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American Horror Story 5x02 "Chutes and Ladders" (Totally Innovative, Never-Seen-Before Horror. Trust Us) [Contributor: Melanie]
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"Chutes and Ladders"
Original Airdate: October 14, 2015
In this week's recap for Ryan Murphy's other show Scream Queens, I talked about how that show uses allusions to horror movies. Scream Queens obviously uses parody, on the level of Scary Movie, to address genre conventions. However, Hotel wants you to to take it more seriously by vaguely calling out similar-themed horror movies. This, meanwhile, causes the audience to associate the emotion and response they had to the original work without actually realizing Hotel has nothing original to say. Don't get me wrong, I don't watch the show for originality, but I do often find myself seething a bit at Murphy's lack of creativity when it comes to this show. Coven was a rare exception of originality in Murphy's work, but this season is falling flat.
First of all, Murphy wants you to associate this hotel with the Overlook. The use of the same carpet pattern from the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining is obviously meant to be an allusion or homage (though no one really acknowledges it in-show), and it's subtle (and reasonable) enough that I'll let it slide. However, employing the use of "dead zones" and an atmosphere of solitude to try and get this hotel –– which is in the middle of downtown LA –– to mimic the Overlook's isolation is not something I'm buying. Using a particular color scheme and designating a particular room as the "evil" one is extremely tropey in hotel horror fiction. And tropey is not bad, if you acknowledge you're doing it. But of course, that's not the case here.
There are some allusions, though, that play nicely. When the two Swedish women first enter the hotel and get a sense of the atmosphere, it's a nice parallel to the beginning of The Haunting of Hill House in which our main characters are immediately ill at ease in the house and want to leave. There's also a little homage to Last House on the Left with one of the Swedes' underwear-clad run through the hotel lobby, only to bite the bullet just before escaping. It's nice incidental allusions that I'm more willing to buy than the a la carte Shining-fest, which, I'll note, got worse this week thanks to several bar scenes where the ghosts of the hotel tempt Lowe into relapsing and a scene in Room 64 that was just short of a rip-off the scenes from room 237.
Now, on with the show.
We open on Hypodermic Sally who has shoved Gabriel, still alive, in a mattress as punishment for "thinking (he) could cheat death." She hears cries for help and comes marching down to complain, and finds the Swedish tourist serving as a buffet for Elizabeth's army of creepy vampire children. Our favorite drag queen Liz Taylor wheels the Swede's body to the laundry chute, where she lands among several other decomposing bodies.
In the game room, the children give donations of blood via IV that is then delivered to Elizabeth by Iris, who asks to see Donovan before the door is shut in her face. Elizabeth berates him for not getting ready over wine glasses of blood and when he suggests they stay in for the night (and binge House of Cards), she shares some very dangerous eye contact with him before leaving for an art exhibit by herself.
After the opening credits, Alex is making a house call for a sick boy with the measles. She scolds the mother for not vaccinating her son and leaves. At the hotel, Lowe is woken by his TV and radio turning on in the middle of the night, and he hallucinates before being shocked awake. In the bathroom, he sees two decomposing bodies in the bathtub before he wakes (for real this time) and hears giggling in the hallway. He spots Holden and chases after him to no avail. Lowe then finds himself in the hotel bar with Hypodermic Sally and Liz Taylor. Sally shares her history as a poet and songwriter before her writing partner dumped her because of her addiction. Sally and Liz Taylor try to seduce Lowe into breaking his sobriety and he reveals he used to get drunk to deal with disturbing homicide cases. The day he lost his son was the result of a family outing to make up for the alcohol abuse. He walks away without drinking.
At the LAPD, it's revealed a third party texted both victims from the previous episode (the unfortunately entangled and mutilated couple) to get them in the same room. Lowe recalls how his own wife's phone was cloned in the same way. A package arrives for Lowe who immediately believes it to be a bomb. The explosives squad informs him this isn't the case and reveals it to be an award covered in blood. Drake is hosting an opening night party at the hotel and Naomi Campbell makes her first appearance as Claudia Bankson, a friend of Drake's. Lowe's daughter arrives while Sally makes a scene about not being admitted to the party.
Drake hosts a fashion show, attended by Elizabeth who is captivated by a controversial model Tristan Duffy (Finn Wittrock). Drake berates him in the dressing room and Duffy mutilates his own face, effectively ending his modeling career. Scarlett and Lachlan sneak off during the show. He shows her several glass coffins where Elizabeth's captive children are sleeping in the empty pool. Scarlett recognizes Holden and, later that night, watches old family videos. Back at the hotel, Tristan breaks into Elizabeth's penthouse and begins looting for cocaine before being caught by Donovan, but is allowed to leave at Elizabeth's insistence. The power goes out while Tristan's in the elevator, and after forcing the doors open, he discovers an abandoned floor. While exploring, Tristan meets James March (Evan Peters), who allows Tristan to take the coke he finds. However, James insists Tristan will find more rush from killing a prostitute he brings into the room. When Tristan refuses, James shoots her himself. In a rush back to the elevator, he is accosted by Elizabeth.
Scarlett, after several dreams of her brother, returns to the coffins and finds them empty. She finds the game room and her brother. Holden identifies her and does not respond when she shows him pictures of the family, and he insists he is home. Scarlett attempts to take a picture and is scared off when he attempts to bite her. She's further frightened by Hypodermic Sally and rushes home to find out the police have been looking for her. She reveals she snuck out to find Holden and is enraged when her parents don't believe her.
Back in the hotel, Tristan is basking in the effects of "the virus" which has healed his face wound and stopped his aging (though Elizabeth notes "you're only immortal if you're smart"). In the midst of their trysts Elizabeth informs him that they have no fangs ("we don't bite, we cut") and to avoid drinking from the sick and weak and to never drink from the dead. She warns him not to get caught or fall in love with anyone but her. She reveals she was born in 1904 and misses the 1970s and her long dead friends. Donovan appears and Elizabeth speaks with him privately, warning him Duffy was not that different from him when she turned him and breaks up with him to teach him a lesson in heartbreak.
Lowe confronts Iris about Scarlett's escapades in the hotel and Holden's presence. Iris reveals James March built the hotel in 1925 to be used for his obsession with murder, building the hotel to suit his needs with secret passages, body chutes, and sound proof rooms (it's hinted Elizabeth was his wife –– also, here we have Ryan Murphy referencing H.H. Holmes but pretending like he isn't). After a gruesome spree, March was caught and when the police arrived to arrest him, he and his faithful maid killed themselves. Lowe doesn't believe her but Iris reveals he's sleeping in March's old room. At the LAPD, Lowe investigates Iris's claims and realizes there is a pattern to the killings he's been investigating, all of which revolve around the 10 Commandments and postulates someone is picking up on March's work. Back at the hotel, Duffy meets up with a Grindr hook-up as his first "feast."
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A golden retriever ate inch-long pins buried deep in discarded food, intended to harm her, at a Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, but now she's fighting back in her recovery.
Owner Terence Doherty said the 6-year-old English cream golden retriever named Murphy is alert and happy, a day after surgery to remove eight sharp pins from her stomach.
"I opened her mouth and there was a pin stuck to the roof of her mouth," Doherty said.
Those inch-long pins, the ones used by tailors, were found laced in food left out on a path in Fort Tryon Park, perhaps maliciously placed in half eaten garbage by someone who wanted to harm dogs or other animals in the upper Manhattan park.
"It's really an evil, horrible person who would do this," Doherty said. "No one deserves that."
Doherty said Murphy picked up the first set of pins in some kind of bird carcass she ate in the park on Monday.
Then, in the same area of the park near Billings Lawn off of the Fort Washington Avenue entrance, Murphy scarfed down a half eaten burrito, tin foil and all, the next day.
It wasn't until Murphy passed two of the pins on a walk Wednesday that Doherty knew she had eaten them.
The dog was rushed to her vet at Lincoln Square Veterinary Hospital for X-rays followed by emergency surgery.
"Why would someone put pins in a burrito?" Dr. Hilary Jones, Murphy's vet at Lincoln Square, said. "Yes, it was definitely life-threatening."
Police and the ASPCA are now looking into who may have planted the pins in the discarded food and why.
And with that comes a warning to all dog owners and walkers in Fort Tryon Park.
"Be extra vigilant," Jones said. "Maybe don't let your dog be off leash."
Murphy is expected to make a full recovery as the hunt continues for who's responsible.


