This series of articles is written for non-technical decisions makers who have a business need for software development but no technical background to validate their decisions. The objective is to allow them to make better business decisions regarding their project and therefore achieve a better Return On Investment.
Unlike other resources available on the web, we will not cover such an important topic for your budget with a one pager and 6 bullet points. We make the choice to get deep enough in each part for you to understand what is at stake. We make each article short enough to read each it in one go. We believe that this level of understanding is the one required to make better decisions. We know that when our customers understand better their own project, our partnership is even stronger.
What on earth is "developing software" and what is so complex about it?
After so many years developing software, I had to explain countless times to non-technical people what my job was about. And in fact, every time it was a difficult task. There are some jobs for which when asked "What are you exactly doing?" one can answer rather easily. Not that the job is easy to perform but one would explain something not too alien to the audience.
So, today, we will start a series of papers explaining what this business is about. The objective is to allow those of you who have a dear need of Software but do not have any technical background, such as entrepreneurs, investors, CEO, CFO, etc. to have a better idea of where their money is going and why it requires that big percentage of their wallet. We believe at Liemur, that trust cannot come from just faith. It is nice that our customers have faith in our skills. But it is nicer when they have faith and know why. The foundation of this trust is much higher and allows going much further together. In a way: Software development is far too expensive to spend your money based on faith and hopes.
Obviously, if we want to go beyond the surface and beyond pre-conceived ideas, we will need to cut this work in several articles.
What is a piece software?
What is a software development process? What is Agile?
What is outsourcing your software development?
What is Object Orientation and why do we care?
What is a good software engineer?
What is a good software Project Manager?
At the beginning is Automation. Humans are lazy animals and they like the idea to have machines do their tedious jobs. A machine does not get tired and can work 24/7. On top of that, if we humans are clever enough, we can make these machine work faster than a human being. We then win twice as we do not have to work ourselves and the amount of work achieved is higher than doing it ourselves. That is the kind of win/win humans are addicted to. So, the purpose is simple enough: get more work done faster than what we could do and be able to redirect our energy on some more rewarding tasks.
Essentially, converting our real life problems into software solutions is a paradigm shift. From a world of people, objects, concepts, etc., we need to move into a world that knows only one thing: manipulating numbers. Although you do not need to understand in detail this conversion (if you wish, I explain it better in the Appendix), you might want to consider for a moment what it really means.
You have a car flow problem? Convert that into numbers! You have a customer management problem? Numbers! An image synthesis analysis problem? Numbers again! A medical diagnosis problem? Numbers! Etc. Etc. Etc.
The job of the software developer is basically a job of translation; But a pretty tricky translation. Let's have a look.
You, the stakeholder, have a problem you want to be sorted. You explain that in plain natural language. If you think about it, this explanation is rarely easy for a start. But let's say you could explain fully and crystal clear what your needs are. –This question of crystal clear expressed needs will be covered later in the article about Requirements- The developer's job is to convert all your concepts, actions, transformations, results, into another world via the use of another language: the programming language.
You mention your customers? They become in the developer's mind a bunch of pieces of texts, numbers, logical values, etc. You describe actions on the screen? It becomes instantly a network of actions captured by the machine and converted into values that can be interpreted in order to do something.
These concepts in his/her mind have now to be patiently converted in new words, the development language words. But the problem is: this language is not as clever as the natural language. If you remember, far behind, this software language is only capable of understanding numbers. So, even if you add a fairly good amount of complexity and "intelligence" (and in time the industry actually did) the developer has to perform a very very serious translation of your problem. And because the target language is not a human one, i.e. fairly stupid, it requires a lot of explanations to get the machine understand what you want.
Now, one could say that there are plenty of industries where the job is to decompose the problem in smaller pieces. Building a bridge or a sky crapper is clearly not a piece of cake. That is true. And I would argue that these examples are neither cheap nor fast to create. But the point which makes software development so tricky is that it is 100% dematerialised. At no point in time, will you ever be able to touch the result of your work. The work is totally abstract. Concepts are abstract, transformations are abstract and results are abstract. Nobody can go into the code and have a look for visible defaults, leaks, cracks or improvements. To do so, one needs to first understand the objective, then recreate the abstraction in the mind and start working on it …virtually. And every developer will tell you that getting into somebody else's code is a very hard task. if the humans have developed this capability of abstraction, it remains a complex activity to work in a totally virtual world that is neither visible to the eyes nor touchable.
One might want to compare to the work of writing books for instance. In some respect, it is, but books do not drive cars, pilot airplanes or alert you of your next meeting.
When you, the investor, CEO, Entrepreneur, Dreamer, Inventor are planning to create a piece of software to do a job, you are planning to convert your ordinary concrete world into numbers. This is the Paradigm shift.
Developing software is about translating needs expressed in natural language into a coding language that is made of very basic concepts. This translation is a very tricky job, even with the most advanced developing languages.
The whole job is 100% abstract and at no point in time can you touch and sense the work done, unlike any other ordinary job. The Software industry is totally dematerialised. It goes against any other human habit to create a piece of work that you will not be able to "see".
If you, the project sponsor, the main stakeholder, understand, not how to code, but what it takes to code your project, you take a distinctive advantage on your project compared to someone who would drive in the dark. You will see troubles coming earlier and most importantly, you will seize the opportunities on your way to make your product better and therefore a better Return On Investment.
Why is architecture so important to your project?
How to create a sound and reliable architecture for your project?
How to save money by adopting the right architecture for your project?
The means are "calculation". In fact, calculation can achieve almost anything. Calculation can find the square root of a number fast yes, but it can mostly sort numbers, manipulate numbers, transform number. So, at the beginning are numbers. If we want to be true to what a computer can do, it cannot really do much as it can mostly manipulate 0 and 1. But cleverly combined, 0 and 1 can represent other numbers. With these other numbers we can represent all calculations. But we can do more: we can represent other types of information. Indeed, one needs to manipulate text and concepts. So, we started by representing characters with special numbers. Have you ever heard of the ASCII table? This is just a list of numbers (between 0 and 255) in front of which we have a character.
The reason for the 0 to 255 is a bit beyond our objectives. I'll ask you to take that for granted. Maybe I would just say that 256 is equal to 2^8 (2 at the power of 8). 2 is the concept of 0 and 1, two values. 0 and 1 are "bits". 8 is the number of bits we are working with, hence the notion of 8 bits architecture. That was at the beginning. Since then, we have had 16 bits, 32 bits and nowadays 64 bits architectures. Obviously using 64 bits to represent the world is much better than 8. With 8 one can represent 256 things. With 64 one can represent 1.8 10^19 things (2 power 64). That is a hell of a lot!
What about concepts then? Numbers again! If one needs to manipulate colours, for instance, we just give a number to each colour. Does the time we had screens in 256 colours ring a bell? Well, you have the explanation. And nowadays, with the 64 bits world, our screens are so much nicer! You now know why!
So, basically, when properly done, we can manipulate almost anything we want, providing we can represent that very thing with numbers.
What we cannot do is representing fuzzy concepts with computers. So, we do not have the possibility to represent Love, Empathy, Joyce, Sadness, Honesty, etc. We have tried and are still trying and we call that Artificial Intelligence. But so far, it is not 100% convincing. As long as numbers represent the world, we have a problem! …even with many of them. The real world is not totally made of numbers.


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Charles Blondin (właściwie Jean François Gravelet) (ur. 28 lutego 1824 w Calais, Francja, zm. 19 lutego 1897) – francuski linoskoczek.

Urodził się w rodzinie cyrkowej, akrobatą został w wieku 5 lat. Jego specjalnością było chodzenie po linie. 30 czerwca 1859 roku jako pierwszy przeszedł nad wodospadem Niagara. Później próbował skomplikować ten wyczyn, np. idąc z zasłoniętymi oczyma, nosząc innych "na barana" lub wożąc na taczkach. Po wyczynach nad wodospadem Charles zamieszkał w Anglii, gdzie zmarł w wieku 72 lat.

