The V&A has acquired an Art Deco bronze relief that scandalised 1930s high society. The work by leading British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934) has been bought with generous donations from The Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), Old Possum's Practical Trust and private donors and will go on display from 22 April in the V&A's Dorothy and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galleries.
Scandal depicts a naked couple embracing while an audience of disapproving onlookers in the background peer at them with mouths agape and hands raised in horror. The 1.6 x 1.5 metre relief was boldly displayed in the drawing room of society couple Henry and Gwen Mond where it both scandalised and satirised 1930s polite society with its reference to the couple's earlier ménage à trois with the writer Gilbert Cannan.
Scandal was commissioned by Henry Mond (heir to the ICI fortune and later the second Lord Melchett) and his wife Gwen in 1930 for their drawing room at Mulberry House, Smith Square, Westminster. The relief is a humorous play on the relationship between the couple's public notoriety and private life. It is a highly original work of art, rich in symbolism, and was an integral part of their celebrated 1930s Art Deco interior.
Scandal was purchased by the V&A at a Christie's auction in New York for $157,000 (approximately £85,000). The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity, awarded £30,873 and the NHMF gave a total of £22,041 towards the acquisition. The relief is a companion piece to the Melchett fire basket, also by Jagger, that the V&A acquired in 2005 for £66,000 with the help of The Art Fund and the Friends of the V&A. The two will now be displayed together, as intended by the artist, for the first time in over thirty years.
David Barrie, Director of The Art Fund, said: "I'm delighted The Art Fund has been able to help the V&A acquire another exceptional example of Jagger's work. It is very good news that Scandal, once the focal point of one of the greatest English private art deco interiors, will now be on public display."
Mark Jones, Director of the V&A, said: "Scandal is a wonderful example of Jagger's work and was a daring riposte by Henry Mond to 1930s society. This is a welcome addition to the V&A's 20th century British Sculpture gallery."
Carole Souter, Chief Executive of NHMF, said: "Jagger was one of our nation's leading sculptors and this National Heritage Memorial Fund grant has helped bring one of his most famous works back to the UK for everyone to enjoy."
Charles Sargeant Jagger was born in Kilnhurst near Sheffield in 1885. In 1908 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art where he studied sculpture and modelling until 1911. He served in the First World War in the Dardenelles and on the Western Front and was wounded three times, the last time seriously. In 1918 and he was made an Official British War Artist for the Ministry of Information. Following the war, he undertook numerous war memorial commissions of which the most famous is the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner (1925).
Henry Mond was born in London in 1898, the only son of Alfred Mond, chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and an important patron of the arts in his own right. Like Jagger he served in the First World War. In 1918 he had a motorbike accident outside the St John's Wood studio occupied by Gwen Wilson (a South African art student) and Gilbert Cannan (a writer with a growing reputation).
Following the accident, Gwen insisted on nursing Henry until he was fully recovered; he became their lodger and her lover. Henry and Gwen married in 1920 challenging society's rules with the unconventional nature of their match;he was heir to a considerable fortune, she was from an unknown South African family. Henry went on to become deputy chairman of ICI, a director of Barclays Bank and an MP. He died in 1949.
The Art Fund is the UK's leading independent art charity. It offers grants to help UK museums and galleries enrich their collections and campaigns widely on behalf of museums and their visitors. It is entirely funded from public donations and has 80,000 members. Since 1903 the charity has helped museums and galleries all over the UK secure 860,000 works of art for their collections. For further information about The Art Fund visit www.artfund.org or call Tanera Bryden on 020 7225 4822 (not for publication).
The V&A is one of the world's greatest museums of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. On 28 April the Museum will open a new gallery to showcase recent acquisitions. The display will be updated annually with a small number of objects rotated more frequently. On display from 28 April will be 21 works acquired by the Museum over the last two years.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) is a 'fund of last resort' set up to save the nation's heritage in memory of those who gave their lives for this country. To date, NHMF has helped to save for the nation over 950 items. It currently receives £10million annual grant-in-aid from the Government. For further information visit www.nhmf.org.uk orcall Dervish Mertcan or Alison Scott on 020 7591 6102 / 6032. Out of office hours mobile: 07973 613820 (not for publication).
For further PRESS information and images of the acquisition please contact Meera Hindocha in the V&A press office on 0207 942 2497 or email m.hindocha@vam.ac.uk (not for publication).


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Замок Эшфорд () — один из замков Ирландии, расположенный в графстве Мейо и построенный в викторианском стиле. На сегодняшний день является гостиницей и входит в маркетинговую организацию «».

История
Замок Эшфорд был построен  ирландской ветвью рода Де Бургов на месте древнего ирландского монастыря в 1228 году. Феодалы Бёрк владели замком Эшфорд более 300 лет. Но потом возникла вражда между Берко и английским феодалом сэром Ричардом Бингемом, который имел титул . Битва между ними завершилась перемирием, а в 1589 году замок достался Ричарду Бингему, который дополнительно его укрепил.

, барон Оранмор и Браун получил замок Эшфорд в качестве дара от короля то ли в 1670, то ли в 1678 году. В 1715 году замок Эшфорд был перестроен кланом Браун: был построен охотничий домик в стиле французских замков XVII века. Сохранились двуглавые орлы на крышах — герб клана Браун.

Как известно из записей 1814 года — в конце XVIII века одна из ветвей клана Браун населяла этот замок, а в начале XIX века кастеляном замка был Томас Элвуд, который состоял на службе клана Браун.

 В 1852 году замок и поместье купил . Он достроил два больших дома-пристройки в викторианском стиле, расширил имение в 26000 акров, построил новые дороги, посадил тысячи деревьев. Замок упоминается в книге сэра Уильяма Уайльда о графстве Голуэй. После смерти Бенджамина Ли Гиннесса в 1868 году замок и усадьба перешли к его сыну Артуру, , расширившему замок, пристроив к нему сооружения в неоготическом стиле.

Замок и усадьбу унаследовал племянник Ардилауна — Эрнест Гиннесс. Замок он подарил правительству Ирландии в 1939 году, его сразу купил Ноэл Гуггард, который превратил замок в отель. Отель пользовался популярностью у любителей рыбачить и охотиться. Родители Ноэла Гуггарта работали в гостиничном бизнесе с 1910 года. Его внучки — Луиза и Пола владеют гостиницей и по сей день.

В 1951 году в замке Эшфорд снимался фильм «Тихий человек» с актёрами Джоном Уэйном и Морин О'Хара в главных ролях. В последние годы замок используется для различных фильмов и сериалов на тему средневековья.

В 1970 году замок купил Джон Малкахи, который полностью реставрировал замок, расширил его, построил поля для гольфа, новое крыло и разбил новые сады. В 1985 году замком заинтересовалась группа американо-ирландских инвесторов. Замок был продан им в 2007 году за 50 миллионов евро. Пока долг не был выплачен, отель находится под управлением , отель финансировался Банком Шотландии (Ирландия). Отель является действующим предприятием компании «Тифко Отель Групп». В сентябре 2012 года он был признан лучшим курортом в Ирландии и третьим лучшим отелем в Европе по версии «Condé Nast Traveler».

В октябре 2012 года отель был выставлен на продажу и был оценен в 25 миллионов евро, в нём было 83 номеров, шесть из которых люксы (Баррет планировал добавить ещё 13 пентхаусов и 30 лож, но этот план не был осуществлен). В мае 2013 года отель был куплен компанией «Red Carnation Hotels» (владеющей несколькими другими отелями стоимостью в 20 миллион евро и принадлежащей ) с планами сделать капитальный ремонт и продать отель, с сохранением рабочих мест. На момент продажи замок Эшфорд был прибыльным как отель.

В январе 2014 года новые владельцы приобрели землю по соседству, чтобы увеличить размеры курорта. Сам замок Эшфорд должен был открыться 14 марта после капитального ремонта, который начался в начале января.

