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Kelly & Cal is Jen McGowan's first feature film after doing several highly regarded short films. Amy Lowe Starbin's screenplay begins with new mother "Kelly," (Juliette Lewis) visiting the gynecologist for her six-week examination after the birth of her son Jackson. The doctor gives Kelly the all clear for resuming sexual relations with her husband and everything looks fine, but by the look on Kelly's face, everything's not fine. She's seemingly stranded in a life that she's not coping with very well.
Kelly's frustrations intensify as she tries and fails to soothe her fussy baby. Not being able to calm him is obviously communicating itself to the baby and the he fusses even more, continuing the vicious cycle. When her laid-back husband "Josh," (Josh Hopkins) holds the baby, however, he's instantly pacified, which of course makes Kelly feel even worse.
To ease her stress, Kelly retreats to her extremely nice, suburban backyard to sneak a cigarette and sees "Cal," (Johnny Weston) her teenage neighbor. Kelly gets up to leave when she's annoyed at his inappropriate comments, but feels terrible when she looks over the fence and sees him in a wheelchair. At another attempt to calm her baby down, she decides to take him for a walk in his stroller and sure enough, he loves it. In the course of long walks around the neighborhood, Kelly runs into Cal again, visiting his house and discovering his musical talents. Having lost his muscular control to play the guitar, Cal has taken to the drums to utilize his upper body strength. It turns out that Kelly used to be a punk rocker of the "riot girl" variety in her past life and she and Cal start bonding over their love of music.
I hated this movie. It was totally unbelievable, from the terrible acting to the characters and their unrealistic, intimate attachment. Let's start with the most notable problem for me: What year is this supposed to be happening? Punk rocking was back in the '90s and Zines were back in the '90s. When Kelly goes into her hope chest and pulls out a cassette recorder and cassettes and old mimeographed or Xerox zines, the timeline is skewed. She appears to be in her late 30s and obviously liked the music a long time ago, yet the Stepford world she lives in where the mothers are all home while husbands are off at work throws is unrealistic. What was she supposed to have been doing with herself from the time that she was recording cassettes and to the current day, at least 10 or 15 years later having first child Jackson? I don't get that at all.
As Kelly becomes more restless, she gets more visits from Josh's mother "Bev," (Cybill Shepherd), and his sister, "Julie," (Lucy Owen), having conversations that are tremendously inappropriate. Again, it's hard to figure out why Bev and Julie have nothing better to do than show up every afternoon to spend time with Kelly. At one point, Julie has a meltdown because she's consumed with envy of Kelly's wonderful husband, baby, and house – everything Julie wants. But do we know why? Do we know what Julie's problem is? Is she divorced? Do we know anything about Julie or anything other than the fact that she's a woman in her middle 30s with nothing better to do then go over in the afternoons to her sister-in-law's? There isn't an answer. When Bev drops off lasagna, Josh comes home all excited because he gets to eat his mom's food, adding to the creepiness of the Stepford wife-y world that made me crazy.
To relive her rocker roots, Kelly goes up into the bathroom and emerges at a family barbeque with incredibly fake-looking turquoise blue hair. Of course Cal loves the outrage of it, but everybody else thinks Kelly has gone off the deep end. The next thing she knows, Bev has shown up with some makeover person who covers Kelly in makeup and dresses her in these Stepford wife outfits. They turn her hair from turquoise blue to brown again, and it's unclear what they want to accomplish. Cal, thinking this is hilariously funny, throws her a hoodie and tells her to cover up the stupid clothes. In the same sequence, Julie is shoving cards at her to go see a therapist who specializes in postpartum depression. It was bizarre to me as to what was supposed to be going on.
There's a distance that Kelly has with her husband and it's strongly implied that his long work hours are covering up an affair. Because of Josh's lack of sexual interest in Kelly, she turns to Cal for comfort and friendship – and he, of course, wants more than that. After an accident that injured his spine, crippled Cal's girlfriend dumped him for his best friend and since the prom is coming up, he wants Kelly to go with him. (I mean what is this?) While Josh thinks Kelly is at a benefit to help the handicapped, she's actually making a ridiculous makeshift prom for Cal, getting all dressed up and going to the empty high school gym to do a wheelchair dance.
What was really irritating to me was how baby Jackson seems to appear and disappear according to the needs of the plot. Sometimes he's out of sight and nobody's caring about him and other times he's cooing or crying. The random and manipulative writing made no sense to me in addition to the atrocious acting. I didn't believe a word of it. The only redeemable character was nicely grounded Bev, not overreacting the way all the other characters were. She gives Kelly a nice little talk one day where Bev basically says, "You know, things don't always work out the way we think they will and you just have to be patient." Cybill Shepherd gives her character a believable, grounded quality, which was the only thing in the movie that I liked at all.
Q #1: Does Kelly and Cal pass the Bechdel Test?
Yes, it does pass the Bechdel Test – that's the good news – but, no, it's not a good movie. Ironically, Richard really liked it, and I don't know what to make of that. He liked it. He believed it. He found it touching. And what can you say? Split decision from Jan and Rich.


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Q: Find all real numbers $x,y,z\in [0,1]^3$ such that $(x^2+y^2)\sqrt{1-z^2}\ge z$.... Such that:
$$(x^2+y^2)\sqrt{1-z^2}\ge z$$
and
$$(z^2+y^2)\sqrt{1-x^2}\ge x$$
and
$$(x^2+z^2)\sqrt{1-y^2}\ge y$$
Since $x,y,z$ $\in ]0,1[^3$
then , there are some real numbers $a,b,c$ such that
$\cos a=x, \cos b=y , \cos c=z$
After some manipulations , we find that :
$$\frac{1}{1+\tan^2 a}+\frac{1}{1+\tan^2 b}\ge \frac{1}{\tan c}$$
.... same for other inequalities
I don't know what i must do now

A: The inequality is symetric.
so we can suppose that $x\ge y \ge z$
the second inequality becomes
$$2x^2\sqrt{1-x^2}\ge x$$
$$2x\sqrt{1-x^2}\ge 1$$
$$4x^2-4x^4-1\ge 0$$
$$-(2x^2-1)^2\ge 0$$
$$2x^2-1=0$$
$$x=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$$
By the same way , after remplacing $x$ by its value
we will find that $x=y=z=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$

A: You were very close, but you made a mistake.  You should have
$$\frac{1}{1+\tan^2 a}+\frac{1}{1+\tan^2b}\geq \frac{1}{\tan c}$$
instead.  Here is a similar approach.
First, we assume that $x,y,z>0$. So, we can define $p,q,r\geq 0$ to be $\frac{\sqrt{1-x^2}}{x}$, $\frac{\sqrt{1-y^2}}{y}$, and $\frac{\sqrt{1-z^2}}{z}$, respectively.  The three inequalities become
$$\frac{1}{1+p^2}+\frac{1}{1+q^2}\geq \frac1r\wedge \frac{1}{1+q^2}+\frac{1}{1+r^2}\geq \frac1p \wedge \frac{1}{1+r^2}+\frac{1}{1+p^2}\geq \frac1q.$$
Adding all of these and then dividing the result by $2$ yield
$$\frac{1}{1+p^2}+\frac{1}{1+q^2}+\frac{1}{1+r^2}\geq \frac{1}{2p}+\frac{1}{2q}+\frac{1}{2r}.\tag{1}$$
However, by AM-GM, $1+p^2\ge 2p$, $1+q^2\ge 2q$, and $1+r^2\ge 2r$.  That is,
$$\frac{1}{1+p^2}+\frac{1}{1+q^2}+\frac{1}{1+r^2}\leq \frac{1}{2p}+\frac{1}{2q}+\frac{1}{2r}.\tag{2}$$
From (1) and (2), we must have
$$\frac{1}{1+p^2}+\frac{1}{1+q^2}+\frac{1}{1+r^2}= \frac{1}{2p}+\frac{1}{2q}+\frac{1}{2r},$$
which implies $1+p^2=2p$, $1+q^2=2q$, $1+r^2=2r$, so $p=q=r=1$ and $x=y=z=\frac1{\sqrt{2}}$.
Now, WLOG, if $x=0$, then $y^2\sqrt{1-z^2}\geq z$ and $z^2\sqrt{1-y^2}\geq y$.  Multiplying the two inequalities gives
$$y^2z^2\sqrt{1-y^2}\sqrt{1-z^2}\geq yz.$$
If $yz\neq 0$, then dividing by $yz$, we have
$$yz\sqrt{1-y^2}\sqrt{1-z^2}\geq 1.$$
But by AM-GM, $y\sqrt{1-y^2}=\sqrt{y^2(1-y^2)}\leq \frac{y^2+(1-y^2)}{2}=\frac12$ and similarly, $z\sqrt{1-z^2}\leq \frac12$.  So,
$$yz\sqrt{1-y^2}\sqrt{1-z^2}\leq \frac12\cdot\frac12=\frac14<1.$$
This is a contradiction, so $yz=0$, so $y=0$ or $z=0$, so $x=y=z=0$.  Therefore, if any of the variables is $0$, all of them are $0$.  There are then two solutions $$x=y=z=0 \wedge x=y=z=1/\sqrt{2}.$$

