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"Flash Gordon! Quarterback, New York Jets!"
"Dale Arden…Your Highness. Live and let live…that's my motto!"
"My name is Hans Zarkov. I kidnapped them both here to save our planet, Earth."
(To Ming) "An obscure body in the S-K system; the satellite that has provided you so much amusement…recently."
Arguably the quintessential cult movie of the 1980s, the Dino De Laurentiis production of Flash Gordon arrived already fully enveloped in, if not choked by, the shadow of the original Star Wars – a strange irony considering the rich back story and surpassing influence of both that property and its namesake hero. Legend tells that George Lucas only authored his sprawling sci-fi epic/epoch in response to being denied the rights to first adapt the story of Flash, gridiron hero turned intergalactic adventurer of Sunday comic and Saturday morning serial fame. In terms of both what was omitted and committed, we thus have one of the most consequential turns in film history. Because audiences of the time were disinterested to the point of open antagonism towards most any film galaxy outside of that very specific one located far, far away, our Flash Gordon died a quick and ignoble death at the box office. That in itself is no surprise. The pyre of history is littered with far more shameless imitators, who, in Jedi cosplay and with apologies to Shakespeare, strutted and fretted their own respective hours (or less) upon the stage, and were then heard from no more. Why should Flash Gordon have been any different? Can we, at first and at least, agree that it was different? Any, even so, why should it have somehow lingered, and smoldered, before finally catching fire in an oxygen-rich if largely uncharted realm far beyond the spotlight's searing glare, going on to become one of the defining moviegoing experiences of childhoods beyond count, mine among them?* What, if anything, makes it special?
*All those children grew up to be nerds, incidentally…but, of course, you already knew that. I always loved "Star Wars" more, and I still do, but, in a way, watching "Flash Gordon" on HBO on a might-as-well-be endless loop in 1982 is my origin story.
I'd answer that question with a statement, since practically everything about Flash Gordon is special, a heady mixture of honed entertainment instincts, bold choices made in details beyond count, calculated risks in the pursuit of homage, and, occasionally, of blind luck happily rewarded. A popular phenomenon like nothing before or since, Star Wars landed like a bomb in 1977, instantly and irrevocably reconfiguring, among other things, existing public perception of how outer space and its various accoutrements should appear on film. Gone overnight was 2001's sterile, black and white Postmodernism, replaced by a purposely lived-in future full of dents and rust and mammoth machinery simultaneously sophisticated yet somehow approachable. Most all of Star Wars' subsequent hit parade of pretenders and parodists (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Battlestar Galactica 1978, Battle Beyond the Stars, et al), despite occasionally trading on established brands in their own right, followed this established "realistic" visual template, in hopes of siphoning Lucas' peculiar brand of bottled lightning. Reflecting its origins as a vibrant 1930s comic strip and Saturday morning movie serial, which were necessarily a galaxy or two removed, Flash Gordon, by contrast, deviates from this new normal at every turn, providing a jarring, if often subjectively delightful, counterpoint in both sight and sound. Outer space and its environs have never looked quite like this, before or since. Much of the criticism historically levied at Flash Gordon, accusations of rank cheapness or unforgivable cheesiness, smack to me of knee-jerk laziness from people either incapable of looking beneath the surface of things, or unwilling to. It's their choice, and, frankly, their loss.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our story so far: Vain and casually opulent, tyrannical and comprehensively cruel, Ming the Merciless (Swedish legend Max Von Sydow, offering just the right percentage of lean ham), imperious ruler of both the known and, as will soon be revealed to our collective discomfort, unknown universe, has of late become enamored, like a cat with a ball of yarn, with the planet Earth,** visiting it and its inhabitants with a barrage of increasingly extreme weather events and toying with its orbit. Only disgraced NASA scientist Hans Zarkov (Israeli philanthropist Topol, bridging the gap between his eventual Bond villain turn and Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof) recognizes these unnatural phenomena for what they are, an attack from outer space. Into his observatory/home base one dark morning literally crash blond adonis Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones, straight out of central casting) and plucky, prototypical "Girl Friday" Dale Arden (Melody Anderson, ditto), a classic Ken and Barbie couple who, as the lone passengers on a charter flight over, had barely even met cute before Ming's timely intervention sent it to hell. Zarkov, whose grasp of the nuances of interplanetary warfare doesn't extend to his own obvious inadequacies in that arena, conspires to spirit them away as some sort of half-assed counterinsurgency force. When their rocket bound for the exotic kingdom of Mongo, located several galaxies away through a black hole, finally lands, the trio is thrust into the fractious politics of a defiantly alien world on edge, subjugated by Ming and in desperate need of a unifying hero.
**I always wondered why, if Earth itself was such a new concept to Ming, the pre-title command console menu from which he apparently dialed up ready-made natural disasters like "Typhoon" and the conceptually amazing "Hot Hail" also had an item for "Earthquake". Where did he come up with that word? Wouldn't "Quake" alone have sufficed?
Remember when I mentioned Flash Gordon's penchant for rule-breaking? It takes maybe a minute, and probably less, to establish that this will be no standard-issue space opera on the order of what's come before (or maybe opened last weekend). Ming's self-satisfied cackle is only just dissipating as the heartbeat soundtrack of the opening titles begins, quadruple-time and insistent – Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum – before being pierced by a crack of lightning and a crash of discordant piano thunder. "Flash!" (BOOM) "Aa-aaaah! Savior of the universe!" A squall of flamboyant guitar punctuation flares and is cut off by the reappearing heartbeat – Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum – then, "Flash!" (BOOM) "Aa-aaaah! He'll save every one of us!" Yes, replacing wholesale the symphonic score that every other Star Wars ripoff tried in vain to approximate with Brian May's trademark regal guitar and the singular voice of Freddie Mercury, an inveterate showman never content to leave a single audience member behind, is the kind of choice known in dramatic circles as a tone-setter. Their Flash Gordon theme is bracing and invigorating, simultaneously a call to action, a call to arms, and an implicit promise to rock, dammit. I'm not sure whom exactly to credit the decision to enlist arena rock institution Queen in the cause, but it provides an instant infusion of drama and flair into the proceedings and immediately elevates Flash Gordon to an altogether different, contrarian plane from which it will never stray. I owned the Queen single on 45 record as a kid. I reflexively grin from ear-to-ear still, hearing it decades later.
Delusions of grandeur done on a budget usually carry some liability or drawback, but not here. The Kingdom of Mongo Board of Tourism welcomes our intrepid heroes with open arms into an ecosystem veritably brimming with life, the likes of which, despite the presence of its own independent ice world, swamp world, and city suspended in the sky (Lucas was clearly taking notes in his days as a young fan), neither they nor we have seen on film before. Any viewer applying the standard of Star Wars will have the wind knocked out of them by the brazen inadequacy of these special effects, which don't even attempt that sort of "realism" and instead filter everything through the prism of a serene 1938 Saturday afternoon spent in the third row movie theater balcony. The matte paintings of Ming's palace and Vultan's floating kingdom have an ornate Art Deco sheen ripped from the cover art of a pulp sci-fi paperback. The spaceships look like kids' toys, sleek and shiny, with fins that would put a fifties convertible to shame and adorable blinking orange lights in place of what you might've imagined would be fiery exhaust pipes. Far from the fearsome (if still often inept), monochrome stormtroopers of Star Wars, Ming's imperial guardsmen, with their gold lame metallic skull masks and crimson roller derby padding, are too outlandish from the jump to pose much credible threat, while his court, a grand procession of squabbling delegations from Mongo's embarrassing variety of subject moons, is a glimmering, multi-color ocean of increasingly extravagant sartorial splendor. Even the skies, with their tie-dye cloud formations and patently unnatural hues, look downright psychedelic.***
