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With last year's refresh of AppleTV, Apple brought its Siri voice assistant to the center of the UI. You can now ask Siri to play your favorite TV shows, check the weather, search for and buy specific types of movies, and a variety of other specific tasks. Although far behind Amazon's Echo in terms of breadth of functionality, Apple will no doubt expand Siri's integration into AppleTV, and its likely that the company will introduce a new version of AppleTV that more directly competes with the Echo, perhaps with a voice remote control that is always listening for commands.
Chatbots can have varying levels of complexity and can be stateless or stateful. A stateless chatbot approaches each conversation as if it was interacting with a new user. In contrast, a stateful chatbot is able to review past interactions and frame new responses in context. Adding a chatbot to a company's service or sales department requires low or no coding; today, a number of chatbot service providers that allow developers to build conversational user interfaces for third-party business applications.
With natural language processing (NLP), a bot can understand what a human is asking. The computer translates the natural language of a question into its own artificial language. It breaks down human inputs into coded units and uses algorithms to determine what is most likely being asked of it. From there, it determines the answer. Then, with natural language generation (NLG), it creates a response. NLG software allows the bot to construct and provide a response in the natural language format.
Your bot can use other AI services to further enrich the user experience. The Cognitive Services suite of pre-built AI services (which includes LUIS and QnA Maker) has services for vision, speech, language, search, and location. You can quickly add functionality such as language translation, spell checking, sentiment analysis, OCR, location awareness, and content moderation. These services can be wired up as middleware modules in your bot to interact more naturally and intelligently with the user.
Most chatbots try to mimic human interactions, which can frustrate users when a misunderstanding arises. Watson Assistant is more. It knows when to search for an answer from a knowledge base, when to ask for clarity, and when to direct you to a human. Watson Assistant can run on any cloud – allowing businesses to bring AI to their data and apps wherever they are.
Once you've determined these factors, you can develop the front-end web app or microservice. You might decide to integrate a chatbot into a customer support website where a customer clicks on an icon that immediately triggers a chatbot conversation. You could also integrate a chatbot into another communication channel, whether it's Slack or Facebook Messenger. Building a "Slackbot," for example, gives your users another way to get help or find information within a familiar interface.
Founded by Pavel Durov, creator of Russia's equivalent to Facebook, Telegram launched in 2013 as a lightweight messaging app to combine the speed of WhatsApp with the ephemerality of Snapchat along with claimed enhanced privacy and security through its use of the MTProto protocol (Telegram has offered a $200k prize to any developer who can crack MTProto's security). Telegram has 100M MAUs, putting it in the second tier of messaging apps in terms of popularity.
For designing a chatbot conversation, you can refer this blog — "How to design a conversation for chatbots." Chatbot interactions are segmented into structured and unstructured interactions. As the name suggests, the structured type is more about the logical flow of information, including menus, choices, and forms into account. The unstructured conversation flow includes freestyle plain text. Conversations with family, colleagues, friends and other acquaintances fall into this segment. Developing scripts for these messages will follow suit. While developing the script for messages, it is important to keep the conversation topics close to the purpose served by the chatbot. For the designer, interpreting user answers is important to develop scripts for a conversational user interface. The designer also turns their attention to close-ended conversations that are easy to handle and open-ended conversations that allow customers to communicate naturally.
Context: When a NLU algorithm analyzes a sentence, it does not have the history of the user conversation. It means that if it receives the answer to a question it has just asked, it will not remember the question. For differentiating the phases during the chat conversation, it's state should be stored. It can either be flags like "Ordering Pizza" or parameters like "Restaurant: 'Dominos'". With context, you can easily relate intents with no need to know what was the previous question.
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"To be honest, I'm a little worried about the bot hype overtaking the bot reality," said M.G. Siegler, a partner with GV, the investment firm formerly known as Google Ventures. "Yes, the high level promise of what bots can offer is great. But this isn't going to happen overnight. And it's going to take a lot of experimentation and likely bot failure before we get there."
Human touch. Chatbots, providing an interface similar to human-to-human interaction, are more intuitive and so less difficult to use than a standard banking mobile application. They doesn't require any additional software installation and are more adaptive as able to be personalized during the exploitation by the means of machine learning. Chatbots are instant and so much faster that phone calls, shown to be considered as tedious in some studies. Then they satisfy both speed and personalization requirement while interacting with a bank.


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Q: Multinomial coefficient of a sequence in specific form I came across a question which asked me to find the coefficient of $x^{2n}$ in the following polynomial:
$$(\sum\limits_{i=0}^{n-1} x^i )^{2n+1}$$
My approach was to isolate every term, i.e. if we choose $x^2$ , n times and 1 n times again, we get a part of the coefficient of $x^{2n}$. Doing the same for $x^4$, n/2 times and iterating this process over and over would take a lot of time and the answer will be in the form of a sigma which maybe reduced as well.
However, the answer given was rather simple
Required form of answer

${2n+1}\choose{2}$-${{2n+1}\choose{1}}{{3n}\choose{n}}$+${4n}\choose{2n}$

My questions

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*(if possible)How should I proceed with my method so that I reach the same results?

