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Families on the Move – Meet the Family Behind "Practical Adventurology"
February 27, 2013 Lainie Liberti
Meet the Amazing Family Behind Practical Adventurology
We have a blended family.
My name is Annie André and I'm 41. I have two teenage boys from a previous marriage over a decade ago.
My husband's name is Blake Elder and he's 51. (no previous kids)
My husband and I have done loads of travelling before we met and before we had kids. We both had successful career working in Silicon Valley California for Hi-Tech firms and we were both burnt out from the work.
Kieran who is 16 is the eldest and he's your typical moody teenager. He is a naturally gifted kid with lots of interests including girls. He can solve a rubik's cube in less than 2 minutes and follows politics a little too closely.
Andre is 14 and has a heart of gold. We sometimes call him "Andre the Giant" because he is almost 6 ft tall and towers over most kids. He's just as happy playing hide-and-go seek as he is hanging with his buddies from school.
My husband Blake and I have a daughter together who is almost 6. Her name is Catherine and she is a girly tomboy and loves to rough house as much as she loves getting and giving manicures. Catherine is perfectly bilingual in French and English and wants to learn to speak Thai.
Our official start date was August 2010.
Right now, we are in France in a small town just a 10 minute bike ride from the Mediterranean Sea and a five minute train ride to Toulon.
Last year we were in Marseille but it was too urban for us so we opted to move to the small beach town where we are living now. It's called La Garde.
Our first year travelling was spent in North America. We used my Aunts house in Montreal as our home-base travelling up and down the east coast visiting family, friends and new places. We even couch surfed a few times which was a lot of fun but harder to find places with three kids.
We travel because of many reasons.
It's easier to explain our background first. Traveling is a way of life for us. I was 22 years old. I guess because of my heritage you could say that travel is in my blood. I was born in Thailand to a Thai mother and French Canadian Father who travelled a lot too.
I am what you call a "third culture child". A term used to describe children who spend more time travelling or living abroad than they do in one home country. I've lived and travelled to over 20 countries.
My husband also loves travel. He studied abroad in Germany and his parents also lived in Japan and Germany for while. So he's predisposed to travel also.
Back to why we travel. One of our main goals while travelling is Heritage.
One of Andre's drawings. Annie homeschools her kids at home on their artistic ventures. For Andre it is drawing.
I want to expose the kids to their heritage. Since my family has French roots, albeit French Canadian, it made sense to go to France so that they would all have a chance to be bilingual. After France I hope to go to Thailand and expose them to that part of their Heritage.. My husband is part Scotish so we did spend some time in Scotland and even eloped there with the kids.
The second reason why we travel is because we enjoy seeing and exploring the world. We could have waited until the kids were out of the nest but we wanted to experience and see the world together and we didn't want them to miss out. So far, I'm so so happy with our decision.
Travelling gives us a sense of urgency to make the time we have in any one place together really count. In other words, we try to live life to the fullest. That sense of complacency you get that some people call a rut is removed by virtue of moving someplace temporarily that you may never return to again.
Kind of like when you go on vacation and try to fit in as many touristy spots as you can. Only we try to do and see as many culturally relevant things as we cannot just the touristy spots. .
Plus traveling full time means we are home for the kids all the time. We used to only see them after work or briefly on the weekends.
Because both my husband and I love travel, It was always our dream to introduce travel to our children beyond the typical 2 week vacation.
When my husband and I were working in the corporate world, we opted for one big holiday in the summer that lasted a month long vs. taking multiple trips throughout the year.
It turned out that spending a month in Hawaii or a month in Paris was cheaper than spending a week in those same places because we could rent a house and cook and not rush. Over all it was way less stressful travelling slower.
When we got laid off from our hectic jobs, we took it as a sign and a chance to take the plunge and do what we were afraid to do while we were working which was to spend more time traveling and abroad.
I guess you could say that getting laid off was the catalyst that set us on our current course. We didn't have that fear of losing our jobs and our lifestyle hanging over our heads because the lay off too care of that. We had nothing to lose.
The first year we travelled, we tried homeschooling. I really thought it would work but it was just too hard with 1 teenager and another tween who preferred going to school and were use to that since kindergarten.
I think part of the problem was that we were spending all day with each other and then homeschooling them. It was just too much too fast and I didn't do enough research before hand to prepare or have a network to reach out to for help. We ended up clashing a lot and our relationship suffered.
The second year of travel, we chose to go to France and put all three kids in public French school which is working out quite well. It turns out that the boys missed school and preferred it over being homeschooled. I used to feel guilty for failing at homeschool but in the end it's what works best for the kids.
We do supplement their education with a little homeschooling, if you can call it that. We try to engage or bring out their natural talents and interests as much as possible.
I am helping Andre improve his artistic side by encouraging him to draw. We're working on creating a website around it called "A Zombie Diary" which we hope to monetize while developing his entrepreneurial skills. So keep your eyes peeled for that coming soon.
My other son Kieran works on his own to develop his interests. For the moment they include guitar and soccer. Kieran likes to work on one or two things intensely and excel in them.
Our daughter is just five and I just started giving her violin lessons and yoga lessons at home. We may even work on a third language Chinese, Thai or Japanese. All three of which I have been exposed to myself.
Living in France gives us access to the rest of Europe which is an intricate and diverse network of nationalities and peoples.
By virtue of living abroad we see and experience things outside the scope of North American life.
This gives us a new perspective. When something is different, new or unknown we don't cower or judge. We accept and understand and we feel are at home in the world instead of afraid of it.
This is really hard to answer. We have a lot of memorable experiences. The most memorable one was in Scotland. It was one of the first international trips we took with the kids and that's when Iknew I wanted to travel with the kids. Those first moments travelling were like a drug that I couldn't get enough of. The kids eyes were opened to the world beyond the club meds of this world and expensive hotels. I loved seeing the world through their eyes.
It's really hard to pinpoint one aha moment but looking back at our lives in the San Francisco Bay area and our lives now, I think we have a better understanding of what happiness is.
I guess the aha moment is that we don't miss things as much as I thought we would.
We used to accumulate possession after possession and we were teaching our kids that that was happiness through our actions. I wasn't raised that way but you kind of get caught up in that whole "keeping up with the Jones's" philosophy when you live to work.
Ultimately now, our happiness comes from doing things and experiencing things together outside of our regular routine. As cheesy as it sounds, those memories will last a lifetime while the novelty of having new stuff wears off almost immediately.
We don't know what is next to be honest. We are thinking of staying one more year in France since my eldest is so close to finishing high school.
We may go to Montreal and stay put while travelling out during the summer months. I would like the kids to explore their Asian heritage at one point and spend a few months in Thailand. I just have no idea.
I just know that I want to have the option to pick up and go anytime we like so I'll keep working on my freelance career. My husband is doing the same and just finished writing his first novel.
In the mean time we're just enjoying our lives and living in the moment while trying to balance our lives and make It sustainable.
Name: Annie Andre & Blake Elder
twitter: Annie's twitter is @annieandrehacks
web site : Practical Adventurology (www.AnnieAndre.com)
Same Old Education!
By Guest in Unschooling, World Schooling on February 27, 2013
Qorikancha - Stone work made with a bronze chisel? [PHOTO ESSAY] Part 2
By Lainie Liberti in Archaeology & Ruins, Peru, Photo Essays on February 27, 2013
Annie Andre 9 years ago
Thank you Lainie for sharing our story. We may do some backpacking through Europe this summer like Croatia and Greece. Looking forward to planning that if we can make it happen.


