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The Eyeopener is Ryerson University's independent student newspaper, and has been since 1967. It is owned and operated by Rye Eye Publishing Inc., a non-profit corporation owned by the students of Ryerson. prints a weekly newspaper and publishes regular online content, including articles, videos and a podcast.
The Eyeopener is looking for students with an interest in media and journalism who are able to work both independently and with a larger team to produce Ryerson-based content for the publication.
Overview: The News Editor will co-manage the news section alongside the rest of our news team. Applicants should have an interest and working knowledge of Ryerson University and the Ryerson Students' Union, as well as a passion for covering issues relating to student experience on campus, both in and out of the classroom.
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In Kigoma when you invest in agriculture, you invest in people.
Our approach invests in people and creates a permanent pathway out of poverty.
Helping people get out of poverty. That is what gets us up in the morning. There are many ways this could be achieved and poverty can certainly take many forms. But in a region where over 80% of people directly rely on agriculture for their income, improving agricultural production must be a priority.
Kigoma is blessed with reliable rainfall and fertile soil. Palm oil trees are native to the region and prosper in western Tanzania. There are more than 30,000 oil palm farming families in the region with incomes hovering around $1 per day. With strong growth in demand for palm oil products all over the world, developing the smallholder palm oil industry in Kigoma is a clear path to prosperity.
We have the opportunity to build an industry based on smallholder families, not large agricultural multinationals. An industry that integrates world-class environmental standards from the beginning, not tacked on as an afterthought or retrofitted to tick a box. We give smallholders the chance to drastically improve their income – by over 1,000% – while simultaneously learning how to protect their environment and develop sustainably. Our trees yield at this high level for 25+ years, allowing families to break the cycle of poverty they have been trapped in for generations.
Widespread adoption of our high-yielding trees and trainings will shift the industry equilibrium from its current subsistence level to a virtuous cycle of re-investment and growth. Current farming returns are insufficient to meet anything more than the most basic needs – food, housing, clothing. The returns possible from our high-yielding trees allow farmers to invest in machinery, fertiliser, health, education – a better future. Our trees enable the industry to find a new, more prosperous equilibrium. Our trainings make sure this transition occurs sustainably.
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Development of a non-infectious encapsidated positive control RNA for molecular assays to detect foot-and-mouth disease virus.
Positive controls are an important component of the quality-control of molecular tests used for diagnosis of livestock diseases. For high consequence agents such as foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), the positive controls required to monitor template extraction, reverse transcription and amplification steps usually consist of material derived from infectious viruses. Therefore, their production is dependent upon the use of high containment facilities and their deployment carries the risks associated with inactivation of "live" FMDV. This paper describes the development of a novel non-infectious positive control that encodes FMDV RNA sequences that are encapsidated within Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) particles. This surrogate RNA has been engineered to contain sequences from the 5'UTR and 3D regions of FMDV targeted by many molecular assays (conventional RT-PCR, real-time RT-PCR and RT-LAMP). These sequences were inserted into a movement-deficient version of CPMV RNA-2 which is rescued from cowpea plants (Vigna unguiculota) by inoculation with RNA-1. In order to evaluate the performance of these encapsidated RNAs, nucleic acid prepared from a 10-fold dilution series was tested using a range of molecular assays. Results generated by using the molecular assays confirmed RNA-dependent amplification and the suitability of these particles for use in a range of diagnostic tests. Moreover, these CPMV particles were highly stable for periods of up to 46 days at room temperature and 37 °C. Recombinant CPMV can be used to produce high yields of encapsidated RNAs that can be used as positive and negative controls and standards in molecular assays. This approach provides a surrogate that can be potentially used outside of containment laboratories as an alternative to inactivated infectious virus for molecular diagnostic testing.


After graduation at Cimarron, Pilot training completed in Lubbock, Texas and Russell received his full pilot's certification on August 8, a day after his 24th birthday. Also, he married Winifred Hoffman whom he had met in college.
His training concluded, Russell was assigned to the 307th Bomb Group as the co-pilot on a B24D . The group assembled in Ephrata, WA and Russell's wife stayed there with him while he continued to prepare for combat.
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#ifndef _USER_H
#define _USER_H

#include <znc/zncconfig.h>
#include <znc/Utils.h>
#include <znc/Buffer.h>
#include <znc/Nick.h>
#include <set>
#include <vector>

class CModules;
class CChan;
class CClient;
class CConfig;
class CFile;
class CIRCNetwork;
class CIRCSock;
class CUserTimer;
class CServer;

class CUser {
public:
	CUser(const CString& sUserName);
	~CUser();

	bool ParseConfig(CConfig* Config, CString& sError);

	// TODO refactor this
	enum eHashType {
		HASH_NONE,
		HASH_MD5,
		HASH_SHA256,

		HASH_DEFAULT = HASH_SHA256
	};

	// If you change the default hash here and in HASH_DEFAULT,
	// don't forget CUtils::sDefaultHash!
	// TODO refactor this
	static CString SaltedHash(const CString& sPass, const CString& sSalt) {
		return CUtils::SaltedSHA256Hash(sPass, sSalt);
	}

	CConfig ToConfig();
	bool CheckPass(const CString& sPass) const;
	bool AddAllowedHost(const CString& sHostMask);
	bool IsHostAllowed(const CString& sHostMask) const;
	bool IsValid(CString& sErrMsg, bool bSkipPass = false) const;
	static bool IsValidUserName(const CString& sUserName);
	static CString MakeCleanUserName(const CString& sUserName);

	// Modules
	CModules& GetModules() { return *m_pModules; }
	const CModules& GetModules() const { return *m_pModules; }
	// !Modules

	// Networks
	CIRCNetwork* AddNetwork(const CString &sNetwork, CString& sErrorRet);
	bool DeleteNetwork(const CString& sNetwork);
	bool AddNetwork(CIRCNetwork *pNetwork);
	void RemoveNetwork(CIRCNetwork *pNetwork);
	CIRCNetwork* FindNetwork(const CString& sNetwork) const;
	const std::vector<CIRCNetwork*>& GetNetworks() const;
	bool HasSpaceForNewNetwork() const;
	// !Networks

	bool PutUser(const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);
	bool PutAllUser(const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);
	bool PutStatus(const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);
	bool PutStatusNotice(const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);
	bool PutModule(const CString& sModule, const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);
	bool PutModNotice(const CString& sModule, const CString& sLine, CClient* pClient = NULL, CClient* pSkipClient = NULL);

	bool IsUserAttached() const;
	void UserConnected(CClient* pClient);
	void UserDisconnected(CClient* pClient);

	CString GetLocalDCCIP();

	CString ExpandString(const CString& sStr) const;
	CString& ExpandString(const CString& sStr, CString& sRet) const;

	CString AddTimestamp(const CString& sStr) const;
	CString AddTimestamp(time_t tm, const CString& sStr) const;

	void CloneNetworks(const CUser& User);
	bool Clone(const CUser& User, CString& sErrorRet, bool bCloneNetworks = true);
	void BounceAllClients();

	void AddBytesRead(unsigned long long u) { m_uBytesRead += u; }
	void AddBytesWritten(unsigned long long u) { m_uBytesWritten += u; }

