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NCG REVIEW – SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM (SWITCH)
February 17, 2021 Andrew A. (Frost) Leave a comment
This title was given to the NCG team for review purposes
Back in 1999, the handheld system the NeoGeo Pocket Color by SNK was released. SNK is known for their reputable arcade titles, sprite work, and addicting gameplay. SNK, at the time, released a number of ports and original titles for the handheld system. These title's sold pretty well over seas, but did not gain much attraction in North America, which might be why many Westerners have never heard of the handheld, or even SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM – a spin off title from the Capcom vs SNK Series, which was a big hit in the arcades.
SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM had a lot of positive feedback from reviewers back when it was launched on the handheld, but we can see if it matches up to modern standards, if the game has aged well enough to meet the expectations of an audience new to the Fighting Game Community (FGC), and players that just enjoy old fighting game titles.
When turning on SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM players will be greeted to welcoming fists! The nostalgic presentation of classic SNK/CAPCOM fighting title screens of the mid to late 90's, awesome animations, and sprite work immediate jumps out at the player. The title sequence has aged pretty well, and this is the same when it comes to actual gameplay. The animation of each fighter represents them well for a handheld from the era, and has not disappointed expectations for a re-release .
That does not mean there aren't some flaws with the visuals for this port. The main gripe I had is that the game has a small aspect ratio, and the default borders that are supposed to replicate the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Sure you can take these off, and fix the aspect ratio, but I feel like they should of had it full screen to start with, especially since the Switch has such a large screen.
Not much to say other than the sound and music score is excellent for the title since it pulled music from a lot of SNK and Capcom titles in the form of chiptunes. Every hit feels good because of the SFX's, and with that mixed with the music score. you can lose yourself to some familiar songs.
Gameplay is actually fluent and feels great for this title. It only offers two buttons, one for punch and one for kick, but the button response are fast. Best of all, the game has a tag team mechanic, which some veteran players will be accustomed to. With this mechanic, players can switch between two of the available characters from the SNK and Capcom games, just like the Marvel vs Capcom series, as well as a few unlockable characters.
All in all the game has aged pretty well, everyone who enjoyed SNK and Capcom games will love the mashup. I recommend this title to anyone who has missed it when it was released, as well as anyone who is just a fan of the fighting game genre. My score for this port is an 8 out of 10, mainly because this title is not for everyone, but catered toward long-time fans.
SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM is avaiable now for the Nintendo Switch.
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The Next Generation Printer - See What You Print
See What You Print Touchscreen Printer
Touchscreen devices became such a hit these days, from your smartphones, tablet PCs all the way up to hybrid laptops, these gadgets which can easily manipulated by a single touch of your fingertips had changed the course of the 21st century. With such devices, have it ever crossed your mind, the possibility of a touchscreen printer, because Artefact had.
Artefact is "an award-winning technology product design company dedicated to defining next-generation products and user experiences", had come up with a 21st century design of a touchscreen printer that looks a lot like a tablet PC intact in a portable printing machine, otherwise known as the See What You Print touchscreen printer--"a concept to bring the printer to the 21st century, by stripping it down of its cumbersomeness" as what Artefact had described it.
Designed by Jonas Buck, Fernd Van Engelen and Tucker Spofford, the See What You Print or simply called SWYP is a sleek modern design printer that can easily connect wirelessly in your mobile devices, laptops or computers to print images and photographs. What's more is it can edit, format, change contrast and design photographs from it instead in your computing device.
According to Artefact's official website, the SWYP offers the following advantages over the other modern-type printers:
Margins and scaling can be easily previewed and edited on the touch-screen before printing. Just like you would do with the real paper.
Color results become predictable with a screen that is always calibrated to the printer.
Unwanted print areas are easily spotted and can be removed by simply 'swyping' it off the screen.
Printing from a camera becomes straightforward even without a computer. The camera connects wirelessly to the printer and images can be selected, arranged and lightly edited in seconds.
You can personalize the start screen and create a network of personal devices or online sources for direct printing.
You can directly connect to Facebook photo stream and Flickr to print photos.
Paper tray: on most current printers the paper trays become very cumbersome complicated parts.
Peek inside: selecting the ink icon lets the interface fade away and reveals the inside of the printer with ink level and inserted paper type information augmented on top of it.
No on/off button: the act of opening or closing the paper tray turns the printer on or off.
Although the See What You Print remains a concept for now, there are speculations that the major printing company Hewlett Packard is interested in buying it and perhaps manufacturing the said printer in the near future. The See What You Print, in regards with its design, will probably be using solid inks similar to Xerox instead of laser toner cartridges or ink cartridges in printing.
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Part of my work at eleVR is testing whether artistic practice (including studio visits, creative collaborations and physical exhibitions) can be experienced at a distance. Each of these types of experiences involves a different set of needs based on the interactions, objects and mediation involved. In terms of visiting a physical art exhibit at a distance, one example that I have tried and liked is the Ai Weiwei 360 experience from the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This was an exhibit that I would have loved to attend in person, but wasn't able to finance because of the travel costs. The "360 experience", as they called it, begins by placing you in the courtyard of the museum, with markers placed around you that you can click to enter the exhibit through any door you like. Once inside, not only are all the rooms shot in 360° at various locations within them, but when you settle on a view, there is a slow pan/zoom that happens so that the 2D imagery feels "alive". A voiceover tour guide also begins automatically at every stopping point, but you can choose to stop it. If you do stop the voiceover, there is still some psuedo-ambient noise played. The ambient noise, together with the constant motion of the imagery, helps to make the 360 experience feel animated, adding to the immersivity of the experience.
These ambient techniques of the Ai Weiwei 360 experience helped me to engage in the exhibit rooms as if I were actually there, and I learned a lot about his sculptural works that I had never seen in person. Some of the sculptures were able to be seen from various angles, although not all of them. The photos were high-resolution enough, however, that I felt like I got to see detail I would have wanted to see. There was one sculpture that caught my attention and gave me pause just as if I had really seen it in real life. I remember that it was all alone in a corner, on a white pedestal, against a white wall, dimly lit by a spotlight. It was an ancient Chinese vase with the 'Coca Cola' logo glazed onto it. I remember that it mesmerized me, both materially and conceptually, and I lingered on that view for a while, just as I would have done if I had been standing in that gallery room. Even though I "visited" this exhibit a few months ago, I still recall that moment in front of the vase as if I had really been there. I value having this memory of the Ai Weiwei exhibit even though I wasn't able to afford to visit it in person, and I hope to see museums offer this type of experience-at-a-distance more often in the future.
Coca-Cola Vase, 2014, Ai Weiwei. As seen through an online 360-experience.
In addition to visiting art exhibits, part of my practice involves visiting the studios of other artists to see their creative work in action. Visiting studios not only lets me see artworks in progress, but also lets me see the productive contexts that they come from. Studios are often messy and seem to have a life of their own. They can include bookshelves with the books artists are currently reading, raw materials on shelves, hardware tools on walls, leftover marks on the floors, smells of drying materials, todo-lists resting on tables, desks with laptops and drinks and food, etc. etc. It is a privilege to see these spatial containers of an artist's practice, because in a way it feels like entering their headspace during highly creative moments. It's a headspace that is usually both confusing yet generative, and studios seem to capture that internal energy in a materialized way. By visiting these spaces of other artists, not only do I feel like I experience their creativity by proximity, but I also learn tips and tricks to take back to my own studio. Because of the highly spatial, material and sensual nature of studio visits for me, it's usually something that has to be done in person, since photos can't really do these spaces justice.
At the Banff Centre Body As Site residency that I recently completed, there were 15 artists in total, each with their own studio. Because we were all so busy with our work most of the time, and because our studios were spread out among an entire building, I did not get to visit everyone's studios as much as I would have liked. Luckily, there was an Open Studios event, open to the public, that was meant for us to open our studio doors for an evening and welcome visitors. During the open studios event, I got the urge to share the diversity of the studio spaces with the rest of the eleVR team. That was when I remembered that I had a Google Pixel phone on me that has a "photosphere" feature that takes 360° stitched photos that are instantly viewable on Google Photos. The stitching isn't perfect, but the process is highly portable and only took me about 2 minutes per studio. So I took a photosphere in every studio and the two gallery spaces where we set up a group show, hoping to see if the open studios experience could translate later when I shared them with the team.
To share and experience the 360° studios with the rest of the eleVR team, I decided to use the social VR app vTime, which is available on the Google Pixel via Daydream. Even though Daydream doesn't support roomscale (like the Vive does), it does support uploading of 360° images to be viewed in a social setting with other users. Conveniently, it even lets you upload the images directly from the phone while running the app, so I didn't need to put the studio images on a computer at all. Once we were in vTime, I just added the images to my vTime library, entered a 360° image viewer room with Vi and M, and then loaded the first studio.
Immediately, it felt like the three of us had transported back to the open studios event and were mingling in the first room of the Project Space where our group show was set up. vTime placed our avatars in a circle of "chairs" floating in the center of the room, and we faced each other but could see the entire room around us. We easily felt situated in the space, and I was able to start describing all the various artworks to Vi and M. Without roomscale, we had to turn our heads to see objects, and this gave an easy way to give cues when directing Vi and M to look at various parts of the room we were in. I found myself saying "these watercolors behind Vi were made by Mandy and explored villains of the Star Trek universe" or "these plaster cakes beneath me are actually sitting on real cakes". We visited the rest of the studios in the same way, and the immersion remained impressive throughout. We were floating guests fixed to the center of the studios, but the detail in the images was good enough for me to point out details in people's artworks, pinups on the walls, or any other interesting features of the studios that I remembered. Vi and M also got to see the studios in their own way, and they picked up on interesting details in the artists' spaces that I hadn't seen. I remember Vi seeing triangles in Kerri-Lynn's calendar on her studio wall, which related conceptually to Kerri-Lynn's work, and which I had not noticed. M saw parallels between Jane Morley's work and Susannah's, after they noticed all the experimental collages made of body parts in both of those studios. In Sofia's studio, Vi and M had questions about her plans for her spaces. Vi loved Mandy's hug-paper viewing fort, and M was interested in Michelle's looms. Above is a screen recording of the three of us visiting some of these studios in vTime to give you an idea of what the studio-visits-at-a-distance felt like. It was amazing to me that the entire process, from capture to sharing, was all done on a Pixel smartphone.
I was encouraged by the experience of sharing the Body As Site Open Studios remotely with the eleVR team, especially because our conversations during the visits felt natural, and because Vi and M picked up on interesting parts of the various artists' creative practices. I am not sure how the experience would have felt if it had not been social, but that would be another interesting option to try. Already in vTime, with just photospheres and fixed viewing points in the center of the room, the studio visits felt worthwhile. I would like to try pushing this further with roomscale, giving the ability to "walk" in the studios. I can also imagine an Augmented Reality version of this that includes digital overlays, videos and also 3D scanned objects, to let you see the artworks from more than one angle, or get more information of what goes on in studios. I'm inspired to try to implement some of these features; maybe in Altspace or some other social VR app that allows for third-party development.
For now, if you'd like to see the Banff Centre "Body as Site" Open Studios at-a-distance yourself, feel free to visit them below!
Below are 360° experiences from Banff Body As Site Residency Open Studios: two shots from our group show and then all the individual artist's studios with links to their websites if you'd like to see more of their work.


