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At AINO we cherish the natural ability of colours in filling their users' days with joy.
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Base for implementing various SSH servers and SSH based services with Python.

Utilizes paramiko underneath: http://www.paramiko.org/

## What it is for?

Main motivation was a bit easier way of building on top of SSH.
Idea came from this blog post:
[Why aren't we using SSH for everything?](https://medium.com/@shazow/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc)

Target is to increase SSH usage on services, and to provide easy way to implement them in Python.

## Running

Make sure you have paramiko installed either on system or virtualenv.
Example server should work after that without any problems.

Take your public key(s) and put it(them) into auth_keys, this is similar to
traditional SSH ~/.ssh/authorized_keys but this is for multiple users.
Format needs to be:

    ssh-rsa KEY user@host

Remark: user names are parsed from that info.

When you have this set up, start the test server:

    python test_server.py

It will serve by default in port 2200. And you should be able to access it
with proper SSH key:

    ssh -p2200 user@host

Example:

    $ ssh -p2200 user@localhost
    Hi user, fingerprint f2:a9:6f:d3:d5:7f:86:9d:5f:1c:88:33:d6:ec:8d:06
    Write "exit" to quit.

    entry: Hello!
    Hello!
    entry: exit
    exit
    entry: Connection to localhost closed.

Enjoy!

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Yoyo was the second abandoned baby which I rescued in our school area. She was only 3 weeks old when we first found her. Her big blue eyes immediately captured my heart, although she was at first taken care of by a janitor. Feeling that it was a hassle to nurse such a small baby, the janitor finally decided to give her up to me. I was so elated when I could at last bring her home!
Yoyo at 1 year old. She's now 5 years old. She has marking of a pair of lovely angel wings on her back.
The third and the fourth stray babies I adopted appeared to be from the same litter and they came home together. The one on the left is a brown classic tabby while the one facing us is a brown mackerel tabby with white whom we've been keeping these years. He is called Fung Fung. Urged by a student of mine, I gave the classic tabby to her. Sadly, he didn't make it through and died 2 weeks after the adoption. Fung Fung, with my experience of handling stray babies, managed to survive in our home and has now grown up to be a very affectionate cat which loves to be cuddled and patted.
The fifth kitten I rescued was a red tabby white. He and his brother were found by some students of mine. At first, I urged a colleague of mine to nurse them both. Nonetheless, lacking experience and confidence in dealing with such young babies, my colleague requested that I nurse one baby for him until he was about 2 months old. I agreed to this suggestion. This baby was finally named 'Justin' by my colleague while his brother was named 'John'.
I kept Justin in a cage for fear that he would get hurt /lost staying in my spare bedroom. He had a cake tin lined with a towel as a comfy 'bedroom' in the cage. He looked so much livelier after just a few days I had taken him home!
Upon receiving the second vaccination shot, Justin and John finally reunited! They had their reunion in the vet's and we were so excited when we saw them put together in the same carrying case for the first time! This was such a special occasion that there were me and my husband, my colleague as well as the student who found J&J in the vet clinic. Both my husband and I were so touched to see that the abandoned babies had both grown up to be strong kittens. Having to say 'goodbye' to Justin was not an easy task for me. However, knowing that the two brothers could live with each other for the rest of their lives in a loving home, we were rest assured.
The sixth and the last abandoned baby I rescued was a red one which looked so much like an Abyssinian! I was sure he was over 3 weeks old, judging from his teeth, but this little fragile baby weighed only 230g, which was seriously underweight and undernourished obviously! Being more experienced now, I did all the essential things for this baby first and fed him with AD (a kind of canned food from the vet) plus milk formula alternately. At that time, I wasn't sure whether he could make it because he looked so vulnerable. Since he was found by students of mine on a rainy day, I named him 'Rain'.
Rain was gaining weight eventually because he was so determined to live on! He ate crazily whenever at meal times and I had to make sure he would not choke himself.
After a few weeks, he became so strong that he was ready for the first shot, which means he was ready to leave me as well. I relocated him and found him a loving home. My friend agreed to keep him and the picture above shows you what Amy and I had prepared for him. I let the small litter box and the pig cushion from my home go with him to give him some comfort.
Sadly, Rain escaped one day from my friend's home! My friend's mum was the saddest because she liked him so much and regarded him as her little baby. I felt very upset and shocked at the news as well. Just hope that Rainy has found another sweet home by himself and is well nursed in his new home!
So, this is the end of the story of my rescue experience. You may wonder why I have stopped rescuing abandoned babies in my school area. Well, this is because I think I have had enough already. Nursing these abandoned babies was too exhausting and tense for me. First, I was so scared that these little babies would carry some infectious diseases which could be spread to the cats in my home, which would then be unfair to my cats. (Oh! I know you may call me 'selfish'….) Second, it was a very tough job all by myself. Therefore, after I had decided that I would cut this off, I set up the Pet Club in my school, thanks to the consent of my principal. I decided to instill the concept and knowledge to the younger generation who care for little animals and are willing to learn about them.
That said, surprisingly and ironically, there have been very few abandoned babies in my school area since the setting up of the Pet Club! My Pet Club members are taking care of a few stray adult cats which have decided to stay in our school area, though. This seems to be good news, doesn't it?
I used to rescue stray/abandoned babies before I became a breeder. This all started 3 years ago. One day there was a barely about 10-day old kitten which survived after a thunderstorm in our school area. That poor little baby was the only survival in its litter. Its eyes were still tightly closed when I first saw it. As nobody took care of it, I took it home, kept it in our spare bedroom and tried to nurse it. I needed to bottle feed it with milk formula for kittens and helped it to excrete. But I was totally inexperienced at that time, so I had to ask for advice from cat friends as well as look for info on the net. Unfortunately, the baby couldn't survive for more than 3 days, although I was pretty clear about this because when I was feeding it with milk, it was still crying loudly, as if it were unable to drink the milk, and even when it could, it drank so slowly. On the third morning when I woke up, I found that it was lying dead in its little warm bed, with its tongue out. I was so upset at that moment. It was the first kitten I tried to rescue but it was a total failure. I blamed myself for not having taken the best care of it, although everybody I knew around me comforted me that it was too difficult to try to raise an abandoned baby which still has its eyes closed. That morning when I got back to work, I couldn't help weeping from time to time. Now, the image of its dead little body is still so vivid in my mind. However, I hope it is now living a peaceful life on the rainbow bridge.