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Tadpoles è il terzo album studio della Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, pubblicato nel 1969. È in gran parte una raccolta delle loro canzoni della serie televisiva Do Not Adjust Your Set, nel quale loro suonavano. L'album pubblicato negli Stati Uniti d'America aveva delle tracce leggermente diverse da quelle dell'album pubblicato in Gran Bretagna. La versione statunitense rimosse I'm the Urban Spaceman e aggiunse la canzone Readymades. Nel 2007 l'album fu ripubblicato dalla EMI con cinque tracce bonus.

Tracce

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 Hunting Tigers Out in Indiah - 3:06
 Shirt - 4:28
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 Dr. Jazz - 2:40
 Monster Mash - 2:59
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 Laughing Blues - 3:44
 By a Waterfall - 3:08
 Mr. Apollo - 4:20
 Canyons of Your Mind - 3:03

Tracce bonus della ristampa del 2007
 Boo!
 Readymades
 Look at Me I'm Wonderful
 We Were Wrong
 The Craig Torso Christmas Show

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SENATOR A.M.A. AZEEZ – AN INTROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS BY C. NARAYANASUWAMI
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Article on 110th Birth Anniversary
Remembering Senator Azeez on his 110th birthday- 4th October 2021- brings memories of a great Muslim visionary. He was a great intellectual, an able administrator, an erudite scholar and an accomplished educationist whose multiple services to the nation and to the Muslim community in particular, are well documented. His life provides stimulating examples of challenges and successes in varied areas of human development. I will have occasion to refer to his notable achievements in the subsequent paragraphs. Before doing so I must refer to the beautiful story of how I came into contact with him and how he became an ardent sponsor and supporter of my educational journey.
My association with Senator Azeez deserves to be written in gold. I was sixteen years old when I first came to know him. I studied at Jaffna Hindu College (JHC) where I did my primary and secondary schooling. Senator Azeez too was an old boy of this College. He was born in the same village as mine – Vannarponnai, Jaffna – the citadel of Arumuga Navalar, the beacon of Saivaism. Being a resident of Vannarponnai, his knowledge and understanding of the teachings of Arumuga Navalar were unbelievably high so as to enable him to pontificate on the teachings of this great saint at popular seminars. It is here he imbibed his excellent knowledge of Jaffna Tamil customs and key insights into Tamil cultural mores and traditions. Being a Jaffna Muslim of impeccable background and character it obviously came naturally to him.
Senator Azeez was educated at two reputed Hindu schools, Vaidyeshwara Vidyalayam and Jaffna Hindu College, where he proved to be a brilliant student. He was proud of these schools and with the guidance and training received under distinguished teachers he excelled in Tamil and Hinduism. He had this to say about his days at Vaidyeshwara, "I now feel thrice-blessed that I did go to Vidyalayam and nowhere else. My period of stay, February 1921 to June 1923, though pretty short quantitatively was extremely long qualitatively. It was at Vidyalayam that I became first aquainted with the devotional hymns of exquisite beauty and exceeding piety for which Tamil is so famed through the ages and throughout the world".
He entered the University College in 1929. He was an Exhibitioner in History and graduated with Honours in History from the University of London in 1933. On being awarded the Government Arts Scholarship, he went to Cambridge but returned after a term on his success at the Ceylon Civil Service examination – the first Muslim recruit to the Civil Service.
My mother passed away in 1948 and my father who was everything to me then wanted me to join the Jaffna Hindu College Hostel after my Senior School Certificate (SSC) results to pursue Higher School Certificate (HSC) studies – this was largely aimed at weaning me away from grieving and depressing thoughts at home. Being the only son he wanted me to pursue my higher studies without interruption. Soon after I joined the JHC hostel I was elected as the secretary of the HSC Hostel Union because of my long connections with the school from 1943. In that capacity I invited Senator Azeez as the Chief Guest for our annual hostel union dinner in 1952. It has been the practice of the HSC hostel union to invite distinguished old boys of JHC to officiate as chief guests. It is interesting that I was able to find a copy of the invitation for the dinner in one of my personal folders safely locked away with cherished documents pertinent to my educational and professional career-I discovered this by chance when searching for documents after I received a request from Ali Azeez, the illustrious son of a great father, to write about my association with Senator Azeez. – the scanned copy is given below; (note the difference in the spelling of the name-the current spelling reflects changes made in the eighties).
Senator Azeez readily agreed and came and conquered! After the ceremonial speeches and address by the Chief Guest he called me to a side and asked whether I have relations in Colombo and if so why I should not join Zahira College to continue my HSC studies. Taken aback at this sudden and unexpected proposition I told him that my father would not be happy to be separated from his only son. He insisted that he would like to speak to my father and asked me to arrange a meeting with him. I agreed and introduced my father to him. He spoke to him in excellent Tamil and told him to send me to Zahira to complete the second year of HSC from where he thought I would be able to enter the university. My father was taken aback but finally agreed because he was unable to resist his request. This brought me to Colombo Zahira College where I did my HSC and entered Peradeniya university as a direct entrant-during those days there was a two-tier entry procedure for university admission-students who did well were granted direct entry without going through a viva voce and those who performed at medium level were subjected to a viva voce process. Senator Azeez was extremely pleased at my performance and made special mention of it at the school assembly.
I completed my degree in 1959 and went to pay my respects to Senator Azeez. He asked me to join the College as a teacher. I told him that I would be sitting for the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) Examination and may require some free time. His response was amazing-he said that it would be great and encouraged me to teach while preparing for the examination. In March 1960 I was selected as one of the eight successful CCS candidates. It is difficult to express in words the satisfaction and happiness that Senator Azeez displayed on hearing his college student's achievement. He organised a special school assembly and congratulated me in the presence of all his staff and the entire student community. It is rarely that you find such a dedicated, adorable and affectionate humanist and educationist.
I have often wondered how fortunate I was in having known and associated with such a wonderful human being who displayed so much empathy, kindness and love. I am reminded of the great philosopher, scholar and Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell who said, "The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith". Among others, Senator Azeez believed in cultivating good friendships and fostering love and trust among all communities in Sri Lanka.
In retrospect, the turning point in my life started with my shift to Zahira College leaving a reputed Hindu institution in Jaffna which had earned a name for high university admissions. This had kept me wondering why the events moved so fast in this direction and what the magnetic appeal that Senator Azeez had in converting me and my father to a life changing decision. To this day I cannot find an answer except to hypothesize that intellectual outlook, empathy and trust as stated by Bertrand Russell, as well as mesmerising approaches to human relationships, influence people, leaving an enduring impact on their lives.
My association with him continued till his death. His thirst for knowledge and interest and proficiency in both English and Tamil literature drew him closer to me. I had a special liking for him for his excellent knowledge of Jaffna Tamil customs and traditions. His spoken and written Tamil represented the pure Jaffna Tamil dialect which was the envy of even Tamil professors who considered him a scholar of high repute. His oratorical skills, whether in Tamil or English, attracted many followers. What was significant was his ability to articulate clearly and effectively his ideas and thoughts on important subjects in both English and Tamil.
I have had many discussions with him on selected subjects in both English and Tamil literature and Hinduism. Unbelievably his knowledge of Hinduism was thorough as he would recite Thiruvasagam like a Hindu. Late Sivagurunathan, (editor, Thinakaran), late Prof. Sivathamby (both past students of Zahira) and I used to visit his house at his request for various discourses and discussions on scholarly subjects. I vividly remember those days when he would meticulously argue his case for a certain position in literary criticism and expect all of us to agree with his stand. When we disagreed he would slowly mellow down and accept an agreed stand. While healthy debates went on, his lovely wife and children entertained us, not to mention the delicious 'wattalappam' served during Ramadan days! His scholarly approaches to analysing Islam, Arabic/Tamil religious literature and his contribution to Muslim culture were indeed exemplary.
Senator Azeez was a remarkable human being who sacrificed the power, glory and fame associated with the then Ceylon Civil Service for uplifting the cause of Muslim education – this is unparalleled in Sri Lankan history. Being the first Muslim civil servant he had before him a glorious future in the public service, but the call of duty to his community and more specifically, to their educational and cultural renaissance, propelled him to assume the leadership of Zahira College. This decision elevated him to the position of a community leader with intrinsic interest in uplifting their place in the larger multicultural society of Sri Lanka.
During the 13 years he served as Principal of Zahira, the College achieved significant elevation in educational standards and university admissions. One does not need additional proof to show his dedication and commitment to building up Zahira if one considers the circumstances under which he scouted for students of all communities based on their prospective educational accomplishments – my case is an example. He had the intuition, charisma and foresightedness to build a premier Muslim college which he in his later years wanted to transform into a cultural university-unfortunately this did not materialise due to petty jealousies and rivalry which always hinder progress in any society. Sir Razik Fareed, another great Muslim leader, had this to say, "I am personally aware that Azeez has done more for Zahira than any other single individual. He sacrificed his CCS job for the sake of the community and for the sake of Zahira".
As Principal of Zahira, Senator Azeez's leadership, following the successful tenure of Dr. T.B. Jayah, was unrivalled as he rode like a Colossus to make the College excel not only in education, but sports, including Rifle shooting, and other socio-cultural activities. The painstaking efforts he made to build a sound library was evident when I prepared for the university entrance and the CCS examinations. He built up a dedicated team of teachers and succeeded in sending over 150 students to the one and only university in Sri Lanka then. With such accomplishments it is no surprise that his period as principal was hailed as the golden era of Zahira.
Senator Azeez's zeal for Muslim education took different paths. His multi-pronged attempts to lift the quality of education among Muslim children is borne out by the initiatives he took to establish the Ceylon Muslim Scholarship Fund. The success achieved in building up this Fund for future generations, which is well documented, was a worthwhile and indispensable effort greatly appreciated by succeeding generations of Muslim children. He did not stop with this. He was instrumental in promoting and establishing Young Men's Muslim Associations (YMMA) throughout the country.
Senator Azeez's services were well recognised by the country, and even before the time of the first prime minister, D.S. Senanayake, he played a pivotal role in government's development activities, including food production programs commenced during war times, public services and institution building. He was rewarded when he was nominated to the Senate where he served three terms and was subsequently appointed as a member of the Public Service Commission.
As a Tamil with no racial bias or cultural inhibitions, I am proud to state that Senator Azeez stood high and tall as a trusted statesman and an erudite scholar among all communities. While fostering education of the Muslims he encouraged the admission of children from other communities. He was an enthusiastic sponsor, supporter and participant of Tamil and Muslim conferences to propagate the essence of key Tamil literary master pieces such as Thirukkural, Thiruvasagam, Kamabaramayanam, Purananuru and Silappadiharam, in the wide world of Tamil literature. His interest in Arabic-Tamil publications was somewhat unique as there were few in his time who had the knowledge and interest in this area. His interest in literary pursuits resulted in a number of publications which have been listed elsewhere.
Senator Azeez was a jewel of a human being. I dedicate this piece to a great scholar and humanist who served as a great mentor, trusted friend, a close guide, and a well-wisher for several years until his untimely death in 1973. Cherished memories of him will live forever in the hearts and minds of all who loved him unreservedly.
(C. Narayanasuwami was a student and later a teacher at Zahira College during the Azeez era. He entered the University of Ceylon from Zahira and graduated in 1959. In 1960 he joined the Ceylon Civil Service and later worked for the UN and the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines in senior capacities. He retired as a director level professional of the Asian Development Bank in 1996).
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Fold edges of chicken over filling and secure with tooth picks.
Mix flour and paprika and coat chicken.
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Nitrite is the second step the nitrogen cycle and is dangerous for fish and other livestock so it to must be tested for and properly handled.
1. Add with the syringe 1ml of water in the test vial.
2. Add to 1 level spoon of the NO2 powder. Swirl the contents of the test tube gently for 20 seconds. Allow to stand for 3 minutes.
3. Place the open test vial on top of the color chart on a part of the chart which is white and compare the colors looking from the top. Read the corresponding nitrite content. An intermediate color corresponds to intermediate nitrite content.


