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Q: Can we use specific packages for some parts of the LaTeX document, or how can we handle possible interference between English and Persian Styling? I am trying to build my Ph.D thesis in a template which has been basically set for Persian language. The template is wonderful when everything is persian. But there is a problem. I need to add my Python code to the appendices. I found a link here in tex.stackexchange.com which makes it exactly like in the Jupyter environment and it is beautiful.
But when I add this styling to my file, some parts of the output LaTeX file get disrupted.
The main LaTeX code is:
\documentclass[oneside,phd,12pt]{AUTthesis}

\usepackage{graphicx,adjustbox}
\graphicspath{{figures/}} %Setting the graphicspath
\usepackage{amsthm,amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage[center]{caption}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{plotmarks}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,patterns}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.10}
\usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween}
\usepgfplotslibrary{units}
\definecolor{findOptimalPartition}{HTML}{D7191C}
\definecolor{storeClusterComponent}{HTML}{FDAE61}
\definecolor{dbscan}{HTML}{ABDDA4}
\definecolor{constructCluster}{HTML}{2B83BA}

\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[skip=0pt]{caption}
\newcolumntype{P}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
\newcommand{\hlgreen}[1]{{\sethlcolor{green}\hl{#1}}}

%%%%%For colorful Jupyter style of Python code
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{xcolor}
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\pagestyle{style1}

%--------------------------------------------------------------------------appendix

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And the appendix is:
\chapter{کد شبیه‌سازی به زبان $Python$ در بستر $Jupyter$\ref{sec5}}\label{PythonCode}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=iPython]
"""
Initial definitions
"""

KSstrategies=['S','N']
CAstrategies=['R','O','D']
ALLstrategies=['SR','SO','SD','NR','NO','ND']
ALLstrategiesCodes={'SR':0,'SO':1,'SD':2,'NR':3,'NO':4,'ND':5}
Theta = 0.2
s = 0.3333
Lambda = 0.4
Etha = 1.15
l = {'Ent':0.08,'Inc':0.08} #[Ent,Inc]
k = {'Ent':Etha*l['Ent'],'Inc':Etha*l['Inc']} #[Ent,Inc]
n={'Ent':0.27,'Inc':0.12} #[Ent,Inc]
r={'Ent':0.2,'Inc':0.15} #[Ent,Inc]
v={'Ent':0.36,'Inc':0.225} #[Ent,Inc]
rho = {'Ent':1.2,'Inc':0.8} #[Ent,Inc]
omega = {'Ent':0.9,'Inc':1.1} #[Ent,Inc]
delta = {'Ent':1.4,'Inc':0.6} #[Ent,Inc]
phi = {'Ent':0.07,'Inc':0.085} #[Ent,Inc]
tau = {'Ent':0.06,'Inc':0.066} #[Ent,Inc]
c={}
c['Inc']={'R':0.09,'O':0.10,'D':0.20} #c[R,O,D]
c['Ent']={'R':0.11,'O':0.12,'D':0.14} #c[R,O,D]
costToQualityRatio = 2
ksnoise = 0.15

"""
Define functions
"""

import numpy as np
def optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader):
    if Leader == 'Incumbent':
        #The Incumbent is the leader in pricing
        if qEnt>qInc:
            priceInc = ((qEnt - qInc)*qInc)/(2*(2*qEnt - qInc))
            profitInc = ((qEnt - qInc)*qInc)/(16*qEnt - 8*qInc)
            priceEnt = ((qEnt - qInc)*(4*qEnt - qInc))/(4*(2*qEnt - qInc))
            profitEnt = ((qEnt - qInc)*(-4*qEnt + qInc)**2)/(16*(-2*qEnt + qInc)**2)
        elif qEnt==qInc:
            priceInc = 'Whatever'
            profitInc = 0
            priceEnt = qEnt/2
            profitEnt = qEnt/4
        elif qEnt<qInc:
            priceInc = ((qInc-qEnt)*qInc)/(2*qInc-qEnt)
            profitInc = ((qEnt - qInc)*qInc)/(2*(qEnt - 2*qInc))
            priceEnt = ((qInc-qEnt)*qEnt)/(2*(2*qInc-qEnt))
            profitEnt = (qEnt*qInc*(-qEnt + qInc))/(4*(qEnt - 2*qInc)**2)
    elif Leader == 'Entrant':
        #The New Entrant is the leader in pricing
        if qEnt>qInc:
            priceInc = ((qInc-qEnt)*qInc)/(2*(qInc-2*qEnt))
            profitInc = (qEnt*qInc*(qEnt-qInc))/(4*((2*qEnt-qInc)**2))
            priceEnt = ((qInc-qEnt)*qEnt)/(qInc-2*qEnt)
            profitEnt = ((qEnt - qInc)*qEnt)/(4*qEnt - 2*qInc)
        elif qEnt==qInc:
            priceInc = qInc/2
            profitInc = qInc/4
            priceEnt = 'Whatever'
            profitEnt = 0
        elif qEnt<qInc:
            priceInc = ((qInc - qEnt)*(4*qInc - qEnt))/(4*(2*qInc - qEnt))
            profitInc = ((qInc - qEnt)*(-4*qInc + qEnt)**2)/(16*(-2*qInc + qEnt)**2)
            priceEnt = ((qInc - qEnt)*qEnt)/(2*(2*qInc - qEnt))
            profitEnt = ((qInc - qEnt)*qEnt)/(16*qInc - 8*qEnt)
    return priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc

def KSpayoff(strategyEnt,strategyInc):
    global payoffEnt, payoffInc
    if strategyEnt=='S' and strategyInc=='S':
        payoffEnt=(1+Theta)*(r['Ent']+r['Inc']+Lambda*s+l['Ent'])-n['Ent']
        payoffInc=(1+Theta)*(r['Ent']+r['Inc']+(1-Lambda)*s+l['Inc'])-n['Inc']
    elif strategyEnt=='S' and strategyInc=='N':
        payoffEnt=(1+Theta)*(r['Ent']-n['Ent'])
        payoffInc=(1-Theta)*(r['Ent']+r['Inc']+v['Inc']+l['Inc'])
    elif strategyEnt=='N' and strategyInc=='S':
        payoffEnt=(1-Theta)*(r['Ent']+r['Inc']+v['Ent']+l['Ent'])
        payoffInc=(1+Theta)*(r['Inc']-n['Inc'])
    elif strategyEnt=='N' and strategyInc=='N':
        payoffEnt=(1-Theta)*(r['Ent']+v['Ent'])
        payoffInc=(1-Theta)*(r['Inc']+v['Inc'])
    return payoffEnt,payoffInc
def CApayoff(CAstrategyEnt,CAstrategyInc,KSstrategyEnt,KSstrategyInc,qEnt,qInc,Leader):
    global payoffEnt, payoffInc
    receivedknowledge = {}
    if KSstrategyEnt == 'N':
        receivedknowledge['Inc'] = 0
    else:
        receivedknowledge['Inc'] = 1
    if KSstrategyInc == 'N':
        receivedknowledge['Ent'] = 0
    else:
        receivedknowledge['Ent'] = 1

    if CAstrategyEnt=='R' and CAstrategyInc=='R':
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = rho['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['R']
        payoffInc = rho['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['R']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='R' and CAstrategyInc=='O':
        qInc += receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Inc']
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = rho['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['R']
        payoffInc = omega['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['O']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='R' and CAstrategyInc=='D':
        qInc += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Inc'])
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = rho['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['R']
        payoffInc = delta['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['D']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='O' and CAstrategyInc=='R':
        qEnt += receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Ent']
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = omega['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['O']
        payoffInc = rho['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['R']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='O' and CAstrategyInc=='O':
        qEnt += receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Ent']
        qInc += receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Inc']
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = omega['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['O']
        payoffInc = omega['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['O']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='O' and CAstrategyInc=='D':
        qEnt += receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Ent']
        qInc += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Inc'])
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = omega['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['O']
        payoffInc = delta['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['D']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='D' and CAstrategyInc=='R':
        qEnt += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Ent'])
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = delta['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['D']
        payoffInc = rho['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['R']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='D' and CAstrategyInc=='O':
        qEnt += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Ent'])
        qInc += receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['O']/costToQualityRatio-phi['Inc']
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = delta['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['D']
        payoffInc = omega['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['O']
    elif CAstrategyEnt=='D' and CAstrategyInc=='D':
        qEnt += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Ent']*k['Ent']+c['Ent']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Ent'])
        qInc += np.tanh(receivedknowledge['Inc']*k['Inc']+c['Inc']['D']/costToQualityRatio-tau['Inc'])
        priceEnt,profitEnt,priceInc,profitInc = optimumprofitIncLead(qEnt,qInc,Leader)
        payoffEnt = delta['Ent']*profitEnt-c['Ent']['D']
        payoffInc = delta['Inc']*profitInc-c['Inc']['D']
    return payoffEnt,payoffInc,qEnt,qInc