*Any other method to precisely find the number of solutions for the equation $$(\sum\limits_{i=1}^{2n+1} x_i )=2n$$ where all $0\leq x_i\leq n-1$

A: You actually want the number of solutions in non-negative integers to the equation
$$\sum_{i=1}^{2n+1}x_i=2n\;.\tag{1}$$
This can be found by a combination of stars and bars calculations and an inclusion-exclusion calculation.
Without the upper limit of $n-1$ this has $\binom{2n+(2n+1)-1}{(2n+1)-1}=\binom{4n}{2n}$ solutions in non-negative integers by the usual stars and bars calculation. For each $k=1,\ldots,2n+1$ we need to subtract the number of solutions in which $x_k\ge n$. These are in bijective correspondence with solutions to
$$\sum_{i=1}^{2n+1}x_i=2n-n=n\;,$$
and by a similar calculation there are $\binom{3n}{2n}=\binom{3n}n$ of them for each $k$. Thus, we need to subtract $(2n+1)\binom{3n}n=\binom{2n+1}1\binom{3n}n$ to correct for overcounting. However, any solution to $(1)$ in which two of the $x_i$ exceed the upper bound have now been subtracted twice and need to be added back in. For each pair of indices $k$ and $\ell$ there is just one solution to $(1)$ in which $x_k\ge n$ and $x_\ell\ge n$, so we must add $\binom{2n+1}2$ to correct the excessive subtraction in the first correction. And now we're done, since $(1)$ has no solutions in which more than two of the $x_i$ exceed the upper bound: the final result is
$$\binom{4n}{2n}-\binom{2n+1}1\binom{3n}n+\binom{2n+1}2\;.$$

A: I would view it from the formal-power-series angle: $$\left(\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}x^k\right)^{2n+1}=\left(\frac{1-x^n}{1-x}\right)^{2n+1}=\underbrace{\left(\sum_{k=0}^{2n+1}(-1)^k\binom{2n+1}{k}x^{nk}\right)}_{=(1-x^n)^{2n+1}}\cdot\underbrace{\left(\sum_{k=0}^\infty\binom{2n+k}{k}x^k\right)}_{=(1-x)^{-2n-1}}$$ (both are instances of the binomial series), so that the coefficient of $x^{2n}$ is indeed $$\underbrace{(-1)^0\binom{2n+1}{0}\binom{2n+2n}{2n}}_{[x^{n\cdot 0+2n}]}+\underbrace{(-1)^1\binom{2n+1}{1}\binom{2n+n}{n}}_{[x^{n\cdot 1+n}]}+\underbrace{(-1)^2\binom{2n+1}{2}\binom{2n+0}{0}}_{[x^{n\cdot 2+0}]}.$$
Hence the final result is
$$\binom{4n}{2n}-\binom{2n+1}1\binom{3n}n+\binom{2n+1}2\;$$

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Motivation Monday: Have you ever tried trail running?
Trail running heaven on The Kingdom Trails.
Trail Running–An adventure every running enthusiast should try!
Have you ever gone trail running? I first discovered my true love for running on trails when I first moved to this area in 2000. I was a teacher and was stressed out. Two teachers that I met who are now my best friends and training partners convinced me to try running the trails with them on The Kingdom Trails in Burke VT.
I did. I fell in love. Trail running is heaven. Trail running is peaceful. Trail running is challenging. Running on the trails as nature bursts into spring all around you is medicine for the soul.
Thank you Joanna and Bridget for showing me my heaven.
If you haven't tried running on the trails before you should. Your body and soul will thank you. You may even become hooked like me!
Trail Running bliss on the Kingdom trails in Burke VT.
as long as i was within earshot, i could stay out. when the bell rang…ZOOM! back to the house for chow. the last 1/4 mile was uphill.
still do. though i am not as speedy as i used to be, i prefer to be on the trails. i am glad you are hooked!!! see you on Sunday?
I love this time of year where I live (Toronto, Canada) because we can get back into the trails! Running at night in the trails in the winter just doesn't work – too dark, too early because of our short winter days. I've never done a trail race, but there is one in this area that some of my running group buddies do. Sulphur Springs Trail Run in Ancaster, Ontario. It has a variety of distances 10k, 25k, 50k, 50 mile & 100 mile . Maybe I should give it a try?!?!


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KISA was founded in 1998 and is the leading national organisation providing essential services to migrants who are disadvantaged and are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. KISA's activities are focused in the fields of Migration, Asylum, Racism, Discrimination and Trafficking, and they include campaigning and awareness raising as well as lobbying and advocacy in order to influence the legal and structural framework, the policies and practices in these fields. and reform of the immigration and asylum framework in Cyprus.
KISA operates a Migrant and Refugee Centre that provides free information, support, advocacy and mediation services to migrants, refugees, victims of trafficking and racism / discrimination and ethnic minorities in general, as well as promotion of the empowerment and self-organisation of migrants and refugees. The combination of activities of social intervention and the operation of services as well as the strong ties and mutual trust with the migrant and refugee communities enable KISA to have a very accurate and updated picture about the realities in its areas of work.
KISA cooperates with various other stakeholders and independent institutions related to its scope and objectives at national, European and international level, such as the Commissioner of Administration (Ombudsman) and Human Rights (National Human Rights Institution), the Authority Against Discrimination and Racism and the Equality Authority operating under the Ombudsman's Office, the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, the European Committee Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the Human Rights Commissioner and GRETA of the Council of Europe, CEDAW and CERD Committees of the UN, ILO and others.
KISA is also a very active member and participates in European and international NGOs and networks such as the EC's European Integration Forum, FRA's Fundamental Rights Platform, the EU Civil Society Platform on Trafficking in Human Beings, ENAR (European Network Against Racism), PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants), EAPN (European Antipoverty Network), EMHRN (Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network), UNITED for Intercultural Action, Migreurop, AEDH, and others. Usual funding sources: European programmes and projects, contributions and donations by its members and friends as well as funds from private donors, foreign missions in Cyprus and international organisations. KISA also receives small-scale funding from government departments and semi-government organisations in Cyprus for specific projects. KISA, which has some 250 individual members, is governed by the Steering Committee elected for a 2-year period by the Annual General Meeting.
KISA Activities Pertaining to NICeR
KISA will take part in all the interpartnerial meetings of the project, the organisation of an interpartnerial meeting in June 2016 in Nicosia, Cyprus as well as the final press conference in Rome. In an effort to achieve all outputs, KISA will also contribute towards the dissemination of all results and valorisation of the project. Furthermore, KISA will contribute to the identification of good practices and defining the vademecum of intercultural education.
KISA will also coordinate the definition and writing of pedagogical guidebooks for teachers in an effort to guide them on how to yield a more effective student-teacher connection in handling the topic of refugees within the schooling system. Additionally, KISA will organise seminars and workshops on intercultural awareness in primary and secondary schools in Cyprus.
Finally, KISA will contribute to the realisation of a workshop of initiation of performing arts, language and culture training with young refugees and non-refugees in Cyprus as well as contribute towards the realisation of the documentary of the final product of the performing arts workshop.
Doros Polykarpou
doros.p@kisa.org.cy
www.kisa.org.cy

