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import Logger from './logger';
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const SUCESS_MESSAGE = 'Registered task:';
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/**
 * Iterates over target directory and registers gulp tasks by invoking task factories.
 * Task name is based on its path.
 * @param params
 * @param params.gulp {Object} - Gulp instance.
 * @param params.dir {String} - Full path to task factories directory.
 * @param params.args {Array<any>} - Arguments to pass to task factories. optionsional.
 * @param params.verbose {Boolean} - Defines whether to push to console logs. optionsional. Default false.
 * @param params.panic {Boolean} - Defines whether to throw error if task registration failed. optionsional. Default true.
 * @param params.group {Boolean} - Defines whether to create gulp task based on folder name and add nested tasks as dependencies.
 * @param params.filter {String|Function} - Defines a filter using either a regexp expression or a function. Optional.
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    const options = getOptions(params);
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By Lisa Santos	June 10, 2019 June 19th, 2019 Live, Press Release, Pro Audio Press
For the second year running, All Points East Festival took over Tower Hamlets' Victoria Park — now an established music site on London's inner-city festival scene despite the density of surrounding houses.
Capital Sound and their Martin Audio MLA loudspeaker array had first proved the viability of the site a decade earlier when demonstrating that the London Electronic Dance Festival and Field Day could deliver sound pressure levels of up to 101dB(A), acceptable to festival goers while reducing offsite levels to 75dB(A), causing minimum disturbance to the neighbours.
The experienced AEG Presents team led by Jim King, and event production company LarMac Live, led by Director Ian Greenway, have called on Capital's expertise and the proven technology of MLA, with its advanced multi-cellular control, many times over the years. And this latest ten-day festival was no exception.
Said Capital account manager Martin Connolly, "Field Day and LED provided the original template, and barring minor tweaks to ensure the sound levels conform at the two offsite measurement positions set by [acoustics consultants] Vanguardia, we now have a winning formula." These positions were 150 metres apart, one of them being a high-rise tower block.
Capital provided sound for four stages and the VIP area but it was the two main stages — designated the East Stage and North Stage — that saw the deployment of MLA. On the first of the two consecutive weekends that All Points East took place, main stage headliners were the Chemical Brothers, The Strokes and Christine and the Queens, and for the second weekend, it fell to Bring Me The Horizon, Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver.
Retaining the sound design that has served them so well on this site, they rigged 13 MLA elements plus an MLD Downfill on either side of the 20-metre Star Events VerTech stage, with a side hang of eight MLA Compact on stage right only. Since the area stage left is the sensitive sound area Capital merely provided two tiny speakers running on a radio link off a localised feed to service the wheelchair users compound. Underpinning this were 14 MLX subs in a broadside cardioid array, eight Martin Audio DD12, which have now become the standard front fills, and a total of 28 MLA Compact on the three delay towers, with the rear one boosted by three Martin Audio SX218 subwoofers. "The third delay was sited at 115 metres and I find this addition creates warmth and punch past that point," said Connolly.
System teching this stage once again was the experienced Dan Fathers.
Over at the Orbit-roofed North Stage, where scenic skins in concentric arches, gave it a Hollywood Bowl feel, acts such as Primal Scream, Anna Calvi, James Blake, Roisin Murphy and Interpol performed. Here, the PA hangs comprised 11 MLA elements and a single MLD Downfill per side. LF extension was provided by 11 MLX subs with eight Martin Audio W8LM as front fill. The Star masts were wrapped by Hangman, with extremities sprayed black, to amplify the PA hangs, and the stage, and hide the structural elements.
A single delay point was set, with eight MLA Compact elements populating the tower. Once again, Capital provided an experienced MLA system tech in Ben Turnbull.
Capital's crew chief was Tim Patterson, who said the only problem during the build-up had been the rain, and consequent change in humidity and atmospherics. "This changed the sound propagation by as much as 5dB," he said.
Patterson, a seasoned touring monitor engineer who was only recently introduced to the crew chief role, could scarcely have been more relaxed. "It's a pleasure working with LarMac LIVE and Ian Greenway, who really know what they are doing. Everyone on the site has been brilliant, and for us, it's just about seeing whether we can make any improvements."
One band for whom Martin Audio's signature sound proved excellent were Friday night headliners, The Chemical Brothers. Said their FOH sound engineer, Shan Hira, "I am never disappointed to see [MLA] on a festival spec."
Using his own FOH set-up, and mixing the show on a Midas XL4, he said, "I am always looking for an even coverage, clarity in the tops, and punchy, weighty subs — and MLA did a good job all round. The system was set up well and the sub coverage was even due to a well-placed sub array. Dan [Fathers] did a very good job."
His views were shared by Russ Miller, Johnny Marr's FOH engineer. "I thought MLA sounded great — punchy and hi-fi without being harsh. It was well set up and I'm pretty sure I employed zero EQ to my mix." He also highlighted the system's great advantages, namely that MLA makes it possible for higher levels to be achieved within the bowl area while reducing substantially offsite. "[Victoria Park] is always going to be a difficult site given the proximity to houses but as modern live engineers, we should be aware that government levels will continue to decrease so we need to be vigilant and mix smarter. MLA goes a long way to making that possible whilst still being exciting for the crowd.
"The bottom line is that the Capital guys were amazing as always and the PA a joy to mix on."
After the event, LarMac LIVE's production manager Ian Greenway, stated, "Victoria Park has, as with a lot of outdoor London venues, had challenges of late in terms of audio levels and the quality of phonic experience for audiences.
"Over several years we've successfully deployed Martin MLA (and its siblings) on our outdoor stages with fantastic results, both on and off site.
"Creating sound pressure levels this year that are 2-3 dBA greater than previous, we're super happy with the results and were able to offer a great sounding system to incoming engineers to harness and make the most of."
Granted a long-term contract from the local authority this is now seems set into London's festival landscape for the foreseeable future.


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Coalition Urges the Treasury to Expand Eligibility for COVID-19 Relief Funds
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Washington, DC – Today, the Family Business Coalition (FBC) released a letter signed by 10 additional small business associations and advocacy groups urging the Trump Administration to expand eligibility for COVID-19 relief funds to a broader segment of the US economy. Co-signers include the Coalition of Franchisee Associations, American Values, Hispanic Leadership Fund, Center for Freedom and Prosperity, National Franchisee Association and more. Together, these groups advocate for millions of American jobs during this unprecedented time and beyond.
