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Why is Southeast Asia so concerned about AUKUS and Australia's plans for nuclear submarines?
2021-09-21 - JAMES CHIN JAMES CHIN is a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania.
The announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the UK, and the US (AUKUS) has caught many by surprise. Besides France, which reacted with fury over Australia's scrapping of a major submarine deal with a French company, few countries were as surprised as Australia's neighbors to the north, the ASEAN members.
In particular, Indonesia and Malaysia have come out strongly against Australia's plan to acquire a fleet of nuclearpowered submarines with the help of the US and UK. Even Singapore, Australia's most reliable ally in the region, has expressed concern.
The Afghanistan debacle has left a bad taste among many Indo-Pacific countries, and some are wondering if the timing of the AUKUS announcement was intended as a show of US power in the region to reassure jittery partners.
To understand the deep anxiety in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and other ASEAN capitals requires some context on where they are coming from.
First, many of them think there is no such thing as acquiring nuclear-powered submarines without the prospect of acquiring nuclear weapons in the future.
Australia has not joined the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which requires parties to agree not to develop, test, produce, acquire, possess, stockpile, or threaten to use nuclear weapons.
The Morrison government says the treaty would be inconsistent with its alliance with the US, a nuclear weapon power.
However, Australia did ratify the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1973 and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1998. And Prime Minister Scott Morrison said last week Australia has "no plans" to pursue nuclear weapons.
Yet, some ASEAN countries are worried the AUKUS agreement is a clear signal the West will take a more aggressive stand towards China by admitting Australia to the nuclear club.
Both Indonesia (the unofficial leader of ASEAN) and Malaysia fear AUKUS will also lead to a major arms race in the wider Indo-Pacific region.
The new agreement also signals that the US, Australia, and UK view the South China Sea as a key venue for this contest against China.
The ASEAN nations have always preached maintaining Southeast Asia as a "zone of peace, freedom and neutrality," free from interference by any outside powers. In 1995, the member states also signed the Treaty of Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, which committed to keep nuclear weapons out of the region. Not a single nuclear power has signed on to it.
Although everyone knows China, the US, Britain, and France have ignored these protocols by maneuvering armed warships through the South China Sea — not to mention China's building of military bases on disputed islands there — ASEAN does not want to see this number grow.
Australian nuclear-powered submarines have the potential to change the dynamics in the South China Sea and make the Chinese much more nervous. There have already been plenty of "close encounter" incidents between the Chinese and US navies in the disputed waters, as well as the Chinese navy and ships belonging to ASEAN members. The region doesn't need yet another potential "close encounter" to worry about.
The ASEAN states are already very worried about the China-US rivalry playing out in its backyard. And the new AUKUS agreement reinforces the idea that the opinions of the ASEAN members matter little when it comes to the superpowers and how they operate in the region.
The region has always insisted on the idea of "ASEAN centrality" in their relations with the world — that ASEAN members must decide what is best for Southeast Asia — but as AUKUS shows, nuclear nations play a different game.
Indonesia is especially unhappy with Australia given the new agreement will affect it directly, given their common maritime border.
Morrison had already been forced to cancel his upcoming trip to Jakarta after Prime Minister Joko Widodo said he would be unavailable to meet — a decision that was made before the AUKUS announcement. This will add another layer to the strained relationship.
While in public, most Southeast Asian governments have expressed uneasiness with AUKUS, there is a school of thought that says the more hawkish voices in the region will probably accept the agreement in the long term, as it will help keep China's aggression in check.
For those in the "hawk" camp, the number one long-term threat to regional security is China. Many think the strategic balance of power has been tilting too much in Beijing 's favor in the past decade, especially after China started rushing to build military bases in the South China Sea and using its navy to protect Chinese fishing vessels in disputed waters.
So, they believe any moves to remind China it does not have a carte blanche to do what it wants in Southeast Asia is a good thing.
Japan and South Korea are clearly in this camp and their muted reaction to AUKUS suggests they are in favor of a "re-balancing" in the region. Taiwan and Vietnam are probably on this side, as well.
The only downside is that Australia may use its nuclear-powered submarines to bully ASEAN countries. If Canberra uses its nuclear submarines as a bargaining chip, it will simply turn public opinion in the region against Australia.
If anything, the AUKUS move reinforced the widely held perception that Australia's mantra of being "part of the region" is, in fact, "empty talk." Australia has firmly signaled its intentions to put its Anglo allies in the US and UK first.
AUKUS also reinforces the view that Australia cannot be accepted as a regional partner or player. This, of course, is nothing new. For years, the ASEAN bloc has seen Australia as "deputy sheriff" to the US, though this view would not necessarily be shared in public.
So, while AUKUS came as a surprise to many in the region, an alliance of this sort was probably bound to happen. It's just that nobody expected it to happen so soon.
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| name = Valantia
| image =Valantia hispida 23-08-2003.jpg
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| image_caption = V. hispida
| regnum  = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Magnoliopsida
| ordo = Gentianales
| familia = Rubiaceae
| subfamilia = Rubioideae
| tribus = Rubieae
| genus = Valantia
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| subdivision_ranks = Especies
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Descripción
Son hierbas anuales. Hojas pecioladas, formando con las estípulas verticilos de 4 piezas. Flores en cimas de 4 piezas. Flores en cimas trifloras dispuestas en verticilastros bracteados; la central de cada cima tetrámera y hermafrodita; las laterales trimeras y masculinas. Cáliz ausente. Corola rotácea, con tubo corto y lóbulos erectos. Androceo con 3-4 estambres; anteras ovoideas incluids en el tubo de la corola. Gineceo con 2 estilos, soldados en la base, estigmas capitados. Fruto seco, dídimo, con 1-2 mericarpos, cada uno con 1 semilla, encerrado en una estructura frutífera coriácea con 2-4 cuernos, producida por la acrescencia de los pedúnculos y pedicelos florales.
 Taxonomía
El género fue descrito por Carlos Linneo y publicado en Species Plantarum 2: 1051. 1753. La especie tipo es: Valantia muralis L.
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Background: Chronic infection has a known effect on the cytokine levels of the body which adversely affects erythropoiesis. Aim: The aim of this study is to compare hematological parameters among participants with and without chronic periodontitis which also is a known infectious inflammatory disease of the gums. Materials and Methods: Forty patients with severe chronic periodontitis (Group A) and forty periodontally healthy participants (Group B) in the age group of 30–55 years presenting to the Outpatient Department of the Faculty of Dental Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, were recruited in the study and were assessed for various hematological and periodontal parameters. SPSS 17.0 version was used. Student's t-test (unpaired) was used. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Group A showed lower hemoglobin (Hb, 13.47 ± 1.05, P = 0.019), erythrocyte count (4.63 ± 0.40, P = 0.002), and mean corpuscular Hb concentration (32.58 ± 0.90, P = 0.003) values compared to Group B (13.95 ± 0.70, 4.90 ± 0.33, and 33.18 ± 0.81, respectively). Conclusion: Within the limitations of the study, it can be safely deduced that a positive relationship exists between the hematological parameters and severity of chronic periodontal disease, suggesting that long-standing chronic periodontitis may lead to the development of signs of anemia.
Chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of the supporting structures of the teeth caused by specific microorganisms in a susceptible host. The plethora of bacterial challenges that are typical of chronic periodontitis disease poses a threat to the integrity of the sulcular epithelium which acts as a protective barrier. This breach of the sulcular epithelium acts as a gateway to the bacterial irritants to enter the connective tissue and thus into the systemic circulation. The host response in turn activates C-reactive proteins, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) all of which can depress erythropoietin production leading to the development of anemia. Gayatri et al. reported no correlation between periodontal disease and anemia; however, Lowe and Patel et al. reported a definite correlation between anemia and chronic periodontitis. Thus, these conflicting results of previous studies led us to further our knowledge on the present topic, and thus, this study was conducted so as to know the correlation between anemia and chronic periodontitis.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in periodontal medicine which focuses on the relationship between periodontal and systemic health. This means a two-way relationship exists in which the periodontal disease in an individual may have an effect on his/her systemic health and vice versa. However, debate still exists on the nature and degree to which this association exists.