См. также
 Список замков Ирландии

Примечания

Ссылки

 Web site of Ashford Castle
 Photosynth of Ashford Castle
 National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, entry for main castle
 Ashford Castle in the Irish Tourist Association Survey of 1945

Замки графства Мейо
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1228 году
Замки, построенные в XIII веке

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Officials report first confirmed case of COVID-19 omicron variant in Arizona
The first confirmed case of omicron variant was discovered in Arizona Wednesday.
By: abc15.com staff, wire reports
PHOENIX — State health officials have reported the first confirmed case of the COVID-19 omicron variant in Arizona.
The first case was reported Wednesday in Yavapai County, according to officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services.
U.S. officials on Dec. 1 reported the first confirmed case of the omicron variant in the country, found in California.
As of Wednesday, Arizona has become the 22nd state to have a confirmed case of the variant, according to the CDC.
"Much remains unknown about the Omicron variant at this time, including whether it is more transmissible and more capable of producing severe illness than the Delta variant," said Don Herrington, ADHS interim director. "We do know that current COVID-19 vaccines have remained very effective against Delta and other variants, and I strongly encourage Arizonans to get vaccinated if they aren't already and make sure they're current on their booster dose if they are fully vaccinated."
U.S. health officials have said that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading in the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations.
President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN's "State of the Nation" scientists need more information before drawing conclusions about omicron's severity.
The Biden administration says Fauci also reiterated that boosters for fully vaccinated individuals provide the strongest available protection from COVID-19.
All adults are now eligible for a booster if they were vaccinated six months ago or more with Pfizer or Moderna, or two months ago or more with Johnson & Johnson. The COVID Response Team's recommendation to all vaccinated adults is to get a booster shot as soon as possible.

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If you use the Mail app on a Mac, it's fairly likely that you regularly delete emails that you determine to be unnecessary, junk, or that simply aren't needed. Typically this is a selective process where particular email messages are removed as needed, but in some situations you may want to go all out and delete every single email that is in a particular Mail account, or even remove all emails from the entire Mail app on a Mac, without removing the associated email account from Mail app. In other words, while the email messages are removed from Mail, the email account remains in Mail on the Mac so that it can continue to be used.
You should be making regular backups of your Mac with Time Machine, so don't skip a backup before you do this. If you do not have a backup made, and you delete all email in Mail app, those emails will be gone forever. Thus, this delete all emails approach should be used with discretion, and not applied universally just to declare email bankruptcy or clear up space.
This is not a recommended action. Outside of some specific reasons to delete every email from a Mac, this is simply not necessary for the majority of Mac OS X users, and you could end up removing emails that you wanted to keep.
You can repeat the process with the "Sent" folder, the "Draft" folder, and other folders in Mail app if you want to as well if desired.
This is really only necessary for particular situations with particular types of emails and Mail usage; perhaps you used the Mail app for a junkmail account and you don't want the junk mail taking up space on the Mac hard drive any more, but you still want to email address itself kept around. Or maybe you just want to declare the ultimate email bankruptcy by removing every message from Mail on the Mac. Many people who rely on web mail clients like Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo never delete any email at all, and since it is stored on a remote server they don't worry about any potential space the thousands of accrued emails can take up. That's one major perk to using a web based email service, but for those who use the Mac Mail app you may be a bit more discerning.
It's worth mentioning that if you had the same email account setup on an iOS device, you may want to repeat the same process and delete all email from Mail on iPhone or iPad using a similar process, which, like the Mac approach, completely removes the emails from the iOS device, and is also irreversible (without a backup made, anyway).
And again, this trick does not remove the email account from the Mac, it only removes the email messages themselves. The actual email account will stay on the Mac unless it is removed separately.
b) all emails in all the mailboxes?
I suspect from the detail re the Inbox, that this method works on specific Mailboxes, not all mailboxes at once.
This deletes all emails from all mailboxes that have been selected, since we are selecting "Inbox" (which includes all mailboxes that have been setup in this case), thus it deletes all emails from all accounts.
If you only select a single inbox (for example say, "Outlook") to start with, it would remove all emails from that single account instead.
Why not just set up the Mail >Preference > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors to Delete the mail (Drafts, Sent, Junk, Trash) at a specified time? Much easier! If the Inbox has message you don't want to read, hold the Command key down, Click on each message and delete sending to the trash which is set to delete in your choice of One day, One week, One month or when Quitting Mail. To send consecutive message to Trash, hold down the Shift key.
I actually used this feature, before you came with it. I use gmail as my email provider, but mail get the emails too, as my gmail account has been set up in icloud as well. When I erased all messages,1.e. put them in trash/bin, it did the same for my gmail emails. which is not what i wanted/ Luckily I had not cpmpletely erased them amd now I vbring the gmail one, that I still need, slowly back….
I have had this worry also…about losing the actual Gmail archives when I delete the iPhone emails.
I just tried this, and my entire Gmail account went into the Gmail trash folder. I think I was able to recover it. It was terrifying like you wouldn't imagine.
If you have your email setup as IMAP or Exchange ActiveSync on your iOS devices, you won't need to repeat these steps. The emails will already be gone. It's sad how brain dead a lot of people are about email. I have had to work with users who have 100GB+ mailboxes, and they insist that they need it all. It's delusional.
There is a far simpler way than having to do to any menus, simple go to the inbox, hold command A to select all, then hit delete, and ALL emails in that mailbox's inbox to go the trash. No need to mouse thru drop down menus.
I prefer keyboard shortcuts as well, but you won't believe the novices who will complain about it not working since they can't figure out the proper buttons to press, or they'll press the power button and say it turned off their Mac. Better to direct the newbies to menus and specifics so they can't break something in their Mail app.
I'm doing the same exact steps over and over again, and when I click back on the 'Inbox' Tab, it still loads the same emails. Same with the 'All Mail' Tab, I do the same process, but is still the same.
I did every single step and it will delete my emails, but when I click out of it and go back in they all reappear. What should I do?
I tried to delete emails but failed with below message.
"41304.emlx" couldn't be copied to "Messages" because an item with the same name already exists.
nope. i've done this dance for an hour now and gmail still keeps over 38 thousand emails in its 'all mail' folder. each time i do this dance it asks me do i want to delete 8000something messages i say yes and it just moves back and forth between trash and all mail folders. nothing happens.
I currently have over 24,000 emails in my Mac Mail and a similar number in my folder for Mac Mail work (as I'm self employed) and then well over 48,000 in my Sent Items.
Is there a way I could store say all these emails, say prior to 2012 separately, so that I don't have this high number of messages cluttering up my Mac Mail …. I don't want to erase them all, just move them elsewhere.
I tried that and all my mail kept coming back. Then i found under the heading MAILBOXES ,synchronize, iCloud or the name of your email company. I chose my email company after i went to their web based email client and erased everything and then it was all gone.