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Q: Django IntegrityError at /doctor-add-notes NOT NULL constraint failed: I am a newbie.
Enhancing a project For the current user, there are different members, for each member I want to add Notes with the current time & date. so I am using Django in-built user model.
for example
User1
  Member1  Notes   Date & Time
  Member2  Notes   Date & Time
  Member3  Notes   Date & Time

**User2**
      Member1  Notes   Date & Time
      Member2  Notes   Date & Time
      Member3  Notes   Date & Time

for now just trying to add user1, member1 Notes & Date  but after submitting the form getting an error. how to correct that,
IntegrityError at /doctor-add-notes
NOT NULL constraint failed: hospital_notes.user_id
Request Method: POST
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/doctor-add-notes
Django Version: 3.0.7
Exception Type: IntegrityError
Exception Value:
NOT NULL constraint failed: hospital_notes.user_id
Exception Location: C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\sqlite3\base.py in execute, line 396
Python Executable:  C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\python.exe
Python Version: 3.8.3
Python Path:
['C:\\Users\\user1\\PycharmProjects\\Project\\hospitalmanagement',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\PycharmProjects\\Project\\hospitalmanagement',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38\\python38.zip',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38\\DLLs',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38\\lib',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python38\\site-packages',
 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38\\lib\\site-packages']
Server time:    Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:37:51 +0000

Here is part of relevant code
**Models**

class Notes(models.Model):
    user=models.ForeignKey(User,on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    report = models.TextField(max_length=500)
    NoteDate = models.DateField(auto_now=True)

  **View:**

def doctor_add_notes_view(request):
    appointmentForm=forms.PatientNotesForm()
    mydict={'appointmentForm':appointmentForm,}
    print(mydict)
    if request.method=='POST':
        appointmentForm=forms.PatientNotesForm(request.POST)
        if appointmentForm.is_valid():
            appointment=appointmentForm.save(commit=False)
            appointment.save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect('doctor_add_notes')
        else:
            return render(request, 'hospital/doctor_view_patient.html',{'alert_flag': True})
    return render(request,'hospital/doctor_add_notes.html',context=mydict)

**Forms:**

class PatientNotesForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model=models.Notes
        fields=['report']

**doctor_add_notes.html**

{% extends 'hospital/doctor_base.html' %}
{% load widget_tweaks %}
{% block content %}

  <link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" id="bootstrap-css">

<form method="post">
  {% csrf_token %}

Patient Notes Details

              {% render_field appointmentForm.report class="form-control" placeholder="Description" %}