In my day-to-day activities, I spend an inordinate amount of time talking to customers and C-suite decision makers on behalf of technology vendors. I'm usually there after the dust has settled on the deal and the scars have begun to heal.
My role as an independent 3rd party is to debrief with the customer, understand the causal link between the performance of the sales team and the decision they have just made. At the same time, I can ensure that the sales team is able to extract some tangible value in return for the time, effort and cost of sales they put into the sales pursuit, win, lose or draw.
The trickiest part of Win Loss Analysis is often sitting down with the sales team after the fact and explaining to them why they won or lost a particular piece of business. I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into a deal, to commit months of your life responding to RFPs, preparing for demos and proof of concepts, only to see the deal slip away at the very last second. During my time carrying a sales quota I used to hate all of the unknown factors that accompany so many purchasing decisions, and so that was the problem I set out to solve when I founded Trinity almost 5 years ago.
In this short video, I talk a little more about the how and the why of our Win Loss Analysis process and the buzz I get from helping a salesperson learn from their mistakes.


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Unlikely Ally Defends Project Veritas After FBI Storms James O'Keefe's Home in Brutal Pre-Dawn Raid
By Jack Davis November 16, 2021 at 8:12am
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe and the American Civil Liberties Union are on very different ends of the political spectrum.
But after three residences tied to Project Veritas were searched by federal authorities, the ACLU said the action was a threat to all journalists, even those the ACLU does not like.
"Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all. Nevertheless, the precedent set in this case could have serious consequences for press freedom," said Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, in a statement on the ACLU's website.
"Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures," Hauss said.
"We urge the court to appoint a special master to ensure that law enforcement officers review only those materials that were lawfully seized and that are directly relevant to a legitimate criminal investigation," he concluded.
Others have also criticized the raid.
Their statement: pic.twitter.com/XIkUcB57sA
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 15, 2021
Here is their statement. It seems more and more journalists are seeing how the DOJ's alarming tactics are of great concern to all lovers of a free press! pic.twitter.com/ZuVtSup2q0
The DOJ is irredeemably corrupt. https://t.co/yFPatD1DFS
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 16, 2021
In a statement on the Project Veritas website, O'Keefe said the raid was not even necessary.
"The FBI took materials of current and former Veritas journalists despite the fact that our legal team previously contacted the Department of Justice and voluntarily conveyed unassailable facts that demonstrate Project Veritas' lack of involvement in criminal activity and/or criminal intent," O'Keefe said.
O'Keefe said the FBI raids came after Project Veritas voluntarily surrendered the journal to law enforcement.
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"Late last year, we were approached by tipsters claiming they had a copy of Ashley Biden's diary," he said. "The tipsters indicated that they were negotiating with a different media outlet for the payment of monies for the diary."
"At the end of the day, we made the ethical decision that because, in part, we could not determine if the diary was real, if the diary in fact belonged to Ashley Biden or if the contents of the diary occurred, we could not publish the diary and any part thereof," he said. "Project Veritas gave the diary to law enforcement to ensure it could be returned to its rightful owner. We never published it."
O'Keefe said during an appearance on the Fox News show "Hannity" that federal agents showed up at his home with a battering ram and detained him.
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"I woke up to a pre-dawn raid," he said. "Banging on my door, I went to my door to answer the door, and there were 10 FBI agents with a battering ram, white blinding lights. They turned me around, handcuffed me and threw me against the hallway. I was partially clothed in front of my neighbors."
"They confiscated my phone. They raided my apartment. On my phone were many of my reporters' notes, a lot of my sources unrelated to this story and a lot of confidential donor information to our news organization," he said.
After a report in The New York Times that appeared to use information obtained in the raid, a federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to stop mining the phones they confiscated for any old data they pleased and instructed that an independent so-called special master be appointed to oversee what information was viewed or released.
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What I Heard This Morning: Boss Keloid
I hear a lot of heavy bands. I hear enough heavy bands that, at points, I have to ask myself if what I'm listening to qualifies as "heavy." This scrutiny extends to metal, particularly since the genre is now susceptible to instances of "acceptance" amongst those who, at any other point in time during metal's three or four decades in existence, would otherwise pay it no mind or run away. I won't name names, but I'll say that certain metal albums circulating last year were granted some significant acclaim, much to the chagrin of the genre's loyalists, a legion of music fan eternally devoted to being both aurally slaughtered by the masters of their obsession and to being ousted by proper, decent society. Plus, the genre has been infiltrated by charlatans in the same way punk had been in the mid-90s, bands that figured out that if you could simply play fast, wear the uniform and embrace a certain level of attitude, no matter how insultingly tame or childish, you could acquire some fans and earn the stature. Good Charlotte is probably the best example of this. While some of us are in tune to understanding legitimacy from falsehood musically, some music fans, budding ones especially, need to keep listening and listening and listening in order to figure out what stays and what goes, what is essential vs. what is disposable.
While I don't want to stray too far from the topic, I listened to a song this morning from a band called Boss Keloid, a sludge metal band out of the UK that had me upon first bass note. The song is called "Locking Stumps." Take a listen:
Now, can we safely say that this would qualify as "heavy?"
The good people at Conspiracy PR were nice enough to send this to me, along with all the information below about the band's album, The Calming Influence of Teeth. Just a note: the info contained here is from last year.
BOSS KELOID: Britain's Sludge Giants Release 'The Calming Influence of Teeth'
Drawing comparisons to early-Mastodon and Coalesce, BOSS KELOID were recently labeled "the slumbering sludge colossus of Wigan (UK)" in a Metal Mouth review of 'The Calming Influence of Teeth' (9/10). The new album has certainly attracted some of the the UK's tastemakers and is currently bubbling in the underground of the US as well.
'The Calming Influence of Teeth' is the second effort from BOSS KELOID and is currently available via Bandcamp ($4 digital / $5 physical) and delivers heavy doses of Groove, Sludge, Math and Progressive metal -- but blending it together so effortlessly that nothing feels forced. "The album contains 50 of the most fucked up and insane minutes you will hear in 2013" says the Sludgelord.
BOSS KELOID is also known for one of the most crushing live shows in the UK and they plan to deliver on that with shows scheduled throughout the end of the year -- including the just announced "Halloween Rock & Metal Extravaganza" on October 25 at Wigan's The Boulevard and this Saturday (October 12) at Manchester's Age of Diversity III Festival alongside Black Acid Souls and more.
Always creating new material, BOSS KELOID has also issued their first full music video for the track "Locking Stumps", available at the following location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnrBESC1Jz0
Check out 'The Calming Influence of Teeth' at the following location:
http://bosskeloid.bandcamp.com/
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What happens when a teaching hospital closes?
By Gabrielle Redford, Managing Editor
When Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia announced it would be closing, it set in motion a chain of events that affects everyone from students and residents to program directors, faculty, and patients. Here's what you need to know, whether you're at Hahnemann or another academic medical institution.