***With apologies to "Superman: The Movie", another hallmark of the era, and its own immortal tagline, you…yeah, you probably won't believe a hawkman can fly. Just wait until you see a whole sky full of them try, though.
Perhaps the only lesson from Star Wars that De Laurentiis took to heart was its commitment to using conspicuously European actors (the literally inimitable Von Sydow, British television star Peter Wyngarde as Ming's cheeky and subtly kinky lead interrogator/Chief of Staff General Klytus, Italian screen seductress Ornella Muti as Ming's headstrong daughter Princess Aura, somehow even more Italian firebrand Mariangela Melato as the ruthless, humorless General Kala) that could project the appropriate vocal gravitas to populate his roster of villains, though he extends that strategy in a bold attempt to even out the ledger until his entire cast, save the two Yanks, bursts off the screen in a cavalcade of colorful tones and timbres. To a person, they are all instantly memorable, with voices and manners that enhance and occasionally embody their respective characters in a way you rarely see. In a way, the sound and style of these performances become just another aspect of the film's underrated yet tremendous overall production design, whether its concept art, its meticulously constructed, brilliantly ostentatious costumes and sets, or, as already mentioned, that gutsy across-board substitution of stylized, "cheap" special effects as a thoughtful improvement, and even comment, on what was expected. As warring princes turned potential allies Barin and Vultan, Flash rival and future initial "serious reboot Bond" Timothy Dalton and irrepressible British raconteur Brian Blessed more than hold their own no matter the backdrop or circumstance. Flash Gordon is entertaining enough to both watch without sound and listen to without picture. I wouldn't necessarily recommend either. I'm just saying you could pull it off with relative ease and still have a good time.
To help demonstrate my theory, and luxuriate a bit longer in the company of these characters, I invite you to pause all pretense of critical thought for a moment (hard, I know, given the venue) in favor of a quick game. Match each of the following quotes, listed below in chronological order, to the one of Flash Gordon's nine principal characters that uttered/bellowed it. Your choices are Flash himself, Dale, Zarkov, Ming, Klytus, Prince Barin, Princess Aura, Prince Vultan, and General Kala (answers at the bottom of the post).
"Check the angular vector of the moon!"
"Pathetic Earthlings! Hurling your bodies into the void without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here…"
"I love initiations!"
"Welcome back from the grave. I knew you were up to something but I confess I hadn't thought of necrophilia!"
"GORDON'S ALIVE?!"
"Promise if you kill me that you'll team up with Vultan and fight Ming!
"Agent Zarkov, you will be liquidated for treachery…"
"I can't help that. Keeping our word is just one of the things that makes us better than you…"
"Open fire! All weapons! Dispatch War Rocket Ajax to bring back his body!"
Through all those exclamation points and hundreds more, Flash Gordon – the man, the myth, the only occasional Nordic non-entity – endures, and, finally prevails. Spoiler alert. In the end, he's just too darn positive to ever have the sense to give up or cower in terror, and his brawny example and surpassing enthusiasm – as, in an act of almost reflexive defiance, he first wipes out Ming's attaches in an impromptu game of tackle football only one side realizes it's playing, is then publicly executed for his insolence only to be revived by the emperor's equally amorous and rebellious daughter, survives being hunted through the man-eating swamps of Arboria, a duel to the death atop a tilting platform of spikes teetering just above a doozy of a first step, the comprehensive destruction of Vultan's sky chalet, his first experience flying a Hawkman rocket cycle, leading the counterattack on Ming's executive warship and then piloting its flaming remains into the mouth of an all-out artillery assault to keep his appointment with crashing Ming and Dale's royal wedding just in time to save the girl from her honeymoon and our Earth from utter annihilation (DEEP BREATH)…well, let's just say his enthusiasm is infectious. If by now the kid in you isn't turning similar flips at these descriptions of derring do and already contemplating the fun of watching the whole thing unfold anew, whether for the first or hundredth time, I honestly don't know what more to tell you. I worry about the breath I've already wasted.
All I can say in closing is thank heavens that Lucas' version of Flash Gordon never saw the light of day, thus paving the way for both an epic for all time (plus the movie industry it would single-handedly revolutionize/revitalize) and, in this unassuming little engine of unironic fun and wonder, nothing much beyond the perfect companion a nerd could have for any rainy Saturday. Isn't that enough? Is it cheesy? Yeah, possibly. Campy? Eye of the beholder, mate. Cheap? Far from what you might remember, in truth, and totally done on the sly at any rate. It hardly matters. Incidentally, you can get a sense of Lucas' vision, if you're really desperate for it, by imagining how Attack of the Clones might've played with better dialogue, plot economy, and dramatic motivation. It's no secret George largely treated the Star Wars prequel trilogy as his own stealth homage to the adventure serials of his youth. Peel back or scrape off all those epithets and unflattering comparisons and Flash Gordon, like its namesake hero, still endures. It was then, and remains today, special in almost every meaningful way I can think of, a throwback that is itself a throwback, though one that is nevertheless unafraid to test (taunt?) the limits of the marketplace and, of course, to relentlessly entertain. Almost forty years have passed, and I haven't yet been able to shake this movie. I've also never wanted to. The heartbeat still moves me.
1. Zarkov (Topol) | 2. Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow) | 3. Princess Aura (Ornella Muti) | 4. Prince Barin (Timothy Dalton) | 5. Prince Vultan (Brian Blessed) | 6. Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones) | Klytus (Peter Wyngarde) | 8. Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) | 9. General Kala (Mariangela Melato)
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Lands Cabinet Secretary Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi was on 4th October, 2017 honored with the Distinguished Dentist Award by Pierre Fauchard Academy (PFA).
Prof. Kaimenyi, a former Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs at the University of Nairobi got the award for his exemplary contribution to the profession of dentistry and the community at large.
The award was formally presented to him by Dr. Pankaj Patel, Chairman, PFA Kenya at the UoN School of Dental Sciences.
UoN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Peter Mbithi commended Prof. Kaimenyi for his exceptional and immense contribution in research, academia and national leadership.
In a speech, read on his behalf by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Prof. Henry Mutoro, Prof. Mbithi singled out Prof. Kaimenyi's great service to the dental fraternity for having served as a past chair of the Kenya Dental Association, past Dean, of the School of Dental Sciences, past President of the Common Wealth Dental Association among other many responsibilities.
"You have indeed taught and mentored many dentists and many of them here recognize you as their teacher. I wish to recognize your great service which even extends far outside the professional realm. You are the former DVC (AA) of this great Institution, the University of Nairobi, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education and you continue to excel as the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Lands. You are indeed a towering dental professional," Prof. Mbithi said.
In his acceptance speech, Prof. Kaimenyi thanked PFA for the award and vowed to always provide service to the dentistry profession and the country. He called on professional colleagues to work towards the greater good of the community saying as Kenyans they need to serve others all the time.
Among those who witnessed the auspicious moment were Hon. Dan Kazungu, the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Hon. Joe Mucheru, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Lands Principal Secretary, Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, College of Health Sciences acting Principal, Prof. Fredrick Were, Dental School Dean, Prof. Regina Mutave among other distinguished professors and guests.
PFA was founded in 1936 and named after the father of modern dentistry, Dr. Pierre Fauchard. The Academy is dedicated to the advancement of the dental profession. It accomplishes its goals through literature, by encouragement of advanced and continuing education, and by honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the profession.
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In addition to weakening SNC-Lavalin, a ban on federal contracts could force several employees to enter the fold of foreign competitors, believes the president and CEO of the engineering firm.
This is what Neil Bruce said on Wednesday during an interview with The Canadian Press, while the Quebec company is still at the heart of a political storm that continues to shake the Trudeau government.
He felt that the company never, unlike some politicians, cited the importance of protecting some 9,000 jobs in Canada to justify the need for an agreement to avoid a criminal trial.
According to Mr. Bruce, a repair agreement is more in the public interest, since many of SNC's employees may be forced to find work with US or European competitors of the multinational if it can not bid on federal contracts. for a decade.
The Montreal-based firm faces charges of fraud and corruption for acts allegedly carried out in Libya between 2001 and 2011. This case cost Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dearly, who saw two of his ministers and his nearest adviser resign.
Ironically, Bruce said, nearly 75 per cent of SNC's rivals have repair agreements – where a company pays a fine in addition to meeting a series of conditions in exchange for dropping charges – in their country of origin and can obtain federal contracts in Canada.
The big boss of the engineering firm said he still did not know why federal prosecutors and former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould refused to negotiate a repair agreement with the company.