The present study was attempted to evaluate and compare hematological parameters for signs of anemia among systemically healthy male participants with or without chronic periodontitis.
The present study was a hospital-based study. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Institute Ethical Committee (Ref no.: ECR/526/Inst/UP/2014 Dt 31.1.14). The entire study was carried out in the Unit of Periodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences in collaboration with CCI Laboratory, Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University (BHU). The study period was from July 2017 to September 2017. Detailed verbal instructions were given to each participant of the study, and a written informed consent was obtained.
N = z2.δ2/(x1−x2)2 where Z = 1.96, δ = pooled standard deviation, X 1 = mean of Group 1, X 2 = mean of Group 2.
The participants were divided into two groups – Group A (cases) and Group B (controls). Group A comprised participants suffering from clinically visible signs of chronic periodontitis and Group B consisted of participants with clinically healthy gingiva with no signs of gingivitis or periodontitis. Age matching was done. Gender matching was not required as only males were included in the study.
A thorough systemic and family history of each participant was recorded. Participants were excluded from the study if they were found (1) suffering from diabetes mellitus, hypertension, malignancy, or any other chronic diseases except chronic periodontitis, (2) having a history of hospitalization or intake of medications in the last 6 months and having history of blood loss, (3) past or present tobacco user, (4) having any history of periodontal therapy at any time, and (5) having <16 teeth in the oral cavity.
Full-mouth examination was conducted for each participant, and detailed gingival and periodontal findings were recorded by a single independent trained dental professional (kappa value: 0.91). Group B included participants with clinically healthy gingiva with a periodontal probing depth ≤3 mm at all sites whereas Group A had participants who fulfilled the inclusion criteria of having probing pocket depth (PPD) ≥5 mm at minimum 30% of sites and clinical attachment levels (CALs) ≥2 mm at minimum 30% of sites. PPDs, CALs, gingival index, and plaque index were all recorded using a marked periodontal probe UNC-15 (HU-Friedy, Chicago, IL, USA). Tooth mobility, furcation involvement, and number of missing teeth were also recorded.
After complete recording of gingival findings, venous blood samples were obtained from each participant by a nursing assistant. Two milliliters of blood was obtained by venipuncture from the antecubital fossa under complete aseptic measures and immediately transported to the Laboratory of IMS, BHU, to which our faculty is attached for hematological analysis. Hemoglobin (Hb), number of erythrocytes (red blood cell [RBC]), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular Hb (MCH), MCH concentration (MCHC) were analyzed on a fully automated hematologic analyzer. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was measured according to the Wintrobe's method.
Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS software. Mean and standard deviation of all the parameters were calculated for both case and control groups. Descriptive statistics analysis was done to know the differences between groups; a Student's t-test (unpaired) was used and was considered statistically significant if P < 0.05.
Anemia is defined as a decrease in the human Hb concentrations below the normally acceptable levels and is one of the most commonly encountered health problems around the globe, especially in the developing countries. Iron deficiency, nutritional deficiency, heavy blood loss, bone marrow dyscrasias, hemoglobinopathies, and acute and chronic infections play an etiologic role in the causation of anemia. Many chronic infectious diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and bacterial, viral, or fungal infections have been proven to be causing anemia. This kind of anemia, seen in chronic infectious diseases, is better known as anemia of chronic diseases. Chronic periodontitis, the most prevalent form of disease of the oral cavity, is also an infectious disease of mixed bacterial origin. Keeping all this in mind, it was hypothesized that this insidious chronic disease may have a role in the causation of anemia in the participants.
The subject of association of anemia with chronic periodontitis has been discussed in literature many a times as early as the 20th century. Anemia has been thought to be a cause of chronic periodontitis, and not been implicated as an effect of it. Hutter et al. was the first to evaluate the hemodynamic profile of participants suffering from chronic periodontitis and found that these participants showed signs of anemia. The present study was thus taken up to evaluate the effect of chronic periodontitis on the hemodynamic profile of an individual, especially anemia.
Females are more commonly affected by anemia than males because of the increased menstrual loss, poor nutrition, high incidence of tropical and intestinal infections, and various other ill-defined factors. Female participants are also more prone to hormonal imbalances, leading to an alteration of the microbial flora and consequently the host response. Thus, an exaggerated response of the periodontal tissues toward the local factors may be found. This may lead to a bias in the present study. To overcome this limitation, our study involved only male participants.
The present or past use of tobacco has also been proven to have a profound effect on the periodontal tissues leading to a greater than acceptable normal breakdown of the gingival structures. Tobacco affects both the local microflora as well as the host response of the individual, especially altering the effects of neutrophils, cytokines, phagocytosis, protease inhibitor production, etc. Thus, to prevent the confounding effect of tobacco, smokers were also excluded from the present study.
In a strict sense, all the values are within the normal acceptable range, but there still exists a difference between the test and the control groups. The test group is consistently seen to be having decreased levels than the control group. MCV is the main parameter for defining anemia. A decreased value of MCV suggests microcytosis whereas an increased value of MCV is an indicator of macrocytosis mostly caused by vitamin deficiency. However, MCV was within the normal range for both the groups and showed no statistically significant difference. Similarly, the mean Hb value was found to be low in the test group although the MCH and MCHC values were within the normal range. This can be attributed to low MCH and MCHC values in the test group as compared to the control group.
Hutter et al. and Thomas et al. proved that participants suffering from chronic periodontitis show a definite lower count of all blood parameters when compared to healthy controls. The present study shows a positive association between chronic periodontitis and signs of anemia. In the test group, all the hematological parameters showed a definite lower range when compared to healthy controls. Kolte et al. 2014 conducted a study to assess and explore the hemodynamic parameters in healthy participants and those suffering from chronic periodontitis. The results showed a decreased RBC parameters and increased white blood cell parameters, effectively demonstrating the presence of inflammation and a tendency toward anemic state. Kaur investigated the effects of clinically inflamed periodontium in male and female patients on their Hb levels with their healthy counterparts. They found a significantly lower level of RBC parameters in the test group than the control group.
Rai and Kharb in their study and Agarwal et al. in their separate study demonstrated an increase in blood Hb levels after scaling and root planing in participants suffering from chronic periodontitis. Few studies have shown conflicting results which failed to show any correlation between Hb and chronic periodontitis. Similarly, Prakash et al. conducted a study to investigate the relationship of anemia with chronic periodontitis using RBC parameters and serum ferritin values as tools. Their results showed hematological parameters to be not significantly different in participants with periodontitis than in the control group.
Cytokines, TNF-α, and IL-6 have been positively related with suppression of erythropoietin production. Alvarez-Hernández et al. further proved the role of recombinant TNF-α by exposing healthy mice to its intravenous doses which induced anemia and hypoferremia. The hypoferremia was associated with abnormalities of iron release from Reticulo endothelial system (RES) and incorporation into RBCs.
Periodontitis is also a chronic insidious infectious disease of mixed bacterial origin and does impact the general health of the individual. It leads to increased cytokine release which suppresses erythropoietin production, the degree of which depends on the time duration and the severity of the disease. Thus clinical signs of anemia develop in participants suffering from chronic periodontitis, but this effect is mild as compared to other chronic infectious diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. This can be justified by the fact that chronic periodontitis, in itself, is a mild disease when compared to other inflammatory conditions.
Although within the normal range but all the blood parameters were found to be toward the lower range in participants suffering from chronic periodontitis. A definite association between periodontal disease and hematological parameters in terms of reduced Hb concentration was noted in the present study. It can, thus, be safely concluded that though mild but chronic periodontitis does show its effect on the systemic health of the participant. The effects observed are, however, not as aggressive as compared to other diseases since chronic periodontitis disease in itself is a very mild insidious inflammatory condition. Nonetheless, the after effects of this chronic insidious disease cannot be overlooked and treatment should be started as soon as possible. Within the limitations of this study, though the results suggest a relationship between anemia and chronic periodontitis, future studies with a larger sample size and over a longer time span are encouraged.
