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Crofting colonies go digital in the north-east
by Kirsten Robertson
Bennachie app shows the interior and exterior of a shepherd's hut at the Colony.
A new digital app has been released to help people learn about a crofting colony who lived at the foot of one of the most visited hills in the north-east.
The colonists lived on the slopes of Bennachie near Inverurie in the 19th century and the remains of their houses and fields can still be seen.
However, few of the 150,000 annual visitors are aware of the stories of the families who worked the ground and, in some cases, were forced off the land as rents were imposed on them by the local laird.
Now a new Digital Bennachie Colony Trail app has been developed to help hill walkers visiting the area learn more about their lives.
The Bennachie colony grew up in the early 19th century south-east of Mither Tap and at one time there were 75 people living on the hill.
The crofters carried out skilled work such as quarrying and knitting.
In 1859 the Court of Session in Edinburgh approved the division of the Bennachie Commonty into nine parts. The landowners demanded rent and many left or struggled to make payments and were eventually evicted.
Alison Sutherland, an Aberdeenshire council ranger, said that the app should prove a hit with Bennachie visitors.
"The app will enable me to show schools and groups virtual images of a colony house and the surrounding landscape", she said.
"A picture can say so much more than words, and this will enhance their visitor experience by helping them to understand how people lived on the hill in the 1800s."
The app, which was funded by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Bailies of Bennachie charity, shows where the crofter's houses were and how they made a living from the sparse and unyielding terrain.
Dr Jo Vergunst , of the anthropology department at Aberdeen University, worked closely with the Bailies of Bennachie on the project.
He said: "I'm delighted to have supported the app, which shows the real impact of the university's interdisciplinary research in archaeology, anthropology, history and education. Working with the community has made this a showcase in Scottish heritage research and it underlines the significance of the wider Bennachie landscape."
Along with Doric poems, stories and music users can explore the inside of one of the croft houses and see digital reconstructions of the crofting landscape.
The Digital Bennachie Colony Trail app is available to download free from app stores for both Android and Apple operating systems.
Users have been advised to download the app before leaving home as the Bennachie visitor centre does not have wifi.
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DELHI: Home loan is the driving force behind the Indian residential real estate market. Without home loan, a large portion of the Indian population would be forced to live in rental houses.
Because of this facility, one can be a proud home owner without having enormous amount of ready cash. Since, this plays a vital role in sustaining the real estate market not only do home buyers depend on home loans, but developers as well.
To clear a common misconception – home loans are available not only for the purchase of a house but it can be availed for financing to buy land and constructing on it and also to renovate an existing property. Of course, there are lending norms attached to the granting of home loans.
A bank usually lends between 75-80 per cent of the agreement value and the borrower has to provide the rest from personal resources. To clarify – while the RBI stipulates a ceiling of 75 per cent, some banks are willing to include the stamp duty and registration charges within the purview of the loan, which technically makes the loan amount 80 per cent of the agreement value.
The lending rate attached to the home loan changes from time to time, depending on how the economy is faring and how much liquidity exists on the market.
A borrower qualifies for home finance if he or she meets certain baseline requirements. The parameters on which a potential borrower's eligibility for a home loan is determined include employment status, duration of current employment, personal income and credit status.
The credit history of an intending borrower is particularly important to banks, as they need to verify whether there is any record of default with another financial institution. The existence of other loans, the type and age of property and the overall transparency of the proposed purchase are also taken into account.
Most banks also require the borrower to take an insurance policy to protect the home loan. This is to ensure that they get their money back if the borrower dies or is for some other reason incapable of servicing his or her loan. After all, such an agreement between borrower and lender is extended over a period of time. A home loan is generally repaid over several years, unless the borrower finds the financial means to prepay it in part or in totality.
While all this may sound complicated to first-time borrowers, getting home finance is actually not very difficult. As long as the borrower is eligible for it, such a loan is usually easily available. Banks depend on the interest generated by the home loans and are thus, willing to extend home loans in most cases.
The challenge for the borrower is in getting the best possible repayment terms for the loan. These may vary from bank to bank and it is wise to look around for the most suitable home loan before settling on the final option.
A lot of information on home loans and the current lending norms of various banks are floating around. However, those who are unfamiliar with the banking processes are advised to consult an expert. Figures on the Internet may often be outdated or misleading and there are also various legal aspects to consider. Opting for home finance without a proper understanding of all related aspects could therefore be a cause for regret later on.
DELHI: THIS navaratri both Gurgaon and Noida realtors though focusing on clearing inventories, are going with their independent strategy. Gurgaon developers are doing everything to meet their project completion deadlines so as to expedite sales whereas Noida realtors are doling out freebies and discounts to rap up inventories.
GURGAON: Legal hurdles coming in the way of the under-construction 16-lane expressway from the Delhi-Gurgaon border to Sector 55-56 seems to have been resolved with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) giving its approval to resume the construction work.
DELHI: Hyman Minsky, the noted American economist, linked an economy's life cycle with speculative investment bubbles which are endogenous to it. He stated that during prosperous times when the economy booms, corporate cash flows rise higher than corporate debts, and this leads to speculative euphoria.
DELHI: Dwarka Expressway has emerged as one of the most sought-after real estate destinations in the National Capital Region (NCR).
DELHI: The finance ministry has proposed to allow tax deduction against intrest on loans taken from employer for self-occupied property in addition to home loans from banks, a concession that was not offered in the DTC Bill introduced in Parliament.
DELHI: Realtors' body CREDAI today hailed the RBI's decision to keep policy rates unchanged saying this indicates interest rates have peaked and hoped rates would come down in near future, giving boost to economic growth as well as housing demand.
DELHI: Sohna is to Gurgaon what Gurgaon is to Delhi. Sohna Road, which once used to be the other end of Gurgaon, is now the hottest destination in the town after MG Road. The bumpy two-lane road has been replaced by a six-lane highway which is busy 24×7.
DELHI: Realtors' body CREDAI today hailed the RBI's decision to keep policy rates unchanged saying this indicates interest rates have peaked and hoped rates would come down in near future, giving boost to economic growth as well as housing demand.
DELHI: Businesses ranging from print media to SUV-makers do brisk business if elections are around the corner. But real estate majors claim that the polls this year have aggravated the slowdown.


