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import os
from kombu import Exchange, Queue
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'o_2e$(vqkm5*+v0iw9j8$arj$5-u5ay0l(0zf8e2)k5t0v2c-7'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', '169.254.105.123', '1.238.163.82', '192.168.99.100', u'ec2-52-78-198-113.ap-northeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com']

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'apiserver',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

'''
CACHES = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "redis_cache.RedisCache",
        "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379",
        "KEY_PREFIX": "cumera"
    }
}
'''

SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db'

ROOT_URLCONF = 'cumera.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'cumera.wsgi.application'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': os.environ.get('DB_ENV_DB', 'postgres'),
        'USER': os.environ.get('DB_ENV_POSTGRES_USER', 'postgres'),
        'PASSWORD': os.environ.get('DB_ENV_POSTGRES_PASSWORD', 'postgres'),
        'HOST': os.environ.get('DB_PORT_5432_TCP_ADDR', 'db'),
        'PORT': os.environ.get('DB_PORT_5432_TCP_PORT', ''),
    },
}

# Redis

REDIS_PORT = 6379
REDIS_DB = 0
REDIS_HOST = os.environ.get('REDIS_PORT_6379_TCP_ADDR', 'redis')

RABBIT_HOSTNAME = os.environ.get('RABBIT_PORT_5672_TCP', 'rabbit')

if RABBIT_HOSTNAME.startswith('tcp://'):
    RABBIT_HOSTNAME = RABBIT_HOSTNAME.split('//')[1]

BROKER_URL = os.environ.get('BROKER_URL',
                            '')
if not BROKER_URL:
    BROKER_URL = 'amqp://{user}:{password}@{hostname}/{vhost}/'.format(
        user=os.environ.get('RABBIT_ENV_USER', 'admin'),
        password=os.environ.get('RABBIT_ENV_RABBITMQ_PASS', 'mypass'),
        hostname=RABBIT_HOSTNAME,
        vhost=os.environ.get('RABBIT_ENV_VHOST', ''))

# Celery configuration

# configure queues, currently we have only one
CELERY_DEFAULT_QUEUE = 'default'
CELERY_QUEUES = (
    Queue('default', Exchange('default'), routing_key='default'),
)

# Sensible settings for celery
CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = False
CELERY_ACKS_LATE = True
CELERY_TASK_PUBLISH_RETRY = True
CELERY_DISABLE_RATE_LIMITS = False

# By default we will ignore result
# If you want to see results and try out tasks interactively, change it to False
# Or change this setting on tasks level
CELERY_IGNORE_RESULT = True
CELERY_SEND_TASK_ERROR_EMAILS = False
CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES = 600

# Set redis as celery result backend
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://%s:%d/%d' % (REDIS_HOST, REDIS_PORT, REDIS_DB)
CELERY_REDIS_MAX_CONNECTIONS = 1

# Don't use pickle as serializer, json is much safer
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json']

CELERYD_HIJACK_ROOT_LOGGER = False
CELERYD_PREFETCH_MULTIPLIER = 1
CELERYD_MAX_TASKS_PER_CHILD = 1000

# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Seoul'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'


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Sima Hui (fin du  – début du  ?) (chinois traditionnel : , chinois simplifié : ) était un tuteur taoïste chinois de l'époque de la fin de la dynastie Han qui forma plusieurs stratèges et officiers éminents de cette époque et de l'époque des Trois Royaumes. Son prénom social était Decao () et son pseudonyme (hao 號) était Shuijing (, « Reflet de l'eau »). Comme de nombreuses personnalités de son époque, il fut immortalisé dans le Roman des Trois Royaumes de Luo Guanzhong où il apparaît comme un ermite mystérieux.

Biographie historique
Dans les chroniques historiques (Chroniques des Trois Royaumes) Sima Hui fait des apparitions éparses dans les biographies de plusieurs personnalités, principalement dans leur enfance.

Sima Hui vient de Yingchuan. Il est décrit comme étant pur et élégant et sachant dépeindre les gens comme ils sont, tel le ferrait un miroir.

Alors qu'il passe du côté de Xiangyang et commence à cueillir des mûres du haut d'un mûrier, un jeune garçon, Pang Tong, commence à lui parler. Ce dernier passe pour être simplet mais après une discussion qui dura du lever du jour à la tombée de la nuit, Sima Hui se convainc qu'il existe un véritable talent chez Pang Tong et se propose de lui servir de tuteur jusqu'à ce que celui-ci devienne mandarin à Nanzhou.

Selon le Xiangyang Ji, Sima Hui éprouve un respect particulier pour Pang Degong, l'oncle de Pang Tong, de dix ans son aîné. Il l'appelle Pang-gong (gong signifiant « seigneur »), ce qui conduisait les gens à croire qu'il s'agissait du véritable nom de Pang Degong. Sima Hui trouve en lui un modèle pour ses élèves et annonce : « Degong connaît bien les hommes, voilà une vertu véritable. » Pang Degong donne à Sima Hui son surnom de « Reflet de l'eau », à Zhuge Liang celui de « Dragon tapi » et à Pang Tong celui de « Jeune Phœnix. »

Toujours selon le Xiangyang Ji, Liu Bei fait plus tard la rencontre de Sima Hui et lui demande de parler des affaires du monde. Sima Hui lui répond : « Comment un vulgaire lettré comme moi pourrait-il savoir quoi que ce soit des affaires du monde ? Seuls les véritables génies héroïques sont à même d'en discourir. Ceux de cette époque sont le Dragon Tapi et le Jeune Phœnix. »

Au cours d'une pièce de théâtre, Sima Hui fait également la rencontre de Liu Yi, futur mandarin au service du royaume de Wei, lorsque celui-ci a dix ans. Il lui caresse la tête en disant : « Mon enfant ! Mon enfant ! Ne connais-tu pas l'expression "Huang zhong tong li" ? »

Au cours de sa carrière, Sima Hui enseigna à plusieurs élèves, dont : les stratèges Zhuge Liang et Pang Tong ; le ministre Li Zhuan ; l'officier Xiang Lang ; le conseiller militaire Xu Shu ; Lin Mo, le tuteur de l'empereur Liu Shan ; le tacticien Han Song et Song Zhong.

Références
 Chen Shou et Pei Songzhi, Chroniques des Trois Royaumes, chapitres 21, 35, 37, 41, 42.
 Sima Guang, Zizhi Tongjian, chapitre 65.

