 2017
List of Schools Accepting the Executive Assessment Continues to Grow
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Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management is the latest business school to begin accepting the Executive Assessment for its executive MBA program as an alternative to the GMAT™ exam.
The number of executive MBA programs has grown tremendously in the past two decades. The membership of the Executive MBA Council, an association of colleges and universities worldwide that offer executive MBA programs, has grown from 124 at the beginning of the 1990s to 317 in 2016.
To address the growing interest in the executive MBA, GMAC partnered with leading global business schools in 2015 to develop the Executive Assessment, a customized assessment specifically designed to meet the admissions needs of executive MBA programs worldwide. The assessment was designed to evaluate business school readiness in the context of a candidate's career experience and to help executive MBA programs understand program readiness.
The Executive Assessment helps executive MBA admissions professionals to assess a candidate's program readiness by measuring skills that are critical for individual success at work and in an executive MBA program: higher order reasoning, critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving, all within a short, 90-minute assessment.
Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management is the latest school to accept the exam for admission to its executive MBA program. The assessment is currently accepted at several leading business schools from around the world, including: China European International Business School (CEIBS), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Columbia Business School, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, IESE Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business, and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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Zamboni Cashing In on Its Fame as Hot Commodity in the World of Ice
Though skaters with the names of Lipinski, Lemieux, Yamaguchi and Gretzky are among the greatest to take to the ice, the most famous name on the slippery surface belongs to a slow, clunky, 53-year-old.
Nestled in the sunny backlot of Los Angeles is Paramount-based Frank J. Zamboni Co., maker of the boxy ice resurfacing machine called the Zamboni that's been smoothing dings, ruts and gouges on ice surfaces and entertaining crowds while it does so.
The tight-lipped and closely-held company is sliding along a particularly slick streak now. Interest in ice sports typically spikes after the Winter Olympics, but lately ice sports are enjoying an unusual popularity.
Beyond that, however, Zamboni finds itself in the position of being able to capitalize on something rare: Its brand. Its image. In short, its famous and funky name.
Zamboni has about two dozen licensing agreements, including a children's book, ice scrapers, hockey jerseys, remote control toys, infant clothing and even a 1:18 scale die-cast model bearing the logos of the 30 NHL franchises.
And the pace is picking up. Some Zamboni goods are found on Target's shelves, Zamboni Happy Meal Toys were in Canadian McDonald's last fall and a biography of Frank Zamboni and his eponymous machine is due out this fall.
All those licensing agreements mean the Zamboni name is one cool commodity though the company is not disclosing exactly how cool.
"I can tell you that if they're not making in the high six figures annually for each licensing agreement, they're doing something wrong," said L.A.-based branding expert and consultant Rob Frankel. "Licensing is a cash cow; but when you combine the high-profit, low-cost nature of the licensing business with the strength of the Zamboni brand; it's more like a cash farm."
In fact, Sasha Strauss, director of brand development for L.A.-based Brand Sense Partners, said the name could generate more for the company's bottom line than sales of the machines.
"This is as close to a perfect brand as you can get," gushed Strauss. "It's taken on rock-star status with hockey fans and has taken on an eclectic yet dependable image with everyone else I'd bet my job they're making millions a year off of the name alone."
Accidental birth
The fact that one of his father's greatest ideas was putting his own name on a boxy machine is an irony that doesn't escape Richard Zamboni, now the chief executive of the company. Had Frank Zamboni named it the "Slick Willie" or the "Ice-O-Nator," it likely wouldn't have resonated with the hockey faithful and become the symbol for an entire industry.
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Parti sans laisser d'adresse est un film franco-suisse réalisé par Jacqueline Veuve et sorti en 1982.

