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Q: Clarifying an article on switch debouncing - something about leakage current causing trouble I recently read this article on switch debouncing: A Guide to Debouncing - Part 2, or, How to Debounce a Contact in Two Easy Pages, by Jack Ganssle.
The article is on choosing the correct resistor and capacitor for your debounce circuit.
In the article, after calculating a (seemingly good) value of one of the resistor he goes on to say this :

But. the analysis ignores the gate's input leakage current. A CMOS device like the 74AHCT14 dribbles about a microamp from the inputs. That 180K resistor will bias the input up to .18 volts, uncomfortably close to the gate's best-case switching point of 0.5 volt. Change C to 1 µF and R2 is now 18K.

I am only beginning with electronics, so I can only guess what that's supposed to mean. And my best guess is that the leakage current is somehow affecting us in a bad way.
It will be a big help if someone can give me an explanation on what this section. I prefer to know what I am doing, if I am doing it.

A: Mr. Ganssle is saying that the worst-case leakage current (if it comes out of the input) multiplied by the R2 resistor value could result in the input voltage not getting close enough to ground when the switch is closed, in fact getting close to the switching point in the pathological case of using an HCT gate (with TTL rather than CMOS switching thresholds) for some reason, and worst-case leakage.

It's a bit of a misspeak because the gate input does not "dribble" anything like 1uA under normal conditions. 1uA is the maximum at 85°C (2uA at 125°C). At room temperature it's no more than 100nA and the typical current is much, much less than that (< 1nA) and that is mostly due to the input protection network.
However if your circuit must operate at very high temperatures then you had better use the guaranteed number. They do not test to a current closer to the actual leakage because it costs more time in the test procedures and that would increase the cost (and usually nobody cares).
His comments about capacitor tolerances are also a bit off, the typical 1uF aluminum electrolytic capacitor these days will have +/-20% tolerance, not the very wide +80/-20% tolerances that used to be common on larger parts many years ago. Ceramic capacitors are a bit more of a dog's breakfast because of voltage coefficient, but the tolerance of an X7R part under rated conditions is usually +/-10% not +/-30%.


