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The World Needs a Jim Carrey Legacy Sequel
Legacy sequels are all the rage in Hollywood these days, but there is only one actor who could take the concept to the next level....
By Nick Harley | July 30, 2022 |
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It's official: Top Gun: Maverick is the breakout hit of the summer. Thirty-six years after the original Top Gun soared into theaters, Paramount Pictures has another jet-fueled, box office behemoth on its hands; the legacy sequel has become Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing movie in the United States and Canada, surpassing Titanic. That makes Tom Cruise's Maverick the new King of the World, we suppose.
Knowing Hollywood, they will learn the exact wrong lessons from Maverick's success. Instead of realizing that audiences responded to dazzling practical effects and traditional, emotional storytelling executed at a high level with no need for the smirky, ironic detachment that has become en vogue, studio executives will likely zero in on the "legacy sequel with a big star" side of the equation. It's pretty much inevitable.
Tom Cruise is certainly a huge factor in Top Gun: Maverick's success. He's a genuine old-guard movie star the likes of which we just aren't producing these days. Despite, or maybe because of, his involvement with Scientology, the public still has a genuine fascination with Cruise, and yet he doesn't feel overexposed in the way that former box office titans like Will Smith or Johnny Depp do these days. There's still a mystique around Cruise, and when he has a new film, they still feel like events. Also, his old hits like Top Gun still have cultural cachet; they're quoted regularly and air constantly on cable. Cruise still means something to moviegoers and the pop culture landscape at large.
So who else has Cruise's star power and bankability, yet also has a filmography with a hit that could reasonably be revisited so many years later? We're talking about mainstream crowdpleasers that were successful at the time of their release, not niche or modest successes that have gone on to become beloved classics. Who is beloved by the masses, yet scarce enough that it makes their public appearances or new projects feel special? Who has a legacy sequel in them that could reach the highs of Top Gun: Maverick?
The answer is simple: Jim Carrey. But does he have a past hit that feels perfectly situated for a 2020s update? Dear reader, he has several.
Though it has been a while since Carrey has been a sure thing at the box office, his string of hit films in the '90s can only be rivaled by the aforementioned Smith. Those films get endless replays on cable. Turn your television on right now, and I'm sure one of his comedies from yesteryear is playing somewhere. Carrey still feels like the biggest star in any room that he's in, and his scattered public appearances these days still generate headlines. His Joe Biden appearances on Saturday Night Live weren't particularly good, they were just exciting because it was Jim Carrey just being silly on TV for free. With the recent Sonic films, he's even endeared himself to a new generation.
Naysayers may point out that Carrey has already attempted the legacy sequel with limp results. 2014's Dumb and Dumber To, a sequel to 1994's Dumb and Dumber, had a decent box office haul of $169.8 million against a $50 million budget, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to Maverick's numbers, and the film received generally unfavorable reviews. But it's arguable that Dumb and Dumber was one of the least suitable hits from Carrey's past for the legacy sequel treatment. There's nowhere particularly interesting to go with the premise of "two extremely dumb guys;" the Farrelly Brothers' brand of humor feels dated; and the movie uses one of the most cliche legacy sequel storytelling devices in the "central character discovers previously unknown child."
Carrey has other films that feel better suited for a revival—films that actually have an interesting entry point for a revisit. Carrey has gone on record recently mulling over a retirement from acting, but we believe he has one more box office juggernaut in him. The next great legacy sequel rests on Jim Carrey's shoulders, and here are the films that are prime targets for an extension.
When The Mask was released during Carrey's unprecedented hot streak in 1994, there was uncertainty about how audiences would respond to a comic book-inspired project. Those concerns seem silly in 2022, with comic book properties routinely holding the top spot at the box office. It seems like the perfect time to bring Stanley Ipkiss and Loki's mask back to cinemas.
A new film could satirize our current superhero-obsessed landscape or even push things in a darker direction that's more in line with the original film's source material. After all, audiences have been served a steady diet of comic book insanity over the last 30 years. With Cameron Diaz recently announcing her return to Hollywood, you could have a reunion between two big, bankable stars to get butts in seats, and if you throw in a third splashy name as the villain, even better. Carrey has been asked about the potential for a sequel to The Mask for years, and in 2020, he said that a pitch from a visionary director would be something that could pique his interest.
Carrey is surely right to hold out for the right pitch. A Mask sequel needs to avoid feeling like a tired rehash, a la Dumb and Dumber To, so it will require an ambitious director that can really lean into the Tex Avery cartoon-inspired madness or bring something unique to the table like the New Jack Swing-influenced feel of Edge City in the original. As long as they rely on the best practical effect of the '90s, Carrey's rubbery mug, they should be alright.
A pet detective seemed like a silly idea in 1994, but in a society that has doggy boutiques, pet bakeries, and takes animal rights more seriously than ever, Ace seems like he'd fit in pretty nicely these days. Legacy sequels usually find their protagonist down on their luck when we catch back up with them in the future, but an Ace Ventura sequel could find the pet detective in high demand and at full-blown celebrity status.
A high-profile case involving Instagram famous pets could be a modern hook, but as social media shows, cute animal content of any kind will get the job done. As long as Ace doesn't discover that he has a long-lost child, this thing pretty much sells itself. Plus, it would be nice to have Ace be the star of a film that isn't horrifically transphobic or racist!
While The Cable Guy didn't exactly set the world on fire upon release in 1996, its darker tone and central themes have proven to be ahead of its time, and now the film is seen as a cult classic. That doesn't necessarily fit the established criteria of this article, but The Cable Guy feels very relevant to our current content-filled moment. Carrey's character Chip was a child raised by his television, who as an adult was unable to distinguish reality from TV-based examples of what life and relationships were supposed to be like. Chip's obsession with media and his tendency to fall into parasocial relationships feels very relevant in an internet age full of Stan culture and fabricated realities posted on social media.
Chip was eerily prescient when he predicted how our televisions, computers, and phones would all be connected, so how would he be doing now that all of his predictions came to fruition? There's definitely something there to explore. Plus, anyone that watched Apple TV+'s Severance this year has seen that director Ben Stiller is operating at the top of his game. Maybe this could be an example of both star and director returning to expand upon their original creation.
Perhaps the Carrey film that is best suited for a sequel, The Truman Show ended on a tantalizing note with Truman Burbank escaping his simulated existence in Seahaven after discovering that his entire life had been a meticulously produced, 24/7 reality television program. How would Truman move forward in a real-world that is not catered to his existence? How would he handle life being one of the most famous people on the planet, in a world where he could now see the cameras watching him? Catching up with Truman is a tantalizing prospect. Reality television has gone so much further since 1998, and now with social media, we all can be the stars of our very own Truman Show.
Voyeurism as it was displayed in The Truman Show is now part of everyday life. The 2022 Cannes Film Festival paid homage to the film on its official poster, stating that "Peter Weir and Andrew Niccol's The Truman Show (1998) is a modern reflection of Plato's cave and the decisive scene urges viewers to not only experience the border between reality and its representation but to ponder the power of fiction, between manipulation and catharsis." As a society, pondering the difference between manipulation and catharsis may be more important than ever.
There are several interesting avenues to explore with Truman Burbank. Perhaps Christof, the creator of The Truman Show portrayed by Ed Harris, would attempt to start the experiment with someone else. Would Truman work to help this new subject, or perhaps in a cynical twist, become a consultant on the production? Also, would social media influence the operation in some capacity? Truman's life in Seahaven had a decidedly retro-1950s quality to it, but maybe modern audiences need something more gripping. What if Christof and his team need to inject more drama and chaos into a new subject's life to keep audiences hooked? What if Truman discovers that, realistically, there are people volunteering to have their lives manipulated? There are so many directions you could go.
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In 1587, 115 colonists established England's first small colony of the Americas on Roanoke—a swampy, coastal island that would eventually be considered part of North Carolina. The governor of the colony, John White, returned to England shortly after. Three years later he returned to find the colony gone. There was nothing: no corpses, no burnt buildings, and no signs of struggle. The only thing left of the lost colony was a word scratched into a tree: CROATOAN.
Andrew Lawler outlines the history, disappearance, and the eventual mythologizing of the Roanoke colony in his new book The Secret Token. Lawler is a journalist who's written for publications like Science and Smithsonian, and his level-headed approach works well for considering a mystery that's been the subject of pseudo-science and pseudo-history.
The Roanoke colony is often associated with phenomena like ghosts, zombies, or alien abduction. Lawler, thankfully, doesn't spend too much time debunking that kind of thing. Far more interesting is his exploration of Roanoke in regards to how America thinks about itself, its history, and race.
When John White, the governor of Roanoke, returned to the island in 1590, he didn't think anything all that strange had happened. "Croatoan" was the name of an island 50 miles south of Roanoke, and the colonists had planned that, if they had to leave, they would write their intended destination on some trees. White saw the name of a nearby island and noted that everything seemed fine. Reasoning that the colony (which included his daughter and granddaughter) was on another island, probably with a group of local Native Americans, he left.
The "lost colony" mystery only became a major facet of American history some 200 years later when the US tried to create its national origin story. Roanoke saw the birth of Virginia Dare, the first-ever person of English ancestry born in North America. In later centuries, Dare would be upheld as a mythic figure, celebrated as the first American, and frequently considered the darling of white supremacists who pointed at her existence as proof of the whiteness of America. All that, despite the fact that we know next to nothing about Virginia Dare other than her name.
The Secret Token doesn't dismiss the fate of the colony as White did. Lawler dives into what could have happened to it. He puts it into context. Roanoke existed at a time when England and Spain were actively trying to kill each other, Native Americans and Europeans were first encountering each other, and the beginnings of America's genocide and displacement were already underway. That context is inescapable, but everyone loves a good mystery.


