Do you only carry Curve?
Curve is no a credit card and will not provide the benefits of credit card. So if you want the warranty credit card provides then don't go out of the house without your regular credit card.
I always carry back ups these days because I've lost trust and when I raised the issue that cards without embossed numbers are not as widely accepted I was shot down. Today again I faced that issue with car hire and the company refused to accept cards without raised numbers on it.
This was allegedly for aesthetics but really it means electronic use only and is about control at the expense of functionality.
Take your pick of car hire companies, this is a standard requirement in Cyprus and many other countries. You say it's their problem but it's their rules and was a decision by Curve to change this that affects the usability of the product. Beta cards has embossed numbers and there was no problems.
I can only talk about what I know, I've never hired a car in Greece!
But it's MasterCard who changed their product to allow what Curve are doing and many other providers do the same thing. One of the main points of Chip and Pin was to reduce or eliminate the need for manual impression card processing, what with it's absolute nothingness of security.
Curve and a backup Visa card as an alternative system. Never had any need to use the backup so far. Long may that continue!
Curve have said they made the choice to change this. Therefore their choice lowered the functionality. How is that unfair? It's a simple fact and the thread is about do you carry back up cards which I have to now they made that choice.
Carry Curve and a Visa Debit/BankAxcept which also doubles as a ID card, on my phone «wallet» and then a few more cards in my backpack.
In a lot of countries most cards are not embossed and there's the opposite problem. Embossed cards here in Portugal oftentimes will not fit into payment terminals due to the thickness that the embossing adds. That's a physical problem while not accepting non embossed cards seems just a matter of nonsensical company policy. Maybe you should complain to that company and not Curve?
Interesting - never seen a payment terminal that didn't take embossed cards, I thought that would be part of the minimum spec.
Amex to check into hotels, to avoid a hold being placed on Curve. If abroad I settle with Curve.
Hilton CC for points in that chain.
Amex or Visa for car hire. Usually Amex due to the superior insurance.
Halifax Clarity as a backup for foreign transactions.
So have to take a full wallet with me all the time.
Purchased a foreign transaction this week on Amex for the summer as was concerned that if Curve went under and the service wasn't provided I would have no comeback. It was almost £700 so fairly chunky.
Embossed cards are just not that common.
Every single card I've ever got in Germany (besides Curve) was embossed.
Interesting - only one non-embossed card here (Virgin Atlantic) - the only other non-embossed ones are membership cards, etc. All my bank/credit cards are embossed. I'm still on the older Curve card so it's embossed too.
There must be a lot of non-standard/locally produced terminals in Portugal as all the ones I've used anywhere (USA, Canada, Singapore, Oz, lots of Europe) haven't had an issue with being embossed!
Yes, protection under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 is one of the most significant reasons that you can't always use Curve, as it breaks the creditor-debtor-supplier relationship.
Just look at those who had forthcoming flights with the collapsed Flybmi for example. Those who paid >£100 directly with a UK-issued credit card will be able to recover the full cost of replacement flights (and other out-of-pocket expenses) from the card issuer, whereas those who paid with Curve (even if linked to an underlying UK-issued credit card) will be able to recover only the original price of the Flybmi flights, which will inevitably be much less.
Section 75 gives far more protection than MasterCard chargeback.
Wait, it's a risk to pay anything over €100 with my Curve? That's outrageous.
Not a risk per se, just need to be aware if it is something you may end up needing Section 75 protection for or not. There are chargeback (and some Curve-provided) protections, but they don't have the same legal force.


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Q: how to fix "FFmpeg cannot edit existing files in-place."-Problem in Java I am trying to write an audio file to an existing videofile. Unfortunately I get the Logmessage, that I cannot edit existing files in-place.
I have found some threads about the so called muxing between video and audio, but none of them could help me out really. Maybe some one of you can.
Further this isn`t my could either. I am only the one who needs to use it, so I have to fix it.
Thanks for your help
String[] args = { FFMPEG_FILE.getAbsolutePath(), "-y", "-i", videoPath, "-ss", String.valueOf(-offset.toFrames() / 50.0f), "-i", audioPath, "-c", "copy", "-map", "0:v", "-map","1:a", "-bsf:v", "h264_mp4toannexb","-r", String.valueOf(project.getFramerate()), "-shortest",outputPath };

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(args).inheritIO();
Process p = pb.start();
int exit = p.waitFor();
if (exit != 0) {
     throw new IOException("ffmpeg terminated with a failure");
}

EDIT: As someone commented outputPath was same same as videopath. So switched it to another, so this problem would not appear again. But I still have no sound in my outputvideos. I give you the LOG-information, so maybe you can read something out of it.
INFO: start ffmpeg: [C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe, -y, -i, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test_Workflow\1.mkv, -ss, 0.0, -i, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\resources/videos/P1000501.MP4\audio.ogg, -c, copy, -map, 0:v, -map, 1:a, -bsf:v, h264_mp4toannexb, -r, 25, -shortest, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\testoutput.mp4]
ffmpeg version N-92087-gdcbd89e000 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8.2.1 (GCC) 20180813
  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth
  libavutil      56. 19.101 / 56. 19.101
  libavcodec     58. 31.102 / 58. 31.102
  libavformat    58. 18.104 / 58. 18.104
  libavdevice    58.  4.105 / 58.  4.105
  libavfilter     7. 33.100 /  7. 33.100
  libswscale      5.  2.100 /  5.  2.100
  libswresample   3.  2.100 /  3.  2.100
  libpostproc    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test_Workflow\1.mkv':
  Metadata:
    ENCODER         : Lavf56.4.101
  Duration: 00:00:04.60, start: 0.080000, bitrate: 1377 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(progressive), 1920x1080, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc (default)
Input #1, ogg, from 'C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\resources/videos/P1000501.MP4\audio.ogg':
  Duration: 00:04:20.65, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 86 kb/s
    Stream #1:0(und): Audio: vorbis, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 112 kb/s
    Metadata:
      CREATION_TIME   : 2018-11-09T13:20:07.000000Z
      LANGUAGE        : und
      ENCODER         : Lavc58.31.102 libvorbis
      MAJOR_BRAND     : mp42
      MINOR_VERSION   : 1
      COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: mp42avc1
[mp4 @ 000001e67c0a00c0] track 1: codec frame size is not set
Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\testoutput.mp4':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf58.18.104
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 25 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: vorbis (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 112 kb/s
    Metadata:
      CREATION_TIME   : 2018-11-09T13:20:07.000000Z
      LANGUAGE        : und
      ENCODER         : Lavc58.31.102 libvorbis
      MAJOR_BRAND     : mp42
      MINOR_VERSION   : 1
      COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: mp42avc1
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #1:0 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=  113 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize=     824kB time=00:00:04.41 bitrate=1530.8kbits/s speed= 634x
video:772kB audio:43kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:4kB muxing overhead: 1.092082%

