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Q: Combine items in a list until an item containing specific text is found? This is going to be hard to explain.
I'm fetching some webpages with BeautifulSoup, and I'm trying to organize them into a list. I'm fetching only the elements on the page that have the class "text". Like this:
content = requests.get(url, verify=True)
soup = BeautifulSoup(content.text, 'lxml', parse_only=SoupStrainer('p'))
filtered_soup = soup.find_all("span", {"class":["text",
                                                "indent-1"]})
line_list = [line for line in filtered_soup]
#text_list = [line.get_text() for line in filtered_soup]

This works great, but I'd also like to combine some of the items in the list. On the webpage, some of the items with class="text..." also have id="en...". They technically SHOULD be the parents of the other class="text..." elements, but the webpage has not been set up this way.
In my "line_list" list, there is an item with both class="text..." and id="en..." elements, then there are a few items with only class="text...", then there is an item with both class="text..." and id="en..." elements, and this pattern keeps repeating. Here's a way to think of it:
line_list = [A, a, a, a, B, b, b, C, c, c, c, c]

Now here's the hard part to explain. Let's say line_list[0] has both elements, line_list[1-3] only have the "class" element, and line_list[4] has both elements again. I'd like to iterate through line_list and combine the items into a single string. But when the iteration hits an item containing both "id" and "class" (i.e. line_list[4]), I'd like it to start creating a new string.
Or, if someone can think of a better way to do this, that'd be awesome. I was going to try to do this:
line_string = ''.join(line_list)
split_list = line_string.split('id="en')

But the join command complains that line_string contains tags, not strings.
I wonder if it'd be easier to do this with a dictionary? For example, make the elements that have both "class" and "id" the keys and the elements that only have "class" their values. It'd look like this:
line_dic = {A: [a, a, a], B: [b, b], C: [c, c, c, c]}

Here's example html if anyone would like to play with it:
line_list = [AA,
                 a,
             a,
             BBB,
                 bbb,
             bbb,
             C,
                  ccc,
             ccc,]

Awesome ideas, guys. Thanks a ton!

A: Not a cool one-liner, but, the following should work...:
text_list = []
current = []
for line in line_list:
    if line.get('id', '').startswith('en'):
        if current:
            text_list.append(' '.join(current))
            current = []
    current.append(line.text)
if current:
    text_list.append(' '.join(current))

For example, adding this code after a sample test-start of
import bs4

content = '''
And one
And two
And three
And four
And five
'''

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(content)
filtered_soup = soup.find_all("span", {"class":["text", "indent-1"]})
line_list = [line for line in filtered_soup]

a for x in test_list: print(x) will display
And one And two And three
And four And five

which seems to match the desired result.
Added: here's an arguably better-factored solution, which does however end up being more verbose:
def has_id_en(elem):
    return elem.get('id', '').startswith('en')

def segment(sequence, is_head):
  current = []
  for x in sequence:
      if is_head(x):
          if current:
              yield current
              current = []
      current.append(x)
  if current:
      yield current

text_list = [' '.join(e.text for e in bunch)
             for bunch in segment(line_list, has_id_en)]

At least, this way, the segment logic is reusable for similar tasks where the items in the sequence need not be bs4 objects, and/or the way to determine whether an item needs to "head" a subsequence is different than in this specific problem.

A: You can use itertools.groupby, like this:
import itertools

def has_id_en(elem):
    # return True if the elem has id="en..."
    ...

for is_id_en, elems in itertools.groupby(filtered_soup, has_id_en):
    if is_id_en:
        # this is the parent
        continue
    else:
        # do somthing with this group of elems
        ...

A: At first I thought about using itertools.takewhile, but this has the problem that it "swallows" the next "separator" element. Instead, you can try this, using only builtins:
def has_both(x):
    return x.isupper() # or whatever your actual condition is

line_dic = {}
last = None
for x in line_list:
    if has_both(x):
        last = x
        line_dic[last] = []
    else:
        line_dic[last].append(x)

Result is {'A': ['a', 'a', 'a'], 'C': ['c', 'c', 'c', 'c'], 'B': ['b', 'b']}
For Python 2.7 and newer, you can also use collections.OrderedDict to preserve the order in which the items are inserted into the dictionary. Also, if you are expecting to see "child" elements before any "parent" element, initialize line_dic as {None: []}.

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Q: Expansion, reduction and removal of redundant terms in truth table
What steps take left truth-table to right truth-table? In general, what are general rules to follow in transformations of truth-table?

A: While it is not possible to infer the precise algorithm from one example, it's a reasonable bet to assume that we are looking at some variation of the Espresso algorithm.  A reasonably short explanation can be found in R. Rudell, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Multiple-Valued Minimization for PLA Optimization, IEEE Transactions on CAD, vol. CAD-6, No 5, Sep. 1987, pp. 727-750.  The longer version (without multi-valued extensions) is in R. Brayton, G. Hachtel, C. McMullen, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Logic Minimization Algorithms for VLSI Synthesis, Kluwer, 1984.
The basic idea of the Espresso algorithm, and in part of its variants and predecessors (e.g., Hong and Ostapko's MINI), is to alternate three operations: reduction, expansion, and elimination of redundant cubes.
Espresso (you may still be able to find the C code of Rick Rudell's implementation around) is a rather sophisticated heuristic-search algorithm.  The sophistication is needed to get a good chance to climb out of local minima.  To give an example, in the irredundancy step, Espresso solves a minimum set-cover problem.  It remains feasible even for practically interesting inputs because the set of implicants considered is not the full set.  Espresso makes essential use of the complement of the given function to guide the expansion and reduction processes.
There are also "naive" versions of the algorithm, useful for educational purposes, and there's a chance that an example that shows one bit change after the other is just an illustration of how local search may be used to move from one cover to another, not an illustration of a specific algorithm.

In the case of the example above, Espresso would work roughly as follows.  First it will detect that no implicant is essential.  (It's easy to verify that in this case by drawing K-maps of $f$ and $g$.  Espresso, if memory serves, uses a technique due to T. Sasao to identify essential primes.)
It will then find that $11-$, and $-01$ may be expanded from $g$ to $f$ and $g$, while $1-1$ may be expanded from $f$ to $f$ and $g$ (output expansions).  No other expansion is possible.  In particular, no input expansion is possible, as one can verify on the K-maps of $f$ and $g$.  After this expansion, either $1-1$ or $11-$ is redundant because it is jointly covered by the other cubes.  Espresso throws away one of the two.
The resulting solution is a local minimum, whose cubes can be neither expanded nor reduced.  Hence minimization terminates.  The steps you linked to produce a solution of equal cost, but they are not exactly what Espresso would do.  (Again, if memory serves.)  The main difference is that no removal of redundant cubes takes place after the initial expansion phase.