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Indian Government Minister Steps Down as Country's #MeToo Movement Gains Traction
Akbar's resignation is the most high-profile departure since a delayed #MeToo movement took off on social media in India earlier this month.
By Vidhi Doshi | October 19, 2018
A junior minister in the Indian government stepped down after more than a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment, delivering the first major victory to the country's nascent #MeToo movement.
M.J. Akbar, minister of state for external affairs, faced allegations of harassment and assault from female journalists who had worked for him in his previous career as a newspaper editor.
Akbar's resignation is the most high-profile departure since a delayed #MeToo movement took off on social media in India earlier this month.
Earlier, Akbar had lashed out at his accusers and launched a criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani, who publicly named him on Twitter as a serial harasser.
In a statement, Akbar said, "Since I have decided to seek justice in a court of law in my personal capacity, I deem it appropriate to step down from office and challenge false accusations levied against me, also in a personal capacity."
Though the case was filed only against Ramani, Akbar in a statement on Sunday denied sexual harassment and assault allegations from more than a dozen women who came forward after Ramani went public.
Defamation can be a criminal charge in India, and a conviction can carry up to two years in jail.
Akbar's denial and decision to pursue criminal action against Ramani led to a swell of sympathy for his accusers. By Tuesday, calls on social media for Akbar's resignation escalated – 20 female journalists signed a statement in support of Ramani's account, and male journalists who had worked for Akbar also started speaking out against him.
After Akbar's resignation, Ramani tweeted: "As women we feel vindicated by MJ Akbar's resignation. I look forward to the day when I will also get justice in court."
Pressure on Akbar mounted this week as fresh accounts of harassment emerged. On Tuesday, the news website Scroll published a new accusation of harassment from journalist Tushita Patel, who prefaced her allegations by saying that she felt compelled to speak out because of Akbar's brazen denial.
"If I don't speak up now, I feel I'll be complicit in your crime," Patel wrote, addressing Akbar.
In her account, Patel recounted Akbar's persistent advances. She wrote: "Suddenly you got up, grabbed me and kissed me hard – your stale tea breath and your bristly moustache are still etched in the recesses of my memory. I wriggled out and ran till I reached the road, jumped into an auto rickshaw and started crying."
As the allegations against Akbar continued to mount, his presence in the cabinet became a liability for a government that has sought to present itself as a champion of women and girls.
Akbar's female colleagues in the cabinet have faced repeated questions about their views of his conduct. In response to such queries, three women ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government voiced broad support for the #MeToo movement even as they declined to comment on Akbar's case.
The controversy was also becoming a ripe target for Modi's critics. India's opposition Congress Party had earlier called for Akbar's resignation.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Party president, alluded to the affair at a public event.
India's prime minister often uses the slogan, "Educate the daughter, save the daughter," Gandhi noted, according to the Hindustan Times. "But it so happens that when a complaint against his minister comes, he keeps quiet."
Sexual harassment cuts across party lines: On Monday, the leader of the Congress Party's student wing quit after misconduct allegations against him emerged.
Akbar, a member of Modi's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was previously a member of the Congress Party.
A BJP spokesman, Sambit Patra, did not respond to requests for comment.
On Oct. 8, Ramani named Akbar as the man she had described, but not identified, in a 2017 Vogue article titled, "To the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, an open letter," referring to the high-powered Hollywood film produced facing charges of rape and assault from multiple women in the United States.
Ramani's accusation unleashed a flood of pent-up rage, prompting other women who had worked with Akbar to speak up.
One of them, Ghazala Wahab, editor of Force magazine, had worked for Akbar at the Asian Age newspaper between 1994 and 1997. She described Akbar's alleged advances in a first-person account for the news website, the Wire.
"Sometimes, he would walk over to the door and put his hand over mine; sometimes he would rub his body against mine; sometimes he would push his tongue against my pursed lips; and every time I would push him away and escape from his room," she wrote.
Akbar denied Wahab's accusations in a statement Sunday. "At the time concerned, I had a very tiny cubicle, patched together by plywood and glass. Others had tables and chairs two feet away. It is utterly bizarre to believe that anything could have happened in that tiny space, and, moreover, that no one else in the vicinity would come to know, in the midst of a working day. These allegations are false, motivated and baseless."
Other women spoke out, too. Majile de Puy Kamp told HuffPost India that Akbar forcefully kissed her on her last day as an intern at the Asian Age in 2007: "He grabbed me right under my shoulders, on my arms, and pulled me in and kissed me on my mouth and forced his tongue into my mouth, and I just stood there."
The article included a brief email exchange between Kamp's father and Akbar. "But these issues which are so prone to misunderstanding that there is no point debating them," Akbar wrote upon being confronted.
Other prominent men in India have also faced repercussions from India's #MeToo movement. In October, a handful of influential newspaper editors, including Prashant Jha of the Hindustan Times and KR Sreenivas of the Times of India, resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations against them.
(c) The Washington Post.


