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Marital Rape: Crime That Needs its Introduction in IPC
Marital Rape is an act of Domestic violence and sexual abuse when a spouse gets involved in sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent. Ancient laws didn't consider it as an act of crime yet in this era many international countries have provided the woman with a right of consent.
A woman's consent is the most important feature in marital rape even though physical violence is not present there. Historical laws represented that if a husband sexually assaults her wife it is within his rights as the wife has given her up to her spouse with marriage.
The modern societies though opposed the sexual violence among husband and wife and raised their voices. Since, 20th century many countries started reforming their laws related to marital rape.
Marital Rape in India
Domestic Violence has always been an issue in the society in India. Laws relating to domestic violence has been an issue of debate in India.
Government has always promised to make women safer in this society yet the implementation of those laws relating to women rights and the domestic violence in the society showcases different perspective.
The laws have been created yet not implemented in the best possible ways. Women don't feel safer at home as per the reports. Statistics suggest that 70% of women face domestic violence by her husband and their in-laws.
Among the domestic violence, marital rape or sexual assault is also one of those crimes. About 99% of cases where women face sexual violence by their husbands are unregistered. This is a worrying statistic.
Sexual Violence or marital rape is one of the heinous crimes. A woman who has built her trust in her husband is being betrayed by her is cruel to them.
Several laws have been made by the government relating to domestic violence and sexual violence yet they remain ineffective. But what's strange is that Marital rape is still legal in India.
Out of 196 countries. only 36 of them has made an exception by making marital rape as legal including India. The decriminalization of Marital rape undermines the dignity and human rights of woman in a society and a country.
India is a country which has been worshiping female goddesses for a very long time and is one of those countries where women are not safe as per the reports.
According to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, rape has been defined as all forms of sexual assault including non-consensual forms of sex. however, Marital sex has been non-criminalized under exception 2 of section 375.
As per current law, a wife is presumed to deliver perpetual consent to have sex with her husband after entering into marital relations. Marriage between a man and a woman in India implies that both have consented to sexual intercourse and it cannot be otherwise.
Stand of Union Government & Supreme Court on Marital Rape
In the recent past, bold steps and verdicts have been made by both making it look like India is moving forward towards a more liberal and open mindset of a changing society where everyone's rights are being protected.
Yet the exception of marital rape in the Section 375 of Indian Penal Code is a question which makes it look like the government and judicial system are confused about it.
Union Government has been the most stubborn of all in decriminalizing Marital Rape because they believe, it will affect the marriage institution of India. According to the Union government, India should not blindly criminalize it because western countries have already done it because they believe that Indians aren't ready for it yet.
They think that it will then be used as a weapon by woman against their spouse. Before criminalizing Marital rape we should lookout for common problems such as poverty, literacy, women empowerment etc.
Many a times, petitions have also been filed in the apex as well as supreme court for criminalizing Marital rape but their voices were lowered.
One of the cases namely, Arnesh Kumar vs State of Bihar, the apex court dismissed the petition by saying that the law shan't change for just one woman. The apex court believed that criminalising marital rape will be the collapse of the social and family systems amidst the already existing biased laws.
There have been many more petitions for criminalizing it yet the government and Court have taken the sides of husbands and shielding them by not taking any actions against them.
In 2019. former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra while attending an inaugural National conference on Transformative Constitutionalism in India said that, he believes there is no need to criminalize Marital rape.
He said that "India shouldn't make it an offense just because Western countries have done it. In villages it will create absolute anarchy as this country still holds family values, we still respect the family background and many other facets and India is sustaining because of the family platform."
Such remarks were made by him on a question by a student of LLB. Dipak Misra has delivered several landmark judgments including decriminalising Homosexuality.
Government believing that India isn't ready for it makes us believe that maybe the fact that most of the Indian women face such cruelty will stand for such violence and the family platform of India may fail. But, if it is really true, then do we really need such a platform where women doesn't have a right to stop the violence or punish those who make them suffer.
Supreme Court though believes in criminalizing it as explained by them in the case Independent thought vs Union of India. Supreme Court said that if divorce hasn't let down the family platform, criminalizing marital rape will not certainly not end it.
Gujarat High Court in Nimeshbhai Bharatbhai Desai vs State Of Gujarat on 2 April, 2018 ruled that non-consensual sex is what has led down the family platform because the trust and confidence of woman in her husband has been betrayed.
Debates on Marital Rape
In 2018, Scoopwhoop unscripted asked for the opinions of the people about Marital rape and the comments made by the people in that video suggest that the term should be criminalized.
The video shows how they believe that marriage is just a license for sex any minute and day of the year and that with their marriage they have bought them for sex and their household works rather than living in a mutual relationship.
The opinions of the people in the above video is not just of one city, rather it is the story of the nation. A nation where the Chief Justice of India believes in shielding men even after rape is atrocious.
In a recent case of Vinay Pratap Singh vs State of UP where Vinay was alleged by her wife of marital rape, the remarks of CJI Bobde left the nation concerned.
CJI Bobde asked, "If a couple is living together as man and wife, the husband may be a brutal man, but can you call the act of sexual intercourse between a lawfully wedded man and wife as rape?"
Does this mean that women have unequal rights as men? The thinking of the society needs to be changed not because they are wrong but it is a spreading virus which will destroy the lives of woman.
The society thinks of woman as their property as they wish. Before marriage, a girl is his father's property while it belongs to her husband after marriage who can use her as he wish. Even when the personhood of a woman is molested, it is considered as a damage to her family's honor.
She is questioned even though she is a victim and face further molestation in public because the society has always made efforts to make men superior while silencing the women.
A country where we pray to goddess laxmi for wealth, Goddess Saraswati for wisdom, Goddess Parvati for love and harmony, such instances with the woman are injustified.
Even the judiciary system has not allowed the justice to women. They can protect woman for being physically abused in a bedroom, sexually molested by her husband but has provided an exception of rape.
Does our legal system believe in raping wives? Is this their way of stopping sexual assaults in the country outside the bedroom? Do they believe in supremacy of men over woman?
If so, then the condition of our judicial system is much more worrisome than it looks.
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The enhanced hate crime charges mean the four could face as much as 30 years in prison if convicted, rather than only 15 years on previously filed aggravated battery charges. Miami-Dade prosecutors filed the enhanced aggravated battery with prejudice charges Thursday morning, Miami's NBC 6 reported.
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Home Travel Cities of Sindh Towering Antiquity of Sukkur
Cities of Sindh
Towering Antiquity of Sukkur
A refuge, a hotspot for suicide, a watch tower and now currently ignored but purposeful mark of Islamic Culture and Architecture. Masoom Shah Ka Minaar and the contiguous Baraadari have confronted 400 years long.
The well-known diplomat and poet from the Mughal Dynasty Syed Nizamuddin, who was affectionately called Mir Masoom Shah Masoomi, established the Baradari in 1528 which is 50-foot high domed refuge with the capacity of 12 doorways, to run away from the disorder of Old Sukkur. He was again made the governor of Sindh, during the dynasty of Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar.
After the foundation of Baradari, Masoom Shah initiated the work of Minaar which took approximately 23 years in completion. Personally Masoom Shah administered its development for 16 years and then, after the tragic death in 1598, Syed Abu Muhammad Shah, his son, took the charge and completed the entire construction in 1605. This tremendous tower was then inaugurated and promoted by Mughal Emperor Akbar.
The minaret was established with exceptional bricks that were constructed with a local stone according to the revoke of history. These special bricks were firstly boiled in oil and then were plastered tightly together with a weird combination involving crushed bones of cows, goats and other halal species, Daal Marsh, water and sand. The height of minaret is 84 feet high; the boundary line of its base is 84 feet whereas the total stairs climbing up to top is also 84 in numbers.
Genuinely constructed to be a watch tower, the embellished minaret was soon inaugurated for people so they could praise its beauty and elegance. When people took another step beyond praising the beauty and started the trend of doing suicides from the tower, it was then decided to establish an iron fence at the top of the tower.
The Mir Masoom Shah Minar is vaguely leaned towards the Baradari, which in accordance to historians might be a mistake implemented during construction or the consequences of earthquakes which occurred in Sindh in 1828.
In accordance to the Shabir Ahmad Bohri, the Sukkur evacuee trust manager property, reconstruction of the Baradai, the stairs of minar and again plastering of its top portion was executed in 1986 by the department of archaeology.
He claimed that currently, the government of federal contributed Rs. 25 million to the renovation and reconstruction of minaret. The money will sustain to collect dust until a contract for reconstruction is given out, although.
Meantime, the minaret is being taken in care by a contractor at a cost of Rs. 265,000 each year. Even though, the graceful minaret and its domed neighbour pursue millions of tourists across the country, claims a worker, Zahid Shah.
The adults are charged Rs. 8 and Rs. 4 for the kids above 12 years age whereas the younger ones' entries are free of cost, says Masood Ahmad Dole, the contractor.
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We arrived home Friday, and I am finally getting around to the last part of our trip report.
Our last full day, Thursday, we went back to the high trails, this time from Riomaggiore to the Santuario della Madonna di Montenero, one of five religious sanctuaries linked to the five villages. It is possible to hike between all five, although it is a very long hike. We chose a hike to a magnificent vista that stretched from Monterosso al Mare to the north to Portovenere in the south. Breathtaking!
While the day was partly cloudy and rain threatened, it did not start to rain until we were done hiking for the day. Torrential rains in the afternoon must have made the locals fear a repeat of last October's flood. Luckily, by nightfall it was dry and we enjoyed another fabulous Ligurian meal overlooking the harbor at Manarola. We might have to come back next year….
The way up is far steeper than this looks. Many many stairs created and maintained by volunteers.
All along the trail, the "Via Grande," were shrines to the Madonna, donated by various families. The "Via Grande" is described as "an ancient road." These footpaths were essential transportation routes for centuries.
At the top, a church more than 119 years old. And few people.
View from the top looking south, all the way to Portovenere. Worth the climb!
The path is "paved" in many places, especially where it might wash out. But it is very rough and footing is tricky on the downhill portion. Sturdy hiking boots are in order.
As you can tell, we had a wonderful time in the Cinque Terre. Walking and eating: What's not to love?
There are so many daytrippers who do not have time to explore the National Park. They merely get off the train, spend 37 minutes looking at the souvenir ships in a town, then move on and do the same thing in the next village. I actually overheard a woman telling her husband "We have 37 minutes here. That should be plenty of time." Seriously?
Surely you won't mind if I link this blog entry? I'm behind on blogging but just now catching up on my Cinque Terre trip in March.
Ciao Anita! Maybe you and Scott should come over and take some pics, too. I am really glad to know you are out there reading.
Buongiorno Cara! Thanks for the comment. Starting to plan our next trip, probably Venice in December.
Without a doubt, your next careers will be very successful travel agents/tour guides. Your trip reports and pictures leave me wanting to get my hiking boots out! You are an inspiration for wanting to see more of our planet. Good rain in Portland on Friday! An inch and a half! It was wonderful. More coming.
My dear Carolyn, this IS my retirement job. 🙂 No more careers! But if you come to visit we'll be YOUR guides. :Love ya' back!


