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Christropher Black, an international criminal lawyer, opens up on how being under death threats have affected his life.
Toronto lawyer claims he's target of death threat from Rwandan government
A Toronto-area lawyer who defended a Rwandan general in a 14-year war crimes tribunal claims the Rwandan government is threatening him with death.
By Debra BlackImmigration Reporter
Robert CribbForeign
Sat., April 11, 2015timer4 min. read
updateArticle was updated Apr. 13, 2018
Christopher Black say a member of the Rwandan National Congress in Canada told him last month there is "credible and reliable information" that the Rwandan regime has "sent a team to Canada in order to assassinate five people here," including Black, who wrote a sworn affidavit provided to the Star.
Black says he received a similarmessage last July from two Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers he met with at Richmond Hill café.
"(A CSIS officer) informed me that CSIS was concerned for my safety as they had information that the Rwandan government wanted to kill me and they were further concerned that the Rwandan government would try something against me inside Canada," reads the affidavit, which he swore before a Richmond Hill lawyer last month.
Black says the CSIS agents showed him a "hit list" of about 100 people who are targets of the Rwandan government. His name was 23rd on the list.
RELATED:Four other Canadians believe they're being targeted by Rwanda
The Star has not viewed the list and cannot verify its contents or that it exists. Candian authorities are not speaking openly about the alleged threats.
Black wrote a letter to Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney asking him to take the threat seriously. A spokesman for the Blaney's office acknowledged receipt of Black's letter and said Public Safety Canada "is currently reviewing it."
"While Public Safety Canada cannot comment on operational policing matters, Canadian law enforcement and intelligence agencies take all threats to Canadians seriously, and will take action as necessary to prevent criminal activity, and protect the safety and security of Canadians," said Josee Sirois, spokesperson for Public Safety Canada.
Black says on the advice of CSIS agents he contacted York Regional Police and filed a complaint about a week ago. He says he was interviewed on videotape by an officer Monday night. A York Regional Police spokesperson that the force does not comment on open investigations.
"We investigate all complaints brought to our attention," he added.
Neither CSIS nor the Rwandan High Commission responded to interview requests.
In a November interview with the Star, the commission's chargé d'affaires Shakilla K. Umutoni dismissed allegations about threats against David Himbara, another Canadian who also says he has been warned he is a target of the Rwandan regime.
"I really don't think I'll take my time to discuss that," Umutoni told the Star. "And I don't think you should allow that in your newspaper, you know. These are like gossips, without any kind of support or documents."
Black says he has received previous threats but he is "very worried" now.
"I don't know what to do frankly," he told the Star. "This bothers me. I don't know when they would act or if they would act or how. I have to start thinking about my security. I haven't been feeling very secure since July."
He spends many sleepless nights, wondering if the 14 years he spent defending Gen. Augustin Ndindiliyimana at the war crimes tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, were worth it. Ndindiliyimana was acquitted of all charges.
Black believes his vocal criticism of Kagame's regime and his defence of Ndindiliyimana at the war crimes tribunal have triggered potentially deadly resentment.
Black is a controversial figure who holds strong views that challenge accepted wisdom on war crimes. He has argued the innocence of accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic and attacked former international prosecutor Canadian Louise Arbour for halting an inquiry into the downing of the plane that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in 1994 — the incident that triggered the genocide.
His view of the genocide is far from the accepted narrative. He alleges that the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front and Kagame, then military leader, are also responsible for mass killings of political and military opponents during the genocide.
During the Ndindiliyimana trial, he cross-examined many powerful figures in the Rwandan government, including military officers, intellectuals, ambassadors, journalists, politicians and "other high personages," reads his affidavit.
"As a result of my work as defence counsel, I have received a number of public attacks against me by the Rwandan regime," he wrote in his affidavit.
In 2004, during the early days of the trial, he says he was told by a Rwandan government official that if he continued with his work, "I would not have long to live," reads the affidavit.
Since then, Rwandan officials have issued statements declaring Black an "enemy of the state," the statement reads.
"I telephoned (a CSIS agent) on the 16th of March and informed her of the new threat," Black's affidavit says. "(The agent) replied, after a short discussion that they were aware of the threat and conveyed to me the sense that they were reacting, but did not give me any specifics."
The CSIS agent did not respond to the Star's calls and emails.
Black has heard from other sources that "Canada has warned Rwanda about these threats and has refused visas to a number of Rwandans on the grounds they may be coming to Canada for improper reasons."


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Q: gradlew wrapper seems to be 'ignoring' my trusted certs When attempting to connect to a specified SSL server with a self signed certificate I understand I need to tell Java that this is a trusted host.
I have imported the certificate into the keystore and ran the following:
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=my.jks SSLPoke my-host 443

Which prints
Successfully connected

Where SSLPoke is: https://gist.github.com/4ndrej/4547029
So the connection can be made!
However, when on the same exact host with the same exact JKS file with the only difference being I'm using ./gradlew to execute my task I get an Exception.
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:145)
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:131)
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:382)
        ... 58 more

I've tried executing my gradlew tasklike:
./gradlew -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=my.jks myTask

GRADLE_OPTS=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=my.jks ./gradlew myTask

export GRADLE_OPTS=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=my.jks
./gradlew myTask

All of which produce the same Exception above. What is the 'correct' way to use this property so myTask can complete?

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The local and international art scene descends on Fort Lauderdale during Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week and the city has many incredible opportunities to experience the best of Fort Lauderdale's nightlife.
From lobby bars and trendy restaurants to onsite art installations, you can't go wrong attending any of the Official After-Parties at Pier Sixty-Six Hotel & Marina, Conrad Fort Lauderdale, Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale and W Fort Lauderdale while you're out and about during Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week.
The 3rd Annual Art Fort Lauderdale - "The Art Fair On The Water" opening reception party will be held at the Pier Sixty Six Hotel on the evening of Wednesday, January 23rd from 7-10pm.
Considered one of the parties of the year in Fort Lauderdale over previous years, this memorable evening will Include Cocktails, Passed Hors-d'oeuvres, Performance Art Piece of "Where the Shaman Lives" by Roberto Rafael Navarette, Live Music From Dj La Trice Perry, Poems by the Biscayne Poet, VIP Presentations, and MORE!
Limited Invitees include artists, press, critics, collectors, sponsors and other VIP's. Space is limited to the public though we have made a few tickets are available for sale online for $150.
A portion of proceeds will benefit the self-funded Art Fort Lauderdale initiatives directly, allowing the fair producers to continue developing cultural platforms and events to further their mission of putting Fort Lauderdale on the map as an international destination to view & interact with art.
This "integral art" experience executed by world-renowned Crypto Artist, performance artist, and keynote speaker Vesa will feature a live creation of an "integral art" piece where he will utilize the genres of performance art, body painting, traditional painting, photography and photo editing tools to create one of his unique pieces live throughout the night.
This interactive and sensory experience will feature living art and various forms of art being created live so you can be part of the experience. Sound a little mysterious - well it is.
AN UNFORGETTABLE SENSORY EXPERIENCE - SHED YOUR INSECURITIES AND BE BATHED IN LIGHT.
A luminous "light bath" experience executed by Miami-born / Brooklyn-based artist Jarid Blue will prompt you to shed your insecurities and liberate you. Baths of light will allow guests to unlock deeper emotions that will be captured and presented instantly in real-time photos. Witness how the most minimal lines can speak volumes and accentuate the human form, or mask it completely and allow for the body to take on another presence entirely.
Come with an open mind, a playful spirit, and be ready to explore your inner emotions. Play in patterns of light as you enjoy a night of music, art, and discovery.