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Q: NSMetaDataQuery: Not receiving notification for update or gathering finished I am trying out some code to use NSMetaDataQuery to get an application path based
 on bundle  Identifier. I was following hte sample code found in the apple dev
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I wrote the following files for it
//AppPath.h

void GetAppPath();

@interface SearchQuery: NSObject
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@property (copy) NSMetaDataQuery *metaData;

-(void) initiateSearch;
-(void) queryDidUpdate:sender;
-(void) initalGatherComplete:sender;
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Definitions where as follows:
void GetAppPath()
{
    SearchQuery *query = [[SearchQuery alloc] init];
    [query initiateSearch];
}

@Implementation SearchQuery

// Initialize Search Method
- (void)initiateSearch
{
    // Create the metadata query instance. The metadataSearch @property is
    // declared as retain
    self.metadataSearch=[[[NSMetadataQuery alloc] init] autorelease];

    // Register the notifications for batch and completion updates
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(queryDidUpdate:)
                                                 name:NSMetadataQueryDidUpdateNotification
                                               object:self.metadataSearch];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(initalGatherComplete:)
                                                 name:NSMetadataQueryDidFinishGatheringNotification
                                               object:self.metadataSearch];

    // Configure the search predicate to find all application with the given
    //Bundle Id
    NSPredicate *searchPredicate;
    searchPredicate=[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"NSApplicationBundleIdentifier == 'com.myapp.app'"];
    [self.metadataSearch setPredicate:searchPredicate];

    // Begin the asynchronous query
    [self.metadataSearch startQuery];

}

// Method invoked when notifications of content batches have been received
- (void)queryDidUpdate:sender;
{
    NSLog(@"A data batch has been received");
}

// Method invoked when the initial query gathering is completed
- (void)initalGatherComplete:sender;
{
    // Stop the query, the single pass is completed.
    [self.metadataSearch stopQuery];

    // Process the content.
    NSUInteger i=0;
    for (i=0; i < [self.metadataSearch resultCount]; i++) {
        //Do Something with the result
    }

    // Remove the notifications to clean up after ourselves.
    // Also release the metadataQuery.
    // When the Query is removed the query results are also lost.
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
                                                    name:NSMetadataQueryDidUpdateNotification
                                                  object:self.metadataSearch];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
                                                    name:NSMetadataQueryDidFinishGatheringNotification
                                                  object:self.metadataSearch];
    self.metadataSearch=nil;
}

@end

I am calling the GetAppPAth method in main. I had added the necessary header files. The code compiles and run, but I don't get any notification to the two observers.
I had put breakpoints in the two methods, queryDidUpdate & initalGatherComplete. But they are never hit. I thought the failure was because my main code was not
waiting for the search to complete. But it was not working even when I had put some wait in main. I had also tried the code in the following question: Not quite understanding NSMetadataQuery
But it ended in an infinite while loop.

A: From the code sample you posted, it looks like the SearchQuery isn't being retained by anything, so it's immediately being deallocated.