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Q: How to resolve conflicting declaration of two header files of two libraries? I am creating a GUI to control hardware with Qt Creator on Ubuntu 14.04. I have a class to control a camera (camera.h) and a class to control a light source that is connected to a USB RS232 serial converter (light.h). The two header files of this classes include headers provided by the manufacturer: uEye.h and ftdi2xx.h for the camera and the serial converter, respectively. Both libraries work perfectly if I use them separately. However when I try to include them in to my mainwindow.h I get following error messages (its around 14):
/home/g/Desktop/release/WinTypes.h:14: error: conflicting declaration
   'typedef unsigned int BOOL'
   typedef unsigned int BOOL;

/usr/include/uEye.h:1570: error: 'BOOL' has a previous declaration as
   'typedef int32_t BOOL'
   typedef int32_t BOOL;

and so on. What I understood from other posts, there seems to be no easy fix in C++. Any suggestions how to solve that (except using different hardware or having two separate programs)?
Update:
Finally I found a workaround, although it's still not the exact answer to my question. I did following: I went to the ftdi2xx.h file and commented the trouble causing #include WinTypes.h out. In light.h I included uEye.h first (I guess also this header includes some kind of WinTypes.h). Then I needed to add some missing typedef declarations that were not covert byuEye.h before including ftdi2xx.h. It works, however it is not a very clean and nice solution because it involves messing around with 3rd party stuff.

A: Encapsulation to the rescue:
Re-write your camera.h and light.h so that they do not include any headers of the respective library. That is an implementation detail, which should be hidden from users of those classes.
To achieve this you can either create real interfaces, use PIMPL or - if possible - just forward declare some things.

A: One solution is to adapt the libraries definition of BOOL, like this
#ifndef BOOL //if BOOL not defined yet
#define BOOL

Other way is in your code, right after including both files, you could define your own BOOL that could cause no problems for both of them.
#include "uEye.h"
#undef BOOL
#include "ftdi2xx.h"

Or also
#include "uEye.h"
#undef BOOL
#include "ftdi2xx.h"
#undef BOOL
typedef unsigned int BOOL;

A: You could try to include the two files in different namespaces:
namespace foo {
#include "uEye.h"
}

namespace bar {
#include "ftdi2xx.h"
}

Then you have to access with the respectively namespace e.g. foo::BOOL.

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Новаковци () — село в Болгарии. Находится в Габровской области, входит в общину Габрово. Население составляет 126 человек.

Политическая ситуация
Новаковци подчиняется непосредственно общине и не имеет своего кмета, кметский наместник в селе — Петыр Димитров Марков.

Кмет (мэр) общины Габрово — Томислав Пейков Дончев (Граждане за европейское развитие Болгарии (ГЕРБ)) по результатам выборов в правление общины.

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"DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER? 19-COUNTRY STUDY" by Robert Strohmeyer, Vartuhi Tonoyan et al.
Recent increases in women's self-employment in (most) welfare states are accompanied by the expansion of women's "atypical" or "non-standard" work (Lewis 2001). More specifically, self-employed women tend to practice part-time worksignificantly more often than men across Western, Eastern and Southern Europe (Strohmeyer & Tonoyan 2006). Against this background, an important question arises, namely why do self-employed women become increasingly engaged in part-time work, and why does the share of part-time self-employment differ across countries? To explain this, we examine individualas well as institutional factors of the self-employed women's choice of part-time work.
Strohmeyer, Robert; Tonoyan, Vartuhi; and Leicht, Rene (2006) "PART-TIME SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND THE RECONCILIATION OF FAMILY AND WORK: DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER? 19-COUNTRY STUDY (SUMMARY)," Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 26 : Iss. 11 , Article 5.


