In the town of Gideon Bay, Washington, Ig Parrish has been accused of the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams. Ig loved Merrin since they were kids and swears that he is innocent. The rest of the townspeople blame him for the murder, even though there is no evidence for the police to convict him. Ig then wakes up from a drinking bender to find that he has two devil horns growing from out of his forehead. He finds that this means that everybody he talks to will now confess their deepest secrets and that he can persuade them to act on these with often catastrophic consequences. He also realises that with this newfound ability he is able to search for the evidence he needs to find who Merrin's real killer was.
French director Alexandre Aja emerged with the festival hit of the gore-drenched High Tension (2003), his second film following the dystopian future film Furia (1999). This propelled him on a career as a director of a string of modestly effective Hollywood horror films with the likes of the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008) and the remake of Piranha (2010). He subsequently went onto make the non-genre thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016). Aja has also produced/written the psycho-thriller P2 (2007), the remake of Maniac (2012), The Pyramid (2014) and produced The Other Side of the Door (2016) and 47 Meters Down (2017).
The film is based on Horns (2010), a novel by Joe Hill. Joe Hill is better known by his birth name Joseph Hillstrom King and is the son of Stephen King. He began publishing horror fiction in 1997, taking the name Joe Hill seeking to avoid comparisons to his father and wanting to establish his own name. Recognition duly came with his work winning the Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards. Hill was eventually outed as King's son in an article in Variety in 2007. He has published three novels to date with Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns, NOS4A2 (2013) and The Fireman (2016), which have achieved some best-selling status.
I haven't read Joe Hill's book. However, the premise of the man who starts growing horns is one that has been conducted before. There was Gormenghast creator Mervyn Peake's novel Mr Pye (1953) about a man who suddenly spouts angels' wings – in an effort to get rid of them, he deliberately sets out to do bad, only to then find himself developing horns. This was filmed as the little-seen tv mini-series Mr Pye (1986) starring Derek Jacobi. There was also animator Bill Plympton's rather funny Idiots and Angels (2008) about a man who develops a set of angel wings. You could also maybe draw some analogies between Horns and Stephen King's Needful Things (1991), filmed as Needful Things (1993), wherein a stranger who may be The Devil stirs up a small town by exposing their guilty secrets.
Horns kicks in with a pleasantly unwholesome bite as we see the various people around Daniel Radcliffe confessing their deepest darkest secrets – Kelli Garner wanting to compulsively eat a whole box of donuts; the doctor (Alex Zahara) confessing desire for his teenage daughter's friend; the girl telling about keying the car of her cheating boyfriend's fling; a mother wanting to hurt her bratty child. About the point of Daniel Radcliffe inspiring a group of tv reporters to turn on each other in a brawl and a barman to set his premises alight for insurance money, Alexandre Aja hits a black comedy vein and the film seems alight with diabolical glee. The film brims over with Biblical imagery and references – Daniel Radcliffe gets to hold a pitchfork and command snakes, there is an Eve's Diner and a town called Gideon Bay. It is clearly Radcliffe choosing to avoid the typecasting of the Harry Potter films and do something very different.
On the minus side, Horns proves to be half a good film. The main problem is that after introducing the horns concept in the first half, the second half seems more interested in being a smalltown murder mystery as Daniel Radcliffe seeks to solve who murdered his girlfriend Juno Temple, something that takes him on a tangled web back to his childhood. This is semi-interesting – although not as interesting as the scenes with people confessing their dirty secrets – and the script certainly weaves a well-threaded mystery. It is just that you feel like the second half didn't need the horns concept and could have worked perfectly well as a mundane murder mystery on its own. The result makes Horns feel like two different films competing for screen time.


The real estate market is a treasure trove for sellers and buyers alike. While many buyers are sure to spend their spare time scouring various listings for the hottest properties, there is no reason to forgo working with a real estate agent Spring TX. Anyone who wants to take advantage of the best the market has to offer would do best to use the resources that are available from their agents. Properties are not sitting on the market long. That's because interest rates are low, prices are desirable and sellers know that what they won't offer concessions on, another will which could cause them to miss out on what may be the best offers.
Sellers don't have to despair. One of the easiest ways to avoid the stress and challenges that often accompany putting a home on the market is to consider their properties from the buyer's perspective. That means to pretend to know nothing about the home that they may have once occupied themselves. Most buyers are not going to take someone's word about the comforts of a home, after all, it could be part of a sales pitch. Instead, seeing is believing. Stage the property so buyers can see themselves living there without having to use much of their own imagination.
Sometimes sellers are motivated to sell because they can no longer afford the upkeep of their properties. Though it might seem like a bad idea to hide and camouflage potential issues that may seem like deal breakers, it is best to list them in the disclosures and get it all in the open. Today's buyers are a different breed. Many of them do not mind purchasing properties that may need some extra TLC before they can call them home or rent them out. The more information sellers' provide buyers with upfront, the more wiggle room they have in negotiations, which can be a win-win for everyone.
The bottom line is the real estate market is full of opportunity for interested parties. The right resources and approach can make the buying and selling process more rewarding.