A: The hint:
$$(x^2+y^2)\sqrt{1-z^2}\geq z$$ it's
$$(x^2+y^2)^2(1-z^2)\geq z^2$$ or
$$(x^2+y^2)^2\geq((x^2+y^2)^2+1)z^2,$$ which gives
$$z^2\leq\frac{(x^2+y^2)^2}{(x^2+y^2)^2+1}\leq\frac{(x^2+y^2)^2}{2(x^2+y^2)}=\frac{x^2+y^2}{2}.$$
By the same way $$y^2\leq\frac{x^2+z^2}{2}$$ and $$x^2\leq\frac{y^2+z^2}{2},$$ which gives
$$x=y=z$$ and all inequalities the are equalities.

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Get Ya Mind Correct is the debut studio album  by rappers Paul Wall & Chamillionaire of The Color Changin' Click, released when they were both on the Paid In Full Label. It was notable in the Houston underground rap scene. The album peaked at #67 on the BillboardTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album was nominated for Indie Album of the Year in The Source magazine.

There's a Chopped and Screwed version by DJ Michael '5000' Watts for Swishahouse.

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The nutritious tank of the hydraulic booster of steering is on the right side of a motor compartment, from the forward party of a cap of a rack of a forward suspension bracket.
1. For check of level of liquid install the car on the flat platform. Wheels have to is in the provision of driving on a straight line. The engine has to be stopped. Consider that from the moment of an engine stop the wheel should not turn, otherwise check will yield incorrect result.
2. Level of liquid is checked by the probe which is built in in a tank mouth stopper. Wipe a mouth and a surface around it, then turn out a stopper and check liquid level on the probe. If liquid temperature from 50 В° to 80 В°C (on the car the trip in the usual mode was made), then level has to be measured in probe range with the mark "HOT". At a temperature of liquid from 0 В° to 30 В°C (after a trip there passed rather long time and the engine managed to cool down) level has to be measured in the range of "COLD".
3. If necessary fill a tank to the mark "MAX", adding only liquid of the recommended brand. Take measures not to allow hit in hydraulic system of particles of dirt or other foreign particulates, it is also impossible to pour liquid above the top mark. After restoration of level, wrap a cover. Consider that if the frequent dolivaniye of liquid is required, then in a hydraulic actuator there is a leak which has to be immediately eliminated.


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Military bars press from forum on national park bill
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Submitted on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 - 11:27 AM
Military and police officers have prevented journalists from attending a forum on the controversial national park and wildlife protection bills, claiming that their presence could affect the image of the junta.
At 7:30 am on 12 June 2017 soldiers and police officers intimidated members of civil society groups and other participants at a public forum on the new national park and wildlife protection bills held at the Human Settlement Foundation Thailand in Wang Thonglang District of Bangkok.
The officers blocked the entrance to the Foundation during the discussion and prohibited reporters from attending the forum after they searched participants.
On 11 June, Wang Thonglang District police summoned representatives of People Movement for Just Society (P-Move), key organisers of the forum, for a discussion, and ordered them not to hold a press briefing after the forum, adding that they would be closely monitored.
Prayong Doklamyai, coordinator of P-Move, however, told the officers that the group would not obey them, claiming that the forum is related to politics and does not breach the Public Assembly Act as it is not held in a public area.
Nitaya Muangklang, a local community leader from one of six villages in Chaiyaphum affected by the junta's 'return the forest' policy, told the media that police officers visited her at about 11 pm on 11 June, asking whether she and other villagers were planning to attend the forum.
The community leader told the officers that they would not go as they already attended a similar forum in Chaiyaphum last week organised by the Land Reform Network of Isaan (LRNI) .
The new bills on national parks and wildlife protection have already been approved by the National Reform Council to replace the 1961 National Park Act and the 1992 Wildlife Preservation and Protection Act. Both are now being considered by the National Legislative Assembly.
According to Panudej Kerdmali, Secretary-General of the Seub Nakhasathien Foundation, both bills are problematic because of the lack of public participation in the drafting process, adding that both bills aim at giving more authority to state agencies while ignoring the role of communities in managing and preserving the forest.
Officers blocking the entrance of the Human Settlement Foundation Thailand (HSFT) in Wang Thonglang District of Bangkok on 12 June 2017 (Photo from LRNI)
1961 National Park Act
People Movement for Just Society (P-move)