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In letter to President Biden, WCC appeals for reconsidering sanctions against North Korea
"While we share many of the concerns upon which these sanctions are based, they have failed to resolve those concerns, despite being among the most rigorous, systemic and longest-standing sanctions regimes ever imposed," reads the letter. "Moreover, the direct and indirect effects of the current sanctions have had very serious negative impacts on humanitarian access and action in North Korea."
Though it is often affirmed that sanctions are not intended to harm ordinary people or to prevent humanitarian assistance, in practice the sanctions have presented major obstacles to such efforts, notes the letter.
"In addition to food shortages, reported health crises, and recent floods in North Korea represent a heavy toll of suffering for the people of the country," reads the letter. "Several of our organizations are ready and standing by to offer needed humanitarian aid and services as soon as circumstances permit."
Sauca also called for a new general license for humanitarian goods and services, and an approved banking channel for these purposes. "Furthermore, we consider that the current sanctions regime and travel ban are counterproductive to the pursuit of peace in the region and to the reduction of the risk of potentially catastrophic conflict," continues the letter. "In our view, the failure to consider even incremental relaxation of sanctions was a key factor in the collapse of recent efforts at political engagement for peace."
The rigid maintenance of 'maximum pressure' sanctions has only served to poison the political environment for dialogue and reduction of tensions, notes the letter. "A more flexible policy is needed to create new possibilities for constructive engagement," the text reads. "We believe that people-to-people encounters are essential for building peace."
Policies that prevent such encounters can only entrench conflict and division, the letter concludes. "Accordingly, we also urge you to bring to a permanent conclusion the travel ban that prevents US citizens from meeting and providing assistance to North Korean people in their country," the text reads. "We hope that these concerns can be taken into account in the current review of US sanctions policy mandated by your Administration."
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HomeFootballWR Alex Adams signs with LSU
WR Alex Adams signs with LSU
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Three-star wide receiver Alex Adams of Magnolia (Miss.) South Pike High was the first player LSU signed this morning in the late football signing period.
The 6-1, 175-pound Adams, a one-time Mississippi State commit who de-committed from the Bulldogs in May, 2019, is ranked by Geaux247 Sports as the No. 65 receiver in the 2020 class and the No. 8 prospect in Geaux247 Sports' rankings.
As a junior, Adams caught 28 passes for 691 yards and 13 touchdowns. He also rushed for 153 yards and two touchdowns. Those numbers improved as a senior to 34 catches for 859 yards and 10 TDs, averaging 25.3 yards per catch.
South Pike wide receivers coach Brinson Johnson told the Jackson Clarion-Ledget before the 2019 season that Adams may be the best receiver the school has ever seen.
"You can't teach speed," Johnson said of Adams. "His routes have gotten better over the years, but he has the speed to take the top off defenses at any time."
South Pike head coach Brinson Wall said Adams diligently works at his craft.
"His work ethic away from the field stands out," Wall said. "He works extremely hard in the weight room during the offseason and that carries over into Friday nights. He plays at a different level when the lights come on."
Adams is the third wide receiver to join LSU's 2020 class. The Tigers had already signed Kayshon Boutte (nation's No. 4 wide receiver) and Koy Moore (No. 49).
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Dallas Buyers Club director Jean Marc Vallée dies
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Acclaimed film boss Jean-Marc Vallée who helmed the 2013 show Dallas Buyers Club kicked the can Sunday near Quebec City, Canada, his creation association's advertising expert told CNN. He was 58 years old.
He was a friend, inventive associate and a more prepared kin to me,Nathan Ross, an accessory in Vallée's creation association Crazyrose, said in a declaration. "The maestro will horrendously be missed at this point it comforts knowing his great style and compelling work he bestowed to the world will live on.
The boss began working on Canadian music accounts and short subjects, preceding making his part debut with the French-language film Liste noire, in like manner known by its English title Blacklist.
His progression film in the United States was "Dallas Buyers Club," the 2013 film reliant upon the certified story of an AIDS patient who transforms into a vendor of test prescriptions. Notwithstanding the way that Vallée's bearing was not seen by the Academy, the film was named for Best Picture, while stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won Oscars for their presentations.
Boss Jean-Marc Vallée recognizes the Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special honor for "Big Little Lies" before a group of people during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
Boss Jean-Marc Vallée recognizes the Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special honor for "Huge Little Lies" before a group of people during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
Vallée entered TV creation in 2017 as boss producer of the HBO show "Colossal Little Lies." He furthermore planned the entire first time of the series, winning an Emmy. Vallée later pioneer made the series "Sharp Objects," moreover for HBO, and facilitated every episode. Vallée and Ross had denoted another improvement oversee HBO in April, according to Deadline.
Vallée said in a 2019 video for The Hollywood Reporter he was particularly mindful about picking the endeavors he had the option to take on. "Picking your film is picking your lifestyle," said Vallée. "Is it valid or not that you will be happy getting up in the initial segment of the day, doing this and serving it?"


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Every 13th Pakistani infected and no check on blood screening kits, Sherry Rehman
March 10, 2017, ISLAMABAD: Vice President PPPP, Senator Sherry Rehman led the opposition on a walkout over the shameful negligence shown by the government in the Senate. The Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination was unable to give a proper answer to Rehman's concern regarding the health crisis caused by the wide prevalence of substandard blood testing kits in public hospitals.
"With its typical arrogance and negligence, the government is refusing to focus attention in parliament, let alone on the ground of such a critical humanitarian challenge. They are literally trifling with the blood of innocent civilians," Rehman said in her address before the Senate.
Dismayed over the Ministry's response, Rehman said, "It is shocking that the government was unable to give a satisfactory answer on such a vital issue of public importance in the Senate. It seems as if they were neither prepared nor bothered when I called their attention to the scandalous prevalence of substandard blood testing kits even in Islamabad Capital Territory".
"It is shocking that the government was unable to give a satisfactory answer on such a vital issue of public importance in the Senate.
The Ministry's casual response prompted uproar in the joint opposition which then chose to walk out.
Citing the case of the young siblings who were believed to have contracted HIV through contaminated blood used for their transfusion, she said, "It's a national tragedy that the lives of innocent civilians are jeopardized because of the government's negligence," reiterated Rehman.
"It's a national tragedy that the lives of innocent civilians are jeopardized because of the government's negligence"
Rehman further stated, "The fact that 15 million or every 13th Pakistani is infected with Hepatitis B and C is of no worry to them. The government is showing its criminal negligence by ignoring the crisis even in parliament when the question is raised".
It is believed that 60-70% of approximately 3.5 million blood donations in Pakistan are screened through substandard blood testing kits.
On the importance of regulating the quality of kits used by health facilities across the country, Rehman said, "The substandard Rs.6-7 garage-made blood screening kits are putting millions of Pakistanis in danger. WHO approved kits should be used. It is unfortunate that such basic form of regulation is missed by the concerned authorities".
"I cannot further emphasize the importance of having comprehensive health policies to ensure the safety of civilians. The opposition's bill on posing penal liabilities to those responsible for causing death or injury caused by unsafe transfusion is still pending, causing shocking loss of lives as a result," argued Rehman.
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While bigger is usually better for air cleaning, if your rock salt lamp is positioned quite close to you, say next to you at your desk or on a table near where you watch TV, it's fine if it isn't so big.
These exotic looking metal basket salt lamps come in 10 different designs you can see here. I particularly like the star and Buddha designs but you can choose whatever suits you best.
The company suggests using them as a bed light, bathroom illumination, kitchen feature or for meditation or prayer, and several of the designs really do seem fit for this last purpose.
Customer pictures, while beautiful, do seem to show these salt crystal lamps are not quite as bright as more open designs, but this could be a good thing if you don't need the room you place them into to be too light.
They do come with a dimmable light bulb though so you can choose the brightness level that suits you. They are also listed as made in the USA.
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Shoot salt lamps be exposed to water?i a salt lamp gets wet will it corrode flake off salt?
Salt lamps can be wiped with a damp cloth to clean them every month or so but should not be exposed to running water, rain or constant moisture.


