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DONALDSON, Dr Roger
Years at SMB
Education post SMB
School of hard knocks
After SMB lived in New Zealand and then in the USA. Worked as a photographer, cinematographer and now film director, film producer and writer. Vineyard near Queenstown, New Zealand (Central Otago). The wine is sold as SLEEPING DOGS and we make Pinot No
Roger Donaldson is one of cinema's most versatile film directors, as adept in orchestrating a Hollywood blockbuster as in shaping the most sensitive of art house movies. Moving easily from drama to comedy, biography to science fiction, thrillers to close studies of relationships. Mr Donaldson's films fuse ambition, style and astounding technical ability with insight, humanity and humility.
Mr Donaldson was born, raised and educated in Ballarat. As a young boy growing up here, Roger was passionate about the Arts. Indeed from an early age the cherished an ambition to make movies. But in 1963, unsure of his future, he instead began studying geology at the School of Mines Ballarat.
Mr Donaldson's career progressed in steps. He started as a photographer in Nelson and Auckland. Then it was on to television advertisements. Next he made a series of self-funded adventure documentaries featuring such icons as Sir Edmund Hillary, yachtsman Peter Mulgrew, and Invercargill motorcycle legend Burt Munro.
In 1974 he made a local television drama called Derek which in turn led to an invitation to make the NZTV drama series Winners and Losers. It was highly successful and, in a first for NZ drama, was eventually sold to 52 international outlets.
In 1977, scraping together the necessary funds, he produced, wrote and directed the futuristic political thriller Sleeping Dogs which also saw the film debut of Sam Neill. Sleeping Dogs was the first film produced in NZ in 15 years and the first colour film made in New Zealand. In 1978, and now regarded as a leader in what would later be termed the New Wave of New Zealand film makers, he was a key figure in the creation of the New Zealand Film Commission. His next movie, the dramatic study of relationships Smash Palace, attracted world-wide attention; earned a place at the prestigious New Directors / New Movies Festival held annually at New York's Museum of Modern Art; and brought Roger Donaldson to the attention of British and US producers.
It was only a matter of time before Hollywood beckoned. In 1984, in what would prove to be the first of many such calls, he was invited to direct Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson in The Bounty, much of it filmed around New Zealand. And so it continued as over the next 25 years Mr Donaldson directed, and in a number of cases wrote and produced, a wide range of critically received and commercially successful movies. These included Marie (1985); No Way Out (1987); Cocktail (1988); Cadillac Man (1990), White Sands (1992); The Getaway (1994); Species (1995); Dante's Peak (1997); Thirteen Days (2000); The Recruit (2003); The World's Fastest Indian (2006); and The Bank Job (2008).
In recognition of his eminent service and contribution to the Arts, the University honoured Roger Donaldson with the degree of Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa in 2011.
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This post is a little different from my usual art & design related content but since I went on this epic roadtrip with my boyfriend last week I thought I'd share with you some of my photographs and experiences!
Starting off in Vancouver, Canada we drove down highway 101 along the coasts of Washington, Oregon and Northern California, spent some time in San Francisco and ended up in Santa Cruz. After that we headed up the I-5 back home.
The first night we wound up staying in a little boutique hotel in Astoria, a small town on the very northern point of Oregon. After that we drove down the Oregon coast and took in all the beautiful coast lines, stopping for a bit on the windy, soft sand beaches.
That night we found a great campsite near the Oregon Sand dunes. The dunes were huge and awesome, it made me feel a little like I was in Egypt or something!
The next day we realized we had to book it to San Francisco in order to check into our hotel room on time. It was a long drive but there were lots of lovely views, winding roads, and we even managed a stop to drive through a giant redwood tree!
In retrospect, next time I would add an extra day to the drive down so we could stop and relax a little more.
Finally made it to San Francisco!
We did a 1 hour boat cruise of the Bay and it was totally worth it for the stunning views and great photos.
And of course we had to wander around Fisherman's Wharf and eat some chowder out of a sourdough bread bowl while watching the sea lions on the Pier.
We pretty much did all the major touristy stuff there is to do in San Francisco. Golden Gate Park, shopping in Union Square, then a trip through Chinatown which is a great place to get cheap souvenirs by the way.
After spending a couple of days in San Francisco we headed on down to Santa Cruz for a fun and relaxing beach day (and night) which also included a crazy ride on an old and rickety roller coaster!
The next day we headed back towards Vancouver on the I-5 and made some major mileage. Once we hit southern Oregon we found this adorable campsite by a lake near Ashland.
The final day of driving was marked by crazy forest fire smoke hazing the sky and landscape all the way from southern Oregon to northern Washington State. It was pretty eye-opening in regards to the drought and major wildfire issues the region is currently facing, which is only getting worse each year.
Anyway I hope you guys have enjoyed checking out my West Coast road trip photos. I plan to work on some new designs over the next few weeks so stay tuned for that!


Christopher J. Bannon, Jay A. Frank, William J. Garmisa and Blooma Stark have been selected as Super Lawyers for 2014 by Illinois Super Lawyers, a designation awarded by peers to only 5 percent of Illinois attorneys.
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Recently I worked with hundreds of middle schoolers over a few school days. One exercise we did was to compile advice from their own online experiences in an effort to offer support to other students. I was hopeful this prompt would reveal a collection of best practices for everyone. This is precious lived and learned experience directly from our young people. The good news: they are getting it. The next steps: going from knowledge to action. All hands on deck! Together it can happen.
2. Don't sleep with your device.
3. Don't text random people.
4. Don't search random sites. Don't keep clicking. Avoid click bait and ads.
5. Slow down before clicking and posting.
6. Create good habits to devices.
7. Think before you send. Imagine a large audience and many eyes on a post/share/comment.
8. Set social media to private.
9. Don't buy followers or worry about the number of followers you have.
10. Only allow followers you know – from school, sports, activities, in person.
11. Don't talk to people you don't know online.
12. Protect personal info – names, address, bank account, social security number, school info, etc.
14. Avoid fake websites and scams.
15. Get parent permission before purchases.
16. If you see something you're uncomfortable with tell an adult – don't hide it!
17. Don't solve conflict over devices. Do it face to face.
18. Stand up for yourself!
19. Check in with parents before you post.
20. Stay away from random strangers.
21. Use secure usernames and passwords.
23. Set a time limit for your screen time.
24. Don't judge people on social media or make fun of people.
25. Read terms and conditions before agreeing to anything.
26. Make sure you feel comfortable with what you're posting.
27. Take care of your physical health – sleep, eyes, radiation, posture.
28. Get Permission to Post – Post with Consent!
29. If you wouldn't want your grandma to see what you're saying, don't post it online!
30. Think of yourself and others before posting. Use Empathy!
31. Know your "text tone". Think of how someone might take it.
32. What you say online is NOT private!
33. Give yourself time to respond if you're upset.
34. Use your time wisely. Don't waste all of your free time on screens.
35. Social media impacts your future.
36. Don't say anything online you wouldn't say in person.
37. Don't intentionally hurt people online.
38. Don't send or request explicit content.
39. Let parents friend and follow you on social media.
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41. Friend and follow people in your age group.
42. Get advice if you need it.
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44. Be aware of how social media can impact your lifestyle and choices – peers and celebrities.
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I've been listening lately to Beck's Odelay and Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty.
The song title kind of reflects the mood I'm in right now. It allowed me to do just this.
I don't know what song is I stole the riff from. Who knows?
This is so unusual and excellent, not what I expected from one of your songs but I was pleasantly surprised by it! That riff in whatever scale that is is super catchy. Very nice.
That is definitely not uncool. Infectious beats, super nice oriental scales and tasty guitar action on top. Very nice.
Quite different from anything else I've heard in a while! That riff is great, I have an "Arabian Etude" from my piano teacher that I've been struggling with this last week and this sounds like somebody giving that piece a good kicking which I am very much in favour of!
I really like how u use that riff! really cool how you compose!
OMG this is totally not the Ferry I was expecting! 😁 Crazy cool... a bit fast for Beck to rap over but the Beasties could handle it root down. It has the whimsy and playfulness of both artists, that's for sure, with the beatboxing mixed with guitars sounding like sitars, and funky bass and drums in the beginning. If the Beastie Boys had been in Haight-Ashbury in the psychedelic 60's they might have teamed up with Status Quo to make a song like this!
Hey, this is helping me do a better workout! So many cool elements...never knowing what to expect. Catchy and inspired. Enjoyed it!
this had me chair dancing, and one bit had me looking under the table to see what the dog was up to but it was some distinctly placed in the mix bit. great sounds!
I really, really like it, love that beat, a really well done production and very interesting, I felt very caught up in it.
Really weird and interesting ... as if a Middle Eastern musician was miniaturized and asked to play on top of a coffee table. Beatbox sounds strange but great. Nice bass, as always! The thick guitar lead at the two-minute mark absolutely rules ... overall, a huge wall of sound!
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This is really interesting, in the stops and starts, and the development as new instruments and riffs are added. I'm really liking it!
And, I'm against all of that uncool, unfair stuff too!! Nice job!!