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Gary came up with an unusual idea for a spring snow scramble. It was also John's birthday. After a number of questions he convinced me to give it a shot. Gary hiked up the Middle Shaser Trail back in 1977. It wasn't until we were on the trail that he mentioned there were a few spots they lost the route back then. This is not a maintained trail and we had no idea what to expect 33 years after Gary's trip. That's what makes for an adventure.
The goal was Miller Peak though conditions would have to be very good to make it that far on an abandoned trail followed by a long snowshoe approach. We met at Eastgate on I-90 at 7:20 am and headed east. It was cloudy as we crossed Snoqualmie Pass and dropped down to Cle Elum. We took Highway 970 then 97 over Blewett Pass the dropped down to the north end of the Old Blewett Pass Highway. Up that road then a right turn to the trailhead where the North and Middle Forks of Shaser Creek meet.
Gary and I had biked up the gated NF Shaser Road on a misguided attempt to reach the Three Brothers. We ended up dropping the bikes at the pass and scrambling Miller Peak. The road is too long for a day hike on snow so the abandoned trail along the ridge separating the North and Middle Forks of Shaser Creek would be our route. One reason the trail was abandoned was because of extensive logging. That added one more unknown to the conditions.
We arrived and were ready to go by 9:20. A faint trail was visible above the road bank cut and up we went. A minute later we reached... an outhouse. A frame wrapped in plastic not a real trailhead building. No more trail. So much for finding it at the beginning and following it all the way. We bushwhacked ahead and up the ridge.
There are fir trees and underbrush on the lower part. It is also steepest for the first 700' or so. On the positive side there is only one ridge to follow as it does not split. Up we went with ice axes getting caught on all the low branches. There was a little snow on the road just before we parked but none on the ridge for quite a ways up. At times we saw what might have been old tread though it was very indistinct. For the most part we were either on the crest or just to the south side.
After nearly 1000' of gain we reached a road that cut across the ridge. It wrapped around the north side and appeared to be easier walking than staying on the crest. It was...at first. Soon snow appeared. Not nice consolidated snow. This was more like quicksand. Sink to your knees quicksand. After far too long on the snow we chose to climb up the steep bank and back to the ridge. Bushwhacking up there was easier than the snowy road. The soft snow did cause some concern about making it all the way to Miller.
We met the road again where it crossed over the ridge. Instead of heading steeply up the ridge we took the road to the left a ways. Gary went up first and John and I went farther to a side ridge before heading up. We met up and continued up to the ridge top. After the first 1000' of gain the ridge became gentler. We found bits and pieces of the old trail. usually it was just to the right of the ridge. Unfortunately that side held snow where the crest was mostly snow free. We stayed mostly on the crest.
At times we had nice views out. The road up to near Iron Mountain was highlighted by snow on the bare hillside. Miller Peak came into view and looked to be a long way away still. We stopped at one high point to check maps and GPS and could see much of the rest of the ridge. It does have ups and downs though none are very long.
Flowers are beginning along the ridge. We saw a lot of glacier lilies as well as spring beauty, ball head waterleaf, yellow bells, as well as the "leaves" of bitterroot. There will be a lot of pink in the rocky higher sections of the ridge in a month or so. There were a number of short rocky sections to scramble over though none proved to be a problem.
At long last we reached a nice viewpoint to see the pass where the NF Shaser Road reaches the ridge leading to Miller. Rather than continue up our ridge where it turned narrow and rocky we could see easy access to the road heading to the pass. We dropped down to where a spur reached the ridge and were then on continuous snow.
On went the snowshoes and the spur soon brought us to the NF Shaser Road. The road was firm in places and soft enough to post hole in snowshoes in others. Definitely not as consolidated as we had hoped for. The road makes long gentle switchbacks which is not great for speed but the soft thin snow on steep slopes was not looking good either. We stayed on the road most of the way. On the last long switchback left we could see the road above us and hacked our way up a bare steep slope to rejoin the road and cut out a fairly long section. From there it was a gentle walk over to the saddle.
I have been to this point many times but never with this much snow. We found a bare spot under some trees and sat down for a food break and to decide where to go next. It was now 1:15. Still early but we had taken nearly 4 hours to bushwhack up the ridge and trudge through the soft snow. Miller was still two miles away with another 1300' of gain. On the other hand we needed to climb only 400' up the other side of the saddle to reach Point 5510, also known as Jester Mountain, That was sounding pretty good.
This is a motorcycle trail and the first part up from the saddle is a steep vertical rut up the slope. It was actually a little nicer buried under feet of snow. Where the summer trail turns right to contour around the peak we stayed on the ridge and continued up. It did not take long to reach the top. There are multiple summits and a flat area at the top. The top of Mt. Rainier was in the clouds but Miller, Mt. Stuart, Navaho, Little Navaho, Earl, and Jolly Mountain were visible from the summit or nearby. The Middle Shaser ridge we climbed continues to near the summit of Jester and we could look down on our route.
The sun was out and the wind was light. I would have liked to spend a few hours on top. Unfortunately, we had taken a long time to get up and it would take quite a while to get down. After less than half and hour it was time to go. Dropping back to the pass was fast and easy. then came the slog on the even softer snow on the road. At least gravity was on our side now. Back at the short cut spot we were not too enthusiastic about descending the thin soft and steep snow. A little lower we found a better spot and dropped back down to the road.
We met exactly the zero people we expected to see on this trip. I was glad to finally see the car again. It was nearly 5:30 at the finish making for an eight hour day on the trail or abandoned trail as the case may be. It was a fun day. We might not have reached Miller but Jester was a fine substitute. My first of many Teanaway peaks this coming year. Thanks to Gary for coming up with the idea and to John for spending his birthday bushwhacking up a long abandoned trail. To top off the day Twin Pines restaurant near Cle Elum was actually open at 6:20 when we arrived. Of course, they did close at 6:30 so as not to have to deal with all those hungry folks heading home from the weekend. For the day we hiked about 10 miles with 3400' of elevation gain.


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Record crowd for Kia Super League Finals Day at Hove
Western Storm won the 2017 Kia Super League in front of a record crowd at Hove
Mark Dunford
Published: 14:19 Tuesday 05 September 2017
The 1st Central County Ground hosted 3,413 people at the Kia Super League Finals Day last Friday (1st September), an all-time high for a domestic women's cricket match in England.
Attendance at the 2017 Finals Day - the first time it has been hosted at Hove - was up by over 150% from last year.
In the build-up to last Friday, the Kia Super League had seen significant year-on-year increases in spectator numbers at group matches.
According to ECB figures, over 20,000 fans watched group games this year, compared with 16,000 in 2016. Average attendances were up by 33% to 1,379.
Reflecting on the success of Finals Day, Sussex Cricket Chief Executive, Rob Andrew said: "We have a strong record of promoting girls' and women's cricket in Sussex and I am delighted that we had such a good attendance at the Finals day.
"The potential for growth in the women's game is huge and we look forward to hosting more women's events in the coming years."


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Australopithecus deyiremeda je izumrla vrsta australopiteka iz Woranso-Milleu, regija Afar, Etiopija. Živjeli su prije oko 3,5–3,3 milijuna godina, tijekom pliocena. Budući da su otkrivene samo tri djelomične čeljusne kosti, nejasno je predstavljaju li ti primjerci jedinstvenu vrstu ili pripadaju puno poznatijoj A. afarensis. A. deyiremeda razlikuje se po licu okrenutima prema naprijed i malim zubima u usporedbi s onima kod ranih hominina. Nejasno je može li se djelomični primjerak stopala koji pokazuje odvojen nožni palac (karakteristika nepoznata u bilo kojem australopiteku) pripisati u vrstu A. A. deyiremeda. A. deyiremeda živio je u mozaičnom okruženju s otvorenim travnjacima i šumama uz jezera ili rijeke. Antropolog Fred Spoor je iznio hipotezu da su možda bili uključeni u Kenijskoj industriji kamenih alata u Lomekwiju, koja se obično pripisuje Kenyanthropusu. Vrsta A. deyiremeda koegzistirala je s A. afarensis, a možda su imali diferencirane niše kako bi izbjegli međusobno nadmetanje za iste resurse, poput oslanjanja na različite zamjenske namirnice tijekom kriza.

Taksonomija
Australopithecus deyiremeda prvi su put kao novu vrstu predložili 2015. godine etiopski paleoantropolog Yohannes Haile-Selassie i njegovi kolege na temelju fosila čeljusnih kostiju s područja Burtele i Waytaleyta u Woranso-Milleu, regija Afar, Etiopija. Uzorak holotipa, lijevu gornje čeljusti mlade odrasle osobe, sa svim zubima, osim prvog sjekutića i trećeg kutnjaka BRT-VP-3/1, otkrio je 4. ožujka 2011. mještamin Mohammed Barao. Uzorci paratipa su cjelovita donja čeljust odrasle jedinke sa svim sjekutićima BRT-VP-3/14 i desna bezuba čeljusna kost odrasle jedinke WYT-VP-2/10, koje je otkrio etiopski lovac na fosile Ato Alemayehu Asfaw. Pronađen je desni fragment maksile s četvrtim pretkutnjakom BRT-VP-3/37 5, istočno od BRT-VP-3/14, i nejasno je jesu li pripadali istoj osobi. Sedimenti su radiometrijski datirani prije 3,5–3,3 milijuna godina, odnosno u srednji pliocen.

Znanstvenici koji su opisali vrstu su vjerovali da su ostaci bili dovoljno različiti dovoljno od suvremenika, dobro poznatog A. afarensis, da nalaz predstavlja različitu vrstu. A. deyiremedaje dio rastuće raznolikosti Kasnopliocenih Australopithecusa, uz A. afarensis, A. bahrelghazali i Kenyanthropus platyops. Naziv deyiremeda potječe od afarskog jezika što znači "bliski srodnik". S obzirom na to da je postojao tako rano, smatrali su da je A. deyiremeda bila usko povezana s budućim australopitima. Međutim, iako su predložene karakteristike razlikovanja naizgled statistički značajne, s obzirom na to koliko malo primjeraka A. deyiremeda postoji, nejasno je opravdava li to uistinu uvođenje nove vrste ili ti uzorci jednostavno spadaju u normalni raspon varijacija za A. afarensis. Ako je ovo zaista zasebna vrsta, postoji mogućnost da su neki uzorci A. afarensis trenutno klasificirani u pogrešnu vrstu.

