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Vlčí volání () je francouzské filmové drama z prostředí válečných ponorek z roku 2019. Film napsal a režíroval Antonin Baudry.

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Film začíná misí, kde se snaží francouzská ponorka Titane vyzvednout ze syrské pevniny vojenskou jednotku. Vojenský zvukový analytik Chanteraide zaznamenává na ponorce zvuk, který nedokáže přesně identifikovat. Od možnosti ponorky ho zrazuje, že zvuk zní jako od čtyřlopatkového šroubu, ale žádná existující ponorka čtyři lopatky nemá. Nakonec chybně rozhoduje, že jde o planý poplach. Mezitím se ozývá sonar cizí ponorky znějící jako vlčí volání, a ponorka předává souřadnice Titanu rádiem. Na to reaguje íránská helikoptéra, která na Titan shazuje tři bomby. To už má Chanteraide jasno, že musí jít o nějakou novou ponorku, nejspíše ruskou ponorku Jaguar. Kapitán Grandchamp se rozhodne zariskovat a místo ústupu velí k vynoření ponorky, přitom sám z ní vylézá a pomocí RPG sestřeluje vrtulník. Mezitím jednotka z pevniny připlouvá v potápěčské výstroji a vstupuje do ponorky. Mise je úspěšně ukončena.

Po návratu Rusko napadá finské Alandy, francouzský prezident posílá na Alandy pozemní vojsko i jadernou ponorku Effroyable, která je na základě hrdinství svěřena kapitánovi Titanu Grandchampovi. Chanteraideovi jeho nadřízený vysvětluje, že se určitě spletl a že šlo o podvodní dron a nikoliv ruskou ponorku Jaguar. Nechce mu ukázat analýzu, která to podkládá, nicméně Chanteraide odposlouchává jeho heslo do databáze, čímž se k ní dostává a začíná hledat další informace. V knihovně se setkává s mladou Diane, jejíž pravé jméno je Prairie, a ihned mezi nimi přeskočí jiskra. Ačkoliv u ní hledá odbornou knihu o zvucích pro svou analýzu, zjišťuje, že kniha má být sice v knihovně přítomna, ale fyzicky tam není. Přivede ho to ale aspoň k myšlence projít archiv vyřazených ruských ponorek, kde nachází papírově před lety vyřazenou ponorku Timour III se stejným zvukovým projevem a s párovým dvoulopatkovým pohonem, což vysvětluje onen 4 taktní zvuk. Je sice v archivu dopaden a zatčen nadřízeným kapitánem, ale přesvědčuje ho o své verzi. Kapitán později přichází s informací, že i Britové potvrdili podobnou zkušenost a i oni identifikovali zdroj jako Timour III, a propouští ho. Navíc ho umisťuje do jaderné ponorky Effroyable vyslané k Alandům, kde si ho vyžádal kapitán Grandchamp.

Po splnění dovednostních zkoušek se má Chanteraide nalodit, ale kvůli pozitivní zkoušce na marihuanu ho kapitán na loď nakonec nepouští. Ponorka odplouvá v doprovodu Titanu, v tom se ale rozeznívají sirény a Chanteraide proniká do řídící základny. Z Beringova moře byla na Francii vypálena jaderná raketa R-30 z ponorky Timour III, jejíž identitu potvrzuje Chanteraide. Francie odpaluje z Baltského moře protiraketovou střelu, která selhává. Ponorka Effroyable dostává rozkaz k protiútoku. Chanteraide mezitím analyzuje vystřelenou raketu R-30 a zjišťuje, že je příliš lehká, což potvrzuje i jeho velitel. Raketa má 20 procent hmotnosti, což odpovídá tomu, že je bez jaderné hlavice. Od Američanů přichází zpráva, že ponorku Timour III prodal bývalý ruský admirál před dvěma lety džihádistům za 120 milionů eur. Vyjasňuje se tak jejich plán prázdnou atomovou raketou vyvolat protiútok a zažehnout tak jadernou válku. Prezident vydává rozkaz zrušit protiútok, který má nastat za méně než hodinu. Bohužel k tomu ale neexistuje postup a jedinou možností je kontaktovat ponorku a snažit se vedení přesvědčit. Existuje ale velká pravděpodobnost, že by takové naléhání považoval Grandchamp za podvrh. Navíc ponorka je v neviditelném módu a v neznámé poloze, takže jediná možnost, jak ji kontaktovat, je Titane, který ji po doprovodu opustil teprve nedávno, takže by měl být blízko ni. Raketa R-30 dopadá a nezpůsobuje žádné škody, admirál a Chanteraidem vyrážejí vrtulníkem na Titane.

Na Effroyable finišují přípravy k výstřelu a hledání nejlepšího místa k odpalu. V tom objevují na sonaru ponorku. Nakonec se Titanu daří Effroyable kontaktovat a Grandchamp chce svolit ke kontaktu i přesto, že je upozorňován podřízeným na to, že je to proti pravidlům. Nakonec ho podřízený přesvědčuje a Grandchamp deaktivuje komunikační zařízení. Nakonec se kapitán Titanu D'Orsi rozhoduje fyzicky přímo navštívit Effroyable. Grandchamp se rozhoduje vystřelit na Titane torpédo, které ho úspěšně zasahuje a zasahuje i D'Orsiho. Titane sice zachvátí požár, ale zůstává vodotěsný. V požáru je ale uvězněn Chanteraide, kterého se ale podaří zachránit. D'Orsi padá do hlubin oceánu. Kapitán Grandchamp zadává prezidentský kód k odpalu jaderné rakety. Titane má ještě 3 minuty, aby jadernému výstřelu zamezil. Admirál odpaluje torpédo na Effroyable, Grandchamp vrací stejný úder, aby odvrátil Titane z kurzu a jeho torpédu tak přerušil spojení a radiové navádění. Jeden z posádky Titane panikaří a snaží se strhnout kurs ponorky ve strachu ze smrti, čemuž je mu ale zabráněno. Titane dál drží kurs a Effroyable vypouští návnadu, ale neúspěšně. Jedno torpédo vybuchuje nad Effroyable, druhé zasahuje přímo velitelskou věž Titanu. Těžce poškozený hořící Titane vysílá nouzový signál. Effroyable je také poškozený a obnovuje spojení. Chanteraide posílá radiovou zprávu pro kapitána Grandchampa, že odpálení rakety by bylo chybou. Kapitán vytahuje ovládací elektroniku a ruší odpal. Admirál vypouští Chanteraidea ve vzduchové vestě k hladině, ten tak jediný přežívá, i když se zničenými ušními bubínky. Film uzavírá ceremonie na ponorce k poctě potopených ponorek a Chanteraide se opět setkává s Diane.