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2019 Enrolment to Vote Report
ENROLMENT TO VOTE FOR PEOPLE IN CUSTODY
Throughout the first two months of 2019, Justice Action has been ensuring that authorities are providing prisoners and mental health patients with the opportunity to enrol and vote in the upcoming election. This includes the Australian Electoral Commission, state mental health authorities and corrective service authorities. The following report outlines this work as of the 25th March 2019.
1. AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION
18th March 2019 - Jeff Pope, the Deputy Electoral Commissioner of the AEC, responded to our queries by providing the following statement:
"Prisoners who have internet access can access the AEC's Online Enrolment System to easily enrol or update their enrolment details online… There are also forms and directions on how to enrol readily available on the AEC website."
We responded on the same day with the following statements:
We noted that prisoners do not have access to the internet and will not be able to enrol or update their enrolment details through online means.
We noted that the AEC did not respond to the issue of mental health patients in locked hospitals and asked if any arrangements have been made for them.
21st March 2019 - Robyn Legg, the Assistant Commissioner of the AEC, responded to our previous email on behalf of Jeff Pope:
"While the AEC has enrolment and voting information available on the AEC website, we do appreciate that this is not an option for everyone. The AEC information fact sheets and paper enrolment application forms are also distributed by our Divisional offices to prisoner facilities who will then make them available for the prisoner population."
"[In relation to mental health patients in locked hospitals], we use a network of advocacy groups and providers to get information out… Mobile polling occurs in a number of health facilities during the election."
2. PRISON AUTHORITIES
Most commissioners in the states and territories have acknowledged their responsibility to ensure prisoners in their jurisdiction will be given posters informing them of how to enrol to vote. Here are their responses.
Statement from Jon Peach, the Executive Director of the Australian Capital Territory Corrective Services (ACTCS), on the 13th February 2019:
"ACTCS is committed to providing detainees with the opportunity and facilities to vote, if they are eligible and enrolled. I can ensure that ACTCS make ever effort to promote enrolment to vote and to provide the appropriate enrolment documentation to detainees."
Statement from Rosemary Caruana, the Acting Commissioner of Corrective Services NSW, on the 11th February 2019:
"Corrective Services NSW has arrangements in place to distribute electoral information, signage, envelopes and voting forms provided by the Australian Electoral Commission. CSNSW has informed inmates about postal voting arrangements in the past and will continue to do so for the forthcoming elections. The AEC has advised it will be providing enrolment information, signage and associated material for inmates in February 2019. CSNSW will distribute that information and support inmates to enrol and vote by post."
As of the 6th February 2019, the Northern Territory Corrective Services is in the process of providing a formal response.
Statement from Andrew Beck, the Deputy Commissioner of Queensland Corrective Services (QCS), on the 12th March 2019:
"QCS has in place a formal arrangement with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in which QCS provide s information on a monthly basis and as required to assist the AEC to update the electoral roll."
"QCS liaises with the relevant electoral commission on key dates to assist in preparing for prisoners voting."
"QCS displays posters within all units of correctional centres to provide advice to prisoners about voting, including when a prisoner may enrol or update their enrolment details, eligibility to vote, and key voting dates… Enrolment forms are provided to prisoners on request, and QCS provides assistance to prisoners to confirm their identity in accordance with the requirements of the AEC."
Statement from David Brown, the Chief Executive of South Australia's Department for Correctional Services, on the 18th February 2019:
"The Department for Correctional Services (DCS) has recently confirmed the process for the upcoming 2019 Federal Election with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)."
"Prisoner voting enrolment forms will be made available to those prisoners who are eligible to vote, for return to the AEC by post."
"Voting papers will then be addressed directly to each prisoner and sent to their attention at their current institution."
Statement from Ian Thomas, the Director of Tasmania Prison Service, on the 29th January 2019:
"I confirm that necessary arrangements exist for those prisoners that are eligible to vote. Voting generally occurs by way of a postal vote. Applications and other relevant information are supplied to the TPS by the Australian Electoral Commission and made available to all prisoners within TPS facilities."
Statement from Rod Wise, the Deputy Commissioner of Operations from Corrections Victoria, on the 30th January 2019:
"Corrections Victoria has been working closely over the past two years with the Victorian Electoral Commission on increasing the uptake of prisoners who are eligible to vote. This has included in-person voting opportunities at several of our prisons in the recent Victorian State election, as well as increased information being provided at prisoners where only postal voting was offered."
"Prior to this, the Victorian Electoral Commission funded focus groups with prisoners at several of our prisoners in an effort to understand why prisoners more often than not choose not to vote when they are eligible. I am yet to receive such statistics on the number of prisoners who choose to vote in last years' state election, however I suspect the proportion will be higher than it has been in previous elections. We have also worked closely in the past with the Australian Electoral Commission in several ways"
"Corrections Victoria will continue these efforts and communication with prisoners in the lead up to and during this year's federal election"
As of the 5th February 2019, the Western Australia Corrective Services Department, is in the process of providing a formal response.
3. MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES
This process has been more difficult with mental health authorities, where the civil rights of prisoners are less recognised. In fact, one State Commissioner responded by stating that he was unsure if psychiatric patients retain the right to vote. Multiple emails and phone calls regarding the insufficient supply of information to patients regarding their right to vote were sent to the relevant mental health authorities in all states and territories, which received a mixed set of responses.
As of the 12th February 2019, the ACT Local Hospital Network Directorate was contacted via email but they have yet to reply or acknowledge the email. Nevertheless, we will be following up on these emails with logged phone calls.
To address this issue in NSW, Justice Action contacted the 16 Local Health Districts (LHD) that have jurisdiction to deal in this matter. 6 LHDs have provided a formal response, 7 LHDs have acknowledged the receipt of our email but have not provided a formal response, while 3 LHDs have not responded to our queries. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the LHDs that have yet to respond.
The following LHDs have responded to our emails with these statements:
Steve Rodwell, Chief Executive of the Far West LHD: "I have brought this issue to the attention of the operational managers to ensure that our mental health patients have the opportunity to vote in any upcoming election."
Jill Ludford, Chief Executive of the Murrumbidgee LHD: "Staff will ensure consumers are aware to enrol, if they are not already enrolled, and will assist them to enrol if they wish… The staff will ensure that the posters and relevant information is available to all inpatient consumers."
Wayne Jones, the Chief Executive of the Northern NSW LHD: "Northern NSW LHD works in partnership with the Australian Electoral Commission to support the rights of patients to be enrolled to vote, and participate in the electoral process."
Angela Karooz, the Director of Operations of the South Eastern Sydney LHD, responding on the Chief Executive's behalf: "All Mental Health inpatients will have access to postal voting – voter education materials, and will be assisted with the postal voting process by Volunteers and Peer Workers."
Cherie Puckett, Director of Mental Health Drug and Alcohol, Cancer, Renal, Palliative Care and Breast Screen of the Southern NSW LHD: "The AEC has provided an opportunity to support inpatient Mental Health facilities. Those people who are not registered with the electoral commission will be supported and encouraged to enrol and vote through consumer advocate support."
Robynne Cooke, the Chief Executive of the Western Sydney LHD: "Mental Health staff are providing support to inpatients who may not be on an electoral role, while assistance will also be provided to patients who require postal vote enrolment applications."
The following LHDs have acknowledged the receipt of our email but have not provided a formal response: Central Coast, Hunter New England, Mid North Coast, Northern Sydney, South-Western Sydney, Sydney and Illawarra Shoalhaven.
The following LHDs have not provided any response to our emails: Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Nepean Blue Mountains and Western NSW.
Justice Action has contacted all 3 Health Networks (HN) of the Northern Territory but has only received a response from the Central Australia HN so far. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
The Northern Territory Primary Health Network has acknowledged the receipt of our email on the 19th February 2019. However, no formal response has been provided.
The Top End Health Service has acknowledged the receipt of our email on the 12th February 2019 and stated that a formal response will be provided to us shortly.
The Central Australia Health Service responded to our email with the following statement: "Inpatients who are eligible to vote around the time of an election are encouraged to do so when the Australian Electoral Commission conducts mobile voting at the hospital prior to and on election day."
In Queensland, of the 16 Health Networks (HN) that have been contacted, 1 has responded, 3 have acknowledged the email but has not provided any formal responses, while 12 of the HNs have not responded to our queries at all. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
The following HNs have responded to our emails with these statements:
Dr Thomas John, Delegate Chief Psychiatrist of Queensland's Department of Health: "Queensland Health, while independent of elections, makes all reasonable efforts to ensure patients are able to vote in elections. Polling booths are set up in the larger public hospitals and staff are encouraged to assist all patients, where possible, to access their entitlement to vote."
The following HNs have acknowledged the receipt of our email but have not provided a formal response: Cairns and Hinterland, Central Queensland and Sunshine Coast.
The following HNs have not provided any response to our emails: Central West, Darling-Downs, Gold Coast, Mackay, Metro North, Metro South, North West, South West, Torres-Strait Northern Peninsula, Townsville, West Moreton and Wide Bay.
In South Australia, of the 6 Health Networks (HN) have been contacted, 1 has responded, 1 has acknowledged the email but has not provided a formal response, while 4 of the HNs have not responded to our queries at all. We also emailed Dr Aaron Groves, the Chief Psychiatrist of SA, but did not receive any response. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
Peta Towner, the executive assistant to the Commissioner of SA Mental Health Commission, has responded to our email with the following statement: "The SA Mental Health Commission has no statutory authority to liaise with the Australian Electoral Commission on behalf of people in psychiatric hospitals."
The Department of Health and Wellbeing SA has acknowledged the receipt of our email but has not provided a formal response.
The following HNs have not provided any response to our emails: Central Adelaide, Country Health SA, Northern Adelaide, Southern Adelaide and SA Mental Health Commission.
In Tasmania, we contacted Dr Aaron Groves, the Chief Psychiatrist of Tasmania and the Department of Health and Human Services. Both have acknowledged the email but have not provided a formal response. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
In Victoria, 14 out of 15 Health Networks (HN) were contacted, 2 have responded, 4 have acknowledged the email but has not provided any formal responses, while 8 of the HNs have not responded to our queries at all. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
Felicity Topp, Chief Executive of Peninsula HN: "our mental health patients are provided with VEC face-to-face voting facility opportunities, along with posters and information regarding the election process inclusive of postal votes. The process is co-ordinated by our Corporate and Community Relations team and is managed very well preceding every election."
Paula Hakesley, General Manager Mental Health program of Monash HN: "I am able to provide assurance that our consumers are able to vote and have all necessary documentation and assistance available to them to ensure that they can do so." They order posters from the AEC, download "easy read" brochures, also in languages other than English that are made available to the units. Consumer Peer Support Workers on impatient units will discuss enrolment forms with consumers, as well as supporting patients to go the website, or providing them with enrolment forms that are obtained from the post office.
The following HNs have acknowledged the receipt of our email but have not provided a formal response: Albury-Wodonga, Alfred, Eastern, Melbourne, and Northern.
The following HNs have not provided any response to our emails: Austin, Ballart Health Services, Barwon, Bendigo, Goulburn Valley, The Royal Women's Hospital, Western.
In Western Australia, 12 of the Health Networks (HN) were contacted, 1 has responded, 3 have acknowledged the email but has not provided any formal responses, while 8 of the HNs have not responded to our queries at all. Justice Action will continue to follow-up on the HNs that have yet to respond.
Shauna Rose, Coordinator Executive Services of Great Southern HN: "In the event that a person is a patient during an election, eligible patients are able to cast their vote from the APU. The protocols for voting within the Albany hospital that are used by all patients of the hospital are available to patients in the APU."
The following HNs have acknowledged the receipt of our email but have not provided a formal response: East Metropolitan, Kimberly, WA Country.
The following HNs have not provided any response to our emails: Chief Psychiatrist of WA, Dr Nathan Gibson, Child and Adolescent, Goldfields, Midwest, North Metropolitan, Pilbara, South Metropolitan, South West.
Summary of OPCAT