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By way of drawing, painting, photographing, printing, or juxtaposing found objects and images, the artist seeks to convey notions of nostalgia, memory, and the unknown, and presents an alternative to the perception of atrophy as a negative.


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Q: Spot another JPA weird case (added a selected attribute completly changes the resultset of the query) Given this query:
"SELECT DISTINCT lc.id, lc.debtor.officialCompanyName, lc.liquidationPublicationDate, lc.regNumberLegalRepresentative, lc.regNumberLiquidatorCompany, lc.liquidationStatusType, "
                    + "lc.authority, lc.liquidationSupervisor, lc.liquidationFinalizationDate, lc.finalReportFilingDate "
                    + "FROM LiquidationCase lc "
                        + "WHERE lc.active = 1 AND (lc.clerk = :user "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.company.managers "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.managers) "
                            + "AND lc.endemicSite.id = :endemicSiteId ")"

If I add lc.clerk to the selected attributes, like this:
"SELECT DISTINCT lc.id, lc.debtor.officialCompanyName, lc.liquidationPublicationDate, lc.regNumberLegalRepresentative, lc.regNumberLiquidatorCompany, lc.liquidationStatusType, "
                    + "lc.authority, lc.clerk, lc.liquidationSupervisor, lc.liquidationFinalizationDate, lc.finalReportFilingDate "
                    + "FROM LiquidationCase lc "
                        + "WHERE lc.active = 1 AND (lc.clerk = :user "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.company.managers "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.managers) "
                            + "AND lc.endemicSite.id = :endemicSiteId "

then the lc-s which has a clerk with null value will not be selected, however I would like to get these lc-s (liquidCases). Somehow the generated query is just not good.
Any idea how to solve this issue (Kindly ask not to mention the post-process clerk selecting from DB)?
Any hint is highly appreciated.
More info:
1st generated query:
SELECT DISTINCT t0.id,
                t1.official_company_name,
                t0.liquidation_publication_date,
                t0.reg_number_legal_representative,
                t0.reg_number_liquidator_company,
                t0.liquidation_status_type,
                t2.id,
                t2.active,
                t2.created_on,
                t2.deactivated_on,
                t2.department_name,
                t2.last_modified_on,
                t2.mask_agreement,
                t2.mask_closing_order,
                t2.mask_closing_order_publication,
                t2.mask_company_register,
                t2.mask_designation,
                t2.mask_disclosure,
                t2.mask_injunction,
                t2.mask_interim_financial_report,
                t2.mask_legal_representative,
                t2.name,
                t2.note,
                t2.is_persisted,
                t2.primary_fax,
                t2.primary_phone,
                t2.authority_type_id,
                t2.created_by_id,
                t2.deactivated_by_id,
                t2.last_modified_by_id,
                t2.address_id,
                t2.mailing_address_id,
                t2.primary_authority_email_address_id,
                t3.id,
                t3.active,
                t3.created_on,
                t3.deactivated_on,
                t3.last_modified_on,
                t3.is_persisted,
                t3.created_by_id,
                t3.deactivated_by_id,
                t3.last_modified_by_id,
                t3.personal_data_id,
                t0.liquidation_finalization_date,
                t0.final_report_filing_date
FROM liquidator.liquidation_case t0
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.authority t2 ON (t2.id = t0.authority_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.liquidation_supervisor t3 ON (t3.id = t0.liquidation_supervisor), liquidator.site_manager_user_site t9,
                                                                                liquidator.user_company t8,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t7,
                                                                                liquidator.site t6,
                                                                                liquidator.company t5,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t4,
                                                                                liquidator.debtor t1
WHERE ((((t0.active = ?)
         AND (((t0.clerk_id = ?)
               OR (? = t4.id))
              OR (? = t7.id)))
        AND (t0.endemic_site_id = ?))
       AND (((((t6.id = t0.endemic_site_id)
               AND (t5.id = t6.company_id))
              AND ((t8.company_id = t5.id)
                   AND (t4.id = t8.user_id)))
             AND ((t9.site_id = t6.id)
                  AND (t7.id = t9.user_id)))
            AND (t1.id = t0.debtor_id)))

2nd generated query:
SELECT DISTINCT t0.id,
                t1.official_company_name,
                t0.liquidation_publication_date,
                t0.reg_number_legal_representative,
                t0.reg_number_liquidator_company,
                t0.liquidation_status_type,
                t2.id,
                t2.active,
                t2.created_on,
                t2.deactivated_on,
                t2.department_name,
                t2.last_modified_on,
                t2.mask_agreement,
                t2.mask_closing_order,
                t2.mask_closing_order_publication,
                t2.mask_company_register,
                t2.mask_designation,
                t2.mask_disclosure,
                t2.mask_injunction,
                t2.mask_interim_financial_report,
                t2.mask_legal_representative,
                t2.name,
                t2.note,
                t2.is_persisted,
                t2.primary_fax,
                t2.primary_phone,
                t2.authority_type_id,
                t2.created_by_id,
                t2.deactivated_by_id,
                t2.last_modified_by_id,
                t2.address_id,
                t2.mailing_address_id,
                t2.primary_authority_email_address_id,
                t3.id,
                t3.active,
                t3.created_on,
                t3.deactivated_on,
                t3.end_of_session,
                t3.surname,
                t3.forename,
                t3.last_login,
                t3.last_logout,
                t3.last_modified_on,
                t3.locked_on,
                t3.note,
                t3.password,
                t3.is_persisted,
                t3.phone_number,
                t3.role,
                t3.transaction_code,
                t3.username,
                t3.created_by_id,
                t3.deactivated_by_id,
                t3.last_modified_by_id,
                t3.address_id,
                t3.user_email_address_id,
                t3.locked_by,
                t3.login_site,
                t4.id,
                t4.active,
                t4.created_on,
                t4.deactivated_on,
                t4.last_modified_on,
                t4.is_persisted,
                t4.created_by_id,
                t4.deactivated_by_id,
                t4.last_modified_by_id,
                t4.personal_data_id,
                t0.liquidation_finalization_date,
                t0.final_report_filing_date
FROM liquidator.liquidation_case t0
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.authority t2 ON (t2.id = t0.authority_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.liquidation_supervisor t4 ON (t4.id = t0.liquidation_supervisor), liquidator.site_manager_user_site t10,
                                                                                liquidator.user_company t9,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t8,
                                                                                liquidator.site t7,
                                                                                liquidator.company t6,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t5,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t3,
                                                                                liquidator.debtor t1
WHERE ((((t0.active = ?)
         AND (((t0.clerk_id = ?)
               OR (? = t5.id))
              OR (? = t8.id)))
        AND (t0.endemic_site_id = ?))
       AND ((((((t7.id = t0.endemic_site_id)
                AND (t6.id = t7.company_id))
               AND ((t9.company_id = t6.id)
                    AND (t5.id = t9.user_id)))
              AND ((t10.site_id = t7.id)
                   AND (t8.id = t10.user_id)))
             AND (t1.id = t0.debtor_id))
            AND (t3.id = t0.clerk_id)))

