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Obama Talks About Being "Woke"
"If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far. That's easy to do." — Barack Obama
'That's Not Activism'
President Barack Obama disparaged call-out culture and stated that he thinks young people can be overly judgmental, especially on social media. In a speech made at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, he also stated the opinion that the intensifying political division in contemporary America could also be at least partially be blamed on social media.
In an address to crowds attending the event, the former Democrat leader stated: "I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that's enough." He continued: "Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because: 'Man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out.'" He added: "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you … That is not activism. That is not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."
President Barack Obama's commented on America's "woke" culture could lead him to be considered "establishment" by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, according to conservative author and radio host Larry Elder. In addition to this, former First Lady Michelle Obama also stated that she believes "white flight" is still a problem in the United States. Michelle stated, per CNN: "I want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us -- this family with all the values that you've read about. You were running from us. And you're still running, because we're no different than the immigrant families that are moving in. The families that are coming from other places to try to do better."
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Thank you for describing why Democrats are actually DUMMYCRATS!
Vickie P.
Patti K.
The most corrupt President in American history !!!
Scott F.
Liberal heads explode in 3...2...1...
Tommy K.
Obama you couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cat butt
Caylin W.
Gary D.
obama shut up, ya dam scumbucket.
Mary H.
Most of these comments show none of you actually got what he was saying. Or cared, because here you all are casting stones and doing exactly what he was saying...
Get off my feed. You ungrateful son of a b****
All the while Obama is talking about someone casting stones, apparently he doesn't realize he is doing that very thing!! All he has ever done is criticize and make fun of Trump. No other ex president has done this. Bush didn't do that to Obama and Obama blamed everything on Bush. So sad. He should be looking in the mirror.
Elton G.
Worst president ever...
LYING D*CK SUCKER. JUST ASK HIS HUSBAND. LOL.
America's worst President.
Rex D.
In plain English, anyone who disagrees with you is being judgmental.
Mike H.
Irv C.
FCN TRAITOR to his country, making DEALS with TERRORIST and giving them BILLIONS $$$$$$$ FC him. 🤬🖕
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Don T.
I wish these woke people would wake up and listen to this man
Who????


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Death: Luiene L. Green
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Our shining star and bright sunshine Luiene Lacey Green, 66, a caring friend, devoted mother and loving wife passed away peacefully while under the care of her loving daughter and husband on Feb. 27, 1998. She was surrounded by the love of her family after a lifetime of extraordinary love and devotion to her family.
Born February 5, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, daughter of Joseph and Ethel Vickers Barrett and Vvhs Tanner. She married M. Cleon Green, May 27, 1949 in Nephi, Utah and later re-united in marriage December 29, 1997. Member of the LDS Church, worked 10 years for Granite School District Kitchen, and 12 years at 1st Security Bank Central operations.Surviving are: husband, Cleon, of Kearns; children, Maurine Harward, of West Valley; Rodney and Laura, of Woods Cross; Gary M., of Kearns; Karen and Kim O'Donnell, of West Jordan; Kirsty and Garry Jones, of West Valley; 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by brother, Leland Barrett.
Funeral services will be held Monday, March 2, 1998, 2 p.m. at Redwood Memorial Estates, 6500 So. Redwood Rd., where friends may call Sunday 6-8 p.m. and Monday one hour prior to services. Interment Redwood Memorial Estates.
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What Nonskid Did I Use For This Boat Project And How Did I Apply It??
I've had some small delays getting the order of video's out, but that's about to change! Project is about done so time to start getting everyone caught up on the entire process!!
Thanks for this video. I think I want to go with the Awl Grip 2 part on my non-skid deck also but was concerned about the fumes and gearing up and wearing a respirator. Noticed in the video you weren't wearing one? Difference being maybe spraying and rolling have an effect?
Thanks. I've been restoring my Cheoy Lee 47 Pedrick and have gotten all kinds of advice, some good, some not so much. I stripped the teak from the deck and am going to lay a layer of 1708 prior to painting or gel coating, then use non-skid to finish. Yes, I know, it won't have the traditional teak deck, but this is our family boat, we're setting off this fall for a 3-5 year cruise and I need to seal the deck. The original deck had numerous leaks before I obtained it and needed much repair, we will be cruising in the tropics and the additional heat from a teak deck makes for a less comfortable boat, we also have 7 and 9 year old boys, the thought of teak maintenance doesn't excite the Admiral.
I'm laying the glass this week after sanding the decks down to the original glass, the original gelcoat was in terrible shape, this video presented the non-skid application in the most understandable and simple way, even I could grasp it easily. I hope to be finishing the decks next week so I can get the hardware back on and the boat to the yard in 2-3 weeks, your videos helped tremendously.
I know how difficult it is to relay a technical subject in a simple, understandable way, I was a field engineer for 14 years (worldwide) then International Field Service Manager for an OEM, I totally understand how difficult it can be to relay a complex subject in a straightforward, simple, understandable way, it's so much harder than it appears. Kudos on your editing ability.


But it need to login wallet like Metamask when I'm gonna transacting some contract.
How can I connect with dApp web server (including web3) via Android or IOS as mobile platform.
Becasue It always needs wallet. Should I import wallet library in mobile platform?
Checkout Trust wallet, It's open-sourced and native.
In android, you can use the web3 java implementation.
Add library in the build.gradle file.
If you develop a web dApp, then you need to dApp browsers like Cipher or Status. No all of them can support test net thought. If we develop a native dApp, then you can use a third-party lib like web3j for Android web3.swift for iOS to communicate with Ethereum, then you need to have your own wallet to support it.
Thanks a lot.. Thats the answer what i want to.
You might want to consider Trust Wallet, it is open source web3 dApp Browser with support for the test networks. Available on both iOS and Android.


Big week at the Mini!
Next week will be a memorable one at the Mini Estadi, with Barça B playing a Liga Adelante game and the Youth A and Women's teams both involved in Champions League matches.
The penyes will have a key role to play in getting behind the three teams and with entry free, there is no excuse for missing out on the chance to help the teams make it a historic week for the Club in front of a packed house.
The day before the Barça v Milan game at the Camp Nou, the Youth A team will take on the Italians' youth side in the Youth Champions League. Jordi Vinyals' players won 2-6 when the sides met in Italy and three more points at the Mini would virtually guarantee progress to the next round of the competition.
The game kicks off at 17.45 on November 5th and entry is free to everyone, with no tickets required.
Four days later, Barça B continue their second division campaign with the visit of Jaen, as Eusebio continues to polish the Club's stars of tomorrow .
As usual, penyes can obtain free tickets for the game, by sending an email to penyes@fcbarcelona.cat with the penya's name and number and the number of tickets required. These requests must be sent before November 5th.
The week closes at it began, with a Champions League game – this time involving the Women's A Team who take on Zurich Frauen. This is the first time the team have reached this stage of the Women's Champions League and the Swiss side won't be easy opponents, but with the support of the fans Xavi Llorens' side will be giving everything to win the game. Entry to the match is also free and it kicks off at noon on Sunday November 10th.


