Multiple influences come into play in the music of Roshi Nasehi – her Iranian heritage (embodied in her parents, their memories and their old cassettes), the folk songs and choirs in the Welsh milieu of her upbringing, the bleeding-in of tunes from 1980s British pop radio; piano and violin lessons and the jazz she studied at college in Cardiff; her early stint singing with Keith Tippett. All of these have settled somewhere in her current work, but none of them in a fixed and permanent location: they're loose factors, like an office full of papers which can be picked up and whirled about by a fresh gust of wind from an open window.
During eighteen years in London Roshi has made a name for herself as performer, collaborator, workshopper, academic, installationeer and recorder of musical events. Her main song outlet is Roshi Featuring Pars Radio, a collaboration with Graham "Gagarin" Dowdall (prolific percussionist, producer, Pere Ubu-ist and John Cale/Nico collaborator). They describe it as "Welsh-Iranian folk pop", with an electronic, experimentalist edge to it; a shuffleable span of folktronica strata which somehow captures the thinning links, the stubborn clingings and the disjunctive adaptations of the immigrant experience (whether circumstances have blown you into town from Alavicheh or from Gorseinon).
Some of Roshi's '80s pop heritage manifests in its echos of Kate Bush – I don't mean in Bronte-pop twirls or vocal lushnesses, but in beautiful cramped murmurs which recall the subvocal/sublingual keenings and chamberings of 'The Dreaming'. The soundworld is deliberately intimate but obscure; Gagarin's signature "sound-leakage" palette of finely-milled noises interpenetrating field recordings, Roshi's keyboard parts questioning and unanchored; her language shifting between English and Pharsi, with versions of Iranian songs cut and rising up through the deck.
Also playing are the usual Westking gig-gaggle of emerging students, undergoing their solo live performance assessment by being hurled into support slots. This time round it's lo-fi electronic pop/soul musician KES, "understated folk" performer Euan Sutherland and contemporary pianist Ivan Bushbye. All of them are too fresh on the scene to have much online to follow up on (Euan also shares his name with a Scottish clothing magnate who got tangled up with the Co-op a few years ago, and this doesn't help either). However, I did find this video of Ivan playing Ryiuchi Sakamoto's 'Forbidden Colours', so that will have to do for now.
Back at the very start of May, there's a summit of young female songwriters tucked away into the basement of Servant Jazz Quarters.
Brightonian Bella Spinks has been performing in public since she was twelve: not annoying R&B impressions on the top deck of the bus to Worthing, but a full-blown debut at the Concorde 2 round about 2006. Since then, she's had plenty of time to broaden and hone her ideas, and has filled the interim years well, preparing her developing work and playing teenaged support slots to a range of performers from Martha Wainwright to Sea of Bees, Ellie Goulding to Ron Sexsmith, The Staves to Viv Albertine. As for herself, she's already a mistress of the verbally and musically articulate solo piano ballad, a songwriter who can build a hooky and accessible pop single around Platonic philosophy, and a woman with a knack for sonorities (be it undulating basslines, hot-space gaps in the vocal lines or the woody rhythms of a struck'n'knocked piano frame).
The debut album isn't due for another few months, but come along to celebrate the recent, aforementioned Platonic single 'Noble Lie', in which Bella muses and storytells across various forms of implied alchemy. Right now, she's on a cusp – some idiot could talk her into smoothing everything down into mainstream kitchen-radio ballads, or she could hang onto her inquisitive nature and keep driving down the path of her subtle, slightly bookish originality. I really hope that she sticks with the latter.
She's tagged as "a dark, baritone Joni Mitchell baring herself in her songs with a refreshing depth and brevity", but rather than carrying out yet another sub-Joni confessional shtick Laura Frances wraps herself in the robes of yearning, classic dark-folk: the kind which I first heard on my mother's Cynthia Gooding records from the 1950s folk revival – rich-voiced, majestic and ancient. It's unsurprising to hear that her songwriting springs first and foremost from poetry, her stark modernity constantly slipping back towards mediaeval mystique. It's also unsurprising to hear Mazzy Star and Leonard Cohen also mentioned in her train of influences. There's a touch (just a touch, mind) of the urban-playing/rural-dreaming Gothic to her tunes: solemnly waltzing guitar, lonesome woodsaw string parts, and the abiding melancholy in her tone.
With a mini-album (2016's 'Misapprehension') and a couple of standalone download singles behind her, Welshwoman-turned-Londoner Gillie Ione makes quick darts through self-produced restless talky songs, like well-made Tracy Chapman /Melissa Etheridge pieces with an experimental pop bent and bonus scurries of motormouthing. On record, she floats about between introspective guitar lines, spacious drum patter and strange ambients knocks and wanders; the scenery shifting behind her fluttery chatting, her glinting disparate observations being molded into a larger, broader picture of meaning.
Making Soiree returns are pianist/composer Blert Ademi and regular-of-regulars Cian Binchy (actor, standup, spoken-worder and autism activist, just back from his Mexican tour). Fresh to the Soiree stage are emerging R&B singer Tamara Canada, post-apocalyptic ecologically-obsessed techno burster Global Warming Records (a.k.a. 'Driftshift' presenter Franziska Lantz from Resonance FM) and author/reviewer/punk-poet Martin Dowsing's Hungry Dog Brand (providing "very English sounding fictional narrative-based songs in a new wave / garage rock style with a touch of seaside gothic" plus a touch of the abrasive wit of their "No Wankers Aloud" club nights from the much-missed original 12 Bar Club).


Hyundai offers drivers an excellent option in the popular hybrid car class. The Ioniq excels in fuel efficiency, comfort, safety and performance, offering drivers a total package in their car driving experience.
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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 HDMI not working lenovo legion y530 my laptop's HDMI port is not working and I don't know why exactly, I am running Ubuntu 18.04 alongside windows, on windows it works just fine.
The laptop uses Nvidia graphics card gtx 1050, I have the latest driver installed (430) and I tried many other versions and did not work including version 390.
I had Ubuntu budgie on this laptop before and it also worked and didn't work after that.
I would appreciate some help with isolating the problem to solve it, is it from the driver or port not detected etc.
Also I might have to say that xrandr doesn't return anything saying that I have and HDMI port

A: I had the exact same issue yesterday when I found your question here. I started to work on it two weeks ago and spent a lot of hour to install different distributions. It is not just an ubuntu issue. I have tried ubuntu, fedora, manjaro and all of them had problem with booting the OS and/or detecting HDMI port. There is a guide for Ubuntu here: https://github.com/kfechter/LegionY530Ubuntu/tree/18.04.2-Install-Guide
It didn't solve the HDMI problem for me, but I tried many times and some times I realised I made mistakes, so you should try it if you haven't tried it yet.
Today I have managed to make the HDMI port work and I am not sure what solved it, because at the end, I used Kubuntu 19.04. If you are unable to solve it on Ubuntu 18.04 and you don't insist on using that, it could work for you too. If you don't like KDE, you can install other desktop environment later.
This way I have kernel version 5.0.0 and nvidia-driver-418. Everything works.
The install guide on github mentions how you can upgrade the kernel using ukuu on Ubuntu 18.04.
Here is how I tried the installation last time with success on wired network connection:

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*I do not have "secure boot" setting in UEFI settings so I disabled "trusted platform" instead.

*I created a live USB drive using Etcher on an other Linux laptop. Rufus could work on Windows.

*The Lenovo Legion Y530 laptop was turned off and the external monitor's HDMI cable was plugged into the laptop.

*I turned the laptop on and booted the live OS (I pressed F12 key to go to the boot menu).

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*First I chose the "Linpus Lite" entry which was one of the etries of my USB drive. I could not wait long enough to let it boot, so I rebooted the system and then...

*I tried again chosing "USB HDD ..." instead of "Linpus Lite". I don't think it was faster anyway...