Notes

Héros des Trois Royaumes

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Not all suicides suffer in the afterlife equally. Some, especially children and most adolescent suicides seem to be taken in hand by more advanced spirits and, in a manner of speaking, nursed back to spiritual health. A moving account by psychic Ann Puryear recounts the suicide of her son. Stephen was overweight and bullied at school. He skipped school one day and hanged himself from a tree. His mother Ann, herself an experienced medium at first refused to believe that the voice she heard was, in fact her son. After a long struggle, and many months after his death, she finally relented and accepted that it was her son trying to communicate. Eighteen years later, Stephen dictated the account of his death and the afterlife that followed. Like most suicides brought through by modern mediums, Stephen expresses regret for his actions, but makes no excuses for them.
There are other types of suicides for which there are few spiritual consequences. People who voluntarily sacrifice their lives for a heroic purpose, especially in an effort to save the lives of others, don't appear to suffer the negative spiritual consequences experienced by discretionary suicides. Indeed, those who give their lives to save other innocent people appear to receive a hero's welcome in their afterlife. One of the major advantages of a true belief in God is knowing that taking a gunman's bullet to save your wife, a child or your country is not going to be the end of the line. Death is less scary to a person who believes in God than it is to a materialist who believes that his death would mean the end of everything.
The Jews at the siege of Masada in 74 AD are a good example of people who were forced into suicide. They took their own lives after their defeat at the hands of the Romans. They were defending their freedom and their religious faith. In suicide, they prevented the rape, murder and slavery that would have followed surrender. Their motives were pure, and their deaths were the equivalent of soldiers who died defending their country.
A more recent example of non-discretionary suicide would be the Yazidi and Christian girls who were captured by ISIS (the "Islamic" state). Some committed suicide to escape sexual slavery and their decision to die by their own hand would be unlikely to negatively affect the fate of their souls. There are other examples too numerous to mention.
The fate of a person who commits suicide in order to avoid a painful and lingering terminal illness would probably depend on that person's actual motives and the degree of his or her real need. Once again, it's the need, motivation and circumstances surrounding a suicide which affect the trajectory of the spirit after death. It's a matter of spiritual physics, and not an arbitrary decision made by God or a star chamber of holy saints. The fate of a soul after death always depends exclusively on the conscience and mindset of the soul itself, and it's a thoroughly natural process dictated by circumstances and intentions.
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Sunday, May 20, 3:00 p.m.
Jordan Davis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong and Tony Mancus
Please join the In Your Ear Reading Series for a reading by JordanDavis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, and Tony Mancus at 3PM onSunday, May 20, 2012.
JORDAN DAVIS is Poetry Editor of The Nation. His poems and prose haveappeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and American PoetryReview. His books include A Little Gold Book, Million Poems Journal,From Orange to Pink, and POD | Poems on Demand. He divides his timebetween New York and southeastern Ohio.
STEVEN KARL is the author of the chapbooks, State(s) of Flux, acollaboration with Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009)(Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010) emissions/ of(H_NGM_N, 2011) and with Angela Veronica Wong, Don't Try This On YourPiano or am i standing here with my hair down (Lame House Press,2012). His poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming fromForklift, Ohio, We Are So Happy To Know Something, and EverydayGenius. That's a Unique Online Journal. He is the poetry editor ofSink Review and a news editor for Coldfront Magazine. He lives in NewYork.
ANGELA VERONICA WONG is the author of a full-length collection ofpoems entitled how to survive a hotel fire (Coconut Books 2012) aswell as several chapbooks of poems. She lives in Manhattan and on theinternet at www.angelaveronicawong.com.
TONY MANCUS is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press. He has twochapbooks coming out this year - Bye Land with Greying Ghost and ByeSea with Ghost Ocean. He works as a test writer and a writinginstructor and lives in Rosslyn with his wife Shannon and their twocats.


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Our Mission: To promote, develop, and support commerce and tourism, and to create a positive economic and business climate in and throughout Columbus County.
Our Vision: A vibrant and prosperous community, experiencing growth in citizens and visitors, business starts and employment, property values and business revenue.


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Head of Asian Soccer Running Unopposed for New Term
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) holds its presidential election on Saturday with incumbent Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain standing unopposed for a new term. Sheikh Salman was elected AFC president in 2013. He cemented this position by signing a new commercial rights deal in 2018, expanding tournaments and increasing the money going back to member federations. "The other candidates realised that they did not stand a chance against Salman," James Dorsey, Senior Fellow at the RSIS said.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) holds its presidential election on Saturday with incumbent Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain standing unopposed for a ...


In addition to the temperament brought to us by our horses, border collies have been a necessity to fulfill our needs when working cattle and goats. Border collies and horses have taught us the most effective and humane way to work cattle and goats. These dogs give their best drive when the handler is providing them with calm cues. This, in turn, keeps the pressure low on the stock, making them easier to move across pasture and send through the chute.
We believe in the importance of building a foundation with our border collies before letting them work on cattle. Prairie is a CPDT trainer and has opened a dog training business here in Choteau, Rocking K9 Companions. We believe in using positive reinforcement methods to create a foundation. Our dogs have been used as 4-H projects and have recently been introduced to agility. Our dogs have been Canine Good Citizen certified and have been exposed to all ages of people. But as stated before, between man and the horse, dogs have completed the partnership we need for most effectively working cattle.
New Puppies!!! Born 9/27/2010. Litters contained Red, Black and Tri-Colors, Males and Females. 1 Red Male and 2 Black Males, 1 Tri-Color Male and 1 Black Female are still available. These pups have begun basic obedience training. They have also been removed from the pack and gone on 1/2 to full day trips to other locations with us.
Please contact us with any questions and for more information on this or a next litter.
Comment from Governor Schweitzer on Meadows Ranch border collies.


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The hippest accessory for swinging young women in 1967? Body paint, applied with a miniature paint roller from a miniature plastic paint pan and sold in a miniature paint can.
Old Jezebel friend Mark Shrayber alerts us to the fact that morning, British outlets, led by the Daily Mail, are passing around a British Pathe video from 1967, in which a bikini-clad 18-year-old Caroline Munro (who would later play a Bond girl) is lacquered with a tan-ish color after taking a dip in Hyde Park's Serpentine. "Instant tan for a girl who doesn't even need a roll on!" the announcer pronounces.
It contained dihydroxyacetone (DHA), a chemical derived from sugar cane and still the most effective ingredient for those seeking a sunless tan, as it causes a browning reaction with the amino acids on the skin's surface rather than simply staining the skin. The rumour goes that its tanning properties were discovered by accident in the 1920s when a nurse treating a diabetic patient with DHA accidentally spilled it on his chest while connecting his drip. The following day she noticed it had coloured his skin.
Man-Tan turned its users a rich beige-orange – less "tan" coloured, more "swum through a lake of fruit juice". Quick Tan Lotion by Coppertone was launched soon after – it speckled skin, stained palms and discoloured clothes, but did go some way towards mimicking the brown blush first popularised by Coco Chanel in the 1920s.
But mothers and grandmothers have not been shut out completely. "They're buying Body Paint in the flesh tones to cover up varicose veins and other skin imperfections," she added.
Revlon was also selling "knee rouges," and a leg art coloring kit, and Givenchy had a "Leg Colour" line in colors like shocking pink and sea green. The Times spoke to a 23-year-old secretary spotted on 42nd Street in "turquoise blue Givenchy legs with her chartreuse dress," who compared it to wearing fake eyelashes in that, "After a while you get used to it." "This fall we expect with-it girls to start wearing the colored paint under their fishnets," Mitchell added.
But, unsurprisingly, body paint was particularly popular with the countercultural crowd. A saleswoman in the makeup department at Bloomingdales informed the paper that hippies in particular were loving the stuff: "I painted the word 'Coty' on the arms of two male hippies the other day and they were so excited." Nice to know that wildly impractical beauty trends are not purely a creation of the YouTube age.


The Pillar is homage to those thousands of peasants engaged in the struggle for the land, and an act of solidarity with the victims of impunity in Brazil. It was exhibited in front of the Parliament in the capital Brasilia on 17 April, the anniversary of the massacre. Thereafter it was erected on its final site in Belém, the capital of the Pará, the federal state where the carnage had taken place.


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L'ISO 9646 est une norme internationale spécifiant une méthode générale d'essais de conformité.