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    : public WebTransportSession,
      public QuicSpdyStream::Http3DatagramVisitor {
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                    WebTransportSessionId id);

  void HeadersReceived(const spdy::Http2HeaderBlock& headers);
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A few weeks ago one of my favourite garden writers Anne Wareham published a blog post on her website Veddw House Garden called What not to do in November it has been swiftly followed by another post unsurprisingly, given Anne's stance, titled What not to do in December. Well I've taken the advice at it's word and have barely set foot on the plot for the past six week preferring to take the opportunity to catch up with other things, sorting out our much neglected home for Christmas, The Times cryptic crossword, baking, reading and so on. I'm also now helping to moderate two gardening sites UK Veg Gardeners and gardengrab.
Do I feel guilty? A little bit. The bulbs haven't been planted or the broad beans sown but I don't suppose either will seriously affect the plans we've made for 2013.
The two pictures posted here, the first Becky Leucanthemum and the second Euphorbia were taken yesterday morning both showing that in the main things carry on perfectly well even if I'm not around as much as I should be.
What a kind and lovely thing to say. Crossword was painful today.
Worth saying that the leaks are standing upto the worst of weathers and the broccoli also holding fast. The hard-necks are also standing up, poking through and manning-up to the wet weather, so hardly neglect just let nature take its course.
You could always write a guest post!
I have been neglecting my veg garden as well because I can't find it anymore under all that snow. The only thing still going strong are my sprouts. Second year in a row my purple sprouting broccoli has given up the struggle against the snow, ice and wind. I need a greenhouse or polytunnel.
Delighted to encourage a break and thank you for your kind words!
It seems to be especially true of allotments and veg gardening that if your not breaking your back then you're not doing it 'properly'.


HRH Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud - The Former Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Servant of the Two Noble Sanctuaries, Protector of the Two Holy Cities, King of Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah was one of the many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. He ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd.
During his reign he maintained close relations with United States and United Kingdom. He also gave women the right to vote for municipal councils and to compete in the Olympics. Furthermore, King Abdullah maintained peace and stability within the Kingdom when waves of protests hit the Arab world in 2011.
A decorated and beloved leader, King Abdullah was Commander of the Saudi National Guard from 1963 to 2010. He was Chairman of the Saudi Supreme Economic Council until 2009. He also continued to be the President of the High Council for Petroleum and Minerals, President of the King Abdulaziz Center For National Dialogue, Chairman of the Council of Civil Service, and head of the Military Service Council until his death in 2015.
King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict XVI in the Apostolic Palace, being the first and only Saudi monarch to do so. He repeatedly called for a "brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions".
In 2011, an agreement for the establishment of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna was signed between the governments of Austria, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
During his reign as monarch King Abdullah figured as a powerful and steadfast U.S. ally who joined Washington's fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the kingdom. King Abdullah had long been pro-American and a longtime close ally of the United States. In October 1976, as Prince Abdullah was being trained for greater responsibility in Riyadh, he was sent to the United States to meet with President Gerald Ford. He again traveled to the United States as Crown Prince in October 1987, meeting Vice President George H. W. Bush. In September 1998, Crown Prince Abdullah made a state visit to the United States to meet in Washington with President Bill Clinton. In September 2000, he attended millennium celebrations at the United Nations in New York City. In April 2002, Crown Prince Abdullah made a state visit to the United States with President George W. Bush and he returned again in April 2005 with Bush. In April 2009, at a summit for world leaders President Barack Obama met with King Abdullah, while in June 2009 he hosted President Obama in Saudi Arabia. In turn, Obama hosted the King at the White House in the same month.
"King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia: A Leader of Consequence", a book by S. Rob Sobhani, PhD., (Caspian Publishing) concentrates on King Abdullah's role as a reformist. The king's emphasis on education for both sexes at home and abroad, the importance of the role of women in society, the need to address extremism and its root causes, and the requirement that those who rule be fair and honest, sets him apart from many other global leaders. It is all the more impressive that these efforts and initiatives are pursued while King Abdullah effectively balances his religious obligations as "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" with his day-to-day responsibilities for managing a vibrant and rapidly developing country of some 26 million people.


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This cover design groups the vowels and consonants of the upper and lowercase alphabet while integrating the exhibition title "typographie" into the design. Büchler also designed the exhibition poster (based on the same design) for the Gewerbemuseum Basel in 1960 to commemorate 50 years of the Basel Typesetters Association and Emil Ruder adapted it for the exhibition catalog.


Platige Image created one of shorts for "Love, Death & Robots", new Netflix series that electrified the world of animation.
Adult-themed animated series consists of 18 shorts representing numerous genres, such as science-fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy. Each of animations were created by different team of artists and the whole series is overview of various techniques and styles – from traditional 2D to photorealistic CG.
Platige Image team contributed to this unique projects along with famous filmmakers. David Fincher (director of "Seven", "Fight Club", "Social Network" and "House of Cards") and Tim Miller (director of "Deadpool" and "Terminator 6".) are the authors of new Netflix animated series.