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Company News - 19 December 2017
AMTD signs a strategic partnership agreement with University of Waterloo to jointly establish University of Waterloo-AMTD Innovation Hub promoting technological innovation side by side
On 24th November 2017, AMTD Group and University of Waterloo Canada officially co-signed a strategic partnership agreement to jointly promote the research and development of innovative technology and support the cultivation and education of the innovative talents. The University of Waterloo is one of the biggest Math and Computer Science Education and Research centre in the world. Two parties worked together to advance "Waterloo.ai Alpha project" by co-establishing Artificial Intelligence Academy to promote the research, development and application of innovative technology and to support the incubation and development of start-ups. Moreover, the Group and the University jointly established "University of Waterloo-AMTD Innovation Hub" to encourage the leading creative and innovative talents in the University of Waterloo to come to Hong Kong advancing the exchange and connection between the innovative technology of North America and Asia.
On the 60th anniversary of the University of Waterloo, with Ms. Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of HKSAR, Mr. James Henry Lau, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr. Nicholas W. Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology Mr. Jeff Nankivell, Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao as witnesses, the AMTD - University of Waterloo strategic partnership agreement was signed by Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group and Dr. Hamdullahpur, President of University of Waterloo. On 24th November, 60th anniversary Gala of the University of Waterloo was held in Hong Kong welcoming over 600 local and overseas guests including government officials, strategic partners and staff, students and alumni of University of Waterloo. Calvin Choi, President and Chairman of AMTD Group, addresses the ceremony as keynote speaker.
Mr. Calvin Choi and Dr. Hamdullahpur, President of University of Waterloo (right) exchanged of cooperation memoranda
Dr. Hamdullahpur, President of University of Waterloo gave 60th Anniversary Special Memorial to AMTD Group
Ms. Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of HKSAR, Mr. James Henry Lau, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr. Nicholas W. Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology Mr. Jeff Nankivell, Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao as witnesses, the AMTD - University of Waterloo strategic partnership agreement was signed
The University of Waterloo is world-renowned for innovative scientific research and has been rated as the university of the greatest innovative power in Canada for consecutively 23 years. Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has especially praised the University of Waterloo for its innovative achievements in the World Economic Forum. The University of Waterloo, as one of the biggest Math and Computer Science Education and Research centre in the world, emphasizes co-operative education incorporating learning with practice. The University is regarded as the "cradle of Canadian entrepreneurs" as the students of the University of Waterloo have developed and founded Blackberry, Google Adwords and Kik Messenger.
Mr. Calvin Choi and Dr. Hamdullahpur, President of University of Waterloo formally signed the cooperation memoranda
Mr. Calvin Choi and Dr. Hamdullahpur, President of University of Waterloo inaugurated the establishment of "University of Waterloo-AMTD Innovation Hub"
Calvin Choi, President and Chairman of AMTD Group, said that as a Hong Kong-based comprehensive financial institution, AMTD has always been committed to promoting the development of innovative technology in Hong Kong and Asia and is determined to utilize Hong Kong's role as super-connector contributing to Hong Kong's status in the field of innovative technology. The University of Waterloo, as a leading global university, has excellent performance in promoting innovative technology in the past 60 years and has cultivated many outstand entrepreneurs. AMTD Group is glad to sign a memorandum with the University of Waterloo to jointly to promote the development of Artificial Intelligence, Innovative Technology and talent cultivation.
Dr. Hamdullahpur pointed out that the University of Waterloo is committed to the co-operative education with a dual emphasis on learning and practice. The University is glad to cooperate with AMTD, to explore the future development of the innovative economy in Asia side by side and looks forward to promoting the advantages of both sides in technology, scientific research, capital and markets to support start-ups, advance technological development and cultivate innovative talents.
AMTD, as a special guest, was invited to UW Velocity Investor Demo Day, one of the events celebrating the 60th anniversary of University of Waterloo. Mr. Neil Wang, Chief Investment Officer of AMTD Strategic Capital Group, exchanged opinions with Jason Chiu, CEO of Cherrypicks, a leading global innovative technology developer, Roland Yau, Managing Partner of Ignite Ventures (Cocoon Ignite Ventures) and Adrien Cote, Business Advisor of University of Waterloo Velocity on the topic of "Waterloo and Hong Kong: cut from the same cloth". Mr. Neil Wang said that new economy, in advancing the society, has created exciting investment opportunities winning the warm reception of global investors. Hong Kong is a city full of pioneering spirit. AMTD is very pleased to cooperate with the University of Waterloo, a global leading university in innovative technology to advance the exchange between North America and Hong Kong in the field of new economy and new technology.
Mr. Neil Wang, Chief Investment Officer of AMTD Strategic Capital Group was invited as special guest to attend UW Velocity Investor Demo Day, to have keynote speech on the topics of Waterloo and Hong Kong: cut from the same cloth
AMTD always believes in the power of technological innovation and is determined to become a "super-connector" to bridge the world's leading FinTech companies, Internet technology company companies and Asia's capital markets. Apart from the strategic partnership with the University of Waterloo, AMTD has cooperated with many local and overseas educational institutions to jointly advance the technological development and talent cultivation. AMTD signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hong Kong Polytechnic University to jointly establish "AMTD FinTech Centre of PolyU Faculty of Business" promoting the scientific research on FinTech. To support the education and training of innovative technology, AMTD has joined hands with Singapore Management University, National Chengchi University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to launch talent incubation plans to cultivate innovative talents in the field of FinTech.


It is hard to avoid MasterChef on Australian TV right now, even if you're not much chop in the kitchen.
MasterChef has been on our screens for the past ten years. It's also on five nights a week during prime time – a saturation level of exposure.
The show is so popular that Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall even made an appearance this season (apparently Camilla is a big fan).
Though not much of a cook myself, something I find really fascinating about MasterChef is how it represents the pressure-cooker atmosphere of intense competition.
MasterChef is filmed in a big hall with an open-plan cooking environment. Each of the contestants cooks at their own bench about six feet away from the others, and can clearly see what everyone else is doing.
In such an environment, MasterChef contestants are never allowed to forget that this is a competition, and that their dishes are going to be judged against other people's.
I hope I have done enough this cook, this day, to make it through the elimination and to please the judges.
This is a mindset that those of us who work on bids and tenders can learn from.
While you're working on a bid, locked away in your war room (if you're lucky), or your cubicle (if you're unlucky), it is easy to forget that there are others out there doing the same. Maybe a handful, maybe hundreds; all of whom really want this business too.
In answering the question, "have I done enough?" you will need to consider not only what you are doing, but what others are likely to do as well.
Fortunes can change quickly in a bidding environment, and many of the people who approach me for help with their bids and tenders are new to the experience of feeling that they need it.
Everything was working fine, they were winning their fair share of business, and then something changes.
A competitor lifts their game. And what happens to your game? It automatically drops as a result.
This is why it is so important to continually re-invest in your proposal effort.
Because if you don't, it doesn't matter how good it was yesterday, or three months ago, or six months ago – it is not going to be enough to keep you winning forever.
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Well it's awake, the Sun has finally shown some signs of activity, it has been very very quiet over the last few years, very little to no Sun spot activity over the past 5 years to speak of, then today POP a solar flare has been detected by the GOES 13 satellite, (see link below) not a big one but a flare just the same.
In the link below you will see the activity, now why this news is this important?
In the past we have been very lucky, the last big one just missed us back in July of 2012, but back in September of 1859 we were not so lucky, back then we didn't have anything electronic to worry about, all that was around were telegraph stations, but the flare was so large that most telegraph stations were knocked out for a time, some operators even saw sparks jumping off the equipment.
Had that big a flare happened today you would not be reading about it on your computer, laptop, Ipad, HDTV set or cell phone as it would all be a pile of junk, (so would everything else with an IC chip in it) and all forms of communication would be down, and also possibly the world wide power grid.
straybeat and noyasystem like this.
This one of the news that really captured my interest these past weeks. I hope we could get more updates soon and it had not caused damages in out planetary system.
Just go to the link in my first post, this will tell you if you need to get the lead underwear out.
The Sun has been very quiet the last few months, so it looks to have gone back off the boil........For now.