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The Fourteenth Annual Latino Trendsetter Awards, a landmark celebration of excellence in enterprise, arts, entertainment, health, education and community leadership, will be held at on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 from 6-10 P.M. at The Symphony Space Theater in New York City. The event is sponsored in part by New York Presbyterian Hospital, Inca Kola, CUNY . Media (sweepstakes) partners, La Mega 97.9 & Amor 93.1 and presented by LatinTRENDS. It will commence with a VIP red carpet reception, attended by awardees, influencers and media.The award presentation will be partially open to the public and special guest and will start at 8PM. It will feature a musical performances by Frankie Negron , a multi-cultural dance performance featuring tango, flamenco, salsa and bachata music. Emerging urban Tropical musician, Doñé, will perform live as well.
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I posted a blog entry on secviz about my security visualization predictions for 2011. It's a bit of a gloomy forecast, but check it out.
The Security visualization predictions post was motivated by a panel I was on at the SANS Incident Detection Summit in D.C. early December. Here are the slides for my panel discussion.
One of the topics I have been talking about lately is Cloud Security. The slides linked here are from a presentation I gave in Mexico.
The topic of cloud security and also cloud risk management is one that I have been discussing on my new blog over at Infoboom.
I have recorded a couple of pod casts in the last months also. One was the CloudChaser podcast where we talked about Logging Challenges and Logging in the Cloud.
The other pod cast I recorded was together with Kord and Gary for The Cloud Computing Show. We talked about all kinds of things. Mainly about Loggly and logging in the cloud. Here the mp3.
I also dug out the log maturity scale again. After mentioning it at the SANS logging summit, I got a lot of great responses on it.
The other day, one of my Google alerts surfaced this DefCon video of me talking about security visualization. It's probably one of my first conference appearances. Is it?
And finally, 2011 started with a trip to Kauai where I presented a paper on insider threat visualization. Unfortunately, the paper is not publicly available. Email me if you want a copy.
As you are probably aware, you find my speaking schedule and slides on my personal page. That's a good way of tracking me down. And in case you haven't found it yet, I have a slideshare account where I try to share my presentations as well.
The other day I was searching for some articles that I wrote a while back. For the life of it, I couldn't find them. I then remembered that I published those articles as blog posts on my fomer employer's Web site. Well, they have been taken down in the meantime. Too bad, there was some good stuff in there.
I therefore decided that I would revive my old blog posts and post them here on my personal blog. I will try to update them instead of just blindly pasting them in here.
I hope you will find the content useful. The first piece on Monday is going to be one of my favorite posts on the "Maturity Scale for IT Data Management". So long, have a good weekend.
I thought you might be interested in some blog posts that I have written lately. I have been doing quite a bit of work on Django and Web applications. That might explain the topics of my recent blog posts. Check them out.
Would love to hear from you if you have any comments. Either leave a comment on the blogs, or contact me via Twitter at @zrlram.


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International Women's Day Webinar on Gender Awareness in Journalism
Discussion on marginalization and stereotypes: how to build gender awareness among journalism educators
by Yanni Roxas
In commemoration of the International Women's Day 2021, the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) together with the Journalism and Media International Center (JMIC) Oslo organized and hosted a webinar themed: Marginalization and stereotypes: How to build gender awareness among journalism educators. The webinar attracted close to 100 participants that included women experts on journalism education and research from different countries around the globe who explored the diverse challenges driven by stereotypes against women. Over 200 people viewed the event on Facebook. The March 8th webinar also marked the launch of a special issue of the Journalism Education journal.
Elisabeth Eide, Professor Emerita of JMIC/OsloMet moderated the event while Violet Gonda, president of IAWRT, did the opening remarks. Giving the introduction was Gita Bamezai, Professor and former Head of Communication Research at the India Institute of Mass Communication.
The panelists who shed light on the situation of women in media in their own countries were Samiksha Koirala, Lecturer, Nepal Open University; Florence Namasinga Selnes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Uganda/Norway; Karen Ross, Professor of Gender and Media, Newcastle University, UK; Hani Yousuf, Journalist and Writer, Maldives; and Greta Gober, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University and IAWRT Vice President, Poland/Sweden.
The speakers highlighted such issues as the representation and participation of women in media, gender perspective in education, gender equality or parity, marginalization of women in the newsroom, intersectionality, and stereotyped ideas, beliefs and media representation of women in general.
All were unanimous in saying that though some changes or improvements were noted the progress is still slow and more needs to be done.
Suggestions to solve the issues of women in media included more representation of women in higher positions or in "serious" beats, taking gender equality seriously, translating research into workable data, ensuring critical thinking and gender-focused programs in journalism schools, and fighting against backlashes on women's gains.
Also mentioned were the coverage of women during the Covid pandemic and the impact of social media or digital landscape on women journalists.
Some useful resources were also introduced such as the special issue on gender and journalism education of Journalism Education journal; IAWRT's What if...? Safety Handbook for Women Journalists written by Abeer Saady, a renowned media consultant and trainer, war correspondent, and researcher available in English and in Arabic; IAWRT's Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media written by Greta Gober; the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP); the AGEMI Online Knowledge Platform; and finally the book Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe edited by Monika Djerf-Pierre and Maria Edström. All of these resources are open source and available online.
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Only a third of large firms have completed a pay review
By Mike Berry on 27 Jan 2006 in Equality & diversity, Latest News, Equal pay
Just one-third of large organisations have completed an equal pay review, according to research by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC).
The commission's Equal Pay Review research found no significant increase in the number of large organisations completing a pay review in the last 12 months.
At the current rate, the government will miss its own target of having 45% of large organisations completing pay reviews by 2008, the EOC said.
The lowest level activity is in the private sector. While 61% of large public sector organisations have completed an equal pay review or have one in progress, just 39% have done so in the private sector.
Women working full-time are earning 17.1% less per hour than men working full-time, EOC figures show.
The EOC is calling for fresh action including a modernisation of sex discrimination laws to require private sector employers to take action to close the pay gap.
It also wants to see a light touch 'equality check' in which employers would take an overall look to see whether they had a pay gap and to identify where action might be needed. There would then be a protected 'amnesty' period while employers take steps to change their pay systems.
Jenny Watson, EOC chairwoman, said: "The pay gap will never close until employers check whether they have a problem. Today's research shows that still too few employers do this. Unless the pace of change increases, the government's target on pay reviews may be missed."
The Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) reinforced the call for mandatory equal pay audits in the wake of the research.
"The T&G shares the concern of the EOC at the lack of equal pay audits particularly in the private sector," said Diana Holland, T&G national organiser for women, race and equalities.
"Audits turn paper rights into equal pay. In our experience this benefits both workers and employers."
The Women and Work Commission is currently studying the case for mandatory equal pay audits and is due to present its report shortly.