\end{lstlisting}

There are three problems in the output (please also see the images):

*

*Some Persian parts of the file which were OK before adding the python styling are now displayed in squares!!!

*The coloring python code itself is fine, but all the words are displayed in reverse as can be seen in the image. For example the word def is displayed like fed which is weird.

*The numbers are displayed in Persian. This is OK for the rest of the document but here I wish they could be in English.

Would be grateful for any advice. Thanks.


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1st Brigade Combat Team Welcomes New Brigade Commander
By Pfc. Vincent LevelevJanuary 14, 2021
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Commanding Officers of the 82nd Airborne Division participate in the ceremonial passing of the unit colors at the Hall of Heroes on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 11, 2021. U.S. Army Col. Theodore Kleisner is the incoming brigade commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn. Div. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Vincent Levelev) (Photo Credit: Pfc. Vincent Levelev) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue presents awards to Col. Andrew Saslav and Jill Saslav for their contributions to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division during a change of command ceremony at the Hall of Heroes on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 11, 2021. Saslav is the outgoing brigade commander of 1st BCT. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Vincent Levelev) (Photo Credit: Pfc. Vincent Levelev) VIEW ORIGINAL
3 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Jill Saslav, the outgoing 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division commander's wife, delivers a speech at the Hall of Heroes on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 11, 2021. Saslav reflected on her time with the 'Devil Brigade' family and community in her farewell speech. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Vincent Levelev.) (Photo Credit: Pfc. Vincent Levelev) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT BRAGG, NC- Paratroopers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division welcomed their new commander Col. Theodore W. Kleisner during a change of command ceremony at the Hall of Heroes on Fort Bragg, NC, Jan. 11, 2021. Kleisner relieved Col. Andrew O. Saslav as the brigade commander.
Kleisner, a Savannah, Georgia native and United States Military Academy at West Point graduate, previously served as the commander of the United States European Command Levant Future Operations Planning Branch. Kleisner is a father of three and married to Susan Kleisner.
"To assume command of 1st Brigade is an awesome mandate that I humbly accept, and I accept with excitement," said Kleisner.
Saslav, the outgoing brigade commander, is a native of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey and a graduate of George Washington University. Saslav, prior to serving as the commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, served as an operations officer in the 4th Infantry Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado. During his tenure as brigade commander, Saslav led the 'Devil Brigade' during their historic no-notice deployment to the Central Command theater of operations, marking the first combat deployment of the Immediate Response Force in 30 years.
"Commanding the 'Devils in Baggy Pants' has been the honor of my professional life," said Saslav during his farewell speech. "It is very simply the most rewarding and humbling thing the Army has ever passed upon me."
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of the 82nd Abn. Div., expressed his gratitude for Saslav's and Kleisner's leadership in the division, and his excitement for the incoming brigade commander.
"Today we recognize two incredible leaders," said Donahue. "We look forward to Kleisner taking this brigade to the next level."
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April 14, 2021Army Investigation into June 1st D.C. National Guard Helicopter usage uncovered organizational, resource, and oversight shortcomings
December 8, 2020Secretary McCarthy holds Fort Hood Leaders Accountable, Announces New Investigations
September 1, 2020Army announcement on Fort Hood leadership
August 21, 2020Army announces its service component command for U.S. Space Command
September 12, 2019Department of the Army announces 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division deploy
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Tag: Vuele
New NFTs of Anthony Hopkins Feature 'Zero Contact' Available
Vuele has announced two mass consumer drops of the feature film NFT Zero Contact, offering two different choices of NFT bundles to collect and trade on the platform.
Vuele.io will allow consumers to purchase the "Exclusive Edition" NFT bundle for $59 on Feb. 22 and the "Collector's Edition" NFT bundle for $25 on Feb. 28.
There are 2,500 bundles of the Zero Contact "Exclusive Edition" NFT, which includes the feature film, a making-of featurette, a signed poster, and three randomly generated character trading cards. There are 25,000 bundles of the Zero Contact "Collector's Edition" NFT, which includes both the feature film and poster (not signed).
Vuele's soft launch in September 2021 offered collectors eleven NFT drops through OpenSea, bringing in revenue of more than six figures, according to the company.
Launched in 2021, Vuele, created by Enderby Entertainment and CurrencyWorks Inc.,is the first direct-to-consumer, full-length feature film viewing and distribution platform delivering feature films and digital collectible entertainment content as NFTs. Users will be able to become owners of exclusive limited-edition film and collector NFT content which they can watch, collect, sell and trade on the Vuele.io platform.
"We are seeing a lot of areas in entertainment exploring uses for NFTs and Blockchain, with Vuele we're focused on engaging a fan base in a new distribution model, not to compete with the existing model but as an alternative," said the film's producer-director Rick Dugdale, co-founder of Vuele and CEO of Enderby Entertainment. "This is a new revenue stream similar to the way streaming created one or further back when studios were taking back catalogue titles and creating DVD box sets with bonus features. NFTs offer the consumer that same type of exclusive access and collectibility."
To purchase the Zero Contact NFT bundles, viewers can create their Vuele account on Vuele.io and purchase with a credit card or crypto currency by connecting their digital wallet.
Produced in 17 different countries entirely virtually during the pandemic, Zero Contact follows five characters based all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart (Anthony Hopkins, The Father). They are forced to work together to shut down Hart's most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on Earth.
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Lionsgate's Grindstone Acquires Non-NFT North American Distribution Rights to 'Zero Contact'
Liongate's Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired non-NFT (non-fungible token) North American distribution rights to Enderby Entertainment's Zero Contact, a thriller released as the first NFT (non-fungible token) feature film for Vuele.
Grindstone will release the film in May after the NFT window.
Zero Contact follows five characters located all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart played by Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father). The characters are forced to work together to shut down Hart's most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on earth. The cast includes Aleks Paunovic ("Hawkeye") Chris Brochu (Soul Surfer, Recon) and Rukiya Bernard ("Yellowjackets") and Adrian Holmes ("Bel-Air").
Enderby Entertainment went into production in December on back-to-back sequels for the franchise, filming in Antarctica as the first Hollywood film ever to shoot on the continent. The production will continue to shoot in 13 countries around the world, including Bolivia, Peru, Sweden, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and France.
"We're continuing to explore a new distribution model that includes an NFT window for feature films, and even more meaningful to partner once again with Lionsgate and Grindstone to release Zero Contact in this unique way," said Enderby CEO and director Rick Dugdale in a statement. "After our launch on Vuele, we are continuing to break barriers with this franchise as we are the first production to film in Antarctica."
"Zero Contact is a mysterious, twisty thriller that will keep audiences guessing until the very end," said Barry Brooker, president and CEO of Grindstone Entertainment Group, in a statement. "Featuring a powerhouse performance by Anthony Hopkins, we are confident that Zero Contact will keep moviegoers on the edge of their seats."
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NFT Offering for Anthony Hopkins Film 'Zero Contact' Tallies Nearly $100,000
Global NFT (non-fungible token) distribution and viewing platform Vuele grossed nearly six figures with the feature film Zero Contact, according to the company.
Vuele brought in 32.86267 ETH (Ether cryptocurrency) or $93,435 with the release of 11 NFT "drops" of the thriller starring Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins. The "Platinum Edition" NFT drop alone sold for 20 ETH ($56,860).
Zero Contact is the first feature film NFT distributed by Vuele.
The "NFT drops mark an incredible new step for the feature film distribution industry as well as film collecting and fan engagement," according to a company press release.
"In just these few short days, we've seen a community form around our film, enhanced fan engagement, and also proved a new revenue stream in the industry. We think this is groundbreaking," Rick Dugdale, co-founder of Vuele and director-producer of the film, said in a statement. "Our goal was to earn the respect of the NFT space in order for us to create staying power and help blaze a new path for filmmakers. Not only is this now a proven distribution model, but we will be able to create new film financing structures moving forward."
Each winning NFT allows the lucky winner to be edited into the film with a personal Zero Contact shoot and edit. In addition, each winner receives signed digital artwork of the film poster, the "making of" the film, Crypto Generative Art by REMO x Dcsan and a Vuele "Golden Ticket." The "Platinum" one of one winner also receives a walk-on role in the Zero Contact Universe.
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Vuele NFT Film 'Zero Contact' Gets Release Dates
New global NFT (non-fungible token) distribution and viewing platform Vuele has launched the trailer for its thriller Zero Contact, the first NFT feature film release on its Vuele.io platform, as well as release dates or "drops" for different offerings involving the film.
Starring Best Actor Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father), Zero Contact was produced in 17 different countries entirely virtually during the 2020 global pandemic. It follows five characters based all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart (Hopkins). They are forced to work together to shut down Hart's most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on earth. The ensemble cast also features Veronica Ferres, Aleks Paunovic, Chris Brochu, Lilly Krug, TJ Kayama and Martin Stenmarck.
It will be offered in several consecutive "drops" with new content for fans, including the exclusive "Platinum Edition" auction launching on the Vuele platform on Sept. 24. The 72-hour online auction of the premiere "1 of 1" drop will feature the opportunity for one winner to join the cast in a walk-on role for the Zero Contact Universe. For both "Platinum Edition" and "Elite Edition" drops, fans will also have an opportunity to be edited into the feature film. Additional drops of the film include the "Exclusive" and "Collector's Edition" coming in October.
In addition, a "Golden Ticket" sweepstakes offers 100 early NFT fans each week to score exclusive free NFT bundles just for signing up at the Vuele.io site.
"Our platform is designed to offer something to high-end collectors as well as the everyday film fan," said director/producer and Vuele co-founder Rick Dugdale in a statement. "The Zero Contact Golden Ticket offers fans an opportunity to explore this NFT world and start building their digital wallet to get comfortable watching and owning movies on this new platform. As the NFT market is driven by scarcity, we are offering a '1 of 1' NFT for the film. There will only ever be one minted of its kind."
Vuele will offer multiple NFT Bundles for the Zero Contact feature film. Fans can sign up for more information at Vuele.io to receive notifications on auctions and bidding opportunities on the following:
Zero Contact Golden Ticket NFT Sweepstakes (ongoing, 100 per week to winners)
A digital "Golden Ticket" token providing access to the Zero Contact Collector's Edition, including behind-the-scenes footage, as well as access to the Collector's Edition versions of the next three feature films to be released on the Vuele platform.
NOTE: Each week, 100 winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries, with the final draw on Sept. 30.
Zero Contact Platinum "1 of 1" Edition (72-hour online bidding begins Sept. 24)
Zero Contact Platinum Edition Original Cut, the only version ever to be minted, and will be the consumer's to own (1 of 1 editions)
All-expense paid trip to visit the production set for Zero Contact Universe to meet the cast, crew and experience a day on the set (1 of 1 editions)
A walk-on role in the Zero Contact Universe, available to be utilized by yourself or someone else you nominate (1 of 1 editions)