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Border agent accused of taking bribes
June 9, 2006, 2:21 AM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
A customs officer was arrested on charges of taking money in exchange for waving illegal immigrants through border crossings.
In an indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Richard Elizalda is accused of accepting cash and a luxury car from smugglers driving carloads of illegal immigrants from Tijuana, Mexico, into the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego.
Elizalda, a 10-year veteran of the border agency, is accused of conspiring to allow at least nine illegal immigrants driven by smugglers through his inspection lane without being stopped.
Seven people listed in the indictment are accused of operating a smuggling ring. Members of the group are also suspected of trafficking about 230 pounds of marijuana across the border.
Investigators said they traced more than 20 illegal immigrants who were spirited across the border by the group.
The arrest came after a two-year investigation by the Border Corruption Task Force, a multi-agency team that pursues claims against officers at border crossings in California. Investigators said that they had placed wiretaps on Elizalda's phones after receiving tips that he was involved in suspicious activities.
Elizalda was arrested in an early morning raid on his home in Chula Vista. Agents seized cash and two luxury cars — a 2000 Lexus and a 2005 BMW.
Elizalda's arrest came a day after another border officer, Michael Anthony Gilliland, was arraigned on similar charges of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes from smugglers driving illegal immigrants through the border crossing at Otay Mesa, several miles east of San Ysidro. Investigators said Thursday that they believe the two cases are unrelated.
"In both cases the inspectors betrayed the trust of their countrymen by accepting bribes from illegal alien smuggling organizations," said FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Stewart Roberts.
Attempts to contact Elizalda's home Thursday were unsuccessful and the name of his lawyer was not known. Elizalda remained in custody and was expected to be arraigned Friday.


Here's the conclusion of the Artificial Pancreas Trial blog on the JDRF page. As I have said before, these trials need volunteers and people to spread the word. I was asked by a relative last night, if I got "the" pancreas. She thought my participating in this trial was a pancreas replacement of some sort… like surgically. People beyond the T1D community need information. I ask you to please help me spread the word if you too want the AP to become a reality. Get other people to like the JDRF Facebook page too. Every once in a while, people get inspired by something they read, something that catches their eye, a conversation. Let this be part of a continuing conversation. Good conversation. Keep it going beyond us in the T1D community. Thanks.
I have another post over at A Sweet Life today. I wish I'd done a better job editing but it was a bit (totally and completely) rushed. I am still in the Artificial Pancreas clinical trial and there continues to be lots more information to share. The more people who know about this program, the better. The more people willing to participate, the better. And the more people who get involved in fundraising for crucial research, the better. My experience is proof of a JDRF grant at work and testament to the incredible and honorable dedication of teams at both Mt. Sinai New York City and the University of Virginia.
1. Health insurance stuff is taking up a tremendous amount of my time and is downright upsetting (re-applying to have an insulin pump? & No CGM coverage?). After an exorbitant amount of BS, I finally am working with a health insurance broker. After the 16th phone call and 14th email to my current insurance company asking about the durable medical equipment of the new plans, I was emailed a list of approved diabetes durable medical equipment suppliers. I Googled every single one on the list. They do not carry insulin pumps, pump supplies, Dexcoms or Dexcom supplies. You know what they do carry under "diabetes supplies"? Glucose meters, prosethetic legs, and impotence devices… ummmm WTF?). So yeah, I went to a health insurance broker. When she told me yesterday that this process would be easier if I either had a dependant or a spouse, I didn't even want to kill her (shocking since under other circumstances, those words would sting like crazy). By this, she meant that due to how my business is set up and living in the state and city that I do, having someone else to put on the plan would be a benefit for me and give me more options. I'm running out of time to get this sorted out. Health insurance being a constant stressor in my life is getting old.
2. On the other side of insurance woes, is beauty. True, all encompassing, can't-get-enough, I-can-smell-it-in-my-sleep, beauty. Beauty that is soothing, and seems magical. I experienced this kind of beauty on Sunday when I hiked through Muir Woods in San Francisco. Realizing you are just a speck, with a limited timeline and are only here for a blip is humbling and also beautiful. You know what else is beautiful? Hearing a rustling on a hillside and a few seconds later having a buck jump right into the trail a few feet away from your face (ok that was beautiful and heart-pounding-out-of-my-chest scary). We are just so small.
3. I didn't see this right away, but yes, a moss/Redwood trunk heart. Also, the clover leaves are all hearts too. I'd love to go back and take in all the smells again (but I'd wear warmer clothing and a hat). It smelled like Autumn leaves, moss, wood, damp air and adventure (adventure smells awesome).


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Group Discussion : What are the risks in using Predictive Analytics?
Dr. Hargreaves, worked as Chief of the Master of Technology Enterprise Business Analytics Programme at the Institute of Systems Science, at the National University of Singapore, where her roles included: designing business analytic courses, teaching, consulting & research in business analytics.
For over 20 years, Dr Carol Hargreaves has worked with a variety of industries to make businesses more intelligent. More specifically, she achieved this through the red hot science called business analytics.
Holder of a PhD in statistics, Dr Hargreaves' extensive credentials in the field include working as a Quantitative Methods Manager at Cegedim Strategic Data in Australia providing market research analysis for pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer, Novartis and Merck Sharp & Dohme. For three years, she was also the Advanced Analytics Statistician at Synovate Aztec in Australia, where she developed sales and marketing models for food manufacturers like Nestle, Masterfoods Australia and Goodman Fielder. She also previously served as a biostatistician at the National Health Medical Research Council at the University of Sydney and Head of Department for the Department of Statistics at the University of Durban-Westville.
Dr. Hargreaves holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of South Africa and a MBA from the University of Wales (Cardiff). She was awarded the Foundation of Research and Development Scholarship in 1988, and Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Durban-Westville in 1989 and 2000.
Dr. Hargreaves has published several research papers in Business Analytics, Hospitality & Tourism, Inventory Systems, Stock Trading, Carbon Emission Reduction and Clinical Trials and has presented some of these papers at International Conferences.