A: For the original issue, "FFmpeg cannot edit existing files in-place.", that was put in place since ffmpeg needs to read the input, so it can't replace the input at the same time.
For the current issue, vorbis is not a standard audio codec for MP4, so re-encode the audio.
C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe, -y, -i, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test_Workflow\1.mkv, -ss, 0.0, -i, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\resources/videos/P1000501.MP4\audio.ogg, -c:v, copy, -map, 0:v, -map, 1:a, -r, 25, -shortest, C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Test\testoutput.mp4
(Since you're writing to MP4, -bsf:v, h264_mp4toannexb is the opposite of what you want, and is not needed here)

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But when you buy a canon camera over here, you get to attend a free workshop on photography, so I'm hoping to learn a lot from that, when I get my new camera.
I was given a Canon Rebel (450D) a couple of Christmas' ago and absolutely love it, I went to a course last summer to try and off auto mode and have been practising more with other settings, its great when I have time (like at home) to set it up but I am so slow working it all out still I still revert back to auto when out because it is just easier. But I would love to know in my head straight away what settings I need for a shot but I suppose that just comes with practise...!
It will just be easier to point people to my Flickr page (which I haven't updated for a while).
I Love every ones pictures!!!!!!!!!!
I am so sad right now because my parents are going on a 3 week trip and they are bringing my picture camera, camera and water proof picture camera!!!!
No picture taking for 3 WEEKS!!!!!!
Can't see the first one, but I like the rest!
Some pictures from today, a lovely spring day in Wales, these are taken with my other camera, a little point and shoot Canon Ixus 1000. Ripley lovely the mud as usual....!
LOVE the pics!!!! Ripley is SOOO CUTE!!!!! WOW, that is ONE GREAT park!!!!!
Great pictures Ripleygirl!!!!! Looks like Ripley had a lot of fun!!!
There are others on "Post Your Pic!!"
Thanks, it is a park about ten minutes walk from our house. We are really lucky to have it there!
I agree, dogcrazy, the photos people have uploaded here have blown me away, they are all brill! Well done everyone!!!
@Sara, love those sky pictures!
@Teddy Weddy, I recently signed up on Flickr. Don't use is much yet, as I got all my pictures on Photobucket and picasa.
I totally agree with you Ripleygirl & dogcrazy, everyone here is super talented with photography! Im loving looking at everyone's pics!
Oh and Ripleygirl, Im SUPER jealous you live in Wales lol It is stunning there!
A few more of my pics, just love photography and enjoying sharing! The budgie is our bird, she has always lived free flying in the house and only goes to her cage when we ask her to go to bed or when she wants food or water. Her name is pippa.
WOW!!! BEAUTIFUL, JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!! WOW!!!


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Joseph "Wingy" Manone
Andy Senior
Joseph "Wingy" Manone was born February 13, 1900, in New Orleans. Manone acquired his lifelong nickname when, at the age of 10, his right arm was amputated after it was crushed between two streetcars.
He started out playing on Mississippi riverboats and with the Original Crescent City Jazzers. The band later changed their name to the Arcadian Serenaders and he made his recording debut with the group in 1924. He worked in a series of bands all over the country, before starting his own band Joe Manone's Harmony Kings and recording with them in 1927.
The following year Manone played in Chicago before relocating to New York. In 1929 he recorded with Benny Goodman's Boys and then moved back to Chicago and led a band called the Cellar Boys. His 1930 composition "Tar Paper Stomp" is the basis for the riff that would later be used in Fletcher Henderson's "Hot and Anxious," and, more famously, Joe Garland's "There's Rhythm in Harlem," which was streamlined by Glenn Miller into his mega-hit, "In the Mood."
Wingy never saw a cent in royalties. According to his grandson Jimmy, "He was said to have referred to Glenn Miller's version as 'In The Mud,' so I don't think he was a huge fan." Nonetheless, he is currently listed as the composer, with Joe Garland being relegated to "arranger" status.
Wingy, an Armstrong-inspired trumpeter and vocalist and ebullient natural comedian, recorded extensively in the 1930s, scoring his own huge hit with "Isle of Capri." He appeared in the 1940 Bing Crosby movie Rhythm on the River and was a frequent guest on Bing's radio program. In 1948 he published an autobiography, Trumpet on the Wing.
From the 1950s, he was based mostly in California and Las Vegas, although he also toured through the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe to appear at jazz festivals. In 1957, he covered the Buddy Knox hit "Party Doll" in an attempt to connect with younger record buyers. Despite such detours, he continued to play great jazz and entertain audiences for the rest of his life.
Wingy Manone died in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 9, 1982. – compiled by TST staff
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Q: Firefox box shadow inset not working properly I'm using box-shadow to create internal "border" on left and right. It works great in Chrome or Edge but in Firefox it creates "bottom border" as well. I tried prefixing with -moz- and -webkit- but unsuccessfully.
I don't know how to simulate it in chrome so please run the code in Firefox to see what I am talking about.
Also, it sometimes glitches when zooming in or out in the browser (But zooming in or out in Firefox didn't fix it)

div{
      width: 150px;
    height: 200px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin: 0 auto;
    background: #001f49;
    display: grid;
    grid-template-rows: 77% 23%;
    align-items: center
}
h1{
  color: white;
    text-align: center;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size:18px;
}
span{
      background: white;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    position: relative;
    box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49, inset 0 -1px 0 0 #001f49;
    -moz-box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49, inset 0 -1px 0 0 #001f49;
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49, inset 0 -1px 0 0 #001f49;
}
span::before{
  background: inherit;
    top: -22px;
    content: '';
    display: block;
    height: 22px;
    left: 0;
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    transform: skewY(352deg);
    transform-origin: 100%;
    box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49;
    -moz-box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49;
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset -1px 0px 0 0 #001f49, inset 1px 0 0 0 #001f49;
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A: I would do the whole thing differently using background and less of code:

div {
  width: 150px;
  height: 200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  border:1px solid #001f49;
  background: linear-gradient(-13deg,#0000 33%,#001f49 34%);
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: 77% 1fr;
  align-items: center;
  text-align: center;
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h1 {
  color: white;
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  color: #ed174a;
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The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (MCMS) was established in its present form in 1998. It developed from the previous Centre for Emigration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, bringing together and building on 3 main elements: the Library, established in the early 1980s; the Irish Emigration Database Project, begun in 1988; and the Masters degree in Irish Migration Studies, taught since 1996. Vision and Mission The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies vision is that of 'an informed community, confidently and creatively engaged with its migration history, culture and heritage'. The MCMS mission is 'to serve the community as a leading international institution for the study of human migration, focusing on the peoples of Ireland world-wide'. The MCMS is managed by the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster through a sub-committee called MCMS Advisory Committee. The following partner institutions are represented on the Advisory Committee:
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This story begins in 1350, with the birth of the main ancestor of the dynasty, Sir John Stanley, and with his marriage, in 1385, to the exceptionally wealthy heiress, Isabel de Lathom.
Ken then tells how they adopted the 'Eagle and Child' symbol as their family emblem, and how their decendants went on to become the most important aristocratic figures in British history and the closest advisors and courtiers of monarchs.
The talk then describes the rapid ascent of Sir Thomas Stanley, then an important courtier to King Richard III, because of his betrayal of the King at the Battle of Bosworth, in 1485. Sir Thomas was then created 1st Earl of Drrby by the new King, Henry VII, and became the most wealthy and influential aristocrat in the Kingdom.
Ken then introduces other important members of the Stanley dynasty, and tells something of their fascinating stories and achievements, coming right up-to-date with the present, and 19th, Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley:
This is an entertaining and endlessly fascinating journey through so many lives in just one dynasty.