I am looking for someone to work with with me to put a presentation together with the view to getting funds and interest from various parties. For a producer to be paid, the funds have to be in the bank or in escrow.
Aboriginal Land Rights, Mabo, Mining Royalties, Loyalties, Love, Work - and Money!
Does reconciliation have any meaning or is it as dead as a bandicoot on a Friday night freeway after the pub closes? Does Mabo hold any hope of healing some wounds? Violence and racism in Australia, the land of Neighbours and Home and Away -- How could it be?
This is in no way meant to be a white knight narrative, where the hero arrives on his white charger to make everything right. Rather it is a journey of discovery by all parties to discover a path where change is possible. It will be a journey with some successes along the way, but also some casualties and damage to those at the coal face.
MICHAEL KAVANAGH, a lawyer, has been looking for a new direction. Drawn to native title legislation; rural lease holders, local councils and mining conglomerates combine to negotiate with the various native title owners. Michael has been offered the job of mediator.
Michael meets the Koori team - Tom Garland and his chief negotiator, Liv Niland. Michael and Liv start warily but before long banter is going on between them.
The main theme is: "Love is the undiscovered country." Michael and Liv are aware of their differences and that they are expected to stay away from each other. They are also both contrary enough to go against what others expect of them.
For Michael, Liv has the strong maverick humour which he has always been looking for. Liv is struck by his Irish sense of humour and his penetrating look. He sees into the heart of things without fear. But she senses a vulnerability which comes from being a loner.
The real irony is that Michael, despite all his goodwill and intentions, doesn't have all that much of an idea of what he can achieve or the best way to achieve it.
Michael sees himself as enlightened and up to the task. What he doesn't understand is how the past has burned and blackened the relationship between black and white. It isn't just that the black man has been subjected to unfair abuse – physical and verbal. It is that he has been placed at a disadvantage and then blamed for it. There are stories - lots of stories poisoning the past and the present. There is little trust between black and white - and less understanding.
Aboriginal nursery rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone When she got there the cupboard was bare - so the dog ate Poor Mother Hubbard.
Liv realises that Michael does not have her background - an Aunt dying in a hospice after a life of violence and abuse - two cousins in trouble with the police - a tribe full of love, fear and brutality. And he doesn't understand the why of it all. But maybe she can help him understand a little. Just maybe.
us to sign -- and I won't. Not unless I'm sure.
what we do. In our own little world. Do you understand?
Michael - do you understand me?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I understand. Why do you have to make it so..?
Complicated? It's not. It's simple. Just give me - what I want.
The establishment (White Australian) over the years has made much in the way noise and promises but have sadly failed to deliver on most levels.
This is largely reflected in the lack of action taken by the political establishment to give the Aboriginal community real power to control and govern their own destinies.
I would be interested in having the full involvement of Abroriginal writers/players and producers to explore their stories and show where things stand at the present time.


Happy Valentine's Day Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. LOVE LOVE, LOVE "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."


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Q: Microphone boost makes noise through headphones When my microphone boost is turned up (+30.0 dB), I can hear my recording clearly, but I hear a noise in my headphones, but when it's lowered (+20.0 dB) the noise is unnoticable, but I can barely hear my recording. Same is with VOIP (Skype, etc.)
What should I do?

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There has been an incredible amount of debate going on over the issue of encryption lately. On one side, you have those supporting full encryption for the privacy and safety benefits afforded to users. On the other side, you have a mix of elements, mainly government, who oppose full encryption and are demanding some sort of backdoor to allow them in for investigations, which the other side points out could fall victim to hackers. One reason the anti-encryption camp has been pushing so hard is the potential use of smartphones for nefarious deeds up to and including terrorism. As if to add salt to an open wound, infamous Islamic militant group ISIS, or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has developed their own encrypted messaging app.
Known as Alrawi, the app is meant to enable secure communication between members of ISIS and supporters. The encrypted messaging system makes it much harder for authorities to intercept and decrypt the messages. This comes on the heels of last year's discovery of another app made by Isis, called Amaq Agency, that was used for recruitment and propaganda. Alrawi is, for obvious reasons, not on the Google Play Store or Amazon's App Store. As of this writing, even Aptoide, a somewhat shady third party market often used for pirated apps, has not picked up Alrawi. Instead, would-be users must get the link for the APK file through the relevant channels and sideload the app onto their device.
The fact that ISIS uses a wide array of communication channels is not a big help in tracking their messages and tracking them down. Even after a crackdown that included removal of ISIS channels from Telegram in the wake of the Paris attacks, they are still communicating and operating efficiently. Hacktivist group Anonymous declared war on ISIS not long ago, unearthing and trolling tons of ISIS accounts on various social media last year. Thus far, however, Anonymous has been unable to provide significant support beyond demoralizing ISIS just a bit and many people have called their collective power into question. Between a fairly unknown element being involved, trouble with catching their communications and this newest development, the near-worldwide struggle with ISIS is getting more and more intense, as the encryption debate is bound to as a result of this.


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Національна гвардія Грузії () — військове формування у складі Міністерства оборони Грузії. Його завданням є підготовка і перепідготовка резерву Збройних сил, управління мобілізаційними ресурсами; проведення заходів забезпечення безпеки під час бойових дій; підтримка цивільного населення під час надзвичайних ситуацій.

Гвардія була створена 20 грудня 1990 року рішенням Верховної Ради Грузії. Вона стала першим військовим формуванням незалежної Грузії та спершу складалося з добровольців. Це була найбільша воєнізована сила громадянської війни в Грузії, також брала участь у конфліктах в Південній Осетії та Абхазії на початку 1990- х років. В цей період у боях загинуло понад 600 гвардійців.

Посилання

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Збройні сили Грузії
Засновані 1990

