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Q: How to use CloudFront and S3 with alternate domain? Let's say I have an S3 bucket named example.com and I want to serve its content through CloudFront using an alternate domain example.com.
I've added a CNAME record to direct example.com to the CloudFront endpoint, and secured the domain using an AWS SSL Certificate.
In CloudFront, when I go to select the Origin, it shows my bucket. For example: example.com.s3.amazonaws.com
If I choose this origin, and I browse to https://example.com/my-bucket-item.jpg, I get redirected to https://example.com.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/my-bucket-item.jpg and a "Connection not secure" SSL error appears.
If I set the origin to just the domain example.com then I get a 403 Bad Request error from CloudFront.
From what I understand, my bucket has to share the name of my domain, otherwise I get a "bucket does not exist" error.
I've followed the AWS documentation on this. What I'm doing wrong here?
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I successfully got CloudFront to recognize my alternate domain by changing my origin policy to Managed-CORS-S3Origin.
New problem: even though I've selected 'Yes' to 'Restrict Bucket Access', I'm still able to access files via the S3 url. Do I need to turn off public access to my bucket? If I do this, it seems to override my CloudFront policy...

A: I had to change my origin request policy to Managed-CORS-S3Origin - this solved the general problem for me.


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Adam is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Adam holds the degrees of:
Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne;
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Notre Dame Australia;
Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in finance and accounting, from the University of Notre Dame Australia; and
Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from Kaplan Education.
Adam is a member of the Victorian Regional Council of children's cancer charity, Redkite.
Between 2010 and 2012, Adam lectured in the Law of Corporate Finance in the University of Notre Dame Australia's undergraduate law program.
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Adam has an uncommon blend of M&A (both public and private), private funds (domestic and offshore), capital markets and corporate advisory expertise.
Adam advises on transactions across a range of industries. He has particular expertise in acting for financial investors (both sponsors and institutional investors) on infrastructure and private equity transactions.
Adam is co-head of Herbert Smith Freehills' Australian pharma practice.
He has worked in Herbert Smith Freehills' London, Melbourne and Perth offices. Adam is a 'global' corporate lawyer, with significant experience advising on Australian, Asian, US and European transactions.
Clients have described Adam as "first class", having a "solutions orientated approach" and "going above and beyond".
Adam represents the firm's Australian offices on the steering committee for the firm's impact investment practice, HSF Impact.
Adam has extensive experience advising on all types of M&A and other strategic transactions, including hostile and recommended takeover bids and defences, demergers, distressed M&A and joint ventures. Adam's credentials include advising:
Healthscope on its response to the approaches from the BGH-AusSuper Consortium and Brookfield and the successful scheme of arrangement and simultaneous takeover bid by Brookfield
National Australia Bank on its proposed demerger of its wealth management business
QSuper on its investment in Heathrow Airport
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on the A$13 billion acquisition of Asciano and the associated break-up sales of Asciano's ports and bulk businesses to bcIMC and CPPIB
AbbVie on its initially hostile proposal and eventual US$55 billion recommended takeover offer for Shire
Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund on its A$1.3 billion takeover by APA Group
Utilities Trust of Australia in respect of its various investments in Perth, Melbourne and Launceston airports, Transgid, Electranet, Phoenix Natural Gas, Sydney Desalination Plant and South East Water
Future Fund on its participation in the successful Lonsdale Consortium (alongside QIC, GIP and OMERS) on the privatisation of the Port of Melbourne
EQT, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC on the A$1.26 billion sale of I- MED Radiology Network to Permira
Samsung C&T on its US$8 billion merger with Cheil Industries
The Weir Group on its proposed US$15 billion merger with Metso Oyj
Cargill, Inc. on the sale of its global malt business to Axéréal's malt subsidiary, Boortmalt
Coles Financial Services on the sale of its credit card loan book to, and establishment of its ongoing credit card distribution business with, Citi Bank
The Riverside Company, in respect of various acquisitions and disposals, including the sale of Global Orthopaedic Technologies, the sale of Simcro Limited, and the acquisition of Energy Exemplar
Centro Property Group on its A$12 billion debt to equity restructuring via five interconditional schemes of arrangement and a A$9.4 billion sale of US property assets to a Blackstone fund - widely viewed as the most complex restructuring in Australia's corporate history and winner of M&A Deal of the year at the Capital CFO Awards 2012 and Australian Insolvency & Restructuring Deal of the Year Award at the 2012 ALB Australasian Law Awards
TPG Capital and the vehicle which gave effect to Alinta Energy's A$2.5 billion debt for equity swap – the first transaction of this nature undertaken in Australia. This transaction won the ALB Business Awards Insolvency and Restructuring Deal of the Year in 2011
VicSuper on its investment in Sunshine Coast Airport
VicSuper, on its participation in the acquisition consortium in respect of the acquisition of Wheelabrator from US private equity firm, Energy Capital Partners
Macquarie on the sale of its interest in the Mumbida Wind Farm to Energy Infrastructure Trust
GE Energy Financial Services Inc and Boco Rock Wind Farm Pty Ltd on the development, financing and divestment of the Boco Rock Wind Farm
Prime Infrastructure on its A$555 million sale of its WA, Victorian and Tasmanian electricity and gas distribution assets
South Australian Health Partnership (comprising Macquarie Capital, John Laing and InfraRed Capital) on the New Royal Adelaide Hospital PPP Project
Utilities Trust of Australia on the sale of a 50% interest in the Port of Portland
Laguna Bay Pastoral Company on the sale of the freehold estate underpinning the largest almond plantation in the Southern Hemisphere
Elders on the sale of forestry assets to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
Element Financial Corporation on its US$6.9 billion cross-border acquisition of GE's fleet management business
Cargill on the A$364 million sale of flour milling and food manufacturing business, Allied Mills, to Pacific Equity Partners investee, Pinnacle Bakery
Wesfarmers on its £340 million acquisition of the UK Homebase retail business from Home Retail Group
Asia Coal Energy Ventures on its £100m unsolicited takeover bid for Asia Resource Minerals plc and an associated US$120 million acquisition of a loan portfolio
Catalpa Resources Limited's A$1.1 billion merger by way of scheme of arrangement with Conquest Mining and contemporaneous acquisition of Newcrest's interests in the Cracow and Mt Rawdon gold mines (to form Evolution Mining)
Catalpa Resources Limited's merger by way of scheme of arrangement with Lion Selection Limited
Murchison Metals Limited's proposed A$3.2 billion merger by way of scheme of arrangement with Midwest Corporation Limited
Mount Gibson Iron Limited's A$600 million hostile takeover of Aztec Resources Limited
Paladin Resources Ltd's A$1.2 billion hostile takeover bid for Summit Resources Limited
Customers Limited's scheme of arrangement for acquisition by DirectCash Inc.
Nova Energy Limited's A$276 million recommended takeover bid for Toro Energy Limited.
Plus500 Ltd on its £460 million takeover by Playtech plc by way of merger under Israeli Companies Law
Great Southern Limited's A$151.8 million acquisition of the interests of investors in 8 managed investment schemes via contractual schemes of arrangement
Swisse Wellness on the establishment of a global joint venture with PGT Healthcare LLP (the international joint venture between The Procter & Gamble Company and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd) for the roll-out of Swisse Wellness' vitamins, minerals and supplements range in Asia, Europe and Latin America
Adam advises sponsors and institutional investors in relation to all matters arising across a private fund's life cycle and a range of asset classes (including private equity, venture capital, debt, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds) and jurisdictions (including Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Delaware, Luxembourg, England, Scotland, Guernsey and Jersey) including:
the establishment of domestic and international open- and closed-ended funds and other structures;
acquisitions and disposals of fund interests and underlying portfolio assets;
co-investments and direct investments;
fund restructures; and
internal governance, compensation arrangements and economic structures.
Adam advised the A$6.3 billion UTA on its manager replacement process – the largest infrastructure portfolio to undergo a change of manager in Australian history.
Adam's sponsor clients include Impact Investment Group, Federation Asset Management, Lighthouse Infrastructure, Social Ventures Australia, JPMorgan Asset Management, Goldman Sachs International, CVC Credit Partners, Dexus Funds Management, Laguna Bay Pastoral and Mekong Strategic Ventures
Adam's institutional investor clients include Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, the Medical Research Future Fund, Victorian Funds Management Corporation, VicSuper, EnergySuper, Franklin Templeton and a number of other institutional investors on their investments with a range of managers, including Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Campbell Global, Oaktree, ROC Capital, QIC, PIMCO, AHL, Quadrant, Bridgewater Associates, New Enterprise Associates, Glen Point and Ellerston Capital.
Adam acts for both issuers and underwriters in equity, debt and hybrid offerings by companies in Australia, Europe, the US, Asia and elsewhere. Adam's capital raising credentials include:
Lonmin on its US$407 million rights issue on the London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, its US$370 million debt refinancing and its renegotiation of its South African Black Economic Empowerment arrangements
CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities' placing programme on the London Stock Exchange
Pact Group on its A$1.2 billion initial public offering and listing on ASX
Alinta Energy on its A$1.15 billion debt raising in the US Term Loan B debt market
issuers and underwriters in connections with various other IPOs and secondary raisings, including iBuy Group, Asia Coal Energy Ventures, Catalpa Resources, Peet Limited, Mount Gibson Iron, Windimurra Vanadium, ThinkSmart, PearlStreet and Great Southern
Adam has extensive experience in advising corporations and directors on a range of urgent and critical matters, including investigations by Australian and foreign regulators, directors' duties and board issues, contentious general meetings and proxy contests.
Adam is also deeply experienced in shareholder activism and has published on this subject. Notable shareholder activism scenarios on which Adam has advised include Glaucus Research's attack on Blue Sky and Elliot Associates' attack on Samsung C&T in connection with its US$8 billion merger with Cheil Industries.
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NEW PUBLICATION: Hope for Better Mental Health: co-production and recovery
"Co-production is what the Recovery College is based on – the ethos runs through the whole process. We encouraged people to share, and we shared ourselves too – talking about our lives and our experiences. People lost their mental health identity and became just people. I didn't feel like a clinician. It's very different to what I've experienced in mainstream services." (Former Manager, Recovery College)
''I've realised that I have something to offer the world. And that I can support other people to cope with their mental health problems.'' (Tutor by Experience, Recovery College)
We've been looking closely at six initiatives in Essex that are fundamentally re-thinking where the agency and power for mental health recovery comes from.
Inspired by the groundbreaking work of commissioners, practitioners and service users, our report Hope for Better Mental Health [pdf] highlights what radical co-production really looks like in practice, through a close engagement with 6 innovative mental health initiatives.
What makes these initiatives so different to mainstream approaches? We've shone a spotlight on them (including local renditions of Recovery College and Zero Suicide) to try to get deeply under the skin of what they are doing. We have spent time with the practitioners, managers and commissioners of these programmes, and we've listened directly to the experience and perspectives of users – and co-producers – of the services. Many approaches claim to be co-production, but what we noticed was that these exemplars share features that are wholly and disruptively different to 'business as usual'. They have not just added some volunteers to professionally-led delivery models: they have fundamentally re-imagined where the power and agency can come from to support people on recovery journeys. They are based on beliefs in different things, and they do different things as a result.
In terms of behaviours and practices, leaders of these initiatives are explicitly:
Listening to and learning from people and their families
Empowering people with personal experience to work alongside those with professional experience
Giving people more choice and control so that they can meet individual needs and realise individual outcomes
Equipping people with the knowledge and skills to manage their own health and wellbeing
Enabling peer support to flourish in meaningful ways.
But crucially, we discovered that these ways of working are underpinned by a set of beliefs and values that say:
Recovery is possible and people are intrinsically capable
Too much of current provision actively works against recovery
Co-production actively supports recovery
Significant changes to system and culture are needed to make all this happen.
When we started this enquiry, none of the team predicted how inspiring these projects would be, or how significantly they would challenge the mainstream mental health paradigm. It's given us masses to think about. What would it look like if commissioners and providers were driven wholly by the beliefs and values listed above? What would it feel like as a service user (or family member) if the behaviours and practices in our framework were those you experienced when you touched the health and care system? And what are the practical steps we can take to shift the system (its vision, its leadership, its priorities, culture and behaviour) firmly in this direction?
We believe this report is full of challenge and inspiration: not just for those passionate about achieving better outcomes in mental health, but also for anyone who wants to understand what it would take to make people's capabilities the central starting point for publicly-funded services, and efforts to improve outcomes. This is a vision of radical system change. Moving there will require deliberate work to:
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secure ownership of and commitment to that new vision (across organisations, professionals, communities)
create collaborative learning opportunities in which mindsets and belief systems can be shifted, and new capabilities grown
develop new skills in listening to and working with citizens, and provide support to enable citizens to play an active role
develop distributed, systems leadership
agree new metrics and measures of success.
Colleagues in Essex have welcomed these challenging findings with courage and collaborative energy; we look forward to supporting the next phase of their journey. Our hope is that Hope for Better Mental Health will prove a powerful provocation for many other places too.