*On the partitioning screen there was no "EFI Partition" to chose and mount so for the first time I did not use EFI.

*When the installation was done I rebooted the system, pressed F12 again and chose "Samsung HDD ..." (so not the entry containing "EFI")

Suddenly my external monitor was recognized but I am not sure which step solved it (new kernel, Kubuntu, latest Kubuntu, installing without EFI or the combination of them)

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Margaret Court has won more grand slam titles than any other player and has been honoured for her achievements in tennis and she is a legend of the sport. We respect her playing record, it is second to none.
But her personal views are her own, and are definitely not shared by Tennis Australia. Like the WTA, we believe that everyone should be treated equally and fairly. We concur wholeheartedly with the WTA who stated that "all human beings, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or otherwise, should be treated equally.
TA does not support any view that contravenes these basic human rights.
Four-time grand slam doubles champion Rennae Stubbs says she fully backs activists showing their support for gay rights at the Australian Open starting next week.
Stubbs, who has been open about her homosexuality for six years, said it was only fair that people had the same voice as former Australian great Margaret Court who prompted a recent backlash because of her anti-gay views.
Activist groups are planning to protest Court next week at the Australian Open, with one activist calling for her name to be removed from Melbourne Park's show court arenas. She has said it won't keep her away.
For a recap of what Court has said recently, click HERE.


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Q: nodejs API restrictions ... Not allowed from postman .. same origin access allowed I have created few API on nodejs a d want to consume in same nodejs app.  Even I have ensure  cross origin to my domain.
It's only preventing cross domain and not allowed API.
But when using postman it's allowed .
Please help to provide how to restrict my nodejs api to be used by  my app internal in angular and should not allow cross domain and postman.

A: Cross domain protections are implemented only in a browser to protect end-user browser security.  They do not apply to http requests made from Postman or from node.js or from any other programmatic tool, only from the browser.
There is no way to keep your API from being called by other agents besides your own web app.  This is just the way of the web.  For your web page to be able to use the API in the browser, that API has to be open to the public.
The usual way to provide some protections on such APIs is to require some sort of user login in order to use the API.  Your own web app can have a logged in user and your server can require a certain login cookie be on the http request before your server will fulfill the request.  This too can be used by 3rd party tools such as Postman, but they would have to first obtain an appropriate login cookie.
To prevent abuse even in these cases where they get a login cookie, you would need to track usage on your server and if you detect any irregular patterns or abusive patterns (often with some sort of rate limiting detection logic), then you can temporarily or permanently ban that user login.


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So getting around in that parking lot is quickly becoming a challenge.
And now the city has approved a new Starbucks Coffee that will open in a completely remodeled space in the old Rite Aid building. This will be a great-looking renovation and simply continue the improved look of the entire old shopping complex, all of which is built on the original grounds of Atascadero founder E.G. Lewis' estate.
The new Starbucks will feature a drive-through service on the northern end of that old building, where the loading dock rests. Cars coming and going into the complex off Highway 41 will soon be competing with drivers trying to get in line for a morning cup of java.
Because the space is limited, new latte-lovers will have to turn into one parking lot, cut through a second and make the loop around to be in place for the service window. The new drive-through proposes that drivers can only exit the center via the El Camino Real light and not Highway 41.
The planning commission was told that the drive-through could accommodate 11 vehicles — six in the drive-through aisle and five more in the nearby parking lot.
I see the potential for things to get a little crazy there during certain times of the day.
I've talked to a number of older drivers who find it difficult to navigate the new complex and get close enough to the entrance of the new Rite Aid.
City staff and, subsequently, the Planning Commission, determined that the driveways and other internal circulation "will continue to function at acceptable levels."
Where is the proof that this town is not friendly to new business?
How to have a 'Safe and Sane' July Fourth — but still have fireworks
About the Colony
After 45 years of column writing, it's time to say goodbye
By Lon Allan Special to The Tribune
Atascadero, California, columnist Lon Allan is ending his "About the Colony" column, which has been a Tribune feature since 2004.
MORE ABOUT THE COLONY
We put names on public landmarks to preserve history. Don't let anyone remove them
Absent-minded romantic seeks woman who likes Navy gray and big-band music
Pay attention to the details, particularly when money's involved
What a relief to see improvements in Atascadero — now, speaking of relief ...
I endorsed legalizing pot, but not because I like it
Atascadero about to lose a significant landmark of its Colony history

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Q: Django - How to use a template tag in an if statement I thought this idea would be more popular but I am guessing it's an easy solution that I cannot figure out. What I would like to do is in a Django template page, have an IF statement equal another tag value.
For example
views.py
def seasonstandings(request):
    divisions = Team.objects.order_by().values_list('division__name',flat=True).distinct()
    stats = WeeklyStats.objects.values('player__team__team_name').annotate(
        team=F('player__team__team_name'),
        points = Sum('finishes'),
        division = F('player__team__division__name')
    ).order_by('-points')

    return render(request, 'website/seasonstandings.html', {'divisions':divisions,'stats':stats})

seasonstandings.html
{% for division in divisions %}
{{ division }}

  {% for stat in stats %}
    {% if stat.division = {{ division }} %}
    {{ stat.team }}

    {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

So if you note the IF statement is trying to use the result of the Division tag from the first for loop.
My main objective here is to have a dynamic list of divisions that a team could be in and then when they are assigned their division they would get listed out under the proper division based on these for loops.
The End Result looking like
Division A
Team 1
Team 2
Team 4
Division B
Team 3
Team 5
Division C
Team 6
Team 7
Any help is appreciated as always.

A: Just drop the braces around division. Meaning {{ division }} -> division. and you can use ==.
The ifequal tag has been deprecated.


Sales of electric cars continue to grow in China, although it's unclear if the increased demand is due to government action or if it's sustainable.
There are lots of reasons to watch Formula E, from the futuristic zero-emissions vehicles to the downtown racetracks…and of course, the crashes.
The Mercedes Vision G-Code compact crossover has debuted in China not as a production vehicle, but as a peek at what the future of driving might look like.
Before the pomp and circumstance of the first Formula E race in Beijing, the ten racing teams gathered at Donington Park for a 24-lap exhibition race.