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So the Galaxy S8 has its fancy Infinity Display and iris scanners, not to mention faster processors and other upgraded specs, but when it comes to the actual feature set, it's likely the year-old Galaxy S7 will be inheriting at least some of the tricks that make the GS8 such a desirable handset.
After the upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge already have the basics of the Galaxy S8's UI, with clean, white visuals throughout. That's alongside new features, like resolution scaling, new maintenance modes, and performance options in the redesigned Settings app.
A Nougat-upgraded Galaxy S7 has "Samsung Experience" version 8, whereas it's version 8.1 on the Galaxy S8. And as far as visual differences go, the main changes are in the launcher and Samsung's app icons, which have been redesigned to incorporate a wireframe aesthetic. The launcher itself sports some minor changes, including a redesigned settings pane and a Pixel-style swipe-up gesture for getting to the app drawer.
It's possible — likely, even — that both will make their way to the GS7 as part of a future "Samsung Experience 8.1" update for that phone. Samsung has been fastidious over the past couple of years when it comes to updating its older phones with its latest UI along with new Android platform versions. For instance, the Galaxy S6 series got a GS7-like UI along with Marshmallow in early 2016.
The Galaxy S7, of course, lacks a dedicated Bixby button, which means it's unlikely Samsung will be able to integrate Bixby's voice-based features into the phone as seamlessly. As for Hello Bixby (the home screen tab off on the left) and Bixby vision in the camera app, the chances are stronger.
Bixby is a big, slow-moving project, though, so don't be surprised if it takes several months for updates to begin rolling out.
This is the main new processing trick for the GS8's camera, which should allow it to capture sharper, more detailed pics, thanks to the magic of computational photography. Given the hardware differences between the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S8, it'd be a major undertaking to back-port this feature to the older phone, and Samsung has little incentive to do so.
The Galaxy S8's neat new Infinity Wallpapers work across the lock screen, home screen, and Always-On Display. And as we know from DisplayMate display shootout, the Galaxy S8's Always-On Display works differently from the Galaxy S7's at a hardware level.
Samsung can bring Bixby vision to the GS7's camera app, the chances are good.
Same goes for new features elsewhere in the camera app, like the floating shutter button and easy zoom controls. Some of these have already debuted in Samsung's latest Galaxy A-series phones.
It's somehow possible that Samsung will be able to recreate the Galaxy S8's super fast facial recognition with the Galaxy S7's single front-facing camera.
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Mar 11, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács
Take the issue of migration away from the European Commission, says Prime Minister Orbán
The prime minister has called for setting up a new European council of ministers of interior to take responsibility for migration and Schengen Area issues, a strong body that would handle these matters as experts, rather than politicians.
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"Responsibility for the general issues raised by migration should therefore be taken away from the Commission," said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his interview with Welt am Sonntag last week, and "the interior ministers from the Schengen Area should set up a strong body to decide on issues affecting the entire Schengen Area in a manner that is typical of specialists, rather than politicians."
The idea struck a chord in Germany. An online poll found that 81 percent of Die Welt's readers agreed with the statement that a council of interior ministers of the Schengen Area "would help to manage immigration into the EU better".
Prime Minister Orbán has long argued that the sovereignty of member states must take precedence on these questions. Only Hungarians should be able to decide who gets to live in Hungary. The authority to decide on issues of border control and immigration must remain with the member states, not some supranational body. And the Commission, said the PM, has proven ineffective here. Where the migration crisis affects all of Europe, it requires a more effective approach on the level of member states where the directly affected states could work together.
This separate council, according to the prime minister, would be formed exclusively by "interior ministers from Schengen Area countries – just as there is a separate council for the finance ministers of Eurozone countries".
By taking the issue of migration away from eurocrats in Brussels and giving it to the ministers of the Schengen Area member states, we'd get more effective responses to the migration crisis that also reflect the will of the citizens.
As the EU Moves to 'the Hungarian Solution on Migration,' Says PM Orbán, Hungary Must Let the People Decide in a Referendum on the Quota System
Feb 28, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács
European leaders gathered in Brussels earlier this month for a European Council meeting on Britain's proposed reform plans and again on the migration crisis. Though often heated and sometimes personal, the debate took Europe closer to the solution that Hungary and others have been proposing for months on migration: restore order at Europe's borders before anything else.
Foreign Minister in the US: More US Investment in Hungary
Prime Minister Orbán has had a busy travel agenda in recent days, visiting Jakarta, Ulan Bator, Moscow, Brussels, and Prague — and in the same week, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło paid a visit to Hungary. The prime minister wasn't the only one on the road of late. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjártó also traveled to the United States last week.
Migration and European Borders: That Moment When Other EU Leaders Sound Like Prime Minister Orbán
Clearly, the debate about migration and strengthening Europe's external borders has taken a turn. Following renewed fighting around the city of Aleppo, nearly 600,000 Syrian migrants are reportedly bound for Europe, compelling Austria and Germany to change their positions on the question of border protection.
From Loan-Fueled Growth to Real Growth — Hungary's Stabilizing Economy
The latest economic data is out. Hungary's GDP grew in 2015 by 2.9 percent, beating the forecasts, and other preliminary data shows the debt-to-GDP ratio shrinking to 75.5%. A shrinking debt along side GDP growth indicates that this economy is growing organically, not from financing. In fact, last year was encouraging on a number of economic fronts.
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Italy is a place full of passion for living life to the fullest. Here is your road map to this vinophile's dream.
There are few who could argue with the fact that, the glamorous Italian actress Sophia Loren—outwardly impervious to aging—has successfully mastered the art of living well, and her heritage and home are clearly an essential part of the package. If we could only all be so lucky.
There's a reason the phrase la dolce vita originates in Italy. It is arguably the easiest country in the world for wine and food lovers to adore, and the effortless Italian charm and impeccable style permeate life from the table to the glass and beyond.
For vinophiles, Italy offers all manner of diversity. The vertical drop of mountain vineyards in the Dolomites, the volcanic swath of terroir on Mount Etna and the lush, rolling winelands of Tuscany are just a facet of the country's collective wine regions (20 in all). Each offer incredible wine quality, history and delicious character with a stamp as distinctive as Ms. Loren herself.
Speaking of vinous diversity, this month Italian Editor Kerin O'Keefe's takes a deep dive into Italy's Collio region. Here, the all-star cast of Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio and Pinot Bianco take turns on the stage. We tell you what to drink and which producers to watch.
Florence is one of Italy's most visited cities, but after a full day at the Uffizi or an afternoon admiring David at the Galleria dell'Accademia, it's time to eat and drink. O'Keefe also provides an insider's guide to the best in wine bars, restaurants and specialty food shops.
Hopping back stateside, how about vineyards with an ocean view? Contributing Editor Matt Kettmann journeys through some of the Central Coast's most stunning locations. These truly cool vineyard sites produce intrigue and excitement in the glass for wine lovers.
In Australia, whether punk rocker, chef or marine biologist, a growing number of artisanal winemakers are transforming the bucolic region of Adelaide Hills into a leading light of modern-day winemaking. We'll help you learn more about the pioneers who are changing the face of Oz's wine landscape.
Also this month: Korean cuisine and wine makes the perfect match, exploring South Africa's bounty of styles and varieties and snout-to-tail beer and wine pairing for adventurous diners.


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Not sure about all this St. Lawrence stuff, but Rick Bennett's contract extension is noteworthy in that he is unequivocally the best coach in collegiate sports. Who is unsung is Union's DA, Jim McLaughlin, an All American football player at Union, later groomed at two Ivies, and leading Union to great heights athletically.
They are still moaning in Troy over RB's indiscretion. Little has been exposed regarding the provocation. Unfortunately the RPI faithful have absolutely no knowledge of what an impressive individual RB is. Obviously sour grapes are hanging with the aging '85 championship banner in HFH.
Union has the best coach in the country, who loves where he is. Bennett & Union...what a combo!
Bennett & Union...what a combo!
And obviously in RPI's/Union's case, it's 7000 at the TUC, sometimes combined as a two-fer with the AHL team.
Based upon our musing at the schedules thread, it seems to be the only possibility. The tournament, if you are indeed participating in it, will also include a Big Ten team (can't remember specifically which one at the moment of typing).
Based upon our musing at the schedules thread, it seems to be the only possibility. The tournament, if you are indeed participating in it, will also include a Big Ten team (can't remember specifically which one at the moment of typing).Coach confirmed during online event this evening that the team will be traveling to Notre Dame, no other details were provided while I was viewing.
Coach confirmed during online event this evening that the team will be traveling to Notre Dame, no other details were provided while I was viewing.
That would tell me Shillelaigh, especially considering it says nothing about playing them. Of course, mid-December is also a possibility. Any other weekend one of you is already booked, or it's the week you guys have finals.
I read in the transactions column of today's Times Union that the ECAC had appointed a new associate commissioner for officiating. I couldn't tell much from the one line and I've already forgotten the name. I'm wondering if this means that Stewart is out.
I remember hearing during last season Tim Kotyra retired from officiating to take a position like this. Maybe him?
No that wasn't the name. I will check when I get home and post it if no one else has.
No that wasn't the name. I will check when I get home and post it if no one else has.I checked and the official is Ronnie Nunn but I think he is a basketball guy. The line item didn't mention the sport and I assumed it was hockey but it's more likely b ball.
It has some highlights of the National Championship and interviews with Bennett, Ainlay, McLaughlin, Carr, Bodie and Ikkala.
Thank you for passing this on. Made it to the Blades Golf Tournament ... the whole team was there including the Ghost and the Captain. When Coach Bennett was introduced he received a thunderous sustained prolonged standing ovation. It was also homecoming weekend for my class. The team was also at the ReUnion weekend Saturday picnic, including Bodie, Ghost and Carr. Asked Matt if I could have my picture taken with him and he gladly obliged. Told him that his leadership as Captain was a key ingredient to the team and possibly the biggest single reason for the teams overall success.
Told President Ainlay, that IMO, he is the finest President Union College has had since Everett Nott saved the school from bankruptcy.
There are so many pieces that have to all play together for a program like this to work. Players, Coaches, the School Community including faculty and students, and of course Alumni, etc. For my class we had about double the expected turnout which I believe was do to the deep pride we all felt for the school and the success of the team.
Coach Bennett reminds us all at the end of the video .... we are losing allot ..... and we will have everyone gunning for us. However, having met and shaken the hands of just about every returning player, I feel confident that we are going to be a very very physical team, and a very tough out.
If you have not already, I would encourage you to join the Garnet Blades. Its the one thing us fans can do to keep this thing going.
If you have not already, I would encourage you to join the Garnet Blades. Its the one thing us fans can do to keep this thing going.Thanks for the plug Dman. The tournament was a stunning success, mirroring the Championship season and I think a great time was had by all. We expect to close the books on a record fund raising year, topping over $200,000 raised and well over $1,000,000 in the twelve years since the inception of the group. All proceeds go directly to the hockey program and help to fill in the gaps in Athletic Department funding.
Matt Hatch has also signed with the Flyers.
That makes 3 players at least that come to mind including lost recruit Johnston, who have gone to Philly in the past two years and I think Mario had an ATO with Adirondack IIRC.
"While 2014 is already a banner year for New York State hockey teams with Union College and Clarkson University as national college champions," Cuomo said in a statement, "the true icing on the cake would be a triumphant return of the Stanley Cup to the Empire State."
Matt is one of my all-time favorite Union players. I don't think we've ever had a faster skater in the program. Really proud of Matt, and best of luck in the pros!