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The events happened on 8th December are :
1854 : Roman Catholic doctrine of Immaculate Conception proclaimed : On this day in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, asserting that Mary, Jesus' mother, was preserved free from the effects of "original sin" from the first instant of her conception.
2004 : Mia Hamm, a leading figure in U.S. women's football (soccer), retired from the sport.
1991 : Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus signed an agreement to form the Commonwealth of Independent States in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union.
1987 : The intifāḍah, an uprising of Palestinians in the territories occupied by Israel, began this week.
1987 : U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed a nuclear weapons reduction treaty.
1980 : John Lennon, British rock star and former member of the Beatles, was assassinated in New York City.
1903 : English thinker and scholar Herbert Spencer, best known for his work The Synthetic Philosophy, died in Brighton, Sussex, England.
1542 : Mary, Queen of Scots, was born, and six days later she became queen of Scotland.
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Delegates from around the globe gathered in Paris at the Palace of Versailles in January 1919 to come to peace terms after World War I ended in late 1918.
A 38-year-old Korean activist, Kim Kyu-sik, departed from Shanghai at the end of that month with a mission - raising Korea's bid for independence at the Paris Peace Conference and gaining international recognition, as weaker countries were finding a voice to fight against imperialism and colonization.
U.S.-educated Kim (1881-1950), a newlywed, departed from Shanghai to Europe as a representative of the independence group New Korea Youth Association.
A fugitive who fled Japanese authorities to Manchuria in 1912 and arrived in Shanghai in 1918, Kim managed to arrange passage to France with members of the Chinese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, obtaining a Chinese passport and name for the long voyage.
While Kim made the month-and-a-half-long trip to France by sea, on Feb. 8 a group of Korean students in Tokyo declared Korean independence, inspired in part by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech, which emphasized the concept of national self-determination. Soon after, on March 1, a massive peaceful movement proclaiming the independence of Korea from Japanese colonial rule (1910-45) kicked off in Seoul and spread nationwide.
Kim arrived in France in March, and in the meantime, the provisional government of the Republic of Korea launched in Shanghai's French Concession on April 11. Nearly overnight, Kim became the Korean provisional government's top envoy, tasked with establishing a makeshift one-man diplomatic office of sorts in Paris.
Kim, as foreign minister of the fledging Korean provisional government, led its initial diplomatic activities in France. In Paris, Kim established the Korean Bureau of Information, which was charged with gathering and disseminating information related to Korea to further its case for independence.
As Korea's sole official representative in Paris - as others like Syngman Rhee, who became first president of the provisional government, failed to make it to the Peace Conference - Kim also sought to meet with other delegates and influential people to explain the plight of the Korean people under Japanese occupation and convey to them the idea that an independent Korea was the key to lasting peace in East Asia.
Kim, in May 1919, presented the "Petition of the Korean People and Nation for Liberation from Japan and for the Reconstitution of Korea as an Independent State" to the Paris Peace Conference. Korea was among others like the Chinese, Indians and Egyptians who attempted to have their voice heard in Paris.
Despite his efforts, ultimately, Kim did not achieve his mission of gaining international recognition of Korea as an independent country in Paris, but his work created a platform for future diplomatic efforts by the Korean provisional government.
Nearly a quarter century later, as the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and China gathered together in 1943 to discuss the fate of Japan during World War II and draw up the Cairo Declaration, Korea was able to ascertain a clause guaranteeing its sovereignty.
The Korean provisional government faced much difficulties and disillusionment over the years, eventually moving locations across China in the 1930s as Japanese forces closed in as the Pacific War raged on. It ended up in Chongqing, in southwestern China, from 1940 until 1945.
But it was the Korean provisional government that reached out to Chiang to leverage its position in Cairo.
The provisional government did not receive formal international recognition and was limited by a lack of resources and internal factional fights, as well as geopolitical struggles and historical circumstances of the time with the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II and the Pacific War. However, it survived for 26 years to see the liberation of Korea. Japan's World War II surrender resulted in Korea's abrupt yet long-awaited liberation from colonial rule on Aug. 15, 1945.
This year marks the centennial anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement and the establishment of the provisional government in Shanghai in 1919. Korean and international scholars today recognize such limitations by the provisional government in China while acknowledging its role in setting the foundation for the modern Republic of Korea and its Constitution through persistence efforts by the independence activists to be heard.
Dejected after failing to gain international support at the Paris Peace Conference, Kim Kyu-sik left for Washington in August 1919.
In its early years, the Korean provisional government and independence activists focused its diplomatic efforts on the United States.
While dismissed in large by the envoys in Paris and Washington, Korea's independence movement in 1919 still managed to gain global sympathizers, individual supporters and recognition amid other similar movements of the time, such as China's May Fourth Movement.
Kim arrived in Washington in September 1919 and remained in the United States until early 1921. After Kim returned to Shanghai, Kim served in the provisional government in various capacities, including as its vice president in Chongqing, the stronghold for Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, and returned to Seoul only in 1945.
Philip Jaisohn, a Korean-American physician and longtime activist, held the First Korean Congress in Philadelphia in April 1919 to garner support for the Korean independence movement, involving overseas Korean organizations.
Over the years, there were Americans sympathetic to their cause, like the group League of Friends of Korea.
A monthly journal, Korea Review, was published in the United States from March 1919 through 1922. It was published under the Bureau of Information for the Republic of Korea and included news about Korean nationalist activities as well as documents and speeches by Korean nationalist leaders, students abroad and Americans scholars and clergymen supportive of the independence cause.
After the Korean provisional government failed to gain independence through diplomatic means in Paris, they saw the Washington Conference as their last shot.
The International Conference on Naval Limitation was held in Washington from Nov. 12, 1921, to Feb. 6, 1922. The conference was hosted by the United States to limit the naval arms race and work out security agreements in the Pacific region. The Korean delegation to the conference included future South Korean President Syngman Rhee and Fred A. Dolph, an American who served as a middleman lobbyist between overseas Korean activists and the U.S. Congress.
While Korea was precluded from the Versailles Treaty, as it was not a participant of World War I, they thought they could make a better case at the Washington Conference, which specifically dealt with peace in Asia.
Nonetheless, Washington, like Paris, failed to produce recognition for the Korean provisional government, and over the years many grew disillusioned with the prospects of receiving American support.
The provisional government continued diplomacy through a Secret Liaison Office and Transportation Office while facing limitations as it was not recognized as an official government under international law as Japan continued to exercise sovereignty over Korea.
World War II and the Pacific War waged on as Korea tried to keep its footing among the power struggle amongst world leaders. Neither the Americans nor Chinese would recognize the Korean provisional government, but both were concerned about the Soviet Union's plans for Korea.
In November 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss the progress of the war against Japan and the future of Asia.
A sentence was included in the Cairo Declaration of Dec. 1, 1943, which stated that Korea would become free and independent should Japan be defeated. The Allies in the declaration pledged to eject Japanese forces from all the territories it had conquered during the war including in China, Korea and the Pacific Islands.
The United States was seen as tacitly having earlier accepted Japan's occupation of Korea, and the Cairo Declaration was in a sense reversing the U.S. approach to Korea.
China expert Baik Young-seo, a history professor at Yonsei University, pointed out to the Korean provisional government's restrictions at the time.
Korea eventually was liberated from the Japanese colonial rule on Aug. 15, 1945, but the United States and Soviet Russia reached a prior understanding that Korea should share a trusteeship between the United States, Russia, Britain and China as a preliminary step toward complete sovereignty. Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, with the Soviets overseeing the North and the United States the South. It was not the unified Korea envisioned by the leaders of March 1 and the provisional government. To this day, the Korean Peninsula remains divided.
Korea and Japanese relations remain riddled with persistent historical issues and scars remaining from Japan's long occupation.
The Northeast Asian History Foundation on April 9 hosted an international forum on the March 1 movement and provisional government at the Press Center in central Seoul, bringing together foreign and local scholars to reflect on the significance of the year 1919 and its relevance today.
He noted that the Feb. 8 Declaration of Independence calls for peace in East Asia, but that court records left from that time were also reflective of the views of the Korean public.
McGarry of Queen's University Belfast sees a number of parallels between the March 1 movement of Korea and the Irish independence movement. Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 is seen as symbolizing the wider struggle for Irish independence and is comparable to the March 1 movement "representing the birth of Korean nationhood," he pointed out. Ireland also celebrated its centennial anniversary of the Easter Uprising in 2016.
Through the independence movement and establishing a provisional government in 1919, Korea shifted away from an absolute monarchy and set the roots of South Korea's current democratic republic system of government. The provisional charter of 1919 also set the roots for the current Republic of Korea's Constitution, and the provisional assembly can be seen as a precursor to today's National Assembly. And the spirit of the peaceful mass demonstrations starting March 1 was also seen in the large-scale protests in following decades in Korea's democratization process.
Scholars today look at the events following March 1 as beyond just a movement and some describe it as a revolution.


