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In Italia è ricordata soprattutto per la sua interpretazione del ruolo di Pamela Piggott, al fianco di Jack Lemmon, nel film Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? (Avanti!, nell'edizione originale e nella pièce teatrale da cui fu tratto), diretto nel 1972 da Billy Wilder e girato nell'isola d'Ischia.

Biografia
Figlia dell'attore John Mills e dell'attrice e commediografa Mary Hayley Bell (e figlioccia di Vivien Leigh), nonché sorella maggiore dell'attrice Hayley Mills, inizia a recitare in giovanissima età come attrice bambina in quattro film durante i suoi primi otto anni di vita: Eroi del mare (1942) di Noël Coward e David Lean, girato quando era nata da appena undici settimane, So Well Remembered (1947) di Edward Dmytryk, Prigioniero della paura (1947) di Roy Ward Baker e The History of Mr. Polly (1949) di Anthony Pelissier, tutti interpretati dal padre John.

Nella stagione 1959-1960, poco più che diciottenne, è fra gli interpreti del lavoro televisivo Mrs. Miniver, mentre nel medesimo periodo ottiene una candidatura ai Tony Award per la sua interpretazione nel lavoro teatrale Five Finger Exercise. Sempre per il teatro è interprete, nella stagione 1964-1965, in Alfie!. Prosegue poi la carriera lavorando per il cinema, partecipando ai film  Rancho Bravo (1966) di Andrew V. McLaglen, con Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart e Brian Keith, La cassa sbagliata (1966) di Bryan Forbes, accanto al padre John  e Michael Caine, e, in Italia, all'horror Chi sei? (1974) di Ovidio G. Assonitis, insieme a Gabriele Lavia e Richard Johnson. Nel 1969 è nel cast di Oh, che bella guerra! di Richard Attenborough. Successivamente lavora ancora per la televisione, ove è nota soprattutto per avere interpretato  la sit-com La tata e il professore (1970-1971), ottenendo una candidatura al Golden Globe per la miglior attrice in una serie commedia o musicale per il ruolo di Phoebe Figalilly.

Nel 1973 è candidata al Golden Globe per la migliore attrice in un film commedia o musicale per il film Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? mentre vince un Emmy Award per l'interpretazione nella miniserie televisiva QB VII (1974). Continua a lavorare per il piccolo schermo e in teatro mentre, fra il 1999 e il 2008, interpreta un ruolo fisso nella soap opera Passions, trasmessa in orario di daytime e per la quale ottiene un'altra candidatura agli Emmy.

Vita privata

Mills si è sposata tre volte. La prima volta sposò nel 1961 Russell Alquist Jr., al quale diede un figlio, Sean. Il matrimonio durò fino al 1964. Il suo secondo matrimonio, con Michael Miklenda, durò dal 1975 al 1980 e dalla coppia nacque una figlia, Melissa. Mentre era sposata con Miklenda, Mills comparve in Tattletales, e sostenne di non essere d'accordo con la liberazione della donna poiché il teatro non discrimina. Nel 1980, Mills sposò Maxwell Caulfield, 18 anni più giovane di lei. A proposito della differenza di età Mills disse: "Tutti sono sempre interessati al fatto che io abbia sposato qualcuno molto più giovane di me ... Non esistono regole e questo è ciò che io credo, poiché l'età non ha effettivamente alcuna importanza. Se voi incontrate qualcuno che vi è molto vicino, qualcuno che amate, state con quello."

Mills divenne cittadina naturalizzata degli Stati Uniti il 10 ottobre 1975.

Filmografia

Cinema
Eroi del mare (In Which We Serve), regia di Noël Coward, David Lean (1942)
So Well Remembered, regia di Edward Dmytryk (1947)
Prigioniero della paura (The October Man), regia di Roy Ward Baker (1947)
The History of Mr. Polly, regia di Anthony Pelissier (1949)
No My Darling Daughter, regia di Ralph Thomas (1961)
Twice Round the Daffodils, regia di Gerald Thomas (1962)
Nurse on Wheels, regia di Gerald Thomas (1963)
Gli allegri ammutinati del Bounty (Carry on Jack), regia di Gerald Thomas (1963)
Rancho Bravo (The Rare Breed), regia di Andrew V. McLaglen (1966)
La cassa sbagliata (The Wrong Box), regia di Bryan Forbes (1966)
Oh, che bella guerra! (Oh! What a Lovely War), regia di Richard Attenborough (1969)
Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? (Avanti!), regia di Billy Wilder (1972)
Chi sei?, regia di Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett (1974)
El segundo poder, regia di José María Forqué (1976)
Waxwork 2 - Bentornati al museo delle cere (Waxwork II: Lost in Time), regia di Anthony Hickox (1992)
Un amore speciale (The Other Sister), regia di Garry Marshall (1999)
Il fidanzato di mia sorella (How to Make Love Like an Englishman), regia di Tom Vaughan (2014)

Televisione
Mrs. Miniver – film TV (1960)
ITV Television Playhouse – serie TV, un episodio (1962)
Man of the World – serie TV, un episodio (1962)
It Happened Like This – serie TV, un episodio (1963)
Organizzazione U.N.C.L.E. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) – serie TV, un episodio (1965)
Polvere di stelle (Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre) – serie TV, 2 episodi (1966-1967)
Ben Casey – serie TV, episodi 5x24-5x25 (1966)
Twelve O'Clock High – serie TV, 2 episodi (1966)
A Man Called Shenandoah – serie TV, un episodio (1966)
Wings of Fire – film TV (1967)
The Revenue Men – serie TV, un episodio (1967)
Coronet Blue – serie TV, un episodio (1967)
Sherlock Holmes – miniserie TV, un episodio (1968)
La tata e il professore (Nanny and the Professor) – serie TV, 54 episodi (1970-1971)
Sfida sulla pista di fuoco (The Challengers) – film TV (1970)
La valle dei pini – serie TV (All My Children) (1970)
Due onesti fuorilegge (Alias Smith and Jones) – serie TV, un episodio (1971)
Stage 2 – serie TV, un episodio (1971)
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie – serie TV, 2 episodi (1972-1973)
Letters from Three Lovers – film TV (1973)
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak – serie TV, un episodio (1973)
QB VII – miniserie TV, un episodio (1974)
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love – film TV (1974)
Nata libera (Born Free) – serie TV, 2 episodi (1974)
Harry O – serie TV, un episodio (1974)
Demon, Demon – film TV (1975)
Marcus Welby (Marcus Welby, M.D.) – serie TV, un episodio (1975)
Lotta per la vita (Medical Story) – serie TV, un episodio (1975)
Hawaii Squadra Cinque Zero (Hawaii Five-O) – serie TV, un episodio (1975)
The Wide World of Mystery – serie TV, un episodio (1975)
Matt Helm – serie TV, un episodio (1975)
Ellery Queen - serie TV, episodio 1x21 (1976)
Militari di carriera (Once an Eagle) (1976)
Ragazzo di provincia (Gibbsville) – serie TV, un episodio (1977)
Io e Barnaby (Barnaby and Me) – film TV (1977)
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn – film TV (1977)
Wonder Woman – serie TV, un episodio (1977)
Fantasilandia (Fantasy Island) – serie TV, 4 episodi (1978-1984)
Love Boat (The Love Boat) – serie TV, 8 episodi (1978-1984)
Switch – serie TV, un episodio (1978)
Pepper Anderson agente speciale (Police Woman) – serie TV, un episodio (1978)
The Cracker Factory – film TV (1979)
Cuore e batticuore (Hart to Hart) – serie TV, un episodio (1980)
Dynasty – serie TV, 2 episodi (1984)
Hotel – serie TV, 2 episodi (1985-1987)
La signora in giallo (Murder, She Wrote) – serie TV, episodio 4x03 (1987)
Provaci ancora, Harry (The Law and Harry McGraw) – serie TV, un episodio (1988)
Fino al prossimo incontro (Till We Meet Again)– miniserie TV, 2 episodi (1989)
Monsters – serie TV, un episodio (1990)
La notte dei generali (Night of the Fox) – film TV (1990)
Colombo (Columbo) – serie TV, un episodio (1992)
Bayside School (Saved by the Bell) – serie TV, un episodio (1992)
A Stranger in the Mirror – film TV (1993)
Air America – serie TV, un episodio (1998)
Passions – serie TV, 990 episodi (1999-2008)
Four Seasons – miniserie TV, 4 episodi (2008-2009)
Cuore d'Africa (Wild at Heart) – serie TV, 8 episodi (2009)
From Here! On OUT – serie TV, 6 episodi (2013-2014)
Hot in Cleveland – serie TV, 4 episodi (2010-2015)

