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Human Rights, Women's Rights: Plodding Toward Progress
Susan Bailey on March 20, 2015
"Fighting for women's equality is an arduous but necessary process, ploddingly pursued by dedicated women and men who refuse to accept a lesser role for women in society." Jean Hardisty (1945-2015)
March is Women's History Month, but the history being made in the US is far from uplifting. Women continue to be an easy batting ball for political impasses. We continue to struggle for basics readily available in most other developed nations: e.g. paid family and sick leave, adequate childcare, health and reproductive rights. As an antidote to setbacks in this country—where we seem to be in the two-steps-back phase of the old 'three steps forward, two steps back' adage—I've looked at reports released in conjunction with this month's 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). There are some encouraging signs. But progress is slow, uneven; the struggle for women's rights and equality is far from over. Nevertheless, celebrating positive accomplishments can provide motivation needed to keep us all plodding ahead, no matter how soggy the road. Jean Hardisty knew better than anyone how critical plodding along is. For all of us around the country—and in various corners of the world— who knew Jean as a beloved colleague, mentor and leader in the battle for human rights and justice, there is no better way to honor her life and her work than to keep on plodding.
So, some good news gleaned from reports on progress for women since the 1995 United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing:
The global rate of maternal deaths in childbirth has dropped by over forty percent;
Adolescent births have fallen by more than thirty percent;
Many countries have made significant gains in girls' education, particularly at the primary school level;
And people everywhere are paying more attention to gender gaps in access and opportunities on everything from health services and education to leadership, employment and earnings.
Sadly, for almost every positive statement one can make, there is a 'but'. And some 'buts' are so overwhelming it seems pointless to mention the positive. For example, awareness of violence against women has grown, but the violence itself has not lessened. One third of the world's women have experienced physical or sexual violence. It is estimated that the number girls among trafficking victims has increased by more than ten percent in the past seven years.
The Beijing meetings two decades ago were electrifying. A total of 17,000 women and men from 189 countries attended the official Fourth United Nations Conference on Women. Another 30,000 took part in the parallel NGO Forum held outside the capital in Huairou. We returned to our homes around the globe committed to doing whatever we could, both individually and collectively, to implement the Beijing Platform for Action. Many of those unable to attend the meetings in China were eager partners. In country after country, women and men worked together to ensure the 'full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life.'
But the transformative promise of the Beijing Platform for Action has not yet been fulfilled. The Platform was a call for a change in focus from women to gender. A call for recognizing that the structure of society and relationships between women and men must be rethought if women are to be fully empowered as equal partners with men. The Platform affirmed that women's rights are human rights, that gender equality benefits everyone. In retrospect these called for changes in thinking and action were exceedingly ambitious given the ten-year time frame originally stated. Even after twenty years we have not succeeded. But ambitious goals generate ambitious plans, and ambitious plans are required to sustain commitment, passion, and determined action.
As the Women's Rights Caucus stated last week in response to the draft declaration from CSW: "At a time when urgent action is needed to fully realize gender equality, the human rights and empowerment of women and girls, we need renewed commitment, a heightened level of ambition, real resources, and accountability." Some UN member states may not share this perspective. Nations that do must speak loudly. Within a few days over seven hundred and fifty organizations had signed the caucus statement. NGOs representing women from all parts of the world and all strata of society must push, and push hard to ensure that the spirit as well as the letter of the Beijing Platform is carried forward.
None of this work is easy. Much of it is unpopular in certain circles. But we have pushed and plodded our way this far. A forty percent decline in maternal morbidity is a major step forward. The progress in access to primary education for girls is impressive. Many more huge steps await. We have done it before; we can do it again. And again, and again, and again!
Layli Maparyan — March 23, 2015
Susan, this was a wonderfully nuanced overview of both CSW59 and Beijing+20 -- not to mention a lovely tribute to Jean Hardisty. Thanks for compiling all these facts and putting them into context in a way that only someone who had attended Beijing/Huairou could have done. I will certainly be sharing this one!
Nancy — March 24, 2015
I wish I had known Jean Hardisty. Thanks for keeping me conscious. Just forwarded your reflection to one of my sisters who was in Beijing as a reminder. if I could figure out my FB account I would send it on!!!
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There are a lot of SaaS used by Malaysian business nowadays, for example, the accounting system, GST calculation system and ERP systems that managed and owned by other companies. On the other hand, the PaaS offers a platform that resides on the cloud. One of the famous examples is a platform for software developer that might not want to buy their own software builder and computer, but prefer to use it per project basis. The PaaS might not be as famous as the SaaS and IaaS in Malaysian business environment. Meanwhile, the IaaS refers to hardware such the CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage and others.
Nowadays, there are a lot of start-ups or new business in Malaysia. These company often need to quickly promote or develop their products and services and do not have a lot of budget for IT. Marketing, accounting, inventory management, payment, and billing, backing up data and sharing information using the traditional ways are possible but could be more difficult when the business is scaling up or grow. Therefore, cloud service is one of the solutions.
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NHS Emergency Rooms (ER) and Urgent Care Centres (UCC) saw a six percent overall increase in patient volumes yesterday as compared to the daily average last month; 542 patients yesterday compared to the September daily average of 512.
An additional 38 patients were seen in the Flu Assessment Centre, for a 13 percent overall increase of ER, Urgent Care and Flu Assessment Centre visits. Of the 580 patients seen in the ERs, UCCs and Flu Assessment Centre, 52 per cent of patients, or 301 patients, presented with flu symptoms.
Redirecting patients with minor symptoms to the Flu Assessment Centre (FAC) is taking some of the pressure off the ERs and Urgent Care Centres. In the first four days of operation, the FAC saw a total of 202 patients. People should only go to the FAC if they have minor flu symptoms – fever, dry cough, sore throat, mild vomiting, diarrhea, headache, body/muscle aches. They should go to the ER or call 911 if their condition is more serious.
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VDSL Slowdown - Spark unhelpful!
Forums › Spark New Zealand › VDSL Slowdown - Spark unhelpful!
I've only posted a couple of times on here but always been overwhelmed by how helpful people are! I'm having an issue but not getting much joy dealing with Spark so hoping someone here will be able to give some advice.
We have a VDSL connection. We are at the distance limit from the exchange but have a very stable connection. Latency (using the spark speedtest) is usually around 23ms, Download 13, upload 0.9. Not perfect but works well for us. We only watch streaming TV, and usually have no issues, even when the kids are using computers elsewhere for game playing etc.
On friday all of our streaming services stopped working (Apple TV, Roku 3 and Roku stick). A speediest (when it eventually loaded) had a latency of 1468 and the download speed was 1.
I have a TG589vn v2 bridged to a Linksys WRT1900ac. I reset both of these (soft reset first, and then hard reset and re-input the settings) and no improvement. All wiring is intact and no evidence of damage. When Chorus installed the VDSL we were unable to find the point where the cable entered the (old) house, and so we dug up the garden and the engineer installed a new termination point on the outside wall, and ran a new cable to a dedicated point inside. So I'm guessing the internal wiring is fine.
So I decided it must be a Spark issue and would see if it resolved itself. The following day there was no change - speed tests vary enormously . Latency is always higher than normal - the best I've seen is about 98 and the worst 1500. Download speeds are varying from nothing (the page won't even load) to 10. I reset the TG589vn to act as modem and router (to remove the Linksys router from the chain) and no improvement. I logged a call with Spark who did a line test, advised there were issues, and that they would get an engineer to check the line. they advised that he would contact me if he needed access to the house.
I called again yesterday to report no improvement and check on progress. This time language was something of a barrier, but the lady said she would put in a request for information and call me back in an hour. When she called back she said there was no problem with the line and the speeds I getting are the best possible for the line. I disagreed, seeing we have had a stable 13 download speed for twelve months or so, and now the speed is all over the place. She said they would keep an eye on the line but there's nothing further they could do.
This morning I swapped the modem out for a HG659b I use at work. No change - five speed tests in a row will produce five different results, lowest being a fail to initialise and the fastest today being 6 download. The graph which appears is usually fairly solid but since I've being having this issue it looks like the southern alps...all peaks and troughs.
I felt from the conversation with Spark last night that they have done what they are going to do. But having tried a different modem (and being confident the internal wiring is good) I'm at a loss.
Sorry it's a wordy post but wanted to give as much information as I could! Hoping someone can advise if there's anything else I should be doing, or if I've missed something obvious!
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- If you know your connection is to an exchange, cabinet or conklin No idea.
- If your connection is to a ULL or wholesale service No idea.
- If you have done an isolation test as per the link above All testing done on an iMac connected via ethernet. Wifi on the modem is off.
Be glad you didn't get charged $150 by them for no fault found like they have done to my flatmate for logging a fault for his vdsl becoming crap.
Basically they don't care about the copper anymore. It's old and why fix what will they will be paid to replace with fiber sometime soon.
You may be better off moving back to adsl since your upload speed was always bad it means your like was probably borderline for vdsl even working and has now become worse.
Could the cross talk make this worse? Maybe revert back to ADSL2?
please follow peter readers advice and answer his questions the best you can.
Speedtests can be unreliable so we need more info on your connection.
you'll probably be better off just moving back to ADSL.
Minimum acceptable speeds for a VDSL connection are generally agreed to be 15Mbps down, 5Mbps up.
I don't understand why you paid for VDSL when you were only getting ADSL speeds.
As others have said, go back to ADSL - your connection may improve.
You did not mention having a VDSL master filter - on a line like yours this is mandatory.
Hi, thank you for all your replies. I've posted the info gleaned by telnet above.
There is a splitter - installed outside in the junction box when the engineer ran the new line into the house.
I understand all the comments about being on ADSL - we were only getting download speeds of 6 or so on ADSL and so 13 was a significant improvement. I appreciate that with the VDSL install came new internal wiring and so the ADSL speeds could have course have improved as a result of that.
What I really don't understand, though, is how I could have a totally stable connection for twelve months or more, and suddenly on Friday a severe deterioration in speed. I suppose that's what I'm trying to understand.
I don't really want to move off the VDSL plan because we are moving house in a month and will be much closer to the exchange. However that's a month away and in the meantime I have Spark saying nothing's wrong, my speed is as good as the line will support. Yet last week we could stream HDTV and this week I can barely load a webpage. At best I'm getting download speeds of 6, and often the page won't load at all. So clearly something has changed somewhere!
Probably water in the line somewhere. They will not investigate it based on a couple of friends experiences and will just have you doing the runaround dance with isolation tests and port resets and wait 24 hours for that to happen etc till it drys out and starts working again.
richms: Probably water in the line somewhere. They will not investigate it based on a couple of friends experiences and will just have you doing the runaround dance with isolation tests and port resets and wait 24 hours for that to happen etc till it drys out and starts working again.
Chrisclarke: Hi, thank you for all your replies. I've posted the info gleaned by telnet above.
First off your speed was NOT satisfactory. It was below VDSL2 spec and I'm really, really, really surprised you even had working VDSL2. That is the worst VDSL2 sync speed I've ever seen.
If you only had 6Mbps on ADSL2+ it was because of poor internal wiring. There is no way somebody getting that speed on ADSL2+ would ever get VDSL2 normally. With those stats after an install your connection should have immediately been moved back to ADSL2+ because it was unsuitable to stay on VDSL2.
With such an incredibly poor connection it would take very little to make it totally unusable - whether this be something as simply as moisture in a connection, or more likely far end crosstalk from other VDSL2 connection.
Thanks for that. I should have said that the download speed was satisfactory for me! The first Chorus guy that came installed the splitter inside the house. He left with the connection not working well, which I understand shouldn't have happened. I had a battle getting Telecom to send them back to do the job properly. The second guy was excellent and was patient while I dug the garden up to find the incoming line. He fixed a box to the wall outside, with the splitter in it, and crawled around under the house to run a line to a new socket in the living room. All that took two weeks and I was so glad to have a working connection I just accepted the 13 download speed.
- wait for 24 hours and see if it continues to improve. If it does, it could be moisture somewhere drying out?
- if there's no improvement call 123 again and ask them to revert the connection back to ADSL.
Does that sound like a sensible approach?
I'm aware of a Chorus fault that has begun affecting a number of our customers (not anywhere near all!) in East Auckland last Friday in terms of their speeds at peak times.
If you PM me your details I should be able to tell you if this is affecting you or not.
We do not have an expected time of resolution from Chorus on this issue.
sbiddle: ... First off your speed was NOT satisfactory. It was below VDSL2 spec and I'm really, really, really surprised you even had working VDSL2. That is the worst VDSL2 sync speed I've ever seen.