	// Setters
	void SetNick(const CString& s);
	void SetAltNick(const CString& s);
	void SetIdent(const CString& s);
	void SetRealName(const CString& s);
	void SetBindHost(const CString& s);
	void SetDCCBindHost(const CString& s);
	void SetPass(const CString& s, eHashType eHash, const CString& sSalt = "");
	void SetMultiClients(bool b);
	void SetDenyLoadMod(bool b);
	void SetAdmin(bool b);
	void SetDenySetBindHost(bool b);
	bool SetStatusPrefix(const CString& s);
	void SetDefaultChanModes(const CString& s);
	void SetClientEncoding(const CString& s);
	void SetQuitMsg(const CString& s);
	bool AddCTCPReply(const CString& sCTCP, const CString& sReply);
	bool DelCTCPReply(const CString& sCTCP);
	bool SetBufferCount(unsigned int u, bool bForce = false);
	void SetAutoClearChanBuffer(bool b);

	void SetBeingDeleted(bool b) { m_bBeingDeleted = b; }
	void SetTimestampFormat(const CString& s) { m_sTimestampFormat = s; }
	void SetTimestampAppend(bool b) { m_bAppendTimestamp = b; }
	void SetTimestampPrepend(bool b) { m_bPrependTimestamp = b; }
	void SetTimezone(const CString& s) { m_sTimezone = s; }
	void SetJoinTries(unsigned int i) { m_uMaxJoinTries = i; }
	void SetMaxJoins(unsigned int i) { m_uMaxJoins = i; }
	void SetSkinName(const CString& s) { m_sSkinName = s; }
	void SetMaxNetworks(unsigned int i) { m_uMaxNetworks = i; }
	// !Setters

	// Getters
	std::vector<CClient*>& GetUserClients() { return m_vClients; }
	std::vector<CClient*> GetAllClients();
	const CString& GetUserName() const;
	const CString& GetCleanUserName() const;
	const CString& GetNick(bool bAllowDefault = true) const;
	const CString& GetAltNick(bool bAllowDefault = true) const;
	const CString& GetIdent(bool bAllowDefault = true) const;
	const CString& GetRealName() const;
	const CString& GetBindHost() const;
	const CString& GetDCCBindHost() const;
	const CString& GetPass() const;
	eHashType GetPassHashType() const;
	const CString& GetPassSalt() const;
	const std::set<CString>& GetAllowedHosts() const;
	const CString& GetTimestampFormat() const;
	const CString& GetClientEncoding() const;
	bool GetTimestampAppend() const;
	bool GetTimestampPrepend() const;

	const CString& GetUserPath() const;

	bool DenyLoadMod() const;
	bool IsAdmin() const;
	bool DenySetBindHost() const;
	bool MultiClients() const;
	const CString& GetStatusPrefix() const;
	const CString& GetDefaultChanModes() const;

	CString GetQuitMsg() const;
	const MCString& GetCTCPReplies() const;
	unsigned int GetBufferCount() const;
	bool AutoClearChanBuffer() const;
	bool IsBeingDeleted() const { return m_bBeingDeleted; }
	CString GetTimezone() const { return m_sTimezone; }
	unsigned long long BytesRead() const { return m_uBytesRead; }
	unsigned long long BytesWritten() const { return m_uBytesWritten; }
	unsigned int JoinTries() const { return m_uMaxJoinTries; }
	unsigned int MaxJoins() const { return m_uMaxJoins; }
	CString GetSkinName() const;
	unsigned int MaxNetworks() const { return m_uMaxNetworks; }
	// !Getters

protected:
	const CString         m_sUserName;
	const CString         m_sCleanUserName;
	CString               m_sNick;
	CString               m_sAltNick;
	CString               m_sIdent;
	CString               m_sRealName;
	CString               m_sBindHost;
	CString               m_sDCCBindHost;
	CString               m_sPass;
	CString               m_sPassSalt;
	CString               m_sStatusPrefix;
	CString               m_sDefaultChanModes;
	CString               m_sClientEncoding;

	CString               m_sQuitMsg;
	MCString              m_mssCTCPReplies;
	CString               m_sTimestampFormat;
	CString               m_sTimezone;
	eHashType             m_eHashType;

	// Paths
	CString               m_sUserPath;
	// !Paths

	bool                  m_bMultiClients;
	bool                  m_bDenyLoadMod;
	bool                  m_bAdmin;
	bool                  m_bDenySetBindHost;
	bool                  m_bAutoClearChanBuffer;
	bool                  m_bBeingDeleted;
	bool                  m_bAppendTimestamp;
	bool                  m_bPrependTimestamp;

	CUserTimer*           m_pUserTimer;

	std::vector<CIRCNetwork*>  m_vIRCNetworks;
	std::vector<CClient*>      m_vClients;
	std::set<CString>     m_ssAllowedHosts;
	unsigned int          m_uBufferCount;
	unsigned long long    m_uBytesRead;
	unsigned long long    m_uBytesWritten;
	unsigned int          m_uMaxJoinTries;
	unsigned int          m_uMaxNetworks;
	unsigned int          m_uMaxJoins;
	CString               m_sSkinName;

	CModules*             m_pModules;

private:
	void SetKeepBuffer(bool b) { SetAutoClearChanBuffer(!b); } // XXX compatibility crap, added in 0.207
};

#endif // !_USER_H

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Liquefied petroleum gas becoming very popular among Kazakh drivers
By Yerbolat Uatkhanov in Business on 30 June 2017
ASTANA – Kazakhstan drivers continue to convert their vehicles to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) consumption. In 2016, LPG sales increased by 43 percent, while gasoline sales fell by 5 percent. Experts find this trend promising and favourable not only for the drivers, who save money, but for the national economy and environment as well.
"As of today, LPG is 2.5 times cheaper than low-octane gasoline and three times cheaper than high-octane gasoline. Up-to-date LPG equipment sufficiently increases engine life, decreases engine oil pollution and the converted car has two fuel tanks, which means that its trip distance doubles. We can talk about the increase in demand for our services from one year to the next," said Gazcentre Manager Varvara Gutchenko in an interview with The Astana Times.
Gutchenko, who works at a major service station for LPG vehicles, finds that one of the reasons for converting is that it makes vehicles more environmentally friendly.
The number of LPG filling stations in the country year increased by 51 percent in one year, as driver demand for gasoline fell in response to a sharp increase in prices in the last 12 months after the government refused to control fuel prices. In 2016, the average price of the most popular type of gasoline increased by 13 percent compared to 2015. Consumers found the price increase excessive and actively converted their cars to the cheaper LPG fuel.
"We don't call on everybody to convert their cars to LPG consumption. It is irrational to convert some vehicles; for example, old cars or cars with insignificant everyday kilometrages. It is also unwise to convert a car if its owner plans to sell it in the near future, because the cost of converting won't pay for itself in a short span of time." said Gutchenko.
In 2016, LPG sales reached 457,800 tonnes and 28.9 billion tenge (US$89 million), approximately two times the 2015 numbers.
Gutchenko believes up-to-date equipment is absolutely safe and that LPG equipment is safer than a car's standard gasoline system. She noted it is extremely important to select a qualified company to complete the conversion.
"An LPG tank's wall thickness is 3-4 mm. A gasoline tank's wall is 0.5 mm. It is much firmer than a standard fuel tank, which has been proven in ghastly accidents. Also, an LPG tank is equipped with a multivalve, which disables its explosion. All you need to do is to choose the right place for converting and further maintenance of your car," she said.
"The minimum price for LPG converting is 260,000 tenge (US$800) for a four-cylinder passenger car. We don't give preference to any brand, because every brand has its own advantages and peculiarities without regard to the country of its production. But we can say that Italian, Turkish and Polish equipment is the best. Italian companies started to produce the equipment in the 1960s and have great work experience," she added.
The conversion has one disadvantage – the loss of free space in the trunk, which is solved by using a toroidal tank, she said. The tank is installed instead of a spare wheel or under the body of the car, truck, pickup or SUV.
Gutchenko noted the station has a variety of customers. The company converted even tiny three-cylinder cars and worked on brand-new BMW, Lexus and Range Rover models and other luxury cars whose owners want to save money. In addition to the fact that these cars are expensive, they are complicated and have very protected electronics. Sometimes, experts need to dismantle half the car to install LPG equipment and electronic adjustment is difficult.
"The Toyota Land Cruiser is the most popular model we are working on. This model amounts to approximately 50 percent of the cars we convert and maintain," said Gutchenko.
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This is quite unlikely. Because at present, there aren't a whole lot of areas in the continental United States that don't receive cable. This wired facility is not only responsible for transmitting cable TV, however. In most locations, cable is also used to provide high-speed internet and digital phone. And many people like it this way. Because cable connections are generally considered to be more reliable than most wireless linkages. Also, they can sometimes be much cheaper. To gain a complete picture of all the cable companies in your area, get in touch with us today. Don't bother coping with lengthy Google searches. Call our dedicated helpline now, and get some straight-up answers. Because it's your dollar that's on the line!
To qualify for the contract buyout program, a customer must order and install a qualifying Triple Play promotion or limited Double Play promotion (offers not available in all areas). Offer available to qualifying customers only, who have no outstanding obligations to Charter. Check amount will be determined by the early termination fee on the final bill from the previous provider, not to exceed $500.
When we went through the ordering process for Spectrum and got all the way to the check-out, we realized we never got to choose which DVR we wanted. Spectrum offers both Motorola and Cisco DVRs (neither of which stand out from competitor DVRs like the Genie or Hopper 3), and as far as we can tell, you get whichever one Spectrum decides to send you.
Allconnect.com presents information collected independently from official provider websites. We regularly update the site in an effort to keep this information up-to-date and accurate at all times. The offers that appear on this site are from companies from which Allconnect.com receives compensation. Allconnect.com does not include every service provider available.
Let's not fool ourselves, the media companies go where the money is, and right now that's still the cable/satellite/telco providers by a wide margin. But according to Steve Shannon, Roku's General Manager of Content and Services, the tide is turning in negotiations between content providers and cable distributors with more rights becoming available for streaming services. "As each contract comes up for renewal, digital rights are becoming more valuable," he says. "Content creators recognize that there's value there and as cable companies are looking to reduce programming costs, some are giving up the digital rights."