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The down payment, the financing, lender approval, closing date, repair provisions and other contingencies," (exceptions to the contract such as the purchaser selling his own house) can be just as critical. A lot of sellers are unaware that some lenders, in specific circumstances, accept a short sale." That is where the bank agrees to take less for the house than the seller owes for it. The bank also agrees on a commission charge for the agent.
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You'll find fluoride in tea, beer and fish, which might sound like a balanced diet to you. But this week Alan Johnson announced a new push for putting it in our drinking water, with some very grand promises - and in the face of serious opposition.
General Jack D Ripper developed his theories about environmental poisoning and bodily fluids when he experienced a pervasive sense of emptiness during the physical act of love. He instantly identified the cause, as documented in Dr Strangelove: "Do you realise that in addition to fluoridating water, there are studies under way to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream! You know when fluoridation began? 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh?
"It's obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."
Bill Etherington MP calls fluoride "poison". Nazis supposedly used it to subdue people in concentration camps. According to a former Guardian alternative health columnist, fluoride is "in the same league as lead and arsenic".
The problem is one of small effect sizes. Fluoride and bladder cancer would be a pig to research as the effect size is small, the exposure runs over half a century, and the outcome - bladder cancer - takes a lifetime to reveal itself. Welcome to the finer details behind "more research is needed". And the numbers can get very scary, very quickly: in the UK a 10% increase in risk would give you 1,000 extra new cases of bladder cancer a year. Fear. Actually, I enjoyed that. Maybe I should move to the Mail.


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Robert DiMella is an Executive Managing Director and Co-Head of Municipal Managers, which he manages jointly with John Loffredo. Together they oversee all aspects of the group's business, including oversight of portfolio management and research, as well as client relationships and product development. He is a member of the firm's Senior Leadership Team. Robert has been a municipal portfolio manager and/or municipal analyst since 1993, with a broad range of experience in portfolio management and research in the municipal markets. He joined MacKay Shields in July 2009 when the firm acquired the assets of Mariner Municipal Managers LLC, where he served as President and co-founder from 2007 to 2009. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of BlackRock's Municipal Portfolio Management Group. Prior to BlackRock's merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, he served as a Senior Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of Merrill Lynch's Municipal Products Group, where he worked from 1993 to 2006.
Robert earned his MBA at Rutgers University Business School and BS at the University of Connecticut. He is a CFA charterholder. He has been working in the investment industry since 1989.
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The plugin shop is meant let users sell their own plugins, themes, question templates and Demo surveys to other users on limesurvey.org.
For me the biggest issue is the compatibly info about plugins. The "and higher" info has to be put beside.
If the shop is open to plugins below LS 3.0 there has to be a easy way, to filter between the three branches.
Wordpress shows the important infos right away.
Nextcloud app store shows which plugins are official developed in the community and are constantly used and checked with all releases.
Last edit: 1 Jahr 1 Monat her by jelo.
Always nice to see a link protection is place.
The metadata concept for Nextcloud apps might be another inspiration.
After : plugin can be updatable like comfort update (with or without a key : plugin update url choice).
yunohost and spip have this system. The 2 are preconfigurated with "official and stable" plugin repo, but allow anything else.
And 2 last current idea : information like 'copyright', 'update link', 'version compatible' come from a file in the plugin. Then even a plugin set up manually can be updatable.
Maybe we need different directory for "own plugin" and "url plugin" , didn't know.
Yes, we need same config.xml structure for all extensions, so the extension installer can be more simple.
You prefer XML over JSON, Denis?
XML is a real query language, that open many possibilities.
No, not exactlly (i don't care).
But : theme and question already use XML, then plugin can use XML.
Yeah. What about the security problem with XML?
Last edit: 1 Jahr 1 Monat her by ollehar.
Great. Then XML it is.
What does deal with mean? Accept the security risk or mitigate it? Wonder what attack vector you all have in mind here.
The amount of metadata needed for the addons seems to be not that big as that JSON can muscle out XML (Remote control api was conquered by JSON .
json is made for communication between programs. You query an api, you have the result as JSON. If you need a subset of the data of this JSON: you query again the API with better parameters, and you get a new JSON object.
XML is made for human, it's human readable (ex: easy to comment).
More important: it's a querying language in itself.
So you can easily "query" your document, to get the data that interest you inside that document. You have the document with all the data that interest you, and you "query the document" to have the subset of data you want. So, it's not at all the same logic than JSON. In a way, we could say: "XML is an API".