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41 * ArenaSize from new/delete and delivers smaller byte areas to PoolAllocator.
45 * allocator itself may not be as faster as possible.
50 * up to a multiple of 8.
61 * the first free slot.
65 * (information) or the end of the Arena.
68 * deallocation multiple free areas may be consolidated.
72 * allocation and deallocation, the Arenas are moved between bins.
98 //! *MUST* match the allocation.
110 //! Destroy and deallocate a single item of given Type.
117 //! Print out structure of the arenas.
120 //! Print out structure of the arenas.
143 //! context than Thrill).
151 //! last bin is for overflow allocations.
162 //! minimum amount of spare memory to keep in the Pool.
174 //! calculate maximum bytes fitting into an Arena with given size.
191 // PoolAllocator - an allocator to draw objects from a Pool.
208 //! Return allocator for different type.
234 //! the first element.
240 //! and not yet released.
246 //! allocator cannot be default move/assigned anymore.
263 // FixedPoolAllocator - an allocator to draw objects from a fixed Pool.
280 //! Return allocator for different type.
304 //! the first element.
310 //! and not yet released.
328 //! template alias for allocating from mem::g_pool.
332 //! deleter for unique_ptr with memory from mem::g_pool.
343 //! unique_ptr with memory from mem::g_pool.
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The diagram shows how the relining is accomplished. A flexible metal tube specially designed for the proper fuel burning application, is inserted into the chimney and secured, effectively replacing the broken or cracked liners and ensuring safe burning in the system. This process takes approximately one to two days.
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ESPN updates its College Football Power Rankings after Rivalry Week. Has Ohio State falling behind two-loss SEC team.
This past weekend was Rivalry Week, and if you're anywhere close to even a casual college football fan, you know that means the regular season is complete. Thirteen weeks are now in the books, and this is usually where things get really interesting.
All that's left are the conference championship games before the College Football Playoff committee determines the four teams that will be a part of the chase for a national title.
Ohio State was dealt close to a mortal blow with an embarrassing loss to Michigan in the 'Shoe, but all eyes will be on how far the Buckeyes drop. If they drop to No. 5, they are likely just one USC loss away from getting back into the field. Drop to No. 6 behind, say Alabama, and kiss the chance of getting into the playoff goodbye.
As it stands, the chances are slim anyway, but if you are interested in what the national media says, checking in on the latest College Football Power Rankings from ESPN might give you a hint.
Here are the latest top 25 teams in ESPN's College Football Power Rankings after Week 13 — the end of the regular season — and an important locked-in scenario for most teams that will not play another game.
Where is Ohio State? You may not like it, so be warned.
Mississippi State Bulldogs (8-4)
Dec. 26, 2016; St. Petersburg, Florida; A Mississippi State Bulldogs helmet on the field prior to the game between the Miami Redhawks and the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Tropicana Field. Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
UTSA Roadrunners (10-2)
Oct. 21, 2017; San Antonio, Texas; UTSA Roadrunners helmet on the turf after winning 20-7 against the Rice Owls. John Gutierrez-USA TODAY Sports
Troy Trojans (10-2)
Sept. 17, 2022; Boone, North Carolina; Troy Trojans helmets on the sidelines during the second half against the Appalachian State Mountaineers at Kidd Brewer Stadium. Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports
North Carolina Tar Heels (9-3)
Oct. 30, 2021; South Bend, Indiana; A detailed view of a North Carolina Tar Heels football helmet during warmups before the game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Notre Dame Stadium. Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Texas Longhorns (8-4)
Nov. 10, 2018; Lubbock, Texas; A Texas Longhorns helmet on the sidelines during the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium. Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
South Carolina Gamecocks (8-4)
July 19, 2022; Atlanta, Georgia; The South Carolina helmet on the stage during SEC media days at the College Football Hall of Fame. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-4)
IrishCast Twitter account says Notre Dame should "bully" Ohio State
A detail view of a Notre Dame Fighting Irish players helmet showing the CFP logo during the College Football Playoff Semifinal Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic against the Clemson Tigers at AT&T Stadium on Dec. 29, 2018, in Arlington, Texas. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
Oregon Ducks (9-3)
An "End racism" sticker joins the American Flag on the helmets of Oregon players Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. USA TODAY Sports
UCLA Bruins (9-3)
Sept. 25, 2014; Tempe, Arizona; Detailed view of UCLA Bruins helmets on the sidelines against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Tulane Green Wave (10-2)
Oct. 31, 2014; New Orleans, Louisiana; The mascot for the Tulane Green Wave runs onto the field during their game against the Cincinnati Bearcats in the fourth quarter at Yulman Stadium. Cincinnati won, 38-14. Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports
Oregon State Beavers (9-3)
July 29, 2022; Los Angeles, California; A detailed view of Oregon State Beavers helmet during Pac-12 media day at Novo Theater. Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Kansas State Wildcats (9-3)
Nov. 6, 2021; Lawrence, Kansas; A general view of a Kansas State Wildcats helmet against the Kansas Jayhawks during the second half at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
Florida State Seminoles (9-3)
Sept. 8, 2018; Tallahassee; Florida State Seminoles had a special sticker on their helmets to honor former FSU player Burt Reynolds who died this past week. The Florida State Seminoles host the Samford Bulldogs at Doak Campbell Stadium. Florida State won 36-26. Glenn Beil-USA TODAY Sports
Clemson Tigers (10-2)
The Clemson football helmet near the Fiesta Bowl trophy at the coaches' press conference in Scottsdale, Arizona Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. USA TODAY Sports
LSU Tigers (9-3)
LSU cornerback enters transfer portal, lists Ohio State in top 4
Oct. 6, 2018; Gainesville, Florida; A detailed view of LSU Tigers football helmets against the Florida Gators during the second half at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
Utah Utes (9-3)
Former Ohio State commit Clark Phillips on why he flipped to Utah
Sept. 14, 2019; Salt Lake City, Utah; A general view of the helmet worn by Utah Utes quarterback Tyler Huntley (1) against the Idaho State Bengals at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Rob Gray-USA TODAY Sports
Washington Huskies (10-2)
Nov. 23, 2018; Pullman; Washington Huskies helmet sits during a football game against the Washington State Cougars in the second half at Martin Stadium. The Huskies won 28-15. James Snook-USA TODAY Sports
Penn State Nittany Lions (10-2)
Nov. 16, 2013; University Park, Pennsylvania; General view of a Penn State Nittany Lions helmet prior to the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Beaver Stadium. Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports
Tennessee Volunteers (10-2)
Nov. 23, 2019; Columbia, Missouri; A general view of a Tennessee Volunteers helmet during the second half against the Missouri Tigers at Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field. Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
Ohio State Buckeyes (11-1)
Nov. 19, 2022; College Park, Maryland; The Ohio State Buckeyes will wear a helmet decal during the game at Maryland in honor of the three Virginia football players who were killed in an on-campus shooting last weekend. USA TODAY Sports
Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2)
July 18, 2018; Atlanta, Georgia; An Alabama Crimson Tide helmet is shown on the main stage during SEC football media day at the College Football Hall of Fame. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
USC Trojans (11-1)
Dec. 29, 2017; Arlington, Texas; General overall view of the 2017 Cotton Bowl logo on the back of the helmet of Southern California Trojans long snapper Jake Olson at AT&T Stadium. Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
TCU Horned Frogs (12-0)
July 14, 2022; Arlington, Texas; A view of the TCU Horned Frogs helmet logo during the Big 12 media day at AT&T Stadium. Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Michigan Wolverines (12-0)
Dec. 30, 2016; Miami Gardens, Florida; A Michigan Wolverines football helmet sits on the field prior to the game between the Florida State Seminoles and the Michigan Wolverines at Hard Rock Stadium. Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Georgia Bulldogs (12-0)
Dec. 12, 2020; Columbia, Missouri; A detailed view of a Georgia Bulldogs helmet during the second half against the Missouri Tigers at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
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We are located at 100 Hawkwood Boulevard NW, Calgary, AB, T3G 2S9.
Our first celebration was on May 9, 1976, when we opened our door for worship at H.D. Cartwright School.
In 1977, St. Thomas was officially recognized as a United Church congregation. On March 27, 1988, Palm Sunday, we held the first service in our new sanctuary in Hawkwood.
We dedicated our building on June 19, 1988
At St. Thomas we believe that worship meets people where they are. Our style is fairly relaxed and easy going, yet organized. Some people like to dress up, while others don't. It's suits to jeans here at St. Thomas and all are acceptable. We love to share great music and to sing. At any given worship there will be classic hymns, modern worship music, large choir music, small vocal ensembles, orchestra music, piano, and organ. From Bach to The Beatles we see faith being expressed in all kinds of music. We project everything that is needed to participate in worship. On the screen you'll find announcements before worship, words for prayers, lyrics for music,video clips, and quotes as part of the weekly Message. Worship tends to be about 60 minutes and we gather for refreshments after the service when everyone is invited and welcome to stay and get to know one another.
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Q: How to get the difference of created_at and updated_at in laravel 5.1 I've researched about on internet but what I found is only getting the past time (e.g. 4mins ago), What I want is to get the difference from created_at and updated_at in my database and like so, 3days 3hrs 23mins 30sec and if there's no mins or hrs, just output the 3days 3hrs 30sec or 3days 23mins 30sec.
What I have:
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@foreach($submits as $submit)
   {{ $submit->pivot->created_at }} // to get the created_at
   {{ $submit->pivot->updated_at }} // to get the updated_at
@endforeach

A: You can find days, hours, minutes and seconds by using this function.
public function getDifference($created_at, $updated_at) {
    $days = $created_at->diffInDays($updated_at);
    $hours = $created_at->diffInHours($updated_at->subDays($days));
    $minutes = $created_at->diffInMinutes($updated_at->subHours($hours));
    $seconds = $created_at->diffInSeconds($updated_at->subMinutes($minutes));
    return CarbonInterval::days($days)->hours($hours)->minutes($minutes)->seconds($seconds)->forHumans();
}