Crypto Art, original generative art NFT by REMO x Dcsan (1 of 11 editions)
Personal Zero Contact shoot and edit, an opportunity to have yourself (or someone you nominate) professionally shot and edited into the actual feature film as one of the characters playing alongside Anthony Hopkins and the rest of the cast (1 of 11 editions)
Vuele Golden Ticket, a digital Golden Ticket token providing access to the Zero Contact Collector's Edition, including behind-the-scenes footage, as well as access to the Collector's Edition versions of the next three feature films to be released on the Vuele platform (1 of 2,500 editions)
Zero Contact digital artwork of film poster signed by cast and crew (1 of 2,511 editions)
Making of the Zero Contact film (1 of 2,511 editions)
Zero Contact Elite Edition (48-hour online bidding begins Sept. 24)
Crypto Art – Original Generative Art NFT by REMO x Dcsan (1 of 11 Editions)
Zero Contact Exclusive Edition (NFT offering available Oct. 4)
Zero Contact Collector's Edition, including behind-the-scenes footage (1 of 27,511 Editions)
Zero Contact Collector's Edition (NFT offering available Oct. 22)
Vuele is a feature-length film and digital collectible viewing and distribution platform created by Enderby Entertainment and CurrencyWorks.
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Anthony Hopkins Film 'Zero Contact' to Be Released as NFT on Vuele Platform
Enderby Entertainment's Zero Contact (formerly 92), starring Anthony Hopkins (The Father), will premiere as an NFT (non-fungible token) on new global NFT distribution and viewing platform Vuele.
This is the first feature film acquisition for Vuele, the recently launched direct-to-consumer NFT viewing and distribution platform. On the platform, users via NFTs are able to become owners of exclusive, limited edition film and collector content which they can watch, collect, sell and trade (as consumers can with physical discs, for instance) on the vuele.io platform. Vuele is the first direct-to-consumer, full-length feature film viewing and distribution platform delivering feature films and digital collectible entertainment content as NFTs.
"Everything about this film is unconventional, from the way we shot the film using Zoom and remote production to its distribution on the first global NFT platform," stated producer Rick Dugdale, who also makes his directorial debut with the feature film. "We're thrilled to bring a film of this magnitude with the star power of Anthony Hopkins as our first release on Vuele."
Produced in 17 different territories entirely virtually during the 2020 global pandemic, Zero Contact follows five characters based all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart (Hopkins). They are forced to work together to shut down Hart's most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on earth.
Vuele is a joint venture between Enderby Entertainment and CurrencyWorks operated by CurrencyWorks.
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Muhammad's Breast Feeding
Muhammad (SAW) was first suckled by his mother for few days, and then suckled by Thuwaiba L-Aslamiya. It was a habit among the Arabs to give their children to the Bedouin women to be suckled and brought up in the desert. Thus, these Bedouin women would come to the urban areas to collect the children from the rich people so as to get better pay for their work. Muhammad (SAW) had no father and was not among the rich family, a woman called Halima bint Dhuayb As-Saadiya took him to her home. She carried him home not realizing that he was a blessed child. Her husband (Abu Khabsha) L-Harithy bin Abdul Aziz and his household, who submitted to Allah in Islam, were blessed for this.
Something very miraculous happened to Muhammad (SAW) when he was three years old, while he was playing with his mate (brother) who suckled together with him from Halima. The (brother) came running to Halima and said to her: "Two men wearing white robes took my Quraishy brother lay him down and cut open his stomach."
When Halima heard this, she quickly went out with her husband to look for the boy and found him pale with fear. They asked him what was the matter. He said: "There were two men wearing white robes, one of them said, 'Is he the one?' then the second one said, 'Yes he is the one.' So they took me and lay me down then cut open my tummy and took something out, I do not know what it was, after that they went away." So, Halima got scared and decided to take him back to his mother.
The two were Angels who came to take the influence of Satan from his heart and to cleanse him. They took his heart out washed it with water from Zamzam then put it back again. The same incident took place when he was forty years old.
When Halima took him back to his mother and told her the story, Muhammad's (SAW) mother said: "Really this child has a lot of strange things. When I was pregnant, I saw a very bright light, which flooded all the palaces of Busra in Shaam. I also did not feel any heaviness during the pregnancy, and when he was born he kept his hands down as if in prostration and also raised his head looking up to the sky."
After he was returned to his mother, she took him to visit his father's maternal uncles in Madina. On their way, back his mother died in a town called Abha, which is between Makah and Madina and was buried there. He was six years then. After the death of his mother, a woman by the name of Um Ayman, brought him up and his grandfather was the one who was looking after him. When he was eight years old, his grandfather also died, and was taken by his paternal Uncle Abu Taalib to be brought up in his house. Abu Taalib was not among the rich people, but Allah gave him enough to live on.
Muhammad (SAW) was different from the children of his age in that none of the daily things or games that would normally keep children of his age busy bothered him. Whenever he sat down to eat with his cousins, he would sit far back and his hand would not reach for the food in greediness; and whatever he got, satisfied him.
When he reached the age of twelve years, his uncle took him on a business trip to Shaam. This was his first trip, and they did not prolong the trip. When they reached Busra near Syria, a town where there were Jews from the people of Taimaa, they stopped. One learned man of the Christian faith by the name of Bahyra who was there in the town, asked the people who were with the caravan of Abu Taalib if there came a Prophet among the Arabs as mentioned in the Tawraat and Injil. They said that to their knowledge no one had come yet.
Bahyra made a big feast and invited the Quraishy, thus all the people attended except Muhammad (SAW), as he was considered too young to mix with the elders. When Bahyra missed him in his party, he requested that he be brought to him. He looked at him and noticed that the boy had all the signs that he knew from his researches regarding the Prophet who is to come. He took a look at his back and there he found two scar-like marks on his shoulder blades. Bahyra told Abu Taalib and advised him to take the boy home as quickly as possible and to be careful with the Jews, and said: "Your nephew is very elite and very holy, take very good care of him."
Thus, Abu Taalib took him back to Makah.
When Muhammad (SAW) reached the age of twenty-five, he again went on a business trip to Shaam. The word got around about his honesty in his dealings (people used to call him LAmin, the honest). There was a lady by the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid Ssadiyah (RAA)1, who was among the most respectable ladies of the Quraishy. She was a very clever business lady who used to hire people and give them goods to take to Shaam and sell for her. When she came to know about a man who was very honest, she sent for him and asked him if he would work for her. Muhammad (SAW) agreed, and he traveled with one of Khadija's servants by the name of Maysara, to Shaam, sold the goods and returned.
After their return, Maysara told her lady about the good qualities of this man and how he dealt with the business. When Khadija (RAA) saw the amount of profit that she had received from him, she sent for him. When he came to her, she asked him to marry her. It is not a usual custom among the Arabs for a lady to ask a man to marry her; in this case Khadija (RAA) felt that it would be nice to have an honest man to look after her business. The man would better be a husband who would protect her and look after her interests.
Khadija (RAA) was forty years old, fifteen years older than him, and was divorced. Muhammad (SAW) told his uncle about this. Abi Taalib then went to Khadija's uncle, Amru bin Asad and officially asked him for his niece's hand in marriage to Muhammad (SAW). He married her and had from her two boys, Al-Qasim and Abdulla and four girls, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Um Kulthum and Fatma (RAA). The two boys did not survive.
Muhammad (AS) was an orphan and poor. When he was in the desert at Halima's house, as a boy, he was a shepherd. He also worked as shepherd after his return to Makah from Halima's house. This is really Allah's wisdom; if you look closely, you will see that most of the Prophets [e.g. Ibrahim, Yusuf, Musa and Issa (AS)] were all shepherds before becoming Prophets. Had they been from the rich families, they would have been bothered by the worldly affairs and would not have been able to concentrate with their mission.
Muhammad (SAW) was well mannered; honest with no bad habits that made people sin. His people used to call him Asaadiq L-Amin, meaning the truthful the honest. Allah had protected him from his childhood from any bad habits that corrupt. One day he was explaining what had happened to him and said: "I asked my colleague to look after my heard, I then went to Makah and entered one of the entertainment houses where there was dancing and singing, so that I could enjoy myself. I stayed for a while, but Allah wanted to protect me from corruption, so before I realized it I slept throughout the night and when I woke the sun was up and the place closed."
1RAA—Radhiya Allahu Anhu Allah is pleased with him/her
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By: Sheikh Nasser bin Issa bin Saeed Al Kindi
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Kyle Anderson connected on back-to-back 3-pointers during an eight-point run midway through the fourth quarter Tuesday night that propelled the visiting Memphis Grizzlies to a 118-107 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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450 gaser engine (bay) dimensions?
I am highly interested in getting a (G&K) 450 ('05, 0.7L turbo) in the near future.. but the thing is.. I actually want a diesel to run biodiesel (that I plan on making myself, and not the simple backyard method).
I know that more than a few CDIs are floating around the US - even some for sale right now, but I would actually prefer to have something with more solid paper work. I've actually called the NHTSA to gain insight on a certain CDI in the States and they had no records of it being legally processed w/ a conformity package, and although tracking them down for seizure is a job for Border patrol - at the border - they wont be putting man power into trying to collect them at this point. They actually told me this 'off the record', so feel safe if you have one.
Be it as it may, from what I have read, the CDI is quite lame in comparison to the turbo gaser.. so a straight swap (considering going across the border for an engine? maybe do a swap/trade with a Canadian that wants the turbo petrol instead) isn't all too desired.
I would actually like to know more about the swap Leroy did, but due to being a new member and lack of posts I cannot PM just yet. He has certainly listed the components and a few mods needed elsewhere, but nothing indepth that I was able to find - no dedicated post on the swap.
As such, I am looking at possible alternative diesel engine makes, but without possession of a 450 in my garage, I am not actually having any luck finding dimensions of the current M160 (nor OM660) engines from any technical documents to compare with something that may "drop in" and actually fit (without too many mods). Would anyone have these dimensions - or available space in the engine bay? even if you have a spare laying around and you use a measuring tape.. it could help me determine what I may be able to use.
I understand it will be a bit of a project, and maybe even sacrilege of altering a legally imported (via conformation) 450 gaser - but it's what I am interested in.
Have you inquired on the Canadian site, Club smart Car, since all of their 450s are diesels?
small update to maybe help others..
I just got off a two hour phone call with Leroy..
I am not shy about doing a swap w/ a cdi at this point (given proper test equipment).. great info..
We'll see how things end up - but either way, I hope to give status updates on where it goes!
I have a new diesel that is for sale. It's not gong to be a cheapo car but we can talk about the price. I built it from a new rolling chassis and a new motor and donor parts from a Canadian car. It's a much as new with about 200 miles on it. Let me know if you'd be interested. Fully titled and registered. I did all the hard work. Then again it sounds like you are looking for a project and want to build your own. In that case I can share how that goes. This one took me three years.
While I await the info on Dan's car..
the 7" of added length of the 451.. where is most of that added length? such as 2" in the hood, 2 in the cabin, 3 in the engine bay? or all 7 in the cabin?
Looks like wheelbase is 2" longer..
The idea here is if I decide to go the route of putting a NON smart cdi engine in something, considering I live in the States - replacement parts for the 451 are much easier to come across than if I had a 450..
just some added thoughts to the mix..


