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Allecra Therapeutics Announces Positive Top-Line Results for Phase 3 ALLIUM Clinical Trial of EXBLIFEP® for Complicated Urinary Tract Infections
February 25, 2020 07:00 ET | Source: Allecra Therapeutics GmbH
EXBLIFEP demonstrated superiority in the primary endpoint of clinical cure and microbiological eradication at test-of-cure over piperacillin-tazobactam
EXBLIFEP safety profile was comparable to piperacillin-tazobactam
SAINT-LOUIS, France and WEIL AM RHEIN, Germany, Feb. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Allecra Therapeutics today announced that its investigational product EXBLIFEP (cefepime-enmetazobactam) met the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) pre-specified primary endpoint in the Phase 3 ALLIUM clinical trial in patients with complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including acute pyelonephritis (AP). In addition, EXBLIFEP demonstrated superiority over piperacillin-tazobactam.
Overall success was 79.1% for EXBLIFEP vs. 58.9% for piperacillin-tazobactam (adjusted stratified difference, 21.2% [95% stratified Newcombe CI, 14.3% to 27.9%]). Treatment discontinuations were seen at comparable levels in 5.2% and 4.0% in EXBLIFEP and piperacillin-tazobactam respectively. EXBLIFEP was well tolerated with 4.3% of patients reporting serious adverse events vs. 3.7 % with piperacillin-tazobactam (0.2% vs. 0.6% assessed as drug related), suggesting comparable safety profile to piperacillin-tazobactam.
Keith Kaye M.D., MPH, Professor of Medicine and Director of Research for Infectious Diseases at University of Michigan said, "Infections from ESBL-producing Enterobactericeae have increased in the US since 2000 and now also cause infection in the community. According to most recent U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data 197'400 cases of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae occur every year with 9'100 associated deaths. The use of piperacillin-tazobactam for the treatment of such infections has been controversial, and the development of new treatments for these infections has been classified as a critical priority by the World Health Organization (WHO). Cefepime-enmetazobactam combination may provide a novel therapeutic option addressing this serious threat."
"The superiority demonstrated in the primary endpoint, at test of cure, combined with a comparable safety profile to that of well tolerated and widely used piperacillin-tazobactam support the potential use of cefepime-enmetazobactam as a new empiric and carbapenem-sparing treatment for multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections," said Patrick Velicitat M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Allecra Therapeutics.
About ALLIUM Trial design. The ALLIUM trial compared 1034 randomized patients receiving either cefepime 2 g/ enmetazobactam 0.5 g or piperacillin 4 g/ tazobactam 0.5 g every 8 h as 2 h continuous intravenous infusion in a multi-centre, randomized, controlled, double-blind, global study in 112 sites within 19 countries. The primary efficacy endpoint was defined as the composite success outcome of clinical cure (symptoms resolution) and microbiological eradication (< 103 CFU/mL in urine culture) at the test-of-cure visit. The primary efficacy evaluation was performed in the microbiological Modified Intent-to-Treat Population (m-MITT) including patients infected with a Gram-negative pathogen deemed non-resistant to cefepime-enmetazobactam (MIC ≤ 8 mg/L) and piperacillin-tazobactam (MIC ≤ 64 mg/L). There was a prespecified 10% noninferiority margin with superiority to be tested in the event of confirmed noninferiority. Differences in treatment effects were assessed using two-sided, 95% stratified Newcombe confidence intervals.
About EXBLIFEP® EXBLIFEP is a combination of enmetazobactam, a novel extended-spectrum β-lactamase inhibitor belonging to the penicillanic acid sulfone class, with the 4th generation cephalosporin cefepime.
EXBLIFEP has been granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product and Fast Track Designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which will provide five years additional market exclusivity and priority FDA review.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) have indicated that due to combination with already approved cefepime and in light of the Epithelial Lining Fluid penetration study results obtained with cefepime-enmetazobactam combination, Allecra Therapeutics is allowed to seek approval of EXBLIFEP for use in pneumonia, including HAP/VAP without conducting a Phase 3 study in the pneumonia indication.
About Complicated Urinary Tract Infections. There are approximately 3.6 million patients with cUTIs in the U.S requiring antibiotic therapy. cUTIs, including acute pyelonephritis, are defined as urinary tract infections ascending from the bladder accompanied by local and systemic signs and symptoms, including fever, chills, malaise, flank pain, back pain, and/or costo-vertebral angle pain or tenderness, that occur in the presence of a functional or anatomical abnormality of the urinary tract or in the presence of catheterization, with treatment typically initiated by IV therapy in a hospital setting.
About Acute Pyelonephritis. AP is a bacterial infection causing inflammation of the kidneys and is one of the most common diseases of the kidney. Pyelonephritis occurs as a complication of an ascending urinary tract infection (UTI) which spreads from the bladder to the kidneys and their collecting systems. Acute pyelonephritis in the United States is found at a rate of 15 to 17 cases per 10,000 females and 3 to 4 cases per 10,000 males annually.
About Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. HAP is the second most common nosocomial infection (after urinary tract infections) and accounts for 15–20% of the total. It is the most common cause of death among nosocomial infections and is the primary cause of death in intensive care units. HAP typically can lengthen a hospital stay by 1–2 weeks.
About Allecra Therapeutics. Allecra Therapeutics, established in 2013, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company contributing towards the global effort to combat antibiotic resistance by developing new therapeutic modalities to overcome emergent resistance mechanisms, thereby saving lives of patients whose infections may otherwise be treated inadequately.
Allecra is supported by Forbion, Andera Partners, Delos Capital, Xeraya Capital, EMBL Ventures, and BioMed Partners. Allecra's wholly owned French subsidiary is a beneficiary of financial support from the French public bank Bpifrance and from the Région Alsace.
For further information please contact
Allecra Therapeutics GmbH
aps@allecra.com
For more information on Allecra please visit www.allecra.com