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Hartman Residence
Demolished: May 1978
919 West 20th Street – map
Sad to say, but Los Angeles Landmark No. 179 was demolished more than thirty years ago following a substantial fire on May 23, 1978. If it weren't for these old photos, courtesy of the city's Office of Historic Resources, we may have no evidence at all of this nearly-forgotten monument.
The Hartman family built this Queen Anne home in 1908 on the southwest corner of Oak and Washington Streets. The eight-bedroom home contained a large dining room, kitchen, living room, and a ballroom with a massive stone fireplace. The main floor had an additional pair of fireplaces. (This must've been one of the last Victorian homes built in the city, no? I mean, by 1908, weren't Prairie and Craftsman homes already the more prominent style?)
Ten years later, to make room for the Hartman Apartments, the house was picked up and moved around the block to 919 West 20th Street.
Below is an old Sanborn map of the area. You can clearly make out the Hartmann [sic] Apartments up top, but, for some reason, there's a blank space at 919 West 20th. Don't ask me to explain this. I can't account for the missing house. (Oh. I should note the Hartman Apartments have been gone for at least thirty years as well.)
Mr Hartman, at the age of 98, sold the house to Rodney Loeb, and, to the community, it became apparent that future plans for the property did not include the old home. As a means of (temporary, at least) protection, the house was declared a monument in August 1977, much to the owners' opposition (had the city not tabled earlier attempts to have the home designated, perhaps the landmark would still be around today). At the time of its declaration, the building was a rooming house for USC students and still stood in pretty good shape, especially the interior. The sixty-nine-year-old building boasted excellent carpentry work inside and out, including a porch that wrapped around half the structure. Inside, there still remained the original gas lines and outlets as well as the hand-painted ceiling wallpaper as seen in these shots:
And if I've learned anything from Recentering El Pueblo, it's that the type of window up top in the left-hand picture below is a l'oeil de boeuf, or 'bull's eye.'
In 1978, a Mr Huck was still seeking to re-zone the area and demolish the home to put up a parking lot to serve his garment-cutting facility next door. Consequently, there was that 1978 fire, and the house was quickly razed. What raised a stink, though, was the fact the city's Building and Safety Department failed to notify the Cultural Heritage Board that it had okayed the demolition of an official city landmark. It was ultimately decided, however, the oversight was the result of not of any devious motive but rather of just "human error."
Want to see 919 West 20th Street nowadays? No, you don't. Here it is anyway:
Special extra-big thank to Rita at the Office of Human Resources who provided me with these scans.
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Be still my heart! It has an upstairs sunporch. How very sad to loose this beauty in disrepair.
William Hayes Perry said...
It would have made a lovely addition to our homes at Heritage Square.
Diallo said...
Wow. One of the more sad posts. That house had so much character. Le sigh.
Miss Havisham said...
I am so grateful that there are, at least, these photos of both the exterior and the lovely elements in the interior. I wish I could look at every inch of the place but I'm happy there is is this and that you are keeping this alive by posting them for us.
It is giving me the ideas I need to festoon me own old vic crib.
Art said...
Sad to say the big lie has been perpetuated forever. There was no fire. The house was left open for several months and it was vandalized. So called neighborhood "preservationists" helped themselves to architectural details. A demolition permit was issued "in error" much to the chagrin of Building and Safety and the Cultural Heritage Board in order to make room for a catering truck facility. The fire story was concocted just as cover up for the bungled demo permit.
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Very sad that this Majestic Beauty is no longer standing. Thankfully, there are photos. If I could I would have a house built exactly like this one.