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• outgoing personality when working with people but completely comfortable working alone for hours at a time.
• Strong photo, video, and social media skills on a phone. This position will capture material from lessons / events, create content, and post to the Ketos Creative Academy social media pages in coordination with the director of the music academy.
• Learn music VERY WELL by ear. The curriculum is all based on songs chosen by the students. The students submit a list of songs they would like to learn so the instructor must be able to learn to play a song nearly instantly to then be able to immediately teach it to the students. Learning the songs ahead of time is most often possible but not always. Most of the songs chosen are popular songs on the radio right now or within the last 5 years so being current on recent releases in all genres is a must.
• equally comfortable teaching and performing. All instructors perform with their students and perform alone to be examples for the students so strong performance skills are necessary in addition to strong teaching skills.
• applicant will be expected to provide support as a performer / live sound engineer / ticketing check in / stage hand, or any other position needed for Academy performances.
• strong music notation reading skills preferred but not required. Candidate hired will be expected to learn to read music notation to be assigned to intermediate / advanced students. We do not teach students to read music notation until they are very far down the road playing by ear. Most of our students are not reading sheet music yet so the candidate would have time to learn themselves before having to teach students months down the road.
• Laptop: Apple laptop preferred but not required. Two devices needed if you don't have an Apple laptop; one to send sound to the mixer and the other to project on the wall. An apple laptop will do both. A PC laptop to send sound combined with an Apple iPhone to project on the wall has worked in the past. Or a combo of two other devices like a tablet and an iPhone.