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TEAM NIGERIA FINISHES 3RD AT AFRICAN SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
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Team Nigeria had a slow start with the team occupying number 10 spot by the second day but defied all odds to finish 3rd with 4 Gold, 5 Silver and 7 Bronze medals on the final day.
Cornell University graduate, Steven Mozia gave Nigeria her first medal in the Championship with a throw of 19.90m that placed him in third place in the Shot Put. South Africa's Frank Elemba settled for Silver(19. 89m) while SA's Jaco Engelbrect won the event with his last throw of 20.00m. Ogheneakpoboro Efekoro finished just outside the medal zone with a mark of 19.57m. Mozia also won a Bronze medal in the Discuss with a distance of 59.16m. South Africa's Victor Hogan won Gold in 61.68m while his compatriot; Rusell Tucker finished 2nd with 61.44m.
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2015 National champion; Gloria Asunmu finished 4th in 11. 45s as African 100m Record Holder, Murielle Ahoure won the race in a Championship Record of 10.99s. SA's Carina Horn finished 2nd in 11.07s while Marie Ta Lou was 3rd in 11.15s. Even as Ivory Coast dominated the short sprint,
Nigeria found solace in the Women's Shot Put as it was a 1-2-3 for the Nigerian ladies. Harvard University Junior; Nnwaneka Okwelogu threw a distance of 56.75m to convert the championship title as compatriots; Chinwe Okoro and Chioma Onyekwere finished 2nd and 3rd with a throw of 55.67m and 53.91m respectively.
Ese Brume, who a few weeks ago leaped a new personal best of 6.83m to qualify for the Olympics, retained her title in the Long Jump with a jump of 6.57m. Cameroon duo; Joelle Sandrine and Marlyne Sarah finished 2nd and 3rd with 6.39m and 6.34m respectively.
In the one lap event Patience Okon George finished third behind Zambia's Mupopo Kabarge (51.56s) and Kenya's Margaret Nyalrera who won Silver in 52.24s.
Nigeria's Eroyakan Orukpe finished 4th in semifinals with 46.84s while a new face on the team, Tubotein Taylor finished 5th with 47.00s but that time could not qualify them for the final. National Champion, Chidi Okezie placed third in a time of 45.76s which serves as his personal best, Baboloki Thebe of Botswana took the title in a time of 44.69s while his compatriot; Karabo Sibanda was 2nd with 45.42s.
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Nigeria's sole representative in the men 400m hurdles, Miles Ukaomo who ran a time of 50.72s to finish second in his heat couldn't repeat that feat as he came 8th in the final, however he was later disqualified by the track officials.
Defending champion in the men's 110m hurdles, Tyrone Akins failed to achieve this feat once more as he lost the title to Antonio Alkano of South Africa in 13.43s, the Nigerian in second (13.74s) while Mohammed Koussi finished third in 13.94s.
Tosin Oke dethroned Khotso Mokoena to reclaim his title in the Triple Jump with a mark of 17.13s. Fabrice Zangi won the Silver with 16.81m while Khotso settled for Bronze in 16.77m. 2015 African Games Silver medalist; Olumide Olamigoke finished 5th with a distance of 16.53m.
Uhunoma Osazuwa set a Championship and National Records in the Heptathlon event as she won the title with 6153 points. Marthe Yasmine of BurkinaFaso won Silver with a score of 5952 while Ghana's Elizabeth Dadzie settled for Bronze with 5730 points
African Games Champion; Kelechi Nwanaga finished just outside the medal zone with a throw of 53.45m to finish 4th in the javelin.
Doreen Amata cleared a height of 1.82m to finish 2nd behind Seychelles' Lissa Labiche (1.85m) while Egypt's Basant Hassan was third (1.79m).
Nwanneka Okwelogu and Chioma Onyekwere were once again on the podium as Nwanneka finished second with 17.07m her compatriot; Chioma was third with 15.71m. The event was won by Sally Muriol of Cameroon with 17.64m.
University of Maimi graduate; Tameka Jameson ran a time of 57.17s to win Bronze in the women's 400m hurdles, Her first international medal for Nigeria, the race was won by South Africa's Wenda Nel in a time of 54.86s while Maureen Jelegat of Kenya took the Silver in 56.12s.
Silver medalist at 2014 World Junior; Divine Oduduru did not start the final of the 200m which was won by Wayde Van Nierek of South Africa in a tine of 20.03s. Divine qualified for the final with the second fastest time and that would have been an opportunity for Nigerian team to win a medal in that event.
The Nigerian team only participated in the women's 4x400m which included; Omolara Omotosho, Regina George, Yinka Ajayi and Patience George finished 2nd in 3:29.94s behind South Africa who won the Gold in 3:28.49s.
It is disappointing that a nation like Nigeria which was once upon a time referred to as the power house of African athletes could not present a team in the men relays as well as the women's 4x100m women. No Nigerian was present in the men's 100m and women's 200m as well.
The next edition of the Championship would be hosted by Nigeria in Lagos state and we hope by then, the stadium would be renovated.
Next stop for Nigerian athletes would be The National trials which is billed for July and it would serve as qualification for the Olympics. We wish every athlete the very best!
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KEITH THE CRITIC
Winchester is about the house owned by Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun manufacturer William Winchester in San Jose, California. After William's death, Sarah, who is played by Helen Mirren, begins to build a mansion. But feeling haunted by those who have been killed by one of her company's guns, she keeps shutting off rooms and building more onto the house. Due to this, she is said to be mentally unstable. The Winchester Company's leaders hire Dr. Eric Price, who is played by Jason Clarke, to assess her competency.
Sarah lives in the house with a relative named Marian, played by Sarah Snook, and her son Henry, who is played by Finn Scicluna-O'Prey. Jason is recovering from his own wife's suicide and has become addicted to drugs. When he first begins to see ghosts, he believes it to be a result of the drugs. But when Henry seemingly becomes possessed, Jason must help Sarah stop these haunted souls.
The real Winchester house is a conglomeration of added wings of the house. But other than this, most of the story is made up according to articles I have read about the house. The filmmakers tip the scales on what is true and what is fiction.
Helen Mirren is a great actress and performed fabulously, but other than a few gotchas, it's really not a scary movie. I can only give this movie 1 out of 4 stars and that's totally due to Helen Mirren. This is not a good horror film.
A pointed eblast of local events.
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Title: A sodium-channel mutation causes isolated cardiac conduction disease.
Authors: H L Tan, M T Bink-Boelkens, C R Bezzina, P C Viswanathan, G C Beaufort-Krol, P J van Tintelen, M P van den Berg, A A Wilde, J R Balser
Journal, date & volume: Nature, 2001 Feb 22 , 409, 1043-7
Cardiac conduction disorders slow the heart rhythm and cause disability in millions of people worldwide. Inherited mutations in SCN5A, the gene encoding the human cardiac sodium (Na+) channel, have been associated with rapid heart rhythms that occur suddenly and are life-threatening; however, a chief function of the Na+ channel is to initiate cardiac impulse conduction. Here we provide the first functional characterization of an SCN5A mutation that causes a sustained, isolated conduction defect with pathological slowing of the cardiac rhythm. By analysing the SCN5A coding region, we have identified a single mutation in five affected family members; this mutation results in the substitution of cysteine 514 for glycine (G514C) in the channel protein. Biophysical characterization of the mutant channel shows that there are abnormalities in voltage-dependent 'gating' behaviour that can be partially corrected by dexamethasone, consistent with the salutary effects of glucocorticoids on the clinical phenotype. Computational analysis predicts that the gating defects of G514C selectively slow myocardial conduction, but do not provoke the rapid cardiac arrhythmias associated previously with SCN5A mutations.


Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers: Power Outage Forces Reese To Deliver Hope's Baby In Dark, Time For Baby Switch?
The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers tease a power outage on Catalina Island will force Reese Buckingham (Wayne Brady) to deliver Hope Logan's (Annika Hope) baby in the dark. It will be the perfect setup for Reese to kidnap or switch Lope's baby. Whatever happens, executive producer, Bradley Bell promises it will be action-packed and emotional.
As many fans predicted, Hope goes into labor while alone on the island. Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) cannot get to the Island due to bad weather. He is forced to contact his dad, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) for help. All he knows, he needs to get to his wife so she isn't alone while she labors. Little does he knows, Hope isn't all alone, she is with Reese Buckingham.
Dr. Buckingham let Hope know that he can deliver her baby. He is a registered OB/GYN and he has permission to practice medicine on Catalina Island. Hope isn't sure this is a good idea, after all, he is close to Taylor Haynes (Hunter Tylo). However, Hope cannot deny the fact she needs a doctor and he is hailed as a great one. So, she decides to push her doubts aside and allow him to be her doctor and guide her through her labor.
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I made a special rag-rabbit to celebrate Easter.
This is Esther, and she's an Easter bunny.
Esther likes to paint eggs and to eat chocolate. Every spring she rises fluffy little chicks and grows beautiful daffodils and she's very good at both.
Esther is made out of soft white wool fabric and she's filled with rags and a bit of cotton batting. Her eyes are tiny, dark red buttons, and her belly button is a lovely pearly button. Esther's nose is embroidered and she has cute blushy cheeks.
Esther is wearing a sweet green dress made out of Marimekko-print cotton fabric with a white collar. It closes in the back with a snap. She also has a fetching hare-bow made out of an old sheet and frilly apron made out of that same sheet and some Finlayson-print cotton fabric.
Now, I know it's not technically Saturday anymore, but for me, the day doesn't change until I've slept and it's morning again. And I'm sure it's still Saturday somewhere in the world.
Easter Saturday is called "Lanka Lauantai" in Finnish, which translates into "Yarn Saturday". Traditionally, the yarn produced during the winter was washed during Holy Saturday, hence the fun alliterative name for this particular day.
I had no yarn to wash, but I did sew all day today, which is also why I'm a bit late in posting this. I just got into that blissful sewing groove where there's nothing else but you and the sewing machine and the needle & thread doing their magic. I've been sewing pretty much all my life, and I am still amazed how a few pieces of fabric and some thread can turn into anything and everything you can imagine.
It's been a while since I last posted, despite a lot of things happening between then and now. I know I'm not the best at keeping a blog, so my updates are few and far between despite my best efforts to keep up. Any way, like I said, I've lots of things to post about!
Since I last posted over a month ago (such a long time!), there's been a few new arrivals: my Spoonflower test swatch came and The Terrific Trio returned home from their travels in Seattle. I hope to clobber together a proper post about both of these later.
I also started a new hobby, Chadô (literally translated into "The Way of Tea", you can learn more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chado), learning the art of Japanese tea. I've had two lessons so far, and it's all been lovely and exciting. I take pleasure in how the very simple and plain is made beautiful, how every action is thought out and performed with grace and how, in the end, it's really all about making a good bowl of tea.
I made a fukusabasami (a little pouch for the bits and pieces needed during the tea gathering) and while it took me a few hours to decide on what fabrics to use and at one point I even though I have too much fabric (that was a fleeting thought and it wasn't entertained for long at all), I'm very happy with it. It got lots of compliments from everyone at the tearoom too.


