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On Mixed States Entanglement and Quantum Communication: Aspects of Quantum Channels Theory
P. Horodecki
Basic aspects of quantum communication based on quantum channels theory are reviewed together with suitable examples. The key notion of quantum channel capacity is discussed. The role of mixed states entanglement as a practical tool in quantum channels theory is explained in detail. Application of recent results on non-positive partial transpose bound entanglement conjecture to binding entanglement channels shows that validity of the conjecture for some states implies nonadditivity of two-way quantum channel capacity. Some aspects of robustness of entanglement in context of positive maps theory are also discussed.
03.67.-a 03.65.Ca 03.67.Hk
03.67.-a: Quantum information(see also 42.50.Dv Quantum state engineering and measurements; 42.50.Ex Optical implementations of quantum information processing and transfer in quantum optics)
03.65.Ca: Formalism
03.67.Hk: Quantum communication
Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Technical University of Gdańsk, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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2016 Accomplishments & The Year Ahead
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As 2016 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on what has been a busy and productive year at RTDNA Canada. The association introduced an updated and overhauled Code of Journalistic Ethics, which more accurately reflects the current state of our industry. The new code has been adopted by the CBSC and it continues
As 2016 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on what has been a busy and productive year at RTDNA Canada. The association introduced an updated and overhauled Code of Journalistic Ethics, which more accurately reflects the current state of our industry. The new code has been adopted by the CBSC and it continues to provide the overall framework and reference point for the adjudication of complaints and alleged violations within the broadcast industry.
In the spring, RTDNA Canada appeared before the House of Commons Heritage Committee, which is reviewing the media and local communities. The submission was received very favourably and we will continue to remain a strong voice for the protection of local news and Canadian journalism. The association was commended for its Code of Journalistic Ethics and the work it has done promoting journalistic integrity in news.
The association produced four regional awards dinners; a national conference and awards gala, which recognised dozens of outstanding entries from coast to coast to coast. The standard of the entries was remarkable and it remains a true testament to the quality of storytelling and journalism emanating from RTDNA members. Lifetime Achievement and the President's award were also presented to an outstanding Class of 2016.
There are still a few days left to nominate someone for a Lifetime Achievement Award, the deadline is December 31, 2016. Apply here.
The deadline for the regional and network awards in January 31, 2017 and this year we are pleased to announce an expansion of the awards program. The changes recognise the growing importance of digital; more network categories and the addition of live network sports programming. More information about the awards can be found here.
The RTDNA board is currently reviewing and updating the association's by-laws and membership categories and we will have more on this to share in the new year.
Plans are well underway for the 2017 National Conference, which will be held in Toronto on May 26-27. The theme of the conference is "Connecting Audiences in the Age of Mistrust" and it is guaranteed to be a dynamic, thought-provoking and solutions-based gathering.
Your continued support of RTDNA Canada through your membership renew here; attendance of regional and national events as well as submitting award entries are all crucial components of the sustainability and growth of the association. I urge you to become active and involved in the RTDNA.
2017 will present many challenges both at home and internationally as journalists and the craft itself continue to come under increasing pressure both economically as well as politically.
RTDNA Canada will remain steadfast in its commitment to being a strong voice of electronic and digital journalists and news managers in Canada. The members of RTDNA Canada recognize the responsibility of broadcast and digital journalists to promote and to protect the freedom to report independently about matters of public interest and to present a wide range of expressions, opinions and ideas.
On behalf of the Board and Executive of RTDNA Canada, I would like to wish you and your family a very fulfilling 2017.
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Star Sightings and Fashion
Immigrants who became stars in the U.S.
By seattlepi.com staff on November 15, 2014 at 2:25 PM
By Maritza Rodriguez, Houston Chronicle staff:
President Obama is expected to unveil executive orders that could protect 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation, sources told the Associated Press on Thursday.
The actions, which some Republicans in Congress have vowed to fight, may include extending deportation protections for parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years, according to the Associated Press report. Obama is also likely to expand his two-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation.
Immigration has impacted every sector of American life, including show business. See the slideshow above that includes photos of what the U.S. entertainment industry would be missing if these celebs had stayed in their home country.
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G-7 Communique Wide-Ranging, But Critics Find Shortcomings
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U.S. President Joe Biden has declared that the G-7 summit was an "extraordinarily collaborative and productive meeting" that made progress on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the global economy and calling out China by name for its bad behavior.
Speaking to reporters Sunday at the end of the gathering in Carbis Bay, England, Biden also praised agreements on tackling corruption, fighting ransomware and ending public finance for coal projects (but with no timeline agreement).
Leaders of the G-7 on Sunday signed the Carbis Bay Declaration,  vowing to "end the pandemic and prepare for our futures," as well as to "reinvigorate our economies" with $12 trillion of support put in place during the pandemic.
Other leaders, including host British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, echoed Biden's language to "build back better."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks as President Joe Biden listens during the G-7 summit at the Carbis Bay Hotel in Carbis Bay, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, June 11, 2021.
The concluding statement, named for the location of the G-7 Summit in the seaside town of Cornwall, England, recognizes the need to tackle the roots of the pandemic on a global level. The aim is to slash the time needed to respond to a pandemic, including to develop vaccines, to under 100 days.
"There was a clear consensus among all our colleagues at the G-7 that this wasn't the end," Biden said of the battle against the coronavirus. "We were going to stay at it until we're able to provide for the needs of the whole world."
Heads of Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — a grouping of the world's wealthiest democracies known as the Group of Seven — were joined in their discussions on global health by leaders of South Korea, South Africa and Australia. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined virtually. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and leaders of other international organizations were also present.
The conference demonstrated to his fellow G-7 leaders and the people of their countries that "America is back at the table," said Biden, after the four years of the Donald Trump administration. "I think we've made some progress in reestablishing American credibility among our closest friends."
"The lack of participation in the past and full engagement was noticed significantly not only by leaders of those countries, but by the people in the G-7 countries," added Biden during a news conference at Cornwall Airport Newquay.
1 billion vaccine doses
G-7 leaders announced one billion doses of vaccines for the world, half of them from the United States. They committed to a series of actions to end the pandemic, and how to prevent a future one, including increasing global manufacturing capacity and improving early warning systems.
G-7 Leaders Pledge More than 1 Billion COVID Vaccine Doses to Poorer Nations
Leaders also called on China for several issues
The World Health Organization has said as many as 11 billion doses are needed.
"The result of this uninspiring summit will be a prolonged pandemic that costs more lives and livelihoods, not only across the world but in the G-7 countries themselves," said Tom Hart, acting chief executive officer of the ONE Campaign, a global anti-poverty and health organization.
"I think there's a possibility over 2022, going into 2023 that we would be able to be in a position to provide another billion [doses] from the United States," said Biden.
Vaccine patent waiver
The G-7 has been under pressure from humanitarian organizations and around 100 World Trade Organization member countries including the United States, to waive intellectual property protections of vaccine technology — the so-called WTO TRIPS waiver. The group, however, opted not to do so. Instead, it will support manufacturing in low-income countries through voluntary licensing and technology transfer to increase the global supply.
"We will engage constructively with discussions" at the World Trade Organization on the role of intellectual property, according to the leaders' statement.
"This G7 summit will live on in infamy. Faced with the biggest health emergency in a century and a climate catastrophe that is destroying our planet, they have completely failed to meet the challenges of our times," said Max Lawson, head of Inequality Policy at the Oxfam charity. Johnson and Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel "are insisting on defending the monopolies of pharmaceutical companies over people's lives, which is completely inexcusable."
G-7 leaders pledged to "explore all options" to ensure that lowest income countries have access to vaccines, including "non-profit production, tiered and transparent pricing" and asking manufacturers to share ten percent of the doses produced with COVAX, the United Nations vaccine-sharing mechanism.
G-7 and China
Biden said he was pleased with the G-7 taking China to task.
The last time the G-7 met there was no mention of China," noted the U.S. president. "But this time there is mention of China. The G-7 explicitly agreed to call out human rights abuses, and Xinjiang and Hong Kong. China has harshly cracked down on mainly Muslim-minority Uyghurs in Xinjiang and repressed Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
The communique says the G-7 "will continue to consult on collective approaches to challenging non-market policies and practices which undermine the fair and transparent operation of the global economy. It also calls on Beijing "to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang and those rights, freedoms and high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law."
Biden, at the news conference, said "China has to start to act more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights, and transparency."
The group announced a new infrastructure financing mechanism for low- and middle-income countries, called "Build Back Better World," or "B3W," designed to rival China's Belt and Road Initiative—the global infrastructure development investment strategy central to Beijing's foreign policy. The scope and source of the financing are still unclear.
On Sunday China hit back, by saying that the days when global decisions were dictated by a "small group" of countries are long gone.
Biden and Putin
American reporters asked Biden several questions about this week's scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting sanctions on Moscow have not changed the Russian leader's behavior.
"Autocrats have enormous power and they don't have to answer to a public," responded Biden. "And the fact is that it may very well if I respond in kind, which I will, that it doesn't dissuade him, he wants to keep going."
Biden said he agreed with Putin's assessment that relations between their two countries are at a low point.
One area of possible agreement with Russia, however, according to the U.S. president would be mutual extraditions of cyber criminals who have targeted their respective nations — something Putin has said he favors.
Shortcoming on climate action
A failure by the G-7 to agree to firm deadlines for actions to combat climate change is being criticized by environmental organizations.
Johnson rejects that assessment, telling reporters shortly before Biden spoke that much was actually achieved in this arena, adding, "I think it has been a highly productive few days," noting the nations agreed to raise their contributions to meet an overdue annual spending pledge of $100 billion a year to assist poorer countries in reducing carbon emissions and coping with global warming.
"We had hoped that the leaders of the world's richest nations would come away from this week having put their money their mouth is," said Catherine Pettengell, director at Climate Action Network, an umbrella group for advocacy organizations.
Biden on Sunday evening headed to Brussels for two days of meetings in the days ahead with NATO and EU leaders before his much-anticipated talks with Putin on Wednesday in Geneva.
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Usual harness and biner checks before climbing. Make sure rope is flaked.
Make sure you are good at clipping with both hands, with clips facing towards and away.
Make comfortable clips, optimal range is shoulders to knees. You should hang with a straight arm where possible to allow the skeletal system to take the load and waste less energy.
Don't backstep: don't step behind the rope so that it could flip you if you fall. The rope should be between you and the wall at all times.
Don't backclip: rope should always run from the wall out the front of the clip.
Don't Z-clip: don't clip the section of rope below your last clip. Grab the rope from the knot at your harness.
Make sure you clip the 2 quickdraws at the top with the gates opposing. Avoid the rope "X" that creates friction during lowering.
If you fall, don't grab the rope. Raise your feet and put your hands out to protect yourself from the swing into the rock.
Stand to the side of the climber for the first 3 clips, and close in to the wall. This ensures a falling climber won't hit you or get snagged on a taut rope.
Come out from the wall after 3rd clip for better visibility.
Give good rope for clips. Take a step towards the wall and throw an armful of rope through the device. I find the palm-up, thumb-down belay method is best for managing the amount of slack available to the leader.
Call any backclips, backsteps, and Z-clips.
Wait for the lowering call before lowering the climber.
If the climber falls, allow yourself to be lifted up in your harness and raise your feet for the impact with the wall.
Check harness buckles are doubled over (depending on harness).
Tie figure-8 with a double fishermans as backup. The American gyms I have been to require backup knots.
Use a palm down belay style, the gyms seem to prefer the sliding hand technique where your dominant hand is always your brake hand.
Don't take your brake hand off the rope at any point! If you do it is an immediate fail.
I used a variant of the palm down technique that requires you to be able to catch a fall with either hand as your brake. They didn't like it too much but passed me anyway. The palm up, thumb down method is very common in America, but I think it is pretty ordinary for top-roping.