Blockchains are taking over the world. It's no more the technology of future. Blockchain applications are nowadays being deployed across industries; be it from automobile to healthcare to real estate. In fact, you can easily find at least one example per business vertical globally on how the blockchain technology is making a difference to each of them.
Here are the top 10 use cases of the blockchain technology across industries.
Essentia is building an e-government pilot with Finland's Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners.
UK's HM Treasury (HMT) and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) are working on a blockchain distributed ledger technology based application to increase government's welfare distribution efficiency.
UAE's government is exploring the possibilities of applying blockchains to business registration, trade, and central bank operations.
Estonia's government is piloting blockchain-based solution for voting identity management and healthcare.
There are tons of examples on how the governments across the world are deploying the technologies to public sector applications.
It has always been difficult to manage medical records in a right way. They are notoriously scattered and erroneous. They are often inconsistently handled. In result, there are incorrect and incomplete patient records. But the technology of blockchain will streamline everything. Here are some use cases on how blockchain can help the healthcare industry.
FarmaTrust, a tracking system to eliminate counterfeit drugs, is working on a blockchain based platform to improve the supply-chain integrality of drugs and to eliminate counterfeit drugs proliferation.
Medicalchain is a blockchain based decentralized platform to solve problems related health data exchange. It provides permission to access and interact with medical records required by different healthcare agents like hospitals, doctors, labs, pharmacists, and insurers.
Healthureum is developing a blockchain based solution and smart contact technology to integrate it in healthcare's critical services, for their standardization and to provide them with a desired scalability.
Synthium Health is building a unique networking marketplace to bring together healthcare providers and suppliers for simple, efficient, and cost-effective exchanges to that build businesses.
Almost all businesses, involved in the manufacturing, assembling, and delivering of products, heavily rely on their supply chains. Their success, credibility, and profits largely depend on their supply chain networks. The more they have a responsive supply chain, the more they are able to stay at the market's forefront. Here, Blockchain is providing the same responsiveness to businesses engaged in the supply chain sector.
Bext360 is using blockchain technology to provide better tractability of all elements of the worldwide coffee trade—from farmer to consumer.
The Pacific Islands' tuna industry is working on a tractability supply chain project that tracks tunas from vassal to market in order to eliminate illegal fishing and human right violence.
Walmart, Kroger, Golden State Foods, McCormick and Company, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Unilever, McLane Company, IBM, Driscoll's, and Dole have partnered as a consortium to determine how the global supply chain can benefit from blockchain.
IBM and Walmart have teamed up to launch Blockchain Food Safety Alliance in China to improve food tracking and safety.
The traditional way of doing business in the real estate industry is quite lengthier. Also, there are involvements of undesired middlemen and brokers who are always seeking commissions from both sellers and buyers. The approach followed is also not completely transparent. Blockchain avoids all these parties and their unwanted prices and, makes a real estate deal as a business of just two people: the seller and buyer.
Ukraine is the first country to use the blockchain technology to facilitate a property deal.
Many countries and states, such as Honduras, Brazil, and the Republic of Georgia are working on the implementation of blockchain based land title systems.
Atlant, the blockchain-based global real estate platform, wants to ship the real estate to blockchain. The company offers two major services, namely P2P rentals and tokenized ownership.
Bee Token, which was formed in 2017 with a team of former employees from Google, Facebook, Uber, and digital identity blockchain projects, is working on blockchain system with an intention of taking the economic model of platforms like Uber and Airbnb and couple it with the P2P technology of blockchain and apply it to home rentals.
In 2016, the US Department of Homeland Security announced a project that would use the blockchain as a means of securely storing and transmitting the data it captures.
Essentia has met with the Dutch government to develop a system for vetting passengers, who are traveling between Amsterdam and London.
The oil industry is one the most important segments of the global economy; however, many processes and procedures in this industry are still carried out through the centuries' old traditional approaches. In result, it increases the cash cycle time, decreases transactions visibility, and increases the overhead and a number of cost intermediates. Blockchain can transform the oil and gas industry's supply chain networks with a secure public ledger and remove the slow and outdated workflows.
Russian rail operator Novotrans is already using blockchains to improve the speed of operations. Novotrans, as the largest operator in the country, is working on using the use blockchains to record the data related to repair requests, inventory, and other operations. A blockchain based system will introduce resistant to tampering and corruptions.
Also, the blockchain can advance the tracking of goods' movements. When it happens, then both railways and customers will not experience any sort of difficulty in following the specific freight-consignments. It will restore the reliability of rail freight services.
Essentia is developing a blockchain system that will store customer data in an encrypted and sharable form, on permission-basis, with relevant parties.
DocuSign and Visa have designed a blockchain pilot to introduce greater speed and automation to the car-leasing process.
Taipei, the capital of Nationalist China is working with IOTA on design cards with light temperature, humidity and pollution and, it all will work on blockchain.
Local authorities in the USA have recognized the power of blockchain in the provision of providing public services and have begun several projects which are at different levels of implementations.
The Government of Australia has also announced a grant of $8 million for a blockchain project to create 'smart utilities.
Insurance American International Group Inc with IBM has completed a pilot of a so called "smart-contract" multi-national policy for Standard Chartered Bank PLC and is planning to manage its complex international coverage through the blockchain technology.
You too can take advantages of the blockchain technology. All you need to do hire blockchain development services to get your idea implemented.
Sofia Coppol is a digital marketing expert in Rapidsoft Technologies, is an offshore software development company which provides Software for Education, Automation, Construction and Finance across the global. She loves to write on latest mobile trends, mobile technologies, startups, and enterprises.


As the name suggests , this department deals with treatment of all kinds of dental ailments in children from infants to approximately 13 years of age. Children need special care while treating dental problems as they are fearful and apprehensive to the perception of pain during dental treatment. Apart from this , being there formative years , the goal of this department is to inculcate good oral hygiene practices among children , for a better oral health of society in future.
This department treats all kinds of dental cavities and gum diseases in milk teeth of children. They perform extraction of milk tooth , dental fillings , root canal therapy ( known as pulpectomy here ) and teeth cleaning for the children. The treatment of the above ailments is done in such a manner that the environment is playful and little children can correlate. Every treatment is explained and demonstrated to the children in ways and words which they can understand. This department also works in close association with the Orthodontics department , to diagnose and monitor growth related problems of children.
Space Maintaners , Deciduous Teeth Extraction , Deciduous Teeth Pulpectomy and Pulpotomy , Aesthetic Fillings , Crowns .
Best Paper in National ISPPD Conference, Chennai, 2017 presented to Dr. Biswaroop Chandra.
Awareness camp for Teachers' regarding Oral Hygiene Awareness organized at St. Xavier's Institution, Barackpore in relation to Children's Day Celebration on 14th Nov, 2017.
Prosthetic rehabilitation of missing upper anterior toothusing Mini implant.
Fabrication of Bondable Space Maintainer with Mandibular first deciduous molar.
Endodontic treatment of Radix Entomolaris in primary and permanent tooth.
Anterior Fixed functional esthetic space maintainer for management of patient with Ectodermal Dysplasia.