UPDATE:
OK. So the good query would be, like this:
How can I tell JPA to use this query, use left join instead of a where condition??!?
SELECT  DISTINCT t0.id,
                t1.official_company_name,
                t0.liquidation_publication_date,
                t0.reg_number_legal_representative,
                t0.reg_number_liquidator_company,
                t0.liquidation_status_type,
                t2.id,
                t2.active,
                t2.created_on,
                t2.deactivated_on,
                t2.department_name,
                t2.last_modified_on,
                t2.mask_agreement,
                t2.mask_closing_order,
                t2.mask_closing_order_publication,
                t2.mask_company_register,
                t2.mask_designation,
                t2.mask_disclosure,
                t2.mask_injunction,
                t2.mask_interim_financial_report,
                t2.mask_legal_representative,
                t2.name,
                t2.note,
                t2.is_persisted,
                t2.primary_fax,
                t2.primary_phone,
                t2.authority_type_id,
                t2.created_by_id,
                t2.deactivated_by_id,
                t2.last_modified_by_id,
                t2.address_id,
                t2.mailing_address_id,
                t2.primary_authority_email_address_id,
                t3.id,
                t3.active,
                t3.created_on,
                t3.deactivated_on,
                t3.end_of_session,
                t3.surname,
                t3.forename,
                t3.last_login,
                t3.last_logout,
                t3.last_modified_on,
                t3.locked_on,
                t3.note,
                t3.password,
                t3.is_persisted,
                t3.phone_number,
                t3.role,
                t3.transaction_code,
                t3.username,
                t3.created_by_id,
                t3.deactivated_by_id,
                t3.last_modified_by_id,
                t3.address_id,
                t3.user_email_address_id,
                t3.locked_by,
                t3.login_site,
                t4.id,
                t4.active,
                t4.created_on,
                t4.deactivated_on,
                t4.last_modified_on,
                t4.is_persisted,
                t4.created_by_id,
                t4.deactivated_by_id,
                t4.last_modified_by_id,
                t4.personal_data_id,
                t0.liquidation_finalization_date,
                t0.final_report_filing_date
FROM liquidator.liquidation_case t0
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.authority t2 ON (t2.id = t0.authority_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.liquidation_supervisor t4 ON (t4.id = t0.liquidation_supervisor)
LEFT OUTER JOIN liquidator.user_entity t3 ON (t3.id = t0.clerk_id),                         liquidator.site_manager_user_site t10,
                                                                                liquidator.user_company t9,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t8,
                                                                                liquidator.site t7,
                                                                                liquidator.company t6,
                                                                                liquidator.user_entity t5,
                                                                                liquidator.debtor t1
WHERE ((((t0.active = ?)
         AND (((t0.clerk_id = ?)
               OR (? = t5.id))
              OR (? = t8.id)))
        AND (t0.endemic_site_id = ?))
       AND ((((((t7.id = t0.endemic_site_id)
                AND (t6.id = t7.company_id))
               AND ((t9.company_id = t6.id)
                    AND (t5.id = t9.user_id)))
              AND ((t10.site_id = t7.id)
                   AND (t8.id = t10.user_id)))
             AND (t1.id = t0.debtor_id))
            AND (true)));

A: Clerk is a relationship mapping, so if you want the query to include null, you will need to tell it to use an outer join over the relationship:
Select clerk, ... From LiquidationCase lc left join lc.clerk clerk...

A: I'd try this:
"SELECT DISTINCT lc.id, lc.debtor.officialCompanyName, lc.liquidationPublicationDate, lc.regNumberLegalRepresentative, lc.regNumberLiquidatorCompany, lc.liquidationStatusType, "
                    + "lc.authority, lc.clerk, lc.liquidationSupervisor, lc.liquidationFinalizationDate, lc.finalReportFilingDate "
                    + "FROM LiquidationCase lc "
                        + "WHERE lc.active = 1 AND (lc.clerk IS NULL OR lc.clerk = :user "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.company.managers "
                            + "OR :user MEMBER OF lc.endemicSite.managers) "
                            + "AND lc.endemicSite.id = :endemicSiteId "

A: Very nice answer from Chris in another topic (JPA: Left join not working with "is null" in where clause):

"The reason it works is that specifying d.manager in the where clause
  requires an inner join. When the relationship isn't used anywhere
  else, EclipseLink can tell that the relationship itself isn't needed,
  only the foreign key, and so doesn't join. When you use the
  relationship elsewhere, the d.manager inner join trumps any other
  join, so the inner join is used instead. By using m is null, you are
  forcing it to use the outer join logic. Specifying the outer join is
  the proper way to do it in JPA as some relations need a join to
  resolve. "

In our case we can substitue the d.manager with lc.clerk.
Wow. You are the same person : ) If you copy your comment to your answer I will delete my answer.

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// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
/**
 * \class document::FloatFieldValue
 * \ingroup fieldvalue
 *
 * \brief Wrapper for field values of datatype FLOAT.
 */
#pragma once

#include "numericfieldvalue.h"
#include <vespa/document/datatype/datatype.h>

namespace document {

class FloatFieldValue final : public NumericFieldValue<float> {
public:
    typedef float Number;

    FloatFieldValue(Number value = 0) : NumericFieldValue<Number>(Type::FLOAT, value) {}