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September 12, 2018 by Jack Bratcher
Anthony Joshua will put his unbeaten 21-0 record and his WBA (super), IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles on the line when he faces Russia's "White Lion" Alexander Povetkin (34-1) on Sept. 22 in his home country of England.
Joshua went the distance for the first time in his career back in March with a unanimous decision over Joseph Parker to claim the WBO title. And in 2017 Joshua scored TKO victories over Carlos Takam and Wladimir Klitschko.
Povetkin's lone career loss came via unanimous decision against Klitschko back in Oct. 2013. But since then the Russian has won eight straight, including six by knockout. Povetkin last fought in March when he scored a fifth round knockout over Daivd Price.
Oddsmakers have Joshua an enormous -1600 favorite, while Povetkin is the massive underdog at +800.
At six-foot six-inches Joshua has a four-inch height advantage over Povetkin. He also has a seven-inch reach advantage at 82-inches. This could be a real factor in the fight as Klitschko, Povetkin's only loss, is the same height as Joshua and has a one-inch shorter reach.
Let's also not forget Joshua is in his prime at only 28-years-old, while Povetkin is 39-years-old. With all but one of his fights being won by knockout, with a massive height, reach and age advantage, there's a reason Joshua is the heavy favorite. But will it go the distance or will Povetkin be able to withstand the damage from the Brit?
As far as prop bets go, oddsmakers seem to be predicting it to go at least six-and-a-half rounds (-170) with +260 odds that it goes the distance. We'll find out on Sept. 22 if the 2012 Olympic gold medalist can keep his unbeaten streak alive and get back to his knockout winning ways.
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So how did they get to that point, and get all the rest of us in these straits? In the flurry of casting of blame on them, lost has been the mea culpas of their teachers, the professors at the elite and brilliant business schools who taught them. A recent article in The New Republic features MBA faculty voices of remorse and a commitment to do better in the future.
I teach educational leadership mostly to schoolteachers with aspirations to be future school principals and superintendents. Like their MBA counterparts, graduate education is a necessity to be accepted in the guild of leadership. There is understandable gloating and finger-pointing at the foibles of the many corporate raiders. But I must ask: What if future school leader students go out from our gates then to commit similar public failures? Would education faculty be held to account and face the same remorse as our business school counterparts?
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Let's not even mention requiring such minimal competence of new teachers that the underqualified can gain tenure and wreck student learning for years to come.
Sound familiar? Are these scenarios that have not or could not happen? Sadly, I think not.
In The New Republic, a business school professor remarks that many financial tools taught in business schools were developed without "a full appreciation for how they could go sour." But no professor teaching students for the professions — law, medicine, engineering, education or others — can arrogantly assert that disasters created by things going sour could not happen to us. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Skills and techniques cannot be taught absent attention to ethics. This is what business faculty are confronting. The proof is in what we do, not simply what we assert as belief or values.
Many of the Wall Street and banking industry executives who drove the car of the economy into the ditch were probably good people with nice beliefs. What sent things awry and well off the tracks was a lack of the "right" ethical compass. But teachers of future educators and leaders for schools cannot mindlessly assert that our folks would never end up there. Our business school colleagues should give us pause.
Like they, we need to rethink what we are doing. And a move toward renewal of the education we offer must feature the basics, including the ethics and ethical sense that must undergird all we do.


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The New Jersey Nets might not have won the offseason sweepstakes this summer in falling short of signing LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Joe Johnson, and Rudy Gay. But there's no doubt they wound up with one whale of a consolation prize.
He's a great basketball mind, a born leader, and a sensational decision maker. Best of all, he didn't cost the Nets a cent of their precious salary-cap space. Avery Johnson might not be taking game-winning shots in the final seconds, but his impact on the franchise cannot be overemphasized.
Johnson was in an enviable position before coming to the Nets. He had a cushy NBA analyst job with ESPN, he had coached the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA Finals, and, in case you forgot, he had the highest winning percentage of any coach — better than Pat Riley's, better than Phil Jackson's, better than Red Auerbach's — in NBA history.
Needless to say, he was in a good spot.
In come the Nets, the ones who finished the 2009-2010 campaign with a 12-70 record good for dead last in the league, looking to plug the gap created after the team fired Lawrence Frank and suffered five months with Kiki Vandeweghe at the helm as interim head coach. There were several suitors, but it was Johnson who ultimately accepted the challenge.
This is not to say that taking on the job was a death sentence. Johnson joined the team at a time when the "It's All New!" initiative was in full swing. The team had cap space galore to spend on the greatest free-agent crop in a long time, the dispiriting IZOD Center was out of the picture (with the Barclays Center just two years away), and the Nets were looking at the No. 3 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. And who wouldn't want to work for playboy Mikhail Prokhorov?
Nevertheless, Johnson knew that, if the team struck out in free agency, he would be in for quite a project. And so they did. That good spot Johnson was in? It just became a little tighter.
He then faced the task of putting together a serviceable NBA team with the offcuts from the previous season's disaster, a foursome of middling free agents, a few draft picks, and Troy Murphy, who came in via trade.
Really, though, there could not be a more perfect fit for the job than Johnson. What the team required was impeccable organization, unflappable management, and unyielding perseverance. He met the requirements.
Johnson has the reputation of being a hard-nosed disciplinarian; he stacks up to the prototype of a collegiate coach more so than that of an NBA coach, not intimidated by the egos of highly paid athletes. He demands accountability from all of his players and won't tolerate the slightest bit of detrimental conduct in his locker room. They call him the Little General.
Of all the coaches who claim that the process is more important than the result, Johnson's one of the few who actually believes it. That's what Travis Outlaw, Terrence Williams, and Troy Murphy will tell you.
Williams found himself in Johnson's doghouse for something he didn't consider very serious — showing up late to a few practices. Unfortunately for Williams, habitual tardiness was more than reason for Johnson take action. Soon enough, Williams had graduated from the doghouse to the D-League and from the D-League to the Rockets. Williams' talent is undeniable, but Johnson did not hesitate to dispose of him.
But misconduct isn't the only preoccupation that can get under Johnson's skin. Outlaw and Murphy have found themselves relegated to the bench at times for falling short of expectations on the court. Outlaw has given up minutes to the likes of Stephen Graham and Quinton Ross, while Murphy has been buried in the depth chart for most of the year behind Kris Humphries and Derrick Favors. It takes some moxie to force your third-highest and highest players, respectively, to take lesser roles on a pretty bad team.
All the while, the groundwork is there for basketball success. Johnson has converted the Nets from a defensive laughingstock into the 12th-best in the league in points allowed, and they aren't giving up on games like they did last year — not to mention they've already won three quarters of the games they did all of last year.
It's easy to say that you're focusing on the process when the product is 9-20 and last in its division over a third of the way through the season, but at the end of the day, a coach is evaluated on wins and losses. In a few short months with the Nets, Johnson has already surrendered his No. 1 winning percentage. Is it possible that Johnson's influence is only appreciable when juxtaposed with Vandeweghe's ineptitude from last season?
Sure. It's possible. But it is not yet fair to evaluate Johnson on his performance. There's still time for him to cultivate the talent necessary to compete in the playoffs before his trial becomes a failure. And there's a lot on the horizon. Only months after he came aboard, the Nets are front runners to acquire Carmelo Anthony before this February's trade deadline. No matter your bent on a Favors-for-Anthony swap, the desire that Nets management is exhibiting to improve the team is infinitely more palpable than it was for most of the Ratner era. What does that have to do with Johnson?
He might only be the coach, but some have conjectured that Johnson has a much larger role in the Nets' front office than apparent — they go so far as to say that Billy King, the team's new GM, is merely a figurehead and that Johnson is actually running the show. Thought it is unlikely he's operating in such a full capacity, it isn't too farfetched to think that he has a hand in some of the decisions above his pay grade.
That said, it's not the worst scenario in the world to have the guy who is directing your team on the court to have a say in how it comes together off the court — especially for a coach as talented and dedicated as Johnson.
As a vast number of teams over the course of NBA history have demonstrated, stockpiling talent isn't an instant cure-all that will propel the squad to the NBA Finals. Take the 2008 Boston Celtics, for instance.
They did acquire two immense talents in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, but it was the togetherness of the team that won the championship that year. That unit played unfailingly cohesive basketball, squashing opponents with inspired defense on every possession. And it started from a team that was, to say the least, terrible the season before.
Now look at the Nets: they have some of the skeletal parts of a successful NBA team, but they still need to add the muscle before a title is a reality. Say they went through with the Anthony trade, swapping a talented young big man (like Al Jefferson) for one of the league's best players (in Garnett) and maybe another piece or two. No, the talent wouldn't be quite at the Celtics' level, but they'd have enough to make a playoff run.
That's where Johnson would come in — to transform that playoff team into a Finals team. He's done it once before, who's to say he couldn't do it again? And even if it's not so simple as making a trade for the Nets to get back to their playoff pedigree, Johnson has the skills to take this team from the ground up — with draft picks, free-agent signings, and practice, practice, practice. Without question, Johnson's the guy to institute a scheme to turn loose pieces into a competing corps.
The Nets might have deserved the first overall pick in June's draft after a close-to-historically bad season. They might have deserved more attention from the league's troupe of free agent superstars. But Avery Johnson's there. To borrow a line from the Dark Knight, he might not be the hero the Nets deserve, but now he's the hero the Nets need.
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By M.D. Kittle
MADISON, Wis. — For all the grief the left has given the American Legislative Exchange Council and the mostly conservative legislators who call themselves members, liberals have created their own state model-legislation organization — backed by lots of so-called 'dark money' cash.
Imitation — even tinged with a healthy heaping of hypocrisy — is, indeed, the sincerest form of flattery.
The State Innovation Exchange, also known as SiX, has been described as the liberal answer to ALEC.
While its Democratic Party partners have blasted ALEC for its free-market, limited-government agenda, SiX is doing the exact same thing with left-wing causes.
And the organization definitely has the ear of the left's commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama.
This week, 54 state legislators from around the nation attended a summit of Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C., hosted by SiX. On Tuesday, Obama led them in a pep rally urging the lawmakers to do in their states what Congress has been unwilling to do at the federal level: pass his sweeping liberal agenda.
It's a call from the top down to drive states to mete out stiffer environmental regulations in bolstering Obama's climate change initiatives, as well as push hikes to the minimum wage and other key progressive campaigns.
The lawmakers also met with Democratic donors through SiX, which longs for the same kind of success on the left with model legislation that ALEC has had on the right.
SiX is the creation of a merger of the Progressive States Network, the American Legislative Issue Campaign and the Center for State Innovation.
"Consolidating resources from each of these organizations allows SiX to offer an unprecedented home for state and local elected officials to discuss and drive progressive policy initiatives, building on the best ideas and the greatest successes from across the country," the organization declares on its website.
In other words, it can attempt to replicate the things it has chastised ALEC, the State Policy Network, and other conservative policy champions for doing.
SiX hopes to raise $2 to $3 million this year, Nick Rathod, the career Democratic operative who heads up SiX, told Politico. Rathod's allegiance is clear. He served as Obama's liaison to state officials and led state campaigns for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun safety group.
Last year, the organization said ultimately it hopes to bring in $10 million annually in its effort to put power back in the hands of progressives in state legislatures.
They have their work cut out for them.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Republicans lead both chambers of 30 state legislatures, while Democrats control 11.
While liberals have railed against the alleged influence corporations have had on lawmaker members in ALEC and the "dark money" conspiracy on the right, SiX, too, is a nonprofit that is not obligated to reveal its donors.