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Nigerian Army failed Jonathan despite all efforts; FG recruits's forest guards to fight B'Haram.
The Federal Government has resorted to recruiting forest guards to assist the Joint Task Force in combating Boko Haram insurgents in the northern part of the country.
Most of the insurgents are believed to be using routes cutting through forests in states like Borno, Yobe, Taraba and Adamawa to smuggle arms into the country from Cameroon and other neighbouring countries.
The Conservator General of National Park Service, Mr. Haruna Abubakar, told the House of Representatives Committee on Environment on Monday that the guards would help the JTF to comb the forests for hideouts of insurgents.
Abubakar had appeared before the committee in Abuja to defend the 2014 budget of the agency.
The NPS had been classified as a para-military agency in January this year by the government.
According to Abubakar, the agency will rely on its knowledge of the country's forest terrain to conduct sweeps with the military.
He informed the committee that the agency controlled seven national parks in the country, covering about 24,000- square kilometres of land.
The committee, which is chaired by Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, stated that insurgents operated camps in forests like Sambisa, Mafa, Wulgo and Kirenowa, all in Borno State.
Sambisa forest camp which was said to have been first discovered during a military raid in 2013, covers an area of about 300-square kilometres.
The chairman of the committee expressed concern that besides the loss of human lives and property, Nigeria was losing revenue from tourism due to the activities of insurgents.
"We have to look inwards to find a way to protect our forests.
"It is regrettable that our forests have been turned into havens for insurgents," she added.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Baptist Convention has appealed to Boko Haram sect to pursue the path of peace for Nigerians to live in harmony.
The sect destroyed Mainok village, about 50 kilometres to Maiduguri in Borno State and killed 39 people in its latest attack on Sunday.
During a press briefing organised by NBC on Monday in Ibadan, the President of the church in Nigeria, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, sympathised with the victims of the attack, adding that the church would maintain its stance against all forms of terrorism in the country.
Ayokunle called on the Federal Government to step up security in the northern part of the country.
Churches Cancel Christmas Night Services In Borno, Yobe States.
SaharaReporters has gathered that churches in Borno and Yobe States, fearing Boko Haram violence, today cancelled Christmas Eve night services.
The situation is said to be the same in some military and police barracks, where activities are highly restricted.
Rev. Yakubu Ibrahim, a Christian leader in the troubled North-East of Nigeria, the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency, confirmed the service cancellation to our reporter by telephone from Maiduguri.
"We have decided not to hold our service because of security challenges and cancelled night Church service because our security cannot be guaranteed.
Few Christmases back we had similar experiences where our members were killed, some even during service in the morning. With the present situation, it is not possible.
Another clergy in Yobe State, Pastor Audu Tanko, described the same situation.
Military sources in both Maiduguri and Damaturu said the security situation has not normalized as is being claimed. They told us that troops of both the Air Force and the Army are still been deployed in view of Boko Haram's sophistication and well-coordinated attacks, citing the example of the assault of December 2, 2013.
Boko Haram attack Borno barracks again, several Women And Children Killed.
A group of Boko Haram militants on Friday attacked the 202 Army Battalion Barracks located in Bama, about 40 kilometers outside Maiduguri town, and killed several women and children.
The Islamic sect, according to a source in the barracks, struck around 3am local time, firing heavy arms and ammunition.Our source, a soldier, said that troops of the Nigerian Army and Air Force repelled the sect using fierce air and ground attacks, resulting in the killing of many of the terrorists.He explained that some soldiers in the barracks lost their wives, children and relatives in the fight, which lasted until about 7am, during which time the sound of explosives and guns filled the air.
"There was an attack on the military barracks in (the town) of Bama this morning," said Mohammed Dole, army spokesman in Borno state, the epicentre of the Boko Haram conflict.He declined to comment on details provided by several Bama residents who said dozens, or perhaps even hundreds, of insurgents swarmed the barracks in a convoy of 4X4 trucks, armed with assault rifles, explosives and rocket-propelled-grenades."It started at around three in the morning with huge explosions and the cracking of gunfire," said Bama resident Abdullahi Idris. "Later we saw plumes of smoke and fire from the barracks."Bama has become a flashpoint in the insurgency and the scene of several bold Islamist attacks. One of the Islamist rebels' largest-ever strikes targeted the military in Bama in June.According to Idris and other residents, military jets flew over the town after the attack.
The nearest air force base is in Borno's capital Maiduguri, roughly 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Bama."A large section of the barracks" had been destroyed by fire, said another resident who asked for anonymity but identified himself as a member of the vigilante force which has formed in Borno to fight the Islamists.He told newsmen that fighter jets dropped bombs on the attackers, forcing them to flee.
Residents and Dole offered no estimates of casualties.Borno and two other parts of Nigeria's northeast were placed under a state of emergency in May.The military operation launched in the region to crush the uprising has entered its eighth month but its effectiveness has been widely questioned.Defence officials have claimed Boko Haram is now only capable of attacking soft targets, but Friday's raid in Bama, which came after a December 2 assault on the army and air force in Maiduguri, indicates the insurgents are still capable of daring offensive attack.
Maiduguri International Airport Closed After Boko Haram Terrorist Raid On Air Force Base.
has taken over the airport following a raid on nearby military units by Boko Haram.
Several explosives were hauled at the base but Air Force personnel reportedly repelled the militants, killing several of them.
There is no word on casualties on the side of the military. Mobile telephone lines have been shut down since President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency on three states, including Borno, in May.
A spokesperson for the ministry of Aviation, Yakubu Datti confirmed the closure of the airport to SaharaReporters, but he denied the airport was affected in the attack.
Similarly, SaharaReporters can exclusively reports that negligence on security measures advised following Boko Haram renewed insurgency is one of the reasons that largely made today's attack possible by the sect.
The Nigerian military despite its denial are fighting the Boko Haram sect with obsolete weapons that are less inferior to that of the sect's sophistication, and also poorly remuneration for the troops on the war front.
A military source confirmed that for over month, both the Federal Government and the higher military command have been advised on the need to station detachment of counter-terrorist troops around Sahara Desert with sole aim of crushing Boko Haram Islamic sect in view of the sect penetration in Nigeria through several borders with Niger Republic, Cameroon and Chad.
Yobe state, which is second stronghold of the sect, also had international borders with Zinder and Diffa regions of Niger Republic.
The formation of a military base, according to the source remained most viable option in containing the increasingly strength of the sect, who are getting training, support and other logistic support in the un-policed deserts that stretch from Algeria and Mauritania up to Niger and Chad.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, "It has become imperative for us to submit our candid position as military with sole responsibility of preserving Nigeria's sovereignty. The terrorists find their way into Borno and Yobe via our porous borders. And their main planning and training is in the desert, afterwards they sneak into their camps inside Nigeria and so instead of waiting, we are proposing that we have full military base in the desert that would comprise both land and air operations.
"This is our submission to the government; it is dangerous waiting for them. They are becoming more sophisticated and organize by the day, and so we must move forward. Their trainees and those providing them with logistics are right inside the desert between Niger Republic and Chad.", the source said.
Partial Telecoms Restored In Maiduguri, Military Source Says.
A military source told SaharaReporters a short while ago that partial telecommunications services have been restored to Maiduguri, Borno State, where the Boko Haram sect attacked military facilities yesterday.
The source specified that only MTN services are currently available and that some residents are able to make calls, but with some difficulties.
He also said that text messages are currently easier to communicate with than phone calls as some of the telecoms facilities were destroyed by the Boko Haram sect.
Telecommunication services were suspended in May when President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.
Maiduguri International Airport Closed After Boko Haram Raid On Air Force Base.
Operations at the Maiduguri International Airport have been suspended and the Joint Task Force has taken over the airport following a raid on nearby military units by Boko Haram.