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This girl can coach
SOME women are so remarkable they defy all the norms.
One such is Shelley Rahman, as happy, contented and rounded a person as I have ever had the privilege to meet – yet her life is a mass of collisions as she balances family and business.
For the whole of our time together, Shelley smiled her way through an endless stream of questions from an ageing writer in awe at her restless energy. Make no mistake, this is a woman who doesn't do things by halves, but neither does she give everything away.
I left with the impression there was much more beneath the surface of this mother-of-three, who not only runs her own business — alongside husband Mohammed Shalim — but insists on running the family home in Chadderton, spending time with her children and helping out at the Oldham Boxing and Personal Development Centre.
That's right, our Shelley is a level two boxing coach. Eric Noi, the inspiration behind the centre, reckons Shelley is the country's only female boxing coach of Bangladeshi origin. "Yet another first for Oldham," he beams.
Shelley herself remains underwhelmed: "I might be; Eric thinks so, but there are other female boxing coaches out there. There were seven women on the course when I took my level one, though I was the only one of Asian origin," she conceded.
That's the thing about Shelley. She doesn't think she is doing anything remotely remarkable.
Around seven years ago she donated her left kidney to her younger brother. It barely rated a mention — in fact it was an afterthought only because she wants to raise awareness among the Asian community about the importance of organ donation.
One thing she did baulk at was accepting an offer to stand for the council. "I didn't go through with it for lots of reasons, but I have helped lots of candidates and councillors' campaigns," she mentioned, again as an aside.
Shelley spends a lot of her spare time promoting healthy living through voluntary community work among the town's ethnic minority groups – not always Asian. For her, helping others — be it in the boxing arena, at her work or in life in general, she simply gets on with it.
The youthful-looking 40 year old is not a driven woman, not in any sense. She is cool, sophisticated and clearly in control of her life.
Born in Bangladesh, she came to England with her mother at 18 months old, joining her father who had moved here from Hull.
"My father, Shafiqur Rahman, moved here because jobs were scarce in Hull and there was no sense of community, no halal grocers. He eventually got a job in Shaw, at Osram, and stayed there for years. He was very well known and very popular," she said with pride.
Her mother also worked sewing at a leather goods factory in St Mary's, and the work ethic has certainly imbued itself into Shelley's psyche.
She married at 17, meeting her husband in Bangladesh — not an arranged marriage, she confirms – and soon had a family.
During one of many regular trips with her husband and family to Bangladesh she and Shalim were introduced to a group of local producers of handwoven fabric.
"We spotted an opportunity to produce quality garments back in the UK from this material, but it didn't work out."
But while the Bangladesh end of the business folded, while she and Shalim were at an exhibition they were approached with an offer of a sewing contract.
Quite soon they were not only sewing but also cutting the pieces — all for the furniture trade, huge High Street end users. Today, their company UK Fibre Fillings Ltd in Chadderton is a thriving business.
Shelley's interest in boxing arose when she considered herself to be overweight and unfit: "I looked at myself in the mirror and thought 'That's not me!'. I was massive, but no one had told me."
Shelley went to the gym and started running, but Jonathan Cuminsky, who ran classes at Chadderton Sports Centre, persuaded his charge to try boxing training. Soon Shelley was skipping, lifting weights and hitting the pads. She was hooked.
She lost weight, felt fit and when youngest son Rayyan took an interest in the sport the pair walked into Eric Noi's gym in Derker — the former Co-op building —and got stuck in.
Soon she was part of the Tuesday women's class and, encouraged by Eric attending the men's evenings three nights a week. Two years later, with Rayyan still training too, Shelley took her first tentative steps into boxing training.
She passed her level one course with flying colours and was soon helping out down at Derker. The level two course followed, a more intensive, physically demanding, four-week affair.
Shelley soon found herself at amateur boxing events, acting as a second to young lads. "Yes, I'm there at ringside, helping out with the towels and the buckets and the stools. Eric gets really passionate and fired up, but I like to think I bring a measure of calm to the corner."
Shelley is now working with Eric and his team at the plush new premises in Victoria House, Queen Street, in Oldham town centre.
The relocation from Derker means Oldham has a centre of excellence that has few rivals in the region – and Shelley has a role helping to deliver a social service Oldham can be hugely proud of. But she plays it down.
"My days are rushing by," she says. "I am determined that I will also look after the family home, be a typical mum to Shaakir, Saarah and Rayyan; I want my daughter to become a good cook and I want to be there for her as she prepares for adulthood.
"And there is the business too. People rely on Shalim and me and it isn't easy to keep so many people employed.
"And as for the boxing, well. I would really like to get involved with some young people and coach them, but taking level three is a huge commitment…"
Her voice trails off, but not, I suspect, her self-belief.
Shelley is a compelling woman, one in which worlds collide. She is British but devotedly proud of her Bangladesh heritage and culture in so many ways, And her serenity and sense of proportion are lessons for us all.
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Having a sleeping pad that can provide exceptional warmth yet will never fail can literally be a life saver, or it can just be really convenient. Either way, the Third Degree Foam Pad is exactly both of those things and this is my review.
The Third Degree is a dual layer foam, insulating sleeping pad. The bottom layer is compressible high density foam with tire-tread/egg crate like texture that provides cushioning, traction and warmth. The top layer is a flat green layer that creates a smoother sleeping surface, provides a little extra cushion, and adds a second layer of insulation. These layers are sealed together to create a cohesive platform that blocks heat loss, is waterproof, and can never go flat. The pad is 11mm thick (0.5 inches), weighs 12 ounces for the 20″ x 72″ pad tested here , and retails for $40. A half length and seat sized option are also available as low as $20.
The main goal of the Third Degree pad isn't to become a one piece sleep system. Instead, it is meant to be used in conjunction with other sleeping pads. It can be placed under a sleeping pad for extra traction, protection from sharp objects, and to provide insulating protecting from the frozen ground. It can also be layered on top of another sleeping pad or even a cot for direct insulation when using a non-insulated sleeping pad. In this aspect, it does a wonderful job. I've tested the pad well below the recommended temperature minimum of 32 degrees F, down to about 20 degrees. It managed to boost the warmth of my already insulated sleeping pad considerably. It almost entirely blocked cold from seeping into my pad, creating an even cozier experience. With a non-insulated pad, it performed similarly, but I probably wouldn't use it below 30 or so in that situation. I personally preferred the foam mat to be used on top of the pad, pressing directly against my sleeping bag. I felt this provided a little more warmth. It does change the feel of the pad, for the better or worse depending on the pad, but I found it all around to be comfortable to use either fashion.
Used alone, the pad works great when tossed onto frozen ground as an insulator, or on wet grass to stay dry. It is definitely more comfortable than sitting directly on a cold rock or in gravel, and greatly improves, say, an extended lunch break. Just having something that can just be tossed and drug around without worrying about it going flat is surprisingly freeing, and opens up a lot of possibilities for lounging. That being said, I wouldn't necessarily suggest using it as a stand along sleeping pad as it really doesn't provide a large amount of compression or padding. One may get by in a back sleeping position on even terrain, but any other position or when dealing with lumpy, uneven terrain wouldn't be a great experience.
The pad doesn't do much to normalize the ground below it, so medium sized rocks, sticks or just lumps in the grass will project through, creating lumps in the surface. It is rather pleasant in tall grass, however.
The pad I tested rolls up to become a roll of about 6″ x 20″, and can easily be attached on the outside of most backpacks. It does stick out a fair distance when being strapped on this way, so it can potentially get hung up on rocks or branches when pushing through tight foliage. Luckily, it is quite durable so I wouldn't worry about tearing it, just getting hung up a bit. It is light enough that the weight can't really be felt when attached to the far end or top of a pack, so it doesn't create an uneven or off-balance sensation, thankfully.
The pad can be stored rolled up or flat, and it does a good job of flattening back out after being unrolled. It does retain some memory after being rolled up for a long period of time, but is far better at leveling back out than most I have tested. It doesn't try to curl up underneath me while I'm actually using it, so that hasn't been much of a problem, especially underneath another pad. Worse case scenario, a couple rocks can be placed on the corners of the pad to pin it down for a bit, allowing it to rest and regain it's normal composition. I prefer mine to be stored flat just to remind it who is boss.
Overall, the pad certainly achieves what is sets out to do. It is warm, adds some comfort, and is unconditionally reliable. It is a relief knowing that if my primarily sleeping pad goes flat, I will still have some insulation and padding beneath me. Instead of ending up on the frozen or wet earth, I will still be warm, and for the most part comfortable. For this reason, I always pack a pad like this with me when I'm dealing with temperatures at or below freezing, and often even in the summer when I know I want to lounge around on rock or grass. It also does double duty at ball games, events, or when working around the house on my hands and knees. It does cost a little more than the competition, but is also provides a flatter contact surface, better grip, and it actually looks pretty cool hanging on the back of a pack. To me, that makes it worth the extra expense.
For more information on Big Agnes and their gear, check them out here. You can also check this product out and support our site by using our Amazon Affiliate Link Here. This helps us out.
I want to extend a huge thanks to Big Agnes for providing this product for review. We couldn't do it without their help.
I had a sleep mat tear once on heavy brush….not a great thing to have happen. This one sounds awesome!
Sorry to hear that! What kind of mat was it? I am liking this one, far more than I thought I would.