Doppiatrici italiane
 Maria Pia Di Meo in Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre?; Chi sei?
 Serena Verdirosi in Rancho Bravo
 Elettra Bisetti in La tata e il professore
 Vanna Busoni in Un amore speciale

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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Mastitis, ouch! The good news is that Charlotte is finally sleeping through again (Thank you Lucie for the pep talk), the bad news is that I became very engorged when Charlotte didn't wake up for a feed & didn't express & ended up getting mastitis, ouch! I first noticed a hard lump in my breast which I assumed was because of the engorgement but it became more & more painful as the days went by. I eventually popped to the doctors & a quick examination confirmed that I did have mastitis. The doctor prescribed a breastfeeding friendly antibiotic & advised me to continue feeding through the pain, which has luckily helped. I must admit I didn't expect to get mastitis 9 months into breast feeding but apparently it's quite common if your baby starts suddenly sleeping through.
I have found hot & cold compresses really soothing & someone recommended sleeping in Savoy cabbage leaves but I've been quite exhausted & haven't quite made it to the shops to get one yet. It's always advisable to see your doctor if you suspect you have mastitis or notice any lumps in your breast. I found some great information on the baby centre about mastitis which is well worth reading.
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When it chaired the ASEAN Summit in the autumn of 2012, Cambodia arranged for the South China Sea issue to be dropped from the joint statement. This left the strong impression that Cambodia was a mouthpiece for China in Southeast Asia. It is true that China has made significant investments in Cambodia and that the latter's economy has become increasingly dependent on Chinese money.
Earlier this year, I spoke with a number of government officials, media representatives and researchers in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, about Cambodia's foreign policy and awareness of international affairs. One of the impressions that these interviews left on me was that caution is needed before reaching any reductive conclusion about the relationship between Cambodia and China, specifically that Cambodia is under China's influence. What does that mean exactly? The interviews took place over a short period of time and the number of interviewees was limited, so the findings should be treated with appropriate caution. Still, when long-term foreign residents of Cambodia were asked about the same topic, many said that they had a similar impression.
First, the emphasis in the interviews in terms of awareness of international affairs was not on the relationship between China and Cambodia, but rather the relationship between the U.S. and Cambodia. Many of the interviewees began with criticism of U.S. policy toward Cambodia. They criticized the exceptionally harsh position taken by the United States on the Hun Sen government and Washington's refusal to participate in summit talks. The U.S. certainly has its reasons, but Cambodians are asking why Washington is so tough on Cambodia when the latter is already a democratic nation (leaving aside the nature of the Hun Sen government).
Second, the interviewees spoke about the positioning of Cambodia within the Obama administration's "rebalance." That policy was not uniformly implemented in East Asia. Its focus was on, among others, Indonesia, a country that had a close relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama, and Vietnam, which had reached a settlement with the U.S. It is puzzling as to why Cambodia has been overlooked even as the U.S. reached an accord with Vietnam, an adversary during the Vietnam War. It is well known that the U.S. military carried out operations in eastern Cambodia during the war. The target was of course the Viet Cong, but Cambodia suffered significant damage. Despite this, Cambodia has never been offered a settlement and the fact that it was left out of the much-vaunted rebalance has caused resentment.
Third, much criticism was heard on the subject of the financial support and aid provided to Cambodia by the U.S. government predominantly flowing to foreign NGOs and other organizations active in Cambodia and the fact it was not done in close cooperation with the Cambodian government. To what extent this discourse actually reflects the reality is debatable, but it is certainly one of the fundamental criticisms of the U.S.
This criticism also suggests the reason for Cambodia's rapprochement with China. Cambodia has been the enthusiastic recipient of a number of investment projects associated with China's "One Belt One Road" initiative. The Cambodians I spoke to offered two explanations on the subject of how to hedge against China.
First, Cambodia does not allow the facilities built by China to be diverted to military use and refuses any Chinese military presence, pointing to the Cambodian Constitution. Second, as was observed in the Sihanoukville project, Japan and other countries were used as a counterweight to China. For this project, which entailed the construction of a port, Japan was asked to develop the port itself and China was asked to develop the port's surroundings. In the case of connectivity projects such as the construction of expressways, China is attempting to build a north-south corridor linking China and the Gulf of Thailand, while Japan is aiming to construct an east-west corridor connecting the production bases of Thailand, Cambodia and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. This seems to suggest that Cambodia is looking to its national interest, while at the same time striking a balance so as not to be seen as entirely in China's pocket.
Chinese overseas investment has been massive in scale and China's infrastructure construction technology is developing rapidly. Moreover, China does not impose human rights or democratization conditions when providing assistance to other countries, and its policy stances are decided very quickly. Despite China's high interest rates, the reliance of many developing countries, including Cambodia, on China is completely understandable.
However, that China is attempting to build new international relations by exploiting its economic power was made obvious in a speech by President Xi Jinping in the autumn of 2017. From China's viewpoint, Cambodia is one of its success stories, making the nature of the relationship that will be built between them a touchstone for the future.
There have been questions about whether some aspects of the policies of the Hun Sen government in Cambodia — media policy, for example — have taken on a Chinese tone and that authoritarianism is on the rise. In this regard, U.S. policy on Cambodia is completely understandable. What was told to me by the interviewees may simply be discourse.
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Press releases • Apr 11, 2018 09:30 EDT
Norwegian announced the departure of its inaugural service from Oakland International Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. Its inaugural flight from Denver International Airport to Paris departed on April 9, 2018. Norwegian is the first airline to connect Denver with France.
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Press releases • Mar 01, 2018 09:15 EST
Norwegian's inaugural service from Newark Liberty International Airport to Paris Orly Airport launched yesterday. The airline now operates three routes to Europe – Barcelona, Paris and Rome – from this airport.
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US covid cases top 11 million. States clamp down own closures
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Covid cases have topped 11 million in the US with 100,000 new cases per day. Each day an average of over 900 deaths are reported. By Sunday, Nov. 15, the total had climbed to 246,210 fatalities since the pandemic erupted. These soaring figures find America also in the throes of a rocky transition between presidents. Donald Trump Sunday acknowledged that Joe Biden had won – but only because "the election was rigged." He again refused to concede the vote.
With regard to covid, the Trump administration struck an optimistic tone on Friday, saying they hoped to distribute 20 million doses of an approved vaccine in December, and for each month after that – although no vaccine has yet got official FDA approval. Biden's advisers warned that the transition delay could further jeopardize the battle against the rampaging coronavirus, including vaccine distribution planning, and urged Congress to immediately pass bipartisan financial relief even before a new president takes office on January 20. While the Pfizer news of a vaccine boosted Wall Street, health experts warning that it would take months to gain approval and overcome distribution hurdles for widespread use.
President Donald Trump again ruled out putting the US into lockdown, but many states are introducing their own restrictions as fast-rising cases threaten to overwhelm their healthcare systems. They are especially concerned about the forthcoming winter holiday season, starting with next week's Thanksgiving, when, going by past history, coronavirus tends to spike substantially.
The latest states to act autonomously are Michigan and Washington. Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer said the state was "at the precipice" and could soon suffer 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths a week unless action was taken. As well as suspending in-person teaching and indoor dining, she closed indoor entertainment, – gyms, cinemas, theaters and museum for three weeks.
Similar curbs went into effect in Washington State on Monday evening and will last a month. "Today, Sunday, November 15, 2020, is the most dangerous public health day in the last 100 years of our state's history," Governor Jay Inslee said. "A pandemic is raging in our state. Left unchecked, it will assuredly result in grossly overburdened hospitals and morgues; and keep people from obtaining routine but necessary medical treatment for non-covid conditions."
California on Friday became the second state, after Texas, to reach one million Covid cases, prompting local officials to hit pause on reopening efforts. New York ordered bars and restaurants to close by 22:00 local time; gatherings limited to 10 people; and schools possibly closed on Monday. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a tweet, said public schools would remain open there on Monday if infection positivity rates stayed below a three-percent threshold.
The city of Chicago has a stay-at-home advisory, and non-essential businesses must close by 23:00 local time; gatherings are limited to 10 people. The city of Detroit moved all students to remote learning due to the virus spikes