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Revision3 Raises $8 million From Greylock
Online video site Revision3 has raised an $8 million second round of financing, according to a source close to the deal, bringing the total capital raised to $9 million. Our understanding is that Greylock led the round. Greylock was also the primary investor in Revision3's $1 million first round of financing. News startup Digg, which shares founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson with Revision3, also raised money twice from Greylock.
Revision3 now has exclusive rights to ten shows and is continuing to add more talent over time. Diggnation, however, is by far the largest and most popular. Revenue is generated via integrated advertising, where the show hosts discuss the advertised products directly.
This rumor has not yet been confirmed by the company, who isn't responding to our request for comment. Our source also says that CEO Jay Adelson may soon be stepping aside and focusing exclusively on Digg, which he also runs. The company may have already begun a new CEO search.
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In undirected graphs, two vertices are connected if they have a path connecting them. How should we define connected in a directed graph?
We say that a vertex a is strongly connected to b if there exist two paths, one from a to b and another from b to a.
Note that we allow the two paths to share vertices or even to share edges. We will use a ~ b as shorthand for "a is strongly connected to b". We will allow very short paths, with one vertex and no edges, so that any vertex is strongly connected to itself.
Reflexive property: For all a, a # a. Any vertex is strongly connected to itself, by definition.
Symmetric property: If a # b, then b # a. For strong connectivity, this follows from the symmetry of the definition. The same two paths (one from a to b and another from b to a) that show that a ~ b, looked at in the other order (one from b to a and another from a to b) show that b ~ a.
Transitive property: If a # b and b # c, then a # c. Let's expand this out for strong connectivity: if a ~ b and b ~ c, we have four paths: a-b, b-a, b-c, and c-b. Concatenating them in pairs a-b-c and c-b-a produces two paths connecting a-c and c-a, so a ~ c, showing that the transitive property holds for strong connectivity.
Since all three properties are true of strong connectivity, strong connectivity is an equivalence relation.
Note that it was critical for our definition that we allowed the paths a-b and b-a to overlap. If we made a small change such as defining two vertices to be connected if they are part of a directed cycle, we wouldn't be able to concatenate the paths and show that the transitive property holds.
(in English, the equivalence class of a, which we call "[a]", is defined to be simply the set of things related to a). The equivalence classes for strong connectivity are called strongly connected components.
These sets have the property that they partition the space of all vertices into disjoint subsets.
If we can find all the strongly connected components of a graph, it would be easy to test whether any two vertices are strongly connected: just see if they're in the same component.
Suppose we define two vertices a and b to be weakly connected (also known as semiconnected) if there's either a path from a to b or one from b to a (but not necessarily both). We say the graph is weakly connected if this is true for every pair of vertices. Then it's not hard to show that a graph is weakly connected if and only if its component graph is a path. So by computing the strongly connected components, we can also test weak connectivity.
From the definition above, it is easy to find a single strongly connected component [x]. Simply use BFS, DFS, or any other similar algorithm to find a set S of all vertices reachable from x by a path. Do the same thing in the graph formed by reversing all the edges of our original graph, to find a set T of all vertices that can reach x by a path. According to the definition above, [x] is just the intersection of S and T.
A tangent on pseudo-code: I haven't been writing the same pseudocode as in the book for the same reason I haven't been speaking the same sentences in the book. The ideas matter, the exact pseudocode doesn't. So if you're asking which should I memorize, the book or the lecture the answer is neither, you should get to understand them to the point where they seem like the same idea and remember that idea. With that in mind, here's pseudocode for DFS (directed graph version) that looks a little different from what we did last time.
One complication (that I forgot to mention in lecture) is that we want to build a DFS tree that involves all the vertices of the graph. If we just start somewhere in the graph, not all vertices might be reachable, and the DFS will not get to them. One solution would be to restart the DFS every time this happens, but to make things a little simpler, I'm going to modify the graph by adding a new vertex connected by outward-going edges to everything else. This doesn't change the strongly connected components (except to add one new component for the one new vertex) but keeps the rest of the algorithm simpler.
This version of the pseudo-code makes it obvious that only certain edges can occur: if q is not already in T, p->q gets added, so if p->q does not end up in tree, q must be already in tree. There are three possible places q could be: an ancestor of p (in which case we call p->q a back edge), a descendant of p (in which case we call p->q a forward edge), or in a previous branch of the tree (in which case we call p->q a cross edge). The one case that's ruled out is that q can not be in a later branch of the tree.
Note that if we have paths a-b and b-a, any two intermediate vertices of those paths would have to be also in the same component (since e.g. if we have a-c-b then we already have a path a-c and by concatenating c-b-a we also get a path c-a).
So suppose one component ended up in two parts of the tree. Then it would have to have edges from one part to the other (the definition of strong connectivity tells us there must be paths, but the observation above about intermediate vertices being part of the same component tells us they would actually just be edges).
The two parts couldn't be in side by side branches of the tree, because there would be no edges in one of the two directions. But on the other hand, if one part contains an ancestor x of a vertex y in the other part, we can use the argument above about intermediate vertices to show that the path in the tree from x to y is also in the same component, contradicting the assumption that x and y are in different parts of the tree. So it is not possible to have a component in two separate parts of the DFS tree, which is what we wanted to prove.
Since the components of the graph are just subtrees of the DFS tree, to find components, we just have to break tree at certain edges, and the components will be formed by what's left of the tree. We'll say a vertex is a "head" of a component if it's the topmost (i.e. if we should break the edge coming into it). By the observations above, the problem has turned into one of determining whether a given vertex v is a head.
To test this, look at the subtree of the DFS tree, rooted at v. Suppose this subtree does not have any back or cross edges going out of it. Then clearly, v must be the head of [v], since there are no paths from v to any vertex higher in the tree.
Just as clearly, if there is a back edge u-w from this subtree to an ancestor of v, v is not a head. In this case, the edge u-w together with the paths in the DFS tree from w to v and from v to u form a cycle, which must all be part of the same component [v]. But w is higher in the tree than v, so v can not be the head of this component.
The complicated case happens when the only edges going out of the subtree rooted at v are cross edges to other branches of the DFS tree. To make this complicated case a little easier, we'll set up our algorithm so that as soon as the DFS finishes visiting a vertex, if it is a head, we delete it and its component from the graph. We can show that if our algorithm does this, then whenever we see a cross edge out of the subtree from v, v is not a head.
Proof: This is where we use the fact that DFS trees have cross edges only to previously visited branches of the tree, not to later branches. Suppose we see a cross edge u-w. Let z be the head of [w], then z is visited no later than w. If z were in a separate branch of the tree, we'd have finished visiting it and deleted both it and w, contradicting the assumption that we're seeing edge u-w. So z is an ancestor of v, and putting edge u-w together with the paths w-z (by assumption that z is the head of [w]), z-v (since z is an ancestor of v) and v-u (since v is an ancestor of u) gives us a cycle, showing that v is in [z] and therefore v is not a head.
Summarizing, we see that we can test whether a vertex is a head by looking for the existence of back or cross edges out of its subtree.
Define the DFS numbering dfsnum(v) to be the number of vertices visited before v in the DFS. Then if there is a back or cross edge out of the subtree of v, it's to something visited before v and therefore with a smaller dfsnum. We use this by defining the low value low(v) to be the smallest dfsnum of a vertex reachable by a back or cross edge from the subtree of v. If there is no such edge, low(v)=dfsnum(v). Then rephrasing what we've seen so far, v is a head of a component exactly when low(v)=dfsnum(v). The advantage of using these definitions is that dfsnum(v) is trivial to calculate as we perform the DFS, and low(v) is easily computed by combining the low values from the children of v with the values coming from back or cross edges out of v itself.
We use one more simple data structure, a stack L (represented as a list) which we use to identify the subtree rooted at a vertex. We simply push each new vertex onto L as we visit it; then when we have finished visiting a vertex, its subtree will be everything pushed after it onto L. If v is a head, and we've already deleted the other heads in that subtree, the remaining vertices left on L will be exactly the component [v].
We are now ready to describe the actual algorithm. It simply performs a DFS, keeping track of the low and dfsnum values defined above, using them to identify heads of components, and when finding a head deleting the whole component from the graph, using L to find the vertices of the component.
We have already seen an explanation for why this algorithm works. It only remains to point out that it takes linear time -- the basic framework is just DFS, and the added manipulations of low, dfsnum, and L do not slow this down at all. So we can find strongly connected components in linear time.