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Why Sheldon Adelson Will Matter in 2016
Here's how you know the Republican Party isn't going to change all that much in the next four years: Several potential 2016 candidates met privately with Sheldon Adelson, the conservative mega-donor with the worst return on political investment ever.
By Elspeth Reeve
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Here's how you know the Republican Party isn't going to change all that much in the next four years: Several potential 2016 candidates met privately with Sheldon Adelson, the conservative mega-donor with the worst return on political investment ever. Adelson dropped $20 million dollars on Newt Gingrich — half of it after Gingrich was obviously toast. Then he pledged $100 million to elect Mitt Romney, who lost by a relatively large margin for modern times, and the Huffington Post reports Monday that the sum was closer to $150 million. (Spending so much to defeat President Obama is more baffling when you recall that Adelson is the single American who made the most money during the first Obama administration.) Clearly, this man doesn't have the greatest of political instincts. And yet, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell all swung by the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino a week after the election to chat about their futures with Adelson.
"The courting of Adelson, a full four years out from 2016, demonstrates how super PAC sugar daddies have become the new must-have feature for White House wannabes," Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel reports. This is despite the fact that GOP super PAC sugar daddies struggled to actually win elections in 2012. Karl Rove's American Crossroads spent $103 million on attack ads for a 1.29 percent return on investment, according to the Sunlight Foundation. The message pushed by the mega-donor Koch brothers was "whatever the Koch brothers had for breakfast," a rival super PAC told BuzzFeed in September. As Vogel tweeted late last month, "Just received this from a GOP consultant w/ subject line 'video surfaces of Karl Rove running Crossroads.'" What is the video? It is the GIF at left.
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Sex in San Diego: A Brief History of Sex Dolls
by Annie Lane on August 22, 2013 · 0 comments
in Culture, History, Sex in San Diego
It's difficult to imagine anything other than a crusty, inflatable, creepy-looking … thing when picturing a sex doll in the mind's eye. A likeness to the figure in Edvard Munch's The Scream, though slightly more unsettling if that's even possible.
But sex dolls actually have quite an interesting history, reaching back as far as 8 A.D. with the myth that Pygmalion obsessed over a woman he sculpted from ivory so much so that Aphrodite eventually made her real. In the 1940s, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler devised the "Borghild Project," which involved the production and shipment of sex dolls to German soldiers in an effort to lure them away from diseased French prostitutes.
According to a TIME article, Himmler wrote to Hitler saying, "The greatest danger in Paris is the widespread and uncontrolled presence of whores, picking up clients in bars, dance halls, and other places. It is our duty to prevent soldiers from risking their health just for the sake of a quick adventure."
While mostly generic in its appearance, the doll, unsurprisingly, had blonde hair and blue eyes. (Side note: It was also in Germany in 1956 that Americans Ruth and Elliot Handler found their inspiration for Barbie after buying the small Bild Lilli adult doll mistakenly thinking it was a child's toy.)
The story continues until the most recent victory, shall we say, in 2010, when technological advances saw the creation of Roxxxy, the first robotic sex doll. Created by TrueCompanion's founder Douglas Hines, Roxxxy is fully customizable and comes with several personalities, from Frigid Farrah to Mature Martha. Originally priced to sell at $7,000, a quick visit to the website shows that Roxxxy is currently on sale for $995 — proof that the economic recession really is as bad as all that.
To fill in the time gaps, check out the Infographic below provided by Medical Insurance. For a larger image, click here.
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Depending on the type of cancer treatment, many individuals end up feeling fatigued, nauseous or prone to gastrointestinal distress. Certain foods can end up tasting different – sometimes too sweet, too metallic or completely flavourless – and if the cancer treatment is focused on the mouth or throat, chewing and swallowing can be extremely painful. Occasionally, an individual's appetite just diminishes, and along with it, the motivation to make healthy meals.
Weight loss, nutrient deficiencies and dehydration are all side effects of poor eating habits – and can prevent the body from successfully maintaining strength, fighting off infection, withstanding treatment and recovering more quickly. That's why it's important to experiment with different foods and potentially do away with caloric or food restrictions to ensure you're getting as many nutrients as possible.
Simple steps like adding different sauces or marinades can improve the taste of a certain food. Other times, you may have to try something completely different. For example, if meat is tasting strange, opt for a different type of protein, like beans or tofu.
Investing in a recipe book for cancer patients, such as Goes Down Easy: Recipes to Help you Cope with the Challenges of Eating During Cancer Treatment, will offer fresh ideas and interesting alternatives to your typical fare. Written by six dieticians at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, the book addresses the side effects of cancer treatment and offers recipes that are easy for patients with varying levels of cooking experience, financial constraints, time constraints, fatigue and physical limitations. They are also organized according to symptom, to make them easy to find.
If all else fails, ask your doctor to refer you to a registered dietician. These professionals will be able to suggest dietary alternatives and identify potential problems with your current diet.
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Despite concerns, site for temporary Spring Hill fire station gets tentative okay
BROOKSVILLE — A temporary site for a new Spring Hill fire station got a favorable review by the Hernando County Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday, though neighbors of the 4.4-acre site had a different opinion.
The County Commission will get the final say next month on the temporary station, on the east side of Eldridge Road south of Spring Hill Drive.
Officials said the location will be a stopgap while the county plans the construction of Spring Hill Station 5, which was recommended in the county's comprehensive fire study in 2007.
The permanent station will go on the west side of the Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library property on Spring Hill Drive, which is near the temporary location, according to Spring Hill fire Chief Mike Rampino. Construction of the permanent station is anticipated in three to five years.
Russell Little, who lives across the street from the temporary site, brought a petition with signatures of 16 of his neighbors opposing the site to Wednesday's meeting because of the noise and the traffic.
"We live in a residential neighborhood. Find another place for it,'' Little said. "Our property values are low enough.''
Little told planning commission members that he had once lived across the street from a fire station for 15 years and "it was a nightmare'' because "it does not stop — the traffic, the noise, the activity.''
He said he and his neighbors fear that the temporary station will damage their home values because no one wants to live near a fire station.
"How can you even think about building this when the county is broke?'' he asked. "This is a quiet neighborhood. Leave it that way.''
Little also said there will be an issue getting fire equipment in and out of the site on Sundays when the overflow parking from a nearby church clogs the streets with extra vehicles.
Rampino explained that the fire station will try to be a good neighbor and avoid operating lights and sirens in the middle of the night whenever possible. He also stressed that it would be temporary and that there is a need for fire and rescue service in the surrounding area.
"We have a severe service delivery gap,'' he said, noting that there has been a need for some time and that call volumes have increased. Currently, Spring Hill Fire Rescue sometimes keeps an ambulance parked at the library to serve that portion of the community, he said.
The temporary station will be established in a modular building that will be moved to the site, if the County Commission approves. It is the same modular building used when Spring Hill Fire Rescue constructed Station 3.
To clarify that the temporary site on Eldridge would not be permanent, county officials included language whereby the special overlay district required for the site would expire after five years.
If something changes in the interim, fire officials can return to the planning commission for an amendment, said Ron Pianta, the county's land services director.
The County Commission will consider the issue on Dec. 11.
Barbara Behrendt can be reached at behrendt@tampabay.com or (352) 848-1434.
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Tomorrowland (2015) Movie Review by Stephen McLaughlin
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Writers: Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Brad Bird (screenplay)
Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Thomas Robinson
Tomorrowland is the movie Director Brad Bird opted to make instead of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. I remember at the time thinking "You're a Star Wars fan but you decided not to accept Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy's offer of directing the next chapter in the Star Wars Saga…..are you mad?"
Having watched Tomorrowland I can now appreciated Bird's decision and understand as a fan of the Star Wars Saga he wanted to enjoy the next episode as a fan and also now viewed Tomorrowland and it's concept I fully understand why a guy like Brad Bird was more inclined to be attracted to this movie.
Having something in common and a shared destiny, Casey Newton (Robertson) bursting with scientific curiosity and a ton of questions and a former inventor and boy-genius Frank Walker (Clooney) embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
I have to admit that I had to watch this twice before deciding to review this movie as although the storyline isn't at all complex, there is a lot happening in this plot. The opening sequence to this movie finds young Frank (Robinson) in the early 1960's attending a science fair in which he had brought along his latest invention, a jet pack that he wishes to be accepted in by the fair via a man named "Nix" played by Hugh Lawrie. At first, I believed the young girl "Athena" (Raffey Cassidy) with Nix was actually his daughter but there is a reveal later on in the movie in regards to their relationship that I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't watched the movie yet.
After his invention is rejected he is encouraged by Athena to follow him with Nix's party into a secret part of the fair Frank discovers a portal to another world and time that will change his life forever. At this point I am trying my best not to uncover too much of the plot but I think it's fair to say that this other place is ahead of it's time and more advanced than Earth in the 1960's.
One thing I have always enjoyed is the futuristic theme that is ironically set in the past. To give you an idea of this, if you have ever played the game "Fallout" on any home console you will get what I mean. Even those World Fair scenes in Captain American: The First Avenger or going further back with another Joe Johnston project "The Rocketeer" I have always found it fascinating on how the past has tried to project an idea that is "futuristic" Well that is the theme and tone to a lot of this movie. I hope i'm making some kinda sense?
Present day America and it is young Casey Newton who discovers being in contact with a pin transports her to a glimpse of this world that a young Frank discovered all those years ago. She must now seek out the older Frank to discover the secret behind this strange land and why he was banished from it forever and also uncover a secret that only Frank knows about the fate of earth.
Tomorrowland as previously mentioned is a straightforward storyline but a lot happens in this movie at an alarming rate that you will miss things on a first time viewing. Visually this movie is a masterpiece and top marks to the visual effects guys who pulled off the almost impossible task of making the audience believe in this world. The action is just as important and the visuals help these sequences become believable and will keep you engrossed for the duration of the film. This is why I now understand the creative freedom Brad Bird would have had on this project as opposed to the Star Wars brand.
The cast are phenomenal in every aspect and have great chemistry between them in particular Clooney as old Frank with the brilliant Britt Robertson and equally brilliant are Thomas Robinson as young Frank and Raffey Cassidy as Athena. The humour in this movie reminded me of the chemistry we saw with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in the original Star Wars movie that combined great action and danger with the right amount of humour to keep it light. Having said that, this film does have some darker tones for a Disney movie and some of the fighting sequences are quite graphic (Robertson with a Baseball Bat anyone?)
Tomorrowland is a highly recommendable movie that all the family can enjoy from start to finish. Going into this movie I did expect it to be more for kids and it is to an extent but all age groups will enjoy this movie and my only regret is not seeing this in the cinema on it's release. If you have already watched Tomorrowland then I'm sure you will appreciate it for what it is and it definitely is a movie you can revisit. For anyone who hasn't watched it yet, I can't recommend this enough.
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I fysik er impulsmoment, eller vinkelmoment, et mål for, hvor meget bevægelsesmængde der er om et valgt punkt. Det er den rotationsmekaniske analog til lineær impuls.