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from sys import argv
script,user_name=argv
prompt=">"
print "Hi %s,I'm the %s script." % (user_name,script)
print "I'd like to ask you a few questions."
print "Do you like me %s?" % user_name
likes=raw_input(prompt)
print "Where do you live %s?" % user_name
lives=raw_input(prompt)
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You live in %r.Not sure where that is.
And you have a %r computer. Nice.
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Tamburitza.
Above: A record album with recordings of Tamburitza music. "Happy Tamburitza" by the George Skrbina orchestra.
Tankian, Serj. Serj Tankian is mostly known for performing with the group 'System of a down', he has also recorded a few solo albums.
Above: 'Imperfect Harmonies' by Serj Tankian, and 'Elect The Dead Symphony' by Serj Tankian. The two CD's above were borrowed from the Clinton Macomb Public Library.
Above: The compact disc recording of 'Harakiri' by Serj Tankian. The disc shown above is from the collection of the Clinton-Macomb Public LIbrary.
Tape Deck. A stereo component designed to record and playback tape recordings. The first tape decks were made in the 1950's, and they were reel-to-reel tape decks. In the 1960's eight-track tape decks were popular, but were replaced by cassette tape decks by the 1970's. Cassette tape decks are still used by many people today. Most tape decks are designed to be pluged into stereo receivers.
Above: Photograph of a tape deck. The tape deck shown above is the Fisher 'Studio Standard' model number CR-W683.
Tribute Album. A tribute album is an an album of recordings devoted to a particular musician, for example, a Beatles tribute album would be an album that has a collection of songs that are based on Beatles songs. There have been Black Sabbath tribute albums, as well as tribute albums based on the works of many popular musicians, including Metallica. Metallica was such a popular band that their music was imitated by many musicians around the world. There are too many Metallica tribute albums to show here, in this website, only a few are shown.
Above: A Tribute To The Four Horsemen, 2002.
Above: Metallic Assault, A Tribute To Metallica, 2001.
Above: Phantom Lords, A Tribute To Metallica, 2002.
Above: Total Overload, Tribute To Metallica, Volume 1 & 2, 2001. This one is a 2-record set, with 2 CD's inside.
Above: ''World's Greatest Metallica Tribute", CD, copyright 2004.
Above: The CD 'Metalliclash', described as 'An electroclash tribute to Metallica'.
Above: A Black Sabbath Tribute album called "Hell Rules".
Above: A CD titled: 'A tribute To Led Zeppelin'.
Tribute Band. A tribute band is a musical group that imitates another musician. One of the first tribute bands was a band called Beatlemania, and they imitated the Beatles, their music consisted of cover versions of Beatles songs, and the costumes they wore on stage were imitations of the clothes the Beatles wore.
Above: A sign advertising a concert by a tribute band called Lez Zeppelin. The band Lez Zeppelin plays cover versions of songs by the British rock band Led Zeppelin. Advertisements for Lez Zeppelin concerts describe Lez Zepplein as 'All girls, all Zeppelin'.
Examples Of Tribute Bands:
Aerochix. An Aerosmith tribute band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Aeromyth. A tribute to Aerosmith.
Alice In Cooperland. A tribute to Alice Cooper.
Bad Reputation. A tribute to Joan Jett.
Beatlemania. Beatles tribute.
Best Shots. A tribute to Pat Benatar.
Billy Idolized. A tribute to Billy Idol.
Black Illusion. A tribute to Black Sabbath.
Blond Day. A tribute to Blondie.
Blistered Earth. A tribute to Metallica.
Blue Collar Men. A tribute to Styx.
Breakdown. A Tom Petty Tribute.
Caress Of Steel. A Tribute to Rush.
Core. A tribute to the Stone Temple Pilots.
Crimes Of Passion. A tribute to Pat Benatar.
Damage Incorporated. A tribute to Metallica.
Dead Man's Party. A tribute to Oingo Boingo.
Decade Of Decadence. A Motley Crue tribute band from Arizona. When this band split up, one member of the band formed another Motley Crue tribute band called Public Enemy Number One.
Deep In Purple. A tribute to Deep Purple.
Destroyer. A tribute to Kiss.
Double Vision. A tribute to Foreigner.
Dreams. A Fleetwood Mac tribute band.
Electric Funeral. A tribute to Black Sabbath.
Fleetwood Bac. A Fleetwood Mac tribute.
God Save The Queen. A band from Argentina that does a Queen tribute.
Hammer Of The Broads. A tribute to Led Zeppelin with all-female musicians.
Hell's Belles. AC/DC tribute band from Seattle, Washington.
Hellbent. A tribute to Judas Priest.
Holy Diver. A tribute to Dio.
Hot Blooded. A tribute to Foreigner.
Infinite Journey. A tribute to Journey.
Iron Men. A tribute to Black Sabbath.
Joanne Joanne. A tribute to Duran Duran with all-female musicians.
Judas Priestess. A tribute to Judas Priest with all-female musicians.
Jumping Jack Flash. A tribute to the Rolling Stones.
Just Like Priest. A tribute to Judas Priest.
Kiss The Sky. A Jimi Hendrix Tribute band.
Led Zepplica. A Led Zeppelin Tribute.
Lez Zeppelin. A Led Zeppelin tribute, with all-female musicians.
Light My Fire. A tribute to Jim Morrison and the Doors.
Live From Earth. A tribute to Pat Benatar.
Lovedrive. A tribute to the Scorpions.
Mad Dogs. A tribute to Joe Cocker.
Mojo Child. A tribute to Jim Morrison and the Doors.
Mindcrime. A tribute to Queensryche.
Mister Speed. A tribute to Kiss.
Muffin Men. A Frank Zappa tribute band.
Odyssey Road. Journey Tribute.
Ohio. A tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Ozzmania. A tribute to Ozzy Osbourne.
Pain Killer. A tribute to Judas Priest.
Peace Frog. A tribute to Jim Morrison and the Doors.
Pink Droyd. A tribute to Pink Floyd.
Purple Reign. A tribute to Prince.
Satisfaction. A tribute to the Rolling Stones.
Smart Patrol. A tribute to Devo.
Space Oddity. A tribute to David Bowie.
Steely Damned. A Steely Dan tribute.
Strangelove. A Depeche Mode tribute band.
Venice. A band in France that produces a tribute to Jim Morrison and The Doors.
Take The Power Back. An all-female band from nashville, Tennessee, that does a tribute to Rage Against The Machine.
The Fab Four. A tribute to The Beatles.
The Iron Maidens. A tribute to Iron Maiden with all-female musicians.
The Led Zeppelin Experience. A Led Zeppelin tribute band.
The Machine. A Pink Floyd tribute band.
The Who Generation. A tribute to The Who.
The Wholigans. A tribute to The Who.
The Who Show. A tribute to The Who.
Thunderhead. A tribute to Rush.
Tube Snake Boogie. A tribute to ZZ Top.
Turn Me Loose. A tribute to Loverboy.
Turn The Page. A tribute to Bob Seger.
Unchained. A tribute to Van Halen.
Vintage Halen. A tribute to Van Halen.
Vitalogy. A tribute to Pearl Jam.
Warchild. A tribute to Jethro Tull.
Which One's Pink? A tribute to Pink Floyd.
Woodstock Mud. A tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Zepparella. A tribute to Led Zeppelin with all-female musicians.
ZZ Pop. ZZ Top tribute.
Trombone. A trombone is a brass instrument that is used in orchestras and also used in marching bands. The trombone has a sliding section, made of brass tubing. This sliding section can be moved, while the musician is playing the instrument, and allows the intonation of any musical note to include portamento. Because of this characteristic, it is the only brass instrument capable of portamento.
Above: A photograph of a musician playing a trombone in a marching band.
Tolonen.
Above: Record album by the Scandinavian guitarist Jukka Tolonen.
Trout Mask Replica. A record album recorded in the 1960's by Captain Beefheart, whose real name was Don Van Vliet.
Above: The record album 'Trout mask Replica' by Captain Beefheart. This CD was borrowed from the Clinton Macomb Public Library, note the white library stickers on the CD.
Triumvirat. Triumvirat was a 1970's progressive-rock band.
Above: A photo of the record album 'Spartacus' by Triumvirat.
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The Republic Day parade walks away with the cake. It has the pride of place among all military parades in Bharat and the surrounding areas. In 2019, there will be three big guns on the parade. One is the Guest of Honour or the Chief Guest and the other two will have the focus of attention as they would augment the fire power of the Indian artillery in the battlefield.
The Indian Army needed them so badly and after faux pas of the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government in their financial management that their effectiveness in battle, especially the Kargil battles of 1999, took a backseat. Consequently, the regiment of artillery of the Indian Army was starved of long range fire power for almost three decades.
First thing first, our Chief Guest for the 70th Republic Day is an eminent person, Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa. It is a matter of significance that Bharat chose to invite a Black President from a non-aligned country where Mahatma Gandhi had begun his political career during the apartheid rule of the Whites. By the way, Bharat is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi ji this year, a happy coincidence indeed.
It is a well known fact that the government of India had initially invited Donald Trump, President of the United States of America as the Chief Guest for the Republic Day parade but he declined on account of being preoccupied with matters of State. Barak Obama is the only President of USA who has been our R Day Chief Guest and that was in 2015.
Cyril Ramaphosa became the President of South Africa after his predecessor was asked to quit office under political pressure because of his personal indiscretions. Ramaphosa married three times, one wife at a time, and is known to have five children. He is an intellectual and pursues his hobbies with single minded attention. It is hoped that his brief sojourn in our country will strengthen the political ties between Bharat and South Africa.
Let us now shift the focus to the military hardware, the artillery guns. The one that attracts me most is the US made M777 ultra light howitzer that can be airlifted to difficult terrains by a military helicopter. Thus, its strategic deployment is a prime factor in its favour besides its range of 28 km and capability to pound the enemy position incessantly without giving them breathing time. Thus, both the inimical troops on our eastern and western borders will remain in mortal fear of these American howitzers.
Now we come to what we call K9 VAJRA. Imagine a small country like South Korea making a long range big gun that will be pounding enemy targets 30 km away. It is self-propelled in contrast to M777 that is towed. Of course, both types are expensive but were badly needed to augment our artillery's fire power that was depleting day by day. No new gun was inducted into the regiment of artillery, Indian Army after the purchase of Bofors guns where Italians like Quattrochi, called Q in short, made money at the cost of our Indian tax payers.
It is hoped that the Modi government will continue augmenting the fire power of our armed forces in more ways than one and compel the inimical forces across the borders to keep their heads down, nay buried in sand.


