In Boat US magazine, they listed Portland, Maine among the top 10 cities for boating, which is no surprise. All over the State of Maine you can find great places to enjoy boating, including fresh water lakes as well as the Atlantic Ocean, and most of all appreciating time on a boat. Often, people like to relax on their boat while enjoying a few drinks. Unfortunately, sometimes while out on the water enjoying the day, we may indulge a little too much and be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This can be a recipe for a charge of Maine Operating Under the Influence (Maine OUI) on your boat, or Maine Boating Under the Influence (Maine BUI).
In Maine, the drunk driving laws are described as "Operating Under the Influence" or simply Maine OUI. This term, Maine OUI, is used to describe the DUI, DWI, impaired or drunk driving. According to the Maine Revised Statues, boaters who operate a watercraft while intoxicated or under the influence of any narcotic drug may be in violation of the Maine OUI Laws, however instead of under title 29-A (motor vehicles) a Maine Boating under the Influence or BUI charge rises under title 11 (conservation). Simply stated Maine Boating Under the Influence is very similar to Operating Under the Influence while driving.
With a decade of experience, providing legal counsel to Mainers accused of a crime, I have helped countless Mainers accused of various Operating Under the Influence charges. If you or someone you know is accused of Maine Boating Under the Influence, please feel free to contact me. In order to answer your questions and help you through this time our first confidential legal consultation is always free.
How Maine Boating Under the Influence is defined.
Every crime has certain elements; facts which the prosecution must prove are real in order to prove that the accused committed the crime. The elements of a Maine Boating Under the Influence are listed below. As with any crime, every element must be proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
In Maine, the Statute for Boating Under the Influence is 12 M.R.S.A. §10701. This statue lays out the key criteria for when a person needs to stop boating due to consuming too much alcohol or drugs.
Were impaired to any degree by either alcohol, drugs and/or prescription medications.
If the accused is under 21 years old, then the blood alcohol content drops to any amount or a BAC of 0.01 which is a bit more than nothing at all.
Often I get a couple of questions from people accused of Maine Boating Under the Influence due to Marijuana or other drugs. They wonder if it meets the same criteria. Under Maine Boating Under the Influence Laws, the Boating Under the Influence charge is the same. It simply does not matter what cause the impairment. It can be alcohol, illegal drugs and/or prescription medication. If you are found to be driving a motor boat while intoxicated, you can be charged with Maine Boating Under the Influence. The legal limit for "intoxication" in Maine is a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher. It is pretty easy to get beyond 0.08 bac while enjoying a few beers out boating.
$500 fine if there was a prior refusal to complete a chemical under 12 M.R.S.A. §10702.
2 days jail time if an aggravating factor is alleged and proven.
$800 fine if there was a prior refusal to complete a chemical under 12 M.R.S.A. §10702.
$1300 fine if there was a prior refusal to complete a chemical under 12 M.R.S.A. §10702.
The person failed to submit to an alcohol breath test.
The person was tested as having an alcohol level of 0.15 or higher.
The person failed to stop upon request or signal of an officer in uniform.
One of the laws within Maine is that if you are operating your boat, you are required to submit to a test to determine your blood alcohol level under 12 M.R.S.A. §10702. If you refuse to take a breath, blood, or urine test, you can be charged with a civil violation for which a fine of $500.00 may be imposed. However, with respect to a future Maine BUI charge as indicating above, if it is proven that you have a prior refusal under 12 M.R.S.A. §10702, the minimum penalties for the BUI charge increase automatically.
If the State proves that operating your boat while under the influence of intoxicants caused serious injury or death of another person, then the crime would be charged as a Class C felony.
Maine BUI cases are proven by showing the boat driver had a breath alcohol test of 0.08 or higher. You should be aware that the Maine Law also allows the police to use a different chemical test, most often a blood test, if they choose. If the police suspect drug intoxication, they will do a urine or a blood test. In Maine, it is up to the police officer to determine the proper testing procedure.
Maine is a state which has the "implied consent" law. This law requires drivers to consent to a chemical test at the request of a law enforcement officer. In some cases there may not be a test result, because the accused refused the test or could not be tested. The prosecutor can still place a charge of Maine Boating under the influence is there is a reason to believe the accused was impaired by intoxicants to some degree at the time.
You hold a professional license and must report convictions to an overseer.
You travel internationally, especially to Canada.
You are not a citizen of the United States. You may have problems extending your visa or re-entering the US.
Problems with the SFSTs– Was the officer trained properly to execute the standardized field sobriety tests? Did the officer execute the tests in accordance with standardized procedures? Did the officer fail to ask about any potential health problems that would affect your performance on the SFSTs?
Contemplating Employing Expert Witnesses at Trial – Intoxilyzer, Police Procedure, and medical experts can be employed to testify at trial to challenge whether the machine, the test itself, and proper police procedure was applied. An expert's review is a critical look at the State's evidence.
Since a Maine Boating Under the Influence charge is a misdemeanor, the first court date is an Arraignment at the Unified Criminal Docket, which is in effect in Cumberland County and Penobscot County only. Often, I will submit a plea of Not Guilty in writing to the Court prior to Arraignment, and so the first court date that the defendant attends in person is the Dispositional Conference. A Dispositional Conference is where the attorneys negotiate a potential resolution to the case without going to trial, and the lawyers' conference with the Judge or Justice about any specific issues. If no resolution is reached, then the case would progress to pretrial motion hearings and a Trial. The Unified Criminal Docket pre-schedules a two-week window within which the Jury Selection and Trial would be held. Jury Selection is for the purpose of selecting a jury, and then a trial date is set. At trial, the Jury is the fact finder who will determine whether or not you are guilty or not guilty.
Again, since the Boating Under the Influence charge is a misdemeanor, the first court date is an Arraignment at the Maine District Court. There are several District Courts all across Maine. In the majority of OUI cases, which can be very suitable for a jury trial, I like to submit a plea of Not Guilty ahead of the Arraignment, as well as a Jury Trial Request and any potential pretrial motions within 21 days of the Arraignment. This transfers the case to a County Superior Court in Maine, where a jury trial is available. The first court date at the Superior Court is a Docket Call, where the attorneys meet to attempt to reach an acceptable agreement to resolve the case without a trial. If no agreement is reached that is acceptable to the defendant, then the case will have pretrial motion hearings and a trial. Similar to the Unified Criminal Docket, pretrial motions can include a Hearing on a Motion to Suppress, among others. The purpose of the Suppression Hearing is to determine whether certain evidence was obtained in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights, and thus whether that evidence can be used at trial. At the Jury Selection date, a jury of 12 plus a few alternates is selected to hear the case. After a jury is selected, a trial date is set. A trial is the defendant's "day in court" to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty.
If the client was charged with Boating Under the Influence while on vacation in Maine, they might not be able to travel back to Maine to address their case in person.
If your case goes to a trial, you will have to attend the trial in person, especially if the client intends to testify on their own behalf.
Dealing with a Maine Boating Under the Influence charge is something you need to do. While it is not a nice way to end a beautiful day out on the water, it is significant enough that you need to know the risks and consequences. It is important that you take swift action to have counsel explaining to you the ins and outs of navigating the Maine legal system and assuring there is minimal impact to your future. There are proven strategies to defending Maine Boating Under the Influence charges. The sooner our legal team becomes involved in the intricate details of case, the more time we will have to do our own fact finding as we help to prepare your defense. Effective action taken by a skilled Maine criminal defense lawyer as soon as the charges are filed by the DA sometimes can result in a lesser charge or in some cases prevent any additional charges from being filed. A Maine Boating Under the Influence charge is a lot more than a simple ticket. It is imperative that you contact our firm as quickly as possible after the arrest.
Our committed legal team is determined to take immediate action to seek a positive case outcome. If you or someone you know is facing Maine Boating Under the Influence charges, I encourage you to contact The Nielsen Group for your free legal consultation with an experienced criminal defense attorney. We will take the time to answer your questions and to put your mind at ease as we work with you to determine a defense strategy.