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The school said there was no bullying involved in the case, noting that the students were just playing around, although they went a bit too far. Photo: Ma On Shan Facebook group
Eight secondary students arrested over bullying of schoolmate
Police arrested eight male students at a secondary school in Ma On Shan on suspicion of bullying a schoolmate.
The suspects, said to be secondary six students at the Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial Secondary School, were later released on bail.
They were aged between 17 and 19. The case was listed as common assault.
The arrest of the students outside the campus came after a video clip of the incident was uploaded on a Facebook page of Ma On Shan residents, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports.
In the video that runs about 40 seconds, the students shoved their schoolmate to the floor and forcibly took off his pants. One of the suspects was caught on camera spanking the boy.
The school issued a statement on Thursday saying that its own investigation into the incident suggested that there was no bullying involved.
Several students were only playing around, although they went a bit too far, the school said.
According to the statement, the school administration had talked to the students involved in the case, and told them that such an incident should not happen again on campus.
Bullying will be handled seriously, the statement said, adding that the school has reminded students to immediately report to school officials if they see acts of bullying happening at school.
A spokesperson for the Education Bureau (EDB) said it attaches great importance to the incident and has contacted the school administration, adding that the bureau will continue to get in touch with the school and offer support.
The EDB stressed that bullying in schools, in whatever form or for whatever reason, will not be tolerated.
It also asked schools to treat bullying as a serious matter, issue circulars and guidelines to prevent such incidents, and adopt proactive measures to ensure the students' safety on the campus.
The eight students were asked to report back to the police in late February.
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Rabbinical court grants 100,000 shekels to Haifa resident who refused to divorce spouse for 14 long years.
A resident of Haifa who refused to divorce her husband for 14 years will do no jail time and receive 100,000 shekels from her husband in return for granting the divorce, a rabbinical court has ruled.
According to Ynet, the couple parted in 1993 and the husband filed for divorce, while the wife filed for alimony and child support. They moved back together afterward, though, and signed an agreement according to which the husband would cancel the divorce proceedings and would pay the wife alimony and child support despite their living in the same home, for an unlimited period of time.
The couple split up again in 2000, however, and the husband moved out of the apartment. In 2011, he filed for divorce and said that the wife is making him miserable, keeping his children away from him and refusing to divorce him for fear of losing the sum of 3,500 shekels he is paying her every month.
The wife refused to divorce, however, and demanded a process of reconciliation (shlom bayit) between her and her husband. The husband offered her 80,000 shekels in return for agreeing to divorce, but she rejected this, noting that the sum was only equivalent to what she would receive from him in the course of two years, under their current arrangement.
The Rabbinical Court recently decided to end the affair this year and ruled that there is no justification for a process of shlom bayit after so many years of separation. Rabbinical Judges Daniel Adri and Eyal Yoef accepted the husband's claim that the wife is not interested in him, but in his money, and that she is only dragging him out for the purpose of getting more cash from him.
In describing the wife's actions, the court used the verb "le'agen" – from the same root as "aguna," the term used for women whose husbands refuse to give them divorce decrees.
However, unlike the cases involving "recalcitrant husbands," who are routinely severely punished, this recalcitrant wife was not jailed for a single day, and was awarded 100,000 shekels in compensation from her husband.


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Vivek Vaswani is an actor, writer and producer. He is also dean of Pearl Academy

Career

An alumnus of Campion School and Cathedral and John Connon, started off with acting in India's first TV soap opera 'Khandaan'. He then produced a Marathi film called 'Kis Bai Kiss', and a major television serial called 'Nai Dishayen', in which he also starred along with Navin Nischol, Anju Mahendroo, Girish Karnad, Parikshat Sahni, Sharon prabhakar, Jayant Kripalani. He produced 'Gawaahi', giving a break to Anant Balani as a director. The film starred Zeenat Aman, Tanuja, Vikram Gokhale, and both India's Oscar nominated directors, Shekhar Kapur and Ashutosh Gowariker. He then produced three films at Sippy Films, alongside GP Sippy, 'Patthar Ke Phool', 'Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman', 'Aatish' and played minor roles in them as well. He has launched Raveena Tandon, Shah Rukh Khan, and given breaks to many (Sanjay Gupta and Sanjay Gadhvi were both assisting on 'Patthar ke Phool).

He has acted in more than a 100 films.

When Shah Rukh Khan came to Mumbai as a hopeful actor, he had no place to stay. He lived with Vaswani, who later appeared in Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and Josh with him, and helped SRK meet directors and producers. and launched him in 'Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman'. they also acted together in 'English Babu Desi Mem', 'Dulha Mil Gaya', 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa', 'King Uncle' and Vaswani has been a continuous mentor to him.

Vaswani also produced 'Everybody say's I'm Fine' in the English language, giving a break to Rahul Bose, who made his debut as a director, actors Koel Purie, Rehaan Engineer, Anahita Uberoi, Boman Irani, and has the distinction of getting Carlos Santana to play lead guitar on the title track of the film, composed by Zakir Hussain.

Films
Vivek Vaswani's first film as a producer was a Marathi film titled "Kis Bai Kiss" which was made in eleven lakhs. The film was directed by Murlidhar Kapdi in 1986. The film starred actors Laxmikant Berde, Ashwini Bhave, Avinash Kharshikar, Nivedita Joshi, Nayantara and Sudhir Joshi.

As an actor, he has played minor roles in various films, starting with Patthar Ke Phool in 1991. Vivek played a character named Lovechand Kukreja in the superhit film Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992), starring Shahrukh Khan.  The actor also appeared in hit films like Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai, Soldier, Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999), Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa, Josh (2000), Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya (2005), My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2008) and more. On Television, his famous series was Kabhi yeh Kabhi Voh, with Smita Jaykar, Jatin Kanakia and Dilip Joshi. He also acted in Zabaan Sambhalke, with Pankaj Kapoor.