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import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.Message;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.paging.PagedMessage;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.ActiveMQServerLogger;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.MessageReference;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.Queue;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.ServerMessage;

public class PagedReferenceImpl implements PagedReference
{
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   private WeakReference<PagedMessage> message;

   private Long deliveryTime = null;

   private int persistedCount;

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   private Long consumerId;

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   private final PageSubscription subscription;

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1948 Ruth 2020
Ruth Westerberg
July 25, 1948 — December 16, 2020
Ruth Ann Klein was born July 25, 1948, in Needles, CA, the daughter of Edward and Phyllis (Field) Klein. She moved with her family to St. Cloud, MN at a young age. She grew up in St. Cloud where she graduated from Tech High School.
Ruth began doing clerical work for a doctor in St. Cloud. She was united in marriage to Charles Westerberg on April 27, 1968. The couple was blessed with two children, Tammy and Paul. Ruth continued in the medical field at Long Prairie Clinic for several years. Following Charles death in 1997 She moved to Alexandria and continued her education in medical records. Ruth retired due to a disability in the late 2000's. She moved back to the Osakis/Long Prairie area.
Ruth loved to read; she especially enjoyed authors like Stephen King and Dean Koontz. She also spent time doing puzzles and coloring. Ruth liked visiting with her friends and time spent with her children and grandchildren was very special.
On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, Ruth died at the age of seventy-two years. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Charles Westerberg; and one sister, Sandy Mendel. Ruth is survived by her daughter Tammy Westerberg; her son, Paul Westerberg and wife, Amy; three grandchildren, Paxton, Thomas and Logan; three great grandchildren, Keegan, Nimzie and Treston; five brothers, Charles Klein, Kevin Klein and wife, Joan, Kenny Klein, Mike Klein and Mark Klein; and two sisters, Debbie Gohman and husband, Duane, and Kim Hansell and husband, Bret.
A Celebration of life will be held later. Arrangements are with the Anderson Funeral Home and Crematory in Alexandria.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Ruth Westerberg, please visit our flower store.


Jorge Liderman, renowned composer and professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, died on February 3, 2008, in El Cerrito, California.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 16, 1957, Liderman played classical guitar as a child, and began his formal music training at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, where he studied composition with Mark Kopitman. After receiving his B.M. degree with honors there in 1983, he continued his education at the University of Chicago, where he studied composition with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran, earning the M.A. in 1986 and the Ph.D in 1988. He joined the Department of Music at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1989.
His works have been commissioned and performed by the London Sinfonietta, the American Composers Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Orchestra, Radio France, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Boston Musica Viva, Milan Divertimento Ensemble, Chicago Pro Musica, Camerata de las Americas, Duo 46, Eastman Musica Nova, Earplay, Sequitur, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as by individual artists Oliver Knussen, Diego Masson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Tanenbaum, Carla Kilhstedt, and Gloria Cheng. Liderman's music has been featured at prestigious new music festivals such as Darmstadt, Nuova Consonanza, Stuttgart's Neue Music, Semaines Musicales Internationales d'Orléans, Mexico's Foro Internacional, London's Viva, Osaka's Expo 90, the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, and Holland's Proms, among others, and his works are recorded on CRI, Cadenza, ERM, Albany, and Bridge Records.
Liderman's opera, Antigone Furiosa, was written at the request of Hans Werner Henze. A setting of playwright Griselda Gambaro's surrealistic version of Sophocles'Antigona, it received the 1992 BMW International Music Theater Prize in conjunction with the Third Munich Biennale, and was the subject of a German television documentary.
In 2002, Liderman composed an hour-long, three-part cantata, Song of Songs, using Chana and Ariel Bloch's new English translation of the famous love poem in the Hebrew Bible. The piece was premiered by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus at Cal Performances.
He said of this work, "The passionate intensity of the Blochs' translation, its richly sonorous language and strong supple rhythms, clearly invited a musical setting." He was struck "by the joy, warmth and color of the Song—the passion of young love, the exhilaration of a first sexual encounter, the blossoms, spices and bird songs of springtime. These impressions translated themselves almost immediately into song..." In 2007, San Francisco's New Century Chamber Orchestra performed the world premiere of Liderman's Rolling Springs; the violin-guitar Duo 46 presented Aires de Sefarad at the Jewish Music Festival; and Cal Performances at UC Berkeley presented a 50th birthday concert of Liderman's chamber works, performed by Sonia Rubinsky, piano; Cuarteto Latinoamericano; David Tanenbaum, guitar; and the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. A day after his death, his chamber concerto Furthermore, written for violinist Carla Kihlstedt and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, was premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Liderman received honors and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim, Fromm, Harper, and Gaudeamus foundations, the University of California President's Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Argentine Tribune of Composers.
Liderman mentored a generation of composers who passed through UC Berkeley's music department. Of his teaching, he said: "The challenge of a composition teacher is to try to understand what the student is trying to do and help them to do it in the best possible way—sometimes even making them aware of what they are trying to do in the first place." Liderman's office door was literally always open, and between classes or composition lessons he composed constantly. In addition to his composition classes, Liderman taught harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and contemporary music.
Liderman served on the Cal Performances Advisory Board, the UC Intercampus Arts Committee, the University Athletics Board Committee, and the Committee on International Education. Within the music department, he organized composition colloquia, planned the visit of composer and Regents' Lecturer Steve Reich to Berkeley, and served as chair of the Bloch Professor committee.
An avid bicyclist, Liderman was always in top physical condition. He enjoyed cooking and entertaining, art, travel, and international affairs. He was a kind soul, always available for a cup of coffee and an encouraging word.
Liderman is survived by his wife, Mimi Wolff, of Richmond, California, his sister, Claudia Liderman, and his mother, Sarah Liderman, both of Buenos Aires.


