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UN human rights and counter-terrorism expert on mission to Uzbekistan
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, will visit Uzbekistan from 29 November to 7 December 2021 to assess the impact of counter-terrorism practices and laws in human rights.
During her visit, the independent human rights expert is scheduled to meet Government representatives, law enforcement officials, members of parliament, policy specialists and the Ombudsperson. She will also meet UN entities and other international organizations present in Uzbekistan. Ní Aoláin will also visit detention centres to interview people suspected or convicted of terrorism related activities and extremist crimes.
The visit of the human rights expert will also include a component on repatriations, including the identification of good practices in the return, rehabilitation and reintegration of foreign fighters, and women and children with alleged links to ISIS.
The expert will share her preliminary observations with the media during a press conference on Tuesday, 7 December at 3 pm at the UN building (4 Shevchenko street). Copies of her end-of-mission statement and press release will be available in Uzbek, Russian and English. Access to the press conference is limited to journalists.
The Special Rapporteur will present a comprehensive report with her findings and recommendations to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2022.
Ms. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, took up her functions on 1 August 2017. She is concurrently Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures' experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.
UN Human Rights, country page - Uzbekistan
For more information and media requests, please contact Ms. Michelle Erazo (michelle.erazo@un.org /+41 79 444 4860).
For media inquiries related to other UN independent experts:
Jeremy Laurence – Media Unit (+ 41 22 917 9383 / jeremy.laurence@un.org)


This one speaks for itself. Of all the guns-don't-kill-people type of shirt, this one is the most fun. Now obviously you good, law-abiding gun owners don't go around killing people, but it's edgy and provocative--just like you.
I can't be held responsible for what may happen if you send your kid to school wearing one of these, but I'd be really curious to know how that turns out. So if you have a funny story, be sure to post it on our Facebook page.


If you like classic motors and fancy a road trip around the Mediterranean how about participating with like-minded people across Spain in Citroen 2CV's.
A week long leisurely drive called "The Silver Road Rally" takes place in March organised by 2CV Adventures. The route uses an old trade road, Via de la Plata, running from the northern city of Gijon to Seville.
The rally makes its course from Oviedo with stopping for breaks in Zamora, Caceres and Seville with a final stop across the line in Malaga.
Entry to this fun packed adventure can be had for the sum of £1,250 per person and includes return ferry from Portsmouth to Santander, food, accommodation, the car and a mechanic.
If you're lucky enough to own a Citroen 2CV or any other Classic car for that matter, then why not give one of our specialists a call 0333 003 8162 for a quotation!


A few days ago, Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) informed the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) that some fuel elements do not fulfil the requirements of the applicable specifications. Accordingly, KKL decided to replace them for safety reasons. The safety of man and the environment was ensured at all times.
ENSI has issued Leibstadt NPP approval to restart subject to conditions. In an interview Ralph Schulz, Director of the Safety Analyses Division, shares some background insights.
Leibstadt NPP can restart power operation after an extended annual overhaul. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate has checked the clarification of the causes and measures derived from it for the avoidance of critical boiling conditions or dryouts. Safe operation without risk to humankind or the environment is ensured.
An inspection of fuel elements in Leibstadt NPP revealed that critical boiling states – so-called dryouts – had systematically occurred over several cycles.
The Swiss nuclear power plants use forgings for the safety-relevant main components with fully documented manufacturing and material quality certificates. This was confirmed by the operators in response to an enquiry made by the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI).
Heat is generated in the reactor as a result of nuclear fission. To guarantee optimum cooling of the fuel rods, their cladding tubes must always be covered with a film of water. If they are not completely covered with water in specific areas, this is referred to as "dryout".


I simply wrapped the burlap around the container & glued the corner.
To make the bow I pinched the scrap piece together in the middle & pinned it with a safety pin.
After I took these pictures I noticed the rim of the container showing.
If you want you can cover it up with a thin piece of rope or twin.
Or just pull the skirt up a bit.
Go ahead and have fun. This project was so easy!!
Soon I'll be bringing fall to the rest of my house.
I'm going to look for some of that burlap. I always buy a few mums to enjoy inside the house. This is a fun and quick project and looks great! Happy Fall my friend!


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Philip Martin (Inglewood, Californië, 31 oktober 1978), beter bekend als Bishop Lamont, is een Amerikaans rapper die tot 2010 onder contract stond bij Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.

Biografie
Bij Aftermath werkte hij samen met onder meer 50 Cent, Eminem, Chris Martin, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Royce Da 5'9", Talib Kweli, Busta Rhymes, RZA en Warren G. Hij heeft bij Aftermath honderden nummers opgenomen, maar tot een officieel soloalbum kwam het nooit.

Hij was door Dr. Dre eigenlijk aangetrokken om een prominente rol te spelen op zijn album Detox, zoals Snoop Dogg op The Chronic en Hittman op 2001. Dat gebeurde echter niet, want in 2010 vertrok Lamont bij Aftermath, omdat hij graag een soloalbum wilde uitbrengen, wat bij Aftermath niet lukte door Dre's perfectionisme.

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Q: Generic LERP for Unity I want a generic linear interpolation function for Unity.
It should work for
float, Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Color, Quaternion
Lerping requires this logic.
static T LerpGeneric<T>(T a, T b, float t)
{
    return a * (1f - t) + b * t;
}

ofcourse  it does not compile, and I'm not sure if this logic also works for Quaternions or not.

A: There is no simple way to do this currently. .Net generics are not like c++ templates, so you need to use a generic constraint if you want specific methods to be usable. Unfortunately no such interfaces are available for the built in types.
Providing functionality like this has been proposed multiple times. The latest would be generic math, but this is only in preview in .Net 6. I would assume that .Net 6 is not yet supported by Unity3d.
A workaround could be to delegate the add and multiply methods to delegates, i.e.
public LerpGeneric<T>(T a, T b, float t, Func<T, T, T> mul, Func<T, T, T> add)
    => add(mul(a , (1f - t)) , Mul(b , t));

But this would likely just be more complicated than providing individual implementation for each type. So I would probably just bite the bullet and provide 6 implementations. In practice it would not be a lot of code, so the maintenance overhead should be minimal.
Quaternions usually have a Lerp implementation, since that is one of the major reasons to use quaternions in the first place. Unity3ds vectors and colors also have lerp-implementations already provided, and for floats you have Mathf.Lerp.

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Angela Walker joined the Patient Advocate Foundation in 2010 with over 14 years of experience in operations and human resources. As Chief of Talent Management, Mrs. Walker has responsibility for all areas of Human Resource for the organization. She provides strategic direction and operational support to the Talent Management team and leaders of the organization to ensure all recruitment, retention, training, and development programs are successful and sustain the organization's mission and values.
Prior to joining PAF, Mrs. Walker served in various executive roles with Target Corporation over the span of 9 years, to include Executive Team Leader of Operations and Executive Team Leader of Human Resources before joining Riverside Health System as the Director of Human Resources for their large multi-specialty group.
During Angela's 4 years at Riverside Health System, she was directly responsible for the management of Human Resources for over 100 physician practices. She has led and facilitated many practice acquisitions and strategic initiatives during her tenure and was extremely influential in shifting the organizational culture to become more physician lead. Angela also led the process for Riverside Medical Group to achieve the Employer of Choice award in 2008 and 2009. Riverside Medical Group was the first Medical Group in the country and the first health care system in Virginia to be awarded this honor.
Angela is a 1997 graduate of Christopher Newport University, located in VA. She also received her Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) in May of 2007 from the Human Resources Certification Institute.


