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Posted in FILM with tags David Wingrove, Dishonored Lady, Edgar Ulmer, Extase, Forbidden Divas, Hedy Lamarr, Lola Montes, Marc Allegret, Massimo Serato, The Love of Three Queens, The Strange Woman on March 15, 2016 by dcairns
Just when everything seemed bleak and colourless like a sepia Kansas farmyard, David Melville Wingrove returns after a too-long absence to continue his series Forbidden Divas ~
FORBIDDEN DIVAS
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." ~ Oscar Wilde
No, The Love of Three Queens (1954) is not a movie about a gay ménage a trois. It's a lavish and multi-stranded folly that showcases Hedy Lamarr – its star and its producer – as three of the Great Women of History. She plays the saintly Genevieve of Brabant in the Middle Ages, the flighty Empress Josephine in the Napoleonic Wars and the sultry Helen of Troy in Ancient Greece. Just in case that is not enough, she also appears in a framing story…as a fresh-faced ingénue (Hedy was forty at the time) who embodies all three women for a wandering Italian theatre troupe.
The term 'vanity project' might have been coined specially to describe this film. A sophisticated lady with a famously high IQ (she dabbled in scientific research between movies) Hedy Lamarr rapidly grew tired of the decorative roles foisted on her by Hollywood. Meanwhile, she took little if any responsibility for her own disastrous choices – allegedly turning down Casablanca (1943) and Gaslight (1944), but saying yes to The Conspirators (1944) and Experiment Perilous (1944)! Like any other bored but ambitious leading lady, she took to producing her own films.
She tried this first in Hollywood, with a degree of success. The Strange Woman (1946) was the torrid tale of a scheming backwoods vixen, with George Sanders memorably miscast as a lumberjack. Dishonored Lady (1947) – about a fashion editor with an overactive libido – was a flop, as the clothes were not stunning enough to compensate for the lady's lack of morals. Hedy's career, briefly, looked doomed. But then Cecil B DeMille cast her as the Biblical temptress in Samson and Delilah (1949). Nobody, before or since, had worn peacock feathers with such aplomb! Hedy clearly felt it was her destiny to play the legendary sirens of the ages…
Hollywood, as usual, did not see it her way. So Hedy packed her bags, moved to Italy and sank most of her fortune into a production company all her own. Its one and only product, The Love of Three Queens, exists under such a baffling array of titles (Eterna Femmina, L'Amante di Paride, The Knights of Illusion) and in such a bewildering diversity of cuts (from three hours to under 90 minutes) that it is actually quite hard to describe it as a film at all. It has far more the aura of an open-ended and ongoing project, like Walt Disney's Fantasia or Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, only with a shade more artistic self-indulgence thrown in.
The framing story (at least in the version now on DVD) opens with a bunch of gypsy-style caravans trundling through a scenic Italian landscape. A nameless and faceless narrator follows by horse-drawn carriage. He is, he explains, "compelled by beauty beyond a poet's words, by mystic loveliness that bore the name Leala." As his voice speaks these words, the shutters on one caravan swing open – and Hedy gazes out languidly at the passing scene. Might she not overhear this narration? Perhaps, be embarrassed by it? Then it strikes us that Hedy – in her role as producer – must have given her full approval to the script and instructed Marc Allégret (the credited director) to shoot it in this way and no other.
Well, nobody ever got to the top in movies by being modest. Hedy/Leala is the star attraction of the otherwise shabby Teatro Romani. We and the narrator follow to the nearest town, where the troupe is playing that night. By using a tawdry theatrical framework for its flights of artistic and historical fancy, The Love of Three Queens anticipates a far more famous film maudit of the 50s, the doomed Max Ophüls extravaganza Lola Montès (1955). Both films were mangled and recut to the brink of incoherence and neither, at the time, was given a wide release. The difference is that Hedy's film never became a cause célèbre with critics, has never been revived or restored and remains unavailable in anything like its original form.
As her character on that first night, Genevieve of Brabant, Hedy looks fetching but incongruous in a blonde wig. This episode – unlike most of the film – was directed by Edgar G Ulmer, who helped her play a sizzling femme fatale in The Strange Woman. Her role here is a character of unimpeachable (and well-nigh insufferable) moral virtue – a pious medieval lady who tends the fields with the peasants, while her husband is away fighting the Moors. A lascivious nobleman tries to seduce her. After she refuses, the rotter accuses her of "unchastity" to her husband on his return. The husband, inexplicably, believes the man over his wife and promptly condemns her to death. "This cannot be happening," says Hedy, looking mildly perplexed. We in the audience know exactly how she feels.
Faced with this unwieldy and unbelievable plot, Hedy and Ulmer soon fell out. He walked off the picture (or was fired) and is grudgingly listed as 'Associate Director' in the end credits. Indeed – judging from her performance – it seems Ulmer could control his star only by keeping her in a state of permanent hypnosis. Visually, though, his work brilliantly evokes the art of the Middle Ages; the stylised colour schemes and flat or foreshortened perspectives seem to recall a Brueghel painting. Oh, and poor wronged Genevieve does not die. She escapes into the wild and gives birth to an adorable blonde son. Her erring husband finds them, years later, living in a cave and weaving garlands of flowers to adorn their herd of tame deer.
The next episode (made after Allégret took over) is a shorter and livelier affair. Hedy looks wickedly stylish as the promiscuous Empress Josephine – in a red-white-and-blue outfit of military cut, her bonnet festooned with white plumes and tricolore ribbons. Travelling the back roads during her husband's Italian campaign, she dismisses one lover from her carriage ("I suppose in war these things happen") and invites the next available solder to take his place. But she is not a heartless floozy, just a vulnerable and tender-hearted woman baffled by Naploeon's manic desire to conquer all of Europe. In the end, he forsakes her for an Austrian princess who gives him a male heir. Standing at her window, she listens to each cannon in the 21-gun salute. Her face grows, subliminally, more tragic and resigned with every shot.
It seems Hedy was a lot happier under Allégret's direction. Her portrayal of Josephine is as heart-rending as her portrayal of Genevieve is becalmed. Her third role, as Helen of Troy, is in a more languid mode. But that's only right for this version of the story, which makes Helen the bait in a 'honey trap' – designed by wily Odysseus to trick the Trojans into war. Realising the sordid way she has been used, Helen does not so much fall in love with Paris (Massimo Serato) as leave her husband Menelaus in disgust. Of her fabled beauty, she says: "What has it brought me save sorrow? Desired, not for myself, but that men might envy the one who had me." We are tempted to wonder if Hedy wrote this dialogue herself.
