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namespace AppBundle\Entity\Transaction;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Validator\Constraints\UniqueEntity;
use AppBundle\Entity\Common\CodeNumberEntity;
use AppBundle\Entity\Admin\Staff;
use AppBundle\Entity\Master\VehicleModel;
use AppBundle\Entity\Master\Supplier;

/**
 * @ORM\Table(name="transaction_purchase_delivery_order")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="AppBundle\Repository\Transaction\PurchaseDeliveryOrderRepository")
 */
class PurchaseDeliveryOrder extends CodeNumberEntity
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer") @ORM\Id @ORM\GeneratedValue
     */
    private $id;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="date")
     * @Assert\NotNull() @Assert\Date()
     */
    private $transactionDate;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="date")
     * @Assert\Date()
     */
    private $dueDate;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=20)
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $reference;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="smallint")
     * @Assert\NotNull() @Assert\GreaterThan(2010)
     */
    private $vehicleProductionYear;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=20)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $vehicleChassisNumber;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=20)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $vehicleMachineNumber;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=100)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $vehicleDescription;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="text")
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $note;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="boolean")
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $isStock;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Master\Supplier")
     */
    private $supplier;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Master\VehicleModel", inversedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrders")
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $vehicleModel;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Admin\Staff")
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $staffFirst;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Admin\Staff")
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $staffLast;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="SaleOrder", inversedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrders")
     */
    private $saleOrder;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="ReceiveOrder", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $receiveOrder;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="PurchaseInvoiceDetailUnit", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $purchaseInvoiceDetailUnit;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="PurchaseInvoiceHeader", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $purchaseInvoiceHeaders;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="DepositHeader", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $depositHeaders;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="ExpenseHeader", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $expenseHeaders;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="JournalVoucherHeader", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $journalVoucherHeaders;
    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Report\JournalLedger", mappedBy="purchaseDeliveryOrder")
     */
    private $journalLedgers;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->purchaseInvoiceHeaders = new ArrayCollection();
        $this->depositHeaders = new ArrayCollection();
        $this->expenseHeaders = new ArrayCollection();
        $this->journalVoucherHeaders = new ArrayCollection();
        $this->journalLedgers = new ArrayCollection();
    }

    public function getCodeNumberConstant()
    {
        return 'PDO';
    }

    public function getId() { return $this->id; }

    public function getTransactionDate() { return $this->transactionDate; }
    public function setTransactionDate($transactionDate) { $this->transactionDate = $transactionDate; }

    public function getDueDate() { return $this->dueDate; }
    public function setDueDate($dueDate) { $this->dueDate = $dueDate; }

    public function getReference() { return $this->reference; }
    public function setReference($reference) { $this->reference = $reference; }

    public function getVehicleProductionYear() { return $this->vehicleProductionYear; }
    public function setVehicleProductionYear($vehicleProductionYear) { $this->vehicleProductionYear = $vehicleProductionYear; }

    public function getVehicleChassisNumber() { return $this->vehicleChassisNumber; }
    public function setVehicleChassisNumber($vehicleChassisNumber) { $this->vehicleChassisNumber = $vehicleChassisNumber; }

    public function getVehicleMachineNumber() { return $this->vehicleMachineNumber; }
    public function setVehicleMachineNumber($vehicleMachineNumber) { $this->vehicleMachineNumber = $vehicleMachineNumber; }

    public function getVehicleDescription() { return $this->vehicleDescription; }
    public function setVehicleDescription($vehicleDescription) { $this->vehicleDescription = $vehicleDescription; }

    public function getNote() { return $this->note; }
    public function setNote($note) { $this->note = $note; }

    public function getIsStock() { return $this->isStock; }
    public function setIsStock($isStock) { $this->isStock = $isStock; }

    public function getVehicleModel() { return $this->vehicleModel; }
    public function setVehicleModel(VehicleModel $vehicleModel = null) { $this->vehicleModel = $vehicleModel; }

    public function getSupplier() { return $this->supplier; }
    public function setSupplier(Supplier $supplier = null) { $this->supplier = $supplier; }

    public function getStaffFirst() { return $this->staffFirst; }
    public function setStaffFirst(Staff $staffFirst = null) { $this->staffFirst = $staffFirst; }

    public function getStaffLast() { return $this->staffLast; }
    public function setStaffLast(Staff $staffLast = null) { $this->staffLast = $staffLast; }

    public function getSaleOrder() { return $this->saleOrder; }
    public function setSaleOrder(SaleOrder $saleOrder = null) { $this->saleOrder = $saleOrder; }

    public function getPurchaseInvoiceDetailUnit() { return $this->purchaseInvoiceDetailUnit; }
    public function setPurchaseInvoiceDetailUnit(PurchaseInvoiceDetailUnit $purchaseInvoiceDetailUnit = null) { $this->purchaseInvoiceDetailUnit = $purchaseInvoiceDetailUnit; }

    public function getReceiveOrder() { return $this->receiveOrder; }
    public function setReceiveOrder(ReceiveOrder $receiveOrder = null) { $this->receiveOrder = $receiveOrder; }

    public function getPurchaseInvoiceHeaders() { return $this->purchaseInvoiceHeaders; }
    public function setPurchaseInvoiceHeaders(Collection $purchaseInvoiceHeaders) { $this->purchaseInvoiceHeaders = $purchaseInvoiceHeaders; }

    public function getDepositHeaders() { return $this->depositHeaders; }
    public function setDepositHeaders(Collection $depositHeaders) { $this->depositHeaders = $depositHeaders; }

    public function getExpenseHeaders() { return $this->expenseHeaders; }
    public function setExpenseHeaders(Collection $expenseHeaders) { $this->expenseHeaders = $expenseHeaders; }

    public function getJournalVoucherHeaders() { return $this->journalVoucherHeaders; }
    public function setJournalVoucherHeaders(Collection $journalVoucherHeaders) { $this->journalVoucherHeaders = $journalVoucherHeaders; }

    public function getJournalLedgers() { return $this->journalLedgers; }
    public function setJournalLedgers(Collection $journalLedgers) { $this->journalLedgers = $journalLedgers; }

    public function sync()
    {
        if ($this->isStock) {
            $this->saleOrder = null;
        }
    }
}


What do you understand by the word CANDIDATE PERSONA?
It's a term which has come from the popular marketing term 'buyer persona'.
Though the hiring process can be mapped with the sales process, it's much more different than that.
We can look at the sales process and buyer persona as an analogy to understand how we can implement certain sales principles in the hiring process for a better outcome, and CANDIDATE PERSONA is one of those principles.
A typical marketing and sales cycle starts from creating awareness and ends with a purchase. Logically, when it comes to the hiring process, we do the same thing. We want to create awareness about what we have to offer to potential candidates, generate interest, let them see the opportunity lies in our offer, let us and them evaluate each other and finally make an offer as all looks good.
If we look at this entire process, the key is the rate of conversion.
When you have too many candidates in awareness phase and only a little get onboard, then your efforts go to waste.
Which costs you a huge loss of time and money.
Have you ever thought what could make the conversion rate high, so we get more with less?
Attract the attention of right candidates at your offer. The more pass through the funnel, higher will be the conversion rate with lesser effort and a quick turn around.
Now, let's take a look the trick of getting the right candidates at the top.
Candidate personas are fictional, generalized representations of your ideal candidates. They help you to understand your prospective candidates better, and make it easier for your hiring process to fill in specific positions that match with the role and responsibilities, and overall meet the expectations the business has from the candidates.
Good candidate personas are based on your detailed analysis of the candidate profile, which you gather from your business through interviews and discussions. Depending on the range of positions and overall organization structure, you could have a separate candidate persona for each of those positions.
Do you also need negative candidate personas?
Whereas a candidate persona is a representation of an ideal candidate, a negative persona is a representation of who you don't want as a candidate.
When you know what you don't want, it becomes easier to look for what you want.
At the minimum, candidate personas allow you to target your recruitment for different open positions.
For example, instead of sending the same company profile and relevant job description to everyone in your list of filtered candidates, you can segment by candidate persona and tailor your communication depending on what you know about those different personas.
If you take the time to create negative candidate personas, you'll have the added advantage of being able to segment out the "bad apples" from your sources, which can help you achieve a lower cost-per-position, and get the higher outcome from your recruitment efforts.
How can you create CANDIDATE PERSONAS?
Candidate personas are created through detailed analysis based on information collected through interviews of the business that led to the specific opening. That is not enough as you might want to consider your past experience in recruiting a specific position. If you already have some data about it, you might be able to create an effective and useful persona.
Look through your database to uncover trends about how certain positions were filled and feedback from the business about their experience working with those candidates post recruitment.
When creating questionnaire for the interview, ask questions that capture important persona information. For example, as all of your personas vary based on various positions the business has, ask information about team size, work culture, team profile, etc. You could also gather information on what forms of social media your existing team members use.
Also, take into consideration existing team's feedback on the recent recruit they are interacting and working with.
Now that you know all about candidate personas, and how to use them while keeping negative candidate personas aside, we hope this will help you out to reach your perfect candidate.
Check out our previous blogs too, in order to get some more information about hiring and recruiting.
Stay tuned until we get back to you, soon!