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Stress, neuropeptide link may be key to fighting obesity, revolutionizing cosmetic surgery
Chronic or prolonged stress is a key factor in the creation and maintenance of fat, according to a paper published in advance online in Nature Medicine on July 1. The signaling pathway - neuropeptide Y and its cellular receptor Y2 - play a crucial role in this process.
National report - Investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, say they used simple, nontoxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory mice.
Researchers say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could one day revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, as well as treatment of obesity-associated diseases. The findings may also lead to better control of metabolic syndrome.
Chronic or prolonged stress is a key factor in the creation and maintenance of fat, according to the published paper. The signaling pathway - neuropeptide Y and its cellular receptor Y2 - plays a crucial role in this process.
Study methodology
Mice were regularly exposed to stresses such as standing in cold water or the presence of aggressive mice, which increased circulating levels of neuropeptide Y (NPY).
Only chronically stressed animals fed a high-fat diet developed abdominal obesity in two weeks, and within three months, metabolic syndrome-like condition.
Early studies found that "Stress-activated sympathetic nerves are releasing neuropeptide Y in blood vessels themselves, and that NPY attracts macrophages, which invade vessel walls," says Dr. Zukowska, who labels the process "neuroinflammation."
"We think that a similar process occurs in the fat as well," she says.
In the mice on the high-fat diet, investigators "noticed an invasion of the subcutaneous and visceral fat with macrophages, which is seen in human metabolic syndrome."
Release of NPY and activation of its receptor stimulated fat angiogenesis, macrophage infiltration and an increase in both the number of fat cells and their lipid content. The macrophages seemed to amplify this feedback loop, and the result was abdominal obesity and a metabolic syndrome-like condition.
'Melting' the fat
"We found that if we block the receptor, not only can we prevent the fat from developing, the same antagonist can be used to 'melt the fat'" in animals that have become obese, Dr. Zukowska says.
"It doesn't happen overnight, which is probably very good, but slowly, within two weeks, we can reduce the fat pockets by 50 percent in these animals," she says.
"Over the course of three months, there are reduced metabolic problems of central obesity, such as fatty liver, hypertension and glucose intolerance."
The role and function of the NPY-Y2 receptor pathway is very well conserved between mouse and man. Dr. Zukowska demonstrated a similar effect by injecting human liposuction fat into a nude mouse.
"Normally the injected fat gets absorbed within three months. But in the presence of neuropeptide Y, it not only survived, it revascularized, with vessels growing from the mouse."
Dr. Zukowska believes that local supplementation of NPY will be useful to either grow fat or maintain its survival when used in plastic surgery to reconstitute a breast after a mastectomy or in reconstructive facial surgery.

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Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection has recommended outfitting Border Force officers at the country's eight international airports with iPhones and attachable biometric devices to verify the identity of overseas travellers of interest in near real-time, according to a report by IT News.
The department has tested the portable biometric scanners at Brisbane international airport with the intention of replacing the bulky scanners which officers have complained are inconvenient to carry.
The Enhanced Biometrics at the Border (EBatB) technology comprises of an iPhone and a device that plugs into the bottom of the smartphone to enable the officer to log on.
The device allows roaming frontline officers to identify suspicious non-citizen travelling from other countries that have been flagged for an identity check by airport security at other international airports.
Using the device, officers are able to "very quickly take a minimum of four fingerprints [from a referred non-citizen], and in less than 60 seconds [run] those fingerprints… against departmental holdings", said the department's identity and biometrics division head Joe Franzi.
"All the immigration passport information, various name changes, you name it, everything we hold on that person, including their face, comes up on screen for the officer," Franzi said.
The process would typically take several hours to complete, as well as involve officers consulting multiple systems and making several phone calls.
For nearly a decade, the department has been collecting biometric information from the visa applicants of more than 40 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The department was considering expanding the biometric data at its disposal by "being able to connect up and interrogate law enforcement data holdings", Franzi said.
The devices would be funded by the federal government's $99.2 million budget to provide immigration risk system to detect risky visa applicants before they enter the country.
The new capability will link up with the national facial biometrics system being developed by the Attorney-General's Department, which was recently provided with access to drivers' licence images by state and territory governments.
Earlier this year it was revealed that the Australian Passport Office is developing in-house a new facial recognition system to keep pace with the country's two government biometrics initiatives.


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60 Out – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle [Review]
by David Spira•Posted 29 October 2018•5 Comment(s)
The elephant in the room.
Date Played: August 24, 2018
Team size: 4-8; we recommend 4-5
Price: $38 per ticket Sunday – Thursday, $40 per ticket Friday – Saturday
Ticketing: Private
REA Reaction
I was really excited to play Jumanji. It was clear that 60 Out had put a lot of effort into creating this game. I wish I could say that effort correlated directly to quality… but I can't. I'm pretty sad about it.
The Jumanji escape room was a beautiful mess filled with interesting toys and striking set pieces. Far too many puzzles were broken; the game seemed littered with the remains of removed or adapted puzzles. The character/ special ability feature was too opaque to allow for deliberate character moments. Unfortunately, the problems overshadowed a number of great puzzles and interactions.
Finally, it looked like a jungle, but it didn't feel like Jumanji. There weren't moments of overcoming deep-seated character flaws… nor were there many meaningful references back to the film (the original or the sequel).
Scenery snobs
Best for players with at least some experience
Why play?
A detailed, unusual set
Nifty interactions
Some beautiful set pieces
This licensed escape room loosely interpreted the story of the recent film sequel Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. Our group had all been sucked into a cursed jungle adventure video game.
Once we were in the video game, we each selected a character and received an ability based on that role.
Finally, we had to complete Jumanji before the game destroyed us.
Jumanji kicked off with us hanging out in our friend's bedroom. After we started the video game console and booted up Jumanji, we found ourselves in a jungle environment.
The bedroom was a fairly accurate recreation of Alex Vreeke's '90s room from an early scene of the movie.
While the jungle setting didn't specifically reference anything that I could recall in the film, it was a solid tropical jungle setting.
60 Out's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a standard escape room with a high level of difficulty.
One key feature was the role-based play. This created situations where only a specific player (or at least their wrist band) could complete a specific interaction.
Core gameplay revolved around searching, observing, and making connections.
+ There were some beautiful, eye-catching set pieces.
– An awful lot of interactions were broken, including some key moments that should have been badass. Looking around the set, it seemed riddled with ghost puzzles. This was frustrating.
+ I kind of wanted to keep the Jumanji board.
– The character superpowers (activated with the wrist bands) were clunky. It was often difficult to tell which bracelet applied to which interactions and why. It was difficult to connect the characters and powers; everything seemed abstract. This whole portion of the game felt hollow.
+ The jungle setting looked pretty good. While it wasn't perfect, wooded environments are some of the most difficult to create and 60 Out clearly put a lot into the set. I have to give them credit for this creation.
– 60 Out put a lot of emphasis on Alex's bedroom. This was a bafflingly faithful recreation of a set that received about 15 seconds of screen time in the movie.
+ There were a number of fun puzzles and interactions including a teamwork puzzle, a physical interaction, and one that wasn't particularly challenging, but was beautiful and a delight to complete.
– The finale was overflowing with potential, but it fizzled when it barely worked. I'm still not sure how it was supposed to have functioned.
– To me, the core of any Jumanji story is a group of individuals helping one another overcome their weaknesses to discover their true strengths. It's supposed to be personal, not just a jungle adventure. This was absent from 60 Out's Jumanji escape room. I could forgive this if 60 Out had nailed other big moments from the movie, but it didn't really do that either. Maybe they didn't get to see the movie before having to design the game, if that's the case, then this failure is on the studio as well.
There is street parking.
For food, we recommend Village Idiot.
Book your hour with 60 Out's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.
Disclosure: 60 Out comped our tickets for this game.
David Spira
Co-founder of RoomEscapeArtist.com. Creative technologist, guitarist, puzzle junkie, and turner of phrases. I fight for the user.
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by David L•Posted 29 October 2018
Played this room in August 2018 and our group was disappointed in a jaw dropping "I can't believe this just happened" sort of way. Although our Game Master was very poor, the room and its puzzles was never going to be solvable without a steady stream of hints and GM bypasses. Clunky, illogical, misinformation and broken/disfigured props galore. Still have scars from the biggest let down of an escape room I've ever experienced. 60 Out has some great games (Titanic, Nautilus, Ghost ship, etc.) but Jumanji was a dud.
by David Spira•Posted 29 October 2018
I'm sad to hear that, but also kind of encouraged because I have heard from some folks that this game was amazing. I just don't see it.
by Michelle Rundbaken•Posted 29 October 2018
Didn't they partner with the movie on this one? How did it fall so short quality and story wise?
I can't say. Licensed property doesn't mean that they licensee is involved, or if they are, that their involvement is helpful.
The video and tabletop game industry has an overwhelming amount of crappy licensed games.
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Q: How to find the $n$-th derivative of the function $\log(1-x(1-x))$ I know how to find the $n$ derivative of $\log (1-x)$ which is $-\frac{(n-1)!}{(1-x)^n}$, but how to find the $n$-th derivative of the function $\log(1-x(1-x))$?