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Hugo reading 2017: Chuck Tingle
8 July, 2017 3 January, 2019 / Catherine
I'm putting all of this behind a cut, because Chuck Tingle may be hilarious, but he is in no way safe for work.
Chuck Tingle, for those of you who who don't know, is a writer of very strange, very silly, gay erotica (for a value of gay that includes gay sex with dinosaurs, Starbucks holiday cups, and the Euro). It does contain some science fictional themes, but mostly the reason the science fiction community knows about Tingle is that he was nominated by the Rabid Puppies last year, in an attempt to undermine the Hugo awards and show how stupid they were, and he promptly turned around and began trolling the Puppies relentlessly and hilariously.
Normally, I'd save the one I know I'm going to like for last, but I'm so cross after my previous Hugo reading today that I'm starting with Chuck Tingle, and you can't stop me.
Tingle's voter packet takes you to a secret page on his website that welcomes you in all caps with "Hello Hugo Award voters welcome to my secret page feel free to get hard here as an online bud", followed by the subtitle "It has been suggested that this way is not safe for work this is warning of this way."
So you know where you are at with this one.
The secret page has links to three interviews with Tingle and his interaction with the Puppies, a link to the website that Tingle helpfully made for the Rabid Puppies last year, a video he made about them, a link to his twitter and a storify of some of his more famed Tweets, and a copy of his seminal works, "Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Award Nomination" and "Pounded in the Butt by my Hugo Award Loss".
If you haven't read any of Chuck Tingle's work, you may not be aware that he has a very idiosyncratic style. Here's a nice quote from one of the interviews:
MORE IMPORTANT reason to write tinglers is to prove that love is real for all who kiss. saw a man on TV talking about buds kissing buds and he said "oh whats gonna happen if we let buds kiss buds whats next are they gonna kiss PLANES TOO?" so i thought "YES ALL LOVE IS REAL WE SHOULD KISS PLANES because they are HANDSOME."
The storify of Tingle's tweets is really a story in tweet form of his nomination, starting with a link to his story 'Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Award Nomination', following up with links to various newspapers and magazines discussing his nomination (I do love his tendency to claim every newspaper or magazine that writes about him as a product of his home town, Billings), taunting 'Voxman' and his 'Devilman agenda', announcing that Zoe Quinn will accept the award on his behalf if he wins, campaigning hilariously for votes, creating a video about 'Voxman and the Bad Dog Blues', gleefully noticing that the Sad Puppies have neglected to register a website, and creating one for them, and ending with the inevitable drowning of his sorrows in chocolate milk and publication of his new tingler POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY HUGO AWARD LOSS. It's an entertaining narrative, which I think explains extremely well just why he was nominated for this award.
Moving on to the website, which was announced thusly on Twitter:
sometimes devils are so busy with scoundrel attacks they forget to REGISTER important website names. PLEASE ENJOY http://WWW.THERABIDPUPPIES.COM
The website is called THE TINGLED PUPPIES, and he cheerfully introduces it "Hello my name is CHUCK TINGLE (worlds greatest author) and here is a story about how devils always lose." The current version of the website is pretty minimal – during the awards season last year, he blatantly encouraged people to vote and follow all the Puppies' least favourite people, and also to support the Billings Public Library. Currently, he is just noting the Puppies' recent unsuccessful efforts to parody John Scalzi. It's a bit disappointing, actually – I liked last year's version better.
The video is a cartoon narrated by Tingle himself. It explains about how he was nominated, and how he found out that the 'bad dog blues' nominated him. After an existential crisis, "Is Chuck only world's best author at the hands of a scoundrel?", he is led out for a walk in the park by a strange, dirty dog, who introduces him to VoxMan. After a confrontation in which he is tempted by the devilman, Tingle rejects him, and Voxman and his devils and his dogs try to attack him. Fortunately, Chuck remembers that love is real, and this gives him the strength to run away. He gets home, and realises that he can't keep running from the devilmen. A true buckaroo needs to prove that love is real for all who kiss. And so he decides to do so.
It's quite fun, though I do find Tingle's voice hard to listen to – I'm not sure if he uses voice modification software, but the combination of Southern drawl and slurred words is a bit painful.
And then we have the short story.
Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Nomination starts off being quite autobiographical. He talks about how he has written all his life, and is quite successful, and how much he enjoys writing gay erotica 'particularly that of the dinosaur and unicorn variety'. And then he gets an email congratulating him on his Hugo Award nomination.
There's just one problem. His name is not Chuck Tingle, but Tuck Bingle, and he has never written a book titled Space Raptor Butt Invasion, though it certainly sounds like something he would write. He realises that this email has come to him by accident, and was supposed to go to another layer of the Tingleverse. Moreover, he himself is clearly a character written by an author in a higher layer of the Tingleverse. Reality, you see, exists as a stack of parallel worlds, and "The deeper into the Tingleverse one gets, the gayer the universe becomes, until eventually you reach the bottom layer, which is known as The Tingularity. There is some speculation about what The Tingularity entails, whether it is an entire universe of abs, calves, or cute butts, but one thing is for sure, it is the epitome of hot, sweaty gayness in it's rawest form."
And if you think that it's unreasonable for me to learn all this from a simple email notification, the author would like me to remind you that I've been living in a deeper level of the Tingleverse for years, growing more and more suspicious of the bizarre happenings around me every day. He doesn't have time to tell you about the fact that my mailman is hunky unicorn in leather, assless chaps, or that the last flight I took was delayed because the planes were all having a hardcore gangbang on the tarmac.
Most importantly, though, the author would like me to remind you that this is a short story and, ultimately, is about getting off more that anything else. He says, "bare with me."
The story then gets very meta. The author decides to speak through the barista, who explains a bit more about the various Tingleverses, and also about the Hugo awards, and how some people are unhappy that Tingle was nominated.
"But why?" I continue. "I still don't get it, Space Raptor Butt Invasion seems like a serious piece of science fiction literature."
"As crazy as it sounds, some people up there just don't see it that way," the barista informs me.
Bingle decides that he wants to help Tingle win his Hugo. Chuck Tingle connoisseurs have probably guessed already what he needs to do to make this happen. And if you haven't guessed, consider the title of this short story.
"What do you need me to do?"
"Get f—ed up your butt by the Hugo Award nomination," the barista responds.
There is suddenly a loud smash as the door to the coffee shop flies open and a massive, shiny award steps inside. The muscular living object is shaped like a rocket, tall and handsome with a ripped set of gorgeous abs that run across his length. He rocks from side to side on his wooden base, approaching our table while the rest of the coffee shop patrons run and hide with screams of utter terror.
"F— him?" I question. "How is that going to make them take us seriously?"
The barista shakes his head. "No, no, the stuff before all of this is what's supposed to make them to take us seriously. At the end of the day, this is still gay erotica, you're gonna have to get pounded."
And yeah, that's pretty much where the rest of this story goes. Bingle suggests that a date would be nice, but the barista vetoes this on the basis of wordcount, then reluctantly concedes. "Alright, just one date, but I'm only going to take like, two sentences to describe it, tops. After that you'll each get a line of dialog and then it's right to the fucking."
Which accounts for the rest of the story.
Honestly, I found this one pretty hilarious. I pretty much skipped the erotica thing, because Tingle's style of erotica is not really my cup of tea, but the rest of it was very good, and actually significantly better than the book he was nominated for last year.
Pounded in the Butt by my Hugo Award Loss is in an even more autobiographical vein. In this story, Tingle is seized with anxiety – what if he wins the award? How will his life change? And what if he loses? As he is walking to the shops, he is followed by two 'huge, breathtakingly handsome rocket ships', embodying his Hugo award anxieties, who tell him that, win or lose, he will be facing down one of them tonight.
I think you can guess what that entails.
This particular story is a bit more expressionistic, and Tingle makes it pretty clear that writing this is more or less his coping strategy for the stress of the evening. I didn't find it as entertaining as the first one, but it's still surprisingly clever.
So there you go. Chuck Tingle's nomination for Best Fan Writer. Honestly, I think this is strangely well-deserved. I'm really hoping that I can put him first on my ballot with a clear conscience, because he has done a lot to make the last year more palatable (I very much enjoyed his work on the various elections, too). And he is a much better writer than I had expected, based on Space Raptor Butt Invasion. Nice work, Chuck Tingle.
best fan writer, chuck tingle, hugo awards 2017
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Q: How to reduce congnitive complexity from 10 to 6 for a function in JavaScript I have a trouble reducing the cognitive complexity here for this function.I tried to separate the contents inside the forEach as another function and by calling it in getCars function but failed. Could anyone please help?

const getCars = (cars, config, types) => {
  const {
    carName
  } = types;
  const carObject = {};
  const carsRange = () => {}
  let carRange = carsRange(cars);
  Object.entries(cars).forEach(([key, value]) => {
    if (key === 'sedan' && value) {
      const carRangeVal = value.split(' ');
      const year = carRangeVal[1];
      const model = carRangeVal[0].substring(1, 2);
      carRange = generateCarRange(year, model);
    }
    if (key === 'suv' && value) {
      const carRangeVal = value.split(' ');
      const year = carRangeVal[1];
      const model = carRangeVal[0];
      carObject['model'] = true;
      carRange = checkYear(year, model);
    }
    if (value) {
      carObject[key] = value;
    }
  });

  if (
    config.header === 'TEST A' ||
    config.header === 'TEST B'
  ) {
    carObject['carName'] = carName[0].id;
  }

  carObject['configName'] = config.header;
  carObject['contractStartDate'] = carsRange[0];
  carObject['contractEndDate'] = carsRange[1];
  return carObject;
};

console.log(getCars({}, {}, {}));

A: You could shorten the code in the .forEach function:
[year,model] = value.split(' '); // destructuring assignment
if (key === 'sedan' && value) {
  model = model.substring(1, 2);
  carRange = generateCarRange(year, model);
}
if (key === 'suv' && value) {
  carObject['model'] = true;
  carRange = checkYear(year, model);
}

It would be helpful to know the input data.
I have an inkling that you may be better off using .map() instead of .forEach().
Why do you have two functions (generateCarRange() and checkYear()) to get carRange?
(I find it helpful to use Hungarian Notation to always know the type of my variables.)


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Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor,  (13 February 1847 – 8 February 1911), styled Viscount Emlyn from 1860 to 1898, was a British Conservative politician. He served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty between March and December 1905.

Background and education
Cawdor was the eldest son of John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, and his wife Sarah Mary, daughter of General the Hon. Henry Cavendish. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was brought up on the family estates in south Wales and his coming of age in 1868 was a major event in the town of Llandeilo. In 1874 he was appointed to be Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Inverness.

MP for Carmarthenshire
Cawdor was Conservative Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire from 1874 to 1885. In 1885 the constituency was divided in two and Emlyn decided to contest the new West Carmarthenshire constituency, although most of his family property lay in the eastern part of the county. His chances there appeared to be negligible given the growing industrial population which had been a key factor in the triumph of the Liberal candidate, Edward Sartoris at the 1868 General Election. Emlyn was opposed by the other sitting member, the Liberal W.R.H. Powell, himself a former Conservative supporter, who had first declared his support for the Liberals at the 1874 election. Powell now proclaimed that he had a duty to the Liberal cause to oppose Emlyn.

It was reported that the Conservatives were confident of their chances in West Carmarthenshire, on the grounds that it was largely an agricultural division. However, the electorate had more than doubled in the county, and the 1885 electorate in the Western Division alone exceeded that of the combined county seat in 1880. Powell's victory ended Emlyn's career in Carmarthenshire politics.

Later political career
He succeeded in the earldom in 1898 and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Cawdor took a leading part in the Conservative opposition to Lloyd George's budget of 1909 and in drafting resolutions for the reform of the House of Lords in 1910.

He was also involved in Pembrokeshire local affairs, and as Chairman of the Great Western Railway from 1895 to 1905 greatly improved the service. In 1904 he was elected unopposed as a member of Pembrokeshire County Council to represent the Castlemartin ward.

Lord Cawdor was an officer in the Royal Carmarthen Artillery, a Militia unit, where he was lieutenant-colonel in command from 24 September 1892 until he retired on 5 November 1902. During these years he was promoted to colonel and appointed an aide-de-camp to King Edward VII.