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Protests against possible redundancies in the Ericsson group
At the end of March 1997, Ericsson Telecom (part of the Swedish Ericsson
Group) workers in Norrköping learned that their employer had made a
preliminary agreement with two US companies, SCI Systems and Solectron, to
sell the production of printed circuit cards part of the business. The
company wanted the sale to take place before the summer.
Impasse in metalworking
In 10 sessions over the course of five months, the Metals, Mining and Energy
Workers trade union (Gewerkschaft Metall-Bergbau-Energie, GMBE) and eight
associations together comprising the metalworking sector within the
Bundessektion Industrie of the Austrian Chamber of the Economy
(Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, WKÖ) have thrashed out a collective
agreement on working time flexibilisation covering 229,000 employees (162,000
waged, 67,000 salaried) in industrial establishments. However, one of the
eight associations - Fachverband der Metallwarenindustrie- has been blocking
ratification of the deal since mid-March.
Agreement on retirement at 55 for lorry drivers
An agreement, signed on 11 April 1997, will allow French lorry drivers to
retire at 55.
Industrial conflict settled at Lufthansa
On 9 April 1997, the airline company Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the Union for
Public Services, Transport and Communication (Gewerkschaft Öffentliche
Dienste, Transport und Verkehr, ÖTV) and the German Salaried Employees'
Union (Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft, DAG) concluded a package deal,
which ended months of industrial action. The DAG agreed to be covered by the
Lufthansa-ÖTV collective agreements signed in October 1996. Furthermore, the
deal provides for an increase in the profit-sharing bonus of DEM 100 and an
overtime pay rise for cockpit employees. From September 1997, the trade
unions have the right to terminate the wage agreements in the event that
Lufthansa does not keep special rules which were jointly established. In
addition, Lufthansa, the ÖTV and the DAG agreed on the continuation of the
existing collective agreement which maintains the status quo for cabin crew,
as well as the existing general agreement on pay grades for ground staff, for
another three years.
Commissioner Flynn outlines priorities and current status of IGC
Speaking at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin, Padraig Flynn, the
commissioner for employment, industrial relations and social affairs,
outlined his priorities for the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) and
provided the audience with an update of the continuing negotiations leading
up the Amsterdam summit in June (EU9704117F [1]).
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Labour cost reductions pose new challenges to industrial relations in banking
Over the past few months, the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Antonio Fazio,
and the Abi banking employers' association have urged the Government to start
negotiations with employers' associations and trade unions in order to deal
with the problems linked to the low profitability of the Italian banking
sector. High labour costs and redundancy are the main themes of debate. On 8
April 1997, a first meeting took place between an Abi delegation and a
ministerial group, which represented the official opening of negotiations
that will also involve the trade unions in the near future.
Collective bargaining, Restructuring, Labour market policies, Work organisation, Working conditions, Pracovnoprávne vzťahy, Pracovné podmienky a udržateľná práca, Pracovnoprávne vzťahy a sociálny dialóg
Government agrees on principles of training guarantee for long-term unemployed people
The Finnish Government has recently agreed on some of the principles of a
"training guarantee" scheme, starting with funding for a training allowance
for long-term unemployed people.
Government proposes economic measures to reduce unemployment
In its bill, presented to Parliament on 15 April 1997, the Government states
that the policy of austerity which has been in operation for last few years
has been so successful that it is now possible to focus more on its most
important goal - to halve the rate of unemployment to 4% before 2000.
Youth employment: an unsolved problem
Shortages of jobs, alternating periods of employment and unemployment and
lack of job security are the main features of the current employment
situation for young people in Spain. For some of them this is a temporary
situation, but others will find it hard to escape. However, the reform of
labour market procedures that is currently being put before Parliament may go
some way towards improving working conditions.
Labour market participation, Non-standard employment, Skills and training, Working conditions, Pracovné podmienky a udržateľná práca
Nanterre Magistrate's Court suspends the closure of Renault Vilvorde
After the Brussels Industrial tribunal (BE9704208N [1]), on 4 April it was a
French court's turn to find Renault's management guilty of disobeying the law
in a ruling which could well postpone the closure of the Vilvorde plant.
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Prof Njidda M. Gadzama is Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Environmental Science at University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. He is an academic leader having been pioneer Pro-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria; Vice-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri; and the Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt. He graduated BA (Biology), McPherson College, Kansas (1964); MSc (Zoology), Long Island University (1967), PhD (Entomology), New York University (1971). He has in excess of 80 scholarly publications in referred journals, conference proceedings, edited books and monographs; also the founding Director of Centre for Arid Zone Studies and Biotechnology Centre at University of Maiduguri. He has published in leading journals such as Journal of Experimental Zoology; Tissue and Cell; Journal of Morphology; Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development and many others. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Entomological Society of Nigeria and the Environmental Society of Nigeria. He was a Visiting Professor to University of Frankfurt and to Office of Arid Land Studies, University of Arizona. He has travelled widely to 30 countries.
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Allentown is een plaats (town) in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Bleckley County en Laurens County en Twiggs County en Wilkinson County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 287.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 281, een daling van 6 (-2,1%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
8,0 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 24 km rond Allentown.