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Blog: The French ambassador and journalist who died last month was probably the most influential journalist covering the Near East, not only in France, but around the world.
Eric Rouleau, ambassador of - and to - Le Monde, died on 25 February [AFP]
Eric Rouleau died on 25 February 2015. Born in Egypt, he covered the Near East for the daily Le Monde for three decades before being appointed ambassador to Tunisia then Turkey.
No other journalist was as influential in France or the rest of the world. No one contributed to changing the western vision of the complicated east, better yet, to making it understood, as much as he did. Below is the preface of his book Dans les coulisses du Proche-Orient: Mémoires d'un journaliste diplomate [The Near East Behind the Scenes: Memoirs of a diplomat and journalist] (1952-2012).
"The tram had just taken off from Heliopolis, otherwise known as the city of the sun, which was a new suburb in Cairo. Just like every morning, the young man would sit comfortably in his seat, waiting to reach the prestigious faculty of law in Giza City. While the tram drove along brand new shops, thieves breaking a storefront caught his eye.
"He jumped from his seat and, upon seeing the culprits escape in a car, hailed a taxi that tried to catch them in vain.
"Forgetting all about his classes, he rushed to the English daily Egyptian Gazette where he worked in the evening. The editor-in-chief, who was impressed and somewhat amused by Rouleau's account, stopped the scheduled articles and changed the front page headline to "Theft in Heliopolis" by our "star journalist". On that day in 1943, a star was born in Cairo."
Tenacity, flair and a bit of luck born out of being in the right place at the right time were to mark his career.
The journalist was not yet known as Eric Rouleau, but as Elie Raffoul. He was only 17 years old - a golden age for many people. A few weeks before this incident and despite his father's advice, he had given up a better paid job as a pen pusher at an insurance company and opted for the Egyptian Gazette. At the same time, he pursued his law education each morning. Tenacity, flair and a bit of luck born out of being in the right place at the right time were to mark his career.
He emigrated to France in 1952, worked at the Agence France Presse (AFP) and then joined Le Monde. For several decades, between 1950 and 1980, as part of his work for the French daily, undoubtedly, he covered the news of the Arab countries. But, he also focused on Israel, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Africa during its decolonisation, Ethiopia and even the remote Pakistan. He became the most famous journalist of the most renowned French daily.
His colleague and lifelong companion Jean Gueyras said: "The sun never sets on Eric Rouleau's empire," just like the British Empire and the empire of Charles V, where the expression initially originated.
But, how does one end up in the Rue des Italiens in Paris when they are born in a suburb in Cairo? How does a transition from the Egyptian Gazette to Le Monde happen? It seems that the supposedly unbridgeable gap that separated them could be surmounted after all.
In fact, Rouleau was francophone, just like many Egyptians, whether Christians, Jews or Muslims, or members of any of the diverse communities that coexisted in Egypt, including Greeks, Italians, French and Syrian-Lebanese.
Thousands of renowned names shone in the sky of Egypt's francophone literature, which have been unfairly forgotten. They included Edmond Jabes, Albert Cossery and Georges Henein. Those who tried their luck with surrealism rubbed shoulders with Paul Eluard and Max Jacob and spoke a unique French that was unusual at times, with accents that rolled the r's and expressions that were literally translated from Arabic.
It was hard to imagine their love for France, their second home, which inspired so many Egyptians at the time. On 10 June 1940, Rouleau could not believe his eyes and ears. At the dinner table, his father burst into tears for the first time in his life when he heard over the radio about the French capitulation. For this man who was born in Aleppo and educated at the francophone schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, France was the land of liberty and justice.
"What preoccupied my father most in his life was the Dreyfus affair whose twists and turns he knew in detail," Rouleau recalled. "He spoke of it often and much. He proudly described public gatherings and protests in which he participated to defend the Jewish captain accused of spying for Germany. He recited texts by Jean Jaurès, Emile Zola and Victor Hugo whom he honoured, and he peppered his words with quotes from the fables of La Fontaine."
A few decades later, Rouleau was awarded the Legion of Honour.
I was ecstatic [at being awarded the Legion of Honour]... I thought I saw my father standing in the first row.
"I was ecstatic because it was President François Mitterrand himself who was rewarding me for 'serving France'. I thought I saw my father standing in the first row of figures who attended the ceremony at the Elysée Palace," he recalled.
Many people shared this passion for France.
During the same era, Henri Curiel and his brother Raoul - who were also francophone Egyptian Jews - headed to the French consulate to enlist in the fight against Nazi Germany. But the officer in charge rejected their enlistment with disdain. In Cairo, people listened to Radio Londres and General Charles de Gaulle supporting a free France rather than Marshal Pétain's France. In October 1943, French and Egyptian people from all confessions created the Friends of France "to concretise their attachment to a country with a soul and fate they never stopped believing in".
Rouleau was not only Egyptian, francophone and francophile, but he was also Jewish. Yet how can one define a Jew? Anti-Semites tried in vain by inventing a race whose people they often reduced to religion. Israel has failed too in that regard. After all, how can one use the same term to describe believers and non-believers and people claiming to have a more or less vague Jewish culture, and others who reject it? Is a person Jewish by choice or is it the anti-Semite who makes the Jew, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it?
Just like many young people, Rouleau faced an adolescent crisis and decided to become a rabbi, but he soon quit and lost his faith. Although the world of Talmudic studies definitely had a lot to lose, the field of journalism won considerably.
Rouleau - now turned Atheist - did not abandon his Jewish roots, but tried to understand their meaning. At the time, incredible as it might seem, Zionists enjoyed complete freedom of action in Egypt. The Jewish Agency was well-off in Cairo and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, the Jewish National Fund, established in 1901 and destined to develop land for Jewish settlement in Palestine, welcomed grants in synagogues. "Most often, the donors had no political incentive and only wanted to give alms," Rouleau recalled.
Rouleau later turned to the Hashomer Hatzair movement, the "Youth Guard", an extreme leftist Zionist movement.
"The hundreds of adolescents who joined the movement participated in sports competitions, took Jewish history classes and engaged in philosophical debates where the labour movement ideologists were prominently present," he added.
Rouleau learned about Marxist thought, but he left the movement a year later, as his beliefs collided with its narrow nationalism and indifference to the conflicts raging in Egypt, even those against the colonial power. "I could not believe that all Egyptians were anti-Semitic, and I had no intention to emigrate," he said.
Egypt's Jews felt they were Egyptian, and the Zionist siren song never bewitched them.
In his book Un homme à part [A man apart] that was dedicated to Henri Curiel, Gilles Perrault beautifully wrote, "Apart from the Zionist minority, no one felt the need for a Jewish state or the urge to chant L'an prochain à Jérusalem [Next year in Jerusalem] when it was enough to take the 9:45 train to get there."
The Arab-Israeli conflict made the lives of Egyptian Jews impossible. They were the victims of waves of judeophobia in the Arab world, and of the Israeli government's attempts to use them as fifth column. As a result, many were forced to emigrate to France, the real Promised Land.
The Arab-Israeli conflict made the lives of Egyptian Jews impossible.
Nowadays, criticism of Zionism is often equated to hidden anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, during the first half of the 20th century, the majority of Jews around the world were apathetic if not hostile to the Zionist project. Rouleau took himself for an Egyptian, and he was united with his compatriots beyond religion.
In 1943, he started studying law and ventured into the field of journalism. At the time, Egyptian universities acted against the enemy hated by all, the treacherous Albion - the United Kingdom - which was the omnipotent colonial power that been occupying the country since 1882. People could still feel the burning humiliation of 4 February 1942, when the tanks of His Britannic Majesty surrounded King Farouk's palace, and forced him to dismiss the prime minister and appoint a government in favour of the alliance with London.
For some time, nationalist Egyptians had their eyes set on Germany and impatiently hoped Erwin Rommel's tanks that drove at breakneck speed to Alexandria would finally arrive - in the name of the old principle "the enemies of my enemies are my friends".
But after Rommel's defeat in El-Alamein in the autumn of 1942 and the Soviet victory in Stalingrad, the left was on a roll.
"I attended public gatherings and protests staged on campus. I encountered Marxists who differed from others through associating national liberation with social rebellion and citizen equality with antiracism," said Rouleau. "Copts and Jews fought in their ranks just like Muslims. Some evenings, we convened in a room that was occultly directed by the Democratic Movement for National Liberation - a movement founded and led by Henri Curiel. In fact, it was a public forum where speakers met to debate current international affairs. The organisers avoided addressing domestic problems for fear of provoking the vigilant political police. Although they were considered outlaws, communists were practically tolerated then."
In February 1946, this unrest materialised with the formation of a national committee for workers and students, and with waves of protests against the British presence. It was a political and social unrest similar to the uprising that would flare up in Egypt in January and February 2011. Rouleau actively participated in these activities, and he saw one of his young friends shot during a protest.
The creation of the Israeli state in May 1948 would decide in a couple of years the fate of Jews of Egypt and the Middle East. King Farouk's government reproached Rouleau for his links with the extreme left that were indeed real and his connections to Zionism that were not. He was forced to choose between prison and exile, all the while giving up his nationality.