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Institutional Structure in Tax Audit: A Case Study of Turkey
Mustafa Erkan Üyümez, Sema Ünlüer, Ali Osman Yılmaz
Tax audits are carried out within the structure of Tax Audit Board since 2011 as a result of the merging of the former audit units under a single umbrella. Tax audits can directly or indirectly be affected by various factors. It is necessary to identify problems related to the corporate structure in tax audits and to develop the recommendations for solution. Therefore, the main purpose of the research is to identify the issues related to the institutional structure of the tax audits system in Turkey and to propose recommentations to eliminate these problems. In order to obtain in-depth information in this context, the research was carried out by qualitative research method. Qualitative research was designed as a case study. The data were collected through semistructured interviews with 15 taxpayers, 11 accounting professionals and 17 tax inspectors. The analysis of the research data was carried out with the help of NVivo 11 Pro which is one of the computer aided qualitative data analysis program by induction analysis. The findings of the research were presented based on the research question and these findings were evaluated in the context of institutional structure in tax audit.
Keywords: ax Audit, Qualitative Research, Interview
JEL Classification : H20 , M42
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The NM Political Report (https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2018/10/17/steve-bannon-scheduled-to-campaign-for-mick-rich/)
Steve Bannon scheduled to campaign for Mick Rich in NM
By Andy Lyman | October 17, 2018
Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Flickr/cc
Controversial political figure and former presidential chief strategist Steve Bannon will make an appearance in New Mexico on Thursday in support of the Republican U.S. Senate candidate.
UPDATE: Steve Bannon: Mick Rich is a 'real populist'
Mick Rich's campaign confirmed that Bannon will speak on behalf of his political group Citizens of the American Republic in Roswell, stumping for the Albuquerque construction contractor and political newcomer. The Rich campaign said the event is sponsored and paid for by Citizens of the American Republic and Rich will appear as a guest.
Nick Gerard, a staffer with the Mick Rich campaign, said Bannon's appearance is notable for both the campaign and the Republican Party.
"A lot of people nationally kind of look at New Mexico and just assume it will forever and always be a Democratic state and that's not the case on the ground," Gerard said. "And it takes people like Steve Bannon coming in and people on the ground like Mick who believe in the state, who believe in its values to give us hope for 2018 and beyond."
Bannon gained national attention when he became the head of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and later became Trump's chief advisor and strategist. In 2017, Bannon left his job at the White House and returned to his role of executive chair of Breitbart News.
Bannon has been surrounded in controversy throughout his career, going back to his time at the the news site which he called a "platform for the alt-right." Bannon was reportedly a key figure in Trump's now-infamous travel ban which prevented people from seven Middle Eastern countries from traveling into the United States. Federal courts would eventually block the executive order.
Bannon reportedly advised Trump not to criticize far-right activists at the 2017 Charlottesville rally, where a white supremacist drove a car into a group of counter-protesters and killed one, because they were part of Trump's base.
Bannon has also been accused of being a racist and a supporter of white nationalism. While Bannon has denied ties to or support of white nationalist groups, but did tell a crowd in France, "Let them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."
Bannon was speaking at the convention of the National Front party, a far-right, anti-immigration, nationalist, political party. The party recently rebranded.
Democratic Party of New Mexico chairwoman Marg Elliston called for Rich to not show up to the event scheduled for Thursday.
Bannon also once referred to news media as the "opposition party."
"Let me be clear: There is no place for Steve Bannon or his hatred in New Mexico," Elliston said in a statement. "Mick Rich should immediately cancel his appearance and apologize."
Rich's Libertarian opponent Gary Johnson's campaign issued a statement critical of Bannon, but did not call for the event to be cancelled.
"He's attacked the state's largest faith, the Catholic Church, for its views toward immigrants, and thinks separating children from their parents at the border is good policy," Johnson's spokesman Joe Hunter said. "There are a lot of Republicans in New Mexico who aren't on board with those kinds of beliefs. We can only hope that spending a little time in the state might temper his views."
Indeed, Bannon made disparaging remarks about the Catholic Church and its views on immigration. Rich has stated in interviews and public debates that he is a devout Catholic, but has also campaigned on more border security.
Rich's campaign said Bannon's appearance will help to bolster Republican ideas and values.
"It's really important because the Republican Party in New Mexico needs to understand that its ideas are valuable, that its people are valuable and that it matters," Gerard said.
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extern "C" {
int __wrap_open(const char* pathname, int mode, int perms);
int __wrap_close(int dd);
int __wrap_read(int, void*, size_t);
off_t __wrap_lseek(int, off_t, int);
int nacl_file_write(int, void*, size_t);
int nacl_file_length(int fd);
}

namespace {
  std::string StripPath(const std::string& file_name) {
    if ((file_name.length() > 2) && (file_name.substr(0,2) == "./")) {
      return file_name.substr(2);
    }
    return file_name;
  }
}

// NOTE:  HACK:  None of this is thread-safe.  The idea is that all files must
// be completely downloaded before they are accessed, so there is no thread
// contention.
namespace nacl_file {

File::File(const std::string& name_arg, std::vector<uint8_t>& data_arg)
    : name(StripPath(name_arg)) {
  data.swap(data_arg);
  //std::printf("Created 'File' for %s, data is %zd bytes.\n", name.c_str(), data.size());
}

int FileHandle::Read(void* buffer, size_t num_bytes) {
  //std::printf("Attempting read of %s, position %zd, size %zd, %zd bytes.\n", file->name.c_str(), position, file->data.size(), num_bytes);
  if (position == file->data.size()) {
    //std::printf("Returning 0; EOF.\n");
    return 0;  // EOF
  }
  int bytes_to_read(std::min(num_bytes, file->data.size() - position));
  memcpy(buffer, &file->data[position], bytes_to_read);
  position += bytes_to_read;
  //std::printf("Read %zd bytes successfully, setting position to %zd.\n", bytes_to_read, position);
  return bytes_to_read;
}

// WARNING, Write is pretty much untested and probably doesn't work.
int FileHandle::Write(void* buffer, size_t num_bytes) {
  //std::printf("Attempting write of %s, position %zd, size %zd, %zd bytes.\n", file->name.c_str(), position, file->data.size(), num_bytes);
  if (position + num_bytes > file->data.size()) {
    file->data.resize(position + num_bytes);
  }
  memcpy(&file->data[position], buffer, num_bytes);
  position += num_bytes;
  //std::printf("Wrote %zd bytes successfully, setting position to %zd.\n", num_bytes, position);
  return 0;
}

off_t FileHandle::Seek(off_t offset, int whence) {
  //std::printf("Seeking from %zd with offset %ld, size=%zd, whence=", position, static_cast<long>(offset), file->data.size());
  switch (whence) {
    case SEEK_SET:
      //std::printf("SEEK_SET");
      position = offset;
      break;
    case SEEK_CUR:
      //std::printf("SEEK_CUR");
      position += offset;
      break;
    case SEEK_END:
      //std::printf("SEEK_END");
      position = static_cast<off_t>(file->data.size()) - offset - 1;
      break;
    default:
      break;
  }
  //std::printf("\nNew position is %zd.\n", position);
  return position;
}