The domain within your query sequence starts at position 797 and ends at position 950; the E-value for the Anillin domain shown below is 8.8e-39.
Anillin is a protein involved in septin organisation during cell division. It is an actin binding protein that is localised to the cleavage furrow, and it maintains the localisation of active myosin, which ensures the spatial control of concerted contraction during cytokinesis [(PUBMED:16040610)].
This entry represents a conserved domain found in anillin and anillin-like proteins. This domain shares homology with the RhoA binding protein Rhotekin [(PUBMED:18158243)].


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Q: How to convert a string containing escape characters to a string I have a string that is returned to me which contains escape characters.
Here is a sample string

"test\40gmail.com"

As you can see it contains escape characters. I need it to be converted to its real value which is

"test@gmail.com"

How can I do this?

A: If you are looking to replace all escaped character codes, not only the code for @, you can use this snippet of code to do the conversion:
public static string UnescapeCodes(string src) {
    var rx = new Regex("\\\\([0-9A-Fa-f]+)");
    var res = new StringBuilder();
    var pos = 0;
    foreach (Match m in rx.Matches(src)) {
        res.Append(src.Substring(pos, m.Index - pos));
        pos = m.Index + m.Length;
        res.Append((char)Convert.ToInt32(m.Groups[1].ToString(), 16));
    }
    res.Append(src.Substring(pos));
    return res.ToString();
}

The code relies on a regular expression to find all sequences of hex digits, converting them to int, and casting the resultant value to a char.

A: string test = "test\40gmail.com";

test.replace(@"\40","@");

If you want a more general approach ...
HTML Decode

A: The sample string provided ("test\40gmail.com") is JID escaped. It is not malformed, and HttpUtility/WebUtility will not correctly handle this escaping scheme.
You can certainly do it with string or regex functions, as suggested in the answers from dasblinkenlight and C.Barlow. This is probably the cleanest way to achieve the desired result. I'm not aware of any .NET libraries for decoding JID escaping, and a brief search hasn't turned up much. Here is a link to some source which may be useful, though.

A: I just wrote this piece of code and it seems to work beautifully...  It requires that the escape sequence is in HEX, and is valid for value's 0x00 to 0xFF.
// Example
str = remEscChars(@"Test\x0D") // str = "Test\r"

Here is the code.
private string remEscChars(string str)
{
   int pos = 0;
   string subStr = null;
   string escStr = null;

   try
   {
      while ((pos = str.IndexOf(@"\x")) >= 0)
      {
         subStr = str.Substring(pos + 2, 2);
         escStr = Convert.ToString(Convert.ToChar(Convert.ToInt32(subStr, 16)));
         str = str.Replace(@"\x" + subStr, escStr);
      }
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      throw ex;
   }

   return str;
}

A: .NET provides the static methods Regex.Unescape and Regex.Escape to perform this task and back again.  Regex.Unescape will do what you need.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.unescape

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The latest issue of Pragati carries an article on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) by yours truly titled "The EVM and its critics".
The EC would do well to institute a properly designed process to allow scientific scrutiny of its instruments, systems and processes, not merely in reaction to the current events, but as a general policy. That would do much more to bolster the legitimacy of India's electoral system than the current defensive approach.


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Life at the Mount
Posted on October 31, 2015 by leslie
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Bill Hartley returns to prison
A recent edition of The Sun carried a story about a group of prisoners who were pictured enjoying a 'party' that apparently involved illicit drink and drugs taken on an (also illegal) mobile phone. Superficially there was nothing new about this story, it is of a kind which has become a staple of the tabloids. There was though one significant difference. In the past the location has always been an open prison, where it's not too difficult to smuggle in contraband.
This time the prisoners featured in the Sun story are not inmates of some lightly staffed open prison, they were serving time in HMP The Mount, which is a modern Category 'C' jail in Hertfordshire. There was a time when such prisons were modest in size and might have been described as being of medium capacity. Not any more; with the growth in the prison population The Mount now holds nearly eight hundred prisoners, a figure never contemplated by those who created the concept of a jail where the population could be considered low risk and unlikely to cause much trouble. Originally such jails were designed to contain three to four hundred prisoners but there has been much infilling with space found for the construction of additional wings. Some Category 'C' prisons are now of a size to rival the huge urban jails built by the Victorians.
According to a recent report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, security at The Mount was 'rigorous'. Those familiar with the methodology of an inspection wouldn't read too much into that. The Inspectorate doesn't really do security and is more concerned with what it calls 'outcomes' and how prisoners feel about being locked up. Presumably given the recreational activities portrayed in the Sun the prisoners felt pretty good about being in The Mount. It's likely that security got little more than a cursory once over for forms sake, before the inspection team concentrated on the really important stuff. The Chief Inspector was also reported as saying, 'there is much other prisons could learn from The Mount'. Presumably he wasn't thinking of how to throw a good party.
Although politicians like to talk about prisoners being required to do a full working week, for most this is and will remain an unattainable target. It is safe to say that the only prisoners doing this are those working in the kitchens. The fact is that much of the infrastructure to support a full working week, as the term is generally understood, was done away with years ago. Most industrial workshops, farms and market gardens were sold off or closed to pave the way for the 'rehabilitation revolution'. On one occasion when a dairy farm was being disposed of the excuse given was that few prisoners in the Greater Manchester area were likely to seek that sort of employment. The fact is they never did. Making such a remark illustrates how such people have accepted the idea that prisoners can be rehabilitated in the classroom via approved courses. The point of prison farms as the people who created them would tell you, was to help reduce the cost of feeding prisoners and to give those working on them a sense of self worth by taking responsibility for livestock. Plus of course a full working week. What counts now is putting people through the likes of offending behaviour and enhanced thinking skills courses. Or as someone once said: 'he's still thieving, only now he knows why he does it'.
Such courses aren't a bad thing but as a means of instilling work discipline into prisoners they are a miserable failure. And there is no overarching examination of their efficacy. A whole bureaucracy exists to evaluate these courses and ensure the correct outcomes, generally based on how many prisoners complete them. One would think that with this particular regime having been running for many years, a real evaluation would take into account that it has done nothing to reduce the prison population, which remains stubbornly in excess of 80,000.
Without enough meaningful work the effect is a sort of institutional lassitude where prisoners shuffle from their accommodation into classrooms and sit through courses, the completion of which increases their prospects of early release on license. Veterans of this describe themselves as being 'all programmed out'.
Prisoners are mainly young men with limited outlets for their energies, held under a lax regime in which staff have little incentive to challenge bad behaviour. Further, it may come as a surprise to discover that with the exception of a select few prisons (the likes of HMP Belmarsh for example) security is the Cinderella function, regularly robbed of staff by the detail office to keep programmes and other activities running. Being Head of Security in a Category 'C' prison is a thankless task. Scheduled searching and mandatory drugs testing are routinely abandoned to ensure that other activities are properly staffed, meaning that the security department is constantly playing catch up. Programmes are expensive to run and failure to deliver them will get a governor into trouble.
The Sun story represents a worrying escalation in such behaviour. To see it going on in a closed prison, presumably during an association period, tells us that either the prison was understaffed at the time or despite the presence of CCTV those on duty had effectively withdrawn from supervision and were allowing prisoners to get on with it. Presumably the prisoners were aware of this and saw no reason to remain anonymous. Once prisoners are confident enough to publicly misbehave in this way then the next step is serious disorder. The recent history of our prisons is littered with cautionary tales; the existence of 'no go' areas for example. From there it is a small step for prisoners realising there is no control, to taking control themselves. What went on at The Mount is unlikely to be an isolated incident.
William Hartley is a former deputy governor in HM Prison Service
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· One Great Hour of Sharing: It's not too late to give! Envelopes will be in this week's bulletin. Support projects that empowers and relieves suffering all over the world.
· Check out our UCC "Rainbow comma" on the smaller church sign facing Imperial Highway. Thanks to Randy Fowler and Ann Marshall for creating this welcoming graphic.
· Sunday, April 7: Worship at 10am. Theme: "Cultivating Our Values", Scripture: Luke 6:39-49.
· Thursday April 11: Worship Team meets at 6:30pm.
· Sunday April 14: Palm Sunday, and Rededication of our Native Garden. Thanks to those who helped refresh our Native Garden in the past few months! We will have a short liturgy at the end of worship.
· Save the dates: special Good Friday worship April 19, 7:30pm. And bring flowers on Easter to help transform our cross!
· Tai Chi Thursdays at 6:30pm in the Sanctuary. Dates for April will be the 18th and 25th.
· The BCUCC Theological Book Club will be reading, Making a Way Out of No Way, by Monica A. Coleman. Coleman articulates the African American expression of "making a way out of no way" in today's context of globalization, religious pluralism, and sexual diversity. Drawing on womanist religious scholarship and process thought, Coleman describes the symbiotic relationship between God and humanity that helps to change the world into the just society it ought to be. Come join the discussion on Wednesday, April 17 (note date change!) at 7:00 p.m. at the Hill household. Please email or phone Jim or Karen for directions at jandkhill@mac.com or 714-693-0261. See you then.
· Our California Native garden will be part of "California in My Garden", the OC California Native Plant Society garden tour, Saturday April 13, 10-4. To register for this free garden tour and receive the guide by mail, see occnps.org.
· Embrace our responsibility to be good stewards of God's earth.
· We feel God's presence in nature.
· We strive to treat the environment with respect; to preserve it for generations to come.
· We believe this is fundamentally Christian, and that we are called to care for one another and for all of God's creation.
· We recognize that those negatively affected by environmental degradation and an unstable climate are often those least able to cope and who need support.
· We will work to do our part, with God's help.