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By the end of 2013, Roberta Firstenberg was losing her battle with cancer. After several months of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, she was told that the treatments were no longer effective. It was around this time that her granddaughter, Priscilla Firstenberg – a 2D and 3D video game artist – moved in to help take care of her. Pri would come home after work each night and sit with her grandma. The two would talk long into the evening until Roberta fell asleep. It was during this time that Pri decided to record her grandma's most cherished memories and stories. One night, Roberta revealed an usual dream she'd had, where a future, time travelling version of Pri and her sister came to visit. They promised to take Roberta back into the future and cure her cancer, using a time travelling chair that would also enable her to explore and see the world once again. Roberta remarked how she missed the outside world, in particular how she could no longer step into her own yard. Her favourite pastime was caring for the garden.
Because of her previous experiences with customer services, Pri didn't expect to hear back anytime soon. The doctors had given her grandma one to two months to live, so there was little chance she'd get to experience the outside world again via the Rift headset. However, the next day an email from Kevin Crawford, Oculus's Customer Service Lead, was sitting in her inbox. "I pretty much cried at my desk reading it," said Pri.
The team forwarded this to me for review today. Thank you very much for the heartfelt email. We're all really sorry to hear about your grandmother and can sympathize/empathize with your situation.
The email has made its rounds within the Support group and it was a unanimous decision that we needed to help you out.
Unfortunately, we can't send you out a brand new unit as we're still trying to fulfill our backlog queue of existing orders, but, we have just received a few developer loaner samples back in the office.
Keeping with the spirit of these specific Rifts, it only makes sense that we loan a working developer Rift to another game dev.
This industry can be brutal when you work from project to project. Games get shelved, cancelled, or completed, but regardless of the reason, the work is done, and it's on to the next adventure.
We're in this industry because we are passionate about what we do and I can see from your website, and your art, that you are passionate about what you do.
I'll work to get one of these Rifts out the door to you today if I can. Please provide me your address, city, state, and zip. I'll take care of the rest.
That night, Pri loaded up Street View and handed the Rift headset to her grandma. "I could see her smile really wide as she looked around. She smiled as she looked herself up and down, but then it started to fade as she remarked: I look so healthy there…" Standing behind Roberta is Spec, her dog who had died just months earlier. "Look how young Spec is," Roberta said, then asked Pri to stop the feed. As she wiped away a tear it was obvious she'd had enough for the day.
A few days later Roberta was compiling a list of all the places she wanted to visit on Street View using the Oculus Rift. In the meantime, Pri had gathered a handful of friends and colleagues who worked as artists and game developers. An ambitious plan was formed: to create a unique VR experience for Roberta to explore and enjoy, filled with butterflies, waterfalls and a forest with fairies — all the things that Roberta loved and talked about. "We had pushed out a couple concepts and a few models," said Pri, "but four days in, my grandmother's cancer had suddenly spread and she was too weak and confused to use it." The Project was cancelled.
Roberta's experience with the Oculus Rift only hints at the possibilities that virtual reality affords. It's escapism in its most visceral form, transforming the lives of those with severe and crippling limitations. The Rift headset enabled Roberta to walk again, to reach out at virtual butterflies, and to forget all of her problems if only for a brief moment. In the videos comments section below Pri's video, mdbuehler describes how he visits assisted living homes, and uses the Rift to let pilots and veterans fly again. It's just another example of how this new technology is being used for the benefit of others.
Gamers have dreamed about virtual reality for decades, imagining themselves in the cockpits of spaceships, or firing a virtual weapon at foes, but Roberta's story gives hope of something far more profound: of changing lives for the better. We're only just beginning to discover new ways of using virtual reality to explore the world, to aid those suffering from illness and to better the lives of others — and we have far to go — but as Roberta, Pri, and the Oculus team have shown, there's much to be hopeful for.