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Did California Just Abolish Single-Family Zoning?
The Golden State now allows homeowners to build up to two accessory dwelling units on their property by right.
Christian Britschgi | 9.19.2019 2:20 PM
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From the passage of statewide rent control to the failure of a bill legalizing more home construction near transit and job centers, it hasn't been a great year for free market solutions to California's housing shortage. That is, at least, until you consider the quiet success of efforts to allow for more accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
In the waning days of the 2019 legislative session, state lawmakers passed a series of bills loosening up zoning rules governing ADUs, sometimes known as granny flats or in-law suites. These reforms—which build on legislation passed in 2016—put additional limits on the powers of local governments to regulate ADUs to death, and allow more homeowners to convert their garage or tool shed into affordable rental housing.
"The big news is that we have effectively ended single-family zoning in California," says Matthew Lewis, director of communications for California YIMBY, an advocacy group that sponsored two of the three ADU bills.
The first bill, AB 68, lets homeowners build up to two ADUs on their property by right. That means local governments don't have the discretion to deny these projects or impose additional conditions on their approval outside of what's already spelled out in the city's zoning code.
In addition, the bill restricts the size, setback, and parking requirements local zoning codes can impose on ADUs. It also reduces the time local governments have to approve new units from 120 days to 60 days.
Two other bills, AB 881 (also sponsored by California YIMBY) and SB 13, prohibit local governments from requiring that an owner occupy the new units, and reduce the fees homeowners can be charged to build them.
These provisions helped build political support for the bill among homeowners, says Lewis, who tells Reason that they "see some self-interest in being able to create some rental income for themselves."
If the state's past experience with ADU liberalization is any guide, this year's changes will also lead to a surge in new housing supply.
In 2016, state lawmakers passed legislation that allowed homeowners to build one ADU by right and limited the types of impact and utility fees they could be charged for constructing them.
In response, ADU permit applications in Los Angeles jumped 30-fold after these news laws went into effect, increasing from just 257 in 2016 to 3,818 in 2017. In 2018, a full 20 percent of the permits granted for new housing units in Los Angeles were for ADUs, according to a report from the Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based urban policy think tank.
More cities could be taking advantage of ADUs, but traditional zoning rules often get in the way, says Margaret Morales, a policy analyst at the Sightline Institute. "The biggest ones are often parking requirements. Requiring extra off-street parking can be difficult if you have a small lot and it's very expensive," Morales says. The same is true of other standard policies like minimum lot coverage standards and setback requirements which limit the amount of land that can be devoted to backyard cottages or other types of ADUs.
"If cities set those outrageously high," says Morales, homeowners aren't able to squeeze new units onto their property.
Following California's lead, Seattle recently passed new ADU legislation which allows up to two such units per single-family lot, eliminates minimum parking requirements for ADUs, and abolishes the city's owner-occupancy rules for these granny flats.
On the downside, that same law imposed maximum size limits on new homes.
Morales says that more granny flats are a great way to add new supply in cities with a lot of single, detached family homes. She also cautions that they "are not the silver bullet to solve our housing shortage alone. I think they are part of the multi-prong package we need to consider."
Nevertheless, the past successes of ADU legislation in places like Los Angeles demonstrate how much new housing can be built when government gets out of the way.
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The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could effectively drive cyber criminals' ransom demands higher, says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure.
The sums demanded by cyber attackers in the past have been fairly arbitrary, he believes, because there has been no way to determine exactly what data is worth to a targeted organisation.
But Hypponen said this will change when the GDPR compliance deadline arrives on 25 May 2018, because after that, companies can be fined up to 4% of their global annual turnover or €20m, whichever is greater, if data is leaked and they are found to have not looked after personal data properly.
"So while GDPR is good for the consumer, it also gives a price point for criminals because now they know how much money they should be asking," he said.
Because the attackers know exactly what the data is worth, Hypponen said they also know that companies are likely to be willing to pay anything less than that to avoid the full amount of the fine and to avoid damage to the organisation's reputation by keeping the breach secret.
As a result, he said, demands could go up to 2% or 3% of the targeted organisation's global annual turnover, which, depending on the organisation, could be tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars instead of the current levels of thousands and low millions of dollars.
US authorities revealed this week that the hacker charged with hacking TV network HBO threatened to release stolen data and TV content if HBO did not pay $5.5m, which is considerably less than 2% or 3% of its 2014 annual revenue of $5.4bn, which equates to $108m and $162m, respectively.
Hypponen predicted that after May 2018, there will be targeted hacks where personal information is stolen from companies and they will start to get demands that are closer to the potential GDPR fines.
With just over six months to go before the compliance deadline, organisations are being urged to get their houses in order, not just because of the potential fines, but also for sound business reasons.
At EEMA's recent ISSE 2017 conference in Brussels, Belgium's secretary of state for privacy, Philippe De Backer, said the GDPR is really a business opportunity and should be viewed as such.
"For many, the focus is on compliance challenges and on the huge fines for non-compliance, but in reality the GDPR is an expansion of the ability to manage the use of data," he said.
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Q: A set S is infinite, if and only if S can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with a proper subset of itself I've had a look on the website but nothing seems to answer the particular question I have.
(i) Let F be a finite set. Show that any injective (that is, one-to-one) map ψ :
F → F is surjective (that is, onto).
(ii) (Paradox of Galileo) Give an example of an injective map ϕ : N → N that
is not surjective.
(iii) Now let T be a countably infinite set. Deduce that T can be put in one-to-one
correspondence with some proper subset of itself; so that there exists an injective
map φ : T → T that is not surjective.
(iv) Let S be an infinite set. Show that there exists a countably infinite subset T
of S.
(v) Deduce from (i), (iii) and (iv) the Dedekind-Pierce Theorem: A set S
is infinite, if and only if S can be put into one-to-one correspondence with some
proper subset of itself.
All the other parts of the question are fine, but i don't understand how to do part V. How do I use the other parts of the question to derive this fact.
Help is much appreciated always.
Thanks

A: Suppose $S$ is infinite, and using (iv) take a countably infinite subset $T = \{s_0, s_1, \dotsc \}$ of $S$. Then build the map $\phi\colon S\to S$ such that $\phi(x) = x$ for $x \notin T$ and $\phi(s_i) = s_{i+1}$ for elements of the subset $T$. I assume this is the map that you came up with in (iii)?
This map $\phi$ is not surjective, so by (i) $S$ is not finite. Can you finish writing up the details from this?

A: $$S\supseteq T = \{t_1,t_2,t_3,\ldots\}$$
$$ \begin{array}{rcc} t_1 & \leftrightarrow & t_2 \\ t_2 & \leftrightarrow & t_4 \\ t_3 & \leftrightarrow & t_6 \\ t_4 & \leftrightarrow & t_8 \\ t_5 & \leftrightarrow & t_{10} \\ & \vdots \\ \text{and for } s\in S\smallsetminus T,\quad s & \leftrightarrow & s \end{array}$$
This is a one-to-one correspondence between $S$ and a proper subset of $S.$ The proper subset contains as a member everything that appears to the right of the arrows above.