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An Unusual Arctic Guest: Saudi's King visiting Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. (Photo: The Kremlin, Moscow)
Published at: Oct 17 2017 - 15:35 / Updated at: Oct 17 2017 - 15:35
Early October, the city of Moscow offered a platform to a signal event: the first ever state visit to Russia by a reigning Saudi monarch. And King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud did not come alone. His entourage included a high-profile delegation and the prospects of joint cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia in the fields of trade, investment and regional conflict resolution.
From Andreas Raspotnik & Stefan Steinicke
Early October, the city of Moscow offered a platform to a signal event: the first ever state visit to Russia by a reigning Saudi monarch. And King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (81) did not come alone. His entourage included a high-profile delegation and the prospects of joint cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia in the fields of trade, investment and regional conflict resolution.
The state visit was anything but usual. Over the last few decades the two countries have rather been at odds with each other - to put it mildly. Tensions over diverging interests in the Middle East or the states' predominant roles in the global oil market have only fostered mutual distrust.
"There have been on-going talks about President Putin and King Salman meeting but it is rather surprising that the King actually came to Russia, especially at his age", says Mark N. Katz, Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University and former Visiting Senior Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
Bilateral Rapprochement on the Horizon
However, the Russian-Saudi relationship is about to change. Signalled as a turning point in Middle East politics and new era of bilateral cooperation, Moscow and Riyadh have mutually agreed on several joint investment deals. Agreements that range from oil, military to even space collaboration and are about to pour billions of dollars into the Russian economy. Moreover, President Putin and King Salman announced that they will continue to work on stabilizing world oil markets, a joint effort that originates in Russia having joined an OPEC-led production cut agreement in November 2016. Then, the two states joined forces to restrict oil output in order to prop up global oil prices.
The official visit of King Salman was, however, not the first sign of convergence between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman appraised the current relationship as "going through one of the best moments", when visiting Moscow himself back in May this year. It has been argued that the crown princes' personal efforts, fuelled by political and economic pragmatism and the willingness to repress ideological differences on both sides, positively impacted the thawing relations between Moscow and Riyadh.
"Saudi Arabia is very much interested in developing its relationship with Russia, especially as an international counterweight to its long-lasting relations with the U.S.", Katz continues.
About the Why
Also Russia has considerable interests in enhanced financial investments and strengthened economic ties, especially in the light of still existing EU and American sanctions over Russia's military intervention in Ukraine in 2014.
"Saudi Arabia never really showed an interest in the conflict over Ukraine, a fact that is well perceived by President Putin. With Russia also becoming more and more dependent on China, an intensified relationship with Arab countries as such can only be of advantage for Russia", Katz points out.
Already in 2015, it was announced that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) - the Kingdom's sovereign wealth fund - will allocate USD 10 billion over a period of five years, investing especially in infrastructure and agriculture projects in Russia. Following the state visit now, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) proposed that the two funds will invest USD 1 billion across sectors such as petrochemicals, power, logistics, transport infrastructure and retail. Another USD 1 billion is also about to be invested in a Russian-Saudi technology platform, focused at identifying investment opportunities in the Russian technology sector, including digital infrastructure and big data.
And yet, cooperation is not a one-way street with one of the partners being a 'financial goodwill ambassador' only. The meetings have also seen Saudi Arabia signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the purchase of S-400 air defence systems from Russia and included further cooperation announcements to develop the Arab state's own military industries. These efforts are (most likely) part of a larger arms deal, worth USD 3.5 billion, that was mentioned by the General Director of the Russian state corporation Rostec in July of this year. This is an extraordinary move as Saudi Arabia, so far, has been a close ally of the US and therefore heavily reliant on military cooperation with Washington. In sum, it is indicative of a potential shift in global power structures.
However, in contrast to these economic convergences, no substantial breakthroughs have been reached on the political level. Both states still disagree over substantial aspects of regional affairs in the Middle East and the Gulf region, such as the controversial role of Iran, the situation in Yemen or the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad. But although the emerging ties remain rather fragile, political disagreements no longer prevent economic rapprochement.
What about the Arctic?
It is in the context of a changing international order and the emergence of new and previously unimaginable alliances that the Arctic comes into the spotlight of Saudi-Russian energy cooperation. Already in 2016, at a G20 summit in China, Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to cooperate on stabilising global oil markets and eventually did so in the aforementioned OPEC-deal. Then in 2017, Saudi Aramco was offered a participating role in Russia's Arctic LNG-2 project, led by Russia's largest private gas producer Novatek.
The Arctic LNG-2 project, located near Gydan peninsula in northern West Siberia, is supposed to be the second large scale Arctic LNG project in Russia, after Yamal LNG, with an annual production capacity of 18 million tons of LNG per year. It has been reported that a MoU between companies of both countries has been under discussion since at least summer 2017. However, Saudi Aramco has so far denied plans of taking a stake in Arctic LNG-2.
"Saudi Arabia is not particularly interested in Arctic oil and gas developments; mainly due to competitive reasons", Katz states.
And yet, the rationale behind Russian-Saudi Arctic gas cooperation is not far-fetched. Both countries still suffer from the US shale gas revolution, as it led to a global gas production glut. Closer cooperation between the two energy superpowers could ease the situation. In addition, the Kingdom aims to reduce its oil-dependence for energy generation by switching to gas. Finally, as Russia is still suffering from Western sanctions, it looks for foreign investment from other parts of the world. It is also against this background, that Saudi investments into Arctic-LNG 2 are welcomed by Russian counterparts - not least because Moscow aims to increase its share in the global LNG market from currently 5% to 10% in 2020.
And for the Future?
What seems obvious is the fact that the changing global order increasingly affects political and economic affairs in the Arctic, too.
"The Arctic does not have its own geopolitics separate from that of the rest of the world," Katz noted. "What happens elsewhere affects the Arctic, and vice versa." A potential Saudi engagement in the region is only the latest sign of the region's accelerating global integration. What is worth noting, from a Western perspective, is the increasing strategic clout of external actors, like China and Saudi Arabia, in the Arctic. It shows the limited influence of Western sanctions on Russia's capability to develop its northern economy. As a result, more often than not, Russia might side with these external actors on Arctic and other matters. The West will have to think about how to encounter such a development.
Mark N. Katz, Professor of Government and Politics in the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in 2017. (Photo: Len Spoden Photography
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God of the Serengeti - drugi studyjny album amerykańskiego rapera o pseudonimie Vinnie Paz. Premiera odbyła się 22 października 2012 roku. Płytę wyprodukowało wielu producentów muzycznych w tym między innymi DJ Premier. Wśród gości pojawili się m.in. Mobb Deep, Kool G Rap, Immortal Technique, La Coka Nostra, Tragedy Khadafi czy R.A. the Rugged Man.