The actual output of many binary classification algorithms is a prediction score. The score indicates the system's certainty that the given observation belongs to the positive class. To make the decision about whether the observation should be classified as positive or negative, as a consumer of this score, you will interpret the score by picking a classification threshold (cut-off) and compare the score against it. Any observations with scores higher than the threshold are then predicted as the positive class and scores lower than the threshold are predicted as the negative class.
The predictions now fall into four groups based on the actual known answer and the predicted answer: correct positive predictions (true positives), correct negative predictions (true negatives), incorrect positive predictions (false positives) and incorrect negative predictions (false negatives).
Binary classification accuracy metrics quantify the two types of correct predictions and two types of errors. Typical metrics are accuracy (ACC), precision, recall, false positive rate, F1-measure. Each metric measures a different aspect of the predictive model. Accuracy (ACC) measures the fraction of correct predictions. Precision measures the fraction of actual positives among those examples that are predicted as positive. Recall measures how many actual positives were predicted as positive. F1-measure is the harmonic mean of precision and recall.
AUC is a different type of metric. It measures the ability of the model to predict a higher score for positive examples as compared to negative examples. Since AUC is independent of the selected threshold, you can get a sense of the prediction performance of your model from the AUC metric without picking a threshold.
One application might need to be extremely sure about the positive predictions actually being positive (high precision) and be able to afford to misclassify some positive examples as negative (moderate recall).
Another application might need to correctly predict as many positive examples as possible (high recall) and will accept some negative examples being misclassified as positive (moderate precision).
In Amazon ML, observations get a predicted score in the range [0,1]. The score threshold to make the decision of classifying examples as 0 or 1 is set by default to be 0.5. Amazon ML allows you to review the implications of choosing different score thresholds and allows you to pick an appropriate threshold that matches your business need.


The start of a new year is that perennial time when individuals across the world makes pledges to take up new hobbies or go to the gym more often. Wellness is often a big focus of New Year's resolutions, and those dealing with a substance abuse disorder can take this time to similarly prioritize their physical and mental well-being.
There is no easy way to manage or beat a drug addiction or substance abuse disorder, but opportunities to take positive steps do present themselves. And even if New Year's resolutions may seem a little corny, it's the promise you make to yourself to do better that matters.
Jan. 1 begins a new year, and a new you. What better way to chronicle — and support — your journey than a journal. Writing can be therapeutic in many ways, as well as a good reinforcement tool to use in recovery. Your entries don't have to be entirely about sobriety, but reflect whatever you're thinking at the moment, or recount some experience from that day. It can be hard to practice mindfulness and other good behaviors and habits with a troubled and racing mind, which is something a journal may be able to help with. Write down a dream from the night before, a conversation, a goal, a thought — write anything, as it may help more than you might think.
Substance abuse can affect your mental health as much as your physical. Fighting side effects like isolation or depression can become a drain. Getting out of bed, much less the front door can seem like the biggest challenge. And even though come January, much of the country may be covered in snow and ice, there's no better time to take that step outside and find active means to progress your recovery. That may mean attending meetings with a support group that you fell off with, or finding a new program entirely. Whatever action you take is a move in the right direction, as recovery can't be achieved from a couch.
This resolution falls a bit in line with the one above. For any number of reasons, reaching out can be just as hard as stepping out. However, no person is an island. A support network is key, but can only be drawn on if you ask those around you to participate in your recovery process. It can be hard to contact and involve family, friends, sponsors or peers. Many take the burden of beating substance abuse solely unto themselves, often mistakenly and at their own risk.
It doesn't matter what you choose to do — take a walk, play with shelter dogs, go to the library, take a drawing class — so long as you choose to do something productive each week. It can be something you know (like gardening) or something entirely different (like learning a musical instrument). Just the simple activity itself can do a world of good. One opportunity for such self-enrichment is volunteering. Depending on where you are in your recovery, volunteering can prove to be a valuable experience that can help you find meaning in giving back to others.
The road to sobriety is not the easiest one to travel, with many detours and obstacles possible along the way. In the long course of a year, there's the potential you may be dealt a setback. It happens, and it happens to everyone on the same trek to recovery. The difference comes down to how you respond. Having the foresight to anticipate a challenge like a relapse may help you better pick yourself up and continue on. Working up the inner strength and willpower to succeed in recovery can make a misstep just that — only a misstep and not an event that completely derails your sobriety.
In the end, New Year's resolutions may only take recovery efforts so far, as they need to be followed through on to have any effect. If you or a loved one is dealing with a substance abuse disorder and is ready to enter treatment, call Fairwinds Treatment Centers today.


Prepare to be transported to a different time. A time when rum runners were king and speakeasies were the place to be. Let me introduce you to your new 'blind tiger' – The Spare Room.
More highbrow than the seedy blind pig establishments, The Spare Room resides in the historic Roosevelt Hotel. It houses a bar/game room filled with classic cocktails and nouveaux twists on classics with all the pomp and circumstance of today's mixology establishments.
Hone in on a bartender named Ryan. Imagine if Alexander Skarsgard just happened to be the kick back bartender at your neighborhood bar who happens to make a drink like it was a culinary masterpiece… that would be Ryan. I had the Smoking Gun made from mezcal and God only knows what else… but you could just as well say, "I like anything with gin" and he will make an equally delicious libation. I have had Ryan's mixology masterpieces from back in the day when he was the mixologist behind the Library Bar downstairs. Let me just say, it is worth the mighty price tag$.
To give you an idea of what kind of music is appropriate to such an establishment, here is The Dustbowl Revival thanks to JamIntheVan.com. I saw them at the Spare Room on Oct 6.