A photograph taken of Hahnemann University Hospital in 2016.
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On June 26, 2019, Hahnemann University Hospital, the primary teaching hospital affiliated with Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced that it was filing for bankruptcy and would be closing its doors in late September. Hospital administrators have since informed state regulators that they are likely to close even earlier, possibly at the end of the August.
At the time of the announcement, approximately 100 patients were being cared for at Hahnemann — and 571 residents and fellows, as well as some Drexel medical students, were in training there. All will be displaced once the hospital is shuttered.
In addition to affecting patients, the closure sent ripples through the academic medicine community, as Hahnemann residents scramble to find slots elsewhere, program directors at other institutions inquire about taking these residents, and the organizations supporting resident education — including the AAMC, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — step up to offer assistance and guidance.
Let's talk first about the medical students at Drexel University College of Medicine. Many of them were doing their third- and fourth-year rotations at Hahnemann. What is happening on that front?
We have been advised by the dean's office that all medical student rotations for the third and fourth years have been transferred to other clinical sites. So we know that all medical students have been removed and are in appropriate training sites right now.
That leaves the 571 residents and fellows who are training at Hahnemann. Aren't most residencies filled during The Match®? How are these residents going to continue their training? Do they have a choice about where they go?
Our member institutions have been asked to see who might be able to take some of these residents. Here's how it works. Let's say that your institution's program in internal medicine is approved by the ACGME for 30 residents, but you only have 28 residents. You can go ahead and fill those two slots right now without talking to anyone. The AAMC tracks open positions at Find a Resident, and any resident can go online and look for those open slots.
Now say that your institution has 30 positions but all 30 are taken. But as a program director, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), or other institutional official, you have enough clinical material and enough teachers that you could take a couple more residents. In that case, the program director would have to call the ACGME and get approval through an application process to temporarily increase the number of residents in their program from 30 to 32.
In the case of Hahnemann, the program directors there are also calling and looking for slots for their residents as well as looking for other clinical partners that may house their programs. So it's an individual effort to find a slot, and that individual effort is aided by their program director as well as by the AAMC, ACGME, and ECFMG.
The closing hospital cannot direct residents to go to a particular program. Once a program is identified that will accept the resident, it is the resident's decision about whether to go to that program or to try and find an alternative.
Residency positions are partially funded by the federal government and partially funded by the teaching hospital or another source. How do institutions who agree to take additional residents get paid?
Medicare rules about what happens to graduate medical education (GME) funding when a teaching hospital closes are very complicated. The AAMC has put together a fact sheet on the basics, but I'll try to explain it briefly here. There are two phases to consider when thinking about the funding of new residents. Phase one is the Temporary Cap Transfer. If a resident goes from Hahnemann to another teaching hospital, the resident takes one of Hahnemann's Medicare-funded residency positions with them — after the CFO of Hahnemann signs off on the transfer — to the new hospital for the remainder of that resident's training in the same specialty in which he or she was training at Hahnemann. The new hospital must contact their CMS Medicare Audit Contractor within 60 days and say, I have this resident. This is their demographic information, this is their name and Social Security number, and this is the document from Hahnemann saying that the hospital is closing and they're transferring this slot with this particular resident to us.
What that means for the other teaching hospital is that it will receive two forms of funding. One is direct GME funding. That pays about 30% to 40% of the direct expense of training a resident. The second is an add-on payment to their Medicare payment, which is based on the number of Medicare patients, the capacity of the hospital, and the number of medical residents. So those two payments — the direct GME funds and the indirect medical education funds — will increase if you have appropriately applied for and gotten approval for the transfer of a resident to your program. And those payments will stay with your institution until the resident finishes the current program that they are in.
It's the temporary transfer of funding for that slot that follows a resident so he or she can successfully complete a program. The payment from CMS is at the same rate that the receiving hospital is paid for all residents it currently is training.
If my institution accepts additional residents, will those residency slots be permanently allocated to my institution? Or will those slots disappear once those residents finish their training?
The AAMC years ago worked to ensure that the Affordable Care Act included a provision for the permanent distribution of slots when a teaching hospital closes. At some point in the future, CMS may announce a process for a permanent redistribution of the Hahnemann slots.
Any institution could submit an application for these slots. They would be distributed according to a number of criteria established by CMS. Preference is given to institutions in the same core-based statistical area in which the closed hospital is located. They will also give priority to institutions who say, for instance, "You know, Hahnemann had a really great internal medicine program. We are going to subsume the entire program and continue it at our institution," or "We can't take the whole program but we're going to take some portion of it." That would also give them priority.
So that's the second phase of funding — the Permanent Cap Transfer — but that won't happen for a while.
A number of Hahnemann residents are international students whose J-1 visas depend upon employment at the hospital. What will happen to them?
There are about 59 visa-holding residents who, if they don't find a spot within 30 days of the hospital closing, will have to leave the country. We are working very closely with the ECFMG in order to help those people who have moved themselves and their families to the United States to continue with their training.
What is happening to the patients being cared for at Hahnemann? Will they be able to quickly get care at other hospitals?
The state and the city are very concerned about the safety and well-being not only of those who are employed by the hospital but also those patients who are in the hospital. The Pennsylvania Department of Health has a senior official at the hospital now who is working with staff to ensure the safety of those patients.
How about the faculty who were teaching those residents?
The faculty are also faculty at Drexel, but Drexel gets a significant amount of money from Hahnemann that supports their directorships and clinical activity. Both John Prescott, MD, AAMC's chief academic officer, and I have been in touch with senior people at Drexel and we continue to provide support to them as they recalibrate and look at who their new clinical partners will be in the future.
In the end, it's a complicated situation, but the AAMC is here to help. We have experts who understand the process. We can be reached at GMEquestions@aamc.org or by emailing me at jorlowski@aamc.org. We also have resources [see Related Resources] that are available to help residents, program directors, and faculty.
Gabrielle Redford, Managing Editor
GME - Graduate Medical Education
Health Care Systems
Hahnemann to close programs, release residents with Medicare funding
Residents will stay on Hahnemann payroll until August 25, though most training programs will close by July 29.
Information About Hahnemann University Hospital Closure
Details about the Hahnemann University Hospital closure.
Medicare Rules When a Teaching Hospital Closes
What residents need to know about the Hahnemann University Hospital closure
Some residents could be released as early as July 26 to pursue training elsewhere, says AAMC Chief Health Care Officer Janis Orlowski, MD.
ACGME Statement about Hahnemann University Hospital Closure
ECFMG Statement on Closure of Hahnemann University Hospital