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Really good mace for its lvl. Ask a hammersmith to make you, if you dont find it in the AH, and the materials arent that hard to find.
This is basically a glorified version of Frenzied Striker, same weapon stats, virtually the same dps, speed is about the same too, yet you can pick up the polearm for around 15-25g, far cheaper to acquire. I know what I'd be choosing. Do yourself a favour, sell the mats you would otherwise farm to get this and use the gold to buy the polearm.
Such a shame this isn't a unique model. Always nice finding a gem from way back in the day. I can craft it but it's just not worth it with the common green and the bop blue.


Released at the time of Valentine's Day; the latest Tamil movie Anegan and Telugu venture Temper is being liked by the audience. Both films have completed their sixth day on box office today with decent business and nice audience response. Though Anegan has done lower on the big screen in comparison to Temper but both films being different language entertainers are doing decent business in their own territories. Junior NTR starrer Temper raised high expectations of the audience from this latest flick and got higher response.
This is the reason why audience was waiting long time for Temper getting release as most of NTRs fans were eagerly looking forward for his next film and now that film is there, NTRs fans are quite satisfied with the flick. On its 6th day of release, the film has closed down at decent collection with good audience response in the cinema halls and theatres. Dhanush starrer Anegan on other hand has shown us decent performance today and it also performed well but not too good.
NTR who is known for enthralling the audience with entertainment and fun has one more time left the viewers filled with enjoyment. Judging on the basis of income, audience response and reviews coming out from the viewers; Temper has done a total collection of around 3.5 crores* on its sixth day of release whereas Anegan closed at lower amount of 2.1 crores*.
Though right now it cannot be justified that Temper is a big hit or good runner as the film has not even completed its first week so to arrive on any decision will be not proper. Same is case with Anegan which is making decent performance by now but not any fabulous income in weekdays. The films are about to complete one week tomorrow and let see what does the NTRs and Dhanush latest flick collects at the box office.


Carlos Gonzalez stands out from an athletic group gathered on a grassy field at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. The gregarious 32-year-old sports a stylish fauxhawk and walks with a confident yet understated swagger. He's training to become a mixed martial arts fighter.
The group looks like a slice of the San Francisco Bay Area: a multiracial gathering — white, black, Latino, Asian, biracial — of men and women in their early 20s to late 40s.
As diverse as they are, they came together one recent spring afternoon for a common purpose: to participate in UCSF's Amputee Comprehensive Training program at the Orthopaedic Institute, where they can push themselves further than they had ever imagined possible.
They came together because they are bonded by a singular experience: all have lost a leg and are learning to push physical boundaries with the help of state-of-the-art artificial limbs. Some lost their legs early in life due to birth defects. Others lost them later in life, after cancer, motor vehicle accidents or life-threatening bacterial infections robbed them of a limb.
"We work with amputees who want to do more than just learn to walk again with their artificial legs," said Alex Hetherington, a prosthetist with the Orthotics & Prosthetics Centers at UCSF, where experts customize artificial limbs and train patients who have athletic goals.
The day-long training program, held on May 4, 2012, involved a host of evaluations and boot camp-style conditioning exercises designed to ensure that the athletes' artificial legs would do what they need them to do, as well as training and conditioning. A motion-capturing computer program analyzed their gaits and trainers took them through a gauntlet of conditioning programs, including sprint exercises, spinning (cycling) classes, rock climbing, kickboxing classes, and military-style physical training exercises designed to strengthen their bodies.
The program builds on the Orthotic & Prosthetic Center's daily work of evaluating, designing, custom fitting and manufacturing all types of orthoses (braces) and prostheses (artificial limbs). The team includes doctors, a physical therapist, a trainer, and experts in orthotics and prosthetics who help develop an individualized patient care and rehabilitation plan.
Tim Baldwin, a strengthening and conditioning coach, works with Carlos Gonzalez, left, on his boxing techniques during a recent athletic training program for amputees at UCSF.
Gonzalez lost his leg seven years ago while walking home in Visitacion Valley, a neighborhood in the southeast section of San Francisco, after a long day at work. He found himself in the crossfire of gang violence.
That single round tore through Gonzalez's common iliac artery, which supplies blood to a person's legs. It did so much damage that it put Gonzalez in a coma for two months. Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center were able to save his life, but they were unable to stave off the infection in his right leg, which quickly spread.
The adjustment from having two legs to only one has been a long physical and psychological journey for Gonzalez and the rest of the group.
Two years ago, Steiner and his doctors agreed to amputate his leg.
"It was a relief to finally be done with all that pain and move on to a new chapter," he said.
Steiner has set his sights on the 2012 Paralympics at London this summer. A competitor by nature and a gifted athlete, he played football and ran track in high school. He hopes to qualify for the 200m dash and the long jump.
For Kent Brown, the services offered at UCSF are light years ahead of what was available when he lost his leg almost 40 years ago due to bone cancer at the age of 14. His first artificial leg was a wooden peg leg.
Trainer Jeff Turner looks on as Ranjit Steiner runs on treadmill during a program for amputee athletes at UCSF Mission Bay on May 4.
As the technology evolved, Brown eventually got a hydraulics-based leg, which worked well but was a lot heavier compared to a human leg. Eventually each artificial leg got lighter and lighter, making it easier for him to walk.
Brown hopes to be as swift as Geoff Turner some day. Turner, who lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident 23 years ago, is an avid runner. He learned about running blades through an organization called the Challenged Athletes Foundation and Össur, a company that manufactures running blades.
Today, Turner runs marathons and can average eight-minute miles.
The next Amputee Comprehensive Training event is scheduled for the fall, building on the recent spring event. Organizers hope to make the next one a national event.
"We want to really allow people from all over the country who are also in a similar position who want to be able to do these activities and never have been shown how to, and never have been given the resources to do so," Garibaldi said.
For Gonzalez, this event and the community of athletes it gathered are about learning and giving back. He says martial arts has helped pull him out of depression and given him a renewed purpose in life.
"So as a team, I ask, the guys at UCSF give, and what I give back to them is me being here and thriving and helping people out, so it's rewarding for all of us," he said. "It has nothing to do with, 'you do this for me and I'll do this for you.' This is more like, this is our purpose in life and we enjoy what we do.
Amputee athletes and a team of trainers and experts in orthotics and prosthetics gather for a group shot after comprehensive training at the Orthopaedic Institute at UCSF Mission Bay on May 4.