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Turtles Can Fly
wogma rating: Beg or borrow, but do watch (?)
Turtles Can Fly will often make you want to use the fast forward button – but you won't be able to because you'll be so caught up in the lives of these children who live their life in Kurdish refugee camps. It's heart-warming and horrifying at the same time. It's a small story about a magnanimously large historical and political event. Ghobadi's personal perspective comes in beautifully about his origin. Turtles Can Fly is colourful but painted on a black canvas; it'll constantly remind you of the realities the film is based on. Watch with a strong heart, and an open sense of humour.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Categories: World Cinema
Genres: War
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Picture a smile creeping up your face; but you find yourself stopping it because what you want to smile about is a very serious matter. Mostly because you don't even know what is making you smile. Immediately after that, you find yourself with a lumpy throat and wide, horrified eyes – viewing something that makes your gut wrench.
This is an experience Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly will bring to you. A film set in a Kurdish Refugee camp, on the Turkish border of Iraq, graphs the everyday lives of children, before the US invasion, who have been living the atrocities of their limbo state.
The film revolves around three main characters – Satellite (Sohran Ebrahim) the youngest authoritarian in the village - a boy who is most resourceful. He controls all the children who diffuses landmines with their bare hands and exchange them for machine guns in the local market.
On the other hand, there's brother-sister Agrin and Hyenkov, the calmest yet most affected children of the lot. Hyenkov has no hands; he uses his lips to diffuse the mines. Agrin is quiet throughout the film, but in her eyes you can virtually see the entire war. It's a helpless, weak and desolate perspective which reminds you every minute how lucky you are to be only watching the film.
More than loss of innocence, Turtles Can Fly also deals with a bunch of beautifully alarming paradoxes. For one, you can see the villagers and children looking forward to the US invasion because what they most desire is the fall of Saddam. Yet they call the land mines "American". It's almost hard to believe these children are teenagers, being equipped with such hard responsibilities and no security – yet you can see them making merry out of the little they have, walking around with one hand or one leg and smiling like there's literally no tomorrow. Maybe it's a distinct childlike quality or maybe it's just their idea of living life king-size.
Keeping the emotional overtone in the film aside, Turtles Can Fly uses beautiful imagery to juxtapose the horrid state of the people. The cinematography is detailed and colourful, incorporating the same sense of paradox that binds the film together. The performances of each child actor is natural and endearing, making you rightly believe that they are too busy trying to survive to have an opinion on the politics of the war. As an audience, it makes you realize how beautifully Iranian films are shot despite their controlled, government-funded budget.
Primary reason to pick up a Turtles Can Fly DVD is the interview with the same children from the film. It's a non-professional cast and therefore the children mostly talk about their experience while filming. In these interviews, you can see a dripping innocence and a mischievous imprint of the children – the same quality which is lost in the film. The DVD also has a few extended theatrical trailers of the film.
The realities slap you in the face with every passing second but it also has a surreal after-ring to it. Turtles Can Fly is sprinkled with magical realism – you know it can't get more real than this and yet there is a fantastic sense in their attitudes and lifestyle.
This feeling is best expressed with one hard-hitting yet surreal scene- a baby tries to make a turtle drown in a small pond, and through the baby's perspective you get an underwater shot of the turtle wading, almost flying around like there's no worry in the world. You may just hear laughter at some point in the film – maybe of a child or maybe even your own – but it's a laughter wrapped with a palpable sense of danger. Watch the film if you can watch turtles fly in spite of broken limbs.
This article is by guest author Swetha Ramakrishnan. Swetha Ramakrishnan is currently living and working in Mumbai. She's a self-confessed film enthusiast and can most likely be found talking to anyone and everyone about popular cinema and her love for SRK. Swetha Ramakrishnan also blogs at http://swetharamakrishnan.blogspot.com/.
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Violence: Images of children with broken limbs, not a sight to be watched by all
Language: English subtitles, innocent language used by children
Nudity & Sexual content: None
Concept: Surreal yet dark
General Look and Feel: A mix of colorful and monochromatic tones
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Turtles Can Fly - Cast, crew, links
Bahman Ghobadi, Babak Amini, Hamid Karim Batin Ghobadi	, Hamid Ghavami
Bahman Ghobadi
Lead Cast:
Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Supporting Cast:
Saddam Hossein Feysal, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari
Cinematography:
Shahriar Assadi
Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Haydeh Safi-Yari
Hossein Alizadeh
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Q: Is it Darth Vader as bad as he looks? Is he actually bad throughout the films ? Does he turn to good in the end?