Our nation is currently facing skyrocketing unemployment rates and many local economies are hanging on by a thread. In an effort to ease this burden, and keep Americans gainfully employed, the SBA and Treasury Department created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). However, as it currently stands, the PPP leaves a large margin of the economy out of the mix through "affiliation rules" which lumps small, unrelated businesses that share common investors into a single entity and therefore putting them over the qualifying 500-employee threshold. The FBC and its co-signers are bringing light to this injustice and urging that the COVID-19 loan programs should not leave any small business or worker behind.
The letter argues: "Simply put, any company that employs American workers should have access to relief. Many small businesses are either partially funded or wholly owned by larger holding companies and these businesses deserve comparable relief under the current small business support programs. Programs designed to keep employees on the payroll shouldn't discriminate because of business practices unrelated to the employee."
Parties on both sides of the aisle have agreed the "affiliation rules" do not make sense while our nation fights the economic challenges brought by the global pandemic. "In a letter written by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and signed by 59 other House Republicans, they call upon Secretary Mnuchin and Fed Chair Powell to expand loan eligibility for companies under the CARES Act to encompass all small and medium sized businesses, without discriminating by industry."
The letter concludes: "We are in unprecedented times, and public relations should not trump public policy. It is imperative that the government treat all employees fairly and equally in order to help fuel the great American recovery."
The full letter is available here.
The Family Business Coalition is a diverse collection of organizations and industry groups united for the common purpose of protecting America's family businesses across the country. FBC works to implement tax policies that help family businesses of all sizes create jobs and continue to the next generation.


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January 13, 2016 Arts & Culture » Savage Love
Racist Preferences
Confronting racism in the gay community.
As a queer man of color — I'm Asian — I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I'm six-foot-one, 160 pounds, fit, and very good-looking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk.
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"I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here," said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn writer and comedian. "The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it."
Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: "Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society," said Chu. "Many of us who are Asian American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we're either fetishized or ignored. Many times I'd go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads — with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay. Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam."
Chu feels there's plenty of blame to go around for this sad state of affairs. "It's the gay media," said Chu. "It's Hollywood. (Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of Asian American ones?) It's that LGBT-rights organizations still haven't diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it's all of us, when we're lazy and don't confront our own prejudices."
Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices.
Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!), and looks (VGL!) as proof you've faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, average-looking/unconventionally-attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean, or conventionally hot, just as you've faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys — duh, obviously.)
"As a stereotypically short Chinese guy, my first reaction to reading EDDIE's letter? Damn, he's six-foot-one! I'm jealous," said Chu. "And that's also part of the problem. I, like many others, have internalized an ideal: tall, gym-perfected, blah blah blah — and, above all, white."
Booster was also struck by your stats. "It's hard for me to wrap my head around any six-foot-one, fit, VGL guy having trouble getting laid," said Booster. "On paper, this is the gay ideal! I don't really consider myself any of those things — and I have a perfectly respectable amount of sex."
Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York's "white-painted gay community," had some practical tips for you. "EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative," Booster said. "If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great. There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league — truly where gay Asian men thrive — or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city. They're out there."
Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. "I've been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit, and less good-looking, and somehow I found a husband," said Chu. "The monastery wasn't my calling, and I suspect it's not EDDIE's either."
A quick word to gay white men: It's fine to have "preferences." But we need to examine our preferences and give some thought to the cultural forces that may have shaped them. It's a good idea to make sure your preferences are actually yours and not some limited and limiting racist crap pounded into your head by TV, movies, and porn. But while preferences are allowed (and gay men of color have them, too), there's no excuse for littering Grindr or Tinder or Recon — or your conversations in bars — with dehumanizing garbage like "no Asians," "no Blacks," "no femmes," "no fatties," etc.
And while racism is a problem in the gay community (sometimes thoughtless, sometimes malicious, always unacceptable), according to 2010 US Census data, as crunched by the Williams Institute at UCLA, same-sex couples are far likelier to be interracial (20.6 percent) than opposite-sex couples (13.9 percent). So there's hope — and I don't mean "hope that EDDIE will one day land a magic white boyfriend," but hope for less racism in the gay community generally and fewer racist Grindr profiles specifically.
The last word goes to Booster: "A note to the rice queens who will undoubtedly write in about this man: We like that you like us. But liking us solely because our race can be uncomfortable at best, and creepy as hell at worst. In my experience, it's perfectly okay to keep some of those preferences behind the curtain while you get to know us a bit as humans first."
Jeff Chu is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Follow him on Twitter @jeffchu. Follow Joel Kim Booster on Twitter @ihatejoelkim.
I am an Italian bisexual 25-year-old guy. I'm in love with a great guy, but he lives far away, and we see each other only one time per month and sometimes less. A few weeks ago, I had sex with a female university colleague. It wasn't anything special: She was somewhat drunk and hurt me with her teeth during petting, so I didn't have a good erection and I didn't come. But I liked having sex with a woman. I want to do it again, but I love my boyfriend and I don't want to hurt him. Am I destined to be unfaithful?
Italians pet with their teeth? Good to know. Also good to know: yourself. Now, I would never suggest that bi guys can't honor monogamous commitments — even though I routinely say just that about straight guys, gay guys, straight women, and lesbians — but it would be foolish for you to make a monogamous commitment. Not because you're "destined to be unfaithful," MOL, but because you've already been unfaithful.
Here's what you know about yourself: You're bisexual, you want to have sex with women and men, and you don't want to cheat. Which means you'll have to either renegotiate the terms of the relationship you're in now — get your boyfriend's okay to have sex with a woman once in a while — or end the relationship and find a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who will give you their okay.
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 * This file contains functions that help display the analysis
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 * It also contains functions for the analysis configuration sidebar
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class SliderObj {
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     * TODO integrate with the HTML implementation of the noUISlider lib in a Backbone template?
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     * Used for displaying, updating, and removing slider in analysis view.