Référence
 http://www.iso.ch/

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Medicaid patients turn to hospitals for emergencies, not routine care
Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most people covered by government health insurance for the poor visit hospital emergency rooms for perceived emergencies, not for routine care, much like those with private insurance, according to a study released on Wednesday.
Researchers said the study helps dispel the notion that poor patients are clogging hospitals for routine treatment - for a bad cold, for example - that others receive at lower cost in a clinic or at a doctor's office.
Patients on Medicaid - the insurance program for low-income people financed by federal and state governments - do visit emergency rooms at twice the rate of privately insured patients, said the study by the non-partisan Center for Studying Health Systems, reflecting ongoing challenges in finding alternative care.
But, like others, they go for urgent complaints of injuries and potentially serious problems like high fevers and breathing trouble, especially in children, the study said.
One in 10 Medicaid patients used an emergency room for non-urgent care, compared to about 1 in 14 for patients with insurance through their employer or purchased on their own, the study showed.
"If you picked a Medicaid recipient and a privately insured patient out of an ED (emergency department) waiting room and asked them both why they were there, the likelihood that they described symptoms we would call non-urgent is pretty similar," said Emily Carrier, a researcher for the center.
The findings come after the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul but allowed states to opt out of the law's provision opening Medicaid to more people.
Several state governors have already refused to implement the law, including its Medicaid expansion. At the same time, some states are seeking ways to cut Medicaid costs, including discouraging unnecessary and costly emergency room use in the face of ongoing budget crunches.
Julia Paradise, a Medicaid expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said the center's study "sheds needed light on the widespread misconception that Medicaid patients use emergency departments for routine care far more than privately insured people do."
ALTERNATIVES TO EMERGENCY ROOM
Researchers at the center combed government statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics for 2008 - the most recent data available at the time.
While some patients in emergency rooms initially reported serious symptoms, sometimes the diagnosis turned out to be minor, according to the study, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit organization aimed at improving U.S. health.
But Carrier, an emergency room physician, said it can be very difficult for patients to gauge the severity of a problem, especially when it comes to children and infants who cannot easily describe their discomfort.
"This stuff is hard, as any one who has had a kid and tried to figure out if they are really sick knows," she said.
Among Medicaid patients 12 and younger, more than half of all visits were for injuries, serious breathing trouble and common infections such as strep throat and bronchitis, the study said.
Medicaid adults age 18 to 64 also used the emergency room, most for a range of ailments from digestive issues to mental disorders as well as injuries.
Obama's 2012 healthcare law aims to widen access to health coverage, in part by expanding Medicaid in 2014 to insure more low-income Americans. Medicaid would help them receive routine medical care and avoid costly hospitals, proponents argue.
Nearly 46 out of 100 non-elderly Medicaid patients visited the emergency room in 2008 compared to 24 out of 100 privately insured patients, the study said. Researchers said it shows the difficulty of providing alternatives to the emergency room.
"Many primary care offices cannot see patients quickly enough to manage urgent problems or do not have the right equipment at the practice," the study said.
Caroline Steinberg, a vice president at the American Hospital Association, said the research does show how people with chronic conditions who do not get adequate primary care can find themselves at the emergency room with complications.
"Then you end up in the emergency department, and by the time you get there you need to be there - and that could have been prevented," she said.
About 58 million people are enrolled in Medicaid, including seniors, according to a 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation estimate.
For a graphic, see: link.reuters.com/tew39s
Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Fred Barbash and Todd Eastham


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Home / NZ Artist Directory / Blues / Shayn Hurricane Wills
Albert King, Junior Wells, Robert Cray, John Hammond Jnr, Canned Heat, Duke Robilard. These names practically form the basis of the Blues as we know it today.
To have played support gigs for one of them would be a musician's career highlight, but to have played support gigs for all of them you would have to be a musician of world class standard. Well, let me just mention one name, Shayn Wills. Between 1992 and 2006, Shayn Wills played support for each and every one of these legendary innovative musicians.
Watching Wills play it becomes glaringly obvious that he is something very special. For starters, his ability to play harmonica, guitar and sing at once is astounding and entertaining, (" ...the way Shayn plays guitar harmonica and sings all at the same time astounds me" Midge Marsden). And he has his own unique style of playing. His playing comes from a place of sincerity and heartfelt passion, and there is something about his playing that is distinctly New Zealand. You could easily say he has created the term "New Zealand Blues".
At 39 Shayn has now had 27 years of playing, learning and living the Blues. His voice, guitar and harmonica playing have matured into something extremely special and unique. Shayn travels regularly to concerts in Australia and the UK; he has a wife and 2 children and continues to try to make a living from his music, which when in NZ is the Blues in itself.
His complex guitar rhythms, innovative harmonica riffs and melodic voice make him a must see act. Julie Oakley, a reviewer for the national music magazine "Real Groove" is quoted to say, "Wills is one of the original black Mississippi Blues legends, reincarnated and living in Auckland, (New Zealand)".
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1. A-why sometimes when i'm remote uploading something or directly uploading something from my PC sometimes the uploading completly stops!
B- is it because i'm using a shared hosting? i'm moving to a dedicated server in two weeks will this solve the problem?
2. i have assigned 2 points for each download, why one file got downloaded for more than 150, and many other files were downloaded and the user get only 16 premium points???
after 1 week i changed the option and made the file deletion after 100 days, will this effect the old files wheich were already upladed or it only effects new files ?
4. A- why when uploading process starts, when i click in progressive "on" it dosn't change to off, technically, the progress complete and no further data appear, but the word (off) don't appear?
B- why when switching to off, and then decide to go on again, why sometime it doesn't switch? it stays at off the whole time?
1. Don't know. Probably it's really shared hosting too overloaded and gives instant error. Try to make 'xupload' iframe visible and check the error inside. Move to dedi ofcourse, shared is not an option for file-sharing for sure.
2. Don't know. Only can tell you how we calculate this: we have IP-to-File table so if there's no match - then we add points. You've assigned 2 points for free users or for reg or for premium?
3. We use this setting when running cron.pl so ALL files will be affected. With rewards: gained points won't be affected. New points rate will be applied only to new downloads.
4. It's a bug, sorry. I guess this works only in Opera. Will be fixed in upcoming version. Or can give you quick fix.
Thanks pilgram, i just moved to a dedicated server yesterday, and the uploading problem is solved now.
I've assigned 4 points to premium and 2 points for registered, in our case the premium user his 1 file got downloaded more than 180 and he got only around 40 points.
Does this have to do anything with the problem?
And finally,regarding this bug,just tell me how can i remove the whole option?
And what quick fix are you suggesting?
1) Check how points will work out on new server. Probably shared was behind reverse proxy or smth.