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Among the Wangkangurru the Dreamtime is called the History Time. The native wells were all connected with 1 or more of the ancestral beings from the History Time, travelling past the wells as they travelled across the country. As with Dreamtime stories elsewhere in Aboriginal Australia, they were associated with various features of the landscape.
Among the wells of the Simpson Desert that were associated with more than 1 myth was Balcoora, being passed by several of the History Time beings, the Two Boys, the Two Carpet Snakes and the Two Men. The Eastern Simpson Desert Rain History includes Perlanna Well and Kilpatha Well. Some wells were important in particular myths, such as Beelaka Well that was associated with the Wadla Grinding Stone History, and Beepla was one of the most important sites in the Crane and the Waterbirds myth. The ritual centre for the Acacia Seed History was at Pudlowinna Well.
In the mythology of the Wangkangurru people the myth of the Two Boys is one of the most important. The Two Boys who lived with their mother at Dalhousie were rainmakers who spent their days catching small birds. While chasing birds they gradually ended up in the Simpson Desert.
Here they met the Karanguru people, to whom they gave feathers from the birds they caught, initiating the cult of the Warrthampa, linking the Karanguru of the east with the Wangkangurru. Parra-Parranha Well (the long one) in the central Simpson Desert is the main centre for rituals connected with the Two Boys. The explorer David Lindsay called it Burraburrinna.
This myth is centred on the Palthirri Pithi grindstone quarry in the Peake and Denison Ranges, west of Lake Eyre. The Crane, as well as all the other birds in the area, were trying to catch the Two Big Fish. The Crane lost interest in the Two Big Fish, becoming more interested in his 2 daughters-in-law. The Fish escaped. The birds then followed the Macumba River and the Diamantina River to the Simpson Desert.
The Crane could think only of his daughters-in-law so he decided to kill the rest of the birds that were with him. Near Kallakoopah Creek he made the weather very hot and windy by singing songs, leading all the birds to areas where he knew there was no permanent water.
After returning to one of the waterholes to drink he created a very big dust storm as they approached Beelpa Well. To prevent the birds smelling the water he forced them to burrow into the sand on the northern side of the well. The Crane dug in the well until the water reached his neck. On returning to the other birds he begged them to cover him with cool sand because he was exhausted by the heat and lack of water.
The other birds now became suspicious of his intentions, though they continued on north until, as they approached the well at Toko Range, they could smell water though were getting very weak and were almost blind, ignoring the Crane when he tried to persuade them to burrow into the sand. In their frenzy they were changed into Waterbirds.
In the lighter vein of this story the Crane made suggestive gestures to his daughters-in-law as they travelled along. An evil spell was left at Beelpa Well because of what Crane did there. The Crane and the other birds are said to be a number of white limestone boulders that can still be seen on a sandhill north of Beelpa Well.
In the Simpson Desert there are 4 Ancestral Rain Histories linking the Wangkangurru with their neighbours in the west, the Arabana and the Lower Southern Aranda, and their eastern neighbours, the Karanguru and Ngamini. Ilbora on the Finke River is the beginning of the Western Rain History, extending into the Western Desert. Boolaburtinna Well and the surrounding area is the centre of the Rain Histories from the central part of the desert. Perlanna Well, Kilpatha Well, Yelkerrie Well, and Lake Mirranponga Pongunna are associated with the Eastern Simpson Desert Rain Histories. According to Irinjili, the Rain travelled all over Wangkangurru country in History Time just as clouds still travel about anywhere, so the 4 Histories are closely linked.
In the desert between Wolporican Well and Boolaburtinna Well, 2 knolls, low gypseous hills, the Approdinna Attora Knolls, were said to be near an important ceremonial site, the hills being landmarks that warned all but the fully initiated elders to approach no further, as told to Ted Colson on his desert crossing in 1936, though he later doubted the accuracy of the information he was given in respect of these particular knolls.
As with other tribes, the country of the Wangkangurru was crossed by trade routes, often following Dreamimg tracks of the ancestral Beings, with the result that they were mythologically significant. The Wangkangurru obtained stone from the Palthirri Pithi quarry, their red ochre from Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Fragments of bailer shell found at Boolaburtinna Well and Perlanna Well suggest the trade routs stretched all the way to the far northern part of the continent. Dolomite axes were obtained from the Mt Isa area and pituri, a narcotic plant, the leaves of which were chewed, came from western Queensland.
There were small pieces of shell of freshwater mussels found at Murraburt Well and Beelpa Well. Again indicating long trade routes.