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Q: What exactly does Cleanup in Commit Changes dialogue of IntelliJ means There are several check boxes when a user tries to commit or push changes, using IntelliJ, in the dialogue box shown below.
I pretty much understand all other options, but I'm not sure exactly what Cleanup does?

I tried reading documentation and found this link, https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/commit-changes-dialog.html.
It says

Cleanup - Select this check box if you want to automatically apply the
current inspection profile to the files you are going to commit.

But I'm still not sure what it means and what exactly it checks or fixes automatically in source code.

A: There are a bunch of inspections that are marked as Cleanup. They mostly consist of code style inspections and all have a quickfix to fix the problem they detect. In the inspection settings (File | Settings | Editor | Inspections) you can filter the list to Show Only Cleanup Inspections, to see which ones they are.
When you select the Cleanup checkbox in the commit dialog, all cleanup inspections you have enabled in the current inspection profile will check the files you are committing and apply the quickfixes if any problem is found before committing to the version control server.

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The 23rd edition of the Tour de Langkawi will follow a long-held tradition by giving the fast men ample opportunity to take home an early-season victory. After South Africa's Ryan Gibbons (Dimension Data) won last year's race, a sprinter could well take home the overall win again as ongoing road works have forced the organizers to remove the iconic climb of Genting Highlands from their initial plans for the fourth consecutive year.
Stage 5 to Cameron Highlands is set to determine most of the overall classification, while several bunch sprints are expected with the return of the race's superstar Andrea Guardini, now with Bardiani-CSF. The Italian ace holds a record of 22 stage victories at the Tour de Langkawi between 2011 and 2016.
For the first time, the race is organised by one of its former participants, like the Tour de France in the time of Jean-Marie Leblanc (1989-2006). On Friday, former Olympian Murugayan Kumaresan, known as simply as 'M', unveiled the 23rd edition of the Malaysian UCI 2.HC event along with Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who is a keen cyclist himself.
"It feels special to organize the race so many years after I took part in it," Kumaresan told Cyclingnews in Putrajaya, the home of the Malaysian government.
Kumaresan was one of the pioneers of the Malaysian national team as he led the squad in 1996, 1997 and 1998, during the first three years of the event created by the then-Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad, who is bidding for a comeback at the helm of the country in the upcoming general elections at the age of 92. Named Sportsman of the Year in Malaysia in 1987, Kumaresan was the first cyclist to represent his nation at the Olympic Games, in Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992), after which he was inducted into the SportExcel Hall of Fame.
Following the 1997 Tour de Langkawi, Kumaresan joined the Schauff-Öschelbronn team in Germany and brought his brother Rajen in as a mechanic for the organisation that later became Gerolsteiner. After the German Pro Tour squad folded in 2008, Rajen Murugayan went to work for Team Sky as head mechanic and he remains there.
There are 22 teams set to take part in the competition, which is set to run from March 16-25. Half of them come with a Grand Tour pedigree, including WorldTour team Astana. The other half is made up of Continental teams from the Asia Pacific region.
"This race has a long history of giving exposure to Asian cyclists and it'll be the case again this year," said Kumaresan, who was assistant sports director for the Asian all-stars team that saw Hong Kong's Wang Kam Po become the first ever Asian to win a stage at the Cameron Highlands in 2000.


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Gyerekbetegségek è un film del 1966 diretto da Ferenc Kardos e János Rózsa.

Trama

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla MAFILM Stúdió 3.

Distribuzione
Nel maggio 1966, fu presentato in concorso al Festival di Cannes. Il 19 ottobre 1966 fu trasmesso per la prima volta in televisione in Finlandia, con il titolo Pieni maailma. Per il mercato internazionale, fu ribattezzato con un titolo in inglese, Children's Sicknesses.