Output
3 days 3 hours 23 minutes 30 seconds

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Feature | Organisation
Shaping Skills and Leaders of the Future
By Fiona Liaw
Remaining relevant in the fast-paced world of today is a challenge that all workers face. To equip Singaporeans with the skills they need, SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) work closely together to catalyse training and transformation of the local workforce.
As economic development and technological changes hurtle on at an incredible speed, Singapore's workforce must constantly upgrade to stay ahead of the curve. This makes both SSG and WSG crucial to the nation's future, as together, the two statutory boards play a complementary role in empowering workers and businesses to become future ready.
The SSG-WSG scholarship was developed to enhance the synergy between both organisations. By providing the opportunity to learn and develop under both agencies, the scholarship enables young talents who are passionate about creating a competitive workforce become well equipped. Scholars Jessica Tan, 25, and Desmond Yeow, 29, tell us what drew them to this scholarship, and how it has enabled them to play a part in shaping the nation's skills and employability.
What drew you to pursue a career with SSG and WSG?
Desmond: My interest in WSG came during my two-year stint as a senior career guide at the NUS Career Centre. I was helping my peers improve their resume writing and interview skills, when I realised how important it is for workers to be willing to learn and take on challenges. While technical skills can be picked up quickly, it is one's attitude which determines his or her long term success. I felt these characteristics were often overlooked by jobseekers and wanted to do my part in promoting lifelong learning and skills upgrading for our local workforce.
Tan Hui Xin Jessica
SSG-WSG Joint Undergraduate Scholarship
Manager, Strategic Planning Division, SkillsFuture Singapore
"The biggest benefit is being exposed to the work of both agencies. There are many cross-agency opportunities, which include not just stints in both SSG and WSG, but also at other agencies."
Jessica: I began to understand the importance of training when I interned at a learning and development consultancy. My experience showed me firsthand how training programmes could transform lives. It was then I decided that I wanted to be in a line of work that would enable me to help people achieve their fullest potential. SSG and WSG aligned with my goals.
How has the scholarship benefitted you?
Desmond: The SSG-WSG scholarship offers many avenues for individuals to stretch their limits and develop new strengths. For instance, in my current role as an industry engagement officer, I oversee the Aerospace and Wholesale Trade sectors and work with companies to implement progressive HR practices to increase productivity. My job is challenging as we work with a wide variety of firms, all of which face different manpower issues and require us to come up with different approaches.
Jessica: The biggest benefit is being exposed to the work of both agencies. There are many cross-agency opportunities, which include not just stints in both SSG and WSG, but also at other agencies. I treasure how I have been able to explore various aspects of training and workforce development and believe this has given me a more holistic understanding that will enable me to make a difference in the lives of Singaporeans. For instance, one of the challenges in my first posting in the strategic planning division is to articulate policy positions clearly and accurately within a short amount of time. This requires me to have a birds-eye view of all SSG and WSG initiatives. We also regularly meet with the Ministers and CEOs of other agencies, which gives me a macro view of how different arms of the Government come together to shape and review policies to improve the lives of Singaporeans.
Desmond Yeow Yen Shien
Manager, Manufacturing Division
Workforce Singapore
"My job is challenging as we work with a wide variety of firms, all of which face different manpower issues and require us to come up with different approaches."
Share about the impact you have seen SSG and WSG have on the workforce.
Desmond: We are involved in developing the Jobs and Skills pillars of all sectoral Industry Transformation Maps (ITM). This includes deepening partnerships between Government, companies, trade associations and chambers to tackle specific issues within each sector. In addition, WSG champions a variety of programmes to ensure that Singaporeans remain employable.
For example, under the Wholesale Trade ITM, WSG has launched the Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) to help people find meaningful careers in the Wholesale Trade sector. The programme helps PMETs without the requisite experience rejoin the workforce and upgrade their skills to stay relevant. To date, more than 80 PMETs have been placed in companies such as Cycle and Carriage and Mastercard.
Jessica: Personally, I've seen how SSG and WSG work with many agencies, organisations and institutions to develop policies to better the lives of Singaporeans. The national SkillsFuture movement is a policy that affects everyone, regardless of whether you are studying, working or already retired. Working in SSG has provided me with the fulfilment of being able to empower Singaporeans to take charge of their learning and careers at all life stages. Recognising that the future jobs will be very much different from today's, SSG is focusing more on researching and identifying future skills and doing the necessary preparations to train Singaporeans appropriately for future jobs. One example of this is how SSG has begun equipping Singaporeans with digital skills and prepared them for innovation.
What can aspiring scholars look forward to?
Desmond: If variety is your cup of tea, the SSG-WSG scholarship also allows you to choose among 40 different divisions across both agencies, ranging from Strategic & Resource Planning, to Career Services and Skills Development divisions. The plethora of choices really sets the SSG-WSG scholarship apart from others!
Jessica: You'll be part of the efforts to transform Singaporeans' lives through impacting learning and career pathways. There are many ways you can contribute back to society at SSG and WSG, including making training accessible and affordable to all Singaporeans, working with training providers and educational institutions to keep training options fun and relevant, helping workers convert or join a new industry, as well as matching Singaporeans to their dream jobs. Through the cross-agency opportunities offered by the SSG-WSG Joint Scholarship, you will find yourself with meaningful tasks and projects in all these aspects.
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Is it posible to get platnum on all challenges & arcade levels????
I've gotten about 5. Does anyone know specifics on times???
Under the RANKINGS you will find links to several sites and other info, including the needed times/scores for the levels.
Niet gek, Tijdsplijter. Ik heb er nog maar 40.
However, this is an international forum where we do kindly ask our members to stick to English..
I was just testing if you were still awake and you were indeed seeing your quick responce :D.
But you're absolutely right about everyone posting in english.
Not bad, Tijdsplijter (= dutch for Timesplitter), I have only 40 (platinum awards).