Joins over 100 concrete sawing and drilling industry delegates in Tokyo.
In May 2018, CSDA traveled to Japan for an industry event hosted by the International Association of Concrete Drillers and Sawers (IACDS).
The IACDS 2018 Annual Convention, held May 21-23 in Tokyo, provided a platform for industry representatives from all over the world to improve their knowledge of the international concrete cutting community through workshops, conference sessions, tours and networking events.
The aim of both IACDS and this event has long been to create an established forum for debate and the cultivation of ideas and opportunities.
The first day of the program included a tour and lecture at Dai-Ichi Cutter Kogyo. On the second day there were two conference sessions and an exhibit hall. Some of the topics discussed included case stories from Japan, monitoring health issues in the industry and recruiting millennials.
The 2018 IACDS Annual Convention also included several optional activities and social outings that allowed participants to see the many amazing sights of Tokyo, all while networking with their internationals peers.
The IACDS 2019 Convention will be held in April in Munich in conjunction with bauma.
For more information about the event, please visit www.iacds.org/convention.
IACDS is an international trade association of sawing and drilling associations from the concrete construction and renovation industry. Its mission is to provide an international union and cooperation of trade associations to support and promote professional development of professional sawing and drilling contractors and their methods. CSDA, FBS, SVBS and DSA were all instrumental in creating this umbrella organization of sawing and drilling associations back in 1995. Today IACDS is composed of associations from Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.


In this workshop, you will learn the basics of grounding and proper alignment for foundational poses such as downward dog, chaturanga dandasana, warrior group, standing balances, and more.
We will break down each pose and build it from the ground up, focusing on grounding through key anatomical landmarks and finding optimal postural alignment to gain the most out of each pose while also reducing the risk of injury.
By mastering the basics, you will find much more power and ease in your practice, and also be able to grow your practice in a stronger and safer way.
This workshop is suitable for practitioners of all levels.


I know that 2018 is not over yet, but the time has come to plan the trips that await us next year. For this, I will tell you what fashion destinations will be in 2019.
Being a forecaster can help us get a good holiday at a price more than affordable. That is why many travellers are already beginning to prepare for next year's getaways, even when it is not over yet. And is that, although we see far before we realize we will have set foot in the next summer. That's why taking advantage of the fact that we now have some more time with the Christmas mini-holidays, this is the perfect time to organize everything that is to come.
And, as always, the most complicated thing is to choose the destination. There are so many that we have in our list of pending that it is quite complicated to choose one in particular. Not to mention those we have forgotten and can appear before us at any time. To help you with this arduous task, I have compiled some of what will be fashion destinations in the next year 2019, according to Lonely Planet. A series of places that, without knowing very well why or coinciding with certain events, will become the most visited and the most desired during the next 365 days. Here you are!
In the middle of the Caribbean and surrounded by the second largest barrier reef in the world, this country still does not know mass tourism so that you can enjoy unique tranquillity there. The combination of luxury, ecology, and sports and water activities is unbeatable.
As if it were a kind of Camino de Santiago, the Jordanian government has proposed that the entire planet discover the Jordan Trail, a route of 650 kilometres that will allow you to know the country thoroughly, with its beauty, its contrasts, its culture, and its traditions. With this, tourism in Jordan will grow, but also offers of all kinds will appear so that, at last, whether on the road or not, you will immerse yourself in its magic.
Now that Zimbabwe has regained some stability and peace, we have a unique opportunity to visit the country, to explore its national parks, to learn about its fauna and flora, to explore its sites and, ultimately, to experience it. If you were thinking about travelling to the neighbouring continent, bet on this country, you will not be indifferent.
And what better to start with Kyrgyzstan? If you dream of hiking in the best possible environment, there you will see it come true. If you dream of contemplating and photographing some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet, there you can do it. If you dream of following in the footsteps of Marco Polo and the Silk Road, there you will do it, encountering majestic cities. All this is knowing a culture and a history rich and different from ours.
The year 2019 is also going to be an important year for Germany, which commemorates the centenary of the Bauhaus art movement. A perfect occasion to tour the country from top to bottom and soak up its culture and art. If you still do not know, you already have the perfect excuse.
The country, one of the richest in cultures and history, has been renewed in recent years. The infrastructures have been modernized, the supply of resorts has increased, and new activities have been included in the tourist areas, which has made the interest in Sri Lanka grow enormously. It is the perfect option for those who want to combine tourism in the strictest sense of the word and relaxation and luxury.
These are just six examples of the many that Lonely Planet has published, among which are also Indonesia, Sao Tome, and Principe or Panama. What will be your destination of the year?


The media response to the world's introduction to Caitlyn Jenner via that Vanity Fair cover was mostly one of congratulatory support — a sincere unity rarely observed in this consistently cutthroat industry. However, we can always (sadly) rely on Fox News to give voice to the profoundly misguided cultural stragglers and — apparently — we can occasionally rely on Drake Bell to do the same.
I sincerely apologize for my thoughtless insensitive remarks. I in no way meant to hurt or demean those going through a similar journey.
Although my comments were made in innocence, I deeply regret the negative effect they've had on so many.


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Start News Land Modernization of the Dutch Armored Recovery Vehicles
Modernization of the Dutch Armored Recovery Vehicles
The Royal Netherlands Army will modernize their armored recovery vehicles (ARVs). Starting immediately, Rheinmetall will completely overhaul another 21 Bergepanzer 3 Büffel ARVs of the Royal Netherlands Army, bringing them up to the latest technological and tactical standard. This will extend the service life of these tried-and-tested combat support vehicles – developed by Rheinmetall on the basis of the Leopard 2 chassis – through to the year 2040. The Dutch armed forces will take delivery of the first vehicles at the beginning of 2021. This Phase 2 follows a first order awarded in April 2019, when the Royal Netherlands Army contracted with Rheinmetall for the modernization of four Bergepanzer 3 Büffel/Buffalo ARVs.
Photo: Rheinmetall
"This service life extension will give the Dutch armed forces a reconfigured state-of-the-art ARV with significant growth potential," Rheinmetall stated. "New force protection features both on and in the vehicle will keep the crew extremely safe from modern battlefield threats. Cutting-edge visualization systems, digital operating elements and command systems will support the crew while carrying out their tasks. Furthermore, new battlefield recovery equipment will boost the vehicle's tactical effectiveness. It will be transferred to the rear section of the vehicle. This will let the crew hook up to a damaged Royal Dutch Army vehicle such as the Bushmaster, Boxer, CV 90 infantry fighting vehicle, PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer, Leguan bridge-laying tank, Kodiak combat engineering vehicle or the Leopard 2 main battle tank without having to leave the safety of the fighting compartment, before towing it from the battlefield at high speed in forward gear. In addition, the modified version of the Bergepanzer 3 Büffel ARV will feature a flexible-use universal transport platform mounted on the rear section of the vehicle. To cite just one example, this can be used for carrying equipment for recovering other vehicles. The new equipment has already demonstrated its effectiveness during deployed operations."
Armoured Recovery Vehicle
Buffalo ARV
Royal Netherlands Army

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For MYTILINEOS, the growth and competitiveness of its Metallurgy Business Unit is a key strategic priority.
Through its industrial, energy and environmental investments in the industrial complex of ALUMINIUM OF GREECE in Agios Nikolaos, Viotia, one of the single largest investments ever to be carried out in Greece, MYTILINEOS has established itself as one of the strongest players in the Metallurgy sector in the European Union.
Today, MYTILINEOS owns the largest vertically integrated alumina and aluminium production plant in the European Union and, together with its mines, is able to drive the growth of the national and European economy as well as the country's periphery. It is the second largest bauxite producer in Greece and Europe, with an annual production of 650,000 metric tons of bauxite exclusively from underground mines.
ALUMINIUM OF GREECE remains one of the strongest pillars of Greek industry, with an annual production capacity that exceeds 182,000 tons of aluminium and 820,000 tons of alumina. The Company's industrial complex in Ag. Nikolaos, Viotia, employs 1,100 people directly and more than 400 indirectly, and applies production and trading practices on par with those of the world's top metallurgical industries.
Since its establishment, the Company has been a catalyst for local growth and is proud to support, and be supported by, generations of employees who are the driving force of a pioneering industry that is developing its know-how at the global level.
For more information, please visit ALUMINIUM OF GREECE, the brand name of the MYTILINEOS Metallurgy sector.