     * Holds the information displayed in the slider on the UI
     * JavaScript range slider library [noUISlider]
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            analysisResult.get('slider').sliderElement.noUiSlider.destroy();
        }
        return SliderObj.createSlider(analysisResult, isSwitch);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a slider and displays it in the web app
     *
     * @param {ResultBBM} currentAnalysis
     *  an AnalysisResult object that contains data about the analysis that the back end performed
     * @param {number} currentValueLimit
     * @param {Boolean} isSwitch
     *   True if the slider is being created when we are switching analysis results,
     *   false if new result from the back end
     */
    static createSlider(currentAnalysis, isSwitch) {
        var sliderMax = currentAnalysis.get('timePointPath').length - 1; // .timeScale;
        var density = (sliderMax < 25) ? (100 / sliderMax) : 4;
        if (sliderMax == 0) {
            swal("Error: There are no timepoints to simulate.", "", "error");
            return false;
        }

        noUiSlider.create(currentAnalysis.get('slider').sliderElement, {
            start: 0,
            step: 1,
            behaviour: 'tap',
            connect: 'lower',
            direction: 'ltr',
            range: {
                'min': 0,
                'max': sliderMax
            },
            pips: {
                mode: 'values',
                values: [],
                density: density
            }
        });

        // Set initial value of the slider
        // 0 if switching between existing results; sliderMax if new result
        currentAnalysis.get('slider').sliderElement.noUiSlider.set(isSwitch ? 0 : sliderMax);
        currentAnalysis.get('slider').sliderElement.noUiSlider.on('update', function (values, handle) {
            SliderObj.updateSliderValues(parseInt(values[handle]), currentAnalysis);
        });
        EVO.setCurTimePoint(isSwitch ? 0 : sliderMax, currentAnalysis);
        SliderObj.adjustSliderWidth(sliderMax);
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Reset display to default, before result is displayed
     */
    static hideAnalysis(analysisResult) {
        revertNodeValuesToInitial();
        EVO.switchToModelingMode(analysisResult);
        // show modeling mode EVO slider
        $('#modelingSlider').css("display", "");
        $('#analysisSlider').css("display", "none");
    }

    /**
     * Removes the slider from the UI
     */
    static removeSlider(analysisResult) {
        // if there's a slider, remove it
        if (analysisResult.get('slider').sliderElement.hasOwnProperty('noUiSlider')) {
            analysisResult.get('slider').sliderElement.noUiSlider.destroy();
        }
        $('#sliderValue').text("");
    }

    /**
     * Adjusts the width of the slider depending on the width of the paper
     *
     * @param {Number} maxValue
     *   The maximum value for the current slider
     */
    static adjustSliderWidth(maxValue) {
        // Min width of slider is 15% of paper's width
        var min = $('#paper').width() * 0.1;
        // Max width of slider is 90% of paper's width
        var max = $('#paper').width() * 0.9;
        // This is the width based on maxvalue
        var new_width = $('#paper').width() * maxValue / 65;
        // new_width is too small or too large, adjust
        if (new_width < min) {
            new_width = min;
        }
        if (new_width > max) {
            new_width = max;
        }
        $('#slider').width(new_width);
    }

    /**
     * Updates the slider values at the bottom left hand side of the paper,
     * to represent the current slider's position.
     *
     * @param {Number} sliderValue
     *   Current value of the slider
     * @param {Number} currentValueLimit
     * @param {ResultBBM} currentAnalysis
     *  a ResultBBM object that contains data about the analysis that the back end performed
     */
    static updateSliderValues(sliderValue, currentAnalysis) {
        currentAnalysis.set('selectedTimePoint', sliderValue);

        $('#sliderValue').text(sliderValue);
        var tpPath = currentAnalysis.get('timePointPath');
        currentAnalysis.get('slider').sliderValueElement.innerHTML = sliderValue + "|" + tpPath[sliderValue];
        // Update the analysisRequest current state.
        //analysisRequest.currentState = sliderObject.sliderValueElement.innerHTML;   //TODO: Perhalps this should be part of the call to simulate.

        currentAnalysis.get('elementList').forEach(element =>
            SliderObj.updateNodeValues(element, sliderValue));

        EVO.setCurTimePoint(sliderValue, currentAnalysis);
    }

    /**
     * @param {map} element
     *  Map between element id and result data.
     *   Satisfaction value in string form. ie: '0011' for satisfied
     * @param {Number} sliderValue
     *   Current value of the slider
     */
    static updateNodeValues(element, sliderValue) {
        var satValue = element.status[sliderValue];
        var cell = graph.getCell(element.id);
        if ((cell != null) && (satValue in satisfactionValuesDict)) {
            cell.attr(".satvalue/text", satisfactionValuesDict[satValue].satValue);
            cell.attr({ text: { fill: 'white' } }); //satisfactionValuesDict[satValue].color        // TODO: Does this need updating?
        }
    }
}
// End of sliderObj scope


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Film Review: Mary Magdalene (2018)
This isn't on my initial must-watch list this month mainly because it's obviously all religious and stuff. See, I tend to veer away from the crazy topic that is religion. The thing is, its trailer got to me. I loved that they picked Rooney Mara to play the titular role and it's been ages since I've seen Rooney on the big screen.
Garth Davis' Mary Magdalene is one that is almost free of misconception. One that contradicted previous portrayals of Mary of Magdala in pop culture. Mary here is a strong-willed woman with unwavering faith to her God. 'Shaming' her family by defying an arranged marriage, Mary decides to leave them and follow Jesus of Nazareth (Joaquin Phoenix).
The film easily cultivated Mara's greatest strength as she is thoroughly affecting and her eyes speaks to you – no long dialogues necessary.
I loved that we see Phoenix's Jesus here as more human – grittier in a way. I loved that aspect of humanizing (normalizing) such a divine being.
Tahar Rahim played Judas like an uber-eager puppy invoking sympathy like no other Judas in the past films. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter was surprisingly too strong here almost to the point of being unlikable. I find it interesting that the usual personality depicted in films' past got switched here.
As a controversial and mostly misunderstood figure in the bible, the Mary Magdalene that we got here is a symbol of power. It could be an eye-opener for so many devout but perhaps not in the spiritual level. It wasn't as visually strong nor very thought provoking but it trudge our thoughts about believing and faith in more ways than one.
Director: Garth Davis
Cast: Roonet Mara, Joaquin Pheonix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Hadas Yaron, Lubna Azabal, Lior Raz, Ryan Corr, Shira Haas, Uri Gavriel, Charles Babalola, Tawfeek Barhom, Tzachi Halevy, Zohar Shtrauss, Michael Moshonov, Ariane Labed, Giovanni Cirfiera
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Tagged Ariane Labed, Charles Babalola, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Film Reviews, Garth Davis, Giovanni Cirfiera, Hadas Yaron, Joaquin Pheonix, Lior Raz, Lubna Azabal, Mary Magdalene, Michael Moshonov, Roonet Mara, Ryan Corr, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Shira Haas, Tahar Rahim, Tawfeek Barhom, Tzachi Halevy, Uri Gavriel, Zohar Shtrauss
Review: 12 Years A Slave (2013)
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Adapted from Solomon Northup's autobiography, 12 Years A Slave chronicles the enduring and most of the time painful memory of Northup's life into slavery. Born as a freeman, Northup was abducted and was sold as a slave from master to master and eventually grasping the freedom he never thought would come.