Google's Alphabet AI Lab used their DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a synthetic speech system called WaveNet back in 2016. This system runs on an artificial neural network and is capable of speech samples that are far better than those produced by other technologies. The AI voice is becoming more human like. WaveNet has improved since then and is now good enough for Google Assistant across all platforms.
According to a paper by Google that is still under peer review, WaveNet is getting a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2. This is effectively the second generation of Google's synthetic speech AI. This new system combines the deep neural networks of WaveNet & Tacotron 2.
First, Tacotron 2 translates text into a visual representation of audio frequencies over time, called a spectogram. This is then fed into WaveNet, which reads the spectogram and creates a chart with the corresponding audio elements.
According to the study, the "model achieves a mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.53 comparable to a MOS of 4.58 for professionally recorded speech." Simply put, it sounds very much like a person speaking.
In fact, Google put recordings of a human and their new AI side-by-side, and it's difficult to tell which is the person and which is the machine.
To date, AI systems have gotten better at blurring the line between human and machine. There are now AIs capable of generating images of human beings that aren't real, but look it. Another AI can even make fake videos. One can't also discount the fact that some AIs are getting better at storytelling, or making art.
Mimicking human speech was always a challenge for AI networks. Now, DeepMind's WaveNet and Tacotron 2 seem to be changing that, and at quite an impressive rate. Not only does the AI pronounce words clearly, but it seems to be able to handle difficult to pronounce words or names, as well as put emphasis on the appropriate words based on punctuations.
This does not mean that the new AI system is completely perfect. However, one should keep in mind that this current iteration has been only trained to use one voice that Google had recorded from a woman they hired. For this new system to work with other voices, it will have to trained with again.
Besides having immediate applications for Google Assistant, as soon as Tacotron 2 is perfect, the technology could be applied to other areas. It may perhaps also take over certain jobs like other applications of AI are.


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Why Lady Gaga's Album Makes No Sense
By James Joiner
Based on the requisite media frenzy it stirred over the weekend, you'd think Lady Gaga's announced new album was the second coming of Christ. Or a sequel to Sharknado. Or at least a culturally relevant event.
Which, all ballyhoo aside, it is not.
According to her press release, itself looking and reading like a piece of performance art, the not-quite-subtly titled Artpop will launch with — surprise! — an app that promises to combine "music, art, fashion, and technology" including a social-media aspect called "the auras" for fans to feel the "adrenaline of fame" as they build their own projects. It goes on to note that this new album and app will see "HAUS OF GAGA" "venge with forte," naturally "altering the human experience" with a "BIG BANG!" in "reverse Warholian expedition."
It's hard not to picture Ms. Gaga, stir crazy in her wheelchair and hopped up on a cocktail of pain medication, ego, and the fumes from her now-rotting meat suit, falling further and further down the rabbit hole as she alternates between surfing the web and vague flickering memories that flash across her prototype signature Polaroid camera sunglasses, surrounded by a harem of acolytes whispering a mantra of "yes" to everything.
"We must bring together everything that is weird and shocking about art and fashion and translate it into music!"
"Yes!"
"We'll make sure that there's an app for it!"
"We'll get some fringe-y artists and have a release party!"
"We'll announce it with language so ridiculous, histrionic, and fraught with unlikely metaphor, name-dropping, and unnecessary capitalization no one will know what we're talking about, and it will appear at once trenchant and visceral!"
"The cover should feature me heavily Photoshopped with wind-blown hair and wearing a space mask!"
I get how this was imagined. I do. But what I don't understand is how it made it through the no-doubt small army of marketing people, publicists, and other industry types whose job it is to parse and sign off on such projects. I really can't decide if they thought, "Meh, whatever. The average Gaga fan is what, thirteen? They'll never read this, and if they do, they'll be so spellbound with bullshit that it'll seem exciting," or, more frighteningly, all these sycophants are so full of themselves they really think this is a good idea.
Never mind that one of her showcased "collaborators," seminal weird-but-cool performance artist Marina Abramovic, has already done this whole pop-music thing. Just a week ago with Jay-Z. Gaga's whole Artpop shtick feels wildly derivative, not least of all from Madonna (as usual), U2's Zoo TV and PopMart tours, and, well, everything Björk has ever done. Just because you package your concept as haute couture doesn't mean you didn't get it at Marshall's.
Now I'm sure she'll sell a gazillion albums. I'm sure that the press, especially the music and fashion press, not to mention the legions of "tastemaker" bloggers who will espouse any rhetoric that nets them some Google ad dollars and a free concert ticket, will continue to exalt her above all else, lolling their worshipful sputum all over her sensible shoes. She's a pop mega-star, and that's their job. It's what makes the world go 'round, and what sells albums, apps, merch, magazines, and everything else. Much like Bank of America, Haus of Gaga is too big to fail.
That doesn't mean what she's making is art. Especially not meaningful art.
Rehashing and repackaging others' ideas is not artistic, and tying a bunch of nonsense together with buzzwords, your own version of Etsy, and some collaborations with actual artists isn't either. Just like being as weird as you possibly can isn't necessarily fashion. Okay, well maybe that one's true sometimes, but let's remember that there's a difference between fashion and style. Only one of them is timeless.
You'd expect an artist whose style has been so celebrated would understand that.
It should be noted that I, like most everyone else in the world, have not actually heard the new album. There's every possibility that Ms. Gaga and her gaggle of producers, technicians, songwriters, and what have you will deliver unto us the absolute pearl in pop music's scabrous oyster, at which time all the lil monsters can point their immaculately manicured talons at me and chant "I told you so" to some block rockin' beats, and I will acquiesce back from whence I came. It's still a mind-bogglingly bad marketing campaign though.
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Q: How Apostrophe is stored in database using php form text area? I have a code file with name of "form.php". In this I create a web form and using text area tag in it. I have a problem. When I write something in text area and use Apostrophe in my text then data can not store in database. But when I write text without Apostrophe data stored in database. How can I fix my problem?
My code is below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><?php
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", ""); // Establishing Connection with Server
$db = mysql_select_db("aaaaa", $connection); // Selecting Database from Server
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ // Fetching variables of the form which travels in URL
$txtTitle = $_POST['txtTitle'];
$txtReferance = $_POST['txtReferance'];
$txtToName = $_POST['txtToName'];
$chkConfidential = $_POST['chkConfidential'];
$txtToDesignation = $_POST['txtToDesignation'];
$txtDate = $_POST['txtDate'];
$cmbSolutation = $_POST['cmbSolutation'];
$txtToEntity = $_POST['txtToEntity'];
$txtToAdd1 = $_POST['txtToAdd1'];
$txtThankYou = $_POST['txtThankYou'];
$txtToAdd2 = $_POST['txtToAdd2'];
$cmbYoursTruely = $_POST['cmbYoursTruely'];
$txtToAdd3 = $_POST['txtToAdd3'];
$txtSignatureName = $_POST['txtSignatureName'];
$txtToCity = $_POST['txtToCity'];
$cmbSDesignation = $_POST['cmbSDesignation'];
$txtHeading1 = $_POST['txtHeading1'];
$txtEnch1 = $_POST['txtEnch1'];
$txtHeading2 = $_POST['txtHeading2'];
$txtEnch2 = $_POST['txtEnch2'];
$txtHeading3 = $_POST['txtHeading3'];
$txtEnch3 = $_POST['txtEnch3'];
$txtRational = $_POST['txtRational'];