FileManager::FileManager()
    : last_fd_(2) { // start with empty spots for stdout, stdin, and stderr
  //std::printf("Constructing FileManager.\n");
}
FileManager::~FileManager() {}
void FileManager::FileFinished(const std::string& file_name_arg,
                               std::vector<uint8_t>& data) {
  std::string name = StripPath(file_name_arg);
  file_map_[name] = File(name, data);
  pending_files_.erase(name);
  if (pending_files_.empty()) {
    ready_func_();
  }
}

FileManager::ResponseHandler::ResponseHandler(const std::string& name_arg,
                                              FileManager* manager_arg)
      : name_(StripPath(name_arg)), manager_(manager_arg) {
  //std::printf("Creating ResponseHandler.\n");
}

void FileManager::ResponseHandler::FileFinished(std::vector<uint8_t>& data,
                                                int32_t error) {
  //std::printf("Finished downloading %s, %zd bytes, error: %"NACL_PRId32".\n", name_.c_str(), data.size(), error);
  manager_->FileFinished(StripPath(name_), data);
  // NOTE:  manager_ deletes us in FileFinished, so |this| is no longer
  //        valid here.
}

FileManager& FileManager::instance() {
  static FileManager file_manager_instance;
  return file_manager_instance;
}

void FileManager::Fetch(const std::string& file_name_arg,
                        size_t size) {
  //std::printf("Requesting %s\n", file_name_arg.c_str());
  std::string file_name = StripPath(file_name_arg);
  FileManager& self = instance();
  std::pair<PendingMap::iterator, bool> iter_success_pair;
  iter_success_pair = self.pending_files_.insert(
      PendingMap::value_type(file_name,
                             ResponseHandler(file_name, &self)));
  PendingMap::iterator iter = iter_success_pair.first;
  bool success = iter_success_pair.second;
  // If it was successful, then this is the first time the file has been
  // added, and we should start a URL request.
  if (success) {
    GetURLHandler* handler = GetURLHandler::Create(self.pp_instance_,
                                                   file_name,
                                                   size);
    if (!handler->Start(NewGetURLCallback(&iter->second,
                                          &ResponseHandler::FileFinished))) {
      // Private destructor;  can't follow the example.
      // delete handler;
    }
  }
}

int FileManager::GetFD(const std::string& file_name_arg) {
  FileManager& self(instance());
  std::string file_name(StripPath(file_name_arg));
  FileMap::iterator iter = self.file_map_.find(file_name);
  if (iter != self.file_map_.end()) {
    // TODO(dmichael) worry about duplicates and overflow.
    int fd = ++self.last_fd_;
    self.file_handle_map_[fd] = FileHandle(&iter->second);
    return fd;
  }
  //std::printf("ERROR file not found, %s.\n", file_name_arg.c_str());
  errno = ENOENT;
  return -1;
}

void FileManager::AddEmptyFile(const std::string& file_name_arg) {
  FileManager& self(instance());
  std::string file_name(StripPath(file_name_arg));
  std::vector<uint8_t> empty_vec;
  self.file_map_.insert(FileMap::value_type(file_name,
                                            File(file_name, empty_vec)));
}

void FileManager::Close(int fd) {
  instance().file_handle_map_.erase(fd);
}

FileHandle* FileManager::GetFileHandle(int fd) {
  //std::printf("Getting file for FD %d.\n", fd);
  FileManager& self(instance());
  FileHandleMap::iterator iter = self.file_handle_map_.find(fd);
  if (iter != self.file_handle_map_.end())
    return &iter->second;

  return NULL;
}

}  // namespace nacl_file

int __wrap_open(char const *pathname, int oflags, int perms) {
  //std::printf("nacl_open, file %s\n", pathname);
  if (oflags & O_WRONLY) {
    // TODO: Make appending fail if append flag is not provided.
    //std::printf("Write mode.\n");
    // AddEmptyFile will do nothing if the file already exists.
    nacl_file::FileManager::AddEmptyFile(StripPath(pathname));
  }
  int fd = nacl_file::FileManager::GetFD(StripPath(pathname));
  //std::printf("Returning %d\n", fd);
  return fd;
}

int __wrap_close(int fd) {
  //std::printf("nacl_close, fd %d\n", fd);
  nacl_file::FileManager::Close(fd);
  return 0;
}

int __wrap_read(int fd, void* buffer, size_t num_bytes) {
  //std::printf("nacl_read, fd %d, num_bytes %zd\n", fd, num_bytes);
  nacl_file::FileHandle* file = nacl_file::FileManager::GetFileHandle(fd);
  if (file) {
    return file->Read(buffer, num_bytes);
  }
  //std::printf("No file found for fd %d.\n", fd);
  errno = ENOENT;
  return -1;
}

int nacl_file_write(int fd, void* buffer, size_t num_bytes) {
  //std::printf("nacl_file_write, fd %d, num_bytes %zd\n", fd, num_bytes);
  nacl_file::FileHandle* file = nacl_file::FileManager::GetFileHandle(fd);
  if (file) {
    return file->Write(buffer, num_bytes);
  }
  //std::printf("No file found for fd %d.\n", fd);
  errno = ENOENT;
  return -1;
}

off_t __wrap_lseek(int fd, off_t offset, int whence) {
  //std::printf("__wrap_seek, fd %d\n", fd);
  nacl_file::FileHandle* file = nacl_file::FileManager::GetFileHandle(fd);
  if (file) {
    return file->Seek(offset, whence);
  }
  errno = ENOENT;
  return -1;
}

int nacl_file_length(int fd) {
  //std::printf("__wrap_length, fd %d\n", fd);
  nacl_file::FileHandle* handle = nacl_file::FileManager::GetFileHandle(fd);
  if (handle) {
    int size = static_cast<int>(handle->file->data.size());
    //std::printf("__wrap_length is %d\n", size);
    return size;
  }
  errno = ENOENT;
  return -1;
}