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https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-demands-one-more-thing-from-some-vendors-a-piece-of-their-company-11624968099
An Amazon branded cargo plane in 2016. The tech giant made vendor deals with aircraft-leasing companies that included the rights to buy stakes in the companies. Ted S. Warren/Associated Press
Amazon Demands One More Thing From Some Vendors: A Piece of Their Company
Certain suppliers are asked to give Amazon the right to buy shares at potentially lower-than-market rates as part of their contract
Dana Mattioli
@DanaMattioli
dana.mattioli@wsj.com
Suppliers that want to land Amazon.com Inc. as a client for their goods and services can find that its business comes with a catch: the right for Amazon to buy big stakes in their companies at potentially steep discounts to market value.
The technology-and-retail giant has struck at least a dozen deals with publicly traded companies in which it gets rights, called warrants, to buy the vendors' stock in the future at what could be below-market prices, according to corporate filings and interviews with people involved with the deals.
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RSpec.describe Magick::Image, "#affine_transform" do
  it "works" do
    image = described_class.new(20, 20)

    affine = Magick::AffineMatrix.new(1, Math::PI / 6, Math::PI / 6, 1, 0, 0)
    expect { image.affine_transform(affine) }.not_to raise_error
    expect { image.affine_transform(0) }.to raise_error(TypeError)
    result = image.affine_transform(affine)
    expect(result).to be_instance_of(described_class)
  end
end


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Calc123BlogCase StudiesAutomotive Logistics Company Dominates Industry with Spreadsheets
Automotive Logistics Company Dominates Industry with Spreadsheets
Posted on April 30, 2017 April 30, 2017 by Team Calc123
Automotive logistics company PrixCar Services is finding itself in an industry-leading position with a range of services powered by Calc123 and Excel spreadsheets.
With a growing appetite for real-time access to data, companies like PrixCar are finding new ways to breath life into their static spreadsheets and opening up an almost endless range of possibilities for business growth and expansion.
Until a few years ago, PrixCar Transport (a division of PrixCar Services) would have been considered a classic "spreadsheet-driven company", according to National IT & CSC Manager, Patrick Kashani.
"We had one, maybe two people in the commercial department of our automotive logistics division who kept all the rates as up to date as possible, including vehicle data and transport lane information that outlined the costs of running the operations.
Quoting and rating was done directly from within the Excel spreadsheet and, to further complicate matters, the spreadsheet was shared throughout the organisation and with key Customers too."
With the need for more collaborative decision making and distributed workforces, such a reliance on spreadsheets, both operationally as well as strategically, was unacceptable for the 400-person automotive logistics operation that services both corporate and consumer markets through a nationwide vehicle transport network.
PrixCar's frustration with spreadsheets is not unique.
According to research conducted by Ventana Research in Pleasanton, Calif., when it comes to doing analytical tasks, nine out of 10 people use spreadsheets. Spreadsheets really are the default tool and have been since the 1980s.
"Timely pricing updates are a big deal for us and our industry and we have to get that pricing out to the market as fast as possible or the sale will go to our competitors," Kashani says.
Maintaining the spreadsheet was not the problem.
In use for over 10 years within the company, the processes for analysing and updating transport rates were pretty well streamlined. The biggest obstacle was in the reliable and secure distribution of those rates into an essentially, uncontrollable environment.
It wasn't unusual to discover that the data was out of date well before it reached those who needed access to it most. Not only couldn't we respond to the market fast enough, we also found different users were using different versions of the same spreadsheet with different pricing. It was chaos!Patrick Kashani (National IT & CSC Manager, PrixCar Services)
Manage, Protect And Share Spreadsheets
Frustrated by several previously unsuccessful attempts to reproduce the complex rate calculation logic in the form of RDBMS-based ERP solutions, Kashani opted in favour of a software-as-a-service offering from Semantia.
The new solution, powered by Calc123, used their existing spreadsheet and provided support for thousands of real-time calculations per minute – substantially more than his company needed at the time and for the foreseeable future.
"That single spreadsheet is processing more than 80,000 quotes every month through our websites, our Affiliate Partners (PTXchange) and is being accessed by more than 1,100 registered users across 590 of our commercial customers. There is absolutely no way on Earth that we could have achieved that level of reach without Calc123," says Kashani.
Kashani says the dynamic nature of the tool has improved his division's ability to impact both the top and bottom lines.
"It used to take between 10-15 minutes to create a quote for our customers and the only way someone could get that quote was to call the 1300 number and speak with a Customer Support Officer," says Kashani.
Two-thirds of all quotes are now completely automated through web services. Being able to scale to such levels has meant we are no longer constrained by spreadsheet technology", he says.
PrixCar Example
With the ever-growing need for scale and velocity, the days of creating a spreadsheet, emailing it to colleagues, then manually updating and re-sending don't just seem antiquated, they no longer make business sense.
Whilst some companies are tossing aside traditional spreadsheets in favour of more targeted software and services, PrixCar Transport found a way to make its massive investment in spreadsheet-based intellectual property available, online, as a service.
With Calc123, companies like PrixCar have succeeded in changing how their customers, partners and the market gain access to the data they need to make timely decisions and, in doing so, have retained and preserved the years of investment made in forecast models, rating calculators, quoting generators and intellectual property captured in spreadsheets.
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Q: How can I make reminders show on the lock screen on iOS 12.01? I'm on iOS 12.01 with my iPhone 6s and I need to set a reminder and I want it on my lock screen but I can't figure out how to put it there, any help please? It's preetty urgent

A: A reminder automatically appears on the home screen if when you set the reminder, you select Remind me on a day in the info menu of that reminder shown as follows:

Then at the selected time it will appear on the lock screen as shown below:

This is the only way to let a reminder appear on the lock screen.

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BOGDANOVIC, LUKA
Chorale Roanne 15 Forward
Height: 2.04 Born: 11 February, 1985 Nationality: Serbia
Totals 2 2 62:12 14 4/7 2/8 0/0 1 12 13 2 1 3 0 0 5 4 17
Averages 2 2 31:06 7 57.1% 25% 0% 0.5 6 6.5 1 0.5 1.5 0 0 2.5 2 8.5
1 * at Benetton Treviso 29:59 7 2/4 1/5 6 6 1 2 3 7
2 * vs Asefa Estudiantes 32:13 7 2/3 1/3 1 6 7 2 1 2 3 1 10
2 Totals 62:12 14 4/7 2/8 0/0 1 12 13 2 1 3 0 0 5 4 17
Average 31:06 7 57.1% 25% 0% 0.5 6 6.5 1 0.5 1.5 0 0 2.5 2 8.5
Index rating 24 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. BCM Gravelines Dunkerque 1/6/2004
Points 18 Banvit Bandirma vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 11/26/2014
Offensive rebounds 3 Banvit Bandirma vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 11/26/2014
Defensive rebounds 6 Ploiesti vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 12/17/2014
Total rebounds 8 Aris Thessaloniki vs. Joventut Badalona 3/2/2010
Assists 5 Besiktas JK Istanbul vs. Joventut Badalona 12/8/2009
Steals 5 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. BCM Gravelines Dunkerque 1/6/2004
Blocks 2 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Baloncesto Sevilla 12/12/2012
Minutes 41 Banvit Bandirma vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 11/26/2014
Grew up with Radnicki Belgrade (Serbia) youth teams.
Signed by BC Red Star Belgrade on January '02.
Signed for the 2004-05 season by BC Partizan Belgrade.
Moved to France for the 2007-08 season, signed by MSB Le Mans.
Moved to Spain for the 2008-09 season, signed by Joventut Badalona.
.played there also the 2009-10 championship.
Moved to France for the 2010-11 season, signed by Chorale Roanne.
On December'10 moved to Germany, signed by EWE Baskets Oldenburg.
Moved to Spain for the 2011-12 season, signed by Cajasol Sevilla.
Moved to Turkey for the 2013-14 season, signed by Turk Telekom Ankara.
Back to Serbia for the 2014-15 season, signed by BC Partizan Belgrade.
Won the 2004-05 and 2005-06 Serbia & Montenegro National Championship with BC Partizan Belgrade.
Won the 2006-07 Serbian National Championship with BC Partizan Belgrade.
Won the 2004 Serbia & Montenegro Cup with BC Red Star Belgrade.
Won the 2007 Adriatic League with BC Partizan Belgrade.
Has been member of the Yugoslav U-16 National Team.
Named to the European U-16 Championship 1st Team.
Member of the Serbia & Montenegro U-18 and U-20 National Team.
Won the bronze medal at the 2005 European U-20 Championship.
Named to the 2005 All-European U-20 Championship 1st Team.
2004-05 Partizan 14 108 7.7 23/48 47.9 15/42 35.7 17/21 81 49 9 10 1
2005-06 Partizan 14 96 6.9 13/37 35.1 18/46 39.1 16/20 80 52 10 13 3
2006-07 Partizan 20 117 5.8 17/41 41.5 19/40 47.5 26/30 86.7 62 9 17 0
2007-08 Le Mans 14 156 11.1 27/65 41.5 29/67 43.3 15/19 78.9 39 4 17 2
2008-09 DKV Joventut 9 90 10 18/29 62.1 17/43 39.5 3/3 100 28 7 6 1
Totals 71 567 8 98/220 44.5 98/238 41.2 77/93 82.8 230 39 63 7
Averages 71 567 8 98/220 44.5 98/238 41.2 77/93 82.8 3.2 0.5 0.9 0.1
2003-04 Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 9 77 8.6 21/31 67.7 7/22 31.8 14/19 73.7 38 16 7 3
2009-10 DKV Joventut 12 123 10.3 16/34 47.1 25/62 40.3 16/20 80 52 3 12 2
2010-11 Chorale Roanne 2 14 7 4/7 57.1 2/8 25 0/0 0 13 1 2 0
2012-13 Cajasol Seville 12 138 11.5 33/60 55 20/55 36.4 12/15 80 29 5 13 2
2014-15 Partizan NIS Belgrade 10 58 5.8 11/22 50 9/23 39.1 9/11 81.8 30 5 6 0
Totals 45 410 9.1 85/154 55.2 63/170 37.1 51/65 78.5 162 30 40 7
Averages 45 410 9.1 85/154 55.2 63/170 37.1 51/65 78.5 3.6 0.7 0.9 0.2
2002/03 Crvena Zvezda 8 34 4.3 9/18 50 0/3 0 16/18 88.9 22 4 3 0
2003/04 Crvena Zvezda 12 93 7.8 25/50 50 8/18 44.4 19/24 79.2 44 11 6 0
2004/05 Partizan 20 137 6.9 28/45 62.2 19/42 45.2 24/30 80 46 16 19 2
2005/06 Partizan 14 110 7.9 20/34 58.8 19/50 38 13/16 81.3 56 17 12 1
2006/07 Partizan 18 82 4.6 16/21 76.2 12/23 52.2 14/17 82.4 30 6 6 0
2007/08 Le Mans 36 346 9.6 64/121 52.9 63/174 36.2 29/40 72.5 133 16 39 6
2008/09 Badalona 34 309 9.1 52/100 52 58/147 39.5 31/37 83.8 110 13 36 3
2009/10 Badalona 34 316 9.3 56/112 50 60/149 40.3 24/30 80 112 16 32 1
2010/11 Roanne 7 78 11.1 10/21 47.6 13/43 30.2 19/21 90.5 50 5 12 1
Oldenburg 26 310 11.9 57/98 58.2 53/135 39.3 37/46 80.4 102 19 20 5
2011/12 Sevilla 36 400 11.1 89/168 53 63/169 37.3 33/42 78.6 135 25 35 3
2012/13 Sevilla 34 367 10.8 63/154 40.9 66/174 37.9 43/49 87.8 109 20 36 2
2013/14 Turk Telekom 30 328 10.9 69/119 58.0 51/130 39.2 37/43 86.0 152 19 39 7