Under duress, he chose exile, but like many individuals in exile, he cherished Egypt all his life. At the age of just 24, equipped with light luggage and rich experience, he left for France. He was not discouraged by the year he spent unemployed, and he finally found a job at the Arab radio transmission department of AFP. At the time, newspapers did not have many correspondents abroad and had little means to know what was happening. Therefore, people had to tune into local radio stations to remain in the know.
In October 1954, he made his first scoop. He announced Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had escaped a Muslim Brotherhood-led attempt on his life. In 1955, Rouleau started collaborating with Le Monde. Once again, Egypt and the crisis between Nasser and the west gave him the chance to sign his first front page article "The Aswan dam will still be built," Cairo affirms (Le Monde, dated 22-23 July 1956).
A few days later on the evening of 26 July, he reported Nasser's speech to AFP in which he announced, bursting out in laughter and perhaps surprised at his own boldness, the nationalisation of the Suez Canal company that would fund the construction of the Aswan Dam since western investors did not pursue it. The AFP management, taken aback by this news and thinking that Nasser would not "dare" do that, held back the information for a while and only decided to broadcast it when rival stations did.
For Elie, known thereafter as Eric Rouleau in his articles, these years were years of learning. He travelled a world booming with events to report stories. He published his first major series over three days, entitled Israel, état occidental? [Israel, a Western state?].
He met Mustafa Barzani, the historical leader of the Iraqi Kurds, with whom he built exceptional ties. Barzani opened Rouleau's eyes to the importance of the Kurdish demands in the Near East.
Rouleau visited Iran where he wrote about "the other side of the story", noting that the regime in place was authoritarian and megalomaniac. His writings dismayed some of his fellows who were "tolerant" of the Shah allied with the West.
He went on to cover the coup in Turkey on 12 September 1960 and the execution of the prime minister. Rouleau then arrived in the former Belgian Congo [now the DRC] that was undergoing decolonisation.
The manoeuvres of the former colonial power and the United States led to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the independence hero, on 17 January 1961. He wrote about the uprising in the wake of Lumumba's death and, from Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), he sent an article entitled "Les troupes lumumbistes déclenchent une offensive contre la province de l'Equateur et du Kasai" [The Lumumbist troops wage an attack against the provinces of Ecuador and Kasai] (26-27 February 1961) that appeared on the front page.
Every day, at his own peril, he had to take the road to reach Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to send his articles to Paris. At the time, articles were dictated over the phone.
The Arab world was also a stage of historical events in those days. It witnessed the creation of the United Arab Republic that united Egypt and Syria in February 1958, the Republican coup in Iraq in July 1958, the advent of the republic in northern Yemen and the outbreak of the civil war in 1962. But, how could he write about Arab countries which he was not allowed to enter because of his Jewish origins?
He had been considering abandoning the Middle East section of Le Monde, when something unexpected happened. Was it luck yet again? Nasser personally invited him to visit Cairo in early summer 1963. Rouleau detailed this return to his homeland in the first chapter of his book Dans les coulisses du Proche-Orient: Mémoires d'un journaliste diplomate [The Near East Behind the Scenes: Memoirs of a diplomat and journalist] (1952-2012).
After receiving legitimacy from the most popular representative of Arab nationalism, the Middle East's doors suddenly opened to him.
In the decades that followed, he met all the leaders of the Arab nation, from King Hussein to Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini and Hafez al-Assad. Although his articles mainly focused on Egypt, Israel and Palestine, Rouleau's career led him to explore other horizons. He notably covered the fall of Greek colonels, the coups in Turkey and the twists and turns of the first phases of the Iranian Islamic Revolution.
Having the flair of a good journalist, he never missed a story. In June 1967, he reported from Cairo following the Israeli attack. In 1970, he covered the massacres of Palestinians at the hands of the Jordanian army in Amman. He returned to Cairo on 28 September 1970, the day Nasser died unexpectedly. In 1974, he focused on Nicosia, following the coup attempt against President Archbishop Makarios (Cyprus and Greece were always part of his empire at Le Monde, as he considered them, in his own British vision, part the Middle East which included Greece, Cyprus and Turkey).
Rouleau was often warmly welcomed and received honourific treatment. He stayed at the most luxurious hotels where the people in charge waited to meet him, confide in him and reveal their stories. This provoked the jealousy of some fellow journalists.
One country constituted an exception to this hospitality - Israel. Although he managed to interview David Ben Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, as he mentioned in his memoirs, he was dismissed as an "Egyptian agent" by right-wing leader Menachem Begin, and the whole establishment there had the same opinion. Jean Gueyras recalled that in Paris, "he was harassed by the Israeli embassy through daily letters from outraged readers addressing the director of Le Monde".
For the leaders of the Jewish state in the 1970s, Rouleau was more than an enemy. He was a traitor haunted by self-hatred. However, what they could not understand was that, on the contrary, he was the holder of Jewish principles that they were seeking to bury - principles that rejected narrow nationalism and embraced solidarity with all the oppressed.
One of his friends, Chehata Haroun, an Egyptian-Jewish lawyer who remained in Egypt until his death, demanded the following epitaph be engraved on his tomb: "I am black when the blacks are oppressed. I am Jewish when the Jews are oppressed. I am Palestinian when the Palestinians are oppressed."
Rouleau had the urge to narrate his return to his homeland in Heliopolis at the end of the 1960s. Accompanied by his wife Rosy, he knocked on the door and was warmly welcomed by the tenants to whom he told his story. To his surprise, they burst out in laughter, as they were Palestinians. The irony of the situation was clear. He became friends with these uprooted people who had neither home nor country, and he felt neighbourly ties between them.
Rouleau had always studied the devastation caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict on the coexistence between communities and the spirit of tolerance. He wished, more than anyone else for fair peace to be achieved, and a Palestinian state to be established.
He believed this would ensure security across the whole nation. As he mentioned in his book, he played a mediating role between Israel and Arab countries several times, swapping his journalist's hat for a diplomatic hat. In 1970, Rouleau tried to organise a visit by then-President of the World Jewish Congress Nahoum Goldman to Cairo. However, his initiative failed because Labour party leaders vetoed the visit. He thus concluded that every peace initiative ever proposed had been sabotaged by Israeli officials - especially after the Oslo Accords.
Rouleau owes his influence and reputation to his talent, his knowledge of Arabic and his listening and communication skills. But, he also has none other than Le Monde to thank. The newspaper's circulation was still limited then, with 140,000 copies in 1946 and 475,000 in 1969.
During these decades, this daily from Paris' Rue des Italiens would include the "It" international political analyses. Its foreign news bulletin, which was anonymous and published on its cover page, was decrypted by all chancelleries. It represented journalism in real time before television emerged, before the rise of satellite channels and even before infotainment which only considered events that could be staged worthy of showing. Back then, it was the written press that determined the importance of news and which did not need spectacular images to circulate.
In the 1980s, the media scene changed. It became possible to watch 'live' coverage of wars and Olympic Games.
However, in the 1980s, the media scene changed. It became possible to watch "live" coverage of wars and Olympic Games. Written press was in a quandary, and Le Monde was wracked by succession disputes.
In 1985, Rouleau transitioned to a diplomatic career at the request of President Mitterand. He was appointed ambassador, first to Tunis - then headquarters of the Arab League, where the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) sought refuge after its expulsion from Beirut in 1982 - and then to Ankara in Turkey. After this time, only diplomats would benefit from his culture, analyses and countless connections. Ironically, Rouleau himself noticed that the number of his readers dropped from hundreds to two, and even sometimes one - the president of the republic.
During the first meeting of French ambassadors held in Paris after his assignment, each of the diplomats introduced themselves and their country of assignment - for example the Ivory Coast, Jordan, Argentina.
When it was his turn, he stood up and said: "Eric Rouleau, Le Monde." There was silence, then the audience broke out in laughter. Freud believed that slips of the tongue expressed unconscious desires. Did Rouleau consider himself the ambassador of the daily paper? Or did he see himself as ambassador to the world, monde in French, as he crossed from north to south? Might he have simply meant that he was our ambassador to a planet whose glitches he would help us solve?
This is an edited translation originally published by our partners at Orient XXI.
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Q: X11 forwarding of a GUI app on docker container doesn't work I'm continuing my tries for running GUI application from a docker container.
Background to this task is more described in earlier question:
Building docker image of Qt Quick client apllication
Currently i can successfully build docker image of my client application with content of Dockerfile looking like this:
FROM vookimedlo/ubuntu-qt:qt6_latestDistroOfficial_gcc_kinetic
RUN sudo apt-get update \
  && sudo apt-get install --yes \
    vim \
    gedit \
    tar \
    wget \
    qtbase5-dev \
    qtchooser \
    qt5-qmake \
    qtbase5-dev-tools \
    qt5-image-formats-plugins \
    qtwayland5 \
    libxext-doc \
    default-libmysqlclient-dev \
    qtdeclarative5-dev  \
    libqt5websockets5-dev