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Allostoma catinosum is een platworm (Platyhelminthes). De worm is tweeslachtig. De soort leeft in het zoute water.

Het geslacht Allostoma, waarin de platworm wordt geplaatst, wordt tot de familie Pseudostomidae gerekend. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1927 door Beklemishev.

Rhabditophora

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An electronic ballast uses solid state electronic circuitry to provide the proper starting and operating electrical conditions to power discharge lamps. An electronic ballast can be smaller and lighter than a comparably rated magnetic one. An electronic ballast is usually quieter than a magnetic one, which produces a line frequency hum by vibration of the transformer laminations.
Magnetic ballasts tend to be much easier to make than electric ballasts, so they have lower costs. These low costs can be attractive to buyers who must supply ballast for a large number of fluorescent bulbs, but it comes with a cost.
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Harmonics are generally classified by their name and frequency, for example, a 2 nd harmonic of the fundamental frequency at 100 Hz, and also by their sequence. Harmonic sequence refers to the phasor rotation of the harmonic voltages and currents with respect to the fundamental waveform in a balanced, 3 phase 4 wire system.
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Join the Kent Branch on a walk north of Shoreham, where we hope to see Dark Green Fritillary and other summer butterflies.
Join the Kent Branch on a walk in High Elms Country Park to see Silver-washed Fritillary and White Admiral butterflies, amongst others.
Join the Kent Branch at White Hill Reserve and Fackenden Down looking for late season downland species, Chalkhill Blue.


Welcome to the second in a series of posts on A Course in Miracles! If you missed last week's entry, ACIM is a self-study program that teaches your mind to view the world in a more forgiving and peaceful light. It consists of 365 lessons that we meditate on every day for a year. Two years ago I tried going through it on my own but I got lost. Now I've started again with the support of a study group and a great teacher, so fingers crossed I'll be able to see it through to the end - all 365 days of ACIM!
With that optimistic note behind me, I should confess that I didn't follow any of the lectures during the week and instead of studying them one day at a time, I am going through them now. I know, it's awful, ACIM works best in bite sized chunks. But anyhow, let's get started with Week 2.
I have taken the headings below from the A Course in Miracles website but the interpretations are my own. If you missed my first post READ IT HERE.
Day 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
Last week we ended with the concept that wherever we look, we see the past whether it's pink nail polish taking you back to your first school dance, tardiness taking you back to a mom who was always running late, and even happy memories like icing on the cake reminding us of birthdays. Our experiences start to condition our thoughts and our expectations, so that in time we look at a person's dress code (or their gender) and make assumptions about them. Our thoughts lend a voice to those assumptions and for this reason, our mind is preoccupied with thoughts about the past. We can remove this filter by taking a step back and realizing that our thoughts about X, Y or Z are really about the past.
Day 9: I see nothing as it is now.
One of the things I love about energy healing, is how each session is unique. I tend to tune into my client's energy field clairvoyantly to get a sense of what needs to be healed or cleared. The impressions come as pictures, feelings or even cartoons, illustrating the world that they live in. Every healing is a surprise, it's own movie starring John or Sally. Pretty soon it also becomes apparent that we all have different filters, based on our experiences. Some people see love through rose colored glasses, other have a cynical filter. We can each be presented with the same opportunity and nevertheless have completely different reactions to it: hope, excitement, cynicism or apathy. We don't see the world objectively; instead we see what our experiences led us to expect.
Day 10: My thoughts do not mean anything.
I could interpret this one one of two ways - my study group is tomorrow so we'll see what the teacher has to say about it. The more obvious meaning (pardon the pun) is that our thoughts don't have the significance we think they have, because we're viewing the present through the lens of our own assumptions.
Your friend Mary cancels dinner plans yet again and you think "oh, she always has something better to do" But maybe this time, her babysitter did cancel last minute. Or she's been so stressed at work that her social life has been put on the back burner, it's not personal.
We don't know the reason for things, so our thoughts about those things are at best irrelevant and at worst, damaging. This brings me to the second way of interpreting today's phrase: are our thoughts significant? On any given day, the average human has 50-70 thoughts. How many of them are significant? How many of them are true? How many of them are products of the subconscious?
Day 11: My meaningless thoughts show me a meaningless world.
Without knowing the reason for things, or even the reality, the external world really does seem meaningless. Especially all of the sad and upsetting events around the world. Let's take the recent attacks in Paris and Lebanon, a real tragedy where hundreds of innocent people were killed. I can't help wonder what goes on in the mind of a person who hurts others that way. Calling them evil would be too simple, it's more likely a mix of politics, power struggles, fear and manipulation gone wrong.
A few months ago I watched an excellent interview with Queen Rania of Jordan and Arianna Huffington, where they explored some of the socioeconomic conditions that play a role. There is always a reason, and if we understand it maybe we can find a solution. I don't know what it is, but my intuition tells me that education plays a part.
Day 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
This one is all too easy to make sense of, given recent events. We see things that can only be described as painful and they make no sense. It's upsetting. Today's concept reminds us that we are upset because we see no rhyme or reason for the pain in the world. If we could understand the pain by seeing the causes for all the "effects", we'd understand the world and our place in it.
Day 13: A meaningless world engenders fear.
A few years ago I applied for a job as a Global Brand Manager. The interviewer told me that in order to do well, the candidate had to feel comfortable with high levels of uncertainty. In their environment plans changed all the time, projects were abandoned at the last minute, goals would change. You'd never know if the thing you were working on today would be useful or meaningful tomorrow. The only solution was to accept that uncertainty and live with it. Today's phrase reminds me of that interview (I didn't get the job). If living in a chaotic world is stressful, your best bet is to learn to live with it and find a way to trust. Otherwise we end up anxious, always waiting for the other shoe to drop. A Course in Miracles tells us to trust that there is a reason, one we don't see.
Day 14: God did not create a meaningless world.
Whether or not you believe in a Higher Power, we all have our reasons for doing what we do. In my humble opinion, most of the tragedies on earth are man made, whether it's war, poverty, and climate change (which will bring about more and more natural disasters). There is a reason for all of this, often rooted in human egos, free will and selfishness born out of fear. The world isn't meaningless, it just takes a little work to change our mindset and understand it.
What is the purpose of us being here? I mean really - if we are infinite beings why would we choose to come here to experience disease and violence and sadness, even it it comes with joy and love too?
My gut feeling is that it was never meant to be this way, we've created it and we can change it if we change our consciousness. I wrote a series of posts leading up to the New Year and peace and prosperity, see here for details.
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The surname "Eshenaur" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Histopolis currently has 1 grave(s) with the surname "Eshenaur".
Search the Histopols Grave Index for the surname "Eshenaur".
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Surnames that Sound Like "Eshenaur"
The surname "Eshenaur" has a Soundex code of E256. The following 83 surname(s) may sound similar to "Eshenaur" since they share the same Soundex code.