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import java.io.Console;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.*;
import java.security.spec.RSAPrivateCrtKeySpec;
import java.security.spec.RSAPublicKeySpec;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Base64;

public class CreateKeysJ {

    static final String KEY_ALGORITHM = "RSA";
    static final int KEY_LENGTH = 1024;

    static final String ENCODED_PRIVATE_FILENAME = "EncodedPrivateKey.txt";
    static final String ENCODED_PUBLIC_FILENAME = "EncodedPublicKey.txt";
    static final String XML_PRIVATE_FILENAME = "XmlPrivateKey.txt";
    static final String XML_PUBLIC_FILENAME = "XmlPublicKey.txt";

    static final String NL = System.getProperty("line.separator");

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        print("About to create KeyPair.");
        KeyPair keyPair = createKeyPair(KEY_LENGTH);

        print("Created KeyPair.");
        PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();
        PublicKey publicKey = keyPair.getPublic();

        print("About to write PRIVATE key in Encoded (Java) format.");
        String privateKeyAsEncoded = getPrivateKeyAsEncoded(privateKey);
        print("Private key in Encoded format:" + NL + privateKeyAsEncoded);
        writeFile(privateKeyAsEncoded, ENCODED_PRIVATE_FILENAME);

        print("About to write PUBLIC key in Encoded (Java) format.");
        String publicKeyAdEncoded = getPublicKeyAsEncoded(publicKey);
        print("Public key in Encoded format:" + NL + publicKeyAdEncoded);
        writeFile(publicKeyAdEncoded, ENCODED_PUBLIC_FILENAME);

        print("About to write PRIVATE key in XML (.Net) format.");
        String privateKeyAsXml = getPrivateKeyAsXml(privateKey);
        print("Private key in XML format:" + NL + privateKeyAsXml);
        writeFile(privateKeyAsXml, XML_PRIVATE_FILENAME);

        print("About to write PUBLIC key in XML (.Net) format.");
        String publicKeyAsXml = getPublicKeyAsXml(publicKey);
        print("Public key in XML format:" + NL + publicKeyAsXml);
        writeFile(publicKeyAsXml, XML_PUBLIC_FILENAME);

        print("Done.");
    }

    static KeyPair createKeyPair(int keyLength) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
        KeyPairGenerator keygen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance(KEY_ALGORITHM);
        keygen.initialize(keyLength, new SecureRandom());
        KeyPair keyPair = keygen.generateKeyPair();
        return keyPair;
    }

    static String getPrivateKeyAsEncoded(PrivateKey privateKey){
        byte[] privateKeyEncodedBytes = privateKey.getEncoded();
        return getBase64(privateKeyEncodedBytes);
    }

    static String getPublicKeyAsEncoded(PublicKey publicKey){
        byte[] publicKeyEncoded = publicKey.getEncoded();
        return getBase64(publicKeyEncoded);
    }

    static String getPrivateKeyAsXml(PrivateKey privateKey) throws Exception{
        KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(KEY_ALGORITHM);
        RSAPrivateCrtKeySpec spec = keyFactory.getKeySpec(privateKey, RSAPrivateCrtKeySpec.class);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        sb.append("<RSAKeyValue>" + NL);
        sb.append(getElement("Modulus", spec.getModulus()));
        sb.append(getElement("Exponent", spec.getPublicExponent()));
        sb.append(getElement("P", spec.getPrimeP()));
        sb.append(getElement("Q", spec.getPrimeQ()));
        sb.append(getElement("DP", spec.getPrimeExponentP()));
        sb.append(getElement("DQ", spec.getPrimeExponentQ()));
        sb.append(getElement("InverseQ", spec.getCrtCoefficient()));
        sb.append(getElement("D", spec.getPrivateExponent()));
        sb.append("</RSAKeyValue>");

        return sb.toString();
    }

    static String getPublicKeyAsXml(PublicKey publicKey) throws Exception{
        KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(KEY_ALGORITHM);
        RSAPublicKeySpec spec = keyFactory.getKeySpec(publicKey, RSAPublicKeySpec.class);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        sb.append("<RSAKeyValue>" + NL);
        sb.append(getElement("Modulus", spec.getModulus()));
        sb.append(getElement("Exponent", spec.getPublicExponent()));
        sb.append("</RSAKeyValue>");

        return sb.toString();
    }

    static String getElement(String name, BigInteger bigInt) throws Exception {
        byte[] bytesFromBigInt = getBytesFromBigInt(bigInt);
        String elementContent = getBase64(bytesFromBigInt);
        return String.format("  <%s>%s</%s>%s", name, elementContent, name, NL);
    }

    static byte[] getBytesFromBigInt(BigInteger bigInt){
        byte[] bytes = bigInt.toByteArray();
        int length = bytes.length;

        // This is a bit ugly.  I'm not 100% sure of this but I presume
        // that as Java represents the values using BigIntegers, which are
        // signed, the byte representation contains an 'extra' byte that
        // contains the bit which indicates the sign.
        //
        // In any case, it creates arrays of 129 bytes rather than the
        // expected 128 bytes.  So if the array's length is odd and the
        // leading byte is zero then trim the leading byte.
        if(length % 2 != 0 && bytes[0] == 0) {
            bytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(bytes, 1, length);
        }

        return bytes;
    }

    static String getBase64(byte[] bytes){
        return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(bytes);
    }

    static void writeFile(String text, String filename) throws Exception{
        try(PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(filename)){
            writer.write(text);
        }
    }

    static void print(String line){
        System.out.println(line);
    }
}


I'm always looking for new natural cookies that have no refined sugar and are low in fat. Gluten free is always a plus too. These Coconut Chocolate Cookies meet all those requirements.
As summer approaches, so do summer picnics, potlucks, and family gatherings. This is the perfectly light tasting recipe which is perfect for a summer afternoon dessert. It's called 'Banana Split Dessert' because that's what it tastes like. The vanilla cream filling with the bananas, pineapple, whipped cream, ahhh. So amazing.