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Narnia: Taking The Blame
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[Narnia Content Note: Misogyny, Fat Hatred]
Narnia Recap: The trio have reached Harfang.
The Silver Chair, Chapter 8: The House of Harfang
The hardest thing for me about going through Silver Chair is seeing how much of a decoy protagonist Jill is when I really dig into who-does-what-and-when. I really did like this book best of the series when I was a kid, and I really do think part of the appeal was having an actual female protagonist who isn't a straight-up saint (Lucy) or being slandered by the narrative at every turn as the sinsyest of sinners (Susan). Jill was a chance to have a "normal" girl, just like me, having adventures and doing epic things.
So it's incredibly disappointing to me that she... doesn't. We've given a lot of well-deserved flack to, say, Bella Swan for being the most unmotivated of protagonists, but when you really dig into the action of Silver Chair, Jill comes across to me as so much worse. At least Twilight is about a high school romance and I can realistically expect that homework assignments and long Saturday afternoons will be boring and unepic. Jill, in contrast, is on an adventure where epic things are constantly being hurled in her direction, and she keeps essentially playing dodgeball with any kind of plot involvement, character growth, and even just on-page screentime. She literally seems to be here for two reasons: (a) to mess up the signs so that we can have a plot where people keep messing up, and (b) to take the blame.
I was thinking about this when I was sitting down to write this post, and it occurred to me that I can't even say that Jill isn't the protagonist we were "promised", because every cover of this book that I've ever seen has always had Rilian on the front, not Jill, doing his manly stabbing of either the serpent or the silver chair itself. And, you know, I can't even imagine what iconic Jill scene you could use to replace that. My first thought was flying on the owl's back, but that would be the scene where Jill fell asleep and left the actual exciting adventures to Eustace. So not very exciting and iconic after all.
I've already complained that much of the book so far has been Puddleglum being the real protagonist and getting significantly more screentime for his opinions and thoughts than Jill. Chapter 8 is now going to expand that trend in order to give more screentime to Eustace. Hooray.
"GO ON, POLE, DO YOUR STUFF," WHISPERED Scrubb.
Jill found that her mouth was so dry that she couldn't speak a word. She nodded savagely at Scrubb.
Thinking to himself that he would never forgive her (or Puddleglum either), Scrubb licked his lips and shouted up to the King giant.
"If you please, Sire, the Lady of the Green Kirtle salutes you by us and said you'd like to have us for your Autumn Feast."
Sigh. This is a short little exchange--the narrative immediately segues into talking about how awful the queen looks for being fat, which I'm not going to quote because fuck that--but it's a rather perfect snapshot of the entire book. Eustace tries to flub off something that he should, by rights, be better at than Jill; he was, after all, the one who hung out with Arthurian royalty for months on end last time, and there's no way that he didn't observe courtly manners on the Dawn Treader. Jill refuses out of fear or terror or weak girlishness or whatever, and so then Eustace steps up and does his job like a Brave Courageous Man. He could have done his job properly to begin with, but then we wouldn't have a girl failing us and a man bailing her out. Staples of literature, this stuff.
I went back and checked, for purposes of this chapter. When Glimfeather first found the children in Narnia, Eustace did almost all the talking. When Jill finally piped up with something relevant, he argued with her and tried to shut her down. When the kids were taken before Trumpkin, Glimfeather did all the talking. The Parliament of Owls was mostly Eustace asking the actual questions; Jill played the part of the recap-chorus and then fell asleep halfway through. Bringing Puddleglum up to speed was, again, mostly Eustace talking; when Jill tried to chime in, Puddleglum was aggressively rude to her.
So why, in the name of all nine hells, would Jill "do her stuff" here? She's not the person who normally speaks in these situations. When she does speak, she gets argued with and shut out of the conversation. And she can't even do her little recitation of the signs, because Puddleglum made them promise not to tell. There's absolutely no damn point to Lewis arranging the scene this way except for Jill to be fearful and Eustace to be better than her. Great protagonisting, much equality.
"And what's that?" asked the King, pointing to Puddleglum.
"Reshpeckobiggle," said Puddleglum.
"Oh!" screamed the Queen, gathering her skirts close about her ankles. "The horrid thing! It's alive."
"He's quite all right, your Majesty, really, he is," said Scrubb hastily. "You'll like him much better when you get to know him. I'm sure you will."
I hope you won't lose all interest in Jill for the rest of the book if I tell you that at this moment she began to cry.
FUCK. ALL. THIS.
Fuck you, CS Lewis. Fuck you for giving us a "female protagonist" who never has a chance to do shit, because you won't let her do shit. Fuck you for putting her in a situation where anyone would be scared and upset, only so you can talk up your fucking author avatar Puddleglum as the bravest thing evar and so that you can wink at the reader about how awful and uninteresting Jill is for having a perfectly natural reaction to the stressful conditions you put her in. Fuck your solicitous "concern" that is the actual total opposite of concern and which just sends the message loud and clear that girls with emotions aren't worthy of our time or sympathy.
There was a good deal of excuse for her. Her feet and hands and ears and nose were still only just beginning to thaw; melted snow was trickling off her clothes; she had had hardly anything to eat or drink that day; and her legs were aching so that she felt she could not go on standing much longer. Anyway, it did more good at the moment than anything else would have done, for the Queen said:
"Ah, the poor child! My lord, we do wrong to keep our guests standing. Quick, some of you! Take them away. Give them food and wine and baths. Comfort the little girl. Give her lollipops, give her dolls, give her physics, give her all you can think of—possets and comfits and caraways and lullabies and toys. Don't cry, little girl, or you won't be good for anything when the feast comes."
Jill was just as indignant as you and I would have been at the mention of toys and dolls; and, though lollipops and comfits might be all very well in their way, she very much hoped that something more solid would be provided. The Queen's foolish speech, however, produced excellent results, for Puddleglum and Scrubb were at once picked up by gigantic gentlemen-in-waiting, and Jill by a gigantic maid of honor, and carried off to their rooms.
My god, you guys. This chapter. We're a handful of paragraphs in and we've already had Jill decide she hates the queen because she's fat, we've had Jill fall down on the "introduce us" task that protagonists usually shoulder, we've had Jill burst into tears while Lewis shakes his head at her, and now we have this "foolish speech" nonsense, I just... I just cannot. I have lost the ability to can.
Let it be noted that it is still considered controversial in most parts of the internet to state that the Chronicles of Narnia has sexist elements that utterly drip with hatred for women. Let it please also be noted that there are women authors who write far less objectionable stuff than this and get rake over far hotter coals.
"Is it still snowing, Nurse?" she asked sleepily.
"No. Raining now, ducky!" said the giantess. "Rain'll wash away all the nasty snow. Precious poppet will be able to go out and play tomorrow!" And she tucked Jill up and said good night.
I know nothing so disagreeable as being kissed by a giantess. Jill thought the same, but was asleep in five minutes.
"I know nothing so disagreeable as being kissed by a giantess," writes the man who will, a few books from now, write his god-avatar flaying open a terrified young woman.
At that hour there came to Jill a dream. It seemed to her that she awoke in the same room and saw the fire, sunk low and red, and in the firelight the great wooden horse. And the horse came of its own will, rolling on its wheels across the carpet, and stood at her head. And now it was no longer a horse, but a lion as big as the horse. And then it was not a toy lion, but a real lion, The Real Lion, just as she had seen him on the mountain beyond the world's end. [...] The Lion told her to repeat the signs, and she found that she had forgotten them all. At that, a great horror came over her. And Aslan took her up in his jaws (she could feel his lips and his breath but not his teeth) and carried her to the window and made her look out. The moon shone bright; and written in great letters across the world or the sky (she did not know which) were the words UNDER ME. After that, the dream faded away, and when she woke, very late next morning, she did not remember that she had dreamed at all.
But, it must be noted, the "great horror" of having failed her god and being carried in his jaws was marginally less than the horror of being kissed by a large woman who is, in all respects, kind and caring. Just so that we're all on the same page here.
The sun was shining and, except for a few drifts, the snow had been almost completely washed away by the rain. Down below them, spread out like a map, lay the flat hill-top which they had struggled over yesterday afternoon; seen from the castle, it could not be mistaken for anything but the ruins of a gigantic city. [...] The ledges which they had climbed down on the north side of the hill—and also, no doubt the other ledges which they had climbed up on the south side—were the remaining steps of giant stairs. To crown all, in large, dark lettering across the center of the pavement, ran the words UNDER ME.
The three travelers looked at each other in dismay, and, after a short whistle, Scrubb said what they were all thinking, "The second and third signs muffed." And at that moment Jill's dream rushed back into her mind.
"It's my fault," she said in despairing tones. "I—I'd given up repeating the signs every night. If I'd been thinking about them I could have seen it was the city, even in all that snow."
This is ridiculous, and we've already hashed out how ridiculous it is, but just for the record: this is the silliest Nice Job Breaking It moment in the history of anything. They were in a blizzard. The evidence of the city and the letters practically require the party to be sitting at the vantage point that they are in now: above the place. There is zero doubt in my mind that Lewis saw this scene first, wrote the steps leading up to it, and didn't bother overly much with how much his supporting text failed to justify the scene he envisioned.
We also have a dreadful case of protagonists knowing more than they should, in that they "know" they muffed the signs. They have, sort of, in the sense that the giants of Harfang don't want to let them leave. But they don't know that yet! They were told to find the ruined city, and lo! By seeking shelter in a place with a bird's eye view, they have found the city. Sign #3 was completed successfully! Even better, they have a head-start on Sign #4, since they've found the writing and can now get down there and obey it.
The fact that all three of the protagonists will now beat themselves up for how awful they were to "miss" the signs is so utterly jarring. It's like they have a direct line to the author's head, because there's really no other explanation for this uniform insistence that they're screwed. In a better book, at least one of the team would be excited about having gotten back on the adventuring track; at least one of them would see Jill's dream as a good sign. Aslan has blessed them by bringing them to this window and showing them the view, hoorah!
"I'm worse," said Puddleglum. "I did see, or nearly. I thought it looked uncommonly like a ruined city."
"You're the only one who isn't to blame," said Scrubb. "You did try to make us stop."
"I mean, you didn't actually voice what you were thinking or do anything whatsoever to make us safe and comfortable; you instead just asked cryptic questions and tried to goad Jill into a recitation of the signs at an utterly inappropriate moment, but really, you have no blame in this whatsoever, older mentor man who is a mouthpiece for the author's Christianity!"
"Why, you chump!" said Scrubb. "We did see it. We got into the lettering. Don't you see? We got into the letter E in ME.That was your sunk lane. We walked along the bottom stroke of the E, due north—turned to our right along the upright— came to another turn to the right—that's the middle stroke—and then went on to the top left-hand corner, or (if you like) the northeastern corner of the letter, and came back. Like the bally idiots that we are." He kicked the window seat savagely, and went on, "So it's no good, Pole. I know what you were thinking because I was thinking the same. You were thinking how nice it would have been if Aslan hadn't put the instructions on the stones of the ruined city till after we'd passed it. And then it would have been his fault, not ours. So likely, isn't it? No. We must just own up. We've only four signs to go by, and we've muffed the first three."
"You mean I have," said Jill. "It's quite true. I've spoiled everything ever since you brought me here. All the same—I'm frightfully sorry and all that—all the same, what are the instructions? UNDER ME doesn't seem to make much sense."
"Yes it does, though," said Puddleglum. "It means we've got to look for the Prince under that city."
"But how can we?" asked Jill.
"That's the question," said Puddleglum, rubbing his big, frog-like hands together. "How can we now? No doubt, if we'd had our minds on our job when we were at the Ruinous City, we'd have been shown how—found a little door, or a cave, or a tunnel, met someone to help us. Might have been (you never know) Aslan himself. We'd have got down under those paving-stones somehow or other. Aslan's instructions always work: there are no exceptions. But how to do it now—that's another matter."
"Well, we shall just have to go back, I suppose," said Jill.