A: Vader's redemption and return to the light side of the Force comes only at the end of Return of the Jedi when, as the Emperor is about to kill Luke, Vader decides to help his son and throw the Emperor into the core of the Death Star.
By doing so he is simultaneously redeemed to the Light side and mortally wounded. We can see he returns to the Light Side because his force ghost appears to Luke (and possibly Leia) during the celebration on Endor at the end of the movie.
In the movies (not considering EU) we only ever see Light Side characters appear as force ghosts, so we are to assume this means Vader (now Anakin once more) is redeemed.

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Saruhi Postandschjan (, ; geb. 16. Januar 1972 in Jerewan, Armenische SSR, Sowjetunion) ist eine armenische Politikerin und Juristin. Sie war Abgeordnete im armenischen Parlament von 2007 bis 2017, Aktivistin und im Parteivorstand der liberalen armenischen Partei Erbe. Im Jahr 2017 trat Postandschjan aus Erbe aus und gründete im März des Jahres die Partei Jerkir Zirani (Land der Aprikosen), deren Parteivorsitzende sie seitdem ist.

Ausbildung und Beruf
Postandschjan besuchte die Schule Nr. 132 in Jerewan und  schloss 1994 das MYUD Law Institute () in Jerewan als Juristin ab.

Postandschjan arbeitete 1998 als Juristin für die gemeinnützige armenische Helsinki Association (). 1999 erhielt sie ihre Zulassung als Rechtsanwältin. 1999–2000 arbeitete sie als Juristin für das gemeinnützige Frauenrechtszentrum (). Sie war Juristin bei der Wrestling Olympic Youth Sport School of Armenia. Von 2000 bis 2007 war sie Vorsitzende der gemeinnützigen Organisation Juristen für Menschenrechte, sowie Autorin und Moderatorin des Fernsehprogramms Advocate. Seit 1999 ist sie Mitglied der Rechtsanwaltskammer Armeniens.

Am 12. Mai 2007 wurde sie in die Nationalversammlung Armeniens gewählt. 2012 wurde sie wiedergewählt. Postandschjan war Fraktionsvorsitzende der Erbe-Fraktion.

Postandschjan wurde von der armenischen Allnationalen Union Sorawar Andranik mit einem Diplom, einem Orden und einer Gedenkmedaille ausgezeichnet.

Meinungsverschiedenheiten mit Präsident Sargsjan
Im Oktober 2013 sprach der armenische Präsident Sersch Sargsjan vor der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarats. Postandschjan ergriff das Wort und fragte ihn, ob es stimme, dass er in Europa ein Casino besucht habe, und dann 70 Millionen Euro verloren habe und woher er das Geld gehabt habe. Sargsjan stritt strikt ab, ein Casino besucht zu haben. Postandschjan wurde in der Folge aus der armenischen Delegation der Parlamentarischen Versammlung ausgeschlossen. Das Recht auf Redefreiheit Postandschjans verteidigend verurteilte die Erbe-Partei die politische Verfolgung ihres Mitglieds. Der oppositionsfreundlichen Website Armenianow.com zufolge bereiteten Unterstützer Postandschjan auf dem Flughafen Jerewan einen Heldenempfang, nachdem sie den Präsidenten in Straßburg herausgefordert hatte. Die Leute hielten Blumen, Ballons und armenische Fähnchen, als sie kamen, um Postandschjan zu begrüßen.

Austritt aus Erbe
Am 20. Februar 2017 kündigte Postandschjan per Facebooknachricht ihren Austritt aus der Partei Erbe an. Als Grund gab sie eine ideologische Kluft an.

Polizeieklat
Am 14. Mai 2017 wurden Postandschjan und ihre Tochter in Jerewan durch die Polizei aus dem Wahlkampfbüro der Republikanischen Partei gezerrt. Sie waren in das Büro gekommen, um Gerüchte über den Kauf von Wählerstimmen zu überprüfen.

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Postandschjan ist verheiratet und hat drei Kinder.

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Q: eBay API not getting the complete details of the product on the basis of findItemsByCategoryRequest search While fetching the cars data from ebay using ebay API not getting the Item specifics data from ebay such as Model, Year, Variant etc.
Below is the code used by me for fetching the data using ebay API:-
$xmlrequest  = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
$xmlrequest .= "<findItemsByCategoryRequest xmlns=\"http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services\">\n";
$xmlrequest .= "<categoryId>9801</categoryId>";
<entriesPerPage>10</entriesPerPage>\n</paginationInput>\n";
$xmlrequest .= "</findItemsByCategoryRequest>";

// Set up the HTTP headers
$headers = array(
'X-EBAY-SOA-OPERATION-NAME: findItemsByCategory',
'X-EBAY-SOA-SERVICE-VERSION: 1.3.0',
'X-EBAY-SOA-REQUEST-DATA-FORMAT: XML',
'X-EBAY-SOA-GLOBAL-ID: EBAY-GB',
'X-EBAY-SOA-SECURITY-APPNAME: APP-ID',
'Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8',
);

[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                          (

                        [itemId] => 273628851708
                        [title] => Volkswagen Passat Estate 2.0tdi Sport
                        [globalId] => EBAY-GB
                        [primaryCategory] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [categoryId] => 9873
                                [categoryName] => Volkswagen
                            )

                        [galleryURL] => http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/m/mrCuCMB_TFLzjLd25prOS2w/140.jpg
                        [viewItemURL] => http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-Passat-Estate-2-0tdi-Sport-/273628851708
                        [paymentMethod] => MOCC
                        [autoPay] => false
                        [postalCode] => DY84GG
                        [location] => Stourbridge,United Kingdom
                        [country] => GB
                        [shippingInfo] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [shippingServiceCost] => 0.0
                                [shippingType] => FreePickup
                                [shipToLocations] => Worldwide
                            )

                        [sellingStatus] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [currentPrice] => 1395.0
                                [convertedCurrentPrice] => 1395.0
                                [sellingState] => Active
                                [timeLeft] => P2DT14H29M9S
                            )

                        [listingInfo] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [bestOfferEnabled] => true
                                [buyItNowAvailable] => false
                                [startTime] => 2018-12-27T22:49:09.000Z
                                [endTime] => 2018-12-30T22:48:09.000Z
                                [listingType] => FixedPrice
                                [gift] => false
                                [watchCount] => 4
                            )

                        [condition] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [conditionId] => 3000
                                [conditionDisplayName] => Used
                            )

                        [isMultiVariationListing] => false
                        [topRatedListing] => false
                    )

A: Ebay has a lot of different APIs. It looks like you're using the Finding API which doesn't seem to have this functionality. You should be able to use GetMultipleItems in the shopping API if you want item specifics for a list of items. Pass ItemSpecifics into IncludeSelector.