By February of 2005, she had published a book bearing the same name, in which she recounts her journey iinterpspersed with a series of interviews with some of the most prominent filmmakers in the region, including Sobhi Al-Zobaidi, Simone Bitton, Tawfiq Abut Wael, Mai Masri, Ram Loevy, Avi Mograbi, Georges Khleifi…The second edition of the biennale festival took place from 1 to 7 June 2005.
In the continuity of this strong beginning, we proudly presented to you the third edition from 21 to 27 November 2007. We recognised the need to widen our approach, for the whole area is implicated in this tragic and endless conflict and that is why the name of the event is now Middle East: What Can Cinema Do?.
This film week is held at the cinema Les 3 Luxembourg. Art house cinema owners Gérard and Anne Vaugeois have played an essential role in hosting Middle East: What Can Cinema Do?. Their dedication to bringing thought-provoking films and filmmakers to meet movie audiences on a regular basis has guaranteed that the event and the venue have been in perfect symbiosis.
Le 29 novembre 1947, l'assemblée générale des Nations Unies votait le plan de partage de la Palestine qui proposait aux Palestiniens 47% du territoire de la Palestine du mandat britannique. Aujourd'hui, toutes les initiatives de paix sont bien en dessous et depuis les accords d'Oslo de 1993 qui prévoyaient la constitution d'un Etat palestinien dans un délai de cinq ans, le mieux que puissent espérer les Palestiniens est de récupérer 22% de leur territoire d'origine.
Press clippings presenting the third edition of Middle East, What Can Cinema Do? were seen on many Internet sites, in the print press, heard on the radio as well as several special mentions in notable blogs (René Naba – AFP; Charles Enderlin – France 2; Alain Gresh – Le Monde Diplomatique).
The Iron Wall opened Middle East: What Can Cinema Do? Screened in tandem with our opening debate - the Israeli settlement of Palestinian land, we were honoured to receive Leila Shahid (EU Palestinian Delgate), Michel Warschawski (Israeli peace activist, journalist and director of the AIC) and Dominique Vidal (Le Monde Diplomatique) for this kick-off, along with director Mohammed Alatar.
We have thus reached the third edition of what has become an anticipated biennale meeting and we would so much like to boast a real change towards peace in the Israel-Palestine situation. Alas, it seems we are further away than ever from it and the abscess that poisons all civilian and political life in the Middle East has only spread, igniting new centres of death and destruction.
Paris, a city of peace and freedom, knows how much cinema, a universal art rich in diversity, is a powerful vector of dialogue and mutual knowledge.
Exactly 60 years ago on November 29, 1947, the United Nations' General Assembly divided Palestine into two states, one Jewish, the other Arab. But the war of 1948 had a different outcome: only the state of Israel was to come into existence; it broke into parcels the territory of the stillborn Arab state with Jordan and Egypt, and 800,000 Palestinians went into exile.
Within two editions, "Middle-East : What Can Cinema Do" has asserted itself as an important cinematographic meeting in Ile de France (greater Paris). After the cinema of Israel and Palestine with the conflict as the backdrop, this third edition opens new windows and expresses new hopes of closeness and peace for other Middle Eastern countries.
The first two editions of the festival What Can Cinema Do? took place in 2003 and 2005 at the cinema Les 3 Luxembourg and focused on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Your contribution to our event can make a difference.
Meet the members of the organising committee.


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PHILADELPHIA, PA (November 10, 2016) – SPIN (Special People in Northeast), a leading provider of support to people with autism and intellectual disabilities across Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Comcast Corporation held an unveiling ceremony today to celebrate the opening of the new Comcast NBCUniversal Digital Literacy Lab.
Located at SPIN's Norcom Community Center in Northeast Philadelphia, the lab will prepare high school students and adults with disabilities for meaningful employment and more independent lives through the use of digital technology. SPIN received a $20,000 grant from Comcast to make this initiative possible.
The new Comcast Digital Literacy Lab offers 20 computers and five tablets with a variety of assistive software and hardware. For individuals with limited physical and communication ability, the lab provides eye-controlled devices that allow them to operate tablets and generate messages with the natural movement of their eyes. Combined with the ongoing support of communication and employment specialists, these technologies will empower more than 300 high school students and adults to develop independence and digital-first workplace skills.
The grant will also support SPIN's Disability Digital Literacy Expo. Scheduled for the Spring of 2017, the expo will convene over 200 teachers, employers, people with disabilities and their families to explore technologies for augmented/alternative communication (AAC), independent living, employment, social media self-advocacy, and several other areas. SPIN will also promote Comcast's Internet Essentials Program, the nation's largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program for low-income Americans, to families in the community to ensure that all children have access to affordable, high-speed internet to support learning and literacy at home.
SPIN (Special People in Northeast) is a leading provider of services and supports to people of all ages with autism and intellectual/developmental disability (ID/DD) across Southeastern Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley. SPIN also provides high-quality, early childhood education for children of all abilities. SPIN has been named a Top Workplace for the seventh consecutive year by Philly.com, and an Autism Center for Excellence by Community Behavioral Health. SPIN is the first-ever winner of the Wawa Foundation Hero Award. Visit www.spininc.org for more information.


