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Well sure, it sounds awardsy enough. Though it's interesting that they're trying to market it as an Oscar movie, considering Cake opens January 23rd in New York, meaning it wouldn't be eligible for the Oscars until next year. Either they're banking on a lot of really old people remembering a for-your-consideration campaign for an entire year, or this campaign is a bit of a bait and switch.


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Q: Best way to store data in MongoDB for real-estate project I am working on real estate project using MEAN stack. I have concern of about getting data and manipulating it if we store in any random way. So please let me know the best way to store data . Business requirement is as follows
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5.Each Flat has configurations like no.of BHK, carpet area, built area, super built area so on

I very confused with how to design the collections as these are interdependent on each other and we are using Mongo DB as database. So please help me out?. thank you

A: I prefer to use a relational database like postgreSQL for this situation, but if you want to use mongodb you can use populate because you have many relation between collection, maybe you need to many reports that want to merge collection together.
when you use populate you need to update two or more collections, but getting data from multiple collection is very easier.
you can check the populate documentation.
it's a good article how to use populate in node.js

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Cleopatra Rules! The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
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About the book: A kid-friendly, humorous, and fact-filled biography of the "original teen queen." VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) placed it on its "Honor List" for nonfiction. Booklist said of the book: "Shecter's solid research is evident in her account of events as well as the back matter, which includes informative notes, a time line, a glossary, bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, and source notes for the illustrations." Kirkus described the book as "a lively, informative, and aggressively informal portrait of Egypt's last and most famous pharaoh."
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Cleopatra's Killer Rep
Was the last queen of Egypt an evil, gorgeous woman, dripping with jewels? A power-hungry tempress trying to rule the world? A pharaoh with a small snake problem?
How about none of the above.
Everything you've read about Queen Cleopatra VII should have come with a warning: details may have been "Photoshopped" and manipulated beyond recognition. The Queen of the Nile had more mud flung at her than you can dig up on the banks of that great river. From Shakespeare to Hollywood, what you've seen and read about her wasn't always completely true.
Hollywood made her into a hot starlet because nobody wanted to see an ugly queen. Historians turned her into a power-hungry witch because that made her story more interesting. And her Roman conqueror, Octavian, made her into a weapon of mass destruction in heels so he could stomp all over Mark Antony.
Will we ever know the "real" Cleopatra? Without her personal letters and journals, probably not. But for the first time, modern scholars and historians are looking at events from the queen's point of view. What they are finding is that Queen Cleopatra VII , the last pharaoh of Egypt, was in fact a brilliant, complex, powerful ruler. For twenty years, she kept the world's greatest superpower from taking over her country—a good trick when you realize it was during the time when Rome swallowed up countries faster than most teens use up text minutes.
How did she do it?
The answer may shock and surprise you—and may even make you laugh. Either way, you'll get a more balanced look at Cleopatra the queen, the ruler, and mother of four. So, on your knees, commoner. The last great queen of Egypt is about to take the stage!
A Bookish Nerd?
She ruled all of Egypt, had Romans trembling in their togas, and made kings weak at the knees. Yet the glamour queen of the ancient world started out as … a bookish nerd.
Yup, the girl whom Shakespeare likened to Venus—the goddess of love—cared more about books than boys. At first, anyway. As a kid, Cleopatra spent most of her time hitting the scrolls at the famous Great Library of Alexandria.
Young Cleopatra had a good reason for being so serious—several reasons, actually: her ambitious brothers and sisters. Life with them was like living with a nest of squirming, hissing reality-show stars—you never knew when one might strike. Would her older sister push Cleopatra down the palace steps to get her out of the way? Would her younger brothers and sister poison her afternoon snack? Or maybe, "accidentally on purpose," hold her head under the water a little too long while they played in the palace pool?
See, Cleopatra's family was not what you would exactly call … um, loving. Yet while most of her family members cared only for their own personal power, Cleopatra longed to bring back the glory days of her beloved country, which was easier said than done.
Corrupt rulers and a long history of border disputes had weakened the once powerful kingdom. By the time Cleopatra came along, Egypt was sliding down the tubes faster than a greased-up preschooler on a Slip 'n Slide.
Turning to the Big Bad Wolf
As Egypt declined, Pharaoh Ptolemy XII took his eleven-year-old daughter, Cleopatra VII, on a trip to Rome—not to sightsee but to save his skin. Raging mobs had run him off his throne and out of Alexandria. See, over the years, Daddy Pharaoh had paid Roman generals big bucks in return for soldiers to scare off his enemies. Only he had so many enemies, he had to "buy" more Roman protection than he could afford. And guess who footed the bill—Egyptian citizens, who had to pay extra taxes. When Cleopatra's dad taxed his people to the breaking point to pay for more Roman henchmen, they chased him out of Alexandria faster than a band of crazed shoppers at a half-off sale.
But although the pharaoh may have been out, he wasn't down. Not without a fight, anyway. So he put his kingdom into even deeper debt—this time to a private Roman loan shark—to pay Roman armies for help in invading his own country. Yes, that's right, he invaded his own country. It worked. The Roman military put him back in charge. But as a result, his people hated him more than ever.
"Who You Calling 'Fatty'?"
Most rulers want nicknames that reflect their power or glory, like Alexander the Great or William the Conqueror.
Cleopatra's dad? He ended up with a nickname that probably made her cringe. The people called him Auletes—"the Piper"—because Ptolemy (tall-oh-mee) XII liked to play the flute. They didn't call him the Piper in a nice way, either. Guys who played wind instruments in the ancient world weren't exactly considered macho.