Green grass and a goathead-free playing surface were luxuries young Greeley baseball players didn't have a couple of decades ago.
Gary Harper and few buddies thought it was a shame.
And ever since, Greeley baseball teams have reaped the benefits.
Friends of Baseball started in 1988 with one fund-raiser a year, Breakfast of Champions, to give back to Greeley baseball. Its main focus was helping the Colorado Bears amateur team, but eventually the money was spread around to teams of all levels in Greeley.
Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle headlines this year's breakfast, which starts at 8 a.m. Saturday at the University of Northern Colorado's University Center Ballrooms.
former Montreal Expos manager and current manager for the Rockies' AA team in Tulsa, Okla., also will speak.
Doors open at 7 a.m. and there are raffles and an auction for celebrity memorabilia planned.
Tickets, which double as raffle tickets, are $10 and all proceeds benefit Friends of Baseball. Children 6 and younger are free.
Tickets can be purchased at GoJo Sports or at the door Saturday morning.
The local organization raised $1,000 with its first breakfast and raked in $18, 667 last year, nearly twice as much as in 2001. The event has raised a total of $165, 573 over 16 years.
Bonner said the organization has not been able to finance major projects with the money, it mostly helps buy equipment.
But one thing the group is proud of is its $1,000 scholarship that was started five years ago.
It's not necessarily given to the best area player, but to one who shows love for the game – the whole concept behind the vision of the organization.


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Paperino di Bergerac è una storia a fumetti del 1981 scritta da Guido Martina e disegnata da Giovan Battista Carpi, pubblicata sul numero 1319 di Topolino dell'8 marzo dello stesso anno. Su Topolino era già stata pubblicata una storia molto simile intitolata Paperin de Paperac, scritta da Gian Giacomo Dalmasso e disegnata da Luciano Bottaro e pubblicata nel 1967 sul n. 600.

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La storia ricalca quella dell'opera di Rostand del XIX secolo Cyrano de Bergerac e gli stessi personaggi vestono i panni dei protagonisti dell'opera: Paperino impersona il personaggio principale Cyrano che, per conquistare la sua amata, Rossana (Paperina), decide di aiutare il cugino di lei, interpretato da Gastone. La storia segue fedelmente per tutta la narrazione, o quasi, la trama dell'opera.

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Further findings from the survey included the fact that just 7% of children aged 30-55 said their parents trust them to help them with their financial decisions and a further 7% said their parents made it very clear to them it is none of their business. Adding to this, 17% of children said the only discussion they have ever had with their parents about their finances centred around what they might or might not inherit.
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Spring snowstorms headed for dry Sierra, Lake Tahoe
Published April 15, 2022 at 1:31 PM PDT
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In this image taken from video from a Caltrans remote video traffic camera, very light traffic is seen in the snow along Interstate 80 at Donner Summit, Calif., Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.
The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory Thursday for the Lake Tahoe area, where up to 18 inches of snow is possible atop the snow-starved Sierra, with another storm on the way Saturday.
"Winter weather is not done yet," weather service officials in Reno said. "The pattern we all probably wanted in mid-winter is here."
The advisory remains in effect until 11 p.m. Thursday for the Tahoe area on the Nevada-California line. Ten to 18 inches of snow is expected with winds gusting in excess of 50 mph on the west shore at elevations above 7,000 feet, with 5 to 10 inches below that.
Multiple storm systems will move through the region over the next seven to 10 days, the next one sometime Saturday morning, the service said.
It should provide a small boost to the Sierra snowpack, which sat at just 30% of average on April 1 when historically it's at its peak.
"We are so pleased to welcome the precipitation, but need to be cautious in our optimism for accumulation," the service said. "This storm will be largely a wind-maker, with potentially damaging wind gust of 60-plus mph possible in and around the eastern Sierra."
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Cycle, stroll or jog along Melbourne's rivers and creeks and feel a million miles from city life. You'll find shared paths for walkers and cyclists winding along many of our waterways in and around Melbourne, through lush parklands and urban settings.
Parks and paths are usually the responsibility of Parks Victoria or local councils — please contact them with any enquiries.
Trails include:
Capital City Trail
Dandenong Creek Trail and EastLink Trail
Gardiners Creek Trail
Main Yarra Trail
Maribyrnong River Trail
Merri Creek Trail
A popular starting point for the Capital City Trail is at Princes Bridge, near Flinders Street Station. From here it follows the Yarra River east towards Docklands or west along the Main Yarra Trail through urban bushland to Dights Falls.
The path is approximately 29 kilometres in total and circles the city. It passes through some inner eastern and northern suburbs and takes in some of Melbourne's most recognisable attractions.
Capital City Trail — Visit Melbourne
Cycling lanes and routes (including map) — City of Melbourne
Built as part of the EastLink motorway, the EastLink Trail is Melbourne's longest sealed pedestrian and bicycle path. It connects to existing pathways taking cyclists from Carrum right to Melbourne's city centre through wetlands, parklands and natural bushlands.
After it winds through the Mullum Mullum Valley, the trail heads south to connect with the Dandenong Creek Trail. This 49-kilometre trail follows Dandenong Creek, through the outer eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, to Port Phillip Bay at Carrum/Bonbeach.
Dandenong Creek Trail — City of Monash
The EastLink Trail — EastLink
Gardiners Creek Trail is a popular commuter path between Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs and the city. It connects with the Main Yarra Trail or Capital City Trail at the Yarra River.
The return trip starts and finishes at Heyington train station in Toorak. It takes in some beautiful parkland as it follows Gardiners Creek for approximately 17 kilometres to Blackburn train station.
Gardiners Creek Trail — City of Monash
The Main Yarra Trail starts and finishes at Southbank and leaves behind city skyscrapers for pristine urban bushland. It follows the Yarra River for 35 kilometres through Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs to join the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail in Templestowe.
The trail runs through Yarra Bend Park, Warrigal Park, Birrarung Park and Westerfolds Park in Templestowe.
Main Yarra Trail — Visit Melbourne
The Maribyrnong River Trail starts and finishes at Southbank. The 25-kilometre trail follows the Maribyrnong River. It tours through Melbourne's inner west suburbs of Docklands, Footscray, Flemington and Moonee Ponds.
Be sure to pack a picnic to take advantage of the riverside barbecue spots.
Maribyrnong River Trail — Visit Victoria
Maribyrnong River Shared Trails — Maribyrnong City Council
The Merri Creek Trail starts at Dights Falls in Yarra Bend Park. The trail winds along Merri Creek for approximately 21 kilometres through Melbourne's northern suburbs to the Western Ring Road Trail. There are countless coffee and leg-stretching opportunities along the way.
These include the Abbotsford Convent precinct, Collingwood Children's Farm and CERES community park and café.
Merri Creek Trail — Moreland City Council
Transport: walking — City of Darebin
Bicycle and walking route maps — VicRoads
Parks and reserves — Parks Victoria
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Home Abigail Ahern's Blog A master class in flowers!
A master class in flowers!
I'm lucky in that I have a sister who is a floristry genius and with a simple touch of her wand she turns single stems into the most beautiful arrangements.
Since we launched our flower shop (faux flower shop that is) shock horror I here some people cry we've taken on a whole load of contract jobs from yachts in the Med to weddings in South Africa not to mention sending bouquets of our fabulous faux's to studios all over the world from film companies in LA to wineries in South Africa to A list celebs!
I though it might be fun to pass on what I've learnt from Gem, although I'm being super honest here rather than doing it myself I kind of ask Gem to put bunches together for me – I'm busy is my excuse!
For high impact and low involvement plop single stems into narrow necked bottles and scatter down the middle of a dining table. Super sweet.
Turquoise and acid green vases are super flattering for flowers as are greys, pewters and blacks! We don't use see through glass containers as we don't' like to see the stems it takes the impact away.
For mixed arrangements also use foliage; its leafy, it will cut down the cost and it will make your arrangements super pretty. Use branches from your back yard. We use euphorbia, eucalyptus and viburnum.
Make your arrangement as 3 dimensional as you can, over neatness screams uptight – our plan is to make them like you've just picked them from the garden.
Cut the stems so flower heads are toppling over the vase (stems distract the eye) plus you'll find that the flowers will look far cooler if you just concentrate on the heads. Unless of course the flower is all about the stem like lilac or gelda for example!
Cut up the stem your flowers will absorb more water and last longer. Fact!
Tie you bouquet with an elastic band it will secure your flowers and its invisible!
Use clippers when you cut your flowers for this simple reason – with scissors stems tend to crack and the blooms can't get enough water and die earlier!
When Gem isn't around and I can't beg her to throw me together a bunch I go for the single colour route as it looks impactful A mass bunch of a single type of stem is high impact – I am particularly drawn to hydrangea, roses, gelda, peonies and delph.
Think outside of the box when it comes to vases we use t-light holders, drinking vessels, even a tagine!
Oh and we're thinking of running a flower master class in the fall. Let me know if you guys think it's a good idea and I'll sit down with Gem and try and get a date in the diary for her to hold a class in my pad.