The New Mexico Film Foundation's mission is to help grow the independent film industry in New Mexico while offering financial assitance and educational opportunities to New Mexico independent filmmakers.
In 2008 the film "Book of Eli" staring Denzel Washington came to the small New Mexico town of Carrizozo where Dirk was serving as president of the chamber of commerce. After that positive experience Dirk became film liaison for the town and created a county film commission to promote the area to other film productions. For a year and a half, Dirk worked for the New Mexico State Film Office as the Outreach Programs Manager and oversaw programs such as the New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase, the New Mexico Filmmakers Experience, the Education Summit and the annual New Mexico Film and Media Industry Conference. Dirk left the New Mexico Film Office in December 2013 in order to run the New Mexico Film Foundation full time.


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Blog01/09/2020Ryan McMaken
Repo markets aren't as liquid as the Fed wants. This could be due to immense amounts of new government debt, or because US Treasurys aren't as risk-free as many assume.
Abolish the Office of the First Lady
Media and CultureU.S. History
Once upon a time, the president was expected to pay for parties and public relations out of his own pocket. Now we have the Office of the First Lady, so taxpayers can now pay her staff to plan opulent parties for wealthy donors and powerful politicians at the White House.
A History of Inflationary Money: From 1844 to Nixon
Booms and BustsGlobal EconomyBusiness Cycles
Blog12/11/2019Alasdair Macleod
It is a huge mistake to call the repeating cycle of boom and bust a business cycle. That name implies the bust is the failure of markets and capitalism. But it is really due to monetary and credit inflation licensed and promoted by governments and central banks.
Artwork Made from Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective
Media and CultureSocialism
12/11/2019Power & MarketRyan McMaken
The $120,000 price tag on that artwork involving a banana taped to a wall had almost zero to do with the amount of labor or materials that went into it. Its value was based on subjective valuations specific to certain buyers.
Austrian School vs. Law & Economics on Air Pollution
The EnvironmentOther Schools of Thought
Blog11/01/2019Robert P. Murphy
The standard Austrian approach to air pollution and regulation rejects the bean-counting of winners and losers, and instead embraces a property rights approach.
Abolish the Tampon Tax, Even If It's What SJWs Want
The SJWs protesting the so-called "tampon tax" are doing so for rather questionable reasons. But if they're going to argue that taxes are a bad thing, we shouldn't stop them.
Austrian School vs. "Law & Economics" on Product Safety
Bureaucracy and RegulationOther Schools of Thought
A look at the differences between the Austrian School and the "Law & Economics" tradition, with respect to product safety regulation.
August Money-Supply Growth Rate Falls to 12-Year Low
The money supply growth rate fell in August, dropping to a 150-month low. To find a lower growth rate, we need to go back to August 2007, when the rate was 1.59 percent.


Across the pond in the UK, iTunes users are being offered a changing weekly selection of albums for under £4, which this week includes The Verve's 'Forth' along with key albums from Lily Allen, Michael Jackson, MGMT, Hot Chip, Bowie and many more. The available selection will be changed each week, it seems.
UK users are also being offered the chance to purchase complete series of TV shows for under £10. The collection leads this week with the excellent 'Life On Mars, Series 1', and also features runs of Shameless, the IT Crowd, Teachers and more.


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La Jungle en folie est une série de bande dessinée de Mic Delinx (dessin) et Christian Godard (scénario), créée en 1969 dans Pif Gadget. Des albums sont publiés de 1973 à 1988 par Rossel puis Dargaud. Entre 2004 et 2008, Christian Godard a repris seul la série à l'occasion de la nouvelle formule de Pif Gadget ; un album en a découlé, publié par Soleil en 2005.

À la manière du Pogo de Walt Kelly, cette série est une satire de la société humaine au moyen d'animaux anthropomorphes. Elle se démarque cependant du comic strip américain par sa cruauté et son ironie toujours sous-jacente, qui en font une œuvre très particulière.

Historique
La Jungle en folie est publiée pour la première fois dans le numéro du  de l'hebdomadaire jeunesse Pif Gadget, sous la forme d'un gag en une planche. Elle devient immédiatement une série régulière du journal et apparaît en couverture dès le numéro 56 en . Elle connaît son premier récit court, La Conquête de l'espace, dans le  en novembre mais, au fil des années, la grande majorité des histoires publiées restent des gags en une ou deux planches. Le , la série s'interrompt.

C'est cependant à ce moment que la publication en album démarre vraiment, après un premier tome en 1973. La maison d'édition belge Rossel publie sept volumes jusqu'en 1976. En 1977, la série reprend dans Pif. En 1979, Dargaud entreprend de rééditer les albums Rossel et de publier de nouveaux albums, utilisant le large fonds disponible. Une première histoire à suivre, Mambo Zizi Panda, est publiée dans Pif en 1981, immédiatement éditée en album. Des gags sont ensuite publiés plus sporadiquement jusqu'en 1986, alors que les albums continuent à sortir à un rythme soutenu jusqu'en 1988 au vingtième volume.

Avec la déliquescence de Pif Gadget, la série quitte l'hebdomadaire et trouve logiquement refuge en 1987 dans Pilote, le mensuel des éditions Dargaud qui publiaient déjà les albums. Seulement trois gags paraissent. N'étant pas un assez grand succès de librairie pour survivre sans support de prépublication, la série cesse alors.

En 2001, Dargaud lance une édition intégrale de la série. Les dix-huit premiers tomes sont regroupés en six volumes, dont les derniers paraissent en 2003, année de la mort de Mic Delinx.

À partir de 2004, Godard reprend seul La Jungle en folie à l'occasion de la ressortie de Pif sous la forme d'un mensuel. Huit histoires courtes sont publiées. Parallèlement, il réalise Il était une fois le Tuyéti, histoire longue publiée en 2005 par Soleil et qui constitue le premier volume des Nouvelles Aventures de la jungle en folie. Cet album n'est cependant suivi d'aucun autre.

En 2008, trois nouveaux récits de deux planches sont publiées dans Pif mais, faute de lecteurs, le journal disparaît de nouveau. Il n'y a alors plus d'albums publiés.

Personnages
L'ensemble des personnages vit dans une jungle située au cœur d'un désert infranchissable.
 Joe le tigre : tigre végétarien et pacifique, grand amateur de pommes (donc de cidre)
 Gros Rino : rhinocéros qui porte deux médailles (ce qui est, de l'aveu même de l'auteur, un mystère car le personnage ne brille ni par son talent ni par son courage)
 Potame : hippopotame, qui exerce les fonctions de médecin malgré une compétence douteuse, se définissant comme « rigoureusement spécialisé en n'importe quoi… »
 Mortimer : serpent « à sornettes »
 Auguste : crocodile, poète dilettante
 les pies de bas de pages : commères, reines du calembour raté (elles sont parfois remplacées par des insectes de bas de pages)
 Asti : ver de terre de son état, il vit dans une pomme et refuse de servir d'appât pour la pêche
 Perrette : la belle chevrette
 Lentourloup : le loup commerçant
 Leroy : le lion chauve
 Anatole : la pieuvre

L'équipe de la jungle en folie compte aussi des animaux de légende, tels le cheval ailé Pégase ou Timoléon le dragon.

Un disque souple sonore avec l'enregistrement d'une page de bande dessinée de La Jungle en folie était offert avec le gadget du journal Pif  (1970) : un gramophone en carton. On y entend plusieurs des personnages.

Analyse
À première vue, La Jungle en folie évoque Pogo, comic strip classique de Walt Kelly : bande dessinée animalière anthropomorphique permettant une satire de la société humaine, humour délirant basé sur des jeux de mots improbables ou des situations absurdes, dessin expressif, théâtralité des personnages.

Cependant, contrairement à Pogo, La Jungle en folie déploie un humour morbide et cynique, où la cruauté et l'ironie ne sont jamais loin. Les personnages, qui évoluent au sein d'un monde clos, semblent empreints d'une « folie meurtrière » car la série se rattache en fait plus à la tradition de la fable animalière, souvent cruelle dans sa volonté de montrer les excès des hommes de son temps.

Le « trait arrondi, à demi léché et subitement flou ou tachéiste de Mic Delinx » et la grande expressivité des regards de ses personnages leur donnent un air sournois et procurent à l'œuvre « une légère touche d'hystérisation » qui accroît à la fois l'absurdité et la morbidité de la série.