Still, it was better than her grandfather's nickname. They called him Chick-pea. Before that, the Egyptians called Cleopatra's great-grandfather—Ptolemy VIII—Fatty, or Physcon, because of his huge size. He needed several servants to hold him up to waddle around the palace!
Whatever she thought about these nicknames, Cleopatra likely had a bigger issue with the way her father groveled at the feet of rich Romans.
Like her dad, she knew the Egyptians needed Rome to survive. But unlike him, she was determined to find a way to become Rome's partner, instead of its slave.
Daddy's Girl … NOT!
While "the Piper" and Cleopatra trolled for money in Rome, his oldest daughter, Berenice, snatched the throne and named herself queen. Okay, we know Cleopatra was smart, but could her sister have been any dumber?
Think about it: most usurpers (people who steal thrones) usually have the king killed before they name themselves top dog. Yet for some reason, Berenice didn't. That's why some scholars wonder if maybe somebody else shoved her on the throne while Daddy was on the road. Or whether she thought Daddy would be assassinated in Rome. Or even thought that angry mobs in Egypt would tear him apart once they heard how much they would owe in taxes to pay the Roman loan shark.
Either way, it was a dumb move, because as soon as Daddy regained control of the throne, Berenice parted with more than her crown. She parted with her life, too. The Piper had her pipes cut—she was executed for treason. Turns out that Daddy the Flute Player could turn into Daddy the Destroyer without pausing for breath.
Cleopatra took careful note of that move, too.
Plutarch needed to make Mark Antony—and therefore Cleopatra—look bad because he did not want to anger the often touchy Roman Emperor(s) of his time.
Imagine if Lex Luthor wrote Superman's bio or Darth Vader dished on Princess Leia. You might find yourself a little skeptical about their claims, right? You might even find yourself doubting—if not laughing outright at—all of the insults and snide remarks.
Yet that's exactly what happened to Cleopatra. Rome won, so Romans told their version of her story. The Romans dissed and dismissed her worse than a fashion critic at the Oscars.
Today's scholars are not so quick to accept everything the Romans wrote about Cleopatra. They look for proof—or at least some evidence—that might either back up or dispute the Romans' version of events. More importantly, they do what the Romans found unthinkable: they give her the respect of seeing things from her point of view.
It's about time the great queen received the equal—if not royal—treatment she always deserved.
A Gift for Gab
After the Piper snuffed his eldest daughter, he retook the throne and went back to playing the flute. Egyptians seethed over having to fork over even more of their hard-earned money in taxes to repay Romans. But what could they do? The streets of Alexandria teemed with Roman soldiers paid to keep the Piper piping and the people quiet.
Meanwhile, young Cleopatra chilled at the Great Library of Alexandria, studying science, mathematics, philosophy, and languages. In fact, according to one ancient source, she was the first ruler in nearly 250 years to learn and speak the native Egyptian language!
Wait. What? How could Egyptian rulers not speak the native tongue?
Easy. Cleopatra's family—the Ptolemy line of Pharaohs—wasn't Egyptian. Cleopatra actually descended from the Greeks. Nearly 250 years earlier, Alexander the Great invaded Egypt and put it under his rule. When he died, his general and self-claimed half brother Ptolemy took over as pharaoh. From then on, his Greek descendants ruled Egypt and spoke only Greek. Even Cleopatra's name was Greek. It just happened to be the name of Alexander the Great's little sister.
Our Cleo had a talent for languages. In addition to Greek and Egyptian, she spoke numerous African dialects as well as Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian. But her political smarts were even more impressive. And she couldn't wait to put them to good use.
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There is no centre of the universe! According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a "Big Bang" about 14 thousand million years ago and has been expanding ever since. Yet there is no centre to the expansion; it is the same everywhere.
On a clear, moonless night, one can often see a hazy, luminous band stretching across the sky. The ancients devised many fanciful myths to account for this "milky way." Galileo was the first to look at this haze with a telescope and discover that it was composed of countless dim stars. Today, we realize that this hazy band is our view from the inside of a vast disk that is home to billions of stars, including our own Sun, and vast amounts of interstellar dust. This is our galaxy — the Milky Way.
Earlier in this century, Edwin Hubble's observations led to the discovery that ours is only one of many billions of galaxies that dot the universe with each galaxy home to billions of stars. Some, like the Milky Way, are flat disks with arcing spiral arms and regions of dense interstellar gas, called nebulae, which are active sites of star formation. Yet others are ellipse-shaped agglomerations of mature stars, virtually devoid of interstellar gas or dust.
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Abhinandan Kaul
Leveraging Technology For Prevention of Corruption
Nov 3, 2020·6 min read
Legendary American film director, Godfrey Reggio once said, "It's not that we use technology, we live technology." Technology has become an integral part of our lives by bringing with it a vast number of benefits, making us more creative, productive, and innovative. This productivity and innovation along with the technologically boosted creativity of humans have proven to be extremely helpful for our nation in tackling an issue that plagued our nation ever since it became independent, and i.e. Corruption.
Rampant corruption in India has damaged the Economy and further stunted its development for decades, thereby preventing our nation from reaching new heights. It isn't something new to our country but has existed for a very long time. Even the great Indian teacher and Minister Kautilya once remarked in his Political treatise Arthashahtra- "It is as difficult to prevent a government servant from corruption as a fish from drinking water". Hence, we can interpret from this how corruption must've menaced ancient India as it is doing now.
A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done. In 2008, another report showed that about 50% of Indians had first-hand experience of paying bribes or using contacts to get services performed by public offices.