The Trojan War, when it happens, is quite bereft of heroism of any sort. Troy falls in a surprisingly graphic orgy of slaughter and rape; guffawing Greek soldiers suffocate a helpless man under a shower of grain. When Menelaus comes to strike Helen dead with his sword, she throws open her black mourning robes to reveal a lining of bright crimson. As if, knowing the savagery of the world, she had already draped herself in blood. "May the gods forbid that any mortal woman be as desolate as I!" He spares her, but we get the distinct feeling she would rather be dead.
On one level, The Love of Three Queens is a silly and overproduced costumed charade. Yet running through it – and holding it together, if anything does – is an intelligent woman's baffled outrage at the male fondness for brutality, conquest and war. Hedy's first husband (married when she was just 18) had been the Viennese arms tycoon Fritz Mandl, who sold bombs to both Mussolini and Franco. (If he had no links with Hitler, it was only because he was Jewish.) He also tried to destroy all prints of Hedy's landmark film Ecstasy (1933) because she appeared in a very discreet sex scene and, later, swam in the nude. Her efforts to escape this marriage led Hedy to America and, eventually, a Hollywood career. In this return to Europe, she was not just making a movie; she was, perhaps, settling a few old scores.
The scores, alas, did not settle in her favour. The Love of Three Queens sank into an oblivion from which it still has yet to surface. Hedy married again (for the fifth time) to Texan oil tycoon Howard Lee, who insisted they settle in Houston. "How anyone who has seen anything of the world can live in Texas is beyond me," said Hedy after the divorce. She made only a few more films and died in poverty in Florida in 2000. The Love of Three Queens survives, in much-mutilated form, as the most fascinating of flops. Try to imagine Intolerance remade as a glossy high-fashion chick flick. It could never have worked. And who but Hedy would have had the nerve to try?
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Posted in FILM, Theatre with tags Alexander Korda, Cesar, Fanny, Frank Morgan, James Whale, John Beal, Joshua Logan, Marc Allegret, Marcel Pagnol, Marius, Maureen O'Sullivan, Preston Sturges, The Good Fairy, Wallace Beery on May 25, 2010 by dcairns
PORT OF SEVEN SEAS (1938), like a lot of MGM "class" product, throws together a mismatched collection of megatalents with strong material and kind of hopes for the best. I slotted the DVD-R in, with Fiona's approval, on account of the director being James Whale. As the film went on, Fiona mostly drifted off to tweet on Twitter, and I stayed for the Preston Sturges screenplay. But I could see why she didn't stay with it: something just doesn't work about this movie.
The source material, Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of MARIUS, FANNY and CESAR, filmed in the early 30s by Alexander Korda, Marc Allegret and Pagnol himself, is in some ways an odd match for Sturges, with its salt-of-the-earth characters, but in other ways pretty sympatico — there's a blend of raucous comedy and dewy-eyed sentiment which does have some common ground with the author of CHRISTMAS IN JULY and (especially) THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK. And Sturges's script, basically concentrating on the middle part of the story, is very funny in places, at least as I imagine it on the page.
The bruised codfish.
James Whale's sense of humour was very distinctly his own, mining veins of gallows wit and camp long before they were fashionable or even widely recognized. It doesn't have much to do with Sturges at all, or with Pagnol, and he seems to have treated the film as an assignment and invested little of himself in the movie. Central to his discouragement, it seems, was the casting of Wallace Beery as Cesar. A loud, brash, sentimental proletarian, Beery's persona is just right for the loudmouthed, quick-tempered but good-natured Marseilles saloon-keeper… but unfortunately he was a silent movie star whose relationship with dialogue was always somewhat rudimentary. He can talk convincingly enough (the blubbery lips move, and intelligible noises emerge), but he doesn't have a way with a line. And there are so many lines here…
"Now, now, it's nothing to faint. I remember my cousin Bella on my father's side — no, it was my mother's side — she used to faint every day — sometimes twice a day! — in fact, she fainted so often we never knew whether she was conscious or not."
(Sturges obviously liked this rhythm, because in CHRISTMAS IN JULY he repeats it: "I make mistakes every day, sometimes several times a day. I've got whole warehouses full of mistakes!")
Strange trapezoid head of Morgan safely contained in derby.
One aches for William Demarest to step in from the wings, kick Beery in the pants, and steal his role. But that isn't going to happen. Instead we have Frank THE WIZARD OF OZ Morgan to show how it should be done. Beery's main co-star, he has form with Sturges material, having been excellent in THE GOOD FAIRY ("Did you see his eyes? Like angry marbles!"), and though he dithers and faffs comedically with his lines, they get well and truly delivered. Into the right slot.
"I had a friend like that once: his brain began to soften. Everything in there started to melt, and at the end, when he would shake his head to say 'Yes' or 'No,' you could hear it, splashing around in there. It went, 'Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop.' Oh! It was very gruesome!"
[Skeptical] "What an unusual malady."
"You don't believe me?"
"Of course! Certainly I believe you! Because I had a friend, even more unusual. Instead of softening like your friend, my friend's brain hardened. Yes, it began to evaporate, to dry up."
"Really — you don't say so?"
"Absolutely. Little by little it shrank to the size of a pea, a fried pea. So when he walked down the street, this little brain of his would bounce around in his skull and make a noise like a bay's rattle."
"Ugh — horrible!"
"Yes, especially when he walked on cobblestones."
[Suddenly indignant] "I don't believe a word of it! Monsieur Panisse, it grieves me to say so, but I think you're a liar."
"Of course I am, what about you?"
With Whale contenting himself with shooting coverage, we still have some really impressive soundstage docks, and Beery is pretty good at the necessary schmaltz — I usually prefer his bellowing to blubbering, but here the natural order is reversed since he makes such heavy weather of the talk (and Sturges's actors would say how easy his lines were to handle, because they flowed). Maureen O'Sullivan makes a rather well-spoken young fishmonger, and John Beal as Marius doesn't stand much of a chance since the early part of the story, which would establish him in a sympathetic light, has been lopped off.
All available sources suggest that the later Joshua Logan version of FANNY is an even bigger snore, so interested parties are referred to the French originals, starring Raimu as CESAR, Orane Demazis as FANNY and Pierre Fresnais as MARIUS, which constitute quite a moving epic, part comedy and part soap.