WORKDIR /tmp/DDC/

COPY . .

RUN qmake
RUN make
CMD ["./DDC"]

Now when I'm trying to make docker container without any mounting of X11 I'm getting error like this:
$ docker run --name DDC -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -it 638500938bb9
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

But with binding for X11 I'm getting error like this:
$ docker run --name DDC -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro -it 638500938bb9
docker: Error response from daemon: Mounts denied:
The path /tmp/.X11-unix is not shared from the host and is not known to Docker.
You can configure shared paths from Docker -> Preferences... -> Resources -> File Sharing.
See https://docs.docker.com/ for more info.
ERRO[0000] error waiting for container: context canceled

Of course I changed content of "ssh_config" file for X11 forwarding:

I also tried passing chmod+ accesses and some other things like changing /tmp/.X11 -v path for container as /root/.X11, but it also didn't work out.
EDIT
I managed to move on, but I'm still getting errors. For upper thing with mounting resolve was much more simpler than I thought. In "Settings -> Resources -> File Sharing I added path "/tmp/.X11-unix" and after that I can mount it into my docker container.
But now when CMD command is executed for running application executable from dockerfile I'm getting this error with output (enabled by QT_PLUGINS):
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqeglfs.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqeglfs.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "eglfs"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QEglFSIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("eglfs")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "linuxfb"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QLinuxFbIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("linuxfb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqminimal.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqminimal.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "minimal"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QMinimalIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimal")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqminimalegl.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqminimalegl.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "minimalegl"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QMinimalEglIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimalegl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqoffscreen.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqoffscreen.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "offscreen"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QOffscreenIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("offscreen")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqvnc.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqvnc.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "vnc"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QVncIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("vnc")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland-egl"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWaylandEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-egl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWaylandIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-egl.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-egl.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland-xcomposite-egl"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWaylandXCompositeEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-xcomposite-egl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-glx.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-glx.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland-xcomposite-glx"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWaylandXCompositeGlxPlatformIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-xcomposite-glx")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "xcb"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331520
}

Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/tmp/DoodleDraw/platforms" ...
loaded library "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so"
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

Somebody maybe knows why is that error happening and how can I resolve it?