1. To make shorter; to epitomize; to contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense in substance - used of writings.
Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius.
2. To lessen; to diminish; as to abridge labor; to abridge power of rights.
3. To deprive; to cut off from; followed by of; as to abridge one of his rights, or enjoyments. to abridge from, is now obsolete or improper.
4. In algebra, to reduce a compound quantity or equation to its more simple expression. The equation thus abridged is called a formula.
To make shorter; to epitomize; to contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense in substance-used of writings; as, Justin abridged the history of Trojius Pompeius.
To lessen; to diminish; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. – Smith.
To deprive; to cut oil from; followed by of; as, to abridge one of his rights, or enjoyments. To abridge from, is now obsolete or improper.
In algebra, to reduce a compound quantity or equation to its more simple expression. The equation thus abridged is called a formula.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
"The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett.
She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
1. A plant of the genus Celtis, the lote-tree, of several species. The wood of one species is very durable, and is used for timber. In Italy, flutes and other wind-instruments are made of it, and in England it is used for the frames of coaches, &c.


Urine testing for weed is common practice across America and in many countries around the world. Blood testing, on the other hand, is a more serious manner. In most cases, if you have had your blood taken and tested for cannabis use, its because you've had a run-in with the law. For those living in legalized states, you might need to know just how long does THC stay in your blood?
Increasingly, blood tests are gaining traction as an intoxication testing tool for cannabis consumption. Just like you might receive a breathalyzer if an officer suspects you've been driving under the influence, you could now be asked to submit a blood test for cannabis. Despite the increase in use, the results of blood tests are still in dispute.
Blood tests are used almost exclusively during roadside stops. If a police officer believes you are stoned out of your tree, he'll do a few quick sobriety tests and then request a blood test. The officer himself cannot perform the analysis. Instead, a registered nurse or another medical professional will perform it.
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De Verklaring van de rechten van de vrouw en van de burgeres (Frans: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), ook bekend als de Verklaring van de rechten van de vrouw, werd op 14 september 1791 geschreven door de Franse activiste, feministe, en toneelschrijver Olympe de Gouges in reactie op de Verklaring van de rechten van de mens en de burger uit 1789. Door dit document op 15 september te publiceren, hoopte De Gouges de fouten van de Franse Revolutie in verband met de erkenning van gendergelijkheid aan het licht te brengen. De Gouges werd voor haar geschriften beschuldigd, berecht en veroordeeld voor verraad, wat resulteerde in haar onmiddellijke executie. Ze is een van de drie vrouwen die onthoofd werd tijdens de periode van Terreur en de enige die werd geëxecuteerd voor haar politieke geschriften.

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Olympe de Gouges schreef haar beroemde Verklaring van de rechten van de vrouw en de vrouwelijke burger kort nadat de Franse grondwet van 1791 was geratificeerd door koning Lodewijk XVI van Frankrijk. Ze droeg de tekst op aan zijn vrouw, koningin Marie Antoinette. De nieuwe Franse grondwet was gebaseerd op het burgerschap. Burgers werden gedefinieerd als mannen boven de 25, waren "onafhankelijk" en hadden de hoofdelijke belasting betaald. Enkel deze burgers hadden stemrecht. Bovendien was actief burgerschap tweeledig, zij die konden stemmen en zij die geschikt waren voor een openbaar ambt. Vrouwen kregen per definitie geen rechten op actief burgerschap, ze behoorden tot de groep van mannen die de hoofdelijke belasting niet konden betalen, kinderen, huispersoneel, dagloners en slaven op het platteland, joden, acteurs en beulen. Bij de overdracht van de soevereiniteit aan de natie, ontmantelde de grondwet de ancien régime, maar Gouges betoogde dat het niet ver genoeg ging, omdat vrouwen geen politieke rechten hadden. Dit werd gevolgd door haar Contrat Social ("Sociaal Contract", genoemd naar een beroemd werk van Jean-Jacques Rousseau), waarin een huwelijk werd voorgesteld op basis van gendergelijkheid.

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De Gouges wilde met het pamflet duidelijk maken dat universeel gedachte burgerrechten zoals het recht van meningsuiting en het vrije woord, impliciet alleen voor mannen waren gedacht. In haar visie is een vrouw niet hetzelfde als een man maar zijn ze wel gelijkwaardige partners. Ze eiste het recht op dat vrouwen de beroepsladder op dezelfde manier konden beklimmen als mannen. De declaratie werd in heel Frankrijk en ver daarbuiten verspreid door herdrukken en het inspireerde de britse schrijfster en denker Mary Wollstonecraft tot het schrijven van de A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. Ook in Amerika sloeg de idee aan van gelijkwaardigheid in rechten van man en vrouw en tijdens de eerste Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, 1848, stelden aanwezigen de Declaration of Sentiments op in de stijl van het pamflet van De Gouges. In deze periode is het begrip 'vrouwenrechten' geboren.

Tekst
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne

Zie ook
Nicolas de Condorcet
Etta Palm
Mars op Versailles

Franse Revolutie
Gender
Mensenrechteninstrument
Feminisme


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Northern District of Alabama
Robert O. Posey
Contact: Peggy Sanford
www.justice.gov/usao-ndal
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Two as Repeat Felons Possessing Firearms
BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury late Thursday indicted two men, both with multiple prior felony convictions, for illegally possessing firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
Separate and unrelated indictments filed in U.S. District Court charge ARTHUR McCALL JR., 42, of Birmingham, and TERRY ROY WILLIAMS, 45, of Jackson County, with being convicted felons in possession of firearms.
According to McCall's one-count indictment, he possessed a Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic pistol on June 3, 2016, in Jefferson County. McCall's prior felony convictions listed in the indictment are: unlawful possession of a controlled substance, June 2007, Shelby County District Court; second-degree assault, March 2011, Shelby County District Court; first-degree unlawful possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, December 2004, Morgan County Circuit Court; and, all in Jefferson County Circuit Court, unlawful possession and receiving a controlled substance, July 1996, third-degree robbery, February 1999, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, June 2005, and first-degree possession of marijuana, July 2010.
Williams' two-count indictment charges him with possessing a destructive device, similar to an explosive grenade, on July 6, 2016, in Jackson County. Williams' prior felony convictions listed in the indictment are: bank robbery, February 1994, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma; third-degree burglary and second-degree property theft, January 1995, Etowah County Circuit Court; first-degree property theft, August 1999, Jackson County Circuit Court; and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, November 2002, Jackson County Circuit Court.
A second count in Williams' indictment charges him with possessing a destructive device that he did not register with the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. The device he possessed should have been registered because it expelled a projectile by explosive discharge and it had a barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter, according to the indictment.
The maximum penalty for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The maximum penalty for possessing an unregistered firearm is 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
ATF investigated the cases, which the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama is prosecuting.
An indictment contains only charges. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Nashville Field Division