At the Skaftfell Arts Centre in Seyðisfjörður, people interested in Icelandic art and culture gathered together recently to find out which regional projects would receive recognition for their efforts from the annual Eyrarrós awards. With Iceland's president and first lady looking on, the crowd waited with smiles and bated breath to see which of the three final contestants would win the first prize of 1.6 million ISK and which would come away with the two runner-up prizes of 300,000 ISK.
Under a deep blanket of fresh snow, the thriving little town of Seyðisfjörður is a perfect example of the value of the arts to Icelandic culture. With Skaftfell, LungA school & festival and a Technical Museum that is home to some fascinating and arcane old technology, it's very clear that life out here in countryside is much improved by the splashes of colour that cultural spaces provide.
The Eyrarrós awards offers to shine a spotlight on some of the most deserving projects, as well as a little money to help them along. Now in it's tenth year, the fund is jointly administered by the Reykjavík Arts Festival and The Icelandic Regional Development Institute. Its purpose is to fund and promote projects in the sparsely populated regions outside of Reykjavík, where it can be a challenge to maintain a thriving cultural programme for the local populace.
There were 46 applications to the fund, showing that interesting projects are springing up all over; people around Iceland are developing alternative spaces for culture, often with a lot of resourcefulness and passion but minimal income.
The applications were sifted through by a panel of representatives from Reykjavik Arts Festival, The Icelandic Regional Development Institute and Air Iceland, which narrowed the field down to a shortlist of ten before a final three were chosen. All of them are present in the homely confines of Skaftfell for the Eyrarrós ceremony, which was held at the Presidential residence just outside of Reykjavík until last year. Fittingly, for an award that celebrates the outlying regions, the presentation was moved to Akureyi in 2013. That time around, the winner was the Skaftfell itself, making the much-loved Arts Centre the perfect host for the 2014 event.
Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri is up against some tough competition in the shape of the Skrímslasetrið á Bíldudal Monster Museum, and Áhöfnin á Húna, a seaborne tour by Mugison and a crew of musician friends who circled Iceland aboard the Húna II, playing 16 shows in 18 days around the country's coastline.
After a few speeches from those involved in the decision-making, it's this project, from literally all around Iceland, that takes first prize to warm applause from the assembled audience of nominees. In front of photographers and camera crews, the ship's somewhat stoic captain Víðir Benediktsson lets slip a proud smile as he is presented with the award by its patron, first lady Dorrit Moussaieff.
With Eyrarrós offering much needed support and publicity to such great projects, the awards fulfill an important role in celebrating the culture of Iceland's remote regions.


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Logs and system events are WIDELY underused. They can provide mindful insight into a system or a business's behavior.
We'll go through the principals of logging (the why, and how), to writing logstash filters, configuring elasticsearch schemas to fit our demands and then to Kibana (configuration, querying and dashboard creation).
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NATS scoops two awards for ExCDS project
NATS, the UK's leading provider of air navigation services, won two awards for its ExCDS project at the Association of Project Management (APM) Awards earlier this week.
The programme to introduce an electronic flight management system called ExCDS was awarded Project of the Year: Transformation 2018 and the Overall Project of the Year award at this year's APM awards ceremony, beating off competition from the likes of Rolls-Royce Submarines, BBC, BAE Systems and HMRC.
ExCDS is a new electronic flight strip system that was recently introduced in to the London Terminal Control Centre, which manages around 5,000 flights entering and departing London and the South-East every day. It replaces the paper strips system that has traditionally been used and will help ensure NATS can handle future growth in flights.
Balancing the need to deliver a safe and efficient service in the country's busiest airspace alongside the requirement to train controllers and deliver that transition with minimal impact on the flying public took a great deal of careful planning and collaboration.
Craig Wallace, Programme Manager for ExCDS, said: "We are delighted to receive these awards. Delivering a project on this scale in an environment that functions 24 hours a day, seven days a week presents huge challenges. The awards recognise all the hard work and dedication from many people across NATS to successfully deliver one of our biggest-ever transformations.
"The competition in these categories was extremely strong, so to win is an amazing achievement."
The annual APM awards recognise the very best project management practitioners, from aspiring young project managers to experienced project professionals managing complex projects and programmes both in the UK and overseas.
The project to implement electronic flight progress strips, or ExCDS, into NATS' Swanwick air traffic control centre began in January 2015 and was successfully completed in June 2018.


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What is Warhammer 40K, and why would Henry Cavill want to star in it?
A primer on what could become the next global entertainment phenomenon
By Charlie Hall@Charlie_L_Hall Dec 16, 2022, 1:51pm EST
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Actor Henry Cavill is no longer content with starring roles as Superman or Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. He will now serve as the executive producer of the Warhammer cinematic universe, and perform as its first big star. But what is Warhammer? Why would one of Hollywood's best and brightest want to put their time and treasure to work bringing it to life? And what characters might he choose to play?
What is Warhammer?
Born out of a gaming tradition that includes mass battles fought with Napoleonic and other historical miniatures, Warhammer is both a game where battles take place on large tables with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of hand-painted miniatures and scale model terrain, and a hobby where fans labor to make those playing pieces as intricate, unique, and dramatic as possible.
The Warhammer universe, created by British game manufacturer Games Workshop — which started its business in 1975, first manufacturing traditional games and then importing Dungeons & Dragons to Europe — has two main branches. The oldest is Warhammer Fantasy, a high-fantasy setting of swords and sorcery. The other, and arguably more popular, branch is called Warhammer 40,000 or 40K.
This science fiction universe was born in the 1980s as political satire, it's the branch that Henry Cavill is most interested in, and it's where his journey into creating a Warhammer cinematic universe will begin.
Warhammer 40,000 is set in the 41st millennium, and humanity is nominally the main focus of its lore. The setting paints a grim picture of a post-post-postapocalyptic society trapped in a literal dark age and ruled by an authoritarian warlord with powerful psychic abilities known as the God-Emperor of Mankind. It is a culture poisoned by its own ignorance, where innovation has come to a standstill and where millions of worlds and billions of people toil away to support war on an unimaginable scale.
Like I said: political satire.
What are the pillars of Warhammer 40K?
Above all else, the world of Warhammer 40,000 is grim and dark. That is true of its signature art style and of its fiction. That has made for fertile ground for storytellers of all stripes, who have adapted the 40K universe to comics, books, video games, and animated series. Games Workshop even has its own subscription television service called Warhammer TV.
Deeply corrupt, bureaucratic, and zealous, humanity in 40K marches on in a constant battle against a panoply of equally corrupt threats. Many a Warhammer storyline has built itself around clashes with chitinous insect hordes, powerful orks, unknowable alien intellects, and even space communists, but the biggest threat to the existence of mankind is Chaos, a magical force capable of corrupting entire planets and turning their denizens into violent cults bent on self-annihilation.
That said, there is a select number of human factions that serve as pillars of nearly every narrative.
Genetically engineered super-soldiers drawn from inhabited worlds all around the 40K galaxy, the Space Marines are 8-foot-tall brainwashed child soldiers clad in fantastical powered armor. There are hundreds of Space Marine chapters and tens of thousands of individual Marines, but the average human will live their entire life without ever seeing one.
The Imperial Guard
The line troops of the Empire, the Imperial Guard are normal humans who enlist or are conscripted into the Imperial army. Drawn from all across the Empire, its forces are representative of nations and nationalities that we can easily recognize today, including British, French, Russian, and Indian units, among others.
The Adeptus Mechanicus
The Adeptus Mechanicus is a sect of humanity that has fully embraced transhumanism. Headquartered on Mars, it is a highly religious group dedicated to the so-called Machine Spirit. It is responsible for the majority of humanity's technological achievements over the last 10,000 years or more.
The Inquisition
A supremely powerful organization within the Empire of Mankind, the Inquisition is dedicated to rooting out heresy against the God-Emperor. Its servants, known as Inquisitors, work furtively around human-controlled space running down conspiracy. Often it finds itself at odds with the forces of Chaos, who work behind the scenes to undermine and destroy the Empire.
What are the classic storylines in Warhammer 40K?
Games Workshop's own publishing imprint has more than 200 books covering all aspects of the Warhammer brand — including Warhammer Fantasy. Known as the Black Library, it is home to several story arcs that are representative of the 40K brand, any one of which could be blown out into a feature film or the beginning of a franchise.
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With more than 60 books in all, The Horus Heresy tells the story of how the God-Emperor created the Space Marines, and of their fratricidal civil war that kicked off in the 31st millennium and brought about the state of affairs in the year 40,000.
The Inquisition Series
Gregor Eisenhorn and Alizabeth Bequin
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The Inquisition Series by author Dan Abnett tells the story of Inquisitors Gregor Eisenhorn, Gideon Ravenor, and Alizabeth Bequin working against a powerful Chaos plot to destroy the Imperium. Imagine a combination of Blade Runner, The Young Pope, and Sherlock Holmes — plus a smattering of Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke's Training Day — and you're more or less in the right wheelhouse.
Gaunt's Ghosts
The Gaunt's Ghosts series, inspired by Sharpe's Rifles — a series of novels by Bernard Cornwell as well as a 1993 television series starring Sean Bean — is perhaps the most pulpy of the three main pillars mentioned here. The central character is Imperial commissar Ibram Gaunt, a political officer who is also a military leader, in the vein of the classic Russian commissars. He commands the Tanith First and Only, a regiment of Imperial guard men and women, against impossible odds.
Who would Henry Cavill play in a 40K movie or TV show?
Many fans have cast Cavill as the God-Emperor of Mankind, but as that character is literally a living corpse, it's unlikely that will be his role — unless The Horus Heresy is the focus. But, even then, it would make more sense to cast Cavill as Horus Lupercal, the archtraitor of those novels, or even as Garviel Loken, a heroic Space Marine who works against his rebellious brothers.
But prudence dictates that Amazon is likely to tread carefully with this new venture, telling smaller stories before going all-in on an epic the size of Star Wars or Dune. Therefore, we could also see Cavill in the shoes of Inquisitor Eisenhorn, or perhaps as Commissar Gaunt. My money is on Eisenhorn, as those books would place the narrative closer to the centers of power in the 40K universe and allow for more follow-on stories and tie-ins — in the vein of how The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett were intimately connected.
Also, a live-action adaptation of the Eisenhorn books was announced in 2019. Little to no additional information has been released since that initial announcement.
So how big is this cinematic universe, anyway?
Recall, however, that 40K is not the sum total of the potential Warhammer cinematic universe. It's something that Games Workshop certainly wants you to remember; that's why it called it out in its own announcement on Friday. In fact, the pantheon of gods in Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy are intimately connected and could serve as a bridge to bring fans from a science fiction setting into a high fantasy one — and vice versa. There are also sub-brands, like Necromunda or Blood Bowl, that could also prove fertile ground for additional series of motion pictures.
The bottom line is that Games Workshop — already one of the most profitable companies in all of tabletop gaming — is sitting on a gold mine of intellectual property. Now that it has enshrined Cavill as its figurehead, there's simply no telling how far things could go.


