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January 4, 2008 | Movie News
After Queen Amina, Pete Edochie Returns For Bakan Dabo
Source: nigeriafilms.com
Pete Edochie
Artistes and production crew of Bakan Dabo have hit location as the producers have got a special nod from the henchman of the Kano Films and Censors Board, Alhaji Abubakar Rabo to resume production.
The film, which is expected to feature some notable Nollywood stars – including renowned actor, Pete Edochie, who is not new to the Hausa film genre, had its production stalled as it was caught in the web of the controversy that recently overtook the local film industry popularly known as Kannywood due to the raunchy sex recording by one of the industry's top rate actresses, Maryam Hiyana, recently.
Edochie, who acted in the highly successful home video, Queen Amina, released a few years back, will lead some of his Nollywood colleagues to feature in the huge budget film.
However, Bakan Dabo crew have staged a comeback to location as a result of a special concession granted it by the regulating authorities due to the special nature of the production which has to do with the history and tradition of the people of Kano and by extension, the Hausa race.
The producers were expected to record some of the traditional rites involved in the last Sallah celebration, Eid-el-Kabir festival as part of the flick.
This obviously necessitated the approval given the producers by the Censors Board. It was gathered that the regulatory authority was a hard nut to crack and that it took the intervention of the Emirate Council before the go-ahead for production to resume was granted.
Meanwhile, the soundtrack of the film, handled by Lapazi Entertainment, was composed by Rabiu Jelle. The rendition came from the popular singer, Aminu Ahlan, and the sonorous voice of Maryam A. Baba (Sangadadi).
Besides, another special alligator sound has been rendered for Bakan Dabo. It was composed and played by the Sarkin Busa (Head of the Emir's flutists) himself, Alhaji Umaru Yahaya (Mai Alligator Galadima Kano).
According to the producer and director of the flick, Abdullahi Sarkin Fada and Auwal George, Bakan Dabo, which is the first epic film on any of the traditional rulers in the Northern part of the country, promises to be a bang.
It is being shot on High Definition (HD) camera with special effects, the kind never witnessed in the Northern film industry before. It also parades the finest artistes in this part of the country.
Some of them include veterans such as Kasumu Yaro, Dauda Galadanchi, Hussaini Sule Koki, Ibrahim Muhammad Mandawari, Kabiru Nakwango, Isa Bello Ja, Dan Magori, Amina Garba (Dumba), Zainab Booth, Hauwa Ali Dodo (Biba), Hajiya Tambaya, Hajara Usman, Tambawa Kaduna and Hafsat Sharada (Me Aya).
Others who are mainly a latter generation of prolific actors and actresses in the Hausa film genre are Ali Nuhu, Shuaibu Lawal (Kumurchi), Sani Musa Danja, Mai Shinku Ibrahim, Salihu 'Hotman' Isah, Saratu Gidado and a lot more