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On Point For "HIM Photographs" by Ville Juurikkala @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
November 15, 2017 Ken Pierce	Leave a comment
In two days, the Finnish music sensation known as HIM will take to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC for the very last time. This show marks the end of their North American tour and then its back to Europe and eventually Finland where they will close the book on the band with a final show on New Year's Eve. In honor of the historic tour, photographer Ville Juurikkala has come to New York City and is showcasing a number of band photographs that he has taken over the years at the awesome Morrison Hotel Gallery. I've noted before that Juurikkala has pointed the lens at other great Finnish artists like Michael Monroe, The 69 Eyes, Amorphis and even Nightwish. This show is all about His Infernal Majesty however (and no, they don't call themselves that anymore in case you wondered). I hit the gallery a little early to get a few minutes with Ville so I could share the scoop with those of you who would never be able to be there for yourself. Here's Ville in front of two works that I liked a lot.
Continue reading On Point For "HIM Photographs" by Ville Juurikkala @ Morrison Hotel Gallery →
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Features, Milestones
HIM's "Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666" Hits 20 Mournful Years (1997-2017)
November 3, 2017 Ken Pierce	Leave a comment
Historically speaking I have been following the band HIM since around 2003 which was a full six years after their debut "Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666" would hit the racks of music stores over in Europe. This brooding opus of sound is celebrating its 20th Anniversary today. Thinking back on it, I remember that first time that I heard the band and it was while at work at an incredibly boring and terrible job as I browsed around Yahoo Music. I remember that the service was superb in letting you discover new and exciting sonic things. My first song from HIM was "Join Me In Death" from the "Razordblade Romance" album from 2000 (the bands second release) but it hooked me and once I was able to find them online, I would work my way back from there and it was a musical journey that I would greatly enjoy.
As usual with these missives they are much personal recall as I can muster together and when it comes to this particular album, it was from listening some years post release. I'd like to think that had I the chance to listen to them on their initial debut that I would have enjoyed them immensely right off the bat. I was a big fan of Type O Negative and they had a brooding and solemn sound that a lot of folks called Gothic Metal and while many would come to label these Finns as the same, I felt that Dark Metal and the soon coined "Love Metal" fit more to a tee. Founder Ville Valo made the bands framework to be about the topics of love, heartbreak and even death. During this beginning stage of the band, the groups members included Valo along with guitarist Mikko Lindstrom (Linde) and Mikko Pannanen (Mige). According to research this is the only album to feature Antto Melasniemi and Juhana Rantala on keyboards and drums. Below let's review the original track release from the album and then discuss some favorites.
Continue reading HIM's "Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666" Hits 20 Mournful Years (1997-2017) →
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Features, Tours and Festivals
HIM Reveals Final US Dates For "Bang and Whimper: The Farewell Tour" 2017
June 13, 2017 Ken Pierce	Leave a comment
Back in March we shared the sad news about the Finnish sensation HIM and their announcement of a "Farewell Tour" and the ending of the band activity as we know it. The full press from then along with our thoughts about the news can be found on THIS POST. So please click through for a recap if this news is somehow new to you. Earlier today the band unveiled the final US Tour dates for a go round now being called the "Bang & Whimper: The Farewell Tour". Take a look, and mark your calendars for the closest show nearest you.
The Press Release:
Following a long radio silence, Finnish rock giants HIM have announced the Bang & Whimper Tour 2017, closing the final chapter on their 26-year career. Front man Ville Valo offers, "After quarter of a century of Love and Metal intertwined we sincerely feel HIM has run its unnatural course and adieus must be said in order to make way for sights, scents and sounds yet unexplored. We completed the pattern, solved the puzzle and turned the key. Thank you."
Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström and bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen, HIM truly stand out as one of the rock world's most unique acts. Beautifully blending metal, goth and hard rock with deep, thoughtful and moving lyrics, HIM offered the world a new take on the metal genre, which became known as Love Metal (also the title of their fourth album).
Over the course of eight studio albums, HIM captured the hearts and minds of fans across the globe, drawn by their irresistible and inimitable style. Under the banner of their Heartagram logo – a potent symbol encapsulating the juxtaposition of the light and dark, the fierce and forlorn, and the evil and love found in their music – HIM filled venues and crashed charts the world over, collecting numerous awards, gracing countless magazine covers and becoming the first Finnish act to achieve Gold status in the USA.
Continue reading HIM Reveals Final US Dates For "Bang and Whimper: The Farewell Tour" 2017 →
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HIM Announces "Farewell Tour"; Love Metal Legends Hitting The Road For The Last Time
March 5, 2017 Ken Pierce	Leave a comment
Now this is news that brings me great sadness as the music of HIM in concert was truly something that I have enjoyed since first deciding to try my skills at being a music scribe. The statement below comes from the bands Official Facebook Page and delineates their first stages as they call it a career. Read on.
The Facebook Post:
Following a long radio silence, Finnish rock giants HIM have announced a farewell tour, closing the final chapter on their 26 year career.
"After quarter of a century of Love and Metal intertwined we sincerely feel HIM has run its unnatural course and adieus must be said in order to make way for sights, scents and sounds yet unexplored. We completed the pattern, solved the puzzle and turned the key. Thank you." Says frontman Ville Valo
Continue reading HIM Announces "Farewell Tour"; Love Metal Legends Hitting The Road For The Last Time →
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HIM Announces "Love Metal Archives" Tour
September 19, 2014 Ken Pierce	Leave a comment
The other day the Finnish Hard Rock band announced their "Love Metal Archives Tour" and since they didn't really offer up much than the tour dates I will list those and then chime in at the close. Here we go.
The Tour Dates:
12/09: Webster Hall – New York, NY
12/10: House Of Blues – Boston, MA
12/11: Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
12/12: The Fillmore – Silver Spring, MD
12/16: The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
12/17: Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
12/18: House Of Blues – San Diego, CA
12/19: House Of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
*** end of transmission ***
PiercingMetal Thoughts: This kind of news always brings a smile or should I say some "melancholy" to my person. I say that since HIM is so often singing about the sorrow inside romance but being completely honest I love this kind of announcement as HIM music was something very close to my own beginnings as a scribe. This band just "did it" for me with the first ever listen and I have tried to catch them on at least one of their regional visits when they come through our town. There were times when I would come to both shows but that isn't always possible and sadly with this go round NYC is only getting one show at Webster Hall. It's a big place so a lot of us can attend but like I said this bands fans like to go more than once. The band will be celebrating their early works with this tour and I think that is awesome and we shall be seeing expanded editions of these early CD's on The End Records. I've linked some Amazon.com codes for you to pre-order them straight away. Of course if you should chance upon this post later on in time the links should still be valid. So what do you think about this tour and will you attend? If you answered "yes" I will see you in New York City for sure
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A mild and cloudy night with periods of mainly light rain from late evening onwards. Dry and windy with sunny intervals since 0800.
Another cloudy night, windy, some light rain through the early hours. Cloudy this morning, showery moderate rain. Rain clearing shortly after the observation, bright spells developing.
Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday 12.4c.
Minimum temperature on grass 5.0c.
Apart from few cloud breaks last evening, a mostly cloudy night. Moderate rain through the early hours. This morning, gale force westerly gusts and heavy showery rain. A clearance arriving just before the observation, sunny spells, still very windy. Sunny spells through the rest of the day, a couple of light showers scattered around.
This must be one of the windiest spells of weather for the Doncaster area, no showers here with sunny spells and windy rather than breezy, several gusts in the low 50's mph at the airport, possibly the 3rd or perhaps 4th day this month.
Winds have now dropped of. Average speed down from 20mph 44 minutes ago to 9mph right now.
Dry, mild. cloudy and windy. Maximum 14.1, minimum 9.6. Wind fresh W.
Yesterday: mild with sunny spells and showers, mainly in the morning, windy. Maximum 14.3, minimum 7.7. Wind fresh W.
Apart from one or two spots of showery rain this afternoon its' been a dry day with sunny spells and another day with a W gale over the tops. The wind decreased considerably late this afternoon and into the early evening.


Episode five features the music of Leonard Bernstein and includes several discussions of how his faith, identity, and relationship with Israel served as a well of creativity and inspiration for some of his most important works.
16:00 Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"
About the Series: Produced in conjunction with the WFMT network and broadcast on radio stations throughout the U.S, American Jewish Music from the Milken Archive with Leonard Nimoy is a 13-part series of two-hour programs featuring highlights from the Milken Archive's extensive collection of the musical recordings. Episodes include interviews and commentary with Lowell Milken, Neil W. Levin, and Gerard Schwarz. Radio stations interested in broadcasting the series should contact media@milkenarchive.org.


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Q: Odd Logstash date parsing error I'm getting the following error from Logstash:

{:timestamp=>"2013-12-30T17:05:01.968000-0800", :message=>"Failed parsing date from field", :field=>"message", :value=>"2013-12-30 17:04:59,539.539 INFO  14282:140418951137024 [foo.lib.base.onResults:152] -- /1.12/media - \"getMediaStoreUrl\": , 10.101.AA.BB, 10.101.19.254 took 0.170675992966, returning https://foo.s3.amazonaws.com/foo/customerMedia/1009238911/23883995/image?Signature=%2BfXqEdNWtWdhwzi%&*YEGJSDDdDFF%3D&Expires=1388455499&AWSAccessKeyId=NOIMNOTTHATSTUPID>, , >>>", :exception=>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "2013-12-30 17:04:59,539.539 INFO  14282:140418951137024..." is malformed at ".539 INFO  14282:140418951137024...", :level=>:warn}

The error is obviously about the date format, which comes to me as:
2013-12-30 17:04:59,539.539 INFO 14282:140418951137024...