Impulsmoment i klassisk mekanik

Definition for en punktpartikel
En partikels impulsmoment omkring et veldefineret punkt er defineret som:

hvor  er partiklens impulsmoment,  er stedvektoren for partiklens position regnet fra det valgte punkt,  er partiklens bevægelsesmængde (impulsvektor), og produktet på højre side er et krydsprodukt af vektorer.

Bemærk at impulsmomentet står vinkelret på planet dannet af  og .

Vinkelfrekvens
Impulsmomentet kan også opskrives med vinkelfrekvensen . Impulsen kan generelt skrives som en komponent parallel med positionsvektoren plus en vinkelret komponent.

Hvor den vinkelrette fart er givet ved:

Når positionsvektoren krydses med impulsen, bliver den første komponent nul:

hvor  står vinkelret på  og .
Det ses, at formlen for impulsmoment nu minder om formlen for lineær impuls :

hvor hastighed er erstattet af vinkelhastighed. Faktoren foran erstatter inertialmassen og kaldes derfor for inertimomentet .

Dermed kan impulsmomentet skrives som

Kraftmoment

Analogt til Newtons anden lov for lineær bevægelse kan et kraftmoment  defineres som den tidsafledte af impulsmomentet:

hvor  er tid.
Dette svarer til

hvor  er en kraft. Tilsvarende gælder:

hvor  er vinkelaccelerationen.

Impulsmomentet vil altså ændres, når det påvirkes af et kraftmoment. Hvis kraftmomentet er parallelt med impulsmomentet, vil kun rotationshastigheden () ændres. Er kraftmomentet derimod ikke parallelt med impulsmomentet vil også retningen af impulsmomentet ændres. Dette er forklaring på, hvorfor eksempelvis et snurrende cykelhjul ophængt i en snor i akslen vil rotere omkring snoren - en såkaldt præcessionsbevægelse.

Omvendt er der altså bevarelse af impulsmomentet, når der ikke er et kraftmoment. Denne effekt kan blandt andet ses ved en pirouette, hvor en ændring af arme og bens position vil give en ændring af inertimomentet, hvilket vil medføre en modsvarende ændring i rotationshastigheden, således at impulsmomentet forbliver konstant.

Se også
 Orbitalt impulsmoment (bølge)
 Spin
 Drejningsmoment

Fysik
Fysisk størrelse
Rotation


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Q: How do i check for duplicates in django sqlite database I'm working on a django website for movie site, which uses an api to fetch relevant data about specific movies and saves them to django sqlite3 database. However it seems each time i refresh the page the request to the api gets sent again and the data keeps on adding itself to the database. How can i validate the parameters so anytime i make a request it checks if it exists in the database and if it does it just renders directly from the database?
This is the home view function
def home(request):
    query = request.GET.get("title")
    all_movies = None
    if query:
        name = request.GET['title']
        # url = 'http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=7531b4db&s='+name+''
        url = 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=73b26cd6e71f57e195d7a253e3911b74&language=en-US&query='+name+'&page=1&include_adult=false'
        response = requests.get(url)
        data = response.json()
        movies = data['results']
        poster_link = 'https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500'

        for i in movies:
            movie_data = MovieClass(
                title = i['original_title'],
                year = i['release_date'],
                rating = i['vote_average'],
                poster = poster_link + str(i['poster_path']),
                description = i['overview']
            )
            movie_data.save()
            all_movies = MovieClass.objects.all().order_by('-id')
            all_movies = MovieClass.objects.filter(title__icontains=query)

    else:
        url_display = 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/popular?api_key=73b26cd6e71f57e195d7a253e3911b74&language=en-US&page=1&'
        response = requests.get(url_display)
        data = response.json()
        movies = data['results']
        poster_link = 'https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500'

        for i in movies:
            movie_data = MovieClass(
                title = i['original_title'],
                year = i['release_date'],
                rating = i['vote_average'],
                poster = poster_link + str(i['poster_path']),
                description = i['overview']
            )
            movie_data.save()
            all_movies = MovieClass.objects.all().order_by('-id')

    context = {
    "all_movies" : all_movies,
}

    return render (request, 'main/index.html', context)

This is the model file
class MovieClass(models.Model):
    # fields for the movie table
    title = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True)
    year = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True)
    poster = models.URLField(default=None, null=True)
    rating = models.FloatField(default=0)
    director = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True)
    cast = models.CharField(max_length=800, null=True)
    description = models.TextField(max_length=5000)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

A: Before saving try something like
if MovieClass.objects.get(title=i['original_title']).count() > 0:
    break

A: I think that you have some bug somewhere and that the best approach here to avoid duplicates is to improve your model to include some constraints using Model meta options like unique_together. In the case of your model probably something like this will work:
class MovieClass(models.Model):
    # fields for the movie table
    title = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True)
    year = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True)
    ....

    class Meta:
        unique_together = [['title', 'year']]

Also note that year should be an IntegerField.