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Handling 'zettabytes of data' at the edge: Dave Laurello, CEO of Stratus Technologies
Image credit: Nick Smith
Published Saturday, January 19, 2019
Dave Laurello, CEO of US-based Stratus Technologies, discusses the evolving trend for data collection, storage and analysis in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and explains how 'edge computing' is gaining traction in a world where data is ubiquitous.
"There's a trend that is often referred to as the 'digitalisation of our lives' for the purpose of analysis," says Dave Laurello, veteran computer and network design engineer, and long-standing chief executive of Stratus Technologies.
"What this means is there are smart devices out there collecting data. We tend to think of smart devices on a manufacturing line monitoring how a system is performing in, say, a wastewater plant, processing data 24/7. That data is being collected and analysed. A chemical is being made. A drug is being made. Every millisecond we are looking at the process to make sure the formula is correct."
The estimates vary, but Laurello says that by 2020 there will be 15 billion smart devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). "What this means is there will be twice as many devices as there are people in the world. And they are collecting lots of data. By 2020 they'll be collecting 11 zettabytes of data [1ZB = 1021 bytes]." Laurello explains that while it was once thought all of this data would be pushed up into the cloud for analysis, "the reality is if you want to make real-time changes close to the process line, there's too much latency in this – it takes too long to get up to the cloud and back. There's not enough bandwidth in the universe to take 11ZB of data up to the cloud and back again. There are also security issues, and then there is the cost of computing and transacting data in the cloud. People are starting to realise we should start to analyse data close to its capture. We'll then send some data to the cloud for post-processing." Laurello thinks that with the advent of 'edge computing', 40-60 per cent of generated data will be analysed and stored locally.
As the number of smart devices continues to grow "people are pushing applications down to the process line. You're going to have real-time analysis and real-time artificial intelligence to the point where you will no longer need people in these locations. So the trend is that with a lot of data being generated at the edge, you need to do a lot of computing near the edge." It follows that the growth of edge computers is, according to Laurello 'dramatic'.
As the concept of the edge is relatively new, it's not immediately obvious how to define it in precise terms. One generally evolving definition says that it is anything 'outside the data centre', which could be confusing, especially in the context of small data centres. Zoning in, Laurello says: "I like to think of the edge as computing close to the source of the data." At this frontier, "just as there is a variety of computers in the data centre, there is a variety of computers at the edge. I don't think you'll see large data centre-like machines. But you'll see servers that have varying capacities of CPU memory."
Edge computing has its challenges. "For one thing, the computers themselves can be located in isolated areas," says Laurello, "maybe along an oil and gas distribution line, a train track, a remote manufacturing facility. In these areas, there tend to be no IT resources." The second challenge is security: "You have these computers in, say, a wastewater plant, and the reality is there maybe no one there for days." The third is the criticality of the data. "You're collecting this data to analyse it. If the computer goes down, you can't do that analysis."
This is where Stratus Technologies comes in. "We've created a vision statement that defines what attributes an edge computer should have. We think it should have three basic attributes: it should be simple to deploy and manage; it should be protected; and, it should be autonomous.
"'Simple' means it can be installed, managed and repaired by a non-IT person – so an OT resource can handle that when you're trying to avoid putting an IT resource out in these locations. 'Protected' means it should be physically secure, so you can't just walk up to it and put a USB stick into it, as well as having full cyber security to be able to make sure the network is protected. Of course, it's got to be continuously available with 100 per cent uptime. Third, it needs to be 'autonomous', in that it is hands-free. You want to be able to remotely monitor that system to make sure it is performing, and if you need to diagnose something you can do that remotely without sending people out into the field. Eventually, you want to make it self-healing so it takes corrective action without the need for a person."
Stratus has released its first edge-optimised product family – the ztC Edge ('zero touch computing'), which directly corresponds to the three general attributes Laurello describes. "You can set it up in 30 minutes without having to be an IT person. When you open the box, you get a one-page assembly sheet that an eight-year-old can follow. Our first product was the ztC Edge 100i, which is two industrialised servers with cables and power plugs, just like connecting an Xbox to your TV. Our strategy is to use off-the-shelf hardware, while our intellectual capital is in the middle-ware and interface."
Apart from serving for four years in the US military, Laurello has always been an engineer. He read engineering (BSEE) at the University of Massachusetts, "and then started working designing computers for a small memory test company that doesn't exist any more and then a digital equipment company that doesn't exist any more. I spent a lot of time in that space and fell in love with technology and building computers."
As well as being heavily involved in design, Laurello recognised a deep satisfaction in "managing those efforts. After designing for a while, I got a lot of enjoyment out of managing a team, and then I moved into the business side and became a GM in a network company and kept moving up from there." He joined Stratus in 2000, where he found the company had "a very 1980s-ish computer architecture style that was very proprietary. They made everything in big boxes and cost a million dollars each. My challenge was how to get that down to $50,000. I had a lot of kids with T-shirts and surf boards working for me and we went to town."
Making the transition from engineer to engineering manager with oversight of a successful company, understanding markets and finance while staying in touch with the techies at the coalface, isn't always an easy move. Yet for Laurello the transition was smooth, helped in no small part by the fact he has always believed the pathway to successful leadership is "to surround yourself with good people who know how to do things you don't know how to do. If you can do that, and you have the ability to recruit talent, then that goes a long way to being a successful leader. There are other attributes you need to develop, but I think this is the key one. Sometimes if you pick people too much like you and have your exact same skillset, those teams won't do so well. But if you're not afraid to pick someone who's smarter than you are, especially in areas you might not be up to speed on, you will end up having a very strong team and will create a diversity that you can build on."
That said, Laurello cheerfully admits that being able to listen to people smarter than you is a "difficult skill to acquire. Learning to admit you can sometimes be wrong is difficult. Yet you've just got to get over it and move on."
He also thinks his age and experience of four decades plays into his hands: "when you're younger you have emotional peaks and valleys that are very high and very low. As you age, these mellow out and you're able to gain a better perspective."
'Edge computers need to be simple to deploy, protected and autonomous.'
Dave Laurello, Stratus Technologies
Responding to a world where there is expectation of continuous collection, storage and analysis of process data, the key management strategy for Laurello was to identify the emerging trend for edge computing. "My philosophy is that every company has a unique value proposition; something they do better than anybody else." For Stratus, Laurello believes he makes "the most reliable systems on the planet, and we've done that for almost 40 years." It's a bold claim, but for the CEO who's been with the company since the dawn of the millennium, if nothing else, it shows commitment.
"It's going to sound familiar, but all of our work has been in the areas of making the product continuously available, operationally simple and autonomous. Four decades ago, Stratus' product was put into telecommunications offices that were brick buildings with no people inside them. Since that time the world has evolved," says the 63-year-old engineer. "But what I think has happened is that it's almost 'back to the future' for us, in that changes in the market has made our value proposition, which was evolved in the 1980s, become even more relevant today. And that is edge computing."
For the 'time in the middle', Laurello admits the company "just became better at what we were doing and working on lower price points. Yet edge computing gave the way we do things a second life. We started looking at where we were winning and we saw about three or four years ago that this was in industrial automation, which was growing at more than 20 per cent a year. As we looked deeper into this, we realised these were edge environments. At the same time, the word 'edge' was starting to be used and the market was beginning to evolve. It was an opportunity to put together our value proposition with the market dynamic and offer an 'edge-optimised' product."
This change in market dynamic came about because of the blurring of the line between operational technology (OT) and IT. But Laurello prefers not to call this, as others do, a 'convergence'. "I'd say it's more a meeting of OT and IT. We think it's more of a hybrid OT model in which OT individuals will become more IT-literate. Yet the reality is that when you go into small or medium enterprises such as a brewery, what these folks are worrying about is their business model. They don't really want to become IT experts. They recognise the need for the process control and the monitoring, but they don't want to hire IT resources. They would like the benefits of IT, but in a form they are set up to deal with."
Laurello thinks the edge is far from a done deal. "We believe that in particular reference to the IIoT, this will evolve in phases. What we have seen as a first phase for organisations that have maybe had their process in place for 15 years, is they are probably running SCADA with lots of servers each with a unique application. They have what I would call 'server sprawl' and have patch issues. What we see these people doing is bringing virtualisation technology to the edge. That's the first step: it's not too intrusive and it's not really affecting their process." Step two, forecasts Laurello, will be in the form of "new applications such as real-time analytics and artificial intelligence. These are still in the incubation phase. Yet efficiency applications will come to the fore."
As to the future, Laurello believes that when it comes to the age of digitalisation "we're just getting started", but he has a concern about how much of the ever-increasing zettabytes of data is ever going to get meaningfully used.
"I think we're still struggling with technologies that take raw data and actually turns it into useable information. That is to come. Real-time artificial intelligence is still in its prototype phase, but you can imagine in 10 years' time that facilities that once relied on hundreds of people will be run by maybe 10.
