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Why do people hate on Sword Art Online?
metalshiflet96
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Posted 11/10/14 , edited 11/10/14
Eucku wrote:
Rokenix wrote:
I notice that there is a lot of people that just don't like Sword Art Online and i don't exactly know why. I thought it might be the whole "it's to popular" but that's not really a good reason to hate any anime. Could someone tell me why there is so much hate towards S.A.O?
I LOVED SAO in season 1, season 2 was ok, and season 3 is just terrible. The story just isn't as intriguing as it was in season 1. There is nothing exciting now that we basically know the extent of the anime, the full-dive technology was super intriguing now it's boring and old.
The anime is being dragged on way too long, instead of being a short and sweet gem of the anime industry it's being dragged on as long as possible to get as much money out of it as possible. MapleStory (The popular korean uber grindy MMO.) did an event about a month ago that had season 1 SAO, and it was super fun.
This is just what I felt about it, I don't hate on anime for being super popular, if anything I love when they're super popular because there tends to be more people to chat about it with. So in my opinion the show is generally being hated on for the drop in story quality I guess. I personally stopped watching season 3 around episode 10 because I don't look forward to it every week. I look forward to anime weekly when I am super excited for the next chunk of plot, for example the latest Naruto ark is super intriguing and exciting, the same goes as well for One Piece.
There is a bit of a flaw in your statement. The anime isn't being dragged out any, it's following the light novels, which are award winning. Also, you don't help your statement with the part at the end.
Spoiler alert- Asuna and Kirito screw in the novel
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RaveScratch
20 / M / Garland, Tx.
I dislike SAO because of bad pacing and the main character, Kirito, is a "Mary Sue" character; he has no faults. This can get really boring. However, I can see why people would like it, but I do not.
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Modsterr
I personally like SAO, but it kinda got boring to me during the ALO arc, & I was semi interested in the GGO arc as well. Mother's rosario arc was okay, & I kinda liked how it focused on Asuna, but most people I know hated that. Tbh I couldn't say why people hate it, but i do agree with the people that say it kinda lost it's potential. I have read the light novels up to 14 and I think the alicization arc is the only other arc i loved as much as the Aincrad arc. But that's just my opinion. Overall it's not a horrible anime to me, and I don't see why it's so hated?
xyugioh5ds
1. Characters are disappointing, generic stereotypes. Asuna is a trainwreck of a character (went from being an introvert to an annoying ass stereotypical tsundere)
2. Story is inconsistent. (Time skips, plotholes)
3. Plot conviennce (Things just happen because it's convienient for the plot. Examples are Yui and when Kirito beat Sugou in ALO (fairy king))
4. Incest
5. Pointless fanservice
6. Edginess
7. Harem
8. Main character is SO OP
Freggis
The main "character" is a lifeless male power fantasy and the female lead is an annoying tsundere. There's really little more to it other than that Log Horizon does a far better job of creating a believable "stuck in an MMO" setting.
Freggis wrote:
So how does Log Horizon explain how they get there? How is not dying when physically in a world more believable than dying due to microwaves when you're in a digital world?
RaveScratch wrote:
The male version of this is Gary Stu and Kirito is actually not a self-insert, he has faults that are shown in the anime, and even more prevalent in the Light Novel.
DarkeMarce
Honestly, I grew up with .//HACK SIGN and originally it was the fan base that annoyed the shit out of me because NO ANIME IS PERFECT. Like come on, plus allot of SAO Fans praise it as the "First" MMORPG anime ever which is Incredible dumb and naive of them to say without doing research. Then I forced myself to watch it, and the flaws are too real! the time skips make things too confusing. Episode 1 Asuna: .. Episode 7 Asuna: I HATE YOUR GUTS KIRITO. Episode 8 Asuna: I LOVE YOU KIRITO MARRY [email protected]#@$$#@[email protected]
If that makes any sense to you, we can't be friends because that doesn't make sense even if there is "time skips" you didn't see them bond over two years.
DarkeMarce wrote:
That's mainly how it happens in the light novels, I believe. I think if you want to avoid the time skips you have to read the Progressive novels which explains what happens. But the anime follows the Light novels which is why there are time skips, but I totally agree with you on how it kinda doesn't make sense. That's why i read the light novels after I watched the anime.
Vanathor
metalshiflet96 wrote:
Log Horizon does not explain how they get there (indeed, I suspect they will not touch on it till the final arcs), as that is not the main thrust of what the plot is about. SAO is all about 'clearing the game', with the primary cause of drama being 'its a death game'. Log Horizon is not that.
It's much slower, and indeed better paced, more focused on discovering the mystery of why they ended up in the game like they did, and adapting to the fact that all the NPCs suddenly became fully sentient beings in their own right, and balancing the issues of forming an organized society out of the chaos of the situation as a whole, all the while the game becomes more real and developed in scale. As for your second objection, Log Horizon's world is still a game. That never changed. Game mechanics are still in effect. In-Game menus and level of screens exist. Stats are still present. All of this is the case. It just still has the respawn point built in.
Vanathor wrote:
Log Horizon is not still a game. They are actually living physically in what is basically the game interface. They are not using any kind of VR technology, they were playing on basically normal PCs
Your argument is a silly one. "Because it was not using VR tech, they are not in the game, despite having access to all the game mechanics and everything else matching it.' I don't see how you came to the conclusion you did. VR tech does not the game make. Or there presence therein, either. Otherwise by that argument, none of the characters in the Tron movies were in their game.
Posted 11/11/14 , edited 1/31/17
Everyone has their own taste and opinions. I find it funny how defensive some people are with anime when they encounter different opinions...
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VelvetVelour
F / Canada
Not really a big fan so far, not really liking the art style, and the romance feels kind of cringe worthy. I mean, I like romance stories, but this one just feels.. off. I'll keep watching though and see if it gets better, but I don't have high hopes.
Besides the fact that the first fucking episode says they're physically in the game world, I'm not sure how you missed that.