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Child and Adolescent Rights Conference in Delhi
Media coverage from the conference: Business Standard; Zeenews.com; One World South Asia; Samachar.com; The Free Press Journal; Bernama
FXB Center and Public Health Foundation of India Host Major Conference on Child and Adolescent Rights in India
Street and working children during a photography workshop hosted by famed photographer Vicky Roy in conjunction with the Child and Adolescent Rights Conference in Delhi.
(July 25, 2013) — In the last 20 years, India has made impressive strides toward improving legal, policy, and administrative frameworks aimed at protecting and promoting child and adolescent rights. Significant challenges remain, however, as total government expenditure on child protection remains at only .034% and approximately 170 million children and adolescents continue to live in difficult circumstances. To evaluate and address the urgent challenges facing children and adolescents in India today, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, in conjunction with the Public Health Foundation of India's education arm, the Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, organized the "Children and Adolescents in India – A Critical Rights Agenda" conference based on pilot studies undertaken at construction sites in Delhi and railway stations in Jaipur. The findings came from tools developed based on the 'SAFE Model,' a rights-based, holistic framework for examining fundamental and interrelated domains of child and adolescent rights and security developed by Theresa Betancourt, Director of the Research Program on Children and Global Adversity at the FXB Center. PHFI and the FXB Center jointly developed the SAFE checklist, an application of the SAFE framework to assess core indicators of children's core security needs in a variety of contexts. This checklist and the SAFE Child Impact assessment (modeled after environmental impact statements mandated in infrastructure development projects) were piloted in research on child protection issues in the Jaipur railway station and several infrastructure development sites around NCR.
The conference focused on three key themes:
Recent developments in the field of child and adolescent rights with a particular focus on the jointly developed FXB Center's SAFE model. The SAFE model is a rights-based, holistic framework for examining four fundamental and interrelated domains of children's security including: Safety/protection, Access to health care and basic physiological needs, Family/connection to others, and Education/economic security. The SAFE framework is rooted in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and recognizes that these core elements of children's basic security are interrelated and interdependent. Discussion also focused on the importance of the agency of children, youth and families and the risky and adaptive survival strategies employed by children and families living in adversity the Jaipur Railway Station and migrant workers who live with their children at construction sites. Colleagues also presented findings from a positive deviance study investigating how Indian female college students from marginalized backgrounds managed to successfully overcome economic, social and cultural barriers and gain access to a college education in Maharashtra.
Major and systematic challenges to the application of government policies, especially those challenges that the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) has faced in addressing the needs of abused, neglected, exploited, abandoned, and/or separated children. A critical overview of root causes contributing to unmet needs, focusing on the feasibility of strengthening community based mechanisms for protection that will address structural determinants of vulnerability was further discussed. Panelists also highlighted innovative ideas that have successfully advanced the child rights agenda, bringing forth thoughtful illustrations of resilience and empowerment so that successful examples of effective initiatives can be shared across sectors and scaled to reach larger populations of children and adolescents.
Scalable best practices in policy and advocacy that can be leveraged into sustainable initiatives across multiple sectors, with special attention to adolescence and to the urgency of developing an adolescent rights agenda in India were also discussed. Discussions revolved around moving forward on issues critical to adolescents such as addressing the stubborn persistence of high rates of child marriage despite legislative prohibition, pervasive youth participation in and subjection to violence, disproportionate rates of female illiteracy and educational exclusion, and adolescent anger and despair over lack of jobs. Emphasis was made to policy and advocacy best practices with the goal of advancing the adolescent rights agenda.
The conference brought together a range of key stakeholders, including representatives from the government and leading civil society and intergovernmental organizations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Mobile Creches, Population Foundation of India, The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, and the India Alliance for Child Rights.
In conjunction with the conference, famed photographer Vicky Roy hosted a photography workshop for street and working children between seven and 18 years old. After a brief training session, the children fanned out across Old Delhi to capture the city with their cameras. Select photographs were then printed and displayed in an exhibit at the conference.
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(English) Pollution from India and China reaches the stratosphere
(English) Monsoon storms are pumping pollution from India and China over the Himalayas and into the stratosphere, speeding up global warming
Smog over northern India [image by NASA]
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Pollutants from China and India, are not only increasing in quantity, but are also being pumped to greater heights in the atmosphere, thanks to the South Asian summer monsoon system, scientists have discovered.
In turn, this pollution is affecting the very pattern of the South Asian monsoon. The polluting aerosols, from the burning of fossil fuels and, to a lesser extent, biomass, also absorb heat from the sun's radiation, further increasing global warming.
A new paper published in the journal Climate Dynamics in November concludes that aerosols have strong impacts on regional monsoon rainfall and circulation. The scientists found that the complex and steep topography of the Himalayan foothills help in the build-up of thick layers of dust aerosols transported by monsoon winds from the Arabian deserts across the Arabian Sea. This build-up of aerosols causes the monsoon to arrive early.
These findings are important not only for climate change, but also for predicting the Asian monsoon in the future.
A team of scientists headed by William Lau from the Earth Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, studied the unusual 2008 Indian monsoon. This year saw "exceptional heavy loading of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and northern-central India, near normal all-India rainfall, but excessive heavy rains and disastrous floods in the Northern Indian Himalaya Foothills, and persistent drought conditions in central and southern India," according to the paper.
Using a NASA model the scientists showed that the movement of polluting aerosols "plays a key role in altering the large-scale monsoon circulation system". This led to larger differences in temperatures in the northern and southern portions of the stratosphere, a northward shift of heavy monsoon rainfall and advanced monsoon onset by one to five days.
Stratospheric pollution
Meanwhile, other scientists have discovered polluting aerosols now reach up to18 km in the stratosphere—the atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere that contains most of Earth's ozone. Findings from CALIPSO, a joint French-US satellite launched in 2006, indicate that a strange phenomenon in the atmosphere, functioning like a heat pump, drives air laden with aerosols 15-18 km high over the Himalayas, into a zone that forms a boundary between the lower and upper atmosphere layers – or the troposphere (0-16 kms) and stratosphere (16-50 km). This zone is also called the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL).