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The Vision Tactical Green Team
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Vision Tactical Green Team collects over 10 000 bags of rubbish across Houghton, Killarney and Norwood
HOUGHTON – The Green Team has met with success, cleaning up areas including Houghton, Killarney and Norwood.
The Vision Tactical Green Team has collected more than 10 000 bags of rubbish and rubble across Houghton, Killarney, Norwood and surrounding areas since the launch of their project in January this year.
The community care initiative began in response to complaints of illegal dumping from the community.
Director of Vision Tactical Yaseen Theba said, "Bringing in a team of passionate individuals to clean up and strive towards litter free surroundings, the operation has created job opportunities for the unemployed and also provides these individuals with a sustainable source of income."
The Green Team currently employs six full-time members and intends to expand this month to employ another three members and take on a second vehicle to expand their reach.
The Green Team wishes to thank Freeway Toyota, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ER24, Al's Hardware, the Lower Houghton Residents Association and the Killarney Residents Association for their collaboration and support of the project.
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We Love Houghton
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Cleaning up in more ways than one!
GREEN TEAM – ANOTHER VISION TACTICAL INITIATIVE TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
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Vision Tactical cleans up the neighbourhood
HOUGHTON – Local security company enhances their green footprint by launching a clean-up campaign.
Rosebank Killarney Gazette – 17th January 2019
Members of the Green Team Wallington Chisale, Brandon Kamsela, directors of Vision Tactical Yaseen Theba and Feroz Essay, and Abdulla Nazeel get ready to clean up the neighbourhood.
Following a number of calls from the public complaining about illegal dumping across the Houghton area, Vision Tactical security service launched their Green Team initiative.
The Green Team has employed four full-time workers to clean up the areas of Houghton, Killarney, Norwood and surrounding areas.
With the aim to build an unpolluted and safe environment while driving sustainable change, the Green Team hopes to increase their visibility in the area to drive environmental awareness.
Director of Vision Tactical Yaseen Theba said, "While we may not have a solution to stop illegal dumping, we felt that it's our responsibility to assist the municipality with initiatives like this so that we can keep our public spaces clean."
Theba said that the team, who wears green overalls, is equipped with sufficient tools and gear to clean up the area.
"We encourage our clients, the community and businesses in the area to support and volunteer towards the initiative. We believe it's a win-win for everyone to be involved," said Theba.
They wish to thank Freeway Toyota, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ER24, AL's Hardware and many other partners for their collaboration and support. The Green Team is associated with the Lower Houghton Residents Association and the Killarney Residents Association. They have also received the support of Ward 73 Councillor Eleanor Huggett and director of Region E Liziwe Ntshinga-Makoro.
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Vision Tactical has been at the forefront of private security and protection services around Johannesburg since its launch in 2014. With the dawn of a new year, filled with renewed opportunities, Vision Tactical is proud to launch its latest operation – the Green Team!
The Green Team is a vision in execution. Vision Tactical's way of further enhancing the suburbs it serves. Bringing in a team of passionate individuals to clean up and strive towards litter free surroundings. The operation creates job opportunities for the unemployed and provides these individuals with a sustainable source of income.
"It's not just about cleaning our public spaces every Mandela Day… we need to make every day a Mandela Day and continuously strive to keep our suburbs clean', said Yaseen Theba, Director of Vision Tactical. The aim of the Green Team is to build an unpolluted and safe environment, while driving sustainable social change, Theba added.
Look out for the members of the Green Team who are truly dedicated to the preservation of our environment – you will recognise them by their green overalls and friendly smiles! The team is equipped with sufficient tools and gear to effectively clean up the area.
The Green Team initiative has been put into motion as a result of an incredible collaboration with Freeway Toyota, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ER24, AL's Hardware among others and is associated with the Lower Houghton Residents Association and the Killarney Residents Association.
Eleanor Huggett, Councillor for Ward 73 has pledged her support for the Green Team, and will engage with themembers & partners of the initiative so that the Green Team can benefit the community at large. Liziwe Ntshinga-Makoro, the director of Region E has also commended the initiative.
"The Nelson Mandela Foundation, is pleased that the Houghton Community is building awareness and making good efforts to keeping a clean and safe community that is caring', said Yase Godlo, the Manager of Mandela Day and Outreach for The Nelson Mandela Foundation.
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much", said Ridwaan Laher, the CEO of the Freeway Group" We are proud to contribute to the Green Team and challenge other corporates to also pledge their support, he added.
The Green Team – Keeping it clean…
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A retired secret service agent, Captain Matt Hunter ( Michael Dudikoff), takes on a sinister right-wing political organization called "the Pentangle". He comes to the aid of his best friend Larry Richards (Steve James), an African-American politician who has become a target for the Pentangle's henchmen.
- CAUTION : Rated R [18+], this movie contains : "Offensive racial slurs", "Violence" and "Strong language", which some viewers may find disturbing. Accordingly, viewer discretion is advised.
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Written by David Odell
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Runtime 125 min.
After accidentally losing the Omegahedron, Argo City's power source, Kara Zor-El (Helen Slater) embarks on a journey to go recover it before Argo City perishes. Upon arriving on Earth, she discovers she has superpowers and adopts the identity of Supergirl, which she uses to help others while on her quest to recover the Omegahedron.
Elsewhere, the Omegahedron has fallen into the hands of Selena (Faye Dunaway), a flunky witch who quickly becomes powerful because of it and who sets her sights on Supergirl, ready to eliminate the Girl of Steel the first chance she can get.
Can Supergirl recover the Omegahedron before Argo City goes dark and Selena is victorious?
It's superheroine versus supervillainness in this '80s classic of Good vs Evil.
This flick is every bit a part of my childhood as the Superman movies were. At the time, of course, I was too young to understand the story, but now older, it's not too bad. Sure, it has some flaws and continuity issues, but at its heart it's the story about someone trying to right a grievous mistake, something that most of us can relate to.
The visuals and hints of Kryptonian mythology put forth quickly link it to the Superman movies—Supergirl identifies herself as Superman's cousin while in costume, and also as Clark Kent's cousin when she's in disguise as Linda Lee; her supersuit is basically the Christopher Reeve costume from the waist up—and it has a cinematic score that carries a similar heroic tone to that of its male counterpart. Likewise, Marc McClure reprises his role as Jimmy Olsen from the Superman movies and appears as Lucy Lane's boyfriend (Lucy is Lois Lane's younger sister).
They seem to want to jump right into Kara being Supergirl so don't give an explanation as to why she leaves Argo City in that bubble ship in one outfit then transforms inside the ship and flies out of the water in her supersuit, but whatever. They do a good job of showing her discovering her powers, the joy of having them, and also the satisfaction of using them for good.
As hopeful and cheery as this flick is at times, it's also equally dark thanks to Selena being a witch. There is a ton of occult imagery and when you're watching this stuff as a kid, it creeps you right out. And that funhouse that Supergirl's "man in distress" has to find his way out of? Shivers, man. But who isn't afraid of creepy funhouses, right?
The pacing was pretty decent and each obstacle Supergirl must overcome as the movie rolls along keeps getting bigger and bigger until the end when it seems all hope is lost and even the Girl of Steel is helpless.
What was especially cool is during the time of Supergirl's tenure on Earth, Superman was elsewhere in the galaxy doing his thing, so when the story wraps up, Supergirl asks those who knew of her presence to forget she was there and flies off triumphant back to Argo City. This, of course, kept the two super franchises separate while still linking them. I heard Christopher Reeve was supposed to have a cameo in Supergirl but it didn't work out, with Reeve citing personal reasons (whatever those might've been). Would've been amazing had the two teamed up for it. Maybe we'll finally get to see Supergirl and Superman together in Man of Steel 2 . . .