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Q: How to insert batch data with CoreData? My situation is more than 200 objects would come to me one by one per second through a callback function,  obviously I cannot save a entity every single time in this callback function, that will cause UI suspend, so my question is how to insert batch data with core data?
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thanks, guys, I re-edit my code like this, and there are some issues,
 if I receive "1", "2", "3"...from the callback function frequently, my tableview often shows "1", "3", "2"... , they are in wrong order.  if anything wrong, plz let me know.
in AppDelegate.m file:
    - (NSManagedObjectContext *)mainManagedObjectContext {
        if (_ mainManagedObjectContext != nil) {
            return _managedObjectContext;
        }

        _mainManagedObjectContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] initWithConcurrencyType:NSMainQueueConcurrencyType];
        _mainManagedObjectContext.parentContext = [self rootManagedObjectContext];
        return _mainManagedObjectContext;
    }

    - (NSManagedObjectContext*)rootManagedObjectContext {

        if (_rootManagedObjectContext != nil) {
            return _rootManagedObjectContext;
        }

        NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator];
        if (!coordinator) {
            return nil;
        }

        _rootManagedObjectContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] initWithConcurrencyType:NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType];
        [_rootManagedObjectContext setPersistentStoreCoordinator:coordinator];
        return _rootManagedObjectContext;
    }

in the callback function I do this, I tried to replace _mainManagedObjectContext
with _rootContext or _workContextint callback function, but data never show on the tableview;
- (void)saveChatMessage:(ChatMessage*)msg userInfo:(UserInfo*)user chatType:(ChatType)chatType receiverID:(long long)receiverID receiverName:(NSString*)receiverName
{

        ChatObject *chatObject = [NSEntityDescription
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                                  inManagedObjectContext: _mainManagedObjectContext];

        chatObject.receiveTime = [NSNumber numberWithLongLong:[NSDate date].timeIntervalSince1970];
        chatObject.text = msg.text;
        chatObject.richText = msg.richText;
        chatObject.senderID = [NSNumber numberWithLongLong:user.userID];
        chatObject.senderName = user.userName;
        chatObject.chatType = [NSNumber numberWithInteger:chatType];
        chatObject.isFromHost = [NSNumber numberWithBool:user.isOrganizer];
        chatObject.receiverID = [NSNumber numberWithLongLong:receiverID];
        chatObject.receiverName = receiverName;

        NSError *error;
        if (![_workerContext save:&error]) {

        }

        if (![_rootContext save:&error]) {

        }

}

- (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController {

    if (_fetchedResultsController != nil) {
        return _fetchedResultsController;
    }

    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription
                                   entityForName:@"ChatObject" inManagedObjectContext:_mainManagedObjectContext];
    [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

    NSSortDescriptor *sort = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc]
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    [fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:sort]];

    [fetchRequest setFetchBatchSize:20];

    NSFetchedResultsController *theFetchedResultsController =
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    return _fetchedResultsController;

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A: You have to use background contexts. I recommend this setup:
RootContext (background) for saving --> is parent of
MainContext (main thread) for UI    --> is parent of
WorkerContext (background) for insert, update, delete operations

Root context and main context should be set up at app start. You can create a worker context in your web callbacks (when you have the new data available) and then use the context with the block APIs:
workerContext.performBlock() {
     // update data here
}

When you call save() on the worker context, the UI context gets the changes and can update itself gracefully (e.g. via NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate). Make sure you also call save on the root context to persist the data to the persistent store.
This is the basic outline of a good approach. In case you are not familiar with some of the mentioned techniques, you can find good and detailed explanations of many of these on this platform.

A: You can insert all data in a background thread and save the context when you are done - that will update the context in other threads. Just take care that all saving is done on that background thread to avoid concurrency problems.

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Q: Athenticating controllers in an MVC framework for PHP I am using the codeigniter framework and I am trying to implement the tankauth authentication.  It works well for regular pages.  In the __construct of the controller, I put the
if (!authenticated) { redirect('auth'); }

there so that it protects all of the functions in the controller.  This works fine if the user's credentials time out and they try to load a new page, it just redirects them to the auth page so they can login again.  However, I get an infinite loop if the function in the controller is called via ajax.  I assume because it is trying to send the redirect headers when the page is already loaded.
What is the correct way to protect ajax calls and redirect the user to the auth page when someone who is no logged in tries to call the function?
Thanks!

A: I am not familiar with tankauth in general, so there may be a better way, but in general, instead of calling the redirect from the controller, you need to return a message (e.g. in JSON) and then terminate the script, rather than redirecting.
The client side Javascript that made the Ajax call, then checks the response and if it indicates the user was logged out, use javascript to redirect to the login (window.location).  If you send a redirect on a page that was requested via Ajax, it doesn't cause the browser to redirect, the Ajax call simply follows the redirect and the result of the Ajax call is whatever HTML your login page returns.
So it might look like this:
if (!authenticated) {
    if (is_ajax_call) {
        echo json_encode(array('error' => 'loggedout'));
        exit;
    } else {
        redirect('auth');
    }
}

The the Javascript checks to see if the response contains an error key, and if it is loggedout, it should redirect the user's browser to your login page.