        <button type="submit" class="btnSubmit">Book</button>

</form>

{% endblock content %}

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Massively parallel sequencing for the microbiologist
David Warrilow A and Richard JN Allcock B
A Public Health Virology
Forensic and Scientific Services
Health Services Support Agency
PO Box 594, Archerfield
Qld 4108, Australia
Email: david_warrilow@health.qld.gov.au
B Lotterywest State Biomedical Facility: Genomics
School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Stirling Highway, Nedlands
Email: richard.allcock@uwa.edu.au
Molecular biology techniques have revolutionised the diagnostic microbiology laboratory. In particular, the past decade has seen standardised nucleic acid sequencing methods applied to routine identification and typing of microorganisms. The full extension of this approach will see massively parallel sequencing (MPS; also referred to as next generation or high throughput sequencing) of samples, bringing with it new capabilities (e.g. complete community profiling in complex samples) and challenges. MPS is a different diagnostic paradigm requiring no prior hypotheses of the specific microorganisms in a given sample. While standard sequencing can detect non-culturable organisms in some circumstances (i.e. where a specific test is performed), MPS might enable hypothesis-free detection of all non-culturable microorganisms in a single assay. In addition, MPS has applications where the clinical picture is complicated or where standard diagnostic approaches have failed. MPS might also shed light on complex disease processes, particularly where disease involves the interaction of the host with a population of microorganisms. In the longer term, as sequencing technology and hardware for processing data become cheaper, the potential exists for rapid point-of-care testing of any microorganism.
The distinguishing feature of MPS is that it generates orders of magnitude more data in comparison with the older dideoxy chain termination method ('Sanger' sequencing). Depending on the platform (454, Illumina, SOLiD, Ion Torrent, etc.), human genome-scale amounts of data can be produced in a single experiment1. There are common features across all platforms. First, the term 'massively parallel' refers to the large number of different reactions that are conducted on clonal DNA templates physically separated on microscopic beads, glass flowcells or micro-wells. In present generation technologies, the DNA to be sequenced is used as the template for the generation of a specific complementary product molecule. Similar to Sanger sequencing, the product is usually the result of 'sequencing by synthesis', a polymerisation reaction in which nucleotides are incorporated into a nascent strand using a suitable DNA polymerase. It is the real-time base-by-base read-out of the reaction products detected on large numbers of individual beads that generates the large volume of data. Platforms differ in the means by which the sequencing reaction product is detected, and this is an important factor in the variation in the speed and cost per base. The next step in this technology is the so-called 'third generation' single molecule sequencing (SMS) that literally uses a single nucleic acid input molecule2. While there are few commercially available products or services offering SMS, the potential advantages in read length, cost and sensitivity mean that demand for this technology will be great in the coming years. At the forefront of SMS are Pacific Biosciences, who have a commercially available sequencer and Oxford Nanopore who, at the time of writing, have not yet reached the market.
The most common infectious disease scenario is when a patient presents to a clinician with a particular set of symptoms. To arrive at a diagnosis, the clinician draws on their knowledge and experience to narrow down the choice of potential tests from a large pool. The result of the test is usually either detection or isolation of the microorganism, or detection of an immune response indicating that the microorganism is, or has been, present. Central to this model is the selection of the correct test or the performance of a range of tests covering a number of possibilities, with the associated costs, regardless of the number of negative results. This places significant emphasis on the clinician's experience and expertise. MPS offers the intriguing possibility of a single test capable of the hypothesis-free detection of any microorganisms present, and the potential to save time and money by avoiding unnecessary testing. In addition, for some diseases a more complicated understanding is emerging, particularly in the case of gut microflora, of the role of microbial communities and their interaction with the host in determining health and disease. MPS is at the forefront of this research and is the most applicable technology to generate a profile of a microbial community. A popular approach in the research world is to amplify and sequence ribosomal RNAs using conserved primer sets. Using so called 'deep sequencing', the technique is capable of not only identifying microorganisms, but also providing quantitative information as well. The application of deep sequencing has been central in revealing a number of changes in the gut microbiota associated with diseases such as allergies, obesity, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel diseases3 and susceptibility to viral infections4. This approach is being applied to oral, nasal, skin and genital microbial communities and is expected to illuminate many other diseases involving complex interactions between microbes and their human hosts5. This opens the possibility of new therapeutic approaches to encourage 'healthy' microbial communities.
MPS/deep-sequencing techniques are also applicable to viruses. At the research level, MPS can shed light on populations of related genomes such as quasi-species present during HIV infection that enable the virus to rapidly adapt to host immune and antiviral drug pressures. Additionally, during the outbreak of a new emerging pathogen or infections with rare and unusual agents, MPS can be used to rapidly obtain sequence information that can facilitate the development of diagnostic reagents6–13. A good example of this is the recent human beta-coronavirus in late 2012, in which genome sequence information was made available using MPS in a matter of weeks14 and might actually be possible within days using the most recent machines. Many microorganisms in the environment are not able to be cultured. So another advantage of MPS over traditional methods is that genome information can potentially be obtained directly from the sample without prior culture.
In the not-so-distant future we can imagine the following scenario in a doctor's surgery or hospital ward. A febrile traveller presents and a throat swab is taken. The sample is placed in a hand-held diagnostic device that processes the sample through its microfluidics, extracting nucleic acids. Single molecule sequencing occurs, rapidly generating gigabases of data that are analysed by an in-built microprocessor, which compares it to a database for matches with known microorganisms. A best-match reveals a high probability of an exotic viral infection. Combined with wireless and an Internet connection, there is the possibility of instant disease notification of the infection to relevant public health authorities. For less serious infections, the same technology could be used for real-time global disease monitoring. There are obviously many important quality control and ethical issues to be solved first. However, the main challenge to the realisation of such a scenario is, surprisingly, not primarily technical. Sadly, we might all be out of a job sooner than you think!
[1] Kircher, M., and Kelso, J., 2010, High-throughput DNA sequencing – concepts and limitations. Bioessays, 32, 524–536
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[2] Schadt, E.E., and et al 2010, A window into third-generation sequencing. Hum. Mol. Genet., 19, R227–R240
[3] Clemente, J.C., and et al 2012, The impact of the gut microbiota on human health: an integrative view. Cell, 148, 1258–1270
[4] Kuss, S.K., and et al 2011, Intestinal microbiota promote enteric virus replication and systemic pathogenesis. Science, 334, 249–252
[5] Pennisi, E., 2012, Microbial survey of human body reveals extensive variation. Science, 336, 1369–1371
[6] Bogaert, D., and et al 2011, Variability and diversity of nasopharyngeal microbiota in children: a metagenomic analysis. PLoS ONE, 6, e17035
[7] de Vries, M., and et al 2011, A sensitive assay for virus discovery in respiratory clinical samples. PLoS ONE, 6, e16118
[8] Lysholm, F., and et al 2012, Characterization of the viral microbiome in patients with severe lower respiratory tract infections, using metagenomic sequencing. PLoS ONE, 7, e30875
[9] McMullan, L.K., and et al 2012, Using next generation sequencing to identify yellow fever virus in Uganda. Virology, 422, 1–5
[10] Nakamura, S., and et al 2009, Direct metagenomic detection of viral pathogens in nasal and fecal specimens using an unbiased high-throughput sequencing approach. PLoS ONE, 4, e4219
[11] Victoria, J.G., and et al 2008, Rapid identification of known and new RNA viruses from animal tissues. PLoS Pathog., 4, e1000163
[12] Victoria, J.G., and et al 2009, Metagenomic analyses of viruses in stool samples from children with acute flaccid paralysis. J. Virol., 83, 4642–4651
[13] Yozwiak, N.L., and et al 2012, Virus identification in unknown tropical febrile illness cases using deep sequencing. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis., 6, e1485
[14] van Boheemen S. et al 2012 Genomic characterization of a newly discovered coronavirus associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome in humans. MBio 3 10.1128/mBio.00473-12
David Warrilow is the Research Co-ordinator in the Public Health Virology Laboratory at Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services. His interests are diagnostics, emerging viruses, virus discovery and RNA virus replication.
Richard Allcock is the Director of the LotteryWest State Biomedical Facility Genomics Node with the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Western Australia. He is interested in all aspects of the application of DNA sequencing.
From this issue
Vertical Transmission
Diagnostics into the future
Nanoparticle sample preparation and mass spectrometry for rapid diagnosis of microbial infections
High-throughput molecular typing of microbes using the Sequenom Massarray platform
Digital PCR: a new DNA quantification tool
Trends in instrumentation in diagnostic molecular microbiology
Arrays in clinical microbiology
Q fever: pets, vets and validating tests
Bairnsdale ulcer in humans and animals
Next generation sequencing in single cell parasite disease investigations
Biological recovery of phosphorus from municipal wastewater
Nema and the Xenos
The tale of a tiny worm, the bacteria that live inside her, and a tree being munched on by a grub.
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Shares of Fannie Mae (NASDAQOTH: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (NASDAQOTH: FMCC) are up by more than 11% as of 3:10 p.m. EDT, after six Democratic senators wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt, asking them to address Fannie and Freddie's low levels of capital. The senators wrote to ask that the officials consider allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to retain some of their earnings as a buffer against future losses, while leaving the door open for allowing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to exit conservatorship.
The letter addresses the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements between Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Treasury Department. Specifically, the letter details the senators' shared concern that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which insure trillions of dollars of residential mortgages, will soon operate without any cushion against losses due to these agreements.
Under the agreements, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac send all of their income to the Treasury Department, ultimately "leaving two entities that back more than $5 trillion in mortgage debt with zero retained capital reserves beginning on January 1, 2018," according to the letter.
A little backstory may be helpful here. The U.S. government put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship during the financial crisis of 2008. Initially, the U.S. Treasury injected capital into Fannie and Freddie via preferred stock, which would reward the U.S. Treasury for its investment with a regular fixed dividend.
That all changed in August 2012, when the terms of the investment were amended. Rather than pay a fixed rate of return on the U.S. Treasury's preferred stock, Fannie and Freddie would be required to pay dividends based on their net worth. In effect, the new "net worth sweep" sent all the profits of Fannie and Freddie to the U.S. government.
The net worth sweep has made Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac incredibly profitable for the U.S. government, but since all the earnings are swept from the companies with regularity, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have little or no cushion should mortgage insurance profits turn into mortgage insurance losses. The mortgage insurance business is very much a "feast or famine" industry: Long periods of profits are earned when housing prices rise in a slow and steady pace, followed by massive losses when housing prices fall.
Right now, it's more feast than famine, and the U.S. Treasury is taking all the profits out of Fannie and Freddie. However, it's quite likely that at some point the fortunes of the industry, and the flow of money, will have to reverse, at which point the Treasury will have to send cash back to Fannie and Freddie to cover any losses. The senators characterize the future reversal of cash flows as a risk to taxpayers.
In some ways, this letter seemingly politicizes a relatively unimportant accounting issue. It essentially argues that if the government takes less money from the GSEs today, it won't have to pony up as much capital in the future for losses. That's kind of obvious, and it isn't immediately clear to me why the senators think taking $3 now is so much better for taxpayers than taking $10 now with the knowledge you may have to return $7 at a later date, but that seems to be exactly what they're arguing.
The senators write rather plainly that they only want Fannie and Freddie to be able to build up adequate reserves for losses, not to exit conservatorship. For shares of Fannie and Freddie to be worth anything at all, they would have to be allowed to exit conservatorship, something the government has largely opposed because...well, frankly, it really likes the profits that the GSEs are generating right now.
"We are simply requesting that the GSEs be permitted to build capital. We do not believe they should be released from conservatorship absent reform," the senators wrote in their letter.
Of course, if you're a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bull, you might take notice that the senators aren't leaving out the possibility of privatizing Fannie or Freddie, since they say they oppose releasing the GSEs from conservatorship "absent reform." This implies that they may support letting the GSEs exit conservatorship if they are reformed. But who knows what "reforms" might be necessary for them to support putting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in private hands?
However, as has been the case in the past, when a government official leaves the door open (or even slightly cracked) to letting Fannie and Freddie out of conservatorship, shares of both go wild. Add today as yet another example.
David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Fannie Mae wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.