Corruption- A Virus Deadlier Than Covid
However, due to the advent of technology and the government's concentrated efforts and enormous investments, the nation is successfully fighting and getting rid of this evil. The progress made by our nation is reflected in its rankings in the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index which ranked the country 80th place out of 180, reflecting a steady decline in the perception of corruption among people. Technology has played a significant role in the decline of such a perception of corruption among the people.
The role of technology is a very significant one in the constant fight against the evil of corruption at various different levels.
Firstly if we talk about the level of ordinary citizens, who were for ages stuck in the hurdles of corruption, technology has been an empowering factor. Most of the ordinary citizens in our country today possess a Smartphone, which has become a really common device. It is something that equalizes the populace. From a hardworking farmer to a street vendor to a rich businessman, all possess this popular device. The presence of this device, although so common, is a major deterrent to corruption. The fact that it can be used to record wrongdoings and corrupt officials, has deterred many from indulging in such activities. Further, there are also many applications that users can download on their smartphones to report corruption that has further empowered the citizens against this menace. Even Social Media which is one of the most effective advents of technology has contributed to fighting corruption, with citizens turning into reporters due to which those who're caught indulging in corruption face condemnation by all as well as legal action by authorities taking cognizance of the issue.
Social Media Is A Powerful Tool Against Corruption
Further, technology has shortened the gap between the government and the people by removing the much-hated intermediaries or "Middle-Men". For decades middlemen have delayed the provision of benefits and services to citizens of the country and have troubled them endlessly by demanding extra money under the table for work they were being paid to do by the government exchequer, which also ironically derived its funds majorly from the citizens through taxes. Even I recall an incident from years ago when my father had gone to renew the registration of our house and an official had demanded a bribe in the name of "Kharcha-paani". I am sure all of you must've also heard or experienced something similar. However, this to a large extent has been stopped by virtue of technology. Digital India, the Flagship scheme of our Hon'ble PM Narendra Modi which has greatly helped in ensuring benefits and provisions reach the people instead of getting stuck in the cobwebs of the bureaucracy and middlemen, is a prime example.
Digital India Has To Some Extent Put An End To The "Kharcha-Paani" Culture
Corruption at lower levels has also been thwarted by the incorporation of technology. Earlier when the proper enforcement of rules was affected by the temptations of the enforcers who accepted bribes to let go of those who violated the rules, the advent of technology today in extracting fines (E-Challans) has ensured that rules are properly enforced and followed. Further, the promotion of cashless transactions has also ensured that all transactions between people are recorded and there is nothing dealt with under the table or no commission mongers trying to prey on innocent citizens. Another very positive implication of technology is the government's DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) system, which coerces the middlemen (if any still remain) to function as they are expected to without any malicious demands of "Kharcha Paani", as earlier it was these middlemen who wielded the power to disburse benefits like LPG subsidy, MNREGA payments, etc to the people, however now this power rests with technology which doesn't have any vested interests or biases. Hence, along with technological innovations, it is also essential to democratize technological access in our nation so that every citizen can experience its empowering effect and all measures taken by the government work effectively.
Moving on, it is also essential to acknowledge that technology hasn't only curbed corruption in the chain of contact between the government and fellow citizens, but it has also relieved the government from the corrupt parasites who for decades ate away the nation's wealth. E-governance systems as well as online government digital marketplaces like the "Government-E Marketplace (GEM) have plugged the leakages in the bureaucracy and increased accountability thereby nullifying corruption. Further, the NITI Aayog released a discussion paper earlier this year, in which it identified use-cases where the technology can potentially improve governance ranging from tracing of drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain to verification of education certificates, all of which are issues intricately linked to corruption.
E-Governance Corruption And Made Governance More Efficient
Although technology has greatly played a valiant role in dealing with corruption and many levels of systematic corruption has declined in India, to be fair with my arguments, it is also essential to acknowledge that technology hasn't been that effective in some cases and has also had a negative impact on the entire situation.
At Least 44% Of Bitcoin Transactions Are Used For Illegal Activities
For instance, it is easy to use modern technological cryptocurrencies such as Bit-coin to hide corruption by transferring money anonymously, untraceably, and remotely without any accountability of the transactions across national and international boundaries. Transactions involving cryptocurrencies are very common over the DarkNet which fuels illegal activities. Similarly, popular online gambling websites and applications, massive multiplayer online games, etc also can be used for money-laundering as an alternative to the mainstream modes to do so. Social networking applications and websites like WhatsApp and Instagram have also added to this bandwagon by virtue of their technology which provides End-to-End encryption to users.
Therefore, we must understand that corruption is a social and economic problem that demands a multi-pronged approach that also deals with the societal motivation and justification of corruption rather than just the opportunity which technology has already dealt with.
We Have The Main Role In The Fight Against Corruption
Hence, it is essential that we as citizens bring in the change in the societal perception regarding corruption, never indulge in such acts, condemn or report those who do and follow the Mahatma's evergreen advice of being the change we want to see!
Abhinandan Kaul is an actor, public speaker, blogger, entrepreneur, youth leader and the founder of Exam Plus Noida.
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Okayama Shoka University is a university offering full four-year courses established by Kibi Gakuen in April 1965 in the Tsushima-kyomachi district of Okayama. Originally the university consisted solely of the Faculty of Commerce offering commerce courses. The Faculty of Law and Economics opened in 1991 consisting of the Department of Law and Economics. The graduate school offering Master's programs was founded in 1995. The University was restructured in 2005 into three faculties: Commerce, Law and Economics. The Faculty of Commerce was changed in 2009 to the Faculty of Business Administration, offering business administration and commerce courses. In 2015 the University celebrated its 50th anniversary, which was followed by the opening of a 50th Anniversary Memorial Room in the Ijiri Hall in 2017.