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PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! gets 8/10
Wide Awake!
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New York's favourite post-punks Parquet Courts return with Wide Awake!, a release that forgoes the more melodic approach of their previous album and trades it in for sheer energy. Under the guidance of big time producer Danger Mouse the grooves are chunkier, the bass more intricate and driving, and the delivery angrier.
The songs on Wide Awake! have some serious rhythmic heft. Opener Total Football sets the score, alternating between a heavy power chord riff and a speedy rolling attack underpinned by a boisterous multi-note bass riff. This is followed by Violence which features an entrancing lockstep groove featuring electric piano and G Funk synths. That final triumphant keyboard solo will make you wonder if Ray Manzarek has risen from the grave.
Throughout the album, Parquet Courts show that they've expanded their musical lexicon – call this their new wave album if you will. Fun single Wide Awake! is a crowd-pleasing funky romp. Before the Water Gets Too High is an atmospheric gem, drenched in surf rock reverb. Death Will Bring Change is a 60s chamber rock piece, its sombre lyrics a perfect fit. And highlight Back to Earth sees Parquet Courts sounding like never before – a cross between Nick Cave and Johnny Cash over an almost trip hop backing.
Lyrically the band is in top form – the songs here are no longer cynical and droll so much as they are dryly furious, lashing out at the nihilistic conformism that seems to underpin America today. It's best summed up in Andrew Savage's lyric on 90s throwback Tenderness: "I cower at the thought of other people's expectations and yet still/ I owe my mind to them." There is a lot to unpack here.
The album doesn't hit its mark on all fronts. The songwriting can be patchy at times, with the vocals sometimes playing second fiddle to the instrumentals. The aforementioned Total Football finds the band trying to jam a few too many lyrical ideas in at once, and the frantic proclamations on Violence also get a bit grating. The trio of NYC Observation, Normalization and Extinction are all fairly rote exercises in punk stylistics. All three are lyrical delights and a reminder that Parquet Courts are still a punk band at heart, but we could have easily done with just the one.
Despite some missteps, Parquet Courts have made a massive step forward while staying true to their roots. With an updated sound, bigger variety and an even sharper observational wit, Wide Awake! sees Parquet Courts asserting themselves as one of the most vital rock outfits today.
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Flights have been disrupted at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi due to bad weather.
Several planes that were scheduled to touch down at the busy airport on Thursday morning were diverted to alternative airports, including Moi International Airport in Mombasa.
As at 8.50am, five flights had been diverted, from the busy JKIA.
Among those whose arrival time had been rescheduled after the diversion are KQ311 from Dubai, which landed at 9.30am and KQ117 from Amsterdam, which hit the ground 10 minutes later.
KQ260 from Ivato International airport in Madagascar, KQ275 from Mauritius, and KQ503 from Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana will now land at 10.55am, 11am, and 10.40am, respectively.
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Arnold Marshall is a junior currently attending Millard High. He is the oldest cousin and friend of Adriel Cull. His parents only enrolled him into Millard High not only as a favor to his aunt and uncle to watch him but so his parents can teach him the elements of high school. He's also been told that there are some attractive girls there which is sorta his weakness... and chocolate. But it's mostly girls that distract him. Arnold is also a character to the Genderbent RP .
Arnold is Adriel's cousin. He was his long lost cousin for awhile but Adriel's family came back to town in two years. They didn't have enough money to buy a home so Arnold's dad gave them one of their expensive apartments to live in. Arnold was enrolled to Millard High from his parents. He promised his aunt and uncle to keep an eye on Adriel while attending classes. Adriel currently doesn't know this but they are good friends since Adriel is very friendly.


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HomeFarming NewsCull cows a steady trade at Elphin
Catherina Cunnanehttps://thatsfarming.com/
Cull cows a steady trade at Elphin
Cull cows met with a steady trade at Elphin Mart on Monday, March 2nd, according to Gerry Connellan.
The mart manager pointed out that the average price achieved in this ring was €1,124; entries ranged from €525 to €1,660 for a 920 kg Charolais cow with a 97% clearance recorded.
In-calf heifers
There was an 86% clearance of in-calf lots, with an average price of €1,115 forked out; they went under the hammer from €830 to €1,370 for a Limousin calving in March.
Weanlings
A J Doherty scooped first-prize for his 500kg entry Charolais, which fetched €1,480 for 500kg. The second-prize-winner in this category came in the form of Mary Regan's 400kg Charolais, which pushed up to €1,230.
The best Limousin bull weanling weighed 380 kg and climbed to €1,100, while the second-prize-winner, which hit the scales at 410kgs, topped out at €1,210.
Bull weanlings:
"We had a 98% clearance of bull weanlings with prices governed by quality." the mart manager explained.
<300 kg – the average price achieved was €794 with a maximum of €955 for a 300 kg Charolais;
300-400 kg – the average price achieved was €973 with a maximum of €1,240 for a 375 kg Charolais;
400-500 kg – the average price achieved was €1,091 with a maximum of €1,480 for a 500 kg Charolais;
>500 kg – the average price achieved was €1,267 with a maximum of €1,570 for a 515 kg Belgian Blue.
"94% clearance of lambs with prices steady." Connellan added.
60 kg – €138.5;
55.5 kg – €134.50;
50 kg – €130;
42.5 kg – €106;
31.5 kg – €85.
"83% clearance of ewes ranged in price from €85-€134. Ewes with lambs at foot made €220." Connellan concluded.
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What does he hope to accomplish by this, other than scaring away potential tourism and foreign investment at a time when the Tourism Ministry is doing such an excellent job of promoting tourism in this beautiful and, up until now, progressive country?
Other agencies and private industry are so successful in attracting foreign investment. So exactly what does he think he's doing for the poor, many of whom are now employed in tourism industries and construction activities?
Is the man a total idiot, or just in a time warp, stuck in the 1970s?
Wake him up, or get rid of him!