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A hotter planet will make solar power less efficient
Photovoltaic cells are notoriously sensitive to temperature. Now a new study reveals how global warming will reduce output across the globe by 2100.
Solar power is a green, renewable energy source and an important way to reduce the planet's reliance on fossil fuels. The great hope is that this and other renewable sources can help reverse the heating that threatens our climate.
But there is a problem: climate change is likely to have a significant impact on solar power generation, not least because of changes in the amount of incident sunlight in different parts of the world. Some areas will see more sunlight and others less because of changes in cloud cover, atmospheric water content, aerosols, and so on. Most places will see greater variability.
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The exact changes in specific locations are hard to calculate. Which is why scientists, policymakers, energy suppliers, and others are struggling to predict how their areas will be affected.
Today, Ian Peters and Tonio Buonassisi at MIT show why another factor needs to be taken into account: temperature. The output of photovoltaic cells drops as they get hotter. But how this will stack up as the planet warms is poorly understood, which is where Peters and Buonassisi step in.
Photovoltaic cells create current when sunlight transfers energy to electrons in the material. This process also creates positively charged "holes" in the structure that flow in the opposite direction to electrons.
An important factor in the efficiency of photovoltaic cells is the rate at which electrons recombine with the holes, a process that takes them out of the conduction band and so reduces output. This rate is highly sensitive to temperature: the hotter it is, the higher the rate of recombination.
That's likely to play a significant role as the planet warms, say Peters and Buonassisi. They calculate that, on average, photovoltaic power output reduces by 0.45% for each degree increase in temperature.
They then study the effect of this change using the temperature change predicted by International Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC has made several predictions based on different estimates of future greenhouse-gas emissions. Peters and Buonassisi use the so-called Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 scenario, in which emissions peak in 2040 and increase the average global temperature 1.8 degrees Kelvin by 2100.
"As temperatures raise nearly everywhere on the land mass of our planet, energy output is reduced everywhere," they say. But some areas will be worse off than others. "Areas that are especially affected include the Southern United States, Southern Africa and Central Asia."
They go on to produce a global map that shows the extent of the change in power output in any area.
Of course, the researchers point out a number of caveats. They say that other factors will also influence the power output from photovoltaic cells. In particular, the amount of incident sunlight will depend on cloud cover and atmospheric water content (i.e., humidity).
And they point out that the -0.45%/K figure they use to calculate the drop in power output is a just a representative number. Breakthroughs in materials science could significantly change it in the future. For example, materials with a higher band gap, such as cadmium telluride, have a significantly smaller drop in efficiency.
Nevertheless, the message is clear. Global warming will reduce the amount of power that photovoltaic cells can produce, in some places by a significant amount. And that will need accounting for when it comes to future energy planning.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1908.00622 : The Impact of Global Warming on Silicon PV Energy Yield in 2100
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It Looks Like Nokia 9 Has Been Leaked By Nokia Itself
Feb 14, 2018 by Saurabh Tripathi in Android
HMD Global is set to launch a ton of new phones on the MWC 2018 and among them is one of the most anticipated phones from the company in quite a while, the Nokia 9. While we know a lot about the phone thanks to some leaks, the latest look at the upcoming phone seems to be coming directly from the company.
Indonesian blog detiklNET posted a set of photos which looks to be the upcoming Nokia flagship phone from the company on the hands of an HMD Global official. Considering the phone in photos does not have a clear model number or name, it could also be the upcoming Nokia 7 Plus. According to the report, the phone will have a curved display much like Galaxy S8 and Note 8 ad it may also come with the taller 18:9 aspect ratio.
The back panel of the phone appears to be a glass coated which makes it possible to charge the phone wirelessly, something that is impossible to do with metal back phones. apart from that, the phone will come with a vertical dual camera setup with 13-megapixel primary sensor and a 12-megapixel secondary sensor.
Nokia 9 is rumored to come with a 5.5 inch Full HD display and to be powered by a Snapdragon 835 SOC and 128 GB of inbuilt storage. There will be a 3250 mAh battery on the phone and it will come preinstalled with Android 8 out of the box
Considering the phone will be competing with Google Pixel 2 XL and iPhone X, it will be interesting to see how the phone sells on the market and on what price.
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Hope you all had a great hump day! That much closer to the weekend! I finally took pictures of second half of my February hauls. (See first half here)This will be my last big one for a while, I am going to be limiting my polish buying for the next few months. I have accumulated polishes so quickly that I have not had a chance to use them all, so I will be playing some catch up. :) And I may or may not be running out of storage space. . .
Gilt City offered a $40 voucher for bloom.com for only $20! Some new customers were able to snag a $15 off coupon too so it was only $5! I was one of those lucky few. Due to high demand the promo was changed and new customers were offered 20% off their order vs. $15 off. Still a great deal for some new polish though!
I picked up a couple more bottles of Cult Nails Toxic Seaweed after the presale was over (not pictured) and snagged some other colors while in the process. I am looking forward to some of the new colors that will be launching since I now have pretty much all of the colors I want from the existing collections!
My local K-Mart did not have all of the Jordana Glitters available so I ordered a few directly from their website. They cost a little more online($2.99 vs $1.99) but at least the shipping wasn't too bad. And I didn't have to drive around to a bunch of different stores trying to find them.
I placed a small order with Llarowe for the last of the Hits that were on my wish list. I had been waiting to get Hefesto forever! I kept missing it whenever it came back in stock!
In my search for indie polish I came across Elixir Lacquers. There are a few more I would love to order, but I had to get my hands on these ones first!
I can not stay away from Etsy! Windestine had 2 more polishes listed that I just had to have! Both of these colors are so unique and down right gorgeous!
And you guessed it, more polishes from Etsy shops! I got 1 more from Pretty & Polished and also bought my first colors from Dollish Polish!
I just can't get enough! Up close photos below!
Finally, here are some random polishes I picked up in some swaps thanks to a couple of nail polish exchange groups on Facebook. I was able to unexpectedly cross some major lemmings off my list!
Whew! It's alot of work putting together these haul posts! NOTD posts are so much easier, I will be looking forward to a little break! :) I am already on my 4th green manicure for the month! Behind in posts I know, but I will get one up tomorrow!
Hope you enjoyed seeing my haul, goodnight!
Hot damn you've been busy! Your bank account must be tired! I'm so jealous though, you've got quite an impressive haul there!
Hey Brittany! I wrote the post about the draw on my blog, stop if you want :) A kiss and have a good weekend!
PD: I love the matte nail polish, only around for Spain not find them anywhere.