Note

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Operation Cyber Freedom: Securing over a billion dreams from adversarial entities
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We are part of a thriving, young, and vibrant nation. We also belong to a civilization that is timeless in age backed by a culture that has gifted the world spiritual enlightenment, technological progress and unbound and selfless wisdom. At no point in time were we anything but givers to the global community as a whole. Today, as the winds of technology blow, Indian minds are not just powering this revolution but leading it as well.
A nation of our stature also attracts the attention of the wrong kind. In the last few years, we have seen reports of how actors backed by nation-states and non-state actors consistently attacking our critical and non-critical infrastructure for various reasons. These attacks are not limited to the defense sector alone. Healthcare, transport, IT, telecom have each been attacked in the recent past. Such attacks point to the activation of bot farms consisting of millions of zombie devices that have been hacked to serve as a source of processing capacity for launching cyberattacks on India.
Some of these attacks are being carried out with the discipline of a regular army. It carries all the signatures thereof — including high levels of research and reconnaissance, multiple attacks to gain entry, precision targeting, disciplined and patient approach towards creating a beachhead, and, last but not least, persistent attempts to hack and acquire information. Such attacks need to be countered at various levels, and we need to evolve and deploy a cybersecurity doctrine that affords us protection and secures our infrastructure, minds, and resources.
The environment:
There is a rapid deterioration of international stability across our immediate neighborhood, the Middle East, Eastern, and Central Europe alone with continuing geopolitical turmoil that is shaping foreign and domestic policy decisions around energy and defence. The challenge for all of us is the character of the competition being fueled by nefarious means is being conducted by authoritarian opponents who are part of nations that have not tasted democracy in its entirety ever. They also have armed forces who have been issued carte blanche by their political masters to indulge in international chicanery that ends at the doorsteps of democracies like ours and harms our growth aspirations.
Our adversaries are not just attacking the foundational pillars of our existence as a nation but also attacking our way of life and our freedoms in a manner that is quite difficult to defeat without undermining those very freedoms we seek to protect. Our adversaries are making a concerted attempt to undermine cohesion, erode economic, political, and social resilience, and challenge our strategic position in our part of the world. Such efforts have to be met with a level of resistance that doesn't merely defeat these machinations but also serves to deter future attempts.
The increasing digitization of our growth is opening new ways to execute a type of "political warfare" that relies on the use and abuse of information, online espionage, state-backed cyberattacks, and intellectual property theft, among other things. The chain doesn't stop here. It is often backed by the promotion of misinformation and fake news in cyberspace.
Our response:
We need to address this challenge through a strategic response that integrates all levers of power and operations. We need to bring in a renewed coherence and consistency to our defence strategy for the next decade, which will be a critical one as we aim at becoming a $5 trillion economy. We need to be able to strike and protect a dimension that emerges from the integration of five domains that are space, cyber and information, air, maritime, and land. This integration will change the way we fight and the way we develop the capability to protect and defend.
We need to engage and sustain our advantage in the cyberspace through:
Identifying new sources of threats by deciphering their motivation
Early identification and mitigation of risks in the digital space
Preventing our citizens from being used as conduits to attack us
Preventing espionage through social engineering
Scuttling attempts to spread misinformation through digital means and agencies
Attempts to steal our IP
Preventing hackers from monetizing stolen data
Gathering the right data that can feed into actionable intelligence
Preventing online terror funding using cryptocurrencies
Our armed forces, in the future, will have to develop and deploy a strategy that gives them the ability to operate at a micro and nano levels with a small force while moving faster relying on a very high degree of mobility, electronic warfare and passive deception measures to maintain the information advantage we possess now. More and more automated, supervised, and autonomous platforms will be integrated in a manner to enable the faster introduction of new tech as also the ability to defend or strike hard as required while maintaining a deterrence posture that conveys strength and resilience. Disabling of adversarial infrastructure for the short or long term will be a part of this measure.
Such a high level of modernization will need us to embrace information-centric technologies and approaches. We also need to recognise the need for the application of a blend of technologies such as computing power, connectivity, machine learning, IoT and artificial intelligence [AI], automation, autonomy, and quantum computing to attain the disruptive power we need.
The path ahead:
We need to initiate work on multiple projects in parallel to support the goals I have outlined previously without losing focus. These projects should focus on areas where ethical technologies and a high level of automation can bring a plethora of advantages while we redefine data as a strategic and uncompromisable asset. The industry in India needs to back us on this front.
We must embrace open, outwardly facing innovation across all segments and outsource to strategic partners. No one can do everything anymore, as this leads to erosion of core competencies and dilution of strengths. A high level of collaboration with the academic and entrepreneurial ecosystem is the need of the hour. We must utilise technology scouts to amplify our R&D capabilities and support universities, research centres, startups, and established companies looking to develop strategic alliances with the right partners.
Ten mantras for growing and sustaining our digital dreams:
Vigilant diligence by all players in the ecosystem keeping national interests in mind
Supporting indigenous technology agencies and firms, talent and other components to maintain our organic growth
Invest in developing capabilities and capacity in India's academic institutions
Encourage research and publication and sharing of knowledge and best practices
Just like we have become a power to reckon with in space and IT, we need to become a cybersecurity superpower as well
Evolve a mission approach and relentlessly pursue excellence by increasing the standards for all aspects
Gamify and conduct drills and audits at regular frequencies to ensure readiness in case of a major attack
Establish a series of malware labs across the country to enable the evolution of countermeasures
Develop and use minimum penalty thresholds on cybercriminals and state-backed actors to deter them
Blend technologies to get the best of all worlds
(Vinit Goenka is Secretary, Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty and author of Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy. The views expressed are personal)
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Is Westworld Referencing Game Of Thrones In This Scene?
Is Westworld Referencing Game Of Thrones' Hodor In This Scene? Fans Think So
Kathryn Lindsay