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Bots For the Enterprise: Like a CLI on Steroids
Automation is important. Are you familiar with enterprise applications?
By Mike Dimitroff
Overheard in a Palo Alto, California, coffee shop:
"So we tokenize the utterances, lemmatize the tokens, vectorize with StarSpace embedding, and run the featurized input through the neural net. The softmax activation layer tells us what the user intent was."
"Sorry, you what the what and then what?"
"Or you can say the user types commands, the bot interprets those and takes the appropriate action."
"Oh! Now I get it: it's like a CLI on steroids!"
Calling a chatbot a command-line interface, or "a CLI," is like referring to a mobile phone as "a portable wireless teletype"—not even close to a complete representation, yet not entirely wrong. Like a smartphone, a well-trained bot will do as much or as little as the user requires of it.
Whether you are a member of an IT operations or a DevOps team, you probably work with a lot of enterprise applications. These apps might be local to your company or part of the wave of SaaS applications out there that can deploy your code or application, run your cloud or container management system, monitor your apps' performance and latency, or manage incidents when eventually something goes wrong. All of those tools you use to get your work done have their own UI and CLI. So where do you go from here?
The command-line interface dominated human-computer interaction for a few decades, until the growing number of options offered by software made the graphical user interface (GUI) the new favorite way of talking to computers. Both of these interaction models are based on human-to-human communication—the operator communicates an intent, complete with some input entities, each inserted in its slot. This is exactly how bots operate—so how is a bot not just another UI?
Table 1: User interface elements.
Bots as UI
While a user interface is merely a human-readable catalog of machine's capabilities and a set of input slots tightly coupled to a specific application, a natural language interaction–enabled (NLI-enabled) bot acts as our agent. It infers the intent (even multiple intents) from a natural language utterance, identifies any entities in that utterance, (like food: pizza; toppings: olives, pepperoni), and fulfills that intent—whether by talking to a well-known pizza chain's API or by calling the local pizza shop on the phone. Or even by making the pizza itself.
NLI bots have already made quite an impact on the sales and support side, but how suitable are bot agents for more technical work? How would a chatbot perform in the DevOps world, replete with esoteric terms and complicated interfaces?
Although there is a lot less training material available (after all, more people eat pizza than reconfigure Kubernetes clusters), there are also a lot fewer ways to express a technical intent. So, in the end, the technical bots are easier to train and make fewer mistakes than their sales brethren. But is a bot's ability to classify an intent to deploy a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance of a specific flavor enough to make hardcore DevOps techies give up their favorite CLI?
Beyond interface: Advantages of bot-assisted system interaction
Context memory. Whether a bot remembers your favorite pizza toppings or you have to say "pepperoni and mushrooms" a couple of times a week is of little consequence. However, if your input looks like this, I'm sure you'd rather not have to type that again:
The machine learning models of the leading bot platforms not only remember your slot values, but they also remember the context in which those values were entered, so a well-trained bot is always able to suggest an appropriate value when looking to fill a slot.
Natural language understanding (NLU). Just like a human would not be fooled by variations in word order or use of synonyms, neither would a well-designed bot. Not having to remember exact syntax—or even spelling—translates into higher efficiency.
Continuous training and improvement. The more time a bot spends with a team, the better it gets at its task of helping members of that team—not only due to filling its context memory with details about team members and tasks but also because of reinforcement learning. In addition to the initial training corpus of data, most contemporary bot platforms feature interactive training mode, where a human user can provide real-time feedback on the bot's performance.
Seamless automation. Since it's an agent rather than a mere translation layer, the bot remembers successfully fulfilled intents. And chaining those into a sequence, with or without slot elicitation, with or without branching and decision-making, is significantly easier than even the simplest of scripts.
Collaboration platform integration. Teams typically meet in a collaboration platform like Slack, Webex, or Microsoft Teams, decide what needs to be done, and then go and do it. With a bot on their team, they can get right to the doing part—without leaving the collaboration platform. Avoiding context-switching improves productivity.
Built-in analytics. A bot's main job is to classify intents, fill slots, and invoke fulfillment. However, in its spare time, it could listen in and take notes. At the end of an event (like a release, incident, or outage), it could use its natural language processing (NLP) savviness to provide a linguistic breakdown of the event: How many questions were asked? How many answers? How many statements? Even: What was the level of profanity use as compared to the average? This kind of summary provides benefits for parts of the company beyond the bot's original team.
Bots (like RigD, for example) can and do increase productivity in a software development or operations environment. Automation is important, but when done through traditional means, like scripting, its high cost often causes it to be prioritized behind other tasks. The use of an NLI-enabled bot as an agent for interfacing with various backend systems not only ensures the very best in user interface ("CLI on steroids") but also minimizes the need to switch contexts and significantly lowers the cost of automation.
More importantly, the emerging agent-facilitated process control prepares us for the next phase in the human-machine interaction—the post-app world.
Bots will help us navigate the new world of commoditized services that will replace the familiar apps. They will track our experience and base future selections on our satisfaction with their past choices. What more can we ask for? Aren't most of humanity's dreams centered on intent (wish) fulfillment? What are the wish-fulfilling creatures from fairy tales if not expressions of human desire for the perfect bot?
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The Northeast encompasses the first, seventh, and ninth largest regional U.S. economies. It includes the global and national capital of finance, more than half of the world's top pharmaceutical companies, 200 universities, leading medical institutions, centers of media and telecom and more. Yet its third-party data center ecosystem is lackluster. It falls short in quantity, quality and value.
Consider it another way. If the region were flush with high-capacity, full-featured and cost-effective data centers, it would win more than its fair share of large, national deals. Yet in an annual roster of the top twenty-four wholesale leases, ranked by megawatt (MW), over the past two years Northeast data centers appeared just six times.3 Companies with high-capacity requirements simply find more of what they need in the South and West.
The shortage in the Northeast poses a problem – and opportunity. Market research firm IDC has predicted that worldwide a majority of organizations will stop managing their own infrastructure over the next five years.4 Investors have begun betting that businesses will be looking for more outsource options in the Northeast. Planned additions to capacity in the region, in fact, now outpace similar activity in the top-three other expansion markets combined.5 But here's the question: Will these efforts succeed in bringing a region rooted in the "colo-hotel" past into the advanced data-center future?
What exactly is an advanced data center (ADC)? At the vanguard are Internet companies, such as Amazon, Google or Facebook, whose data centers remain core, corporate assets. These are cutting-edge facilities, but they lie outside the third-party market.
Ambitious multi-tenant data-center (MTDC) operators have become fast followers of those leaders, if not innovators themselves. Reporters and analysts who visited Switch-owned SUPERNAP in Las Vegas back in 2011, for instance, had no trouble calling it advanced.6 The Northeast region includes some of these operators. As noted, six of the industry's largest leases over the past two years went to regional facilities.
Banks and financial services companies have unique storage needs, driven by regulation (Sarbanes-Oxley). They may also require Fort Knox-like security and, for some investment firms, infrastructure to support hyper-computing.
Healthcare organizations have security and privacy needs, driven by other regulations (HIIPA and HITECH).
Biomedical and life sciences research can require intense, yet flexible compute power.
Telecom and cable data centers require very high availability and low latency; video servers may require high ingest and/or play-out capabilities.
Advertising has become a quantitatively driven industry, with data mining as critical as creative capabilities.
Higher education is moving varying amounts of instruction online, which in effect transforms these institutions into media providers. Some academic disciplines require supercomputing capabilities.
Availability. Guaranteed levels of compute and storage, translated as minimal downtime, which in turn requires servers that are powered and performing tasks per a given service-level agreement (SLA).
Security. Defined in physical terms by levels (perimeter, entrance, floor, rack, etc.) and various processes; Location may also play a role, with obscure addresses reducing risk over a well-known and exposed site.
Connectivity. As critical as availability for most workloads; carrier-neutral telecom connectivity, diverse fiber feeds and options for additional network build-outs are hallmarks of an advanced facility.
Size, plus scale. Square footage and megawatts are indicators, along with right-sized capacity and the ability to handle "web-scale" growth, with no need to re-architect infrastructure systems.
Efficiency. Nearly all data center operators track Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)9 ; reaching the industry's highest efficiencies while operating at scale requires advanced energy-efficient design.
Services. Beyond Data Center Information Management (DCIM), advanced data centers also offer network and application management services, including customized environments for industry-specific applications.
The question remains, how do you achieve superior performance in those areas? And if you build facilities that meet the highest standards, will businesses come? On the second question, let's consider findings from the Uptime Institute. The factors that have led enterprises to third-party data centers are the ability to scale, lower capital cost, speed of deployment and lower operating cost. In that light, it stands to reason that building more cost-effective, right-sized and streamlined data-center solutions will accelerate adoption.
Achieving superior results is one thing for the Internet companies that design, build and operate their own massive and highly efficient data centers. Enabling MTDCs to provide businesses with comparable experience in a region already marked by high costs and limited facilities is another question.
Prefabricated modular units. Data-centers have typically required large investments. You buy or build a huge building, add power and cooling, and then divide it into halls or stick-built rooms or wire cages and try to sell it. An alternative approach is to acquire a facility and then use modular infrastructure components, built to the specifications of particular customers. Identified as a disruptive innovation several years ago, this technique accelerates deployments and conserves capital, which can be reflected in pricing, but it also future proofs the asset.10 Rather than being locked into a design that may have been state-of-the-art three years ago, this approach enables a data-center operator to outfit a private, containerized vault with one cooling or power environment today, and then switch it out later, as both technology and customers' needs change.
Power density. To expand upon that last point, a related area for improvement, especially felt by data-center operators constrained by space, involves packing more power into a given area. Improved power density means more servers per rack, which generally translates into better efficiency. Virtualization, blade servers, and micro servers are some of the drivers behind higher density. Yet as density rises, so too does the need for more cooling. Containment (hot-aisle, cold-aisle) and more spread-out workloads are conventional techniques, but they go only so far, which is one reason why data centers are being built in Nordic countries and liquid cooling has arisen alongside extremely "hot" computing, such as that used in bit-coin mining. Modular infrastructure enables operators to deliver the precise amounts of power required, which also contributes to higher density.