Family
Lord Cawdor married Edith Georgiana Turnor, daughter of Christopher Turnor, on 16 September 1868. They had ten children. He died in February 1911, aged 63, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Hugh. Lady Cawdor died in 1926.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

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An Elephant Property Development: The Jumbo Water Tower For Sale (Vlog)
Sam - May 19, 2014 April 12, 2019
The Jumbo water tower in Colchester, Essex has got to be the most elephantine property I have ever viewed.
It is colossal.
It is immense.
And surprisingly it is a Reverse Tardis! Yes, it may be toweringly magnificent – but inside? Well, I can tell you now floor space is at a premium – which is going to make any sort of conversion or development incredibly costly.
What would I do with this gigantic water tower?
Glass and *lots of it* springs to mind – but it's doubtful the end use would be commercially viable. It used to have planning permission for one single dwelling, but I'm struggling to see who would spend all that money (and by my reckoning you're talking hundreds of thousands) to covert this to just one home.
Leisure or office use may be the most economically viable way forward – but still you're talking about a mammoth sum to invest and I just can't see if the statement building you'd get at the end would be justified by the spend involved. This is Colchester not London.
So what else? Well, maybe the locals have got the best idea: develop Jumbo as a heritage attraction and exhibition space.
I'd be interested to hear what you would do – it's up for sale at Allsop auction on 29 May 2014 with NO RESERVE.
Here's the vital stats:
England's largest Victorian water tower
Grade II* Listed
40 metres (131 ft) tall
157 steps to the top
Construction completed 1883 (build took 20 months)
A total of 1,200,000 bricks and 819 tonnes of stone and cement were used
The tower cost £10,349 to build
The tank holds 1069 cubic metres (37,800 cubic foot) of water
Total weight when full: 6,000 tonnes
Decommissioned and closed in 1988
1995 sold at auction for £85,000
2001 permission for a single residential conversion was permitted on appeal
2006 sold at auction (with planning) for £330,000
Tagged jumbo water tower, property development, unusual auction property, water tower for sale
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Sam May 20, 2014 at 3:26 pm
I love posting a blog and then finding out even more from my readers – here are the visionary plans which got rejected for the Jumbo water tower
http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/10427065.New_plans_unveiled_for_Jumbo_water_tower/?ref=rc
The Jumbo water tower was sold at Allsop property auction today for £190k. According to local newspaper reports a local poultry farmer is the new owner. Let's hope Jumbo gets a Jumbo future 🙂
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/colchester_jumbo_water_tower_sells_for_190k_1_3620598


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Q: Show that there exists a non-constant periodic trajectory for the system of ODEs I am having a hard time finding information online about how to show that there exists a non-constant periodic trajectory for the system of ODEs.
For example if the system is $$x'=1-4x+x^2y$$ $$y'=3x-x^2y$$ Does anyone know where I can read about this type of problem or what steps to take to find the trajectories?
Thanks.

A: The main rigorous theorem for showing existence of a periodic solution is the Poincare-Bendixson theorem. This is specific to 2D. The main assumption that the theorem requires is that the dynamics will remain in a bounded region forever. It then gives a full classification of the $\omega$-limit sets of the system. In particular it tells you that if there are no fixed points then there must be a periodic orbit (under this boundedness assumption). So if you can check that your system remains in a bounded region forever then you can take care of the matter. This is frequently difficult to check (even if it holds). Usually the way to do it is basically to construct a Lyapunov function of some kind.
You can get a quick conjecture about where periodic orbits might be by looking for fixed points and taking a linearization about them. This does not require 2D. For this we have three rules of thumb, which basically amount to "trajectories started close enough to the fixed point behave like the linear system".

*

*If the linearization has all eigenvalues with negative real part, then trajectories started near the fixed point will decay to the fixed point (not oscillate).

*If the linearization has all eigenvalues with nonpositive real part but some with zero real part, then there is frequently a periodic solution.

*If the linearization has any eigenvalues with positive real part then usually there is no periodic solution reasonably close to that point.

The first rule is always correct, but exceptions to the second and third rules exist. For the second: there are cases where a fixed point with all the eigenvalues of the linearization having nonpositive real part is still (subexponentially) unstable. For the third: there are cases where a fixed point has positive real part eigenvalues that repel you away from the fixed point, but where you go straight out toward a limit cycle from there.


Tobacco susceptibility to Potato virus YNTN infection is affected by grafting and endogenous cytokinin content | Ústav experimentální botaniky AV ČR, v. v. i.
Abstrakt: Faster or stronger response to pathogen occurs if plants undergo prior priming. Cytokinins seem to bealso involved in plant priming and in response to pathogens. Susceptibility to Potato virus YNTN(PVYNTN)was studied in transgenic cytokinin overproducing (Pssu-ipt) tobacco and compared with nontransgenicplants. Since cytokinin overproduction inhibits development of plant roots and grafting overcomes thislimitation, both types were grown as rooted and/or grafted plants to check also the effect of grafting.Control rooted tobacco (C), the most susceptible to PVYNTN, showed always symptoms during the infectiontogether with the rising virus content and a systemic response, such as accumulation of H2O2, salicylicacid (SA) and other phenolic acids, and stress-induced enzyme activities. In transgenic and grafted plants,the response to PVYNTNwas dependent on protective mechanisms activated prior to the inoculation. In Pssu-ipt tobacco, cytokinin active forms and SA contents exceeded manifold their content in C. Graftingpromoted the accumulation of phenolics, but SA, and stimulated peroxidase activities. Thus, the pre-infection barrier established in both transgenic and grafted plants helped to suppress partly the virusmultiplication and resulted in milder symptom development. However, only the synergic effect of both grafting and the high cytokinins led to PVYNTNtolerance in transgenic grafts. Possible mechanisms were discussed.


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/*
 * The (approved) proposal for const in Harmony wiki:
 *   http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:const
 *
 * These tests reflect v8's current implementation of const they can be ran in `node` or they
 * can ran by using the test runner.
 */

function assert (a, b) {
    if (a !== b) {
        console.log("fail:", a, b);
    }
}

// Setting up the tests.
const immutable = "foo";
const immutable2 = 6;
const immutable3 = false;

// Perfectly valid but useless.
const immutable4;

// Objects are mutable: one can modify it's properties but can't redeclare as something other than
// this object.
const immutable5 = { foo: "bar" };
immutable5.foo = "not bar";

// Functions can be constant
const immutable6 = function () {
  return "foo";
};

// Arrays are mutable as well, with the same rules apply as for Object.
const immutable7 = ["foo"];
immutable7.pop();

// Comma separated is ok.
const immutable8 = "testing", immutable9 = true;

// In current implementations, const doesn't have block scope.
for (var i = 0; i < 1; i += 1) {
  // :(
  // const immutable9 = false;
}

// In scope
(function () {
  // Valid
  const immutable4 = "foobar"; // immutable4 is in it's own scope so it can be redeclared.
  const immutable5 = "w00t";

  const immutable6 = true, immutable7 = ["bar"];

  // Tests
  assert(immutable3, false);
  assert(immutable4, "foobar");
  assert(immutable5, "w00t");
  assert(immutable6, true);
  assert(immutable7.shift(), "bar");
  assert(immutable7.length, 0);
}());

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assert(immutable2, 6);
assert(immutable3, false);
assert(immutable4, undefined);
assert(immutable5.foo, "not bar");
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assert(immutable7.length, 0);
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Jiuhua Mountain, literally meaning "Nine Glorious Mountains" in Chinese, was once called Mount Lingyang and Mount Jiuzi, and finally received its present name due to a poem written by the great poet Li Bai of Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) - "Magic is divided to two branches, sacred mountain generates nine glories". Jiuhua Mountain is noted not only for being a sacred place for Buddhist pilgrims, but also a perfect summer resort for tourists.
Located in Qingyang County in Anhui Province, Jiuhua Mountain borders Yangtze River on the north and faces Mt. Huangshan in the South. It boasts 99 peaks and 18 scenic spots in its area. The beautiful scenery and favorable climate turns the mountain an ideal summer resort. It's full of marvelous ridges and peaks, exotic-shaped stones, gushing fountains, flying waterfalls and clear streams. Among all its peaks, Heavenly Terrace Peak, Lotus Peak, Tianzhu Peak and Shiwang Peak are the most splendid.
Jiuhua Mountain is one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism, along with Mt. Wutai in Shanxi, Mt. Emei in Sichuan and Mt. Putuo in Zhejiang.
At its peak period, Jiuhua Mountain was site of 300-400 Buddhist shrines and received more pilgrims than any other of China's four Buddhist retreats. Today, nearly 90 temples still stand on the mountain, each with its hoard of cultural relics such as mantra transcripts from past dynasties, imperial edicts and emperors' inscriptions.
Many of the mountain's shrines and temples are dedicated to Ksitigarbha (known in Chinese as Dizang), who is a bodhisattva and protector of beings in hell realms according to Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Pious Buddhists often visit Anhui to climb to Greater Heavenly Terrace Peak, which is regarded as Jiuhua Mountain's most important peak, although it's not the tallest.