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Home Movies "Life" Film Review
"Life" Film Review
By Livia Miron
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It may not have been the best moment for me to see Life when I did, as it was one of those times when I had reverted to my healthy obsession and non-guilty pleasure for the Alien franchise. I do that regularly, and, granted, the advent of a new trailer for an Alien movie might have something to do with that. On the other hand, my love for all things (err, almost all) Alien was what made me want to see Life in the first place. And I'm pretty sure that the makers of this film were betting on that, as Life more than obviously tries to pay homage to Alien. But does it achieve what it sets out to do? In my view, not entirely.
Two of the things that made Alien iconic were the alien itself – a creature like nothing we had seen before and have seen since, honestly, outside the franchise – and the use of suspense to create the effect of horror as opposed to gore. Oh, there is gore in Alien, and plenty of it, but it is not what defines it. Suspense defines Alien, building up tension, relying on the viewer's imagination to bring the monster out of the darkness instead of just showing you the horror of it out front. And when you do get to see the monster, it's enveloped in shadow and it's way more terrifying than anything you would have been able to imagine on your own, because it was imagined by H.R. Giger for you.
Life does suspense very well in its first part, and it finds an imaginative way of not really showing you the monster while hiding it in plain sight.
The thing is, lots of stuff can go wrong with human beings in space without a hostile alien running around, because space is way far out of our comfort zone, and Life manages to convey that inherent tension of being in space so well. What may feel like a routine operation – using the ISS's robotic arm to retrieve a probe – to us earthlings preoccupied with whatever important stuff preoccupies us on Earth, turns out to be very risky business involving a life-threatening spacewalk for one of the crewmembers. There is also the added layer of the nature of the mission we're seeing. Said probe is bringing in soil samples from Mars, which potentially contain the greatest discovery we would have made so far in our history: extraterrestrial life. Even if the characters we see on screen are professionals we trust to handle the situation and even if science tells us there is very little chance of intelligent extraterrestrial life out there and far less as close as Mars, many of us feel a certain trepidation when entertaining the thought of it. And combined with the fact that the atmosphere on the ISS is suspiciously benign, we kind of expect things to go awry at some point, probably soon.
And speaking of things going awry, we expect the trouble to come from the newcomer aboard the ISS – the Mars samples. This is another area where Life does well initially. It hides the monster under the guise of a harmless bunch of Martian cells growing into a harmless-looking Martian jellyfish. The little bugger is so cute it even earns the honor of being given a pet name by Earth schoolchildren. The monster in Alien was never cute and even in dormant egg stage, it was never something to show to schoolchildren. So, in a way, making the alien look harmless at first could be considered an inventive way of not showing the monster. The problem is, 1) it's hard to buy that the alien lifeform is actually as harmless as it looks given the starry-eyed approach to the event of discovering alien life, therefore rendering the trick of making it look harmless ineffective, and 2) it continues to look like a jellyfish even after it discloses its evil intent. OK, maybe science will tell you that, even if we do find alien life, it's not going to be very complex. So a blob of Martian goo might make more sense than a monstrous humanoid cockroach, but this is science FICTION in the form of a MOVIE and blobs aren't really that scary. At least not to me, and not after I've seen better.
It's hard for me to react with horror to the scene where Ryan Reynolds's character gets attacked by Calvin because the callback to Alien is so obvious and at the same time falls so short of delivering the same punch because it looks too ridiculous to be truly horrific. Life may have set out to make a more realistic version of Alien by giving us a more realistic monster, but the problem is it doesn't look real. It looks like it's computer-generated, which it is, therefore it looks fake. The monster in Alien, from its facehugger stage to fully grown Xenomorph, looked real although it was scientifically less probable, and that's because it was real. The facehugger was an actual prop and the Xenomorph was a guy in a suit, which may sound ridiculous in the real world, but which actually works in the world of the movie. Movies work according to different rules than the real world does, but both need to make us believe that what we're seeing is real to keep us engaged. When the illusion of reality breaks, that's when we get disconnected from whatever's happening. As regular people going about our regular business in the real world, we stop feeling scared of the Xenomorph when we find out it's just a guy in a suit (well, most of us do). As moviegoers, we can't help being scared of it because the illusion of reality is more than fulfilled in the make-believe world of the movie. On the other hand, Life did not play by movie rules well enough make us believe. The sets of the ISS and the terror experienced by the characters all look very real, but the threat they face doesn't, and that's one huge reason why this movie doesn't work for me because I can't take it seriously.
Another area where Life does well enough is the realm of ideas and characters. Jake Gyllenhall's character David is a jaded marine who has seen the worst that humanity has to offer on Earth and, as a result, he prefers space. You can see in Gyllenhall's quiet demeanor just how soothing he finds it up there, looking at his home planet from afar. Yet, David is not a complete nihilist. In the end, he sacrifices himself to protect the lives of those he has chosen to desert. Perhaps, deep down, he still believes what his crewmate, Dr. Miranda North, tells him: that Earth is not all war, not all violence and heartbreak.
Scientist Hugh Derry is another character for whom space seems more comfortable than Earth. Hugh is paralyzed from his waist down, so, for him, space is where his disability is less of an issue because everyone floats around to go places instead of walking. Hugh is the one who makes first contact with the alien creature. He is the one waking it up and helping it grow, and we can perceive his personal investment in making this great discovery work, perhaps as an attempt to compensate for the life that he is not able to have on Earth.
Then, there is Quarantine Officer, Dr. Miranda North, who plays her part in keeping the crew safe with grace and responsibility. Miranda makes one the most powerful statements in this film when she says that she feels pure hate for the creature that is trying to kill them. It was a moment of honesty that deserves to be saluted. Yes, they are scientists floating in space, looking for and having just found something as momentous as extraterrestrial life, but they are also human beings whose primary objective is to survive, just like the alien itself. When the game becomes one of life and death, it is only natural to hate that which wants to kill you, even if it is the very object of your scientific wonder, and it was good that one of the characters in this film expressed that idea.
On the other hand, while sitting there, watching our astronaut heroes lose control of their pet alien and gradually lose their lives to it, I couldn't help feeling that perhaps they should have come better prepared. I have no idea how the ISS actually works, but if the lab itself was the first level of security, why not make it detachable and blow the whole thing out into space, with the alien in it, the way they tried to do later with one of the station's modules? I don't know if this is a technologically viable idea, nor should the average viewer come to a film knowing such things, but the viewer shouldn't be made to feel like something obvious could have been done to save the day and it wasn't done.
There's also their attitude of blissful wonder at having the alien organism alive and thriving, which is completely understandable. Yet, again, I felt that they should not have been so surprised when things turned sour. Why have security protocols, protective gloves and air-tight labs if you don't actually expect adversity to come your particular way instead of entertaining an abstract notion of it? It is not a surprise to viewers that Calvin turns aggressive because we are trained by decades of space horrors and alien conspiracies to expect extraterrestrial life to be unfriendly. So the fact that it takes scientists by surprise comes off as an unsatisfying premise, especially when the threat is not built up effectively.
The end of the film was sadly its biggest disappointment to me, along with Calvin the Martian Jellyfish. It is never explained why the two escape capsules carrying Miranda North, heading for Earth, and David, heading out into space and taking Calvin with him, reversed course. It felt more like a cheap "gotcha!" move on the part of the filmmakers, than like an actually terrifying ending for a satisfying space thriller.
The main problem with Life, to me, is that there is nothing truly original about it. It pretty much paves the way for Alien Covenant to suck and get away with it because at least it rides in the wake of a great ancestor. We have yet to see a successful 21st century homage to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic. Perhaps filmmakers need to understand that the way to successfully rip off Alien is to do something groundbreaking in itself that would make us forget about Alien and think back to it at the same time through the impact that it would have on the way films of this genre are made.
Livia Miron is a hired writing gun in the IT industry and a creative writer in real life. She is a long-time Star Trek fan, a devout Middle-earther and a recent Star Wars convert. Currently, her passion for writing is driving her deeper and deeper into the mithril-laden mines of Hobbit fan fiction. Livia lives in Romania and is proud of her heritage, but she is also an incurable Anglophile.
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Reviews » Blu-ray Reviews » The Breadwinner (Blu-ray)
The Breadwinner (Blu-ray)
Universal // PG-13 // March 6, 2018 // Region A
Review by Olie Coen | posted April 24, 2018 | E-mail the Author
Starring: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus
Nora Twomey is an Irish artist/director known for three films: The Secret of the Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner, all of which were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Film in their respective years. That's an impressive feat, given that these aren't Disney, Pixar, or Lego movies, that they're instead indie films that attempt to present sophisticated story lines to young audiences through hand-drawn animation. No knock on Disney/Pixar, I love their work as much as the next current parent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, it's just refreshing to also see a slightly different perspective. GKIDS, the distribution company that was in charge of Twomey's pictures, also brought Studio Ghibli to American audiences; that's all I would have needed to know, that would have made me trust anything they chose to present. And so it's no surprise that The Breadwinner is an amazing animated feature, that it's richness and uniqueness shines through in every cell, that it's one of the very best of not only its year, but of its decade.
Parvana lives in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2001, during the control of the Taliban. These religious zealots hold the countryside under their sway, instituting harsh curfews, gender laws, and intimidating the public into following every command of even their rawest recruit. Women are not allowed to leave the house without a grown male relative as an escort, female faces and hair must be covered at all times so that they don't tempt men to stray from the righteous path, girls are not allowed to work or to buy food, and any rule breakers are taken to prison immediately. Paravana lives with her family as quietly and as carefully as possible, not wanting to draw the attention of the armed soldiers who walk the city streets, not daring to stand up or speak out.
When he angers a young Taliban fighter, Parvana's father is arrested and her house is raided, destroying the simple life in precarious balance that her family was trying desperately to cling to. Now, with only women in the household since Parvana's older brother Sulayman died, there is no one to go to work, no one to buy food, and no way of seeking help, as the mother and the sisters can't even walk through the door without being beaten and sent straight back. So Parvana does an extremely brave and incredibly necessary thing; she cuts her hair, puts on her brother's clothes, and calls herself by a boy's name, completely changing who she is on the outside in order to keep her family alive. Out in the city, which has now opened up to her in a way it never would before, she can feed her family and search for her father, even as war comes nearer and the danger of being discovered mounts.
With its animation and its message equally strong, The Breadwinner is a film that you must see, a story that you must hear, and an experience that you must have. I fully enjoy Disney princess musicals, I love how open Pixar movies are to every member of the family, I crack up watching Lego movies, but there is something about an animation team that is willing to step completely out of the box and risk everything on an unorthodox plot and delivery that really gets me fired up. Laika, Ghibli, and the people who brought us this fine trio of international, animated instant classics, all aided by the eye of Nora Twomey; if you aren't expanding your horizons to see movies produced by these companies and these people, you are doing yourself a great disservice. And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.
As far as the film itself is concerned, its a credit to its genre, another incredible reason to follow/watch/talk about indie animation and to share it with your kids so that they can be educated in film beyond the typical. It's a story that resonates, even though it is set 17 years ago. We're still talking about women's rights, we're still talking about terrorism, we're still talking about gender roles, and this film touches every base on its way home. The depth of meaning, the beauty of backdrop, the simplicity if idea, the imagination of presentation; this is all you could ask for. The music, the color, the secondary tale, the authenticity, the poignancy; I'm having trouble nailing down the exact positive attributes of this feature only because there are so many and they are so broad. Regardless of my inability, The Breadwinner never stumbles when presenting its point, and it does so with wonderful accuracy and talent, in every single scene.
The Blu-ray
Video: With an aspect ratio of 2.39:1 (1080p HD Widescreen), the video quality of this Blu-ray disc is phenomenal, with visuals that will take your breath away. Not only is the animation flawless in its simplicity, but it's stunningly realistic as well. And then there is a tale within a tale that uses a different style of animation, much more 2-D and paper-like, but it adds another dimension that really captures the eye.
Audio: The disc was done in English DTS HD 5.1, with subtitles available in English SDH. The language is English, this isn't a naturally subtitled pictured, at least not here in the U.S., if that makes a difference to you. It's set in Afghanistan and features native music, so the blend between Afghani and English is a tricky weave, but extremely well done.
Extras: There are many special features on this Blu-ray disc, including Feature Commentary with the Filmmakers. Also, in The Making of The Breadwinner section: Behind the Scenes with the Cast, Animating the Film, Creating the Music and Sound, and Telling the Story. Lastly, a Theatrical Trailer and More from GKIDS.
Highly Recommended. Last year's animated class wasn't extremely strong, but even if it had been one of the best groups of recent memory, The Breadwinner would still have earned its place among the nominees. It's a relevant message well told, from every angle you look at it. We need to hear this story, its importance hasn't disappeared, and it's presented so well, with such solid artistry, that is has a real chance to make a big difference, if we would only let it. The video is awesome, the sound it great, and the extras are plentiful, so the technical aspects support the storytelling quite nicely. If you missed this movie last year, give it a chance now; it may not be what you're used to, but it might show you why it should.
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Server virtualization and storage management: Better integration, specialized tools
Virtualization and storage management still presents challenges, but nowadays it provides tighter integration and more effective management tools.
In the past decade or so, storage management has developed into a discipline in its own right, driven by big increases in the amount of data being stored, as well as the rise of storage networking protocols that facilitate shared storage.
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Efficient storage management in virtual environments entails meeting two basic metrics: capacity and performance. While this could also be said of nonvirtualized environments, performance is the primary consideration in virtual storage designs as it has more of an impact on the operation of a virtual infrastructure. Slow response times from a single LUN are likely to affect only a single host in nonvirtualized environments; however, poor responses from a large LUN supporting many virtual machines can have a much wider impact. This is especially so with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). There are a number of strategies a storage administrator should consider.
Use hardware acceleration and APIs
Many vendors (including the top six storage vendors: Dell Inc., EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and NetApp Inc.) today support hardware acceleration of virtualization I/O. This is implemented through application program interfaces (APIs) in the hypervisor, such as vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). VAAI offloads some of the "heavy lifting" from the hypervisor by letting the storage array choose the best way to perform key operations, such as sub-LUN locking, bulk copying and zeroing out ranges of data. Most recently, in vSphere 5, VMware added the thin reclaim feature, which lets the hypervisor release deleted storage from thin-provisioned LUNs without directly writing data to deleted blocks.
Offloading storage management tasks to the array provides numerous benefits. First, it reduces the workload on the hypervisor, lessening the CPU load and traffic across the storage network. Second, it lets the storage array optimize and prioritize I/O-intensive operations that may be best achieved internally within the array. As the leading hypervisor vendor, VMware has developed a number of APIs, including vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) and vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA). VASA is of increasing importance in the delivery of scalable storage environments, providing configuration information to the hypervisor about storage LUNs, including replication and performance metrics.
Configure for performance
When delivering I/O to virtual environments, performance is everything. Typically, virtual environments create more random workloads, making the work of optimizing I/O workloads much harder for the array. There are techniques that can be employed to ensure performance is delivered optimally, including:
Wide striping. This involves spreading I/O across as many physical disk spindles as possible. Wide striping can be achieved by using large RAID groups (being mindful of rebuild times for disk failures) or by concatenating RAID groups into storage pools. This technique is applicable to both file- and block-based storage platforms.
Dynamic tiering. Like any storage environment, virtual servers will have I/O "hotspots," data that generates a large proportion of the I/O workload. Hotspot areas can be difficult to predict, so platforms that offer dynamic tiering provide an automated way to ensure the hottest data stays on the fastest disk. This technique is particularly useful where virtual machines have been cloned from a single master image.
Use thin provisioning
It's very easy for storage in virtual environments to grow out of control, as virtual machines are relatively easy to create. This is especially true in on-demand environments. Thin provisioning ensures that disk space is consumed only by data that's written to the disk by the host, rather than reserving a fixed image for each VM. The feature can be implemented in the hypervisor and is a common option with most storage platforms.
Use vendor plug-ins
Almost all enterprise and midrange storage platforms offer plug-ins for centralized management tools such as VMware vCenter. This provides a "single-pane-of-glass" view of both virtualization and storage systems, in many cases allowing the storage to be configured directly from the vCenter console. In organizations without dedicated storage teams, this can significantly reduce the work of an IT administrator.
Storage built for virtual servers
A number of startup storage vendors have rolled out hardware and software storage solutions specifically designed for virtual server environments. These include Atlantis Computing Inc., SolidFire Inc., Tintri Inc. and Virsto Software. In essence, these products are architected to address the issues described here, including random I/O challenges.
Automate it
Managing dynamically changing virtual environments to optimize capacity and performance can be a time-consuming process. As virtual environments scale and mature, there's a need to move toward more automation of manual optimization processes. Hypervisor vendors are starting to include capabilities in their products that allow some of these features to be semi-automated, reducing the onus on the administrator to continually tune the storage environment. In vSphere 5, VMware introduced Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS), which provides some degree of automation of storage allocations. SDRS provides automated initial placement of VMDKs, automated migrations of virtual machines to meet capacity and performance goals, as well as affinity rules -- ensuring, for example, that high I/O virtual machines are placed on separate hardware.
The move to more automated storage management will be an absolute requirement as virtual infrastructures scale and become more service-orientated in their delivery. Already, storage vendors are coming to the market with new products that provide provisioning APIs to hook directly into virtual server automation.
Don't forget backup
Backup always seems to be treated as a poor relation in storage management; however, it's of vital importance for delivering high-availability storage environments. In virtual infrastructures, traditional backup solutions aren't the most efficient way to back up and restore data, and other techniques can be used to optimize the backup and restore process.
In block storage deployments, traditional backups use the host itself to back up data. This is because the storage array has no awareness of the format of data on a LUN. The host places the file system onto the LUN, so the backup software relies on the host to provide a stream of files for backup.
On all virtual platforms, a VM is stored as a file or series of files, even when using block-based storage arrays. This makes the backup process easier, as backups can be taken simply by taking a copy of the files that make up the virtual machine.
Some hypervisor vendors, such as VMware, offer APIs that allow third-party software to view changed block data within the virtual machine itself, providing a highly efficient way of backing up only those files that have changed since the last backup was taken. All hypervisor vendors also provide the ability to snapshot virtual machines. Although this results in a "crash-consistent" copy in some instances, with agent software the snapshots can be coordinated by quiescing the host file system to allow consistent snapshots to be taken.
Storage tools will evolve
Storage continues to be a key feature in deploying scalable virtual infrastructures. As these environments scale and mature, storage administrators will need to employ tools and techniques such as automation and visualization software that will allow them to meet the challenges of an ever-integrated IT world.
Chris Evans is a UK-based storage consultant. He maintains The Storage Architect blog.
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5 ways to accelerate time-to-value with data –DellEMC