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package org.apache.flink.kubernetes.entrypoint;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Internal;
import org.apache.flink.client.deployment.application.ApplicationClusterEntryPoint;
import org.apache.flink.client.deployment.application.ApplicationConfiguration;
import org.apache.flink.client.deployment.application.ClassPathPackagedProgramRetriever;
import org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram;
import org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgramRetriever;
import org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgramUtils;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.flink.kubernetes.utils.KubernetesUtils;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.entrypoint.ClusterEntrypoint;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.entrypoint.ClusterEntrypointUtils;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.entrypoint.DynamicParametersConfigurationParserFactory;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.util.EnvironmentInformation;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.util.JvmShutdownSafeguard;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.util.SignalHandler;
import org.apache.flink.util.FlinkException;
import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

/** An {@link ApplicationClusterEntryPoint} for Kubernetes. */
@Internal
public final class KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint extends ApplicationClusterEntryPoint {

    private KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint(
            final Configuration configuration, final PackagedProgram program) {
        super(configuration, program, KubernetesResourceManagerFactory.getInstance());
    }

    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        // startup checks and logging
        EnvironmentInformation.logEnvironmentInfo(
                LOG, KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint.class.getSimpleName(), args);
        SignalHandler.register(LOG);
        JvmShutdownSafeguard.installAsShutdownHook(LOG);

        final Configuration dynamicParameters =
                ClusterEntrypointUtils.parseParametersOrExit(
                        args,
                        new DynamicParametersConfigurationParserFactory(),
                        KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint.class);
        final Configuration configuration =
                KubernetesEntrypointUtils.loadConfiguration(dynamicParameters);

        PackagedProgram program = null;
        try {
            program = getPackagedProgram(configuration);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.error("Could not create application program.", e);
            System.exit(1);
        }

        try {
            configureExecution(configuration, program);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.error("Could not apply application configuration.", e);
            System.exit(1);
        }

        final KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint kubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint =
                new KubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint(configuration, program);

        ClusterEntrypoint.runClusterEntrypoint(kubernetesApplicationClusterEntrypoint);
    }

    private static PackagedProgram getPackagedProgram(final Configuration configuration)
            throws IOException, FlinkException {

        final ApplicationConfiguration applicationConfiguration =
                ApplicationConfiguration.fromConfiguration(configuration);

        final PackagedProgramRetriever programRetriever =
                getPackagedProgramRetriever(
                        configuration,
                        applicationConfiguration.getProgramArguments(),
                        applicationConfiguration.getApplicationClassName());
        return programRetriever.getPackagedProgram();
    }

    private static PackagedProgramRetriever getPackagedProgramRetriever(
            final Configuration configuration,
            final String[] programArguments,
            @Nullable final String jobClassName)
            throws IOException {

        final File userLibDir = ClusterEntrypointUtils.tryFindUserLibDirectory().orElse(null);
        final ClassPathPackagedProgramRetriever.Builder retrieverBuilder =
                ClassPathPackagedProgramRetriever.newBuilder(programArguments)
                        .setUserLibDirectory(userLibDir)
                        .setJobClassName(jobClassName);

        // No need to do pipelineJars validation if it is a PyFlink job.
        if (!(PackagedProgramUtils.isPython(jobClassName)
                || PackagedProgramUtils.isPython(programArguments))) {
            final List<File> pipelineJars =
                    KubernetesUtils.checkJarFileForApplicationMode(configuration);
            Preconditions.checkArgument(pipelineJars.size() == 1, "Should only have one jar");
            retrieverBuilder.setJarFile(pipelineJars.get(0));
        }
        return retrieverBuilder.build();
    }
}


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Good News: The NYS Senate voted overwhelmingly to tell Hiram Monserrate to take a hike.
"I feel a lot better about us as an institution right now, that we finally did something that was correct. It was a step forward," said Albany Senator Neil Breslin.
For those who have blocked out this one and/or weren't following the story, Monserrate is part of the "thug and thief" tag-team that started the state senate coup last summer. He was convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault charges recently but acquitted of felony charges, prompting many to demand that the senate Fire Monserrate.
While Monserrate will go to court to overturn the senate's decision, the panel that recommended expelling him did a great job digging up a long line of precedents on the right of state legislatures to expel members for intolerable conduct. I doubt Monserrate will succeed in overturning this.
Bad News: We got thumped in yesterday's special elections for four assembly seats.
Republican Bob Castelli (who is a fan of the tea partiers, apparently) beat Westchester County Legislator Peter Harckham by about ten points. I volunteered for Harckham, who is a great guy and one of the best and most effective legislators in Westchester, and his campaign did pretty much everything right. Democratic voters are angry and dismayed and don't want to come out to vote for Democrats. Young people were especially absent on this one – on a college campus (SUNY Purchase) with over 1,000 registered to vote, only 25 pulled the lever on election day. The state controls tuition, marriage equality, and tons of other key issues – young people need to come out and vote, if only to fight for our interests in the face of state budget squeezes.
Elsewhere, David Weprin held on to his brother's old Assembly seat in Queens, but other than that, we lost yesterday, failing to capture a vacated Republican seat in Nassau County and failing to hold onto a Democratic seat in Suffolk County.
Against the backdrop of these setbacks, etc, our leaders clearly need to learn a key lesson. To avoid a backslide into Republican dominance, Democrats will need to be bold, buck the national leadership when the national leadership is failing, show a commitment to fighting for results. We need to be a party worth believing in.
The litany of larceny for the married politician ran the gamut from funneling $322,800 to his girlfriend through dicey nonprofits to collecting $177 in expenses for a $7 bagel and diet soda.
"I don't know about the bagel," said his defense attorney, Murray Richman. "But bagels can be expensive."


Aussie farmers remain resilient, with ABARES forecasting a rise in the total value of farm production to $61 billion, well above the ten-year average.
Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud said dry seasonal conditions during autumn had seen a shaky start to the crop season in eastern Australia, however overall crop value should remain unchanged.
"Farm production is on the up thanks to strong demand for Aussie lamb, wool and cotton across our international markets," Minister Littleproud said.
"Farm exports are expected to reach $47 billion in 2018–19. Cotton exports are forecast to rise by a huge 18 per cent to $2.6 billion thanks to world consumption outpacing world production, lifting prices.
"Wool exports are forecast to increase 9 per cent to $4.7 billion as limited growth in the world supply of fine and superfine wools lift prices.
"Lamb exports are forecast to rise by 10 per cent to $2.3 billion, while the value of beef and veal exports is forecast to increase by 2 per cent to $7.8 billion.
"Our farmers are already benefiting from current free trade agreements with China, Japan, Korea, and will get better access to key markets through the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
"To ensure our farmers see the benefits of our free trade agreements I recently announced six additional agricultural counsellors to be on the ground in markets where we are negotiating free trade agreements.
"Some of our farmers are really copping it as drought conditions roll on and that's why recently I announced $20.3 million to extend the Rural Financial Counselling Service to 2020.