Good luck, Allison! I've "pre-shopped" the mall here and discovered Aeropostle had some great sales, but I didn't have time to wait in line–and I was still late picking the kidlet up from school! Hope there is still stuff available for the kidlet and her cousin!
Why don't you start a new tradition and have your daughter put up your snow village? She could take it down and pack it away before she returns to school. Everyone could enjoy it then. I'm sure she'd be very careful with your special pieces.
My two oldest have helped every year since we moved to the bigger house. It STILL takes all day. My 9 and 11 year olds helped last year. Lots of arguing. I was going to do it one day when they were all at school.
Love the villages! Tell your baby he has great taste in trees!
My mom's a Lois too.
The one tradition that stands out is making home made decoration by using glitter and stuff on those fiberglass balls. We also made paper chains and occasionally a popcorn one. Christmas music would be playing, hot chocolate and treats at hand.
I love, love, love Christmas music. I don't like hearing it before Thanksgiving, however!
I LOVE your snow village! Perfect, perfect, perfect!
Thanks for this trip down your memory lane in the making. Made my morn!
I agree — it's much for fun with the kids are little 🙂 Wait … someday you'll have grandkids to spoil!
hey allison, i can't even begin to contemplate your name and "slacker" in the same sentence! it sounds like your house is full of holiday spirit. i am enjoying my little tree very much – i have all the kids' ornaments on it, going back 20 years so it looks full. tonight i plan to walk around downtown oakland in the holiday lights. i smiled to see your little one in shorts on the christmas tree hunt – one of my favorite things about our state.
I'm going to spend Christmas Eve with my husband's family. He's been gone a year but I wouldn't miss the fun of Christmas with them. They do gift exchange where you bring a guy or gal gift depending on if you're a guy or a gal. Then they draw numbers and the men grab from their stack and the ladies do the same. When we were first married with 9 kids it wasn't too bad then the family grew as kids married. So they drew names. They outgrew that too, my mother-in-law had 9 children, she has 13 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren with one due in early summer to make 23. I love Jim's family his youngest brother was 2 years old when we married now there are still 2 year olds running around the family.
My family is small and everyone is more formal sit down for meals but Jim's just grab a plate and find a seat and hope no one steals your chair when you go for more food. Everyone pitches in brings stuff and it works great nobody is stuck in the kitchen cooking while everyone else is visiting and catching up.
For me I like the more informal way and if I can ditch this bronchitis I will be there in East TX for Christmas Eve 2012.
It's just us and my mom … no other relatives! I don't think I would be ready, either!
The snow villages look great, hopefully you will be able to put some of them up this year. I have to make sure that my shopping is done by the second weekend of Dec because of my job and not having a lot of extra time. I even wrap everything and keep it at the clinic until I take it home right before Christmas. This year I am on call on Christmas Eve and will take the gifts with me when I get off at 10 pm.
Love your Christmas village! What fun. We are slowly building a collection of painted gingerbread houses.
We don't go totally over the top with the decorations, but plenty to make the house festive. My favorite is the real tree that smells wonderful.
When I was growing up, we decorated the tree. I used to have a bad habit of snooping under the tree to find what packages had my name on them. We used to go down to my grandma's and get together with my dad's side of the family. We would eat dinner, and while the adults were cleaning up, I would be snooping under that tree. But there were so many gifts for everyone in the family, I wasn't really able to snoop much. At my parents' house, we would wake up and check our stockings. Dad would make breakfast and we open presents.
Another "love the villages" comment here!! This will be the first year in about 10, that I won't be having Christmas or day after Christmas dinner here. We're getting a tree, lights are on the house and the stockings are up and that's it!!! I discovered the stockings are very important to my girls.


WHILE a record amount of liquefied natural gas left Gladstone's Port in 2018, coal shipments dropped to a five-year low.
Data released this week by Gladstone Ports Corporation shows trade for the calendar year of 2018 totalled 120.9 million tonnes, almost half a million tonnes lower than the previous year.
The total exports were affected by lower shipments of coal, with 67.8 million tonnes leaving the port, the lowest since 2013.
Gladstone Ports Corporation acting chief executive Craig Walker said there was a number of supply chain factors that impacted the delivery of coal to port, including maintenance works and weather events.
The drop in exports follows Aurizon's controversial move to slash its maintenance schedule mid-2018.
The issue stemmed from a QCA draft ruling on the amount of revenue Aurizon could earn on the monopoly network.
The amount was $1billion less over four years than Aurizon had submitted.
While Mr Walker did not highlight Aurizon's decision as a key impact for the drop in coal exports, he did say "maintenance works" was one of the contributing factors to the decline. Mr Walker said "varying levels of international demand" also affected coal exports.
But the end of 2018 produced a shift in coal exports, with the December 2018 quarter recorded as the highest export quarter since December 2015.
Meanwhile international shipments of LNG from the Port of Gladstone totalled 20.58 million tonnes in 2018, setting a new 12-month record for the port.
Queensland Resources Council chief executive Ian Macfarlane said an "energy-hungry Asia" would continue to grow Queensland's LNG sector.
"China's demand for our LNG in 2017 was 57 per cent of total exports but last year it was 69 per cent," Mr Macfarlane said.
"According to the Office of the Chief Economist's latest report, China plans to increase the share of gas in its energy mix from 7 per cent to a range of 8-10 per cent by 2020.
Mr Walker said another highlight for 2018 was the introduction of a regular container liner service through Pacific Asia Express/ Mariana Express Line.
"Over the past six months, the service has generated significant interest, both within Central Queensland and further afield," Mr Walker said.
He said during the next 12 months the company would continue to investigate ways to further develop and diversify trade across its three ports in Gladstone, Rockhampton and Bundaberg. More than 20 products were handled during 2018, ranging from coal and LNG, to calcite, gypsum and containers.


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Obama Proposes Tax Breaks That Could Save $200 Billion Over Two Years
Financial Planning > Trusts and Estates
By Danielle Andrus
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The Associated Press reported
The tax breaks will allow businesses to write off 100% of new capital investments through 2011, the AP writes. The cost to taxpayers over the next 10 years would be $30 billion, "with most of the money lost in tax revenue being recouped as the economy strengthens."
The proposal expands on stimulus measures from 2008 and 2009 that allowed businesses to depreciate 50% of their capital investments, the AP writes.
National Guardian Life to Acquire Digital Life Planning Firm
Gifting Stock to Family Members: What to Know
Do You Know These Shocking Truths About Wills?
For Wealthy Women, Tax and Estate Planning Is Weak Link
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged the effect the political environment could have on the proposals.
"We understand what season we've entered in Washington," Gibbs said in a White house briefing. "We certainly hope that there are measures, including some of the ones that the president will outline, that Congress will consider. If they don't do that prior to the election, the president and the economic team still believe that these represent some very important ideas in continuing along our path toward economic recovery."
The AP noted that even if the proposals were approved, it's unlikely that they would have much effect on the economy by November, although an anonymous source told the agency the expanded tax breaks could benefit "several million people and 1.5 million businesses."


ive looked but cant find that ja interview, so cud sum1 post a link to it?
so why are you asking in Channel 0?
Y r u bn so meen??!!!!~~~!!!!?!?!
who the hell is ja?
I hope that's sarcasm... DAMN computers...you can never tell.
Knowing swif, it's probably not sarcasm at all. Please don't hurt the poor boy.


How often have you seen someone walking around gazing at their smartphone and bumping into something? There are statistics that indicate that 25% of all car accidents are smartphone related. In London, England they are experimenting with wrapping lamp posts with foam pads to reduce the risk of injury.
From England's Daily Mail newspaper: Research showed that Brick Lane in East London was the top spot for texting injuries... 68,000 such accidents last year... fractured skulls.
How often have you asked, "Please Lord send me a sign." but never bothered to look up or look around? How much do we really miss out on what God is trying to tell us or teach us because we aimlessly focus our attention on meaningless chit-chat?
Thankfully, when it comes to all the Bus Stop Bible Study panels we post, we are able to rely on God stepping into the picture. We have received countless testimonies from people who have looked up, seen one of our panels, and God has spoken.
We once received a call from a woman who had just left Princess Margaret Hospital with a positive cancer diagnosis. Can you imagine the devastating impact at just having received that kind of news? Well, for this woman, God showed up. She got on a TTC bus, looked up, and God spoke directly to her as she read His Word. As soon as she got home she called our office to share her emotions; the devastating news of a positive diagnosis mixed with the joy of knowing that God cared about her so personally and in such an intimate way.
Next time you want a sign from God, look up or look in your Bible.