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The Rot #1 (2018) Review
Publisher: Source Point Press
Parent Company: Ox Eye Media
Writer: David C. Hayes
Artist: Sean Seal
Editor: Travis Mcintire
Letters: Joshua Werner
A few weeks ago Ox Eye Media was having a "free comic book week" on their website where they were giving out a bunch of comics from their Source Point Press comic label, so I grabbed everything that I could. Out of all the ones I've read so far I've been very impressed with them all, but The Rot #1 has been my favorite. I immediately bought the entire first volume and I can't wait to get it in the mail.
The first issue flips back and forth between the present and the past. It opens up with what appears to be a corpse wrapped up like a mummy trying to walk to the city. He finds a cow and instinctively kills it with Swamp Thing like branches that he can make come out of his hands. That made him feel better. So he keeps killing.
He almost gets hit by a truck so when the driver gets out to yell at him, he kills that guy too. When he kills, the bodies of his victims go into advanced decomposition, and he's just been killing farm animals left and right. When the quickly decomposing bodies of the animals and that truck driver are found, the CDC blames the truck driver because he's been known to have sex with animals, and they believe that it's basically a venereal disease. The locals start calling the disease "The Rot", and the killer embraces that name, and finds his purpose in destroying bad people. But who exactly are the bad people to him?
Throughout all this happening it flashes back to The Rot's previous life. He was once a dangerous assassin with a huge body count, spending his final days in prison. No, he wasn't going to go free or be executed. He's dying from brain cancer and his days are numbered. A doctor offers him a chance to cure his cancer, and as you can expect that's how he ends up as The Rot. I'm not going to tell you how or why. You'll have to find out for yourself. I'll just say that the doctor doesn't have this man's best interest at heart.
I loved this issue so much. The art is just amazing, the overall feeling of the book is eerie, the way that the story unfolds is brilliantly done, and there's only a few things here and there that stop it from getting a perfect score. I need that first volume to get here ASAP.
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Ecuadorian Journalist Day, a date to remember the victims of violence and covid-19
Guayas Medical Association asks that flights from Europe be suspended
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Prosecutor Diana Salazar complains to President Lenín Moreno about the interference of the Anti-Corruption Secretariat and suggests to eliminate it
Tired of what she describes as government interference in the powers of the State Attorney General, an autonomous entity of the Judicial Function, its owner Diana Salazar wrote a letter to the President of the Republic, Lenín Moreno, to complain and warn about the Intrusion of the Anticorruption Secretariat, led by José de la Gasca, in the latest cases of overpricing of materials and medical supplies in the health system during the coronavirus pandemic in Ecuador.
Salazar says that, ex officio, the provincial prosecutors are investigating acts of corruption in public purchases during the state of emergency, especially in the hospitals of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) and the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS).
But the investigations "have been affected on several occasions by the information or requests made by the National Anticorruption Secretariat to the different prosecutors who are in charge."
The government agency in charge of De la Gasca also hinders the work of the Prosecutor's Office "because of the information that is published daily on social networks , without being a procedural subject."
"This action causes concern, as far from contributing to the criminal investigation, alerts the suspects or investigated and increases the risk of flight with the evident destruction of evidence , being necessary to safeguard the investigation," says prosecutor Salazar in his letter to the President Moreno.
Ecuador 's president appointed on 17 January 2020 José Javier de la Gasca Lopez as the new Secretary Anticorruption, the terce r responsible to hold the position since the Secretariat was created by Executive Decree on 15 May 2018 and amended on 6 February 2019.
But Salazar, after supporting with six long points what the constitutional and legal norms say about the functions and exclusive powers of the Prosecutor's Office to prosecute crimes, "without interference by any other state public entity," warns the president of the obligation that the State has to comply with the guarantee of independence of functions based on norms of the American Convention on Human Rights.
Paúl Granda (i) who resigned from the IESS Board of Directors amid mask overpricing scandals with José de la Gasca, Anticorruption government secretary.
If corruption in public purchases of the MPS and the IESS happens in the sphere of the Executive, how does the Executive intend to be judge and party? inferred in the text of the prosecutor. Even more so if that agency created by Decree does not have the powers of the Prosecutor's Office.
"Mr. President, government actions must remain outside the powers that the Prosecutor's Office has constitutionally, therefore, the actions that the National Anticorruption Secretariat has been carrying out, through its head, José de la Gasca, when issuing pronouncements on social networks that may put at risk the operations that the Prosecutor's Office is managing … the aforementioned actions represent a clear and evident interference in the division of functions that governs our country, "says Salazar's letter to Moreno.
And he explains that the secretariat created by Decree "cannot be considered a procedural subject under the terms of article 439 of the Comprehensive Criminal Code, being evident that in crimes derived from corruption where legal assets of the efficient public administration are injured, the victim -by constitutional mandate- is the State Attorney General.
But Salazar not only remains in the complaint against De la Gasca and the warning of interference by the Executive in the investigations of corruption in public purchases made by the Prosecutor's Office, but also suggests to President Moreno to close that bureaucratic office.
"Under this analysis, it is imperative that the Executive analyze whether it is beneficial for the country to finance a public institution, whose powers are already duly determined and implemented by other institutions, such as the case of the State Attorney General, as sole holder of the criminal action ", concludes Salazar's letter.
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2018 Fleur and Charles Bresler Resident artists – Heloisa Escudero, Liz Donadio, and Kanat Akar – present their recent projects completed at VisArts. The three artists were selected for four-month studio residencies to focus on photography, video, new media, and installation.
Liz Donadio set out on foot during her residency to investigate and document the natural habitats and human-made structures of a section of Rock Creek Park close to Rockville. Working both in the park and the studio, she documented with digital and analog photography, video, and audio field recordings. She consulted scientists and ecologists directly engaged with stream health, watershed management, stormwater runoff, erosion, and environmental mediation. Her multi-media sensory installation adds to an evolving historical and geographical record of a major watershed running from Maryland through the District of Columbia. Donadio considers how photography, video and sound can transmit both the facts and qualities of place.
Through photography and video, Turkish artist Kanat Akar focuses on socially and politically driven contemporary issues, exploring larger ideas through people's everyday stories and experiences. Akar presents a series of photographs of the back of his head, shot daily over 21 days — the same period of time as his upcoming mandatory military service in Turkey. A second piece features a two- channel video projected on large canvases that lean against the wall like large photographs. The video juxtaposes street photography shot by a young Syrian boy, a refugee from Aleppo to Ankara, Turkey, with a painstakingly slow trip down a road that opens to the area where the boy lived, but was never the subject of his photographs. It is a haunting, poetic meditation on displacement, temporality, and cultural ambiguity.
Heloisa Escudero presents new work featuring video and interactive performances that convert negative thoughts into positive affirmations. Using inventive rituals and humor, Escudero gently invites viewers to participate in activities that derail current cultural obsessions, anxieties, and fears.
Liz Donadio is a Baltimore-based photographer and video artist whose visual practice is centered on the nexus of art, ecology, and architecture. Her photographic prints and immersive installations conjure meditations on the natural and human-made world. Donadio received an M.F.A. from Towson University in 2012 and her work has been exhibited and screened across the US and Canada. Donadio is a Lecturer of Photography and Art History at Towson University and runs Color Wheel Digital, a fine-art print studio in Baltimore.
Kanat Akar is a photographer and a visual artist from Ankara, Turkey. Using photography and electronic media as a communication tool for the visual investigation of the human experience, he aims to tell effective stories about people in the politically and socially loaded environment that we are living in. He received his M.F.A. degree in Photographic and Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, Maryland) in 2018. He also has a B.A. degree in Economics (2014) from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
About the Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency: In honor of VisArts patrons, Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four month residency at VisArts at Rockville. This residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. Studio space is provided free of charge. The residency encourages interaction, dialogue and exploration both within the VisArts artist community and the larger Rockville community as well. The residency offers the gift of time and space to three artists and/or collaborative artist teams each year to experiment and realize new work. Each year the current Bresler Resident Artists present their work in a three-person exhibition at VisArts.
Learn more about the Fleur And Charles Bresler Residency.