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Titre : Parti sans laisser d'adresse
 Réalisation : Jacqueline Veuve
 Scénario : Jacqueline Veuve, avec la collaboration d'Eric de Kuyper
 Photographie : Philippe Tabarly
 Décors : Alain Nicolet
 Son : Laurent Barbey
 Musique : Jean-François Acker, Carlos D'Alessio et Gilles Perroud
 Montage : Edwige Ochsenbein
 Production :  Aquarius Film - Marion's Films - Télévision Suisse-Romande
 Pays d'origine :  -
 Durée :
 Date de sortie : France -

Distribution
 Jacques Zanetti
 Roland Amstutz
 Emmanuelle Ramu
 François Dyrek
 Jean-Pierre Basté
 Vania Vilers
Michel Cassagne
François Migeat

Sélections
 1982 : Festival de Cannes (sélection de la Semaine de la critique)
 1982 : Festival de Locarno (Prix du jury œcuménique)

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Isabelle Jordan, Positif, , ,
 Jacqueline Lajeunesse, La Revue du cinéma, , ,
 Daniel Uhmann, Cinéma 82, , ,
 Jean-Louis Cros, La Saison cinématographique 82, ,
 Jeune Cinéma, , ,

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1982
Film suisse sorti en 1982
Film dramatique français
Film dramatique suisse


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Q: Set up a bluetooth DUN as HOST I can't find instructions on how to make my Ubuntu share its internet connection through bluetooth.
The goal is to connect my Android smartphone to the Internet. My laptop is connected to the WiFi network. The router filters the devices and won't allow my phone to connect to it directly.
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Q: Dynamically add labels and textboxes on the basis of datagridview WPF im new to WPF
Actually I created an XML Editor where it will browse an xml file and load it elements data into datagrid view like thisenter image description here
but when i double clicked on any row in data grid it need to dynamically populate labels and textboxes with its values like this
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Help me through this

A: In order to dynamically fill a textblock or a label on a double click of a datagrid, you can :
-First add the event to your datagrid in the xaml:
<DataGrid x:Name="datagrid" MouseDoubleClick="datagrid_MouseDoubleClick"></DataGrid>

-Then retrieve the data in the event in order to display them in the label or textblock :
        private void datagrid_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            YourClass SelectedItem = (YourClass)datagrid.SelectedItem;
            if(SelectedItem != null)
            {
                textblock1.Text = SelectedItem.name;
                textblock2.Text = SelectedItem.id.ToString();
                label1.Text = SelectedItem.branch;
            }
        }


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Home Blog In Defense of the Cubicle
The lowly cubicle has gotten a lot of hate over the years. From comic strips like Dilbert in the back pages of newspapers to cult classic movies like Office Space, the cubicle represents the drudgery and lifelessness of office life. The cubicle is the daily grind in physical form, its grey fabric walls stretching endlessly to the office horizon. When office workers became fed up with cubicle workspaces in the late 1990s, many businesses and organizations used it as an excuse to cut costs and open up their workspaces, cramming even more people into the same space, and many office workers now long for the days of quiet cubicle concentration.
Open-Plan Offices Hurt Concentration
Proponents often proclaimed the open-plan office as the new creative, progressive, productive way to organize offices and employees, but for many businesses, open-plan offices hurt worker productivity because of social distractions, lack of privacy, and noise. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119992592.ch6/summary) The average cubicle is 6 x 6 feet, but the average workspace in open-plan offices, with row upon row of cramped desks, drops to only 2 x 4 feet per employee. (fortune.com/2016/05/12/the-open-office-concept-is-dead/)
Open-plan offices are an efficient way to organize some routine jobs that don't require excessive mental concentration, such as telemarketing and data entry. These professions, rapidly being overtaken by knowledge work, now need mixed-use workspaces for optimal employee productivity and creativity.
Cubicles are a great way to provide employees with spaces for quiet contemplation and reflection, and in many largely solitary, mentally intensive occupations, such as accounting and law, cubicles and closed offices remain the preferred work environments. Though cubicles might not be right for everyone, businesses reliant on knowledge workers should consider creating both enclosed and open spaces for employee concentration and collaboration.
The Office Plan Cycle
Like so many overused designs, the cubicle started out as a utopian vision of workplace harmony before being diluted and distorted into bland, endless rows of boxes. The cubicle evolved from the Bürolandschaft movement, which started in Germany in the 1950s as a response to the cramped open-plan offices of that era. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-origin-of-cubicles-an/) This waffling between open and closed offices has a long history. The open plans of the 1950s replaced primarily divided offices in the early 20th century, which themselves had replaced 19th-century open-plan offices filled with endless rows of clerks.
Much like the hybrid, flexible office plans, some innovative companies are now using to replace open-plan offices. The Bürolandschaft movement attempted to design offices based on what the work required. Bürolandschaft designers combined many types of spaces, including closed offices, meeting areas, open desk pools, and semi-private spaces divided by fabric-covered sound barriers. Unfortunately, businesses latched onto the sound barriers and ignored the subtleties of Bürolandschaft design, letting offices devolve into endless rows of boxy cubicles.
When used wisely for employees who need privacy and distraction-free work environments, cubicles help increase business productivity and efficiency, but just as open plans are not right for every type of work, neither are cubicles. The best office plans use a mix of spaces, as appropriate to the kind of work the employees must do. There is hope in new hybrid designs, but if history is any guide, office design might continue to swing between diluted open and closed configurations.
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package testsuite