Haile-Selassie i kolege primijetili su da, iako dijeli mnoge sličnosti s Paranthropusom, možda nije bio usko povezan jer su mu nedostajali povećani kutnjaci koji su karakteristični za Paranthropus.

Anatomija
Iako je rana vrsta, čeljusti A. deyiremeda pokazuju neke sličnosti s onima kasnijeg Homoa i robusnog Paranthropusa. Čeljust je nešto stršila (prognatizam) pod kutom od 39°, slično većini drugih ranih hominina. Jagodica je postavljena više prema naprijed od većine primjeraka A. afarensis. Za razliku od A. afarensis, ali poput Paranthropusa, zidovi obraznih zuba su nagnuti umjesto da dolaze ravno prema gore. Gornji očnjaci su manji od ostalih australopiteka i morfološki su sličniji onima kod A. anamensis. Zubi obraza prilično su mali za ranog hominina, a 1. kutnjak je najmanji od svih pronađenih kutnjaka odraslih jedinki pliocenskih hominina. Unatoč tome, caklina je još uvijek bila gusta kao i drugi ranih hominina, a caklina na 2. kutnjaku prilično je visoka i sličnija je P. robustus. Čeljusna je kost, iako mala, robusna i sličnija je onoj u Paranthropusa.

Godine 2012., u Woranso-Milleu je pronađeno 3,4 milijuna godina staro djelomično stopalo, BRT-VP-2/73. Jako se razlikuje od suvremenih i kasnijih hominina tako što ima spretan palac na nozi poput ranijeg Ardipithecus ramidusa, pa prema tome nije dodijeljen vrsti. Iako je u tom području otkriveno više dijagnostičkih elemenata lica, oni nisu jasno povezani sa stopalom.

Paleoekologija
 A. deyiremeda  ima snažnu čeljusnu kost i gustu caklinu, u skladu s prehranom od tvrde šaši i slične hrane za koju se smatra da su predstavljali hranu australopita. Caklina na gornjem sjekutiću, očnjaku i prvom pretkutnjaku pokazuje hipoplaziju, vjerojatno uzrokovanu razdobljem pothranjenosti ili bolesti tijekom rasta cakline u dojenačkoj dobi dok su zubi još rasli. A. deyiremeda je vjerojatno bio svejed. Ako je A. deyiremeda doista različit od A. afarensis, tada su ove dvije vrste mogle diferencirati nišu, s obzirom na to da su živjele na istom području. S obzirom na razlike u zubima i žvakanju, možda su imali različite prehrambene i/ili stanišne sklonosti, osim ako te razlike nisu jednostavno rezultat genetskog pomaka. Slično kao čimpanze i gorile koje imaju manje-više istu prehranu i naseljavaju ista područja,  A. deyiremeda  i  A. afarensis  možda je dijelio tipičnu hranu kad je ima u izobilju i pribjegavao različitim rezervnim namirnicama u vrijeme nestašice hrane.

Industrija kamenih alata u Lomekwiju iz sjeverne Kenije slabo je povezana sa srednjoplioceskima Kenyanthropusom. Veza je određena na temelju fragmenta gornje čeljusti, odnosno na temelju isturene jagodice, pretkutnjaka s 3 korijena i malog prvog kutnjaka. Budući da su ove značajke prisutne i u A. deyiremeda, antropolog Fred Spoor sugerirao je da je vrsta A. deyiremeda zapravo također bila prisutna na tom mjestu. Lomekwi je najstarija kultura, datirana na 3,3 milijuna godina, a ljuskice od komada bazalta, fonolita i trahifonolita vjerojatno su koristiti kao čekić kojim su udarali po nakovnju.

U srednjem pliocenu, na lokaciji Woranso-Mille nalazile su se impale (hranjenje ispašom), alcelafini (hranjenje bršćenjem) i surlaši, kao i žirafe, tragelefina i šumski majmuni. Čini se da stopala vrsta šupljorožaca nisu specijalizirana za bilo koju vrstu tla (mokro, savitljivo ili tvrdo), a zubi papkastih vrsta ukazuju na podjednako hranjenje ispašom, bršćenjem i mješovitim načinom. To ukazuje na mješovito okruženje koje ima i otvorene travnjake i šume koje vjerojatno rastu na jezeru ili rijeci. Takav mozaični krajolik sličan je onom kod A. anamensis i A. afarensis za koje se čini da nemaju preferirano okruženje.

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 Ardipithecus ramidus
 Australopithecus anamensis
 Australopithecus afarensis
 Australopithecus bahrelghazali
 Kenyanthropus