There's only one show that people seemed to be as obsessed with as they are with Game of Thrones, and that's Westworld, so it makes sense that there might be a link between the two HBO shows. Or, rather, a nod, since fans of both noticed something in the most recent episode of Westworld that sounds a lot like a major plot point in last season's Game of Thrones. Hint: it involves doors.
Before we dive in, here's the obligatory spoiler alert. If you're not caught up on Game of Thrones and Westworld, then close this tab or forever hold your peace. However, if you're like most of the world and can't stop watching, then you might already be one step ahead.
A lot was revealed in Sunday night's episode of Westworld, the biggest twist being that Bernard is actually a robot. We found this out through a series of hints, the most telling of which was that he could not see a door that robots were programmed not to see.
"What's behind this door?" Theresa (RIP) asked.
"What door?" he responded, immediately bringing to mind that heartbreaking moment in Game of Thrones when "Hold the door" turned into "Hodor," revealing both the character's origin and demise. The internet was immediately all over it.
Too soon? #Westworld #GoT #Hodor #Bernard pic.twitter.com/FIVPFFYmPf
— Mike Mahoney (@mikeymo1741) November 15, 2016
What door?
Wha door?
Whador?
Hador?
Hodor#Westworld
— sreeks (@sreekyshooter) November 14, 2016
Who knows what else the shows have in common? We just hope it's not the incredibly long wait time in between seasons.
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Julia Niendorf
Julia started her post career in 2004 logging dailies from VHS tapes in Los Angeles, and has never looked back. She has worked in all areas of post production; from data management, offline editorial and digital intermediate/finishing. She currently holds the title of Head of Production at Finale/Picture Shop Vancouver, which allows her to keep up to date on new workflows, and help her clients properly supervise and deliver their projects, whether it be a local indie feature, or the latest Netflix series.
Giovanna Morales Vargas
Giovanna Morales Vargas is an award-winning Latina filmmaker originally from Colombia, and currently based out of Vancouver BC. Giovanna's writing feature and directorial debut, A Perfect 14, premiered at film festivals around the world, earning her the Best Writing award at Women Texas Film Festival. The film also won five top non-fiction awards, including Best Documentary at the Twin Cities Film Festival, where it screened alongside Academy Award winning and nominated films. After a successful festival run, A Perfect 14 was picked up for worldwide distribution by Gravitas Ventures and it's currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, making the platform's top 10 most watched documentaries in Canada for several weeks after its release. Giovanna is currently developing her first TV series, and in post-production for the upcoming feature thriller, Guiltless, in which she is the producer.
Sasha Duncan
Sasha Duncan is filmmaker and creative executive from the West Coast who prides herself on being a director in many forms. She has been the Director of Programming for the Vancouver Short Film Festival, the Managing Director of the Run N Gun 48hr Film Race and Festival, and is the Director of Development for Kickstart Entertainment, in addition to being a writer/director of her own passion-projects. Sasha strives to support artists and her community, providing platforms and opportunities for stories to be told.
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Melanie Jones
Melanie Jones is an artist, writer and director and the 2021 winner of the TIFF-CBC Screenwriter Award. They are an alumnus of the TIFF Writer's Studio, Women in the Director's Chair, From Our Dark Side Incubator, and the Reykjavik Talent Lab. Their debut feature, FSM, made possible through the Indiecan10k Challenge, premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2015 and earned them a Leo Nomination for Directing, going on to a theatrical release in Vancouver and a cover story in the Georgia Straight. Their work has screened at festivals around the world earning dozens of nominations and awards including multiple Audience Choice awards, Best Comedy awards, and a Golden Sheaf Award for their most recent short film, punk-rock badminton comedy Shuttlecock. Outside of their filmmaking pursuits, Melanie is also an Assistant Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, teaching both Sculpture and Film.
Andy Alvarez
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Chidem Anna Alie
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Sensitive personal details of nearly 200 million Americans have been exposed online due to an error by a marketing and analytics firm operating on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Political opinions of the millions affected were also revealed.
The 198 million people affected constitute around 60 percent of the country's population.
Home addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers were exposed, along with political voting preferences, after the company stored internal documents on an Amazon cloud server accessible by the public.
Chris Vickery, a cyber-risk analyst with security firm UpGuard, discovered the 1.1 terabytes of data recently.
The sources from which the data came were huge in number and variety, and appear to include posts on banned Reddit threads, as well information collected by Republican Party fund-raising committees.
He added that access settings have now been updated to prevent easy public access to the data.
Along with personal details, religious associations were displayed among the data. Political opinions revealed were on many subjects, including on issues like gun control and abortion.
The company involved was, it appears, supposed to be helping Republican political organizations to build voter profiles.
"That such an enormous national database could be created and hosted online, missing even the simplest of protections against the data being publicly accessible, is troubling," Dan O'Sullivan wrote in a blog post on Upguard's website.
"This is not just sensitive, it's intimate information, predictions about people's behavior, opinions and beliefs that people have never decided to disclose to anyone," Privacy International's policy officer Frederike Kaltheuner told the BBC News website.
He suggest that the problem could even represent a threat to the workings of democracy.
Kaltheuner notes that individuals would not have been aware the data they trusted certain organizations with would find its way onto a database the purpose of which was to build political profiles.
The kind of information stored is not unusual, and this sort of behavior would be expected from any campaign by either the Democrats or the Republicans. However, the fact that it is a vast collection all stored in one place, and was so easily accessible, is concerning.
As well as being potentially troubling for any individual whose name and opinions were revealed to be on the list, access to such data could be used for criminal purposes.
Identity theft and stalking are potential threats, as is the possibility of the data being used for social engineering, such as convincing companies to reveal even greater amounts of sensitive data.
Data on the public's opinions, interests and preferences are highly valuable to commercial organizations as well as political ones. With so much data now accessible it is inevitable that organizations will try to get their hands on as much of it as possible.
This may be a little unethical, and using the data to then further whatever aims they have perhaps a little more so. Nevertheless, it's something most of us have come to grudgingly accept.
Exposing the data to the general public and potentially to criminals, though, is without doubt unacceptable.
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Q: Insert image into a database I am trying to insert an image in mysql database with pyqt5. first I used the QFileDialog to select the image from my computer but I cant send it to the database. Please help!!!
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package org.omg.bpmn.miwg.schema;