Filmography

 As actor

 Dulha Mil Gaya ... Lawyer
 My Name is Anthony Gonsalves
 Shakalaka Boom Boom ... Vidyacharan Shukla
 36 China Town ... Mr. Dixit, Lawyer
 Aashiq Banaya Aapne ... Karan's Uncle
 Barsaat ... Mr. Vaswani
 Insan ... Agarwal
 Fida ... The Bank Employee
 Ishq Vishk ... Professor
 Hum Kisise Kum Nahin ... Doctor
 Josh ... Savio
 Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
 Aa Ab Laut Chalen ... Vaswani
 Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai ... Suraj Dhanwa
 Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman ... Lovechand
 Soldier ... The College Principal
 Aashiq Awara ... Rakesh Rajpal
 King Uncle ... Kamal
 Khandaan
 Mastizaade ... Producer
 Bullets

 As producer and writer

 Kis Bai Kis  (1986)  Marathi Film
 Nai Dishayen (TV)
 Gawaahi (1986) Feature
 Patthar ke Phool (co produced with Sippy Films)
 Raju ban Gaya gentleman (co produced with Sippy Films)
 Everybody Says I'm Fine
 Sar Aankhon Par
 Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (co produced with Metalight)
 Dulha Mil Gaya
 Rough Book (co produced with Aerika Cineworks)

References

External links

 Vivek Vaswani Filmography Bollywood Hungama

1972 births
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Hindi-language film directors
Indian costume designers
Indian male film actors
Film directors from Mumbai
Film producers from Mumbai
Indian television talk show hosts
Living people
Male actors from Mumbai
Punjabi people
Sindhi people
20th-century Indian male actors
21st-century Indian male actors


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 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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Meaning and definitions of solicitor, translation in Kannada language for solicitor with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of solicitor in Kannada and in English language.
What solicitor means in Kannada, solicitor meaning in Kannada, solicitor definition, examples and pronunciation of solicitor in Kannada language.


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Q: Long paths in the supercritical percolation. I have a question on the length of the longest path, denoted by $\ell_n$, in the supercritical percolation on $[0,n]^d$, denoted by $C_n$.
We know that $C_n$ has a giant component whose size is of order $n^d$. The question is that what is the order of $\ell_n$. Is it $n^d$?
For $d=2$, Grimmett proved that $\ell_n$ is of order $n^2$. The idea is interesting. He showed that there are many (of order $n$) edge-disjoint paths crossing the square from the left side to the right side. Then near the left and right sides, we can find crossings from the bottom to the top. By geometry property of the dimension 2, the two crossings cut all above  edge-disjoint paths. Hence we get a long path whose size is of order $n^2$.
For $d\geq 3$, it is shown that there are many (of order $n^{d-1}$) edge-disjoint paths crossing the square from the left side to the right side. However, I can not glue these paths.
Do you have any idea to deal with my problem?
Thank you in advance!


On a very cold day at Lake Leschenaultia , the school's orienteering team competed strongly against a range of public and private schools. The students did well and we achieved a 3rd, 4th and 9th. The official giving Lachlan a hug is his dad!
The next School Board meeting is on Thursday September 6th after the Open Night. This is the board's annual "open" meeting where community members can come along, observe proceedings and join in discussions. However this does not allow you to vote on any motions. The decision was made to schedule it after the Open Night to encourage any families who are here and interested, the opportunity to stay and see how the school board functions.
In week 9 the students in Years 1-6 will be undertaking Reading Comprehension and Numeracy testing (PATS /OARS) This provides the school with valuable data that we can use to compare and contrast with NAPLAN results.
This was another great success and a big thankyou to everyone for their generosity. A special thankyou to Mrs Williams, our fantastic library officer.
This year the staff have been introducing themselves to mindfulness. It has come from the Health and Wellbeing Committee as a way to help teachers keep their life balanced and manageable in these stressful times. Next year the school is looking at introducing some short mindfulness activities into the school for the students. Over the next few newsletters I will be providing you with a range of information on why we think this is the right thing to do and help inform everyone about what we mean.
Mindfulness is a whole body-mind state of awareness that involves 'tuning in' to the present moment, with openness and curiosity, instead of 'tuning out' from experience. Mindfulness is a state of being fully awake to life – being aware and undistracted in the present moment. It is about focusing attention on the present, rather than thinking about the past or worrying about the future- which is often our brain's default mode.
Mindful awareness is something that we all possess and that can be strengthened through practice. Mindfulness can be developed through formal sitting meditation practices, or through informal everyday mindfulness activities that use the senses to anchor the attention: such as mindful walking, listening to music, eating or conversation. Mindfulness is a clinically proven tool to support wellbeing and mental health by reducing stress and allowing life to be experienced more fully.
The way we interact with our kids has a huge impact on the way they think about themselves and their levels of personal resilience. Ellen Langer and team, a world-renowned mindfulness researcher found that children not only prefer to interact with mindful adults, but actually devalue themselves following interactions with mindless adults (Langer, Cohen & Djikic, 2010).
Mindfulness training increases children's ability to self-regulatetheir emotions, especially difficult emotions such as fear and anger, through breathing and other grounding techniques.
Mindfulness has been shown to improve empathy or the ability to understand what another person is thinking or feeling, which improves children's awareness of others and helps them to build positive relationships.
Mindfulness training has been to shown to reduce the severity of depression, anxietyand ADHD in children.
Mindfulness builds resilienceby giving children skills to help them to cope better with stress, as well as engage more fully with themselves and the world.
The best thing parents can do to help their children become more mindful is to commit to some regular mindfulness practises themselves! The more present and mindful you are with your children, the more happy, mindful and resilient they will be. Mindfulness training can assist parents to remain in the present moment and engage more fully when interacting with their children. Research shows that parents and carers who practice being mindful around their children contribute to improving their child's sense of self-worth and self-esteem.
Mindful play: Dedicate a window of time each week to mindfully play with your child or children. Turn off all other distractions such as TV, and put your mobile away and on silent. Try to give them your full attention during this time and if your mind wanders off to all the things you should be doing, that's fine – that's just what minds do! Use your child as an anchor to come back to every time your mind wanders away.
Mindful cooking: Cooking together can be a great way to spend quality time. Help your child notice the colours, smell and taste of the ingredients as you add them to the meal, and the touch of the different items as you cook.
Mindful dinnertime: Create a time for your family to appreciate and savour their food at the start of a meal by spending the first few minutes of dinner in silence, just eating and enjoying the food. It's a surprisingly nice activity to do with the whole family, and done regularly, can become a lovely ritual.
Mindful teeth brushing: Getting kids to brush their teeth can be a challenge, so why not make it a challenge, by inviting them to try to do it mindfully with you? Invite them to pay attention to the feel of the brush in their mouth and the sensation and taste of the toothpaste. Ask them three things they noticed that was different about their brushing tonight than from the previous night.
Teachers and early childhood educators can influence student wellbeing and learning by understanding, embodying and embedding principles of mindfulness into their learning environments.
Teachers and early childhood educators who are encouraged to develop mindful awareness in their own life will positively influence their whole community.
KidsMatter has joined forces with Smiling Mind, a free program that helps develop Mindfulness Meditation skills in children. Read more about the collaboration between KidsMatter and Smiling Mind.
We are currently collecting payments and permissions for the following activities. Please note the due dates for all permission forms and payments.
Thank you to all our amazing students who dressed up for book week and to Mrs Williams in the library for creating such a great display with the help of Mr Clark. The costumes were fun and creative.