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Taking place during the International Film Festival & Awards. Macao in the framework of its Industry Hub, the IFFAM Project Market (IPM) will once again gather 14 promising feature-film projects under one roof this December.
With 14 projects grouped according to type – including Genre projects that represent the very best in genre-oriented fare, high-level Auteur projects, Macao local projects, and one each from International Partner – participating in a vigorous program with industry professionals from around the globe.
This year's slate includes the latest feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling), who will introduce her family drama Klepto, which is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre at Poisson Rouge Pictures. Also on the list are South Korean director II-gon Song's romantic drama Love Song and the first fiction feature from documentary director Yan Ting Yuen, arthouse project Hong Kong Sister.
The event will return during the Industry Hub activity of the third International Film Festival & Awards. Macao, which takes place December 8-14, 2018.


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Q: How to deserialize JSON to my custom Class Im new to JSON (and not sure if its the right way to do that), my problem is to deserialize my classes, all models implements this interface:
public interface IPersistent
{
  object Id { get; set; }
}

Example of class:
public class ModelTest : IPersistent
{
    private int? _id;
    public object Id
    {
        get { return this._id; }
        set { this._id = (int?)value; }
    }
    public string Name { get; set; }
 }

Serialize method:
 public void SerializeData<T>(T[] data)
 {
    var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
                {
                    PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects,
                    DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat
                };
    var result = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data, Formatting.Indented, settings);
    //more things happen, but not affect serialized data.
 }