//Insert Query of SQL
$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO test(file_name, ref_no, to_name, confidential, designation, date, solutation, entity, add_1, thank_you, add_2, yours_truly, add_3, sign_name, city, s_designation, heading_line_1, encl_line_1, heading_line_2, encl_line_2, heading_line_3, encl_line_3, text)

values

    ('$txtTitle', '$txtReferance', '$txtToName', '$chkConfidential', '$txtToDesignation', '$txtDate', '$cmbSolutation', '$txtToEntity', '$txtToAdd1', '$txtThankYou', '$txtToAdd2', '$cmbYoursTruely', '$txtToAdd3', '$txtSignatureName', '$txtToCity', '$cmbSDesignation', '$txtHeading1', '$txtEnch1', '$txtHeading2', '$txtEnch2', '$txtHeading3', '$txtEnch3', '$txtRational')");
echo "

Data Inserted successfully...!!";
}
else{
echo "
Insertion Failed
 Some Fields are Blank....!!
";
}

//mysql_close($connection); // Closing Connection with Server
?>

A: This is what you're looking for: mysql_real_escape_string
Use it over every field to escape such characters.
$txtTitle = mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['txtTitle'] );
// same for all other columns

PS: Use  mysqli  , mysql is deprecated and slow too.

A: try this before inserting the value to your database:
    $text = mysql_escape_string($_POST['text']);


