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Alamo Community Stands Up for Higbee
September 22, 2016 by Lincoln County Central
As Pahranagat Valley High School?s football team continues to rewrite the record books, there is something missing.
Ken Higbee on the sidelines.
Higbee is the long-time head coach of the PVHS football team and principal at C.O. Bastian High School. He has been on paid leave since last year, as an investigation is being conducted by the state. Little has been said publicly by school district or county officials, citing employee privacy concerns and that an investigation is ongoing.
Superintendent Pam Teel again Wednesday declined to make any comment. County District Attorney Daniel Hooge was not available Wednesday for comment.
The coach is running practices and communicates with assistant coaches from the stadium tower during games, but he has not been on the sidelines.
An intense and emotional school board meeting at the district office in Panaca on Sept. 8 was packed so tight that they had to bring in extra seating. The library at Pahranagat Valley High School, which was connected to the meeting via video conference, was no different. A crowd of people came to plead Higbee?s case.
The Board Chair Peggy Rowe called the meeting to order. After the Pledge she read the rules for public comment,
namely that each person is allowed three minutes to speak and ?no action may be taken upon a matter raised under this section until the matter has been properly placed on an agenda for action.?
A moment after she asked for public comment, Wesley Wilson of Hiko was up and talking. He wanted to see Higbee on the field. Wilson told the board that he ?loves the values that Ken Higbee teaches.? Following several others echoing their support of Higbee, Tia Wilson of Hiko spoke at length, as others allotted their three minutes to her. She expressed frustration that everyone is in the dark on when the investigation will end and the situation be resolved. ?We don?t need to know the details of the investigation, that?s not what we?re asking,? she said, but added people would like to know ?where we are at in the process.?
She also stated, among other things, that Higbee ?should be allowed to be a parent on that field.? Others then echoed that sentiment of wanting him on the field with their kids.
The coach?s father Vaughn Higbee spoke. He started out by saying ?I am proud of my son.? He decried the lack of support from the north side of the county and statements that have been made, mentioning he has heard of people calling his son a ?piece of crap.? He pointed to Teel and school board said, ?If you could have done what needed some guts and backbone, none of this would have happened.?
Other family members, including the coach?s brother Mark Higbee spoke. He talked about the relationships between the adults of the north and the south. He asked why there so much hate between Lincoln and Alamo and why can the kids be friends but the adults can?t.
Many others commented, vouching for the coach?s character and the positive influence he?s had on students. Several raised the question why the board won?t make the issue an actual agenda item and decried the lack of local representation.
Tia Wilson helped spread the word about the meeting on Facebook and invited people to make comments. ?I was really pleased with the turnout,? she said. ?And just how everyone was poised and expressed their thoughts on the character and influence of Ken Higbee.?
People did so for about an hour before the board moved on to other business.
Ken Higbee also declined to comment, but his wife Becky Higbee expressed thanks and appreciation for the community?s support.
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Parasitic Infections: Intestinal Protozoa and Microsporidia
Cystoisosporiasis
Microsporidiosis
Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection that tends to be fairly mild in most cases. Which of the following groups has the lowest risk of complications from chickenpox?
People with a weakened immune system
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Cystoisospora belli life cycle
Cystoisosporiasis is infection with the parasite Cystoisospora (Isospora) belli. The main symptoms are watery diarrhea with abdominal cramping and nausea.
People can become infected with Cystoisospora by consuming food or water contaminated with the parasite.
Cystoisosporiasis symptoms are more severe and prolonged in people with a weakened immune system, such as people with AIDS.
Symptoms vary but include watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fever, and weight loss.
Doctors usually diagnose the infection by identifying Cystoisospora in a sample of stool.
Cystoisosporiasis can be treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX).
(See also Overview of Parasitic Infections.)
Cystoisosporiasis is most common in tropical and subtropical climates. When encountered in the United States, it is usually in immigrants or travelers with exposure in endemic areas.
The primary symptom of cystoisosporiasis is sudden, nonbloody, watery diarrhea. Other symptoms include fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, fatigue, and weight loss. Symptoms in people with a normal immune system usually last weeks, then subside.
In people with a weakened immune system, including people with AIDS, cystoisosporiasis may cause severe diarrhea that may persist for a long time.
Stool tests
To diagnose cystoisosporiasis, a stool sample is examined under a microscope for Cystoisospora eggs. Specialized techniques can be used to increase the chances of identifying the eggs.
When stool analysis does not identify a cause for persistent diarrhea, doctors may use a flexible viewing tube (endoscope) to examine the upper part of digestive tract. Doctors may use this procedure to obtain a sample of tissue to be examined and analyzed (biopsied). Cystoisospora, if present, can be seen in a biopsy sample from the intestine.
When traveling to tropical and subtropical areas where the infection is common, people should avoid eating uncooked foods, including salads and vegetables, and should avoid consuming potentially contaminated water and ice. Hand washing with soap and water is important. Drinking water that has been boiled is safe. Filtering water through a 0.1 or 0.4 micron filter can remove cysts of Cystoisospora and other parasites, as well as bacteria that cause diseases.
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX)
Infected people who have symptoms can be treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) taken by mouth.
In people with AIDS, it is very important that the HIV infection is treated as effectively as possible with antiretroviral drugs. Such treatment can strengthen the weakened immune system, which usually helps control the diarrhea and other symptoms. People with AIDS may need a higher dose of TMP/SMX and a longer course of treatment. Sometimes long-term TMP/SMX maintenance therapy is needed in people with HIV/AIDS.
For cystoisosporiasis, people who are allergic to (or intolerant of) TMP/SMX can be treated with pyrimethamine. Leucovorin is given concurrently to prevent anemia and low white blood count, which are side effects of pyrimethamine.