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Libya's Haftar orders forces to advance toward 'decisive battle' for Tripoli
Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar gives a televised address. (Supplied)
Ismaeel Naar, Al Arabiya English Thursday, 12 December 2019
Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar has ordered his forces to begin advancing toward Tripoli and said gunmen in the city would be provided with safety in exchange for laying down their arms.
"The Libyan National Army is inevitably victorious in the Battle of Tripoli. We call on the units that are advancing toward Tripoli to abide by the rules of engagement. We call on the militants who are fighting our army to remain in their homes and they will be safe," Haftar said in a televised address late on Thursday.
Haftar has been leading an assault to take the capital from the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
Hours after Haftar called on his forces to launch what he described as the final battle for Tripoli, western diplomats began to gather in the northwestern city of Janzour in preparation to leave Libya by sea, sources told Al Arabiya.
The LNA advance came on the day flights resumed at the Libyan capital Tripoli's sole functioning airport, three months after it was suspended due to repeated rocket attacks.
Haftar's forces, which accuse the GNA of using Mitiga for military purposes, say they are targeting "Turkish drones" being launched from the airport to attack their troops in southern Tripoli.
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Isaiah 18. Isaiah Discourages the Schemes of Ethiopia.—This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29-31. Here the negotiations seem to be in the initial stage, and the courteous language of Isaiah agrees best with the view that at present he did not regard the alliance as within the range of practical politics. The land of Ethiopia is described, with special reference to the swarms of flies. Its rivers are the Blue and White Nile. Ambassadors have been sent to Jerusalem, apparently to induce the Jews to throw off the Assyrian yoke and assure them of support. They have come down the Nile, here called the sea (Isaiah 19:5*), in light boats of papyrus (Exodus 2:3). These were very swift, and could be carried along the bank where the river was not navigable. EV, by inserting "saying" in Isaiah 18:2, gives a wrong sense, as if Ethiopia addressed the following words to the ambassadors, sending them to the various parts of the empire. They are rather the words spoken to them by Isaiah, bidding them return from Jerusalem to their own land. They are described as tall and with polished skins, a people of great military strength, trampling other nations beneath its feet, and inhabiting a land intersected by numerous rivers, unlike Judah, which was so poor in streams. The whole world is bidden observe the signal given for the overthrow of Assyria, since not Ethiopia alone but many other peoples are deeply concerned in her fate. Through a special revelation Isaiah has learnt the explanation of Yahweh's conduct and his knowledge of His future action. Unlike the busy, intriguing nations, whose action all ends in nothing, Yahweh waits quietly till the time is ripe, when He intervenes with effect. The heat and cloud ripen the harvest, and they also fitly symbolise the stillness in which Yahweh bides His time. He waits because Assyria has still His work to do, and only when that is accomplished does He cut her down. Just when the plans of Assyria are on the eve of accomplishment Yahweh brings them to nothing. Ravenous beasts and birds will prey on the corpses of the Assyrian soldiers. Then the Ethiopians will send a present to Zion for Yahweh.
Isaiah 18:2. that meteth out and treadeth down: render, probably, "a people of strength and treading down."
Peake, Arthur. "Commentary on Isaiah 18:4". "Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible ". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pfc/isaiah-18.html. 1919.