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The unknown future rolls toward us
Being the best Terminator film since Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991 isn't even a low bar to clear. It is a line painted on the ground. But I'm happy anyways that Terminator: Dark Fate is able to step across that line. It gets there largely by being the first time in four tries to figure out what should have been self-evident all along: these films don't live and die on the presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or his digital likeness) as an implacable killbot. They live and die on the presence of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, onetime waitress turned indefatigable survivalist and warrior. For it is with Dark Fate that Hamilton at long last returns to the role that has primarily defined her acting career, and while it would be a blatant lie to claim that this movie is anywhere close to the level of Judgment Day or its predecessor, 1984's The Terminator, it's at least a solid, watchable movie in its own right, the first time that's been true of this franchise in 28 years. This isn't solely Hamilton's fault, but she certainly helps quite a lot.
Also helping out: Dark Fate is the first of the later sequels to perform a hard reboot on the franchise: it follows the first two movies and only the first two movies. Given the complicated time-travel plot mechanics of this franchise, I think it's entirely possible for 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (the only one of the three with a single good scene), 2009's Terminator Salvation (the only one of the three that's largely functional as a standalone object), or 2015's Terminator Genisys (the only one of the three that is in any way, shape, or form interesting) to all co-exist in the same gnarled continuity. Not so with Dark Fate, explicitly so, and this reads as a deliberate statement of intent: this is a cut-out-the-bullshit, back-to-basics continuation of the story from when it was still mostly straightforward and focused more on thriller mechanics than mythology (though there is still plenty of the latter, and I don't suppose you could possibly make any sense of this plot if you don't know the original films, especially its impressionistically-cut stock footage opening). It's tempting to suppose, in part because the ad campaign desperately wants us to suppose it, that this is because series creator James Cameron took an active role in this film, unlike the last three movies (he co-wrote the story and produces), but I think it's just as much that we're in an era of respectful years-later sequels made by fans of the original: Dark Fate is coming from exactly the same place as the 2018 "clear out the deadwood" sequel Halloween, though for my tastes it is decidedly more satisfying.
Not wholly satisfying, mind you. In fact, the film starts out by needlessly shooting itself in the foot, with a scene that feels like it can't possibly be coming from the same Cameron who righteously carped about how Alien³ made a mockery of his own Aliens: in 1998, about three years after the events of Judgment Day, Sarah and her son, the future savior of humanity John (Edward Furlong has unnecessarily come back to "play" a version of himself that exists only as CGI), are living peacefully in Guatemala. But Skynet, the genocidal AI that will now never come into existence, covered its bases in the future-that-isn't, and one last T-101 model Terminator (Schwarzenegger, appearing under so much CGI that he looks not remotely like himself) has arrived to complete its assassination mission. Exit John, and thus does the film manage to render an entire, much better movie, moot.
Or somewhat moot, anyway. Sarah did manage to keep Skynet from coming into existence, and so the next 22 years proceed much as they have in our own world, with no robot-driven apocalypses to reduce humanity to an ash-covered resistance cell. Not yet, anyway. In keeping with the series' gloomy fatalism, it turns out there's a different AI network that decided, the moment it was turned on, that its mission required the extermination of humanity, and it too has managed to design a line of Terminators that look awfully like the one its alternate-universe counterpart came up with. This new Terminator, REV-9 (Gabriel Luna) has exactly the same mission that long-ago T-101 did back in 1984, too: find a hapless young woman and murder her before she's able to give birth to the hero of a future resistance. In this case, the young woman is Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), living in poverty in Mexico City, and she's just as unprepared as Sarah was 36 years ago. But once again, the future humans have sent a protector: Grace (Mackenzie Davis), who has been cybernetically augmented to increase her strength and speed, though this comes at a crippling detriment to her long-term stamina (as she sensibly points out, if you can't kill a Terminator within the first couple of minutes, long-term stamina isn't likely to be a concern). And Sarah Connor herself shows up for the fun: in the years since John died, she's become a full-on Terminator hunter, receiving mysterious text messages informing her of the location of temporal distortions that likely mean a murderbot from the future is about to show up.
I concede that it would have been faster just to say "basically The Terminator, with bits of Judgment Day mixed in". That's the hard limit that Dark Fate reaches early on, and it never pretends otherwise: besides giving Hamilton several different variations on "boy, it's like I'm taking care of young me!", all of which feel pretty clumsy, there's also the matter of REV-9, which possesses a design that makes frankly very little sense in-universe, but which makes perfect sense if the goal was to hybridise the first two movies: it's basically the liquid-metal T-1000 from the second movie wrapped around the robot skeleton of the T-101 from the first movie, and both halves can function independently when need be. At a minimum, this leads to some very striking images, and whether those images are nonsensical or not isn't really the film's major concern. Director Tim Miller isn't always up to the demands of the movie's grandiose tone (his solitary earlier film, 2016's Deadpool, turns out to have been insufficient training to make a proper action movie), but he understands the iconography of the series well enough, and does a more than sufficient job creating a pastiche of Cameron's po-faced intensity. The overall mood of the film is of sweaty desperation, whether in the fast-moving dialogue scenes or the action sequences, and it's a good mood, one that's well-matched by the cast: Hamilton's angry sarcasm is unsurprisingly well-done, but I was quite impressed as well by Davis, who brings a passionate zealotry to her role of dogged guardian angel. Reyes has a hard time holding the screen against her two co-stars, but she does benefit from a well-built character arc that allows her to toughen up and grow taciturn as the movie progresses (Dark Fate basically stuffs two movie's worth of Sarah's development into one).
It's not anything particularly special: the action setpieces are better in conception than in execution (the editing does a notably poor job of letting us understand where we are in space for the two sequences that would otherwise clearly be the film's peaks - a prison break from an immigration detention center and a fight in a plane's cargo hold as it tumbles around in circles - though the rest of the action is done well enough), and the plot so overtly announces itself as a retread that it's hard to know what to say about it. But the film is generally pleasurable even so: it has a conviction about its gravity that serves it well. More to the point, it's packed full of characters who are well-defined in the archetypal way of a good popcorn movie, and acted with spirit. Not least of these is the T-101 itself, which comes along in the film's back half to give Schwarzenegger, now looking his age, a great chance to play against Hamilton again, to their mutual benefit. A reluctance to spoil things prevents me from saying what the robot is up to, but suffice it to say that it gives Schwarzenegger an unexpected chance to loosen up and have fun with the role¸ including an out-of-nowhere comic bit that's the equal to any joke in this franchise's history. The film becomes downright shaggy, a far cry from the merciless efficiency that made The Terminator a masterpiece, but a comfortable fit for how old Hamilton and Schwarzenegger both look. It becomes, in brief passages, a proper hang-out movie, and this doesn't even quite go away when it settles into its climactic chain of action scenes. If you're going to exhume characters after years in mothballs, letting the actors do this kind of straight-faced riffing is maybe the best approach you could take. Couple it with Junkie XL's delightful revisions of the musical themes from the older films on the soundtrack, and the winking visual nods to this or that visual effect or action beat, and Dark Fate manages, in its modest way, to give shameless nostalgia trips a good name.
Reviews in this series
The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1991)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Mostow, 2003)
Terminator Salvation (McG, 2009)
Terminator Genisys (Taylor, 2015)
Terminator: Dark Fate (Miller, 2019)
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 at 5:09am
Movie giveaway time! 🎬
We're back after a long winter break, for one of our FAVORITE episodes of the year - The Best Movies of 2019!
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 at 7:21am
The full list of Oscar Noms (and of course our opinion on the snubs!) 🏆 #OscarNoms
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The 20th film since 1986 to receive a perfect "F" grade from the audience-polling firm CinemaScore: can it really be that terrible? #TheGrudge
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The stink of having been shot almost three years before it finally saw the light of a commercial release hangs over 'Underwater' like a fart in church.
Underwater (2020) - Movie Review
Everything about it is derivative, but the cast, the watery atmosphere, and the monster design make it a fun winter snack for genre fans. Read the review!
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The full list of Oscar Noms (and of course our opinion on the snubs!) 🏆
2020 Oscar Nominations full list (& who got snubbed) - Alternate Ending
Who got the nod and who got the snub in the 2020 Oscar nominations? Let's review the full list and see who will win the awards and who has no chance...
Alternate EndingFriday, January 10th, 2020 at 4:23pm
The 20th film since 1986 to receive a perfect "F" grade from the audience-polling firm CinemaScore: can it really be that terrible?
The Grudge (2020) - Movie Review
Neither the best nor the worst of the American Grudge films, but it's a pretty mediocre January horror film by any standard. Read the review!
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CITIZEN KANE! 🥀
How Have You Not Seen...Citizen Kane?
For years...YEARS I've heard that Citizen Kane is the BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME. Black and white, Orson Wells...nothing really was ever screaming "must watch." ...
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Verify: Are parents on trial for murdering two-week-old first cousins?
Court testimony in the trial addressed the question this week.
Author: Jonathan Raymond
Published: 2:34 PM EDT May 9, 2019
COVINGTON, Ga. — It's a salacious element in the trial of a murder of a two-week-old that's been shared around and speculated on over social media channels, particularly our YouTube feed of the trial.
This aims to put it in a more sober context.
LIVE | Watch day 3 of testimony, here
VERIFY QUESTION
Are Christopher McNabb and Cortney Bell, the parents on trial for the murder of 15-day-old Caliyah McNabb in Oct. 2017, first cousins?
VERIFY SOURCE
Pamela Hamby's court testimony
VERIFY PROCESS
The short answer is: They are. But it's important to understand there's more to it than that.
In a Dec. 2017 police interview played for the jury Friday, McNabb himself touched on the matter. Here is what he had to say:
"We didn't never meet until 2013. When we met it was like we knew who we were to each other, but we never knew each other (before). You can't stop what you feel from the get-go.
"The very first time I ever met her, I knew I loved her ... I never felt about a girl the way I felt about Corntey, and she felt the same way. And it got started like that.
"It was wrong, but I don't apologize for it, because I love her. I can't help how my heart feels
"But yeah Pam is my dad's sister and that makes Cortney my cousin and we know that and we both were aware of that.
"But at least we both we didn't grow up together. We were never kids together. We were both grown (when we met), both been through a lot of stuff."
The original story continues below:
Pamela Hamby, Bell's mother, testified in court on Wednesday that she is also the sister of Michael McNabb, Christopher McNabb's father.
That sequence went as follows:
Prosecution: "Is Cortney Bell one of (your children)?"
Hamby: "Yes."
Prosecution: "Are you related to Chris McNabb?"
Prosecution: "How are you related to him?"
Hamby: "I'm his aunt."
Prosecution: "So is his father Michael McNabb your brother?"
Prosecution: "Did you raise Cortney?"
Hamby: "No."
Prosecution: "Who raised her?"
Hamby: "Her grandparents and her dad."
So, yes, by Hamby's testimony, she is both the mother of Cortney Bell and aunt of Christopher McNabb – making them cousins.
But, as she also noted, she did not raise her daughter. Bell's father, Tim Bell, testified this week as well that Hamby was not around throughout Bell's childhood.
He put the total number of times Hamby interacted at all with Bell until she was a teenager at about 20.
"Pam never bought her a piece of bubble gum," Tim Bell said Tuesday.
Tim Bell said he "didn't know Chris and Cortney were related until after they were together." It's not apparent they did, either.
Tim Bell also implied McNabb at least at one point went by a different last name, Black, which added to the confusion.
VERIFY CONCLUSION
McNabb and Bell are first cousins, but there is much more to the story than just that fact.
MORE STORIES FROM THE TRIAL
► Aunt says she thought Chris McNabb did it 'from the get-go' in emotional day 2 of baby murder trial
► 'Some things were overlooked': Attorneys spar over evidence on Day 2 in trial of 2-week-old's murder
► 'They're gonna think I did this': Neighbor recounts alleged comments by murdered child's father
► Father, cousin testify in murder trial of parents accused of killing 15-day-old daughter