How things have changed at Lowel. In the prehistoric age of my youth, circa 1970, the highly portable featherlight Lowel kit was a key part of every itinerant shooter's travel package. The thin aluminum brackets and barndoors were fragile and would barely stay affixed to the large blistering hot GL lamps. By far, the most compelling attribute of the original Lowel kit was the high degree of control it offered and the ability to transport it in a tiny travel case.
Elegant and simple, the original Lowel kit changed the face of non-fiction filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s.
Today the original Lowel kit is long gone. So too, presumably, will be its lightweight tungsten descendents, the omnipresent Omnis, Totas, and Ds. They continue to grace film and video sets in every corner of the world, but their days are surely numbered as cooler, more efficient, and increasingly more rugged LED instruments enter the market.
Forty years ago, a major challenge for shooters was simply generating enough light for basic exposure. In many instances, the capture of images—indeed anything at all with a satisfactory grey scale—was impossible given the meager ISO rating of most film stocks (like ISO 25 Ektachrome Commercial).
Things are quite different today, of course, with some ultra-sensitive digital cameras able to record virtually noise-free images at ISO 5000 or more. Obviously, our needs in portable lighting have changed dramatically in the current environment. We no longer need or want the traditional nuclear blast of light that had been the standard for decades of nonfiction, news, and documentary shooters.
The demand for a more-continuous-spectrum LED output is especially relevant in 3200K studio environments, where LED lighting that is deficient in red wavelengths may produce a splotchy texture in the skin of talent that contains significant red tones. The use of non-continuous LED fixtures in exterior environments tends to be less objectionable, as daylight inherently contains less red and thus is easier and more economical to balance given the current LED technology.
The latter point is especially relevant to broadcast news directors and shooters seeking appropriate lighting for field applications. Most LED lighting these days, even relatively cheap units, offers satisfactory performance under daylight conditions with okay color and a good CRI rating.
The bigger issue for shooters today is another matter altogether—the obligatory live shot of the egotistical weather guy or gal doing stand-up in a category-5 hurricane or in one of Boston's 34 blizzards this year. In such cases, we are no longer so concerned with a light's discontinuous output and lack of saturated red wavelengths. We want the light to work, and keep on working, in the face of extreme wet, cold, snowy, inhumane conditions.
Lowel's Prime Location bi-color LED is rugged as hell and fully weatherized, a most welcome attribute given the typical flimsy aluminum or fragile plastic models on the market. The Prime Location's spectral output may not be particularly impressive, but the unit's beam spread of 50 degrees produces very smooth coverage, especially for such a compact fixture.
With a CRI rating of 91, the Prime Location LED offers decent if not great performance, with no measurable color shift when dimmed. Its 47-degree beam spread is very smooth, a key consideration for news and doc shooters lighting wider angle standups or scenes with multiple on-camera talent.
Lowel's stellar new unit, made in Mexico by Fluotec, will find far-reaching applications in news operations, documentaries and nature programs, for which the Lowel Prime Location LED is close to ideal. The sealed panel, electronic controls for color and intensity, power on/off, and input cable, are all designed to withstand severe service conditions.
Fitted with monster-size heat sinks and a heavy aluminum chassis, the Lowel Prime Location LED is highly resistant to damage from physical shock and water. It is the first instrument of its kind to earn an IP Code of IP65—a handy capability for sure, given the proclivity of attention-grabbing weather reporters to seek out the most miserable conditions possible.
Summary: The smoothest, most rugged, weatherized 1x1 type array on the market.
Target Applications: ENG/documentary shooters will find Prime Location bi-color LED especially suitable for stand-up coverage of talent under extreme weather or environmental conditions.
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Garry Pierce, Tailwater Drifters Guide Co.
Garry, a native Albertan, grew up in central Alberta, where his love of the outdoors and fly fishing began at the early age of eight years. Armed with an 8.5 ft. fiberglass pole, he set out to cut his teeth, flyfishing for some of the toughest, elusive, large brown trout that spring creeks and other local waters had to offer. Garry's passion for flyfishing has taken him to the remote areas of Alaska, Southern Chile and many places in between hunting for that photo of a trophy. During our season, Garry is on the water daily. When he's not fishing with clients, he's floating rivers gaining more experience and knowledge for future clients.
After accepting an invitation to attend the Hyde Guide School in 1996, Garry and his wife Connie took their love of fly fishing to the next level, forming what is now the company, Tailwater Drifters. With the addition of a second Hyde Low Profile, they now specialize in personalized, professional service for a maximum of four guests per week. Float trips on the Red Deer (Garry's Backyard and home water) and Bow rivers are offered along with walk and wade trips to spring creeks, high altitude freestone rivers and lakes. The company packages these in single days or extended stays. Angling opportunities exist for browns, bulls, brooks, rainbows and cutthroat trout. Included in the package is transportation to and from the designated fishing area of the day and first class lunches made fresh daily from Connie's Kitchen.


Portobello mushrooms make for a delicious and healthy meal. Similar to bell peppers, they are a versatile ingredient and can be served in so many different ways.
Dice and either roast or stir-fry your favorite veggies with garlic, thyme, oregano, sea salt, ground pepper, and a dash of olive oil.
Season and lightly roast red bell peppers. Arrange portobello, peppers, and mixed greens into a burger.
Sauteed some spinach with garlic, lemon juice, sea salt, ground pepper, sweet onion, and very little olive oil. Place filling in portobello and sprinkle with crushed pine nuts.
After cooking portobellos, leave oven on. Mix chopped mushrooms, tomatoes, zucchini, and onions with your favorite herbs and seasonings. Add a dash of olive oil and saute for 3-4 mins. Pour veggies into portobellos, crack an egg on top of each filling, and return to oven until eggs are cooked to your liking.


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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam-- The director of operations for the 9th Operations Group detachment 3 explains the capabilities of the RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft during a Pacific Airpower Tour here Sep. 8. The Pacific Airpower Tour is designed to give Airmen from Andersen a broad view of what the base does for the Air Force in the Pacific Asian theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Wiseman/Released)
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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam—Tech. Sgt. Tobin Young, 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, explains the daily operations for maintainers of the B-52 Stratofortress bomber during a Pacific Airpower Tour here Sep. 8. The Pacific Airpower Tour allows Airmen to see operations occurring around Andersen that they might not see during their day-to-day operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Wiseman/Released)
Heavy plane; heavy duty landing gear
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam—U.S. Air Force Capt. Joshua Logie, 20th Expeditionary Bomber Squadron B-52 Stratofortress pilot, explains the landing gear on a B-52 Stratofortress bomber during a Pacific Airpower Tour here, Sep. 8. The Pacific Airpower Tour is designed to give Airmen from Andersen a broad view of what the base does for the Air Force in the Pacific Asian theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Wiseman/Released)
Pacific Air Tour gives Airmen the "total" picture
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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Pacific Airpower Tour allows Airmen to see operations occurring around Andersen that they might not see during their day-to-day operations.


FREMANTLE forward Michael Walters says the club will be ruthless on players who do not meet team standards after Connor Blakeley was dropped for the Sunday's round 15 clash with St Kilda.
Blakely, who has been in solid form this year averaging 24 disposals, was omitted from the side after leaving the club early last Wednesday because of illness before travelling to Bunbury and Yallingup where he went surfing on Thursday.
Walters said the leadership group had to take a stand.
"It was a decision from the leadership group," he said.
"We need to be more ruthless and uncompromising at times and thought we – albeit Connor's been playing some good footy – had to make an example of it and set a standard that if you do things wrong you will be punished.
Walters also weighed in on Saints player Nick Riewoldt, who seduced Griffin Logue into passing him the ball, rather than Tim Membrey.
Riewoldt let the ball drop to the ground and Membrey, who had just marked the ball, was brought forward to the goal line to convert his opportunity.
Walters said the veteran was simply being "smart", joking that he "might even try it this week".
"It's really smart. As players, we know the rules. We need to abide by the rules and if you don't give it back to the right player then it's a definite 50," he said.
Walters had threatened to drive the Dockers back into the finals race with a dynamic performance that included six goals, 32 disposals and 12 score involvements.
Ultimately the Dockers fell 12.8 (80) to 12.17 (89).
"Me playing that sort of game is based on the guys around me," Walters said.