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Marchand Appears To Call DeAngelo A 'Racist' In Bruins 5-2 Win
Jimmy Murphy
Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand is officially renting space in the head of Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Tony DeAngelo.
As time was winding down in the first period of the Bruins' 5-2 series-tying Game 4 win at TD Garden Sunday, Marchand and DeAngelo got into it in a scrum in the corner to the right of Hurricanes goalie Antti Raanta. As the siren sounded and the teams started to exit for the first intermission, Marchand and DeAngelo kept yapping as they were separated by the officials. DeAngelo then pointed to his nose in jest of Marchand's rather large beak and Marchand chirped back:
"You're a racist, you're a F!$*&%G racist."
Marchand then turned to the ref escorting him away and said "He is."
"You're a fucking racist" ~ Brad Marchand to Tony DeAngelo pic.twitter.com/RgkBGc4ZDr
— x – Hannah (@babybergy37_) May 8, 2022
Marchand was asked about the exchange following the game and simply said with a smirk:
"I was just asking him if he he had a good Mother's Day."
Give Marchand credit because he definitely did his research on the controversial Hurricanes defenseman who was essentially kicked off the New York Rangers last season, getting bought after six games and getting into a physical altercation with former teammates and Rangers goalie Alexander Georgiev. However, the racists chirp from Brad Marchand dates back to DeAngelo's junior hockey days when was suspended twice during his junior career in the OHL, for violating the league's policy covering "homophobic, racist, and sexist language" and abuse of officials.
Tony DeAngelo also became a large advocate for the false claims that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 Presidential Election over now-President Joe Biden. He constantly retweeted Qanon theories and claims as well and supported the events on Jan. 6, 2021. In addition to that, he claimed that COVID was just a big 'media scare'
After he was signed by the Hurricanes prior to this season, Tony DeAngelo said that he had learned his lessons and pledged to be a team player.
"I think as you get older and more mature … a lot of the stuff that's happened in my career has stemmed from emotions, from being competitive. There's never been any off-ice problems or anything like that. I've made some mistakes along the way, obviously, stuff that I regretted," DeAngelo said. "And now, I have to prove it to the Hurricanes. I told them I'm not going to let them down and I'm a man of my word."
He also addressed the racial and homophobic claims.
"It's never happened again. I was regretful of it," DeAngelo said of the slur. "I'm still friends with that guy and took the time to apologize to him. I did what I had to do there, went to some [sports psychology] counseling classes back then. It was in the heat of the moment of the game, and I wish I could take it back. It hasn't happened again and it will not happen again."
Well, in Game 4 against the Boston Bruins, the old Tony DeAngelo returned as after that exchange with Marchand, the Hurricanes defenseman unraveled and basically lost his marbles. With his team up 2-1 on the Bruins and seemingly in control of a game that could've given them a commanding 3-1 series lead, DeAngelo cross-checked Bruins forward Curtis Lazar and then kept going after him, eventually punching him in the face. Lazar even asked him after what he was doing.
Curtis Lazar: "What the f**k are you doing?"
Tony DeAngelo:#NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/h64a7U0P71
— Blake Thorne (@_BlakeThorne) May 8, 2022
Then as Marchand went in alone to seal the game with an empty-netter at 19:25 of the third period, Tony DeAngelo threw his stick at the Bruins winger who had five points (2g, 3a) in the game.
There was no word yet if DeAngelo will receive any kind of supplemental discipline for his behavior in Game 4 but one thing is for sure, he's hurting his teammates again.
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Give Us Some Old-Time Suspense and Romance
The other day, my grown children and I were watching a 1939 Bob Hope movie, The Cat and The Canary, with my aunt. In it, the cast of characters is trapped in a creepy house with a killer. You know, it's the type of movie where the secret passageway creaks open and a hand slides slowly out. My daughters were squirming like madwomen on the couch whenever that would happen. "There's a hand, a hand," they would squeal. Now these are young people who routinely view movies and TV shows in which someone's head is chopped off and rolls to the ground, but it was the old-time suspense that had them jumping in their seats.
A few days later, I was watching an episode of Poldark on Masterpiece set in 18th century England. In it, a husband presents his wife with a fine pair of stockings, for which she feels unworthy. To demonstrate that she is not, he asks permission to put them on her. Here is a scene with a husband and wife, of all people, in which the man is putting clothes on the woman, and yet it was one of the most romantic scenes I've seen in a long time.
It sometimes seems like the pendulum in entertainment has swung so far toward the grotesque, violent, and perverse that it must, at some point, swing back toward the middle. That's gotta happen soon, right? How much further can we go?
My intent here is not to sound prudish, it's to remind artists of all mediums that your audiences were blessed with an imagination at birth, and sometimes it's best to let them use it.
Instead of seeking to impress us with your showy effects, you might find that our reaction and interaction with your work is all the more intense for the faith you put in our creative sensibilities.
In other words, quit trying so hard, and let us do some of the work.


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Denver Broncos announce signing of former Michigan State WR
Former Michigan State wide receiver Cody White is getting a chance with the Denver Broncos.
On Sunday, the organization announced that it has signed White, who was an undrafted free agent. He initially signed with the Kansas City Chiefs after he was not selected during the 2020 NFL Draft. He was waived in July due to a non-football injury.
White was later signed by the New York Giants, but was waived last week.
We've signed WR Cody White.
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) August 23, 2020
During his career at Michigan State, White was a consistent threat in the passing attack. Over three years, White hauled in 143 passes for 1,967 yards and 12 touchdowns. He was the Spartans' leading receiver in 2019, totaling 922 yards and 6 touchdowns on 66 catches.
It was his most productive season while in East Lansing.
Report: Longtime Michigan State defensive assistant Mike Tressel lands new gig
One expected early enrollee from 2021 class reportedly not among Michigan State's midyear additions


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Maj Helen Sorkmo, née le  à Os, est une fondeuse norvégienne.

Carrière
Maj Helen Sorkmo participe à sa première épreuve en Coupe du monde en mars 1992 à Vang. En 1995, elle monte sur son premier podium à Nove Mesto na Morave. Elle obtient ses meilleurs résultats dans les épreuves de sprint.

Elle est sélectionnée pour les Jeux olympiques en 1998 ( du trente kilomètres) et en 2002 ( de la finale su sprint).
Elle se retire en 2003.

Palmarès

Coupe du monde
 Meilleur classement général :  en 2000.
 Meilleur classement en sprint :  en 2000.
 5 podiums individuels.
 4 podiums par équipes dont 2 victoires.

Liens externes

Fondeuse norvégienne
Naissance en août 1969
Fondeuse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1998
Fondeuse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002


@ Silverrider – RE: who was the the third?
Sorry for the delay – I left after posting and just now read your post.
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) was the third.
Of course he got lucky and died of natural causes….
2014 sees a record breaking tent-a-thon that never was!
holy cow and little fishes….
i'm back from fighting with comcast my new tv service and low and behold a bunch of 'pre-tent-a-thon' pledges….and we ain't even open for the 2014 tent-a-thon yet. gads what a great crew.
RNO…………….1/2c-note much thanks. recieved good buddy.
maddog………….1/2c-note great going friend and on its way across the pond. recieved with thanks from our distant cousin across the big pond.
samb……………1/2c note warms my heart much thanks and received.
winedoc…………1/2c-note the doc is always there and on call. received and much thanks good bud.
goldielocks……..1/2c-note all the way dear lady and received.
farmboy…………1/2c-note righto brother and ribbit ribbit received.
commish…………1/2c-note a true tenter to the end. recieved and much thanks.
surveyor…………..1/2c-note and you made it here. received with much thanks.
ipso facto…………1/2c-note and bringing up the rear guard received and to da moon!
equiz……………..1/2c-note and you brought out the cheering girls. thanks equiz received and cheers to you.
amals……………..1/2c-note you completed the tent-a-thon before it was a tent-a-thon. received and thank you much.
wanka…………..1/2c-note+1/2 just a weird guy kinda with a strange sense of humor.
augirl………………extra 1/2c-note as insurance from my dear winery partner. thank you dear lady you have gone above and beyond the call of duty. a generals star for you indeed. unless you want to be an admiral?
hey gang at this rate the 2014 tent-a-thon will be called off due to overwhelming support! now thats a new one!
much thanks folks i'm humbled by your support and it sure makes it really really well worth the effort.
i was going to start the tent-a-thon this saturday at high noon officially and now i'm not so sure with only 6 pledges left to fill. if they are taken before the official start we will have broken all the records of participation in the whole wide world and should be published in the gunnises book of world records.
blessing from an angel way to go to get to heaven i would think?
gads only 4 placements left and saturday is soooooo far away.
ipso facto hits a homer and pledges 1/2c-note which now brings us to 2 thats two places left on the pre-tent-a-thon pledge list. whew i'm breathless i am….
and with equiz's pledge the cheering girls arrived one last pledge opening and…….amals comes thru as the final pledge completing the tent-a-thon before it was even a tent-a-thon with the last but not least pre-tent-a-thon pledge thereby shuting down the saturday tent-a-thon before it begins due to overwhelming participation in a tent-a-thon that wasn't a tent-a-thon but was nevertheless! diffinately a case study for the gunnisis book of world records.
thank you very much for all the pledges. our 2014 tent-a-thon that wasn't is a complete success.
total………………..675 oasis oysters or 13.5 1/2c-notes all due to the goodness of the fine tenters who habitate at the oasis. 3 cheers!!!
amals great going my friend….
I'll take it. I'm in for fifty bucks.
Nice start, horrible close on way bigger volume than yesterday. I think it is is one of the most undervalued miners out there. It's as if someone wants to keep it low for a cheap buyout. I'm a Rambus member and decided to hedge with 500 shares of Dust(Rambus didn't reco Dust but he didn't like how the big boys were behaving). I won't sell the Midway shares. Tomorrow is op ex for stocks so maybe why we were down. My shares closed $2700 down from the high today in Midway. SLW, RGLD and FNV had big drops today which makes me nervous.
As Russia's 300-strong 'humanitarian' convoy of white trucks slithered towards the Ukraine border, it appears, according to The Guardian, that, in spite of the market's exuberance at this morning's comments of "avoiding conflict," Vladimir Putin sent a real 'green' military Russian convoy across the Ukraine border late Thursday evening.
Wanka, Now Tell Me, Is This Someone You Can Trust?
Perhaps sometimes, but never during football season. I bet he even grows a tail about this time of the year. And bigger teeth. Oh my, he must be related to the one whose name we dare not speak.
Glad to do a half-C. A real bargain price, just like silver currently. If over-subscribed, please accept half-C into a contingency trust fund.
Wanna do another crude oil wager? Take a look at the WTI monthly chart first. It may be a long way down!
Just make sure she doesn't hit your hands – we need those for Whacker duty with the spammers.
Third try. Am I in time to pledge to the tentathon? It took a while to reset my password and find my way to post.