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Q: Is it possible to pass list of columns (in a range styled way) as an argument inside of SQL function? I'm not even sure if this is a viable question as I couldn't find anything similar on here or on Google.
I'm sure you've all seen question saying something like "How to select all columns expect few in SQL?". I didn't really any answers that were given as I can't use dynamic SQL in Vertica (can't use = not enabled).
I was thinking of making a UDF in Vertica SDK in Python, but I'm not sure if I can even make something like this, or better yet, if it even "legal" in SQL:
SELECT myFunction([0-50]) FROM my_table t

where [0-50] would select all columns 1 through 51.
Something similar in PySpark would be like this:
df_exclude = df.select([cols for cols in df.columns if cols not in first_col]).collect()

A: You can try SQL generating SQL: the "report" of the coded query is the script you will run as the actual query.
Here, I want to select all columns except the first 50 of the table dbadmin.covid:
\a
-- out Output format is unaligned.
\t
-- out Showing only tuples.
WITH
collist AS (
  SELECT
    table_schema
  , table_name
  , ordinal_position
  , column_name
  , ROW_NUMBER() OVER rn AS ind
  , COUNT(*)     OVER ct AS colcount
  FROM columns
  WHERE table_schema='dbadmin' AND table_name='covid'
    AND ordinal_position > 50 -- exclude the first 50 columns
  WINDOW
   ct AS (PARTITION BY table_schema,table_name)
  ,rn AS (ORDER BY ordinal_position)
)
SELECT
  CASE ind
    WHEN 1 THEN 'SELECT'||CHR(10)||'  '
    ELSE        ', '
  END
||column_name
||CASE ind
   WHEN colcount THEN CHR(10)||'FROM '||table_schema||'.'||table_name||';'
   ELSE ''
  END
FROM collist
ORDER BY ind;
-- out SELECT
-- out   median_age
-- out , aged_65_older
-- out , aged_70_older
-- out , gdp_per_capita
-- out , extreme_poverty
-- out , cardiovasc_death_rate
-- out , diabetes_prevalence
-- out , female_smokers
-- out , male_smokers
-- out , handwashing_facilities
-- out , hospital_beds_per_thousand
-- out , life_expectancy
-- out , human_development_index
-- out , excess_mortality_cumulative_absolute
-- out , excess_mortality_cumulative
-- out , excess_mortality
-- out , excess_mortality_cumulative_per_million
-- out FROM dbadmin.covid;

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Combat women and Congress' wimps
By KATHLEEN PARKER
WASHINGTON—Polling that shows Americans favor women in combat by 2-to-1 is evidence only of the power of misinformation.
And, yes, indoctrination.
Arguments favoring women in direct combat are perhaps well-intentioned, focusing on fairness, opportunity and pride in certain women's abilities. Unfortunately, most people who make those arguments are operating on false assumptions. And, shall we say, mis-truths.
It's not their fault. For the past several decades, the media and popular culture have relentlessly advanced the fantasy narrative of women as groin-kicking, martial-arts divas of doom. Where are all the brave men and women who know better? Would that Congress could stop preening for cameras long enough to examine the issue more closely. Democrats may be merely falling in line with their commander in chief, but Republicans seem to be suffering Stockholm syndrome. They've been slapped around for so long, they've become sympathetic to their captors.
The two most popular arguments for inclusion of women in combat would be valid if only they weren't incorrect. They are: (1) Only qualified women will be included in combat units; (2) We have a volunteer military and, therefore, only those who want to serve in combat will.
It is certainly true that some women are more fit than some men, but it is also true that most aren't as capable of becoming as strong as most men. As I've written before, women have just about half the upper body strength as men, which is serious business when you're hiking with a 65-pound (and often heavier) load on your back or hoisting a wounded comrade. It is no coincidence that stress fractures are significantly higher among female recruits than among males during basic training.
This is no insult to women. We're talking about muscle mass that comes with the packaging and has nothing to do with how many times a week ones goes to the gym. (Or how ripped Demi Moore gets for a movie.)
That our Congress is accepting this change without any debate isn't progress.
It's more than clear, meanwhile, that physical standards would be lowered to allow women where they don't belong. We know this because Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said as much:
"If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?"
Translation: If women can't meet the standards, we'll just "gender-norm" them. As to whether this is good for our military effectiveness, one can only hope that our enemies are of like mind. One rather doubts it.
As for our all-volunteer military, this is true as far as it goes. In fact, men do not have the option of declining combat. How can the military justify giving women special treatment? Letting women, but not men, choose whether to enter combat duty likely would cause deep resentment among male soldiers. To make life more fair and allow both sexes to choose would be, as military sociologist Charles Moskos once put it, "the end of an effective military force."
Similarly, there could be no excluding women should a military draft be reinstated. This is unlikely in the near future—Rep. Charles Rangel's regular call for a mandatory draft notwithstanding. Baby boomers who recall the Vietnam draft likely would protest. But others with dimmer memories—or a younger generation that has been marinated in the anything-boys-can-do-girls-can-do-better dogma of feminist wishful thinking—might find a draft more ... egalitarian.
Indeed, it would be. Once women are placed in direct combat roles (as opposed to finding themselves in a combat arena), there may be no justification for excluding them from registering for the Selective Service. The argument against drafting women was always predicated in part upon women's exclusion from combat.
Women have performed admirably throughout history in a variety of roles that have included combat situations, which is not the same as directly engaging an enemy. But there are other ways to promote women without pitting them against men, who, if women are given special treatment, will resent them to the endangerment of all.
That our Congress is accepting this change without any debate isn't progress. It is a dereliction of duty and, one is tempted to say, suggestive of cowardice.
Kathleen Parker's e-mail address is kparker@kparker.com. (c) 2012, Washington Post Writers Group.