Publications

Périodiques
 Pif Gadget, 1969-1986
 Pilote, 1987-1988
 Pif Gadget (Christian Godard seul), 2004-2008

Albums
Parallèlement à la série régulière, Dargaud publie des recueils de gags dans la collection « 16/22 ». Une intégrale en six volumes paraît entre 2001 et 2003.

 Les Aventures de Joe le tigre (1973)
 Salut la compagnie ! (1974)
 La Conquête de l'espace (1974)
 Corrida pour une vache maigre (1975)
 Perrette et le grand méchant Louloup (1975)
 La Crise (1976)
 Le Mouton enragé (1976)
 La Belle au bois ronflant (1979)
 La Cage aux fauves (1979)
 Le Monstre ...du Loque Néness ! (1980)
 Mambo Zizi Panda (1981)
 Le Trou du chou-fleur (1983)
 La Brigade des morses (1983)
 Hamac saynètes (1984)
 La Licorne de brume (1984)
 Le Fondu enchaîné (1985)
 Canard à l'orange (1985)
 Le Fantôme du bengali (1987)
 Le Dindon de la farce (1987)
 La Guerre du golf (1988)

coll. « 16/22 »
 Joe le Tigre vous salue bien ( dans la collection, 1978)
 Horreur judiciaire (, 1978)
 Corrida pour une vache maigre (, 1979)
 Perrette et le grand méchant Louloup (, 1979)
 La Crise (, 1980)
 Le Mouton enragé (, 1981)
 Le Complexe sidérurgique (, 1981)
 Rien ne va plus, les œufs sont faits (, 1982)
 La Belle au bois ronflant (, 1982)
 La Croque-mitaine (, 1983)
 Entre chèvre et louve (, 1984)

livres illustrés
 La Pomme (1974)
 Gros Rino et l'oisillon (1974)
 Auguste héros de l'espace (1974)
 Mortimer a des ennuis (1974)

intégrales
 Rombaldi (1982) : reprend les  et 8 à 11
 Dargaud tomes 1 à 6 (2001-2003) : reprend les  à 18

Les Nouvelles Aventures de la jungle en folie  (réalisé par Christian Godard seul)
 Il était une fois le Tuyéti (2005)

Éditeurs
 Rossel : tomes 1 à 7 (première édition des tomes 1 à 7)
 Rossel (collection « Samedi jeunesse ») : tomes 1 à 7
 Dargaud : tomes 1 à 20 (première édition des tomes 8 à 20)
 J'ai Lu BD : tomes 1 à 3
 Rossel (collection « Joe le tigre ») : livres illustrés
 Soleil : Les Nouvelles Aventures de la jungle en folie

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 .Luc Dellisse, « Quelle jungle ? Quelle folie ? », in Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée , septembre-
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Liens externes
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Série de bande dessinée française
Série Dargaud
Bande dessinée humoristique
Bande dessinée anthropomorphique
Tigre dans la bande dessinée

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module Fog
  module OpenStack
    class Volume
      class V1
        class Transfers < Fog::OpenStack::Collection
          model Fog::OpenStack::Volume::V1::Transfer
          include Fog::OpenStack::Volume::Transfers
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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May 2023 Commerce Club Luncheon
CAPT Bill Diehl's Retirement Celebration
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
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Join us at the Commerce Club luncheon on Thursday, May 18, 2023, to bid farewell to CAPT Bill Diehl, president, as he retires from the Port Bureau.
Captain Bill Diehl, USCG (Ret.), has been president of the Greater Houston Port Bureau for 13 years.
Before coming to the Port Bureau, Bill served 31 years in the U.S. Coast Guard in a variety of challenging jobs, including serving as a diplomatic liaison officer to the Panama Canal. His last assignment was command of the largest operational unit in the Coast Guard: Sector Houston-Galveston. In this role, he led 2,600 personnel in the highly successful response to Hurricane Ike in 2008. The response included saving 235 lives, cleaning up 240 oil spills, and the largest waterway restoration effort in the history of the Coast Guard.
Bill came to the Port Bureau in 2009. Since that time, he has led the Port Bureau in its mission to provide its 260+ members with vessel movement and port information, networking and promoting maritime values in the broader community. He has frquently served as a public speaker, sharing his maritime expertise in safety, security, and environmental issues. Bill has been instrumental in representing members, the Houston Ship Channel Security District, and the Greater Houston Coffee Association in front of state and federal legislators. He has also been active in furthering digitalization initiatives in the port, in helping support Project 11, and in advocacy for all stakeholders in the Houston Ship Channel.
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Aukey's new chargers from CES 2020 are more power and less brick
By Philip Berne
Aukey Omnia Series (Image credit: Aukey)
Aukey Omnia Series will include two 100-watt chargers.
The new Power Delivery chargers will be up to two-thirds smaller than a Macbook charger.
Aukey is working with Navitas to create gallium nitride integrated circuit control chips.
Aukey's new Omnia Series chargers, introduced at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, will be up to 66% smaller than the stock charger that ships with the 13-inch Macbook, Apple's smallest laptop.
Aukey CEO Lu Haichuan says that the company is "the producer of the world's smallest PD chargers," and the company's 18-watt Power Delivery charger was one of our top picks for the last Black Friday sale season. Power Delivery is a universal standard for fast charging, and Aukey says that the gallium nitride (GaN) technology in its newest chargers can conduct electricity up to 100 times faster than older technology based on silicon semiconductors.
Aukey is also working with Navitas, a company that specializes in using gallium nitride, to power integrated circuits (ICs). The companies developed OmniaChip ICs for the new Omnia Series, and OmniaChip is designed to increase switching speeds and improve energy savings.
The new chargers will come in flavors that support charging up to 100-watts, which is more than enough to charge a Macbook Pro and flagship smartphone with the two USB-C ports. Aukey has not released specific pricing details, but the five models will be available in 61W, 65W, and 100W power options in the Spring of this year.
CES 2020: The biggest news and announcements so far
Philip Berne
Man I so want to know if that two port 100W can do 100W on both ports at the same time.
TBH I really wish these articles would divert their effort into pressuring these OEM's to just give us removable batteries which would negate the need for any of this.


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The pH scale is simply a mesurement of the level of acidity. The pH scale is 1 to 14 and is nomally viewed in 3 sections: pH1 to pH6.9 is ACID, pH7 is NEUTRAL and pH7.1 to pH14 is ALKALINE (or BASIC).
Most plants prefer a slightly acidic soil between pH6 and pH6.8 and some plants like rhododendrons, azaleas and bluberries thrive in more acidic soils around a pH5 to pH5.5.
The aluminium sulphate should be applied to the garden as a liquid to realise a fast change in the pH. Before starting you need to know the pH of your soil. This can easily be done using a soil testing kit you can buy in any good garden centre or with a pH meter. As a rule of thumb to reduce the pH by 1 point you need to apply 50g of aluminium sulphate for every square metre of soil.
Example: if your soil pH is 7.5 and you want to reduce it to pH6.5 and you have an area of 30 square metres then you will need 50×30 = 1500g of aluminium sulphate.
Ideally the aluminium sulphate needs to penetrate into the soil to be effective or you will be just acidifying the surface. One suggestion to aid penetration would be to spike the garden as you go along. For every 5 square metres of garden you need to apply 250g of the aluminium sulphate. Dissolve this in a litre of hot water by leaving it to sit for 15–30 minutes. Add to a watering can and top up with cold water. Apply this to the 5 sq m of garden. Repeat the process for each 5 sq m to be treated.