Lista utworów
 "Shadow of the Guillotine" (gościnnie Q-Unique)
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 "The Oracle"
 "And Your Blood Will Blot Out the Sun" (gościnnie Immortal Technique & Poison Pen)
 "Last Breath" (gościnnie Chris Rivers & Whispers)
 "Crime Library" (gościnnie Blaq Poet)
 "Feign Submission (Intermission)"
 "Duel to the Death (gościnnie Mobb Deep)
 "Problem Solver" (gościnnie Scarface)
 "Battle Hymn" (gościnnie Apathy, King Syze, Crypt the Warchild, Jus Allah, Esoteric, Blacastan, Celph Titled & Planetary)
 "Geometry of Business" (gościnnie La Coka Nostra)
 "Jake Lamotta"
 "7 Fires of Prophecy" (gościnnie Tragedy Khadafi)
 "Cheesesteaks"
 "Cold Dark and Empty" (gościnnie FT & Smoke)
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 "Wolves Amongst the Sheep" (gościnnie Kool G. Rap & Block Mcloud)
 "You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train"

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Maybe the iPad Pro won't be upgraded today. The high-end tablet series wasn't mentioned in any of the sitemap files that leaked. With that said, Apple could wait a bit longer to debut the new iPad Pro models that have been expected for several months.
The leaked sitemap files have already exposed the new iPhone models and Apple Watch models.
After it eventually becomes official, the iPad Pro (2018) should have two sizes and a whole bunch of internal advancements. But the main difference will be its ultra-thin bezel. Like the iPhone, the iPad Pro is likely to transition over to gesture-based controls and rely on facial recognition for authentication.
Other products that are expected to appear at Apple's hardware-focused unveiling include the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and Apple Watch Series 4.
The new iPad Pro models, however, could still be introduced in 2018. Multiple media outlets have suggested that Apple would launch the high-end tablets as well as additional Mac models during another event this fall. It would probably take place in October so that everything ships in time for the holidays.


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Rising to a pointed top.
Zoology. Joined together in a tapering adhering group.
Botany. A. Erect and parallel, as branches. B. Having such branches.
Fastigiate comes from the Latin word fastīgi which meant "height."
Going commandtoe is when you wear shoes without socks. Often done in the summer or if no socks are available. Does not apply to when wearing sandals/flip-flops because socks in that context would just be wrong anyway.
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And after that, she taught her how to talk.
With only a few days left until her birthday, Alex worked on a third portrait; each one getting better than the first.
Now that Isabella was fully mobile, she made her way around the house. Several times she wandered off and they couldn't find her. I guess her favorite game is Hide and Seek.
The family got closer and started spending more time together on the weekends when everyone was home from work and school. Mark taught Christy how to play with blocks.
That night, Mark grew into a teenager, Suzanna grew into an elder, and the twins grew into children.
Now that there were no toddlers in the house, they moved the cribs into the attic and redecorated the girls bedroom into something they could appreciate as children and hopefully teenagers as well.


I grew up in an alternative environment based on spirituality and creativity.
In a home where meditation was practiced daily and where both parents worked creatively, my basic building blocks became an alternative approach to life and how it can be perceived and lived.
My father, Preben Bredahl Breds was one of the first commercials film instructors from Gutenberghus Advertising back in the 1960s. He has also written and exhibited 'the history of toilets', started a sports museum, as well as written numerous opinion pieces and articles. My mother Kirta Wandel has taught meditation, massage, coaching and been living as a painter and artist for the past 45 years. My stepfather for 27 years, Jacob Branner, is a physician and psychiatrist, who has had an alternative approach to psychiatry.
As far back as I remember, I have always been sitting among my mother's fabric piles on the floor. She used fabrics scraps for her paintings. Our basement was filled bags of discarded textiles, which I was free to use in any form of creativity. From a very early age I began to change the design of my own clothes, sew clothes for dolls.
Already as a young girl I was concerned about consumption and the misuse of the earth's resources in the western world. This manifested itself during puberty as I became a punk who protested against the world's injustices, hunger, wars, the slaughter of endangered species and the felling of the rainforest.
At 12 years old, I read the British anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall's book In the Shadow of Man, which left a deep impression on me. Another book by Gerald Durell My Family and Other Animals helped to shape my interest and respect for nature and animals in this wonderful world.
So I separated myself very quickly and took a position. All my clothing was black with holes and worn out. My hair was dyed black. Once in a while I was bald on the sides, donning a mowhawk. Tampons were used as earrings and a spider web was likely painted across my face. In all these years, my greatest wish was to become a zoologist or biologist, but as time went on, the creative abilities and the desire to continue working in the world of textiles took precedent.
When my protests had been lived out through my visual expression, I started as a young student at the Danish Design school and began volunteering in the National Association Experimental Animals Protection. This gave me a very different perspective on the opportunities that could be created by being educated as a fashion designer.
Christiane Branner Wilton, my younger sister, is the owner of LUBAROL, a store in central Copenhagen, which has repeatedly received reconiction as one of the city's most exclusive boutiques.
Troels Bredahl, my younger brother is living abroad as an independent contractor.
Marianne Breds Geoffroy, my older sister, is a specialist in psychiatry.


Cuba and Mexico have a long history of exchange and interaction. Cubans traveled to Mexico to work, engage in politics from afar, or expand businesses. Dalia Antonia Muller's Cuban Emigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) restores lost histories of those migrations, focusing particularly on political exiles in the nineteenth century who found, in cities like Veracruz, Merida and Mexico City, other people and resources with which to engage in anti-colonial struggles from afar. The double story of diplomatic ambivalence towards Cuban struggles for independence alongside and in contrast to popular support for those struggles makes for fascinating reading.


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Noah Calderon's newly released "The Marriage Riddle" is a profound guide for handling marital problems.
"The Marriage Riddle: Preventive Measures For Married Life—A Collection of Insights and Practices for Conflict Resolution and Unity" from Christian Faith Publishing author Noah Calderon explores the challenging hurdles and problems of marriage life and offers a direction towards rebuilding and strengthening relationships.
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Calderon shares, "In addition to providing very realistic and down- to- earth answers to the challenges most married couples face, The Marriage Riddle…
Presents several insights and practices, such as the four steps to communicate without arguing, how to stop controlling, how to see with the heart, and the art of letting, listening, and understanding to name a few.
Describes how to navigate the social and emotional dynamics of marital conflict without allowing our emotions to take the driver's seat.
Outlines some of the most basic concepts we tend to overlook when encountering marital hiccups, with relevance to what fits into a rapidly changing world.
Provides a fulfilling method for couples to fine-tune their connection, leading them perhaps into new territories of the heart, mind, and spirit."
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Q: What is "Rotational Invariance" in the context of qubits In this question the state, $\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|00\right\rangle +\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|01\right\rangle +\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|11\right\rangle$, has been said in the answers to not be able to collapse into $\frac{1}{2}|11\rangle \langle11| + \frac{1}{2}|00\rangle \langle00|$ after measuring a $|0\rangle$ in the first qubit because this would break "rotational invariance".
I understand mathematically that we project the state into $|0\rangle\langle0|\otimes1\!\!1$ and it becomes $|0\rangle\otimes(|0\rangle+|1\rangle)/\sqrt{2}$.
(Phrasing the question in a way suggested by the comments:) If I consider the situation in which a measurement the 1st qubit in the 0,1 basis causes the second qubit to collapses in the 0,1 basis - why would this break rotational invariance? (And is this method of evauluation a useful way of investigating measuring qubits in general?)