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African Leaders Politics & Economy
South Africa's Last Apartheid President Is Dead. How Shall We Mourn FW De Klerk?
De Klerk, despite taking the road not a taken in the sunset days of the 1980s, was a man accepting reality but with blood on his hands.
by Amol Awuor November 12, 2021 November 12, 2021
What if we were De Klerk? Would we have acted any better?
The death of FW De Klerk is definitely going to polarise South African public consciousness and the world at large. In the age of identity politics, people are going to remember De Klerk through some interesting lenses, but they will converge on race and ethnicity. Forgive me if I get carried away, too.
Let me tell you my story.
I first came to terms with the traumatising legacy of Apartheid when I landed at the Oliver Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg one chilly afternoon in the winter of 2018. To be precise, I arrived on Labour Day (in South Africa it is called Workers Day) after taking a long bus ride (it must have been a 12-hour ride) to Grahamstown in Eastern Cape for graduate studies at Rhodes University.
Now, Eastern Cape province is home to Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Govan Mbeki (Thabo Mbeki's father) and singer Zahara, among other prominent South Africans. And the province is also predominantly home to the Xhosas (the ethnic group that speaks with a click sound).
Back to De Klerk.
I agree with those who say that he should be lauded for his heroic act in releasing Mandela from prison and making concessions to the African National Congress. And literally saving the country from going to the dogs.
The 1980s were extremely trying times for South Africa. The intransigence of the National Party, De Klerk's party, nearly pushed the country to a civil war. The situation was so dire, that Oliver Tambo, according to Mandela's authorized biographer, reportedly ordered the umkhonto we sizwe (ANC armed wing) cadres to start killing innocent white civilians so that the Apartheid upper echelons could see some sense. Of course, they dithered, and this set off a toxic chain of violence and revenge killings that had come to define South African life; a traumatic legacy that lingers on to date.
In other words, De Klerk, despite taking the road not a taken in the sunset days of the 1980s, was a man accepting reality but with blood on his hands.
In my everyday interactions with South Africans in Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Johannesburg, there was always this nagging feeling I felt among mostly blacks that the past was an unfinished business. Not in that introspective or even philosophical sense whereby the past is a mirror to help us make sense of the present or even imagine what the future may look like, but the past as a deep wound. It refuses to heal, not of its own accord, but because the pain of that first stab remains complicated, and is entangled in knots of economic neglect and a series of betrayals by the first democratically elected government, ANC.
There were lonely moments during my graduate school years when I used to wonder whether South Africa will ever break out of the dark shadow of De Klerk's Apartheid nightmare that wasted dozens of lives and planted the seeds of deep-seated hate and distrust between black and whites that has refused to end.
Of course, I cannot absolve ordinary South Africans of the mess that the country has turned out to be. Indeed, they have been participants and actors in the deterioration of political relations between races and clinging on to guilt-tripping tactics at times, and electing leaders with questionable characters, and sometimes scapegoating others at times, not just whites, but also their African brothers and sisters. I repeat, ordinary South Africans cannot escape the blame, if we are to frame the South Africa crisis, as a matter of blame game. Though it is always closer to that.
But ordinary South Africans, in the words of Mbeki, are also my people. Also, De Klerk is one of my people. Yes, he was part of a monstrous regime that remains a stain on the conscience of humanity, and that we are called upon to condemn. But we are still obligated to ask ourselves that if we were in his shoes, would we have acted any better?
May the old man's soul rest.
Amol Awuor
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What the Brexit Vote Teaches Us about Direct Democracy (and the Future of Democracy)
Yesterday's Brexit vote was widely seen as a referendum on referenda. The populist right across Europe now routinely is demanding to take issues directly to the people in order to bypass the parliamentary process which has not produced desired outcome–a process The Economist recently dubbed Referendumania. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has demanded for years that important issues like EU membership should be voted on by the electorate. Prime Minister David Cameron gave in to the demands in order to win the last election, feeling confident that he would win the vote and thus quiet the right-wing opposition. The gamble backfired: Cameron lost both the vote and his job.
The price Britain will pay for playing with the populist fire is potentially steep. Scotland voted overwhelmingly in favor of staying in the EU and now wants a second vote on independence. In Northern Ireland, the vote opened up old confessional lines of cleavage: Protestant Unionists voted for the Brexit, Catholics against. And the City of London may lose its position as premier financial market in Europe. Most importantly, the British economy will face an uncertain future. The EU is unlikely to sign off on free trade arrangements of the sort Norway and Switzerland enjoy because such a deal would encourage other member nations to leave as well. Furthermore, it took Switzerland a couple of decades to arrive at its current, admittedly cushy relationship with the EU.
Governments in other European countries no doubt will try to avoid this populist trap. This will enrage the masses even more, and demands for more democracy will become ever louder. In the wake of the British vote, the German right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has demanded more direct democracy for Germany. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, promised a referendum on the Frexit if she is elected president of France next year. And the Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders announced a push for the Nexit.
One real concern is that this type of referendum is susceptible to lies and deception. The Brexit campaign was run entirely as a post-truth campaign. Its most visible element was the Vote Exit campaign bus run by Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and possible successor as prime minister. The inscription on the side of the bus made a bold claim: "We send the EU £350m a week."
False claim on Boris Johnson's Vote Exit campaign bus: "We send the EU £350m a week." (Reuters)
As it turns out, the figure is wrong. It disregards the massive rebate Britain has received since 1985, and it does not include the EU payments that flow back to British institutions. But facts just did not matter in this campaign that was ruled by anger and fear and dominated by issues like immigration and sovereignty. Michael Gove, co-chair of the Leave campaign and current minister of justice, was asked to name a single independent economic authority who thought Brexit was a good idea. His response: "I think people in this country have had enough of experts."
The counter-example to this narrative is Switzerland. Swiss voters go to the ballot box four times a year to decide three or four issues each time. Direct democracy in Switzerland has grown organically into the fabric of Swiss politics since the late 19th century. Both the government and the media generally do a good job to inform the public on the facts and on the pros and cons of the issues to be voted on. As a result, Switzerland has developed a polity that is structured from the bottom up and that allows voters to participate in decision-making processes on all levels of government. This system has produced an educated and knowledgeable electorate that is much less likely to be fooled by deceptive populist rhetoric.
Political systems create political cultures as much as political cultures shape political systems. Countries like Britain and Germany have a strong tradition of parliamentary democracy. Voters elect leaders who represent them in parliament that in turns forms a government which it controls. This mechanism does not really allow for an alternate decision-making process, for instance in the form of a referendum, as the political culture does not have the tools to deal with it. A system that works exceedingly well in Switzerland therefore could turn toxic for Britain, with the potential of doing the same in other European countries.
There are two reasons why the current populist anger is directed at the European Union and why referenda could accelerate the unraveling of the EU. The European Union has been an elite project. It has done a poor job explaining to Europeans how it has brought peace and prosperity to a continent that had been ravaged by two world wars, how it helped Spain, Portugal and Greece transition away from fascist dictatorships, and how it supported countries formerly in the Soviet bloc both politically and economically. But it also created institutions that are not transparent and that delegate too many decisions to bureaucrats in Brussels. And it has thoroughly mismanaged the Greek debt crisis. Thus it has become an easy target for malcontents.
The second reason is that Globalization has contributed to the de-industrialization of Western Europe (as well as North America). This has created massive wage stagnation and chronic unemployment among the working classes, and it has spawned unprecedented levels of global migration. European populists successfully managed to blame the European Union for both. In reality, 1.5 billion workers, mostly in China and India, have joined the global labor market over the past quarter century which has created extraordinary pressures. On top of that, the digital revolution has begun to make human labor redundant–a trend that may lead to massive unemployment in developed societies in the future. The EU is responsible for none of this: British voters will soon discover that leaving the EU will not lessen the competitive pressures on British industry, nor will it ease migration pressures.
Western democracies have become vulnerable to populist deception. Boris Johnson will be rewarded for his deceptive politics by inheriting the job of Prime Minister. He also wrote the playbook for Donald Trump on how to win a fact-free campaign that is not restrained by the limitations of truth. Maurine Le Pen is favored to win the French presidency next year. And Angela Merkel, the lone beacon of reason in European politics, may well stumble over the populist furor raised by the refugee crisis. Direct democracy which has given Switzerland unparalleled political stability and economic success may also become the political idea that will give the populist right the tools to undo the European Union.
This entry was posted in Global Stories, Local Impacts, Small States and tagged AfD, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Britain, David Cameron, democracy, direct democracy, EU, Eurpean Union, France, Frexit, Front National, Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Netherlands, Nexit, Northern Ireland, plebiscite, post-fact, post-fact campaign, referendum, Scotland, Switzerland, UK, UKIP, United Kingdom, Vote Exit on June 24, 2016 by Peter Hess.
Xhaka vs. Xhaka: Swiss Debates about Immigration and National Identity
The world was watching today as Switzerland and Albania met in a qualifying-round soccer match at the European Championship in France. Switzerland won 1-0. The game got world-wide attention because two brothers were playing on opposite teams: Granit Xhaka for Switzerland and Taulant Xhaka for Albania.
The Xhaka brothers Taulant (left) and Granit embracing before the game. (Screenshot Blick.com)
Whenever US national teams in any sport play in a big tournament, the expectation typically is that the US will win it all–soccer (known was football in the rest of the world) being an exception. Small countries rarely expect their sports teams to win a big tournament. Often, just qualifying for it suffices to get fans excited. When Switzerland beat Spain during the 2010 World Cup, fans were ecstatic. Spain went on to win the World Cup, Switzerland was eliminated because of a loss against Chile and a draw against Honduras, and everybody was happy. So symbolic victories matter and have an afterlife in the psyche of small countries with implications for national identity formation.
For Albania, the game was important because this is the first time ever that the Albanian national team qualified for a big tournament–World Cup or European Championship. To the Albanians, being there was more important than winning. This is why some streets of Zurich were dominated by Albanian immigrants who were in a celebratory mood in spite of the loss of their team. One Albanian fan told the Zurich daily Tages-Anzeiger that Albania was represented at the Euro with 38 players, more than any other country: "We feel like victors because the Swiss national team consists predominantly of Albanians."
Albanians celebrating: post-game parade in Zurich's Langstrasse. Some Swiss showing colors as well. (Tages-Anzeiger)
And this is exactly the reason why some Swiss do not feel like celebrating. The Swiss national team over the past few years has become a focal point of the tempestuous debate about immigration, integration, naturalization, and national identity that has been virulent in Switzerland since the early 1970s. When the Swiss Under-17 team unexpectedly won the World Cup in 2009, the Swiss public was surprised to learn that two-thirds of the players on that team had a migration background. Many of these players have now moved up to the senior team.
Of the eleven players in the starting lineup of today's game, only three do not have a migration background–interestingly the goal keeper and two defenders, while all mid-fielders and strikers do have a migration background. Five players have roots in Albania or in Kosovo (that is ethnically Albanian), and one additional player has roots in Bosnia. So the Albanian fans got it right: they do have reason to celebrate. At the same time, an informal survey of the Swiss tabloid Blick indicates that 58% of its readers do not identify with their national team.
The example of the Xhaka brothers illustrates what has become the norm in Swiss and indeed in European soccer. Both Xhaka brothers were born in Switzerland to Kosovo-Albanian parents who escaped collapsing Yugoslavia in 1989. Both grew up in Basel and learned to play soccer in local clubs. Both profited from the efforts of the Swiss Soccer Federation that since the early 1990s has made it their mission to help integrate the children of immigrants into Swiss society through soccer.
Taulant, born in 1991, still plays for the FC Basel and has collected four Swiss championship trophies with his club. Granit, born in 1992, transferred to Borussia Mönchengladbach, an elite German Bundesliga team, in 2012. Last month, it was announced that he will transfer to Arsenal next season. Both brothers played for Swiss national youth squads, but only Granit was invited to the senior team, while Taulant was invited to play in the Albanian national team in 2013. So Taulant plays for a Swiss club, but for the Albanian national team, while Granit chose a career in the Bundesliga and the Premier League but still plays for the Swiss national team.
Populists vilify both a nascent multicultural society in Switzerland in general and immigrants in particular because of their supposed lack in strength, character, conviction, and commitment to their new country. Commentators from the populist right have denounced prominent Swiss players with a migration background because they allegedly lack loyalty towards their adoptive country as they play for a foreign national team, foreign club team, or both. While native Swiss players enjoy great support for seeking fame and fortune abroad, this is not the case for players with a migration background who play for a foreign club, like Granit, or worse, for a foreign national team, like Taulant. The Xhaka brothers very much represent the globalized cosmopolitan world of elite soccer in Europe, where top teams buy top players regardless of nationality. But a more parochial Swiss public examines 'their' players with migration background for their 'Swissness' and finds them mostly wanting, as a desire to play abroad is seen as lacking ambition to integrate.
Split loyalties: mother Xhaka wearing a t-shirt combining the flags of Albania and Switzerland. (Daily Mail Online)
At the 2014 World Cup, the Swiss team was the most cosmopolitan and was widely praised as a model for integration. But recently, questions of integration and identification with Switzerland have flared up within the national team as well. A frustrated Stephan Lichtsteiner, a star player at Juventus Turin and one of the few players without migration background, started the debate when two players with a long history with the national team were cut from the roster for the qualifier against Estonia in March 2015. He angrily told the rightist Basel daily Basler Zeitung: "To me it is not about the`true Swiss' and the 'other Swiss,' rather it is about the question whether people still can identify with the the national team."
Observers believe that this was a public acknowledgment that a powerful Albanian bloc has emerged in the Swiss national team and that the team is not nearly as integrated as perceived by the public. Lichtsteiner's statement certainly did not not improve the public image of the Swiss national team at best and played into the populist rhetoric at worst. In that context, Albania was the worst-possible opponent for Switzerland. It is a good thing that the Albanian-Swiss managed to win over the Albanian team–otherwise the public backlash in Switzerland questioning the loyalty of their players would have been palpable. But then these players are professionals who want to play soccer, win games, and be successful in their careers–and who are annoyed about being drawn into integration and identification debates. So the true winners of today's game: the Xhaka brothers.
This entry was posted in Small States and tagged Albania, Basel, Euro, Euro 2016, European Championship, FC Basel, football, France, Granit Xhaka, identification, immigration, Kosovo, Lens, Lichtsteiner, national identity, small state, soccer, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss, Switzerland, Taulant Xhaka, Xhaka on June 11, 2016 by Peter Hess.