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Missing teen found after NewsNation story leads to tip
by: Bobby Oler, Sean Noone, Marni Hughes
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — A mother is crediting a story on NewsNation last week for the tip that led investigators to her missing 15-year-old daughter.
The teen from Gassville, Arkansas, disappeared Oct. 1 after she left a note in her room that read, "I need to do this, so don't look for me. I will be back and I will make you happy for me. I hope you know I love u."
On Nov. 24, her story was featured on NewsNation's "Missing" series. Two days later, her mother, Nicole McKiernan, said she got a tip from a man who believed he'd interacted with the girl in Chicago.
McKiernan passed the tip onto U.S. marshals, who found the teen "safe and unharmed," but staying with a man in his 20s at his apartment.
"[My daughter] has explained to me that he was the nicest guy that she has ever met," McKiernan said.
When she heard her daughter was safe, McKiernan drove more than 500 miles to pick her up. On the drive back, her mom showed her the litany of social media posts calling for her to be found safe, and it made her cry.
"I didn't realize that so many people cared about me," she told her mother.
An investigation found the teen met the man on an app called Omegle, which allows strangers to randomly video chat. Experts like Lighthouse for Life CEO Lisa Kejr say it fits a pattern of human trafficking — predators posing as sympathetic friends or love interests to lure young women away from home and groom them.
"It is people that are preying on the vulnerabilities of our young, and vulnerabilities can be anybody, but particularly those who don't feel seen or don't feel heard or valued or looking for that love and attention," Kejr said on "NewsNation Prime" on Monday. "It's very easy for somebody to come in and to feed them those lines that is going to entice them into life that they don't even realize they're getting into."
"When she talks about him, you can just see this, like, glimmer or light in her eye, like he is just the best thing since sliced bread," McKiernan said.
McKiernan said her daughter was told she had to clean the apartment twice a week, diet, and exercise daily. She was not allowed to leave the apartment when the man was not there.
According to McKiernan, police are investigating the man her daughter was found with. She said the teen now has an ankle monitor to wear in case she runs off again, and her access to the internet will be limited.
Her daughter is still not ready to open up completely about what happened, but McKiernan said she's just happy to have her child home.
The healing is underway, McKiernan said. She had a message for the man her daughter was found with.
"I promise that my daughter will forget you."
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While the overall net effect of AI on UK jobs may be broadly neutral, this varies significantly across industry sectors. The most positive effect of AI is seen in the health and social work sector, where PwC estimates that employment could increase by nearly 1 million, equivalent to around 20% of existing jobs in the sector. On the other hand, PwC estimates the number of jobs in the manufacturing sector could be reduced by around 25%, representing a net loss of nearly 700,000 jobs.
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The God Retires
By Jay Shukla • October 17, 2013
I was flicking through the channels last Friday when I was mesmerized by a breaking news that the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar had announced his complete retirement after playing his 200th test. This news had left all the cricket lovers around the world numb as he has been the inspiration, emabassdor and great icon of the the game of cricket. The one name which has been heard in the prayers of cricket lovers zillion number of times, the one name which has dominated the last two decades in the sports of cricket , is now bidding bye leaving all of us nostaligic in his old memories.
I have seen him playing cricket on Televison since I was born and now after hearing this news it's getting difficult for me to imagine this sport without him. Though he has been such a big name in this world but he has never indulged himself in any controversy. But despite his stardom and success Tendulkar remained humble, professional and grounded.
He has brought the smile on million number of faces trillion number of times. For anyone who grew up in India in the 1990's, there was no greater pleasure than to watch Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar bat with his trademark finesse and almost-textbook shots on the cricketing field. With his 200th Test match impending, the Little Master has finally announced that he's hanging up his boots post the match.
But time leaves no one and even he is not spare as he is bringing the curtains down on an extraordinary career spanning a marathon 24 years. Emotions will be flowing through the entire cricket world when he will be playing his 200th test match this November and millions of moiste eyes will bid a farewell to him with a feeling in there heart that "The God Retires"......


Remember back in 1990? No multitasking, DOS applications running in 16 bit mode with all privileges, setting VESA Mode X was two machine instructions, and putting a pixel on the screen was a single write to a memory location?
Remember 2016? Big, fat operating systems with big, fat drivers, no hardware control, and putting a pixel on the screen requires talking to a graphics server and lots of graphics API calls?
The answer is: 66 bytes.
I'm totally cheating here, but that's what we did back then too: You didn't really set a graphics mode with just two machine instructions, the VESA BIOS did it for you. You didn't initialize the hardware, DOS did it for you (to some degree).
GRUB2 loads my binary, so no need for my own bootloader.
GRUB2 sets up 32 bit protected mode, so no need to switch manually.
GRUB2 sets up the VESA graphics mode (this is a little known feature) using the VESA BIOS Extensions and, if the right bits are set, hands over a linear framebuffer address. Writing pixel data to the framebuffer immediately puts pixels on the screen.
The Multiboot header is a data structure at the beginning of the binary. If GRUB2 sees the right magic value, it will interpret the data structure. The flags field needs to be set according to the specification, in my case e.g. I set bit 11 to tell GRUB that I want a graphics mode and the corresponding header fields have been set. Additional fields hold various important pointers, e.g. the start address of the actual machine code.
The most important fields for me are the four last ones. Graphics mode 0 requests a linear framebuffer instead of bank switching, width, height and depth are self-explanatory. Note that GRUB2 will only set the mode correctly if the vbe module is loaded, other graphics modules will interfere and the buffer is not set up.
The vbe_mode_info field is a pointer to VESA BIOS Extension data structure, which has another field that holds a pointer to the linear framebuffer allocated by GRUB2. So mov 0x4c(%ebx),%eax dereferences right field in EBX pointer and mov 0x28(%eax),%eax the second one, with the linear framebuffer address ending up in the EAX register.
Nothing left to do, loop forever.
// Have all the pixels in this frame been drawn?