Okayama Shoka University has a long history. It started out as Kibi Shogyo Gakko school, a commerce college set up by Kibi Gakuen at Minamigata, Okayama City in March 1911. Kibi Gakuen went on to found Kibi Senior High School in April 1948 (renamed Okayama Shoka University Senior High School in April 1994) and Kibi Shoka Junior College in March 1955 (renamed Okayama Shoka Junior College in January 1957; closed in March 1966). The current incarnation of Okayama Shoka University was chartered in April 1965, and today boasts over half a century of history and tradition in the social-scientific research and education.
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Teresa Wright, Popular Protest in China, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2018
Jessica Chen Weiss, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Teresa Wright's concise but comprehensive overview, Popular Protest in China, has only become more relevant in the year since it was released—but events have also already dated it in ways that are politically revealing. Her closing chapter is on Hong Kong, where six months of sustained mass protests have now faced the Chinese state with its greatest challenge since 1989.
Wright reveals, if not necessarily intentionally, economic liberalization since the immediate "post-Mao era" resulting in social displacements that have in turn sparked protests—and has therefore been concomitant with the rise of an advanced police state. This trajectory, now being deepened under Xi Jinping, contradicts the conventional wisdom that economic liberalization would also mean political liberalization.
The guarantees for freedom of speech and assembly in Deng Xiaoping's 1978 constitution were put to the test in the Democracy Wall movement which began that year. But the door was closed again when those guarantees were weakened in the constitutional reform of 1980. Student protests in 1986 and '87 presaged the massive movement of 1989. Contrary to the popular perception that this was entirely a student upsurge, the movement also began to spread to the broader masses, with formation of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation, or BWAF. Of course, this door slammed shut decisively with the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989.
In the subsequent years, political space closed and the police apparatus expanded—as private capital was given ever-greater precedence in the economy. Already in place under Deng, this tendency advanced under his successor Jiang Zemin, with his "Three Represents" doctrine, emphasizing "advanced productive forces" (read: private enterprise).
Wright discusses eight broad categories of protest that have emerged in the generation since then, marked by breakneck modernization without political freedom.
She first turns her eye to rural protests. A widespread practice of "illegal land sales" has expropriated farming communities of their patrimony, leading to a wave of "disturbances" and "mass incidents" in the countryside.
Labor protests meanwhile sporadically erupted in the cities, industrial areas and free-market Special Economic Zones (SEZs). During the 1989 protests, self-declared worker autonomous federations, or WAFs, started to emerge in several cities beyond Beijing, posing a threat to the official hegemony of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). Again, this was rapidly reversed in the repression following the Tiananmen massacre. But labor unrest (by definition wildcat) would mount over the following generation.
Anger was galvanized after China's equivalent to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire—the disaster at the Zhili toy factory in the Shenzhen SEZ in 1993. As at the 1911 disaster in New York, bosses had locked the doors, so workers were trapped as the factory was engulfed in flames. Some 200 were killed.
This was in a private factory, but the distinction between the public and private sectors began to erode in this period, as decrees mandated that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) had to be profitable. This transition saw the rapid erosion of the Mao-era social contract known as the "iron rice bowl," which had guaranteed workers job security, steady income, and benefits. Daqing, in the northeast industrial belt, saw mass protests by oil workers demanding back pay in 2002.
Wright next turns to homeowner protests, which manifested a contradiction in the expansion of private property rights. Residents often became legal owners of their domiciles, but also faced growing threats of displacement as urban areas hypertrophied. This led to the phenomenon of "nail houses"—lone properties left standing amid huge development blocs, whose owners stubbornly refused to sell.
China's astounding economic growth in this period took a terrifying ecological toll, most dramatically seen in desertification, and contamination of groundwater and croplands with industrial pollutants, resulting in the phenomenon of "cancer villages." This has led to a wave of environmental protests—hundreds of "mass incidents," mostly in the new industrial zones of the southern coast. The most famous of these was the 2007 outbreak of protest against a planned chemical complex in Xiamen. The Xiamen plant was cancelled, and a Ministry of Environmental Protection formed the following year. Upon assuming power in 2012, Xi Jinping crafted a new environmental protection law, and began speaking of the need to build an "ecological civilization." But protests against chemical plants, waste incinerators and the like have continued to sporadically erupt.
Official policy again resulted in new challenges for officialdom when "patriotic education" (emphasizing nationalism rather than class struggle) was employed as a "new foundation to buttress the regime's weakened legitimacy" after 1989. Especially with the advent of the internet as a new stage for autonomous organizing, this paradoxically resulted in outbreaks of "nationalist protest," when it was perceived that the regime was too conciliatory toward foreign powers. There were anti-US protests in 1999 after Washington's warplanes bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (supposedly by accident). These were followed by anti-Japan protests in 2005, sparked by Japanese revisionism over World War II atrocities in China, and then again in 2012, over the contested islands known to the Chinese as the Diaoyu and the Japanese as Senkaku.
Even after the 1989 crackdown, what Wright calls "political protest"—that is, pro-democracy agitation—has continued, although mostly on the internet rather than in the streets, isolated from the masses, and met with speedy reprisal. Most famously, dissident Liu Xiaobo's online declaration "Charter 08" resulted in his imprisonment until his death (from untreated cancer) in 2017.