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Posted on September 11, 2021 by carlosdev
How easily your world is turned upside-down when you're a teen.
(2021) Romantic Dramedy (Blended Family) Joey Slotnick, Amy Hargreaves, Jack Steiner, Shanna Strong, Abi Van Andel, Lexie Bean, Sarah Eddy, Robert Pavlovich, Trina Gardiner, Esther Cunningham, Johanna McGinley, Abigail Esmena, Shyra Thomas, Richard Hagerman, Heidi Lewandowski, Cheyenne Poz, Graham Caldwell, Dominic McNeal, Tre Ryan, Lisa DeRoberts. Directed by Jon Sherman
The idea of blended families is nothing new; Hollywood has been making comedies about them for decades. However, as time goes by and familial relationships become more complicated, so too does blending two families together become all that much more of a challenge.
Charlie Goldman (Slotnick) is a divorced film professor whose ex-wife Deborah (Van Andel) is eager to get back together with him, something he is interested in not at all. He has taken a job at a Christian university, masquerading as a devout Christian when in fact he is a virtual embodiment of a neurotic Jewish man. His son Danny (Steiner) smokes enough weed to make Cheech and Chong go "Whoa, you might wanna slow down a little bit there Homeboy" and daughter Anna (Strong) blames him for the divorce.
He meets Lisa Harper (Hargreaves) on a dating site. As it turns out, they click almost immediately. She's mainly looking for a sexual partner, though – a series of one-night stands to "play the field," as she puts it. Her daughters Maddie (Bean) and Courtney (Eddy) miss their Dad, who has moved away to Europe and both have a none-too-cordial relationship with their mom. Not one of the teens is anxious to see their parent find love with another person.
But love is what Charlie and Lisa find, and it isn't long before Charlie invites Lisa to move in with her kids. The kids take to the idea like a cat taking to having its tail dipped in brown mustard. It's hard enough to make a relationship work in this day and age without having openly hostile kids who are rooting for it to fail. Can love survive, let alone thrive, in such an environment?
The humor here is broad, what I like to call "Har-de-HAR-har-har" humor. In other words, I get the sense that the writers were going for as broad and as universal a humor as possible and end up coming up with nothing that is particularly funny. The characters are painted in extremely broad strokes; Charlie's a nebbish, Danny is a stoner who is an absolute dickweed when sober, Lisa has a secret yen for BDSM…but other than Hargreaves who gives her character a great deal of patience and care, most of the actors seem not to have much direction in terms of where they are taking their characters and as a result, we end up not caring for any of them – with the exception, perhaps, of Hargreaves' Lisa.
The plot is fairly predictable for a movie of this nature and the ending is about as Hollywood as it gets, which is kind of an odd duck for an independent flick. The soundtrack is loud, obnoxious and intrusive, almost cartoony in nature. Yeah, there are a lot of problems with this movie.
But Hargreaves isn't one of them, and she has a lot of potential to make an impact as an actress. I hope she gets some better parts in better movies after this, because she deserves better. And frankly, so do you.
REASONS TO SEE: Hargreaves is magic in a role that could easily become self-parody.
REASONS TO AVOID: Too many rom-com tropes.
FAMILY VALUES: There is profanity, drug use and plenty of sexual situations and sexual situations, as well as some adult themes.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Makes its world premiere tonight (as this is published) at the Dances With Films 2021 film festival in Los Angeles.
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The US Open history
The history of the US Open started in 1968 when the 1st tournament took place at the West Side Tennis Club. That was when professional tennis players were allowed to take part in the Grand Slam tournament for the 1st time. Until then, only amateur players could compete in the previous US National Championships.
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However, the 1st such tournament took place in August 1881 at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island and was played on grass courts. At that point, the tournament could only be attended by clubs that were members of the USNLTA (United States National Lawn Tennis Association).
Between 1921 and 1923, the tournament took place at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia and returned to the West Side Tennis Club in 1924 after the 14,000-seat Forest Hills Stadium was finished.
The modern shape of the US Open
In the 1968 tournament, professional players were allowed to take part in all the events, except for the mixed doubles. A total of 96 men and 63 women entered the tournament, while the prize consisted of $100,000. The US Open became the 1st Grand Slam tournament that used a tiebreaker in order to decide a set that reached a 6–6 score in games, in 1970. It also became the 1st Grand Slam tournament that awarded equal prize money to both men and women, in 1973. The singles champions in that year were John Newcombe and Margaret Court. They received $25,000 each.
Since 1975, the tournament took place on clay courts instead of grass and matches could be played at night due to the floodlights.
The US Open moved to the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, in 1978 and its court surface went from clay to hard. At the same time, the tournament is the only one in the Grand Slam that has been played every year since it appeared. One of the most popular US open winners is Jimmy Connors, the only individual to have won the singles titles on 3 different surfaces (grass, clay, and hard). On the other hand, Chris Evert is the only woman to have some great US Open results, winning the singles titles on 2 surfaces (clay and hard).
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The Paley Center for Media welcomes Pose, This is Us, and the Tenth year reunion of the cast creative team of Parks & Recreation to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood March 15 – 24, 2019.
I'm beyond ecstatic about the upcoming Paleyfest LA this March with the new groundbreaking series Pose! I am a huge fan of the series and watched live from the moment it premiered on FX with the talented and beautiful diverse LGBTQ cast exploring the history of the ball culture world against the rise of AIDS decimating the community, classism in NYC, and the creative vibrant art scene. This year they welcome This is Us back as fans of the show still racked by Jack's death and how it's affected the entire family. Like many fans I am very excited fro the reunion of Parks and Recreation a series that launched the career of numerous cast members to film, tv series (the TV show that keeps giving), and my FAVORITE holiday 'Treat yo self'! I recommend purchasing a membership to the Paley Center so that you don't miss attending your favorite panel and get the perfect seat! When you are a member you are able to attend events and early seating in Los Angeles and NYC, support TV history, special exhibits as well as other benefits.
I know what panels I want to fangirl over at the upcoming PaleyFest 2019! My panels include 9-1-1, RuPaul's Drag Race, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Final Season on the CW), The Walking Dead (I do love Zombies and Rick!), MacGyver (watched the OG series with my Granpop as a kid), Pose (one of the Best new series and the diversity/inclusion of the cast!), Star Trek: Discovery AND the new Twilight Zone, This is Us and Parks and Recreation Reunion! It looks like I'll be at the historic Dolby Theatre every night during the Paleyfest LA! I love hearing from the cast and show creators from how they came up with the series idea, episodes and great casting that keeps me tuning in!
What panels do you plan to attend? Leave a comment below. See you at Paley Fest 2019!
"We're thrilled to be reuniting at PaleyFest. And truth be told, we were all hanging out already anyway, so carpooling will be easy," said series star Amy Poehler and co-creator & showrunner, Mike Schur.
"We had a wonderful time at PaleyFest celebrating the first season of This Is Us and we are so excited to get the opportunity to be back again honoring another remarkable season of This Is Us with our incredible fans," said Mandy Moore.
PaleyFest LA benefits the Paley Center's preservation and archival digitization efforts, and its ongoing mission to explore the significant impact of media on our culture and society. The Paley Center is home to the nation's foremost publically accessible archive of television and radio content, with over 160,000 programs spanning the history of media, including collections that feature achievements in television from the African-American, Hispanic, and LGBTQ communities, women, and most recently music.
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Exploring a Lynchian reality at David Lynch's MIF exhibition
Calum Russell July 16, 2019
Spanning across the city and covering ground from Yoko Ono to Skepta, Manchester's biennial International Festival is well under way, exploring and celebrating all things creative.
Maxine Peak delves into the life and work of Nico at the Stoller Hall, whilst Phillip Glass helps perform a 'storytelling tapestry' at the Exchange Theatre, discovering the true nature of dreams. The ethereal dreamworld seems to be an unlikely theme threading through the festival. From Glass' performance, to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's 'Atmospheric Memory' we move on to David Lynch's typically eccentric musings at 'HOME' cinema.
'My head is disconnected' headlines Lynch's exhibition and film programme which spans from July to September, a caption that couldn't do much better to summarise his ideas and ethos. The hanging artwork and cinematic features go hand-in-hand in exploring ideas of absurdity and an ethereal reality. Bulbs of dull light protrude out the canvas, sitting beside large globules of dried paint and what looks like a tiny mummified animal of some sort. A crudely painted woman clutches ahold of a dead bird, the title reads 'woman with small dead bird'. These are visions and thoughts that only Lynch could conjure. Strange messages from a lost soul of another dimension, or alternatively, mutterings from Dale Coopers' disturbing dreams in Lynch's Twin Peaks.
It's clear that Lynch works from a very methodical creative foundation, pulling conceptual webs from his mind before casting them over canvas and celluloid. His history as an artist and filmmaker is explored in detail in the 2016 documentary 'David Lynch: The Art Life' that screened this weekend alongside the gallery as part of his collaborative film programme 'It's a great big wonderful world'. Commencing after the end of the festival, the programme contains all of Lynch's cinematic works, as well as a curated pick of his 'True Favourites' including The Wizard of Oz, The Man Without a Past and Federico Fellini's 8 ½.
Dreams, Memory and Illusions encompass the programme and specifically the aforementioned films. Fellini's 8 ½ synthesises fantasy and filmmaking, utilising the craft to expose such ideas. Similarly, just around the corner from 'HOME' cinema, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's 'Atmospheric Memory occupies the science and innovation centre. Lozano-Hemmer's project seems to be an extension of Lynch's thoughts and ideas, exploring memory, speech and erosion. Using projections and interactive pieces, the exhibition brings unheard voices to life, preserving that which otherwise expires. Though, the most remarkable exhibit is 'Last Breath', a mechanical contraption that circulates the last breath of American composer Pauline Oliveros, through plastic tubing and a 'breathing' brown paper bag. It takes on a life of its own, following your eye around the room long after visiting it. It's an existential crisis locked up in a paper lunch bag. Both horrific and fascinating, not to mention overtly Lynchian.
Defined by creative extravagance from the realms of dreams and twisted visions, this years exhibitions and performances seem perfectly located. They're rambling thoughts put together with meticulous consideration. Ideas of absurdity ; grounded. Figurative yet strangely tangible in an ethereal reality.