Hello. I've been unsuccessful the last few times I've used Given to snipe and am struggling to work out why.
The message 'Nous avons le regret de vous informer ...' suggests that something is telling eBay I'm in France. My account settings are all in the UK, by the way.
Is it a problem with Gixen or with eBay? Which of them has access to my IP, and how can I get around this?
It's a restriction eBay is placing on the item - nothing to do with gixen and gixen cannot bypass these restrictions. If the restriction is based on your shipping address on file at eBay - which it sounds like it is here - you may want to consider using a different eBay account for these items.
But my shipping address and account information are all in the UK. That's why I thought it must be something to do with my IP address - though how it's being recognised I don't know.
Unfortunately what matters is "registration country", not shipping country.
Either open a new account with eBay, or give them a call and ask them to change it.
I am registered in the UK, with eBay.co.uk, using a UK postal address.
That's why I can't work out what the problem is. Any ideas?
Was the computer that you used located in the UK when you first registered that account, if not perhaps that is when Ebay associated your account with France, even though you were registering via the ebay.co.uk portal ?
I would give eBay a call and ask them about it. They will be able to tell you the exact reason.
I have to use a VPN to circumvent the rule I set out above, so I doubt eBay will give me a straight answer.
When the VPN is switched on, I can make manual bids. It is just the new Gixen that is causing me trouble. I might have to look at other software, which is a shame, since I'd like to support what is otherwise a great service.
Have you tried using your VPN to access Gixen ?
musketman, with the latest change Gixen does pass your IP address to eBay, so you may indeed need to use VPN when scheduling your snipes. I am surprised, however, that this is used to restrict bidding. Please email me if this turns out to be true.
Ah, thanks, Mario. That would explain it. I assumed that, since Gixen's automatic bids were originating in the US or UK (according to the server I chose), my IP address was irrelevant. I'll send you an email.


The current demand for diversity and inclusion is at an all-time high. The future of work is multiracial, multi-ethnic, and multigenerational. This paradigm shift we're witnessing is a powerful one, and it's an exciting time to be at the forefront of workplace transformation. As a corporate education company, we work closely with our clients to develop immersive development programs that teach both entry-level employees and executives the cultural competence and inclusive leadership skills they need to thrive. We've trained hundreds of employees globally this year, and we have discovered a trend in our observations of culture change in the workplace.
This year we have the same number of Black Fortune 500 CEOs as we did in 2002. That was 16 years ago. Where might we be in sixteen years from now in 2034?
Millennials are the most racially diverse workplace generation, with 50 percent of working millennials being non-white. The number of educated, ethnically and racially diverse professionals is rising yet the last decade has seen limited shifts in change at the CEO level of America's largest corporations.
Companies who are in the top quartile for racial or ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to achieve financial returns above their respective national industry means. We know this makes business sense, so the question becomes, do we leave it up to chance or do we start investing more in representation, so the next 16 years don't look like yesterdays, and instead look like the change we always wanted to see.
How will you attract potential talent if they can't see themselves working at your company? Or growing into a leader? Workplace demographics will only gradually continue to shift. By 2025, millennials will represent 75 percent of the workforce. Ethnic and racial diversity at the top requires intentional effort and a long-term investment of resources in the growth and development of emerging leaders. How will you guide and support diverse employees on a path from internship to the C-Suite?
At its core, sponsorship is about advocacy and promoting people to reach the next level. Sponsors speak about you when you are not in the room. Sponsors, unlike mentors, might not tell you what to do or give you advice, but they believe in you and provide you with resources and opportunities to shine.
Sponsorship is not the norm in the workplace, especially for underrepresented talent. 81 percent of professionals of color need navigational support to advance their careers but don't receive compared to White men. However, more people of color are getting access to mentors. An American Society for Training and Development study found that 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies have some type of corporate mentorship program. How many have sponsorship programs? Not a lot.
A 2017 Fortune article discusses the "black ceiling" that holds African American women back from reaching the C-Suite in Corporate America. Companies can help crack this proverbial ceiling by creating inclusive management systems and processes -- like individualized coaching and sponsorship -- to help African American women navigate the workplace, build rapport with senior leaders, and further develop their careers. Again, this requires intentional effort and a long-term investment of resources to cultivate talent.
Informal sponsorship doesn't work. If we are committed to our diverse talent, we must invest in formal sponsorship initiatives. Employees of color with sponsors are 65 percent more satisfied than non-sponsored employees. This means they are likely to stay longer, engaged, and produce more for their employer.
Organizations who rely heavily on what's worked in the past or the present inevitably create their own roadblocks to innovation and business growth. Employees who perceive bias are 2.6 times more likely (34 percent to 13 percent) to say that they've withheld ideas and market solutions over the previous six months.
Bias in the workplace can be a result of our fear to change, so we hang on to tradition and what we feel has been effective thus far. We know getting to the top is easy. Staying there is hard. For organizations that want to stay on top, they have to become future-ready. What is valuable in the present might not be worth anything tomorrow, especially when you look at the quickly changing demographics in the United States to a more multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-generational environment. We are changing, so the way we work should change too.
To be Future Ready is to be DEI Ready. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ready. Ready to embrace difference, the unknown, and the future value that diverse perspectives bring. We must embark on a transformative mindset shift from perceiving value as something that only looks one way to something that can come from all places and levels of your organization.
This is an exciting time to invest in workplace transformation. On which side of history will your employer be?


The inaugural Creative Jobs Report, published Thursday, found that employees, especially between the ages of 18 and 34, are unsatisfied with current levels of creativity in the workplace. The study found that 55% of the 2,112 respondents (among whom 1,120 are employed) would cut their traditional career for a self-employed role.
That is, if they were sure they could still pay their bills.
A much lower 29% of employed Americans would be willing to take a more creative job even if it came with a pay cut. However, another sizable amount — 36% of employed respondents — actually want to quit their current jobs because of uncreative roles. With a cursory glance it would seem that the strongest cohesion of our millennial workforce is nothing more than a biweekly paycheck.
Mika Salmi, CEO of CreativeLive, told Mashable that his company has been aware of a desire for creative freedom within the workforce for some time.
"A lot of people who take our classes go on to start companies or move in to self employment," Salmi said. "They're people who may have hobbies on weekends or have a passion, but are trying to figure out how [they] can make that into a business."
However, they only make up a portion CreativeLive's users. Others, he said, are interested in furthering skills to help clients, or expand their own knowledge. With a user base of such diverse interests, Salmi wondered if there is a trend. It was this curiosity that led CreativeLive to commission the inaugural Creative Jobs Report fact sheet.
The study, conducted by Harris Poll, comes on the heels of a rise in popularity of online education. Companies like Duolingo are raising millions in venture capital, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining the interest of traditional institutions. It's becoming increasingly clear that, beneath the traditional model of college-prepares-student-for-corporate-employment, there's an element of unrest.
If that third statistic is any indicator, that means there's more than just a paycheck at play here. The fact that millennials are willing to accept less pay for more creativity, but ideally outside of a corporate environment, could indicate that the bigger trend is a discontent with corporate and educational environments.
"We are facing a massive — and growing — creativity crisis," CreativeLive cofounder Chase Jarvis said in a press release. "When over 51 million employed Americans want to leave their jobs to pursue a more creative career, we have jarring evidence that our existing education and work systems are broken."
The report also finds that millennials are twice as likely as those aged 45 to 64 — 24% to 14% respectively — to enroll in online coursework. While this could be attributed to Salmi's speculation that millennials are simply more familiar with the technology, it's worth asking: Does the modern workplace provide fulfillment for the worker's increased desire for creativity? And, in a more certain economy, what will these apparent hoards of yearning millennials become?