With many UK schools facing budget cuts, music is one of the subjects being hit the hardest. Here at Andertons Music Co. we are strong advocates for maintaining music in the school curriculum.
As a childless 24-year-old, you may think I'm too young to gauge the impact learning an instrument has had on me. Not to mention the parental perspective. But that's exactly the point – I can put myself in the shoes of the learner, as it wasn't all that long ago.
I've played the guitar for over 12 years, so I feel that I've had more than enough time to evaluate the effects. The experiences that have come with learning an instrument have all been valuable.
Before I took an interest in music, I was a keen tennis player. I was also a perpetual video gamer, glued to my Gameboy 24/7. I'm not saying that I don't condone video games. They're fun and make for a great platform to interact with friends. On the other hand, there's nothing particularly 'productive' about video games. There are very few skills you can take away from them to improve yourself or apply in the real world. And what I realised was that video gaming was a bad fuel for boredom.
This is where music saved me from going down that path of becoming a fully-fledged gaming addict. It sounds silly and melodramatic, but that's honestly something I am thankful for. This is because learning to play the guitar became a fun, engaging and productive activity, taking the place of something that didn't offer many positives. With the guitar, it gave me something to focus on, to get better at and become more proficient.
One of the most important aspects of learning to play an instrument is self-discipline. This is where you set aside time and dedicate it to harnessing your skills. For children, discipline is an important trait to implement early, as it translates into school work and later life.
Spending time trying to learn chords on a guitar or nailing a beat on a drum kit takes time and practice. It can take weeks or even months to accomplish a particular technique.
With discipline also comes patience. It's an essential part of the learning process. It takes a lot of devotion and commitment to learning the guitar, and patience is an important trait to maintain throughout. It's as easy to quit as it is to get started, so realising that you're not going to be an amazing guitarist straight away keeps you grounded.
For me, playing my guitar is like positive escapism. When I was at school, I couldn't wait to get home and start jamming to my favourite bands or learn new riffs. This is because after a day spent doing academic work, I'd like to employ the more creative side of my brain. But more importantly, it just made me happy!
It was the perfect way to wind down after a long day. It helped me take my mind off of other things, as I could focus solely on playing and on improving my technique and repertoire. This is still relevant for me today.
Instruments such as guitar, violin, piano or drums demand the use of both hands. At the start of the learning process, synchronising both hands to be in time with one another can feel like an impossibility.
With practice it can almost become second nature, greatly developing coordination and motor skills. For drummers, it's even more beneficial, as learning how to coordinate all four limbs enhances ambidexterity and reflexes. These skills can be used to improve performance in school sports activities, like tennis or football.
It's clear that some of the skills developed from learning an instrument apply to academic proficiency too. It's not all just about the ways in which children learn to discipline themselves, as music interacts well with other subjects. Most notably, music goes hand-in-hand with mathematics and science.
Understanding note values, time signatures and rhythms requires a working knowledge of maths. It's used to discern rhythmic patterns, particularly as you employ division skills to break down musical notation and beats. This is also relevant to aspiring drummers. Reading from a stave for any instrument demands a level of academic understanding.
For guitar players, learning from tabs also involves applying basic maths. With notes marked out by their respective fret numbers, the process requires simple counting and identification. This then leads to a broader awareness of where notes lie on the fretboard, as well as intervallic and tonal recognition.
Music production and sound engineering both require a great knowledge of physics. Understanding acoustics, for example, relies on a competent grasp of the subject. It involves studying the ways in which sound travels, and how the size and shape of spaces change the nature of sounds and the way in which they are intercepted by our ears. These subjects are deeply intertwined.
Learning a new piece of music requires a lot of repetitive listening to fully understand a melody and its rhythm. Being able to recognise and identify a short riff or motif and repeat it on an instrument requires concentration and practice to perfect it. Fine-tuning the ear can be advantageous for children's focus levels.
Even if you're listening intensely to your instrument in a piece of music, you'll naturally build an awareness of other instruments too. Identifying their tonal characteristics and traits can only help when eventually playing with other musicians.
Learning a song is, at its core, a memory test. This can be a difficult hurdle for young children. However, challenging your child's memory will develop their brain. Why? Because it teaches them to form, hold and recall memories more easily. This will help when they take their exams in school, as revising will become an easier process with a trained memory.
Classical musicians mostly rely upon notation for musical cues and prompts because of the complexity of the music they play. However, a good memory is fundamental for pop and rock musicians.
Playing a musical instrument leads to some amazing social experiences. It provides the chance to play alongside other like-minded people. This helps a child to develop social interaction. This transcends into later life, where working in teams and collaborating in groups is required.
Standing up on stage with a guitar or smashing away on a drum kit looks cool. Which is why learning an instrument can be a great confidence and self-esteem builder.
Performing in front of people is a nerve-racking experience and for children, it takes time to build this confidence. The more your child performs in front of people, be it just yourself or before hundreds, the more self-assured they will become. It also teaches your child how to improve after receiving constructive criticism. Learning how to take criticism and turn those negative feelings into positives boosts confidence.
It's clear that allowing your child to learn an instrument has many benefits in their development. It might be easy to assume that we are biased working at a music store. However, we strongly recommend getting your child into music, because playing an instrument is an art that we must keep alive and maintain. And most of all, it can make them happy!
If you enjoyed this read, have a look at our other Learn articles.
Want to set your child off on their musical journey? Have a gander on the Andertons website.