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This blog has been a lot of things over the years.
It started out as a normal website and morphed into a mixed, personal and tech, blog.
I'm addicted to learning and pushing myself to master new technologies.
Currently i live in the metro area of St. Wendel, Saarland, Germany.
I'm filling my free time by hanging around with my friends, developing applications and websites and finding new and interesting ways of breaking up computers and microelectronics.
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Topological defects (TDs) are unavoidable consequence of continuous symmetry breaking phase transitions. They exhibit several universal features and often span apparently completely different systems. Particularly convenient testing ground to study basic physics of TDs are liquid crystals (LCs) due to their softness, liquid character and optical anisotropy. In the lecture I will present our recent theoretical studies of TDs in nematic LCs, which are of interest also to other branches of physics.
I will first focus on coarsening dynamics of TDs following the isotropic-nematic phase transition. Among others we have tested the validity of the Kibble-Zurek [1,2] prediction on the size of the so called protodomains, which was originally derived to estimate density of TDs as a function of inflation time in the early universe. Next I will consider nematic LC shells . These systems are of interest because they could pave path to mm sized scaled crystals exhibiting different symmetries. Particular attention will be paid to curvature induced unbinding of pairs of topological defects. This process might play important role in membrane fission processes. Finally, I will demonstrate how appropriate nanoparticles (NPs) could be exploited to stabilize various defect lattices in chiral LCs . Shown examples have several analogues in other condensed matter systems. For example, NP-driven stabilization of smectic twist grain boundary phase is analogous to impurity stabilized Abrikosov phase in type II superconductors.
 W.H. Zurek, Nature 317, 505 (1985).
 Z. Bradac et al., J.Chem.Phys 135, 024506 (2011).
 S. Kralj et al., Soft Matter 7, 670 (2011) ; 8, 2460 (2012).
 G. Cordoyiannis et al., Soft Matter 9, 3956 (2013).


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Jodorowsky's Dune: Review
Sep 22, 2022 at 05:00 am by nemirc
All that talk about Rings of Power reminded me of Jodorowsky's Dune, a documentary failed attempt by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky to bring Frank Herbert's Dune to the big screen. The entire documentary shows how Jodorowsky assembled his "dream team" to bring Dune to life, including Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí, David Carradine and Amanda Lear in acting roles, and H.R. Giger for concept design.
The reason I mention "all the talk about Rings of Power" is because, as you see the documentary, you notice Jodorowsky is making a lot of changes to the source material, including making a completely different ending. One of the gripes Dune fans have with the Lynch movie is how Lynch changed the entire concept of Dune, turning Paul Atreides into a "space Jesus" as some say. The weirding way, including the use of The Voice, is turned into some sort of "super power": there's a part where he uses The Voice to make a crack on the floor, under Feyd Rautha's body, and, at the very end of the movie, he makes it rain on Dune using his super-powers (killing all sandworms in the process, since sandworms cannot survive water).
Having said this, if you are not a fan of the Lynch movie (which I am not), you would have definitely hated Jodorowsky's Dune, due to all the changes. I don't think saying this is a spoiler since I am talking about a documentary, not a movie, so here's Jodorowsky's ending: at the end, Paul was captured by The Harkonnens and killed (sliced into pieces), but then, Paul's blood that was spilled on the sand spread everywhere and his spirit possessed everyone around, and the planet itself. At that point everyone keeps saying "we are all Paul" (or something like that) and the planet becomes self-aware, spreading Paul's spirit across the entire galaxy. If you know Dune, then you know this would have been the polar opposite to what Dune was actually supposed to be, and I am glad the movie was not made "as a Dune movie".
However, the documentary is still pretty interesting and you can really see the passion that Jodorowsky had for his project. It is really amazing to see him walk us through the entire creative process, working with artists to make a visual representation of "his" Dune, and even going as far as having the entire movie drawn as a comic-style storyboard, which really shows the dedication he had for the project. I am also a fan of H. R. Giger, so it was awesome to see his take on different aspects of Dune, including Giedi Prime, the Harkonnen outfits, the Sardaukar, and other elements. When you see all the ideas that went behind the creation of Giedi Prime, you can really get an idea of how brutal the Harkonnens were in this movie, since it really goes into visual and mechanical representation of everything.
Unfortunately for Alejandro Jodorowsky, he dreamed too big for his own good. As you watch the documentary, you can see various red flags that let you know why the project ultimately failed. For example, his dream team made the movie extremely expensive even for today's standards (if VFX artists were paid what they are worth, of course, since we see how Disney/Marvel exploits them and how that has impacted the quality of the work they produce). Not only that, he took his inner Peter Jackson all the way up to 11, because Dune was going to be the longest movie ever made. How long exactly? Watch the documentary to find out. I don't know if you know this, but Dennis Villeneuve was first greenlit only the first movie, and it wasn't until box office numbers that he was granted the second part (on the other hand, Peter Jackson managed to get the LOTR trilogy greenlit right from the start, but that's because, unlike Dune, LOTR is not so "niche").
While the movie was never made, it really shaped sci-fi movies. The documentary shows how parts of this movie inspired other movies like Star Wars, and even non-sci-fi movies. Jodorowsky himself took some of his own ideas to make a comic titled "The Incal". So, even if the movie was never made, its legacy lives on.
On one side, I can definitely say I am glad Jodorowsky's Dune was not made as a "Dune" movie (I would have loved to see it as its own standalone IP). On the other hand, I have to say if you are into the creative process, you should see this documentary, since it goes very deep into the whole creative process. Besides, it is also very nice to see how much passion and dedication Jodorowsky devoted to the project, something that is very rare to see nowadays.
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A Jungle Studio and a (Passport) Sling Full of Bananas
By DerrickMay 24, 2012Pro Photographers
How do you take formal portraits of 2-ton, ten-feet-tall subjects who live in the jungle and just won't stand still for you? And how do you get all your gear to the most remote part of northern Thailand safely and in good working order?
This is the challenge Bay Area photographer Carol Stevenson has every time she travels to the Thailand to continue her multi-year project documenting the rescued street elephants at the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation. The solution – build an open air studio in the jungle and rely on Lowepro to carry the kit.
"Each trip is a bit different, depending on the time of year and the weather conditions, so the location of the studio varies," writes Carol. "We use a bamboo framework and stretch a 38′ x 20′ foot white backdrop across the frame. With the help of the mahouts (and a passing elephant), we erect it right in the jungle. With the harsh light of the tropics, I shoot just after sunrise, usually with only an hour of good light to work with."
"My Nikon D3 is amazing in low light conditions, and I sometimes add battery powered strobes to replicate the look of an indoor studio. Apart from the backdrop, we have to set up and break down each day, and the shoot can last for 30 days, so there's a lot of work hauling gear around the jungle on a motor scooter and in a tuk-tuk (Thai 3 wheel taxi)."
"We also shoot in the field during the day to capture the elephants in their natural environment. So not only does the studio gear have to be easily transportable, I need on-the-go bags when I'm trying to keep up with the elephants."
"I rely on Lowepro for three transport needs: the long haul, the daily studio schlepp, and for the 'ease of use in the field' shoots."
For the long haul, the bodies and lenses go in a Pro Runner x450 AW in the cabin with Carol. The more robust equipment is in cargo in a Pro Roller x300 AW, which has accompanied Carol on more than 40 flights with no damage to her gear. The Pro Roller x300 also does double duty for the jungle studio. And she uses the Passport Sling for quick one camera/lens shoots, or a Versapack 200 AW for heavier duty field work.
"The Sling and the Versapack give me unique flexibility," adds Carol; "if I HAD to pick a favorite, it would be the Passport Sling because of its fast and quick access to my gear. And with two Pasport Slings, one does double duty as a banana bag (for elephant bribes)".
Carol is featured as one of our Loweprofessionals. To see more of her work, visit www.elephantphotographer.com. More details about her gear can be found at www.carolstevenson.wordpress.com.
Derrick Story is the Photography Evangelist for Lowepro.
About Derrick
Derrick Story is a professional photographer, writer, teacher and photography evangelist for Lowepro. He has authored several digital media books, including his latest, The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers and The Digital Photography Companion (O'Reilly Media, publisher). Derrick is a Senior Contributor for Macworld magazine where he writes a digital photography column, and he's a regular presenter on the popular training site, Lynda.com. Online, Derrick has formed a virtual camera club called The Digital Story (www.thedigitalstory.com) that's open to all photography enthusiasts. The site features weekly podcasts, daily posts, training videos, and reader-submitted photos. You can reach Derrick at DStory@lowepro.com