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ULM's Continuing Education Program Offers Classes To The Local Community
By Cameron Ott • Jan 17, 2020
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The Division of Continuing Education for the University of Louisiana at Monroe is a learning organization that provides quality programs to individuals looking to enhance their professional careers or simply explore a new subject. Classes this year will be offered starting in early February and last until May.
Ida Gaines, the program's coordinator for non-credit programs, is in charge of selecting which courses are being offered each year. She says, "The cool stuff, that's what we do."
ULM President Nick Bruno Announces Retirement
By Jay Curtis • Jan 15, 2020
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University of Louisiana at Monroe President Dr. Nick Bruno has announced his intention to retire June 30, 2020.
In a letter to faculty, staff, and supporters. Bruno writes that today ULM is known as a medical science center. He writes that the next opportunities for the University "will take several years of coordination and commitment to be realized," and that he cannot commit the additional time required to do so.
Grambling: Early Admission Agreement With VCOM
By Associated Press • Jan 3, 2020
Grambling State University has reached an early admissions agreement with an osteopathic medical school that's starting up classes in July at a private campus on the grounds of another public university.
ULM's Holiday Art Sale Returns With Its Largest Selection Yet
By Cameron Ott • Dec 2, 2019
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The ULM Art Department and Kappa Pi are hosting the annual ULM Holiday Art Sale this week, December 2-6, from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Bry Hall on campus. The sale includes a wide variety of hand-crafted art pieces made by the university's students, faculty, and alumni. The selection ranges from Christmas ornaments and stickers to ceramics and paintings.
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By Cory Crowe • Nov 26, 2019
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This holiday season, your tax-deductible year-end gift to KEDM will enrich your life with another year of great programming while helping children gain a brighter future.
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Scientists To Use 3-D Ground Penetrating Radar At Poverty Point
By Staff Report • Nov 26, 2019
Courtesy of Poverty Point World Heritage Site
Poverty Point World Heritage Site in West Carroll Parish is Northeast Louisiana's global treasure. One of only 24 sites in the United States and 1,121 worldwide, it was approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2014.
Much of the research, documentation and preservation of the site is a result of the work of station archeologist Diana Greenlee, Ph.D., an adjunct professor at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Greenlee led the process to nominate and secure the UNESCO designation.
La. Commissioner Of Higher Education Kim Hunter Reed To Address Graduates At ULM Commencement
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The University of Louisiana Monroe announces Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education Kim Hunter Reed, Ph.D., will give the keynote address at Summer-Fall 2019 Commencement at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
"Dr. Kim Hunter Reed is a national leader in higher education and we are privileged to have her speak at ULM's Commencement ceremony," said President Nick J. Bruno, Jr., Ph.D. "I believe the commissioner's insight and experience will leave a lasting impression on our new graduates and their friends and family on this special occasion."
The ULM VAPA Department Takes On Two Operas In One Night This Season
By Cameron Ott • Oct 28, 2019
ULM's School of Visual and Performing Arts is presenting two fantastic one act music-dramas by Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Medium and Amelia Goes to the Ball, in the ULM Spyker Theatre on October 30, 31 and November 1 and 2, at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket availability is limited, as their are only 152 seats in the Spyker Theater. Admission will be free to ULM students, $5 for faculty, and $15 for general admission.
ULM Mourns The Passing Of President Emeritus Dwight D. Vines
By Staff Report • Oct 26, 2019
Services will be held Tuesday morning for University of Louisiana at Monroe President Emeritus Dr. Dwight "Del" Vines.
The University of Louisiana Monroe has lost a beloved President Emeritus and Northeast Louisiana has lost one of its most ardent supporters with the death of Dwight D. Vines, Ph.D.
Vines served as president from 1976-1991. He joined the university, then Northeast Louisiana State University, in 1958 as an instructor of management and became a full professor. Vines served as dean of the College of Business from 1964 until he was named president.
Businesses Can Get Advice on Serving Seniors
By Taylor Costa • Oct 8, 2019
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The Louisiana Small Business Development Center offers help and support to businesses that provide services to senior citizens, according to Virendra Chhikara, director of the Louisiana Small Business Development Center (LSBDC).
Chhakara said the LSBDC can provide business guidance to senior citizens who want to start a business.
"We can guide them through the process if they're looking for financial options," said Chhikara.


Palit announces Low Profile and Non Reference Variants of GTS 450.
Palit has announced two new models of the recently introduced GTS 450 Graphic card. Two new variant's which include a Non reference one and a Low power edition were revealed by Palit. Specs and features of them can be seen below.
The Non-Reference Edition of the GTS 450 features the same design as seen on the Palit GTX 460. The PCB on the Non-Reference design is colored Red and is equipped with a fan on the heatsink with a shroud that spans along the length of the card. The Display port includes two DVI, One HDMI and a Display port. The clocks of the card remain same as the reference one which are 783/1566/900(3600) MHz core/shader/memory. The Sonic and Sonic+ card could be in works which will feature overclocked cards. The card is priced at 136$.
The Low profile variant is a half height card which occupies two expansion slots and looks a bit longer than the full slot card. The Low Profile version also features the same reference clock speeds of 783/1566/900(3600) MHz core/shader/memory. A 192 Cuda Core Count, 1GB GDDR5 memory on a 128 bit wide memory interface. The card is powered by a single 6-pin connector, The price has not been announced yet.