Site location. Another answer is new thinking on where to build or locate your facility. The old model has been centered on colocation sites, the well-known, downtown addresses for telecom interconnects. Colocation is critical, but making it the anchor of a data center conceals opportunity costs. By placing a data center outside of a city, but in close proximity to fiber backbones, you can have robust links to any number of "colo hotels." Pick that site carefully enough and you also may gain vast capacity for expansion, over-abundant power resources and fortress-like campuses that defy natural or man-made disaster.
Customized services. A final answer to this challenge involves services. As organizations continue to assess how much of their data-center infrastructure to maintain and what to outsource, they will be looking for increasingly custom-fit and nuanced solutions. As important as business continuity is, for instance, the future of multi-tenant data centers entails providing not one solution, but a broad portfolio of services. That could mean planning, deploying and managing wide area networks, supporting standard communication tools (email, phone, collaboration) and optimizing infrastructure for applications ranging from medical imaging to financial modeling to data mining to CRM and beyond.
Businesses once managed all compute and storage technology in house. Now they run only two-thirds of their IT workloads internally, while 25 percent goes to external data centers and the remainder to the cloud.11 That trend is accelerating. If the IDC prediction holds up, over the next five years millions of enterprises worldwide will move their servers off premises. In the economic powerhouse of the Northeast, that could amount to thousands of leases for MTDC operators. Developing this market will require a greater number of advanced data centers (ADCs). Driven by innovative design, new logistical thinking and expanded services, a rising class of smart ADCs can both reduce costs and raise standards, leading more businesses to entrust them with a growing share of their IT operations.
1. Number of regional data centers estimated at 157, divided by total in the US, given at 1447 = 10.9 percent. Source: datacentermap.com.
2. "CBRE Identifies Most Attractive Markets for Leasing a Data Center," CBRE, Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 2014.
3. Derived from "North American Data Centers Newsletter," Jan 2014 and Jan 2015, Year in Review issues. The companies signing these leases were Bloomberg and Express Scripts in 2013, and JP Morgan, Bitcoin 21e6, Two Sigma and State Street in 2014.
4. "Worldwide Datacenter Census and Construction 2014-2018 Forecast: Aging Enterprise Datacenters and the Accelerating Service Provider Buildout," Richard Villars, IDC, Oct. 2014.
5. DCKB, 451 Research, "The Colocation Market," Dec. 2014. Posted on datacenterconsulting.com. The other three expansion markets are NoVA, Chicago and Silicon Valley.
6. See "Why, Unless You're Running With Amazon, Google and Microsoft, You Should Never Build Another Data Center," Kurt Marko, forbes.com, Aug. 3, 2014. In this essay, Marko reflects on his visit to SUPERNAP in 2011.
7. "2014 Data Center Industry Survey," uptimeinstitute.com.
8. DCKB, 451 Research, ibid.
9. PUE is defined as the ratio of DC input power over IT load power. For a thorough discussion, see "Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centers," White paper 158, Victor Avelar, Schneider Electric.
10. "Uptime: Flash Storage is Top Data Center Disruptor," Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge, May 15, 2013. In addition to prefabricated modular data centers, the Uptime Institute listed flash storage, cloud-level resilience and advanced DCIM.
11. "2014 Data Center Industry Survey," uptimeinstitute.com.
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Dracula uncovered: We talk to cocreator Mark Gatiss about that episode two twist
By Stuart McGurk 3 January 2020
As the BBC's blood-draining drama concludes tonight, we talk to the show's cocreator about the two episodes so far: how they originally planned to set the second episode in the Seventies, how Dracula could make a second-series comeback, and that twist...
GQ: First, congratulations on the on the huge success of Dracula so far. You must be thrilled with the reception...
Mark Gatiss: Yes, well, I don't honestly read reviews. But I've seen it's got five stars and so on, so I don't have to! What I like more than anything is getting a sense of a buzz, a lovely sense of something happening, which is always nice.
GQ: So the big twist at the end of the second episode is that, after the period setting of the first two episodes, the third is set in the present day. Dracula AD 2020, if you will...
MG: [Laughs.] Everyone's saying that!
GQ: Was that always going to be the case?
MG: Yes, it was. Steven [Moffat, cocreator] sent me a picture the other day – it was one of those Timehop pictures – and it was actually three years since we went out for lunch to literally start thrashing it out. Our very earliest idea was to do episode one and was sort of a very tight, 90-minute version of the novel. Episode two would be something like Dracula at 1972 – sort of period but modernised. And three would be completely modern day. But then we talked about how it would be a shame to feel like we got through Bram Stoker in one episode and that maybe the best way to look at it was to try to do the book in three episodes. But do each one very distinct. The idea came with doing [second episode] "Blood Vessel" based entirely on four pages of the book, just expanding this this marvellous idea [of Dracula sailing to England], and then we can have this twist which no one would see coming. And incredibly we got away with it. I really thought it would leak. But no one saw it coming and I'm so pleased, as we live in such a spoilery age.
GQ: The second episode is almost like Snakes On A Plane, only Dracula On A Boat...
MG: [Laughs.] That was the working title...
GQ: But also a bit Murder On The Orient Express. Again, on a boat...
MG: Well, the problem was, and in the first draft actually, he [Dracula] was more hidden, literally hiding in the box and appearing nightly to knock people off. And we can't do this. We've promised ourselves to foreground the character more. So what if he was just hiding in plain sight? What if he was just one of the passengers, and as soon as you do that, then it becomes a list of potential suspects. Except it's like Colombo – we know who the murderer is! And yet he's also like the detective.
GQ: Very quickly, I really want to know who wrote the very funny line from the first episode, "You should never rush a nun"?
MG: I think that was one of Steven's. Yes, definitely one of Steven's.
GQ: So, naturally I don't want you to give anything away that would count as a spoiler, but can you give us any idea of how the time leap happens from the ship going down at the end of the second episode to Dracula arriving on the coast in the modern day? I trust he hasn't been just walking on the seabed really slowly all that time...
MG: [Laughs.] No, no, he's just been in the box longer than he thought.
GQ: A really terrifying element of the first episode was the undead victims of Dracula nailed into wooden boxes for eternity. How did you come upon that particularly nightmarish scenario?
MG: It was partly inspired by The Hunger, a fantastic Tony Scott horror film with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. It's not quite the same idea but her lovers all reach a point after several hundred years where they start to decay and she doesn't. And so she puts them away in the attic. It's very moving, a wonderful film. With Dracula, there's some sadness to it. But it came from our initial discussion. Why is Dracula special? What are the rules of the beast? That's why the episode is called that. You know, there's so many things... he's simultaneously all powerful and also vulnerable to practically anything. You know, I don't know how he gets out of bed. He can't cross running water, he can't touch hawthorn, sunlight, crucifixes... so we just had to figure out just what our rules are. And then that became a very exciting thing, with Agatha [the nun] saying why can't he come in uninvited? Maybe there's more to it... And so part of that is that he's different, he's the best of them, he chooses people very carefully and literally absorbs their talent.
GQ: As you say, you have, with these rules, a kind of fun with this idea of these were seemingly disconnected things in the first episode where you have to start with the idea of: are they all part of the same thing? You know that all these things that seemed to be not connected at all. But are they? Do you get to the bottom of that in the final episode?
MG: Yes.
GQ: I'm guessing you're not going to tell me any more...
MG: No…
GQ: Fair enough. I know Dracula doesn't exactly lend itself to an ongoing Sherlock-like series. But does that necessarily mean that there couldn't be another three films later on down the line?
MG: Well, Dracula tends to come back, doesn't he? I mean, certainly, it's interesting. It's not what Stoker ever had in mind. Well, actually, the truth is, Dracula was a success. But the book was not the sort of success we imagine it to be until after he died. If he'd known how much of a success it [would] be [he'd have] definitely written a sequel! But Dracula is a strange book. It's very haphazard. The first third is extremely good but the rest is uneven. There's an interview he [Stoker] gave to an American paper where he vaguely talks about a sequel set in America, interestingly... And in the series of films he does come back a lot.
GQ: It's quite graphic. People get beheaded, a baby gets turned into one of the undead at one point... Was there any part you got pushback from the BBC on?
MG: The baby in the carpet bag is actually in the novel. It's a ghastly little moment and it's not done very often [in adaptations]. Dracula had brought it as a little tit-bit for his bride. We had a lot of discussions but there wasn't much pushback really about gore. Really, I was thrilled with how much we got away with. But it's funny, isn't it? The thing that caused most people sleepless nights was the fingernails falling off. And no one is going to send a memo saying, "I'm afraid we can't have people pulling their fingernails off at nine o'clock on BBC One", because it's not the most horrific thing in it. And yet it is, isn't it? But we wanted to make it properly scary. My favourite bit of episode one is where Harker uncovers the vampires in the boxes and is chased into Dracula's tomb and then Dracula rises up from it. It's pure Hammer Horror.
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Forward: I would advise not looking for potential meanings of the below post or infer potential new features of Windows Home Server as it all involves things I was doing on my own time and for my own nefarious purposes.
After a quick read of the core spec behind RDP... I decided that a simpler protocol would probably be good to do as a proof of concept first of the general idea.
Which protocol did I pick? RFB (PDF warning), the basis for VNC.
So last weekend I sat down and began writing a proof of concept VNC client, first as a WinForms app but with frequent compilations for Silverlight (to ensure that I only used classes/methods that exist under both), and late Thursday night after writing a quick and dirty 125 line long proxy server (to work around the built in port and host address limitations), it all just worked at last.
Why so ugly? To save time I only implemented a couple of the most simple video encoding methods that VNC supports which cuts me off from some of the more pretty color possibilities. Adding others won't be very difficult, however improving some of the core services I wrote would be a better use of my time.
Why XP? When I quit using VNC back in about 2005 it was due to my upgrading to Vista and the two of them not getting along well (due to the Vista security feature known as session 0 isolation)... and I had it handy in a VM.
When will it be released? Certainly not in it's present form as it is rather insecure at present as it doesn't support any authentication (mostly because I opted not to write a DES encryption provider which Silverlight lacks). Also likely not in future because of the prototype nature of this code and my almost certainly not having enough time to take on and manage another side project (my day job keeps me plenty busy).
I also need to say that the new improvements to the MediaStreamSource class in Silverlight 3 are pretty cool as they enable you to manually generate a video and specify the raw RGB bits of each frame.
This while does kind of serve as a reminder to me… rather than spend time implementing things that already exist (this, DHCP4WHS, a C# based DNS server I wrote a few years back, plenty of other half completed network clients or file format parsers)... I should focus (when writing code on my own time) on building new things that do not yet exist... shame I'm not the most creative in that way.
You should try to sell this to VMWare. They provide an ActiveX plug-in for their esx server, but a Silverlight version doesn't require installing a separate plug-in.
Given that I work for their biggest competitor (granted the product I build does not compete with any VMWare offerings), it'd be quite wrong for me to be moonlighting to help the competition... more so when I think that most of the offerings from my company are superior to theirs.
Even though this is a proof of concept. Would you mind sharing the code, to show how such a feat can be achieved?
Hi , I am a fresh silverlight enthusiast. Would u please share the code. Purely for recreational purposes. I would be really thankful to u.
great job, i agree. i would love to a look at your code.
Nice post here -- this is a very nice entry point. I'm beginning Silverlight development on an internal helpdesk front-end. The ability to VNC from within Silverlight would be amazing.
Is there any chance of getting a copy of the source code that I can study or some pointers? Thanks so much!