Deserialize method:
 public T[] DeserializeData<T>(string objCached)
 {
     var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
                {
                    PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects,
                    DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat
                }; //not sure if a need this settings, but...
     T[] result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T[]>(objCached, settings);  //error here.
     return result;
 }

Error:

Message=Specified cast is not valid.

objCached data:
[
  {
    "$id": "1",
    "Id": 1000,
    "Name": "Name 1"
  },
  {
    "$id": "2",
    "Id": 2000,
    "Name": "Name 2"
  },
  {
    "$id": "3",
    "Id": 3000,
    "Name": "Name 3"
  },
  {
    "$id": "4",
    "Id": 4000,
    "Name": "Name 4"
  }
]

I tried validate JSON result using:
http://json2csharp.com/
Result:
public class RootObject
{
    public string __invalid_name__$id { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

I'm looking for something that changes just the methods (Serialize and Deseriaize), can't change ALL my models (its a legacy without any unit test).

A: All you need to do is changing the set method of Id property. (Because value is long when read from json, which can not be casted toint?)
public class ModelTest : IPersistent
    {
        private int? _id;
        public object Id
        {
            get { return this._id; }
            set { this._id = new Nullable<int>((int)(long)value); }
        }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida has denied a defendant's motion to dismiss a case in an ongoing legal battle after the plaintiffs allege they were wrongfully terminated due to their race.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Steele denied the defendant's motion to dismiss.
In 2016, plaintiff Jason Ifill, who is African-American, was terminated from his job as a dump operator for the U.S. Sugar Corporation in Clewiston. In January 2016, Ifill complained about his white supervisor, T. J. Graham, alleging he gossiped about his divorce. Ifill says he confronted the defendant but alleges Graham threatened to fire him if he made a formal complaint to human resources.
Ifill went to HR anyway, saying he felt unsafe around the defendant. Ifill says HR didn't do much about his complaint and, in fact, "'informed [Ifill] that he was eligible for three weeks of vacation and suggested that he take [the full three weeks]' to de-escalate the situation," according to court documents.
While on vacation, Ifill says he was informed that he was fired. Ifill filed a charge of discrimination in October 2016. U.S. Sugar argues the plaintiff did not file his complaint within the 90 days required, but the court disagreed.


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Discussion in 'BigBox General Chat' started by Stian Indal Haugseth, May 19, 2016.
I love the kit but there is one thing that really annoys me and that is the wiring. Having the small service hatch and all the cable bundles sticking out is confusing and messy. Being a former "cable guy" I have experience in wiring thousands of cables and wires in server/patch rooms and alarm systems. Just adding a U bend to all the wire meshes before they come out of the frame strut would give us the possibility to push back the too long wires out of sight and it would make it easier to open the bottom later with a bit of slack. Even better would be to have a much bigger service hatch or a secondary one over the area where the cables enter the box and the empty space to the right.
Slightly longer wires enabling a nice U-bend of the wires would ease cable management.
Adding a service hatch in the rear part over the cables entering the box and towards the right.
Adding small connectors to all the wires from hot end and extruders. Like the PT100 connector but longer wires before the connector as the plug gets in the way of wire routing.
I'm very tempted to dismantle the lower plate and having someone to cut out a new hatch now before I have finished the printer completely.
A second service hatch makes a lot of sense.
Would you put it on the top or the bottom?
From a wiring perspective had a crazy idea when watching Richrap's May review of the BCN Sigma printer in which he explains why he has built a structure to mount the spools & motors ABOVE the printer (more accessible + Bowden tubes now as short as possible + no noisy extruder motor vibrations on back plate).
It occurred to me that, if I did that then the back would be totally free and I could mount all the electronics there in vertical formation. The wiring would not only be accessible but really easy. Of course there might then be a dust problem to resolve!
From a power supply Pi and electronics point if view I would prefer this to be a separate box that just plugged into the printer.
The box could then be free-standing, be hung on the back, placed underneath etc. depending on your space availability requirements.
What it would provide would be unfettered access to the Rumba, USB connections, monitor and power to the Pi etc. Easy access to inserting SD cards would be another benefit.
If the lower front of the printer didn't have a front piece, i.e. was just like a shelf then this unit could just slot in there either plugging into a big edge connector (not my favourite but an option) or have one or more cables to a connector leading to motors, limit switches etc.
A way to mount spools say above would be good too.