ok i was diagnosed with PCOS about a 3yrs ago. i have been having regular periods now for 2 yrs. i am 16 days late and i am having some signs of pregnancy. i took a hpt and it was neg. the doctor who told me that i had pcos told me that if i was to become preg. it would be kinda hard to tell thur urine i am going to the doc tomorrow for blood work. can any tell me anything on this?
Yes, the blood test will tell the HCG level. Tell him you want the Quant_tative test. It will give you an exact number. HCG levels build inthe blood and then at certian point- which is different for everyone, spills over into the urine. Good luck, and let us know what happens. I am 12dpo today and losing my mind. I can't stop obsessing.


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Q: Symfony2 security.yml: http basic auth is returning 500 instead of 401 I'm trying to set-up a very simple http-basic authentication with symfony 2. Unfortunatley I keep getting an 500 HTTP error code AccessDeniedException: Access Denied, instead of 401, which would force the browser to show the username/password box.
This is my security.yml:
jms_security_extra:
    secure_all_services: false
    expressions: true

security:
    firewalls:
        secured_area:
            pattern:    ^/
            anonymous: ~
            http_basic:
                realm: "Flow"

    access_control:
        - { path: ^/flow/checkout/, roles: ROLE_USER }

    providers:
        in_memory:
            memory:
                users:
                    user:  { password: userpass, roles: ROLE_USER }
                    admin: { password: kitten, roles: ROLE_ADMIN }

    encoders:
        Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User: plaintext

Any ideas what's wrong?
This is the URL I'm calling: http://local.shop/web/app_dev.php/flow/checkout
And this is the answer I'm getting:

A: Did you try with pattern: .* ?
security:
    firewalls:
        secured_area:
            pattern: .*
            anonymous: ~
            http_basic:
                realm: "Flow"

I suppose that your firewall is bypassed and you try to access directly to a "section" of your application, that you're not able to access if you're not authenticated
With your "old" path, you ask the firewall to "take request into account" only if that request is to / url (that means /foo or /foo/bar or /foo/bar/foobar aren't intercepted)
UPDATE
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] event.DEBUG: Notified event "kernel.request" to listener "Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Firewall::onKernelRequest". [] []
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] security.INFO: Populated SecurityContext with an anonymous Token [] []
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] security.INFO: No expression found; abstaining from voting. [] []
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] event.DEBUG: Notified event "kernel.exception" to listener "Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Firewall\ExceptionListener::onKernelException". [] []
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] security.DEBUG: Access is denied (user is not fully authenticated) by "/var/www/html/cm/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Security/Http/Firewall/AccessListener.php" at line 73; redirecting to authentication entry point [] []
[2013-03-18 09:20:48] security.DEBUG: Calling Authentication entry point [] []

This is an example of log, when kernel intercept a request for a "must-have-auth" resource

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Want a 15-inch mobile workstation? HP gives you almost too many to choose from, ranging from a convertible (the ZBook Studio x360) to a model for engineering students and others on tight budgets (the ZBook 15v) to not one but two thin-and-lights (the ZBook Studio and ZBook 15u).
But the head of the class—and, HP claims, the top-selling mobile workstation in the world—is the full-size ZBook 15. (It starts at $1,699 and rings up for $3,436 as tested.) The "G4" fourth generation of the ZBook 15 was only recently replaced as our Editors' Choice by the Dell Precision 5530.
The Precision 5530 keeps that crown for its mix of power and portability, but the new ZBook 15 G5 has its own strengths: It can hold twice as much RAM (64GB) and half again as much storage (6TB) as the Dell. It's a near-flawless pick for serious design, rendering, simulation, and scientific professionals.
The G5 is no ultraportable—for a moment when taking it out of the box, I actually mistook it for a 17-inch laptop. It measures 1 by 14.8 by 10.4 inches, versus 0.66 by 14.1 by 9.3 inches for the Precision 5530$1,519.00 at Dell or 0.61 by 13.8 by 9.5 inches for the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro At 5.8 pounds, it's an anvil compared to the Dell or Apple (4.4 or 4.1 pounds, respectively).
But anvils aren't usually this configurable. The $1,699 base model features a quad-core Core i5-8300H processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB PCI Express solid-state drive, a 1080p IPS display, and Nvidia Quadro P1000 graphics. My $3,436 review unit stepped up to a six-core, 2.6GHz (4.3GHz Turbo) Core i7-8850H chip, 32GB of memory, a 512GB NVMe SSD, HP's 1080p Sure View touchscreen with built-in privacy filter, and Nvidia's step-up Quadro P2000 GPU.
The spill-resistant, backlit keyboard follows HP's ungainly row-style rather than an inverted-T layout for the cursor-arrow keys—half-size up and down arrows sandwiched between full-size left and right—but is otherwise pleasing.
There are adequate travel and a crisp typing feel; the numeric keypad not found on the Precision 5530 or MacBook Pro; and your choice of an embedded pointing stick or somewhat slippery touchpad for cursor control, both with three good-sized, soft-touch buttons. The keyboard also has the "collaboration keys" found on HP's EliteBook business laptops, shortcuts for making a presentation or answering or hanging up on a Skype call.
Another feature borrowed from the EliteBooks is the test unit's 15.6-inch, full HD (1,920 by 1,080) touchscreen with built-in Sure View privacy filter. The latter, activated by pressing the F2 key, narrows the display's legibility to the user seated directly in front of it, so someone next to you on a plane or train can't sneak a peek and see your confidential information.
It's a great idea that's disappointing in practice because making the screen invisible to prying eyes also makes it murky and barely visible to you. More than a few minutes with Sure View is a guaranteed eyestrain headache.
Not surprisingly, the ZBook does just fine in performance tests. The system posted a sky-high score of 3,879 in our PCMark 8 productivity benchmark, showing it to be massive overkill for Microsoft Office, and crushed its G4 predecessor and other quad-core models in our Cinebench processor measurement and Handbrake video editing exercise. It was a little off the pace of its six-core peers in our Adobe Photoshop image editing workload but by less than a second per filter or effect.