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Nigeria and abandoned projects – Part 2
By Patrick Dele Cole
19 October 2022 | 2:43 am
The Steel plants in Ajaokuta, and the oil refineries in Warri, PH and Kaduna are all mothballed. (By the way, it was the Ukrainians who built the Ajaokuta Steel Plants.)
The Steel plants in Ajaokuta, and the oil refineries in Warri, PH and Kaduna are all mothballed. (By the way it was the Ukrainians who built the Ajaokuta Steel Plants).
The Ajaokuta steel plant occasioned the building of the railways to Warri, now it is a useless moribund white elephant project. Apart from the Ajaokuta Steel Plant, Nigeria built 6 Steel rolling mills which have all been abandoned.
In 1975, the government built twelve brick-making factories, one in each State. They have all been abandoned.
Nigeria had a Peugeot assembly plant and Volkswagen in Badagry and in Enugu, Mercedes Benz had the Anamco Truck Assembly plant. All the ancillary industries that were supposed to support the industries across these value chains were built but are now abandoned yet the civil service had no diminution in their pay despite the death of these industries. The loss of working opportunities in Nigeria was obviously fantastic.
The employment rate in Nigeria of 15% can never sustain the nation. The aluminium smelting plant in the south East and the newsprint plant in the South East have equally been abandoned, so also are the numerous cement plants.
Each of these major investments has ended up not being able to produce and achieve its purpose. There is no realization that the failure to make these enterprises work, is the major reason why our recurrent expenditure is skewered. Nigeria at one time had about 22 textile plants, at the moment, we have none.
The abandonment is particularly galling for the industry had encouraged the growing of cotton which made Nigeria self-sufficient in cotton production. It is true that our cotton had to blend with the long-stem cotton which we imported from Egypt.
With the great research done on cotton and the backward integration made in Cotton, Nigeria should have been a major player in the production of textiles. It is not so today.
Nigeria could have been like Uzbekistan which today is the 6th largest cotton producer in the world, employing two million people. No industry in Nigeria employs two million people.
We had sugar and that is also now a failure. We had timber which was cut and sold but no timber trees had been replanted over the years.
Cocoa and groundnut have gone moribund. Ghana is still producing cocoa and is a second-world producer. Nigeria used to produce more than Ghana. A major world producer.
Malaysia came to borrow palm fruit from Nigeria and today we are the major importers of Malaysian palm produce of which Malaysia is the largest world producer. Nigeria used to be the largest Palm producer in the world.
Nigeria had fed Europe with a lot of cashew products which we no longer have. Anambra and Imo were the greatest cashew producers, we were the second cashew producers second only to India. Nigeria had no competitor in the production of groundnuts. We do not produce enough for home consumption.
Some ingenious agricultural scientists were able to produce a formula for cassava flour to be used for baking, especially of bread. No one is baking with cassava flour today. There is a scarcity of wheat now due to the war in Ukraine.
We were in bed with North Korea to give us technical advice from 1976 for rice production. This present administration's agenda for rice growing will probably just die like everything else. There are other countless projects that have been abandoned. As of today, there is evident lethargy. Nothing we are doing now will make much of a difference.
It is ironic that we should have problems with cattle. We had a vibrant leather- Hides and Skin Industry 25 years ago and now, I don't think one pelt of leather is being made now nor are we exporting any leather. The saddest thing is that the expertise all of these endeavours had produced, is perhaps now lost forever.
The Banker's Verification number issue has merely increased an unnecessary cost in the Banking Sector. The CBN wakes up one morning and orders the issue of new chequebooks and phases out all the old ones with no explanation. When you see the new chequebook, you see that the signatory section of the cheque was moved to the left and the amount moved to the right. These adjustments are a waste of money. It is clear that some contracts had been awarded to some favoured souls.
We were told that NIN was to help stop corruption. We have evidence that it is easier now to hack into people's accounts. The NIN, BVN, and POS are all making it easier to hack our systems leaving people vulnerable.
There are stories that in about 11 minutes a person's account was cleaned out after numerous withdrawals. It doesn't give any defence but makes it easier for one to make a POS transaction and by the time he sleeps and wakes up, his entire account is cleared. All because she used a POS to pay for excess baggage on a flight from Lagos to Abuja. Over 1 million disappeared from the account.
The Bank account I had in New Zealand in 1962 is still the same account I have which hasn't changed to date, but the accounts I've had in Nigeria have had to change severally. We are always verifying and updating data, yet the banking system remains very inefficient in fishing out those who commit financial fraud against its customers and their accounts.
You go to London and New York and other parts of the world and buy a sim card and it begins to work but in Nigeria, you must do all manner of registrations to get a sim card activated. They say it is for security reasons. Now all this documentation leaves people more vulnerable than ever, yet they will say they can't fish out the criminals that are terrorizing the Nation.
The Universal Basic Education
If the Universal Basic Education (UBE) embarked on in 1974 had been followed, Nigeria would by now be the most educated nation in Africa and would compare favourably with Europe.
The such an educational level would lead to general efficiency. It would lead to the employment of more people and all the abandoned jobs will be filled, reduce corruption; encourage accountability and other regulatory reforms that would lead to efficiency and affluence.
This was meant to be an education scheme for everyone in Nigeria. It failed not because it wasn't good nor well-intentioned. It failed for political reasons. The Federal Government had established a matching fund for states for universal basic education. Many states forged the numbers of students in school to benefit from the granny.
Others claimed federal funds for establishing almajiri schools; others claimed money for establishing iterant schools which they claimed followed cattle traders as they moved from place to place in the itinerant Muslim schools. The upshot of all these activities is that Nigeria has the largest number of uneducated young people in the world. Again education was an abandoned project.
We had Unity Schools that were supposed to enable people from different ethnic groups to mix and live together. It was meant to reduce tribalism and entrench Nigerians. It worked for a few decades and died.
Even in the Universities, the Vice Chancellors were mandated not to work in their state of origin. They were posted all over and none worked in his state of origin but now we have in Ibadan people who are demonstrating that the next Vice-Chancellor must come from Ibadan.
The same agitation is going on in Ife. Now tribalism has reared its ugly head in academia. The Military was able to implement these Nigerianness measures but now it is a huge loss that ethnicity has taken even stronger root, especially for these appointments in that the Federal Government has the sole responsibility.
Federal Government set up a tree-planting scheme, but it failed. It was abandoned. The Federal Universities are looking so dilapidated today and in a worse situation than the State-owned universities.
Dr. Cole, OFR, is Nigeria's former Ambassador to Brazil.
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Didn't I say I'd be making another of these?! I think I was just so psyched to finally make something with sleeves that I actually set to work on this second one right after completing the first (packing had to wait, I had a shirt to make!).
After making the first shirt, I knew there were a few things I'd want to do differently. I told you I'm not much for patterns! So for this one I kind of just winged it – cutting a similar shape, but without the exact pattern pieces (the true pattern for the summer blouse can be found in Heather Ross's new book, Weekend Sewing ). I extended the length and cut it a bit smaller. I also opted for a v neck and 3/4 length sleeves.
Somehow, and I really mean somehow (I was shocked myself!) it all came together almost exactly as I wanted. I used the oh so lovely older Anna Maria Horner print from her Bohemian collection, and I think this fabric is perfect for this shirt – lightweight and summery (perfect for Florida!) and in a print that I don't mind wearing out in public!
All in all, I have to say I'm in love. Everyone might get tired of seeing me in this one!
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Wow! You did an amazing job winging it! I love the colors in the fabric. Perfect for summer.
That is so cute!! It looks comfy too!
It looks wonderful! Enjoy wearing it in Florida (and everywhere else).
SO cute! Perfect for some hot weather in Florida and the summer in Vermont!
This is going to be perfect for Florida! I love the fact that you can't stick to patterns like me. I always have the best of intentions but somehow I always manage to put my twist on things.
This looks so adorable on you! Nice job!
Super cute! I could use one of those here in a few months too 🙂 I love that fabric too!
Very cute. Love the sleeves.
that is stunning on you! i may have to get that book. i would love a shirt like that in linen!
I think the sleeves look great! I like that style, too.
Like it a lot! But I'm still in love with the Swim School one though. I love that fabric.
It looks great on you! I actually thought the sleeves were rolled in a wide fold in the bottom picture, which I like. Hmmmmm, might have to add this to the to-do list!
Will you make one of these for me too? I love that fabric, which looks great on you.
Oh man. I need to get this book and start making some clothes for the summer! This top is lovely and it just makes me want to be at a fun summer party. I'm jealous of your pool in the background. Chicago winters are NOT my cup of tea.
it's gorgeous AND it looks great on you!
you are doing a spectacular jobs on those. It is not that warm here yet so those will feel just right in Florida.
I just posted your summer blouse photos on my blog, weekend. They are so lovely! I am so thrilled that you were inspired to set a sleeve… twice! Your revisions to the blouse are fabulous. Would you be willing to write them up and allow me post them on my blog? I am sure lots of my readers would love to know how you did it.
I can pay you in fabric or cookies. but I'm not a great baker so I would take the fabric if I were you. Really hoping you are up for it!
What a great blouse! It looks fantastic!!! And that fabric is now recolored and part of Anna Maria's new Good Folks fabric collection. Yay!
Love, love , love the shirt. Great job!
I LOVE IT!!! I think I might try sewing up one for myself… once the temperature gets above freezing!
Looks great! Now I really can't wait to get the book!!!
It's absolutely lovely and even more so considering you made it an indie-design and it came out so well. Doesn't that feel good?! Great job.
this looks great! i'm making this shirt right now, too. actually, i just have to hem the sleeves and take in the sides a bit and done! i really love your variations – i have already planned number two for myself. i hadn't considered 3/4 length sleeves, but thanks to you, i now need them.
I can't wait to get the book! I preordered it a couple of weeks ago and it should be here next week. The blouse was the project I wanted to make first, and after seeing the ones you did I can hardly wait to get started!
Oh and I have a question if you don't mind. How much fabric do you need to make the blouse? I want to order some so I can start right away when the book arrives.
This is awesome! I love it! And, the sleeves are lovely. I would wear it all the time too.
It is so cute and flattering! You've single-handedly made me want Weekend Sewing!
I found your site through Heather Ross's blog and I'm so glad you did. I've been knitting lately more than sewing, but now that winter is winding down I'm feeling the itch to sew. Your site is really inspiring!
Beautiful work! I looked for that book this weekend but was unable to find it. I guess I'll have to order it. I hate waiting!!!
Your blouse has convinced me that I NEED to go back and get that book. I was flipping through it the other day but like a dummy I didn't buy it. D'oh! I LOVE your blouse and something like that is perfect for our Arizona climate. Thanks for sharing everything!
Just found your blog by googling "Heather Ross weekend sewing" and then realized I had already seen you on Heather's blog. Love YOUR blog by the way — it's so great to find others who are blogging about sewing like this. Love your zig-zag skirt; I too fell hard for the AMH dress on her blog. It's so great.
So "Weekend Sewing" is ordered and on its way to me in the mail but I really want to order yardage for this shirt so I'll have it when (or slightly after) it arrives — how many yards does this shirt need? Thanks in advance if you have time to get back to me. Otherwise, Happy Sewing!
Wow! I wandered over here from flickr. This looks so amazing! You've inspired me….
I want to try your version, and I read your instructions on Heather's blog. I am confused about the placket though. Did you change the shape?
I love it, the fabric is great and the cut of is is flattering. Great Job.
I love, love, love your top.
The colours, the fabric, the shape of the top everything looks perfect.
I am so adding that book to my wishlist.
It is gorgeous. I hope you don't mind that I posted a picture and a link to your blog on mine. I like to share such lovely creations with others.
Ashley – I love the summer blouse you made from Weekend Sewing. It has been on my list since you posted it in Feb. I was just about to get started on mine, finally. I went to read the instructions you wrote for the modifications for HR's website. They are not there any more. Do you know where they are posted now? I absolutely love your blog. I don't know how you get so much done, but it is very inspirational. Thank you.
Is there any way you could post your revisions or publish a tutorial for this blouse? I don't think they are posted on the Heather Ross web site anymore. Thanks!