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Turkey seems fond of so-called 'false flag' operations. In 1955, for example, the Turkish government covertly bombed its own consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece and blamed it on Greeks. The following day, Turkey stage-managed massive anti-Greek riots in Istanbul that killed over a dozen Christians and caused hundreds of millions in damage.
Fast forward to March 2014. A leaked audiotape caught Turkish officials plotting to stage 'false flag' military attacks on their own territory and blame them on Syrians. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, General Yaşar Gürel, and Intelligence chief Hakan Fidan planned to use the attacks as an excuse to invade Syria. The title of this article could easily apply to that plot.
To close observers of the Caucasus, however, it could also describe a failed covert Turkish plan to attack Armenia two decades ago and turn the geopolitics of the region upside down.
In October 1993, two years after the USSR had splintered, an ethnic Chechen Muslim named Ruslan Khasbulatov – the Speaker, believe it or not, of the Russian Parliament – led a coup against beleaguered Russian President Boris Yeltsin. According to American, French, and Greek officials, Khasbulatov and Muslim Turkey had a secret agreement.
If his coup succeeded, Khasbulatov would order Russian troops to withdraw from Armenia, where they helped guard the latter's border with Turkey. That would pave the way for Turkey to invade the landlocked Christian nation of just three million inhabitants.
History tells us that Turkey has always wanted to overrun Armenia. Doing so would create a path to Turkic-speaking Muslim Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea, and, eventually, Central Asia. It's called pan-Turkism.
In 1993, of course, Azerbaijan was losing its war with Armenians over the ancient, majority-Armenian province of Karabagh. Azerbaijan was, therefore, eager for Turkey to attack Armenia, and Turkey was ready to help Azerbaijan turn the tide.
Harkening back to the Armenian genocide, Turkish President Turgut Özal had threatened to teach Armenia "the lessons of 1915." Tansu Çiller, Turkey's prime minister, warned Armenia that she wouldn't "sit back and do nothing." Turkey was massing forces on Armenia's western border and supplying Azerbaijan with weapons, military advisors, and paramilitary forces. Chechen militants and Afghan Mujahideen were already fighting alongside Azeris.
A successful Turkish attack on Armenia – Russia's only military partner in the Caucasus – would have all but destroyed Russian influence in the region. That, in turn, would have increased the likelihood that Chechnya, and much of the Muslim North Caucasus, would eventually escape the Russian Bear's grip. For a native-born Chechen like Khasbulatov, it would all be a dream-come-true.
But bombarded by Russian tanks, Speaker Khasbulatov, V.P. Alexander Rutskoi, and hundreds of rebel parliamentarians and supporters surrendered the Parliament building on October 4, 1993. The coup and the plot to invade Armenia had failed.
The Khasbulatov-Turkish pact was first revealed by Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos in his book Caucasus Chronicles (London: Gomidas, 2002). He was Greece's ambassador to Armenia from July 1993 to February 1994. Chrysanthopoulos, now 68, has served as ambassador to Canada and Poland, and was recently Secretary General of the 12-country, Istanbul-based Black Sea Economic Cooperation organization.
France's ambassador to Armenia, Mme. France de Harthing, told him that "French intelligence sources" confirmed that "the Turkish incursion into Armenia would take place immediately after Khasbulatov would have withdrawn the Russian troops from Armenia." "This information,"wrote Chrysanthopoulos, "was later confirmed to me by my United States colleague," Ambassador Harry J. Gilmore.
The Turkish strike would be "incursions of a limited nature," though it's unclear what "limited" meant. More likely, as Turkey wouldn't find any PKK, the aim was to forge a permanent corridor across Armenia, link up with Azeri forces, and cleanse Karabagh of Armenians.
The U.S. and France have never, as far as is known, publicly denied the existence of the Khasbulatov-Turkish plot. Moreover, Chrysanthopoulos gives no indication that any country tried to talk Turkey out of its deal with Khasbulatov.
Is any of this relevant today?
Yes, because current Turkish, American, and NATO policies in the Caucasus strongly echo the 1993 Khasbulatov-Turkish plot. For two decades, the West has been trying to penetrate and dominate the Caucasus – Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia –and eventually cross the Caspian Sea into energy-rich Central Asia.
One piece of the plan has already been partially implemented: constructing oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey.
NATO's remaining goal: absorb the entire Caucasus. NATO would thereby threaten Russia from the south, just as it now pressures Russia from the west with its absorption of much of Eastern Europe (and, NATO hopes, Ukraine).
Georgia and Azerbaijan are inclined to eventually join NATO. Armenia, however, is not, though it has excellent relations with NATO and the West. Armenia has little choice but to ally itself with Russia because the former faces an ongoing existential threat from NATO member Turkey, the 1993 plot being one example.
Armenia is the Caucasus's linchpin. Had the Khasbulatov – Turkish quasi-'false flag' operation against Armenia succeeded, Russia would probably have lost, and NATO would have gained, the entire Caucasus. New provocations, including 'false flags,' by Turkey and NATO cannot, therefore, be ruled out.
Turkish, American, and NATO leaders must also be interrogated as to whether their policies in the Caucasus are leading to peace or war.
David Boyajian is a freelance journalist. Many of his articles are archived at Armeniapedia.org. Read other articles by David.
This article was posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 at 9:15pm and is filed under Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Georgia, NATO, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine.