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How Paul McCartney Smiled Through the Pain on 'Run Devil Run'
Bryan Wawzenek
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After spending a year in mourning, Paul McCartney made a roaring return to rock 'n' roll. He had lost wife and frequent musical collaborator Linda to cancer in the spring of 1998, then vowed to take an extended break from performing and recording to deal with the excruciating loss.
When McCartney picked up his old Hofner bass again, he decided his next project would celebrate his rock roots. Run Devil Run would be a collection of mostly pre-Beatles rock tunes.
It wasn't the first time the former Beatle had released a collection of oldies. About a decade before, he had hastily recorded a batch of cover tunes – Choba B CCCP – for exclusive release in the U.S.S.R. (it was re-released worldwide after the fall of the Soviet Union). McCartney had recorded Choba in a mere two days and he wanted to be a little more considered with this new album, while still maintaining a rough and raw feel that suited the material. As part of this musical reawakening, he sought to return to the studio regimen of the early Beatles records, which involved knocking out three or four tracks in a session. Additionally, the new project would feature some McCartney originals alongside the covers.
Macca assembled a supergroup to record both the new and old tunes, recruiting Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates' Mick Green on guitars and Deep Purple's Ian Paice on drums. McCartney mostly stuck to bass, just as in the early Beatles days. Producer Chris Thomas kept the sound crisp and uncluttered so that the record wouldn't sound like a muffled recreation, but a modern reinterpretation of vintage rock sides.
McCartney's selection of songs helped keep things fresh too. Where Choba B CCCP (as well as John Lennon's Rock 'n' Roll) stuck mostly to well-known hits, Run Devil Run wandered through less-trampled terrain – songs like Fats Domino's "Coquette," Carl Perkins' "Movie Magg" and Larry Williams' "She Said Yeah."
As such, they were songs that McCartney loved, but wasn't practiced at playing. In many cases, the band members had never heard the original versions of the tunes, requiring Paul to quickly demo them for the other musicians in the studio. Then, the guys would record the songs on instinct. McCartney later said that the mantra for the sessions was "no thinking." That idea prevented Paul, or anyone else, from getting too precious with any performance, resulting in bashed-out versions of "Honey Hush" and "I Got Stung" (on which a hollering McCartney makes Elvis Presley's version sound like it was sung by Perry Como).
Listen to Paul McCartney's Version of 'Brown-Eyed Handsome Man'
Perhaps just a little bit of thinking was allowed, because McCartney was smart enough to put some creative twists on the better-known songs. An accordion was added to Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," lending it a zydeco groove (spiked with "Tequila"). Presley's "All Shook Up" was performed with thunderous drive, while Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town" found McCartney reaching into his keening upper register (in place of Nelson's low-slung vocals).
Although most of the album was raucous, the moody ballads like "Lonesome Town" and the Vipers' "No Other Baby" added an extra layer of meaning to Run Devil Run. After all, the man letting loose on "Shake a Hand" was also grieving the death of his wife. McCartney's sadness imbued these teenage "I lost my baby" lamentations with real, adult-sized agony.
That carries over to the three original tracks on the album. It's right there in the title of "Try Not to Cry" (a stomping R&B number), while "What It Is" was a boogie-woogie song Paul wrote and played for Linda in her final years. The title track is a driving, Berry-esque rocker inspired by bath salts (seriously!) that Paul bought in a hoodoo shop in Atlanta. That drugstore, in slightly altered fashion, is what appears on the album cover. Just like those bath salts were intended to expunge someone's personal demons, Run Devil Run found McCartney blasting through his personal pain.
Run Devil Run was released on Oct. 4, 1999, to the most positive reviews McCartney had received in decades. The album also did well commercially, peaking at No. 12 in Britain and No. 27 in America. McCartney took Gilmour, Paice and the gang on a quick promotional tour, playing scorching versions of covers and originals on TV shows – and even returning to Liverpool's Cavern Club.
That series of energetic performances led to the formation of stripped-down regular backing band a couple years later. That lineup ended up staying together longer than any of McCartney's other bands, despite never achieving supergroup status. As anyone who went to the subsequent McCartney concerts knows, however, they were every bit as powerful.
Looking back at Run Devil Run, it's clear that the album wasn't just a back-to-basics exercise. It was a full-fledged rock and roll re-awakening for Paul McCartney.
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Out of all of the more boutique developers of sound and audio tools out there, Twisted Tools still tend to be the leaders, in my book, when it comes to covering all the bases. The documentation covers all avenues. Which is good, as this library covers so many different formats. Ableton, Maschine, Reaktor, Battery, Kontak, EXS24 are all represented, and include individual manuals for each installation type. If you don't have any of these formats, Darkmorph also includes a new version of their sampler, the MP16, now known as the MP16e sampler, which is a Reaktor-based loop sampler that sports some incredible features and has an awesome pad-style layout.
As usual, Twisted Tools does not disappoint. And, they got some great people to make this happen. Jason Cushing and Yan Doiron of SoundMorph put this very sick library together. If you haven't heard of SoundMorph, they are responsible for award-winning audio work on A-list titles like Mass Effect 2 and 3. I could list more, but those games are two of my favorites and carry enough weight for this reviewer. And, the library does have that sound. If you're into dark, electronic, and sometimes techno-organically disgusting, you're going to love Darkmorph.
If you're into dark, electronic, and sometimes techno-organically disgusting, you're going to love Darkmorph.
I started with the drums, as that is just what I do. As usual, the sounds quality is superb. But, what tickled my fancy even more was the fact that this library does not cater to any particular genre, but at the same time sounds very modern and sounds almost organic enough to be used sparingly inside an acoustic environment.
My absolute favorite would be the Robotical audio that is included. Keep in mind, SoundMorph does a few libraries of their own that center around robotic lifeforms. So, there's plenty more where those came from. But, Darkmorph sports a large assortment. And, when you consider that the ambiences, pass-bys and even User Interface directories are included, you soon discover that, if you're working on a video game or movie, you're covered here. And, then some! However, the library does follow the name, it's dark.
While Darkmorph will cover the cinematic side of your work, don't think it's a one trick pony. An extremely slick Lemur map is included for the MP16e. So, if you're doing some live sets, or just doing some really intricate foley, you'll be pleased to know that Twisted Tools, again, has you covered.
This really is a library where you can hear the amount of work that went into it. And, where some audio developers go with chipper, bouncy, exactly what the radio plays type formats, Darkmorph is emotional, arcane and can, at times, make you question your sanity. If you've ever watched Event Horizon, you'll know just what I mean. If you're doing any industrial, gothic, dubstep, glitch or trap, you may also want to give this library a listen, as this is a library that blends, but could also help add some 'new' to all of those genres.
Pros: Unbelievable audio that will easily support any kind of dark and disturbing audio production needs. Or, sick, gnarly, floor shattering beats. Documentation is superb.
Cons: I would've liked to have seen some actual assembled drum kits, as opposed to a patch of kicks, snares, and so on. Granted, some people prefer this.