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Duke University Libraries is the library system of Duke University, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million volumes.

The collection contains 17.7 million manuscripts, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of films and videos. The Duke University Libraries consists of the William R. Perkins Library, Bostock Library, and the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library on West Campus; the Lilly Library and Music Library on East Campus, and the Pearse Memorial Library at the Duke Marine Lab. It also includes the Library Service Center, library offices located in the Smith Warehouse, as well as a few other departments. The professional schools have separately administrated libraries: the Goodson Law Library, Duke Divinity School Library, Ford Library at Fuqua School of Business, and the Seeley Mudd Medical Center Library. The Biological and Environmental Sciences Library was formerly part of the system but in 2009 it closed permanently.

Libraries and departments

William R. Perkins Library

The William R. Perkins Library system has nine branches on campus. It includes a major collection of Confederate imprints.

Roy J. Bostock Library
Bostock Library, named for board of trustees member Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries. It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations, as well as  of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as well as for new collections.

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds more than 350,000 rare books, 10,000 manuscript collections, and extensive collections of photography, film, and audio. The library was named after board of trustees member and alumn David M. Rubenstein in 2011.

Divinity School Library

The Divinity School Library is located next to Perkins Library in the Duke Divinity School. It contains 400,000 volumes, as well as various periodicals and other materials to support the study of theology and religion. The library is the host institution for the Religion in North Carolina Digitization project, a collaborative digitization project with Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, due for completion in 2015.

See also
 David Ferriero

References

 Land, William Goodfellow and George Washington Flowers. (1939). The centennial exhibit of the Duke university library, consisting of material from the George Washington Flowers memorial collection of books and documents relating to the history and literature of the South, April 5-June 5, 1939. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University.

External links

University and college academic libraries in the United States
Libraries
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Federal depository libraries

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When the MinaMizer is activated a low volume with a low pressure air assist allows the fluid to be dispensed in a light coating from one to six nozzles. All the nozzles, activate in unison but can be adjusted to dispense different set volumes of fluid. Nozzles can dispense fluid continuously or in an On/Off mode as directed by a LSP Electronic Controller. The MinaMizer controls fluid with precision air and fluid regulators that hold true to their settings. Micrometer type needle valves control the fluid volume out of the nozzle tip.
The MinaMizer dispenses fluid in a controlled, low volume, low velocity spray, consistently and in a steady dispersion. The MinaMizer consists of the Control Cabinet, pressurized Reservoir and precision Nozzle Assemblies.
It can be operated manually with the Three Way Valve. When turned to the ON position adjustments can be made to get the correct spray pattern.
The ultimate MinaMizer Controller offers three individual controls, a Time Delay, a Pulsator and a Counter.
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Our Top 5 Gay Mykonos Travel Tips
Mykonos is one of the top gay destinations in Europe. It offers guaranteed summer sun, some great beaches and a wild nightlife.
There are even some good archaeological sights for those who want to add some culture in their holiday. No wonder it has lent its name to so many gay bars and saunas around the world.
Here are our top five gay travel tips to get the most out of your gay Mykonos holiday.
1 – Beach
If you want sun and sand, Elia Beach should be your number one choice. It is one of the largest beaches of the island with clear, safe waters.
The section on the right is nudist and progressively more gay. If you continue walking, the next few coves are exclusively gay with some serious cruising among the rocks.
You may also want to try Super Paradise. This used to be the main gay beach of the island, but it's now mixed and a large campsite has taken over. However, there's still a large gay section on the right hand side and the party in the beach bar starts around sunset every day.
2 – Culture
Strolling around the beautiful Mykonos Town and viewing Little Venice from the Windmills is an unmissable highlight. If you want to add some more culture to your holiday, the Mykonos Archaeological Museum (Tue-Sun 09:30-15:00; €2) has interesting finds from nearby islands including a butch torso of Hercules.
However, nothing beats a half-day excursion to The Unesco Heritage site of Delos, an island 3.5km southwest of Mykonos. This is the birthplace of Apollo, the god who defined male beauty in Western art.
In season, boats leave for Delos from the left of Mykonos Town harbour from Tue-Sun at 09:00, 10:00 and 11:00 returning at 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00. You can buy tickets from a kiosk at the front (€17 return).
3 – Food
Mykonos town has an excellent selection of restaurants to choose from, but try Nikos at least once (Agias Monis; noon–late). In times past Nikos was the main "gay" restaurant, and the place where you could meet the island's famous pelican, Petros. Pelicans come and go, gay rights have vastly improved, but Nikos is still there offering a special welcome to gay tourists with his homemade cooking.
4 – Drink
Catch some sleep before you go to the gay bars such as Lola (Pitaraki & Mitropoleos; 19:00–late) or The Piano Bar (Agion Anargyron 24; 19:00–03:30).
The two biggest gay bar / clubs are next to each other by the Old Port and don't get going until after midnight: Babylon with its international Djs and Jackie O' with its drag queens.
5 – Cruise
If at any time you feel horny, you can try the two main cruising nightspots. The Public Toilets opposite Glam next to the Town Hall have had no electric lights for several decades, for a good reason. Police and the authorities know very well what is going on, but they let them operate as an unofficial darkroom.
If you walk further up, beyond Babylon, you'll find the church of Paraportiani. It is one of the most important religious monuments in Greece, dating from the 1400s, but after 03:00 the old doorways that used to house monks serves as a gay cruising site. The narrow pebbly beach behind Paraportiani is also full with guys looking for a partner for the night.
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One issue that for me has to do with the commenting feature. When flipping an item while reading on the iPad, a space for comments appears when determining which magazine will receive the additional content. However, it is unclear to me where the comments actually go. It seems more likely to appear if the item is flipped using a web browser, but that didn't seem to work consistently. I had a difficult time trying to replicate comment visibility. At one point, I had an added item to the magazine, which appeared as a block with a portion of the comment quoted in a large font that served as a link to opening the article's original URL in a new tab. It was not terribly attractive and kind of defeated the part of the reason for using the magazine, its slick interface.
So I suddenly had the beginnings of a mildly interesting problem. How can I add some short bits of commentary to the articles that I continue to add to Flipboard magazine, with its new, slick interface, adding content to my blog in the process.
Considering, how much online reading I do, I thought I would try to leverage some of it in a more creative and productive way. This was in part what compelled me to begin curating content using Flipboard's magazine. I have always curated content but not necessarily in the most public way nor with the smoothest workflow. Nevertheless, as the new school year starts, I wanted to try and make more of an effort to share some thoughts and practice, as well as look for ways to leverage what I already do in a more efficient way.
Plus, I have always liked what Stephen Downes has done using his gRSShopper system for generating his daily and weekly newsletters. I have long subscribed to his newsletters. However, I have never quite harnessed enough effort or time to actually try installing and using gRSShopper on my own.
As a result, I dusted off my ancient and unused Tumblr site.
Honestly, I have always struggled with how best to use some of the micro-blog sites, like the late Posterous and Tumblr, that fill the space in-between status updates and conventional blogging. I have had accounts for experimenting and such but don't always make great use of them. Also, I have also struggled to write regularly enough for any blog, despite the desire to keep this one fresh.
Tumblr has grown more flexible in making it relatively easy to share snippets of the web, a quote, and image, a link, with a greater flexibility and space than Twitter, which I also use but not as regularly. Thus, it seemed natural to marry it with the content I started collecting in Flipboard. They also iterate with one another, although not perhaps as smoothly as I would like. Still, Tumblr could easily store comments about the articles I flipped.
The trouble is that there are only so many places people will follow. It can get exhausting tracking individuals across the ever widening web landscape. So I wanted to use this blog as a kind of hub.
Enter IFTTT, a site that lets anyone automate certain connections between web services. Of course, it would have been a lot easier if Flipboard worked with IFTTT, but this is where using Tumblr, which plays nice with Flipboard, really became the crossover tool of choice. Now, I had a functional use for my long dormant Tumblr account. It now feeds this blog with a stream of readings and reactions, that more or less mirrors my Flipboard magazine Teaching Today, making that curated content available in a slightly different manner, complete with commentary.
I suspect what is added here on the blog may even extend beyond the magazine, which I am trying to keep more focused on social and political issues impacting teaching in public schools. Regardless, It is another small experiment that I thought worth trying and sharing. Considering Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr, this could all be irrelevant in a few months, should they doom Tumblr to the Internet graveyard, but it works for now.
This entry was posted in Teaching & Learning, Teaching Today and tagged Flipboard, gRSShopper, IFTTT, micro-blogging, online magazines, Posterous, Stephen Downes, Teaching Today, Tumblr on August 11, 2013 by Fred Haas - @akh003.