A: Let's say we are using the -- incorrect -- rule that upon measuring the first qubit in the $\{|0\rangle,|1\rangle\}$ basis and obtaining the $|0\rangle$ outcome, the second qubit collapses in the $\{|0\rangle,|1\rangle\}$ basis, i.e. on $|00\rangle$ and $|01\rangle$.
Our test state is
$$
|\Psi\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|00\right\rangle +\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|01\right\rangle +\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|11\right\rangle\ .
$$
By applying a Hadamard transformation to the second qubit, this becomes
$$
|\Phi\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|00\right\rangle +\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|10\right\rangle -\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left|11\right\rangle\ .
$$
Now let's apply our rule: In the first case, we get
$|00\rangle$ and $|01\rangle$, each with probability $1/2$. In the second case, we get $|00\rangle$ with probability $1$ -- and if we undo the rotation, we get $|0\rangle(|0\rangle+|1\rangle)/\sqrt{2}$ with unit probability, rather than the 50/50 mixture we got in the first case.
Thus, this scheme is not invariant under a basis transformation of the $B$ system -- depending in which basis I express my $B$ system (this is what the Hadamard does), I get different results.  So if you want a measurement scheme which gives the same result independent of the basis you choose for $B$, the proposed scheme does not work.

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The Korean men's short track team is back on top, winning the sixth leg of the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Short Track in Turin, Italy, on Sunday.
Hwang Dae-heon won gold in two races - 500 meters and 1,000 meters - while Kim Gun-woo and Lim Hyo-jun each picked up one gold.
Hwang started the event by winning the 500-meter race by clocking 41.128 seconds, .103 seconds ahead of Shaolin Sandor Liu of Hungary. Hwang added another gold medal in the 1,000-meter race, finishing ahead of his teammate Park Ji-won. Hwang clocked 1 minute and 27.257 seconds, .237 seconds ahead of Park. Hwang was the only male skater to win gold in two races.
Kim continued Korea's winning streak by adding gold in the men's 1,500-meter race on Saturday. Kim, the current World No. 1, clocked 2 minutes and 12.823 seconds to finish .404 seconds ahead of Hong Kyung-hwan.
Kim hoped to finish strong with another gold in the 500-meter race but ended up just behind Olympic gold medalist Lim, clocking 41.314 seconds. Kim finished .352 seconds behind Lim. By winning the race, Lim is now the World No. 1 in the men's 500 meters.
With Lim's gold, Korea took first place in all four individual races but failed to sweep the men's tournament after being penalized during the semifinals of the 5,000-meter relay. As Hong and Park each won a silver medal, all five Korean male skaters who competed at this World Cup managed to make it to the podium.
The Korean men's short track team had been making a comeback since the fifth leg of the World Cup, where the team also swept gold in the individual races.
Korea is a longtime powerhouse in short track. Of the 31 gold medals Korea has won at the Winter Olympics, 24 of them were won in	short track. Both the women's and men's teams have been hugely successful, although Korea is better known for its female short track speed skaters.
From the men's team, notable athletes include Kim Ki-hoon, who won two gold medals at the 1992 Games, Kim Dong-sung, who won 11 golds at the World Championships throughout his career, and Viktor An who won three golds at the 2006 Winter Olympics before defecting to Russia.
Lee Jung-su picked up two golds in Vancouver but, since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the men's team had been struggling. Once An moved to Russia, Korea finished without a single medal in the men's races in 2014 in Sochi.
At the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, Korea was expected to take gold in all the races but only finished with one gold.
Although Team Korea didn't do as well as expected, the men's team performance was enough to convince fans that men's short track speed skating was worth watching again as they won the most medals, at four. Korea finished with a gold, a silver and two bronze in the men's races.
Following the Olympics, the team failed to win a single gold medal at the first leg of the World Cup, but slowly improved as the series went on.
The men's success is even more promising as the team is younger than in previous years. This year, the Korean men's short track team's average age is 21, but they are just as experienced as the skaters from the past.
Both Lim and Hwang received medals at the Olympics and, aside from Lee June-seo, the youngest skater on the team, the other three skaters - Park, Kim and Hong - have regularly made it onto the national team.
Although there isn't a dominant male skater as in previous years, Korea has high expectations at the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympics, as all the team has the potential to receive medals in individual races.
As Korea had a strong finish at the last World Cup race of the season, the players will now train for the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, which will be held from Mar. 8 to 10 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This is going to be the most competitive event of the season among the Korean skaters as the top finisher from the event will automatically be selected for the national Korean short track team for the 2019-20 season.
For Korean skaters, the national team qualifier is often considered tougher than international events.


Zedi is a leading oil and gas technology and services company operating in Canada and the United States—managing 1.3 million sensors that generate over 47 million daily data points. Zedi's CTO chose to embed Tableau Server into the Zedi AccessTM platform, enabling customers to quickly spot equipment or production issues and prevent monetary loss. Zedi also uses Tableau internally, creating a single source of truth for financial and operations data. Tableau is transforming Zedi's approach to analysis, helping save the company two weeks per month on report creation. With help from Tableau, Zedi is creating market differentiation with their embedded service, reducing churn and sustaining a higher recurring revenue stream.
Tableau has the performance we need for our customers and the scalability required for our internal deployment.
Zedi AccessTM—Zedi's SaaS remote asset management solution—helps customers track the health of production equipment along with the production process that these assets support. Sensors located in customer upstream field operations send data back to the Zedi cloud platform, where it's stored in an Oracle database. Zedi shares the analytics output with customers over Tableau Server, embedded into Zedi AccessTM. Data updates in real time or on a scheduled basis, depending on the customer.
Previously, Zedi struggled to find an efficient, scalable analytics platform to integrate into Zedi AccessTM. "The old solution was really awkward and slow and clunky, and it just was not a good experience," said Doug Watt, Senior Technology Product Manager.
After proving the value of Tableau Server within Zedi AccessTM, the IT team adopted Tableau Desktop and Server internally to support analytics needs across the company.
Zedi's IT team manages data quality and governance, enabling business process owners to dive into their own analytics. "We've seen creativity and capability pop up all through the organization, leading to more innovative solutions to business challenges," says James Freeman, Chief Technology Officer.
Tableau is critical to delivering insights. [Tableau] allows customers to quickly sift through all the reams of data to get to the points that they most care about.
Doug Watt, Senior Technology Product Manager.
Typically an oil and gas producer wouldn't be able to spot production interruptions until the close of month in some cases.
If production suddenly falls off, companies often scramble to deploy field forces to deal with the issue. With Tableau dashboards, customers can spot, respond, and resolve issues within one day—reducing downtime and decreasing the monetary risk that comes with an outage.
"Tableau is critical to delivering those types of insights, because it's about how you visualize data in a way that's efficient and allows customers to quickly sift through all the reams of data to get to the points that they most care about," explains Doug.
Internally, the Zedi team uses Tableau to visualize the time-series structured data from over 1.3 million sensors deployed in the field. If a customers' sensors aren't calling in as normal, data from Zedi AccessTM displays as an outlier in Tableau and notifies the customer.
"We feel that it has helped differentiate us, allowing us to reduce churn and sustain our higher monthly recurring revenue," says James.
Similarly, if the team begins to see a trend in failed sensors, Zedi can proactively deploy field staff, preventing a potential disruption to production.
Zedi also uses Tableau to help support and grow its business. For example, Zedi's finance department brings data from Microsoft Dynamics GP into Tableau—transforming the company's approach to financial analytics.
Product managers are responsible for profit, loss, and financial reporting on different lines of business and solutions. Before introducing Tableau, the analytics team extracted data out of Microsoft Dynamics, bringing it into Microsoft Access and finally, Excel.
This process led to long reporting cycles of up to two days per month for each of Zedi's seven product owners. The data "was inconsistent, and everybody had their own different graphs, and they had their own different filters," recalls Doug. This led to confusion between product managers and the finance team and ultimately created distrust in the data.
With Tableau, the IT team built out a set of core dashboards with the finance team, which acts as a single source of truth for financial reporting for the whole company. "[The finance team] controls how they pull that data out, when they pull that data out, and what data needs to be in there," explains Doug.
With faster, more accurate reporting, Zedi reduced reporting time by two weeks per month, allowing employees to focus on more strategic projects that move the business forward.
Zedi continues to find creative ways to analyze internal data. For example, Zedi's analytics team recently started blending data from MS Dynamics and Salesforce in Tableau with plans to gain a 360-degree view of the customer experience from billing and customer care to actual use of the Zedi AccessTM product.
Along with sensors, Zedi also builds and manufacturers pump jacks. The team is starting to do predictive analytics in R, displaying the results in Tableau to make it easier to diagnose issues near real-time.
Zedi is now actively expanding applications of Zedi AccessTM and its underlying IoT platform to industries beyond oil and gas. Tableau will continue to play a crucial role as Zedi's analytics platform of choice due to its flexibility and configurability.