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using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Common;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Transactions;
using System.Web.Configuration;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace GlimpseSample.WebApp
{
    public class AdoNet : Page
    {
        private const int USERS_AMOUNT = 25;
        protected GridView gridUsers;

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            PopulateUsers();
        }

        private void PopulateUsers()
        {
            string connectionStringName = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Constants.AppSettings.CONNECTION_STRING];

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(connectionStringName))
            {
                throw new ConfigurationErrorsException(string.Format("Missing value for application key: {0}", Constants.AppSettings.CONNECTION_STRING));
            }

            ConnectionStringSettings connectionStringSettings = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connectionStringName];

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(connectionStringSettings.ProviderName))
            {
                throw new ConfigurationErrorsException(
                        string.Format("The connection string identified by name {0} does not define a provider name for a DbProviderFactory", connectionStringName));
            }

            DbProviderFactory dbProviderFactory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(connectionStringSettings.ProviderName);

            if (dbProviderFactory == null)
            {
                throw new ConfigurationErrorsException(string.Format("Unable to instantiate A DbProviderFactory using provider name: {0}",
                        connectionStringSettings.ProviderName));
            }

            var dataTableUsers = new DataTable();

            using (var transactionScope = new TransactionScope())
            {
                using (DbConnection connection = dbProviderFactory.CreateConnection())
                {
                    Debug.Assert(connection != null, "connection != null");
                    connection.ConnectionString = connectionStringSettings.ConnectionString;
                    connection.Open();

                    using (DbCommand command = connection.CreateCommand())
                    {
                        command.CommandText = "CREATE TABLE Users(Id INT PRIMARY KEY, Name VARCHAR NOT NULL)";
                        command.CommandTimeout = Convert.ToInt32(WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Constants.AppSettings.COMMAND_TIMEOUT]);
                        command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;

                        command.ExecuteNonQuery();
                    }

                    using (DbCommand command = connection.CreateCommand())
                    {
                        DbParameter dbParameterId = command.CreateParameter();
                        dbParameterId.ParameterName = "@Id";

                        DbParameter dbParameterName = command.CreateParameter();
                        dbParameterName.ParameterName = "@Name";

                        command.CommandText = "INSERT INTO Users(Id, Name) VALUES (@Id, @Name)";
                        command.CommandTimeout = Convert.ToInt32(WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Constants.AppSettings.COMMAND_TIMEOUT]);
                        command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
                        command.Parameters.Add(dbParameterId);
                        command.Parameters.Add(dbParameterName);

                        foreach (var index in Enumerable.Range(1, USERS_AMOUNT))
                        {
                            dbParameterId.Value = index;
                            dbParameterName.Value = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
                            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
                        }
                    }

                    using (DbCommand command = connection.CreateCommand())
                    {
                        command.CommandText = "SELECT Id, Name FROM Users ORDER BY Id ASC";
                        command.CommandTimeout = Convert.ToInt32(WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Constants.AppSettings.COMMAND_TIMEOUT]);
                        command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;

                        using (DbDataAdapter dataAdapter = dbProviderFactory.CreateDataAdapter())
                        {
                            Debug.Assert(dataAdapter != null, "dataAdapter != null");
                            dataAdapter.SelectCommand = command;
                            dataAdapter.Fill(dataTableUsers);
                        }
                    }
                }

                transactionScope.Complete();
            }

            gridUsers.DataSource = dataTableUsers;
            gridUsers.DataBind();
        }
    }
}