Ciprofloxacin has been used to treat cystoisosporiasis, but it is less effective than TMP/SMX.
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Burdened by Regulations – Welcome to the Club
December 11, 2019 synergy Leave a comment
Regulatory compliance and risk management concerns are on the rise at U.S. lending institutions, according to the 2019 Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator released Wednesday by Wolters Kluwer. The top areas of concern were HMDA rules, cybersecurity, and credit and compliance risk.
Lenders reported their top compliance challenges for the next years are "managing and implementing residential mortgage regulations; keeping current with changing regulations; complying with the forthcoming Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standards; deposit account regulations; and compliance program management."
When it comes to implementing compliance programs, lenders' top concern was that their institution relies on manual rather than automated compliance processes. This concern was cited by 47% of respondents in the survey, up five percentage points from last year. At the same time, 46% of firms reported they anticipate "little to no investment" in compliance automation at their institution.
The next two top concerns were inadequate staffing, cited by 45% of lenders, and "too many competing business priorities," cited by 44% of respondents.
Just 16% of survey respondents indicated that their institution has a "strategic, integrated" enterprise risk management system across all departments. About 30% said their institution lacks a widespread risk management system, and another 32% reported they were unsure whether their institution had one or not.
Lenders harbor some major concerns with certain aspects of HMDA reporting but are increasingly comfortable with other aspects of HMDA. Lenders reported declining concerns in regards to capturing data fields and upgrading systems over the past year.
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Cybersecurity remains a top concern at a majority of lending institutions and 78% of lenders reported it as a top risk that will receive "escalated priority" in the next year. While cybersecurity outranks all other risks in the survey, the level is down from 81% last year.
Other top concerns that will receive additional attention over the next year are credit risk, up from 34% to 45% and regulatory/compliance risk, up from 33% to 47%.
"Respondents indicated more confidence in their ability to maintain compliance, keep track of changing regulations, and demonstrate compliance to regulators, reaching the highest confidence levels in the survey's seven years," said Timothy R. Burniston, Senior Advisor for Regulatory Strategy at Wolters Kluwer's Compliance Solutions business.
The percentage of lenders expressing a high level of concern with compliance was down across the four main areas surveyed, including the ability to stay compliant amid changing regulations, the ability to keep track of regulatory changes, the ability to illustrate their compliance, and the ability to manage risk across the entire institution. However, despite declining concern in all these areas over the past two years, more than half of lenders maintain a high level of concern in these areas.
The economic factors lenders are most concerned with moving forward are interest rate fluctuations, a concern for 87% of lenders; data privacy, a concern for 85% of lenders; and a pending recession, a concern for 76% of lenders.
Lenders do not expect regulatory relief in the next two years. Just 22% of lenders believe regulatory relief is likely during that time, compared with 48% a year ago.
The overall Main Indicator Score for the Wolters Kluwer's regulatory and risk management survey was 95—up 10 points from last year. The score takes into account the lender survey, which included 704 respondents this year; as well as the number of new federal regulations for the industry, the number of regulatory enforcement actions, and the total dollar amount banks and credit unions incurred in fines over the year.
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Q: Oreo (8.1.0): Portrait orientation issue I'd like to have all activities in portrait orientation.
So I have tried both
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR_PORTRAIT);

in onCreate(), onPause() or onResume() but the screen will flip to landscape and back to portrait in case of I rotate device in landscape from the beginning before opening the app.
But if I remove setRequestedOrientation method and just add android:screenOrientation="portrait" in AndroidManifest.xml only then it works (but let's imagine if I have 30 activities so it's better to have in BaseActivity instead)
How to reproduce

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*BaseActivity has method in onCreate(), onResume(), onPause() setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

*Rotate device in landscape orientation.

*Open app, Activity A is flipping from landscape to portrait.

*Start Activity B from Activity A, Activity B is flipping from landscape to portrait.

Note
I have checked already
Android 8.1 screen orientation issue: flipping to landscape a portrait screen
Activity rotating itself and back to normal in android 8.1
but it didn't work (it works only if orientation is defined in AndroidManifest)
If someone knows how to fix please share the solution
Thank you so much.

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Pubwatch schemes: here yesterday, gone tomorrow?
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Author Charlie NewmanPosted on 4th June 2020 4th June 2020 Categories Our Blog
Right now, barely 10% of licenced premises are open. No one knows when Britain's leisure industry will be back to work – but there's no doubt it won't ever be quite the same.
Even before Coronavirus, a pub was closing every 12 hours across the UK. So adapting to the 'new normal' is only one challenge that faces publicans in the years ahead.
When lockdown is lifted many licensed premises will remain closed: much of the sector was financially under-resourced at the best of times and Coronavirus will have called last orders on many. Those that survive will look inevitably to reduce essential costs to the minimum, and identify and jettison non-essential ones altogether.
Where will this leave Pubwatch schemes?
Many Pubwatch schemes are relatively informal groups of licensees who share information about local troublemakers and, where appropriate, exclude them from their premises. Few charge member subscriptions: hopefully their future will be relatively secure in the cash-strapped future.
Larger Pubwatches, however, tend to be supported by subscriptions, and these will undoubtedly be under pressure as members look to reduce non-essential overheads. Many depend on a single member to manage the Pubwatch's affairs: maybe he or she will be among those that don't resume trading when the lockdown is eventually lifted in full. It isn't always easy to find a replacement willing to step up in their place. Too often Pubwatch schemes simply fade away when a key 'mover and shaker' decides to hand in their empties for good.
Yet Pubwatches provide an invaluable service, and not just to their members. Keeping troublemakers away benefits not only pubs but the wider communities in which they are located. Police and licensing authorities work closely with Pubwatches not only so that pubs maintain good order but also that young offenders can be identified at an early stage. Pubwatches provide invaluable opportunities to encourage youngsters to improve their behaviour and, where necessary, to refer them to council's Early Intervention teams and ultimately, and only where unavoidable, to the police and the criminal justice system.