Prior to watching the film, I already have a preconceived idea about what's it going to be. Not a clear one but almost a foreshadowing on how this would turn out – sold into slavery then the lead fought for freedom and that's it. I was wrong though – blatantly wrong.
12 Years A Slave may very well be the best movie of all time to capture the heart and soul of that nasty memory of human history where slavery and racial inequality was the most prevalent thing in the world that it's almost dreamy. Director Steve McQueen did not back down on letting us see the almost physical and psychological trauma that will engulf his audience. I for one felt a bit uncomfortable watching some of the scenes especially that scene when Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o,) a fellow slave was stripped, tied to a post and was whipped by Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor) himself and his second master Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender.) It was just heartbreaking and totally painful to watch.
Now, speaking of the three, they all provided the right synergy to connect with their audience. Lupita Nyong'o delivered an almost innocent and flawless performance that I find myself overwhelmed by it. Michael Fassbender, the sadistic and drunk second master of Solomon was perfection here! He provided that lethal feel to the character yet at some point, you'd also feel for him.
Chiwetel Ejiofor on the other hand was almost numb to what's happening with his character that his Solomon was flowing through him. He is him. Ejiofor was translucent and targeted his audience with those eyes – haunting eyes, blaming, begging, piercing eyes. This was a performance so powerful it will break you.
As an afterthought, the film was consistent in providing a drastic storyline that encompasses Solomon's life to the point that it's almost nonsensical to ask for more. It was sentimental, yes, but it provides authority. Sure, it's a total Oscar bait but it's all worth it. It was a film that is worthy of talk and worthy of endurance amongst all the films to come in later years.
Rating: 9.5 / 10
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, Adepero Oduye, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard
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American Hustle and Gravity leads this year's list with 11 nods each!
12 Years A Slave garnered 10 as expected!
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Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine
American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter
Alone Yet Not Alone, from Alone Yet Not Alone
Happy, from Despicable Me 2
Let It Go, from Frozen
The Moon Song, from Her
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Tagged 12 Years a Slave, 86th Academy Awards, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, American Hustle, Amy Adams, Barkhad Abdi, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Dern, Captain Phillips, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christian Bale, Dallas Buyers Club, David O. Russell, Gravity, Her, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, June Squibb, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughe, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Nebraska, Omar, Oscars, Philomena, Sally Hawkins, Sandra Bullock, Steve McQueen, The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Great Beauty, The Hunt, The Missing Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street
Review: Salt (2010)
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Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Daniel Pierce, Hunt Block, Andre Braugher, Olek Krupa, Cassidy Hinkle, Corey Stoll
Watching Salt was like watching Step Up 3D minus the latter's bad acting. Yeah. I compared it to Step-Up because like the unbelievably amazing choreography of that film — Salt takes action into another amazing unbelievable level! It's literally action-packed but not totally brutal to watch.
Plus. It's Angelina. It's like watching Wanted all over again. It's too fast-paced for me and I was so keen watching Angelina kick everyone's ass that I have totally forgotten the story. I'm not saying it's forgettable, the action sequences were just way too over the top. For some reasons, it kinda reminds me of the "transgenic" of the TV Series "Dark Angel" where kids were trained to be warriors.
So I'd say it is a mix of Step-Up 3D minus the acting, Wanted minus the story and "Dark Angel" minus the cloning. "Hit Girl" should hang out with Salt! Ratings: 8 / 10
Tagged Andre Braugher, Angelina Jolie, August Diehl, Cassidy Hinkle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Corey Stoll, Daniel Olbrychski, Daniel Pierce, Film Review, Hunt Block, Liev Schreiber, Olek Krupa, Phillip Noyce
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Matt Okine: The Man Who Refuses To Be Boxed In
We talk with funny guy Matt Okine about his new show The Other Guy, leaving triple and overcoming self-doubt.
Joel Bevilacqua
It takes a thick skin and a good sense of humour to turn the story of your long-term girlfriend sleeping with your best friend into a TV show. It makes sense then that the man behind Stan's new show, The Other Guy, is open book comedian Matt Okine.
The six-part series, set to be released in full tomorrow, follows "a successful radio host who finds himself unexpectedly back in the dating pool for the first time in a decade, after discovering his long-term girlfriend has been having an affair with his best friend".
Sounds familiar, right? That's because the show is written by Okine (with the help of fellow comedian Becky Lucas) and is based on his own real-life experiences; experiences which Okine has shared in part already through his stand-up show of the same name and also with listeners during his time at triple j.
It's been exactly eight months since Australia bid an emotional farewell to Okine and his Breakfast Show co-host Alex Dyson. After three legendary years together, the duo decided to call it quits simultaneously, with both citing a desire to try different things as their reason for leaving. Or as Dyson put it when announcing their departure: "We haven't been pushed, we're jumping."
After 10 years at the station, Dyson was looking forward to finally utilising his passport and "tackling his addiction to new Australian music". To stay on Dyson's jumping metaphor, Okine on the other hand was actually on the precipice of launching into the career he had always dreamed of. The only person stopping him from finally experiencing it really, was himself. To leave any stable career at 31 is always a risk, but to leave the coveted triple j Breakfast gig - a role that garnered you national celebrity - requires some serious resolve.
Okine had always wanted to make a TV series; whilst he states The Other Guy was definitely not the deciding factor that saw him leave triple j, he also says he knew he would never be able to do both. Leaving radio would also mean that Okine would have time to finally pursue another passion of his: music.
Being a comedian by trade, when Okine released his first serious song last August as part of his music project Boilermakers, it came as a surprise to most; he admits prior to the track's release he was scared of what these people would think. Overcoming this fear of criticism, Okine says, was key in seeing him take the next step forward.
Now, less than a year after exiting radio, the man who started off acting in McDonald's commercials has written and starred in his own original comedy series. To coincide with the shows release, Boilermakers are also releasing a new song, 'Warning Signs', which features Okine's old triple j colleague KLP.
Leaving radio was a risk, but it seems to be paying off.
Last week we got in contact with Okine to discuss The Other Guy, trying to make it as a struggling actor with a tendency to party too much, overcoming his own self-doubt and his plan to add the title of 'novelist' to his ever-growing list of credentials.
There is now less than a week to go before the release of The Other Guy, how are you feeling?