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How To Manage Vehicle Traffic Through Technology
INTERNET OF THINGS, TECHNOLOGY
Vehicle traffic control in cities and highways is one of the most important aspects to deal with when we consider innovating infrastructure to get closer to the ideal of the future city. According to the WHO, approximately 1.3 million people die in road accidents each year, so reducing the volume of vehicles and managing those that continue to travel are urgent issues for the future, seeking to prevent this statistic from continuing or increasing.
Although the expansion of the roads to travel by car has been the solution preferred by most governments, the statistics have not shown significant reductions, so it is time to look for alternatives that, through technological innovation, allow simplifying the daily traffic. These high-tech solutions are a step forward to creating true "Smart Cities" that enable smart devices daily to adaptively manage city and cargo transportation in real-time.
What solutions currently exist? Where have they been implemented, and what positive changes did the cities that have implemented them present? Next, we will list specific cases that can be role models for all the countries of the world that are looking for a new way to manage their transport efficiently and safely.
Smart Solutions Around The World
Lima, Peru, is a pioneer thanks to the so-called "green waves" that, with great success, managed to reduce traffic jams during peak hours, lowering the waiting time of each vehicle in traffic by up to 30%. What does it consist of? They are the coordination of a series of traffic lights to remain green so that the vast majority of cars on the road, ordinarily congested, can circulate in the same general direction.
This is made possible thanks to resources already in place, such as programmable traffic lights, combined with innovative new equipment that sends data through smart sensors determining the time and place where continuous circulation protocols can be enabled.
This solution is useful in city spaces, although there are also those that, with similar innovation, focus on solving road problems. In Melbourne, Australia, where adaptive signs were installed along the highways that, depending on data accumulated with techniques similar to those used in Lima, change the legends presented on the signs, from the maximum speed to the travel time.
Combined with its sensors, the city of Melbourne installed closed-circuit cameras that allow them to monitor the flow of traffic in real-time, being able to make the necessary changes from one moment to the next. Thus, the signs reflect if there were accidents, alternative routes with less congestion, or if the speed can increase because the road is free, among other indications.
In addition to solutions focused on movement, some seek to control the volume of parked cars and the spaces designated for this purpose. In Valencia, Spain, they implemented downloadable applications on Smartphones that, in addition to managing common parking spaces in real-time, also manage more than 1,000 spaces intended for people with reduced mobility, taxis, or freight vehicles, thus saving time users allocate to appropriate spaces for them and even report possible waiting times for those looking for a place to park.
This solution is an example of how technological innovation can be used for the convenience of users and the sustainable objectives of cities since timely assigning drivers,
The investments that cities allocate to widening roads for transit are very laudable, but to see a significant reduction in accidents or congestion, they need to combine construction with innovation. In many cases, the infrastructure already exists, as with traffic lights or closed-circuit cameras, so all that is needed is an initiative that uses them for these new purposes.
Also Read: 6 Unique Features Of A Smart Home
Why Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous?