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CHEQUES
Cheque is a negotiable instrument. Normally, cheques are issued either for the reason of statutory requirement or for the reason of securing proof of payment. Crossed and account payee cheques are not negotiable by any person other than the payee. It has to be deposited into his bank account. In legal parlance, author of the cheque is called 'drawer', the person in whose favour it is drawn is called 'payee' and the bank who is directed to pay the amount is called 'drawee'. It is always safe to issue crossed "Account Payee Only" cheques in order to avoid its misuse. Blank cheques are not safe. It is better to date the cheque invariably.  A cheque is valid for payment only for six months from the date mentioned in the cheque. After the period of six months, such a cheque is called 'stale cheque'.
A cheque becomes due for payment on the date mentioned on it. Before issuing a cheque author of the cheque should ensure that he has sufficient funds in his account. Lest, it would bounce with remarks 'insufficient funds'. Bouncing in common parlance is referred to dishonour of cheques.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CHEQUE IS DISHONOURED?
Immediately upon dishonour the drawee bank issues a 'Cheque Return Memo' to the banker of the payee citing the reason for non-payment. In turn the payee's banker shall handover the dishonoured cheque and the memo to the payee.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE THEN?
The payee has an option open to him either to re-present the cheque if and when he thinks the cheque could be honoured but within six months from the date of the cheque or proceed legally to prosecute the drawer. The payee may prosecute the drawer for dishonour of cheque only if the amount mentioned in the cheque is towards discharge of a debt or any other legal liability of the drawee towards payee. Mere issuance of a cheque say for the purposes of gift, or towards lending a loan or for unlawful purposes would not amount to legal liability and the drawer cannot be prosecuted in such cases.
TO PROCEED LEGALLY
If he decides to proceed legally, then the drawer should be given an opportunity of making good the cheque amount immediately. Such an opportunity has to be afforded only by means of a notice in writing.
LEGAL PROVISIONS
Under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 as amended up to date, the notice has to be sent by the payee to the drawer in writing within thirty days from the date of receiving Cheque Return Memo from the bank and demand the cheque amount to be paid to him within fifteen days from the date of receipt of such a notice by the drawer.
CONDITIONS FOR PROSECUTION
Law prescribes certain conditions to be fulfilled in order to attract provisions of Section 138.
A) The cheque should have been drawn by the drawer on an account maintained by him.
B) It should have been returned unpaid either because of the amount of money standing to the credit of that account is insufficient to honour the cheque or that it exceeds the amount arranged to be paid from that account by an agreement made with that bank.
C) Cheque must have been issued towards discharge of a debt or legal liability.
D) If after receiving the notice, the drawer does not make payment within fifteen days from the date of receiving such a notice, then he commits an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act.
Punishment prescribed for such an offence is fine which may extend to twice the amount of the cheque or imprisonment for a term which may be extended to two years or both.
FILING COMPLAINT
If the drawer makes payment of the cheque amount within fifteen days from the date of receipt of the notice, then drawer does not commit any offence. Otherwise, the payee may proceed to file a complaint in the court of the jurisdictional magistrate within one month from the date of expiry of fifteen days prescribed in the notice.
If the payee fails to file the complaint within thirty days, the complaint becomes barred by limitation of time. The jurisdictional magistrate court may refuse to entertain such a belated complaint. However, if the payee has sufficient reasons to justify delay in filing the complaint, he may make an application before the magistrate along with the complaint, to explain the reasons for delay and seek condoning of delay. Cognizance of the complaint may be taken if the Court is satisfied that the payee had sufficient cause for not making the complaint within the prescribed period.
After the complaint is filed and taken on record the proceedings against the drawer begins.
The payee may also initiate money recovery procedure in a jurisdictional civil court apart from prosecuting the drawer for criminal offence. It is essential in this case to consult an advocate who is well versed and experienced in this area of practice to proceed further in the matter.
FINER POINTS
The procedure of filing complaint and prosecuting the drawer in a court of magistrate involves certain finer points like cause of action, preparation of legal notice and complaint in accordance with legal requirements, modes of sending the written legal notice, service of summons and non-bailable warrants, conducting the criminal case etc. It is advisable to consult an advocate who is well versed and experienced in this area of practice.
CHEQUEMAN
Type of Cheques that Can Be Presented In the CTS
 All the local cheques can be presented in the CTS. Banks may also present cheques on banks situated outside the NCR, but such banks have branches in the NCR region. The CTS also supports the intercity clearing and specialized clearing like high value clearing etc. The on-us instruments where both presenting and drawee banks are same are not allowed in the CTS. Images of such instruments would be stopped at the Clearing House Interface itself.


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3 Cheap REITs That Are Too Good to Ignore
Will Ashworth, InvestorPlace
Aug. 9, 2022, 11:46 AM
The largest U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that's focused on real estate investment trusts, or REITs, is the Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ), with $38.2 billion in total net assets. Down 14% year-t0-date through Aug. 8, there are plenty of cheap REITs to buy among its 170 real estate stocks. But which ones should you focus your attention on?
If you believe we are in — or will soon be in — a recession, you'll want to own REITs that lease their real estate assets to businesses that tend to do well in economic slowdowns. However, economists will point to the fact that the U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, putting the unemployment rate at 3.5%. That's on par with the 50-year low set in 2019.
For me, rather than trying to market-time your REIT buys, I would consider buying some of the better names that are trading below their historical averages. Here are three cheap REITs that are too good to ignore and make sense for the long haul.
MPW Medical Properties Trust $16.07 SPG Simon Property Group $107.41 STOR Store Capital $28.15
Cheap REITs: Medical Properties Trust (MPW)
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Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) is the second-largest owner of hospital beds in the U.S., with approximately 447 properties and 46,000 beds. Its real estate assets are worth $22.3 billion. Of those assets, 61% are in the U.S., followed by the UK at 18%, Switzerland at 6% and 15% from the rest of the world.
Since the REIT went public in July 2005, it delivered a total shareholder return of 661% through Dec. 31, 2021. That's a compound annual growth rate of 12.5%, approximately 3.5 percentage points higher than the S&P 500 over the same period.
On Aug. 3, MPW reported its second-quarter 2022 results. They included a 4.8% increase in revenue to $400.2 million and a 5.9% increase in adjusted funds from operations to $212.3 million. The REIT finished the second quarter with $10.14 billion in debt at a weighted average rate of 3.3%. Approximately 89% of its debt is fixed, with more than 60% expiring in 2026 or beyond.
Down 31% year-to-date (YTD), the REIT has an earnings yield of 12.4%, considerably higher than its five-year average of 7.2%.
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It hasn't been an easy go for Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG), America's second-largest REIT. In July 2016, Simon's share price got as high as $225. Down more than 50% since, it's struggled to regain its former footing.
Simon reported its Q2 2022 results on Aug. 1. Its comparable funds from operations (FFO) was $1.11 billion during the quarter, 1.2% higher than a year earlier. The REIT's occupancy in the second quarter improved 210 basis points to 93.9%. Its occupancy rate in Q2 2019 was 94.4%, so the business is almost back to pre-pandemic levels by this metric.
As a result of the higher occupancy rate, Simon's net operating income in the first six months of 2022 was $2.96 billion, 3.4% higher than a year earlier and 3.5% greater than the first six months of 2022.
The REIT's return to health is highlighted by its increased free cash flow, or FCF. It was $1.2 billion in the first quarter, 20% higher than a year earlier. For the first six months of 2022, it was $2.2 billion, considerably higher than $1.5 billion in the first six months of 2019.
Simon's earnings yield is currently 5.9%. It hasn't been this high at any time over the past decade. Its dividend yield is a high 6.6%.
Cheap REITs: Store Capital (STOR)
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As far as I know, Store Capital (NYSE:STOR) is the only REIT held by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A, NYSE:BRK-B). Warren Buffett's holding company owns 5.3% of the single-tenant real estate owner and operator.
Buffett originally invested $377 million in STOR stock in 2017 at $20.25 per share. Berkshire now holds 14.8 million shares and is the fourth-largest shareholder.
In the second quarter of 2022, Store Capital grew its real estate portfolio to 3,012 properties with a value of $11.4 billion, up from 2,738 and a value of $10 billion. As a result, its revenues increased by 16.5% year-over-year to $223.8 million from $192 million a year earlier. Its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) in the quarter were $163.8 million, 20.8% higher than Q2 2021.
The quality of its single-tenant portfolio is top-notch. At the end of June, the REIT's occupancy rate was 99.5% with an average lease remaining of 13.2 years. Other highlights from the second quarter include acquiring $392 million in real estate with average cap rates of 7.2% and lease-escalation increases of 2%, 20 basis points higher than the first quarter.
As a result of its strong second quarter, it raised its guidance for AFFO per share by five cents from $2.20 at the bottom of its range to $2.25. At the top end, it raised AFFO per share by four cents to $2.27.
By virtually every financial metric, STOR is as cheap or cheaper than it's been in the past decade. Yielding 5.5%, it's an excellent REIT to hold for the long run.
On the date of publication, Will Ashworth did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
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Q: Understanding the relation between transitive closure and convergent series I am trying to better understand the concept of a transitive closure of a relation in the infinite case.
Suppose we have the set {$ q \in \mathbb{Q}| \exists n \in \mathbb{N}, q = 1 - (\frac{1}{2})^n  $} $\cup$ {1},
or
{0,$\frac{1}{2}, \frac{3}{4}, \frac{7}{8},..., 1$}
Consider the relation $R$ on that set s.t.:
$xRy$ iff $y = x + (1 - x)\frac{1}{2}$
So, $\frac{1}{2}R\frac{3}{4}R\frac{7}{8}...$ and $R$ is not transitive.
Let $R^+$ be the transitive closure of $R$.
Question 1:

Is it the case that $\frac{1}{2} R^+ 1$?