If you're keeping track, the words for Jill in this chapter are a handful and the words for Eustace and Puddleglum are fully one million words. And most of Jill's words are "gosh, please tell me more" and "I am the worst". Strong female protagonist, much better than that modern dross that the ladies write these days. (What do they teach them in their lady-writing schools?)
I especially love the "I know what you were thinking" detail, with Eustace speaking for Jill and then arguing with her. ("Tonight the part of 'Jill' will be played by Eustace...") Take note that this is an efficient way to keep female characters from speaking: you can just give your male characters telepathy so that they can carry on both parts of the conversation themselves.
"Easy, isn't it?" said Puddleglum. "We might try opening that door to begin with." And they all looked at the door and saw that none of them could reach the handle, and that almost certainly no one could turn it if they did.
"Do you think they won't let us out if we ask?" said Jill. And nobody said, but everyone thought, "Supposing they don't."
It was not a pleasant idea. Puddleglum was dead against any idea of telling the giants their real business and simply asking to be let out; and of course the children couldn't tell without his permission, because they had promised.
Puddleglum is right, of course, because this book is a love-letter to old Christian men with unpleasant mannerisms towards little girls, but there is no reason for him to be right. This isn't good fiction where suddenly the characters look back over their previous interactions with the giants and feel a little chill as everything now reads very differently in retrospect. (That will happen later, through nothing more than total random chance, which is the least satisfying sort of literary revelation.) Instead, we just have a character assert, without any reason or evidence, that their hosts are evil incarnate. And he ends up being right. While the narrative dances about in the background pointing out that, c'mon, they're giant and fat and foolish, what more evidence do you need, geez.
I feel like this whole arc is crying out for a re-write in which the giants are perfectly sensible people who would let them go on their way without a fuss, but the protagonists keep failing to get free because they refuse to actually let on that they want to leave.
Eustace comes up with an escape plan, because haha you expected the girl protagonist to contribute? Boy, I wish you could see your face right now. Haha. But don't think that Jill has no place in the boys' plan, oh no. She is hereby called upon to be girly and Susanyish.
"It's hardly what I call a Chance," said the Marsh-wiggle. "But it's all the chance we're likely to get." As a matter of fact, Scrubb's plan was not quite so hopeless as you might think. If you want to get out of a house without being seen, the middle of the afternoon is in some ways a better time to try it than in the middle of the night. Doors and windows are more likely to be open; and if you are caught, you can always pretend you weren't meaning to go far and had no particular plans. (It is very hard to make either giants or grown-ups believe this if you're found climbing out of a bedroom window at one o'clock in the morning.)
"We must put them off their guard, though," said Scrubb. "We must pretend we love being here and are longing for this Autumn Feast."
"That's tomorrow night," said Puddleglum. "I heard one of them say so."
"I see," said Jill. "We must pretend to be awfully excited about it, and keep on asking questions. They think we're absolute infants anyway, which will make it easier."
"Gay," said Puddleglum with a deep sigh. "That's what we've got to be. Gay. As if we hadn't a care in the world. Frolicsome. You two youngsters haven't always got very high spirits, I've noticed. You must watch me, and do as I do. I'll be gay. Like this"—and he assumed a ghastly grin. "And frolicsome"—here he cut a most mournful caper. "You'll soon get into it, if you keep your eyes on me. They think I'm a funny fellow already, you see. I dare say you two thought I was a trifle tipsy last night, but I do assure you it was—well, most of it was—put on. I had an idea it would come in useful, somehow."
The children, when they talked over their adventures afterward, could never feel sure whether this last statement was quite strictly true; but they were sure that Puddleglum thought it was true when he made it.
"All right. Gay's the word," said Scrubb. "Now, if we could only get someone to open this door. While we're fooling about and being gay, we've got to find out all we can about this castle."
But, hey, before we end this chapter, can we squeeze in anymore hatred of women? I think we can oblige!
When Jill saw that there were no horses she was at first dreadfully disappointed, for she felt sure that the great fat Queen would never go after hounds on foot; and it would never do to have her about the house all day. But then she saw the Queen in a kind of litter supported on the shoulders of six young giants. The silly old creature was all got up in green and had a horn at her side.
Chapter 9 will feature Jill being cheerful, and I'll just say in advance that while I usually love stories about social intrigue, I like them so much less when there's a pervasive sense that the author wrote all the social intrigue while pinching his nose shut in disgust because eww girly things. That kinda puts a damper on my enjoyment of things.
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"A Day in the Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the verses were mainly written by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section. It is widely regarded as one of the finest and most important works in popular music history. Lennon's lyrics were mainly inspired by contemporary newspaper articles, including a report on the death of Guinness heir Tara Browne. The recording includes two passages of orchestral glissandos that were partly improvised in the avant-garde style. In the song's middle segment, McCartney recalls his younger years, which included riding the bus, smoking, and going to class. Following the second crescendo, the song ends with a sustained chord, played on several keyboards, that rings for over forty seconds. A reputed drug reference in the line "I'd love to turn you on" resulted in the song initially being banned from broadcast by the BBC. The ending chord is one of the most famous in music history, and inspired the creation of the Deep Note, the audio trademark for the THX film company. Jeff Beck, Barry Gibb, the Fall and Phish are among the artists who have covered the song. more »
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I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
but I just had to look
Having read the book.
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
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And though the holes were rather small
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Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
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Collas Crill wins landmark case on State Immunity
Collas Crill has acted for the winning party in a decision issued by Jersey's Royal Court in a landmark case on State Immunity.
Collas Crill Partner Elena Moran acted for Tepe, a construction company based in Turkey.
Tepe entered into two contracts with the defendant, Botaş, to assist with the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan ("BTC") Pipeline. The BTC pipeline transports crude oil from oilfields in Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey to the Ceyhan terminal on the Turkish coast.
Botaş is wholly owned by the Republic of Turkey. Its principal activity is the transportation of crude oil and natural gas by pipeline in Turkey.
Botaş terminated the contracts with Tepe. Both contracts were governed by English Law and provided for disputes to be arbitrated in Paris under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC").
The Arbitral Tribunals found the terminations to be unlawful and made a number of awards in favour of Tepe and against Botaş in the total sum of approximately US$101m. Botaş appealed the arbitration awards to the French Courts, but none of the appeals were successful. Despite having exhausted all avenues of appeal Botaş failed to make any payments under the arbitration awards.
Under Jersey Law an arbitration award can be enforced as if it is a judgement of the Jersey Court.
Botaş has two Jersey subsidiary companies called Turkish Petroleum International Company Limited ("TPIC") and Botaş International Limited ("BIL"). BIL operates the Turkish section of the BTC pipeline and provides marine services at the Ceyhan Marine Terminal. TPIC is an integrated oil and gas company with offices in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Georgia and Colombia.
Tepe obtained ex-parte interim arrests over Botaş' shares in TPIC and BIL. If confirmed an arrest would allow the Viscount to sell the shares in TPIC and BIL and use the proceeds to satisfy the outstanding debts owed to Tepe.
Botaş objected to confirmation of the arrests on the ground that the Republic of Turkey is entitled to claim state immunity in relation to the shares.
Jersey law on state immunity mirrors English law. Botas argued that the law on state immunity prevents enforcement against assets in which a state has a sufficient interest in and/or control unless those assets are held for commercial purposes. The interest/control was said to arise from certain provisions of Turkish law claimed to impact on TPIC and BIL. Tepe argued that state immunity only arises where the state has a legal or beneficial interest in the shares.
The Royal Court received written reports and oral evidence from Turkish law experts. In broad terms the Court accepted the level of control asserted by Botaş. Despite this, the Court concluded that the interest and / or control was not sufficient to satisfy the test for state immunity.
The Royal Court noted that following the decision of the Privy Council in the case of La Generale des Carrières et des Mines v F G Hemisphere Associates LLC, the assets of a separate legal entity which is wholly owned by a state are quite separate to the assets of the state itself.
Day to day control of the shares rests with Botaş, which is the legal and beneficial owner of the shares. The fact that the Republic could direct Botaş to dispose of assets (including the shares) was beside the point. If that was sufficient the Republic would be able to claim immunity over all of the assets of Botaş, yet it was accepted that the Republic had no claim to immunity over any other assets of Botaş.
As the Royal Court highlighted, if Botas was successful a state would be able to claim immunity over the shares in virtually any indirectly owned subsidiary.
The Royal Court had no hesitation in rejecting the claim of state immunity and ordered that the arrest of the shares be confirmed. Subject to a successful appeal this means that the shares of TPIC and BIL will be sold by the Viscount.
Collas Crill Partner Elena Moran said: "This is the first time that a Court has considered whether state immunity attaches to the shares of an indirectly owned state entity. The case is important because a wider interpretation of state immunity would leave judgment creditors of state owned entities with limited enforcement options. An inevitable impact will be that organisations are more reluctant to contract with state owned entities."
Collas Crill was assisted in the case by Pinsent Masons LLP, which also represented Tepe in the ICC arbitration proceedings and the French appeals.
For further information about the case contact Advocate Elena Moran via elena.moran@collascrill.com.
A full copy of the Judgement can be accessed at www.jerseylaw.je.
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Introducing AlmaLinux As a Replacement for CentOS
In this article, we want to discuss Introducing AlmaLinux as a replacement for CentOS.
Let's see what AlmaLinux is.
What is AlmaLinux exactly?
AlmaLinux is a peer-to-peer binary branch of Redhat Enterprise Linux or REHL.
This distribution is in the form of a Stable Release, and packages are placed in updates that are more suitable for servers than Rolling Release distributions.
As we know, CentOS will not be released anymore.
In general, we will no longer have stable CentOS. This is the decision of RedHat the new owner of CentOS.
One of the companies that relied on CentOS products decided to release a Linux distribution like CentOS.
That distribution is called AlmaLinux OS, which is exactly the same as CentOS based on RedHat.
About CentOS
As you know, CentOS was a complete, free version of the RedHat distribution. Unlike other Linux distributions, RedHat is not free and has many features.
CentOS is built for those who don't want to pay because it's rewritten and free to republish.
RedHat supports the CentOS project for some time, and we will no longer have stable CentOS after CentOS 8.
This means that CentOS is still free and users must download and install CentOS.
Redhat wants to release software packages that aren't stable and must continue to be tested on CentOS.
This causes many users to believe that RedHat wants to use CentOS users as mice.
As a result, CentOS will no longer be stable.
Can we use AlmaLinux as a replacement for CentOS?
As we said in the above part CentOs will no longer be stable. because of this all companies and individuals who work with CentOS are worried about how to fill the CentOS place?!
There is the same concern for control panel companies and other commercial software companies whose business is directly related to CentOS.
One of these companies is Cloudlinux which is used on hosting servers.
The company's CEO has decided to offer a new free distribution from Redhat.
He says AlmaLinux gets popular and open source like CentOs. For now, we have AlmaLinux 8 and we can download and install it.
Convert CentOS to AlmaLinux
There is a solution to convert existing CentOS to Almalinux. It can be done with just one command, and all services will run on the server without interruption.
Of course, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 still support update packages until the expiration date. This date for CentOS 8 is (December 31, 2021) and (June 30, 2024) for CentOS 7.
The first beta version of AlmaLinux was released in February 2021, and the first stable release was released in March 2021. AlmaLinux 8.x will be supported until 2029.
At this point, you know about AlmaLinux and why CentOS hasn't been supported anymore.
Since there is a company like Cloud Linux behind such a distribution, many people have decided to trust and use this distribution. So at least you can try it.
You can get more information at almalinux.org.