Tamar Sloan really struggled writing this bio because she hasn't decided whether she's primarily a psychologist who loves writing, or a writer with a lifelong fascination for psychology. Somehow she got lucky enough to do both. Tamar is the author of the PsychWriter blog – a fun, informative hub of information on character development, the science of story and how to engage readers. Come and explore it at www.psychwriter.com.au. Tamar is also an award-winning author of young adult romance, find out about her Prime Prophecy and Touched by Love series at www.tamarsloan.com.
There's one thing that Tamar's sure about though, is that she loves to connect with lovers of the written word. You can find her on Twitter or Facebook.


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Incorporated in 1985, EHIL has held an uninterrupted market leadership position in most major towns of UP, most notably Lucknow and Kanpur. EHIL is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and has had an uninterrupted dividend paying record since inception.


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Constantino Fernando María de Liechtenstein (en alemán: Constantin Ferdinand Maria von und zu Liechtenstein) (nacido el 15 de marzo de 1972) es príncipe de Liechtenstein desde su nacimiento. Tiene el tratamiento protocolario de Su Alteza Serenísima (S.A.S.). También es conde de Rietberg.

Biografía
Nacido en San Galo, es el hijo tercerogénito del príncipe Juan Adán II de Liechtenstein y de su  difunta esposa, la princesa consorte María, nacida condesa Marie Aglaë Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau.

El príncipe es Director General de la Fundación Príncipe de Liechtenstein.

El príncipe Constantino fue nombrado miembro Consejo Austríaco para el Desarrollo Sostenible. El objetivo es ayudar a esforzarse y ayudar en la implementación de la agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas para el desarrollo sostenible.

Matrimonio y descendencia
El 18 de julio de 1999, se casó religiosamente en Číčov, Eslovaquia, con la condesa María Gabriela Francisca Kálnoky de Kőröspatak (nacida el 16 de julio de 1975 en Graz, Austria). Previamente, se habían casado por lo civil el 14 de julio en Vaduz.

Son padres de tres hijos:
 S.A.S. el príncipe Mauricio Manuel María de Liechtenstein (nacido el 27 de mayo de 2003 en Nueva York, Estados Unidos).
 S.A.S. la princesa Georgina Maximiliana Tatiana María de Liechtenstein (nacido el 23 de julio de 2005 en Viena, Austria).
 S.A.S. el príncipe Benedicto Fernando Humberto María de Liechtenstein (nacido el 18 de mayo de 2008 en Viena, Austria).

Otros datos
 Es el padrino de bautismo de su sobrino el  Príncipe Jorge Antonio de Liechtenstein.

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Enlaces externos
 Familia Principesca de Liechtenstein (en inglés)
 Página de la familia principesca de Liechtenstein (en alemán e inglés)
 Entrevista a la Familia Principesca de Liechtenstein en Viena (en alemán)

Príncipes de Liechtenstein
Católicos de Liechtenstein
Liechtensteinianos del siglo XX
Liechtensteinianos del siglo XXI
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Q: How to get Gnuplot not to crop scientific notation I'm using gnuplot to generate the following surface plot.

The important part of the command file I'm using is:
set terminal pdfcairo size 3,3;

In particular the size 3,3 resizes the plot to the way I want but crops out part of the z-axis label in the process. If I use a wider size like size 4,3 or don't use the size option at all then the z-axis labels fit as follows:

It seems that gnuplot doesn't take the width of the label into consideration when resizing the plot.
Is there a way to maybe move the plot to the right before resizing to 3,3 so that there's room to scientific notation?

A: You can set the lmargin option:
set lmargin 10

(or whatever size doesn't crop the label).


The new Accord LMS Chart module provides instant snapshots of your most popular data.
Most training managers have a lot to do and not a lot time. Reports are great for in depth analysis but sometimes the trending data can be hard to pull from so much information. The new Accord LMS Charts are a great way to distill and visually present specific cross sections of your data. Each chart display is generated in a schedule task so you get instant presentation even for charts that summarize a lot of data.
Once the Chart module has been added to a page on your site (requires portal admin permissions or help from Accord support) configuration only requires three quick and easy steps.
The key to a useful chart is useful data. Select a Report Type and Definition that you like to run on a regular basis.
Select which Report Columns should be mapped to your Chart Data Types. You can optionally provide custom X and Y axis labels.
In this example, the Team Report Column is parsed for both the team names, and then the count (quantity) of each team name. The 'Data' is the team quantity count. The Primary Grouping is each team name. The Completion status Report Column is the Secondary Grouping: Not Viewed: In Progress; Completed.
- Run the Report Definition from the Report UI first to make sure you have a good sample with meaningful data.
- Text Report Columns can be used for both Data and Primary Grouping Chart Assignments.
- Primary Groupings are used for the Legend items.
Charts can display data for both internal and external Teams, even if hosted on additional portals. Also, the Chart display is generated for each possible LMS Admin Type, so Team Admin will only see data that is associated with their Team.
Charts are HTML5 compliant and dynamically resize for any device size. You can place any number of Chart modules on anywhere you want. Since the Chart displays are calculated in a scheduled task, they load immediately no matter how many there are on a page.