Canvassing in 95 degree heat wasn't easy. But it was worth it; the alternative was much worse. All your hard work paid off. We won 55% to 45%. Here are the full results.
Thank you for all you did. We now have two great Democrats representing Massachusetts in the United States Senate. We can be proud, and we can take a break. From all of the Newton Dems, have a great summer!


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The Holbrook Building at PSR credit: Hundredacreaggie at English Wikipedia
Region: West
1798 Scenic Ave
www.psr.edu/
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. More from Wikipedia...
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Tanbo in Omotesando where I went to lunch after a long time the other day.
Shall I have a rice-ball, I worried, but it was made a mackerel cooked in soybean paste chest table.
Everything is gusto of stability.
The rice is best in particular.
It wasn't too sweet and was the gusto rice advances, so 1 of moromi on the glue bought it.


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Grand Guilds Review
Not So Grand Guilds
By Richard Jewell
Reviewed on Nintendo Switch
Released on March 26th, 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PC (Steam)
Developer: Drix Studios
Publisher: Keybol Games
Okay, let me just start by saying that I have never had such a polarizing experience before with any other game than I did with tactical SRPG deck-builder Grand Guilds on the Nintendo Switch. It started off quite promising in terms of story and gameplay but after encountering glitch after glitch, I called it quits about halfway through. The real tragedy is that underneath it all, there is an excellent game just waiting to burst forth and entertain RPG enthusiasts. Let me break it down for you.
Before you get to the main menu, an intro movie plays and sets us up for the world we are about to enter. The world of Irin was at war. The Triton Empire was on the losing side of a conflict with the Kingdoms of Dunbar until the guilds came along and turned the tides with their feats of valor. Out of respect for their contribution to the war effort, the Triton Empire gave them vast freedom to operate their guilds in Triton territory. Over time, many guilds popped up around Triton, each with their unique modus operandi and creeds. The game focuses on one of the main players in such a guild: Eliza Halfort of the Lux Deus guild. After failing as the Captain of the Royal Guard to protect someone close to her, she leaves in a self-imposed exile. The plot then jumps forward several years as Eliza returns home after a year-long absence; only now she is one of the de facto leaders of the highly regarded Lux Deus guild. I'll stop here to avoid spoilers but a series of events lead the guilds to come under siege, setting Eliza off on an adventure to get to the bottom of things, all while helping people in need and gathering up new companions from various guilds.
The plot, characters, and setting are top-notch. The story is fairly mature and is not afraid to go to some dark places. I was genuinely interested to see how plotlines in the story worked out; this was one of the driving factors pushing me to play as much as I did, despite the issues that we will dive further into later on in this review. The character dialogues are often fun, too. It's enjoyable seeing your ragtag bunch of guildies interact with each other and seeing the varied personalities clash. My favorite example is when Skyla (a bloodthirsty member of the assassin guild Shadow Vox) is accused of going soft by another party member and she responds by graphically describing how much she likes blood and gruesomely killing her enemies. Monico hails from a guild of talented engineers and is a new arrival to the group, therefore unaware of Skyla's peculiar fun-time activities. Upon hearing this he goes wide-eyed and exclaims "what the hell is wrong with you people?" I think it's refreshing to see a normal human reaction to someone making outlandish statements, even in a fantasy setting. I'm not a big fan of games where the characters drop their lines and keep chugging along as if someone didn't just say something totally crazy. Your party members are both unique by design and interesting. The clever part here is the sense of individualism of each character is not only heightened through their personalities and dialogue but also through their character design and unique card decks that reinforce their character theme and playstyle. We'll go over this as I explain the combat next!
You battle with up to three of your party members in a turn-based tactical battle set on a grid. It's a common setup for the genre. Your party has 5Ap each to use up for moving into position and attacking before you end your turn and allow the enemy to go next. The main bulk of Grand Guilds' combat is based on a deck-building card system. Each character has their own special set of cards which invoke abilities and attacks unique to them. Eliza is a firm believer in justice and protecting the weak and her deck matches that by gearing her cards toward damage dealing, taunting enemies, and abilities that grant herself and her teammates armor and resistance to protect them from physical damage and spells. Normally, dealing damage will subtract from a unit's hitpoints until they die, but a unit can have armor and resistance shields to block incoming damage from those sources. You'll have to either deplete those shields by dealing damage or bypass them completely by using attacks and spells with a piercing damage modifier. As I mentioned, the personality of the character often carries over to their cards and battle styles. Kadmus is a level-headed magic-user who focuses on water magic like ice for attacking and healing mists for...well, you get it. By contrast, his brother Raze is a big brute with a bad temper that tends to focus on fiery magic and fist attacks. The card system is not that complex, which I see as a good thing. You are dealt a small random hand at the beginning of the battle and given the option to redraw some once if you don't like the selection. On each turn, you draw an extra card and you are also given the option to redraw once every turn. Each card has a different AP cost for using them, while a few special ones cost zero. You can mix and match whatever you want, as long as you have the AP to act. What I really like about this system is how every party member has a basic attack that can be used at the cost of 2 AP. This is a nice feature since the game doesn't leave you at the mercy of the random card system to deal damage each turn.
The deck-building isn't that convoluted, either, when it works properly. Each member of your party has about 20 different types of cards to choose from. The game limits how many of a certain card you can have in your 15-card battle deck at any given time. Some of the more powerful cards must be unlocked by spending Trils, the in-game currency that is earned by completing missions and guild quests. You can create and save multiple decks per character, though I've had a weird issue where my decks would reset back to the default for whatever reason. Even getting the customizer to work is annoying. You have to click on the custom deck slot and cancel a few times before the option to swap cards in and out finally appears. I also had a few glitches where the prompt to unlock a card would refuse to disappear no matter how many times I pressed the buttons. I was forced to shut the game off and restart because of it. Another time I selected a party member to customize, the game kicked me out of my game and back into the main menu. I honestly never had a glitch like that happen to me before in all my years of gaming. While it doesn't sound like a lot of cards, it is a pretty versatile system that can accommodate multiple character playstyles. There is also a passive deck for you to mess around with. The passive cards offer a chance to customize your characters further by giving them slots to equip cards with a variety of special passive effects. While you only start with two slots, you can unlock a new slot every five levels you gain.
While I have a huge list of gripes, I'm just going to list my two biggest. First off is an issue that has occurred to me more than a few times. The battles consist of a square grid for you to move across. Imagine my surprise when lo and behold, an enemy moves into a square up against the wall of the battlefield and no matter what, my party members cannot target him with attacks, even if they are adjacent to him or using ranged skills. This has led to a few game-overs due to not being able to hit him and them not wanting to move away from that no-go zone. Needless to say, it is frustrating to have a close battle end like that. My second biggest peeve is how the controls are so counterintuitive and just plain old broken sometimes. Some inanimate objects can block your cursor, forcing you to move the camera before you can select your target. The B button is listed as the cancel button, but it often doesn't work. One of the most painful examples of this is when the card selector pops up and selects a card, but you can cancel out back to the default cursor position. You can't press A, that'll use your card. The B button doesn't work. The X button ends your turn without asking for confirmation. Y brings up your basic attack. My only option is to change back and forth between units until I come back to the character in question. I've gotten so angry wrangling with the controls during the heat of battle that I've lost a few turns because I've inadvertently pressed X while trying to get it to work properly. Over ten hours into the game, you should have the controls down already, seamlessly controlling your units without thinking about it. This was definitely not the case with Grand Guilds. I could go on longer about a bunch of smaller issues but I've said what I need to.
Grand Guilds is a fun and interesting game at its core, but only when it works smoothly. The whole experience is drastically bogged down by a myriad of glitches and problems which, unfortunately, stops me from heartily recommending it to people. If you have nothing better going on, you may be able to eke out some fun but I would advise you to wait and see if some of these issues are resolved through later patches.
+Fun, challenging combat
+Interesting story, characters
-Too many glitches to list here