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For me there is nothing worse than waking up in the morning, going to the mirror and being greeted with Allergyface! Ugh! If you are not familiar with the term Allergyface perhaps you are familiar with the symptoms, symptoms that come on after a sneezing or suffering with allergies… Puffy eyes, redness and just an overall run down look. I have been greeted with that run down Allergy Face many times in my life, and there has to be better way. I would love to wake up with a better happier less icky Allergy Face.
The makers of ZYRTEC® have partnered with beauty and fashion expert, Carmen Ordoñez from VivaFashionBlog.com, to help women combat ALLERGY FACE™ – beauty challenges like a puffy face, watery eyes and a red nose that are associated with typical allergy symptoms.
According to a recent survey by the makers of ZYRTEC®, nearly half of women suffering from ALLERGY FACE™ missed out on something like a party or a date because of their allergy-related beauty challenges. Have you ever missed an important event in your life due to allergies? Luckily I have never had my allergies that bad that I would stay home from an event. But once my eyes were bugging me so much with burning and itching, while out at a local theater, I had to "watch" the movie with my eyes closed. I just could not keep them open, they were so bad. I guess I should have stayed home instead?
Carmen Ordoñez, has some great beauty tips and tricks, she has a three-part bilingual video series, created in partnership with the makers of ZYRTEC®, Carmen shares her simple do-it-yourself beauty solutions to help women tackle allergy-related beauty challenges during the warm summer months.
How to combat a Puffy Face – Drink plenty of water each day to help your skin feel hydrated.
How to combat a Puffy Face- Rub and ice cube over your face before applying makeup.
How to reduce the Appearance of Watery Eyes- Apply navy blue or cobalt mascara to help the whites of your eyes appear brighter.
Less is more! Don't overdo it with too much makeup.
- Eyes: Use an eyelash curler before applying mascara to help "wake up" Using a curler will make your eyes look wide open, so you look fresh and awake.
- Nose: If your nose is irritated and dry, avoid putting on foundation, which can look caked on. Instead apply a rich moisturizer and let it dry.
- Face: To help reduce the appearance of ALLERGY FACE™, place a cold, damp cloth on your face for 10 minutes.
Carmen is full of great beauty information, she is so knowledgeable about how to look your best and has some great beauty advice. I may not be as beauty savvy as Carmen is, but I wanted to share some of the tips I use to bring out my natural belleza Latina! I have to agree with the less is more approach… Years ago I tried to cover my Allergy Face with loads of makeup, and this never helped I think it even made my allergies worse! So less is more is my motto as well.
When my eyes are puffy and I need relief, I just adore cool compresses and cucumbers for my eyes. You may have seen commercials, or shows when people go to spas you always see the cucumbers on their eyes. They use cucumber for a good reason, because it really works. The smell refreshes your senses and the moisture lessens the puffiness of your eyes and you feel great after you use them.
Another tip I would have is the BB cream, the newest rage in face moisturizer/ face foundation. I have found that the BB cream really evens out my skin tome and makes me look fresh and young. I love the ease of use, and you can find it in stores for an affordable price.
Lip balm, I never leave the house without it. When my allergies are bad, my lips dry up and get cracked and they feel and look terrible. A basic thing like a .99 cent tube of chapstck can really make a difference. Either tinted or glossy both are great. One quick swipe and I instantly feel better about the way I look and I am sure my husband appreciates my soft list as well.
Have you ever missed an important event in your life due to allergies?
Thankfully no but I do know a friend who suffers horribly from allergies and is always sniffing and red eye laden.
My allergies are terrible. I took my son to a water park yesterday and I was miserable from allergies. Next time I will remember Zyrtec!
My allergies have been so bad, I don't hardly ever wear eye makeup. Thanks for the tips!
My allergies have been terrible this year. My eye makeup washes off from the tears.
Oh how I hate allergies. Mine are absolutely terrible...thank you for your tips!
My allergies are terrible, this is great!
LOVE all of those great tips. I'm glad none of us suffer too much with allergies.


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Prostanthera cryptandroides
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Prostanthera cryptandroides, image Warren and Gloria Sheather
Prostanthera cryptandroides, image Alan Fairley
Prostanthera cryptandroides is a small shrub reaching a height of one metre.
Young growth is sticky. Mature leaves are elliptical leaves to ovate, about one centimetre long and very aromatic.
Flowers are 1.5 centimetres long, white to lilac with a purple-spotted throat. Flowering is conspicuous and profuse between September and April.
There are two subspecies: P. cryptandroides ssp. cryptandroides and P. cryptandroides ssp. euphrasioides. The former has limited distribution and is found in the Central Tablelands and Central West Slopes of NSW. The subspecies is considered to be vulnerable and is protected in Wollemi National Park and Gardens of Stone National Park.
The latter subspecies has much wider distribution and is found from north Queensland to northern NSW.
The main visible difference between subspecies is the lack of glands on the calyx and branches of P. cryptandroides ssp. cryptandroides.
P. cryptandroides is an attractive small shrub to use in native cottage gardens and rockeries.
Tip pruning is necessary to maintain foliage density and abundant blooming.
Propagation from cuttings usually presents no problems.
The species name means similar to the genus Cryptandra. The subspecies name means similar to the genus Euphrasia commonly known as Eyebrights.
By Warren and Gloria Sheather


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Diddy's A Daddy X 2
Sean "Diddy" Combs and his longtime girlfriend, Kim Porter, welcomed twin baby girls into the world Thursday morning (December 21) at an undisclosed hospital in New York, his publicist confirmed.
The children are Diddy and Porter's second and third together; their son, Christian, is 8 years old. Diddy also has 12-year-old son, Justin, with stylist and former girlfriend Misa Hylton-Brim, while Porter has a 15-year-old son, Quincy, from a previous relationship with R&B singer Al B. Sure.
Porter gave birth at approximately 7:56 a.m. to the first child, who weighed 5 pounds. The second girl, weighing in at 5 pounds, 4 ounces, followed just two minutes later.
In honor of two people who had an enormous influence on both Porter and Diddy, 5 lb., D'Lila Star Combs was named after Porter's grandmother, Lila Star, Zimmerman said Thursday afternoon. Her 5 lb. 4 oz. sister, Jessie James Combs, was named after Diddy's grandmother, Jessie Smalls.
"Diddy received an early Christmas gift," his rep, Robert Zimmerman, said in statement. "It gives us great joy to announce the arrival of Diddy's twin girls." Zimmerman noted Diddy flew in for the delivery from Toronto, where he has been filming a movie adaptation of the Broadway play "A Raisin in the Sun." Diddy had been keeping a plane on standby just in case Porter went into labor.
When he received word that Porter was in fact preparing to give birth, Diddy hopped aboard and headed straight to New York — and not a moment too late, according to Zimmerman. "[Diddy] made it just in the nick of time for the delivery," he said. "Both Kim and the girls are doing great."
Diddy and Porter first revealed they were having twins in September with a video message on the rapper's MySpace page. At the time, Porter was noticeably pregnant in pictures, but the couple wasn't aware they were having twins until right before they made their announcement public.
We wish them the best of luck. Twins seem to be going around. First Diana Krall, now Diddy. I see a lot of work in their future…..
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Introduction

  09 Sep 2015

About this class

This class will focus on basics for the first half (lectures) and papers during the second.