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Jane Venis and Hannah Joynt have developed collaborative performances.
Working together in the College of Art Design and Architecture, Hannah Joynt and Jane Venis decided to explore the possibility of collaboration in their artistic practice. Hannah draws, and Jane plays music. The idea was that each would stay in their own discipline but together they would produce something fun and dynamic that would be different from what either would do separately. Hannah says:
It evolved from there. Why don't you play something and I'll draw it? Why don't you draw something and I'll play it? It's a live performance practice.
Their improvisations are spontaneous and creative - every time it's different. Jane and Hannah enjoy the synergy and curiosity to see where they'll go together, and so do their audiences. They are continuing to explore new territory in their collaborative practice, with Jane building new musical instruments and Hannah developing new drawing tools, to extend the boundaries of that what they can do together.
Each is responding to the other to produce one combined performance piece. Hannah is not just listening to Jane but also responding to her movement, and Jane is watching Hannah as well as what Hannah is drawing, as they express themselves and develop the performance "in tune" with each other.
Although the process is largely spontaneous, the drawings can also be 'read' as a narrative, and the performance has a theatrical storytelling quality to it. We all have different non-verbal modes of expressing ourselves. In our performances we are initiating dialogue with each other in our own individual creative languages. How might a mark be interpreted? How might sound by interpreted? The notion of improvisation and spontaneous expression is common to both drawing and music/sound performance.
They hope that their work also gives their audience a sense of wordless communication, that the audience members as witnesses will share Jane's and Hannah's experience through music, movement and drawing.
Jane and Hannah contributed Jamjo, a film work of a live performance before an audience, to Lines of Thought, an international contemporary drawing group show at the CICA Museum, Gimpo, Seoul, South Korea in 2018. They were also invited to perform live at the opening event. In September/October 2019 they have residency at the Buinho Creative Hub in the historic town of Messejana in Portugal.
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using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace SonarQube.Plugins
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Utility methods for creating and validating with SonarQube repository and rule keys
    /// </summary>
    public static class RepositoryKeyUtilities
    {
        private const int MaxKeyLength = 255;

        /// <summary>
        /// Allowed a limited set of symbol characters
        /// </summary>
        private static char[] allowedSymbols = new char[] { '.', '-', '_' };

        public static string GetValidKey(string key)
        {
            if (key == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(key));
            }

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            foreach (char c in key)
            {
                if (IsValidChar(c))
                {
                    sb.Append(c);
                }
            }

            string retval = sb.ToString().ToLowerInvariant(); // lower-case by convention
            if (retval.Length > MaxKeyLength)
            {
                retval = retval.Substring(0, MaxKeyLength);
            }

            ThrowIfInvalid(retval);
            return retval;
        }

        public static void ThrowIfInvalid(string key)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(key) ||
                key.Length > 255 ||
                key.Any(c => !IsValidChar(c)))
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(
                    string.Format(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, UIResources.Misc_Error_InvalidRepositoryKey, key), "key");
            }
        }

        private static bool IsValidChar(char c)
        {
            bool isValid = char.IsLetterOrDigit(c) || allowedSymbols.Any(a => a == c);
            return isValid;
        }
    }
}

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Google is planning monthly updates for Google Glass until the time it becomes generally available in 2014.
Steve Lee, product director for Google Glass, Isabelle Olsson, the lead industrial designer on Glass, senior developer advocate Timothy Jordan and Glass engineer Charles Mendis held a discussion with Glass developers during Google I/O on Thursday to talk future developments.
Lee went into specifics about monthly updates, saying Google would ship one every month with new features, bug fixes, and overall polish to the platform, according to The Next Web. Google has shipped one update for Glass so far during its time with developers, which was installable over-the-air just like an update on your smartphone would be. It will be interesting to see if Google can stick to the promise of updates, which will feature suggestions from developers and Glass Explorers, according to Lee.
Furthermore, Jordan confirmed that all 2,000 participants of the Glass Explorer program had been invited to pick up their new tech. He didn't offer word of any more units becoming available, or when a general release may occur. Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the company wouldn't ship the eyewear to the masses until 2014.
Glass didn't get much attention this year during Google I/O, most likely because Google was already pressed for time during its four-hour keynote. At any rate, it sounds like Glass behind the walls at Mountain View is coming along just fine.
On a related Glass note, check out these prototypes that Google originally developed.


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"Once a week, sometimes twice, a car would come with water, and we stood in a line with our vessels. We might have got water, or maybe not. The water was arriving in cisterns for 28 years and was very expensive. Moreover, we had to carry water from far away to wash clothes or dishes, and this was…
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Yekaterina Shilkina, a gynaecologist from Minsk, was immersed in the practice of obstetrics – the branch of medicine covering childbirth and midwifery – when she went to the Netherlands for an internship in the framework of the EU-funded MOST programme.
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"Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first to describe, with almost complete precision, the anatomy of the eye and optical system in the 15th century. He is perceived as the biggest innovator in modern science, and not only in science," Tekla Mamageishvili, Director of a Tbilisi-based eye clinic,…
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Lika Merabishvili – a Georgian woman who strives to promote cycling in Tbilisi with EU support
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Ellen Page responded after Chris Pratt talked about his pastor and church on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
– EN Showbiz – Ellen Page wants Chris Pratt to explain why he attends an "anti LGBTQ" church.
The Guardians of the Galaxy actor appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night (07Feb19) to promote The Lego Movie 2, and touched upon topics such as the pressures of fame, his religion, and the 21-day Daniel Fast that he participated in through his church.
Following the show, The Hollywood Reporter shared an article with the headline, "Fresh From Fasting, Chris Pratt Talks about His Spiritual Side on 'The Late Show'," and the Inception actress retweeted the post and questioned why Colbert didn't ask about his church's anti-LGBT views.
The Avengers actor is a long-practicing evangelical Christian who attends Hillsong Church, the same church as popstar Justin Bieber, Hailey Baldwin and Selena Gomez.
Days after Chris revealed he was doing the Daniel Fast, which centres on prayer and giving up meat and dairy products, in January, reports were published pointing out that the religious institution was "anti-gay", revealing that senior pastor Carl Lentz said in a 2015 GQ interview that he considers homosexuality a sin and would never allow an openly gay member to hold a church leadership position.
Ellen, 31, recently appeared on the same U.S. chat show and gave an emotional, impassioned speech in which she condemned U.S. leaders for encouraging hatred towards the LGBTQ community.
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As you would expect, the New York Toy Fair was a busy event for Mattel. Not only did it show off its updated VR View-Master headset, but it also revealed another product that is a modern reimagining of a classic Mattel toy. This time, it's the ThingMaker that has been brought back to life, in the guise of an easy to use and affordable 3D printer aimed at children.
The original 1960's ThingMaker let kids (and adults, no doubt) create their own toys by pouring liquid plastic into metal molds. Now, the concept has been updated in the form of a $300 3D printer.
While 3D printers are continuing to drop in price, many consumers find them too complicated to operate. The ThingMaker 3D has been developed in collaboration with AutoDesk to make the 3D printing process easy enough for a child to understand.
With the accompanying app (Android and iOS), users can select from dozens of 3D design blueprints and easy to follow tutorials so they can create customizable toys by printing out parts that connect using ball-and-socket joints. You'll even be able to export the designs wirelessly to any 3D printer, not just the ThingMaker.
Once they've got the hang of it, kids will be able to design their own toys from scratch and print them out. Mattel noted that "additional design content and branded options" would also arrive for the ThingMaker 3D, which may mean templates for Mattel toys such as Hot Wheels could be made available.
The ThingMaker 3D will use a hard PLA filament, and reports say there will be dozens of colors available. A Mattel spokesperson said there may be other materials released in the future.
With it being a toy aimed at children aged 13 and up, there are a few safety features to prevent accidents. The doors lock automatically when the printer is in use, although kids can watch the process through the clear window on the front. Additionally, the printing head, which obviously gets incredibly hot, will retract when it's not being used.
The apps for the ThingMaker 3D are already available in the iOS and Android stores, but the printer won't be available until sometime around late August/September. You can pre-order it from Amazon right now.
"We're going to use these seven months to really learn and gain analytics of how people are using it," says Aslan Appleman, a senior director at Mattel.