In the end, Supergirl is an overall enjoyable flick that is from a time before superhero movies got all dark and gritty, the hero was filled with angst and turmoil, and it enjoys itself for what it is: a movie about a girl who can fly.
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Retro Encounter Final Thoughts: Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Posted by Zach Wilkerson on September 27, 2020
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I first played Persona 2: Innocent Sin back in 2009-ish when the game wasn't even available in English. I relied on a fan translation to see me through, which I'm sure only added to the enigmatic allure the game held over me. I didn't always fully understand it—especially not that first playthrough—but I knew I adored it.
This is due in no small part to the game's amazing cast of characters. Each of them are equal parts lovable and flawed, and they carry the game's first half on their backs. In fact, one of my favourite scenes in the entire game is a very quiet moment between Tatsuya and Maya in the Bomb Shelter. It informs so much of their characters and elevates Tatsuya above all other silent protagonists, construction noises notwithstanding.
I even loved the gameplay, which I am now learning is a deeply controversial take. To be fair, though, it's a take which I understand more replaying it in the year of our lord Satan 2020. Personally, I loved collecting the tarot cards required for that shiny new Persona I've been eyeing, and I enjoyed the often completely ludicrous conversations required to get them. It's not often in a game that I get to end a battle because the demon I was fighting was too homophobic to withstand the sheer queer energy Jun and Tatsuya were radiating.
It was this queer romance option that lead me to to first tracking down this game at all, in fact. While it amounts to just a few lines of dialogue and a new option during contacting demons, it meant something to 2009 Leona. I was starved for queer representation in my favourite genre of JRPGs that wasn't some mean-spirited joke or gay panic scene. It was two boys who genuinely were in love and showed it, and that was important to me. I am deeply sad that we've only had a tiny handful of JRPGs which can contend with this game in queer representation in the 20 years since the game came out. It's not even a high bar.
After beating Innocent Sin and reliving the absolutely shocking ending, I was immediately filled with the desire to jump right into Eternal Punishment. Perhaps the band can get back together in the New Year…
Alana Hagues
Persona 2: Innocent Sin had long been sold to me as a more inclusive, more intricate, and more personal story about five friends who have to overcome their traumas to defeat… not-Nazis. Sure. And it is mostly that, but also so, so much more. It's incredibly forward-thinking for its time, wrapping up its plot and many of its mechanics in the rumours system. Seeing how rumours manipulate things from shop prices to character dialogue while even moving the plot forward feels very prophetic in the year 2020, where we see how social media twists our perception of the world. I felt on edge the whole time watching Tatsuya and his friends grapple with this malleable world, all while dealing with their own issues.
I think this tighter focus on the core cast is what really makes Innocent Sin for me. Watching Eikichi accept his shadow self in such a resolute yet calm manner, and seeing Lisa grapple with her identity endeared me to both of them. But it's Big Sis Maya's positivity, her charm, and her vulnerabilities that really stand out to me. She is a beautifully flawed character, insecure in herself, but trying to do the best she can in a world that doesn't want her to. This doesn't even begin to scratch the surface on all of the intricacies of Innocent Sin, where details such as Personas, astrological signs, and even party positioning is mapped out perfectly to tell a deeper story.
Innocent Sin isn't the most fun game to play (far from it, in fact), but almost everything else about it overrides any complaints I have. It made my head spin in the best possible way while playing, but the theory crafting, reading, and speculating after I beat it is almost unmatchable. I'm so excited to get to Eternal Punishment to find out just how the events of Sumaru City in 1999 conclude.
And lastly, Atlus, just make a game where all I do is talk to the demons. Let me have tea with them, or do impressions, or dance with them. I beg you.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin creeps up on the player like moss on a damp rock. Having played this game just a couple months out from a very enjoyable first play of Persona 4 Golden, I was unprepared for what a little polish and pop music had done. Where Persona 4 is awash with the allure of yellow and the joy of the quotidian, Innocent Sin is stained with the red vestiges of arcane and unknowable things.
It worms its way into your psyche and wriggles about your brain, reaching into those dark places we stalk when a good night's rest has already long escaped us. It seems as if every corner of this place is burdened with an atmosphere of lead. Relative truth becomes objective fact in this physical world, and every outlandish lie can come to pass.
Sometimes, your local stoner will start selling guns for the mafia. Other times, the trauma of the innocent chart heretofore unthinkable paths in a world made more horrifying with each new possibility. At its best, Innocent Sin can be a deeply unsettling experience.
I don't think I've ever seen a game handle lore in this way. It's incredibly well-researched and interconnected, an intoxicating dive through 20th century occultism, long-discarded mythologies, and Jungian psychoanalysis. These disparate elements flow through each other with such subtlety that it was only after the credits began to roll that I felt I could start to comprehend the various ludonarrative levels the game was operating on.
If you chose to approach Persona 2: Innocent Sin as you would the latest AAA action game, you'd be disappointed. But, if you're willing to negotiate, I can promise you'll find an experience unlike any other. In a world of even sheens and sanded edges, Innocent Sin remains an unvarnished malcontent.
I'm not sure that I've played a game that is simultaneously both as exalting and as frustrating as Persona 2: Innocent Sin. For every excellent character moment, there is another interminable dungeon. For every effective use of symbolism to convey theme, there is another endless sequence of random encounters with painfully slow combat. This game is amazing at what it does well, and shocking bad at what it does poorly.
Needless to say, I had a complicated run through Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Partially because of the gameplay, I found myself struggling to play it—or even wanting to play it—for long stretches of time, leading me to being forced to play almost half of the game in a timespan of 36 hours.
Nonetheless, I heartily, heartily recommend Persona 2: Innocent Sin to anyone with a passing interest in the series. Despite its myriad flaws, the strength of the story and characters overcomes all of it. Maybe more importantly, this is a game that follows through on its engaging premise all the way to the end. Given the nature of the premise, that any and all rumors, no matter how outlandish, will come true in this world, this is even more impressive.
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A new UNSW Campus will be built the CIT Reid site, with the ACT Government to invest $25 million into the project. Photo: Kerrie Brewer.
A new campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) will be built near the Canberra CBD on the site of the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) Reid campus, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has announced.
Mr Barr said the new UNSW campus in Reid would be home to a "world-class research, education and innovation campus". The ACT Government will provide the site, approximately eight hectares of land, as well as an investment of $25 million towards the project and the cost of remediating the site for UNSW.
Once complete, the campus is expected to be used by around 6,000 students and 2,000 staff.
UNSW President and Vice-Chancellor Ian Jacobs said the new campus will "strengthen Canberra's reputation as a knowledge and innovation hub" and "boost the city's economy and employment".
"UNSW has a 50-year history of delivering outstanding education and research in Canberra. This new campus will enable us to take the scale and quality of our involvement in Canberra to a new level. It is an exciting time for UNSW and for the national capital, as its tertiary education credentials are further enhanced," Professor Jacobs said.
Mr Barr said the campus would play a "major role" in the renewal of Canberra's city centre, and would provide a "long-term economic boost" to Canberrans.
It was announced last year that a new CIT campus would be built in the Woden Town Centre, expected to be operational in the mid-2020s. The CIT Reid campus is expected to be operational for at least the next five years, until the new Woden campus is built, with CIT to maintain a "continued presence" in the CBD.
UNSW is expected to undertake consultation with stakeholders and the community to help inform the master plan for the new campus.
For more information on the new UNSW campus, visit canberra.unsw.edu.au