import org.omg.bpmn.miwg.api.AnalysisOutput;
import org.omg.bpmn.miwg.api.output.dom.finding.ValidationFindingEntry;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class ValidationErrorHandler extends DefaultHandler {
	private String errMessage = "";
	public int numWarning = 0;
	public int numError = 0;
	public int numFatalError = 0;

	private AnalysisOutput out;

	public void setTestOutput(AnalysisOutput out) {
		this.out = out;
	}

	public void warning(SAXParseException e) {
		numWarning++;
		out.finding(new ValidationFindingEntry("Warning Line "
				+ e.getLineNumber() + ": " + e.getMessage() + "\n"));
	}

	public void error(SAXParseException e) {
		numError++;
		errMessage = new String("Error Line " + e.getLineNumber() + ": "
				+ e.getMessage() + "\n");
		out.finding(new ValidationFindingEntry(errMessage));
	}

	public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) {
		numFatalError++;
		errMessage = new String("Error Line " + e.getLineNumber() + ": "
				+ e.getMessage() + "\n");
		out.finding(new ValidationFindingEntry(errMessage));
	}

	public boolean valid() {
		return (numError == 0) && (numFatalError == 0);
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}

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As human civilization seems to careen toward self-destruction, it's crucial that responsible people — those who are willing to face facts and deal with them — never give up. Resignation guarantees failure. Even small, incremental steps in the right direction guarantee hope and, just maybe, salvation.
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In the context of a whole planet in trouble, it would be a step in the right direction but a tiny one with limited impact. Many food service establishments are in the incorporated villages of Sag Harbor, Southampton and Westhampton Beach, where the town's ban would have no effect. But tiny steps, by setting an example, can change the world. When the town acts, the pressure will be on those villages to follow suit.
Plastics are an environmental threat but climate change is the overarching crisis that overshadows all human behavior. The world is warming faster than scientists initially forecast. Ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising and weather is more intense and destructive. As David Attenborough told a UN summit on climate change in Poland last week, the collapse of civilization and the natural world are on the horizon unless carbon emissions are reduced.
Our president, Donald Trump, gleefully disrupts the world economy with his tariffs but won't do a thing to put the brakes on carbon emissions, when the truth is any gains made in our economy will be swiftly eroded by the impact of climate change. According to leading scientists, the time for small steps toward reducing carbon emissions is over — the threat our planet faces requires large-scale reform in how we think about energy and waste and our children and grandchildren need leaders on the federal and state level that will take this crisis seriously.
Meanwhile, there are more battles to wage. Town of Southampton residents, businesses and visitors are throwing out 20 million plastic straws a year and eight million Styrofoam cups and food containers, according to Tip Brolin of the Sustainability Committee's plastics subcommittee, who presented the proposed polystyrene ban to the Town Board last week. That stuff, which is a carcinogen, does not degrade and much of it ends up in the oceans, where it disables and kills sea life. The minke whale found dead on Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett in September, Mr. Brolin told the Town Board, was found to have ingested 13 pounds of plastics and polystyrene.
At the same board work session, Councilman John Bouvier recalled diving during the 1970s, "in my previous life," into the gyre of plastic waste that had formed by then in the Pacific between the U.S. and Japan; he went again in the 1990s and found the volume of trash in the vortex "starkly larger." He said he favored the proposed ban on plastic straws and polystyrene containers and packaging, in part, because it would help address town's solid waste "exceeding our capacity" to handle it.
The Surfrider Foundation has been a major force nationally raising awareness of the plastics blight. Its local volunteers attended last week's work session in force to support the proposed ban. Join them next month, when the town is expected to begin holding hearings on the ban, in registering support for the proposal.
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On October 22nd, at 3:20am, Kamakazi-type Tamil Tiger elite commandos attacked the Anurathapuram Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) Base crippling the recon capability of the Sri Lankan forces. It is reported that a multi-million-dollar spy fleet has been totally devastated by this defensive operation.
Considered as one of most protected air bases, it housed the SLAF's main pilot training school, 9th Attack Helicopter Squadron, 6th Helicopter Squadron, 1st Flying Training Wing, 7th Helicopter Squadron, 11th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Flight etc.
During the attack 13 air force personnel, including four officers and one soldier were killed and eight air craft were completely destroyed- Two Mi-24 helicopter gunship (9th Attack Helicopter Squadron), a Mi-27 transport helicopter (6th Helicopter Squadron), K-8 and PT6 trainer jets (1st Flying Training Wing), Cessna 150 aircraft (1st Flying Training Wing), a Beechcraft 200 HISAR, a Bell 212 fitted with guns (7th Helicopter Squadron) and at least two UAVs (11th UAV Flight) were completely destroyed. However, another ten air crafts, including three of PT-6 Trainer air craft, K-8 advanced Jet trainer and Cessna training air craft were also damaged.
The next day after the attack, the mortal remains of Tamil combatants were stripped naked and put on public display (as shown on photos). Any decent human being will see such outrageous action as a deep humiliation.
Chandi Sinnathurai is a peasant priest who believes life is beautiful and divine, hence no one, including one's enemies, should be denied fundamental human rights. He leads Conscience Appeal. Read other articles by Chandi, or visit Chandi's website.
This article was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 5:00am and is filed under Sri Lanka.