Man, I'm really excited, it's something I put my whole life into and I think we've made a really good show and I just want people to see it now. It's this weird sort of down period where I'm talking about it a lot but I just want people to be able to see it and make up their own mind. Once it's out there there's not much I can do about it after that. I can't do anymore from this point on; it's finished and it's just sitting there and I just want it to be out. It's like a fuckin' ah...it's like a fuckin' meat pie that's too hot, it's cooked and ready to be eaten, but it's just too hot at the moment so I've got to wait a week until it cools down before I can actually enjoy it.
You have obviously already tasted success in your role as triple j Breakfast host, that's no mean feat, but to now have your own TV show that you have both written and starred in, that's on a whole different level. Is this everything you've ever wanted?
Yeah man, this has been a dream since I was ten-years-old watching Seinfeld, you know? It's kind of the reason I got into comedy and acting in the first place, like that's just always been the goal. Radio was awesome and it's a really good skill to have learnt over three years. It's sort of like I went to university and now I've got a degree in radio that I can now use whenever I need it, but this is something I want to be doing for the rest of my life at this stage.
Let's take it back to before you got your big break on triple j, to when you first started honing your skills as a stand-up comedian in Brisbane. What was it like coming up in the Brisbane Open Mic scene, and how long was that journey between when you first started, to when you won best newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012.
That was like an eight-year journey and I spent half of it in Brisbane and half of it in Sydney. Brisbane turns out some fuckin' awesome comics, some of the comics killing it all over the world are from Brisbane. Like Josh Thomas is a Brisbane comic, Mel Buttle is a Brisbane comic, Becky Lucas who wrote the show with me is a Brisbane comic. Like a whole bunch of the guys from Fancy Boy are from Brisbane. There's something about that Brisbane scene that is like a really good launch pad into the international comedy scene.
But it was tough; that eight years between starting and winning best newcomer was really fucking shit at times. I was going out too much. I was having massive benders then having to go to this shitty call centre job where I had to sell wine on the phone; or I was being some temp at some shitty office where people pretend like you don't exist. I did a couple of McDonald's commercials and stuff. I did it all before anything really popped off. It wasn't easy. But that's also down to me. I was probably dedicating too much time to getting fucked up over you know, actually being good.
That's called finding yourself, isn't it?
[laughs] Yeah I didn't get my gap year in London to go and discover myself with one pound pingers, so I just sort of stayed around Sydney and went to too many clubs here. Look there was some good memories, but you really put yourself through the hard yards some of those Monday and Tuesday mornings.
You are a comedian by trade, but you now obviously write and make music as part of Boilermakers. How do your creative processes differ when it comes to each of these crafts?
You know what? It's all kind of the same. It's basically just have an idea and write it down. And you know when you're doing it what sort of folder it fits in. I've got my TV folder, I've got my radio folder, I've got my comedy folder, I've got my music folder, and these are all basically just notes in my phone. Something will happen where I'll think of one good line: If the line is a funny line, I'll think, "Ok, can I expand that line into like a 4-5 minute bit to talk about on stage, and if I can't, I'll likely just put that single line of dialogue into the TV folder and just use it whenever I need some dialogue in a scene later on down the track for a TV show. Or if something funny happens to me that doesn't seem to work on stage, it could be good for talk back on the radio, I'll chuck it in the radio folder and next time I'm being interviewed we can sort of go down that path.
It's just things like that, it's just setting goals for each of the projects you're working on and making sure you dedicate time to each and I guess just knowing that the door is open for each of them all of the time. It's also knowing that just because I'm working on a TV show now doesn't mean that if an idea comes up for music I should just dismiss it. I should still flesh it out and think about it because when it does come time for me to write a song. I'll be really thankful for those ideas I've had previously.
You studied acting at QUT in Brisbane before you started doing stand-up, is acting still your first love, and despite a few smaller roles over the years, do you feel like you are finally returning to her after all this time?
You know what? Yeah I am. Because I was acting every day on the TV show and it was fuckin' rad. I felt really at home on set and I was like man, I can't believe it's really taken me this long to give this a proper go. Because you know, all the other acting I had done had been, you know, I'd play an Ethiopian diplomate on Sea Patrol, or I'd play a photographer on Neighbours where I'm in one scene. I'd never felt like I got the swing of it properly. This has been the first time where I've thought: "I can fucking do this."
Now I feel like when this show comes out I've proven to other people that are making TV shows and that are making movies, that I have the strengths and the talents to hold a lead role in whatever production might be coming.
I think a lot of people are excited to see how you will go. I saw some footage from The Other Guy recently where you were having a little bit of a cry, and I just thought: "Wow, it's a bit different to be seeing him like this, but I'm excited to see it at the same time".
[laughs] Yeah there's some ups and downs in the show like, yeah, it's a comedy but we also wanted to make sure it's a real comedy. You know it's just like life: Shit can be going down and sometimes you'll stop for a second and laugh because something's funny, but then two minutes later you'll be left feeling like you want to end it all because you're so depressed at everything. That's just what life is and we really wanted to capture that in the show. I know there's going to be criticisms from people who say, "What man, I thought you were supposed to be a comedian, I thought this show was meant to be funny not sad shit". But again, we want to make people feel everything, we don't want to box ourselves into one particular emotion.
For a comedian to go into television is sort of a natural progression, but for a comedian to enter into the music scene is obviously not as common an occurrence, with the exception of course being Donald Glover. Have there been people that have told you to stick to what you know and stay in your lane, or has the support mainly been positive thus far?
Oh nah, there's heaps of people saying "You know, why are you bothering to do this and that sort of stuff?" But that's just really on them. They can't wrap their head around someone who might be good at different things. And you know they also don't want to retrain their brain into perceiving me in a different way. They kind of think that they've figured me out and want to set that in stone. For them to have to have to do that bit of work reconfiguring me, you know, it's obviously tiring for them, so the easiest way is to just tell me to stop doing something. But at the same time a lot of people have been super supportive.
Do you think in a way making this progression was about letting go of what people thought about you?
Yeah it's just your own fear you know, it's just being scared of criticism, but the reality is I'm going to be criticised no matter what I do so I might as well be doing what I want.
The biggest person who was telling me to stop and to not try for a long a time was myself. The doubt in my head was as big as any of my critics. Overcoming that, and realising that I was sort of the only person stopping myself from seriously pushing ahead with it, that was a big stepping stone in terms of being fearless and going, "You know what, I might cop some shit for this but at least I'll die knowing that I've tried".
Aziz Ansari is another comedian who has recently written and starred in his own show Master of None, which also appears to be loosely based on his own life. Aziz actually had his real life parents play his characters parents in the show. My question then is - and I'm sure a lot of other triple j listeners would also be curious as to the answer - why didn't your real father, "Daddy Mack", get the call up for The Other Guy?