A NEW INTRODUCTION TO READING: Or, Collection of Easy Lessons Arranged on an improved plan, calculated to acquire, with ease a fluency of speech, and to facilitate to improvement of youth.
Baltimore (1804). 6.5x4", old lea., 184pp, very worn, incomplete copy (lacks pp 171-176) with chipped pp, etc. SWAF. Not in NUC and Evan's lists only a copy from an ad.


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Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small
By Lawrence Napper
Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2017
Reviewed by Patrick Adamson
In terms of introductions to its subject, the opening quote of Lawrence Napper's Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small does little to distinguish itself from its abundant popular and scholarly counterparts. Few lines on silent cinema are better known – or more oft-repeated, for that matter – than sad, overlooked former star Norma Desmond's defiant reproach from Sunset Boulevard (1950): "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"
However, where in many cases it is presented as a bold but futile obituary for an era of motion picture production happily confined to the past, here it is repurposed not to reinforce but as a corrective for today's dominant misunderstandings of silent film. It is by embracing the spirit of Desmond's defiance and acknowledging that Billy Wilder's aforementioned noir – alongside perhaps Singin' in the Rain (1952) – remains the primary lens through which many non-specialists perceive of the silent era as a whole that Napper justifies this contribution to an arguably crowded field. The result is a wide-ranging and authoritative celebration of the vibrancy and enduring power of its subject: put simply, silent cinema doesn't need dialogue; it is not "characterised by a lack".
A brief text though this is, it nonetheless provides a compelling testament to the breadth and diversity of global cinema cultures in the medium's first three decades. From its opening statement on, this book promises a new path to those approaching the period for the first time, one in which the familiar early landmarks of film history textbooks – Hollywood style, German expressionism, Soviet montage, British ineptitude – are relocated from their long established positions, now to be found as introductions of another sort: entry points to broader study of the popular cinemas of their respective nations.
Preceding these mini-studies is a comparatively short discussion of the diverse range of cinema-going experiences that emerged from the silent era, drawn here from a variety of sources and film cultures. Analyses of self-reflexive films, from Those Awful Hats (1909) to A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929), establish that the movie theatre will not in this text be read simply as a site for exhibition: it is also a social space and a political arena, providing a captive audience for both the conventionally propagandist and the subversive. Moreover, at this early stage and throughout the text, the transnational circulation of this nascent, but already glamorous and uniquely pervasive, mass medium emerges forcefully as a theme. As it is presented here, the motion picture as we know it does not take shape in isolation, as a scattering of movements detached from their conditions of production, but as the product of a complex, emergent global cinema culture – one to be pursued from the ostensibly "low" world of the nickelodeon to the intellectual coteries of London film societies.
The first of the text's four main national overviews – entitled, "Beyond Expressionism" – begins with a quite orthodox examination of Robert Wiene's expressionist global-hit The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919). The film's most unshakably influential reading is here afforded its due discussion – Siegfried Kracauer's famous socio-political hypothesis that Caligari is a projection of war-torn Germany's collective trauma. But the persistence of its core themes is not then pursued at length through films such as Der Golem (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), as might be expected. Drawing upon a growing body of scholarship that problematizes the unqualified usage of such multivalent terms as expressionism, Napper instead encourages the silent film newcomer to consider how its aesthetic and industrial identifiers overlapped and hybridised across a far broader cross-section of the Weimar cinema corpus. To such ends, his subsequent examination of a young Ernst Lubitsch's whimsical post-war comic grotesqueries – in particular, The Doll (1919) and The Oyster Princess (1919) – is cast as "a useful corrective" to the common reductionist paradigm whereby war-traumatised Germany is viewed solely through the unsettling, expressionistic prism of Wiene, Murnau, and their ilk. In these, he notes that in their "play, spectacle and pleasure", one "searches in vain for the kinds of macabre themes" delineated above.
Eschewing the heavy focus on the innovative "art" film commonly found in introductions to German silent cinema allows Napper to evince a fuller sense of everyday movie-going experiences in a nation whose film output was born of extensive political, social, and economic upheaval. Similar can be said of his second major case study: the Soviet Union. It is popular Hollywood directors and stars – as opposed to the "revolutionary" Eisenstein, Dovzenkho, and Vertov – that are shown to have been the most consistent draws for audiences living under Bolshevik rule. Hollywood royalty Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks' promotional tour to Moscow in 1926 – along with the Sergey Komarov film it gave rise to, A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927) – offers a suggestive testament to the transnational ubiquity of these American celebrities in the first decade post-WWI, while the author's citation of intriguing forthcoming research into the adaptation of a recently rediscovered British production, Three Live Ghosts (1922), for Soviet audiences connects with current interest in the transnational reworking and repurposing of nationally-coded films, trends, and stars. Noteworthy also is a prefatory discussion of pre-revolutionary cinema, in which Yevgeni Bauer's unique staging and complex use of depth engenders a revealing contrast with the language of contemporary American filmmaking.
Indeed, Hollywood looms large in many of the presented analyses. US cinema's singular dominance both internationally and abroad, alongside its formal consistency and conventionality, sees it positioned throughout as the standard against which other styles are defined. Yet, the section dedicated to it focusses instead on American silent moviemaking by those at its margins, produced at best contiguously to its dominant practitioners: the works of women filmmakers, whose film-industrial influence in the entire course of the twentieth century arguably peaked in the 1910s; and immigrant narratives made in a studio system built, from its very founding, on the results of migration. When discussing the former, the respective practices of Alice Guy and Lois Weber supplement and nuance the usual predominance of the professed "father of film", D.W. Griffith. From the latter, British-import Charlie Chaplin figures as the axiomatic star, incoming beneficiary of the new opportunities provided by the motion picture industry. Uniting these threads, the relatively democratic nature of stardom and its reflection of what was perceived to be a largely female viewership is then pursued through Clara Bow's definitive flapper film, It (1927).
Britain is the final nation to come under scrutiny – a choice that the author acknowledges might surprise some readers. Dismissed in the most disparaging terms by nearly a century of critical tradition, this national cinema has been afforded a welcome reappraisal in the last two decades. Alongside close readings of Anthony Asquith's sophisticated late silents, Shooting Stars (1928) and A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) – both of which have benefitted from major BFI restorations in the past decade – this final section seeks to reclaim some of this oft-dismissed national industry's less revered productions. Sometimes accused of being sentimentally pastoral, if not reactionary in its realisation of British life, Hindle Wakes (1927) emerges favourably from such a revisiting. Comparison with the aforementioned It (1927) establishes this important work as a testament to the presence of a progressive social commentary in British silent cinema – one with which it has hitherto rarely been credited.
While Napper certainly departs from the canon in a major way, it is welcome that his analyses focus primarily on films which are currently available in quality home media editions – and, in many cases, only in quality editions, unlike some of the more familiar "classics" to which the uninitiated are often introduced in substandard form. Seeing the works of Weber, Lubitsch, and Asquith in editions prepared from 35mm materials which retain any original tinting and toning and are accompanied by suitable musical scores is the surest way to reinforce this text's opening, and overarching, insistence: silent cinema is a form "complete in itself". And therein lies perhaps the greatest value in Napper's stance. A short introduction though this may be, in eschewing the common textbook structure of plotting a few disparate movements in film history, it manages to construct instead a nuanced and impressively cohesive picture of the diversity of silent cinemas and their cultures.


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Android-powered BlackBerry smartphone with physical keyboard and 5G connectivity is coming in 2021
by Sumit Roy · 21 August 2020 at 7:39 am · 0
OnwardMobility has announced the partnership with BlackBerry and FIH Mobile to produce and sell new BlackBerry phones
OnwardMobility will launch the first Android-powered 5G BlackBerry smartphone with a physical keyboard in the first-half of 2021
The phone will launch in North America and Europe
In February 2020, TCL Communications announced the end of the partnership with BlackBerry, and the company will no longer sell the BlackBerry-branded smartphones starting August 31, 2020. On Wednesday, a Texas-based startup company named OnwardMobility announced the partnership with BlackBerry and Foxconn subsidiary, FIH Mobile, to produce and sell new BlackBerry smartphones.
OnwardMobility will launch the first Android-powered 5G BlackBerry smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard in the first-half of 2021. The phone will launch in North America and Europe. The specification details, including screen size, processor, storage, and RAM, are yet to be revealed by the company. However, in an interview with The Register, Peter Franklin, CEO of OnwardMobility, said, "the device would use a clean-sheet keyboard created in-house, rather than reuse a design previously used by BlackBerry."
He added, "Top of mind for us is not just making the most secure and productive device, but also being an everyday device. That means things like a top-notch camera, and the other specs you'd expect from your day-to-day phone. Simultaneously, we know that we must be competitive, and so our pricing."
John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry, said, "BlackBerry is thrilled OnwardMobility will deliver a BlackBerry 5G smartphone device with a physical keyboard leveraging our high standards of trust and security synonymous with our brand. We are excited that customers will experience the enterprise and government level security and mobile productivity the new BlackBerry 5G smartphone will offer."
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Haagenti, u demonologiji, četrdeset i osmi duh Goecije koji zapovijeda nad trideset i tri legije. Ima titulu velikog predsjednika u paklu. Ima lik bika s grifonovim krilima, ali može uzeti i ljudski oblik.

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 Knight, Thomas H., Demoni, Zagrebačka naklada, Zagreb, 2003.

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