It's sad to see pubs close their doors for good – but it's nothing short of tragic to see Pubwatches closing wholesale around the country. Yet, for as long as Pubwatch schemes are under-resourced, reliant on a single 'mover and shaker' member to keep them going, and for receive no direct support from police and councils, that's what we can expect.
Some police forces and local authorities already provide invaluable support for Pubwatches in their areas – but most don't. True – many Pubwatches are keen to maintain their independence from local policing and licencing authorities. But with Pubwatches under pressure nationwide, police and councils everywhere should explore what they can do to provide support for these groups.
For example, even for the most independently-minded Pubwatch, police and councils can provide access to online management tools like Disc, to make it easier for the Pubwatch to manage its own affairs without any undue reliance on a single 'mover and shaker'. In doing so, police and councils can also ensure that the Pubwatch operates in compliance with legal obligations, not least of which is GDPR without which they're understandably unwilling, for example, to share personal data of offenders.
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Dhenkanal – Wars, Wilderness and Royal Hospitality
November 7, 2019 blogvirasatehind Architecture, Forts, My Story, Odisha, Rajput, Tourism, Travel Shot 6 comments
Year 1781! While most of Western Europe was at the forefront of the industrial revolution, a part of Odisha was passing through a political turmoil. Odisha would witness intense rivalry between princely states and with the Maratha Force.
Dhenkanal, one of the flourishing princely states in Odisha located amidst the dense jungle of Gadajat Mountains was a key witness to the political unrest happening in the 18th century. An 18-day Maratha seize had been the highlight which is narrated distinctly in 'Samar Tarang', a war poem written by the contemporary writer Brajanath Badajena.
Dhenkanal is a medium-sized city located at a distance of 80 km from Bhubaneswar. Both Dhenkanal (http://www.dhenkanalpalace.com/) and Gajalaxmi Palaces (http://gajlaxmipalace.com/) facilitate as heritage homestays and have become favourite destinations among overseas travellers. While there are 13 rooms available at Dhenkanal Palace, the Gajalaxmi Palace has six rooms for guests. While at Dhenkanal do visit the Dokra village at Sadeiberani and the seat of Mahima Cult at Joranda. Both the properties can arrange your exploration into the enchanting countryside.
Today, the vast sprawl of Dhenkanal Fort is no more, but what attracts you is the splendid Dhenkanal Palace which came up a century after the Maratha seize.
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ATHMALLIK – IN THE HEARTLAND OF MAHANADI WILDERNESS
The Maratha army under the leadership of young Chimanji had started an expedition towards Bengal to collect the payment of chauth from the British. The route they followed was through Odisha. Historical records reveal that a large number of princely states in Odisha had supplied the Marathas with men and material with hope to receive help to bring down the power of their political rivalries.
The Raja of Keonjhar was one such opportunistic who could not withstand the progress of Dhenkanal. He had supplied the largest contingent of 20,000 men to the Maratha Force.
DASPALLA – A JOURNEY THROUGH ODISHA'S UNTAMED FRONTIERS
The Marathas had an unsuccessful attempt to seize Dhenkanal before a couple of years. This time well prepared, they started from Cuttack to Dhenkanal. However, it was the peak of summer. The intense heat and the lack of basic provision forced them to return to Cuttack. Soon after the monsoon, Chimanji assisted by Bhavani Pundit marched towards Dhenkanal with a huge army and provisions.
The Raja of Dhenkanal at that time was Sri Trilochan Dev, a respectful self-esteemed man who had denied giving the peskash to the Marathas. The angry Marathas wanted to give a lesson to the raja of Dhenkanal with the monetary help received from Manju Chaudhary, a banker from Cuttack.
The Maratha army came as far as Motari, a place 8 miles before Dhenkanal. This was the gateway to the territory and was well guarded by several soldiers. Sri Trilochan Dev lost no time in preparing to deal with the situation. He had created a strong fort on one side by a hill range and deep moat full of water, the fort could successfully hold at by an invading army.
The Marathas marched towards the fort from Motari even though they had received a warning to return from Sri Trilochan Dev. But the Maratha Governor refused to listen unless the pride of the king was crushed.
Thereafter Sri Trilochan Dev ordered his soldiers to chase the Marathas and the Odia Paikas furiously attacked the enemy. The Marathas were put to utter confusion and were forced to retreat to Cuttack with a good number of soldiers either killed or wounded.
But things did not move always in favour of Dhenkanal.
Around that time, again Chimanji had planned an invasion of Bengal for collection of chauths and hence was on his way from Nagpur. When he entered Cuttack, Manju Chaudhary went to remind him about the defeat of Martha army in the hands of the Raja of Dhenkanal. He also provoked that if this trend continues Marathas would not get their peskash even from other feudal states and that would paralyse their Odisha administration. Chimanji was convinced and immediately decided for the second attack against the Raja of Dhenkanal.
It was the rainy season and the terrain to Dhenkanal had become inaccessible. As the winter arrived considering that Dhenkanal was situated in the middle of thick jungle and access to it was very difficult, the Marathas procured the services of two local persons, Kistenraja and Chaitan Das.
'Samar Tarang' vividly describes – the Raja of Dhenkanal, Sri Trilochan Dev was confident of defending himself and his people inside to the fort against any attack from the enemy. Understanding the march of the Maratha army towards the fort, he at once ordered the garrison to take adequate defence measures to protect the fort from the outside. The fort wall had a good number of hidden holes which were now filled with cannons, guns and even arrows. Some raised platforms close to the fort were erected to serve the purpose of watchtowers to observe the movement of the enemy from the distance.