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Wreck of the Ten Sails
From the Tukka balcony looking south/east the wrecks are scattered all along the coastline…
There are numerous stories tied to this famous shipwreck that extols the heroism and fortitude of the peoples of the Cayman Islands. Nearly all stories end with the awarding of 'tax free status' to the Cayman Islands as a result of their people's bravery during the lifesaving efforts of this disaster that occurred just off the East End of Grand Cayman.
The most popular version of this story reads something like this…
"One of the most told stories in the islands history is the story of "The Wreck of the Ten Sails". Legend says that one night in November, 1788, the "Cordelia", the lead ship of 10 in a convoy of merchant ships returning to Britain from Jamaica went aground off this very east end point. The Ships manifest confirmed she was carrying exotic coffee beans, sugar and barrels of rum when she ran off course during a violent storm, which left her marooned on this very reef some 220 years ago.
A signal was given out to warn off the other ships, but was misunderstood as a call to follow closer and nine more ships sailed hopelessly to their doom upon the reef. The people of East End are reported to have shown great heroism in ensuring that no lives were lost and legend further states that one of the lives saved was one of royalty. For this, King George III is said to have granted the islands freedom from conscription, while another report claims that freedom from taxation was bestowed on the people of the islands as a reward.
The visible wrecks you can see today are the…
441-foot, ex-World War II liberty ship Ridgefield, which ran aground off the east end of the island in 1962, interestingly enough with a cargo of beer & The 237-foot, Liberian built steam cargo ship named the SS RimandiMibaju. Once again running aground on the same traitorous piece of water on the 9th of May 1964.
Tukka provides binoculars' every lunch service to get a visual on this one of Caymans most historic sights


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Jegindø (ook wel Jegind Ø of Jenø) is een Deens eiland in het westelijke deel van de Limfjord, in het noordwesten van Denemarken. Het eiland valt (sinds 2007) onder de gemeente Struer. Jegindø heeft 517 inwoners (2006).

Het eiland heeft een driehoekige vorm en een oppervlakte van 7,9 km². Het merendeel van de bevolking woont in het dorp Jegind. Het eiland heeft geen bossen, maar alleen heuvels en stranden die veelal met gras zijn begroeid. Het hoogste punt is 13 meter. In het zuiden en noordoosten staan er ook zomerhuisjes. Visserij was vroeger de belangrijkste inkomstenbron, maar sinds de negentiende eeuw speelt ook de landbouw een belangrijke rol.

Jegindø is sinds 1916 verbonden met het schiereiland Thyholm via een dam. In 2007 heeft men een gat van 1,8 meter in deze dam gemaakt, omdat het water bij de Tambosund niet meer schoon was. Over deze onderbreking is wel een brug gebouwd.

De naam Jegindø komt van Jegind, dat komt van het Ouddeense Ekund, dat eiland met veel eikebomen betekent. De lokale bevolking noemt het eiland ook wel Jenø.

Tot 1970 was Jegindø (als parochie oftewel sogn) een Deense gemeente. Vanaf 1970 maakte het eiland deel uit van de toen gevormde gemeente Thyholm, die echter weer per januari 2007 werd opgenomen in de gemeente Struer (Struer Kommune).

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  site van het eiland Jegindø

Eiland in de Limfjord
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Geografie van Midden-Jutland


In the role of Vice President – Priority Populations and Initiatives, Cheryl leads strategy development, and monitors the progress of our integrated system of care for key populations and services. In partnership with the Vice President – Clinical Service Delivery and Vice President – Medicine, Quality and Academic Affairs, Cheryl ensures there is a fully integrated approach to the development of strategy and implementation into service delivery. She also works with our partners in addressing the social determinants of health to create vibrant and healthy communities.
Cheryl has demonstrated her passion for key populations, ensuring organizational decision making is focussed on our most vulnerable people and communities. Prior to taking on her current role, Cheryl was Chief, Community health and Care for Island Health. She also held previous senior leadership roles in Child, Youth and Family Services, Public Health, Mental Health and Substance Use and Seniors Health.
Cheryl has a Masters of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas. During university, she spent two years in Mérida, Yucatán where she had the opportunity to become fluent in Spanish and see first-hand the health care issues associated with poverty. Prior to arriving at Island Health in 2009, she served 8 years as the CEO for Columbia Valley Community Health Center in North Central Washington, where integrated medical, behavioral and dental services are delivered for a low-income population.


Egypt's Al-Azhar has had a significant presence abroad in recent years, especially in its efforts to counter the effects of the Islamic State's rise in several countries. The Sunni religious and educational institution has undertaken joint programs to support Islamic countries' fight against extremism and participated in conferences held by international organizations.
All this activity, however, apparently has made President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a bit suspicious of the motives behind it. He and Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb have been known to vie for influence.
In January, the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) inaugurated the International Awqaf Academy, a training institute distinct from Tayeb's for imams and preachers in 6th of October City with the goal of drawing Egyptian and international figures together to renew Islamic discourse.
Safti explained that in the past year, the graduates association has organized training courses for imams in Libya, Russia, Nigeria and other African countries. These efforts come within the framework of renewing religious discourse and honing imams' and preachers' skills to help them rectify misconceptions about Islam. Safti was part of a delegation that visited Russia.
However, researcher Islam Barakat at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent think tank, has a different view of Al-Azhar's recent efforts.
In January, Sisi banned Tayeb from traveling on official trips without prior permission. But Barakat told Al-Monitor he doesn't expect Al-Azhar to slow down in its activities regardless of the restrictions.