Erik Satie, composer, writer and eccentric was born in Honfleur, Normandy, and spent most of his life in Paris in the heady days of La Belle Époque surrounded by the decadence of Montmartre, absinthe and Le Chat Noir.
Much of his work was acclaimed only after his death, his oeuvre being a curious mix of challenging and quirky short pieces that have been characterised as early-Surrealist. In a Guardian article, minimalist composer John Cage said that Satie was 'indispensable' to the development of music and musical experimentation. For many, his posthumous fame rests primarily with his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes published at the end of the 19th century: delightful, mournful and atmospheric. To paraphrase Cage, Satie was an early exponent of ambient music.
Satie joined the leftist cliques of the Parisian art scene, accentuating his bohemian lifestyle and colourful personality. In later life, he worked variously with Man Ray, Cocteau and Braque among others and dabbled with Dadaism and absurdism. The director of the Cheltenham Festival has written that Satie 'bought seven identical, grey velvet corduroy suits which he proceeded to wear, with no variation, for 10 years'. As was fitting to his melancholic musical catalogue, he died of cirrhosis at 59, alone in a grubby suburban bedsit in 1925.
Erik Satie never went to China, yet this is where his true house stands. It is a generous Modernist home that the architect, Wang Yun, says Satie would have deserved. As a composer of musical fragments, he might have appreciated the fact that the building is unfinished.
Wang is professor of architecture at the Beijing University Civil Engineering and Architecture school (BUCEA). He is the founding director of architectural practice Atelier Fronti and author of a new book (in Chinese) on Music and Architecture, currently enjoying an exhibition on that topic at Beijing's Graduate School of Architecture Design and Art. Like Satie, Wang's work is part innovation, part experiment and part humour. However, it is also thoughtful and contemplative and certainly not the spoof that would make this article easier to write.
Wang Yun has decided to transcribe musical notation into simplified patterns. He takes those abstract forms and imagines the dots and lines as walls and columns, and so on. The image is turned into a model, which he ponders over to imagine what kind of building, what kind of typology that it might represent.
Before you turn over, hear me out … Unlike Bernard Tschumi's Manhattan Transcripts – currently enjoying a major retrospective in the Powerstation of Art in Shanghai – Wang's work is not a fantasy. He rejects Tschumi's post-structuralist creations as politically motivated fictional narratives far removed from his own adherence to the structured artistry of a musical score. Tschumi disavows synthesis; Wang seeks it out. The forms he creates are merely ways to spur the creative process.
Eric Satie's 1914 composition, Le Golf, is an expressive social commentary completed two months before the outbreak of the First World War. It is one episode of his Sports & Divertissements trilogy, comprising drawings, music and verbal texts. Caroline Potter, Satie's biographer, describes one of the gestures in his score for Le Golf as 'musical onomatopoeia' in that it conjures the image, the form, the physical act of golf. Author Anthony Bateman notes that Satie's compositions 'conveys the effect of being improvisations accompanying silent movie sequences'. It is music as an aid to visualisation.
Professor Wang is a rare Modernist in China, revitalising the social challenges from 100 years ago in new context. Satie's era was a time of Modernist discordancy when artists were breaking hallowed boundaries and trying to embody the spirit of the new. Just as the Futurists tried to capture speed and velocity in their paintings and sculpture, so artists blurred boundaries: photography as art, noise as music. The idea of crossing boundaries and using one particular art form to enhance another is what Wang is experimenting with. He also sees this as a demystifying process, democratising architecture whereby anyone can kick-start a visual exploration into architectural form.
Like Satie's work, Wang's playful interpretation of architecture and music comes together in drawings and models, but he has finally translated his ideas into a life-size concrete prototype, 48m long x 8m wide. With a departmental budget of RMB600,000 (£60,000), the framework of the house was erected in a few weeks. Sadly the quintessentially bad Chinese workmanship is not to the architect's liking and the suburban paving and concrete step access is diametrically opposed to his vision.
But the plan works well. The tied notes in Satie's original score – representing the golf swing – are now a curved wall to separate the kitchen/dining areas. The bare staves are used to form steps in the ground floor and rooflights in the concrete soffit – throwing sharp, flat shadows on the walls. The black note heads and stems of the beam notes emerge as structural walls cutting through the staircase and breaking up the volume. The delicate interplay of light on the rough cast concrete surface enlivens the spaces, but so too does the unintended occurrence of a beautiful, low humming echo that pervades the living-room spaces. Even without walls, there is an eerie resonance as we chat. Wang bursts into song.
The only tension on the site is whether Wang should finish the building or keep it as it is. It could be a ruin, a folly, an artefact, academic research or simply a talking point. Until decisions are made, the university will continue to use it as a marketing tool and a public arena for performances. (Wang recently hosted an international conference in the living room.) If he decides to complete the project, then full-height glazed walls 'just like the Barcelona Pavilion' will enclose the entire perimeter (even though the floor is raised in the main living space). After that, Wang confirms that any private owner will be allowed curtains if s/he so wishes.
Beijing is going through a decongestion policy that makes the BBC's relocation to Manchester look like a tea party. The authorities have already moved 6,600 students to the suburbs with plans to resettle more than half a million more central city residents in the next year or so. BUCEA is resisting calls to take its 1,100 students beyond the 5th Ring Road to this Daxing campus in Beijing's distant south-west because even though it is a vast campus with new facilities, there is little else. Currently situated among country walks – where President Xi Jinping had planted trees to promote the protection of the country's forestry – the architecture department fears the loss of its historic central Beijing context.
But maybe there is little to fear from change. Wang's Satie House was built in a clearing. The windows and openings frame views of the wild forest landscape on all sides, that is, the dense trees that President Xi was so keen to preserve. One year later, the house looks out over a four-lane roadway. China is definitely surreal enough for Satie.