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Francuscy artyści cyrkowi
Pochowani na cmentarzu Kensal Green w Londynie
Ludzie urodzeni w Calais
Urodzeni w 1824
Zmarli w 1897

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"Love Is Now" is an Australian feature film shot entirely on dSLRs. The director of photography describes the process and offers tips for would-be filmmakers.
Big-budget Hollywood blockbusters have been doing it for years. Small indie productions know about it, too. DSLR video has opened up a whole new world to film makers and its star continues to rise.
The very first dSLR capable of shooting video was the Nikon D90, released in 2008. Although it was only filming in 720p, other camera makers quickly followed suit and opened up full HD video capabilities.
Filmmakers are attracted to these consumer cameras because they are smaller and generally have a more accessible price-point than traditional movie cameras.
Plenty of big-name films like "Black Swan", "Rush" and "Drive" have used dSLRs for a part of the production, but a small handful of movies have been shot entirely on these cameras.
"Love Is Now" is an Australian film shot on the same Nikon D810 dSLRs and lenses available to everyday photographers. Anthony Jennings, the director of photography on the film, is a cinematographer with extensive experience using dSLRs on both short films and full-blown features.
The decision to use these cameras on Love Is Now was easy. "We did talk about using maybe an Alexa or a Red camera, but it kind of made sense [to use dSLRs] because we were going to be having to move quickly and going to a lot of locations," he said.
Over five weeks, Jennings and the production team filmed in locations across Sydney and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. Moving around so much required kits that would suit multiple purposes so the team had two handheld rigs.
"One would fit on the dolly and that was fairly heavy, a little bit cumbersome so we actually got rid of that rig fairly early in the shoot and went to a very light handheld rig that was made of half my gear and half the gear that we'd hired," Jennings said, "as I do a lot of dSLR shooting I just had my rig because I was used to it."
"We had a focus puller who had his own follow focus, so it made it very easy for me to operate because I didn't have to worry about focus, which is generally what you're doing most of the time when shooting on dSLRs. I had an Alphatron eyepiece so that I could see the images without having to look at the back of the screen. We had HDMI out into and out of the Alphatron to a monitor, so then Jim [Lounsbury, director] could watch the monitor and I could just stick to the Alphatron."
With uncompressed HDMI out delivering 1080/25p footage to an external recording device and 1080/50p recorded direct to camera, there was plenty of scope for achieving different looks in post-production, on top of the obvious advantage of having lots more material to work with.
For the glass component, the production team had two kits to use. The first consisted of newer Nikon servo-operated lenses such as the AF-S 35mm f/1.4G, 85mm f/1.4 and 70-200 f/2.8 but there was also an older set of Nikkor lenses converted for use with 80mm filters.
Anyone who has played around with shooting video on a dSLR knows that the image straight out of camera can be quite contrasty, thanks to the default picture profiles. "With the D810, it has a very flat picture profile so it let us shoot a lot of things in a lot of variance of light," said Jennings.
"We could shoot a lot more contrast without losing our highlights and our shadows. I didn't tweak [the picture profile] because we had a very short pre-production, so I didn't get too many chances to do testing. We got the D810 that was released a week before we started filming, so we were under the gun to get hold of one."
Jennings said that the configuration he chose was almost emulating the effect from an older movie camera. "Partly because the dynamic range on this camera is very good, but with film they kept upgrading film all the time so you could see more and more and more."
"A lot of cinematographers, especially me, preferred the older stocks because you would see less. So you could define what people were looking at, you could let the shadows drop out. With the D810, it was almost giving me like the old Kodak 200 ASA stock, it had that really beautiful drop-off and an interesting grain that I haven't seen before on dSLRs."
Although Jennings didn't run into too many issues with the dSLR set up, he does have a wishlist item for future productions.
"It would be a much stronger HDMI connector! The HDMI is always precarious, it gets knocked out, you lose the image on the monitors, then you try the cable and the cable's broken. It would be nicer to have a stronger connection there, that would probably be my biggest frustration there."
Jennings was also able to make use of the intervalometer feature in the camera, which is often used by stills photographers rather than filmmakers. Timelapses of stars, sunsets and clouds ended up being used in the final film. "We would race off with just a D810 body and lens, stick it on a tripod in a field and shoot timelapses. There's no extra pieces we have to stick on or batteries we have to worry about. You run out, put it down, hit a button and off you go ... If you had to do it on a more traditional film camera it's just a huge rigmarole of settings things up, plugging them in. It's a lot harder."
For budding cinematographers and those who want to get started shooting video with their own dSLR, Jennings suggests investing in a core kit of three fast lenses because you want to capitalise on depth of field.
"You don't need too many; a fast 50mm is great for a lot of things, shooting faces and if you have the distance, wide frames as well. Then you need a wider lens like a 16mm or 16-35mm, something in that range. Then all you need is a longer lens, like a 70-200mm. That's basically my workhorse set, those three lenses," he said.
In terms of grading and playing around with the image in post-processing, it all depends on the time you have. For those who want to experiment with grading, use a flat picture profile -- either one provided in-camera if applicable, or a third-party alternative like Technicolor's CineStyle.
"If you don't have time to grade, you can use some of the standard, neutral or portrait picture profiles and have a play. A lot of people complain that dSLR footage is too crushed and contrasty, but again I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. If that's the look you're going for then you already have those tools in the camera."