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Posts Tagged 'Art'
Posted in Interviews, tagged Art, Comics, Humor on March 13, 2012| 2 Comments »
When I was younger, I was a fan of comic books. My brother and my shelves were often stacked full of beat-up and leathered Archie Comics, X-Men, Asterix & Obelisk, and Calvin & Hobbes editions. Our mom earned the nickname Suzy because her short hair resembled Calvin's snarky and smart-mouthed friend, and though I always wanted to like the good girl Betty, I secretly preferred Veronica because we shared the same hair color (deep, I know). Comics were more than just escapist entertainment, they were characters we knew and loved. But often what was missing were characters we could also relate to, who shared similar backgrounds and stories. In Pakistan, those were few and far between.
Enter Kachee Goliyan, what the Express Tribune in October called, "The Pakistani version of Beavis & Butthead." Launched in June 2011 by two friends in their early 20s, Nofal Khan and Ramish Safa, Kachee Goliyan began as Pakistan's first online comic daily, aiming to "give Pakistan characters the masses could relate to," notes the inside cover of their latest issue. When I sat down with Nofal in January, he told me how Ramish and he would carpool to college from North Nazimabad – a 45-minute drive – cracking jokes along the way. Their shared humor fueled and inspired the main characters in KG – JC & Sufi, who, in the first issue of the series, resurrect legendary folk warrior Maula Jatt.
Since January, KG has released three comic books, both online and in print, and have gained increasing popularity in recent months. Their Facebook page boasts nearly 20,000 likes, and Nofal said they will increase their circulation to 10,000 print copies by April. Kachee Goliyan will also be the first Pakistani comic to be showcased at the (first ever) Middle East Film & Comic Con, taking place in Dubai at the end of next month. One of their largest and most surprising fan bases is in Hyderabad, where Nofal joked they "got their first taste of stardom…signing 100 copies [of Kachee Goliyan] in one day."
Currently, KG is in English, not Urdu. While the linguistic choice does narrow its audience, Nofal did indicate KG's plan to translate their work into Urdu, especially as they gain more traction. The comics are (for now, at least) free, with all incurred costs covered through ads and sponsors.As start-up entrepreneurs themselves, Nofal and Ramish want to provide ad space to other small entrepreneurs, and so far, they have garnered a high response from sponsors.
KG is free, Nofal explains, to create a demand for these local comic books, particularly since the current market is relatively non-existent. The founders also want to inspire other young artists (Ramish is the comic artist of the duo), encouraging readers to post fan art on the KG Facebook page, and want to eventually use their platform as an avenue for other would-be comic artists to publish their work. Nofal told me, "Pakistan is full of potential. People are currently outsourcing their creative work to the country…we need to tap into that potential and channel it properly" to further build the animation industry.
While Pakistan's animation industry is anything but saturated, there are other notable cartoonists, animators, and graphic novelists. Nigar Nazar is the first female cartoonist in Pakistan and the Founder of Gogi Studios. Jamal Kurshid is a graphic novelist who launched Wahid years ago, and Numair Abbas' Numairical Studios will be bringing a Simpsons-like cartoon set in Pakistan, for Pakistanis. The overarching aim of these artists are similar: provide characters and stories a local audience can relate to. The cartoon medium is an added plus – allowing for many of these stories to be more approachable & digestible.
For Nofal and Ramish, there's a plan – involving not just KG, but also building the market for local comic artists and consumers. Expect more brilliance from these young entrepreneurs – from merchandise to podcasts to – of course – more comics.
The Pakistan Granta Issue
Posted in Events, tagged Art on September 23, 2010| 8 Comments »
Granta Mag Cover (© Islam Gull, design by Michael Salu)
On Tuesday, I attended a really fascinating event at the Aicon Gallery in New York City. Entitled, "How to Talk About Pakistan," the event centered on Granta magazine's recent Pakistan issue and featured editor John Freeman, as well as Kiran Khalid (CNN producer), Mohsin Hamid (author of Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Lorraine Adams (journalist and author of The Room and the Chair), and Ayesha Nasir (journalist and filmmaker).
For those who don't know about Granta, it is an incredibly rich and textured publication first founded in 1889 but "reborn" in 1979. According to the website's About section, Granta "does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." The Observer once wrote of the magazine, "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world."
The Pakistan issue truly epitomizes this goal, containing 18 featured pieces by renowned writers and journalists like Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Hanif, Kamila Shamsie, Declan Walsh, Jane Perlez, and the aforementioned Hamid, Nasir, and Adams. A mix of memoirs, poems, fiction, and "reportage," the publication strives to showcase the nuances and complexities of Pakistan, a country so often talked about but so rarely understood.
The Tuesday discussion was ultimately important because it addressed this very issue – namely, how can writers be instrumental in closing the perception gap about Pakistan? Can fiction writers play a significant role in supplementing the news information that trickles down about Pakistan? And do writers have to be Pakistani or based in Pakistan in order to be legitimate resources on the country? Hamid, who recently moved back to Pakistan after years of being abroad, noted, "I felt that if I wanted to write about Pakistan, I needed to go back to Pakistan…or else I'd be wondering if my opinions were actually my own, or ones that I had heard that I thought were my own…"
Lorraine Adams, who co-wrote a piece with Ayesha Nasir on Faisal Shahzad, touched on the limits of journalism in her comments, emphasizing that most news agencies produce stories based on a "consensus narrative" decided on by the editors, not the journalists on the ground. Given that the original stories are far more contentious and nuanced than this narrative, a lot gets lost in translation. According to Adams, "People think that if they read non fiction or the news, they know a lot about the country than if they read fiction," which is an untrue assumption.
The debate over the benefits of fiction versus nonfiction is significant and deserves further discussion. From a personal standpoint, neither fiction nor nonfiction alone will give you a full picture of Pakistan. While nonfiction and news items can give you a snapshot of the current affairs of the country, fiction stories can provide further insight into the cultural nuances and intricacies of Pakistan. Even if you read the work of Pakistani writers, "old" and "new" alike, their treatment of issues and their prose can sometimes be windows into the Pakistani psyche and experience. At the same time, there are obvious biases involved in fiction work, while nonfiction pieces tend to be less emotional and relatively more objective (though not always, of course).
Moreover, the line between both is becoming increasingly blurred, with writers like Hanif and Adams doing extensive research and reporting in order to produce properly nuanced and textured fiction work. Authors like Hamid, Shamsie, and Hanif also straddle both lines, writing novels but commenting frequently on current events in Pakistan. In an article for Canada's Globe and Mail, Piali Roy wrote,
Fiction writers like Daniyal Mueenuddin and Ali Sethi see literature as a project. They both have said in interviews that they see themselves as explaining Pakistan in all its complexity to the West, not merely as the "failed state" with budding terrorists in every bazaar. It may seem like a hefty burden for any writer to bear, but there is no doubt that Pakistan is a country in need of PR. Is there any wonder that nearly every one of these writers (dare I call them the Pak Pack?) are taking their advocacy role about the humanity of the floods' victims seriously? Or that they rarely agree with one another?
Do Pakistani writers have a responsibility to always write about the positive side of the country? Yes and no. Writers, by virtue of having a platform, can and should discuss the nuances of Pakistan that often get swept to the side by Western news agencies. But those nuances shouldn't always have to be about positive topics. As Hamid noted, "There is a notion and expectation that you must write positively about Pakistan, and if you don't, you at least write hopefully."
Adeela Suleman artwork at Granta event, courtesy Mahnaz Fancy
The discussion, as a whole, was fascinating and was further bolstered by the incredible exhibition in the gallery by Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman called, "After All It's Always Somebody Else Who Dies," (see above image). Granta's Pakistan issue also includes fantastic artwork by contemporary Pakistani artists, an effort by the publication to go beyond their typical photo essays and showcase local talent. According to a review by The Independent, "Granta's Pakistan is a bleak but mesmerizing one that rages with astounding horrors. Yet this 'immense homeland of heartbreaking beauty' is not without love, romance, nor hope." The print edition can be purchased here.
Fashion Week Anything but "Under the Taliban's Shadow" – Saba Imtiaz
Posted in Contributions, tagged Art, Media, Taliban on November 7, 2009| 18 Comments »
Getty Image: Design by Athar Hafeez
Despite the security situation causing it to be delayed twice, Fashion Pakistan Week opened this past Wednesday to display the talents of Pakistan's top designers. However, while FPW garnered significant media attention, most news outlets framed the four-days of runway shows in light of the country's growing security concerns. Saba Imtiaz, who works as a journalist in Pakistan and blogs over at the Zeitgeist Politics, attended several shows during Fashion Pakistan Week and delves into the subsequent attention FPW received:
In the post-9/11 years, with Pakistan becoming a frontline state in the "war against terror," the intense media scrutiny this country has faced has been unprecedented in its tumultuous history. And with the media scrutiny have come the stereotypes, from the oft-quoted portrayals of former President Pervez Musharraf as an "enlightened moderate" to the characterizations of cities and its inhabitants.
But as the war has come home – and one could argue that it always was – with military operations conducted in North Waziristan, Swat and now South Waziristan, and frequent terrorist attacks in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar, the stereotypes have also amassed.
While many are true, several exaggerated and others just plain ridiculous, one of the most common phrases associated with the ongoing Fashion Pakistan Week has been that it is taking place "under the shadow of the Taliban." Most articles in the foreign press have focused on how 32 designers showcasing cutting-edge fashion at a time when a military operation against the Taliban is ongoing.
While from an external perspective this may seem odd, the sheer amazement depicted in these articles at the thought of a fashion week is a tad strange. From the Times of India declaring, "'Dare to bare' Pak Fashionistas Thumb a Nose at Taliban" to McClatchy saying, "Pakistan's Fashion Week Bares Country's Frothy Side" and Life.com labeling a photograph of a model with a tattoo on her arm as "Tattoo vs Taliban," its all been rather amusing – and often annoying – for those following the press coverage of the event.