A far greater threat to the state has come from what Wright calls "ethnic minority protest." The Uighurs, the Turkic and Muslim people of Xinjiang in the far west, have periodically exhibited separatist aspirations over the past century, and the regime obviously fears a resurgence of this. The 1980s saw episodic protests in Xinjiang's principal cities, Urumqi and Kashgar, and 1997 saw the uprising and harsh repression at the town on Yining (known to the Uighurs as Gulja, Wright fails to mention). The government later adopted its "Open Up the West" campaign, encouraging massive Han colonization of Xinjiang—and deepening Uighur anger. Wright goes on to mention the sporadic violent attacks by Uighurs on Han Chinese and officials—but not the horrific mass detention of perhaps a million or more Uighurs in "re-education camps." This grim reality was presumably coming to light just as Wright's book was going to the printer.
Wright notes the 2008 uprising in Tibet, which again manifested anger over Han colonization and favoritism in the region. She also touches on the lesser-known protests by ethnic Mongols over the enclosure of their traditional grasslands for mining projects and the like.
And finally—Hong Kong. Wright discusses two important precursors to the current crisis in the semi-autonomous metropolis: the 2002 protest movement against a draconian "subversion law," and the 2014 "Umbrella Revolution" to demand "universal suffrage" (an executive and legislative council directly elected without candidates vetted by Beijing). While Beijing succeeded in "waiting out" these protests, obviating the need for the kind of massive repression seen in 1989, Wright presciently notes that the "underlying causes" of these upsurges remained unresolved.
Wright concludes that "[u]nlike Han protest" in the mainland (as distinct from that of the Uighurs and Tibetans), in Hong Kong there is a "real threat of collective contention" to China's ruling party-state. And she hints at the potential for such contention to spread to the Han majority. State strategies to contain popular protest since 1989 "may have sown the seeds for greater regime-threatening unrest."
Shedding particular light on state management of nationalist protests is Jessica Chen Weiss' Powerful Patriots, published four years earlier. Such protests have sometimes been a "diplomatic asset" to the regime, providing moral authority in demands on foreign powers. But any upsurge of protest poses an inherent threat in a closed society. The student pro-democracy protests of 1986 and '87 that presaged the Tiananmen Square movement were themselves presaged by a wave of anti-Japan protests in 1985—which actually saw students marching on Tiananmen in September of that year. So it isn't surprising that a new wave of protests over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in 1996 was repressed. On the other hand, the 2012 protests over the question were tolerated, as they assisted Beijing in opposing Tokyo's "nationalization" of the disputed islands. The risk remains, however, that any autonomous mass action could morph from a "tactical asset to strategic liability."
Nationalism is entering the equation of power in another way that neither Wright nor Weiss anticipated. A schism of national identity between Hong Kong and the mainland has become inescapably apparent in recent months, with the protesters increasingly rejecting union with China altogether. Although their formal demands are merely for withdrawal of the unpopular "extradition bill" (now achieved) as well as "universal suffrage" and dropping of charges against arrested protesters, their rhetoric reveals a growing pro-independence sentiment. Disturbingly, many of the protesters wave the American flag, seemingly look to Trump as their protector, and even display nostalgia for British colonial rule over Hong Kong. This, of course, abets Beijing's propaganda that the protests are foreign-fomented.
Most frustratingly, the months of the current Hong Kong protest movement have seen new outbursts of mass protest in mainland China. In July, a month into the Hong Kong movement, riot police were mobilized to put down anti-incinerator protests in the central China city of Wuhan. That same month saw worker protests over wage arrears in the automotive sector in Hubei. Then, in November, the local riot squad was again mobilized to break up an anti-incinerator protest in Wenlou, Guangdong province—just 60 miles from Hong Kong.
Throughout these months, the Hong Kong protesters have shown greater interest in appealing to the US and Britain for succor than building solidarity with protesters in the mainland. Yet it is hard to imagine that the Hong Kong protesters will achieve their aims—be they only for greater democracy in the territory or for actual independence—without some kind of democratic opening within China. Similarly, Beijing may be taking such a hard line on the Uighurs and Tibetans, in part, out of fear that the contagion of unrest could spread to the Han masses, and inter-ethnic solidarity against the ruling party-state could emerge.
Building that kind of solidarity, and somehow uniting the disparate and mostly spontaneous protest movements in China, holds the only hope of mounting a real challenge to the current system of capitalist totalitarianism that is, unfortunately, providing a model for despots around the world.
Posted December 7, 2019 China, Civil Liberties/Repression, Hong Kong, Human rights, Islamophobia, Japan, Social Policy, Social protests by Dan La Botz
Bill Weinberg is editor of CounterVortex.org.
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Iconic actor, director and certified badass Clint Eastwood is certainly no stranger to releasing movies depicting true stories of heroism—think "Flags of Our Fathers," "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "American Sniper"—but in an interesting twist, his upcoming film "The 15:17 to Paris" sees the actual good guys portraying themselves on screen.
US Airman Spencer Stone, Friends Stop Gunman on Paris-Bound Train
"The 15:17 to Paris" tells the story of the August 2015 Thalys train attack, in which a man armed with an AK-style rifle, a Luger pistol and a bottle of petrol boarded a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris and started shooting. Fortunately, he was brought down by three men: Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, all of whom get starring roles in the film.
Watch the trailer above, and read the official synopsis below.
In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris—an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans travelling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack. Throughout the harrowing ordeal, their friendship never wavers, making it their greatest weapon and allowing them to save the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board.
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Problems identified by the Temple Bright co-founders include the unwillingness of most lawyers to commit themselves to a fixed price, delegation to people who are inexperienced and the feeling that a partner is too busy overseeing other cases to talk in detail to individuals.
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We all love to settle down with some popcorn and by entertained by singing fish and evil witches, don´t we?
Disney films have given pleasure to millions over the decades but what amazing Disney facts are you not yet aware of? Maybe these ones.