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FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #4
Posted on October 22, 2017 May 26, 2019 By AntBit
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #4 first published by Twitch (now ScreenAnarchy)
Titles featured: Summer Camp, The Lazarus Effect, Banjo, Hostile, Awaiting, Goddess of Love, Suspension, Bite
Summer Camp (world première)
There must be something in the Andalusian water to explain the ability of Spanish filmmakers to create so much genre cinema of the very highest order. Alberto Martini has long been in the background of this tendency, playing a rôle in the production of Iberian stunners like the [Rec] series, Sleep Tight (which he also scripted) and The Last Days – and now that he is finally stepping into the director's chair, his feature debut proves a savvy fireside gathering of different horror forms.
At the very start a news report announces that three Americans who were working at a summer camp in Spain have gone missing, and "the chances of finding them alive are slim." Cut to two days earlier, and we see one of these (probably doomed) working tourists, Michelle (Maiara Walsh), running through the tree line, blindfolded, her hands tied behind her back, with a male figure close at her heels. This, it quickly turns out, is not a hoary killer-in-the-woods routine but a trust-building exercise between the Camp El Buho counsellors before their young wards arrive.
While from this point on Summer Camp repeatedly wrong-foots characters and viewers alike with tropes and scenarios that seem all too familiar but are then slyly reoriented, trust between the counsellors will remain a key theme, as Michelle, Will (Diego Boneta) and Christy (Jocelin Donahue) have their loyalties and team spirit tested by an outbreak of murderous madness that will keep pitting them against each other.
Unfolding with the same sense of paranoid derangement as the infection whose ravages it observes, Summer Camp remains deft in its pacing and endless narrative surprises even as its characters become increasingly hobbled by a succession of injuries to their legs, feet and other body parts. Mixing aspects of the camp slasher, zombie flicks, Cabin Fever, Shrooms and Who Can Kill A Child? into a heady homebrew – and a genre jamboree – Summer Camp is always several steps ahead of us, and hilariously mean-spirited to boot. After spending so long hiding in the dark shadows of Spanish genre cinema, Marini has emerged a fully grown, freakily fun guy…
"It's about giving everyone that second chance they deserve," says Frank (Mark Duplass) of the pioneering scientific work that he, his long-term fiancée Zoe (Olivia Wilde) and their small research team are conducting in the laboratory of a Christian university, before the cameras of videographer Eva (Sarah Bolger). Their 'Lazarus serum', once injected into a corpse's brain, can not only resuscitate the dead, but also bring about rapid and radical evolution. Yet after circumstances force them to shift their experiments from a canine to a human subject, Catholic Zoe (whose name means 'life') will be confronted with past sins from which there can be no easy redemption.
Resurrecting ideas from Re-Animator (1985), Pet Sematary (1989) and Flatliners (1990), while nodding to Cujo (1983) and of course Frankenstein (1931), David Gelb's The Lazarus Effect makes no great claims on originality, although it does rewire its source materials into something ever so slightly different, while following the Blumhouse formula of contained creepiness and slickly packaged jump scares. Wilde and Duplass do their best to humanise the high concept, which ends up playing like a malevolent remix of Lucy (2014). For as the corridors of Zoe's overdeveloped neural network still echo with her repressed childhood emotions and memories, she becomes a psychotic superhuman, trapped in the hellish outer fringes of science and religion. Which is a long way from Gelb's previous feature, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) – even if the 'Lazarus serum', applied to a raw fish carcass, might just have engendered Dead Sushi (2012).
Banjo (world première)
Abused and emasculated by his money-chasing girlfriend, humiliated and bullied by his work colleagues, and recently off his meds, Peltzer Arbuckle (James Hamer-Morton) inadvertently conjures his imaginary childhood friend – and unrestrained id – Ronnie (Damian Morter). Yet far from being merely a force of fun-loving chaos like Drop Dead Fred (1991), Ronnie's last visit had led Peltzer to go on a shooting spree at his high school – and he is now set on driving the downtrodden drone to execute an office massacre.
If a would-be man's arrested development and inability to put away childish things are key themes in Liam Regan's feature debut Banjo, juvenility pervades the film too, from the uneasy fixation on sex to the cartoonishness of the characters to an utterly gratuitous preoccupation with vomit, urine, used tampons and bloody penile tissue damage – as though the whole world of Banjo were being filtered through the priapic, ultraviolent perspective of an overgrown schoolboy. That childish sensibility is informed, if perhaps not entirely excused, by the influence of a certain strain of Eighties trash horror – hence Kurt Dirt's synth-heavy score and an appearance by a brick phone to fix the decade, and hence the cameo from Troma's Lloyd The Toxic Avenger Kaufman (and, for the eagle-eyed, an "I love Tromaville High School" sticker in the background) and the setting in a town named 'Henenlotter' (after Frank Henenlotter, director of 1982's Basket Case and 1988's Brain Damage). The problem is, though, that both horror cinema and the world have done a lot of growing up since then, making Banjo seem something of a puerile throwback.
"Where am I? I don't really know. I wanted to take a shortcut. Don't worry, I'll be right there. No, I'm not lost."
The speaker is on her mobile phone, by her car, on a woodland road – and if handheld 'POV' shots, taken from the tree line, suggest that we are in familiar slasher territory, the appearance of a blood-covered girl, and the woman's murder shortly afterwards, seem to confirm this. Yet 14-year-old writer/director Nathan Ambrosioni is determined to get his viewers much more lost than they ever realise, as Hostile blurs together multiple subgenres and interlaces different explanatory frames to create a story whose disorienting overdetermination makes for map-free fun.
A mere month after she has adopted teenaged sisters Emilie (Julie Venturelli) and Anna (Luna Belan), Meredith Langston (Shelley Ward) becomes aware of another presence in the house, even as the girls' behaviour becomes more aggressive and menacing. It seems to be a ghost story, but there are also hints of abuse, torture, madness, possession, hallucination, Satanic invocation… And then there are the girls, creepy and conspiratorial, who, like vampiresses from some 70s Eurosleaze, "wear their nightdresses all day long" – a detail whose oddness is expressly noted even by one of the characters. 'Objective' camerawork soon gets mixed up with diegetic footage documented by a television crew and by a pair of would-be exorcists, as well as with a 'found' family video. It is a confidently mounted, genre-savvy ragbag that constantly confounds and wrongfoots without ever quite adding up or making complete sense. This protean quality may be dismissed by some as a symptom of the filmmaker's immaturity – but it is also where the uncanny finds its home.
"It's been a crazy couple of days, ay?"
So says Lauren (Diana Vickers) to Jake (Rupert Hill), a lawyer who has, after a car accident, found himself a captive guest at the isolated "shithole" home of the young woman and her tow-trucking, overprotective father Morris (Tony Curran) out on the Yorkshire moors. Mark Murphy's Awaiting begins in similar territory to Scott Graham's Shell (2012), with a father and daughter observed in their claustrophobic, not exactly "healthy" relationship that outsider Jake threatens to disrupt with his promise (to Lauren) of experience outside the box. Yet once all three are dressed in cracker hats for a Christmas dinner (in September!) where Jake must bear unhappy witness to Lauren's unnerving evocation of her departed mother for Morris, we have drifted closer to the unhinged father-daughter terrains of Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones (2009) – and by the time the film has slow-burnt its way through a succession of horrifically transgressive revelations to its axe-wielding climax, it is as though The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) had transplanted itself to the backwoods of Northern England.
Chaining its baroque secrets to a studied social realism and a performance (by Curran) of quietly contained menace, Awaiting concerns itself with the genetic ties that bind. For, entrapping characters and viewers alike in an awaited possibility of escape that is repeatedly frustrated, this sick psychodrama sets city against country, North against South, and blood against blood, while dismembering family values along the way.
Goddess of Love (world première)
"You have to keep it all in fantasy," Chanel (Monda Scott) advises new pole/lap dancer Venus (Alexis Kendra). "You just have to be dripping with sex."
Chanel (not her real name) is instructing the novice in how best to fleece male clients of their money, but in fact it is love that Venus, in keeping with her all-too-real name, seeks. Quick to hook – and hook up with – Brian (Woody Naismith), an Australian photographer still grieving his wife's recent suicide, Venus notices her beau's erotic attention drifting and suspects that there is another woman in the picture. Yet much as Brian likes to photograph his subjects wearing carnivalesque masks, Venus is engaged in her own masquerade, putting on makeup and alluring attire to cover an affliction somewhat more dangerous than mere lovesickness.
Departing significantly from his previous genre films (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, The Shrine), director and co-writer Jon Knautz certainly keeps it all in fantasy, crafting his disturbing, at times hallucinatory portrait of erotomania by filtering events through Venus' own paranoid perspective, and only occasionally letting the mask slip to reveal the reality underneath. Kendra (who also co-wrote) gives her all in an astonishing, slippery performance – and while there is a 'bunny boiler' moment, this erotic thriller distinguishes itself from others by being told from the inside out, with far greater psychological insight (or is that obfuscation?) than is normally associated with this subgenre. The secret is finally let out – and the film's every last ambiguity let down – by an ending in which a figure of authority is allowed to overexplain all that has preceded. This might be an homage to the end of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), but it also serves to undo, in a disappointingly unsubtle manner, every fragile illusion and equivocation that the film has, along with Venus, so seductively constructed. Still, that seduction is perfection itself.
A van is seen from above, monochrome and rotoscoped, rolling slowly up to a barn whose blood-red hue is the only splash of colour in a field of black and white, while accompanying film credits are presented in stylised boxed captions. If the opening of Suspension plays like a comic book come to life, that is because its protagonist Emily Hanson (Ellen MacNevin) is keen on turning her darkest thoughts into panelled sketchbook narratives whose contents are intermittently realised on screen.
An alienated, bullied teenager whose father was jailed for going on a killing spree a decade earlier, Emily writes comics (on themes rather close to home) to entertain her mute younger brother Jeremy (Connor Fielding). Yet on this night, as she draws a story for Jeremy about the violent return of their father in hoodie and borrowed mask, someone with a definite family resemblance really is closing in on the house with murderous intent – and as dusk turns to night, the stylised desaturation of the comic book reconstructions starts merging with Emily's actual situation.
Best known for his prolific work at the schlockier end of genre (sample titles: Alien Incursion, Goblin, Haunted High, Roboshark), here director Jeffery Lando takes us on a savvy spin down the psychological by-roads of the slasher. There is a silent masked killer, a moustachioed comedy cop, a webcast crew, and enough partying co-eds to fill several body bags – and the names of Emily's friends (Jason! Carrie!) are like breadcrumbs for genrehounds, pointing to different routes through this tangled narrative. In its fluid treatment of fantasy and reality, Suspension hangs its story on multiple hooks, before twisting in its final killer blow and hammering it home. You may well see it coming – although perhaps not in every detail – but Lando is certainly deft in handling the many modalities of this material.
Chad (The Drownsman) Archibald's Bite opens as 'found footage'. Casey (Elma Begovic) is persistently filmed by her two BFFs on a last bachelorette binge in Costa Rica, as she hits the booze and the dancefloor, meets a handsome local, and gets wedding jitters – not least because she does not share the enthusiasm of fiancé Jared (Jordan Gray) for having children. But then, just after this video footage shows Casey bitten by something in a secluded, insect-infested swim spot, Bite returns us to her New York normality, and to a more 'objective' style of filmmaking – although her friend's earlier recordings will continue to play different evidential rôles in the subsequent story.
Having "caught a bug or something", Casey begins her rapid physical metamorphosis into an icky, insectoid creature (with shades of David Cronenberg's The Fly), gradually incorporating neighbours and loved ones into the nest that her apartment has become. This is pure body horror, focusing on the vomit and pus and oozy emissions that accompany Casey's entomological alterations – but it is also an allegory of a young woman's full, monstrous conversion to marriage, maternity and hardcore homemaking. Think Leigh Janiak's Honeymoon, with a Kafka-esque sting in its tail.
The Offer (2017)