My confusion:

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*For any particular natural $n$, the sequence of length $n$ on the relation $R$, starting at $\frac{1}{2}$, does not lead to 1.

*On the other hand, $1/2 +1/4+ 1/8+... = 1$

*In the link (nlab), transitive closure is defined using sequences of length $n$ (where $n$ is a natural number). With this in mind:
Question 2

Does it make sense to define a transitive closure relation with a sequence of length $\omega$ (infinite ordinal) , and would that make a difference here?

A: You have already stated why the answer to the first question is No. The transitive closure of $R$ is the smallest relation that extends $R$ and is transitive. Since the intersection of a collection of transitive relations is also a transitive relation, and since any relation on a set $S$ is a subset of $S^2$, which is transitive, we can define the transitive closure of $R$ to be the intersection of all transitive relations extending $R$. In particular, note that the transitive closure of $R$ is a subset of all transitive relations extending $R$.
But
$$x\ \hat R\ y \iff \exists n \in \Bbb N, \{a_i\}_{i=0}^n\text{ such that } a_0 = x, a_n = y\text{ and }\forall i < n, a_i\ R\ a_{i+1}$$
is a transitive relation, extends $R$ and $1/2\ \hat R\ 1$ is false. Since the transitive closure $R^+$ of $R$ is a sub-relation of $\hat R$, $1/2\ R^+\ 1$ must also be false. (Yes, $\hat R$ actually is $R^+$, but that full equality is not necessary to deduce this result.)
Now, can you define a transitive extension $R'$ of $R$ by
$$x\ R'\ y \iff \exists\{a_i\}_{i=0}^\omega\text{ with } a_0 = x, a_\omega = y\text{ and }\forall i < \omega, a_i\ R\ a_{i+1}?$$
The answer is yes, for any relation $R$ on any set $S$, that does define a transitive extension of $R$. But if we then define the set $$S_\omega = \{x \in S \mid \exists \{a_n\}_{n\in \Bbb N}\text{ with }a_0 = x \text{ and } \forall n\in \Bbb N, a_n\ R\ a_{n+1}\}$$
that is, $x \in S_\omega$ if there is some infinite ascending $R$-related chain from $x$ - then for all $x\in S_\omega, y \in S$, we have $x\ R'\ y$, and for any $x \notin S_\omega$, it isn't related on-the-right to anything different than it would be under the transitive closure $R^+$. So we either get everything or nothing from this extension. The reason for this is that there is no $n$ with $n+1 = \omega$. Thus the condition $a_n\ R\ a_{n+1}$ puts no restrictions on the value of $y=a_\omega$.
If you want something interesting, you need to add some additional condition that relates $a_\omega$ to the values of earlier elements in the sequence. But there is no natural condition that can be applied to aribitrary relations. Any such condition is going to have to depend on properties of the specific relation. So we cannot define $a_\omega$ in general. But there are specific relations, such as this one where an appropriate condition can be made.
For the relation $R$ defined here, for any real number $x$ (not just in the set you specified), if $\{a_n\}_{n\in\Bbb N}$ is an ascending chain from $a_0 = x$, you can show that $\lim_{n\to\infty} a_n$ converges, thus we can define
$$x\ R'\ y \iff \exists\{a_i\}_{i=0}^\omega\text{ with } a_0 = x, a_\omega = y\text{ and }\forall i < \omega, a_i\ R\ a_{i+1}\text{ and } \lim_{n\to\infty} a_n = a_\omega$$
and have a transitive extension $R'$ of $R$ with $1/2\ R'\ 1$. YAY!
But even easier, for any such sequence $\{a_n\}$ ascending under $R$, it is not hard to show that $\lim_{n\to\infty} a_n = 1$ always. Which means we could have just defined $R' = R^+ \cup \{(x, 1)\mid x \in \Bbb R\}$ ... Yay? Okay - this particular relation is not all that interesting. There are other relations that would have produced something less simple by this concept.
So, that leaves your final question:

would that make a difference here?

No. It does not. The question was not about some arbitrary transitive extension of $R$, it was about the transitive closure of $R$. The existence of other transitive extensions, however they are defined, is immaterial.

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Ann Lucas promotes two women to key posts in cabinet reshuffle
Les Reid
10:00, 8 MAY 2013
Updated 13:51, 8 MAY 2013
New Coventry City Council leader Ann Lucas and her deputy Phil Townshend
New Coventry City Council leader Ann Lucas's top team was selected last night in a cabinet reshuffle.
The big gainer was 26-year-old Warwick University postgraduate researcher Damian Gannon, promoted from the backbenches to the third highest council position as cabinet member for finance.
Identified as a Coventry Labour Party rising star, he only became a councillor two years ago, and will now be responsible for the council's budget.
The other big gainers are two women – Alison Gingell and Rachel Lancaster.
Coun Gingell was elected to the council only last year, after gaining vast experience as chair of Coventry NHS primary care trust.
She becomes cabinet member for health and social care, replacing Coun Lucas.
Coun Lancaster also enters the cabinet as cabinet member for public services, a rebadged post for many years known as "city services" – which includes roads maintenance and bin collection.
Leader Coun Lucas's recommendations for cabinet and committees were voted on by the ruling Labour group of 43 councillors in last night's private meeting.
Losing their seats in cabinet were Jim O'Boyle and Lindslay Harvard, both backers of out-going council leader John Mutton, who was deposed by Coun Lucas in Friday's leadership contest.
But Coun Mutton's former deputy, George Duggins, has been retained – switching from the finance position to become cabinet member for children and young people, replacing Coun O'Boyle.
Last Friday's voted established Phil Townshend as deputy leader, a post which has long been held by the cabinet member for finance. Coun Townshend will instead retain cabinet responsibilities for community safety and equality.
He will also be in charge of overseeing Coun Lucas's 20-point "programme for action" manifesto.
Revealed in the Telegraph last week, it includes a "living wage" for the lowest paid 2,000 council employees, more social enterprises to run council services, a jobs scheme for unemployed school-leavers working with major city employers, and an aspiration for a new council-guaranteed municipal bank offering loans to businesses and households.
David Kershaw remains cabinet member for education, while his former Coundon Court school pupil, Coun Dan Howells, becomes his deputy – one of three new deputy cabinet members.
Coun Duggins deputy will be Jayne Innes, who stood as a Labour candidate in Nuneaton at the general election in 2010.
Coun Gingell will be deputised by Kamran Khan, also elected only last year.
The remaining cabinet posts have been retained by existing holders – although the titles of those portfolios have been changed.
Lynnette Kelly's title has changed from cabinet member for city development to "business, enterprise and employment".
Ed Ruane continues as cabinet member for housing, a post now including "heritage".
Abdul Khan is cabinet member for energy and environment, a post no longer named "sustainability and infrastructure".
Mutton loyalist Linda Bigham, meanwhile, has been replaced as chair of scrutiny by Colleen Fletcher.
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Сан-Себастьяно-аль-Палатино — титулярная церковь была создана Папой Павлом VI 30 января 1973 года апостольской конституцией Auctis pro Ecclesiae. Титулярная диакония принадлежит церкви Сан-Себастьяно-аль-Палатино, расположенной на римском холме Палатине, на виа Сан-Бонавентура.