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Stuart Campbell	Uncategorized	Leave a comment January 13, 2020 1 Minute
Why I write fiction
Why would I, as an ex-academic, spend the last eight years writing novels that just a few thousand people have read?
I certainly don't write fiction for money. My tax return shows that I pretty well break even each year when I deduct expenses from royalties. If I factored in the lost opportunity cost of the hours I spend writing … well, let's not think too hard about that.
You see, I belong to a subgroup of humanity who simply can't not write. Every Tuesday I spend three hours with my critique group at the NSW Writers Centre in Rozelle, Sydney. The core of the group – four or five of us – are addicted to writing fiction. We just have to do it, just as some people have to sing, play tennis, or drive fast cars.
Perhaps I inherited this compulsion. My father wrote constantly – photo essays for Hertfordshire Countryside, articles on fingerprint techniques for The Police Review, textbooks on fraud investigation and police corruption. I suspect there were a few half-written novels among the typewriter tapping I remember from my childhood.
But it's more than just raw compulsion. There are other motive forces behind my need to write. One is my fascination with the power of fiction, and the desire to master that power. George Orwell was the first novelist who showed me the force of fiction; his books shaped who I am today, and they shape how I write now. Through the years, others sculpted my intellect and sensibilities – Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Anthony Powell, Patrick White, Margaret Drabble … and on goes the parade of geniuses who have wielded the power of stories over me.
But I'm not a best seller – just a mere prawn in the curry of life (that's a line I'm going to put into the mouth of one of my characters soon); my power to influence is tiny. But (and I know this might sound pathetic), I am almost moved to tears when even one person says, "I loved your book", or "it was absolutely compelling".
Here's an example of job satisfaction: I gave an advance review copy of my latest novel to a friend. I forgot all about it until I got an email from him saying, "Oh no, Ralph died!" with a sad-face emoji. So what did I make of this? (a) He was reading the book – a triumph in itself because it's harder than you might think to motivate people to read fiction, and (b) he was so affected by Ralph's sudden death that he instantly emailed me. I walked around with a silly grin for the rest of the day.
There are different kinds of power: Writing fiction gives me the power to entertain, amuse, sadden, satisfy. But let's get back to the power to shape ideas and beliefs. Despite their tortuous plots, all my novels have what I think of as a moral core: In one, I explore the precariousness of middle-class morality; another has the plight of the Armenians as a backdrop; and they all contain a strand dealing with the way men negotiate partnerships with strong women.
Moral cores aside, writing fiction is, for me, a fascinating intellectual process. I'll spare you the fine details, but suffice to say that juggling plot, setting, characters, and style is an intoxicating blend of creativity and technique. As an academic linguist, I hesitate to drift into metaphysics, but there are writing days when I enter what I call a 'state of grace' with the sentences flowing without obstacle. There are other days when it's like shoving a barrow of shit uphill.
Let me finish with what might be the most important reason I write. The four novels and one novella I've written so far are best described as being on the more intellectual end of popular fiction. If you were to ask who I see as models, I might suggest people like Lucie Whitehouse and Philip Kerr. My books entertain, amuse, sadden, and satisfy. But for the last three years, I've been grappling with a dystopian novel called Patria Nullius that deals with a climate apocalypse. I started the novel because I felt so helpless for the future of my grandchildren. It has been a pig of a book to structure. I've chopped and chipped at it, turned it on its head, but I've vowed to get it finished in 2020. I'm writing it because it will give me the power to influence in an existentially crucial way – even to a tiny extent.
You see, I can't not write this book.
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Stuart Campbell	Australian authors, culture, novel, NSW Writers Centre, Uncategorized, writers groups, Writing fiction	Leave a comment December 30, 2019 3 Minutes
Writing dystopia: The authors who walk beside me
For an academic turned novelist, the habit of acknowledging my sources is one that I find hard to discard. So ingrained is the habit that my last novel included endnotes. That story was rooted in historical events, while my work in progress is set in alternate worlds. There's no history to guide the story, no need to get the dates and facts right. Or is there?
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With my manuscript half finished, I recently found myself reflecting on how the work has been shaped by an unlikely miscellany of writers over the last eighteen months. The book is a dystopian novel set in Australia and England more than a hundred years into the future. There are two dystopias: A post-apocalyptic Australia, and a post-Enlightenment England, by which I mean a society in which most people have given up thinking for themselves.
A major challenge of writing dystopias is that they must be plausible: My invented futures must contain the pathways by which they have come from their pasts. In the early stages of imagining the novel, I consulted Futurevision, Scenarios for the World in 2040 by Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman to get an idea how professional futurists think, which pretty well confirmed my plausibility theory. Some time later, I read Rhonda Roberts' Gladiatrix (Kannon Dupree: Time Stalker), a terrific lesson in the importance of making alternate worlds coherent. Rhonda gave me some feedback on an early draft that got me repairing holes in the back story. Around the same time, I spotted Niall Ferguson's The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die at my local library, thinking that it would give me some clues about how my dystopias got where they are. It was broadly useful, but its main impact was its persuasiveness: Ferguson is way to the right of me in his political views, but by the end I was eating out of his hand. I wriggled out of his clutches in the last chapter (no spoilers). The last word goes to Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It's a lumpy compilation of a book in my view, but it answered a question that had been plaguing me: Why do my dystopias echo The Handmaid's Tale, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and other works in the canon? The answer: This is a genre with its conventions and tropes. Get over it. (At least that what I got from Atwood; I'm not sure she actually said that.) I had a quick detour through H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau to wrap things up.
My book has multiple voices, one of which comes up in fragments of a popular history written decades into our future. I originally drafted these as (fake) academic history, but my friends in our writers' group in Sydney got a bad case of lexical indigestion. One or two of them suggested I try using a popular history approach – that odd variety of writing that turns dry history into page turners. While not exactly history, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism gave me a useful stylistic model. Paul Ham's The Target Committee showed me how much historical content you can load up into a paragraph without it turning to sludge. In the end, I found my own style of fake popular history, which turned out to have a satirical thread in the weave. Bonus.
Reading Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, it struck me that dystopias can be defined in terms of their relation to the rational thought that is the hallmark of the Enlightenment. If I imagine a bell-curve where the top of the curve represents the pinnacle of Enlightenment thinking*, then the two tails are post-apocalyptic Australia (where people are slipping back into the Middle Ages) and post-Enlightenment England (where other people do your rational thinking for you). But the main lesson of Pinker's book is its stunning optimism: It's packed with graphs to convince the reader that we've never had it so good. Sometimes I wondered why the world needs dystopian novels when we're already in Utopia.
Now for some specialist influences. I'm a linguist by profession, so it's not surprising that I have a lot of fun with language in my books. My dystopian Australia has creole languages, and I turned to Derek Bickerton's Roots of Languageto check the authenticity of the speech I was putting into my characters' mouths. I rank Bickerton's book among the top five scholarly works I have encountered in my entire career. Vale Derek Bickerton, who passed away in March 2018. Another Professor, Ted Bryant, was my source for technical detail on tsunami. Bryant's Past tsunami in Australia gave me the idea of a tsunami triggered by a piece of the continental shelf slipping off the east coast of Australia. The New South Wales State Emergency Service tsunami web pages filled in more detail. And let's throw in some religion: My two dystopias handle faith in quite different ways, and I had to read up on vernacular religion to get a sense of how an isolated post-apocalyptic society would handle these things: Marion Bowman's journal article Vernacular Religion, Contemporary Spirituality and Emergent Identitiesgave me some directions, but I shied away from going in too deep into what looked like a controversial field. On the question of freedom of speech, I carefully read The United States Constitution; my specific question was the extent to which the First Amendment could be used to constrain artificial intelligence. And many hours were consumed in following – and not properly documenting – leads on such subjects as accounting, climate change, pre-industrial economics, and post-polio syndrome.
I should also not forget three books that are in a sense characters in the novel: A Midsummer Night's Dream, the King James version of the New Testament, and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
Perhaps the sweetest hours of my background reading were spent during a balmy trip to Far North Queensland, where I visited Cairns and Kuranda, two of the locations of the novel. My unlikely reading material was The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865, edited by Janet Croon. LeRoy was a teenager, the son of a wealthy plantation owner, who spent the war years crippled and suffering from spinal tuberculosis in Macon, Georgia. The diary is an account of daily life as the Confederate cause slowly collapses, and LeRoy's health deteriorates. As I read, I realised that living conditions in 1860's Georgia were not unlike those I was trying to depict in Kuranda in 2126: Constant sickness, extreme summer heat, intermittent supplies of basic commodities, plagues of insects. This, by the way, was by far the best book I read in 2018.
And of course, walking alongside Atwood, Bickerton, Shakespeare and all the others are the members of the Write On! writers group at the New South Wales Writers' Centre here in Sydney – Sarah, Garry, Karen, Michele, Nore, Julia, Rhonda. Stick with me till the last page, my friends!
*I place this at about 1975, but I'm happy to argue the point.
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A ringside seat under the kitchen table
War makes an irresistible setting for fiction, as the never-ending flood of WWII novels and movies shows. Gulf War thrillers are almost a genre in their own right.
The Yom Kippur War has its novels – Herman Wouk and Tom Clancy both weave stories around it. But I wanted to do something different – my novel set during the Yom Kippur War Cairo Mon Amour, is set in Egypt – not Israel.
I felt especially well qualified to write this book: I was a student at Cairo University when the war broke out in October 1973, and I had a ringside seat – or sometimes a seat under the kitchen table when the air-raid sirens went off.
If you can't remember the main points about this particular conflict, Egypt invaded Sinai to reclaim land lost to Israel in 1967, and Syria attacked the Golan Heights. The conequences of the war included the 1978 Camp David Accords and the final withdrawal of Israel from Sinai in 1982.
What compelled me to write this book was the extraordinary lengths that Egypt went to in concealing the date of the attack. How did President Sadat keep preparations for a massive ground and air attack secret? And how could I spin a story of espionage and romance around this?
Details have emerged in memoirs and works of research: Hospital wards in Cairo were emptied under the pretext of epidemics in anticipation of floods of wounded troops; a military sports carnival was scheduled for the day of the attack; false stories were planted about the attack date. When I did my research, I found so many events that I could dramatise: The sudden evacuation of Soviet families just days before the outbreak of war; the last ship to leave Alexandria, crowded with Americans desperate to get away.
I also wanted to write a very human story, so I created a handful of flawed characters who all have a personal stake in finding out – or concealing – the date when the attack will be launched. We have a Cairo private eye of mixed Armenian and Coptic background; his childhood sweetheart who is now a notorious actress; a Soviet diplomat with divided loyalties; and two British spies who happen to be former lovers.
I made a decision to stick closely to the historical record: The chapters in the first part of the book follow exactly the days just before and after the start of the war. When the Soviet diplomat Zlotnik, drunk in his flat, hears the rumble of the huge Soviet aircraft flying in armaments, it is real; I heard them on that very night myself.
And I tried to capture the day-to-day atmosphere in the streets of Cairo, when, as a British student taking Arabic courses at Cairo University, I found myself in the midst of a populace that swung between elation at the first flush of victory, and distress as the wounded began to stagger home.
An earlier version of the blog article appeared under the title 'The Middle East conflict that inspired Cairo Mon Amour'.
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – Catfight on the Catwalk
Posted on January 7, 2014	by empressofaiken
Kingsley's home. He's on a leash and wearing that muzzle. I still think Kim should have been sent to obedience school and maybe had some socialization to boot. She has no intention of doing most of what the trainer told her to do with her dog, so Kingsley will be back on her bed, gnawing up everything she owns and attacking the UPS guy in two shakes of a puppy's tail. On the other side of town, Carlton is teaching her kids how to be responsible by having them clean up their mini-mansion. I have no idea what happened inside that playhouse, but it was pretty bad in there. Then, in the long-held traditions of Wiccans, the children scooped up a spider and released it into the garden. I don't like spiders, so if I'd found it, that thing would have been moosh .
Carlton also brought us along as she added another tattoo. This one was a pentagram, with her children's names and the words"Blessed Be"" on the nape of her neck. Her chained top and piggy tails were more interesting.
The SUR dinner fiasco is in full swing – still. Brandi doesn't seem to be making any headway in her Joyce takedown, probably because the only thing she knows how to say is "shut the f**k up" and "f**k you". She even inserted those phrases when addressing Michael, as in "I don't have a husband. F**k you." See, it's the type of thing that fits all occasions. Realizing that she might be losing this particular debate, Brandi begins to cry about her lost dog. "I miss my puppy. F**k you." Aw, c'mon Brandi. What happened to the "bring it bitch" stuff. You used your talking head to tell us that if you were really a bully you would have knocked Joyce's teeth out. What the hell are you crying about? You asked Michael to bring it and when he did you folded like an origami owl. Being told you might need rehab is not disgusting. A lot of us happen to agree. I can't tell if she was drunk at this particular time, but I'm going to assume for the purposes of this blog that Brandi is drunk-ish a good deal of the time. Not an excuse, just an observation.
Lisa and Yolanda want us to believe that Brandi's missing dog was just the tip of the iceberg of bad things Brandi is going through. I've never been in her shoes, but I'd like to think that having one's husband cheating with a country singer and finding out about it while pregnant has to be way up on the list of "going though bad things." We will ignore the fact that the dog went missing after Brandi started in on Joyce, because we're just crazy viewers with faulty memories. Yolanda helps a sobbing Brandi out to a waiting car and tells her to go home and hug her babies – after gargling with Listerine.
Yolanda then returns to the table to convince Joyce that Brandi really is a very beautiful person inside, that she's a loyal and honest friend, but that, right now, her head is going to both implode and explode. Not easy to do and it has to hurt. Joyce says that she doesn't see it and that Brandi is bullying her. It's not exactly bullying – more like Honey Badgering. Ken says that almost everyone at the table likes and loves Brandi but Michael says that all he sees is a train wreck ready to derail again. In her talking head, Joyce says that if God can forgive what happened to his Son, then she can forgive Brandi for being a bitch. Oh Joyce, you had me until you made that dumb statement. For your penance, you have to adopt a spider, right after you go swimming.
The dinner at SUR resonates throughout all of Beverly Hills and has spilled out into the surrounding towns. Even those who weren't there have something to say about it. Kyle wants to hear every detail and Joyce is more than happy to share her side of things. By the way, Kyle thinks golf is like baseball. Brandi tries to explain what happened to two of her besties, as least the parts she can remember, and finds out that one of them, Etirsa, didn't think Brandi's little joke about black people, weaves and swimming wasn't all that funny. Brandi pleads with them for understanding – "But you don't know what she did to me." Oh, on second thought, that was Taylor, at another party during a different season. Never mind. Ken and Lisa are also rehashing the evening while shopping for antiques for their new restaurant Pump. Ken thinks Michael should have stayed out of the whole thing and let the two women take it out to the parking lot for a few rounds. Lisa doesn't agree, probably because Ken came to Brandi's defense when Mauricio was being a big old meanie-man to the fragile little hothouse flower.
It's now time for Kyle's fundraiser fashion show and her 13-year-old daughter, Sophia, doesn't want to walk the runway. Kyle hears the voice of Big Kathy in her head – the one that says "fake it til you make it" and, next thing you know, Sophia is standing in the store window, modeling a dress that looks like every other dress at Kyle's boutique. Kyle has a special guest, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kyle is so far up Jamie's butt that she may need surgical intervention to disengage her head.
"I was only 7 years old and you were only 19, but you carried me back to my trailer while we were filming 'Halloween'. You were so warm and nurturing even then. I love you Jamie." It was nice to see Ms. Curtis, though, especially without a container of Activia nearby. Kyle and Mauricio do get points for their incredibly generous contributions to the L.A. Children's Hospital. Way to go, Umanskys.
The fashion show goes on with nary a hitch, considering that Brandi and Joyce had brought their gangs along. Carlton spent the evening ogling and drooling over Brandi's hotness. Afterwards, Lisa invites Joyce for a drink. Joyce shows up at Lisa's house, with a gift, and the two talk about – what else – Brandi. Joyce says that Lisa makes excuses for Brandi but Lisa denies it. She tells Joyce that Brandi is going through some bad times right now – and 5 years ago and yesterday and tomorrow. Joyce says that she talked to her friend Crystal, the one who Brandi named in an attempt to hurt Joyce and Crystal told her that she'd only seen Brandi a couple of times and never said the things Brandi reported that she did. Lisa says that she can't chastise Brandi and Joyce doesn't know what chastise means, or maybe it was the way Lisa pronounced the word. Yolanda is trying to explain that her choice of words may not be working. Brandi doesn't care. She's an unfiltered, free spirit who can't control herself and doesn't appear to want to. Oh yea, and she misses her puppy and her kids when they're with their dad. If that's the case, then Brandi is going to be this Brandi until they turn 18.
This is how Joyce describes Brandi's MO: 1. she goes on the attack, 2. she starts using "f**k you", ""shut the f**k up" and "go f**k yourself" to make her points, and 3. when all else fails, she turns into a victim. Couldn't have put it better myself.
This episode didn't live up to its title. The catfight never happened, not even at SUR. There's no crying in catfights.
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Good blog, Empress! Loved your last line.
Carlton doesn't bother me. Joyce bothers me, I can't quite put my finger on it. Brandi is a hot mess in need of intervention.
Gabby Curtis says:
Carlton bothers the hell out of me. Not only does she not have a storyline, but she is a raging hypocrite. I haven't seen anything interesting from her yet…and her wanting to have sex with Brandi on every episode is a bore.
I love your witty blogs, and YES, Brandi is a train-wreck. I am sick of seeing her disrespect others constantly, and once they defend themselves, SHE is then being attacked.
And what the hell has happened to her face this season? She looks like a damn clown with all of the botox.
Mari Anne Souza says:
I, at first, thought it might be Bell's Palsy.