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Lebanon Support is a multidisciplinary research centre for and about civil society.
Lebanon Support is a research centre for and about civil society.
Established in 2006, Lebanon Support was registered as a National Non-Governmental Organisation in 2008 (registered under the number 168/2009 AD).
Lebanon Support is a multidisciplinary space creating synergies and bridging between researchers, experts, civil society and NGO practitioners, and activists. Lebanon Support aims to foster social change through innovative uses of social science, digital technologies, and publication and exchange of knowledge.
Since its establishment Lebanon Support has committed to an Open Access Policy that is intended to make the centre's publications, content, and conference proceedings, available to a wider public. Hence, all its publications are available online without price and permission barriers. For sustainability of the centre's own research, some of the centre's publications, such as reference books or journals may be subject to delayed open access.
Lebanon Support was created in August 2006, in the aftermath of the Israeli July 2006 war on Lebanon. Through its portal, Lebanon Support started acting as an online space facilitating aid related information sharing and management, as well as fostering cooperation and partnerships between the different actors involved in relief and recovery activities in Lebanon.
By the start of 2007, Lebanon Support had already managed to build a network with the active involvement and membership of more than 400 organisations.
By July 2007, Lebanon Support was the only information focal point for the Nahr el-Bared crisis. Lebanon Support expanded its network and reached some 750 organisations by the end of 2007.
In 2008, and in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), Lebanon Support launched a nationwide mapping of non governmental organisations operating in Lebanon. Two print versions of the "Civil Society Directory" where the fruit of this collaboration in 2008 and 2010, covering more than 1,000 organisations.
In 2011, the civil society portal was moved to a separate online portal: Daleel Madani, with more than 1,300 organisations on its directory and a steadily growing audience of more than 1,000,000 per month.
In 2013, Lebanon Support launched its second programme, the Civil Society Knowledge Centre, a multidisciplinary research platform. Composed of thematic projects combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, the CSKC constitutes a seminal and innovative knowledge base and publishing platform for original research and analysis on civil society and public action issues.
In 2015, Lebanon Support launched a peer-reviewed journal, the Civil Society Review. The Civil Society Review emphasises cutting-edge and critical transdisciplinary analysis in a wide range of topics relevant to social sciences. It offers a novel space where academics and practitioners converge to discuss theories and reflect on practices.
In 2016, Lebanon support officially launched the Civil Society Incubator. This programme builds on the informal support and coaching Lebanon Support had been providing over the years through its first two programmes, Daleel Madani and the Civil Society Knowledge Centre.
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Partnerships Matter: Bringing back effectiveness and ethics in civil work
On May 23, 2019, Lebanon Support, in partnership with the Arab NGO Network for Development organised a workshop on localisation, democratic ownership, mutual accountability and equitable partnerships. at antwork (Hamra). The workshop was facilitated by independent consultant, Ahmad Mroue. The first session on understanding localisation and democratic ownership was moderated by Ziad Abdel Samad (Arab NGO Network for Development) who...
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In this context, this workshop seeks, on the one hand, to place the localisation debate in a longer temporality of global discussions that have shaped international cooperation during the past decades. These discussions mainly aimed at bringing back on the agenda a people's centred approach to development. Globally, milestones included the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005, with donors and governments commitments to focus on the principle of "country ownership," the Accra Agenda for Action in 2008, which addressed "predictability of Aid", developing the "country systems" and making conditionality aligned with the country's own objectives. Another CSO milestone in this process is the Istanbul Principles in 2010 which constitute a statement of common values and approaches to guide CSO work, from service delivery to policy advocacy, and from humanitarian emergencies to long-term development.
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Would-Be Blockbuster "John Carter" Flops at Box Office
Disney's $250 million fantasy epic opened at a soft $30.1 million domestically.
By Daniel Arkin	• Published at 1:34 am on March 11, 2012
Walt Disney Studios' Martian action-adventure film "John Carter" was flagged many moons ago as a potentially catastrophic box office flop. Although the $250 million mega-budget fantasy epic nabbed some decent reviews and exceeded expectations internationally, the doomsday prophecies about the film's domestic financial prospects have been fulfilled: "John Carter" opened at $9.8 million on Friday and is set to earn approximately $30.1 million domestically for the weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter— paltry sums for a high-profile project speculated to be one of the most expensive films in Hollywood history.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Disney stands to lose between $100 million to $165 million on "John Carter," a long-in-production adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic science-fiction series "Barsoom" starring "Friday Night Lights" star Taylor Kitsch as the eponymous interstellar hero.