We also have a counterfactual here at home: Lehman Bros., which failed 10 years ago this weekend.
The economic policymakers in charge then maintain that they didn't want to let Lehman fail. They weren't trying to teach the big bad bankers a lesson. Rather, they say, the law didn't allow them to mount a rescue.
Nonetheless, politicians and pundits alike cheered Lehman's bankruptcy as a deliberate choice.
It was the closest we got to the "Old Testament justice" the public wanted, to use a term often invoked by former New York Fed chairman and Obama treasury secretary Timothy Geithner. It also is when the bottom fell out and a bank run began. Unprecedented bailouts and other extraordinary measures followed.
First, they were overwhelmed by a single existential priority: fixing the financial system and limiting the damage to the rest of the real economy - including in housing and jobs. "When you're putting out the fire, you don't have time to explain how the fire extinguisher works," said Michele Davis, who was Paulson's assistant secretary for public affairs and director of policy planning.
"The core of the political problem and the communication problem is the deep conflict, to any normal human, between what it takes to break a panic and protect from a Great Depression, and what people think is moral and just in the moment," Geithner says. "And that is not a reconcilable thing. It can't be solved with eloquence."
Davis argues: "We need to be very clear that winning public opinion should not be your measure of success, because you're setting yourself up for failure."
Since Lehman Bros. failed, the public has only become more distrustful of bailouts. There's at least one very good reason for that, unrelated to anyone's elocutionary skills: Federal prosecutors never held anyone remotely senior on Wall Street accountable.
Simultaneously, our political system has become more dysfunctional, the hollowed-out executive branch's technical expertise more deficient and our political leadership more cowardly. I'm skeptical we can count on President Trump and this Congress to do what's necessary in a panic, if what's necessary happens to be unpopular.
One implication, Geithner argues, is that we ought to give more standing authority to technocrats to act in a crisis, so that fewer emergency decisions have to go through the political wringer. For analogies, he points to both the Fed (we insulate monetary policy from politics; why not this, too?) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (which bails out banks, in exchange for fees and strict regulation; why not have a similar system for nonbanks?). But, alas, Dodd-Frank, while toughening up some rules, actually did the opposite: It took critical "firefighting" tools away from the Fed, the FDIC and Treasury.
So heaven help us next time around, as the fire burns and burns. We can explain to the ashes why we decided water wasn't the answer.