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Fast-riser PPK takes high-tech materials up a notch with Deakin University
By Matt Ogg
One of the biggest growth stories on this year's Brisbane Top Companies list has today announced an $8.5 million capital raise to develop and commercialise its technologies in partnership with Deakin University.
Shares in mining technology company PPK Group rose almost 5 per cent this morning to $4.72 on the news, making them worth almost 16 times what they were valued 12 months ago.
It has now been almost a year since PPK signed a joint venture agreement with Deakin in November 2018 to form BNNT Technology Limited, with the goal of manufacturing boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) on a commercial basis.
A test production plant was built at the Geelong-based uni, and this month Deakin confirmed all the process elements were completed and the plant was operational.
Now the two entities have entered a joint venture research agreement (JVRA) for the research, development and commercialisation of both new and existing technologies and products where BNNT can be used.
The JVRA shareholding structure will comprise PPK owning 65 per cent, Deakin University holding 25 per cent and BNNTTL holding the 10 per cent balance.
New application projects targeted by the JVRA include a type of battery based on lithium sulphur (Li-S), a 3D printing synthesis technology for metallic alloy composites, new manufacturing processes for transparent materials, thremally conductive and electrical insulating materials, blended polymers and improved mechanical properties of brittle ceramics.
"It is very encouraging to see the relationship between Deakin University and PPK strengthen, and we are delighted to be again working alongside Deakin University to assist in the enablement and commercialisation initially of these six market leading applications," says PPK executive chairman Robin Levison (pictured).
"The Board and management of PPK have been greatly encouraged by the investor support shown since the initial BNNT announcement in November 2018 and are confident that these new technology commercialisation opportunities will not only be beneficial to PPK in the medium term but also create a portfolio development effect that both increases revenue and profitability opportunities for PPK whilst reducing overall commercialisation risk."
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Investigators were still trying to understand what motivated the assault by 39-year-old Ziyed Ben Belgacem, which led to a major security scare and the temporary closure of the capital's second-busiest airport.
By Sunday afternoon air traffic had returned to normal, a spokeswoman for the Paris airports authority said.
Saturday's drama began when Ben Belgacem, who was born in France to Tunisian parents, grabbed a soldier, put a gun to her head and seized her rifle, saying he wanted to "die for Allah".
He was shot dead by two other soldiers after a scuffle.
Ben Belgacem's father insisted his son -- who had spent time in prison for armed robbery and drug trafficking -- was not a extremist.
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An autopsy was to to be carried out on Ben Belgacem's body Sunday to determine if alcohol or drugs were indeed a factor.
The attack at Orly comes with France still on high alert following an unprecedented wave of jihadist attacks that have claimed more than 230 lives in two years.
Investigators were continuing to quiz Ben Belgacem's brother and cousin on Sunday for clues as to whether the gunman had planned a terror attack or decided to die as a self-described martyr after a bizarre shooting spree.
He was investigated in 2015 over links to Islamist radicals forged in prison but his name did not feature on the list of those thought to pose a high risk.
Ben Belgacem's standoff with the security forces began at around 6:30 am (0530 GMT) in the gritty northern Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse, where he lived.
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Molins said Ben Belgacem threatened the three, saying: "I'm here to die for Allah. In any case, people are going to die."
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Ben Belgacem was carrying a petrol can in his backpack, as well as 750 euros ($805) in cash, a copy of the Koran, a packet of cigarettes and a lighter.
President Francois Hollande said Saturday his government was "determined to fight relentlessly against terrorism, defend the security of our compatriots and ensure the protection of our country".


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Henry Grace and Michael L. Grace collection
Collection — Item: Acc2010.013
ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California
This collection includes photograph albums and other material from Hollywood set decorator, Henry Grace, as well as materials from his nephew, Michael L. Grace. Materials in the photograph albums, circa 1942-1986, document Henry's personal life, including his travels throughout Mexico; social gatherings and costume parties he attended, including one in which guest dressed in bird costumes; and art works he collected or used as inspiration for his set designs. The collection also includes Carnival gay cruises publicity material, posters, an article, and videotapes (VHS) collected by Michael L. Grace. The videotapes document Gamma Mu, a gay fraternity that became the target of investigation following Andrew Cunanan's 1997 murder spree.
Grace, Henry (Creator, Person)
Grace, Michael L. (Creator, Person)
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Henry Wooten Grace was an Academy Award-winning motion picture set decorator. He was born on March 20, 1907 in Bakersfield, California, to Henry Barnett and Elsie Fowler Grace. He attended Glendale High School and Chouinard Art Institute. Soon after graduating from Chouinard, he started his career as a interior decorator and worked for several decoration firms before joining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in the mid-1930s. During World War II, Grace enlisted in the United States military (branch unknown) and served in the South Pacific as an engineer. He was awarded a Bronze Star and rose to the rank of Captain before he was honorably discharged in 1946.
Following the war, he returned to MGM and remained with the studio throughout his 35 year career as a set decorator. He won the Academy Award for his work on Gigi (1958) and was nominated eight other times for his work on Blackboard Jungle, North by Northwest, Cimarron, How the West Was Won, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and others.
Henry Grace died on September 16, 1983 in Los Angeles.
"[Michael L. Grace] attended St. Paul's, University of Southern California, the Pasadena Playhouse, and San Francisco State University. He also apprenticed at ACT - The American Conservatory Theatre and with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. He did graduate work at the American University of Beirut and the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. He has guest lectured at USC, UC San Diego, McGill, Univ. of London and the Univ. of Texas on writing spec screenplays - in a way to avoid development hell in Hollywood."
"After working in media and public relations, Michael started working in development and as a writer. He was involved in developing horror films and wrote a cult film The Unseen. He then started working in television as a continuing writer on such series as Love Boat, Paper Dolls, and Knots Landing. He developed screenplays for such major award winning directors as Nicolas Meyers, Tony Richardson and J. Lee Thompson. He has written for all the major networks and studios. He has been hired numerous times as a script doctor, doing many un-credited rewrites on TV movies and features.
"He [produced] P.S. Your Cat is Dead by Pulitzer prize-winning author James Kirkwood, co-produced the touring productions of The Boy Friend and Meet Me in St. Louis, along with revival productions of Peter Pan in Australia and Canada. He wrote the stage thriller Final Cut which has had productions in the America and Canada. His one-man play, Kennedy—The Man Behind the Myth, was developed for HBO and produced theatrically."
"He is part of the award winning team that created the internationally performed award-winning musical Snoopy, based on Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz. He co-produced Snoopy and co-wrote the book."
"Grace is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America and Dramatist Guild. He is former AIDS chair for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, board member of the San Francisco State University Foundation and founding member of the Children's Theatre Association - Kids Go Broadway."
"He is a continuing contributor to New York Social Diary and, through a life-long passion for travel and social history, has an award winning website: Cruising the Past. He is an expert on steamships and ocean travel from the 1930s until the 1950s. He has one of the largest private collections of ocean liner memorabilia in the USA. He is currently working on It's the Love Boat... And How It Changed Cruising by Ship, a non-fiction book dealing with how the hit TV series as a major cultural phenomenon and altered the style of cruising by ship. The ten year running show created today's cruise industry."
"He lives in West Hollywood, California."
Source: Excerpted from Michael L. Grace biography, http://michaellgrace.com/ (accessed September 4, 2014.)
2 Linear Feet (1 carton, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize item.)
Photograph albums, biographical information, a painting, and other material from Hollywood set decorator, Henry Grace; as well as writings, publicity materials, and videotapes (VHS) from his nephew, Michael L. Grace. The bulk of the collection is Henry's photograph albums, circa 1942-1986, that document his travels throughout Mexico, social gatherings, costume parties, and art works he collected or used as inspiration for his set designs. The videotapes (VHS) collected by Michael are primarily related to the gay fraternity Gamma Mu.
The collection is divided into two series: (1) Henry Grace photographs and memorabilia, and (2) Michael L. Grace papers
Gift of Michael Grace, June 1, 2010.
Formerly box #A266. Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, September 2014.
Deaccessions
Six framed advertisements for railroad companies.
Cunanan, Andrew
Gay men -- California -- Los Angeles
Greek letter societies
Motion picture set designers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Motion pictures and gay men
Serial murderers
Finding Aid to the Henry Grace and Michael L. Grace Collection, 1942-2009
Loni Shibuyama
Description is in English.
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Item: Acc2010.013 (Accession)
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[Box/folder #, or item name] Henry Grace and Michael L. Grace Collection, Coll2014-042, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Henry Grace and Michael L. Grace Collection, Coll2014-042, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/9/resources/2123 Accessed January 28, 2023.