A: By purely symmetry conditions we get that $x(1-x)$ is a parabola with a vertex at $x=\frac{1}{2}$ which means we can rewrite it as
$$x(1-x) = \frac{1}{4}-\left(x-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2$$
Then the log becomes
$$\log\left(\frac{3}{4}+\left(x-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2\right)$$
Finding the $n$th derivative of this function at $\frac{1}{2}$ is equivalent to finding the $n$th derivative of
$$\log\left(\frac{3}{4}+x^2\right) = \log\frac{3}{4} + \log\left(1+\frac{4}{3}x^2\right)$$
at $0$. The function on the right has a known Taylor series
$$\log(1+x)  = \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^{k+1}x^k}{k}$$
Can you take it from here?
The answer when you want to check is

 $$f^{(n)}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right) = \begin{cases} \log\frac{3}{4} & n=0 \\ 0 & n\text{ odd}\\ \frac{(-1)^{\frac{n}{2}+1}2^{n+1}(n-1)!}{\sqrt{3^n}} & n\text{ even}\\ \end{cases}$$


A scanner is now connected and available for use in the Geology Department minilab in Timerman 217.
The web kiosks in the Barrington Student Union have been upgraded to newer and faster iMacs with 17″ displays offering a much higher resolution.
The Minerva Café Kiosks have been upgraded to 17″ flat panels running at a much higher resolution than the previous models. Being newer displays you'll notice sharper text and brighter content.
Last week we implemented a configuration change to the Mac operating system preferences that makes your Helios "Home Directory" the default save location.
It is important to realize that this only applies to NEW documents being saved for the first time! Existing documents opened by double-clicking them will save to their original location (as they always have).
As always, save early and save often!


I have a new Drupal 7 site at mysite.com (address changed) - a CentOS 5.5 Linux machine in my full control.
By reading registration mails (they run through my Gmail account) I've noticed, that Drupal spammers seem to refer to my site via the address forum.mysite.com. Since any requests to a subdomain.mysite.com are redirected by my hoster to mysite.com, this works for them.
I wonder, if anyone has noticed same pattern (seems to be some common spammer tool behaviour) and what have you done? I'm thinking of using mod_rewrite to block access to forum.mysite.com, but maybe there is a better way? (Because I'm not sure if that spammer tool will go away if I close access to forum.mysite.com).
I'm not asking about Mollom or Captcha modules, because they seem to be not-up-to-date for Drupal 7 yet. And the spam users aren't a too big problem for my site anyway, because it has a card game embedded at the front page and I have a cron job deleting users not playing that game.
Usually, forms take at least a few seconds to fill out when a human is entering data into them—especially surveys, user registration forms, etc. Spam bots try to fill out as many forms as they can in as little time as possible, so they will often fill out a form within a couple seconds at most. The Honeypot module requires at least 5 seconds to pass (by default - you can adjust this too!) before a form can be submitted.
Mollom - Offers spam protection through their premium service.
CAPTCHA - A simple image-based CAPTCHA builder.
reCAPTCHA - Implements reCAPTCHA for image-based CAPTCHAs.
Hidden CAPTCHA - Similar to this module in it's effectiveness.
I have had great success by using a fake e-mail field. The field named 'e-mail' was invisible and would never be filled out by users.
The e-mail field that I actually used was named something different, e.g. e-mail2.
Spammers would fill out the field named 'e-mail', which instantly marked them as spammers. Users would never even see that field.
As far as I can see, the Mollom module is ready for Drupal 7. Based on my Drupal 6 experience with Mollom, I would recommend it.
For the registration process, I would suggest the Spambot module. It will stop bots trying to register by verifying their IP address, email address and username on Stop Forum Spam website.
You can optionally contribute to that service by automatically submitting your website's registration attempts.
No hassle for human users like captchas!
You can also use a Captcha module to stop bot spammers. drupal 7 version is in beta, but does work.
Coming to the party a bit late on this question, but here is a solution that has worked for me.
I have a local community based site. There is no reason for someone in Russia, for example, to ever access my site. Many of my spam posts originate from some other country. Analyzing my google site analytics I can see where those are, and, with geo ip location being solid enough to at least determine to overall country origin of, I can block them having access to any of the site. So far, I have never had anyone in my community tell me they were blocked or had problems with this, and the logs tell the same story.
So far my best experience has been adding a few fields to the registration form in combination with rules. I do like the geo IP approach even though we don't have a strictly locally based user base; past logs from a Wordpress hosted site shows that we don't have users from countries that a majority of SPAMMERS come from.
I would also reccommend the Mollom module; it has helped reduce so much spam on my site, even though it still gets a little bit. Install Mollom Module for Drupal has a easy guide to installing Mollom.
How to stopping spam when using Print_mail (submodule of Print)?