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From the cotton farms of Fort Payne, Alabama to the heights of the music industry, Alabama has sold 73 million albums worldwide while changing the face and sound of country music. Band members and cousins Randy, Jeff, and Teddy introduced rock style guitars, lights, pyrotechnics and sounds to the country audience, inspiring many of today's brightest country stars including Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, and Luke Bryan as well as pop and rock stars from Ed Sheeran to Jon Bon Jovi.
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Leading Generative Discussions
Most of the suggestions for discussion strategies offered in the Teaching Discussion Sections part of the Teaching Guide can be used directly or adapted for use in reading and composition courses. We strongly encourage you to explore that section.
Here we highlight a few ideas for discussions that GSIs have developed specifically for difficulties in teaching R&C. Each GSI received a Teaching Excellence Award; the award essays are posted and accessible through the Award-Winning GSI Teaching Ideas and the links below. (Once you are on that page, you can click the "reading and composition" tag on the right to see all articles and essays on that topic.) Some of the ideas are pre-planned, semester-long teaching strategies; others are interventions in an already running class.
It's good to read through examples such as these from time to time and choose something to implement in your class. Students usually slump toward the sixth week of the term and could use a change of pace. If you teach on a Monday morning, plan frequent activities such as group work to wake students up and keep the class time useful for them.
Free in Theory: Teaching Gender in Historical Perspective
Gina Zupsich, French
Gina taught an R&C course that worked with gender theory. Most of her students resisted reading theory both because the reading was daunting and because they didn't see the theory as relevant anymore — they assumed that the problems it addressed were all in the past. Gina designed a step-by-step, in-class activity to help students connect theory with their own time. Gina first led students to list gendered traits and actions (which are masculine, which feminine?) in two music videos they watched together. The next step was for the class to work with two pages of a theoretical text and translate the crux into their own idiom: "Gender is an unstable identity, constructed and reconstructed in history to appear natural." Gina then had the class compile their individual lists of gendered behaviors into a single T-chart on the board and discuss how students knew these elements were masculine or feminine. At this point the students were able to bring together their own cultural knowledge with theoretical concepts about gender. Their next task was a synthesizing activity: to view the videos again, locating moments in which the female performers' gender crossings were resolved back into a stable, "natural" binary. With mounting enthusiasm students analyzed these moments and demonstrated that, in fact, the theory remained relevant in their own cultural milieu.
Making It Fun: Framing Literary Discussion as a Social Practice
James Ramey, Comparative Literature
James was concerned with structuring his R&C course as a social (as well as intellectual) opportunity for his students. James had his students set up semester-long reading groups, each group responsible to take on one of the major authors on the syllabus. These became known as the Shelley Group, the Camus group, and so on. They were assigned to meet for an hour outside class in an atmosphere traditionally conducive to literary discussion — a café or dormitory lounge — with members taking turns recording the minutes. These they sent to James, who posted them to the class's course website, and there students could read and respond to each other's literary conversations. Each group researched and gave a creative presentation on its chosen author the first day the class began working with that author. Students came to class with strong opinions about the texts and ready for lively debate; at the end of a class period people sometimes vowed to carry the discussion further online later in the evening. Though this system asked them for more off-campus work than most R&C courses, the students gave positive evaluations of it. Moreover, the system of framing literary discussion as a pleasurable social activity generated many long-term friendships among the students.
Becoming a Better Socrates
Benjamin Yost, Rhetoric
In the Socratic method of teaching, the teacher teaches through a series of questions to the desired conclusion. Benjamin's experience using this model highlights a problem with it: students may resist the process and want the instructor to stop using it and simply tell them what the point is. Although Benjamin prepared discussion questions carefully in advance of each session in order to bring students into a live process of inquiry and interpretation, students reported in evaluations their impression that discussions often wandered. They also suggested that Benjamin make the class even more GSI-centric by taking control of discussion and telling them the "right" interpretation of a text. Obviously this is not what an R&C course is for.
Benjamin's Teaching Excellence Award essay describes three major changes he made to his style of Socratic teaching. First, he stopped the discussion a few minutes before the end of the period to pull together the lines of inquiry in the discussion, addressing students' misperception of wandering. Second, he found ways to show the value of students' contributions by connecting them to create a framework for discussion. Finally, he capitalized on moments of disagreement or uncertainty in discussions by slowing the pace to validate differences and have students explore the assumptions made in advancing different points of view.
"Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?"
Selby Schwartz, Comparative Literature
This essay could be subtitled "Performance as Interpretation." Class discussions are sometimes derailed because students resist the text at hand. Give them something imaginative to do with it, however, and they flourish. Selby found her students struggling with character motivations and plot turns in Shakespeare's The Tempest; they seemed on the verge of dismissing the play, mocking it and "dispelling its magic for themselves." The title of Selby's TEA essay ("Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?") was one student's ironic jab at the play. Rather than ignoring this facile dismissal, Selby divided them into groups and gave them an interesting, multimodal task to do together. Each group received a few oddments as props, were sent out of the classroom for twenty minutes to prepare to stage one episode from the play, and were invited back in to perform the play before the class. The activity produced intense student participation, of course, but it also motivated some amazing student papers: "The stagings sparked interest in Caliban's use of language, in critiques of Prospero as an intellectual, ineffective ruler, in Ariel and Miranda's filial relationships to Prospero, and in the overlap between comedy and monstrosity."
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The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the State Senate or the Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 56 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 19 seats. One seat is held by an Independent and four seats are currently vacant.
California's 11th Assembly District includes parts of Contra Costa and Sacramento Counties, and all of Solano County. Democrats typically hold this district. Of the registered voters in this district, 23% are Republican and 48% are Democrat, and the district's demographic breakdown is 19% Latino, 15% Asian, and 15% Black. The most recent election results show that AD-11 voted for Joe Biden for president in 2020 by 27 points and Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018 by 20 points.
Former Assm. Jim Frazier resigned the AD-11 seat in January, resulting in a special election to fill the seat through the remainder of the term in November. Assm. Lori D. Wilson ran unopposed and won the special election. She is now one of two candidates running for the 2022–24 term in the June 7 primary. Wilson's campaign has raised $195,000 and is not funded by corporate PAC or real estate money. She has received donations from the fossil fuel industry and from the California Correctional Peace Officers PAC. Her opponent, Jenny Leilani Callison, has not recorded any fundraising with the Secretary of State.
Assm. Lori D. Wilson, former mayor of Suisun City and a finance professional, is from Fresno and has lived in Suisun City for 18 years. According to campaign materials, she is running for election to continue to bring her successful approach to local economic improvement and fiscal management to the larger AD-11 community.
Assm. Wilson has worked as a director of finance, and has used her professional understanding of fiscal policy to support fair-housing initiatives, economic improvements, and job growth in Suisun City. Wilson was elected to serve on the Suisun City Council in 2012, and acted as the vice mayor for six years. In 2018, she was elected to serve as mayor, and worked to improve economic conditions, establish pandemic health-care access, and end homelessness. Under Wilson's leadership, Suisun City reduced its unemployment and maintained a rate that was consistently lower than the state average. She also created partnerships with local organizations to support individuals experiencing homelessness, to improve mental-health response times, and to house families affected by wildfires. Wilson was the first Black female mayor to serve in Solano County.
Lori Wilson has the endorsement of many lawmakers and groups, including State Board of Equalization member Malia Cohen, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, the California Legislative Black Caucus, the California Teachers Association, California Environmental Voters, and several local elected officials. Wilson also has the full endorsement of recently retired Assemblymember Jim Frazier, who represented this district for ten years. Based on our analysis, Wilson's track record and policy positions demonstrate that she will be a progressive champion for the constituents of AD-11 and will govern effectively in the best interest of this diverse district.
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Hope all is well for you, LL.
Pretty good Jean. When I can get meds, and stay on them... You have me by twenty pounds, if weight loss is less interesting to me than numbers. I'll get back to your numbers without medicine, faster if they give me what works. Still, sounds great for you and your sis.
I lost things leaving Iowa, but gained far more. I am sorry you lost so much. I know I supported you returning to your home state, still do. Girls need family, messy as that is... siblings, hometown... state. Have you considered a visit? Although, if you bother, perhaps in the middle of winter, not when spring is hitting? :) Maybe save now for next December or January?
Keep it up. Prayers and well wishes to you and family.
Your support and well wishes are appreciated, Doom.
A visit might be on the list but definitely not near summer.
Great news. I lost the weight, no problem . I am down around 60 pounds from my high when I was diagnosed with type 2. I have been fighting my sugar for about a year. I am on all of the pills I can take. Tne next step is the needle. I need to get more disciplined in my diet and exercise. The doc is losing patience that I am really gonna do it before my next visit. He's heard it too often.
It is sad to think about all of he great bloggers that are gone. It is hard to believe that Acidman and Bane have been gone more than a decade.
We've been at this too long.
It took me a year to lose the 40. That's too slow, especially since I nee to drop another 40. I'm just so lazy. One doctor said he would hook me up with the stomach staple/banding thing. I almost slapped him.
Yeah, you don't want the needle if it can be avoided.
Ten years. Damn. I started mine in 2006. Lots of trial and error before I had a tiny clue about what I was doing.
Don't get too discouraged, Joe. I don't want to be completely lonely in this big dark cave.
Well done on the a1c Jean. After near 25 years if tight control it would seem to me that I am spinning. Unable to lose weight like I once was and not sure of my own a1c (blood this week ahead)moving to 65 has not been a kind endeavor for me.
Ah well methinks that in moving you had your heart in a good place and therefor it was not a wrong (or right) decision, only a necessary one.
I turned 68 this month. Not a fun ride at times, but I'm glad to still be around.
I'm glad I moved, Mark. I'm needed here.
I just turned 57. I feel 77. Mentally, I'm about 17, so it all averages out.
Ok maybe my humor is more like a 13 year old.