Really nice effect. The cube looks lovely.
Nice music and effective visuals but why do dots need so much processing power??
An oldskool effect but still pretty fresh :) Is it just a vertex shader? I recall the fixed function pipeline rendering white if you don't bind any fragment program.
Inspiring to see (what I assume is) a non raymarched 4k! Really pretty cube and palette.
Did not look as good as i expected and a bit slow framerate on a 1080. It`s ok.
I dunno how you managed to make a thousand or so dots go 10 fps on a 3.6 GHz PC with a 4 TFLOP GPU, but you did it. Maybe they're artisan hand-crafted dots. Music was good though.
Is it a bitcoin miner?
Let me guess, it's one bigass shader bruteforcing all those particles per-pixel?
Ding-Ding-Ding! Full points for Gargaj!
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Enabling large-scale testing of cancer drugs with machine learning
Hayley Hanway • December 2, 2019
Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team developed a new machine learning tool that enables large-scale testing of cancer drug effectiveness with microfluidics.
Cancer spheres treated by doxorubicin. Representative images of SUM159 cancer spheres treated by doxorubicin with six different concentrations. LIVE/DEAD staining was used to quantify sphere viability. The FITC green fluorescence image represents the live cells, and the TRITC red fluorescence image represents the dead cells. With the increase of drug concentration, green fluorescence intensity decreases, and red fluorescence intensity increases. The bright-field morphology also changes with different drug treatments (scale bar: 100 μm).
Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team of researchers have developed a new tool to improve drug screening for common cancer treatment drugs. They designed a machine learning program that makes large-scale drug screening efficient and low cost for use with microfluidic platforms, which yield far more accurate results than traditional drug screening.
Traditional testing of cancer drugs begins in a 2D monolayer cell culture, which is cheaper and faster than animal testing. Cancer cells are placed on substrate, treated by drugs, and then reexamined to determine the effectiveness of the specific drug. This approach cannot replicate in vivo (conditions found within a living organism) microenvironments. On the contrary, 3D cell culture allows cancer cells to form tumor spheres in suspension or hydrogel, which better mimics the profile of drug exposure, nutrients, and oxygen supplies in real tumors.
Microfluidic technology works well with 3D cell growth by allowing researchers to manipulate the cancer cells and control the size and environment for 3D cell growth. In addition, thousands of microchambers can be realized on a chip, allowing for high-throughput screening.
However, using microfluidic technology to test drugs is far more expensive and slower than other methods. To overcome these setbacks, Yoon and his team trained a convolutional neural network that automatically collects images, crops them, and analyzes them. This network collects bright-field images (a microscopy technique where the sample is illuminated against a bright background) and their subsequent drug-inhibition scores. Drug inhibition scores are grounded on conventional LIVE/DEAD staining and fluorescence imaging, where the cancer cells are "stained" to mark the viability of individual cells. This technique is typically slow and only provides an endpoint analysis.
"Automation and efficient readout methods are the key for microfluidics to get to the next level in the next decade," says Yu-Chih Chen, Assistant Research Scientist in ECE who helped lead the project.
But machine learning only works if you're training it with information provided by direct observation, which is why Yoon says it was important for his students to have some background or understanding of biology.
"Domain knowledge is really, really important when you apply A.I.," Yoon says. "Otherwise, you cannot draw meaningful conclusions from this."
Tumor sphere chip and culture chamber. (a) Photo of a cancer sphere chip for drug screening. The chip can test 6 drug concentrations side-by-side for the estimation of IC50. For each condition, it has 320 chambers for sphere culture. (b) Microscope image showing 8 tumor sphere culture chambers with inflow and outflow channels. Cells flow through inflow channels into sphere chambers. As the cell diameter is larger than the gap supported by micropillars, cells are trapped in the sphere culture chambers. The culture media carrying cells can flow out through outflow channels (scale bar: 400 μm). (c) Laser confocal microscopy image of a unit chamber measured by an Olympus OLS 4000 LEXT instrument.
The team's machine learning model was able to accurately judge the drug inhibition score of a tumor sphere using only the bright-field image. They used this method to precisely estimate drug efficacy of three chemotherapy drugs: doxorubicin, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan. What's more, they found common bright-field morphological features that indicate sphere viability across different drugs. This suggests it's possible to train a generic model using a few representative drugs and apply it to many different drugs in large-scale, efficient, and low-cost screening.
ECE doctoral students Zhixiong Zhang and Lili Chen were co-first authors on the paper. The work of coding the machine learning program was done by undergraduate students Lili Chen and Tiantian Zhang, who participated in the research as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) program.
"With these sorts of projects, undergraduates get to apply their knowledge to real-life problems," Yoon says. "And, also, when we're working with young, smart, undergrad students, sometimes they do better than we do. 'We' means the faculty."
The paper, "Label-Free Estimation of Therapeutic Efficacy on 3D Cancer Spheres Using Convolutional Neural Network Image Analysis," by Zhixiong Zhang, Lili Chen, Yimin Wang, Tiantian Zhang, Yu-Chih Chen, and Euisik Yoon, is available here.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Michigan Office of Research, and the Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery. The device was fabricated in the University of Michigan Lurie Nanofabrication Facility.
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Curtis Pashelka on the San Jose Sharks
Sharks get day off after 1-0 win over Flyers, no league action on those two hits and Couture reflects on friend being traded
Posted on February 29, 2012 by David Pollak
Held off posting this morning, hoping to have some actual news to report.
Not the case. Well, maybe a little.
Having been cheated out of their first day off at home in three weeks by mechanical problems on their charter jet that kept them in St. Paul an extra night, the Sharks ended up with the day off today as the coaching staff canceled a scheduled practice after last night's 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Yes, the outcome of that game may have had something to do with that decision, too.
Still, there were a few things hanging around after last night's thriller that might have provided fresh meat for the crowd here.
Frankly I thought Marc-Edouard Vlasic would be hearing from the NHL this morning about that hit on Daniel Briere. And maybe Flyers forward Zac Rinaldo might get a call for the open-ice contact in the vicinity of TJ Galiardi's head.
But I asked a league source if the NHL was looking into either and here was the response, the closest thing to news I've got: "Already looked, nothing up."
I was going to mention this anyway, but what I found a little extra noteworthy about Vlasic's hit was that his lone NHL fight was with Briere on Nov. 20, 2009, according to the well-kept records at hockeyfights.com. And when I asked Vlasic the next day what prompted that fight that seemed to almost come out of nowhere, he said it was carryover from the previous season when the two teams last played. Not saying there was carryover this time, too, just pointing out there was a little history.
The other update I hoped to provide was anything new on Todd McLellan's situation, but I'm advised there won't be anything coming until tomorrow.
Nothing really new not he injured players' either. Talked with Douglas Murray last night, but he said he's still at the mercy of the doctors. Did hear elsewhere that Murray has been undergoing strenuous workouts and skates, testing his body under non-game conditions to see if that fractured Adam's apple creates any breathing problems and so far, so good.
No Logan Couture, Dominic Moore or Marty Havlat injury updates available today either.
But I will use the lull to backtrack on one element of the Jamie McGinn trade — and, yes, I think both Daniel Winnik and Galiardi made the kind of debut that they and GM Doug Wilson had hoped for — that didn't get a lot of initial attention.
McGinn and Couture have been close friends since their playing days together with the Ottawa 67s. They roomed together on the road when they were 16 and that practice continued all the way through their days together in San Jose. Mark Emmons even noted in the blog here that McGinn said his buddy probably took news of the trade even harder than he did himself.
I was off yesterday, but did get a chance to talk with Couture about the trade. After all, Doug Wilson had to factor in the fact his most promising young player might take the news like a kick to the gut.
"It was tough and it was tough the way it happened too," he told the media scrum when asked about his good friend being traded away. "With our scheduling, we were on the plane and he found out on the plane. He wasn't really able to talk with anyoe after and I felt for him that way.
'It's good for him, though. It's a fresh start with a new organization and he's looking forward to it. i know he's upset that he has to leave a lot of friends here and a great organization, but I know he was looking forward to meeting his new teammates and finishing this year strong."
I relayed to him afterward that McGinn said his friend Logan took it worse and asked if that was the case or did he realize hockey was a business and these things happen.
"I've known that for a while," Couture said. "You can know that but it still sucks. You play with someone since you're 16 years old and you build that friendship. You spend so many years together on the road and he's close to where I'm from so I see him all the time, but he's going to do well in Colorado and I'm happy for him to get a fresh start."
Then he looked at the bigger picture.
"They're making us a better team and that's what comes first," Couture said. "We want to win here and the two players that we got are going to help us win."
David Pollak
David Pollak has been following the NHL forever and at the Mercury News as an editor or reporter since 1987. For almost a decade he wrote about the Sharks as the paper's Fan in the Stands before joining the sports department in 2001. He became the Sharks beat writer before the 2007-08 season and began this blog at that time. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PollakOnSharks.
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Home micro manufacturing EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Showcases Upturn in 2018 Watchmaking
EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Showcases Upturn in 2018 Watchmaking
With stable participation and more than 20,000 Swiss and international visitors expected, the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show will open its doors at the Palexpo convention centre in Geneva from 12 to 15 June. Several new aspects to the programme of Switzerland's biggest professional trade show have been announced, including the opening conference by the Chairman of Innosuisse, André Kudelski, which will underline the organisers' support for innovation in all high-precision fields.
The organisers of the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show launched their 17th edition at the heart of the federal capital, Berne, in the presence of Nicola Thibaudeau, a member of the Innosuisse Board and CEO of MPS Micro Precision Systems AG, and Benoît Dubuis, director of Fondation Campus Biotech and chairman of Fondation Inartis.
This 17th edition will definitely be under the sign of the good watchmaking figures for the first quarter of 2018. "We haven't seen such a quarterly increase since June 2012, with a rise of more than 10% in our watchmaking exports at end-March 2018," explains Alexandre Catton, director of the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show. This upturn obviously affects subcontracting of watchmaking and jewellery, which are at the heart of the Trade Show, and this explains the gratifying participation levels for this 17th edition, with new Swiss and international exhibitors registered. Many of these new exhibitors offer innovative solutions in the fields of laser machining, management of machine tools with minimal set-up time, nanotechnologies, micro-injections, bioelectronics, automation, robotics, electro-discharge, manufacture of watch movements, ethical fine jewellery and synthetic diamonds or responsible recycling of special waste, to name but a few examples."
The exhibitor area will be the same as in 2017, as the organisers do not want to expand further to keep the Trade Show on a single site and single level at Palexpo to welcome more than 800 exhibitors. Outside Switzerland, the registered exhibitors come from 17 countries, and foreigners represent around 20% of the total. One-quarter of these exhibitors come from German-speaking Switzerland, mainly the cantons of Berne (130), Zurich and Solothurn.
20,000 professional visitors are expected from around sixty countries: CEOs, purchasing managers, marketing managers, research and development directors, negotiators, artists, designers, heads of production, etc.
Whether they work in the field of watchmaking and jewellery, microtechnology or medtech, the players in the Trade Show have one thing in common: high precision and innovation. With nearly 300 companies active in the medtech field, the EPHJ-EMPT-SMT Trade Show is unquestionably the largest gathering in Switzerland dedicated to this universe of medical technologies.
Industrial innovation in these high-precision sectors will be the organisers' main concern for this 2018 edition, with several new departures in this area:
• The start-up village becomes a European hub for start-ups, with increased participation of emerging young companies
• These start-ups will benefit from a space to introduce themselves and showcase their products
• In partnership with Fondation Inartis, the launch of the "Watch Medtech Innovation" challenge to discover, finance and support new interdisciplinary projects based on use of collective intelligence
The Chairman of Innosuisse, the Swiss agency to encourage innovation and strengthen the competitiveness of Swiss SMEs, André Kudelski, will open the 2018 edition with a conference-debate on 12 June about Switzerland's real capacity for innovation.
The following day, 13 June, will be Women's Day with two round table discussions dedicated to both the role of women in modern industry and the questions that all young entrepreneurs ask, in order to avoid the famous "Death valley" where many great ideas have disappeared for want of the necessary financing and support.
Another star guest at the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show will be Richard Orlinski, one of the most fashionable contemporary artists. He will take part with other renowned designers in a round table dedicated to new trends in watch design."It's often the designers who condition the work of subcontractors, without whom great ideas on paper could not materialise. Only the talent and know-how of subcontractors can transform an idea into a product. This is why it is important to be familiar with trends and inspirations among designers, as these influence the future activity of companies upstream and downstream of the finished product," explains Alexandre Catton. Be there on 13 June at 3.30 p.m.!
A large number of innovations and exclusive previews have already been announced. The best of them will be recognised by the traditional Exhibitors' Grand Prix.Please see www.ephj.ch for further information
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The Blog of Jared Kirk: Why Doesn't God Help Me?
If we know that God will help us because he went all the way to the cross.
And we know that God can help us because he rose from the dead.
Then why doesn't he help us?
Someone asked me this after church yesterday. What a fantastic question! I think the answer has to do with timing and faith.
When you are in a period of life where God is able and willing to help you, yet he is not helping you, then you are in the wilderness. The wilderness is where God accomplishes his purposes for you and in you by trial and by testing. This will never be either enjoyable or fun. Sometimes we are in self-imposed exile through our own sin and refusal to repent. Sometimes we are blindsided into the wilderness by unforeseen events. And sometimes we run directly for the wilderness because it is the only alternative to the raging army behind us. But however we got there, God has a plan for us there. Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, and Jesus all spent time in the wilderness. And Moses spent 40 years there. This is actually the whole point of looking back to the cross and the resurrection. We know that God can help us and will help us, but we also know that he has purposes for us that are beyond our comprehension. In fact, if you have a God who is big enough and powerful enough to be mad at for not rescuing you, then you also have a God who is wise enough to have reasons for your suffering that you know nothing about. It is the cross and the resurrection that assures us that God is working all things together for our good.
Because of that American Worldview that we possess, we often think of faith as belief in things that you can't prove. But this has nothing to do with the biblical definition of faith. In the Bible faith is an active trust in someone: God as revealed in Christ. And the more you know someone and the more you know their character the easier and more natural it is to trust that person and act accordingly. This is why the cross and the resurrection feature so prominently in biblical faith. When you see the cross you see the clearest ever demonstration of God's heart and God's character. So when he is not doing what you want him to do you don't have to doubt his goodness. You can simply say, "I know because of the cross and the resurrection that God is both good and powerful. I have no idea why he has left me in the wilderness, but I can trust in the end that it will work out for my good." That is the essence of faith.