The idea that hot air and pollution is pumped up over the Himalayas was first put forward in 2006 by a team also led by Lau. Lau proposed that in the pre-monsoon season, from March to May, soot from northern India and dust from the deserts of western China, Afghanistan and Pakistan gather at the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indo–Gangetic Basin. Since these aerosols absorb heat, they warm the surrounding air, making it rise vertically over the Himalayas to more than 10-15 km high, acting like an "elevated heat pump".
The rising warm air, in turn, sucks in cooler air from the Indian Ocean, causing an earlier onset of the monsoon.
In a parallel effort, in 2009 a team led by Jean-Paul Vernier, from the NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia, also found a thick layer of aerosols between 13 and 18 kilometers high, spanning the eastern Mediterranean Sea, northern India and western China.
In 2015, Vernier's team found that the amount of aerosols in this layer had increased by three times since 1996, the earliest time when they appeared in satellite observations. His team, made up of Chinese, Swiss and Swedish scientists published their findings in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
The NASA team, in collaboration with Indian scientists at the National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL), Tirupati, has verified satellite data using data gathered from 30 balloons launched in India and Saudi Arabia over the last three years.
The results confirm a sharp increase of aerosols 15-18 km in the atmosphere across the Asian region in the past few years, said physicist Abhay Singh from Benaras Hindu University, who was involved in the study. "This confirms that the ATAL is likely resulting from heavy pollution over North India and Western China, for example, sulfur dioxide, from power plants, and can make its way to the lower stratosphere and form aerosols."
"Large storms during the monsoon vent and lift up air from the ground to the upper atmosphere and provide a vehicle also for pollution to reach higher altitude," said Vernier, describing preliminary findings.
"To me, monsoon storms are the main vehicle for the transport of polluted air into the upper atmosphere, and not only over the Tibetan plateau but also over North India and Western China," he adds.
Global impacts
Meanwhile, Lau's more recent studies, presented at an international workshop on land-surface interactions in the Tibetan Plateau, held in China in August 2016, show the wider implications of the findings.
"Aerosols from surface pollutants not only have local effects on health and environment; and surface climate change in monsoon region, (but) may (also) have even stronger impacts on global climate change through radiation feedback processes, which are most strong and efficient in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere," Lau explained.
These new findings show that pollution will not only continue to change the pattern of the monsoon within and between seasons and exacerbate global warming.
Once that high, pollutants can spread globally and destroy the ozone layer that protects us from ultraviolet radiation. This, in turn, is likely to lead to skin cancers, cataracts and a suppressed immune system in humans, as well as reduced yields of crops.
And scientists are still trying to unravel the impacts of aerosols at higher levels, which they believe will impact cloud formation and weather patterns.
T V Padma is a Delhi-based science journalist with a special interest in development-related science policies and research.
(English) Beijing or New Delhi: who has the worse air pollution?
(English) The monsoon predicting plants of Tibet
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Are we already condemned to a real Doomsday due to capitalism ?
JazzAuDuc | Thursday December 1st, 2016 at 5:59 شام
I'm affraid so, Roger.
DoomsDay is not-so-slowly coming…
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Two UK Athletics coaches were honoured at the 2012 UK Coaching Awards, which were organised by Sports Coach UK and hosted at the Lancaster Hotel in London last night. Toni Minichiello, coach to Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis, was named as 2012 UK Coach of the Year while he and Peter Eriksson also received High Performance Coach of the Year awards.
Minichiello coached Ennis to a memorable gold medal in the heptathlon at the London Olympic Games where she set a new British record of 6,955 points and ran the fastest ever 100m hurdles in a heptathlon. Earlier in the year Ennis had set a British indoor pentathlon record en route to winning a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March and increased the previous British heptathlon record to 6,906 in Austria in May.
Minichiello, who received his award from HRH the Princess Royal, said: "I view it more as a team award; it's the team around Jess that have put in all the effort. It's nice to be the front person of that team but there's a lot of people, Alison Rose, Derry Suter, Pete Lindsay, Paul Brice and Steve Ingham to name a few, that have put all the effort in. So for us to get recognised from this point of view is really good."
Eriksson, UKA's new Olympic Head Coach, led Great Britain's Paralympic athletics team to third place in the medal table in London. He was coach to Hannah Cockroft, who set two Paralympic records on the way to winning double gold in the T34 100m and 200m in London, and Shelly Woods, who took victory in the London Marathon in April and a silver medal in the T54 marathon at the Paralympics.
Eriksson said: "It was fantastic. It was a very enjoyable evening and it was a great honour to be recognised as one of the athletics coaches, I think it was fantastic."
Kevin Tyler, UKA's Head of Coaching and Development, believes that these awards are deserved recognition for the success that both coaches enjoyed during 2012.
"I think it was brilliant that Toni won UK Coach of the Year for 2012, particularly against such strong competition. I think he was quite flattered and it's a real honour for him to be acknowledged for the work that he's done with Jessica. It's quite special given the fact that he's worked with her since she was 11 years of age and taken her all the way through to have such amazing success as a senior. He should be proud of what he's achieved.
"Peter also did an awesome job, again against very tough opposition. The fact that he was able to provide such strong leadership to the Paralympic team and also coach Hannah Cockroft to the level that he did really shows his abilities. It's a really tremendous honour to win the award as it's very difficult to serve in a leadership and coaching role at the same time and he did that extremely well so it's a well deserved honour."
Richard Wheater, Head of Coaching at England Athletics, also recognises the success of both coaches over the course of their career as well as during 2012.
"Both awards are amazing achievements. From Toni's perspective to coach an athlete from when she was very young all the way through to Olympic gold is something that doesn't happen very often. It is great testament to Toni's abilities and his contribution that he won the 2012 Coach of the Year Award, we shouldn't forget the stress and pressures that are placed on the coach as well as the athlete.
"Peter is one of the most successful Paralympic coaches of all time and he has done it again. He's a very high performing coach who has continued to deliver at the very highest level, so this award is very warmly deserved. Having won National Governing Body of the Year last year, it's great to see athletics very well represented at these awards in terms of both nominations and the awards won on the night."
Coaches of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games gold medallists were recognised when they were inducted into the Coaching Hall of Fame..
The coaches were awarded medals by Minister for Sport and Tourism Hugh Robertson at the UK Coaching Awards 2012 that took place at the Lancaster London. The athletics coaches that were honoured were:
Keith Antoine
Jenny Archer
Peter Eriksson
Anthony Hughes
Toni Minichiello
Fred Periac
Dan Pfaff
Alberto Salazar
Speaking at the presentations the Minister said: "Congratulations to all those coaches who helped deliver victory for our British athletes at the London 2012 Games. It is entirely fitting that we should recognise their efforts and achievements by enrolling them into the Coaching Hall of Fame."