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Famous Television Presenter Phillip Schofield: I'm Gay
Phillip Schofield, one of the UK's top ITV screens, announced today that he is gay. "I'm gay. There has been a lot of heartbreaking talk in this house," said Schofield, who has been married for 27 years and has daughters named Molly and Ruby.
Phillip Schofield, one of the UK's best-known presenter, announced that he was gay. Schofield, who made the statement on Instagram, did so after thanking his wife Steph and daughters Molly and Ruby for 27 years.
Schofield, 57, said his family was very supportive and said, "Steph was great, I love him. My daughters were great too, they supported me. "
Schofield said, "Being gay for a reason is something to celebrate and be proud of. Honestly, I hope to find peace in my head and keep going." "This decision is very important for me and my mental health," said Schofield, who introduced the morning program "This Morning". I explain it to people to relax. "
Schofield said that many dark moments in his family life had been experienced several times at home and that there were dialogues and discussions that caused a lot of suffering.
Author gayfilmmoviePosted on 8 February 2020 Categories Gay.Tv, WorldTags Famous Gays, Phillip Schofield, TvLeave a comment on Famous Television Presenter Phillip Schofield: I'm Gay
Protests at The Screening of the Gay Love Movie in Georgia
There were clashes between hundreds of far-right protesters and policemen who protested against the film on a gala night in Tbilisi, the capital "And then we danced", which talks about the love of two ballet dancers in Georgia.
On Saturday, police said 25 people were arrested as a result of the clashes. According to reports, a young woman and two police officers who watched the movie were injured.
Protesters who burned the rainbow flag of LGBTI people in front of the cinema threw smoke bombs and cartridges at the entrance of the hall when they blocked the streets of the cinema.
Tina Yukhutashvili, 22, told Reuters: "It's not normal for me to need police protection to go to the movies."
"And then we dance," a joint production of Georgia and Sweden, was shown at many festivals, even in Cannes.
The film, which is much appreciated by critics and film screenings at festivals, is officially nominated for an Oscar in Sweden.
As for the movie "This is my love letter to Georgia," the first movie tickets in Georgia sold out a few days ago.
Akin said it was "absurd" for people who wanted to see a movie have a chance in relation to the protests. In a statement after the protests, he said: "Appreciate all the brave people who watch the movie."
The movie, which was released in several halls in Georgia, sold out a few days ago.
However, the Orthodox Church and far-right groups in the country made statements condemning the film on the grounds that the film "offends their beliefs and values" and announced that they would organize protests.
In some rooms, it was noted that church officials prayed at the entrance.
2019 – BBC
Author gayfilmmoviePosted on 27 January 2020 Categories Gay.Tv, WorldTags Gay Love Movie, Gay Love Movies, GeorgiaLeave a comment on Protests at The Screening of the Gay Love Movie in Georgia
Vatican is Biggest Gay Community
Frederic Marty, a French journalist and sociologist, is 80% a senior pastor working for the Catholic spiritual leader, Pope Francis. He suggested that the Vatican is the largest gay community in the world.
Martel presented his book at a press conference in Rome and said that the church was homophobic: "When I worked on this book, I realized that the most homophobic were originally gay. Homophobic Vatican; "LGBT people are against individuals, same-sex marriage, adoption of homosexuals, but there is a double life full of homosexuals." On the other hand, cases of child abuse that shocked the Catholic Church were dealt with at an emergency summit held yesterday in the Vatican at the invitation of Pope Francis.
Author gayfilmmoviePosted on 26 January 2020 Categories Gay.Tv, WorldTags Gay Community, LGBT Community, VaticanLeave a comment on Vatican is Biggest Gay Community
The Decision For The Netflix's Gay Jesus Film
In Brazil, a judge ruled that the film, in which Jesus was portrayed as homosexual, was removed from the digital film and television series Netflix.
The film "The First Temptation of Christ" angered the conservative Christians in the country.
Judge Benedicto Abicai said in his decision "Freedom of expression is not absolute" and asked Netflix to remove the film.
Abicai said the ruling would ease the anger in the country until it was evaluated by a higher court.
2 million people in the country has signed for the removal of the film and the film's Brazilian producer company last month was attacked with a Molotov cocktail.
The parody film, released during Christmas, was filmed by the Brazilian YouTube comedy group Porta dos Fundos (Back Door).
In the film, Jesus takes a man who is thought to be his lover to his home to introduce him to his family.
According to BBC Turkish; some conservative Christians who were angry with this scenario attacked the pre-Christmas producer company's office in Rio de Janeiro with molotov cocktails.
One of the attackers reportedly fled to Russia and was wanted by Interpol.
No explanation has yet been received from Netflix or Porta dos Fundos.
Brazil's extreme right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said earlier that his country would not allow it to be a eş gay tourism paradise,, and also said, dim I wouldn't love him if I had a gay son..
Bolsonaro's son Eduardo Bolsonaro, the response to the film on the Twitter account "Trash. Brazil does not reflect the society," commented.
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Best Gay Movies of 2019
With only one week left until the end of 2019, we continue to list the best films of the year. Next up are the best LGBTI + movies of the year! Many gay movies that left their mark on the world of art and cinema from the Portrait of a Flamed Young Girl and Then We Danced met their audience this year. In addition, the year was marked by the gay Turkey Cinema films. Love, Magic, Vs and Not Knowing, which have not been released yet, are among these important films.
Portrait of a Flamed Young Girl is the story of an artist charged with making a portrait of a young woman in Britain in the late 18th century. Marianne is a young painter who lives on an isolated island. One day, the young woman is tasked with making the wedding portrait of Heloise, who just left the monastery. However, Heloise should not be aware that his portrait was made. Marianne has to fulfill her duty literally, so she decides to follow Heloise during the day and portray at night. This situation causes Heloise, who is about to marry reluctantly, to spend the last free moments before her upcoming wedding with Marianne. As the two women spend time together, an unexpected convergence occurs between them.
And Then We Danced tells the story of a teenager trying to discover him. Merab, who has an interest in dance since childhood, works with a Georgian community. Merab, who plans to get away from the problems in his life with the dance he is passionate about, works tirelessly to be the best. However, her life becomes completely different with the inclusion of a new dancer in her bands. Merab, who saw the new member of the group, Irakli, as his strongest rival at first, has different feelings over time. Merab, who started to feel different feelings for Irakli, began to get to know himself and his body in this process. The film, directed by Levan Akin , is known to appear with great difficulties, especially in Georgia.
Love, Magic, Vs
" Love, Magic, etc. ", the film of the successful director Ümit Ünal , which has not yet been released but meets with the first audience at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, is about the love story of two women. Eren comes to Büyükada years later to find her childhood love again. However, Reyhan had to establish an ordinary life because of the difficulties he experienced in Eren's absence. In addition, Reyhan believes that the magic he had done years ago was on Eren. After the two find each other, you should watch and see what happens! Love, Magic, etc., starring Selen Uçer and Ece Dizdar , won the Best Actress award from Altın Portakal, while the film won the SİYAD award and Dr. Avni Tolunay received the Special Jury Prize.
Not knowing , directed by Leyla Yılmaz , focuses on the life of a family dissatisfied with their lives. Selma and Sinan are now a couple who have trouble enduring each other. Umut, the son of the house, is after joining him. Rumors about the high school at the end of the school about Umut begin to circulate. When Selma and Sinan try to cope with their tiring marriage, Umut suddenly disappears. When Selma and Sinan search for their son, they realize that they have actually lost themselves. Emir Özden , Senan Kara and Yurdaer Okur are the leading actors of Bilmemek, who won the Audience Award at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.
Fin de Siglo
Fin De Siglo is about the story of two men who realize that they actually know each other before. Ocho is an Argentinian poet in his 30s. As the young man wanders through the streets of Barcelona one day, he coincides with a Spanish Spaniard Javi. Starting to get to know each other, Javi and Ocho discover a truth that will shock them both after a day together. The two men who thought that they saw each other for the first time actually met 20 years ago. They are actually more than two strangers who share the same city.
Wild Nights With Emily
Wild Nights With Emily is referred to as a gay film of biographical comedy. The film, which is about Emily Dickinson's life as a writer, contains various details from the printing process of her books to her inconsistent and full love life. Emily Dickinson has a lifetime relationship with a woman at this time. Emily, who was only friends with Susan Gilbert at the beginning, is attending poetry reading activities in the Shakespeare Community. The two have to play the lovers in one scene, so romance is sparked. After a while, Emily's family goes on a long vacation, and Susan stays with Emily during this process. Thus, the relationship between them becomes even tighter.
Bitter and Victory , which carries traces of Pedro Almodovar 's life , is about the choices of director Salvador Mallo from past to present and the events that left a mark in his life. In the film, it is the first love for the 60s when Mallo lived his childhood, leaving the place where he was born and spent his childhood, migrating to a village in Valencia with his family, seeking prosperity, and his first love, therapy tool, the events that led him to meet with cinema and to know himself. Pain and Glory, the 7th film co-produced by Almodovar and Antonio Banderas , won Banderas the Best Actor award in Cannes.
Booksmart
In Booksmart, two close girlfriends ( Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein ) realize that on the eve of graduating from high school, they need to work less and have more fun. Girls who still have time to stay behind their peers try to fit four years of entertainment into one night. Amy among them has long been in love with a girl in their school. However, he is not brave enough to open up to him. The endless night they will experience on the eve of graduation will give Amy an unforgettable lesson about her love life and open new doors.
Every Smell
Her Smell , starring Elisabeth Moss , tells the story of a punk singer who tries to deal with the problems in her life. Becky Something is the superstar of the all-female punk rock band, Something She, who made her mark in the 90s. However, his glorious days are now gone. The life of the young woman changed completely when she became a mother. While dealing with the responsibility of being a mother on the one hand, Becky, on the other hand, the band members who are losing their enthusiasm, struggle with the problems that come with the tension caused by the albums that they should have released and the change of the music understanding of the new generation. Finding herself in a great predicament, Becky starts to get lonely day by day as she struggles with her problems. The only thing in the mind of the young woman trying to stay sober against all kinds of problems is to find a way to return the group to her good old days. With her group mates, Becky decides to wait for the inspiration to come back to seclusion and bring her back to superstar.
Posledice / Consequences
Andrej, 18, in the official selection of the Toronto Film Festival in Posledice , is a young man sent to the correctional home for his troubled behavior. Andrej, who was sent to the correctional house by his mother, who could not bear the behavior of his son any more, joins Zele, a problematic youth like him here. Afraid of Zele, who was at the brink of psychopathy at the beginning, Andrej soon begins to admire her. As she gets closer to Zele, her life becomes harder and she begins to question herself, and Andrej has to choose between a lifestyle like Zele's and sticking to her own life.
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Gay Short Film, Golden
Gay Short Film, A tale of being different – and growing up.
Produced & Directed by: Kai StänickeS
Cinematography: Thomas Schneider
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Documentary, Being Gay In Nazi Germany
A documentary from 2000 detailing the stories of gay people who were persecuted in Nazi Germany because of their sexuality.
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Apple's Gay Wedding Themed iPhone X Advertisement
Apple released a wedding-themed iPhone X ad in Australia, where marriage equality became legal a while ago.
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A Gay Short Movie, My Best Friend
Sometimes all the answers are right in front of us.
Inspired by: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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PyTango is unable to create the Database device because it can detect the TANGO_HOST. Did you set the TANGO_HOST environment variable?
I sincerely advice you to read the Tango docs and previous posts in this topic. All the information regarding Panic assumes that the reader has a good level of Tango programming. You'll need some try and error to develop these skills; so please follow the documentation and practice with Tango so you'll get the knowledge to follow the most advanced guides.
Anyway, most of options don't need to be modified unless you have a deeper knowledge of Tango. I advice you to use the default values and play just with AlarmThreshold, PollingPeriod and Enable.
Don't modify the other properties until you'll have a better knowledge on how devices interact with each others (timeouts and exceptions).
I have set the TAnGO_HOST environement variable and read the documents of PyAlarm device server.
2.) I have to use Panic GUI over network.
In PC-2, I set the tango host as the "IP oF PC-1:10000".
So How to use the Panic gui over network ?
You should try to connect to the database from a python shell e.g. ipython or itango. Alternatively you can debug the application at this point.
Do you have any TANGO expert in your team who can help you? This is a fairly basic problem and not really specific to Panic.
Could you try this code in both PC-1 and PC-2 and paste here the output you get?
Now I am able to run Panic gui from other PC also. It was my mistake. I didnot set the path of PyTango in python path, thats why the above error was coming.
Then … what do you mean by "connecting Panic with Taurus"?
I have made one gui in taurus and there is one button in which I have to display the overall status of alarm.
If alarm comes it should be red and on recovery it should be green so the operator who uses taurus gui comes to know about the alarm status.
So how to achieve this ? Also what does "Use Taurus" specify ? It should be put "false" or "true" or "anything else" ?
How to add boolean attribute of alarm to taurus widget ?
My team is new to Tango so we are finding it bit difficult. You guys are the only people whom we can reach for help. And trust me you guys are doing amazing job, even after having so much work pressure , you take out time and reply to our/others queries.
The UseTaurus property is related to how each PyAlarm device connects to Tango, whether using the taurus.core classes or PyTango proxies instead.
It is an internal feature of the device server and it is still under test, so I advice you to keep it always equal to False. When the usage of taurus.core will be fully tested it will become True by default (if taurus is available).
Well, the previous example will display leds in GREEN for active and "dull" green for inactive.
(if any taurus guru feels chest pain after reading that, please reply with a better recipe).
The code I pasted should display something like the attached screenshot.
The setLedColor will set RED for ON and "dull" RED for OFF.
There is setOnColor and setOffColor available for TaurusLed.
With that, normally it will be like the screenshot.