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The RockNRolla director celebrates his best British film award win with Gerard Butler, the gangster flick's lead
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Bond girl Gemma Arterton was voted best newcomer on the night
Other winners included Viggo Mortensen, who accepted an icon award from Sharpe star Sean Bean
Guy Ritchie and Gemma Arterton win at London film awards
Splitting from Madonna certainly hasn't hampered Guy Ritchie's career. On the same day his former wife arrived in Malawi to adopt baby girl Mercy James, the Snatch director picked up a gong at a London film awards.
The 40-year-old's gangster caper RockNRolla took the best British film prize at the Empire Film Awards, which is voted for by readers of the monthly film magazine. And Guy was in a jubilant mood as he took to the stage to collect the gong along with some of the film's cast, including Scottish actor Gerard Butler, although he declined to speak to the press afterwards.
It was also a big night for Bond girl Gemma Arterton, who was recognised as the best newcomer. "I'm going to put it next to my only other award, which I won for a short play festival when I was 14. This is a proper one," said the actress, elegant in an off the shoulder floaty mini-dress.
One of the big talking points of the night was Russell Crowe's acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement award. The Australian star recited Rudard Kipling's poem If before telling the audience: "Thank you for this honour and the opportunity to read some poetry at a British awards ceremony."
"It's one of my favourite things to do," continued the Gladiator star, whose reading of Patrick Kavanagh's Sanctity was edited out of the TV broadcast of the 2002 BAFTAs.
Other winners included James McAvoy, named best sci-fi hero for his role opposite Angelina Jolie in Wanted, and Viggo Mortensen. The Lord Of The Rings actor was presented with an icon award by Sharpe star Sean Bean.
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Could Programs to Help Undocumented Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses Backfire?
Advocates fear that programs in a dozen states might be used by a Trump administration to bolster deportations aims.
Since 2015, California has issued about 800,000 licenses to drivers who lack proof of legal residence. In Illinois, more than 212,000 people have received what are known as temporary visitor driver's licenses. Connecticut has approved around 26,600 drive only licenses for undocumented immigrants, and nine more states plus the District of Columbia have similar programs.
To date, these initiatives have been widely hailed as reasonable ways to try and improve safety, by helping make sure that everyone behind the wheel is a competent driver. But now, with the incoming Trump administration seemingly committed to deporting undocumented individuals, there is worry among immigration advocates that the identifying data collected as part of these programs — names, addresses, copies of foreign passports — could be used by federal authorities looking to send people back to their home countries.
Last month, Donald Trump said that he would deport or incarcerate as many as three million undocumented immigrants who have criminal records. A 10-point immigration plan on Trump's transition website lists "zero tolerance for criminal aliens," along with a promise to "ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported." The plan also calls for blocking funding for so-called "sanctuary cities" that historically have limited their cooperation with federal immigration agents.
Nothing in federal law specifically entitles immigration agents access to state data on drivers who may be in the country illegally, according to Blazer. To get states to produce a list of these drivers, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement — which includes the federal government's deportation arm — might have to rely on its administrative subpoena power. Even then, states could refuse to provide the information, thereby forcing the federal government to sue for the driver data or narrow its request, Blazer and other legal experts said.
"If ICE just came and said, 'Hey, give me all your driving privilege card holders,' I would say 'No,' and they would have to take some sort of different legal action that is beyond my control," said Scott Vien, the director of Delaware's Division of Motor Vehicles, which has so far issued about 3,500 driving credentials to undocumented immigrants. Some of the records they maintain include copies of birth certificates, foreign passports, and consular identification cards.
Uncertainty already surrounds the fate of more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants who first arrived in the U.S. as children, and who obtained temporary reprieves from deportation through a 2012 executive action of President Barack Obama. In applying to the program, these individuals submitted all sorts of personal information to the federal government, including home addresses and the names of family members. Immigrants and their advocates now fear that this information could be turned over to federal immigration officials after Obama leaves office, for use in tracking down undocumented individuals.
Driving records, it is now clear, constitute another vast store of data on U.S. residents who may not be residing in the country legally. In all, more than a million licenses meant for people without proof of legal immigration status have been issued across the country.
There have already been some instances of ICE seeking to get and use driver license information in bulk from states that do not have the special programs for the undocumented — New Jersey among them. In 2012, ICE's Newark field office obtained from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission a list of people who had applied for restricted licenses using valid but temporary immigration documents. An initial review "resulted in the identification of numerous foreign-born individuals who fall under ICE priorities," according to an April 2012 letter from the field office director, who also requested that New Jersey continue to supply updated lists.
The Illinois Secretary of State's office has said that it cannot guarantee the safety of temporary license applicants' information from federal immigration authorities. If the office receives a "legally valid request" for information on license applicants who lack proof of legal residence, it will comply, according to an FAQ published by the state earlier this year.
The state has had a problem with protecting applicant information before. About three years ago, an employee of the secretary of state's office alerted ICE about an undocumented immigrant who had applied for a temporary license. The applicant was then apprehended upon showing up at a state office for an appointment in February of 2014. Due in part to outcry from immigrant rights advocates following the incident, the state has said it will no longer proactively volunteer information to ICE about temporary license seekers, as long as they do not have any records of felony criminal activity or appear on any terrorism watch list.
In California, any driver's license information that the state makes available to law enforcement through data-sharing systems does not indicate whether or not the driver provided evidence of legal presence, according to Artemio Armenta, a spokesman for the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
In Illinois' system, however, there's a potential giveaway: driver data for a regular license includes a Social Security number, whereas temporary license records will list a consular card or foreign passport number instead.
This story originally appeared on ProPublica as "Could Programs to Help Undocumented Immigrants Gain Driver's Licenses Backfire?" and is re-published here under a Creative Commons license.
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Light up your landscape with no-fuss plants that offer brilliant red berries.
The beauty of winter lies in stark contrasts, with bare limbs silhouetted against cool blue skies. Add colorful winter berries to your yard, and magnify these spectacular contrasts. A cotoneaster creeping over a railing and a pyracantha flattened to a wall inject vibrant berries into an otherwise naked world. But their beauty doesn't end there.
Jane Bath, landscape designer from Land Arts in Monroe, Georgia, knows firsthand the value of these plants. "Using shrubs such as cotoneaster and pyracantha is the simplest way to get color into a winter landscape," says Jane. "They require minimal care and aren't plagued by disease." Because these shrubs adapt to poor soils and can handle heat and cold, they really won't cause too many problems. The biggest mistake most homeowners make, Jane notices, is fussing with the plants too much. "Just plant 'em, and let 'em go," she advises.
With so many winter berries to select from, it might seem daunting to find the one that's best for you. But just match your conditions with the right plant, and you can't go wrong.
One of Jane's favorites is brightbead cotoneaster (Cotoneaster lacteus), sometimes called red clusterberry. "Its evergreen foliage shimmers with a bluish green, and the limbs arch skyward. It's just incredible," she says. Or try rock cotoneaster (C. horizontalis) if you need a low-growing, tough plant that adds lots of showy red fruit all winter.
For even more color options, look for pyracanthas, which are available with red, orange, or yellow berries. Buy them in winter when the berries are ripe if getting a certain color is important to you. Tall, short, or prostrate forms are available. Try 'Mohave' (orange-red) for a tall, disease-resistant selection (12 feet tall and wide) or 'Apache' (red) for something shorter (5 feet tall and 6 feet wide). For a low-growing selection, consider 'Red Elf' (red) or 'Ruby Mound' (red). Both reach only 2 to 3 feet tall but can sprawl to 5 to 6 feet wide. They also offer some resistance to scab and fireblight.
While adding attractive, easy-to-grow plants to your landscape may make you very happy, you won't be alone. The legions of birds searching the bare winter ground for a meal will instantly become your biggest fans. Jane adds, "Putting in a cotoneaster or pyracantha is like setting up a cafeteria for the birds." Don't be surprised to see purple finches, cardinals, and even pileated woodpeckers dropping by for a bite. But you probably won't see deer. They don't typically browse pyracantha and cotoneaster, leaving all that beauty for just you and the birds.
"Winter Ruby Red Berries" is from the December 2005 issue of Southern Living.