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Former Terrorist and JKLF chief Yasin Malik faces trial in Jammu for gunning down of IAF personnel and the kidnapping of Rubiya Syed which happened about 30 years back. Yasin Malik is part of the separatist's group opposing Indian rule and this is for the first time he is being put on trials.
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In a 27-page judgement, Justice Sanjay Kumar Gupta also vacated an order by a single bench of the high court which had stayed trial against Malik in 1995, besides observing that the October 25, 2008 order of special TADA court of Jammu allowing Malik's petition for shifting trial to Srinagar was not correct. "
From bare perusal of contents of petitions and relief sought therein, one can definitely come to conclusion that petitioners (Malik) have sought transfer of their cases from designated court Jammu to additional court at Srinagar, which is not permissible under law," Justice Gupta said in his order.
Malik is presently lodged in Tihar jail in New Delhi after being arrested by the NIA in a case related to the financing of terror and separatists organisations.
The two cases relate to the killing of Indian Air Force officers on January 25, 1990, in the outskirts of Srinagar city and the kidnapping of then union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's daughter in 1989. Two chargesheets were filed by the CBI in August and September 1990 against Malik before the designated TADA court in Jammu.
In 1995, he was granted a stay on trial by a single bench of the Jammu and Kashmir high court as there was no TADA court in Srinagar.
In 2008, Malik approached the special court saying that the trial could be shifted to Srinagar as he was facing a lot of problems of security in view of the Amarnath row —- an agitation which had divided people of Kashmir and Jammu on religious lines over the issue of leasing out land to outsiders during the annual Amarnath pilgrimage.
CBI counsel Monika Kohli argued before the high court that the agency had opposed the transfer of cases to Srinagar which was rejected. She also informed the court that petitions challenging the order of TADA court were filed with the high court but the same could not be heard so far. During the pendency of trial in this case as well, an application was filed by the accused persons seeking transfer of the case to the designated TADA Court at Srinagar. The CBI filed objections and opposed the application, which was rejected by the order dated April 20, 2009.
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On Friday, March 22, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a new law that will position the state to obtain 100% of its electrical needs from renewable sources not later than 2050. The phase-in calls for 50% by 2030, 80% by 2040, and 100% for utility companies by 2045, with electric coops given until 2050 to comply.
Lujan Grisham campaigned on a pledge to bring renewable energy to New Mexico. Governors in Wisconsin and Colorado also campaigned on similar platforms and won, and Governor Jay Inslee of the state of Washington is pledging to rid his state of fossil fuel generating plants by 2045.
Politics means not everybody gets everything they want. In this case, critics of the bill say it amounts to a bailout for the Public Service Company of New Mexico, which is saddled with skyrocketing costs at its San Juan coal-powered generating station. PNM plans to close the facility ahead of schedule in 2022 and the new bill gives it authority to refinance its current indebtedness with new bonds at a lower interest rate that will be paid off by its customers over time. Critics also charge the new bill does not adequately compensate workers who will be affected by the transition of renewable energy.
But after a year of tough negotiations, the bill garnered support from a diverse group of backers, including PNM, environmental groups, and labor unions, all of whom see the new legislation as a step in in the right direction on the road to a clean energy future, one that is expected to see an expansion of industrial activity within the state.
For its part, PNM says it fully supported the new law and is already well along with plans to add renewable energy assets to its portfolio. "PNM is fully aware of the challenges this legislation places squarely on our company, but we know there is no better place than New Mexico to grow the renewable energy economy," said Pat Vincent-Collawn, PNM Resources president and chief executive. She added her company will be taking the challenge head on and will work to balance "this new path forward" with the needs of its workers and customers.
Taken as a whole, the new law is one of the strongest renewable energy commitments in the United States, rivaling those already enacted by California and Hawaii. The American West has often been seen as opposed to renewables, but with New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada now leading the way, that is no longer the case.