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OncoSec to Present Encore Interim Data from the KEYNOTE-695 Phase 2b Clinical Trial at the 10th World Congress of Melanoma
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PENNINGTON, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ:ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a biotechnology company focused on cytokine-based intratumoral immunotherapies, today announced that it will be presenting encore interim data from its KEYNOTE-695 registration-enabled Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating TAVO™ (tavokinogene telseplasmid), a DNA plasmid-based interleukin-12 (IL-12), in combination with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in rigorously defined anti-PD1 checkpoint resistant metastatic melanoma patients at the 10th World Congress of Melanoma. This is an encore presentation of data presented at The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer's (SITC) 2020 Annual Meeting. Presenters will also discuss the therapeutic potential of OncoSec's DNA medicines platform to elicit robust anti-tumor immunity via intratumoral gene electrotransfer of TAVO plus CXCL9.
"Achieving an overall response rate of 30% with several complete responses and no serious adverse events is extremely encouraging for checkpoint resistant metastatic melanoma patients who currently rely on systemic administration of immune-stimulating drugs associated with severe toxicity," said Paolo A. Ascierto, M.D., Director of the Unit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy at the National Tumor Institute Fondazione G. Pascale in Naples, Italy. "The data reported, in addition to its ease of use, demonstrate the potential of TAVO in combination with pembrolizumab as a next-generation intratumoral IL-12 therapy that can induce regression of both locally treated and untreated distant and visceral lesions."
OncoSec's presentation is summarized below:
Presenter: Christopher G. Twitty, Ph.D.
Session Date/Time: Saturday, April 17, 2021, 4:15 p.m. – 4:18 p.m. ET
OncoSec's KEYNOTE-695 interim data
Presenter: Paolo Ascierto, M.D.
OncoSec's next generation therapies: amplification of the CRX3/CXCL9 axis via intratumoral electroporation of CXCL9 synergizes with IL-12 therapy (TAVO) to elicit robust anti-tumor immunity
Presenters: Christopher G. Twitty, Ph.D., Paolo Ascierto, M.D.
Session Date/Time: Saturday, April 17, 4:48 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. ET
The conference will be held virtually from April 15 – 17, 2021. To access the conference virtual platform, visit: worldmelanoma2021.com/login-virtual-platform.
About KEYNOTE-695
KEYNOTE-695 is OncoSec's registration-directed Phase 2b trial (NCT#03132675) evaluating TAVO™ (tavokinogene telseplasmid), a DNA plasmid-based interleukin-12 (IL-12) + KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in patients with rigorously confirmed anti-PD-1 checkpoint resistant metastatic melanoma. The trial aims to enroll up to 100 patients with refractory, locally advanced or metastatic disease defined as unresectable Stage III/IV metastatic melanoma that had definitively progressed on a full-course of anti-PD-1 treatment with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) or OPDIVO® (nivolumab). TAVO™ has received Fast Track Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of metastatic melanoma following progression on KEYTRUDA or OPDIVO.
About TAVO™
OncoSec's gene therapy technology combines TAVO (tavokinogene telseplasmid), a DNA plasmid-based interleukin-12 (IL-12), with an intra-tumoral electroporation gene delivery platform to achieve endogenous IL-12 production in the tumor microenvironment that enables the immune system to target and attack tumors throughout the body. TAVO has demonstrated a local and systemic anti-tumor response in several clinical trials, including the pivotal Phase 2b trial KEYNOTE-695 for metastatic melanoma and the KEYNOTE-890 Phase 2 trial in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). TAVO™ has received both Orphan Drug and Fast-Track Designation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the treatment of metastatic melanoma.
About OncoSec Medical Incorporated
OncoSec Medical Incorporated (the "Company," "OncoSec," "we" or "our") is a biotechnology company focused on developing cytokine-based intratumoral immunotherapies to stimulate the body's immune system to target and attack cancer. OncoSec's lead immunotherapy investigational product candidate – TAVO™ (tavokinogene telseplasmid) – enables the intratumoral delivery of DNA-based interleukin-12 (IL-12), a naturally occurring protein with immune-stimulating functions. The technology, which employs electroporation, is designed to produce a controlled, localized expression of IL-12 in the tumor microenvironment, enabling the immune system to target and attack tumors throughout the body. OncoSec has built a deep and diverse clinical pipeline utilizing TAVO™ as a potential treatment for multiple cancer indications either as a monotherapy or in combination with leading checkpoint inhibitors; with the latter potentially enabling OncoSec to address a great unmet medical need in oncology: anti-PD-1 non-responders. Results from recently completed clinical studies of TAVO™ have demonstrated a local immune response, and subsequently, a systemic effect as either a monotherapy or combination treatment approach along with an acceptable safety profile, warranting further development. In addition to TAVO™, OncoSec is identifying and developing new DNA-encoded therapeutic candidates and tumor indications for use with its new Visceral Lesion Applicator (VLA), to target deep visceral lesions, such as liver, lung or pancreatic lesions. For more information, please visit www.oncosec.com.
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Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar Adamu today decorated 8 Newly promoted DIG's and also inaugurated the IGP management teams.The newly decorated DIGs are ; Usman Tilli Abubakar, Abdul Majid Ali, Aminchi Samaila Baraya, Fredrick Taiwo Lakanu, Godwin C. Nwobodo, Yakubu O. Jibrin, Usman Yakubu, and Anthony Ogbizi Michael.
The event was held today at the peacekeeping hall of the Nigeria Police headquarter Abuja.The IGP at the decoration ceremony of the DIG's and inaugural ceremony of the IGP teams expressed that the task of policing a complex nation like ours is undoubtedly arduous. But with your individual and collective experience, I am confident that together we can surmount challenge, he said".
According to him, " We have to resolve new thoughts and embrace new orientation as a police organisation, to work with the citizens, neighborhood and other strategic security actors as pathway towards addressing command crime.
"Policing Standards and practices have to change in Nigeria if only we want to restore citizen's trust and attain our mandate in the most effective manner. "However, it's also a clear statement that under my leadership, merits shall be the overriding standard that will guide promotion.
He charged the newly decorated DIGs to work together in partnership in actualizing his visions. He expects them to be team players, colleagues, friends and brothers in the service to our great nation," rededicate yourself to serve the Nigeria Police and the nation", he said.