"Operational efficiency will improve, but it will create societal issues around the people who once did those jobs. The focus will be people-less manufacturing plants. When you look at manufacturers today, the biggest cost we're left with is people. That's the last realm of efficiency to deal with and we will definitely get to the place where these plants are purely automated."
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Fresh innovation lessons from the Football World Cup
by Detlef ReisPosted on June 7, 2018 September 15, 2018
Posted in CreativityFun & GamesInnovation
Next week, the 21st FIFA World Cup will kick-off in Russia. As the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, the Football World Cup is going to delight the lives of football fans around the globe for the next four weeks — mine included. While reading articles on the upcoming World Cup, I came across a range of football quotations that made me smile and realize: Succeeding in the FIFA World Cup with a national team is like successfully mastering an innovation project with your innovation team. Here are 15 football quotes — and my thoughts on how they connect to an innovation project.
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."
—Bill Shankly, Scottish football player and manager of Liverpool FC
"Innovate or die!" In the past decade, self-proclaimed innovation experts and consultants used this slogan to scare people into doing business with them. With the advent of the innovation economy and the imminent digital tsunami on the horizon, I couldn't help thinking how serious a matter innovation and digital transformation is for individuals, companies and countries alike. Maybe Bill Shankly's famous football quote applies to innovation, too?
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
—George Best, Northern Irish celebrity footballer with Manchester United
Many companies spend money on symbolic innovation activities or quick-fixes to give the outer world the appearance that they're innovative. But just like the glamorous winger and 'bad boy' George Best was left with nothing to show for it at the end of his career, so do these companies who've squandered their innovation budgets on low value activities. In contrast, smart companies strategically invest their budgets in innovation methods and projects that allow them to develop sustainable internal innovation processes, to empower their creative people, and thus to gradually build-up a culture of innovation in-house.
"Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor."
A football team that solely aims to advance to the second round is unlikely to make it to the final. It's similar for teams working on an innovation project: Aim low, and the best you can hope for are some incremental improvements of your existing products. So, before you start a new innovation project, better aim high: a revolutionary innovation. With hard work and a bit of luck, you may end up producing a game-changing, disruptive innovation — and if not, you're likely to come up with a few evolutionary innovations that help you to reach new customers with your existing products, or to offer new value propositions to your existing customers.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
—David Beckham, English celebrity footballer and fashion icon
Every young footballer dreams of winning the World Cup for their country. Given the millions of players around the world, achieving this goal is almost an impossible feat. And yet, in a few weeks' time, some players will again make this impossible dream possible. Creating a bold, disruptive innovation is making the impossible possible, too. Most of mankind's greatest creations were once called impossible by the majority of people. What impossible new creations would you be excited to create and make possible with your innovation team?
"The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory."
—Sepp Herberger, German World-Cup winning coach
Before the start of a game, football commentators and pundits tend to theorize about who is going to win each game, and why. While a few of these experts were former players with successful careers, many were not. It's just the same in innovation: many consultants, academics and Innovation experts talk about innovation in theory without having extensive practical experience as "active innovation players". But in the end, in both football and innovation, "the truth is found on the pitch" (as the German football coach Otto Rehhagel put it) — based on the performance and the tangible results a team produces.
—Pelé, Brazilian 3-times winner of the World Cup and world record-holding goal scorer (1,281 goals in 1,363 games)
What's true in becoming a World Cup-winning football star is true for becoming a world-class innovator: You need to be deeply passionate about what you do and the thing you want to innovate, so that you're willing to put in long hours of work and learning that are needed to create an innovation that wows the world. The Argentinian World Cup winner Diego Maradona reiterates this message as follows: "When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success."
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game."
While facilitating innovation projects at Thinkergy, we regularly encounter senior managers who are eager to observe and "referee" the activities and give instructions to the players (i.e., innovation facilitators and project team members). While these executives may have read a book or two on innovation, they typically have never actively participated in an innovation project as "players" and hence don't really know the "innovation game" in practice. But what can I say? As a player, you have to acknowledge the referee…
"I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players."
Innovation in the 21st century is a team sport just as football is. The world's most innovative companies win in the innovation game not because of a few more widely known top players (such as designer Jonathan Ive and marketer Phil Schiller at Apple). They win because many less celebrated players dedicate their talents, smarts and efforts to the firm's innovation success. Just as the World Cup is often won by the best team effort, so the performance of the team brings out innovations that wow the world.
"Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's."
—Johan Cruyff, Dutch striker and coach, World Cup-runner up
In a football team, different players shine in certain positions. Likewise, a successful innovation team requires a mix of diverse talents, experiences and cognitive styles, too. An innovation team needs a player who easily spots trends, a striker who shoots out many original ideas, a defender who tells you what's wrong with an idea, and a forward who can convincingly pitch a top idea to critical supporters. Consider using a cognitive profiling method (such as Thinkergy's TIPS) to learn more about the preferred cognitive styles and talents of your people. Then, fielding the right player on the right position in your innovation team becomes easy-peasy.
"The football game is ritual hunting, stylized combat and symbolic events."
—Desmond Morris, English ethologist and author
At Thinkergy, we prefer to design our innovation project workshops as an energetic experience in line with Morrls' description of a football game. We invite wanna-be innovators to approach a project with the mindset of a hunter, not a farmer. That's why we ask the teams to first thoroughly explore the terrain (aka their project case) and hunt for new trends and insights to understand what game they really should aim for, and only then to develop ideas and concepts for their real challenge. Thereby, we have the teams compete with each other to win a particular process stage in X-IDEA (based on the quantity and/or quality of outputs produced), and also engage them in short symbolic games to keep the fun and energy levels up high throughout a long, tiring workshop week.
"If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later."
—Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager of Liverpool FC
In modern football, each game is analyzed using many metrics (such as possession, distance run, or number of successful passes). In the end, however, only one metric matters: goals. The team that scores most goals in a football game wins — no wonder that Bob Paisley reminded his strikers to solely focus on scoring goals.
In an innovation project, a team wins the game by focusing on producing one or more top ideas that are then activated and turned into a tangible innovation. But in order to get there, we also keep track of other output metrics (such as insights, raw ideas, concepts, etc.) to ensure project success.
"Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move – you don't interrupt."
—Franz Beckenbauer, German World Cup winner as both a player and coach
In the creative process stages of an innovation project (especially during Ideation), it's important to engage in fluent creative thinking: It's just like play, play, play in football: Write down one idea, then another one, followed by a third one, and so on. Don't interrupt your creative flow by judging an idea as impractical or nonsensical! When we think creatively, we play a fluid game like football — and not Rugby or American football, where many breaks and interventions interrupt the game flow.
"The World Cup is a very complicated tournament —six games, seven if you make it to the final— and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best."
An innovation project resembles the tournament structure of the World Cup: A team has to pass through a series of process stages of an innovation method; and like at the World Cup, you need to do well in —and ideally win— every "game" to win the "tournament". if a team produces poor results at one process stage, it's essentially "game over" — as the team will carry the poor results forward and will ultimately produce poor top ideas (due to the GIGO principle, "Garbage in, garbage out.").
"Football is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
Often, the most beautiful designs and most innovative products emphasize a few essential features that really matter in a simple way that is almost Zen-like. Unfortunately, many innovation teams do the opposite while working on an innovation project. They tend to make things more complex and complicating by adding many additional functions that are superfluous. (a phenomenon known as feature creep"). So, focus on making meaning, but keep things simple. Remember how simply Sepp Herberger described the essence of football: "The round m
"Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win."
—Gary Lineker, England's top striker at World Cups and football pundit
I am not sure what national team you're going to support in the coming weeks, but I wish you many enjoyable hours of cheering for your team. But please forgive me that as a German, I hope that Gary Lineker will be right once again. And isn't innovation a bit like football? Many play the game, but at least for a certain period of time, it's the same few players (aka innovators) and teams (innovative companies) who win in the end.
Have you become interested to play the innovation game yourself, and go through an innovation project with your team? Then contact us to find out how we may help you win your innovation game with the help of our awards-winning innovation method X-IDEA.
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Q: What first model or database? My question is about what should be go first in software developing: database model or domain model? Or these notion are parallels?
Thanks.