For one, the purpose of the event was anything but to thumb a nose at the Taliban. Worldwide, fashion weeks are trade events geared towards retail buyers and journalists – and while Pakistan doesn't have the former attending from abroad – it is putting together a rather comprehensive showing of 30 of the country's designers for local journalists and buyers.
Secondly, with everything in the country being associated with the Taliban – several articles centering on Facebook updates of all things – have led to fashion also being bundled under the same umbrella. The focus in the press seems to have shifted from the designs themselves, and is instead all about defiance and courage.
If anything, Fashion Pakistan Week brought forward a far more interesting theme, one that has been emerging this year. For years, those who work in the fashion and entertainment sectors in the country have looked abroad for inspiration. This year, as Pakistan finds itself cornered into a rather uncomfortable spot on every level (including being lumped with Afghanistan as "AfPak"), singers, actors and designers have taken the effort to look inwards and seek inspiration in Pakistan. This has reflected in the songs that came out of Coke Studio this year, or at the collections shown at Fashion Pakistan Week, which featured a number of references drawn from different facets of Pakistan's culture and history. These moves have created a whole new chapter for Pakistani pop culture, where one can actually identify aspects of the entertainment sector that are quintessentially Pakistani.
Which is why, as a Pakistani, while one often finds references to the Taliban and other extremist forces in every sector (when they don't make any logical sense) irritating, this is a stereotype that we're going to have to live with for a while. After all, the Middle East is still associated with being a war zone, and for decades, India was stereotyped as a destination point for hippies and yoga enthusiasts.
AP Photo: Military-inspired by Ismail Fareed
And so, the Taliban have been mentioned ad nauseam in press coverage for Fashion Pakistan Week. But if they do have access to the Internet during the current battle, they'll be sorely disappointed to know that designers have gone on the defensive and showed a number of military inspired collections. From a model saluting on the runway as the Madam Noorjehan song 'Ae Watan Ke Sajeelay Jawanon' played in the background, to designer Ismail Farid's collection called 'Salute' which was a tribute to the Armed Forces and those who have lost their lives in terrorist attacks. Farid's models were clad entirely in ensembles inspired from military uniforms, replete with marching steps, canes, shackles, and in one case, an outfit that looked like a chic version of a suicide bomber's jacket.
So the Taliban can chalk Fashion Pakistan Week down to a massive PR fail: the military themes received a standing ovation. Who knew we had such short memories?
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Remembering Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911 – 1984) – Rakesh Mani
Posted in Contributions, tagged Art on November 2, 2009| 9 Comments »
Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abro/2262793624/
The subcontinent has a long and rich history of Urdu poetry. Within this context, Faiz Ahmed Faiz is one of the most renowned and celebrated Urdu poets. Below, Rakesh Mani, a 2009 Teach for India fellow and regular CHUP contributor, commemorates Faiz's 25th death anniversary with a tribute to the artist's life and work:
Of Urdu poetry's timeless greats, different poets are remembered for different things. While Mirza Ghalib is famous for his pining and pathos, Allama Iqbal for his patriotism, fervor and elevation to the status of Pakistan's national poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz is still remembered as a revolutionary on the 25th anniversary of his death.
He was a humanist in the best sense of the word, and his poetry was free of any racial or religious prejudice. At every gathering, he drew large crowds and his poetry made him the center of attention. His genius was recognized early, and he was drawn into the charmed circles of Lahore's Aesthetes Club and later, the Progressive Writers Movement.
A poet right from his teenage years, delivered this striking couplet at his very first mushaira, or poetic gathering, in Sialkot where he was studying for his Bachelors degree:
Lab bandh hain Saaqi, meree aankhon ko pilaa
Woh jaam jo minnatkash-e-sehba nahin hota
[O Saaqi, my lips are sealed. Let my eyes take a sip
Of that wine without drawing to ask for it]
After receiving a Masters degrees in English and Arabic literature, he became progressively more involved with the Communist Party. Like many of his contemporaries, Faiz's politics was greatly influenced by the Bolshevik Revolution.
It was around this time that he met Alys. She had come to India to marry a Sikh gentleman to whom she had been engaged while he was at Sandhurst. Finding that he was already engaged to someone else, a heart-broken Alys married Faiz, and bore him two daughters: Saleema and Muneeza. Saleema married the noted Lahore professor and playwright Shoaib Hashmi, and became an artist in her own right.
At the behest of the Communist Party, Faiz then served in the British Army's Information department in World War II. The Communists had changed their stand on the war, from opposing it to then supporting Allied action after the USSR was attacked by the Germans. His final posting saw him heading the propaganda department in Singapore.
Soon after his discharge, the Subcontinent was ravaged by Partition. The horrors of that bloody vivisection left Faiz deeply troubled and, although he decided to stay on in Lahore, he refused to accept the distinctions between the people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. He expressed his sorrow with another couplet:
Yeh daagh daagh ujaala, Yeh shab gazeeda sahar;
Woh intézaar tha jis ka, Yeh woh sahar toh naheen
[This blemished light, this devoured dawn;
This surely isn't the dawn we were awaiting]
In Lahore, he distinguished himself as a journalist and edited the Pakistan Times as well as the Adab-e-Latif and Lail-o-Nihar. But an iconoclastic leftist and an apostate were not easy things to be in newly independent Pakistan. He was soon charged with treason and imprisoned for complicity in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
But Faiz's years in Hyderabad Jail brought out some of the greatest poetry he ever wrote. Dast-e-Saba and Zindaan-Nama, two of his most acclaimed works, were produced during this period. According to Faiz, being in prison was like falling in love all over again:
Bujha jo rauzan-e-zindaan to dil yeh samjha hai
Ke teyree maang sitaron say bhar gaee hogee,
Chhamak utthey hain silasil, to hum nay jaanan hai
Kay a sahar teyrey rukh par bikhar gaee hogee
[When the light in my prison window fades and night falls,
I see your tresses, with stars shining down on the parting
When my chains sparkle in the sunlight,
I see your visage lit up with the morning glow]
He continued to write poetry through the 70s and early 80s and won the Lenin Peace Prize, the Lotus Award and several honorary doctorates. Now a doyen of the literary scene, he became a thorn in the side of the military government and outraged orthodox society by denying God openly.
But there were many grave incongruities in his personality. He championed the cause of the poor and disenfranchised through his poetry, but enjoyed the life of a wealthy man with a penchant for fine Scotches. He believed passionately in communism, but fraternized easily with the social and industrial elite.
President Ayub Khan decided that the best way to destroy Faiz's spirit was to give him power. He appointed him President of the National Council of Arts and gave him a state bungalow. Soon Faiz succumbed to the ease of life and the pleasures of the bottle. In a chilling last poem, it seemed as though he had a premonition of his death:
Ajal key haath koee aa rahaa hai parwaanah
Na janney aaj kee fehrist mein raqam kya hai
[Death has some ordinance in its hand,
Alas, I don't know whose names are on the list today
An Interview with Faiza Shaikh: Artist, Philosopher, Visionary
Posted in Interviews, tagged Art, Islam on April 21, 2009| 15 Comments »
Faiza Shaikh, "Love"
Faiza Shaikh, "Contentment"
Faiza Shaikh, "Untitled"
Faiza Shaikh, a London-based artist from Karachi, is groundbreaking in her work, [click images above to see enlarged pieces of her art]. Using strong, bold colors, her art fuses modernity with religious philosophy. Each of Faiza's paintings impart a message of religious tolerance and peace in a world torn apart by division and polarization. Her show, entitled, "Forbidden Love" will be previewing at London's Black Rat Gallery on May 22, 2009. She recently also partnered with British NGO, Women's India and the Tongues on Fire Film Festival, to exhibit her work as part of the festival at BAFTA. Although she has shown her work at various exhibitions in London and Pakistan, her show in Mumbai [scheduled for 28 November 2008] was canceled amid fears that the religious depictions within the collection would spark unrest. Given her message of unity and tolerance, such a development was indeed unfortunate. Below, Faiza talks to CHUP about her collection and the inspiration behind her work:
Q: Much of your art fuses Islamic, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu traditions – what inspired you to use themes of religion and tolerance in your work? Is there a method or a purpose behind the kind of texts you use in a specific piece?
I paint the philosophy I meditate upon. I use texts from Quran, [Bhagavid] Gita, Tora and others to represent the universality of their ideas. Religious intolerance arises from our ignorance about each others faith. My art simply says- look into the mirror of your own being. Know yourself to realize that your battles are unnecessary. When every religion speaks the same truth and everything ends in the same reality, all of this is just a tamasha (spectacle). Life is sacred as it is an opportunity to touch the light of our existence. It is about universal truth. My purpose is to engage the viewer and the engagement is achieved by the use of the texts. Once my painting is placed on someone's wall, everyone asks the meaning of the verse. They can be directed to the translation that accompanies the painting. It may spark a debate or a conversation or perhaps just appreciation.
Q: Have you faced any kind of religious opposition to your work?
Frankly, I am not bothered how the viewer sees my paintings, however I take extreme care to ensure that the sanctity of each religion is adhered to.
Q: What is your opinion on the current state of Pakistan's art industry? How can it be bolstered/improved?
Pakistani Art should be the next big thing I hope. The critical ingredient to catapult Pakistani artists to the world's stage is good marketing.
Q: The arts medium – theater, dance, film, and art – can often be used as a commentary on society. In Pakistan in particular, recent films have been a commentary on politics or current affairs. Do you feel like your work and message have a place within the current debates raging in Pakistan?
Absolutely. The message of my art dispels misconceptions which are based on heresy rather than on knowledge. In this way, an attempt is made to create harmony and peaceful co existence. The influence of living in London is that it teaches the beauty of tolerance. The society allows respectful co existence of all cultures. The English and the French have fought many battles, similarly with the Germans and yet today they are part of the European union sharing common currencies and common laws. Should the subcontinent learn from this maturity? If the politicians fail to display this maturity, should they be nudged into this direction by a mere artist? We live in hope.
Q: The observation of art is considered a subjective experience, but is there one particular message or lesson you hope your audience takes away from your work?
"Art is never chaste. It must be forbidden to ignorant innocents never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes Art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not Art." –Pablo Picasso