From the M50, simply take exit 13 and follow the signs to Dundrum. We are located on Level 2 of the Red Carpark, which is easily accessed by coming into the Tesco carpark and driving down to level 2. Alternatively, there is another entrance to the red car park on the Sandyford Road.
Many bus routes serve Dundrum Town Centre, including the following: 14, 17, 44, 44b, 75, 61, and the 116.
Dundrum Town Centre is accessible via the Green Line of the Luas. Get off at the Ballaly stop and the shopping centre is only a two minute walk away. The shopping centre is signposted from the Luas stop.
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Is this art? Or is this self-indulgence?
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Strictly linked to my previous article, and to complete my response to Colberg "On Trends", I'd like to add some further considerations.
First, the philosophical notion of being an "artist" in our post-modern world.
This notion is laden with heavy romantic over-tones about struggle, being true to oneself, overcoming the psychological and economic difficulties of surviving in a world which seems to ignore the beauty of truth and those who search for it. Frankly speaking, and I don't want to offend anyone, but there's a lot of bullshit in those notions which avoid the confrontation of who you are with what you do. There's this dichotomy between being true to oneself and the "truth" and selling out to a commercial world, including the fine-art of photography world, that you so precisely capture in your article. But I'd like to make another distinction which, I believe, might help the discussion.
What is the difference between self-expression and, what we consider in the long run, art? Is self-expression potentially art? Or is it a slightly childish self-indulgence in our infantile self which declares our uniqueness and intrinsic eternal value in a desperate attempt at being loved on a social scale? I know I'm being aggressively provocative, but you've made some interesting points on the value of being an "artist" which, I believe, can be made clearer through our discussion. Or at least, through my attempt at delving into the finer points that your article exposes.
We live in a narcissistic, self-centered world (our Western world) where what "I" want seems to be what governs my life and my concerns. Our basic concept of "freedom" is totally biased by our narcissistic self-indulgence. "We" can decide our own future, choose our own life-styles, marry and divorce whomever we wish in a totally free atmosphere of self-construction. But, and it's a very large but, it also puts us in a very fragile position of needing confirmation and acceptance on a larger scale in order not to succumb to our interior anxieties and fears about who we are. In fact, in our total inebriation of self-indulgence and self-importance, we seem to be flying like Icaro towards the blinding Sun which will eventually lead to our deaths. I know, big words, big concepts which some may take offense to. Sorry, I'm just trying to think this through.
What does this "flight into the Sun" have to do with being an artist? What IS being an artist? Well, your article seems to say, "What truly matters is for an artist to remain true to her or himself, and thus by extension to the work, however much resistance is going to be encountered." Does that mean I can defecate in the street and call it art? Obviously not. But your affirmation leads to that conclusion, and here's the point. Art is NOT an object, a photograph, a painting, an installation or a piece of pottery. It's a way of doing things. You don't MAKE art, you make things WITH your art, which is your domination of techniques and thoughts in a constructive process of expression. How, and this is the real point, can THAT be useful, interesting, or even, acceptable to a society? To find that answer, I'd like to look at the history of art for a couple of seconds.
All, and I say all, that has become "art" in our society, world or civilization has a profound relationship with "meanings" relevant to society itself. There is no art which is not relevant to society. It is society which eventually deems an object or process worthy of it's praise and reflection. Art is not a collection of self-indulgent finger-paintings which anyone can do for the fun of it. But it is exactly this attitude which has filled our colleges and universities with fledgling "artists". Teach them technique and then say, "express yourself". But what, if anything, can an introverted, delicate minded being say if they're not immersed in the confusing and dirty world which surrounds us? Does self-indulgence, camouflaged as a search for the "truth" within, justify our auto-referential definition as "an artist"?
This is the kind of justification, I believe, is what most people are doing in the "art" world. I think you agree with that because I've always felt your aggressive words are often trying to pin-point the forgeries which go by the name of "art". But the question lies in interpreting the values of life in our society (not simply documenting it, which can also be a form of "art") and visualizing the contradictions of life so that others, finding meaning in those visual representations, elevate the object into the realm of things we treasure and need in order to understand ourselves. A flimsy self-indulging diary of my own feelings through my use of a medium, such as photography, is nothing more than that: a flimsy self-indulging fooling of oneself. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone.
The other question is how and why society determines certain objects of expression to be worthy of global acceptance. That is truly a hermeneutical question which, obviously, interests those like you and I who are trying to maintain our mental authenticity in a world which buffets any and all, endlessly, until we return to the stars. But I won't delve into THAT question at the moment because it is a complex one indeed. However, being true to "what the work requires…" should involve, at least, a deeper reflection on what the work is worth to people at large and not only to a very select few high-priests who determine its profound value. Otherwise, we risk creating a caste of high-priests totally out of contact with the real world. I think Jesus had something to say about that one…
David Birkin, Revisited, 2006, c-type print mounted on aluminium, 76 x 95 cm
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How was the announcement of the impending fall of Jerusalem the Gospel of the Kingdom?
I have and do affirm that the time of the fall of Jerusalem was the time when "all things written" were fulfilled. God's eschatological and soteriological schema was completed, the unending New Covenant age of Messiah came fully into play.
Over the last three articles I have examined some objections that are offered to counter this claim. This is an examination of the fourth objection to be examined. The objection maintains that when Jesus was still on the cross and he said, "It is finished" that this was indicating that the Old Law, the Law of Moses, was now completed. That is the time, we are told, when the Law of Moses was nailed to the cross. While this is a common belief, and one that I personally espoused for many years, I do not believe it is Biblical.
So, what then did Jesus mean when he cried out, "It is finished"? We need to understand a bit about prolepsis to understand John 19. Prolepsis is speaking of something as if it is finished, when in reality it is so sure to be finished, or is so close to being finished, that it is spoken of as a completed reality.
Consider John 17:4, where Jesus, before the cross, said, "I have finished the work which You have given me to do." Jesus had clearly not yet finished that work, he had not even died yet!
Was Jesus wrong in John 17? Did he lie? No, patently not. He spoke as if the work was finished knowing that the sacrificial work was about to be finished. And yet, the full out working of the Atonement was not yet completed, as Hebrews 9 shows.
Passover – which is when Jesus was crucified – was the first of Israel's feast days (See Exodus 12-14). It initiated the first four feast days, the feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and Pentecost (or First-Fruit). Pentecost was the last of those first four festivals.
Paul called attention to the fact that Jesus was the Passover sacrifice (1 Corinthians 5). His death on the Cross was the "reality" to which the original Passover pointed. But, ask yourself the question: Was Israel's festal calendar finished / consummated / finalized with the completion of the Passover sacrifice – the first of the seven feast days? Patently not. What then is the meaning of, "It is finished"? As we will see momentarily, it meant that just as the High Priest was declaring that the typological Passover ceremony was finished, Jesus, the True High Priest, was declaring that the True Passover sacrifice was completed. With the Passover sacrifice offered, the other feast days were about to be finished. It actually meant that the festal calendar was now underway – not that it was finished! To get a bit of better understanding and appreciation for the Passover, and even its eschatological role, we need to look at history for corroboration and understanding of Jesus' cry: "It is finished" as it related to the Passover. We can look to both the Passover meal, and to the Temple actions during Passover to appreciate what Jesus said as he was on the Cross. I will share below from an earlier article that I did, with some editing.
In regard to the preliminary Passover meal and its typological significance, Pitre has some insightful comments.
Pitre speaks of the four cups of Passover. The fourth cup was the final cup to conclude the Passover.
Pitre notes, "When Jesus said, 'It is finished,' he was not referring to his life or his messianic mission. For he did not say it until his request for a drink had been answered. He did not say it until 'he had received the wine.' Why? What does that mean? Once again, when we remember Jesus' vow at the Last Supper, and his prayer about drinking the 'cup' in Gethsemane, then the meaning of Jesus' last word becomes clear. It means that Jesus did in fact drink the fourth cup of the Jewish Passover. It means that he did in fact finish the Last Supper. But, he did not do it in the Upper Room. He did it on the cross. He did it at the very moment of his death." (Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, (New York, Doubleday; 2011), 155f).
An examination of the cups of Passover and how the NT writers utilized the typology of the Supper is helpful and full of meaning.
1. Festival Blessing – Drink from 1st cup of wine.
2. Passover Narrative and Little Hallel (Psalm 113) – Drink from 2nd cup of wine.
This is highly suggestive. The third cup, in Jewish thought, signified salvation through suffering: "The third cup was drunk in connection with Exod 6.6c: "I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments." Thus, it symbolized redemption by judgment." (Daniel Wallace, http://endtimepilgrim.org/fourthcup.htm).
So, when Paul spoke of the Supper and the "Cup of Blessing" in direct connection with the suffering of Christ, does this not suggest that the fourth cup – like Jesus did- would be taken with the filling up of the measure of suffering? Just as Jesus drank the fourth cup on the cross, i.e. through finishing his sacrifice, the early church had to drink the fourth cup by filling up the measure of suffering that Jesus foretold in Matthew 23:29f.
Thus, in 1 Corinthians 11:26 when Paul spoke of, "shewing forth the Lord's death until he comes" he was referring to their participation in Christ's suffering and the consequent impending consummation of the last days, eschatological suffering of the early church as the participated in "the sufferings of Christ" (Cf. Romans 8:17) and anticipated "the glory" about to be revealed (2 Thessalonians 1:10f; 1 Peter 5:1f, etc.).
4. The Passover is completed with the singing of the Great Hallel (PSALMS 114-118), the drinking of the 4th cup of wine, and closed when the presiding priest or host says the phrase, "TEL TELESTE" which is interpreted as "IT IS FINISHED" or "IT IS CONSUMMATED". (http://passoversedermeal.com/bible-verses.html).
Failure to integrate the typology of the Passover meal and the cups into our interpretation of several NT passages surely leads to a failure to fully appreciate what the writers were saying. The richness of this kind of study can hardly be over-emphasized. Unfortunately, the significance of Israel's festal calendar for understanding the NT is greatly ignored or overlooked.
In regard to the Temple practice of the Passover, it is incredible to consider what was taking place in the Temple at the very moment Jesus – the True Passover – was on the Cross. Take a look at the following information, that can be found here.
At Passover, the lamb that the high priest chose was staked at the temple mount for the public to inspect. All could inspect it for four days before it was offered up for sacrifice. The thousands of lambs would then be sacrificed, starting at around 9:00am. The shofar would sound to announce to the surrounding areas that the last lamb of about 250,000 (over 40,000 per hour) had been slaughtered. This would be about 3:00pm. The blood from the slaughter was in such volume that it shone in the brazen pans as the sunlight reflected on it. This red glow (shine) was evident from the hills a long distance away. The High Priest who had closely inspected the lamb, satisfied it was unblemished (perfect), would say: "I find no fault in him" (John 18:38, 19:4, 6). The main lamb offering at the temple mount during Passover was made by the High Priest after all the others had been made, about 3:00pm. Starting at about 9:00am the High priest was required (by tradition) to stand there for about six hours and supervise until all the lambs were sacrificed. It was exactly six hours that Yeshua hung on the stake before He died. After the High Priest offered up the last lamb the High priest would say "I thirst". He would then wet his lips with water and proclaim that "it is finished", meaning the slaughtering of all the lambs for Passover. It was exactly 3:00pm when Yeshua gave up His Spirit and said His last words; "It is finished." If you recall, as part of the Jewish wedding tradition the father of the groom to be would declare to his son "it is finished", when the groom's house was complete. He was then able to go get his bride. Does this sound familiar?
The point of all of this is to show – very powerfully – that when Jesus cried out, "It is finished!" that he was by no means declaring that the Law of Moses was finished. He declaring that is suffering as the Passover Lamb was finished. But, when viewed through the prism of the Jewish Festal Calendar, what that meant was that God was now in the process of bringing the types and shadows of the entire calender to fulfillment. And we see that in the resurrection of Jesus and in the events of Pentecost, the last of the first four feast days.
In light of all of this, there is no justification whatsoever for claiming that the Law of Moses would pass away with the fulfillment of only one – the first one – of God's feast days – all of which were types and shadows. Jesus' words "It is finished" simply conveyed the idea that Passover – his sacrificial suffering – was now finished.


One of the unique needs when designing and developing mission systems for the defense industry, is the fact that you need to be able to trace system requirements to individual test steps in a test case. Based on this advice we received from industry subject matter experts, we added support in SpiraTeam v5 for this feature. However one limitation was that the data migration tools we have for loading data from Excel into SpiraTeam don't let you add requirement - test step links in bulk... until today.
Data migration is a pain, we all know that. However when you want to migrate from an antiquated paper-based approach to using a modern requirements and test management system like SpiraTest or ALM platform such as SpiraTeam, you have no choice, but to migrate over some of your old data. Until now, we only had import tools based on Microsoft Office, running on Windows... but that changed this week.
Many of our customers choose SpiraTest because they are tired of using manual paper-based methods such as Microsoft Excel or Word. They want to be able to more easily manage their testing, record test results and see in real-time the progress and status of their testing activities.
What to Do When Your Testers Are Addicted to Word and Excel?
Many of our customers have spent much of their testing career managing tests in Word or Excel. These tools are flexible, ubiquitous, and easy to use. But they are also fiddly, inefficient, and hard to manage over time. SpiraTest addresses these downsides, bringing a host of other pluses too. For people looking to combine the best of both (SpiraTest and more traditional tools), WorX (from Autom8) may well be what you are looking for.