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Q: Lua Problems With GMOD Custom Chat Script So I am currently trying to create a small script for when a player, in GMOD, enters "!content" for example, they would be presented by a window that would lead them to the Steam Content for that server. For the previous example it worked so I then tried to copy over the template and just change the function name etc. I was not met with the same result as the example shown, yet nothing seem to happen and im not sure why as I have only changed the function name and string. If you can please help me that would be great. Thanks in advance.
Steam Group Chat Script (Works)
function steamgroupCommand( ply, text)
    if string.sub( text, 1, 6 ) == "!steam" then
    ply:PrintMessage( 3, "It Worked!" )
    ply:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL("http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PhantomNetworksCommunity")]])
    for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. ply:Nick() .. " has used !steam to view our community Steam Group!" )
    end
    end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", steamgroupCommand )

Discord Chat Script (Does Not Work)
function discordCommand( ply, text)
    if string.sub( text, 1, 8 ) == "!discord" then
    ply:PrintMessage( 3, "It Worked!" )
    ply:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL("https://discord.gg/35rQxcE")]])
    for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. ply:Nick() .. " has used !discord to view our official Discord server!" )
    end
    end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", discordCommand )

A: If you have a look at the documentation of hook.Add, you will see details about the needed arguments.
The second argument is important for you

*any identifier

The unique identifier, usually a string. This can be used elsewhere in the code to replace or remove the hook.
The identifier should be unique so that you do not accidentally override some other mods hook, unless that's what you are trying to do.
The identifier can be either a string, or a table/object with an IsValid function defined such as an Entity or Panel. numbers and booleans, for example, are not allowed.
If the identifier is a table/object, it will be inserted in front of the other arguments in the callback and the hook will be called as long as it's valid. However, as soon as IsValid( identifier ) returns false, the hook will be removed.

So according to this you need to change your second argument of hook.Add
(which in your case is "chat" for both of your hooks) to be unique for each hook to not override your other hooks.

A: This way will work, as this is what I do on my server.
if(CLIENT) then
    concommand.Add("steam", function()
        gui.OpenURL("http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PhantomNetworksCommunity")
    end)
end
if(SERVER) then
    hook.Add("PlayerSay", "OpenSteam", function(calling, txt, t)
        local args = string.lower(txt)
        if(args == "!steam") then
            calling:ConCommand("steam")
            return ""
        end
    end)
end

You can do this same thing on your discord invite.
EDIT:
I never realized you had it print to chat, so I will show you a good way to do it (or fix it):
if(CLIENT) then
    concommand.Add("steam", function()
        gui.OpenURL("http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PhantomNetworksCommunity")
    end)
    concommand.Add("discord", function()
        gui.OpenURL("https://discord.gg/35rQxcE")
    end)
    concommand.Add(".prt", function(calling, cmds, args, argStr)
        chat.AddText(Color(255, 255, 255), "Player", Color(98, 176, 255), args[1], Color(255, 255,255), " has used ", Color(255, 62, 62), "!steam", Color(255, 255, 255), " to view our community Steam Group!")
    end)
    concommand.Add(".disprt", function(calling, cmds, args, argStr)
        chat.AddText(Color(255, 255, 255), "Player", Color(98, 176, 255), args[1], Color(255, 255,255), " has used ", Color(255, 62, 62), "!discord", Color(255, 255, 255), " to view our official Discord server!")
    end)
end
if(SERVER) then
    hook.Add("PlayerSay", "ChatCommands", function(calling, txt, t)
        local args = string.lower(txt)
        if(args == "!steam") then
            calling:ConCommand("steam")
            for _, ply in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
                ply:ConCommand(".prt " .. calling:Nick())
            end
            return ""
        end
        if(args == "!discord") then
            calling:ConCommand("discord")
            for _, ply in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
                ply:ConCommand(".disprt " .. calling:Nick())
            end
            return ""
        end
    end)
end

EDIT 2:
Another possible reason for error is that both hooks have the same name, "Chat"

A: The issue is that you're overwriting the hook. You should change the second argument to something more descriptive such as:
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "ChatSteamGroup", steamgroupCommand )
and hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "ChatDiscord", discordCommand )

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Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is for those who would like to learn about Return On Equity (ROE). We'll use ROE to examine B2Gold Corp. (TSE:BTO), by way of a worked example.
B2Gold has a ROE of 7.7%, based on the last twelve months. That means that for every CA$1 worth of shareholders' equity, it generated CA$0.077 in profit.
Most readers would understand what net profit is, but it's worth explaining the concept of shareholders' equity. It is all earnings retained by the company, plus any capital paid in by shareholders. The easiest way to calculate shareholders' equity is to subtract the company's total liabilities from the total assets.
ROE measures a company's profitability against the profit it retains, and any outside investments. The 'return' is the yearly profit. That means that the higher the ROE, the more profitable the company is. So, all else equal, investors should like a high ROE. Clearly, then, one can use ROE to compare different companies.
Does B2Gold Have A Good ROE?
By comparing a company's ROE with its industry average, we can get a quick measure of how good it is. Importantly, this is far from a perfect measure, because companies differ significantly within the same industry classification. If you look at the image below, you can see B2Gold has a lower ROE than the average (10%) in the Metals and Mining industry classification.
Companies usually need to invest money to grow their profits. That cash can come from issuing shares, retained earnings, or debt. In the first two cases, the ROE will capture this use of capital to grow. In the latter case, the use of debt will improve the returns, but will not change the equity. In this manner the use of debt will boost ROE, even though the core economics of the business stay the same.
Although B2Gold does use debt, its debt to equity ratio of 0.44 is still low. Its ROE isn't particularly impressive, but the debt levels are quite modest, so the business probably has some real potential. Judicious use of debt to improve returns can certainly be a good thing, although it does elevate risk slightly and reduce future optionality.


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Pregnancy after miscarriage: balancing between loss of control and searching for control
Res Nurs Health. 2014 Aug;37(4):267-75. doi: 10.1002/nur.21610. Epub 2014 Jun 29.
Henrietta D L Ockhuijsen 1 , Agnes van den Hoogen, Jacky Boivin, Nicholas S Macklon, Fijgje de Boer
1 Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, 3508, GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
DOI: 10.1002/nur.21610
Pregnant women who have had miscarriages face challenges in responding to the loss of the previous pregnancy and the uncertainties of the early pregnancy that follows. The research question in this qualitative study was: How do women experience miscarriage, conception, and the early pregnancy waiting period, and what types of coping strategies do they use during these periods? Twenty-four women were interviewed in a subsequent pregnancy after having a miscarriage. Data analyses resulted in an overarching theme described as "balancing between loss of control and searching for control." Although women realized there was little they could do to influence the outcome, they searched for strategies to increase the feeling of control in each period of waiting. The results of this study may contribute to interventions to support women during miscarriage and subsequent conception and pregnancy.
Keywords: coping strategies; emotions; miscarriage; pregnancy; qualitative research.
© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Abortion, Spontaneous / psychology*
Adaptation, Psychological
Emotions*
Grief*
Pregnancy / psychology*


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Леопольд (Лев) Хенрік Станіслав Мехелін (народився 24 листопада 1839 р., Хаміна, Фінляндія — 26 січня 1914 р., м. Гельсінкі, Фінляндія) — фінський професор, державний діяч, сенатор та ліберальний реформатор. Провідний захисник автономії Великого князівства Фінляндії та прав жінок та меншин, уряд Мехеліна 1905—1908 рр. («Сенат Мехеліна») зробив Фінляндію першою нацією у світі з універсальним правом голосу і за час його перебування на посаді було введено свободу слова, преси та зборів.