The film's $250 million budget places it somewhere in the top ten most costly American film productions of all-time, according to The Numbers.
Universal and Illumination Entertainment's "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," a family-friendly adaptation of the iconic 1971 children's book, will win the weekend with $40 million and earn an auspicious spot at the top of the 2012 box office chart. For point of comparison, "The Lorax" cost a relatively modest $70 million to make, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Disney packaged "John Carter" as an effects-ladden spectacle on par with "Avatar" and "Star Wars" — two Hollywood behemoths, both prominently name-dropped in the studio-produced TV spots and tweets, with wide appeal to the coveted young male demographic. But the 3D would-be blockbuster was beset from the outset with a range of handicaps that threatened widespread commercial appeal, including Kitsch's low name recognition and a head-scratchingly generic title.
"John Carter" reportedly also exceeded its massive budget and necessitated expensive late-in-the-game reshoots, The Wrap reported. (Stanton's inexperience with large-scale production — "John Carter" is the director's first live-action feature — may have also contributed to the film's poor reception).
The film is not the first mega-budget Hollywood spectacle to crash and burn at the U.S. box office. "Waterworld" ($252 million) and "Wild Wild West" ($224 million), to cite two recent examples, were enormous commercial failures — and, like "John Carter," blended science-fiction with action-adventure to dubious results.
Like Disney's 2010 sword-and-sorcery film "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role, "John Carter" may offset a middling domestic run with international success. According to the Los Angeles Times, "John Carter" opened to strong sales in Russia, raking in $6.5 million — the biggest opening-day tally in Russian film history.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, however, "John Carter" may not even be a sure-thing across all overseas markets: Early audience response in Asia and throughout Europe is apparently tepid.


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Two midshipmen — heads bowed — sheepishly sit on the edge of our guest bed.
My wife was summoned from downstairs a minute earlier. Seems they needed expertise in earring removal.
They returned from a tropical destination with spring break souvenirs but didn't know how to treat their recently punctured lobes. Nothing in their first 19 years had prepared them for this moment.
Watching these tall, muscular Naval Academy students surrender control over a one-ounce earring stud was a nice reminder they were still kids.
In the summer of 2013, our family was introduced to a skinny boy from Texas during sponsor family day in Alumni Hall. On Friday, he'll graduate from the Naval Academy.
He has a job. He has his entire life ahead of him.
John Belcher is really slowing down in retirement.
He's down to working 50 hours per week. While running Annapolis-based ARINC, the high-energy systems engineer gave 80 hours a week to the aerospace technology firm.
Our four years as a sponsor family flew by. We shared in the challenges our mid experienced through the academy's rigorous academic and physical requirements.
A large part of being a sponsor family is supporting mids with the comforts many of their peers at other universities take for granted. It's providing a hot meal — that's not mass produced in Bancroft Hall — or providing a quiet space to study for finals.
It's offering a ride to the mall or movies on those rare occasions plebes are allowed to leave the Yard. It's a soft bed for napping before or after exams or a holiday trip home.
Our family embraced our mid. We gained a first-hand insight on what it takes to survive and thrive at a service academy. Dinner conversations often centered on his training and the curriculum preparing Midshipmen to become leaders and experts in their fields.
Gaining acceptance into the Naval Academy isn't easy. It doesn't get much easier for the 1,200 or so who arrive in Annapolis annually during Plebe Summer. While there are advantages to being midshipmen — the government pays their tuition and board, and provides a monetary stipend — there are just as many sacrifices.
Steve Schuh's 2018 budget brims with items aimed at improving the quality of life for Anne Arundel residents.
Midshipmen can't leave the Yard on a whim. That means while their peers can freely skip class for an overnight road trip to a concert, they are on duty.
Their attendance is mandatory for some sporting events. They have regularly schedule parade marches and physical-fitness requirements.
We've seen our mid mature. He's no longer that skinny kid unsure of what his time in Annapolis would bring. He's ready for his first post-collegiate assignment and welcomes the opportunity to put to use the lessons he learned at the academy.
I wanted to sponsor a midshipman as a way to give back. My grandfather (World War II) and father (Vietnam) were in the Navy. I wanted — in a very small way — to ease the transition for an out-of-state kid who might just need a few hours away from the chaos that can be the Yard.
I've gained more than I've given. My appreciation for service school students grew with every pickup through Gate 8 to every drop-off at BWI to the gratitude shown for a two-hour catnap.
Residents of Phoenix sued the federal government when low-flying planes began rattling windows and shaking walls in 2014.
Our mid will graduate this week, but he's family for life.
The Naval Academy seeks sponsors. It holds mandatory orientation briefings. Training is required once every three years to become a sponsor and to be assigned midshipmen.
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•July 27 at 7 p.m.
To learn more about becoming a sponsor, contact Rose Clark, USNA sponsor coordinator, at 410-293-7031 or sponsor@usna.edu.