HYDERABAD: Ditching traditional ways of celebrating the festival of lights at home, many are now planning a quick holiday away from the city. While domestic destinations like Goa, Puducherry, Mahabubnagar, Kolkata, Jaipur, Kurnool, and Hampi see huge traction, when it comes to international destinations, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Dubai are attracting a lot of Hyderabadis. In the past one week, there has also been a steady rise in the number of commuters travelling by train to different regions of the country.
"Moving away from tradition wherein festivals are usually celebrated with family and friends at home, people are now increasingly opting for travel to celebrate the festival. Dubai is the most booked international destination for Indians during Diwali this year," said an official from a major travel portal. The top domestic destinations for Hyderabadis for this festival season include Indore, Goa, Bhubaneshwar, Vishakhapatnam, Jaipur, Tirupati, Kochi, and Rajamundhry, he added.
An official from another travel booking portal said that 32% Gen-Z and 34% Millennials prefer 3-5 day long weekend and make the most of it during such festive holidays by clubbing these vacation days with weekends to enjoy extended/ long weekends. "They want to avoid the hassle, crowd, and pollution of the city and spend time with their family, travel and explore destinations," he said.
The demands for railway bookings too are spilling over the availability of seats in all major trains under the zone with Rs 10.51 crore accrued on a daily basis. Looking at the SCR's data on passenger traffic, the number of railway passengers has gone up in both reserved and unreserved segments during this festive period as compared to previous years. The railway authorities have run around 40 special trains from since the end of October.
Railway officials told TOI that almost all the trains plying under SCR have nearly 200 passengers in the waiting list on an average. "Despite running special trains to tackle the rush of people, many are still on waiting lists," said an official. According to sources, close to 1.50 lakh passengers have opted for railway journeys in the reserved segment from the city per day this Diwali and SCR has earned around Rs 6.71 crore revenues from this rush. Last year, the railway authorities had managed to earn around 6.5 crore from 1.35 lakh passengers during the festive period.


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Company Description Sai Estate Consultants' Chembur Private Limited (SECCPL) - ISO 9001 Certified & CRISIL Rated real estate broking company, channel partners for both outright & leasing facilitation services with emphasized focus across Mumbai, Pune, Surat and Vadodara. The journey of SECCPL started 9 years ago with a small outfit and today it is fast-tracking towards creating an a niche for itself. The organization has built a reputation of being one of the most reliable and trustworthy channel partners for more than 100+ developers SECCPL works with. Amit Wadhwani has played a key role in making SECCPL a force to reckon with. Amit leads the sales endeavor at SECCPL. About Amit Wadhwani (MD, SECCPL) Amit Wadhwani, Managing Director, Sai Estate Consultants Chembur started his journey from an air steward, and today, he has re-modelled the real estate landscape and is most talked about from the industry. Amit started with just a couple of people in his team back in 2010. He now commands a team of nearly 200+ people and has glorious portfolio of association with renowned developers that he has achieved by sheer hard work, aiding the company to grow at a lightning fast pace. Amit B Wadhwani has created a differentiation for himself just by treating the customer differently. Today, he not only leads a team of young, driven and high energy sales consultants but also manages a GUARANTEED monthly sales turnover for his client base proving himself to be a worthy partner time and again. Being a RERA certified organization, Amit's aim to redefine brokers and broking industry in the minds of the consumers. Amit is very bullish about achieving the goal 'housing for all' and has already embarked on his ambitious project that supports the government initiative of 'Housing For All by 2022' in Mumbai and other metro cities. He specifically wants to reach out to consumers who can afford homes of less than ₹ 1 cr and make their dreams come true.


Live from Baselword 2016, we have a fresh look at a modern classic from H. Moser & Cie. Moser is, of course, the brand that made waves a few months back with the Swiss Alp watch, but while that was a dose of Swiss humor mixed with marketing gimmickry, Moser is best known amongst aficionados for its ingenious perpetual calendar (which we reviewed here). Now we see the very same caliber, but up-sized to fit into a more casual case, and with 120 m water resistance! That is, for a perpetual calendar, pretty fantastic.
Called the Pioneer Perpetual, this new watch comes in 42.8 mm case that is made of both 5N red gold and black DLC-finished titanium, for a much more aggressive look than previously seen in the Endeavour Perpetual. We've got a fumé dial, and leaf-shaped, SuperLuminova-filled hands. You'll also see Superluminova on the hour markers of the flange for great visibility.
All this plus a new 120 m water resistant case and you have one of the coolest, most usable perpetual calendars ever developed. Is it the deepest diving QP? It's not – UN made one that went to 200 m and IWC of course has a QP in its Aquatimer family – but still, this is a very charming, functional watch that we're sure people will like. It comes on either a rubber or black croc strap, though we'd certainly opt for rubber on this one.


A year ago I sat in the hospital for my third morning. It was quiet, no one was around. I looked at the monitor, it was showing the same situation. I was having what I knew were small contractions, but I didn't want to tell anyone. I will never forget the quiet, and I will never forget hearing God's voice so clear. He told me he was going to take you and I would deliver you. However, everything would be okay. I knew it would be okay, I trust God's promises.
While we were in the NICU I would often think, this situation is not ideal for anyone. However, I wonder if God knew we needed this time.


Every May and June, SuperNOVA travels throughout Atlantic Canada to deliver interactive and high-energy STEM workshops featuring exciting demonstrations, interesting experiments, and fun hands-on activities.
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Your school should try to book 4 workshops or more. To minimize our carbon footprint, we try to visit schools only once throughout the workshop season and are not be able to make repeat visits.


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'Mister Ed' Feature in Development at Waterman Entertainment
Mister Ed Feature in Development at Waterman Entertainment
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Family-based production outfit Waterman Entertainment is developing a feature film concept based on the iconic family television property, Mister Ed. The property fits seamlessly into the company's business model, which is to identify existing and successful family brands that can be developed into live action/CGI feature film properties.
Over the past twelve months the company has been aggressively seeking out family-friendly brands that have franchise potential and ancillary viability on platforms including television, digital, literary, and merchandising. In doing so, Waterman Entertainment works in conjunction with the creators and rights holder's to tap their wealth of knowledge around their characters and storylines allowing for stronger content that remains true to the property.
Steve Waterman, who founded and manages the company along with his sons Tucker and Cooper, has served as an Executive Producer on theatrical features including Casper with Universal; Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked with 20th Century Fox; and Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2 with Columbia Pictures, among other credits.
Cooper Waterman said, "We are identifying properties that have had success with multiple generations of parents who feel comfortable and have excitement about reintroducing the characters and storylines to their own kids and grandkids. While each property remains independent of each other, they will share the commonality of addressing social values, morality lessons, and characteristics that are clearly identifiable for kids with comedic elements for all age groups."
The company recently announced the acquisition of rights for The Brave Little Toaster, a project that Disney released as a fully animated feature in 1987. Waterman will present the reimagination as a CGI/live action property and give it a contemporary storyline, while preserving the original essence of the characters and moral lessons behind the story.
Waterman Entertainment is focused on acquiring properties and growing them across multiple platforms to support the theatrical release. Tucker Waterman continued, "When we develop properties we don't limit them solely to the big screen. They are iconic characters and brands that have appeal far beyond movies. We will be utilizing both traditional and new methods to bring these characters to audiences in a myriad of platforms."
Waterman Entertainment (WatermanEnt) is a family-owned and operated media and entertainment company that focuses on creating, financing and distributing film, television, and digital media properties across multiple platforms for family audiences. The company works closely with creators and rights holders and manages all licensing rights to their brands and characters to exploit ancillary revenue streams tied to worldwide theatrical releases.


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We took out the mini cessna and yak54 and had a ball, for under $80 these are worth every cent, There was a young guy at the park about 5 years old, we let him take control and no joke he crashed it at least 10-15 times and some were pretty hard hits. I can tell you they are built tuff!, All that broke on the cessna was the front wheel. I think on both cessna and YAK54 there not really needed. We hand launched on all occasions. Just be sure there's not to much wind around and for the price im sure you"ll be smiling the whole time, Thanks.