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require 'date'

module RubyCritic
  module SourceControlSystem
    PERFORCE_FSTAT_OPTS = '-F "clientFile=*.rb" -T clientFile,headRev,headTime,headChange,action'.freeze
    PerforceStats = Struct.new(:filename, :revision, :last_commit, :opened?, :head)

    class Perforce < Base
      register_system

      def self.supported?
        p4_client = ENV['P4CLIENT'] || ''
        p4_installed? && !p4_client.empty? && in_client_directory?
      end

      def self.p4_installed?
        p4_exe = Gem.win_platform? ? 'p4.exe' : 'p4'
        ENV['PATH'].split(File::PATH_SEPARATOR).any? do |directory|
          File.executable?(File.join(directory, p4_exe))
        end
      end

      def self.in_client_directory?
        p4_info = `p4 info`.each_line.select do |line|
          line.start_with?('Client root', 'Current directory')
        end

        client_directory, current_directory = p4_info.map! { |info| info.split(': ').last.chomp }
        child?(client_directory, current_directory)
      end

      def self.child?(root, target)
        root_size = root.size
        target_size = target.size
        return false if target_size < root_size

        target[0...root_size] == root &&
          (target_size == root_size || [File::ALT_SEPARATOR, File::SEPARATOR].include?(target[root_size]))
      end

      def self.to_s
        'Perforce'
      end

      def revisions_count(path)
        perforce_files[Perforce.key_file(path)].revision.to_i
      end

      def date_of_last_commit(path)
        Time.strptime(perforce_files[Perforce.key_file(path)].last_commit, '%s').strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z')
      end

      def revision?
        !perforce_files.values.count(&:opened?).zero?
      end

      def head_reference
        perforce_files.values.map(&:head).max_by(&:to_i)
      end

      def self.build_file_cache
        # Chun is very slow if files stats are requested one by one
        # this fill a hash with the result of all ruby file in the current directory (and sub-directories)
        {}.tap do |file_cache|
          line_aggregator = []
          `p4 fstat #{PERFORCE_FSTAT_OPTS} #{Dir.getwd}...`.each_line do |line|
            Perforce.compute_line(file_cache, line_aggregator, line)
          end
          # handle remaining lines
          Perforce.insert_file_cache(file_cache, line_aggregator) if line_aggregator.any?
        end
      end

      def self.compute_line(file_cache, line_aggregator, line)
        if line.chomp.empty?
          Perforce.insert_file_cache(file_cache, line_aggregator)
        else
          line_aggregator << line
        end
      end

      def self.insert_file_cache(file_cache, lines)
        perforce_stat = Perforce.compute_cache_lines(lines)
        file_cache[perforce_stat.filename] = perforce_stat
        lines.clear
      end

      def self.compute_cache_lines(lines)
        perforce_lines = Hash[*lines.map { |line| line.split[1..-1] }.flatten]
        PerforceStats.new(
          Perforce.normalized_file_path(perforce_lines['clientFile']),
          perforce_lines['headRev'],
          perforce_lines['headTime'],
          perforce_lines.key?('action'),
          perforce_lines['headChange']
        )
      end

      def self.key_file(source_file_path)
        Perforce.normalized_file_path(File.join(Dir.getwd, source_file_path))
      end

      def self.normalized_file_path(file_path)
        file_path.downcase.tr('\\', '/')
      end

      private

      def perforce_files
        @perforce_files ||= Perforce.build_file_cache
      end
    end
  end
end


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Now, this is how you get the kids, and parents, into the Christmas spirit. Job well-done, L Leo Judice staff!
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Nearly 80 percent of parents with children under the age of 6 have used a baby changing station, with 34 percent reporting that they use a station at least once a month. Several cities and counties have already passed laws requiring changing tables be available in men's and women's restrooms, but this legislation imposes those requirements in federal buildings all over the country.
The lack of adequate baby-changing facilities in publicly-accessible federal buildings has forced some parents to change their children on the floor or on the countertop of a public restroom. Not only does this put the health and safety of the baby at risk, it also puts the health of other restroom patrons at risk. Equal access to baby changing stations in federal buildings in both men's and women's bathrooms across the country is essential to protecting the health and safety of children and encouraging a family friendly environment.


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I am new in TM technical and when I analyzed a dump I got the lv_node_key value by typing in the node_key variable by searching in the dump.
Can you tell me from the node key how do I exactly know the corresponding document No and reason for the dump.
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Otherwise, quickest way is to go to ST22 t-code.
Navigate to 'Active calls/events' -> There you can see sequence of the classes that executed. Check those classes and analyze further by putting a breakpoint and debugging.
Additionally, you can go though below nice blog series posted by Stefan. Hope it helps you.


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Q: How to separate if statements and exit code to execute the program properly? I was doing beginner python projects as I am a beginner still. I came upon this guessing game project and Wanted to do a Yes or No type of question on whether the user wants to take part in guessing or not.
If user enters Yes, they take part, if anything else ("No" or anything the program exits the code)
However I seem to be doing something wrong, when I enter Yes, the program exits the code anyway. What am I doing wrong? Thank you all,
Here is the code. I am only posting a part of it, where I most probably get the error.
import random

guess = 0
name = input("Hello what is your name?: ")
num = random.randint(1 , 50)
response = input("Well hello there " + name + "  I have a number between 1-50, Want to play? You have 10 tries")

if response != "Yes" and response != "yes":
     exit()
else:
     while guess <= 10:
        guess += 1
        take = int(input("Guess a number!"))
        if take == num:
            print("You win! You guessed " + str(guess) + " times")
        elif take > num:
            print("Too high!")
        elif take < num:
            print("Thats too low!")
        elif take >= guess:
            print("You lose... The number was "+ num)

A: if response != "Yes" or "yes":

equates to this:
if response != "Yes"     # which resolves to False when response is a 'no'

OR
"yes"      # which is a non-empty string, which Python equates to True.

So basically, you code is equivalent to:
if False OR True:

and thus it always runs the exit() function.
In addition to the items noted above, the if statement should be checking both conditions and thus it should be using and instead of using or, as shown below (HT to @tomerikoo):
What you need is TWO separate tests in the if statement:
if response != "Yes" and response != "yes":

If you believe that you might have other versions of yes answers OR if you think that doing a comparison against a general sequence of terms might be easier to understand, you can also do this test instead:
if response in ['Yes', 'yes', 'y', 'Y', 'YES']:

Debugging:
For folks who are new to programming, in Python, it is sometimes fast and easy to use a simple print() function to rapidly evaluate the current state of a variable, to ensure that it really points at the value you believe it does. I added a print statement below with a comment. It would be beneficial to see what value is associated with response. (Caveat: there are professional tools built into Python and into code editors to help with watching variables and debugging, but this is fast and easy).
import random

guess = 0
name = input("Hello what is your name?: ")
num = random.randint(1 , 50)
response = input("Well hello there " + name + "  I have a number between 1-50, Want to play? You have 10 tries")
print(response)  # checking to see what was actually returned by the
                 # input() method

if response != "Yes" and response != "yes":
    print(response)  # check to see what the value of response is at
                     # the time of the if statement (i.e. confirm that
                     # it has not changed unexpectedly).
    exit()
else:
     while guess <= 10:
        guess += 1
        take = int(input("Guess a number!"))
        if take == num:
            print("You win! You guessed " + str(guess) + " times")
        elif take > num:
            print("Too high!")
        elif take < num:
            print("Thats too low!")
        elif take >= guess:
            print("You lose... The number was "+ num)