[laughs] Daddy Mack did get the call up O.K!? It's just he's a dentist, he's not an actor! We just needed…we couldn't...it would have been his first time acting ever and we only had four weeks to shoot six episodes and umm, you know it was hard for me to do it and I've got an acting degree so we didn't want to put too much pressure on a first-time actor, so we thought we'd pass the ball to someone who had acting experience. But you never know the Daddy Mack in my show might have a brother or a cousin or something in season two. We might just see the real Daddy Mack spaced in there somewhere, you never know.
I'm not sure about that Matt, it sounds like a lack of faith to me.
[laughs] Yeh look probably. Maybe I've got to trust a bit more in my own maker's ability.
What's next for you?
Mate, hopefully season two for this show. That's the dream. More music. And I ah, I reckon I might try to write a teen novel. You heard that from me first.
Oh wow, has that been a dream of yours for a while?
It's been floating around in my head yeah.
Would that be loosely based on your own experiences as a teenager?
Oh yeah, I think everything I do is going to be loosely based on experiences I've had. Like I said, I like being honest whenever I'm making stuff and the best way to do that is to have experience in it or at least be close to that experience. So, you know, it might be something close to that.
"Write what you know" - that's what they say isn't it?
All six-episodes of The Other Guy will be released on Stan tomorrow (August 17th). Co-written with comedian Becky Lucas (Please Like Me) and Greg Waters (Soul, Mates, Dance Academy) the show also features the likes of Valene Kane (The Fall, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Harriet Dyer (No Activity, Love Child), Christiaan Van Vuuren (Bondi Hipsters), hip hop artist Adam Briggs, comedian Michael Hing and Magda Szubanski (Kath & Kim). Producing the show is Aquarius Films, the team behind the hugely successful Lion starring Dev Patel.
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Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Kyushu Systems Limited (collectively "Fujitsu") today announced the establishment of a new company in Finland, Fujitsu Greenhouse Technology Finland Oy, to operate a plant factory equipped with an agricultural Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system, and to produce and sell agricultural products. The new company, jointly financed by Robbe's Little Garden Ltd. , commenced operations on November 17.
Fujitsu Greenhouse Technology Finland, which will begin full-scale production in the first half of fiscal 2017, uses a plant factory equipped with the latest technologies, including the FUJITSU Intelligent Society Solution "Akisai" Food and Agriculture Cloud, which is Fujitsu's food and agricultural cloud service, along with fully artificial lighting using LEDs, multi-tier growing trays, and full automation.
Fujitsu and Robbe's Little Garden aim to grow and deliver a steady, year-round supply of vegetables, such as baby greens and leaf lettuce, in Finland, which has few hours of sunlight during its harsh winter. Fujitsu also aims to package the know-how and cloud services resulting from this business and deploy them throughout the European Union.
To supply fresh produce to consumers it is important that it be produced nearby to where it will be consumed. In northern regions, however, the short days and weak sunlight of winter make it a challenge to grow anything during that part of the year. Finland has supported plant-factory operations that are able to grow produce without being affected by the country's typical northern climate, but it has not been able to deliver a quantity of produce that satisfies the country's demand, leaving it partly dependent on imports. Leafy vegetables, in particular, are mostly grown in southern Europe and imported to northern regions, resulting in a longer delay between harvesting and delivery to consumers, diminishing freshness.
To grow and supply agricultural products in Finland year round, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Kyushu Systems jointly invested with Robbe's Little Garden to establish a new company, Fujitsu Greenhouse Technology Finland, which will use a plant factory to grow and sell agricultural products in Finland.
Along with the three principals that invested, the Trade Section of the Embassy of Finland in Japan worked to coordinate the establishment of the business.
Fujitsu Greenhouse Technology Finland integrates Greenhouse Horticulture SaaS , a cloud service for greenhouse operations based on Akisai, together with sensor information collection utilizing the Ubiquitous Environment Control System , hardware which controls greenhouse equipment, as well as the production techniques of Robbe's Little Garden. The growing environment is lit exclusively by artificial light using LEDs, and the plant factory is fully automated to rotate multi-tiered growing trays for efficient plant growth and to control air conditioning. Focusing on leafy vegetables, such as baby greens and leaf lettuce, the business will begin full operations in the first half of fiscal 2017, and will begin shipping produce during 2017, reaching the Finnish market through the sales network of Robbe's Little Garden.
Fujitsu also aims to package the combination of Greenhouse Horticulture SaaS and production equipment, including multi-tier growing trays, sensors, and LEDs, for deployment throughout the EU.
Cumulatively JPY 3 billion by fiscal 2020.
A company that uses greenhouse cultivation in Finland to grow and sell agricultural products. It has sales of approximately €2.5 million and around 20 employees.
A cloud service that uses data gathered by sensors to visualize the production process, remotely monitor greenhouses, and remotely control equipment.
Japan's dominant communications standard for greenhouse cultivation. An information platform that allows interconnection of all the various environmental monitoring and control devices in a greenhouse, and that implements autonomous, distributed, and cooperative "smart" ICT environmental monitoring and control.


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Q: How to include information about labels in a multilabel classification task Currently, I'm working on a multilabel classification problem for a shared task in NLP. I have quite a few labels, and with those labels, I have a little paragraph defining them. I was wondering if there is some way I can include that label information in a multilabel classification pipeline.
Up until now, I've tried prompt-learning, designing a prompt that includes that paragraph, but I haven't obtained good results. My best shot so far has been using a fine-tuned RoBERTa model, and I thought that if I could include that label definition somehow in the pipeline, I could obtain better results, as the LM beneath could extract more information about it.
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Emiel van Dijk (musicus) (1971): Nederlands musicus;
 Emiel van Dijk (politicus) (1985): Nederlands politicus;
 Emiel van Dijk (wielrenner): Nederlands wielrenner.

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Team Penske has revealed the livery with which Scott McLaughlin will run in his IndyCar Series debut next month.
McLaughlin will run #3 on his Chevrolet-powered Dallara IR18, the same number that Helio Castroneves ran in this year's Indianapolis 500.
The 27-year-old will carry a colour scheme similar to his Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang, donning a red, white, and yellow livery.
Today it was confirmed McLaughlin will head to the United States to contest the final round of the single-seater series at St Petersburg, Florida.
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When McLaughlin makes his IndyCar Series debut, it will be only the fourth time he has driven the V6 twin-turbocharged single-seater.
McLaughlin first tested with Team Penske at Sebring International Raceway before completing the official IndyCar pre-season test at Circuit of The Americas.