MIT Technology Review has named Dinesh Bharadia to its annual list of Innovators Under 35. For over a decade, the global media company has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world. Bharadia, a Stanford Ph.D who is currently a graduate researcher at MIT, has been recognized for his work in telecommunications. He also is a 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar.
Bharadia's work solved a problem that stumped scientists for 150 years; how to enable radios to both receive and transmit on the same frequency. By making full duplex radios a reality using innovative self-interference cancellation technology, he effectively doubled available radio spectrum in a bandwidth-constrained world.
This year's honorees are featured online at www.technologyreview.com and in the September/October print magazine, which hit newsstands worldwide on August 29. They will appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference October 18–20 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.EmTechMIT.com).
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Q: Go-CD: How to use API to trigger a pipeline? Is there an API can be used to trigger a pipeline, I did not find one in the API manual. Or, is there any other way I can trigger a pipeline using linux command?
Thanks

A: link to the docs: https://api.gocd.org/current/#scheduling-pipelines
POST /go/api/pipelines/:pipeline_name/schedule

in the request you can override the environmental variables, the material to use and choose to update  the material before the start.
command example as taken from the documentation:
$ curl 'https://ci.example.com/go/api/pipelines/pipeline1/schedule' \
       -u 'username:password' \
       -H 'Accept: application/vnd.go.cd.v1+json' \
       -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       -X POST \
       -d '{
             "environment_variables": [
               {
                 "name": "USERNAME",
                 "secure": false,
                 "value": "bob"
               },
               {
                 "name": "SSH_PASSPHRASE",
                 "value": "some passphrase",
                 "secure": true,
               },
               {
                 "name": "PASSWORD",
                 "encrypted_value": "YEepp1G0C05SpP0fcp4Jh+kPmWwXH5Nq",
                 "secure": true,
               }
             ],
             "materials": [
               {
                 "fingerprint": "b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c",
                 "revision": "123"
               },
               {
                 "fingerprint": "7d865e959b2466918c9863afca942d0fb89d7c9ac0c99bafc3749504ded97730",
                 "revision": "1058e75b18e8a645dd71702851994a010789f450"
               }
             ],
             "update_materials_before_scheduling": true
           }'

A: /go/api/pipelines/${pipelineName}/schedule works

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I saw it too and thought someone was going to stop him using it!!!
You're not the only one. I wondered where they'd seen the elderflower and then it dawned on me that, yes, they were going to instead pick the cow parsley. Bizarre.
With those wild foraging skills we can only be grateful it wasn't mushroom season. Good has been distrous.
thank goodness they didnt pick the similar looking wild hemlock!!!
1. Did anyone taste it and get sick or die?
2. If not…was it tasty?
Margaret – someone should have stopped him using it, naughty ITV I say!
Judi – thanks for the comment, that was exactly my thought after getting over the initial shock that they were genuinely going to pick cow parsley!
2. the big question on everyone's mind – was does 'elderflower' syrup taste like when made with cow parsley???!!!! this really bugs me, because if they did make it with cow parsley, it surely didn't taste anything like elderflower so it much have just been a sugary liquid, but if they did use elderflowers why didn't they say "oops we made a mistake, silly us" and why would they add cow parsley flowers to the final dish…?
I suspect we'll never know!
The mistake stood out a mile — but has anyone told ITV ? how do you tell ITV ? Had the road they were on been by a stream this could have easily been hemlock and then there would have been lots of young dead hockey players lying about !!
Thank goodness that I found this site.
I saw the programme and have been questioning my own knowledge and sanity ever since, so much so, that in this case, I was searching to compare features of cow parsley and elderflower to try to allay my confusion.
Hi Bill, thanks for the comment – I think it would be great to know if anyone has tried contacting ITV, maybe I will look into it.
Hi Rhonda, it seems there have been quite a few people like us who couldn't quite believe our eyes and questioned our sanity – looks like we're not all going mad!


Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone in Kuching is a hub for solar industries.
813 hectares of prime industrial land, fully serviced with all necessary infrastructure, offering to investors at a low price of RM2.50 per square foot.
This was in line with Sarawak being identified as a focus region for the cluster development of the electrical and electronics industry, one of the Malaysia National Key Economic Areas (NKEA).
Sarawak government would look into providing incentives to attract qualified Sarawakians who are working abroad to return to the state to meet its manpower requirements.
Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) would need highly-trained and highly-paid professionals for its industries.
Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone attracts major multinational technology companies wanting to build manufacturing operations. Processes ranging from silicon wafer foundry to circuit semiconductor design are now fully established and steps are being taken to promote solar industries.