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Georgia Tech Minor in BME
This minor requires the successful completion of at least 15 credit hours of coursework selected from lists of approved biomedical engineering and bioscience courses. The goal of the minor program is to educate students in how to apply engineering fundamentals to solve problems in biology and medicine. The program should be of particular interest to those students who plan to pursue advanced degrees in biomedical engineering and/or medicine.
All of the courses must be taken on a letter grade basis and completed with an overall grade point average of at least 2.0. At least 9 of the 15 hours must be advanced upper level coursework (numbered 3000 or above). No more than 6 semester hours of Special Topics courses may be included in a minor program. Courses required by name and number and/or used to satisfy Core Areas A through E in a student's major degree program may not be used in satisfying the course requirements for the minor. However, courses used in a minor may also be used to fulfill other elective requirements (e.g. free and technical electives, etc.) in the student's major degree program.
When a student petitions for a degree, they should complete a petition for the minor and have it approved by the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. The petition for the minor will accompany the petition for the major degree when reviewed and approved by the major school. The two forms are then submitted to the Registrar. The minor will be conferred at the same time the degree is conferred and the degree and minor will be recorded on the student's transcript. The minor will not appear on the diploma and cannot be conferred retroactively upon students who have graduated.
http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/students/ugrad/minors/Biomedical.pdf
Required (3 hours)
APPH/BIOL 3753 Human Anatomy (3-0-3) or
BMED 3100 Systems Physiology (3-0-3)
Bioscience Electives (minimum of 3 hours)
APPH 4100 Exercise Physiology (3-0-3)
APPH 4200 Kinesiology of Human Movement (3-0-3)
APPH 4600 Muscle Structure and Plasticity (3-0-3)
APPH/BIOL 3755 Human Physiology (3-0-3)
BIOL 1510 Biological Principles (3-3-4)
BIOL 2344 Genetics (3-0-3)
BIOL 3340 Cell Biology (3-3-4)
BIOL 4478 Biophysics (3-0-3)
BIOL 4570 Immunology and Immunochemistry (3-0-3)
BIOL/BMED 4752 Introductory Neuroscience (3-0-3)
CHEM 3511 Survey of Biochemistry (3-0-3)
CHEM 4511 Biochemistry I (3-0-3)
CHEM 4512 Biochemistry II (3-0-3)
Biomedical Electives (minimum of 9 hours)
BMED 4400 Neuroengineering Fundamentals (2-6-4)
BMED 4477 Biological Networks and Genomics (3-0-3)
BMED 4500 Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory (1-6-3)
BMED/NRE/MP 4750 Diagnostic Imaging Physics (3-0-3)
BMED/MSE 4751 Introduction to Biomaterials (3-0-3)
BMED/ME 4757 Biofluid Mechanics (3-0-3)
BMED/ME 4758 Biosolid Mechanics (3-0-3)
BMED/CHBE/CHEM 4765 Drug Design, Development and Delivery (3-0-3)
BMED/ECE 4783 Introduction to Medical Image Processing (3-0-3)
BMED/ECE 4784 Engineering Electrophysiology(3-0-3)
BMED/CHBE/ECE/ME 4781 Biomedical Instrumentation (3-0-3)
BMED/CHBE/ECE/ME 4782 Biosystems Analysis (3-0-3)
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NeoCon Announces Pre-Show Virtual Programming
Chicago, IL, February 26, 2021-NeoCon is pleased to announce a topical new virtual programming series that builds off the show's 2021 theme "Design Anew" and leads into the in-person event scheduled for October 4 to 6 at theMART in Chicago.
The March–May schedule will feature two-day programs centered around some of today's most pressing design challenges and opportunities. March will focus on "Designing the Next Workplace;" April will shine the spotlight on "Designing Well," and May will explore "Designing in a Digital World."
Details for the March programming series, "A Return to Togetherness: Designing the Next Workplace" are listed below. Subsequent programming will be announced in the coming weeks. For more details and to register, visit www.neocon.com.
11:00 a.m. CDT: "The Office as an Ecosystem"
Gemma Riberti, head of lifestyle & interiors, WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors
1:00 p.m. CDT: "The Power of Together: Reimagining our Future Workplaces"
Randy Howder, IIDA, AIA, managing director, principal, Gensler
Natalie Engels, IIDA, Principal, global workplace practice leader, Gensler
Eric Kline, director of global workplace experience, Adobe
3:00 p.m. CDT: "The Power of Place-The New Next Workplace"
Daniel Herriott, LEED® GA, ASSOC. IIDA, director of design, interiors, HOK
Gale Moutrey, global VP/brand experience + workplace innovation, Steelcase Inc.
Diana Stanisic, IIDA, ASID, interior designer, associate, HOK
11:00 a.m. CDT: "How Other Design Sectors Can Influence the Future of Workplace Design"
Eric Yorath, MFAD, BFA, BCIN, LEED AP, principal, Figure3
Mardi Najafi, director, retail design, Figure3
Sherif Ayad, founder and president, ID & Design International
Bob Fox, chairman and principal, FOX Architects
1:00 p.m. CDT: "Changing Face of Design – How the Design Industry Is Supporting the Workforce Differently"
Neil Schneider, IIDA, design director, IA Interior Architects
Guy Messick, AIA, director of design intelligence, IA Interior Architects
Tish Kruse, RID, LEED AP, senior director of workplace strategy, IA Interior Architects
Ray Ehscheid, RDI, Associate IIDA, director of client services, IA Interior Architects
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Two Creepy TV Spots for Dowdle Brothers' Devil Have Arrived
Bad things happen for a reason. Despite bearing M. Night Shyamlan's name (which everyone always laughs at), I have to admit I'm pretty damn excited to see Devil. I'm a sucker for contained thrillers and this looks like it takes the concept and flips it around and sends it for a ride, which I know sounds cheesy, but it was a pun! Anyway, two new TV spots recently showed up on YouTube and they're both quite interesting. One of them is called "Spanish Prayer" (you'll see why, it's good) and the other is "Coincidence", another good one setting up the story. I'm surprised they're keeping Shyamalan's name on these though. Watch both below!
Check out the first new TV spot for M. Night Shyamalan's Devil:
Check out the second new TV spot for M. Night Shyamalan's Devil:
Devil is directed by Minnesota-born filmmakers/brothers Drew and John Eric Dowdle, of The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Quarantine, the remake of [Rec], previously. The screenplay for this was written by Brian Nelson, of both David Slade's Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night previously, and is based on a story conceived by M. Night Shyamalan, who also produced the film. This is the first in Shyamalan's The Night Chronicles series of thrillers. The second film in the series will be called Twelve Strangers. Universal Pictures is bringing Devil to theaters starting September 17th this fall. You can watch the official trailer for Devil here. Thoughts?
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Why did they have to censor her boobs 🙁
Robbie on Aug 24, 2010
His name scares me away from movies...
tra la la la la di da on Aug 24, 2010
I still think this looks cool. Bunch of people trapped in an elevator, one of them is the Devil. Nice premise. Will see it.
whomever on Aug 24, 2010
Despite Shymalan's name, I'll still be checkin' this flick out! Shymalan is only the producer, which is ok; the same could be said of, "The Last Exorcism". As long as Eli Roth (the master of schlock) is the producer and nothing else, that flick should at least be mildly entertaining as well. 😉
Spider on Aug 24, 2010
I bet its the older lady.
Xerxex on Aug 24, 2010
I bet it's either the elevator or all of them with different aspects of the devil (the latter sounds so cheesy and cliche, but you never know).
feeheeheeheeny on Aug 24, 2010
If its any good it will be because of Brian Nelson's involvment.
harm on Aug 24, 2010
#5 Xerxex i bet your right its always the old people are the Devil
tazz on Aug 24, 2010
How does one crawl across the floor of an elevator? It's an elevator. She's only crawling so we can get a look at her floppy boobs.
choade on Aug 24, 2010
I'm betting $105.73 that the devil is the indian looking curly haired guy with the RED TIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scared S-less!!! on Aug 24, 2010
#5 and 8 - ever see "the omen"? but if it is the old lady, that'd be fine with me........ i mean, damn......... that old lady in "legion" was freaky.
beavis on Aug 24, 2010
eduardite on Aug 25, 2010
Charlatan!
Lincoln on Aug 25, 2010
Satan be damned! Ah the old evil in an elevator trick yaheraaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Could have left out the mad nightwatchman bit, that would have been an odd twist to see.
Crapola on Aug 26, 2010
i thoroughly enjoyed the full trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYy7igKD21A pretty much what i expect it to be: suspense/thriller based on the idea of being trapped in enclosed space with scary thing. ill go just for the scare!
jonathan on Aug 30, 2010
I pretty much guarantee that the devil transfers from person to person everytime they touch...look at the first trailer and notice how there's an emphasis on the people touching one another...
Trademark on Aug 30, 2010
@Trademark #16: ooooh thats a pretty good theory! so like, possession? ive been all over the other vids to see if i can catch what youre seeing and i kind of see it too. the website has other clips too, tell me if you catch anything i miss: devilmovie.net
jonathan on Sep 1, 2010