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We are joined on Event TALK by Will Curran, President of Phoenix-based Endless Entertainment, an event production company. Will joins us to talk about the important things event planners need to think about when planning on hiring a production company. He shares best practices and the latest trends in the industry.
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As President of Phoenix, Arizona based Endless Entertainment, Will Curran has been named one of the 40 under 40 event industry leaders, 35 entrepreneurs under the age of 35, and Inc Magazine's Coolest College Start-up all before graduating college. Will has been producing events since high school when he started his first company and has now worked in production of large events such as Phoenix Comicon, Fiesta Bowl Block Party, and the Color Run. His team's mission is to simplify the event planning process by creating the equation for an event's perfect solution. They also relentlessly seek to be the name in customer service in the events industry. From event logistics to business development to technical production, Will Curran has a diverse background in growing events and companies to the next level.
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IBM Acquires BLADE Network Technologies
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, which makes Ethernet switching hardware and software for data centers.
Rich Miller | Sep 27, 2010
A look at the BLADE Network Technologies RackSwitch G8000.
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, which makes Ethernet switching hardware and software for data centers. The deal continues the realignment of planets in the IT industry as largest vendors position themselves for the Battle for the Data Center.
Financial terms were not disclosed. BLADE Network Technologies is privately held, but said last year that a series B financing round valued the company at $230 million. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2010, the companies said.
BLADE Network Technologies specializes in Ethernet switches for blade servers, and is also a player in the market for 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. The company was formed in 2002 as a division of Nortel Networks, but was spun off by founder Vikram Mehta in 2006 with the backing of Garnett & Helfrich. NEC and Juniper came on as investors in 2009.
'Thousands' of Joint Clients
IBM and BLADE have worked together since 2002, and have "thousands of joint clients," the companies said, adding that more that 50 percent of IBM System x BladeCenters currently attach to or use BLADE products.
"BLADE will help IBM better integrate networks with its systems, optimizing them for workloads that require high-speed and low-latency performance such as cloud computing and business analytics," said Brian Truskowski, General Manager, IBM System Storage and Networking. "For example, faster data transport enables faster decisions important for analytics workloads. BLADE will increase IBM's System Networking development, sales, support, skills and awareness and help IBM build smarter systems that are optimized for client requirements."
Response to Cisco, HP Moves
Over the past 18 months, IBM has expanded its core networking business through relationships with leading networking companies, including Brocade and Juniper. Those moves were seen as strategic responses to the decision by networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO) to introduce a blade server, as well as the expansion of HP"s networking ambitions, reflected in its acquisition of 3Com.
BLADE provides software that helps address the massive virtualization requirements of cloud computing environments. BLADE software allows servers to more closely integrate with the network so that clients can deploy thousands of virtual machines to run large application workloads in the cloud and reduce complexity through simplified management.
"BLADE views this as a great opportunity to continue working with the ecosystem of technology providers that have helped make our company successful while allowing our technology to become a more central part of the data center," said Vikram Mehta, CEO of BLADE. "Our very talented and hard working people are focused on building innovative system networking solutions, making BLADE an ideal fit to help IBM execute on its strategy to build smarter systems that deliver more value to clients around the world."
UPDATE: This afternoon Juniper issued a statement on the IBM-BLADE deal. "This deal is beneficial for Juniper," the company said. "As an investor in BLADE Network Technologies and a strategic alliance partner with IBM, this will enable us to collaborate more closely when our products and services are deployed together. All three companies are aligned in our commitment to addressing customers' most challenging connectivity needs for next-generation data center networks."
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For many years - over a century in fact - the engine everyone is talking about - Furness Railway Number 20 - was thought to be a different locomotive!
When the Furness Railway Trust applied to restore the old Furness Railway engine it had bought (see FR 20's story) everyone had been calling the engine Furness Railway Number 18. It was a myth that began in the 1870s and had lasted for 120 years...
Here's how the confusion began.
The FR bought four 0-4-0 locomotives from Sharp Stewart in 1863 - under batch 440. They were delivered in August of that year, as Sharp Stewart Works numbers 1434, 1435, 1447 and 1448. They were numbered FR Numbers 17-20 respectively. Hence FR Number 20 was the original Sharp Stewart 1448.
Four further locomotives were ordered of almost identical specification in two further batches, Sharp Stewart Nos. 1585/6 in 1865 and 1663/4 in 1866. In 1866 the FR ordered another four engines, but cancelled the order in favour of an 0-6-0 design because this would be a more powerful loco. Indeed 55 were ordered over 18 years and their arrival led to the premature demise of Number 20 and her classmates as mainline locos.
Six of the eight members of the class were sold off to the FR's sister company, the Barrow Haematite Steelworks Company, where they were rebuilt and given new numbers. FR Numbers 17-20, 25 and 26 became BHS Co 5/7/8/16/17/18. It was assumed that the numbering sequence on the Furness Railway was adopted by the new owners, so it was thought that the engine the Trust had bought - Steelworks Number 7 - had started life as FR Number 18.
For decades this supposition gained credence, and indeed when the FRT started the restoration, it was to restore what we fully believed was Furness Railway Number 18. To prove this point - have a look at the Heritage Lottery Fund's details of the project they so generously supported...! (Put in "Furness Railway Trust" in the "organisation" box.)
The real FR Number 18 was Sharp Stewart works number 1435. So, during the restoration, workers were expecting to find references to 1435 stamped on parts of the frames and motion. But far from finding this number, a different number kept cropping up - 1448. This was not entirely surprising to start with - locomotive parts were standard between the engines, and would routinely be swapped around between machines at overhaul. But the majority were clearly marked 1448 - including the slide bar support brackets which are riveted to the frames. So the scene was set for a big announcement - which came at the Trust's AGM in 1998. A century old misconception was blown apart, and now it seems odd to see anything in writing referring to FR Number 18....!
After this discovery, the FRT did get permission to examine the frames of the former FR25, which like 20 had survived after retirement in the steelworks. This locomotive, Steelworks number 17 and now part of the FRT collection too, was indeed proven to be Sharp Stewart Number 1585. The transfer to the steelworks happened in two batches: FR17-20 going in 1870, and FR25 and FR26 3 years later. It does therefore seem that when these two locos arrived, the steelworks did retain the numbering sequence from the FR
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In the past few decades' people's lives have become busier and there is an increased reliance on processed foods containing chemicals, additives and sugar. An increase in the use of pesticides and chemicals from intensive farming coupled with a decrease in nutrients in the soil and exceptional levels of pollution place extra burdens on our health. Poor diet and inadequate nutrition, stressful lifestyles and a general lack of exercise are now recognised as some of the primary causes of poor health for many people in our modern society. Nutritional therapy encompasses the use of carefully chosen recommendations for diet, nutritional supplements and lifestyle to alleviate or prevent ailments and promote optimal health. These recommendations are professionally tailored to each person's individual circumstances and requirements.