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A South Bay native her entire life, LeAnne grew up in Manhattan Beach and attended Mira Costa High School. Her parents are originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada and as a young girl she spent many memorable summers there visiting with her grandparents and numerous relatives. It remains today as a special place in her heart.
After high school, she continued her education earning a degree in Social Sciences with a minor in Management from the University of California Irvine. There she built her sisterhood of Delta Gamma friends which continues to be an important part of her life, highlighted by their annual trips.
LeAnne's career began with Enterprise Rent a Car gaining quality experience in Sales, Marketing and HR Recruiting. Ten years later she decided to start a family and discovered the true joy of being a mother of three - two girls and a boy.
Once her children were older, LeAnne reentered the job place as a Sales Representative for four years before arriving at Green Hills Memorial Park.
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LeAnne truly embraces the community events hosted by Green Hills and after 4 years as an Advance Planning Advisor she has become a recognized regular on both the Hay Ride and Sleigh Ride during the Harvest Festival and Let it Snow events. She is surely to get you in the spirit as she leads the group in singing seasonal songs.
LeAnne's most heartwarming moment at Green Hills occurred when she watched her father and son walk the Vietnam Moving Wall during the Memorial Day Observance.
A natural trait of LeAnne is the willingness to help others and recognizing how she can accomplish this. She understands how life can have its challenges and her own determination has benefited those she has served at Green Hills. Experiencing the loss of close friends unexpectedly confirms LeAnne's belief in wanting to assist others to ensure they have secured their final wishes.
LeAnne thoroughly enjoys everything the beach community has to offer and relishes the peaceful time walking along the beach or visiting with friends during a nice dinner in the Redondo Beach Village. From Bunco nights to quiet time at home surrounded by her children, LeAnne maximizes her relationships.
On Sundays she can be seen at Manhattan Beach Community Church where she has been involved for many years reinforcing her faith. It's here where she has taught her children the value in volunteering time to those in need.
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Things have changed, though the voices are familiar
There were numerous references made to Israel Radio throughout the day, along with remarks about a fresh start and the station's new slogan – Kan v'achshav – which translates as "here and now."
By Greer Fay Cashman
FILE PHOTO: Employees work in the offices of Kan, the new Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2016.. (photo credit: REUTERS)
Reshet Bet, the flagship station of what used to be Kol Israel, went on air in its new Kan identity at 6 a.m. on Monday.
The customary one-hour review of morning newspapers at 5 a.m. was missing, but it was integrated into This morning, the news program hosted by Aryeh Golan. That was preceded by a bulletin read by Malachi Hezkiya, who showed that old habits die hard as he signed on and off with "News from Israel Radio." He got it right in time for the 7 a.m. news.
Kan will be a little more laid back than Israel Radio was, using a somewhat lighter tone of voice and more music to break up the seriousness of discussions.
The review of newspaper headlines was done by Zohar Sadeh in conversation with Golan, who played a segment of the last news broadcast from Israel Radio's studios in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood read by Kobi Barka'i at 11 p.m. Sunday. A series of news readers bade heart-rending farewells to Israel Radio, thanking generations of listeners for their loyalty and current listeners for their messages of appreciation and goodwill.
On Monday morning, Golan utilized some word play on the Kan name – which means "here" – to say the new broadcast entity would provide service just as good from here as it has from there – meaning Romema.
There were a couple of glitches. The first segment of commercials was not heard – a relief to those who left their radios on when regular Reshet Bet broadcasts were cut off and replaced by advertisements and a wide variety of music. Golan apologized, saying the new studio was in an industrial area, not even close to the urban section of Modi'in.
Another glitch occurred at noon, just after Barka'i began reading the news. Suddenly there was dead silence, followed by a commercial, followed by the voice of Esti Perez in the background. Everything was eventually sorted out and Perez was able to run her usual program.
There were numerous references made to Israel Radio throughout the day, along with remarks about a fresh start and the station's new slogan – Kan v'achshav, which translates as "here and now."
Former Channel 1 weather reporter Sharon Wexler is now doing that job for Reshet Bet; its former military reporter and commentator Amir Bar-Shalom is now political reporter for Reshet Bet; and Keren Neubach's Agenda program can now be heard from 10 a.m. Her previous 8 a.m. time slot was taken over by Kalman Libeskind, who has a more political slant than Neubach.
There is other swapping of beats and media, plus a few new names for listeners and viewers to learn. Veteran Broadcaster Shalom Kittal, who was with Israel Radio for many years before becoming head of the news corporation at Chanel Two, came back to Israel Radio a few months ago as a guest co-anchor. He now has a Thursday morning show on Kan Reshet Bet.
Sharon Idan – who updated Israel Radio listeners on developments regarding Knesset amendments to the Public Broadcasting law – now informed the audience of minor changes underway at Kan and details of broadcast content.
Curiously, he failed to mention the court case related to splitting the Israel Broadcasting Corporation that led to a vote in the Knesset last week. Golan also refrained, but he did note that for the first time since 1967, the public broadcasting radio stations would not broadcast from Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day.
In an interview with Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz, a member of the Security cabinet, Golan asked whether there would be a more convenient means of getting to Modi'in. Katz told him not to worry, saying, "You will get to Jerusalem and the US Embassy will get to Jerusalem."
Golan spoke about the possible transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem with Natan Gutman – who is now IBC's man in Washington, after serving in that capacity for the IBA – yet more proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Q: How can I play a custom sound in WatchOS 3 that will playback on the watch speakers I've read that we can now play custom sounds on the apple watch in watchos 3.
According to the announcement from Apple so apparently there is but I don't have an example to test it out: 3D spatial audio implemented using SCNAudioSource or SCNAudioPlayer. Instead, use playAudioSource:waitForCompletion: or the WatchKit sound or haptic APIs. Found here: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInwatchOS/Articles/watchOS3.html
Can someone place a simple example of this. I'm not using SceneKit in my app as I don't need it but if that's the only way to play a custom sound then I'd like to know the minimum code required to accomplish this.  Preferably in Objective c but I'll take it in whatever shape.  I'm ok using SpriteKit if that's easier also.
Here's what I have so far but it doesn't work:
SCNNode * audioNode = [[SCNNode alloc] init];

SCNAudioSource * audioSource = [SCNAudioSource audioSourceNamed:@"mysound.mp3"];
SCNAudioPlayer * audioPlayer = [SCNAudioPlayer audioPlayerWithSource:audioSource];
[audioNode addAudioPlayer:audioPlayer];

SCNAction * play = [SCNAction playAudioSource:audioSource waitForCompletion:YES];
[audioNode runAction:play];

A: I can confirm, that @ApperleyA solution really works!
Here is the swift version:
var _audioPlayer : AVAudioPlayerNode!
var _audioEngine : AVAudioEngine!

func playAudio()
{
    if (_audioPlayer==nil) {
        _audioPlayer = AVAudioPlayerNode()
        _audioEngine = AVAudioEngine()
        _audioEngine.attach(_audioPlayer)

        let stereoFormat = AVAudioFormat(standardFormatWithSampleRate: 44100, channels: 2)
        _audioEngine.connect(_audioPlayer, to: _audioEngine.mainMixerNode, format: stereoFormat)

        do {

            if !_audioEngine.isRunning {
                try _audioEngine.start()
            }

        } catch {}

    }

    if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "test", ofType: "mp3") {

        let fileUrl = URL(fileURLWithPath: path)

        do {
            let asset = try AVAudioFile(forReading: fileUrl)

            _audioPlayer.scheduleFile(asset, at: nil, completionHandler: nil)
            _audioPlayer.play()

        } catch {
            print ("asset error")
        }

    }

}

A: This is Objective-c but can be translated into Swift
I ended up using AVAudioEngine and AVAudioPlayerNode to play audio on the Apple watch.
The gist of how to do this is as follows:
I call the following inside the init method of my AudioPlayer (it's an NSObject subclass to encapsulate the functionality)
_audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayerNode alloc] init];
_audioEngine = [[AVAudioEngine alloc] init];
[_audioEngine attachNode:_audioPlayer];

AVAudioFormat *stereoFormat = [[AVAudioFormat alloc] initStandardFormatWithSampleRate:44100 channels:2];
[_audioEngine connect:_audioPlayer to:_audioEngine.mainMixerNode format:stereoFormat];

if (!_audioEngine.isRunning) {
    NSError* error;
    [_audioEngine startAndReturnError:&error];
}

I have a cache setup so I don't recreate the AVAudioFile assets every time I want to play a sound but you don't need to.
So next create an AVAudioFile object:
NSError *error;
NSBundle* appBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[appBundle pathForResource:key ofType:@"aifc"]];
AVAudioFile *asset = [[AVAudioFile alloc] initForReading:url &error];

Then play that file:
[_audioPlayer scheduleFile:asset atTime:nil completionHandler:nil];
[_audioPlayer play];

UPDATE: If the app goes to sleep or is put to the background there is a chance the audio will stop playing/fade out. By activating an Audio Session this will be prevented.
    NSError *error;
    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:&error];
    if (error) {
      NSLog(@"AVAudioSession setCategory ERROR: %@", error.localizedDescription);
    }
    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:YES error:&error];
    if (error) {
      NSLog(@"AVAudioSession setActive ERROR: %@", error.localizedDescription);
    }

I didn't go over handling any errors but this should work. Don't forget to #import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h> at the top of your implementation file.

A: This worked for me in the simulator
  let soundPath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "cheerMP3", ofType: "mp3")
  let soundPathURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: soundPath!)
  let audioFile = WKAudioFileAsset(url: soundPathURL)
  let audioItem = WKAudioFilePlayerItem(asset: audioFile)

  let audioPlayer = WKAudioFilePlayer.init(playerItem: audioItem)

  if audioPlayer.status == .readyToPlay
  {
    audioPlayer.play()
  }
  else
  {
    print("Not ready!!")
  }

but only if I had a breakpoint at both audioPlayer.play() and after the last }.
dunqan, what did you put at the top of the file, the import statements? I wasn't able to include
import AVFoundation
without an error using Xcode 8.2.1