And my pattern is as follows:
    date {
        match => ["message", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS"]
    }

I read up on the Joda-Time Library and I think I've got the format correct above.  It's odd to me that the error message contains the doubled SSS (milliseconds) portion: ",539.539" (our logs output that way for some reason).  I deliberately didn't put the second portion ".539" in my pattern because I want it ignored.
I am also successfully using the following pattern in another filter:
(?<pylonsdate>%{DATESTAMP}\.[0-9]+)

I'm just not exactly sure where this error is coming from.  Any ideas what I need to do to correct this?  Do I need to mutate @timestamp?  Any help is appreciated!

A: The error is because the other information in "message" field will make date api parsing error.
Ex: INFO 14282:140418951137024...
You can use grok api to get the date and then use date api/
grok {
     match => ["message","%{DATESTAMP:logtime}\.[0-9]+"]
}
date {
     match => ["logtime","YY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS"]
}

I have tried this configuration with your log. It works on me. Hope this can help you .

A: FWIW, it may be due to this bug in the Logstash date filter.
I have a much simpler date filter that generates the same error, and came across your question while searching for the answer.


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It's important to ask these and answer these questions in order.
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answer really help break down any copyright problem.
So let's start with question one.
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Q: Swift CollectionView is selecting multiple cell when is set to false Im currently have a horizontal collection view. I currently have multiple selection enabled set to off. For some reason when I select the first item the item toward the end of the collectionView also become selected. Thank you for the hep.
 protocol customDatePickerDelegate:class {
    func dateFromCustomDatePicker(date:Date)
}
class datePickerCollectionViewCell:UICollectionViewCell {
    var labelNumber:UILabel = UILabel()
    var minuteLabel:UILabel = {
        let v = UILabel()
        v.text = "Minutes"
        return v
    }()

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        self.backgroundColor = .white
        minuteLabel.labelFormCustom(labelType: .dateForm)

        labelNumber.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        self.addSubview(labelNumber)
        labelNumber.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerYAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        labelNumber.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerXAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        minuteLabel.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        self.addSubview(minuteLabel)
        minuteLabel.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerXAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        minuteLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: labelNumber.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        self.layer.cornerRadius = 6
        self.layer.borderWidth = 0.5
        self.layer.borderColor = UIColor(red:205.0/255.0, green:205.0/255.0, blue:205.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0).cgColor

    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}

class NewRquestDatePickerCollectionViewController: UIViewController,UICollectionViewDelegate {
    var collectionView:UICollectionView!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
         setupCollectionView()
    }
    lazy var centerView:UIView = {
        let v = UIView()
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 300).isActive = true
        v.backgroundColor = .white
        v.addBorderCustom(.bottom)

        return v
    }()
    lazy var durationLabel:UILabel = {
        let v = UILabel()
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.textAlignment = .center
        v.font = v.font.withSize(17)

        return v
    }()
    lazy var topActionBar:UIView = {
        let v = UIView()
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 60).isActive = true
        v.backgroundColor = UIColor(hex: "F9F9F9")
        v.addBorderCustom(.top)
        v.addBorderCustom(.bottom)

        return v
    }()
    lazy var doneButton:UIButton! = {
        let v = UIButton(type:.system)
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.setTitle("Done", for: .normal)
        v.addTarget(self, action: #selector(doneButtonPressed), for: .touchUpInside)

        return v
    }()
    lazy var cancelButton:UIButton = {
        let v = UIButton(type:.system)
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.setTitle("Cancel", for: .normal)
        v.addTarget(self, action: #selector(dismissCurrentView), for: .touchUpInside)

        return v
    }()
    lazy var dayLabel:UILabel = {
        let v = UILabel()
//        v.text = "Monday"
        return v
    }()
    lazy var titleView:UILabel = {
        let v = UILabel()
        v.text = "Select a deadline"
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        return v
    }()

    var selectedIndexPath: NSIndexPath?

//    var selectedTime:Int!
    var timer = Timer()
    var timeSeleted:TimeInterval = 10.0
    let timeArray:[TimeInterval] = [10,20,30,45,60,140,400,900,1200]
    var delegate:customDatePickerDelegate!
    var dateSelected:Date!

    func setupCollectionView(){
        let layout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
        layout.scrollDirection = .horizontal

        //collection view setup
        self.view.addSubview(centerView)
        centerView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        centerView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        centerView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: view.frame, collectionViewLayout: layout)
        collectionView.register(datePickerCollectionViewCell.self, forCellWithReuseIdentifier: "imageCell")
        collectionView.delegate = self
        collectionView.dataSource = self

        centerView.addSubview(topActionBar)
        topActionBar.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 49).isActive = true
        topActionBar.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        topActionBar.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        topActionBar.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.topAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        topActionBar.addSubview(cancelButton)
        topActionBar.addSubview(titleView)

        cancelButton.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topActionBar.leftAnchor, constant: 16).isActive = true
        cancelButton.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topActionBar.centerYAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        titleView.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topActionBar.centerXAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        titleView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topActionBar.centerYAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        centerView.addSubview(doneButton)
        centerView.addBorderCustom(.bottom)
        doneButton.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerView.centerXAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        doneButton.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerView.bottomAnchor, constant: -20).isActive = true

        centerView.addBorderCustom(.bottom)
        centerView.addSubview(collectionView)
        collectionView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 100).isActive = true
        collectionView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        collectionView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        collectionView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.topActionBar.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

        dayLabel.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        centerView.addSubview(dayLabel)
        dayLabel.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: collectionView.centerXAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        dayLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: collectionView.bottomAnchor, constant: 20).isActive = true

        centerView.addSubview(durationLabel)
        durationLabel.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        durationLabel.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerView.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        durationLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.collectionView.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        durationLabel.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.doneButton.topAnchor, constant: 20).isActive = true

        timerStart()
        collectionView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
        collectionView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false

        collectionView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 16, bottom: 0, right: 16)
        collectionView.isPagingEnabled = true

        collectionView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        collectionView.backgroundColor = UIColor(hex:"EFF3F4")
        centerView.addBorderCustom(.bottom)
        collectionView.allowsMultipleSelection = false
    }
}

extension NewRquestDatePickerCollectionViewController {
    func dismissCurrentView(){
        self.dismiss(animated: true , completion: nil)

    }
    func doneButtonPressed(){
        delegate.dateFromCustomDatePicker(date: dateSelected)
        dismissCurrentView()
    }
    func tappedDeadlineSelection(){
    }
    func timerStart(){
        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
            timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1, repeats: true, block: { (timer) in
                let date = Date()
                let adjustedDate = date.addingTimeInterval(self.timeSeleted * 60.0)
                self.dateSelected = adjustedDate
                self.durationLabel.text = String(describing: adjustedDate.string(withFormat: "MM/dd/yy, h:mm a"))
                self.dayLabel.text = String(describing: adjustedDate.string(withFormat: "EEEE"))
            })
        } else {
            // Fallback on earlier versions
        }
    }
}

extension NewRquestDatePickerCollectionViewController:UICollectionViewDataSource,UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout {

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return timeArray.count
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "imageCell", for: indexPath) as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
        cell.awakeFromNib()
        return cell
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell, forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        let cellInfo = cell as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
        //converTime
        cellInfo.labelNumber.text = String(self.timeArray[indexPath.row])
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath) as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
        let timeAdded = self.timeArray[indexPath.row]
        cell.backgroundColor = UIColor(hex: "F2784B")
//        let timeAdded = self.timeArray[indexPath.row]
        cell.labelNumber.textColor = .white
        cell.minuteLabel.textColor = .white
        cell.layer.borderColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
        timeSeleted = timeAdded
        collectionView.selectItem(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .centeredHorizontally)

    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath) as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
        cell.backgroundColor = .white
        cell.labelNumber.textColor = .black
        cell.minuteLabel.textColor = UIColor().RquestCustomColors(.fontGray)

//        collectionView.performBatchUpdates(nil, completion: nil)
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                        layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout,
                        sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
        return CGSize(width: 64, height: 64)

    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                        layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout,
                        minimumInteritemSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return 30.0
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout
        collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout,
                        minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return 30.0
    }
}

A: Because you are reusing existed cell, you should keep track selected item index and update cell state as below:
var selectedIndex: IndexPath?

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath) as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
    let timeAdded = self.timeArray[indexPath.row]
    cell.backgroundColor = UIColor(hex: "F2784B")
//        let timeAdded = self.timeArray[indexPath.row]
    cell.labelNumber.textColor = .white
    cell.minuteLabel.textColor = .white
    cell.layer.borderColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
    timeSeleted = timeAdded
    collectionView.selectItem(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .centeredHorizontally)

    // add the following codes
    let lastSelectedIndex = self.selectedIndex
    self.selectedIndex = indexPath

    // unselect last selected index
    collectionView.reloadItems(at: [lastSelectedIndex!])

    // reload new selected index
    collectionView.reloadItems(at: [self.selectedIndex!])
}

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell, forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cellInfo = cell as! datePickerCollectionViewCell
    //converTime
    cellInfo.labelNumber.text = String(self.timeArray[indexPath.row])

    // add this line of code
    cell.isSelected = (self.selectedIndex == indexPath)
}

A: You should make use of the "isSelected" method for the collection view cell. This way you will not have not save any selected indexpath.
So I recommend using this method:
Firstly,
        collectionView.allowsMultipleSelection = false

on the UICollectionViewCell you can override the isSelected method
didSet {
            if isSelected {
                 // Change UI for selected state
                radioButton.setImage(#imageLiteral(resourceName: "greenTick"), for: .normal)
            } else {
                // Chage UI for unselected state
                radioButton.setImage(#imageLiteral(resourceName: "radioInactive"), for: .normal)
            }
        }

Finally when you need to find out the indexpath for the selected item.
            guard let selectedIndex = self.collectionView.indexPathsForSelectedItems?.first else { return }


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I'm trying to sell my seated ticket to another Dane. The thing is that it's a ticket that has to be collected from the local box office on the day (the 12th). Is it possible to sell such a ticket, and how do I do it?
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Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi have declared an indefinite strike following an attack on hospital staff early Thursday.
The doctors after an emergency meeting on Friday, concluded there could be further attacks on their lives. They told Ultimate Radio until maximum security is beefed at the Hospital as well as their residences, they will remain on strike.
They also want management of the Hospital to clear itself of any wrongdoing in order not to create the impression that the workers were stealing babies. A member of the Ghana Medical Association, who doubles as a doctor at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Dr. Lawrence Osei Tutu, told Ultimate Radio the attackers have threatened to return to the Hospital.
�We had an emergency meeting and the decision was that we are not satisfied with what is going on. The guys are still going around on radio and threatening to come back this Monday to attack us. We have seen enough of the security the Hospital claims to be putting in place. And we also want the management to come out very clearly and explain to the public what the issues are with this missing baby brouhaha.
�Following that, we decided to withdraw our services from KATH until such measures are put in place. We fear for our lives and we don�t feel comfortable coming to work. So with immediate."
How can you have police personnel only at A-Block because they attacked A-Block? If they know the police are at A-Block will they come back to A-Block? So what happens to the other blocks that we work in? So until we see visible and palpable police presence, and until Management comes out to take the lead role and responsibility for what happened, and not for people to be twisting the matter as if doctors and nurses are in the Hospital stealing babies so they are coming to attack us we will not work. With this one, they threatened to come and they came. Nothing was done about it� he noted.
They are calling on the management of the Hospital to officially respond to the issues and desist from rather spending time on radio trying to explain their position. The doctors also want the police to arrest more of the attackers and bring them to book.