Список кардиналов-дьяконов и кардиналов-священников титулярной диаконии Сан-Себастьяно-аль-Палатино
 Фердинандо Джузеппе Антонелли, O.F.M. — (5 марта 1973 — 2 февраля 1983), титулярная диакония pro illa vice (2 февраля 1983 — 12 июля 1993, до смерти);
 Ив Конгар, O.P. — (6 ноября 1994 — 22 июня 1995, до смерти);
 Дино Мондуцци — (21 февраля 1998 — 13 октября 2006, до смерти);
 Джон Патрик Фоли — (24 ноября 2007 — 11 декабря 2011, до смерти);
 Эдвин Фредерик О'Брайен — (18 февраля 2012 — 4 марта 2022), титулярная диакония pro hac vice (4 марта 2022 — по настоящее время).

Ссылки
 Титулярная церковь Сан-Себастьяно-аль-Палатино на Catholic Hierarchy;
 Титулярная церковь Сан-Себастьяно-аль-Палатино на www.gcatholic.org;
 Апостольская конституция Auctis pro Ecclesiae, AAS 65 (1973), стр. 147-148.

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A humpback whale breaches in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: Jane Fay Baker
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By Robert Fanger, Hispanic Access Foundation
Located off the coast of Massachusetts, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary provides refuge for humpback whales that feed in the national marine sanctuary from April through December and migrate to lower latitudes in the Caribbean Sea, including the Dominican Republic, during the winter to mate and calve. To celebrate this geographic connection, Hispanic Access Foundation and Lawrence, Massachusetts-based Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal participated in a whale watching trip in the sanctuary during the 6th annual Latino Conservation Week last summer.
The whale watching event drew 84 church members and students from Lawrence Public Schools who learned about humpback whales and marine life, environmental career opportunities, and the protection and responsible use of marine resources. "We want our youth and families to have meaningful educational experiences in the outdoors, and seeing the natural world in such a powerful, up-close way certainly qualifies," says Pastor Victor Jarvis. "Not only does it change perspectives on the power and importance of nature, it encourages us all to embrace our moral obligation to preserve these treasures for those who will come after them."
Students from Lawrence Public Schools take part in a day of whale watching. Photo: Courtesy of Hispanic Access Foundation
In advance of the whale watch trip, students learned about whale migration, the intricate web of marine life in Cape Cod and Massachusetts bays, and the cultural and social connections between marine sanctuaries in the Eastern U.S. and the Caribbean. During the whale watch tour, students were asked to keep a sharp lookout for marine life, including whales, birds, basking sharks, ocean sunfish, jellyfish, sand lance, and sea turtles.
"Latinos are passionate about enjoying the outdoors and their stewardship of places like Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is essential to protecting it for future generations," says Maite Arce, president and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. "It's vital to introduce Latinos to new opportunities, new locations, and new ways to translate their passion for the outdoors into making a difference for our nation's treasured natural resources."
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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — A man accused of killing four family members at a home following a domestic dispute told responding authorities to take him to jail, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Records also show the Pinal County Sheriff's Office was called to the home 10 times in the past three years before Sunday, when authorities say 21-year-old Richard Wilson Jr. killed his parents, teenage sister and young niece.
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Monster High – Mega Monsterparty (Originaltitel: Monster High: Ghoul's Rule!) ist ein Computeranimationsfilm aus dem Jahr 2012 der Regisseure Mike Fetterly und Steve Sacks über die Monster-High-Figuren.

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Auf der Highschool für Monster zeigt Lehrer Mr. Rotter den Schülern einen alten Lehrfilm, der sie vor Normalos warnt, die an Halloween Jagd auf Monster machen würden. Die Warnungen vor den Normalos werden von den meisten Schülern zunächst nicht ernst genommen. Als die Schule allerdings mit Eiern und Kürbissen beworfen wird, ändert sich das und Direktorin Bloodgood rät den Monstern, sich zu verstecken oder nur noch verkleidet vor die Tür zu gehen. Frankie Stein widerspricht dem und erklärt, dass sich die Monster nicht dafür schämen sollten, anders zu sein. Sie fordert alle Monster dazu auf, sich ihren Feiertag wieder zurückzuholen. Die Schüler verstehen ihre Forderung allerdings falsch und so plant Cleo de Nile mit einigen Mitstreitern, sich an den Normalos zu rächen. Sie machen sich auf den Weg zur Schule der Normalos, der New-Salem-Highschool. Als sie dort ankommen, ist die Schule mit einem Totenkopf beschmiert. Als die Polizei die Monster sieht, hält diese die Monster für die Täter. Als sie flüchten, gelangen sie auf eine Halloween-Party, wo sie für kostümierte Normalos gehalten werden. Plötzlich taucht auf der Party Lilith auf, die Nichte des berüchtigten Monsterjägers Van Hellscream. Die Monster werden erkannt und müssen wieder davonlaufen.

In der Zwischenzeit haben einige Monster-Schüler einen Plan zu den Katakomben unter der Schule gefunden, auf dem eine Halloween-Halle eingezeichnet ist. Dort erfahren sie, dass Monster an Halloween ursprünglich von den Menschen gefeiert wurden und nicht gehänselt.

Währenddessen wurde Holt Hyde von der Polizei verhaftet, da man glaubt, er wäre für die Verunstaltung der Normalo-Schule verantwortlich. In seiner Zelle verwandelt sich das Monster Hyde jedoch wieder in den Normalo Jackson Jekyll und wird deshalb freigelassen und zur Normalo-Schule gebracht. Dort trifft er auf Clair, ein Normalo-Mädchen, das sich der Gothic-Szene zugehörig fühlt.

Nachdem auch die Normalo-Schule mit Eiern und Kürbissen beworfen wird, erklärt Cleo, dass sich Holt über seinen Critter-Account zu den Taten bekannt hat. Lilith findet inzwischen heraus, dass sich das Monster Holt Hyde hinter dem Normalo Jackson Jekyll verbirgt und er sich immer in ein Monster verwandelt, wenn er Musik hört. Holt wird schließlich mit Hilfe von Lilith von der Polizei gefasst. Holt soll von den Normalos die furchtbarste Monster-Bestrafung erhalten: Er wird an Halloween den Hügel hinaufgetrieben, wo er die "saure Strafe" erhalten soll.

Inzwischen kommt heraus, dass Holt unschuldig ist und Cleo von den Monstern, sowie Lilith von den Normalos hinter allem stecken. Als sie dem Sheriff ihre Taten gestehen, will dieser davon nichts hören und erklärt, dass er das Monster Holt trotzdem bestrafen wird. Am Halloween-Abend versammeln sich nun die Normalos auf dem Hügel mit Fackeln und Heugabeln, um Holt die saure Strafe zu verpassen. Den Monstern gelingt es jedoch, Holt gerade noch rechtzeitig zu befreien.

Die Normalos stürmen inzwischen die Schule der Monster. Dort werden sie schon in der Halloween-Halle erwartet, wo die Missverständnisse zwischen den Normalos und den Monstern schließlich ausgeräumt werden und alle gemeinsam eine Halloween-Party feiern. Die jahrhundertealte Feindschaft zwischen Normalos und Monstern ist damit beendet.