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Fitness studio offers 'group' training
It's easy to identify the new fitness studio in the Madison Village Shopping Center as being part of the Orangetheory family—orange-colored signage, orange member T-shirts, and even orange lighting inside, giving the place an almost surreal feel.
But what makes Orangetheory Fitness really stand out of from its competitors is not all the orange tones—it's the personal training.
Celebrating the grand opening of the Orangetheory Fitness studio at 7th Street and Glendale Avenue and wearing some fun promotional T-shirts created for the event are members, from left: Theresa Herro, Courtney Vittoria, Karen Wood, Marianne Watts, and Anuj Bhatnagar (photo by Teri Carnicelli).
Sure, other gyms offer personal training, usually for an additional fee. But at the new Orangetheory Fitness that opened on Feb. 5, what you get is "group" personal training—at no extra charge.
"The workout is a total body workout that lasts one hour. Its heart rate-based training, so we can guarantee results," explains Bobbe Ariano, who owns the studio as well as one that opened a few years ago in Arcadia. "The workouts are filled with energy and fantastic music. You'll never have the same workout and, no matter your fitness level, you will always feel accomplished and proud. It's fun, affordable and most of all, it's personal."
Ariano has been in the fitness business for 15 years, and owned her first gym in Durango, Colo. She moved to Arizona five years ago and found Orangetheory Fitness. She's been a franchise owner for the last four years. "It's an amazing concept," she says.
She chose the Madison Village shopping center, at the northeast corner of 7th Street and Glendale Avenue, as her newest location because "there aren't any other fitness studios in the Central Phoenix area that provide what we provide at Orangetheory Fitness."
Workout sessions are offered as early as 5 a.m. weekdays and 6 a.m. on Saturday, or 6:30 a.m. on Sunday. Evening sessions begin as late at 6:45 p.m. weekdays only.
Readers of the North Central News can mention this article in April and receive two free sessions to give Orangetheory Fitness a try before deciding to sign up. Family discounts available. For more information, call 602-749-1111 or visit www.orangetheoryfitness.com.
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Mentor program has every student covered
Julie McCormick, Sun Staff — Mar 12th, 2003
As part of the NK Success program at North Kitsap High School, sophomore Jason Ellington helps replant an area near Highway 3. Each student in the program works with a mentor -- volunteers who help instruct and guide the teens. Photo by Jane Freeman
Rick Linder, a mentor to high school teens in the NK Success program, demonstrates for a group replanting project next to Highway 3. Photo by Jane Freeman
When Jeff Cowan was a kid, he wanted to be a scuba diver so badly he was willing to do anything.
One day at age 14, he walked into a dive shop, started sweeping floors and -- thanks to an involved adult -- soon was able to live his passion.
The shop owner took Cowan under his wing, helped him get certified and become a dive master.
"He gave me responsibility, that's one of the big things he did for me," Cowan said.
That positive youthful experience is one of the reasons why Cowan, operations chief for the Poulsbo Fire Department, is in his sixth year as a volunteer mentor at North Kitsap High School.
Not every teen lucks out like he did, and the group of people who started NK Success seven years ago recognized a need beyond the standard model.
Research shows a caring adult beyond family and school can play a key role in a child's life.
"Most mentoring programs are set up for at-risk kids," said organizer Jan Harrison. "We really are in the prevention business."
That's why volunteer mentors are asked to commit three years to the program, so they can see their group through high school.
"The whole point of the time together is to establish a relationship that says, 'I'm here, I'm solid and I won't judge you,' " Harrison said.
Organizers say NK Success is one of the few programs in the country -- if not the only one -- that assures every student will have a mentor.
At North Kitsap, that goal translates into about 175 adults -- most from outside the school -- available to the school's 1,400 students.
Some groups have two adult mentors, and sophomore groups include seniors trained as peer mentors.
On Friday, a half-dozen hardy sophomores from Rick Linder's group balanced themselves on a steep, soggy bank above Highway 3, braved the blowing rain, and planted salal and cedar, hemlock and kinnikinnick, to reclaim the scrubby, denuded slope.
The project met one of the mentor program goals to promote community involvement on the premise that strong community connections are a basic ingredient to success in life.
Students officially meet as a group once a month with their mentors, and there is plenty of room for additional time and activities, depending on everyone's desires and schedules.
At school, sometimes there's an outside speaker like the mayor of Poulsbo or a car insurance expert; sometimes they just talk.
Each mentor undergoes training based on materials in a thick binder so they also can promote the other goals -- communication and problem-solving, improved grades and job exploration.
Like Cowan, most adult volunteers early on learned the value of having a caring adult to turn to and resolved to provide that experience to newer generations of youngsters.
"It's an honor to be a mentor and to be allowed to be a part of these children's lives," said Margaret Gerjarz, a retired nurse from Poulsbo.
Gerjarz said she had three important mentors in her life, a high school English teacher, a nurse-midwife instructor in college and another adult woman who helped guide her as a parent.
"I didn't think of them as mentors, we didn't use that term then, but obviously they changed my life," Gerjarz said.
Diane Thompson, coordinator for NK Success, said she didn't have a mentor while growing up.
"I struggled and went through a lot of things that I don't want kids today to go through," she said.
Mentors are not intended to replace or displace parents or other adults in childrens' lives, but they can fill gaps.
Mentors played key roles after two recent suicides at North Kitsap, many rushing to school to be with the kids as soon as news broke.
"It's great because with all the stuff about suicide lately, you need somebody to talk to besides your family," said Stephanie Coleman, one of the sophomores in Linder's group.
Reach reporter Julie McCormick at (360) 415-2683 or at jmccormick@thesunlink.com.
Mentors needed
• North Kitsap High School is looking for new mentor volunteers. Training will be provided.
For information or to volunteer as an NK Success mentor, contact Diane Thompson at (360) 598-8522.
• Kitsap Juvenile Services offers adult mentoring for at-risk youth. For information, call Pam Martin at (360) 337-5409.
• Kitsap County human services operates a teen mentor program for elementary age kids. For information, call Mary Ellen delaPena at (360) 337-4878
• Poulsbo Junior High School has a peer mentoring program. For information, call Chris Todd at (360) 598-1026.
-- Julie McCormick
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During an interview with Michael Moore on the podcast 'Rumble,' the actor shared that the day after Trump was elected president, he tried to give him a chance — but found no redeeming qualities.
On the most recent episode of Michael Moore's new weekly podcast Rumble, the filmmaker interviews Robert De Niro, introducing him as "arguably the greatest actor in our lifetime." During their conversation, the actor gives his thoughts on President Donald Trump, whom he has been vocal about many times in the past year.
"What you're about to hear is completely uncensored, unfiltered, in its raw form," Moore announces before launching into a discussion of the current political climate. "You and I and everybody listening to this are living in a weird time; I think that there is a malaise in this country right now. There is a level of despair with people. Have you seen this and felt it? They're so low."
De Niro responds by saying, "To me, it feels like, with this administration, this president, it's kind of [like] being in an abusive relationship. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't feel safe. The president is such an idiot and doesn't do anything that we can rely on or feel safe about, even good intentions — he has no good intentions. That's your role as president, to make people feel good and positive. Even though it's easier said than done, that's your responsibility as president. He doesn't have any of that, as we all know."
The Oscar-winning actor goes on to say that he didn't want to have anything to do with Trump in New York City. "He was a fool then, he's a fool now, but now it's even worse. I even gave him the benefit of the doubt — the day after he was elected, I went on Jimmy Kimmel [Live!] and said, 'Look, I'll give him a chance, I hope I'm wrong.' But there has not been one thing about this person that has been redeeming as far as I can see. Nothing."
De Niro explains that he doesn't understand Republicans who have "fallen in line" with Trump, calling the situation a disgrace. "It's beyond a disgrace — shame on them," he says. "Shame on all of them."
On that note, Moore references the over-200 Republican members of Congress who continue to stand with Trump, sharing his disbelief.
De Niro mentions that he's currently reading the book Anonymous, where the writer goes into the psychology of "herd mentality" and people who follow leaders in large groups. He says it can be "a good lesson in human nature ... though frightening."
"There is no explanation for this," says Moore, to which De Niro replies, "No, to me, they've lost all reason."
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Eric Stieb Grows Zermätt Tool With Experience and Hard Work
Doosan is fortunate to have some really great people as customers. Not only are they warm and friendly, but many have the knack of building thriving businesses from modest beginnings under all types of circumstances. Not to mention the fact that they are walking encyclopedias on the topic of CNC machining.
First up is Eric Stieb of Zermätt Tool, a custom CNC job shop based in Bennet, Nebraska that specializes in serving the bioscience, aerospace and food industries. A spin-off company, Zermätt Arms, turns out custom, high-precision rifle actions.
This is Eric's story.
Finding his niche
Eric wasn't quite sure what path to take after graduating high school. His older brother was taking an automotive class at a local trade school. That seemed like an option, so Eric followed and enrolled in a class covering manufacturing, engineering and programming. It gave him the basics in theory, drawing and writing, and working with CAD. "Part of the curriculum was a two-hour lab class where students were making a tool maker's vise, which exposed me to some machining disciplines," Eric said. "It was the 'ah-ha' moment for me. Using my head and my hands together was something I really enjoyed."
Eric completed that 18-month program and then took another one on machine tools. "I had no idea what machine tools were before enrolling. It was an eye-opening experience that allowed me to complete my second degree of sorts."
Upon completing his studies, Eric took a job at a small tool and die shop in Lincoln, Nebraska. "I was able to work with CNCs, manual machines and electrodes, making fixtures and molds," he recalled. "I had the opportunity to get into mold design, and because I had the manufacturing engineering degree, it gave me the foot in the door to take more training on that." Eric only spent three years in the shop, but it gave him a lot of valuable experience and exposed him to a variety of machining applications.
Eric's next position was with MetalQuest Unlimited, which was a startup at the time. "Today, they are the gold standard when it comes to manufacturing, with well over 65 employees," Eric said. "But back then, it was just owner Scott Harms and me. I was able to be a part of the company startup and initial growth." It didn't take long for them to pick up speed and started realizing some level of success. "MetalQuest is an incredible company," Eric said. "I was very grateful to be a part of their development.
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In 1999, Eric and a partner opened a new job shop in a 6,000 square foot building outside of Lincoln, Nebraska. "I took anything we could get into the door to make," he said. "It was a lot of hard work, but being single, I was up for it." Eric says his main goal at the time was building relationships, not earning a paycheck.
Eric admits the first few years were slow. "I wondered if this was what it was going to be like," he said. "But I kept focused on what I needed to do to grow the business. I'm nothing if not persistent."
Turning the corner
Eric says the shop really started seeing some level of success about twelve years ago. "We had a few really good customers that helped us get through the 2008 recession," he said. "While a lot of shops were struggling, we had a fair amount of momentum." In fact, business was so good that the company outgrew their space and began to think about building a new facility. "That took a horrific amount of time and things did slow down in the shop," Eric said. "But we kept our heads down and kept working on the projects in house as well as bringing in new customers and keeping up with the growth of the ones we had."
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More space means more equipment. Eric estimates that he has spent well over $1 million dollars in capital expenditures this year. Naturally, he turned to Doosan and Ellison Technologies for his needs. "We just bought our 5th mill-turn center, a PUMA MX 2100. We also purchased three new DNM 4500s. I couldn't be more pleased with what Doosan's done for us." He especially appreciates that they come standard with the things that people want, like high pressure coolant, probes and touch setters.
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Eric says that he is comfortable with where Zermätt is at this time, and is happy with its growth and the current crew. He has built a great company and facility backed by a strong culture. Thanks to his laid-back management style, the atmosphere in the plant is relaxed but focused. He listens to feedback from his employees and does not hesitate to initiate changes as long as the work gets done. "We're pretty flexible about starting times, lunch breaks, and time off for school events," Eric said. "Workers today want to spend quality time with their families." This insight might stem from the fact that Eric himself is now married with three children. "I never thought I'd get married because I was so involved with work," he said. "But now I love to find the time to go to music recitals and flag football games. I wouldn't miss it for the world."
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El New Queer Cinema és un moviment cinematogràfic nascut dins del cinema independent de EE.UU. a principis dels anys 90. Els directors d'aquest moviment es van caracteritzar per la seva aproximació a la cultura queer i el seu cinema pretenia ser un revulsiu enfront les pel·lícules que buscaven donar imatges edulcorades de l'homosexualitat, tals com Maurice (James Ivory, 1987), El banquet de noces (Ang Lee, 1993) o Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993).