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Cargill creates new business unit focused on animal, human health
Global commodities trader Cargill Inc is launching a new business unit focused on animal and human health products as part of a reorganization of its animal nutrition business, the company told Reuters on Wednesday.
Cargill said its animal nutrition and health group will now consist of three units: Cargill Animal Nutrition, combining its existing feed, nutrition and pre-mix businesses; Cargill Aqua Nutrition; and the new Cargill Health Technologies.
This marks the latest reorganization effort by the Minnesota-based firm, as a sour farm economy, adverse weather and an ongoing U.S.-China trade war have dragged on profits for global agricultural companies.
The move also comes as Cargill has shuttered animal-feed mills in China, in part because the rapid spread of the fatal hog disease African Swine Fever (ASF) has reduced demand.
Cargill's animal nutrition and protein businesses have been under pressure in recent months, as poor weather disrupted U.S. Midwest cattle shipments and ASF reduced hog feed demand in China.
The new unit will focus on "specialty health ingredients, building a digestive and immune business for humans and animals," the company said in a statement.
Chuck Warta, currently president of Cargill's animal nutrition and pre-mix business, will head up the new unit.
Adriano Marcon, president and group leader for Cargill's aquaculture business globally, will be in charge of Cargill Animal Nutrition. Pilar Cruz, president of its compound feed business, will head up Cargill Aqua Nutrition.
The company is set to report its fiscal 2020 first quarter earnings on Thursday. The company said the reorganization will not change how Cargill will report its different business segment earnings on Thursday.
In July, the company reported a 41% drop in adjusted quarterly profit for its fourth quarter, citing supply disruptions stemming from the U.S.-China trade war and also flooding in the central United States that hit marketing and transportation of grains and livestock.
By P.J. Huffstutter
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Nestlé vows to boost spending on recycled packaging
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This print of Dorset is an adaption of the commission that Becky did for 'On Chesil Beach' Lionsgate UK Film, which was released in May 2018 staring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle.
Becky was thrilled to be asked to do the commission for Lionsgate and is excited to mow release this image as part of her seaside poster range. Chesil Beach is such an iconic stretch of the Jurassic Coast and together with Becky's love of producing vintage seaside prints, this commission has truly allowed her to explore her passions on this very exciting project.


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Top-Level US-China Trade Talks Resume as Irritants Sour Atmosphere
October 11, 2019 October 10, 2019 Michigan Star Staff
WASHINGTON – The United States' and China's top trade negotiators met on Thursday for the first time since late July to try to find a way out of a 15-month trade war as new irritants between the world's two largest economies threatened hopes for progress.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer greeted Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on the steps of the USTR office before a meeting in which they will seek to narrow differences enough to avoid a scheduled Oct. 15 tariff rate increase on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods.
But the atmosphere surrounding the talks was soured by the U.S. Commerce Department's decision on Monday to blacklist 28 Chinese public security bureaus, technology and surveillance firms, citing human rights violations of Muslim minority groups in China's Xinjiang province.
A day later, the U.S. State Department imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials related to the Xinjiang issue.
If negotiations break down again, by Dec. 15, nearly all Chinese goods imports into the United States — more than $500 billion — could be subject to punitive tariffs in the dispute that erupted during U.S. President Donald Trump's time in office.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in Sydney on Thursday that the tariffs were working, forcing Beijing to pay attention to U.S. concerns about its trade practices.
"We do not love tariffs — in fact we would prefer not to use them — but after years of discussions and no action, tariffs are finally forcing China to pay attention to our concerns," Ross said in remarks prepared for delivery on an official visit to
Although some media reports suggested both sides are considering an "interim" deal that would suspend planned further U.S. tariffs in exchange for additional purchases of American farm products, Trump has repeatedly dismissed this idea, insisting that he wants a "big deal" with Beijing that addresses core intellectual property issues.
Speaking to reporters in Washington on Wednesday, Trump said: "If we can make a deal, we're going to make a deal, there's a really good chance."
"In my opinion China wants to make a deal more than I do," Trump added.
The two sides have been at loggerheads over U.S. demands that China improve protections of American intellectual property, end cyber theft and the forced transfer of technology to Chinese firms, curb industrial subsidies and increase U.S. companies' access to largely closed Chinese markets.
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In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
Despite the linguistic and cultural complexity of many regions of the premodern world, religion supplies the basis of a strong material and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries between communities. This year's theme, "Intertwined Worlds," will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, ritual, and social engagement emerging in technologies and traditions of the world's manuscript cultures, often beyond a single religious context. It will consider common themes and practices of textual, artistic, literary, and iconographic production in religious life across time and geography, from ancient precedents to modern reception and dissemination in the digital age.
For more information and to register, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium10.html .


Customer Guru has taken this initiative of sharing the experiences of successful customer experience leaders across India to inspire and guide professionals in understanding and adopting customer centricity in their organizations.
In continuation of the series, we have another gem of an interview with Mr. Abhay Singh Chauhan, the head of Customer Service at Avery Dennison. Having worked with numerous reputable global companies in India for over 16 years, Mr. Chauhan has been recognized for demonstrating exceptional passion in putting the customers first and aligning business strategies based on the customer needs.
In this candid interview with Customer Guru, Mr. Chauhan shares his journey as a customer experience professional. He brings to light the various initiatives that he took in multiple organizations for inculcating a customer-centric culture, leading to major increases in profitability.
What has been your journey as a customer experience professional? What is the biggest impact you have been able to create?
Through my varied experience ranging from sales to customer service, I have seen the customer from multiple perspectives. This has immensely helped me understand customers and, accordingly, improvise services. Long back when I was given an opportunity to reform the customer service, the first challenge was to understand the customer. Customers were buying from us but there was only a buyer-seller relationship between us. If a competitor would emerge, then we could get into a tough situation as a brand. No company likes to be in a situation in which customers are forced to buy from them. Customers must buy by choice.
When I was given this opportunity at Pentair India, I started meeting the customers. This was the first step I had taken in this organization. I met the customers with a perspective to understand their needs, problems, and desires – not for sales. I shared with them my intention of listening to the story of their journey of doing business with us. Then, I went back to my management with the need to reform our strategy and interactions across touchpoints of the journey. That was the beginning of our journey of customer retention. It was a great makeover and drastically improved profitability. The Indian domestic business was doing only INR 10-12 crore; this went up to INR 100+ crore in a four-year span just by transforming the way of handling customers.
What role do you think customer experience has to play in aligning the business to the need of the customer?
Our industry is very dynamic. If we receive an order today, it has to be serviced by tomorrow or maybe today itself. The need and demand of the customer also vary and you have to stay on top your customer needs to address it. In such a scenario, customer centricity will keep your business relevant in the future. It's difficult for a business to survive in the long term without delivering a good experience.
This is a key realization and we put deep emphasis on it. Everyone in our organization clearly understands each touchpoint of the customer journey from the customer's point of view.
How do you listen to the voice of your customer and stay on the top of the needs of your different customer segments?
It is all about finding the right customer for yourself. It was earlier always said that the customer is always right. In today's world, we do not agree with that, but we believe that "right customers are always right." Everyone wants to build a mutually profitable relationship, so it is very important for us to find out who our right customers are and then build a complete environment around this customer segment.
While it doesn't mean you ignore customers, it's important to identify the customer segment that you can serve best and channelize your energy in serving it like no other. Identify the customers that you want to go after and align your effort towards fulfilling their needs and desires.
How do you ensure that the stakeholders at your end prioritize the customer experience over any other initiative that they are running?
It's about bringing people with different mindsets to a common platform. I might be totally aligned with customers, but a person who has never met the customer may not have similar thoughts. To overcome this, we conduct regular training programs, bring the customer feedback into the business, share real customer stories with the team, and encourage employees to think like a customer would. We define the ideal customer and communicate it to every stakeholder.
Once the customer persona is defined, we constantly communicate the customers' journey along with the challenges that they face. In the process, we encourage the team to think from the customers' point of view, empathise with the challenges they face, and analyse the situation to unearth root causes.
Our operations, quality, and sales teams are responsible for at least 2 to 3 strategically valuable customers. So once in a while, the teams meet and have a holistic discussion with such customers. A customer scorecard is prepared which mentions the complete service journey and the financial business volume of these customers. It creates a win-win situation for both the parties and helps us sustain the momentum in the initiative across the organisation.
What would be your advice to any organization looking to embark on the journey of customer centricity?
It is high time for companies across the globe to adopt customer centricity. The first step is to start the conversation with the customer face to face. This itself will be a big turn around. Based on the insights derived there, one should then focus on the whole process, the relationship with the customers, and most importantly a customer-centric culture in their organization.