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Q: Generating & Plotting Histograms of Gradient Magnitude & Orientation Using matplotlib how can I generate & display a histogram of the image gradient magnitude and orientation?
One thing I don't know is the x axis limits; for magnitude should it be 0 to 1? Ie, the strength of an edge is between 0 and 1? For orientation I assume the x axis limits would be 0 to 360 (degrees) or should I do radians?
Below is how I generate my gradient, magnitude and orientation. How can I now show each as a histogram?
def get_gradient(src):

    sobelx = cv2.Sobel(src,cv2.CV_64F,1,0,ksize=5)
    sobely = cv2.Sobel(src,cv2.CV_64F,0,1,ksize=5)

    grad = sobelx + sobely
    mag = cv2.magnitude(sobelx, sobely)  # so my Mat element values could be anything between 0 and 1???
    ori = cv2.phase(sobelx, sobely, True) # so my Mat element values could be anything between 0 and 360 degrees???
    return [grad, mag, ori]

grad_res = get_gradient(src)

# number of bins is 100 from 0 to 1. Ie, 0.001, 0.002, ... 1.000
# am I correct?
mag_hist = cv2.calcHist([grad_res[1]],[0],None,[100],[0,1])

ori_hist = cv2.calcHist([grad_res[2]],[0],None,[360],[0,360])

plt.plot(mag_hist)
plt.xlim([0,1])

plt.plot(ori_hist)
plt.xlim([0,360])

plt.show()

Edit: Current error from the above code:

mag_hist = cv2.calcHist([gradient[1]],[0],None,[10],[0,100])
  error: C:\projects\opencv-python\opencv\modules\imgproc\src\histogram.cpp:1422: error: (-210)  in function cv::calcHist

A: You're returning 64-bit floats, which calcHist does not support. You need to cast them to 32-bit floats. Either change the type in your cv2.Sobel() call to cv2.CV_32F or use [grad_res[1].astype('float32')] as the argument in cv2.calcHist().
From OpenCV docs:
images – Source arrays. They all should have the same depth, CV_8U or CV_32F , and the same size. Each of them can have an arbitrary number of channels.


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Stand with feet hip-width apart, pod under right foot, arms down. Raise arms to sides at shoulder level as you engage abs, then slowly extend left leg to side as high as you can (as shown). Slowly return to start. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat.
Start in plank position, forearms resting on pods (spiky side down), hips lifted, legs behind you, resting on toes (as shown). Hold pose as long as you can; work up to 60 seconds. Lower to knees; repeat twice.
Stand on pods with feet hip-width apart, knees soft, arms down. Engage abs and raise arms to shoulder level for balance as you slowly squat as low as you can (as shown). Return to start. Do 12 reps.
Stand with right foot on pod, sole of left foot pressed inside left shin, knee out, and palms pressed in front of chest. Engage abs and hold pose. If you can, slowly extend arms overhead (as shown), then lower. Hold up to 30 seconds as you maintain balance. Switch sides; repeat.
Start in push-up position, with ball of left foot on pod and right leg raised in line with hips. Engage abs, bringing right knee toward left armpit (as shown). Return to start. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat.
Sit with legs extended, heels on pods, wrists directly below shoulders with palms flat on ground, fingers pointing forward. Lift hips off ground. Maintain hip lift as you engage abs and raise left leg as high as you can (as shown). Slowly return to start. Repeat on opposite side for one rep. Do 12 reps.


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Interview: Ulrich Bez
The father of the 993 talks about what makes a great sports car, German engineering and the future of sports cars
Story by Greg Hudock
Photos by Porsche and Aston Martin
As head of Porsche's fabled Research and Development department, Dr. Ulrich Bez was responsible for leading development of the 993—Porsche's last and much loved air-cooled 911.
Bez's first love was airplanes. He studied Aviation Technology at Universität Stuttgart and he later earned a Doctorate in Engineering from Freie Universität Berlin before going to work for Porsche in 1972. Bez climbed his way up to the position of Director of Vehicle Research before leaving Porsche for BMW in 1982.
In Munich, Bez started out as the Director of Vehicle Pre-Development before becoming the first director of BMW's experimental development lab, BMW Technik. After six years and some notable projects, including the Z1 roadster, Bez headed back to Weissach in 1988, when he was appointed Director of R&D and Motorsport at Porsche, replacing the retiring Helmuth Bott.
The recession that started with the Black Monday crash of 1987 had softened the sports car market considerably, and Bez was given a strict budget for updating the model range. The positive outcomes of this ingenuity-over-big-budget strategy were the 993, 968 and 928 GTS.
Bez also wanted to expand the product range to include a sedan, which would have been known as the 989. When it became apparent to the Board of Directors that the cost of that project had gotten out of control and the car would be far too expensive to produce, Bez was asked to leave Porsche in 1991. He ended up in an unlikely place: South Korea.
Eager to enter the expanding global auto market, South Korean automakers had set out to attract talent from around the world. In 1993, Bez became the Vice President of Strategy, Engineering, and Product Development at Daewoo. After five years in Seoul, Bez returned to Germany in 1998, where he served as the Chairman of Flender AG, an industrial gearbox maker. In 2000, Bez accepted the position of CEO at Aston Martin, a role he will soon be relinquishing for retirement once a suitable replacement is selected.
Excellence: What makes a great sports car? What is the core of a great sports car for you?
Bez: This is of course a question of individual taste. A great sports car for me is not about top speed or top acceleration. It needs to deliver sufficient dynamic performance, whenever and wherever the driver asks for it. Delivering high dynamics at low revs, for instance, meets the practical requirements of driving more than mere performance figures given in car documents that can hardly be put into practice under real conditions on real roads. A great sports car must give the driver the feeling that he can connect with the car, that he is the one who controls it and gets maximum fun out of it. This high level of usability is combined with comfort, great design, and lots of emotions. A car is great if it puts a smile on your face.
Excellence: What makes Germany such fertile ground for prolific engineers?
Bez: Germany has a long tradition of engineering, which is respected and admired around the world. In contrast to other countries there is, alongside the big companies, a strong base of small and medium-sized companies in manufacturing that play a considerable economical role and contribute to the huge R&D activities of the German industry. There is a high demand for qualified people; therefore the emphasis on having a profound training system for engineers is very strong. The car industry is naturally one of the most attractive sectors for many engineers, as it is at the forefront of technological innovations and thus very successful in the global markets. Developing sports cars is an area where engineers have the chance to max-out technological opportunities and push new developments. Also, sports cars are highly emotional products, for those who build them and for those who drive them. This is probably the reason why I joined the motor industry after completing my studies in aviation technology. There is nothing that comes closer to flying than driving sports cars.
Excellence: Can you describe the biggest differences between working for a German sports car maker and an English sports car maker?
Bez: To be honest, the differences are not that big. Every sports carmaker is striving to create what they think is the perfect product, which presents the brand values. They all pursue one goal; it is the ingredients that differ and give the products their special character. These individual ingredients reflect the culture a carmaker is part of, its heritage, and the approach that engineers and designers take when creating a product. Hence, sports cars made in Germany will always be different from sports cars made in England as well as from those made in Italy. And so will be the culture in the individual companies. I think this is good, as it brings more variety to the sports car market as a whole.
Excellence: Who has most influenced your engineering and management pursuits, both past and present?
Bez: In general, I try to act and decide uninhibited by external influences. However, if there is a person from whom I have learned a great deal and also gained a lot personally, it was Eberhard von Kuenheim, the former CEO of BMW, when I worked for him at BMW. It was a time of departure at BMW, and it was great to be part of that under his leadership. Of course there were other important phases in my professional life, such as my time at Daewoo in South Korea or my start at Aston Martin.
Excellence: Looking back, what was your favorite project at Porsche? What made that particular project special?
Bez: A very challenging and exciting moment at Porsche was when I carried through the 993. I was asked to lead the development of a 911 replacement. Instead, I proposed to stick with the 911 concept and morphed it into the 993, which marked the turnaround and long life of the 911.
Excellence: What do you think is destined to be the sports car of the future? Can electrics, hybrids, or even diesels be true sports cars?
Bez: We still have not found a real sustainable solution for alternative energies in the car sector, let alone for sports cars. I always said that when a diesel engine can win Le Mans, it might also be suitable for other sports car applications. What goes against the case for diesel for us is that in huge markets like China and North America, you can only really sell petrol-fueled vehicles. Hybrids do not convince me at all, as they add too much weight to a car, and this is totally counterproductive, especially for a sports car. As today's battery capacities have not really improved, electric cars make sense for urban traffic, where you do not have to cover long distances and are always near a charging station or the next bus in case the battery dies. Therefore, an electric car currently is a useful addition to the car fleet of a family, but not a full replacement for the main family car. I do not see the sense in electric sports cars, as I think a sports car should be able to take you anywhere at any time. This is what traditional engines today still can do better than any other drivetrain. For the future, I see hydrogen as a very interesting alternative and I think we should look into this more intensely.
Also from Issue 222
TechArt 991 Turbo S
A 1957 356 A Coupe with gunslinger DNA
Porsche Parade 2014
A 964 Speedster gets turbo power
Rite of Passage Turbo-look 911
Porsche's surprising role in Formula Vee
A 993 RSR gets a second lease on life
A 1977 911 becomes a Driver Education gem
Studiotorino Cayman