Bella Hadid and The Weeknd are no longer dating, but they still have jobs to fulfill and lives to lead. First up: the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Paris, where The Weeknd (whose real name is Abel Tesfaye) is performing for the second year in a row and Bella is making her debut. Just moments ago, that performance — "Starboy" — happened, and the Angels, including Bella, walked the runway in dreamy silk and lace creations.
But she couldn't stop to chat or tell him how great he sounded. He couldn't stop singing to say hi either. Are your heartstrings tugging away too?
There's also a video of their runway encounter, if you want to ~feel things~.
Bella later returned for a second beaded look, complete with feathers and shoes you need to have for your next fancy ball.
News of Bella and The Weeknd's split broke on Nov. 10 after the two dated for more than one year. A source told People at the time that their schedules and work for The Weeknd's new album were to blame for the split. "They still have a great deal of love for one another and will remain friends."
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will air on CBS on Dec. 5 at 10 p.m.


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This set includes seven palm stone crystals that each relate to the seven chakras of the body and and mind.
Each chakra set is made using these relaxing-to-hold natural palm stone crystals: Clear Quartz, Amethyst, Sodalite, Green Aventurine, Citrine, Carnelian and Smoky Quartz.
These 7 chakra stones are used in reiki and are a great meditation tool that helps to heal your feelings and your soul. When held, the individual stones help to promote health, beauty, good luck and healing; to help you maintain a calm and peaceful state of mind, as well as empower you with grace and ease, with less anxiety, reduced stress, deeper fulfillment and with a renewed sense of purpose.
Each crystal is approximately 1.25-1.75" wide and each set weighs approximately 180 grams as a whole.


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FSU snaps a 3-game skid with a win over Clemson Tuesday night.
Wide open shot seals the win for Duke over FSU on Saturday.
The Seminoles fell to defending national champion Villanova, 66-60 on Sunday.
FSU outlasts LSU in overtime at the AdvoCare Invitational Friday afternoon.


Nobody has ever said that they are. Their latest TV appearance (in terms of the Thals' timestream, not the Doctor's timestream) was in "Planet of the Daleks" & they had interstellar spaceflight by then. That means there could have been & probably were Thal colonies away from Skaro, making their survival much more likely. However, we don't actually know one way or the other.
In "Destiny of the Daleks", the Fourth Doctor states that the Daleks had abandoned Skaro. Since we saw no other native life signs, it's possible that the Thals had also abandoned Skaro like the Daleks.


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Q: How does Keras ImageDataGenerator rescale parameter works? I always use this parameter to scale array of original image pixel values to be between [0,1] and specify the parameter rescale=1./255.
Then when i do this:
from keras.preprocessing.image import load_img, img_to_array, ImageDataGenerator

img = load_img('val_00009301.JPEG')
img_arr = img_to_array(img)
datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255)
for batch in datagen.flow(img_arr,
                            batch_size=1,
                            save_to_dir='path/to/save',
                            save_prefix='1_param',
                            save_format='jpeg'):......`

When I check "path/to/save" directory, I see the picture generated by ImageDataGenerator class totally normal. How that is happen? I should see almost completely black image.

A: I altered your example a little to plot the image and to print a pixel value. It seems that the image is automagically rescaled back when plotted, because I did not noticed any difference between my input image and the plotted one. I assume the same happens when saving.
from keras.preprocessing.image import load_img, img_to_array, ImageDataGenerator
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot

img = load_img('capture102.jpg')
img_arr = np.expand_dims(img_to_array(img), axis=0)
datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255)

for batch in datagen.flow(img_arr, batch_size=1, save_to_dir='path/to/save', save_prefix='1_param', save_format='jpeg'):
    print(batch[0][0][0])
    pyplot.imshow(batch[0])
    pyplot.show()
    break

The printed values are:[0.21960786 0.23529413 0.27058825]

A: This is because when you save it to disk, array_to_img() function rescale it back to the image range, i.e. 0-255 for uint8. See the keras image data generator implementation for details.