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In the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed 1 Palestinian man and injured 1 other near Kafr Haris. According to the Israeli military, the 2 had thrown a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli forces; the governor of Salfit said that the 2 had done nothing wrong and were hanging out with friends when they were attacked. During the funeral procession for the deceased Palestinian man, Israeli forces and Palestinians clashed in Kafr Haris; 1 Palestinian was hospitalized after being hit by a rubber-coated bullet to the neck. Elsewhere, Israeli forces violently dispersed Palestinian protesters in Kafr Qaddum and Asira; 2 people were injured by sound bomb canisters in Asira, leading to fractures and an amputation of 1 finger; in Kafr Qaddum, 1 Palestinian was hit by a rubber-coated bullet; tear-gas related injuries were also reported. Israeli forces also delivered stop-work orders for 2 homes under construction in al-Khadir. 2 Israeli soldiers were injured by Israeli settlers while dismantling an Israeli settlement outpost near the Yitzhar settlement. 8 Palestinians were arrested, including 5 during late-night raids in and around Yatta, Hebron, and Jalazun refugee camp; and 3 at checkpoints near Nablus and Ramallah. In East Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed to curb the spread of COVID-19; no date was set for its reopening. 1 Palestinian was arrested during a house raid in the Old City. Off the coast of Gaza, Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishermen; no injuries were reported. (HA, HA, REU, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA 7/10; PCHR 7/16)
According to the Saudi Arabian news channel al-Arabiya, 1 senior member of Hamas, Mohammed Omar Abu Ajwa, defected and fled to Israel for which he allegedly had been spying on Hamas for more than 10 years. Hamas denied al-Arabiya's report. (HA 7/12; HA 7/14)
In a letter to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the foreign ministers of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, and Sweden demanded that he accelerate the process of formulating possible responses to Israel annexation. The 1st request for Foreign Policy Chief Borrell to do so was made on 15 May at an unofficial meeting. (HA 7/14)
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Gregory Porter's 'All Rise' Nominated for Grammy Award
The brilliant album 'All Rise' from Gregory Porter has been nominated for the Best R&B Album Award at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards! The Grammy's are set to take place on January 31st 2021.
'All Rise' entered the UK Official Charts at number 3, was produced by the amazing Troy Miller and features the single 'Revival' and 'Revival Song' which were co-written by Troy Miller and Oli Rockberger.
See the complete list of nominees here
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Adobe Launch 'When I See Black' Advert 27.10.20
Adobe have launched their brilliant new advert 'When I See Black' which features Gregory Porter's 'Revival'. "When more perspectives are seen and heard, the...
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If you have Poser 11 Pro, you can export your scene as Alembic and import that into Blender. You will need to recreate the materials, but you will have the geometry and animation data. Then you can use Blenders Camera Tracking and Compositing features.