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Boris Johnson expects an early end to domestic COVID restrictions
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Johnson expects early end to COVID restrictions. Johnson to present "living with COVID" strategy.
Where: UK
On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined a plan to lift the remaining domestic COVID-related restrictions in the country soon.
Johnson stated, "Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last remaining domestic restrictions… a full month early."
According to Johnson, these restrictions include the legal requirement for COVID-positive individuals to self-isolate.
Johnson announced that he would be presenting the government's strategy for "living with COVID" in the House of Commons (the Parliament) on the first day after the half-term recess.
The House of Commons is scheduled to return from half-term recess on February 21st.
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St Patrick's Day Party Ideas!
Ahh, I remember going out every year for St Patty's Day! This year, I will be at home with the little one.. baking some St Patrick's Day desserts and having some green beer with the honey! I gather for you some of my favorite St Patrick's Day Party Ideas!
For the Kiddos and Children at Heart!
Surprise your kids in the morning with your some green pancakes and some green eggs?!
How about some special breakfast! Super cute and fun!
Make a mobile rainbow! Super easy idea!
Oh my! St Patrick's Day Desserts!
I'm definitely doing these jello shots with and w/out alcohol!
Green Beer- Simply add green coloring to your favorite beer or Irish Beer!
Martini with rainbow sugar rim! Awesome!
I'll have a Kiss Me Mojito!
Check this out green pumps! Perfect of a St. Patrick's Day Party!


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Whether you're interested in hiking, fishing, climbing, kayaking, mountain biking or horse trekking, inland Brittany is a paradise for an eco-friendly holiday.
Head off on a journey of discovery across the region by bike along the Vélodyssée, which runs from Roscoff to Nantes. Comprising 80% of "green ways" (voies vertes), it follows a large section of the Canal de Nantes in Brest, and travels through landscapes with contrasting atmospheres, such as Morlaix bay and the Redon marshlands.
Travel on foot along the Tro Breizh! In the Middle Ages, a tour of Brittany (or Tro Breiz) referred to a pilgrimage in honour of the Seven Holy Founders of Brittany, during which pilgrims would pay homage to the tombs of the region's founding bishops: Brieuc and Malo in the towns of the same name, Samson in Dol-de-Bretagne, Patern in Vannes, Corentin in Quimper, Pol Aurélien in Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Tugdual in Tréguier. Every year, walkers complete one of the seven stages.
Sights not to be missed: the Pointe du Raz, one of Brittany's masterpieces of nature, and the only one in Brittany designated a "Grand Site de France". This landscape, which is guaranteed to take your breath away, can be explored independently or with a guide, as well as via different themes, depending on whether you prefer a more active visit or a more relaxed and fun tour.
Plunge yourself into a world beyond time as you explore the Parc Naturel Régional d'Armorique, which covers four areas, each with their own strong personality: the islands of the Iroise Sea (Ouessant, the Molène archipelago and Sein), the Crozon peninsula, Aulne Maritime and the Monts d'Arrée. From the top of the area's arid ridges, enjoy stunning views of the surrounding landscape. Hiking is without doubt the best way of revealing the secrets of this nature reserve.
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Timebanking is a mutual self-support system for volunteers who exchange skills for TIME. For every hour each volunteer gives, doing something they enjoy, they receive one hour of help from another Timebanker. Examples include gardening exchanged for IT work, sewing for shopping, giving a lift for doing some ironing, companionship for cutting a hedge – the list is endless.
Timebankers gain a sense of achievement from helping others and can ensure that jobs that they don't like, or are unable to do, get done. Timebankers report that everyone is able to contribute something and, if you join, one of the first steps will be to see what you do and what you would like to help with. For students or those seeking work, voluntary work is also widely accepted on a CV. Plus if you feel that there is absolutely nothing you can do, you're wrong as just giving someone a phone call can change their lives.
St Neots Timebank has members in Eynesbury, St Neots, The Eatons, The Paxtons, the Priory, The Offords, Croxton, Southoe, Perry, Loves Farm, and Papermill Lock, and now can include Buckden, Stirtloe and Diddington.
You will also find information in the Buckden Library.