The Alternative Dwarfs
We all know and love those 7 dwarfs but how would you have liked them if they can been given crappy names like Burpy, Chesty, Tubby, Hickey, Deafy, Wheezy and Awful? These were the name Walt Disney was originally going to give them. In fact, they weren´t given names at all in the original Brothers Grimm tale and in other versions of Snow White they have been called all sorts of stupid names.
The Hidden Characters
The folks at Disney love to hide unexpected characters in their films. For example, in King Triton´s concert at the start of the Little Mermaid the audience includes Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy. In The Hunchback of Notre Dame song Out There you can see Belle, Pumbaa and even Aladdin´s magic carpet.
The Fewest Words Spoken by Characters
The only Disney main character to be completely word-less for the whole movie is Dumbo. Next in line is Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, who only had around 18 lines in the whole movie. On the other hand, the first Disney character to speak was Mickey Mouse and his enigmatic first words were "Hot dog".
The Facial Hair Issue
While staff at Disneyland were barred from growing facial hair for a long time, it is even stranger to think that guests with facial hair were banned when it first opened. Any dude with long hair was also declared persona non grata.
The Disneyland Workers
A good number of Disneyland workers have gone to fame and fortune, while some even grew a beard as soon as they stopped working there. Among the future stars to work with Mickey and the gang were Steve Martin, Kevin Costner and Michelle Pfeiffer. Some rumours suggest that Robin Williams worked there as a tour guide.
More Hidden Stuff
So, did the dust kicked up in The Lion King really form the word "sex" in the sky? If you look really hard it does appear to be true. The official response from the people behind the film is that it says "SFX" as a sort of signature. Less debate is needed around the hidden nude image in The Rescuers. Disney admitted that a naked woman appears in the background as our intrepid heroes fly on a sardine tin. A recall of the video (yeah, this happened a while ago now that you mention it) was ordered.
Snow White Struggled for Work
The actress who voiced Snow White in the classic film was called Adriana Caselotti. She was paid just $970 for her work, although in today´s money that works out as a more impressive $16,000 or so. She was under contract to Disney but was blocked from taking on more work in order to avoid spoiling the illusion of Snow White. Her voice pops up briefly on The Wizard of Oz and It´s a Wonderful Life but you´ll struggle to find her featured on any other film.
Walt Disney left us with some of the most intriguing last words ever. Rather than speaking them he wrote them on a piece of paper. So what did he write that day in 1966 when he passed away? "Kurt Russell". No one knows why he wrote the then child actor´s name down.
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Gianluca Vialli: Former Chelsea, Juventus and Italy Striker Dies Aged 58
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017 but after saying in April 2020 that he had been given the all-clear, he was re-diagnosed in 2021.
Former Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli has died at the age 58.
Vialli was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017 but after saying in April 2020 that he had been given the all-clear, he was re-diagnosed in 2021.
He announced a temporary leave from his role with Italy's national team in December to focus on his health.
Vialli played 59 times for Italy and won the Champions League with Juventus before joining Chelsea in 1996 and becoming player-manager in 1998.
He had joined Juventus in 1992 for a then world record £12m after winning the Serie A title and the European Cup Winners' Cup during eight seasons with Sampdoria.
Vialli was the first Italian to manage a Premier League side, taking over from the sacked Ruud Gullit late in the season, and went on to lead the Blues to victory in the League Cup, Uefa Cup Winners' Cup and Uefa Super Cup.
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Patriots: Michael Bennett could learn a lesson from Danny Shelton's turnaround in New England
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FOXBORO — Danny Shelton can relate to Michael Bennett. Perhaps, more than most can this season.
Last year, the Patriots traded for the defensive tackle in an exchange of draft picks with the Cleveland Browns. Shelton came to New England having started 45 of 46 games in the NFL. He was a full-time starter and a high draft pick (12th overall in 2015). Then the 2018 season started and for the first time in his life, Shelton played limited snaps as a backup.
He struggled with it and that was seen on the field. For Shelton, it came to a head in Week 12 after playing a career-low nine defensive snaps. After that, he was a healthy scratch and inactive for the next three games — also a first.
"I think mentally, the way things are here, you have to be mentally prepared to be ready to perform at any time," Shelton said. "That's one thing as a veteran, when you're used to being on the field 100% (of the time), you come here and it's kind of like you have to almost make sacrifice for the team's success. That's something I learned last year, going through what I went through. I was just impatient and really acting out on the field — reacting when it's my turn, my name is called and not being able to just turn on that switch right away."
For Bennett, it's been very similar. Like Shelton, the Patriots acquired the veteran defensive tackle for an exchange of draft picks this offseason. Like Shelton, Bennett is playing a supporting role with the Patriots after being one of the best pass rushers in the NFL. This season, he's playing 35.7% of the team's defensive snaps. Last week, it also came to a head for the 33-year-old.
After playing 11 snaps against the Giants, which is the least we can find dating back to 2012, Bennett had a verbal disagreement with Patriots defensive line coach Bret Bielema that led to a one-week suspension.
Even when you're winning, it's not easy to sacrifice personal success with the Patriots. Shelton and Bennett are professional athletes, who love to compete. Last season bothered Shelton on many levels. However, he also learned how to grow because of it.
Shelton returned to the Patriots lineup at the end of last season. He wasn't active for the AFC Championship, but played in Super Bowl LIII. He played 16 snaps and made it count. He made two tackles, including a run stuff of Rams running back C.J. Anderson for a loss of three yards. It was a prime example of Shelton being able to make the most of his playing time.
"Everybody knows it's different here. For me, it just took me a little bit to kind of figure out how to work with how things are done here," Shelton said. "One of those things was making the most of the opportunities that I get. I really used that as more of motivation to be prepared all the time. You never know when you'll be pulled back. You never know when you'll be thrown in to make some plays."