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Guardians of the Galaxy: Does Marvel Have 'Drax the Destroyer' Cast?
The excitement behind the casting of the Guardians of the Galaxy film just keeps escalating. With the recent news that Chris Pratt is joining the movie as the leader of the Guardians, we have been given even more exciting news with the release on Nerd Reactor that the new Conan and Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa has screen tested for the role of 'Drax the Destroyer'. This is a role that has some stiff competition with the likes of Isaiah Mustafa (Old Spice adverts) and Dave Bautista (former wrestler and villain in The Man with the Iron Fists) are also gunning for the role.
For people unfamiliar with the character here is a brief recap: Arthur Douglas started life as a human and family man, until Thanos killed his family. His spirit was then taken and placed into a new and more powerful body with only one goal in mind, to kill the creature that destroyed his life (for a more detailed description click here).
Then even more news was revealed again via twitter, but this time from El Mayimbe saying.
So where does that leave us? Well no further forward I am afraid. We still do not know who is going to be cast in this role, but we do know that no one has the role so far. Views seem mixed on Momoa wanting the role and the amount he wants for it. My personal view (which is based only on his appearances in Conan and Game of Thrones) is that, although he looks the part physically, I am not sure if he has enough acting experience to be asking for this amount of money. I have not seen his role in Bullet in the Head, but I know it did not perform as well at the Box Office as expected (a fate that Conan also suffered from).
With pretty much every Marvel produced product having had a successful Box Office run, we can assume that this movie should be no different, and could be the next step in Momoa's film career. I would hate to think that he was shooting himself in the foot over this.
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Personalizing/Customizing Ceremony?
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May 2015 in Wedding Vows & Ceremony Discussions
Our officiant just sent us the PDF of the ceremony template that he usually follows. He told us that we can customize it and personalize the template in any way we want, except for the legally binding phrases of intent that must be said.
We are just starting to look at it, and don't even know where to start. It is a pretty "standard" ceremony that he sent us, and we were wondering, to all of those who wrote their own ceremony, how/what did you do to pull it all together and make it coherent.
Our officiant mentioned a unity candle, for instance, and I never heard of that before he told us. So, to say that we are out of the loop and could use a little bit of help/direction is an understatement. Anyone care to share their "personalizations" that they incorporated in their ceremony?
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We are going to write our own vows- working on them this coming weekend actually. We also opted to sign our marriage license during the ceremony instead of doing a unity candle or sand ceremony since I found them a little cheesey. This is not a super common thing in my area so it will be unique for that reason alone.
If you don't want to re-write everything yourself don't. Let the professional do his thing. If you do decide to change it up, I'd say pick 1-2 places to put your touch on it and don't worry too much about being overly creative. As long as it's meaningful to you then nothing else matters. You're there to get married, not impress guests with your creativity.
Keep it simple and you won't get bogged down. Also start early so you're not doing this at the last minute. That gives you time to think and then rework things a bit without being rushed.
ElcaB member
We spent some time researching different ceremony scripts, then talked about what was important to each of us. We pulled bits and pieces from scripts we liked and edited them to make them our own.
We also did a ring warming in which our guests had the option to "warm" our rings as they entered the ceremony space (with the idea that metals contain precious energy). We did a salt ceremony right before or after our vows.
lachattefatale member
We just got our officiant's three ceremony options, too. We particularly like one of them, but we'll probably change some of the wording around, add bits from the other two options and online sources, and swap the unity ceremony for a couple of readings. I keep crying every time I read them, so editing is probably going to be difficult, but worth it.
Jen4948 Houston member
Some advice I would give about "personalizing" your ceremony is as follows:
1) Don't overdo it on the "romance." Don't recite the history of your relationship (or have your officiant do that) or say how much you love each other without making actual promises to each other. You can put this into letters that you read to each other in private, but don't make your vows sound like verbal PDA.
2) Your ceremony also isn't the time for stand-up comedy and cutesy references. Save that, if you need to include it at all, for the reception. Also, by way of inclusiveness, don't include too many "inside" references that other people present are not going to get-whether humorous or not.
3) Make your vows promises to each other that you can realistically keep. Don't promise, for example, that you'll always remember to put the toilet seat down (or up) or that you'll never go to bed angry with each other. On the other hand, it is reasonable to promise to love each other and to be there through whatever life has to offer.
4) This is me, but I wouldn't overdo the "unity" rituals either, like a ring warming, unity candle, sand ceremony, etc., because the whole wedding ceremony is itself a "unity ritual." Too much of this can become tedious for guests to observe.
Thanks for all of the great advice!
We definitely don't want to go cutesy or anything - but the whole text of what the Officiant sent us would have been about 7 minutes, if we don't include any "customizations".
We are going to be saying our own vows (have to start working on them, I am sure that will warrant another post on its own), so that should take up 2-4 more minutes.
I like the idea of signing the licenses during the ceremony, I will see if that is something the Officiant wouldn't have a problem with (I don't see why he would). I also think that I will try to find one or two readings about love in each of our languages (we are a bi-lingual couple) and that could be a nice way to honor both sides of our families.
I don't really want the ceremony to go over 20 minutes, it's just that the template that we were sent seemed almost too dry and impersonal, that a little bit of a loving touch was necessary.
I think the next step is just to do a little research on some excerpts that could work for us, and see where to fit them in.
I might be back in a few weeks for feedback on the draft when we finally get to it !
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My fiance and I are taking a traditional ceremony (minus the obey part, yuck) and adding a few personal touches.
The unity candle is a fairly common representation of leaving your old lives behind and starting your life as one. We're putting a spin on that and doing a tree planting ceremony. Basically, we'll have a tree already in a planter and our mother's will be bringing up soil from where each of us grew up for us to put over the roots. We'll be planting it in the back yard of our new home and it will grow with our marriage.
We're also doing a family prayer. I grew up going to new year's eve parties at my church. Everyone would gather around in a circle and pray at midnight so we could start our year in prayer, something that is of great importance to us. My fiance and I are taking that idea and turning it into a focus of our ceremony. Our parents will come up and lay hands on us while our officiant (my uncle) prays over our marriage. It's the first thing we'll do after we exchange vows so we can start our marriage in prayer.
I was so overwhelmed by the ceremony, until our officiant basically ordered me to work on it a few weeks before the wedding. Some of the personal touches we added to the script our officiant provided were to add a few quotes from some court opinions about marriage (I'm an attorney, so it wasn't totally random), we added a beer ceremony (we brew and collect rare beers, and ordered a wooden lock box on etsy with our last name carved into, and during the ceremony stuck some letters we wrote to each other in the box with a barrel aged beer that is supposed to age more over time, and locked them in). We also wrote in a place where each of our sets of parents stood up and took a "vow" of support and vowed to take their new son/daughter as a member of their family. We did include a story of how we met (but it was only a few lines).
We also wanted to include our little brothers, so I had my brother hold my husband's ring, and my husband's brother held my ring. That way when it was time to exchange rings, the officiant said something like, "Joe, will you please give your sister [XX]'s ring" or something.
And we wrote on our own vows. Which I loved. I think those were my favorite part. We wrote them together, and took them together. So after the officiant read each vow we both said, together, "We do." Instead of "I do."
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FeeleyToBe said:
We are going to write our own vows- working on them this coming weekend actually. We also opted to sign our marriage license during the ceremony instead of doing a unity candle or sand ceremony since I found them a little cheesey. This is not a super common thing in my area so it will be unique for that reason alone. If you don't want to re-write everything yourself don't. Let the professional do his thing. If you do decide to change it up, I'd say pick 1-2 places to put your touch on it and don't worry too much about being overly creative. As long as it's meaningful to you then nothing else matters. You're there to get married, not impress guests with your creativity. Keep it simple and you won't get bogged down. Also start early so you're not doing this at the last minute. That gives you time to think and then rework things a bit without being rushed. Good luck.
Where did you add in the signing of the marriage license in the ceremony? We had talked about doing this as well but I'm not sure where to put it to keep the flow of everything moving.
lovemesomemonster said:
@lovemesomemonster, our officiant sent us a draft with the order of things we'd talked about and it is right after the exchange of rings, and just before what is essentially the end of the ceremony. So, these are the major points, in order:
Declaration of Committment
Readings (2)
"Homily" (words by officiant- we're not religious so I don't know what this is called for a secular even; just took it from his outline)
Exchange of Rings
Signing of license / certificate
Officiant Reading (some quick poem he likes to do)
Pronunciation of Bride & Groom
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I have been looking all over the web and I found a couple of cool sites that have ceremony script generators, all you have to do is plug in the names and the type of ceremony you are going for, religious preferences and such. Then voila, it give you a customize script suggestion and we have found it to be a helpful jumping off point. http://www.themonastery.org/wedding-training/wedding-ceremony-script
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loro929 said:
I think what you have decided to add sounds great. Adding much more would probably get over 20 minutes. When you say 1-2 readings in each language, I would probably only do one in each language. I think two in each language (four total) would get to be a bit much.
There are two places where signing the marriage license could go that I can think of. The first would be where a unity candle/sand/knot/tree/wine box/digging a pit/sewing each others clothes together/insert-other-unity-thing-here would traditionally go, usually after the vows. The second place would be right before the "I now pronounce you man and wife." Make sure you're actually in a state where you sign it on the wedding day. In Alaska (and from what I understand, this is the case in at least a few other states), you sign the license when you submit it to the state certifying all the info is true. Then you pick it up and take it to the wedding and the officiant and witnesses sign it, but there are no more lines for you to sign. If you're in Alaska or another state like that, you can either fake sign it or, the route I would go if I wanted to have the signing included, sign a ceremonial or decorative certificate.
At our wedding, our pastor gave us three pretty standard scripts to choose from. The main difference between them was the content of the vows. H and I added one reading about love from the Bible. We also had my best friend sing a song. We didn't do the unity candle, because we personally find unity candles, sand, etc. to be a bit cheesy.
Also, the pastor usually talks about rings about the symbolism of the circle and the purity of the gold being like your love. But I joked about how the gold really isn't pure. 24k gold is pure gold. It does not exist naturally, and rings are far from pure gold. Depending on your ring it is usually, at best, just over half gold. Rings are commonly 14k or even 10k. Some jewelry is 18k, but I have never heard of a ring being that because rings are probably the one piece of jewelry that gets knocked and banged around the most and gold is super soft. I was joking about it, but he ended up taking the purity phrasing out of it. I internally roll my eyes whenever I hear that.