A highly sought-after gem of the Verbier scene, this 1,000m2 chalet sleeps a total of fourteen. Set out over five floors, this exquisitely designed property has seven bedrooms all with private shower or bath rooms, spa facilities, and amazing entertainment features.
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Chalet occupies an enviable location on the tip of the famous Verbier plateau, providing breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and valleys from every window and balcony.
The chalet is situated just a five minute stroll from the centre of the buzzing village and all of its amenities. Ski lifts are also close fulfilling all of your snow sports needs with ease.
A dedicated chauffeur and vehicle (Volkswagen Caravelle or similar) operating between the hours of 8.30am until 2am.
You can keep all of your vehicles close at hand in Chalet 's three secure external parking spaces.
Saturday, June 23, we resume skiing in Les 2 Alpes. The French station officially opens the summer ski season, a season that will continue until September 1st. Between the 3600 meters of the glacier and the 2900 meters there is space for skiers and snowboarders who have at their disposal throughout the summer tracks and halfpipe on which to make great changes.
The snow conditions seem to be perfect thanks to the abundant snowfalls of this winter that lasted until late spring: they have already tested ski instructors, ski clubs and training teams who have free access to the glacier since 11 June.
And during the opening weekend, the outdoor festival will also be staged (in its second edition): an opportunity not only for the skippers but also for mountain bikers, trail running, paragliding and golf. The other events scheduled for the first part of the summer season are Mountain of Hell, a spectacular mountain bike competition scheduled from 29 June to 1 July; Muzelle Festival (7-8 July), snow party with music and animation; the traditional festival of July 14th with fireworks and dancing; the Vintage Motor Show on July 21, which combines vintage cars and motorcycles.
Wedding in great secrecy for Marcel Hirscher who married his Laura in the beautiful island of Ibiza.
The seven-time winner of the ski world cup has as always wanted to stay away from the spotlight is organized the wedding away from prying eyes (albeit in one of the most famous beach resorts in the world) surrounded only by a few relatives and friends.
Hirscher at the end of yet another triumphant season is finally married to his Laura Moisl even if he has not yet officially known what his intentions for the future. The recent renewal with Atomic suggests that his career will continue with the hunt for the eighth Cup.


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Q: Wordpress sorting makes data disapear $args = array("post_type" => 'groupmembers');

Gives me un-ordered custom post types
$args = array("post_type" => 'groupmembers',
               'meta_key' => 'display-order',
               'orderby' => 'meta_value_num');

Don't give me nothing, not even an error message. Any idea what's wrong?

A: I think this is right answer
$args = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'groupmembers',
        'meta_key' => 'display-order',
        'orderby' => 'position'));

A: If the field 'display-order' displays the order number you want them to appear in, then you should be able to use:
$args = array("post_type" => 'groupmembers',
               'orderby' => 'display-order',
               'order' => 'ASC');

EDIT
Looked into it again and the following works for me (i used advanced custom fields to create the field, and worked with both text and number field - plugin link):
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      'meta_key' => 'display-order',
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      'order' => 'ASC',
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?>
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The forecast for Armistice Day 1940, as reported in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune dated Nov. More than 16 inches of snow fell in Minneapolis, more than 2 feet in other parts of the state. Here is the lead story, followed by a few of the dozens of storm-related briefs. During the storm, winds reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour, drifts piled up as high as five feet, and there was a temperature drop to sub-zero depths, Williston and Minot, N. Those who had found shelter were urged to stay there until conditions improved. One woman was killed and her husband and another woman were hurt when their car apparently was thrown into the path of an oncoming truck by the strong winds near the Ramsey county line on highway No. Within a short time two dozen other motorists, blinded by the snow, slid into the pile of disabled machines. In Minneapolis, where the rush hour of automobile traffic late in the day packed ice into the ruts of trolley rails, street cars were practically at a standstill by nightfall.
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Q: Discord.py rewrite Modmail System Pretty much I am trying to make a modmail bot for a server. Here is the code.
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    modmail_channel = discord.utils.get(client.get_all_channels(), name="bot-log")

    if message.author == client.user:
        return
    if str(message.channel.type) == "private":
        embed = discord.Embed(color=0x00FFFF)
        embed.set_author(name=f"Olympia Gaming Modmail System", icon_url="https://cdn.discordapp.com/icons/690937143522099220/34fbd058360c3d4696848592ff1c5191.webp?size=1024")
        embed.add_field(name='Report a member:', value=f"React with 1⃣ if you want to report a member.")
        embed.add_field(name='Report a Staff Member:', value=f"React with 2⃣ if you want to report a Staff Member.")
        embed.add_field(name='Warn Appeal:', value=f"React with 3⃣ if you would like to appeal a warning.")
        embed.add_field(name='Question:', value=f"React with 4⃣ if you have a question about our moderation system or the server rules.")
        embed.set_footer(text="Olympia Gaming | Modmail")
        msg = await message.author.send(embed=embed)
        await msg.add_reaction("1⃣")
        await msg.add_reaction("2⃣")
        await msg.add_reaction("3⃣")
        await msg.add_reaction("4⃣")
    def check(reaction, user):
       return user == message.author and str(reaction.emoji) in ["1⃣", "2⃣", "3⃣", "4⃣"]

    while True:
        try:
            reaction, user = await client.wait_for("reaction_add", timeout=60, check=check)

            if str(reaction.emoji) == "1⃣":
                embed = discord.Embed(color=0x00FFFF)
                embed.set_author(name=f"Olympia Gaming Modmail System", icon_url="https://cdn.discordapp.com/icons/690937143522099220/34fbd058360c3d4696848592ff1c5191.webp?size=1024")
                embed.add_field(name='How to Report:', value="Send the ID of the person you are reporting and attach add a screen shot of them breaking a rule (can be ToS or a server rule).")
                embed.set_footer(text="Olympia Gaming | Report a member ")
                await message.author.send(embed=embed)
                message, user = await client.wait_for("on_message", timeout=60, check=check)
                embed = discord.Embed(title=f"{message.content}", color=0x00FFFF)
                await modmail_channel.send(embed=embed)

        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
            await message.delete()
            break

The only problem with this code is it will not send the message to the modmail channel, and it keeps on repeating the original message. Can someone explain how I could fix this?