Last year, in 13 games, Shelton had 21 tackles with no sacks, one quarterback hit and one tackle for loss. This year, in six games, he has a career-high two sacks to go with 18 tackles, four quarterback hits and two tackles for loss. His play has led him to starting this year after coming off the bench last season.
Shelton is a good example for Bennett of what's possible when you buy-in. He also says Bennett has helped him.
"Mike, he's definitely one of the guys I like to learn from," Shelton said. "Obviously, he's a great pass rusher. For me, I take it as an opportunity to learn from him and embrace the times that we have… He's made me more of a competitor in the pass rush game because I've always been known as a run stopper. Having him on the team has been great as far as pushing me to be a better pass rusher like him."


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Poland is becoming the leader of Central and Eastern Europe, but its leadership cannot be good without having good relations with Lithuania, said former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus on April 19 in Warsaw, where he spoke while presenting a report on the two nations' approach to each other, reports ELTA. The study, Neighbors. Approach to each other, by Poles and Lithuanians, based on extensive sociological research, was carried out at the initiative of Polish professor Bronislaw Geremek's fund. Adamkus stressed Geremek's words, who said that "Lithuania's independence is the guaranty of democracy in Poland. Poland is becoming the leader of the Central and Eastern Europe region, so it is understandable that it wants to join the club of major and influential countries. But Poland's leadership in the region will never be good without a good relationship with Lithuania," the ex-president said.
On April 23, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius condemned the act of vandalism committed against Jewish historic sites after some anti-Semitic slogans appeared on Subacius street in Vilnius, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. "I strictly condemn the act of vandalism committed at the time when we are commemorating the victims of the Vilna Ghetto, as the Seimas of Lithuania has passed a resolution, and will be assembling today to mark the 65th anniversary of Israel's independence in Vilnius. We cannot tolerate incitement to ethnic hatred in a democratic state, which respects all ethnic minorities. I will raise this issue as a member of the government. In compliance with the laws of Lithuania, the perpetrators responsible for drawing swastikas shall not go unpunished, as the Lithuanian law prohibits the display of such symbols.
Lithuanian law-enforcement apparently has reasons to keep Paleckis in custody - PM
President, PM, officials meeting to discuss situation of Lithuanian troops in Iraq
No bird flu infected poultry from Poland reaches Lithuanian market - veterinary body
Lithuanian foreign minister says no major changes seem likely in Russia
Public figures in Lithuania call for opposing Astravyets NPP in Belarus
Strasbourg court to rule on Lithuanian gay couple's discrimination complaint
Grybauskaite says she rejected initiative on intelligence's preventive conversations


This series of instruments directly simulates the display of electrical measurement indications, measure DC current, voltage, AC current, voltage, frequency, power factor, phase sequence, power, synchronization indication and other non-electricity measurements. It is widely used in various railways, DC transmission and distribution systems, power control panels and other electrical equipment for maritime ships, rail transit, chemical explosion-proof, low-voltage complete sets of equipment, construction equipment, generator sets, machinery and equipment industries. Acting on electrical measurement and non-electrical measurement, it is a general-purpose medium and high-grade instrument suitable for general requirements of environmental conditions.
The analog panel meter is in accordance with GB/T7676-1998, the digital display instrument is produced according to GB/T22264-2008 standard, and its safety performance is produced according to GB4793 and IEC61010 standards. The scale and pointer design of the dial conforms to the German DIN43790 and DIN43802 standards. The shape and opening size of the meter are produced in accordance with GB/T1242 and IEC61554 standards.
The CT series base is made of flame retardant TBT plastic with a Vicat temperature of 130 °C. The outer casing is made of flame-retardant ABS plastic with a Vicat temperature of 85 °C.
The reference temperature is 23 °C ± 2 °C, 13 °C ~ 23 °C and 23 °C ~ 33 °C temperature range, the temperature change allowable change is not greater than ± 100% of the grade index.
Unless otherwise specified, the meter is usually installed in a vertical position. Other installation locations such as: horizontal installation, tilt installation can be made according to customer requirements. The accuracy level of the response is only valid for the specified installation location. The meter is divided into a right angle of 90 ° and a wide angle of 250 °, two angles of indication.
Anti-vibration: in accordance with IEC60068-2-6 standard; sweep frequency range: 10-55-10Hz; displacement amplitude: ±0.15mm, ±0.3mm. Sweep cycle number: 5 times; sweep rate: 10ct/min; maximum acceleration: 147m/s2 (15g), 490m/s2 (50g). Acceleration effective value: 6.06g; Vibration time: 15min. Anti-mechanical impact, in line with IEC60068-2-27 standard.
CT series pointer meter: AC and DC voltmeter and ammeter are 1.5 or 2.5, the power meter is 2.5, the frequency meter is 2.5, and the power factor meter is 2.5.
The overload multiplier is conventionally 1x and 2x overload multiples, which can be customized to 1x, 2x, 3x, etc. by the user. Its role is to indicate the approximate value of the instantaneous overload current, such as the starting current when the motor starts.
The DC current meter has a shunt voltage drop specification of 150mV, 100mV, 75mV, 60mV and 50mV, which can be customized by users. The wire resistance of the meter and the shunt is required to be within 15~25mΩ to ensure the accuracy of the meter.
Surface dial: Made of aluminum alloy, white paint, black ink or laser print. The dial can be customized according to the customer's sample (multiple color overprinting can be customized). The luminous table dial uses a PC board.
Except for the mechanical zero reading instrument, all other instruments have a front zero adjuster for adjusting the mechanical zero position of the instrument.