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Samuel L. Jackson & Cobie Smulders Confirmed For Spider-Man: Far From Home
by Cooper Hood
Nick Fury and Maria Hill will definitely be part of Spider-Man: Far From Home. The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is largely a mystery right now as Marvel Studios tries to protect the secrets of Avengers 4. One unavoidable reveal is the fate of Tom Holland's Spider-Man, though. Despite him being dusted in Avengers: Infinity War, his sequel is picking up right after the events of the Phase 3 conclusion. Peter Parker's fate isn't the only one confirmed to change though.
Samuel L. Jackson stirred up some speculation a few weeks back when he teased getting back in character as the former head of S.H.I.E.L.D. With a UK location marked, fans quickly began theorizing that Nick Fury was set to appear in Far From Home. This has only continued to be teased on Jackson's social media, but now there's actual reports that confirm his addition - and that of his loyal partner at S.H.I.E.L.D.
Related: Nick Fury Should Be Spider-Man's Mentor in Far From Home
Vulture is confirming those reports that Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders will indeed be part of the cast of Spider-Man: Far From Home. This is great news for these characters as it confirms they'll return to life, too. Both were victims of Thanos' snap during Infinity War's post-credits scene. The report doesn't reveal any information on how the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are involved, so that aspect is still left to the imaginations of fans for right now.
We've already started to share our theories on how S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to factor into Far From Home. Now that both Fury and Hill will be appearing, there's further weight to where we believe the sequel is heading. After becoming an Avenger in Infinity War, it looks like Spider-Man will now work for S.H.I.E.L.D. instead. This helps the globetrotting nature of the sequel make more sense, and gives Peter another balancing predicament. He's supposed to be on summer vacation with his friends, but will tracking down Mysterio cause some problems? And, how can he keep contact with Fury in secret?
These additions are the latest members of the cast to become confirmed. Numan Acar was the last actor to join and evidence suggests he may be Chameleon. There's also JB Smoove as a new addition, while Michael Keaton is returning as the Vulture. Jake Gyllenhaal's turn as Mysterio isn't yet confirmed, but he was recently spotted not too far from where Far From Home was filming. With Peter's classmates also safe and sound for the sequel, the cast is really filling out around Holland.
MORE: Tom Holland Confirms Homecoming Suit for Far From Home
Source: Vulture
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Games and Economic Behavior
Adaptive Play by Idiosyncratic Agents [статья]
David Myatt, Chris C. Wallace Games and Economic Behavior. 2004. Vol. 48. No. 1. P. 124-138.
Equilibrium selection in coordination games has generated a large literature. Kandori, Mailath and Rob (1993) and Young (1993) studied dynamic models of aggregate behaviour in which agents choose best responses to observations of population play. Crucially, infrequent mistakes (`mutations`) allow agents to take actions contrary to current trends and prevent initial configurations from determining long run play. An alternative approach is offered here: Harsanyian trembles are added to agents` payoffs so that with some probability it is optimal to act against the flow of play. The long run distribution of population behaviour is characterised - modes correspond to stable Bayesian Nash equilibria. Allowing the variance of payoff trembles to vanish, via a purification process, a single equilibrium is played almost always in the long run. Kandori et al and Young show that the number of contrarian actions required to escape an equilibrium determines selection; here, the likelihood that such actions are taken is of equal importance.
Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis [статья]
Steven Tadelis, Patrick L. Bajari Stanford Law and Economics Working Paper Series. 2003. No. 02007.
Should the buyer of a customized good use competitive bidding or negotiation to select a contractor? To shed light on this question, we offer a framework that compares auctions with negotiations. We then examine a comprehensive data set of private sector building contracts awarded in Northern California during the years 1995-2000. The analysis suggests a number of possible limitations to the use of auctions.Auctions may perform poorly when projects are complex,contractual design is incomplete and there are few available bidders.Furthermore,auctions may still be communication between buyers and sellers,preventing the buyer from utilizing the contractor's expertise when designing the project. Some implications of these results for procurement in the public sector are discussed.
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey [статья]
Avner Greif Stanford University - Department of Economics: Working Paper. 1997. No. 97-017.
This paper surveys the small, yet growing, literature that employs game theory for economic history analysis. It elaborates on the promise and challenge of integrating game theoretical and economic history analyses and presents the approaches taken in conducting such an integration. Most of the essay, however, is devoted to presenting studies in economic history that utilize game theory as their main analytical framework. Studies are presented based on their substance to highlight the range of potential topics in economic history that can be and had been enriched through a game theoretical analysis.
Estimation of Quantity Games in the Presence of Indivisibilities and Heterogeneous Firms [статья]
Peter J. Davis
This paper presents a theoretical framework that allows estimation of game theoretic models of quantity competition, including a non-trivial class of differentiated product quantity games. The simplest and yet arguably most important examples of a quantity games are entry games. In entry games the choice firms make is discrete (enter/don't enter) and as a result I study a su fficiently general class of models to allow for either continous or integer quantity choices. The main theoretical results of the paper establish easily verifiable conditions under which an index of market output is uniquely determined within the set of Nash equilibria. The model's parameters may then be estimated by comparing the predicted index of market output in a cross section of markets. The paper provides both a generalization and an extension of the theoretical results developed by Bresnahan and Reiss (1991) and Berry (1992) which allowed estimation of the homogeneous products entry game. I illustrate one member of the class of models that these results allow us to estimate by developing a model of discrete quantity competition using count data from the supermarket industry.
Pre-play contracting in the prisoners' dilemma [статья]
Hal R. Varian, James Andreoni Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems Working papers. 1999. No. 18.
We consider a modified Prisoners' Dilemma game in which each agent can offer to pay the other agent to cooperate. The subgame perfect equilibrium of this two-stage game is Pareto efficient. We examine experimentally whether subjects actually manage to achieve this efficient outcome. We find an encouraging level of support for the mechanism, but also find some evidence that subjects' tastes for cooperation and equity may have significant interactions with the incentives provided by the mechanism.