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Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues (Print ISSN: 1544-0036; Online ISSN: 1544-0044)
Money Laundering in Ecuador: Profile of the Involved Person and the Socio-Economic Impact
Irene Buele, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana
Jessica Nieves, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana
Fabián Cuesta, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana
Money Laundering constitutes a serious socio-economic problem that involves people from different social levels, who try to mask, as legal, the money that comes from illegal activities, generally related to drug dealing, illegal selling of guns, human trafficking, and others. Several institutions, with social purposes, are pursuing mechanisms to prevent and fight these types of crime form different edges. The present research analyzes the profiles of the involved people regarding money laundering in Ecuador, during the years 2006-2014, and the impact provoked from a social-economic point of view at national level. The present project provides with general guidelines regarding the people involved and the operation methods. This information might guide to the creation of controls, which minimize the execution of this type of crime, especially in activities related to business environment, where an accountant is in exercise of his profession, and whose ethics depend on the majority of the economic and financial processes. The applied methodology is based on the extraction of qualitative and quantitative variables of the verdicts emitted in Ecuador, from 2006 to 2014, and published by the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (its Spanish acronym GAFILAT) for its descriptive analysis and hypothesis tests. Through the attained results, it can be observed that the implied people, regarding money laundering, are mainly foreign males. Under this type of crime, the men are the ones who enter a higher amount of money to the country; approximately 42 times more than the women. The money enters the country through international flights, and in some reported cases, the involved people have been arrested at the airport. The money that circulates thanks to money laundering is about 2.5 to 6.3% of the PIB in Latin America, and the purchases made to ghost companies, according to the Internal Revenue Service (SRI standing by the acronym in Spanish) in Ecuador, get to $200,000 approximately.
Ecuador, Financial Risk, Fraud, Money Laundering, Organized Crime, White-Collar Crime.
Professional and personal ethics must be based on the execution of every economic activity. The professionals who work in any business are responsible of the decisions that can be made for the persecution of their general welfare. Concerning the business environment, the experience and education background of a public accountant is of great importance (Wong and Salcedo, 2014). The confidence and welfare of a business is in the hands of the accountant, and the honesty and ethics, which involve all the activities that the business makes, are his entire responsibility.
"To be ethical, it is not enough to have ethics, but to behave and have attitudes in concordance to these principles" (Calleja and Marcos, 2013)..
The principles that govern the ethics of these professionals should:
"Mark the knowledge and skills that will be used to provide with good service to their customers, justifying, in this way, their labor" (Cobo, 2001).
The lack of ethics in a person can cause problems not only in the entity, but also in the entire society. One of the most fraudulent practices in the business environment is money laundering. This act:
"Represents a complex problem for the world community, because it carries negative consequences for the economy, the government, and the social welfare for the nations" (Perotti, 2009).
Around the world, several organizations join their efforts to fight money laundering. Among them, there is the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (its Spanish acronym GAFILAT). This is a regional group, which belongs to the international network of organizations dedicated to the prevention and combat of money laundering and the finance of terrorism. The GAFILAT defines asset laundering as the way through which criminals process money with the purpose of covering its illegal origin (GAFILAT, 2017). Another organization that is joint against this type of crime is the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Treasure Department of the USA (FINCEN). The mission of the FINCEN is to protect the financial system against the illicit use of money and to fight money laundering to promote national security through the compilation, analysis and diffusion of the financial intelligence and the strategic use from the financial authorities. The FINCEN defines asset laundering as the covering up of the illicit activities, so that they could be masked in the legal market without being discovered (FINCEN, 2017).
Through money laundering:
"Delinquency transforms the economic incomes derived from criminal activities into funds of apparently legal sources. The criminal activities can vary from drug dealing, gun traffic, administrative corruption, and any other type of organized crime" (Rozas, 2008).
The money coming from asset laundering generally arises from illegal activities, some of them considered as the most profitable of the world, for example, the clandestine manufacture and sale of arms, market of organs and drugs, illicit enrichment from public resources; markets where plagiarized items are offered instead of the original ones, etc. (Andrade, 2009).
A method used to legalize money coming from asset laundering:
"Generally implies a business capable of facilitating the introduction of illicit funds in the financial area; however, the businesses involved, do not exercise any legitimate activity because they only exist to cover the deposits of illicit money" (Gilmour, 2015).
Money laundering is one of the major obstacles to maintain an efficient international financial system. The implications that this crime causes, not only affect a specific area, but also worldwide:
"This can carry to significant costs for the economy when damaging the economic operations and promoting weak economic policies" (Normah et al., 2014).
In the report published by the Financial Information and Analysis Unit (UIAF) from Colombia,
"It was indicated that the total laundering amounts reached about the 2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) worldwide" (UIAF, 2014). Through time, money laundering has presented superiority in its perpetration. For this reason, nowadays, several organizations fight this crime, "even efforts in fighting money laundering started in an early stage, the solutions seem to be restricted to a strategic level" (Luo, 2014).
The establishment of regulations against money laundering has become the weapon of governments to fight crime and crimes, these laws pressure companies to keep constant information on their economic transactions (Hopton, 2016). In Ecuador, the Organic Law of Prevention, Detection and Eradication of Asset Laundering Crime and Finance of Crimes, which institutes the Financial Economic Analysis Unit (its Spanish acronym UAFE), as the technical entity responsible of the compilation of information, viability of reports, execution of policies and national strategies of prevention and eradication of asset laundering and crime finance. Among its functions are, according to the Organic Law on Prevention, Detection of the Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering and the Financing of Crimes (2016) in article 12: detect unusual or unjustified economic operations and send them to the State Attorney General's Office intervene in criminal proceedings, promote and execute international cooperation, maintain a database of their operations and impose sanctions.
Within the statistical data, in the year 2018 the UAFE attended at its help desk 44,800 technical assistance, between phone calls and emails, the number of subjects required to report was 7,266, the reports of financial statements on the $10,000 was 31,232 of which 45% corresponded to Construction Companies. Of the 787 investigation requests made by the General Prosecutor of Ecuador, 26% corresponded to Money Laundering (Accountability Report, 2019).
The perpetrators of asset laundering, to conceal their activities, in ghost companies, will surely emit fraudulent financial statements, whose consequences:
"Are significant because they affect the market value of a company, its reputation, and they denote the lack of ability of their administrators to reach their strategic objectives" (Rozas, 2009).
The companies should have controls, which allow them to distinguish these types of activities early:
"Given that these controls have to be adequately managed, if we pretend to correct deviations of the different objectives and entrepreneurial management levels with them" (Eslava, 2013).
A method used for the prevention and detection of asset laundering is the "forensic auditing" (Bareño, 2009). The forensic auditing is:
"A science that allows to gather and to present financial, countable, legal, and administrative tax information, in a way that it has to be accepted by a Jurisprudence Court against the perpetrators of an economic crime" (Calderón, 2017).
This research identifies the profile of the perpetrator of asset laundering to give the organizations the necessary guidelines, which allow the generation of internal and external controls, which impede the execution of these crimes.
Methodology Used In Research
To determine the profile of the individual involved in money laundering, a qualitative and quantitative research was carried out, based on the sentences issued in 2006-2014 in Ecuador and published later by the Financial Action Task Force. GAFILAT gathers data from the State Attorney General's Office and the Council of the Judiciary of Ecuador and presents 16 legible sentences for money laundering on its website.
Through a diagnosis and descriptive analysis, variables such as nationality, gender, age, level of education, province and money amounts were detected, and the following hypotheses were formulated:H1 Foreigners' participation in Money Laundering in Ecuador is higher than Ecuadorians.
H1 Foreigners' participation in Money Laundering in Ecuador is higher than Ecuadorians.
H2 Male participation is higher both in the prosecuted people of foreign and Ecuadorian nationality.
H3 Male people are those who load funds to the country for money laundering.
H4 The provinces of the Coast region have the highest percentage of cases sentenced for money laundering.
It is important to emphasize the difference between the people involved and the ones prosecuted for money laundering. The former refers to the individuals who are in the list issued by the Judicial Council according to the process number, while the latter are the people who had the sentence for money laundering.
In addition, to determine the socio-economic impact of money laundering, the following has been taken as a reference: increase of crime and corruption, weakening of the private sector and loss of income from taxes. These subjects were compared with the reality of Ecuador, according to the reports issued by the official organisms. Figure 1 involved in money laundering.
Figure 1:People Involved In Money Laundering.
Results Of The Investigation
Characteristics of the Person Involved in Money Laundering
To determine the characteristics of those involved in money laundering, variables such as nationality, gender, age, amounts of money, occupation, level of education, among others, were analyzed.
Figure 1 shows the percentage of people who were prosecuted due to money laundering in Ecuador. 34% of those involved submitted to a trial process, while 66% were not prosecuted. People prosecuted for money laundering were between 20 and 47 years old, and 75% of them had secondary education.
Figure 2:Finding Place Of Funds Involved In Money Laundering
Figure 2 shows that people prosecuted for money laundering use shops as the most suitable place to camouflage their money. Most businesses are legally constituted shell-companies. Among these companies, there are frame shops, shrimp farms, artistic spectacles companies, among others.
The findings made in shell-companies were given thanks to the joint controls carried out by the Internal Revenue Service (SRI, its acronym in Spanish) and the General Attorney Office of Ecuador. The shell-companies:
"Create a Unique Registry of Taxpayers (RUC, in Spanish), addresses in which presumably the economic activities are carried out; however, after reviewing those addresses, nonexistent places were verified that would not allow to carry out large commercial operations" (Servicio de Rentas Internas, 2017).
Stated Hypotheses Verification
The hypotheses were made based on the generalizations that citizens usually make about people involved in money laundering activities.
H1 The participation of foreigners in Money Laundering in Ecuador is higher than Ecuadorians.
In the group of people prosecuted for money laundering, people from different nationalities were found, such as Colombian, Mexican and Greek and, of course, Ecuadorian. Foreigners reach a 52% participation in the crime of money laundering, while Ecuadorians represent 48%. Figure 3 shows that the year with the highest percentage of foreigners' participation was 2013, with 63% of prosecuted people. No information is recorded since the year 2007 to 2008.
Figure 3:Prosecuted People By Year And By Nationality.
Therefore, hypothesis 1 is accepted: The participation of foreigners prosecuted in money laundering in Ecuador is higher than Ecuadorians'. These figures could be linked to the facility that foreign persons must enter the country. The only requirements to do so is to have a valid passport (6 months of validity) or ID card for South America citizens, and people do not have to belong to the countries that are in the following list: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Republic Democratic People's Democratic Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, (Ministry of Interior, 2016) since it is necessary for those countries to have a visa before entering the country.
The male gender predominates in those prosecuted with a total participation of 74%. In Ecuador, according to the Statistical Information of Centers of Liberty Deprivation-Persons Deprived of Liberty (Figure 4), in 2014 the number of persons deprived of liberty was 26,821, including men and women. Persons deprived of their liberty are 91% of the male gender and 9% are female (Ministry of Justice, 2014).
Figure 4:Prosecuted People's Participation By Gender And Nationality.
Therefore, hypothesis 2 states that the participation of the male gender is higher among the prosecuted of different nationalities. This fact is accepted due to the superiority found by the male gender committing this crime. At present, several investigations related to criminology and gender. Fuller states that the differences between men and women.
"Are not a direct result of biology since each era elaborates features on anatomical differences. For this reason, it is doubtful that there are innately feminine or masculine criminal behaviors and it is sought to understand when opportunities produce different styles of criminality for each gender "(Fuller, 2008).
H3 Males are the ones who mostly enter the country funds on money laundering.
Figure 5 shows that the highest amounts of money have been found in the hands of a male person, reaching 96% of the money related to this crime. Meanwhile the female gender was related to only a 4% of the money found.
Figure 5:Participation Of The Prosecuted By Gender And Amount.
Hypothesis 3: Males are the ones who mostly enter the country funds on money laundering, which is accepted. A 78% of the total amount, equivalent to $ 20,147,775.09 was found with Ecuadorian male prosecuted ones. A 22%, equivalent to $ 5,555,139.67, correspond to male prosecuted ones from foreign countries.
H4 The provinces of the Coastal Region evidence the highest percentage of cases sentenced for money laundering.
Sentences evidence several provinces in which cases for money laundering was found, they are Pichincha, Guayas and El Oro. Most of these cases were tracked in airports. A 25% of cases were found in Pichincha. People entering the country carried this money in their suitcases and did not justify its origin (Figure 6).
Figure 6:Provinces Where Money-Laundering Cases Have Been Tracked.
Hypothesis 4: Provinces from the Coastal Region are the ones that evidence the highest percentage of sentenced cases for money laundering, which is rejected. Graph 6 shows that the province with the highest number of cases of money laundering is Pichincha with 63%, which is consistent with the results issued by the State Attorney General's Office in its Criminological Profile report.
Socioeconomic Impact of the Amounts Entered the Country due to Money Laundering
Given the clandestine nature of money laundering, it is difficult to measure the magnitude of its economic repercussions; "For Latin America, a gross estimate of money laundering in the region seems to place it between 2.5% and 6.3% of the annual regional GDP" (Inter-American Development Bank, 2017). This is a harm that directly affects the economy and society of the place where it develops. It is "one of the most complex crimes, because it cannot be determined clearly and precisely, for it demands deep research tasks" (Esteban et al., 2012).
Money laundering not only affects the people who carry it out, but also "has serious socioeconomic repercussions; it allows illicit activities to flourish, which leads to greater social problems. There is an obvious link between the magnitude of money laundering and the level of internal corruption in a country" (Inter-American Development Bank, 2017). Money laundering produces negative effects which tend to increase in places where there is no stable financial system, or even worse, there are not strong banking regulations. In addition, it also produces other consequences such as the increase of corruption and crimes. Also, the private sectors weakens and in the public-sector loss of income from taxes take place (Soto, 2014).
Another consequence previously mentioned is the weakening of the private sector. This consequence is directly related to shell corporations. According to the Regulation for the Application of the Law of Internal Tax Regime (LORTI), article 25, it is mentioned that these are companies that have been created by means of a false declaration of intent, which pretends the existence of an economic activity to be able to justify the transactions and hide the benefits produced from that supposed activity (National Assembly of Ecuador, 2010). According to figures reported by the SRI (Internal Revenue Services) (2017), until March 17, 2017 in Ecuador, there is an amount of $218,683,774 recovered from purchases made to this type of corporations that were suppliers on both, public and private sectors.
The analysis of the judgments on cases for money laundering determined that foreigners have a greater intervention in operations for such cases in Ecuador with a percentage of participation of 52%. Lacking rigorous requirements in the policies of Ecuador at accepting foreigners who enter the country has just made this easier. It is also observed that the majority of people who money launders are of male gender with a 74% of participation. Likewise, the ones who enter higher sums of money to the country are of male gender.
People who launder money have reinvented the way they camouflage money, which means, they do not keep a single method to legalize it. One of the methods used to enter the money takes place at international airports in the largest provinces of Ecuador.
Another of the most used methods is the creation of businesses and shell corporations that serve to disguise the funds coming from illegal sources. Currently, the SRI is the organization responsible for regulating and monitoring that this type of acts is not committed. As a result, up to 2016, 508 registered shell corporations have been found countrywide. (Internal Rents Service, 2017).
Money laundering brings serious consequences on the economy of a country and its inhabitants. This offence implies other crimes that cause suffering and even death among those involved. Other consequences include the rise of crime, loss of income for the public sector and the weakening of the private sector. It is important to create a culture of prevention as well as to set control and cautionary measures; they are necessary to minimize and even eradicate this issue in the world.
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Although most of M. Night Shyamalan's movies have some sort of twist, the payoff of "Glass" is not earth shattering.
Despite coming from a director (M. Night Shyamalan) known for either producing fantastic thrills ("The Sixth Sense") or spectacular flops ("Avatar: The Last Airbender"), "Glass" seems to fall right in the middle; it's an intriguing film that plays with our conception of superheroes and is well worth the watch, but it fails to completely convince, amaze or surprise us.
"Glass" is a crossover sequel between two previous films ("Unbreakable" and "Split"). It centers around three main figures: vigilante superhero David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who believes he has superhuman strength; Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is intelligent but suffers from brittle bone disease; and the villainous but troubled "Horde," (James McAvoy) a man with 23 distinct personalities, one of which is the murderous "Beast." All three men have been incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, and are told by the resident doctor (Sarah Paulson) that they have psychological disorders and believe they are superhuman, when they are really not. If you have not seen the previous films, don't despair; I had not either, and "Glass" can stand on its own, although the critic community seems to feel the sequel was a disappointing conclusion to the prolonged and well-executed predecessors.
One of the most redeeming aspects of "Glass" is its pragmatic interpretation of how superheroes would be received in real life. In most superhero films, it is just accepted that over-the-top super humans would prance around the city in spandex and fight equally over-the-top villains, that the community would accept this and look up to the heroes, that damage to private and public property would magically fix itself, and that police would accept vigilantism as a legitimate way to fight crime. The only notable films that have previously addressed the absurdity of this notion are "The Incredibles," a children's film, and "Hancock," which was pretty terrible.
Characters in "Glass" have their sanity questioned and are told that there are perfectly rational, scientific explanations for their supposed "superpowers." In reality, if someone claimed to be a superhero, they would likely be sent to a psychiatric ward. Dunn's vigilante heroism is not well received and he is wanted by the FBI. Ultimately, it is clear that the powers that be have no interest in superheroes or villains, and will do whatever it takes to suppress them (and more importantly, suppress their potential to damage property).
Instead of wondering if there would be a twist, I found myself wondering what the twist would be. Almost all Shyamalan films feature twists, and it was somewhat unsettling sitting in anticipation for a trick - however, the payoff is not as earth-shattering as I had hoped.
There are definite funny moments, especially from the "Horde" (more specifically, from his "Patricia" personality). Even if the film isn't Oscar-worthy, McAvoy's performance certainly is - he manages to switch seamlessly between all 23 of his characters, who all vary in age, gender and accent without flinching.
While it may be a somewhat disappointing end to a long-winded trilogy, "Glass" will still entertain, keep you guessing, and provoke some thought, making it well worth the watch.