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SaaS Management Platform Zluri Looks To Unlock India Opportunity After $10 Mn Series A
Nikhil Subramaniam
The SaaS management platform enables businesses to get visibility on SaaS spending, discover alternatives, manage payments and optimise costs
After a $2 Mn seed round in January 2021, Zluri has raised $10 Mn in a Series A round of funding led by MassMutual Ventures
Getting the right talent is one of the major challenges for Zluri, just as it has been for the tech startup ecosystem at large, cofounder Ritish Reddy said
If digital transformation was the big trend in 2020 and 2021, the biggest boost was seen for the software as a service sector. As businesses turned to SaaS tools to manage their operations, the market for startups developing these software exploded.
Of course, while SaaS technology was always seen as the future, amid the pandemic, the shift towards distributed workforces, digital operations and remote workplaces meant all manner of businesses adopted digital processes. A Statista report claims companies on average use 110 SaaS applications in 2021.
In the Indian market too, startups unlocked a big opportunity. A report by SaaSBOOMi and McKinsey estimates the Indian SaaS sector will generate revenues between $50 Bn and $70 Bn by 2030 and dominate 4%-6% of the global market.
As companies add more and more SaaS applications to their operations, there's a different complexity arising. Now, businesses need SaaS tools to manage their various SaaS subscriptions. That's where Hyderabad and San Francisco-based SaaS management platform Zluri is looking to break through.
After a $2 Mn seed round in January 2021, Zluri has raised $10 Mn in a Series A round of funding led by MassMutual Ventures with participation from existing investors, Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital. Founded by Sethu Meenakshisundaram, Ritish Reddy, and Chaithanya Yambari, who had previously worked alongside the founding team of gaming and simulation software company KNOLSKAPE.
The trio started Zluri in October 2020 in order to capitalise on the growing SaaS market and the need for businesses to manage their costs in relation to SaaS applications. With its latest fundraise, the company plans to use the additional capital to hire more talent, continue its growth momentum and add to its product's capabilities.
Zluri founders Sethu Meenakshisundaram, Chaithanya Yambari and Ritish Reddy (left to right)
Zluri: A SaaS Tool To Manage SaaS Subscriptions
The core idea behind Zluri is that while businesses find it easy to buy and subscribe to SaaS applications, managing these multiple applications in one central place gives them better visibility on costs and where they can be saved. This is particularly true for companies which have huge teams and a large volume of SaaS tools but Zluri is targeting companies with over 250 employees for its SaaS management platform.
Cofounder Reddy said that the rapid growth in the SaaS management category can be attributed to the product innovation and customer support, where Zluri does custom integrations in 36 hours, whereas competitors have very rigid offerings. "We have made significant investments into our one-click automation engine, which helps IT teams streamline and automate workflows across the organisation thus helping them manage, optimise and secure their technology stacks effectively," he added.
The SaaS management platform essentially enables businesses to get visibility on SaaS spending, discover alternatives for existing tools, manage payments and optimise the spending for tools that are used less frequently.
Besides this, the startup enables companies to onboard secure SaaS applications from a single dashboard, and Zluri claims to have the largest library of over 600 in-depth direct integrations.
Reddy told us that IT teams can easily onboard and off-board employees from various SaaS tools with a single click, which typically allows companies to save not just costs associated with onboarding but also reduce the risk of data breaches and leaks.
"IT admins can eliminate potential critical leaks from their operations. You will find that many employees have access to CRM systems and other dashboards even after leaving the company."
Zluri also has a customer advisory council that keeps the product team informed about the evolving needs of customers. Businesses that use Zluri can share requirements with the council, which creates a funnel for the product roadmap with relevant features.
The primary revenue stream for Zluri is the subscription fee and it's charged basis per user per month. Besides this, it also has other minor revenue streams such as charging a commission from companies on SaaS subscription savings, if the customers opt for this add-on.
Chasing SaaS-First Companies
Zluri started commercially selling the product in June 2021 and Reddy claimed the company has grown 100% month-on-month and has a "huge pipeline" in terms of deal value as well. The startup claims to have added 100 new customers from North American and Asian markets in the past year and includes fellow startups such as Chargebee, MoEngage, Guesty and Whatfix as customers.
Interestingly, Chennai-based Chargebee which turned unicorn last year, is also a competitor to Zluri. Among the other startups in the SaaS management space are the likes of OneTool, BetterCloud, Torii, Blissfully, Vendor. The fact is that the SaaS management market is very much global in nature, with companies having clients outside their home markets.
"A significant portion of our business comes from outside of India today. I would say 60% of our business today is mostly outside India. The average contract values (ACVs) are higher in the US and Europe and we see a strong product market fit in these markets," Zluri cofounder Reddy said.
The SaaS Talent Wars
Reddy told Inc42 that Zluri plans to double its team size in core markets such as Asia and North America. For the first few months, the three founders relied on their personal network in the tech community to build the early team. But now, given that the company is looking to scale up and expand aggressively, the focus is on bringing the right talent on board.
But this is one of the major challenges for Zluri, just as it has been for the tech startup ecosystem at large, Reddy admitted. "There is a talent crunch out there. Being extremely candid I would say it's a war for talent. Besides the higher remuneration, we have to spend months hiring for one position. The problem here is the amount of time that it takes or effort it takes to hire one single resource has gone up exponentially in the field compared to what it was."
As a solution to this long hiring cycle, Zluri is going back to the example of how it built its initial team, by tapping in talent in the first degree and second degree networks of its key employees. Besides this all employees are given ESOPs with a 100% coverage across the company for stock options, Reddy added.
The company currently has 55 employees and over the next year, it will look to double this with a focus on data scientists, engineers, senior IT operations, and marketing. Reddy added that while it's a war of talent in tech with companies trying to outbid each other, there's a dearth of talent in SaaS marketing because there is not a precedent in India for this category. This also makes selling in India slightly harder than selling abroad.
SaaS Adoption In India
Reddy told us that in India, companies born between 2010 and 2020 have embraced more SaaS tools compared to older companies. These SaaS-first companies have shown significant adoption and also they have reached a point where managing SaaS applications has been moved from being a mere problem to a pain point in their business.
These new-age companies in India are actively scouting for SaaS management tools, but Reddy added that the sales cycles are still typically longer for the Indian market, where the approach is education-driven. On the other hand, the US market is more mature in this regard.
But the Indian market is definitely maturing rapidly enough for Zluri to be bullish about selling to Indian companies. "You can see the number of unicorns that are growing so fast and using a bunch of tools. You can see so many acquisitions happening with parallel tech stacks coming together."
Managing these multiple stacks for such companies or helping unicorns get a grip on their costs is something Zluri can fix, Reddy added. In the next couple of quarters, Zluri sees SaaS management becoming a mainstream and go-to solution for Indian startups.
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THE OWHC-AP REGIONAL SECRETARIAT SUCCESSFULLY HOSTED THE 2022 H!GH HERITAGE HAND-IN-HAND CAMP!
The OWHC-AP Regional Secretariat, located in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, completed on the fouth its Metaverse Hand-in-Hand Camp for high school students from across the globe.
The OWHC-AP Regional Secretariat has annually hosted the Hand-in-Hand Camp where high school students gather with their love for World Heritage and World Heritage Cities. Since 2015, it has been held every summer in the World Heritage Cities such as Gyeongju or Gongju. This year, it was held on a metaverse platform for three (3) days between August 2nd and 4th to avoid various pandemic, temporal, and spatial constraints.
On the first day of the Camp consisted of various games such as an escape room, a walk through a maze, to help the participants could develop an initial state of friendship. The students visited the six (6) Regional Secretariats in a virtual environment on the second day to explore each region's prominent World Heritage Sites. Based on the knowledge acquired, the youths created plans with their fresh proposals on how use and promote World Heritage, while creating contents such as card news and posters for the purpose. All of these were exhibited and presented on the final day of the Camp.
In conjunction with the Camp, the OWHC-AP will hold the "H!GH Heritage: World Heritage that I build," a metaverse Map Making Competition, in October. High school students interested in this Competition can apply for participation between August 12th and September 12th, after which they can submit their contents by October 16th.
The H!GH Heritage ZEP map constructed for this Camp will be remain open to public to serve as an educational venue where the participants in the Camp and in the Map-making Competition, and other youths interested in World Heritage can learn more about World Heritage and creating a metaverse map.
Youth participants presenting their World Heritage Promotional contents
a bird-eye view of the Camp created in a metaverse world