Hintergrund
 Der von Mattel Entertainment produzierte Film wurde am 26. Oktober 2012 in den USA auf Nickelodeon ausgestrahlt und hatte seine Erstausstrahlung im deutschen Fernsehen am 22. März 2013 auf SuperRTL. Der Film diente dazu, die neu auf den Markt gebrachte Puppenserie "Kostümparty" (im Original: Ghouls Rule) vorzustellen, welche aus den fünf Figuren Abbey Bominable, Frankie Stein, Cleo de Nile, Draculaura und Clawdeen Wolf bestand.

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This morning I was in a boat out in the Gulf of Mexico and the camera boat took a nose-dive into a huge wave and my SR2 took a big splash -- a few gallons of salt water hitting it squarely on the operator side.
Besides the usual CR-56 cleaning -- does anyone have any suggestions about what to do about it all. Nothing shorted out, and we were able to shoot with the camera later in the day with a different lens.
My 10-100 was mounted, so I guess it needs to go to Arri NY or Zellan or Germany . . .
The big fear from salt water is corrosion. The camera and lens need to be opened up and any salt deposits cleaned away. They can cause shorts or eat away at circuitry. They can also eat away at lens coatings. Time for a good cleaning on the Production's buck.
> This morning I was in a boat out in the Gulf of Mexico and the camera >boat took a nose-dive into a huge wave and my SR2 took a big splash >-- a few gallons of salt water hitting it squarely on the operator side.
If any salt water got into the camera or the lens, you may have serious problems down the line.
So if you think any salt water got in, get them opened up ASAP. Through capillary action, water has a nasty tendency to migrate to where it doesn't belong, and sea water especially can play havoc with the dissimilar metals used in lens mechanisms.
If you are going to send the gear somewhere for service, be sure you alert them to the problem. Time is your enemy.
> If you are going to send the gear somewhere for service, be sure you >alert them to the problem. Time is your enemy.
I've got to agree here. I've made it a rule, if my camera shoots on a beach, then it must go for service after the shoot.
Shooting on the beach itself, is bad enough (open the camera up after a day on the beach, and you will find loads of sand.) Salt Spray is much finer, and Salt water. Yeesh. Is the SR made of Aluminium?
I remember in one of my Camera operator manuals, it suggest that if a camera falls in salt water, to immerse it in a bucket of fresh water until it can be serviced (I think this was written before cameras had integrated electronics).
I would talk to you camera service tech, and think about contacting the insurance company. If the production company is insuring you, and a month or two from now the residual effects of the salt water dunking fry your camera, who is footing the bill?
Immersing in fresh water can make a difference, but has to be done straight away.. a few minutes delay and its *game over*. If the electronics were powered up at the time of the soaking they are liable to be dead, if not, you may stand half a chance..
If you have sea water inside the lens, forget it..
This said, I've seen cameras survive this treatment and live.
I would call your insurance people and mention the words " write off "
This happened to me when a Steadicam operator took a tumble in knee-deep ocean surf (don't ask!). Arri 3, Steadicam, Cook lens, mag with film etc. went asses for teakettles into the surf. On the advice of a tech at Arri in Burbank, we filled a plastic bucket with spring water from bottles at craft services then added a cup of automotive antifreeze. I lowered the Arri body into the water and sent it to the rental house 2 hours away.
They rec'd the camera, pulled it out and split it apart. After drying the camera with air and a blow dryer, it was shipped to Arri. The camera is still in service today. A couple of components on the boards were replaced. That's all. Lens was a gonner. Film was used in the spot. Steadicam was ok but not great.
The antifreeze stops corrosion from the salt water. Seemed to work really well in this instance.
Was their film in the camera? Years ago I was on the set of "Jaw", doing an article for "American Cinematographer". The crew worked all day on the shot where the shark bites of the end of the boat. The boat tipped faster than expected and the onboard Panavision went underwater.The mag was moterboated to shore. the corrosive saltwater was flushed out with freshwater (in a darkroom of course) and hand carried on the plane to the lab. The footage was developed and appeared in the movie.
As long as the film stays wet its ok, if it dries out it all sticks together and is ruined.
Well, this topic like so many others will have proponents of one approach or another. We for one would agree with the approach Rod Williams presents. In fact we originally got it from Wolfgang Reigl at Arriflex in Burbank . . . with some caveats.
The distilled water and automotive antifreeze approach provides the best possibility of success from a salt water soaking. For the most part, the mechanical parts of the camera, magazine, and lens should fare quite well.
The electronics are another matter.
The mechanical parts should just require thorough cleaning and "de-salting" which water flushing and antifreeze should do. Bearings should be able to survive, though if you disassemble the camera to that point, you may want to replace them anyway. I have not seen a problem with lens elements, as long as you act somewhat quickly.
The problem with the electronics lies with time and moisture. Unless you are 110% sure that you have managed to remove every last bit of salt from every component of the camera's electronics (and you can't be 110% sure), you are looking at problems down the road. The problem with salt, is that the camera may work fine for now, but some time in the future you may be shooting in a damp environment and that atmospheric moisture will reactivate the salt in some electronic component and cause intermittent problems in the camera. And troubleshooting will be a real pain.
So the advice is that the camera needs a full service and salt cleaning AND the boards need to be replaced with new. You might get away with cleaning, but that could open you to a problem in a year (or two, or who knows!). On the other hand, if you're not covered by insurance, you might want to take a chance and save some money. But we don't recommend that approach.