The construction industry relies on a variety of heavy equipment to facilitate work efficiency. If you notice large construction sites, you will typically observe a fleet of machinery continually humming until the work is complete. But not every contractor has to buy a fleet of equipment to take on large projects. These days, it is more common to rent than purchase cranes and other plant.
Plant hire companies usually draw up a rental agreement with the borrower which includes the terms and conditions of using the equipment.
It is quite apparent that buying heavy equipment is costly. For a small contractor trying to turn a profit from each project, renting proves to be the optimal solution. Here are the benefits of hiring machinery.
If every single construction project your company undertakes requires using cranes and heavy machinery, you will need to buy each piece of equipment which will require significant capital. Renting, on the other hand, reduces the cost and increases profit margins. If you factor in the additional cost of storing and maintaining equipment, it makes more sense to rent for the time being than buy.
Buying equipment means you also need to factor in the cost of repairs. After some time, machinery will start to malfunction due to wear and tear. Replacing parts and having them running in optimal condition is another problematic undertaking. Renting eliminates the added worry and expense of storing heavy equipment.
Hiring plant and machinery also means you have access to complete and comprehensive services according to the agreement you signed. You always have the option to add more inclusions in the contract such as delivery, removal, and clean-up.
Another concern many contractors face is access to trained individuals who can operate equipment. If you buy machinery, you also need to train new employees to have the necessary skills in handling heavy machinery. Hiring, on the other hand, gives you the option to request the rental company to provide a skilled operator along with the machinery you are renting.
Renting also offers the added flexibility of paying according to the period you are renting the machine. You can rent equipment for however long or short you want, depending on what the project requires.
There is no doubt that renting a crane and other heavy machinery is better than buying equipment in most situations. Before selecting a rental company, however, always check the quality of equipment for rent and the company's years in the business. Any piece of machinery you hire should be well-maintained and at least a new make and model. Always take time to examine every single detail of your agreement with the company before officially signing a contract and paying a rental deposit.