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Jessie J – Doing It For The UK
March 2, 2011 Deb McKoy
In a recent interview with sbtv Jessie J showed real emotion when speaking about her newfound superstar status, describing it as 'going from room to room'. She went on to say that the bigger you become as a star, the smaller your world becomes. Jessie won the Critics' Choice prize at the Brits last month whilst knocking Lady Gaga off the top spot to assume a number one position in the same week.
Always staying true to her roots, Jessie says she plans to record a mixtape with some of her favourite UK rappers, many of whom she's already worked with, saying she wants to rep for the UK. Her aims to crack America include wanting to have UK music played on American radio as much as American music is played over here. A big statement from one of music's hottest properties who describes herself as just a normal girl from Essex.
We wish Jessie J all the best for the future. Her talent truly has the abilty to fulfill her intentions. After all, with the support of her loyal fans she reached the number one UK chart position without the assistance of radio play. Urban music is making massive moves. What do you think of Jessie J's aims?
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Early prognosticators are projecting a massive $125 million opening for "Finding Dory" at this weekend's box office.
A big opening would break a trend of lackluster sequels this year.
Fox's "X-Men" sequel, Paramount's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" followup, and Lionsgate-Summit's latest film in the "Divergent" series have all been touched by the 2016 sequel slump — none have surpassed the opening weekend grosses of the films that came before them in their respective franchises.
The chart below compares first-weekend domestic box office returns of 2016 sequels with their most immediate predecessors, with the addition of early "Dory" estimates.
All widely released 2016 sequels appear in the chart, with the exception of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." (The 2002 original was a sleeper indie hit that opened in small number of select theaters, which throws a wrench in opening-weekend comparisons.) The second "Big Fat" still counts as a sequel bomb, seeing as it came in $180 million shy of the first installment.
This weekend saw some reprieve from sequel sag, as New Line Cinema's "The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist" made nearly the same exact amount as the first one, which was a surprise hit.
Could that have been the case with "Now You See Me 2" — which opened last weekend to $7 million less than the first installment made in 2013?
But Disney also experienced the complete antithesis of the phenomenon, releasing the biggest box office moneymaker of the year so far: Marvel's "Civil War" has amassed more than $1.1 billion worldwide.
Disney-Pixar's "Finding Dory" is sizing up to break the trend, set to obliterate "Nemo"'s opening weekend when it opens this Friday.
But there are more sequels to come, including "Rings," Paramount's third installment in "The Ring" series, due out in late October.
And "Independence Day: Resurgence" arrives June 24. Without Will Smith returning (except for appearing in a photo), the film has an uphill battle to beat the 1996 original's huge $96.1 million opening week (which was helped by a mid-week debut).
With more sequels on the horizon, including "The Purge: Election Year," "Ice Age: Collision Course," "Star Trek Beyond," "Jason Bourne," and "Bridget Jones's Baby," there are a whole lot more followup films that are vying to break this year's box office trend.