Він також заснував Ліберальну партію Фінляндії (1880—1885), написав свою програму, був одним із засновників Союзу Банків Фінляндії 1862 р. (Нині частиною банку Nordea) та заснував компанію Nokia (1871 р.) З Фредріком Ідетам був першим головою міської ради Гельсінкі (1875—1876 і 1892—1899), а також міжнародним шановним експертом з політології та членом мирового руху. Імператор Олександр II нагородив дворянським титулом Мехеліна в 1876 році.

Мехелін керував пасивним опором у Фінляндії під час першого періоду пригноблення (1899—1905) до і навіть після його вигнання (1903), під час якого чиновникам довелося відпустити його як члена парламенту (House of Nobles, 1904), Мехеліна привітав ликуючий натовп з 10000 осіб. На таємній зустрічі «Кагаалі» Мехелін написав клопотання щодо проекту фінів до російської армії, на якій зібрано майже 500 тисяч підписів. Його коаліція, конституція, закінчили проект через бойкот.

Народився в Хаміні в 1839 році, син Густав Йогана Мехеліна і Аманди Густави Костіандер, Лео Мехелін навчався в Гельсінському університеті, отримав ступінь бакалавра та магістра з філософії в 1860 році, ступінь бакалавра права в 1864 році, а також ліцензію та докторантуру в 1873 році.

Будучи професором юрисдикції та політології 1874-82, Мехелін стверджував, що з царем були пов'язані старі конституційні закони з часу шведського правління Фінляндії (до 1809 р.), і тому підтвердив, що Фінляндія є окремою конституційною державою, якою цар міг керувати лише законом, тоді як у Росії він мав абсолютну владу. У періоди гніту цар намагався нав'язати неконституційні закони, проти яких Мехелін виступав проти. Невдачі в Росії та Фінляндії (1905), зрештою, змусили царя виконати листопадовий Маніфест, написаний Мехеліном. Це дозволило Мехеліну сформувати уряд (1905—1908) і перетворити Фінляндію на багато в чому першу ліберальну демократію (наприклад, у Новій Зеландії жінки вже мали право голосувати, але не проголосувати, а в Австралії — лише білі люди мали ці права) в 1906 році. У 1907 році були проведені перші всенародні вибори до однопалатного парламенту («eduskunta»), а 19 з його 200 перших членів були жінками. Проте конституційні органи всіх партій не отримали більшість місць, і цар усвідомив, що може продовжувати пригнічення, починаючи з другого періоду гніту (1908—1917). Після смерті Мехеліна (1914 р.) дві революції в Росії дозволили Фінляндії оголосити про свою незалежність (1917 р.), А молодші колеги Мехеліна змогли завершити свою роботу.

Nokia, колись провідна світова корпорація мобільних телефонів, була заснована Мехеліном та його студентськими друзями в сусідньому будинку Фредріка Ідестама як лісогосподарська компанія. Пізніше бажання Мехеліна розширюватися в бізнесі з електроенергетичну галузь спочатку заважала опозиція Ідетама, але Мехелін зумів переконати більшість акціонерів у своїх планах і став головою компанії (1898—1914 рр.), щоб реалізувати свої бачення.

Мехелін також був активним у громадянському суспільстві та президентом нинішнього університету мистецтва та дизайну Хельсінкі та Фінського художнього товариства. Будучи політиком, він завжди був високо поважався серед усіх партій та громадян, хоча після розпуску Ліберальної партії (1885) він ніколи не входив в жодну партію.

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французькою

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 шведською
 Öfversigt af svenska riksrådets statsrättsliga ställning från Gustaf I till 1634 (thèse de doctorat). 1873
 Om statsförbund och statsunioner I (thèse de professorat). 1873
 Storfurstendömet Finlands grundlagar jemte bihang. 1876
 Kort framställning af Storfurstendömet Finlands statsförfattning och förvaltning. 1885
 Står Finlands rätt i strid med Rysslands fördel?: ett inlägg i tidens frågor . 1890
 Finland i 19de seklet: framstäldt i ord och bild af finska skriftställare och konstnärer. 1893 (ed.)
 Finlands grundlagars innehåll. 1896
 Olika meningar i rysk-finska frågor: en granskande öfversikt. 1908
 Den ryska lagen af den 17 (30) juni 1910. 1910
 Valda tal: högtids- och minnestal. 1915

 німецькою
 Das Staatsrecht des Grossfürstenthums Finnland. Fribourg 1889

 фінською
 Öfversigt af svenska riksrådets statsrättsliga ställning från Gustaf I till 1634 (tohtorinväitöskirja). 1873
 Om statsförbund och statsunioner I (professorinväitöskirja). 1873
 Storfurstendömet Finlands grundlagar jemte bihang. 1876 (suom. Suomen suuriruhtinaskunnan perustuslait ynnä liite)
 Kort framställning af Storfurstendömet Finlands statsförfattning och förvaltning. 1885
 Précis du droit public du Grand-Duché de Finlande. 1886
 Das Staatsrecht des Grossfürstenthums Finnland. Freiburg 1889
 Står Finlands rätt i strid med Rysslands fördel?: ett inlägg i tidens frågor . 1890 (suom. Ovatko Suomen oikeudet ristiriidassa Venäjän etujen kanssa?: nykyajan asioista)
 Finland i 19de seklet: framstäldt i ord och bild af finska skriftställare och konstnärer. 1893 (toim.) (suom. Suomi 19:llä vuosisadalla: suomalaisten kirjailijain ja taiteilijain esittämä sanoin ja kuvin)
 Finlands grundlagars innehåll. 1896 (suom. Suomen perustuslakien sisällys)
 La Constitution du Grand-Duché de Finlande. 1900
 Olika meningar i rysk-finska frågor: en granskande öfversikt. 1908 (suom. Eri mielipiteitä venäläis-suomalaisista kysymyksistä: tarkasteleva katsaus)
 Documents concernant un conflit entre les gouvernements de Russie et de Finlande. 1909
 Den ryska lagen af den 17 (30) juni 1910. 1910 (suom. Venäjän laki kesäkuun 17 (30) päivältä 1910)
 Valda tal: högtids- och minnestal. 1915

 Бібліографія
 Bonsdorff, Göran von ym.: Leo Mechelin 1839—1914: Helsingin herra, valtiollinen vaikuttaja ja Suomi-kuvan luoja. Helsingin kaupunginmuseo, Helsinki 1989. ISBN 951-771-816-0
 Leo ja muut Mechelinit: Kirjan verran sukua. Sukuseura Mechelinus, Tampere 2005. ISBN 952-5435-15-6
 Nordenstreng, S.: L. Mechelin: hans statsmannagärning och politiska personlighet I—II. Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, Helsinki 1936—1937.
 Rein, Thiodolf: Leo Mechelinin elämä. Otava, Helsinki 1915.
 Stubb, Elisabeth: Rätt som argument: Leo Mechelin och finska frågan 1886—1912. (Diss.) Finska vetenskaps-societeten, Helsingfors 2012. ISBN 978-951-653-389-9
Ковальов, Д.В.: Порівняльний аналіз націєтворчих процесів у Фінляндії та Підросійській Україні (кінець XVIII – початок XX століть). (Дис.... канд. іст. наук), Дніпро 2021.