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LDC Logistics consolidates ownership in Metro Supply Chain Group
LDC Logistics committed to driving continued global growth at MSCG
Montreal, Quebec; February 2, 2017 – LDC Logistics Holdings (LDC Logistics), a diversified holding company, and Metro Supply Chain Group (Metro SCG), a leading Third Party Logistics Services provider (3PL) in North America and Europe, announced today that LDC Logistics has acquired the remaining shares of Metro SCG it did not already own from NOVACAP, one of Canada's leading private equity firms. With the close of the transaction on January 31, 2017, LDC Logistics becomes the sole shareholder of Metro SCG. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
KDC announces the acquisition of Thibiant International, Inc.
Montreal, November 16, 2016 – Knowlton Development Corporation ("KDC"), a leading contract manufacturer of health and beauty-care products with its head office in Longueuil, Quebec, announces the acquisition of Thibiant International, Inc. ("Thibiant"). Thibiant, located in California, formulates and manufactures personal and skin care products, and offers product development services, innovation R&D, quality and compliance assurance services, and manufacturing solutions for the production of beauty and skin care product brands. Thibiant has 285 full-time employees in modern facilities extending over 330,000 square feet.
NOVACAP Announces Sale of Idaho Pacific to Arlon Group
Montreal, July 6, 2016 – NOVACAP, a Canadian leader in private equity, announced today that they have sold Idaho Pacific, a company specializing in dehydrated potato products ("IPH") to Arlon Group ("Arlon"), a food and agriculture investment firm with a global network that supports investments across the entire food supply chain in the Americas. IPH has been a portfolio company of the NOVACAP Industries III fund since May 2011.
NOVACAP announces the closing of its NOVACAP Industries IV Fund at $ 470 million
Montreal, May 11, 2016 – NOVACAP, one of Canada's leading private equity firms, today announced the closing of its NOVACAP Industries IV Fund for $ 470 million.
Zenith Products Joins Laces Group
Montréal, [February 22, 2016] – Laces (Laces Group), an innovative company that specializes in the development and distribution of home fashion products headquartered in Montreal, Québec, today announced that the Zenith Corporation, a Delaware-based bathroom products manufacturer and importer, will integrate a majority of its assets and operations into the company. Zenith's management and operating team will remain in place.
NOVACAP Announces Agreement to Sell Enviro-Viridis to GFL Environmental
Montréal, February 11, 2016 – NOVACAP, a Canadian leader in private equity, and Developpement EDB Inc. today announced that they have reached an agreement to sell Enviro-Viridis Inc., a company specializing in waste management that offers vertically integrated services, and its subsidiary corporations ("CDEV") to GFL Environmental Inc., a diversified environmental services company providing a full range of environmental services nationwide. CDEV is a portfolio company of the NOVACAP Industries III fund and the transaction is scheduled to close on March 1, 2016, subject to customary closing conditions.
KDC announces the acquisition of the Kolmar Labs Group, a new foray into the Color Cosmetics and Specialty Delivery categories
Montréal, October 14, 2015 – KDC (The Knowlton Development Corporation), a leading contract manufacturer of health and beauty-care products headquartered in Longueuil, Québec, today announced the acquisition of the Kolmar Labs Group companies: Kolmar Laboratories Inc. and Acupac Packaging Inc. Kolmar is a New-York-based custom formulator and manufacturer of color cosmetics, personal care and skincare products, offering Product Development, R&D Innovation, QA/QC services, Regulatory services and manufacturing solutions for beauty and skin care brands. Kolmar Laboratories and Acupac Packaging together employ 500 full-time employees in state-of-the-art facilities totalling over 340,000 feet.
The Master Group acquires Ontario heating parts & equipment distributor The Hydronics Group Inc.
Boucherville, October 13, 2015 – The Master Group Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of The Hydronics Group Inc., Ontario distributor of heating parts & equipment. This transaction aims to strengthen Master's position as a leader in the heating sector of Greater Metropolitan Toronto and Southwestern Ontario.
NOVACAP announces the acquisition of Hallcon Corporation
MONTRÉAL, August 4, 2015 – NOVACAP, a Canadian leader in private equity, today announced the acquisition of Hallcon Corporation, a leading provider of specialty outsourced services to the railway and transit sectors in North America, based in Toronto. The transaction is carried out through its NOVACAP Industries IV Fund, in partnership with Hallcon's management team, Export Development Canada (EDC), BMO Capital Partners and other institutional partners. Hallcon's senior management team will continue in their current roles with the company.
Caisse de dépôt et placement, Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Investissement Québec partner with One51 to support the growth of IPL
Montréal, July 3, 2015 – Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Investissement Québec have partnered with One51 to acquire IPL, a Québec manufacturing company based in Saint-Damien. IPL is a North American leader in injection-molded plastic products and solutions for the food and industrial sectors.