L'expressió New Queer Cinema va ser utilitzada per primera vegada per la periodista B. Ruby Rich en un article publicat el 1992 en la revista britànica Sight & Sound. En aquest article s'analitzava la nombrosa presència de pel·lícules amb temàtica homosexual en els festivals de cinema de l'any anterior. Alguns d'aquests films van ser Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien, 1991), Poison (Todd Haynes, 1990), 1992) i Swoon (Tom Kalin, 1992).

Aquesta generació de cineastes va destacar pel caràcter radical de les seves pel·lícules i per la seva forma de tractar les identitats sexuals, que desafiaven tant l'statu quo heterosexual, com la promoció d'imatges positives de l'homosexualitat que reivindicava el moviment LGBT. Aquests directors no pretenien fer un cinema de bons i dolents o que els seus personatges donessin bon exemple de l'homosexualitat, sinó poder reflectir la diferència sexual sense autocensura i allunyar-se de les convencions heterosexuals aplicades al cinema gai.

Una de les causes del caràcter rebel d'aquests realitzadors va ser que van començar a dirigir pel·lícules quan la comunitat gai encara estava commocionada per l'impacte de la sida i el neoconservadurisme promogut per Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush i Margaret Thatcher, que encara estava vigent.

També van comptar amb companyies de producció pròpies com Killer Films, cofundada per Christine Vachon, que va produir els debuts de Haynes i Kalin i la posterior Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999). Una altra productora cinematogràfica destacable és Andrea Sperling, qui va produir The Hours and the Estafis i totes les pel·lícules de Gregg Araki; actualment produeix, entre d'altres, els films de la directora Jamie Babbit com But I'm a Cheerleader (1999).

Directors
 Gus Van Sant: Mala Nit, La meva Idaho privat, Elles també es deprimeixen
 Rose Troche: Go Fish
 Todd Haynes: Poison, Safe, Dottie Gets Spanked, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, I'm not there.
 Christopher Munch: The Hours and Estafis
 Gregg Araki: The Living End, The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin
 Tom Kalin: Swoon
 Derek Jarman: Eduardo II, Caravaggio, Wittgenstein.
 Bruce LaBruce: No Skin Off My Ass
 Scott Coane: Shaving Ryan's Privates
 Bill Sherwood: Parting Glances
 Cheryl Dunye: The Watermelon Woman
 Jennie Livingston: Paris is Burning

Influència posterior
Amb l'excepció de Gregg Araki, qui segueix fidel a l'estil de les seves primeres pel·lícules, els realitzadors del New Queer Cinema van deixar de fer cinema o van ampliar i van suavitzar el seu discurs, com és el cas de Gus Van Sant o Todd Haynes. Però la influència del moviment es pot rastrar en altres directors posteriors com John Cameron Mitchell o en pel·lícules com Johns (Scott Silver, 1996) o The Fluffer (Richard Glatzer i Wash West, 2001)

Vegeu també
 Cinema independent
 Teoria queer

Referències

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Italian Beverage Maker Campari Group Hit with Ransomware Attack
November 10, 2020 by TJ
A ransomware attack hit famous Italian beverage company Campari Group on Sunday, November 1st, resulting in a massive shutdown of its IT network and allegedly 2TB of stolen files. The hackers who orchestrated the onslaught are part of the RagnarLocker ransomware gang, according to a copy of the ransom note that malware researcher Pancak3 acquired and shared with ZDNet. To retrieve the breached data, the cybercrime group has demanded $15 million in bitcoin. Otherwise, they will publish and/or sell the documents "through an auction to any third parties" if the company doesn't pay within a week of the attack.
Campari Group revealed the news in a press release, saying they were the subject of a malware attack. "The Group's IT department, with the support of IT security experts, immediately took action to limit the spread of malware in data and systems," the statement added. Moreover, the company doesn't expect any significant impact of financial repercussions caused by the incident. Campari hasn't contacted RagnarLocker yet, opting to restore their files through backups instead. However, its websites, phone lines, and email servers were still down five days after the ransomware attacks.
The RagnarLocker gang released screenshots of Campari Group's corporate documents and internal networks on the dark web as proof that the hack was successful. The published stolen data includes employee tax returns, bank statements, and a copy of the partnership with US actor Mathew McConaughey for the Wild Turkey bourbon brand. Campari owns several other popular alcohol brands like SKYY vodka, Grand Marnier, Frangelico, and Epsilon. After Arizona Beverages, it is the second major beverage vendor to fall victim to a ransomware attack in the past two years. RagnarLocker has claimed other high-profile victims this year, including French shipping giant CMA CGM and Portuguese energy company Energias de Portugal (EDP).
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