For those less than impressed by Corel releasing some professional-grade Linux photography software earlier this month, Adobe still not providing native Linux clients for their popular applications, and haven't been fond of the major open-source photography programs out there, you may want to try out Darktable.
For those that haven't heard of Darktable previously, it's an in-development open-source photo workflow program. The software can also fully support RAW images and provides a virtual lighttable and darkroom for those interested in photography.
Darktable is currently supported under Linux and Mac OS X and has fully non-destructive editing, the core functions use 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, SSE instruction support on modern processors, supports OpenCL for run-time GPU acceleration, built-in ICC profile support, and can handle sRGB / Adobe RGB / XYZ / linear RGB. There's also extensive filtering / sorting / searching options for collected images. Additionally, this open-source program also can handle tethered shooting, has a powerful export system, and many other offerings that can be enabled through Darktable plug-ins.
The last release was Darktable 0.9.3 in November of last year when it brought SSE optimizations, bug-fixes, and other updates.
For those wishing to learn more about this high-end open-source Linux photo management/editing program, visit Darktable.org. There isn't any breaking news to share about this project today, but Darktable has been brought to my attention a few times by Phoronix readers since Corel's AfterShot Pro Linux release earlier this month, which ended up being mostly a re-branded version of Bibble Pro.


The 1-Year Multiple-Entry Non-Immigrant Thai visa is issued to foreigners who wish to obtain a long term visa stay to Thailand. The issuance of this visa mainly depends on the purpose of the application. This type of visa is valid for use within one year from the date of issue and can be extended to 3 months on or before the visa expiration date.
However, this type of visa requires the visa holders to exit and re-enter Thailand every 90 days by air, sea, or land travel.
Please note that other countries not listed above may still apply for the 1-Year Multiple-Entry visa under several circumstances. You may contact our 24/7 Customer Support or email us to find out how you qualify under this type of visa.
An invitation or confirmation letter to clarify the purpose of travel issued by the concerned organization.
Additional supporting document requested by the Royal Thai embassy or consulate.
Proof of financial funds and travel itinerary.
The visa applicants are advised to apply for their visa either by mail or in person at the Royal Thai embassy or consulate in their home country.
Preparation of the application form and other documents for the applicant.
Submission of the required documents to the Thai embassy or consulate in the applicant's home country by mail or in person.
Payment of the embassy or consular fees which can either be by cash, check, or by credit card.
Review and processing of the visa application. The processing time usually takes 5 to 10 business days which depends with the Thai embassy or consulate where the application is lodged.


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Q: PostgreSQL to get data by email irrespective of the minor difference in domain name I have a scenario where authentication is done by the 3rd party and we store the records in our database ie. postgreSQL.
For Example:

email_id
details
name

aaa124@domain.com
some details
aaa124

aaa124@ex.domain.com
some details
aaa124

What I want is to extract all the recores by email Id only irrespective of the minor differences in the domain name changes. As they treat domain.com and ex.domain.com as same.
I have tried
SELECT * FROM table where  (
email_id like 'aaa124%'
and
email_id like '%domain.com'
);

but looking for some optimal solution or regex etc.
Note : A user can be registered with multiple domains as well. so need to filter by domain also.
Thanks in advance.

A: Do you want split_part()?
select split_part(email, '@', 1) as email_name,
       split_part(email, '@', 2) as domain
from t;

A: You can combine LIKE clauses, like this:
select * from testing
WHERE email_id LIKE 'aaa124@%domain.com';

Output:
aaa124@domain.com
aaa124@ex.domain.com

Here is a db <> fiddle in action.

A: Something like
select * from yourTable where email like 'aaa124@%';

This will select all users with the email aaa124 for all domains. You may want to use ilike instead of like if you also want match different cases of the email address.


This course introduces students to probability and statistics for engineers. Topics include data types, probability distributions, statistical analyses of one, two, and multiple variables, regression and correlation, goodness of fit tests, and Bayesian methods. Examples and applications are focused on problems relevant to engineering majors. The course is taught using the R statistics package.


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Kanye Gets Political on SNL
Posted on October 29, 2018 by Bekah Ervin
By Bekah Ervin
Rapper Kanye West appeared on the comedy television show Saturday Night Live on Sept. 29 wearing a Make American Great Again hat. He delivered a political rant as the credits rolled.
According to People Magazine, West took the place of singer Ariana Grande who had to drop the performance. He announced on Twitter the morning of his performance that he is now going by "Ye" which is also the title of his eighth album. This name change comes with the recent announcement of his ninth studio album, "Yandhi." His SNL performance included three tracks, some of which are assumed to be from his upcoming album. He also brought in some guests to perform with him on the SNL stage including Lil Pump, Teyana Taylor, 070 Shake and Kid Cudi.
Those in attendance for the season premiere of SNL were in for a wild ride for the rapper's performance. One of the three songs from West included Lil Pump and himself donned in Fiji and Perrier water bottle costumes for their "I Love It" performance.
Once the cameras stopped rolling, the audience caught the politically-charged rant from West who was quick to grab his Donald Trump hat for his speech. He was videoed by members of the audience who posted their clips on social media. His rant included criticisms of the Democratic Party, including a claim that it's the "democratic plan" to "take their fathers out the homes and promote welfare." He went on to discuss his support of Donald Trump: "So many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, 'How could you like Trump? He's racist.' Well, if I was concerned about racism I would have moved out of America a long time ago." Many videos of his off-the-air rant have been posted to YouTube and various social media platforms, most of which have been taken down.
West's support of Donald Trump was first made public in Nov. 2016, just after the presidential election that month. According to Billboard, West said at a concert in San Jose that he would have voted for Trump if he had voted which brought both praise and criticism from the crowd. Soon after that, West met with Trump at Trump Towers "to discuss multicultural issues." West has continued to support Trump on social media and has recently been wearing his Make America Great Again hat in public and now at his SNL performance both on and off air.
Part of West's rant included telling of the criticisms he supposedly received backstage before the show began. He said, "You see they laughing at me. You heard 'em, they scream at me, they bully me. They bullied me backstage they said, 'Don't go out there with that hat on.' They bullied me backstage. They bullied me." West's monologue on SNL concluded with a statement of gratitude for being able to talk about political issues on stage. "Thank y'all for giving me this platform…I know some of y'all don't agree. But y'all be goin' at that man [Trump] neck a lot, and I don't think it's actually that helpful," he said.
Later, someone in the audience yelled, "I love you, Kanye!" West's response? "I love me, too!"