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Monte Carlo simulations are a simple, though computationally-expensive, way to calculate probabilities when the underlying parameters are too complicated to represent in a simple equation. Here's a simple example.
Imagine two teams, A and B, competing against each other in a competition to see who can score the most number of points. Team A is slightly better, usually getting about 32 points on average, whereas Team B usually gets about 30. Assuming that the good days and bad days for each team follow a normal distribution, what percentage of the time can we expect the stronger team (A) to beat the weaker (B)?
Here are 10,000 simulations for each team.
But if the teams are playing each other, only one can win. Obviously, Team A, being slightly better, will usually win, but not always.
What's interesting is that, although the two teams are fairly closely matched – A is only slightly better than B – in the long run the advantage is overwhelmingly in A's favor. The lesson is if you can improve yourself even a tiny bit over what you previously thought possible, you will greatly increase your winning.
Questions about R: I wrote this as a quick-and-dirty example of solving a problem like this in R, but obviously the chart is slightly wrong. I'd like the distribution function line and the histograms to match, but I can't quite figure out how to do that. Any hints?


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Garry Peter Cook (* 10. Januar 1958 in Wednesbury, England) ist ein ehemaliger britischer Leichtathlet und Olympiateilnehmer. Sein Wettkampfgewicht war 72 kg bei einer Körpergröße von 1,85 m.

Garry Cook war ein 800-Meter-Läufer und Mitglied der britischen 4-mal-800-Meter-Staffel, die am 30. August 1982 (in der Besetzung Peter Elliott, Garry Cook, Steve Cram, Sebastian Coe) den bis August 2006 gültigen Weltrekord von 7:03,89 min auf dieser selten gelaufenen Strecke aufstellte.

Angesichts der bereits in England großen Konkurrenz auf seiner Spezialstrecke feierte Cook seine größten Erfolge mit der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel des Vereinigten Königreichs. Bei Commonwealth Games startete er für England.

Endkampfplatzierungen

 Europameisterschaften 1982: Platz 2 über 4 × 400 m in 3:00,68 min (David Jenkins, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown)
 Europameisterschaften 1982: Platz 4 über 800 m in 1:46,94 min
 Commonwealth Games 1982: Platz 1 über 4 × 400 m in 3:05,45 min (Steve Scutt, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown)
 Weltmeisterschaften 1983: Platz 3 über 4 × 400 m in 3:03,53 min (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown)
 Olympische Spiele 1984: Platz 2 über 4 × 400 m in 2:59,13 min (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown)

Einzelnachweise

800-Meter-Läufer (Vereinigtes Königreich)
4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel-Läufer (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Olympiateilnehmer (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1984
Sieger bei den Commonwealth Games (Leichtathletik)
Brite
Geboren 1958
Mann
Teilnehmer an den Commonwealth Games (England)


Laman Street has had a heavy heart of late due to losing more of its lovely canopies, so it's only fitting that when you walk into Corner House, you're greeted by so much beautiful soft greenery with light timber finishes playing the supporting role. We're spoilt with the hygge yet again!
Out the back in the repurposed garage, it's a bit more functional – and a bit fly-ey, which could be due to the ensemble of nearby recycling bins. But the front section has our favourite thing: the big window bench, a step away from the beautiful pastries on display and immersed in the Single O coffee wafting through. Staff and owners are lovely, welcoming and casual, and you can just feel that this is a good place for your weekend chill or brunch with the girls catching some vitamin E outside. This stellar location, within walking distance of lots of businesses big and small, had not met its full potential – until now. Corner House is very Cooks Hill.
We were a smaller gathering this time, so while we didn't try every variation of coffee available, the cold brew was the standout champion of the day. Made in-house, it was very much a sessions cold brew and didn't mind being accompanied by some beautiful house-made bites to eat. The food was next level delicious – we enjoyed a poached egg with some epic mushrooms and pesto.
If you like a side of serenity with your coffee and fresh brunch vibes, then head around to Corner House.