But the army of Maratha was huge. Upon approaching them, the Odia Paikas were frightened. The Marathas could easily enter the fort and seized it.
But it was not a smooth affair for the Marathas. During the seize of Dhenkanal Fort, there were frequent raids by the hilly tribe called Charas. They plundered or seized the belongings of the Maratha soldiers and put them into trouble.
To overcome this, the Marathas sought help from neighbouring kingdoms. The king of Keonjhar came forward immediately with 20,000 soldiers.
After most heroically defending the fort for 18 days, Sri Trillochan Dev abandoned it to the possession of the Marathas. But Marathas lost interest in Dhenkanal as it was not a priority for them. After the departure of Chimanji, Sri Trilochan Dev raged a war against the king of Keonjhar. In this battle, the chief commander of soldiers was beheaded by the soldiers of Dhenkanal.
A large complex of apartments, courts and gardens nestled against the gradual slope of Gadajat Hills of the Eastern Ghats is today's Dhenkanal Palace, built in the 19th century and converted into a heritage hotel. A fusion of Odia, Rajput and European architecture, Dhenkanal Palace shines like a pearl in the heart of Dhenkanal City. A legend goes: in the 16th century, there was a Savara Chief called Dhenka who ruled the present Dhenkanal region. However, he was defeated in a war by Sridhar Bhanja, a chieftain from the neighbouring kingdom Gada Besalia. The dying wish of Dhenka was to preserve the name of the clan. The victor king agreed to the wish, and thus he renamed the newly acquired kingdom as Dhenkanal, Nala here means hilly terrain slope.
Dhenkanal is a major elephant corridor and even today there are reports of human-elephant conflicts from time to time. As you enter the lounge, you are invited by the display of a large stuffed elephant head. It is told that in 1835 the elephant had gone made destroying human settlements and even killing people. The king for the safety of his subjects had killed the elephant whose head now is displayed as a matter of pride.
Dhenkanal is truly the capital of royal heritage in central-costal Odisha. Gajalaxmi Palace at Borpoda amidst the dense forest and the foothills of Megha is Odisha's only homestay overlooking a jungle kingdom.
Built-in the first half of the 20th century, the view from the palace is incredible. The forest surrounding it is infested with wild beasts of all kinds, such as elephants, leopards, wild boars, and civets.
However, the key attraction here is the display of Naryanpatna (in Koraput District), man-eating tiger. Its piercing eyes and sharp rows of teeth was the stare of death to 83 people it had killed and eaten before being put down by Late Kumar Saheb in 1986.
Author – Jitu Mishra
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Transnational Moroccan Cinema with a dinghy
12 October 2016 Cinemas, Marrakech, TransnationalMarrakech, Spain and MoroccoStefanie Elvire Van De Peer
On my trip preparing for our research project's first symposium in December and scouting for venues, caterers and hotels, I went to see La Isla de Perejil by "l'enfant terrible du cinéma marocain", Ahmed Boulane. Florence Martin writes about it in her first blog entry, from 4 February 2016. The film and its director are part of the transnational injection into Moroccan cinema, as Ahmed Boulane himself comes from the former pirates' republic of Salé, took on the Irish nationality, and made a film dealing with the absurd situation that caused an international incident between Spain and Morocco in 2002. Co-produced with Boulane-O'Bryne Production (Casablanca) and Maestranza Film (Sevilla), Boulane co-wrote it with Spaniard Carlos Dominguez. Boulane is best known for his second feature film, The Angels of Satan (2007), about a scandal that shook Moroccan sensibilities in 2003: the case of a group of young Moroccan heavy-metal rockers wrongly accused of being Satanists. The film became a real Moroccan box office hit in 2007.
Poster La Isla, Ahmed Boulane, 2015.
One of the best discoveries watching La Isla de Perejil was the main actor: Abdellah Ferkous, with his quietly, tongue-in-cheek, playful style of comedy. His rotund looks, typical moustache and big cheeks give shape to the comic identity of this TV actor and his character in La Isla, Ibrahim, a soldier of the Auxiliary Forces. At the start of the film one gets a sense of his modest background, his simple life and his contentment with his small (and poor) family, living with their chickens. He likes simple pleasures such as coffee and food, and his satisfaction with life comes through in little rituals, visible for example in the manner in which he wakes up his children and the repeated stretching and washing of his hands and face.
Just before his retirement, Ibrahim is sent to the tiny Isla de Perejil on the northern coast of Morocco, whose sovereignty is disputed by Morocco and Spain. His mission is to monitor the passage of smugglers, illegal migrants and drug traffickers. His rituals continue on this island, although his radio contact with the mainland breaks up and he is alone apart from the company of a cockerel and a goat. One day, while bathing, Ibrahim discovers that the sea has washed ashore an illegal migrant from Senegal. Close to death, Mamadou is carried to Ibrahim's makeshift home. At first he is treated with suspicion but Ibrahim slowly nurses him back to health, and the two characters bond over food, music and the radio Mamadou has brought along in a plastic bag. As they try to establish their means of survival, they become friends and Ibrahim protects Mamadou, his cockerel and his goat. When Mamadou suggests they eat the animals, Ibrahim is taken aback and assures the Senegalese man that he does not eat his friends. With the growing solidarity between the two men, the international incident that is brewing in the background, and of which they are completely ignorant, becomes ever more absurd: not only is the island tiny, the loneliness there brings two strangers and potential enemies together, while Spanish and Moroccan politicians direct a diplomatic conflict and a military attack on one another.
Watch the film's trailer here.