Books for this class:

Compilers by Aho, Lam, et. al.

Adv Compiler Design and Implementation by Muchnick

No midterm?

Architectures

VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) basically combines many ops into one instruction, allowing fast execution. Like SIMD but more. Not very effective so far though. Still valid in the microcontroller domain.

Multicore is what we all know and may or may not love. Sequential programs only use one core. How do we convert sequential to multiple? We haven't solved it.

SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) encompasses GPU, DSP, etc. Good for math.

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National Premiere of the Film If the Seed Doesn't Die
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Sinisa Dragin's "If the Seed Doesn't Die" will have its national premiere within the National Class competition selection at this year's Cinema City festival. The world premiere was at 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival last October. Its first award, the "Hubert Bals Audience Award" came at the renowned film festival in Rotterdam.
"If the Seed Doesn't Die" offers a universal and provocative story on the importance of man's will for preserving one's identity and credibility. The film was inspired by a two hundred year old Romanian legend about a phantom church floating along the Danube, creating a background for a modern story about two fathers, a Serb and a Romanian, whose lives intersect on this river. They meet a boatman who reminisces on the legend of the wooden church which Romanian peasants drag across a frozen lake to their village, in a time when Orthodox churches were strictly forbidden in Romania. The plot is multilayered. One story covers one of the more serious problems in these parts – human trafficking. The second one paints absurd, almost grotesque societies in a post-communist era. The third speaks of people's enduring endeavors from the present, as well as from the past. There is also destiny, unexpectedly resolving tragic situations, instantly giving meaning to everything.
This Serbian-Romanian-Austrian coproduction was carried out by an international trio of actors; Bosnian actor Mustafa Nadarevic, Romanian actor Dan Condurache, and Austrian actor Franz Buchrieser. Our audience remembers Mustafa Nadarevic from Emir Kusturica's "When Father Was Away on Business" and Goran Markovic's "Reflections". Among Serbian actors we can recognize Milenko Pavlov, Milos Tanaskovic and Boris Radak, while Dusan Joksimovic's superb photography gives this film a unique signature.
Long time cameraman/photographer for Reuters, Sinisa Dragin first asserted himself as a short film director. For his engagement in this field he received his first award at Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 1994 for his first short film "The Sorrow of Black Gold". Numerous recognitions followed for his first feature film "Long Journey by Train" and subsequent "Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth". Dragin: "All my previous films depict the reality I live in. I use them to try and find a key for understanding reality. 'If the Seed Doesn't Die' is yet another step in that direction, an intricate mural of the present, shaded with shadows of the past".
Fully packed screenings of the film at Rotterdam film festival and an hour long conversation with the author after the screening at Tokyo International Film Festival speak for themselves. "If the Seed Doesn't Die" is distributed by "Oktobar film" from Belgrade, so the audience will be able to see it even after its Cinema City premiere.


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It is an amazing documentary.
While it comprises of 10 parts and takes an investment of time, it is really gripping and insightful. It also at times is quite horrific.
Some of revelations that were new to me:
JFK thought the war was unwinnable but feared that he wouldn't get re-elected if he admitted that to the public.
Our election process worked. Anti-war candidates RFK and Eugene McCarthy challenged LBJ in the primary, did better than expecting, causing LBJ to decline to run again.
Our judicial process worked. When newspapers published the Pentagon Papers, Nixon sued, but the Supreme Court defended the press' right to report.
Nixon really was a crook. For example, he tried to sabotage peace talks as a presidential candidate. He wanted to be the one to end the war.
The numerous atrocities by some members of both sides were truly unimaginable. It's one thing to read about them or see still photographs. It's another thing to watch old clips and hear/see the interviews with both perpetrators and victims.
Sadly, the 200,000 South Vietnamese, who had cooperated with the U.S., were literally left behind. There's a very tough interview with a Marine, who had snuck away on one of the last copters out; he had been given orders to lie and tell people that they would be evacuated. He excused himself to go to the bathroom and instead left.
The series is very much worth the time. Kudos to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. There truly is no costless war.
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Memoirist Rob Kaye reflects on 3 decades as a park warden
Words: Shelly Decker | Images: Blaise van Malsen
Rob Kaye loved having a dangerous job.
"I'm amazed that I'm still alive," says the retired park warden (Biological Sciences Technology – Environmental Sciences '76).
His commitment to the environment and passion for the backcountry warden service are the focus of his recently self-published memoir, Born to the Wild: Journals of a National Park Warden in the Canadian Rockies. Among memories of his childhood and his 12 years – 1977 to 1989 – as a park warden in Jasper National Park, Kaye raises concerns about cutbacks to park staff and our ability to preserve our national parks.
Kaye feels privileged to have been a backcountry warden even though his job included facing raging rivers, snowstorms, getting bucked from a horse and unexpected wildlife encounters, such as an angry moose. It was a time before wardens carried cellphones or even handheld radios, leaving Kaye truly on his own.
"It is a very unique occupation that is dying."
"It's very dangerous but that's why I enjoyed it."
"It's very dangerous but that's why I enjoyed it," says Kaye, now 60, who retired in 2010 after 33 years with Parks Canada (finishing at Elk Island National Park).
The romantic image of the lone park warden riding over the crest of a remote mountain, keeping watch, is now rare. In his book, Kaye captures the history of Jasper's warden service, including the 2013 decision to no longer assign dedicated backcountry warden positions, driven by reduced funding.
"It is a very unique occupation that is dying. We don't have that backcountry presence any longer," says Kaye, who now lives in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. With reduced funds, parks staffing is centred around "the front country where most of the people are," he adds.
During his career, the self-described environmentalist saw himself as a "guardian of the parks" and says cutbacks have challenged efforts to monitor species-at-risk programs, ecological changes in remote areas, wildlife and vegetation restoration, and wildlife-human conflict management.
Some of the change has been positive. Kaye recalls growing up in Jasper during a time when bears freely foraged garbage at the dump and in back alleys in town. Those days of ignoring bear habituation to human food are mostly gone, thanks largely to the efforts of park staff.
"We've come a long way," he says.
But is it far enough? With the changing role of the park warden, Kaye felt compelled to record the way things were in hopes of having a positive impact on the future. "Those stories are going to be gone because hardly anyone's out there anymore. I wanted to record some history."
After 33 years of working in our national parks, he says his purpose was clear.
"At the end of the day, when I retired, I was working for the environment."
A career spent protecting Canada's wilderness - and a reminder that work must continue.
https://www.techlifetoday.ca/articles/2015/rob-kaye-born-to-the-wild
Memoirist Rob Kaye reflects on 3 decades as a park warden: A career spent protecting Canada's wilderness - and a reminder that work must continue. https://www.techlifetoday.ca/articles/2015/rob-kaye-born-to-the-wild