A: It depends on whether you're a database or an object person.  Each one would claim supremacy and say that their specialty should be done first.
I'd disagree with both.  The first thing you should do is understand your problem well.  The model and schema will flow from that.
You can't get rid of the object-relational mismatch impedence, no matter what you do.  Objects are instance-based; SQL is set-based.  You'll still have the problem.

A: What should come first is the conceptual design (describing the problem domain in terms comfortable to the stakeholders), and the model is a logical design based on the conceptual design. There is a reasonably comprehensive set of tools and techniques for deriving an object model from the conceptual requirements. There are few commonly familiar tools and techniques for mapping from concept to schema design. (The only one I'm familiar with, which is a good one, is Object Role Modeling.) However, there good ways to use an object model to develop a schema. So I prefer conceptual to object model to data model.
Another way to view the question is that if you develop a database then the application tends to turn users into data collection agents serving the data model, losing the value of good requirements based on user stories and use cases (the second of which seem to turn into CRUD.)
Note: confusingly, ORM (Object Role Modeling is unrelated to ORM (Object Relational Mapping).

A: Design good database and object models and leverage an object-relational-mapping (ORM) layer to solve the impedance mismatch (that's what they are designed to do).

A: The answer will greatly depend on type of application you are developing and the languages/framworks you are using. If you will be writing lot of business logic in database (like Stored Procs, Views, triggers) then it makes sense to first design the database.
If you are going to use some frameworks that map domain model to database (and possibly schema generation, like hibernate) then you will like to write Domain classes first.

A: This blood feud is older than pirates vs. ninjas. :)
In my opinion, and it is just that, starting at the domain model first helps to bridge that gap between the functional requirements and the technical design.  The object model better represents the business data than a data model can, and they can be diagramed for better understanding by non-technical business analysts and project managers early in the project.

A: Pirates! Ninjas! Chicken! Egg!
Every project is different, and sometimes, the design of your database determines the success of your mission. It's quite rare, these days, because hardware and software has moved on - but if you have to store and compute huge volumes Of data, the schema may be one of your key concerns.
Most Of the time, the challenge is the business domain. I recommend "domain driven design" by Evans on that topic - but I'd encourage you to capture the business domain first, using use cases or user stories; turning those into software is the key challenge, and if you and your colleagues think best in entity relationships, go for it; if you're mOre comfortable with class hierarchies and responsibility diagrams, that's cool too.
My impression is that the industry is moving to objects, rather than tables - career-wise, that might be the way to go.

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Although Trinity was not able to participate in all of the cross-country meets during the season, she did compete at the Fergus Invitational in mid-September. At this meet held at Pine Meadows Golf Course, Trinity was the first Fergus girl to cross the finish line at the home meet. She finished 21st overall to help her team finish fourth.
At the Fall Classic Central A Divisional Meet, which was held in Livingston, Trinity was the third Fergus girl to cross the finish line. She finished sixth overall. The Fergus girls won the divisional meet.
At the state meet, Trinity helped her team finish ninth in the Class A competition. Trinity was the first Fergus girl to cross the finish line. Her 34th-place time of 21:53 was a season PR for Trinity. Her time also tied the school record for the new 5K distance, which is now being run by cross-country runners in the state. This is the first year cross-country runners have run the new distance.


Finally, the anticipated video from the Trip City general, Slim T.
The video for 'O Bad Gan' was shot and directed in Lagos, Nigeria by Unlimited LA (M.S.A.Y.C). It shows a different side of Slim T - bad boy, ladies man and daring. As usual, Dammy Krane adds some humor and some of that 'Dammy Krane' swag to the video.


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If any item does not perform perfectly, it's either repaired or replaced by an original factory part of a Mitsubishi approved replacement. The interior and exterior are also inspected for any cosmetic damage and repaired to Mitsubishi's standards ensuring that your new Mitsubishi Motors Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle looks practically new.
Every Mitsubishi Motors Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle comes standard with a comprehensive Vehicle History Report. It screens out vehicles for problems with frame, fire or water damage, etc. It also provides history on registrations and any insurance claims. You get the best history available – full disclosure to ensure your peace of mind.


A recent Buzzfeed video features a lesbian "gender non-conforming" couple speaking about how they force their son into "queer" relationships with his own gender.
I see a calm peacful spirits in them that is good. Why don't others see that?
I see a calm peacful spirit in them that is good. Why don't others see that?


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Univision launches AutoAmigo auto buying program.
Univision Communications Inc and GroupCars have announced they will launch AutoAmigo, powered by Univision.
"Univision's partnership with AutoAmigo will provide automotive dealers across the country with a turn-key solution to reach Hispanic consumers, a step that will increase revenue and market share," said Rick Alessandri, executive vice president of Enterprise Development, Univision Communications Inc. "AutoAmigo dealerships will have an automatic advantage over the competition as Univision has built and nurtured an extremely close relationship with the exponentially expanding Hispanic community for over 50 years. Hispanics will also reap benefits, as the program educates and informs, providing consumers with a transparent and hassle-free experience to car buying. "
Although most automotive dealerships understand the opportunities in reaching Hispanic consumers, the challenges associated with marketing to Spanish-language consumers often prevent them from fully capitalizing on the opportunity. To address challenges and capitalize on the opportunity, the AutoAmigo program uses Univision's multiplatform assets to promote the buying program. Audiences will be encouraged to go to AutoAmigo.com and or download the mobile app on their Smartphones to research and shop for cars. Users will then be directed to a Spanish-language call center where they are welcomed by a message from Don Francisco, host of Univision Network's variety program "Sabado Gigante" (Giant Saturday) and be connected to an automotive expert who gathers information about their current and desired vehicle, gets users preapproved when possible, and schedules an appointment with a certified AutoAmigo dealership.
Users can then visit a certified dealership where the dealership's program manager uses AutoAmigo's mobile app to scan the manufacturer's window sticker to provide the customer with the retail price, the average market price, and the AutoAmigo price that is set by the dealer.