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Grizzy et les Lemmings () est une série d'animation 3D française en  de sept minutes créée par Josselin Charier et Antoine Rodelet, produite par Hari Productions (anciennement Studio Hari), distribuée par Hari International, et diffusée d'abord au Royaume-Uni à partir du  sur Boomerang, au Québec à partir du  à Télé-Québec, et en France à partir du  sur France 3 dans la case jeunesse Ludo.

Les créations graphiques sont de Bertrand Gatignol pour les personnages et Édouard Cellura et Alexandre de Broca pour les décors. En , Hari Productions annonce le développement d'une troisième saison, intitulée Grizzy & Les Lemmings autour du monde.
Une quatrième saison est annoncée.

Synopsis
Dans une réserve naturelle, Grizzy, gros ours placide et chapardeur, vit comme un roi dans la forêt canadienne, n'hésitant pas à s'approprier la cabane du garde forestier dès que celui-ci a le dos tourné, afin de se détendre et jouir du confort et des nombreuses commodités qu'offre l'habitation. Parce qu'il est au sommet de la chaîne alimentaire, l'ours estime parfaitement légitime que la cabane lui revienne, dès que son propriétaire s'en éloigne. Aucun animal, c'est sûr, n'oserait contester les avantages de l'ours. Seuls les lemmings, de petits mammifères facétieux, lui contestent ses privilèges. Ils sont tous prêts à en découdre pour profiter des joies de la cabane !