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British Beat: Kell Brook And Rafal Jackiewicz Meet At The Crossroads
Posted by Tim Starks on Oct 7, 2011 01:17
The big fight in Britain this weekend involves welterweights Kell Brook and Rafal Jackiewicz, a contest which can be viewed not only as a quarrel between contenders for world honours but also as a marrying of such contrasting individuals. Theirs would be a buddy movie beyond even the most contrived of parodies.
Brook, fighting at home at the Ponds Forge Arena in Sheffield, stands on the cusp of breaking into more glamorous circles. After forging a solid reputation while touring small halls and domestic arenas, the Yorkshire starlet will be looking to put in a shift of such quality, it would merit his consideration as a potential B-side to one of the major U.S. television network's poster boys — the sort of showcase his compatriots have been snatching up with impunity over recent months. A Wincobank fighter in the truest sense, aside from the unorthodox movement, cat-like reflexes and one-punch stopping power, "Special K's" greatest asset is his abundance of attitude.
His opponent, Jackiewicz, hails from Minsk Mazowiecki in central Poland. Nine years Brook's senior at 34, "Braveheart" has shown enough resilience in his career to make Robert the Bruce's spider appear unenthusiastic. After toiling to numbers of 15-8-1, a score which included lopsided losses to the likes of Ted Bami, Michael Jennings and Antonio Lauri, Jackiewicz's prospects looked as promising as those of his native communist party.
Since losing a squeaker to Italian Gianmario Grassellini six years back, though, Jackiewicz has slogged his way to 23 wins in 24, an impressive run which includes notable victories over Jackson Bonsu, Delvin Rodriguez and Jan Zaveck. A hard-working and dogged competitor, he crouches behind a tight guard and likes to pump out a succession of piston-like jabs before rolling into his man with singular hooks to head or to body. He gives up nothing cheaply, as one might expect from a fighter who has arrived here via the long and winding route, and will contest every exchange as keenly as a barrister fresh from the bar.
Brook, 24-0 (16), is more Ryan Rhodes than Naseem Hamed. His solid base permits less theatrical raids than those synonymous with the latter, yet it also renders him less prone to being upended himself. Quick and athletic, Brook likes to probe with his jab and then draw an opponent's lead before crashing home short, chopping hooks and uppercuts. Somewhat clunky at times, yet strong with it, Brook's best win to date came against gatekeeper Lovemore Ndou earlier this year.
At home and on song, Brook should be able to overrule Jackiewicz's diligence with well calculated and powerful assaults. Brook will be confident of whipping uppercuts between the visitor's guard, yet will need to be mindful of leaving his head in the air as he does so; with Jackiewicz tunnelling into him, the prospect of heads coming together and marring what looks a potentially intriguing contest cannot be discounted. In a battle of attrition, Brook can edge home in front with a win that could grant him passage to the United States. There, an audience still skeptical about his style of fighting, a method which has yet to be transplanted into that part of the globe with any great success, shall await.


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Il circondario di Terranova di Sicilia era uno dei circondari in cui era suddivisa la provincia di Caltanissetta, esistito dal 1861 al 1927.

Storia
Con l'Unità d'Italia (1861) la suddivisione in province e circondari stabilita dal Decreto Rattazzi fu estesa all'intera Penisola. Nel 1874 nel circondario di Terranova di Sicilia oltre al capoluogo Terranova di Sicilia (che nel 1927 avrebbe assunto il nome di Gela), erano presenti i Comuni di Butera, Niscemi, Mazzarino e Riesi.

Il circondario di Terranova di Sicilia fu abolito, come tutti i circondari italiani, nel 1927, nell'ambito della riorganizzazione della struttura statale voluta dal regime fascista.

Suddivisione
Nel 1863, la composizione del circondario era la seguente:
 Mandamento I di Butera
 Butera
 Mandamento II di Mazzarino
 Mazzarino
 Mandamento III di Niscemi
 Niscemi
 Mandamento IV di Riesi
 Riesi
 Mandamento V di Terranova di Sicilia
 Terranova di Sicilia

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Terranova di Sicilia
Provincia di Caltanissetta
Storia di Gela