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American Shipper Staff Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The South African arm of air freight wholesaler AMI said it is relocating its Johannesburg headquarters in early June.
The new, larger facility, five minutes from the city's Oliver Tambo Airport, will double the company's existing warehousing space. The facility has a designated dangerous goods holding area, strong room, and four loading bays. AMI said it will provide off-airport bonded facilities.
'Despite the tough period our industry has experienced, AMI South Africa has shown consistent growth, and we have now outgrown our current facility,' said Mike Todd, AMI regional director for Africa. 'We take the long-term view: this is an investment in our future.'
AMI South Africa was launched under a previous moniker in 2002 and acquired by AMI in 2008; it offers trade-only wholesale air freight services to 350 destinations. The company has operations in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, along with 17 offices in the United States, Europe, Far East and Australasia.


Google gave the world a deeper dive into its data center network with a paper presented Tuesday at the ACM Sigcomm conference in London.
Google Fellow Amin Vahdat already presented much of this information at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) in June. Everyone knew Google had built its own networking infrastructure, but that presentation was the first time where Google had explained its actions in detail.
The Sigcomm paper covers the same ground as the ONS talk, including the five-generation progression of Google's data centers, but offers more detail about Google's switches, topology, and customized control plane. Many of the ideas seem commonplace today, with the advent of software-defined networking (SDN), but they were radical 10 years ago.
It was all born of necessity as Google struggled to cope with delivering bandwidth throughout a network that was growing virally. The biggest scale that vendors offered still came down to managing "individual boxes with individual command-line interfaces," he said at the time. That seemed "unnecessarily hard" compared to Google's practice of managing 10,000 servers as a single machine.
It comes down to a complaint that's been at the heart of the SDN movement: Compute and storage could accommodate scale-out operations, but networking had not advanced comparably.
Google developed its own networking based on three principles. The first was a Clos topology, or a leaf/spine architecture — a well known design where relatively few switches are interconnected to create a huge, non-blocking fabric.
Second, Google wanted to use off-the-shelf chips. The result was the Pluto switch that came to light about two years ago.
Finally, the network operated with centralized control — a precursor to SDN. If something, somewhere, knew what the network should look like, it would become easier to keep the network in that state, Google's engineers reasoned.
What resulted was five generations of data-center networking at Google: Firehose 1.0, Firehose 1.1, Watchtower, Saturn, and the current Jupiter, all built on merchant switching chips. The iterations started 10 years ago with aggregate bandwidth of 2 Tb/s per cluster; with Jupiter, that figure has risen to 1.3 Pb/s, thanks in part to merchant chips supporting 40-Gb/s connections.
On the management side, Google famously treats its data-center network as a single fabric rather than "a collection of hundreds of autonomous switches that had to dynamically discover information about the fabric," as the Sigcomm paper words it. Google drew its inspiration from distributed storage systems, which were already using centralized management. Elements of what it developed here would later find their way into B4, Google's global wide-area network (WAN).
Want to know more about the control architecture? "Details of Jupiter's control architecture are beyond the scope of this paper," the Sigcomm paper reads. Dang.
But the paper does deliver some details about Firepath, Google's homegrown routing architecture. It's very SDN-like: There's a master element in the topology that can dictate global state to all the switches. The switches start with a base topology and check in with their neighbors to learn about the status of local links. They then exchange this information with the Firepath master.
Google uses Layer 3 routing down to the top-of-rack switches (ToRs). All the machines under any given ToR are part of one Layer 2 subnet — one broadcast domain.
Timely, a congestion-control mechanism that works by observing packets' round-trip times, rather than querying switches.


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I prefer the little loves. My best friend's daughter running around the kitchen chanting, "It's all rainbows," over and over again. The wag of a dog's tail when you scratch the sweet spot behind her ear. Neglected nuances, subtle sincerity — that's where love lives.


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Navy Wants to Charge Officer who Fired at Islamic Jihadist in Chattanooga to Save Others
Written by: Tim Brown
In a twisted view of justice, the Navy wants to charge Lt. Commander Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property in an attempt to stop the Islamic jihadist who murdered 5 of his military brothers.
Western Journalism had reported shortly after the attack:
A Navy officer and Marine reportedly returned fire at the shooter who killed five service members in Chattanooga, Tenn., even though current policy does not permit military members to carry firearms on facilities such as those where the attack occurred.
The center's commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White, used his personal firearm to engage the shooter during the attack, according to sources quoted in the Navy Times. A report from The Washington Post said that one of the Marines killed in the shooting might have been carrying a 9 mm Glock and possibly returned fire on Abdulazeez. The Navy officer could face disciplinary action for violating policy about possessing a weapon on the facility that was supposed a gun-free zone.
The investigation into the attack is ongoing, and authorities will not know if White or the Marine hit Abdulazeez until an autopsy and a ballistics report have been completed. The recruiting center, the other building at which the gunman fired, was reopened Monday.
Lt. Col. Allen West told his readers, "Ladies and gents, resulting from the text message I received yesterday, I can confirm that the United States Navy is bringing charges against Lt. Cmdr Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."
"What kind of freaking idiots are in charge of our Armed Forces — pardon me, our 'unArmed Forces'?" asked West. "What would they prefer that Abdulazeez had been able to kill all the Marines and Sailors at the Naval Support Reserve Center? Let me draw an interesting contrast: Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is more concerned about lifting the ban on transgendered Sailors. Mabus has a problem in that for the first time since 2007 the US Navy will not have a Carrier Battle Group operating in the Persian Gulf. But this knucklehead has no problem with the Navy seeking to destroy the career of a Sailor, a commander of an installation, returning fire against an Islamic jihadist attack. I do not care if it was his personal weapon, he deserves a medal for facing the enemy."
And to that, I say a hearty "Amen, Lt. Col. West!"
So, let me get this straight, Lt. Cmdr. White utilized his God-given right to carry a firearm in violation of the tyrants in Washington's violation of the US Constitution's Second Amendment, engaged the enemy that was out to kill his brothers and the Navy wants to charge him with a crime? Everything in me wants to demand that the American people flood the city of Chattanooga, and openly protest and demand that whoever is pushing for this man to be charged be immediately dishonorably discharged and charged with crimes against the people of the united States.
It is absolutely ridiculous that a man who risked his life to save others in the service of his country is even remotely being considered to be charged with a crime.
This, my friends, is the kind of mentality that the Obama administration and the Marxists, Communists and the Islamists have brought with them into our country, and I can tell you, it is part of God's judgment (Deut.30).
I'll be there's a stealth jihadi behind all of this push to charge Lt. Cmdr. White, Barack Hussein Obama.
However, God has called us to repentance and as such, let us do so obediently as He gives us strength to do so and stand up for Lt. Cmdr. White, voicing our support for his selflessness in seeking to defend others, even at the risk of his own life.
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About the Author: Tim Brown
Tim Brown is an author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com. He is husband to his "more precious than rubies" wife, father of 10 "mighty arrows", jack of all trades, Christian and lover of liberty. He resides in the U.S. occupied Great State of South Carolina. . Follow Tim on Twitter. Also check him out on Gab, Minds, MeWe, Spreely, Mumbl It and Steemit