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The development of green energy in Indonesia can be seen through progress in increasing the electrification ratio and meeting the demands for electricity, said Ziwei here, Monday, according to Antara News Agency.
In addition, Indonesia is also firming up its commitments related to decarbonization through a long-term strategy to achieve low-carbon targets and climate resilience.
The target is attained by achieving 43 percent of renewable energy in the national energy mix by 2050, carbon neutrality by 2060 or sooner, as well as peak carbon emissions by 2030.
Ziwei said that to achieve these targets, Indonesia needs more investment in renewable energy, especially from the private sector.
"AIIB hopes to work together with the public and private sectors in Indonesia towards a greener future," she said.
AIIB has supported Indonesia with a total investment of 2.9 billion U.S. dollars over the last five years and currently has 10 approved projects across various sectors.
One of the approved projects is a telecommunications satellite project in order to provide internet connectivity for around 45 million people in several remote areas in the archipelagic country.
Another project is dam rehabilitation which aims to support Indonesia in enhancing the safety, functionality and management of 140 existing dams.
Recently, the AIIB and the World Bank also agreed to an additional 500 million U.S. dollars to assist Indonesia in preventing, detecting and dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ziwei emphasized that all investments that include energy, urban development and public health services would bridge the gap in funding critical infrastructures in Indonesia. In addition, this investment will also improve national connectivity and increase the welfare of millions of people in the world's 4th largest populated country.
Ziwei noted that lack of access to energy could detain economic and social opportunities and developments. Therefore, promoting access to affordable and reliable green energy is critical to achieving sustainable economic growth.
"I feel very happy to see energy projects can provide value to local people and know that there are millions of people getting benefits from green energy," she said.
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Dowry has been outlawed in India since 1961 – close to fifty years ago. And yet, even today, the papers have enough news reports to suggest that this menace has not only been rooted out of society, but still finds enough acceptance among some families to pose a very serious threat to women's lives and health.
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I guess we'll all find out Saturday at noon. Either way, the Gamecocks have a lot they have to get figured out, and it's critical that they start by beating the Knights.
There are a few nightmare scenarios that are possible.
Say Nunez, who has every right to still be figuring out exactly what all is happening at the collegiate level, throws an interception or two in the first half. Say a defense that has struggled gives up a big play to UCF's offense and gives a group that is statistically the worst in the nation a small dose of hope. The Gamecocks cannot afford any of these scenarios.
If Saturday's game is a stiff test, it won't be a good sign for what awaits in the next two weeks – a trip to Missouri and a visit from LSU.


A few months ago, the board and myself decided it was time to get me some real part time help in our office. After having amazing interns to help me over the years, we knew it was time to hire an individual to help in the USA office.
I was so excited about this opportunity, but also a bit hesitant. Who could I find that could love Arise Africa and be committed to what it takes to work for us? How could I ever find someone who is organized and can put up with me everyday in the office AND deal with my very short attention span?! Who would run behind me cleaning up my messes and keep me in line!? (that takes a very special person who has lots of patience) Who would be ok with my 90 pound chocolate lab in our office everyday and love her as much as I do?
And who could even ever consider putting up with the rest of the crazy people in our office building?!
Well God took care of that. A few weeks ago I was at a friend's wedding and ran into Anna, who was on one of our mission trips years ago. Anna has spent the last few years working for a wedding planing company in Dallas and was actually the planner at my friends wedding. I randomly asked her how things are going, and she mentioned she was interested in doing non-profit work. And that's when I attacked her like a vulture! I mean I almost knocked over the wedding cake to talk to Anna. It wasn't too graceful, but I didn't care.
"Woah, woah, woah what do you mean Anna?!" I asked.
She seemed a little startled, probably because I looked like a linebacker trying to tackle her in my excitement at this possibility. After a few minutes of discussing I knew I had to try to get her! I left the wedding with a full plan on how to recruit.
First, I called/possibly harassed the Kershaws, because Anna is actually Ellen Kershaw's friend. I thought that between Arise Africa and Kershaw's Challenge we could share Anna and pay her full time. I left text messages saying things like "Guys, she will save both of our lives. We have to act now because she'll be snatched up fast." In the end the Kershaws agreed and we got to hire Anna!!
It's been a few weeks since Anna first came to the Arise Africa office. I knew she would fit in well when she didn't miss a beat when the office neighbor's 20 pound cat came into our office - she didn't flench. (Tiger, he has a thyroid problem).
She takes notes on everything that happens in meetings and then reminds me of what I said I would do!! What? That is awesome! It's like having Siri run around with you all day reminding you what is coming up. (Anna's voice is not annoying like Siri and she actually pronounces things correctly and doesn't give you directions to places that don't exist). She has picked up so fast on donor database programs and is working hard with our Zambian staff to get spreadsheets up to date.
Anna will wear many hats with Arise Africa. But most importantly she is my right hand person. Let's be honest, in about a month Anna will be telling me where to go, what to do, who to email back, and what meetings I have coming up. And I can't wait! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE, ANNA?!
Anna also is in charge of our child sponsorship program in the United States. This requires constant work and attention to detail. The burden of that being lifted off my shoulders is great. I can now focus on bigger picture items and know that very important program is taken care of.
We are so excited to welcome Anna to the team! Now, let's pray I don't scare her off!


Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores over the Petri dish and let it sit for two weeks in an incubator, and surprise, the petroleum and its smell will disappear. "The mushrooms consumed the petroleum!" says Mohamed Hijri, a professor of biological sciences and researcher at the University of Montreal's Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV).
Hijri co-directs a project with B. Franz Lang promoting nature as the number one ally in the fight against contamination. Lang holds the Canada Research Chair on Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics and is a professor at the university's Department of Biochemistry. By using bacteria to stimulate the exceptional growth capacity of certain plants and microscopic mushrooms, Hijri and Lang believe they are able to create in situ decontamination units able to successfully attack the most contaminated sites on the planet.
The recipe is simple. In the spring, we plant willow cuttings at 25-centimeter intervals so the roots dive into the ground and soak up the degrading contaminants in the timber along with the bacteria. At the end of the season, we burn the stems and leaves and we are left with a handful of ashes imprisoning all of the heavy metals that accumulated in the plant cells. Highly contaminated soil will be cleansed after just a few cycles. "In addition, it's beautiful," says Hijri pointing to a picture of dense vegetation covering the ground of an old refinery after just three weeks.
This is the visible part of the project, which could lead to a breakthrough in soil decontamination. The project is called Improving Bioremediation of Polluted Soils Through Environmental Genomics and it requires time-consuming sampling and fieldwork as well as DNA sequencing of the species in question. The project involves 16 researchers from the University of Montreal and McGill University, many of which are affiliated with the IRBV. The team also includes four researchers, lawyers and political scientists, specializing in the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects of genomics.
Botanist Michel Labrecque is overseeing the plant portion of the project. The willow seems to be one of the leading species at this point given its rapid growth and premature foliation. In addition, its stem grows even stronger once it has been cut. Therefore, there is no need to plant new trees every year. However, the best willow species still needs to be determined.