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In a context of globalization and new forms of regulation and governance, public action in education is increasingly based on knowledge based regulation tools (Pons & Van Zanten, 2007). Particularly, accountability policies are developing around the world, based on a combination of several tools as such as testing, standards, in order to assess the results of education systems meanwhile « contracts », « report card », guidance or monitoring tools are regulating the consequences and sanctions that could follow for schools and education professionals.
The question of the real effects and impacts of accountability policies are under scrutiny in many european or north american national contexts, but so far research results are confusing. There are no real scientific consensus about the main intended or unintended effects of these policies either on the results of education systems (in terms of equity or efficacity) or on the schools and their professionals (Mons, 2009 ; Carnoy & Loebb, 2002 ; Lee, 2008, 2011 ; Mons & Dupriez, 2011 ; Harris & Herrington, 2006). A part of the various or contradictory results of the research could be related to methodological issues (Lee, 2008) ; at the same time, some authors have emphasized that there were various kind of accountabilities policies accross national contexts (ie low and high stake policies) (for ex. Mons, 2009 ; Hanushek & Raymond, 2004).
However, beyond « soft » and « hard » accountability policies, it is often supposed, that external testing are approximatly based on the same policy tools in various national context and that technical features of policy tools do not matter much. Meanwhile, this could be a reducing gaze on these policies, which is unable to thematize and think the policy tools which are put in place to implement the policy. The precise features of the knowledge based regulation tools (Pons & Van Zanten, 2007) put in place in each national context could matter for the process and the resulting outputs of these policies. Based on the sociology of public action tools (Lascoumes & Le Galès, 2004 ; Pons, 2010 ; Buisson-Fenet & Le Naour, 2008), our intention in this paper is to present an exploratory work, aiming to build a typology of accountability policy tools.
Our intention in this paper is to present an exploratory work, aiming to build a typology of accountability policy tools. Based on a review of literature, we will in a first part present a typology of accountability policies as such. Main questions are here: who is accountable, about what, for who, with which consequences? In a second and main part, we will present a typology of the main policy instruments used for this purpose: in other words the main question is how? But the tools are here various and must be analysed along several dimensions. We will focus on external (large scale) testing and their key features that could matter (for their consequences and stakes): scope of the subjects submitted to test, periodicity and period of the school year where the test is taking place, explicit aim of the test (certificate, diagnose, prognose), form of the test (form of questions ; consultation or concertation about the questions ; relations to the curriculum), treatment of the results (who is correcting ?), publication of the results or not, for who ?The policy stakes related to these various dimensions of the policy tools will moreover be emphasized.
The paper is one part of the research program of the Canada Chair of research in education policies of Christian Maroy ; this is also an aspect of the ongoing doctoral work of Annelise Voisin. We aim to exceed the typology commonly used between low stakes / high stakes accountability policy (Carnoy & Loeb, 2002). This typology should be useful for the empirical work to be done by A Voisin for its phd. Moreover the paper would be published in a peer reviewed journal.


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by Editor May 31, 2014 June 13, 2014
Santa Monicans for Safe Access (SAMOSA) believes that the Petition filed May 21 regarding medical marijuana dispensaries is insincere ("City Hall Gives Go-ahead on Pot Initiative" May 23, 2014). We urge all Santa Monicans NOT to sign the Petition. At best, it is a vested interest working to benefit only themselves. At worst, it is an inside interest trying to trick the People. In any case, if this makes it to the ballot it will not bring safe local access to medical marijuana for resident-patients for the following reasons.
o The Petition does not safeguard children by calling for a 650′ distance from schools. SAMOSA has encouraged a distance of 1,000′. Federal guidelines issued last year warned cities not to implement rules for dispensaries with less than a 1,000′ proximity to schools. It is probable that any ordinance with a distance requirement of less than 1,000′ from schools will not be respected by the federal government, even a voter approved one. This is already the case in Los Angeles where the DEA continues to shutdown dispensaries closer than 1,000′ from a school.
o In the Petition, the authority to approve or deny a license for a dispensary is vested solely with a single City Staff, the Director of Planning. There is no administrative appeal mechanism. All City licenses with which we are familiar have some administrative appeal mechanism (e.g., a license denied by City Staff is appealable to the Planning Commission, a license denied by the Planning Commission is appealable to the City Council, etc.). Given City Staff's public opposition to the direction by the Planning Commission and the City Council to write an ordinance for dispensaries, this seems like an odd approval mechanism. It's a bit like the fox watching the henhouse.
o The ordinance in the Draft Zoning Update (DZU) approved by the Planning Commission has a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) licensing mechanism. A CUP has many attributes to ensure transparency, public input, adherence to the goals of the City and appropriate City control. The Petition has none of these attributes.
o Santa Monica is modeling its ordinance on West Hollywood's. West Hollywood's ordinance has approximately 18 Operating Requirements governing a dispensary's business. The Petition has about six. In fact, one of the Petition's operating conditions relating to hours of operation would have dispensaries open until 10:00 PM nightly. SAMOSA prefers the Planning Commission's ordinance in the DZU; which closes dispensaries by 8:00 PM.
o The Petition calls for dispensaries to be located in either 1) the Industrial Conservation District (ICD) or 2) the Healthcare District. Regarding the ICD, City Staff has publically stated " … [because of] nearby school, the pending Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan and nearby social service uses make this district [the ICD] less desirable." That is, City Staff has determined that the ICD is unworkable. Regarding the Healthcare District, City Staff said "Although there are impediments that would limit locations within this district created by the recommended 500′ distance requirement from schools, … the vast majority of the HC district near St. John's could accommodate dispensaries … ." So, even City Staff admitted that at 500′ from schools situating a dispensary in the Healthcare District would be difficult. The Petition calls for a 650′ distance from schools. At that distance, it is impossible. Thus, under the Petition there would be no viable location for a dispensary. Enacting an ordinance with which it is impossible to comply is a poison pill.
There are other oddities in the Petition. Its lead, David Welch, is a Downtown lawyer who represents dozens of illegal dispensaries in Los Angeles. He led a petition in LA which, if it had passed, would have allowed an unlimited number of dispensaries there. Also, the Petition contains a requirement that any proposed dispensary operator possess a " valid California license to sell Nursery Stock." Very strangely, the Petition mandates that the Director of Planning give priority to persons who have a series of other specifically defined Santa Monica business licenses; and that these licenses must have already been issued prior to May 9, 2014. Exactly how this relates to proper regulation of a dispensary is a mystery.
Do not be tricked by this Petition. The City Council and the Planning Commission are bringing forward in the DZU a safe, reasonable and transparent ordinance to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. Support our local leaders – not Downtown interests.
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Q: Simple plane intersection using Panda3D While messing around with Panda3D to see if I can use it in order to solve some simple geometric problems, I've got this littel test done:
def def_planes_intersect():
    """Intersects the plane defined by the xy and xz axis'."""
    xy = Plane()
    xz = Plane((LPoint3f(1, 0, 1), LPoint3f(2, 0, 1), LPoint3f(1, 0, 2)))
    if xy.intersectsPlane((0, 10, 0), (1, 0, 0), xz) is True:
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It works as intended, but what I don't understand is how I can take the LPoint3f and LVector3f that define the intersection.
In the Panda3D docs it says:

intersectsPlane(from: LPoint3f, delta: LVector3f, other: LPlanef) → bool
Returns true if the two planes intersect, false if they do not. If they do intersect, then from and delta are filled in with the parametric representation of the line of intersection: that is, from is a point on that line, and delta is a vector showing the direction of the line.