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Residents of the US Gulf Coast say their pleas for help and transparency continue to be ignored by regulators.
Dahr Jamail | 06 Dec 2010 14:05 GMT | Humanitarian crises
Some Mississippi residents believe that unnatural foamy substances washing up on beeches are a byproduct of BP's toxic dispersants used as part of the clean-up effort around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [Photo: Erika Blumenfeld]
Michelle Nix, from Pensacola, Florida, founded the group Gulf Coast Oil Spill Volunteers in an effort to be pro-active and do what she could to help when the BP oil disaster began on April 20.
"I had 500 volunteers coordinated to help with cleanup, people offering free oil boom, people donating their work and time to help," Nix told Al Jazeera.
She contacted the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Coast Guard, Wildlife and Fisheries, "and everyone I could think of to try to help," Nix said. "But none of them responded. None of the government agencies would get back in touch with me."
Nix, not to be deterred, helped organise blood tests for several Gulf coasts residents who were experiencing sicknesses attributed to toxic chemicals released from BP's well blow-out and the dispersants the company has used to sink the oil.
In October, Dr. Wilma Subra, a chemist and Macarthur Fellow, conducted the blood tests for volatile solvents - chemicals present in BP's crude oil as well as their toxic dispersants - on eight people Nix provided who live and work along the coast.
Most of the people tested had these toxic chemicals present in their blood at levels several times higher than the national average. "Ethylbenzene, m,p-Xylene and Hexane are volatile organic chemicals that are present in the BP Crude Oil. The blood of all three females and five males had chemicals that are found in the BP Crude Oil," according to Subra's report.
Ethylbenzene is a form of benzene present in the body when it begins to be broken down. m,p-Xylene is a clear, colorless, sweet-smelling, flammable liquid that is refined from crude oil and is primarily used as a solvent.
These chemicals in BP's oil are extremely hazardous to humans. They can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, kidney damage, altered renal functions, irritation of the digestive tract, lung damage, burning pain in nose and throat, coughing, wheezing, skin problems and cancers.
On November 8, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson headed a meeting of the Gulf Oil Spill Task Force in Pensacola, which activist Michelle Nix attended.
"I hand delivered these blood test results to Lisa Jackson," Nix said, "She told me she would get back in touch with me, as well as that she would get in touch with Dr. Subra."
It is nearly a month later, and Nix has not heard from Lisa Jackson or the EPA.
Dr. Subra, who is actively working with the EPA on issues beyond the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is still waiting to hear from them about the blood test results.
"I have not heard back from the EPA about the blood tests," Subra told Al Jazeera, "I'm working with the EPA on a host of other issues, including superfund issues and hydraulic fracking. So let me be clear that they are not ignoring me on other issues. But with the blood tests, I have not heard from them."
Widespread Disregard
In response to their oil disaster last summer that released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP admitted to using at least 1.9 million gallons of widely banned toxic Corexit dispersants (which have been banned in 19 countries) to sink the oil. The dispersants contain chemicals that many scientists and toxicologists have warned are dangerous to humans, marine life, and wildlife.
Earlier this year on May 20, the EPA told BP it had 24 hours to find a less toxic alternative, but the EPA's request was ignored. Then on May 25, BP was given a directive by the EPA to scale back their spraying of the Gulf of Mexico with dispersants. The Coast Guard overlooked the EPA's directive and provided BP with 74 exemptions in 48 days to use the dispersants.
Residents in Mississippi and Louisiana told Al Jazeera that they believe BP continues to use the toxic dispersants, but the EPA will not respond to their appeals for information and help.
Jesse Fineran works within the Hancock County Mississippi Emergency Management Agency as an oil spill response worker within the Emergency Operations Center.
"They keep spraying [dispersants]," Fineran told Al Jazeera, "We keep seeing this foam coming in just about everyday."
His attempts to alert EPA of the ongoing use of dispersants, as well as many other concerns he has about BP's response to the disaster, have been largely ignored.
Fineran provided Al Jazeera with a copy of an email he sent on July 26 to Sherryl Carbonaro and Carter Williamson of the EPA, along with several other people.
Mysterious foam
He provided the EPA personnel with information about ongoing dispersant use, and wrote, "We continue to find various products that appear to be direct results of the DWH [Deepwater Horizon] spill and/or associated with BP operations. This includes submerged oil patties and patches in State/County waters and marshes, as well as a mysterious dark colored foam ... [the] EPA continue to provide a less than transparent explanation as to the foam's actual composition."
Fineran has called and sent several emails to EPA officials about these concerns, as well as how smaller boats are being used to spray dispersants in the waters off the coast of Mississippi, and has requested that EPA look into this, as the EPA claims that since mid-July, no dispersants have been used.
"It appears that DWH operations has managed to drop the surface oil from sight, but apparently not out of our local environments," Fineran's email continues, "The product [oil] clearly remains in area waters and marshes... Is there a plan to remove the now out of sight product and deal with the possible long term effects of leaving the product [oil] in our community?"
Al Jazeera asked Fineran how the EPA responded to his requests, as well has his requests to the EPA's Region 4 office, which includes Mississippi.
"The highest-ranking EPA folks I've contacted won't even reply to my emails," he said, "I've gotten nothing but lip service. I did get an 'I'm sorry' from one of them."
Fineran, who continues to work within the Emergency Response Center for Mississippi added, "Nothing the EPA has told us has turned out to be true."
Shirley and Don Tillman from Pass Christian, Mississippi, have been outspoken in their belief that BP's dispersants have been making people sick. They were in BP's oil response Vessels of Opportunity program, and several of their family members and friends are sick from what they believe are chemicals in BP's dispersants.
Shirley Tillman thinks dispersants used by BP have made her friends and family sick [Photo: Erika Blumenfeld]
On October 19th they were visited by Special Agent James Kejonen from NOAA, and Special Agent Ben Bryant with US Fish and Wildlife. The agents told the Tillman's they were collecting information for a government investigation into dispersants and possible problems associated with them.
"I gave them a sample we'd taken from Long Beach that I thought had Corexit," Shirley Tillman told Al Jazeera. "They were very friendly and seemed sincere, but we haven't heard back from either of them, and they won't return our phone calls."
The same day the federal agent's visited the Tillman's, they visited Jesse Fineran.
His calls to the agent's have not been returned either, and Fineran told Al Jazeera, "It is clear from this response that the Government and BP intended to keep the locals ignorant of the facts pertaining to the spill and the inter-working of the response."
Al Jazeera requested information from the EPA's Region 6 Public Information Centre, that includes Louisiana, about their ongoing testing of the water and air for chemicals associated with the oil disaster, also asking for information the EPA has that is related to illnesses caused by the oil disaster.
In late October we were told by Joe Hubbard in EPA's office of external affairs that this information would be provided, but Al Jazeera has yet to receive this information.
Al Jazeera contacted the external affairs office at EPA Region 4 and spoke with Dawn Young. When asked how the EPA was responding to the claims of ongoing use of dispersants and illnesses related to the oil disaster Ms. Young said, "Those issues would still be answered by the Joint Information Center."
The Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center external affairs officer, Susan Blake with the Coast Guard, informed Al Jazeera that she had passed on our querries about ongoing use of dispersants and oil disaster related illnesses along the Gulf Coast to Joe Hubbard at EPA Region 6.
Requests for information from press officer Latisha Petteway at Lisa Jackson's office in Washington DC concerning Subra's blood test results that were handed to Jackson in Pensacola have not been replied to.
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A Syrian refugee woman walks in a makeshift refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Dalhamiyah on May 30, 2014 (AFP Photo/Anwar Amro)
The tents of Syrian refugees were quickly removed on Friday from the Caritas camp in Baalbek's Deir al-Ahmar, after three tents were set on fire overnight by unidentified men.
"More than 700 refugees were given a deadline until Friday night to remove their belongings from the tents before the camp's closure," refugees told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Syrians at the camp were seen on Friday moving their belongings to vacant areas in the plains.
Reports said most refugees decided to later head to the town of Iaat, east of Deir al-Ahmar.
"If we don't follow the restrictions, then they are going to burn down all the tents, the same way the three first tents were burnt last Thursday," a woman told Asharq Al-Awsat.
A decision to close the camp was taken by local authorities after a Lebanese civil defense member was attacked by a number of Syrian youths who threw stones at him and at his vehicle as he was trying to extinguish a fire near their camp at the entrance of Deir al-Ahmar on Wednesday.
The town's mayor, Latif Al Kuzah, and other officials had given the refugees until Friday night to leave the camp, which included 120 tents of refugees who had fled Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo in northern Syria.
Immediately, the army raided the camp and arrested 33 Syrians.
On Friday, Baalbeck-Hermel Governor Bashir Khodr toured the camp.
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The governor praised the wisdom of Deir al-Ahmar residents who allowed the refugees to remove their belongings and take them elsewhere. "We will launch an investigation into what happened," Khodr added.
Last Wednesday, the governor banned all movement of Syrian refugees in the area.
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'''George Formby'''<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing."
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Jurgensen's
Jurgensen's was an upscale, gourmet grocery store with locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and throughout greater LA.
Hokusai's famous Great Wave off Kanagawa
You can see that image here.
Dark Shadows. . . The Collins family . . . parallel time
Dark Shadows was an innovative TV show in the late 1960's and early 70's that focuses on the Collins family. The show included many Gothic elements, including vampires, zombies, and witches. It also played with time travel and parallel universes in which the same character would be played by different actors or the same actor would play different characters.
Hanon was a 19th-century French piano teacher and composer. He's most famous for developing exercises for piano students.
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock and roll. More here.
George Formby, Jr. performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of Gravity's Rainbow is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing."
Donna Lee, way more than Coy's usual 1 or 2 note solos.
Spanish for hug.
third ballet position
Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.
massé shots
In billiards, a massé shot is when a player strikes a ball with the cue at a sharp angle and causes the ball to curve drastically or even eventually reverse direction. Here's an example. Some pool halls (like this one) forbid this kind of shot because it often leads to scratching or tearing of the felt.
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Timberwolves turned on the jets in their round eight clash with Boomerangs White to record a big win.
After an even opening five minutes the Wolves drew first blood as Sam Carters fired home, before Boomerangs goalie Nick Van Aalst almost found his way on to the scoreboard as he left the goals.
Shortly after though Van Aalst could only keep the Timberwolves out for so long as Thomas Zeitlhofer scored after being denied by Van Aalst and the goal frame, before Boomerangs came close a couple more times ahead of the break but remained behind by two goals.
Both teams had chances at the beginning of the second half to change the scoreline but neither could until nine minutes in when Michael Nolan netted his first, and two minutes later he had his second as Timberwolves ran away with the game.
There was still time for one more though and Zietlhofer added his second with three minutes remaining to round the scoring out at five.
Prawns overcame a two goal deficit before romping to a dominant six-goal win in their round eight meeting with NCU Navy.
Cam Gordon put NCU on the board two minutes in and Michael Sydney doubled the lead two minutes later to leave Prawns shocked.
It was short-lived however with Stephen Domenici cutting the lead seven minutes in as Richard Moon came out of his goalmouth and the Prawns restored parity moments later through Jeremy Habtemariam.
A goal from Goran Josifovski gave Prawns their first lead of the game seven minutes before the break, and both he and Domenici added a goal more before the half to leave them up by three at the break.
Domenici completed his hat-trick two minutes into the second half, and Prawns continued to dominate the game with NCU having sporadic chances.
Angelo Konstantinou found his way on to the scoreboard with ten minutes to play and Domenici's fourth sealed the score at 8-2 in the final minutes of play, locking up Prawns' spot at the top of the table.
Regan Walsh's second half strike proved to be enough for O'Connor Knights to take the points from their meeting with NCU Red in round eight.
Jake Wilsener found the back of the net three minutes in with a good strike to give Knights the lead only for it to be dashed four minutes later as Chris Lee fired home for NCU.
That was the end of the scoring for the first half but there were chances at both ends as both teams pushed hard to take the lead.
Knights came close a number of times only to be denied by Southam in the NCU goals, but he couldn't keep out Walsh's header with 12 minutes to play in the game.
That proved to be the winner despite an intense final period with both sides trading chances and NCU pushing for an equaliser.
Boomerangs stormed to an eight-goal win in their match with Canberra FC thanks in large part to a six goal first half.
They started fast and created early chances at goal, and Canberra FC struggled with weather the storm.
Maja Blasch drew first blood four minutes in and grabbed her second four minutes following that, and Sabrina Spinapolice scored a minute later to stretch the lead to three goals inside 10 minutes.
Ellie Raymond followed suit two minutes later, Rachael Corvett added a goal with five minutes to play and Blasch completed her hat-trick on the stroke of the break to cap off an emphatic 20-minute display.
Canberra FC took hold of more possession in the second half and made some attacking forays, but none came to fruition as Boomerangs defended resolutely.
FC also did better at the back, restricting Boomerangs to just two goals in the half as Leah Carnegie and Corvett both scored in the final five minutes.
Round nine will be split across February 6th and March 6th, with round ten to be played this Thursday, 7th February.