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Q: If polynomial is divisible by quadratic, find values of $a$ and $b$ Equation is $z^4+(a+b)z^3+4az^2+(a+b+32)z+45$ which is divisible by $z^2+6z+9$.
We're meant to find values of $a$ and $b$ and then solve the equation itself!
I figured $z^2+6z+9=(z+3)^2$, but was wondering if this automatically implies that it is a double root(?) If so, would differentiating the equation and do the normal simultaneous equations thing suitable for this question?

A: You are on the right track.
Let $P(z)$ represent your polynomial.
Then we have $$P(z)=(z+3)^2 Q(z)$$
Hence $P(-3)=0$.
Also, we've $$P'(z)=2(z+3)Q(z)+(z+3)^2Q'(z)$$
And hence, $P'(-3)=0$.
You have got two equations and two variables. Now you need to solve for $a$ and $b$.

A: Hint: Write $f(z)=(z^2 +6z+9)(z^2+cz+d)$, expand it and compare coefficients with the given polynomial. Then you obtain easy equations in $a,b,c,d$. And yes, the quartic polynomial has $z=-3$ as a double root. Plugging it in, it gives the linear equation $a = 5b - 5$. Now the above equations give $b=2$, hence $a=5$, and $c=1$, $d=5$.

A: use that $${z}^{2}+ \left( a+b-6 \right) z-2\,a-6\,b+27+{\frac {4\,a+28\,b-76}{z+
3}}+{\frac {6\,a-30\,b+30}{ \left( z+3 \right) ^{2}}}=\frac{z^4+(a+b)z^3+4az^2+(a+b+32)z+45}{z^2+6z+9}
$$

A: Let $p(z)=z^4+(a+b)z^3+4az^2+(a+b+32)z+45$. Then\begin{multline}p(z)=p\bigl((z+3)-3\bigr)=(z+3)^4+(a+b-12)(z+3)^3+\\+(-5a-9b+54)(z+3)^2+(4a+28b-76)(z+3)+6a-30b+30.\end{multline}On the other hand, $z^2+6z+9=(z+3)^2$. Therefore, $p(z)$ is a multiple of $z^2+6z+9$ if and only if$$\left\{\begin{array}{l}4a+28b-76=0\\6a-30b+30=0.\end{array}\right.$$This means that $a=5$ and that $b=2$.


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Q: Identify & Validate Mail Server, Programmatically Like did in the mailtester website, I have to identify & validate-the-existance-of mail server, programmatically.
I've checked the web deeply but I don't see any tutorial, how-to-do guide, api, library, or online course.
I will not use the program for any spam purpose like done in the mentioned website (no declared privacy issues about anti-spam, or no declaration for illegal usage & storage of valid email address). By the way, mail server identification is small part of the project I'm now working on, but I have to implement it.
Please, answer any of the, but all in the same direction, questions:

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*Where should I start so as to implement my to-do?

*Any tutorial, how-to-do guide, api, library, or online course?

*What is the proper way to implement above to-do, programmatically?

Note: You can check the screenshot, which is taken from mentioned website.

A: Do I correctly interpret your question:
You want to check whether SMTP server (from which some mail arrived for example) exists and you wish to check whether that mail exists as well.
To do so, you can do few things:
Solution 1:
ping the server, for instance mail.example.com,
if server responds, then check whether ports that are usually used by SMTP are opened: usually 25
if at least one of them is opened then you can say that mail server on this domain is running.
This solution has a problem that some servers won't respond to ping. But instead of pinging it, you can request the host name from DNS to see whether you'll get IP for a domain. Then this solution has a problem that a server might have been there yesterday but it is not today, and DNS returns the IP, but nobody is at the end of it.
This you can achieve by calling ping, hostname, netmap and similar tools using subprocess or by programing it all yourself from scratch with sockets.
You can, off course, open a socket to the domain, directly to port 25, but you'll have to specify timeout because it can happen that whole thing blocks because no answer is coming from server. Yes, pinging is an extra step, but it is faster in cases where server doesn't exist. It just sends ICMP packets, it doesn't try any handshakes. (I know from experience).
Solution 2:
More acceptable solution is to use smtplib just to try connecting to that server.
It will "attack" the specified domain asking on default port and sending an SMTP request.
The exception will be raised if the server is not SMTP or if it doesn't exist.
Timeout also should be set.
Pinging will here also increase speed of checks, and no timeouts needed. You just assume that if server doesn't answer, it doesn't exist. (Hm, cleverness of this aproach is questionable)
If anything, a firewall, filter or something alike, doesn't allow you any of those checks, you can always have an updated lists of all mail servers (if it can be optained from any robot) stored locally or connect to a service like one you mentioned to consult it about the address.
Solution 3:
Last resort solution for checking if an address exists is to try using that SMTP server to send ourselves an e-mail. If thing doesn't work, then e-mail doesn.t exist.
Big problem!!!: Most SMTPs doesn't ask for login yes, but what if this one does? And, most SMTP servers allow you to send an e-mail from any address that doesn't even exist!
For e-mail verification, well, most SMTPs have that option disabled so, you wouldn't be able to see whether an e-mail exist or not.
To do e-mail checking for real, you will have to consult POP server as well (in fact it goes first), to see whether there is anyone that can receive an e-mail on this address.
Here is the code to do checking only using SMTP (as you asked) by using smtplib:

from smtplib import SMTP
from socket import timeout as ExcTimeout
import socket
import sys

addr2check = "something@somethingelse.woops"
# Note, if the server is subdomained for SMTP (like mail.somethingelse.woops) be sure to include it or server wouldn't be found!
#addr2check = "someone@mail.somewhere.here"

ok = 0
r = None
try:
    # For Python 2.5 and below (smtplib doesn't support timeout, so do it globally)
    if sys.version[:3]<="2.5":
        TO = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
        socket.setdefaulttimeout(8)
        try: s = SMTP(addr2check.split("@")[1])
        except: socket.setdefaulttimeout(TO); raise
        socket.setdefaulttimeout(TO)
    else: s = SMTP(addr2check.split("@")[1], timeout=8) # Maybe even bigger TO for some GSM and 56K modems
    ok += 1
    r = s.verify(addr2check)
    if r!=-1:
        ok += r[0]==250
    else:
        r = s.expn(addr2check)
        if r==-1: ok = -1
        else: ok += r[0]==250
    s.quit()
except ExcTimeout: print "Connection timed out! Server most probably doesn't exist!"
except Exception, e:
    # Here some checks for what exactly happened, or just:
    pass

msgs = {
    -1: "Server exists, but doesn't support e-mail verification!",
    0: "Server does not exist!!!",
    1: "Server exists but reports: "+str(r)+" for given e-mail!",
    2: "E-Mail "+addr2check+" most definitely exists! Confirmed by it's SMTP server!"
    }

print msgs[ok]

To extend your checking to POP3, use poplib! Algorithm will be similar to this one.