I've been meaning to write a light-hearted and possibly funny entry for a few weeks now, but I've stalled out quite a few times. I think because honestly, I don't feel all that humorous or light-hearted at the moment. While being a new father has had its definite highs, there have been some pretty serious lows that have come with it.
It's one thing to know that having a newborn will be tough. To have the information that you'll have sleepless nights, difficult days, and just be outright tired most of the time is helpful, but I don't think you can ever be fully prepared for the toll it takes on you, both psychologically, and emotionally. Not to mention the problems that arise in your relationship with your spouse.
No one really wants to talk about it, because the focus should be on the baby, and rightfully so. There is a ton of responsibility and work that needs to be done when caring for a newborn. However, all of that work takes away from your ability to actually have a relationship with anyone except the baby. It's not hard to keep up a façade of happiness and joy when dealing with people outside of the immediate family, but within the nucleus, things can get pretty strained. I know I've found myself snapping at my wife due to being tired from lack of sleep, or stress from doing duty after duty, and I've been equally snapped at. Sadly, it doesn't feel as if any of this matters, because there is a baby to look after. When the happiness and well-being of the child comes first, everything else seems to come second.
I love my daughter. I want her to be happy. I love to see her face looking at me, with not a care in the world. However, it comes at a price. It has been the roughest month of my life when it comes to my relationship with my wife. I have never felt as angry or as helpless as I have this last month, because I honestly feel that I can't do anything right.
Case in point. Due to the task of trying to either put her to sleep, or keep her asleep, both my wife and I have found ourselves up for long stretches of the night, trying to comfort our baby. Sometimes it's one of us, sometimes it's both of us, but someone is always tired come the morning. I've been trying to take some of the stress off of my wife by getting up early, and taking care of my daughter for a few hours so that she can get a few extra hours of sleep. However, because I am so tired from the night before, I need to do something to let my mind rest. For me, this normally consists of doing something relatively engaging, but pretty mindless. What does that mean? Right… video games. Unfortunately, it doesn't translate well with a squirming, fussy child in your lap who doesn't want to sleep. She starts crying, which either causes my wife to wake up, or me to stop what I'm doing. So I try everything in my power to get my daughter to stop crying, but this stops my resting time, therefore causing me to be more irritable the rest of the day.
I'm not one to take a nap during the day, because I tend to wake up more cranky than if I had just stayed up, so I'm constantly looking for time to just veg out to give my brain time to process the tiredness. This ends up being a pretty vicious cycle, as it has now been a few weeks since the last time I have had a good night's sleep, and every day is a struggle to find time to let my brain be off for a little while. This is interpreted as my not caring, or not wanting to be involved, and we argue.
That might have made no sense, seeing as how I'm writing this during one of those stretches where we're trying to get the baby to go back to sleep. However, I was in bed thinking about how utterly miserable I've been the last week, and felt the need to at least try to articulate how I've felt, if for no other reason then to get it out of my head.
While writing this entry, my wife told me about a conversation she had with our neighbor, who already has two children. She told me that she can't imagine how couples who are having problems in their relationship can think that having a child will save it somehow. We've had a pretty strong relationship, and we're already snapping at each other frequently. I would imagine if you didn't have that type of relationship before having a baby, that you might as well sign the divorce papers after having one, because all of your flaws, errors, and selfish desires are magnified a hundred fold when you're trying to take care of a newborn. Everything is seen through the lens of "How will this behavior benefit the child?" and most everything you've ever done for yourself will fail that examination.
The only silver lining in all of this is that it's supposed to get better after the initial exhaustion. Seeing most couples with children, I believe this is true. However, who knows? Maybe it's just another façade. No one wants to be "that" family. I get overly pessimistic when I'm sleep-deprived, so please forgive me if I come off a tad gloom and doom. I just know that statistically, most married couples find less satisfaction with the relationship after having a child. I'd rather not end up in that statistic. Only time will tell.
Despite all of the effort, all of the tiredness, all of the arguing, I do love my wife more everyday, and I'm happy that our baby is here. I'm still amazed that we actually have a little girl to call our own, and that she's actually ours. Part of me is still expecting someone to show up at the door and say "Ha! Jokes on you, we're taking her back now." When I look at my wife holding my daughter, I feel nothing by love for them both, and I will do whatever I can to make our lives a better one… even though I'm going to be cranky for most of the first part of it.


DIEPENBEEK, Belgium, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Softhale NV, a pharmaceutical company leveraging its respiratory soft mist inhalation platform to develop and commercialize COPD and asthma treatment products, announced today the appointment of a new independent member to its Board of Directors. Mr. Nevan Charles Elam, J.D., has joined the Board of Directors as of October 2018.
"We are delighted to welcome Nevan on our Board. His rich background in management, operations, consulting, finance, and corporate law in combination with long term experiences in executive roles in pharmaceutical and medical device companies will broaden the competencies of our Board and support further development of the company" stated Frank Pieters, Chairman of the Board.
"I am excited to join Softhale's Board, as I enjoy working with innovative companies that have the potential transform markets and improve patient care." Mr. Elam continued, "I believe that Softhale has the right combination of a robust device platform along with an experienced and proven management team."
Mr. Elam, currently CEO and Chairman of Rezolute Inc. and he also serves on the board of directors of Savara Pharmaceuticals SVRA, +5.08% in Austin, Texas. Previously, he served for many years on the Board of Directors of Aerogen, Inc. in Galway, Ireland.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Elam was SVP and Head of the Pulmonary Business Unit at Nektar Therapeutics NKTR, -2.39% During his tenure at Nektar he led the spin out of Pearl Therapeutics to focus on treatments for asthma and COPD (in 2013 Pearl Therapeutics was acquired by AstraZeneca for $1 billion). Mr. Elam received his B.A. from Howard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
You can meet Softhale NV at the upcoming Jefferies 2018 London Healthcare Conference on November 14 - 15 or at the J.P. Morgan 37 [th] Annual Healthcare Conference 2019 January 7 - 10 in San Francisco.


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Open Letter To The Republican Party
John C. Goodman,
A version of this article first appeared on Forbes.com HERE
I have an uncomplicated theory of voter behavior: when the party in power approaches issues in a way that is simplistic, extreme and beholden to special interests, people tend to vote for the other party.
This theory explains a lot more than you might think. It explains why New York City – a place where you could spend all day without running into a single Republican – has elected and reelected quite a few Republican mayors. It explains why Massachusetts – arguably our most Democratic state – has a very popular conservative Republican governor. It explains why California – a state where successful Republican politicians are a vanishing breed — elected Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor.
And, it explains why traditionally Republican districts voted in the last election to give control of the House of Representatives to Democrats instead.
Let's take a handful of issues that voters said were important in the recent election: say, health care, immigration, climate change and taxes. Forget what candidates said in the safe districts, where opinions are as extreme as they are irrelevant. Focus on what was said in the contested races.
Here's what you need to know about the Democrats. They had no plan to deal with any of these issues. No plan? None. Zero. Zilch. If you don't believe me go to A Better Deal, the Senate Democrats web site for the 2018 campaign:
How do the Senate Democrats propose to make the tax system simpler, fairer and pro-growth? They don't have a single proposal.
How do they propose to do stop climate change? Apparently, they have no idea.
How about immigration? Nothing there either.
Reforming Obamacare? It's not on their radar screen.
So how did Democrats win on the issues? By not being Republicans. That's not a joke. That's really how they campaigned.
Republican House members voted dozens of times to repeal Obamacare, without proposing any credible alternative. That meant taking health insurance away from about 20 million people and using the money to cut taxes for the rich, along with drug companies, insurance companies and big business. All Democrats had to say is: we're not for that.
On climate change, Republicans were stuck in denial. On immigration, they had no solution beyond a wall. If Democrats said anything at all on these subjects, they suddenly looked reasonable.
Tax policy is the one area where Republicans could lay claim to a thoughtful reform. When Barack Obama proposed to lower the top corporate income tax from 38% to 28% and all the way down to 25% for manufacturing, many mainstream economists thought that was a good idea. No one attacked him as being a shill for rich shareholders.
But Republicans in Congress made two tactical errors. They followed Obama's initiative with a purely partisan approach, making no real attempt to get Democratic support. And they did nothing to make the intellectual case for tax reform to economic and financial analysts who write editorials, comment on TV and in other ways communicate tax issues to the voting public.
By the time of the election, the public perception was so bad that tax reform became a Democratic talking point, rather than a Republican one. Democratic candidates resorted to demagoguery, of course. But it was Republican unforced errors that made the demagoguery possible.
On women's issues, Republicans were the party of "no." No abortion. No Planned Parenthood. No free contraceptives. Where were all the "yesses"?
On senior issues, Republicans were the party of gloom and doom, reminding voters we have promised future entitlement benefits we don't know how to pay for. Who wants to vote for gloom and doom?
What makes all of this so surprising is that it flips certain natural tendencies upside down. Historically, Republicans have been inclined to take a cost-benefit approach to public policy, while Democrats have been more likely to be simplistic and extreme.
On climate change, for example, a cost-benefit approach would compare any sacrifice we are being asked to make today with any benefit that sacrifice is likely to produce. The reason Emmanuel Macron is being battered by protests in France is that French workers understand intuitively that the burden of higher fuel prices goes well beyond any possible climate benefits.
Since it is very difficult for Democrats to take a cost-benefit approach to any issue, they too would be battered by riots and protests if they tried to impose the carbon tax many of them would secretly like to enact in this country. By staking out a cost-benefit approach to climate change, Republicans could force their opponents to defend the extremist measures they implicitly believe in.
On immigration, a cost-benefit approach would suggest a guest worker program that allows immigration that benefits our economy when and where the need arises but denies immigration that exploits our welfare system. If Republicans made this position clear, Democrats would have a hard time opposing it.
On corporate taxation, a cost-benefit approach would commend a flexible response to the taxation policies of other countries and evidence on international capital flows. Were this approach made clear, the Democratic idea that there is no harm in taxing corporate profits to the hilt would become untenable.
On women's issues, Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberley Strassel and I wrote an entire book on policy changes needed to accommodate the entry of women into the labor force. For example, we should let part-time workers and independent contractors have the same tax advantages with respect to pensions and health insurance that we grant to employees of big companies. Because of their connection to labor unions, it's hard for Democrats to endorse these very sensible reforms.
The 90% of seniors who claim early retirement lose 50 cents of Social Security benefits for every dollar they earn beyond a modest level. The federal government would probably lose no revenue by abolishing this earnings penalty and encouraging seniors to contribute to an economy that needs their skills.
We could also save a lot of money by creating Medicare-funded Health Savings Accounts, from which seniors could contract with concierge doctors for their primary care, order Uber-type house calls for a fraction of the cost of emergency room visits and take advantage of other private sector innovations.
These reforms should be no-brainers for Republicans. Because of Democrats' connection with AARP, they are hard issues for Democrats.
Obamacare is also ripe with reform possibilities. There is no good reason why people aren't talking to their doctors by phone and email. There is no reason why the chronically ill must make long and painful round trips to hospitals and doctors' offices when a simple app on an iPhone makes home consultations as easy as pie.
Republicans in Congress have swung back and forth between simplistic slogans ("Repeal Obamacare") and proposals designed by special interests who have no desire to change their business models. Thoughtful reform has evaded them.
Here is the bottom line. On a wide array of issues voters care about, Republicans in Congress have been unwilling to tackle the hard problems and offer sensible solutions. Other than corporate tax reform, they all too often have resorted to simplistic slogans and extremist language and have bowed to special interest pressures.
Voters have not been fooled. They are smarter than you think they are.