La cohabitation ne sera certainement pas de tout repos !

Fiche technique
 Réalisateurs saison 1 : Victor Moulin, Cédric Lachenaud, Clément Girard, Alexandre Wahl, Célestine Jacquel-Plays
 Scénaristes saison 1 : Josselin Charier, Antoine Rodelet, Alexandre So, Victor Moulin, Fanny Marseau, Simon Lecocq, Valérie Chappellet, Clément Girard, Cédric Lachenaud, Célestine Jacquel-Plays, Alexandre Wahl, Sébastien Guérout
 Réalisateurs saison 2 : Victor Moulin, Cédric Lachenaud, Alexandre Wahl, Corentin Lecourt, Idriss Benseghir, Célestine Jacquel-Plays
 Scénaristes saison 2 : Josselin Charier, Antoine Rodelet, Simon Lecocq, Valérie Chappellet, Clément Girard, Victor Moulin, Corentin Lecourt, Idriss Benseghir, Célestine Jacquel-Plays, Cédric Lachenaud, Alexandre Wahl, Sébastien Guérout
 Réalisateurs saison 3 : Victor Moulin, Cédric Lachenaud, Célestine Jacquel-Plays, Idriss Benseghir, Corentin Lecourt
 Scénaristes saison 3 : Josselin Charier, Antoine Rodelet, Victor Moulin, Corentin Lecourt, Idriss Benseghir, Célestine Jacquel-Plays, Cédric Lachenaud

Voix
 Pierre-Alain de Garrigues : Grizzy
 Josselin Charier : Lemmings

Épisodes

TOTAL : 234 épisodes

Saison 1 (2015–2016)

Saison 2 (2018–2019)

Saison 3 (2021–2022) - Autour du monde

Distribution
La série est distribuée par Hari International dans le monde entier.

Diffusion
La série fut initialement diffusée sur Boomerang au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande dès le .

Au Québec, la série débute le  à Télé-Québec.

Il faudra attendre le  pour la première diffusion française, sur France 3, dans la case jeunesse Ludo. La série est rediffusée sur Boomerang depuis le  et sur France 4 à partir du .

Grizzy et les Lemmings est diffusée aux États-Unis à partir d' sur Boomerang.

En Belgique, la série est diffusée sur OUFtivi depuis . En Pologne, la série est diffusée sur Puls 2.

En Indonésie, cette série télévisée n'a commencé à être diffusée sur ANTV qu'en 2020, mais elle est toujours diffusée sur Boomerang et Cartoon Network jusqu'à présent.

La diffusion de la saison 2 en France commence sur France 3, dans la case jeunesse Ludo le samedi .

La plateforme Netflix propose la saison 1 de la série depuis le .

La saison 3 sera diffusée en avant-première le  sur la plateforme Okoo et à partir du  sur France 4.

Distinctions
 Le , Grizzy et les Lemmings remporte le Laurier dans la catégorie animation jeunesse, lors de la  des Lauriers de la Radio et de la Télévision.
 Le , Grizzy et les Lemmings remporte le Kidscreen Awards de la meilleure série animée, catégorie Kids, lors du Kidscreen Summit 2018 à Miami.
 En , Grizzy et les Lemmings obtient un EMIL Award distinguant les meilleurs programmes pour enfants, décerné par le magazine allemand TV Spielfilm.
 En , Grizzy et les Lemmings remporte le prix de la meilleure série TV lors du festival international des films d'animation TOFUZI, en Géorgie.
 Le , Grizzy et les Lemmings remporte le Prix export Animation de TV France International au Trianon, à Paris.
 Le , Grizzy et les Lemmings (saison 2) est distinguée par le Prix du meilleur Programme de télévision pour enfants par le festival International Dytiatko en Ukraine.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Studio Hari
 Pipas & Douglas
 La Chouette et
 La Chouette
 Léon (t)erreur de la savane