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Imagine you live in a small country of 1.3 million people – the same as Maine or New Hampshire. Imagine that next door (to the east) is a country 100 times larger. Further south and west, another country some 60 times your size. Almost 300 years ago, your country was conquered by your eastern neighbor, though it had previously been under the control of a maritime country lying to your west. There followed over 200 years of occupation. Between the end of the first world war and the beginning of the second your country was independent. This was followed by another 50 years of brutal occupation.
You would think, I suppose, that your recent (1991) independence was precarious. You would have sought guarantees from friendly countries committed to democracy and human rights. Fortunately, you got them. Your country is a member of the European Union and of NATO. Any military attack on a NATO country is an attack on all. All are obliged to come to its defense.
But tiny Estonia – the country of which I write – has been neglected by its allies. NATO would rather not acknowledge that Estonia has been attacked, for if it does, it will be obliged by its charter to act.
Estonia has made more of its recent freedom than any other ex-communist country. It is one of the most IT-savvy countries in the world. All cabinet members take laptops to meetings. If they are not in Estonia at the time they log in to the cabinet by videoconference. Its economy is rapidly catching up with the west. It has already overtaken Portugal and its people are 50% wealthier than Russians. Culturally, and, increasingly, economically, Estonia is more aligned with Finland (one of the richest countries in the world, and home to cell-phone giant Nokia) than with Russia.
But the scars of the past are still there. When Hitler and Stalin divided eastern Europe between them, Estonia was given to Stalin. When Hitler betrayed his pact with the Soviets and attacked the USSR, German troops drove the Russians out. At first the Nazis were welcomed as liberators, but they turned out to be as brutal as the communists. When the Soviets returned three years later, no-one in Estonia can have held out much hope for freedom.
The Soviets erected an enormous bronze statue to celebrate the 'liberation' of Estonia – in reality the exchange of one foreign occupation for another. In Estonian – a language no Russians speak – it was always called the "memorial to the unknown rapist".
Now the statue has been moved from its prominent display in Talinn to a military cemetery. This understandable and inconsequential decision by a sovereign country has driven the Russians into a fevered fury. The Russian government has ordered a blizzard of attacks on Estonia's highly developed IT-infrastructure. Commercial and government targets in Estonia – including their parliament and the president's office – have had their internet service destroyed by a concerted military attack.
And it is to this assault which NATO must respond. The Senate has passed some waffling resolution, but Secretary of State has yet to even make a statement on the issue – even though our NATO ally was first attacked weeks ago. This is war. If the Pentagon doesn't have a cyber-warfare division, then it should have. And it is long past time for the State Department and White House to clearly condemn this aggression.
Quentin Langley is editor of http://www.quentinlangley.net an academic at the University of Cardiff and is a columnist with Campaigns & Elections. This article was first published in the Common Sense series for Lake Champlain Weekly.
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Recently there has been a rise in interest among young people for the rhythm section of the band...the drums. I am able to help the beginner learn and develop up to about Grade 3 level, enough to get them confident and knowledgeable as a drummer, so that they can join a band and grow their abilities further.
In the studio at Red House, I have a set of Roland V-Drums, acknowledged as probably the best electronic kit around. This means that you don't have to worry about noise...unless we turn it up loud! It is also a friendly, non-threatening size for young people, yet is a fully-functioning drumkit for adults. It makes some weird and fun pre-set sounds, too.
I use a mixture of the Rockschool Grade books and Colin Woolway's 'Drumsense'.