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Home / NEWS / PalmPay launches in Nigeria on $40M round led by China's Transsion
PalmPay launches in Nigeria on $40M round led by China's Transsion
November 14, 2019	NEWS, Nigeria Leave a comment 164 Views
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Africa-focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion.
The investment came via Transsion's Tecno subsidiary, with participation from China's NetEase and wireless comms hardware firm Mediatek — a Transsion spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch.
PalmPay had piloted its mobile fintech offering in Nigeria since July, before going live today at a launch in Lagos.
The startup aims to become Africa's largest financial services platform, according to a statement.
As part of the investment, PalmPay enters a strategic partnership with mobile brands Tecno, Infinix and Itel that includes pre-installation of the startup's app on 20 million phones in 2020.
The U.K.-headquartered venture — that was also founded with Chinese seed investment — offers a package of mobile-based financial services, including no-fee payment options, bill pay, rewards programs and discounted airtime.
In Nigeria, PalmPay will offer 10% cash back on airtime purchases and bank transfer rates as low as 10 Naira ($.02).
In addition to Nigeria, PalmPay will use the $40 million seed funding to grow its financial services business in Ghana. The payments startup has plans to expand to additional countries in 2020, PalmPay CEO Greg Reeve told TechCrunch on a call.
PalmPay received its approval from the Nigerian Central Bank as a licensed mobile money operator in July. During its pilot phase, the payments venture registered 100,000 users and processed 1 million transactions, according to a company spokesperson.
With its payments focus, the startup enters Africa's most promising digital sector, but also one that has become notably competitive and crowded — particularly in the continent's largest economy and most populous nation of Nigeria.
By a number of estimates, Africa's 1.2 billion people represent the largest share of the world's unbanked and underbanked population.
An improving smartphone and mobile-connectivity profile for Africa (see GSMA) turns this scenario into an opportunity for mobile-based financial products.
That's why hundreds of startups are descending on Africa's fintech space, looking to offer scalable solutions for the continent's financial needs. By stats offered by WeeTracker, fintech now receives the bulk of VC capital and deal-flow to African startups.
Nigeria has multiple new digital-payments entrants — see Chippercash — and several firmly rooted later-stage fintech players, such as Paga and recently confirmed unicorn Interswitch.
PalmPay CEO Greg Reeves believes the company can compete in Nigeria and across Africa based on several strategic advantages. A big one is the startup's support from Transsion and partnership with Tecno.
"On channel and access, we're going to be pre-installed on all Tecno phones. Your'e gonna find us in the Tecno stores and outlets. So we get an immediate channel and leg up in any market we operate in," said Reeve.
Tecno's owner and PalmPay's lead investor, Transsion, is the largest seller of smartphones in Africa and maintains a manufacturing facility in Ethiopia. The company raised nearly $400 million in a Shanghai IPO in September and plans to spend roughly $300 million of that on new R&D and manufacturing capabilities in Africa and globally.
In addition to Transsion's support and network, Reeves names PalmPay's partnership with Visa . "We signed a strategic alliance with Visa so now I can deliver Visa products on top of my wallet, link my wallet to Visa products and give access to someone who's completely unbanked to the whole of the Visa network," he said.
Another strategic advantage PalmPay may have as a newcomer in Africa's fintech space is Reeve's leadership experience. He comes to the CEO position after serving as Vodaphone's global head of M-Pesa — one of the world's most recognized mobile-money products. Reeve was also a GM for Millicom's fintech products across Africa and Latin America.
"I've had my fingers in mobile financial services for the last 10 years," he said.
Reeve confirmed that PalmPay has local teams (and is hiring) in Nigeria and Ghana.
With the company's launch and $40 million raise — which is potentially the largest seed round for an Africa-focused startup in 2019 — PalmPay's bid to gain digital payment market share is on.
The Transsion-led investment also serves as a big bold marker for China's pivot to African tech in 2019. It follows several big moves by Chinese actors in the continent's digital space.
These include Opera's $50 million investment in multiple online verticals in Nigeria and a major investment by Chinese investors in trucking logistics startup Lori Systems this week.
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Man of the Century is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Adam Abraham and written by Abraham and Gibson Frazier. The film stars Frazier, Cara Buono, Susan Egan, Dwight Ewell and Anthony Rapp. It is a farce about the attitudes, values, and slang displayed in the popular culture of the 1920s (and, to some extent, the early 1930s). Man of the Century was filmed in black and white. Its working title was "Johnny Twennies".[2][3]
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The Vidocq Society: Solving Murders Over Lunch The Vidocq Society is a Philadelphia-based group of criminologists and forensic experts; they gather together once a month to solve cold cases. Writer Michael Capuzzo explains what it was like to shadow the crime-fighters in The Murder Room.
The Vidocq Society: Solving Murders Over Lunch
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The Vidocq Society sounds like something straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel.
Once a month, the members of the 20-year-old club -- mostly detectives and forensic experts -- meet at an old Victorian dining room in the middle of Philadelphia to eat lunch and solve crimes that have perplexed investigators for decades.
"I think of it as CSI to the 10th power but real," says journalist Michael Capuzzo. There are profilers and pathologists, experts in white-collar crime, terrorism and sadism. They have Interpol represented, and a captain from the Egyptian army -- and for good measure, they even have a psychic.
Capuzzo has spent years becoming intimately familiar with the Vidocq Society, which is named for the 18th-century criminal-turned-crime-fighter Eugene François Vidocq. Capuzzo's new book, The Murder Room, details how the three founding members gathered crime experts from around the world to solve cold cases. He also profiles some of their more famous investigations.
Both Capuzzo and Richard Walter, a forensic psychologist considered to be the father of criminal profiling, join Dave Davies for a conversation about how the monthly lunchtime meetings turn into round-table discussions about possible motives and murder suspects.
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
By Michael Capuzzo
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Walter describes one case, the brutal 1984 murder of a night manager named Terri Brooks in Falls Township, Pa. She was stabbed inside the Roy Rogers restaurant where she had been working. The extremely violent attack -- her head was wrapped in cellophane, and a knife wound had punctured her throat -- was perplexing to local officers. The safe inside the restaurant had been manipulated, so investigators thought the murder was the result of a "robbery gone wrong."
For 14 years, the case went unsolved -- until the case was brought to a Vidocq Society meeting. After listening to officers from Falls Township describe the case, Richard Walter stood up and told the officers that this wasn't a robbery gone wrong -- and that Terri Brooks had been targeted and murdered by someone she knew.
"When you looked at the body, when you looked at the crime scene itself, it was obvious that it was not a robbery," Walters explains to Davies. "What robbery suspect would stab someone so viciously that the knife enters the tile floor and wrap the head in cellophane? A robber is simply not going to do that. It's not efficient. There's no value in that kind of an activity. So you have to look how he spends his time and his interest by what's there and by what's not there."
Walter thought the staged robbery was simply a red herring staged by the suspect to throw police off his trail. The police then asked Walter to create a profile of a potential suspect.
"Given the amount of violence at the scene and how it was personalized to the victim," Walter suspected that the murderer wasn't a stranger. "Also, the victim had to let the suspect in, and so, therefore, the presumption is that she knew him. ... There's extreme hostility, and you see that he doesn't really care when the victim dies. He cares when his anger has been sated. ... So it was simply a matter of watching and plugging in the bits and pieces along the way. In this case, it was reasonable to assume by police that a boyfriend may be involved."
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Michael Capuzzo is also the author of Close to Shore, about the first shark attack in American history.