Loosely based on an actual conflict between Spain and Morocco in 2002, this is a gentle farce that reverberates with political undertones. Not only does it look in some detail at the refugee crisis and the possibility of solidarity between Africans in their 'fight' against the European coloniser, it also makes fun of this coloniser in his inability to deal with Moroccan sovereignty. The film has a satirical bite to its treatment of the relationship between the Spanish and the Moroccans, but the postcolonial critique does not spare the ineptitude of Moroccan politicians either. The concept of nationhood, this film tells us, is hollow: the island is abandoned, but the moment someone sets foot on it and raises a faded, washed-out Moroccan flag (orange and yellow instead of bright red and green), the neo-colonialist tendencies of territorialism come flooding back. The absolute absurdity of this conflict is highlighted by the filmmaker, as he emphasizes the smallness of the island, and uses a comical actor as the single, middle aged soldier rather than the historical team of six Moroccan soldiers 'invading' the island with a dinghy.
Stefanie Van de Peer
The Non-Fabulous Destiny of Najat Benssalem: Raja Bent El Mellah, Abdellah El Jaouhary, 2015 (70 minutes)
12 October 2016 Marrakech, TangiersDocumentary, Marrakech, Najat Benssalem, TangierStefanie Elvire Van De Peer
This documentary has haunted me ever since I saw it at the National Film Festival in Tangier in late February. Who is Raja? Is it Jacques Doillon's protagonist (in his film Raja, 2003), played by Najat Benssalem, whose brilliant performance earned her two awards for best actress in Venice and in Marrakesh? Is it "the daughter of the old district" of Marrakesh, a poor section of town where she barely survives? El Jaouhary deploys his narrative between these two identities.
The film opens under the limelight of the Marrakesh International Film Festival: the young actress is called to the stage to receive her award and does not show up. We are told that Najat has been caught in one of those epic traffic jams. A young French female producer even adds that it is so like Najat to be late…
The camera flips to Najat who has arrived, but without an invitation, most probably because she has not received it – she was sent one but her address keeps changing. She lives a life off the grid in all senses of the term. Hence Najat is standing outside the Palais des Congrès, unable to produce the required invitation, and the guards do not let her in. Since then, every December, Najat goes to the Palais des Congrès and tries to get in the world of cinema she was briefly part of, and in which she craves to be. Yet the same story repeats itself in a depressing loop: she cannot get in. As the documentary proceeds, several readings of her exclusion emerge: a racist one, a classist one, a gross injustice, bad luck. Even her male co-star in Raja, Paul Grégory, evokes mektoub: "it was not her destiny" to be part of the Festival!…
The narrative of the documentary sits gingerly at the confluence of old fairy tales and a new spin on neo-realist cinema. A destitute young woman in the old city of Marrakesh is suddenly chosen to play a role in a French film. She lives an enchanted life during the shoot, becomes a recognized star, to then return to her former place and status. The magic of cinema does not have the power of a good old fairy godmother: the ball is short-lived. Cinderella remains Cinderella.
This is almost a moral tale: when a poor young Moroccan inner-city woman whose destiny is not to become a movie star actually becomes one, she is denied access to the limelight.
Najat Benssalem
It is the story of a transformation that goes awry – literally, physically so. At the beginning of the film, Najat looks like Raja: a slim young woman who, equipped with boxing gloves, earns a meager living by wrestling with customers on the Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakesh. As she walks around the city in pants and T-shirt, she exudes an austere, almost androgynous kind of beauty, her body limb and lithe. Some cinema people interviewed in the film say she cannot find a part in any of the films that are produced on site because her body does not fit the Moroccan standard of feminine voluptuous beauty. Two years later, she has ballooned up and no longer resembles Raja, her former image on screen. She survives by selling individual cigarettes to passers-by, and adds layers of strange-looking clothes in the winter to keep herself warm. In the end, she looks like an odd, overgrown child in a pair of warm garish pink pyjamas walking around Jemaa el Fna, offering cigarettes to strangers…
Najat was in attendance at the festival in Tangier, in her new large body, her eyes blinking under the flashes of cameras as she exited the film projection at the Roxy Theater. I wondered whether we would see her next December in Marrakesh around the Palais des Congrès where she returns like a moth attracted to a ruthless burning light.
Florence Martin
Short Cuts Moroccan Style
12 October 2016 MarrakechLFS, Marrakech, short filmStefanie Elvire Van De Peer
The response to TMC's call for applications for our two London Film School (LFS) bursaries was impressive both in terms of quantity (over 35 applications for 2 places) and in terms of the quality of the applicants.
With each applicant submitting two short films as part of their application, much of late July and August for those on the selection panel was taken up with viewing short films by the next generation of Moroccan filmmakers. As such, the exercise of shortlisting candidates and eventually finding our two candidates for the LFS bursaries also provided an ideal opportunity to take the pulse of short filmmaking in Morocco today.
The panel was impressed by the quality and diversity of submissions received, with a pleasing range of shorts across documentary, narrative and even some non-narrative experimental work. We were struck by the new and original directions that these young filmmakers were taking within their short films, including: experimentation with non-linear narrative, film form and style, realism and surrealism, as well as adaptations that re-worked classical European literature into a contemporary Moroccan setting. However, what was also apparent in the submissions that we received was how many filmmakers of these young filmmakers were developing in new ways the preoccupations that have characterised contemporary Moroccan cinema since the late 1990s: social realist and (often violent) neo-noir narratives that focus on the challenges and inequalities facing Moroccan urban youth; an exploration of the collective and individual psychological traumas resulting from the Years of Lead; an impulse to document the traditions of rural cultures and communities that may seem at odds with a modern and increasingly globalized society; meditations on the forces that drive many young Moroccans to emigrate from their homeland and the conflict that this can generate for both the individuals and their families; and finally films (both documentary and fiction) that foreground the experience of a range of female protagonists and experiences in their narratives. We were also very pleased by the high technical quality exhibited in the corpus presented, in particular in terms of the visuals, soundtracks and artful editing skills that showed a solid degree of professionalism.