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Зимница — деревня в Харовском районе Вологодской области около впадения Шорги в Кубену.

Входит в состав Кубенского сельского поселения, с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — в Кубинский сельсовет.

Расстояние до районного центра Харовска по автодороге — 27 км, до центра муниципального образования Сорожина по прямой — 16 км. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Максимиха, Коркинское, Кудрявцево.

По переписи 2002 года население — 9 человек.

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The smallest Ancient Thracian brick tomb, out of a total of 14 Thracian tombs made of bricks that have been excavated so far in Bulgaria, has been found by archaeologists near the town of Rozovo near the town of Kazanlak, Stara Zagora District.
The newly found tomb is notable for a number of reasons, in addition to being the smallest known brick tomb in Bulgaria from the time of Ancient Thrace.
It has now become the second known beehive tomb or tholos (tholus) – referred to in Bulgarian as a "dome tomb" – after the world famous Kazanlak Tomb, a UNESCO World Heritage site – whose "dome" has survived. Unlike it, however, the Rozovo Tomb contains no murals or frescoes.
In addition the Rozovo Tomb is known to have been fully looted by ruthless modern-day treasure hunters back in 2010, long before the Bulgarian archaeologists managed to study it.
Nonetheless, the rescue excavations carried out by Assoc. Prof. Georgi Nehrizov from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia and Meglena Parvin from the Kazanlak Museum of History "Iskra" have exposed a rather valuable archaeological and historical monument from Ancient Thrace seemingly dating to the first half of the 3rd century BC.
Tombs of Ancient Thracian rulers and nobles are usually hidden underneath burial mounds (tumuli) dotting the landscape in much of Southern and Northeast Bulgaria.
Made of stone or brick, these tombs date from the height of Ancient Thrace in the 4th – 3rd century BC up to the Late Roman period in the 3rd century AD, after the Thracians were conquered by the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD.
The Kazanlak Valley in Central Bulgaria, also known as the Rose Valley, is particularly rich in terms of the number of Ancient Thracian burial mounds and tombs found there (with an estimated 1,500 mounds, of which some 300 have been explored), and has become known as the Valley of Odrysian Thracian Kings, as it was the power center of the Odrysian Kingdom (5th century BC – 1st century AD).
Many of the Thracian burial mounds and the tombs they hide get looted by the numerous modern-day treasure hunters roaming the Bulgarian countryside, not to mention that some were actually looted back in the Antiquity.
The Kazanlak Museum of History managed to secure funding from the Bulgarian government for the rescue excavations of the Rozovo Tomb – located about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the tomb of Kazanlak – only in 2018, eight years after it was raided and partly destroyed by treasure hunters.
With the rescue digs ending on September 21, 2018, lead archaeologists Georgi Nehrizov has told local news site Kazanlak.info that his team has been pleasantly surprised by what they have found in the Ancient Thracian beehive brick tomb near Rozovo, which is clearly from the Hellenistic Era.
"It is curious that the treasure hunters' digs were illogical and even a little. One of them was outside the burial chamber, and exposed its outer wall, which is totally pointless. Another dig came from the west, reached the burial chamber, and pierced its wall, which is also totally useless, destroying part of the dome room," Nehrizov says.
"This Hellenistic Era Thracian brick tomb is the second one after the Kazanlak Tomb to be discovered with a fully preserved dome. Several other such brick tombs have been found in the Kazanlak Valley [the Valley of Odrysian Thracian Kings] but they are less preserved, and material from them was used for other structures in later periods," Nehrizov explains.
"This is the smallest tomb of this kind to have been discovered so far. The dome's top is covered with a stone slab. It consists of 23 rows of bricks of various shapes and sizes. There are rectangular, square, and sectoral bricks, and some of them are very thick. Our excavations lead to the conclusion that the bricks were baked here on the spot depending on the detail that the architect and builder needed, and everything was made to fit together," the archaeologist elaborates.
"Apparently, the shed was a wooden structure. Such sheds have been found in other Ancient Thracian tombs in the Kazanlak Valley such as Shushmanets, the Griffins' Tomb, the Helvetia Tomb, but here the shed seems better preserved. The treasure hunters didn't dig from the south," Nehrizov adds.
On the outside, the Rozovo Tomb was plastered with river stones shaping what the Bulgarian archaeologists refer to as a "coat", which both solidified the structure and prevented atmospheric water from penetrating the tomb.
"Unfortunately, after the treasure hunters' raid, there is nothing left inside the tomb [in terms of funeral inventory]. We've found scattered bones from a human skeleton, including a skull, on the floor but there is no archaeological material, not even pottery. This is not a hurdle to dating the monument because all 14 similar Thracian tombs studied [by archaeologists] so far date to the first half of the 3rd century BC. This one is no exception," Nehrizov reveals.
"I underscore again that in comparison with the [Ancient Thracian brick] tombs discovered around [the Odrysian Kingdom capital] Seuthopolis (now submerged under water) and around Maglizh, this tomb is a miniature one, and was built much more sloppily. [For instance], unlike the Kazanlak Tomb, the soldering here is clay, not mortary," the lead archaeologist points out.
Nehrizov also notes that the newly found and smallest Ancient Thracian brick tomb in Bulgaria seems to be the second best preserved so far – even though it features no murals and frescoes.
"There are Thracian brick tombs from this period only in the Kazanlak Valley, the most distant one is in the town of Oryahovitsa near Stara Zagora to the east. There are two near Maglizh, several around Seuthopolis, two near Kran, and then the one known as Sarafova Mogila (Sarafov Mound), but its chamber is rectangular, not round. So is one of the Maglizh tombs, also rectangular, but with murals," the archaeologist explains.
"So it is important for that, while the Rozovo Tomb has no murals, it is second [Ancient Thracian brick] tomb with a surviving dome," he recaps.
The rescue excavations of the smallest Ancient Thracian tomb found near Rozovo in Central Bulgaria were completed on September 21, 2018. The fate of the tomb is to be decided by a commission from Bulgaria's Ministry of Culture.
The world-famous Kazanlak Tomb was discovered in 1944 (it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979). Between 1948 and 1954, Bulgarian archaeologists had the chance to explore one of the capitals of the Ancient Thracians, the ancient city of Seuthopolis. Unfortunately, those were only rescue excavations since the then communist dictatorship in Bulgaria decided it would be a good idea to submerge Seuthopolis on the bottom of the then constructed Koprinka Water Reservoir (present day initiatives for creating an underwater island to exhibit Seuthopolis for tourists have failed to be realized). The Thracian tombs in Maglizh and Kran were discovered in 1965. Thracian tombs from the Roman period (i.e. after Ancient Thrace (at least south of the Danube) was conquered by the Roman Empire in 46 AD) were excavated near the towns of Tulovo and Dabovo in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the team of Dr. M. Domaradski explored a Thracian settlement and a necropolis near the town of Tazha. Between 1992 and 2006, late Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov led his special archaeological expedition TEMP (Tracology Expedition for Mound Research) which explored over 200 Thracian burial mounds during the Iron Age and the Roman Age in the Kazanlak Valley. The expedition's finds include over 15 tombs, 3 brick masonry graves, and a number of rich funerals. New discoveries after 2007 of funerals of Thracian aristocrats at Drumeva Mogila Mound near the town of Staro Selo, and Yakimova Mogila Mound near Krushare have extended the Valley of Odrysian Thracian Kings' eastward along the Tundzha Valley to the city of Sliven. The traces of civilized life indicate that the Thracians continued many of the traditions of the prehistoric people who inhabited the region in today's Central Bulgaria. This is evidenced by the Buzovgrad Megalith dating back to 1,800-1,600 BC, and the city of Seuthopolis, which was built on top of a previously existing settlement. More Thracian tumuili have been studied recently near Buzovgrad and Dolno Izvorovo.
Of all the Ancient Thracian burial mounds with their tombs and graves in the Valley of the Odrysian Thracians Kings, only the Kazanlak Tomb has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 1979). However, in 2012, Kazanlak Municipality started preparing its application for seeking UNESCO World Heritage Status for several more of the most major Thracian tombs in the Valley of Odrysian Thracian Kings' – the Golyama Kosmatka Tomb, the Ostrusha Tomb, the Shushmanets Tomb, the Helvetia Tomb, and the Griffins' Tomb.