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Netflix founder Reed Hastings steps down as CEO; to continue as Executive Chairman
Hastings stated that it is a calculated move and was being planned by the streaming giant's Board for years and also that Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters will now helm the company as Co-Founders
Nextflix founder Reed Hastings has stepped down from the role of CEO after a nearly 25-year run. He will, however, stay on as the Executive Chairman in the company.
Through a blog post, Hastings stated that it is a calculated move and was being planned by the streaming giant's Board for years and also that Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters will now helm the company as Co-Founders.
"Our board has been discussing succession planning for many years. As part of that process, we promoted Ted to Co-CEO alongside me in July 2020, and Greg to Chief Operating Officer – and in the last two-and-a-half years I've increasingly delegated the management of Netflix to them," Hastings said in a blog post on Thursday.
"Starting today, Greg Peters will step up from COO to become Ted's co-CEO. Going forward, I'll be serving as Executive Chairman, a role that founders often take after they pass the CEO baton to others," Hastings added.
In the blog post he further stated that Ted, Greg and Hastings have been working closely together in different capacities for 15 years.
"I look forward to working with them in this role for many years to come," Hastings stated.
"I'll be helping Greg and Ted, and, like any good Chairman, be a bridge from the board to our co-CEOs. I'll also be spending more time on philanthropy, and remain very focused on Netflix stock doing well," he added.
In addition, Bela Bajaria has been appointed as the Chief Content Officer and Scott Stuber will be working as the Chairman of Netflix Film.
This announcement comes on the back of the news that the streaming platform has added 7.7 million subscribers in the recently concluded Q4 of FY2022.
As per Netflix's filing, now it has a total of over 230 million global subscribers.
"Q4'22 revenue, operating profit and membership growth exceeded our forecast - we continue to lead the industry in streaming engagement, revenue and profit," the company said in a letter to shareholders.
This is the first quarter that Netflix's new ad-supported service is included in its earnings results. The company launched the cheaper tier in November 2022, but has not disclosed what portion of the new subscriptions are from users who have opted for this service.
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When a TI uses a cube view as a datasource, if the cube has been reordered from its original build order the TI reads the variables in the REORDRED sequence not the build sequence. This goes against every single formula, function and code in TM1 that uses the build order at all times (TABDIM/DBRW/DBS etc). The issue only arises when a TI builds the view - manually created views remain in the correct build order.
Attached is a very simple example to illustrate it. 2 cubes built with 4 dims (A/B/C/D) in the same order. ORIGINAL is untouched, REORDER has, err, been reordered! (D/C/B/A). I created views called MANUAL in each cube by using the data export wizard. The TIs ORIGINAL - MANUAL VIEW & REORDER - MANUAL VIEW use these views as their datasource and you will see in both cases the order in the datasource tab is A B C D. The other TIs create the views called TI CREATED in each cube. When you check the datasource in these, one is A B C D and the other is D C B A.
This is bad because a lot of developers like to write models that create views & subsets, do great things then delete the views & subsets afterwards. It keeps models tidy, easy to manage and simplifies the interface for users. If a cube gets reordered after these TIs are written or even have the reorder changed, the TIs will fail. All of them will need to be recreated to deal with the reordered cube, and it just should not be this way.
This is a big issue with reordered/optimized cubes. I'm glad that someone else has loged this as I have already logged it (twice) in 9.4.1 FP3 and 9.5.1 only to face considerable problems convincing support that it was an issue as first they weren't able to replicate is without a huge effort on my part to spoon feed and then second they just didn't get that this was an issue, in fact I'm not sure it ever made it's way to engineering.
Support tech: "OK so I can see that the variables are not in the same order as the dimension list for the cube but the process I just wrote with the wizard to extract data out of the cube still works, so what is the issue?"
Me: "But if you have a generic process that works on any cube then the process will fail, maybe not on export of data but definately on import of data as the order that the cell address of each piece of cell data was exported out will not match the order of the dimensions in the cube and so any CellPutN statements dealing with that data will fail."
Support tech: "Sorry I don't get it. how is this an issue again?"
And so on and so on until I think I gave up in order to preserve my sanity.
not off to a good start - reply from support requested screenshots and error messages. Erm, i've already provided a model and instructions what more do you want?
Oh dear. I can see a few calls and a bit a of anger coming your way. The stress ball is in the post!!
Confirmed its a defect and has been seen before (no, really?!!). Unable to provide me with an ETA, if it'll be a fix pack or bundled in a major release, or if it'll be just server side updates or client. Just keep an eye on the details of each FP that comes out and update this thread when you spot it's release.
I opened my own PMR on this (20932 019 866) and specifically asked for a fixpack.
This business with the wizards really highlights the direction IBM Cognos is taking the product. It's all well-and-good to make it easier for new users to get off the ground, but not if doing so comes at the expense of the people really using the product. I feel like we've been seeing more and more regression bugs, PMRs left open indefinitely (even when fully documented and repeatable with test cases), and embarrassingly incomplete or incorrect documentation while the devs work on wizards, drag-and-drop interfaces, and integration with other Cognos products. From what I've seen in previews of upcoming products, that's not going to change any time soon, either.
I will say that I'm still cautiously optimistic about Parallel Interaction. If I can ever get IT to finish building my server (seriously, how long can it take to install an OS?), I intended to take a very serious look at upgrading.
Steve Vincent wrote: not off to a good start - reply from support requested screenshots and error messages. Erm, i've already provided a model and instructions what more do you want?
I think they've recently updated their support to a true L1/L2/L3 type system. L1 is now completely worthless ("Have you tried rebooting?"), and you just have to suffer through them until you get to L2. Which, as we saw in the past, wasn't exactly a barrel-of-monkeys experience either.
The Defect that you quoted was actually evaluated by Development and deemed as an Enhancement request and not a defect. Would you like me to raise an Enhancement request on your behalf?
I'm not being funny but that is piss poor.
That is un-frickin'-believable. I haven't been affected by this since I've never found a dimension order that gives me an appreciable improvement over the existing one, but had it been my SR I'd definitely be demanding to talk to someone up the line and giving them multiple earfuls about support staff who can't understand the difference between "it-does-not-work-properly" defect and "it-could-work-better" enhancement. I suspect that this is just bone-a**ed laziness on the development team's part, given that most "enhancement" requests are probably filed at the back of a filing cabinet in a basement somewhere in a village in Djibouti and can therefore involve zero work.
BTW, weird that it was "for sure" working for you in 9.5.1 as that's the rev I'm on, and it's def not working.
issue is logged with Dev for next release.
at no point does my PMR state it's being treated as an enhancement. If they had i would have escalated it 'cos it blatently is not.
And lo and behold, problem solved! Who knows, Steve, this might just work for you. Note that a server restart was required.
It's very frustrating that a month elapsed between when I submitted the test case and this trivial solution was found. In fact, support didn't even send me this solution-- they sent me an email telling me my test case was incomplete and they needed additional files (it wasn't), but I looked through the reply history and found the dev's comment.
Are IBM still looking at a fix for the root cause of the issue?
jim wood wrote: Are IBM still looking at a fix for the root cause of the issue?
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding documentation of the .pro file format - this is internal documentation accessible only to TM1 Development.
He was a little big curt/frosty too. I wonder if he's reading these forums. I'm sorry Keith, just venting!
They're still working on a root cause. And they read the forums (Hi Karin!).
all described in this PMR is "works as designed", means "Views", "TI" and "Ordering-mechanism" works as designed.
1) The order of dimensions in a cube will be determined once. This is the only relevant order and can never be changed for a cube until the cube will be deleted completely and will be created completely new --> no visible reordering of dimensions in a cube is possible.
The customer only changes the order of dimensions in a view (for view-purposes......) - this has nothing to do with reordering of dimensions in a cube.
"If a 10 dim cube is built (dims A to J) then reordered J to A, a TI would think the 1st dim of a view was J when creating the view itself. But TABDIM for the 1st dim would return A."
ANSWER: Reordered is only the view (not the cube) and a view could be a data source for the TI as in this example. The TI accepts this data source and the structure of this view-datasource of course. The TI takes over the offered dimensions-names in the order of the view and uses this as variable-names - this is what the customer means. This is a "good will" of the TI to take over the dimension-names as variables. For example if a dimension name could not be read from the TI (name has hyphen or umlauts in it.......) the TI will create a new varable name like V1, V2 etc . And it is correct, that TABDIM returns for example in this case A for the first dimension - as said above, the order of dimensions in a cube never changes.
Works as designed and expected.
"The biggest issue caused is when an original order cube is re-ordered. Any TI against it that created, used then destroyed it's own views has to be re-written. It's impracticle, confusing and unacceptable to have to write code this way"
ANSWER: I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but I will give an answer how it should work. Views for TI's must be always and only Public Views and Public Views can only be created and changed from Admin-Users. Public Views can never be changed from a "normal" User - they only can store private views. There should always be only a few Admin-User for a TM1-system to develop or administer. If a public view for a TI is created as data source it should never be changed in the order of dimensions - it is the same if a relational-database via ODBC would be the data source for TI and the relational-table would be changed in their order........ . Therefore in TM1, view names for TI's must be always public views which can not be changed from the users (except Admin-Users and they should know it). Additionally public views for TI-process could be named like "Viewname_TI" and it should be clear for Admin-Users too that this view should not be changed in the order of dimensions.
I have no issue with points 1 & 2, but the models i sent do NOT stand up to the answers posed. They have confused views from the cube browser with views used via the TI interface. I have no bones with the cube browser, but the TI interface should always use the order the cube was built in. It is plain to see in the test models as well as the example Matt posted that TI is not doing this, which is the bug i stated originally. Probably why it has taken a while for this probem to get anywhere.