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Formula 1 Analysis
The challenges Alpine faces with its no team boss approach
Adam Cooper
Can a Formula 1 team operate successfully without a clear boss in the traditional team principal role?
That's the path being pursued by Alpine this year as Marcin Budkowski and newcomer Davide Brivio share responsibility for running the organisation, their jobs split, in essence, into factory and track operations.
Until his departure was announced in January, Cyril Abiteboul was Renault's man in the spotlight. He was expected to move into a more senior role as overall boss of Alpine Cars, having worked on the project – alongside his F1 duties – since July.
Instead, Abiteboul proved to be surplus to requirements. The revised organisation chart at the F1 team sees Budkowski and Brivio with equal stature, reporting to new Alpine Cars CEO Laurent Rossi.
No F1 team organisation is about one person, and all have multiple layers of management, involving specialists in their own fields. There are also some variations on the two-man leadership theme.
At McLaren, Andreas Seidl serves as team principal, but his immediate boss and CEO Zak Brown takes on bigger responsibilities for the company. At Williams, there's a similar arrangement, with team principal Simon Roberts running the team, but reporting to CEO Jost Capito, who looks after the wider interests of shareholders.
However, at most teams there is a sole point of focus. Ultimately Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Mattia Binotto, Gunther Steiner, Fred Vasseur, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all answer to owners, some more hands-on than others – notably Red Bull representative Helmut Marko – but as team principals they carry the can if something goes wrong.
At Alpine Rossi serves as the young and dynamic link man between Budkowski and Brivio below him, and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo above.
Rossi has had an interesting career. He started as a Renault road car powertrain engineer, but instead of working his way up he left to join a management consulting company, focussed mainly on automotive projects.
After a spell with Google he returned to Renault in 2018 as a high-flier in a senior strategy and business development role.
Laurent Rossi, Alpine Chief Executive Officer
Photo by: Alpine
That in turn led him to the Alpine Cars job that Abiteboul had expected to get. Overseeing the F1 team and the power unit division in France is just part of Rossi's responsibilities, as his main job is to build the Alpine brand.
"In the team the top structure is underneath Marcin Budkowski and Davide Brivio," he explained recently.
"Marcin will be in charge of the development of the chassis and the powertrain, so will coordinate the whole development of the car. Davide will be racing director.
"So the two of them will work in tandem to extract the best out of the car that has been designed in Enstone to put it into the best position possible in the future.
"The rest of the teams are keeping their existing line structures to Marcin in Enstone, or to myself in Viry, which is a bit of a different situation because it's a PU manufacturer. But besides those two lines that I said, the rest stays like it was last year."
Rossi's philosophy, honed through his various jobs, is to delegate to the most qualified candidates: "It's to have strong people around you. That's my learning in life, that you don't do anything alone.
"To be resilient in any environment you need skills, you need stamina, you need a lot of qualities. F1 is exceptionally under pressure in terms of environment. You need a strong team.
"And that's why we thought of having Davide on board. He has proven experience managing teams and championships under pressure, so this will help the team quickly.
"And then of course, starting with Marcin, but irradiating into all of Enstone and Viry, we have extremely skilled people at the helm, developing our car.
"So this is what you need. And basically and modestly here, I'm managing all of these people towards one simple [goal] but providing them with all of the support, whether it's logistical, material, or sometimes I hope, intellectual.
"Really surround yourself with the great ones, that's how you thrive. And that's what I hope I did."
Budkowski, who joined Renault in 2018 as executive director, played an increasingly influential role alongside Abiteboul, especially when COVID travel made it harder for the latter to spend time in Enstone.
An aerodynamicist by training, his impressive CV includes senior roles at Ferrari and McLaren, and a spell at the FIA where he got a very different perspective on the sport – before deciding he wanted to be back in a team and he took the Renault management job. He's learned a lot along the way, especially from his days at Maranello.
"I was extremely lucky to be part of an era at Ferrari under Jean Todt with Ross Brawn, Rory Byrne, with Michael Schumacher, with all these great names," Budkowski says.
"Some of them are still key names in the sport – Mattia Binotto was there, James Allison, they're all team mates from this period. It was a completely different role at the time, I was an engineer, I was contributing to the development of the car.
"Now I'm much more in a management position and contributing to the performance of the organisation, rather than the car itself. Certainly being part of such a successful organisation, one that was dominating the sport at the time, is something that you remember.
"You remember some of the things that we were doing right, an certainly that's something I rake inspiration from in my management role to try to build a team as strong as the one we had at the time."
Marcin Budkowski, Executive Director, Alpine F1
Budkowski sees the factory/track job split with Brivio as logical given the busier 2021 calendar, the huge challenge of creating a new car for 2022, and the ongoing logistical problems created by COVID.
"In terms of responsibilities, I've been based in Enstone for the last three years," he says. "I'm continuing to run Enstone and all the departments that are involved in the race team there.
"And then there is the racing side of it, if you want, at the track, and the driver management, which lies with Davide.
"We have a base in the UK, we have a base in France. We have 23 races, potentially 25 in the future, COVID restrictions mean potential quarantines etc. Honestly, in these conditions, managing a team and going to all races is very, very difficult."
The recruitment of former Suzuki boss Brivio, a man who has spent his entire career in two-wheeled sport, is an intriguing move by Renault. However, it's perhaps not as unusual as some might think.
Over the years, many team bosses have climbed the ladder from running teams in the lower formulae – Frank Williams and Ron Dennis were classic examples, while more recently Horner and Vasseur followed that route.
However, good managers can be found elsewhere. McLaren pulled a masterstroke by looking beyond F1 and headhunting Seidl, a man with an impressive skillset, honed latterly in the WEC – although the German had some experience of grand prix racing in his BMW days.
Jean Todt made his name in rallying and sportscars before he joined Ferrari, while his contemporaries David Richards (with BAR and Benetton) and Ove Andersson (Toyota) also went from the rallying world to F1 – as did current Haas boss Steiner.
And don't forget that Flavio Briatore won four world championships as a former fashion marketing man.
Brivio stresses that his focus is on managing the travelling race team.
"We decided on this type of organisation where basically the roles are split between Enstone operations and the circuit operation," he says.
"And nowadays it is also quite difficult, we felt, because, with 23 races and also when you want to improve the organisation, make the team growing up, you need to be very focused on all sides, all aspects.
"So we decided to split. Of course, having Marcin in his role is very helpful for me, and he has done a great job on organising all the facility, and managing all the facility in Enstone.
"My role is to be responsible for what happens on the track, on the circuit. So, when we are here for the race weekend, to make sure that we have everything we need to perform, to make sure the drivers are happy, comfortable, and they have what they need, of course, listen to their requests, their complaints.
"So it's a big responsibility. And of course, a big pressure. And then what we want to try to do is to be efficient in all aspects, and in all situations, so at home and at the circuit. That's the idea behind it."
Davide Brivio
Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
Brivio notes that at Suzuki, a much smaller operation, he was directly involved in all areas – some of which he won't encounter at Alpine.
"In Suzuki the organisation was smaller. Here, they are very well organised, all each individual sector. Before I was also operational, [as well as] being responsible. Here you can count on plenty of very good operational staff, and organised offices.
"I am a part of the management, and as management with Laurent, with Marcin, we have the responsibility to run the operation. When it is time to take decisions, to make strategies, this is where the management has to be prepared."
So how will the new arrangement work out? Even the team doesn't know that yet, given that the Bahrain test was Brivio's first chance to have a proper look.
It will stand and fall on how he and Budkowski interact with each other, and with Rossi, their immediate boss.
A positive and competitive start to the season will obviously help to build confidence in the new structure. In contrast, a few troubled races will test it.
Perhaps the biggest challenge Brivio faces is managing Fernando Alonso, whose expectations are always high, and who doesn't suffer fools.
"I feel like he's a very normal guy," Brivio says of the former world champion. "Just extremely motivated, extremely willing to find and put together everything that is necessary to get the best out of the car, the best out of the team.
"He's coming back, and he's not coming back just to drive a car. He's coming back to try to get good results, to get some satisfaction, and he's quite demanding, but that's what I like.
"We need this type of driver that is really keen to put everything together to try the maximum, so I welcome this type of attitude, this type of approach.
"And of course, we will have to try to work together as best possible in order to use his abilities and his potential."
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George Russell joining Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes this year gives it arguably the best line-up in Formula 1 – if it can avoid too many fireworks. After serving his apprenticeship at Williams, Russell is the man that Mercedes team believes can lead it in the post-Hamilton era, but how will he fare against the seven-time champion? Motorsport.com heard from the man himself