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Thursday ,28 of September 2017
El Gouna Film Festival Announces CineGouna Springoard Winners
El Gouna, Egypt – 28 September 2017: El Gouna Film Festival announced the winners of CineGouna SpringBoard Awards which was held alongside the festival activities as part of the CineGouna Platform. Egyptian film critic Safaa Al-Lithy initiated the ceremony by presenting the "Samir Farid" Award, by the Egyptian Critics Society which went to the film "Scary Mother" by Ana Urushadze.
The Egyptian film "Two Room and a Parlor" by Sherif Elbendary won El Gouna Film Festival's Award worth $20,000. The Lebanese film "Costa Brava" won the New Century Award worth $10,000 and the film's producer Myriam Sassine received the award. The Egyptian film "Abu Zaabal 1989" by Bassam Mortada won the "Creativity" Award, worth $10,000.
On the other hand, Mentor Arabia presented a $5,000 cash award to the film "200 Meters" by Ameen Nayfeh from Palestine, while Film Factory awarded the film "Backstage" by Tunisian director Afef Ben Mahmoud with another $5,000 cash award. The Aroma Studios Award which targeted film projects in development and includes a cash prize worth $5,000 was awarded to the film project "Nora in Wonderland" by Tunisian director Hinde Boujemaa. Finally, Aroma Studios awarded another film project in post-production with a $5,000 in-kind prize which went to "Yomeddine" by Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawki.
El Gouna Film Festival Director Intishal Al-Tamimi commented on the occasion: "I'm very happy with the activities that CineGouna Platform offered to aspiring filmmakers and I'd like to salute the efforts of all participants, especially that the platform was mainly produced by the youth, and not by professional filmmakers. I believe that all participating films can easily compete in next year's El Gouna Film Festival, and in any other international festival, given the level of creativity and production levels".
The CineGouna Platform included a number of specialized workshops, masterclasses and panel discussions including a masterclass by Andrea Iervolino, Moderated by Nick Vivarelli, a panel entitled Financing Your Film: Film Funders in Conversation, a special Tayarah's Short Film Pitch and Workshop, in addition to a masterclass entitled "Acting: The Art of The Craft" by Forest Whitaker and a special filmmaking masterclass by the iconic Oliver Stone, among others.
CineGouna Platform is a creative and business hub established with the aim of nurturing and supporting the most promising talents of Egyptian and Arab cinema. Representatives of some of the most prestigious film festivals, film institutions as well as distributors, film sales agents, major television channels and networks attended and participated in the various activities programmed by the CineGouna Platform throughout El Gouna Film Festival's period.
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