Lance and Michael have been married since 2014.
'Just last week, [we] started the process. So we are excited, and it is going a lot faster than we ever thought, which is kind of freaking me out,' Lance went on.
As fans know, the star has been talking about expanding his family for a couple of years now so why is he so anxious about it now?
At least he has people to ask for parenting advice when they'll finally have their baby.
Former members of the boy band, Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone are all fathers.
Speaking of *NSYNC, they are also set to reunite on April 30 for the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
Stevie Nicks Mistakes Harry Styles For An NSYNC Member – Gets Made Fun Of On Social Media!


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Erigabo o Erigavo (somalí: Ceerigaabo) es la capital de la región de Sanaag, al norte de Somalia, y está dividida entre la autoproclamada República de Somalilandia y Puntland. Tiene una población cercana a 35.000 habitantes y es habitado principalmente por los Warsangeli de Harti Darod (este de Sanaag), Dulbahante de Harti Darod, (centro y sur de Sanaag) y algunos sectores de los Isaaq (norte y oeste de Sanaag).

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Find out what Danny Brown is thinking on 'uknowhatimsayin¿'
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Vince Carter is forty-two years old and has been in the NBA mainstay since 1998. (For those of you keeping track at home, that's twenty-one going on twenty-two seasons, an all-time league record.) He's an old man still making waves in a young man's game. Carter has perfectly transitioned from his high-flying acrobatic style of play, defined by insane slam dunks, to a mentor and a sharpshooter. He's twentieth on the all-time scoring list, sixth on the all-time 3-point field goals made list and fifth on the all-time games played list (1,477 games and still going!).
Here's another fun fact: Danny Brown is thirty-eight years old and has only been in the rap scene since 2010, when he released his first solo album The Hybrid (for those of you keeping track at home, that's a mere nine years. As a reference, Schoolboy Q, age 32 and Danny's friend and collaborator, has been signed to TDE since 2009). He's an old man who has only recently started making serious waves in today's rap game. However, in that brief time, he's released a critically-lauded and fan-adored mixtape XXX, a commercially and critically successful album Old and a critical darling and experimental strung-out rap masterpiece Atrocity Exhibition.
Somehow, Danny Brown continues to make some of the most inventive music of any mainstream artist today. He's constantly changing aspects of his sound and selecting beats that would make other rappers wince. Yet, for some reason, he decided to go back to basics with his latest release uknowhatimsayin¿. That is, he's going back to his basics.
On uknowhatimsayin¿, Danny Brown finds himself doing what he does best: rapping. Gone (mostly) is the yelp of a voice that he's known for, and in its place is a new, low register growl. Gone too are the challenging, abstract Paul White beats that have defined Brown's music for the past few years. Paul White is still around as Danny's main producer, but he gets some help from the likes of Flying Lotus, Standing on the Corner and the legendary Q-Tip, who also serves as the album's executive producer. He's rapping for the sake of rapping, and that's a beautiful thing because he's damn good at it.
Danny comes out the gates swinging with "Change Up," a murky track highlighted by pulsing drum breaks and multiple guitar licks. It would be a subdued song for a lot of rappers, but for him, it's really subdued. It doesn't matter though, because he still raps his ass off, spitting ominous, jarring things like, "They thought I was gone, back from the grave / Mind of a master, blood of a slave" and "Lord, have mercy, pray for me / Need to calm down, so pass me weed / Got me stressed out, situation looking bleak / Time's runnin out, how'd my days turn to weeks?"
Despite the bleak opener, uknowhatimsayin¿ might be Danny Brown's most vibrant sounding album yet. The beats are absolutely wild, the most prominent example being the JPEGMAFIA-produced "3 Tearz." The track is a modern take on boom-bap, defined by organ blasts, fat drums and strange bursts of abstract noise. The production throughout is a blast, to say the least.
Most importantly, Danny is having fun on this album, making it a joy to listen to, and at 33 minutes in length, it begs for repeat listens. His rapping is loose, but he's always in control, never straying far from each beat's pocket. uknowhatimsayin¿ is filled with little tidbits, including a quick shout out to Pat Benatar and a reference to Elvis Presley's supposed death on the toilet. It's the first album in his discography in which listeners don't have to be worried about Danny's well-being; he just sounds like he's in good health and good spirits.
Despite his turn away from experimentalism, uknowhatimsayin¿ has cemented Danny Brown's status as a legendary figure in hip hop. He's making the music he wants to make, and he's not compromising his artistic vision for the sake of commercial success. This album marks a new era in Danny's life. He's making music that accurately represents who he is, and he should. As he says in "Best Life," "'Cause ain't no next life, so now I'm tryna live my best life / I'm livin' my best life," and uknowhatimsayin¿ is a good representation of that.