Universities are required to deal to a greater extent with heterogeneous levels especially in basic subjects such as mathematics, statistics, languages or writing skills on undergraduate level due to increasingly varying entry levels. This also applies to graduate and post-graduate degrees, as students are recruited more and more from semi-cognate or non-cognate degrees. Weekly face-to-face teaching often fails to enable students with heterogeneous levels to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills without over challenging weaker students and under challenging good students. The integration of e-learning components in the form of blended learning provides opportunities to balance these differences and enables weaker students to catch up at their pace. As a best practice model, the language programme at Nuertingen-Geislingen shows how students with largely varying levels of English language skills at entry level enhance their language proficiency skills through the introduction of blended learning. In addition to the success factors, but also, challenges and potential difficulties are presented. Even though the model is applied in the language programme, it can be easily transferred to other subject fields, especially the basic subject fields listed above.


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Sometimes I take some serious risks. Like, suddenly, I get the urge to install Ubuntu on my office's laptop. A Dell Latitude E6500. But, there's a Windows 7 installed, consuming the entire disk.
So, what I have to use, is the gparted disk resize functionality – something I never trust. But hey, who cares 🙂 So I downloaded the live CD of Ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition (two days before Ubuntu 10.10 should be released – I tend to download ubuntu releases a couple of days before a new version is released), I put in on a USB Flash drive (so that I don't have to install it on the harddisk) but not much success. The first time it boots great, but then I want to configure some things, install other software (not to do on a live distribution) the OS starts complaining about not enough diskspace, wireless problems and on reboot, no live os was found.
So I took the chance and installed it on the hard drive – resizing the existing NTFS partition. Installation of Ubuntu is painless – as always – and on reboot, except for the check disk that was triggered when booting back into Windows, everything went smooth and Windows 7 just kept working fine. Only with 4GB less hard drive.
In Ubuntu, I installed the NVidia drivers for the screen and after that, the boot screen (ubuntu logo) and the terminal (you know, tty1 to 6, ctrl+alt+f1) didn't have the 1920×1200 resolution anymore, just a 640×480.
So I kept searching and trying, even adjusting some grub scripts (one hint said to change the "linux" and "initrd" in /etc/grub.d/10_linux to "linux16" and "initrd16" but that didn't work out and besides, it's a dirty hack.
and you're all done. Not using the (deprecated) vga= method, just that. And run update-grub2 afterwards.
Ok, almost perfect. Only, this textual Grub menu… Ok, boring and not anno 2010. So, After a little search, I stumbled upon Burg.
And, since it is nice if, on reboot, the last selected OS is selected by default, I changed GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to GRUB_DEFAULT=saved so that when I have to reboot my Windows installation during the day, I can just reboot the pc, take a break and see that Windows is fully started when I return.
# In the boot menu, use hotkey 'r' to popup a resolution selection menu.
# set it to the pathname of a GRUB2 theme file.
# GRUB_FOLD's value can be 'saved', 'true' or 'false'.
# Add user with burg-adduser, then use GRUB_USERS to config authentication.
# and use hotkeys like `c' to enter console mode.
GRUB_FOLD=true will make the "recovery" mode being folded into the menu option to boot normal ubuntu. So it's available if you need it, but it's hidden by default.
Thank you for this!!! The non-graphical nature of GRUB has always been a pet-peeve of mine, and I'm not enough of a coder to submit a patch.
Very nice to find this spelled out so clearly, especially since I've spent so very little time with GRUB2 and never stumbled over BURG.