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Posted by OLADIPUPO MOJEED on September 30, 2021
Information reaching us says Troyes has been chosen at the venue to host the replay of the suspended Nice-Marseille fixture.
The Ligue 1 body, LFP, had announced that the game would be played on October 27.
The original fixture was suspended at the 75th minute due to a pitch invasion ignited by Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet, who threw back one of the bottles that had been targeted at him.
The situation led to a mass brawl between players, fans, and even staff. This culminated in some Marseille players deciding not to return to the pitch.
After studying the situation, the LFP decided to have the game replayed at a later date. The incident made the LFP dock Nice a point, with the additional one suspended.
Apart from that, Nice were told to play several of their home games behind closed doors, including this upcoming match in Troyes.
The decision Troyes accepted to be the hosts was that they were ready to accept an additional match schedule on their facilities. The club also has all the needed technology to host the game.
Meanwhile, the Troyes decision became the only option after other clubs declined to add a match to their stadium schedule out of fear of damaging their pitch.
Meanwhile, Marseille coach Jorge Sampaoli could wield the big stick after warning his players to sit up or lose their place in the team and give others ready for it their shirts.
Speaking at a press conference in reaction to their loss against Les, Sampaoli refused to find excuses. He stated that fatigue, for example, is not an excuse.
He, therefore, warned the players who could not be ready would be replaced by those who would be, adding that such is the tough law of competition.
The players will need to show a lot of determination to maintain this state.
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Captain Olimar Got Done Dirty In Latest Smash Patch
Ian Walker
The most recent Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update addressed a number of concerns in the competitive community, most notably the strength of characters like Captain Olimar. The developers hit the Pikmin protagonist with a number of changes in order to knock him down a peg, but those changes had the side effect of severely limiting his ability to block incoming attacks.
Captain Olimar has received a ton of animosity for his advantages in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Much of his strength in previous versions of the game revolved around his small frame, which made it hard for opposing players to land attacks. The game's ver.3.1.0 patch, which dropped late last week, addressed this by enlarging his hurtbox, or the space around his model that tells the game he's been hit. As you can see in the comparison images below, this change made the hurtbox around Olimar's helmet significantly bigger.
The hurtbox around Olimar's head grew larger in the ver.3.1.0 patch (original images c/o Meshima)
Pichu, another character who has found success in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competition thanks in part to her small frame, also received a hurtbox adjustment, but with one key difference: the size of her shield was also increased to compensate for the Pokémon's increased vulnerability. Unfortunately for Olimar players, the intrepid space captain wasn't given the same consideration, which has proven to be devastating for his defensive options.
Like almost every aspect of the Super Smash Bros. franchise, blocking works a little differently in these games than it does in most other fighting games. By holding the block button, players can surround their chosen characters with a protective bubble known as a shield. This bubble shrinks in size over time and also when it's attacked by an opponent, reducing its effectiveness. At a shield's maximum size, it should block most attacks outright, but as it gets smaller, players can utilize what is known as a shield poke to attack the vulnerable portions of an opponent's character that are no longer inside the protective bubble. There are exceptions—condolences to Mr. Game & Watch in Super Smash Bros. Melee—but, generally, a character with a maximum shield shouldn't be able to get hit.
That is where things have now gotten precarious for Captain Olimar. With an increased hurtbox but no such expansion on his shield, slivers of his vulnerable bits are constantly sticking out of the bubble's protective space. The competitive community was quick to pick up on this discrepancy and has produced a mountain of evidence of how this negatively affects Olimar's ability to mount a capable defense, some of which comes from actual tournament play.
Another technique known as shield tilting, which allows players to shift the shield to other portions of a character's body to cover an exposed hurtbox, has been raised as a possible solution for Captain Olimar players who have suddenly found themselves without a viable shield, but that still poses the problem of making the lower half of his body vulnerable. And what happens when the shield shrinks? Should players even bother blocking at that point? This is an obvious oversight by Nintendo, and many fans think this is a step too far, even the players in the competitive community who had formerly been calling for Olimar nerfs.
Where one stands on the latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate patch has a lot to do with what you value in competition. There's no doubt that characters like Captain Olimar, Pichu, Peach, Daisy, and others were very strong before this patch, but it remains to be seen how the extensive changes made to these top tier characters will affect tournaments moving forward. Olimar's shield issues, however, fly directly in the face of basic game mechanics that have existed for 20 years, hobbling a character who, while powerful, doesn't deserve to be removed from competition entirely due to hamstrung defensive options. Here's hoping the developers fix this oversight in the next patch.
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Sounds like a salty Olimar player. Olimar was broken. Not because he was OP, which he was, but because his defense was perfect. No flaws, no weaknesses, upsmash out of shield. Sounds like you should buck up and deal with the changes or switch characters.


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Q: asp net identity EF I am having a problem with "cache" in asp .net identity, when I change password, name, any claim, I must restart the application for validate the changes.
I have this in SecurityContext
public class SecurityContext : IdentityDbContext<IdentityUser>
{
    public SecurityContext()
        : base("Db")
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema("security");

        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

        modelBuilder.Entity<IdentityUser>()
            .ToTable("_Users");
        modelBuilder.Entity<IdentityRole>()
            .ToTable("_Roles");
        modelBuilder.Entity<IdentityUserRole>()
            .ToTable("_UsersRoles");
        modelBuilder.Entity<IdentityUserClaim>()
            .ToTable("_UsersClaims");
        modelBuilder.Entity<IdentityUserLogin>()
            .ToTable("_UsersLogins");
    }
}

Login:
public class ApplicationOAuthProvider : OAuthAuthorizationServerProvider
{
    private readonly string _PublicClientId;
    private readonly Func<UserManager<IdentityUser>> _UserManagerFactory;
    private readonly Func<RoleManager<IdentityRole>> _RoleManagerFactory;

    #region Constructors
    public ApplicationOAuthProvider(string publicClientId,
        Func<UserManager<IdentityUser>> userManagerFactory,
        Func<RoleManager<IdentityRole>> roleManagerFactory
        )
    {
        if (publicClientId == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("publicClientId");
        _PublicClientId = publicClientId;

        if (userManagerFactory == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("userManagerFactory");
        _UserManagerFactory = userManagerFactory;

        if (roleManagerFactory == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("roleManagerFactory");
        _RoleManagerFactory = roleManagerFactory;

    }
    #endregion Constructors

    #region GrantResourceOwnerCredentials
    public override async Task GrantResourceOwnerCredentials(OAuthGrantResourceOwnerCredentialsContext context)
    {
        using (var userManager = _UserManagerFactory())
        {
            using (var roleManager = _RoleManagerFactory())
            {
                var user = await userManager.FindAsync(context.UserName, context.Password);
                if (user == null)
                {
                    context.SetError("invalid_grant", "The user name or password is incorrect.");
                    return;
                }
                // Start Login success
                var oAuthIdentity = await userManager.CreateIdentityAsync(user, context.Options.AuthenticationType);
                var cookiesIdentity = await userManager.CreateIdentityAsync(user, CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationType);
                // Claims
                cookiesIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim(XpClaimTypes.Application, _SessionData.ApplicationName));
                // Properties
                var properties = CreateProperties(user, roleManager);
                var ticket = new AuthenticationTicket(oAuthIdentity, properties);
                context.Validated(ticket);
                context.Request.Context.Authentication.SignIn(cookiesIdentity);
                // End Login success
            }
        }
    }
    #endregion GrantResourceOwnerCredentials
}

obviating others methods
For example the method for changePassword:
    #region Password
    [HttpPut]
    [Authorize(Roles = AccountRoles.Superadministrador + "," + AccountRoles.Administrador)]
    public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Password(SetPasswordBindingModel model)
    {
        if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            return BadRequest(ModelState);

        var identity = await UserManager.FindByNameAsync((Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity as ClaimsIdentity).Name);
        var user = await UserManager.FindByIdAsync(model.Id);

        if (!(
            (identity.Roles.Any(x => x.Role.Name == AccountRoles.Superadministrador) && user.Roles.Any(x => x.Role.Name == AccountRoles.Administrador)) ||
            (identity.Roles.Any(x => x.Role.Name == AccountRoles.Administrador) && user.Roles.Any(x => x.Role.Name == AccountRoles.Usuario))
        ))
            throw new AuthenticationException();

        // Delete password
        {
            var result = await UserManager.RemovePasswordAsync(model.Id);
            var errorResult = GetErrorResult(result);
            if (errorResult != null)
                return errorResult;
        }

        // Add password
        {
            var result = await UserManager.AddPasswordAsync(model.Id, model.Password);
            var errorResult = GetErrorResult(result);
            if (errorResult != null)
                return errorResult;
        }

        return Ok();
    }
    #endregion Password

There are the steps I followed:

*

*Login application

*Change the password

*Logout application

*Login with the new password (in table is changed, is correctly the change)

*Error with password

*Login with older password (the old password in table is not exists)

*Login successful

*Restart application

*The new password now is valid

The same problem is occurred when I change any value in BBDD of asp .net identity
Any Idea please?
Thanks!!

A: If I recall correctly I add the same issue because one of the contexts was being persisted and the other recreated on every call.
If you check one will not have the correct value from the DB, probably ApplicationOAuthProvider.
Try recreating the context for every call on the ApplicationOAuthProvider.