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Scientific Games Corporation announced that Michael Eklund will become its chief financial officer on June 1. Eklund spent more than 20 years at Dell Technologies in both financial and operational roles, including leading the value creation and integration function for the $67 billion Dell-EMC combination and serving as chief financial officer of Dell's $40 billion-plus Client Solutions Business Unit and Global Operations organization. Most recently, he has served as CFO of IRI, a global leader in innovative data and analytic solutions and services for consumer, retail and media companies. Michael Quartieri will remain full time with the company until June 30 and will serve in a consulting role through December 31.
"Mike Quartieri has done an outstanding job over the last four years building a world class financial team, revitalizing our financial management and refinancing our debt," said Scientific Games CEO Barry Cottle. "The board of directors and I are very grateful for Mike's constant dedication to the success of the company and its people. Mike now wants to move to a new industry with new challenges after many years in the gaming business. He wanted to leave earlier this year but, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mike agreed to stay to help the company with that crisis. Mike has led our efforts to reduce our cash burn while preserving key operations, developing plans to manage through the pandemic, preparing to be an even stronger competitor as we emerge from the crisis and working with our lenders to get our Credit Agreement amended to provide covenant relief. With those key steps taken, we are now ready to proceed with the transition to a new CFO.
"We are very fortunate to have Mike Eklund join us starting on June 1. He has a wealth of experience in financial and operational leadership and a passion for aligning all aspects of a company's finance and operations with its core business model that positions him well to build on Mike Quartieri's legacy."
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Scientific Games names Karin-Joyce Tjon chief operating officer and president
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As she entered her office in Northwest Washington, D.C., African Union (AU) Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, struck observers as an image of grace. With the colors of her beloved Africa draped around her neck, her purple dress perfectly exuded royalty — though likely not intended.
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Dr. Chihombori-Quao knows that the world has long mistreated and neglected Africans – particularly the African woman. "We are the original people and we have every reason to stand up in the tallest mountains to proclaim who we are," the ambassador says unapologetically.
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"Also, as Black women, we are the only ones who could reproduce ourselves," the Ambassador said in a room that contained a few men and just one other woman.
The men in the room, which included this reporter, could only agree.
"We could mate with anyone and produce a black child," she said.
"Normally, that's what you see with dominant species. It's a fact they may not like to hear, but ours is the dominate gene. That's why I say when I speak people may get offended, but I come from a place of truth and fact."
The place that Dr. Chihombori-Quao "comes from" has many in the diaspora excited about the future – a future that could finally see Africa return to its former glory.
Married to the highly-respected physician Dr. Nii Saban Quao, Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao grew up in a small village in Chivhu, Zimbabwe.
She completed her undergraduate education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., and later matriculated at Meharry Medical College where she earned degrees in general chemistry, a master's degree in organic chemistry and a Doctor of Medicine.
After practicing medicine for 25 years, she's actively been involved in numerous AU programs and projects and served as chair of the African Union-Diaspora Health Initiative, where she helped mobilize health professionals in the diaspora to assist in addressing the health care needs of the African continent.
Since accepting the AU Ambassador position, Her Excellency has earned praise as a leader whose brought renewed energy and new ideas to the AU Mission.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, H.E. Dr. Chihombori-Quao also received an achievement award from the late civil rights champion Nelson Mandela.
"How do you transition from being a medical doctor to a diplomat? It took me about six months to finally process it and eventually say, well maybe this is something I can do," she said.
"It's a man's world and I didn't know if I could deal with that, but after much back and forth, I had a conversation with the chair of the African Union and she told me that she felt a medical doctor would make a good diplomat."
The former Chairperson of the African Union Commission for the continent, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is also a medical doctor.
H.E. Dr. Chihombori-Quao continued:
"It might surprise you that quite often patients come to you and need help, but they may not be truthful. They may say they have a headache, but the real problem is an abusive husband. A belly ache might be… mental.
"You try to reach out and find out what's going on at home and in their life. I can honestly say I find myself in many situations where being an experienced doctor comes through in this job."
Still, among the defining circumstances that led to Her Excellency accepting the Ambassador's position is her love of Africa and her desire to turn things around on the continent. "It became increasingly apparent how we feel as Africans doesn't matter. We are disrespected and we really needed a voice," she said.
"That's what this mission is all about – being a voice for all Africans on the continent. Once I realized that, I decided I would stay on the job. I needed to be here."
Surprisingly, the Ambassador said she's received virtually no push back. "It's easy for us as our point of view as Africans is that we are in the right. We are coming from the point of righteousness. There's no other way to slice it; it is what it is," she said.
H.E. Dr. Chihombori-Quao is among those leading the push to undo what occurred at the Berlin Conference 134 years ago when the various European powers salaciously explored, divided, conquered and exploited the entire African continent.
Known as "The Scramble for Africa," thirteen European countries and the United States met in Berlin and made rules that divided Africa in 53 separate nations.
"They were haphazardly going into Africa to grab whatever they could … [they said] let's organize so we could effectively loot them," H.E. Dr. Chihombori-Quao said. "That strategy is still in place, unabated with nobody challenging it. It's just accepted," she said.
Her Excellency said Africans must stop accepting crumbs off the table and get a seat at the top of the table itself.
Although it's estimated that $50 billion leaves Africa each year because of corruption, Dr. Chihombori-Quao notes that France still extracts a colonial tax of $500 billion annually from francophone African countries.
"If we talk corruption, we need to talk about it from A to Z. Let's talk about all of this," she said. "The former colonizers are still very active in Africa. You can look at Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany… they are still very present in Africa, yet we don't talk about it."
However, if this Ambassador has her way – and there's little doubt that she can succeed – things will change.
A major part of that change is a new "Wakanda" project launched by Her Excellency that's expected to raise $5 billion in development funding over the next year or so. "The Wakanda One Village Project," will be funded by Africans throughout the diaspora who will be its sole owners.
It will consist of five African Centers of Excellence in each of the five regions of the continent, which will serve as nerve centers for development delivering state-of-the-art healthcare facilities, hotels, industrial homes, shopping centers and other amenities.
"We are going to build the Africa that we want so those [throughout the diaspora] who say I cannot go home because home is not what I am used to will make it what they want," Dr. Chihombori-Quao said.
PART II in this series will cover the Wakanda One Village Project.