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using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

namespace Ixy.AppService.Authentication.Github.Builder
{
    /// <summary>
	/// Configuration options for <see cref="T:Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Github.GithubMiddleware" />.
	/// </summary>
	public class GithubOptions : OAuthOptions
    {
        //https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new <see cref="T:Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder.MicrosoftAccountOptions" />.
        /// </summary>
        public GithubOptions()
        {
            AuthenticationScheme = "Github";
            DisplayName = AuthenticationScheme;
            CallbackPath = new PathString("/signin-github");
            AuthorizationEndpoint = GithubDefaults.AuthorizationEndpoint;
            TokenEndpoint = GithubDefaults.TokenEndpoint;
            UserInformationEndpoint = GithubDefaults.UserInformationEndpoint;
            //Grants read-only access to public information (includes public user profile info, public repository info, and gists)
            //Scope.Add("https://graph.microsoft.com/user.read");
        }
    }
}

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Q: Can this SQLITE db.insert be combined or improved? i have 2460 rows to insert in my sqlite DB by a click, my question : there's any way to improve this code to be more efficient and get better performance ?
is keeping DBHelper is good in this situation, having that i need to show my data in a Listview with a lot of queries ?
what do you think ?
Thank you, and sorry for my english
My class:
public class MainActivity <ButtonListener> extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Button btnSimple = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonviewrec1);
    btnSimple.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

            Intent intent = new Intent (v.getContext(),ViewTeam.class);
            startActivityForResult(intent, 0);

        }
    });

    Button btnasearch = (Button) findViewById(R.id.searchbtn1);
    btnasearch.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

            String tmname1= "spurs";
            String tmopponent1= "lal";
            String tmdate1= "26/12/2014 12:00";

            String tmname2= "Maavs";
            String tmopponent2= "Raps";
            String tmdate2= "22/12/2014 03:30";

            String tmname3= "Clips";
            String tmopponent3= "Bulls";
            String tmdate3= "19/12/2014 01:30";

        TeamModel pm;
        DBHelper db;

                db = new DBHelper(getApplicationContext());
                db.getWritableDatabase();
                pm = new TeamModel();

            pm.teamname=tmname1;
            pm.teamopponent=tmopponent1;
            pm.teamdate=tmdate1;

                Log.i("teamname,teamopponent,teamdate", "" + pm.teamname + ""
                        + pm.teamopponent + "" + pm.teamdate);
                db.addTeam(pm);

            pm.teamname=tmname2;
            pm.teamopponent=tmopponent2;
            pm.teamdate=tmdate2;

                Log.i("teamname,teamopponent,teamdate", "" + pm.teamname + ""
                        + pm.teamopponent + "" + pm.teamdate);
                db.addTeam(pm);

            pm.teamname=tmname3;
            pm.teamopponent=tmopponent3;
            pm.teamdate=tmdate3;

                 Log.i("teamname,teamopponent,teamdate", "" + pm.teamname + ""
                            + pm.teamopponent + "" + pm.teamdate);

        db.addTeam(pm);

        }
    });

}

My DBHelper
public class DBHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
public DBHelper(Context context) {
    super(context, DATABASENAME, null, 33);
    c = context;
}

public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE if not exists teamstable(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,"
            + "teamname"
            + " TEXT,"
            + "teamopponent"
            + " TEXT,"
            + "teamdate" + " TEXT)");
}

public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
    db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" + teamstable);
    onCreate(db);
}

//Add record
public void addTeam(TeamModel teamitem) {
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
    ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
    contentValues.put("teamname", teamitem.teamname);
    contentValues.put("teamopponent", teamitem.teamopponent);
    contentValues.put("teamdate", teamitem.teamdate);
    db.insert("teamstable", null, contentValues);
    db.close();
}

My TeamModel Class
public class TeamModel {

public String  teamname="", teamopponent="", teamdate="";

public String getTeamname() {
    return teamname;
}

public void setTeamname(String teamname) {
    this.teamname = teamname;
}

public String getTeamopponent() {
    return teamopponent;
}

public void setTeamopponent(String teamopponent) {
    this.teamopponent = teamopponent;
}

public String getTeamdate() {
    return teamdate;
}

public void setTeamdate(String teamdate) {
    this.teamdate = teamdate;
} }

A: Well, you should use transactions, they'll improve performance very much. Also I'll recommend you to refactor your code. First of all I would create DAO for your entities:
public interface TeamDAOProtocol {
    void addTeam(ArrayList<TeamModel> entities);
}

public class TeamDAO implements TeamDAOProtocol {
    void addTeam(ArrayList<TeamModel> entities) {
        if (entities == null) return;

        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        db.beginTransaction();
        for (TeamModel entity : entities)
            try {
                ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
                contentValues.put("teamname", entity.getTeamname());
                contentValues.put("teamopponent", entity.getTeamopponent());
                contentValues.put("teamdate", entity.getTeamdate());
                db.insert("teamstable", null, contentValues);
                db.setTransactionSuccessful();
            } catch(Exception e) {
            //Error in between database transaction
                e.printStackTrace();
        }
        db.endTransaction();
        db.close();
    }

}

Also use TeamModel's properties via getters/setters, because your's "pm.teamopponent" breaks incapsulation.

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Head out through the valley and smell the … lavender! The owners of Warratina love the purple flower and invite the public during to visit the farm. The comforting aroma of lavender will hit you as soon as you step out from the car. You'll spot rows upon rows of flowering bushes plus the kids will instantly want to get closer, either running down the fields or inspecting the hedges or spying on a bee!
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According to Roger Ebert, After Dark, My Sweet "is the movie that eluded audiences; it grossed less than $3 million, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir. It captures above all the lonely, exhausted lives of its characters."
Early in the film, the person in the emergency room's heart flatlines; asystole or absence of any electrical activity. Shocking or defibrillating will do no good in the absence of cardiac activity. The proper treatment would be to give intracardiac epinephrine, followed appropriately as necessary.
Kevin 'kid' Collins: [voiceover] When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see people exactly as they are at last - as I saw Fay then: weak and frightened but basically as good as a person could be and hating herself for not being better. Suddenly, the only thing that mattered was that she live, it was the only way my having lived would make any sense. It was why I had been made like I was - to do something for her that she could not do for herself, and then to protect her so that she could go on, so that she could have the reason for living that I'd never had.
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Underrated Neo-Noir
Eccentric drifter Collie (Patric) left a career in boxing following a nervous breakdown. Having escaped a mental institution he wanders...And wanders...And wanders until one humid day he finds himself in the wrong town, stumbles into the wrong bar and meets Fay (Ward) -the wrong kind of older woman.
In need of someone to care for him some way, some how Kevin is vulnerable to her entreaties though she pretty obviously looks down on him. Her flirtations are punctuated by insults no self-respecting person would tolerate. She waves red flags like a matador but Kevin has no place to go. Taken back to her place and offered a job with room and board the fly contemplates settling into the web.
Fay takes Kevin to dinner and introduces him to Uncle Bud (Dern) - a mysterious older man who is a hundred different kinds of bad news. The quirky, charismatic, charming career criminal has a business proposition for Kevin. His instincts tell him to split especially after his new acquaintances have each warned him about the other. But a guy with limited resources can only get so far. In his case the fly nearly settles into a different kind of web which makes Fay's look appetizing.
Jason Patric was on the verge of Hollywood superstardom before he was 25. His performance in The Lost Boys (1987), The Beast of War (1988), this film and Rush (1991) not only made him a heart-throb to millions of young women but also established him as a serious actor capable of giving edgy performances consistently. The career on the A-list which seemed almost certain to be his eluded him perhaps because he eluded it.
Patric's first screen role was as Bruce Dern's drug-addict son in a dumb 1985 TV movie called 'Toughlove'.
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Hasta la noche, mi amor
Palm Desert, California, USA
Avenue Pictures
$7,000,000 (estimated)
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Zainab Hasan trained at The National Youth Theatre Rep Company.
She made her professional debut as Woman on the Tube in End of the Line in 2010, going on to...
She made her professional debut as Woman on the Tube in End of the Line in 2010, going on to perform in The Boyfriend at the Oval House in the same year. In 2012 Zainab performed as Emilia in Jennifer Lunn's Othello, and returned to Shakespeare in 2013 to play the Nurse in Toby Clarke's Romeo and Juliet.
Most recently Zainab has performed in The Class by Luke Barnes as part of the National Youth Theatre, and as Sofia in Coram, directed by Richard Weinmann.