 Джерела

 Література

 Göran von Bonsdorff: Leo Mechelin och fredrörelsen, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Tapio Helen: L'Européen — Tietokanava Eurooppaan, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Osmo Jussila: Miksi Leo Mechelinistä ei tullut suurmiestä?, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Laura Kolbe: Mechelinin Helsinki: Keisarikaupungista luokkayhdyskuntaan, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Antti Kuusterä: Kansallisen merkkimiehen taloudellinen tausta, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Lars Landgren: Leo Mechelin som liberal publicist, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Pirkko Leino-Kaukianen: Leo Mechelin — oikeustaistelun keulakuva, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Pirkko Leino-Kaukiainen: Suomi 19:llä vuosisadalla — Kansallisteos, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Gösta Mickwitz: Leo Mechelin som liberal nationalekonom, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914 Taimi Torvinen: Liberaali Mechelin ja kansallinen vähemmistö, teoksessa Leo Mechelin 1839—1914

 Selovuori, Jorma — Parkkari, Tuomas (toim.): Hallintohistorian tilastoja 2. Valtion painatuskeskus, Helsinki 1995.
 Stubb, Elisabeth: Rätt som argument: Leo Mechelin och finska frågan 1886—1912. Finska vetenskaps-societeten, Helsingfors 2012. ISBN 978-951-653-389-9

 Vares, Vesa — Uola, Mikko — Majander, Mikko: Kansanvalta koetuksella. Edita, Helsinki 2006. ISBN 951-37-4543-0
 Vesa Vares, Demokratian haasteet 1907—1919, teoksessa Kansanvalta koetuksella Vares, Vesa: Varpuset ja pääskyset: Nuorsuomalaisuus ja Nuorsuomalainen puolue 1870-luvulta vuoteen 1918. SKS, Helsinki 2000.
 Haapala, Pertti — Löytty, Olli — Melkas, Kukku — Tikka, Marko (toim.): Kansa kaikkivaltias: Suurlakko Suomessa 1905. Teos, Helsinki 2008. ISBN 978-051-851-167-3
 Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen. WSOY, Helsinki 1987.

 Посилання

  Eduskunta — edustajamatrikkeli
 Leo Mechelin
 Steinbock, Dan (2003). Wireless Horizon: Strategy and Competition in the Worldwide Mobile Marketplace. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. ISBN 9780814407141.
 Stubb, Elisabeth: Rätt som argument: Leo Mechelin och finska frågan 1886—1912.'' (Diss.) Finska vetenskaps-societeten, Helsingfors 2012.

 Leo Mechelin: Suomen itsehallinto ja perustuslait (153 s.)

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Члени Фінського дня народження Шведської народної партії
Фінські сенатори
Фінські професори права
Працівники університету Гельсінські
Члени Королівської академії наук
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Michael Schumacher Benetton Renault B195 World Champion 1995 1/18
CA$ 239.82
Mex$ 3,379.28
AED$ 658.49
arg$ 7.086
This model is not suitable for children under 14 years old
The Michael Schumacher Benetton Renault B195 model car in scale 1/18 from the manufacturer Minichamps in limited edition. Michael Schumacher became Formula 1 World Champion for the second time in 1995 with this car.
After the 1994 Formula 1 season, which was marked by many fatal and serious accidents, the FIA resorted to stronger measures and changes in the following season, which strongly influenced the performance and appearance of the cars. The most obvious feature was the raising of the side cockpit walls, which better protected the drivers' heads.
However, most drivers did not see this as a mere advantage. As a result, they complained increasingly about the restricted field of vision while driving. With the exception of Schumacher, who was not impressed by this and already at the beginning of the season was able to pull away with impressive victories in the driver standings of his competitors.
As the reigning champion, he won no less than nine of the 17 races and took his second world championship title, well ahead of his rivals Damon Hill and David Coulthard of the Williams-Renault Team. Together with his team mate Johnny Herbert, the Benetton team also won its first and only World Championship title in the Constructors' Championship.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of his title defence, Schumacher's winning car from 1995 has now been released in a high-quality collector's box and a limited edition of 295 pieces. A must-have for the die-hard Schumacher fan and a real eye-catcher for every showcase.
scale 1/18
limited to 295 pieces
with enclosed "Mild Seven" stickers
Michael Schumacher Ferrari F2004 Winner Japan GP F1 2004 1/43
Michael Schumacher T-Shirt Challenge Tour
Michael Schumacher Shoe Racing
Michael Schumacher Personal Cap 2011 Limited Edition
Poster Michael Schumacher - Legacy - Classic Edition 40x50cm
Michael Schumacher Flag World Champion
Michael Schumacher Hoodie Kids World Champion red
Poster Michael Schumacher - Ferrari F2002 - Hungarian GP 2002
Michael Schumacher DVAG Driver Cap 2011


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Room for the holidays: Owner's selection
$3.95-million, 824 – 23A St., Annex | 604-602-3386 | abc11barnyards | asg.com Description: Tucked away on a hidden cul-de-sac just off McDonald Avenue in the Annex, 824 – 23A St. sits on a quiet,…
$3.95-million, 824 – 23A St., Annex | 604-602-3386 | abc11barnyards | asg.com
Description: Tucked away on a hidden cul-de-sac just off McDonald Avenue in the Annex, 824 – 23A St. sits on a quiet, corner lot with multiple levels, with two bedrooms on the first and three on the second.
"The ground floor — which measures 1501 square feet — boasts the main living room, a dining room, private eat-in kitchen and a family room," says realtor Donna Lozzi of Sutton Group. "On the second floor, the charming living room and cathedral-height bedrooms of the second-floor can be found."
One of the biggest draws of the house is the private backyard — with barbecue and extra garage space, which comes in handy when taking in all the view.
On the second floor, there's also two additional bedrooms and an office space that combines the history of the house and could be a home office or room for guests.
On the first floor, additional storage is a good bet, and there's space for four people to take a breather in the downstairs game room, which also includes a wine room. There's also a wet bar, sitting room and balcony with views of the backyard, with further views of the city.
It's the eastern backyard — which wraps around the house — that is truly the showpiece, Lozzi says.
"The courtyard incorporates two terraces and an infinity pool, and encompasses a wraparound privacy wall to perfectly protect the family from the neighbourhood and the road.
"The guest bedroom on the main floor and the apartment on the second floor are adjacent to the courtyard."
The terraces and deck are joined by an outdoor kitchen and kitchen area, with access to the terrace via both suites. In total, there are three levels.
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!This Austin-Healey 100-6 got away, but there are more like it here.
This 1959 Austin-Healey 100-6 was built in August 1958 and imported to the US by the Hambro Trading Company through New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally black over red, the car received a partial refurbishment in the 1990s including a color change to Healey Blue over dark blue leather. Work ceased in 1995 and the unfinished project was reportedly stored in a barn in Arkansas, where it was located by the seller two years ago. The car has since been returned to running order with most final details completed. The included BMIHT certificate confirms its 2,639cc inline-six to be numbers-matching and notes original options such as an electric overdrive, heater, and wire wheels. This Healey is offered with a folding top, new side curtains, and a clean Oklahoma title in the seller's name.
The two-seat BN6 was offered in 1958 and 1959, 4,042 two-seat roadsters were produced, with just 285 delivered to the US in 1959. This example was reportedly refurbished on a rotisserie, and the seller has found no evidence of its original black paint. The condition of the Healey Blue finish is detailed up close in the photos below, which also appear to show slight misalignment of the driver's door.
This 100-6 is equipped with a fixed windscreen, and knock-off wire wheels were optioned at purchase according to the BMIHT certificate. The black folding top can be seen both raised and lowered in the gallery below. A set of new side curtains is also included.
The cockpit is trimmed in dark blue and features an optional Smiths heater. The seller notes two blemishes on the backs of the seats where the folding top frame has marred the upholstery. A covered spare tire is housed on a parcel shelf behind the seats.
A toggle switch for the optional overdrive can be seen between the spokes of the banjo-style steering wheel. Chrome gauge bezels show light aging, and the positions of the speedometer and tachometer have been reversed. Just under 36k miles are shown.
The 2,639cc inline-six is paired with a 4-speed manual transmission and Laycock De Normanville overdrive, which can be engaged in third and fourth gears. Engine number 26D-RU-H/68278 is stamped on the block plate and corresponds with the BMIHT certificate below. The seller has driven the car approximately 200 miles while testing various functions.
The underside can be viewed above, and additional pictures are included in the gallery.
The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Certificate lists production and delivery details, the matching engine number, and optional equipment.
A collection of pictures showing the car as found by the seller is included in the gallery.