Liens externes

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Série télévisée française des années 2010
Série télévisée française des années 2020
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30 Scene Ideas for Plot Development
Ideas, NaNoWriMo, Plotting
Plot development is best approached holistically, and if you're struggling with it, I would recommend trying a plot formula to structure your story. However, these scene ideas can certainly jumpstart a flagging plotline, especially if you're a pantser.
Also, don't miss this How to Plot a Novel video workshop!
What develops plot?
ACTION & REACTION – It's easy to see how action develops plot, but writers often miss the importance of reaction. Characters reflecting on events that have taken place can have an important effect on the plot. Dwight Swain calls this "Scene and Sequel".
DECISIONS – The decisions made by characters can change the direction of the plot, as well as develop character.
SUCCESSES & FAILURES – Part of the action/reaction dialectic is the tension created by the success or failure of an action or series of actions. This determines the course the plot takes, and the course it avoids.
CONFLICT – Conflict (whether internal or external) provides the interface between character, plot, and world. Both the creation of conflict, and its resolution can move the plot forward.
MOVEMENT (INWARD OR OUTWARD) – The character leaves on a journey, or a character comes to town. Movement sparks off more movement.
CHANGES IN PERSPECTIVE – The narrator can switch the perspective to refocus the story, but the character's internal Shift in perspective is also often a vital source for revelations that deepen the plot.
TIME – This is obvious when you think about it, but in practice sometimes you need to remind yourself that you may not have given your plot enough (story) time to develop. Things take time.
RELATED: Vision Vignettes (Journal Worksheet Wednesday)
Scene Ideas for Plot Development
A character or event starts a ticking clock.
A character (the antagonist?) reveals a deeper motivation.
A stranger enters the story.
There is a chase. Who is caught? Who escapes?
Foreshadow a character or event.
A valuable object (MacGuffin?) enters the story and the characters all vie for possession of it.
A previously neutral character is drawn into the conflict.
An attack takes the character and their allies by surprise.
A success creates a new problem.
A group of characters split up to deal with different parts of a problem.
A character or flashback provides the history of an event or person.
A new antagonist emerges.
A character or group of characters takes time to weigh their options and come to a decision.
Show time passing.
A problem that the character thought they had solved returns, more difficult and more urgent.
A character or group of characters is trapped, as time runs out.
Show the consequences of failure.
A conflict is resolved.
A character (forcefully, eagerly, unwillingly?) assumes command.
A fight erupts.
A character or group of characters react to the previous scene.
A character leaves and forces other characters to fill the (narrative or physical) space they vacated.
A character shifts their perspective, or the perspective shifts to another character (who may be the narrator).
A character relates something that has happened "off-stage" or internally.
A character or group of characters form a new alliance.
A judgement is enacted.
A character creates a diversion.
A character asks or sends for help or goes to the rescue.
A character or group of characters leave on a quest.
A character or group of characters struggle to avoid conflict.


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I USUALLY steer clear of commenting on football. There are people far more qualified than me to write about it but, after more than 25 years of supporting Bradford City, I feel I've earned an opinion.
And, yes, I'm mainly an armchair fan. Circumstances have meant I've been able to attend only a handful of matches in all those years but that doesn't mean I have any less interest in their fortunes or any less pride in their achievements.
I'm perfectly prepared to be shot down by those who know better but, like many, I feel compelled by the sacking of Stuart McCall to stick my head over the parapet.
I've met and known a fair few football managers in my career, some of them in the top flight, but I doubt I've ever met another one as dedicated, passionate, gritty and determined as Stuart McCall.
I know for a fact that I've never met one who was a nicer guy.
The gallery above from the T&A archive, covering his playing days with City, sums him up: there are as many pictures of him getting involved in the community as there are of him on a football pitch.
I still have a picture on my office wall of one of my proudest moments as an editor when I tossed the coin to start the "All Stars" match we helped organise, along with the City Supporters' Trust, in 2004 to raise urgent funds for the Save Our City campaign after the Bantams plunged into administration.
Stuart was playing for Sheffield United at the time but returned to captain the City side and that great footballing gentleman, Wayne Jacobs, led the pro-celebrity opposition. Despite its serious purpose – and my recollection is it raised a fantastic total of more than £90,000 – it was immensely entertaining and huge fun.
But it was still a football match which meant Stuart still wanted to win it.
That desire for victory at all costs is what marked him out as a great footballer and put the iron in his soul as a manager and coach.
Let no-one for a second doubt that City losing their last six matches has been anything but absolutely gutting for him. Stuart is a battler and a warrior and he will have felt it bitterly – it will also have made him even more determined to shake off the bad run of form and get it right next time.
To be sacked at this stage of the season is a huge blow for him, personally, and only time will tell what it means for the club.
We have to question, though, the thinking behind such brutal decisions. This is League One, not the Premiership.
Yes, if you're paying managers and players in millions and forking out obscene sums of money in transfer deals you have, to a certain extent, a right to expect instant results and consistent success.
If you pay £50 million for a striker and he doesn't get a goal in his first few games, you must start to question his ability and the manager's decision to buy him.
There are exceptions even at this level, though, and you have to admire the way Arsenal have stuck with Arsene Wenger despite his failure to achieve the same success as the likes of Manchester (City or United).
Back here on earth, it has to be remembered that City have barely been out of the top five in league One since Stuart took the reins.
Yes, they've had a bad run so far this year (not that uncommon in City's history) but they're still in the top six, for heaven's sake, and still in with every chance of making the play-offs, even if automatic promotion looks an unlikely prospect.
What's more, there's been no time yet for the new blood – such as it is – to settle in. New players always unbalance a team; they take time to get to know each other and adapt their individual styles to suit.
The best person to manage that process is someone who knows them intimately, someone who works closely with them day in, day out on the training pitch, who listens to them in the dressing room, understands their fears and insecurities, their foibles and idiosyncrasies.
It's not a process that can be carried out remotely from the boardroom. Players aren't chess pieces or just tradeable commodities that can be added to the pack and played off like Top Trumps cards; they're human beings that need to have their egos stroked and their backsides kicked in equal measure.
Getting them all to function and perform in the right way at the right time is, of course, a manager's job. But the lower down the leagues you look, the less able, adjustable and adaptable players become. It's human nature.
Bad runs are part and parcel of football at this level and managers that can keep a team in the top five for 18 months don't suddenly lose their skills overnight.
As City fans, we have to hope that whoever succeeds Stuart can pick up where he left off and that the shock of his departure will galvanise the team into a better response than they've so far produced in 2018.
Whatever the outcome, most will agree that Stuart McCall had earned greater loyalty from a club that is built into his DNA.
There's no doubt that he'll continue to support Bradford City and will the next manager to succeed. And if they ever need him to turn out for a club-saving charity match, you can be sure he'll be back like a shot, because the club will always be bigger than those who become its custodians – and some people will stay City 'til they die.