What do they mean by from and delta are filled in?

A: So, while writing my question, I realized that I had to initialize an instance of LPoint3f and LVector3f and the method would fill them with the relevant data. I decided to post this seeing as there might be people out there that'll get as lost as me
from panda3d.core import LPoint3f, Plane, LVector3f

def def_planes_intersect():
    """Intersects the plane defined by the xy and xz axis'."""
    xy = Plane()
    xz = Plane((LPoint3f(1, 0, 1), LPoint3f(2, 0, 1), LPoint3f(1, 0, 2)))
    a = LPoint3f()
    av = LVector3f()
    if xy.intersectsPlane(a, av, xz) is True:
        print("works")
        print(f"{a}\n{av}")
    else:
        print("doesn't")

Which prints the obvious result of:
LPoint3f(0, 0, 0)
LVector3f(1, 0, 0)

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Combining their talents, the duo behind Noble Goods created an artisanal design and fabrication company that specializes in modern home furnishings in wood and resin.
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Three years ago, amidst the delirium of a newborn son, Christopher Moore quit his day job to start up a woodworking business with partner Molly FitzSimons. Combining Christopher's experience as a sculptor and Molly's eye for detail, the duo created Noble Goods, an artisanal design and fabrication company that specializes in modern home furnishings in wood and resin.
Noble Goods is now handcrafting cheese boards and resin-edged tables from local and sustainable sources. And as if that weren't noble enough, they donate a portion of all profits to Habitat for Humanity each year. We're excited to feature Noble Goods's products at What's Cooking on November 13. Below, check out our conversation with Christopher to learn more about his background and where he sources his wood.
Edible Brooklyn: Where did your interest in woodworking come from?
Christopher Moore: I was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the houses and everything else are built out of wood. I was always following my father around as a kid fixing wooden things that had fallen apart. I ended up getting a bachelor's degree and then a master's degree in sculpture. I worked in a lot of different media but ended up falling in love with wood.
EB: How does the design and fabrication process work?
CM: The whole process takes about six days. First, we carve into a solid piece of wood. Next, we pour liquid resin along the wood, and that resin is ground and re-polished. After the resin is polished, cheeseboards are oiled and tables are varnished. Then Molly takes over. Without her creative input and styling ability, our product wouldn't have the beautiful design that it does.
EB: Where does your wood come from?
CM: Much of our wood is locally sourced. We salvaged about 2,000 pounds of hundred-year-old wood from a space that was being torn down just blocks away from our shop. When we ran out of that, we went to a Brooklyn-based reclaimed lumber distributor called M. Fine. Now all of our cheeseboards are made from cherry wood that is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which means it is farmed and selected in a sustainable way.
EB: What's the benefit of using reclaimed wood?
CM: From an economic perspective, it would be smarter to use brand new wood, because we have to pull thousands of nails out of this wood. But there's incredible beauty in the aging process and the growth patterns and the nails and the scars from factory boards. It feels laborious, but there's no other way to get that look. When people bring a product like that into their home, they have a special relationship with it.
EB: What will you be featuring at What's Cooking?
CM: We'll be showing our tabletop goods: cheese boards, coasters and hazy floozans. We're really looking forward to meeting the other vendors and being a part of the Edible community!
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iDreams: Software Solutions Enabling Real-Time And Transparent School Fleet Management
With over 1.5 million schools located across the nation, India's school bus system is one of the nation's biggest public transit systems. Manual scheduling of timings and routes can prove to be an arduous task and one dimensional in nature that can be prone to errors. These inconsistent school bus schedules can severely impact the routine leading to frustrated parents, student safety at risk and increased expenditure. School bus managements are under tremendous pressure to ensure a safe and reliable service to school children while simultaneously running the business efficiently thus warranting the increasing implementation of vehicle tracking solutions for school buses. However, it is not an easy task to create effective tiered routes without the right vehicle tracking software in place. As student population keeps expanding or students keep relocating, school bus administrators need a solution that helps keep track of the routes and update them as required. Schools, coordinators and parents alike are on the lookout for a vehicle tracking solution that ensures optimization of the bus routes that reduces costs, assures student safety, provides updated notifications and bus locations and minimizes ride time.
Bringing the ideal app that meets every customer requirement is Bangalore headquartered iDreams Software Solutions that has designed and developed an innovative and novel mobile application, WagonTrack. The application has been engineered to track live school vehicles of associated schools on smartphones. This assures that the students, school transport admin, the vehicle fleet and the parents are seamlessly connected via internet enabled smartphones. This is achieved through the utilization of 'Global Positioning System satellite navigation technology' for its scheme. "The application was designed with the intent of keeping the students' school vehicle in the care of parents and school transport admin while on duty," says Ilyas Akthar, Managing Director, iDreams Software Solutions.
Leveraging Smartphones for Better Connectedness
The easy-to-use and cost-effective solution is a business-to-business application where a school plays a vital role in providing the basic data required to set the solution in motion. This data comprises transport vehicle name, route name, details of the transport staff, commuting route with stop points, direction of onward or return trip and the details of the students who commute at each point with personal data of the parent with a mobile number.
No transport motor vehicle specific hardware installation is needed to use Wagon Track application; a unique feature that makes iDreams stand apart from its competitors in the market. Any working basic Android smart phone with a stable internet connection can be used to navigate through the app. The solution does not demand any costly maintenance of hardware as any workable smart mobile phone can be used for the tracking purpose. In the event of a faulty mobile phone, a substitute smart phone is present on duty with the same login credentials, thus avoiding any transfer of information hindrance that may occur.
Engaging in a Seamless Application Implementation
The company has a cooperative support team to cater to the needs or queries of the transport staff, parents and school admin during working hours. Once the client is onboard and the vital data is procured, the team of technically adept professionals at iDream sets up the mobile application with the amassed raw data and marks the stop points in real-time location with accuracy on field.
Guiding the transport staff through the transition of automating its fleet, the team trains the staff to track the movement of the vehicle, choose trip direction of pickup/drop, mark student attendance, send notifications to the parents/guardian of the approaching vehicle and initiate the trial run. In conjunction with this, the school admin is taught the nuances of the application with the ability to track multiple vehicles at a single go. The admin has the ability to configure routes and stops with stages and pick-up/drop timings and assign student to the selected route. A login setup is
made on the school admin's computer to gather live reports of any transport data for export in excel sheet for reference, thus providing a holistic view of the entire operations to the school's chairperson. Once the solution is put in place, the school admin is equipped with the authority to decide on and confirm the various parameters such as the proximity to the stop points or when to initiate vehicle arrival notifications. Transport attendance by onboard staff and confirmation notifications can be done as per the individual school needs. The school admin has the authority to manage complete vehicle information, insurance and RTO details and service history. One can maintain fuel purchase information as well.
Wagontrack is an innovative and novel mobile application that has been engineered to track live school vehicles of associated schools on smartphones
Putting Parents at Ease with Real-time Notifications
Aware that parents of the students are also an important stakeholders whose needs are of top priority, the company developed the application where even the parents can login by installing the Wagon Track application to receive transport arrival alerts, transport attendance, confirmation of the student reaching school and also view live vehicle location data of the child along with vehicle and transport staff on the particular bus.
Parents with two or more children studying in the same school can access tracking features with just a single login. Perfectly understanding that there may be possibilities the student missed to board the school vehicle, the application has been designed to assist the parent to track the vehicular movements live and reach out to the vehicle and accomplish boarding. WagonTrack application download links can be shared by the school admin across the school transport staff and parents with just a single click.
Catering to the needs of school administrators, coordinators and parents alike with its broad range of features, the application also offers two of its premium features which are route-wise bulk notification and the ability to mark the student transport attendance even in the absence of internet. The data collated can then be synchronized to the cloud as and when the internet connection is restored.
Assuring Impenetrable Security
The ubiquity of smartphones also increases the susceptibility of sophisticated and financially motivated cyber attacks targeted at acquiring critical data. Putting the apprehensions that the stakeholders may have at ease, iDreams is always on high alert and pays close attention to the possibility of any hacking threats. The team of experts strive to keep its system functional with minimal down time for service upgrades. In addition to this, the team automates regular data backups to prevent any loss of data.
"The application was designed with the intent of keeping the students' school vehicle in the care of parents and school transport admin while on duty"
Gearing up for the Future
Having carved a niche for itself in this domain, the company envisions to further its progress and is currently working on making WagonTrack automate onboard transport vehicle entry and exit attendance as well as furnish live camera feed to users with valid login and verified vigil authentications. Efforts are being made to monitor and keep a trained eye over the operations in order to check whether the transport vehicle adheres to prefixed route directions and speed limit. Striving to stay ahead of the technology and innovation curve, the team at iDreams is also working on delivering feasible solutions to trigger auto panic alerts in the event of any vehicle commute deviations that may occur. Having worked with a gamut of clients over its tenure, the company aims to increase its footprint and mark its national and international presence in the near future with the goal to continue to ensure superior levels of customer satisfaction.