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Nanotechnologies and Food - Science and Technology Committee Contents
Memorandum by the Soil Association
INTRODUCTION TO THE SOIL ASSOCIATION
The Soil Association was founded in 1946 to achieve sustainable and healthy agriculture. It is now the main organisation of the organic movement in the UK and certifies about 56 per cent of organic farmers and 70 per cent of the organic food sold in the UK. Organic farming is a management-based system which harnesses natural ecological and biological processes, rather than using synthetic chemical inputs. Organic farming now accounts for about 4 per cent of UK farmland. Sales of organic food are worth almost £2 billion per year.
The Sustainable Development Commission has called organic farming the "gold standard" for agricultural sustainability. Research shows that it has significant environmental advantages over non-organic farming. It supports higher levels of wildlife, whilst reducing agrochemical pollution, waste, and halving the amount of fossil fuels needed to produce food. Because of these benefits the Government wishes to expand organic farming. Defra adopted an action plan for organic food and farming in 2002, with a target of 70 per cent of the UK organic food market to be supplied by UK farmers by 2010, and public procurement to include organic food.
SOIL ASSOCIATION STANDARD ON NANOTECHNOLOGY
As of January 2008, the Soil Association banned the use of man-made namomaterials from all Soil Association certified organic products. We were the first organisation in the world to take a practical stance on the use of nano particles to protect the public, ahead of any governments. Our lead has since been followed in Australia, where the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA), the country's largest organic body, have now banned manufactured nanoparticles in certified organic products.
Under the Soil Association standard, organic producers and processors must not use ingredients containing manufactured nanoparticles, where:
— the mean particle size is 200nm or smaller; and
— the minimum particle size is 125nm or smaller.
We recognise that this standard will have implications for some established manufacturing processes that produce nanoparticles incidentally, such as milk homogenization. However, we are not in a position to prohibit these now for many reasons: these processes are currently well established, there is relatively little awareness of this issue among the general majority of organic consumers and licencees, we currently do not know which processes produce nano-particles and to what extent. Until we research these more fully, we will not apply this standard to them.
There are many cases of naturally occurring nanoparticles, for example from volcanic eruptions or in wood smoke; these fall outside the scope of this standard.
The standard does apply to engineered nanoparticles.
SUMMARY OF REASONS FOR THE BAN
The following section outlines the key issues and documentary evidence that led the Soil Association to develop the nanotechnology standard.
Organic farming methods are based on the use of natural biological and ecological processes. The use of synthetic nano-particles which would not exist in nature and whose basic physical structure has been modified at a very fundamental level is incompatible with this important organic principle as well as unnecessary. Specific concerns are based on information from:
(1) the The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group),
(2) reviews of nanoparticle safety undertaken by the European Commission and European Parliament and Swiss Reinsurance,
(3) the nanotechnology report by the Royal Society (RS) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), and
(4) the UK government response to the RS and RAE report.
The RS and RAE state in the recommendations section of their report that "The lack of evidence about the risk posed by manufactured nanoparticles and nanotubes is resulting in considerable uncertainty... We recommend that the UK research councils set up an interdisciplinary centre to research the toxicity, epidimiology, persistence and bio-accumulation of manufactured nanoparticles and nanotubes as well as their exposure pathways." The report also recommends a prohibition on environmental releases of nanoparticles and strict regulation of new nanomaterials. For details of the full report see http://www.nanotec.org.uk/report/chapter10.pdf
THE UK GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE RS & RAE REPORT(see http://www.ost.gov.uk/policy/issues/nanotech_final.pdf)
The UK government acknowledges the need for regulation of and the lack of scientific knowledge about nanotechnology. It places a moratorium on use of nanoparticles for environmental remediation and states that "As a precautionary measure, in the interim, exposure in the workplace and releases to the environment should be minimised until the possible risks posed by nanoparticles and nanotubes are better understood".
In a report commissioned by the European Parliament's committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (ITRE) it is noted that "The release of nano-particles in the environment should be avoided. The state of research concerning [sic]... the behaviour of nano-particles is actually rather limited, preliminary as well as contradictory. Nevertheless, the advice to avoid the release of nano-particles to the environment might be appropriate and would be in accordance with the Precautionary Principle."
(Haum, Petschow, Steinfeldt, Nanotechnology and Regulation within the framework of the Precautionary Principle. Final Report. Institut für ½kologische Wirstschaftforschung (I½W) gGmbH. Berlin).
A subsequent preliminary risk analysis of nanotechnologies carried out by the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate of the European Community:
— highlighted that some engineered nanoparticles may have the potential to pose serious concerns,the most significant ones relating to nanoscale technologies within the next 3-5 years and require further studies (Subsection 1.1.1.2);
— revealed that panel experts were of the unanimous opinion that the adverse effects of nanoparticles cannot be predicted (or derived) from the known toxicity of normal bulk material; and
— exposed the limits that preclude a complete risk assessment today, in particular the present scarcity of dose-response and exposure data (Subsection 1.1.1.3) http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/events_risk_en.htm
Swiss Reinsurance, in a 2004 review of risks associated with nanomaterials (and nanoparticles in particular) noted that:
"Nanomaterials are already contained in numerous products worldwide and occur in various applications. There are indications that certain nanomaterials are potential health hazards. The danger is most probably not of an acute but chronic nature and it could be some time before it manifests itself. This is where the real risk for insurers lies, and the comparison with asbestos should be seen in this light."
They recommended that:
"In view of the dangers to society that could arise out of the establishment of nanotechnology, and given the uncertainty currently prevailing in scientific circles, the precautionary principle should be applied whatever the difficulties"
(Nanotechnology, Small Matter, Many Unknowns, May 2004)
ETC Group articulate further concerns that:
— there are biosafety risks of using DNA, viruses, prions and bacteria in novel ways through nanobiotechnology;
— nanotechnology will impact on labour, including farmers, especially when related to self-assembly, crop surveillance and the replacement of agricultural commodities with new artificial nanomaterials;
— nanotechnology increases the scope for patents on nature and wide matter monopolies;
— there is strong potential for new "nano bioweapons" through nanotechnology;
— there are significant cultural and ethical concerns that flow from altering nature at this fundamental level; and
— nanotechnology is currently an example of where there is little democratic governance over technologies that determine our future.
HRH The Prince of Wales (Soil Association Patron): "My final point concerns the apportionment of benefits and risks. The benefits will largely accrue to those who invest successfully in these technologies and to those who can utilise them. But these new applications will inevitably displace existing technologies. Who will lose from that process, and will it widen the existing disparities between rich and poor nations? What exactly are the risks attached to each of the techniques under discussion, who will bear them, and who will be liable if an when real life fails to follow the rose tinted script." (Independent on Sunday, 11 July 2004).
ETC has published a report listing 10 areas where research has uncovered significant cause for concern over the safety of engineered nanoparticles. (see document link http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/GT_TroubledWater_April1.pdf)
Fit with organic principles
Nanotechnology does not fit with organic principles which state that:
— organic is a whole system approach to farming and food production and recognises the close interrelationships between all parts of the production system from the soil to the consumer; and
— new or novel technologies, ingredients and processes are not automatically applied to organic food manufacturing.
The lack of accountability of nanotechnology does not fit with organic principles in which there is:
— respect for natural systems;
— ecological responsibility in food production; and
— consideration of the social impact of agricultural systems.
Impact on the environment
Nature, in 2003 reported "...nanoparticles could easily be absorbed by earthworms, possibly allowing them to move up the food chain and reach humans", see document link http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/GT_TroubledWater_April1.pdf).
The European commission has noted that "In the environment, natural enzymes can change the surface properties of nanoparticles such as fullerenes—the C60 molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms bonded in a nearly spherical configuration also nicknamed "buckyballs". Fullerenes can form aqueous suspended colloids... termed nC60 and become re-suspended after evaporation. In their native form, the small size, colloidal characteristics, and reactive surfaces of colloidal fullerenes make them ideally suited to carry toxic material over long distances. Thus, potentially, colloidal fullerenes could pollute aquifers." See "Nanotechnologies: A preliminary risk analysis" subsection 1.1.1.1.1 Toxicology and ecotoxicology - http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/events_risk_en.htm
Impact on human health
Titanium dioxide/zinc oxide nanoparticles used in some sunscreens have been found to cause free radicals in skin cells, (see document link http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/GT_TroubledWater_April1.pdf). The toxicity of particles is increased the smaller they are and they can cross the blood brain barrier. Gold nanoparticles have been found to cross the placenta from mother to foetus. Cadmium selenide nanoparticles can break down in the human body potentially causing cadmium poisoning (see document link http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/GT_TroubledWater_April1.pdf). Both the Trades Union Congress and the UK Health and Safety Executive have raised concerns about the impact of nanomaterials on worker health during manufacturing and use. The TUC believes that the production and use of nanoparticles should be carried out in a contained process so that employees are not exposed to the potential health risks. Presently there are no agreed safe handling guidelines. See www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-8350-f0.cfm
Impact on animal health/welfare
All the concerns of impacts on human health (above) should also be of concern in relation to animal health. In addition, research in 2004 found that buckyballs [carbon nanoparticles] cause brain damage in juvenile fish along with changes in gene function (see document link http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/GT_TroubledWater_April1.pdf).
Consumer acceptability and benefits
Some concern has been reported in the national media as a result of the work by Jim Thomas/ETC and the speech on this issue by HRH The Prince of Wales. However, it appears that other than a small, informed minority, there is little awareness of the technology amongst consumers. The use of nanoparticles does not currently have to be declared on labelling although this was a recommendation of the RS & RAE report and the UK Government accepts this may be necessary. The report entitled: Market research on public attitudes to Nanotechnology carried out by the BMRB (British Market Research Board) and published on 15 March 2004, can be found at http://www.nanotec.org.uk/PressMediaMar042.htm. The report mentions that the overwhelming majority of people have not heard of nanotechnology. Participants drew a parallel with GM when considering the ethical implications of nanotechnology because of the perception that both involve changes at the most fundamental level to form something that does not occur in nature. Both GM and nanotechnology could be seen as "messing with nature" in a specific way by "manipulating the building blocks of nature". They expressed concerns about whether scientists are trying to "play God".
SOIL ASSOCIATION CONCERNS ON REGULATORY PROCESS
Case-by-case approval
We do not agree with controls based on case-by-case assessment of the scientific evidence as the principal regulatory response for the forseeable future for free nano-scale products, at least for products to which people are exposed to regularly and directly via food and health and beauty products. Such controls cannot in practice be reliable, evidence-based, cost-effective, or proportional. This is because of the lack of both a history of experience and a robust body of scientific understanding of the impacts of such materials on the biology of organisms, and on ecological interactions, and because it is completely unrealistic to imagine that the full range of required safety data could and would be generated for each and every product (and it would normally be completely disproportional to do this even if it were possible). Inevitably, with such an approach, decisions will be strongly based on personal judgements, and thus open to the bias of expert advisers, politicians and influence by commercial lobbyists, whilst being presented and defended as "evidence-based".
A supposedly "evidence-based" approach is how GMOs are being dealt with now by the Food Standards Agency. We and very many others see this as totally unsatisfactory because of the poor level of scientific knowledge and shortage of relevant, independent evidence, and we consider that the risks to the public are significant. With every GMO submitted for approval, despite the long list of scientific uncertainties about the health impacts in each case and the emerging evidence of general health risks with the genetic engineering process, the benefit of the doubt is always given to the GM company (not a single product has been rejected despite scientific concerns always being raised). This deeply flawed approach is, in our view, the basis of the high controversy and public and market rejection of GMOs. We believe the same will occur with nano-scale materials, if they are regulated in the same way. We and others would certainly raise these concerns in public, in the way we have GMOs.
We instead propose that the principal regulatory approach must be a generic assessment of the safety of engineered nano-scale materials, at least for products to which there is direct and regular public exposure. This should comprise (i) a review of whether there is an adequate and reasonably robust body of scientific understanding to enable case-by-case assessment and approval; (ii) an assessment of whether the current understanding and evidence suggests there could be health or environmental risks in at least some cases (though which cases would not be known); (ii) and an assessment of the viability and cost-effectiveness of generating the required range of data to enable comprehensive reliable case-by-case assessment.
There should lead to a general decision on the use of free engineered nano-scale materials, at least for nano-scale materials in food and health and beauty products. Because of the inevitable negative outcome of this generic review, we believe there should be a general prohibition against the use of free engineered nano-scale particles in agriculture and the food chain and in health and beauty products. Only where there is a clear and specific societal benefit (excluding economic benefits which can always be delivered in many other ways), should the necessary data be generated and case-by-case assessment considered
This should not be considered a lost opportunity. Unnatural products introduce new chemical and biological interactions and therefore have a comparatively high likelihood of disrupting natural processes with negative effects, compared to natural processes. They also have a high likelihood of displacing as yet unidentified benefits of existing natural substances. Artificial products also generally involve a high level of embodied energy in their production, compared to management approaches and natural processes. Moreover and importantly, there is no significant general societal need for nano-scale materials in food, agriculture, or health and beauty products.
Voluntary reporting
It is not reasonable for the public or other stakeholders that the reporting scheme is voluntary. This will mean that the results will not be reliable as a basis for developing appropriate controls as the results will under-represent any negative effects. It is very likely (and must be assumed) that evidence showing negative impacts from products already on the market will sometimes be withheld or not clearly communicated (as is the case with GM research). A voluntary approach would there go against the aim of the scheme to gather evidence of the risks and produce a reliable basis for controls to allow "responsible development".
A voluntary approach would also not be reasonable with respect to the companies involved, as it would create an unlevel playing field. It would effectively reward companies that withhold evidence of negative effects—and facilitate those applications, and penalise companies who release evidence of negative effects—and discourage those applications.
Commitment to research
There is a major need to build up a robust and comprehensive general body of scientific understanding of the impacts of nano-scale materials on the biology of organisms and on ecological interactions, aside from whether there are any identified toxic effects. (The lack of a basic body of understanding of the biological impacts of GMOs has been the major weakness of the GMO regulatory regime, as the scientists have little general information on which to decide on the implications of the inevitable numerous gaps in knowledge for individual products. Commercial and political pressures means they have therefore always decided in favour of the products, with no scientific basis).
Good practice must include product labelling, product registers, the quality of safety studies (eg. sample sizes and time-scales that are adequate for protecting public health) and complete transparency with regard to the results for any commercialised products and products being submitted for approval. However, at the moment, only moratorium is acceptable for products to which the public would have regular direct exposure, ie in food, health and beauty products.