In the end, after prolonged deliberation, the panel decided to award the two LFS bursaries to Saida Janjagua and Mahassine El Hachadi. Saida and Mahassine impressed us with the quality, vision, originality and (it must be said) cinematic beauty of their filmmaking. We are delighted to be welcoming them to London in January 2017 to spend a term in residence at the LFS and hone their skills while learning and collaborating with staff and students. The bursaries will allow them to establish their own connections with British filmmakers whilst acting as artistic ambassadors for the Transnational Moroccan Cinemas project and Moroccan cinema more generally. We hope that their time at the London Film School will benefit their careers as emerging Moroccan filmmakers whose work has the potential to reach international audiences, AND will produce films and collaborative creative work that can be included in the programme of new Moroccan cinema that TMC will be curating as part of the 2018 African in Motion Film Festival.
Given the Marrakech International Film Festival's recent announcement that it will be winding down the Cinécoles initiative (a short film competition held as part of the festival and intended to promote emerging filmmakers from film schools in the country) one could fear that short filmmaking was entering a more precarious state in Morocco, now that its new generation of aspiring filmmakers are denied this opportunity. However, the quality, range and imagination of short films and filmmakers that we have been privileged to view over the past two months, leaves the TMC project team feeling optimistic about the next generations of cinematic talent emerging from the Kingdom.
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The norms the Supreme Court targeted this term all came from the same era
Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood write:
The supreme court, thank heaven, finally adjourned on Thursday, after a week of decisions that blew up much of the framework of American policy and politics. And a key thing to notice about that assault on American norms was how many of their targets were adopted in a few short years in the 1960s and 1970s.
Roe v Wade, of course, dates to 1973, the fruit of many year's work by committed feminists. Thursday's attack on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases guts the Clean Air Act, which in its strong form dates from 1970 – indeed, both that law and the EPA itself were the result of the first Earth Day protests in April of that year, which drew 20 million Americans (10% of the country's population in those days) into the streets demanding action. Even firearms sanity, badly weakened once more in last week's decision on concealed carry permits, reached its zenith in 1968 with the passage of the Gun Control Act in response to the assassinations of that turbulent year.
It's pretty clear that some on the high court have other gains from that era in their sights: Justice Clarence Thomas singled out the 1960s protections for contraception, and the drive for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people that broke into the open at the Stonewall protests in 1969. And the court and conservative legislatures have worked steadily to undermine the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, restricting the franchise that the civil rights movement had once worked so powerfully to extend.
This is an attack, in other words, on the epic social, political and cultural transformations of that remarkable period (a stretch of years that should remind us that with committed effort change really can come fast). We pay particular attention to those dates because, at Third Act, we organize the people who helped create that era. Our colleagues include heroes like Heather Booth, who went south in 1964's Freedom Summer and then went on to form Citizen Action for local organizing across America, or Sam Brown, who coordinated 1969's massive anti-war moratorium before a career in public service that included working with John Lewis to run Vista and the Peace Corps. Many others of our supporters – who are in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s – played less prominent roles, but all of them bore witness to these transformations. And now they watch with some combination of sorrow, anger and incredulity as they are washed away. [Continue reading…]
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There's controversy in the crypto community after one of the founders of a prominent wallet service for storing and sending cryptocurrencies abruptly announced a rival venture.
MyEtherWallet will continue to be online until it, for whatever reason, is not online. As we do for a number of products in this space, if we at any point determine the domain to be compromised, serving malicious code, or otherwise detrimental to the community, we will do what we can to warn the community and prevent use of that codebase and website. However, we wish the best for MyEtherWallet and hope it continues to be a viable product in this space.
MEW has become a staple product for anyone in crypto. Token owners are frequently warned that exchanges, susceptible to hacks like the $500 million Coincheck theft in January, are not a place for storage. MEW has arguably risen to become the go-to option for that, compatibility with secure hardware from Trezor and Ledger makes it popular with more serious crypto enthusiasts, too.
With ICOs said to have raised over $4 billion in 2017, you can imagine that MEW was involved in a large portion of that figure, although it does not disclose numbers.
That popularity makes MEW a frequent target for scammers — one imitation even made it into Apple's App Store — so there was plenty of concern when the @myetherwallet Twitter account suddenly became @mycrypto and announced a new website. Monahan, fellow MyCrypto.com co-founder Jordan Spence and their team — which has moved over from MEW — later published Medium posts signed by Monahan's Keybase account and proof pics on Twitter to verify the new venture.
Reasons for the split are not clear, but, reading between the lines of what Monahan wrote, it appears that the two MEW founders had different visions of the future for the service — which began as a side-project to both of their professional careers.
Monahan explained on Medium that the rise of crypto, and in particular its growth in 2017, took a toll given the important role MEW played. She said her sleep, routine, mental health and other areas became affected as the prices of Ethereum and other coins surged to amplify the volume of transactions passing through MEW. All the while, feedback from users grew from 20 requests on a busy day to thousands.
"The value of Ethereum increased exponentially and so did the stakes. Every potential bug or help query became "the most urgent thing ever." Every monumental task finished meant another monumental task started," Monahan reflected.
"2017 saw the end of the side-project. 2018 will ensure we have a solid foundation for the product, the company, and the team. It is this solid foundation that ensures our long-term stability and success, in 2018 and beyond," she added.
Hemachandra, for his part, has said MEW will continue as before presumably with a focus on providing a community service, while Monahan looks to be developing a business around the MyCrypto.com service.
Despite vocal support from BoostVC, MyCrypto.com confirmed to TechCrunch via Twitter DM that it hasn't raised VC funding "yet." You'd wager that isn't likely to be the case for much longer given the vast adoption that MEW has seen.