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Republicans are giving Trump 'two more weeks' to see the 'writing on the wall' before intervening: CNN's Raju
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President Donald Trump responds to a question about Jussie Smollett (Screen cap).
Top Republican officials are remaining silent as President Donald Trump continues peddling false conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, but a new report from CNN's Manu Raju suggests their patience does have its limits.
During an interview with CNN host Jim Sciutto, Raju said that Republicans know they're going to have to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden won the election at some point, although they're trying to string it out for as long as they can to avoid angering the president.
"Republican senators tell me they believe this will all sort itself out on December 14th," he explained. "I have it at two more weeks, hoping it gets resolved by the time that the state electors are chosen, and at that time they hope the president sees the writing on the wall and they do not have to get involved."
December 14th is when the electoral college will officially vote Biden in as the next president, which is all but inevitable at this point given that key states including Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia have all certified Biden's victory.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Luke Kennard scored 27 points, Reggie Jackson had 21 and Andre Drummond added 20 points and 18 rebounds as the Detroit Pistons locked up the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot with a 115-89 victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night (Thursday, PHL time).
Pistons: Blake Griffin, who hurt his left knee against Memphis on Tuesday (Wednesday, PHL time), did not play. ... Jackson is the only Pistons player to play in and start all of the team's 82 games. ... Detroit has beaten the Knicks seven straight times. They haven't lost to New York since March 27, 2017 (109-95).
Knicks: Dennis Smith Jr., acquired from Dallas in the trade for Kristaps Porzingis on January 31 (Feb. 1, PHL time), did not play in the final game of the season due to back stiffness. DeAndre Jordan, who also came to the Knicks in that trade, also did not play (coach's decision). ... Kevin Knox (75) and Damyean Dotson (73) were the only Knicks to play more than 70 games this season. Knox and Noah Vonleh each started a team-high 57 times.
Four players who spent the majority of time on the Westchester Knicks G-League team during the season reunited for a large portion of the second quarter of New York's season finale on Wednesday night (Thursday, PHL time). Jenkins, Hicks and Luke Kornet each played eight minutes, while Allen was on the court for seven. They accounted for 14 points as the Knicks were outscored 29-19 in the quarter.
Ellenson, who was a first-round draft choice by the Pistons in 2016, was playing against his former team for the first time. Chosen number 18 by Detroit, Ellenson played 21 minutes on Wednesday (Thursday, PHL time).


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If you enter a non-existent artist into the artist credits during editing a recording (causing the field to go red), submitting the change will cause an internal server error. In contrast, on a tracklist edit, this brings up the add missing entities page. We need something similar for recordings.


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The following profile is the twelfth in a series of student profiles of our students and alumni at the university.
What have you been doing since earning your master's degree in management at APU?
After I earned my master's in 2014, I started a position as Assistant HR Director for the YMCA in Westfield, NJ. I stayed there for about a year. Then I realized the potential for growth within the HR industry, so I left and went into the corporate sector. I currently work for one of the well-known companies when it comes to payroll and HR solutions, Automatic Data Processing (ADP).
When I looked for a university to do my master's, I searched for a school that had great reviews, low-cost tuition and a curriculum that wouldn't be stressful. My research took me two weeks and I narrowed it down to two schools.
At the time, I was unsure about what my concentration should be within my major. I went with entrepreneurship, which APU offered, and that helped me with my decision. After a couple of classes, I changed my concentration to human resources.
I am a life cycle manager for ADP TotalSource, a division within ADP. I assist employers and employees with their health benefits.
My team and I are located throughout the United States so that all of our clients and their employees experience face-to-face meetings. When we are not out in the field, we are behind the scenes, working out employee issues such as qualifying life changes and new hire issues that arise during the plan year.
The position that I currently hold allows me to travel 50% of the time, which makes it that much better because I get to travel to other states. I cannot wait until I have to meet with a client in Hawaii; that will be such an exciting workday and week that I will remember forever!
Did your degree with APU help prepare you for specific challenges you've come across in your field?
My degree opened up so many new opportunities for me and it especially prepared me for my current position at ADP. The courses that I took at APU taught me a lot about the human resources industry and opened up a pathway for my career journey.
The positions in HR that I held before my degree, although they were hands-on positions, never helped me with understanding core HR functions. My professors broke down every function, even on an international scale, which helped me with my role today at ADP.
Advanced degrees are highly respected and important within the HR industry. Many employers require only a bachelor's degree.
But with a master's degree, that shows that you are more competitive. You may stand out more than the average candidate. If you're interested in obtaining professional credentials with an advanced degree, you are only required to have a minimum amount of work experience. With a bachelor's degree, more years of experience are required.
The biggest challenge in my industry is staying current with the policy and laws that continually change. HR works with state and government laws and then creates their own policies for the work site. If laws and policies are not followed properly, companies can risk being sued or may shut down, depending on the circumstances.
Is there a particular class or professor at APU that stood out?
The class that stood out to me was Organizational Development. Because I was interested in becoming an entrepreneur, this class allowed me to see how the lifecycle of an organization takes place. I could concentrate on specific areas within a business to keep it from failing, such as customer service and management.
I always struggled at a brick-and-mortar school because professors have a curriculum that they stick to and it has to get done no matter what. The problem is that many students have different learning skills. Most students cannot keep up with the pace of the class, so they fall behind. It shows on the tests.
With online learning, you have set deadlines. You choose when you need to study and meet those deadlines at your own pace. I was able to graduate with a 4.0 at APU and I owe it all to the structure of online learning.
Many subjects were challenging to me. But with the structure of the courses, I was able to do more research, talk one-on-one with professors and study online with a tutor if needed.
One piece of advice that I would pass on about online education is to tell everyone new to online learning that it is not as difficult as many people say. My oldest daughter went away to college to pursue her degree in marketing at a brick-and-mortar school in North Carolina.
She struggled because of the curriculum's pace and could not keep up. Of course, telling a young adult to see a tutor and study a bit more is inevitable. I allowed my daughter to stay for her second semester but she continued to struggle. She withdrew from the school and started working fulltime, but she enrolled in APU, majoring in marketing.
My daughter was so afraid because there were no professors or classmates that she could physically see and automatically told me that she didn't think she could do it. I promised her that if it was too much that I would enroll her back in a brick-and-mortar community college.
I love to travel and just enjoy life. As a mom of two girls and as a wife, my focus has been on my family.
Once the girls were big enough to do most things on their own, I went back to school and graduated with degrees three times within six years. I was determined. Online learning made it that much easier.
Our student profile series gives a face and personality to our dedicated online learners at the university. Interested in learning more about your online education options? Explore our schools and programs at APU.