What limits the electrical service ampacity and service voltage entering a building?
What limits the electrical service ampacity & service voltage entering a building?
What are the Limiting Factors That Determine the Electrical Capacity or Size at a Building?
What determines the actual limits of available amperage at a residential property? Residential Electrical Service Amps Limitations: This article explains the Limiting Factors that determine the electrical capacity (amps) or size at a building.
We describe five components to examine, the risks or shortcomings of relying on each of these individually to estimate the service amperage at a property, and how the service ampacity at a property is set by the lowest-capacity item among the five things we examine.
One of the most frequently asked questions at ASHI Education Seminars and Conferences is "How do I determine the service amperage?" This article series includes photographs and sketches that illustrate different ages and capacities of residential electrical panels, meter bases, and electric meters.
LIMITING FACTOR sets AMPS - Checking the Electrical Service amperage - what is the limiting factor?
The safe and proper service amperage available at a property is set by the smallest of: the service conductors, the main disconnect fuse or switch, or the rated capacity of the electric panel itself. The inspector should consider all three of these and report any inconsistencies among them.
Readers should also be sure to see AMPACITY - the LIMITING FACTOR. This article series explains how to estimate the electrical service size, (or "electrical power" or "service amps") at a building by visual examination of the service entry cables, electric meter and meter base, electrical service panel, main switch, and other details. One of the most frequently asked basic electrical questions is "How do I determine the service amperage?"
The main breakers or fuses are permitted to be smaller (have lower overcurrent protection) than the capability of the service equipment (panel) and conductors (entrance cable). For example, a 2AWG copper service conductor (rated for 125 Amps, or in Canada for 120 Amps) to a panel using a 100-Amp main (service disconnect) is not a defect.["Residential Electrical Inspection," Douglas Hansen, ITA class material, Ver. 6.1 Oct. 1991, Los Altos, CA] You may want to point out to your client that such a service can be upgraded to higher amperage simply by installing larger main fuses/breakers.
Note that the main disconnect may be a fuse, breaker, or switch which is physically separate from the distribution panel. This is more common in older equipment installations and in very large commercial high-amperage installations.
Watch out: for a new higher amps-rated electrical panel connected to old, smaller-capacity service entry cables. A common defect found in upgrades of older equipment is the installation of a new 100-Amp panel and main breaker while failing to replace the old 60-amp service entry cables. This is either incomplete work or work by an untrained person.
Keep in mind that by service entry cables we're referring to the cables from the mast head (point of attachment of overhead wires to the building) down to the meter and from meter into the main switch or panel. Overhead wires, being cooled by open air, may be of a smaller diameter determined to be safe by the utility company for open air use.
Electrical services of 60 Amp capacity are still allowed in at least some Canadian areas and in the US for loads such as individual apartments. Inspectors should not write up 60-Amp services as a defect without first checking these points. In cabins or similar vacation structures in the U.S. and Canada, and in buildings in some other countries such as Mexico, much smaller amperage services are often brought into the building.
Home Inspectors should make clear to all parties that generally, electrical defects are unsafe conditions, can be quite dangerous, and deserve prompt attention.
One exception: an undersized service, if it is properly fused, will be inconvenient but is not itself inherently unsafe. For such systems the safety and fire risks come more often from the temptation of frustrated owners to subvert or bypass the safety devices the classic "penny in the fuse base" problem.
See SAFETY HAZARDS & SAFE ELECTRICAL INSPECTION PROCEDURES for examining Residential Electrical Panels.
AMPACITY - the LIMITING FACTOR - Summary: What is the limiting factor that determines the actual electrical service ampacity at a building?
Remember you're looking for the limiting factor in determining ampacity. Finding the electrical component in this list which has the smallest capacity means that you have found the "weak link in the chain" of components bringing electrical service to the building.
Particularly when inspecting older properties, where there is the chance that someone has upgraded some but not all of the components in this list, there may be an inconsistency such as the installation of a larger electrical panel without upgrading the main disconnect.
Inspectors attempting to determine (or estimate) the ampacity of the electrical service at a building should report their determination.
If conditions limit your inspection, such as in the photo at left, you can't identify the capacity of all the components described in the text above. In that case you should report which determining components were or were not visible or identifiable.
We don't hesitate to tell our clients what the electrical service size (ampacity) appears to be from what we could see . But we make quite clear the difference between what we know and what we think.
Continue reading at AMPS MEASUREMENT METHODS or select a topic from closely-related articles below, or see our complete INDEX to RELATED ARTICLES below.
AMPS, LIMITING FACTORS at InspectApedia.com - online encyclopedia of building & environmental inspection, testing, diagnosis, repair, & problem prevention advice.
Questions & answers or comments about how to find the component that sets the limit on maximum electrical service amperage or capacity at a building .