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Review: VSN Mobil V.360 Camera
Phil Dzikiy January 21, 2015
VSN Mobil's V.360 Camera ($400) is a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled standalone camera which lets users take pictures or record video in a full 360 degrees. It works with either an included remote or a free iOS app. The single lens camera can take very wide, panoramic pictures and videos, with an image resolution of up to 7MP, and video resolution up to 6480 x 1080 in HD with a 30 fps frame rate. A 2.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor powers V.360, and photos are stored on a micro-SD card, which is sold separately. V.360's removable 2610 mAh battery can be recharged using the included micro-USB cable and charger via USB 3.0. The camera can also be hooked up to an external display via the HDMI port.
Though V.360 Camera appears fragile at first — the high price tag probably contributes to that idea — looks can be deceiving. The shockproof, IP67-rated camera can be submerged 1 meter underwater for up to 30 minutes. V.360 is roughly 4" tall, and about 2 5/8" in diameter at its widest point. It comes with a silicone sleeve, carrying bag, waterproof battery door, adhesive dash mount, and even an adapter that makes V.360 compatible with GoPro mounts — again, this isn't a flimsy piece of equipment.
Setting up V.360 for the first time isn't much of a challenge — you just plug in the removable battery, insert a micro-SD card, and install the free iOS app. From there, the app will take care of the rest. The V.360 app lets users record video and time-lapse video, photos and burst photos, and a surveillance setting that takes photos or videos based on sound or movements. Among other features, the app shows the camera's battery life — which we found to be impressive — shows how many photos you've taken and the remaining capacity on the current card, and also allows users to switch from a flat view to a 360 view.
It's worth noting that two key features — the ability to look at your photos and videos on your phone and to get a live view of what you're seeing or watching — are Wi-Fi only. Luckily, V.360 Camera can also act as a Wi-Fi access point, either unsecured or encrypted. It's an important feature, and in our testing, it worked without any issues.
Taking photos is simple enough, with a click of the photo button on the app or on the remote. We prefer the app, of course — if you've got an iOS device there's not much reason not to use the app. Photos are best compared to similar panoramas we took on an iPhone 6 Plus. Though the V.360 Camera is easier to use — one button push and you've got a full 360-degree shot — the upward-facing angle is different, and the photos are of lower quality than iPhone 6 Plus panoramas. But the file sizes are much smaller. If you need to take lots of panoramic photos, V.360 is a good option, but for most users, the iPhone will be preferable for those rare panorama shots.
Video is where the V.360 camera really excels. With one button push, the camera delivers smooth 360-degree video. The video is stored as an mp4 file on the camera card, which can then be watched in two separate panes stacked on top of each other — both separate halves show 180 degrees of the video at the same time, letting users see everything happening at once. It's a seriously cool feature that works very well — outdoor videographers and creative types should be able to put it to good use.
We experienced a few issues at times connecting to V.360 via Bluetooth while we were outside. The camera would be set up, and we'd lose the connection while not even 10 feet away. Other days, however, we had no problems at all. Users can always fall back on the Wi-Fi access point option when using the app, which is nice. Our firmware was updated to the newest version during testing, so we're hoping any lingering Bluetooth bugs can be fixed with future updates.
V.360 Camera is a very interesting product. Some may see it as an alternative to a GoPro, while others probably wouldn't mind having both cameras in their arsenal. V.360 works well with the iOS app, and though there are some issues, it's a neat camera, and we were pretty impressed. Considering what the camera does — and its hefty price tag — it's definitely a niche product. Improved image quality or a lower price tag would go a long way, if there's ever a second version of the camera. But for those active photographers/videographers who don't mind a little splurge and are looking for something different, V.360 Camera is a fun, versatile accessory.
Company: VSN Mobil
Model: V.360 Camera
Compatible: iOS devices


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Fengfeng oficialmente Distrito Minero de Fengfeng () es un distrito urbano bajo la administración directa de la ciudad-prefectura de Handan. Se ubica en la provincia de Hebei, este de la República Popular China. Su área es de 353 km² y su población total para 2010 fue más de 500 mil habitantes.

Administración
El distrito de Fengfeng se divide en 11 pueblos que se administran en 1 subdistrito, 9 poblados y 1 villa.

Historia
En 1950, se estableció el distrito Fengfeng.

En 1952, estaba bajo la administración directa de la provincia de Hebei.

En 1954, el distrito se niveló a ciudad.

En 1956, se anexó a la ciudad de Handan y volvió a la administración de distrito.

Economía
El pilar de la economía está dominada por la minería (de ahí el equivalente en su nombre propio) y la industria de la cerámica. La industria energética se han desarrollado rápidamente.

Los recursos minerales probados en el distrito en 2006, incluyen carbón mineral, arcilla, bauxita, piedra caliza, mármol, yeso, etc. En reservas brutas hay unos 3500 millones de toneladas de carbón, 400 millones de toneladas de bauxita, piedra caliza de alta calidad 5.5 mil millones de toneladas, entre otros.

Referencias

Ciudades-distrito de Hebei


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Q: Python crashing while opening a image I am getting an image using an API call and eventually need to put the image into a PDF document using ReportLab. Python was crashing without any error messages when I tried canvas.drawImage method in ReportLab. In order to isolate the issue, I just tried opening the image using the Image class and Python still crashes. I can open the image manually using paint and the code does not error out when using other images, leading me to believe I am missing something while converting the binary to the image. I cannot share the images or the API. The definition of the result from the API is as follows.
<GetImageResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
  <GetImageResult>base64Binary</GetImageResult>
  <errorMessages>string</errorMessages>
</GetImageResponse>

'''
from zeep import Client
import base64

from PIL import Image, ImageTk
client=Client(wsdl='******.asmx?wsdl')
imgService=client.service.GetImage("***",****, "***********")
imgFile="imageTest.png"
base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(imgService.GetImageResult)
with open(imgFile, "wb") as fh:
    fh.write(base64.decodebytes(base64_bytes))
image = Image.open(imgFile)
image.show()

'''
Can someone point me where I need to look? Thanks in advance for any pointers.


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Apple has released iOS 12 beta 9 to developers for testing. The build number is 16A5362a.
Previous betas brought numerous discoveries about Apple's future plans including the resolution of the iPhone X Plus, support for dual-SIMS, the shape of the new iPad Pro and its display, and more. Unfortunately, beta 7 revealed that Apple has delayed the launch of Group FaceTime.


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When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.
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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
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I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
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I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
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I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
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When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture – and writing is as well.
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What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
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We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
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The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
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My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
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It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
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I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
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If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
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I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.
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I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.
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I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally… And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
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I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
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I love playing outsiders, I always do.
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I don't believe in an afterlife.
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Antony Sher (28)
Birth: 14th June, 1949
Nationality: British, South African
Profession: Actor, Novelist, Playwright, Theatre director
Sir Antony Sher was born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a South African-born British actor, writer and theatre director. He grew up in the suburb of Sea Point and is a cousin of playwright Ronald Harwood. Sher, however, has worked mainly in the United Kingdom and is now a British citizen. He instead studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1969 to 1971. His big break arrived in 1984, when he performed the title role in Richard III and won the Laurence Olivier Award. Sher received his second Laurence Olivier Award in 1997 for his performance as the eponymous Stanley Spencer in Stanley. His novels are Middlepost, Cheap Lives, The Indoor Boy and The Feast. In 2005, Sher directed Breakfast With Mugabe at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2008, The Giant, the first of his plays in which Sher did not feature, was performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
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Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews. Acts 20:19.
From the days of Adam to our own time, our great enemy has been exercising his power to oppress and destroy. He is now preparing for his last campaign against the church.
The better to disguise his real character and purposes, he has caused himself to be so represented as to excite no stronger emotion than ridicule or contempt. He is well pleased to be painted as a ludicrous or loathsome object, misshapen, half animal and half human.
If Satan was so cunning at first, what must he be now, after gaining an experience of many thousands of years? Yet God and holy angels, and all those who abide in obedience to all the Lord's will, are wiser than he.
All who are actively engaged in the cause of God, seeking to unveil the deceptions of the evil one and to present Christ before the people, will be able to join in the testimony of Paul, in which he speaks of serving the Lord with all humility of mind, with many tears and temptations….
The tempter has no power to control the will or to force the soul to sin. He may distress, but he cannot contaminate. He can cause agony, but not defilement.
Satan cannot read our thoughts, but he can see our actions, hear our words; and from his long knowledge of the human family, he can shape his temptations to take advantage of our weak points of character. And how often do we let him into the secret of how he may obtain the victory over us. Oh, that we might control our words and actions!
Satan assailed Christ with his fiercest and most subtle temptations; but he was repulsed in every conflict. Those battles were fought in our behalf; those victories make it possible for us to conquer. Christ will give strength to all who seek it.
One day, Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin decided to go camping. They loaded their gear and their little dog, Trixie, into their car and headed for a campground where they often went. Arriving at the campground, they set up their tent and started a campfire. Then they sat down to relax. It was so beautiful there. They loved those majestic mountains.
Suddenly they noticed Trixie spinning around in circles and lying down on the ground with her little paws over her head. Mrs. Baldwin picked the little dog up and cuddled her. She looked her over carefully, but Trixie didn't seem to be hurt. When she put the dog down, Trixie seemed to be ok. However, in a few minutes she again began whining and spinning and falling down. The Baldwins were very puzzled by their dog's actions. Over and over again Trixie would act normally and then suddenly start whining and spinning and falling to the ground. Something was terribly wrong with their much loved pet.
The Baldwin's decided to drive to the nearest town to find a veterinarian. They explained Trixie's odd behavior to him. When he examined her, he could find nothing wrong. He told them that she was perfectly healthy. They were even more puzzled.
While driving back to the campground, the ground underneath their car suddenly began to roll like the waves of the sea. They felt like they were being shaken to pieces. Now they realized what had been wrong with Trixie. She had felt the first tiny tremors of that now very strong earthquake. It had made her feel off balance and frightened, so she had reacted in that strange way.
When the quaking stopped they returned to the campground. The whole area had changed and devastation was everywhere! Part of the mountain had split in half, and slid down covering a large portion of the campground. They drove in as far as they could and picked their way through the mess to the approximate spot where they had been just an hour or two before! Their whole campsite was buried. Many people lost their lives that day. They had had no clue of the coming destruction. It was a great tragedy. How thankful Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were that Trixie had felt that earthquake coming.
God has given us many warnings in His Holy Word in order that we may be saved from what is coming to the world as an overwhelming surprise. He warns us that "the end of all things is at hand." 1 Peter 4:7 He bids us to warn others of this coming destruction. We are to be watchmen, who will blow the trumpet with a certain sound to warn those around us of all that is coming upon the world.
Our Dear Saviour promises to give us what we need to do this work of warning. He says, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8 John wrote in his first epistle, "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3 We also are to tell what our Loving Saviour has done for us. We must not keep silent.
We are warned as was Ezekiel, "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." Eze 33:2-9 Solemn warning!