Nutritional Therapists work with a variety of clients, some with chronic health problems, and provide advice on disease prevention and control and promote optimal health. Recognising that each person has a unique physiological make-up and unique dietary and nutritional requirements, the treatment is individualised. A comprehensive case history is taken from each client covering all health concerns including current and past diet and lifestyle and family health.The use of biochemical laboratory testing may also be used to help assess nutritional status, functional capacity and inherited strengths and weaknesses. Clients will then receive carefully compiled protocol of recommendations on diet and lifestyle which may also include guidance on supporting digestion and absorption of food and nutrients, natural detoxification, stress management and the avoidance of allergens or toxins. Nutritional Therapists can also work in close proximity with G.P's, Medical Specialists and may use a referral network to other practitioners such as Medical Herbalists, Psychotherapists or Aromatherapy practitioners in order to assist with healing.
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Kenafric Industries switches into high gear with SAP ERP platform
Press Release by SAP News Nov 14, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya — As the economic landscape in Kenya continues to modernise, Kenafric Industries, one of the largest manufacturers of confectionery, food, footwear and stationery products in Africa, has deployed a comprehensive SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to drive greater efficiencies throughout the organisation.
In 2013, Kenafric Industries opted to deploy SAP's All in One, Financial and Control, Material Management, Production Planning, Plant Maintenance, Sales and Distribution, Quality Management, Payroll, Document Management, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management modules.
Founded 25 years ago, Kenafric Industries provides direct and indirect employment to 1800 people and has a presence in 14 countries in Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Congo.
In recent years, amidst the growing international competition, Kenafric Industries made a strategic decision to investigate technology solutions to improve productivity, which would enable the organisation to remain a leader in its field on the African continent.
"We looked at technology solutions that would not dilute, but complement our current tried and tested Lean & Process improvement methodologies, which involves all our employees. We also required a solution that would give us 360 degree visibility, interoperability and transparency across the value chain of our Confectionery, Food, Footwear and Stationery business verticals in and beyond Kenya's borders," said Gopalan Uppiliappan, Group General Manager – Business Improvement (BI) at Kenafric Industries.
He explained that after evaluating various Management Information Systems Framework solutions, Kenafric's Board of Directors unanimously decided to implement SAP because of its long-standing reputation as the de-facto enterprise software for virtually every industry today.
"SAP's implementation partner, IMark Technologies, had a track-record of integrating SAP's best practice change management methodologies in Medium and large organisations whilst meeting tight time-lines and the capacity to up-skill our staff to meet the go-live deadline at the same time."
S. Iyer, Managing Director at iMark Technologies cited that the overall implementation and transformation journey was broken into two phases. "The first phase involved the SAP ERP implementation, including training of the Users in its functional modules. In the second phase, iMark Technologies rolled out its i360 and iPortal Intelligence and Collaboration self-service Portal framework, which provides Kenafric Industries advanced visibility into the Business Performance and workflow based collaboration for the Company's Processes supported by Document and Knowledge Management Integration.
"The SAP ERP implementation was done in a record 86 days, and the company has already noted a significant impact on operations. By using i360 built on SAP business intelligence (BI) solutions, the business has access to predictive analysis tools to examine business trends and to make meaningful business decisions based on the aggregated data. The process of continuous enrichment has begun at Kenafric and we expect the efficiencies to rise as users start achieving perfection and embrace the enormous capabilities that SAP offers," said Iyer.
Andrew Waititu, Managing Director at SAP East Africa concurred. "This implementation at Kenafric Industry is significant. Market perception in East Africa has always been that SAP is expensive to implement and maintain and only reserved for the big players but Kenafric and iMark Technologies have turned this paradigm on its head."
Waititu said the implementation was done cost-efficiently, keeping the customers' budget in mind and in record time.
Mr Mikul Shah – Executive Director of Kenafric Industries Limited pointed out: "With SAP ERP, we now have an end-to-end integrated solution for all our critical departments, giving Kenafric Industries one view of its business operations. The system has also enabled the automation of work-flow approvals through a single unified portal, thereby increasing human resource efficiency. This allows us to be more competitive in the markets we operate and provides a solid a foundation for scalable growth across the continents' borders."
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In Seattle, a Black police chief resigns over budget cuts
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GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Efforts to cut spending on police — a key demand of anti-racism demonstrators across the nation — have claimed an unlikely target: Seattle's first Black police chief, who enjoyed deep support in its minority communities, is stepping down in protest. Carmen Best announced her retirement Monday night, just hours after the City Council voted to cut her annual $285,000 salary by $10,000, as well as the salaries of her command staff, and to trim as many as 100 officers from a force of 1,400 through layoffs and attrition. She said Tuesday that she was OK with her pay cut, but not with having to lay off young officers, many of them minorities hired in part to improve the department's diversity. "That, for me — I'm done. Can't do it," she s
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@xeniaturon installing the official released version of ST10 should then allow the maintenance pack to install w/o any issue.
Whilst installinge the MP1 for SE 10 on a WIN10 PC, I get the message that the signature is invalid.
It concerns an official release from the Siemens website where I need the webkey.
To be honest, I am not clear what you are reporting here.
Perhaps you can post a screenshot here of the issue or contact your local support and provide further details.
I'm trying to install MP1 on a WIN 10 workstation, where ST10 is (ofcourse) already installed on, w/o any problems.
Executing the MSI as an admin I get the message about some signature being invalid even before the installation begins and the only thing I can do is click OK. Nothing further happens, it aborts the install.
But seriously, based on the description it sounds like you have a corrupted MSI install file. Try downloading the MP file again and clear the content of your %TEMP% folder before attempting to install the fresh download.
Sounds solid what you are saying, but I have already installed the same MSI on several WIN7 workstations with no problems at all.
Which does not mean I won't try your tip!
Did you copy the MSI file from the network to each individual workstation? If so, then the local copy could be corrupted.
Or are you running the same MSI file from the network on all workstations? If running the MSI from the network, the content has to be uncompressed to the local workstation. Perhaps for this one system that uncompression became corrupted.
Either way, if you know your MSI file is good based on using it on other systems, clear the content of %TEMP% and try again. Failing that clear %TEMP% again and temporarily disable anti-virus before installing.
turning off the virus scanner got the job done.
Thanks for your help, Dave!