Members of the Vidocq Society talked to Brooks' parents, asking them about any possible boyfriends. They remembered one, a man they thought was named O'Keefe. The detectives scoured arrest records and articles for any mention of an O'Keefe, and found nothing -- until they looked at the funeral guest book for Terri Brooks.
Sure enough, a man named Alfred Scott Keefe had signed in to Brooks' funeral registrar. Police officers obtained a warrant to get Keefe's DNA -- from cigarettes he threw out at the curb. It matched DNA from the crime scene. After an interrogation, he confessed. Sixteen months later, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Walter says members of the Vidocq Society try to look at cases -- like the murder of Terri Brooks -- from all angles.
"I think that many times, we tend to look at things linearly on a straight, flat line and don't see a relationship between evidence," he says. "I try, particularly when humans and people are involved and motives and all of these sorts of things, to look at the evidence on a differential plane. And so you get a sense of depth and insight into [the crime.]"
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Richard Walter is a forensic psychologist and one of the creators of modern criminal profiling.
On interviewing a suspect
Richard Walter: "In terms of interviewing an anger-retaliatory type, one of the things that must be understood by the detectives is, contrary to popular opinion, the perpetrator does not feel any guilt for committing the killing. When they leave the killing site, they many times have a sense of well-being and a sense of relief and a sense of charm because they've just had 50 pounds of emotional baggage taken off their shoulders. Police don't expect that."
On sadists who show up to hear Walter give lectures
Richard Walter: "Years ago, I was in Topeka at a conference, and I had been at the police department and was going to give a lecture on sadism. The detective who had been with me [at the police department] showed me a suspect in a murder case [and] came up to me just before I went up on the platform and said, 'You know that guy that I pointed out to you at the police department? I just flushed him out of your audience.' ... I've had other places where if I'm lecturing on rape or whatever else, rapists will sneak into the audience."
Excerpt: 'The Murder Room'
August 11, 201010:00 AM ET
Michael Capuzzo
The Connoisseurs of Murder
The great hall was filled with the lingering aroma of pork and mallard duck sausage as black-vested waiters appeared, shouldering cups of vanilla bean blancmange. Connoisseurs sat at tables between the hearths under glittering eighteenth-century chandeliers, chatting amiably in several languages. When the coffee arrived, a fine Colombian supremo steaming in its pots, the image of the corpse of a young man of uncommon beauty, lying on his back, materialized in the center of the room.
A gray winter light slanted into the hall, as the midday sun had sailed beyond the city, and the image on the large screen was crisp. The young man's blond locks were matted in a corona of dried blood, his sculpted cheekbones reduced to a pulp. The police photograph had been taken at night in a restaurant alley, and the surrounding scene was obscured in darkness. Yet the strobe light had thrown the young man's face into sharp relief. Out of the shadows of a distant southern night, the stark, wide-open eyes loomed over the room.
It was shortly before one o'clock in the afternoon, and the fifth and final course had been served to the connoisseurs of the Vidocq Society.
"My goodness," said a short-haired young woman in a red dress. Patting her mouth with a napkin, she excused herself from the table and, a hand over her mouth, hurried to the door. William Fleisher, a big man in a magnificent blue suit, WLF embroidered on his custom shirt, sadly shook his large, bearded head. "We need to do a better job screening guests," he said. Richard Walter, his gaunt cheekbones sunken in the wan light, glared at the departing figure. Frank Bender -- clad in a tight black T-shirt and jeans, the only man in the hall not wearing a suit -- whispered to the detective next to him, "Nice legs."
Fleisher shook his head in wonderment at the two eccentric, moody geniuses with whom he had thrown in his lot. His partners were criminologists without peer or precedent in his thirty years with the feds.
Forensic psychologist Richard Walter was the coolest eye on murder in the world. Tall and acerbic, he spoke with a clipped propriety that had earned him the moniker the Englishman from certain criminal elements. Walter had spent twenty years treating the most violent psychopaths in the state of Michigan at the largest walled penitentiary in the world, in Jackson, and at one of the toughest, the old Romanesque castle in Marquette on Lake Superior. His habit of peering over the top of his owlish black glasses and boring into the souls of inmates was known as the "Marquette stare," and it was a look to be avoided at all costs. He employed it to crack the facade of psychopaths. Walter was unsurpassed in his understanding of the darkest regions of the heart. In his spare time, moonlighting as a consulting detective, he was one of the small group of American criminologists who invented modern criminal profiling in the 1970s and '80s to battle serial killers.
At Scotland Yard, which used him on the most extreme murder cases, he was known as the "Living Sherlock Holmes" -- an epithet that horrified him.
"Richard looks like Basil Rathbone in The Hound of the Baskervilles," Fleisher said. "He talks like him, he thinks like him."
"Whenever someone says that," Walter said, "I look away and wait for the moment to pass, as if someone has just farted."
Frank Bender was the most celebrated forensic artist working at that time, perhaps in history. The wiry ex-boxer was muscled and balding, with a Van Dyke beard and piercing hazel eyes. For the occasion, he wore long sleeves that concealed his Navy tattoos. Bender, who grew up in tough North Philadelphia with bullets hitting the row house wall, was high school -- educated, blunt-spoken, happily sex-addicted, and a psychic -- a gift he was shy about in the roomful of cops. But cops were awed by his ability to keep six or seven girlfriends happy as well as his wife, and to catch Most Wanted mass murderers with a sketchpad and scalpel.
"Frank," Walter liked to tease him. "You would have been burned at the stake in the seventeenth century. Now you'll just get shot in the back."
The tall, melancholy, deductive Walter and the manic, intuitive Bender were blood brothers and partners on major cases. A detective duo without precedent, the psychologist and artist were capable of penetrating secrets of the living and the dead. When they could stand each other.
Bender saw dead people; Walter was contemptuous of spiritualism. The artist counted his sexual conquests in the hundreds; the psychologist, divorced, shrank from the touch of man, woman, child, dog, and cat. Walter was the most orderly mind on a murder, Bender the most chaotic.
William Lynn Fleisher was the glue that held the three together -- the one, friends said, "with a sail attached to the mast." The sartorial big man was the number two in charge of United States Customs law enforcement in three states, a world-class polygraph examiner and interrogator, a former FBI special agent, and an ex–Philadelphia beat cop. Fleisher was obsessed with the truth, had made himself a scholar of the history of truth-finding and an expert at distinguishing the truth from a lie. He used the polygraph to try to peer into the hearts of men to judge them, but really what he wanted to do was redeem them—both the criminals whose psychophysiological signs spiked with guilt, and their tragic victims whose suffering society forgot. The big man, it was said by his special agents, had gained a hundred pounds to make room for his heart.
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Teams of students spend 10 minutes creating 4-slide, two minute slideshows.
Think, Pair Share adapted for use with Google Slides.
Keys: Slides template delivers content and cooperative assignment for two students that includes individual work, cooperation and individual final product.
Students work in pairs on a shared Google Slide Show. Each takes notes independently, then they collaborate on Venn Diagram of notes and finally write their own summary.
Approach obvious from this Template.
Process taps student curiosity by encouraging thoughtful questioning on just about any topic.
Collaborative activity that encourages curiosity, engagement and further study.
This quiz centered classroom protocol relies on the Quizizz Web based software.
The protocol suggests repeated use of short quizzes on a schedule like this.
Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, but is somewhat less competitive and more focused on providing useful data on the achievement of individual students and the overall class.
Quizizz sessions serve as effective formative assessments that can immediately inform class instruction and identify specific student weaknesses.
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Summary: Based on a current event.
Note areas of emphasis for each, Note disagreement.
Students draft their own moderate headline for the same story.