A: In python "non-empty random str" is True and empty string "" is False for conditional usages. So,
if "yes":
  print("foo")

prints 'foo'
if "":
  print("foo")
else:
  print("bar")

prints 'bar'
In your case you want program to exit if response is not "Yes" or not "yes". You have two conditions evaluated in if statement:

*

*response == "Yes" --> False

*"yes" --> True

if 1 or 2 --> True --> so exit.
so it should be like that:
if response not in ["Yes", "yes"]:
  exit()
else:
  do_something()


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LUKSTUDIO is a boutique design practice based in Shanghai, China. Founded by Christina Luk in 2011, the studio is comprised of an international team of architects and designers with diverse backgrounds and cultural perspectives. With a common desire to challenge the status quo of the environment, the team finds joy in creating meaningful design solutions for others.
Lukstudio's strength lies in an 'everything is possible' attitude that is influenced by the surrounding context of Shanghai; a fast-paced city where East meets West and tradition is integrated with innovation. Our team believes that every site has its own potentials, and all we need is to observe, explore spatial possibilities of the programs within, aim for maximum effect with minimum intervention.
Each project tells its own story, and Lukstudio is proud to identify a narrative, preserving it from concept through to completion to deliver memorable spatial experiences. We collaborate closely with clients and contractors to deliver artistic solutions within the commercial scope. The team enjoys experimenting with materiality and lighting, articulating details to make each project unique, while also extending the boundaries of architecture.
Lukstudio has been widely published and awarded internationally. It was selected by GOOOOD as one of the top 10 young designers in 2015. It has been listed by Architectural Digest as AD100, the most influential architects and designers in China in 2017. And it is credited as top 50 retail design agencies by insider Trends, a retail consultant expert who pinpoint the latest, most innovative spaces. Other accolades for the studio include: A+Awards, A&D Trophy Award, BOY Awards, DFA Awards, Golden Pin Design Awards, HD Awards, Modern Decoration, Modern Design Awards, Prix Versailles, Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, Taiwan Interior Design Award, Tongji Young Designer Award.
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Bateson joins Trent Rockets for The Hundred
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Loughborough University's Jon Bateson will team up with the Trent Rockets for this summer's inaugural Hundred cricket competition.
The current Loughborough University Women's Cricket Head Coach, and Assistant Coach at Lightning Cricket, will join the Nottingham-based side as Assistant Coach (Fielding Lead) and Performance Analyst.
The Hundred is a new professional franchise 100-ball cricket tournament involving eight men's and women's teams located in major cities across England and Wales.
Bateson has extensive experience in cricket having previously coached in the Kia Super League with Loughborough Lightning, as well as holding the positions of Performance Analyst and Support Coach at Derbyshire County Cricket Club.
On his appointment, Bateson said:
"I can't wait to get started and I'm really excited to be working with some experienced coaches and players whilst developing myself as a coach.
"Perhaps more importantly, I'm looking forward to watching the team perform on the big stage in front of sell-out crowds in this new and revolutionary competition.
"It will be an amazing spectacle which sets a new benchmark for Women's cricket and it is amazing to be a part of it."
"One of the biggest challenges will be adapting to the new format. There will be some teams with some interesting approaches on how they use certain players in certain roles and the tactics used.
"I'm hoping my energy, enthusiasm and a deep understanding and knowledge of women's cricket will help the Rockets have a great campaign."
Lightning will be well represented in the competition with thirteen of its players signed to different franchises. Head Coach Rob Taylor will also play a pivotal role in the backroom team at Welsh Fire.
Ian Read, Regional Director of Women's Cricket for the East Midlands at Loughborough University, added:
"It's fantastic to have yet more Lightning and Loughborough representation in The Hundred with Jon's move to Trent Rockets.
"Jon's experience and knowledge of the game will no doubt benefit the side and we wish him and the team the very best."
The Hundred takes place between 21 Jul 2021 – 21 Aug 2021 and features the teams; Welsh Fire, Trent Rockets, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Oval Invincibles, and Southern Brave.
For more information on The Hundred visit its website HERE and for more information on cricket at Loughborough, click HERE.


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Oscars 2019: See who's nominated
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning."Roma," a Netflix film that looks back at director Alfonso Cuarón's youth in M...
Posted: Jan 22, 2019 7:05 AM
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning.
"Roma," a Netflix film that looks back at director Alfonso Cuarón's youth in Mexico, and "The Favourite," a period dramedy, tied for most nominations with ten each.
"Black Panther" made history as the first superhero film to ever be nominated for best picture.
The Marvel mega-hit was joined in that category by "BlacKkKlansman," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "The Favourite," "Green Book," "Roma," "A Star Is Born" and "Vice."
Without a clear frontrunner for best picture among popular favorites, or as of yet a host, this year's Oscar ceremony is shaping up to be particularly unpredictable.
Observers had been interested in a potential best actress race between Glenn Close for her role in "The Wife" and Lady Gaga for her performance in "A Star Is Born," and they got their wish with Tuesday's announcement.
Close took the trophy in that category at the Golden Globes, and the pair tied for best actress at the Critics' Choice Awards.
Yalitza Aparicio ("Roma"), Olivia Colman ("The Favourite") and Melissa McCarthy ("Can You Ever Forgive Me?") were also nominated for best actress.
CNN Film's "RBG" scored a nod for best documentary feature. The film's theme song, "I'll Fight," by Jennifer Hudson and Diane Warren, was nominated for best song.
The Oscars will air live February 24 on ABC.
"Black Panther"
"BlacKkKlansman"
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
"Green Book"
"Roma"
"Vice"
Amy Adams, "Vice"
Marina de Tavira, "Roma"
Regina King, "If Beale Street Could Talk"
Emma Stone, "The Favourite"
Rachel Weisz, "The Favourite"
Mahershala Ali, "Green Book"
Adam Driver, "BlackKKlansman"
Sam Elliott, "A Star Is Born"
Richard E. Grant, "Can You Ever Forgive Me"
Sam Rockwell, "Vice"
"Capernaum"
"Cold War"
"Never Look Away"
"Shoplifters"
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
"Black Sheep"
"End Game"
"Lifeboat"
"A Night at the Garden"
"Period. End of Sentence."
"Free Solo"
"Hale County This Morning, This Evening"
"Minding the Gap"
"Of Fathers and Sons"
"RBG"
ORIGINAL SONG
"All The Stars" - "Black Panther"
"I'll Fight" - "RBG"
"Shallow" - "A Star Is Born
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" - "Mary Poppins Returns"
"When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" - "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
"Incredibles 2"
"Isle of Dogs"
"Mirai"
"Ralph Breaks the Internet"
"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
"Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
"If Beale Street Could Talk"
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"First Reformed"
Christian Bale, "Vice"
Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, "At Eternity's Gate"
Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Viggo Mortensen, "Green Book"
Yalitza Aparicio, "Roma"
Glenn Close, "The Wife"
Lady Gaga, "A Star Is Born"
Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Melissa McCarthy, "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
Pawel Pawlikowski
"First Man"
"Mary Poppins Returns"
"Mary Queen of Scots"
"A Quiet Place"
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"Animal Behaviour"
"Bao"
"Late Afternoon"
"One Small Step"
"Weekends"
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"Detainment"
"Fauve"
"Marguerite"
"Skin"
"Avengers: Infinity War"
"Christopher Robin"
"Ready Player One"
"Solo: A Star Wars Story"
"Border"
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Fifth 'Purge' Film Coming in 2020
May 14, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Rob Caprilozzi
"Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours." Prepare for another night of lawlessness as the fifth film in The Purge franchise is set for a 2020 release date. Deadline is reporting that series creator James DeMonaco is penning a new script that will be produced by both Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes. As of this moment no director has been attached to the pic.
The Purge franchise has been a massive box office success with all four movies combining to gross near $447 million worldwide against a budget of only $35 million. Fans couldn't get enough of the series and clamored for more after the June 7, 2013 debut film. Because of the success of the first film, The Purge spawned three more films and a television series about dystopian America.
The film is set to hit theaters on July 10, 2020 but we wouldn't be surprised if the date is shifted as Ghostbusters is scheduled to be released the same day. Keep it locked to Horror News Network for the latest on The Purge.
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The federal government may soon be forced to downgrade the Schedule I listing of the cannabis plant. Not only are Uncle Sam's health agencies starting to learn that the "Devil's Harvest" does, in fact, have some therapeutic qualities, but they also recently admitted the herb may also have the power to curb the national opioid epidemic.
Sometime within the past few weeks, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) updated its webpage on marijuana to include information about how they are finding out that the medical cannabis sector may be lowering the use of prescription opioids in states where it is legal.
It seems the federal government is finally starting to realize that, as long as marijuana is legally available, at least a portion of the nation's chronic pain patients will drop the prescription painkillers.
This is certainly not information that the pharmaceutical industry will be happy to learn.
Some of the latest market research predicts that the prescription opioid market will increase from around $11 billion per year to nearly $18 billion by 2021. However, the report does not account for the legalization of medical marijuana – an event that has the potential to expand across more of the nation during that time.
Although NIDA says the data concerning medical marijuana's role in reducing opioid-related issues is scarce, it is currently funding additional studies that it hopes will shed more light on the situation.
It is too early to tell, but this type of federal data is what Congress often looks to when gathering information to use in drug-related debates. Perhaps the more NIDA learns about how legal weed could benefit the nation, by putting safer alternatives in the hand of responsible patients, the more we could see a shift in the overall attitude with respect to legalization on Capitol Hill.
What has been made perfectly clear is that a large majority of the population (88 percent) now believes that marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes. The survey represents the largest number of support for the issue of marijuana legalization in American history.