A: I have a couple of recommendations for you.
First off, I highly recommend having the following be the very first statement in your on_message:
if message.guild:
    return

This will replace your if str(message.channel.type) == "private":, and ensure that any messages not sent in a DM are immediately discarded.
Second, I suggest using get_channel instead of your discord.utils.get(client.get_all_channels(), name="bot-log") which will search every channel your bot is in until it finds one with the name bot-log.  This is inefficient.
Now, the reason your bot will send the initial message every time is because the main on_message will be called any time a message is sent to the bot.  You will need to keep track of what users have already gotten sent the initial message so you don't send it again.  The simplest implementation of this is just a list that you add user IDs to, and check that list in the main on_message.
Also, your second wait_for will not work, it should just be "message" and you are using your first check function, which is looking for a reaction.
This is a lot all at once, so here is my full on_message with all the changes, hopefully you don't just copy paste it without learning anything:
sent_users = []

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.guild: # ensure the channel is a DM
        return

    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.author.id in sent_users: # Ensure the intial message hasn't been sent before
        return

    modmail_channel = client.get_channel(CHANNEL_ID)

    embed = discord.Embed(color=0x00FFFF)
    embed.set_author(name=f"Olympia Gaming Modmail System", icon_url="https://cdn.discordapp.com/icons/690937143522099220/34fbd058360c3d4696848592ff1c5191.webp?size=1024")
    embed.add_field(name='Report a member:', value=f"React with 1⃣ if you want to report a member.")
    embed.add_field(name='Report a Staff Member:', value=f"React with 2⃣ if you want to report a Staff Member.")
    embed.add_field(name='Warn Appeal:', value=f"React with 3⃣ if you would like to appeal a warning.")
    embed.add_field(name='Question:', value=f"React with 4⃣ if you have a question about our moderation system or the server rules.")
    embed.set_footer(text="Olympia Gaming | Modmail")
    msg = await message.author.send(embed=embed)
    await msg.add_reaction("1⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("2⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("3⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("4⃣")

    sent_users.append(message.author.id) # add this user to the list of sent users

    try:
        def check(reaction, user):
            return user == message.author and str(reaction.emoji) in ["1⃣", "2⃣", "3⃣", "4⃣"]

        reaction, user = await client.wait_for("reaction_add", timeout=60, check=check)

        if str(reaction.emoji) == "1⃣":
            embed = discord.Embed(color=0x00FFFF)
            embed.set_author(name=f"Olympia Gaming Modmail System", icon_url="https://cdn.discordapp.com/icons/690937143522099220/34fbd058360c3d4696848592ff1c5191.webp?size=1024")
            embed.add_field(name='How to Report:', value="Send the ID of the person you are reporting and attach add a screen shot of them breaking a rule (can be ToS or a server rule).")
            embed.set_footer(text="Olympia Gaming | Report a member ")
            await message.author.send(embed=embed)

            message = await client.wait_for("message", timeout=60, check=lambda m: m.channel == message.channel and m.author == message.author)
            embed = discord.Embed(title=f"{message.content}", color=0x00FFFF)
            await modmail_channel.send(embed=embed)

    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
        await message.delete()


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X was never like this.
Director: Just Jaeckin
Blu-ray A Japan - Universal Pictures
Blu-ray ALL Australia - Umbrella Entertainment - Emmanuelle 1&2
Blu-ray B France - Studio Canal
Blu-ray B Germany - Kinowelt Home Entertainment
Blu-ray B Holland - Universal Pictures
Blu-ray B Italy - Universal Pictures - 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Blu-ray B Spain - Universal Pictures
Blu-ray B United Kingdom - Optimum Releasing
"Talking About Emmanuelle" interview with director Just Jaeckin and producer Yves Rousset-Rouard (31:37)
"The Joys of Emmanuelle" documentary featuring star Sylvia Kristel, director Just Jaeckin and producer Yves Rousset-Rouard (16:37)
- "Emmanuelle 2" (2:18)
- "Goodbye Emmanuelle" (2:20)
French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
"An Erotic Success" documentary (53:59)
Interview with producer Yves Rousset-Rouard and director Just Jaeckin (30:18)
Dutch, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish
Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
Region A/B encoded.
Extras are in 480i.
Blu-ray ALL Australia - Umbrella Entertainment
Emmanuelle 1&2
* "Emmanuelle" (94:13)
* "Emmanuelle 2" (91:17)
Case mistakenly states region B only.
Start-up trailer for "Micmacs" (1:54) (HD)
Bonus Trailers
- Dita's Crazy Horse (0:59)
- The Ghostwriter (1:55) (HD)
- Blow (2:14 Min.) (HD)
- Righteous Kill (1:33) (HD)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats (2:19) (HD)
- Shine a Light (2:25) (HD)
- The Wrestler (2:20) (HD)
German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
Extras are in SD except where noted.
Blu-ray B Italy - Universal Pictures
40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Dutch, English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish
Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
Includes postcards and a reproduction poster.
Kino and the other releasings - except the Australian edition - have exclusive extras.
Note the Australian release has no extras but includes the sequel film together.
Blu-ray A America- Kino Lorber - No cuts (94:15)
Blu-ray A Japan- Universal Pictures - No cuts (94:13).
Blu-ray ALL Emmanuelle 1&2 Australia- Umbrella Entertainment - No cuts (94:13).
Blu-ray B France- Studio Canal - No cuts (94:13).
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Q: Why is the standard uncertainty defined with a level of confidence of only 68%? The widely used and accepted form of representing the uncertainty of a measurement is described in the GUM (Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement).
There it is recommended to use the standard deviation as the given uncertainty of a measurement. (see the NIST Summary)
I.e. the true value is in the given interval with a level of confidence of 68%.
Ever since the introduction of the uncertainty in my undergraduate courses I wondered why we are using such a low confidence level.
I often see plots of measurements where for many values the theoretical prediction does not lie within the error bars.
Seeing this always suggests at first glance that either the measurement was flawed or the theory is flawed.
But in reality it's just our way of defining the error interval that seems to be flawed.
In extreme cases 1/3 of the values with their respective uncertainties do not fit to the theoretical prediction.
We could easily multiply the uncertainties with a factor of 2 or 3 to make our confidence value 95% or over 99%. (see NIST definition of the coverage factor)
In my opinion a confidence level of 99% would be much more useful in evaluating the quality of a measurement. And in plots almost every measured value would show a correlation to the theory.
Are there good reasons to use the coverage factor of 1 as the standard representation of uncertainties or is it only a matter of convention/tradition?
And even if nearly all physicists would agree to use a higher coverage factor, would it be wise to switch to new definitions after we used this definition in thousands of papers already?

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Are there good reasons to use the coverage factor of $\pm 1\sigma$ as the standard representation of uncertainties or is it only a matter of convention/tradition?

The reason is convention however with full respect to the statistically rigorous (correct) way that we should use the reported values in comparisons.
Consider first that, when we establish a convention that everyone is to report $\pm 1 \sigma$, we do so so that everyone can easily obtain any multiple range that we want at any point without the need to question the source of the value now or at any point in time later. Convention here establishes a ground rule because $\pm 1\sigma$ is the absolutely least ambiguous report that can be made, both in terms of understanding across any discipline as well as understanding from now until all future times.
Consider second that, when we make comparisons between two values, we are never wise to ask whether the two values agree. We are far better to ask how confident we are that those two values differ from each other. When we have the $\pm 1\sigma$ standard range for two values, we can compare them rigorously to state the percentage confidence that we have that those two values differ to the given degree. When we want to increase our confidence in the difference above 68%, we go to a higher range in $\pm \sigma$.
Here is a specific example. Suppose that theory expects a value as exactly 4 and we obtain $4.5 \pm 0.2$ from a finite number of measurements on a given system. Our measured value is different from theory to a confidence of 68%. In 100 truly random measurements on our system, we should expect to obtain 68 values that predict that our system has a different true-mean from theory. When we increase to $\pm 3\sigma$, we find that 997 out of 1000 measurements on our system support a conclusion that the true infinite-distribution mean measured in our system will be different than theory predicts. We can therefore state that we are 99.7% confident that our value is different from theoretical expectation.
The second lesson is also illustrated by the somewhat amusing weather story. You can be highly confident when you might tell someone that tomorrow's weather will not be significantly different than today's weather. But you would only be modestly assured when you might tell someone that tomorrow's weather will be the same as today's weather.