Telegram.com, another must-have service in the crypto space, is in the process of holding a $1.2 billion ICO. While MyCrypto.com isn't likely to target such a lavish raise, the team behind it has realized the potential to build a business around the boom in cryptocurrencies.


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When you have an online business, you know how important search engine optimisation is. However, do you know what important role SEO plays in this process? All the major search engines update algorithms on a regular basis to prioritise searches.
Therefore, for those who have read or heard that marketing, SEO is dead – you are very wrong. The fact is that it is now more important than ever before. In addition, as a webmaster, you have to know what search, engine optimisation is, and what it means.
You may be using social networking and splash pages to build your audience, but they all still point back to one key feature your business website. You do need an amazing website but still need to instigate website optimisation for new clients to find you.
This SEO optimisation needs to be included in your website design to capture the attention of the different search engines available. In addition, if you are new to the online website business and not sure, what this means – in short, it is a set of rules you must follow when starting a blog or website to improve the search results so that new users can find you.
Both these stages are very important and on-site search optimisation makes sure that your website titles, content, overall structure, tags, and keywords enhanced. There should also be ample inbound links from other highly respected external websites –known as off-site SEO.
Most online marketing SEO agencies advice that the best way to increase your firm's visibility is by making sure that your title pages have a low volume of keywords as this presents you with a competitive advantage when clients search for something. Your content should accurately describe what your service or product is about and is attractive at the same time.
In addition, just as important as search engine optimisation is when using keywords the structure of your website must be complete and there should be nothing missing from it.
Besides making your website look great and using, the best SEO to rank high in the SERPs, another way is to use off-site search engine optimisation tips. This is known as link building or website promotion. Search engines are always trying to find important pages to show users when doing a search query. The most Search Engine Marketing companies use this technique.
The main factor when doing a search is for your web page to appear in the search results as you have used a number of incoming links. These links can affect your ranking either positively or negatively. Here you can link to reliable sites but be aware of paid links, link farms, or article directories as this could have a negative impact on your ranking.
There are more than a couple of a great ideas for getting started. You can do this by giving users quality content with natural links that in turn gives you the best traffic and ranking. Do not go and rush out to buy links as they may just serve their purpose for a short time. Rather write creative articles while doing a guest posting with referral links in them.
If you are still struggling and not sure how to optimize your web pages – contact a Sydney SEO consultant.
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Call the Midwife season 12 episode 1 air date, new details!
Call the Midwife December 25, 2022
Following today's big, wonderful Call the Midwife Christmas Special, why not take an advance look now at season 12? There is so much fantastic stuff to look forward to here!
First things first, let's talk about when the premiere is going to air, since that varies depending on where you are reading this article from. If you are in the UK, BBC One is going to broadcast this episode on January 1 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. British television is known for broadcasting big events on New Year's Day, and we certainly think that this qualifies for one! Unfortunately, if you're in America you are going to be waiting a good while longer — the plan for the time being is for new episodes to air starting on March 19. If you are a new viewer, it is fairly common for PBS to get the episodes a little bit later than when they air across the pond.
As for what is coming up in terms of the story, let's just say that there are some big moments for Trixie, a new recruit and Nonnatus House, and also a painful situation that is going to come across Poplar. For a few more details, take a look at the Call the Midwife season 12 episode 1 synopsis below:
It is April 1968 and change is coming to Nonnatus House. The sisters intend to make a good impression on new recruit Sister Veronica. It's clear she is no shrinking violet and will ruffle a few feathers. Racial tensions cast a shadow over Poplar following Enoch Powell's incendiary 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Nancy and Trixie team up to support terminally ill patient, and Fred is saddened to receive an official letter confirming the disbandment of the Civil Defence Corps.
Are you excited? Here's to hoping that we have an emotional and well-written series of stories ahead.
Related – Be sure to get some additional updates now when it comes to Call the Midwife
What are you the most interested in seeing when it comes to Call the Midwife season 12 episode 1 on BBC One?
Be sure to share right now in the comments, and also come back for some additional updates. (Photo: BBC One.)
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The Tampere region is creating innovative, digital and sustainable smart city solutions together with companies, research institutions, other municipalities and residents.
In Smart Tampere we are using agile experiments to find new, easy-to-use electronic services for Tampere residents. We want the city's residents to be able to use the city's services easily and at their own convenience. In addition to electronic services, we wish to offer Tampere residents new ways to influence decision-making and the development of their living environment through new channels for participation. Take part to have your say!
In the region of Tampere, innovative, digital and sustainable smart city solutions are created in partnership not only with businesses, institutions and residents, but also in close cooperation with researchers and students. The City indeed wants students and research organizations to take actively part on city development with other stakeholders: we need to awaken the interest of various talents concerning smart city issues!
Tampere´s population is growing rapidly. To accommodate these new residents and fulfill their needs, we have to imagine and create new buildings and infrastructures. And, here is the challenge: it has to be eco-friendly, energy-efficient, and sustainable without decreasing people's comfort and well-being. Take part to the subject and help us imagining tomorrow's buildings and residential areas.
Data collection, analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) are creating new potential for business development and the renewal of city operations and services. AI and analytics can be used in many fields to support planning and decision-making, for example, and to optimize operational efficiency. Let's join forces and make Tampere the world's strongest AI expertise hub!
We believe that the digital revolution is an important opportunity for health and well-being. Therefore, we intend to have everyone in the city primarily using digital well-being services in 2025. Our HealthHUB (operated by Tays) is a center for research, development and innovation related to health and well-being, and aims at developing new services. Tampere University Hospital works in cooperation with businesses and the City of Tampere, but anyone is also welcome to join in. Pick a channel that works for you – and hop in!