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Tim Rawson (JD '14) Joins Fish and Richardson
Pepperdine Law alumnus Tim J. Rawson (JD '14) has joined Fish and Richardson in San Diego as a litigation associate. Tim served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2018 to 2019. Tim also clerked for the Honorable K. Nicole Mitchell of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas from 2014 to 2015. While in law school, Tim worked as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable John D. Love in the Eastern District of Texas and served as the Digital Media Editor on the Editorial Board of the Pepperdine Law Review.
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The Power of Story - Full Text
No one knows when the first story was told. It is an unanswerable question. Scientists can't even agree on when humans first developed a spoken language. Their estimates vary from two million years B.C. to as late as fifty thousand B.C.
But in my mind, the first story was told a million years ago.
A woman wearing clothes made from animal skins smiled with relief upon seeing her mate safely return from a three-day absence. His hunt was successful, and she prepared the meat for the fire.
After checking on the baby, she walked to where her mate rested on a rock. She gestured wildly, and his face grew confused.
She pointed at his chest and then waved her hand twice in the direction he had gone. Then she pointed to herself, the baby, and the cave that was their home. The man nodded to indicate he understood.
The woman then threw her hand toward the opposite direction, far away. With two wiggling fingers pointed downward, she signaled that something had approached their camp.
Then she got on her knees, hunched her back, and growled like a wolf. She swiped at his legs as if her hands were paws, scratching him. He drew away, his eyebrows lifted, his eyes wild with fear.
She crawled to where their son lay napping and growled at the six-month old. She swiped at the baby, and the man stood, alarmed, his hands bunched into fists.
The woman then stood and picked up several rocks. She shouted and threw a rock at where the wolf had stood, and then indicated with her hands that she had successfully beaten the wolf away from their son. Her mate's chest heaved with excitement. She threw more rocks as the wolf fled from the baby's side, and then she stood tall at the edge of camp, proud that she had fought back the wolf.
The man spent the next few hours gathering a huge pile of rocks of the perfect size for throwing at animals, and from then on, he never left camp for longer than a day.
That's the first story ever told. Before I wrote this paper, the story existed only in my mind, but now it exists in yours.
There is evidence that storytelling is an ancient human activity. A cave drawing in Lascaux, France from circa 15,000 B.C. depicts a wounded bison, a prone human who is perhaps dead, and a rhinoceros fleeing from the scene. While no one can verify the interpretation of the painting, it almost certainly relates a story. 1/
Humans developed written languages during the third millennium B.C., but the cave drawings and other evidence makes it clear that we told each other stories long before that.
Why? Why are humans compelled to tell their own stories and to hear the stories of others?
Simple. We tell stories because we can. Telling stories is crucial to our ability to teach, relate, and inspire. Furthermore, research has shown than when people engage with a story, it enhances their empathy. 2/
Let's examine the word empathy more closely.
According to Merriam-Webster, empathy, a noun, is the "action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another." 3/
Ken Oatley, a novelist and research psychologist, describes the relationship between fiction and empathy in this Psychology Today blog post: 4/
"Engaging with fiction is an empathetic act. It involves entering a simulated social world, and inserting characters' goals and plans into the processor that we usually use to make and carry out our plans in the world. It has two parts. In the first, we set aside our own plans and concerns for a while as we take up our book; we then take on the plans and concerns of a fictional character, and empathetically imagine what that character might feel. We are not just book-reading, we are mind-reading. In the second part, we experience emotions--our own emotions--in the circumstances of a character's concerns, plans and actions."
And so, when we hear or read a story, we leave ourselves to enter another character's world. As if we were the character, we experience her hopes, dreams, struggles, failures, and successes. We feel her emotions. Researchers refer to this process of leaving ourselves and entering another world as being transported. 5/
Emily Dickinson described this experience beautifully in a poem: 6/
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take,
Without oppress of toll ;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul !
The Power-of-Story phenomenon is well understood by experts in many fields. Those experts use the Power of Story to influence people in business, politics, sales, news media, and other fields.
But people aren't restricted to using the Power of Story simply to influence others toward a particular point of view. Many use the Power of Story to help others. The Power of Story has been used in the field of counseling for decades in the process known as Narrative Therapy. 7/
In a wonderful example of using the Power of Story to help others, Susan Conley relied on faith to cofound the Telling Room, a creative writing lab for children in Portland, Maine. In her powerful Tedx Talk, Susan Conley says, "Storytelling changes peoples' lives. Storytelling changed my life." 8/
Here's how to use the Power of Story in your life. If you want to experience the struggles of poor whites in Middle America, read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. If you want to understand life as an immigrant in the US, read The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Enríquez.
The path is clear. To understand the perspective of people from different cultures, read their stories.
My conclusion: Storytelling is critical to the development of a person's empathy, that ability to relate to the struggles and emotions of others. This makes us better people. Without empathy, humans are selfish, seeking only their own personal gain, resorting to force and power for their fulfillment instead of seeking fulfillment from the benefit of others.
Such is the Power of Story.
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Reference footnotes:
1/ www.historians.org, American Historical Association, Rhinoceros.
2/ Paul Zak, "Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling," Harvard Business Review, October 28, 2014.
3/ Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Empathy.
4/ Keith Oatley, "Narrative Empathy," Psychology Today, Blog post. September 27, 2011.
5/ Richard Gerrig, Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading (New Haven: Yale UP, 1993), 1-25.
6/ Emily Dickinson, Letters of Emily Dickinson: 1845-1886. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906), 273. Public Domain.
7/ Stacy Notaras Murphy, "The Power of Story," Counseling Today, Blog post. September 1, 2012
8/ Susan Conley, "The Power of Story: Susan Conley at TedxDirigo," YouTube, June 28, 2012.


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The BLZ is the only customs-free zone in Bahrain, and has been developed to provide logistical storage with well-designed space in accordance with international standards.
Rashid Al Ghurair, the chief executive officer of Mena Energy said: "We are determined to complete the construction of our new facility at the BLZ according to schedule and look forward to expanding our business here in Bahrain and other parts of the GCC with similar projects.
Falling under the administrative jurisdiction of Ports and Maritime Affairs at the Transportation Ministry, the BLZ aims at supporting and monitoring the operations process with an overall goal of establishing a benchmark for high-quality logistical operations.
The BLZ will be fully integrated with the port, which will have a capacity of 2.
This development represents a key milestone for the BLZ, and will help support Bahrain's logistics offering and our position as a regional transshipment hub," Mr Ahmed said.
During the fair, Samel, a joint venture between Schmidt Heilbronn and logistics specialist Agility, announced it had struck a deal to set up a base at BLZ for its operations.
The BLZ is a customs-free logistics boutique with an around-the-clock customs facility, offering its tenants added value to exports, imports and re-exports.
The BLZ offers businesses and investors involved in export or value added re-export developed land for building their own facility or pre-built warehouse space to high international standards at competitive prices.
Samel and BLZ will work together to set up an economical and efficient solution to store, handle and distribute different bulk materials like polyethylene, polypropylene, catalysts and additives for the chemical and petrochemical industry.
The commencement of construction on the BituMena facility signifies an important milestone for the BLZ, and highlights the benefits for companies seeking an ideal logistics hub from which they can target the Saudi Arabian and Northern Gulf markets, a gateway to the $3 trillion Gulf market," said GOP director general Hasan Ali Al Majed.
Commenting on BLZ's ranking, Hassan Ali Al Majed, director general of the General Organisation of Seaports (GOP), said: "At GOP, our aim is to firmly establish BLZ as a location of choice for high-quality, flexible and value-added logistics solutions to our investors.
One of three top finalists, BLZ won against Freezone Sohar and Jebel Ali Free Zone.