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Courier and parcel delivery is one of the industry that had not been touched by the on-demand apps and mobile technology, until the last decade. With the increase in the popularity of the on demand apps, the parcel and courier delivery industry has been using these apps to enhance their business and grab a huge number of customers. The face of courier delivery has indeed changed with the use of on-demand apps for courier delivery. The ease of use and convenience offered by the Uberrush clone, Deliv Clone, apps, have urged and accelerated the development of more parcel delivery apps by various companies, deploying them into startup parcel delivery business or enterprise courier delivery companies. In order to build an effective on demand parcel delivery app like lalamove clone here are some features that should be incorporated successfully.
Moving from one section of the app to the other or navigation helps the customers explore the various options in the mobile app. The local parcel delivery apps should offer easy navigation from one section to the other, helping the customers explore each service offered by the mobile app. Easily navigating from one section to another, the customers can schedule their parcel pickup and courier delivery slots, place the orders, select the delivery vehicle and make the online payments seamlessly.
Real time tracking using the GPS technology helps the customers to track their parcel from the pickup point until successful delivery. This real time tracking offers the customers transparency and enhances the reliability of the courier company. Moreover, the real time GPS tracking also helps to optimize the travel route taken by the delivery boys from the pickup until successful delivery.
It is important and an essential feature to integrate the popular payment gateways facilitating the online payments. Security is also an important aspect of online payment, hence the integrated payment gateways should be secure enough to avoid hacking of the customer's information. This will ensure successfully completion of payments by the customers.
The flexibility of cancellation and rescheduling of the pickup or delivery needs to be offered to the customers, to ensure that they can book according to their convenience. Lack of such flexibility is not a sign of an user friendly and desirable mobile app. Offering better flexibility and easy cancellation options are likely to attract more customers helping the on demand courier delivery app to grow.
Keep your customers in and engaged. Push notifications and news alerts are one of the best known and proven methods of customer retention as well as engagement. Sending push notifications with attractive discounts and offers, upcoming events will increase the customer base, ensuring retention of the customers, thus giving a much needed boost to the parcel delivery business carried out using the courier delivery mobile app like EasyVan Clone or Shyp Clone.
Parcel and courier delivery has a huge prospect all around the world, when backed by the mobile apps like Lugg Clone, Ubercargo Clone. Develop the app that adheres to the standard and good to have features of the mobile app and engage your customers with the best delivery services.


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Hearing Aids: Does Medicare Cover Hearing Aids?
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Many Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older may experience hearing loss. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), age is the strongest predictor of hearing loss among adults age 20-69, with the greatest amount of hearing loss occurring in the 60 to 69 age group. The same source states that about 28.8 million U.S. Adults could benefit from using a hearing aid. According to NIH, only about one in five people who would benefit from using a hearing aid actually uses one.
An obstacle to some people using hearing aids may be cost. According to the Mayo Clinic, hearing aids can start at $1,500 and go to several thousand dollars. Style and features affect cost of a hearing aid.
Neglecting your hearing may have serious consequences. People who have difficulty hearing may withdraw socially and social engagement is one of the activities that protects brain health, according to the Cleveland Clinic. In fact, hearing loss can increase risk of cognitive issues, including dementia, reports the Cleveland Clinic.
A hearing aid magnifies sound vibrations entering the ear, according to the NIH. A hearing aid has a microphone, which receives sound; an amplifier, which increases the power of the signals; and a speaker, which sends the amplified sound to the ear. There are various styles of hearing aids. Some can be worn behind the ear, in the ear, in the ear canal, and completely in the ear canal.
Original Medicare is administered by the federal government and includes Part A (hospital insurance) and Part B (medical insurance). Original Medicare generally does not cover hearing aids, hearing exams, or exams for fitting hearing aids. The only hearing-related care that Original Medicare generally covers is diagnostic hearing and balance exams. Part B may cover 80% of allowable charges for these tests (after any applicable deductible).
If you are covered by Original Medicare, you may have to pay 100% out-of-pocket for hearing aids and routine hearing exams. You may also contact the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Information Clearinghouse for information about organizations that offer financial assistance for hearing aids. You can call (800) 241-1044 or TTY (800) 241-1055 Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time.
Medicare Advantage is another way to get your Medicare Part A and Part B benefits from a private insurance company contracted with Medicare. Medicare Advantage plans must offer everything Original Medicare offers (with the exception of hospice care which is still covered by Part A). The benefit of a Medicare Advantage plan is it may offer coverage beyond what Original Medicare covers including prescription drugs, routine vision (including eyeglasses) and routine hearing (in some cases including hearing aids). Medicare Advantage plans may also cover routine hearing exams and fitting/evaluation for hearing aids. When you enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan that covers hearing aids, you may have to pay a monthly premium in addition to your Medicare Part B premium. You may also need to see a doctor or audiologist in the plan's network.