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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
Committee announce scrutiny of COP26 & publication of report
On Tuesday 1 December, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee will hold an evidence hearing on the Government's leadership and preparations for the COP26 climate conference and on efforts to achieve net-zero, questioning witnesses include Claire O'Neill, former COP26 President and Minister for Energy and Clean Growth, and a panel of climate change experts.
Watch the session on Parliament TV
Inquiry: Net zero and UN climate summits
Chair letter to Alok Sharma | PDF version
Read the report: COP26: Principles and priorities — a POST survey of expert views | PDF version
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has today written to Alok Sharma, President, COP26 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with a series of questions on the Government's priorities and preparations for the COP 26. The correspondence highlights a survey of expert views, also published today, on the climate conference.
The BEIS Committee special report follows a survey of experts on the UN's climate negotiation process conducted by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). This report draws together the views of over 500 experts working on international climate policy who took part in the survey.
For the survey, experts were asked for their views on: the most important thing the UK Government and devolved governments should consider when planning and delivering COP26, the most important question that UK Parliament should be asking UK Government while it plans for COP26, and the lessons that can be taken from the Covid-19 pandemic and applied to COP26 preparations. Responses were analysed and synthesised into themes, which are outlined in the report.
The report includes survey recommendations relating to considerations for the running and delivery of COP26, ambitions for COP26, the future of climate policy, delivering the UK's net zero commitments, and post-Covid-19 responses.
Chair's comment
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee said:
"The COP26 Presidency is an opportunity to showcase the UK's global leadership in climate diplomacy and to ensure countries across the world sign up to the actions needed to decarbonise and save the planet.
"The BEIS Committee is leading the Parliamentary scrutiny of the Government's priorities for COP26, with our first public session on the 1st December. The expert survey from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), which we commissioned, raises important questions on the Government's approach to COP. I hope the Secretary of State will address the issues raised in the survey and provide more clarity on what he the UK is seeking to achieve at COP26.
"The Climate Assembly, initiated by six select committees, was a great demonstration of the value of engaging the public in discussions about the path to net-zero. Preparations for COP26 provides the Government with an opportunity to build on the findings of the Climate Assembly and lead a national conversation about what net zero could and should mean for life in the UK.
"The BEIS Committee would like to thank POST and the experts who responded to this survey – this will act as a valuable foundation of our scrutiny of the UKs Presidency of COP26."
Debate & Expert Database
On Thursday 26th November, Darren Jones, BEIS Chair, will lead a House of Commons debate on the Final Report of Climate Assembly UK on the path to net zero.
POST has created a COP26 Expert Database alongside the survey. The database remains open to new entrants who wish to contribute their expertise to the UK and devolved parliaments over the next 12 months. Please click on this link to register.
Tuesday 1 December
At 10.30am
Claire O'Neill, Managing Director, Climate & Energy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Peter Betts, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, and Visiting Professor of Practise, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE
Farhana Yamin, CEO, Track 0
Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Director, Cambridge Zero and Reader, Environmental Data Science, University of Cambridge
Dr Jennifer Allan, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Cardiff
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Coming soon due to popular demand and many enquiries, is the ET Guitars version of the classic B#Machine style guitar.
The "WarMachine" will be a good option for the B#Machine purists, as well as providing a wide range of options to modernise the style to your taste.
- Exotic timbers available in body and neck construction, with many options for droptops, fretboards and laminates.
- Finishes available in Natural oiled, to Transparents and Bursts, Painted Opaque, Metallics, Neons, even why not Swirls!
- Multiscale options with 3 of the common fanned scale formats.
- Chambered option for droptop constructions.
Offers for pre-order will commence around Easter 2015, with a limited first run of 10-12 WarMachines over a 4 month timeframe. Offers will first be published in the Newsletter, so please make sure to subscribe and keep an eye out for more info.
The mockups below show some possibilities with the WarMachine options. The pics use images from stock that will be available in the first production run.