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VCRs to ride into the sunset with Funai Electric ending production this month
Japan-based Funai Electric announced earlier in July that it would end production of its VHS player, which was sold under various brands worldwide. According to the company, it decided to cease production due to difficulties in acquiring components, according to Nikkei. Another factor in the decision was the near non-existent demand for the ancient home entertainment technology.
The VHS player used a late 20th century technology known as a video cassette recorder, or VCR. The VCR used an electro-mechanical process to display or record audio and video via a thin strip of plastic film known as tape. The production of VHS tapes officially came to an end in 2008.
The VCR, which was considered a technological marvel of its day allowed home users to record broadcast television shows, similar to how people use DVRs today.
The format was embraced by Hollywood in the mid-1980s and major movies were released on video cassettes that were then bought or rented from physical retail stores. According to records from that time, one popular VHS tape chain was known as ''the Blockbuster.''
The VCR was not user-friendly technology, however. The tape, if it was not properly formed, would often get into parts and some parts also needed to be cleaned regularly.
Funai Electric, which made VCRs for other companies like Sanyo, sold 750,000 VCRs last year.
According to commentators, VCRs probably would not be missed by most people except A/V purists who insist remastered DVD, Blu-ray and UHD (4K) versions of old videos and movies were too crisp and others who pine for the analog days.
It is 44 years since Philips introduced the first VCR. VCRs were the rage in the '80s and '90s, but their era has come to an end as they join the stuff of yesteryears, like VCD players and floppy disk drives.
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Earth Day Special: An Interview with Tantalus CEO Peter Londa, Part Two
Apr 17, 2018 12:00 am GMT
Leading edge smart grid players are pushing more computing power and communications capacity to the grid edge, and beyond. With Earth Day 2018 just around the corner, they're laying the foundation for a smarter, more efficient, reliable, resilient and environmentally friendly energy and power infrastructure.
Fortuitously, decentralization of information/communications technology in the power-energy sector is occurring alongside decentralization, digitization and "decarbonization" of power generation, as growing numbers of US households, businesses and government install on-site solar energy, and more recently battery energy storage, systems, as well as choose to source, or offset, electricity consumption from emissions-free, renewable energy sources. Energy consciousness and consumer interaction is on the rise as well, as a profusion of interactive, "smart" home and building energy saving devices, appliances and equipment are introduced and installed.
All this amounts to a brave, new world for energy and power utilities and market regulators. Mindful of their civic responsibilities, as well as their financial bottom lines, utilities are partnering with leading smart grid technology developer-vendors, such as Tantalus Systems, to keep up with the pace of change and stay a step ahead of the power and energy technology innovation curve. We take a closer look at Tantalus's distributed, grid-edge computing-communications platform and how it reflects broad-based power industry and market trends here in part two of this two-part, Energy Central Earth Day special series.
Decentralized, grid-edge computing and communications for municipal and co-operative utilities
Since its founding in 1989, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Tantalus has come to specialize in development and deployment of decentralized, grid-edge computing and communications platforms for municipal and electric co-operative utilities. Twenty-four additional municipal and electric co-ops – with a combined total of more than 365,000 electric meters – chose the company as their advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)/grid modernization partner in the past year, management highlights in a recent press release. That number rises to 47 over the past two years.
Deployed across more than 2 million active smart grid endpoints, the Tantalus Utility Network (TUNet) serves as something akin to a mammal's respiratory, circulatory and central nervous systems combined. Geographically, Tantalus's decentralized AMI network encompasses investor- and government-owned, as well as municipal and co-operative, electric utilities across North America, the Caribbean and Central America. In addition, Tantalus's AMI supports meter reading for more than 200,000 water and gas meters.
Tantalus is increasingly working with its utility customers to integrate third-party software and Internet of Things network applications and systems with TUNet. Distributed renewable energy resource management, grid optimization, streetlight controls and device load management figure prominently in the mix.
Ill-equipped for the rapid onset of huge, continuous flows of two-way data, as well as electricity, leaves utilities challenged to fulfill their regulatory obligations to provide reliable, affordable electricity, as well as meet financial expectations. "As modern utilities are challenged to compete amid economic and regulatory constraints, smart grid solutions are an important tool to keep operating costs low and customer satisfaction high," points out Pavel Molchanov, senior vice present and equity research analyst at Raymond James.
"We were one of the first, if not the first, smart grid players to embed distributed computing on to our communications platform, whether it's a meter, demand load control switch, streetlight or lighting control feature," Londa explained in an interview. "Every device is connected to a robust, distributed computing platform that drives data acquisition and analysis at the grid-edge."
Enhancing grid-edge data acquisition, storage and processing
Tantalus is improving the data gathering, processing and communications capabilities at the edge of grid networks as the cost of battery energy storage and Internet of Things' data storage and processing come down, Londa continued. That includes developing new and refining the existing machine learning and artifical intelligence (AI) algorithms that underlie and enable TUNet's custom-fit, real-time analytics capabilities.
"We can drive a lot of computing to the edge of the network, where demand is controlled, as the price of storage comes down to a rate where it's economically attractive. That mitigates imbalances between demand and supply at the nearest point rather than at the center. Our network is decentralized yet highly responsive from a latency perspective as a result," Londa told Energy Central.
Essentially, Tantalus embeds "the guts of a smartphone under the glass of a utility meter or embeds it in a load control switch or some other intelligent device," Londa explained. "We have an ASIC on our communications module. Along with that we have five co-processors for parallel processing and we have both flash and random access memory, so we either store algorithms for data analysis in modules at the network edge, or retain data for export."
Multilingual AMI-smart grid integration
TUNet links a utility's grid-edge hardware with a user interface on a computer terminal at the system's head-end, a utility's network operations center, for example, or to wireless and mobile devices.
*Tantalus CEO Peter Londa, Courtesy: Tantalus Systems
Smart meters equipped with Tantalus's communications modules can store up to 14 months of interval data. That data can be extracted and forwarded on to the head-end of the TUNet systems platform. Furthermore, data and software upgrades or modifications can be pushed downstream from central sites to Tantalus communications modules at the grid-edge, Londa said.
Communicating with the proliferation of smart, connected devices in a home, business, government office or facility could be likened to trying to communicate inside the Tower of Babel. To resolve this, Tantalus developed a software-configurable radio receiver-transmitter, or ERT.
"We can change the native protocol that governs how the radio receives and transmits data," Londa explained. "If you have an iPhone, you'll receive messages from Apple suggesting upgrades. Along the same lines, our communications modules have enough in the way of battery energy storage and memory to do that as well.
"We have the ability to send firmware down to devices to upgrade them, and we can also change the native protocol so we can get the device to listen to and interact with different types of devices on the network that use different communications protocols."
Viral technology it's not
Tantalus counts some 150 municipal and co-operative utilities spanning North America, the Caribbean and Central America as customers. "We were very fortunate to penetrate the municipal and co-operative utility market. Our business models aligns with this market segment very well," Londa told Energy Central.
Based on the company's market data, Londa guesstimated that some 20-25 percent of US municipal and electric co-ops have gone down the path of deploying AMI. Tantalus deployed its first smart grid technology for electric co-ops back around 2000. "We're coming up on two decades [of deployments], but there's still a significant number in this market segment that have yet to deploy AMI," he said.
Londa pointed out that we were discussing the development and implementation of an entirely new, digital, decentralized and environmentally friendly energy grid, a technological network system that has been called the largest, most complex machine in history. "This is not viral technology. This isn't social media. This is a long sales cycle that involves hardware, software and communications networking."
Looking ahead, Londa said Tantalus is seeing many of its utility customers inquiring and asking questions about community solar.
"In our mind, we see see utilities becoming the largest data management companies in the world.
"The acquisition of data from every electrical or electronic device out there can be automated, and based on that we help utilities to drive analytics that can help them develop a sustainable business model and profitable enterprise, as well as be a good environmental steward by reducing emissions and their environmental footprints," Londa concluded.
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Chesterville Open Day 2014!
The learners, parents, tutors, mentors, staff and partners all came together, on the 1st of February 2014 in Chesterville, with one purpose of sharing and receiving information on the purpose of IkamvaYouth, the main founding principles and the things that have kept IY going thus far. The main aim for the event was to give potential learners a feel and understanding of who IY is and for them to know the expectations that IY has of them and also to remind those who are already Ikamvanites about these same expectations and requirements so that all parties move forward in the year ahead with a clear head and zeal towards making 2014 yet another fruitful and productive year.
The parents had an opportunity to hear for themselves what their children are a part of and get a sneak on the activities that transpired in the previous year and therefore a picture of what to expect in the current year.
The event began with a warm welcoming of all parties, followed by a brief synopsis of the purpose and the reason as to why there has been such a gathering. Then the Branch Coordinator (Nelisa Luhabe)enthralled the audience with a presentation she had prepared for them, giving them an overview on the major events and activities that took place in the previous year. The presentation also had details on who can become a member of the IY team and how, followed by a showdown on the expectations and requirements directed to all those who do become members, this was a crucial moment as these form the foundation that one requires to make it to the end as an Ikamvanite. It also contained details on the achievements of IY as a whole thus far and also those of the Chesterville branch individually, (included herein were the achievements of the learners i.e. the matrics).This information allowed all to comprehend the major role and significance of IY in our underprivileged communities and how it can continue with its endeavors as more learners commit themselves to the programme that IY offers them.
All persons in their different categories got an opportunity to be represented as individuals shared their own experiences of IY in their respective positions, what IY means to them and how it has helped them to give or receive thus grooming them into the people they are today.
We also had a wonderful talk by our partner representatives, Samukelo Nkosi of ABI and his team, who motivated the learners and gave them hope for the future, encouragement and reinforcement that they (the learners) have not made a mistake by being a part of IY. They also assured them that the work they do is from their hearts and are happy to play a role in the progression of IY in advancing our communities through education. And to make it even more exciting having them that day, one of them couldn't leave without signing up as a tutor for the Chesterville branch!
Amidst all the information there were some great performances prepared by the learners that really took people to another level. The day ended with a note of thanks from the District Coordinator (Thabisile Seme) who acknowledged and appreciated everyone who forms a part of IY Chesterville, thanking them for their participation, contribution and loyalty to the programme..
By the time the programme ended the learners were looking forward to the New Year and the parents had a clearer picture of the role of IY in their children's education.