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Former Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Allen Robinson (15), now of the Chicago Bears, runs against the Baltimore Ravens defense in the second quarter at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 15, 2015. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
Chicago Bears wide receiver Allen Robinson, limited throughout the offseason by a torn ACL suffered in the 2017 season opener, is ready to roll as the team opened camp Friday.
"I feel great," Robinson said Thursday.
"It's a process that we've taken a little bit slower, but I think that was for the best. It just was all about getting me ready for this time right here, so I feel great. I feel 100 percent and I'm ready to go."
That's what Chicago wanted to hear after the Bears signed Robinson to a three-year, $42 million contract in March after he spent his first four seasons in with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Robinson has 202 career receptions for 2,848 yards and 22 touchdowns, but he has played only two full seasons and a total of 43 games in four years after the Jaguars selected him in the second round (61st overall) out of Penn State in the 2014 NFL Draft.
The one aspect missing in last year's Bears offense was a No. 1 wide receiver threat and go-to target. Robinson's presence is expected to help the development of second-year quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, who made 12 starts as a rookie.
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Robinson (6-3, 209) is the key to the receiving corps, as Chicago lacked a tall playmaker on the outside last season after letting Alshon Jeffery leave in free agency.
"He has done everything he possibly can do to this point to get to where he's at," Bears coach Matt Nagy said. "Mentally, he's in a good spot. Physically, he's in a good spot. We just have to put it together now."
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