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Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Mandatory Rulemaking Provisions
The SEC has adopted final rules for 67 mandatory rulemaking provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Private Funds: Complete (8 rulemaking provisions)
Adopted Section 404 Records to be maintained and reports to be provided by private funds
Adopted Section 406 Disclosure rules on private funds
Adopted Section 407 Exemption of venture capital fund advisers, definition of "venture capital fund"
Adopted Section 408 Exemption from registration by certain private fund advisers/requirement of records for such advisers
Adopted Section 409 Family office
Adopted Section 410 State and federal responsibilities/ asset threshold for registration of federal advisers
Adopted Section 413 Adjustment of the accredited investor standard
Adopted Section 418 Qualified client standard, inflation adjustment
Executive Compensation: 8 adopted, 4 proposed
Adopted Section 952 (Exchange Act 10C(a)) Compensation committee independence—Commission to direct SROs to prohibit listing of certain securities unless issuers are in compliance with compensation committee independence requirements
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Adopted Section 953(b) Additional executive compensation disclosure (pay ratio)
Adopted Section 955 Disclosure regarding employee and director hedging
Adopted Section 972 Chairman/CEO structure disclosure in annual proxy
Adopted in Part Section 951 Shareholder approval of executive compensation
Proposed Section 953(a) Pay v. performance disclosure
Proposed Section 954 Recovery of executive compensation
Proposed Section 956(a) Compensation structure reporting (joint rulemaking)
Proposed Section 956(b) Prohibition on certain compensation arrangements (joint rulemaking)
Volcker Rule: Complete (1 rulemaking provisions)
Adopted Section 619 Prohibition on proprietary trading and certain relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds (joint rulemaking)
Asset-backed Securities: 6 adopted, 1 proposed
Adopted Section 941(b) Credit risk retention (general) (joint rulemaking)
Adopted Section 941(b) Credit risk retention (residential mortgages) (joint rulemaking)
Adopted Section 941(b) Credit risk retention exemptions (joint rulemaking)
Adopted Section 942(b) ABS disclosure
Adopted Section 943 ABS reps and warranties
Adopted Section 945 ABS due diligence disclosure
Proposed Section 621 Conflicts of interest regarding certain securitizations
Security-Based Swaps: 26 adopted, 3 proposed
Adopted Section 712 Joint CFTC and SEC rulemaking regarding mixed swaps
Adopted Section 712(d)(1) Joint CFTC and SEC rulemaking concerning swaps-related definitions
Adopted Section 712(d)(2)(B) Joint CFTC and SEC rulemaking regarding recordkeeping by trade repositories with respect to security-based swap agreement transactions
Adopted Section 712(d)(2)(C) Joint CFTC and SEC rulemaking regarding recordkeeping by security-based swap dealers, swap dealers, major security-based swap participants and major swap participants for security-based swap agreement transactions
Adopted Section 761(a)(6) Rules to facilitate identification of major security-based swap participants
Adopted Section 761(a)(6) Exemption from the definition of security-based swap dealer for de minimis activity
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Adopted Section 763(b) Rules governing clearing agencies for security-based swaps
Adopted Section 763(a) SEC transition reporting rules for security-based swaps
Adopted Section 763(c) Data collection and reporting rules for security-based swap execution facilities
Adopted Section 763(i) Rules providing for public availability of security-based swap transaction and pricing data to enhance price discovery
Adopted Section 763(i) Rules regarding the type of data to be collected with respect to security-based swap transactions
Adopted Section 763(i) Duties of security-based swap data repositories
Adopted Section 763(i) Rules governing registered security-based swap data repositories
Adopted Section 764 Rules regarding the registration of security-based swap dealers or major security-based swap participants
Adopted Section 764(a) Reporting and recordkeeping rules applicable to security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants
Adopted Section 764(a) Rules regarding daily trading recordkeeping
Adopted Section 764(a) Rules, including capital and margin, governing security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants that are not banks
Adopted Section 764(a) Business conduct standards applicable to security-based swap dealers and security-based swap major participants
Adopted Section 764(a) Rules relating to documentation of security-based swap transactions
Adopted Section 764(a) Duties of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants related to monitoring of trading, risk management procedures, disclosure of general information, ability to obtain information, conflicts, and antitrust considerations
Adopted Section 766(a) Transition rules regarding the reporting of pre-enactment security-based swap transactions
Adopted Section 766(a) Reporting of uncleared security-based swap transactions
Adopted Section 766(a) Recordkeeping for certain security-based swapss
Proposed Section 763(c) Rules governing security-based swap execution facilities
Proposed Section 763(g) Rules regarding fraud in the security-based swap market
Proposed Section 765(a) Conflicts of interest
Credit Rating Agencies: 12 adopted
Adopted Section 932(a)(2)(B) Internal controls governing the implementation of and adherence to policies, procedures and methodologies for determining credit ratings
Adopted Section 932(a)(4) Separation of ratings from sales and marketing
Adopted Section 932(a)(4) Policies and procedures relating to look back reviews
Adopted Section 932(a)(8) Fines and penalties
Adopted Section 932(a)(8) Transparency of ratings performance
Adopted Section 932(a)(8) Credit rating methodologies
Adopted Section 932(a)(8) Form and certification to accompany credit ratings
Adopted Section 932(a)(8) Third-party due diligence services for asset-backed securities
Adopted Section 936 Standards of training, experience, and competence for credit rating analysts
Adopted Section 938 Universal ratings symbols
Adopted in Part Section 939 Removal of statutory references to credit ratings
Adopted in Part Section 939A
Review of reliance on credit ratings
A small set of references to credit ratings in Commission statutes, rules, and forms remain to be addressed as directed by Sections 939 and 939A.
Clearing Agencies: Complete (2 rulemaking provisions)
Adopted Section 805(a)(2)(A) Authority to prescribe risk management standards for designated clearing entities
Adopted Section 806(e)(1) Changes to rules, procedures or operation of designated financial market utilities
Specialized Disclosures: Complete (2 rulemaking provisions)
Adopted Section 1502 Conflict minerals
Adopted Section 1504
Disclosure of payment by resource extraction issuers
The Commission's rule implementing Section 1504 was invalidated on February 14, 2017, by a joint resolution of disapproval enacted pursuant to the Congressional Review Act. The Commission adopted a new rule on December 16, 2020.
Municipal Securities Advisors: Complete (1 rulemaking provisions)
Adopted Section 975 Municipal advisor regulation
Other: 9 complete, 0 proposed, 3 remaining
Adopted Section 205(h) Orderly liquidation of covered brokers and dealers (joint rulemaking)
Adopted Section 916 Streamlining of filing procedures for self-regulatory organizations
Adopted Section 924 Whistleblower provisions
Adopted Section 926 Disqualifying felons and other "bad actors" from Reg. D offerings.
Adopted Section 929W Notice to missing security holders
Adopted Section 939B Elimination of exemption from fair disclosure rule
Adopted Section 989G Exemption for nonaccelerated filers
Adopted Section 1088(a)(8) Red flag guidelines and regulations (joint rules)
Adopted in Part Section 984 Increased transparency of information available to brokers, dealers, investors, with respect to loan or borrowing of securities
Remaining Section 165 Stress tests
Remaining Section 915 Regulations for Office of Investor Advocate
Remaining Section 929X(a) Short sale reforms
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New Offices