This is a python interface for querying the HEASARC archive web service.
The capabilities are currently very limited … feature requests and contributions welcome!
Note that the query_region() converts the passed coordinates to the FK5 reference frame before submitting the query.
As per the astroquery specifications, the query_region() method requires the user to supply the radius parameter.
The results can also be sorted by the value in a given column using the sortvar parameter. The following sorts the results by the value in the 'EXPOSURE' column.
All of the above parameters can be mixed and matched to refine the query results.
The query_mission_list() method will return a list of available missions that can be queried.
The returned table includes both the names and a short description of each mission table.
The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) is the primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions.
The initial version of this was coded in a sprint at the "Python in astronomy" workshop in April 2015 by Jean-Christophe Leyder, Abigail Stevens, Antonio Martin-Carrillo and Christoph Deil.


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Roxane Gay is both a fiction writer and an essayist, as well as a social media cultural commentator. Bad Feminist was my
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Q: How to make website unavailable for others while developing it online? Is it possible to make the website unavailable while editing it, while online?
If so, what is the method called and how is it done?
I have a webhosting company so it's not my own server!

A: Typically, people use the .htaccess to password protect it until you are ready to show it to the world
Here is a link to an article with instructions
http://www.elated.com/articles/password-protecting-your-pages-with-htaccess/

A: I had the same issue, I just put up a "coming-soon.html" page and redirected everyone without my IP there via htaccess, here's the question on SO: Want to redirect all visitors except for me [.htaccess]

A: Or, if it's ASP.Net - place a file called app_offline.htm in the site root.

A: If you are uploading a new version of the site you can create a symlink in the place of the root directory and then switch that when the site's ready. You can also switch the symlink back to the previous version if something goes wrong.

A: You can make an .htaccess file like this :
RewriteCond $1 !offline.html$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^your_ip_adress
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A: Simply put the files in a new directory and don't tell anybody else the name of the directory. (Or you can tell it to some beta testers if you like.)
When the pages are ready and tested, just move the files into the normal place (after moving the old existing files into backup directory). This way, you always have a working site online.
But generally, it is better to develop the web site on your local computer, not online.


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To achieve optimum precision, Hyundai redesigned the hydraulic system on each of these models to provide the operator with super fine touch and controllability. Improved pump flow control minimizes fuel consumption and improved spool valves are engineered to provide more precise flow to each function with less effort. Enhanced hydraulic valves, precision-designed variable volume piston pumps, finetouch pilot controls and enhanced travel functions make for smooth and easy operation. Boom-down flow regeneration and control valve technology are also newly improved. An auto boom-swing priority feature automatically and continuously looks for the ideal hydraulic flow balance for the boom and swing motions of the machine to maximize performance and productivity.
In addition to power and efficiency, the R140 / 180 / 210W-9A wheeled excavators feature a new and improved travel system. An auto cruise control system reduces operator fatigue by maintaining a fixed speed when driving distances. A new auto ram lock system is available to improve operating safety by locking or releasing the ram cylinder according to the operating mode. An optional forward/reverse travel pedal control allows operators the choice of using the travel pedal control while in work mode or the lever while in control mode. A new creep speed travel system is also provided to improve manoeuvrability and fine control.
Hyundai has improved the structure strength of the 9A series cabs with stronger but slimmer tubing for optimum safety. Low stress, high strength steel forms a more durable upper and lower frame. Structural integrity of these three models was tested by way of FEM (Finite Elements Method) analysis and long term durability tests. An optional ROPS (Roll Over Protective Structure) cab can be equipped to further enhance operator safety.
The enlarged cabs on the R140/180/210W-9A models provide excellent visibility. The newly designed cabs were conceived for more space, enhanced operator comfort and a wider field view. Special attention was given to a clear, open and convenient interior with plenty of visibility on the machine surroundings and the job at hand. This well-balanced combination of precision aspects put the operator in the perfect position to work safety and securely.
In addition to enhanced safety and visibility, operators will enjoy being able to fully customize the cab of the R140/180/210W-9A excavators to best fit their needs. Operators can easily adjust the seat, console and armrest settings to the desired comfort level. Hyundai has integrated the seat with the console to reduce operator fatigue and adjustable air suspension comes standard. New joystick consoles are adjustable in height by pushing a single button.
Hyundai's engineers made sure that the 9A cabs include many amenities that decrease stress and increase comfort. Some of these features and benefits include heated seats, additional space, enhanced climate control system for optimum air temperature, an advanced audio system with USB player, AM/FM stereo, and MP3 capabilities. A Smart Key System is an optional add on feature that allows the operator to start the ignition with the push of a button.
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Like all of Hyundai's 9A series equipment, the R140/180/210W-9A models feature the Hi-mate Remote Management System, which allows operators and dealer service personnel to access a machine's vital service and diagnostic information from anywhere with internet access. Hi-mate users can remotely monitor daily reports outlining a machine's location, working hours, fuel consumption and any periodical maintenance needed, drastically reducing downtime and saving the owner time and money.
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc. offers quality earthmoving and material handling equipment, including hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, skid steer loaders and electric and diesel forklifts. They also manufacture internal combustion cushion and internal combustion pneumatic forklifts. With Hyundai's North American headquarters and parts depot in Norcross, GA, both dealers and customers consistently receive quick fulfillment on all orders.
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Here is another fun spy gadget for all the James Bond fans, the Lighter Spy Camera.
The Lighter Spy Camera looks like a standard Zippo lighter, but hidden inside is a tiny spy camera with a pinhole lens that can record video and take still pictures.
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