Africa Power Vision (APV) is a long-term vision geared towards increasing access to affordable and consistent energy on the African continent. APV was designed to realise an agreement between African leaders as to which energy projects to prioritise in order to fast-track implementation on the continent. Africa Energy Indaba 2019 will host an interactive and collaborative discussion on Africa Power Vision, unleashing insights that will pave the way for a more advanced and accessible energy landscape across Africa.
Africa Power Vision will focus on driving the execution of key energy projects in Africa, aiming to realise an 80% residential electrification rate by 2040 and 90% for industry/business. This will ensure adequate energy to deliver to those connected, subsequently employing off-grid solutions and making full use of the extensive renewable energy resources that Africa has to offer. The APV requires increased regional integration to efficiently improve energy delivery in addition to targeting the usage of more effective, cleaner energy sources consistent with international standards. The APV highlights the crucial function of institutional capacity development and technical skills development to safeguard the development, execution and sustainability of essential energy projects.
The APV will be featured in the official opening African Ministerial panel, forming an integral component of the Indaba Conference. This discussion will unpack the contents of APV and demonstrate how businesses can drive regional integration to not only improve execution of PIDA and targeted priority energy projects in Africa, but also provide a continental vision and framework under which additional energy projects can be coherently developed. The NEPAD Agency, responsible for implementing APV, requests the support from African countries and development partners, such as the United States, the European Union and other bilateral/multilateral partners to advance energy development on the African continent. This is especially pertinent given that the subject of energy is fundamental to the developmental constraints in Africa.
Africa Power Vision was cooperatively developed by the African Union Commission (AUC), the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), the Federal Ministry of Finance, Nigeria, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).
The Africa Energy Indaba remains Africa's most prestigious energy event. The conference has demonstrated invaluable initiatives in fostering significant business liaisons, forging gateways for stakeholders into new markets and exploring challenges and opportunities to promote innovation in energy operations. All these factors pave the way for creating employment opportunities as well as accelerating economic growth on the African continent.


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What changes to Facebook's governance structure mean for users
Posted byPaul Jacobson November 27, 2012 Posted inintellectual property, personal information, privacy, social web, terms and conditionsTags:data use policy, Facebook, governance, privacy policy, statement of rights and responsibilities
An Overview of the Proposed Changes
Facebook's changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Used Policy generally attract a fair amount of attention and consternation. It's latest changes are no exception and while there is reason for some concern, the proposed changes won't have the radical impact many fear it will. In a post titled "Proposed Updates To Our Governing Documents", Facebook's Vice President for Communications Public Policy and Marketing, Elliott Schrage, introduce the changes as follows:
Today we are proposing some updates to two documents which govern our site: our Data Use Policy, which explains how we collect and use data when people use Facebook, and our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), which explains the terms governing the use of our services. These updates provide more detailed information about our practices, reflect changes to our products, and improve how we conduct our site governance process.
Changes to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
The most significant change to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (this is what Facebook calls its service terms of use) is the proposed removal of a participatory which it introduced in 2009 which notionally gave users the opportunity to vote on proposed changes to Facebook's governing legal frameworks. This voting mechanism provided that if more than 7000 users –
… post a substantive comment on a particular proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote.
The proposed changes are being put to a vote in terms of this existing voting mechanism and this will be the 3rd, and quite possibly the last, vote under this particular framework. In a sense, it's not surprising that Facebook has made the decision to remove this mechanism (although it is unfortunate given that Facebook has not made a substantive effort to publicise votes in the past). The 1st vote introduced this voting mechanism and the 2nd vote took place in June 2012. According to Ars Technica, both votes "had a turnout of well under one percent of Facebook's user base". Facebook only announced the votes on its blog and on its site governance page so that poor turnout was not unexpected. In addition, it's probably fair to say that most users don't take an interest in Facebook's governance except where there is a flareup in the media.
Granted, Facebook's threshold for the votes was fairly high when the mechanism was initially introduced and, with roughly 1,000,000,000 users, a 30% vote represents a substantial number of Facebook users taking an interest in the changes being voted on and voting in one or another direction. That said, the mechanism represented a degree of participation in Facebook's governance which was, and remains, largely unprecedented on the Web. In its place, Facebook proposes a 7 day notice period for substantive changes to its governance frameworks although Facebook will not notify users of changes "for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement". The "legal or administrative reasons" category is somewhat vague and it remains to be seen just what sorts of changes this includes.
Other changes to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities include a clarification of the prohibition on using your personal timeline for your own commercial gain by qualifying that with an allowance for some commercial gain as long as your use is not "primarily" for your own commercial gain. Facebook requires you to use a Facebook Page for commercial use.
The proposed changes to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities has prompted a hoax on Facebook where Facebook users are encouraged to publish certain notices including the following one:
In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times!
(Anyone reading this can copy this text and paste it on their Facebook Wall. This will place them under protection of copyright laws By the present communiqué, I notify Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate, or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The aforementioned prohibited actions also apply to employees, students, agents and/or any staff under Facebook's direction or control. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of my privacy is punished by law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute).
Facebook is now an open capital entity. All members are recommended to publish a notice like this, or if you prefer, you may copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be tacitly allowing the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile status updates
The proposed changes to not affect the licensing provisions in these terms and conditions and this notice which some Facebook users are publishing in the hopes that this will restrict how their content is used on Facebook will not have any impact on the licence which they have already granted to the service and which is recorded in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities –
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings : you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
Changes to the Data Use Policy
Facebook's Data Use Policy is a substantial document of 16 pages. It describes what personal information Facebook collect from its users and what it does with their personal information. It is a particularly important document which most users have probably not read and the proposed changes are interesting to say the least. In some respects, the changes clarify the existing wording and, in others, they will expand the range of uses that Facebook already has in respect of users' personal information. Although the proposed changes don't specifically refer to Instagram, the proposed changes reference Facebook's affiliates and include the following addition:
We may share information we receive with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Facebook is part of, or that become part of that group (often these companies are called affiliates). Likewise, our affiliates may share information with us as well. We and our affiliates may use shared information to help provide, understand, and improve our services and their own services.
The implications of this proposed change of that Facebook may make use of personal information which it collects through services like Instagram, which it owns, and make use of that personal information within the Facebook service itself.
Facebook also proposes removing a similar voting mechanism in the Data Used Policy and replacing it with a 7 day comment period and simple notice of changes being made to the Policy.
Generally speaking, the Data Used Policy highlights just how much personal information Facebook collects, how it collects all of that personal information and just how important it is that users take an active interest in the privacy controls which Facebook makes available to them in order to better control how much of their personal and profile information can be shared across the service. These proposed changes have inspired another preformatted status update which users are publishing in the timelines –
To all my FB family and friends: I want to stay PRIVATELY connected with you. However, with the recent changes in FB, the "public" can now see activities in ANY wall. This happens when our friend hits "like" or "comment" ~ automatically, their friends would see our posts too. Unfortunately, we cannot change this setting by ourselves because Facebook has configured it this way.
PLEASE place your mouse over my name above (DO NOT CLICK), a window will appear, now move the mouse on "FRIENDS" (also without clicking), then down to "Settings", click here and a list will appear. REMOVE the CHECK on "COMMENTS & LIKE" and also "PHOTOS". By doing this, my activity amongst my friends and family will no longer become public.
Now copy and paste this on your wall. Once I see this posted on your page I will do the same for you.
As with the bogus copyright notice which I mentioned above, this privacy notice has no impact on the permissions a user grants Facebook through the Data Use Policy. It also reveals an ignorance about how many of Facebook's privacy controls actually work. This particular notice attempts to address one of the truisms about sharing information through Facebook. When you read the Data Use Policy one of the things that stands out is that a user's ability to control personal information and updates shared on Facebook is hardly absolute. The only way to relatively effectively control which of your updates and personal information other users may see and share is to make judicious use of the privacy and sharing controls in your profile settings. One of the cautions Facebook includes in the Data Used Policy (and this is an addition to the Policy) is the following –
When you hide things on your timeline, like posts or connections, it means those things will not appear on your timeline. But, remember, anyone in the audience of those posts or who can see a connection may still see it elsewhere, like on someone else's timeline or in search results.
The Policy also points out that information shared with 3rd party applications and services through Facebook is not automatically removed when you start making use of those applications or services and, further, even if you request those applications or services to remove your personal information, they may retain your personal information in order to comply with some or other compliance requirement of their own. The service also shares a considerable amount of your personal information with a variety of parties including other users and your Facebook friends for various reasons which are variations of "improvements" to your experience of the service.
The proposed changes to the Data Use Policy will not radically change the Facebook privacy model. It is fairly permissive and broad already. What it highlights is the cliche that if you are not paying for a service then you are the product. This has, however, almost always been the case with Facebook.
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