The HAB platform will address all kinds of organisations operating IoT device-to-cloud information systems.
2. Using this data through smart contracts in business processes.
To design a scalable blockchain architecture, a dual approach is developed, running a dedicated side-chain (the HAB Microchain) and allow the players to log additional data on a standard public blockchain (the Ethereum blockchain) in a dedicated umbrella contract. Thus one could combine a (mostly) sufficient level of trust on the HAB Microchain with stronger guarantees to recover from serious but infrequent breaches of trust (or even crashes).


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HomeEditorial
Mallika Barsaley
COVID-19 Update: Vaccination for 12-14 Year Olds
Pandit Birju Maharaj Passes Away at 83
Shubh Mangal ; Are we Savdhan? Homophobia in Bollywood
What is your initial thought when you first think of any gay character in Bollywood movies?
Is it the cliché character in bright colored clothes behaving obnoxiously effeminate?
The portrayal of any LGBTQ person in Bollywood has over the years been used for the evocation of humor backed by a burst of dumb-witted laughter. The first gay character in Bollywood was played by Anupam Kher as 'Pinkoo' in 1991 in the film Mast Kalandar starring Dharmender. Since then, homosexual characters have been used as elements of laughter rather than elements of love and acceptance.
From cross-dressers, transgenders to gays and lesbians, Bollywood has ruthlessly shown these characters to be devoid of feelings and full of lust. Taking Suresh Menon for instance, a talented actor whose acting has been limited to being an inveterate gay man costumed in flamboyant clothes. The obsession of Bollywood to paint a gay man as an agony aunt to the lead characters is baffling in many ways. A typical presentation of a gay character would be of a man who is either lascivious in nature or lusting after every straight man, stitched to a persona of ultimate fashion guide with a squeaky voice and a limped hand, nonetheless to evoke laughter with pathetic banana and butt jokes. Rishi Kapoor in the Student Of The Year, Akshay Kumar in Dishoom, and the wedding planner in Kal Ho Na Ho (if observed) are perfect examples. While Karan Johar tried to portray a progressive outlook in Dostaana, it still ends up stereotyping Abhishek Bacchan, John Abraham, and Boman Irani to a large extent.
Lesbians, however, are seldom a feature of the film industry. They are not considered and even if they are, it's a consideration with semi-pornographic imagery with fishy giggles and an obligatory tomboy appearance of one of the partners.
Moving onto cross-dressers, by default, they become associated with putting fake breasts and a wig accompanied by a high pitched voice. Transgenders, on the other hand, are either shown as sexual predators to the hero or found roaming on streets asking for money. Most popular among them being Ali Asgar and Gaurav Grover from the Kapil Sharma Show and Saif Ali Khan in Humshakals. Here, the question of why does Bollywood not hire actual transgenders, crossdressers in their films comes to the fore.
Addressing the elephant in the room that has always existed: homophobia. Homophobia has always silently tipped toed in and around our Indian film industry, influencing each action. 'Kanta Ben' portrayed by Acharya Sulha in Kal Ho Na Ho and 'Mrs. Rina Kapoor' by Kirron Kher in Dostaana are examples of the same. Spreading vast in the industry, homophobia has prevented many artists from coming out as well as critics from acknowledging LGBTQ films.
Focusing on the silver lining, Bollywood is seen making gradual progress with movies such as Kapoor and Sons, Margarita with a Straw, Shubh Mangal Zyaada Savdhaan, Ek Ladki ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga and Aligarh. Although the inclusiveness and expressiveness still reside amongst the independent filmmakers, the crème or the higher strata still has a lot to make up for. Till then, we can only hope for the people of the community to fight harder and emerge even stronger.
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CNet Training extend sponsorship of cup
CNet Training agree new cup sponsorship
CNet Training has extended its sponsorship of Suffolk FA for a sixth season.
The international award-winning technical education company, who have been designing and delivering professional network infrastructure education programs since 1996, will once again sponsor the Suffolk Senior Cup.
CNet Training, based in Fornham St Genevieve just outside Bury St Edmunds, started their support of Suffolk FA in the 2013-14 season, sponsoring the Suffolk Junior Cup for three successive seasons.
They began their sponsorship of the Senior Cup for the 2015-16 campaign, so this will be the fourth year in a row that CNet Training has sponsored the competition.
CNet Training, CEO Andrew Stevens, who is a former Vice-Chairman of Suffolk FA, said: "At CNet, we are pleased to continue the sponsorship of the Suffolk FA Senior Cup.
"It's great to be involved in the excellent work that the Suffolk FA team does. We really enjoy seeing the sportsmanship and progression of the local teams and are pleased to feel part of the local football community."
Suffolk FA Chief Executive Richard Neal said: "I'm delighted CNet Training will be sponsoring the Suffolk Senior Cup for a fourth concurrent season, extending our relationship into a sixth year.
"This partnership, with a Suffolk based award-winning organisation who is the Global Leader in Technical Education for the Digital Infrastructure Industry, will ensure a competition first contested in 1885-86 remains as relevant and prestigious as it ever has been."
The first-round draw for this season's CNet Training Suffolk Senior Cup will be announced on BBC Radio Suffolk on Saturday, August 25th between 5.30pm and 6pm.
The first round is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 15th.
Clubhouse on course for next season
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Tier 4 guidance for 'non-elite' football
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Sunday Cup KO for 2019-20 runners-up
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Q: SQL check if row value in one column is in another column that is a list of strings I am pulling from a table that looks something like this:

Name
List

John
'John,Mary,Fred'

Mary
'Jack, John'

I need to pull only the rows where the value in the Name column is in the comma-separated list of names in the List column. In the example above, it would return just the first row. How can I do this using SQL (AWS Redshift version)?

A: This work?
SELECT *
FROM

WHERE list LIKE '%'||name||'%'

This has a hazard that 'jon' will match 'jonas'.  You can fix this will a bit extra conditions.  Also do you need this to be case insensitive? Then use ILIKE
If you need to match complete names you need to cover the 4 cases of how a name can show up in a list - first in list, middle of list, end of list, or all of the list.  Like so:
SELECT *
FROM

WHERE list LIKE name||',%'
   OR list LIKE '%,'||name||',%'
   OR list LIKE '%,'||name
   OR list LIKE name

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Q: EntityType as an input field? I'm trying to create a form with a CollectionType field containing an email field (which is one of two fields of an entity) which I want to add and remove as I wish.
Here's the scenario:
I have three entities: User, Cluster and the relationship between both called ClusterAdministrator.
Entity User has plenty of all-around attributes (id, name, email, etc). Entity Cluster has a lot of attributes too, and one of them is administrators, which is an ArrayCollection. Entity ClusterAdministrator has 3 attributes: id, user and cluster.
My BD has around 50K users. If I add an CollectionType field of a UserType, and my UserType is a form with user as a normal EntityType, app will crash because it takes more than 30seconds to render such a huge select box. If I my UserType is a form with user as an EmailType, the form is well rendered (see here), but when I click save I get the error:

Expected argument of type "App\AppBundle\Entity\User", "string" given

How do I make this work just by showing the email field?
Sorry guys, I'm quite newbie to Symfony. I'll appreciate all of your precious help.

A: You should use Data Transformer available in Symfony. All that transformer does is, transform the string(User name or email) to relevant User object. Which should solve your problem.
For a better user experience, you can convert the text box to an autocomplete with the help of jQuery. I used it long back. I used PUGXAutoCompleteBundle to generate an autocomplete field and created a custom Transformer to feed the object to parent entity.
I can share some code snippet later by tomorrow if required.
Hope this helps!


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Elliott Brood 2/10/2015
Elliott Brood
Live at
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Doors: 6:30
Music: 8:00
Upon completion of your purchase your name will be added to a list at the door; you will not be mailed tickets. Please bring a photo ID for entry. Thank you!
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Music: 8:00 pm
Tickets $12 online; $15 day of show at door
For their fifth album,
Elliott Brood wanted to
break things.
2008's Mountain Meadows was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize, and the band's last record, Days Into Years, won a 2011 Juno award for Roots Album of the Year, both co-produced with John Critchley. Now was the time to smash the precedents, break the mould. To withdraw to a farmhouse in Bath, Ontario, hammering out nine songs in two weeks.
For the first time, Elliott Brood decided to hand over the reins to a producer: Ian Blurton, who has helped make roaring records for the Weakerthans, Skydiggers and Cursed. And for the first time, the group's two songwriters decided to mine the bare histories of their own lives: penning verses about the ends of relationships and the tests of adulthood, long drives, childhood retreating in a rear-view mirror. "Work and love will make a man out of you," the Constantines sang; and so here is Elliott Brood's Work and Love, their most personal album to date, the sound of a grown-up band searching their hearts for all they've lost and gained.
Casey Laforet, Mark Sasso and Stephen Pitkin recorded Work and Love in the cold spring of 2014, as the ice was coming apart on Lake Ontario. They deserted their families and holed up in the Tragically Hip's Bathhouse Studio, scarcely emerging – waking and playing and playing and playing, one song a day. The magic usually happened some time after midnight, when they were "just tired enough". Blurton would come out and lure them into a new place: a different, even truer landscape. They called him "the Wizard". Blurton the Wizard and engineer Nyles "the Mad Scientist" Spencer, filling the corners of songs with burred effects and tape loops. Elliott Brood had "played it safe" for four records, they claim: Blurton sharpened their sound, weathered and interrogated it, forced the three musicians to confront their own habits. And it made for a full-length that gestures toward the Hip and the Cons as much as it does to Richard Buckner and Whiskeytown. Adding dimension to select tracks on the album, the band is joined by Aaron Goldtein (City and Colour, Daniel Ramano) on Pedal Steel andJohn Dinsmore (Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Harmer) on bass (for "Each Other's Kids").
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