We all know that it is important for a company to have a social media presence. Gone are the days of a simple listing in the phone book. Now, it's "what's your Facebook page? Twitter handle? Instagram?" You know that being on social media is crucial, but what does that really mean? Creating company profiles is pretty simple, but do you need to be on all channels or just some? What's the advantage of Pinterest versus LinkedIn? What does Facebook offer that Snapchat lacks?
Before you start "doing social media," know the audience you are trying to reach, what social networks your target markets use and what type of content works best on each network. Choose the right social networks for your business or you could ultimately end up wasting time, effort and money.
Facebook: This is by far the biggest social network and probably the easiest to use, although the user demographics have been skewing 40+ during the past several years as Millennials jump to Instagram and Snapchat. People use Facebook for entertainment, so businesses should post light industry news, photos and video to garner page views, engagements and shares. Facebook algorithms favor photos and videos over text. Facebook minimizes the visibility of business pages to encourage targeted advertising to reach more viewers and changes its algorithms often and without warning. Hashtags (#) before words and phrases help organize the network's content into topics. For example, you can type in #nurses and see a chronological list of everyone who has used that hashtag in their posts. The recently unveiled Facebook Live feature allows users to post live videos, sharing their experience in real time and getting instant user feedback.
Twitter: On this channel, users share news as it happens, in 140 characters or less. Businesses can share quick updates, photos and industry news. It's a great place to connect with other businesses and it's a platform that people use to send and receive information instantaneously. Given the massive volume of information on Twitter, hashtags are crucial and useful. Looking for news and posts about the iPhone7? Simply type #iphone7 into the search box and all of the posts with the requested hashtag will appear. However, given the volume on this channel, it will take a time commitment for a business to post at least three tweets a day in order to be visible. However, businesses can advertise on Twitter for increased visibility. The ability to view live video, via Periscope, is gaining in popularity.
LinkedIn: This platform revolves around jobs, career advice and thought leadership. Businesses create company pages and share job postings, industry news and company updates. It's also a great place to showcase the culture of your company through photos and descriptive captions. There is also real value in joining and participating in industry groups, but this can be time-consuming.
Instagram: As older people began using Facebook, the younger generation jumped to Instagram. Instead of text as the primary driver, photos are front and center on Instagram. This platform also uses hashtags, which is helpful for tagging and organizing information. If your business is a retail organization or has a culture that supports 1-2 great photos per day, this may be the channel for you. But if you only have sporadic photos— or poor quality images— to share, it may be better to skip this one.
Pinterest: Acting as an electronic bulletin board, this network allows users to save images they like onto "Pinterest boards." It's great for people collecting recipes, interior design ideas or wardrobe ideas. Companies that have a lot of image-focused ideas or extensive product lines will excel on this network. When people "pin" your product image on one of their Pinterest bulletin boards, other users who click on this image will be directed to the source page on your website. This makes Pinterest a good channel for ecommerce companies. This network historically attracted more female users, but more men have started using Pinterest recently.
Snapchat: The ultimate network for Millennials and teens, this photo-centric network is all about entertainment. Users' Snapchat posts disappear after 24 hours. There are also fun filters users can apply to photos (think devil horns, funny hats and funhouse mirrors). A new feature allows users to buy temporary filters around specific buildings so that any user who posts to Snapchat within that area will automatically get your specially-designed filter on their photos. This can be great to create buzz about your event on social media. However, because the network doesn't use hashtags and photos disappear after 24 hours, businesses can't use it as an archive to document events, photos and video.
Evaluating your business, its goals and the potential customers you are trying to reach will take a bit of time, but it's a wise investment before you begin to execute any kind of social media strategy.
Greta Cuyler is a public relations and social media specialist at CMA. Looking to create a social media strategy that makes people sit up and take notice? CMA can help! Contact us at 800.852.4269 or email us at info@cmasolutions.com.


Andrea Macaroun joined KPMB Architects in 2002, following her graduation from the University of Toronto where Bruce Kuwabara was her thesis advisor. Andrea brings her enthusiastic commitment to architectural practice and design excellence to the studio. Over the years, she has developed expertise in detail and contract documents. Andrea has worked on a wide variety of significant projects at KPMB including Vaughan City Hall, TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. She was the Project Architect for the Sugino Studio, and recently worked on the office space for a private equity firm in Toronto.


Frustrated trying to view your free Amazon Instant Videos with Prime on an iPad, or other flash videos on your iPad? Or, don't have a Prime membership but you just want to view the occassional Amazon Video on your iPad? Of course, the reason that you can't view Amazon videos on your iPad is because the iPad's native browser, Safari, doesn't support flash (in fact, the iPad doesn't support flash at all). BUT! There is an easy way around this, that will allow you to view all Amazon Instant Videos , and it doesn't require jailbreaking your iPad, or anything devious or underhanded! Read on!
Do you want to get free stuff through Amazon in exchange for writing a review on Amazon of the free stuff that you got? You can! It's relatively easy, so long as you're willing to put in the time to write reviews! Here's how.
T-Mobile, or, as it calls itself, the Un-Carrier, is taking a novel new step in customer incentives: giving away shares of T-Mobile stock to their customers. Called "Stock Up", the stock offering is just one of many different free incentives being offered by T-Mobile to their customers.
Not only is Bruce Springsteen the Boss, but he's a class act, as well. Scheduled to play Madison Square Garden yesterday, the concert had to be postponed owing to the blizzard of '16. And so, he and the E Street Band have made available for free download, in its entirety, last week's Chicago concert, including the debut of their cover of the Eagles' 'Take it Easy', as a tribute to Glenn Frey (entire playlist below). Now that's class!
If you have a free Ancestry.com account – i.e. a "Registered Guest" Ancestry.com account, and are trying to cancel it (because, for example, they don't honor your "don't send me any email" settings), you may find that it seems that you are unable to cancel it. That's because YOU CAN'T. So we are going to tell you what you need to do.
The scene was a pudgy man being chased around by scantily clad girls, but it wasn't an homage to Benny Hill, it was Kim Dotcom's launch party for his re-emergence back into the .com world – his new site, Mega (not to be confused with his now defunct file sharing website, Megaupload). Mega outdoes Dropbox by offering 50GBs of free file storage, unlike the 2GBs offered by Dropbox.
PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd. has introduced the table PC, a 27-inch table computer that allows users to play boardgames, with the screen responding to up to ten fingers at the same time. Users can stick the 27-inch screen device on top of any table, or create a touch screen table with the optional coffee table that fits the device, and features sliding glass panels to cover the device when you are through playing board games.
For those of you who are fed up with Siri's lack of understanding you when ask to do a search, then the Google Voice Search app may be just what you need. When you ask Google Voice Search where the nearest taco shops around you are, unlike Siri, which will likely come back with a list of the nearest tackle shops, the Google Voice Search app will deliver your request with consistent precision.