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Five questions to ponder before kickoff
FOOD FOR THOUGHT WHILE WAITING FOR KICKOFF OF THIS WEEKEND'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES INVOLVING NORTH CAROLINA TEAMS
September 21, 2018 Brett Friedlander Article
NC State quarterback Ryan Finley threw for 341 yards and three touchdowns against Marshall last season (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
The flood waters have yet to recede, thousands across the Carolinas are still without power and the relief effort from Hurricane Florence are just getting started. But for the college football teams around our state, life gets back to normal on Saturday with the resumption of play following last week's postponements and cancellations.
It will be interesting to see how the interruption in the schedule affects things, either for the better or worse.
No matter how things turn out, the games themselves should help serve as at least a momentary distraction from the hardships so many of our neighbors are feeling as they begin the difficult process of cleaning up and rebuilding.
So as we wait for the games to begin, here are five questions about this weekend's games to think about and consider:
1, Will the unexpected week off and the arrival of Pittsburgh be what UNC needs to kick start its season?
It's hard to say that anyone benefitted from the events of the past week. But if anyone did it's the Tar Heels. Coach Larry Fedora's team was staring an 0-3 start squarely in eye with Central Florida and the nation's longest FBS winning streak coming to Chapel Hill. UNC might still be 0-3 once Saturday's home opener is done. But in Pittsburgh, it stands a much better chance of breaking through and finally getting into the win column.
The Tar Heels are 5-0 against the Panthers since Pitt joined the ACC. But then all five of those wins have come by a touchdown or less, meaning that the law of averages is bound to catch up with UNC eventually. Another thing the Tar Heels have going for them is that the time off allowed them an opportunity to step back, take their minds off football for a few days and start over fresh after two disappointing road performances at Cal and ECU.
It can't be understated how pivotal a game this is for UNC. To have any chance at all of getting to six wins and bowl eligibility — even with the addition of a replacement game down the road — the Tar Heels absolutely have to have this one. The math simply doesn't add up without it.
2, How is NC State only a 5½-point favorite on the road against a non-Power 5 opponent?
The folks in Vegas know more about things like point spreads than most of us, which is why they win exponentially more than they lose. Still, it's hard to understand why they seem to have such little faith in coach Dave Doeren's Wolfpack against Marshall.
Granted, State hasn't looked like a world beater in its first two games against inferior competition. It hasn't been able to generate much in the way of a ground attack and it will be playing for the first time this season on the road. But James Madison is a better FCS opponent than most and the Wolfpack did make visible improvement in Week 2 against Georgia State. And it should have more than enough weapons, including the addition of transfer tight end Cary Angeline, to take care of business.
Marshall is 2-0, but its wins have come against Miami (Ohio) and Eastern Kentucky. More relevant is the fact that the Thundering Herd is 3-9 against Power 5 teams since 2010, including a 37-20 loss at Carter-Finley Stadium last season and Ryan Finley, who threw for 341 yards and three touchdowns in that game is still State's quarterback.
Perhaps the oddsmakers don't know enough about the Wolfpack to have a lot of confidence in it yet. Either that or maybe they know something the rest of us don't.
3, Is Wake Forest ready to make a statement?
After falling short in their ACC opener against Boston College, the Deacons have a chance to get back on the right track — and gain some national attention along the way — with a home game against Notre Dame. Even though it's not a conference game, this matchup is a big deal for coach Dave Clawson's program, as the expected sellout crowd might suggest.
Although the Irish have the edge in tradition and exposure, there are numerous reasons why Wake could have an advantage when they meet for only the fifth time ever and second time in Winston-Salem.
For one thing, the Deacons have had an extra two days off to rest and prepare after playing a weeknight game last Thursday. They will also add something of a secret weapon to their already plentiful offensive arsenal with the return of Kendall Hinton from suspension. Hinton will likely play several roles from wide receiver to kick returner to quarterback. With no idea how he'll lineup and no film to help Notre Dame prepare, the athletic junior will provide Wake with an element of surprise.
The Irish also figure to be a good matchup for the Deacons, especially since quarterback Brandon Wimbush's struggles over the past two games — including a narrow escape against Vanderbilt last week — might make it difficult for the Irish to exploit Wake's weakness in defending the downfield passing game. Conversely, the Deacons' young quarterback Sam Hartman is coming off a game in which he looked like a true freshman for the first time. If the moment isn't too big for him, Wake stands a great chance of beating a top 10 opponent for the first time since 1946.
4, How will ECU's improved defense hold up in its first real test at South Florida?
It cannot be understated how much of a difference new coordinator David Blackwell has already made on a Pirates defense that ranked dead last among FBS programs last season in both points and yards allowed per game.
Through two games, ECU has allowed much more respectable averages of 332 yards and 23.5 points. Obviously there's still room for improvement, but it's a great start considering the alternative. But now, after shutting out UNC during the second half of its most recent game two weeks ago, the Pirates will get a chance to see exactly how far they've come and how much work they still have left to do in their American Athletic Conference opener at USF.
The Bulls hung 41 points on ECU in Greenville last year and are averaging more than 500 yards per game in three wins this season.
Off all the teams that were affected by Florence last week, the Pirates had the biggest distraction with which to deal. Although Greenville was spared the worst of the storm, they spent the week bunkered down in Orlando. They spent the week there this week to prepare for USF Coach Scottie Montgomery called the experience "a good team building situation." Only time will tell how that translates into the team's performance on the field. Especially on defense.
5, Can Duke make it through a game without an important player getting injured?
The Blue Devils are off to a promising 3-0 start and are the only team in college football this season to have two wins on the road against FBS opponents. That success, however, has come with a cost. Coach David Cutcliffe's team has already lost seven starters to injuries, including quarterback Daniel Jones and top defensive back Mark Gilbert.
The good news is that this week's opponent, FCS neighbor NC Central, shouldn't pose much of a threat as far as the final score is concerned. Barring a rash of turnovers or an out-of-body experience by the Eagles, Duke should win this game handily. The key for the Blue Devils building up a big enough lead early enough to get its starters off the field and into the sidelines in one piece so that they'll all be available for the start of the ACC schedule next week..
That's all for this week. Enjoy the games! And stay cool!!
Cary Angeline
Dave Clawson
Dave Doeren
David Blackwell
David Cutcliff
Kendall Hinton
Larry Fedora
Mark Gilbert
Sam Hartman
Scottie Montgomery
Hurricanes blast Lightning to win second straight preseason game
Deacons go from bad to worse at Notre Dame adds to Wake's woes
Duke earns bowl eligibility with win at Wake Forest
November 25, 2017 The Sports Xchange Article
Duke converted fourth-down plays on three second-half drives that helped it recover from a double-digit deficit to defeat Wake Forest 31-23 Saturday at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem. Duke (6-6, 3-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) is in position for […]
Tar Heels looking for answers as injury bug continues to bite
September 25, 2017 Brett Friedlander College Football, Sports
CHAPEL HILL — The ACC requires its football teams to issue an injury report two days before each game it plays against a conference opponent. The way things are going for North Carolina this season, it […]
Big first half sends Wolfpack to easy victory
November 21, 2018 Joedy McCreary | The Associated Press Article
RALEIGH (AP) — NC State was never in danger of losing the game, but the Wolfpack did lose something else after halftime: Their focus. Still, a huge first-half surge was more than enough to carry […]


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