A lot deeper than its simplistic appearance would suggest.
Cleverly designed puzzles for OCD gamers.
There are so many indie game developers on iPhone right now that were born 20, or maybe 30 years too late. Devs like Joe Rothenberg, for example, who's put together a pixelated platformer in Nobody Said It Was Easy that would have put him on an industry pedestal had it been released when the NES was still new.
That's not to say the game is diminished in any way for being contemporary, but you can't help but muse over what sort of a reaction such a beautifully simplistic, yet sadistically difficult game like this would have received in 1983. I'm pretty confident that an 8-year-old me would have worn the joypad thin playing this one.
I'm going say that you're a duck, in Nobody Said It Was Easy. It's built from less than 30 large, unanimated pixels that are all of the same color but for one yellow dot where a beak might go. So there you go. You're a duck. Probably.
All this duck can do is run in one direction and jump. Those are the only controls afforded you in Nobody Said It Was Easy; a run button, and a jump button. It's also the first such game in a long while that's actually devoid of physics. The moment you tap the run button you expect some manner of inertia or a slide to a halt when you release it, but here, your character simply stops.
This isn't a shortcoming, however. It's an aspect of the controls that actually adds to the difficulty of its dexterous challenges. Let's say you jump in the air to get to the next platform. If you release the run button mid-jump, you stop moving forward and plummet. And plenty of these jumps require a precision landing onto a very narrow block, so it takes no small amount of skill to hold the button just long enough, and to let go at the most opportune moment.
Neither are these levels all built in one orientation, which might seem to contradict the single direction you can move in. The only way to change direction is to hit a wall, which turns your duck-thing around, Lemmings style. This is necessary to make it to the exit in many levels, but you must also be careful not to accidentally headbutt a wall and find yourself facing in the wrong direction with only a row of deadly spikes or a fall into the abyss ahead of you.
And if you want to collect all the stars (which, of course, you do) you need to figure out a cunning route that puts you in the correct bearing while still making it possible to get to the end. This is a surprisingly thoughtful and challenging game, which its understated operation and minimalist design belie. Just wait until you've multiple duck-type runners to control simultaneously, and you'll appreciate just how much consideration these puzzles take to solve.
It's ad supported, with a banner in permanent position at the top of the screen. This is something of a shame as it sours the gorgeous retro aesthetic. But I guess that's just more motivation to unlock the full game and remove them. The ads don't interfere in any other way, so it feels like more than a fair tradeoff for bagging Nobody Said It Was Easy for free.
Finally, in case you're wondering, it does indeed live up to its title. This is a seriously, face-meltingly tough game, but rarely frustrating.


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Super Mario Maker 3DS Review – Terrific Builder but Could Have Been Better
Alex Everatt
Super Mario Maker Review
One of the Wii U's biggest treats, Super Mario Maker, is back in portable form. Super Mario Maker puts you in full control of making Super Mario levels with the look and assets from four Super Mario games: Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES), Super Mario World (SNES) and New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U). While the bulk of Super Mario Maker for 3DS is identical to the Wii U version, there are a few notable differences and one huge missed opportunity.
Super Mario Maker can be broken down into two primary modes: Make and Play. Play gives players the ability to (you guessed it) play Super Mario levels. First, exclusive to the 3DS version, is the Super Mario Challenge. Here you'll play through 100 Super Mario levels hand-crafted by Nintendo. The levels are divided up into Worlds and completing each World grants you new assets that you can utilize in the Make mode (which we'll discuss later). As an added bonus, each level has two medals that you can earn by completing specific tasks (think Achievements for Super Mario). Make no mistake, these levels are awesome, well designed, and can be quite challenging. Beyond Super Mario Challenge, you can access levels via Course World, where you'll get to play Super Mario level's created by other gamers, including some that were created on the Wii U (Nintendo is curating these levels instead of allowing gamers to access to all millions of them). And finally there is the ability to play games received from local wireless or via StreetPass (unfortunately, Nintendo didn't allow us to test these features, or Course World, prior to our review embargo date).
"One of the biggest missed opportunities in Super Mario Maker is the lack of interaction with the Wii U version."
The second mode is Make, which allows you to create your own Super Mario levels. Creating Super Mario levels is a fun and surreal experience. You'll definitely get a new appreciation for the hard work it takes to make a great level – but Super Mario Maker also does a fantastic job of giving you the tools to create your own great levels after a little practice and experimentation. The bottom screen provides players with all their tools in an easy to access way – but I did notice the 3DS XL screen is a bit cramped compared to the Wii U Gamepad's screen. To make a level, you'll get to choose which game (which alters the visual style and some gameplay elements, such as adding a Wall Jump move when using the New Super Mario Bros game). You'll also be able to choose which style of level to make such as castle style or underground style. Then you can utilize the unlocked assets to put together your level by simply drag and dropping assets from the menu bar to the level. From what I can tell, every asset that you could use on the Wii U version is available on the 3DS version, with one significant exception – Mystery Mushrooms. In the Wii U Version, Mystery Mushrooms changed Mario into Costume Mario with a huge variety of different costumes. The effect was primarily aesthetic, but very cool. Why Nintendo would remove the Mystery Mushroom from the 3DS version is a mystery to me…
One of the biggest missed opportunities in Super Mario Maker is the lack of interaction with the Wii U version. Since both games creation modes are essentially the same, you would think that Nintendo would allow gamers to start a level on their 3DS or Wii U, then work on it, or at least play it, on the other system. The fact that you can't do this really defeats any reason for owning both versions unless, as a Wii U owner, you absolutely need a portable version of Super Mario Maker.
Super Mario Maker features the iconic sounds and graphics from the four Super Mario games that it draws it's assets from. Noticeably absent from Super Mario Maker is any assets from Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES), but this is likely due to the distinct differences in gameplay from that Mario adventure from his other side-scrolling adventures. I would have also liked to see the option to use the Super Mario All-Stars graphic styles. Oddly enough, Nintendo didn't add any 3D effects to Super Mario Maker, which could have been another way to differentiate itself from the Wii U version.
"Super Mario Maker for 3DS is a great addition to the 3DS library."
Super Mario Maker for 3DS is a great addition to the 3DS library. The lack of interaction with the Wii U version is a huge disappointment and the removal of some assets (like Mystery Mushrooms) makes the 3DS version feel like a "lite" version. It's also bizarre that Nintendo didn't include any 3D effect. On the flip-side, the inclusion of 100 exclusive, Nintendo created levels was pretty cool. Without a doubt, if you haven't played the Wii U version, this game is an absolute must. However, if you already own the Wii U version, then the only real reason you'd need the 3DS version is if you absolutely need a portable version.
**A retail 3DS copy was provided by the publisher**
100 brand new Super Mario levels
Easily design your own levels
Easy to share courses
No connectivity with Wii U version
No sharing via online/Friend codes
Some Wii U content missing
No 3D modes
Developer: Nintendo
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David Edgar Net Worth 2018: What is this football/soccer player worth?
David Edgar is a professional football/soccer player who played Defender (association football) for Nashville SC as number 11. Edgar was born on May 19, 1987, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This article examines David Edgar's net worth.
David Edgar Career and Earnings/Salary
As a youth, David Edgar played for London City SC during 2001, and played for Newcastle United F.C. during 2001-2005. Over 2005-2009, Edgar played for Newcastle United F.C. earning 19 caps and scoring 2 goals. During 2009-2014, Edgar played for Burnley F.C. earning 99 caps and scoring 4 goals. In 2010, Edgar played for Swansea City A.F.C. (loan) earning 5 caps and scoring 1 goals. In 2014-2016, Edgar played for Birmingham City F.C. earning 16 caps and scoring 1 goals. From 2015, Edgar played for Huddersfield Town A.F.C. (loan) earning 12 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2015-2016, Edgar played for Sheffield United F.C. (loan) earning 8 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2016, Edgar played for Whitecaps FC 2 (loan) earning 1 caps and scoring 0 goals.
David Edgar also played nationally. During 2003, Edgar played for the Canada men's national under-17 soccer team scoring 0 goals, with 2 caps. During 2003-2008, Edgar played for the Canada men's national under-20 soccer team with 24 caps and 2 goals. In 2011-, Edgar played for the Canada men's national soccer team earning 42 caps and scoring 4 goals.
David Edgar Net Worth 2018
Professional soccer/football players can make plenty of money. But pay depend on plenty of different considerations. These include the player's area and of course, their skill set. At the hightest end, footballers in Great Britain and Western Europe can bring in $50 million or more. In the Americas, the best players make $1-2 million a year. And in locations where soccer/football is not as popular, like the USA and China, players earn $200k per year. The smallest paying leagues pay as little as $50,000 per year.
David Edgar net worth: soccer/football salary distribution
So what is football/soccer player David Edgar's net worth in 2018? Our estimate for David Edgar's net worth as of 2018 is: $2 million
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