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Q: Cannot be blank as rule in sharepoint designer and infopath Is there a way inside workflow rules to make this rule: "if field A is not empty, then field B cannot be blank"?

A: You can use a rule on the Submit button that sets a trigger field. This trigger field (which can be in a secondary data source, an XML file, for example) controls the formatting of a section to hide or show. The section contains a message for the user ("Please enter Field B").
Use two rules on the submit button. The first rule will fire when Filed A has a value AND Field B is blank and set the trigger field, hence displaying the message to the user. Tick "Don't run remaining rules ...."
The second rule will fire when all fields are present and will submit the form.
This way, a form can only be submitted if both Field A and Field B are filled in.

A: You can just use column validation under List Settings >> Validation Settings and add a formula. Alternatively, if you need it in a workflow as specified in the question, you can create a local workflow string variable and not set it, then use it to compare to field A and field B... but at the time a workflow is running, the values would already be saved.

A: U could do this with infopath validations rules.
As I understand you have 2 Fields. Field A and Field B

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*Rightclick Field B

*Choose Rules...

*Click new validation

*Give it a name

*Click on none under condition

*Fill in Field A is not blank AND Field B is blank as condition

*Don't forget to fill in a screentip, otherwise it won't work properly.

This way Field B has to be filled in when field A is not blank.
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Beveren (Flandres Oriental) — município da província de Flandres Oriental
Beveren (Alveringem) — parte do município de Alveringem, na  província de Flandres Ocidental
Beveren (Roeselare) — parte do município de Roeselare, na província de Flandres Ocidental
Beveren (Waregem) — parte do município de Waregem, na Flandres Ocidental
 KSK Beveren ou Koninklijke Sportkring Beveren — equipa de futebol do município de Beveren (Flandres Oriental)

Desambiguações de topônimos

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"Tulip poplar in front of Flory Hall" by L. Michael Hill PH.D.
The large-trunked tree in the foreground is the tulip poplar, Liriodendron tulipfera (Magnoliaceae). The buildings in the background are Memorial Hall to the left and then to the right, the Flory Hall complex, late 1990's.


inviting all to come inside.
giving all so much pleasure.
of this lovely Suffolk town.
the Angel Hill a work of art.
and at The Angel stopped for tea.
thought Bury was so lovely now.
so nice no one should put it down.
on Market days, with people fill.
or just to sit and have a coffee.
to the new complex called The arc.
help bridge the modern and the past.
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Q: After page has already loaded, load another image and use it to replace the page's current BackGround image The front page of my site has quite a big image as a background, of course I've made it as small as possible but it's still going to take a moment to load on slow connections.
So if the user stays on my site for a while I want to change that background image to another one. I've seen some of the plugins which are available to have something similar but they all seem to load the images all first. Which would be slow for my purposes
So I would like to just load the page as normal. Then after a little delay behind the scenes load another image and once it's loaded, replace the original image. Is this possible?

A: Sure set an image tag in the body like this: <img id="bgqueue" />
Your CSS would hide that:
#bgqueue {
    display : none;
}

And your jQuery would look something like this:
setTimeout(function() {
    $('#bgqueue').attr('src', 'http://someOtherjpg').on('load', function() {
        $('body').css({background: 'url(' + $(this).attr('src') + ')'});
    });
}, 30000);

So the image is loaded into that image tag behind the scenes after 30 seconds in that example, and once it's loaded, the callback fires and sets the body background image to the cache file.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/seancannon/TpPkk/


Dhaka, 19 September, Abnews: Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a man along with 40 gold bars, weighing 4.64 kilograms, from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport on Wednesday.
The arrestee was identified as Zahid Mia, 40, of Shekhghat Kalapara area in the city.
Additional superintendent of APBn Joynal Abedin said Biman flight BG EA-228 coming from Abu Dhabi landed in Sylhet around 6:45am.
Tipped off, a team of APBn conducted a search operation in the flight and recovered the gold bars from under a seat.
Later, the team arrested Zahid for carrying the gold bars, he said adding that the current market price of the gold is around Tk 19 million.


Nathan Ryan ran on stage and threw his shirt in the crowd during a performance by Blood On The Dance Floor at Vans Warped Tour.
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Clermain és un municipi francès, situat al departament de Saona i Loira i a la regió de Borgonya - Franc Comtat. L'any 2007 tenia 217 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Clermain era de 217 persones. Hi havia 88 famílies, de les quals 24 eren unipersonals (16 homes vivint sols i 8 dones vivint soles), 32 parelles sense fills i 32 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 125 habitatges, 89 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 23 eren segones residències i 13 estaven desocupats. 114 eren cases i 10 eren apartaments. Dels 89 habitatges principals, 76 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris i 13 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters; 3 tenien dues cambres, 14 en tenien tres, 22 en tenien quatre i 50 en tenien cinc o més. 68 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 33 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 50 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 133 persones, 106 eren actives i 27 eren inactives. De les 106 persones actives 100 estaven ocupades (51 homes i 49 dones) i 6 estaven aturades (1 home i 5 dones). De les 27 persones inactives 6 estaven jubilades, 11 estaven estudiant i 10 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Clermain hi havia 91 unitats fiscals que integraven 225,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 16.038 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 9 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 2 d'empreses de transport, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa de serveis i 3 d'entitats de l'administració pública.

L'únic servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009 era un restaurant.

L'any 2000 a Clermain hi havia 6 explotacions agrícoles.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Clermain a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Clermain a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de Saona i Loira


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Vision and Goals for Healthcare Administrator
by Joel WalshPosted on May 11, 2022
As you complete your studies as a master's-prepared health care administrator, what role do you envision for yourself? As you know by now, there are many roles and areas of specialty from which to choose. Since you have almost completed your master's degree, imagine you have been asked by your dean to make a presentation to a group of undergraduate students who are considering becoming health care administrators. Your ultimate goal is to sell a health care administrator career to this group of undergraduate students by using all the duties of a healthcare administrator from the What Medical and Health Services Managers Do page of the Occupational Outlook Handbook website, and then personalizing it to how you envision health care will succeed in the next decade. Assignment Instructions Write a 1–2 page executive summary of your presentation, plus a 3–5 page paper where you will synthesize the functions of the master's-prepared health care administrator, including role, responsibilities, and priorities. You will also need to touch on all major components of a health care administrator, such as, but not limited to, human resources, finance, information technology, regulatory topics, and leadership. For this assignment, you will focus on the following six duties from the What Medical and Health Services Managers Do page of the Occupational Outlook Handbook website: Improve efficiency and quality in delivering healthcare services Develop departmental goals and objectives Ensure that the facility in which they work is up to date on and compliant with laws and regulations Recruit, train, and supervise staff members Manage the finances of the facility, such as patient fees and billing Create work schedules Your executive summary and paper must include all the elements listed below, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed: Provide executive summary of a health care administrator's job responsibilities. Outline at least six specific functions of a health care administrator. Describe successful leadership traits for the six identified health care administrator functions. Analyze current health care challenges confronting health care administration professionals. Summarize the knowledge and skills necessary for health care leaders to succeed for the next 10 years. Use at least three quality academic references. Use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. Meet requirements for clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting. Assignment Format On the executive summary, provide a cover page with your name, the course number and course title, your professor's name, the university's name, and the date. Include a 1–2 page executive summary of your presentation, after the cover page and before the assignment. Work should be typed, double spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins on all sides. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: Synthesize the functions of the master's-prepared health care administrator, including role, responsibilities, and priorities. Resources Occupational Outlook Handbook What Medical and Health Services Managers Do Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution's policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.
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