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'The Addams Family' to get a sequel
Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan directed 'The Addams Family' from a screenplay by Pamela Pelter and Matt Lieberman.
Published: 16th October 2019 07:57 PM | Last Updated: 16th October 2019 07:57 PM | A+A A-
LOS ANGELES: Charlize Theron's "The Addams Family" will get a sequel, which will release on October 22, 2021.
"The Addams Family" released internationally on October 18.
The animated family comedy opened to $30 million, well above forecasts in the $21 million to $27 million range. The film follows Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley and Uncle Fester as they bring their love of the macabre to 21st century life to New Jersey, reports variety.com.
The voice cast includes Oscar Isaac, Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, Elsie Fisher and Snoop Dogg.
Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan directed the film from a screenplay by Pamela Pelter and Matt Lieberman.
"The Addams Family" originated in 150 single panel cartoons by Charles Addams, about half of which were published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams' death in 1988.
The characters became famous through a sitcom, which ran for two seasons between 1964 and 1966 and led to several other TV series, two live-action films and a Broadway musical.
In an interview in the past, Theron also opened up about her film "The Addams Family". In the new film, the Addams are singled out in their New Jersey neighbourhood for their "abnormal behaviour".
"I think we are so scared of morbid themes that we freak our kids out," said Theron, adding: "Like anything in life, the more you talk about stuff, the more you turn the light on in the room and it's not so dark and it's not so scary."
Talking about the legacy of the Addams clan, the actress had said: "When you think of (the Addams) being around since the sixties, that's pretty powerful -- that they've always had their same values. But, this moment and time, there needs to be so much more encouragement."
"We need to question the norm a little bit more and we need to find kindness and understanding for others that might not look like us or might not talk like us or might not sound like us. So, to be a part of something like that, and I know children and their families are going to go see that, if that grabs them somewhere in their heart to think about things a little differently, boy, would that be great," she added.
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The giant kerb stones of Newgrange, and many of those at Knowth, weighing up to five tonnes apiece and more, were sourced along the coastline at Clogherhead, and brought by sea and river to the Bend of the Boyne, where the great megalithic monuments at Brú na Bóinne were built more than 5,000 years ago.
What is not widely known is that Clogherhead holds a fascinating geological secret, one that is extremely unlikely to have been known by the ancient megalithic builders of the Boyne Valley. At this promontory of land that projects out into the Irish Sea from the coast of what is now County Louth, there are rock formations which are vertical. The stones jut up out of the land in jagged layers. It was here that, over five millennia ago, the builders of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth sourced many of the large stones that were used for kerbing, and for orthostats and structural stones.
A map showing the approximate seam or fault line (border) that once separated the two continents.
What the builders did not know was that these jagged rock formations are the result of a significant seismic event 400 million years ago, in which two continents smashed together. It's hard to imagine today, but there is a "border" of sorts running from Clogherhead down to the Shannon Estuary. Everything north of this "border" was once on a continent that has been given the name Laurentia, while everything south of there was on a continent called Avalonia. The types of fossils found either side of this so-called border, which is now called the Iapetus Suture, are very different.
It's hard to believe that Laurentia and Avalonia, and by extention the northern and southern parts of Ireland, were once separated by 3,000 kilometres of ocean! This ocean has (in modern times of course) been given the name the Iapetus Ocean - hence the Iapetus Suture.
A spiral-shaped fossil at Clogherhead.
The half of Ireland that lies north of the seam was originally joined with Scotland, Greenland and North America in the ancient continent of Laurentia. The south-eastern half of Ireland, along with Wales, England and Brittany, formed the smaller continent of Avalonia. Some 500 million years ago Laurentia lay at the Equator, Avalonia lay further south, and between them was the Iapetus Ocean (Iapetus was the father of Atlantis, after whom the Atlantic Ocean is named).
Fossils from this time found in the northern Laurentian, or 'American', half of Ireland are very different from those found in the Avalonian, or 'European', half. This reflects the fact that they came from distant parts of the world once separated by 3,000 kilometres of ocean.
An inlet at Clogherhead where it's possible Neolithic mound builders tied large greywacke slabs on to barges.
The builders of Newgrange used the vertical formations of layered greywacke at Clogherhead to their advantage. They were, it seems, able to prise specimens out using something like wooden poles and, we are told by archaeologists, strap them to the underside of a barge. At high tide, the sea would lift the raft, with stone underneath, and the "pilot" of this barge would steer it down the coast and up the River Boyne.
thank you, this is very interesting !
And now it's only a stones throw away!


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