Building and guaranteeing a safe urban environment is essential, as safety and security considerations are amongst top-level needs of every individual. Therefore, safety aspects must always be central. At Tampere, we take active steps to develop new pioneering solutions and strengthen safety and security expertise. Whether you are a private individual or a professional, let's join forces and make Tampere a globally attractive hub for safety and security expertise – and the world's safest place to live!
Digitalization and the Industrial IoT are changing industrial production, products and competition quickly, while also creating significant growth and internationalization opportunities for early adopters. At Tampere, we aim at creating a real hub of expertise able to reinvent tomorrow's manufacturing industry in order to exploit this potential. Seize the challenge and become a trailblazer!
Different connectivity solutions, such as 5G, LoRa or X technologies, serve as key infrastructures and enablers for digitalization and the IoT. The purpose of these connectivities is to collect data produced by people, things and systems in order to develop services meeting the people's needs. This must be done safely, reliably and cost-effectively.
Traffic and mobility are essential points for tomorrow's cities, and Tampere is no exception. Mobility and traffic are indeed extremely structuring for many other questions, are currently facing major changes and offer great potential for new ideas. Let's join forces and make the Tampere region one of Europe's smartest transport systems with efficient, comfortable, safe and environmentally friendly mobility!


A Colombian reggaetón superstar and crossover hitmaker, Balvin is a leader of Latin music's renewed international popularity with a fresh take on the sound. J Balvin is a game changer, breaking down international musical borders to make an indelible mark on the pop landscape with smash hits like "6AM", "Ay Vamos", "Ginza", "Safari" and many more. Watch the trailer here.
"Bruuttal" celebrates Balvin's Medellín homecoming spectacular, with an exhilarating special anniversary concert to show his gratitude to 14,000 fans. As both a proud global ambassador for Latin culture, and one of music's most in-demand collaborators, Balvin is joined onstage by fellow Latin music superstars Nicky Jam, Yandel, Farruko, Zion y Lennox, and Jowell y Randy, amongst others.
J Balvin continues to successfully introduce Spanish-language music to a global audience, "by erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat" (Huffington Post).
Balvin has collaborated with major artists such as Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Pharrell, Liam Payne, Camila Cabello and Pitbull, Major Lazer and many more; and his videos have been streamed nearly 10 billion times on YouTube. He has won 2 Latin Grammys, 5 Heat Latin Music Awards, 3 Billboard Latin Music Awards, 4 LAMAs (Latin American Music Awards), an MTV EMA, 4 MTV Millennial Award, 3 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice awards, and many more. Look for his brand new U.S. VIBRAS tour to begin on September 19 in Fresno, California.


For the longest time I've had this certain conversation with God - one in which I ask Him what He's saying to me for a specific season of my life. For the quarter. Or the month. And often what the key word is for the day.
Try it! Ask, "God what 3 words / statements / phrases are you speaking to me for this (season, month, quarter)?
Get quiet and "wait" on God for the answer. Spend some time in worship and let Him know you want His thoughts for you. He's not in a rush, so don't you be! Come back to it day after day if need be. He will answer!
You shouldn't change until that season is up. This isn't something based on feeling so you can change it when you're feeling differently, nor is it something you'll necessarily understand fully at the start. Treat it as something from God by honoring it in this way. I think that builds the effectiveness of the practice over time.
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Why I'm (truly and geekishly) excited about Zend Server 5!
Over the years I've played key roles in many software projects. Although I have had many successes there are only a few which were truly memorable. On average I probably do a very exciting project every three years. I would say that's above industry standards :)
Last week we released Zend Server 5 and it is another memorable moment for me. Not because the process of getting it out the door was all smooth (it sometimes felt like pulling teeth) or because it's a new major version of Zend Server.
It's because the new code tracing feature gets me very excited and is a kickass technology. Code tracing solves real problems for developers and IT operation teams. One of the biggest challenges in managing production environments is troubleshooting problems. Whether it is an application that runs transactions against a database, calls Web Services, or interoperates with a Java app server, being able to reproduce the problem after the fact is very often hard and sometimes just impossible. Working on such problems has always killed my productivity and reduced the amount of time I could truly be focused on writing new code.
This is where code tracing comes in. It's a very cool technology that is optimized to run in production and can keep track of what's happening deep within the PHP application. It hooks into our event system that tracks DB events, slow scripts, errors, and more. When something goes wrong it can dump a snapshot of the whole execution flow – function calls, arguments, return values, memory consumed, duration – from the beginning of the request to the point where the error occurs. This enables developers to analyze and triage the problem after the fact – easily and efficiently. Best of all – while it's targeted at production (high performance and robust) it's also extremely useful during development and testing.
What makes this feature even cooler is that Adobe worked closely with us to build a really nice Flex UI (http://static.zend.com/topics/Zend-Server-code-trace.png) for analyzing code tracing. It feels good to have stable and efficient production technology, but it's even better when there's visualization that enables the users to interact with the data quickly and effectively. Thanks to Adobe for helping us build a superb UI! This is just the first version of the UI – the sky's definitely the limit with where this can go.
I am proud of what we've built and the people who participated in building it. I have no doubt that it will lead to tremendous time savings for PHP shops and make developers' lives significantly easier and happier. I just hope I don't need to wait another three years now for the next big thing… I bet not!
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BC PSLS Central Office team celebrating Change Day BC. Standing (l to r): Inderpal, Catherine, Jay, Ishira (our Change Day Ambassador) Annemarie, David, Jesse and Martin. Sitting (l to r): Mehvesh and Michelle.
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Need some inspiration? Check out the variety of pledges from across BC on the Change Day BC gallery of pledges.
So now the question is … what will you pledge? 1 Day. 5000 Pledges. Unlimited Possibilities.
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