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Q: WebSocket connection on wss failed I have purchased a certificate and installed in my node.js website.But the https at the browser shows green and is OK.Now, I am trying to establish a socket connection using wss, but it failed.
The error at the Javascript client side is like this.
   WebSocket connection to 'wss://securedsitedotcom:3003/call' failed:
   WebSocket opening handshake was canceled

Please help!
Code at client side (Javascript)
var ws = new WebSocket('wss://securedsitedotcom:3003/call');

Code at server side (node.js)
 https = require('https');
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Error at the browser console :
WebSocket connection to 'wss://securedsitedotcom:3003/call' failed:

WebSocket opening handshake was canceled

A: Recent work with Chrome has revealed that if a page is served as https on Chrome, websockets must use wss. And if wss must be used, port 443 must be used (and to boot not any other secure port and so far I have not seen any way to change the port), which may be your problem since your port looks like 3003 above.
Right now I am trying to get my IT group to patch/upgrade Apache on that server so mod_proxy_wstunnel can be used to make Apache listening on 443 a reverse proxy and pass all wss traffic through to my websocket server.
Hope this helps.

A: I ran into a similar issue, but I was using a Self Signed Certificate. You mentioned that you bought a Certificate. I guest it is signed by the certificate authority.
Otherwise, like in my case, non-validated certificate can cause an "opening handshake was cancelled" error. A validated certificate is either validated by a third party (Certificate Authority, ie VeriSign) or explicitly authorized by the client.
In my case, VeriSign didn't sign my certificate (self signed), so I had to explicitly authorized it. To do so, I simply need to visit the https URL with the browser (in your case "https://securedsitedotcom:3003/call"). Then a "warning unauthorized host" appear. You need to authorize the exception and than you can make your WSS connection.
Your server can use any port, it is not bound to 443. 443 is the default port for https but any port can be explicitly specified like you've done.
I hope it helps someone.


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Q: < any , < all gives the same results in mysql
when I use this query
mysql> select movieid from rating where stars < any (select stars from rating where

movieid=103);

the output is as below
movieid

 101
 108
 104

when I execute the below query, the results seems to be the same. Why is that?
> mysql> select movieid,stars from rating where stars <all (select stars
> from rating where movieid=103);

+---------+-------+
| movieid | stars |
+---------+-------+
|     101 |     2 |
|     108 |     2 |
|     104 |     2 |
+---------+-------+

shouldn't the all keyword give back the results which are less than to the stars value 2? which in this case would be an empty set.
here is a capture

A: The data in the capture is different from the data you posted earlier, you have 3 stars for both rows with movieid = 103 (as opposed to 3 and 2)
As for the first data you provided:
First query with `any' is equivalent to:
select movieid from rating where stars < 2 OR stars < 3

and the result is:
101
103
108
104

The second query is equivalent to:
select movieid from rating where stars < 2 AND stars < 3

and the result is an empty set.
For the screen capture data:
Both queries are equivalent to:
select movieid from rating where stars < 3

and the result is:
101
108
104

A: I don't know, but if i were writing this I would have done something like:
/* is this what you want by "any" */
select movieid,stars from rating where stars < (select max(stars) from rating where movieid=103);

/* is this what you want by "all" */
select movieid,stars from rating where stars < (select min(stars) from rating where movieid=103);

demo


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package com.daitobedai.configs;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.CorsRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
public class WebMVCConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
        registry.addMapping("/**")
                .allowedOrigins("*")
                .allowCredentials(true)
                .allowedMethods("GET", "POST", "DELETE", "PUT")
                .maxAge(3600);
    }
}