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Q: Azure Application Gateway exit IPs We're looking to use Application Gateway as a frontend\proxy for a website we host onsite. The website has a public IP but we'd like to restrict access to the site to only traffic coming from the Application Gateway. Is there a way to determine what IP the traffic would be coming from as it exits Azure? Is it like other Azure traffic where it could come from any IP subnet they have assigned to that specific region? I haven't seen this question asked and it's not directly referenced in any of MS documentation that I can find.
Thanks!

A: Not sure why you want to restrict access to the site to only traffic coming from the Application Gateway because if you configure it and add the website in the backend of Application Gateway. The traffic from a client will always reach the website through the Application gateway as the Application Gateway works as an application proxy by accepting traffic and based on rules that are defined with it, routes the traffic to the appropriate back-end instances.
You may want to know to restrict access on the application gateway subnet via NSG. Then the inbound or outbound traffic in the Application Gateway subnet will be filtered via NSG.

Network Security Groups (NSGs) are supported on the application
  gateway subnet with the following restrictions:
Exceptions must be put in for incoming traffic on ports 65503-65534
  for the Application Gateway v1 SKU and ports 65200 - 65535 for the v2
  SKU. This port-range is required for Azure infrastructure
  communication. They are protected (locked down) by Azure certificates.
  Without proper certificates, external entities, including the
  customers of those gateways, will not be able to initiate any changes
  on those endpoints.
Outbound internet connectivity can't be blocked.
Traffic from the AzureLoadBalancer tag must be allowed.

Hope this will help, let me know if you have any other concerns.
Update
If you just want to whitelist the Azure service on the firewall, you can read the Azure Datacenter IP Ranges. You can figure out which datacenters your service are located in then narrow down the IP ranges.


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