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A recent election didn't turn out the way I wanted, and it forced me to reexamine and refocus my optimism. If I didn't do this, I risked becoming negative, and in my business, if you're negative, you might as well close up shop. Besides, no one wants to live in a negative world.
Entrepreneurs live on optimism. Without a belief system based on positive events, it would be very difficult to take on financial risk and overcome obstacles, two things almost all entrepreneurs do. I've always seen my optimism as one of my biggest strengths, and somewhat ironically, it was borne out of my most glaring weakness, my disability.
I was born with a normal body. Not until I was nearly eight years old did I start to experience a disability. From that point on, I was forced to account for my life's fate.
Simple activities like running on the playground gradually became more difficult and ultimately impossible for me to do. From my childhood through my teen years, I experienced the loss of physical ability that most people experience from their 60s or 70s onward. Older adults have the maturity to accept that their bodies aren't as capable as they were for the previous 60 years, and their contemporaries are experiencing the same thing, so they don't feel alone. A young kid, like I was, has neither the context nor the maturity to cope with these changes. I was largely left to make sense of it on my own.
I had to reconcile the disparity between what I felt I deserved and what fate had handed me.
As my physical abilities deteriorated, I had to be mindful not to let my emotional abilities wane as well. If I focused on what I was no longer able to do, I would quickly grow bitter and develop a personality that wasn't very attractive. Fortunately, I had a support system in my family and friends that propped me up when I was feeling down. They also held me accountable to performing to my potential, not letting me make excuses for myself. To this day, friends that I've known for most of my life, forgetting about my disability, will invite me to go skiing or hiking. It's that sort of nearly unbridled expectation that allowed me to develop a strong sense of optimism.
And that optimism is often tested. A couple of years ago, I awoke early on a Saturday morning excited to attend my son's basketball tournament. Unfortunately, a mixture of sleet and ice had fallen overnight, and it still covered the sidewalks. Instead of watching Patrick and his team win the tournament that morning, I sat alone and read the newspaper.
Little disappointments like that are part of my life – a part that I can't control. There is nothing that I can do about a slick sidewalk and wobbly legs that virtually ensure a nasty fall if I try to walk on one. What I can control is my reaction to this reality.
Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, believes that the key to optimism is a positive explanatory style. If people can approach life's challenges as external, transient events, Seligman believes that their outlook will be much more positive. In other words, the key to happiness is externalizing as much frustration as possible and looking at those frustrations as temporary.
In the case of my missed basketball game, I look at the slippery conditions as a temporary impediment that I can't control, and I resist the temptation of self-pity for a handicap that presents challenges even on secure surfaces. If I internalize these struggles and see them as permanent, my attitude quickly changes for the worse. Instead of saying, "why does it always have to be difficult to get around to the events I want to attend. I wish that I didn't have this handicap. It's forever going to hold me back from doing the things I want to do," I take deeper overview – I'm frustrated now, but the snow and ice won't be around forever, and I'll be able to see more of my kids' sports if I don't hurt myself by taking a fall today.
Ceding control over things that are uncontrollable is essential to being optimistic. As much as we want to exert our will on the world, much of what happens around us is beyond our control.
As much as I wished otherwise, I couldn't control the results of the recent election. What I can control is my reaction. Though the resulting business environment might not be ideal, it is external and transient. My resolve, tenacity and skills are internal and permanent. That's where I choose to focus, and I hope the same for you.


A common navigation system used in the maritime industry could be exploited to cause chaos, a researcher has warned.
A researcher has warned that threat actors are able to compromise common maritime navigation systems to potentially cause chaos in the shipping industry.
As reported by the BBC, security researcher Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners has discovered that a ship navigation system called the Electronic Chart Display (Ecdis) can be compromised, potentially to disasterous effect.
Ecdis is a system commonly used in the shipping industry by crews to pinpoint their locations through GPS, to set directions, and as a replacement to pen-and-paper charts.
The system is also touted as a means to reduce the workload on navigators by automatically dealing with route planning, monitoring, and location updates.
However, Munro suggests that a vulnerability in the Ecdis navigation system could cause utter chaos in the English channel should threat actors choose to exploit it.
The vulnerability, when exploited, allows attackers to reconfigure the software to shift the recorded location of a ship's GPS receiver by up to 300 meters.
This does not sound like much, but on routes that are congested with maritime vehicles, this may be enough to cause collisions -- especially when the weather and overall visibility is poor.
Munro added that the software could also be tampered with to make ships appear to be larger than their true mass.
If the software, used by many modern ships, begins to sound off alarms based on incorrect ship sizes and locations, this could cause enough disruption to prevent the English Channel's traffic from flowing smoothly.
While the public details of the bug and exploit have been limited at present to protect ships and their crews, the researcher did demonstrate his findings in a demo at the Infosecurity Europe exhibition in London this week.
"There are really basic steps that can be taken to prevent this from happening," Munro told the publication. "In our experience, security on board ships is often dire."
However, for threat actors to disrupt shipping lanes to such an extent, the Channel Navigation Information Service -- which monitors maritime traffic -- would need to be caught off-guard.
According to experts at the University of Plymouth's Maritime Cyber Threats group, it would take a "cascade of effects" to bring the English Channel to a halt, and quick alerts from the agency could mitigate the damage of such events.
An attack of this magnitude would, in theory, be difficult to pull off successfully. However, the maritime industry cannot sit on its laurels when it comes to cybersecurity -- with threats not only appearing locally but worldwide.
In April, researchers uncovered a hacking ring from Nigeria which targets maritime firms. Dubbed Gold Galleon, the group has been tracked intercepting business emails between shipping companies in an attempt to steal millions of dollars every year.


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Voter ID laws aim to prevent in-person voter fraud. In person voter fraud basically never happens. So why are so many states passing these laws?
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1. These are not bipartisan efforts. They are initiated by Republicans, passed by Republicans, and signed into law by Republicans. The State House Majority Leader in PA asserted that these voter restrictions would allow Mitt Romney to win the state.
2. The voters most likely to be burdened by these new voting restrictions are Democrats. Consider which voters don't have ID. Among seniors and young voters, 18% don't have valid ID. Among African Americans, 25% don't have valid ID.
3. Restrictions on voting, like poll taxes and "literacy" tests, have a long history. They are used by one party to prevent supporters of another party from voting.
4. If someone were trying to steal an election, in person voter fraud, where a voter pretends to be someone they are not at the polls, is the last method anyone would chose. Absentee ballot stuffing is much easier. But more Republicans vote by absentee ballot. So no new restrictions on absentee voting.
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Stunning location. Spacious and great for our family of 5. We had a leak in one of the showers and the other one was broken but helped arrived very quickly when informed of problem. Signs of damp in places but is an old cottage on the Moors! We had really poor reception on the TVs which was annoying in the evening after the kids went to sleep and our hard drive wasn't compatible. Would have been perfect and better value for money if not for the above.
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Set on the edge of Harford Bridge Holiday Park; a four star camping and touring site, this charming detached house, dates back to the 19th century.
On the ground floor are original stone flooring and two wood burning stoves, one in the bright lounge and another in the formal dining room, which is a great space for the special get-together.
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Ground Floor: Lounge and Snug area. Dining Room. Kitchen. Cloakroom with WC and washbasin. First Floor: Master bedroom with king-size bed, TV and en-suite shower room with shower, WC and washbasin. Bedroom 2 with king-size bed and TV. Bedroom 3 with twin beds (with restricted access on one side and limited headroom). Family bathroom with corner bath, shower cubicle, WC and washbasin.
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Note: Pets are charged at £30.00 per pet, per week (or short break)Note: For any holiday starting between 16th September and 27th May, a heating supplement of £35 will be added to the cost of your holiday.


Should schools have a dress code for parents?
The DAV Mobile Service Office will be at the following locations to personally provide the best counseling and claim filing assistance available.
The Muscogee County school board will be spending thousands of dollars to repair a stage at Arnold Middle School.