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Qualcomm is hoping it can cut a deal with the European Union to get the go-ahead for its multi-billion NXP Semiconductors acquisition.
The European Commission page tracking progress in the acquisition says the vendor filed commitments on October 5, but doesn't detail what the company is offering.
The filing was enough to set the hounds running, and Fortune reported it's spoken to people who say the filing relates to patent enforcement.
Fortune's sources say Qualcomm's strategy hinges on standards-essential patents and Near Field Communication (NFC) patents.
Standards-essential patents won't come with NXP, but would instead be offered to an alternative buyer (the EC would probably prefer that buyer was European), and Qualcomm has offered not to sue third parties over the NFC patents except for "defensive" purposes.
Qualcomm has also pledged to allow other vendors interoperability with NXP products in the future (which is no surprise, since otherwise customers would avoid the products).
The acquisition was first confirmed nearly a year ago.
If the deal goes ahead, Qualcomm will get a considerable footprint in the automotive market, which has driven NXP Semiconductor to become the fifth-largest non-memory chip maker in the world.
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"You were inspired to do those duties": The Amazing Work of ASC Interns
At the American Shakespeare Center, we are fortunate to have a name that attracts people with talent. Of course, anyone who sees our shows recognizes the talent onstage, and that of the costumers, perhaps even the props person. Some will credit the directors, a few will think about the other artistic staff members: our amazing Associate Artistic Director, the Stage and Tour managers. What I appreciate more and more, though, as every summer arrives, are the talented interns who come to spend their summers with us.
2013 Intern Elizabeth Floyd (right) at the ASC offices with College Prep Director Kim Newton (left)
Applications for positions in marketing, development, management, education, and artistic start rolling in as early as September, and our various department heads begin battling for the students most suited to their needs. We have students from Pennsylvania and from the University of Nebraska, and we've welcomed Utahans and Ohioans and folks from as close as JMU. Conversations in staff meetings turn from "I don't really have time to take care of that immediately," to "My intern arrives this week, we can has him/her to take on that project." We begin developing long lists of wishes — research, formatting, filing, blogging, tracking — and divvying up tasks amongst departments. And then, blessedly, they arrive.
In education, we strive to give each intern an over-arching project that is their start-to-finish focus and that meets their career goals. Then, we add the fateful clause at the tail end of their contract, "And other duties as required." Oh, that clause. That clause can encompass the interns attending workshops to give us feedback, going to rehearsals to develop ideas for new programming, stuffing envelopes, writing instructions, checking digital text against folio text, and so much more. That clause, that one clause, is what makes us look forward to the interns' arrival. Certainly, we are excited about their projects, about getting to know these smart and talented people who will be leaders in Shakespeare, theatre, arts management, business and elsewhere, but the relief that settles on our staff when we realize that we can actually check some dreams off the list is, as Mastercard says, priceless.
Given that this year is a Blackfriars Conference year, that clause is even more meaningful to me personally. When we implemented a "blind" reading committee as part of our selection process in 2011, I knew there would be some work involved. I could not have imagined just how much formatting, futzing, and focusing it would take to actually make this initiative run. But that year, I had Brenna. She swooped in and took 24 hours worth of headaches off my hands. This year, Sarah — a wonderful recommendation from our dear friend Carole Levin at UNebraska — is making it possible for me to focus on new initiatives like our Consortium, and on overdue edits for our Playhouse Insider and camp plays, with the knowledge that I will still be able to get the abstracts to my committee on schedule. Ah, breathing. What a thing it is!
Intern Jane Jongeward (rightmost) at the 2011 Blackfriars Conference
We've had some wonderful interns over the past several years, and I want to acknowledge each of their contributions and thank them for their work. I take a great deal of pride in seeing them go on to become professors, run their own theatre companies, direct plays, and, even, intern for other theatres (though that last one is harder). So, thanks to Kyle, Megan, Liz, Nuri, Carla, Sarah, Sara, Natalie, Amy, Rachel, Elizabeth, Mara, Grace, Maria, Kimberly, Abigail, Kendra, Jessica, Madeleine, Elena, Alex, Emily, Molly, Jane, Lia, Amy, Melissa and anyone I may have missed. You have transformed our department with your work and we at the ASC are forever grateful to you for picking up those other duties, or, as Shakespeare puts in in Cymbeline, "You were inspired to do those duties…" And you inspired us in so doing.
Some of their comments:
Kelley McKinnon was a wonderful supervisor and always was available for questions or concerns. She made me feel welcome in the rehearsal space and welcomed any feedback that I had on what I was observing. The internship also provided a good opportunity to watch the ASC actors through an entire rehearsal process. I was also solicited by the director at times for my feedback on the actor's character development, which I appreciated because it allowed me to think critically and creatively, as well as make me feel like I was actually a part of the process.
I was always treated with respect and support. Interning at the ASC really feels like you are a valued part of the company and that the work you do matters.
Everyone in the education department helped and supported me. I hope my own work helped them in some way.
I felt like I was a necessary part of the process, and wasn't just doing busy work.
The department was helpful in creating a fun, lively environment. I never felt excluded or patronized, and was thanked every single day after work. I always felt like I was getting things done and making progress, and Jenny and Erin always made me feel like part of the ASC family.
I took the internship to see how a theatre ran and what a theatre degree could do for me outside of traditional roles. My time with the ASC has helped me focus on what it is I would like my theatre degree to turn into in the future.
The internship helped me develop research, communication, and management skills that will be useful in any field I pursue. When I entered the internship I had limited knowledge of the skills required to complete the internship but I acquired those skills quickly and can apply them to any job. The internship was a learning process that has set me up to succeed in any job I strive to attain.
This internship gave me some great experience working with great people that I hope will help me continue to learn how to make connections and pursue work in professional theatre.
Incredible opportunity to watch the process of one of the best Shakespeare companies in the country. Would recommend to anyone!
The ASC inspired my current career path. In the best of all worlds I will be working for a theatre with similar ideas and goals. Everything I did and/or learned to do I will most likely do again; from the more glamorous tasks, such as doing research or analyzing verse, to the mundane, such as archiving and office moving.
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This train, the BLS RegioExpress passes through the Simmental region than along lake of Thun towards Interlaken. The valley narrows and the forests become darker alongside the raging river Simme, before it flows into Lake Thun. Your train will also pass through here as well.
You are now in the heart of the Bernese Oberland. Traditional chalets with richly painted and carved façades, which are typical of the area, nestle around white churches. Over the centuries, the proud mountain folk have expressed their comfortable life style in an artistic manner. Today, the Simmental region remains a farming area with a population that has its own distinct personality and dialect.


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In addition, I transmit, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State with respect to the Protocol. As the report explains, the Protocol will not require implementing legislation.
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Nationwide's cap on gifted deposits 'makes it impossible' for first-time buyers
Melissa Lawford
A Nationwide Building Society sign
The "Bank of Mum and Dad" is being pushed off the property ladder as lender Nationwide seeks first-time buyers who can save for themselves.
The country's second largest lender has imposed restrictions on its newly-reintroduced 10pc deposit mortgages which mean that many first-time buyers will be forced to save up more cash before proceeding.
Last month Nationwide became the first high street lender to bring back 10pc deposit mortgages after lenders hurriedly withdrew home loans in the wake of coronavirus uncertainty. But the reintroduction is not providing first-time buyers with an easy win.
To qualify, buyers must have saved 75pc of their deposits independently and they must be buying properties that are at least two years old.
The move signals that, in spite of reports of a post-lockdown property surge and continued house price growth, the lender is decidedly uneasy about the long-term outlook for the property market.
It also shows that Nationwide considers the new build market to be at particular risk of coming house price falls.
If the money for a deposit is inherited, Nationwide considers this as funds coming from the applicant's own savings.
Nationwide is currently the only major lender with this approach, but the move has a disproportionate impact as there is still a dearth of low deposit mortgages available. It has also sparked fears that it could be replicated elsewhere.
Frances Clacy, of Savills estate agents, said: "If this policy were to be widely adopted it could really limit the number of first-timers actually able to access home ownership."
"We could also see more aspiring first-time buyers move back into their family home to live rent free and save up the deposit money needed themselves, or confined for indeterminate periods to the private rented sector," she added.
The average first-time buyer deposit is currently about £52,000. "If the Bank of Mum and Dad were capped at 25pc, equivalent to £13,000, even first-time buyers benefiting from help would have to save an average of £39,000," said Ms Clacy.
This is the equivalent of three-quarters of the average first-time buyer household's £51,000 annual income.
Excluding Bomad lending will be a blow for almost half of Britain's first-time buyers. Last year, 136,000 first-time buyers were funded by Bomad – 40pc of all entry level purchasers, according to Savills estate agents.
Jonathan Harris of broker Forensic Property Finances said: "This is such a draconian, backwards step from Nationwide and thankfully one that has not been replicated elsewhere."
"Talk about making life impossible for first-time buyers – practically all the first-time buyers we see have financial help from the Bank of Mum and Dad, usually in the form of a gifted deposit."
The restrictions only apply to lending on 10pc deposit mortgages and Nationwide will still lend 15pc deposit mortgages to buyers with financial help from their families. This is because, at this level, there is less risk of buyers getting into negative equity.
Nationwide has forecast that house prices could, in one scenario, fall by 13.8pc in the wake of the pandemic. If this happens, the value of a home bought with a 10pc deposit mortgage would soon be worth less than a buyer borrowed to pay for it.
Chris Sykes of mortgage broker Private Finance said: "I think the mentality behind this is they only want the best of the best clients."
A Nationwide spokesperson said that they want majority self-saved deposits because "it demonstrates that someone is able to save and manage their finances."
"These are difficult times for those looking for their first home and affordability must be placed at the forefront of any decision," they added. "Above all we need to continue to lend responsibly."
If property prices fall, the homeowner gets into negative equity and may need to sell, they will need to put more money into the property. If they are a saver with their own liquid funds, they are more likely to be able to do this than if they had been gifted money from their parents, said Mr Sykes.
They are also likely to be in a better position if their home was bought second hand.
Box-fresh homes typically sell with new build premiums. The National Audit Office puts the value of this at between 15pc and 20pc of a home's value – and by definition this premium is not passed on when the home is resold.
This means that in an uncertain market the value of new build homes is at risk of falling further than that of other properties. Any house price drop would be compounded by the loss of the new build premium.
There is no change to Nationwide's lending on Help to Buy.
The new restrictions will increase demand for the government's equity loan scheme, which is one of the only ways that buyers can purchase a home with less than a 10pc deposit.
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package org.hibernate.engine;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * Centralizes the commonality regarding binding of parameter values into
 * PreparedStatements as this logic is used in many places.
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 * Ideally would like to move to the parameter handling as it is done in
 * the hql.ast package.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public class ParameterBinder {