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The DIFF's Masoud Amralla Al Ali has played a key role in building Dubai's film industry from the ground up.
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Widely credited with kick-starting the United Arab Emirates' burgeoning film industry, Masoud Amralla Al Ali was recently announced as the managing director of its latest film event, the Gulf Film Festival. An expert on Arab cinema, the soft-spoken demeanor of DIFF's artistic director belies his great achievement: helping to steer a grassroots following of passionate filmmakers into a festival whose global acclaim grows with each edition.
Dressed in the traditional white dishdasha of the UAE, Al Ali is unequivocal in his belief that film festivals are a key aspect of developing a viable film industry here.
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Al Ali has been with the DIFF since its inception. A keen filmmaker himself, his own struggle to find a platform for his early projects spurred him to launch the Emirates Film Competition in Abu Dhabi in 2001. Then known as Emirates Film Shorts, it provided a much-needed platform for local filmmakers to network and showcase their work. The competition, a new concept in a region then largely unreceptive to filmmaking, struggled to establish itself. It eventually launched with just four films. At the time, Al Ali said of the fledgling company, "This chance to screen films from the Emirates does not claim to establish a film festival. It is an attempt to penetrate through a mass of rigidity that surrounds an important cultural venture which is ignored."
Just six years later, Al Ali's determination and vision has paid off, and he has seen the arrival of four more film events: DIFF, MEIFF, the self-styled 'grassroots' MINI Film Festival and the new Gulf Film Festival, which was announced earlier this year. Reflecting on the explosion he has helped ignite, Al Ali is surprisingly modest and understated. "Now we have the film festival, and today, in Media City alone, we have 100-plus production companies. I can really see the region is now the focus; everyone is interested in the Arabs. Last year (for DIFF), we had 58 films from the Arab world. We received over 300 entries this year for the Arabic films, shorts and documentaries."
At the helm of one of the world's most exciting new festivals, he has struggled again this year -- not to find films, but to decide which ones are to be included in the lineup.
"From around the 300 or so films we selected, we had to say no to 250 films -- a difficult decision to make because you know that they are all good."
Keen to give young filmmakers a voice while luring moviegoers away from a steady diet of Hollywood action blockbusters, Al Ali knows the key is to keep developing. "On the programming side, I want to deliver something for the filmmakers, which will help the industry," he declares.
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'We risk recession if we do not get Brexit over the line'
By Victoria Ticha
Legal & General's group chief executive Nigel Wilson says the biggest challenge facing the UK is self-belief.
Mr Wilson explains: "We are a country where people have under-saved and under-invested.
"Consequently, the industry is under-advised, under-insured, under-invested and under-saved."
The key to tackling these issues starts with a positive outlook, as this has been the key to his own success, he says.
Armed with a degree in economics from the University of Essex and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his foray first into senior management was at McKinsey in 1982.
The majority in the UK don't have proper pensions, and as a nation, we have under-built housing.
He is also a member of the expert group advising on the government's social care green paper.
But it has not always been easy to stay cheerful, in fact, Mr Wilson admits to having "plenty of scars from business".
He says: "You learn from all of those lessons what you can do better.
"It's about looking at the past in an informative way and not dwelling on it, and I think a lot of people tend to dwell; therefore they have negative feelings about things."
Restructuring L&G
During his time at L&G, Mr Wilson has led several restructures within the group, with the aim to streamline the business, focusing on areas where he says would "accelerate the growth of the business", and maximise each division.
In 2013, L&G confirmed that 600 jobs were at risk as a result of a merger of the company's savings and protection business.
At the time, Mr Wilson explained: "The successful turnaround of the savings business now enables us to reorganise our business in a way which best reflects customer needs and the increasingly digital distribution environment."
This has been his mantra for several years, but although he is electrifyingly optimistic about Britain, he also has a bugbear.
Nigel Wilson's career highlights
2012-present: Group chief executive at Legal & General
2009-2012: Group finance director at Legal & General
2001-2009: Finance director at United Business Media
1996-2001: Finance director at Viridian Group
1993-1996: Finance director at Waste Management International
He says: "The majority in the UK don't have proper pensions, and as a nation, we have under-built housing.
"If you or I put together a list of the top 10 things that need fixing in the UK, we are probably working to improve all those areas and our willingness and capacity to invest is growing exponentially, rather than staying static."
But every industry has to step up to the challenge, he says.
"As an economy, we are over dependant on banks and so institutions like us have a role to play.
Political uncertainty
Investing to try and deliver inclusive capitalism to bring everybody's lifestyle up is not happening, because of the political unrest caused by underinvestment, notes Mr Wilson.
"It's really a catch-22 situation," he adds.
He continues: "As a consequence of that, we've created all this political fragmentation and this uncertainty which is now having an impact on business."
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POMONA – On five different occasions, the Cal Poly Pomona women's volleyball team had extended an opponent to a decisive fifth game, and five times the Broncos had walked away the victor.
On Friday night with a 19-game winning streak on the line and regional, national and conference standing hanging in the balance No. 6 Pomona finally cracked.
With a raucous crowd and motivation from an earlier loss in tow, No. 12 Cal State Los Angeles stormed into Darlene May Gym and escaped with a five-game victory that is sure to turn both the CCAA standings and the Pacific Region rankings into a mess next week.
But none of that weighed on the heart of senior setter Emily Kennedy afterward.
Nineteen times before, the Broncos (11-1, 19-1) had come out on top. On Friday, they hit .027 and .000 in losses in the second and fourth games, respectively, and then had no answer for a Golden Eagle team that hit .500 in the match-deciding game.
Not that the Eagles (11-1, 19-1) did, either. They hit .049 and .069 in the games they lost and had an assistant coach kicked out of Game 3 when he jumped from his seat to disagree with a line call. But Los Angeles, led by Tanya White and her match-high 16 kills, rebounded with a momentum- stealing 30-19 win in game four and came back from an early deficit in the final game to make up the ground that the Golden Eagles lost earlier this year in a five-game loss to Pomona.
Now the two programs share first place, with identical records and strong cases for the No. 1 spot in the Pacific Region rankings.
Tied indeed, with a quality Cal State Bakersfield team ranked No. 23 in the nation and No. 8 in the region coming to town tonight for a 7 p.m. rematch of the five-game victory Pomona earned on the road in September.
In other words, a lot is on the line for a Bronco team that could have solidified both its standing in the conference and its hopes to host the regional playoff with a weekend sweep.
For that, Wegrich would like to see better offense. The Broncos hit .132 for the game, but had just five aces to go with 14 service errors. Kellie Francis had a team-high 13 kills, but hit just .023 and Allison Anderson and Jenna Young hit .095 and .182, respectively, during the game.