A: If you study probability theory, you will rarely find references to the standard deviation $s$ . The reason is that the standard deviation is a biased estimator: On average the samples' standard deviation $s$  is smaller than the populations' standard deviation $\sigma$, see example below.  Therefore, mathematicians usually prefer the sample variance $s^2$, which is an unbiased estimator of $\sigma^2$. However, the variance does not have the same unit as the  average value $\bar x$:

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*If we measure distances in meters the variance would have the unit $m^2$.

*In contrast the average and the standard deviation has the unit $m$.

Thus, using the standard deviation (instead of the variance) is very convenient, because it allows us to perform simple insanity checks without using a calculator. Also, there are methods to compensate the bias.
Two remarks:

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*While the $\pm1\hat\sigma$ value is often used,   the document you linked states that you should explicitly state what you mean by an expression such as $1.3\pm 0.1$. Therefore, there is nothing which prevents you from stating that the $\pm 0.1$ correspond to the 95% confidence interval. In fact the $95\%$ confidence interval is the "standard" for plots and hypothesis tests.

*Whenever the distribution is asymmetric about its mean value, the samples' standard deviation is not a very useful quantity. Often quantiles would provide a "better" descriptive statistics.

Recommendation:
Decide for yourself which descriptive statistics are best for your dataset. Whenever you feel that a 95% CI is better suited, please go ahead and use it.
Simulation: I drew $n=5$ random numbers from the normal distribution with $\sigma = 1$ and calculated the samples' standard deviation. Then I repeated this $10\,000$ times and generated the following histogram. The average sample standard deviation $E[s]$ is smaller than $1$. Not much, but the deviation is statistically significant.

A: The standard deviation is just one measure of uncertainty.  Sometimes results are summarized as a mean (best estimate) and a standard deviation.  If all you have is a set of data, the mean and standard deviation of the data can be easily calculated without any assumptions as to the underlying probability distribution.  This does not imply that the mean plus/minus the standard deviation has a very high probability of containing the random variable.
For applications requiring small uncertainty, probability distribution percentiles are frequently used. For a random variable $X$, the specific value $x_p$ such that $Probability(X \le x_p)$ is called the $100pth\enspace percentile$.  For small uncertainty the $95^{th}$ of the $99^{th}$ percentile may be used.
Also, instead of the mean the median is sometimes used for a point estimate; the median is the $50^{th}$ percentile.  For cases where the estimated mean from a sample is $0$ (no occurrences out of $N$ trials), the median is a better point estimate because in this case the mean is insensitive to the number of trials (mean is always $0$ with no occurrences in any number of trials).
Be careful in the use of "confidence". Confidence is not the same as a percentile, although it is sometimes used incorrectly to mean a percentile.   "Percentile" is based on a probability distribution for a random variable.  "Confidence" is associated with an interval for a parameter of a probability distribution (mean, percentile, etc.) calculated from a sample, to indicate uncertainty based on a finite sample. For example, I can calculate a confidence interval for the $95^{th}$ percentile based on a sample.  In basic probability courses it is assumed we "know" the probability distribution; in reality we frequently do not know the distribution, but we may assume the type of distribution (normal, exponential, beta, etc.) based on physical insights and infer a confidence interval for the parameters of the distribution based on samples.
If you "know" the probability distribution you can speak of its mean and percentiles.  If you infer parameters of a probability distribution from a sample you speak of the confidence in the inferred values, using classical statistical inference.
(A Bayesian approach treats probability itself as a random variable in contrast to classical statistical inference where the probability is treated as a specific but unknown value- the number of occurrences out an infinite number of trials.

A: We talk in terms of standard deviation because this is traditionally the quantity you use to specify the variance of a Gaußian distribution specifically and any random distribution more generally. You seem to be misinterpreting the recommendation that all uncertainties be reported as standard deviations as a guideline that this should also always be what determines our demand for the "right" confidence interval.
Reporting standard deviation does not mean that all fields of physics consider the confidence interval corresponding to one standard deviation as a "good fit" - for example, the commonly used "gold standard" for reliable discoveries in high-energy physics is "5 sigma", i.e. in practice people are doing exactly what you propose and multiply the standard deviation by a factor that enforces a much higher confidence level. But in other fields, 5 sigma might be unrealistic e.g. due to experimental limitations or more sources of uncertainty and they use weaker bounds instead.
Giving the standard deviation is simply the standard way to report uncertainty, but it does not imply that in any particular field this is the actual bound used to determine whether or not a result is reliable. Reporting uncertainty in this standardized way is valuable because it makes results comparable across time and space without having to worry about what definition of uncertainty a particular source is using, but the interpretation of that uncertainty is highly variable.

A: The 68% confidence level is chosen because it corresponds to 1$\sigma$ of a Gaussian distribution. Therefore, if the distribution is Gaussian, converting from the 68% confidence level to the 95% confidence level is done by simply multiplying by 2 (more on this). In metrology, distributions are often assumed to be Gaussian since the central limit theorem suggests that the means of measurement results will be Gaussian distributed.
The choice of always presenting the 1$\sigma$ uncertainty is convention. But, it is a convention that makes since. Converting to any other confidence interval is straight forward. Additionally, a if the data are in good agreement with the theory, then the uncertainty bars will overlap at the 68% level. If they do not, that implies it is either a borderline result or it actually does not agree.

A: In the case of a bell curve representing the entire population, or the mathematics of a phenomenon… — any applicable bell curve — the concept of a standard deviation is the point at which the curve changes from getting more and more steep to getting less and less steep.
In other words… starting at the middle, and moving steadily away from the centre… the likelihood decreases, and decreases faster and faster… to the "standard deviation" point… and from there the likelihood decreases now slower and slower.  This point exists, at which the rate of change (in the likelihood) changes from positive to negative…  as a meaningful, inherent concept.
This point marks a conceptual boundary.  It is reasonable to think of this conceptual boundary as delineating typical and not typical.
This "standard deviation" can be treated as a handy unit, and points on a bell curve can be represented in this new unit.  However, that is entirely eisegetical; only the original standard deviation point is conceptually "real".
These "typical" cases happen to represent about 68% of all cases.  This 68% is used for Standard Uncertainty because it is the only point or measure that is "real".  Anything within this range is "typical" and anything outside of this range is not.  The idea of this "Standard Uncertainty" is that a reading should be typical [with all of the above meaning packed into this word "should"].
The concept of a "Standard Error" exists, which can be made smaller by doing repeated experiments and measurements (which requires correcting for these being samples), but again there must be this root concept of the Standard Error of one sample or population.  Using, for instance, 99% for the basic error of one measurement for the Standard Uncertainty would be very wrong.