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The Indian antitrust office has launched an investigation into the App Store
The Indian antitrust authority confirmed last Friday the start of an investigation into the App Store. This is the result of a complaint filed against Apple by the nonprofit Together We Fight Society.
The investigation, which will be carried out over the next two months, will concern the ban on the use of alternative payment systems in applications for iOS. It is to determine whether Apple by forcing to use payments made through the App Store, on which it charges a commission of 15% to 30%, is not abusing its market position in a way that is detrimental to developers and their customers.
Two weeks ago, Apple representatives filed a motion to dismiss the complaint and not pursue the matter. They wrote that the company does not have a dominant position in India, but on the contrary – according to recent studies its market share is less than 5% – therefore the accusations of abusing its market position are unfounded. They also accused Together We Fight Society of acting on behalf of companies with which Apple is currently disputing in other countries (the application did not mention specific names, but most likely Epic Games and Spotify).
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Two people support each other in front of flowers at a makeshift memorial at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Oct. 28, 2018.
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Muslims Raised $125K for the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims
In less than 24 hours, Muslim groups united to cover funeral expenses and medical bills.
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Attacking the rights of anyone to observe their faith anywhere is discriminatory. You can take action here to help speak out for equality for all.
A crowdfunding campaign hosted by two Muslim groups raised more than $125,000 in 24 hours for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, reports the Forward.
Muslim-American nonprofits Celebrate Mercy and MPower Change launched the effort immediately following the attack, which took the lives of 11 victims attending a bris and prayer services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
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"When I saw the news, I thought, 'This could have very well been at a mosque or a Hindu temple,'" said Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim-American speaker and activist who started the fundraising effort, in an interview with the Washington Post. "We live in a time where so much bigoted rhetoric is being amplified."
Conversely, the campaign seeks to transmit a message of solidarity with the Jewish community.
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"We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action," the campaign, entitled Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Shooting, stated. "Our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said: 'Show mercy to those on earth, and the One in the Heavens will show mercy to you.' The Quran also teaches us to 'Repel evil by that which is better' (41:34)."
According to the Washington Post, the campaign was at some points taking in $2,000 per hour. The initial goal of $25,000 was reached within six hours, according to the report, inspiring the groups to increase the campaign. Funds will be used for funeral expenses and medical bills.
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MUSLIMS: Let us stand with our Jewish cousins against this senseless, anti-Semitic murder. Guided by our faith, @CelebrateMercy & @MPower_Change ask you respond to evil with good. Donate now to help shooting victims with funeral expenses & medical bills: https://t.co/v01cOUYdqkpic.twitter.com/n7KJlW6mAX
— CelebrateMercy (@CelebrateMercy) October 27, 2018
El-Messidi is partnering with the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh to disburse the money to families of the victims.
"In religion, we're all worshiping a higher power, especially with our Jewish cousins," he went on to tell the Post. "We share a lot theologically with the Jewish community, and a foundational teaching is you never harm religious spaces — regardless if it's a mosque, a temple, church. One should never be worried about being harmed or killed in a place of worship."
Those sentiments were echoed by many others in the Muslim community.
"Those who were stolen from us by this hateful person were like family," says Wasi Mohamed, the Executive Director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Emgage Pennsylvania, a nonprofit Muslim advocacy organization, in an interview with Time. "We feel obligated to follow this Prophetic tradition on standing up for the Jewish community."
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by Lambert Davis
Rikki-tikki-tavi is a valiant little mongoose who is washed away from his family in a flood and rescued by a young English boy. He finds the inhabitants of the bungalow garden cowed by Nag and Nagaina, the great black cobra and his wicked wife. Although inexperienced as a serpent slayer, he knows his role in the world. He first attacks a deadly krait, thus saving Teddy's life, and then takes on Nag, thus saving Teddy's parents. In his final battle, he vanquishes his most dangerous foe, the vengeful Nagaina, with a combination of brazen courage and psychological cleverness, knowing that she will risk all to save her last egg from destruction.
Rikki-tikki is matter-of-fact about his exploits and has nothing but angry disdain for foolish Darzee, the tailorbird, who sings his triumphant praises with imbecilic enthusiasm. Nor does he understand the gratitude of Teddy's parents for acts which he considers all in a day's work for any honorable mongoose. He is not motivated by love or loyalty to humans, nor by the prospect of culinary rewards, but simply by his instinctual need to rid his world of snakes. Rikki-tikki is his own mongoose and is never diminished by subservience to man.
The same cannot be said for all of the animals in the other stories that make up The Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book. Eight of the 15 tales concern Mowgli, the man-cub raised by wolves, who is stalked by Shere Khan the Bengal Tiger, and mentored by Akela the Wolf, Bagheera the Panther, Baloo the Bear, and Kaa the Python. Ultimately Mowgli exerts his human supremacy over the animals of the jungle and we are reminded of an unfortunate pattern in Kipling's works.
Kipling was born in Bombay, son of a professor of architectural sculpture. At the age of five, he and his three year old sister were deposited as boarders with a couple in England so they could be educated on home soil – for Rudyard, victim of the brutality of the missus, it was a miserable experience. At 16, he returned to India and spent the next seven years launching his writing career. And then he left, to spend his adult life in the U.S., England, and South Africa. The 12 formative years in India left an indelible mark which informed most of his writing. As a chronicler of British India, he had no peer.
Kipling was a broadly talented author who achieved glory as a writer for both adults and children, of both short stories and novels, and of both poetry and prose. Immensely popular in his time, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 at the age of 42, the youngest recipient ever. Like many writers, he was subsequently vilified for reflecting in his writing the qualities of his times that were later found unsavory – in his case, the arrogance, racism, and militarism of British colonialism. His innovative works for children have endured – The Jungle Books, the Just-So Stories (addressed in an Arabian Nights kind of way to "O My Best Beloved"), and the ever-brilliant Kim.
(The illustrations are by Lambert Davis, Aldren Watson, Edward Detmold, Paul Jouve, and Rudyard Kipling.)
Tagged Books, Child, Children's Books, Children's Literature, Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling


surprised how great this map is.
A perfect puzzle. That's what this map is.
but it's been quite a while actually. Still as great as it was a year and a half ago.
Actually, a very fun puzzle that's different from other puzzles.
did u get this idea from my map, "wavering stability"?
Did you come up with the thwump squeezy thing?
lol!! ppl hate your map.. xD!!
5aved, That's a brilliant idea.
is it okay if I make a bit of a similar thing with teleporters?
I played this a few days ago but didn't comment.
I love this map. Good use of thwump + 7 tiles.
5aved. Amazing map. I love it.
That group of gold almost directly below the final door has been annoying me. :P.