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Today is the day when we remember the Life Giving Cross. It is made of wood, but has been endowed with enormous power when our Lord was crucified upon it. Indeed, it is a pious belief that the Cross corresponded to the Trtee in the Garden of Eden. St. Romanos the Melodist hymned beautifully of this in "On the Adoration at the Cross":
"The Most High planted in the middle of Paradise The thrice blessed wood, the gift of life for us, In order that, in approaching it, Adam might find eternal and immortal life, But he did not strive earnestly to know this life, And he failed to attain it, and revealed death. However, the robber, seeing how the plant in Eden Had been beautifully transplanted in Golgotha, Recognized the life in it and said to himself: `This is what my father lost formerly In Paradise.'"
This weekend we will reflect upon this. We are transferring Divine Liturgy for the Feast to Sunday, and you will find it to a beautiful and deeply meaningful service.
1. The coming week: First, due to circumstances beyond my control, I need to postpone tomorrow's adult education class. We will reschedule it for 4:00 pm on Saturday, September 22.
We will continue, however, with Great Vespers on Saturday evening at 5:00 p.m., and Divine Liturgy Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. We will serve small compline with the appropriate canon on Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. As mentioned, on Saturday, September 22, we will have our next adult education class at 4:00 p.m.
2. Remember that our parish annual meeting will be on Sunday, October 28. Please give us your pledge of support as soon as possible.
3. Yesterday, I received a package from Greece, with two very beautiful items for the Church. There is nothing to say who they are from however! I would like to be able to thank the donor, at least privately, so if it was you, please let me know if you don't mind.
4. As it stands now, Pani and I will be gone on October 7. Subdeacon Maximus will conduct our service that day.
5. Please pray for all of those affected by Hurricane Florence. First and foremost, of course, all of the people, but also spare a prayer for pets and wildlife that may be affected. We ourselves are fortunate that we will receive only a very slight brush from this terrible storm.
I hope to see everyone this weekend!
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Making music that her "cousins in the village" will like has landed rapper Sho Madjozi a top accolade. She has been named the best entertainer in Africa by the business publication Forbes Woman Africa.
The 26-year-old artist, whose real name is Maya Wegerif, is unapologetic about her music, lyrics, hair and attitude. But she admitted this week that her religious mother called her out on her lyrics.
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That strategy had paid off. She featured on the Vogue World 100 list of people to watch in 2019, after performing at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 last year. At the festival she shared the stage with Ed Sheeran, Usher, Chris Martin from Coldplay and Beyoncé, among others.
She has also bagged a collaboration with Damon Albarn, co-founder and lead vocalist of virtual British rock band Gorillaz.
The Huku star said it was "surreal" to be chosen by Forbes, along with strong women from across the continent.
"I really couldn't believe it. Being an independent artist, I never expected to get such recognition. It is encouraging because the hard work that I have put in is being seen.
"Sometimes you don't feel like you are being seen because you are going up against artists that have entire teams dedicated to getting them exposure, and most of the time you feel like you work yourself to death and it is not seen," Madjozi noted.
Announcing the winner, Forbes described Madjozi as an "unintimidated young South African musician" who in addition to her music "prides herself in uplifting others".
It was an accolade for the artist from the village of Shirley, just east of the N1 between Polokwane and Thohoyandou in Limpopo.
She follows, among others, Trevor Noah and Black Coffee by getting mainstream international recognition.
"I have performed in several countries and it is so great to hear fans sing my music back to me, to feel the love.
She has helped put her home language of Tsonga on the map and is one of the few musicians to rap in the language. However, coming from a conservative Christian home, her racy lyrics have sometimes ruffled feathers.
Madjozi recently caught the attention of Albarn, who collaborated with her on the title track, No Games, from his upcoming extended-play recording called Molo, after the Xhosa greeting.
"He hit up a couple of artists. I was one of them. He is a pretty big deal and really well known. They seemed to like it and thought it was a real vibe," she said.
Madjozi always knew she wanted to be a star and cut her teeth as an actor on Mzansi Magic's popular youth telenovela Isithembiso, and as a poet trying to change the world by speaking about racism that black people experience every day.
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Teams from the Southwest states will come together in Dallas with the goal of being named The Best in the West!
We try to accommodate all coaching and schedule requests, but we cannot guarantee this. Please bring coaching help if you have more than one team. Coaching conflicts that cannot be resolved are NOT a vaild reason for withdrawal from this event, and fees will not be refunded for this reason.
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in the wake of the horrible loss of life from a lone gunman in Las Vegas.
Special insight from a family member of a previous gunshot victim.
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Are you fearful for your life and the lives of your family?
for "A Prayerful Response to the Mass Shootings in Las Vegas"


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Asia's largest tropical fish oceanarium at the point of completion, Sentosa Underwater World, is a unique oceanarium showcasing some 2,500 marine life from 250 species from around the regions. It was the first Underwater World to be constructed outside Australia.


In his final interview as sitting president, Obama speaks on the "unusual" transition that America will experience with the imminent presidency of Donald Trump.
Last night, Barack Obama appeared on 60 Minutes for his last interview as sitting president. Donald Trump takes over the office in four days time. Throughout Trump's campaign as well as his surprise victory, Obama has been restrained on directly condemning the controversial Make America Great Again movement. He has also remained mostly quiet on the sensational elements of Trump's rise to power that have hogged up much of the media coverage. In speaking to 60 Minute's Steve Kroft, Obama warned the country, "don't underestimate the guy, 'cause he's gonna be the 45th President of the United States."
"The one thing I've said to him directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward, certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place."
The above comment came after Obama admitted that Trump had run an "unusual" and "improvisational" campaign. When asked if one can run the country in such an improvisational manner, Obama responded, "I don't think so." He feels that that the institutions and customs that define American democracy need to be followed by anyone who's in power, regardless of the political movement he might represent.
Obama also touched on his opinion that his administration is the first in "modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House." Looking back on Trump's campaign, many feel that he won't follow such a scrupulous example. Obama also noted that it's important for the president to have "thick skin," which does not seem to belong to the guy who fires back on Twitter each time he's insulted by a celebrity, be it Meryl Streep or Alec Baldwin.


While installing Windows 7 64-bit onto a Samsung 850 Evo SSD, I encountered error 0x80070057 immediately after formatting the hard drive. Microsoft has a couple of support articles on this issue, but neither of them provided fixes.
As described here, the root cause of the problem was the SSD being pre-configured with a GPT partition table.
For whatever reason, the Windows 7 installer is unable to re-configure the SSD with an MBR partition table during the formatting process. You have to use DISKPART to re-configure the SSD with an MBR partition table before beginning the Windows 7 installation.
Re-configuring the SSD with an MBR partition table is not difficult.
Start by turning off your computer and unplugging every hard drive except the one you want to install Windows 7 onto.
Next, turn on your computer, boot to the Windows 7 installation media, and get to the Windows 7 install screen that has a button titled Install now.
On that screen type Shift + F10. A Command Prompt should appear.
At this point, the SSD has been re-configured with an MBR partition table and you can begin installing Windows 7 as usual.
In addition to the problem above, I had a faulty SATA cable.
I encountered I/O errors while using the DISKPART command on a Samsung 840 Evo SSD and Samsung 850 Evo SSD. However, to add to the confusion, I did not encounter any issues using that faulty SATA cable on a 1 TB Western Digital Blue hard drive.
In addition, the 1 TB Western Digital Blue hard drive did not require me to run DISKPART. I can only assume spindle hard drives are not pre-configured with GPT partition tables but modern SSD's are.
Once I connected a new SATA cable, DISKPART ran successfully on the Samsung 840 Evo SSD but not on the Samsung 850 Evo SSD. In my particular case, the Samsung 850 Evo SSD was faulty as well.
If re-configuring your hard drive to an MBR partition table does not fix the Windows 7 installation problem, verify your SATA cables and hard drives are not faulty.


You could cultivate a melee and ranged option on the same character, yes. Taking weapon finesse would allow you to use the same MODs for hit and damage on the melee weapon due to insightful damage buff. DEX to hit and INT for damage.
I think OP is asking "does the atk speed bonus from SWF apply to repeaters?" in which case the answer is "no." SWF is melee-only, even though the description doesn't make that explicit; it should really say "single one-handed melee weapon" to avoid confusion.
The main confusion stems from SWF listing that it is useable with a rune arm.
Crossbows are operated with both hands just like bows even though Artificers hold them in just one when they are charging a rune arm.
Wait, what? Wow! B/c Cetus is complaining that SWF just became OP - 30% greater than THF.
If that's the case, a melee artie w/rune arm would eat everything!


French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech after awarding the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur) and the National Order of Merit (Ordre National du Merite) to Olympic and Paralympic athletes at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. French President Hollande says he's not running in 2017 because he knows he might not have enough support.
France's unpopular president, Francois Hollande has announced he will not run in next year's election. We look at how the unprecedented decision has shaken things up even further in a country that's also seeing the rise of a far-right party.
Plus, we hear what's at stake in Italy's constitutional referendum this weekend.
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