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MGM has announced the full voice cast for their upcoming animated feature film adaptation of The Addams Family. It was previously revealed that Oscar Isaac would be filling the role of Gomez Addams, and now he'll be joined by Charlize Theron as Morticia, Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) as Pugsley, Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester, Bette Midler as Grandmama, and Allison Janney as the family's arch nemesis Margaux Needler.
Sausage Party directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan are at the helm of the film, which follows the Addams family as their lives begin to unravel when they face off against a crafty reality TV host while also preparing for the extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
Matt Lieberman wrote the screenplay for the new film, which is based on Charles Addams' iconic cartoon series. This cast is pretty swell, and while a live-action Addams Family movie would've been preferable (especially with Isaac and Theron in those lead roles), the ensemble is excellent regardless and I'm curious to see what Vernon and Tiernan do here.
The Addams Family was previously adapted into a live-action feature film in 1991 with Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, and Christopher Lloyd in the lead roles. Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) directed that film and a sequel, Addams Family Values, which still stands as one of the best sequels ever made.
The Addams Family will be released in theaters on October 11, 2019. Check out a concept photo of the animated characters below.
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De Wree staat bij de Germinal Beerschot-supporters vooral bekend als de speler die het belangrijke uit-doelpunt scoorde tegen Lokeren voor het behalen van de bekerfinale. Ook scoorde hij het winnende doelpunt in de gewonnen bekerfinale tegen Club Brugge in mei 2005. In januari 2009 verhuisde De Wree naar het Nederlandse Roda JC. Zijn verblijf in Nederland duurde anderhalf seizoen en werd gekenmerkt door blessureleed.

In juli 2010 keerde De Wree terug naar België en tekende hij een contract bij eersteklasser Lierse SK.
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PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree

If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should
refer to the docs that go with that version.

The latest release of this document can be found
[here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/docs/design/principles.md).

Documentation for other releases can be found at
[releases.k8s.io](http://releases.k8s.io).

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# Design Principles

Principles to follow when extending Kubernetes.

## API

See also the [API conventions](../devel/api-conventions.md).

* All APIs should be declarative.
* API objects should be complementary and composable, not opaque wrappers.
* The control plane should be transparent -- there are no hidden internal APIs.
* The cost of API operations should be proportional to the number of objects intentionally operated upon. Therefore, common filtered lookups must be indexed. Beware of patterns of multiple API calls that would incur quadratic behavior.
* Object status must be 100% reconstructable by observation. Any history kept must be just an optimization and not required for correct operation.
* Cluster-wide invariants are difficult to enforce correctly. Try not to add them. If you must have them, don't enforce them atomically in master components, that is contention-prone and doesn't provide a recovery path in the case of a bug allowing the invariant to be violated. Instead, provide a series of checks to reduce the probability of a violation, and make every component involved able to recover from an invariant violation.
* Low-level APIs should be designed for control by higher-level systems. Higher-level APIs should be intent-oriented (think SLOs) rather than implementation-oriented (think control knobs).

## Control logic

* Functionality must be *level-based*, meaning the system must operate correctly given the desired state and the current/observed state, regardless of how many intermediate state updates may have been missed. Edge-triggered behavior must be just an optimization.
* Assume an open world: continually verify assumptions and gracefully adapt to external events and/or actors. Example: we allow users to kill pods under control of a replication controller; it just replaces them.
* Do not define comprehensive state machines for objects with behaviors associated with state transitions and/or "assumed" states that cannot be ascertained by observation.
* Don't assume a component's decisions will not be overridden or rejected, nor for the component to always understand why. For example, etcd may reject writes. Kubelet may reject pods. The scheduler may not be able to schedule pods. Retry, but back off and/or make alternative decisions.
* Components should be self-healing. For example, if you must keep some state (e.g., cache) the content needs to be periodically refreshed, so that if an item does get erroneously stored or a deletion event is missed etc, it will be soon fixed, ideally on timescales that are shorter than what will attract attention from humans.
* Component behavior should degrade gracefully. Prioritize actions so that the most important activities can continue to function even when overloaded and/or in states of partial failure.