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Concerts and Tours Music Festivals
Summer Rockfest 2017
Five bands and almost 4 hours of awesome music. It was a $10 ticket that was seriously worth $100. Two weeks ago I drove up up to north country of New York in Carthage to see Seventh Day Slumber headline their Summer Rockfest tour.
Opening the show was an all girl band called Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. And I mean girl, cause these are all 3 teenage sisters playing their version of metalcore they funnily refer to as beautycore. Maggie is the lead vocalist and she can scream with the best of them and would give even Lacey Sturm a run for her money. So we were off and running and rocking.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibQyh-ZdCtc
Next up was the band, The Protest. An up and coming hard rock band. Though I'd say they're metal. Very heavy set and just awesome. And no break at all. Drum sets being shared, meant there was only about a 10-15 minute break between acts. Really liked these guys and bought their album. Good stuff. Definitely on their way to hitting it big onto a bigger record label.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0xy2gTlo8&list=PLZjv1rsZQQMwvFKm47QXN2s7jlH7WPOzt&index=6
Next up was the band Scarlet White. They're a hard rock band with more good original music glorifying God. They're a band that has done extensive touring and another band on the edge of hitting it big. Everyone so far has played short 5-6 song sets but they're rocking pretty hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U105vSpTnog
Next up is the final opening act of the night, Random Hero. They played a little longer set and from looking at their merch table, they have a bunch of albums out. And man, are they good. They have a great stage presence and really got the crowd involved. They've got a great sound and definitely comparable to Disciple and Skillet. And that ended the opening acts and was I full of energy. All the bands were very open about their faith and glorifying God. Even though it was a tiny crowd there, these bands were giving their best and it was much appreciated.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCMDRvgViY
Now onto the main event, Seventh Day Slumber. Took about 20 minutes to set up but they hit the stage guns ablazing. Full on assault of hard rock and fire for pyrotechnics. But they would put on more than just a rock show. Joseph Rojas is the lead singer and shared his amazing testimony including the 20 plus year history of the band. These guys hit all their hits(of which there are many) and some cover songs. Hunger Strike originally played by Chris Cornell and mother love bone was a well done cover. Worship song, from the inside out was beautifully done. But Joseph also threw in some preaching with an altar call. The music was phenomenal but feeling the Holy Spirit working at a hard rock/metal show was just amazing. Seventh Day Slumber put on a beautiful show. But it was more than that. It was a full on ministry of sorts.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEwDEHqbOc
This was one of my favorite Christian shows I've been to. It rocked hard but yet, there was testimony, preaching and full on honoring God. What a phenomenal experience that has put me back on a spiritual high of sorts. If you get the chance, definitely check out each one of these bands. I went on a spending spree and bought all the opening acts' albums. I'll be posting those reviews soon. I already owned the whole discography of Seventh Day Slumber except for their early stuff from the late 90s which is now mine. But they do have a brand new release that is blowing me away. Review coming.
But this was definitely a five star show for me. Just loved it and loving how it's made me feel.


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Will China come to Greece's rescue?
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After the Greek public defied European paymasters with a resounding "no" vote in the referendum on new bailout terms, there is speculation in Asia as to whether China will come to Athens' rescue.
While the fallout from the landmark public vote has only just begun, many analysts are expecting a Greek exit from the eurozone, at least on a temporary basis. Banks are set to stay shut today (July 6), with further capital controls being placed on ATM withdrawals amid reports of shortages of €20 notes.
Athens is due to make another €3.5bn bond repayment to the European Central Bank in exactly two weeks. If it fails to do so, many speculate that lenders will stop propping up the Greek economy, forcing it to start printing money of its own in order to keep the economy ticking over.
On the eve of Sunday's referendum however, words spoken by a respected economist suggested that China might be willing to support Greece.
In an interview with Sputnik Asia, which has been widely circulated, Fan Mingtao, director of the Quantitative Finance Department at China's Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics said: "I believe there are two ways to give Greece Chinese aid. First, within the framework of the international aid through EU countries. Second, China could aid Greece directly. Especially considering the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. China has this ability."
While Greece was not among the 57 founding members of the AIIB, the rhetoric emanating from Beijing suggests that there would not be an issue with its membership, despite its financial travails.
Just last week, the Chinese premier Li Keqiang spoke at a summit in Brussels about the need to foster better bilateral investment ties between the EU and China. Li had already voiced his support for a unified EU with Greece included.
He said: "Let me reiterate that China always supports European integration and that China hopes to see a prosperous Europe, a united European Union and a strong euro. However, the issue whether Greece stays within the eurozone not only concerns the stability of the euro, but also … the stability and economic recovery of the whole world."
"China is a true friend of Greece and of the EU," he added.
China has been a serial investor in the Greek economy since the onset of the crisis, hoovering up a series of public assets in what amounted to a fire-sale of privatisation. The Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO has been steadily increasing its share in the Piraeus Port – Greece's largest commercial seaport – with a view to a full-on takeover. Officials in Beijing are said to view Greece as an ideal "gateway to Europe". Further investment in its infrastructure and assets may make sense at a time in which China is looking to increase its foothold on the continent.
But China is facing issues of its own: despite its new-found bravado on the international stage, there is evidence to suggest that it needs to get its own house in order before its truly global ambitions come to fruition.
As the Greek crisis flared up to new levels, Beijing was forced to intervene in its own stock market, after it threatened to descend into chaos. Over the past three weeks, around US$3.2tn has been wiped off the value of China's stock market, as fears re-emerge over a hard landing.
The government's efforts to re-nose its economy towards a more consumption-based model appear to be failing, with demand lagging and investment in key sectors reaching decade-long lows. This has led to the People's Bank of China lending money to investors in order to re-invest in the stock market.
Where will it stop? The fears among commodity-producing nations were already acute and after the events of the past week, anxieties will be growing further still. The likes of Australia and Brazil, which have become systemically reliant on China to purchase their stocks of ores, minerals and energy could be hit hardest, while Russia – for which China has been the only beacon of support among the global powers – could also stand to be hit hard.
"We believe it is unlikely the creditors' proposals will be significantly relaxed as a result of the "no" vote," Diego Iscaro, IHS
As for Greece, it's difficult to find two analysts who agree on the next likely course of action. Some – such as the prominent US Nobel economist Paul Krugman – are saying that the cycle should be allowed to run its course. The decision of the Troika to continue to laden Greece with more and more non-repayable debt was foolhardy, the argument goes.
Others are hopeful of further intervention still.
"Negotiations will resume over the coming days but the probability of a deal is distant. Tsipras' argument is that he can now go back to the lenders in a stronger position. However, we believe it is unlikely the creditors' proposals will be significantly relaxed as a result of the "no" vote. It will now be impossible for the Syriza-led government to accept the deal currently on the table, which means that the risk of a total collapse in the negotiations has increased significantly," says Diego Iscaro of IHS.
"In our view, the only hope of a deal may rest on the IMF convincing eurozone governments to include a clause promising debt relief in the future, conditional to Greece meeting certain targets. This will be extremely difficult but lenders may come to the conclusion that it is the only way to avoid Greece leaving the eurozone," he adds.
It was announced this morning (July 6) that Greece's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had quit his post, claiming that he was not welcome around the table of European powers anymore: further drama to a situation which continues to stumble from crisis to crisis.
Tags: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China, Diego Iscaro, Greece, Grexit, IHS, Li Keqiang, One Belt One Road, Silk Road Fund


The aim of this project was to assess three DNA-marker based pedigree reconstruction approaches and their associated challenges, strengths and weaknesses by conducting a retrospective analysis of a real, three generation rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) pedigree from the SPA hatchery. Molecular genetic data at as few as three or four loci was used to infer relatedness among individuals and between generations in the reconstruction of the three full pedigrees. Parentage and pedigree reconstruction was estimated, for the quasi-categorical (exclusion-based and LOD-based) approaches via the program CERVUS 3.0 and for the fractional approach via a software (PIPEDIGREE), developed for this project. The fractional pedigree method appeared superior, particularly for the estimation of inbreeding levels. This retrospective analysis was able to demonstrate, under different pedigree reconstruction approaches, that the semi-selective, on-farm breeding scheme implemented at the time was successful in limiting the level of inbreeding increase and identifying possibly superior broodstock.


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Micuru Komaeda (* 14. duben 1950) je bývalý japonský fotbalista.

Klubová kariéra
Hrával za Fujita Industries.

Reprezentační kariéra
Micuru Komaeda odehrál za japonský národní tým v letech 1976–1977 celkem 2 reprezentační utkání.

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Narození v roce 1950
Žijící lidé
Japonští fotbalisté
Muži
Narození 14. dubna