	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog( ParameterBinder.class );

	public static interface NamedParameterSource {
		public int[] getNamedParameterLocations(String name);
	}

	private ParameterBinder() {
	}

	public static int bindQueryParameters(
	        final PreparedStatement st,
	        final QueryParameters queryParameters,
	        final int start,
	        final NamedParameterSource source,
	        SessionImplementor session) throws SQLException, HibernateException {
		int col = start;
		col += bindPositionalParameters( st, queryParameters, col, session );
		col += bindNamedParameters( st, queryParameters, col, source, session );
		return col;
	}

	public static int bindPositionalParameters(
	        final PreparedStatement st,
	        final QueryParameters queryParameters,
	        final int start,
	        final SessionImplementor session) throws SQLException, HibernateException {
		return bindPositionalParameters(
		        st,
		        queryParameters.getPositionalParameterValues(),
		        queryParameters.getPositionalParameterTypes(),
		        start,
		        session
		);
	}

	public static int bindPositionalParameters(
	        final PreparedStatement st,
	        final Object[] values,
	        final Type[] types,
	        final int start,
	        final SessionImplementor session) throws SQLException, HibernateException {
		int span = 0;
		for ( int i = 0; i < values.length; i++ ) {
			types[i].nullSafeSet( st, values[i], start + span, session );
			span += types[i].getColumnSpan( session.getFactory() );
		}
		return span;
	}

	public static int bindNamedParameters(
	        final PreparedStatement ps,
	        final QueryParameters queryParameters,
	        final int start,
	        final NamedParameterSource source,
	        final SessionImplementor session) throws SQLException, HibernateException {
		return bindNamedParameters( ps, queryParameters.getNamedParameters(), start, source, session );
	}

	public static int bindNamedParameters(
	        final PreparedStatement ps,
	        final Map namedParams,
	        final int start,
	        final NamedParameterSource source,
	        final SessionImplementor session) throws SQLException, HibernateException {
		if ( namedParams != null ) {
			// assumes that types are all of span 1
			Iterator iter = namedParams.entrySet().iterator();
			int result = 0;
			while ( iter.hasNext() ) {
				Map.Entry e = ( Map.Entry ) iter.next();
				String name = ( String ) e.getKey();
				TypedValue typedval = ( TypedValue ) e.getValue();
				int[] locations = source.getNamedParameterLocations( name );
				for ( int i = 0; i < locations.length; i++ ) {
					if ( log.isDebugEnabled() ) {
						log.debug( "bindNamedParameters() " +
								typedval.getValue() + " -> " + name +
								" [" + ( locations[i] + start ) + "]" );
					}
					typedval.getType().nullSafeSet( ps, typedval.getValue(), locations[i] + start, session );
				}
				result += locations.length;
			}
			return result;
		}
		else {
			return 0;
		}
	}
}

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A-Z Supercars: Aston Martin Virage Vantage
Through the 1990s, Aston's flagship was this twin-supercharged heavyweight
The Virage Vantage was the valedictory blast for old-school Aston, a glorious, evolving celebration of bulk versus brute force. Developed from the slightly underwhelming Virage coupe, which had replaced the classic V8 in 1989, the new Vantage's pumped-up bodywork and no-nonsense attitude made it a real hero car to a whole generation of British sports car fans.
In its original 1993 form, its quad-cam, 32-valve, 5.3-litre V8, aided by two superchargers, heaved out 550bhp and 550lb ft of torque. Unsurprisingly, it would become known as the V550. It could do 186mph and hit 60mph from rest in 4.5sec, proving that, although it weighed the best part of two tons, a big engine would always get the upper hand – in a straight line at least.
Just to make absolutely sure, Aston uprated the engine to 600bhp and 600lb ft in 1998 (yes, the V600), elevating the claimed top speed to 202mph and cutting the 0-60mph time to 3.9sec. Seldom had anything so heavy moved quite so quickly. Even more surprising, however, was the urgency with which the Vantage could be hustled through bends. Sure, the huge tyres screamed for mercy, but the solution was usually to give the throttle a big old prod to induce a fluid, smoky drift that was far more satisfying than it was painful. When it came to chassis balance, the Aston was easily the equal of Ferrari's 456.
Forty Le Mans-badged cars were made in 1999 (604bhp, stiffer suspension, upgraded interior, Le Mans-winning DBR-1 aping cosmetics) to send the Vantage on its way and close a remarkable chapter in the Aston story.
It was replaced in 2000 by the all-new Vanquish model, which ushered in the start of a new era for the marque; we would never see the like of the brutish but rather wonderful Vantage again.
Years made 1993-1999 Engine V8, 5340cc, twin superchargers Max power 550bhp @ 6500rpm (V550) Torque 550lb ft @ 4000rpm (V550) 0-60mph 4.5sec Max speed 186mphPrice £87,000 new, £50-100,000 today
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Thank you for bringing your question to the Disney Parks Moms Panel and congratulations on registering for the Dopey Challenge during Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend! I hope your last couple weeks of training is going well!
Which cases are available can depend on location, as they continue to roll out new models they will usually come to the bigger stores first and roll out gradually to the D-Tech On Demand kiosks. The best location to visit for the most amount of options will be the Marketplace Co-Op inside Disney Springs. They currently have cases for iPhone X, 8, 7, 7 Plus, 6 and 6 Plus. In addition to this they also have Samsung Galaxy S5, S6, S7, S7 Edge, S8 and S8 Plus.
In addition to these options, there is also a possibility Otter Boxes will be available at the runDisney Health & Fitness Expo. While the Exhibitor List hasn't been released in the Digital Event Guide just yet, they were an exhibitor at Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend so I'd continue to check back for that option too!
Please let us know if you have any other questions and good luck on your 48.6 miles!


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How to watch Arrival (2016) on Netflix Bangladesh!
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We'll keep checking Netflix Bangladesh for Arrival, and this page will be updated with any changes.
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This is one of my favorite posts to do every year. Not only do I love statistics and graphs, I love what they tell us about our community and the directions in which we're moving as gamers. Hopefully, you'll find this fascinating as well. Otherwise this might be kind of dry and you might enjoy playing one of these games instead of reading about them.
Pie Graph Powers – ACTIVATE!
Top 5 Contest – The Big Winner!
Iiiiiit's SHOWTIME! Spiral Radio101 #67 is NOW AVAILABLE on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, the Spiral Radio101 RSS feed, or you can just STREAM IT RIGHT HERE! Hope you'll give it a listen and enjoy, and BE SURE to join us for the live recording of Spiral Radio101 #68 on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:45pm on our Twitch channel at twitch.tv/spiralradio101.
Top 5 Winner #6, #7 annnnnd #8!
Okay! We're almost at the big winner, but we've got three more folks taking home 1500 Crowns each – let's take a look at these lucky winners and their top 5 games of 2016.
Top 5 Winner #3, #4, #5!
You can still win! All the details for entering the contest are RIGHT HERE!


Change Will Happen. The Only Question Is: Will You Be A Part Of It?
#3. We must abandon the entitlement mentality. Your church is not a country club where you pay dues to get your perks and privileges. It is a gospel outpost where you are to put yourself last. Don't seek to get your way with the music, temperature, and length of sermons. Here is a simple guideline: Be willing to die for the sake of the gospel. That's the opposite of the entitlement mentality.
Before He could die for us, He had to be born for us. The hope of Christmas can be found in a manger in Bethlehem.
Don't Make Vows. Just Serve God!
I have been studying through the book of Ecclesiastes and I want to just share from the section I was studying this morning.
Everything that the author of the book says throughout can all be summed up in the last two verses in the book. Nothing that is done or accomplished in this life is worth doing unless one truly loves and reveres God and seeks to obey Him.
What Do You Plead Before God?
Man has a sin problem. Man has a righteousness problem in that we don't have it. This poses a serious problem because one day we will stand before the Creator of the universe and we will be judged by God for our life that He has given us.