The SEC established all five new offices required under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Office of the Whistleblower
Investor Advocate
Minority and Women Inclusion
Municipal Securities
The SEC and its staff have issued dozens of studies and reports required under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Dec. 18, 2020 2020 Summary Report of Commission Staff's Examinations of Each Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization [§932]
Report (PDF)
Jan. 24, 2020 2019 Summary Report of Commission Staff's Examinations of Each Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization [§932]
Dec. 18, 2015 Issued Report on the Review of the Definitions of "Accredited Investor." [§413]
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Jan. 30, 2015 Issued report to Congress on objectives of the Investor Advocate. [§915]
Dec. 23, 2014 Issued report to Congress on activities of the Investor Advocate. [§915]
Dec. 23, 2014 2014 Summary Report of Commission Staff's Examinations of Each Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization [§932] Report (PDF)
Nov. 17, 2014 Issued report to Congress on the securities whistleblower incentive and protection program. [§922, 924]
Jun. 5, 2014 Submitted a report to Congress on the cost and benefits of real time reporting on short sale positions. [§417]
Dec. 24, 2013 Published third annual report summarizing NRSRO inspections, findings, and responses. [§932]
Nov. 21, 2013 Issued report to Congress on credit rating agency independence. [§939C]
Jul. 25, 2013 Issued annual report to Congress on use of data collected from advisers to hedge funds and other private funds to aid in monitoring system financial risk. [§404]
Apr. 24, 2013 Submitted a report to Congress on the activities of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. [§342]
Dec. 18, 2012 Provided to Congress a study on the rating process for structured finance products and the feasibility of an assignment system. [§939F]
Study (PDF)
Nov. 15, 2012 Published second annual report summarizing NRSRO inspections, findings, and responses. [§932]
Oct 17, 2012 Issued third report to Congress describing actions to implement an independent consultant's recommendations. The consultant had been hired to make recommendations on the SEC's organization and operations. [§967]
Sep 7, 2012 Report to Congress on standardization within certain elements of the credit rating process. [§939(h)]
Aug. 30, 2012 Provided to Congress a study regarding financial literacy among retail investors. [§917 ]
Apr. 11, 2012 Delivered to Congress the Commission's Study on the Cross-Border Scope of the Private Right of Action Under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. [§929Y]
Study Data | Study (PDF)
Mar. 30, 2012 Issued second report to Congress describing actions to implement an independent consultant's recommendations. The consultant had been hired to make recommendations on the SEC's organization and operations. [§967]
Feb. 1, 2012 Delivered to Congress jointly with CFTC a report on how swaps are regulated in the United States, Asia, and Europe to identify areas of regulation that are similar and other areas of regulation that could be harmonized. [§719(c)]
Dec. 21, 2011 Sent report and certification to Congress on internal supervisory controls: The report covers the effectiveness of internal supervisory controls relating to examinations of registered entities, enforcement investigations, and review of corporate filings. [§961]
Report and Certification (PDF)
Sep. 30, 2011 Published an annual report summarizing NRSRO inspections, findings, and responses. [§932]
Sep. 12, 2011 Issued second report to Congress describing actions to implement an independent consultant's recommendations. The consultant had been hired to make recommendations on the SEC's organization and operations. [§967]
Jul. 21 2011 Reported to Congress, jointly with the CFTC and the Federal Reserve Board, on improving the common framework for designated clearing entity risk management. [§813]
Jul. 21, 2011 Reported to Congress a review of existing references to credit ratings in statutes and regulations. [§939A]
Apr. 22, 2011 Issued a report to Congress regarding reducing the costs to smaller issuers (with market capitalization between $75 million and $ 250 million) for complying with 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, while maintaining investor protections. [§989G]
Apr. 8, 2011 Reported to Congress, jointly with the CFTC, on a study regarding the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardized computer-readable algorithmic descriptions: The study concluded that such descriptions are feasible and identified three challenges that would have to be addressed before mandating their use. [§719]
Mar. 10, 2011 Reported to Congress on organizational issues. The report prepared by independent consultants studied and made recommendations regarding SEC organization and operations. [§967]
Jan. 26, 2011 Completed study of ways to improve investor access to information about investment advisers and broker-dealers. [§919B]
Jan. 21, 2011 Issued Report to Congress regarding the study of the obligations of brokers, dealers and investment advisers. [§913]
Press Release | Report (PDF)
Jan. 18, 2011 Issued report to Congress by an interagency working group, including the SEC Chairman, on the oversight of existing and prospective carbon markets. [§750(e)]
Jan. 14, 2011 Issued Report to Congress regarding the need for enhanced resources for investment adviser examinations and enforcement. [§914]
Oct. 29, 2010 Issued Report on Whistleblower Program: SEC staff issued a report to Congress related to the Securities Whistleblower Incentives and Protection program. [§922, 924]
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Uri Actor Vicky Kaushal Is Not Single, Confirms Relationship With Actress Harleen Sethi
Actor Vicky Kaushal has established a name for himself in Hindi film industry with his latest release 'Uri: The Surgical Strike'. The actor is riding high on success as his film entered in Rs 200 crore clubs. Just like Vicky's professional life, his personal life too is making headlines.
Yes!! Putting all the speculations on hold, the 'Sanju' actor confirmed his relationship with popular television actress and host, Harleen Sethi.
Recently on a chat show, the 30-year-old actor opened up on his love life and revealed that he is in love, and it all began last year when the two met at a party.
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"We happen to meet through common friends. It felt right from the very beginning. We never questioned it. The beginning isn't too far off. It only started last year. It was beautiful to get to know each other."
"But at the same time, feeling right from the very beginning. And whatever happened, happened in a very organic way. We didn't rush it or question it. It just seemed right. We enjoy each other's company. We are our best critics. It's a happy space," added Vicky.
Few days earlier, Vicky talked about being in a relationship with Harleen on Karan Johar's show 'Koffee With Karan 6' and Neha Dhupia's chat show, but this is surely a confirmation we all were waiting for!
Born in Punjab and bought up in Mumbai, Harleen started her career as a dancer and used to work with The Danceworx Performing Arts Academy in Mumbai and later joined the lifestyle channel NDTV Good Times.
Harleen got her first break as an actress in 2013 with the short Hollywood film 'Bodies: Bombay in Dance'. She worked as a host for the TV show 'India Adventures' that was aired on NDTV Prime and NDTV 24×7, and, also acted in TV shows like 'Gabru: Hip Hop Ke Shehzaade' and 'Broken'. Sethi also appeared in some TV commercials for brands like Blue Star, Pears etc.
Whereas, Vicky started his career by assisting Anurag Kashyap in the crime drama 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and later won IIFA and Screen Awards for Best Male Debut in 'Masaan'. He raised to fame for his films like 'Raazi' and 'Sanju', and now cemented his place in Hindi film industry by giving a power-packed performance in Uri: The Surgical Strike'.
Vicky's upcoming project is Karan Johar's period drama 'Takht'. He will be seen along with Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt, Anil Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar and Janhvi Kapoor in the film.
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