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Delicaces
Cultural Guide
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31 Faubourg Saint-Honoré
17 rue de Sèvres 75007 Paris
20 July 2022 /by Hélène
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After having worked for the greatest designers, Escada, Roberto Cavalli or Gianfranco Ferre, Giuseppe Zanoti launches his first collection of feminine shoes in 1993 : the "souliers bijoux" (jewel shoes) made him famous. His ateliers are true style laboratories: designers and craftsmen work there relentlessly.
233 Rue Saint Honoré 75001 Paris
10 August 2021 /by Hélène
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How can we recognize a chic low-fronted shoe in Paris, New York or in the Savannah ? All that thanks to Christian Louboutin.
Thanks to its red soles and its 12 centimeters high heels, but also because we can run with them as well as with ballet shoes.
All that thanks to Christian Louboutin.
38-40 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris
8 February 2021 /by Hélène
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Fashion, Trendy Bric-a-brac
Le Bon Marche Rive Gauche
The most prestigious brands in the world of luxury, from Louis Vuitton to Dior via Chanel, welcome customers of the Bon Marché as soon as they enter the store in real small shops.
BEAUTY SPACE
Ground Floor and 1st floor
The Beauty space is spread out on both sides of the central escalator, under the Art Deco windows, surrounded by mezzanines with balustrade. Focusing on well-being and beauty, it is an invitation to take care of yourself.
57 brands are unpublished, of which 60% are exclusive. All these products make up a cosmopolitan cosmetics, from New Zealand to the United States, from Sweden to Korea, without forgetting England and France.
Alongside luxury boutiques, Fashion Accessories invites you to linger and dream. Trendy pieces and exclusives follow each other over the collections, including a selection of leather goods, watches, jewelery, playful jewels and textile accessories.
L'APPARTEMENT DE MODE
& CREATOR STUDIO
1st and 2nd floors
In a refined atmosphere, two distinct spaces on two floors serve as a showcase for collections of French and foreign fashion designers with regularly new brands and Pop Up Stores.
L'ESPACE SOULIERS
The Espace Souliers for women gives life once again to the strong and singular biases of the Bon Marché Rive Gauche. A place of discoveries and temptations where we come to discover the trends and try the latest novelties: Chloe, Dries Van Noten, Givenchy, Jil Sander, Lanvin, Marni, Nicholas Kirkwood, Pierre Hardy, Sophia Webster, Tabitha Simmons, Laurence Dacade , Proenza Schouler …
1st and 2nd floors – Store 2
In the world of design we find a selection of emblematic pieces from the biggest publishers: Vitra, Fritz Hansen, Portobello, Knoll, Tom Dixon, Kartell, Jielde, Bold, Objekto, but also new publishers like Established & Sons and Mustache . On the fabrics side we find the creations of Caravan, Sonia Rykiel, Designers Guild or Paul Smith. But also all that is necessary of course for the decoration of a pretty house: dishes, linen and decoration
Every day – 10.00 am / 08.00 pm
Thursdays until 9.00 pm
28 September 2019 /by Hélène
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DEYROLLE
Since 1831, the company Deyrolle has presented collections of insects and shells, naturalized animals of all kinds, natural curios and educational material for natural science teaching, among which are the famous "Planches Deyrolle" (Deyrolle's plates). We will find many original ideas to embellish or create decors.
46 rue du bac 75007 Paris
28 April 2019 /by Hélène
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Delicaces, Gourmandises
LA PÂTISSERIE DES REVES
Are you looking for a little paradise tour ? If you are, go to the gastronomic place of the rue du Bac. Yesteryear cakes reinvented : the Paris-Brest with a heart of fondant praline, the Tarte Tatin (apple upside-down tart) with its lime mascarpone whipped cream, the strong coffee éclair… all that in a dream décor of course !
27 October 2016 /by Hélène
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Jewels & Talismans
EMMANUELLE ZYSMAN
Here you find variations on gold, gemstones, fine stones, silver and gilded silver. Each piece is smelted, shaped, assembled and set in Emmanuelle Zysman Paris studio, and if you regret missing one of them, it will be recreated just for you.
33 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris
1 August 2016 /by Hélène
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POILÂNE
Settled Rue du Cherche-Midi for eighty years and three generation, the Poilâne bakery never moved. It now supplies the greatest restaurants in the world and the best houses. People are mad about the walnut round loafs, made with figs or whole wheat flour, which allow us to make incredible "tartines"… but also divine apple tarts or their famous sablés (shortbread biscuits cookies).
8 rue du Cherche-Midi 75006 Paris
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DES GATEAUX ET DU PAIN
Working beside Pierre Hermé for three years, Claire Damon realised that her sensitivity could become the guiding principle to produce a cake and an emotion. She went on to work at Ladurée before joining the brigade de cuisine of Le Bristol and of the Plaza Athénée and met David Granger, known to be on an endless quest for the ideal bread. Together they launched this shop mixing the best of their worlds.
89, rue du Bac 75007 Paris
5 April 2016 /by Hélène
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Decoration, Decoration
CFOC
A bridge between Eastern and Western aesthetics, CFOC blends cultures and revives traditional crafts with a contemporary interpretation of fabrics, shapes and colours, with a simultaneously surprising and evident refinement.
10 Boulevard Raspail 75007 Paris
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CHAINE D'ENCRE
Design, architecture, photography, fine arts, fashion…situated inside the Hermès boutique rue de Sèvres, the Chaîne d'encre bookshop is a quiet corner where epicureans will find an extremely well crafted book selection.
Chaîne d'Encre chez HERMES
17, rue de Sèvres 75006 Paris
30 March 2016 /by Hélène
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Inès wanted her place to be like a joyful mess mixing her own creations and the objects she loves. As for clothes, we get her inimitable chic and timeless style as well as her friend Fifi Chachnil's lingerie garments. Then there are jewels, tableware, gadgets, pareos, olive oil, and guess what? You can also find brooms.
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Designed to keep up with you on the gridiron, Nike Stadium Football Glove is inspired by speed. Lightweight and comfortable, it's enhanced with silicone to increase grip.
Material | 91% Polyester, 9% Silicone. Color | White. Nike Stadium Collegiate Football Gloves Designed to keep up with you on the gridiron, Nike Stadium Football Glove is inspired by speed. Lightweight and comfortable, it's enhanced with silicone to increase grip.


What should be expected from international law in the face of the crimes committed against humanity in Syria?
A few days ago, the world was exposed to a document with 55,000 photos of 11,000 Syrians who were tortured to death. The photos were taken out of the country by a forensic medicine photographer. Gruesome photos from Syria have laid the facts about the Baath regime ruling the country with an iron-fist for decades, before the international community, which has been playing the "three monkeys" for long. These images have revealed that Syria is ruled by a "death-squad." It has come to light once again that Bashar al-Assad regime lacks the merit to run the country and cannot represent the people of Syria under any ground of moral legitimacy.
These photos clearly demonstrate that crimes of humanity and war crimes have been committed systematically in different forms by the Baath regime since the early days of the democratic uprising that commenced in 2011. The Assad regime is not only a "single-party dictatorship", but also a regime that has adopted systematic killings, torture, and starvation to death as a "method" and routinely bombed civilian premises. Revealing that the crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed by the regime in Syria the photos evince that all legal elements of a crime are present.