The vision for Kako originated in the mind of Ed Hooley a Christian school teacher in the Yukon Kuskokwim delta. Dave first met Eddie in 1963. He had his own airplane and often flew around helping missionaries each summer and on weekends. Dave started a kids' camp at Inowak in 1968 and Eddie was one of his helpers. As a ham operator he talked nightly with Dave sharing the need for his students to attend a camp like Inowak. While in Russian Mission as a school teacher he would come to Kako to bring supplies and saw the potential for a kids' camp.
In 1976 Dave met with Eddie and his wife Joyce and made plans to do some work at Kako in order to prepare for a week of Kids' camp the following summer. However on February 20, 1977 enroute to Anchorage their plane iced up and they were both killed in the crash. After much prayer and counsel Dave determined in his heart to carry on this vision at the request of the family.
As a missionary with InterAct for 18 years Dave ministered with his family in these villages and had a heart for these people. From his experience he saw the need to reach the parents first. If you have the parents you have the kids. He resigned his ministry with InterAct in order to fulfill this vision and create a safe place for them to come for live in seminars, counseling and encouragement. They could ask questions in a homey relaxed atmosphere and find answers from God's Word. After much preparation Kako Retreat Center became a reality in 1988, as a non-profit faith based organization incorporated by the state of Alaska.


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Q: Creating new object from another object without persisting changes I'm using an Array as a container for some basic boilerplate objects which can be copied and added to another Array and then modified.  The problem is when I assign the new array ownership of the object any changes persist down to the original object (which shouldn't change).
An example:
var originals = [{ name: "One", value: 1 }, { name: "Two", value: 2 }, { name: "Three", value: 3 }];

var notOriginal = [];

notOriginal.push(originals[0]);

// THIS GIVES ME - notOriginal = [{ name: "One", value: 1 }];

notOriginal[0].name = "Uno";

// THIS RESULTS IN - originals = [{ name: "Uno", value: 1 },...];

I'm trying to keep the "originals" variable the same - it shouldn't change.
I've googled quite a bit and tried some things but not sure where to find a solution.
Specifically this is happening in VueJS whereas the object is in my data()

A: Make a deep copy of it using JSON.parse & JSON.stringify

var originals = [{
  name: "One",
  value: 1
}, {
  name: "Two",
  value: 2
}, {
  name: "Three",
  value: 3
}];

var notOriginal = [];

notOriginal.push(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(originals[0])));

notOriginal[0].name = "Uno";
console.log(originals)

A: You can use Object.assign to make a copy of the object.

var originals = [{
  name: "One",
  value: 1
}, {
  name: "Two",
  value: 2
}, {
  name: "Three",
  value: 3
}];

var notOriginal = [];

notOriginal.push(Object.assign({}, originals[0]));

notOriginal[0].name = "Uno";

console.log(originals);

A: Objects are passed by reference.

In order to copy an object you can use Object.assign({}, obj) which will return a new object with the duplicated properties within obj.

var originals = [{ name: "One", value: 1 }, { name: "Two", value: 2 }, { name: "Three", value: 3 }];

var notOriginal = originals.map(obj => Object.assign({}, obj));

notOriginal[0].name = "bart";
console.log(originals[0], notOriginal[0]);

A: I found a solution by using jQuery.extend(true, {}, myObj); but would still like to know what this is called so I can understand this reactivity better.
Thanks


Shot in Mexico City, Mexico.
I met a man who was a jovial-looking person. He put a decoration on his nose and brushed his thick eyebrows. He was a clown. So I held my SLR camera. He thumbed up cheerfully when I focused on him.
Although I thought it was uncommon to meet any clowns during walking the streets, I saw many clowns during staying in Mexico. A summit conference for clowns might be held and the clown might gather from all over the world.


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Home > News > India
Vijay Rupani to Take Oath as Gujarat CM Today; PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah to Attend
Several union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and Ravishankar Prasad are also expected to attend Vijay Rupani's swearing-in ceremony.
Updated: December 26, 2017 11:10 AM IST
By India.com News Desk Email
Vijay Rupani
Gandhinagar, Dec 26: The new Gujarat government led by Vijay Rupani will take the oath of office and secrecy shortly at a grand ceremony at Sahivalaya Ground in Gandhinagar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah will attend the swearing-in ceremony along with the chief ministers of 18 states where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies are in power. Several union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and Ravi Shankar Prasad are also expected to attend Vijay Rupani's swearing-in ceremony.
Other ministers of the new cabinet will also take the oath. Governor OP Kohli will administer the oath to Rupani and his ministers. Names of ministers in Rupani's cabinet have not been disclosed yet. "BJP president Amit Shah and the CM and the deputy CM will decide the names of the Cabinet," a senior party leader was quoted as saying by The Hindu. (Also Read: PM Narendra Modi Thanks People of Gujarat, Says BJP is Heading Towards Historic Victory)
Five days after the BJP won the Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017, for the 6th time, Vijay Rupani was elected as the new chief minister of the state. The party also announced that Nitin Patel will also continue as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state. "The party has chosen Vijay Rupani as Legislature leader unanimously, Nitin Bhai Patel as the deputy Legislature party leader in a meeting today. Will inform you all about the swearing in, soon," announced union minister Arun Jaitley.
On December 23, a delegation met Gujarat governor Om Prakash Kohli with a letter staking claim to form the government in the state. Sources said that senior party leaders met Amit Shah to finalise the names of the ministers in Rupani's cabinet. According to the reports, Vijay Rupani will have less than 20 ministers in his cabinet. The BJP had registered a landslide victory in Gujarat winning 99 seats in the 182-member Assembly.
In other reports, a labourer died and two got injured while setting up a stage at New Secretariat complex for Vijay Rupani's swearing-in ceremony. After the ceremony, Rupani will host a lunch for Modi and senior leaders at the Mahatma Mandir.
Published Date: December 26, 2017 6:55 AM IST
Updated Date: December 26, 2017 11:10 AM IST
Amit ShahArun JaitleyGujarat Assembly Elections 2017Narendra ModiNitin Bhai PatelNitin GadkariRajnath SinghVijay Rupani


Thanks to a message from my friend Malya (thanks, Malya!) I was able to find out that my image was in fact used on CBS Evening News this evening in a story. I had no idea so I got confused and excited, and went to find the clip online to see what she was talking about.
Joel, in the top left, on CBS News Again tonight.
Whatever the case, just wanted to say thanks to CBS Evening News for keeping me in the public eye.


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Pierre Arditi (ur. 1 grudnia 1944 w Paryżu) − francuski aktor. Za rolę w filmie Melodramat (1986), otrzymał nagrodę Cezara. Również rola w filmie Palić/Nie palić (1993) przyniosła mu drugiego Cezara.

Filmografia
 1980: Wujaszek z Ameryki jako Zambeaux
 1986: Melodramat jako Pierre Belcroix
 1992: Mała apokalipsa jako Henri, obecny mąż Barbary
 1993: Palić/Nie palić jako Toby Teasdale, Miles Coombes, Lionel Hepplewick, Joe Hepplewick
 1995: Huzar jako pan Peyrolle
 1997: Znamy tę piosenkę jako Claude Lalande
 1998: Hrabia Monte Christo jako Gérard de Villefort

Nagrody
 Cezar
 1987: Najlepszy aktor drugoplanowy, za Melodramat
 1994: Najlepszy aktor, za Palić/Nie palić

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Francuscy aktorzy filmowi
Francuzi pochodzenia belgijskiego
Ludzie urodzeni w Paryżu
Urodzeni w 1944

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