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publisher: McClelland & Stewart
I left nothing inside on purpose
by Stevie Howell
canadian, english, irish, scottish, welsh, places
The highly anticipated second collection from the Irish-Canadian poet whose work has garnered international attention.
Poems of stringent aesthetic demands and volcanic emotional release make up Stevie Howell's wondrous I left nothing inside on purpose. These poems--bewildering in their linguistic beauty--verge on prayer in their intense plea to be truly seen by another, a sort of devotional sequence addressing the psychological construct of attachment. Can we change? Has anyone ever changed? Does it matter? Lives marred by injury and violence, both physical and psychic, emerge in the book as meditations on trust, endurance, faith, destruction, and love. Howell's voice combines ferocious intimacy and moral rigour with precision and compassion.
The Hawaiian surf, the neuropsychologist's lab, the deliriums of social media, and the recovery room. From geology to theology, lyric pain to the contemplative mind of the quasi-saint, I left nothing inside on purpose is a deeply affecting, glittering analysis of who we are when we claim to be ourselves in the world.
Stevie Howell's poetry and literary criticism has appeared in publications throughout Canada and abroad. She has released two chapbooks, Royal and Ringsend, and a pamphlet entitled Looting the Museum. In 2013 Howell's poem "Brief Review" won the 2013 Arc Poetry Journal Critic's Desk Award. She has also been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. For her day job, she works as an editor for Spacing magazine. She lives in Toronto.
STEVIE HOWELL is an Irish-Canadian writer, critic, and editor. Their first collection of poetry, Sharps, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Stevie's poetry has appeared in U.S. publications, including BOAAT, Prelude, and Gigantic Sequins; in Canadian publications, including Hazlitt, The Walrus, and Maisonneuve; and in overseas publications including The Rialto, The Moth, and Southword. They have written literary criticism for The Rumpus, Ploughshares, and the Globe and Mail. Stevie Howell is the poetry editor at THIS Magazine, and is an MFA candidate in creative writing at NYU.
RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD WINNER
TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST
PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST
"The sense that the world ought to be comprehensible cannot be overcome or out-thought, and so at the irreducible core of everything is a shard of betraying—there is, after all, no ought in nature. Again and again, the poems in Stevie Howell's I left nothing inside on purpose attempt to provide that ought—'Yr mother worked for the doctor. She was also the doctor'—which is to say, I left nothing inside on purpose is a book of bewildered lament, as only the truest and smartest books are." —Shane McCrae, author of In the Language of My Captor
"If you mend a broken bowl with a seam of gold then the fracture becomes more precious than the bowl itself. Stevie Howell's poems are that sort of precious. Stevie's voice is funny, in a dark, tragic, self-conscious sort of way. Restless, in a wise, far-reaching sort of way. Beautiful, in a broken sort of way. I return to them again and again." —Nick Flynn, author of My Feelings
"Stevie Howell's poems create a dazzling sense of contemporary experience, with all its wounds, as well as the bruising quality of the past: an AI bot named Tay learns to be racist and sexist from 'Talking w/ humans;' Kintsugi pottery and fragments from Kierkegaard, D.H. Lawrence, and the vocabulary of self-help rattle through the deceptive transparency of Howell's lines. The voice here insists on ironic distance and uncomfortable intimacy, poetic history and the banality of the present, 'crowdfunded innocence' and 'how pain never knows when to stop.' This collection is sophisticated, funny, and sad, often within the same line." --Jury Citation, Raymond Souster Award
"Stevie Howell's I left nothing inside on purpose is a tour-de-force with its own short-hand, its own formal ingenuity and its own off-kilter insights. The poems explore a range of topics, from a concussion-induced trip to a Hawaiian hospital, to the unlikely geological accident that results in the formation of malachite; from romantic strife to struggles with infertility and alcoholism, to the absurd phenomenon of being a human self in this strange multifarious world. Throughout, the poems are vulnerable, innovative, funny, and piercingly smart." —Jury Citation, Trillium Book Award for Poetry
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Research by Emarketer has predicted that display and search advertising will grow in Argentina over the next 4 years, at the expense of classifieds. The digital advertising market in Argentina is currently worth an estimated 780 million US dollars, with 46% being spent on display ads, 38% being spent on search ads and 16% being spent on classifieds. This is expected to rise to a staggering 2.2 billion US dollars by 2019, however, with the proportion being spent on display and search advertising rising by around 2% each and the proportion being spent on classifieds falling by 5%. Argentina is the world's fastest growing advertising market, and is currently the third largest advertising market in Latin America. Mobile advertising is growing particularly fast in the country, with advertisers in the country set to triple their spending on mobile ads this year.


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Best Neighborhood Dive
Flanahan's
A dive, friends, is not measured by the number of out-of-order taps, shady characters slumped at the bar, or questionable stains.
Best "Business Lunch"
Leo's Oyster Bar
As much as venture capital or entrepreneurial vision, the lifeblood of business is libations.
July 17, 2013 Music » Hear This
Cattle Decapitation: Show Preview
By Rae Alexandra Wednesday, Jul 17 2013
Matthew Zinke
The Regency Ballroom
1300 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Nob Hill/ Russian Hill/ Fisherman's Wharf CA 94109
theregencyballroom.com
Summer Slaughter Tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan, Animals As Leaders, Periphery, Norma Jean, Cattle Decapitation, The Ocean, Revocation, AEON, Rings Of Saturn, and Thy Art Is Murder. 3:15 P.M. Friday, July 19, at the Regency Ballroom. $30-$35.
That there's a band named Cattle Decapitation on the bill should indicate of the level of musical brutality involved. The Summer Slaughter Tour will be taking no prisoners this Friday, thanks to a lineup that promises a pretty much relentless brain assault. Norma Jean is consistently (and emotively) powerful, the guitarists in Animals As Leaders play so fast it's like they're on fast-forward, and then there's the thoughtful introspection of the Ocean. Even if you can't get there for the entire marathon, keep in mind that the Dillinger Escape Plan is worth the ticket price alone — the band's jaw-dropping technicality and unerring commitment to lead-weight heaviness make it a truly compelling live spectacle.
Tags: Hear This, Show Preview, Cattle Decapitation, Norma Jean, Animals as Leaders, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Regency Ballroom
Rae Alexandra


A note from our President & CEO, Ms Melanie P Florentino, MAEd, on our SAS AI financial aid and outreach program.
"The excitement and joy I now feel are actually more intense compared to how I felt when we first started the program. And these feelings are further intensified during year-end recognition and awards ceremonies. Nothing compares to seeing and hearing from our scholars and their parents, how happy and proud, and at the same time grateful for SAS Ai and all the kind and generous people behind the organization.
This is a testament that SAS Ai is true to its mission of helping, not only disadvantaged kids, but kids who are driven to excel and succeed in their high school studies. We are not asking anything in return from them, but I think they have paid off more than enough with their exemplary academic achievements, personal growth, and social development.
With hard hat on, she is on the job and enjoying it.
Our President & CEO, Ms Melanie P Florentino, MAEd, remains one of the staunchest supporters and strongest advocates for the financial aid program. We offer this outreach to deserving students in Tagudin, Ilocos Sur and neighboring townships because we believe Education is Freedom.
We believe that it would be a crime to waste a brilliant mind.
SAS Ai, Inc. is a non-profit organization recognized by the IRS under the 501(c)(3) tax code. All donations to the school fund are tax deductible to the extent afforded by law.


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