import (
	"context"
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/suite"

	"github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-api/go/v3/common"
	"github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-api/go/v3/gw"
	"github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-network-server/v3/internal/storage"
	"github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-network-server/v3/internal/uplink"
	"github.com/brocaar/lorawan"
)

type DeviceGatewayRXInfoSetTestSuite struct {
	IntegrationTestSuite
}

func (ts *DeviceGatewayRXInfoSetTestSuite) SetupTest() {
	ts.IntegrationTestSuite.SetupTest()

	ts.CreateGateway(storage.Gateway{GatewayID: lorawan.EUI64{8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}})
	ts.CreateDevice(storage.Device{DevEUI: lorawan.EUI64{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}})
	ts.CreateDeviceSession(storage.DeviceSession{})
}

// this tests that on uplink data, the device gateway rx-info set has been
// stored in redis
func (ts *DeviceGatewayRXInfoSetTestSuite) TestDeviceGatewayRXInfoSetHasBeenStored() {
	assert := require.New(ts.T())

	txInfo := gw.UplinkTXInfo{
		Frequency:  868300000,
		Modulation: common.Modulation_LORA,
		ModulationInfo: &gw.UplinkTXInfo_LoraModulationInfo{
			LoraModulationInfo: &gw.LoRaModulationInfo{
				SpreadingFactor: 10,
				Bandwidth:       125,
			},
		},
	}
	rxInfo := gw.UplinkRXInfo{
		GatewayId: ts.Gateway.GatewayID[:],
		Rssi:      -60,
		LoraSnr:   5.5,
	}

	assert.Nil(uplink.HandleUplinkFrame(context.Background(), ts.GetUplinkFrameForFRMPayload(rxInfo, txInfo, lorawan.UnconfirmedDataUp, 10, []byte{1, 2, 3, 4})))

	rxInfoSet, err := storage.GetDeviceGatewayRXInfoSet(context.Background(), ts.Device.DevEUI)
	assert.Nil(err)

	assert.Equal(storage.DeviceGatewayRXInfoSet{
		DevEUI: ts.Device.DevEUI,
		DR:     2,
		Items: []storage.DeviceGatewayRXInfo{
			{
				GatewayID: ts.Gateway.GatewayID,
				RSSI:      -60,
				LoRaSNR:   5.5,
			},
		},
	}, rxInfoSet)
}

func TestDeviceGatewayRXInfoSet(t *testing.T) {
	suite.Run(t, new(DeviceGatewayRXInfoSetTestSuite))
}

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