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Amherst's murder mystery: Who killed Sadie Rogers?
AMHERST, NS – It has been 36 years since someone murdered Sadie Rogers in her Cordova Street home and RCMP are no closer to solving the murder today than they were in the fall of 1981.
Darrell Cole | Posted: Aug. 29, 2017, midnight | Updated: Oct. 2, 2017, 10:52 a.m. | 2 Min Read
Sadie Rogers was murdered in her Cordova Street home in the fall of 1981. Despite a few tips over the years, the crime remains unsolved.
"The investigation into the homicide of Sadie Rogers remains open. We have not made any arrests or laid charges, but we continue to investigate the file," Cpl. Jennifer Clarke of the RCMP said in an email to the Amherst News. "The challenge with a case like this is it has been 36 years since Ms. Rogers' homicide was reported to police. With the passage of time it makes it challenging as memories fade and potential witnesses become more difficult to locate."
The 80-year-old Rogers lived alone and worked as a housekeeper. A neighbour last saw her on Saturday, Sept. 26, 1981. Nearly a week later, neighbours were becoming concerned that they had not seen any activity at her residence and contacted police.
On Oct. 2, police discovered her body inside her home at 112 Cordova St. She had been stabbed multiple times.
While there have been some leads and tips over the years, including anonymous pencil-written letters to the Amherst Daily News in 2006 and 2007, all has been quiet since 2011 when the RCMP Northeast Nova major crime unit issued a press release asking for tips.
Despite this, police are hoping someone comes forward with information on the file.
"Historical homicides and missing persons files are reviewed when new information comes forward. In the absence of new information we review them periodically. We continue to encourage the public to report any tips and information about this incident to the RCMP to help us solve this case and bring closure for Ms. Rogers' family," Clarke said.
In a September 2006 interview with the Amherst Daily News, Rogers' niece, Dorothy Snowden, said she remembered the terrible day her aunt was killed.
"To this day I keep asking myself why would someone do something like this? She didn't deserve to die like that. She had every right to live," she told the paper.
Snowden said family believed it was someone who knew the house from the way they went in. She said the murderer "took the glass out of the front door, reached in and unhooked the latch."
In 2006, on the 25th anniversary of the murder, RCMP released photos of Rogers and made an urgent plea to the community for assistance in solving the crime.
The late Doug Harkness, who was editor of the Amherst paper at the time of the murder, said in a 2006 interview that robbery was suspected as the motive for the crime.
Two years later, in 2008, Rogers' case was added to the Department of Justice major rewards program and anyone providing information on the crime that leads to an arrest and conviction is eligible for a reward of up to $150,000.
Anyone with information on the murder can call police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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CUCULA, The Machine to be Another, and Project Virtuous Triangle have been announced as the winners of the 2016 European Social Innovation Competition. Selected from a total of over 1,000 applicants from 36 countries, the projects were each awarded a €50,000 prize at the Awards Ceremony in Brussels on 27 October this year.
This year's theme 'Integrated Futures' sought ideas with the potential to address the reception and integration of refugees and migrants in Europe, enabling them to contribute to the social, economic, cultural and political life of their host countries.
German winner CUCULA is a practical workshop and an educational program created for and together with refugees and migrants in Berlin. It designs, manufactures, produces and sells products based on the concept of the Italian designer Enzo Mari, providing technical qualifications with focus on furniture production. It also runs an education program that includes German language classes, legal advice and additional support with CV writing, job applications, and daily life in Germany.
The Machine to be Another, a cultural diversity and virtual reality experience a sharing project from Spain is designed to recreate, replicate, and share experiences so that someone can see themselves in the body and experience of a refugee. It uses a pre-recorded audio 'narrative' to create a story, and shares these encounters 360 virtual reality technology. The project aims to create stations of archived narratives from refugees and migrants all around Europe and the world in schools, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions.
Project Virtuous Triangle from Turkey matches primary school children from Syria with young Turkish students, alongside a university age 'coach student' for tutoring, mentoring and language sharing. The project helps combat segregation in Turkey and means refugee children are more likely to be able to learn Turkish, attend school, and eventually get a job or open up other future opportunities. The project aims to increase its partnerships including private enterprises, government, schools, and other social innovators to promote community cohesion and solidarity from a young age.
Said of the Competition and winners: It was a true privilege to be a member of the jury in the 2016 European Social Innovation Competition. Each of the semi-finalists and finalists have shown amazing potential to make a difference for refugees and migrants arriving and living in Europe, so selecting three winners was not an easy task.
I am proud of all of the projects and their journey throughout the competition, from the coaching and mentoring at the academy, to creating their detailed business plans and strategies to develop and grow their ideas. I congratulate the winners for their achievement, and look forward with inspiration and hope to see the collaborative impact of Integrated Futures.
In addition to the Integrated Futures winner, the European Social Innovation Competition also awarded a fourth 'Impact Prize' of €50,000 to Love Your Waste, a French social enterprise fighting food waste, that demonstrated a significant measurable impact since taking part in the Competition in 2015- 'New Ways to Grow'.
Love Your Waste works with canteens in companies, schools, and hospitals, collecting biowaste which is transformed into renewable energy. Since April 2015 they have recycled over 137 tonnes of food waste as well as carrying out extensive education programmes to help people understand and prevent waste. The judges were impressed by the double impact of the project – both environmental and social, as well as the organisation's robust business plans.
The three 2016 winners and the 2015 Impact Prize winner were each awarded with a prize of €50,000 at the awards ceremony in Brussels on 27 October.


Morgan sits down with powerful astrologer Shannon Aganza for an unfiltered conversation on how we can all use astrology IRL to evolve into our best selves, and live our best life. This episode goes deep and is THE DEFINITIVE guide to using Astrology in the "now age". Throw the magazine horoscopes out, ignore the meme's online, and stop avoiding going out on a date with "that one sign". This conversation will explain your personal chart, signs in dating and relationships, life purpose through the signs, and break down the infamous "SOLAR RETURN" that every millennial will go through (or have just wrapped up).


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Chrominius and Nether Faerie Dragon obliterate this team.
I got a Espinete from the bag. I was hoping for the Águila ratonera albina. Boo!
Crominius and Mini Tarecgosa can both use Deflagración Arcana, which will wreck this team. You will need one of both, or two of either if you want to spam this move to beat her.
Vástago de El Nexo and Vástago de la Tormenta can use empowered Oleada de maná (during Arcane Winds) to annihilate near any Volador pets one by one.
Any emerald dragon pets--such as Vástago del Sueño or Protocría esmeralda--, or faerie dragon pets are also good choices.
is there no list of possible loots from this bag?
I don't know why there isn't a list of what can drop from this bag. Let's get a list going here in the comments. If you reply below my comment with what you have received in your bag of supplies, I will add it up here in my comment and maybe we can get a comprehensive list going.
I will just mention this for the sake of completion, but I haven't been able to get the Porcupette out of this bag and I've been farming it for the past ~ 5 months every day. I've gotten like 8 of the Albinos, but not one of the other ones.
P.S.: I totally get RNG being RNG, so I this is not a 'QQ BLIZZ BAD' post, but just something to consider for people that are aiming to farm it (and maybe, if more data is gathered people can confirm/deconfirm that it was hotfixed out of the bag).
To days Loot was Battle Pet Bandages and Rusty Pet Cage = 5 gold, I will update on each encounter.
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Corporations for the purposes of rural research and development, a mixture of industry funded corporations with government support and statutory corporations.
Of the 15 Research and Development Corporations reviewed only 3 entities had 40% or more board positions held by women. Board gender diversity is poor in this sector and only slowly improving, with 2018 data indicating a slight increase of 8%. It is pleasing to note all had at least one female on their board and women held 30% of board positions.