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BlogNews and AnalysisTrump's Anti-Environment, Pro-Big Business Judges
Trump's Anti-Environment, Pro-Big Business Judges
Surya Swaroop | July 31, 2019
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Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
Despite the urgent threat that climate change poses for people in the U.S. and around the world, Trump continues to nominate judges with appalling records on environmental issues, including rulings that put big business profits before people and that limit the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Confirming any of them will damage our health and well-being and our planet.
Below are just four examples of the many confirmed judges whose records make clear their eagerness to serve corporate interests over protecting public health and the environment.
Andrew Oldham
U.S. Circuit Judge for 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
In 2016, Oldham said, "The reason why the administrative state is enraging is not that we disagree with what the EPA does, it's the illegitimacy of it." This extreme position questioning the legitimacy of a federal agency makes clear just how dangerous his thinking is to our health and to the environment.
When Oldham was deputy solicitor general of Texas, he argued against the EPA's authority to regulate stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions. He also supported overturning Massachusetts v. EPA, a case in which the Bush-era EPA claimed that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases did not qualify as air pollutants. The Supreme Court's decision rejecting their claim set an important precedent that shaped the environmental policy that followed.
Oldham called President Obama's Clean Power Plan and the EPA itself "utterly and fundamentally illegitimate," and viewed it as an invasive attempt to control Americans' lives—demonstrating his callous disregard for the vast benefits it would have by cutting carbon pollution by 32 percent by 2030. Oldham's opposition indicates that he would rather protect the interests of big businesses than the lives of everyday people and future generations.
Nelson served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environmental and Natural Resource Division during the Bush administration from 2006-2008. There, he worked on several cases aimed at limiting environmental protections.
In Earth Island Institute v. Hogarth, Nelson argued on behalf of the administration that yellowfin tuna should be labeled as "dolphin safe" even if caught using nets that killed millions of dolphins. He also advised the Bush administration in Massachusetts v. EPA in which they sought to stop regulating greenhouse gases.
During Nelson's committee hearing in 2018, Sen Kamala Harris, D-Calif., asked him if he believed humans contribute to the growing threat of climate change. Nelson struggled to definitively answer this on the basis that he is not a scientist, demonstrating a disturbing willingness to avoid facts that contradict his personal agenda.
Daniel Collins
Collins' record includes protecting fossil fuel companies from being held accountable for their role in pollution and climate change. For instance, Collins defended Occidental Petroleum when a group of indigenous Peruvians filed a lawsuit against the company for 30 years spent spilling oil and toxic waste on their lands
He represented Royal Dutch Shell in in Comer v. Murphy Oil et al., where victims of Hurricane Katrina sued numerous fossil fuel industries for their substantial role in contributing to the climate change that made the storm so devastating. And in Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil et al., he represented Shell when native Alaskans sued fossil fuel companies for their role in coastal erosion and rising sea levels.
The fact that the 9th Circuit covers about 75 percent of public lands only makes Collins' record more troublesome.
Patrick Wyrick
U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma
During his time as solicitor general of Oklahoma, Wyrick worked closely with Scott Pruitt, who prior to his appointment as Trump's EPA Administrator served as Oklahoma attorney general. In State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers; Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company v. EPA; Sierra Club, Wyrick and Pruitt were against the EPA's plan to protect scenic outlooks in national parks through the Regional Haze Program of the Clean Air Act. In State of West Virginia et al. v. EPA, they challenged clean air standards the EPA set for oil and gas drilling.
Like Oldham, he also opposed Obama's Clean Power Plan and his holdings with oil and gas companies (which he failed to disclose) and his close coordination with them in his official role raised serious ethical concerns.
Future Implications
Our courts play an essential role in protecting our health and safety, and these four judges' alarming records make clear just how much is at stake in the fight against climate change. They all serve as prime examples of judges who would use their positions to protect corporate interests over the rights of everyday Americans. Their dangerous views block our efforts to ameliorate the growing problem of climate change. And what's worse, this short list is but a snapshot of Trump's anti-environment judicial impact.
If federal judges continue to enable companies to pollute our planet, the global ramifications will be monumental—global temperature will continue to rise, intensifying the climate crisis that is already wreaking havoc. We need judges that understand the pertinent threat of climate change, particularly for systemically oppressed communities.
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Ghostface Killah Speaks On "Once Upon A Time In Shaolin" 88-Year Commercial Release Clause
Published on: Apr 6, 2015, 9:30 AM
by Henry Mansell
After Method Man, seemingly unbeknown to the entirety of the situation, made some noise regarding the 88-year commercial release clause of Wu-Tang Clan's The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin early last month, Ghostface Killah recently spoke with CBC Music to offer his take on the whole proposition.
"I mean, it could be good and it could be bad," Ghost says. "My first thing was like, 'No, give it to the people. What are you going to hold it for?' Then I look at it, like 88 years, most of us is going to be gone by that time, but you know, I don't know how the state will be in music at that time, but if it is going all right, maybe people, it might give Wu-Tang [Clan] another burst in 80 years."
Continuing, Ghost says he's "stuck in the middle" regarding the 88-year release clause idea.
"I guess we'll be here forever. Wu-Tang really will be forever if it's like that. I couldn't understand it at first, neither, and sometimes I still don't understand, and sometimes I do. I'm stuck in the middle."
Later in the conversation, Ghostface Killah spoke on the sound of the album, before noting that everything he's rhymed over so far, he's "murdered."
"I've only really heard the parts that I'm on," he says. "Musically, it was all right. It's like this, what I heard, I'm not saying it's like the first Wu-Tang album, but as far as the beats that were circulating around at that time, it's like that. The ones I rhymed on. And it was decent. It was real nice. I murdered everything I was on, you know what I mean?"
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Three orangutans have been successfully released onto Badak Kecil Orangutan Sanctuary Island.
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Badak Kecil Island
The female orangutans Dilla, Mawas and Jeliva spent years undergoing the rehabilitation process at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, but were ultimately deemed unsuccessful in developing the natural skills and behaviours needed to survive independently in the wild.
Their good health, however, allows them to live on a sanctuary island with an environment similar to that of a natural forest.
Take a look at their transfer journey and in their new home:
Final medical check by the veterinary team
Loading onto one of our vehicles
Arriving at the sanctuary island by boat
The moment of release!
Exploring their surroundings
Dillia's Background
While all orangutans in BOS Foundation care have a tragic backstory, Dilla had a particularly rough start at life. When she was rescued, Dilla was estimated to be almost five years old, but she had spent over four years in captivity at the hands of humans. Most orangutans are only subjected to a number of months before they are surrendered or reported, but poor Dilla withstood the ordeal for many years. When she arrived at the Nyaru Menteng, she was also in questionable physical condition as we quickly found her to be blind in her left eye, due to untreated cataracts.
Dillia
When an orangutan enters our care with as much trauma as Dilla, we know it will be a challenge to rehabilitate them, and it appears it also prevented Dilla from caring for her own daughter.
After a long period of assessment, it was decided that Dilla was more suited for life on a sanctuary island where there is less competition with other orangutans and the technicians can provide her with even greater support to make up for her lacking skillset. On a sanctuary island, despite being unable to initially overcome the trauma of her past, Dilla will still be able to live out a natural life. And maybe, just maybe, still develop skills over the years so that she can return to a true forest.
Dilla and her daughter Delilah from Orangutan Jungle School
Update on Delilah, Dilla's daughter
Delilah is now 2.5 years old and of the 14 students in the nursery, she's is one of the most capable. Delilah is fearless at forest school and her current record is climbing over 20 metres into a tree; very impressive for someone under the age of 3! Once in the canopy, Delilah typically chooses to spend her day there, only descending when the surrogate mothers offer fruit or milk. She is also a social individual as she has befriended each and every orangutan in the nursery!
Although Delilah will not be raised by her own mother, she lacks the intense traumatic memories that torment so many of the other orangutans in rehabilitation, including Dilla. This in combination with her outgoing personality, fearless adventuring, and avid curiosity, lead us to believe that Delilah is already on the path towards being a release candidate in the future.
Delilah with Monita
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The world's most beloved fairy tales are re-imagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Jack...
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Culinary arts is defined as the practice of preparing food. The definition is as broad as the field itself as there are many different culinary art careers to choose from as well as techniques one can learn about. A career in the culinary arts requires dedication, tenacity, excellent organizational and time-management skills and above all, a passion for food.
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This program will give students a range of managerial skills to run their own business and also a high level of practical skills to allow the restaurateur or chef to provide a unique culinary experience to their customers. Summer industry placement (internship) is an integral part of the program and the student is required to complete two paid industry placements. Upon successful completion of the two years of study and two paid industry placements, students are awarded a Swiss Alpine Diploma in Culinary Arts.
Graduates of our Culinary Arts program can be employed in restaurants, cafes, hotels, cruise ships, catering companies, large offices, big events, on yachts or in private homes. They may also be entrepreneurs and open their own business.
The aim of the first two years of study in Culinary Arts which lead to the award of the Swiss Alpine Diploma in Culinary Arts is to prepare students to become chefs and restaurant operators. The third year which leads to the award of the Cardiff Metropolitan University BA(Hons) International Food & Beverage Management is designed to aspire individuals to take up a managerial role in the intriguing field of Food & Beverage and related industries. The structure of the program provides solid foundations in culinary arts and management, including practical, creative and professional skills. It also provides direct contact with Alpine graduates who are now in leadership positions in the culinary arts world, who are often guest speakers on the programme.
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