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The magic returns in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and in this much anticipated sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them things take a solid left turn and the Wizarding World is left in crisis as the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escapes and our hero Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is […]
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Tagging the Noosphere
The last issue of Standards Today focused on XML - the underpinning of ODF and hundreds of other standards - and one of the most important standards ever developed. Here is the editorial from that issue.
One of the many intriguing concepts mooted by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, a French philosopher and Jesuit priest with polymathic insights (his academic explorations range from paleontology to the meaning of the Cosmos) is the "noosphere." In de Chardin's vision, the reality of the world encompassed not just the geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (all forms of life), but an ever expanding nimbus of knowledge representing the fusion of the minds and knowledge of all humans.
The Birth of the SGIP (Live from Denver)
In a short while, an important vote will be taken in downtown Denver, Colorado. If as expected that vote is in the affirmative, a unique and important public-private partnership will spring into being. It will also have an extremely ambitious goal: to assess, assemble, explain and promote the complex and evolving web of standards that will be needed to make the vision of a Smart Grid in the United States a reality. It will also mark the end of the first chapter in a journey that began with the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
What is a Smart Grid, compared to what we have now? Today, we have centralized production of electricity, with distribution of that power being handled by somewhat interconnected, regional networks to commercial and home users. We also have burgeoning green house gas emissions, growing dependence on foreign oil, both as a result of our need to keep increasing our generating capacity in order to meet whatever the peak national electrical need may be.
Digitization and the (Vanishing) Arts of the Book
ome of the most beautiful artistic treasures created during the millennium we refer to in the Western world as the Dark Ages are books — usually of a religious nature, they were transcribed by hand in sumptuously precise calligraphy, illuminated with wonderfully colorful and imaginative borders, and graced with elegant inset illustrations that were themselves jewels of inspiration, meticulously set down with pen, brush and burnisher in inks, tempera and gold leaf on laboriously stretched and scraped sheets of parchment. When complete, these beautiful pages were bound in volumes large and small, from enormous folios that were easily read in the pulpits of candlelit cathedrals, to breviaries that nestled comfortably in the pocket of a monk's cassock. Lovingly preserved through many centuries, they are as wonderful to observe today as they were when they were fresh from the standing desks of the monks who gave them birth.
The Constantine Code and the Missing Standard!
One of the realities that every standards professional must deal with is the sad fact that everyone else in the world thinks that standards are…
[start over; no one else thinks about standards much at all]
Ahem. One of the things that standards folks must come to terms with is the fact that on the rare occasions when anyone else thinks about standards at all, likely as not it's to observe that standards are…
[There. I've said it]
But really, now, this perception has got to change. And with the recent release of Dan Brown's latest pot boiler, The Lost Symbol, I believe I've figured out how to make standards really, really exciting. Really.
Technology's Reach and Security's Grasp
Modern society harbors many bad habits. One is its penchant for enthusiastically embracing the benefits of new technologies before considering their less desirable side effects. Whether we look at the development of automobiles (first) and safety features (much later), or industrialization (first) and environmental protection (much, much later), the story is always much the same: we reach for the candy before we grasp the reality of the cavities. Only after the problems become too great to ignore do we investigate the unintended consequences, realize how difficult and expensive they are to address, and grudgingly start to rein in our appetites and exercise a bit of prudent self-discipline.
Perhaps we should not be surprised, then, that the U.S. government is only now becoming alarmed over the vulnerability to which we have become exposed as a result of our whole-hearted embrace of the Internet. With the operations of government, defense, finance, commerce, power distribution, communications, transportation, and just about everything else now dependent on the healthy operation of the Internet, that alarm is well-justified. And with the creation and storage now of virtually all data in digital, rather than physical form, exposure of our financial as well as our most intimate personal and health information is only a hack away as well.
Standards and the Smart Grid
If you haven't heard the words "smart grid" before, that's likely to change soon. That's especially so if you live in the U.S., where billions of dollars in incentive spending is pouring into making the smart grid a reality. As you might expect, since I'm talking about it here, the smart grid will rely on standards to become real. A whole lot of standards, in fact, and that's a problem
Those of you who are subscribers to my free standards eJournal Standards Today know that I've dedicated each of the last several issues to one of the many multi-billion dollar initiatives that the Obama Administration has launched that are heavily dependent on standards - which in many cases do not yet exist. Each initiative is also of great complexity, and will need to rely on a level of cooperation and collaboration that does not natively exist in the marketplace. That's certainly the case with the Smart Grid challenge, and that's what the latest issue of Standards Today is all about.
Energy Conservation From Zero to Sixty
Throughout the 20th century, the U.S. electric power delivery infrastructure served our nation well,… This once state-of-the-art system brought a level of prosperity to the United States unmatched by any other nation in the world. But a 21st-century U.S. economy cannot be built on a 20th-century electric grid.
A Vision for the Modern Grid, National Energy Technology Laboratory, for the DOE, March 2007
For decades utility companies and environmentalists alike have known that more dramatic and economical advances in energy policy could be achieved through energy conservation than by any other means. By utilizing techniques as simple as buying more efficient appliances and better insulating our homes we can lower our dependence on foreign oil, release fewer greenhouse gases, and savemoney as well, all at the same time. For almost as long, utilities have promoted the concept of "demand side management," and sought to enlist the aid of consumers and businesses to shift electricity usage to low-demand times of the day, with the potential benefit of avoiding the need to build expensive new power plants.
How Open a Platform does "Open Government" Need?
Any old standards hand forced to choose the single most disputed issue in standard setting over the past decade would likely respond with a deceivingly simple question: "What does it mean to be an 'open standard?'" A similar debate rages in the open source community between those that believe that some licenses (e.g., the BSD, MIT and Apache licenses) are "open enough," while others would respond with an emphatic Hell No! (or less printable words to similar effect).
That's not too surprising, because the question of what "open" means subsumes almost every other categorical question that information and communications technology (ICT) standards and open source folk are likely to disagree over, whether they be economic (should a vendor be able to be implement a standard free of charge, or in free and open source software (FOSS) licensed under a version of the General Public License (GPL)); systemic (are standards adopted by ISO/IEC JTC 1 "better" than those that are not); or procedural (must the economic and other terms upon which a necessary patent claim can be licensed be disclosed early in the development process)?
The reason why this background level of disagreement is relevant today is because the Obama Administration has pledged to use technology to bring an "unprecedented" level of transparency and interaction in government to the people. If that's going to happen, though, it means that the platforms that the new administration adopts to provide open government will have to be open as well. Which brings us at last to the question of just what, exactly, "open" should mean, when it comes to "open government."
View from the Trenches: an Interview with HL7's Charles Jaffe, M.D.
The number of standard setting organizations (SSOs) from which specifications have been drawn to create Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are legion, due to the complex nature of these goal. Some of the standards utilized are generic, and common to any sophisticated Internet-enabled commercial system. Others are specific to science, but usable generally in paper as well as information technology (IT) based health care systems. Only a few SSOs, however, have taken up the challenge of developing the major components essential and unique to EHRs. One of the oldest and most important is Health Level 7, more commonly referred to as HL7.
HL7 has been at the center of global EHR development since 1987, as well as a key player in the more recent U.S. efforts to design and implement a national EHR system by 2014, a commitment made by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address in January of 2004.
With the Obama Administration's pledge to meet that commitment, and to direct massive amounts of funding towards ensuring its success, it is critical that the standards needed to support this ambitious goal are not only available, but the right tools for the job as well.
In this interview, HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, M.D. shares his perspective on what's been accomplished, what remains to be done, and where the critical decisions that will lead to success or failure in creating a national EHR system must be made.
First the Standards, Then the Solution
In the last issue of my eJournal, Standards Today, titled A Standards Agenda for the Obama Administration, I described the standards-based dependencies of the technology agenda earlier announced by president-elect Obama. That agenda provides for the creative use of technology to advance a number of important policy goals, such as achieving transparent government, equal access to the Internet, and reducing costs of healthcare. In this issue, I focus more closely on the significant role that standards will play in achieving one of (now) President Obama's greatest challenges — lowering healthcare costs, while at the same time keeping a campaign promise to provide universal health coverage.
As these words are being written, the US Congress is debating the final terms of a stimulus bill that will result in the expenditure of almost $800 billion of public funds on a wide array of initiatives intended to address an equally challenging goal: resurrecting an economy that seems inexorably headed towards its worst performance since the Great Depression. One of those initiatives included in the stimulus bill would make the final push towards national implementation of something called "Electronic Health Records," or "EHRs" - and spend $20 billion in the process. Whether that money gets spend wisely or not will depend a lot on open standards.
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On July 30, the classic crossover tenor, singer-songwriter and celebrated recording artist will return to his hometown in Tuscany to play at Teatro del Silenzio. A decade ago, Bocelli convinced the local government to construct the open air amphitheater, which with his backing was completed in 2006. Bocelli returns once a year to perform his flagship concert, and the venue remains silent for the rest of the year, hence the name (theater of silence).
To date, Andrea Bocelli has recorded 9 complete operas, 14 solo studio albums, and 3 greatest hits albums. He has sold over 150 million records worldwide and has been nominated for a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1999, Bocelli won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for his duet with Celine Dion "The Prayer," and was nominated for an Academy Award for the song produced for the animated film Quest for Camelot.
Bocelli's success is marked not only by the number of records sold, but also by his triumph in bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts. With the release of his classical album "Sacred Arias," Bocelli achieved a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for simultaneously holding the top three positions in the U.S. Classical Album charts. Seven of his records climbed to Top 10 in the Billboard 200, and a record-setting ten have topped the classical crossover album charts in the U.S.
Born with poor eyesight, Bocelli became permanently blind at the age of 12 after a football accident. His musical talents became apparent during adolescence, wining a song competition at age 14. He continued to play small shows during his university and law school years, but it was not until 1992 that he catapulted to national stardom. Italian rock sensation Zucchero held auditions to make a demo of his song "Miserere" to send to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. After hearing Bocelli's tape, Pavarotti insisted that Zucchero use Bocelli instead of him to record the song.
Bocelli recorded dozens of albums, both solo and compellation, over the next few decades. He continued to dazzle fans around the world, and was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998. His 10th anniversary concert this summer is truly the show of a lifetime, don't miss your chance to share in the magic!