It's a brand new year, and most people are deciding what goals they will set in order to improve their lives. Most New Year's resolutions involve making financial changes whether you want to pay off debt, save more, earn more, stop living paycheck to paycheck or start building wealth.
While it's great to set goals to improve your finances, you should focus most of your attention on determining how you'll reach your goals by the end of the year. January is the time for goal setting while the other 11 months are the time when you should be taking action and staying on track.
It's easy to lose focus and steam throughout the year so be sure to consider these three tips when setting goals that you are eager to achieve this year.
You should always start by setting realistic goals. If you have $50,000 in debt for example, it may not be as realistic to set a goal to pay the entire amount off this year. That would mean you'd need to make monthly payments of around $4,166 which doesn't even include interest.
Instead, break up that goal and be realistic about how much you can put toward your debt each month. If you adjust your budget and determine how much money you'll have left after you cover all your regular expenses each month, that should give you a good idea of what you can afford to pay on your debt.
As a realistic goal, you can set your debt repayment target at $6,000 for the year with the intent to increase the amount you pay on your debt in future years depending on how well the next 12 months go.
What's your strategy for meeting the goals you set? It's important to put a detailed plan into place regarding what actionable steps you will take to reach your goal.
This is why setting SMART goals is so helpful. SMART goals are specific, measurable, realistic, and time-based. For example, if you want to add $5,000 to your emergency fund by the end of August, that's a specific, measurable time-based goal but you need to make sure it's realistic.
In order to set aside, $5,000 in 8 months, you'd need to contribute at least $625 to your emergency fund per month.
If you can squeeze out an extra $200 to set aside each month after lowering some of your expenses, then get a second job or find a side hustle to allow you to come up with the remaining $425, that makes your goal seem more realistic and reasonable.
You could also go a step further and opt to put your savings in a high yield online savings account so you can earn interest on your balance. Setting clear SMART goals is a great strategy for success.
Finally, you aren't going to get far with your goals if you aren't accountable. I like to think that setting your goals and mapping out your plan is the easy part. The hard part is when life throws you curve balls throughout the year like when you get a flat tire and need to spend an unexpected $400 or when you get sick and have to take a week off work.
Unexpected events and expenses along with the pressure to always be on your grind can wear you down over time and tempt you to give up on your goal.
This is why it's great to hold yourself accountable or find someone who can. You can check in with yourself monthly or answer to a friend or family member so it won't be so easy to quit.
You can also join a challenge group or an accountability group online. There are so many Facebook groups (ex. Dream Catchers) for accountability along with plenty of saving and debt payoff virtual challenges you can join to connect with people who have similar goals as you so you can motivate each other to succeed even during the tough times.
If you've set some steep financial goals for 2017, you'll want to keep these three tips in mind so you can be successful and avoid throwing in the towel too early.
Have you decided on your financial goals for 2017 yet? What actions will you take to reach them?