Recently, I started calling my chronic illness Lyme-MSIDS, a named coined by Dr. Richard Horowitz who's treated thousands of Lyme patients successfully. Lyme-MSIDS stands for Lyme-Multi-System Infectious Disease Syndrome. The reason Lyme patients don't get better is because there are more things at play such as co-infections, immune dysfunction and multiple systems in the body, muscular-skeletol, peripheral nervous system, central nervous system, endocrine system, and others are attacked or shut down. Lyme itself particularly complicates other infections because it is a master at hiding itself and other infections while completely de-railing a person's immune system. Some in the Lyme community even call it an AIDS-like disease because of its impact on the immune system. Some feel that the bacteria itself releases a fungal infection that in turn causes chronic inflammation system wide and immune shut down.There's a lot of divisiveness in the Chronic Lyme disease community itself in terms of how to classify or describe the disease and what treatment works. One thing is certain: how a doctor views Lyme disease makes a huge difference in how he treats it and how successful that treatment is.
I give a lot of shots to myself to treat my illness, but one particular shot, Bicillin, I can't do because it's a thick medication (like Elmer's Glue) that must be administered slowly, over 2 minutes long to reduce bruising, lumping and scar tissue. Since I do so many shots, it's important to keep scar tissue down so I can continue to do the shots without pain. I usually go to a clinic and have a nurse administer it, but over Thanksgiving, Mr. Wild Dingo had to give me the shot.
Internet, I swear, he gasped in horror when he saw the size of the needle. It's a 22 gauge needle as long as my index finger. I should have told him to simply remember all the time I left the heat on in the house when I wasn't home. That would have made it easy for him to stick me. Instead, I merely laughed and stuck it in my booty and told him to push. Lyme has both Mr. Wild Dingo and I crossing boundaries we never dreamed of crossing!
Here's how a Lymie packs for a three-day trip. It doesn't include the refrigerated medications. It's totally whack, huh?
I'm at a plateau and only making small progress each month. I've made lots of progress with other symptoms, but my brain is still really struggling to function normally to the point I still can't have normal conversation. I still mix up simple words all the time and I have difficulty following a conversation. I can literally forget what someone says to me within minutes. I would not have been able to get through Thanksgiving without the IV glutathione to clear my mind for a few hours. And Internet, that's just whack. A person cannot rely on daily IV glutathione to function.
In addition, my immune system is still struggling. Partly due to the disease itself and probably partly due to the amount of drugs I'm taking to kill the pathogen, as they are immune suppresors. Per my doctor's recommendations, I take an enormous amount of supplements, herbs and even IGG antibodies to do as much as I can to help the immune system. And still it is struggling. This is not a case where taking Vitamin C will help (although I do take it as part of my routine). My immune system is literally missing 2 classes (out of 4) antibodies that are made by the human body. As in, there is zero of them. The other two subclasses of antibodies are barely hanging on. We're more or less at an impasse pharmacologically speaking.
So now the next steps, recommended by my MD, are a combination of alternative meds/treatment and IV IG to boost the hell out of the immune system and hopefully turn it back on. IV IG is a serious step as it involves plasma antibodies from another donor and is costly. It's more or less a last resort for people struggling with the immune system. I'm not sure if or when it will start because it requires a lot of pre-processing paperwork. Regardless, it is another boundary I'd never thought I'd have to cross. And yet, I am ready to leap.
Thanks for sharing your MSIDS (Lyme) journey publicly. Let's hope this next phase offers a positive change. Most people can't imagine so many years of suffering, all from the bite of a tick.
What you are enduring is totally unreal. We are sure that we haven't the slightest comprehension of what your days and nights are like. But we truly admire your courage and strength, and we pray there is a point soon where life is so much better for you. Hugs and prayers.
This whole thing is like some sort of scary horror story come true... it's hard to believe it's real... I'm so sorry you're having to go through this and that it just seems to get worse. I hope the new treatment helps soon. I'm scared that your immune system is that low. 🙁 You're in my thoughts.


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Dudhani é uma cidade  no distrito de Solapur, no estado indiano de Maharashtra.

Geografia
Dudhani está localizada a . Tem uma altitude média de 443 metros (1453 pés).

Demografia
Segundo o censo de 2001, Dudhani tinha uma população de 12,146 habitantes. Os indivíduos do sexo masculino constituem 50% da população e os do sexo feminino 50%. Dudhani tem uma taxa de literacia de 60%, superior à média nacional de 59.5%: a literacia no sexo masculino é de 72% e no sexo feminino é de 49%. Em Dudhani, 13% da população está abaixo dos 6 anos de idade.

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A program offers specialized smoke detectors for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents, offering as many as 1 million Arizonans a chance to hear life-saving sounds.
Nearly everyone is familiar with the incessant chirp of a smoke alarm in need of batteries and a lucky few have had the devices alert them to fires in what turned out to be life-saving situations.
But as many as 1 million Arizonans may never hear those sounds and a partnership between the Mesa Fire Department and the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing aims to remedy that by installing special smoke alarms that shake beds and flash strobe lights.
The units consist of a transmitter, which attaches to the existing smoke detector, and two receivers designed to use radio frequencies to alert deaf and hard-of-hearing residents to danger in their homes, said the program's coordinator Warren Sprecher. When activated, a disc transmitter shakes the mattress of the person's bed, while the other device flashes bright strobe lights -- all while the audible signal goes off as well.
"This is a lot better," 73-year-old Carolyn Thompson said through a translator. "I think it's a lot safer than what I had before."
Before the new unit, Thompson had a light stationed in her living room that would flash during emergencies, but she said she could not see the light from her bedroom.
Representatives from Mesa Home Safety Inspection and Mesa Fire and Life Safety Education installed Thompson's unit for free while a translator explained how it works and how to change the batteries.
Mesa Fire and Medical has installed 37 hearing impaired units, using the help of interpreters from the ACDHH for eight of the installations, said Deputy Chief Forrest Smith, a Mesa fire spokesman.
The fire department applied for a federal grant in 2012 to obtain the 400 units, and they are free for Mesa residents who need them, Sprecher said. The units also come in a carrying case, so users can take the devices with them on vacations, he said.
He said the chirping noises smoke detectors make when the batteries are low may trip the bed and strobe light transmitters in the new units. He said the batteries last five to seven years, and those who are hard of hearing should have someone who can hear check up on the batteries as needed.
Beca Bailey, a deaf specialist with the ACDHH, said the transmitters help members of the deaf community evacuate their homes more quickly.
"It gives them a sense of independence and feeling safe in their own home rather than having to rely on a hearing neighbor, for example, to come into their home and alert them to danger," she said through a translator. "By the time that happens, it may be too late."
Bailey's husband and son are also deaf, and she said she has a specialized unit in her home.
"It's a sense of security," she said.
Bailey said there are more than 1 million people in Arizona with hearing loss, 20,000-30,000 of whom are culturally deaf, meaning they use sign language to communicate. The specialized smoke detectors can benefit those who are hard of hearing too, especially if they take their hearing aids out at night, Bailey said.
Specialized smoke transmitters are available to hearing-impaired Valley residents through the Arizona Burn Foundation, which coordinates transmitter distribution among city fire departments.
If you or someone you know could benefit from specialized smoke detector transmitters, contact the Arizona Burn Foundation at programs@azburn.org or 602-230-2157.


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Q: Creating GUI menu depending on user selection in another GUI in MATLAB I am trying to develop a GUI involving two popup menus. In the first popup menu, there are 3 options. The number of options in the second popup menu should depend on the selected option in the first menu.
If the first option is selected in the first popup menu, there should be 4 options in the second popup menu. Similarly, if the second option is selected in the first popup menu, there should be 5 options in the second popup menu and so on.
Most importantly I have to provide separate formulae for each option from second popup menu.
How can I do this?