## Architecture

* Only the apiserver should communicate with etcd/store, and not other components (scheduler, kubelet, etc.).
* Compromising a single node shouldn't compromise the cluster.
* Components should continue to do what they were last told in the absence of new instructions (e.g., due to network partition or component outage).
* All components should keep all relevant state in memory all the time. The apiserver should write through to etcd/store, other components should write through to the apiserver, and they should watch for updates made by other clients.
* Watch is preferred over polling.

## Extensibility

TODO: pluggability

## Bootstrapping

* [Self-hosting](http://issue.k8s.io/246) of all components is a goal.
* Minimize the number of dependencies, particularly those required for steady-state operation.
* Stratify the dependencies that remain via principled layering.
* Break any circular dependencies by converting hard dependencies to soft dependencies.
  * Also accept that data from other components from another source, such as local files, which can then be manually populated at bootstrap time and then continuously updated once those other components are available.
  * State should be rediscoverable and/or reconstructable.
  * Make it easy to run temporary, bootstrap instances of all components in order to create the runtime state needed to run the components in the steady state; use a lock (master election for distributed components, file lock for local components like Kubelet) to coordinate handoff. We call this technique "pivoting".
  * Have a solution to restart dead components. For distributed components, replication works well. For local components such as Kubelet, a process manager or even a simple shell loop works.

## Availability

TODO

## General principles

* [Eric Raymond's 17 UNIX rules](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Eric_Raymond.E2.80.99s_17_Unix_Rules)

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By GORDON KHO
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Waiting for a love that never comes
I am a late bloomer in almost all aspects of my life. I bought my first house at a relatively later age than most of the people I know. I only started to work out several years ago. And it wasn't until recently, after a family member experienced a health scare, that I actually looked into an insurance policy.
I am also late to the party when it comes to making friends. You see, most people would attest to making lifelong friends at school or university. But not me.
I never really had friends back in school. I was a pop culture geek, and I just didn't fit in at a school where my classmates were more interested in football than, say, pop music.
Although I came out of my shell by the time I hit my early 20s in university, even then friendships were fleeting. This continued when I started working. The only friends I had were my colleagues, as I spent so much time at the office … but when it comes to work friends, it is hard to gauge where the professional ties end and the real friendship begins. So on weekends, I found myself with no one to hang out with. Kind of sad when you're in your 20s (though I did save a lot of money from not socialising!).
It didn't help that I was also terribly shy, had an inferiority complex, and was (and am still) a teetotaler. So I doubt I was ever interesting to anyone. I never attended a party when I was in school, and neither was I invited to any classmates' weddings.
You know all the money I saved up from not socialising? I used it to turn my house into a stylish pad but I never had a housewarming party because I couldn't draw up an invitation list.
When I watched shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother and Stranger Things, I did wonder what it would've been like if I had a group of friends to hang out with while growing up or navigating through life in my 20s.
So, coming back to being a late bloomer – it was only when I hit 40 that I found myself being able to make friends easily.
I guess when you get older and have fewer hang ups about yourself, you also lose the inferiority complex ("Don't like me? Well, join the queue!"). It was also around that time that I made a conscious decision to better myself. I decided to lose some weight, so I joined a gym. The right haircut is essential, so I found myself a good hair stylist. And, here's a secret guys, get yourself a good tailor – a good fit speaks volumes.
All these small changes contributed to a boost of self-confidence. To borrow a word from the entertainment industry, I "reinvented" myself.
Prior to this, I was not in a book club or social organisation that enabled me to meet people, socially, from other walks of life. Sure, I am a journalist and I meet many people on a daily basis but everything is kept professional most of the time.
So, at the gym, for instance, I was able to meet people outside of my industry. But, I didn't join the gym for social reasons; it was mainly for the sake of vanity. I may be a shy guy, but I do intend on looking fly.
So now, at an age where most people find it difficult to make new friends, I, on the other hand, seem to find it a breeze to connect and network on a personal level.
Chalk that up to wisdom that comes with age. In the book The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, And Keeping Friends When You're Not A Kid Anymore, author Marla Paul says that self-discovery gives way to self-knowledge, so we become pickier about whom we want to surround ourselves with.
After years of watching from the sidelines, I know exactly what kind of personalities I am drawn to, and I gravitate towards them. At this age, you want quality over quantity.
While doing some research for this piece, most texts that I came across stated that it gets harder and harder to maintain friendships past a certain age when family, children, caring for parents, and work become priority.
In other words, life happens.
Friendship is a two-way street and if neither puts in the effort, it usually goes sideways. Since I grew up without many friends, I now place a lot of importance in sustaining the frienships that I have now.
I do make an effort to meet up as often as I can with friends I care about. With those I am not able to meet up as frequently, I reach out via phone or social media to let them know I'm thinking of them. Small gestures like that go a long way.
It seems that men have it harder than women when it comes to friendships. It is a false notion that guys do not crave the kind of friendships women have. Brant R. Burleson published a case study in 1997 that found that men are just as likely as women to say they want the same things in friendship: emotional support and disclosure.
However, most men don't get them. That's because, according to author Geoffrey Greif in his book Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships, most men have "shoulder-to-shoulder" friendships rather than "face-to-face" ones – meaning when guys get together, they are more likely to do stuff than have a conversation.
An article at salon.com says that, "People with friends are happier. Friendship is correlated with a more joyful life. If a person is depressed, having a friend interact with them regularly is as effective at treating depression as antidepressants or therapy."
The article also added, "… people with good friends have a 22% to 60% lower chance of dying over a 10-year period".
So better late than never, I reckon.
Now excuse me while I schedule my next lunch appointment with a dear friend.
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"I Hope" you'll let me remix your song: Gabby Barrett & Charlie Puth have a hit, though they've never met
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Gabby Barrett's living a bit of a charmed life these days. First, she topped the country chart with her debut single, "I Hope," and now, she's conquering the pop world, thanks to one very avid fan: none other than Charlie Puth.
In fact, Charlie was so taken with the song, he managed to reinvent "I Hope" as a duet, without ever meeting Gabby face-to-face.
"We've never even met in person, actually," Gabby tells ABC Audio. "He heard it off of one of the streaming platforms, posted it on his Instagram Story, and then reached out to me and had said, 'This song's amazing. I haven't heard a song like this in years. Is there any way that I could remix the song? I have to remix this song.'"
"And I was like, 'Uhhhh… YES!'" she says, revealing she barely even had to think about it.
Even the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't keep Charlie's passion project from happening.
"It was in the beginning of quarantine, yeah," Gabby recalls. "I think it was around either March or April."
"And so we've never met in person," she continues. "But our teams kind of just got together and created this new version of the song, which spreads to an even broader audience of people."
"So he definitely helped, for sure," she says, giving Charlie his propers for her pop success.
In fact, Gabby admits venturing into the pop world wasn't exactly part of her vision.
"If it wants to spill over into pop, it can!" she adds. "And it has been and it's been doing really well. So that's just another wonderful thing."
Gabby has plenty of wonderful things happening these days. She and husband Cade Foehner are expecting their first baby, and she's just been nominated for two Country Music Association Awards.
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A Late Bronze Age chisel, Roman coins, a Roman brooch, a Late Saxon box mount, a medieval coin and medieval buckles found during metal detecting.
February 1991. Found with metal detecting.
Late Bronze Age chisel, (S1).
Roman, Late Saxon and medieval metalwork.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 March 1991.
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