My Sweet Pineapple Shrimp is definitely inspired by my many trips to Hawaii. I've tried so many shrimp dishes during my trips that I try to recreate a lot of them at home. This Sweet Pineapple Shrimp is one of my favorites. I love the sweet and tartness of the pineapple with the plump shrimp. I add a little sweet chili sauce to put all together and serve it with rice. The sweet chili sauce I used is not spicy at all, even my kids love it. The rice or quinoa is a must because it absorbs some of the delicious sauce. I prefer white rice, but brown rice would work as well. I left the tail on the shrimp for aesthetics, but if you're serving this to kids I would cook without the stems. Cutting the pineapple for serving bowls is really easy. Check out the video link below to make your own pineapple bowls. Just remember to use a sharp knife. I used a large knife, but a pairing knife might be easier to work with.
In large pan heat up olive oil to medium heat. Add minced garlic and cook for 1 minute then add pineapple. Cook for another 2-3 minutes and add shrimp, salt and pepper. Cook for 4-5 minutes or until shrimp is fully cooked, add sweet chili sauce and top with green onions and remove from heat.


WELCOME TO ASHARAM & SONS PVT. LTD.
Asha Ram & Sons Pvt. Ltd. with its base of operations in Delhi, is a seven-decade-old bakery, dairy and food ingredient supply company. The company has a countrywide presence with products being used by several well-known as well as a number of new and emerging business ventures all over India. The company has recently broadened its field of operations by diversifying the main company into two parts. The first, "Asha Ram & Sons Pvt. Ltd." is dedicated in serving several industrial giants all over India with the best quality products and our new venture "ARS FOODS INGREDIENTS PVT. LTD." has further widened the horizons of our organization as now we cater not only to industrial giants but are also committed to catering in the same vein to several bakeries, hotels and other such establishments in and around the capital city.
Our establishment, ever since its inception, by the late Mr. Asha Ram Gupta, has done good by the motto of serving our clients, with products that have the necessary assets of unmatched quality and other worldly taste. This has helped us grow from a single-stall shop at our infancy into the industrial example and a trustworthy organization that we are today. The company has hugely benefitted from the able management of Mr. Ramavtar Gupta who carried forward the values of customer satisfaction and product quality from his predecessor. The company has since snowballed into the huge success story that it is today through the innovative and brilliant leadership of Mr. Shiv Gupta, who has not only diversified our company and thus helped us spread our wings further across India, but has also virtually transformed and effectively improved the food and bakery industry through the select import of superior and high-quality raw materials, scrupulous and modern scientific manufacturing methods and a speedy and hassle-free export and trade system all over India. Mr. Shiv Gupta has also been aided by the talented assistance of Mr. Akshit Gupta, a certified baking technologist from the American Institute of Baking in Kansas, USA and the pair together have got us to where we are in the industry at this very moment through sheer will power and hard work and in the process yielding superior products and developing a client-dedicated service.
Our company has stringently followed several fundamental principles ever since our inception which has led us to believe in and practice transparent and principled trade and business methods while never lowering the excellence and quality of any of our products and this has stood us in good stead as we have gained client trust and satisfaction which in turn has brought us to continuously improve our services and products so that we are able to provide best there is and the best will be in bakery and food products to our patrons. Our clients look to us for superior and above-industry-grade products and we have and will always be working and improving ourselves to do that and more.
Our goal is to create innovation-based products that add value to our client's satisfaction and enhance the quality of products. We strive to build enduring relationships with our customers. We assure quality & consistency at every step in our supplies & services.
Our trained team ensures that every product meets the company's stringent standards of quality and taste. All of our team members are experienced professionals with a passion for creating only the finest products. Our professionals also work closely with our customers.
Our vision is to be the worlds most trusted food ingredients supplier with superior quality products and being the "preferred choice" for all our customers, suppliers and employees.
Our mission is to build an enduring relationship with our customers and inspire healthier communities by providing best quality products at competitive prices.