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Ferries of Crimea-Kavkaz link make up to 30 voyages per day
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Crimea-Kavkaz, ferry link in Kerch, has increased the number of voyages from 18 to 30 voyages per day which has reduced congestion of automobiles by a half. According to the press center of ANO Unified Transport Directorate, the increase of passenger throughput capacity and the decrease of automobile congestion have been achieved through optimization of the ferry link operation and separation of passenger and cargo transportation.
- This ferry link operates only for passengers while trucks are transported by the Poseidon-Express along the Novorossiysk-Feodosia. The vessel's cargo capacity is 6,000 t that is some 120 large capacity trucks. Every day the vessel carries 100-110 trucks.
Besides, additional ferry, the Slavyanin, will be deployed for operation at the Crimea-Kavkaz ferry link exclusively for passenger cars (up to 240 cars) in order to minimize congestions.
As of today, the route is serviced by three ferry boats: Nikolai Aksenenko (261 passengers and 47 vehicles); Kerchensky 2 (215 passengers and 31 vehicles); Yeisk (175 passengers and 29 vehicles), the statement says.
From the beginning of 2014, throughput capacity of the ferry link has increased 2.5 times, year-on-year, to 5,000 persons and 900 vehicles per day.
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Fixed wireless promises broadband access where cable and DSL do not go.
In the digital world, its rare to find a product or service that isnt overhyped the moment it hits the street. Everything arrives with capital letters and exclamation points. XO Communications! Now available! Yahoo!
But the relatively subdued arrival of fixed wireless broadband to the scene has the proponents of this promising nascent technology scrambling a little to get the word out.
"The most interesting thing to us is that more and more users want a faster and faster network," says Amir Zoufonoun, Western Multiplexs president and chief operating officer. "Applications now require more bandwidth. The demand is there, but awareness is not. Most do not know that this service exists. They have no idea what they can do."
"There has been a lot of buzz inside the access industry," says Dave Kimzey, vice president and general manager of Alcatels Wireless Access Products business unit, "but it has not generally been publicized as an emerging technology."
As the business and personal Internet world has become increasingly frustrated with the availability — or lack thereof — of high-speed connections such as cable and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), fixed wireless offers another solution to the "last-mile" bottleneck.
The technology is somewhat similar to that which delivers a signal to a mobile phone. Typically, an antenna on the roof of the office building or home receives a signal from a base at a radio tower. The tower, in turn, relays the signals to the Internet backbone. Transmission rates depend on the distance between the receiver and the base station. Up to nine miles from the base station, data moves along at a 100-megabit-per-second clip; speeds drop to about 2 Mbps at 35 miles from the base.
Wireless broadband providers offer competitive rates, reliable service and rapid, relatively easy installation, compared to their cable and DSL competitors. However, the technology usually requires that the user have an unobstructed line of sight to the originating tower.
Fixed wireless also delivers high download speeds, but uploads — at least for residential consumers — can be slower, though technology improvements are lowering this gap.
"Were still in the black-and-white television era of broadband," says Jerry Sullivan, president and chief executive of Kite Networks. "What youre seeing is a new evolution of technology in data access."
There are essentially two flavors of fixed wireless — point-to-point and point-to-multipoint — each operating in two regulatory environments — regulated and unregulated.
Companies that provide point-to-point service — such as Western Multiplex — are trying to corral the large-business users that want more bandwidth. In this incarnation, a company gets dedicated bandwidth from the tower to its building, in a one-to-one relationship. Zoufonoun says that Western Multiplexs products currently address the needs of businesses that need 10 Mbps or more.
In the point-to-multipoint business — which seems to be the larger play at this stage, involving companies such as Kite, Raze Technologies, Sprint and WorldCom — a radio link is established from a hub to two or more remote sites, and the signal is shared in a starburst pattern. This service targets small to midsized businesses and residential users.
These markets necessarily overlap, of course: Few of the companies that provide point-to-multipoint service will turn down big customers, and point-to-point service provider Western Multiplex is developing a point-to-multipoint product for commercial introduction later this year.
That fixed wireless broadband has seemingly appeared from nowhere has to do with a favorable regulatory climate.
"If you look back at the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the [Federal Communications Commission] allocated the spectrum that were working in — in the 5-gigahertz range — for fixed-wireless data," Sullivan says. "I think a lot of what has really made the wireless space blossom is the FCC giving the ability to access the spectrum. There is no barrier to entry."
Companies that operate in the unlicensed spectrum can simply buy off-the-shelf equipment and begin transmission. The "garbage bands," as the FCC unofficially calls them, are not regulated or monitored. As more users pile on, transmission becomes fuzzy, which is more of a problem in larger cities.
In the suburbs, rural areas and small cities, however, where demand for bandwidth should be more manageable, this unlicensed spectrum will provide the path for wireless. Signals in the unlicensed spectrum are only coherent for about 3.2 miles. In the licensed spectrum, they can travel 35 miles.
The licensed spectrum was originally auctioned by the FCC for digital television. This idea fizzled, however, and the licenses were resold, mostly to Sprint and WorldCom. Sprint spent about $1 billion for licenses in 90 cities.
So far, Sprint has rolled out wireless broadband services to consumers in 13 markets. "I think it has been a wild success," says Evan Conway, vice president of marketing at Sprint. "With very little marketing, weve proved that this is one leg of the three-legged stool," with the other two legs being cable and DSL.
Sprint would not release its customer count, though in Phoenix, where wireless broadband was originally rolled out and which is one of the most competitive markets for high-speed access, Conway will admit to having subscribers in the "double-digit thousands." The rollout was first done administratively as a separate unit, but it has been successful enough that Sprint is now integrating fixed wireless broadband into its regular corporate offerings and structure.
The potential market for the technology is huge. Forrester Research estimates that 45.8 million households will have broadband connections to the Internet by 2005, up from 2.8 million today. The researchers expect increased availability, greater competition and lower prices to kick broadband adoption into hypergrowth this year.
The FCC is similarly bullish, writing in an August report that analysts envision residential high-speed subscribers to increase to 35 million by the end of 2004, up from 1.9 million in early 2000.
Analysts see revenue potential in the connectivity. The Strategis Group estimates that revenue from broadband fixed wireless will reach $6.4 billion in 2004; others project about $5 billion that year.
This potential market has companies pursuing a gold rush whose wild enthusiasms will soon punctuate the airwaves and print media because, the fact is, Americans dont much care how their high-speed Internet access is delivered. They wont know Local Multipoint Distribution Service and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service from DSL and T1 (1.5 Mbps). And because the annoyance and inconvenience of switching from one service to another can be great, the first technology to arrive at the doorstep is likely to be the one that consumers stick with.
No one expects fixed wireless to replace cable or DSL. As Conway says, it will be only one leg of the stool. But it will almost certainly provide a kick in the pants to those technologies, which have been plagued with technical, service and installation problems.
The companies flocking into this space are all trying to differentiate their products. Kite, which focuses on small and midsized business clients, is zeroing in on the 5-GHz spectrum on the unlicensed band. The company started in 1999, and raised $6 million from institutional investors in the second quarter of 2000. Kite was the first of five companies to enter a wireless agreement with Cisco Systems, and it secured a $50 million debt facility from Cisco Capital. "Weve been the flagship for Cisco in the broadband space," Sullivan says.
Consumers are most familiar with wireless as a portable telephone technology. Richardson, Texas-based Raze is bundling both high-speed Internet access and fixed telephony systems into its wireless technology. Raze expects to begin beta testing its solution this summer.
"The solution we believe were bringing to the table that nobody else is solving is a bundled voice and data solution," says Raze CEO John Festa. Raze is targeting the "primary voice, your lifeline voice system," mostly for residential and home, small and medium office customers.
Festa estimates that 35 percent to 50 percent of U.S. residences dont have access to broadband service. "You can spend millions [of dollars] and in some areas billions of dollars laying cable and fiber to bridge that last mile to every residence," Festa says. "With our solution, only about 15 percent of the total cost is in the infrastructure. As the provider signs on each subscriber, he has to put the box on the house. Our initial price point will be $650 to put the box on the house."
Service providers could expect to charge $70 to $100 per month for the service, which would include two voice lines and broadband data service, Festa says. Capital costs would be recouped within a year. Raze hopes to lower per-building installation costs to less than $500 within the next two years.
So, now wireless broadband becomes a replacement for the local phone company. Kite says that in some regions where telephone access is often limited or of poor quality, voice — not data — may have the primary appeal.
And in the not-too-distant future, wireless broadband could also replace the cable or the rooftop satellite dish to deliver digital images to the TV set. This was, after all, the initial vision of the technology when the FCC first issued the licenses.
Alcatels Kimzey says that when the FCC first started allocating spectrum, it was intended for one-way video distribution. Now it is available for two-way data transmission, but as the technology is refined, the original use remains possible.
Alcatel is providing wireless as one of many broadband access techniques, especially to address the "hole in connectivity" for small and midsized enterprises that are not well served by broadband access now. "They want a megabit [per second] of service, but they cant get DSL," Kimzey says. The company offers 20 different variants of radios, from 20 [GHz] to 40 GHz, and point-to-point products.
Customer satisfaction with these initial services appears to be high. Jerry Livingston, managing partner at InterLink Technologies in Phoenix, has been testing Kites products. InterLink sells business phone systems. Livingston wanted to be sure the technology worked before he offered it to his customers. After testing Kites beta products for a couple of months, "our reaction has been positive," he says.
It can take the local phone company 40 to 60 days to deliver a T1 line, Livingston says, but Kite "can deliver T1-equivalent service in 10 days." For a small to midsized company, Kite charges about $400 for 2 Mbps of service.
Sprints Conway says that his companys network has experienced very few outages, and that customer satisfaction is high. Sprint is making strides in increasing upload speeds, which have been slow, but Conway adds that the technology is probably not right for those looking for a perfectly symmetrical connection.
"This product is meant for the person thats the surfer, and for applications that are downstream intensive. It is not meant for the guy who wants to back up his hard drive every night," Conway says.
Sprint eventually may begin bundling voice and data service "There are some interesting hybrid applications," Conway says, "but theyre not in the short-term, 12-month strategy."
BroadJump, a company that has been providing software for DSL and cable broadband, has recently entered the fixed wireless market. BroadJumps product allows the consumer or technician to set up the computer interface using a CD, just like any other software is installed.
"The real beauty of broadband wireless for Sprint and WorldCom is that it is an effective competitive technology to cable and DSL. By putting a third option on the table, it is going to light a fire under those other technologies" says Boyd Peterson, director of product marketing at BroadJump. "If you were to put on your forecasting goggles, we are going to have cable, DSL, wireless, satellite and passive optical networking to the home. Ultimately, broadband is going to proliferate extremely quickly. All are going to take a chunk of that."